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SYNOPSIS
As Alan Garth, prospector, is prepar-
ing to leave for his mining claim in the
Far North, a plane lands at the air-
ways emergency station. In it are Bur-
ton Ramill, millionaire mining magnate;
his daughter, Lilith: and Vivian Huxby,
pilot and mining engineer. Believing
him to be only an ignorant 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.” Lilith Ramill, prod.
uct of the jazz age, plainly shows con-
tempt for Garth. Through Garth's guid.
ance the plane soon reaches the claim
site. Huxby and Ramill, after making
several tests, assure Garth his claim Is
nearly valueless, but to “encourage”
young prospectors they are willing to
take a chance In investing a small
amount. Sensing treachery ahead, Garth
secretly removes a part from the motor
of the plane. Huxby and Lilith taunt
Garth, but their tone soon changes
when they try to start the plane. Re-
turning to shore they try to force Garth
to give up the missing part. Garth
manages to set the monoplane adrift
and the current carries it over the
falls. He points out that he is their
only hope in guiding them out of the
wilderness,
CHAPTER I1II—Continued
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“Bon voyage!" sald Garth. “You
pay reach the top of the glacier with
the soles still on your golf-course
boots. Your father, I fancy, will pre
fer to walt here a while. For one
thing, he knows that in hls present
condition, he never could climb the
pass. In the second place, he has no
desire to go down the other side on
his uppers.”
Huxby looked from Mr. Ramill's
flimsy oxfords to the girl's fashionable
sport boots, and then at Garth's worn
moccasins,
“Well, Jack, what's the answer?”
“That it's not well,” Garth replied.
“In the first place, you'll drop that
name and tone in speaking to me. Am
I understood?”
Huxby stood silent,
and lips tight drawn. But Mr. Ramil
spoke for him, with decisiveness:
“That Is understood, Garth. We are
all now in the same boat, and you are
gkipper. How about the shoe prob
fem?’
“Moosehide. We'll first shift along-
shore to the mouth of the placer rill
It's the best place to camp. I'll then
go on around to the muskeg and col
iect some hides”
“Don’t be too sure of that” Huxby
differed. “Keep hold of the rifle, chief.
He'd streak out and leave us to hold
the sack.”
“Haven't you realized yet that the
Joke is on you?" Garth inquired. “It's
a question of trusting me absolutely,
or not at all. Take your choice.”
Mr. Randll handed over the rifle.
Huxby's hand tightened on the butt
of his lowered pistol. Garth gazed
past him down the lake,
he plane seems to be edging over
towards the east shore. There's a
ford up here, Huxby. You're welcome
to try for the plane. If you save her,
ll call it a break of the game in your
favor, and we'll all ride out on the
air.”
“Lay off, Vivian,” Mr. Ramill inter-
posed. “The plane has veered out
again. He has us nipped fast”
Without any reply, Huxby thrust his
pistol inside his leather jacket and
started up the stream bank, Garth
came aslant to his pack. He slung it
on his back.
“Come on. Let's head for camp.”
“Why not follow Vivian?" Mr. Ra
mill inquired. “It is still possible the
plane may drift ashore.”
“A hundred to one chance It will
not, sir. We'll go out on moosehide,
if at all. I've decided not to make it
alone. A trip through the muskegs
may lead you to realize that even lone
woodsy prospectors should be entitled
to the fruits of their discoveries.”
The girl's smoldering rage flared
out at him: “You scoundrel! Decoy
us into this beastly hole, and then
turn our plane adrift. You cowardly
sneak! Everything drifting away in
it—and all the food and wine, Ob,
d—n! What am 1 going to do? I'll
starve!”
Her father looked at Garth with the
first sign of concern that he had
shown. "Yes, that's it. You might
have thought of her. A girl so dell
cately reared! 1 say nothing as to
myself; It's all In the game. But a
lady—to drag her down into the raw
like this! Marooning her to starve in
the bogs!"
Garth looked from father to daugh-
ter. “A lady, did you say? Oh, yes, to
be sure-—a dainty, refined lady, who
curses and drinks and joins In schemes
to bilk a supposedly simple bush vaga-
bond out of his fortune.”
“Pah!” ghe scoffed. “Whining be
cause we would not let you folst your
self on us as a gentleman, As for
your twaddle about that claim, mines
are treasure trove. They belong to
whoever Is clever enough to get hold
of them."
“Right-o, my lady,” Garth approved.
“Which leaves only the small matter
of food and drink to be considered,
You'll be able to chew moose meat, 1
fancy, after you've fasted off some of
your fastidiousness."
Indifferent whether or not the girl
and her father followed him, Garth
his eyes cold
started to back-trall through the lower
growth of spruce trees,
over ledges down to the rocky shore,
he halted in a small clearing. Here
had been his camp on his previous
visit to the valley. Ten feet up the
branch-trimmed trunks of four closely
grouped birch trees, a tattered moose-
hide hung over the edge of a pole plat
form,
Garth glanced up at the platform.
“Wolverines have robbed the food
cache, jut there's plenty more meat
on the hoof, While | go for some, you
two will start gathering wood.”
Miss Ramlill's nerves were on edge.
She snapped at him hysterically: “You
insolent bully! Don't you dare to try
to give me orders.”
Her father had squatted down on the
warm rock, tired out by his day's ex-
ertions. Garth spoke to him:
“Too much is enough. The condl
tion was that all three of you would
do as I thought best. Huxby promptly
tried again to bluff me. Now your
daughter balks"
Mr. Ramill raised his down-sagged
head. “You'll not be able to say that
of me, young man. [ stand by your
terms. I always play to win, But no
one can truthfully claim I ever welch
or revoke. [ will take your orders, and
so will Vivian, now that he has had
time to realize the situation.”
“How about your daughter?”
“I'll leave that to you. If you can
control her, you'll be doing more than
I have ever been able to do.”
Garth met the disdainful gaze of the
girl with a smile. "So your father
turns you over to me, my lady. Let
me hasten to assure you, 1 beg to de
cline the honor”
“Ah, indeed!"
“Yes. ™TI'll let
spank you till
senses.”
Her blue eyes flared with scorn. “Oh,
you—you! D-n!"
“Better save your energy,” he ad
vised. “You'll need it all, unless your
pride stoops to the squaw work of
camp-fire tending. Smoke drives off
insects, For another thing no wolf,
wolverine or lynx, or even a grizzly,
will venture close to a fire. Think
that over. Mr. Ramill, you have your
patent lighter.”
He swung away between the spruces
without waiting for any reply. Left
alone with her exhausted father, the
girl might come to realize how utterly
she had crashed out of her soft and
luxurious civilized environment.
A girl whom even her father had
been unable to control! That had been
evident from the first. She was a
badly spoiled product of the jazz-age
willful, arrogant, utterly selfish. For.
tunately she had shown herself no less
hard physically than mentally. Other.
wise he would have played the game
in a different way. No weak-muscled
woman could make that travols to the
Mackenzie,
As for her father, he had only him-
self to thank. A pirate should expect
to take his chances. He might be got.
ten out to the river, and he might not.
That depended upon his heart. Soft
muscles could be hardened, Not so a
weak heart
No question as to the girl and Hux-
by. If they obeyed orders. They could
make It
A crash in the aiders broke In upon
Garth's thoughts. The splash that fol
lowed told him a moose had caught his
scent and taken to the lake. To have
run to the bank and shot the swim.
ming beast would have been easy.
Only, he had no canoe or raft, and the
water here was rather deep offshore,
He stalked down through the timber,
For the first hundred feet or so cut
from the shore thickets, willows grew
along both sides of the low ledge. A
peer through the follage showed the
immense palmate antlers of an old bull
moose,
Garth flattened down on the moss
covered dyke and crawled away from
the bank. Shoreward, on the other
side, he caught sight of a slight move-
ment among the willows. He rose on
his knees and swung up his rifle
Though he was still screened by the
brush alongside the ledge, his quick
movements sent a strong whiff of man-
scent downwind,
With loud snorts of alarm, two cow
moose, a calf, and a young bull heaved
up among the willows less than a
dozen yards apart. They started to
plunge forward out of the thicket.
Garth's first shot dropped the calfless
cow with a bullet through the head.
His second bullet glanced off the base
of the bull's left antler. Partly stunned
by the shock, the bull swerved side-
ways, only to drop In his tracks, shot
through the heart,
Silently as he had stalked out the
ledge, Garth returned to solid ground.
old
you
Mother Nature
come to your
a down-beaten mat of willow stems.
Garth at once set to work with his
knife,
To dress out a thousand-pound anl-
mal Is no light task, even under the
best of conditions, Garth thought noth-
Ing of it. All the hide within reach
slid free to the quick draw of his
curved knife blade, With belt-ax and
knife he cut off the antlered head, then
the upper foreleg and hindquarter, Af.
ter that he was able to heave the car-
cass over by the leverage of the other
legs.
When he had finished with the bull,
he went to the cow, She welghed per-
haps 200 pounds less, and was there
fore easier to dress out,
With the two skins and all the meat
ashore, he took a dip In a clear pool
and washed his buckskins. As he
sloshed out of the willows In the wet
garments, he saw Miss Ramill staring
through her headpet at the eight big
legs. He had hooked them on the
stubs of spruce limbs, Her gaze low.
ered from the other raw moose prod.
ucts that were plled on one of the
hides, She turned from them loath
ingly.
“Faugh! What a sickening mess!
Have you started a packing plant?”
“The packing 1s just about to start,”
he replied. “Are you too feeble to
carry this rolled skin? It's the lighter
one”
“That filthy thing? You may be sure
I'm not so feeble-minded as to touch
any of your butcher mess.”
“Yery well. Only remember, {t's your
own cholce, sister.”
He bagged the contents of the bull
ide, slung it on his back, picked up
his rifle, and headed for camp. The
girl looked from him to the folded
moose cow skin, hesitated, flushed an
grily, and followed, empty-handed.
While still some distance from the
rill, he whiffed a tang of wood smoke.
He quickened his step. It gave him »
The Splash That Followed Told
Him a Moose Had Caught His
Scent,
pleasant surprise. After all, the girl
seemed to have given in, at least part.
ly. He turned to her with a friendly
look. She met It with a scornful
smile.
They came to the opening where
Garth trimmed a pair of green wil
low spits, opened the moosehide, and
cut two slices of liver. He put a slice
on each spit, and started to broil them
over the coals. With a look of dis
gust, Miss Ramill turned her back and
sat down on the rill bank.
Before long the broiling liver began
to send out an appetizing odor. The
girl's nose went up for an involuntary
sniff. Garth met the intent look of her
father, and allowed his left eyelid to
flutter slightly. Another turn of the
spits completed the broiling. He
handed one of them to Mr. Ramill
The millionaire lifted his headnet
to take a gingerly nibble at his hot
meat. His heavy face brightened with
a surprised smile. He smacked his
lips and bit off a large mouthful, At
the sound, his daughter jerked around.
Garth was biting Into the other plece
of liver.
The girl eried out her indignation:
“You greedy pigs! Where's my plece?”
Garth pointed to the moosehide
“Help yourself.”
He met her furious look with cool
indifference, and went on eating. Un-
able to blast him, she turned to her
father,
“I'll take yours, Dad. You've had
two bites. It will not take you long
to cook another plece. Make it three.”
At ‘that, Garth swung around be.
“Mr. Ramill, we'll settle this right
You sald you'd leave her to me.
He winced. Garth ignored her,
“Better lle down and rest, sir.
You've done enough for a while.
going to get you Into hard training as
soon as possible.
overdo It at the start.
breakdown.”
“1 am tired, boy—and hungry as a
shark,
liver,”
“Not now, You'll rest, do some
work, and then get another slice. Call
this valley one of those physical cul-
ture sanitariums where the tired busi.
ness man Is worked and dleted back
into fit condition”
“l have yet
ing, Garth.”
“Take your
to agree to such train.
choice, If you refuse,
Il give you my word you'll never reach
the Mackenzie, I might back-pack you
In some places; you don't weigh much
over two hundred. Happens, though,
I'm not a donkey. You'll go on your
own feet”
“Very well. Put me on them."
Obedient to directions, the big man
stretched out flat upon the sunwarmed
rock, Garth turned about to pull the
moosehide and what was upon It into
the shade of a birch
Miss Ramill thrust In front him
and selzetl his knife. She slashed at
the liver. The blade was razor-sharp.
Her angry stroke not only cut through
the liver, it slit the moosehide as weil
Garth sald nothing. Enough for him
that hunger had humbled the girl's
pride. She had learned her first les
son, Long hours had passed since her
finicky breakfasting on wine and del
catessen in the cabin of the monoplane,
far over on the Mackenzie. was
fairly ravenous,
Her rouged lips twitched an:
ticipation as she held the spitted slice
of liver close upon the coals
low-burnt fire. Well satisfied,
hung the remaining liver, the tongues
and muffies under the cache platform
A smudge-fire on the ground
the meat drove off the flies,
of
She
with
of the
Garth
below
Miss Ramiil's only thought had been
for her She
put fresh fuel on the cook-fir
it died down to embers, she jeri
partly burnt,
liver from charred wi
There was now no finicky
ness about her eating. She thrust of
her headnet and sank her teeth
the plece of liver with the g
hungry boy. Bite
rapid succession.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Indians’ Ark Legend Is
Still Related in Queb-=c
The remnants of the Indians in the
country surroundings Capes Trinity
and Eternity, the high points on
Saguenay river, still cling to the an-
clent belief that the ark or, as they
term It, “the big canoe,” rested on the
top of Cape Trinity, 2000 feet above
the level of the river which skirts its
base, and was placed there by a flond
which inundated the rest of the earth,
destroying all life thereon, only the
families of worthy Indians, as well as
pairs of the various animals and birds
being preserved by the Great Manitou,
whose gulding hand landed “the big
canoe” on the last bit of earth left un
covered by water.
The Indians also have a legend, says
a Tadoussac (Quebec) correspondent
in the Washington Star, which bears
considerable resemblance to the cast.
ing of Satan and his rebellious follow-
ers out of paradise. According to the
indian tradition, the Great Manitou
cast the “fallen angels” over the
precipice of Cape Trinity. All met
death in the river below with the ex-
ception of the leatler, who was so
strong that the fall of 2,000 feet only
crippled him,
As this "angel™ gathered strength
he became the demon of the river,
wrecking canoes, drowning peaceful
Indians and wreaking havoc in gen
eral,
Mayo, the father of the Indian race,
decided to seek and vanquish him in a
hand-to-hand encounter. The battle
between the two was terrific, Mayo
swinging the demon around his head
and against the rock of Trinity with
such force that the three great gashes
in the mountain resulted from the con.
tacts, go the tradition continues, Final
ly Mayo was victorious, crushing out
the life of the demon and thus restor-
ing peace and quiet to the beautiful
waters of the Saguenay,
the
Mourning Dove Like Pigeon
The female mourning dove looks very
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
The Crown Remains
Veterans Reach the Top
The Useful Red Cross
Oxygen Is Life
Behind the gray walls of Windsor
on the hill above the Eton
school, where young
England learns dis-
King George's cof-
fin was lowered In-
to the vault to lle
beside his father,
King Edward VII,
and his grandmoth-
er, Queen Victoria.
The magnificent
crown of England
was taken from the
coffin before It dis-
appeared and
placed before the
altar. Kings go; the
Arthur Brisbane ..,un remains.
The services were broadcast, new
feature of a royal funeral. The sim-
ple Church of England burial service,
read by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
was heard far over the earth, wher
ever Britain's 400,000,000 subjects live,
Veterans having successfully climbed
the long, road, the government
began the biggest “pay-off” job In his-
tory, the printing of two billion four
hundred million dollars’ worth of
bonds. to be distributed among 3.518.-
101 World war mere
distributing cost alone will be §7,000,-
(x),
long
veterans, The
Now government wonders what new
taxes can be Invented to pay the two
and one-half billions,
Interesting news from Ethiopla sent
by an American corespondent says the
residence of Halle Selassie’s son has
on the roof a large red cross, although
it has nothing with the Red
Cross. Press news
of a Swedish “field hospital” captured
by Italians in the South, carrying am-
munition on five trucks adorned with
Red Cross flags and Insignia. The
“Held hospital”
tained, In ade
tions. In modern
to homb
war drmms of the Eth
Pesta Demnta,
to do
Associated sends
automohiles
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27 cnses of
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muni
plan
The
Ilas
He will
war. the safe
goOMnN he everything,
ofan hero,
were captured
miss them.
Is the Life™
Hebrew
“The Blond aceording
ind oxygen
No oxygen
three minutes or less;
to an old
is life
ERyYIiDE.
the of the hlond
means death, In
ton little oxygen means premature
meanwhile
marvel
narvelous
morning
the
below
death, Inferior health
The Dionne qu iplets are
in health, The
bahles antdosors every
and
temperature was 30 degrees
ous thelr
sleep
afternoon: an one occasion
eT
All five walk, all have gained weight
daring the
teeth Annette has
twelve all All
high foreheads
past month, and have new
three pew ODOR,
big
faces and
Marseilinise :
in have heautifal
eye
ook
get
rolt
pretfty
as French as the
plenty of oxygen, but wrap up well,
floyd
Edward Vii, ha
gras
comes
enrge says the king,
the macnetism of his
Vii: that he
vith such great
troubles ahend as few kings have ever
but “his conrage and his
t fail
new
dfather, E
to the throne
encountered,
¢
im
gure instinet will n
0 K. Allen
of Louisiana,
orrhage. He
Senator Long,
g short time
Huey Long's governor
died of a cerebral hem
remained In succession to
leader of the Long party,
Perhaps they are
together now, both aware that nothing
happening on this little earth is lmo-
portant; Huey Long wondering why he
made such a fuss ahout It,
only,
The unnecessary alr disaster In Ha-
will two United States bombing planes
destroved In collision while flying “In
formation” and six men killed, causes
aviators to say that they ohject to
night formation flying. They may well
ohject: nothing more densely stupid
could be Imagined than sending up
planes to fly at high speed, almost
wing to wing, inviting disaster and
death. Even in these husy times there
ought to be somebody sufficiently intel.
ligent to stop that nonsense, at night,
and in daytime also,
Mr. John Horan of Milwankee, called
by his fellow workers “Soda Ash
Johnny” first used soda ash to clean
locomotive boilers, a discovery that
ghould have made him rich. but 414d
nod,
“Roda Ash Johnnev™ a prood man,
ghe lacks the eoloring around the neck
which distinguishes the male. When
supine, shiftless-looking creature, but
told the anthorities:
‘on the connty.'”
It will surprise you to hear that the
son, aged sixty-six, had applied for
on old age pension,
The statement that imagination ie
worse than reality applies to every.
thing—death included !ot us hope,
When a colony of nudists move on
an organization of blind people. They
could not actually know whether the
colonists were dressed or not, but they
do not like the idea,
* Consider how men
| Find 800-Year-Old “Bowl”
| Where Games Were Played
Discovery of a large oval “bowl”
where prehistoric America’s exciting
| games were played 800 years ago is
| announced at Flagstaff, Ariz, by Dr,
| Harold 8. Colton of the Museum Jf
Northern Arizona,
The discovery, pronounced amaz-
| ing, was made in northern Arizona
| pear Flagstaff, by a joint expedition
of the Museum and Arizona State
| Teachers College of Flagstaff, led
by J. C. McGregor.
The find surprises archeologists, be-
cause never before has it been real
ized that ball games—national sport
of Mayas, Aztecs, and other Indians
of Mexico—were popular over so
wide an area of ancient America,
The game court now excavated is
an oval bowl about 100 feet long and
45 feet wide, with slightly pointed
ends. The sloping sides, Doctor Col-
ton sald, must have been seven or
eight feet high, and floor was
level, A was of four
rocks In the floor.—Science Service,
the
goal made
Land 8.Ton Shark
The largest
the
by German fishermen,
hours in ca
monster,
shark ever caught
in
North sea was landed recently
who spent nine
pturing the 14
¥ f
g foot B-ton
Cardui Helped Three Times
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Next, after jage, she reports
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kept up the Cardul and did not have any
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Blind to the Present
Why do most people speak of hap
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