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C. e ; $20.00 to. $30. 00 j Prince Rupert, B.C. | | DENTIST = a Se ea | wy ". ‘ t : an ve ' ——————_—— Ha Marooned BY GEORGE MARSH “He did, did he?Well, ‘that will cook McDorald's goose ‘for. next year. The gorernment will have the police up here waiting for that schooner on her return, Run ’em off the island? Geoat I only wish he'd try that with us. wouldz't “mind meeting up’ withMons- feur Breault o£ St. Johns,” ' Etleme drew long ‘skinning knife from his inside.sash “I would lak to eut dem whiskeer wid dis—ver" short een de neck.” “In bet ‘you would you old knife fighter! Like the job you did on one eyed Louis up at’ God's lake.” Etienne squinted along. the edge of the knife—then. ran a thumb over it “Breault insult my femme,” he said quietly, and returned the knife to its sheath. . _ In the blue dawn the dogteam pulled out of the camp bound down river to the west fork, which would take them through..a gash in the barrens to the watershead of the canoe. The ‘horther had: left much drifted. snow, and the stiff legzs of the huskies cut the pace toa walk. Shot, exuberant after two OP tet | 05 of ehforcéd idleness, ranged to the front ond flanks in search of J. R. Williams PROVINCIAL ASSAYER Price lists sent on request Credit Foncler Bldg, VANCOUVER, B.C. ptarmigan, rabbit and mouse. Along the river, the the broken-out adrift in. ‘the old trail marked the hunters on their way to the rendezvous on the canoe. It was evident that the Cree trappers in the north of the island were bound for the medicine lodge of Waken a Sallow Skin health. Don't try to cover up this con- new life-te torpid ‘cells,-stimulate the circulation to free the skin of poisons, aud yow can clarify and ‘brighten a seliow complexion and overcome. that disagreeable “shine.” Two or three times a week give your skin this ton. ing-up.- Get a few ounces of Peroxinc Powder at any chemists, ‘Apply hot cloths to the face and then rab gently with the, powder, using a rotary mot- ion, follow with hot and cold water and apply a good cream (we recom- ¢ {mend Corol creme.) This helps to re- store e dry, velvety finish to Your skin improves its texture and brings natural] color to the cheeks, GAS AND OIL “SUPPLY STATION AT ANGUS McLEAN City Transfer Stables ___. SMITHERS, B.C, B.C, LAND SURVEYOR. J. Allan Rutherford Ali deseriptions of surveys Promptly executed, SMITHERS, B. €. takes three foot. stick. Wir. sell “OR” RENT—Tireo ' Yoomed ‘ dibin; partly furnished." Apply at: Herald Office New. Hazelton... FOR RENT—cood"t house | “with a ‘good water. supply with. ‘pump In: the To Life and Loveliness Sallow or oily skin is sickly. Slug- fish cells and ‘tissues are hindering the natural processes that make for siin dition—correct it. Awaken the tissues to ‘normal healthy: functioning, bring the old shainan.Twenty to thirty hunt- ers with a catch of at least one him- dred foxes would gother to witness the necromaney of the conjurer, The power estimation -of tventy thousand dollars worth of fox pelts. Whether. Blkwan or the schooner. at. Sealcove was to enjoy a rich Christmas” trade would be determined by the ability of Saul and his spirit condjutors to, nullify -the superstitous fears aroused by the sin- ister’ rumors of tHe crafty Etienne. It world be a -battle worth watching, thought Garth, keen for the meeting in the lonely valey of the ennoe be- tween the grnsping Cree who had be trayed him and the resoursefull Say- anne, But one condition he had impos- ed on the half-breed—that there should be no .blocdshed.. They had come to Akimiski to save the trade, . for the future, as well as the present, and un- der no circumstances was the heagman to abuse or threaten either Saul or his sons, He, Gurthy would have some- thing to say about the long arm of the company and in it’s future dealings of the old mans would depend on the from the ice. The dog was puzzeled. From ‘his ‘tiged- War training he “had learned slience when business was afot And this seemed, business. By the hour he had watched shell holes—from tren- TI] es—had patrolled forest, ag at present, in absolute silence, In some occult way the keen-witted dog seemed that again there in the white north far Flemish baitie fields, ‘he was at hig old . trade, guarding with quivering nostrils, eyes and ears tense, the safety of the man out there én the ice. On he went, weaving in and out of the thick serub, relentless as ‘a wolf, Suddenly the oirdale stiffened, bair raising Uke brush bristles along the spine. Near the Shore in the thicket ahend was something dark, motionless. ‘The war dog froze, spruce nbove him, one paw suspended in the air. A vague scent reached his Working nostrils, Then like a through the dusk the airdale drifted up the trail, from stiff as. the lynx, Out on the river ice the yeice of Garth called, head of the dog did not turn. His small terrier eyes never left the shape on the slow. He knew that the lean, brown barrel thrust before the dark hbedy {Was a rifle—o mntker_ of fire and denth. Three—four steps gathering the . steel Were the nuscels of his leggs, the air- fale leaped. As Shot’s fangs into the shoulder capate, the rifle exploded. A bullet ricocheted from the frozen sled couver and whined away over Two meu dropped behind the sled, as the team stopped, Reaching up, Etienne wrenched ‘his cased rifle from its lash- ings and fired. twice below a’ shred of blue smoke hanging: dn the spruce. where an enraged dog silently grappled with an unknown enemy. But his fire was not returned, There, under , the treesan Indian. frantically fought. to turn his rifle on the maddened brute who had ripped parka of ribbons and hurled him back on the snow, Parring the snap of punishing fangs with his gun butt, the Indian gained his feet, to meet nuother tunge feforé he aimed his gun. Again the dog leaped earring the man with him, Fangs slashed at bared throat—a chonked ery—the nir- dries jaws shut on dark flesh—ripped —nnd the would-be assassin lay on the snow with a torn throat, ’ There Garth and Ettenne found them, the airdele lying beside his kill. Btienne bent to stare,with an cath into the features, knotted with their death “Here Shot!" Bnt the then which nearer, springs ripped of the Indian's ‘the river. with the man who had deserted to the enemy; but the command fighting. ‘Wat yon do with that Mokoman?” had demanded Etlenne with grimance, “Tf he shows up at the pow-wow and interfers I'll leave him to you.” ++ “I tak good care of heem,” grunted the, -other, at the fork. they left the main river trail to folléw the branch oing north. “Dey all go to: Soucl's party laughed Ttienne. “Four, five team pass here this morning.” As the tender footed: ‘huskles drew the sled at a walk or slow trot,Shot reveled in the game sign of the serub a along shore. On -a foray. - into timber, the - irail of the. snowshoerabblt which kad (first lured him, was: crogs- ed by that’ of of more’ inticing. fox. Keen, with | lust. for the ™- hunt, followed: the trafl.of. back throbgh thie gerub ang ‘out: into the open. barren. on the shoulders ‘of ; the’: valleey, : ‘There, far from the: river,. he. stopped, Him, the webbeed ‘imprint ‘of snowshoes |" Jeut, the fox tracks he. followed’: ‘Tha Se Os. {dg enifted: courisly; but it"was a ‘vagud| '/unfamitar scent’ that the®: carried. ‘Slowly ab frat,’ th he followed it down: throught ‘thie 'thtaber ~ to a. i. Aatie, 2 ‘New . Hazelto ply. As:e neared the river’ th votees ‘ot | ste | “Garth and’ Hitfenne aritted faintly’ tn dt hin grimance, of—TJoe: Wwas—no of his snow shoe. "So. he meant to had to bury. ws -in, mine?” | the Jae, he hunt us” * Shot Befdie nite dale nnderet od. Wal, ye. bine: snow and’ let 3) VOCUE résh ‘trail havé. heard: trom’ thentat a ‘Tope, we cided. to stoyi us, “Ambush us, eh?*snarled the hal?- breed“You do fine job, Joe Mokoman,” and he spurned the hody with the bow Garth turning from the ugly picture to his dog, still whining with the ‘heat of battle .““Good old the man. hugged the hairy shoulders of his friend. “You tackled - for Gurth, - didn't you, old comrade of “He dam good dog, : Shot, ah?” cried Kitienne, slapping tre shagsy ‘ba k, He], know nore dan some men ;. he, know “He thought Joe ‘vag ie sharpshooter, . didur’t yoo Shot" sented. on" “ghe’ sno v"C arth ree - and’ ‘fro, rabbis ‘the’ ents ‘of, Lh ‘he, soothing lils « oxelfinnent” in, Jew: ot nes of a langunge none but: th 1 ~