artly-erected night igloo and the re-
maining baggage lashed tightly to
the komatik to prevent it being
whirled away in the fierce blasts.
Frantically Silas wielded his copper
snowknife while Doak and Woolams
fitted the last snow-blocks in place.
Safely esconsced, at last, within the
snowhouse they waited impatiently
as for six long days the storm raged
with such relentless fury that nobody
dared venture out lest they be caught
in the grip of the howling hurricane
and whipped away to certain death.

As suddenly as it had arisen the
eale abated, in time for them to get

COPYRIGHT PHOTO

Otto Binder, Hudson’s Bay trader at Tree
River, who fell before the bullets of an
unknown slayer.

a lucky shot at a prowling polar-bear,
thus adding a ton of badly needed
meat and dog-feed to their fast-
diminishing supply of food and dog-
feed. At last the welcome sight of their
puny one-roomed barracks at Tree
River loomed through the ghostly
half-light. Not only had the prisoners
failed to give any trouble, but Ali-
goomiak, always quick and cheerful,
had lent a ready hand hitching and
unhitching the sleigh-dogs, unloading
sleds and building the nightly igloo,

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till Doak, always partial to Eskimos,
had taken a liking to the lad.

Since there was no cell in which
to confine the prisoners, and to
shackle them in the biting cold was
out of the question, Doak assigned
them routine work, catching, and
hauling seal for dog-feed, mending
sleighs, and doing odd jobs around
the barracks. At night they slept in
their fur shingabees upon the floor.

As the sun emerged from its winter
hibernation, a huge cold copper disc,
and commenced to circle the pale
blue sky and seals emerged from their
holes to bask on the melting sea-ice,
Woolams departed with Tatamagama
and Silas for the Eskimo seal-camp,
eight miles to the westward, to join
Clarke, the Hudson’s Bay inspector,
shooting seals to supplement the dog-
feed. Meanwhile Aligoomiak con-
tinued to go about his work at the
barracks with a smile until he’d as-
sumed the role of Doak’s helper and
personal servant. The only two white
men now left at Tree River were
Otto Binder at the Hudson’s Bay
post a hundred yards across the
frozen bay from the barracks, and
Corporal Doak, himself.

On the morning of April Ist Doak
rolled out of his bunk and called to
Aligoomiak, who was chewing the
soles of his mukluks soft, to throw
them over. The Cogmollock grinned
and did as he was bid. With a frown
of annoyance, Doak tossed them back.
“Chew ’em properly—and chew ’em
soft,” he growled; “these soles are
hard as boards!”

With ill grace Aligoomiak did so,
picked up the five-gallon slop-pail
and proceeded to carry it outside.
Suddenly the handle parted, dump-
ing the contents on the floor. Pushing
the Eskimo roughly aside the Cor-
poral ordered him outside, seized the
broom and proceeded to clean up
the mess.

“What's wrong with the kid,” de-
manded Otto Binder that evening
when he dropped over for his usual
round of poker . .
sulky, don’t he?”

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