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Flato Boats We are local agents for the new Flato Boats—the great boon for the fishermen, the duck hunter See it at our and the camper. dffice now. ’ WM. S. HENRY SMITHERS, B ‘$I the evidence, we can report the stag |Lake where they arrived at dusk and TR me ee tee ta ead Omineca - Hotel. . c. W. Dawson! Prop. HEADQUARTERS FOR POURISTS AND ‘COMMERCIAL a 2 we a MEN, ty ‘ Dining’ room in connection _ Hazelton . BG Journey and weré ‘fortunate to Jand: at | ers for; dinner, . Photograph Studio Films‘ Developed ‘and Printed Enlargements made. . When in Smithers have your _ Photo taken Post Card to Cabinet a ‘Sizes ; A. L. Evitt, Smithers — >>? Gass Monuments $20.00 to $30.00 CUT FLOWERS POTTED PLANTS... BLOOMING BULBS .GLENNIE Prince Rupert, B. C. too : QUICK NEWS B. and T. Thompson are back on a visit to their mother after an absence of several years, Mrs. Wakefield is néw down in Ok- luhoma recuperiting and visiting old friends, ’ From all reports and judging: from party at Quick a time ago, a complete success and very enjoy able. W. Auderkirk has a frosted foot and Archie Kerr stepped on n spike which penetrated the foot tt considerable dis. tance, | This district was well represented ut the Christmas Tree at Round Lake The entertainment was enjoyed by the children as well us the ald folk. A nnber of pool members will loac x car af wheat. for Prince Rupert: ear ly in the new year. A sumple of wheat sent to Calgary for test showed 100 per cent. wermin- ation. ‘ About the only thing not selliig® at present seenis to be hay. How wbont, that compressor. Most other lines ‘of produce seem to be short of the de- mud, by heck. Looks like we got tc elery more Jand. FIFTY MILES ON SNOW SHOES A snow shoe hike of 50 niles was enjoyed this: week by St, John Col- thurst and Albert Moore, They left | town on Tuesday morning for Lakelse spent the night in the Captnin’ts cab- dn. Next morning the boys continued dow fiLukeise river reaching Bachus in time to make camp and the following day ‘travelling was nat ‘ga good qu” the boys were unable to get to camp in thne for the night so they bunked. under. a apruce. tree until the early momine. That .vas their best night out. It wis only, 19 below.:zero. after . breakfast | they : ‘continued their |® the camp of: hospitable" timber cruls-. "The boys then. push- ed on. to Remo ‘where | they. took ‘the railway’ “track | ‘home. after ‘a pleasent |: evenlng with, ‘EL ‘. Wilson and faunily. They w ere gone Just’ three’ ‘days, : 5 ee a a sd aS jhis stake, nose tortured by the scent, +the turn of the tide, and the barrage ‘Tbrought ap the coast by eanoe packet sion; nnd returned late. ‘in 1916, a. vet- eran platoon leader, wearing a- wound stripe and. the Military Cross; for one morning in his English hospital, LTient. Garth: Guthrle had ‘received -n ‘double surprise—n - decoration . for | ‘gallantry wounded left. arm. recovered its stren-, gth. | of his elder": brother,’ “Charles, * whosd. Montreal, machine shops were. running |! night | nad, ny’ ron government Shell: nu contracts, for’: home. Tefive « a among ‘the, ‘Canedians.. 3 Men Marooned BY GEORGE MARSH ; CHAPTER i Out where sinister elowd banks fus- ed with gray waters the sullen bay monnde fitfully. Along shore, plover, samipiper and yellowlegs, gzodwit and curlew fed behind the retreating tide. while restless flocks‘of teal and pin- tail patrolled the flats between the uitshes and the sea. Inland, where mice hunting hawk-owls wheeled and dipped luw over the grass flats, black duck rose from a pool ns «heavily burdened: figure made. its way slowly towards a tent on an alder-grown tongid of higher land thrusting sea- ward into the. marsh. As the man nenred the eamp a dog. barked. Then the warning, rough and sharp, soft- ened to whines and yelps.of recogni- tion. Plunging ata stake, a huge aire- flale wriggled.an ecstatic welcome to his goose-ladened master. “Hello, Shot, old boy!’ With an ex- clamation of relief the inn stretched his urms, for his lond had been heavy He was rangy and well made, his lean, strongly inolded features bronzed by wind and sun. From the corner of the tight eys a scur crossed the “cheek bone to the ear, Placing his gun in the tent the goose hunter freed the plunging dog. All the long hours of the day a prisoner at eyes hungry with the sight of passing duck and geese, the alredale went mad nt his release., While the animal worked off his pent energy in thrashing fhrough the alders nud long grass in the vicinity of the camp, his master staried a fire and put on 4 kettle of yoose to boil, and then went m seateli of drift eedar for 2 September norther on the. west coast of James Bay: may blow for days and eedar kindlings kept ary, in a. tent ave useful, ‘In an hour the marshes were purple with dusk. Then over the buy an un- broken roar as of a‘ thousand guns, coupled with thrusts of light, signaled of wind and rain opened. Along’ the wide beuches thundered the surf. A mile back in the rocking alders, in. a low tent. anchored and proped nzalnst the pounding of the wind, : man lay with his dog. As Garth Guthrie Hstened to the clamor of the wind, the far drumbeat of the advancing tide, the drive of the rain like machine gun bursts on his tent, his thoughts followed the throb- bing years through which be had just Uved. Here, in this wild night on the grny coast of. the bay, how shadowy it seemed—that: war which had enught hin up. ao boy fresh from college, and dropped hin a'man, scarred of body— disillnsioned. yen — Ethel seemed shadowy, olthough her last letter from Fort Albany hardly two weeks before, had flicked him with remurse— |: regret, almost, for his devision to win- ter ugain on the bay--Hthel, whom he had taken by storm (as he thoneht).; aut the time of his short: leave home, in Montreni, after the tragic Somme. Ite had been 4 typieal war wooing, Rulisting as 2 private, he had gone oy- erseas with the first, ‘Canadinn divi- and. ‘sixty dys: home leave’ while . his This last was patently the’ work ‘waa’. rave |: Then | he had, met ‘Hithel.., ; “The ‘ominees Herald, ia: 2.000" year. ‘ [a pagent of enmp life. and ; leering. thousands in the final review marching. with battalion hendquarters years before, had carried the dreams of a college senior into the shambles of Flanders, the hours spent with the lovely Ethel Falconer could march to but one fulfillment, A’ member of the Guthrie, Garth's efficient sister-in-law the girl had captured his imagination ut their first meeting. Youth, war, and Mrs. Guthrie had done the rest, So yodng Lieutenant Guthrie, wonnded and decorated for bravery, and lrother of the maker of munitions and member of government boards, had, in those tense, dramatic days, found to his intense delight that the course of true love often runs surpris- ingly smooth. In o manner foreign to earlier generations, Ethel Falconer had met the impetuosity.of the ardent young soldier with a response equally frank, The days of his leave were too ‘eruelly short to be wasted. Then came the parting, and the two ghasstly years—nightmares of grime and slaughter, soul-harrowing months af alternate hope and dispare, follow- ed by victory! To the man lying in the tent shaken by the storm returned the face of Ethel, vivid as when, on his return from overseas, he stood at the rail of his. ship being w arped to its pier. it. had been a proud and’ happy home-coming for. Maj. Garth Guthrie, D. 3. 0., but the three wound stripes on the sleeve of his tunic were not the man in the tent the clear-cut mem- ory of the moment when his yearning arms had released her and Ethel had gasped, “Oh, Garth, how thin and old you've grown!” Then as he turned to hug Clarn and his brother, the {)l-cou- cenled start—the look of pain when Hthel Falconer -first. saw. the red sear | His letters had causually mentioned a ‘serateh on the face, for it was gas that had held him for weeks in the hospital Until he had met Ethel that morning on the pier he had forgotten that he, was disfigured. : So poignant was the. memory - thrt the man, stretched on the blankets in the dim candle light instinctively rtised his right hand to trace with his fingers the course of the bullet which had seared his face. Then with much siunting- a hairy body wriggled its way to a place beside him: the moist nose uf u massive lednine head wos thrust into his face, while from n deey’ throat.came low noises. *“Iitienne is sntely making a wet night of {t in the bush, Shot,” suid the mun, as the wind drove the vain in bursts neainst the. straining fly of the tent. 'Then with the hairy bulk of the’ eontented dog sprawling ngainst the length of his: recumbent body, head propped on one hand while the. other rubbed the airedale's ears, Guthrie's thoughts were again with his home: eoming two. years before. - a ‘The tense dilys: following his landing | marched past his dreaming eyes In military. duties preceding ‘the discharge of -his battery; swift hours ‘with. Ethel,” din’ ners with his family, reunions with old friends. Again he rode ‘through ot his brigade. _ He chuckled’at the memory of Shot. in-full field Idt and wenring 2 blanket’ with ‘its wound stripe. a At the time of his discharge the sy. “You're not out of the woods eA long rest | Buta desk in fle . : . “Oh, you know I ayyreciate ait ‘that, old chap,’ soothed the smug Charles. ‘|proud I am of your record, but’ yon nursing corps organized by Clare |’ furrowing his cheek fron: ear to ear, jand’ fommdry of Charles’ Guthrie, thy —— a to learn.” | Hot blood bad “darkened Gaith’s: face. “Lost. “five years?*? Where {would you and your money be if .mil- . {lions “of. us. hadn’t Jost five years? he .| blurted. a m4 “Tts unnecessary, for me to. repeat how know nothing about the business jet: and I -want to see you in a. Position to marry.” True, Garth had avktiowledged ‘that he knew nothing of Guthrie Steel, Co.. which, created’ pnd’ developed by the energy and ability of Charles Guthrie, had, through war contracts, made his brother amillionaire. And then’ ‘there was Ethel, waiting. So instead of the. summer in the open air on which the doctors: had insisted, he had. gone ti. work. The fingers of the man lying in the tent shut convulsively on the thick mane of his dog as he remembered the pain which thrust through him when he had first realized that Ethel never voluntarily walked or sat on his right side. Coming from a world of broken men, where the blind and the maimed Were commonplaces, he had almost for- gotten the shock the scar on his cheek had given her the day of his home-com- ing, Unplensant though it might be. this red gash, to look upon, it was ne- vertbeless the symbol of his service. the mensure of his manhood. Yet, to the girl who ioved him it seemed ay aversion — repulsive.. Following the discovery he had, on meeting her ironically covered the cicatrix with his hand, or turned his herd, but the red shame, the passionate tears of protest. which it invarinbly induced, checked him. : That Ethel Fulconer was not of the fibre of'many of the women he knew. who patently cherished the sears of their meti—gloried, seemingly, ni these proofs of their sacrifice for Canada and the Empire, had forged itself? upon the. consciousness’ of: ‘Guthrie with a. bitterness which his. philosophy vainly - contended. Vehement as\. were. her oe protests, her denials, when in a mo- | _ ment of. depression and disillusion, he . had suggested that to hold. her to a bromise made in 1916 to a man whose facd ‘was: presentable + andl body sound. was grossly unfair, now. that he had returned to her the flotsam ‘of was, scarred, changed, he nevertheless knew that Ethel, too, was having her bad half hours. But nothwithstanding his moment of doubt, his gray moods, duc as innch to physical condition as un- happiness, Garth Guthrie bad vallantiy clung. to the dreams of the fair girl he had taken back overseas with him aft: er the Holden, fortnight in 1916. Then after six months in the office lungs of the returned soldier had'de {3 veloped a condition which medical an- ., thorities . Ungnoses as ainrming, A “ ¢ertain sanatorium in the foothills of |” the Laurentians. wns the -imperative . order, and the wedding in the spring. : for which Ethel and Clara’: Guthrie had: 8d. Mieticlously ‘Dlamed, Was in definutély. postponed. E “With his dogs "trained as a puppy a behind the Iines in 1918, Guthrie lett - Montreal to: make the fight. for