Show Men then Marooned I ty Lay GEORGE MARSH II br by Th Tho Th T Her ronn nn lr Co STORY FROM THE larth Canadian war wr veteran having to tolve live lve In the tha op open Oln n fin on account of ot weakened hi H In b of ot a Iud on II Y rORt OM at lit mk an He lie came cam luck from the conflict with a luri centred face fac which do Ile co coat t him Mm the love of Mi his Falconer Sir Charlee e hie hla brother U is a alid an n lid millionaire Ire war profiteer With h 11 mie f hla hl non friend meth meet meets Doctor Irl and hl hi I alter al- al Irr ter Joan JOlin Their schooner has ha trifled drifted ashore hore Quarrier com corn h he has hai been robbed by a aman annn known I Mc Me man Inn na a. Laughing At an Indian girt girl Ninda tuberculosis victim whom nhom ha haM ha befriended I. I dying Jonn Toan trained war nume nure core for Ninde but the girl die Charlie Chari write writ reproaching reproach reproach- In InK ing hi hla brother for not coming hume home Charles Charles' wife secures him himl l shill lilt love lovea him but hut In hi hl hI heart knows know better Three of ot Mcl onald party visit corking to buy sun gun hells Prom From om than learns of evil talk among the tha Indiana Indian concerning him hen and d Hindu CHAPTER V 7 7 The winter wo wood d cut lit tho gown suited suit enit- ed II Inched be the whitefish platform n punning with the tho spoil of the IIII nets nels which would not flot bo lie lifted until the lee Ice and sat In lu council coun cotin cil I of lit w war nr How Ilow ninny of our people are arc wintering win win- on the the- Island I n kd Garth inn it I the he breed closed his hla small entail i I JIM eyes his hla contracted Into a n network net net- wot work U of ot limits Hues ns nil ho Ito counted the families tarn faun Ilice which h hud find through h the summer cro crossed the Iho strait to hunt on the pent great Island Instead of taking the river rl trail f for r the forest and amid muskegs s of the IIII IIII head headwaters enters We e got lIt twelve fifteen hunter Jere end got nt more dun dan dat t. t That means a lot of fox tox pelts If the mice nod and rabbits are 1110 plentiful and tho the Ill came mine through the summer I s scowled 1111 ott lcd We Vc e not get It moot mooch h of ert elt he Ill muttered Dem Ilia e de cle hunter beeg price It was Willi true trul Cut off otT from the Island until the HIP Ice set lilt hard ns as the post t waa while the Die hunters could reach Breach the Dip wintering at nl Seal Cove ova nud get It more inure for their fur the outlook was Willi Indeed gloomy lint Hut Garth hud had no Idea Idla of allowing these tran strangers to In tome ante Into Inlo his hili nail take lake the fox for trade of away ny from him hint without n struggle While bp hI remained In the employ of the company bo hI would give I Ithe the hl t bei-t t that hi em had of If loyalty mind and f service l I Ills pride prick wn was vms Involved hl anti ami II as lu le l' l fur for I a u solution of the Ihl problem which the Ihl presence IlIce of ot this schooner pi presented suited time the desire to bent this free trader cruder r In III his bis hold bold 11 try for Cor the priceless sliver silver and black fox fax of kl ob ob- sc hi his thoughts Ironi from nt at A and at nt 1 kou he alit anticipated little Ilium old aid or comfort l' The former was mi tin I nuns man vIlh n large T up-river Inure and her J Ing mg to ml nt fit Albany already In Inn n panic Punic over oer the Ilia rumor of nt the Ihl I guns glens aboard Di el schooner So trill had derided decided that tent he would I IK ig tune his mi mm the const coast south of lit him limn and 1 lilt 1111 n R lone loam hand I or n space tie the two tiyo men nursed heir pipes piliP III In m. m then the tho face tit if the Ihl lie white 1 aunt suddenly lI lighted hlll Saul he ho em Why Vly didn't we I think of ot him before Etienne well we'll hunt rp up old Saul Halll and send hint to 10 winter on Oil the lies lie's got two t or three 1 sons OilS there and mil besides being Chief of the Crees Is lt a n sort sorl nf of medicine man shim shaman III II II 1 isn't he lie 7 Ilow a II cloud l of smoke through his teeth time the half breed grunted his disapproval lie Ile whiter on de te up WIlD WIlD-UP up elm ecu cle tie lilt wt i ink talc Ion long tarn tain to find Oh lit I 1 know It w will Ill be bp to 10 tot tact t him hll across arrn s tho the strait before the It its liv but Iut well we'll put him over sonie- sonie b. b h. w We get frozen eon NI wiLl our titan cano up nit riviere protested the hard headed lilt n. n Well ell lake take a birch canoe and UI 1 leave It carry lI curry the little tong toboggan nn to come out with whim the the logs lings can cun follow tollow the Ihl shore going up UI urged the l lIc Knowing I the country real real- only 1 too well fuell time the of trim ii I Rig hit between 1111 seasons drinking the joung young lee Ire In the time quiet readies of lIa Itie river until compelled to 10 abandon be lilt canoe then lien Ihu lint w wait for time the d. d clos tImis closIng lug Ing nf of the till Ir alii time the snow I For Tor r wet veils 1 the thus thin lee Ire of ut the till ii would be he u II tr r for fur the Ile lIr unwary ml dl g grant rant cum To Iu th the trail Ie wl e II It IIi ItI I was 1 a mi t venture to In hem Ihl man i mm II who hn n I only enly thought w 1 9 I Iu Ih mm li i if tI lime IK f fn f 1111 1 It a in ica ii r j 1 e How ITow you rOU get heem to tG de It If tits the channel and strait are open opeo well we'll take tint him In ID the York Tork boat We can wait walt for tor the time wind and It If there Isn't too much touch flow Ice well we'll get him across across Etienne knocked out till hll pipe Ills bright eyes snapped as DI he looked nt ot GuthrIe Ed you ou any lIay ny eo so I go 0 nut Hut we lire fire two dam fool tool lint Hut weve we've got to give these thello people a fight for that fur fur Its lt worth thou thou- to us All right boss we fight But nut when the time veteran voyager told hll wife of ot the mad mod purpose of ot Guthrie tier her dark face foe grayed with fear at the thought of ot the November Journey over the thin title Ice of ot the time Tor a week with ills his two best huskies Castor and Pollux and und Shot following opposite banks bank of ot the rl river ver to 10 avoid vold fighting Garth nail and I poled and ond paddled and tracked past black lilack spruce aiM Td poplar grown Irown shores front the tatter latter of ot which the frost had hail stripped the time leaven lenec At the time mouth of ot the Mule Little n Jo the tile winter suddenly shut M locking lock 1011 trig ing lakes and with a shell too thick for their battering poles to break a channel through for their canoe and the men liven In search of ot Saul Soul SOlid Souci were ere prisoner Somewhere up the little run ran the trap-lines trap of the man mOil to reach whom they had slaved dated for days dRYS with Ice crusted poles polls and paddles and freezing hands while their hot bot breaths rose rORe In columns cot col limns on the keen air all but until a 0 fallot fall of ot snow or some Annie bitter bIller nights night to 10 bridge the river trail trull they could not move mote However there were veto flue five hungry hun title gry mouths to feet so they hunted back bock In the muskeg for caribou At last when severe frost had sealed scaled time tile slower flowing reaches of the river with three-Inch three Ice Ire they hitched bitched the huskies and started Shot who the tile winter previous had learned to draw Girths Garth's trapping sled r refusing to team with the larger dugs dogs ran loose The second du day out tb they y learned from nn an Indian that SOlids SOlid's mala camp wits was two sleeps up the river And thanks to time the trained eyes of or ofF F II 1 the sled avoided the traps of ot shell Ice o over the swift water and amid the second night turned In lit to a winter camp comp At 1 the challenge of his do dogs s Saul nul Soud Souci Treaty Chief of the time J Crees lean grizzled taciturn with bony hony over oter which leather leather- tike like I skin Miln ln lined with wrinkles was tightly drawn pushed through the flap nail of ot his tipi 1 I he said showing no surprise sur stir prise nt lit the f strange appearance of ot the 1 people one olle hundred and Imd fifty miles Inland at nt n 0 time when no sane Indian trot Irn traveled led tI the tile river rl The Tile three shook hands amid first feeding anti and chaining the tho dogs s to trees entered time till smoky ky tent where Sauls Saul's wife Ifo anti two t sons were outing eating from a II copper kettle Not until his guests had been ben served with caribou stew and tea ten did Soud question them then as ns to the purpose of ot their coming canting Then he ho said suld In III Cree which Interpreted to Garth You Vou take a hard hord moon noon to travel up tip the 1 We Wo could not w nit so started In Inthe Inthe inthe the conoe canoe replied I In the same language V You au did not break brenk through the Ice lel No uNe The Time geNII geese have e passed It will whit not be long now until the mho big hll snow snow vouchsafed the hunter lighting his hits pipe Ilow are nfl the game signs since the snow There plenty of mink and otter hn hut but I tho mho lynx and fox seem see to luite I left the valley eyes ejes brightened at nt the l remark rk Th ie Is much fox sign on Akl Akl- l. l This w was ac hearsay over o a month mouth old but hut the half half breed breed knew he hew w would need every Iry possible to gain lIln ear IllI to 10 his proposition My Iy sons will be glad Three of them therm tire are there We WI have come to 10 talk to you about the Island Smiel's Soucis bony hOllY tuft faw clouded ns as he hl met the Ihl trow look lonk of ot his wife I 1 told lold you jou U at ut the spring trade I would not 1111 gm go flat But there Is much new news since Mace then replied In the same lame colorless tones as the other outer News What has hOIl happened Then the astute Savanne Savanna displayed Ms tits knowledge e of ot tho the Indian tempera men meat Slowly without emotion he described the coming cornIng of ot McDonald the time free trader to the time west coast I with a ship full of ot cheap trade goods and Inferior flour tea and sugar It was sudden n wealth he was wall after and I to get It he would bribe the hunters receive them with what looked like better prices s In trade for their fox tox skins nut But In a year two year two years he years he would be through through would would not return and they would come to the company again begging for a debt Hut But the company who had bud taken care of their fathers and grandfathers through many loan lean years would remember who had gone to the free There Thero would he tie no advance for tor these In the years to come and their women and en would whimper through the tho long snows lie Ill Saul ul Souci a 0 man held In great esteem by the company ca could save ve these hunters from the cheap guns and trade goods of or McDonald l who cared cored nothing for tor the Crees The Tle company whose goods were honest as he knew whose whoRe sugar was not sanded whose powder never neer failed tailed and whose tea soothed the stomachs of the time Crees CrlOs was ns os ancient ns as S the hills and ns RR permanent It would nl- nl Ii f k t ti i b- b t t What Do You Want ways on the bay to trade trude with the Indians with goots that never ne changed He lie Saul Soud Souci his fattier father and his Imis fathers father's father had been the friend of or the Hudson's Hudsons Cay had Bay had never never nev nev- er failed It Would he fall It now when he was needed to turn the young hunters at ut from their folly 7 For Tor a n long time the smoke smoke filled filled was silent client us as time the swart face tace of Soud was grave grae with thought Avoiding A the anxious eyes ejes of his wife he lie sat sut cross- cross legged staring Into tire time small fire In Inthe Inthe inthe the center of the wigwam With eyes red and throat raw row from the tho smoke of ot the tipi till fire tire Garth Gurth Impatiently watched the old Indians Indian's face tace The w wIre wife of or Saul unable to stifle her fear ut lit length loosed upon ulon him a n torrent of reproach only reproach-only only to be silenced b by a n stern command At last the Indian evidently e having ha come orne to toa toa toft a ft decision turned to the half half breed breed who w-Imn waited for his answer My I trap trop trap lines reacts reach far fur Into the four tour winds My I fish nod and lIt meat at cache I Is heavy heiny There or are ninny many caribou Inthe la In lathe the muskeg nt at there ore are none only none only rabbits and wolves wol and foxes Ignorant of the drift of Soud's remarks remarks re reo marks Garth watched tam Inv I s l passive nisi lve face fUle Suddenly l his heart quickened us its n It faint gleam entered the till slIt slit-like I eyes ejes IS of his friend Would old ole Souci come II utter after mill all It la is true trul rime continued the Indian the time company Is my many ft lend It was the tile friend of ot my lilY father It Is better that time the young joung oun men trade tralle with It than with these people who Witt come coma und and go O. O how shall hall I live Ue for tor I have hat If It I go 10 I 1 H cache at How Y rt shall no bO the water If It the Ic lee ice has hal not set lieU sett cro cross face tace wrinkled with Etienne's dark c The company com com- would go pl pleasure pang pany will make you rou IU its moo man It J Jwill you will go he said We e will let set you across the open water la in the York Tort the supplies tor for boat and give you winter and your sons what sons what they need Anti And If It you hold the tIe young men for you ou and ana there will be new guns your sons Ions and a debt double the hunt your family brings la In I 1 extended extended ex ex- tended his hand hund to se semi seal the bargain before We m may many not cross the water the Christmas trade trade- trade then then lien we will lose lORe the fur for tor the time trade will go to their camps suggested Saul will OU to the Island atone at We cross ro I you jou once one It If you ou will return with us now The wife of Saul was already wailing walling wall wail ing IlIg in 10 protest t nt ot his decision but the dark faces Caces of ot his sons betrayed no feeling My sons and anil my wife will stay tny without a here said the Indian fiance dance nt at those thol Interested I will go godown godown down river with you for the winter will not Dot wall wait turned to the smiling Guthrie You see e he will go with us at once Now we tie will de for tor McDonal lint Hal lint Hal I to get nil all dose fox tox skin And he lie repeated his conversation conversation con con- with Saul e e Through the stinging slinging air of the blue dawn two dog teams hurried down dO river On the second night arriving at ut the time cache of caribou hung huns In a tree for the time return trip they found that wolverines had hod destroyed the menTo meat men To feed feld seven Se dogs It Itus was us necessary to hunt for Saul had come with a alight alight alight light sled The following morning as the east grayed the men started for the neighboring muskeg In search of the tha early tee feeding lIng caribou With Shot whose rigid war training to absolute silence and obedience made It possible possible possible pos pos- sible to take toke him hint on a still hunt which was out of the question with the Iho yelping and uncontrollable huskies Garth Gluth waited on the edge of a barren for the light Smell something Shot he asked the Tog who stood beside him in the spruce scrub dilating his nostrils as ashe ashe aslie he lie sniffed the keen klen air all As AI yet ret the tha dusk hung over o the white barren In a agro gro gray blur If It the time coated blue-coated deter del of ot the north were out there scraping with round |