The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1925, Page 7

Published by Arrangement, with First National Pictures, Inc., and Frank CHAPTER XXII } American's ca good or ev Had h hy surroundings upon h t Dawson, in all probability Id have experienced a healthy But, blown by the winds nee, he took root where he in the low grounds. Since ed the youthtal power of dd vigorous adaptation, he da color to match his en- ent. Of necessity this altera- gradual; nevertheless, it vithout knowing it he Cfecrioration of nda propressive change d the avet- 's for Noug: the Rialto were short and the pay was high. Inasntuc! was a playground where cares were forgotten, there was a wholly arti- ficial atmosphere of gaiety and im- providence about it. When patrons won at the gambling-games, they promptly squandered theif winnings at the bar and in the theater; when they lost, they cheerfully ignored their ill-fortune, Even the gamblets themselves shared this recklessness, this prodigality; they made much money; nevertheless, they were usu- ally broke. Most. of them drank quite as {reely as did the eustomers. This was not a temperance covn- 3 gh alcohol was not con- sidered a food, it was none the Ie regarded a prime essential comfort and well-being. It was in- evitable, gherefore, that Pierce Phil- lips, a youth in his growing age should adopt a good deal the s: ibits, as well as the same spirit and outlook, as the people with whom he came in daily contact. Vice crroncous considered hideous; it is supposed to have a ot we Lloyd Productions, Inc. very brightness beyond the mouy-! tain crests far to the southward showed where the low winter surt) was sweeping past on its flat arc. The sky to_the north was empty, cdlorless, There had been no wind jor some time, and now the firs sagged beneath burdens of white; even the bare birch branches car- ried evenly balanced inch-deep lay- ers of snow. Underfoot, the earth was smothered in a feathery shroud as fight, as clean as the purest swan's-down, and into it Pierce's moccasins sank to the ankles. He walked as_ silently as a ghost. Through this queer, breathless htsh the sounds of chopping, of distant yoices, of an occasional dog barking followed him as he went deeper into the woods. ime was when merely to be out in the forest on such a day would have pleased him, but gone entirely there came now an irritation at the physical discomfort it entailed. He soon began to perspire freely, too frecly; nevertheless, there was no glow to his body; he could think only of easy-chairs and warm stoves, He wondered what ailed him. Noth- ing could be moré abhorrent than this, he told himself, Health was a valuable thing, no doubt, and he was that pleasure, and in its place agreed that no price was too high to pay for it—no price, perhaps, ex- teresting exercise o sort. He was upon the point ing back when. the trail sud- into a ‘natural clear- something which challenged his attention, To the leit of the path rose a teep bank, and beyond that the bare, sloping mountain-side. In the shelter of the bank the snow had fted deep, but, oddly enough, its piacid surface was churned up, as if from an explosion or some desper- ate conflict that had been lately —I quite sure you're all righ’ but ar had then rain down on me out You popped right out of the ground. at make surc—” ing his extended hand, she scram- bled to her feet and brushed herself again. ing again, and in a tone that boyishly intimate she explained: was going higher each time, but the | sight of you upset me. Think of be- ing upset by a perfect. it? a skee,.” the bluff overhead. “H. dropping in, we'll be ironed ont like a e so repulsive that the simplest] waged. It had been tossed up and stranger will shudder at sight of it| thrown down, What caused him to and.turn of his own accord to more| stare was the fact that no footprints attractive Virtue. li that were only| were discernible — nothing except true! More often than not it is the | queer, wavering parallel streaks that former that wears a smile and mag-| lcd downward from the snowy tur- complex life of the city man has landmarks and guide-postg of conduct to go by, and it is equally true of the less complicated life of the far frontier where he must blaze his own trail. Along with the strength and vigor and indepen- dence derived from the great out- tnere comes aise a srecdom 1008 frequent- that aecrue He re- at he was on the It filled ciously, had change as glad of it. 1 1s amusement, ance, to look back upon his ‘old puritanical ideas. They s rrow, yery imn 1, and he was grati- der vision, The most iteration, however, en- ed his notice. That al- teration was one of outlook rather than of inlook, Bit by bit he had come to regard the general crowd the miners, merchants, townspeople -ras outsiders, and himself as an in- sider—one of the wise, clever, ease- loving class which subsisted without toil and for whom a freer code of morals existed. Those outsiders were stupid, hard-working; they were somchow inferior, He and his kind were of a higher, more ad- vanced order of intelligence; more- over, they were bound together by the ties of a common purpose and understanding and therefore enjoyed privileges denied their legs efficient brethren, If jackals were able to reason, doubtless they would justify ‘their existence and prove their superior- ity to the common herd by some such fatuous argument. Pierce’s complacency received its first jolt when he discovered that he had lost caste itr the eyes of the better sort of people—people such as he had been accustomed (0 asso- ciate with at home. This discovery came as the result of a chante meet- ing with a stranger, and, but for it, he probably would’ haye remained unaware of the t-uth, for his newly made friends had treated him with consideration and nothing had oc- curred to disturb his complacency. Me had acquired a speaking ac- quaintance with many of the best citizens, including the Mounted Po- lice and cven the higher Dominion officials, all of whom camé ‘to the Rialto, These men professed a gén- uine liking for him, and, inasmuch as his time was pretty full and there wasplenty of amusement close at fied at his bre nificas hand, he had never stopped to think | O1 that the side of Dawsoh life which hesaw was merely the under side— that a real social community was forming, with real homes on the back strects, where already women of the better sort were living. After numerous hal@hearted at- tempts, he arose one day» about * noon; then, having caten a tasteléss breakfast and strengthencd guid determination ‘by a stiff glass ‘hootch,” he strolled out of town, taking the ‘first randone trail that offered itself. It was a wood trail, leading howheré int particular, a fact which precisely suited his resentful mood. His blood moved sluggishly, he was short of breath, the cold was bitter. Before long he decided that walking was a profitless and stulti- fying’ occupation, a pastime for idiots and solitaire-players; never- the less, he continued in the hope of deriving some benefit, however difect or remote. }>%. > | eore Tt Wes a still afternoon. * A. sif- INSTALMENT THIRTY-NINE Pierce halted, and with bent head w studying the phenomenon, when close above him he heard the rush of a swiftly approaching body; he looked up just in time to behold an apparition utterly unexpected, utterly astounding. Swooping di- . . . What seemed at first glance to be a bird-woman. . . rectly down upon him with incredi- “You seared me. I never dreamed dnt hear a thing until— Well, | I locked up and ‘there you were. { The sky was full of you. Gee! thouglit I'd Jost my mind. | Are youj “Oh, Pil be black and blue agai; I'm used to that. That's the st one I've had, the very fun- | Why don't you Jaugh?” 1 too rattled, I suppose. I'm | med to flying girls. Nev- 's face” grew sober. | "re entirely to blame,” she | angrily. “I was getting it fully until you showed up. | What are you d ng in the Queen's Park, anyhow? ou've no business he royal sports,” didn't mean to tresp: think I'll call the guards.” { “Call the court: physician and | i “Pshaw! I'm not hurt.” Igner- Evidently the queenly anger was short-lived, for she was beam- \ “I'd made three dandy jumps and | strange man. x, doesn't It's a’wonder 1 didn’t break Shows lackygf social tr: Pierce glanced apprehensively at jadn't we bet- ter move out of the way?” he in- | comes quired. “If the royal fami’ couple of handkerchiefe. [ don't want to feel the divine right of the king, or his left, either.’ | “There isn't any king—nor any royal family. I'm just the Queen | of Pretend” ! “You're skee-jumping alonex I#! that wh f, | n't that a amuse yourseli? y. “Have you ever ridden them? girl inquired, quickly. “Never. don’t know what fun is The speaker stooped and detached her feet from the straps. “Just have a go at it.” Pierce pro- tested, but she insisted in a busi- ss-like way. “They're long ones too long for me, They'll just suit the | I don't care to—" 3, you do. You must.” “You'll be sorry,” Pierce warned “ my feet glance off and cking up in the snow to {uone by you'll— Say! T can think of a lot of things T want to do. but { don't seem to find skee-jumping on the list.” “You needn't jump right Determination was in the gir there was a dancing light of malice in her eves. “You bit. Remember, sort. J I thought Pd Nothing of the mazed, not amused. flushed a very 1 ifieent pheasant with blue-and-white stripes, and I afraid it was going to fly away before I got a good look at it. Now. then—” He slowly finished buck- ling the runners to his feet and looked up _interrogativel; “What are your Majesty's orders ae around. Slide down the hii “What, on?” Th i j sesh i bie velocity was what seemed at ¢ girl smothered a juph and first. glance to be a bird-woman, a] Waved him away. She lodked on valkyr out of the pages of Norse| While he set off with more or lesé mythology. Wingless she was, yet | caution. When he managed to | she came like the wind, and at the} ™aintain an upright position despite | very: instant Pierce raised his eyes| the antics of his skces her face ex she took the air almost over his|Pressed genuine disappointment. head—quite as if he had startled her into an upward flight. Upon her feet was a pair of long, Norwegian skees, and upon these she had scudded down. the mountain-side; where the bank dropped away she had leaped, and now, like a meteor, she soared into suace. This amaz- ing creature was clad in a biue-and- white toboggan suit, short skirt, sweater jacket, and knitted cap. As she hung outlined against the wintry sky Pierce caught a snap-shot pine of a fair, flushed, youthful ‘ace set in a Judicrous expression of open-mouthed dismay at sight of him. He heard, too, a high-pitched ery, half of warning, half of fright; the next instant there was a mighty upheaval of snow, an ¢xplosion of feathery white, as the human pro- jectile landed, then a blur of biue-|#! and-white stripes as it went rolling. down the declivity. i “Good Lord!” Pierce cried, aghast; then ‘he sped after the apparition. Jniy for the evidence of that’ un- dignified tumble, he would have doubted the reality of this flying Venus and considered her some créature of his imagination. There she lay, however, a thing of ‘flesh and blood, bruised, broken, helpless; apprehensively he pictured himself. staggering back to town with her in Gis arms, He. halted, speechless, when the, girl sat up, shook the snow out of her hair, gingerly felt one elbow, | thea the other, and finally burst into |: a peal of ringing laughter. The face she lifted to his, now that it wore a normal expression, was wholly charming; it was, in fact, about the freshest, ihe ‘cleanest, the healthiest and the frankest cotimtenance he had ever looked into. ‘ “y “Glory be!” he. stammered. — completely thought you’ were spoiled.” on badly teiged the girl mags aged to gasp, “but ess I'm al here. Oh! What a bump!" “It's not so hard as [ thought it would tbe,” he soon announced, tri- | umphantly, “A little awkward at first, but—” he cast an eye up at the bank. “You never know what you can-do until you try.” “You've been skeeing before,” she acctised him, reproachiully. Never.” i [hen you pick it up wonderfully. Try a jump.” f Her mocking invitation spurred jim to, make the effort, so he re- moved the’ skees and Wwadcd a short distance gp the hill. Witen he had secured ‘his fect in ‘position for ‘a second ‘time he called down: ees to let go and trust to Providéfice. Look out.” “The same to you,” she cried. you'ré_wonderfit, but—fhen can do thing, can't‘they?” _. Phere was nothing graceful, noth- ing of the iree' abandon of the prac- tised “skee-runner in Pierce's atti- tude; he crouched apelike, with his muscles set to maintain an equilib- rium, and this. much he steceeded in doing—until he reached the jump- ing-off place. At that point, how: ‘avity, which he had success- fully defied’ ,wréaked vengeance up- on.him; it sydienly reached ‘forth and made him #5 vindictive toy. Hé pawed, he foug' sit, ‘he appeared to be climbing an invisible rope. With a mighty he Janded flat_on his back, utftring a loud and dismayed unt as his breatli left him. When ie had dug’ himself out he foun that the girl, too, was. breathles: she erself gleefully, an seca aeral aint ex tn in a thin, smalf voice. “Di ove 4 1” she exclainied, “The young mati ined. “Not it all. 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