Charles Bedaux’s chateau in France, where Wallis Simpson and the exiled

Duke of Windsor were wedded

Much the worse for wear the two surviving
tractors were lurching drunkenly along
with rheumatic squeaks and _ lightening
loads, while horses were nearing the point
of exhaustion.

More hair-raising disasters! Headed by
F. Geake a party succeeded in some mys-
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on the Musqua when the river—as all these
mountain streams are apt to do—rose eight
feet overnight. Caught on a submerged knoll
in the middle of the river amidst a bunch
of fear-maddened horses, plunging and wal-
lowing around, they: were saved from death

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after being immersed to their necks in icy
water most of the night and half the fol-
lowing day. Thomas Granger, it was re-
ported, had been drowned in the Kwadcha
River.

In their asbestos tents Madame Bedaux
and her ladies crouched around the stove,
the sinister silence of the night pierced by
the banshee wail of ravening wolves and
yelping coyotes. Led by jungle instinct they
slunk through the shadows with gleaming
eyes and slavering jaws, waiting to feast
on hapless horses fast weakening and lagging
on the trail.

The next episode in this wilderness caval-
cade savoured even more strongly of comic
opera variety. Ever movie-conscious, and
anxious to depict to an awed world the
terrors of travel in the wild and wooly
Northwest, Bedaux felt his movie records
would be incomplete without a good 100
per cent forest fire with the accompaniment
of stampeding horses and other thrilling
horse-opera episodes. In preparation for this
stirring event 70 of the 130 brones were
penned in a corral at the head of a narrow
valley, the other animals being left to browse
peacefully on the prairie below. At the
upper end of the valley tents were pitched
in a double row, the movie man being ele-
vated to a rickety stage overlooking the pros-
pective scenario. As darkness descended
cowboy-packers were regaled with mag-
nums of champagne, magesium wire was
threaded between and around tents await-
ing the signal—two shots from Bedaux’s
revolver—to set the conflagration going.
Two more shots were to signal the release
of the corraled horses, which in defiance
of all horse-sense were supposed to stampede
into instead of away from the pyrotechnics!

The signal sounded, white flames flashed
and hissed through the woodland camp
igniting tents along with nearby brush and
forest. The movie man ground his camera.
Champagne-stimulated cowboys whooped
and shouted like demons, the front bars
of the corral were tossed triumphantly down.
But the perverse broncs, untrained in Holly-
wood drama, insisted in stampeding in the
wrong direction—away from the searing

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