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, ore manner mre meer om am See rect ee * * Seaiieetindie. _.._aenennasamemeiinianitied - The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, February 15, 1916 asi Author of “NORTH 0! RT CHAPTER Iii. (Comtinasd.) Goodby, Seattle. CALLED a@ hack, and we bundled in. At the dock we found Jule, philosophically awaiting us, and to him we consigned our belongings, At the dock office we learned that Howe had sent down his trunk early im the afternoon. From the same place ‘we telephoned to Howe's rooms at the Washington, whereby we diseevered that he had not been in since 8 oolock. Then we headed uptown to make a round of the places where we Judged he might be. From one point to another we dashed with what speed the city laws allow @ hack to make. When there remained of the bour and @ bait only @ scant twenty minutes, and we bad made up our minds lo postpone our sailing that night, Dick, with his ear glued to & Lempnune receiver, gave a action, Ae spose rapidiy, “One of Mr. Auwe's Lrieuuds. Wouce thact Yes, We'll be tuere 14 three ininuivs. He slammed ine reveiver vaw tue hook With @ force that wust have Jarred Cental, and muse tor the hack, 1 at ois Leels, “To the Chaucelior Cafe," he or- dered, Once under way, Dick swore audi- bly. “Howe's at the Chancellor,” he de- clared, “rowring drunk. Got po session of the second Moor and he's raising pure, unaauiterated heli! What “was Webber, the manager, on the line, and he's sure in a sweat. Begged me to come and take hun away quietly. tHe doesn’t want to cali tue police on account of the publicity,’ Webber, a portly, iuteliigent lvok- ing German, met us at a side doo and be was in @ sweat, literally as well as figuratively, “Dis way, chentiemen,” he ims plored, “Himmel! he vill der house repepnrnngynnynnnney eoeooel) ir of the Sun Dogs: A Love-and-Mystery Romance : + of the Frozen North : : By Bertrand W. Sinclair Fi FTY-THRE Ete.) again, self-contained, languid and «Prone to behold life with a half oyni- cal, half-humorommeye, He never re- ferred to that night of ungodly ram- page in the Chancellor Cafe, nor did he ever speak of Jean and the on- gagement that should have been an- nounced, Otherwise he was his old eelf—and yet not quite, Some men can be hard hit and carry it off light- ly, but the best of them will drop their guard, now and then, and the raw hurt will show. While Dick and Jule rustied a -tring of packhorees and purchased the sup- Plies that were to last us for the next four months, Howe and I had nothing to de but der about at our orn sweet will. I’m rather impressionatle, 1 suppose, but I would have been sat- isfied to remain indefinitely in Edmon- ton, Just to watch the freight teains and eo and Indian: go like pictures In a kinetoscope, and movement there wasn’ after the fashion of established, oulti- vated civilization, To-day the town might be quiet In the brilliant sunlight, and to-morrow the streets might be a welter of dust, and sixteen-horse teams. One could ko to bed with the conviction that be- fore morning the town woftld be torn up and carried away by these st. wart knights of the iong lash, and lo! at sunrise nothing remained ‘to show that they had passed, save the dead ashes of their camp fires and faint dust-clouds of the horizon, Bearded, sun-burned men came down upon us from the sky-line, at the tail end of twenty packhorses, and the next wayfarer perchance afoot, lead- ing @ solitary mule—from whence, none knew nor asked; camped, ate, drank and gambled, if the mood seized them, and went their way aguin— whither, none knew, nor cared, Sin-| sly, in pairs and by hundreds, these | eons of unrest stalked the streets of | this frontier town, careless, indepen- | dent, hopeful of what fortune the new | country might hold In store, Sometimes came silent, bronze-faced Indians with herds of spotted pon Stealing in and out the trading st ax their fighting forebears 6 among the tepees of the enemy. ‘These also, like the prospectors, took no count of time, but when the spirit | moved them, be {t bright noon or blackest night, struck their lodges | and vanished, One afterni on Howe and I sat on the river-bank listening to the squeak | cable that crosses the | of the ferry WILL YOU GIRLS SELL KISSES AT MY CHARITY BAZAAR D GIRLS, WILL YOU SELL KISSES-AT MY SURE | WE WILL BE RIGHT THERE | If You Could Get Your Hands on $30,000,000— You Might Find. Yourself in the Same Queer Plight as the Peopte in * The Golden Greyhound By DWIGHT TILTON This Will B , : . ; Next Week’s Complete Novel in The Evening World It le the story of several men and « girl aboard an ocean Hner that was carrying tons of gold from New York to England. TREASURE, BAFFLING MYSTERY and an ABSOLUTELY UN- FORESEEN CLIMAX—these are the salient points of “THE GOLDEN GREYHOUND!” the doge—this time the whole pack— ‘set up a determined clamor, in the | midst of which I clearly distinguished the voices of men. ‘Tho racket woke Howe and Morton, and what little I knew I told them as I struggled into boots, trousers and coat. Together we sailled forth, light- ‘ly clad and armed with weapons of | offense, in a fever of impatience to know what all the rumpus was about. A few paces from the tent we stopped to locate the noise, Mf to- ward the river-bank the dogs were | Yapping spasmodically, and thither we ran, buffeted by a lusty wind and enveloped in choking clouds of snow that scourged our bare cheeks unmor- cifully and sifted through every open space in our clothing. In front of us, and very near at hand, a gun cracked, the report a dull boom, muffled in the snow-laden air; presently another and another in quick succession, Then Buck's voice: “Blame it! If f could see Ud sure fix ‘em.” | We shouted, continuing to run. Jule answered, and though we could seo neither man we knew from the sounds that they were close at hand, Indeed, Howe almost ran into Jule, and about the same time Dick and f tripped and fell headlong over a pile of stuff lying on the pebbly beach, barely ton feet from the slapping river waves. “Ita them fellers you'n’ Buck had the fight with, In Edmonton,” Jule lyelled, in answer to our anxious de- ‘mands. “Looks like they was tryin’ j to Ket off with some of our grub, Seo what they carried down here! And I 8 they did get some into their t before we stirred ‘em up.” Buck appeared, then, a very wrath- ful guide, and If his angry tones ried out over tho waters, the woul pillagers heard some pungent personal | rks. ‘There was nothing we could {do, however, for It was out of the question to launch a boat with any hope of catching the marauders Ia theythick of that mad dance of wind and snow. We listened a while, and Dick wasted two cartridges when ho thougit he heard the creak of row- Jocks, But {t was just so much am- (munition to the bad, Jule declared. "I'm not But it if they did get away with our gtub and dogs,” Jule a ved pointedly. “I's a might’ long tramp between houses in this neck ub the woods. And it don’t pay to take chances with folks uh the Ape’s calibre; I don’t be- lieve he's more'n half- human, nohow.”. For half an hour or so wo smoked in comfort, swearing alternately at the weather and our unwelcome mid- night visitors, Finally the wind lulled somewhat, and Jule, after a brief so- Journ outside, advised us to turn in. “You'll need all the sleep yuh can ret,” he admonished. “Tt seems to gettin’ warmer now, and, anyway, the back of the storm is broke, If it's clear in the mornin’ we can just ae well move on, If we don’t have any more setbacks, another week'll see us in the musk-ox country.” uldn't be a joke We lay down I cannot for: © Dick and Howe, I think Dick slept soundly, for he always did have @ castiron nerve; but I dosed fitfully from then ull morning, and in: my wakeful moments I observed that Buck squatted by the stove, replen- ishing the fire occasionally and mak- Ing frequent trips outside. Evidently he Judged that our sup- ply-pile wot!d be none the worse for watching, CHAPTER VI. The Drift of ithe CaribouHerds 8 Jule foretold, dawn ushered in good weather. The snow drifts were mushy heaps, ni black patehes of steam- ing earth began to show ere wo finished breaking camp. An in- ventory of our supplies proved that Francoly and the Ape had got mo more than a sack of flour and a small caddy of tea for thelr pains; though 1 suppose that was a good haul for them, If they were out of grub, Buck inclined to the notion that they were not in need, but sim- ply following out their thieving im- stincts with a view to stocking up for the winter, At any rate, we saw Bo more of them on Slave River. Having passed the rapids thy KISSING BOOTH a life a burden to voy: | bring down about our ears. north Saskatchewan at this fro | {So we contented ourselves with car- read a { Up @ short Might of stairs and outpost, In the morning we. ton | rvine back to camp tho sacks of flour ey wears ineaebibca Gan v3 4 half-way along a Wide corridor be would crosy the crooning’ river sail ONE DOLLAR ‘ahd sugar and sundry undies of silly t cuery favorable, breege and i | led us, pausing before a heavy set fare forth Into tho wide, unpeopled | A KISS . stuff, and building a fire in the stove: eto Great lave wo of double doors, tight shut. From territory beyond. Howe took out a} jthe temperature wasn't what you'd *\T'% tt Vesolution, built where dhe. i%s within eame sounds of rending wood fresh Cigarette and broke a long call balmy, and though we stepped ydcged hanks dip ddwn to meet: thenill hs and smashing glass. ~ silence. around pretty brisk, our teeth were je ach of heaving green water, | “ach Gott!” Webber groaned. “Ale — "Tommy," he sald, “do you know chattering beautifully before we'd (NCI wo nights and a day, fretere ii retty he has der guests driven out, that it was tn this country my grands finished our little stunt, ‘ j and now he der furnishing wrecks. father laid the foundation of his for- | For der luff uff Heaven, chentlemen, tune take him avay. Ach, such @ destruc- 1 did not know, and I said so, My ion!” He produced a key and stood tone was a question, hesitating. ceeded to answer niging. with a post statt whose hearty + Jt aan Kinda dosta, when, beard hospaalty, Was & Joy to the waye tad got our fire under way and driven fArere, sols ane we Ang here'ee | | Howe pro- There was no great quantity, either arms swung ceaselessly in an effort to monton, and thus precipitated the when one carolessly opened @ tent jj chill from the tent, “but, Lond acquired further unsavory details t after he had —«bout fifteen hundred dollars be- land a blow. But for bim the tide of fight. I never thought uh them fa smoke! rub ste: wl i “Damn the destruction” Dick told lighted his cigarette, tween the two—but it gave the old battle had set the wrong way; witha | So’ Buck was, as he phraged tt, “Tie second night, I think it was, we Snapers bein’ around. I guess the anent, the rub, atcalers who had a, j him oughly. “Don't stand there “you re:member how the old gentle- Man a taste for more, and furnished fair break he was no match for the “afoot and alone and a long way from turned in early. Buck slept nearest jogs had curled up Jn the bruab, out EO laretied 2 yl yawping about !t. Open the door, man used to jt around in ine shade him the means to travel when the other, And he began to realize it, for home,” and we were rather glad of tne stove, and quite close to the tent uh the wind, or the: ‘da Lag us ed * tor told us emphaticall ‘that should ” Gingerly he inserted the key and smoking that everlasting long- California excitement began—and of @ sudden he ducked ponderously it, for he made a welcome addition r. Kor a long time | lay drowaily Anyhow, I thought [ hear¢ some! i z, we be sae fortunate 6 catch you turned it in the lock, The doors stemmed clay of his, at peace with You know how he fared ther and attempted to gather the blue- to our party when Dick Morton pro- ering what secret trouble had and got up. Might ‘a’ been a bear thievin' loons, we'd hang them tae the sil notselessly apart in well-olled pimsel¢ and everybody but iny moth lowe fs clos Tie fon shirted one to him with a sweep of hig posed that he help Peace River Jule payed the devil with Howe, There powin’ round. S80 [ goes out to the “ pierre ang we got & glimpes of a Dimwelg and every! RY BIpe We ope: econdinniyy wut’ me eh and built ie arom ‘There was a mix-up of shoulder the onus of piloting ua. in Day einen Cet catceinite out of tue pilo wh stuf ‘The canvas waa turned stockade wi sount ceremony. They-ve good-sized banquet hall; a banquet joss plebeian, and made fruitless ef= about as fastidious and luxury-loving ®T™8 and legs, a mighty tussling on our Northland wanderings. nlinary-- and it sat heavy on his pack, and things messed ound ne enough, The dirty scum dinna stop \ hall that seemed to have been — forts to wean him away from it, a person as I know. I could not help {6 ground for n moment; then they a soul, Mven Dick worried about him, 7 seq right off It's a two-' bale vi at mere thievin’, Either o' them wad by @ lively earthquake or @ half’ Now, you'd hardly think that mild- wandering just how he would fare fattened out, one corded arm of the CHAPTER V. id studiously refrained from raking tho tracks in the snow was dim ono” term Thiel’ | lithes o them baked cyclone!—and in the centre Vilived old fellow had been @ rip- should the herole cxperiences of nig Diue-shirted man hugging the other's ¢ up any reminiscences that had to do qecount uh the driftin', but plain wing Fort Resolution, ore mTiaoa natless, stripped of coat and vest. Poaitng aaventurer in his day. Fact, grandfather fall to hie ine bull neck in a strangle hold, the Our Midnight Visitor with Jean Holliday; and Dick, a8 & enough to show mo it’s a human |, Lonvinm Pore Jesolution, we alirted was Howe, methodically emashing i oicn ‘two or three years before he esha) deadliest grip professional wrestlers rule, is 4 great believer in the tonic critter, So 1 goes back and wakes ' a costly china and polished glass over gia eT nc ppened to be at hoind fOF purcives realy @ case of the Attest inow, FTHOUT Incident we made Jowors of a good jolly.” Jule, quict-tlke, thinkin’ the two of axe, En te sarecwa to sare the log of an upturned table. For ® yome time and got better acquainted ap’ we te dn (Hose days,” I remarked, “ror perhaps a minute he kept this the long trek trom Edmonton that the further north we ‘aa Grit sure nail the gentleman, who- Where Slave Lake narrows to a bare . 8 sa aa It seem 7 ollo' twelve mil we 6: moment he ge Thoment we were With him in one week than I'd man- “#10 ferojled, back ok yin tow it, Nold, putting forth hl strength till | to Peace River Landing, got the more droopy and irritable ever ho te, We started 10 eller ke north” pore Aoi ager trance, 7 ed t 1 pre n PB ROSTe + th cles ck*and shoulders jf viy vo e. Not consistently, cks, and missed ppor on he 4ged to in all my previous lifetime, . : ie he mnuscles of his neck "and shou | marching gayly through solid owe. became. c Ys tracks, avi oan water Fe a eerie speak. Then ne He took a. great notion to me, and YoU know, I shouldn't wonder if'— atood out in tense knots and ridges , . Lapeer yh? Petter deysy BE Petpet cay a erlcae saw US, a! " e either; there were times when he was come back to the pil j miles of silent, odorous for- ¢! ry asa meadow-lark on & JUN® and one uh the dogs come allve and that Hom ply christened ‘ing, tines when he mounted his waded into him, We heard a bar! ber used to talk by the hour about his We had turned a quiet corner and with the strain. The bulky om ast decanter poised a yy yy ae early Life, and [An day he spun me Come abruptly upon a scene that was struggles grew weaker, ceased ¢@St, untouched by vandal axe or saw, phe red two paddle biieters ie tae Rasta: toroaver @ the most amazing yarn about this 1” sharp contrast to the general calm altogether, and the other let Ko and Little open meadows, watered by conversational charger and unhorsed g yelp, and all of a RAGED wee OS Salar at his sinks hana Goku oe ton. 44, “have you forgot- northern country. PAL foe 8 rlet space of time was stood up, panting, just as Howe and I cioar, cold springs and lush with us all in the liste of repartee, But comes’ bustin’ through the brush Dilm of fiw Sighe Mame ee Remeber oy ‘we are due to sail in fifteen “He was an Englishman, you know, hovering over the little town, started forward to break his grip, lest molling grasses in which our there was always a reaction, Alwaya headed for the river Bitohed oaran tor musicer nett ten that we like a good fel- and not overly well-to-do, 1 judged — In the space between two empty he should choke the man to death on Cume a moody spell on the heels of ‘jectio pe Mire prs oe majauien? Come Of: Mpoat” from his story. So when he Was buildings, screened from all eyes save the anot. horace revelled, served us for camping his yaicty. And at such times he “Well, we lit into him and went to | Jule and Buck gave us falp bey lOMsavent forgotten,” he called about twenty-two he indentured to our ewn, two men were fighting sav. “Well, my friend," anid Howe, sen. grounds. Some day hardy souls will give'me the impression of a man Who the ground with dim, Jule aoe ee Ger Vick unt Boos sues Rai back, and shattered the decanter the Hudson's May Company for a agely like bulldogs, without a sound tentiously, “you fixed him good and push the frontier beyond the Peace was hanging onto himself, @ man nd it was that ba ait A Tic, quit. the tat al the Guat Gane . josite wall, “Catch the term of six years as a hunter and but the quick respirations of thelr plenty.” 5 4 whose nerves) were strung to the yer, He let a big beller him, quit the tral : against the opp aan ; ‘ i and carve an inland empire out of t silver Seeanit 1 was Just reachin’ for my gun, horned cattle, and when the first carl- boat at ten-thirty, Got five minutes trapper, and waa shipped to York overworked lungs, Around the two ‘The big fellow looked at us and iii Nigerness, and those dim Ine Dreaking-point A OW Gnd’ was just reachin' for Foy Bite Polaris nove ia. Baht er ee to finish this job" half-dozen Factory along with several other principals danced an undersized, then at the two stretched on the +: . usually go all to pleces If It happens to stop that wo knowed that fotgot that they were next door to the plates went the way of the decanter equally misguided | fortune-seekers, evil-looking citizen, sharp eyed and ground, gasping like new-landed trout, dian trails we followed will broaden ¢)at the rae of true love doesn't n fret thing Meive been him— Arctic circle with a seven months: “ten minutes to catch the train" He was transferred from post to post hooked of nose, the sort of man one He held forth his hand, all bruised into highways and hum with the run so smoothly as it might. He'll Frenchman t must have been him Ho role Mite 6 even. ennine zipt—clatter!—crash! He caught UP until in course of time he landed here instinctively associates with cold about the knuckles, trate of men; but as yet the woods, ®fer—Lord knows he'll suffer, landed OF MB Wi) © ae pane’ th inywelf, It was all #o new and mipinalr and attacked a sideboard, 8 at Edmonton—which wasa't. Kdmon- steel, Ho was circling warily, about hake,” he said. “Yuh was sure ® untravelled and unmarred, crown ridgo \°a% Me heart's # thing of iron—but club, tumbled me over Hiss fabs oe nee and altogether fascinatin if it were a personal enemy. nim, tonthen, but @ post called St, Anne. so intent on getting a whack at one friend in need that time.” ig 7 + CFOWD TIGBO tiie will soothe the hurt, instead Ke huge welt on Bu ha atick) “and t getting back to civilisation wi Not an inch could we budge him, «well, dare say tha company wasn't of the combatants that he did not "lty Jovel” Howe cried, “Fe did “nd hollow as calmly impassive as jywenvating it, as seemed to ba the he welght of Francols's sti Mi SHOE SOLEBE: BaOe 50 Sites Physically wo could have Tinatered actuated by philanthropic motives gee us until a sudden twist of the get to you with that knife.” they stood long before the first white with How ‘0, there Was some- they made thelr sf fatale once or -'m a pretty fair shot, and I lowe“ ; him, no doubt; but some one a7 when they drew up those six-year fighters gave him an opening ar The man put his hand to his shirt, Men ventured among their leaty g more nplace shoot at ‘em In the aw ity OF Ataning: Un. b naetae TMTecaean certainly have been Hurt Th Completed (dentures, Anyway, before long he lunged wickedly, with @ Wie, And te came amay all splotehed with ho sound nor saw any mnovement thot (are! OF "isunderstanding back of swiss, and Om ine oul T'don taupe that, tho Unnecessary slaughter of dt and, as he ake Gran'dad Howe developed a large pointed hunting knife, at one blue- red. He smiled a bit. “Frenchy got a No sv 0 0 at it ail elr oa . , P a ‘als daoant ‘he destruction of everything breale sized grouch at the way he was being phirted back; he saw us then, and lick at mo just before you fellowa Was not purely of the wild and its 4 ot of just such miuff floated pose I come within a mile uh tee ne halal Coss Sevene ae able before we arrive 7 tt seemed for, ireated, and decided that he would the manner of our appearance must showed up. I kicked the son-ot-a-gun, #0ft-footed denizeus, through my ‘drowsy brain as I lay "Too bed you didn't get that gun ine, [hut | lon believe that teen ish to precipitate w fant. A fe migrate; which wasn't a eaay @8 have surprised him mightily, what and that kinda feazed him forawhte, , At the Landing we atarted our {irre *n iuilaby of awishing snow abd unllmbered sooner,” sald Dick, walle mai, healthy human oan resist, ¥ dishes more or lesa didn't cut MUCH jt might have been, Those days, you jittle time he had to consider the 'Tain't much of a cut, though; nothin’ horses back and loaded dogs, suppltes, flutteripg canvas crooning over my I was moved to unseemly mirth at desir P e if that Howe promptly christened ’ ae ae im: or end’ total: Le hee euaertie Bae, Goncan Seo BR e'd made proper #8d camp outfit Into the boats that futt , ‘ iatinctly ree the spectacle of Buck tentatively On- wild n they swarm about Wi while Howe raged up and down thé Gf un ancient oharter from tho Brits Me a POL ae 0 ian oa and get ir UDd We swung into the Peace at sun- Qiong arm and poke a stick of wood those fellows make @ business of ing south, and, Ike jocusts, room, When the five minutes Wa" ish crown, and deserters were harshly gud q beautiful kick that caught dreased," commanded Tlowo, And wo UP, che morning, bending to our {tothe stove, on top of which bub- plundering people in this country, ing as they marched, was » sight mq '/00 up, Ne swung back a ueavy foblel. dealt with. But he and another young Parrot-beak fair In the stomach be- ieparted for our hotel forshwtth, eave VAddles 1 PeneeNre Of Old. a onty Died a not of beans, Right after that Muck?" | Miteaven only knows where they all and with a precision a man tn ma fellow managed to got away unob- fore hig knife could get home, and ing the enemy where thoy had fallen. long enough to aay “Hello” to the 1 fell asleep, “Looks Uke it," Buck grumbled. |! Northwestern Capada Mam aa condition could hardly be expected po-ved, with the fdea of making thelr 1’ neined the good work along with Neither was more than temporarily voluntury oxiles there, past the womie Some time later the clammy feel “I've heard huntérs on the Atha- Caine from “Northweslnre Canadas lee to have, shattered at one throw vag way to tern Canada, where in- 4 heavy punch on the angle of his hors de combat, and we had no sym- of Little Hod Iiver et the beste eeey of snow netting on my face awakened basca claim they was dead suro to Nis back yard alontne, ana’ tee face of the big clock that adseneo centured slavery was frowned upon. Virlainous Jaw. Between us We put pathy to waste'on thugs of thelr Wk. Currents paddles and ‘blanket balls me. The tent was open, one flap lose a heap uh stuff if the Ape and Gare ArOW Mens Alone, dick. the wall, and turned toe nim Into teed ne petument for what Prom: nim down, and his Interest In that One's feeling 1g genernily with the Could give, and on ter the ve chee gnapping in the grip of the wind, and Frenchy was anywhere a I. The rod brig h lengthening night, . Hurriedly, T assisted him Into ised to be a threo or four months’ fil, Corsa for the time being. under-dog, and, besides, there was an pels where tho Peace loses itseit in 8Witls of fine snow drove headlong Hudson Bay posts all give ‘em the iyi) ory fe petty. we yp bis clothes, whife Dick made peace jaunt was what you might call rather “ENG: for a fraction of a second Aid atmosphere of wholesome honesty {inke Athapasce and Gren Sane Havin through the wap. Outside. a dog bad-eye: and yuh know what thoy 1° Carlow herds tramped on apage. with the outraged Webber, Ught: two muzzle-loading guns of tne fight slacken, nor did elther man jhout the man whose cause we hol 4), ‘There are rapids in the Peace barked and his bark changed on the did to They're mostly on the oe tousands they drove down upon We got Howe Into the hack and prehistoric pattern, a few pounds of betray knowledge of our presence, @x- «hamploned; you knew on the Instant gy) eat Slave that wake me Up ‘S instant toa shrill yelp, a yelp of pain, sneak, though, I never knew of "em eine mous and muskegs of the started for Pler A. our driver, under powder and ball, a skinning knife cope that he of the blue shirt, as ho that he was elther a stanch friend or fc" Set, when fo arenae tee up and listened, but there was dein’ anything go nervy as thts. yo neen North, following the lead of the peratiasive power of Dick's pock- aptece, and a little bundie of salt and Gohced a swinging blow from his ad- on open, fair-fghting enemy. them. ‘A bare half-inch of frail wood no further sound, nothing but the un. Looks to me like they've been fol- thet anticred aptains to the shelter etbook, knocking the sneed ordinances tea, They started out bravely enough versary, panted: “Kill that Frenchy Such waa tho manner of our intro~ Unier your feet dovun't Inspire con- abated hum of the storm without, and lowin’ us. fo never heard-uh them 89° 66 the woods, of the city Into fiinders at every but it became fiouay ree nen Ane if he goes to get up!” duction to Buck Harrison, Ruck of fidence when you shoot past sabore beside me the faint snoring of Dick far north before f tire Unlike the’ wary musk-ox, whteh Block. Yet, despite the bumps and they lost their bearings. Ingtead of 1 gon't believe in assuming the role tho cheerful'smile and optiinistic out- toothed rocks and great Current pols hid Howe. it struck me that Buck — "have, now I come to think o {| runs In soattered bands and Is exceed- the swaying, Howe was as limp as 4 travelling east, they rok. Thaen ‘on of self-appointed peacemaker. As a look ished boulders, like a runaway hors | Jule must sleep with heads under Jule observed thoughtfully. DIM tng shy of man and all his works, the 0 t rag before we reached fhe C00 ak ct the old man atterward judged. general thing, when men Sot into the OF his quarrel with the Ape and with gunwales awash and gobs of cover, Otherwise they were hardy they ever winter on the Athabasct cariou thinks No evil of his fellow } made no apologies for $ ® old 1 ig “fa notion of fighting {t's good policy to Francola, the Frenchman, he told us qipry gray spume curling over th tomers, indeed, to snooze away OF the upper Pence or! 8 and. if unharasnr 6 i none the less of him for that mad to be a fork of the Peace. ane bad for thom bave it cut-—with due regard little, being the sort of man. who padain’ bladed, But we Were lucky, with ancw coming in as though some snow off 2 bol'ly for his objective point, i hour. He isn't the first good man a fearful struggle to live during tho ‘ir’ piay, And, having put a speaka sparingly of a wrong, save to bnd presently we bovecto at tie head woods sant stood outside wielding « “Never knew where they holed UP hatting nor turnin v0 who has gone wrong, temporarily— first cold weather, h rty of duletus on the fellow with the knife, tho doer thereof, We gathered. that Of kive Portages—a dirty bit of Water husy shovel. It Was altogether too he winter, to tell the truth,” Huck br praalll ie" wid eal tenes Oe and God knows he had a reason, Then they fell in with @ party Of Fowe and I stood back to let the Buck had originally been a cow- “without mishap, four hundred and wneomfortabie for ine. Hetuctanly i tas GaSe bid ae pela | efore I forget the drift of the he last warning toot of our friendly Indians, and spent tho reat of HOt ewo settle thetr dispute, what- puncher, that ne had taken to Dron Alte wilew ot sige L aye ered and uncomfortable for ine. Reluctantly | nta UIT they, cleaned me out.” | CNiou herds . eteamet had gone shrilling out over the winter with them. In the spring over yt might be, in the fashion they pecting, with hunting and trapping «tern posts und one bundred and fifty blankets to close the flap, stepping . Ape, ag they call him and All things--ood, bad and indifferent 4 the clty when we clattered into the they said good-by to their red hosts Pv ducted. us a side line, and that some three yet to go. arefully to avold disturbing our he's sure well paned-—winters per’) must have an ending, We had se. !/® plor and carried our helpless burden and faced south once more, to have ® | ane blue-ahirted man was a glorious months hofora the rapacious Ape and ” Hore at Five Portages the languor- guides. Hut my care was neediess, UN SI uke’ Jule went on. with cured several musk-ox heads and «dy up the gangway and down to a berth. try at gaining the prairie country, agnter, Ag tall and as generously his parrot-beaked partner had ratded ous, smoky Indian # jor skies van- Neither Buck nor Jule was there, f Punch vis fnalus thy seen at hides, a caribou bead aplece—and they That done, we left him, and while where buffalo meat was easy to ket, framed as Howe, with the lean, Puck's store of grub, traps and am- {shed one afternoon before & phalanx The sheen from the white tent wall Teioe Bien 6 ee oe Senere. | wore ities—which, with our Iim- | he slept peacefully In the stateroom, and where they could travel by the browned features that seem to be a munition at his cabin on a branch of somber, low vudding clouds from and the snow that had settled inside en of £ Mitte tin Cr bumped ited ive power, was all we could ' Dick, Jule, and T stood on the after: sun, which wasn't possible halt characteristic of prairie men, he was of the Athabaaca, and brought him cut the northwest, and shortly there. betrayed. their absence, and thelr Ki™! of a litte tin Kod. 1 bumped | vbly expect ‘to Ng home. We } deck of the Vietorine and watched time in the woods, They didn 30 muscled like an athlete and gifted perilously <'ose to ALArYALOD ANA after the first transient snowfall and bedding was thrown back in a tum: prick. We'll bave more. trout th had enjoyed three months of glorious: + \ the eerried strect Iehts of Seattle astern Canada, however; when they with tho lithe quickness of @ moun- kindred evils by reason of the theft. (tho Athabasca Ape came down on uy bled h ‘ \ a little-known land, and © 40 iin to linger, But Ju glow like a myriad of firefites, as the struck the open country between the {vin Hon. Ono slecve of his shirt w whirling screws hurried us out of 1p, as if the manner of thelr tint’ cuss, and don't i anty. He's worse than I was down on the river fishin’,” together. exit hi delivered. ii! 01 n It north Saskatchewan and Red Deer pinned from shoulder to wrist, and In Duck told us, "and thoy sure made'a ‘ihe storm burst on us just at the Where they had gone tn the mia. ies worse {hin a road: hit Himatum which we had no eMolee: «tf ElMot Bay. River, they met some traders from the open space his biceps and forearm clean sweep uh that cabin, All T finish of tilrteen Weary miles of in- dio of the night, ina howling bilzeard and that hook-nosed Frenchman fr fo ay un we desired to south of the line, and went with them giowed pink and white; hard, ropy had left was a twenty-foot fishin’ termittent portaging, and when It and why, were questions I tiie we bump into them. 1 rth of Slave Lake, APTER IV. to a post of the American Fur Com- sinew under the skin of @ child. Mne, and that’s a mighty light outfit struck we piled our belongings, boats feel qualified to answer, “The plot thickens,” Howe me he, personally, had’ ne CH. od ° pany on the upper Missour! River, Planted squarely on pillar-like lees when you're four hundred miles from and ail, out on the wooded bank and — I won't deny being uneasy. Somes yatically announced Our pe ® behoove, us to gain thi The Athabasca Ape. “That's how the old boy landed a surmounted by a body of wondrous nowhere.” pitched camp until such time as the how, to me, everything in those hunting in about t mou sce River without furthy the United States, The amazing part girth, the whole topped off with a faco ‘Though he lacked evidence of the weather should ec} T isn't such a long Jump from of tt was that in thelr dash for liberty that resembled nothing so much as aort that might be demanded by a wo squatted aroun r, For two daya brooding Northern woods is tinged g punitive exped:{ion @ purring sheet- with a faint alr of mystery. Still, I the air Puget Sound to Edmonton; they happened on a sand bar back that of an enraged baboon—if baboons jury-—to which Buck had not the re- jron stove, playing seven-up to de- h tarrled a shade too long, w filmy, then gray and it ad to awaken my friends; sure- bac ay! there"—-Howe waved a hand across ever have scrubby red whiskers and motest intention of carrying his case cide which unfortunate should chop ly two husky woodsmen could leave t follow; + ! % before we teached Hs a Mg dat ARO WHE ste river-—that yielded a double wishy-washy | hiue, ¢yee—the other —ho wax morally certain of his men, wood ‘whien! the pile ran JoW, and lige cain, avon Ym the Iitiie houtw of tho f aetna Hlaye Lake the north wind seresalieg. 3 pMOry ‘ee handful of fine gold-grains to thetr man stood, a huge bulk, and a hardy and in his straightforward way taxed tening indifferently to the wind that night, without my ng to be by ssary ther ah about our ears, ap! 101 fore we disembarked from crude efforts at placer-mining, Their one, to fudge by tie hammering be » with it when they met by whooped down the valley, thrusting alarmed! But why? Aud while Fo by J { didn’t sug bursts of fine, flourlike snow, the Victorine, Howe was normal finding it at all was pure accident. took without going down, His mm that quiet byway in Ed. tts icy presence into our very midst bevitated, shiveriug at (ue tent door, were warlike by nature, Jul (To Be Continued) J é = \ saoninamcssastione Bex Cn ~