an agonized cry as his horse wheeled
and almost threw him. In quick suc-
cession came another shot and Venne’s
Winchester leapt apart in his hands.
His face grey and contorted with pain
from a bullet wound that had shat-
tered his shoulder, Venne returned to
the lodges. With the entire camp tense
with excitement, and Almighty Voice
hidden somewhere amongst the
nearby poplars, a lull settled over the
afternoon calm of the prairie. But it
was the ominous calm that precedes a
storm. Only a spark was now needed
to explode the powder-keg of pent-up
feeling.

The scarlet afterglow of sunset still
lingered over the purple-shadowed
Minichinas Hills when a buckboard
pulled up before the Duck Lake
barracks. Throwing open the door,
Inspector Wilson frowned as two
figures, supporting a wounded man,
approached. In the yellow light of the
coal-oil lamps he recognized the burly
form of Doctor Stewart and the elder

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Venne, then looking down he saw the
drawn features of the pain-wracked
Napoleon.

In quick clipped words Napoleon’s
father told the story. Almighty Voice
had struck again! The Indians, hun-
dreds of them, were striking their
tepees and pitching off the reserve,
sullen and angry. Sounding Sky, by

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Commissioner Herchmer, at Regina, received

with growing desperation the mounting list

of victims, and directed the pursuit of
Almighty Voice.

way of defiance, was remaining right
at Lizard Creek.

“So—that rascally Almighty Voice
shot and wounded Napoleon, eh?”
the inspector turned to his three con-
stables. “We'll soon take care of that.
Be ready, boys, to leave at daybreak.
Meanwhile I’ll wire Inspector Allen,
at Prince Albert, that Voice is on the
prowl again!”

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“That Indian’s Got the Edge on Us”

“That Indian’s got the edge on us,
with all his people to help him out
and keep him posted on our move-
ments,’ Inspector Allen admitted to
Sergeant Raven as he re-read Wilson’s
wire. “Our only chance is to get
enough men in the field to flush him
from his hiding-place and surround
him.”

As the rising sun painted the sky
with lemon and scarlet Allen and
Raven headed for the Lizard Hills
ahead of 11 scarlet-coated riders. At
eight o’clock they topped a willow
crested ridge and gazed at the soft
panorama of undulating hills and the
green slopes of the valley below them,
dotted here and there with grassy
knolls, thicketed hollows and island-
like copses of birch and poplar.

Suddenly Allen: leaned over his
pommel and pointed. A mile ahead
two dark objects had broken cover
and were scurrying across the floor of
the valley.

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