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GEORGE MARSH Then Quartier deseribed: in detail the accident to his power schooner off Cape Jones, the wild night on the bay with on improvised’ and nsless rud- der, and the stranding on the beach of Akhiniskl Island. “It was the next morning that this red-headed pirate, McDonald, dliscov- ered us and sent a boat ashore.” 'You say he. teok some of stuff?” asked Guthrie. -° “Yes, he sald he. needed flour’ and gasoline.” “And he got it?” suggested the other with a laugh. “Yes, but instead of paying what: it is worth here onthe bay, he paid me St. Johns’ prices.” ‘ “Well, for a pirate, he was. rather liberal wasn't.he? ‘He hails from St. Johns they say? He has been up here twa summers, but always went back in theautumn. This ‘year he told some your at the south end of the island. silver and a cove Akimiski is famous for bluek fox.” “J can’t understand why the com- pany doesn’t run him out of the bay if he’s hurting their business.” Guthrie laughed. “Whw, Man, hej{y has as much right here as we, or the Revillon Bros. And xs to running him out, I’m inelined to thing that Me} Donald would take a lot of running. Did you happen toe go aboard his boat? - “Yes, I went aboard to ° get my money.” “You didu't notice a machine snl or two lying around?” — ONO, ” ‘Well, the Crees say he has them. Evidently he has come to stay.” “So your going to sit calmly . here and let him get the fur?” snorted Quartier, contemptuously. . _ “That's it,” agreed Guthrie. “You see, we're a bit afraid of this wild man with the seared face. The rumour has (lyifted up here that he had impress- ive war record," The irony was lost ‘on. the’ geologist. “Afraid to fight for your rights, eh? he vedicnled, oblivious: of the bullet. furrowed ‘cheek’ of the. man who faced him, °- At the reproich, the face of Guthric lit with amusement, but a glint in the half-closed eyes prompted Joan Quar- rier, mortified by her brother’s _ ga cherie, to intervene. “Yo a Canndian veteran that remark is positively insulting. I fail to recrll] anything of a warlike nature in yout manner with. our priate, Arch, As ¢ nintter: of fact, you seemed quite over- awed.” ' *Overnwed? Redieutous ! i snapped Quarrier. “Iwas: glad. to-sell flour and gas we couldn't take with us.” Guthrie's twinkling eyes. met those of the airl, “They say his scarred mouth. is rather awe-inspiring. Pos: ibly sears nre repulsive to yonr broth er,” he suggested. ‘They. are to—- soule people.” The tone of the last—the sndden tightening of face muscles—the swift subering of the eyes, spurred the quick armour of his rnillery, to surmis™.what the scarred cheek of the speaker might have brought to him. of. bitterness, and pebi But why? she wondered, The red line from eye to ear only lent dignity—distinction, to the cleanly modelled features. Why should this budge of service be the suurce of. se- cret humiliation? But. she was con- fident that it. was. Quurrier changed the andject. “By the way, Mr. Guthrie, when .ean ‘vou send for the stuff, I lett on the bench and take it to Albany? I eran:-pick it np next spring when I return ; to the bay yee Evidently deeply oceupted with his thonght, fot a space the man: address- ed made no answer; then: he snid, in- differently : possibly when the ice sets hard in the strait.” “What? Not - betaie. ‘thon? “Phere nre.some yuluable -ore ‘spertmens* aud: stores-~-boxes of them. That - “Dirate “We'll be “hunting geese syne ‘edd! You're not hunting. ‘Bese, ‘here, are: you?’ Why. couldn’t you 2o before vou: po. on you bant—tomorrow: In. ‘Laet?. ““Arohiel’t ‘The sharp, challenge of op Toan: ‘Quarrier: at, the callon3 insistencu of her brother wag checked, hy: -the jlevel tones of th efactor. 008" > * “Because, -at present, ny uty. 49 cy ‘'yoursalys " of the Indians that he would winter in |. “Some time “this - winter, |: mess of this kind,” he nodded toward the door, you feel you have to see At through.” Joan Quurrie: rose from her chair, stimned by the stupid brutality of. he: brother's remark—feurful of the retrié bution it deserved. Eyes black with anger, Guthrie glared at his gnest, who sensible of his mistake, grinned sueep- ishly, then flushed to flr voats of his hair. The muscles in the face of the faetor knotted, the veins in‘the brown neck above the fluunel shirt swelled / * JI went*too fax," Qaaivier mum- biet. “I—Ididn’t mea, of» coursc—” But he was cut off short sith. } “Your bed is in’ the © trade-house! You know the way!” the door, For a space Quatrier stared into the cold eyes: then stung by the outriure to his. dignity, “What do you mean? You dare tu insult me—order me ont of your house like un inferior?” . But there was that indicated the door which. weung (he bluster from the geologist as water iv, wrung from arag. — g “Yor'll hear from this this conduct of yours. Pll report this to your su- periors.” protested Quarrier, us he stormed out of the room. Guthrie turned to the girl who was visibly swept by shame—stirred hy ar emotion which left her weak—clouded eyes fixed on the mon who snid in zs voice still thick with anger; ‘Fm sorry, Miss Quarrier—so SULTY Ge—went—too for.” “You were right—he was impossible she agreed, in_a voice raw with dis- gust, with a slow nod of the dark head. “He has always blundered—alw ays failed’ to understand.” ‘I want to tell you about her.” She turned on him ulinost fiercely. "Do you thing I, also, do not under. stand?’ she demanded. lov a space he searched’ her t White face, then relief, “You have served’ with the wounded : it is enough.” : He went to the door ‘and whispered to olfl- Anne.: Then he. bean: ° tence Ojibways, from far beyond: the Blkwar headwaters, for this is’ a Cree country '|They were not her own people, I aii convineed, but one of the men claimed to be her father, She was not sure for she had grown up with them—idn’t even know her age, but. she can’t be more than eighteen. Old Anne founc her. sick in a_tipi—half: fed, neglécted,, We took her-in and for a tine the ¢an- ned milk and the broth’ worked mir. neles. She was happy—too; that help: a “When the trade was over and the Indians started for their summer camps, they denmnded her--nud shi could hardly walk a hundred yard: without resting. Of course, they did n’t verily: want her; their purpose .w nu to hold me up. They asked for every. thing in the store. They. always ds when such a thing happens, wt the fac tor’s: quarters. “Yon see, they thought this was the old. situation—so did the Crees— ~ ty spite of what Anne told them. The couldn't tnderstand., Well, I finally got rid of ler people-—kicked them out For weeks ‘she was happy.” Guthrie. tiptoed té the sick room door, looked: in, and returneil. “Im her last conversation: with the: Indian who called himself her father I heard her repeatedly: say “Nin. da. nin da!" She was s0 earnest alout it I asked Hitenne what it meant, and he told me it was Ojibwa for ‘I stay here’ Pretty, isu’t it? Nin da, I dwell here She has chosen her home. So we enll- ed her-Nindn. She was one of us.” “Miss Quorrier,” went on’ the man: whose face had softened—grown hoy. Jish it fairly ‘tore my heart—the. hip: piness, the aratitude of that sick. child. Those -big eyes “of hers followed me like 2. dog’ 3. I had rescued her, ino doubt “from unspeakable. misery,...It- was ‘only natural, I- suppose, Aftev.a- “)few: weeks she began.- to. fail, and ‘ir August, when they. called me: to Al Xou see she feared: he woukt not live until] I- ‘retumed—wanted |. tov there when it came; with blood in his efforts at self-control: | - The long arm of Guthvie pointed to |. got to‘his feet in unger’ in the face of the man whose arm still | eryptieaily, “She eime here in: June with’ some | {#She was a soldier; another, - Guthrie's command,-the |. dog ‘stopped | hany, I couldn't, throw off the memory | °° -.- of the. digpair in her. éyes when: 1: left.4 7°" Her -vyes hannted. mie |p. avery. rile of the enast,: iP “PAs last time | when I. wont. she Ny. nde me, Boodl-by—wins a on it Wa atk “eb. ube d@imb- misete cere an the Vnorth 2 Uhink if she. sta yete aith her’ | heople, to dle in’ au -Foria space he stood beside ‘the cot “We wil car .{ then sald: » “Good-by, Nindn. As you wished it you will stay—-here, with your friends He turned cryptically to the nurse, she did not flinc . from wounds,” ‘and went dut, follow ed by the. puzzled eyes of the other, : Then outside, in the ‘cool dusk «6° the clearing rose a. wail, , mournful, unearthly, followed. by _ another anc JOS face nppeared: in’ ‘the way of the living reom, =. ioe " “It's too ghastly,” she ‘snid with 3. shiver. “How do they know?” "- . “They, always know—always wa for the. deni: .. And he went’ out: tC quiet: the dogs. mo At the gate of the stockade stot. thre. nirédale, Joining the huskies in.thei: | threnody: under the. fading stars, -.A’ and trotting up, v thrust his. haid. aM ““Ninda’ 's sone; Shot ” ‘CHAPTE with @ muffled whine miolst. nose. inte ; “his Inaster’; With. mutter-. — prepiired to Winter’ on. the West: coast. _ ; .