Never Fire First A Canadian Northwest Mounted Story

Excerpt: "From the "dig-in" of the snow-bank where he had spent the blizzard night in comparative comfort, Constable La Marr of the Royal Mounted looked out upon a full-grown day. The storm that had driven him to shelter had passed, or at least was taking a rest. For once he had overslept and where days, even in winter's youth, are but seven hours long, the fault caused him chagrin. That a "Mountie" in close pursuit of a murder suspect should have made such a slip was disconcerting even to one s