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James Quaritch engages November Joe
as his guide. Joe and he go to Big Tree
portage to investigate the murder of a
trapper named Lyon.
Joe decides that the murderer followed
Lyon to his camp and shot nim from a
canoe.
By studying woodland evidence and
making clever deductions Joe discovers
the murderer, Highamson. Lumberman
Close reports that Blackmask, a high-
wayman, is robbing his men.
- CHAPTER II. -
“Thou shalt'break them with a rod of
iron.”
O sooner were we away than 1
t put my eager question, “What
do you think of it?”
: Joe shrugged his shoulders.
| “Do you know any of these men?’ -
| “All of them.”
i “How about the fellow who Is on
bad terms with”—
November seized my arm. A man
was approaching through the dusk. As
he passed my companion hailed him.
i “Hello, Baxter! Didn't know you'd
come back. Where you been?”
| “Right up on the headwaters.”
“Fitz come down with you?”
“No; stayed on the line of traps.
Did you want him, XNcvember?”’
i “Yes, but it can wait. See any
moose?”
“Nary one; nothing but red deer.”
| “Good night.” :
i “So long.”
“That sett'es it.”’ said November, “If
he speaks the truth, as 1 believe he
does, it wasn't either of the Gurds shot
Lyon.”
“Why not?" .
Didn't voi hear him say they hadn't”
seen any moose? And I told you that
the man that shot Lyon had killed a
moose quite recent. That leaves just
Miller and Highamson—and it weren’t
Miller.” ‘
“You're sure of that?”
“Stark certain. One reason is that
Miller's above six foot, and the man
as camped with Lyon wasn't as tall
by six inches. Another reason. You
heard the storekeeper say how Miller
and Lyon wasn't on speaking terms.
Yet the mun who “shot Lyon camped
with him—slep’ beside him—must ’a’
‘talked to him. That weren't Miller.”
His clear reasoning rang true.
“Highamson lives alone away up
above Lyon's,” continued November.
“He'll make bck home soon.”
“Unless he’s guilty and has fled the
country,” 1 suggested.
“He. won't ’a’ done that. It 'ud be
as good as a confession. No, he thinks
he’s done his work to rights and has
nothing to fear. Like as not he’s back
home now.”
" The night had become both wild and
blustering before we set out for Hig-
hamson’s hut, and all along the forest
paths which led to it the sleet and
snow of what November called “a real
mean night” beat in our faces.
It was black dark or nearly so when
at last a building loomed up in front
of us, a faint light showing under the
door.
“You there, Highamson?”’ called out
November.
‘As there was no answer, my com-
panion pushed it open, and we enter-
‘ed the small wooden room, where on
a single table a lamp burned dimly.
He turned it up and looked around.
A pack lay on the floor unopened, and
9 gun leaned up in a corner.
“Just got in,” commented Novem-
ber. “Hasn't loosed up his pack yet.”
He turned it over. A hatchet was
thrust through the wide thongs which
bound it. November drew it out.
“Put your thumb along that edge,”
he said. “Blunt? Yes? Yet he drove
that old hatchet as deep in the wood
as Lyon drove his sharp one.
strong man.”
‘As he spoke he was busying him-
self with the pack, examining its con-
tents with deft fingers. Ii held little
save a few clothes, a little tea and
salt and other fragments of provi-
“true I-shot“Hal Lyon.
He's a
sions and » Lite The finding of the
last was. § onl see nO surprise to)
November. (liuugh Lhe reason why he |
should have suspected ils presence te:
mained hidden from me. But I had
begun to realize that much was plain
to him which to the ordinary man was
invisible
article in the
pack. he rapidly re-
movi
up as he bhaa|
ing out of the |
| hide if from me—she
you into that dark corner.” #
1 did so, while November stood iu
the shadow at the back of the closed
door. From my position I could see
the lantern slowly approaching until it
flung a gleam of light through the
window into the hut. The next mo-
ment the door was thrust open, and
the heavy breathing of a man became
audible.
It happened that at first Highamson
saw neither of us, so that the first in-
timation that he had of our presence
was November's “Hello!”
Down crashed the lantern, and its
bearer started back with a quick,
hoarse gasp.
“Who's there?” he cried. *“Who’"—
“Them as is sent by Hal Lyon.”
Never have I seen words produce so
tremendous an effect.
Highamson gave a bellow of fury,
andthe next instant he and November
were struggling together.
I sprang to my companion’s aid; and
even then it was no easy task for the
two of us to master the powerful old
man. As we held him down I caught
my first sight of his ash gray face.
His mouth grinned open, and there
was a terrible intention in his staring
eyes. But all changed as he recog-
nized hig visitor.
“November! November Joe!” cried he.
“Get up!” And as Highamson rose
to his feet, “Whatever for did you do
it?” asked November in his quiet voice.
{ But now its quietness carried a men-
ace,
“Do what? I didn’t—I1”— Higham-
son paused, and there was something
unquestionably fine about the old man
as he added: “No, I won't lie. It's
more if it was to do again I'd de it
again. It's the best deed I ever done.
Yes, I say that, though 1 know its
written in the book, ‘Who so sheddeth
man’s blood, by man shall his blood
be shed.””
“Why did you do it?” repeated No-
vember.
Highamson gave him a look.
“Pll tell you. I did it for my little
Janey’s sake. He was her husband.
See here! I'll tell you why I shot Hal
Lyon. Along of the first week of last
month I went away back into the
woods trapping muskrats, I was gone
more’n the month, and the day I come
back I went over to see Janey. Hal
Lyon weren't there. If he had been I
shouldn’t never ’a’ needed to travel so
far to get even with him. But that’s
neither here nor there. He'd gone to
his bear traps above Big Free. But the
night before he left he’d got in one of
And the Next Instant He and Novem-
ber Were Struggling Together.
his quarrels with my Janey. ‘Hit her, !
k
he did. There was one tooth gome
where his—fist fell.”
Never have I seen such fury as burn-
the old mdn’s eyes as he groaned
3 last words.
yy, that had the prettiest face
ifty miles ai
But there
gap among her white teeth. Bit by Dit
| slep’, for I dreanied. 5
it all came out. It weren't the first
time Lyon ’d took his hands to her, no,
nor the third nor the fourth. There on
the spot as I looked at her I made up
my mind I'd go after him, and I'd
make him promise me, aye, swear to
me on the Holy Book, never to lay
hand on her again. If he wouldn’t
swear I'd put him where his hands
couldn't reach her. I found him camp-
ed away up alongside a backwater
near his traps, and I told him I'd seen
Janey and that he must swear. He
wouldn't. He said he’d learn her to
tell on him. He'd smash her in the
mouth again. Then he lay down and
slep’. ‘I wonder now he weren't afraid
of me, but I suppose that was along of
me being a quiet, God fearing chap.
Hour by hour I lay awake, and then 1
couldn’t stand it no more, and I got
up and pulled a bit of candle I had
from my pack, fixed up a candlestick
and looked ia my. Bible for guidance.
And the words I lit on were ‘Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron’
That was the gun clear enough. Then
I blew out the light, and I think
“Next morning Lyon was up early.
He had two or three green skins that
he'd took off the day before, and he
sald he was going straight home to
‘smash Janey. I lay there, and I said
nothing, black nor white, His judg-
ment was set. I knew he couldn’t
make all the distance in one day, and
I was pretty sure he’d camp at Big
Tree. 1 arrived there just after him,
as I could travel faster by canoe than
him walking, and so kep’ near him all
day. It was nigh sunset, and I bent
down under the bank so he couldn’t
see me. He went into the old shack.
I called out his name. I heard him
cursing at my voice, and when he
showed his face I shot him dead. I
never landed; I never left no tracks. I
thought I was safe, sure. You've took
me; yet only for Janey's sake I
wouldn't care. 1 did right, but she
won’t like them to say her father’s a
murderer. That's all.”
November sat on the edge of the
table. His handsome face was grave.
Nothing more was said for a good
while. Then Highamson stood up.
“I'm ready, November, but you'll let
me see Janey again before you give
me over to the police.”
November looked him in the eyes.
“Expect youll see a good deal of
Janey yet. She'll be lonesome over
there now that her brute husband's
gone. She’ll want you to live with
her,” he said.
“D’ye mean”’— :
November nodded. “If the police
can catch you for themselves, let ‘em,
and youd lessen the chance of that a
wonderful deal if you was to burn
them moose shank moccasions you're
wearing. When did you kill your
moose?”
And what's «
. «pgesday’s a week, And my moc-
casins was wore out, so I fixed 'em up
woods fashion.” gi
< «Y-kpow: The hair on ‘em.is slip-J
ping. I found some of it in your
tracks in the camp, away above Big
Tree. That's how I knew youd killed
4 moose. I found your candlestick
too. Here it is.” He took from his
pocket the little piece of spruce stick,
which had puzzled me so much, and
turned toward me.
“This end’s sharp to stick into the
earth; that end’s slit, and you fix the
candle in with a bit o' birch bark.
Now it can go into the stove along
o the moccasins.” He opened the
stove door and thrust in the articles.
“Only three know your secret, Hig-
hamson, and if I was you I wouldn't
make it four, not even by adding a
woman to it.”
Highamson held out his hand.
“You always was a white man,
Noy,” said he.
Hours later, as we sat drinking a
final cup of tea at the campfire, I said:
“After you examined Lyon’s upper
camp you told me seven things about
the murderer. You've explained how
you knew them, all but three.”
“What are the three?”
“Pirst, how did you know that Hig-
hamson had been a long time in the
woods without visiting a settlement?”
“His moceasins was wore out and
patched with raw moose hide. The
tracks of them was plain,” replied No-
vember.
I nodded. “And how could you tell
that he was religious and spent the
night in great trouble of mind?”
November paused in filling his pipe.
“He couldn't sleep,” said he, “and -o
he got up and cut that candlestick.
What'd he want to light a candle for
but to read by? And why should he
want to read in the middle of the
night if he was not in trouble? And
if he was in trouble, what book would
he want to read? Besides, not one
trapper in a hundred carries any book
but the Bible.”
“I gee. But how did you know it
was in the middle of the night?”
“Did you notice where he cut his
candlestick?”
“No,” said IL.
“I did, and he made two false cuts
where his knife slipped in the dark.
You're wonderful at questions.”
“And you at answers.”
November stirred the embers under
the kettle, and the firelight lit up his
fine face as he turned with a yawn.
“My,” said he, “but I'm glad Hig-
hamson had his reasons. I'd ’a’ hated
to think of that old man shut in where
he couldn’t see the sun rise. Wouldn't
you?” .
(To be Continued)
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