WNU BERVICH 24 EEE NE RR HR E REA TRIRIE, SYNOPSIS. —Lee Anderson, Roy~ al Canadian Mounted Pollce 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 liguor 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 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 (8s sus- plicious of him and the two men are hostile. Plerre 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. lecovering consciousness, Anderson finds the girl has disappeared, but he concludes she ia alive and prob- ably in the power of Plerre and Shorty. On foot he makes his way to Siston Lake. There he finds his companion of the day before. and Rathway, with a girl, Satelle, 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 companlon’s mind is clouded gnd 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 thelr way to a Moravian mission, of which Father McGrath has charge. Their acquaintance ripens Into love The girl remembers that her name is Joyce Pelly She in 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 convinced he has located Pelly's mine. In the tun- he is attacked by an unsean adversary, whom he takes to be Pelly A knife thrust is turned aside by the girl's hair in his blouse Escaping, he returns to the cabin, to find Joyce gone. He follows her trail the mission yf Father McGrath The priest repulses him, but Joyce feels her return and omes him has been In a meas- in nel to love wal Her ure memory restored. CHAPTER XI—Continued Ben i “He would not touch the hoard of + 1d which he claimed to possess—we nd never in {t—but he had | money by his furs. 1 was to be educated. 1 spent three convent, ang then | training school, because it had always been | to the Indian and children in. this district. | helieved years went to a to study dream teach alf-breed fooked McGrath ap at him | . Fath: strode them. gettin’ rougd ye!" he cried ‘1 ean see the softenin’ in your face, Mees Pelly i» “No, 80, Father!" sharply. “Leave more!” Father McGrath withdrew, mutter. ing, after a doubtful glance at her. “And then—and then—I can't member, Lee” Joyce continued, “There's a blank, a terrible blank in my mind still, The next thing I re member 1 was riding north alone, to my father, because that devil Itathway had betrayed him. But how was 1 to save him? That 1 don't know. 1 remember that I was half crazed with anxiety. [ remember see ing you at a hotel, and those two dreadful men. “And-—they hffid some power over me, and I wanted you to help me, and dared not ask you—I didn’t know what to do. Once, in my despair, I begged you to kill Rathway, to save my father, But how could that have saved him, when he was already betrayed?” She looked at Lee In anguish, "Oh, [ don't understand !™ she cried. “If 1 could remember! It was something terrible, something that I could never go through again.” “Do you think,” asked Lee, “that you had pledged yourself to marry Hath- way In order to save your father's life?” “j.~1 couldn't have. No, never, 1" She trembled. Lee stepped to ard “ITe's cried a few Joy e | us minutes re save fee! her. “Joyce, darling Joyce, nothing has changed. You are still mine” “Lee, it can't be. My father stands between us—will always stand--" “Joyce, I've been thinking of something on the way here tonight. - We both wish to do what Is best for your father. Let us work together. Marry me!" “Lee, It can't be—aot till" But she swayed toward him. In a moment they would have been in each other's. arms. It was a bellow from Father McGrath, whom they had for- gotten, that forced then gulltily apart. “He's got ‘round ye, und I knew ‘twonld come aboot!" he cried. “Get ye back to your de’ll's wurrk—" “Oh. Father,” cried Joyce, half sob- Gof By VICTOR REO bing and half laughing, “this isn't one of Rathway's gang. I've tried to tell you—" “Aye, and ye told me that ye him If I I ken the de’il's agents—" “Listen to me, now!” sald Lee, tak- hadna pertinacity bussed stopped ye! of the the good priest's (mpulsive interruptions, he told him thelr story. he was half way through, “Father, I want Joyce to marry me,” “Once she is mine, we can whatever It may bring forward. There Is no real Father McGrath shook his head In “I eanna understand it,” “1 ken but little of what's I'm a new man fsna as Pelly himself, you see, 1 what Mees Pelly In- he sald. the deestrict. It Imagine see her father. Was it your in “Or was it some- Joyce to remember. It was from that of the problem that the mind withdrawn itself. refusing to crux had re- “Yo were going to the Father McGrath persisted “Oh. I don't know-—I cried Joyce In agony. Father McGrath cleared his delivered | ore anda he y¥ opeenion” said, “ti re A fra’ the ndvisable for ye and unless her me Mebhe while dead or awa’ he he's +t, it wadna Mees Polly ory to marry i to her. but a comes hae! consairvative, she hated “Fi FOO we ye ather. 1 never hated him!" indignantly “And Fm no’ in queek changes.” Joyee sided with until pens, we “But If convinced the bhest if you want Lee, And this time there was no Father interfere with favor of thes snld Father MeGrath, him “Lee, dear. one of those two things hap must h walt” sald find eat, int she you my that It call + well, then, be for I-—=I'll marry you now would ne, to them, for & the huts And. late thongh the hour was, Lee the father's tality for the night, set off for the log again, He wanted to alone with his singing heart in the silence. He house he reached his destination some n the small atta himself down In He Had No Doubt That Pelly's Gold Mine Lay in the Chasm. of the rooms, and lay like a log until awakened by the sunlight streaming in, Jumping up, completely rested and restored, he ran down to the river, plunged into the Ilee-cold waters, raced back over the frozen snow, and dressed, Joyce was to remain at the mission until Lee knew definitely whether or not her futher was in the district. Before leaving the night before, Lee had drawn the father into a talk, and had learned from him that she would not be In danger from the Free Trad: ers. The father had been compelled, he sald, much against his will, to come to an understanding with them, by which he undertook not to attempt to Interfere with thelr operations pro- vided his women and bairns were left alone. The board of missions was a ROUSSEAU power that the ¥ree Traders were not anxious tackle, Father McGrath, hating the necessity of making terms with Rathway, had felt nevertheless that he was doing the only thing pos sible under the circumstances, until the government made a move to wipe out the organization. He assured Lee that Rathway and his men would not dare to molest Joyce, and, further- more, that he would protect her with his life if necessary. Lee had thought best to say nothing to Joyce about hls discovery of the mine, but he meant to make a thor ough search of the gorge for Pelly. Failing him, he meant to discover his mysterious assailant, In the belief that he could provide him with the clue to He had no doubt that mine lay in the chasm. After having breakfasted his way to the rocking slipped quietly into Pellsy's gold made and he stone, the he d that it @ scended, and within a had reached the found himself again himself was empty, minute arifice, clinging to nnd the lower Here the artificial excavation of the ended, but there was a fairly descent down the lower portion hands and feet, serambled down, and, swing of the wall, found 1} the bottom of th inclining for the free imseit ef gorge, off one shut him Wf any in the he see whose walls the sight « standing defile could Only by the of the cliffs, with ahove, vers summit covering The hase of the than he of serub, hasm was a little had supposed, perhaps fifty paces ARCTOSS Along trickled over me end of the « out through the granite, } it the debris of t the cen thin / sandy , issuing from ¢ alluvial and sand dep carried along been heaped in times of overflow, against —mud, gravel, This sandy the stream, it it, 3 ' ug hy {mestone that studded their caves about Lee saw Looking him, that some two or three hundred yards from a sharp bend, almost at right angle, and hers the ground was strewn with of fallen ranging rocks dehris boulders, f to huge small of the oliff, from been detached. fee made his way In this direction once he came the o« which it fo 3) nei us granite wall, whieh, oth as a steel lining, could have been disrupted by no natural force such as gravity And came upon that confirmed deduction It was a rotting wooden cradie ck. exide it lay a rusty «1 then he the obvious Ll two huge fron enten rust, resembled fretwork In still the ashes and charred residue of the that had been used to thaw out the frozen earth, All were Away were pans, go that stop] out with were wood about among the fallen rocks mounds, the residue from the pans after the extraction of the gold, now covered with tangles of dead vegetation. There was no longer any doubt that this was Pelly’s gold mine, Jefore making further Investign- tions here, Lee decided to explore the remainder of the chasm. It ran on be. yond the bend for a quarter of a mile, and then came to an abrupt termina- tion. Without any gradual lessening of the depth it simply ceased, the two cliff walls coming together, in the same way as they did near the rocking stone at the other end. The chasm was, in fact, simply an elongated crater, Returning, Lee made his way to the eave formed by the explosion. If Pelly was In the district, there was hardly any doubt but that he would be hid- ing In that inaccessible spot,’ where he would be safe against discovery. It was not unlikely that he was in the cave itself at that moment, lee first examined the snow about the mouth of the cave for footprints, but he found no tracks except his own, Drawing his automatic, he advanced into the opening, The sand In the In- terior bore the marks of continued trampling, but there were no imprints with clear edges, and it was certain that no one had been there for a long time. Unforfunately, Lee had brought no candle, but he advanced some dis tance within the cave, lighting his way with matches. However, It was a fore. gone conclusion that Pelly was not in there, for the sandy interior bore no fresh footprints as far as he went. A faint, distant roaring. os of n waterfall, came to Lee's ears, and the alr was fresh, as If the cave were con- nected with some opening in the moun. tain side. Lee resolved to explore it another day. But it was clear enough that Pelly not In the chasm after (Copyright by W. 0. Chapman.) ss 2 2 2 0 2 8 8 0 0 8 0B 8 8 0 0 LA all. Another thing that led Lee that conclusion was the fact that mining operations had been carried on there for a considerable time enough for the pans to have through. If Pelly had taken refuge within the gorge, It was Incredible that he would not have resumed operations, And these seemed to have been In- terrupted unexpectedly, to judge from the exposure of the pans to wind and weather, Perplexed and disappointed, turned his thoughts toward the ture of the man who had attacked him the tunnel, He could no doubt Hght Pelly's whereabouts Perhaps he was the rusted Lee cup ¥ i on assistant of who Joyce had spoken. Lee exnected that he would the r be lurk tunnel, ready to renew } this flasco as bef Lee made his way k on the oppo site side of the gorge svhich had taken root in the soll buck 0 sort it, extending from It toward the cliff In 1 Something protruding out ils growth arrested Lee's attention, It was a carved the name HELENE PELLY, up wove a low ealrn of boulders, Lee and and thoy ts coursed It was a and Joyce's mot! itself wooden cross Aiki fui stHhod looked, vaguely throu his mind sad burying place for there was In old he should thro is dreas certain that would ever violate ony to the man's mental have ca the tunnel no was fur »iRe ee went on, and, a stops ther aeaninst something the of a tho Lae It was skeleton nan, rents and The the pre srotdsh clothes aurel tang! bet ween rib The Ue BE bones had long One bony hand still of a The muzzie was « the flesh y the handle large at, revolver, rust : there rusted were Disengaging It with diffienlty from the fingers, Lee saw, pry ected, the But initials, C. P. he hardly needed that to know mission end, barrier between himself was at an nut } The hour before h problem so Inscrutable an All cause them had 1 been solved. $ 5 for antagonism Deiween And Lee onscious of a satisfaction and thong! tion, she would « was « It was the happiest Joyce swostslal ie to see that best. She would be glad, shock, father ive to face the ordeal many as Lee look gown at of the ad man, he bed gingle fact Nearly that her would which years But Overy broken--the skull, ribs, and leg bones, and pelvis Then Pelly had not died of a stroke or from a sudden attack of heart fall ure. He had fallen from the summit of the cliff above-perhaps he had been flung down, for the revolver which he had been clutching showed that he had either encountered or anticipated an enemy. And, filled with a mixture of emo tions—happiness for their future, grief for the news that he must break to Joyce, Lee made his way toward the tunnel. 3ut all at once he made the singular and unexpected discovery that he did not know where the entrance was, CHAPTER XII Freed by a Lock of Hair It seemed to him that it would be a simple matter enough to ascend the cliff again, and he had not taken the precaution to take note of landmarks. Now, however, he discovered that the lower third of the granite wall was scored with hundreds of holes and fis. sures where the friable limestone had crumbled away, or had been washed out by the streams. The entrance to the cliff tunnel was somewhere on that side of the chasm, some little distance from the bend-— but where? Lee stepped back to the brink of the stream and looked up, trying to locate the rocking stone or monoliths for a guide, but the upper incline of the cliff hid them from view, It was high noon. Lee set himself to the task before him. He looked about him, trying to orientate himself. It would be necessary to ascend to a point about one-fourth the distance up the oliff In order to discover the in- gress, which was no wider than any of numerous cavities in the wall, Plenty of places along the chasm afforded nccess, and Lee grasped a projecting rock which seemed familiar, and began to ascend, digging his hands and font into the holes, until he ivund ann impossible to proceed farther, Swinging to the right, he discovered a large cavity and thrust his arm In up to the shoulder, A bitter disappointment awelted him, however, for at the end his hand encountered only a smooth sure face of rock, He tried ngain as he descended, thrusting his arms into all the likely crevices In the vain attempt to find the orifice, He descended, selected another place and scrambled up the wall again, only to achieve the same negative result, And when reached the bottom of { the cliff again, and the innumerable crevices, he realized that not only did he not know at which int to begin the ascent, but he did { not know how high to climb before he the level of tunnel en- he looked up at IH reached the trance, He looked up at the huge cliff, | its Inward incline, and scored with Its { myriads of mocking mouths, and now | a sort of fury took hold of him. Again and again he scrambled and clung Hike a fly to the cliffs face; baffled. and th with un I serambled ens began { down, once i More, It was now noon, and he wi One Bony Hand Still Tightly Clutched the Handle of a Large, Old-fashioned Revolver, { He had ming bewl in & proceeded to ing. He w» WHS DECeSSary noth dered. It accomplished ne 1pm roceed systematic wa : BOW onsidered the possil within which the tunnel lay, by stam two birch yet again recoll, SE ov down saplings he beaten ing { oop aril our y od fASAIin ang i) : task, always to He was only half way {rot and It His spilt “erie to sapling, was beginnl grow dark. hands were his pails the to the q nature the of his efforts Was the loneliness of darkening rackin He was like some mythical that was the most nerve gsic world, tortured by in {ike Sisyphus, con to things ‘ { # gi ¥ 1 his stone up the is forever, only to h before It rea down again je summit He had been toill an infinity aii the : He his des; jon, he a an enemy, for ered the lings Mik Dow, spac sap- and 3 extended in tia the cliff as if It beating on it with his fists in seneeloss fury. Dawn, clear and cold crept Into the gorge and him still at his labors. The sun rose Long rays of light streamed down into the chasm. in which Lee struggled like a madman, dust-white, dishevelled, haggard, half-delirious from want of sleep and exhaustion. He stopped, tried to collect himself But to cease meant to yield to des pair. Only by incessant labor conld he keep up the pretense that he was about to find the tunnel. He felt at the end of his resources. Une con- clusion was being borne in upon him: he had worked his way far beyond the saplings on either side; he must have passed the tunnel during the night. One little orifice unexplored in the obscurity, and all his work had gone for nothing. He would have to go back to the be ginning and start over again. But no human being could ge through the test again. There occurred to him an alternative, but so fantastic that he only played with it as a madman plays with a straw. The tunnel might be no longer there. It might have disappeared through a rock slide. That seemed Incredible—Lee put the thought from him; its very occurrence made him realize that his mind was beginning to wander. And, lapping up some water from the stream, and sprinkling himself with it, he began again—at the farther sapling. gray, and Evidently the question of Joyce's father is not to separate the lovers. Any guess as to what new dinger threatens? (TO BRE CONTINUED.) A Question It is equally hard to decide whether Mars Is inhabited or outlawed. —Phila delphin Ledger, x POINTS ON KEEPING WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of “HEALTH” Storied eid (@ by Western Newspaper Union.) POSTURE IN WOMEN’S WORK EALTH of question of what ¥ of how . only of the housewife factory and shop that kind of WOrKers you do it. Ih vision of work muke it work factories houlders and SNpresses ur gr fq dropping of and restricts the iso force $5 0 5h pry vem hragm addi or Bre 01 ressure on pr ire on diarrhen emia CKDeRs grealiy neregsed outpu Where this or where any work bas a cramped swhkward position w shifted frequent ork 1o | adjusted chairs are also help siting rest periods and . . t and back serease not only the com itput of pro rests where _ a Yi uo t also the ot workers. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE HERE fads disease, are ane as there are blood pressure is discussed, you » n 2 a about having “no blood To talk pressure” is to adopt the professional slang of the ward nurse, who says that She of us be too hospital. She normal “tem- that. If any one temperature,” we'd get into a “no to perature. So when a doctor tells you that you have “no blood pressure” he doesn’t mean that. He means that your blood pressure Is normal What is normal blood pressure? Ah, that's the question. It's only a few years, comparatively, since we had any instruments for measuring and record ing blood pressure. Doctors, for ages, have known that, at some times and in some persons, the heartbeat was stronger and more accentuated than at other times and in other people. Per sons with a strong full pulse were sald to be “plethoric” and the heartbeat of what we now call high blood pres gure was said to be “full or bounding." All the doctor had to judge by wus hia finger tips but he could make about as good an estimate as the present-day laboratory man can with his mercury manometer, Blood pressure is the pressure inside the arteries. Just as the water pros sure in a fire hose depends on the strength of the engine and the size of the hose, so the blood pressure depends on the force of the heart and the size of the arteries. These factors differ in different individuals. There is no absolutely normal figure. It varies with age, physical condition, worl, nerve tension and a dozen other fac tors. If you have a highstrung feeling, restlessness, nervousness and inability to sleep, frequent hetdaches and nse bleeds, perhaps dizziness and flushing of the face, have your doctor take your blood pressure in the same way he'd take your temperature, UM your heart Is working too hard, slow down. Find out what's wrong in your way of living and correct It, You dont wamt to run around with a high blood pres sure any more than jou do with a high temperature. But in either case there's « cause. Find It and remove It
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