A FIGHT FOR LIFE SYNOPSIS —Lee 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,” illicit 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. Plerre and Shorty ride on, Anderson asd 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 prob- ably In the power of Plerre and Shorty. On foot he makes his way to Siston Lake Thera he finds his companion of the day bafore, and Rathway, with a girl, Este'le, a former sweetheart of Anderson's, who had abused his confidence and almost wrecked his life. Rathway strikes Estelle, and after a fight Anderson, with Estelle’'s help, escapes with the girl Anderson's companion’s mind 1s clouded and she is suf- fering with a dislocated Knee, Anderson sets the knee and makes the girl as comfortable as possible He has a broken rib The two plan to make their way to a Moravian mission, of which Father McGrath has charge Their acquaintance ripens Into love The girl 1bers her name is Joy Pelly She daughter of the man Anderson has been sent to arrest Torn between her love for her father and her regard for Anderson. the girl practically drives him from her In the forest Anderson stumbles upon the entrance to a gorge and is convinced he has cated Pelly's that in reme mine CHAPTER X—Continued — ne Lee saw that from the point he was clinging, a fairly descent to the It was only the upper parts of the cliffs in the gorge that were unscu But he could go no further Anxiety for Joyce was rising In him. He was half afrald she might do something rash. CUsY bottom, In some associated protecting with Pelly ; him. Suppose, then, girl had gone to the Free Traders headquarters on Siston lake? Or fled into the storm in her frenzy? Suppose they had been followe 1? Lee remembered his fancy that had seen an Indian watching them. The Free Traders would surely have been watching the trail at either end of the lake, knowing that sooner or later they must emerge out of the forests, Then he remembered the shadow the log house, and this specter which he had disbelieved, now began to assume in his mind a formidable aspect, , Suddeniy, as Lee heard a rumbling sound above his head, and a moment later something hurtled past it and smashed upon the ground of the chasm. Looking down, Lee saw the fraginents of an enor mons boulder lying on the ground im- mediately beneath him. He had had a narrow escape. And reluctantly he turned to re-enter the tunnel. But before he had thrust his head and shoulders in, there came an- other rumble. And this thme it was only the little projecting ledge above his head that saved his life. The bhduider struck the edge of It, shot out Into the alr, and, just missing him, perhaps he was the back he in clung there, he smashed to pieces below. looked up, but the overhanging elifts shut out the view of everything except the overhanging bushes and the sky. Whether or not human agency was responsible for the fall of the two bonlders, It was certain that the tun nel's mouth did not appear to be a particularly healthy spot at that mo- ment, And Lee forced his head and shoul- ders through, and groped for the rock ladder within, bruising his thighs and shins against the edges of the open- ings. Extending his hands, he felt the smooth surface of the water-worn, in- terior wall. He grasped the ladder, clung to It, pulled himself up, found his footing. And then of a sudden Lee had the unmistakable instinct that he wus not alone, There was another living thing within the tunnel! lee i than by the death of one of them. It would be a sharp, relent less struggle, In which Lee's disadvan- tage lay in the fact that he could not be the first to fire, Lee called: “Is that you, Pelly? 1 want to talk to you! No answer came. eves upward through Colors and wheels of across his vision and went “Pelly, listen to me!” again. “You know what I've come for. You've got no way He strained his the darkness, light flashed out. Lee tried chance, Surren- der, and you'll get falr treatment.” Still no answer; and yet Lee could feel that other human personality close to him. He walted, baffled. There was no way to move, tically ; treat for him. walls were all about him. nel was a straight, narrow and down, from the rocking above to that deadly drop below. It was impossible impossible to do anything except clamber stiffly up those slippery rungs of rock, expecting every Instant to hear th# roar of Pelly’s pistol and to receive the bullet in his breast. was absurdity. And once again Lee tried: “Pelly, you The shaft, up better glve up. Surrender you'd shoot from here, and He did not us he clung thing above life, action, its throat, within the wall Wii, end that sentence, ng in a moment 1d materialized Into and the =gound, shaft, and deflected from sounded like the roar of monster, body some prehistoric And a heavy against him with a him. but Lee force that all instant his bal a blow over the For an struceled ta retain trug i and then the ere came that knocked the wind out onntered an Within knife closed SROrMMos that hand teaching upon the blade, Lee's hi at ind en yan his chest the hilt of a Lee's fingers f a wide y O By Victor Rousseau (Copyright by W, (4. Chapman.) WNU Bervice beneath the stone. He flattened him- self upon the ground and drew his aun- tomatic. He fired one shot, and, be- fore the echoes had died away, had pushed the stone back and emerged, pistol In hand. to the dark of the tunnel. Outside ft was melancholy twilight, Lee emerged Into a solitary, snowbound There was no sign of his antagonist, within his i KwWenNse of Lee felt a pI, body was stab. but a natant dendly ness overcome | and clutched had torn the hand away, knife. and hurled it down through darkness of tunnel into the i Then he for foothold. the below The he the Was battle tunnel snes next instant most desperate win through bled into He caught hat clutched his body to fling him down: and, ding their knees and the two wrestled in complete silence It the | Lee, of his the before ny nsel nt hol feet, Was a4 man thing that but it more ike a for the naked arms were covered underneath which the over each other like lee was no match in he could only cling on like grim death, feeling his lungs constrict under that pressure, and expecting ev- ery moment to feel his Injured rib crack In his side His left hand encountered a groove in the rocky rung above him. and, gripping it, determined that nothing should tear his hold away, with his fist he began hammering his as sallant's face and body Incessantly. His blo®%s rebounded from the great chest ns if it were of rubber, and each blow =ent the breath Issuing hoarsely from tHe lungs with raucous wheezing that filled the tunnel, If the could have got Lee's left hand, he might have torn him from his hold, but, as if unaware of his hold; his assailant put all his strength into the endeavor to force breath from his body and twist him backward: while Lee, clinging on des perately, continued to batter the face and body. Although it was impossible to draw back his arm far enough to cColiver a blow with full force, Lee's lower position gave him the advantage of equipoise over his strange assailant, and enabled him to administer fear ful punishment, For a minute or two It was proble. matic whether Lee could withstand the The great shoulders swung Lee from side to side In the shaft ilke a child, and ill the while Lee, believing hi nself seriously, If not fatally wounded, seemed ster, moved steel bands. other cept for the faintest reflection from the interior of the gorge, which filtered up from below, and though Lee could presence; by some inner sense that was not hearing, he felt the rhythmical pulsations of Its life, And It was a human being. Lee felt ward him, instinctively he knew the imminence of an encounter under con- ditions more nerve-racking than any he bad ever experienced. He knew for sure now that the fall of the two boulders had been no accident, le had been watched, he had heen seen to enter, and that watcher meant to fight him to the death, course it was Pelly! He did not relish the prospect of a struggle with the erazed old man, one slileh could hardly end In any other of a piston, dashing his fists into his opponent's face untii at last groans be- gan to burst from the other, Then, feeling the clutch relaxing, Lee let go his hold, and, standing straight up on the rung, brought both fists Into play. No human being could have stood up against that fearful punishment. Lee's fists were wet with blood. The grasp about him relaxed. He redoubled the fury of his blows His assailant was gone, Faintly Lee heard the scraping of his feet on ‘ke upper ledges of the rock ladder, Then, feeling cautiously above him, tee continned his ascent, until at fength there came a tiny glimmer of light from above, changing into a sud- den glare as of high noon, The tunnel was empty. The glare decreased to a glimmer. ree understood what it meant. His as sallant had tilted back the rocking stone and fled. tn another moment or two Lee was | present. Lee looked down at the fragments expect blood. # thin tore the rag to find himself soaked In He open. There skin from a culls scratch on ft hut was only a the knife-point, spreading brulse——under of hair, In which blade had become entangled blow, struck Immediately would have killed him for that, Lee ralsed the to ps And tenderness his the was thick Joyce's The the heart, but reverently his feeling of he hegan to make twilight in {tresses a deep girl, through the toward house He torn for her and speculation as to his assail His first thought had been that was Pelly But now he be gan to doubt this. An old man might had his assaliant's strength--he not have had the stronger still was that monstrois form him In the shaft been the father of who Pelly new mine? was hetwesn endurance tut the conviction which } could never Joyee Yet the but the ret wen ‘he problem was at i but with It the fear that heen at present its consideration brought Lee the tneked as well rough quickened his footsteps th He Flattened Himself on the Ground and Drew His Automatic. which was now subsiding, snow still fell steadily. himself bitterly for girl. Surely the strength of that and tenderness he felt toward would reach her, and she respond ! And he planned what he would say to her. He would advise her that it though the having left would receive anything but a nominal sen. tence, that he might even go free, that in the absence of witnesses a convie- tion might prove impossible. His best course would be to surrender. Lee began to grow more hopeful The log house came Into sight, standing bare and bleak in the snowy wildernéss, There was no light within, Lee's alarm Increased. He hurried to the door He called, but no answer came. He struck a match, By the tiny light he saw that the kitchen and the adjacent room were empty. And he began going from room to room, striking matches and ealling her, and knowing all the while the fu. tility of it. Joyce was not in the house. She had fled Into the snow, and, encounter, Lee had no alternative but to take up the quest. She could not have gone far, but she must have been in a state of desperation to have gone out into that storm. Which way? The falling snow had surely long since ob- literated her footprints. He made his way down toward the trall beside the river. Only two ways were possible: one ran toward the mission, nine or ten miles away, the Free Traders’ headquarters. But suddenly Lee's hopes and spirits leaped up confidently. Stoop- ing, he traced the tracks of a sleigh along the trall, It had been drawn by a single horse, and It was going in the direction of the mission, There & only one reasonable in- ference. Father MeGrath must have been passing, perhaps he had mel Joyce, and he had taken her with him { Lee diately. WHS i i took up the long walk imme | The snow was deep, progress difficult without gnowshoes, the frost had already crusted the sur- {| face, so that his feet sank In cum- | brously at every step. But | load was removed from his mind; the [Hutu now looked roseate, At last the mission came a group of log huts clustered about a larger one on a low elevation, sur { rounded by the forest. Lights gleamed | pleasantly inside them. A horse | nelghing In some stables, Over largest hut a wooden | ngainst the background of the sea-gray sky. the Lee strode up the ascent, a8 to which hut to approach, | resolute for a in nt the crest the us he stood Ir the open Hetle hill moment space of | Then, wilted, the them was Hung open, and a man { mackinaw and lomberman’s { stepped out toward him Under his he held a rifle He presented it hools { arm ut { He looked to be | age, or a little older fare Lee's breast nbout fifty He as years of had a round fn A sliver cross hung mackinaw. A Jolly ng but the within the face steel-gray and jee He distant, domned “or I'll { smooth incipient paunch from an soft babe's, his priest ; Were looki eyes cold Iwo stopped pees “Take off, 'rader,” he yersel' sn bed into Kingdom CHAPTER XI “If You Find Ly Father” foe poke Miss Pelly “Aye, But ve softly Come!” Free blow Ver qt ile ye want te canna SE yo gee her ’ ne on, Ye swine of he shouted, hran dishing his fists [ow "Ot ect flung up hi himself that s arm just ARninst have in time to straight knocked him moment Fa Mi locked ar him, in a a would Next were if | senseless ther Grath's arms und holding him vise “Will ye tak’ yersel | tempted forget father panted. “Father McGrath “I'l ha' { Dest an awa’ hefore my calli I'm to ng?" the no dea of ineequity the Free Trade o h I'll send before jour time, { dilng wi’ “I've ling wi ye I'm no ra that Iver come on nl Your afeard of ye kK to the de'll if bie you oome fev my meesion made my compact wi I'd mak’ a himself, to Mebbe ye're a remember ye of it Ye're to be | peddle your filthy weel-—aye, an’ 1 dinna the guid Lord wull score It again ye too, for { shamin’ His good corn whuskes | meexin’ In your feeithy wood i the way ye ye can peddle | whur ye but ye'll leave Insses and weans alone, I'l Siston lake too hot to hold ye." “Father McGrath—" Lee tried again “Will ye fight, mon to mon, ye donned Free Trader? Will or wrestle wi’ me?” “I'd be glad to, Father, but just now one of my ribs is broken. When 1 get better, perhaps- Father McGrath released “Ye're speakin’ the truth? Well, tak yersel' off. Ye canna see Pelly A light footstep sounded beside him | Joyce stood there, | her. “1 came to make sure you were safe. Joyee—" Loe held out his arms “Dinna speak to him, Mees Pelly. 1 understan’ he's helped ye there's good in the wursst of us—but he'll get around ye, Mees Pelly, Go back!” “Father, there's something I want to say to him,” Joyce answered In a low voice, “Aye, but he's got a smooth tongue, and the stomp of Ineequity hasn't come upon his face yet. Ye wouldna theenk he'd sold hisself to his maister. If ye must speak to him, I'll just stand by, and If 1 see he's getting ‘round ye I'll send him aboot his business” With which the doughkty father took up his post just out of hearing, glar yOu { maisier, as wi | the | bairns i don't mind compact evil one protect my new I'i re free to whauar your face—8sn liquors doot ye Fs please, or mak Ye him Mees aye, taneous intervention. forward. “Lee, I--I'm sorry for what 1 sald to you this afternoon. It was partly the shock of awakening, 1 think, 1 wis unjust to you, and unjust, too, in coming here without trying to get word to you. 1 owe you a great deal I accept your word that when you met me In the range you did not know who I was that you did not pursue my acquaintance because 1 was the daughter of the man whom it was your duty to apprehend. I--[ bear you no fil-will for having to do your duty.” “Then, Joyce—" “But,” she said solemnly, “you will see how my father's safety, perhaps his life, stands between us, We can only be enemies-at least, until" “That's what I wanted to speak about,” sald Lee. "As I understand it, this killing was committed years ago, a whole generation ago. It was more or less Justified, If your father Is brought to trial and convicted, It will almost certainly be for manslaughter. : His sentence will be a nominal one, | Quite probably it will be Impossible to produce the witnesses required to eon- viet at all, In such case he will go free, “He He best har acted llladvisedly, { should never have fled, His | course will be to surrender. He will t ind himself free man in a little while, Instead of a hunted outlaw. { Will you unite with me In persuading him to surrender?’ She shook her head, “We always | told him that—my mother and 1.” she answered, “But the thing had crazed { him, he hated civilization after it hap | pened. He was insane upon sub fect He will never surrender ‘Let me try to picture to happened, and the treachery that have When my came here I was horn here were and af the i that you what and faith. pursued the lessness always father fled and settled w from he ith For a My fa this ms mother iong time we very ther in ri hapyy those days hest fur trapped, Was | one districts In { Canada “Bit my fathe find in Was hafing against He always cherished the hope me day to th an educated his always take HE sou where Then ould educated properly in an evii » fan cled he had “It hee would tell nd weoversd a with where it x Id seers fine a ma y one ; ant Jacques Leboeuf, | he try #n o They and work It together talking about wl, He wanted it always afral( and and ns vr and ved sted | night | was al y | had {the mi WAYS collects ne, to sell the was covered, off he put jther my heel h my father saved vengeance He took protected him ways searching for it, Lehoeuf nce father nor would he tried and Leboeuf had him by throat and id have killed him my father had not intervened it aon them, where Was wp the wi time “My mother | fat and consequential, | helj my father with his traps, { though for a lk my fat} not know it, continued debauch Indians with his When | a girl of seventeen THD t He know mut died Rathway g lived fue wi} mg time whisky. wii he he : sald he I didn’t h ab I knew ro nt Then one the wos in fr Hn protect 1 ame me to i shot “He | through the Rathwas plming heart, ough again to for he wi anger roused standing facing him his arm dripping blood, coolly told him he knew thal my father mitted one murder already, was shoo 8 ferribi when with { when his was lathway, had and COT that writ- ten down and left for safety with a | friend in the south. The change in my | father was dreadful. He dropped his rifle, he seemed almost demented. His | fears for my future, conflicting with his fears for the present and his fears of Rathway, broke will “After that, Rathway stayed on and and. they were always talking to- gether, and Rathway threatened my father, but still my father refused to show him the mine, in spite of his threats. My father wanted all of the his “Once Leboeuf came to my father offered to kill Rathway, but my father refused. and Lebouef, who was never thought of dis his strict command “That happened before the Free Traders were organized in Montreal, but already the hooch sellers were getting together. They had estab lished a number of posts, one of them at Lake Misquash, miles awgy, 4a week's journey north of here. Rath- way went to Lake Misquash to confer with them. As soon as he was gone, my father seized the opportunity to send me away south te a convent, to be educated. obeying Here's the big question. 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