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Pi Pat PIR eg SFIRE LIFE ACCIDENT : AUTOMOBILE. BOnly strong, reliable companies represented by us. Date Boats” iWe are local agents for the new mlato Bouts—the reat boun for mathe fishermen, the duck hunter nd the camper, See. it. at. our office now. | WM. S. HENRY | SMITHERS, B.C. ' Hotel c. Ww, Dawson, Prop! Se HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS 7 a * AND COMMBROJAL. = + MEN Dining ‘room in: “connection . ; perience valuable”... . quick | imuveinent, slipped off the mit ji thurried to Camerons house. . .{eleating to-night."" ‘had training, ent nM ‘BY GEORGE MARSH aroon od 7 Jon's ‘teeth’ ‘flashed in aq: ~ luvin, smile. ll try reconcile Mr, wane to the bitter dose of your presence. He needs Ine here you know: —finds DLY ex " Removing his inléfen with a qnic! ten of the surprised girl and took hes hand. “1 need you here,” he ‘said, “as well as Swan. Highr o'clock tonight !” and walked swiftly away, mad. hope in his brain, his emotions out of band . Why had she stayed? Why had she atnyed be key ¢ asking hiniself ‘as lhe At supper atthe’ Camerons’ Gurthy jsuld I met an old frieud ‘on ” the The kindly eves of the factors’ wife graw quis waeled us they met the. glance of her guest. “She was here when itienne came to the kitchen ‘and. told. us of your success, What did you do to that girl Inst September? She and 1 have trlked a jot bout you this winter, Garthie’s heart warmed .to the infer- ehce. He, felt tho’ bleod in his face, aud strave to cover his embarrassment with (he question, “How did she come to stay and. help | that effigy of iL man Swi 2" . Mrs. ‘Cameron sniiled, “They were dreadinily in need af soine on who sole ailment and Swan and‘ his wife were at their wits end I suppose Joan couldnt resist the call, as her brother was to return to the bay in the spring.” “pit you meet hin? asked Garth. “Oh yes. they ate here sereral times Very important person---the floctor !”” “Al-h” this from Cambron. “Whats the wnatter". laughed Garth. “Didnt. you. like him?’ | “Like him? it was nll could do to keep my hands off the rooster,” growl ed the lord of Albnny. “He a formal protest in writing to the éompany that he hed heen insutted by you and’ that yeu refused to pet his stuff on AE I thought of ‘him.’ Garth was grateful to Cameron .for his ommission of other details of Quar- rer’s charges, which he knew Joan had seornfully demolished, “Well, Miss Quatrier is not vespon- sible for’ ber brother. Could -I . bring her over from the mission to-night? Swan almost kicked ne out In Septem- ber., " “Why of course Major Gurthie. I was going to ask you to.,” said Mrs, Cameron. The poor child has a dreary enough time with the Swans. They've been: worving ahont her sonl, you know ion.” - _ after supper Garth hurried over the H Garth Gurthie had been, snseept- | itable of withering looks from a rever- end gentlemen whose -meanger frame stiffened ‘mneasity in. the bieek cloth and clerienl collar affected , by | Mr. Swa n. he would havé been embarrassed tt the’ chilly veception extended to him ‘when he said ; ; » Goat. evening Mr. Swan! I’ve come to take Miss Qurrnier over to the Cam- erons’ for: the evening.” 7 “You, - sir,” indigantly 1 veplied the ndsaionnry, “have put: ‘yourself heyorid the pale—hare no right to’ the society: af. pure women, au rently. excited Swan, : struggling hei: jae! ‘you’ choose’ to, believe: the. “nonsense With, which « Qurrier has filled. “your | ent, * Ttands on -hipps, for’ a ‘Space Garth: amiled Rood © naturily... down, on “the oleally with. the part his conclence bade |. him play, Then he said quietly “Swan, peannt, ‘Tirain, there ig ‘no jaw to phev:. Hulé the children had. iski, but I told them nt Moose what, beenuse of her liberal views on rellg- . trail to the mission. At bis knock’ the |. ; dour w: is opened. by the missionury. Z “ think you ‘contd come up. iunight,” | misteress and ‘capable of: determining ‘her own actions. She is golng’ te the | Camerons' ‘vith we gow tell her jo here!” Te : The list was spoke with such ¢old Vebemence that ‘Reverend Swan in- stinetively drew “back, fearing bodily haru. But the ttle. ian was stubborn "Miss Quartier wos ‘placed under iy protection ly her, brother. 1 have ut aduty-——" “Oh, is: that. you, Mr. Gurthy? eall- ed 2 feminine voice’ from | somewhere in the building: “Just a minute! Pm putting on my ‘coat. : “Miss Quarrier,”: announced the ved- fived nissionary, aware that the situ- ation was swiftly slipping from hi: control, “I forbid’-you Walking to the Camerons' with this man.” © “Oh, Mr. Swan! yor ¢ an't. be rea; serious,” said . Joan appearing in the doorway. “Mrs, Cameron expects me aud I'm sure my reputation is ood enough to survive the walk there with couxes a child, and Gurthie bit his lip in an aticmpt to stiffel a laugh, “Miss Quarrier, you khow my wishes if you choose to disregard them—” “Mr. Gurthie is an educated ‘ventle- nian.’ broke in Joan, NOE 1 eve man, T will be home at ten o'clock, Goud |* night. And crowding past the discom- fited Swan,Jonn Quarrier closed. the door of the mission in his face, “It is mot difficult to tell. who is couumanding here’, chuckled Gurthie “I dont like to hwnillinte the littie mun. He means well enough but if they will send weak men to work. in this country and the - Oblatea sa; ng ones lke. your friend, Pere Rousseau, the Indians will flock to the French.” “But the .Camerons’ tell me you've done wonders With the orphan Cress.” Ob, yes! I've’ been usefull to them authority which any honorable brother bestowed . upon bin Imagine nursing three years in France, and >, having Mr, Swan to guide my faltering feet!" She Jnughed merrily as they swonig through the stinging air of the clearing . Phe man beside her was, hardly aware of his mocossins touching the brittle show, so lifted in spirits was he with the nearness of the girl whose strauge diclsion to winter at Albany defled analysis, “You didut tel! me this afternoon why you deecieved ine as to your whereabouts in your Christinas letter,” he bazzared. . “If I had told you, woulf@ you have come to see’ me?’ she asked, turning her hood and meeting: his eyes with frank, inpersonal : vILAg. "Vas! pro “That is the reason.” y"Youn mein you didnt want ‘to Ree me?” “T mean you had your work to do _ vit would have interfered, no | He walked: for a spares’ in silonee, then he turned | to her “You are that kind of a Wrom—you wnderstand, ” ““T-hope so.” He Wis thrilled by the thought that Joan Qnarrier’s fr lentiship Wis ‘like thut.' But why had, she stayed? ‘Could lt be’ that:ufter the’ photogrnphs she had seen in Elkwan’ with . thelr in- striptlons she had stayed nevertheless t Albany —" becuuse—becatise - what? He could tell her now that he was free sinéé his reply tu Ivthel’s - letter. which went ~ out -that afternoon Moose. But. what shad. bis freedem.-tu do. with, the girl whose. ov ershoes erundied” the sHOW,. beside - him? . a 4 would like to asl vow a ‘awe he sald at length, , . Her. laugh. rippled. on: the ‘tiosty. ‘air: “This aounds” interesting’ Mr. ‘Exile’ but tor tiveld nntt- CHG” row Bly our ‘wotlk. back—th Mr. Gurthie.” She was talking as one |. —that's why he dogent daré exert the: when | Shot: ‘loped “up, “pniffedl,; ; at her couriously, then. paw be ‘Yes? at Thank you: L wanted. ‘to tell you that it has heen -broken—by. her—in | this Christmas mall.” . In silence ‘the: givl walked | stiffly Garth thought watching her with head turned to the river. He. looked but coulduat see her: face burried in the fur hood. - “The reason given was—Ninda. " She turned fiercely questioning eyes as she demanded: “Le told your fan- ily that story?” ¢ " “Evidently,” Garth sgid grimly. If. there wis eapicity ‘for feellug in this irl, he‘ thought, she'll show it now. “My brother has done with me, you see. Ive disgraced the family.” . “Xo I dont see.” she suid hoarsly gasing strait yAbead. “My brother has told that story. in Montieal—in- juved you beyond fupration—niy broth- er! we “Pin sorry t told you.” he replied shocked at the depth of her emotion. But I wanted you. to know that my shackles are, off—I'm ie free ; nan I wanted you to know— In the tide of emotion whiclr stirred him, Gurthie faltered, stonped. The shoulders of the girl lifted in a sob, is she turned to conceal her distress He touched her, thrilling at the con- tact. Please—I’m so sorry!’ he snid “My brother!—oh, how utterly low he heard her say.-'Then she got her- self in band—straightened and. said: “t will write at once to your brother,” “Yor'll do, no such a thing. Do you suppose Yd allow you to soil yourself hes unintentionally done me a service with this family orw, Yuur brother for which I thank him,” Jouns durk brows - contrneted, as she gravely searched his face. “Lou —ire not joking—you mean it?? “I mean every syllable of it now lets forget it all and get’ on to the Camerons’ before you freeze ont here! its growing sharp,”he said but what he meant was :If you stand there an- other second looking at me like that Joon Quarrier, [IL kiss you. miski-.by | Garth and Ettienne, - and: the medicine-making” of: aid | “Saul. ” Bitoni: the inouth of Cameron, Joan Quarrier learned the ‘details (of ‘the: desperate effort to save: the trade and its. ulti-. mate success, “Arnt you proud of yourself Mr. Exile?'she said as Cameron finished nl her patent joy of his success was like wine to his blood. “And Shot, too, he enrned his citation—but how grue- some it was—awtul!” _ «As he walked beside her under the frosted stars to the inission, Gurthie Strove to shift the conversation ao the 'personal—to recapture the note strnek with such poignaney when she learned ithe aftermath of her brother's story In Montreal, but the armour of her. res- erve defied him, Baffled by her mood but respecting it, he’ asked if he might come to suy goodbye: the following mox- ning, and left hev.at "the mission ‘door, To the mau whose love had been. on his Hps when his hands tonched -her shoulder, the new nioud of the girl tle- fied: auulysis. He had -left the Camer- ons .of what Join Quarrier had come to meun’ to him-——hnngary to tell her there above -the. white Albany | what he bad first senced that: Sept: ember, night, caught in the. ‘mngie of her nearness. Here, on the rim of the world, with ouly the glittering stars to ste, he would -have offered the sear- ed face and the love of Garth Gurthie. black sheep; but she had known his purpose and closed his lips. Yet why |. unless, the exile np the. coaat jhad meant. more’ than Just a Tassing friend- ship, had-she stayed on-ii:the drudery.| 2 ‘ouaprer XE . She: was “waiting | in the. eal ously. with. fore: ‘fee The tulk of the factor’s was not all- owed. ‘by that jubilant fur- rader to stray far from the. “Dag raid on Aki- what]: *: are coupling me , bottle-fed babies for. three generations. Write | Tue Borpen Company Lrmrrep, Vancouver, for Free Feeding Charta' and Welfare Booklets 268 + t*ae ante aNUNST NNN: Secon wn a iS iil eect ia adhoc S ; 2 DR. R. M. BAMFORD a a : | 1 Office—Over the Drug Store SMITHERS, B. €. z= Hours—9 a.m. to6ép.m, Even- = ings by appointment, : Dire RA ed in the snow around the pleased girl. “I think it’s quite wonderful though that he should remember me. » He knew me but five days.” ; ‘Garth’s mouth curled, “His master knew you no longer.” and the factor of Elkwan reveled in the slow color that torched her temples—the quick flicker- ing of heney-Inshed lids, ~ “Fis master bad Teason to remember the £ “One of his iruests,” nrey, We Gurth- “And -the’ other—an scendie-monger,”, : “1 told you Inst. night that he: Wils 2 blesslug in disguise. 7. She looked squarely in his eves as she said: “But U-did not believe you, Mr. Exile.” With a guesture of helplessness, he insisted, “Bat how am I to prove | to an tbeliey ere? Her. eyes clouded. “Lets walk alone the shore,” she povried.and led the way Shot, circling her, begging for a frolic. “Your ‘trylig again for the spring fur ffom. the island?" she asked. - , “Oh, with Souel, there’ und: the echo of. the. ‘spirit voiées