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202 KOTUK’S PERIL, He was even planning how he should make the capture com- plete without a struggle, for he had no doubt that Ole would resist and do his best to kill his determined pursuer. ‘**He’ll be so paralyzed with astonishment,’’ thought Stokes, ‘*that I ought not to have any difficulty to bring him to terms.’’ The detective thought he knew exactly how to accomplish is, when the sloop, instead of coming to anchor, put about and sailed away to the north. ‘*What’s up now, Kotuk?’’ Stokes cried. . The Esquimau was standing a little way from the hut looking at the departing sloop. **Don’t know,’’ he answered in a disappointed tone. ‘‘Don’t come here—that’s all.’’ ‘*T should think that’s enough,’’ Stokes retorted. ‘‘What’s the matter with them, anyway ?’’ ‘*No can tell—Ole no come Yedvik—that’s all.’? ‘*It’s not possible, is it, that he’s going to clear out of here altogether? Is he trying to find a better anchorage ?”’ ‘*No, he could anchor there—water so deep he could come very close shore—no, go somewhere else—that’s all.” Stokes looked. with bitter wrath at the disappearing sloop, There was no question that it was not going to stop at Yedvik— it was going as fast from the village as possible. All the Esquimaux in Yedvik were disappointed at the failure of the sloop to stop there. ‘*No other boat perhaps all winter,” they said. ‘You wouldn’t have got any good out of that boat,’’? Stokes told them. ‘‘Where do you think she’s going?’’ Bearing in mind that Ole’s one chance of successful flight was in getting aboard a south-bound vessel, Stokes asked if there was any port to the north where such a vessel might stop. Yes, they told him, there was a port—Zeglit by name. It was a long distance away and there was less chance that a vessel would put in there than at Yedvik. Still, it did happen somie- times, and it looked as if Zeglit was the place to go if there was still any hope of catching the Swede. Stokes was more determined than ever to do this, but the ques- on of how to continue the pursutt was more: difficult than before, There was no boat at Yedvik which was suitable for making the long journey to Zeglit. The way by land would be round about and extremely dangerous. Kotuk had never been over the ground, and although he: was willing to go anywhére. with Stokes, he could. not speak hope- fully ot the chance of making the journey successfully, & boo j =) (E(0) gC th com 0)