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M'GRATH'S TRAP
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
liguor 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-
plcious 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 Lwo. Anderson, with his
horse, is hurled down the moun-
taln side, senseless. Recovering
consciousness, Anderson finds
the xirl 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. There he
finds his companion of the day
before, and Rathway, with a girl,
Estelle, 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 is clouded and she ix suf-
fering with a dislocated kneas
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 remembers that
her is Joyce Pelly She is
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 hi
b the forest
name
her In
stumbles upon the entrance
gorge and is convinced he
located Pelly's mine. In the
nel he is attacked by an
adversary, whom he takes
Pelly. A knife thrust
by the girl's hair In
Escaping, he
cabin, to find Joyce gone. He
llows her trall to the mi
Father McGrath The
but Joy
and welcom
has been In
Lee visits
finding there
yman, marked
and the skeleton
hing a revolve
the letters
has
tun-
unseen
be
is turned
his
to
to
aside
louse returns
)
of
repulses him,
return
remory
restored
again,
grave of a w
lena Pelly.”
a man clute
which
wove
Her n
ure
mine
are
{ doubt Jo
Anderson breaks tl
father's death to Jo
McGrath agrees to
ouple
rout
CHAPTER XII—Continued
see Oe
sun rose high, It
descend, It
Lee was nearing
sapling. He would
hat was passed, and then
each of each
incredible labor. His
of bruised flesh. He was
conscious what doing
must reach the second sap
The
ning
was
to ceased to
xq
Core
- ©.
wR
+
i
now step
hands
he was
He passed it. A
scended over his
the declining day
staggering ‘round
for other
For forty feet there were footholds in-
in the lower part of
cliffs: above them the hard
surface bulged Inward.
handhold for an ape.
gered from one end
the other, ‘round
'ronnd-—an in a
He dropped upon the ground utterly
worn out, utterly hopeless. A
respite, and then he would arise,
struggle again, a short sleep—
He had ind
sort of film de
consciousness,
he
the
CUTER,
himself
seeking
saw
gorge,
some
numerable
Fryer
SIO8-
And he
of the gorge
and ‘round
ape cage—
Respite? slept, that
him
pate
in time—just in time to aatici
that shadow stealing down the
toward him. A missbapen,
gross thing that leaped forward, snarl:
ing, and then leaped back as Lee
struck at it.
Lee was alert on the Instant. In
that thing alone lay his chance of es-
And, as it vanished into the
ghadows, Lee went blundering after it
in darkness, finding it, losing it.
He saw it in every moon-shadow
among the rocks. He heard it jeering
at him. Then stones began to fiy.
One grazed his cheek, one struck him
in the chest, Now the thing was in
front of him, and when he rushed, it
was not there, and a shower of stones
from an unexpected quarter cut his
lip and chin.
Thus tortured, maddened, Lee was
baited till the second dawn filtered
into the gorge. There was no respite,
All the while Lee struggled against the
bonds of sleep. He would rest, his
eyes closing for an Instant—it was
upon him again, a stone would hurtie
past him; another rush would follow,
and again the thiag was gone in the
dark.
Down-—daylight-sunlight. Crouched
behind a ridge or rock above him, Lee
saw the misshapen figure with the
massive shoulders and the long,
furred arms.
And, yielding to the elemental rage
that was in him, Lee whipped out his
an omatic and fired two bullets. They
dhivped fragments of stone from be.
Bice the face, which continued to
Watch him unmoved. That face, i)-
‘wmined by the sunlight In the gorge,
appeared so human, so Intelligent, so
mich at variance with the misshapen
gorge
cape,
the
By
(Copyright by W. GQ. Chapman.)
WNU Bervice,
Lee was shocked at the
that
of It.
It was only a
A gorilla, all
such an
human
man—hut
but the
face.
Lee had already pulled the trigger
a third time, but there was no third
shot, Then he remembered that he
had had only two cartridges remaining.
He sprang and a stone struck him
in the chest and hurled him backward,
Like two baboons they bombarded
each other with stones; but at last,
as a fortunate shot sent the other
staggering, Lee managed to close with
him.
The face, brulsed and battered from
the encounter In the tunnel, looked
impassively into his. Lee struck, and
quickly discovered that he had not
strength enough left to administer a
knockout blow : while at'close quarters
he was decidedly at a disadvantage.
On the other hand his opponent was
equally unable to overcome him, for
he could not stand up against Lee's
fists at short range long enough to
allow him time to get the gripping
power of those shoulders Into action,
At last, bleeding and bruised, they
the gorge.
ook stock
lke
of the
an Indian,
The
other,
but
lee
f time,
“What is It that vou want?
The
pected
answer—[Lee
that
was in a tone singularly
had hardly ex-
would be an an
soft, in.
there
SWer
ance of that grossa body,
“You find the
never find the way out,
and I fight yon
and I you
When you fight 1 fight, and when
stop I stop, and so we walt until you
sleep. And then ‘le grand mort’ come.”
This devilish conception made Lee's
in. But you
You fight me
3
way
sit down here beside 0
you
For even now his eye
irooping,
cunnin
’
streagth to
lids were drooping
with
find
teeth
ther watched
He
or id
rena
eyes
tried t
and nails {f his
and weakened
But other,
t passgl In his mind,
ready for him,
Lee shot an arrow at a venture,
boeuf!"
The
learn
him the reading
“Lo
he sald softly.
other started “Ich,
my name? That makes no dif
n
ference
“Why do you
weuf? Is it
wish kill me, Le
here to
‘Listen, then,
$1 ad
he died that no one shall take
erefore, since
the
the gold away. TI
found the
never
“Suppose | am a
“No, no friend.
the gold. You
ter, who is dead,
away.
have way into
ft."
friend 7"
You
|Ha mye
you
to take
till
Al,
must not be buried
never have his goid.”
“Listen, Lebhoeuf!
other—"
ON ms —————————————————_ A SAD AAI w—o——
Next moment a cry broke from Le-
boeuf’'s lips. He was fingering the
colls of Joyce's halr, He knew them,
perhaps by the faint odor of her that
clung to them.
He fell upon his knees, “Monsieur,
it is hers{ Forgive! Forgive! I am
an old fool! So among my people the
| maidens give thelr halr as tokens of
love! Ah, Monsleur, Monsikur—see,
I will show you the entrance, and you
shall take the gold for her. So my
master spoke in a dream—but I did
not know youl”
And, darting from Lee's side, he
serambled straight up the face of the
cliff between the saplings. He dragged
away a stone, fitting so closely into
the tunnel’'s mouth that Lee had never
guessed it had been placed there,
disappeared within the tunnel.
Lee staggered to the cliff beneath
in a moment was fast asleep upon the
bottom of the gorge.
CHAPTER XIII
And on the Day After
Tomorrow
he awoke, refreshed and restored,
cept for his bruised and
hands, the sun was in the same part
of the sky as when he had gone to
sleep,
1 For a few
| that grotesque
ox
moments the
struggle
memory
seemed
Then, bit by bit, It began to
a part of memory's records.
But It not until,
saw entrance to
| plainly in the cliff
that he realized the I
\
whole epis
had not heen a disordered
was look
the
visible
tunnel
overh
{ he the
E
1
yf his frantic, futile struggles,
And then
vince himself until he had
te Pelly's ton and
that It there,
the the
beglde
even I#¢ could
gone
skel
was really and
initials on
stood
butt of the re
the
| at
| volver,
grave,
and
painfully, for his hands
“hen, very
were skinned and raw, Lee clambered
———————
mee of the children, who siared at
large, black eyes,
“It is strange,
the house”
the mine being so near
sald, "You know
Mother and 1 were never quite con
vinced that there was a mine, We
were never quite sure that my father
hadn't a delusion on that subject, and
that Leboeuf, who was devoted to him,
wasn't humoring him
“Old Leboedf must have heen living
there for n long time, He
grudge against Rathway, you
He would have killed him once, If my
father hadn't intervenéd.”
She reverted to her father's death,
and Lee was reluctantly compelled to
give her the particulars,
Joyce
had some
know,
fallen
any
have
“At
over he sald,
his
the cliff,”
rate, death was
suffer.”
It was
covery of
his
grave
when he spoke of dis-
her - mother's
“She was {ll such a long time,” she
snld, “She was paralyzed, and there
wns nothing that could done
her. When she died my father
carried her body away into
the forest by night. They would never
had buried,
be
me where she been
the house, always hoping to discover
I suppose that was a
part
her to be near him where he
wns working.”
It was after dinner that Lee opened
know what 1
“Will you
with me
“Dear,
1
Hue
vou
want
sald let
south
ask.”
before the
Father
start?
vol
And
snows?
you let McGrath
hefore we
spend
house, just
ogether
it
I awakened in the forest
Or have you idden somet
it would make no difference,
not hear her in the house, telling you,
{ Go!" No, you shall never take
hier gold”
Lee
He strove
sheer weariness,
in his mind,
desisted from
desperately
thia madman--but his
and suddenly, with a
convince
eyelids closed,
could
his throat.
Lee shook himself free, He sprang
put forth.
Lea's fists beat against the bruised
face, drawing. fresh. blood. Leboeuaf
released him, but springing to a dis
tance, began hurling stones at him,
cursing him,
Then he sat down and waited,
Lee must stay awake till nightfall.
He would find some way out of the
gorge. He would cut footsteps in the
granite with a stone—wild and impos
sible thoughts ran through his mind
He strode to and fro beside the river
bank.
Some little distance away Leboeuf
sat watching him. Lee's. hatred for
that bruised, Impassive face was ele-
mental. He flung a stone. The aim
was true; It ent Leboeuf's lip open
Blood began to drip, but Leboeuf
never stirred.
Lee sat down. He must conserve
He had
slept for a moment, and Leboeuf was
creeping toward him. The sun blazed
over the edge of the gorge.
Leboeuf squatted down nearer Lee,
watching him as a vulture might watch
a dying animal
A moment later Leboeuf was almost
at his side, yet he was not conschus
of his having moved, or of having
closed his eyes. He got tp wear
ily, picked up a stone, and flung it into
Leboeuf's face, gashing his cheek.
Leboeuf never moved,
Lee looked about him for a larger
stone,
He was lying upon his back, and Le-
boeuf was kneeling on him gripping
his throat, He tried to struggle. The
wiry fingers ripped the tatters of his
shirt away.
And There in the Entrance Joyce Was
Standing, Watching Them-—and Him,
Approaching.
the tunnel
ever want
agaln,
He had suspected all the while that
the mine was a myth, and even now
he was not convinced that there was
gold in it.
3ut joy was in his heart, joy over.
flowing, for all his troubles were at
an.end. He was going to Joyce, to
make her his wife, to take her away.
And his heart thumped at the antic
ipation of that Incredible dream, and
he trod the trill toward the log house
like a boy. He broke his long fast
with a moderate meal and started
for the mission. As he went up the
ascenit a mob of half-breed and In
Man children came pouring out of the
gchoothonse, And there in the en-
trance Joyce was standing, watching
them-—and him, approaching.
She looked up at him gravely as he
drew near, and she knew at once from
the look on his face enough to make
the breaking of the news less of a
shock to her. But the tears rolled
down her cheeks as he told her of her
father's death,
“Joyce, darling, T can’t help feeling
that it's the best thing-—in the end”
sald Lee. "At least his sufferings are
at an end”
“1 think so, i00, Lee,” she answered
calmly. “And now I know thet-—some-
how=-1 have always known my father
was no longer alive, The bond be
tween us was very close, though I was
away from him so many years”
fee told her about the discovery of
the mine and his encounter with Le
boouf, slurring over the story of the
Indian's attack on him. Then Joyce
enught sight of his hands, and was all
sympathy and disgay, and took him
into a hut and bat them and ban.
daged them, py
Father McGrath had gone to visit
an old Indian in the neighborhood, and
the two talked a long time, and then
ate u simple meal together in the pres
to visit Pelly's gold mine
J
should
yee | have a
don’t want
went on
thon
her
t affair In all but its
He said nothing shout his
Free Tra told
had
th the fers, but
kidnaped by
men and taken to
in the absence of the
her,
was Und
how she wen
the two tathway's
camp, and how
had
“And you say 1
time? asked Joyce
could understand It,
could remember. It
that part of my memory should come
back to me, and not all of it. Who
were those and what did they
want of me?
men? And what did he want?”
“I think the explanation is simple,
dear,” Lee answered
the secret of your father's mine,
way be must have learned that
were coming back the range.
sent his men to Intercept you.
rescued
mscions all
“I wish 1
and 1 wish 1
SACIne 80 strange
men
fome
you
He
to
is why you proposed fo accompany
them, and why you didn’t want me.”
“Not want you, Lee?
Well—J-1
the hotel, and I've been In love with
you ever since. There!
“But why was I riding In the range?”
she resumed. “What was it on my mind
eo terrible that there seems a sort of
blackness there? 1 felt that you could
save me” She shook her head. “No,
there's more to it than that, my dear.
And—1 don't know--perhaps 1 shall
never know”
lee slipped hiz arm about her,
“Joyce, dear, don't try to think. It
doesn't matter. Nothing is going to
matter any more. You are no longer
the unknown girl, traveling alone
through a wilderness, whose disap-
pearance would arouse no suspicions,
Once you are my wife, Rathway can-
not harm you. And then you have
Father McGrath behind you, and the
church that he represents, and the mis-
sionary societies behind that. Rath-
way's not fool enough to buck a power
ful organization by any crime—his
cue Is to lie low and sell ail the liquor
he can before we put him out of busi
ness, Tell me you'll marry me soon.”
“But thé mine, Lee? And poor Le
boeuf?"
“We'll look into thoce matters dur.
ing our little honeymoon. Tell me
that it shall be tomorrow.”
Joyce hesitated ; and while she hes.
tated they heard the tinkle of bells,
and Father McGrath appeared in his
horse sleigh, coming up the hill,
They went to the door. The jolly
priest waved his hand and pulled in,
“Well, Meestalr Anderson, and so
yeo're back again!” he cried heartily,
gripping Lee's hand with a fist of
fron. "Tis harrd going wi' the horse
through the snaw, and I reckon Tl
have to tak’ to the dogs mighty soon
This Is winter for sure Inst!”
He scrutinized the pair keenly, “Ye
havna of your queek
hie inquired, with an absurd
affectation of archness that set thes
both laughing.
“No; I've
that
swered,
fit
made another
changes™™
fulfilled
Imposed on
und with that
adventures in the mine,
“And Miss Pelly has
marry tamorrow,” he
the conditions
me.”
narrated
were Lee an
nis
to
ended men
promised
me
daciously,
“N-—not tomorrow, Lee”
And Father McGrath,
listening to Lee's
gald Joyce
had
with
heen
many
who
story
had a sudden terror that he would re-
to perform the ceremony.
“The. day after, then, Joyce?”
pleaded.
Joyce interposed no veto this time,
Lee
ing adorably confused,
“Weel began the father. “Weel,
not In favor of such queeckness.
the
awful
consequences of matreemony, the
and inevitable
Have ye thocht ¢' the horror o sitting
doon opposite each ither at the break-
fast table mornin’ mornin’ for
Have
responsibili-
consequsners?
i :
after
ye thocht o' the stunning
ties of the married state?
Lee was beginning to grow alarmed
in the »
denly Father
lently upon t
“I'R
orthy father's eves
MeGrath
he back.
mon !” he
“Tis the one practica
And sud
smote Lee vio
“i
Joke that
1 be-
the grrand
Lord
ime I've hummed
na to he
come to
he thinking he's got
by
shouted.
3
do it,
is permeesible tp a meenister,
matreemony, ‘Tis
the deespensations
lieve In
est 0 of Our
and hawed
and
when a
me to marry them
pretended
£11
willin young pair's
the wurrids desire
* her mon,
that
I'm
married them
long, marrk
to
me wi
io that, an sh wiina « bey nor
sha BW n to do
And
tominer
emper
me, as
no sure she loves it's
0, Father, my
de'il
mon's it a
hissalf, and the
Turk)
Jealousy
the grrane
‘y
VOrra
wumman,'
f
l-agsor
he sorrt!
And wi’ that
nantly
in srrm together,
iI hope you
myself in mind
laughing
frap tomorrow
to step into |
MeGrath
“Weel
5
or fomorrow,
looked
we'll Just
Y Anderson,”
said. "For ye ken, Anderson, a wum
man wants a leetle time to picture her
bride in her mind's eye bef
becomes ‘one.
CT he Kitchen
Cabinet
HAI AK AAAI III TST IA IAIND
(@, 1946, Western Newspaper Union. )
:
I LAARARKAXR)
The
intel low
pomp and ig
threshold high enough to turn
deceit aside;
The door band sire
robbers to
This door will open at a touch
welcome every friend
Heury Dyke
enough to keep out
A
ride;
ine
ng enough from
defend,
10
Van
LABOR.SAVING EQUIPMENT
It Is not extravagance to purchase
#cod household equipment, The house-
mother is the most vaiu-
of humzn machin.
ery and wili wear out if
not carefully saved from
overwork, Machinery
can be replaced, but a
mother, never,
A good rule to observ:
in purchasing labor-sav-
ing devices Ig to give
preference to those which are often-
eet used and most DECESSAry. A
cherry-pitter is a great convenience if
one puts up many cherries; but it Is
used only a short season, while a
ment grinder, used nearly every day,
is a necessary utensil, .
Women who make large quantities
of bread find the bread-mixer a neces
sity, while the washing machine saves
bodily energy and time; it, too, Is a
labor-saver,
The question of space, as well as
the amount of care and expense need-
ed to operate them, is a point to con-
sider.
The price is
able
net always high for
artistic china; the golor and design
be good, though cheap. Dishes
may
“And so they are married and
live happily ever afterward”
Not at all. With their marriage
their troubles begin again.
(10 BE CONTINUED.)
When the F aay Wauzzies
“Crumpled Up the Square”
It was ut the battle of Taal in the
Sudan. on March 13, 1884, that the
Wuzzies “broke the British
square.” The tribesmen, utterly reck-
less of death, charged an angle of the
square in the face of what seemed
an annihilating fire, They threw them-
selves on the bayonets, and used their
spears In the death agony before the
bayonets could be withdrawn. They
came over the bodies of their own
dead, and crawling on hands and
knees, under the muzzles of the guns,
they gained the inside of the square,
and stabbed and slashed until one bri
gade gave way In confusion, and ite
guns were captured The other bri
gades closed In, the guns were re
taken, and the Fuzzies were chased
far past the scene of this momentary
triumph, but they had “crumpled up
the square,” and the exploit caught
the British imagination and put Fozzy
Wuzzy into English literature. The
Fuzzies themselves belonged to the
Hadendowa tribe and were command
ed by Osman Digna, although the lat
ter generally kept himself in a place
of safety during the fighting, The
Fuzzies got their name owing to the
peculiar manner in waich they wore
their hair. The Biack Watch formed
part of the “square,” and fought with
the utmost bravery during the whole
of the campaiffn agalvst the Mahal,
Made Name Immortal
In 1807 8. A. Andree stirred the
imagination of the world by starting
from Spitzbergen for the North pole
in a balloon, and, though he perished
in the attempt, made the recond of 47
hours’ sustained flight, as proved by
the message brought back by » ear
rier pigeon, and became the piotieer
of polar exploration through the alr
light, easy to handle, are best. Alum-
not difficult
sanitary.
the
necessity
one of the best;
A
i
to keep bright and very
in-
and
three It
serve its purpose efficiently.
choice of furniture best
convenience,
mi
when it incl Ces
the
study
for her
Taste may be ad, but
good or t
what is best to buy
we »"
oo
=O
which
the general
"sr ivy erg
1ife—things
10,
in
correspond
or
We must not im-
especially
very
point equiy
king is beauty.
ful an 3
be useful beautiful,
| dishes and cox utensils,
may
has little
bri
housekeeper (who
« wise who avoids wa-hrac
and carved siture, elal
der
"ace
| step-eaving,
cupboards
See that the sink
and sink, table and
a reasonable space
hat there
aches afte
The
height that
table, too,
the
at It
homes which cannot be
i study, observa
planning,
jean in working
DE
little
n sense in
grrangement.
Some Sandwiches.
shonld not too
let the slices lle
matching
slices. For a
sandwich
crusts should be
removed and the
sandwiches may
be after
they are prepared
Cream the butter
to soften sp that It will spread better,
{then add any Slling desired
Egg Sandwiches.—Chop the whites
| of hard cooked eggs untill fine. Mix
{ the yolks with softened butter or with
| mayonnaise dressing, add the whites
| and spread on the buttered bread
Deviled Ham Sandwiches. — Take
ane cupful of cold bolled ham chopped
fine, rub yolks of two hard
rocked eggs until smooth with three
teaspoonfuls of melted butter, mix the
ham with a teaspoonful of lemon
fuice and one-fourth teaspoonful of
mustard, season to taste and mix all
together, Spread on thin slices of but.
tered bread.
Cheese Sandwiches.—(Grate cheese
fine, mix with cream or melted but-
ter, add salt and cayenne, and spread
sn buttered bread
Water cress and lettuce are both
very good in sandwiches; shred both,
mix with mayonmise dressing and
piace on buttered bread. Scraped
mion for flavor may be added.
Chopped green peppers and onion
nixed with mayonnaise makes another
appetizing salad.
Sliced tomatoes and cucumbers
with a salad dressing are good.
Chopped meat, nuts, with season-
ings, make good filling.
Sweet Sandwiches. Chopped
slanched almonds with scraped maple
ggar, softened with cream. Marma-
nde, jelly or preserves, any of which
will spread without running. Cottage
cheese and chopped preserved cher
ries,
Salmon Sandwiches Shred a cup.
ful of salmon, add a tablespoonful of
chopped] capers, a tablespoonful of
shopped sour pickles and four table.
spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Cut into
shapes and wrap each In waxed paper
Bacon and Egg Sandwiches. — Chop
pe many hardweooked eggs as will be
needml, adding a tablespoonful of
mayonnaise for each egg. Spread on
suttered bread and top with a thin
slice ‘of cooked bacon, Cover with
another slice of bread and wrap in
paraffin paper,
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