Nelson Sash & Door
Works Ltd.

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$03 Front St. NELSON, B.C.

R. E. Horton, Pres.

W. W. Powell Company
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H. B. Horton, Mar.

Manufacturers of

WHITE PINE MATCH BLOCKS
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NELSON B.C.

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UCTS LTD., "The Ace Tex Line’; Nesbitt
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Phone 1180-81 NELSON, B.C.

Big Bend Lumber Co.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
GENERAL INSURANCE

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NEW DENVER B.C.

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to snatch a few hours well-earned
rest.

At last the stockaded post of Island
Lake broke the solitary world of
whiteness. In the gateway stood
Campbell, with O’Neill beside him.
“Come right on in,” the factor’s hearty
greeting boomed over the snow.
“Never mind your dogs—lI’ve got
fish thawing for them.”

“Fish thawing!” exclaimed Cash-
man. in surprise.

“Haven't you ever heard of the
moccasin telegrap h?” Campbell
laughed. “The Indians have been ex-
pecting you all day.”

Fiendish Killings

“They're bad actors, this Pecequan
crowd,” Big Bill Campbell, un-
crowned king of a thousand pagan
Ojibways who roamed the surround-

RIGHT PHOTO

“Big” Bill Campbell, Hudson’s Bay factor

at Island Lake, started Mounted Police on a
long and hazardous patrol.

ing forests, told them. “Not a month
goes by but word comes of some
fiendish killing at the hands of this
blood-crazed witch doctor. Last fall
they burned out an old squaw to
death at Satchigo because he figured
she was too old to live, that evil
spirits prevented her from dying. Her
two sons threw her on a flaming fire
of spruce logs.” The factor’s lips set
grimly. “When they found her heart
in the ashes that really cinched
things. Figured it was so full of evil it
wouldn’t even burn. Then,” Campbell
grew more confidential, ‘Robert
Fiddler landed in here, scared as hell.

Superior Motors
Dodge and DeSoto Cars

Firestone Tires - Willard Batteries
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Pecequan had ordered his cousin shot
through the head because he was Sick,
When Menowaskum had cramps jn
the stomach—it was the Mutchee
Manitous again! So he was tied to a
stake and burned to death. “Why,”
Campbell growled, “my fur lofes
nearly empty. This ‘bad medicine’
stuff’s got their goat so bad they
won't even get out and trap. Stay in
their wigwams, mooning over empty
meat pots. God knows where it’s go.
ing to end.”
* * * * *

They’re Bad Actors

“Look out for those damned
Saulteaux,’ Cam pbell’s warning
boomed over the snow as the dog-
teams catapulted down to the ice after
a two-days rest. “I’ve told you already
—they’re bad actors.”

The snow was soft, the forest trails
mere runways of rabbits and foxes,
Ravening wolves hung on their trail,
raiding each camp as they left it. Day
after day they crunched deeper into
goblin-haunted forests that had never
known the tread of the hated Shagon.
ash. At last their toboggans broke the
virgin whiteness of still another
spruce-walled lake.

“Nego sargahigan, Sandy Lake,’
muttered Jimmy Kirkness. “They
should be camped around here some.
where.”

In vain they searched the shore for
signs of life. No finger of wood-smoke
stained the coppery sky. Deep in the
woods they kindled their night fire,
beyond reach of prying eyes. Slipping
on their snowshoes, Kirkness and Gore
set out to search for signs of the
outlaws.

“Nary a sign,” growled Kirkness as
he crunched back into camp hours
later. Then Moses Gore emerged from
the darkness, kicked the fire and
threw on an extra log. “Sibwateowok
—they’ve beat it. Pulled out, bag and
baggage, three days ago. Sure left in
a doggone hurry—there’s pots and
pans, and all kinds of junk scattered
around their empty campsite across
the lake.”

“Moccasin telegraph again,” mut-

P.O. Box 530 Telephone 977

P. P. Hlookoff & Sons Ltd.

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