THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY; MAY 9. 1928

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| Men Marooned

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fm! «cl. him greatly to defend him so well.” . “He threw away his hope of reach- ing the lines, when he followed Shot to ny shell hole and started back with Fi gased man}; is it strange that I am fighting for his life, oh, Healer of wounds?"

For an instant, as he waited for her answer, she met the fierce’ pleading of - his eyes, then looked into the thicken- an ing night as she said, gently, “You have won. I'll give ali E have to save him—for he wis a gallant soldier-—and he has suffered.”

Jonn Quarrier did not see the pride, the sratitude, and the love that shone down on her from Guthrie’s eyes.

Fur au bow ofter the stop at the Big Willow for the hot tea the weath- er had been gradually thickening. As fam =the dogs followed the coust, Guthrie’s ime: =orestless eyes watched the murk slow- Iy blot ont the stars. It meant feeling their way past the river mouths; ant across the Deltn of the Attawnpiskat. a sharp watch on the compass ta avoid entering the river itself. Clearly can- tion dictoted turning into the Kapiskau and spending the night at the fost. But the chance of the man. at Hlkwan might hang on the hours saved hy pushing through the sable blanket that shrouded the const. Ie turveil to the girl muffled in furs ‘on the sled be- hind him.

“tts not going to be cold, but a cole night with the stars, w' ould be bette: than this.”

“Flow can you, tell where we are £0 ing? I enn't see a. thing.”

“Pm letting Castor pick the trail-— just checking . him, Awith the compass It has a luminous dial. ° ;

“But he can’t see any more than w< ean,’

“A good lend dog has an extra sense —instinet for a trail, Castor has it; that’s why he’s our lead dog. . He har Drains, too. ” a

“Where's Shot?”

“Oh, he’s following the shore. misses us, he'll circle and get scent.”

a: “Won't he bark?” :! “No he was taught not ta —at ni ight But I must make a decision.”

“A decision?”

“We're near the mouth of the Kapis kau, It's going to-be slow work—car

“What - has that to do wit the Ka piskau?”® .

“Tf you ’re tired, tno tired to ga on, we can stop at the post,’ She eaught a note, almost: of ‘appeal in his voice. “Too tired,” she protested, “an army nurse tired when there’s'a patient te tnke care of?” :

“TY ‘know, .but its a pit dangerous, too,” he said thoughtfully. “Of course —I’d like to keep on for bis sake” - “Well, we'll keep,on. It means. mak- ing Elkwan hours sooner, doesn’t it? And that counts. I can sleep on this sled. I’m almost asleep now.” “Thank, you, Soldier ?? he said, and: stopped the team while he consulted his compass“ If I could only see that shore—the boulders.”

Guthrie left the sled, cand fastening a long rawhide thong to Castor’s col ny, cried: “Hlnw, Caster! We’ re going ashore to see if we can stumble into those boulders.” :

But leading his team ‘and stonipine nt intervals to examine the ice from his Iuces, te Guthrie's surprise: the): dogs travelled many hundreds of yards | without reaching, the drift and the shell fee of the shore. Was he deep in the mouth of “Gupiskan? And off shore?

He had been too careful to have drift ted out toward, “Akimiski, yet he had travelled a mile ‘straight into. the shore without hitting it. The “only, possible soution was the wide mouth of the Kapiskan and he wished to avoid get- tig into the river he had hope. to well outside, he decided to travel by compass for another mile that . would hring him, into the north shore, if he were inside the river ‘month it would also.- be looked toward the invisible figure on the sled—the girl who ‘had unreservedly placed) herself in his hands—who: had entered on this’ yoy: age of. mercy, thoughtless of herseif. The hands inside his mittens shut con- yulsively, 25 a warning Etienne had once given‘bim flashed across his mem- ory, and he'd Drought her—the thig most precious in the world to Garth Gutbrie—into this. camped on the Big Willow. For minutes Guthrie. walked aheac of his team, praying for signs in the iee. proximity of the shore. hen, ‘desper-

If he our

urged his dogs into n trot, as he check ed them from circling with the lumin-

into the’ ‘black wall when through. the. murk: sounded'a brittle bark. =. . ‘Aroused, the. yelping huskles. _quick- ott ened. thelr pace. a oe

though ! pr

Thess.

Jinvislble teani, sounded ‘Shot's:

Why had he not |.

A pray blur at his feet—of the

ate, he. stood on the tail of the Sled and

ous dial he held.in his mitten, Fer ¢

“Shot’s. found the ehite—he diols:

in. front of him. “Queer he barked, _Apnin.the rough voice of the Aire. dale broke through the pit-like black- Castor answered. With a. ‘Jerk’ the huskies started into a fast trot.»

They had not. ‘travelled 2 hundrec ‘yards when, directly in front of the raw challenge. There , Was an ‘impact of hard, bodies, Castor’s annrl of rage. Pollux’s roar, followed. by the. bediam. of huskies. fighting. Into the middle of enraged dogs. tangled in their , har. ness, shot the sled, With the handle’ of his. heavy dog goud clubbed, the be wildered- Guthrie ran to the reseue of. the airedale,. “who for some inexpli- _ Continued Next Weer.

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