“AND YOU" SYNOPSIS. Lee Anderson, Roy Canadian Mounted Police ser- geant, is sent to Stony range to arrest a man named Pelly for murder. He Is also instructed to look after Jim Rathway, reputed head of the "Free Traders,’ fillet lilguor runners, At Little Falls he finds Pelly Is credited with having found a gold mine, and fs missing. At the hotel appears a girl, obviously out place In the rough surroundings. A half- breed, Plerre, and a companion, “Shorty,” annoy the girl An- derson Interferes in her behalf. al of CHAPTER II—Continued w— — He took refuge In whadya tink of him, boys?" he de nanded again of the men, who had formed a close circle around the palr. “He don’ fight an’ he got de nerve to say ‘dat "ll be all’ to Plerre Canuchon. No, by gar, 1 guess you know better dan to fight,” he continued, adding a foul epithet; and, grinning, he lurched insolently past toward the bar, shoul rinz L.ee as he passed. He looked back for whether the other provocation, and, irony. “Well, de instant to accept that an would seeing See the showed his ive on The once-over ywontemptu- for ‘the bully, way with Shorty. Lee the It had love individual without is not supposed to pose as a ously, but an instinct 0 lady's champlon and then back down. The minds of the too obtuse to see that Lee been with gaining his point prospectors satisfied for a a pipe, and went early to his blankets He inter paced the stoop trian wed himself irl was. to the » other destin going ition. Perhap again, it] t ¥ quite 0 th ossibllity e ceased to 1fter the med when the n he parlor. portions hi { } He Was us lling asleep when the sound of a name his ear, startled aimost in instant Lee hreoeed wakefulness, recognized the yvolce Plerre Cauchon. or @t moment or tw fromm where n he discos Then from the fulness consciousness, sense at frighten buttin® In her away. our photy her ya? with you is you cain’ kot Pox KES, t hold yer “1 didn't it word heft Pierre growled: have no inst to say flusher butted In. 1 wish Mebbe 1 i in’ chanst in “Well, and why did ya why. Because you saw four-flusher, He's tough, he watchin’ Don’t yao make no mistake ahont And It's lucky you didn't get no chanst to spill what ya was goin’ to, or you'd shore have scairt the girl away, “You listen here,” he continued keep out of this to-morrer till she's gone, and then we e'n ride hard and ketch up with her at sundown and explain that we're friends of hern” Their became inarticulate, Lee sirained his ears to eateh the Im- port of their conversation. but he ould hear nothing but the low whis per of thelr volces, “Well, I guess you're right, Shorty," said Plerre after a while. “We got to see she don’t give us de slip, though.” Shorty snickered and whispered something to which the other elucked approval, “She cuin’t, neither,” he sald “There's only one way into the range, an’ when we got her there we got her where we want her.” No more was sald, and soon ‘the snoring from the other side of the stove indleated that the pair had sue cumbed to sleep. But all desire for sleep was banished from Lee's brain. There was the alternative of two courses of action: he could warn the girl in the morning, placing himself nt her disposition; or he could keep her more or less In sight during his Jour ney the following day, with a view to yn? he that fel. 1 ike 0 no ler is, an’ ent. that was ¥a “voi volces By VICTOR (Copyright y wab—— eo ————————————— ——— ROUSSEAU G. Chapman.) whenever they made thelr ap- But he could not afford to take any action which would give the clue to his status and activities; and apart from that, he wanted to keep in touch with the two men, in case they could furnish any clue to Pelly's where abouts—Iif he were alive. Some time early invthe morning he fell into a restless slumber, from which he was partly aroused by the sound of a horse's hoofs clattering in the yard He wondered sleeplly whether this was an early departure or some belated arrival, and then, turning over, managed to lose con- sciousness for an hour or two longer, At last, when further sleep had be come Impossible, he sat up, struck a match, and looking at his watch, dis- covered that It was nearly six o'clock. He threw his blankets over his urm, stepped over the sprawl limbs of the sleepers, and went out to the stable where he watered his horse, afterward kicking his heels about the place until, In the first glimpse of the ing ng the kitchen. Lee and a “Get me a cup of cof. he in, plece of bread.” went ‘hat'l! be enough for me. I've got to The ail woman filled the kettle from a of water table Lee ed: “You know that night" “Me not grunted, ask Stove “Don’t wl T am’t speal understand. ’ at other f Why wi ’ o of Rathway's zang In this 1 Qn olks say “You mean the big man?” “Shore 1 do” The landlord at him. “Hooch-runners from lake.” “What're t Xiston doing here?” asked “1 guess they ain't here fer no good That's why 1 was wishin® you'd boy hs CHAPTER III An Unwelcome Guardian role off hot with at the landlord's innuendo about the RC. M. P. But this soon yielded to anxiety about the girl that the two men were from Siston lake and the recollection the con- versation he had overheard. convinced him that they were planning to kid- nap and convey her there, Such a plan would seem Inconcely- able but Lee knew that the gang, be- leving their organization firmly en- trenched In power, would stop at very little, Other things equally sinister had been done by them. However, Jee hegan to hreathe more freely when he had left the squalid little town behind him. He walked or trotted his horse till noon, gradually ascending toward the out. skirts of the range through a fairly open country. The «snows might hold off for two or three weeks yet, cud Lee felt confident that well within that period he would he able to bring back Pelly, If the lat ter were in the reglon, unless he took alarm, In which event of course Lee would have to bring his horse back to Little Falls and prepare for a long winter's chase, The new dominion Lee indignation of force carries on the tradition of the old North-West; it does not return with- out [ts man, Siston lake was admirably adapted for the needs of the Free Traders, It wus at the extreme northern limits of the range, or a little beyond, and the head of a lake and river by which communication could be had by water north to Fort Churchill or York Factory or west as far as Lake Atha basca. The York boat, laden to the gunwale with supplies of liquor, could push anywhere along the thousands of lakes and streams, acting as mother boat In | turn to ti: canoe, with one or more { eases. And over all this va #, ill-de fined district the hooch-runaer had almost unlimited proving a serious rival to the legitimate trading Interests, he carried his into the Indian's camping grounds and took his pick of the choicest furs, His trade embraced a viler one. All along the fringe of white settlement it was It had gprung up fungus overnight, during the disorgan ization of t! the war and the readjustment. | gang were steadily embittering the re { lations hetween red which had been amicable alt | the advent of the first pioneer Whichever district the it was course that she In front of system sway, since poison active, onsequ ‘RCo uence { the police in © i The whites girl impossible { bound for, the woul lees { Initially, take Lee Basco bes y 1" { backbone of mount $ { single pass nto th many miles i range of vitlley She Looked Very Trim and Business like With Her Siceves Rolled Up to Her Elbows and Her Air of Being Completely at Home In These Sur. roundings. ed up elbows and her alr of hel like with her sleeves rd to her $ in { at home these surroundings with an calm an at- | tempt to conceal a very obvious trepi- | dation “Good evening” enlled. “I'm travelling your way, and saw your camp fire, so took the liberty of join ing you, If there's no objection.” She stared hard at him as if his ad- vent were long expected blow that had suddenly fallen. For a few | moments she seemed under the In fluence of an all-possessing fear. Then mastering it, she answered with the game affectation of Indifference: “You can camp where you like, of course. The range Is free for all” Lee, a little staggered at the unwil- lingness . of this Invitation, decided that It would be better for the present not to alarm her with any explana. tiong and proceeded to pitch his tent near hers, While he was unloading his pack and watering his horse, the girl went on with her meal, without paying any attention to him, Lee, feeling both uncomfortable and foolish, was beginning to wish he had walted, when a horse neighed close at hard, his horse and the girl's answered, and a minute later Plerre Cauchon and his companion Shorty rode Into view through the gathering darkness, Plerre's behavior at the sight of Lee was nlmost lodicrouns, He pulled his horse up short with an oath, and sat ooking from Lee to the girl in almost comienl surprise. Sho ty, dismounting him which looked a then of started, expression was he Rome In a hurried companion's gestures, For several moments the light of the camp fire silhouetted the calm faces of ¢he girl and and the vindictive, scowling ones of the two men. Then Plerre leaped to “By gar, it's feHor ‘dat'll be all’, ” he shouted. manner, repeated his Yop the ground. dat tell “What you Uink you're dolug here, you d—n four- thusher te ie “Maybe the same “Ho, hreed., ns you,” sald Lee, ho, dat's good!" “You t'ink pardner, hein?" “Wouldn't go you, I've got my own hand to play,” Lee answered it here, then!” roared the we teke you In as with “You won't play lowed Shorty Ouths bel poured from “Pack yelled Lee his lips Pierre, belli; ind vamose! ndvanced on with Lee held up his threatened him “Didn't | he vied deceptivels By time or git!" don’t “You don’ to fight fight 9 gar, you’ goin lied Pierre, be ® ye id of gittin' whipped, the size cur nt He those {to remain.” y toward f thet men r those She went back t wr tent, leav- Lee stupefied, pair were seated in ont of their inching bread and They kad been watching Lee the girl furtively throughout fire, slabs rw the interview i demeanor of ims had given them termination. He foolish, It they persuaded her that they were more to be trusted, the situation any #0 Lee's was certainly far more em- than he had anticipated was almost as if the girl had de Trader agents. He had not had not ventured to volee his real sus. And he had succeeded In arousing her hos And, looking at the matter in a common-sense light, Lee realized that he had acted wrongly. He should have warned her on his first arrival. He could not blame her for refusing to accept his word, But what was at the bottom of her evident fear of him? The only. thing left for him to do was to try to protect her In spite of herself, The friendly forest had suddenly grown hateful and alien. And then Lee knew what the trouble was, It wns the submerged memories of Es telle. She meant nothing to him now, less than nothing, and yet-well, that had been years ago, and he had gone through all that. Still, the gAmprint wing theres Suddenly, ns on the night before, he was startled by the low sound of voices. Peering across the grassy he could Just distinguish the shadowy miilines of two figures against the men's fire. Very deliberately Lee drew his auto- matic from his belt. He had no doubt that Plerre and Shorty were planning mischief; most probably they meant powering the girl. And be lay watching them and grimly walting for their stealthy onset, of them, seemed an unconscionable time mal {ing thelr arrangements, all ane { audible without being intel! Low ion, { been lying there wondered how It He w waited till would too dark 1dered why t Wes witch, not had morning, { there be a taking At {One him unawares last the black 3 OW of { with stealth {that it of the two The #% the i % separated them coming ing toward lee vy, the mu Was footsteps, > wits Short y NIG e i SHOT we couri © ous figure cnme slowly on his He first he automatie, on the trigger. fire would as it made the stil most have for the overheard besl ony of that ie ace averted Lee attended to his horse } i wold gy ov hie ing na Now 1 don’t ca tip you trouble, dunno where d for, Ferd re, it give the you ] fon't dot ever had, eof » which 1 understand yon There ain't no gold and the best thing 3 it to Little about to say you don’t in Stony range, kin do Is to Fall That's “If there's no gold in are you prospecting here? shouted Shorty, “I guess my and knows our business without no outsider buttin' in I've put the carde face up on the table, Now how about tT" “Nothing doipe.” back it." Stony beat all range, why “Say,” pardner me Mysterious and efficient young female, this girl! But can she take care of herself in such surroundings? (TO BE CONTINUED.) Regrowing Forests The regrowth of timber provided for in the national forests where the or iginal stand of timber is cut and re ! varies with the forest types involved. In many forest types the regrowth is present In the form of seedlings or saplings at the time that the overstore of old and mature tim. ber is removed. Where this is not the case carefully selected trees are left standing. From these trees come the seed that regeqerates the area, In the case of Douglas fir on the Pacific const, seed Is stored up of such quan- tities In the duff on the ground that the best results are obtained by cut. ting the area clean and depending on this stored seed supply for regenera: tion. In‘some cates it Is necessary to plant after cutting in order to insure moved a second crop within a reasonable time, Rep, Murbocu EE ( 0. 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