The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1916, Page 19

Even Thurs ing ‘World’ Daily Magazine 7; 1916 UNDER THE G An Adventure Romance of the Frozen North TRAND W. SINCLAIR By Maurice Ketten WHY NOT? | HAVE Your FAcE| GOWN, HATans UMBRELLA PAINTED To MATCH HAND PAINTED HATS . BAGS UMBRELLAS (Cops rigit by Street & Smith.) BINONSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Fom Helis ow tele the ators) ta gent by. eo “or the latter Satin wt her, Inland, “carter “Howe, pene! Ilo tic. tra bie h ry fle Kes Hove e" a avira vitinn ines, stepped back into the canoe, “I'll bet we ain't far behind him. Only I'm afraid he'll see us first, an’ take to the brush. We might miss him that way.” Farther down—cight or ten miles arr 4 unrplia. victim clades Pian ‘tote from camp, I judged—we bumped By he FaAnous en lle eM into a new phase of the situation. ARNST CASSELO to find the missing We slid around one of the innumer- ke off Doyle's ei able crooked turns of the creek, and at the Howe camp, he imnaty clos behind im, Dovie hae ae Drougit Morpiia to give to Howe, CHAPTER IX. ‘DY applied the match to a candle. Howe and Pierce were sitting up in their re- spective bunks, blinking at the light. For a moment no one’spoke. Then Philip found his tongue, and, while he dabbed at his bleeding nose with # rag that had once been a handkerchief, broke into Veluble explanation. Bacre! Dat feller he's heet lak one keekin’ hoss!” he lamented. “Ah wake up, w'ile ago, an’ tink Ah hear om’ noise. Ah lis'n, Bimeby Ah hear somet'ing go rub, rub, on dat ween- dow. She's too dark for see ‘t all. So Ab geet up an’ sneak ‘cross for dees ‘weendow, tinkin’, maybe so, de dam’ dog she’s reach up for chew de hide. ‘W'en Ah'm right by eet Ah mak’ out somebody, Ah tink. Ah ask w'at eos up. He dgn’ say nozzing, an’ Ab reach out for touch heem for see w'at he ees—an’ by Gar, he's haul off an’ beet me—bing! Ah grab heem an’ holler for strike a light, but he's shak’ me loose an’ heot me some more Holee Motbaire, but dat man he's strong lak bear! Ah'm fall lak’ Ab ben heet weet ax, an’ Ah hear heem Be troo de weendow—reep! She's all happen lak one-two-t'ree, an’ den he's gone.” “Good Lord, Hedrick!” Howe mut- tered aghast. “We've got to head him off. I never dreamed a tenderfoot like Doyle would strike out alone, If he gets through" — “Oh, I understand,” I interrupted tartly, struggling into my clothes. “If we hugged the north bank a mark in the water's edge made me call sharply to Sandy. Our momentum carried us past, but we turned back. It was worth while, though, I had read the sign aright—the familiar line of footprints and the V-shaped Rroove that betokens the launching of a boat if it be other than a canoe or flat-bottomed bateau, “Now this here's mighty peculiar,” Sandy remarked, after a quick glane “Wait a minute till I come back, And he waiked upstream, Presently he disappeared around the bend, and a few minutes later called me from somewhere in the timber, I plunged into the brush and, Buided by his voice, found him sur- veying a cleared place a hundred yards or so back from the creek. There was little to distinguish it from any other abandoned camp- ground, except that it had evidently been occupied for a considerable length of time; the litter and the foot-worn spots bore witness to that. Nor had it been long vacated. “Well, sir,” Sandy vouchsafed in meditative manner, “I'll be hanged if 1 don't belleve that feller has made connections with his own bunch again, “Why? I asked. unlikely thing; is THIS WiLL BE A MASTERPIECE ( LOVE A SYMPHONY IN TOMATO RED It seemed a very but then, the North place of unlikely happenings. ‘Well, because there's just the right number uh men, for one thing, he argued. “An’ I could stand here an’ give forty other reasons why it ain't likely to be anybody else, Course, they might all be wrong. But this camp was made about the right time, Whoever was here just laid around takin’ life easy, an’ the minute Mr. Man shows up they move out. An’ finally, they had the place marked for him, He quit the creek by a big, sharp-pointed rock that's a pretty good mark itself, and there was a stick stuck in the mud beside ft. He pulled up the stick an’ hit straight through the brush for this camp. So there yuh are.” I have ou work cut out for " ve wil » righ I predicted, he gets out he'll have a tale eae ! a nade rapued (i @ certainly astonish the natives, and it itteroffact) way.) “We'll, sure ‘Will be mostly your own fault have to split the water wide open to “He'll hav sweet Une getting rhaul ‘em—but they won't be half e@nywhere bet daylight,” Sandy hard to find as a lone man,’ remarked. “And by the same token there ain't much use in us lookin’ for Bim before then. T recognized the force of Sandy's Sandy was right. joined his own guides. The where- fore of their faithfulness, after shoot- ing a hole tn his leg, was made clear Chub had re- way. And the men ahead knew it. A white puff leaped from thetr stern, and the bullet bored a neat hole through the thin hull a scant two inches abo the water-line, Another followed near the samo place—and an- other that went a little high, scoring in its pussage a deep groove in the calf of my leg, I winced at the sting, and Sandy swore venomously. “Hold her steady,” he gritted. “It that's their game we'll play It, too. I'll stop their getaway, right here, if we Bo to the bottom for it.” Thereafter the wooded valley walls flung back the echo of rapid shooting. above my head. I didn't answer at once. T waited till the tall poplars beside me should stop their odd dancing. Everything seemed to be at sixes and sevens. The ue sky was rippling overhead like a wind-whippel flag—something I knew no proper sky would do, And Thad an impulse to grip the whirling earth with both hands to keep from being slung off into space like a cata- pulted stone. One thing only was clear—some god of the woods must have picked Buck Harrison up by the napo of the neck and dropped him down beside me in my time of need plague of blackness that came down on Eqypt in the time of Moses. It we Nke being in a huge cellar, Clouds, piled layer on layer and hanging low, shut away the stars, The gloomy woode and the lowering sky melted to- ether, but where in that ebon canopy ‘waa the line of their mecting no man @ould say. might as well have been blind- oolaet for all we could see, and there was nothing to hear but the murmur of the wind-rocked trees and the of dogs disturbed at an unac~ Gustomed hour, A very few minutes the popping of guns, of clinbing up the hill to where mild overtook the disturbance, and of finally beholding me swept down among the rocks. “And,” he concluded, “I didn't have no idea tt was you, but 1 think yuh was @ gone goos the time I couldn't make out where yuh was—between the foam and the rocks yuh was hard to and part uh the time yuli was under water. Finally I did see yuh spinnin’ round and round in a streak uh black water, and it shot yuh off into an eddy behind a big rock and left yuh floatin’ face up where I could get to him as he watchec them from the bank. So we took toll from MacDonough in the shape of another sack of flour, a few pounds of pemmican, and a little more tea and doggedly gripped the paddle again, At least we were holding our own, And two hundred miles up the Slave, Five Portages would deliver them’ into our hands unless they took tu the Woods at our approach. There would probably be a ruction, Chub, I began to perceive, merited the name for bulldog determination that he had earned on the Pacific Fae eae ae 80's we'd come out an’ take yuh in Chub made a disgusted grimace, You've got the idea,” he admitted frankly. "But I don't’ know that you were sold any worse than T was. I didn't bargain with those fellows to blow holes in me—1 thought a Httle wild shooting would be a pretty fair excuse for aeeking the protection of your camp. Confound them! They tried to eee how fast they could make me run, I guess, and one of them made a alight miscalculation. n't turn another fool trick Hke z | 4 | and both times I got away. Him or some of als tribe has shot at me half @ dozen times. It got so I had to either get him or quit the coun- try—or be potted like a deer in the brush some duy when I wasn't lookin’, “So T started to hunt him instead uh bavin’ him hunt me. I've follered him all summer, But T can't get a whack at him, only when it would be plumb suicide to try, He's cunnin’, and #o's his Injuns. A while back his tribe struck south and pitched camp on @ fork uh the Peace, and Frenchy takes a fow of his men and heads into Edmonton. 1 aimed td round him up in town, But he got a peep a ae—oh, he's a fox!-—-and fle p. So to ha inch if ever I run onto bim unexpected [ stirs up the mounted police about him killin’ e River Jule that time we all nt after musk-ox, and they swore me in as @ special officer, and sent a policeman along to help np take tn the Frenchman. But this red-coat to break leg, and [ have » him at Vermilion. So I'm on the Frenchman's trail on they're travelling this way?” nely. hours ahead uh me," ly. |. reflectively, “that eo anything of them as we obody sees that layout when they’ on the move through th country,” murmured Buck, “T! ailp through the woods soft-footed as 80 many mountain lions, and yuh might pass them close enough to speak and never hear a sound—that's an Injun’s way. And this buneh night-hawks it whenever they. eo near Resolution, ‘They don't bother MaeDonough's dist much, The Frenchman knows Mac would have him potted on sight, so he lays low himself and makes his redsking act shy till they get on their own stamp- round north wh the lake. I whispered, “I hope they steer wide of Charteris Creek on their if they beat us that far. That's © our camp 4s, and there are two n—his wife”—I motioned to- i How and a half-breed girl, We're holding out at @ little open place about twenty-five miles from the mouth, I went on to give Buck the reason, in as few words as po sible, why we w in that part of the country at all, prevaricating a bit, of spe “It's odd,’ we didn’ course, on Howe account, juck observation, but I couldn't sit quiet. to us later, When we struck Fort wasn't the prying kind, anyway’ he It had come to be a sort of a personal Resolution, without a glimpse of didn't care two straws about any dmoue between Doyle and myself, and them or a trace of their passing, man's past history, present actions it went against my grain to think of Henri Paleau put the seal of future movements; uniees they dim slipping away to Pollock with lis tainty on Sandy's conjecture. ly concerned himself. sordid tale, after | Live uh ™Y over four hours ahead of ua, ; He pinched out bis cigarette very ra cally thro’ down declared .; 5 om iad s on ° rate "Yo ce." Bee eine Nowe, for "ae first eaee a ie eee ee one sinve into the abandoned boat. Loaded eyes and wondered if the buzzing in strong coffee and some warmed-over “you're auch a cheerful cuss, I guess“ genta Ri dP lr srig the, domi time since Chub arrived on the scene, and forged south like men in great IANUY, ft rode high in the water, & my ear and the general ache in my Venison to fill gur empty stomachs, Ariane Ra RD Seka Ma th ny reasda to be seemed to realize just what it mean! haste, He knew the boats, for he switter craft of the two. Fast aathey bones had begot a hallucination. the end of ihe meal, pipes, clgurettes that rumpus four iesout pulled of | enchy Will probably stick to bimeelf and Jean, and flung on had seen them at the post, nosing Olt wore drawing up stream, we gained “Say, how d'yuh feel, old-timer?” and note-comparing were the order of that mornin’ you come to our camp to the lake shore, But T would hate erica tae ork wes equal to. che fal bgt Devo woes aya rien ‘from the moment our boat got under I heard @ voice that sounded a mile business. Buck told of luving heard just a big blu? Didn't yuh do it to think uh that outfit comin’ acrons a a ‘ete a ‘om bo yaVveC 4 an blam white woman, well prote unless she was That Francois le, and he's ges not to to raise particular notice, trained that bunch uh # kon chane hell on short They've stole many a lone trap- per's outfl ad left him laid out for ul timber. Yuh see, » here, and they don’t anybody so long as they don't have to come in and trade with the Hudson Bay, Frenchy takes a sneak out to God's country once a year, and trades for ammunition and sayy Whit little stuff they need, As lon drove home to me the conviction that slope. It was hardly possible that There was nothing melodramatic How else would he be sitting there, yuh.” “No, I don’t think you will, We'll qc he's with ‘em they're decendene we could do nothing till dawn, so we he'd fail to show fight. But I'd gone about that clash. No fallen heroes holding up my throbbing head while A modest recital. Buck didn't tell see that it Isn't necessary, You've and primed for trouble. Ud move my @ave up and went back to where the too far to stop halfway now, and weltered in their gore, nor was the air the world reeled drunkenly under @ us that he ran up the rapid, Jumped altogether too brilliant an tmagina- camp to Resolution, if L was you-it e@abin light winked like a firefly in the when I mentioned to Sandy that re rent with deflant battle-cr! We fantastic sky. in and was swimming bes when tlon for an investigator; see that it yuh aim to winter in the North, 5 was apt to be more or less excite- might have been peacefully engaged — presently the mad whirl stopped the “streak uh black water” pushed doean't get you into more serious Charteris «in't safe, Sandy and I squatted together on ment before us, he merely shrugged 1n shooting ducks—only for the phut, 41 of a sudden and I perceived that me into the eddy, But Howe had trouble in your search for news!" — Huck turned over, and for a long ‘and tried to figure what Chub hig shoulders; so T took it that be phut against the wood, the tiny the commotion was wholly in my been Watching, and saw Buck's nervy Howe told him ourtly. Ut was the time I lay wondering if, after all, tt be apt to do. Sundy maintained was with me to the finish. splinters that stuck in the cloth of jartered head. The North spread plunge. first time he had evinced any in- had been wise to leave Jean and the that he had no choice but to go back Howe by this time had relapsed our trouser-legs, and the gota of weer unchanged, tmpassive under its mask Sandy, by main strength and awk- Clination to tax Chub with his ig- others behind. The mere knowledge way he had come. Being what jnto his habitual suilenness. I began that spurted through holes below the of solitude; the only stir was in the wardness, as he phrased it, had hoble errand; and it was only @ that the Frenchman was alive and at 27 ‘termed a pilgrim, he wasn't to wish I'd left him at Fort Reso- water-line, Slave, leaping swiftly over the riffles righted the boat and gotten Howe flash in the pan. his old tricks in the vicinity of Slave Mkely to attempt blazing a trail of his lution. He sat amidships, humped I think they realized as keenly @8 and lashing the stolid boulders with back into it somehow, and though By this time the sun was hidden, Lake made me uneasy. He was capa- Own across seven hundred miles of over a paddie that half the time did we that the outcome depended 4 sullen croon as it plunged to the they had been swept into the rapide and the long twilight wrapped us in ble of anything-as Buck had truly wank wilderness, He had taken his trailed idly in the water, The man wholly on which boat was first dis- jower levels. eventually, it was near shore, in com- a shadowy haze. Sandy and Howe Said, He'd demonstrated that in un- gix-ehooter and the clothes he stood was really crazed for want of abled, and fought accordingly. If ‘ay, how d'yuh feel?” Buck re- paratively shallow water, At that, made a@ trip to the boat that Chub's Mistakable fashion; and against in when he came to camp but no grub morphin; [ got an inkling on that either had shot to kill there would iterated, The mystery of his pres- the boat was smashed in less time crew had abandoned go hastily, and Buck, Howe and myself he nursed @ or blankets that we could discover. trip of what Jean had suffered at his have been dead men to spare on Slave ence was swallowed up in my glad- than Tam taking to tell it, Once on brought back a sleeping-bag and « Most rancorous grudge. Aside from ‘g0 it weemed as if self-preserva- hands, River that August afternoon—tring jogs at seeing him once more, It was #0lld ground, Sandy bade Howe hurry pair of heavy blankets. The food and What he and hin Indian followers would drive him into rt Reso- Bucking a four-mile current every in the open, at that short range good to lie there and drink in the down the river and see if he could other things we didn't disturb, It Might be able to steal from us, Fran- when he got that far, He hadn't foot of the awy, with little help frou “f got ‘em, L got ‘em!” Sandy chor- Clean air and look up at the sun- &@t any trace of ine. He had little wouldn't be right, we decided, to de- COIN Would be keen to strike a blow jtted any crime that he should a sail—by reason of winds that per- tled gleefully, and we saw Chub's shine, and it was good to lay eyes hope that I would come out alive, stroy the food and leave them with for dis own personal satisfaction it the Hudson's Bay posts em sistently blew from southern quar- crew drop their guns and paddle furl- again on the square-shouldered, 42d be deemed it best to carry thé nothing but thoir guns. Chub would 9Pportunity arose woute. tera—wo hove to at last where tho ously, heading the boat straight for jong-limbed mortal who squatted be- War to its conclusion and look for me have to go it alone now; It was hard- 8a Buck turned to mo again, “Foller this creek to the lake, an’ Slave foams noisily over the lower the shore, He swung round on his side me—it wasn't the first timo he Sitervend, ¥ ri chia Sandy, “ef ly possible that he had anticipated “you fellers can't make very good the lake shore to the mouth uh rapid of Five Portages and begins iis Knees. had pulled me out of a bad hole. yul , was to be drowned, you'd be capture and instructed his men to time goin’ back- not with you erip- ve River, an’ you'll get him sure,” unhampered flow to the lake. So far Jumpin’ Mackinaw!” he shouted, “Buck, I can hardly believe it's gen y PP ee Jong fore t could got to follow us back. Anyway, since their pled like that. UUhit the river in the y declared, “He's goin’ that way we had failed to come up with Chub. and grabbed for a paddle, “Look you! £'managed to articulate. yun, ant tf yuh could get out yourself travelling apparatus was destroyed, tornin’ and xo on to your camp, Hy Qecatise he don't know the woods well But, knowing that he must be some- where wo're gittin’ to!” “Sure it's me," he answered sort- ‘here was no use lettin’ this jasperino they weren't likely to try penetrating thunder! [don't much lke the idea @nough to strike through ‘em, An’ where on that thirteen-mile stretch — Now, right at the start, Chub's gun- ously enough. ‘Is any uh your bones get away while f) come down to #09 our portion of the country @ aecond Uh that there Prenchawan takin’ a fe a cineh he ain't goin’ to tramp of broken river, we moved circum- nery had punciured our boat acan- broke? Moly Hoses! But yuh shot prey! 7S g Po wae Pant time; and the grub was theirs, so we shoot that o They might fyom hero to the river inouth so fast sPectly thereafter. It was up to Us qalousiy; so fast did the water well them rapids lke @ eannon ball.” ‘dgment on Sandy's part, T couldn't eft {t for them. Rut we necded the Sometimes they hunt around th we can't wet whead uh him.” to overtake him before he took to the yp ingide that Howe and I fell to with " Gingerly IL moved arms and legs, "mst taking @ fling at Chu blankets for that night. Even if one head uh Charteris, 1 t know ‘At daw. we lugged a canoe to the smooth water above, Travelling Witl- @ ‘tomato can each, and between ba They were sore; every inch of me I told you you'd shake hands with man did stand gua to nee that it ido mal to t reat ek, stocked it with food for a week, Out encuinbrance other than a rf? ing and glancing ahead and wonder- jarvored an ache more or less acute, Mf: Trouble before you got out of Chub nether vanished quietly nor thes a it Sha ‘Bandy, Howe und myself ens: and six hooter aplece, | we soul Ing If tho neat bullet ‘would ping "arbored an ache more or lesa acute, tl anh ct wcose'? T temindsa Coe vem by ii fuldensthe goat Dn rs ae re owe volunteered. [didn't make the upper rapids tn. da against our ribs we'd allowed the i é eee oe! Hie of us couldn't sleep in the diminu mohot much given to demonstra. Berke ¥ ay Nor ear travelling from the time we landed. So we hid boat to drift-more than we realized, Bean ee Me, cacen cone of “Oh, well,” he returned carelessly, tive roll of bedding that Ruck got fons of feeling: and Teould only move ht, and the outcome of our expedi- the canoe and slarted, Indians. th, until Sandy turned on us with that fight-rhot till I tried to alt up. ‘Then “it’s all in the gar twas along with, T wondered why he wax one arm, ot Fd have patted Buck on ‘was extremely doubtful. Howe pers, furcbrigades of the Hudsons soar, ‘Then we looked. Tho boat waa Pdi vernd some broken riba—and his sole comment Was nowise voyaging alone on the Slave, and that the hack | Ht was a good idea, any waa im no stipe a chase that Ray, the feet of these and other ad- ghooting fair for the head of the first jroken riba are no joke, Also a disturbed by his failure, and T be- night as we lay with our faces to the say hearty snot night try the soul of able-bodied men, Venturing breeds of men in a cer rapid in the grip of the black water, Crovty “ONartone. Funny LT didn't lieve his fertile brain was even then stars he told me Thi lid Kot ». But mBut he would not be denied, And oF # river-travel had scored & deceptive in ite smoothness, Even fear those perme, 7 planning the scheme that later led to “Yuh mind that hook-nosed Freneh- {!* Gull pain in my side me from inwn ine my heart T dreaded dim path along the ine of least re- then we might have got to shore with- nines t my back #uch dire results, A cool, resource: man--Francoia?” he_aaked abruptly, (Wii tore than dose intermittent! Geen down in my hi sistance; and on this we shortly de P a had kept his , buck ralsed me up and set my hack fire te eee uldn't helps, fools ive ‘ throughout the night, Most of the what might i py waile we were “cried foot-marks, new-printed In the CUE mishap, If Howe had Kept his againat a tree. 1 was in the act of ful plo! ye courant Bele & 2o pa" T answered, with what em- tine | wax wide-awake, staring at one, if he we left in camp with S¢! " head. H so to his feet at the sight, asking him if he knew how the others {Ug of admiration for his dogged per- phaxin my fractured riba would per- | Oe alincuaitad ints Nib ieee, Nadox, perhupa to euy. 1 vot Ie f-mold. t three hours te cover Teached for his paddie with @ 48>, had fared, when & whoop from the Aistence. If T could have forgotten mit, ‘i'm not apt to forget hin for Sandy silhouetted in the red fre didn) i g and hated to at! Ca ength of that portage trail, stumbled, fell to one side, and the nitivide above caused tis to look the master brain that pronded In @ day or two. Why se t harder task thar iave hi that is how {Pe fT tong te ot ae docket dawn boat rolled gunwale und around, and Tt saw Sandy and Howe Beattie, the hard, vengeful spirit “ “Well, that son-of-a-m Buck Bese’ Vamcing ania wan It the barren hill that. slopes. to My ideas are rathor hazy about come scrambling down the hill driv. Whose machinations had involved us paused to light a claarette"thiy sng cite with, A rests Once unt GU ONGNGS Gin ie ene" if aang ah what happened in the next fow min- ing before. them our troublesome 18 thin coll, T could have Nked Chub. gon-of-a-gun ie at hig old tricks Mt Cube NIN a reat of cornering ¢ that fureflung eoore ree too tate, Whi Utes, None too good a swimmor at friend Doyle, ‘Then the woods and There was no iaiton in his attitude again, and he's makin’ thin Shi" incina uuthreake, it ae atre ‘ a and Jearned--and It doesn’t matter pt any time, T came up ten feet below the river and the sky began another 7 eh us; ile Be she “ ‘NES Take country a darn poor © £0" thera migh' eakor viv nee that otherwise they could have pad- the upturned boat, struggled futilely infernal dance, and T lost track of pares no part ip ge ing nas shane. me to live , for Jean's nd i. : w is play com> qied away and left ca raving on the against the sweep of the water till things completely. Ful atory Gn the front pas of The © “aut you-——" +) handadhaaniianen’ that ' task would be if pant, for my determinat to stop My sore leg gave out, then shot ke The bunch of them were standing ae or a a Zire fry 3 ope “Oh, T know,” Buck interrupted. "lo come out. all right, ! wary > Chub didn't fnelude — cold-blov 1 bit of driftwood over the smooth around like mourners at a funeral [lek » paper BBR I hey. int him throwed enough lead into him to KOK Tihty glad. to sublet not Killing—bnt their two boats ro: Mno where the rapid broke. The when I regained possession of my }D 118 iratt ote eee ye ee ening Dim fn forty foot wh water, and left gict right then and ther ‘ © sur shoal water hundred ft apart, Seething, foamy mass caught me in faculties once more, Put T felt a he ae aidere 1 nin mat rer hiciher him kickin’ in @ snowdrift--but 2 ve us pr And Chub, with his three men, stood Its embrace, rolled me over and over good deal better, and managed, with h* Pall Ke am aphlene wiggled through, someway. And hi 5 ; A by the furthest one when we stepped In sportive — moc nd playfully a Uttioe help, to sit up without another [N& Pollock's priva ans. sul high muck-a-muck with CHAPTER XI. f us at the pade out of the seragaly brush and came Slapped me against a polished boulder. attack of the horrible nausea that had How did you round him up single- same bunch ul Injuns. Yuh ean x How . count, after ying down to them After that T ceased to be interested overpowered me at first handed, and what became of the reat guess he'd sure make me step around T daybreak Buck lashed his first ' « two men broke for the other In anything And when I'd got my second wind, Of lis bunch?" T turned to Sandy. if he got a chance And he's neagre camp outfit into t downst: i vunted deer, but Sandy's alert brain grasped — - as it were, they got me on my fe - Took to the woods ke @ flock makin’ it his business to geta ch note Rags y little Once + ! 1 place where the the possibilities of the situation, and C . " and we poked along the river a hun- Wh young grouse, grinne They He's been after me off and on ev a Deeehin chanaes v4 11 floor of sand he Mung a bullet into the sand at their HAPTER X. dred yards to Buck's camp, EF Was streakin’ iv when 1 got after wince that winter ; AnOe, i between two bh walled cliffs a using his six-shooter as one HF noxt thing that projected Chub was quite solicitous, Tt did thei, an’ when ' got @ stand on ia ast year Twas north ub the lake. broad sh er us. hundred =e ipert and = Sandy t 1 stone, The bluff | # No He that projec seem a marvel that a man could be Kent’ an’ made him take his choice Gora big catch ul pelta Alor alt re id not have more eoouted | a for ind at last worked. They turned tall, and piled itself upon my scious: tossed and tumbled like a dead fiKh comin’ sonable an’ runnin’ spring thin Ray and fentive oT Cabo uig it ta Pointed triumphantly to the fresh into the boat at hand, As we bore } ness was np brown, anxious down a half-mile of rapids that byile« trace againat a chunk ub lead, busts in on me and [in lneky a , peu ‘ int of brovd-soled hunting-boots- down on them they shot out into the face bending over me, @ and bubbled as tempestuously as any , Diet tem keep @-driftin’. They'll t away with my se ! trans} et le bore the means o leh Chub had worn, stream, gathering way like an ex. taco familiar in outline, but Witehes' caldron, and then be fished have to take their legs for it now. T darned if [let him run me on A aitialetenis for an’ Gudein lie carina *Z knowed he had to leave hig track press-train, under the cumulative 900 it low to believe 1 Cut ofan eddy with nothing but minor took 4 hefly rork an’ caved In the hea suse dealt me tote uh misery. voy \t easily, to, on bla aturdy plac this if he went down push of four paddles. at made me slow to belie injuries, Whole bottom uh that boa n, Tye been mighty lucky, thoush 4 i , Pe Fe ee on when he "Sandy chuckled as he Mung himself saw aright. I stared up at the blue With a fire going and @ pot of say,” he addressed himself to Chub— Twice he's had me dead to rights, back. With bia riffe and forty-five N ‘ . m Do you remember “Me, Smith” and “The Lady Doc. were among the most popular stories THE EVEN- ING WORLD has published Both were by the same author, romance that ia better than either of them. It ta THE MAN FROM BITTER ROOTS By Caroline Lockhart Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World ‘THE MAN FROM BITTER ROOTS” Ia a love-and-adventure tale of the Big Outdoors A splendid mental Spring Tonic. wh oe She has writtena pound canoe, every nook and cragny in the North was open to his passing. It was an object lesson in economy of necessaries. With that feather- weight craft Buck could discount our beat speed on either river or portage. As it happened, the Frenchman made no attempt to molest our camp on Charteris—did not ascend the creek at all, Buck told us when We eventually arrived, three behind him. But one thing about Indiana disturbed Buck; they bad poked leisurely along the east shore, and from time to time a runner would disappear in the woods Whether they were seeking our camp or merely hunting, Buck could not say, nor Was he sure whether any of them had penetrated far enough inland to come acroas of our presence there. And he left us to hang on the French man’s trail, Buck again counselled a winter camp nearer the post. This move Howe stubbornly re. tus to conside: ant as Jean seemed quite indifferent one way oF the other, there was nothing to do but stick it out on Charteris, Buck left us with a promise to return ig winter shut down before he sucosede ed in his quest, The time was to come when we paid dearly for our failure to take that timely warning to heart. It did seem a trifle precipitate to abandon a good location, after the labor of building a substantial cabin, on the bare chance that Francois might take a whack at us. There were six men of us—I counted Chub and Howe, for though they were tho waite phants of the camp it wae to suppose that they would make good in case of @ raid—and ix white men entrenched behind log walls would be a combination Fran- cols might well hesitate to tackle. So I reasoned. It's human nature to diMdain flight from an intangible danger; mort of us hate to beat a retreat unless we're compelled to- Some two weeks after our return with Chub a captive, Howe came quietly {nto the cabin one afternoon where I lay alone, My ribs and ool- lur-bone were still too sore to per- mit of #tirring around with any de- gree of comfort. He sat down on thi edge of my bunk and regarded me curiously, “What's the use of being buried back here, anyway?” he began ab- hasn't done me a par- T can't get rid of the it's planted too deep in my craving; ayetem., There ian't a waking hour that I wouldn't give anything on earth for a half-ounce of morphin. I'll go clean mad If it keeps up much longer,” “The trouble with you, Howe, ts that you don't fight against it. You don't buck up and say, ‘I won't think about it.’ Use the will power that na- ture gave you, Aside from its degrad- ing tendency, it's a matter of self. preservation, for that stuff will wfil you bef-re long if you continue tte use. For Heaven's sake, take a brace and stop brooding over it. You've made a pretty good stagger at getting without it, Don't be a quitter A lot of commonplace advice, to de sure, but T couldn't trust myself to let tip of my tongue. more or less restraint in tallting @ him. Somehow I couldn't wake up eny of the old, friendly feeling I use@ to have for him. If a man outrages all one’s ideas of decency, that feel ot contempt is @ natural sequence no bond of friendship te enough to withstand. And letting eng vice get the upper hand to euch extent that it leads @ man to ley lent hands on @ woman he has solemn oath to protect works a feiture of all title to respect end sideration at the hands of his That's how T felt, and I'm no Pharisee, either, 3 as Physically Howe had always over. topped me; in school he hed always been what they called a brilliant pes- former, both in the classroom and in athletics, Hence, he knew what his brain-wrecking course meant to him- self, his wife and their people—knew it without any tongue-lashing from me. So having delivered my short homily, I fell silent. For as much ae five minutes neither of us word, I lay quite still, staring at the ridge-pole, and Howe kept his eyes steadfast on the dirt floor, ou took some stuff away from the day he struck out, dida’t he presently asked, dropping » discreetly, anawe his . Doyle you?" 1 shortly, divining sation, “Let me have a little of it, Tooumy,” he wheedled. No." 1 demurred. Maybe { was wrong, but it seemed to me that it was aernetal time. If he was ever to be himself again it would be through winning out in just such streggles, He was in a bad way, avery flire of his be rying aloud for moe phine, 1 wasn't blind to that, but | reasoned that if -L gave in he would simply have to go over the same ground vin and a n, whereas one victory 1 make choke the lipped ‘you're better ov your >the woods and t fade ee ot tt." Td y Lam we? w lo you he once In I's for i hove the same t tiny bit 1d thrown twish I'd de- kept the case, such @ neces- but Id i would be nd towered me in erfect frenzy of rage, earn u out of that and crack every bone tn your bod; (To Be Continued.)