‘It isn’t healthy down here, sergeant—not
ny more. It just isn’t natural, after living
away up there. Nobedy’s sincere here.
Nobody cares for anybody but themselves.
Ya! I guess I'll hike for home soon.”

Stewart was looking at her in moist-eyed
-ympathy.
“Gee, Jean—you need a drink,” he ex-
laimed, reaching over to help her. She
sushed his proffered glass aside, as she
‘urned inquiringly to the sergeant.

“Does Dan know?” she asked.

“Yes!”

ee
WILLIAMS LAKE GARAGE

Agent for INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS
Home Oil Distributors
*¥
WILLIAMS LAKE, B. C.

ny

T. B. WILLIAMS

Home Oil Agent

Accounting

Books Opened at
Reasonable Rates

Box 26

P.O.

WILLIAMS LAKE,

B. C.

CENTRAL SERVICE

JACK LEPINSKI
G. M. SALES AND SERVICE
General Repairs, Accessories
Wrecking Service Acetylene Welding
P.O. Box 18

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

A. M. WICKWIRE

Builders’ Supplies

Lumber - Roofing - Wallboards
Glass, Etc.

Re-sawing, Cabinet Making
Sash and Doors

Agents for
A. C. Devine Lumber Co. Ltd.

LILLOOET, BRITISH COLUMBIA

F. C. PARKS & CO.

Groceries, Meats, Hardware, Drygoods,
Saddlery, Farm Produce
Wholesale and Retail
Sherwin-Williams Paints, Pierre Paris Shoes
Orient Hosiery, Five Roses Flour
Headlight Overalls

LILLOOET, BRITISH COLUMBIA

TWELFTH EDITION

“Well then, I don’t have to talk by
signals. But it’s like this,” she said. ‘‘Since
I told you about Jim Durridge and his gang,
I've been terribly afraid. I feel I am always
being followed and watched. Jim wasn’t
arrested with the others, nor was his pal.
If they had been, I'd feel better. Jim always
swore he'd kill me if I wouldn’t promise
to marry him. His crowd knew the Cana-
dian police were investigating down here,
in spite of your trying to keep it quiet.
Jim knew I was acquainted with you, ser-
geant, and with other members of the force.
He knew Td been with you, although I
protested it was all simply a matter of
friendship. _But he wasn’t to be fooled.
That gang knows everything. He was sus-
picious the last time I went out with him.”

“Why in heaven’s name did you take up
with a mug like that?” put in Dalgleish
testily. “You ought to have known he was
a rotter and not fit company for you.”

“Really, Sergeant—I didn’t know at first
that he was a thief and a crook. He was
always a gentleman when with me. Oh,”
she went on anxiously, “won’t you please
get me away from here. I want to go home.

I want dad, and Dave Protheroe, I always
feel safe with dad and Dave.”

Fur TRADER TURNS GOopD SAMARITAN

“There, there!” sympathized Stewart.
“That’s okay.” He turned out the contents
of his trouser pocket—a very small remnant
of what had been a wad of bills. He counted
them over carefully

“Gee!” he whined, ‘just one hundred
and fifty bucks. Well—that’s enough any-
way, although I sure hate to leave all this
fun down here.”

“What's eating you, Dan?” asked Jean.

“Well—it’s like this, Jean. My time’s
up and I've got to get back. How about
your old Uncle Dan seeing you safely back
to the cabin up North?”

“You really mean it, Dan?” cried Jean,
brightening up.

Dan gulped and looked around him once
more.

“Sure!” he answered.

“Of course he will, Jean,” put in the
Sergeant. “You'll be better out of all this
anyway. Besides, it is time you were back
home; your old dad is not so young as he
used to be, and he needs you. He wasn’t
any too well last time I saw him. I'll help
Dan, if he needs it, in arranging for your
tickets. But, say! How about your con-
tract here with these birds?”

“T can break it any time,” replied Jean.
“I'm only filling in, although they want to
sign me on for a long period. Boy,” she
exclaimed ecstatically, “Tomorrow! Home!
The forests, the old trails, and the wild
ducks in the sloughs. All my old friends,
and dear old dad. Oh, gee!—but it feels
good just to think of it.”

Jean was her bright young self again.

Old Dan felt the contagion and immedi-
ately became gay and skittish.

“Care to dance, Jean?” he asked, sway-
ing his head and hands to the rhythm of
the music. “I’m not much of a dancer, but

HOTEL VICTORIA

J. A. WARREN, Manager
Fully Modern
LICENSED PREMISES

LILLOOET, B. C.

Lillooet Cartage Co. Ltd.

General Transportation

Lillooet-Lytton Stages
*
LILLOOET, B. C.

Lillooet Garage

B. C. POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL—VICTORIA, B. C.

4g

Left to right—Front row: Const. F. D. Avis, Nanaimo; Const. E. C. Domay,
McVie, School Staff; Sub-Inspector C. K. MacKenzie, School Commandant; Const. H. Smyth, School
Staff; Const. M. Stevens, North Vancouver; Const. H. C. Bonner, Pattullo Bridge; Const. H. E.

Klick, Burnaby.

CLASS NO. 11, MARCH TO MAY, 1944

Back row: Const. Miles McLeod, Prince Rupert; Const. E. J. Hooker, Victoria; _

Const. R. W. Strouts, Prince Rupert; Const. J. H. Callens, Kelowna; Const. E. L. Rosberg, Dawson
Creek; Const. L. H. Jakeman, Prince George, and Const. W. D. Waddell, Penticton.

Page Sixty-seven