Be —— TERR A— By ROBERT AMES BENNET WNU Service Copyright by Robert Ames Bennet 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 mining magnate; his daughter, Lilith; and Vivian Huxby, pilot and mining engi neer. Believing him to be only an Igno- rant prospector, the men offer to make an air trip to Garth's claim, although they refer to his samples of platinum- bearing ore as nearly “worthless.” Lil ith Ramlill, product of the jazz age, plainly shows her contempt for Garth. CHAPTER II—Continued ————— The plane nosed down so steeply that the pontoons went under. For tunately the craft was almost fool proof. She bobbed up without plung- ing to the bottom. Huxby taxied shoreward against the current from the stream and the thrust of the down- gulch breeze. Garth stood up to pilot the pllot. A clump of spruces stood a few yards In from the water-smoothed ledge on the right bank of the stream mouth. Hux. by obeyed the signal to shut off the motor. As #he propeller ceased to spin the plane glided In between the banks of the outrushing stream. Uncolllng the line as he went, Garth ran out on the right wing. From the overhang he leaped down on the shelf ledge and bounded along It to the nearest spruce. The plane had al ready lost its headway and was start- ing to drift backwards in the swift outswirl of the stream. The line tautened as Garth whipped it around the tree trunk. To make doubly safe, he used the last foot for a pair of half hitches, He knew what would happen if the plane should drift free with no pilot aboard. Snubbed fast, the monoplane swung to the near bank and lay with the right-hand float snug against the pol ished waterline of the ledge. Huxby came out on the wing and jumped off to peer down the glassy slope of rock at the pontoon. “Not so bad,” he admitted. “1 had the place picked out,” Garth replied. “The rock Is very slick There'll be no need of fenders during our few hours’ stay." The engineer pilot shoved his gog- gles up on the front of his helmet. “How's that? ‘Picked out,’ you say. Jeen around airplanes, have you?” “1 know how rough stone will chafe a boat,” Garth replied. “Your floats are a kind of canoe. Can you get Mr. Ramill and his daughter ashore by way of the wing? Miss Ramill called from the cabln: “Why didn't you pick a decent landing place, Vivian? We never can get ashore up this smooth sloping rock. The steps are no use. You'll have Ww make a gangway for Dad and me.” Garth vaulted upon the wing and walked in along It to the fuselage The girl leaned from the big rear win- dow of the cabin. “Clive me your band,” Garth said. "I'll swing you up on the wing.” He knelt above her on the cabin roof and reached down. Her lips curled In a contemptuous smile, “If that's the best you can do, I'll stay right here. I've no wish to go bathing. “In that case, get out of the way. Your father wishes to see my prospect. I'll not waste time building a needless gangway.” She was the heiress to millions and had been reared in prodigal luxury. Never had she been treated so cavalier. ly as by this buckskin-clad prospector. She turned to her fiance. “Vivian, you heard the insolent fel low I" Huxby grasped the wing tip to pull himself up. The girl's father spoke over her shoulder: “Stay where you are, Vivian. We're here to look at Garth's mine. He has agreed fo help Lilith and me ashore. If she prefers to remain aboard, she may do 50.” The girl looked both surprised and angered. She drew back Into the cabin, Her father thrust out his head from the window to look up at Garth. “Won't It be more than you can manage? 1 weigh over two hundred.” For reply, Garth reached down. The portly millionaire hung in Garth's grasp almost like a dead weight. Yet Garth swung him bodily up and around on the wing. He led the limping gentleman out to the far end, near the tip, and low ered him down upon the top of the ledge. Before he could follow, Miss Ramill called out to him: “Come back for me. It should be safe enough. You did not drop Dad” Garth looked up the gulch, smiled, and went to swing the girl out of the window. Up on the wing she clutched his shoulder as If to steady herself, Her scarlet-smeared lips curved in a patronizing smile, “You're wonderfully strong!” “More koack than muscle.” “Both! It was simply marvelous how you lifted Dad without losing your balance.” Out near the wing tip Garth drew his arm free from her clasp, eaught ther by the elbows, and lowered her soto Huxby’s upthrust hands, she looked up and smiled. “So nice of you, old dear. Now, If you'll fetch a cup. I'm dying to try a drink of this delightful-looking milky water.” “The dying would be more apt to follow your drink,” Garth replied. He sprang down beside her father. “Your milk Is rock-flour ground off by the glacier. It's apt to be a dangerous drink. There's clear water where we're going.” He caught up his rifle, and set off aslant the easy upslope from the lake shore, The others followed after him. picking their way between the scraggy branches of the spruce trees. Before long the trees dwdrfed down Into tim- berline scrub. “What an odd-colored stone!” The girl turned to stare resentfully at the desolate grandeur of the mountains across the valley. “Did you ever see such a horrible place? It's almost as bad as those ash-heap mountains in the Mohave desert. Come along, Dad. Don't keep us here forever. This raw hole makes me sick.” Her father spoke Irritably: “You wouldn't listen when I advised you to remain at Edmonton, Why didn't you stay in the cabin, instead of following me ashore?” “Oh, tune off,” she complained. “It's quite enough to've dragged myself out on this God-for-saken dirt plle. Even the berries are sour. I'm golng back. There ought to be a dance program on somewhere. Only thing, can Vivian get me up Into the cabin?” He looked expectantly at Garth, The smile she gave him jerked the atten- tion of her flance away from the pur pose that had brought them ashore. “I'll swing you aboard easy enough, Lilith,” he sald. Garth spoke to him without a trace of amusement : “If you ask me, I think this little walk to the mine would be good exer- cise for Miss Rawiill,k. When 1 left here, last month, there was a she grizzly with two cubs back along the lake shore. They may have gone off; maybe not. That pistol of yours wouldn't be of much use If you hap- pened to biunder between the old lady and her young ones.” “You saw the beast, her,” scoffed Huxby. “Pretty thin™ “Not at all; she was quite fat. It happened, though, I had no need of meat or bear skins. Also, she was as willing as I was to live and let live, Just so I kept away from her cubs” Mr. Ramill started to overtake him. “Lead ahead, Garth. I came here to see your prospect, not to talk about shooting.” Garth went on, up aslant the tundra When he came to where the smooth slope dropped Into a shallow trough, a barkward glance showed the gir! and Huxby loitering along behinds her fa. ther, The portly millionaire came panting up beside Garth. “Well?” he asked. “There's my claim,” Garth answered. “My lower stake Is down at that cross dyke of gneiss, a thousand feet or so from the lake shore. The upper one stands about three hundred feet below those slide ledges. You could stake a claim above mine, but I doubt If you'd find pay dirt. There Is none at all be tween the lower stake and the lake. The dyke stopped the downdrift of the alloy. 1 sampled several acres. Be ginning at the grass roots and going down to frost, the dirt ran from five to ten dollars a pan. This trough is a placer pocket—a cache filled by the age-long downdrift from those disin- tegrated veins up the mountain. My claim covers all or nearly all the de posit, and It is worth several hun. dred thousand dollars, If not a mil lion.” The cool certainty of Garth's state ment compelled belief. Mr, Ramill's ruddy face went blank, His daughter looked at Garth with a sudden change from boredom and dis dain to an Interest that verged on re spect. Here was sensation—something new. The despised woodsy vagabond of the wilds was not a pauper, after all! It was like a play, the wandering beggar boy disclosing himself to be the true prince. He had sald, “a million!” Like the older man, Huxby had put on his poker face. He was not so sue: cessful, however, In keeping the glint out of his eyes. He had yet to make his fortune, “So It's a milllon?" he scoffed. “No wonder you prospectors go crazy. Find a little placer you guess has some gold in it, and you think you've located a mint. Five to ten dollars a pani Why, Jack, your metal wouldn't give you half a dollar a pan, even If your small percentage of gold was alloyed with silver, instead of lead.” Garth smiled. “My mistake bother. ing you to test that sample. Just chew on this, my friend: A good many sourdoughs might not be able to iden tify that gray-white metal, But only a chechahco would be unable to recog. nize that It Is not galena or silver.” This silenced the engineer for the moment. Mr, Ramill favored Garth with his blandest smile, “Technicians like Huxby are too apt to Imagine that the rest of us know nothing. Now, admitting for the sake of the argument that your guess re garding the alloy is correct, suppose we sample your prospect.” For reply, Garth led down Into the trough to where a moss-bedded spring yet did not kill rill trickled down from pool to pool He stopped beside a shallow dugout, roofed with spruce branches, moss and dirt. Under it lay a small shovel and plckax, a worn gold pan, and a little aluminum cooking pot. Garth turned to Huxby. “There's the pan. Get your samples and go to It.” “How do I know your holes aren't salted 7” “You don’t know anything. Why not scratch down to gravel yourself? Or perhaps I salted all the trough, before I laid on this blanket of grass and moss.” Mr. Ramil interposed: “Mining en- gineers have to guard against fraud as well as error, Garth. 1 was salted once myself, In my callow days. Just to ease his professional consclence, sup- pose you clear gravel for us midway between here and the staked hole down there.” “That's my discovery stake” Garth replied. “Wasn't looking for gold In this trough. Just happened fo notice the gray metal where the spring gush of the rill had torn the moss from the gravel, About my digging, I must beg to be excused. What If I should hap pén to drop a handful of that galena into the hole, when your expert was not looking? Ignoring the irony, Huxby pulled the shovel from the dugout shelter and gouged into a bed of moss. Mr. Ramill stooped his portly body to pick up the gold pan, Huxby shoveled clear the moss and black humus from a space two feet or more square, He tossed aside a few stones the size of his fist, and took the gold pan from Mr. Ramill to load it with gravel. They went a few steps downslope to the edge of a lower pool None too deftly, Huxby dipped water into the pan and began to rotate the contents. After more than twice the time an old prospector would have needed for the operation, the mining engineer worked the pan clear of all except a spoonful of small dull nodules Miss Ramill had stretched out to bask In the summer warmth. With thé upsiant of the sun towards the noon of the nineteen-hour day, the Garth Vaulted Upon the Wing and Walked in Along it to the Fuselage. breeze had died down. The caim brought a swarm of mosquitoes upslope from the lake shore. The girl put on her head- net, covered the unbooted part of her legs with caribou moss, and resumed her sun bath, Out of the tall of his eye Garth watched Huxby and Mr. Ramil, When he saw the two get thelr net-draped heads together over the gold pan, he rose and went towards them. The tread of his moccasins was noiseless. Before the two noticed his approach, he stood looking down over their shoul- ders, “Not half bad for a starter,” he sald. “At least five dollars In your first pan” “Hardly that value,” replied Mr. Ramill. “Admitting there Is some plat- inum in this alloy, I am afrald you're a far too sanguine young man, Call it five per cent platinum and five of gold. That leaves ninety per cent of silver and lead, with of course traces of iridium and osmium.” “Yes, move the decimal point of your million three places to the left, Jack,” sald Huxby. “It brings your wonder- ful fortune down to a few thousands. To sluice this placer, freight out the alloy, and pay for separating the metals will leave slim profits. There may be none at all.” “Too bad you've had all your trouble for nothing,” Garth replied. *I count. ed on your finding it a real strike—the first big platinum deposit located in North America.” Mr. Ramill rose to lay a consoling hand on his shoulder. “Never mind, my boy. what You'll recall told you about my encouraging prospectors. 1 stand by that now. 1 will give you two thousand dollars for this prospect, and take the ‘chance of getting back my money by large-scale placering.” tested. your money. In fact, I'll have to own up I had a little testing acld with me when I happened upon this gray alloy. So, as I do not believe in cheating, suppose we head back for the Mac- kenzie.” The millionaire mine buyer chuckled and clapped him on the back. "Boy, you're a whole lot less a fool than you look.” Huxby stared hard. Then, pocketing the alloy, he went for the shovel. “Good idea,” Garth ssid. “A pan from above Discovery, one below, and the same from three or four hun- dred feet out each side-—they'll tell you whether or not It's merely a smali pocket.” Without replying, Huxby set off up the trough. Mr. Ramill limped slowly after him. Miss Ramill appeared to have fallen asleep. She lay still, protected by her net from the mosquitoes that tinged about her head. Relleved from the company of his un pleasant travel mates, Garth stretched out like the girl. He thought of the vast length of time that had been re quired to erode the side of the moun- tain above him. Nature had spent ages in collecting these hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of precious alloy upon which he now lay basking. And he had chanced to stumble upon the treasure near the end of a trip of which exploration and adventure had been the prime motive and pros pecting only a side Now, by law, he was sole owner of all this wealth, He thought of the two men upslope whom he had brought to share In his good fortune. They had thanked him by seeking to Jie and cheat him out of it all jut that was the nature of far too many men There was no reason to be surprised or angered, They had failed to outplay him with their stacked cards He looked at a clump of alpine blossoms close beside his elbow, and smiled Upslope he heard the swirl of gravel in the gold pan. After a time the sound died out. His keen ear caught the dull tread of heavy feet on the turf, Mr. Ramill turned “We will go back to lunch while considering the matter.” “Only for a short time” Huxby qualified. intend to return here for more sampling. No need of troubling to Join us” Garth saw that his company was not wanted, “Thanks. I'm not hungry. Come to think, I'll go down to the jake and make sure my old lady grizzly isn't lurking in the bush™ “Your phantom bear,” mocked Miss Ramil, “Watch out she doesn't make a ghost of you" Under cover of his smile at the Garth caught the glance that passed between her father and Huxby, The girl had said it. “Watch out” was the word. He swung down the trough with no sign of hurry. he length of his glid- ing stride made his movements appear leisurely. Without looking back, he slanted in among the scrubby spruces. A mass of the dense evergreens put him out of sight of the three chechahcos up on the open tundra. He turned sharp to the right. Midway down the brush-fririged lake shore, the tall spruces stood well spaced. He broke into a run. A vista between the trees offered him a view upslope. He halted be. hind a screen of young aspens to look. The three had already reached the side of the trough. They started to hurry on aslant the mountainside, Lilith Ramili and Huxby had the girl's heavy- bodied father between them. They were helping him along twice as fast as he could have made it without their aid. (TO BE CONTINUED) ———— Alcohol in Body Cannot Ignite, Chemists Assert According to popular belief, the body of a person sonkeu with alcohol Is combustible. Cases of the spontaneous combustion of the body have been re- ported, especially In France, when the first Instance of this Kind is said to have happened in 1725 The spontaneous burning of an al cohol-soaked body Is & popular belief in Rumania, according to a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Prof, A. 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