The Challenge of the North

find Hedin awaiting him. He glanced at the younger man inquiring

s no use beating around the bush. As a matter of fact, the

. "Missin'!" he exclaimed. "An'

recited the facts as he knew them, while a

, Jean? Come to the store at once, and bring your new fur coat-to my offi

de while Jean-wh

ere ye are!" s

tepped into the room with the fur coat over her arm. "Well, Dad, here's the coat." She paused abruptly, glanced inquiringly at Hedin, nodded coolly, and c

fur with his hand, and asked casually, "

f cours

e ye wore t

ntly. "I haven't so many fur coats th

've had no other coat in your poss

t. What's all

what kind of a coa

ten. Why, isn't

g now. I just wanted to see which coat ye'd got.

en, Jean took the coat, and with a

at have ye got to say now?

olut

he coat she wore

t was. She doesn't k

with men. He had been certain that Jean and Hedin would eventually marry, and secretly he longed for the day. He had watched Hedin for years and now, despite the improbability of the story, he believed it implicitly. And it was with a heavy heart that he

at?" he roared. "It'll go e

the lips, meeting McNabb's gaze with a l

say. Ye've got the

t he deserved it-but that McNabb should accuse him of theft! Sick at heart, he faltered his answer,

e coat she wore from the store, an' that you've got the other. An' when Kranz tells of your midnight visit to the store, what'll they think then?" McNabb finished and, reaching for the telephone, called the police headquarters. A few minut

ng at the hands of the burly officer that stopped just short of person

f the judge where, waiving a preliminary hearing, the prisoner was bound over to