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{ning his thumb over

1 tlie!
ae Kapiskau. You spik’ de: trut’, or I"
: and seizing the Indian by. hls hood, he

(strangers, the undersized Cree swayed

| He natucally bated to go again to the

*| —flu—smulipox 7”

4édat, amd confidently expected a con-

~ }iee, he begged them not -to force him

, would surely bewiteh hin if he again

‘|them. into the trap while he hung back

“ canny “hulf-breed.. would. not be. con
; vinced, ‘and ‘the: ‘Inife, ° shifted ‘to his

‘| barrel” thrasting? trom his. robe, were

| the Cree. re ae

> BY GEORGE MARSH

“Suppose eet isa trick? ‘Suppose de
ones not dead wait for dere: revenge/

“We stalk ‘em and seat

_ Dropping his mittens and deliberate-
ly renebing under - ‘his. capoite, ‘Etienne
drew his skinning: knife.” Cooly run-
‘the edge, he
thrust his face into that of ‘thé dis-
turbed Indian while his ‘slit-like eyes
snapped as he bit off the words: “You
MeDonald Hal: Ha! sen! you to

madea quick, pass at hig throat.
Overawed by-the fierceness of the

on his feet, repeating in ‘his seeming
horror, “I spik’ de trut, You yo to de
boat—yon see!”

“We go te de boat an’ you go wid
us,” suarled Etienne. .

At the words, the Indian's face went
gray, “Dé spirit—I am oseare to goa
back,” he protested ; : but the inexor-
able Etienne ordered him to turn his
dogs andl lead the way back,

It was hard on the hunter iit his
story was straight, but | bearding a
waiting MeDonald in his lair was not
to be lightly hazarded. ,

“I think the nian is. honest, Etienne.

ship.-But what, could have + happened

Bavaurie shook his herd. Only’ re-
cently. the bay hed been swept by in-
fluengn, brought’in by the whaler, im-
purtially, striking down Eskimos, In-
bdinns, and dogs, bat he was still sus-
picious ef a counter stroke by the
schooner people, soar from their de-

‘fession from the. dog driver ahend be-
fore the dusk “enught them. Gurthie,,
on the ‘contrary, “believed that’ some:
epidemic, or” . possibly scurvy, lind
stricken the crew, anil wondered if the
grent:- MeDonald, in the pride of his
strength had found ‘1 grave in the
Akiiniski tee.

The Indian ‘hid seen but one- body
and fled, so he said; but the schooner
had -beon silent as a tomb. Queer that
nll had died. so soon.As he left he
had called repeatedly from the deck,
without answer, except ‘once, faintly,

he had heard’ .something—like’ the
voice of a spirit. a

When the (Cree had, reluctnatly
cached his lond of flour and they

started to cross the twenty miles of

inté ‘that grave of white men, The
ship was. haunted by demons, an, In-
dian froin the north had said. They
had brought the ‘gickness—were dis-
pleased with MeDouald: ‘Ha ! Ha !--nnad

| went ‘to that ship of the dead: But
| Etienne insisted that the seeming. fear
of the Cree was-ouly a ‘ruse to lend

and thus ‘avoided the shot i in the’ back.
for lis treachery. ' a

Half way Herds, the dusk from _ARI-
miskl moved out to meet: the ’ trav- ,

of the schopner,’ denth, in alt horror *
pleague-stricken; men; or to meet

vile. for the | mses of a fighting . “mon
like - Laughing » MeDonald. “But the

capote sash,” and the: unedsed * rifle

sinister . ‘witness | sto ‘his. “distrnst- of
The barrens. of: the island purpled,
At,

the. black: ‘masses
Seal‘ Cove: loomed |

Atiennne. ON

elers, soon to look upon, in the births |.

the’ iniredale trembled: by a “frenzy of
fe selovs man, ‘got. it. “dosw a
Fapld’ inspection. of: tlis,-boat, discovers: ;
oda fourth corpse:
‘| tbe. with, ‘the ‘boat;:
: had evidently

then fused ‘with ‘the® dusk, Stars eite-|
\tered ‘above ; ‘the. amoving ° ‘ tenms.
last. in the starlight,

Garth for a whispered council of war.
“De schooner is not far. We — stop
an’ tie up de husky. Den you an Shot
go one way an’ T tak’ -dees feller wid
de gun cen heey buck un’ we cirele
round de boet.”.. . . a
‘Allright! Tf either sees or hears
anything, , tio. ‘Tong Whistles. Will they
hear the’ dogs" if. they yelp?
. “NO, eet ees too. far.”
Shot, trained to silence,
invaluable in: ‘a fight, but -
Yelping would: betray .them,.
were Inghed to, the sleds, 7
“Eef we. don’ sce noddip’, I inal’ “dis
feller holler to de ‘ship. Den we wait,

would: be |
the huskies
BO ‘they

I tell heem he 1s first, cen de boat,
wid de gnn een hees ribs. . He ver’
scare, . someting. | ees wrong,” ;

id

“He's aftaid of the devils, 7 sqipeest-

ed Garth, wneasing. his rifle, and. ré;
eretting. thai, his arny autonuitic: hung

noglected in its holster on the. ‘rack .
at Bikwan Chis stalk of the slip bad
much of the colar of a trench raid—a
fight. i the dark if Etienne was right
—rand he niissed the feel of his pistol
on his belt. the drag on the shoulder
strap of a bag of Mills bombs,
As they separated, ‘Etienne gripped
Garth's hang. “I meet you at de bont
Keep behind de ice wen [ muk’ heem-
holier, eef de shoot.”
The idea of stalking dead- men was
erotesque, but as Garth and Shot made
their way slowly toward the shore, for
the stars were dim, the possibility of
Intienne’s suspicions were not unfound-
ed, grew in the mind of Guthrie. Sup-
pose the Indiau had seen a dead man.
There might have been a fight aboard
while the rest were temporarily ashore
after fur,’-True, MeDouald might be
dead, but with. the leader goue, Br enult
desperate,: sick ; possibly, perhaps in-
sane, might ‘have: evolved this: scheme
ta lure some of the Kapiskau people
across the “ice., . For the, Indian was
Lound -for . Kaplskau when they met
him:
That the rusé was MeDonale’s Guth.
ie stond in the low door, holding the |
happened before among a ship's com-
pany wintering in..the ice, and whe
vould guess what had fallen out on
The Ghost?
When, in the faint Nght of stars Tie
made out the ice-sheathed poles of the
schooner, Gurth patted his excited dog.
“Stand to, Shot!”
The airedale stiffened, sniffing. the
air, then side by side, man and dog
enutiously made their approach. From :
behind a pressure ridge, a hundred
yards from the frozen-in evaft drifted
with*sflow tovher low rails, Guthrie
stopped. There under the dim stars,
siléut, sinister Iny the ship. ‘Wns
the sepelcher of hickless dead, or— °
Two whistles from the direction. of
the’ ‘ship started Guthrie swiftly aver
the ice behind his silent dag. Cléeling ;
the: ‘storm, he fom behind 2a mound
Ntienne and the shaking Cree.

“What is iy 8
ME hear some sound on dat boat,”
_“Petis de spirit,” whispered the Cree
” We go np.a leesten,” said. Buenne
proding the reluctant Indian forward,
Standing with rifles: levelled’ on. the,
plank-sheathed. leek. houre, they Wait-
ed. |  Presen tly to the atrniuing. ears of
came a moaning as of a creature’ in
‘igony,. to, ‘sulninate in, a _ Series . of
sroaus.: vel fs
The, wor men, ‘peored “quaationinaly [
into: each ‘others ‘faces, “AL: thelr side:
excitement, ‘ ao
Make. him call, to. them)” ‘inuttered
‘Guthrie, with a. nod at the pante-striek
ou, Cree. a oF : :
“Tn! ig’!

jenbin.

and calling Shot,. Jeaped the. rail, fol-
lowed by Etlenne.. A door behind the
sheathing, opencd ‘to’ “his hand,

way. down the pitlike blickness of the
The * odor: -of -spltled. ‘whiskey,
food—and the stench of corpses struck
thein like. a blow in the face,

enidle he: took from his pocket. In
its flickering light the two guzed in
horror ut the chons around them, On
the table, the floor, whisky bottles.
empty, half-full, lny in elitter of ment
and biscuit tins; dishes and scattered
food. Sitting, jammed grotesquely be-
twiven boxes in a corner a rigid hand
gripping a giess, the candle It the
stariug eyes ‘and: the eaying mouth of
a dend man. : , :

“Black Breault,” muttered Guthrie.
“Died drnnk! Bat that'groan Where
are the rest?? °°

Turning, nvuserted trom the air anc
the logthsone spectacle, ” ‘they found :
stateroom, In two berths lay. the dead
hadies of the peurded mitte Gutaric

had met on the beach, and a sailor,
Then a muttered groan and a curse
led them to un adjoining room. | Guth-
rel stood-in the low door, hoiding the
exrdle above lis head. -

Ina ‘bunk a gigantic. figure lay in:
siceping bag. Cnthrie bent forward
thrusting bis aria with. the light int:
the room, The heavy breathing of Che
bik ‘bi the berth pulsed through th<
small room.

“3eDanaid

Etieine crowded: ‘beside his: enic?
curious to see the man whose fame hac
swept James Gey, The fuer was turn
ed from the door ‘and Guthrie enterec
the ream to stumble over a bottle tha -
rolled away, snilling its contents. The:
he held the Hight over the mutilnted
face.

As the candle lit the reset hair an-
uiwesing coves, flaming with fever a-
buvé the shattered face with iis rev,
beard, Greth Guthrie stared, motivo:
less. Stbwly his jaw deopped. Ae +
inthe spell of sone strange faseina
tion, the grimaéing’ face in the eundle
light held Guthrie's unwavering eyes
‘Bewlidernient, profound, ‘shitting slow ‘,
‘ly to. nmiezoment—ty recognition. 74

“Craig Galbraith,” be gaxped.
swiftly turning back the robes, ex
een aut the base of the earded neck i

ngwed KenL, ;

“Cr Galbraith! anghing
Donald! Ged! What irony! -

Turing to the perplexed Fitienne,

Guthrie tapidly exphuned, as he tel;
for the pulse in 2 huge wrist.
' “Ettiende, you and TI have work a
head! Thls is flu or -yueumorin, He
necds some. nourishnent—-niay have
starved for days, he bag has savec
him—hept Lim warm with that fever.
“But yon aurse beem—ilis Meyional
Ha! -Ha!?’ demanded the surprize’
‘half-breed.

“Nurse him!" Garth laughed rawls
“Why this man took me through hel
itself, ou his back—brought me throu
a barrage with ‘one of his nrms brok
en nnd no shot in the chest.. He wa:
my ‘friend—imy pal. understand sar
ed my fe! We were. brothers bf
"France Light the ‘galloy lamp ane
_hent sone broth—soup, quick.”

WET ees: subme not MeDonni’ ?” askae
the bew Lidered ‘Htferne, daxed.-by th
swift reversal - of the situation,

“Not I -never  suspected— neve:
dreamed who McDonald was, He wa:
shot in fhe face Ww ‘hile Twas in the hor
pital. I daw kuow how. had, At we:
never ‘saw him agein,”

With a quick: glatee >of edniratio:
ate the rtigantie franie of a mat de:

wig

Mc

in ‘Gelirlum, Etienne’ went, to tind” the :

ealey and. start a fire. Meh 3

‘Guthrie. found ‘nnd ut “bh Lamy, ‘the if

poured. ‘some whiskey ln ‘and ‘Blass ne
proping up the” head” of: the! aha:
bh thrait.. a

A the. Oree., JAnows

anc |*
; with’ ‘the dog in front they made their

Btrik- |
ing 1 match, Etienng lit the stu) of a}

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