The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1925, Page 7

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14,. 1925 Published by Arrangement with First National Pictures, Inc., and Frank CHAPTER XIII. (Continued) White Horse, at this time, was purely a make-shift camp, hence it had no facilities for gambling. The saloons themsclves were little more than liquor hes which had been cpened overnight for the purpose of reaping quick profits; therefore such games of cha as went on were for the most ‘part between profes- sional gamblers who happened to be passing through and who chose to amuse themselves in that way. After perhaps an hour, during which a considerable crowd had come and gone, Sam Kirby broke away from the group with which he had Joyd Productions, Inc. “You said that to—her?” hi in amazement. “To my ki There was a moment of tense silence dur- ing which the speaker appeared to be numbed by the insult, then, “By God!” Sam place the dice-box care- fully upon the bar. His moventent was deliberate, but he kept his flam- ing gaze fixed upon the object of his wrath, and into his lean, ashen countenance came such demoniac fury as to appal those who saw it. Rouletta uttered a faint moan and- flung herself at her father; with a strength born of terror she clung to his right wrist. In this she was successful, despite old Sam's effort to shake her off, but she could not gasped “He insulted my kid—my girl ~ Letty!” Kirby muttered, hoarsely. made for the Rouletta he and passed been drinking door. As he paused to say: “Tm to drift around a_ bit, hid, and sce if 1 can’t stir up a little pame.” Where the are we going to put up ior night?” his daughter in- auired ow vet; it’s early. Want lo turn in Kouletta shook her head. “TI ind a place somewhege. here where it's nic be and by.’ si heart the d him’ go, Miter a moment yose and followed him out into’ nht, She was surprised to di that the mud under foot had. frozen and that ind bore burden of fine, ow pare Keeping well out of sight, abled to another saloon door, n, after shivering wretchedly f while, she stole in and d the stove, i be indeed by evening wore slowly on her misery inere her father he; ing dice with some she) f their wagers andicnce of interested bystanders. back by cover ers, and drew an Rouletta realized t he should not have exposed herself anew to the cold, for now her sensations had be- ¢ alarming. She could not even begin to get warm, except and then when a burning Kd ill inside; the ‘fingers she pres. her aching temples were like icles entually—she lost all track of time—her condition became intoler- able and she decided to risk her ic displeasure by interrupting him and demanding that he secure for Loth of them a lodging-place at} once, There were several bank-notes of large denomination on the plank bar- top and Sam Kirby was watching a cast of dice when his daughter ap- proached; therefore he did not see Nor did he turn his head when she Jaid a hand upon him arm. Now women, especially pretty women, were common Seah sights in’ Alaskan drinking - places. So it not strange that Rouletta’s presence had occasioned neither comment nor curiosity. More than once during the last hour or two men had spoken to her with easy famili arity, but they had taken no offens when she had turned her back. was quite natural, therefore, that the fellow with whom Kirby was gam- Ming should interpret her effort to claim attention as an attempt to in- terrupt the game, and that he should misread the meaning of her implor- ing look. There being considerable money at stake, he frowned dow at her, then with an impatient ges- ture Ne brushed her aside, “None of that, sister!” he warned her. “You get out of here,” Sam Kirby was in the midst of a discussion with the proprictor, across the bar, and because there deal of noise in the place he did not hear his daughter's low-spoken protest. + “Oh, I mean. it!” speaker scowled at, Rouletta. dolls make me_ sick, grab every nickel you sce. Beat There's plenty: of young suckers for you to trim. If you can't respect an old man with gray hair, why—” The test of his remark caused the to widen and the chat- tening Yoices to ‘fall silent. Sam Kirby turned, the dice-box poised in his right hand. a What's that?” he queried, The former “You vaguely. Tm talking to this pink-faced gold-digger—” “Father !”. Rouletta exelaimed: “I'm just telling her—” The fellow repeated his remark, whereupon nderstanding came: to iia and his expression slowly al- Surprise, incredulity; gave piace to rage; his’ eyes began to laze, INSTALMENT. TWENTY-SEVEN) imprison both his arms. — Kirby stepped forward, dragging the girl with him; he raised that wicked ar- tificial Ieft hand and byought it sweeping downward, and for a sec- ond time that day the steel shaft met Aesh and bone. His victim spun upon his heels, then, with outfing arm and an expression of shocked azement still upon his face, he ed backward to floor. Kirby strode to him; before other hands could come to Rouletta’s as- sistance and bear him out of reach he twice buried his heavy hobnailed boot in the prostrate fi He pre- sented a terrible exhibition of ani- mal feroe for he was growling in his throat and in his es was the light of murder. He fought for liberty with which to finish his task, and those who re-|40° found that somehow ed to draw an ivory- hooter, from some place concealment, could they wrench the weapon away from him. “He insulted my kid-my girl Kirby muttered, hoar: “When the fallen man had been strained hin of lifted to his feet and hurricd out of the saloon old Sam tried his best to follow, but his captors held him They pleaded with him, they argued, they pacified him ‘well’ as they could. It was a long-time, however, before they dared trust him alone with Roulctta, and even then they turned watchful eyes in his direction. “I didn't want anything to hap- pen.” The girl spoke listlessly. Kirby began to rumble again, but she interrupted him, “It wasn’t the man’s fault. It was a perfectly nat- ural mistake on his part, and I've Jearned to expect such things. I— I'm sick, dad. You must find a place) for me, “quick. 4 Sam agreed readify enough. The biting cold of the wind met them at the door. — Kouletta summoning what strength she could, trudged along at his side. It did’ not take them long to canvass the town’ and to discover that there were no lodg- ings to be had. Rouletta halted finally, explaining through teeth that chattered “I—I'm frozen! Take me back where there’s a stove—back to the saloon—any where, ly do it It isn’t cold,” Kirby pro- tested, mildly, The nature of this remark showed more plainly than anything he had said or done during the evening that the speaker was not himself. Tt-sig- nified such a dreadful change in him, it marked so surely the extent of his metamorphosis, that Rouletta’s tears came, “Looks like we'd haye to make thé 'best of it and stay awake till, morn- ing,” the father went ‘on, dully, “No, no! I'm too sick,” the girl sobbed, “and too cold. Leave me where I can keep warm; then ‘go find the Countess and—ask her to put me up.” Returning to their starting-point, Kirby saw to his daughter's comfort as best he could, after'which he wan- dered out in the night once more. His intentions were good, but he was not a little out of patience with Letty and still very angry with the man who had _ affronted her; rage at the insult glowed within his dis- ordered brain and he ‘determined, before“he had gone very far, that his first duty was to right that wrong. Probably the miscrcant was some- where around, or, if not, he wou! soon’ make his appearance. Sam decided to postpone his errand long} cnough to look through the other drinking-places and to settle the score, No one, on seeing him’ thus, would have stspected that he was “drunk; he walked straight, his tongtie was) ‘| obedient, and he was master of his! physical powers to a deceptive de- gree; only in his abnorfnally alert and feverish eyes was thereza sign that his brain was completely crazed. Rouletta waited for a long while, and steadily her condition iid Pa Fae eg Id | Ported upon her clas worse. She became light-headed, | and frequently lost hetself in a sort of painful doze. She did not really ; sleep, however, for her cyes were open and staring; her wits wandered | away on nightmare journeys, return- | ing only when the . pains became keener. Her fever was high she was nauseated, listless; her che: ached and her brcathing stroubled | her when she was conscious enough to think. Her surroundings became ! unreal, too, the faces that app 1 and disappeared before her were the faces of dream figures. Unmindful of his daighter’s necd, | heedless of the passage of time, Sam ; Tribune Classified Advertisements Py users, produc company prising Write W mpany, MA ply busi le must ‘ MeConnon , Winona, Minn. & Co, rt you in largest hes your unn TED Men and women € WOMAN to represent us Build your need no mol this locality Kirby loitered about the saloons and | __ waited patiently for the coming of a certain man, After a time he | bought some chips and sat in a poker game, but he paid less attention to the spots on his cards than to the door through which men came and went. These latter he eyed with the | unblinking stare of a serpent. Pierce Phillips’ life was ruined He was sure of it. Precisely what constituted a ruimed life, just how tuch such a one differed from a successful life, he had only the vaguest idea, but his own, at the mo- ment, was tasteless, spoiled. Dire | consequences were bound to follow j such a tragedy as this, so he told himself, and_he looked forward with gloomy satisfaction to their realiza- tion; whatever they should prove to | be, however terrible the fate that was to overtake him, the built, the responsibility therefor, lay entirely upon the heartless woman who had worked and he éarnestly hoped they would be brought home to her. Yes, the Countess Courteau was heartless, but also-that when he had managed to reconcile himself to that wrong she had lacked the courage | to mect him a There were | but two explanations of her action: | either she was weak and cowardh or else she did not love him. r afforded much consolation. ne women, it seemed to him, act in themselves, were Form , and evidently Hilda was or of them. She had done her well in. this instance, for C thoroughly blasted his 1: would pretend to forget, theless he would sec to undeceiyed, and th she had done him remained an ey present reproach to would be his revenge. getfulness, of course question. | How such an attitude Hist che the inj co Ruined — men drink. Why shouldn't he fron n his sorrows? bt there not be. real and reliel i in liquor? After considerati he decided to try it. From a tent saloon near by thea sounds of singing and of ter, and thither he turned When he entered the place a lively | 2 hirt. Somehow sr all portable orgin fy a dew | invariably came + uch= is steps. orien, siste: ith the aliandon of fessional shouters,”” tomen present, and = Phillips —recogn were | Big 2 Kulm, N. Margaret hotel i letter to Sixth Si LADY COOK good pastry cook. Cafe, Killdeer, No. Dak, WANTED. ED —Dependable | . G09 L0t eral housewo SALESMEN WANT! 100 i of vending ALE our nted r ’ p Protecte Pee: ducts Co. New Building, Kansas City th newly Y M own bi ney just y Clooten, 1 HELP_WANTED—FEMALE — Must Write Killdeer be 9-26-tf for gen- hst. 1-1 ED in- costing annually machines. rh $1,000 roposition. rless Pro- ork Life BECOME Y 1 money. Shoes. ity dire income, Shoe Co., Minnen K-W pound. teries instant! ncthod entirel agents. Minn, EAimin: lon Co., live-wir $200 weekly. ) tailers men make The Me ton Confection Co, Cedar sHOn ates old free to oe Paul, Good App M-14-it then as members of that theatri troupe he had seen at Sheep ¢ —as those esses” to whom Tor Linton had referted-with such elab; | orate sarcasm. Phil looked on moddily; he frown this lip curled. All the world was happy, it. seer , while he nursed a broken heart. Well, that was in accord with the scheme of things—life was a mad, turvy affair at best, nothing stable about fe felt very grim, very Acaperat yery much abused and’ very much | outside of all this merriment. | Men were playing cards at the rear of the-gatoon, and among the num- ber was Sam Ki he old gam= bler showed no experience of the aft ; in Tact, it appeared to have been banished utterly from mind. | He was drinking, even while Pierce looked on he rapped sharply with his iron hand to call ‘the bartender's attention. Meanwhile he, scanned intently the faces of all new-comers. _ When the crowd had surge hack to the organ Pierce found a place at the bar and called. for a drink,of.! whiskey—the first he had sever: or- dered. This was the end he told ) imsel f, He ‘poured the glass thert he gulped the liquor down, | Jt tasted tiuch as it smelled, lience‘he derived little enjoyment from, the experience. “As he stripped a'bill ftom his: sizable roll of bank-notés the bartender. eyed him curiously and seemed upon the point of speak- ing, but Pierce tutned his shoulder. Engaged thus, he heard a voice close to his ear; it said: “Hello, man!” ! Pierce turned to dispoger that a girl was leaning with elbows upon the plank counter at his side and looking at him, Her chin was 3ti ed fingers; she was staring ifito hi# face. She eyed him silently for a mo- ment, during which he returned her unsmiling gaze. She dropped her eyes to the whisky-glass, then raised them again to his. “Can you take a drink like that and not feel it?” shé inquifed. ° “No, I want to feel it; that’s Why ‘ he said, gtuffly. "What's the idea?” “Idea? Well, it’s my ‘own idea— my ows business.” Die SS geainenth nearly’ full, 1 See “WINDS OF CHANCE? 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