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ap ROA ON + se. 1 Ta lin ___The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday: Apr dA APR he Se ug | + SPOOLOOLO DLS WOLLMOONLON OE He + ar : , " UN D F R TH F G R FAT B FA Can You Beat It ? ae eles ilttng By Maurice Ketten Do you remember “Me, Smith” and “The Lady Doe?” . of were among the most popular stories THE EVEN- ING WOR! D haa published Roth were by the same author, She has writtena romance that is better than either of them. It is THE MAN From Bitter Roots By Caroline Lockhart An Adventure Romance of the Frozen North By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Author of “North of Fifty-Three,” Ete, NAR RTRR RTD iii ARTA WAUHTIA AAA A ONO. (Woprright, 1008, by Street & Smith.) ered; the bullet had merely drilled a G@YNorsis oF PRECEDING Chaprers, Simall, clean-cut hole through the flesh Hledsich (who tells about four inches above the knee. I Holliday to search f et daupiter, made a tourniquet of my handker- eho, pith ber huats th cunts Her Chief and stopped the flow of blood, Hows is 4 morphia vicuum, and con ‘Tien I stood up and considered what that Jean has taken hin into the wil - A GENT WANTS —____——. WE Don't | To see THe Finn OUR FIRM I$ ON : BuuFF ENOUGH _ ) | ON IMPORTANT We BLINK | EVERYBODY THINKS / | Business WE OWE MONEY WE ARE PIERS _ ee To EVERYBODY LET'S BEGIN To FT euter! Lu ? “aero 9 Stowe mie Nig ages ) in —— “THE MAN FROM BITTER ROOTS” at te tat next to do. Personally, | was a mite a : : Swaser who havea the Mase, te glad, While not serious, tho, hurt By Is a love-and-adventure tale of the Big Outdoors a reporter, to find the aiialng Hedrick trios Would put a stop to his’ pernicious rt A splendid mental Spring Tonic, READ IT. Hope, pet fut arcune A. '® nosing about—for a time, anyway, i - Chub was aware of that, too, It S seemed; at least I judged that to bo built @ rude kitchen on the end of outside 1¢ that's ali 1 CHAPTER VI. partly the cause of his impotent j ihe Orietnal (Wo foomk 1 Geretel Sene at's ali you called me in wrath, There was nothing simulated a i aearandl , coq “bout that, I don't know when I've 4 bo everlastingly obliged seen a man #0 genuinely furious. T to you, I'm sure"—Chub kept was puzzled for a minute to know up the play. “Funny, isn't What to do with him; 1 didn't want ft, how you'll run onto men Mim in the same camp with Hows, even crippied as he was, Finally I you know in out-of-the-way hit upon what I concelved to be @ places? I thought you were drilling »per plan. away on The Globe, and here you are, tay hero with him, Sandy,” I T must have been close behind you too, sald. “I'll get another man and take dep Ten eure f enw tide men of youre YU UP to the c Chub, Then we'll round up those drunks of yours and at Athabasca Landing, Going to Ut goo that they take you to Fort Reso- in much tie here?” lution, where there's a doctor.” “E might ask the same question of I hurried back and apprised Howe you,” I returned dryly, “The length of and Jean of the situation, my time to tlowe and fished and went yunning 1b, We He started for the door, but ¥ r ducks# barred the way and Sandy left Bis on the little lakes t dotted the seat by the frepla wntry, baling Howe along with us, N you won't,” I observed, “I much against his will Ll thought to want an ocular demonstration, You'll distract his perturbed mind by phy- have to satisfy me that you haven't sical wearin matter to 4 ) but it was a hard morphine or opium about you betere him to do anything you get t of this cabin. save brood by the hour, Nor d fo ( the devil! Do you think the tramping through the woods a I'm a travelling drug emporium?” he pear to benefit ti 4 particle, If snapped and made a brush by me. anything, he looked worse, Misskin IT dida’t like to begin rough-house wan jaundiced and Ughtly drawn tactics, but his actions convinced me over the facial bones, and his eyes that Jean had guessed right. The hod a glassy, inhuman glare k Way he went for the door left me no' n husky dog, wen she's hongree, choico but to make good or back dat man's ey I overhea Philip down completely and backing down Tae STEEL TRUST ASK: US FoR, ~ (000000 WANTS US To INVEST 4 5000000 For HIM j DON'T j BoTHER ME WITH SUCH TRIFLES “Of course, you'll have to dr ‘im ———- tell Sandy one day. If ever a man from a flat-footed assertion te a my stay depends altogether on Howe. here,” Juan sil doubitully, “One comet hovered on the border Line of insan~ stunt T don't relish.” When he was He may bunt till the snow files, or he let a wounded man lie out in the ity, Howe did, ile Cont cotiny. arid’ Kisked Woeas tees may otart for home to-morrow. We oben like a beast, even if he ds really From the first. morning Howe fis coat cold es : an enemy, But, for Heaven's sake, get bunked with th of us Twas fom under him with the same mo- common mortals can never forecast him away from here as soon as pos. determined that 1¢ started any {on and when he hit the bard dir’ e ae ned F arted an ; +4 the movements of @ plutocrat, even sible, Tommy!" more ructions Jean should not bear Moor Sandy bay dai astraddle of Leg ee host on ane nly," returned, “I'll put him >) the brunt of them, and I told her aquirming fram Chul his eyebrows, but too! a would have to “Be good now," Sandy threatened, jut argu. After a minute of futile struggling on, had any Chub's part, “or I'l just naturally 1, And have to bang your head against the when the cabin was completed, Jean Wall” i ind her maid occupied one room and ‘All right then, hang you!” Chub the rest of us the other, gasped and ceased his wriggling. Ky the end of July we were in Two of he ee eye. Oe x spe for the winter—and nothing ite ba 008 ie k a up Jromained but to chop firewood and &eods. It doesn’t make any difference Kil time, So far as T could judge "OW anyway. Howe was no better off-no nearer . I took him at his word, He eat up, the cure he had come so far to find Meearding us comically; not at all in @ than the day when Sandy and [ belligerent humor—as he might well struck) his camp have t He procesded to feel his sometimes, a bundle of #hak- @fms and legs with mock seriousness that arrange: tind, She agreed, wit ment, and tf Howe him objections he didn't utter fn the cab over him to see that h And you'll have to be his sight while and set one of the men stays there, his medicine calinly, If he knew that 1 wes guying him he didn't aliow it to ruffle his temper. “Ah!” he observed. Then reflectively: “I rather like it Ke To carry Doyle in, Wash and’ ban- Rersabouts, I think 1 shall tary @ aice his ieg and make him as com: for while myself.” other, Sorry Howe isn't inclined to be Ct for Chub's camp. ends We found it, or rather the place aaate the cdda® Chub disnusecd Where It had’ been, w tout muc ats had vane le as possible, was a short job, the mutter with an airy wave of his * hand, “I don't know him except py ! Teputation, nor wish to. I've pienty of S40W the food, and I'm enjoying myseif. Thug the still w ace country is a pretty sizable affair, and f€W empty corn cans. We could seo EXCUSE HE FoR KEEPING You WAITING — NOW WHat LET HIM HAVE THE $ 2000000 THE STANDARD OIL THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASU WANTS To Roary Bit COLLECTOR fi : hi nerves all the time, without ap- until T reminded him sharply that we ieall new to ime. Aig for Mr, Howe Where tley had slid the boats along) |A COUPLE OF SENT US As a CAN | Do FOR | petite for food, ad smoking cigars Were waiting, ‘Then he drow a mall, and his hospi eand and into the water, 2) fties incessantly. L couldn't soe that fat leather case from an inner pocket. RETAINER He was & misty fine dissembler, that same Doyie, Hot }he had made any headway-or any his, gentlemen," he started tn fas Jattempt in mastering hts Infernal cetiously, opening the cad raving for the drug. L grew un- strument known to the easy myself, It isn’t In human pow- ternity as a hypodermic ne er to hold up under such a strain used by those of the laity who are ad- forever, and day by day T looked for dicted to the taking of an occasional k loose-in what man. shot for the guod of their health, it al or ot ©, 1 had no ftea; but To had a feeling that he I interrupted {mpatiently, | would take a turn for better or worse hing for the case, “break away! | before long. Only @ magniticent cons Where is the rest of the stuff? | stitution had carried him so far — “It's all in the case—there's only a the dope he'd loaded {nto his system small vial of the white "Chup would have killed the average man in) 1 nonchalantly, wel | half the thins come to the layout; it has served its Rut all at once he perked up. f tur nked mo for Prombvis he's one diam’ the matches 1 gave bim—whien 4 Philip declared, knew he didn't need—and left us, Evidently those chotce spirits had whistling a guy littie tune. His camp & the Whole hog; seeing that they We coulun't see, but it wasn’t far, for put Chub out of business so We could hear voices and the click 1 suppose they thought it a of an axe around the bend below, solden opportunity to convert his out. The day passed without incident war own uses, Hounding them | We moved our canoes and suj d probably be an exoiting af- Up to the camp. Howe spent m id With the start they had, bie time pacing up and down by the Overtaking them would be re ‘ nif we had been It was easier to man 1 take Chub to Fort Resos | -whieh I resolved to any time in chase MILLIONS FRom ( CAN You BEAT IT I eternally between pt to the tents; we ds be- nber of prce=-la- cabin, a cigare his lips. Jean ki did not exchange a dozen wo fore evening, ‘The odd m Howe's purty—yelept Joe 1 finis! use, “Ine Pade M 7 eC noticed it first one afternoon as he, “TL didn't suppose you were addle a Ruy dane ai Bee and ie tone abate Riheatoaees thiatsare a Chub and Lb roturned from a raid on to the habit,” [ remarked, as [ atowec ing. I posted Sandy for the ni Wt even as We crossed the open tho mallards that flocked on a, bli thw ‘iae with its neat array of . . ‘ jeadow another phas at » or a0. fro % points: watch and went to bed. meadow another phase of human| {BORO bs MILE cok pee cromne: isa rap, ool nte ee hance It seemed to mo that my eyes had Cussedness was fixing up a choice ase sn at o wun aa glum | Wm not.” Chub returned carp parely clued when I was awake sortment of trouble for all of us end HEe eee Te vanieab rave Ing that outtit: was purely accidental again—but tho night had passc effectually ups ting my plan’ ‘tor ne ~ si boraghee iy Bcd Shortly before [ started on this trip ee iow of ee Fane 308 vies peas mic a tii ita t htes oe eS on a rabbit. T let a yell out of me, and to wean him @eway from his con- @ good-sized atick of wood at his himaelf an injury. Toward all of us him was ving. T was at the polic ation In ttle Fen ee pelts, and ao L oa trick that becceice wating about just aa I yelled he hit her again, You fuuuded habits, He's too far gone head not lung before, ‘those raacally he carried an ugly front, as though loosed, and listening to his buoyant looking up a rather odd dope case, ag SUMTER Aneto eps i aha of the ble. ot aa noticed that streak across her head, for #uch drastic measures, Take guides of yours have appropriated ee a re ap Veo pe) hand noting the faint tou and Lonner—the sergeant, you know rned over for ano ) ot the big woods—and 22! ck ¢ seen him—the ; Be ORLA Auta BAe sa tae we were leagued together to persecute ' cheeks KAYO mo curiosity: L da heavy eyelids ¢ ‘ exe on from” Phe’ fee and that black ¢ Useen him—the him back and put him in a sanitar- your outtit and betaken tucinselvos & Color on his sallow, sunken cheeks —SAvo mo that aa a curiosity: I dare was open, Well, T ium, where he'll have ‘scientific to parts unknown, We couldn't lo- him. and the differont expression about hia 8°0y he filehed it from the poor devil a pass at him, and treatment, He'll get on the rampage cute them. swarms of li me that something was dive in ai Vit. Anyway, L stuck it in my He developed a morbid fear of the well, to say that I marveled is W gaudy sky and enc: Philin come alive about the same and kill some one before lung—un he mischief!" Chub raised hi bocket and straight re 1 ‘ d ay eae | and kil e 01 . oh sed | 3 ailtantiel : nutting it mildly ket and straightway forgot all grew y PhS | dat feller he's gone tine, ‘That big brute waded into the jeay you give him that morphin self on one elbow and looked very 247K, @ habitual sullenness that put us pulting tt iniidiy. | f about tt, And it so ned that I pulled i ' altel to shouted, and two of Pa crazy man. 1 did you've hidden awé Wasn't thatthe much distressed, all 4) at caso; tratte dn his nature, 1) AOCned to a ee awl » brought those clothes along, but dreamland eyes and eur Distant en finally land on him and knock him bo, down among the guy-ropes, and he no Jumped up and took to the woods, of con nodd coldly, 2 thought. “lL suppose y ? yes,"" I repouted. “They're gone, cropped out that I'd never dreamed of jis normal self. When we got to the didn't wear 1, eying me keenly—and lock, stock and barrel, How do you —and I'd known him since we were oabin and ate supper, his sprightiiness / blew in hy uu Propose to return to civilization, may litte boys in knee: IWaYA was pretty well toned down, but he them on I ne until the day before and when [did put lected to remove the’ A glince showed me that bad grounds for Between t snapping cabin and the tents Phil stayed to watch es and tho sucssed why he was su frantic,” sho 1 ask?” I'd found him a likable friend, thouen Qidn't. relapse inte. h Hitual *Pparacus, » there you have the clear and uninis ilo nd levee wore dodging back Test of Us starte i fter him, ee Said NWo thane a compact at the be- | That appeared to be a problem that we'd followed different roads since ene - ‘i na rie reeds neyeing HOw of It. Tt did come tn handy, heard two shots nd forth, striking viciously at each yet ke Pea ae ay “nd sinning, When we left Fort olu- Teauired considerable thougut our schooldays. If any one had toil jin curiously as we sat around the though"—maliclously—to verify my of a diffe ° ib b ; lo E a ‘p's sister and Jean dic kens of 8 me And Ls him, - ne tion L was to have it all, and give Chub‘s part. He scratched his he: me at the finish of that hunting-trip pie fireplace before Koing to bed suspicions of what ailed our mutual dozen reports. I era foversd' in the background. Howes when we did be wasn't gol: to ot us 1a little now and then—-when his 4nd stared fixedly at the unfinixied north of Slave Lake just before his ty it was the same. We went fiend. [ wasn't certain until It oc- at the head of my | Hi as L strove to keep up back, But she ma no: Tent OF US es got on edge, But he didn’t roof. “Hanged if I know,” he said at) marri that he would go to the curred to me to let him have @ sight o r whitefish of the afternoon Howe si sullenness and beeame a rer ng so Ul after we camp, Thad a faint glimmering of ind in the course ; uftied off hiv Of that. He fell upon it ke a fam. Wt jovial, ‘bed hound on a bone," returned to Chub,” T gatd savagely, “I ehink you're about a8 unprincipied @ cur as cautiously thror about that time 5 game, his rifle working like a matic. I peered around one ¢ of the cain. A couple of hund d Sandy—wiclded a keep back while she ued with him, ¥ parrying his blows of palaver he come Wondered, among she coaxed him or Uungs, where a wreck like Howe found y quite fair, He had some . “EL might be able to'answer that dogs and change so utterly in the den, and it’s only gince he used tt-all better If 1 had two good legs, Just T would have scoffed at the up there's b nh any trouble, Tho now it's a facer.” prophecy. last week or so he's been coaxing for “Rather a footless trip all around, , Yet ev ore than a litt r I knew that so eh?" I jeered; but he wouldn't rise to feel the n whil ame toward lim afte T pitied, T couldn't Hee told me and Pdilip to forget yards o HE Nea ee aruelling work. The all about, it, as a favor to her, bo- jong ay ho could ‘got any he'd novor the halt ing Jean and listening to Joe Pierce's Hineny' ae renk: fouliahneas tae at't merely a matter of view= the grass, « andy shoving: roan flit oa iS to a sudden end, just as cause he'd been sick, and gisa’y know stop. And there's not inuch left—I “By the Lord, I'd ike to get my Story. There's more or less of the Je yaya ty on inernt "ho retorted, unperturbed. “To sae dinee thn stranger witht puzzled swing ut Ploree, missed, and the fees ee eee eee eat think faint throw most of it away. He'd be alto- hands on those fellows, Tderas brute dn all of us—a heritage, 1 mp Nt have in Who brought matter met down to cases and quit beatén, regarding the stranger with pu led a at Foes a seek and the foree m than right to tell vou, Ma yO gather insane if he kuew that. But Hin anger boiled up again, And that Pore, of the d when mankind was |' 8 Bho eyed Hawa nico about the bush, this is simply an lay fa A and Howe und Joo, closing In Tesh Be wie OA TEC ayaa el nr inne: a f,4 Py ey Ag thitariun rather puszied me, Aside from in Hie pesing 6G gen ved 680 aha had ‘done the previous evening. aes nt that the Globe ia paying me yy, ugh the tent. his fist under the right ear—a scien- keepin’ cases on that feller with the Won't do; he tried that Inst year, ; ting shot in the leg, the rambu prospered acconting to the strength When sup “ Howe and Wises to cover and everything goe@ poked tis head MMoevitniy. to. tific blow, and one that tumbled game leg asyou told me, and Theard 18 NOW or never, ‘This in the place tlousness of his men had broughe of their muscles and their ferocity ot Vien subper Was over Howe and jn thy work, Otherwise I'd demanded peer’ > " aoe the caune af the disturbance.. Howe in ‘an ungainly heap, Joe her holler wgain—the very samo way. and the time for him to fight tt ou! What happened, Sandy?” Tasked, Kicked the club to one side and turned Course 1 know you told me to keep ,, “And mi ite He wan sitting on top of the supply # troubled face to me—a face that my eyes on that stranger, but when “do you realize the chances you take and seen enough to amply repay him thls dc puneh head for indulging tn such offensive personalition "se That night I woke up suddenty, with about the very result he desired to temper. cigarettes to @ log outside, Jean anwhile,” I remonatrated, attain, He'd got into Howe's camp, o jut & man le pretty low down In watched them till they were seated, ie) oh ya violent then turned to me and sald in an uns bore sundry marks of conflict, she yelled like that I bounced our to every day?) A man in his wobbly for the length of his journey—and the nds on a woman, Heularly when (00) ng a feeling that some one was moving vile. i ‘ “1 ought to ‘a’ Killed the’ see What was up. And by the Lord, mental condition 1s capable of most hole in his leg to boot. There were that Woman is his wife. The marks 0 . stealthily tn the room. The syate- Why, darn {t andy ren a, the 4 as ee Sane Mt he wuant chokigh her, ond Sayin, SAYTNIOR when Whe craving foe the some penmine featuces arent That Of is fist were gone from Jean's face, LOPE got hold of aome matic snoring of Sandy and Philip PREM OIenY On THs thee Te eo ing. it nan ain't Kot no Heense to ‘Where is it? ‘Te& me where it is!! drug gets the upper hand." shooting ecrape, anyway; it was too PUL they rankied in my memory. Tve thought the same thing my fore 19 its usual volume, according to tone, “I don't know yet, m tiny HXe ot all. And this 18 hig second 1 tell you right now I got, ideas of “For God's sake, Tommy, don't aay clean-cut and snappy an affalr to be , More than once T was gudlty of wish. itive thouklt the same thing my- their nightly habit, but outside, of of @ queer play ail round, I'm sittin’ {yt lt my own about a inan that'll beat © any more!" she eried with sudden ve- Merely a drunken row. ing ho'd either take a brace, and MIC" 1 answered. “Hut where? You that t could hear nothing, though T on this pile, takin’ life easy, when To scisr. him into the tent’ Jean woman. [couldn't hit him very well hemence shake off the drug lust that was mak- 84ye him sped a nad jong ago up and listened, ‘The impreseton el in hell for two “Well,” I went on presently, wee this feller bust out uh the tim- We'll ing existence unbearable to him, or 1 know Jt," she sald slowly, “Ver- was te y —oh the way he was yankin’ her around, ye ar. 0 oO wet out of f 7 re ¢ co strong to be readily shal ber, runnin’ like a jack rabbit. He 4) stayin ne om TOOK tT rabbed ‘hin and jerked him years, and Tm going t ee ou ee fo the nent We. can for you, Bae von throw up his handsand quit the ¢ hap vou'th th wy mind is wander. off tnd not UE went so far as to deat get very far before somobody Kad eine eine backward out of te tent. He took jiy"sumorine o rig Fahoe kpect Howe to b Shocking way to think about aman Ing, but Lb c source strike a mates and glance around at | Bit very far before. samok ft 1 fast enough when she backs and come up with that ;/%, SWtering on my part is needed to his trip in order to carry you to Ed- | called my friend, rh? ‘We put inen oof ils sph beside him at the ferent. sleepers, did. I. pettie | begins t’ throw 1 t tone, and turned to help him be himself again, is tt too monton, vers T goes, Tut he Ju right away mn quiring ze of Mr, Chub, stick of wood in his hand, Tf wasn't great a price to pay? No, no, no! If a ” in prison for breaking Jaws -man | Pe . own. That proceeding awakened j an’ pecks back with a six-shooter as ged himself gn his’ Kein’ to let him walk up and cava fe wink outccand he most, ne eet qe Eh? Certainty not.” he returned, made laws, at that! A set-of rules “How do you ficure that I Sandy, and L almost laughed aloud to Pe cung Ata MCA en it asome 1iké Sayers my head in that we so [ broke f On eles Mhe broke am, and tnraw: Then, grinning wickedly: “But one of conduct promulgated by a ma- asked Chub di t bear t! * e him ra ‘Nis head and blink | eccoa Via ny Shen baer ile Aah my Winehester, him after me swing Gut both hands in a gescure of hopes CA” hardly say in advance Just what jority vote of other equally weak 1 dope-fiend, and it's hard- owlishly above the blankets. Calling pala mnt all tll wiv at him, ant vlert in’ the club, I got the sun all rights jessness, ® gent OF hope our host might do. He's rather er- humans, Shall @ man, then, defy a cor . i x a MUp- myself a nervous tdiot, I dropped the brush an’ all 1) away Maa MIRKAd” ac ee and L guess you seen tho finish, Mpa Avite of ; ratic in hig actions, I should judge natural law and think to evade the ply in here f mateh i ho runs Mike h q ways I eS i tg “It's blame Lucky for him ho sve po; ras te @ old Lethuld a a from"— penalty? And while I hope L have would hr en My bed was rolled down before the j Grope ee tn lim to Ret hack where hé bes Me @ chance to hit him when he did. fomedies strikes me very forcibly just ager, What you saw a Ittle while a full measure of charity for a man any ier whe r.atw Ht had been ev ht since ; e a a0 amp hen te he neers i . inka 2 od 8 ery fore L ago! supplied, who goes) wron Vin on hypocrite he land t vuld navigate with any we bs 2 Td ‘a’ turned that old gun loose on who goes wrong, Vin not hyp ) any facil. ane Gok > tho timber w Howe by this time was sits Er now," sto sighed, after a moment or “Well, he ams . J a ‘ ne ey vy du er 9 FouiiG’ RaknaR caanl 4 him in about Te toy atralienen 4 ea greed affably, enough to profess friendship for 4 V here y door Was heavy, +of hands begin t' she \ ner looking rat dazed, and tim in ap two of sllenco, “Sometimes the rem- “And from the appearance of his body that earns my hearty contompt, «nd t vt ewn planks, and it moved on. tte Looks t' t Jasper yuh f eh a tOL AN cast Bnd OVER Tar op i Say 1a Gasperntely hard on othera be» wite's feature: Hut E put my personal teclingy int ‘Neverthe Jean per oden with : them match: v. So th BT dd ae rd eee ened he a widow all of a audden--which sides. the T lortouene Ade Lok here.” T remarked pointe background, and did for Howe taltton 4 far Ne 1 4 yuh are! Bion I sabe the y A a x vad aullenig Would be & blumed goud thing for bey ae dy * vou would do well not to include that lay in my power for old t t fit e's aby t He eure looked like they was tryin’ to [hiiw himself on bia bed and aullenly ner, far aa I can sce. if it wasn't Peon i ‘ag MTS: Howe tn any facetious abserva- sa \ ; ky thal Tt ' \ Ks im out uh business." er uae: AO ore Wau that she asked me to stick it out “Hardly possible, un © crawled tions you may see ft to ma. 1 Chub's leg mended rapidly ia not nat the v s were o BME Aim out uh businoan! vdeterinined to know what It Guit This minute and hit the bace to the door the inatant. Jon rushed I'd niso advine ye ir hobbling atout 1 fOr ee retched and screped emerged pre Ai Ticvie Ay Wha th tho trail, If you'r to be here a out,” TI answered, “ut interview more than is re rm EN Hi ; can ahd naked far f Dok atten t ould be & cood the gentieman and try to learn just you are in this o a I y nea ine mente ont 80: f0R a8 Dove Wha COnmeLRON iook atten would in a ood the gentioman and try to learn Just you are ty shia camp." hing—in. ‘ 1 deolar \ hey. vibrated j : ae > where the f ind heard enc 2 TEPAY scheme to put fear of the Lord vat he did see, now emind ‘ lestioks!" Chub protested of way that nit a touch, 1 L ¢ t we 1 . pon alk id Wo aura sean ane 1 sensation if ho gets It to The about it, Hedrick, I meanene ai t of the 4 i “ ' t break, ‘bug guessed correctly Chu nly when f reached Tollock 1a eaathiat 4 t to the | mean A r H rl put him @ break, bu! ; 90 whut up lke a lock would see that 1t was spe the lady, Anyw Il rehie Wits 1 ia nad han he hal i. ted ¢ was something Ae no stoma Hy 1 le ‘im and returned mustn't ft to The Globe **, I'm able to « t. After that first nad Ls no quest W Lfign i make . () fory there may be men who ean stand ‘Phere was a little more L wanted. to she decla It would drive t 80 SOON AS all that, T flung bout lis stay belng pro whine f D chines lore, ulphurous i ) univ and waten a woman— w, although 1 could guess what aand mainma wild—to say nothing back at bi, "f tmagine your stay no more; but it didn't tak A ape 1 1 beter ire ve wrongly, {he one Worn was the re vot of the trouble, and of all our friends, I want to keep my Wl’ hus fill be rather prolonged. On to tind out that he waa under Ny from loor 1 phe t th {Unt wtinredl tie tha 7 = i eart out, but TI eouldn't do f wasn't in the right sort of mood :o sto myself, 1 4 nave @ bit Dehalf of my friends I'm inviting you ance. He was good-natured wer ne explatned t 1 Or yon mie HATS ¢h aant of myself, en I remem to trust myself near him at that ino- — pye; i enata ae oot © Bo pouth agatn--and T think you'll was ready part he would ‘ Yow t Sand Pee byt TAT'S the trou s angry words, and went to ment, I'm not a fighting man by magegi,? don't see any way but to find t¢ dtMoult td refuse, exw find a way. Meantime hie f' Then TS hin echoed my au “Laat } BCA OR colightone ! mako him a permanent member of the "ih (me re t \ y aa in search of enlightenm: nature, but I don't think T could have camp," 1 muttered doubttuily, “And which small bombshen of my to ba a good sort aocially, with an op. called Chub. W tir tn ‘ night those 1 dog into him: because ked him in the eve—now that I that will be no easy matter-when hig OW, 1 went ving Chub both timistic viewpoint, and an inexhaust- 1 unobtrusively ! nd + * (Chub had int hts Ww Joe told me } W t those livid marke ia well again--to any nothing of '**'!fled and # Aatmy meaning. thie store of funny litt anil pulled ' of 1 ee a ania {Ace were his handiwork--an portunity it will ive aim to size 7 “aE & droll way of tellin tor s y want hired for guldes got to somo whiskey « anon flown and kick the lite out ot’ up the whole situation at CHAPTER VIN, matt now Che ey elaan ROSH As pte ; ' i : t goint tratght That te Ds range, if dhalnaae eon ; ail the time a v0 W 35 Thad along, They were raising Cain, but I'm gotnt te U strate That was how I felt for a few min ‘ ‘i Seen 7 ny v ka time 1 his news-getting, and took on f. * and when [ tried to settle ‘en down 4" to be kno i ain the head and utes ar d that Was why I wont bie Penal ae : Toon. returne A gaelte passed quickly—and tamely r lost sight of his miasion sod to 4 ' \ dunt 7 dike for the way D Jean, ti } gat on si "3 - 7 2eer) eave }@ Nort enoug 7 4 O fin € ! i they ran amuck. I broke away, and jcon treatin’ her lately, He's been log, but the fit of crying had pasved, till Wo do, hia story will fall flat. Ke core ecnsidering: the © had gathered details ei Mal aeauls ! they proceeded tio Up-the jike a bear with a sore foot ever She waa looking absently across the him here, now that ho is here, If you Doss bil! for mirehtof AEr rade DUiGeA GUD TUDHIA enc tea te chat peat Northern way of since he struck the lake, grouchy aa bit of open land, both hands lying ave to tie him hand and foot!" that lay dormant tn that Ming by the y ne uote Jee ambaals Mae nok, Held it, T suppose Nu sin all the time; but he didn't go any !dly in her lap, “Vil see.” T wald, and walked away, ear lowe remal uncert eliver his + ut t aa ” vb lah , it showed me the t amp. Howe rema uncertain feliver his factor dering expression on his fae fem in a detice of ap furth othe other day-the day “Look here, Jean.” 1 eaf@. “Don marveling somewhat at the readi- ope tac ® fs i fa cle Ay’ ‘ace and He embellished this a you and Sandy struck camp, It was you think you've undertaken a tai ness wil Which slie proposed to make “4? my Gay 1 ere were ATSTet Thee CCG? , . fell wpa, Palio tee ating of choice explelives: the middle of the afternoon, I wag that's a Httle beyond you? etter Chub y risonor ! n he raged like a man pos- Tm an y 1 Philip bleeding f “Well, i's rages sour own fault” tinkerin’ round the cabin, and T heard give up this plan and try anotlie:,” " k eof w . up on aot e “ite Dus reecniae snapped, v1 ‘ t him chewin' the rag to beat the devil, “Wh Du mean, yn whe K Paton 0 i . . dal * jon" v nd by she gv: 1 r . 1 Ack square me "E don't know what My a y she wave a little serecch, d quietly. nin very much ate gues mt 1 the Ag w leorsiin wie, thas hed with you. Woe'r rm vn 1 } pane y r : ur rm b.ff!" Just Ike that. Vhy--why, you know what Pnieva bent ' L ! ‘ indidate for \ 1 Chub Doyle had dee Dita! up he b me see u z LL iuinned for the tent, and he waa well enough,” I protested, “Tuisidea “Well,” I began, ignoring the late ts reason bade fair to tor Ad WO While our eollestive guides he retorted das parted cia wM& wasn't @ bad wound, 1 discov- phakin’ Ler dike a boundspup shakes of getting Howe out ere and trying rucwon and the fact that 1'd thrown had to wetod him closely wat he do whacked the cabin into sha: ye and risively, “I'll go back to my perch (Ve Ba Continued) a