another in the Blueberry country, now traversed by the Alaska Highway; while Old Davis had encountered still another near the North Pine. The moccasin tele- graph had brought further word of still more white settlers pouring into the Pouce Coupe und Grande Prairie country to the southward, erecting more sod huts and cutting off more ancient trails with their barbed wire. Even the Moberley Lake Saul- teaux were reported to be restive and it didn’t seem to occur to any of them that in accepting King George’s annual treaty bounty from Harold Laird, the Indian Agent, in the form of crisp new greenbacks and gold-braided suits for their chiefs and headmen, that they had bartered all rights to the land. About the middle of February, I was watching a long line of squaws and Indians climbing the white mountainside, bending beneath their packs, when the door flew open and Mannie Gullion catapulted into MEALS LUNCHES Cooked to Perfection at THE, Ex D.“CAEE Opposite the G. N. Depot SALMO, BRITISH COLUMBIA LITTLE DAVENPORT HOTEL MRS. M. FEDIO, Proprietress GOOD, COMFORTABLE ROOMS A Good Place to Stay FULLY LICENSED Salmo, British Columbia F. R. ROTTER LUMBER CO. Lumber - Shingles - Lath - Building Material Poles - Posts - Piling @ Salmo, B.C. Salmo Mercantile Co. Ltd. ® SALMO, B. C. M. C. DONALDSON LIMITED GARAGE and TRANSFER Salmo, British Columbia Page Eighty the room. A quick glance showed me some- thing was wrong. Then, in a jumble of excited Cree and “English he told me Hidson wanted me over at the Police post right away. Diving into my mooseskin capote zee The medicine man who had all but precipit serious trouble the previous summer. alternate prompting and persuasion I the following story from him. Early in the fall he’d been appro Wolf (left) and Ah-chakoose (right) sone by the writer at Fort St. es some years after the events related in this story. and slipping my feet into my snowshoe lines I followed Mannie across the frozen river. Entering: the post, I encountered the smouldering orbs of a young Pouce Coupe Beaver named Little Bear, who looked as though his time had come. “T wish you'd do a little interpreting for me,” suggested Hidson after he'd sent Mannie off to water the horses. “I can’t depend on Mannie, he’s so desperately afraid of offending these Indians. Afraid they ll work bad medicine on him and all that stuff. I arrested Little Bear at Pouce Coupe on a complaint laid by a Cree named George Meskinak,” he went on to explain. “We found a lynx in the Beaver’s lodge all right; but what I want to find out is whether it belongs to Meskinak or not.” When Hidson had brought in the hand- cuffed brave I proceeded to question him in Cree. But for some reason he avoided all references to the lynx and insisted on confusing the issue by talking about foxes. Finally I concluded he was deliberately trying to cloud the issue. Then it flashed through my mind that Hidson had received a report in the fall of a settler’s cabin having been raided on Pouce Coupe. Two live silver foxes had been stolen, but not till everything around the place had been demolished by the unknown raiders. And though Hidson had done all in his power to discover the identity of the culprits the whole matter still remained cloaked in mystery. Now Little Bear was talking of foxes! Was this just a coincidence, or had the youthful redskin been mixed up in the raid? I mentioned my suspicions to Hidson who became visibly excited as I continued to ply the brave with questions—now with a definite end in view. With fear and obvious reluctance he opened up at last by mention- ing the name of Andree, the Pouce Coupe Andree to aid him in a raid on the cabten 3 one of the settlers. The object, it seemed, was not so much to despoil the man as to terrorize the rest of the settlers and cause them to vacate the Beaver hunting-grounds. YMIR HOTEL JAS. BREMNER, Proprietor @ FULLY LICENSED Dining Room in Connection — @ Ymir, British Columbia G. S. BAKER DRY GOODS and MEN’S WEAR * KASLO - - B.C. CHARLES W. WEBSTER _ DEALER IN CHOICE PROVISIONS, CHINAWARE, STATIONERY, ETC. PHONE 26 P.O. BOX 403 KASLO, B. C. THE SHOULDER STRAP