New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 17

1009-Little,rown & Gompany . (Continued From Our Last Issue) “Your gun Is empty, Beatrice,” he told her quietly, He heard her sob, and he smiled & little, reassuringly, “Never mind—-and pray for a good voyage,” he advised, “We're going The craft and its occupants were out of slght by the time Jeffrey Neil- son reached the river bank with his rifle, He made his way fast as he could toward the claim, Sensing the old man's distress, Ray straightened from his work at the sight of him. The face before him was drawn and white; but there was no time for questions, Hard hands selzed his arm, “Ray, do you know of a canoe any- where—up or down this river?" “No! - There isn't one that you could even dream about shooting those rapids in, Tell me what's the mattér. Has Beatrice—' eatrice has gone down, that's ou don't mean—she’s run away?" “Don't be a fool. The prospector 1 told you about—Darby—was the old man's partner. He paying us back. Ray, 1 wish to God T had died before 1 ever saw this day!" Ray stared blankly. “Then he found out—about the murder?” he gasped. “Yes.. Here's his letter.” Ray read the letter carefully, crumpling it at last in savage wrath. “He can't do much if the claim’'s recorded in our nanfes!” +*He can make us plenty of troulle. If you want the girl, Ray—don't lose a minute. Put your things together as fast as you can.'" They crossed the divide, thus reach- ing the headwaters of Poor Man's Creek; then' took the “trail down toward the settlements. But the two claim-jumpers had not yet learned all the day's il news, Half-way ‘to the mouth of the stream they met Chan Hemingway on his way back to the claim. At the first sight of him, they could hardly believe their eyes. It was not tobe credited that he had made the trip to Bradleyburg and back in the few days he had been absent. “What in the devil you coming back for?” Ray shouted, when Chan's identity became certain.” “Befause the claim’'s recorded, that's why, Before old Hiram died he wrote a letter to an official in Bradleyburg and in it was a descrip- tion of the claim, Whatever fofy malities was necessary was cut out bg cause the old man has been too sicl to make the trip—the recorder gol special permission from Victoria. “You see what that means, don’t you?” he asked Neilson. t means we've lost!" The eyes before him narrowed and | gleamed. “So that's what it means to yout Well, T don't look at it just that way. It means to me that we've got to take these supplies .and. these, pack horses and start out “and find Ben Darby.” . "Of course we've got _to Beatrice—'" “‘Rescuifig Beatrice isn't all of it now, by a long. shot. - Did'nt old Hi- ram leave a will ,giving this clalm to| his brother: ¥ara? And hasn't li\ls( Beh got a letter from Ezra leaving the claim to him?"” “You mean we've got to find him?" “We've got to; that's all.” Nellson. breathed heavily. plain enough.” . . rescue “It's all . o Reatrice Nellson was a mountain girl, with the strong thews of Jael, yet she hid’ her face as the canoe ghot into the crests of .the rapids. The wolf crouched in the heap of supplies, fearful to the depths of his wild ‘heart of this mighty stream, yet etill. putting his faith in his master in the stern. A sudden movement on the part of Beatrice, in the bow of the canoe, caught Bens eye. She had leaned forward and was reaching among the supplies. She lifted into her hands a SAGE TEA TURNS GRAY HAR DARK It's Grandmother's Recipe ‘to Dring | Back Color, and Lustre to Hair. That beautiful, even shade of dark, glossy hair can only be had by brew- ing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sul- phir. Your'hair s your charm. It makes or mars the face. 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CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR HER FOR HIM paper parcel, the same she had brought from her cabin carly that morning, His heart leaped; why he did not know, “What Is 1t?" he asked, “Ben-~1 called you that yesterday and there's no use going back to last names now--I've made an important decision.” “I hope it's a happy one,” he ven- tured, “It's as happy as it can me, under the circumstances, Ben, I came of a llne of frontiersmen-—the forest people—and if the woods -teath one hting it is to make the best of any bad situation.” A8 she talked she was slowly un- wrapping the little parcel she had brought. Presently she held it out to him, It was fust a box of homemade candy that she had brought for their e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922, of warning froge her in her tracks, A great, gaunt form raised up from the plle of duffie in the canoe; and hik angry fangs showed ivory white in the wan light, It was Fenris, and he guarded the canoe, He ecrouched, ready to spring If she drew near, The girl sobbed once, then back to her blankets, After breakfast they took river, ylelding themselves once more to the whims of the current, Shortly before tHe n®mn hour Ben's quick ofe saw a break In the heavy brushwood that lined the bapk and quickly paddied toward It, In a mo- ment more he pushed the canoe into the mud of the creek bank, They crossed a low ridgs ing down another of the thousand creeks that water the northern lands, In a moment it led them to a long, narrow lake, blue as a sapphire in its frame of dusky spruce, And all at once Beatrice, walking in front, drew up with a gasp. She stood at the edge of a little glade, perhaps thirty yards across, laying at the base of the clifft. The creek flowed through it, the grass was green and rvich, beloved by antlered herds that came to graze, the tall spruce shaded it on three sides. But it was not these things that caught the girl's eye. Just at the edge of a glade a dark hole yawned in the face of the cliff. “It's home,"” the man said simply. CHAPJER XII. A Strange Comradeship Ben and Beatrice went together back to the canoe, and in two trips they carrier the supplies to the cave. Tired from the hard tramp, vet sustained by ‘A vague excitement neither of them could name or trace, they began to prepare for the night. stole to ,the follow- | The silence dropped about them, settling slowly; and all except the largest heap of red coals burned down to gray ashes, The brush cracked and rustied just beyond the glowing coals, Some huge wilderness creature was venturing toward them, at the edge of the little glade, “What Is it? The man's eyes gloom, “1 don't know, moose, or maybe a caribou, may be-—" His eyes fell to the chouching form of Tenrls, Ben leaped to reach his gun, “At him, Fenris!" he shouted, The wolf leaped forward llke a thrown spear—almost too fast for the eye to follow. Thereafter there was only a great confusion ,event piled upon event with |incredible rapldity, A grizzly lunged |into sight with incredible storm of sound, Immediately the wolf sprang, ready to wage this unequal battle to the death, But his brave fight was tragically hopeiess. Yet by the law of his wild heart he could not turn and flee. His master had given his orders, and he must obey them to the end. The bear paused one instant; then lunged forth again. But the breath in which the wolf ‘had stayed the charge had given Ben Vi ahanee, With a swift motion of his arm he had projected the single suell intg the chamber of the weapon. The stock snapped to his shoulder: and his keen, glittering eyes sought the sights. His finger pressed against the trigger. Reatrice whispered, strained * into the It may be just a But it back steadily The slightest flinching, the smallest yet throw oft his arm, The spoke with a roar, | The grizzly was in his death agony, | lessened, nothing more; yet in that final con. axe with greater power, yulsion he could rip Into shreds the | powerful form that |Ben dropped the selzed the axe that leaned against a 10g of spruce beside the fire, Just In time Ben sprang aside, out of the reach of those terrible fore. s E motion opposed * him, empty rifle and rifie | the alr, (Continued in Our Next Issue) V'S GIPT, Brussels, might | arms; and his axe swung mightily in| preclous stones, have been Ben's powers | 1, rather th N 3 i nereased, rather an Ever he swung his terrible of Abyssinixi A number Among the - we algo many shields and sabres, "&' the shields formerly belonging to ¥ peror Menelik an used by him at th battle of Adowa, Similar gifts weer sent from Al of | sinla to the late Emperor Nig costly gifts, Including a set of harness | of Russia, when he recognized mounted in gold and enriched with | sinlun independence. FOR THE KIDDIES On Toddy’s Want Ad Page Classifications 65 A-B-C-D A GREAT GAUNT FORM RAISED UP FROM THE PILE OF DUJFLE IN THE CANOBE. day's picnic. But i® was a peace offering not to ‘hr* despised. CHAPTER- XI. The Forest Stronghold When the swirling waters carried the canoe down into the gorge of the Yuga both Ben'and Beatrice were in- stinctively awad and stilled. Ever the walls of the gorge grew more step, until the sunlight was cut off and ey rode as if'in twilight. In mid-aftérnoon .Ben began to ink of makihg~his night's camp. In one of tlie more quiet stretches of water he sdw the place—a small cove and a green; tree-clad bank, with the gorge rising behind. Handling his canoe’ with greatest care he slanted toward it, A moment later he had caught' the brush at the water’'s edge, stepped off into shallow water, and whas drawing the canoe up onto the bank. “We're through for the day,” he gaid happily, as he helped Beatrice out of the bbat. “I'll confess I'm ready to rest.” “Hére's where you sleep tonight, Beatrice,” he informed her. ! As twilight'lowered they sat down to their simjple meal, tea, sweetened with sugar, and vegetables and meat 3 happily mingled in.a stew. New Havea, Conn. Beatrice fell into troubled sleep, but . — wakened when the first ribbon of light stretched along the castern horizon. She sat up; laying the blankets back with infinite ' care. This was her chance! Ben still lay asleep. Just to steal down to the water's edge, push’ off the canoe, and trust her life to ‘the doubtful mercy of the river. z She ‘could discern .the black sha- dow of the canoe. She stepped nearer. ! . 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