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, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY (Continued From Page 6) way, her relations with Harold had changed. His ardent speeches didn't seem to | waken sufficient response in her own Dreast. She lacked the ecstasy, the Wonder that she bad known when, as & girl, she had first become en. to Harokl, They embarrassed her rather than thrilled her; they didn't weom quite real, Perhaps she ha simply grown older, That was 18, 1922. with no favo: © coukin't see interfere, Nor ¢ to a em. at first He had bo love for the wastes he oar mpany t snow swept mostly the days w excessively © engthening and ar rney could be und n BOON, y a few more days of the adven ture remained, some of her girlish romance had died} Their excursions at first were a @ natural death. She would give this matter of pleasure only, but by one man her love, would take his in re.| unexpected stroke (rom the sinister turn, and they would have the usual, | powers of the wild they were sud normal happiness of marriage. All | denly one Her first would come out well, once they got came wher away from the silence and the Perhaps his large and extravagant Speeches were merely out of place in the stark reality of the wilderness ‘hey would thrill her as ever when she returned to her native city. Like | ly he could dance, after a little prac tice, ax well as ever: fill his niche in society and give her all the happl Ness that woman has a right to ex pect upon this imperfect earth. There ‘was certainly nothing to be distreswed over now, They had been brought together as if by a miracle; any haunting doubt and fear, too subtle and intangible to put Into words or even concrete thought, would quickly pass away. She did not, however, go frequently imto his arms. Some way, an em bar Ment, a Sense Of inappropri- @teness and unrest always assailed her when he tried to claim the ca Fesses that he felt were his due, And &t first she could not find a plausible explanation for her reserve. Perhaps these tendernesses were also out of Place in the grim reality of the North; more likely, she decided, it Was 4 subtle sense, the guardian angel of her own integrity, warning her that (oo intimate relations with that man must be avold isolated and exiled as they were. <{ now, Harold,” she would tel him. “Not until we're established again—at home.” Finally his habits and his actions @id not quite meet with her approval. ‘The first of these was only a little thing—a failure to keep shaved. Shaving in these surroundings, with- out mirror, with a battered old razor that had lain long in the cabin and had to be sharpened on a whetstone, where every drop of hot water used had to be laboriously heated on the stove, was an annoying chore at best: besides, there was no one to see him except Virginia and the guide. The stubble matted and grew on his lips and jowls, Bill, in con- rast, shaved with greatest care every evening. A more important point waa his avoidance of his proper share of Bill's daily toll. He neither hewed ‘wood nor drew water, nor made any apologies for the omission. Rather! ning fire. | She had not yet risen. It had ab | ways been her practice to wait till the room way snug and warm before ashe dremed, She was asleep when | Bill came in, and aroused by hia foot stops, she was aware of the fleeting memory of unhappy dreama, She hcouldn'’t have told just what they were. It seemed to her that some unseen danger had been menacing her security—that evil and danger ous forces were conspiring and mak-| jing war against her, Hidden foes |were in ambush, ready to pounce | forth. The danger seemed different and that which she ghad faced every ow and cold and the other inanimate forces of the wild. And she was vastly relieved to hear Bill's voice calling her from sleep. But the next instant her fears re turned—not the ghastly fear of evil dreams but of actual and real dis aster, It wasn't Bill's usual custom to waken her, He wanted ber spend ax many as possible of the monotonous hours in sleep. There was a subdued quality in hin voice, too, that once or twice she beard before. She drew aside the curtain. far enough to see his face. There! was no paleness, however, ner no lear, for all that his eyes were sober. “You'd better get up as soon as | you can, Virginia,” he said. “We've got to take @ real hunt today.” “Hunt? After meat?’ “Yea, We're face to face with a new problem, The pack came by last night—the wdlf pack. As usual, when mea are nm , Uney didn’t make a sound. I didn’t hear them at all. And they got away with the big moose ham, hanging on the spruce Stripped the bone clean.” “Then we're out of meat?" “AN except the little plece outside the door. We've been going thru it pretty fast.” | BU spoke true, Their meat con jeumption had practically doub’ since Harold had come. For all his | luck of physical exercise, the latter |was an unusually heavy eater, “But we won't be able to find any De gave the idea that Bill's services| now. The moose are cone—" were due him by rights. “We're not very likely to, that's ‘There was a little explosion, one/ certain; but it won't be a tragedy if » when be ventured to ad- vise her in regard to ber relations with* Bul. The forester himeeclf was cutting wood outside the cabin: they heard the mighty sting of his ax @gainst the tough spruce. Virginia was ut work preparing their simple evening meal; Harold was stretched on her own cot, the curtain drawn back, his arms under his head, his unshaven face curiously dark and unpreposseasing. “You want to keep on your own ground—with Bill, Virginia,” he began in the ailence. Virginia turned to him, a wave of hot resentment flowing clear to her finger tips. If he had seen Flushed, intent face he would have Packed ground quickly. Unfortu. “What do you mean?” she asked Wholly aware of her own dis Jeasure, wondering at it and anxious hide it, she was able to control her voice. her thoughts. still unwarned: “I mean—keep him at his distance. He's a different sort from you and I. I don't mean he ten't al! right, as far as his kind goes—but he hasn't tad the advantages.” Harold spoke tolerantly, patronizingty. “Those fel- lows are apt to take an advantage of any familiarity. you keep ‘em in their place~but they're mighty likely to break loose from it any minute. I'm sorry you ever let him call you Virgipia.” Virginia’ eyes blazed. If it is one of the precepts of good breeding Harold answered her, Its tone gave no key to| ‘They're all right it) | we don't. It would only be an annoy: lance, It's true that we've got to have more supplies to start down— | 1 don’t believe we could make it thru with what we have, considering the jloss of this ham—but tf it's neces: sary I can mush ver to my Twenty three Mile cabin and get the supplies }L lett over there, Harold tells me he hasn't @ thing in his old place. However, I can do it, if we don’t hap- pen to pick up some meat today.” “We might track down the wolves, id get ane of those—"* “Wolf meat hasn't a favor you'd care for, I'm afraid. The have been known to eat it, but they her can put away beaver and tough old! grizaly bear. Those things are starva- tion meats only. But if you care to nately he was gazing quietly out the| we can dash out and see if we can} dow, THE TWINS | Clive Roberts Barton | pick up a young cariboy or a left over moose. It's pleasant out te ¥ anyway. It's rather warm—I believe there's going to be a change of weather.” “Good or bad? the girl asked went had any government bul. |letins on that point, this Probably bad. The weather in the North, Virginia, goes along the way it is a while, and then it gets worse.” | She dressed, and at breakfast their | exultation over thelr trip grew pain ful to Harold's ears, He announced his intention of going along. Curiously, eved Virginia receive this announcement with par ticular enthusiasm. It waa not that her regard for Bill was any kin to that she held for Harold. Rather it was a fear that Harold's presence might blunt the edge of the fine com never to let anger control the spirit. | panionship she enjoyed with the Virginia had made a breach indeed. woodsman. It would throw a per Her ‘little hands clenched, and she | sonal element into an otherw had a fierce and insane desire to free and nturous d. © beat those babbling lips with her| smiled at him, rather for tists. Then she struggied to regain her composure. “Lésten, Harold,” she began at last coldly. “I don’t care to hear any more: such talk as that.” ‘The man looked up then, He saw the righteous indignation in her face. He felt the rising tide of his own anger. “I’m only trying to warn you" he Began weakly. “And 1 don't need or want such warnings. I don’t care what you think of Bili—for that matter, | Fill doesn’t you can be sure that gare at all either—but I'll ask you! to keep your thoughts to yourself, Oh, if you only knew—how good, how strong. how true he has been— bow tender he has heen to me” Harold ws torn with jealous rage, and in his fury and malice he made the worst mistake of all. “I hope he hasn't been too tender—" he sug gested viciously. But at once he was on hin feet begging her pardon, He knew that he had made a dangerous and regret table mistake. She forgnve him forgiveness was as much @ part of her as her graciousness or her loy: alty—but she didn't immediately for- get. And Harold sat long hours with amoldering eyes and clenched hands, A elimbing fire and fury in his brain, while the malice and the resentment and the jealousy that he held toward Bill grew to hatred, bitter and black XVII The addition of Harold to their number did not influence, for long. Virginia's old relations with Bill ‘They were comrades am ever: talked and chatted around the stove in the hushed nights played their favorite melodic battered phonograph the on the and they took the rame joyoum, exciting expeditions | inte the wild ‘Thewe latter diversiona | } “Just as you lke, Harold | They put on their mnowshoes, their | warmest wraps, and started gayly forth, Bill took rather a new course |today. He bent his steps toward a stream that he called Creek Despair |—named for the fact that be had once held high hopes of finding bis lost mine along its waters, only to meet an utter and hopeless failure. any) From the map he had judged that |the lost claim lay somewhere along its course, but he had washed it from |ita mother springs clear to its mout! finding scarcely the faintest in the pan. Because he had such a tireless wearch in this par ticular section in previous years | had completely avoided \t in the pres ent adventure, Even on his pl trips with Virginia he had ne gotten his wearct her into favorable where he might reasonably keep hi eyes open for clews. Now that he bad given up finding the claim this» at least, and forever-—one was a another. And an old caribou trail the stream on the steep hillside. Bill led the v ushing and swiftly, and Virginia sped him. The cold had brought a color to her cheeks her her ner jtingled with life. she derful spirits, Never she took a hun dred without experiencing nome sort of @ little, heart gladdening adventure life at trace mad ure er for thus he had led regions quiet after and a luster to and muscles was in won eyes pacer manifestation of the fore nt her filled her with deligh The beauty of the winter woods absorbing record that the wild ereatures had left in the snow, the long aweep of range and valley that she could glimpse from all had thelr joy for her. With bia how he The crust on the anow was steadily 4. The Indians | morning. | did not! AN! FINISH UP YouR | ACT WITH A SONG AN} DANCE != T KNOW “TH! || ONLY “TRAIN RIDE You |/ CROWDED UP WITH MILK CANS! rh | she found something to womething to make her guicken her blood, in every hundred Yarda of their Someumes | when the snow record was obscure, BUI stopped and explained, usually }with @ graphic story and unconscious humor that made the woods tingle and ring with her joyous, rippling laughter. More than often, however, she was able to piece out the mystery by hervelt delight her, laugh and course Bul had « long and highly fanciful joonversation with @ little, black {tailed ermine that tried to run under hia feet; he imitated—to Virginia’ delight—the spectacle of a large and Stiff cow moose p: the mud; he repeated for her the de- Mmented cries of the loons that they [had sometimes heard from the still waters of Gray Lake, But he didn't forget that the main purpose of their jexpedition was to hunt. When at | inet they reached the caribou range he commanded silence. Ving berselg thru Harold, silent ty others’ gayet Jimmediately evinced a dex ir jelination to talk. He had not par ticularly enjoyed the excursion #0 far. In the first place he had no | love either for the winter forest or jthe creatures that Inhabited it; he would h been much more com fortable and at ease beside the cabin |atove. He couldn't mush with com. {fort at BUl's regular pace: he was [Father out of breath and trritated after the first two hundred rods. | Most of all, he waa savagely con. j scious of the fact that Virginia was not giving him a rightful share of her attention. For time belng she seemed to have forgotten his Presence. He was resentful, wishing tinaster upon the hunt, eager to turn back. “The rule ts ailence, from now on,” Virwinia answered his firet remark “Bill says we're in a game country The answer didn't mtixfy him. But [his heart suddenty leaped when at glanced back In warning and pointe to an entrancing wilderness picture, & bundred yards in front (Continued Tomorrow) , the help?’ No sooner had th arrived Emptyland than things t happen. There was a roarin beneath them and thru the floor 4 a cook-stove, which over and nded on ita 1 Whizzy ia kins The cook-stove & minute, then ran went and over finally getting busy,” said ry lay etl up. traveling, perfectly | say that w-was fast he said. “Wh in the sky hore? stove lay down with a groan groaned, ''S) Then I I spose I'll “Are * sald Nan! he a stove-angel next.” Buskina gel. You're in Fairyland, » wind blew you t be wings no, eure him. not grow hurried all right “Oh. to ae an ar in heaven up her “Sam “The: much use of bread, no he child: not thing!” groaned the stove don’t eat I'll be. more b either place, and kings for no wn gr n, nO more lemon pie mashed potatoes, no n mi mustn't feel so bad,” “We'll take care of you. Can't Nick (Copyright, 192 OUR BOARDING HOUSE GO ON, GAFF AWAY \ f MACK ISN'T DUMS EVER HAD WAS || BECAUSE HE'S ONLY J yy Yo BE GONE |! EXCITED HELL /|LOST SOMETHING Whack GETS & RAZZ == 'SENDOFF'ON A SHORT TRIP “Kiddies, I can't understand a tenth of them. Can you Confessions of PAGE 9 THE SEATTLE STAR BY STANLEY BY AHERN MACK'LE MINK ‘TH’ BRAKE MAN 1S CARRYING A LANTERN BECAUSE He THE OLD HOME TOWN ( FROM ALL "TH! Fuss You'D | THINK HE WAS {| “TAKING A SAUNT || \\ "To AUSTRALIA= [| WE'LL BE SO . | TAKING AN EXTRA COLLAR OR WASH RAG WITH HIM A COUPLA DAYS! /) Look AWOLE |/ ILL BET HE HAS THROUGH “TH! |! SATCHEL FULL COACH WINDOWS!) OF COAL IN CASE e ARO"? | TH ENGINE Low! 5 asst é en JEFF SACKETT, WHO LOST HIS PET CAT YESTERDAY FOUND WHAT HE THINKS 1S A_HOT CLUE TODAY - > \ BY ALLMAN — P DOWN STK A Silent Drama DOINGS OF THE DUEFS ; as BY BLOSSER YEAH= MOM WUT WANING A PARTY AN SUE GANE IT TMS AN SAID, "NOW you nike !* Following Instructions NO - 1 60T IT FoR HIKING Ou, From MY MOM. OVE IT To YA | WITHOUT You } WORKIN’ OR ANYTHING ? DID SKE vUST oe cP AHem — AXEM — MR. TRUG, AS ou KNOW, IVE BEEN WORKING HERE POR A “GAR NOW. HOW MUCH OF A CHANCE (2 THERE FOR A RAISSG POR MEE ar Seattle _ + Page 576 WHY SHE CAME TT come?" man gave a tte! Tell us, why did yo At that the little She was such a dear Such a sunshiny, merry, pioneer, merry laugh which sounded in happy-souled little bit of a woman | throat and wrinkled up ber that Peggy felt right away that eyes, and sald: she had known her all her life “Why, I should come to this “I used to know your daddy) country? 1 will tell you." She X when he was but a little lad," she | dropped her voice low as if she beh 4 N iN — said, “when he used to live in| Would tell them a secret and said, + A veer FAT CHANCG, 8 You wWitc ALWAYS SELeEcT A Five -PAYROLOG MONTH LIKE TH ONS TO ASK FOR I(T! “In my country every one drinks pffee, but me I likett not. I like 1 hear of your America and Enumclaw and got lost in the for est. Yea.” we send him home, Mr. * wald Rusking, notebook, “We'll take uddresn of your and send you But you'll have Buskin taking out a the name and Mr, Stove, ack @s good to excuse me “And were you a little gifl in| they tell me in America every- did make the war?” Peggy asked. | Pe ORR RE mga oP TS body is drinking tea, so t put on my bat and come—to get a cup of owner tea “Bless you, no, chiki; In those) @ min. Even Pegey knew hat was a ute now. I hear more things com days 1 was a bit of @ baby living | joxe, go she wasn't surprised ! other’ i, as she sat | when the little ploneer adde« Tite "Wire popeleas MS amin n my mother’s arms, a! | when the little ploneer added, “And also I came to marry my ngs everywhere as more and more | in her own house in far away ts, Jaree and small, dura % : cy ing for me . la nd small, burst] Germany with never a thought in| M4": he was waiting for me in ra the or and, 1 should Tacoma. WY, of Emptyland. | Chimneys her heart that I would ever find rid Pips: | oma was but a bit of a vil plows, | chicken-cooy care.crown way to th PRO ee Renn rain-b cows, cats, ‘chick my way to this new West coun! tage when I came. Somebody auitomoly brooms, || try.” | wanted me to buy lots between in the almost everythin including family 11th and 12th on Pacifie, 1 laugh. Motherdear was hy ring their | dictionary wash ingw. It was, indeed, no longer|| conversation and she sald rie ig Nan ¥ es _ or Emptyland, but the Land of Every-| “Do you know that’s one of the| WHY should 1 want that hole thing this I always wonder about,| “So it goes,” she laughed again Buskins went from one poor object | why people leave their homes in| “t might have heen rich.” to another, taking more names down nw one country and go to another. | (To Be Continued) and by he came off to sleep happily, using the baby jleopard trainer, I can't understand 4 kkk the J ieopard as a pillow | Demaison, the director, didn’t ap a tenth « Can you help” > - ~ ——_———»- Then the mother leopard would | prove of giving Gairee too muth free “Of course we can, pretty sum from the rent of the ani-|meowed and whined incessantly come hore, and descry me from the} dom in her part. He sald he had Nancy, holding up the eb mais and she was having a fine vaca- | missed the bebe, Mademoiselle branch of a tree, And she would | worked with animals of every kind Mushroom had given her, “Anything|tion with the movie company in | explained. leap upon m and he never had seen a brute that from Fij! to Chinese.” /eamp. Naturally, she was glad to| We had to rehearse with Laski| Demaison expected that the flying |could be trusted, (To Be Continued) have Laski behave himself, several times before E would go leap of the big leopard would of| We would use a dummy of me, ag She pulled him around by his tail, by Seattle Star) outside the set and let me pet and itself make a stunning picture, but (Copyright, 19 planned, and Mademoiselle Elsa must - ~|picked him up and carried him maul that polished bit of muscle! of coutse, when the leap was made,|see that the big cat had a mild pout, turned him on his back and | alone. We did not rehearse with thea dummy would replace me, asleep’ soporific, ° {tossed him into the air, and he fell|ble cat at all. Mademoiselle a|with the little beast Guiree was to be shot dy the ovi1e tar Jon his feet would put her thru her part in the| Mademoiselle Elsa protested that|cameras while she crouched en & Then T handled him as she had|seenarto for us. It was adapted from | we dA not need a dummy, nor any/limb with eyes blazing and talh | 1, Beattie Star) done, Toven Dick, whom | observed jone she used in the eireus, wherein | dope for Gairee. ‘The big cat was| switching furiously, Elsa must make —~ the netted bit of forest |Gairee was rather CHAPTER LXVI--REHEAF STL stil hilltop, | feet manners all thru my rehearsals | trainer, was twith bi just outside more decorative | perfectly harmloss, she had lived like | it switch, 2SING FOR THE LEOPARD) where we rehearsed, seented satin: | than active jone of the family all her life, Made ‘Then a gentle but. sufficent elect N'? fied that Laski was as gentle as In the scenario, T was a little girl, moiselle Blea desired to put on my/tric current would be sent over @ | Mary's lamb. lost in a jungle. T was to discover clothes and let the cat jump om her | wire-previously placed on the branch | Mademoiselle Elsa, his owner and| Gairee, the big leopard, scolded|a baby leopard in its warm bed, and|—if we liked. and Gairee would fly thru space lie =” delighted with his ex- leentinually whenever we took the|make a playfellow of it And at We couldn't do that, because my ja catapult. a jemplary conduct. She was making @ liltio cat out of the cage, She wight I was to cuddle down and goj frock was five sizes too small for the (To Be Continuad § : ae itaee OSB