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Show THE Thursday. December 11. 1941 Vanihed Men h GECRCE the six, and Blaise, Finlay receives an anonymous letter suggesting that the six men were not drowned as reported. Suspicion prevails that Isadore, rich fur man, has made a gold strike and aims to keep prospectors out of the country at any cost. The three guide, half-bree- arrive at Nottaway posing as surveyors. Red's blue eyes twinkled as he watched Finlay read. "Some skirt snatcher this boy!" he chuckled. There were gleams of light in Finlay's gray eyes as he handed the letter to Malone. "Read that. Red, while I talk with Blaise." Drawing Blaise aside Garry gave him the gist of the message. "Is it a trick?" he asked. "For sure!" came the guttural response. "Old trick! He bait you wid woman!" Garry slowly shook his head. "Blaise, that girl's in trouble! She couldn't write that way otherwise. Let's see what Red thinks." Malone's dubious eyes were still busy with the sheets of blue paper in his hand. At last he grunted: "Huh! That's a tough letter to dope out, Garry. I'd hate to trust a hair on that black head of hers and yet it sounds like the living truth. If it's only a scheme to get you to that beach so they can drill you, I take off my hat to her, she's a genius." "Red, I tell you she's desperate! Isadore couldn't prompt her to write that letter. It's real. It's a cry from the depths. But what can be the trouble there? I knew the night of I the dinner something worried her." Malone thoughtfully scratched his head. His eyes wrinkled quizzically. "Garry, have you happened to think she's only a stepdaughter? I wonder if mebbe he's been bothering " "I thought of that. It's possible it's Isadore. Let me read it again." Garry went over the blue sheets t still faintly fragrant. Could that girl possibly act out a part like this? And yet his better judgment told him the letter was a decoy. "Cool ruffian, this Isadore!" he speculated. "If he's behind this, he's had her warn us of Just what he intends to do, to make it sound right. And he's sized me up as a half-wwho'll fall for this maiden fin distress stuff. Well, he's right!" When he had been fed, Louis started back with Finlay's answer. It was "Yes!" great danger yourself. Don't you realize they won't let you finish this survey won't let you leave this country?" "Forget the survey! I know is after us. I saw him at the head of the lake. We'll take care of him. I came here to learn why you've got to leave Isadore's place and when." "I was frantic when I wrote you. It must have sounded delirious and strained but I was desperate. I'd just had a terrible scene with Jules. He insists on my marrying Felix Blon-del- l, his partner. I've refused time and time again. But he won't listen. Blondell handles the business in Montreal. He's coming in the August plane. He drinks hard when he's here and I'm afraid of him." d as he Finlay's face was listened. "Jules told me I'd had my chance and refused it," she went on, her breath quickening while her pulse beat in her throat. "He said when Blondell came in August I'd have neither his sympathy nor his protection. I could take care of myself. Think of one's stepfather saying a thing like that!" Finlay's eyes were savage with dancing lights. "Isadore said that to you?" "Yes and more. It was ghastly! You don't know Jules Isadore!" she cried. "He can purr like a cat and be so smooth so charming. But he's as pitiless as a wolf. He killed my mother with his women and his heartlessness. Of course, he's given In Tete-Blanc- flint-har- Mi-kis- is CHAPTER Two days later a Peterboro hung offshore a few miles east of Isat. In the boat a man dore's searched through binoculars for a canoe paddled by a woman. "If it's an ambush, Blaise, she von't show up," insisted Finlay, "for they'll expect me to land early at the beach to wait for her. They'll be there and will hop on me at once. What would they gain by wait-in- g and bringing her into it? She ''. might get hit" "I tell you. Red, they'll never let her come if it's an ambush. There'd be no object in it If she does come, she'll see that I trust her believe in her. Don't you realize how humiliating it would be to know that I think her capable of tricking me like that that I suspect her and am bringing fur-pos- a 1 guard?" "Oh, I see what you mean, but I 'don't like it. I want to be handy in case of trouble." "Thank you. Red." Garry again raised the glasses. "There she is!" he announced, quietly. He was conscious of the sudof his heart, "Whew!" den pick-uhe murmured, as a wave of elation beat through him, "have I got it as J-as that?" d The Peterboro reached the spruce point and Garry stepped out "So long, Blaise! See you soon and I'll have something to tell! Bo'-jp r o. Red!" With a wave of his hand Finlay started on his long walk. Lise Dem-arawas there waiting, wnen he reached the white beach. He suddenly realized how she had obsessed his thoughts since he last saw her is , grey face that night at Isadore's. And now, in her desperation she had turned to him. Lise stood beside her canoe. "Somehow I knew you'd cornel" She grasped his hand. Warm with color from her long paddle, she was even lovelier than Jhe had remembered her. "Could any 'man have refused to come after letter?" such "Yes, knowing what you do, most men would have been afraid. They wouldn't have trusted me." "But I'm a mind reader, as I told you. And I'm worried about you. Lise Demarals.' ' "You're also a brave man." There eyes .'was a look in her ' that started his blooda tinging. "Let's 'sit down. Iff long story." She threw herself on the land, offered him a cigarette from a silver case and lit one herself. For a time she smoked, clasping her knees while she gazed straight before her under brows like black brush strokes on her transparent akin. His eager gaze moved from the bob and the tjark cloud of toherherlong round throat. brilliant eyes "I don't know why I should have turned to you In my trouble," she began ''riles It's because you're sloe-blac- ' k start out on the Nottaway for the Hudson's Bay post They visit Isadore in his magnificent home where they mi'et Lise, bis pretty stepdaughter. She sends Finlay a note saying she It In trouble and asking him to meet ber. men Of Holiday Gifts Men are seldom noted fnr their daintiness, especially around Christmastime. But they aren't the only ones whose gifts present a sorry sight with bulgy paper covering and this country have disappeared. The loose string that portends early disintegration of tie wrapping. Even police will be here soon." "Six men?" she gasped. "I've some women confess that they wrap their gifts several times before their heard of only two!" is satisfactory. "Six prospectors have disappeared appearance of The best "wrappers" are only and two men have been wounded." amateurs, however, compared with Finlay smiled significantly. the girls in large department stores "Your limp, that night!" she sud who "gift wrap" all diy long. un denly cried, her eyes wide with For most articles whose shapes derstanding. "You you were wound make wrapping difficult they have ed in the leg on the way here?" an effective solution: "Corrugate "Yes." it." This means that the bundle is Not "They ambushed you on the wrapped lengthwise and sidewise in taway! But you're all right? Oh, corrugated paper before putting fanthey'll stop at nothing! Do you un cy Christmas paper around it "Cor derstand now why I've got to get rugation will cover a multitude of away?" shapes," they explain. They sugdo"Yes. What was gest five steps when wrapping siming there that night?" ple packages: "I don't know." "Well, don't worry, we'll have you safe at Matagami by August." She gave a deep sigh. For a space they smoked in silence while Finlay's thoughts were busy with the mysterious plane. Then he glanced at her. She was smiling at him through curious eyes. "Charming gossip we're having on my bathing beach on this lovely July day!" she said ruefully. 1. Fold the paper over the bundle. Her mood had suddenly changed. Line up the two open sides, then The compelling charm of her drove fold them back two or three inches from his head all thoughts of Isa- to prevent paper cuts by getting the dore. A beautiful girl sat beside sharp edge of the paper out of the him, desirable, baffling. And in her way. slow smile was veiled challenge. "You swim here often?" Her eyes were busy with a trim moccasin toying with the sand. She raised them and her lip curled. "Fishing for an invitation to Join the beautiful mermaids? If you are, you're distinctly not Invited. We usually swim in our scales, you know." She flung herself around, facing him, and impulsively took his hand. "What children we are!" she cried. 2. Draw folded paper snug. The "This is the second time I've ever paper should be made to rest tightly talked with you, Garry Finlay, and around the lengthwise section of the at her bundle. I'm babbling like a sub-defirst big dance." 3. Fold in the ends. Holding "I never met one but I'm sure I'd He leaned toward love the package as shown in her. "Do you know how lovely you are and how dangerous?" he said. drawing number 2, turn the A warm undertone of pink pushed corners diagup over her neck and cheeks. She onally inward. seemed suddenly confused. "It's section that remains is growing late! I've got to go!" She The pointed was on her feet "You'll take me to then folded back against the side Matagami when I write? How can of the package. 4. Wind string I thank you for daring to come? Oh, it's like a reprieve from a death sen- around package. tence! I want to dance and sing!" First wind the She stood beside her canoe grasping string around the her paddle. Her voice quavered: bundle lengthwise "Au revoirl Very nice and reckless and then make a figure 8" knot. man!" Her eyes danced dangerous- there me a home, education, clothes. But e his word has always been law. and I live like children; are told nothing. He's so secretive. Why we're positive there's something i, queer going on here, now, at but we don't know what it Cor-inn- Was-wanip- Finlay was alive with Interest "Queer? What do you mean?" "Every summer. In August, a plane flies down from the north. Later, it goes south but it carries no fur. Why should a plane fly here every August and go south empty?" Garry Finlay, also, wanted the answer to that question. At last he had struck something. "That's strange!" he said, his face as impassive as wood. "It always comes in August, you say?" "Yes. That's why I warned you not to stay here until August I overheard Jules boast to Batoche that no prospectors nosing around here in August would ever see home. He thinks you're prospectors, you know." , "Then he's struck gold and wants to keep it a secret?" "Corinne and I think so. We've an Idea he ships the gold dust and nuggets In bags on that plane and doesn't want anyone to know about it." "But why should it come from the Bay?" "We don't know but he seems to want to hide the direction from which it comes. That's sure. He's nervous as a cat, then, won't even have Indians around the place." Finlay wondered what he had stumbled into. A plane from the Bay! What did that mean? Then he said: "Mrs. Isadore got the drugged wine intended for us. What did he intend to do drop us in the lake?" "No, I think he wanted to search you learn who you were. I was so afraid something would happen. I wanted to warn you. Then I taw After you that hideous left Jules struck Corinne for drinking that wine struck her In the madman." face. Hp wat like "Nice fellow) Of course he knows he can't last long at this game. Amen who have entered lready l for the larger figure and the vestee section between continues as a smart slimming belt. If you want a dress which is decidedly differ ent make this part of a lighter tone than the rest of the dress, or contrast it in beige, for instance, if the dress is to be brown. J V This "When you send word, I'll come!" he said, thickly. He slid her canoe Into the water, turned and with a quick movement had her in his arms. With a swift catch of the breath she flung back ber dark head and smiled up at him. He kissed her hair and eyes and responsive mouth. "You sorceress!" he choked. "You've bewitched me! Courage, midnight eyes! I'll take you to MataBeautiful!" gami. Good-bShe gave a low laugh as her arm tightened on his neck, and for a moment returned his kisses, then breaking away, leaped into the canoe and paddled off. Reaching the point, she blew a kiss with her hand and passed from sight His pulses drumming, Finlay stood at the edge of the water, groping for his mental balance. With her charm and changing moods Lise Demarais had played on his senses as a musician on a harp, run the gamut from d laughter to tears. The Garry Finlay had been pliant in her hands as a willow sprout but in the end she had left him wondering whether she was sincere or a consummate actress. At the thought he glanced up and down the beach. The shore was deserted. Still under the spell of the girl who had paddled away, he started for the spruce point to meet the Peterboro. Again he felt her arms on his neck, her warm. lips, looked Into the dancing depths of her eyes. He had reached a stretch of shore piled with boulders and had cut back into the bush where the walking was easier when the brittle snap of a dry slick stopped him in hs tracks. His body stiffened while his right hand moved under his shirt to the stock of his .45. "Whaft that?" he muttered. Again there wat a movement In the brush somewhere In front of him. Finlay slipped behind a spruce, his eyes stabbing the surrounding undergrowth. Then, from his rear, came a sound In the scrub and he flattened under the low branches. "So It wat acting after all" A wave of remorse chilled him like a bitter wind as he lay beneath the overhanging boughs. Surrounded as he knew he must be -- caught In Isadore's trap his ears strqined for movement of the men who hunted him while hit thoughts hung to the girl who hod to lightly led him U this hard-boile- no l E rovrM in i is an ordi SI nary slip knot that is turned once before it is slipped. 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