By
G., Chapman
“I'M JOYCE PELLY!”
SYNOPSIS. —Les Anderson, Roy-
al 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,” tilicit
liquor runners. At Little Falls
he finds Pelly is credited with
having found a gold mine, and
is missing. At the hotel appears
a girl, obviously out of place in
the rough surroundings. A half-
breed, Plerre, and a companion,
“Shorty,” annoy the girl An-
derson interferes in her behalf.
The girl sets out for Siston Lake,
which is also Anderson's objec-
tive. He overtakes her and the
two men with whom he had trou-
ble the night before. She is sus-
picious of him and the two men
are hostile. Pierre and Shorty
ride on, Anderson and the girl
following. In the hills the road
is blown up, before and behind
the two. Anderson, with his
horse, is hurled down the moun-
tain side, senseless Recovering
consciousness, Anderson finds
the girl has disappeared, but he
concludes she is alive and
ably in the power of Plerr¢
Shorty On foot he
way to Siston Lake There he
finds his companion of the day
before, and Rathway, with a girl,
former sweetheart o
who had abused }
and almost wreck
Rathway strikes Estel
a fight Anderson, with
help, escapes with the
Anderson's companions
clouded and she is
ith a dizlo
sets
prob-
and
makes his
Estelle, a
Anderson's,
confidence
his life
the
girl as con ris
He has a broken
The two plan to make their way
Moravian mission, of which
Father McGrath has charge
™
Their
acquaintance into
love
the f
s possible
+
Oa
ripens
CHAPTER IX—Continued
w—T —
lee did not push his inquiries. On
the felt it
able memory
whole he would
that her
to her while she was at the mission
be prefer
»
should
snow was frozen hard, and banks of
heavy snow
the north. The girl's knee had
troubled her, and they
faster Early in the
he prospects of a storm became
wreatening that Lee proposed they
uld encamp on a ridge of
f a mile in front of them.
“We can find a safe nook in there,
he suggested,
“Oh, no,”
log house
beyond that, and we'll be much more
comfortable there.”
As Lee looked at her, he
that she had been speaking
realizing what she had been
Suddenly she realized it too.
“Now what made me
asked. “But I'm sure
there is a cabin there. 1 know
place quite well, only it's as
seen it in a dream. Oh, Lee, what If
I should remember? I don’t want to—
never, never! 1 want our new life
and our love!”
He put his arm about her and tried
to comfort her, but the look of sad-
ness lingered on her face, and every
now and then, covertly watching her,
would see that same perplexed
knitting of her brows,
They passed the ridge, the trail ran
around the bend of the lake—and sud-
denly they saw the log building in
front of them.
Lee looked at the house In surprise,
for it was bullt In the most substan.
tial way, and contained apparently five
or six rooms. The settier who had
constructed it must have meant to
make it his permanent home, for the
ground around it had been cleared for
an acre or more; but it seemed to
have been unecared for for several
years, for the land was overgrown with
brambles and spindly birch, into the
thick of which serried cohorts of young
spruce trees were advancing In ranks,
fike the vanguard of an army.
The door was unbolted, and when
they went in they were startled at the
aspect of the interior. The rooms were
filled with furniture, nearly all of It
made by the settler, but extraordinar-
fly well done. There were mildewed
and faded but substantial carpets on
the floors. There were fungous growths
on the walls; but in spite of all the
evidences of decay, the interior looked
the habitation of a prosperous settler,
They went from room to room, The
contents of the kitchen had been
scrupulously respected, In accordance
with trappers’ law. There were por-
celain plates, cups and saucers, cook.
ing utensils, a large sheet-iron stove
tialf full of charred logs.
Lee went all over the place, calling
to ithe girl with the enthusiasm of a
boy.
“It's just the place for us!” he
cried. “We'll find out who owns It and
made
progress. after
land some
about
an large
without
saying.
say that?” she
somehow that
lee
he falled
that had s
In his exuberance to per
ttied
They had only just arrived in
the for
down
right,”
already the
storm,
whirling outside,
“Well, you were sald
us tonight, Look, here's fire
here!”
The girl did answer him. She
with
and
not
the
Lee
her
of bewilderment, saw
“Dearest, let
will
musn't
“All
you
he
things
said.
'
“It
me afraid, Lee,” she an
tone. “Oh, Lee, 1-1
makes
low
There ought to be
, and
woman with
tnble here
here sewing, a
sometimes to smile at
man-—a tall man, several 3
1y hair, who
smiled, but always kind to
And
mile at il F ing beside
hen ook
f this was your home,
" Ch \ 1 3
est, vi hould be
happy here”
I wish now that
the ridge. 1
don’t know, Lee,
«1 on
I've the feel
the end.”
“It's
She began
not just the
this hut
not
place,
iated with It
iooked out at
SHOW, It was still
that?
was hysterical,
and
itgelf to
fee, for he had had the confused im-
usness communicated
ners
had glided
i
through the
shadow
across the room beyond,
pen door
he darted after it, but
Instantly
They Passed the Ridge, the Trail Ran
Around the Bend of the Lake—and
Suddenly They Saw the Log Build-
ing in Front of Them,
there was nothing to be seen. He
came back.
“It wasn't anything.
nervous.”
“I'm sure there was-—was something,
Lee” She clung to him.
“Stay here, and I'll
place.”
“No, don't leave me!
with sou!”
They went together, looking Into all
the rooms and about the house, but
there was no sign of anyone. Lee
went to the back door to look for foot:
prints, but if any had been made, they
would have been obliterated in a mo-
ment by the wind that was driving the
dry snow about the doorsill In little
whirling clouds,
“It was Imagination,” sald Lee,
She assented, and, going into the
kitchen, began to make the prepara-
tions for their meal, while Lee took
the kettle down to the stream and
filled it with water,
Put when he returned she
We're getting
search the
I#t me go
had
ceased to work and was sitting on 0
chair, her head bent Hown, her hands
clasped on her knees, staring deso
Intely In front of her,
Lee stood beside her, “Dearest, if
I could do anything to help you—'
“You can't help me, I--1 don't
know what to do.”
Her was strained, hard, al
most unrecognizable. Lee knelt at her
feet conscious of a sense of utter help
He took her hands in his,
and found that they cold as
ice. Her body was into un
natural rigidity. It was as if
she were a prisoner on
table, her
though hracing
unendurable pain,
volee
lessness,
were us
strained
almost
torture
muscles,
some
is
#0 set were all
she were herself
agninst
“Yes, you
The words
and,
him a strange, penetrating look.
you frank with
some
can help me!
came quickly from
head, he gave
“You
me,
Hips, raising her
haven't been
Lee,
there ig to know
do 1 k
love
“You know all that
bout me,
You
love
ut what now abou
you? you
me
love, that of
you
80 y
ity the name
my
less woman; and you have my
weeks' life story in
You
is of me—aoh,
little two
sion. know everything
you know
not
me, to think that
there
mately, ‘an you S00
own at
no life
that is
“Dearest-
But
do I know of you?
Anderson?
have your life, your past,
women
not
yours?’
Who
That's only a
are you?
How many
has it contained,
think of regretfully,
even with '
have told
came, I
thought 1 did.
some
tenderness
that
one
“I'd
tim
ime
you when
loved
She was—well, 1
that's all
love, There is only
you
“How do 1
the truth, Lee
“You don’t mean
know you are telling
Anderson?”
that, dear
It's
and
past
just the loneliness
fear of
that makes
the the remem
dread
ing the
sworvthineg 4
everything, L
you doub
see If you can doubt them."
The hardness of her
trust men
gon.”
Lee felt stupefied
Bat deeper than
{ her,
f her own might
“l think the best
for you"
sesthineg tii
poling ii
love
just to say
passed.”
“No, Lee, there is a bette
much better
Let me share 3
Lee Ar
Tell me why
and hos
lerson? That's only
a name to
the
me
range,
to tell becanse
ossible to speak f their
} made
bad her
Putt
¢ had said before—after the fall,
he saved ~0 8
and
woods He
it appear that
’
the
omitted much, but he distorted nothing
“What were you doing In the range?
What you here for? Her
was breathless, her seemed to
burn into his face.
“I~think-l-—know,
me the truth. You came here to fi
someone, You are a
police. Whom have you come to find?”
And as remalned
continued :
“It wasn't a man named Pelly, was
it? An old man, an old friendiess man,
who had been betrayed, sold by some-
one he trusted? A man who had done
no wrong to anyone, but who, a whole
generation before, had killed the scoun-
drel who tried to ruin his wife? Hadn't
he atoned for that by a lifetime of
exile?
“What do you know of him?" cried
Lee,
“He is my father! This is our home!
Yes, I'm Joyce Pelly, his daughter, as
you have always suspected. And 1
suspected you from the beginning.
And you-~you forced your presence
upon me under the guise of protecting
me from my friends”
“That is not so!"
“To gain your wretched ends by win.
ning a woman's confidence and then
betraying her. And you dared-—yes,
you dared—"
“1 never dreamed who you were.
Won't you believe my word of honor
that I am incapable—1"
But she went on, still implacable:
“You dared to pretend you loved me,
you traitor, in order to discover my
father's hiding place when I—1 was
coming up to him—but why—why? I
can't remember all. I only know that
{ remember I'm his daughter. And I
tell you I hate you with a hate ten
times as great as the love I thought
I felt for youl”
fee stood up before her. “I only
ask you to believe me,” he began,
“when I say that I didn’t know, guess,
dream who you were. How should I
have known he had a daughter—this
man I'd never seen? I knew noth
Ing"
But suddenly her ley coldness
seemed to dissolve In helpless misery.
“Oh, leave me! Leave me for a little
while, or I shall go mad!” she cried,
And she put her hands over her face
and began weeping wildly,
CHAPTER X
The Tunnel Under the Rock
Lee stumbled out of the cabin,
dazed, stupefled by Joyee's revelation,
The man he sought stood, an invin
are volce
eyes
You must tell
ine
member of the
she
Lee silent,
‘ible 1 rrier, between himself and the
woman he loved. Never, If he had any
power to rend the human heart, could
Joyce Pelly look on him again with
anything but hate and horror,
Beneath her gentle nature there lay,
he knew, a soul of steel, calm and re
hop lived His little
happiness was ended forever,
And he
binsts
whirling snow
Then to the
fiercer
father spell
eroaned as he strode through
the
there came
man temp
than any he had
perceived the one way out, the
vies only essary to find
warn hi
wer, to return to Manistree,
that Pelly was dead
to Ww Jovee, taking
itude, her love
her away
¢r her grat
she
appiness
Put waonld love him
he hnsed on that
dishonor?
Pert
ning a Woman's Confidence and
Then Betraying Mer, and You Dared
Yes, You Dared—"
Joye
it In the
even that
fonscience
Those dauntiess
taw had endured the
aw 1 naured the
And
Lee weigh
through
o¢1 these possibil ti
the storn
strode
his shoulders resolut
arden. He woul
Moravian mi
hand
squared
threw off the bt
sxion
Jovee to the
had planned, her
there
task. the apprehension of her father
The wns growing flercer.
dwakening to the realization of
storm
clearing far behind him: he could no
longer discern the cabin In the
tance through the whirling snow. He
had been traveling across the ridges
of the broken ground, apparently
making unconsciously for the shelter
of the friendly forest behind it, with
the instinet of a wounded beast to
take cover.
Well, he must go back, and they two
must face that night together, and the
next day. There was no help for it.
As he strode on, suddenly instinct
pulled him up sharply. He had been
trampling through a mass of withered
undergrowth and bramble; and now,
directly in front of him, he perceived a
great gorge, so concealed In this
growth that he had all but stepped
over the edge.
He advanced cautiously and peered
down Into it. It was an extraordinary
formation. He had seen such before,
in that and other regions, where the
limestone, pushed up through molten
granite by volcanic action at some pre-
historic time, and then abraded by rain
or torrent, left strange hollows and
gullies,
But he had never seen one on such
a scale as this
He was looking Into a natural fis
gure in the ground, a long, irregular,
winding chasm, extending indefinitely
into the distance, but so narrow as to
be merely a lip or crack in the rugged
surface of the ground.
It had not been worn by rains or
water; it was too deep for that. Prob-
ably the limestone, thrust up originally
from the earth's Inner core, had been
sucked down again in some final con-
vulsion, while the granite was still
half molten, leaving the granite shell
about the chasm.
And in spite of its depth the chasm
wag go narrow that it almost looked
as if a man could have leaped across
it,
This wns undoubtedly Incorrect, the
distance between cliff and cliff being
only apparently reduced hy the dense
underbrush that fringed the orifice;
the distance between the walls,
which inclined inward toward the sum-
mit was less than half that of the base
It was just such a chasm as a man
might step Into In a storm, to certain
death,
On the floor of this gorge Lee could
few scrub birches standing
erect, seeming to be hardly
than seedlings In a hortl-
nursery.
extended
Lee began to
see A
tree
Inrger
The
the
of
his
until
place termi
nated suddenly in a pile of great rocks
flesure dingonally
cabin retrace
came to on where [it
nite
Two of
side of
outerop
these rocks stood up, one on
hasn
monolitl
1 WAS A
had been
as a rocking
stone, and probably
largest In the world.
touch started it,
the
east Bi»
was It poised, but a team
have shifted it from
position
As the h
Le#'s touch
uge, {ited
irrow open
thought
underneath gh
at it
heen I
g 1
hands
inti
descending
very carefully he
hiz way downward
Wa
he
h
€ ciung
wl knees as he descended
ww minutes a dim ligl
filter upward from below
rock. The
Flakes
3 emerged
himself clinging to the interior
the like a fly
fourths of the way
whirling about
whirled In
of snow 1
into daylight, to
‘hen he
i
great of
asm,
wall, three
The snow was
by the precipitous walls of the chasm
Then Lee understood. He had found
entrance, probably the only one,
the gorge: but someone had pre
assisting nature
into
steps of that rocky ladder, which had
been eroded, during the of
millenniums, by the action
dried-up waterfall.
Only water could have hollowed out
that course by the play of the leaping
torrent on the projections of the
granite,
Looking down from Ww here he clung,
Lee saw that a thin stream trickled
over a sandy bed in the middie of the
gorge below, issuing from one end,
where It burst out of the granite,
carrying with it the debris of the al
luvial land above—mud, gravel, and
sand.
And suddenly the idea occurred to
him that in all probability he had
stumbled upon old Peliy's goid mine.
In which event, what more natural
than that Pelly was hiding in that in-
accessible spot, where he would be ab-
solutely secure against discovery-—un-
jess he had incautiously permitted
some one to share his secret?
And perhaps Joyce knew, and had
come up in order to be with him and
to procure food supplies for him. Lee
gnashed his teeth at the thought of it
Fortune had played into his hands,
course
of & now
The course of true love never
did run smooth. Is the break
past mending?
hiss
——
(TO BR CONTINUED)
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“Supplice”
The meaning of the word supplice ls
“punishment ; torture; pain and tor
ment.” As far back as 1656 the word
wns used by Blount to express the
sume meaning. There Is also a pas
gnge in one of Mrs. Oliphant’s works
which reads: “It Is easier to play the
victim under the supplice inflicted by
a pretty girl, than by two mature ma-
trons, "—Literary Digest.
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Customers,
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milk is to be pure, it mu
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by
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VENTILATION
VERY one must have air to breathe
in order to We live
without food for from twenty 1o
forty days, without water from seven
to eight days, but we cannot live three
minutes without air
live. can
In order to be well, we must not
only have alr but it must be reason-
ably pure, sufficiently moist and cool.
Under ordinary conditions, we get all
these things outdoors and don’t have
to bother about them. It's when we
go indoors that the trouble begins.
So long as primitive man lived out-
doors he had no ventilation problem.
As soon as he builit his first house, he
had to think about ventilation. Al
though the first houses were probably
go loosely and imperfectly built that
it wasn't much of a problem
But we live today in weather-tight,
water-tight and almost airtight
houses. As soon as we go into a house,
be it residence, store, office or work-
shop, we find ourselves in a limited
supply of air, which we at once begin
to pollute by our own breathing. With
each breath we are taking oxygen out
of the alr and putting carbon dioxide
into it. The smaller the space and
the more people, the faster the process
goes on,
Oxygen Is one-fifth of the air. With
each breath we draw into our lungs
we absorb one-half the oxygen In each
lung full and breathe out the other
half.
A man weighing 1680 pounds needs
2.400 cubic feet of fresh alr every hour
it he Is resting, 3.200 an hour If he
is doing light work and 6,100 an hous
it doing heavy work. A woman weigh-
ing 120 pounds needs fivesixths ns
much and a child weighing 80 pounrts
peeds seven-twelfths as much.
Although many costly and elaborate
ventilating devices have been made,
the easiest, simplest and best way
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a window, A screen or a glass nw
wooden strip In front of the opening
will prevent direct draft and throw tke
cold alr up to the ceiling,
Have plenty of fresh air In ror
workrooms and llving rooms It
doesn’t cost anything and it's the be”
tonic you can take.