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THE GOLD HlIX NEWS. THURSDAY. MAY
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by G E O R G E M A R SH
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SYNOPSIS
Prom hi* fur poet. Sunset House, In
the Canadian north. Jim Stuart, trader
m charge, sights an overturned canoe
in the lake. W ith his headman. Omar,
he rescues the drifter, who proves to
he Aurora LeBlond. daughter of his
rival in the fur business. Made com
fortable at the post, Aurore proves to
. • charming companion. Exchang
ing badinage. she and Jim arrange to
exchange notes on a certain island.
LeBlond, with Paradis, his unscrupu
lous half-breed lieutenant, arrives in
••arch of the missing girl.
C H A P T E R I — C o n tin u ed
»
Fatigue la the signal to rest. Obey
tt if you can. When you can’t, keep
cool and carry-on in comfort.
Haver Aspirin was meant for
Just such times, for it insures your
comfort. Freedom from those pains
that nag at nerves and wear you
down. One tablet will block that
threatening heudache while it is
still just a threat. Taka two or
three tablets when you’ve caught a
cold, and that's usually the end
of i t
not being sent ten miles against that
wind and sea. you forget that I'd be
down there with the fish tonight If It
hadn't been for Omar and Mr. Stuart.
Pah I You men are all fools!”
She was serious now. her scornful
gass overawing her father's uneasy
eyes.
In frank admiration Stuart
watched her as she watted for Le-
Blond's reply.
”1 thank you for what you did for
her.” said LeBlond at length, turning
defeated from the accusing eyes of his
daughter. “Come, Aurore!”
Paradis and Renault sullenly left
the room while the trader waited at
the door for the girl who had not
moved.
"So you think, because of the hurt
feelings of your pretty Paul. I'll spend
the night In front of a Are, with my
back against a tree" site replied.
-W ell. I will not!”
Over the bold features of LeBlond
crept an expression of helplessness—
of impotence. It was patent to Stuart
that this trader, whose energy and de
termination were bywords In the fur
trade, was not the roaster of the girl
who now faced hint.
'I shall accept Mr. Stuart's offered
hospitality,” she continued. "As for
you, mon pere, you can stay and
help old Sarah, the cook, guard the
Ignored. They must follow and light
As the factor of Sunset House
him for the trade.
But, on the watched the departing peterboro nose
word of hard-headed Andrew Chris- an ever widening ripple out across the
tie, of Lake
Expanse. Inspector still lake which now mirrored the
of
a territory
larger than
an hill»—for the wind had dropped In the
eastern state, the man who could night to a lint calm—a voice at hit
now wrest a share of the trade side roused him from hls thoughts.
from the firmly Intrenched LeBlond
“ We got a beeg Job ahead, dis sum-
would need a particularly long head,
mer."
Carry Bayer Aspirin when you
boundless nerve, and the tenacity of
Stunrt looked Into the grave tace of
travel. Have some at home and
the beaver. Such a man, (’bristle told
Omar. "We have, Omar, but I wish I
keep some at the office, lake an
his superiors. In conclave at Wlnnl
efficient secretary, it will often
knew where lo begin. They heard at
peg, he believed was now at God's
“save the day" and spare you many
Lake Expanse that l.eltlond got thirty-
lake In western Klwedln—a young
uncomfortable, unproductive hours.
thousand dollars worth of fur from
man with a tine war record and a
Perfectly hurnilras. so keep it
Pipestone lake and the Sturgeon river
handy, keen it in mind, and use i t
local reputation for ability and Judg
couutry alone, this year. We didn’t
No man of affaira can afford to
ment In dealing with the Indians.
get a pelt—not one hunter from that
ignore the score and more of uses
In two months a mall canoe brought country!”
explained in the proven direclions.
Jim Stuart orders from Winnipeg to
From a grumbling tooth to those
“I hear, last night, aomet'lng about
report to Christie at Lake Expnn„.
rheumatic
pains which seem almost
dat."
A month later, with Omur Boisvert and
to bend the bones, llaycr Aspirin
“You
did?
How
d'yuh
mean-
a gang of men, Stunrt had cleared the
is ready with its quirk relief—and
heard Y’
forest and was peeling the logs for the
always works. Neuralgia. Neuritis.
“De men wld de cano' talk w'lle !.♦
Any nagging, needless pain.
building of Sunset House. The fol
Blond go to de house for de glrL Dev
lowing three years had been for Stuart
a well-nigh hopeless stru ggle fo r a talk shout Jlngwnk."
Get the genuine tablets, stamped
“Jlngwak, the medicine man at
foothold In the trade, for his rival
with the llaycr cross. They are ot
Pipestone lake?"
possessed the Frenchman's uncanny
perfect purity, absolute uniformity,
and have the same action every time.
talent for handling the Indians, backed
'Ah-hah. yon know how he get all '■
W hy experiment with Imitation«
by an experience of thirty year*.
de hunter to trade wld |>l>iond - not
coating a few cents less? The saving
As he lay on his bunk In the trade- one come to Sunset HouseT’
b too little. There is too much a t
house, after leaving Aurore LeBlond
No, hut I'd like to,” said the Inter- !
stake. But there is economy in tha
and her father In posseaalon of Ids ested Stunrt.
purchase of genuine Bayer Aspuia
quartera, Jim Stuart's thoughts trav
tablets in tho largo bottles.
Wat—Jlngwak tell all dens peopl*
ersed the hours since mid afternoon.
dat dis place ees full of devlt I find
To the man who. slhce the war. had
dis out. for one of dnt crew had fear j
been marooned In the forests of Klwe-
to stay on de beach.”
din—OJibwa for “The Birthplace of
Slowly the blood filled the bronzed
MO TABLETS AWE GENUINE f B AY IR J ASPIRIN WITHOUT THIS CROSS
the North Wind,"— the coming of this
face of the man who listened.
vivid creature, swept Into his life by
“So they are bribing the medicine I
the accident of wlmFand sea, bad been
men, the conjurors, are they, to keep j "
like the burst of a shell on a black
O ffic e D ia lo g u e
the trade from Sunset House?”
night.
“Thia Is a critical age.”
It was clever of LeBlond, for the ‘
But strong as was the appeal of
“You'«aid It— Somebody's crltlds-
Pipestone OJIhwns, who came two hun
| | a u .K A M N
this dnrk daughter of Louts LeBlond
ng my work every day.”
dred
miles
south
to
trade,
were
a
i’»“1
»bik
v u » JT
m NOW’1
u n | w r i | i , c u .m ,,«
» *,,,,»
4
to the eyes and senses of the man
wild, superstitious lot, easily Influ
Laeturaawaaklr »eollaga« W r tw (u rr .ia lo g
who had not seen three comely white
enced
by
n
medicine
man—a
shaman,
j
women In as many years, she was, he
f ? H s j . ’ .’ , a s i n 8
'W at you t'lnk of d a t r demanded
realized, only a spoiled child; vain,
apaelel » In te r
headstrong, the pampered darling of a the half-breed. "I tell you we got I
rate by Say. eaat
lonely father.
Then his thoughts good Job ah>>0(1. dis summer, w'en we
or m ualb
get de trade stuff up from luik' Ex
PORTLAND. O RKOON
shifted to Mary Christie, the loyal,
panse."
capable girl at Lake Expanse, who
Corner Sib and Hoyt l u , N ear L'alea Stallo«
“Omar, we've got to get some of
ministered with head and bands to the
« T n a a 'i A a r Pood la aura d aalb
that Pipestone and Sturgeon river
well-being and comfort of his chief,
uta. M prlakla I t about th a S o x ,
trade. We can't live on what we get
J,,w * m * . a h .lta a , a tr. M u t b , J
Andrew Christie, and who, except for
» t d m i m a ré
» u r a a day.
ju rf.. ( , □ .
from
the
rest
of
the
country,
What'rs
five years’ schooling In Scotland, had
i.s
we
going
to
do?"
spent her life, without complaint. Im
ü o an u iU s M l tt» m ir«
At :
j v M O R « / refa M tlffist H llw
mured In the northern forests. He
The swart Boisvert rose from hla
pictured her frank disdain of the dreaa squatting position. He was not tall,
and manners of the girl who slept over
but hls Scotch and French blood bad
B». V. L . B A L L taa
C b o b a lla . W a a b .
In hls quarters—her outraged sense of
united with the OJibwa to create a
propriety at the direct thought and
rare example of nature's skill In Ihs
speech of this self-possessed daughter building of humnn thew and muscle;
R eco rd S w im m in g P e e l
D ia p la y a a d D ttm a y
of the free trader. She wouldn’t un for In hls compact one hundred and
The swimming pool belonging to
W ife— Hurry up, can't you? I aim
derstand this girl— would condemn her
eighty pounds Omar carried power
on sight as over-bold, light, unwoman and stamina which had been a by the park system of San Francisco Is ply must go out and show off my
ly. But no one who had seen Aurore
word among the voyageurs of western •aid to be the largest In the United new fur cost
LeBlond grimly refusing to be swept
Hubby— W alt a minute. I simpl,
Klwedln. Deliberately reaching to the States. It has a capacity of 0,000,000
from her grip on that canoe, as the rear, the half-breed drew hls skinning gallons of water and will accommo must cut the fringe off my coat cuff
seas burled her, could doubt the metal
— Vart Hem, Stockholm.
knife and, lifting a foot, stropped the date 10.000 bathers.
of her courage. She had proven that. blade ylowly on hla moccasin. “Dere
Then he found himself comparing the eea one t'lng we can do wld M'sleu'
blond comeliness of the decorous daugh Jlngwak.” he said, significantly.
ter of Andrew Christie with the dark
"You old wolf," laughed Stuart. “1
loveliness of Aurore LeBlond.
believe. If I said (he word, you’d hunt
The following morning Stuart walked him down thia summer and stick that
N vasas «ay that many protde would never
with hls guest fo the beach where Le In him.”
see the Inside of a hospital, If they took
Blond had preceded them to hls wait
care of their "nerve»."
Omur's small eyes met hls chiefs
ing canoe.
When they feel vita lity larking, nurses
cryptically as he said:
"Dere aie
“I really think you about won Sarah
take Fellow»’ Syrup becauw they have
manee way to keeh a fox.”
over, when you patted her shoulder * “Yes. and we must find one to heat
arrn doctor» »11 over the world prescribe
and put that silk scarf around her
thi» wonderful tonic for "rundown" pa
this Jlngwak; but we can't hurt him, ,
neck." he said. "I know Sarah pretty
tient». They have Keen the definite reaulta
you know. There are laws In this
well, and the way that grin slowly country."
In inrreaned pep. Improved vitality and
widened across her face when you
"lntere»t In life.”
“I a s i Um ph!” grunted Omar. "We
gave her the scarf and shook her hand
T ry it yourself. A ik your druggtrt tor
got do somet'lng ver1 queek i ’
makes me think she’s forgiven you
g n u iiu Fellow»' Syrup today.
“We hnve, Omar," admitted Stuart.
your gibodlegwason.
Though,
of
“I f I'm licked here, I might as well
course, she wouldn't admit It.”
look for a new Job. The Company'll
“She thinks me Insane, probably." _
never forgive me. C h iktle knows
“She didn't know what to think.”
what the Job Is here, but he's not snt
Then, as they approached the shore,
Isfled with the small trade this year
she said, hurriedly: "The split rock
With an Impulsive movement Bois
on the shore of the last of the Islands
vert grasped the hand of the younger
—look there In a few days; you might
man. “We nor tru yeti Dis summer
find something.
Good-by, Mr. Jeem
I l& U fC it CWicL GJ-irtnsif-.
we go to Pipestone lake.”
Stuart.” She gave him her hand.
With a voice hoarse with feeling,
he said, with a slight trace of accent:
“Mr. Stuart, my daughter says she
owes her life to you and your man.”
As they faced him, the striking re
semblance In feature and expression
between father and daughter Im
pressed the man who entered the room
followed by Renault and Paradis. The
girl was the true daughter of Louis
LeBlond.
"Luckily, we happen to see her,”
deprecated Stuart
“Ye?, but she tells me that her
strength was gone—she had already
given up, when she saw you.” I.e-
BloDd impulsively grasped the hand
of the man who studied him. “We are
rivals In business; it cannot be helped.
But what you have done for my child
I w ill not forget.”
In a corner of the room the slim
Paradis, dark as a half-breed, talked
excitedly to the thick-set Renault,
across whose swart face a knife slash
bad left a livid scar.
“I t was nothing,” replied Stuart. "I
happened to see her canoe. That was
•11. You owe me nothing, sir.” As
be spoke, Paradis left Renault and
whispered in LeRlond's ear.
"My house Is at your disposal,” con
tinued Stuart. “W ill you and your
daughter stay here tonight?” The eyes
• f the speaker hardened as he went
on. ‘"The gentleman who Is whisper
ing to you, and Renault, here, are
welcome to sleep In the tradehouse.
You can’t croaa the lake against this
wind.”
The somewhat small but regular fea
tures of Paradis darkened in a scowl
at the thrust, but he continued his
whispering. Slowly a look of doubt—
“And This Is Your Thanks to Hlml
of perplexity— crept Into LeBlonds
Oh, I ’m Ashamed of You—
eyes, but with a gesture of irritation
Ashamed of You A lll”
he waved aside the insistent Paradis.
Turning, he spoke rapidly In French sacred honor of your precious daugh
ter— or you can leave her to Sarah and
to his daughter, who replied vehement
go and sit by your fire. I stay here.
ly, her courageous black eyes flash
Do you understand English, Monsieur
tng in anger as she faced her father.
“H r. Stuart,” said the patently em LeBlond T*
In the end. LeBlond and his daugh
barrassed LeBlond, “you—a—found
ter passed the night In the quarters of
her In the afternoon?”
“ Yes." In a flash Stuart sensed Stuart while the Indignant Sarah
what was coming— what Paradis had tossed through sleepless hours, out
raged by the thought that the roof
been whispering.
above her should «belter the enemy
“And you let us bunt the lake
who had boasted that the wolves should
through six hours of daylight—hunt
soon howl in the deserted clearing of
for her, thinking she was drowned T’
Sunset House.
LeBlond spoke more lu regret than
In anger.
CHAPTER I I
“Why didn't you send word?” added
Paradis with a sneer.
Six years before, when the boat
" I atber!” The blood rose to Aurore
LeBlonds temples. “Are you crazy? brigade of the North-West Trading
Do you know what you're saying? Is company, In command of one of the
this your gratitude?" The eyes of the partners. Louis LeBlODd, had passed
through Lake Expanse on the trail to
girl flamed with indignation.
“Mr.
Mitawangagama, the OJibwas, who
Stuart wanted to take me home, but
were camped at Pelican portage on
I wouldn't go. There was only the
the way south to the spring trade
small canoe here, and I was a f r a id -
afraid of that lake. And this Is your with the Hudson's Bay company, had
been greatly excited. Turning In to
thanks to him! Oh, I'm ashamed of
the camp, LeBlond't head voyageur.
you— ashamed of yon all 1”
Black Jules Renault, bad announced In
The enraged factor of Sunset House
their native tongue that a trading sta
was near the end of his self-control as
tion was to be built on the great latke
he faced LeBlond. "You see flt to
of the Sand Beaches two hundred
quibble over my actions today. I've
miles north. Never again need they
“Good-by, Miss Glbodlegwmon.”
nothing to explain. You found out
take the long trail south to Lake Ex
When LeBlond stepped Into hls big
what the lake was out there, when you
panse. but la the next long snows freight canoe he said to Stuart: “I
crossed with the wind In your big
would And a warm welcome— a New
thank you again for what you have
canoe. My large boats are bringing
Year’s feast—and the best of trade done. Your people have seen flt to
up my stuff, aDd I'm alone with one
goods ready for exchange for their
send you here to take the trade from
man. I don't like your Insinuations!
fur at the new post.
me. Between the North-West and the
You can't take your daughter back to
In three years LeBlond had made Hudson’s Bay there can be no quarter.
night, and I offered you my quarters
serious Inroads Into the trade of the
But to you, yourself, I owe much.
—such as they are. But, as for this
old company. He no longer could be Some day-Fmay be able to repay."
whispering assistant of fours, I take
back my offer. He can't stay here!”
The speaker's voice snapped like a
brittle stl k. “You understand Eng-
lish, don’t you, Paradis?”
The room wag silent. In the glance
of the girl as she watched Jim's eyes
Although they keep themselves dis varieties which existed until compara
blacken with anger, was amuseme”,
tinct and appear to affect disdain one tively recent days In Syria and about
. and approval.
for the other, sheep and goats are, and
the Palestinian Lebanon, are always
W ith a swift movement the enraged apparently always have been pastured
sought on mountain tops. As the Psalm
Paradis Jerked big band back to his together, the goats eating the brush
ist says: “The high hills are a refuge
belt; but the squat Renault's fingers and roughage which the more tender
for the wild goats.” It Is worth no
gripped his arm. The working fea
mouthed sheep will not tonch.
ticing that among all hls riches of
tures of Ix-Rlond reflected h!s warring
In rough, rocky mountainous dis llockg nnd herds, Job counted no goats,
emotions. This man who had saved
tricts as Is a great part of the land of as was to be expected, since lie lived
hla daughter had also flagrantly af
Canaan, the goat Is a more serviceable on an Arabian plain where was abun
fronted his friend. For a space his
animal than the cow, more agile and dant pasturage for hls “fourteen thou
sense of gratitude and hts loyalty to
wonderfully sure footed, content to sand sheep and six thousand camels,
Paradis strove for mastery as he looked
wander about and pick a mouthful
nnd a thousand yoke of oxen, and a
Into the cold eyes which challenged
here and there, aide to live without
thousand she asses," (Job 29:12) as
hla. Then he found his voice.
much more moisture than the heavy well doubtless as Immense numbers
"You have Insulted us, here, In your
dews supply, long lived, and generally of cows.
own house!" he burst out. "W e want
free from sickness, especially from
no hospitality from you." Then as If
F a v o re d G e rm a n S pot
contagious diseases. They thrive best
ashamed, went o n : “Oh, I'm grate
The unusually beautiful scenery of
lu the higher altitudes, and the «'lid
ful— I know what I owe you; but we'll
the Harts mountains In Germany and
hid you good-night Come Aurore 1”
the plentiful variety of wild game aro
His answer from the girl was con
C hin ese Sym bols
said to he great attractions to visitors.
temptuous laughter, “Oh, you men are
Among Chinese symbols the hat slg
Elk, roe, fallow deer, wild swine and
so funnee— so funnee!” she cried. “So nlfies happiness; Buddhist scepter, Im
sheep come from the hills to feed on
ridiculous! Because Mr. Stuart knocks
mortality; crow, evil; dmk, conjugal
horse chestnuts, acorns, carrots and
down our Paul Paradis, and Paul fills affection; stork, tortoise or young slag,
hay provided by the foresters on the
your ears with s foci Idea ot word Ions life ; crane Immortulity,
bunting preserves.
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Two day« later, with the freight
boats from Lake Expanse which car
ried the next year’s supplies and trade
goods for the little post and had been
windhnund at the head of the lake,
came Esau Otchlg. whose shonlders
had rounded and lean face creased
with furrows In the service of the
company—old Esau, a full-blooded
OJibwa, who had served thirty years
with Stunrt's father and now followed
the fortunes of the son. To the Io-
dlan, when (he supplies were unloaded
and the empty freighters had started
back on thp trail south. Omar related
what he had overheard on the b eac h -
how the hunters from the Pipestone
country had hern kept from trading nt
Sunset House by the tabn of the sha
man, Jfngwak.
“Ah-hah!” Esnii muttered. “So dis
Jlngwnk put de devil Into Sunset
House. H al, we put de devil Into
Jlngwnk."
"Good!" agreed Stiiurt. "but how?"
Esau's bendy eyes met the widening
grin of Omar as he answered: “Omar
evalr tell you w'nt happen to Makwa.
de beeg shaman nt Wolf riviere, manee
long snow back?”
Stuart shook hls head. "No, what
happened?"
“Dis Makwa, he t’lnk he mnk’ ds
beeg medeclne. lie come an' say lo ds
ole mnn at Wolf riviere, 'You geeva
Makwa, de shaman, flour, lea, trade
good, an' you get all 'Jlbws fur. Y«S
.
nof geeve Makwa dis, an' free trad
he get de fu r.'"
“What did the Hudson's Buy oi
say to that?”
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