"THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1928

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BENSON. BROS.

Between. Hazelton and New
Hazelton and the Railway,
or t any point in the dis-
. trict-—and at any. hour. -

Phone Hazelton
1 short, 1 long, 1 short 1 tong
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en Marooned

BY GEORGE MARSH

“Why, my dear child,” he gasped
in astonishment. “Humiliating? ‘I’m
prour-—so' proud, to leve the woman
who hasbeen the healeer of wounils.”

“Oh, but you. don’t understand—

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R jinowing that you are all my world—

cant ‘nee! And how am T to tell you?’
“Tf, after what we've been through
together,” he said passionately, “if,

ull Ihave left to cling to, to fight for
‘|yon can’t be frank with: “me—”

“You tell me that you care for meé,"
there—in your ‘room, where you car
'{She broke in bitterly,“then why is she
see her?— If you ve forgotten—as you

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‘I had not loved you?” he Dleaded

|ber; then, as her hood fell back and

.jevushed his Hps-te it ; Slowly her. dark
{heucl twmed, and there ou the ice of

say. me

He raised his mitten to ‘his forehead
as if daze, then turned a face tense:
with candom:. “Ts she still—there?'
| “Still there? Don’t you know that
‘the three likenesses are in your room,
now 2?"

He smiled as one smiles nt the:
‘aprices uf a child, “It’s so long since
"ad noticed them, I had forgotten.”
heen, dimly at first, in a moment he
siw—"Henler of Wounds’—he mur-
mured. “Oh, you think‘ there's a scar
a wound unhealed—the memory of her
that I exn’t forget?” He cried. “Bthel!
vou think you'r healing the wounds
‘Hthel left— a substitute Is that it?

*

She would not meet his smiling eyes
“Long beefore I met you,” he went)
‘it, “she had become a shadow. I haa {2
come to see her as she was the shal-
lowness, the hnrdness of her, ‘Then
there came suiling across the straight

tt heart of gold and hair,” he laughed:
nt the anti-climax, “that the wind Tov-.
vl to play with. Like the soldier she
Was, xhe forgot self in the work at
ham, With thoes clear eyes, saw: the

i girl with eyes that never wavered— |i

“Belts Oh, Lord: of Elkwan and
half of Akimiski,” she bantered, “you
tortured me with those photographs.”

‘Do you believe—that’ I forgot their

existunce?”
-"Yes—but oh, I could'nt be second
best—her substitute. Iwanted te be
first—wanted ta’ be ev erything to you
—all And yet. you heeded me su—!
knew it that night at Albany.”

“That I loved you?’ -

“No, stupid that you rieeded me.”
“And thet is why you stayed at Al-
bany—because | you thought | I needed
you?” '

' “No, prince of blind men heeanse. I—
laved you.” And she tenderly kissed
the circutrix which erossed his cheek
“You made me love you that night you
told me of the comming of Ninda te
Wlkwan,.” —

“And IJ made your brother hate me,”
ke janghed,. '
“Have I atoned for his injuries te
you?”
“I love him for thoes injuries. He
didn’t know how he helped. But you
musn’t stand here in the cold with
your hood off. You'll freeze. your
face!" Guthrie suddenly became. seri-
ou,
“Not with you, hungary man!" she
laughed. -
oon night. oh much-needed lady,”

said in the living room,
“eGood: ‘night, Sir Philip Sydney. Au
in a few hour IF have seen your eyes
colr us the fee out there—and [ve
seen thenm—well as ther look now.
and she

dearest man-with-the-scar,”

{kissed him anid went to her room.

The following morning, when the
police dog-team had left for Senl cove.

‘then ervous Tugavas led by the pro-

truth, And when I left ber that nigh:
oa the shore of, Albany—I loved her.”
“ With’ uv cateh in: the threat, Joan
thuirtier Hfted- her face to the moon-

low clouded .eyes fierely questioning
“You cared for me, you say, but
gach mornizg you looked at the alvely
trenture you had lost—and felt—just
a obit sorry, for her, ‘for: yourgelf,eh,
Major Guthrie?"

He hardly recognized the volee, so’
hoarse, so bitter was the note .on
which she finished.

Topetessly he'shouk his hend, as if
to himself be muttered in protest:
“heey were there with those of the
family, uutouched beeanse unthought
of. I was away--hardly slept in the
room after leaving you at Albany, 1)
the const, inland after Souci, on the
island. Do you think I would bnve
turned to you in. my, need—asked you
to come up here-—iwith all it meant—ir

But in her ‘orermastering pride, Joan
Quarries was obdurate, | .
“Let us wrilk,” she said, mechanieal-
ly, and started on.

Vhey walked 2 mile ‘up the’ river
trail, and turning, faced the pulsing
wiora, Lhe ‘stinging iar had lured
the color to her cheeks, the shadows
left’ her sombre eyes, ‘hoy vied in
numing the colors in the intermittent
glow ot the northern, lights, indentified
stars, for a monient forgot. them-
selves in the stimulation of keen alr
and lenping pulses.

ads they heared, the post, her moe-
casi - . slipped vl the  ice-hard trail.
With-a switt movement heecnught her,
Felt for an histant the welght of. her in
his axvnis, strulghtened,- still holding,

eiught the frugremence of her hatr— .

the. Elkwen, be held her, trembling,
meeting his wild mood with a: revelu-)
tins a tenderness. = > of ~-Passlon, Wn

iresed. or :

the

testing Shot drew the rude coffin of
Craig Galbraithto the past cemetry’
There, beside the snow drifted cross
buirking Ninda’s grave they built. a
cashe of logs over.the rough box of
spruce slabs, and against it, rested’
spruce cross that

sround,
As Garth and Wilenne crossed to the

“feron. I wonder what's happened.”

would he set |-
iv the spring when the frost left the

“See something?”
'“Ab-hoh !” ee cr
“Cant. be _the police- -team comming
boek?" *
“No, eet ees tong. team—seex dog I
think, ”
“From Albany—a rincket from Cam-

“twenty minutes later Guthrie was
opening the mail bag which the dog
driver from Albany had banded him.

“Ax soon as Etienne rounds. to,”
wrote Cameron, “you bring Miss Joan
down the coust—she's neelled. The
company is locating a permanent post
on the isiand in the sumaler and want
you to handle it, You have made a big
stroke with Mose and Montreal, and
if you eare to stay in the trade, ought
to go far. I trust by now you. are open
to congradulations.”

But the despateh of the mail-tenm
to Elkwan was due to 2 special or-
ders from - Montreal headquarters
which aceompanied ‘a letter addressed
-h typewriting to Major Garth Guthrie.
Curlous.of the reason prompting the
maknown writer to the haste and ex-
pence of an express: packet down the
Missinatbi and up the coast In mid-
'; Winter, Garth opened the letter in the
in the handwriting - of ‘his brothe:
which ran:

“Deur Old Garth:

“If. you will accept my deep apolo-
gies, I will be a happy mun. I have
learned thet .Quarrier had personal
reasons, for wishing to injure you. At
the time I believed him—thought you
hd cut luose from us, were unfair te
Ethel, But I huve recieved a loug letter
from Fort Albany, from Quarrier’s
sister, which Is corroborated by Cam-
eron, the factor, which clears the situ:
ation . Miss Quarrier seems to be +
wost unusual woman, and Clara—
you know Clara—well she bos 2 sur-
mise.

“The Hudson's Bay people have told
me of your marked cuccess this win-
ter, for which, my congradulations. A
Guthrie has q nose for bus siness. Best
wishes, inv boy, but if you will eome
back to us, greater oppertunities await
you here, By the way you may be in-
erested to herr that . Ethel married.
Sir. Enbaré Quayle. president of the)
Quayle Mines,. last week. Clara is
flrious. She sends her hest love.
Affectionately

CHARLES

Hurrying to his quarters with Shot
ot his heels, Garth thrust the letter

and we suggest.

We received one carload of the

NEW FORD MODELS

More will be here at an early
date.

| The value i is 5 worth waiting for

: before making. final choice. |

Tn Cassair District,

Vyecding cages

into Juan’s band. He watched her
color deepen us ber dark eyes lit with
her joy tor bim.

“Oh, I’m so glad—so glad!” she °
cried. “They’ want you back, Garth.
want you with them,”

“Shall I take Ethel’ down now?
They ought not to be there—her r
inarried woman.” he teased.

She shrugged her shoulders. “They
are decorative and your walls are
bare. Why not leave them’ there?”
“Bravo, Healer of Woutds! Spoken
Hke u soldier,” and he teok her in his
arms, as the letter fluttered, neglected
to the floor. ; ;
“Cameron writes they are sending
me next year to take the new post or
the island, Is -it Montreal in the
spring—or our honeymoon ‘on Akimis-
ki?”

She rose and went to his open arms
“The island—The Land across the Wa-
ter—in sight of which I met that very
spend the summer there, Mr. Exile—
nlone.”

For a space the man ‘and girl stood,
lost in ‘their ba ppiness, then a wistful
whine, the protest of two hairy paws.
in silent demurrer to his herrtiess ex.
clusion, waked them.

On his hind feet, nose to his should
er, she impulsively drew the dog to he:
“What would this family be withor |
our Shotty?” And Garth’s long arm-~
eircled the girl and aeridaic. the tw:
living things he held most dear.

TRE END

*T’ve brought back that second-hand
ear I bought.”

“Whet's the matter, Parson, can’,
you run it?”

“Not and stay in the ministry,”

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LAND ACT

Notice of Intention to Apply to’ Pur-
: chase Land |

Lond Recording
District of Smithers, ond Situate
near Cedarvale, :

’ Take notice that Stephen Young of
Cedarvale, occupation miner, intend:
to apply for permission. to purchase
the following described lands :— .
Commencing at-a post plated at §

TW. corner of Lot 8 thence north 20

chains, thence west 10 chains, thence
south 20 chains, thence east 10 chain:
und containing 20 acres, more or: less
_ Stephen Young

- Applicant
per Fred Nash, Agent
Dated May 5th, P4928. 48-69

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