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(Continued From Page ©) inal entrance waa lett, This open: ing was concealed by @ little cluster of young spruce that had «prung up im the tall earth, Yes, old Ephraim bad had every reason to believe that no one woukd find him or break his } oleep, and he was all the more angry } at the interruption. ‘The falling tree bad made a fright jul crash just over his head, and tven the deep coma in which the! grimly lay Was abruptiy dissolved. | He sprang up, ready to fight. A/ little gieam of sunlight ventured | thru the spruce thicket, down into | the mouth of the cavern, and lay | like @ patch of gold on the cavern floor, It served to waken some slight | degree of interest in the snowy world | without, It might be well to look | around @ moment, at least, before he tay down to sleep again. At least! he had to scrape more snow over the | eavern mouth. And in the meantime | he might be lucky enough to find the | dearest delight of his life—a good, | smashing, well-matched fight to cool vhe growing anger io his great veins. Hphraim was an old bear, used to every hunting wile, and his dixposi- | tion hadn't improved with years. He | was the undisputed master of the/ prest, and he couldn't think of apy particular enemy that he would not | @meounter with a roar of joy. As eften, in the case of the old, his) teeth were rotting away: and the) pain was a darting, stabbing devil | im bis gums. His little, fierce eves! burned and emoldered with wrath, | he grunted deep in his throat, and be pushed out savagely tru the cavern maw. It was only a step farther thru the spruce thicket into the sun- | light. And-at the first glance he, knew that bis wish was coming true. | Three figures. two abreast and one! behind, came mushing thru the littie Pasa where the creek flowed. He Knew them well enough. There were Plenty of ertexly traditions concerned With them. He recognited them in @n instant as his hereditary foes— the one breed that not yet! learned to give him rightof-way on the trail. They were tall, fearful forms, and something in their eyes gent a shudder of cold to his heart, Jet he was not in the humor to give ground. His nerves were jumpy and Unstrung from the fall of the tree, Dis jaw racked him; a turn of the! hair might decide whether he would! Merely stand and let them pass, or! Whether he would launch into that terrible, deathdealing charge that} or} His mental te these enemien with the! ‘Stabbing foe in his gums. For the! game reason he blamed them for the | he uttered a deep grow! pinnacle of bie strength, No| Needed to giance twice at him) to know his glory. No tenderfoot Gould look at him and Again wonder , i the talk round the camp the tried woodsmen always spoke of the grizzly with respect. It was true that in the far corners ot the earth there were creatures that could master him. The elephant could crush the life from his mighty all game, could have pierced his heart with his horn; perhaps even the Cape buffalo—that mvage, explosive oid gentleroan of African marsbes, most famous for his deadly propensity to charge on sight—could have given, a fair battle, But woe to the that should be obliged to face #t terrific strength! Even the! +, sinvous and terrible-—-armed fangs like cruel knives and dful, raking, rending claws— not have faced him in a fatr! ut these were folk of the tropics, his superiority was unquestioned | ong the northern animals. Even | Dull moose had no wish to en in_@ standupand-take, close | | “pirs keen eves saw the dear | 3” Drange, death fight with a grizzly. The bulf caribou teft his trail at the sound Of his beavy body in the thicket, the Wolf pack, most deadly of fighting E organizations, were glad to avoid b im the snow. His first cousina, Alaskan b rs, were more than he, but they were Qnd, probably, less cunni Such leswer creatures as wished to con BGinue to enjoy the winter sunlight Mepped softly when they journeyed past his lairs He was 4 peculiar gray tn color— Hike brown hiir that has silvered in Many winters. His was the mighty lose agile lowered between bie ng shoulders, his forelegs were simply great knotty, cast-tron bunches of fiber and tendons: his long claws worn down by digging in the rocks for marmote—were like great, curved | ra. As he stepped, his forefeet | a out, giving to his carriage an| rible. His wicked teeth glearmed | ite in foam, and the bair stood| iff at his shoulders the charge of @ grizzly THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1922 wshoe.lta |wound that halted Virginia and H | of the possibilities whereby the great [met grizaiies, and nearly always he ‘lower again to the sights. seemed almost upon him. And she |; nce and # swagger that would|of the shells tha i bern amusing if it hadn't been | ? : il "7 B beasts of prey than his low, deep, reverberating grow! Human beings | have not yet reached such perfection of selfamastery that they can hear) such a sound, | & thing of subst and disregard it, It was to be that | thowe three foes, journeying toward | him along Creek Despair, did not! disregard it now, For all the depth | of the snow, he pushed thru the| ruce Inte the suntight. ‘Thus the three hunters met him—/ in all his strength and glory-—not fifty fret distant at the base of the! hill He seemed to be poised to charge. Bill's keen eyes maw the bear first. | All at once its huge outline against; the snow leaped to his vision. At) the same instant the bear growled, a old im their tracks, For an instant all four figures stood in indesartbable | tableau; the Dear poised, the three staring, the enowy wastes silent and | changeless and unreal. It was the last sight in the world that Bill had expected. He had sup: posed that the griaglies were all in hibernation now; he hadn't concelved | creature had been called from his/ sleep. And he knew tn one glance | the full peri! of the situation. Often in hie forest travels Bill had had passed them by. Usually the latter were glad to make their es | cape; and Bill would hasten their | departure with shouts of giee. Yet this man knew the griatty, his power | and his wrath, and most of all he! knew hiv utter unreliability. Tt ts hot the grizaly yyy to stand impas | sive when he te At bay, and neither | does he like to flee up hill If the! animal did think bis escape was cut off-——a delusion to which the bear family seem particularly subject—he would charge them with a fury and might that had no equa! in the North American animal world. And a gris | aly charge is 4 difficult thing to stop | in a dintance of fifty feet. The presence of Virginia in their | Party had it» influence in Bill's deci | sion. In times past he had been willing enough to take small measure of risk to hin own but the life of every grimaty in the North could not pay for one jot of risk to hers. Lastly he realised at the first sight of those glowing, angry eyes the ears laid back, and the stiff hairr on th alder that the gris'y was in a fighting mood. For all the complexity of thought. bis decision did not take an instant. There was no’ waiting to his @id not go far enough to offer the sporting opportunity to Mar. ol4. Virginia was not aware of a lapme of time between the tstant that Bil canght sight of the bear of his sleep. His ears I8y and that In which his gum came leap ing to his shouller. fle had full con- ho more magnificent tidence In the hard-hitting vicious alf'the breadth of the for | patiet tn Flarold's the grisly of the Sel | most of all he relied on the four re He was old and savage and serve shots that he suppor’ Iay in for afl his years, in the ene rite magazine thirty-five, and ‘The crimty dies bard: he felt thet all four of them would be needed to arrent the charre that would lkely follow his first shot He didn't wait for thome’ eres Mmunecles to get into action. The ant mal was standing broadside to him his head turned and red eyes watch. ing? if BI! had had his own gun, he would have aimed straight for the ace between the eyes. This ts never in a moment crisis, it ie the stirest shot of all. Put he did not know Harokt’s gun well enongh to trust such a shot. Indeed. | we aimed for the great ehoulder, the} region of the lungs and heart. The gun cracked in the #llence. ‘The bullet went straight home, rtp ping thru the lungs, tearing the great arteries about the heart, shtv. ering even a portion of the heart itself. And yet the grimly sprang lke a demon thru the deep snow, straight towards him. It is no easy thing to face « erts tiy’s charge. The teeth gleam tn red foam, the @yes flash, the great show! ders rock. For all the deep mow that he bounded thru, the beast ap- proached at an unbelievable pace. He dawled as he came—awful, reverber. afing sounds that frose the blood tn the veins. If the course had been| open, likely he would have been upon | him before Rill could send home an. | other shot. There could only be one} result to such « meeting as this. One! blow would strike the life from Bill's | body as the lightning strikes {t from a tree. Sut the snow impeded the bear, and It seemed to inia’s hor- | rifled eyes that Bill would have time | to empty the magazine. She saw his | fingers race as he worked the lever | action of the gun: she saw his eyes! The bear | screamed when she heard the {mpo- tent click of the hammer against the breech. Bill had fired the ingle shot that was in the gun Harold remembered. In one wave of horror he recalled that he had for. gotten to refill the magazine with shells. Yet leaping fast—red and | deadly and terrible wpom the heels of his remorse—thei came an emo tion that seared him lke a wall of|and had no trouble at all finding! fire. He saw Bill's fate. By no ctr: cumstance of which he could conceive could the man escape, A shudder passed over his frame, but it was not of revulsion. Rather it was an emo tion known well to the beasts of prey, tho to human Beings it comes but rarely. Here was his enemy, the man he hated sbove all living creatures, nnd the blood lust surged | thru him like a madness. In one wave of ecstasy he felt that he waa f ut to see the gratification of his hatred, In the hands of a brave and loyal man, the rifle Haro yet have been B was a large-caliber of 1 carried might salvation. It close-range gun | tupendous striking power. Yet Harold didn't tift it to his shoulder Part of tt was wilifol oriwion, most ly {t was the paralysin of terror, Yet! he weuld have need enough for the gun if the bear turned on him. He saw that Bill's hand was groping, hopeless tho the effort was, for one Harold had given | him and which he carried in hie pocket, Put there was no time to find tt before that ravening enemy | We made the! There| effort simply because tt was his there was no chance to run or dodge. ‘The bear could go at thrice his own pace in the deep mow hope come to his ald: that the man would Mop the bear's charge with Bill's own heavy rifle; but now he knew t had betrayed An unexpected quarter nm unexpected quarter. fot one to stand helpless or te turn and flee, Khe remembered the plato! at her belt, and she drew it in « | flash of blue ateel, True and straight hehe jot the erizaly, | bullet. but they | reprieve. ys je, the A n cpus dats bok tar ko [eeewndet ey made, then halted, baw} ;j tate markeman, ot | caught sight of Virginin’s form. With }a roar he bounded toward her, [derstand the poor things blown Into! of |the aky Rofore ever he heard the sound |Cause the broom talked Spanish, the| ‘cow French, the pig Irish, the wheel- barrow Italian and #0 on, according | trouble at once. |to the families they belonged to. guage charm that their old friend | along and blew off his arms and all bev f waar nid peel Map de 2 ye WAre's arian TO hoor ive: hem | Jothes,”" | Vullace was her first governor, | She n-hoe,” th rey vase! | Magic Mushroom had given them | hin clothes, | “IT knew Mrs, Wallace very! chief snid. Ne bi ticularly distremed because, with tears rolling down | : “i . her once beautiful house, She; the new territory, and Mrs tucking and Nick tanghed, but/a nice old coat right there! Whissy || was she who tol me that people ‘Oh. call It E-dab-hoe," for she Nancy patted hit —consolingly: did ux one good turn anyway.” | knew there was gold oF c peoshred| rem oe oe Mega 3 Log hed “Why, 1 guess he feels as bad as Ut-| So the broom was fixed as good as!} because of the yellow popp shee yiytbadt pe ee: eae ees tle girls do who have no curts at|new in a very few minutes, “I | which cover the ground—'golden | daughter of the Indian chief, all,” she declared. “Betty Brown| wouldn't mind #0 much,” he apolo | flowers—gold 1m showers,” she] “There are others who claim wed to ery all the time until her) ized happily, “but it's eorn-plant would may. to have named the state, but I mother—-Why, 1 know what I'l do,|ing time, and the crows where 1| “and now—walt UM tie spring] tell you the story ad ste told it || | Mr. Pig, I'll do what Mrs, Brown 4id| come from are thicker than bees.” |] and you will see great hillsides of to me. ‘on your tall! Which she did—there | CHAPTER with when I stroked it, and followed me | to open his gun and teert it, and to |@round instead of F | There i# no forewt crisia that pre-| fire ie such @ test to human nerves} would be upon him ¢ no forent voice mare fraught with | reed; to struggle as long ax hia life| He lind stuck so clom to the net dur ferocity aud savagery of tue! blood pulsed in bis veins. He knew ing rehearsals that be must have d ry PAGE 11 BY STANLEY STAR BY AHERN THIS MAKES THE THIRD Time IVE SEEN THAT SCENIC PICTURE OF WO@DS AND WATERFALLS! THE SEATTLE BEAN SOCIAL ToN\TE ALL WELCOME 60CLOCK im TH DRAMA PICTURE WAS A JOKE, AN’ THAT WAS A HOT SHOW “TONIGHT! & SOB = CAN You IMAGINE A STUPID UKE TAT HERO % DOZE OFF 1D SLEEP TH’ AUTOMATIC PIANO WOULD COME TD 1 Can? FIGURE HOW THIS J CREW GETS TH RIGHT TO ON ME “To BUY TH’ SEATS, AN’ “THEN COME OUT AN! RAZT TH’ SHOw! KY BAY JES BV GRITTIN' HIS PEARLY | | HARVEY CROCKETT HADA TOOTH PULLED | LATE THIS AFTERNOCON— DOINGS OF THE DUFFS_ 1 DON'T BELIEVE | WANT Better Leave Bad Enough Alon HE CUT EVERYBOOY ' IN MY DEPARTMENT. WHAT’S HIS NUMBER? * PLL CALL HIM UP AND MAYBE | CAN GET NO,DOWT! HE MAY fl CHANGE HiS MIND AE HIM TO CHANGE HIS MAND Re His bast Harold would WHY THE IDEA— WHO EVER HEARD OF ss HA THING AND c——| PRICES THE WAY THEY ARE? LET ME TALK ‘To HIM-I’LL TELL HIM SO had been that DEAR - THE BOSS CUT MY PAY ToDAy! bat Harold's enmity or cowardice mm, But at that instant ald came from Virginia was lH] > f 77 But ef that instant eid come from aimed toward the glowing eyes At the angle that they struck, her! did not penetrate the brain; did give Bil an tnstant’s The bear struck at the in the snow. His roving eye (Continurd Tomorrow) ADVENTURES | Clee Pebets Bus SCARE-CROW’S TROUBLES "A CALIFORNIA CLUB WOMAN SAYS SH@ 1S _ IN FAVOR OF wives GReECTING THAR HUSGANOS AT THE DOOR WHEN ar Goattle _ « * Pele» jai ees c oly. Page 577 WHO NAMED IDAHO? “Fo you do not tire of the talk| golden flowers in our Washing of old folks who remember, eh?’ | tom. for it is that ‘broom’ which | makes us golden, too. questioned the sunshining-litte- | ‘ 1a) “One other thing she told me— old-Jady, “You want that I should i141 ane is the only woman who tell you stories about this Puget | ever had the honor of naming @ Sound country, yes? | st “Well, it wns not so chopped up | succests THAT THS WIVGS ADVANCE. eGie CLUB HOVRS TO ALCOW THOM to GET HOMG IN TIME To Do THSS ‘You see, when the settlers who | lived among the mountains in } im the beginning; it was Lona | Idaho began to get the Indian's |] bigger, and all of it was Oregon | words and their meanings they a? | often heard them say in the morning, when the mountain tops were all shining and glorious with the sunrise, ‘E-dah-hoe? It meant ‘ehining mountain’ or ‘mountain dindems’ or ‘jewels.’ “So the rettlers, looking often also at sunrise and mountains be wan to call it the land of i-dah- hoe. “One day at the foot of Pike's peak, Mrs, Wallace saw the baby “Yeu.” the children assured | ber, “we know. Then they divid:| ed it and made it part Washing- ton, too.” “Yea,” she langhed back at them, “and also where else did) they get Idaho and Montana, and | all? “Now, Idaho was not a separate | } The pig was particularly distressed j | No wonder Puskina conldn't un) being plenty of paper and all sorts pins—and Pigey went away Be- | squealing with delight. The broom was jabbering awny at! ® «reat rate, but Nick made out “Tle says he wi | perfectly good scarecrow before the But Nancy and Nick had the lan-| storm,” said he, “but the Wind came by Whiezy Tornado, “CLUB” women $ Y suprose rer CALL “Well,” eid practical Nancy, look- ut the troubles of the poor wind-|ing around. “That's easily fixed Jown creatures. The ple was par-| There's tons of straw lying every: | he said, where and, dear known, there are} his cheeks,|more sticks than anything else. | “Then Mra. Wallace went away. She and the governor were in the lobby of a hotel where congress: men were discussing a name for well, indeed. She was for year) my neighbor there in Steilacoom. | “When you come I will show} you stil standing the chininey of | |me fine service without ever giv-|few of the big stars were like that chance to say “thank | Their homes were widely advertised [a8 examples of domesticity. ; | But such fame never could come 1 threw down Ginette's pate pink to Cissy Sheldo: heir to mil- : envelope with a flip of the finger, 1 | tions. ave Lorn” was to be his | wished that T could as easily and last aaa Re Contin & ‘ontinued) Russia, until 191 (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Start KT TK ene ——$___—_——~ —— - ~ jing me a you"? Betty's hair, Ill put « curt paper| | | benches and pillows and the help of | Dick Barnes! the carpenter, our art director had| The Oriental odor which clung to} {achieved a sylvan retreat fit for a|them made me ill stage setting, Ginette—writing to Dick? rhe company called ft “the dug-| What right had Dick to ertticise | eat” mace’ | my conduct when he thought so wel! | With eaual scorn flip Dick Barnes | ‘The R. F. D. always dropped the | of Ginette—and she of him—~that she | out of my mind forever. LXAVII—LETTERS FROM GINETTE—TO|camp maii on the ip tak table. | was privileged wend him two let. | It was wicked of him to keep the | 90 per cent of the ‘K! You picked out your own, iters |ters in one day? high wall of his silence between us; platinuss. DICK! not appropriated before dinner were! By what right did Dick wateh my ne rca ; ceding dat 1 had @ wonderful time playing | qualified as an assistant traimer. distributed to the various tents be [tent at nisht, and keep away anakes, |CTUel to keep on pretending that he the little leopard. It purred| The mati came to camp just a4 | fore taps. big and little? How did be dare | “ud I never had met, except tn the Mademoisefie Visa and I finished re-| Mademoiaelie Bia avd I hurried to| watch my rehearsals with Laski—as| movies, He was, indeed, hard and Im. hearsing the leopard. There was @/ rin over the mail. There were sev-|if be expected he would have to/eruel at heart! No wonder he mpeg For Infants and Children ' |IN USE FOR OVER 30 YEARS Al bears 7 O, f Confessions of a Movie Star (Odpyriant, jo Star) provided over orld’a eupply of I decided to become a trainer of|pile of it, dumped in @ heap on a|aral letters for me, the most precious | rescue mo from the cat ax he had }act the villain parts po weil! if an accident ever put me out! table beneath a huge maple where | being from Motherdear, And in the|dragged me from the fire set in the} By the same process of reasoning, { the movies. And I'd hire Dick. |Ciesy's phonograph ground out any-| pile on the table were two scented | studio? Cissy, the hero, might resemble in hen favorite tune, envelopes in Ginette’s distinctive] What right had Dick Barnes to hel}real life the splendid characters he With hammocks and swings, Ihandwriting. Both were addressed to oterually and everlustingly rendering portrayed on the silver sheet, Not a] Signature: een oy 9) Wat tye yal 1d ry ti Vy wy

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