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a Ar ug OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURKDAY, JUNE 8, 1922 "" North of Fifty-three" by BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR --_-- A BAND WITH | A HISTORY Rather than Sacrifice uality As the result®f the abnor- mally high prices prevail- S---- CHAPTER V. In Deep Water The dawn thrust aside night's somber curtains while they ate, re- vealing a sky overcaste with slaty clouds. What with her wanderings of the night before and the journey through the dark with Roaring Bill, she had absolutely no idea of either direction or locality, The infolding timber shut off the outlook. "Do you suppose I can get home in time to open school?" she inquired anxiously. Roaring Bill smiled. know," he answered. pends." "You know where you are now, don't-you?" she asked. "Not exactly," he responded. "But I will before long--1 hope." The ambiguity of his answer did not escape her, She puzzled over it while Silk ambled sedately be hind the other horses. She hoped that Bill Wagstaff knew where he was going. If he did not--but she refused to entertain the alternative, And she began to wateh eagerly for some sign of familiar ground. For two hours Roaring Bill tram- pled through aisles bordered with | pine, spruce and fir, through thick. | ets of berry bush, and across limited | areas of grassy meadow. Not once did they cross a road or trail Eventually Bill halted at a small | stream to get a drink. Hazel looked at her watch. It was half past | eight. "Aren't we ever going to there?" she called impatiently. "Pretty soon," he called back, and | struck out briskly again. Another hour passed. Ahead of her leading one pack horse and let- | ting the other follow untrammeled, Roaring Bill kept doggedly on, hait-| ing for nothing, never looking back They crossed a ravine and slanted! up a steep hillside. Presently Hazel could look away over an area of, Woodland undulating like a heavy ground swell at sea. Here and there ridges stood forth boldly above the general roll, and distantly she could desery a white-capped mountain range. They turned the end of a thick patch of pine scrub, and Bill pulled up in a small opening. From a case swinging at his belt he took out a pair of field glasses, and leis urely surveyed the country. "Well ", Hazel interrogated. "Nothing in sight is there?" Bill said thoughtfully. "If the sun was out, now. Funny I can't spot that Soda Creek trail." "Don't you know this country at all?" she said gloomily. "I thought I did," he replied. "But I can't seem to get my bearings to work out correctly. I'm awfully sorry to keep you in such a pickle But it can't be helped." He took up the lead rope and moved on. They dropped over the ridge crest and once more into the woods. Roaring Bill made his next halt beside a spring, and fell to un lashing the packs. "What are you going to do?" el asked. "Cook a bite and let the horses graze," he told her. *Do you rea lize that we've been going since day- light? It's near noon. Horses have to cat and rest once in a while, just the same as human beings." The logic of this Hazel could not well deny, since she herself was tired and ravenously hungry. By he: watch it was just noon. Bill hobbled out his horses on the grass below the spring, made a fire and set to work cooking. He worked silently at the meal getting, fried steaks of venison and boiled a po! of coffee. They ate. He filled hi: pipe, and smoked while he repacked Altogether he did not consume more than forty minutes at the noon halt Hazel, now woefully saddle sore. would fain have rested longer, and in default of resting tried to walk and lead Silk. Roaring Bill offered no objection to that. But he hit 2 faster gait. She could not keep up and he did not slacken pace when she began to fall behind. So she mount- ed awkwardly, and Silk jolted and shook her with his trotting until he came up with his mates. Bill grinned over is shoulder. "You're learning fast," he called back. "You'll be able to run a pack train by and by." The afternoon wore on without bringing them any nearer Cariboo Meadows as far as Hazel could see. Travelling over a country swathed in timber and diversified in contour. she eould not tell whether Roaring Bill swung in a circle or bore straight for some given point. She called a halt at four o'clock. "Mr. Wagstaff!" Bill stopped his horses and came | | '"T don't "It all de- | get { Haz back to her. "Aren't we ever going to get any- | where " she asked soberly. "I'm | afraid I can't ride much longer. I] could walk if you wouldn't go so | fast. Aren't there any ranches in | this country at all?" He shook his head. "They're few | and far between," he said. "Dom't worry though. It isn't a life-and- death matter. If we were out here] without grub or horses it might be] tough. You're in no danger from ex-| posure or hunger." "You dont seem to realize the position it puts me in," Hazel an-| swered. A wave of despondency swept over her, and her eyes grew suddenly bright with the tears she strove to. keep back. "If we wan- der around in the woods much longer I'll simply be a sensation when I get | back to Garibeo Meadows. I won't have a shred of reputation left. It will probably result im my losing the school. You're 2 man, and it's dif-! ferent with you. ¥om can't know what a girl has to comtend with where no one knows her." Roaring Bill looked up at her im passively. "I know." he said, as if | | Then Bill started a fire he had read her thought, "But what's the difference? Cariboo Mea- dows Is only a fleabite, If you're right, and you know you're right, you can look the world in the eye and tell it collectively to go to the devil. Besides you've got a perverted idea. People aren't so ready to give you the bad eye on somebody else's say-s0. It would take a lot more than a flash drummer's word to con- vince me that you're a naughty little girl. Pshaw---forget it!" Hazel colored hotly, but for the latter part of his speech she could have hugged him. Bill Wagstaff went a long way in those brief sen tences, toward demolishing her con- Rs RLES Hap recor CRAY DIAN Tous LARGEST STEAMER NTR RE N Pa Erb ss a Peo Lanaks t a Per 4 INGING THE SCOTS GUARD BAND H 3 li in Foun RAE aT 53 for tea on the market In ay, we have been forced to advance the price of our go ular "SALADA'" Brown el Blend to 65c. per pound-- Prices of BLue, Rep AnD Gowp LABELS ARE UNCHANGED vietion that no man ever overlooked an opportunity of taking advantage of a woman, "Well, let's sald abruptly. sore to ride, slower." She lieved get somewhere," hc "If you're too saddle walk a while, I'll ge walked and the exercise ithe cramping ache in limbs. Roaring Bill's slower pace was fast enough at that. She followed till her strength began to fail. And | when in spite of her determination Zhe lagged behind, he stopped at the first water. Wen camp "You're about all | get anywhere | plainly." Hazel accepted this dictum as best she could. She sat down on a mossy {roek while he stripped the horses ol their gear and staked them out he sald and we can't 1 see that here, in, to-night, A Vie r, non and fixed a (roll of bedding by it for her to sit on. [Dusk crept over the forest while he cooked the supper, making a bannock in the frying pan to take the place of bread; and when they had finished eating and washed the few dizhes Meadows when © got lost, How can night shut down black as the pit.| we get back to Cariboo Meadows by They talked little. Hazel was in going still farther north?" the grip of utter forlornness, moody, "You're more of a woodsman tha wishful to cry. Roaring Bill humped | [ thought," Bill remarked gently on his side of the fire, staring [fe smiled up at her, and drew out thoughtfully into the blaze. After his pipe and tobacco pouch. a long period of abstraction he glan She looked at him ced at 'his watch, then arose and .po voi know where silently arranged her bed. After | H iottx ; she asked quietly, that he spread his saddle blankel and lay down. He met her gaz Hazel crept into the made laconic answer quietly sobbed herself to sleep. "Which way 1s ( arthoo Me; huge and silent land appalled her. then, and how far is 1?" she As on the previous night she wak manded. ened often and glanced over to the fire. Roaring Bill kept his tomed position, flat in the glow. had no fear of him now Night passed and dawn ushered in a clearing sky. Ragged whisps clouds chased each other across the "Keep right on blue when they set out again Hazel answered. walked the stiffness out of her mus-| "I won't -I won't!" cles before she mounted. When she | I'll find my own did get on Silk, Roaring Bill in | devilis h impluse prompis creased his pace. He was long leg- [such a thing ged and light of foot, enseniisl "You'll tireless. She asked. no questions. lit," he said dr What was the use? He would ev ling her last ually come out somewhere. She was | thre e days to resigned to wait. {knew every foot Afttr a time che began to puzzle, |don't know the and the old uneasiness came back {timber is coniu The last trailling banner of cloud |covered. You'll vanished, and the sun rode clear in { Meadows, any other an opal sky, smiling benignly down | tackle it handed, on the forested land. She was thus |or matche hedding enabled to locate the cardinal point: | whopping big country of the compass. Wherefore she took | men have to gauging their course by the shad | men have ows. And the result was what set | He let her to thinking. Over level and | 1 here on ridge and swampy hollow, Roaring | w vild ds | north," she de-| going north | "But you're going clared. "You've been all morning. . 1 was north of Cariboo | minute now?' for a Wi are calm! "1 do,' and | b¢ The covers dow de he "General direction, south," re plied slowly "Fifty miles less Rather than hk "And you've leading straight north!" she cried. "Oh, te am | going to do? accus 0 She more me what ol going," Wagstaf she flashed | hack What d you to d way autiful time letely ignor "Take yon i have a be rvly, com question walk thers of the way yon way And Travelling n ing, as you'v« never ee Cariboc or place if ingle withoul gr or Th A lo-t in it found their th ink in hor.:« 200d man zot md other hone while chokin him 4 she hack hell, he: had the hi LO curs for what in check ht yet do. She could not conclusion that Roarin was something of ire hoo Bill drove straight north in an un | and candle dons deviating line She recollected that | and holding the point from which had lost | what he mig her way had lain northeast of Cari | escape the boo Meadows. Even if they had | Bill Wagzstafl swung in a circle, they could scarcely | law unto himself, capable hewing be pointing for the town in that di | to the line of his own de ait any rection. For another hour Bill held Ss She realized hex to the northern line as a needle hold and the realization to the pole. A swift rush of misgiv- | without words. He had ing seized her. { vivid picture, and the instinet of "Mr. Wagstaff!" | preservation asserted itself sharply. "You misled She Roaring Bill stopped, and she road | voice at last Silk up past the pack horses. | "Did 1 mislead you he parried "Where are you taking me?" she | "Weren't you alrealy lost when demanded. [rae to my camp? And have 1 mis "Why, I'm taking you home--or [treated you in any manner? Have | trying to," he answered mildly. | refused vou food shelter or help 7 fear o she ol ire utter left drawn ell help hea she called me." found her "Why? von EBENEZER Sunday School Anniversary SUNDAY and MONDAY June 11th and 12th Rev. R. A. Delve, Smithfield, will preach on Sunday at 10.30, 2.30 and 7.30. ON MONDAY at 3 p.m. A Baseball Game will be played by the Girls' Club of Tyrone vs. Ebenezer. A 4 o'dock: Tea served. Spam. Football --Hampton va. Ebenezer, SS. League game. 8pm. 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