THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. 1923

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BY GEORGE MARSH oe

: “I learned that we'll bave to back
track straight east,’ he sald eamily.
“Why arnt we headed for the shore?
“Yes, but we've got to get . out of
this river. When 1 strike the sea-ice,
I'm going to circle, hit the. coast, and

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i/to lead the team,"- He did not add te

glve you some rest.”

“But we ought to. keep on.”
“Not in this blackness. It’s as thick
as Flemish rain in March. I’ve » got

watch for water ahead.
Unlashing Shot whom he hugged
as he mumbled for a space into a
hairy ear, Guthrie sent the nsiredale
out as an advance patrol.
found water once, he would find | it

‘.. again if they slumped uyon another
‘Win SEE tide crack. Leading Castor.on a leash
j : ey eo \he started straight for the sea-ice,

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For, an heur they walked, Shot rang-
ing ahead while Guthrie bent forward |e

tionsly followed. Fearful. of net yet
heving cleared the river mouth, be lead
Lis slogs for na othe: “heue and then
elecied. into the nostu west and fotuul
the shore wove (tae There hie
fed his dogs, cut willow and -alder,

to boil the kettle as soon as it lighted
enough td follow the coast, they would
start ufersh for EBlkwan. After the
Kapiskau , the ten-mile delta of the
Attawiskat was not to be: thought of.
As Joun Quarriér sat beside the com-
forting heat in the willow « thicket
Githtie told her the story which he
kept from her while he groped
through the water traps of the river
month.

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She sat with parted lips her seri-
ous eyes suspiciously bright, as Garth
explained why Shot had hurled him-
gelf.on the team.
“And yon never toll me what you
found when you: left us!”
“Why scare you? mt was bad enongh
as it was.” .
She shook her nead in protest, “You
enll me a’ soldier and treat me as &
wornan”

“You.-are a womnun to me—too
precious to tnke out on a night like
this and drive into a tide ‘crack,” he
replied, watching the light of the! fire
pliy on her. brooding eyes.
For answer. she called: “Come here,
Shot—to me I want
The airedule rose,

streched,

, “There,” Tl never forget’ what
did to-night, You deserve the V. 0.
With a grunt Shot shot his nose to-
ward her hood.

"Took out he is trying to return the
kiss," warnell the mri who envied his
dof

Fier white teeth flashed in amuse-
ment “You may, Shottie, on the cheek.
for youre a brave and gnllant gentle-
than.”

And the ‘other brave and gallant
reutlemen—ure they to be ignored?
Arn't Castor and Pollux, and—their
brave and gallant master. ,' to share in
your salute, oh, mor general?”

“This genernl decorates but one
hero to-night and that is shot," she
replied urekly, “His dev otion has been
proved.”

“And mine?”

She would mot meet his eyes, “Oh,
ny friend,” she parried, “We have

work hefore us—a bitter fight for the
life of a brave man, Why ‘think of
ourselves?”

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side, ita ennvass cover streched above
her like a shed tent to reflect the heat
of the fire, Joan Quarrier slept, warm
in her robes, untill waked. by the].
eracking of the fire at dawn.

“Good morning, Healer ‘of Wounds.
The tea is almost ready: the hneon
doue; the bread .eut. Will yon wash
yout face-and hands in snow, and

on these beatiful plates-of tin? .-

. Through sleepy eyes the girl smited
up, at the man who ‘had laboured for
her comfort, ‘You are very good to}
your prssenger, Mr. Exiie.
recommend this: line tu all..
template ion & night voynge
const.” -

- “Wa ought to make Tlkwan' by: noon.
T wonder what we'll: find,” he said
pouring the het ten.
“What ever we. find, Mnj. Garth
Guthrie, you have squared your debt.
No- man could, haye done more for his
friend.” oo
“But I almost Jost you”

who con-
up. this

war” - “
“And: the irony of fate, avith Hitjenne
and poot.-Galbraith-wailting up" there

‘rat mikwan for’ two: who never came." ;

_ CHAPTER xD

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He had |

eyes on ice and his -ompass dial, cau-

and with his cedar kindling got.‘a fire

stood in the snow on the clenting at
Elkwain ond searched the river. ice
below the post. With a debious shake
of the hend, Efainne returned to Old
Anne and his wife waiting in Guthrie's
quarters, .

* “Ver? black night; hard to follow de
sbore. Someting happen - to. M’sieu’
Guthrie, Mabey de women hot come
wid heem,”. -

“She' come,’ insfated old Anne, “She
come wen he ask. She come. "

“Dat McDonald he ver’ , seek man,-
She breeng de med-ceene eet she come.
E go an have a look ‘at-de trail’.

Again Etienne stood ‘on the cliff
ubove the white: Elkwan and watched
for the moving spot on. the ice which
would murk the approaching  teain.
Disuppointed, he was about ‘te return
to the women in the house when his
eyes suddqnly Lit with excitement, Fur
on thei white shell of the river seemed
to move a black’ spot. For a space the
half-breed studied the barely distin-
euishable object then he trotted to the
quarters, .

“Dey come,” he cried to the waiting
women “Dey turn de: beeg islan’.”’
When the huskies that had travelled
fourty miles since daylight drew in to
the. cliff trail at u:slow walk, Guthrie
hurried to the waiting Ftienne with
the demand: “You got him here? He's
alive?”

‘The. half-breed riodded, then with u
wide grin turned to the girl on the sled
“Allo! You welcome to Elkwan ina'm'.
selle!” ag he nssisted her out of the
robes.

“I'm mighty glad to see you Eti-
enne. How are Marie ‘and the chicks,
and dear Old: Anne?’

“Oh,ver’ fine, tanks. You have hard
ride las’ night?’ -

Joan and Garth exchanged siniles,
“We surley did,” repHed Garth, “We
camped ‘at Kapiskau,”’

“At Kapiskan?”’

Guthries throughts were of the mon
at his quarters and he did net explain
With Jorn and Savanne'he hurried
ucross the clearing.

hurse, nurse finished taking “the pulse

to kiss you,” |

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In the lee.of the sled tipped on its}

and the temprature of the man whos:
rough breathing filled the room,
Without’ answering she placed her
ear to the broad chest of the mar
muttering in delirinm. After a space
she turned to the waiting Guthrie with
puzzeled eyes.

“I dont
akimost normal temprature. only ' 102.
respiration not high,“ and yet he’s de.
veloped pneumonia in one lung. ean
easily henr the rales! ad

“Well?” he questioned, as the army)

understand . “his pulse are |’

: “You mean he ‘has. beiten the flu?’

“I think so: he’s sé strong. But
pneumonia—* -

“It: bits the ‘big men: hardest, 7 he
suid gloomily’

Jonn gave the: patient a hypodermic
of-strychina and left the room to make
some gruel. ° -

“Craig Galbraith — Langhing Mc

. Donald” ' * mused Guthrie aloud. “You

gave. ail you had for Canada, and now
Canada hunts you because a woman
without eyes could see enly “your
sears,”

» On hre return with the nourishment
Joan found Guthrie still guzing with
sombre. eyes at bis friend.

With her well-equipped medicine kit
and her wide experience with influ-
enza and pneumonia cases in the army,
Joan Quarrier’ gave immediate ‘battle
for the life dependant on her care. Bui
the problem confronting Guthrie wax
more complex. What was’to become t
Galbtaith tf he lived? Cameron would
waste no time in taking possession of
the ychooner and its valuable cargo
which, he would hold for the desposi-
tion of the authorities at Ottawa. But
the schooner and catgo belonged to the
estutes of dead men, Me Donald was
offleially dead, He a hunted man could
not claim it. Who, beside his wife, were
his heirs? Garth did not knew.

were coming shortly to the bay in
search of the man who called himself

body which Garth said- he had seen
on the bent, they would naturally
emne ty Elkwan to talk to the man
who brought the news. to Albany.
Craig lived, he would be weeks in hed
recouvering shis strength. Whert
could they hide a man needing con:
stant care if a police deg team appear
ed on the ice below the post? Etienne
could be hustled inte bed and bandag

ed fo cvorroborate the story told ti
Cameron, but Galbraith—whnat of him
accessory though it made, him to the
crime of his friend, the gray eyes of
Guthrie hardened at the thought of
Galbraith V. G.-Galbraith the trench-
reider, whose name was known the
length -of the British front, being
hounded down’ in his dire extremity,
Garth laughed as he pictured the police

-—MeDonald Ha! Ha! and the bearded
mate who limped, with Lewis cuns and
the suipers’ rifles they had slept with
for four years,

And Jonn—he had made her an ae-
cessory o& Well; asked her to nurse 4
‘Mun she knew, now was wanted for
Inirder, How. was he to square hi:
conscience with that? To pay bis debt

to throw her reputation to ‘the winds.
but to defy the law—Joan Quartier.
Who had stepped into his life to become
his world.

It had stripped. down to this:
police found Galbraith at) Eliwen
Garth Guthrie was done. Cameron
might fix it with the company, but the
ttuthorities would be. nierciless. Then

If the

Then Comerdn had said the police |

McDonald. Failing to find McDonald’s-

If

attempting to take McDonald on his
schooner. in the fulness of his strength |

the smug Charles would revel in his
“I told you sos,” and Ethel—he had. :
not thought of Ethel, whose Christmas
letters. he had not answered. since he
found Joan Quarrier on the Elkwat
clearing—she could thank heaven for
her lucky escape.

“But ‘the police won't -find him ut
Eikwan! i Guthrie rasped through bis

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