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GORDON’S HARDWARE
General Hardware, Paints
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NEW DeLUXE CARS

Electrically Heated
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TED RICHARDS CHARLES PUSTAK
Stand, Next to Royal Hotel
Third Avenue, Prince Rupert, B. C.

225—I1st Avenue East Prince Rupert, B.C.

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F. MURPHY

General Contractor and

Engineer

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Phone Black 884

TWELFTH EDITION

constables, sitting on the edge of the bed,
carried on a  desultory conversation.
Through the barred window puffs and flur-
ries of snow danced in the flickering blue
light of the arc lamps on Louise Street.

“Boys, ['m getting out of here.”

Whirling to their feet the guards gazed
into the blue muzzle of an automatic. Be-
hind it Krefchenko’s face was set and livid.
“Into that closet there,” he snarled, back-
ing Reid towards the door, “‘and don’t blow
that whistle!”

When Flower hesitated Krefchenko fixed
him with a look so full of hate and deadly
resolution that he stumbled white-faced into
the closet. The door clicked. Breathing
heavily, Reid stood there beside him.

In a second Flower had regained his self-
possession. Whipping off his tunic and
wrapping it round his fist he smashed the
frosted window leading to the corridor. In
a moment he was pounding along the hall
towards the gaoler’s quarters. “Quick, boys,
get your guns... .” he burst into the pres
ence of. Const. Lazenby and Gaoler Grey,
“Krefchenko’s out gunning with an auto-
matic.” A moment later Reid came
stumbling in.

Whipping out his gun, momentarily ex-
pecting to. be engaged in a life and death
struggle with the bandit, Lazenby raced to-
wards the cells with Reid close at his heels.
With revolver cocked he thrust the cell door
open and looked around. Krefchenko had
disappeared. An open window with rope
attached to an iron bar told of the manner
of his exit.

With the alarm bell clanging in their ears
they hurried downstairs and out into the
biting cold. From the window above dangled
a broken rope. Blood smeared the icy pave-
ment. Near the kerb were prints of diamond
motor tires which led towards Main Street
to be lost in the maze of criss-cross tracks.

Day followed day with rewards mount-
ing till thirteen thousand dollars was of-
fered for Krefchenko’s apprehension. But
Manitoba’s bad man seemed suddenly to
have dropped from the face of the earth.

The sensation caused by the escape of
the prisoner had raised the caustic ire of
newspapers and citizens alike. Quickly a
royal commission snapped into action.
Const. Reid, under suspicion for complicity
in aiding the escape, faced his inquisitors
with calm self-possession, which gradually

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Butter

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