t the doors of Murray McTavish and Louis Creal.

The Indians had known Allan Mowbray for many years. They were good
friends. Allan Mowbray clothed and fed them in return for furs. Then
came a time when the white man found yellow dust on the river bank. He
liked it. He told the Indians so, and showed them how to find it, and
promised them, if they would collect all they could, and trade it with
him, they would never want for anything. He sent the half-breed, Louis
Creal, to see they did the work right, and fitted him out a store.
Louis Creal was a servant of Allan Mowbray. He was not a partner.

A great prosperity set in for the Indians, and they were very pleased
and very contented. Then came a time when the other white man
appeared, Murray McTavish. He made great changes. The Indians had to
work harder, but they got more trade. They got whisky. They grew more
and more prosperous. The new white man was always smiling and
pleasant, and the young men liked him very much, because he made the
squaws and old men do most of the work, while they were given rifles,
and allowed to practice the arts of war which had died out in their
tribe for so long.

The new white man then told them that they must not let any other
Indians come near Bell River. These traveling Indians were a great
danger. Finding the Bell River folk prosperous and happy they would
become envious. They would come in the night and burn and massacre.
The young men realized the danger, and they went on the war-path. All
who came near were killed. Then the young men scoured the country
around, and burned the homes of all Indians they found, and killed
their fighting men. The new white man was very pleased.

After a very long time Murray McTavish and Louis Creal held a big
council with the young men. The white man told them they were in very
great danger. He said that Allan Mowbray was no longer to be trusted.
He was a traitor. He assured them that Allan Mowbray was going through
the country telling the Indians and white folk of the yellow dust on
the river. This was betraying the Indians. For now all people would
come along in such numbers they would sweep the Bell River Indians
away, they would kill them all, and burn their homes, and they would
kill the white men, too, so that they could get all the dust that
belonged to the people of Bell River. The only way to save themselves
was by killing Allan Mowbray.

The young men were very a