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aside to a hiding place below an overâ€" hanging boulder from which he could waich the path. If he had missed the first man, he would at least secure the second; and with his revolver in one hand, his torch in the other he awaitâ€" ed his coming. Five leaden minutes passed, and still he had not appeared, and Malcolm had just decided thas it was useless to wait any longer, when a shadowy figure deâ€" tached itself from the darkness beneath the trses and came swiftly towards him. Mailcolm rose noiselessly to his fest. He waited until the man was within a yard of him, then with a low fierce ejJaculation of "Hands up!" he flashed his torch scraight into his face. He had fo more than a mom>n‘ary glimpse of that face,. for next moment his torch But the plantation w giving place to scrub 2: lcoked back as he reac path was and h« Malcolm hurried on past the dark vault of the cave. When c« last another curve in the path took him of range O0f it, he found that the was runninz dewn his face. made, must attribute it to his comâ€" panion. If they really did not know he was bec.wesen them, then the danger was of another kind; and he walked on, less expeciant cof the rushing steps that would mean attack, though grimâ€" ly aware that the man behind him could see him all the time. But if he could play out the game he> was safeâ€" unless the man in front scopped to wait for his friend to come up. But the man in front was just disâ€" appearing round the bend.â€" where the path turned towards the small cave. Now, if his first impression was the right one, would comse the moment for one man waiting concealed beâ€" yond the tiurn, the other hurrying up from behind. Malcoim‘s steps did not slacken, but his finger was on the trigâ€" ger of his revolver as he approached the bend. He came round it, but the path lay empty ahead. Tho man had disappeared. Thon another thou his mind. Supposin a trap at all, that him before they 12 they did not know t Lwo, were walking t Then the man bohir he saw only his frie if he heard any so their him. through then blundering of his impulsive him neatly, t handed himst o Cl have mana to hide ag known af 11s impuisiveness. They had im neatly, those two men. F ianded himself over to them by ng off in pursuit, and now the hepherding him away, awaitin heir own moment for dis»os THURSDAY. JANUARY 26TH . 1938 Malcolm had zoo him that t rey ent nat i mnp CHAPTER XXIII A TRAP OK NOT ENERGY TO BURN\} ition wa serub an n was thining, trees ub and boulders. He reached them;,; The id he turned quickly lace below an overâ€" ‘om which he could he had missed the I at least secure the his revolver in one the other he awaitâ€" with a low fierce ds up!" he flashed into his face. He iT 11 pA beir lly did not know . then the danger ; and he walked the rushing steps ick, though grimâ€" man behind him ‘ time. But if hc n Jn iC n And even as d, so now he him, moving s, If he had nly he had followed beâ€" es, he might IL W id n3 men, <he t» must t} ad, and it Malc like the He cursed id caugsht He had _ _by rushâ€" they were ting only 1 V HC 11 1rough think d he, lcolm comâ€" een nat not ipe of ‘"Man, it‘s getting dry again," said Channing, ‘"and I‘m starting the But where do they go once they are on cop? And who are they? Haven‘t you fsund out?" | plcughs later now, to give the oxen a "No, Bass; Maraka him not know.}|chance to fill up." Maybe him so by the trees to Brandâ€" | Then he called to one of the boys and fontein road; maybe him back to khotâ€" |tog him to tell his herd boy to take lo; maybe him plercy dead spook, him i nis cattle to graze on the "far bult," fly up into him sky. Maraka him not | that traditionally vague site on every know, Baas. Maybe him bad native | rres State farm, on which nacive farmâ€" peoples work for kwenaâ€"him big river | laborers love to report the most sensaâ€" snake. Maybe him catch other peoples | tional calamities. for kwena to cat. Maraka him not| After breakfast Malcolm, on his way know, Raas. Him peoples hide plenty ) to his rondavel to fill his pouch before well in him blankets and big hats. BUS | setting out for the lands, found Maraka Maraka him know him must be plenty, | for once apparently quite idle, standâ€" jlenty careful, Baasâ€"him peoples |ing in the middle of the bare space plenty cuickâ€"him Leftâ€"Hand, B@@S, | which served as the Bon Espior backâ€" gazing vacantly into the far disâ€" and Maraka him come alongâ€"whit! spsoks all gone!" "Well, I‘m blowed! I never thought of that. Of course, they could get away quickly like that. Those trees grow right against the rockâ€"they‘d just have to climb up and slip on to the top of the cave. It‘s a regular secret stairway! fine spcok, Baas, Maraka hirm look, and lock, and look, in the khotlaâ€"all the nizsht, Baas. But him fin? nothing, Baas. So Maraka know Baas Corneille must have plenty fine picnic, Baas." "So that was the reason for that picnic? But why?" "For to see where him pseoples go so quick, like spooks, Baas." . "And did the picnic tell you?" "Oho, him picnic plenty fins, Baas. Him take the dust out of eyes of plenty big black fool, Baas. Maraka walk in the Ithcitla like plenty fine gentleman. Him big trses near the cave, him got plenty fine polish, Baas. Him plenty easy for to climb, Raas. Him spock climb up him trees plercy easy, plenty quick, Baas; and when the Baas "Oho, Baas, Maraka him got hard, black head. Him plenty big fool Baas.. When him peoples go awayâ€" whit!â€"so pleniy quick, just like plenty fine spcok, Baas, Maraka hirm look, and Jjourney of discovs ably similar to th h> emerged from below the Camps: The story ed to the n Klilod. M eille had bevn Maraka. he ha Apon ful $ «11 preser Han 12 mnfronted by the 1@ 5 Malcolm had "Then there we rposed Malecolm )u tonight?" earchning for ch he knew n. His effor as those of 11 Detn at the rIV he had taken th ing for thas safe > knew Leftâ€"Hal n the ‘, ‘"but 1€ Maraka him of a¢ Maraka un{oldGed datâ€" v‘hen the boy Sam had le Malesim and Cornâ€" t th> river, explained taken the opportunity thas safe hiding place Leftâ€"Hand must rely s had bgen as successâ€" Malcolm. Indeed his ory had been remarkâ€" iat of Malcosim. When 1 the tunnel‘s mouth, Ma oniy 0 holtd a treges pifgrly Ccasy, and when the Baas come alongsâ€"whit! P iR at good place that Malcolm hrard the cave, he had been o blanketed figures ollowed that nigh.. two of them?" inâ€" "But whers were at nour mystorious di he had tried as. Marak Baas com od plazcse . him man littlc nour ear.iiler in Maitoim s rondavei} 10r although his glass had shown him tha. he made an excellent imitation of a na‘ive., he suspocted that Maraka was not unaware of the humour of his disâ€" grilsse. But as they had agreed that the risk of conversation must be avoidâ€" ec, no word passed between them. The su‘ry windless dGay had been followed by a hot close night, w‘chouw to accompany him to Campsie. They found Channing as well as Cynthia at the byres, and he carried off Malcolm to see his pigs. As cthey walked through the dewâ€"drenched orchard they were passed by plough boys on their way to the lands, laden with their great plaits of reims slung over their blanketed shculders, and carrying their long kamboo whip sticks. l ‘"Man, it‘s gettinz dry again," said Channing, ‘"and I‘m starting the plcughs later now, to give the oxen a CHAPTER XXIV KWENA THE SNAKE The weeks passed without incident, and Maraka made no sign. And once more it was the period of the changs of the moosn, when all the old Free Sta‘tse farmers lock for the signs that nold promise of the precious summer rains. Cynthia had just returned and, as once before, Corneille came to Malâ€" colm before breakfast and asked him NC "P‘y I didn‘t know at the time how plenty safe it was," observed Malcolm drily. "However, we ssgem to be getting to grips with Leftâ€"Hand. We know his favourite haunt, and we know that he goss about with only one satellite. So our next move is obvious. We must wait on top of the little cave, and snaffle them when they come up." Maraka did nos reply. "That‘s the thing to do, Maraka," Malcon insisted. "But what will Baas do when him catch him people?" "Riin them in, of ccurse.‘" "But what will Baas him say him psople him done?" "Oho, Baas," he said, "then Maraka him plenty frightened. But Maraka him plerty glad when him ses the Paas jump so quickly into him hole, like him frightensed mceerkat. Him see the Baas go after him man, when him comse out of the cave. But Maraka him know one more coming. so him wait and follow other man. Maraka him know the Baas him see one man,. the cave below hi "Ohno, Baas," hC him plenty frigh him plerty glad just as had h« MA Kknow the Baas him see ind Maraka him see other or safe, Baas." He did not turn mark, and Maleo "Speaking to me as not talk now. Baas." And with that he walked quickiy Y H m CS e r.ppilt he n sutchn vehemente, and so sucgden 1 dramatic had been the twist in narra.ive by which he had brought Loftâ€"Hand, that Malco:im felt a shivâ€" of apprehension. But Maraka had re to tell him. He explained that had bez>n keeping vigil over the iz byres, and the only signs Oof that sunâ€"drentched courury were rilliant figures of native women inz along the Bank of the river iltivate their Tands, Channing‘s moving slowly towards their ig ground on the low Campsie nd the litte trails of duss whoere of cxen, leaning to their yokes, ipping up the land slowly and inâ€" ly as far as the eye could see. as," said Maraka in a low voice merely communing with himself, o to river tonight." did not turn when he mads the 11 vith the ts géetting dty aAgain, Saldl g.â€" "and I‘m starting â€" the later now, to give the oxen a sen killed. Malcoim grinâ€" raka, who had insisted or rmation when they met ar ‘ in Malcolm‘s rondavel; fo; s glass had shown him tha n excellent imitation of : suspocted that Maraka wa: iC im catch Baas Mxrtim aas Jan‘e. him catch t object nct only of identi ple who came out of if io find out where the: t they did, before the the tunnel ontrance, bu s to warn him, h e sound of mosvement i: 11 n stopped short. Maraka?" he a Bags where th Maleolm id insiste i they m Plenty Chapleau, Treffle Bolduc, Amos; Hull Louis Philipps Mercier, Hull; Labelie Albert Boulais, Papineauville; Pontiac Alben: Piiteau, Villie Mariec; Wrigcht Rene Thoerrien, Avimer. Lemigeux, O Dubois, L‘Orignal. Renfrew North, Edv Pémbroke; Renfrew So Jordan. Renfrew: Russe smiths Falls; Lseds, Newton bertson, Brockville:; Nipissing, Bedard. North Pay: Ottawa E Westbrook Alexandra Campb Hast! turnir preser KWir th the désper skadow of the bank. Malâ€" colm clutched Maraka‘s arm and pointâ€" and in moment he knew that what he and Cornsille had seen, a meonth earlier, had not been imagined, and that the agonizing cry which had sent them racing along the river bank had been the scream of a man in terâ€" ror for his soul, rathesr than his lifeâ€" a native who thought that what he saw was che dread kwena, the great mythical snake of the Caledaon River. Again Appointed Electoral Officer for This District chief ele for twang and the rocketâ€"like hiss thing hurtling thrcugh the air was a dull thud on the opposi and then his straining sars w scious that there, across the riv one was moving. Then, on the water below something tcok shapeâ€"a lonz b ject, slipping out like a shad Malcolm‘s thousht‘s wandered. Try as he would to concentrate vision and hearing on the cbject of their vigil, which Maraka had persistenily rofused to divulge, he was conscious of nothâ€" ing but the approach of the storm. Then, in an instant, abstracion vanâ€" ished. He was staring away upstream where six flashes of light had pierced the darkness in quick succ2sssion. And with the flashing cof the signals his waning excitement flared up, and tense and expectant, he stared into the darkâ€" ness, alert for the firss sign that would show that the signals had been seen by other expeciant watchers, waiting thers too, perhaps, unszsen on the river bank. Ages seemed to slip through theé moments that ensued. Then, withouw warning, just below, so closs that Malâ€" cclm flinched instinctively, the tense silence was snapped by «ia2 rosounding twang and the rocketâ€"like hiss of someâ€" thing hurtling thrcugh the air. There was a dull thud on the opposite bank,. a breath of air. And now, in the scuth, great masses of black cloud were piling up, with lightning flickeringz inâ€" cessantly behind them still more imâ€" and even more eerie, through the muttered roll of thunder which went echoing up che deep river banks. ut previous appo Those appoir:ed y and Northern Carleton,. John 1C€ HeC appo 236 | significane ippoir, mer explained d that hss th l mntlerest attaches :o nts bscause of reports ction will be held next ] stonguay said there was rec~â€"Ac 1A T Y m2ent Gartan Val 3N pUuU of returr constituen water below them, i1apeâ€"a lonz black obâ€" like a shadow from w of the bank. Malâ€" raka‘s arm and pointâ€" moment he knew that i _ Hosy, Westbaro: . Mackay, Cochrane ton, J. O. Ellerbeck arry, John J. Morris C£ itme>r n Valois, Lachute: oldue, Amos; Hull cler., Hull; Labelle OT â€"~Dur Jules Castonz:uay, r, has announced returning officers anncouncemer this time. Electoral Ac 5h the list 0o i January. G. Cunningham, imes M. Shislds, Newton S. Cuthâ€" ipissinz, J. Emile iWard B. LACcey outh., Herbert A sell, P. E. Rochon rmont, Wilis O +â€" Temiskaming ks he Ottawa Val rio fallow: opposive bank ‘ars were conâ€" lamet e wWas no las, John A rIver new beâ€" passed at "”“ hip | Official Handbook ::Ifii.‘; of Canada for 1939 of apâ€" en â€" but i An advance copy of "Canada 1939" the official handbook of present conâ€" ditions and recent progress in the '- Dominion has been received by The y Advance and it appears fully up t»> the |high standards of previous editions. The announcement of the volume says that "Canada 1939" covers the present situation in the Domimion ‘from Atlantic toâ€" Pacific, the weight "Much of the legislation, however, which has been promulgated for the prcrection of debtors has not taken this into account. It is time that the orâ€" dinary citizens whose savings are beâ€" ing legislatsd against should activély assert their rights as citizens. every debs there is a creditor and that under the présen‘ organization of soâ€" ciety creditors are more numerous than the debtors. Practically all pubâ€" lic debts and all private debts of the mortgage type, are incurred by borrowâ€" ing from the savings of large groups of crdinary citizens. ship. The of creditors ed to unfair ""Many po "Necessit policy by t must large of credi‘:or ship. The "relief." There is a social significance in their sxistence which is of great importance. ‘"relief" situations have a tendency to be largely financed by bsrrowing from the future, or, in other words, by imposing a burden upon cur children. Life insurance, doing the same type of work, finds its source in pass savings. It confirms the value of selfâ€"r:liance and builds character. 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Théreé is possibly, however, an undue amount of pessimism in this conneciion. Whie undsutkscedly the next few years will requir> adjustments in a number of cconomic matters to give greater opporâ€" tunity for profitable results to clur wheat producers, I am one of who believe that the workings of naâ€" cural law will again increasoe the world consumption of Canadian wheat." "We are proud of the fact that our liabilitics in the British Isles and in the Uniled States are fully covered by carefully seléctsd securitiecs payable in the same currencies. the same time we believe our total investment portâ€" folio is much strenzthercd by the we‘ll seléected and well diversified list backed by the ezczonomy of a country which has 0008808080604 Mr. Mitchesll dealt in some detail with gerseral business and agricultural condivions in Carada. 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However, he warned that the good work already dons in this field should be enlarged, not clurtailed. "It is important that in the futuré the recurrence of situations in municipal finance should be prevented," he pointed ow.. ‘This is the road to the much neéded reduction of muniâ€" cipal taxation. It is still true that an cunce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." ing to consider sympathcfeally the necessities of scach debtor who has cuffered adversity through cirecumâ€" stances beyond his control. Our reâ€" cords are full of voluntary concesstons and compromises arranged with such debtors. Deb lezsislation and moraâ€" toria, however, have gone too far and you and other thrif‘y péeople of the country are being pznalized by some borrowers taking advantage of the leâ€" gislation to evade payments they are in a position to make." 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The course being followed by the pilot was off the "beatâ€" en track" to some extent, being right up Lake Temiskaming instead of slightâ€" ly west of the town, and thus the view of ~the ~peculiar "tail" of the machin?: was more clearly visible, Alex Mosher who has travelled by air over many sections of the country and has seen all kinds of aircraft in his prospecting operation, said that he had never witâ€" nessed anything of this kind before. Discussing the unusual occurrance with Pilot Edwards, who operates a plane for the McIntyre Mines between Haileybury and outlying points, The Hailéyburian learmed from him that the hard frost was responsible for the trail of steam that followed the big machine. He said that the moisture m the exhaust will sometimes cause a freezing as the gases are thrown off and that the exhaust steam will beâ€" come visible. Asked why the plane was flying of the usual route, he said that it was probably because another machine was due to pass on a southbound trip and the pilot was givâ€" ing pléenty of clearance. He would be well withim the guiding "beam" even if he flew much farther to the east. The "beam" would be 10 miles wide, 106 miles from the station where it was being broadcast, Pilot Edwards said." Glcbe and Mail: For: sprakting of Hitler as a "German misfortune" one of his fellow civizens has been sentâ€" enced to life imprisonment. The susâ€" gestion is thas he was of baving revealed a state secrot. so ably withstood the s¢ress of recent years as has this Canacta of ours." Strange Effect of Frost on Transâ€"Canada Plane UNIONM BUS TERMNAL â€" NSRiH Ly. NORTH BAY 8.40 a.m. Ar. TORONTO 4.05 p.m Lv. TORONTO 8.152.m Ar. NORTH BAY 4.10 p.m seventy and having en retured ten vears AnHO DFOKMATION AY Timmins Phone 101â€"2â€"3