Mill at Mile 12, E. & N. Rly. Cowichan Lake Branch Mail Address: P.O. Box 64 SUMMIT LUMBER COMPANY LIMITED MANUFACTURERS OF FIR. CEDAR, HEMLOCK AND PINE Telephone: 530X, Duncan and Charter DUNCAN, B. C. George Bonham AUTO BODY, FENDER AND RADIATOR REPAIRS DUCO PAINTING Phone 182 DUNCAN COWICHAN BRANCH No. (B.C.) 53 | Canadian Legion (B.E.S.L.) | DUNCAN | We extend a cordial invitation to all Legion members to visit us when in the Cowichan district. WELL EQUIPPED CLUB ROOM Open from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. | Phone 114 FOX’S DRY GOODS Specialists in Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear Linens, Draperies, Ready-to-Wear B.C. DUNCAN J. LINDSAY LOUTET GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT Every Kind of Insurance Written e | 131 CRAIG ST. DUNCAN, B.C. P.O. Box 530 Phone 227 (CECIL BRADSHAW & CO.) FRED EARTHY, Jr. GENERAL TAILORING SUITS MADE TO MEASURE CLEANING AND PRESSING PHONE 360 P.O. BOX 480 Above Island Drug Store | | DUNCAN : BiG Shop Phone 46 J. W. GRIFFITHS AGENTS FOR McClary Furnaces, Iron Fireman Coal Stokers Pipe and Fittings, Electric Pumps, Roofing Plumbing—Heating Sheet Metal Work CRAIG STREET DUNCAN, B.C. Page Twenty-four and all 3ut it was the forerunner certain circumstances persons when sober. of tragedy. Lars Pearson had gone outside for a short time. He returned to the shack with a black eye. Holding his injured optic he bewailed the fact that it had been given to him by his benevolent host. Gibson, bleary-eyed but belligerent, rose menacingly and demanded that Pearson retract that ungrateful statement. Mr. Pearson, annoyed by such an unreason- able request, promptly punched Mr. Gib- son on his nose and then followed up his attack by a flying mare. KNIVES AND GUNS The fight waxed furious. Gibson man- aged to wriggle out of Pearson’s tackle and pulled a knife. Zakreson, until now an interested spectator, warned Gibson to put the knife away. Gibson, infuriated, slashed wickedly and tore Zakreson’s hand. Then the fight became general. Zakreson, Pearson and Anderson piled on to the now badly outnumbered Gibson. The light went out. Lora, true to her man, was helping him as best she knew how. He backed away before the on- slaught, his hands groping in the dark. They closed over a rifle he always kept loaded: The woman, realizing that mur- der was about to be committed, tried to get the gun away from Gibson. There was a shot. Somebody yelled. Zakreson flung himself on Gibson and wrested the weapon from his grasp. He hurled it outside, then he and Pearson went after Gibson with redoubled fury. “Drown him!” Zakreson shouted. “We'll throw him in the river,” Pear- son yelled. They started to make good their threats and were outside the cabin with Gibson struggling in their grasp, when they saw the body of Anderson lying on the ground. They bent over him and discoy- ered that he had been shot. The bullet fired in the blackness of the cabin had found a mark. The fight ended as abruptly as it had begun. The two men picked up their fallen comrade and carried him to the ferry and crossed to the camp, where they laid him in his bunk. Constable Murdoch could get no co- herent statements from any of the prin- cipals. They were still woozy, and their memories singularly ineffective. Gibson showed signs of having been through a rough time. His face was clawed and scratched in shreds. Bruises filled the spots where cuts weren't visible. He said his shoulder was sore and that he could hardly move his arm. No, he didn’t know what had happened other than he had been forced to fight for his life. He wasn’t even sure with whom he had been fighting. After a preliminary hearing, Gibson was sent to trial before a higher court in the Fall Assizes at Kamloops. Here a jury tried to untangle the facts, and gave it up as a bad job. Nobody knew what hapuened to whom. ‘The only certainty was that Anderson was dead. Gibson was discharged for lack of evidence. Phone 382 BAZETT & VICKERS LUMBER CO. LID. Retail Lumber and | Building Supplies P.O. Box 36 DUNCAN, B.C. KYLE'S TAXI Cowichan’s Pioneer Transportation Service TAXI - CHARTER BUS PHONE 102 165 Station Street DUNCAN GREENHAVEN | Light Lunches, Sandwiches Or a Snack The Best Food with the Best Service Palm Ice Cream Phone 375 CYRIL T. PITT Telephone 79 260 GOVERNMENT ST. DUNCAN, B.C. Bay CHRYSLER THE SHOULDER STRAP DUNCAN, B. C.