The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1915, Page 13

| \ I \. pat ist tn Se - Beta be Nad i Be het lorth of Fifty- , ' bedartd og f, hh~ Rl : ro The Komance of a Cave-Man and a Pretty School Teacher _ By Bertrand S air pais NANA AAR RNAI RRMA RARAARAAAT IS (Coors, 1013, by Street & Smith.) aa wenn nies YY) 3 By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ye lat the high, ugly walls of brick and in the hotel parlor for & matter ag gwo steel and stone, and her heart mig. hours, went to luncheon with a wave her, and at luucheon Lavaine Maree: | at last at the apex of the pass. He , . had travelled jong after sundown, So for the time being she promised brought up the aubject of her OB my go pe PRECEDING CHAPTER seeking a camp ground where his js | herself a hopes In the afternoon she home to Granville with them. = horses could graze. The fire lit up . 2 walked the h of Hastings Street, Bush incident was discussed al huge firs, and high above the fir tops Pose where the earth trembled with the missed. On the question of 4 the sky was studded with atars, bi i } Searing traMo of strect cars, wagons, int, Hagel was noncommittal, The fant in the thin atmosphere. They a’ | motors, and where folk scuttled back \d appealed strougly te her, Gras. ee I % eri ft 4 and, being weary, lay down to sleep, s and forth across the wa le was home, She had grown up feeb cara achinl toner.” Bne ioin'te At sunrise Hazel wat up and looked | thelr lives. there. 3 Wage & erteksa te ante about her in silent, wondering appre. i like, before, but now she liked upon ‘There webs a multitude of old tem Bes Sprint, Moen ndtakt ee ciation: All the world spread east and : ea it with difforent eyes; it possessed amuocintions, triemae te nea hoe i goudueis ber te. his own faroft west below, Bill squatted by the fire, take he to somehow @ different significative, this But whethor her home town bees bie te telease Bet Diting on wood, and he caught th EERE PUstle and confusion which had seem seo the same, whether, sp adhe — pression on her face, 1 ingly neither beginning nor end, only feel the rame toward the frends Mees “Ian’t It great?” he ald. “T ran! sporadic period. of cessation, had held aloof in the time’ boty ae CHAPTER XI. across some verscs in a magazine She sat in a candy parlor and needed « friead the mast, even: (Continned) long time ago. They've been running watched people go bY, swarming lke Came flocking back to her, ri The | t Sprt in my head ever since I woke up: having ‘brava ar Tu aokeite Oe question that she thought ot “aban ; Fires o! pring. “an t Jone my heart has orted . not put It In so many wi . mn i}, simile of @ human hive. The shuft- the other hand, she knew too welll” N¢ © you mean that? Hon- Ange ott "rage Mook / fe of thelp foot the hum of their the drour loneliness that would Ghose F est Injun?” be asked ‘ind he plaoee . Hg in woe oon upon bet in Vancouver when the é é e rene Marshes left. ‘ > {neredulously. Qs, f0, fed the, Wind grow strona AUGUST - 1916 oF a 32 . : rail leaps Aown, | | found herself »urrying away from it, ‘Of course youll comet We won't “I do-I dol” she the ae | o. | oping ae Nee cant hear of leaving you behind, So-yowr! cried vehemently. ¢ | 4 jwhere @ thin fringe of trees showed oan consider that settled.” old ye o / a at last, “Haven't I told you often enough? 1 “Where the bill heads split the Tide wainet @ distant sky line over a #4 Marsh declared at last ere Gidnt come here willingly and 1 won't 1 gould prem Advesture, haga pt roots She walked feat, wad before day after to-morrow, 80 18 Mr. rend pH ver H ‘ long the jar of solid hoelé on the Com- pow," y- 1 will not! I have a right to ‘To ber compen au, 0 i creté pavement bred an ache in h Jack walked with her.out ve.my life in my own way, and it's "The jast verse ts the bost of all,” 3 i Y q j knees. Then she caught a car passing Ladysmith, and, among other this way.” he said thoughtfully, “It has been A iis my Fr a ig Ad a = told her how he happened to be tn . v1 it ver since I first read it: " a coast city, “, “Bo, septa Bill began evenly, my litany evel ce : in @ wildernéss of stumps “Uve been doing pretty well late-"~ ringtime with you only means get- “1 gromld Wet the world's rebuke Crossing through these, she found ly,” he said, “I came out herp ‘ back to work. You want to get & rudely graded highway, which in deal that involved about fifty 14 into the muddled rush of peo- turn dwindled to a mere path. It led send dollars, I closed it up just a3 Places, do you? For what? To “And here you are,” he murmured, ¢ a ber through s pleasant aise of see, morningmand the | comes bo h & class in school, or to be some “hotfooting it back to where the es rie the slaughtered forest monarch we had planned once. Won't you lets, ifiesa shark's slave of the type. World's rebuke {s always tn evidence, A be bygomene Hamer” te 1 whose great stumps dotted (he roll of byron 5 “ ter at $10 a week? You want to be flare ready to sting you like a bot é t the land, and up on a little rise “Tt might be ponstble, Jack,” aie anz You can associate with fluffy- gress one of its petty-larceny. dic- | ' Whence she could overlook the city gweren slowly, “it it were not - fie Pompadoured girls and be prop- tums. Well, you'll soon be there, Cun Tuaned phine BRA aeareoatred trace Season a olan Conkle alan introduc: ‘ you see a glint of blue away down e rly —" Ton ee eeally >*broper there? No? Take the glasses.” from deep salt water. And for the every atom of affection I tnd for yor d She adjusted the binoculars and 0 r BE Yas Vreoabiy vey torrie peered “weatward trom” the. great But a spirit of restieisnoss drove don't feel at all. Rhy you wouldn't understand if son height where the camp eat, Distant: her back to the city. And at night- “But you will,” he sald @ thousand years. Well, set ly, and far bolow, the gfeen of the fall she went up to her room and “Just give me a chance. I was a = bur mind at rest. I'll take you out, forest broke down tova hazy line of throw herself wearily on the bed: headed, jealous fool, but 1 never will take you back to your stamping steel-blue that ran in turn to a buge ; She was tired, body and spirit, and be again. Give me a chanoe, Hazel. und if that’s what you crave. Ye fog bank, suow white in the rising [lonely. Nor waswthis Ughtened by «you have to make your ‘and lit fishes, but I have eure sun. ‘the surety that she would be lonelier chances,” she sald deliberately. “I &@ fool. “Yos, I can aoe tt now,” she sald: € still before she found @ niche to At fuse to bind myself in any way. Wh: fat down on the edge of the “A lake?” hereslf in and gather the thremde of should 1 put myself out to make and Hazel bitnked at him, half “No, Salt water—a tong arm of her life once more Into some orderly happy when you destroyed all the faith @ and full of wonder, She had the Pacific,” he replied. ‘That's 5 pattern. 1 had in you? You simply didn’t trast: * ®© used to see him calm, im- where you and I part company—to 0 - In the morning she felt better, even me, You wouldn't trust me again. If p ble, smiling cheerfully no your very great relief, I dare say. 5 ) to the point of going over the newa- slander could turn you against me matter what she said or did, that his But look off in the other direction. . " papers and jotting down several ad- once it might a second time. Besides.) passionate outbreak amazed her, She Lord, you can see two bundred vertisoments calling for office help. I don't care for you as a man wants uld only sit and look at him. miles! If it weren't for the Babine t Her brief experience in Cariboo woman to care for him. And I don’ got out his cigarette material. j; kee being she was content. I don't feel bitter any more+I Range sticking up you could look 4 r Meadows had not led her to look think I'm going to care—exce; PMt hie fingers trembled, spilling the clear to, where may’ cabin atande wa \ kindly on teaching a@ @ moans of haps, in a tticndly way” Pt, Pe bacco, And when he tore the paper What an outlook! Tens of thousands ( > Uvelihood, And jographers seemed = And with that Barrow hud to,be conas | His efforts to roll it, he dashed paper of square miles of timber and lakes all into the fireplace with some- that wounded like an oath, and kd out of the house. Nor did he Wherefore, she tent. Ho called tor ber the next day, and»? With the list in hor purse, she went took her, with the Marshes, out for a and river: fish and game everywhere; Sunny little valleys; soil that will grow anything. And scarcely a down on Hastings—which runs like launch ride, and otherwise dévoted Peers, iil the fun was well down aoa) fa ft all, barring here and these BACK a huge artery through the heart of himauf to being an agreeable cayelleth Wrien he same back ho brought ie ‘an ® fUFr post or @ stray prospector, Yet | f tho city, with lesser atreate crossing On the !aunch excursion {t was .ctt!®: wood and kindling aud be- DUMan beings by the million herd in| and diverginy definitely that Hazel uld Achompan pLis ld a fire. Hazel came out of fthy tenements, and never seo a But she made no aprnlication foe them . my biade of green grass the year around. ] \ smployment. For on the corner of So that at dusk of the following™ “I told you, I think, about pros- | | Hastings and Seymour, as she gath- day she and Lorraine Marsh sat dew ered her skirt in her hand to cros# a Pullman, flattening their a of Mes 3,0 br teem, Mill kreetod hor serenely. Belt pera te Sad, “I acting on the head of the Naas inst | i " t 4. spring. I fell in with another fellow ; . the street, some one caught her by against the car window, taking uf” Newall Moree Os take ce sutenne 7ee up, chete, and. we worked sogethes, | fam the arm, and cried: leat look at the en ‘ot, Yanaoue Mil paused with @ match blasing in “nd early in the season made a nice | | Alte “Well, forevermore, if it isn't Hazel ver as the train rolled thi the t little clean-up on a gravel bar. 1 ” “ef Wort outskirts of the city, Hasel told heres not in the habit of saying have ae ee farce Ltr jaddes! . 1" And she turned to find herself fac- self bl fhe adh p nh cag home. Bars, i 4 * t worl a rtun p row om an J ' ave vinci in the aceite: Ina ttatlow Wanted to spend’a couple, hatobet buried. th the aku es a Renin tt you lived (a e-bear country different, litle parson, Maybe you'll the way he ad tehen hes in.ead ing Loraine Marah——a Granville school sow | smi ¥ assurance over’ X closed "in on them and of thousand putting in some, simpie Decree ‘a pity to lot that good akin rot Rerth’ when you get back into Four troutatien, some of the cromings that of them, with wide and startled eyes, liven #0, she was roatless, far tro:a in a log. a pity to rt ol ort en you get baci 8 o Ww yom. 90, 8 a Paainn Conn ee vieetaere: Bren cde tber Sate “Weel all right? Bill asked. His Bill concluded slowly: “but T cittes and towns, with thelr amoke and she remembered were sketched tn, loomed he ida while dhe two ees “the peer dates mena een lstracted. He slouched for a time in clear out of the country. Just took a vole was husky. mae wx. EUC8s Twill, 1 don't want his pelt. It smelly and business sharks, where it's tho mountains and the lakes by which | He pressed forward while she t o Ot.s we Seta, ane is P : . “Yes, yes,” she assured him. “Ex- would always be a reminder ot ngs everybody for himself an ° 6 trail had wot or ly {uto the gloom. on Bier ears ng iris euncrtned And dan tt ca om York 0 fy gues of sks tins, “ines CAF oe esMaPT nace ate eet Meare ame | Lem ann haan to Re ot aaemauayam gueenn 7 AR HRD «Wana ap Map, and, spreading it on the table, Do you know, I lasted there just one Ate you hurt le tucked the hat het in its place when I get restless for human com- my vindictive disposition mate ARE Se RAS sctena Boe tikes bane. DURA. ties. Kec aemrntace lar Sen “ ealend He shook his head, on the pack, Hazel swung up on Silk, panionship and come cut to cavort In mured. “I told him so often that I'a CeP 2 aiasied ta iy rhage’ Noutalte ary shag Danhinne of tt that a, “thought you were broken in two," They tipped over the crest of the the bright lights for a while 1 may muko htm sweat ter his tshchery 1 Since sorted over hes thethermers asee fal eat oars. gna 10 ind hs @ busied himssif packing them man with $2,000 to spend anouid mer Ne muttered, "Wo both fell right on mountain and began the long descent: pags you on a sireot eomewhore. This ever T gut a chance. Abe weisaar a pesinet Wine MNS ne, Serer uere Oe co ca eee . om | x ve top of you. Ugh je evening of the third day from world is very small. » yes--when She put away the money an e : * 9 ee tnd four and such thine Wgnesome @ a place like New York. “fe sot down on the tree and rested there Bill travelod fill dusk. "WHON you get to Vancouver go to tne Lady map, and bestowed a brief scrutiny bis eyo and take his hand without « tll pillow grew motst—and “ , his head on his bloodstained hands, cainp was made and the fire started, smith, It's @ nice, quiet hoicl in the upon herself in the cabin mirror. Six single Mutter of her pulse, It seemed heavy feeling in her breast Brow, HY ‘done up in small canvas sack week I flew. The sole memento of Us & papell and fell to copying somethin: mouth. I had all that money burn- Weht over to him. half-dozen pin points of yellow 6iM- jie dropped his hands and looked physical condition. But her garments with Loraine Marsh's chatter, and Hazel saw that he was quivering he called Hazel to one side, up on @ West End, Any hack driver knows months in the wild had given her a strange, but she was glad of it. And, And when theso preparations were that trip was a’ couple of Russell $24 itt oe 1 ant ‘ae t indeed, she was too much taken up complete he got a sheet of paper and prints—and a very bad taste in my {Mm head to foot, She got up and little rocky Knoll, and pointed out @ the place, ruddy color, the glow of perfec red. avs ‘t hurt?” mering distinctly in the dark, " attered ‘dly out of date, ‘oo genuinely glad to hear a friendly akes nak o the map. He was still at thet, ing in my pockets—and, all told, I gp “Te, You sure you aren't hurt “That's Bélla Coola,” he told Yer. smeaiy ot Prva Few Orde, eee ta taake sat tho steamer trank voice again to dwell much on gboate Hiss of escaping eir-to 6 station Opes with @ squealing of br: she asked a sketching and marking, when Hazel qrin't spend $500. Fancy a man *" ‘ ; ‘And unless they've made a radical **¢! ” the winter's of the pant, the signboard over the office window t-t0 bed. jumping over four thousand miles to just sitin soared” Yon eek aad change. in thely sailing’ coleduies _ “Goodby! He {cere Sbroptiveend ‘dy. bad auroras IF casentanie ih | TRAY Roba. tow. minutes 6a the SBS TAS Cie name of the place ani) te cH the fatgns and token Boars have a good time, and then running you were dead, lying there so white there should be a boat clear to-mor- pe toy goed Aly Melae Sawtleeee ent the cuting sult of copdurey. Ge that dorne! oposes the notation: “Vaneouver, uo ‘mili ‘agstaff slept no y it. was very foolis! o noon.” c! t that ot where ‘hea night, Hasel herself tossed wakefully, of me, 1 think now. It I had stuck Snide reaches out cos'tong.ermend Say 9o. he WHOrE WiEae HE Ai Dacer One wae eee aut caans fine key onnla babe at iueiy-lelecre cee te Limited drove east again she switched and Ing her wakeful momenta she and got acquainted with somebody, wee not. thinking of the comfort. Lom.ine and her mother took 28 the tiny electric bulb over her gould hear him atir in the outer room. And taken in all the food music, the CTC her close to him, CHAPTER XII. ‘The Stanley D's siren woke the When sie wi head, and bled ty her purse for ate “Little person," he whispered, “it echoes along the wooded shore, A strange episodes of the tmmediate the lead. Barrow naturally fell inte Dead. and Pieeltocreantase’ Caviiaht he theatres and the peiddy cates int YOU Just cared one little bit as much The Drone of the Hive. throbbing that shook her from atem ts past, her mind, woman-l pa tae win Seal. drew seetenanarehed, iter agets 2S | owen t: Neve. gt Boiee One URS aa 1 a0). would be all ight, Look BLACK cloud of smoke was stern betokened the fret turnings of Gwall on clvilleeson ae ant une «peering fechaiom, snd folded sheet of paper, which deemed CHAPTER XII. psychoogical moment to make 9 ay He you "hes rolling up from the funnol fae emt ratanend ru aeenatie ir ‘The Stanley D. bore down Hentick [ guess you've got about a million Hoan aba aa seen hae oot “* ‘The Out Trail. different Kind of a fool of myself. get every nerve in my body jumping. of the Stanley D. as Bill tne outer passage. Arm and on through Burke Channel apologies coming from everybody in plain white paper, marked with A ee ¥ Well, the longer wa live the more Jin ‘Samson shorn. Why can't you Wagstaff piloted Hazel Hage! went out to the rail, Bil! to the troubled waters of Queen Char- Granville for the shabby way. (oy Bill said to her, “I was you'll be@in Bella Coola. The can- yoy." stdod for rivers, with ; to far Oriental somebody on one of the ft iki: orth of Nery steamships carry passengers on " gig grew herself away from him Hotel to the wharf. ently ahe caught sight of him stand. pete Out Ane ore, ms picGehan antes out (he imei as ther Bush ag, coat woccaae s wes she shots mouncaina, bound ® fairly regtlar Bchedule to Van- witnoue wawormeemot in four, but ‘There aren't many passengers,” hande thrust deep in his coat pockets, south between Vancouver Island and fair, and the vindletive old hound's She stared at it a lone th Then"! those mountaina, bound couver. How does that sult you?” —Techuse ner code of ethics, the repress he told her, “They're mostly cans staring after the steamer, Hagel 1h@ rugged foreshores where the reasons for that compromising legucy ghe found her time tebir Mad Tani” foe the head of the Naas to prospect == “very well’ she answered shortly. sive conventions of her whole exist- nery men. But you'll have the cap- waved the envelope that she atill mag Coast Range dips to the sea, ae were wt for pe It seems this news. along the interminable string of ete for gold.’” “And you haven't the least twinge enoe urged her to do so in the face of tain's wife to chaperon you, She {n her hand. Now that she was in- Pleasant Isles, and through narr; saper «follow connected up with tion names till she found ‘ancrati;: waved his han af ‘ Q i ean y a . , h 7 jan Way o! At 5) the tiptop of a long divide, a thou- gwrep, Very ‘thought, the swift sureeof the When they were aboard and the mous forsiving—s Whe hat droneed ning of the third day, abe turned and kept It posted up to the day of Cariboo Road, oven wine she, bed. sand feet above the general level. A “I don't happen to have your pecu- impuise frightened her, shocked her. cabin boy bad shown them to what back into the old, depressing Gren, into Burrard Toist end want Occome hid ceermpaired cut all bis foelings journeyed by ‘stage, “Bho noted ” wide. valley rolled below, and from Tir pat ot ew onnccied with my She could not understand it, and #0 was dignified by the name of state- ville atmosphere. But he gave no an- Re eee ee RUPP EEE er fa Onin Sac SeROnyOGlP AlOD eee at Gtatance, and the Lintited'’s hgur ofr’ the ‘height they overlooked two great, Circwmsiinees | country and with my fhe, eek FeRage peund sae reunye foom, Bill drew @ long envelope trom ewaring. ‘agp gies adh aurned %B the dock. It seems that that nusht after You Fre ‘Thon s fs ee fad we elntious Jakes and a multitude of staying here are such as to make me sraunet paradox which will deny and Be pocket, where his horses stood tied among the So Hazel came again to @ oity—a fused to come to him when he was her, She dressed, got her suit emiler ones, The mountain range to anzlous to got away. tered un. Shrink from the dominant impulses “Here,” he said, * under berth, and namon and from the grimy Bella Coola Wagsiaft had disappeared, but pres- lotte Sound, where the blue Pacific treated you, Shortly after you left and crooked of pacer 66 T MIS time last spring,” we learn, Day after to-morrow are? I'd be gooder than gold’ to @ little money. huddled buildings, And within twenty city that roared and bellowed al ite hurt he called in his lawyer and made trom the and ‘ “ “Same old story," ‘ inutes the Staniey D. turned - manifo'! nolses in her ears, long that codfcll—and spent the rest of the articles into it, regardl t which Bill pointe’ loomed seventy of, life. And Roaring Bill made no I hope you won't let any foolish minutes the Stanley urned a jut wi p - FT time till he dled gloati n eardess o: ry miles distant, angling northwest, 47 pie breath ee ‘ effort to hold her. He let her go, and pride stand in the way of using it ting point and Bella Coola was lost frown aocuat pmed | to apy" pind fine UU de. gieg sicating over the Her hat was tn”: paper bag su now capped — wey tt ne geod sharpiz, fumbled for a handkerchief to wipe freely. It come easy to me, I dug to view. rooting silence, Mindful bas ¥- ed from a hook above the upper Pee ean eines On the ons sh Pe not A atid carelessly, hig glistening face. And presently ho it out of Mother Harth, and there's Hazel went back into her stateroom Petting word, she took @ hack to the acter. Wherefore, she tied @ silk searf over Re rnae. Wey TSAMYSS WEP and went dn with Te UieaRiKet DISD: ect avenits wusre o Uttie mean lonly more where Ht’ Come tetm. ark ede on the berth. Presently AGYOMID. And OF en Ore eee ere Et eee rent about’ her head. the shaduw. arations. 4 Bosing deprived’ yc Ot snaned tha anwalte - hotel was removed from the business: It, ol replied, impersonally. “But f us, I've been wondering,” Hazel sald. “qyey finished the meal, Btl! got his bubbled among the tree roots and Sewing that 1 deprived you of access she opened the enveloy There was That dane, she set her suit egse tf: ‘ ° ile 6 succeeded rath i Puls country somehow scemie differ- yori nigued, the meal, Bil got his washed his hands and face, Then he to y.ir own money and all your a thick fold of bilis, her ticket, aad Heart of the city, the rumble of the A re ORR Or AT uy the aisle, and curled herself in the eat, You're not going back to the packs, Hazel sat on the trunk of St @ clean shirt out of his war bag persoual belongings, you are entitled both were wrapped In a sheet of pae CHt¥'s herculean labora reached her Who should have known mo better, berth, with hee faen cnet a} pndy to believe the very worst.” | i pee ween est ght aaa By. f pa; tar into the night, She lay wake- Were ready againat the A | ee MeaAO WS Are YOUN. on 2 Winter-broken Sf, waiting his roadi- One, co *Ubeer Tema eat Na wae I Want te thine Te A bit ot erataie fer, mengiied with date and crooked fully staring through her open win- You Ia eee ht” Barrow pledded. smile played Soot her mati | may bedtowed a look of surp eee hee rut ge Heard Me sound himself again, if a bit sober in ex- tous advice—in case you whould con- the money, dow at the are Hehta winking in par “You don’t | Pg nag her fingers tap-tapped steadily o her, HE rawied, behind her, But she did see Roariig piasa., clude to go back to the Meadows, “Heavens!” she whispered, ‘1 wish lls! rows, listening to the c taugh: t ie iaeh purse, wherein was folded Bill Wag. T*dhould say not he drawled. 4))) stiffen and his face blanch under hum of man's activities, But at iast ‘ueht mea won-—if you'll not hold staft’: Aihare h , ° out They probably looked high and low he hadn't gi 3 H foe + ence tu me, q eaned if ee; 4 * “ : % mpring day awakened her. and worrted about you, disappearing J _ e x © ready, and Silk saddled them to learn where you actually did For Roaring Bill had tucked adozen "PF the way you did. Where have you don’t’ want to turn up there in MY gix.shooter hung on a limb above It, horses were ready, and et unless you yourself tell them. es Aone VA, _ She ate her breakfast, and set forth @ you company.” He was tucking a keen edged hatchet for her, did he speak again, Then he S¢t unless you y yor PORHRURGLOCSCOUAP HEveH In the On sn me 8o much, I didn't Ap. And then out of the dark ahead 9 cluster of lights winked briefly, tiae™® shriek of the Limited's whistle echoed” and s a 4 a tines ane pity el on a shopping tour, To such adyan- been and how have you been getting F r c “Ents kip,” sho observed. “But under the pack lashing. And, swing- CASt a glance at the dead bear, eee ee Ree ee aiee ee ermene NSlOns. fed, only. wishtal’ that tage did aie pat two of the hundred. 8? You suroly look well.” Me bent YP and down the Coacbas “chme to "UR all ‘the Cidihes and all the money 1 jng this up, he Jumped—it seemed— “By Jove!” he remarked, “I'm Janation--would be for you to say generous, Twelve dollar bills that by noon she was ar- “8,admiring glance on her, stop. ‘Hazel took one hwok to tii havé fn the world ar mere. a straight at her. Rut his eyes were about to forget my’ tomabawk.” you got lost—which is true hundred dollars was a lot of money, Tayed in a suit of semi-tailored gray, Oh, I've in every plac + gure. Then she got softly into fd ’ money Try You," h® fixed on something beyond, Ho poked tontatively at the furry enough--and that you eventually fell fur more than she needed, and she @pring bat, shoos, and gloves to Can't Complain about not getting on,” Zire The up her sultease and left Oe eae a eaally po neeore,she could move, of even turn’ carcass with his toe, Hasel came up fn with w party of Indians, and later dla nat ino how aha nd tenes match Bhe felt ones more ox ease, O02 ly. the car, At the step? she turned to h through. And you can easily to look, so sudden wan his movement, and took a curious survey of fallen on “connected up with a’ party of Ghee ake ene eee ea te money 1088 conscious that people stared at 191,07 the life of her, she could not giveth: car porter & meeatee, : ” Hill was beside her. The sound of a Bruin. Bill laid hold of the hatchet White pe. who were travelling in her lap, thinking, ‘Then she took her frayed and curious habiliments, 7? TA tag comparisons between the “‘pell Mra, Marsh—the lady in were now ten days on the crunching blow reached her ears, In and wrenched it loose. coastward, ‘That you wintered with up the map, recognizing It as the With a complete outft of lingerie 4" beside her and another who she Their coursé hud lait across the same instant a heavy body cole ®, rolling country, borderad by fided saith Ha wugged hilis, spotted with lakes, and great weight, a welx cut a 1 there by streams that Pay ey put Bill W ff to many strange Arata shifty In cr But upon leaving this camp they crossed a short stretch five,” she said, with a dallar to quicke: his faculties, “that Miss Weir had te"? e ould b D ve hunted more or less all my them, and they put you on a steamer shect of paper Bill had worked over Purchased, and a trunk in which to fyvwed would hy naw be bearing up ‘ng her Mat. A {ife,” be observed, “and I've seen bear and ‘sent you to Vancouver when eo long thetr last night at the cabin, store it forwarded to her hotel, her jooked the green and peaceful vista of 8° back. Say that I will write soogers t which exhaled under many different conditions. But spring opened, It made the North more clear—a immediate activity was at an end, toreat and lake, with the Habing #nd explain.” ae dor, rolled over her. this is the first time I ever saw a bear “That, I guess, tm all," he conchided great deal more clear—to her, for he and. she had time to think of her Range lying purple beyond. She won. _,Sh@ stood back In the mhadow of ther: ds briefly eneoun- tackle anybody without cause or slowly, “Only I wiah"—he caught her had marked Cariboo Meadowm: the lo, next move, dered arine Bilt Wa rt station for a few seconds, The Lime « ed some Dalry obleat. emnen she warning. I guess this beggar was by the shoulders and shook her gent- cation of his cabin, and Bella Coola, And brought face to face with that, oar UP apeumneners “Kuve ited's sinp was briel. When the medic» ammed against the fallen tree , ances, i strictly on the warpath, looking for ly-—"T aure do wish it could have been and drawn dotted linee to Indicate she found herself at something of & looked on her With tha art light# went drumming down the track»oo of. low country then struck with a force that momentarily trouble on general principles,” lows, Sho had no desire to Ko back angry distrust that Harrow bad ores she took up her sulttase and walke@est, straight into the h fa moun: wag, stunned her, “Was he after me?’ Hazel asked, on to Cariboo Meadows, even ww get what betrayed, ous region. eadily they mbed, When she opened her eyes again “Well, I don't Know whether he ha 5 = uptown to tho hotel whete she Radia" § Mirinbbleletninteletninteieinintotointeloteloleibetinieinininieleini-teinieieeteetefeieiei-t | few personal treasures she had loft be- 7 tarried overnight once before, < reaching up through gloomy canyons Roaring Bill had her head in his lap, a grudge against you" Bill. antiod, ft And she could not concetve of Rill i , We spit “ . ; in the New Year with a treat to yourself, by reading =f | M04. Cariboo Meadows was wiped of Wagstaff eve: bring humble or peni- TM clerk showed her to a roome's where foaming cataracis spilled them- peering anxiously down, She caught “But he was sure coming with. bis Begt ° the slate as far as sne was concerned, mor a a 4 done, She threw the suitcase on the hed ané.oo | er walls of granite, a glimpse of the tpsteady hand mrouth open tnd tie ee ence THE TARZAN MAN'S GREAT STORY her Pea FH ABeE DIRE Tie Dad done, | Bars } Noverthelons, she must make her Way. row's staitude ws g fans turned the key In the lock. ‘Then shecse @ narrow pack trail that held a cup of water, and she You notice [didnt take time to ae ateitude was that of a little boy h Somehow she must find @ means to wh d broken some playt went over, and throwing up the wit «? was Crossed and recrossed with the struggled to a sitting posture with after my rife, and fm rot a teolherdy | | return the unused portion of the—to fit of anwer mad nee arching In 8 Tow to ite greatest helghe ant’ Gemp s footprints of bear and deer and the a shudder, Bill's shirt was ripped person as a ‘rule, I don't tackle a ¢ | her—enormous sum Roaring Bill had trying to. put. the together 22d looked steadily toward the northyrs» 4 snowy-coated mountain goat. The from the neckband to the wrist, bar- grizzly w tha harchet unions tm core | 4 placed in her hands. Sho must make again. It amused her, Inteed, it af. Smiling to herself. op : spring weather held its own, and ing his sinewy arm, And hand, arm nered, believe me. It 9 lucky ne By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Hl her own living. The question that forded her a diatinetly un-Christinn “I can find bim,” she suddenty saidic'o everywhere was the pleasant smell of and shoulder were spattered’ with wasn't overly big. At that, I can feel | 4 ; f | troubled her was: How and where? satisfaction, since she waa not by @oud, “Of course I cap find him!” ono» growing things. Overhead the wild fresh blood. His face was spotted my hair stand up when I'think now! ‘ft This WI Be Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World She had her trade at her finger ends, nature of a meek or fore'ving spirit, . ANd with that she blew a kiss from: > duck winged his way In acrial squad~ where he had smeared it with his he would have mussed us up if Ta | ‘¢ Tela partoaltia Mrase ret and reat ortetaal ot | and the storfed office buildings of Van- He had made her suf t'wan wut her finger tips out toward the dare rons to the vast solitudes of tho bloody hand. Close by, so close that missed that first sw at his head, “ couver assured her that any eMcient fitting that he should know a and silent North, pulled down the: | { all the splendid tales told by TARZAN’S creator stenographer could find work. But she crtwo hivnct? , * PAPE shade and went quietly to bed. : FS North, she could almost reach it, lay the you'll never have a closer call. And Roaring bil) lighted his evening fire grayish-black carcass of a bear, Bill's the same thing might not happen bh ebebbbhrebhirbirticrirk looked up as she walked the strects ” Hazel visited with the three of them (The End.) ’ , , |