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CHAPTER XI. (Continued) With eves of terror Sam Kirby anned the boiling expanse through which the barge was. ¢ i but nowhere could he catch sight of Danny Royal turned, to shout a over that he at the steer- sweep God! an. It was “true: cried the old inundati “God! He’s gone!” cried the old man, sneceeding the mishap had swept the alter-deck clean, and now the scow was not only rudderless, but it Tacked a Kirby was tugging at her arm. She me white, vrified face to his and exclaimed: my! 1 saw Ne Her father’s dead face was switch he nodded sile ~ Then he the cataract toward which Ife opened but one of shout- a waving his i the fellow uF be drowned !" hoa le dy tien, when mbled to his feet, his of the Shae of the aw boats throngh the canon, Dorct piloted the Title flotilla xcross to the town of White Horse and there ed his money, while 1 1 the other , ‘for the ‘fight did not pre- Broad discussing ting incidents positively wate ict. t appearance in any decent of you and the Kid to volunteer,” Pierce told him. It sure was,” the other agreed. “Takes a coupla daredevils like him and me to pull that kind of a bone- head pl: Mr. Bridges who was within hear- ia Gistance, shrugged with an ase of eless indifference. , “It takes more a_ little lather to he boasted. “I'm a divin’ dT ate it up!” iar!” Lucky cried. “Why, Ion your head was stand- yott look five years older ’n you did this morning! You heard the undertaker shaking out your shroud all the way down—you know you did. I never seen a man as ared as you was!”) When Bridges cepted the accusation with a grin, the svcaker ran on, in a less resent- ful tone: “I don’t mind saying it hardened my arteries some. Tt made man of experience to direct Published by Arrangement vwh First National Pictures Lloyd Productions, Inc. companions it seemed that the scow had come through handily enough and was in little durther danger, but *Poleon, ior some reason or other, had blazed inte excitement. Down the bank he leaped; then he raised his voice and sent forth a loud cry. wasted effort, for it failed to the waming voice brought his hearers “What's the matter?” Pierce in- quired. ‘The pilot paid no heed; he began waviig¢ his cap in long sweeps, curs- ing meanwhile in a patois which the others could not understand. Even. while they stared at the Rouletta she drove head on into an expanse of tumbling breakers, then— the onlookers could not believe their evyes—she stopped dead still, as if she had come to the end of a steel cable or as if she had collided with an invisible wall. Instantly her en- tire after part was smothered in white. Slowly her bow rose out of the chaos until perhaps ten feet of her bottom was exposed, then she assumed _a, list. The Countess uttered a strangled exclamation. “Oh-h! Did you see? There's a man overboard!” Her eyes were quick, but others, too, had beheld a dark bundle picked up by some mysterious agency and flung end over end into the waves. The Rouletta’s deck-load was dis- solving; a moment or two and she turned completely around, then drift- ed free. “Why—they brought the girl cried the Countess, in grow- ing dismay. “Sam Kirby should have had better sense. He ought to be hung— From the tents and boats along the i from the village above, people a babel assembling hurriedly, of oaths, of shouts arose. ‘Poleon found his recent ployer plucking at his sleeve. “There's a woman out. there— Kirby's girl,” she crying. “Can't you do something “Wait!” He flung off her grasp and watched intently. on the helpless scow was abreast art the encampment, in spite of the frantic efforts of her crew to propel her shoreward she driited momentarily closer to the cataract below. ifestly it was impossible em- nd intercept the derelict be- se, and so, ean to stream d rounded boulders whic mafgin of the river. On the oppo- site bank another crowd was keep- ing pace with the wreck, As they se people shouted at one an- other and gesticulated wildly. Th 3 cre white, their words were for it was a spectacle with imminent disaster that y beheld; it turned them sick with apprehension. Immediately aboye White Horse the current gathers itself for the final plunge, and although, at the last mo- ment, the Rorletia seemed about to straighten herself out and take the rapids head on, some malign in- fluence checked her swing and she lunged | over quartcringly to the tor- rent. A roar issucd from the throats of the beholders; the craft reappeared, and then, a moment later, was half hidden again in the smother. It could be seen that she was com- pletely awash and that those gallop- ing white-maned horses were charg- ing over her. She was buffeted about as by battering-rams; the re- mainder of her cargo was being rap- idly torn from her deck. Soon an- other shout arose, for human figures could be seen still clinging to her. Onward the scow went, until once again she fetched up on a reef or a rock which the low .stage of the river had brought close to the sur- face; there she hung. *"Polcon Doret had gone into ac- tion cre this. Having satisfied him- self that some of the Rouletta’s crew’ remained alive, he case loose the painter of the nearest skiff and a me Kk of all my sins and follies; I remembered all the bets I'd oyer- looked. Recollect that pioneer we laid for four hundred at Dyca?” The Kid nodded, “Sure! I re- member him easy. He squawked so lond you gave him back half of it.” And all time he had a thou- sand sewed in his shirt! Wasted op- portunities like that lav heavy on a when he hears the angels tun- og up and snigl!s the calla-tilies.” Bridges agrees in all, seriousness, and went on to s “Li if I gotta ect out of this country the way I got into it I'm going to let you vbury, me in Dawson. Look at them Vof us! Why, the guy “You're tallsi till they build a railroad up to u: else we'll let ’em pin a pair of 's Dine overcoats on the two of us. of ‘us calling ourselves acres and doing circus stunts 1} this! We're suckers! We'll working ip: the mines next. Tl see you poulticed he I bet nto a pick. dle before we get out.” Not me! T've_raised my last Mister, and if ever I other cal- Jous it "I befrom 1: bed. Safe and. sane, that’s me, Bridges’ words were cut short By an exclamation from Doret, who had sannroached, in company with the Corntess Courteau, “rallo!” the French Canadian broke in. barge.” ‘ Out from the lower end or the gorge the Kirby craft had emerged; it was plunging along with explo- tions of white foam from. beneath its bow and with its sweéps rising and falling rhythmically. To Doret’s “Dere comes dat beeg PREHISTORIC SURGERY London. The skill of « Neander- Pthul man of af1}000 years ago shows’ that the delicate..operation of tre- Panning was performed in . those days, The skull showsg shyt holes 4 'INSTALMENT TWENTY-FOUR called to Phillips, who was standing close by: “Come on! We goin’ get dose people!” Now Pierce had had_ enough rough water for one day; it seemed to him that there must be other men in this crowd better qualified by training than he to undertake this rescue. But no one stepped forward , so he cheyed Dorct's order. Ags he slipped out of his cont and ‘kicked off his boots, he reflected, with a sinking fecling of a , Inc., and Frank difficulty in securing volunteers to go with them, and he was consid- erably heartened at finding he was not greatly different from the rest of these people. “W It was _a tribute to the manhood of the North that after a brief hesitation several men — offered themselves At the last moment,| however, Broad and Bridges el- bowed the others aside, saying: “Here, you! That's our boat and | we know, how she handles.” Into the skiff they piled and hur: | tiedly stripped down; then, in obedi- | ence to Doret's command, they set- | tled themselves at the forward oars, leaving Pierce to set the stroke. | *Poleon stood braced in the stern, | like a gondolicr, and when willing | hands had shot the boat out into the , current he leaned his weight upon | the after oars; beneath his and Pierce's efforts the ash blades bent. | Out into the hurrying flood the four | men sent their craft; then, with a mighty heave, the pilot swung its bow down-stream and helped to drive it directly at the throat of the cataract. | There came a breath-taking plunge during which the rescuing skiff and | its crew were hidden from the view | of those on shore; out into sig ight | they lunged again -nd, in a cloud of | spray, went galle ing through the | stampeding waves At risk of cap- | sizing they turned around and, bat: | tling furiously against the current, | were swept down, stern first, upon | the stranded barge. Doret's face | was turned back over his shoulder, | distance, ging | practised eye the whims and | vagaries of the tumbling torrent: when he flung himself upon the oars Pierce Phillips felt his own strength completely dwarfed by that of the hig pilot. ’Poleon’s hands inclosed his in a viselike grasp; he wielded | the sweeps as if they were reeds, and with them he wielded Phillips. Two people only were left upon; the Rouletta, that sidewise plung having carried again Sam Kirby's artificial hand} had proved its usefulness, and with- | out its aid it is doubtful if either he} or his daughter could have with- stood the deluge. For a second time he had sunk that sharp steel Look| into the solid wood and had man-: aged by virtue of that advantage, to] save himself and his girl. Both of} them were half drowned; they were. well-nigh frozen, too; now, however, ! finding themselves in temporary se-| curity, Kirby had broached one of! the fe ining es of bottled! goods. As the rowboat came close} its occupants saw him press a drink| upan his daughter, then gulp one himself, It was impossible either toNay the} skiff alongside the wreck with any degree of care or to hold her there; | as a matter of fact, the two hulls; collided with a crash, Kid Bridges oar snapped off short and the side! of the lighter boat was smashed in | Water poured over the rescuers | For an instant it seemed that they were doomed, but, clawing feceety| at whatever they could lay hands! upon, they checked their progres: | long enough for the castaways tc, obey Doret's shout of command | The girl flung herself into Pierce's} arms; her father followed, landing | in a heap amidships, Even as they jumped the skiff was torn away and hurried onward by the flood. Sam Kirby raiscd himself to his knees and turned his ashen face tc} Rouletta. | “Hurt you any, kid?” he inquired j i The girl shook her head. She w very white, her tecth were chatter- ing, her wet dress clung tightly tc; disappointment, that his emotions were not by cany means such as a really courageous man would ex- jence. He was completely lack- in. enthusiasm for. this enter- , for it struck him as_ ris wi foolheai insane, to take a fey over.that cataract in an at- tempt: to snatch human beings out from the ivery. midst_ of | those threshing bfeakets. = It seemed more ‘than ‘likely that all hands would be drowned in the under- taking, and he, could not summon the reckless abandon necessary to face that. likelifood with anything excent the frankest -apprehension: He was surprised at ‘himself, for he had imagined that when his mo- ment came, if ever it did, that he, Phillips, would Prove to. be 2, rather exceptional person; instead he dis- covéred that he was something of |} a coward. The unexpectedness of is discovery astoumhed the young: Being deeply and thorough- Iv"'frightened, was nothing less than the: abhorrence... ie allowi that fri he to become’ known whicl stiffened *his ‘determination. In hig) own ‘sight he dwindled. to very small proportions:/ thén came the: realization that Dorct was having were cut in the, forehead long. be- fore the owner died. One theory is that ‘whem these;ancient ape-men had: a severe, headaghe they would. cut holes in their head to Jet the pain Olin ve cine SIRI a her figure. | Staring fixedly at the retreating| barge the old man cried: “All gone! All gone!” Then, bracing himsel! with his good hand, he brandished his stecl hook at the rapids and heaped cursés upon them. A’ half-mile below the wreck *Poleon Doret brought his crippled skiff into an eddy, and there the: 27 crowd, which had kept pace with it} 2! 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