| Show 1 7 e Vanished Men 2 I o By Br Y GE GEORGE RGE MARSH Pe to Ca c. I f Win TilE STORY SO FAR PAR Round Bound for the n gold lold country iu six men meD lost loit their fives Union on the Nottau three river Red lied Malone Garrett arrett brother of one ol of the Hr and malle balf breed haU-breed breed guide arrive at wa posing as at surveyors surveyor t oI at Malone Hashed flashed his pocket pocket tO torch Ch on the faco taco of his friend swollen beyond be be- yond recognition By Dy the father of 8 all the tho moose malse look at him By Dy gar boss were you get dem bite You mean to say you two didn't hear the 45 a few hours back de der demanded Garr Garry Not a shot shott I saw through the glasses that you ou and Lise were sitting sit sit- ting pretty cozy on the beach and everything looked all right so Blaise and I took a paddle up the lake We Wc came back around five couldn't find you so turned Flame loose Then we lost him Yes laughed Garry Carry everything every thing was all right except that Tete Tete- Blanche Blanchc and his mob jumped me after she left But Dut I got three or four before they cracked me from behind with a club I came to lashed to a tree in a small bog back In the bush Flame bless im took their trail and found me Then chewed the thongs on my wrists I told you Garry Carry burst out Red flourishing his long arms in his anger Blaise and I warned you youl The little Walt Wait till you hear the story Red fled Its It's a queer one onel onelAs As they paddled back to camp Finlay told the story in detail Well what do you think Constable Consta Constar ble Malone It looks like wolf eat wolf now Sergeant Finlay If we dont don't get this Tete Tete Blanche Blanche hes he's bound to get getus getus getus us After today it'll be no quarter Well what's your Idea Blaise asked Finlay We get dat white bead quick or we leave de lake Dey gain go in to hunt us like starve wolf Some night we the go straight to Isadore's Isa Isa- dores dore's place I put a knife into Tete Tete- Blanche In hi hees bed and we take Isadore to de railroad Steady I Not so bloodthirsty I objected objected ob ob- jetted Finlay splashing water on his tortured face and chest We happen to be police you know My orders are to investigate the disappearance disappearance disappearance of six men Until we can show that Isadore has a vital reason for keeping white men out of this country weve we've got no motive for his having them shot 1 I thought of course it was placer er gold somewhere on the river Isadore Is adore was covering said Red but never never see seen them them- working workIng work work- Ing the bars ft it We cant can't show a plausible motive for murdering these men Until we find one were we're licked We Wc haven't scratched the surface of this case yet Red Youre right chief And if he succeeds in turning the against us us well we'll never get out of this country swarm on us If we have to disclose the llie fact that were we're police police po po- lice Isadore will blame the Indians Indians Indi Indi- ans a ans s. s stand pat and were we're licked Exactly and hell he'll bring charges against me for firing on his men without cause Red snorted in disgust Why you had to fight em Garry Garryl You knew they'd wipe you out if they took you and there'd be no proof of what happened Of course its it's regulations regulations regula regula- but after what we know and what they tried to do to you what are you going to call it when Blaise and I meet up with this Tete Tete- Blanche Self defense Red fled Redl Garry Carry chuckled chuck chuck- led Thanks Sergeant Finlay Do you know this is the toughest assignment assignment assign assign- ment you and I ever had You asked for it and got it because you were a trained surveyor before you joined the force CHAPTER XI The returning Peterboro was met metat metat metat at the camp by and his two sons Beneath his thatch of grizzled grizzled griz griz- tIed hair and seamed forehead the llie theold theold old mans man's eyes were beady with ex ex- ex Ver bad time at head of lake he announced geeve de whiskey an antell antell antell tell dem white man make de chil sick an an more will die if de Evil Eye on Three Leg stay on Waswanipi Was- Was The startled Indian peered Into Garry's Carrys caricature of a face as ashe ashe ashe he took his hand How you come dis way he demanded Finlay attempted a twisted smile Your friend Tete tied me up and left me to the llie bugs The muscles in Blaise Brassards Brassard's Jaw bulged When we leave Waswanipi Waswanipi Was Was- he rasped in Cree we leave Blanche Tete-Blanche in the ground and take Isadore with us He lIe has broken the law and given the Mon Mon- tagnais whiskey Take Isadore with you ou Are you police pollee sent by the Fathers at Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Otta Otta- wa excitedly demanded the old man Blaise shook his head No but we are sent by the llie Fathers to make a picture of the lakes He lie repeated his talk with to his friends Hes right Blaise said laid Garry Carry shown their hand After today they've got to get tet rid of us to have kave save then their skins And they'll use and this evil eye ee mumbo mumbo- jumbo to do it it It INSTALLMENT INSTALL TEN Finlay receives receive an letter nt tint that the its men Inca were not Dot drowned ai as reported Suspicion prevail that Isidore Isadore rich etch fur man has bas made a told lold strike and aim almi to keep prospectors prospector out oat of the country at any cost toll The three 1 lY I e Well what's our cur next move chief chief demanded Red fled fidgeting I like a bear on a chain After what they tried today Im I'm not sleeping I sound until I 1 get m my hooks on this white head he Dont underestimate that th bird Red fled warned w Garry as he sat stripped to the waist aist by the fire rubbing his tormented bod body with the soda solution lies Hes quick as an ot ter I was sure I had h him today He wasn't ten yards ards away and coming com com- coming ing in In head he on on when I threw the gun on him I I 1 never made a n worse miss You dont don't make many Garry Carry Now what hat arc are the orders Im going to MatagamI to have ve havea a report for headquarters relayed by canoe to the railroad Its It's my alibi and last will and testament said the blinded man nursing his putTed puffed face With these wild Mon Mon- tagnais crazy with Isadore's whiskey whiskey whis key and fed up with the idea that weve we've sickened their children weve we've got the chance a rabbit has with a snowy owl Malone stopped his pacing bent and peered anxiously into the lit fire face of his friend Then he faltered Youre Youre you're youre you're not sending sending for for help An effigy of a smile touched Finlay's Finlay's Fin Fin- lays lay's distorted features Do you think I am Red fled Not the Sergeant Garrett Finlay I wintered on the Liard River with with with- not the man I saw blutT blut those miners at Fort McLeod No Noell well we'll play this through the four of us as we started said Fin Fin- r M r I 4 Dont underestimate that bird Red fled lay Im going to report that weve we've found the llie bodies of two men who had been shot not drowned and were ourselves fired on on the Not Not- that I was ambushed and finally that were we're going to stick until until un un- til the arrival in August of a mysterious mysterious mys mys- plane from the Bay when if we live that long therell there'll be a showdown Because of the thc gravity of this Indian situation I am advising advising advis advis- ing the dispatch of a police plane In September to view our graves and clean up the case This looks to tome tome tome I me like the Waterloo of Sergeant Finlay and Constable Malone A look of 01 incredulity lay on Malone's Malones Malones Malone's Ma Ma- lones lone's freckled face lie He squinted curiously at his chief Youre not talking like your old self Garry Youve You've taken a tough lacing from those bugs Youre You're in misery And youre you're naturally sore lore over the scurvy scurvy vy trick that Jane played on you But when the poisons poison's worked out of your system youre you're going to feel better better bet bet- ter about this Jam were we're in I tell you were we're going to bust Isadore wide open and if those start to hunt us us therell there'll be plenty of red widows in these parts You may be right Red Finlay raised his face with its closed eyes to his friend But if were we're licked well we'll go down with our colors fly fly- tog ing inglIn In the morning left for forthe forthe forthe the head of the lake to carry on his losing fight against the medicine man For two days Garry's Carrys physical physical cal condition kept him in camp then the swelling began to leave his eyes ees and he could see The afternoon of the third day on his return from the nets gill-nets with willi Moise Blaise announced Cano movin mavin up deshore de deshore deshore shore I Red got his glasses from the tent teat Well Ill I'll be whip sawed If it that double-crossing double Jane hasn't had the llie gall to send that boy hunting for us again snorted Malone Sure its it's the llie one who brought that message asked Finlay alive anve aliveto to the sudden tightening of hi his throat the U jump of hi his pulse Absolutely and hes he's scared Into a cold sweat sweat said aid Red his binoculars binoculars lars at his eyes Got to hand it to that kid lies lie's game to show chow up here after what happened A hundred yards from shore the held hi his paddle with men start out oat on the wa and visit In to hit his magnificent horn bone Finlay mutt meets Lite Ule toe Isadore I ter In response to an appeal t to i save uve ve her bet lie li is ambushed and knocked un un- Malone and and find him bin 1 No spread hands above his head the gesture of friendliness Then he drew something white from front his shirt and waved it It Hes lies shaking like a R bush in the Ute wind commented Malone Tell him to come in Moise Hes He's safe anfe The canoe moved in to the bench beach Well heres here's where she tries to alibi herself out of It His Ills freckled face sour with ith disgust Red fled handed I- I Finlay a n skin wrapper containing cont a 8 letter What n a nerve that little decoy decoy de de- de coy duck packs in that swell shape of hers I She's as tough as raw hide hide but buthod who'd hod guess it with that face Finlay Ignored his friends friend's char char- of Lise Demarais lie He began to read After Arter what wh has happened h you have good reason never to trust r Ne e again The very thought drives mr me frantic But I had to write you I Isear swear ear I did not know they had followed fol fol- lowed me Ine If I had could I have acted that way before those breeds Could I have ve lost my head head done done what I did Do you ou think me as al cheap as that th But Dut Im I'm not sorry Im I'm terribly glad Believe It or not I was uvas honest I was uvas carried far out to sea Ive I've never met a 8 man manlike manlike manlike like you Garry Carry Finlay 1 That Th night Labelle rushed in and called Jules from the table When he ho returned I knew by his face f something awful had happened You met Finlay this afternoon damn you youl he roared Now three men are arc dead and another hurt But this fake surveyor paid for it tonight to tor night Then he struck me mc in the llie face f It was all so sudden sudden sudden-so so ghastly He lie wouldn't tell us what had hap hap- I didn't know whether you were alive or dead He Ile accused me of trying to betray him When I 1 asked him what wh there was to betray he started towards me and I ran r to tomy tomy tomy my room to get my pistol Hell He'll never strike me mc again again never never Oh I beg you to believe met mel me I knew nothing nothing nothing-nothing nothing about those men I They saw my canoe leave for forthe forthe forthe the swimming beach and followed They never had done it before I Iwas Iwas Iwas was sick not knowing what I had done to you And I was so terribly alone alone so so helpless I I didn't dare trust Corinne She talks too much Finally I found Louis l my messenger and he listened outside Tete-Blanche's Tete cabin and learned that you had been left to die in a swamp If I had known where you were Garry Carry Finlay I would have found you that night But I could only suffer and pray In the morning I saw Tete Tote Blanche and Tetu returning in a n canoe to the post Jules met them themon on the shore and acted like a wild man Later Louis told me that you had escaped I went to my room and cried You were alive alive alive-alive alive and free tree I Last night Jules was in n the trade trade- room with with Tete Tete Blanche Blanche Tetu and Labelle I listened at the open win dow They are arc going to set a guard at the outlet of the lake the Quiet Water They'll try to ambush you Your lives depend on your leaving leav leaving ing at once I II I implore you Garry Carry Finlay i trust me and send an answer by I Louis If you wish to reach me me later lat later er er leave a note under the big rock 1 on the bathing beach Louis will get I it Please oh please believe that I 1 Iwas Iwas was honest that day that I that I-that that youre you're my only hope Lise Finlay's brown hands were unsteady unsteady un un- steady as he finished the letter As wind driven surf pounds a beach wave on wave of emotion had beaten I through him as he read lie He read I Ithe I IMalone the letter again while the waiting Malone and Blaise scowled Finlay handed the letter to the disturbed Malone We were wrong Red fled This letter is honest and explains ex ex- explains plains the whole thing It couldn't have been faked and and besides they know it wouldn't work the second time Theres There's news here that'll interest Interest In In- terest you When you read it it you'll agree that Isadore couldn't have had hada a hand in this Its It's too damned straight Malone slowly wagged his head as ashe ashe ashe he took the letter What the women worn wom en will do to a good man he sighed But gradually as he read the sneer on his incredulous face smoothed outWell out outWell outWell Well Ill I'll be shot at sunrise if U I 1 I dont don't think the kid is on the level exploded Malone returning the letter letter let let- ter to Garry Carry Ive handed banded her hersome hersome hersome some pretty r taw w compliments Garry Garry Garry Gar Gar- ry but Im I'm gain goin to take them all allback allback allback back right here and now never play it U this way if he was behind behind be be- hind this That girl can sure lure write a letter and boy boYI is fa she weak on Sergeant Garrett Finlay Some medicine man chief The blood drifted up over Finlay's Fin Fin- I Ilay's lays lay's brown neck and cheeks cheek as he hemet hemet hemet met Malones Malone's grin Red were we're going going go go- ing tag to take care cue of her he be I said id quietly Malone thrust out a big big hand and gripped Carrys We are chief and so 10 is Blaise Arent Aren't you yot Blaise you old sour tour face TO DE AE CONTINUED 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