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“no one answered.

tirely on himself whether he died in
the woods or reached his cabin to
telephone for help. Painfully totter-
ing along the trail, now and then
pausing as the blood gushed from
his wounds, the 300 yards to the
cabin seemed as though they were
that many miles. Funny, his eyes
were getting a little dim. Things
appeared fuzzy. The cabin door
looked blurred. But no, it was open.
Someone had been here. Now too
far gone to care whether the attacker
lay in wait for him in the darkness
of the shack, the tie maker faltered
across the small room to a telephone
on the wall. The crank worked, but
He tried again.
The telephone was dead.

“Queer,” thought the dazed man,
“Tt was working all right at noon
teday. Something must have bust
the wire again.’’ Eyes now clearing a
little, he saw that the cabin was a
shambles. Ransacked, some beer he
had cached under the bunk, had been
deposited on his bed. Not pausing
to look any further, the wounded
man lunged out of the door towards
the shelter in which he kept a truck.
It had been moved about six feet
since he last saw it. Slowly he filled
the radiator. Climbing into the seat,
he saw two packsacks lying on the
road. Though faint, he threw the
two sacks into the back of the truck
and started down the lane towards
the Babine Road which lay a few
yards away. Negotiating the turn,
he headed down towards the nearest
settlement, Topley, nine miles away.
As the truck swayed on the icy road
the injured man fought to keep it

in the centre, but suddenly a hum- -

mock of snow caught one wheel, and
before he could right the vehicle, it
had plunged into a snow bank, in-
capable of returning to the road
under its own power.

Only a quarter of a mile and his
only means of transport gone. A
lonely road over which there might
not be more than one or two people
traveling in a day, and now it was
approaching dusk. To stay in the
truck was out of the question, so
resolutely the man set out for his
nearest neighbor, a miner living
about a mile up a side road which
opened some three-quarters of a mile
towards Topley. As he trudged
along the road he thought of his
attacker. Who could have done such
a thing? ‘There was no money in
the shack. He had no enemies. What
was the answer? As he approached
the eight-mile post on the road he
saw two figures seated on one side.

It was now twilight, or so it
seemed to his blood-dimmed eyes.
One eye. in fact, was now blind.
The two figures appeared familiar

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