Troop One of the Labrador

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Troop One of the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace

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Title: Troop One of the Labrador
Author: Dillon Wallace
Release Date: June 13, 2005 [EBook #16048]
Language: English
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TROOP ONE OF THE LABRADOR

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[Illustration: IT WAS DR. JOE BEYOND A DOUBT!]

TROOP ONE OF THE LABRADOR
BY
DILLON WALLACE
AUTHOR OF "GRIT-A-PLENTY," "THE RAGGED INLET GUARDS," ETC., ETC.
THE "BOY'S OWN PAPER" OFFICE 4 BOUVERIE STREET AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, E.C.4
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN Printed by UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED LONDON AND WOKING

CONTENTS
Page
I. DOCTOR JOE, SCOUTMASTER 9
II. PLANS 37
III. "'TIS THE GHOST OF LONG JOHN" 51
IV. SHOT FROM BEHIND 63
V. LEM HORN'S SILVER FOX 71
VI. THE TRACKS IN THE SAND 94
VII. THE MYSTERY OF THE BOAT 109
VIII. TRAILING THE HALF-BREED 120
IX. ELI SURPRISES INDIAN JAKE 126
X. THE END OF ELI'S HUNT 135
XI. THE LETTER IN THE CAIRN 147
XII. THE HIDDEN CACHE 165
XIII. SURPRISED AND CAPTURED 179
XIV. THE TWO DESPERADOS 192
XV. MISSING! 198
XVI. BOUND AND HELPLESS 206
XVII. LOST IN A BLIZZARD 220
XVIII. A PLACE TO "BIDE" 232
XIX. SEARCHING THE WHITE WILDERNESS 240
XX. "WOLVES!" YELLED ANDY 251
XXI. THE ALARM IN THE NIGHT 259
XXII. THE IMMUTABLE LAW OF GOD 268

ILLUSTRATIONS
IT WAS DR. JOE BEYOND A DOUBT! Frontispiece
Facing Page STRETCHED UPON THE FLOOR LAY LEM HORN 70
ON THE RIGHT SEETHED THE DEVIL'S TEA KETTLE 104
"YOU STAND WHERE YOU IS AND DROP YOUR GUN!" 132
IT WAS A FIGHT TO THE DEATH 260

Troop One of the Labrador
CHAPTER I
DOCTOR JOE, SCOUTMASTER
"Doctor Joe! Doctor Joe's comin'! He just turned the p'int!"
Jamie Angus burst into the cabin at The Jug breathlessly shouting this joyful news, and then rushed out again with David and Andy at his heels.
"Oh, Doctor Joe! It can't be Doctor Joe, now! Can it, Pop? It must be some one else Jamie sees! It can't be Doctor Joe, whatever!" exclaimed Margaret in a great flutter of excitement.
"Jamie's keen at seein'! He'd know anybody as far as he can see un!" assured Thomas, no less excited at the news than was Margaret. "But 'tis strange that he's comin' back so soon!"
Of course Margaret, who was laying the table for supper, must needs follow the boys; and Thomas, who was leaning over the wash basin removing the grime of the day's toil, snatched the towel from its peg behind the door and, drying his hands as he ran, sacrificing dignity to haste, followed Margaret, who had joined the three boys at the end of the jetty which served as a boat landing.
A skiff had just entered the narrow channel which connected The Jug, as the bight where the Anguses lived was called, with the wider waters of Eskimo Bay. There could be no doubt, even at that distance, that the tall man standing aft and manipulating the long sculling oar, was Doctor Joe. As the little group gathered on the jetty he took off his hat and waved it high above his head. It was Doctor Joe beyond a doubt! The boys waved their caps and shouted at the top of their lusty young lungs, Margaret, undoing her apron, waved it and added her voice to the chorus, and Thomas, quite carried away by the excitement, waved the towel and in a great bellowing voice shouted a louder welcome than any of them.
There was no happier or better contented family on all The Labrador than the family of Thomas Angus, though they had their trials and ups and downs and worries like any other family in or out of Labrador.
"Everybody must expect a bit o' trouble and worry now and again," Thomas would say when things did not go as they