‘o, using her bone knife to cut the snow figures fighting their way through the swirl -ks, warming it with a blubber lamp ing curtain of spinning flakes. But there trived from a cupped rock in which she were six in the party instead of five! Who ned caribou grease for fuel, striking a was the other man? Suddenly Tamowenuk GORDON’S HARDWARE General Hardware, Paints Linoleum e PRINCE RUPERT B.C. —————————— ee | | Len &,° Tk-kil-lin-lk—Indians,” shrilled Tamowenuk, “quick—turn the dogs. Those Eaters of Caribou will kill us.” Superior Service GROTTO CIGAR STORE Wholesale and Retail Tobacconist * Prince Rupert, B.C. ee | SSS ht from a metal ornament on her dress emitted a hoarse croak of delight and cata- da flint picked up in the Barrens. pulted forward. A moment later she was In spring she awaited the caribou migra’ in the arms of the attenuated but. still n at a crossing on the Dubwant, speared smiling Iksik. dozen or more as they swam the stream countless thousands, jerked the meat and uled it behind her on a roughly-impro- Exactly six months after Tamowenuk had ed sledge. been cast so heartlessly away Big Cheesie Nearly a year after being cast aside by and his braves stampeded into Fort Fitz- x Cheesie and his redskinned rascals she gerald. Ragged and starving they sought idged in to a huddle of dome-shaped out Inspector Anderson at the Royal Can- oos, her child alive and kicking in her adian Mounted Police barracks on the hill. od. It was the village of her people! “The Eskimos,” they cried. “They've driven But what had happened to Iksik? In- us from our hunting grounds. Wherever PHONE... 112 TAXI PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. RETRIBUTION FALLS ON INDIANS cee hi sss GRAND CAFE Special Lighting Everything Attractive, Fresh and Up-to-the- Minute. Everything Designed for Comfort, Convenience and Prompt Service. PHONE 25 Corner of Second Ave. and Sixth St. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. egg SS BELMONT HOTEL The Caribou Eater camp on the edge of the Barrens. J. HOSKINS, Proprietor liries at neighbouring camps, and at the we go they haunt us, skulking amongst the LICENSED PREMISES udson’s Bay post at Chesterfield, proved rocks and gullies—waiting for a chance to . uitless. Had “he succumbed to = bliz- kill us. All the way into the fort these Prince Rupert, B.C. rds that swept these awesome Barrens Eaters of Raw Flesh have dogged our trail. ver which she'd fought such a desperate Give us foe they whined. “Our squaws sht? Or, had he fallen victim to hunger and families are starving.” 1d starvation for the wolves and foxes to A few days later, Constables Grinstead PHILPOTT EVITT & CO. ick his bones? and Baker escorted the terror-stricken red- LTD. A month later the Igluliks departed to skins back to their hunting grounds to in- ant for caribou. The weeks slipped by, vestigate. Not a sign of an Eskimo was COAL, LUMBER AND en loud shouts, rising above the howling anywhere to be seen. Haunted by their BUILDING SUPPLIES f the wind, announced the return of the guilty consciences, the Dog-Ribs had simply unters. Crawling through the snow tun developed a case of nerves, seeing an imag- els women and children observed shadowy inary Eskimo in every rock and shadow. Prince Rupert, B. C. EACH FOR ALL ALL FOR EACH Telephones—Store: 760 - 764—RED 786 Office: 763 Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Aggoctation PRODUCERS OF QUALITY FISH P.O. Box 264 Prince Rupert, B. C. THIRTEENTH EDITION Page Forty-five