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that they like to be chased, and that men
seem to like to chase them.”

“And women hate to be bridled and hal-
tered, same as any wild mare hates it, and
when a man has his woman that way, he
sits, and smokes, and broods, and wonders
why in hell he ever did so much chasing in
the first place,” put in Mrs. Protheroe.

SIGNS OF Domestic DiscorD

During the meal, the woman showed by
her little attentions to Slim, and Slim by his
silent behavior and half-jealous glances at
her, that she and he were on pretty friendly
terms. She served him with particular care
and she patted his hand now and again and
rested hers on his, chummy-like, when ad-
dressing her guests.

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J. Smith, Manager

J. Haskamp, Proprietor

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Vernon
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The distant barking of dogs penetrated
the cabin, which was responded to close at
hand by the police dogs. The sounds
quickly became more distinct.

“That’s Dave. Gee, but he must have
been travelling to get here this early. Bad
weather doesn’t mean a thing to him,” re-
marked Jean Protheroe, rising and going to
the back door to meet her husband.

Dave Protheroe breezed in—big, bulky,
dark-browed and weatherbeaten—with rime
on his black whiskers and on his coat, a

typical man of the hard North country. He:

shook himself like a shaggy dog, then turned
and smothered his wife in a bearlike hug,
the enjoyment of which seemed to the on-
lookers to be rather one-sided, for Jean
Protheroe stepped out of it a little flustered
and with a great show of smoothing her
slightly ruffled hair.

Dave Protheroe went over and shook
hands with Dalgleish in a pleasant enough
but gruff manner.

“Hullo, Dalgleish—tlong time since I seen
ye.” 3
He nodded to Greene and shook hands
without waiting for any introduction. Then
he turned and gave Slim a familiar slap on
the back.

“Don’t stop eatin’, folks. I just want to
rinse my hands, then I'll be right with ye.”

Jean Protheroe fetched a clean towel and
returned to the table, while Dave poured
out some fresh water from a pail into ar
enamelled basin, on the little table in the
corner, above which hung a mirror and a
shelf .for holding brush and comb. He
washed his hands and rinsed his face, then
ran a comb through his matted hair, ex-
changing talk with Dalgleish the while.

“What kind of a catch this time, Dave?”
asked the sergeant.

“Not much good! A few marten, a cou-
ple of foxes—some of the traps smothered
in snow-—two traps with fox eaten clean
out of them. But I got what I was after
this time. A darned wolverine has been
follerin’ my traps all this winter. I set a
deadfall for him down at Carson’s Crossing,
an’ I got the son-of-a-mangy-coyote with
his neck broken. So that was one trip
worth while.”

Protheroe unrolled his sleeves and came
over to the table and sat down, starting to
eat ravenously for a bit, without much table
manners; but he soon settled down to eat

more slowly after the first pangs of hunger
were satisfied.

“Jean,” he said, “with that darned wolver-
ine out of the way at last, maybe we'll get
enough fur yet this winter to let you have
that little trip outside.”

Jean brightened up immediately, but Slim
continued glum, eating his food without
much enthusiasm.

“My trip can’t come too soon for me,
Dave. Here’s hoping we make it.”

Fur THIEF REFORMED

“Last time you was here, Sergeant,” said
Dave, “was on the Pete Mullen fur steal.
Old story now, eh! But we sure had lots 0°
trouble for a while, and the Big Company
was its wits’end till we landed old Pete.
The son-of-a-gun is out of the coop and

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Proprietress: Alice Mann

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Lunch Counter

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VERNON, B. C., CANADA

VERNON BAKERY

W. E. McCubbin, Proprietor

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KALAMALKA
HOTEL

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Superior Cakes and Pastries

Barnard Avenue West

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