Show Wk Men M By GEORGE MARSH Ca 1 I I E TORY SO sir men trav JM the and six men Later they were reported Murder Is Carry brother of one of the Bed Mounted Before the three men could drop j to the beach where the canoe there was the sound of something approaching over the shore with your Don't make a dey With the Impact of a sledge-hammer Red's clubbed dropped the 1 first man FInlay's heavy pistol glanced from the face of the next and he fell with a In surprise the third fired his rifle in the air as a blocky body lunged Into him carrying him to the But the damage was The bush was now full of yelling headed for the the while we stand them cried As the shot past the point and into the moonlight a canoe broke from the shore shadows to bar their warned The three paddlers flattened as spurts of flame leaped from the But in the half-light the aim from the moving boat was Run ordered The Peterboro leaped to the drive of the maple With a crash the bow of the wooden craft knifed through the rolling her under with Its Before they could fire again the three were in the With a lunge of his long stern blade Blaise pushed the filled shell of the clear of the Peterboro's Then the maple paddles bowed as the three friends drove their craft through the moonlit water and into the protecting shadows of the opposite panted we made CHAPTER Late that when canoe found the hidden camp of the the eyes of the old Indian glittered with not he squinting into the faces of his friends as they wrung his a Red patted the old man's glad we got clear of that canoe without using our said many men have been shot here tills it was their lives or Tete-Blanche and his whiskey-fed crew would snuff us out as they would a but headquarters may not see it that I'm sorry it had to be With Flame and young who was devoted to Finlay and would be useful as a the Peterboro started at once through the hugging the shadows of the western for the moon was now low on the The following night they reached their old camp and started with Finlay's Before dawn Garry was waked by something pulling at his whispered the find dis Finlay's hand shook as he took the lit a candle lantern and has seemed so long this waiting for is expected any Everyone except Jules and Labelle are at the head of the I tried to learn what was happening but could They haven't Jules is drinking Corinne heard him tell Labelle that if you sow that plane arrive from the North and got away with the the jig was I don't understand for he knows that people in Montreal suspect he's shipping gold south by That's no I've tried to avoid him but he cornered me last night and never see your friend He's walked into a nosing around this We'll take care of him this when Felix you'd better agree to marry He's got plenty stowed away in Montreal can give you anything you If you won't be you can take the I'll not stay a day after that plane I'll take Louis and camp somewhere in the Send for send for mcl Let me that nothing's happened to With all my went to the post to find asked He could feel the drumbeat of his heart In his was strange was on de the The news he dreaded hit Finlay like the chill of was wid wing like In his remorse Finlay crushed Lise's note in his Blondell's plane had reached He found a scrap of paper and INSTALLMENT EIGHTEEN and half-breed as arrive at to rich fur Is thought to have made a cold strike and alms to keep prospectors Later they visit Isadore at hit magnificent home and got your I'll wait at the nearest tomorrow and every night for your I love That before the twilight Finlay and Red lay in the thick alders of the shore of the Island opposite Isadore's with binoculars focused on the anchored sea-plane and the like glowed in the trade-house and the living The lights Hour after hour the two men But LIse did not come Don't we've got to learn why that plane comes here from James Bay before we go after know she carries flake gold and nuggets from the river bars when finally heads Isadore admitted that to at shot for our pains spoil the whole I'm going to learn more about that plane from the Bay first We can't arrest Isadore without a gun Sergeant What are the laughed get when that plane shows At daylight the faint hum of a plane's engine brought the police from their hidden camp to the Far across the above Isa- make It hot for they saw a sea-plane spiralling for The plane started for the twenty miles to the later appeared following the south is back with the news and they're out for said make It hot for The plane passed overhead following the lake shore and the concealed police could sec a man leaning from the cockpit searching the shore below with Shortly it faded into the east the middle of August That plane from the Bay is That night they waited on the shore of the island for Lise's Hour after hour drifted past but through the murk came no welcome sound of a paddle prying off a Finlay slouched on a head in What had happened to She had said she wouldn't stay a day after the plane She had begged him to send for She had had two days to get the What had happened to He looked at the illuminated face of his It was one They had waited five won't come tonight he she won't Malone did not It was pretty faint might have been a The two men stood rigid with checked They paddled hard for a then stopped to Suddenly out of the wavered the Gar-reel Eyes stabbing the gloom in search of the crippled the two men approached the arc Where's your I There was a faint splash off the bow of the canoe and Finlay's straining eyes caught the dim outlines of a head and bare It he Steady the boat while I get your Why did you try to swim had to They hid the I I couldn't I thought I'd never make did you do It was With a laugh she threw back her head and kissed meet his Finlay falls in love with Later they land on aa Island and are attacked by They learn that Isadore's men are bunting them and tense themselves as they hear the gunmen Because I love she while Red paddled hard for the my My murmured shielding her body with his own from the night worried so been half was too They're drinking and I had to threaten to shoot His arms tightened around I love seem she laughed up at Then she called out to Red whose thoughts were far away at Matagami as he drove his long going to Red to If you knew how glad I am to have you We've been pretty I want to say they don't come any gamer than Blaise stared open mouthed as Garry led a girl wearing his coat over a one-piece bathing suit up to the this is We picked her out of the swimming to the swim In de demanded the astounded you are brave She swim from Isadore's in dis black Shortly the group of men smoking by the fire burst Into Stiff in front of the tent with hand at salute stood a mounted you're I've wondered what you really Jules Isadore has been He's pretty worried about It Now that I've fallen Into the hands of the what am I charged she are charged with the felony of scaring two policemen half to death by swimming to this young had For a space her face was then a smile broke through as Finlay handed her a steaming cup of The others left LIse and Garry by the fire while she told him her Felix came it's been They do nothing at night but drink and I've learned what I could from She's absolutely When Tete-Blanche Jules was mad with rage at what It seems is Did you know Garry's arm tightened about her waist I know Tete-Blanche brought back a lot of drunken young Indians to hunt for Is getting He wants to return anxious about that plane from the It's They that that's what you came here for to get that Corinne asked if that was the plane that carried the gold south and he looked at her and it carries the That's what these people are here to but we've got enough men here to shoot them out of their canoes if they try you're not going to try to take Isadore just you ore He's got a lot of Indians over there and he's He drew her red-coated shape close and kissed the velvet eyes that searched his bronzed worry about that You don't think I'm going to risk losing you when I've only just got you here CHAPTER The following night six canoes drifted silently up to the hidden police It was and his Finlay decided that It was time to reveal his Identity to the old He drew him to one side with who we and why we are The eyes of the old chief glowed like black forget He come to help bis must wait until the flying canoe comes from the said we'll go to we agreed the old He turned to Blaise and spoke rapidly in say he go to Matagami for shell and He come back In free-four He start On the morning of the fourth day after departure for Finlay and Red were watch-Ing the post through binoculars from the shore of one of the got a regiment of Indians over said as If we'd bitten off a large chunk of sure we're going In Just the same and grab that That on returning from the lake with Blaise called to Finlay where he sat with Lise by the to de I show you DE |