THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1998’

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_ [anata mouth, turned to marvel what
a. .nan.-for. -the.eye-must have been che
who was now Laughing McDonald. Mt
. “80 you saw Joe Mokoman, did y iu,
| Skene?’ The, bass volce of McDonald
"| Groke’ tiie ‘allence With’ an odd, slurring

_ ‘articulation; ‘due to the Inisshapen Tits

‘BY szoRcE ‘MARSH oe : 2 “es, he says he hag covered most! of

- SN aAenaSmcd Fg “eatups at-th{s"end of the island.
‘em yet.” : " Of course the blizzard held him up.”,
“Old Sant say ‘he not know what he | “And they'll come in with’ their ‘fur
do. Some hunter ovulr date ave stran- Christmas week?"
ger. He tak de dog and go see dem, “Most ‘of ‘em will, he thinks.” The
den be mak’ medicine lodge and bréeng older man wrinkled his bushy brown
all de Tnjun to -hepr. de. ‘spirit -talk.” .. jag. he filled. -his. pipe,,..*These two halt
‘The idea was masterful. If the old [breeds from Revilion. Freres, in - tha:

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“Schooner Ghost, Seal Gove, Aki-
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“Deur Sir:

“The bearer of this letter, Jue Moko-
man, the Indian you sent up the river
to steal the fur from me is returned to
you’ with thanks... He tried to ambush

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sume face again,

me at Eikwan lake, and it is solely ow-
ing to the fact that I can use him as a
messenger, that.you look upon lis hand

“The purpose: of this communication.
j4s to announce that as you- intend to
‘hog the trade of ‘Akimiski from your

shaman could convince the hunters of
Akimiski that the schooner ¥ was “tabu”
forbidden ground ~ ‘to the: Crees—that
it was the haunt of denions and spirits
who had taken, this method to lure. the
Crees to: ‘perdition, ‘he. ‘could ‘hola’ ‘much.
of the trade for Bikwan, erviously
bacing, the floor Guthrie voiced his en-

% “By gar!" lintst out Bravilt:’

shack beyond Big Point, have been. af-
ter them hard . you know, They've
given them: the ‘same~ talk- the other
company Landed them—about onr Door
stuit and cheating. ” i u

“yp run
dese people off de island, toute wulte,
Where’ ig “der camp?’

strategie position at Seal Cove, I shail
use my position on: the Bikwan to in-
sure that trade golng to me alone, so
{you may spare yourself the trouble of
{sending any more Indians up river,
4 for Fou will never hear of them again.
‘| 4s to the island trade, I was here first
Jand I am going to fight you for it. |
: “GUTHRIE, ELK WAN”
' Then the two men started back in
the leaky York boat, and after a day
of slavery at the sweeps, with the help,
of the northeast wind and the tide,
reachel Elkwan and warped the craft
up out of harms way to her winter
berth on the high shore. -
The fight was on but the sawing of
their share. of the Christmas trade in
{foxes, when the pelts were prime, de-
pended on the ice. Saul had-a free

‘thusism for .gld Sans plan.
“Etienne, if he can. bewitch the
scheoner, we'll make them work to get
the fur. . Why, we .can ‘use the very
name against them —'The Ghost’,
Flanuted with devils !The ‘Devil, Ship!
That's the idea! Laughing MeDonald
may not get the haul he figures on,
after all.”
Into the night the two. diseussed the
plan of the old Indian to undermine
the operations of McDonald Ha! Hea!
against the fox pelts of Akimiski, But
when he sought his bed the thoughts
of Garth Guthrie were of the short,
swift days when u girl with dark,
straight-gazing eyes and a mass of un-
ruly hnir Whose. eternal tendrils de.
fied ‘ restraint, had noiselessly taker
charge of the house and the stricken

“You would, would’? drawled ‘Me.
Donald; “You, don't seem to realize
that we're anchored here in this ic:
untl?, May. Do you want the company
to'notify Ottawa that a Zang of pirates
are running amuck on the bay? We
ean't fight the government you know.
We're here to take out the fur catch of
‘the Akimiski, not. .to loose: the schooner |
the fur, and stand trial in the bargain,
for God knows what.” .
Brenult’s.: face darkened behind his
black beard as ‘he, muttered in feeble
protest, -his small, eyes shifting from
his Chief to Skene for support of his
suggestion.
The sober Skene shook his head.
“No! Le you manhandled those French
company men, we'd be in a hasty mess,

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tied up here with two Fears trade of
~ Peery . hand to pick: up.all the pelts he could Ninda—who had, with such delicacy, |fur.') A snug nest ege for each of us
~ ae Gl of for Guthrie at » good price if the eased the sting of the tragedy which |for the’ government ‘to confiscate.

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-| Indians would wait, but the lure of the
schooner’s trade goods, within easy
reach, would be too. much for the mer-
curinl Indian, unless the strait froze
and they could cross to the Elkwan
for the New Years - festivities. The
strait impassible, Garth and Etienne
knew that. the . bulk of the valuable
fur would go to McDonald..:'That was
the problem that they-faced as they. sat
in the trade house an their return, and,
made their plans,

followed his home-coming.
To the girl who, in her blond Joreli-
hess, smiled from his dresser, in the
dim candle light, Garth youchsafed the
acknowledgement of a doubtful shake
of the head. “The sister-in-law of the
Great. Sir Charles Guthrie," be quoted
from Clara's letter. “No, you, haven't
changed, | my. dear. You're the same
old Hthel” “And he blew out the can-
dle. But before he slept, ‘he told him- |
self that whatever Christmas’ . might |i

You're crazy Berault.”
“Now what did he léarn of _ the
hereabouts of this treaty chief, Souci,
whom Guthrie landed . with him?”
“Jue says he headed for the north
end of the island to flnd his. sons. He
hasn’t been seen since,” ..
“Well, .Fou can het he’s out to beat
us, if he. can, but how-ean he-keep those_
hunters away: from aus this Ohristmas

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ife “Whrt makes | you -think ‘that ‘Baul bring in the way of iil-luck-to Elkwan, | -: “He | can’t,” agreed Skene. rr iain
Fire cin hold them and make them keep jit. would be compensated for by thc}never wait till then‘to. eross the ice to
b Health D .GLENNIE | away from the schooner with their fur | arrival of the mall team from Albany |Elkwan when they , know aye’ ‘pay . &
A Accident asked Etienne.. Since Etfenne’s two] with Joan Quarrier’s promised letter. /more for the fur right’ here, within
HAZELTON . ae c. Prince Rupert, B. Cc. evenings of smoke talk with old Saul, . easy reach. ‘They always have a -blow-

Frozen ia under the lee of the tim-
berless hills circling the cove, the
schooner of Laughing MeDonaid Jay
sheathed in ice and snow, snugly
wedged in her winter berth, her bare
poles and stack, from the galley, alone
marking her in the litter of broken ice.
In the cramped: aren of the Little
enbin, piled with boxes, sat three men:

Skene, the middlenaged New Found-
lander mate, with the short leg, Breault
the master, big, black , bearded, beefy,

with small hard eyes, whieh : shifted
overmuch as he talked; and on a very

in. his shack at Elkwan, before the
epee me . [treaty chief was landed on the tsland,
si PAAR ERR RRA OS the headman had acquired an optim-

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out New Years, and they'll come here
to have it. We'll give’ ‘em a good one,
we,can afford it” |
“Right-o!” McDonald nodded, then
added: “Your huneh on this- ‘Elkwan
man seems to be born out by his buck-
ing the ice im that York boat. Only a
man with guts would tackle that strait
in 4 tub,” ;
“There aint no * doubt about | his
color,” said Skene with finality, exhal-
ing. a cloud of smoke. ;. “He's due to e
give uso fight, as he wrot you—just
how, I don’t see, put I've seen enough

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medicin’ for dem. - He ees beeg shamm
wid dose Elkwan an Xapiskau Cree.”
“Onn he control all his own people?”
; “Some ov deni-some not mabbe.”
“What has medicine making got to
do with getting our share of ‘the trade,
anyway”. |.

.Again Etienne's lenther-skinned face

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fish cells and tlssues are hindering the

. [deine Iodge on de island.”

broke into a net, work of fine lines as
his- eyes Ughted with amusement.
“You see, Wifey Guthrie, w' en he start
to work,”

“Garth was interested, He had. on
ly. thought of Saul’s influence. as the
Treaty Chief,. The use of. magic in the
defeat of MeDonald’s plans, lent 2 new
angle to it,

“You mean that he's going to hold a
pow-wovw., of some kind and- declare
that the, schooner ig bad medicine—
haunted by evil spirits?"

* ‘hyell, mabbe he hay’ dream ‘dat
schooner bring. bad. luck, yes,. Mabbe
he -see; devil on dat schooner, I don‘
-knoww. He. tell me dat. he: mak’ de med-

gashed cheek’ ‘into An endless jeer, Hike
& gargolye ona: gothic tower;: -atamped

strong’ wooden box with a heavily sten-
ciled end, was doubled the third. Al-
though hunched on 2 box of ammuni-
tion, his long arms clasping his knees,
.{ the lean. bulk and: length of the. man
was manifest. From the sleeves - of
arctic overshirt, wwristS and hands, elo-
quent of the hone and thews nuffled
in the thick clothes, protruded, Auy-
where between Whale river on the east
coast and Elkwan, the face.of this man
woukl have furnished his. identificn-
tion. Below rebellious russet, hair ‘and
cold blue eyes, the devastation left by
a shell fragment: had baffled the art’
of the’ Plastle surgeons, ‘The patched
semblance of ‘a mouth, -twisted with its

a. look, almost of contempt, which he
cast at the -
been in places that would turn that
black, hatr’ of. yours grey. ‘Beare me?
This: Hikwan man vd elvil, and i Was .
elvil, I was after: some. shells:
don’t forget. the message he sent you.
He'said that if that black Frenchman
ever showed up at his place again he'd
get 4 knife stuck: into him. And I’m
betting he told. the trath—from the ug-
ley look.of a. halt- -breed. he had. With

fighting men In the last five years to
know the look of ’em—He'’s one” ~.

| “He mus’ scare you;- ‘my fr'en’ leetle
bit, wen you meet heem on de beach,”
bantered Breault.
The heavy brows of Skene lifted in.
speaker,

““Breault, I've

But

him, When the | strait. “freezes “aby
the face of Laughing -MeDonald: with don’t you go and fin 7

an aspect, fendish; ‘diabolical.’ Young 7
with’ the body ofa, Viking, thts . man,
with eyes. blue as the bergs which |
swept Its const hed returned to Canada |:
from ‘the ‘war, ‘wearing: for features: ‘a
comlg mask,.. ‘which, “according,

- Well, Tl, be d-d}"" vt. ‘had, never
entered Guthrie's mind. that. ‘the, repu-
tntion. of old Saul a8 one, having. intim-
ate relations with. apints,. B00d and ey:
i, could: be. put to ‘use on the island,
But: ithe | wily old Cree. had evidently
taken it for granted that he was to ‘set
his” powers, aS a. Conjurer, Against the
odds | which confront a:

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