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SYNOPSIS
As Alan Garth, prospector, is pre-
paring to leave for his mining claim
in the Far North, a plane lands at
the airways emergency station. In
it are Burton Ramill, millionaire min-
ing magnate: his daughter, Lilith;
and Vivian Huxby, pilot and mining
engineer. Belleving him to be only an
ignorant prospector, the men offer to
make an air trip to Garth's claim, al-
though they refer to his samples of
platinum-bearing ore as nearly “worth-
Lilith Ramill, product of the
plainly shows her contempt
for Garth.
CHAPTER I-—Continued
RN, J
The girl stopped in the entrance to
peer around the cubbyhole kitchen, her
scarlet-smeared lips curled with dis-
Though soap-clean, everything
in the place looked crude. The alr
was choky from the smell of cheap
bacon.
Huxby sprang up to place the chalr
at the near end of the table. He lifted
the boiling teapot from the stove and
brew.
“Pardon our not waiting, Lilith,” he
apologized. “I did not wish to waken
you with the refueling. Planned to do
it while you breakfasted.”
“Quite thoughtful of you, darling.
But you need not think I'll drink this
lye or eat any of these beastly messes,
Not for me. You can have your steer-
age garbage. I'll keep to cabin fare”
She faced about and went back
through the passage. Huxby stood
hesitating. Mr. Ramill motioned him
to sit down.
“You stocked the cabin with enough
days. Finish your meal”
The mining engineer shot a glance
at Garth. “I've had enough oats to
founder a Scotch cow. May as well
see to the refueling.”
Tobin rose stiffly and followed Hux-
by into the storeroom. Mr. Ramill took
a last sip of the bolled tea, favored
Garth with a patronizing smile, and
opened his gold-mounted cigar case to
offer one of the cholce Havanas,
Garth declined. “1 pever smoke, It
deadens the nose”
“Deadens— What's thar?
“Though man has the sense of smell,
compared with dogs he lacks the abil
ity to scent. Yet even a trace of it
may be of use in the bush”
The investor's portly body quivered
to his chuckle, *I've heard of nosing
out prospects! First time, though, it's
been done to my knowledge” He
caught himself up. “At least, Mr.
Huxby considers It possible your dis
covery may be worth an examination.
That leaves only the question of terms,
in case we find the mine promising
enough for me to make an offer.”
Garth spared an Inquiring glance.
The portly gentleman gave bim a
bland smile.
“I believe in encouraging prospectors.
They find new districts. With that In
view, 1 buy numbers of undeveloped
prospects, taking the risk of heavy
losses. Though 1 drop thousands on
some mines, I have made a fortune
from others. But the average pros
pector, like yourself, stakes his all
cleaned out by total failure. If your
lode looks at all possible, I'll pay you
up to a thousand dollars cash for It"
“I'm not selling,” Garth said. “1 like
to play a game through to the end,
The Investor's eyes hardened. “What's
your idea?”
“One year's lease, and sixty per
cent of the gross returns to me.”
Mr. Ramill blinked. “Sixty per cent
of gross! You're crazy!"
“Like a fox. Same kind of nose™
“Not so
keen, though, for galena. Better for
scenting out alloys of gold, Iridium
and-—platinum.”
The last word knocked the benevo
lent encourager of prospectors speech
ss. Yet, after 2 moment of blank
staring, he managed a bhalf-pitying
look.
“Daft!” he muttered. “That must
be it. These prospectors, alone in the
wilds for months at a time!” He
ralsed his voice. “Too bad, young man.
If you'd make it gold and silver, I
might have been able to swallow the
bait. But platinum! That's a bit too
thick. Platinum is found In quantity
He rose as If to go. Garth gave him
a regretful look,
“Yes—too bad, sir. Now I'll have
I may even have to
before I can dupe a gull Into taking
that lease"
Mr. Ramill left the kitchen without
seeming to heed this plaint. When
Garth followed him Into the storeroom,
fore long Tobin came to open the door
a handbreadth. He chuckled,
“Uh-—lad, you got your hook In
gills. Pilot's tinkering with the motor
Changed the oll, but no
fuel. Ain't rushin’ te flop off.
Garth kept on lathering his
When he came out, his cartridge belt
was buckled about his walst. It held
his sheath-knife and belt-ax. In one
hand he carried his rifle, in the other
the rest of his small outfit, strapped
on his pack board,
Down on the wharf Mr. Ramil
puffed clgar smoke through his head-
net while he watched Huxby's exam-
ination of the motor and propeller,
Miss Ramill was not In sight,
“Right-o, Tobin,” sald Garth. “Sham-
ming it is. When that bus came down,
you néver heard a sweeter motor—
every. cylinder hitting true. Wish I
felt as sure of that southbound Bel-
lanca.”
“Don't fash yourself, Mr. Garth.
She'll make Fort Smith on schedule)”
“Then here goes for my next play.”
He went down the slope to lay his
pack and rifle a little way out from the
base of the wharf. After that he
fetched his canoe from the bank. He
swung it down into the shallow water
within close reach of the pack.
Mr. Ramill came shoreward rather
hurriedly for so dignified a gentleman.
“One moment, Garth. I've consulted
with my engineer partner. He still
thinks It may be worth our while to
investigate your prospect.”
“What! In view of my terms?
“They're outrageous! Still, it 1s
just possible the—er—mine might jus-
HilH =r 0 -
“50
.
He Lifted His Pack Up Again on
the Wharf, and Swung the Canoe
Over His Head,
tify them. The least we can do Is to
inspect the lode. 1 make no deals
sight unseen.”
Garth spoke as If to himself: “An
alr ride, free, and only a few hours’
delay. Time enough to make the trip
out before the freeze-up”
He lifted his pack up again on the
wharf, and swung the canoe over his
head to take it back to its previous
position, bottom up, on the bank. When
he returned he carried hls pack and
rifle out to the airplane. From the
cabin came the rhythmic dissonance of
a jazz-dance tune. The plane evident.
ily was equipped with a long-distance
radio receiver.
Through the wire gauze of the big
rear window he saw Miss Ramill re-
¢lining on the heaped pillows of an un.
made berth. The shelf at her elbow
held tinned and package foods and a
wine bottle. Garth laid down his rifle
and pack on the wharf near the door.
steps,
Ashore, at the storeroom, he found
Huxby trying to boss Tobin into help-
ing tote the gasoline. Annoyed by the
old man's refusal, and still more by
the indignity of mechanic's labor, the
pilot engineer took up a case of twin
fivegalion gasoline ting in his arma
and started cautiously down the slupe
to the wharf,
Had Garth taken the same load,
either he or Huxby would have had to
return for the other two cases, He
roped three cases together and tipped
the thirty-gallon load upon his back.
As If the pack had been a feather
weight, he went down the stony slope
with the smooth gliding step of a moc-
casin wearer,
Out at the end bf the wharf, a deft
stoop and twisy ered his heavy
pack upon the planks without a jar.
As he straightened up he saw Miss
Ramill step down from the cabin. She
had donned her leather pllot trousers
smelly mess they tell about. Your face
looks clean.”
“Thanks for the compliment. But
I'll soon have to take to the usual
grease and spruce pitch. Just used
the last of my frogite”
The girl flushed with resentment.
“Frogite! Don't lle to me. 1 know
how you westerners tell fantastic false-
hoods to tenderfeet.”
“You do? By the way, In the North
we say chechahcos, not tenderfeet. As
for the frogire, it's no fancy. Years
ago, Seton remarked the Tact that wos-
quitoes never sting frogs. I—er—I
know a man who experimented and
who finally obtained chemically the
substance exuded by the skin of frogs.
Too bad I've run out of the dope.
There are plenty of pests where we
are going. You'll have to keep behind
your nets—or take to grease and
pitch.”
Before the girl could reply, Huxby
called down for more gasoline, . He
had managed to get one tin of his
case up to the cockpit and had emptied
it Into a wing tank.
Garth swung up to bim with =a
whole case balanced on his shoulder.
It was far easier than toting a deer
over broken coumdiry. After hoisting
aboard the other cases and Huxby's
second tin, he ducked under the front
strut of the wing. His rifle and pack
lay where he had left them,
The radio had been tuned in on what
probably was the Edmonton relay of
the London metal market report, The
announcer started to give the last
quoted price on platinum: “Refined
platinum, per troy ounce, twelve
pounds, seven shillings and—"
A whine and shriek lke static cut
across the volce. The loudspeaker
blared Info jazz,
Splashes told that Huxby was toss
ing the empty cans and cases into the
river, instead of down on the wharf.
That small yet wanton waste proved
that the mining engineer was =
stranger in the North.
Garth stooped forward under the
wing strut with his rifle. Miss Ramill
stood with her very artificially waved
semi-bobbed halr bared to the breeze.
Upon taking off her mosquito net to
put on the leather flying helmet,
swarm of insects had at once attacked
her. She was trying to flirt them off in
order to replace the protecting gauze,
“Dn your North country!” she ex-
ploded.
“Walt till you reach one of our
muskeg swamps, Miss Ramiil. You'll
call this heaven. But why the flying
suit? Gelng to pliot the bus?’
“Is that any of your business?”
“None whatever, Pardon my Im
pertinent curiosity. Only, as there are
not three seats In the cockpit, 1 was
moved to wonder if you, Instead of
your fiance, are to be my riding mate.”
“Yours!"
“How else? Or does the gentieman
imagine he can find my prospect with-
out a guide?”
“Dad will make you give Vivian
your route map. I'll not let you have
my seat”
This time Garth did not smile. The
girl was due for a lesson. “Suit your-
self—and tell Huxby he can head for
the North pole”
“Indeed I”
“Quite so. He and your father can
go there, or to the other place—and
you with them. You're not only a
selfish snob. You're a brainless fool
to fancy a southern pilot can back-trall
a canoe-route through unmapped forest
and muskeg country.”
The girl's blue eyes flared with out-
raged pride and vanity. Garth smiled.
He had pald her back In full for her
arrogance. It was worth waiting over
until another season for his fortune,
up In that hidden valley of the Rockies.
But before he could stoop under the
strut to recover his pack from the
cabin, the girl called out to him:
“Wait. 1 did not understand. If it's
really necessary for you to act as
Vivian's gulde—But you had no call to
be so rude”
Though be turned back, it was with no
intention of humbling himself. He
was not duped by her seeming change
to amiability. It had been too sudden
for sincerity.
“A woman has no more right to be
rude than has a man" he replied.
“When 1 hear you apologize, I'll con-
sider whether an apology is due from
me."
The smile left her rouge-smeared
lips. He had never before seen so dis
agreeable a look on any woman's face.
“Don't be all day, Garth. Cast off
the lines.—Sorry, Lilith, that I'm not
have your company.”
“Don't worry, old dear,” she sald
He cast off the tall mooring line and |
swung aboard, with the colled rope and |
his rifle. As the plane drifted clear, |
the breeze swerved It head off from |
shore. Huxby paused a moment to |
Jerk out a question: “Route?”
For answer, Garth pointed westerly.
Huxby set the propeller whirling with
the self-starter. With rapidly increas.
ing headway, the plane skimmed out
on the smooth river.
Rifle between knees, Garth settled
down upun the cockpit seat at the
pilot's elbow, Huxby was first to
speak. When the plane soared above
the west bapk of the great river, he
leaned close to shout a repetition of
his question: “Route?”
Garth looked overside before polnt-
ing. The plane had climbed nearly a |
thousand féet.
Even to a man who had spent years
in the North, this view of the sub-
On the ground, Garth would have had
slight trouble retracing the course he
had followed In and out of the wilder-
ness. From the alr, everything looked
different. For all his flying experi-
pected, strike a beeline, Though he
knew the general direction of his find,
he was unable to guide the plane as
the crow flies,
At his sign to bank, Huxby frowned
but brought the plane around In a wide
curve. Very soon, upriver from the re-
fueling station, Garth sighted the
small swamp stream on which he had
begun and ended his trip into the un-
known. This was a familiar point of
departure. From It he again directed
the pliot to the westward,
Somewhat under an hour later, the
swamps and low ridges ended at the
upheave of an eastward thrust moun-
tain range. A near view of the bar-
ren peaks caused Garth to twist the
course about on a sharp angle to the
southwest. Those mountains had not
appeared any too familiar, The diffi
culty of finding landmarks recognizable
days on his trip in and out, he had
traveled through dense forests of
spruce that shut off almost all wide
views, even of the mountains,
The westward rise of the country
had by now forced the plane up an-
other thousand feet. Higher slopes
ahead called for still
feet or more higher than the plane,
Huxby started to climb. Until within a
mile of the savage cliffs he ignored
Garth's advice to lessen
Then, as the plane swept past an out-
jutting peak on the right, Garth signed
towards the gap between it and the
main mass
The highest point of the pass was
more than half a thousand feet lower
than the plane. Huxby pushed the
stick forward and shot down for the
gap on a long slant. The monoplane
soon drove In between the towering
precipices and steeply pitched side
slopes of the immense cleft. A little
more, and the cleft crooked to the
morth. The plane banked around the
down the expanse of snow-ice pinched
into a narrow gulch, The gulch ran
down Into a deep mountaln-rimmed
valley. Down the mpugh bed tumbled
a stream of milky glacier water,
Garth ncted moving dots on the
tundra and white specks up on the
saw neither the caribou nor the moun-
tain sheep. He had at once spotted
the lake In the valley bottom. He
silvery sparkling ripples of the lake.
The monoplane swooped above the
upper shore and drove on towards the
foot of the lake at full speed. Garth
pointed to the intake from the glacier
stream, and signed for a descent
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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to Land, Water Variety
A snail Is a mollusk and properly
belongs only to mollusks living on land
or in fresh water, which, says a writer
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as Pulmonates because they have lungs
(Latin, pulmo) and breathe air Instead
of extracting oxygen from water by
means of gills as do the sea-mollusks.
These pulmonates are of three Kinds:
1, those living on land; 2, those living
in fresh water; 8, slugs. Both of the
first two are protected by shells to
which they are permanently attached,
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Skeletons in Armor Suits
Are Found on Battle Site
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perfect state of preservation. Work-
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undoubtedly must have been the
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of the ancient Venetian republic.
One of the many skeletons In ar-
mor was found to have a sword still
between the ribs, Presumably the
turbed all these centuries. Quanti-
also were found, together with beau-
centuries old dirt had been
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the colors being perfectly preserved.
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