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From rock rid great

halted in

the stra

behind

form

sight of Hittle

eyes stared anxiously from othe figure to the next, then suddenly it up with a red glare. It rear

ed. It began to move-Nanook, |

the most feared of all, the great?

Polar bear. Savage, ravenous, draggin and of a courage and speed the roc transcending those of all other hunters, he came.

Old instinct rescued from his daze. His rife was our

away and bent

thrust the pist Dirano pick up his rifle.

ed after the dog. and at his shoulder in a flash, bis He was on the ice, a red trail be- Kikpak had reached the rives. curving trigger.

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sights... His thumb slipped the over the humped masses and on safety catch...

to a smoother surface beyond, jand, Dizon, causing, followed him. Pupik leapt aside. In spite of The edge of the stream halted his fatigue, the terrific exertions him, and he timed at bay, half with of the past two days, he moved crouched upon his injured flank, ease, with astonishing Dixon stopped. spreading his agility and coolness in face of the feet on the wet sodden ice, and terror lumbering down upon him taking careful aim The bullet At the same time he whistled drilled a clean hole between the! shrilly.

glaring eres. Ukpak twisted

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of those eyes that saw so much, hausted, in a puddle of water. that glared at him so steadfastly, Men approached slowly, with that followed him with A white fury streaked across convulsively, sprang into the air

every curiosity. At their head stalked Nazook's path. Ukpu fangs and fell

jmovement that he made.

the Mountie, grim and slightly A sudden rumbling brought

He thought of the past, of that pale. The sun shone. The river gleaming, eyes blazing red, leap- ed. He struck the great

Dixon round, and he felt the ice

other who had gone like Pupil was almost clear, and the snow and for whom the Mountie was lay now only in great scattered panse of white breast and throat, move under hind silver-edged

on his trail. He tried to picture patches, and in deep drifts under and for a long moment clung.crack shot across the surface before being

the Mountie, leam, silent, grim as the rock ridges. But up there whirled away between him and the shore, and Ham-through

death in this land of grimmess where the igloo was, in perpetual “ the air. He pitched he stumbled forward, urgently.

and of death. He shivered, turn-shadow, the snow was thicker be- heavily, was on his feet on the He leapt a yard-wide new gap.

ing over uneasily and closing his neath the rock face, and the igloo instant, snarling, preparing for and soon he reached the shore, another intrepid rush.

with a terrific din in his ears, the

eyes, trying to force sleep.

stood shrunk a little, but intact. But he could not sleep. crackle and thunder of breaking (upon the dog that Nanook had

The Eskimos, trailing in a He rose at last to his silent group, clustered" round to The bear had been turned. Hefice. He had a last glimpse of killed, with a snarling fury, and}

kuees. crawling out from clear the entrance. The Mountie, ignored the puny 5gures of the Ukpak. stretched stiff upon the left Dixon to his work.

the pile of fur blankets and on hands and knees, went into the men, and faced

It took him a long time: but he rambling for his clothes. He darkness. morery surface. close to the black

swift stream.

was too weary to prevent the He had to force himself to act dogs from gorging themselves on encountered a parka on top of scarcely recognisable. Gannt, was surprised when his fingers The man he brought out was

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Pupik darted to one side.

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took up the throwing stance.

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ed his strange appearance. warmth in the melting mow. He Vague uneasiness invaded him. He swayed and almost fell; hut had no difficulty in harnessing He wormed into his clothes and the Mountie held him. them, although they were slug-felt the damp walls, in search of "Steady," he said, quietly. “Bet- gish and lazy. It took him bear the entrance. He found it, drag- ter not try to walk yet awhile.. ly the whole day to reach the ged himself into the tunnel, and But if you want to know village.

met the solid obstruction of ~ 3. He pointed to a ridge, where He was received in a silence of great block of ice at the end. He rose twin mounds of stones. bewilderment He hastened to tried to push it away. It refused "In there's Pupil and Ukpuk

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The spear hurtled through the

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At the same moment. Dixon fired

The spear struck the bear clean between the shoulder blades. Its weight and force helped it to penetrate and the great beast stumbled, coughing. His rush carried him forward, and he went SAILING5 Sprawling on top of one of the

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to move. He could get no pur the husky Yes, they did that for They were deeply impressed chase against it--he was shut in him, although he was only a dog. They listened and watched in He remained calm. He crawled you see the ice broke clear, and

through the useless summer, and him harmless, live on the stores they received in here. But why exchange for their pelts. The possible that

To the policeman who alleged breathless silence while be pan- back into the igloo, and aft drifted down here ahead of you, that he had smelf of drink. Dr. tomimed the disaster, the epic long, patient fumbling discovered with Ukpak on it. They saw he Dixon's shot had been dead George Glen replied with dignity battle, and the production of the a box of wax vestas. He struck had been shot, twice. When you accurate. Never had he sighted that he had merely been eating pelt was the culminating stroke a light, and stared round, his jaw came, and told your story, and de- more coolly, with more certainty [rum toffee,

of drama. It was fingered, ex-dropping.

scribed how the bear killed the of his target. The bullet crash- Tossing a piece of toffee to the amined. discussed for hours There was food here-plenty of dog, they kept their mouths shut Jedoneatly into the middle of Judge, the doctor, accused of Thereafter Dixon indicated his food, stacked up. There were and just wondered. Then when Pupik's back and the Eskime driving under the infnence of own requirements—a boat for the fur robes, all his own pelts. But you were asleep three of the south, and food for the trip, and his rifle, his pistol, his hunting hunters went up-river to look, and Dixon swung his rifle. He took The Judge did so, whereagon men to paddle.

knife were gone. No weapon, no found what they suspected. They cool aim. He fired, and grunted the Assistant City Attorney re-

There were long leads now tool of any kind was left even got back in time to tell the others. bis satisfaction. The shot went marked "Judge, you smell like through the shore ice; it would the bones had been cut away from and shut you up til they fetched home in Nanook's brain.

you'd had four or five good snorts be safe to take out a boat. Soon the hunks of meat. game.They didn't know who you

the tribe would be moving to very slowly to under He stood for a long time, be of ram"

were, but they've got the fear of wildered by the swiftness of the “Case dismissed,” replied the their permanent village of stone He had been sealed

they the Law in them, these Huskies. More sense than to kir a white action. The sight of Pupik lying judge, throwing the toffee back to hats some distance away, to idle had stole

and more sense than to let there fascinated him. It was so the motorist-Beater.

you go.

levent And all on simple, so very simple; and plan-

account of a dog. sible, too. He would explain

SPEEDY JUSTICE igloos would not be habitable Pupik, that they could have fo

He began to assist. Dixon down that the bear had come проп

much longer, were even now un- the truth? Was it possible.

motorboat them without warning, had

comfortable. Whoever went He hurled himself at the

tited to charged, that Pupik had flung his

south with Dixon would receive a wall. With his bare hand he be- spear but had not stopped the

rich reward in skins.

gan to scrape the soft snow terrific rush, and had been killed.

Satisfied, he retired for the away. He shovelled it back, like Then Dixon- had shot the beari

Paris night. He kept away from Pupil's a dog, between his legs, scatter- and he would produce the pelt în

Legal authorities who are igloo, where the widow and chiling it wildly digging, digging proof. He would pantomime the endeavouring to speed-up legal dren moured the loss of their grew firmer. His fingers ached, story, and the people would be so procedure in the British law hunter, the provider of their only grew numb, blood oozed from u enthralled, so excited by the pan-courts should be interested in livelihood, the giver of all things der the nails. He fought on, EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS that they would not this example of French justice. The white man was allowed the wildly, with savage desperation dream of suspecting duplicity 4 It is claimed to be a record for use of a small untenarted igloo a with a terrible fear in his heart.

He stirred, the sense of un-France

little apart, where he carried his For he began to know what he reality in Pupil's motionless bodę At 410 pm Boniface Pontes pelts, his weapons, the stores the would find fading slowly. He saw that was arrested at Macon, the Eskimos had given him. He slept He found it, and the discovery Ukpuk was beside his master, chief town in the department soundly.

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There was a strangeness about They had not merely sealed the whimpering, cries. Suddenly" "he He was immediately taken his awakening. It was dark door. They had sealed the whole looked up. Diron was aware of before the Procureur and still pitch dark. He could not igloo, pouring water great blazing eyes, of an immense charged with littering the understand. He tried to think snow and letting mouth with gleaming fangs.public streets.

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By 5.15 pm, he had appear-was certain he had slept the clock wall of cice

He had not time to use his riße. ed in the court and had been round. The great beast, brought him to sentenced to one month's imprî- the ground, and only the fact that sonment.”

hands

He lay for a while, puzzled And the But while he lay there awake; -

blackness, forced their thought

the others were busy with the car- The entire case, from the stari

as of the bear saved him from man's arrest to his confinement un being torn to shreds.

Upak was more fatigued than

ome thot

in the cells, took just under an way into his her hour.

Diamond Prices Show

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Upward Tendency

them south.

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