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SYNOPSIS Prom hit fur post, Sunset House, in the Canadian north, Jim Stuart, trader in charge, k sights an overturned canoe in the lake. With his headman* Omar, he rescues the drifter, who proves to be Aurore Le Blond, daughter of his rival in the fur business. Made com fortable at the post, Aurore proves to be a charming companion. Exchang ing badinage, she and Jim arrange to . exchange, notes on a certain island. LeBlond, with Paradis, his unscrupu lous half-breed lieutenant, arrives in search of the missing girL CHAPTER I? Continued With tr voice hoarse with feeling, he said, with a slight trace of accent": "Mr. Stuart, my daughter says she owes her life to you and your man." As they faced him, the striking re semblance In feature and expression between father and daughter Im pressed the man who entered the room followed by Renault and Paradis. The girl was the true daughter of Louis LeBlond. "Luckily, we happen to see her," deprecated Stuart. ?'Yes, but she tells me that her strength was gone ? she had already given up, when she saw you." Le- . Blond impulsively grasped the hand of the man who studied him. "We are rivals In business ; It cannot be helped. But what you have done for my child I will not forget." In a corner of the room the allm Paradis, dnrk as a half-breed, talked excitedly to the thick-set Renault, across whose swart face a knife slash , had left a livid scar. "It was nothing," replied Stuart. "I happened to see her canoe. That was all. You owe me nothing, sir." As he spoke, Paradis left Renault" and whispered In LeBlond's ear. "My houfee Is at your disposal," con tinued Stuart. "Will you and your daughter stay here tonight?" The eyes of the speaker hardened as he went on. ."The gentleman who Is whisper ing to you, and Renault, here, are welcome to sleep in the tradehouse. You can't cross the lake against this wind.* The somewhat small but regular fea * tores of Paradis darkened In a scowl at the thrust, but he continued his whispering. Slowly a look of doubt ? of perplexity? crept into LeBlond's .eyes* but with a gesture of Irritation he waved aside the Insistent Paradis. Turning, he spoke rapidly In French to his daughter, who replied vehement ly,' her courageous black eyes flash ing in anger as she faced her father. "Mr. Stuart," said the patently em- | barrassed LeBlond, "you ? a ? found ] her In the afternoon?" "Yes." In ft flash Stuart sensed what was coming ? what Paradis had been whispering. "And you let us hunt the lake through sl^ hours of daylight ? hunt for her, thinking she was drowned?" LeBlond spoke more In regret than in anger. "Why didn't you send word?" added Paradis with a sneer. "Father I". The blood rose to Aurore LeBlond's temples. "Are you crazy? Do you know what you're saying? Is this your gratitude?" The eyes of the girl flamed with Indignation. "Mr. Stuart wanted to take me home, but I wouldn't go. There was only the small canoe here, and I was afraid ? afraid of that lake. And this is your thanks to him ! Oh, I'm ashamed of you ? ashamed of you all I" . | The enraged factor of Sunset House was near the end of his self-control as he faced LeBlond. "You see fit to j quibble over my actions today. I've nothing to explain. You found out what the lake was out there, when you crossed with the wind In your big canoe. My large boats are bringing up my stuff, and I'm alone with one <nrth. I don't like your Insinuations! I You can't take ypur' daughter back to night, and 1 offered you my Quarters ? such as they are. But, as for this whispering assistant of yours, I take , back my offer. .He can't stay here{" The speaker's voice snapped like a brittle stick. "You understand Kng llsh, don't you, Paradis?" The room was silent. In tho glance of the girl as she watched Jim's ey?s blacken with anger, was nmuseme*; and approval. ' With a swift movement the enraged Paradis Jerked his hand back to his belt; hot Jthe squht Renault's fingers . gripped his arm. Tho working fea * tures of LeBlond reflected his warring emotions. This mrtn who had saved his daughter had also flagrantly af fronted Wis friend. For n spa?e his sense of gratitude and his loyalty to * Paradis strove for mastery as he looked . Into the cold eyes which challenged vm. Then he found his voice. ' *4You havtf Insulted us, here, In your own house 1" he burst" out. "We warft ?o hospitality from you." Then, ns If ashamed, wept on: "Oh, I'm grate fttl?I know what I owe you s but we'll bid you good-night. Come Aurore I" Ills answer from the girl was con temptuous laughter, <'Oh, you men are so futme^-Hlp funneel" she cried, "So ridiculous l Because Mr. Stuart knock* down ddt Paul Paradis, and Paul fills your* ears with a fool Idea of word not being Bent ten -miles against that wind and sea, you forget that I'd be down there with the flsb tonight if it hadn't been for Omar and Mr. Stuart. Pah!. You men are all fools!" She was serious qow, her scornful gaae over-awing her father's uneasy eyes. In frank admiration Stuart watched her atr she waited for Le Blond's reply. "I thank you for what you did for her," said LeBlond at length, turning defeated from^the accusing eyes of his daughter. MCk)me, Aurore!" Paradis and Renault sullenly left the room while the trader waited at the door for the girl who had not moved. "So you think, because of the hurt feelings of your pretty Paul, I'll spend the night In front of a fire, with my back against a tree" she replied. "Well, I will not !" Over the bold features of LeBlond crept an expression of helplessness ? of Impotence. It was patent to Stuart that this trader, whose energy and de termination were bywords in the fur trade, was not the master of the girl who now faced him. "I shall accept Mr. Stuart's offered hospitality," she continued. "As for you, mon pere, you can stay and help old Sarah, the cook, guard the "And This It Your Thanks to Himl Oh, I'm Ashamed of You ? Ashamed of You All I" sacred honor of your precious daugh ter ? or you can leave her to Sarah and go and sit by your flre. I stay here. Do you understand English, Monsieur LeBlond?" In the end, LeBlond and his daugh ter passed the night In the quarters of Stuart while the indignant Sarah toBsed through sleepless hours, out raged by the thought that the roof above her should ohelter the enemy who had boasted that the wolves should soon howl In the deserted clearing of Sunset House. CHAPTER II Six years before, when the boat brigade of the North-We?t Trading company, In command of one of the partners, Louis I/eBlond, had passed through Lake Expanse on the trail to Mltawangagama, the OJIbwas, who were camped at Pelican portage on the way Routh to the spring trade with the Hudson's Bay company, had been greatly excited. Turning in to the camp, LeBlond's head voyageur, Black Jules Renault, had announced In their native tongue that a trading sta tion wfis to be built on the great Lake of the Sand Reaches two hundred miles north. Never again need they take the long trail south to Lake Ex- I pnnse. but la the next long snows would find a warm welcome ? a Now Year's feast ? and tho best of trade goods ready for exchange for their fur at the new post. In three years LeBlond had mado serious Inroads Into tho trade pf the old company. He no longer could he* ignored. They must follow and flght him for the trade. ? But, on the word of hard-headed Andrew Chris tie, of Lake Expanse, Inspector of a territory larger than an eastern state, the man who could now wrest a share of the trade from the firmly Intrenched LeBlond would need a particularly long head, boundless nerve, and the tenacity of the beaver. Such a man, Christie told his superiors, In conclave at Winni peg, he believed was now at God's lake In western Klwedtn ? a young man with a fine war record and a local repjifatlon for ability and Judg ment In dealing with the Indians. In two months a mall canoe brought Jim Stuart orders from Winnipeg to report to Christie at Lake Expanse. A month later, with Omar Bolsvert and a gang of men, Stuart' had cleared the forest and was peeling the logs for the building of Sunset House. The fol lowing three years had been for Stuart a well-nigh hopeless struggle for a foothold In the trade, for his rival possessed the Frenchman's uncanny talent for handling the Indians, backed by an experience of thirty years. As he lay on his bunk In the trade house, after lenvlng Aurore LeBlond and her father in possession of his quarters, Jim Stuart's thoughts trav ersed the hours since mid-afternoon. To the man who, since the war, had Heen marooned in the forests of Klwe dln ? OJlbwa for "The Birthplace of the North Wind," ? the coming of this vivid creature, swept Into his life by the accident of wind and sea, had been like the burst of a shell on a black night. But strong as was the appeal of this dark daughter of Louis LeBlond to the eyes and senses of the man who had not seen three comely white women In as many years, she was, he realized, only a spoiled child; vain, headstrong, the pampered darling of a lonely father. Then his thoughts shifted to Mary Christie, the loyal, capable girl at Lake Expanse, who ministered with head an] hands to the well-being and comfort of his chief, Andrew Christie, and who, except for five years' schooling in Scotland, had spent her life, without complaint, Im mured in the northern forests. He pictured her frank disdain of the dress and manners of the girl who slept over In his quarters ? her outraged sense of propriety at the direct thought and speech of this self-possessed daughter of the free trader. She wouldn't un derstand this girl ? would condemn her on sight as over-bold, light, unwoman ly. But no one who had seen Aurore LeBlond grimly refnslng to be swept from her grip on that canoe; as the seas buried her, could doubt the metal of her courage. She had proven that. Then he found himself comparing the blond comeliness of the decorous daugh ter of Andrew Christie with the dark loveliness of Aurore LeBlond. The following morning Stuart walked with his guest to the beach where Le Blond had preceded them to his wait ing cftnoe. "I really think you about won Sarah over, when you patted her shoulder and put that silk scarf around her neck," he said. "I know Sarah pretty well, and the way that grin slowly widened across her face when you gave her the scarf ?xnd shook her hand makes me think she's forgiven you your glbodlegwason. Though, of course, she wouldn't admit It." "She thinks me Insane, probably." "She didn't know what to think." Then, as they opproftched the shore, she sold, hurriedly: "The spilt rock on the shore of the last of the Islands ? look there In a few days ; you might find something." Oood-by, Mr. .Teem Stuart." She gave him her hand. "Good-by, Miss Glbodlegwason." When LeBlond stepped Into his big freight canoe he sold to Stuart: "I tlinnk you again for what you have done. Your people have seen fit to send you here to take the trado from me. Between the North-West ami the Hudson's Boy there can be no quarter. But lo you, yourself, I owe much. Some day 1 mny be able to repay." Goat Ranked Above Cow in Mountainous Lands Although they keep themselves dis tinct and appear to affect disdain one for the other, sheepiand goats are, and npparently always have been pastured together, the gonts eating the brush and roughage which the more tendor mouthed sheep will not touch. In rough, rocky mountainous dis tricts as Is a grent part of tho land of Canaan, the gont Is a more serviceable animal than the cow, jnore agile and wonderfully sure footetj, content to wander about and pick a mouthful her? and there, able to live without much more moisture than tho heavy dows supply, long-lived, and generally freo from sickness, especially from contagious diseases. They thrive best ih the higher altitudes, and the wild Chine** Symbol# Among Chinese symbols the bat slg nlfles happiness; Ituddhtat scepter, tin rhortftllty crow, evlf} duck, conjugal affection; stork, tortoise or young stag, long llfo; crane Immortality. varieties which existed until compara tlvely recent days In Syria and about tho Palestinian Lebanon, are always sought on mountain tops. As the Psalm l?t says: "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goals." It Is worth no ticing that among all his riches of (lochs and herds, Job counted no goats, as was to be expected, ? since he lived on an Arabian plain where was abun dant pasturage for his "fourteen thou sand sheep and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses," (Job 2t):12) as well doubtless as Immense numbers of cows. Favor??l G<rmitb Spot The unusually beautiful scenery of the Hart/, mountains In Oermany and the plentiful variety of wild game are said to be #reat attractions to visitors. Klk, roe, fallow deer, wild swine and sheep come from the hills to feed on horse chestnuts, acorns, carrots and hay provided by tho foresters on the hunting preserves. ?As the factor of Sunset House watched the departing peterboro nose an ever-widening ripple out across the still lake which now mirrored the hills ? for the wind had dropped in the night to a flat calm ? a voice at his side roused him from his thoughts. "We got a beeg Job ahead, dls sum mer." I Stuart looked Into the grave face of Omar. "We have, Omar, but I wish I knew where to begin. They heard at Lake Expanse that LeBlond got thirty thousand dollars worth of fur from Pipestone lake and the Sturgeon river country alone, this year. We didn't get a pelt ? not one hunter from that country !" "I hear, last night, somet'lng about dat." "You ? did? How d'yuh mean ? heard?" ' "De men wld de cano' talk w'lle Le Blond go to de house for de girl. Dey talk about Jlngwak." "Jlngwak, the medicine man at Pipestone lake?" "Ah-hah, you know how he get all de hunter to trade wld LeBlond ? not one come to Sunset' House?" "No, but I'd like to," said the Inter ested Stuart. "Wal ? Jlngwak tell all dem peopl' dat dls place ees full of devil. I find dis out, for one of dat crew had fear to stay on de beach." Slowly the blood filled the bronzed face of the man who listened. "So they are bribing the medicine men, the conjurors, are they, to keep the trade from Sunset House?" It was clever of LeBlond, for the Pipestone OJibwas, who came two hun dred miles south to trade, were a wild, superstitious lor, easily Influ enced by a medicine man ? a shaman. "Wat you t'lnk of dat?" demanded the half-breed. "I tell you we got good Job ahead, dis summer, w'en we get de trade stuff up from Lak' Ex panse." \ "Omar, we've got to get some of that Pipestone and Sturgeon river trade. We can't, live on what we get from fhe rest of the country. What're ?we going to do?" The swart Boisvert rose from his squatting position. He was not tall, but his Scotch and French blood had united with the OJibwa to create a rare example of nature's skill In the building of human thew and muscle; for In his compact one hundred and eighty pounds Omar carried power and stamina which had been a by word among the voyageurs of western Klwedin. Deliberately reaching to the rear, the half-breed drew his skinning knife and, lifting a foot, stropped the blade slowly on his moccasin. "Dere ees one t'lng we can <lo wld M'sieu' Jlngwak," he said, slgmiloautly. "You old wolf," laughed Stuart, "I believe, If I said the word, you'd hunt him down this summer and stick that In him." Omar's small eyes met his chief*s cryptically as he said: "Dere ai? manee way to kech a fox." "Yes, and we must find one to beat this Jlngwak ; but we can't hurt him, you know. There are laws In this country." "Law? Umph 1" grunted Omar. "We got do somet'lng ver' queek 1" "We have, Omar," admitted Stuart. "If I'm licked here, I might as well look for a new Job. The Company'll never forgive me. Christie knows what the Job is here, but he's not sat isfied with the Braall trade this year." With an Impulsive movement Bole vert grasped the hand of the younger man. "We not tru yet I Dis summer wo go to Pipestone lake." Two days later, with the freight boats from Lake Expanse which car ried the next year's supplies and trade goods for the little post and had been wlndbound at the head Qf the lake, cnme Ksau Otchlg, whose shoulders had rounded and lean face creased with furrows In the service of the company ? old Ksau, a full-blooded OJIbwa, who had served thirty year* with Stuart's father and now followed the fortunes of the son. To the In dian, when the supplies were unloaded and the empty freighters had started back on the trail south, Omar related what he had overheard on the beach how the hunters from the IMpestone country had been kept from trading at Sunset House by the tabu of the sha i man, .Tlngwak. "Ah-hahl" E?au muttered. "So dla Jlngwak put de devil Into Sunset House. Wal, we put de devil Into Jlngwnk." "Good!" agreed Stunrt, "hut how?" Esau's beady eyes met the widening grin of Omar as he answered: "Omar evalr tell you w'at happeii to Makwa, do beeg shaman at Wolf riviere, mane? long snow back?" Stuart shook his head. "No, what happened ?" "DIs Makwa, he t'lnjc he mak' d# beeg medeclne, lie come an* say to d? ole man at Wolf riviere, 'You geev* MakwA, de shaman, flour, tea, trade good, an' you get All 'JIbwa fur. You not geevo Makwa dls, an' free-trader, he get do fur.' " "What did the Hudson's Hay oiaf soy to that?" - v (to nn covtinuhd.i IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I CHOOL L chool L. ess on RBV. P. B. riTZWATKR, D. D.. Mem ber of Faeulty. Moody BibU <6, Lesson for October 2 THE CHRISTIAN'S DEVOTIONAL LIFE &rsz ; sw<,:?vs:,.c?srr,,t- t? ?'? - Di28?N TEXT-Matthew ?:6.15: o ??10; II Timothy S-M-i? Jumoif TOPirIC^T ? " <*>??? ^JUNIOR TOPIC? What Real Prayer TOPKwJieD1^IB, A.ND SENIOR Life, Christian's Devotional IcIS-Uh^?xcPEOPLE AND *DULT TOP. IC? The Means of Christian Growth nfTM6 ^hrl8t,an's growth is by means of his devotional life. It requires the dflSit36^061 dGvel?Pment of his un Uerstanding and heart Bible study and prayer go hand in hand. The believer's affections need proper dl rection and exercise. (M*att.T 8*6.13). r'#tlan'* L"? 'h'S TOS8aKe sifi ft&Fal8e Prayer (VV' 5"7)- Th,s con" hJt'J" ?ne prayln* to be seen and heard of men (v. 5). Many prayers uttered in public are false, for the supreme consideration Is what the SmX? t?r,Dk rathGr than what God thinks. Men who thus pray get a reward but not from God. ",8,ng va,D rePe"tions (TV. 7. 8). This does not mean that we should ask but once for the thing desired, for we have examples of Christ and Paul fPMy ,g*cthree tInies for th? same thing (Matt. 20:39-40; II Cor. 12:7 8) ? but rather that the use of meaning-' less repetitions, reiterations of empty sentences be avoided. 2. True prayer (v. 6). Real praver is communion of the child of God with hla heavenly Father. Life for its fullest development needs both soli tude and companionship. God our Creator, knew what our nature's re quire. Therefore, he commands both public and private prayer (Hob. 10 25; Matt. 0:0). 3. The model prayer (vv. 9-13). This Was given In response to the dis ciples request that the Lord would teach them to pray (Luke 11:1). a. A right relationship? "Our Fa ther" (v. 9). Only those who have become children of God by faith in Jesus Christ can pray aright. b. a right altitude ? "Hallowed be thy name" (vv. 9, 10). When one realizes that he has been delivered from the power of darkness and trans Is /im,? the k,n8dom of his dear Son (Col. 1:13) by being a child of o - he cannot help pouring out his soul in gratitude and praise, intense ly longing for the kingdom, the right eous rule of Christ on the earth c. A right spirit (vv. 11-13). This spirit involves (1) Trust which looks to God for the supply of daily need. We are de pendent upon him for our daily food. With all man's boasted progress he cannot make a harvest. (2) The spirit of love which results n forgiveness of others. God will not listen to the prayers of one who has an unforgiving spirit (3) That of holiness which moves one to pray and not to be led Into temptation and moves him to long to be delivered from the Evil One. (4) Regular prayer (Dan. 0:10). Though prohibited by royal decree from asking a petition from any god or man except the king, Daniel did not depart from his regular custom of prayer to God three times a day. M. Th? Christian's Bible Study (II Tim. 3:14-17). This scripture exhibits the value of the Holy Scriptures. Devotional life undirected by the Scriptures will develop in ? wrong direction. The af fections need to be disciplined through the understanding. 1. The Scriptures able to make ono wise unto salvation (v. 15). Salva tion is In Christ alone. It Is secured through faith In his finished work on the cross. True wisdom lends to Christ crucified since "there is none other nnme under heaven given nmong men whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12), "and without shedding of blood Is no remission" (Heb. 9:22). 2. The Scriptures discipline the life (w. lo, 17). in tho Scriptures doc trino Is set forth, the standard of conduct which Is absolutely needed e only place to find God's stand ard of life is In his Holy Word It not only exhibits thn divine stand ard, but It reproves; that Is, refutes error. The way to deal with error Is not denunciation, hut the positive presentation of truth. Then. too. It corrects; that Is. sets straight many of the dislocations of personal and social conduct. The Word of God not only sets stralKht, but Instructs In righteousness and equips for service. GEMS OF THOUGHT If you expect to get fo heaven yon mu$t go In that direction. ? * ? Do not pray for 'easy lives; pray to be stronger men and women. ? ? ? If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of Itself. * ? * It Is one thing to see the way yon iihontd go, and quite another to go the Wfty you see. Las Angeles Boy Needed Help Leroy Young, 1116 Georgia St., Los An geles, Is a "regular fellow," active la sports, and at the top In his classes at school. To look at him now, you'd think he never had a day's sickness but his mother says : "When Leroy was Just a little fellow, we found his stomach and bowels were weak. He kept suffering from con stipation. Nothing he ate agreed with him. He was fretful, feverish and puny. "When we started giving him Cali fornia Fig Syrup his condition im proved quickly. His constipation and biliousness stopped and he has had no more trouble of that kind. I have since used California Fig Syrup with him for colds and upset spells. He likes it beoause it tastes so good and I like it because it helps him so wonderfully !" California Fig Syrup has been the trusted standby of mothers for over 50 years. Leading physicians recom mend it- It is purely vegetable and works with Nature to regulate, tone nnd strengthen the stomach and bowels of children so they get full nourishment from their food and waste Is eliminated in a normal way. Four million bottles used a year shows how mothers depend on it. Al ways look for the word "California'* on the carton to be sure of getting the genuine. Names in Maine Atheua, Home, Carthage, Palmyra and Canton ; Paris, Lisbon, Dresden, Naples, Palermo and Vienna ; Water loo and Oxford ; and Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Mexico and Peru are all in the state of Malm* For confirmation see the at las and the postal guide, not to men tion the railroad schedules. Maybe "Insurance statistics show women live longer than men," said she. "Yeah?' he snapped. "Well, that proves talking is loss wearing than listening on the human system." ? Sam Hill, Cincinnati Enquirer. 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