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i Poy 7 vor Sens eek vere eer, J “And so will the captain of the Gray Fox, and I guess he’s an equally competent and less - biased witness, sir,” retorted Gifford. ‘He _ swears that he saw both shells leave my bows one after the other, sir.” “What!” cried the astounded Hallett. “Then where did mine go?” “Right through my ship from stern to stem, sir. Blew all our caps with the wind of it, and The Long Traver S Ce VER the conference of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s post agents of Nor- -way House District, gathered in evening session this tenth of July at _ Norway House, situated at the en- trance of Great Playgreen Lake, the northern arm of Lake Winnipeg, presided Charles Burnham, the energetic and despotic governor of the Ancient and Honorable Company. - The Northwest Fur Company and the Hud- son’s Bay Company had settled their differences and merged their fortunes in 1821. By the terms of the merger the Northwest Fur Com- pany lost its identity in the Hudson’s Bay Company and from the new Montreal head- quarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Gover- nor Burnham had come on the long canoe trail to Norway House. Up the Ottawa River through Lake Nipissing and the French River, through Lake Huron, the Sault and Lake Superior; on through Rainy Lake, Lake of the Woods and the Winnipeg River to debouch at last into Lake Winnipeg itself; thence north- ward along the lake shore through terrific storms and winds that always harried the three- hundred-mile stretch of waters, his famed Iroquois crew had carried him in a great six- fathom canoe decked with banners and car- peted with robes of fur in all the barbaric pee: splendor of Northern overlords. a His was a momentous coming, for he would 23 either take a bride away from Norway House cee in the person of the factor’s daughter or depart aS a governor scorned, leaving many evil con- sequences behind him. Momentous, not for Bae eee at Feet Ae SS Oe 3 x >. ee aa Ee Re ee a ees a 1? ets Sn a SSA. ; The as Traverse i Author of “The Call of the Crimson Star,” “The Void Speces,” his brown, sinewy hands clasping his gray : =e Peaaet oe = ime a 2 ake CATE EES 2. a Ry SY 1 ee cae ee SY 125 nigh deafened us with the scream. You fired at the chase and raked. your consort—raked Ss nav A 5 ) a i ay ; Kid, Leip sent? se ee aes PAL, 4 Geet ee Hpiets ef ; FPA FR aS ay re | meee her fore and aft. And at that you didn’t hit anything, sir! “The Hoboken doesn’t mind a little thing like that; she’s a fine ship, sir, a —— sight finer than your gunnery. Go back to your station, : sir, and don’t try to teach seamanship and =” — S straight shooting to an eighteen-twelver!” 5 aS 4a 0h ) B. “wld rey a Bernhars alone but for many more of Norway House, for Jacob Travis himself, for Clara, for the Free Trader Steene, hiding like a hare in the forest, who stood in the governor’s way. It was the annual gathering of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s officers. Norway House was the capital of that vast area of Northland that bordered on the shores.of Lake Winnipeg. At the wilderness metropolis the affairs of the out- lying districts were supervised, the fur harvests gathered, the trade expansions planned, and from all the scattered posts by lake and stream men thoroughly versed in the business of the a wild delivered reports and gave sage council = to the presiding head. 2 Opposite the governor sat Henderson, chief ; brigade leader of all the Hudson’s Bay Company brigades, fresh out of the York Factory district that bordered on the shores of James Bay; and = on round the council table were ranged the = factors of the far-flung Norway House district = posts; Barrett from Split Lake, Sherman from Nelson River, McTaggart from Beren’s River, Corbeau from Grand Rapid. Jacob Travis, chief district factor and agent of Norway House itself, sat at the governor’s right, his ponderous frame leaning forward in the council chair; his elbows on the table and 1 Mid Dy . fe oe en y ae. . ye ER | ai beard as he played the part of listener to Burn- po: ham’s pungent words. oe Upon his granite features, roughly chiseled Ro. by the grim sculpturing North, the light fell = in a shining flood, turning his bronzed skin to ae = a golden shade, changing the keen gray of his Sa comicbooks. cous