Show Vanished Men m M By GEORGE MARSH Ca 1 J Service m M THE STORT SO Six men the trail and loiter they were report-tS Murder Is brother of one of the Mounted Police They stood on the gravel beach and Blaise pointed across the lake to the western hills where a dull glow streaked the violet it's a forest ex-claimed suppose behind just what I On the second day the yellow smudge of sun glowed dully through a shroud of Leaving In the three with started In the for They landed below the post and put ashore to find hidden clothes learn what he could and return at that overdue planel Come He's caught and can't see where to set her him three Red I He could circle and set her down south of us If this breeze would only The crashed three heard our He's With the rush of a great bird the plane shot past the caught the water with a splash and bobbed on ahead to disappear into the smoke Finlay shook his lifted got Come They may start hunting him from As the boat moved up to a pontoon a voice called from the open door of the cabin I've been lost two hours move a Red out on the one hand in the the what's wrong objected the astonished pilot Is Where's out on that pontoon what's a case of Who are you Where's Finlay flung back from the door of the Mounted Police and you're under The pilot's face dropped into his Finlay peered into the freight compartment of the She's loaded with what in the devil's tin's announced opening the tinfoil wrapper of the package in his are nothing else than bricks of worth one hundred and fifty dollars apiece in What Isadore gets for God only We've struck Isadore's Redl And what a Red's blue eyes bulged as he stared at the opium brick In Fin-lay's I'll be Faking a gold strike on the river to cover his smuggling dope from a ship on the That clears up a does We've solved by accident the most baffling case of narcotic smuggling in the history of the Dominion They've been watching the seaports for years for this It was sent from Europe by n schooner to Hudson's flown here and then Don't you realize that this means a citation and promotion for us Garry's face sobered with mock will Constable that we have suspected tills from the we reached Waswanipi and have hung on by our teeth for the sole purpose of capturing tills shipment and breaking up this ring of a bear's left eye I We've been after Isadore for murder and But Thistle iMalone will never know her red-headed husband isn't as clever he gas I Towing the they groped way into a cove and anchored jit to makeshift At the camp jon the mainland was the wind the fire will reach said face wore the innocent look of a Isadore will set that A pained expression spread over the gnarled features of the old He shook his head in Finlay's eyes did was a personal friend of The Are will take most of Isadore's men Into the and give us our let's Finlay and wearing service belts and Stetson hurried with Blaise to the living They stood in the doorway of the large living At a table on which stood bottles and two men sat arguing with voices from prolonged got to get out of light away A large man with a sort white from indoor bounded hla fist on the un- r INSTALLMENT NINETEEN nd half-breed at arrive at to rich fur Is to have made a cold and alms to keep They Isadore at hit home and meet H- t r. conscious of the two watching In the this place is Look at the smoke who sat with back to the from the back-fire you're It won't reach We'll stop it on the going to get I tell whined snarled catching the raw terror In he wheeled In his chair to meet Finlay's stone-hard Isadore sat So this is what you Damn me for a snapped The police approached the two waiting your hands snarled got your plane from the bit gives us our Didn't want it known in Montreal that plane from the Don't blame They've been wondering where that dope came you're going to hang for those six Isadore shook his head as he met the stab of Finlay's pitiless Jules Isadore will never The sound of voices in the rear of the house put the police on their this warned Malone as he flattened against the wall beside the closed The door was swung wide covered with char and the panting stared into the His smudged face flamed as his bloodshot eyes marked Finlay standing over the two Ignoring the with a lightning movement the half-breed reached behind his back and flung his hand forward with a The knife sang like an arrow past the chest of the dodging who held his and stuck quivering in the wall white-haired at With a roar Red dove from the side at the surprised hurling him headlong into the Like a cat Tete-Blanche gained his feet and closed with the bit off covering Isadore with his as the two fought across the The killer was powerful and slippery as a Winding his legs around they went to the floor with a Fighting with the strength of despair again and again Tete-Blanche wriggled out of the jiu-jitsu grips Red started to put on Then the enraged Malone wrenched his right hand free and hunched his fist into Tete-Blanche's But the panting killer only snarled and redoubled his efforts to break the trooper's By sheer strength the Infuriated pinned his man to the forced back his chin and jammed his thumbs deep into the vital nerves under the A shudder ran through the half-breed and he lay helpless from the Malone lifted and hurled him headlong into the stone your He'll shoot no more boys from Take He's Isadore's face was drained of col- Service m M bis Finlay quickly falli In love with Later they are attacked by Escaping they make preparations to seize a which li expected to arrive on the Meanwhile Joins them for r Tf or as his dulled eyes stared at the sprawled heap on the Then he slowly nodded as he there he There he good and faithful i With a quick movement his hand shot to the desk then found his mouth before the surprised Finlay seized He swallowed twice then sneered into Finlay's rope for Jules I prefer to the hands of that lump of flesh in the chair by the name of and we'll find We must work fast or we'll be Finlay hurried to the shore where he found at the I with the prisoners and coughing their heads swathed in wet I Corinne rushed to she she she swam to the I'll take you to Garry turned to Hop into that ship and see that the pilot taxies her to the In the morning the hum of an engine drew Garry and Blaise to the can it Isadore wasn't expecting another Red that I know Finlay scratched his then turned to forgot to ask What became of I asked but none of his men had seen Blaise slowly traced the white scar across his temple with a thick he come and crawl to look in front Den I reach are your His eyes snapping with amusement Malone handed his glasses to his Yellow it's one of It's a police The Mounties are The plane was set down and taxied up to the waiting The cabin door opened and a red-jacketed man with a grizzled moustache leaned out and Sergeant Are you all Garry Finlay thrilled with pride as he Inspector Shortly Finlay was telling his story to the inspector and the four men of the rescue When he Haldane enthusiastically reached and clapped him on the you realize what you've done against what looked like hopeless I You two men have broken the biggest ring of opium smugglers the Canadian police have ever had to deal when good-bys had been sat in the loaded with supplies which Finlay had given With and he waved to the climbing plane carrying and Followed by the two planes carrying Blaise and the bound for Matagami to take the depositions of McNab and his head the police plane circled into the For a space in silence Finlay gazed back into the northeast where hills marked the Waswanipi watched him curiously as he lifted his hand in salute and The Chibougamau Trail is THE |