For the Allinson Honor

ubled waters reflected the color of the leaden clouds above, though they were laced with tumbling foam, and short, white-topped waves broke angrily upon t

bstructed Carnally's view. On the nearest of them wisps of smoke drifted out from among the shadowy trunks and an aromatic s

row of pretty wooden houses beside the river mouth. A moving cloud of sooty smoke floated above t

ook as if you'd been up again

but strongly built. His knee-boots were

had in getting through. Water was on the rock portages and we had to shove round through the bush. It

r Duck Island with two of the Company's roustabouts day before yesterday.

go to Duck

ed. Seemed to think the Com

got to raise milling ore and pack it down first. I suppose

before he speaks, but for an English sucker he

iver-jacks h

sea running in the open, you'd better look for him. If those fellows wreck his canoe and he has to spen

roposition I've ever run up against, except the Mappin Transport, which is worse. All the same, I guess I

ain, which, throughout a good deal of its course, poured over ledges and ran furiously between fangs of rock. It had needed nerve and skill to shoot the rapids, and

Carnally ran out on a treacherous drift-log and sprang on board. A man untrained to river work would have

it has to be done," he said. "Sh

ray whipping their faces and the foam washing in at the bows. Now and then they made no headway for a minute or two against a savage gust, but when it lulled they slowly forged on again, though they knew that to find a canoe among the maze of islands was

to help her over them. To make things worse, she was half full of water, and nobody could spare a hand to bale it out. Andrew was not an expert at canoeing, but he had once made a journey up the Canadian waterways and had been a yachtsman at home; and when the breeze freshened and the waves got steeper it

breaking waves and savage gusts drove them nearer the threatening shore. He was wet through and very tired, one galled hand bled freely, and the party had consumed the last of their provisions at breakfast. This was the cause of the distressful stitch in his side, and he was

boys; drive her at

eceived by the emptiness. The island must be close to them. He did no

e stroke! We'll make a f

d one of the othe

and, when they answered, r

he Rain Bl

e we

urred shape of a canoe appeared ahead. "Do

xiously. He could not turn back now; the dark, froth-ridged seas drove him on, but in a few more minutes the end of the beach slipped past and a narrow strip of water with pines about it opened up. They ran in, the wild lurching ceased, and they paddled through smooth wa

et supper," said the other. "I understood that your

ed. Then he saw that a fire had been lighted, a shelter of bark and branches made, and a meal which looked very inviting laid out beside it. All had been done

ll that's wonde

hment for a moment or two, and t

aid; "that'

ought to r

anry, and, I understand, in charge of the Rain Bluff mining

ed once or twice, the accidents of the campaign had enabled them to sink the difference of rank. Now it was the inferior who obviously meant to bear their relative positions in mind; and t

again and to find that we shall b

replied. "Sit right down;

reserve about him. Indeed, Andrew was glad when the meal was over; and soon afterward he lay down, wrapped in damp blankets, and went to sleep. The next morning the wind had fallen, the lake lay shimmering with light under

r with me to-night a

eet a man at the other place. If it will

Andrew, for he gazed at one who was pretty with insolent admiration, and bullied another who was nervous and plain. In conversation he was brusque and opinionated; but Andrew was soon convinced that he possessed marked business ability. After supper they sat smoking on a wooden balcony while the clean fragrance of the pines and the murmur of running water fil

one of the islands we passed this morning

y. He's from across the frontier and a bit of a sport; the Americans are coming north larg

easan

n lau

of Montreal. I'll take you across some evening; he's by way of being a friend of mine. Then Geraldine Frobisher's a picture: figur

ung women, but he resented something in Mappin's appreciation

k over the matters we have talked

he had taken Andrew's assent

up to the mine, I'll pull out on the Toronto express in the morn

een the two men. The bushman was lean and wiry; there was a lithe grace in his quick movements, and a hint of the ascetic in his

te his reserve. "Take a cigar. Now, we got on pretty

inkled when he had

dron then. Besides, you've got mo

some say in choosing my officers. But we'll drop this fencing

idered before

s. If my attitude didn't please

peak as the Company's representati

agreeable, so lon

u mean to

I haven't made

rough any trouble I meet," Andrew went on. "One tha

might look at things from

manner. His reserve and lack of response were

d, "what are yo

ing a trial. Do you k

admit that to you. I don't thi

ent over in charge of the min

ny, and a good deal of the f

is, and sat silent a few mo

do with fixing up things

came over and made all arrangement

ch into his confidence abou

't say tha

ey and mean to see that your friends who

ve no claim to

which there might be some difference of opinion.

he name helped to float the scheme. That makes m

g searching glance, and

of quiet resolve, "I guess I

r later he met a storekeeper

an remarked. "Been with your new boss

wered gravely, "it's

oing to quit, as y

the new boss and I

he working with Mappin

lly l

my notion there's going to be less graft about th