The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1915, Page 11

Wate je Dail $i vinta! jaroh 20,” en Who Fail—XIX. astenta, By Robert Minorl i x2 i il a; fy SE8a5 iy Hi : E 38 3 3 staggered, Hasard. “T didn’t think he'd either as Atherton or ‘i [ wade gz: bf Fi 3 g3.. im; he gave ind and kept ours; he she- he was cle’ that wine sited ata” senna e@ gathered TEE pee eee Was yan mo 1c, ‘use of, hie ‘he haf blood fate boas, Hasard wheeled, Woked © Outside the the | big eet oak” we cad oe mea Tent peeked ou he erona’ back an . ae je ‘on and ‘ iy agg” he said, fy ened a Ao = rea from. the bitter Y M . ET aide tn sea want 10; Co PA tye rae Mgr: Ol en e won ou Giv y Son a Position Saantoe Midi T don't need you make isle of it, but it was a a : pts explain! eaeanes 4 thing he was going to do for her terly. Atherton had had his fill of house,” he announced calmly, and he Could have answered him, but Bophy here,” said he. “Not sokdalyricok ix Has, Lesard; she knew it was little enough rushing them; he was going to clear departed. The girl, t00, vanisned. was not given to questions} She ua- one window for shoot ‘in fi ‘g of her, dirty, jd Pisoni of his own share in the nem out one by one, with precision » standing by the window, loaded her rifles, being a woman, and no one but @ fool More of & man "But there was no excitement in OJ, 824 no fuss, nor any one left to tell Claim camo sot after wor and ‘he fuly am and taking time erie faeces, tay ete in the world. “You sen. “I will the best do, my froken,” ugly talee of Lastluck claim. wouasre! haaapite how. long “White wore we ft when Hazara, ‘Durst oo “ ings about he sald slowly. He set off. Soon And as he stood. bullet came t had cartridges to stand them off for. aah Aaa i red ard, Hasard his ear, with the sound of a breaking “, “4 ry was too late.” He grabbed ti: be rem te ‘All women are fools,” growled Me F | Outside, between the bunkhouse Pane ie Aga avi Raps oh Rider, and looked round him with both rifles, Bophy, quick! the einbers of Hophy’s shack, only the wolf-man Sanearh; Lastivek A rom gudden blankness, This one had taken m River, but they #aw light as day; between the fire wa exactly what she” There had been four shots gouth of It. ‘There were Hasard's revolver! me. Ive shown them the way Gown overhanging cll toward ee him, down the lake. ‘They could not ra ay , She had; and she stood with it now Deze, if they Gidn't know?) | 4, impenetra ’ -' be at Olsen; he had had time to round where; it always snowed a little every in the cave that was empty of both ,, Bony lannaken Hemme. tat Melee di CHAPTER XVI. the island and be out of range, night at Lastiuck, there was never a boxes and Hazard. She crawled OPM Citantly as she Gew down oy ne oe i ve * on he saw there was something. ‘@ footprint left any morn- through the archway, and knew at 4). "414, ‘Hazard was her man, and Ady ang! pe. a ch weep of the bun! all appeprance there bad The starlight might be deceptive, but it least where the man had gone. The .10 "was proud of him. But there , mot been a sign of, life in they were not his who A trail. whee; hé find clawed up the 41% no pride in Hasard as he tended with all Atherton's men inside it, and over something on e devi lacier slope of snow was plain, and iL, no one to cut them off from behind. Atherton’s men all day. siot into the crowd unkhouse, rus fo was his purpose in taking eee ee ete ie brictly, and, For one moment Hasard thought of Kelly, scarp dames Heal Ss hey scaiiered end made S0t—-ke bined Hazard, « bloody bandage | “Guna” sald the girtslowiy, “of grabbed her as she would’ have Kelly, who wae dead somewhere jad CheUME wenenty’ wuddenty fred fone, and that was ali there was to mouth that he was not Using for pro- fel want his own.” She uncocked It, °'Sophy’s house was burning like e touched the big boulder, twice the the thrown-up snow wall he jt, But they had left somethiig be- fanity. Y ae gales ‘ehueks alipped it in her pocket and began to Frel, Between it and the of- Deen ot Alley from the bunkhouse - h bs ‘a! “. Joopholed in the time-honored " gome one! sniped wharf-rat like him! "Look" he held a: at that moment, was find- to hand with Rid meee, renee tn the of small boys making forts, stooped over it; and sniped no out s chip with painstaking marks ing his way to the woif-man’s hut. He Femnant of the bunk-house; Ather- » E eye a eS ie the emiled as he lowered his gun. He heard s choking cry and oa it) (ive had to put White up on pulled up suddenly bebind @ rock, a ga arin cls in full view. He kaew just how i pretty cold, but at least he i by Oleen, ’ th Nevo) Dut this: “i gees | hay Witt satisfaction. The dogs were what tie” bo? it would look from the bunk-house, as where Athorton's men were, “pid they get yout” he sald, sharp- o Mutcn wense. ab cloen., irkat-tns ned Feally worried him most and be A asata Bred, and could have eworn if ey, ware clearing oul WP the si was é jun’ ” y orto! back, A é he Yaware Ris¢'ueAmowensHasara ihe eank.ae {tl sald Hazara, 4b Dim. Dut imprivonment, walt to nee. Rider, ‘yelling at his Twice round would look as if all but H minute ‘on the Swede's . “He doesn’t know the way, somewhere,” h ethem corralled men, was cutting them out of the one man and Bophy eared gut. had come south, after nor the woods, either.” 4 ee ae <4 ck and into the office, to give’ But for & moment It seemed as if no where he was “Tien' ol < going to take any chances about get- hi one had aeen, The next, st know; be picke@.up a deati~ ting out of this without doga” | And Haste teat cat, en inches, i south, he . eR ves covered had been shot in the kind of carelese-liil byt Rider ‘a long jump Hasard dropped into ., ° rife, Only, where wore swore again over it. “Though I the Oret pain cf many windae cnee on Tut” barked Hasard over bie A chip flew from the boulder, hew! ve : “ posers looked at guess it don't matter; anyway he t showed footprints to confuse hus, Shoulder te sonny, & xy 3 eo bat yd ‘men piled out neck apd re get him. It's one was dead silence round the woit- “Dest him, before, and nder . @ cifle in each office, broke under. to feed. anyow, We baven't man's xcept for the walling of dogs hag sige ate) F Boe ee ee ee eae on tee one Gama Cyne te cat, Mr. Hasard, woe ae wae. ign of a sentry ang: qqTRegitan, Next, Atherton, dropped. took ‘cover where cover was, and od Ad je rest ran, and not wu) valley. levi om ‘Atherton doesn't own the earth where, but neither was there ‘glass in Ag they doubled round the bunk- Bes ig We thi from i a ime vet, nor Lastluek, either.” the hut window to look thretigh, and house, Ha; caught up his two the shelter of the very ir be hasn't rushed us," re- rankled in him that he had not don ’s eye"was out the window; !t might or might not be empty. Has- other rifles. and was making the stood under; till he Rider succinctly, Atherton justice; the man was cl the defection of Kelly might be with @rd the tracked snow, the va- clearing as he had never run in his way he had come, 't, past 44 lot... There's or; and still carrying. aomething he the best intentions, but it bushes: and matter-of-factly fife, with but one thought. {n. his Breaking for one second into the , of, any, pluimped round. the corner by best shot he had; cannons eoreee the door. J head. He was cut therton had bare clearing, Hazard saw Bophy aha Hey it. Be Rerehouse on Rider hunting round raw hand like Kelly ever got to Mac ,,.Th¢ best, the mnell of bolting coftes, the bunk-house, with tia three ‘win-. fy ihe e¢tics window: yA ewe t the, TE ai to see what the shots had been. leod. It was time to do something, i¢ Struck him like a blow, ever the dows and two doors! Cut off! He Malt eon ‘on he: drove raped. ‘Yen?’ “{ guess they covered Olsen, ali he did not want to be shot like » rat sent of dozen stacked rifles and stumbled, pitched his rifles ahead of Finuusly back to the oo wa malas mati Set out. al. right.” the foreman muttered, “but . There in the p of S,man, who mat alone, him, and fell over the office threehold: Punk house, had him. to y ‘t make it wi lor im as ) & momer 10° a the they fiat e tear ty ae Ore eas Both the But was tenantiees: Hasard closed through the bunk-house door. a rebuilding . “you will,” sald Hasard. Hig rege tthe door on the cold and stepped to'the peng a bie broke -out ‘of him. | “Atherton got Something had roused. the ” CHAPTER XVIII. looked behind : Olse: » And al sleeper; onre a de: man’s voice, Of the woif-man’a aide ler: had gn anew: be turned, swore and sprang. Hasard BG HE remnant of Lastluck ext MET Av tice there t bred gel hy see the incredulous pas- bitterly om the floor of the yeach Hasard. What 4i@ was th tHe threw down a man's hand and tter between him and the ee ore te nnd the gun in his office, Their gold was still nicker of a Colt’s automatic coming, the kind that dosen't forearm severed at the elbow, clothed, #un, slipped nd the Wank hou, sees be Ae Gceg mmnered these under them, otherwise there from somewhere behind Atherton, like a but the fingers, in bloody wolf slid out into full view, and took cover Ciel Ise. He caught him ch for consola- & Miniature machine-gun; then the skin. It had not for nothing by the office in » headiong rua; but @ wrist, and the man’s revolver was not much for c ht of a men running, plain between flwe fox that Olsen carried axe not unnoticed. ‘e He fought without it, like tion. Atherton had crept round on the bunk-house. He had “Bophy!” cried Hazard; he fired % Wolf, but not for long, tab White and wiped out him and his ¢ 1 itter where it reach had been : CHAPTER XVII. teomed muddeniy & Uttie thicker than ‘Rfobbed undes Hazard's ‘arm, mut meni but for Hasard and the rifles Y the morning there was mo the air, before he heard the shot; °¥@ #0 it was better than doing for he would have finished the job on doubt that Atherton was fred again, to cover Rider as he ® Sleeping man. Rider and the five men left in the + 1¢ his tactics were Dauled the girl in. “What on earth do Hazard picked up the rifles, wiped bunk-house which he had captured. “Look!” you mean by going aut?” he demand- bis hands fastidiously before he Hasard stared out the window. “We Atherton had fired straight at the tingly. ed fiercely. “Where were you?” crammed hia pockets with cartridges, look in bad shape,” said he irrele- 4", missed, flung up his arms, and a . rie he oan Sophy laughed breathlessly, She 824 steppos out with the rifles bend. Pe utr e Irrele- Gropped under a whir of bullets that ; ialra ahead of us? Thetd in the biting dawn that was thick was Pale and red-eyed; she had cried ‘nw bis back. He had not liked the Yantly, “but I don't know that we're grove his men into the bunkhouse. ‘we all right.” with needJe points of frost and count- & little, not much, over Olsen, but the 40! not more even with Atherton than them raced a- tall man in see sud- “I, whe a fool,” thought Hazard. we’ i blanket coat, who took delibera 4, we vend out first, and 99° oq damages. Olsen was dead; he apd x now worn she looked. “@he held ;TtT'd put him somewhere they might we ve ever Leon. Wire sven to Me Sve in the Acorway, BOM Macnee: stapes tp fl deni: ' Rider had brought him in, at the up the ragged skirt of her coat and have thought he'd gone out and taken "OW. With guns: instead of being fmity On ta Cun ee, eee looked round the office, as if cost of a gash on Rider's head from her nd his Atherto: to the wolf-man’s side "aageered, but he, apoke Hae ae B i i B it eat as gg ial ‘hand was steady. the guns! I wonder’—— And he ¢leven to fifteen without them.” “Who in hell?" gasped H. enish with hie own cont, tor the grim horizon and the 4 spent bullet; the three men who ,, “They missed,” she said calmly, 80PPed dead in the spruces at the “Bight,” said the girl flercely. this was no reinforcement of Atber- sudden impulse pushed Bophy’ I don't see's who's to go,” he had been strung along the shore to gtherton, Paul; it’s as well to know. DiS back against a rock. Between Look “It's me,” shricked Sophy, “it's the in the snow. succinctly. “You can't, for cover Olsen's going were dead, shot here, there's some of our stuf him and Lastluck Sophie climbed, b@td from the window, pressed his wor man! I knew him the second T iki 's the girt to leave.” from behind, like Olsen, and all four in the cave. It was the wolf-mas ar Sarenee Oe (rvaening snow, snore bere. ie. ye we Pager] naw him. 7 never thous you'd enish, at the tou re Se sisariy. i 5 and : had been robbed of thelr guns. stole it, and he ng nome of it back, i killed him; it was just one o! her- “Don't talk!" cried “1 got Donkin cheap,” gasped Dev- Sophy, “Oh, but the rest’s in eave. Iremem- Prise. “You got them,” shé aid, seen Atherton’s four missing men ton’s men in his things that you and wolf-man, dear, don't talk!” 2 te ihe lake fat first: then ithe The armament of Lastluck was re- pered sitting on @ box there, and I Soolly. “Give me one,” and very come out of the dusk, hang a moment, Qjsen got.” ee that for your ewe man,” with the ol across into Dead River duced to Hasard's rife; his two re- went to look. I's there, I didn't watt suddenly ehe laughed. “1 came to and then race for the bunkhouse inre- she broke away, and Hasard ‘cynicism. a down Ii Bear Lake ho what.” help you, but you don't seem to need sponse to something he could not see. bed her back, just as the atr for you: I got burt can mak Macleod if nothing Yovers, of which one was given over {0,000 WHAE! | is passa mer You're vory—reliable Pauli" “Time, obi” he sald crteply, and Lane srabved her beck, just as the strange hurt for you: 1 go! te parey jeod? = He'll peves, do it!" belonging to the men—and up in the friends down that way already. We'd chantly. “I believe I've made ton’s men running south from the added simply. “I never Deveniah drew « rat to Ki and a couple of jotguns . “E wonder he hasn't led his “Think sof” said Hazard, and Anderson flung after him to the He bestowed no attention on Ather- breath. “I'm kind of glad, pony as iy t got for deapising ting ‘door. Meserd shrugeed bP shoulders. joint’ stock hut of Atherton and the better get what there is before be Of myself. Take the guns, one by “Oh,” cried Sophy frantically, “what back door of the bunkhouse. He holding on to a woman y A chy ofits ot Tab Cel A Jooriging wolf-man were @fteen rifles, anyhow. dose, ‘ tans one, can you? I've got to go back and are they going to do But Rider cut marched straight to Atherton, lying girl's dead thie ten years. Tea goed bis going her off half way to the €, tretched on thi A till I could that way. If “It's very etmple,” sald Hasard bit- hoot these provisions into the bunk- He was out of sight before she “Couldn't do anything, etaying In” *T guess T got Donkin all right that keep fim away No ee — ee SS lo hao ls Allan Guatiennin tae #2 Don't forget that Next Week's Complete ©“ A/T A Fe TR, des Beale pi gna sien Bg 4 ~ Novel in The Evening World will be BY H. RIDER HAGGARD and most enthralling vein, READ. \% ‘ yeare— ven with Donkin, and from—other women,’ of “Kk IT. ty stbelel rE i Pi ; E aay A Bui H aut if # ental fin : : ath i . 4 3 2 I Fe i z if fr il a ui ee [ id 20) “too low! That's where I come in with ‘oP of the slid: id mechanically got yep, eight,” said Hazard, He stared ton's. into the one that groped and fingered