The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1916, Page 13

‘The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, Aprti 24; 1916 UNDER THE GREAT BEAR Snaps neunyeunieumnnney WANEUEHE MERION RENE MEE Do you remember “Me, Smith” and “The Lady Doc?” They were among the most popular stories THE EVEN- ING WORLD has published Both were by the same author, She has writtena romance that in better than either of them. It is THE MAN FROM BITTER RooTs By Caroline Lockhart It Will Be Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World “THE MAN FROM BITTER ROOTS faa love-and-adcenture tale of the Big Outdoors A aplend tal Spring Tonic. READ IT. ‘ y RAMMAR RR o bel bptatha colloqutalisms and bodied mosquitoes and ravenou* colored with firebrand metaphor. ord —mosquit tting, L laughed and went straight to the hordes of Ales—mosquito nettiagy point, as Sandy would have done had Without which a man can neither he come to deal with me, “You are work by day nor sleep by night, Sandy Camron, aren't you? Lasked. Sandy thought of It and asked me if ee brand," was his laconic 7 aq any that evening after supper. “I'm going north to Slave Lake, or And as I had neglected to get tt he WHY ARE You : HE USE_LOTS, AAA AAARARARAA, LITTLE WIFEY f NI - By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR } SIN PAINTED HAT Aythor of “North of Filt > Three,” Ete. Ps RAR RR HAR AMRRAD bid KR RATA AR RUORRIOD OS aed (Copyright, 1908, by Street & Smith.) ’ CHAPTER I. HERE'S a nigger in the major's family woodptle, you understand. 1 Want to know just how big and black he is, A month, ai months, 4 year—I don't care how long it takes you; but I must know, Find Howe and his wife and learn the reason for this mysterious disap- pearance, That méats something. There's news back of it, 80 fet busy. Draw all the oxpense money you need; I want resulta,” Pollock lighted a cfrat AhA séttied back in his chair, a runt of a man, Physically considered, wooden faced, lrisignificant of statu yet all the More deadly for hig insignificance and expresioniess féaturés ih that they gave no hint of the powerful, calculating brain and vindictive spift housed in.his puny frame, if Pollock, had any of the tenderer emotions, they were thoroughly stifled. But none knew, better than he how to play on human emotions to gain an end; how to tind the weak spot in a man’s mental armor and leave-a hurt that-rankled beyond physical pain, Cold-blooded, merct- An ‘Adventure Romance of the Frozen North c further, A year's trip, perhaps, and betook himself to the Ittle store on fess to those against whom he bore a grudge, Pollock «lwayg bad a fight on EE WHAT SOHN : On, THATS Wars Uy Lick cat it's apt to be a tough one. I want @ the flat above to buy some. Dog his hands. ven in that he differed official mouthpiece, So. tt was the Han ener ne Beautirut | uve PAINT on man {hat knows the North and tan tired, I rolled into the blankets before from tho average man, for he could long trek for mine, and If you think . . iu bith a “y r e . ‘ nelther be tempted nor flustered into {2#t newspaper billets are to be had MOTHER-IN-LAW > AY NEW HAND=] | Stout yourself, Will you go? Ll gH eentl diatoms ar gaat ts forthe asking, just make th e striking a blow till ho was ready. He of the live wane cotta reed 3 PAINTED HAT sat calmly under any and all attacks States and see how you fare, I felt “but when he struck he struck hard, Petter, however, when I'd settled the thi " And nothing could sta, his hand—bis 4 to bury my nose ine Boas ence pen, rather, for that was his fighting was plenty of time to break the news weapon, to tron, Fist that afternoon, "i i m jad barely got well intereste I don't Ike tho Job," I told BIM wion'the telephone broke out In ine luntly. I wasn't certain whethor he sistent clamor. I laid down my book, knew—although I expect he did; he fattened one ear against the recetvor, made {t a poiht to know all that was and drawled the conventional “Hello!” worth knowing about anything that “Is this Mr, Hedrick?” @ voice {nterested him—that Carter Howo and wanted to know. his’ wife were schoolmates of mine, “Jt is,” 1 vouchsafed, ond weal tell hin, “What ts the “Major Holliday would like to have R a talk with you, It’s important, Can He, meee a cela, eye Contre nia Eo come down to his office in the 3 cigar into one c o Post - Ledge! ‘Froth Pe eat une ger building? Please come uffied. Sandy looked me up and down and hear him return, In fact, I didn’t oh og a by outht for a W#ken tll Sandy's hand on my shoul- yoar's sashay in the big woods,” he “er dispelled my dreams, and then I said tentatively, “How many in the saat up to behold a broad band of buneh 2" light across the eastern horizon, A “We'll be the whole party,” I re- i blak HARK eect here or (res fire was blazing closs by, and the air heed 1n the way of an outfit, I'N pay Was redolent with tho savory odor of you mood wayres.”" frying bacon, Ibe your man Friday,” he re- "Yuh was poundin’ your ear #0 Boe woed He Tae am hres blamed industrious [ didn't wake yuh any day than fall one tree for a til everything was ready,” Sandy, house-log. It ain't the money that's said, “It's Kinda chilly this time ub in it so mue! I just naturally got year at daylight, for a feller that ein’s to be on the ramble, or T ain't cons been under canvas for a while,” tent, But Pi tell you right now that | Jt was chilly, The raw cold of @ Slave Lake country ain't no picnio May morning in those latitudes pene- ground, summer or winter.” trates to tho bone. ‘The water in “LT know it" sald I “Two years Which I washed was in temperature ago I made a trip into that same neck @kKin to the dirty snowdrifts that still of the woods, and {t wasn't all huddled in the hollows. Except for smooth sailing. When can you be tle evergreens and odd patches of ady 2" moss the land was desolate and "Object? as 800) ‘od “Have you kone through the: wwhaty foetp et saat ented newspaper mill and can't nee the NewS go amazed wis I at this remarkable Swalue of such a story? We can't af- request, Not that there's anything * ford to overlook the chance. The Pub- strange In one man wanting Anocher f ews; ergo, we must oh) ce. “ ” iu ” forbidd i s y Henly the public demand or go out (2 4top,intO Bis office, It was such A HOUSE LICKED V DIDN'T KNOW <Rendyt ho laughed. “Why, Tm [twa hi the deop snows of x iene f business. And the people on the quarter which secenistet mo THE PAINT OFF MY ANIMALS WERE SO Tony. Un tellin’ old man Hopkins Winter and scarred by the floods that acitic Coast will naturally be inter. “The voice repeated the words, | NEW poshelaal at) FOND oF PAINT that, he'll have to. get some other come with the spring thaw, : , @ in anything pertaini ‘ “Indeed! Weil,” one | { ded 0 A cup of coffes, piping not, bak! s Sita citizens. So T'repent, Bet BUSY, graf Sony I replied hotly, “4f| ba misguided human to cut the balance . ne y has any important matter to discrtss with me, my usual whereabouts is Room 9, The Attic, aventh Avenue,” and with that I) napped the reectver onto tts hook utside, Tf" ved ' n tive #2 essary, vas just a mite aggra- Unger on the strests, for tt was early Voted at his unmitiated wait, sori and early ‘spring in Seattle That'll make his white chin-whis- of his logs for him, T guess the Lord Powder biscuit and good bacon drove never intended me for no such in- the chatter from my teeth and put me dustry.” in a more optimistic mood, Sandy wrenched his ax loose from | “Say"'--Sandy paused in the act of the tree-trunk and shouldered tt. A taking a mouthful—"are you the only path that wound deviously among Ho tal Bot hag pt # findin’ the poplars presently brought us to these folks we're follerin’ up?” the domicile of old man Hopkins, . “So far as I know, yes," I answered Hedrick. 1 want that story, if there tag atory. He turned to his desk. That was the final word, I knew, and I picked whom we found busy at the founda- 1n some surprise. “Why?” meank intermittent rain-drizzle WIth Ker waggle somewhat,” I reflected, tion of the house for which Sandy “Well,” he said thoughtfully, “E re ramen iti And Keneral damp. Féther elated to think’ I had gotten | had begun to cut the logs. He mere. Wondered, Last night, after I went to pry a general damp- @ chance to show one of the biggest ly grunted when Sandy calmly told the company store and got that net~ him that ness. ‘aught a cable-car and | a went up the fill'ta my rooms, where soscl dn thee cif Const Puddle that ic swonder why fate an¢ i syct + 8 ack a Fae ted” POHOCK. bad cr ed. that Bane. and lick the hand that had Y shontd mix myself i Major Hollie SIE te. | Fans pol iam whee be i econd time,» ted, men’ oa ae eee cnerely a clash bes didn't care, T did hope that whatever tween two rival newspaper owners, hyn he wanted it bad. After a the chance of taking a fall out of few iminutes of half-curtous specu Major Holliday would have appealed lation, I rather thought he must to me, though F might not have alto; want something badly or he wouldn't fether ‘approved of the method. 1 bave taken the trouble to locate ma. fore the major no love. He had | But I was altogether unprepared to Raifed tue jn a business way without Pelleve that he would so far forego compunct once upon a time, and his long-held prerogative of making he'd Jumped the job for one tin’, I strayed over to that joint by his taste, the naine of a hotel that old Folsom red you'd quit pretty soon,” runs. A stranger—kind of a tony- the old fellow observed, pausing to lookin’ pligrim--kept sizin’ me up to light his pipe, ‘or ® sure enough beat the Dutch, Finally, after keep. rollin’ stone you've held her down in’ his blinkers glued to mo for as quite a while, Kut ft's all right with much as ten minutes, he calis up tha me, I'd Bevon the long tratl m‘self house for a drink, an’ when we lined if *twasn't for havin’ a fam . So- up to the bar I'm right alongside this long! Be good t’ yourselves.” After starin’ party. Pretty soon be busts settling Sandy's wage-account he fell into conversation an’ begins to asic to work again. questions, After we're through irri- I followed Sandy into a ttle cabin gatin’ he got a stand on me, un’ starts nearby, It took him but a few min- right in 1S make a Len ler of him. t n 9 ites to collect his personal belong- seit. I don't remember how he put it y ‘of it, and what it got mo Other m ce to his musie when- bed ¢ .y ree As Hoe eae tid sufficient to, leave a ever he chose to pipe, Not for an ine | “Take the major’s offer, Tommy,” short in the doorway of the North, where I bought tho long slip of green bound for the mouth of Slave River WH} an! gtut them into a cotton exactly, he alied around so; but trom ae akte in’my mouth, Td got my stant did T dam trite wotytd take he urged. “I know how you feol “There,” he said, ‘the trall ends, and paper that would transport me to Ed- —maybe further—and expected to be Tih ring ne looped dver one shoul. In out utter I thought to myself he fopt,an ag upper rung of the news- me at my word and the toward him, but he isn’t the one to bo there you must pick it up again, The monton, I passed along the stre gone a year, der, knapsack-fashion, took from {ts had a mighty strong hankerin’ to ‘Daber. ateg, and Major, Ulolliday street-terracgd hilt he Eliot conaidered—Ahough it hurts him. Jean man who traced them that far gave opposite the Cecil Hotel, and glancing — All this and @ lot of other obser. Oo", Kunvinek tuhlons took Stim fhe had a ImiRntY Ahora him. papery chopped the ladder elean from Bay, and elfmb tot ok aches ‘m-he-flinty old heart.” up when they put civilization behind up let my gaze dwell for a second on vations that had no bearing on the 0 P y was ready to &0. pelt. Pr the heinous, crime vf of a second-yate apartment hous, in “Sha must,” | answered cynically, them. That's why I put Holliday the window by which I had lounged subject—I think he was the most £0 . creer te en ry eves to hia@aughter” search of m¥humble self, Yet that swtten’ ‘He ets’ his pride long into the notion of coming to you. It one night two years before, In that garrulous old party I met in the Me tbig Barn bo ARE raed eed looking fellow was So you see IL no no caus@ to feel fs exactly what he did. In lass ¢han enough to dome and offer me: ten ‘sn’t merely a matter of finding them room Dick Morton, ( prtae Hows ny Neketes hie Pd Nvateregenin’ tow enforced terms at a gainaion other man in the Northwest bant on ; z chool, Sandy had spent the twenty- the same mission as myself, ithe told him to geo the dev# there dame and her husband, But, as I said, I'm Woman, and there'll be a crisis, a to Great Slave Lake, bar. And when the stream of hig SC000) i ; . a account that Ta rap at ty door And wh@tek positive pou Know: more about’ thia tlme when Howe will be little short And now, when I went 0 my own talk ran dry I went tomy roomand “ven Sears of pis existence faring Ub reason for his presence was not hard Hut it Taste for the job Pollock had growled "Come in,” taking ft to be thing than the major docs, and if 'm of @ maniac for want of morphin. rooms to pack my trunk, this article wrote @ letter to Major Holliday, in (4 1OW7) thy forests Ala witermis to guess. Pollock was no quitter, felt a distasre tor ime Kecondary cons brother pencil-pusher “who “held to-start on wny auch wildceood chase And tt ia because you know thom and that roused up memories that I'd which U stated that his daughter and of tne North, Ie know every post if he imagined that by ferreting ou sideration It was partly a deep- forth on the same floor, who should’ I want a little clearer understanding, and the North that I request you to Beaten HAs, ‘the beekeround with a fe Rohe nee ene ti Saunt: A Gh the Aiahkane Rad Been Bowe ang fle verte Be Solent Saco ut ae ) prying into another enter my tiny sitting room but Major I don't fancy picking up a blind trail 89." club. Here ina closet were the snow- ing trip in the far Northwest, and An th the s mouth of the jring: pene é r} Footed aversion to Pry! vputting litday Bla shoes that upheld my feet on twelve that there was no cause for uneas- Pevyond, to the gaping mouth he jiday's disadvantage, all the Imps of qd aversion to pry and putting Wis T’hineas Holliday, and a heavy-aet, at the start’ LIV OMUABIIG seal pel aehees FOUL Ase. hat upheld ms n a Devaad: fo the sania Mout ef te t MAN'S. ILVALe AEs ic. exhit round-faced man whe Oye ae 4 ‘ hundred miles of deep. snow. trail, ines if he did not hear from them Mackenzie, greatest of northern riv- the bottomless pit couldn't stop him family skeleton on public exhib a et Lane Ce here “You'll go, then?” He reached over Asking of me,” I muttered bitterly. | she bottom of a xeldom used drawer In tho tmmediate future—which was (PS And his voyaging eastward hid from playing the gamo to the last sith: & blaze ot eee dlines. My fncers suffered Mm the next ne» @M4 laid a hand on my knee, and ,.1 do Tommy, 1 to’ ne wiemet, yielded tho six-shooter and belt Buck In a measure the truth, ‘Thie was more than once tuken him to the card, Ho had able men on his staf, BIBy: Of CWO nen et And when seconds, There .was nothing halt. (coked keenly into my face, I'm too old to make that trip again. { Harrison gave me to remember him Dibble's idea, Ho thought it beat Dak shares of tludwon toy, | Tt Wat men with less scruples about tacks wan't my id Fete tho lit ried about Dibble pg I eo “Yes,” I agreed. “I'll do what I aig it two years ago, and I have been b¥—as if I would forget! Over in a that 1 should write something of the a lucky thing for mo that ppened jing a dirty piece of business than [ the majérs feel- half an hour/after T had as as thousand dollars to merely locate her —it's to help her. Jean's only a myself had plan chary of hur ings. é But it wasn't on hi it drags other pe Dit M. D. can, But it seems to me that a dis- corner, tucked away behind a screen, kind before I got beyond reach of on Sandy Cameron, had And it was quite on the pro+ »ple whose only crime bb . AM, MOR. GC. P,, Ctm% Ne eae ‘fives’ paying the penalty ‘ever since, Be- . y donin y hh are. 4 That e ST tok gandy-ant f ‘ Seid fy 4 Nae p thelr and a string of other honorary ab. “pearance case calls for detectives.” cides T could do nothing when T got Stood my favorite Savage rifle, And postal facilities, in order to calm the = Th: ning L took Sandy tnto my gramme that he wouldn't be averse J el ehege “Holliday fought shy of them—he Sides, J there were other things, trif_ing Major down and to account for the to themselves and show the world fin waged on Ria signature was afraid of publicity, So I took i incre! would ba in the way, And enough in. themselves—C'ree mocea= prolonged absence of Howe and Jean. necessary details L outlined the ob- him down as Chad done brave front, T coset i ete a Tin plunged into the, object of tty Ubon myself, and I've had a good man {APT NOUNS Ge Ma Tecan seo Sins from Fort Resolution; the greavy That done 1 wandered out upon the joo: of my plunge Into a rexion wher® | suppose he thought I'd gone over * fdeapteadin. Nor aie tock in iis feu call” in the samo” breath. that he Mt,,Work for, two weeks.” he sald thesesing one but you, Tommy.” parka had worn; a foot of the cot. streets of Edmonton in search of a few but hardy troopers and Mudson go the other aide for a price. It wad n Without going into UN- to taking # fall out of me for turning had tia eraetes me quietly. ‘But he can't go any far- ‘he ey tontall rabbit that had furnished our man who was willing and able to Hay courlers igo. I'm quite a hellever jeyond him to understand how «maa * with the major—a feud that had ta 6 Rerun ne mate. Ari ther, From now on it's up to you.’ T sald I would go, and T will first scant meal when Dick Morton take potiuck with me in the wilder- tn first impressions. If the personal. could bear a grudge against another Selgin in a rotten political deal that | “To! jhe gatd. “rm glad to see “tndoed," I commented, getting said. “But you'll have to provide the and T trekked through the hostile ness that slopes north to the Arctic ity of a inan makes a strong appeal and not jump at a chance to humtle fobbed Pollock of a Governar's mm asain. Let's see, it has been two curious, “Why should I be better sinews of war, The major and his wilderness, lost, unarmed and bitten Sea. to from the first moment of our jate him, It never made any differs and was none tho less bitter for t pore one a 4 eh? Feu haven't qualified for the job than any one Money can go to—pot! I'm not doing geep by the unrelenting frosts. But I aia not find him in Bdmon- acquaintance I never have any ence to Pollock who was in the way waged with printer's ink and py Fehon eke took nal pow. 8 YOu cise? And what {6 the real root of this for a reward,’ These reminders set the wheels of ton, though I sought diligently, At omalms about taking him on trust. when he planned a ratd into ¢hi wire pulling instead of the old fash- fad when we took that little trip tne trouble? Without a word he took out his memory revolving as I sat down on ast 1 asked the manager of the Hud- I've done tt tir Vagain, and 10ok- gnemy's camp—it was get out of the foned Bushwhacking and bloodshes a a River, By the “wphat damned weakness of Howe's Check-book and drew in my favor a my half-filled trunk, a dead cigar be- gon’s Kay store, where [ had bought ing back 1 ean't ember th t m " Aad oT stromger reason was Way, the major and T have come up Way oF take your medicine, Shae. tavtalke over’a Paton deri for morphin!" Dibble exclaimed, with check for five thousand dollars, I tween my teeth, And the North, Its the bulk of my supplies, to help me instinct or impression, whichever you Cooks and Congressmen looked alike “that. I. couldn't get into the game re alk iS ral Fasting, matter. Q'vehemenco that surprised me, It stowed it away, and rose, wide - spread forests of pungent find a man. He chewed the end of choose to term It, has put me in & t) him, when he was after the iD wholcheartedly and play it In the tt itt igen dd natste that is Was the firat tine 1 had ever neard — “{t only remains td pack my Kit and apruce, sombre and little used to the a pencil reflectively for a moment, hole. And vico vers, Lean distinetlY of q man he hated. son who signer serious, the do the ma ? ieee the TL sald lightly, “But first, if you vol ‘3 big and ruthless in Ita sailed? recall more than one instance where Of ‘ nterest of the man oy ms Ant i OraNeE ett him swear, and I'd been with the uoc- BO: voices of men, big a then replied: i ; Why, he was just an ordinary weekly, check, without hurting a him. And want you, a8 a personal top iy situations that culled for pros Will Pardon me, T must notify ‘my higness, unrolled. before my mental "arg wait till got to the Landing, ountablo antipathy | eXDer~ reppin aort of a cuss” Sandy replied, Woman for whom I cared moro than favor, i" vou Me ¥ unity in large hunks, “Jean has done friend Pollock that I ca y sleuth vision like moving pictures On @ Ca0- if were you. Men of the sort you fenced at a first meeting has been ung spec rk or brand—‘cept that the weakness of her husband, Pollock at te mice B StAAa A ne lim straight, in the last year Ms Ben | om anuary just now, But at the I the moment I first laid eyes qin’ with ‘em. He was about your ie or. Maybe I cold look at him, and he stood fiddling ihe a completely, Betting the worst of 1 HW ; C. I felt that here . foped to stab the malor ; awkwardly with his stick, Toan't say 1a, gone to the ds Y Pollock ti in his office, and CHAPTER Il. ng you could probably find one or ndy Cameron I felt tha build, dark halt an’ blue eyes, near as ‘ eak minded fool to go on - 4 ‘ > ‘a He's simply a wreck, mentally, mora! ‘ollock wan si! ns . fs two, There is a cb named Sandy was a man who would play folr at remember, That style uh mi was a a *woman who'd demonstrated tha I appreciated the honor of his ly and physically, Last winter Jean he answered the phone himself, I told T was no easy matter, even Be a pylons A Dre oe Lar Gua’ ane fotie teat, Whe re vet man that ht of me by him bluntly t IT had quit like most any other — feller, the thing was be. appealed to me how much she th in so small a town as Fd- jeer for there a fow days ago. Ho had judged tt 1 policy to let him in on 7 eto that I might have acted even less .cor= ; In't mention his name, But he wa ‘ne a man who—but I'll c coming unbearable to her. [told her Globe. | ay monton, to discover post- a job, but Sandy would drop log-cut- the ground floor, L made no mistak® cine enough a dandy to ask fool cae marrying dially if he had bearded mo in my den the honest truth—that tho only cure | “Ah!” ho returned smoothly. ‘May i. ams i signee 10° o-lN ap: dlr From that mome Tibi diet Npe A ep that later on. ave been ke alone. But when Dibble put it up to was to take him to some placo where I ask why?" tively Just what direction ting and jump at a chance to o jn so doing, from | that moment tions that wasn't so blame foollsh as Perhaps I shoul self injured and me like that L could hardly have been {ty baolutely impossible for him — “Because the job you outlined for Howe and his wife had North. He's a good one, too, barring > Renee te nud mov. ‘Hey sounded. T had a hunch he Pollock consider my othery than on my good behavior, it Was absolutely imp a quick temper, Yes, I'm sure you'd prise-~as anxious to be up i wasn't doin’ all that talkin’ Just so he phim me this morning isn’t altogether td rs i F oa ee eich The more f t&ken. Ordinarily, in a frontier town ao peter at the Landing 1 think about tt the dirtier {t looks, Of that size It ts hard for @ party of | thanked him, and went my way "he res resentment into a flame d to ker ‘or tt was dead. to procur there till th the drug, » craving Things were coming to sucn a pas4 nurse my tin that would leap up and 8 who had done the is | was myself, h those [should have overlooked the intru- Bettie sion of 4 man who had done me more could | Jay was taken uP In he was try n to his own noise, | knew to pump me, for he let t of an injustice than T could honestly grat che fear alt the work would And,” Lowned frankly, “while T would strangers to come and go again with- And when, in course of time, L reached Fettne together the thinks 60 needed on that he was pln tgnorant wh me AT Au aie lay at the major's door, If Dibble know, And Jean is proud--too proud Rot be sorry to see Holliday get all out imparting some hint of their Athabasca Landing and located Sandy qh gilt the trail L was nosing lay poln’ ll realy to ne trail. Which the major down a stood sponsor for him. Motioning te let aven hee own people or his that's coming to hin two pec See ee aur a) Cameron: Licata ciyaer gn tne back SAnciom te ial d Waa Heene Iby ne knowed spoke to me. T carcass with it” go them to be seated, T watted to hear fool eet Hews hus chased to beva Most concerned are personal friends Plans any ation, je can be er ny wisdom in asking the store. § ISH RIF GLOKGA UP AY theaDands fo ecens oner from eld: olen, Sane . balked at thou what the major had to say, nO nat eo itu a pitiful atate of of.mine, So thera you are. ably certain that at least some keepers advices, Next t buck Harri nh gil pleked up at the Land fyi ave through his danihter é fftiirs—pitifult” “Say, Hedrick!" I could hear 18 one person will have observed eas- son, Sandy Cameron standa out the Nee tee ee iran F vskin Mauch, Ate eioated 0 CHAPTER Il. Ho got up and paced the floor, and Brunt of anger distinctly over tho vany the trail to witch they havo clearest, strongest, figure of all the Mic! Luckily, we didn't hava to pay ft'he could have learned thew Te Ny BLE Inter the credee "toon RE MUVCUMAS ALC, Von" T anewere, net thelr feet, “ut no one in Bamon- eet r? a qipuscheatial ade build’a boat, which would have dex a hard thing when frat Ty 4 Star ral a6 aa dulatte, author Lia fay ley one . “How much*—his yotce had grown ton could tell what I wanted to yenturers. nyed we. Sandy proved himself a Ghoxe betwven his Wing an a th up 0) nae aie aii and quislly, withons Sword tO ee ak, harsh, metallic and contemptuous ienow, Hoyond the fact that they had "A mile or so below the Landing 1 Witt in the rt f persuading, the J ie neon faring Mbllo, pea lps Nisa LS beget face ME took it that Jean had conxed him ses mate Mt cont Holliday (0 rieigtered at a hotel, remained there found him in the midst of a grove of thingy which they ordinarily refised Mea. tfere, was a story, aa T ‘ a ere ee IAS 2 to go Into the mountains somewhere “yoy despicable, low-minded carts two weeks and paid their bill and de. Poplars, amiting wiih Bis douhle-Mt” to sell at any price, but things which Vt wae * and though the Kk it over a by themselves, and make a fight for catire of God's image!” L flung back, ¥ ry oth Yer ted axe the tru we simply had to have, At the end f surmised: : Minune than yr had closed !t. But nothing more waa heard of feture 5 parted, I learned nothing, Yet T tree ag though it were a personal “1 don't care to indulge In long-dis- nee personalities or I'd tell you what garment ading to me. 1 squirt of the day we had two sizable canoes, t my chair to think of it them—well, you heard the mafor's knew that some one could put me on enemy. Physically, Sandy pre behind him I turned to Dibble. ented roomy enough to hold an amplo food- vnt pa f tt ye 4. Version of that. It seemed strange, c Em h, the right track; and in, the end I no very striking features—not until Qinply, yet not so heavy as to be burs rg aT cham (tng hela down on tia “Phere'agomething more, {en't and their friends were beginning t0 Ang" { added, ae HOUR ‘ janes ihe needed information—from ne observed that he handled a five: 4 facie on hard. por How Reh a ies word, If t I asked; “something yoy've ask embarassing questions. Holliday }ot ‘caring much whether he took %t pound axe and & hyndred-pound pack Sandy managed to Kot eight strapping oS Oat an ex-Hudson's Bay man, who had With equal facility. iraelf, What 19 it? Mot knowing Howe's infernal fail- al", threat or a bluff, he one seemed 4; Howe- Halliday pr Deen kenping ta ing, he ld be frantle if he did fh Better quit the company's service to hold to call forth no greater effort than ee OOmA 1h SRAG BHARy aragged from | k closet woul si vell tell ¥ . nr, would be frantic | ‘ cep your nose out of this Howe af- t tc 0) 0 greater vito in time {sa mystery to me pared from Y I may as well tell you that I'm no \now-—walted day after day for ® fui figs you may Ket it put badly down a farm on the outskirts of Ed- the other, Yet he waa not large— ars Pasa tars Lever pare rin ba Bebe } ayself when | Wiser for the major's information, T letter from them. But nona came, out of joint.” Sea rather below medium siz in fact Hhatar thats haenoaa kadniee: : Poe this ohivnl eonel jad an inkling of this before, I'm on and he fought shy of an attempt to cut him off in the middie ef a : but #0 compactly, aymmetrically butlt Pe Oat ABBA f reached tate ea in Bentiie—bu the Globe I ei Pollock bed locate them, for fear of it'e wetting gehtroe, tir Polinck would tongues He had helped Howe get tomether that it was hard to mesa his welght si SHEL Eerie ame Se Were other fawn? ieee BAS ollock @8* out and the papers making a noise jash a prize fighter if the spirit moved an outfit for the p--packhorses, or gauge his strength, He was tho a PIE 3 pa i e : hry Matt ned me to practically the sam@ over {t, So T took it upon myself him; and there was no profit tn tele. tents, a few dogs 1a year's supply t st little man T ever knew, ind built our f i iN I t ree t wet SR impal tusk not two hours ago, He knows to investigate, I had them traced, phoning recrimination, [turned away of » 1 stuck in hit He glanced up as I came near, But Oiinor we atretoliod ‘ ) we'd mont Lilas ne nM it Howe and Jean have gone into They— Do you remember ¥® from the phone and found Dibble meimory~ n’ lot of kept the chips flying tl 1 was almost peptic sie) ; A te tine mat woul Hari 7 : Laka and the Athabasca River? gmiling broadly. . to last & at his elbow, Then he drove the axe Wea tain Give mat , A m 8g that, we hon ement somewhere, and he thinks [phi he shivered. “Those still, 'ysyidently. Mr. Pollock took it of the Macs blade into the tree and left !t sticking | Re Obra tataken vill he on Nis calmly there's a chance to uncover some sort ghostly forests, and the deep snow a obse ! 1, It seemed to while he wiped the sweat from bis |, a a a ae ian could give another of family seandal—which would be a and the cold, hard skies? ‘That ig "Somewhat," [T admitte “Rut tt ee rey ta brow and treated mo to @ speculative paaeeeeee e atart of Siem tanmbnt eel ‘i where you'll find Jean, fighting, dc W : Now 8 BO Out ised milk ta 7 apy 5 i to te to bese Wenlar a mutlafagtion’ to him: all her woman's wit, to save @ sone locton, and a-drink in , "Well," T inquired, as he continnet CHAPTER IV, | wacateike: Howain ate Ay ant peipirs “You won't though, Tommy?" he from himself." 1 t sat To apiit oe ahs » to aurvey me ap nely, “how do [ rinmabeee crea) : Howe's RAID. p 1 tentatively Abruptly he ceased bia pacing ant cou, as Buck TI used to equirs A dain stack up? 4 i 3 mee answ r ‘i Hardly—under the elreumstances.” drew a paper. fr kat. iE “ in't ; lea. MOUS 4 high to @ grasshops . 1 y i F ! no way sidered F ‘ 7 i’ wing if he tales Mobe stat. b could yto work on Er ie had any w ut ow map of the Car aa ‘ 1 ot hie " falia toa p 1 ed Thad we 1 ee ame he! Boll i pt faa Me LoNpelons whate thavalincetehine : ; ete or aiteg i bw inte to appre a At It have to stay un nights And paadlanee gh to get my scalp, except yout it from the housetop, where the rails of tie CP. It bait at on L gone 44 his nixed parentage a was coun . Aiy ay a ero tae Ci ‘4 Ledger, and that was Holliday re's Jean,” the very edge af the wild p On my way baelt from the off 1 packer and @ulde, They wera the spgech of the bristiing {9 the nting ground ’ sie ontinued.) ee : ¥ « ow wnat