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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, January 26. 1916 [Can Vou Beat It? What Would YOU Do— T 1eT Ne one of « hundred queer and original complications in HELLO JOHN EXCUSENE, DIMUNG Sou JOHN, NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL A Romance of Love and Fortune in the Big Northwest (Author dain (Copyright, 1919, by Street & Smith.) eenonsis OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, rete, her Gi) home, ima Svea eae te Genes, bom Hil Wagatalt.. an’ Shires sent ) a 2 CHAPTER VII. Jack Frost Withdraws. Li thi hth ont of SS’ pe ig avenies 4 & dusk folded its sombre mantle about the meadow the wolves gathered to feast on the dead horses, till Hazel's nerves were strained to the snapping point. Continually she was reminded of that vivid episode, of which she had been the unwitting cause, Sometimes she would open the door, and from out the dark would arise the sound of wolfish quarrels over the feast, dis- embodied en ippings an@ snarlings, Or when the low-swimming moon shed a misty glimmer on the open sho would pecr through a thawed place on the windowpane, and see gray shapes circling about the half-picked skeletons. Sometimes, when Bill was gone, and all about the cabin was utterly still, one, bolder or hungrier than his fellows, would trot across _By Bertrand M. Sinclair of “NORTH oF ome anced to drift unwittingly along this portious road of thought, She schooled herself to endure and to fight off intro@pection. She had ab- sorbed enough of her husband's sturdy philosophy of life to try and} make best of a bad job, After she frequently assured herself, badness of the job waa mostly a state of mind, And #he had a grow- | ing convicti that Bill sensed the) struggle, and that it hurt him. For that reason, if for no other, she did| her best to make light of the grim environment, and to wuit patiently nd March stormed a} usly across the calendar. | Higher and higher the drifts piled about the cabin, till at length it was banked to the eaves with snow save | where Bill shoveled it away to let Neht to the windo Day after day they kept indoors, stoking up the fire, listening to’ the triumphant whoop of the winds. “Snow, snow!" Hazel burat out one day, “Frost that cuts you like a knife. I wonder if there's ever going to be an end to it? I wish we were home again—or some place." “so do 1, little person,” Bill sald gently. “Rut spring’s almost at the door, Hang on a little longer, We've made a fair stake anyway, if we don't wash an ounce of gold.” Hagel tet her gaze wander over the pelts hanging thick from ridge log and wall, Bil had fared well at his trapping. Over two thousand dollars he estimated the value of his catch. “How are we going to get it all out?” She voiced a troublesome thought, WHAT'S THAT BuUILOING WITH THAT POINTED bal Re P see THIS IS oy Busy GO ON WITH Your ) 1) DAY. | HAVEN'T A MINUTE TO SPARE Monday's Evening World. We'll leave the rest of it for the frat | Siwash that happens along.” So they set out bravely to trudge the remaining distance. And aa the fore tunes of the trail sometimes befall, they raised an Indian camp on the bank of the river at the mouth of the canyon, A ton?dollar bill made them possessors of another canoe, and an hour later the roofs of Hasleton cropped up above the bank. “Oh, Bill,” Hagel called from the bow. “Look! There's the same old steamer tied to the samo old bank. We've been kone @ year, and yet th world hasn't changed a mite. I won- der if Hazelton has taken a Rip Van Winkle sleep all this time?” * he smiled, “I can see some new housex—quite a few, in fact, And look—by Jiminy! They're working on the grade. That railroad, remember? See all’ those teams? Maybe | ought to have taken up old Hackaberry on that town-lot propo tion, after all.” “Fiddlesticks!" she retorted, with fine scorn of Hagelton’s real eatate possibilities, “You could buy the IN THE EVENING WORLD, ‘ THE GODS OF MARS By Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author of “TARZAN OF THE APES,” &c.) Did you read “UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS,” by Edgar Rice Bur- rougs, in The Evening World a few weeks ago? “THE GODS OF MARS" is a sequel to that great serial. It is also a complete story by itself. Don’t miss it. Remember “THE GODS OF MARS” will begin tn “Oh, 1 don't know,” she answered dolefully. “I'm tired and hungry, and 1 look @ fright—and—oh, just every- thing.” “Tut, tut!” he remonstrated good naturedly, “That's just mood acai We're out of the woods, Limes figuratively. If you're hungry, holes and seo what we can make this produce in the way of grub, before we do anything else.” “L wouldn't go into their dining room looking like this for the /” said decisively. “I didn't realize how dirty and shabby I was.” “All right; you go shopping, he proposed, “while I take these fi up to old Hack’s place and turn them into money, Then we'll dress, and make this hotel feed us the best they've got. Cheer up. Maybe it was tough on you to slice a year out of your life and leave it in a country where there's nothing but woods and eternal allence—but we've got around twenty thousand dollars to show fo, it, Hazel. And one can't get ‘something for nothing, There's a price mark & it somewhere, always. We've got our lives before us, little person, and the meadow, drawn by the scent of “Shoulder pack to the Skeena,” he the meat. Two or three of these answered laconically. “Huild a dug- Hazel shot with her own rifle forage tie tuple ae ine downstream, But when February marked another “Oh, Bill!” she came and leaned her Sho touched the sack with her toe. inort folks have. Don't let Mttle thin; “Not quite,” Bill returned piacidly. throw you tnto the blues, Be my goo “T wouldn't, anyway, We'll get a bet~ jittle pal—and nee if you can't make ter run for our money than that. [ one of these stores dig up a whi hope old Hack didn’t forget to attend waist and a black skirt, ke you ha whole town with this.” a better chance for happiness oh) #pan on the calendar the wolves came head against him contritely, “Our! . to that ranch business for me.’ on the first time I saw you." # no more. The bones were clean. poor ponte! And it was ail my care- \ WHERE DID You DON'T LET NE He dro the can erences ey He kissed her and went quickly out. ‘, es ) x A fow loungers viewe r mt There was no impending misfortune mind, hon," -he comforted. | GET THAT PRE i > / DISTURB You frank curiosity, Bill set out the treas- APaE ireane tt too lage Taso! sboe nrenomena arising out of her harsh 4 sudden softening of the Se atin iets SH Lata cnvironment, Hazel suffered continual 4 The sharp teeth of the tae Oia Ore “an ghee accel vague foreboaings, The bald, white fun, awingige Walle toon wide the peaks seemed to surround her like @ brought the battery of his rays into! prison from which there could be no effective play on the mountainsides, | The drifts lessened, shrunk, became t tropolitan in the neck of the woods, to be a real partner.” say, ntle person, do you think you — She wiped an errant tear away and can relish 2 square meal? Planked made her way to the atore—w hes f} ke and lobster salad—huht I won- place sprung up, like the bank and cess they couid rustic @ salad in this hotel, with the growing importance of ! man's town? Say, do you know I'm the town. The stock of ready made just beginning to find vut how hun- Clothing drove her to despair, z or danger that she could point to or “They blinked out without. suffering. | CALENDAR > | SL) JOHN, KEEPON —__ ure sack and the bale of furs, and horselt impatient Porecast with certitude. Nevertheless, ail make {elke a charm. He | ~ WORKING - ' tHed the canoe, . tee penal ; tll soon be spring.” 2 ‘i " hotel, by "he ttle beast,” sane whispered. struggle against it as ahe might, ~ As ie in verification of hie words, pals Bo You THINK marked, when upon gaining the level ougnt to tramp me, ineteea of -c gece {t for the pure phychological with the last breath of that howling | ABOUT THE POLITICAL of the town a new two-story building kind. I can't do anything, and I release, Such days as he went out notature sod For t oI sions she passed in restless anxiety. eTudual thaw ineraencd, Something would happen, What it lusty-lunged chinook wind seemed that what women 1am for the fleshpots, What es matter with a little varlety?—as Hazleton must invariably dress in Lin MacLean said, Aren't you, hon?” Mother Hubbard gowns of cheap She was, frankly so. Jfor long, mo- ton print, with other garments notonous Monthy she had been strug. match. But oventualiy | ey found, Kling agulnst just uch cravings, 1m. for, her undergarments of a sort, possible of realisation, and taerefore uJ e ir of shoes, Hats, as a milli i the more tantalizing. She bad Da! A been a year in the wilderness, and Would understand the ‘erm, there wend the wilderness had not only lomt its Bene, And, tp Gefsult Of ash glamour, but had become a thing to fy t> Me eray bene flee from. Even the rude motley of ayain—which, in phen ago fo heg Hazleton was & Welcome change. yery well, when tilted seen ° , —— Here at least—on & minor scale, to angle above her heavy wince heirs be sure—was that which she craved, Sec pte went unen tothe total ome and to which #he had been accus- sought a bathroom, would be she did not ‘know, but to fark Wee a me lotr the Klappan hor it seemed that the bleak atage steaming heap. Overhead’ whe Was set for untoward drama, and the first Might of the wild” goose, they two the puppets that must play, bound for the nesting grounds. Night She strove against this impression And day the roar of a dozen cataracts with cold logic; but reason availed droned on all sides of the basin, as the nothing against the fevling that the melting snow poured down in the an. North had but to stretch forth its nual spring flood, mighty hand and crush them utterly. | By April 20 the abdication of But all of this she concealed from Bill, Frost was complete, A kindlier She was ashamed of ber fears, the Pot ruled the land. roundiess uneasiness, Yet it was a began to talk of gold, constant factor in her daily life, and ——-- at sapped bameigaet as surely and CHAPTER VIII washed pat enowah henge Bacio She noticed behind Sach, rock and his Sogere Sows, picking out sue bedding, furs and gold totalled two steadily as lack of bodily nourishment . hoon to make a respectable showing in every shallow, sheltered place in examining all that might be the pundred pounds, urdy shoul- . : could have done, The Strike. ou Muzel's outspread handkerchief, the stream a plentiful kuthering of precious metal, and as he picked and ery Juli could carry batt thet weight, Cnet, Wife, atin, human activity, the Returning trom this, she found Bi Had there been in her make-up any And Hazel was in & gleeful mood tiny red stones. They were of a pale, clawed the rusty, brown nuggets iy ‘ Noaiall ¢ antl henla of (he jonely, moun, q Bill all shaved and horn, unloading | inherent weakness of mentality Hazel over the fact that she had unearthed ruby cust, and mostly flawed; dainty camo to light. At last he reached For his wifo the thing was a physical tain fastens . Sho bestowed a glad himself of sundry packages of new ate might perhaps have brooded herself husband's shoulder, In the « big nugget by herself, Beginner's trifies, translucent and full of light bottom. ‘The bowlder thrust out be- Imponeibility, even had he permitted pressure on her parents arm 48 tire. A into neurasthenia. Few save t bottom of his pan, shining Micky Bill suld teasingly, but that did when she held them to the sun, She low in a natural shelf. From this her to try, Hence every mile advanced they Walked up the atreet, Bill carry- “Aha, everything ts lovely,” he who have actually experienced co: not diminish her elation. | ‘Phe old, tegan to search for a larger speci- BIN carefully scraped the accumula- meant that he doubled the distance, 18% the sack of gold perched care- greeted enthusiastically. “Old Hack ZEL was leaning over her = among « flim of black sand, ‘ rf ae S anouta re plete isolation for extendes ws iventurous glamour, which the long yen, it might mount nicely into a tion of black sand and gravel, glean- relay in Cte Jessly on one shoulder, Jumped at the pelts, and paid{a fat van realize the aisee tea Lather ‘ ay halt a dozen bright winter and moods of depression had gtickpin for Bill, she thought; @ ing as a result of his labor a baker's quay ote thelr be veg “Say, their enterprive has gone the price for the lot. Also the euch an existence imposes on the hu. *PCCKS: varying from pin-point size Worn threadbare, begun to cast Its memento of the Klappan Kange. dozen of assorted chunks—one giant and that was Hasel’s load-- length of establishing a branch bank %as gone through, He’s a prince, jan mind, if (hat mind is a trifle t the bigness of a n of wheat, Pleasant spell over her again. The And in this search she came upon that must have weighed th e would allow her to carry here, f * Hack, Sent up a man and had ® imore than’ normally sensitive to im: “That's s 1 mur ;, Tascination of the gold hunt gripped 4 jarge, rusty pebble, snuggled on the pound sat back on his haunches, ou're no pack mule, little porson,” He called her attention to a square. Surveyed and classified and the esions, und « nature essentially “Only it purmured, her, not for the stuff itself, but for quwnstream sido of an overlanging and looked at his wife, speechless. | he would say. “It doesn't hurt me, fronted edifice, its new-hourded walla Walting forme, And—oh, eay, here iat both by Inclination ane habit ay it seems ra r-fetched for what it would get. She wondered if rock right at the water's edge, IC “Is that all gold, BIN?” she whis- I've done this for year as yet guiltiess of paint, except # letter Se 7 one tocned In the first months of their marriage YOUF Poet to blar imate matter the men who dared the impassive atrracted her first by its symmetrical pered incredulously, But even with abnormal strength where a row of black letters set forth .,"F9F me? Oh, yes," as a, a perfect oval he hi for the cuxsedness of unity in Svltudes of: the North for weary, ¢, ; then, when she — “It certainly js—as good gold as and endurance, it was killing work to that it was the Bank of British Ni at the handwriting and postmark, Denteaiy Aeee ake ete oer Gita ot aenpte Be nity ia jonesome years saw in every morsol ified it, by its astonishing welght. ever went Into the mint’ he ausured, buck those tugged slopes. with ‘% KabntetY . teh North wrote to Loraine Marsh when happy and contented any place ob Ppove, though, he of the gold they found @ picture of sie continuel her search for the plnk- “All Jald in a nice little neat on this heavy load. Only by terrible, unre- 4 good place \ stow this pg Bogen h with Bil Wagstaff. OB thought he was striking a highly What that gold would buy them in igh-red atone carryng the rusty shelf of rock. I've heard of stich mitting effort could he advance any juliion,” lie remarked, "L been here elace mi. bi " dramatic note. Anyway, it looks as ‘indiler lands. some neve: pebble along. Presently she worked things up in this country, but never appreciable distance. From daybreak pe { hi P P fathane thers erent fine er f we'd struck it pretty fair, it" time Justify the vnite eee ne ou pep way bare f6 where Roaring BUl yan into one before—and I've always ay Boon they would cllmb and reas Li ret bank. thay bent their pun eaplatned, Wectatiiacs Th camps of nature for if one could loo! . . » rise wil justify the ga as 4 si » jabored prodigiously. taken this pocket theory with agrain alternately, Then, after a meal and giupy 4 xolomn, hurse-tace ee at the future with too great a claritengg (2o~the June rise will hit us like @ in a wenve—a pure game of chance, "«, fee! ashamed to be loifing while of salt’ Bur there you are. Theva a % short breathing apell, he would wo St¢? solemn, horse-faced Hng- like this they hold mail two or thi were going north. at the date—it’ Want to eptember!” Vision there would Ne fewer cartinger Whirlwind one of these days.” but & game that took strength and yy work wo hard, Hilly-boy.” sho real, honest-to-God pocket, This back alone after the’ second load. Bil esses cearc aod issued yeare for men that have gone inte In the main her deciaration still han “About w is the value of those ™ a sturdy soul, to play. nted. Fusty-colored outside is oxidized ‘ron They were footwore, and their bodies Wii)‘, "i niy Cxbressing a polite re~ Interior. ; irue, She loved her husband with the little pieces?” blazel asked Sull the gold was there, lucked up Jive me a kiss and I'l! call it from the black sand, I guess, Still, ached with weariness that verged on Te Anateen aveviated fh Fo leg ne She put aside the letter and dressed same intensity; possibly ever more, “On, 5 ete iu divers storing places in the lap of square.” he proposed cheerfully, “Got it might be something else. But 1 Pain when they gained the pase that {8 HHeness prevented hin from con» white Bill had his bath, ‘Then, with for she had found in him none of the » 60 or 60 cents,” he answered, the earth, awaiting thos» virile t; work like a beaver, kid. This hot know what the inside is, all right, all cut the summit of the Kiappan ra oO + the smoke and grime of a hard flaws which every woman dreads that “NOt Much by itself, But {t seems enough to find and take. And out, weather'll put us to the bad before right.” Range, “That means & trip to Vancouver,” obliterated, and with decent elo t y » to be rm over t y r ‘ond, in the crowded places of the jong. ‘There'll be ten fet of water My goodness!" she murmured. “Well, we're over the hump,” Bil Bill re vd outside, “Well, we can upon them they sought the dining Hear beh eee ey Crom 9 SO be waltorm oxer barmand I oihth, were innumerable gateways tO oeSing down here one of licse ayer” “Tate CL ee aso puted: somarked thanktully, “ite a downs stand that room. There, while they waited to ba When Bill drew her uy closo in his “22, “ash & Keod many pans in a comfort and pleasure which could be "Took al these pretty stones I this creek.” Mi whoot to the Skeena, I don't From the bank they went to the #eved. Hazel read Loraine Marsh'e arms, the intangible menace a the day's work.” opened with gold, It rematn A omy found,” she said, “What are they, “There might, but it isn’t likel think it’s more than fifty or sixty hotel, registered, and were shown to !tter, and passed it to Bill with a “ilderness and all the dreary monot- | “t should think 0,” she remarked. {9 balance the one against the oer ju Bill shook his head. “Thi is a sinon- Miles to where we can take to the a room, or tho first time the sum, self-conscious little laugh. ony of the days faded into the bac ‘Those? “There's an invitation there we “It didn't take you ten minutes te do she was a wage slave in the office of He looked a! her out- pure pocket, and it would keep a Wat init of the Klappan Range, where her - x aeanenaiare ‘They made better time on the weat- might accept,” she said casually. ground. But they, no more than that one a i of stretched palin, "Gare graduate mineralogist guessing to n at tiny hand glass had suffered disuster, ; taka come othors who have tried and failed for “Whitey Lewis and 1 took out over Bus! & Cox wo pow did eho view want They must be valuable: say how tt got here, because it's a or slope, but the Journey became 4 Haxol was pormitted a clear view of ab upae ee mareaeatie lack of understanding, could live thelr two hundred dollars a day on that yeale, now. that the North promised ten.” she observed, “The creek’s full different proposition from the wash matter of sheer ondurance, HUMMEF herself in a mirror. hverage girl might be lives with thelr heads in an emotional other creek lust spring—no, a year ty open its treasure vault to them— OFMeM ty aa ty Mold, In, the ua ety Tve got alt Creeks ran full and #trong, Thunder Mma fright!" she mourned. dvess to her chum who le y action there n Tas spring, /bserved c va en- * fn i a oh A e eure 4 t ¥ te & © "You' 1 08 0 be @ corresponding reaction. ‘They jeuiniscently, as nod, ee eer ae a ni own atinned. "gent a sample to a Chi- you might prospect thix creek from Storme blew up out of « clear sky to | Hun ill grunted. "You're ali spinaterhood, a lot of chatty ment cicluge them, Food was seanty—flour Kit. Look at me. d walt and tea t by the way. And the black fl «! of Granville people and Granville hap~ he trait had dealt bardiy with penings, which held no partic ine « both, In the matter of their personal terest for Bill, since he knew neithet who have the capacity to reach the but it's not tu ts heights must likewise, upon occasion, plumb the depths, Life, she began cago firm once, They replied to end to end and never find anothe! effect that they would take all T nugget bigger than a pea. It's rich " could deliver, thirty-sIx placer ground, at t at, either, whimsical fashion, ‘There was noth- with meat and fi 1 think I'l) make me a rocker, I've ing too good for them, he sometimes ie bia sampled this bend quite a lot, and I observed, provided it could be te » ares OC! . 0 at but | this d mosquitoes swarmed about the ance, Tanned to pid one nor the other, and it ended with 7s Br fly at this while the water stays ence in. thelr respective tempera~ 2 c is ou found te eoitne . ‘o they came at last to tle Skeena, noth face was spo! h and her husband would it Gran« things, | with here and there some idw." ments, Hazel sometimes reflected. sho protested, “Hut they're You found At. | You're the original qq Nepean Ai Pe NER OS hiten arid cake SPO, Wain! GAG. Ber DUSUABR ee ee great event looming out above all the ~~ can help, can't 1?” sho sald Bill would shrug his wide shoulders , mascot, | person. slie took note of its swirling reaches, Scratches suffe in the brush aw He returnd the letter aw the wait- Fest for its bestowal of happiness or sagoriy, and forget or forego the unattainable, jf you can find one of any | Ho bestowed a bearlike hug upon tie sinuous eddica—a deop, swift, Wey akitted tha Kispion. Hee hate ress brought thelr food eT now. See: orca: tHe “Sure,” he smiled. “You help a lot, Where she would chafe and fume. She size. What's the otter *oakr he her. > treacherous streain, Hut Fill rested had lost ita sicek, xlomy Amootineas — “Wouldn't it be nice to take a trig BIL knew. Ho often talked about jittie person, just sitting around keep? was quite positive of this, inquired casually, “Vou making @ | Now, what?” she asked, “It hardly overnight, and in the morning sough! Of arrangement. iter hands were nei, home?” Hagel auggested thoughttullye suoh things, he wan beginning to ing me compan But as the days pissed there collection of sptcimens?” + Rooms real to pick Up several thou- and felled a sizable ecdar and began dened and rough. But chiefly she was ‘I'd love to,” wnderstand that he had w far more ““gut yf want to work," she declared, eeemed no question of their complete That's just a funny stone | found,” sand dollars in halfan hour or #o like te Slowly the thick trunk concerned with the sad state of her "We are going home,” Bill reminds eamprehensive Krasp of the funda- «jve gat around now till I'm getting Success, BIN fabricated bis rocker, @ she returned. "It must be iron or this. What we do . ed Stelf into the form of a boat apparel, Slo had come w ter of ed gently, mentals of existence than whe had. tho ndgotn” primitive, boxlike device With a dlan- something, It's terribly heavy for its "Do? Why, bless your dear soul the steady swing of hin axe. four hundred miles in the cuthoe ce woh. ut cou she amilea. “But X ae ae fame ined fo he that te ing “All right; V'll give you a job, he ket screen and transverse slats be- ne." F . ne laughed, "We'll just consider our- Vad p type in useamong her back-—-and they bore unequivocal mean to Granville, I'd like to go back ily group aMiintions, andvahe anptied returned good naturediy, “Meantime Jow. It wag faster than the pan, “Eh? Let me gee ii," ne said selves extra licky, and keep right the couat twenty-five feet evidence of the journey there with you for a while, just to— nis group affiliations, and she applied let's eat that lunch you packed up ¢¥en rude ay it was, and it caught all She handed it over on with the game till the high water in length, narrow beamed, the sides “I'm a perfect fright,” sho repeated Just to”— that to herself in a practical way jn lets but the finer particles of gold. Hazel He weighed it in his pain, seruti- makes us quit.” cut to @ half inch in thickness, the. pettlehly Jon't woniler that people "To show ‘em," be supplied lacont+ an endeavor to analyze herself, She UT | teanch of the creek which helped operate the rocker, took her nixed it closely, turning it over and Which w: contingency nearer at bottom left heavier to withstand lapsa into semibarbariam in thart ally was a group product. and only under qoved down through the basin Hit (urh at shovelling or filing the Box over. ‘Then he took out his knife und hand than even Bill, with a firathand scraping over tock, und to keen it an ‘One's manner tome ot Mh, Bill! she pouted gro iD gonditions, onus her Mite Gow fowne Oe! ert Pot Basin Bil With water while Hill rocked, ad scratched the rusty suface \ knowledge of the North's vagaries in an even keel. A rude and tricky and complexion all suffer. tro: Nevertheless, she could not den the naan ie followed that if Hl here the first big run off of water hud Gay's end gent her to her bed healt Huh!” he grunted. "Look at your the way of flood, quite anticipated. — craft, but one willy offlcient ay ntact with your beloved that there was a measure of tru ‘ly tired, but happily conscious that funny stone.” Three days after the finding of the able hands. y 0 « Bw fallen. mM ad followed upstreay Ps ms 1, Bil s brief remark Bh did wan! niated in living out of ue world they ile any antag olan Lapa she aad helped to accom lish some- rh nels At out ‘or her inspection. pocket the Whole floor of the creek In & week it was finished. ‘Oh “Thanks!” he returned shortly, “tt how ‘em." Bill's vernacular ex that was a don und then a few grains of ‘Pn8 . ne of his knife hud Ie dull, was awash in rocker went down- loaded the sack of gold, (he bundie of supposw Tin Hoct frieht. too, Pressed it exactly. She had come Ie not in actuality. And that was an and now und then a few, grains of "AC eee iwint of tuck put the cap- yellow soar, Why—it" ) the mouth of furs, thoir meager camp outtit ainid~ Tony halt, whiskers, grimy, eatioused Passed success in a manner thas She rejected Phat ocioliaca doct. quest. ‘The loss of thelr horses pre Saf on thelr undertaking, ~ Hazel ‘Oh she gasped y~It's the canyon where the Branch sought ships, and swung off into the stream hands, and all the rest of It, A shave Granville-and especially that por- Is. For was not ther present cluded ranging far atield to that 18 4 splinter of wood intu her hand, gold! junction with the parent stream they ) Skeena drops fitteen hundred anda hair cut, « bath and 4 new suit Hon of Granville which abe knew ang sively. ‘or - presen thus putting u stop to her activities Tt 1s, woman,” he exclaimed, with could ascend, and no farther, And feet In a hundred miles. Wherefore . situation the net result of a con- other glacial stream which he had : NY cuniae Ti which knew her — could apprect the prema: veman with shovel and pail. Until the mock ‘solemnity Gold—glittering when Bill saw that he rolled himself there aro rapids, bolling atretchos of Pf Clothes will remedy that, But vl ie cee aoe ee arccordl rere cadenror to strike & balance worked with Whitey Tew Woen B® wound dost its soreness she wee gold! + ho Bcikarette, and) putting one long arm white water in which many a xood pe {he Mame permonalily in every gas fi) pug etek er haved A “i between the beat of what both the was a free lance in the } vites, ang forced to sit idie. She could watch whore did you find this?” he across his wife's shoulders, said canoe has come to grief. Soma of Seatlal quali Pa es ed She looked across the table at hes wilderness and the humming cities wau close to his base of supplies, and Fil piy mim rocker while sho fought aaked, when Hazel stared a\ the nUKe whimsically: thene they ran at imminent peril. hwndred pounds on my ecu it © nueband, and thought to herself with had to offer them? It seemed treason he had made wages—w ‘h “1WaYS flies on the bank, get, dumb In the face of this unex- "What d'you say we start hom Over the worst they lined the canog DNAS Paunds On ey et ‘t proud sativfaction that sho had dong other faces, Yet she could r o “ since she had the sense to realize “Just around the second bend,” she ”) canyons they portaged, dragging tio Todvine the phe Say + poeve vi te the feeling. She wondered if he, too, And now, with May well advanced, fying” ee ne oe ene with “eweat cried ‘Oh, Hill, ‘ou suppose CHAPTER IX. heey tice ened, drageing (ie put [certainly need buth—and Sever, Hill Wagataft stood head and did not sometimes long for company he had found definite indications of streaming down his face and a mind there % TF wish thud the xray suit Shoulders above all the men she had vably getting all moldy and ever known. Big, physically and mens i T any more th besides her own. And the thought good pay dirt, The creck swung in a wholly absorbed in theimmediate task “Tead me to it with my trus: ey caine to a The Stress of the Trail. main strength, Once y put wall-side gorve that ran away beyond ‘4t# P . tally, clean-minded and capable— ine stirred up a perverse jealousy, They hairpin curve, and in the neck be- has no desire to be bothered with in- and shovel, and we'll see,” Bill OARING BILL dumped bis any attempt at portal ‘and. they Mmoth-eaten at the Pine River cabin, ys 4 bs (wo, perfectly mated in all things, tween the two sldos of the loop the (Atgrautial chaiter So she rams spied, necond pack on the summit abandoned ‘the dugout, to bulld ane {Wonder if T can got anything to fiough she might have dented atoutly should be able to make their own lit- gold was sifted through wash gravel pied along the creek one afternoon, ‘orthwith tiey set oul. ‘The over- of the Klappan, and looked other at the lower end) But between Wear bi \ the Imputation, she wanted Granville tle world complete—but they could and black sand, piled there by God armed with hook and line on a pliant hanging bowlder was a scant. ton . Hey these natural barriors they licked of | "Women iiva hore,” Bil returned the imputation, she wanted C not, ahe knew. Life was altogether only knew how many centuries of willow, minute walk up the Oreck. S.wny Lo Where the Valley eee eee ete atch atnlihe quietly, “and I sunpose thy stores to, soe ani roar. ; p 7 “ ile?" Bit too complex an affair to be solved in glacial drift and flood. But it was were hungry, ai ck Bill le on hia shovel, and studied that opened out of the besin swiftness of the current. 4nd in the #upply ‘em with duds, Unlimber th ‘Still thinking = Granv1 Ao oniatiive & fasmion, Eke fait thas thre, He bad taken panfuie at rane near ee ne ped Sha Beene TER eO eT ctUn intl atiowwresl Le Ciuneaa Welk der rite tee cmueeneee OF the. eurres brought up bankroll of yours, and do some shop» queried, when they bad Snished an seontinued living under etch condi- dom over the bar, and uniformly it plenty for supper and breakfast, his knees at the spot where the marks tance, Hut he uttered no uselosa res @t the head of Kinpiox Canyon. ia- PIDs: Weoanany Se See "tions would drive her mad; that if gave up coarse gold. With a rocker Wherefore she abandoned that diver- of Hazel's kcratching showed plain eee . alton lay a few miles below. Hut the | Bhe sat on the edge of the bed, ree (1 & way, yea hark Ya ; she stayed long enough under the he stood a fair chance of big money sion, and took to prying tentatively enough, he began to paw over tho Stet® With horses they could have Kispiox stayed them, a aldice box cut #arding her reflection in the mirror Ve go OU! le ar on emok@ F*sombre shadow of the Klappan before the June ri in the lee of certain boulders on the gravel, ridden south through a rolling coun- through solld stone, in which the With extreme disfavor, Bul fingered @ decent cigar on top of this fairly de a “ ning . uy " his thie! e , " ted. “Then we'll Range she would hate the North and In the morning,” said when edge of the creek—prospecting on her Within five minutes his fingers try, where every stretch of timber waters raged with a deafening r his thick stubble of @ beard for 4 cent meal,” he suggest all it contained, junch was over, “Ill bring along the own initiative, as it were, Bhe had brought to lNght 4 second lump, gave on @ grans-grown level, Instead NO man vent into that wild thoughtful minute, Then he sat down figure on te nexh move, [thing ebovt That would have been both unjust axe and some nails and a shovel and yo pan, and only one hand to work double the size of her find. Close | ¥ gorse, They abandoned the dugout, beside hen, twenty-four hours in Haz will do, and absurd, so she set herself reso- got busy’, With, but she Knew gold when she upon that he winnowed a third, ‘hey were forced back over the rug- Hi" yung the suck of gold and tho —“Wha’s 4 mollah, hon?” he wheedied, me. There's @ steamer goes down, lutely to overcome that feeling of That night they trudged down to saw it—and, after all, it was but aa Hazel leaned over him breathless. He ed route by which they had crossed bale of furs on his back. "What mgkes you such a crossey Tver to-morrow: Pj ‘ oppression, She was too well-bal- the cabla in bigh spirits, Bill had idle mgthod of killing time, sifted the gravel and.eund ibrough Saeeange the summer before, Grub, “It's the last lap, Hazel,’ satd he, patch all a once?” (Te Be Continued.) _ ’