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‘path to take, Joyce had thought of
asking her dad to come and live with
ir, From a money standpoint, con-
sidering her- good salary, that was
the sensible thing to do. But she had
en to return here. At that time
e had fully realized the secret
irresistible reason of her return,
anyone had told her that reason,
6 would have denied it hotly. But
i face to face with a personal
_ ti@gedy which forced her to disil-
_ Iusioned thinking, she looked into her
heart and saw there the real motive.
‘Tt was Alan Baker who had drawn
her. By degrees unknown, unper-
ceived by her, girlhood friendship had

z jeepened into love.
~ She had come back to be near Alan
Baker. She had come back in the
_~ passionate hope that he and she would

marry.

_ There had been an unspoken under-
“Standing between herself and Alan
hat when the road ahead was a little
earer for both of them, they would
be married. And then Elizabeth had
come. . . . Alan's engagement to
Elizabeth had been a dazing unex-
pected blow. When Bill, coming past

sat on patrol, awkwardly blurted out the
___ ews of it, she had not believed. It
i took days of racked wanderings in

\- nem, ~ the woods, weeks of helpless anguish-
+ ed tossing, before the spirited
strength and courage that were so
great a part of Joyce, fought it out,
and she steadied herself and began
to believe.

But even now she did not fully ac-
cept. That engagement seemed
strange to her. Though she knew

was no routine work, no ordinary
pursuit, this time.

She answered; “I was out hunting
this morning, and I slept a couple
hours this afternoon, They might
have passed then. But they couldn’t
have gone by while I was here and
awake.”

“What time were you asleep this
afternoon, Joyce?”

“I can't exactly . . our clock
isn't. . . . Probably from about four
till six.”

Alan half-turned to Hardsock. “Bill,
you heard what Joyce said? They
couldn’t have reached here this morn-
ing, so they must have passed here
after four, We're nearer up with
them than I figured. We'd better
stay here till the deep dark breaks.
At night this way we can’t sight
those mén on ahead, They'd hear the
launch coming and dodge aside into
some creek.”

He turned again to her. “If it won't
be imposing, Joyce, will you give us
a bite to eat and some coffee?”

hour of his :
setting a meal for him, learning the
truth of his relations with Elizabeth!
But she merely nodded and invited
the patrol up to the trading store.

Ahead of the men the two of them
went up the path together, Alan
shielding her from the brush over-
growing the trail; and as they went
he told her briefly of the robbery, tlie
murder, the escape up the Alcoska.

The news fairly stunned Joyce,
it had him when Bill reported. And
with her there was an added reason,
a reason that struck her with sudden
fear. Before Alan finished, she was
grasping his arm in trembling fright.

“My dad! He's on northeast, up

a nothing of Alan's secret motives, she
did feel there-was behind
__ it which Alan had told no one. ~ It

Seemed to her, from what she had
observed, that Alan had no pass on-
ate affection for Elizabeth.
_ Month after month Joyce had wait-
ed for word of his marriage. The
word had not come. She wondered. . .
‘What was causing this long delay?
She could only guess at possibilities,
but during the lengthening months
the belief had been born in her that
something had arisen as a barrier to
the marriage and that the engage-
“ment might be broken off. - .
7e When she thought of all these
___ things and remembered how intimate
and comradely she and Alan had been
to one another, Joyce could not kill)
hher lingering hope. As she stood there |
on the landing now, awaiting the
Ss ‘patrol, with her heart thumping at
_____the prospect of seeing Alan and talk. |
____ ing to him once more, she knew that
i _ tonight she would come a little closer |
= to discovering whether her wild)
guesses were truth or only wishful
“hoping.
~ ‘Down the riyer a great yellow eye
"blinked through the trees. Swinging
3 around a bend, it played up across
the water, In a few moments more it
picked her out, there on the landing;
and Joyce stood bathed in the blind-
ing shaft of the launch’s searchlight.
_- The craft came on and on until by
shielding her eyes she distinguished
its outline and caught the glitter of
rifle steel.
The engine ceased. Skillfully, gen-
tly, the launch nosed in toward the
landing. A figure stepped past the
searchlight and stood holding the
painter on the half-deck of the bow;
“and Joyce knew then, her eyes seeing
only him, that Alan Baker Jed this
patrol.
Joyce tried to welcome him calm-
ly, but in that moment she was
_ thankful for the deep twilight, and
she stepped back a little, where the
shadows of a low-sweeping balsam
veiled her face. About the only rag
of pride left to her was the fact that
Alan Baker did not know or remotely
guess her heart toward him.
With his first question, after their
" warm handclasp, he asked her:
‘Has anybody passed here lately,
Joyce?”
_ “Not that I've seen. Nobody in the
Tost four days.”
“But surely they did!
gyhere all day.”
é jm Joyce noticed then a tautness in his
voice, and she saw he had brought
‘five men with him on this patrol. It

Were you

‘ivi ip there He's
bringing down some furs, Alan! what
if he runs into these men?”

“Good Lord!” Alan breathed to
himself. “If they meet Dave. . . .
They're not the kind to let anybody
go past alive and report their where-
abouts!"”

For Joyce's sake he tried to lie)

convincingly. “They may not meet
him at all, Joyce. And if they do,
why, they'd hardly shoot a man down
wantonly. If for no other reason, it
doesn't pay. They've got charges
enough against them as itis, And
they won't rob him; their canoes are
riding heayy now.”

He saw that his lie succeeded with
Joyce, for she began questioning him
about the details of the robbery, won-
dering who these six strangers could
be, and giving him some yaluable in-
formation about the water stages on
up the Alooska.

They went on back to the kitchen,
and Joyce set about getting a meal
for six tired hungry men. As he set
extra plates and cups on the table,
Alan asked himself:

“Isn't she wondering why I haven't
been here for so long? I'd think she
would wonder at least why I stopped
helping her about Dave. But she
hasn’t mentioned it; she must not
have missed my help much. It was
pretty shabby of me to stop like that,
even if . . .” He recalled how Eliza-
beth, jealous of the comradeship be-
tween him and Joyce, had asked him
to let Bill attend to any patrol work
up the Big Alooska. Elizabeth's ref-
erences to “that MacMillan girl” had
antagonized him at times. They
seemed positively cruel, considering
the hard lines Joyce was in,

A question from the girl broke into
his thoughts.

“When are you and Elizabeth go-
ing to be married, Alan?”

Her question, or rather the way
she asked it, hurt Alan, for some rea-
son he could not exactly word, Her
voice was so very casual, as though
she had not even a friend's interest
in his marriage. Could it be possible
that he and Joyce, once so intimate
and so near to each other that they
had spoken of children and a life to-
gether, were now casually discussing
his marriage to another girl?

He said, “We haven't—we're—we
don’t exactly know yet.”

‘There was a pause. A swift color
had flown into Joyce's cheeks; a little
feverishly she was repeating to her-
self those surprising words: “He
doesn't know yet, he doesn't know
yet! Does that mean—mean he’s

doubtful if it will ever be?”

ey:

“But itll be this summer, I sup-
pose?” she questioned, poking at the
stove and still not looking at Alan,

“I don't know Yes, I guess so,
Joyce.”

the Mounted.”

Joyce gasped. Out of the Mounted
—she could not imagine such a thing.
‘The work was a part of Alan. What
would he do without it? And what

‘Then he explained reluctant-|
ly, “Elizabeth wants me to get out of |

Tragic dive Revved
At» Paris Exposition

| Precious Relies Of Iil-Bated Napoleon
Being Shown

The memory of Napoleon and his

blazing epoch forever is being re-

vived at Paris. This time it is the

| retrospective exposition in connection

| with the centenary of the king of

Only Two Teaberne Seen

Little Helps For This Wee's
| Hudson Straits Safe For Navigation ene
During Whole Season
Five steamers carried grain rect ‘Strengthened with all’ mighty ac-
| cording to His gloricus power, unto

| the Churchill route this summer with- | i ‘K ae
| out even having insurance. They ex-| all patience and long-suffering w

| perlenced no trouble and saw no ice- oomueas = Colnnae m2)

lsbergs. . During the entire shipping | God doth not need

season only one iceberg was sighted er ane works or His own gifts;
who bes'

|
|

Rome, about whom the drama of | i” the straits besides the one struck) par His mild yoke, they serve Him
i

would Fort Endurance do without L’Aiglon has preserved the tragic by the “Bright Fan.” | best; state
2 , , : : .
him? ; | story of the great emperor's dynastic| Such was the statement of Henry| Is Idngly; thousands at His bidding
She said: But Alan! What would joo, j | Aabey, engineer in the employ of the| speed, E
you turn to? The Mounted has been : federal department of railways and|4®4 post o'er land and ocean with-

your work—" |

“Well, I've got the offer of a job)
down in Victoria. t's pretty good, |
as far as money goes, And Elizabeth |
would like it there. I haven't exactly |
decided. It’s a big step to take.”

Those few reluctant sentences were
a revelation to Joyce, like a white
light beating upon something which
had been dark to her, Alan didn't
want to go! Elizabeth was trying to
force him. She wanted to live in a
city; she wanted the things which
that salary would bring her; she was
using Alan to get what she wanted.
But she and Alan were not of one
mind! If he really loved her, deeply
and passionately, would he be so re-
luctant, would he allow anything on
earth to come between them?

Joyce dared not ask him anything
further then; he might add a word
that would destroy this new-born
hope. But a hundred thoughts were
running wild through her, . . . “Sup-
pose he doesn’t yield to Elizabeth!
Suppose he won't go! Then she won't
marry him! She'll throw him over for
Haskell; that's what she'll surely do,
Bill says she and Haskell are togeth-
er half the time Alan's away from
Endurance. Isn't that the reason?—
she’s not sure of Alan yielding; and
if she can't have her way with him
she'd like to be an inspector’s wife!”

With swift unerring insight Joyce
saw the all-crucial question:
Alan get out of the Mounted? She}
was still uncertain what he truly felt |
for Elizabeth, but from his own lips
she had learned one thing which an
hour ago she had scarcely dared hope
could be true. The marriage was not
sure;-it might never be!

In her abjectness she whispered to
herself: “I don't care if he does like
her. I don’t, I don't care! If she
throws him over, then we'll be friends
again, then he'll come here to me
again; and then—after that... . .” |

To Be Continued, }

Flying Boat Like Pullman

Aviatrix To Have Charge If Craft
Crosses Atlantic

A gigantic yacht of the air is be-
ing primed for a flight across the At-
lantic when the open season for this|
sort of thing arrives next spring or
early next summer. The flying boat,
completed by the Supermarine Vick-|
ers Co., will be in charge of another

daring woman of the skies, Mrs,J, J.| habit and read much more than was

James of London, England, Just now |
it is on a test cruise in Mediterranean |
waters.

Sleeping quarters, wardrobes and |
bookcases are built in the hull of the

| big three-engined ship which resem-
bles a winged Pullman. It is called deny the value of books to children, | jens would come from the Buffalo
the “Windward III.” and with a full but there is a danger today that our) Park at Wainwright, Alberta. |
‘oad of fuel for its powerful Arm-|

strong-Siddley motors, weighs about
ten and a half tons,
While the exact destination of Mrs.

James, should she go through with |

the flight, is not definitely known, it| quite as much good as the most im-|
has been reported Montreal and New | proving book ever written —London |

York city are two of the points to|
be visited if a successful crossing 1s

The exposition is being held in the
restored orangerie of the Tuilleries
Gardens, For weeks, cases arrived
under guard containing the precious
relics of the ill-fated prince. Mu-
seums and private individauls have
loaned their mementos of the young
Bonaparte, who, among his titles,
usuaHy was known in Austria as the
Duc de Reichstadt. The souvenirs
are in charge of the Baronne and
Baron Jean de Bourgoing, who were
designated by Count Clauzel, French

3 out rest;
canals, who spent the summer and) ‘They also serve who only stand and
fall in the north. | walt.

| He stated that Captain Poole made | —4J, Milton.
a trip on the “Ocean Eagle” up to| We cannot always be doing a great
| the Foxe Channel and the Foxe Basin| work, but we can always be doing
before navigation opened up, to see| something that belongs to our condi-
| if there was any ice coming down| tion. To be silent, to suffer, to pray
| that would enter the Hudson Straits| when we cannot act, is acceptable to
| in the latter part of August. On this| God, A disappointment. a contradic-
trip nofth he discovered that the ice tion, a harsh word, an annoyance, a
|had all gone out of the channels,| wrong received and endured as in His
| leaving the straits open for safe navi-| presence, is worth more than a long

| gation. r a
tat aera | sa ion. He so reported to the gov-

The exposition includes objects
arousing memories for those who still
Muse over the Napoleonic legend.
Among these is the little gilded car- |
riage of the King of Rome; the large |
arm-chair in which the Duc de Reich- |
FE a cera Y peiicks me the feasibility of the Churchill route.
in the form of the hat of his il-|
lustrious father; his seal; his desk; |
his last pen. There also is Marie-
| Louise's jewel case; her portrait by
Gerard, and many beautiful minia-
tures, engravings and other personal
objects concerned with the early days
of the little king.

Mr. Aabey also stated that only
one iceberg was sighted by the French
boat “Sierence,’ ‘the first boat to en-
ter Churchill Harbor for the naviga-
tion season.

Mr. Aabey is very enthusiastic over

THE RHYMING

AT NIGHTFALL

Big and Strong

What becomes of “'tiny’’ babies? Do |

Its voice complains,

With

| prayer, and we do not lose time If we

bear its loss with gentleness and pa-
| tience, provided the loss was inevit-
able and was not caused by our own
fault.—Fenchon.

Prospectors Stake Claims

Ottawa Reports Great Activity In
Great Bear Lake Area
According to reports reaching
Ottawa ,a great many mineral claims
have already been staked in the area
adjacent to Great Bear Lake, North-

likelihood that many more will be

staked this summer. Some prospec-
tors have already gone in by aero-

partment of the Interior, Ottawa, has

west Territories, and there is every —

Would | they eve grow up to be healthy and |
strong? Here is the story of one of

the smallest babies ever born, today
one of the brightest normal girls in
the province of Alberta,

Orva Mary, daughter of B. Mc-
Neill, Standoff, Alberta, weighed just
12%s ounces at birth. She was wrap-
ped in cotton and silk under a glass
case for inany weeks and fed with a
medicine dropper—a drop of food ata
time. She was bathed in oil and kept
at an abnormally high temperature.
Later a cigar-box was her crib and
cradi¢. Clothes she first wore later
did service for her dolls.

When she was born, on Noy. 19,
1918, the doctor said she would not
live. Today, she is eldest of five chil-
dren and takes a motherly care of the
younger ones.

Children Reading More

Statement Of London Librarian Is
Matter Of Satisfaction
Children of today have the library

the case twenty years ago.
This opinion is given by a London

| Ubrarian, and few will challenge it.

But is it a matter only for satisfac-
tion?
Nobody would be foolish enough to

young bookworms may become a lit-
tle too studious.

An occasional low game of cow-
boys and Indians—or is it gangsters-
and-cops nowadays ?—will do a boy

Sunday Pictorial.

reprinted the manual respecting the
| survey of mineral claims in Dominion
lands for the use of Dominion land
surveyors who may be called upon to
| make official surveys of these claims.

|The wind grows louder now.
storm

Comes dusk today;

Only the arms of love can charm

| My fears away.

Only the arms of love to hold
Me warm and near;

| The tender arms of love, to fold
All sweetness here!

Wheat Market Competitors

About teddl isch fia Australia and Argentina Are Now
About me 3 .
And wild wind's stress, 0 Braskelne ACB
While ever bolder creep night’s shade) Marketing of southern hemisphere
And loneliness. | crops says a wheat review of the Do-
| minion Bureau of Statistics, will ma-
terially change the general situation
Teould make Year ceases | that has existed since the beginning
| Love's arms, alone, can vanquish | of the present crop year. Since Aug-

night | ust Canada has pretty well dominat-
And bring me peac | ed the world export market.

For the balance of the crop year,
Canada will have two important com-
| petitors, Australia and Argentina, in
| Government May Ship Specimen te wheat market, assuming that the
| From Wainwright For New | united States will not greatly change

Zealand’ Zoo lits present relationship to external

Canada has offered specimens of | markets,

|
the far-famed Canadian buffalo to|
Sree ae aN eep Doug’ Reppin Linimen

| handy. A sure, speedy remedy for
the Tarango Zoological Park Trust in| burns, sprains, felons, blood poison-
|the New Zealand province recently| ing, soft corns, warts, scald feet. In-
| was made known to this Dominion. | yaluabls for inane muscu
| The offer of Sir George Perley, act- :

| ing prime minister, followed. E
Radium In North

| One Canadian buffalo bull and two |
| cows comprise the offer, ‘The speci-
Two Grammes Of Precious Mineral
From Great Bear Lake District
If the offer is accepted, specimens} Two grammes of radium have been
jof mammals or birds indigenous to| extracted from pitchblende found in
| New Zealand may be shipped to Can-| the north country around Great Bear
ada. | Lake and will be placed on the mar-
ket soon, the first Great Bear Lake
radical produced. This is the report
| brought to Calgary by H. B. Mont-
Papers In Britain Have 70,000,000 | Somery and Pete Davidson, prominent
northland prospectors, who have just

No warriors’ ranks, no monarch’s

might : |

Buffalo For New South Wales

Wield Enormous Power

is Circulation In Week
made. Thomas Rose, formerly a High Cost Of Ignorance Walter i p an ine pleted months of work at Great
Pini Mentenant ey thee ROv ean Fant | Board of Trade, as the chief guest at | Bear Lake silver and pitchblende
Force, will pilot the ship. Its high-lift| What World Is Principally Suffering | 4. yo5th festival dinner of the| fields.

monoplane wing {s 92 feet from tip. |

The “Windward’s” power units are |

of the hull. |

Many mothers have reason to bless
Mother Graves’ Worm Exterminator, |
because it has relieved the little ones
of suffering and made them healthy. |
|
French Officer Grateful

Sends Present To German Who
Rescued Him During War

After 15 years a hand has stretch-
ed across no man’s land to drive the
wolf away from the door of Hans|
Scultz, an unemployed ‘laborer.

During 1917. Schultz rescued a
French officer who was badly wound-
ed, They exchanged letters as the
Frenchman convalescenced in a hos- |
pital. Schultz, who has been without |
work for eight months, recently re-|
ceived a letter from his French friend |
with 400 francs as a Christmas pres-
ent.” The officer explained he had just
run across the German's name in an
old diary and wanted to renew the
friendship.

Canned goods imported into Eng-
land in the last year were valued at
$835,000,000.

From Today
The high cost of education is caus-

wonders why, at a time when the

the high cost of ignorance.

But the brilliance of the epigram
should not obscure the fact that many
of the most learned men and women
learned what they know at less cost |
than is involved in the turning out of
a high-school pupil who may, or may
not, be able to spell.

A Real Asthma Relief. Dr, J. D.
Kellogg's Asthma Remedy has never

which it performs. Expect relief and
permanent benefits when you buy this
remedy and you will not have cause!
for disappointment. It gives perma-
nent relief in many cases where other!
so called remedies have utterly failed.

Helium From Lithium
Disintegration of lithium atoms at
the rate of approximately 100 a min-|
ute thereby transmuting crystals of

London, England, spoke of the influ-
mounted in the leading edge of the | ing considerable concern. The editor | on of the newspapers. He said he|

wing, in the centre and on both sides|of the Oakville, Ontario, Record, /haq heen told that the circulation of |

|Printers’ Pensions Corporation in
| Exact Heavy Toll

A toll of 83,500 deaths and injuries

to more than 1,000,000 people was ex-

papers published in England ran into | acted by traffic accidents in the Unit-

|world is suffering principally from| tne region of 70,000,000 a week. He | ed States during 1931, The National

had long since come to the conclu-| conference on street and highway
sion that the powers of the news-| safety estimates the economic loss of
paper world were more autocratic| the accidents, together with traffic
than those of anyone else in Europe. | congestion, at more than $3,000,000,-
000.

Good Number Qualified |

Two great-great grandmothers and |
94 great-grandmothers attended
“Great-grandmothers’ Day,” held re-
cently in Melbourne, Australia, by the

survey of Saskatchewan,
commenced in 1921, is now

A soil
which
nearing completion.

A ship's captain is empowered to

been advertised by extravagant state-| Carlton Methodist Mission. Only
| ments. Its -claims are conservative| great-grandmothers “and up” were/ conduct & marriage ceremony on his
|indeed, when judged by the benefits| j,yited. “Senior member” was Mrs.| boat if the occasion arises

Keegan, a great-great grandmother | =
of 95. One of the proudest was Mrs.

who has had a

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Hopkinson, aged 77,
children.

RHAMILTONS
PILLS ©

Music Resemblance
A striking resemblance between the
music of the Athabasca Indians and
that of the Chinese has been discoy-

M3 ,
HEADACHE

= - Ta
4 The bleak gale threatens; fierce and| Plane and others are planning to go
A Satisfactory Answer shrill E in by water transport as soon as the ¥
cou. | Are its refrains, ice goes out. In view of this great
Alberta Girl, Once Tinlest Baby, Now | ; ‘ be
i 'y, New| And angrily down field and hill activity the topographical survey,De-

this lightest of all metallic elements | ered by Dr. Marius Barbeau of the
into helium was described at Pasa-| archeological department of the na-|
dena, California, to the American | tional museum of Ottawa,
Physical Society by Dr. M Stanley
Livingston and Prof. B. O. Lawrence,
University of California Physicists,

INDIGESTION
| BILLOUSNESS

There are 209 rooms in Bucking-
ham Palace.

CONSTIPATION