New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1922, Page 12

e iR gym Littlo, Brown & e e A iy i L7 SN 1 i ot ¥ e 2 NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HFRAID SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922 SKY B 7 SpRiCE Campany Regin Here Today BEN DARDY, a prisoner, is examin- en in the presente of . GOVERNOR McNAMARA by famous alienist named FOREST, The governor Is con- vinced that the convict is a victim of amnesia and paroles Darby to EZRA MELVILLE, an old friend of the prisoner, The two men jour- ney to Seattle where Melville un- folds his plans to Ben and shows him a letter from his brother, HIRAM NI ILLE, written on the latter's death bed, The letter stated that while prospecting near the Yuga River he had come upon a pocket worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Hiram begged that his brother come immediately and take possession of the claim, the only condition being that Ezra should care for his pet, Fenris. Melville offers Ben a free partner- ship and Ben accepts with deepest gratitude. Ray Brent is in love with Beatrice. He meets her in front of a hotel and offers to escort her home, Go on With the Story . Rey Brent's volce had an unde- niable ring of power. It was deeply bass, evidently the voice of a pas- slonate, reckless, brutal man. The man fell in beside her, his powerful frame overshadowing hers. “You're just letting me because I'm going up there anyway, eh?” he asked. The girl paused, as if in appeal. “Ray, we've thrashed that out long ago,” she responded. “I wish you wouldn't keep talking about. If you want to walk with me—" “All right, but you'll be changing your mind one of these days,” Ray's voice rang in the silence, indicating utter indifference to the fact that /many of the loungers on the street R 5 o G v % sk i were listening to the little scene. They followed the board sidewalk into the shadows, finally turning in at a ramshasle, three-room house, The girl terned to go in, but the man held fast to her arm. “Wait just a minute, Bee,” he urged. “I ve got one thing more to say to you.” “When I want something, 1 don't Xknow how to quit till T get it. It's part of my nature, Your pop knows that—and that's why he's made me his pardner in a big deal.” “The strong man gets what he wants—and I want you. And I'll get you, too—just like 1 get this kiss.” But she was a northern girl, trained to self-defense. As he freed her, her strong, slender arm swung out and up —with really startling force. “You little—devil!" The tempest of the forest was upon her, and her eyes blazed as she has- teried around the house. CHAPTER IIT. Beatrice Neilson’s Faith Jeftrey Neilson and Chan Hemin-, way were already in session when Ray Drent, his face flushed and his eyes stili angry and red, joined them. Neilson was a tall, gaunt man, well past fifty— from his manner evidently the leader of the three. He had heavy, grizzied brows and rather quiet eyes, Notorious as he was through the northern provinces he was infinitely to be preferred * to Chan Heminway, who sat at his left, who, a weaker man than either Ray | or Neilson, was simply a tool in the latter’'s hand. “Where's Beatrice?” Neilson asked |xnow how her {mpere wouldn't be any of the other at once. “I thought 1 heard voice.” Ray searched for a reply, and the silence all three heard the girl's| tread as she went around the house, “She's going in the back door. Like- ly she didn't want to disturb us." Ray looked up to find Neilson's eyes firmly fixed upon his face. Try hard as he might he couldn't restrdin a surge of color in his cheeks. “Yes, and what's the rest of it?" Neilson asked. “Nothing-—I know of." “You've got some white marks on your cheeks—where it ain't red. The kid can slap, can't she—'"" Ray flushed deeper, but the lines of Neilson's face began to deepen and draw. Then his voice broke in a great, hearty chuckle. “Cool down, boy—wait till you hear everything I've got to tell you, you'll feel better. Of course, you FATHER had planned a brilliant future for him. Mother’s high hopes for his success were sup- ported ably by her everlasting faith in him. ! But the was a bitter disap- pointment. He was being outdis- tanced steadily by hisschoolmates, was dull, listless all the time, “felt ' most of the time, never had " for play nor ambition for hil !uture. Father had about given him up. Poor mother's heartstrings were nearing the breaking point. Evi- dently, it was not to be, ‘Then an old friend of the family ~a man successful in every sense —came to the boy's rescue. Today, the father is proud of the boy who is indecd a joy to his mother. It was simply a case of poor di gestion, sluggish liver and consti pation gradually dulling the senses | and poisoning the system. Knowing from experience that Beecham’s Pilis were harmless as well as efficient, the old friend suggested them. They made the boy well ~ as they have hosts of other. children, and grown-ups, too, who suffered from like dis- orders, At All Druggists—25¢c and 50c | and | know what it's about “I suppose~—Hiram Melville's claim," “That's it, You know he's always had an idea that the Yuga country was worth prospecting, but we always laughed at him, Of course It is a pocket country; but it's my opinion he found a pocket that would make many a placer look sick, before he died,” “But he might have got gets somewhere else—"" ““Hold your horses. Where would he get ‘em? There's something else suspicious too, He wrote a letter, the day before he died, and addressed it to Ezra Melville, He must just about got it by now. He had the clerk malil it for him, and got him tu wit- ness it, saying it was his will—and the nug- AS HE FREED HER, HER STRONG, SLENDER ARM SWUNG OUT AND UP. what did the old hound have to will except a mine? Next day he wrote another letter somewhere too—but I didn't find out who it was to.” “I should say it was worth a trip,"” Ray agreed. “And a fast one, too. Ezra Melville will be showin' up one of these days. We want to be settin’ pretty when he comes.” “You've got the idea. It ought to be the easiest job we ever did.” Ray was lost in thought. “There's an old cabin up that way somewhere —on the river. If his brother does come up, he'll ind us in possession— and nothing to do but go back. So tomorrow we'll load up and pack horses and light out.”” “Up Poor Man Spruce Pass—" “Sure. Then over to the Yuga. 0Old Hiram was hunting down some kind of a scent in the vicinity of that old cabin you speak of, last heard of him." “All easy enough,” Ray agreed. He paused, and a queer, speculative look came into his wild-beast's eyes. “But what I don't sce—how you can figure all this is going to help me out with Deatrice.” Jeffrey Neilson turned in his chair. “You can’t, eh? You neced spectacles, “We'll need someone to cook and look after us, when we get up there. Who should it be but Beatrice? She wouldn't want to stay here; you she loves the woods. creek, through boys up there to trouble you. You'd in|pave a clear field.” At a little town at the end of steel Ben and Ezram ended the first lay of their journey. A canoe was bought for a reason- able sum—they were told they had a good chance of selling it again when they left the river near Snowy Gulch. for a ridiculously small sum which he mysteriously produced from the w“‘-——w—————. 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And it was with the most profeund amazement that, when they pushed off, he saw Ezram deliberately seat himself in the bow, leaving the more important place to his young companion. need 4 Cor. | | | | | | | | spoken; and his brain seemed to leap, |as in one Impulse, to the truth. | questions cient gun of large caliber but of en-| | asked, | Here, in these forests, [told to watch for, and soon | forest | Poor “Giood heavens, I'll capsize you in a minute,” Hen said, “How do you dare rigk it—" “Push off and hl(ip Iruilu-lln me,'" Baram answered, re' 's u paddle | ~=go ahead and lhm)Y | T'he waters caught the canoe, speeding it down-stream; and in ap- prehension of immediate digaster Ben seized the paddle, Swiftly he thrust it into the streaming water at his side, | “Do you remember when you shot the Othabaska Rapids?'" Izram had It was all clear enough, In that life that was forgotten he had | evidently lived much in a canoe, | knowing every detall of river life, Late afternoon, and they worked closer to the shore, And now, in the gray of twillght, Izram saw the place to land, It was a small lagoon into which a creek emptied, and beyond was in open meadow, found so often and so unexpectedly in the North woods, Swiftly Ben turned the canoe into shore, All at once a great (~1m|ly seemed to take possession of Den's mind, were the stimull of which Torest, the alienist, had Sud- denly he knew the answer to all the and problems that had troubled him so long. He sprang up, his eyes blazing, I remember everything,” an inaudible voice spoke within him. Then he whispered, fervently, to MHis familiar wilds, *“And T have come home." CHAPTER IV. A Bolt From the Blue, IBverything was as it should be, as |he and Ezram made the camp. “It's all come clear again,” he told Iizram, He remembered now that zram had always been the most in- ‘mate friend of his own family; a pry old godfather to himself and oung sister, a boon companion to his uccessful rival, Ben's father. Ben 'id not wonder, now, at his own per- slexity when Iorest had spoken of “olf"" Darby. That was his own name known throughout hundreds of square miles of forest and in dozens of little river hamlets in an Kastern province. The journey ended at last. They saw the white peak they had been ter they came to a green bank from ch the had been cut away. They pushed up and made landing on the banks of a small stream. This stream, - Ezram Man's Creek, the stream {which his brother had written and which they must ascend to reach Spruce Pass. 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