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Show it tins ffSjL JhSi H is-,,-. 'r V - 11- TIIELEHI SUN. LEHI, UTAH yer Frozen State W.K.U. SERVICE. I PTas the story opens f ' . nl House, In the Canadian north, Jim Stuart. hi fw Pr' " " overturned canoe in the lake, witn mi Headman, ctai-ee. ht!j Aurore LeBlond. daughter ol bit rival in the far I be rescue" the an. 'Aurore proVef to be a charming companion. Le- tenant, arrive in Karen ot tne missing a lime lhamhI Heu i titk Ptradii, nl "V ,owlrd Jim, though LeBlond acknowledgei nil F partdn taw". . Ieavin. Sunset House, Aurore and Jim arrange to ex-0f ex-0f patitude. Before i . tbere Jim fa tmbu5bed by Paradis ,nd jpotei on a eerw UBlon post. On the way he overturn! the boat, W - I - --5 k while there was yet flake camp, they landed. Lthe supper was cooked, flared, wet from his swim eDoutbof a wide bay. I old sport, yon left the fo follow game, eh?" Jim i,l,e black ears of the great I the panting Smoke swished I u pleasure at reaching bis Ssqiptr, with the dog's great Ween bis knees, Jim de-j de-j bis meeting with Paradis, "ite seamed face of Omar re- bis disapproval In a set I linen as be shrank from Aorore LeBlond Into the ve, the staunch loyalty of bis served in return Jim's com-snBdence. com-snBdence. Omar bad already ji ffhy he had taken that g paddle. . I iai' dat woman ver' moch?" i!breed asked gravely when bad finished. "Eet mak' Jfor you. I t'ot you late' dat li'hHstie. at Lak Expanse." l, I like ber, too, Omar. She's !wman. Mary Christie." eef w lak' dat French girl, cu not let beem drown dis tr ' i shook his head. "1 couldn't . Be couldn't swim. I had ooau I veel mak" mocb troub' for ftettalr let heem drown ; no one The Indian in Omar bad i 'Ton cross de lak' again, gowidyou.' Sold wolf I Ion wouldn't let Is off, if you got those paws in on him. Their beating us i trade's got under your skin." i i guttural growl he nod-I'ffe nod-I'ffe feei dem yet, yon and nd Omar. We get fur from fsstone countree dis long snow, lit! Sunset House, she bust!" nocking out his pipe, the iFrench-OJibwa prepared to i-self In his blanket days later Jim and Omar jacking over the portage be-Itfie be-Itfie Lake of the Sand Beaches m Woman river, which flowed N Expanse. Ahead, Smoke W through the "bush". In of rabbits. Half-way across f J Omar rested the bow of $3 in t birch and Jim slipped m-ht lashed to his packload 'i forehead. Then they sat and filled their pipes. going to tear his hair j small spring trade," said j T suppose he'll blame It all W'at mm prodding bim pretty hard Ipeg. He's a bit worried they might retire him." Wiping of the husky 15.2"? the l to us m curiosity. X, B60t there?" iaIe5 a into 8 sulky moose." Zf heai "He got -s ten t tree." Slrf8l0ng','SaI(1J1"- Uthe trail. We'll find ftSea116 tW tho Z the carry- 1? ith Smok- lM1J few yards off the d?""De from w W?"1 load and 1 ?." 'wlT 016 bedlam f the e5ttrioff!- H hi 55. Jin, flo-rgawolf U J 0avereihlm. Hjoi- S. he wouldn't p. th9 t tinized the Surveying his wa Jeneral appear. ance, be had come from "outside." Who could be be? "Speak to blm? I spoke to him In four languages, but be wouldn't listen," laughed the other. "Well, Smoke's satisfied that you're all right, now," said Jim, Impressed by tbe good nature of this man In new whipcords, wltb the stamp of tbe city on his face and manner. "You left your outfit at the end of tbe portage?" "Yes. You're Hudson's Bay people, I suppose." Tbe stranger smiled. "I'm McLauren, of the North-West Trading company." "Ob, yes, Mr. McLauren. Tve heard of you." Jim had indeed heard of tbe man who had furnished the financial backing for LeBIond's string of fur posts; but be was surprised sur-prised to find him so young hardly forty, from his looks. "My name Is Stuart. I'm In charge at Sunset House." For a space McLauren seemed to measure the caliber of the tall fur trader with the level gray eyes which coolly looked into his. Then he said: "So you're the chap who's bucking us at Sunset House?" "Yes, Mr. McLauren," said Stuart, his face hardening, "I'm bucking you. In the last three years you've had the laugh on me, but I want to tell you that you'll have to work hard for fur In the future." McLauren, with a smile, extended his hand. "Good day, Stuart," he said, Ignoring Jim's remark, "from what I hear of you, you're too good a man to be sacrificed at Sunset House. The odds are too heavy against you." . This winter the odds are going to shift," said Jim, as McLauren's men came up with tbe canoe and dunnage. "You mak' moch talk wid dat feller," fel-ler," grumbled Omar, walking to the canoe. "He tak' de fur from you an' you shake hand. Bettalr let Smoke eat heem up, eh?" "You're certainly a good hater, Omar," laughed Jim. "But the man was friendly, and I was glad to have a look at LeBIond's partner." part-ner." " "Ah-hah 1" grunted the half-breed, lifting the peterboro to his shoulders. shoul-ders. "He steal de fur an' he steal de girl" Across the remaining mile of portage port-age to the Woman river Omar's gloomy prophecy dominated Jim's thoughts. Already he bad put the hope of again seeing Aurore LeBlond, Le-Blond, that summer, behind him, but the thought of McLauren monopolizing monop-olizing her for daysi weeks, possiblyaroused pos-siblyaroused in him a deep resentment resent-ment over the duty which had sent him south to Lake Expanse. He found himself wondering If this McLauren Mc-Lauren were a single man then laughed at a jealousy based on a few hours wltb a girl whom, in all likelihood, be would never see again. The peterboro approached the post, asleep In tbe soft July sun. For two hundred years this post had guarded tbe frontiers of Kiwe-dia. Kiwe-dia. At the big log trade-house Christie and his clerk, McComb, turned from the slab table where they were bent over a book of accounts, beads to gether, when Jim entered. "Good day, Mr. Christie McComb Mc-Comb T greeted Jim. The dour face of Andrew Christie framed in an Iron-gray beard, turned on the voyageur with the effigy of a smile on the stiff lips. "So you're here at last? I've been expecting yelK" Jim's teeth clamped hard at the coolness of his reception from the Inspector of the district. "I came by canoe not airplane," ha countered. "Well, Mary's waiting to see yen at the house and supperll soon be ready, so we'll not talk business now," answered the older man, turning turn-ing to his figures. ' At the factor's quarters a woman watched Jim's approach. He waved his hat and she tilted a band in reply. re-ply. As be reached her tbe fair skin of the girl's face was touched with color, her blue eyes, beneath tbe thatch of gold knotted at the back, alight wltb pleasure. "Well, Jim, how are your said Mary Christie as he took her hand. 'It seems year since - - - not here la January." -Sseems loncer than thnt tn m Mary," he returned. "How weli you're looking this spring 1" as tney entered the house the girl threw a sidelong glance at the bolo" profile of the man beside her. "I'm glad you think so, Jim." Jim thought of Aurore LeBlond. Sooner or later the news of the girl's mishap and the visit of her father to Sunset House would reach Lake Expanse. Ex-panse. He would have to report It to Christie. But he would tell Mary now before ber father and McComb appeared. "Did you know that my rival LeBlond Le-Blond has his daughter with him this summer?" he boldly began. "The Indians saw them when they passed through. Have you seen her?" demanded the girl with Interest. "Well," said Jim with a smile, "I should say that I have. We found her In a big blow clinging to a canoe drifting In the lake." Mary Christie leaned toward the speaker, her face eager with curiosity. curi-osity. "You saved her life pulled her out of the lake? What's she like?" The feminine curiosity evidenced In the question drew a lauch from the trader. "Well, she had bobbed nair ana wore knickers. What d'you think of that?" "I don't think much of it," said Mary, drily, "but you're not telling me what she's like." "Are you Interested to hear the rest of the story?" he demanded. "What is she like, Jim? What happened? Did you take her to Sunset House?" "She's dark, of course like her father. A good looker striking, in fact," he stumbled on. "Even with her hair bobbed and knickers?" "Yes, even with her short hair and the knickers. In fact the 1! i il Jim Reached and Cocked His Gun, Rose Boldly to His Knees and Rapidly Emptied the Magazine at the Tell-Taie Wisp of Smoke Against the Green Scrub. knickers were becoming," he laughed. Mary's regular features stiffened. "They must have been very when you pulled her out of the lake." Then Jim briefly narrated the events of the evening following the coming of Aurore LeBlond to Sun set House. When he had finished, the cirl who had listened while ber eyes furtively ranged from crisp brown hair, and bold, weatner-burned weatner-burned features, to the well-set shoulders and capable hands, said quietly: "And to think that you'll never see this what d'they call 'em, flappers this flapper again, the daughter of your bitter rival. Poor Jim I" The sound of voices checked Jim's reply as Christie and McComb Mc-Comb entered the house. That evening the Inspector sat late with Stuart.. The spring trade at Sunset House had been little better than that of the year before. It was a great disappointment to Andrew Christie and he made no effort to conceal his chagrin. "They'll be after me again at Winnipeg when they see yer returns," re-turns," he said, squinting at Jim through his steel-rimmed glasses. t' thrpp vpnrs now since we set you up at Miiawangagama and yeh'ie making little headway against the Frenchman. Ye've been a great disappointment to me, Stuart. Knowing yer father, and yer own record at God's lake, I picked yen as the man to beat Louis LeBlond at his own game." Jim's blood heated at the unfairness unfair-ness of tbe thrust "Yes," be said, "and how have you backed me up? You've held me to Lake Expanse prices and allowed LeBlond to outbid out-bid me for the fur." "But the Hudson's Bay goods are better they're worth more." "That's true; they are; but LeBIond's Le-BIond's got a mysterious bold on all the northern hunters who've kept away from us. Omar and 1 think we've stumbled Into a clue We're going to follow it up this summer." "Well. It's high time the post was getting its share of that trade. It's beyond me why ye've not done better. ler father. If alive, would be sore disappointed." Jim choked down bis anger as tbe old man went on: "Now theyll not be thinking of a change this year, but" -But what?" broke In the exasperated exas-perated factor of Sunset House "If that's meant to be a titreat, Mr. v,unsiie. mnite it speclflct l'v worked hard to make a go of It, but yoo know and I know that we've got the cleverest fur man In the bush as a competitor, and If you and headquarters think gome one else would do better, say so now. Send another man and see what he'll show!" "Tut I tut I Not so fasti I sent yen up there and I ain't ordered yeh out yet" The gray eyes of the younger man glittered. "What you mean," he said, staring through half-shut eyes into the lmpassije face of Andrew An-drew Christie circled by its stubby beard, "Is that you're giving me one more chance a year, perhaps." "Aye, that would be fair." Jim smiled sourly. "Knowing the odds against us, you, nevertheless, think we ought to be on our feet by another year?" Christie nodded. "Well," said Jim, rising, and expelling ex-pelling a deep breath, "unfair as it Is, I'll take you. If I don't double tbe trade next year I'll quit." The following morning as he walked on the shore of the lake i with Mary Christie he told ber of the year of grace given him by her father. "Ob, Jim," she protested, "he doesn't mean that They're worry- , lng him at Winnipeg and he's taking tak-ing It out on everybody. De was the same way with McCoy, from Jackfish, last week." "Well," Jim turned, to surprise the veiled look In her eyes a look now close to pain, "It's hard to work three years as we have worked and In the end get kicked for our pains." "I appreciate what you've done up there, Jim." She gazed at him through eyes unabashed, empty of all subterfuge, as she said slowly: "Doesn't it mean anything to you to know that I believe in you?" He saw the girl's heart In her steadfast gaze and a strong Impulse Im-pulse to take what she so freely offered swept him, when a flash ot dark eyes framed by wind tossed hair crossed his vision. Slowly he nodded. "It does mean a lot to have your confidence your friendship, friend-ship, Mary." With a sigh she turned from him and they continued their walk. That afternoon as the canoe left the post bound back to Sunset House and Jim waved his hat at the lone figure standing in the clearing he carried with him the memory of the tense face of Mary Christie. He saw her again, her heart in her eyes, offering her love. Her appcl had been powerful the frank revelation by this proud girt who had held much of bis thoughts until a canoe drifted across wind-harried wind-harried Mitawangagama. But even if the black-lashed eyes of Aurore LeBlond had never flashed their challenge, It could not have been otherwise. Andrew Christie had. the night before, cracked the whip of his authority over Jim's head given him a year of grace. In all honor he' could not then have sought sanctuary behind the skirts of bis chiefs daughter. But the picture of the girl in the distant clearing signaling Godspeed to the rapidly disappearing canoe, left the bowman sick at heart Two days later, with Smoke running run-ning the shore, Jim and Omar were poling the peterboro up a wild reach of the swift Woman river. Jim's thoughts alternated between the coining year which would decide de-cide his future with the company, and the two women, far apart as the poles In nature and temperament, tempera-ment, who had come Into his life. As for Aurore LeBlond, she would soon be but a memory. In a month she was going "out" back to Winnipeg. Win-nipeg. There was no chance of even seeing her again, as he was to start with Omar and Esan at once for the Pipestone country. The canoe was entering a stretch of "strong water" demanding the utmost efforts of the crew to force her upstream when, suddenly, a rifle exploded in the willows of the near shore and a bullet splintered the spruce pole In Omar's hands. Off balance, the bowman lunged Into the river, but twisted as he fell and caught and bung to the gunwale of the boat while Jim threw his weight against the roll of the swinging craft "Lie down! Let her dreefi" railed the half-breed as a rifle again cracked In "the willows and a splinter from the gunwale flicked Jim's desperate face with blood. Flattening out in the canoe, he groped for his gun lying amidships as the drag of the man In the water wa-ter headed the bow down river. Again a rifle exploded and a bullet passed through the wooden wall of the craft close to Jim's bead. What could It mean? Who would ambush them here on the Woman river? As the boat drifted out of easy range of the willows, Jim reached and cocked bis gun. rose boldly to his knees and rapidly emptied the magazine at the tell tale wisp of smoke against the green of the scrub. Then over the bow rose a dripping face warped with rage as the thick arms of Omar lifted his body from the water. With a lunge the balf-breed was In the rolling canfe and his rifle firing at the fast receding shore. Shortly a bend masked the willows wil-lows from the sight of the dancing craft and the men swung the canoe in to the beach. "Well, what's this mean?" demanded de-manded Jim. TO BB CONTDTOTta.1 EVADE INCOME TAX IN DEVIOUS WAYS Income and other taxes are very heavy, especially In Great Britain, where they are 22 to 23 per cent of very moderate Incomes, Consequently Conse-quently many efforts are made to evade them legally. By a quirk In the shipping laws, a yacht owner living In his boat Is not taxed, and one such "home" may be seen at Monte Carlo, where It has been moored for years. The author, Conipton Mackenzie, well-known novelist, has leased the tiny Island of Jethou, which lies with Its smaller sister, norm, just east of Guernsey, In the Channel Islands. Is-lands. Curiously, this lease Is taken from the British government, at an absurd figure amounting to perhaps $1 a week and If the novelist lives there six months In the year he may live In England Itself the other six months and entirely escape the Income In-come burden. By virtue of his Investment, he may fly his own flag and assume many feudal privileges of the ancient an-cient duchy of Normandy, for these Islands are a part of that dukedom. There are no taxes on tobacco, spir its, on gun licenses, nor has he a tax to pay to his local government Ilerm. next door, also was leased In a similar wly, and has a curious history of Its lease to TFnce Bluch er of Waldstadt, Germany, fireat- grandson of Blucher, the general of the battle of Waterloo. The late Prince Blucher was strongly attract ed to the Australian kangaroo and bred them on Ilerm. The island Is now in its original 6tate and the kan garoos have vanished. Pink Granite in Highway Pink granite from the mountain side was used to build the recently opened highway In Cadillac moun tain, the highest on the Atlantic sea' board, In Acadia National park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. It has a granite fence on the outside of the road. Wise is he who learns from the experience of others. Cranberry's Vain Cbrtain tribes of American In dians look upon the cranberry wltb reverence as having virtues that prolong life. 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