BASHAM & FINCH THE HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES FOR MEN Men’s Wear British Columbia REID-COATES HARDWARE | LTD. Hardware Sporting Goods | Fishing Tackle Penticton, B.C. DAIRY LUNCH WE SERVE HOME-COOKED MEALS All White Help e PENTICTON British Columbia HUNT MOTORS COMPLETE GARAGE SERVICE Plymouth, Chrysler, Fargo Sales and Service Shellubrication - Dominion Tires Telephone 276 PENTICTON British Columbia STAR CLEANERS REPAIRS and ALTERATIONS HAT BLOCKING Penticton, B. C. | Phone 341 Penticton Funeral Chapel | A. and E. F. SCHOENING AMBULANCE SERVICE | 280-0 | | PHONES {780;R.1 | | | British Columbia Penticton. CARTER BROS. LTD. | | PENTICTON, B.C. McLeod River Hard and Michael Coal Wood Sawdust General Hauling TWELFTH EDITION A bit shame-faced, Slim Protheroe made the pretence of picking up an armful of wood. Then he went slowly inside. Before following him, Jean Protheroe came up close to Greene. She let her fur coat go loose. The night air of the North did not seem to worry her any. Her sinu- ous body touched Greene’s and she looked very tempting to him at that moment. . Say, good-looking!” she said familiarly, “you're a swell guy. I wish I'd met some body as wholesome as you before I got into all this jam. But no use me making ex- cuses to you. You saye—hear plenty! It gets pretty lonesome up here at times. Slim adds a little to the excitement.” “I don’t really blame you, lady,” replied the constable. “I don’t know that I blame Slim either—although, damn him!—he’s a dirty chiseller to play you against his own folk like this. If anybody’d chisel me out of a woman like you, I'd-—I’d pull his throat out with my bare hands ” Jean Protheroe smiled on Greene. “Well—that’s not so bad for a green- horn. It isn’t really uncomplimentary,” she added archly. The constable grew serious. “Say—don’t you think you are taking terrible chances, especially with a man like Dave Protheroc—and getting careless about 102e “Pshaw! We've taken chances before and gotten away with them. Dave, like you, constable, is blind, deaf and dumb, and on top of that actually dead but doesn’t know it. A sort of Zombie! Ill bet he’s snoring like a Boston bulldog right now. Besides, the one creature in the world that Dave wouldn't lift a finger against is Slim. Treats Slim like his kid brother. Gee— some kid!” she added suggestively. PLAYING WITH FIRE As the constable turned to go round the end of the cabin and re-enter by the front door, with Slim keeping silent in the shadows, Jean Protheroe sidled up to the constable again and put her fingers caress- ingly on his coat and her face up close to his. “Arent you going to give your baby a good-night kiss before you go in?” “Oh, Id like to, right enough,” said Greene, clutching hold of her by the arms. It was touch and go, but he pulled him- self together and waved her off. “You'd better conserve these kisses, lady. They'll get you in Dutch before you’re much older.” “Poot! I’m in Dutch now,” retorted the woman. “Another kiss from another man won't make much difference at this stage of the game.” She shrugged her shoulders, tossed her head disdainfully and walked into the cabin by the back door, and just before disappear- ing she kissed her hand to the puzzled young officer. Early next morning, the police were up and away before the others were stirring, and not until a month later did a thought of the Protheroes at Norton’s Point enter their heads. They were cutting across Staveley Lake, on the patrol, making for the police post at Fort Alwyn. They stopped sta O ERCY BENT LTD. Ford, Mercury and Lincoln Zephyr Cars Ford Tractors and Implements * NANAIMO AVE. PENTICTON, B.C. THE BENNETT HARDWARE GENERAL HARDWARE General Electric Appliances, Rock Gas and Appliances, McClary Ranges, Kelvinator Refrigerators, Crossley Radios and Refrigerators. PENTICTON, B.C. FREE DELIVERY Phone 297 | * Fumerton’s Cash Grocery | LIMITED Modern Rest and Waiting Rooms for the Ladies PENTICTON, B.C. Phone 266 ASSOCIATION LTD. CO-OPERATIVE STORE General Merchandise Penticton British Columbia PHONE 281 B. A. GARAGE REPAIRS - SERVICE Agents B. A. Oil Co. Ltd. e British Columbia PENTICTON PENTICTON TRADING | | General Motors Parts and Service Full Mechanical and Body Repairs * PHONE 20 PENTICTON, B.C. GRAND FORKS GARAGE Main Street, Opposite Post Office PENTICTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA EAT AT The COMMODORE CAFE | Page Seventy-five