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} ] | f gen. “and 60 you stay, Mopreight, 1007, by Steet & Bmith.) PSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, ‘makes a speech to the mutineers, to permmde them to stay and mine the CHAPTER V. (Continued.) * HAT kind of lays would Cf} we stay. on?” The ae voice came in a hurry from the worst speci- men of the lot. © "Phat I'l have to work out and tell @myeu. Enough to let you go to the yedevil in an automobile when you get Rome, anyhow!” : @¢ "Aw!" said the man scornfully; and »i¢Hasard looked at the pinched face that bad never known good from evil. “That's straight, Kolly,” he said _, Quietly, “if you can do It out of a few thousand dollars. I couldn’t— but I wasn't brought up in Boston.” Kelly's friends laughed, and the Man scowled at them. “I guess I was "Drought up a quarter of a mile too ‘plose to hell to care for ghost stories,” he snarled. “I'll stay.” Kelly's friends would stay, too; \ @leo a raw young devil called West, ghose boast was that he had been Rieked out of Yale. They were the t part of all the gang, and re were fifteen of them. Hazard did a mental sum, with ““them for figures. Drilimen he had no "Sneed of, eo far as he knew; rock-men, velmen, in this case—eay eight. ws left him seven, four of whuin, ‘ five, must be timber-men—the .. first thing needful was timber- ing—and twoover, He must have one 4 man, unless he and Rider were ? rer'to be off duty, He might use Kelly and his friends, but he couid ongeree. trust them, nor West, either. ‘or Nelson he had no use or any- "thing else; he could go, like poor Bernstein, the sovner the better. He did not lift bis cyes tow: Olsen, who stood apart with the be ~-ter members of the gang; he wouid Mot ask any man to stay. Olsen was ® genius at timbering, as U ar rtive mine had at Kelly's gang was no! <p Would not even look at Olsen to stay. AfG suddenly he knew Olsen was le at him “You have no fcar,” said the Swede I have fear, butt shall “stay, too! i t is ave always thought to BREN in ctocxhsins bur it bas cone to seme in this half-hour that 1 do not e6 Stockholm again in time to die ff stay here. neiazara Was put to it not to cheer, the curious fatality in th 's voice did not strike him; pe for the sordid reason that it was the afternoon and he had had no breakfast. “gine it leaves twenty-four of you to ‘" he said. “If you like you can on it, for you don’t know what's you on a long ‘winter road, etl, give you what you can carry; by. @né it’s giving, mind! If you break and come beck there'll be no _{ “Mote, unless you work for it, Ono of ~.You come with me now, and I'll give uum ome medicine for Bernstein.’ “It was not the way Hazard had | to leave the bunk-house; he ( t 3ad made no very brilliant showing ~ there, and he was nc nearer Soph; gold. He swallowed his lunch in allence, and silence started with ler apd Olsen to do his staking. lenly he turned on the foreman while the two measured distances. “What is there in this thing, any- way?” he demanded. “Bernstein, of rae, is cracked, and Olsen's a mys- ut most of the others aren’t . Rider spat refiec- tively. in what- Heyer it is, and sometimes I don't. en I first came here 1 got an idea there was something round I didn't ike, but I kind, of got used to the j feeling of it—I knew I didn't like seamything about the whole show, if it came to that. I never saw anything i had monkey-shines Olsen talked or “They might have been Bernstein; 2 he’s the kind to stir up trouble by y-acting,” put in Hazard. “He's . ik full of hysteria.” sav “I dare say," carclessly. “Anyhow, Josing a pick or so shouldn't have * ed them; they weren't using ‘om. ~ Thero was something else, ' don't - Aknow what, that kind of ate into m; you could sce for yourself they os raid to-day, with the only kind fear some of them could be seared And there were th seouldn't see into Ridgeway was alwa wer his shoulder after you left, but thought he was afraid of the me What they about the stor . n't worry me, for I believe Ridge- Fp took them, ‘He was the kind to * Mave them cached somewhere, and be easy to get them off with the ns helping him.” Hazard’ ed. Ridgeway it\ed th me ‘of the men lifted the gold: ook” Bernstein's fit for cover. t's what the wolf story comes * he sald quictly. “But it sticks in Wroat to let them get off with der marked the point for thé last ike and stood “Mr, Hazard," he desperately, “the men haven't got the gold. If they'd known about it isn’t one of them but would swiped jt—but they didn’t “Then who looked in through the wat in the outside shutters last it when Miss Ridgeway was show- Mme those nuggets?” demanded . “I didn’t tell you because | forgot about it, but I'll tell you now, ‘we were standing over the T heard the man come and look jim breathe; hi him to see for me. to me that disposes of the men's ignorance about the of “I guess !t' does,” Rider whistled dryly. ked at Hazard, who shook his head. “1 said 1 wouldn't search them, and I won't—ut if I were you I'd have an eye on Kelly.” “D'ye mean he took it?” “No, I mean he'll find out who dia— fet the reward and the shindy over “He'll get no shindy,” said Rider un- expectedly. “The men aren't in shape 0 dle good in @ row; some of them'd fly out crazy, and there’d be murder. I guess I'll let Kelly be,” “Til bet you a dollar he’s been through most of them already.” Ha: know about it himself; you won't have any stirring up to do to Kelly.| You keep away from the bunk-house for a while after we get back, and give him a chance, He won't have any murder; they're all too much afraid of him. He broke off, and looked round the desolation where his newly erected stakes showed} bravely. “I suppose you know they're ' only good morally if any one comes and disputes them,” he added in a “Lord knows where veyed line to tle them to, for recording.” | “Any " Rider's eyes bulged. “Nobody'd come, in the frat | place—and, if they did, what's the matter with the claim?’ “Nothing, but that any one desiring to locate a claim in unorganized ter- ritory is obliged to make irvey at his own expense, to the first surveyed line; otherwise, there's nothing to tie your claim to, Shoo!" sald Rider. “T ese we’ record somehow, when we've got the stuff, I guess it isn’t likely any one will survey up to us and make trou- ble. Why, no one knew this place was, even, when we came to it.’ Not for all we know,” carelessly, “Anyhow, if there was a rush, even, I fr we can make our own laws ere.” ‘Um-hum,” Rider grinned. “I guess T'll go down now and get some water and such for Mi Ridgeway. I sup- pose you won't begin work till the men go?" “Tl begin timhering to-morrow. The men can't leave till there's snow. What would be the good of their to boggans? They couldn't haul them! Rider nodded and disappeared with | Olsen. Hazard, following them, sat down tn his shack to make a sketch- plan of his claim, and time flew at to be living. it. Not till after dark was he aware 4 of & sudden commotion: of the voice Known him before was all he said of Kelly in wrathful yells, of Kelly's “bout him, friends in rude laughter. Ags he said more if he had known the un- opened his door to investigate Rider willing fascination Sopny had for the man, She remembered the day Atherton le love to her, with a It had been when she was looking aps and plans banged on It. ‘They're gon rel,” he # lock, stock and bar- “All but Kelly and e his lot, and that young West—tho had first r last man we wanted to stay. We Sick wond. forgot the ice, Mr. Hazard; they e®- morni at some sketchy Ridgeway had got she did not know where—maps of Lastluck Lake and the position of a wonderful pocket Tes oleae, , ‘ of gold there. le ptore, They may have to she had never connected the sight starve, You, were’ in here, Olsen of tose maps with Atherton’s sud- ore ti rt "A den avowal that he loved her, and I were Oxing Miss Ridgeway’s in did now, standing alone above She saw tho man in her didn’t need to wait for sno just as good going for tobor But the stores? throw things away, but they won't stove, and they just got out, clean and casy “The fools," sald Hazard, slowly. “I meant to give them a mp, and tell them things, so that they could #hould 4 hawk-faced, have nad @ chance to get some- ji jdsome; could feel the touch of his Hie’ was appalled at the plain eu!- Hand as be and she fingered those maps. gide of the thing, and ashamed to Mitherton had carried them off with y, as it by accident. hardened as she remem- was the first time her been angry with her, er spoken where.” know that he was relieved, too; he had not looked forward to the so- ciety of the malcontents for the next week. He marched over to the bunk-house, and a suddea silence father had eve lon it as he etood in en tho firat time ® the open iin truth to her about the lite be r. eeWhich of the men had the gold, had led and the things he had done. Kelly?” he asked coolly. somo Kelly fairly rockea with the oaths guessed at, that tore out of him. “Any of them," trem li a he sputtered, “any damn one, ‘I knew they had the stuff, because none of us Atherton fellows had, and it was no use their over him as @ trainer holds a whip rv “I could have paid him off,” Ridgo- ended furiously, If you ha Va and. out In the Lastluck country in an- other month, All he wants sit here qui ying they was all in here last night, © for they weren't; only I didn’t take notice which of them was out. I gave Way them an hour to cough It up, while been for you! the rest of us went on a little pasear, “I said that way was not goo in Olsen slowly, “nor any use was it do you suppose he and let me take my chance of paying for his silence out of Lastluck gold when he can go there and get it for did, and when we geta back—they’re himself, and have me pay him too? gone,’ He pointed to the darkness My last chance to get square with over the lake bitterly. “They're out Atherton was the gold that I know there, somewhere, getting along Iike is round Lastluck Lake; and you've hell; and one of them’e got the gold, spoiled it. They didn't kid me an¥ with their ing at @ totally unexpected look on wolf-stories. I bet that gold’s in Nel- his daughter's face, and finisned his sentence with five words that sald Hazard; {f it had the girl like so many blow! to search them.” “Said! I know you sal Kelly, “but you went out son's clothes this minute.” "Of cours at herself. that very pocket, instantaneously was almost afrald to look up lest he be before her bodily—tall, splendidly he had e had not been for Sophy’s being the loser you can manage him! he would hav pleasure, It was the best thing that spocks and wolves There's plenty more gold.” y exploded. it's me, getting done by a lot of se: like business And the bunk-house roared eheer- back fufly, with a lauehter it had not go then, she was not so sure now that known for weeks. Kven Rider wore they had turned out all wrong; the the face of a different man, Olsen only thing she was sure of was un- - alone said nothing. CHAPTER VI. 'SS RIDGEWAY was hun- ery, there wero no two words about it-—yet for once she was trying to re- "member the sordid fact In- stead of ignoring it. It must be hunger and nothing else that wa forebodings, She stood shivering on the ridge that overlooked the brand- strike took no pleasure in it. plain sailing Hazard took it for, if so Ridgeway was gene, Her thoughts ¢ grinned with pure” And + derstanding clear she must marry Atherton, fact might have made deeper marks on her if Atherton had not, departed on business of his own, and her since. For once Atherton was out of sight Ridgeway was @ different man, and his courage came back the gold at stuck drew him like a magnet, He rried off his daughter to Toront d there, with secr rowed—or anyhow der wa: new mine of her own discovery, and at al for the first’ time since her lucky dollar out of Ridgeway's pocket. If he took Sophy with him to Last- lucis it was because he had no money Lastluck Lako claim was not the to leave her anywhere, and he said But it was not till he no one but Sophy knew it, now that Was in despair of ever finding the gold for which he had come that he id something els went back a year past, to the days had sent the girl to get when she had first met a man named he was on making a Bri Athertor, who had flashed like a me- -teor, Inte ‘the little mining town om. wa her an Meith Atherton had Sapte si ss) Nad wom to N " y we » at ly Mages in ‘es (Busy Uncle Sam! a Per at ete ea, mind. dark and had managed him, Looking back, she thought the two could have happened, for it killed all men had played piteh and toss with th men's faces her like two boys with a ball. deader than a ail. “Brace up, had never her father The forg had given thought That her father had though he might have but and perhap but that was differ ing in cold blood t for forgery exposure and pNgon he if it hadn't Ain't let him Uniess"—he stopped, star- truck inless Bhe n cure just how or w she had promised to marry Atherton; It ain't the gold; he had not threatened her father laughed at the joke; he maps—or Sophy , begged, bor- got — enough responsible for a frame of mind com- money to start Hazard and Rider on posed of hateful memorles and worse thelr prospecting expedition to Last- luck, which no one had ever heard of, If the stores were bad the only won. that there were any stores since they took almost the last eomething thi nore frantic than beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes on Her promise had not prevented him from making Ridge- Way swear he would give up all claita to Lastluck, adhd would never dare to go there; Atherton, meant to havo the gold there as an extra and not as any payment from Ridgeway. And Atherton himself was coming out ta December; it was no matter how Ridgeway knew, but he did know, ‘That, and nothing eise, had been cason of his fevered haste, his Hazard; if he ztherton got there he would be practically out of his power; he could face the man with good gold to back him, But without it as December drew near Ridgeway's nerve broke, tll, ag Olsen said, he was always looking behind him, and made him blurt out the whole ugly story to 4-his daughter, He could never face Atherton and his sneering threats of exposure; he must get away some- where and -hide, ‘before Atherton found him. here’ with his broken promise and his delusion of a mine, and demanded the blackmail he could never pay out of the gold that was not in the country. He had left Hazard to face the win- ter without any thoughts at all; left Sophy—and standing alone in the bit- ing afternoon the girl's cheek turned scarlet with the shame of it—to hold Atherton at Lastluck, where there was no gold, till Ridgeway got safely away, left h to manage Atherton, just as if she had made a good business of it before Th go him hun off yet there Was @ sick ter~ ii's heart, She had found o that she could not al- believe her father; he had said ne maps were his, but Atherton had nplied something cise, something that made him look nanimous enough when he gave tl ack to the gi’l he said he loved. It might be true that they had been his in the first place, and then, whose was the mine? Sophy was too ignorant to know. She did know, though, that Atherton had always bent her to his will, and something in her shrank from the very thought of the man, knew Paul Hazard, sh truth to herself deliberat been a young fool when she had to manage Atherton; she had been happier alone in the wiluerness with Huzard than she had ever been in her life, She felt suddenly that it would Kill her to haye Hazard know Ather- ton had ever kissed her, ever had the right to lay a finger on her. And h would know if what Ridseway said were ty and Atherton meant to come to Lustluck, “L don't believe he will,” she thought painfully, and all the same pt so sure, If he did come her might be safe and she eer- tainly need marry no one to save him, but she had a slirewd idea her life would be in ruing all the same. Even ff she could trust herself to repulse Atherton it would not make him hold his tongue about her, and she was not sure she could #o trust herself, The man had always had an uncanny power over her, could sway her with & look when she was with him But whatever happened it was no g00d to stand here and borrow trou- ble about it. She would not think any more till she was forced to. The girl straightened herself suddenly as if she threw a burden from her and looked down on the staked claim below her, From the hollow came the muffled sound that meant Olsen and his gang were timbering underground, and from close by the crack of axes where Kelly's lot were rough-hewing props. Hazard was here, there, and every- where, with no time even to look up at the girl who stood above him; and she turned away with an unreason- Ing pang. ‘The last thing she wanted him to do was neglect work for her, y she was deadly, deadly lonely to-day. A worse shiver than usual warned ber she must be moving, and she set y round oft slowl; drummed with south, because it would be new ground, “I'm worrled and miserable be- cause J'y: hungry, really,” she said to herself petulantly. “What would do une good would be shops, and an electric cur, and a restaurant—a good warm restaurant where they had tablecloths, I wouldn't think of Ath- erton then, even if it's true father stole his maps,” and in spite of her- self she laughed. Biack mountains to the east of her, one spruce-covered hill after another to the south, and sheer cliff between her and the sun westering over the ice of Lastluck Lake were not prom- ising for restaurants. There was no senso In going home to the rabbit and hardtack coffee that had sick- ened her all day;' she looked round Instead for cranberries, anything. But the only edible thing seemed to be teaberry leaves, Sophy picked some with haif- frozen fingers, and chewed them dis- tastefully. “I’m a fool to walk,” she thought, “it only makes me have more of an appetite. And they're so good to me—I can't say It makes me sick to look at rabbit! I never thought 1 was greedy, but-—oh, I'd like to burst out crying with my head on somebody's shoulder, and stop wondering If father’s all right, and if Atherton’s going to get here, and being brave And before she knew it she was sobbing. Instead of looking where she was going she stumbled on blindly, care- less of ything but that Hazard might come after her, and see tears, She was a gallant slip of a thing, but after all she was a woman, and no woman can live a man's life very long. It was not till she had fought down her foolishness that she even wondered where she was; and at what lay before her she started and stopped short. Sho had wandered tnto a queer sort of gully, very dark and cold between high rock walls. Tne only reason she had not sprained her ankle long ago was that she was on a path; nhrrow, but a smooth, worn path. Ina place where there were no people that very smoothne: frightened her. There hiike quiet, too; the sound e men's axes did not even echo to her, and the very lle of the place was strange. Sophy turned back sharply on the worn track she must have entered by, and brought up against a dend wall-of rock; ran forward on the path and came to more rock. She stood there, breathless. *m a perfect fool,” she sata, aloud, “Where I got in without even look- ing I must be able to get out.” She was suddenly sure some one moved close by her. “Mr. Hazard.” she furiously, “how hateful of yo But the rustle had not sounded like Hazard, nor, for that matter, like Rider; It was too furtive. She looked up at the wall of rock over her, and had all she could do to keep on her legs, Something was looking at her; she could see its eyes, She sald “it,” because there was nothing y, and the men's stories her sickeningly. thing between the spruce bushes and the rocky wall of the gully over her head was a wolf, all but Its eyes, and—oh, its hand! She could eee its hand, rough, human, coming out of the skin of a wolf; could see its eyes, human, too, heavy on her eyes between gray fur and gray fur, She was brave as women go; which means being braver than & man at the last pinch. She walked straight out under the thing, and then began to run, slowly, but to run all the same, to a rock to set her back against, and at the crash of some- thing leaping behind her wheeled like @ flash to face it—and fell. To her credit or not, she never was th it, @ man call, been ‘“Broady on, gist; steady! 1 woulda's . ‘Se. hii, BROOD through her. with horribly natural stripping off a wol CHAPTER VU, OR a long moment the queer made ‘eak for pair looked pt cach other Went, and that was all I wan! the strange man spoke gently. else to go for one thing, and for There, I didn’t mean you another there aren't any mounted po- but since you have I'm lee. not going to scare you to death.” “You did, almost.” “Sophy tHed to The man might be what amile, but the blood was drawa from bad mi from thirty to fifty grizzled, but there were no lines op his face except around his eyes. A k mustache hid his mouth, bUt himself, but I thought he'd sent you not his teeth os were white as’ a wolf's, and for a moment Sophy was afrald again, But !stance; I didn't want Donkin. to his voice came with a sudden gravity, “I've got to begs your purdon for any trouble worth speaking of; I Wightening was waiting till Donkin himself show- tlis eyes ed up to do a little scaring with some had swept her face, not her cloties, backbone to it, or I Uist were too thin and threadbare. "fully, “you wouldn't she wald T'd known the boas of your show was They peopl 4 don't belwve in wouen; and you're a lady, “Who are you you'd sone with your father.” “He couldn't take me. show me the way home? frightened about me at cum; “Who--Donkin? d about any one. around alvue,’ “Donkin?” Sophy jen't any Donkin, at (ud Hider, and me, besides before you sald a word,” quietly. “I “There told you, only Mr, “Well, didn’t Donkin send your fa- ther out here oken ail along Li »," said Sophy. was none of hi the whole story of the miserable gold~ hunting where came out of her, Wi for the need of huriy over it that she had kept back from Hagard-—the man no gold h even the reason Lastluck gold. she ended simply, around her ¢ the pallor around w for Kidgewa: ot many girls forfeit I suppose you guess DOW should think you would have guessed with your somebody did from the things that that happened round your camp—though was I mado men and scared off frighten us.” “The ‘why’ is the simplest part of sides, if you'll come to my h For & moment his teeth showed give you something I ot quite human ined you were cried Sophy “l told you we'd never Donkin, There's never in the way that 14 her with @ slow soru took her measure “I don't know whether I can trust you or not,” he announced abrupt); seen me I suppose I've got to ee om © Sere S35 You may mea ir one make ‘underst me and Firet piece, 1 pone ¥ id au, you're wonder- ing why I'm at Laatiuck without ever ahowing up except as a haunt.” “I'm wondering why don’t want any one else here,” bluntly. “You won't, in a minute. Did you ever hear of a bad man, Miss Ridge- a “yplenty,” returned yhy, rather bitterty! {in shemet Hasara’s The man did not smile. what they call a ‘bad man’ in the he by inns ape “a man who' riff and debt, Becat and that’s why I live at Lastluck Lake, and why I like it yen) I had to ru for my neck a while ago—it doesn’ concern you from where—and after I thought I was safe I found out a man called Donkin was trailing me for the blood-money. It’s Donkin’ livelihood, blood-money; but I didn’ see the force ofg@his getting mine. It might have been beter judgment to shoot him, but it seemed less r out of where I was and come here. Nobody knew about this place. I built a house and ved here in peace—till one morning last year I very nearly ran full on Do First 1 thought he was after me—God knows ho'd been hot enough two years before, but I soon saw he didn’t know a word about me he'd come out prospecting for gold like any ordinary man. And, slowly, “if he'd been en ordinary man Ia have Jet him.” Bab pore: Hla nr bat a peer feeling of breathlessness. e |etory came out so lightly, yet with |much an undercurrent of dead earnest, | that she knew it to be true, and sane, “Well, I didn't let him. I ned |to scare one of his men y oY ‘rolling myself in @ wolfskin and look- H wi | SrigEtened, Blue ot oe woe S them,” mly, ut ve nkin coulda ind even stick to business alone. \know the trouble was me, nor any other man a Bd the Leg oA of that, Mad I was yy, care! e never me; 1 wasn’t hoping to have him get back to the settlements Dev"—— he checked on the name corrected himself sharply—“say I was out here waiting to be roped. Ail knew was he didn’t even carry bis li! “Something, he couldn't tell what, I didn't see you were in his hand. Sophy sat down on the frosen was eparipg it for just as long as ground in the sick revulsion that went had a mind to, and no longer, It was only a man-and degrees that kind of ate into for & moment she could'not eyen won- He ran for his skin in the end, without dor how a strange man came to be at ever seeing what he ran from, and Lastluck--a man who stood towering Without laying a pick to your gold... over her, pulling off a wolfskin mask He spent the day before he went wi norris atu are ‘on it, ‘and bis back to a rock, watching his chance tN even his knif to’ look behin his canoe, but ow you understand about ud why I live hei I've nowhere “And you thought we were Donkin come back?" asked Lyd pitifully. e sald, “a who was wanted, but had @ sudden foolish compassion as ‘The man looked at fer‘ consider- %h® looked at him. It could not be gay to live here in the solitude, the He might have been any Age vast loneliness, because one had “no- his hatr war where else to go. The man shrugged his shoulders. “N—no," he said, “I didn't exactly think Donkin had dared come back That was why I shook pme of your men, the little Jew for hear it was plain sailing up here. But your lot t cleared out didn’t take eae," thought- here now. If just a girl I mightn’t have done what ‘t thought jittie I did; but I couldn't have Don- J Would you They’ be cause you are @ girl, and I wanted you to understand things, I guess I've te lee wretty well put my life in your hand, serves to be, anyhow, for letting you Now, why don't you alt up and say ut since you've yo lady “T e had you’ Hh i oy FH i ATEOFUPLETELAIT in i} Fe : il og # fl 1 nl | i i i g i i aE. ; i i 4 Hit i ei 3 1} i } ie HI aft ay 44 i a ted i] 2g i 58 I i U 7 be S te i r # Le tell one word of all I've ¥ mn to Hazard?” “Because you knew I wouldn't tell eaw you look at me, and decide.” The man nodded, guessed it,” The question was rapped at her so she knew it. “The only man I ever knew I would have stayed hero with, ‘—she flushed without the ry “rellabi “row did Ah!" comments Mail get here if Donkin didn’t a ” he man, He he worn beauty long lines of nd looked once more at of the girl's face, at t “And wo her swaying figure that was too She had not meant to tell hit thinly clad, and knew Hasard must business, but indeed be reliable, just he knew a woman when he saw one, ivering,” he announced yu afraid of me?” truthfully. “Well, you needn't be. I was a gen- he tleman once; I think I've enough de- saw no chance of paying him off with cency left in me to be one atill to you, CG struck it,” You look straight ‘wt me, and see if ‘just before it was you think you can trust But hait the men have run and we've hardly any stores.” gone from his eyes now, and his face n pitifully. was assuredly not the face of a liar, He looked at her face, at the circles “1 think I can," ehe eaid simply. hat were too sunken, hy? "L don't he added you and then I'll take you home,” as mare Pe have left you pigcidly as if he bad not sprung out a jo ear Sophy obeyed, The wildness was Because first I'm going to feed I of nowhere and owned his life was I live just round here, I did hear a big Swede swear I was a I didn't, What I ghost.” He laughed, and it is the test to ia why you of a man, as every woman knows the up in wolfskins to devil himself cannot dij jae the laugh he has given to his own, “Oh!" Sophy balked, he returned almost indifferently. “But— % “I never heard of him in ali my what sort of a man is Hazard?” he truth wus so evident that man in the wolf- sharply that Sophy answered before skin leggings and red shirt understand,” » an educated man was suddenly tongue about me I'm here if you But unless there’ trying to sump yor Ghetta aaah jum| ay Se rm Fake ote La in with you. Don't you me me to Hasard u've tena 4 yo ae, oilng ‘on ag 48 ut ‘1 se: ten you *"* Bnd my way ‘Seve tame “Wouldn't let coula, fa) want m at tie: this 108 1. ‘erchief down in a sort of ca’ rr find by your storehouse, and there. If there's te’ be trouble about your not me you Can just let me know eer riee I ee He held the Open for thea before her, carrying’ try gold, watoh me, and not the way,”: dered lightly, and 1 with a shock that he was his grisaled hair, you inca on me, and you breathe,” he shortly, rough way, but it’s a near Fe would word, If it