THE STORY SO FAR: Bound for the Chlbougamau gold country, six men lost their lives on the Nottaway river. Red Malone, Garrett Finlay, brother of one of the six, and Blaise, half-breed guide, arrive at Nottaway posing as surveyors. & & 4 INSTALLMENT TWO Finlay receives an anonymous letter suggesting that the six men were not drowned as reported. Finlay and Malone find the people of the Nottaway settle ment strangely averse to discussing the tragedy. Among themselves they ques t » * # tion the reports from the north that the bodies of the men were found by Indians. The name of Isadore, rich fur man. when brought by Finlay, causes an Immediate cessation of further con versation along that line. * * # Blaise quieted Flame as a figure appeared in the path leading down from the railroad fill. “Bo’-jo!” returned Blaise. The half-breed's eyes roved over the heaped bags; then he turned to Brassard. “You on survey?” The thick muscles under Blaise’s shirt tightened at the insolence of the other’s manner. But his seamed face might have been carved from wood. “Ah-hah!” he said, easing a cloud of smoke from his mouth. “My name is Joe Flambeau. I work for Jules Isadore!” announced the caller. “What your name?” “I am Big Windigo from Devil Valley! I eat Nottaway Riviere man for supper!” The twinkle faded to a cold stare. At the calculated affront the oth er sucked in his breath. "By gar! You eensult Joe Flambeau!” he choked. Then Flambeau’s groping fingers found and closed on the bone handle of the knife under his coat. “Don’ pull dat knife!" Brassard’s voice was as brittle as shell ice. “Look behin’ you!” he said. Flambeau turned his head. Feet bunched under him, the big aire dale crouched like a panther. “You pull dat knife and dat dog land on your back and rip your t’roat!” Flambeau’s hand moved away from his knife handle. "I don’ come here for troubl’!” he said weakly. “I talk business wid you.” “Forget w’at I say!” appeased Blaise. “I don’ mean not’ing. W’at you want, Flambeau?” “W’y you take Nottaway trail to de Bay?” “We survey lower riviere.” Flambeau surprised Blaise with; “Dese engineer pay you small wages. I get you job wid big mon ey.” “Who wid?” “Isadore! You are stout man. Isa dore pay big money for strong man on de riviere.” It was growing interesting. Blaise took the bait. "Ah-hah! W’at you pay?” “Double w’at you get! Leave dose men and dey will not make survey alone.” Blaise threw back his head and laughed. “You notice dat redhead?” “Ah-hah!” “He is Injun in white water! Fin lay will run anyt’ing. Dey go to de bay v idout me.” Flambeau scowled. “Batoche will talk wid you at daylight, here.” “Ah-hah!” “Ir ’ ’.ore give you big pay. Shake hand!” Blaise rose and extended a thick paw. Then he deliberately tossed his bombshell. “W’y do Isadore watch de Nottaway like a fox watch a rabbit run? He strike gold on Waswanipi?” Flambeau’s jaw sagged as he stared at the cryptic face of the speaker. “Mebbe he got gold! Meb be! You come wid us and fin’ out! I see you at daylight.” Shortly Finlay and Malone joined Blaise at the camp on the shore. “This dump is sure stampeded!” snorted the giant, filling and lighting his pipe. “Can’t get a soul to talk! From the way they shut up you’d think the bush north of here was full of cockeyed, man-eating Windi go!” ‘‘Who’d you talk with?” asked Finlay. ‘‘Cotter the storekeeper’s as scared as a fox in deep snow with a lynx on his trail. The rest are the same way. You see McLeod?” ‘‘Yes. I showed him the last line of the letter sent to the family and asked if he recognized the writing; By the look in his wife’s face I be lieve he wrote it himself.” ‘‘Let’s see that letter, again, Gar ry! When Cotter asked me to regis ter, I saw in his book some writing on a loose sheet signed by McLeod.” Finlay handed Malone the letter he carried in his wallet and the lat ter read aloud: ‘‘To the family of Robert Finlay, North Bay, Ontario: ‘‘Last spring Robert Finlay and his partner, Andrew Troup, left Not taway bound for the Chibougamau gold country by way of the Was wanipi River. In the fall it was reported, here, that Montagnais In dians had found their smashed ca noe. This is the third party that has disappeared on the Chibougamau Trail in two years. There are peo ple who have reasons why they don't want prospectors traveling Waswa nipi water. “I don’t believe these six men were drowned. “A Friend.” For some time Malone studied the letter. ‘‘‘Yes, it looks mighty like that writing of McLeod’s I saw in Cotter’s book,” he said. ‘‘McLeod wrote that letter, Red.” Finlay repeated his conversation with the station agent and his wife. ‘‘But McLeod’s tied up here and doesn’t want trouble,” he concluded. ‘‘Now whom does he suspect and why?” “Do you suppose someone’s made a placer strike on the river and is trying to hog it?” “I sure do. It looks to me as if we had run into the coldest attempt to control wild country I’ve ever heard of.” Garry turned to Bras sard. “What do you think of it, Blaise?” “I t’ink nodding. I got new job.” “Cut the funny stuff, Blaise!” grunted Red. “What’s your dope on the situation?” “I work for Isadore, now!” an nounced Blaise, his eyes snapping like an otter’s. “I leave dis outfit in de mornin’.” Then he described his meeting with Flambeau. “Good!” laughed Garry. “They’re certainly worried about us. What are you going to tell Batoche?” "Wal, you see, I was hit on de head, once. It leave me wid bad memory. I tell Batoche dere is some meestake. I navare talk wid Flambeau." “And will that bird be wild!” chuckled Red. “Watch his right hand! Don’t let him wing you.” Blaise inhaled until his chest re sembled a barrel. Hfe flexed his thick biceps and yawned. “I take good care dat fallar!” he said. Then he rose and his face sobered. "I like to have look at dis Isadore out fit on Waswanipi.” “Don’t you realize that we’ve got to map the lower river?" demanded Garry. “What’s the idea?” “Tomorrow, I t’ink we get tele graph order from Ottawa to map Waswanipi Lake.” “You old fox! You’ve hit it!" cried Garry. “We’ll give that telegram the air whether McLeod denies it or not. In the morning this city hears that we’ve been wired from head quarters to map Waswanipi. Will that be news?” Finlay rose. "I’m dropping in on those prospectors above here,” he said, and left his friends. “Hello, Mac!” greeted a voice as Finlay reached the tent above the bridge. “Sit down and light up!” “Thanks, I will. Where you peo ple heading?” “Rouyn way! Plenty gold in them quartz veins if you can locate ’em!” “I can’t tell you! I’m afraid to talk.” said a grizzled veteran. “You’re on the survey, they tell me.” “Yes, we pull out in the morning for Matagami." “Well, you’re on government busi ness. That makes you safe. But, friend, if you was prospectin’, I’d advise you to wet them paddles of yourn south of the steel.” “How’s that?” “Too many men who left here for Chrbougamau ain’t never been heard from.” Finlay finished his pipe and bade the prospectors good night. On his way back to Cotter’s store he passed a lighted shack. From the shadows in the rear came a woman’s voice: “Mr. Finlay!” Finlay stopped. “Did somebody call me?” he asked. “I’m Mrs. MacDonald,” said the invisible speaker in a low tone. “You’ll think it’s strange for me to speak to you this way. But my hus band, the section foreman, is down the line and I’ve got to talk.” “What is it, Mrs. MacDonald?” said the interested Finlay. “You’re going down river—on the survey?” “Yes.” “Mr. Finlay, they don’t believe you’re on the survey. If you’re headed for the Chibougamau Trail, I beg you to give it up!” “This is interesting. Who doesn’t believe we’re a survey party?” “I can’t tell you! I’m afraid to talk. It’s too dangerous. “Just what are they afraid of? Why don’t they talk to the police?” “The police were here last year, the Provincials. They only laughed at us." Finlay was both annoyed and In terested. Annoyed that a govern ment survey party should be sus pected of being something else. “It’s mighty good of you, Mrs. MacDonald, to warn us," Finlay said, “but we happen to be govern ment surveyors under orders—not prospectors. No one’s going to be crazy enough to monkey with a sur vey party.” "I know, but Mrs. McLeod said tonight that one of those boys lost last year was your brother—that you were making inquiries.” So it was all over the place? He had talked too much to the McLeods. And yet it had been necessary to learn who wrote that letter. "Mrs. MacDonald,” Finlay sud denly asked, “who is it you’re afraid of—Isadore?” Finlay heard the sudden intake of her breath. “Oh, no! You’re wrong there! We don’t even know him! He’s a fur man and generally flies to Waswanipi from down below.” "Well, anyway, I’m grateful for your kindness. But as our Job is to re-map the lower Nottaway I don’t expect to have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Isadore. Good night!” In the small bedroom at Cotter’s Finlay found Malone and told him the story. "Don’t think we’re surveyors, eh? Want to warn us off the Chibouga mau Trail! Looks more and more, chief, as if that letter was right!" “Yes, Red, that letter was right!" “They’ve been through our bags,” whispered Malone. Shortly Red Malone was filling the room vjxh Gargantuan snores but Garry Finlay could not sleep. Later he heard the cautious tread of moc casined feet on the creaking stair way and someone entered the room adjoining. There was whispered conversation, that was inaudible, then, head against the partition of matched boards, he heard: “Oua! Dey sleep soun’! Leesten!” “Ah-hah! Dey sleep hard!” one whispered. There was the creak of bed springs and a grunt of disgust. “Dat taller who look like hawk wid his eye say he make map of Be Nottaway. He lie. Dey' take de Chibougamau Trail.” “Dey carry tool and map of engi neer.” “Mebbe so. , But I t’ink dey lie.” “Chibougamau! You t'ink dey hunt for gold, eh? We ofTair dis Brassard big pay in de momin’ and get him drunk. Den we find out who dey are.” There was a muffled chuckle. “If dey go to Waswanipi, Tete-Blanche show dem w’ere to find gold and bury dem in de hole.” Shortly the men in the next room slept, but Garry Finlay’s brain was busy. Tete-Blanche! He's white haired! And Tetu! What a pair of names! He’d not forget them. So these were the men who were block ing the Chibougamau Trail? CHAPTER II Before daylight Finlay heard the two men in the next room creep down the stairs. He waked Malone, told him what he had overheard and, later, found Cotter in the store. “Much travel through here?” he threw out, casually. “There’s a couple of free traders south of here and all the Hudson’s Bay and Isadore supplies go this way.” “Many hit for Chibougamau from here?” “A few tried it but were drowned.” “What?” “Yes, drowned in the Waswanipi! It’s nasty water. Even the Indians are shy of it.” The muscles in Finlay’s face sud denly tightened. Cotter slowly col ored before the thrust of the agate eyes. “How do you know they were drowned?” “Isadore says so.” “Oh, Isadore says so? Say, Cot ter, where did this Isadore come from? How long has he been trading on Waswanipi Lake?” The storekeeper was visibly un easy. "He was here before the steel went through—before the Chibouga mau gold strike.” “Don’t know where he came from?” Cotter’s hand was noticeably un steady as he filled his pipe. “Say, ain’t you pretty curious? I thought you was a government surveyor but you talk like the police.” Garry smiled at the other’s evi dent nervousness. Then he sudden ly shot the bald question: “How long has Tete-Blanche been work ing for him?" Cotter’s face was etched with fear. “I’m making it my business, Mr. Cotter! Finlay said. You’re scared silly! What are you afraid of? ” Cotter swallowed hard, “You’re right! I am scared! I bin threat ened. I’m trying to make a livin’ here—tryin' to mind my own busi ness. You can’t blame me for keep in’ my mouth shut!” “Good!" thought Garry. “Now I’m getting somewhere! This fellow’s go ing to talk!” Then he asked the un easy man behind the counter: "Just what are you scared of?” “Scared of being burned out at night in midwinter—scared of what might happen to my family!” (TO BE CONTINUED) ----- Elegance and Refinement Are Apparent in Furred Costumes By CHERIE NICHOLAS THERE is a genuine feeling lor elegance and refinement ex pressed throughout the fall and win ter fashion program that bespeaks the discriminating taste of best dressed women. Among the signs that point to a definite movement toward distinctive apparel that car ries a message of “tone” and qual ity is the emphasis placed on luxury fabrics this season, on sumptuous furs, important-looking jewels and accessory accents that impart thor oughbred touches to the costume. Then, too, the revival of dress-up clothes for "after five” is noted this season. The street-length dinner dress is an important fashion which in turn brings back into the picture formal little early Victorian dinner hats to wear with them. The new long gloves add dignity and luxury. That there is a definite impor tance attached to richly fur trimmed costumes was a fact em phasized when the Style Creators of Chicago presented a showing of rep resentative fall and winter modes recently, three of which appear in the accompanying illustration. These luxurious costume suits of wool have dresses that are jewel studded at the top and have fur trimmed jackets for added ele gance. Smart and distinctive is the fit ted three-quarter length cutaway bordered in fox shown to the left in the picture. Its matching dress has below-elbow sleeves, a tucked neckline and a huge clip of silver, turquoise and aquamarine. A clev erly styled pompadour hat of felt adds a convincing style touch. Amethyst-colored wool is the fab ric selection for the suit in the cen ter of the group. Its hip-length jacket is distinguished by a flatter ing collar of blue-dyed fox. The high draped turban is in two shades of amethyst. The fitted and bloused jacket of the soft brown wool suit shown to the right has a front of sable-dyed squir rel. An autumn brown felt hat with wide brim softly shirred and chou of green velvet tops this handsome outfit. A record-breaking season that will dramatize furs to the limit is in promise. Designers are using fur so intriguingly that only seeing is believing. Their efforts run in two distinct avenues of thought. One approach leads to the lavish use of fur as a trimming, as demon strated in the accompanying illus tration. The newest coats are en riched with tuxedo panels of fur, dresses have tunics heavily bor dered with fur, and there are at tractive appliques of flat far. On the other hand, designers are playing up high drama in separate fur pieces. Muffs were never so huge and, as if to stress this fact, hats in matching fur are often so tiny they look like topknots perched on pompadours or thrust at a dan gerous angle over the forehead. However, milliners are seeing to it that there are fitted snoods at the back or other contrivances that in sure firm anchorage to the head. Nor are all fur hats tiny, for one of the smartest hat fashions this season is the wide brim that is fur-faced. All sorts of fur neckpieces are made of fur, the latest bit of fashion gossip centering about the new stole effects. Some of them are like capelet scarfs. Other fur fantasies include fur-cuffed gloves, huge bows of fur to wear at the throat, shoe orna ments, bracelets with dangles of fur, corsages of fur flowers, and fur motifs to applique. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Jewels on Wool A button craze is on. Designers are working overtime devising ways to "show off" buttons. Fashion even has a surprise for your tailored wool suit—jeweled buttons! It’s this kind of ingenuity that keeps things in teresting. From the American cou ture series by “la Mode” come the buttons of vari-colored jewels that march in double rank and file up and down the jacket of this smart suit, climaxed by a matching spray lapel pin. You will find these jewel ry-and-button ensembles equally fascinating on tailored and dress makers suits. So brighten up that dark sheer wool, or make that gaudy plaid even more enchanting with buttons, but tons and more buttons! All That Glitters Is Right in Style Everything in the way of hats, dresses, suits and acoessories glit ters this season. You do not have to stop and wonder if this glittering touch or that will be in good taste. It is good taste, according to fash ion’s decree. The embroideries massed on evening fashions are masterpieces of needlework. The jet accents on day frocks, be they sim ple wool or regal velvet, are every where. Nailheads*are no respecters of fabrics. They glitter on suits and on elaborate dress gowns alike. Black frocks are being illumined i with plashes of gay beadwork and embroidery. And the latest is bright red, green or vivid blue sleeves, lavishly embroidered. Hats, too, come in for their share of glitter. Some are of fur encrusted with gay sequins. Dressy Afternoon Suits Of Velvet or Rich Silk 1 The trend toward gentlewoman fashions is reflected in the new aft ernoon suits displayed in current costume collections. You will still wear tweeds for morning and about town, but for afternoons you will be wanting a suit in black, brown or deep jewel-colored velvet. If you prefer, you can choose a suit of elegant moire silk. Most of the suits have jackets with flaring peplums. Match Them Match your petunia-colored gloves with stockings in identical hue. Give your sin pie black dress a dashing fillip with these accessories. Top it with a little jet dinner hat— that’s fashion’s way of doing it this 1 season. Camp Cavalcade SHADOWY figures In a cavalcade of American history—such as the men behind the names of the great army cantonmeuts scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be sol diers in order to defend their coun try when the need arises. Near Nevada, Mo., stands a camp which bears the name of one of the William Clark greatest explor ers in the annals of America. He was William Clark, younger brother of George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Old Northwest during the Revo lution. Born in Virginia in 1770, William Clark was appointed a lieutenant in the regular army in i tvt anu served wiui uen. jujuiumj Wayne in the campaign against the Indians in 1793-94 which ended in the decisive Battle of Fallen Tim bers. A brother lieutenant in that army was a redheaded Virginian named Meriwether Lewis who was to be Clark's partner in an undertak ing which would make both men famous. That was the exploration of the vast empire in the West acquired by President Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase. They started up the Missouri river on May 14, 1804, and after a Journey of 8,Qpo miles which took them, through many perils, clear to the Pacific coast, they returned to St. Louis on Sep tember 23, 1806. Camp Clark in Mis souri honors his memory, as Fort Lewis in Washington honors that of his partner in their "magnificent ad venture." Down in Texas is another camp named for a white man who exerted unusual influence over the Indians. It is Camp Bullis, near San An tonio, which perpetuates the fame of Brig. Gen. John Lapham Bullis. He served three years in the Union army during the Civil war, became second lieutenant in the regular army in 1867 and during the next 14 years made an enviable record as an Indian fighter. In 1882 the Texas legislature passed a resolution thanking him "for the gallant and efficient services in repelling the depredations of Indians and other enemies of the frontier of Texas.” Promoted to captain, Bullis was named agent for the Apache Indians at San Carlos, Ariz., one of the most difficult and dangerous posts in the West. But he won the respect and admiration of these savages so com pletely that when he left San Carlos at the end of four years they were a peaceable and prosperous tribe. Soon afterwards he was named agent for the Pueblos and Jicarilla Apaches in New Mexico and his four years there were equally successfuL Bullis was retired from the army as a brigadier general in 1905 and died at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on May ^6, 1911. Camp Boyd near El Paso, Texas, is named for another army officer who served in two wars. Charles Trumbull Boyd (1871-1916), a native of Iowa, was graduated from West Point in 1896 and became a cavalry officer. He saw active service in the Philippines in 1898 to 1900 and, after an interim as professor of mil itary science and tactics at the Uni versity of Nevada and a practicing lawyer in California, returned to the Islands as a major of the Philippine Scouts. In 1916 he joined his old regiment in the regular army, the Fourth cavalry, in the punitive ex pedition against Villa into Mexico and was killed in action at Carrizal, on June 21—the only American offi cer to die in this “Second War with Mexico.” Camp McCoy, near Sparta, Wis., also honors a veteran of two wars— Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, who captained a company of Wis consin volunteers in the SpaniSh American war, commanded the 125th infantry and later the 128th infantry of the Thirty-second divi sion of the A.E.F. and represented the war department in establishing the reservation which has been used for war games in recent years and which has borne his name since 1926. Camp Fordyce in the town of Sam Fordyce, Texas, is named for S. W. Fordyce, a leading attorney of St. Louis who served as counsel for the War Finance corporation dur ing the World war. He was a di rector of the M. K. & T. railroad and a director of many important corporations in the Southwest. ‘Soldiers of Freedom’ “To the Soldiers of the National Army: The heart of the whole coun try is with you. Everything thal you do will be watched with deep interest. For this great war draws us all together, makes us all com rades and brothers, as all true Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good our inde pendence. The eyes of all the world will be upon you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers 9! freedom.”—President Woodrow Wil son's message, September 3, 1917. Invented Halftone The process of reproducing the tones of a photograph by means of dotted or checkered spots was in vented in 1880 by Stephen Henry Horgan, an American photogra pher, says Pathfinder. The first halftone ever printed appeared in the New York Daily Graphic in 1880. But Hcrgan's process was not immediately accepted. In fact, he was fired as art director of the New York Herald in 1893 when he suggested using halftones to pub lisher James Gordon Bennett. The values of half-tones are achieved by interposing a screen between the original photograph and the plate to be etched. Mr. Horgan also experimented with transmitting photographs by wire, inventing a method in 1879. 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