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CHAPTER X. (Continued) It was a hellish place; it echoed :o a demoniac din and it was a tre- nendous sensation to brave it, for he boat did not glide nor slip down he descent; it went in a succession of jarring leaps; it lurched and wisted; it rolled and plunged as if n a demented effort to unseat its passengers and scatter its cargo. To the occupants it seemed as if its joints were opening, as if the boards , themselves were being wrenched loose from the ribs to which they nailed. The men were of course, for they trav- joud of spume; their feet nkle-deep in cold water, and every deluge caused them to tlw: long it Tasted Pierce Phillips never knew; the experience was too terrific to be long lived, It was a nightmare, a hideous Phantasma- goria of frightful sensations, a dis- solving stercopticon of bleak, scud- ding walis, of hvdrophohie boulders frothing madly as the flood crashed over them, of treacherous whirlpools, and of ‘pursuing breakers — that reached forth licking tongues of de- struction thee ie river opened, the cliffs fell away, and the torrent spewed itself ont into am expanse of whirlpools--a lake of gyrating fun- that warred with one another der the boat. *Poleon swung close in to the right bank, where an eddy raced up against the flood; some one flungsa | rope from the shore and drew the ui boat i “Wall IT never had no better crew,” cried the pilot. “What you tink of ‘im, eh?” He smiled down at the white- lipped oarsmen, who leaned forward, panting and drip- ping “th Lucky Broad Dere's Wiite —that all of i inquired, uly. “Mais non! Look! ’Orse.”— Doret ii foam and y across the expanse irlpools stood a. illage named the rapids. “You get plenty bimeb after | more ) “You're wrong. I got plenty right Broad declared. “lm Countess didn’t come,” said Phillips. When the men had wrung out their now,” d threatened to twist the keel from | , Lloyd Productions, Inc. ’ Kirby turned his expressionless face upon first one then the other of his companions. “Nervous?” he inquired of Royal. The latter silently admitted that he was. “Go ahead. You and Letty cross afoot—" “And you?” “Oh, I'm going to stick!” “Father—” the girl began, but old Sam_ shook his head. “No. This is my case bet, and I'm going to watch it Royal's weazened face puckered until it resembled more than ever a withered apple. “Then I'll stick, too,” declared, “I, never lai down on you yet. Sam.” How about you, Let! The girl smiled. “Why, I wouldn't trust you boys out of my sight for a minut * Something would surely happen. stooped and kissed his Published by Arrangement with First National Pictures, Inc., and Frank built her and I named her.” Danny watched the pilot as he swung down to the stony shore and rejoined Pierce Phillips; then he looked on in fascination while they removed their outer arments, andro into a boat with Kid Bridges, rowed away into the gorge. t's—got my goat!” muttered the litle jockey CHAPTER XI Although scows larger than the Rouletta had ‘run Miles Canon and the rapids below in safety, perhaps none more unwieldy had ever donc so. Royal had built his barge stout- ly, to be sure, but of other virtues the craft had none. head-strong that it required uncea; ing effort to hold her on a cou! as for rowing her, it was almost im- possible, She took the first swoop- Kirby daughter’s cheek. “You've always been our mascot, and you've always brought us luc I'd go to hell in a paper suit if you were along. You're a game kid, too, and I want you to be like that, always. Be a thoroughbred. Don't weaken, no matter how bad things break for you. This cargo of rum is worth the best im in Dawson, and it ‘Il put us on our fect again. All I one more chance. Double that’s us.” an extraordinarily long speech for “One-armed” Kirby; it showed that he was deeply in earnest. “Double and quit?” breathed the girl. “Do you mean it, dad?” He nodded: “I’m going to leave you heeled, 1 don’t aim to take my eyes off this barge again till she’s in Dawson. Rouletta’s face was transformed; there was a great gladness in her cyes—a f ladness half obscured by tears, “Double and quit. Oh—I’ve dreamed of—quitting—so often! You've le me very ha who knew t Royal, dreams as well as he knew his own, girl’s felt a lump in his throat, He was a godless little man, but Rouletta Kirby’s joys were holy things to him, her tears distressed him deeply, therefore he walked away to avoid the sight of them. Her slightest wish had been his law ever since she had mastered words enough to clothes and put on their boots they set out along the back trail over the bins. i _ Danny Reyal was not at ive person, He possesse ure, the superstitions of the aver- age horseman and gambler, and he uelieved strongly in hunches, but he Was not 1 and he put no faith in dreams and portents. It bothered him exceedingly, therefore, to dis- cover that he was weighed down by an ac le but. extremely op- pressive sense of apprehension. How or why it had come to obsess him i he could not imagine, but for some iles Canon and the stormy w it had assumed terrible d he could not shake conviction that they were destined to prove his undoing. This ng he had allowed to grow until talistic apathy had settled upon him and his usual cheerfulness was replaced by a senseless irritabil- ity. He suffered explosions of tem- per quite as surprising to the Kirbys, father and daughter, as to himself. On the day of his arrival ne_was particularly ugly, wherefore Rou- ta was impelled to remonstrate with him. “What ails you, Danny?” she in- “You'll have our men imagina- d, to be quired. they would,” he cried. “Boatmen! They don't know as much about boats as me and Sam.” “They do whatever they’re told. . Royal acknowledged this fact un- graciously. Trouble 1s we don't know what to tell ‘em to do. All Sam knows is “gee’ and ‘haw,’ and can’t steer anything that don’t wear a bridle. Why, if this river wasn't fenced in with trees we'd have taken the wrong road and been lost, long voice a request, ands now he, too, was happy to learn that Sam Kir was at last ready to moid ms future in acordance with her desires. Letty had never liked their mode of lif she had acepted it under sprotest and with the passing years her wi spoken disapproval had assumed the proportions of a great reproach. She had never put that disapproval into ie was far too loyal for that—but Danny had known, He knew her ambitions and her possi- bilities, and he had sufficient vision to realize something of the injustice she suffered at her father’s hands. Sam loved his daughter as few par- ents love a child, but he was a strange man and he showed his af- fection in characteristic ways. It pleased Royal greatly to learn that the old fan had awakened to the wrong he: did, and that this adven- ture would serve to close the story, as all good’ Stories close, with a happy ending. In spite oft these cheering thoughts, Danny was unable wholly to shake oft his oppressive forebodings, and as he paused on the river-bank to stare with gloomy fascination at the jaws of the gorge they returned to vlague him. The sound that issued out of that place was terrifying, the knowledge that it frightened him en- raged the little man. It was an unpropitious moment for any one to address Royal there- fore, when he heard himself spoken to, he whirled with a scowl upon his face. A tall French-Canadian, just back from the portage, was saying: “M’sieu’, 1 ain't good hand at mix in ‘noder ‘feller's bizneses, -but—dat pilot you got she’s no goo Royal looked the stranger over from head , to ee “How d'you know?” he inquired, sharply. iBiccause—T m ee myse’f.” “Oh, 1 si ‘ou're one of the good one: Danny's air was surly, his ase, forbidding. “Hate yourself, don’t you? I spose you want job. Is that it? No wonder—five hundred seeds for inutes’ work. Soft graft, eaker laughed un- pleasantly. ell, what does a good pilot charge?’ e?” The Canadian shrugged indifferently. I charge you one t'ousan’ dollar.” “The devil Royal's jaw dropped. you say!” he exclaimed. “1 1 don't wa want de job—your scow’ no ‘good. a eae wit’ you. One t’ousan’ eg es free trip. say, in vey good form, and there- after, by dint of herculean efforts, Royal and his three men managed | to hold her head down-stream. Sweeping between the palisades, she | galloped clumsily onward, wallowing | like a hippopotamus. Her long pine sweeps, balanced and bored to re- | — k thole-pins, rose and fell | square- | bodied spider; she reared her bluff ceived th like the stiff legs of some fat, bow; then she dove, shrouding her- self in spray. It was a journey to terrify experi- enced river-men; doubly terrifying was it to Royal and Kirby, who knew nothing whatever of swift water and to whom its perils were magnified a thousand fold. In_ spite of his apprehension, which by now had quickened panic, Danny rose to the occasi with real credit. His face was like paper, his eyes were wide and strained; nevertheless, he kept hi gaze fixed upon the pilot and strove to obey the latter’s directions implic- itly. Now with all his strength he heaved upon his sweep; now he backed water violently; at no time did he trust himself to look at the cliffs which were scudding past, nor to contemplate the tortuous turns in the gorge ahead. That would have been too much for him. Even when his clumsy oar all but grazed a bas- tion, or when a jagged promontory seemed about to smash his craft, he refused to cease his frantic labors or to more than lift his eyes. He ‘by | saw that Rouletta Kirby was very pale, and he tried to shout a word ; of encouragement to her, but his cry was thin and feeble, and it failed to Pierce the thunder of the waters. Danny hoped the girl was not as such a punishment upon his worst enemy. Kirby, by reason of his disability, of course, was prevented from lend- ing any active help with the boat jive part. That it was not to his liking any one could have seen, for, once the moorings were slipped, he did not open his lips; he merely stood beside Rouletta, with the fin- gers of his right hand sunk into her shoulder, his gray face grayer than ever. Together they swayed .as the deck beneath them recled and pitched. “Look! We're nearly through! the girl cried in his ear, after what seemed an interminable time. Kirby nodded. A head he could see the end of the canon and what appeared to be freer water; out into this open space the torrent flung it- self. The scow riding the bore, that ridge of water upthrust by rea- son’ of the pressure from above: be- tween it and the exit from the chute was a tapidly dwindling expanse of tossing waves. Kirby was greatly relieved, but he could not under- stand why those rollers at the mouth of the gorge should rear themselves so high and should foam so sayagely. x The blufis ended, the narrow throat vomited the river out, and the scow galloped from shadow into pale sunlight. The owner of the outfit drew a decp breath, his clutching fingers re- laxed_their nervous hold. He saw that Danny was trying to make him- self heard and he leaned forward to catch the fellow’s words, when sud- denly the impossible happened, The deck beneath his feet was jerked backward and he was fiimg to his knees. Simultaneously there came a crash, the sound of rending, splint- ering wood, and over the stern of the barge poured an icy deluge that all but swept father and daughter away, Rouletta screamed, then she called the name of R “Danny! Danny!” she c: for both she and old Sam had seen » terrible thing. anne blade of Ro: ee rastesespes at collision an I's sweep had When loaded | ine rush into the canon, strange to | frightened as he, nor as old Sam— ! the little man would not have wished } and was forced to play a purely pas- | e instant of the | 3 as a consequence, the | 33- ferce of ‘that rushing current had | 2 ee: E AMERICAN INSURANCE Co, of t ested in progressively rs write The Ugland Agency, N. D. WANTED——-Men and women to learn Barber trade. wages. ; alog and special offer free. | Barber College, Fargo, N. D. MALE HELP? WANTED ago offers splendi 3 to young men who stablishing a pi profitable themselves. For opportuni- re inter- manently business iculars Minot, 11-10-3t Great demand, big Few weeks completes, Cat- Moler 11-2-1m e | | T WANT to talk to you if you are more money with advancement ac- ¢ | WANTED—Cook, man or woman, for hotel at Kulm, N. D. 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ST concern of its kind world has opening for three | Write box | ‘Nothing doing,” snapped the ex- borne it forward, catapulting the |: Rouletta nodded _ thoughtfully. horseman. ad- man on the other end overboard as | 5; “Father is just as afraid of water ,“Bien! Now I give you, cleanly, as easily as a school-boy as you are. He won't admit-it, but vice. Hol’ hard‘to-de right in lower snaps a paper pellet from ‘the end of 1 can tell, It has gotten on his end dis - canon. Dere's beeg rock a oil, fore their very eyes the pat cand—I've had hard work to dere. Don't touch 'im or you goin’ irbys saw their lieutenant, their him from drinking.” ay! Don't let him get started |W’ on that?” Danny exclaimed, earn- estly. “That would be the last touch.” “Trust -me, But Kirby that moment, having returned from a voyage of exploration. Said he: “There's a good town below. I had|m: a chance to sell the outfit.” “Going to do it?’ Danny could not conceal his eagerness. The elder man_ shook his gray head. “Hardly. I'm no piker.” ; “I wish you and Danny would take the portage and trust the pilot to run the rapids,” Rouletta said. |INSTALMENT TWENTY-THREE ‘himself appeared at Fe in dak’ top an’ mebbe you go over "ite ’Orse sideways. Dat's goin’ smash you sure.” yal broke out, peevishly: “An- other hot tip, eh? Everybody's got some information—espe- cially the ones sence ,you don’t hire. Wall, 1 aint ‘scared— “Oh yes, you are!” said the other Fe “Everybody is scare’ of dis lace.” Anvhon, I ain't scared a thou- sand dollars’ worth. Take a ‘lot to scare me that much. I bet this place id as~safe asa chapel and I bet our scow goes th: with | q Let her bum: i on her back and all her weights. I lifel up and-hurled into the floed. “Danny!” shrieked the girl. The voice of the rapids had changed its tone, now, for a cataract was drum- ming upon the after- nage was a crashing and a roast the piles of ‘boxes came Cas hing . The scow drove the reef, its bow rose until it stood ata sharp incline, and meanwhile wave after wave cut like a broach over the Cay which steadily sank . tilted “drank- enly and : ayalanch Vf. an a hie oF case-goods ‘UP. | was spilled over the (To be continued) JAPS PLAN NEW. APARTMENTS Hie AMERICAN STYEE ‘0 \e Japanese orrowe: aaniericad SUSAN to Construct their ‘Named the Bunka Apartments, this new structure is an experiment in Tokyo. The building is a four- storied, fire and earthquake-proof The building is thoroughly mod- ern and will be ready for occupancy the middle of November. siready nearly 200 applications for ‘friend ‘and servitor, “picked 4 5b. 57. 58. By. 60. 64. 65. 3. “Drug used-to color hair. ‘here are] first apartment house in Tokyo.| Bot who loaned them the name? reinforced concrete structure, con- taining 42 apartments, suites—which shows that while it. might ‘be Bunka it’s not ‘bank! ne We need number 2 HORIZONTAL Tree having tough wood. Fowl. Away. 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