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| i : Ohne) f018, by Litt, Brom & Co.) a — ¢ Q@Rporew or PRBCEDING ONAPTERS. Jensen, 0 ntted sre showing clear jn the moonlight, was 227 even with his limited engineeri knowledge, as a turbine tower, an CHAPTER VIII. .. 8 (Oontiowed.) ‘= <Into the Unknown. HEIN he looked ahead to where Kerry Mallabeo strode along beside her dog team and thought that Being here with her was “more thah a slight compensation for tee uncertainty of this mysterious ex- pedition into the unknown, Suet as darkness began to fall »Kerry Mallabee lingered behind Where she might walk beside Jensen, “You look lonesome, Boy, so I am dee to walk with you for a while,” It was tho first timo she had used the ettly sounding title “Boy” since the hour he had discovered her lost in the snow. 4. “L was lonesome,” declare] Jensen fmapulsively, “and beginni:g to fear just have done something to of- fend. Or perhaps that my compan; ‘was no longer welcome in tho party.” “You are going to Camp Argyle because I want you to go,” she said. “Ig that too emall a reason?” "Not at all,” he replied. “I am #0 deeply indebted to you, Miss Mal- -labee, that to go to Camp Argyle at ‘wish would be the least thing gould do in returning a very small part of what I owe to the woman » Who has saves my life.” “Boy, do you think you could do a very great thing for me, and do it .Diindly, without putting questions?” » "I think I could do a great deal for «you; but I fear I am only human, I should like to know what I was doing and why.” “No,” she decided. “It must be done blindly and-without explanations, for Abe oresent, at least, if you are to do it at all, Were I to tell you why you “are to do what you will, the very ‘knowledge would make it impossible _ tor ¥: # Y think I can, and I will,” ho finewered slowly and thoughtfully, as ‘one accepting a consecrated task. 4». For one fleoting second he found her ‘warm hand resting passive in his us ghe mid with deep feeling: - “Thank you, Boy! I knew you would.” Then the hand was quickly ‘withdrawn and he had a. sensation “of being suddenly revived from some gweetly pleasant yet powerful anaes- thetic aa she spoke ‘her next sentence in a commonplace tone and they ‘walked on again, aide by side. “The first thing I want you to do meet my father, Stephen Mabla- bee. “Certainty that is not much,” he said with a smile. “Oh, but you don't know,” she an- . “I want you to meet him and listen to all he will say to you with an open mind. My father is a wonderful man. If he becomes in- terested in you, as | think he will, he will tel! you some astounding things. 41 want you to listen to him, as I said, “with an open mind and to make him <difke you, if you can.” w Her words brought disquieting thoughts stabbing home to Jensen's Drain, Could it be her father, Stephen Madlabes, who was the head of this wast counterfeiting plan? Was sho thus attempting to enlist him in the qecheme? He joltingly found himself emembering what Springvale had mumbled in his ravings regarding **false-hearted sixen and satyrs who Jed unsurpecting mortals into con- eenled pits of destruction.” Was Peter “@aint the stayr and she the false- “earted siren Tom Springvale had re- erred to? Had she led Springvale ‘on’ as she was leading him on? Was ehe playing a game? S*"Who shall I represent myself to “pe to your father?” he asked. “Tell him exactly what you told us Pat the Little Babos camp; he will be eepedially anxious to ‘hear what you havo to say of Springvale's illness, ‘and he will be glad to know the man "ho was Springvale’s friend at the ” Mee thin all 1 om to know?” he “ebked a little shakily, for he foun: “Qimentt to contro! himself when she ‘talked to him in this manner, “Now?.. Yes, but perhaps I can tell ou more after you have met my ‘“ er atid come to know him. He, if, will probably have much to é you, You must permit circum- ranges, as they develop, and your good instincts, to guide you.” oviies broke off. “There is Camp ig aha Argyle + CHAPTER IX. ~ Black Devil's Bed. H® three people journeying toward Camp Argyle had “| been travelling slowly but \- sadly upward into a much a ‘higher country for some sfvure, and here and there were fre- “fqleent patches of spruce and pine, yet Jeneen could, as yet, discern no cause «fer the recent unusual excitement of the dogs. ‘A ‘moment later, as he hurried on, The thought he made out what ap- Déered to be two tall masts extend- many feet into the air on a little @ome distance ahead, ‘was the high swung antenna of a station! But why a wireless without a house or a sign of and in whet f oe earnoee we dred Belo to y it once. oom if 80 in his vot ried cut the wires! t, of almost a hundr Ww, ‘Mon Toy over to you at once. haven't they? Suoh mon re- of scorn in his voice cried: he ! AM our house servants are Chinese; port, eave, That ua ported “Get back to your bunkhouse, every there,” he added, potnting @ thin, bony he is very competent and will look q small thing to condemn him fo manjack of you, or I'll put you on “nger at the clectric pieeter Bee ’ of vapor, To his right he could see 7" States, = where the river broke over & high, inquired Jensen, in amazement, as he jarge way. You have lost all the fine YOUr bodies so badly that you coulda’t Pacing about the house on the veran- rocky precipice; beside this rather et inaide in response to & WAVE ideas of empire you originally drank walk.’ 2 dah. Stephen Mallabee drew aside the in with ‘your mothers” milk, You rhe Stvedes fell back sullenly be- hangings of one of the windows and neath the ol and hoe glanced out. ‘The Evening World D more familiar in jactve forward from the centre of States than that of th aingly conducting Peter Saint between them. ironman of Canada,” Lord Cannon- “Ay tank one dog worth "bout two quest, in succession poor miner, then new fortunes, ‘ Jd. railroad worker, raliroad builder, and him in the States,” said Stephen Mal- and keep dog, Jensen had never known that the man whom your United States quite Prosal And here he, an everyday American sections of this continent if you had dashed among them, striking out right Gitizen, Alan’ Jensen, had been hob- But given olf J.J. a tree hand. in and lef rehire nobbing with the daughter of a lord, ua have kept him cribbed, “Loose bra hac: ge pigeon-brained t ¥ bad come down into the can- “But ‘he used his m and his to have sloughed from his shoulders RE yon called Black Devil's Bed Minacruptiously.” protested a# he dealt teling blows a the Hipamatties oF on taveremmnetening Ss tat ee Ge ae re “Armed with these he at- Swedes. Before they had a chance to eeeaeton with toa oreer betes oe je ran on eagerly, his mind fille tempted to practicaly buy a seat in gather their dull wits into either in- with a thousand waedaiadone. at a corner of the hollow square. Retnited tates Benate.” fividual or concerted action he was te foot of the falls, There was no ‘As he topped a alight rise ahead, “Here,” she said, opening the door “Well, what of it?” retorted Matia- back insid Jensen slowed his pace and fell back and turhing an electric switch, “are hee, looking up sharply with those and leading Peter Saint by one arin With astonishment. He found he was your diggings. It will be your home of a drop while Temain with us. I will ate have been sold upon occasion, !8€ pack of miners and with a world of & wide canyon, almost a@ valley; dragging Babe by her rope h I don't the ivory tipped button, through this canyon ran @ small out for your needs during your stay buying what was put up for sal half rations for a month. Malamutes! ®bove the dining table, re” river, from which arose a misty cloud hei “What, an entire cabin to myself’ , you don’t look at things in the Your brains it would overbalanve pie of con cnt ‘work be recs ized, ot iGertatnly, ive, answered. Id man’s ti lece of coment work he recognized, * ly.” fe it . but y always accommodate our gussts ee diy cramping ‘them, tab a ree beeun aboolng them aw a to themselves. Father will Suit your horizon 1s atili small and D4v0 shoord » flock of he might beside this tower nestled a compact ly end for you to dine with will always remain so unleas you power station built of cement. Rie later. "“Gomo as you ate: we 86l- Change your narrow manner of 1ook= nt 14 ates ide the instant Clustered about the foot of the falls dam dress for dinner. ing upon matters, Bweaes} bev © fy was a gathering of well constructed understand the ciroumstances, Ours “"“How do. your people feel toward tacn a io 1M conioally. “The: Jog houses, There was also what he is the large bungalow. annexation?” inquired Mallabee. “I 7 took to be a long bunkhouse, a Jensen was soon splashing joyfully “Don't mix in,” she said. “I think smaller cook-hause and alx or t about, luxuriating in a tub full of single cabins ranged loosely and far steaming water that laved his aahing iow the latter feel toward it.” to 1 apart im a hollow equare about & muscles and coaxed every trace ot “I think that our people in to mean the ordinary run of people, not bad, and they never resent it. They some rogard to architectural effect outer oabin door open, soft, padding noxeq” answered Jensen, “If C: galow type and was completely eur- g queer little equeaky voice cried: Founded by a commodious plasza. To ion Tor, Seaeche Boy, , Malinves broke, fit a, taxigh that caret te “oupieset whiskey” they the left of the power house, on a tlousers, socks, Jarred on Jensen's ear had drunk, the @wedes did not prove “4 * hour, About everybody in the States quantities had been recently dropped fis compliments,” eald the Chinaman meant to ask was: How would your “here y, ‘on the snow-covered surface. Against iP bo age oF Oho ee re the “In about half an hour, accordingly, a oF oe ada ee 8, was an opening that Jensen he steps of the huge, e lambent eyes looked Jensen's Supposed to be the entrance to some pee ee PS gt themselves in Swedish, Finally the ward again and said: jow like structure that way with a most penetrating and 4. his dog,” he insisted stubbornly. the type of the buildings clustered about, that it could be neither a gold, silver nor a copper mine. About the scarcely collect his thoughts to form as the Swedes wore, they seemed to Power house he aw sevoral dark the door. an answer. be ai atepnen, Maliabee -was almost be- Rave wit enough to go to each one ot wrists a cine of pllohMante,” CHAPTER X. colt gon't think, they have ever even ini" can ‘have melther ‘he man the butt of their funs: thus. leaving « ° . uted. “If you as Yangull, “eu ey inutes I'll have you has been kept a secret in the fur- N answer to Jonsen’® ring, should I am certain they would be within two mi iM Inside. therance of certain plans he han In the door was opened ty against it to a unit. That would be strung Up by the teieank you, mean pit Keretaon,” sald, bee rv heard Mallabee erself. like a © adopting a parent.” . re | ne to nwen, “I fear this States because the outfit was brought = nee AAOPUINg a Parenti bee Keep das word: but who skal do da" wit prove to bo rather a protracted here from England by way of Hud- Aside from removing quickly. “Rather like a Jost chita "TIARiNg copy cause ‘the ‘product mined here hag not changed from the clothing she hever been marketed in the States.” Now, father,” chided Kerry Mal- Dicuendal Hee utterance of the Wore When sho came to the Little | SON), LOY seneon flush patrioti- boulder. depths of despair. This, then, must be the mysterious source of “Ithite” rion will soon be quarrelling. To- jag ‘guns eno! in the power house be a clear trail to the secret of the goor, “And do hurry in; father has With a look of sudden fright over- most astounding counterfelt scheme ,, xi to see you. He was shadowing her face. that had ever engaged the attention been #0 anxious to see you. of the United States Secret Service. all for trotting over to your cabin of many feet on the veranda out- “Ya locked up in cerhent' wer house. do, for all their i made, tabec, We word sent Jensen's mind bounding to Babos camp, Jensen could not but cally ‘at this way of putting the case, treet PA BU teett end {o.the night, and perhaps longer, for I the nth point of exaltation, then as think this to be an act of kindly “let us drop poll for the remain- -witted man. have no idea of turning over either quickly dropped it to the uttermost courtesy to make her expected vis- der of the evening. If we continue in Sah oy fieli "make you my good friend Peter Saint or his itor feel more at ease. this manner you and Mr. Alan Ker- gance for this, Don't you know he dog Babe into thelr merciful handa” “ “ ” rk “If the M'slou ordaire, I spall go he had been commissioned by Chief “Welcome to Argyle House,” she morrow you shall’—— Sho cut her ‘wheat if i. he pad) bean commissioned vy cmd crled cordially ae ahe threw back te sentence and aro from ner chair %0,™eW, fo, Si, donm gre weet © OM, Gegane Petco af «nigel droned the Swede. ‘We skall good fight, my Baby, eh, what? They ember all das; but we got cookie, catch us both aslenp bafore, There had suddenly come the noise Temember i eer and electrician Petatr t That he trouble with ted If you ever had one sensible idea in @re still burning.” a, tgs tn the A heavy tread of feet could be heard A half dozen or more of the Swedes, armed with gnus, were doll to rush to La em J the plazaa in re “Served their time in the army, woe AMON {N° manjack of thom,” sald. Mallabwe, la: know just what to The Swodes' former spokesman, he Your pouticians, -{ know well enough father can handle them; ho is used of the shock hair and the drooping d they fear him too much must outside raise a hand, Sometimes he beats wnae ee re. eink bid more pretentious building, built with fatigue fram them, when he heard the Jou be giad to seo Cani ‘an- them with a dog whip, when they are stood looking outward, n- ook his ‘ture, people look upon the prospect of being © huh?” he added, with an ugly grunt. jaconically, as he t depa shock-headed spokesman stepped for- stephen Maliabee shook his fist as toward the stolid face staring at hi - a won "Ay tank we skall have Pete Saint Gry the Taneines voretier sort of a mine; yet he knew, from ; the home of Stephen Malabee, puzzling stare. Tho idea Mallabee « ' tbe Kutt HApped an electric button that turned i Water under the wide veranda and had expressed was so revolutionary Sete oak yon for send ay Pete Of & row of lights along the centre pressed an announcing button baside Jensen could, for a moment, gaint or das dox.” of the veranda roof outside. Dense dinner to which we have invited you, son Strait and Ungava Bay, and be- outer fur garment she had ‘bg penitent to its proper pa- guitictmeae tee: spoke slowly and since it will be unsate for you ¢o leave {na dull Tone ores a tencton granite While those addlapatnd asven hold us in @ state of siege. Happily, however, in accommodate you nicel; Yet Kerry Mallabee's father must be as soon as I told him of the visitor side, the sound of some one pounding They say we shall not hang Pete my sugar-plum?” at the head of it; everything pointed ‘ght; but I persuaded him on the front entraace, and the atified an unmistakably to that conclusion. Sorbets Fae hange of whining of a dog. The Chineso butler, Saint. #0 we take all das guna over “Come,” she suid. “We will go,do¥n othing vinglend. Did “they Att” TS had been standing deferentlally into the canyon; it Is called Black ; at one side, started toward the door, , She smiled a cordial welcome and then" turned quickly milky white in “What! and das Devil's Bed. That ts Black Devil guve him an appraising glance. |“ ok Noe wethis is til thelr feet wear off, but they Jensen's east Foom, met River. ‘The canyon isa sort of giKAN- Enew you and fosher were of much Hourgs shouts, wece Tieard crying for mutt Fount kave you ail hung for it.” never have either ‘you a comrade from the north mide, and, CHAPTER Xil. Oa tae ato this softer clay fe fame build, although father I8 & ‘the big bons,” aud the blows on the “Mabbe.so,” stubbornly returned the ‘They've drunk too mugh then reversed hin march gala, going “A Discovery! shter dowing tor miles over ite rocky Dit, siebter, I think door were renewed with increased Swede in his dull monotone, “But we they'll have cooler heads in the ‘4 Notting ie ou ther bed. Black Devil's Bed was formerly almost filled by the river; but father grested © penstrenng Yolct, oe sce Dullt a huge dam up above in order eer, Of the. Gntiee ching. Pres- to lower the stream for an entrance entiy the crimson hangings of a Ben to his mine. The mine help here are GnUY Me cred, and a tall, t's those thrice accursed Swede Seer Cathere tant of tunes, Gnnny mann Ot Worn, Genty Ooh Toney Ceciared Glapaee Malnbee men abroad, bringing them under jonq, daughter in amazement, wondering ward, drawin' ig this turn of affairs could possi- their mackinawa as they came. to bunkhouge,” said the Swede, still “Don't talk to bunkhouse and lock up mine boas growled Stephen ther men.” the babitan fondty on the shrilled Stephen Mallabee ‘“Nhey may patrol Argyle My dear fellow, do come in,” vigor, ban shoot up place a little, first.” ing, and the wisest thing we can do Jensen glanced from father to Several of his comrades stepped for- is to all go off to bed and rest easy guns from beneath until then.” ‘This nonchalant way of taking what “Ay tank you bas send out Pete seemed to Jensen to be a pretty serl- Saint or das dog; then we £0 back ous matter surprised him. “Would it be a jan for caine forward with outstretched plosively. y without raising his voice. Peter Saint, Babe, aa hg i ave got in ? Stephen Mallabee appeared to be a8 yp and see that’ the Swedés don’t contract to return them to thelr own «My daughter Kerry has told me They've seemed ready to boil over j\ttle cowed by the miners’ display Of break in?” he asked. country. They haven't the remotest yoy are Alan Kerrison from fhe ever since Big Dan left. Gave them arms as he had been by their Im- leave if they wanted to, until he gets gence. Big Dan was a leader among c] fered hand, “Then he added, as he iinet FIST raans yet nevouateniiaa seamen cummed (he ooters fidence in him because of that fact into a pair of penetrating gray eyes. tions to the exact letter, no matter what came up. I think lie was loyal to father, and father values loyalty that ‘rose and fell as Mallabee epoke niyey lent an inflection to every sentence the master of Argyle House strode toward the door, reviling the entire growling underto! Jensen and son in which the mine can be worked, gmectively imparted. if you depend on the water power In eee Gomeclike forehoud was “Twelve months in the ye Te- fron-gray hair, The jaw, that on® poit and stood with his six-feat-stx custom to hang animals for murder turned Kerry Mallabee with a smile. ingtinctively knew must be square of gaunt body in the centre of the the fame as humans, eo why not in calmed down & entrance to their home as he shouted: this case? bad fairly caught the drift of condi- Jensen's face must have in- “And with more than seven thousand kilowatts of power that costs us prac- Oud powerful, was concealed " bushy, iron-gray beard, untrimmed "You blackguards! What do you As Stephen Mallabee stepped for- tions. tecally nothing. The falling water in FUP hot unkempt. The man himself mean by banging on my door at this ward the men with guns took aim. dicated that he took matters more was more than six feet tall, rather hour of the night?” Even then it’ is probable he would eerioualy than 48 the reeldenta, of r Kerry bee the turbine tower propels the gener- ators, the generators make elec- y ~ spare and with @ hint of some gi- Jensen could see twenty or thirty have kept on had not the sounder Argyle House, tricity and electricity keeps the tur- Shott “in Me cit in the supple roughly dressed men clustered about gense of his daughter prevailed. was quick to explain to him. bine tower always warm so that the Hing water neve i © movements of his muscles as he on the veranda, One of these men , With a shout of “ are you ‘Father ie accustomed to battling Aue youaes: Tent cine onan toons Walked and, as he cut his words was leading Peter Saint’s dog by a crazy?" she grasped his arm and led with rebellious miners; he's been do- the river comes from the warm water, Sharply, in the snap of his jaws, rope, and he noticed that a twist had him back, protesting, inside ‘he ing it for many years. I really think We heat our fouses, cook, see and ‘The dinner was served by a nof! been taken about Babe's none so that house, he rather enjoys it. Things will mine with electric current, yet never footed Chinese butler. The dishes she could only struggle and whimper — probably appear vastly different by burn an ounce of oc Really it is Were varied, and had he not been He wondered where Peter Saint him- CHAPTER XI daylight, ae he says, and the wisest & wonderful scheme that Farnet has aware wand, oe Reba’ self could be. . ay me a preven te te ye: evolved for mining in this frozen many hundre: - A raw-boned hulk of a man wit tire a wilderness.” quate source of supplies Jensen drooping, walrus-like mustache and An Adventure in t Night Toy show you your chamber,” ghe ‘allabee, in the for the finest of metropolitan hotels. crowded into a wool cap several sizes ‘3 they began Stephen Mallabee appeared anxious too small for him, stepped forward id 1 for exact news regarding busines# from the crowd and spoke. and financial conditions in “the ‘Dan dog here,” he sald, pointing +» as his daughter snapped "But its odd. I never heard of your Would have considered it creditable g vast whock of aun-bleached hair ¢¢ W ELL, what's to be done?’ added, as she pressed an tvory but- descending a roughly terr that led down into Black “I think you have,” “My father is Stephen ry ny M Baron Arbuthnot and: Lord Cannon- until the dinner was well adyanced. tank we ban hang her up to pole for idea where they are; they couldn't grates, so we may waive the useless a half holiday to-day because @ portunate demands, For @ dozen lake, ane a laugh. chop. I'll go door myself. ove the weapons by force if his and because he would follow direc- They appeared to snap and glow like | The thoroughly scared Chinaman, Semana were abt instantly obeyed. pee %, asked Stephen Mallabee, ton beaide the door. ‘The celestial was somewhat tard the bolt cn tha door and ih wi cem ain. e uae . States,” as he called tham, and kept the struggling Babe, “ban kill our bast led her unwilling father with features contorted into a look Mabee, Jensen pretty busy on those subjects men, Dan Larsen, at Little Babos. Ah back into the dining apartment, “You that gave him the appearance of ex- E pecting to meet the chief head- quest, former Premier of Canada, now Mallabee himself volunteered little murder, but das here Pete Saint, he don't suppose IT am going to allow Chopper at any moment. retired from active political life.” information, and Jensen did not yet say we skall hang him instead. Ay those thrice damned hooligans to run “Don't TeEve god and iiiie hae hough feel aumclehtly acquainted with the tank That ‘an pretty, food bargain,” my ecmp according {8 thelr own sweat aid Kerry Mallabee, ‘reassuringly. lensen, 00" ed wi confusion, o “Ironman of Canada” to attempt to jed the Bw gravely and slowly he “There is little danger of wonder I gathered the impression she draw him out. Sithout s hint of s emile, “out some Wiis do you, Kerry?” he said, storm- pein last being harmed; it’s only th Wan accustomed to the fine things of | Finally the talk veered at last to old these mens say we skall ask big boes !® beck and forth before the fireplace, Roving another little @runken cele- life!" J. J. Kerrison and his gold mines, a first.” Two gigantic fellows stepped while Babe trotted by his side as if she bration.” VENING WORLD “8U: HOW TOM “WON OUT”—No. 10—Tom Lands the New Job we e gil “By ‘all means," an find some one to CCESS MOVIE” strated by WILL B, JOHNSTONE —— TA ili ld Mr. Sones replies. “You are sti for him and | wouldn't want a boy who would ‘be disloyal to his employer's interests. Arrange Won to Bt you cones fo mis sb s000 a Be your place.” fee what vise you are got as you call kanuks, so we bas hang Pete Saint to do, father, for the present, at least,” ided he of the droop- she answered, later, Premier of the Dominion, yet labee, with a sweeping gesture. ing mustache, "What you tank, big house without so much as @ pop-gun wy bom . to defend ourselves, while they appoar gentieman also answe to the more fails to appreciate. Alaska would For hie anewer Stephen Mallabes to be well armed. You see now,” sh ic mi of Stephen Mallabee. to-day be one of the best developed gave vent to a bellowing roar as he added chidingly, “how foolish it was think those beasts would always re- mala wader control. + , “I wonder If they ha’ it Your hands off pettyjonn, ‘Truendale, naa “the, ost "By STANLEY SHAW A Shiteie somes mromraeinaraa se Ramat eg © pI ol " phant in the Zoo, until he has be- er nt 6 cried. Some forty eooped up in the power house?” 2 =: x: » } BS ae : bor of ‘on own class. come a rogue, he has gone must. of the man’s six odd years seemed Stephen Mallabee, bt took seas te “Here we are in the nse to his repeated ringing. “The malamutes!” he ri penetrating eyes. ‘Seats in your Sen- Then he turned again upon the grow!- reply came to his continu But the men must be ere Stephen Mallabee The lig! the di so ovidentiy Containing many rooms. footsteps trotted toward his hathroom POxed. Anewered, June, OTf TG, expect such treatment; it’s the only PeUArecees tenciven itt ctuvenionices This larger building was of the bun- door, some one knocked thereon, and y'qoune i¢ she ever will be.” way to keep them in line.” as if hown from a block of oak. “When you ban ready, big Boss, to send out Gas Pete Baint oF 4 spot of lower ground, were ‘several towels. Alle lite, Tisconstrue my question, % fs tractable as usual. ‘They moved {1 then all you bas stay inside, OF wa ban shoot up place. Ay dgr't En: king @Mon¥ sprak goot, but you Ag og ut features, as expressioniess int or das and hees Baby, or we geeve hem wan hot tam then, eh, what, pittie, Peter Mallabee, 7” repeated Stephen Mal- ‘It T were to formality of introductions. I am dynamo broke down, and the cook years he had employed thelr sort, had ready to take them out. Hoe selects stephen Mallabes and, glad to soe served out grog with thelr supper. 1 yoors Be bed smbloven ‘rom: In Wa Seth enue nana ce out Relee — Garefully, more for mue- you, but sorry you bring such sad suppose the fool let them have too ayes they were little more than brain- Saint, there im't a manjack in the laa gg a han for intelli- jews from poor Springvale. and they are drunk in con- fess beasts, and so he treated them. Growd that would dare set his foot ed ds of polite he Chinese ‘servants Witt Saeaon tree sp rop those over the sill. murmured some words 5 ; : ty See ee award tae caut the others, and father put some con- greeting, and found himself gazing “Ah Long, you trottee kitchen, chop, anal” te aay emriaently intending to ami’ ney oat A ake out ‘They are packed as an erg with they call Argyle Hous thoumand | devils, these ighly artistic a smouldering blaze hid beneath glad to be relieved of an unpleasant wut this proved to be one occasion poles you see scattered about were Si pectling cliff, Bushy browa duty, scurried out of the room, and Shen his beasts were not in # mood Ti carved ia Geer, Your Scandina- to obey te crate Ot ee Rela 4 vian peasant is not ordinarily an by a whip. They r leader, big imaginative beast; but when he does But it must be a. very short sca. lent an inflection ve ‘could have so nation of Swedes and Finns in a WMD, ae wed the Gols idge, wolld: ger ica eee cecaay ae Kerry Mallabe: rose fro their ly implanted in their atubborn, un- otherwise, tt Hes in his brain and the falls,” said J seats at the table and tollowed him, reasoning brains, was that some one fermentes like decayed frult until it art. Ser. eee ” crowned with a tumbled mane of en Mallabee threw back the should hang for it. It was their iy about all there is there.” Stephen Mallabes appeared to have considerably since he @ wabbly walk and be frightened, Mon Toy,” we he oo So ttn tp nin inn. NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL OTHE EVENNG WORLD The Boss of Lazy Y4 By CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER® ah a ea a Pat a PPP She scorned to talk silly pidgin- danger of being shot et from English to them, yet the Chinese range. He could see the power servants appeared to understand some distance off the her quite as well as they did her and could catch the steady father, who always made use of it the generators. Not from Mon Toy’s face broke into @ queer power house, off a little to the three-cornered grin. “Allelite,” he was @ long bunkhouse, Ip order said, good naturedly. “Me no flaid; gain the power house he must but Ah Long, butler, he slay Swede close to the bunkhouse, boys come chop, chop, kill evybody. Were to make a considerable Only diunk, eh. Huh, me no care, tothe west, get diunk ‘myself ono picoe time, | Suddenly, as he lay there pleraps.” toward the lights The cheerful optimism of Chinaman did much to relieve the tensenese of the uncomfortable situ- ation, and after « few polite of thanks to Mallabes and his daugh- ter for their hospitality and excuses for t ine Jensen fol- Ho did not really understand this new turn of affairs; neither could he comfortably furnished chamber with an inviting bed and plenty of down quilta. ‘There was an electric ther- mal radiator in one corner, and the room was pleasantly warm. Being thot hiy tired from the iiintes, “Jensen ndreaeed. ‘ak once, illness, jensen pn once, und inn Upped off the lights and got into bed. waakah He found it dificult, » to compore his mind to aléep. For one he thing the steady tramp, tramp of pag the miners doing sentry-fo around the plassa was a constantly disturb- with ni ing #ound, Then, too, the thought dow persistently obtruded that he Was catch at not getting on as rapidly in unravel- frame aa he ing Case BM432 as he ought. away from his ‘True, the aituation did not permit of backward, turning a forcing matters. Alone, as he was, #0 pault'and coming ‘dows Upon far from his own country and in the On ® cement floor. home of one of the most wealthy and | For an instant Jensen was too powerful men in Canada, he could do to think, then he recovered hothing but walt for events to ahape stood up and looked our at the themselves, Yet, boylike, he waa im- ing window where be had patient, * to accomplish some- through. The three men were thing, and the desire drove sleep from sight anywhere, Adore pe head me tae the limp. It moomd that. nono of Bo restless did Jensen finally be pbesieging miners come that he arose and dressed again onee 's rasen in the dark, thinking he might be 4), more comfortable moving about than “mere was but « togsing and turning on his bed in the ing pasement room ‘heated room. fallen He stepped to the window and jin looked out, One of the minors, w was. ing » blue plaid mackinaw and carry- siryck ing beet ay in prim soldier fashion, tn. purn was ji by meg past window, gers and his heavy feet clumping down upon feng. the veranda with a hollow, . sound that cut the clear, cold air blows of a mallet upon @ barrel. Lis- tening, Jensen the man's movements. Sage. the ae ing the north side mateh after oma came up. other fellow, whose inspected «=the beemment footsteps Jensen could clearly hear, room where he had 00d as wie 8 amare timp One: 6 himself. oes reas wan ae a slow walker. ‘As he of the blue plaid mackinaw PY thirty feet amd extended unde panned Jensen's window, Jensen raised S¢eth the entire north aide of Aggie the mash very softly and slowly and House. The floor beneath his out his head @ Uttle way. In was of solidly reced comnty St hall > stuck meeting his comrade from the north scattered about side of the bungalow, the in the blue plaid meckinaw stepptd around more machi the corner for two paces or #0, awalt- ing the fellow with the limp. During ro: this brief space of time, the cast side of the bungalow was left unpatrolled for perhaps thirty seconds. Jensen it HA 1H iy Ht ii wondered if he might pass from his # ponderous cutting machine window to the outer edge of the was a fillet of the white veranda in that thirty seconds. run renee and below a ‘The verandah was raised some two nearly full of round white feet from the ground, and if he could the sise of halt make the outer edge, drop over and also a Cy ay? gram! slong in the dams amadgw be obine fee milling ¢ end thought he might bly get to the matic balance ; ForsTara” Ammer, If he were ca- htrewed abowe . 4 h un- able to get to them thls meane he eral hanatule’ of the woke could at least come back again to his blanks, a few already chamber in the same way he would the design of the double CL ep ing; he again passed es wi low jensen Ha’ no idea how ‘Possos raised the sash softly to its full Argyle son tare tae eae ht, stepped out, closed it still as knowing that he might wamder> @ottly behind him, and stood in the over the durkness, flat against the brown~ ing his walted bungalow, until blue macki- the basement naw turned the corner toward the Jensen determi: F i il i y north, With blue mackinaw safely around the corner Jensen, scuttled “ite af ine time one weit ‘ across over the outer at his eentry-go on edge of the verandah, oso Shove, Jensen Seite’. tnd, under of the floor. Blue trolling fest sounded to the west mactenny nena oF ne bat ner and then ‘each e south, apparently qi unsus~ wind m Dictous of anyehing owt of the com- ‘° overhang pt ag having transpired in his }6 waited again until With blue mackinaw marching With the limp had “ca . south Jensen slowly squirmed along 204 Was marching thes Seneath the shadow ast by the overs proceeded | to vauirn along gained the north side of the bunj was fow. ‘Here ho of the limp was pa. Jensen floaity gained the ens troliing effectively, and nothing offered of the and met @ shelter for Tene; £0 get away from ag naw hed been La siete ut risking the Girectly in frout of the chassber had recently lett ~ dow Jensen By Hazen Conklin | %,22""" “* For a moment Jensen Gere head just above the Cx) veranda floor, watehing arrived Swedes was arm blue mackinaw, Jensen ore er, thinking Se might catch @ tn ett ft what they were the of wi about One of the Swedes polnting Sowers ee Bere end as urging something Upon mackinaw, but he of the blue eae oraes hook his head stafebagn- (To Be Continued) GOING AWAY POR THE! SUMMER? Remember The Bye. ning World prints each weeks # complete up-to-date novel: week's reading! Have The E ning World sent to your