Phone 69 P.O. Box 55

Ladysmith Trading Co.

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| Men's Furnishings Boots and Shoes
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127—Ist Avenue __ Ladysmith, B. C. |
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TOM BERTRAM, Pharmacist

LADYSMITH DRUG STORE

Phone 26 Ladysmith
for

A Complete, Modern Drug Service |
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOULDER STRAE

A. G. Simpson Geo. Beer R. R. Gill

LADYSMITH ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

| Electrical: and Radio Sales and
Service

Radios

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Ranges Refrigerators Washers

Electrical Contracting
Phone 284

149 First Avenue, Ladysmith, B. C.

THE STAR PAINT SHOP
F. D. Patton
Sunworthy Wall Paper
Interior and Exterior Decoratin
Agent for the British America Paint Cc.
Phone 144
Ladysmith, B. C.

P.O. Box 304

Phone 54 P.O. Box 323

Rollston Hardware
SPORTING GOODS

Agents for General Steel Products and
Brandram-Henderson Paints

LADYSMITH

B.C.

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SEVENTEENTH EDITION

began to wonder whether the dog was not
after all only aimlessly running away
from a harsh stranger.

Then in the last glimmer of daylight
the dog began to strain forward eagerly
and Pennecuick’s heart must have jumped
a beat faster at the sight ahead of him.
Across the silhouettes of several tree
trunks was a triangle of darkness—a
tent.

It was hardly likely that anyone would
select that deserted site as a dwelling place
except for very special and temporary
use. Yet here was the dog behaving as if
it had been home to him and not so long
ago.

Pennecuick entered the tent. He had
to strike a match now to see. The only
furnishing was a small steel camp stove,
an empty bunk; and behind it, against
the tent wall, leaned a .45 calibre rifle.

Pennecuick was now as eager to go
ahead as a beagle on a warm trail, but
the Yukon night was upon him and reluc-
tantly he had to give up his search. With
the dog still on the leash he went back
to the cut-off, reached Minto and reported
to his superior, Sergt. Holmes.

To him Pennecuick turned over the
dog and set on foot an enquiry as to its
master.

Then he went to bed for a brief rest,
and was up so early that when he got back
to the tent he had found in the wilderness
it was still barely light. On the way he
had again as highwayman re-enacted the
hypothetical crime and its preparations
now in the light of his latest findings as
manhunter.

As X, the unknown, Pennecuick
brought the tent and its scanty furniture
to the lonely spot; took an axe and cut
down the cottonwoods to make a clear
view along the cut-off to the river and lay
in wait for victims.

With Pennecuick, the highwayman,
was a shadowy figure, an accomplice,
indicated by the two kinds of bullets
Pennecuick had found the day before.
Again the highwayman shot and killed at
least one of the victims, dragged the three
up the hill, dispatched the living, removed

Ladysmith Laundry

DYERS & DRY CLEANERS
PHONE 138

Ladysmith, B. C.

their clothes for leisurely looting, and
dropped the bodies through the hole in
the river ice.

Then their clothing and effects were
taken to the tent, where Pennecuick now
took up his twofold role again, manhunter
and highwayman.

As detective he became interested in a
small snow mound a few yards away
from the tent.

Digging into it he came on a bed of
half-burned logs and ashes. Why a fire
outdoors when there was a camp stove in
the tent? As a man with a crime to hide
Pennecuick answered his own question.
There were clothes to be burned and it
would be sensible to do the job outside
where the ashes and what remained un-
burned could be more easily taken care of.

Rear Crurs at LAst

In the ashes Pennecuick found several

trouser buttons; some with the stamp of

a Seattle tailor, others of metal such as
are used on overalls. Gathering these up

“Mavo Lumber Co.
(1945) Ltd.

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