Show Heh Marooned 4 i 1 George Marsh W NU SERVICE Ay Th PENN PUBLISH I NO CO STORY FROM THE START Garth Oarth Canadian war v veteran teran having to live In the open on account of ot weakened lunge lung la to factor of a Hudson nay flay post poRt at II lie Ile came come comeback back from tron the conflict with a n permanently scarred face which he coat cost him the love of ot hi fiancee Edith Falconer Sir Fir Charles Chai his hI brother Is a 8 millionaire war wor profiteer With Etienne Savanne hiss hi firm friend meets meet Doctor Ductor and his hla al Ills l ter Joan h r schooner lm has drifted ashore Quarrier complains com corn plains plain he has hat been Jeen rol robbed bed by n man known knon n BI as Laughing Me- Me Donald onal l At an Indian girl victim whom Garth ha has haa befriended Is I. dying CHAPTER II Continued II-Continued 44 4 at present my duty duly Is here bere u as al you ou can con see sec Then Thou the man man ho 1 whose e Intimate kno knowledge lell lellot of ot the Inanimate hud hind seemingly taught him him little of at men laughed rawly Your duty Yes I suppose when you yon fur people set get yourselves Into Inlo a II amess amess mess I of this kind he Ite nodded toward the tile door you ou feel Clel you ou have to see It through Jonn Joan rose from tom her chair stunned by the stupid brutality of ot the remark remark-fearful remark fearful of at the retribution It di deserved delI Eyes black with anger glared tit lit his tile guest w who Ito sensible ten sen BIble sible of ot his hits mistake grinned sheepishly sheep shelp then flushed l to the roots of at his hilt stiff hair The muscles In the face of the factor knotted the veins In la the brown neck nek above the flannel shirt swelled with blood In his efforts at 01 self I i 1 I went scent too far tur mumbled I mean of ot course course- But Out h ho he was cut ort oil short with Your Tour bell bed ID la In the trade-house trade I 1 You know the way wayt The long arm of ot Guthrie pointed to the door For Joor a spate space stared Into the cold eyes ejes then stung by the outrage to hi his dignity got to his hits feet reet In angry protest do you mean You Tou dare insult in- in Insult Insult In In- sult me rots-order rots order me time out of your house like hike an nn Inferior Hut But there was waa that In the face fuce of ot the noon man whose arm still Indicated the door which wrung the bluster from the geologist as water wa water ter Is wrung from a rag You II hear from this this-this this this conduct of ot yours ours Ill I'll report this to your superiors su l protested Quarrier as ns he stormed 1 out of ot the room turned to the girl who was visibly swept by stirred shame stirred by an no emotion which left her IIer weak clouted ekes IS fixed on the tile man who said In a voice olce still thick with anger Im m sorry Miss so so sorry He too lIe went too far tur You were WE're right right right-he he was impossible filLip sible she agreed In a 8 voice olce raw with disgust with a It slow nod of ot the dark head hlad He lie has hns always blundered blundered- always u tolled failed to understand I want wont to tell you about her het She turned on him almost fiercely Do Du you ou I think hunk I also do cIa not understand understand under under- stand she he demanded Tor a space he searched her tense tene white face then cryptically You hu have havo 0 served with the wounded it is h s enough lie JIp wont cut to the door and whispered to old Anne Then he be began begun She Site valise came here la lu June with some from trum ruin far beyond the headwaters for tor this Is a u Cree coun oun try They were not her own o people I am nm convinced but one of or the men claimed to be her father She Sloe was not sure sur for tor she had grown up with them them them-didn't didn't e even know her age hut hilt she lu CM nt t b be more than eighteen Old Anne found her sick In a tips halt half fed neglected Ve We t took ok her in In and for a R time II the Ie canned caroled milk hulk nn ant f the broth worked a miracle She ste was happy UI happy loo 1 that helped When the trade was over and the Indians started for tor their SU summer III camps they demanded her her and and she he could coull hardly walk a hundred hUll yards yard without resting Of Ot course they didn't really want her their purpose was to hold me mo err T They lI ticked aked kd for 11 1 everything every thing In the store They always ro tro when such a 8 thing happens tin an In lit dials dlan girl stays behind l. at the tle factors factor's quarters You set see Ih they thought this was the theold old aid So situation so did the Crees In Crees-In In pilI of t bet Anne told them theol They couldn't Well I finally got Cot rid of ot her people pt kicked kicked them thelo nut out For Tor weeks site she was so 80 happy Guthrie tiptoed to the sickroom door looked In III nun min returned In her In last t conversation ol with the Indian who hf rolled called himself her Iler father I t heard her lier repeatedly fil say any ln da du ln Iho da She Ill was ass M so o earnest about it it 1 r n 1 I what shot It meant moult nod and he i tt Ii v s a for ur I here Isn't It da I d here She has chosen her home So Su Sowe Sowe we called her la She was one of ot us Miss II s went on the man whose face tace had hod softened grown softened grown boyish boy boy- boyish heart the heart the happiness hap ish it fairly tore lore DI my illness the gratitude of ot that sick child Those hl big bis ekes ejes of or hers followed me rue melike melike like a dogs I 1 had rescued her no doubt from trop unspeakable misery It was only natural I suppose After a n few weeks s she began to tall fall fall rind in Augu August t. t when they called cull me tile to Albany Iban I couldn't throw oft the memory of ot the d despair sla I r In her eyes ejes when Shen 1 I left You see sec she feared she would not me lI until I 1 returned returned- wanted me there when It came Her lIer Herejes eyes ejes haunted me every me every tulle mile of ot the coast This Ills last time when 1 I went she bade t sloe me e good was good by was sure lure that it was the end But we needed the geese we geese we had to go Ive I've seen men d die my die my friends but those wistful ekes ejes I Its It's tragic and she so 80 young Guthrie stopped slopped hl hit his pacing to run his fingers nervously through his bis dark hair Oh tile dumb misery here In the north 1 I Think If It shed she'd stayed with her people to die in a neglected neglected Im I'm Im I'm thankful if tf Ive I've eased the loneliness lonell lonell- ness the ness pain pain for for one The sound of ot coughing followed by Old Annes Anne's frightened face In the doorway summoned them to the other room The 1111 effects of ot the opiate had worn wore off olT The woman oman who hud hod served with nIth the wound wounded pd wiped the crimsoned crim sowed Illy that moved ta to vain attempt at ut utterance as ns the large eyes ees bright with fever te clung to the face of at theman the theman man who sat beside the cot You go to bed bpd Anne said Guthrie to the wrinkled Cree I will be here the rest of ot the time night With muttered protest the old woman shuffled from Irom the room roan Presently the dry lips III's of ot the sick girl again moved She wants to say something said Bald the nurse and end left theta Guthrie bent over the pillow You go no go-no no more wore he faintly heard lie tie smiled Into the questioning eyes as he lie shook his liens head Xo ro more more- The heavy lids slowly drooped Through the slow hours of ot the night they sat lint beside the waif who out of ot the wilderness hind had come conme to and was as now returning nosy returning And Anti In the intervals between her min to the life lite which was slipping slip ping away awny the guest of Guthrie learned much of the man with whom she shared the night watch In the candor condor of ot Ills his explanation atthe of at the presence enle of the Indian girl at BIkwan he hud had unconsciously re 11 revealed revealed to the curious woman who studied him bin Intimate glimpses of heart henrt The emblem of ot the Distinguished Distin Service order which he wore in the photograph In his bedroom vouched for Cor his bla caliber as a soldier But why she mu mused ed did the brother of ot the rich h Charles Outline linger In Inthe Inthe inthe the wilderness of or the west coast when a girl of at such lIch loveliness lo as her three thrle photographs suggested waited scatted for tor his return For the nature of ot their theft relations rela rein dons tlona was established bp beyond ond doubt by the written sentiment ou en the photo graphs Yet his health returned turned he seemed to 10 be dell deli catchy staying on n In III Inthe the north h 11 vas behind It all nil wondered j not pity for tor this poor chi slits bo In the manner ather of at her tier kind hod given him worship for forthe forthe the only kindness A life lire held had vouchsafed her That clearly scout would have Ila anchored an on shored horld at al while lived but bUI In face tale of at the fact tact that the tilt girl was suns desperately III Ihl- Ihl could not live hoe Into the Ihl autumn lie hI Ions bad prepared to winter sinter on the we west t roust const t. t Why Wh 7 So together her they kept their watch where through the till hulling halting hours the lite spirit of or the waif of the forests hovered hov lies ered Bred awaiting release Once Oace after a aparo paro paroxysm sm of ot the veil of ot de el lifted lend and there was a n mot moment mOo mo- went ment of oll He Ilc leaned to her and amid tho the fear which h from the groping ekes ejes faded as ns she the scarred cheek The Tie wraith of oC a smile touched hed lh the drawn drown mouth As s the piled above e the lite purple tundra of or kl again she hp the face of ot tier Her lips III's moved tO Ills His straining ears purs caught a It faint Ito b ISo Un time n farewell IlI I T J u II n II crimsoned troth welled from trum the tortured lungs Joan Junn left eft him with Ith his deal dead When hen she he returned with Old Oil Anne Anile crooning Her lr grief the tile touch touched Ill I'll Mm on the shoulder You must go 0 now no ve We will care for herFor her For a II space he stood beside the cot said sail by Ninda As you IOU wished It yes oa will stay here t y-l y re with your friends friend lIe He turned cryptically to the nurse She Sue was a B soldier she Jie did not flinch from tram wounds and went out followed by br the puzzled eyes eres of 1 the other Then Ihen outside In n the cool dusk of the clearing ro rose e a wall mournful unearthly followed by bl another and another Joan Quarrier's face tace appeared r in ID Inthe the doorway of ot the living room Its too ghastly she said with a shiver How flow do do they know They Thel III always ways know know always always wall for the dead And he went out to the dogs At the gate of ot the stockade stood the tile airedale Joining the huskies In ID their threnody under the fading stars At Guthries Guthrie's command the dog stopped and trotting up with a muffled muffled mut- mut fled whine thrust his moist nose Dose Into his bis masters master's hand gone Shot Shot CHAPTER III I Daylight found man and dog on the high river shore At times the man spoke to the airedale who sensing his masters master's mood repeatedly returned from short excursions to nuzzle hand Again and again before be he- fore tore the light lIht came come the whimpering huskies had taken up tip their walling to be checked by tha man on guard who whose e thou thoughts traversed the swift weeks weel of ot the summer Out of ot the silent places pinel's this doomed child chilli of the time valiant heart henrt had come and Into now into the silence bad gone What must have hn been her despair despair de de- de he thought to hare have left lert her people and sought sanctuary among had had been been friends strangers But nut It I she sloe bad hod found I But Dut what a R miracle to have had that schooner driven on with the tho girl who had load shared the watch with him I What a solace and rock she had been those been those fine straight straight- gazing dark eyes and capable hands It was because she had understood understood- had hod resented his thinking It necessary to explain the situation at 74 7 4 A v s- s You Vou See He Hit Found Two of Us that he had been able to talk so freely treely of ot She had proved her mettle she she too was a soldier He Ho pictured Ethel with her horror of ot the tune ugly thrown Into the situation which Joan hind halt calmly met with delicacy and skill That afternoon Etienne and nud Guthrie erected a spruce cross over 11 the fresh tresh grave gru In the little post cemetery andon ondon and ond andon on the white wood of ot the arm Guthrie burned with a hot bot Iron the Inscription In of ot A Ninda-A A Soldier which for years eurs was to be bethe bethe bethe the cau cause e of much shaking of puzzled heads among the whites and acs the Crees who saw It At dawn the Ille toll following owing morning Outlines Outline's York boat with a Peterboro canoe In tow slowly picked its WilY way I through the river mist of ot the delta In the stern steering with a sweep hewn from rota a spruce sapling Stood tood the wiry Etienne who knew the channels of ot the river mouths and aud the depths of at the shoal hool coast from the Raft to Albany To 10 give the craft steerage way on the first of ot the ebb eLb the sailors nation of th the h i ir bl er r manned tour four long loo bow the geologist It Il em his humiliation talked to loin 10 hU his sailing master n man stood Guthrie Guthrie 0 Ide lb pass for the shor shores s gp c- c rss Near him hm with fore were U Uthe art the t On oa the theof airedale peered Int Into into hOn h e of mist mist his black he caught at nt Intervals nostril als t o oa 00 lb air nip scents vague illusive DIo roil You Ion are losing 4 e Um your four goose hunt by bany baDY In lu taking nc us U your b boat u Quarrier to Guthrie Ug W ested 1011 seat beside her hor oho 0 ad After Atter what not ot youve you've do done don 1 Ito to send you oft ort In that I ship You iou might have base been PI boat da bany had bany serious trouble ashore to make camp u It cew changed Its It's a Ii tricky coast coas You c not much like Ilka your our oi d b Droh ho he answered his face taco C amusement as he glanced t toward y hi sulking Quarries Quarries' Iles har lug Ing about our goose supply winter pr or lii The cut clean-cut mouth of the aia he bt side her hor curled In the smile come to associate with the f factor tor fA d fAthe I Then her e w ekes s i It the dim ribbon of ot spruce edg I marshes saw the face Cuce of ot the rl rI rf or the photograph ut Dt the post 8 and it tt wondered what woos was I behind It U all lIe He studied the profile pronte of Joan JOaa w rice the musing eyes ees with the at n marked brows the parted half frame of ot chestnut hair blot with fold I I l Fine Ine It was he be thought with J beauty of expression i but above abort ki h comeliness of line and skin of ot strength the essence of The absent look faded tram from her cm I l can cnn understand on a da day ilk lii this she said b bt what you mean by t this ls gray groy coast holding you jou Its It's a untouched untouched-so untouched untouched-so so primeval It 1 seem lb ar most as If It we were the first to KC see It k LIts L. L Its like this for a thousand mile mil alto the we west t coast coast- he replied 1 t few fur posts at the mouths tt thi ds i II rivers vels A thousand miles of at n the call of ot the geese r Tou ou wont won't be here bere for tor the Black Billi Brant and the Grand geese The in inthe the last to reach the west coast coin coin- they and the swans Swans He lIe nodded You haven't heard fit til voice of ot the raw solitudes If JOu missed the trumpeting of at the swat iwao high against the October stars Man Mon youre you're grow growing Ing poetic The |