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Show I --- -arms to.mMait return to ITS?.. has an extra for a trail. Castor has wliv lie's our load drig. He net L. thts L's brains, too." "Where's Shot? "Oh. tip's following the shore. If he mm gei our misses us, he II circle scent." "Won't he bark; "Xo, he was taught not to lint I must nuiKf a "A decision?" at night. "We're near the month of the Ka- niskau. It s going to ne siow kan veil Stand mis mi ua.wini i "What has that to do with the Ka- !.iskau?" "If you re urea too urea ro iro one WD, we can Mi'l' m i"c Caught a note almost of appeal In his wru p,. voice. she protested, "an army Too tired." tired when there's a patient to take care of?" "T know, but It's a bit dangerous, Lm" lie snid doubtfully. "Of course like to keep on for his sake." "Well, we'll keep on. It means inak- b" Elkwan hours sooner, doesn't it? Und that counts. I can sleep on this tied. I'm almost asleep now." Thank von. Soldier!" he said, and fstepped the team while he consulted Ir.urse lI'd "If I could only see that .shore tlie boulders." Guthrie left the sled, and fastening a lon.e rawhide thong to Castor's cried, "Haw, Castor! We're going 'Inshore to see if we can stumble into his compass. col-Ja- r, , i i I?,mist? inoumers. r.ut leading his team and lit Inter- alt stopping to examine the lee from is knees, to Guthrie's surprise the s!o?s traveled many hundred yards reaching the drift and ithont the Ml ice of the shore. Was he deep in the moiii i of the kamsknu? And shore? IT too careful to have toward Akitniski, yet he liad trawled a mile straight into the hore without hitting it. The only pissihle solution was the wide mouth f the and he had wished Kapiskau avoid getting into the river had loped to pass well outside. Swinging 'he team into the northwest, he decided to travel by compass for another !ii!e. That would bring him Into the win shore, if he were inside the ;'iver mouth. It would also He :oked toward the invisible figure on lie sled-- the girl who had unreservedly placed herself In his hands who iad entered on this voyage of mercy, hftuKitless of self. Tlie hands inside lis mittens shut convulsively, as a faming Etienne hr.d once given him 'ashed across his memory. And he mil brought her the thing most wclous In the world to Garth Juthrie into this. Why had he not amped on the Willow? nig For minutes Guthrie walked ahead f his team, praying for signs in the ce- -a gray blur at his feet of the roximity of the shore. Then des-rathe stood on the tail of the N and urged his dogs Into a trot, is he checked them from circling with he luminous dial he held in his mit-- For space Castor gingerlv fa the team into the black wall when tlle lnurk sn"led 8 brittle "arrkngh been He had Irifted out ' ; -! Ar(Td- the piping huskies - their pace. ''Shot's found the shore-- he quirk-"f- d smells cried Guthrie to the girl him- '"Ql,eer' he wthlng," -- hoJJV - n the rough voice of broke thro,,,:!, the (Mstor answered. pit-lik- the e aire- black-;-- . With a lerk ,nt0 a filst ,rf,ttraveled a hundred J JJ directly In front of the halinVT."'" S0Un,Ie,1 S,'0t"s raw '. 'as an impact of tr boon,. r,slor.s sniir, of r;';."' by the bed- V. lrP when, StU,'U'1 C G - f""ed - r 'he sled meir traces With tl,P hn,n dog.",,,,,! l,,i.u., i"e """'lcu' Tftlf,,.) ,," !r'e, ''son h', . i N frS Nor,?, f Z."?' ifn'e , excite,, l"lr traces rk at " . ' . iior. At last InS hH tm-i,- newii- - thC 0,rpn(lin of heaving nmss ' xne nuskles, mad tr,p,u'd' ""mpered by ,n aSn,ng '"emy and each .l m , Z ... nie.piicaDie ; nar.nin f"i . . " ... smRn WnIcn 7as he reJShed k0t . IfK rotlnr dog ri,e he f :,th!the struggling otners back, It.,,,..,. hi,, frm the mtllino. m 11 bv .'I. f,',lmv' Castor bIow On the Rknll llthrt. nn,l from the 'nfurlated naL enmesned la their ' Ti ' he PileJ In" "Attacked Castor?" Guthrie led his dog t0 ,ne tail r,f ,he sled where he made him fast "Yes he must have bowled Castor over on he run. Of course that team. I.ut It's so dark I started the doubt of them are hurt much. Thev if Bnv couldn'i see to strlke-a- nd their traces saved shot Ilea go, two ,,n Uie gll0ulller but they're not deep" The girl was off ,he s!(, ., p tn. ng the alredale trembling W;, tl,e heat of the fight. "HI straighten out the d'.gs row. -They don t rare for this I could hear the blows," she said It hurt, but I suppose it wa-- i the only way." "They'd have killed Shot If thev once whip-1:,t,dl- 19 iPtid do'--' .,..i iLnse-insti- much. He'll cool 0T In a to Castor.- - Continued CHAPTER XII . knr The Penn Publishing Co. by wno rought In Guthrie's g GEORGE MARSH v,vriht i" Pursuit the battle. "Oh what has happened?" called Joan Quarrier-- frightened voice WaT ,!WfUl- - Wh8t SUmei right. I've got Shot and he s not cut Men Marooned By EMERY " e got him down. I hud to get him it quickly," Guthrie and calming his excited explained dogs, S(,on had them on their feet with "t of filed traces. Castor. Garth's favorite who had taken the bulk of the blows found the hand of his master with his tongue as he rubbed against Guthrie' leg. Garth rumpled the erect ears of the trembling t'ngava. "Poor old boy! It wasn't vour fault was it. if siii.t wet crazv? Don't blame you a bit. old man. I had to do It, but it's forgotten, isn't it? Yes good old Castor!" With a pat of the massive skull. Garth went to soothe the still excited Pollux, and the rest. Put all the while his brain was busy with the strange action of the airedaie. They were close to the beach. Shot had found killed something, and refused to share It with the approaching team. Rut why did he leave it? With Shot lashed to the tail of the sled, and the heat of the combat cooled in the blood of the huskies through the soothing tones of the master's voice and the touch of his hand. Guthrie again called to his lead rmrvrv ' nwum.M, again If they ttnmbled npon another -- ur cracK. Leading Castor on a 'eash. he started straight east for the . sea-Ice- For an hour they walked. Shot ranging ahead while Guthrie, bent forward, eyes on the ice and his compass dial, cautiously followed. Fearful of not yet having cleared the river mouth, he led his dogs for another hour, then circled into the northwest nnd found the shore above Kapiskau. There he fed his dogs, cut willow and "bier, and with his cedar kindling not " fire going to boil the kettles. A somi as it lightened enough to follow the coast, they would start afresh for After the Kapiskau, the delta of the Attawupiskat was not to be thought of. As ,7an Quarrier sat by the comforting heat in the willow thicket, Guthrie told her the story which he had kept from her while be groped through the water traps of the river ten-mil- mouth. She sat with parted lips, her serious eyes suspiciously bright, as Garth explained why Shot had hurled himself on the team. "And you never told me what you found when you left us!" "Why scare you? It was bad enough as it was." She shook her head in protest. "You call me a soldier, and treat me as a woman." "You are a woman to nn too precious to take out on a night like this and drive into a tide crack." he replied, watching the light of the fire play on her brooding eyes. For answer she called: "Come here, Shot to me. I want to kiss you." The airedaie rose, stretched, yawned, and wagged his way to her. Shot. "Good Lord, I've got to look into this! I'll he back shortly." And, stopping his team. Garth walked into the murk. He had advanced but a short distance, doubled over the ice, feeling his way with Ids moccasins, when he stopped, as a chill, like the touch of a colu wind, cut through him. "Tide crack!" he gasped. Within a step of the gray blur of Ice on which he stood, a black streak, fading into the enveloping gloom, barred his way. "We're in the river mouth . . . Etienne among the tide cracks warned me! Shot old Shot, God bless him he knew ! Shot's actions were clear enough now. Coming upon the open water toward which the sled was hurrying, the airedaie had returned on the bound, barking a warning as lie came. Then, as the dogs came on at a trot. Shot had catapulted into Castor, starting a light and stopping the sled. Stunned, struck with remorse, Guthrie crouched on the lip of the gash in the river ice, into which dogs, sled all of them, would have blindly plunged but for Shot's mad attack on the team. To have led her to this a hideous death with the dogs drawn under by the drag of the sled. And Ktienne had warned him of the tide cracks in the river mouths. He had intended making a wide swing around t lie Kapiskau. but In his search for the beach, had entered the river. Put Shot, staunch old warrior that he was. had through some uncanny instinct sensed their danger and taken the team. only method of stopping the in Garth Guthrie. trust her Putting Shot had saved her. He turned back to the team, thrilled with pride in the his leash. The dog who worried at been love of the man for his dog had Shot bond. more one cemented by yet had saved her for Garth Guthrie! "What did you find?" she asked as he reached the sled. back"I learned that we'll have to track straight east," he said calmly. for the "Why, aren't we heading shore?" out of "Yes, but we've got to get sea-icthe strike I this river. When and I'm going to circle, hit the coast, rest." give you some "I?ut we ought to keep on." thick "Not In this blackness. It's as got as Flemish rain in March. I've add. not did he team," to lead the "to watch for water ahead." he hugged Unleashing Shot, whom nto a as he mumbled for a space airedaie sent the hairy ear, Guthrie He hd out as an advance patrol. find K found water once, he would e She breeng de meHeen ef h come. an' have a look at ite trail." Again Etienne stood on the eltft above the white Elkwan and watched for the moving gMt on the Ice, which would murk ihe approaching team. Disappointed, he was about to return to the women In the house when his keen eyes suddenly lit with excitement. Far on the white shell of the river seemed to move a black spot. For a space the studied the barely distinguishable object. Then he trotted to the quarters. "l'ey come!" be cried to the waiting women. "Hey turn de beeg lslau'." When the huskies that had truveled forty miles since daylight drew In to the cliff trail at a slow walk. Guthrie hurried to the waiting Etienne with the demand: "You got him here? He's I go half-bree- ulive?" The nodded, then with a wide grin turned to the girl on the sled. "'Alio! You welcome to Elkwan, ma'm'selle!" as he assisted her out half-bree- d of the robes. "I'm mighty glad to see you. Etienne. How are Marie and the chicks, and dear Old Anne?" "Oh. ver' line, t'anks. You have hard ride las' night?" Joan and Garth exchanged smiles. "We surely did." replied Guthrie.. "We camped at the Kapiskau.' "At de Kapiskau?" Gnrhrie's thoughts were of the man at Ids quarters and he did not explain. With Joan and Su vanne he hurried across the clearing. "Well?" he questioned, as the army nurse finished taking the pulse and temperature of the man whose rough breathing filled the room. Without answering she placed hor ear to the broad chest of the man muttering in delirium. After a space she turned to the waiting Guthrie with puzzled eyes. "I don't quite understand. Pulse almost normal, temperature only 101. respiration not high, and yet he's developed pneumonia in one lung. I can easily hear the rtJes!" "You mean he has beaten the flu?" "I think so; he's so strong. Cut pneumonia " "It hits the big men hardest," he Spare Some Sympathy for Poor Old Daddy Rutger JewetL the New York publisher, said at a dinner of the Dutch Treat club, of which he la secretary: "There ought to be an annual Father's day. and the movies' ought to give us a couple of hundred father-lov- e films, the same as they gave us all those mother-lov- e films three or four years ago. Though a bachelor, 1 know whereof I speak. "Paterfamilias Poor paterfamilias "One afternoon I was sitting In a hot office talking to a fat, pale perspiring publisher of middle age when a sunburnt young fellow In pinkish oxford bags and a blue Jacket with brass buttons hustled In. He was amsmoking a cigarette in a ber tube. " 'Well, dad.' he said cheerily. Tm Just up from the shore, and I thought I'd run In and say hello.' 'The fat, pale man mopped his wet forehead. " 'Sorry, boy,' he said, 'but your sister walked off with all my cash half an hour ago. On her way down to the shore she Just ran In to ray good-by- .' " Slowing Up? 1 1 You Can't Feel Well When Kidneys Act Sluggishly. QVERWORK. worry and lack of rest, put extra burdens on the kidney. When the kidney alow up, impurities remain in the blood and are apt to make one languid, tired and achy, with dull headaches, dizzineu and often b nagging backache. A common warning is scanty or burning secretions. Use Doan't Ptlh. Doan't, a stimulant diuretic, increase the secretion of tha kidneys and aid in the elimination of waste impurities. Are endorsed by users everywhere. Ask lour neighbor I DOAN'S1'8 STIMULANT DIURETIC KIDNEYS foster MUburn Co. rCl..BuMao.NY Real Progress T. C. White, author, painter and poet of Peking, China, on his recent arrival In San Francisco, was asked his opinion of present-daliterature. "Well," he replied, "In fairness It ought to be conceded that the dime novel which Is now selling for $2.50 Is printed on better paper." Cool a Bum To Use Hanford' Balsam of Myrrh y Money rack foe nut bottlau not suited., All dtalorm. W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 46 1027. -- Her Face Wifle Don't you ttiuk It would b a good Idea to have my fnce lifted? Ilubby Clean off, my dear, If yoo could get another one. Vanity Is so utterly artless that the most fulsome praise Is accepted without suspicion. said gloomily. dog. "Marehe, Castor !" As the sled started, the airedaie broke into furious barking. Puzzled, Guthrie turned back. "What's the matter. Shot?" The dog was clearly excited about something. With a whimper lie rose on his hind legs and pawed the man's chest in dumb attempt to communicate the reason for his protest. "What is it. o'd boy? What's over on that shore you don't want us to see?" "Tell me. Shot," called the girl, and the dog left Guthrie to go to her but was stopped by his leash. "It's more than queer," said Guthrie, "it's uncanny. Weil, I've got to find that shore to make a fresh start. Now, Shot, he quiet, will you?" Again the driver called, "Marehe Castor!" The dogs leaned into their collars and the sled started, but from its tail rose the howls of the protesting DAL.K. UTAH Joan gave the patient a hypodermP the room to of strychnia and left make some gruel. "Dut I Almost Lost You. "There," I'll never forget what you did tonight. You deserve the V. C." With a grunt, Shot thrust his nose toward her hood. "Look out, he's trying to return the kiss," warned the man who envied his dog. Her white teeth flashed in amusement. "You limy, Snotty, on the cheek, for you're a brave and gallant gentleman." "And the other brave and gallant gentlemen tire they to be ignored? Aren't Castor and Pollux, and their brave and gallant master, to share in your salute, oh, mon general?" "This general decorates but one hero tonight and that is Shot." she replied archly. "His devotion has ' been proved." "And mine?" She would not meet his eyes. "Oh. my friend," she parried, "we have work before us a bitter fight for the life of a brave man. Why think of ourselves?" In the lee of the sled, tipped on its side, its canvas cover stretched above her like a shed tent to reflect the heat of the tire. Joan Quari ier slept, warm waked by the in Irer robes, until cracking of the fire at dawn. "Good morning. Healer of Wounds. The tea is almost ready; the bacon done: the bread cut. Will yon wash your face and hands In the snow, and partake of the bounties set before you on these beautiful plates of tin?" Through sleepy eyes the girl smiled up at the man who had labored for her comfort. "You are very good to 1 shall your passenger. Mr. Exile. recommend this line to all who contemplate a night voyage up this coast." "We ought to make Elkwan by noon. I wonder what we'll find." he said, pouring the hot tea. "Whatever we find, Ma.l. Garth Guthrie, you have squared your debt. .No man could have done more for his friend." "Put I almost lost you" "That would have been the fortune of war." irony of fate, with Etienne "nd theGalhraith waiting up there and poor at Elkwan for two who never came." CHAPTER XIII At noon, that day, a lone figure at stood In the snow on the clearing the river-ic- e Flkwan and searched dubious Mow the post. With a returned shake of the head, Etienne io Old Anne and his wife, waiting In Guthrie's quarters. Ver' black night ; hard to follow de to M'sleu" shore. Something happen not come woman de Mebbe Guthrie. wld heem." "She come," insisted Old Anne. "She . n i,o- sk. She come." come man. I -Dal McDonal', he ver' teek "Craig Galhraith Laughing McDonald'' mused Guthrie aloud. "You gave all you had for Canada, and now Canada hunts you because a woman without eyes could see only your scars." On her return with the nourish meat, Joan found, Guthrie still gazing witli somber eyes at his friend. With her well equipped medicine kit, and her wide experience with influenza and pneumonia cases in the army, Joan Quarrier gave immediate battle for the life dependent on her care. Put the problem confronting Guthrie was more complex. What was to become of Galhraith if he lived? Cameron would waste no time in lak ing possession of I lie schooner and its valuable cargo, which he would hold for the disposition of the authorities at Ottawa. But the schooner and cargo belonged to the estates of the dead men. McDonald wos officially dead. He, a hunted man, could not claim it. Who, beside his wife, were his heirs? Garth did not know. Then Cameron had said the police were coming shortly to the bay In search of the man who called himself McDonald. Failing to find McDonald's body, which Garth said he had seen on the boat, they would naturally come to Elkwan to talk to the man who brought the news to Albany. II Craig lived, he would be weeks In bed, recovering his strength. Where could they hide a man needing constant care if a police dog-teanp pea red on the ice below the post? Etl enne could be hustled into bed and bandaged to corroborate the story told to Cameron, hut Galhraith what of him? Accessory though It made him to the crime of his friend, the gray eyes of Guthrie hardened at tin thought of Galhraith. V. C, Galhraith whose name was the trench-raideknown the length of the British front, being bounded down In his dire extremity. Garth laughed as be pictured the police attempting to take Laugh ing McDonald on his schooner in the fullness of his strength McDonald Ha! Ha! and the bearded mate who limped, with Lewis guns nnd the snipers' rifles they had slept with for four years. And Joan he had made her an accessory as well ; asked her to nurse a man she knew, now. was wanted for murder. How was he to square his conscience with that? To pay his debt to Galliraith he not only had asked her to throw her reputation to the winds, but to defy the law Joan Quarrier, who Imd stepped into his life to become his world. r, UNJ The town seal of Kuhant, Mass., Is supposed to depict a white man purchasing the peninsula from an Indian sagamore for a suit of clothes or a pair of breeches. This transaction occurred In K.'!0 and the white man shown on the seal Is Thomas Dexter. Dexter's title to Nahnnt was denied from the start by the town of Lynn, and. after a contest lasting 30 years. Lynn prevailed. The town seal, however, is based on this transaction. Uset of Understanding The Improvement of the under standing Is for two ends first our own Increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and give out to others. John that knowledge Locke. ASPIRIN"-genui- ne Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets, you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by mil lions and prescribed by physicians over 25 years for Colds Headache Neuritis Pain Neuralgia Toothache Lumbago Rheumatism , DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proven directions. AsDlrla Is th Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets. Also bottles of 24 and 100 Druggists. trade mirk of Barer Ifsnnfictnrs of MonoaceUcaddester of Balleyllcscld The Smiths Wind Montague Norman, governor of the bank of England, was praising American labor conditions at a dinner In Qalkett, president of the building trades council, was discuss d Ing In New York the a wrangle between Italy, and Albania. "They talk a lot," he ended, "but Talk, talk, nothing will happen. talk." And then Mr. Halkett smiled and said : "Windy people never come to blows." John three-cornere- New York. Yugo-Slavl- "Labor and communism over here' he ended, "are on as bad terms, thank goodness, &s Mr. and Mrs. Smith. "'What is your husband's Income?' Mrs. Smith was asked in the separation suit. "'Between 4 and 5 a. m.,' she answered, with a toss of the bead. "Mr. Smith In his examination was asked if bis wife believed In clubs for women. "'Rather!' he answered. 'Clubs, sandbags, any old thing.'" Speech Is power. io (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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