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i } e UNDE Author of (Copyright tw Street & Smith.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Tom Hetrick (who tel lajor Holliday to searey ughiter Ghee ner niet inate ered inte the tracklow norty county, “Me mewa 1968, arriving he finds an i fshind ivn ee “W “ CHAPTER XI. Continsed.) 3 didn't wait to see if 1 made a move to comply with his demand, ‘The words were barely out of his mouth when his nervous fingers ‘were at my throat and I was being shaken and slammed against the wall till I could have cried out with the pain of the broken bones he wrenched #0 cruelly. Mercifully It dida’t continue for any length of time, | heard Jean scream for Sandy, and the next mo- ment my right-hand man leaped through the doorway and came at Howe with a rush. I never learned where Sandy served his apprenticeship in the selence of Msticuffs, but he had Howe bleeding j@t the nose and mouth, had him stag- ing under a swift succession of aight right and left-hand punches, nd finaly dewn on his bands and Nees bruised and battered and all he ugliness knocked out of bim, hen the other men rushed in, If ean had not been standing by, atching him without a whimper, —so he toll me afterward— knocked him to his feet or the pleasure of knocking him own again. As it was, he stopped, md the bunch of them hustled ‘Pwe outside. Jean came over to “Did he hurt you much, Tommy?” asked shakily. fothing to speak of,” I equivo- cated. I didn't want to whine—es- pecially to her. She looked down at me for a sec- ond, then tho tears gathered in her shed and she went quickly back to the other rooin as Sandy returned to look mo over, As had been the case when Joe ap- plied summary measures to his per- n, Howe was on his good behavior for some time thereafter. He even fhad the grace to come and make a half-hearted apology to me. The others, however, kept an eye on him in case he might break out again, Meantime the days were being whit- tled down at both ends, Indian sum- mer drew nigh—smoky, still the one season of unalloyed comfort in that Primeval land of extremes; a little ise Of the North in its kindliest ; @ short siesta in the lap of the forest gods before the hard grapple and obliterating snow. For a brief p this languorous Beason endured. none afternoon pe clouds drifted in ragged battal- ions from out the north forefront of a rousing dusk the blue sky wa hind the leaden-hu when we arose at meadow-grasses w @ foot of feathery #1 w. The vind had dic » a murmur. It was warm, just o. the verge of freezing, and the snow came silently down in a gyrating veil, piling on the spruce boughs till they bent under the damp weight. Three days it snowed without ces- @ation, and the drifts grew to our window sills, The fourth night it cleared. But tn place of the warmth that should have melted the heavy pall of white and given the North another short breathing spell before the six-months’ tussle with winter, came merciless, penetrating cold. CHAPTER XII. NCE in a decade, mately, there descends upon the North a winter that be- gins In early October and laps over into May; « winter that scourges even the wild things of the forest, a season of stress from which men date happenings until the next one sets a new mark from which to reckon, It was 81 a season that came upon us now or two delirlous weeks snow fell and blizzards raged, with an occasional clear day sand- mass. dawn the dried re buried under approxt- wiched in between, Then ne aky red like glinting stecl and the Bret g cold settled down to its bulldog grip. y We hardly 1 the malignant power of the . well housed and clad as we were, and | was rather glad of the unsodly weatler-it Inter- taway nosed an effectual bar tos Rttempts on Chub's part. Without a goodly supply tout dow team and a knack of winter eamp ing, na an or i tr and hope to 1 | and though Chub d nerve te and the w Just before the} Howe had a te to pull Sou He ho would be buried ne longer, and only when Je inied out that he had no choice in the matter did ha subside, fier ning strike ont for himself, 1 of_dynamite in that camp We put in mo the daylight hours ker} 1 Ame anh teen meat, and } pa rve supply of wood; the fivep and the rude oven in t hen ate up wood astonishingly Chul became a willing sly it Howe did Mttle save sit in and elbwar into the cracklin All of a sudden a inn Joe Pierce anil 1 into camp one afternoon from arcu Aribot, and found Howe and Chub racing two dog-teams about the \ santa’ had been a gras dow. Garhed in parkas and fur 1 roosted on the F yelled encouragement to thet tive teams Before long they gave over yewrned loove the dogs. lowe came eamp a different man—if pos- and An Adventure Romance of the Frozen North By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR was like @ stick & IPED UENO COMMER ENE EEN EO WUD R THE GRE INRA AT BEAR’ ¢ Re sible, a less agreeable one to have about. From being sullen and moody he became arrogant and domineer- ing as though, having demonstrated his mastery over the dogs he would fain ply the whip on the reat of us. Next day he and Chub repeated their fantastic performance, but In- J of wearing the dogs out racing donned snow-shoes and circled open till they were near ex- ty- Three,” Bie, y the haus: There came a morning when Sandy and Pierce shouldered their guns and took to the woods for caribou, Howe and Chub began their everlasting frolic with the dogs. Phillp and I chopped wood until our fingers be- came numb from gripping the frosted axe handles, then went inside and hovered over the fire till we were warm again, Philip went out after an armful of wood. Jean and Louise were in the kitchen, I sat alone, my back to the door. I heard the wooden latch click, heard the door open and close, but didn’t look around. Next instant & blanket dropped over my head and I was jerked backward to the floor. When my head was freed of the stifling wrap long enough to permit of a gag being thrust into my mouth I was tied hard and fast and Howe and Chub stood over me triumphant- ly. It was a neat job. They wasted precious little time, however, in ad- miring their handiwork, but hurried to the kitchen, I heard Louise scream, and a min- ute Inter the sound of hammering at the kitchen window. Then they re- appeared, lugging Philip, trussed up as I was, and flung him roughly on a bunk; they left me on the floor, I hadn't expected such a bold move. Our winter's food supply—stuff that ran no danger of spoiling—was stored in a corner of the big room we occu: pled. Swiftly, silently, as if it had been carefully rehearsed beforehand, they selected the grub they needed id carried it outside—where I could readily surmise the dog teams they ul trained so industriously stood ting, ‘That didn’t take long. Next they paWed over our clothing, pick- ing out what suited them best, and lastly they laid hands on the small calibre, high-power rifles that Philip and I used when we were after big game. Chub was in one corner stuMng boxes of cartridges into his coat pockets, and in the centre of the room Howe stood testing the action of my | rifle when Joe Pierce stepped softly into the open doorway. I cry out, to warn him; but they had made too thorough a job of the gag- ging. ‘en if I'd been able to use my voice, It would have been useless. Howe was too quick, too cold-blood- edly certain of action. He threw up the gun and pulled almost without aim, and at that distance ft was al- mo: impossible to miss. Plerce ewayed a moment, clawing blindly Fadi both hands, and fell forward on Is face, tried to} Can You Beat It? xxetk, By Maurice Keiten VLL GET HIM) You STAY RIGHT / HERE —— \ WHERE'S, } JACK ? t IT'S TIME WE WERE GOING HOME TOHN 9 | WE Must BE Going / Too ae: ILL GET HIN You STAY RIGHT HERE Mate he HAVE 7 iM MONADE [la a NR TACKS 2 ies BE Gonna INDULGE IN LEMONADE 2 ISN'T ITA t ULL GET Him You STAY RIGHT HERE Now WHATS. BECOME oF SOHN 2? IT ISN'T. NY FAULT. IT ISN'T RY FAULT THAD To KEEP RUNNING AFTER JOHN WIFE WANTS “Nou Do you remember“ M. ING WORLD “THE MAN FROM In a love-and-a: |oo beat off that bunch, it and shelter, and care for them wo ind Jo If the Frenchman wins, why" motioned up. the river “its that for us. And yuh know what that means, with the slim out- fit we got—even if the Injuns leave }us alone, They'll suffer, 1 tell yuh, iv be hell! - “1 know it," I answered. “There's no use hesitating if you think we can do any good, Mut Philip will have to y and wateh camp. I'd go crazy if ad to sit tight and wait” a "You weel all be tak’ long chance, Philip sald wistfully. “Maybe so Ah don’ see you no more, eh? Wrat den” “A man must get down to cass sometimes,” Sandy opined bri one else spoke; we weren't mood for talk. There was little preparation to make, Slinply « look at the working mechanism of our guns and a stow- ing away of a few extra cartridg Then we hooked our moccasined to under the snowshoe loops and stole away through the trees, Once only did we speak on the way. Buck snagged bis snowshoe on an un~ rT limb,, and as he straightened himself up ‘he voleed his thoughts. "he grunted, “IE sure do hope nd put Francois out uh me lots y. No in the uh misery, that Frenchman,’ “He has that,” I glumly admitted. “nH deal us a heap more if he gets to that camp while we're away.” “Dont yuh worry about that,” Buck confidently assured me, “Somehow L can't help thinkin’ he's got his hands full right now, Anyhow them Injuns ain't mind-readers; they got to foller that trail to find it, and they can't do that unknown to us. A little wind sprang up as dawn grew, and scattered quickly the vell of clouds. The sun hovered above the tree tops, brassy, heatless, In tt# slanting beams the frost particles quivered and danced, millions of gleaming atoms. The snow-blanket- jed river surface and the broad lake beyond glittered like white enamel, till the eyes ached from the reflected glare, By this time we drew near the edge of the forest, opposite Resolu- tion, and from the shelter of the thicket peered across the river. So far no sound of shooting had come to our ears, One end of the stockate was breached and blackened by the fire, lone posts uprearing to heaven like jaccusing fingers. ‘The doctor's quar. \ ters, a row of cabins that had house’ company men and thelr families, and were among the most popular stories THE BVEN- Both were by the same author, romance that is better than either of them, THE MAN FROM BITTER Roots By Caroline Lockhart It Will Be Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World renture tate of the Big Outdoors A splendid mentat Spring Tonic. Daina aMa NaN i RRR I AION Waninianin has published She has written a itis BITTER ROOTS” READ IT. day on Charteris not more than half a dozen reached the east bank alive. Among them ran the Frenchman, But he never reached the shelter his black heart craved. Buck growled an oath when h ught sight of the hooked nose, the thin, cruel lips, framed in the parka hood: he glanced down the barrel of his Winchester, and when is forefinger crooked at last Fran- cols ran no more. A moment later the forest had swallowed the remnant of that raiding band, and we went down to where the Krenchman iay gasping out his life in the reddened snow, “But Em ew U3 I got you, Frenchy," Buck muttered, looking down at the glazed eves. “I'm giad I've paid old Peace River's debt, and paid It right. [ don’t reckon you'll come alive again.” Then we crossed the river to Mac- Donough and his men, who had halted on the other bank. CHAPTER XV. T was weil into the afternoon by the time we got Pierce and Jean and Philip's sister } moved down to the post and housed in MaecDon- ough's comfortable quarters with tho voluble little doctor and his wife. We'll be a bit crooded,” Mac whim. aically observed. “But thae mair thae Mm ser, Presairve us, but we've had # ronsin’ time o't!” gb!" Jean shivered, holding out her hands ta the pot-bellied stove that glowed in the centre of the big front room, “I hope this is the real calm that’s popularly supposed to follow # storm. What was that terri- ble explosion this morning? It sound- ed like the crack o' doom, up the river. “'Twas thae crack o' doom for some o' oor assailants, beyond a doot,” Mac told her, his stern old face relaxing into the same grim smile that had rested on it when he ex- plained to Buck and the rest of us earlier in the day. “Ye see, Mistress Howe, ‘twas this way: Yon parcel o° misguided red folk were snugly hoosed i’ thae stable. ‘They wadna cam oot an’ fight wi' us openly. sae we—no havin’ ony likin’ tae be sent heavenward in a fiery chariot, which wad hae been oor untimely end if thae beggars had gotten anither dark night tae proceed wi' their deevil- ment—tixed a bit fuse i’ thae end- Iscellancous shacks, were so hole o' a fifty-poond keg o' powd aerate ZH, f00Ht You cursed mur. IRAne ereoine hentet SEREboreei& an’ rowled it doon upo! That Serons ering fool! Chub erled, a quiver in . 0 ry O04 t old o' thae enemy. el ve his voice. Tut Howe merely pumped Well as 1 do. Yun know how he'd en- straight up-and-down creases be- shore filled me wth @ nervous, halt- just one show. We must got up the house still stood and the company hold o” thae ainper tee the Seen another cartridge home and stepping Joy gettin’ his hands on either you tween the eyes. Yet we decided to go expectant dread, not unlike the river past them, and pray for fallia’ {one md loop-holed for defense by Was a timely thocht an’ action, ‘Thao carelessly over the man's body, peered OF me, Seattle. And the plunder here on. It was the only thing to do. definable, unreasoning fear that a snow to cover ‘our tracks, if them Wi!lé ion that hullded betore our red bodies went up wi' a lairge bang! cautiously out the door, Would look good to all of 'em—to say Afe's all a gamble, anyhow,” dark, empty room brings to the soul Injuns win that fight.” Fiabe clas a ReMbUAE MAIC Miata ABUWHAC Wha tattrontbaes wie a fer Chub bent down and turning Plerce POthin’ of the women. An Injunain't Sandy commented philosophically, of @ child.” The merciless cold bred — Hugsing closely. the eastern bank (Ne Also a rambling stable of the bein’ back tae woods, Ma dene ledas, over laid ear to his breast far short of a plumb fiend some ways, And Philip seconded, “She ees dat.” Visions of great, roaring fires, of wo bore up the Tiver as softly and Wateh tower on a far corner of the ye're utay i’ thae North is ne-ane ing “Isn't dead, thank the Lord,” 1 It's wiser for us to run than fight. So it cane that another hour saw ¢ozy rooms, of soft, warm winds {speedily was in our power, and Tlned | ste Raw wisps of pea bi vidi A ord,” T haa fy . a a r r : smoke bl om the store chimney. e disturbit again 1’ siccan fashion. heard him mutter. Howe had gone , “AS you say, it's wiser to run than us sipping down Charteris like 4 land of green grass and fl thanked fortune for the concealing ®™ "Tis a lesson thas sons o' Satan'li outside. Chub picked Joe up with figlt,"I moodily observed. “It's ahard ghosts in the night. As silently as Just as the grim days of starvation dark that enfolded. ue, We earn . Scanning Closely the few remaining glower on for & generation, at tha "effort. aad ialgonh Por the formation, and we'll have to make raiding Indians did we go, the only that Buck and T once faced together abreast at tho heloagucrod stockade, buildings we wondered where the an. Fake AHO) AE ERD Sunke, os ald Bim on one oF the the best of it, Since they've taken sound the faint pluft-plutt of enow had kept me brooding on epfendid cone past, and scurried along the Siy MUEKE De Mew 56 miathoes at tay MORN sutal leneth money unk j ; , all the dogs we must get along with- shoes and the smothered crunch Vistas of food—Jutcy steaks, toot- jue-locked sl Of the Slave ‘The dan warfare as was, 1 needed somewt thy ape . cred Wovretn Impatene cat? Buy out them, I noticed that they didn't when the toboggens ran foul of a #ome salads, wines, ten-courae dine wuld, shore of the slay report, telling that by daylight Httle could man of MacDonough's habitual brev~ swered Howe's impatient call. But ? gst . : y be ac lished th of at- ity, but he was trying to put Jean aa he lingered, white-faced and con- think to destroy the other two to- crisp drift. It was cold beyond ners, food to throw to the dors The glare of burning buildings grew be accomplished jn the way Se caus And hin wend bout tt scionce-siricken, to whisper in my BoRgans. We can make Joe comfor- words. ‘The blasting air truck home Now. my imagination, sirinking dim, Yer we menaced Cntr eae tack—not while those stont log walla Alana’ waa wall eee ee can em 30 Whisper In MY table on one, and the other will have to our lungs Ike inhaled ammonia, from tho bitterness of the trail, took Sine of the mautery akg rete na eet: endured and the stouter gg nce ti FON na eee teat On. th iat to carry what grub we need. The and we beat our hands softly against refuge in rosy pictures, dreams of rledly. to eover. hind, Buck Inclined to the notion trou ote BO enone while we so- DON'T uae he'd go that far, rest we'll have to leave. Ho let's get our breasts to keep the warm piood abounding Warmth, and refuge from “A mile or two more or less don't ttt the Frenchman's tribute had firat Journed tn lave Lake region, ont Clame mer Mednek=T. didn't ttt and start aeeoon as We cA!’ coUIMNE to the fngertion For a the. unseen evils Which Inv” reason oath cee te eer eae dont broken the stockade by fire, then wen he post itself was not in such bad mean to hurt any T just wanted “That's sense," Buck commented. long time it was quite dark, the coldly said did not exist—but which “It the! y “a le ‘hit tral and to the stables, and from that shelter shape as nt first glance hed appeared, to get out of thi. It was noon by the time everything frozen water-course a dim, shadow. I could feel hovering over me. I Poller, Wen Ket noe nhow tee itend loosed the flaines that left MacDon- Mac had lost only two men, and two wan in renditarn, loss trail between the gloomy forest laughed sometimes at my fooltwh fyllilt Mo Kt po whow to outrun ough's people only his house and the or three more suffered’ vario CHAPTER XI1ll. Tho two sleds were drawn up by Walls—the moon had long since van- thoughts—fanctes, rather; reason told (iM | Ba If {t comes to a show Store. They would wait for dark to wounds, Little had been destroyed DON'T know how long we the door, and all but Buck and myself ished, But as we plodded, a shoot Me that our besotments were wholly [Ako @ slanily Xf Ik comes to a shows come, then they would amoke out tao Bie arias Gaul fot Be replaced. ite > ow . : ¢ © ¢o) ostly, ad the SOND, i lg Whe 1 urvivors, big store bulldii , "9 4 g itself across mat the cold mostly, and se Pa sig ey] ” a ol uilding was crammed wit fay there like so many [rere inside. I looked over the tight: Of auiverine Came ung Teele across Tungor of the Preicnman and hie Polat ions ha mood ae wel ang! | Orheyire in that table all right." aupplies, and for a time it would have sacks of meal; it seemed . before the glimmerin heen of the tribe. - HY sgh po pe 7 Sandy argued In favor of Buck's rea- to serve as @ barrack for the house- ite freight of robes and blankets. sriherh Sen? La But the North oppresscd my soul id have found no bets goning, “if they'd pulled back to the less company of mem Mave neue an ungodly length of time Well," 1 remarked to myseli as northern Hehts, . fy . ; t de of a fort. The point timber you'd see more atir around abode accommodated ‘ tn that deadly quiet, much as to any one, “so far as 1 can with ite unchanging atmosphero o| Lp nose into the river, and thy Ola M ld be Ain’ the § accommodated us refugees. % (als, = solitude, its vast spaces that man Reiners eB : ere. id Mac woul xin’ inks And MacDonoug! hospitality wes Then the door flew open and Sandy ®¢% We're ready to start--when Joe CHAPTER XIV. cannot master, its wide reachos where V0 Heavy stand of ther grew to the for that bunch, if he dast show his the old-fashioned sort that holds it rushed fn, Buck Harrison at bis heels, {*¢7ePPed up and loaded.” ONSIDERING ‘our burdens, he may exist oniy by cunning tricks Waterline We could observe the Fiver howe. outalie. that “atone, “ANONCE kT itt a pee yea, Holda, at : nH ‘or fantasy; by As a Aer ay SOUS CORA q bs ae 3 was wrong as soon as he noted the he spoke aid RO ABT RORME: eat first lap, coming out on tho jf there were two of me-—one, A leg. Cliinbed the bank, carrying Pierce and therefore them buckles ain't tar, bas Pe | tpelaea, "ate ue Sane odd stillness around the place. They er iecae AE es lake and traversing somo weary mortal, striding mechanical Grageing (6, toboegana with great cause an Injun takes his dead ‘with Whaurs thae sense? Werte ‘bal wasted no time in questioning, but door open for me.” miles beyond the creek. behind Huck Iarrison, wishing for [\hor—hiwentng lest, the | coming him avery, time, he Packs i, from « grub an’ hoose-room. Pout! Pit by el -s he end of the trail ‘anc holdin’ © thae notion 0° y speedily cut us loose and set about I followed Buck's instructions it~ mouth, conmdorthotie thie ard might be watching from afar, Quickly that atable.” fone Roten® Shaan atise yon Som making Joe comfortable. That done, erally and withou y. Woods-wise, hardy, familiar with thing that wafted at-ange We set up the tent, and butlt'a tiny “It doesn't look as 1f we could do '22! : ‘a tuy first thought was for the women, the gort of man to become unduly ay tne Iittle devices that make for ike at wafte fire of dry bits of wood—wood that anything, then,” [ fumed, and Sandy it rst Ne gee GAG laa 4110 t 01 chen, alarme: Ne, “4 ave i aaa The q . ‘ we © ine that I couldn't We CAAA MERINEE FRaTRUPOTIL, Suet Gaur l@una ANd’ stand ty ine comfort when card put tor catnip nes a Wii tanec Mee auniein ites aera tie alien ae ih ere Te Opean AE SHES SLAg® OF She placed crosswise ot the frame, and windows,” Buck warned Sandy and cessities, Buck and Sandy knew ways Wit, one Alert eve on the nbling with discovery, but our need crouched. behind. the ‘ereemina wit, Kathe: My promise to Dibble, my own tho little window shut up on the out- Philip. ‘“rhere's @ painted buckerino of patting the grim frost and the still, Wout gin An eur fo the | 7 reat, And when we had eaten lows, watching the post and wonter, Pre wouldn't lot me be at ease while side with canoe-seats nailed close to- spyin’ on us right now, and the amall wind that stabbed a ea Wigemty I Aa He od “og OF Amun ae are Rien tral eevee eae nat a Fae) cas icnenan wan ute Pity '= Chub burrowed south with that tale gether—which accounted for the ham- Woods may be full of them for all I &? Fe ie men nee ie MCADORT: OOD Ie ee et gat land alt nd hit bundled {n robes and blankets within Without Warning a burst of firins be, his tongue's end. The doctor de- mering I'd heard. Jean and Loulse Know. We'll eit quiet and let them Nor were Philip and myself altogether OV0r @ fire and eat an "the Httle tent, and Buck emothered gan. We could easily neo the anicka clared that Joo would probably re. BERL Cate DEC UE RMAC RT Nta ies Giintna To eit antennae ev Te Pllatime Jo the matter of cheerlese "5, t\ne'wo sounded aijaged proms the fre, tor ie Was aronine Ment TGA Toto ane muntmtieaiae THCKe cover! Haws wes not 0 be Beaaaed might have happened, but otherw minded to start anything’ camps. We had an axe and matches ontory, and 1 into yawn "Well, sir, blamed if 1 ain't waitin’ through cracks In the stable walls, &% & murderer, anyway, And I couldn't unharmed, Chub and Howe had sim “Oh, yuh wot your eye on him, did and grub and robes, and the wit to inouth’ of for somebody to shake me awake, so 1 The Hudson Bay men were saving ®€¢ePt seriously Mac's prophecy that ply closed the door and nailed up the yuh?" Buck came over to me, speak~ 94 them to the best advantare—wia, water end can find out I been drear Sandy thelr powder, evidently, for no Mey would finish in @ snow-bank, window, and left them to make the ing in an undertone. “It's lucky I MO WIRS oun that 1 pyegl I volced seme. answering shots came from the other though I was tempted to wish the best of it, and they had no means of noticed that jasper, Ie ain't watche 4om the long trail teaches with A thing of iy own feeling. "L geoweg buildings; and the Indianw ceased ag Would, So far as breaking the drug breaking o ext we found Howe in’ for hia health. Of course, It'll be stern hand to those who follow tt and over up in this country—my- ine ee ag Suddenly as they began, ackles that fettered Howe was con- had taken the sledge dogs with him. pretty tough if they try to take us survive, Wherefore we fell to after Vell netther nant Cre rsolf—an' L never knowed _ “Good Lord! “Look at that!” Buck cerned the trip had been a failure, was a4 minute of dismayed si- tn, but nothin’ to what it would be iba twatan\ ma ante ed, ana Penetrate to Injuns to raid a Hudson Bay port; not Whispered T wasn’t anxious to quit the shelter Not one of us but knew what {f they caught us on trail ike they REE eee SER wage eset in my time, I've heard ty dad tet Og gud of the stable rose into the MacDonough offered—tar trom it; but F cap that would be, even if it did that time Peace River got his speedily were masters of a cheery the assy in 7H pe NS a C1 ecco ly, ten, twelve feet per- © Stubborn resolution to make good was only a little more than a hun- ieht put out. fire and a rude shelter of spruce was near no nt Hd a Ag iG iwi the ate ii It ‘we to hover uncertainly [2¥ defiance of both Pollock and Chub Grea miles to Fort Resolution. The “4, another entnute Ruck pinched boughs banked with enow, which speaking Huck pulled up short, © it wit or kno ‘get an instant, Then it scattered in a hounded me to the trail, With Fran- Was a helpless man to be bundled in wis over known to ge cols elimir t was 1y robes and carried every foot of the My arm. My gaze travelled under his served the double purpose of mask. ‘link 1% ! 1 an’ take the war-trail (housend dragments, Bucks dirt, (eee with the Northen the tee Way; there was food for the rest of {lent direction to the lower end of ing the fire-mtow and shutting off tho We wonder ib wave par | Alt FO oe eA eee ee ree oot tINe with the udvaninga on my ide ate ) ws, and some sort of canvas shelter for [RO, pen. the end that wa afore-mentioned wind given over t lut ' ‘ " r atoms settled to earth, the roar of it MacDonough, w ‘ 1 not alter the two women. Without dogs our abd fram the creek by NER a cnth andta foil alamaeh jade: te ac ; ! man,” gatd Buok. smote erashingly upon our ear-druma, my determination, willing] nished ay Pee Te ould ent the ment TE held iny breath, thinking the the World gcem brighter, By com. heast or. eleme for {bo {7 Tie dead ak and went booming up the valley and @ fox team and bade us help our- m ’ 5 ORIG: 2HO BARES ee 8 area aa a mon consent We divided the pe ue} M ' “ ‘ I vd him dead to our over the silent reaches of Slava S¢lves at the store. eee an Wore Gh Mew: Then Ruy OO Te asi arank Hush our halt into watches, and pre ! W i tt nee; Lwish I'd made a purer fake, From the walls of the store The evening of our arrival ati the See Mee et ' Aca scien ho laid down to sleep, leaving Philip tu frost began to i ¢ t white puffs began to spurt mpidly, Post Sandy, Buck and I labored qi Cet RUS hot ieeee mice oe ae Ste wan tend fire and guard c unul it wag Then a crackle, like t of "It grinds me t! lay here quiet an? hut the crackling of rifles sounded O'clock preparing for the mornine’s thik, GHD luck ne bomen, While we swinging with regular, anac time to call the next a : ryt think Ww A re mn down ridiculously weak and Ineffective af. start—that the men we followed digesting Philip's unwel ing atsides over Day caine and went iis way, and " ! tered, “What's the ter that sounding roar, might not Increase the lead they Ned at nution ie bate rin t acl Meaney ae ey no sign of Francois sturbed us. tf heard i h 1 in’ around here freezin' t' “Look ‘em=-what's: ftem!" a gained. When it was done Ket to Resolution, t] tte . holdl ‘Ose ec 0 Mhartit can wa naked n Who wWa?—maybe they Buck cried eagerly. ‘Hittin’ for ok ourselves to MacDonough's Phis place ain't safe no more, That's every fifth one a dog-team strained and took t h fl ! i ue wn way Th log lay t be af r t : and took now te ned vin ‘things all their o Ay. riv nt 6 lay at be om for a aniet smoke be why 1 pulicd in here to-day, I don't in the harness. Not a squaw or inate AA ne | aan siden Ad I fe Tho di want to “seare the women into fits, poke ploded tn Mne—atral Trunpings whiia that ween: 7 ! 1 ' the timber Abmiae guint coe lent os thee fown and sat near the red hot steve at they a right to know what backed, upstanding braves, each one yinpied aero the hearcne melt ry \ 1 make u litte farther,” t toes, 1 was not eold, y're 1A be 1 Agiinst. I've of them Acros that narrow apace o ivsterious, and the North ut i'r sit t ledona Ruck turned and plunged swiftly r come from the warm boon that Frenchman and I could seo the hot breath turn to joomed vague before our frosterivned Mach through the scrub, even In haste s « Tsat down upon a roltt-of nis trib y they've been driftin’ white steam-puffs as it blew from eyes--a time of atraining against tos ret ft bed the bi that,” Buck moving swiftly, with noiseless. swing bedi ut the far end of the lon toward eris—and right now their mouths and met the frozen. alt gan lead-ropes, stalking on and on ' shaft ref H t strike mo ing etrides, He did not far, and ro nd wave myself up ton a they're met more'n ten miles —could see the little spray of snow over an endless fleld show In the 1 { Mac Se echt When we) out behind a tion and a elarett hh : medias up the er tarly this mornin’ as fly at h uplifting of the webbed of & barely palpable figure that " rota wane mp of P tans » two Jean came over an , 1 headed thls way to sea how yuh shows, Without a turn of the head was Huck Mutt ane deat! j as Kine AA a OOD RY Ai the gidn nen ver and sat down be. Wero wtackin up. I crossed the trail they kept their way, and as the 1 do not know if I am cursed or | \ un’ beat k to camp Bayt ul sallied forth to "What have you been doing * fwione Injun, Tf Vit, and fln- leader of the column plunged into blessed with more. inietnation shan | Se dg mutta 1 ay: rtaderyuh seer they dont Aire eat te, Buck tong evening?" ahe mated Taree eye My come on him sizin’ up the camp the timber, benring at an angle to. iy fellows, But th , popt's a got ped ne kne going atr to the & nosemy from the edge uh the timber. I ward the creek, | heran ¢ yunt nd the huge, frozen ‘tind e your shots count,” he sald o¢ her m fominant paint Was one passed lint Up, and watched bim start One, two, three, tan. twenty, forty : aurora Bo awered sad and ty ybe. w iD 0 “Fixing a dow outfit tom up the hore wasn't. any use tayint lin SONReRstInted aborlsinon forty’ binds. w lities of evi bloody Jour ; Acrows the frozen Slave they mished, we" T anawered ticontealty P out, hecause if he didn't show Up master Tenegada. w n lina, and semblance of 41 1 \ Bu and and while our rifles spat death in them’ She lowered nae overhanh H he ayy can 4 thea ie ® while T wondered they whipped into tried to snateh the breath f the : 1 wiring t me their faces the guns of MacDonough's abty bead woul rouble, Maybe they don't the spruce and were gone from sight, tired bodies failing at " Kor We're had shape, We got am | th jessl 1 idea. srommed aim to disturb yuh—but I'd hate to Buck's face wanjclose to the primi. bare flesh of our cheeks will glowing jen ‘ ko resives, {f that's dyin’ by ine areal Tee Tes fem marellonly from | 1 modned, Avrweaniiad) (iaieamae risk it, kaowln’ that 3 f glowing Mp argued the rear. So it came that of all the to-day, yon remember,’ ' Ww! at Freuchman as tive window, hia brow puckered into coals, Those nights along the lax@ I'm right—and I know I am—we got softly “f we can help MacDonough |ine of painted braves I counted that (To Be Continued.) °