The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-27

People often wonder at the or
 nament and why the doctor ant | his wife keep it there in it's place | over the mantel rather than 1T some dark corner of the basement ! where it seems to belong. The reason for it's being is ample. | When Carstairs first appeared 1T | the little Alaskan town of Polaris no one took him seriously. He wa. young, fresh from an internship ir
 hospital and but just started or
 the long road to building up 6 practice. Further, he was small
 man. lightly built.
 The country was rugged, travel was most difficult and the men who peopled that region were huge men of brawn. It did not seem pos sible that small man could be of any use in such land. Car stairs, with his small physique, seemed out of place. But if his body were small his spirit was not. :. TT WAS ON THIS
 TRIP HE MET BETH
 For 8 time he attended to the sick in the town. There was little for him to do as good health was the rule rather than the exception. Then, with the advent of the air plane into the country, his prac- tice widened. He began to fly here and there, tending the sick and in- jured. Most of his cases were at the various mines which dotted the region. It was on one of these trips that he first met Beth Davis.
 Carstairs flew to the mine in a seaplane which alighted on the lake in front of the workings. He tended an injured man and it was then that he met Beth. She acted as volunteer nurse. Strangely, after meeting Beth, Carstairs found it necessary to make trips to see how the injured man was coming along long after he was we'll and on his feet! The little doctor was fooling no one, much
 less Beth. Yet Beth, although she found much about Carstairs which she admired, could not return his regard for her.
 Beth was child of the north. She gloried in its vast reaches and
 the men who lived there. She never tired of listening to the epic tales of the trials, of mans con- stant fight against the clements. To her these men were heroes. In comparison, Carstairs was a puny individual.
 Carstairs realized that he could never hope-to win her until he had shown her that although he might be lacking in brawn he could nev- ertheless act the part of 8 man as we'll as any other. He longed for 8 chance to prove his worth.
 Late one afternoon he was in his small office when man came run- ming to the door. He hurriedly addressed Carstairs. The local operator of the short wave wireless station that the air line had in- stalled in the town had picked up a message from the mine where Beth was. There had been a pre- mature explosion of dynamite deep within the mine and five men were critically injured. He was needed at once.
 TT HAD BEEN
 RAINING ALL DAY
 Carstairs looked out of the win- dow at the sky. It had been rain- ing all day. Low clouds scudded before brisk wind and the land was hidden behind a curtian of fog and rain. Flying through such weather was not to be thought of. There was but one way in which he could get to the mine. That was by canoe. Hastily packing his in struments and rolls of bandages, he followed the man to the water front and secured a guide and canoe. Then they set off down the lake for the height of land which separated it from the mine. Through this range of hills poured small river.
 The river ran through a gorge