d unequal to his responsibility. He was, however, found out in
time to reorganize the store; but the loss which he had caused was
heavy, and it was his notice of leaving for Canada which alone
betrayed the truth to us. The most serious aspect of the matter was
that many of the local fishermen lost confidence in the ability of the
store to succeed, and returning to the credit system, they found it
modified enough to appear to them a lamb instead of a wolf. However,
number five is growing all the time again and will yet be a factor in
the people's deliverance.

Numbers six and seven were in poor and remote parts of Labrador, very
small, and with insufficient capital and brains. One has closed
permanently. They were simply small stores under the care of one
settler, who guaranteed to charge the people only a fixed percentage
over St. John's prices for goods, as the return for his
responsibility. Number eight was the result of a night spent in a
miserable shack on a lonely promontory called Adlavik.

God forbid that I should judge traders or doctors or lawyers or
priests by their profession or their intellectual attitude. There are
noble men in all walks of life. Alas, some are more liable than others
to yield to temptation, and the temptations to which they are exposed
are more insistent.

Number nine was on the extreme northern edge of the white settlers at
Ford's Harbour. The story of it is too long to relate, but the trade
there, in spite of many difficulties, still continues to preach a
gospel and spell much blessing to poor people. To help out, we have
sent north to this station three of our boys from the orphanage, as
they grew old enough to go out into the world for themselves.

One disaster, in the form of a shipwreck, overtook the fine fellow in
charge of this most northerly venture. For the first time in his life
he came south, to seek a wife, his former wife having succumbed to
tuberculosis. He brought with him his year's products of fur and skin
boots. The mail steamer on which he was travelling struck a rock off
Battle Harbour, and most of his goods were lost uninsured, he himself
gladly enough escaping with his life.

It remained for our tenth venture to bring the hardest battle, and in
a sense the greatest measure of success. Spurred by the benefits of
the Red Bay store, the people of a little village about forty miles
away determined to combine also. The result was a fine store near our
hospital at Ba