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Show THE Thursday, December 4, 1941 A By Men anijkd Penn. PuWIisKJng w.n- u. .service CtCRCE MARSH INSTALLMENT SEVEN "Here's a piece of their canoe Wabistan found on the shore and buried with them. There's a bullet hole in it." Garry took the shattered cedar. "We'll kep that for evidence," he The beast plunged on, followed by the airedale, and his hoofs clopped on the stones as he took the way!" and Andrew!" he muttered. "They shot them through the head!" He swallowed repeatedly at the tightening in his throat but the eyes he lifted to his friends were dry and hard. "He wore a ring of hammered gold! His mother would treasure it. It's on the little finger of the right hand. Red." Malone leaned over the grave. "The finger is gone!" Wabistan caught Blaise's eye and e is a thief! nodded. When he kills he steals." "Good-by- , Bobby!" Finlay's grief was too deep for outward sign. "It may be weeks! It may be months! It may be years, Isadore! But some day you'll pay to me for that dead boy, there!" lake shore. There was a laugh from the gloom. "By gar. Boss!" chuckled Blaise. "We need dat moose meat bad!" CHAPTER CIRCLE COi STAGE-SCRE- men VIII The survey party were squatted on their heels around their supper fire screened from observation by shore alders and scrub. Young Moise Wabistan had just arrived with the rumor that Kinebik was secretly making medicine again and the Montagnais were growing restless. "Where does he pitch his medicine tent?" asked Blaise. "It is a secret for he fears my He remained by his boat while the men back at the smudge fires rose. "Bo'-jo'l- " returned Blaise, joining the young Indian whose nervous eyes watched Brassard's crag-lik- e face as if he feared an assault "What's this, Red?" queried Gar- ry as they followed Blaise to the beach. "A trick of Isadore's?" "Sure! Wonder how he found us! We must be over forty miles from the post Look! He's got a message wrapped in that skin he's handing to Patre Sevei TTEPNS PT SEWING out on the Nottaway for the Hudson's Bay post. Finlay and Malone visit Isadore In his magnificent borne. The three men located Bob Finlay's grave to discover if be had been sbot or died accidentally. Finlay receives an anonymous letter suggesting that the six men were not drowned as reported. Suspicion prevails that Isadore, rich fur man, baa made a gold strike and aims to keep prospectors out of the country at any cost. The three NEPIU. UTAH S 7?P start THE STOKY SO FAR: Bound lor the Cliihougamau gold country, fix men lost their lives on the Nottaway river. Red M alone, Garrett Finlay, brother of one of the six, and Blaise, half-breeguide, arrive at Kottaway posing as surveyors. said, then followed Malone. While the others stood with bared heads he gazed into the shallow grave at the havoc a year had wrought. "Bobby!" Finlay dropped to his knees and gazed at what had once been the younger brother whom he had carried in his arms; with whom he had shared his bed. "It's Bob TIMES-NEW- Blaise." "He come from Isadore's place," explained Blaise. "Moise say, now, he see him at de trade. He carry dis lettair to you." Blaise handed Garry the skin wrapper the boy had given him. "What do you suppose this is?" Garry asked Red. He opened the father." wrapper and stared in surprise at "What are the spirits telling the the folded sheets of blue note paper it contained. A faint fragrance met Montagnais?" "The spirits say that the "Eye his nostrils. with Three Legs' you look through Red grinned widely at the scowlto r"Tke the picture of the lake is ing Blaise. "Is this lad a fast workthe Evil er?" he chuckled. of tr 'Til tell the Kinebik warns that the spirS, world he is." its ieil him many Montagnais will With mixed feelings of elation and die this Long Snows because the suspicion Garry turned the closely Eye has come to Waswanipi." written sheets and saw at the foot Blaise's face was shadowed with of the last page the name Lise reDemarais. Why had she written foreboding as he interpreted the The survey had been under way ply to his friends. "Dat look bad him? What was behind the sending for two weeks. Two of Wabistan's for us! Kinebik make plentee trou- - of this boy forty miles to find the sons were working for Finlay as survey party? Again he saw her canoemen and the old Indian often -black eyes mock him, then furcame to the camp with news of his him; later to fill with tively study Tetu secret search for e dread of the sinister face of and Kinebik. But Isadore's private the doorthrough peering assassin and the medicine man had way. He read: disappeared like river mist before 'Dear Mr. Finlay: the sun. e is somewhere in the "Louis, whose Indian name Is Mi- kisis. Little Eagle, is carrying this Islands but none will say they have to you. He is absolutely trustworthy seen him. They have fear," anand devoted to me. I saved his life nounced Wabistan to Blaise as his last year in the 'flu' epidemic. No canoe slid in to the beach one day one here knows that he is searching in early July. "Your ears must be for your camp. He is supposed to ever listening for he is waiting for be away sturgeon fishing. a chance to strike." "Of course, I know, after what you "When he comes, we will fill him saw and did witn my glass tnat with lead," laughed Finlay. The Indian scowled. "Like otta-wonight, that you suspect Jules Isadore. Just why you are here on the the gray owl, he will move in lake I do not know. Jules thinks the night and when he strikes there you are prospectors who have heard will be no sound." that he has struck rich placer bars Finlay had mapped the head of on the Waswanipi and are going to the great lake and was working west investigate under cover of a survey toward the post. of the lake. It was two hours before dawn of a "However that may be, I have got morning when Finlay had taken the to make you trust and believe in last watch. Stars and moon were me for without your help I am lost. With Flame blanketed by drift. First, I believe in you that you're sleeping beside him Garry sat, back a gentleman and a brave man. Be against a birch, rifle across knees, in hind your banter there was some gloom so velvet thick that it seemed thing in your eyes, something to the man on guard it could be staunch and unafraid. That is why The beast plunged on. sliced with a knife. this strange letter; for "What a night for a stalk. Mon- bl' wid dat story," he said omi- I'm sending and life my future are at stake. your Gar muttered sieur nously. Jules Isadore fears that you may ry. "If you know where we are, "The translT an evil eye!" Garry know and report to the authorities. vou're missing a trick, my friend. exclaimed. "Don't they see that He's playing a desperate game for But it'll be just too bad if this sevis behind that?" high stakes. He has ordered enty pounds of dynamite smells one Blaise asked the question of the the half breed you saw of you out and hops on him. You worried Moise, then turned to Finthat night in the doorway, to follow won't see him but he'll reach you lay. "He say dat a child who watch your party until the chance offers to plenty! Eh, Flame, old partner!" look through the 'Eye with murder you every man. Then he you d to a the hand Finlay reached Three Legs' has died. Kinebik tells will send word to the railroad that beback of the sleeping dog them it was the Evil Eye that sick- you were drowned. But he can't side him. ened him." let the Montagnais see this have The airedale grunted with content"Blaise," said Garry, nursing his any proof. What has saved you, ment and, for a space, lay sprawled chin with a band, "I guess we'll thus far, is the presence, with you, over Garry's legs while the man he have to of Wabistan's sons. He doesn't wish put the fear of Matchi-Manito- u ear. a into crooned hairy worshiped into this medicine man or he'll to attack the treaty-chief- s sons. He iron muscles a the of sudden, Then, soon have some of the Montagnais is waiting until the boys are away. hardened along his spine and the our sleep. Isadore and Keep Wabistan's sons with you! But knifing us in coarse back hair lifted. are about all we can I beg of you if you value your lives, "He's winded something!" Finlay handle at leave this country before August present" muttered, with a quick tug on the Brassard was doing some inten"I've got to go with you. It's my raw-hid- e running to the sleeping sive thinking. At last he asked young only chance. If you'll take me to Red's wrist. As two invisible shapes moved to Wabistan in Cree: "Have you heard the Hudson's Bay post at Matagaml, when Kinebik makes his medicine I can get out from there. Jules Finlay's side the aroused dog split again?" doesn't dare make trouble with the brittle with his the thick silence "Some say when the moon is Hudson's Bay people. challenge. My father will know "I realize to the full that you will "That'll worry 'em!" muttered again round. secret word passes. His suspect treachery think I'm doing Red. "Stop 'em in their tracks! Hear when the knife is already sharp." this for Jules and am a callous anything?" Blaise nodded. "I will go with creature who would lure you into an "Not a thing! Flame winded ambush. But I beg you to trust me them! You'd better stiffen up the Chief Wabistan." Moise and his brother, Michel, give me a chance to tell my story boyi while Blaise and I listen here." Red moved silently away while the nervously found each other's eyes as just one chance. I know this sounds Blaise repeated the conversation to wild, but I'm desperate. Just tell enraged dog charged deeper into the white men. Louis the reply Is: 'Yes!' That will the forest. Later, they sat smoking inside the be sufficient And I'll be at the "Flame'll keep them guessing, alders beside small white sand beach, behind the k Blaise!" muttered Finlay. "He'll rim of the shore for the mosquitoes fires, two miles east of the smudge one of the he first out chunks point rip I noses outl They'll have no chance to were ravenous. post, early Friday afternoon. Blaise slowly removed his pipe swear to you I'll not be followed for shoot or use a knife on him tonight." squinted into the west At length it is Corinne's and my private swimPresently Red returned. "The and announced: "Cano comin'!" ming beach. We go often and Isaboys are all right. They're hot for a he The others followed Brassard's dore has told them he'd shoot any fight' Hear anything?" "Flame's working this way, now! pointing finger while Finlay went to man who was caught following us. the tent for his binoculars, returned Hear that?" "Bring your men as a guard U There was the unmistakable sound and adjusted the focus. In the dis you doubt me but 1 implore you, of something moving through thick tance the dripping paddle of the Garry Finlay, to meet me for I'm from in ghastly trouble and you are canoeman flashed blood-rebrush. my "He's nosed some of them out and the water. only hope. What I know will aid of the course from shifting Later, turned them!" whispered Malone. you in getting out of this country "They're worried and don't know the boat it was evident that the alive. paddler was searching the shores, "Corinne knows nothing of this let they're headed straight for us!" "Where's Blaise?" asked Finlay. Twice he disappeared to enter bays, ter. She hates Jules Isadore but I But Blaise was not beside them. only to reappear and continue his dare not trust her. Louis cannot "The cat! He can see In the dark! course. read English so is Ignorant of its "He hunt for somct'ing," said contents. If you say, "Yesl and anyHe's gone to meet Flame! You move over near the boys while 1 Blaise, when finally the canoe turned thing prevents your reaching there take the jhorel" abruptly and headed straight for the Friday, leave a note under the white is us." Nearer worked the roaring aire- camp. "Dat somet'ing quartz rock on the edge of the beach "Have a look, Moise," said Fin stating when you will come and dale nosing out the trail in the night. "Strange," muttered Finlay, "they lay handing over the glasses. "Do Louis will get it For God's sake. should make so much noise! From you recognize him?" Garry Finlay, don't think this note Young Wabistan looked through he way they travel they must be is an Isadore trick and I'm such the binoculars and shook his head low beast I'll kill myself rather stampeded." Shortly there was "He's coming from Isadore's," ob than stay here through the summer crash of brush in front of him. He raised his pistol. Then heavy body served Red. "Now what?" I've got to get out! I've got to get floundered past The canoe slid In to the beach and outl I've got to get out! "Lise Drmarsis." 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