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Page Twenty-four

Sinister Trail of
The Fatal Foxes

(Continued from Page 10)

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Nukudlah, a broken hero, is brought aboard the S.S. Arctic in custody of Constables Trad-
gold and Fairflax en route to the white man’s stone penitentiary. Justice Rivet at extreme left.

The Eskimos Open Up

To Joy’s utter astonishment the
Eskimos opened up without a mo-
ment’s hesitation. He must be talking
of Jen, they said. Jen had made lots
of trouble, and the Eskimos were
scared. Finally, while he feasted,
they’d held council in the snowhouse
at the other end of the village and
plotted how to rid the camp of the
mad-dog trader. While others had
waited with guns pointed through the
holes punched in igloo walls, one of
them had been sent to lure the trader
to his doom, using as bait the promise
of more white fox skins. To keep Jen
standing in one spot long enough to
be shot without danger to themselves
they'd first dragged an empty komatik
across the door of the igloo.

“Who sent for Jen” demanded the
Mountie, expecting to hear them
name Quaquajuak, Florence's trader.

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‘The nylon - clad
legs of Aira Latva,
19, froze as she
waited for a train
in Kynmene, Fin-
land, where _ the
temperature was 12)
degrees below. Now
Finland's doctors
have warned the
population that
nylons must not be
worn in below-zero
temperatures.

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“Nukudlah,” exclaimed a dozen
voices as though acclaiming a hero.

“And—who lured the trader to his
death?”

The Igluliks gazed at each other in
momentary confusion, stammered,
then pointed to the cripple who was
nonchalantly devouring a dish of
ookchuk. “Ourourengnak,” they
grinned.

Speechless with amazement Joy cast
a sidelong glance at his guide. For
days he’d actually been traveling with
one of the murderers he sought—even
sleeping beside him at night. Why,
the man could easily have knifed him
while he slept!

“And,” Joy turned to the inter-
preter, “who was the man who pushed
Jen over?”

“Ahteehah,” came the answer, along
with the information that Jen’s
frozen body had been wrapped care-
fully in skins and hidden in a rocky
cleft some distance from the camp.

As the crowd dispersed Joy de-
clined the kindly offer of a plump,
red-cheeked girl to while away the
dark hours and crawled into his
sleeping-bag alone. Next day, in a
snow-drifted defile, he uncovered a
pile of rocks and found beneath it the

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