AREER RARER
By ROBERT
AMES
BENNET
WNU Service
Copyright by Robert Ames Bennet
SYNOPSIS
As Alan Garth, prospector, is prepar-
ing to leave for his mining claim in the
Far North, a plane lands at the aire
wiiys emergency station. In it are Bur-
ton Ramill, millionaire mining 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, 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 guld-
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 thelr 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. Garth begins the work of
preparing for the long journey. He In-
sists that the others help. Ramill and
his daughter must be hardened for the
hardships ahead in their trek to the
outpost on the Mackenzie,
CHAPTER IV
FR,
The Whip Hand.
The girl licked her fingers and
turned to stare covetously at the pleces
of moose dangling in the smudge-fire
smoke. She spoke to Garth almost
civilly:
“I've no need to rest like Dad. Do
I have to wait for another plece?”
“Certainly not, But you've let the
cook-fire go out. Keep this one going,
and you can use it. Better cut another
spit. Mind the knife edge, If you don't
want to lose a finger.”
She showed she could be deft enough
when she chose. One stroke of the
knife hacked off a willow twig, two
cuts sharpened the end. Grasping the
bottom of the uncut second liver, she
sliced up lengthwise, all the way to
the rawhide thong. She poked the
green wood from the near edge of the
fire, piled on dry sticks, and crouched
down to hold her spit over the blaze.
Garth had at once begun to make
catgut. It would be needed to sew the
moccasing. He was intently at work.
and the girl was still more intently
eyeing her meat, when Huxby came
striding between the spruces.
The once elegant engineer was
emeared with mud from his midbody
down to where the rock-milk water of
the ford had drenched the bog slime
from his shoes and leather aviator
trousers. Snags had scratched his
fiying Jacket and even torn through
one sleeve,
Worst of all, his bare face and neck
was a swollen mass of mesquito-bite
welts and the bleeding wounds of
deer-fly stings. The skin had already
begun to puff and discolor.
At sight of the man's condition,
Garth picked up his rifle. Even the
most cold-blooded, calculating schemer
can be tortured Into crazed violence.
Miss Ramill glanced up from her
cooking, and uttered a startled ery.
It awakened her father from his doze.
He sat erect to start at Huxby,
“My G—d, Vivian, what's happened?
You look like something the eat
brought home.”
“Those d—d pests,” Huxby cursed.
“Left my neadnet. Hey, you airplane
thief, fetch me a drink. Jump lively.”
Garth lifted his rifle. “Put up your
hands. No, don't reach for your pistol.
Up with them, or I'll wing you—That's
it. Now hold them there while Mr.
Ramill takes your pistol. I've had
enough of your threatening.”
The millionaire looked at Garth's
cool gray eyes, and heaved himself
upon his feet to shuffle around behind
Huxby's shoulder, He pulled open the
leather jacket and drew the automatic
pistol from Its highslung sheath,
Holding the butt forward, he brought
the weapon to Garth.
“Keep it yourself,” Garth told him.
“You can give it back to him soon as
he gets over this fly madness. There's
your headnet, Huxby, Better stand in
the smoke till you get it on.”
The tormented man first ran to le
down on the rill bank. Between deep
drinks, he doused his bitten face in a
pool and dashed the gratefully cool
water over the back of his neck, The
moment he stopped, the pests buzzed
at him again. He ran to the smoky
side of the fire without stopping for
his headnet.
For the first time since Garth had
met Lilith Ramil, she showed consid-
eration for someone else than herself.
Her second plece of liver had been
jcooked enough to be eatable, She tore
it In two and gave half to her flance,
| “It's good, Vivian, Try it. You
must be famished”
Her unexpected graclousnesg calmed
his balf-crazed mind,
“Why, Lilith-~you ronsted this your.
self! It will taste doubly delicious.”
He forced a laugh. “But I conldn’t
take the food out of your mouth.”
“I'll soon cook more, There's plenty.”
Garth caught Mr, Ramill's hungry
look, and shook his head. “Not yet
for us, sir. We'll pack in some more
of the meat before the wolverines
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He (ald a mat of willow foliage,
sliced up what was left of the second
liver, and started off with RamlillL
Though at first stiff, the millionalre
did not get out of breath so quickly
as before, This was an encouraging
sign. That easy climb to the claim
and the fast return had been violent
exercise for the mine Investor. He
could not have recovered so soon If
his heart had been bad.
But when he opened his cigar case,
Garth interposed.
“You have only four left, sir. Bet-
ter hold them back to taper off grad-
ually. This change of diet is golng
to jolt you hard enough. No wine or
whisky, either.”
Mr. Ramill walked along quite a dis-
tance with the cigar case open, his
face Impassive inside the mosquito
gauze of the headnet. When at last
he looked up, he closed the cigar case
and handed it to Garth, “You're the
doctor.”
Garth put
pocket,
“All right, sir. You'll get them
when they'll do you the most good—
and you'll get them all”
Again Mr. Ramill walked along with
his gaze on the ground. They were
near the muskeg swamp before he
looked up. He turned his shrewd gaze
upon Garth, and spoke with blunt
directness: “What's your game?"
“My game?”
“Yes. We may as well settle this
now as later. Don't tell me you
haven't some big scheme In mind. You
guessed we meant to cast off and leave
you holding the sack. Otherwise youn
wouldn't have taken that key part
from the plane motor.”
Garth chuckled. “Did you ever out-
wit a fox, corner a pack of wolves, or
trap a crafty old bear?”
The ruddy face of the millionaire
purpled. “What is the connection?”
“Nothing invidious,” Garth assured
him. *I had in mind only the fun of
the game."
“So? Well, young man, it has al-
ready been admitted that you've so far
taken all the tricks. I gave you credit
for more sense, however, than you
showed when you cast loose the plane.
the case In his shir:
Garth Lifted His Rifle. "Put Up
Your Hands.”
You had no need to walk up like a
dupe and permit Vivian to get the
drop on you. Easy enough for you
to've come out of cover with your
rifle up. Don't tell me you'd rather
travel afoot to the Mackenzie than fly
out in a plane.”
“That depends, sir. Perhaps I did
not wish to part company with you so
soon. Over at the river, I could eof
course have invited myself to fly out
to Fort Smith with you. But that
would hardly have given us time to
get acquainted. As It is, In the weeks
of close companionship to come we
may even learn to be friends”
Mr. Ramill frowned. “Is
taunt, or maudlin sob stuffy"
“Neither.”
“Then what's your game? If you
think, after marooning us here in
these d-—-d wilds, you can win our
friendship or gratitude by guiding us
out, you're a sadly mistaken young
man.”
Garth agreed. “It would be a stupid
mistake to expect anything decent
from you or your daughter or Huxby.
But think what fun I've already had,
facing that pistol and telling Huxby
he dared not use it.”
“Fun? You must be crazy!”
“Not at all. I had him sized up.
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squall shrilled Into a shriek that
nipped off into silence.
When Mr, Ramil] rather hesitatingly
followed Garth to the hanging legs of
moose, he saw a three-foot, stub-talled
wildcat with black-tufted ears lying
under a torn shoulder of moose mear,
A second cat, slightly larger, had
leaped several yards away before
dropping.
Garth drew his knife. “Only a palr
of lynx. Not much for two shots, We
haven't any cartridges to throw away.
But we can use the skins, and the
meat will rake a change from moose.”
He flayed the bodies, bagged the
best cuts of meat in the skins, and
hung them high, The pext move was
to see If Mr. Ramill could pack the
hide of the cow moose. He made a
game attempt to walk off under it, but
at once began to stagger. Garth re-
lieved him of the load, and in place
of it gave him ohe of the bagged
lynx skins. He himself bagged one
of the bull moose quarters in the cow-
hide and heaved it upon kis back.
They came back to the camp with
Mr. Kamill panting and sweating.
Garth swung lightly ahead of him. He
slipped off his heavy pack and stood
looking at the idle couple on the rill
bank, They had eaten thelr fill of
liver, and stretched out to rest. No
smoke was rising from the embers of
the smudge-fire, Filles were beginning
to cluster on the moose tongues and
other meat,
The girl met his look with con-
temptuous Indifference. Huxby stared
with bloodshot hostility from between
his swollen eyelids.
Instead of speaking to the couple,
Garth addressed the girl's father as
he relleved him of the lynx pack:
“As I remember, sir, I told Miss
Ramill she could cook on the smudge-
fire If she kept It going. I will say
now that I do not Intend to shoot any
more meat until use Is made of what
we have. There are none too many
rifle cartridges, If the three of you
prefer rotten, maggoty meat, I'll go
you to the last mouthful. I've lived
for weeks at a time on spoiled fish and
rotten walrus.”
Huxby's face and neck were as
swollen and sore as If covered with
bolls. His temper was no less sore
“You're the one who put us In this
fix, you wood louse!”
Garth gave him a pitying look.
“That's the fly venom talking. No
cool, calculating schemer In his right
senses would ask for trouble when hia
hands were tied. I might point out,
however, that the venom was doe to
your haste in trying to—uh-—appropri-
ate my discovery claim.”
“That's a lie. You cast the plane
adrift. I was stung while trying to
save It, Curse the luck! 1 came with.
in an ace of reaching the snagged line.
Almost had it, when the plane dragged
it loose and went down over those
hellish falis!™
“lI might remind you that yon or
dered me to cast off the line—at the
point of your pistol”
The thrust proved too much for Hux-
by. He sat slient. Garth went on
with his quiet argument:
“All that is now past history. We're
more concerned with the present and
future. Mr. Ramill has shown his
common sense by facing the facts of
the situation. He has fallen into line,
The question is, do you and Miss Ra-
mill throw in with us, or do you go
on your own? If with us, I'm to be
chief. How about It?"
Huxby had cooled down enough to
see the point. “You win. I join up”
Miss Ramill looked puzzled and a
bit alarmed. "What's the great idea,
Vivian?"
“Very simple, my dear. He has the
whip hand. He is boss. We must
obey his orders, or we'll never get
back to civilization.”
“Oh! Tie despicable, cowardly—"
She met Garth's cool gaze and fell
silent.
He nodded. “You'll begin by rebulld-
ing that fire. After that you'll cook
the other liver for your father and
yourself. You will then start graining
the hair off the moosehides while Hux-
by and your father go back for more
meat.”
“I will do no such thing!”
“Very well. That means you get no
moccasing to replace your boots when
She flared: “Gallant Bir Galahad!”
“Leave her be, Garth” her father
interposed. “I'll tend the fire and
scrape the skins”
“No, Lie down. Whenever you work,
it's to be on your feet. We must build
and the gold pan”
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ed up towards the trough without a
word of inquiry or protest. Miss Ra-
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tongues and muffles,
rebuilt the smudge-fire and taken down
the liver, ready for slicing.
of amusement or gloating.
acknowledgment, laid his knife beside
the liver, and turned to space the poles
across the sapling framework to make
a grill above the smudge. Upon this
he lald the moose leg and the pleces of
lynx meat
Huxby came back from the discov.
ery stake with the gold pan and little
aluminum pot. He stared In surprise
at sight of Miss Ramill cooking the
liver. 8he shrugged her slim shoul
ders, and drew back from the fire to
give one spit to her father, After that
she silently offered the other to Garth.
“Thank you,” he sald. “Let me sug-
gest that you now fill the gold pan
with water and slice into it one of the
mufflies, They don't promising.
jut if simmered for a day or two, a
single moose muzzle will give us sev-
eral delicious meals of what might be
called aspic jelly.”
This won no sign of interest from
the girl. She was no longer bungry.
Garth ignored her silence.
“After starting that dish, you may
cook as much more of the liver as
your father can eat. He will keep on
resting while Huxby and I go for an-
other load of moose meat. The sooner
we pack all to camp, the surer we will
be that other mouths do not get away
with It.”
He unbuckled his pack, slung the
pack-board on his back, and picked up
his rifle and beitax. Huxby trailed
after him out of camp. They walked
in Indian file all the way around to the
muskeg swamp, Huxby with his gaze
fixed coldly upon the back of his
leader,
look
At the swamp Garth cut a tote-pole
and passed it through the tendons of
two hindquarters of The re-
maining quarter he strapped to his
pack-board, He folded the
iynx skin for Huxby to use as a shoul.
der pad. Upon it the mining engineer
rested his end of the tote-pole,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Moose,
second
Giraffe, Tallest Among
Quadrupeds of the World
Tallest among the quadrupeds of the
world, the giraffe Is constructed along
a variety of levels, its front legs longer
than its long hind legs and its neck
longer than of Its other
members, with a tongue of length and
flexibility entirely sulted to the archi
tectural whole.
In fact, notes a writer In
Louis Globe-Democrat,
dences In support of one belief that
nature must
something
fashioning
foal plans
ruped of conventional dimensions and
the barrel and rear running gesr must
have been completed
ments were decided on. Very lik
the many quadrupeds of comparative
size looked too much alike
probably decided this new
should have a much longer neck.
to make its neck longer than the facts
justified it most have longer front legs
So we have an animal started In regu
larity and finished In singularity, with
its body sloping up from rear to front
legs and a neck so long that It dis
torts the distortion,
Nature In all truth must have been
in a sportive mood when it made the
giraffe. If it sought to give the jungle
a laugh it succeeded admirably, giving
the laughing hyena something about
which it could laugh without restraint,
The beast bas to straddle itself all
out of shape to get a drink of water
from the level of its own feet! So by
habit it has taught itself to drink very
little water, or at least to drink it with
great Infrequency. The long neck, the
long front legs and the up tilted body
could hardly have been anything but
afterthoughts,
the longest
the St
there are evi
have
elise when it go
the timid
probably called for a quad
started to make
t ound to
crea
before amend
iy
Ko it was
anima
and
River Flows Uphill
It has been figured out by the Unit
ed States geological survey that a
point at sea level on the >quator is
about 13 miles farther away from the
center of the earth than a sea level
point at either of the earth's poles.
Their calculations show the mouth of
the Mississippl river to be four miles
farther from the earth's center than
its source. Thus, it may be sald the
“Father of Waters” runs uphill. This
phenomenon resulis from the water
in the river obeying the laws of grav.
ity which cause it to run from the
higher surface level at Its source to
the lesser one at Its mouth.—Path-
finder Magazine,
Old Maids’ Home an Arsenal
Residents of the peaceful Parla
suburb of Montrouge were perturbed
over rumors that a house In the dis
trict occupied by two aged spinsters
was a veritable arsenal Finally the
police were prevailed on to investigate,
In the house they found 17 military
dating back to 1870, modern
rounds of ammuni
band grevades.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Divide and Rule
Big Men, Light Eyes
Why Go Naked?
Borrowing a Blimp
Mr. Green, American Federation of
not to split up the
federation. Mr. Lew-
is, leader of the
miners, tells Mr,
“You mind your
own business,” A
labor split
near,
Union
should consider the
fable of the dying
moned his sons and
showed
they could
small sticks sep-
arately, but could
not break them when all were tied to-
gether,
Arthur Brisbane
Louis XI's motto, Divide et {mpera
("Divide and rule”), in dealing with
powerful nobles, is not unknown to the
enemles of union labor, or Goethe's
Divide and rule! Powerful word
Unite and lead! Better word.
A lonely English soldier living on
an island in the Indian ocean wrote
that he wanted a wife, saving, “1 have
hazel eyes,” nothing else about himself.
Already 250 English girls have offered
to marry him. The 240 disappointed
may find comfort in a better marriage,
picking out somebody with blue eyes
It annoys many, but it must be sald
that practically all the great men in
history had or gray
men from dark-eyed races,
poleon from Caesar
Rome.
bine eyes,
like Na-
Corsica,
To save answering
fs a short list: Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Noosevelt, Edison, Henry
Ford Look the others.
here
questions,
up
Near Tampa, Fla,
with men, women,
way to establish a
the Virgin Islands
igators were
nudist !
catching cold, so the
craving.
Nudiss
The h way In
the Garden of Eden, at sich of us
starts ont The
strugele is to Keep clothed thereafter,
It Is a strange demorall that
makes un.
dressed: the more trange because
they look so hideously ugly.
8 schooner loaded
on the
nudist
Nav-
to sign for a
1 perhaps, of
mn
unwilll
enterprise,
ship ran ashore,
is a queer atavistic
in race began that
fas nn nudist nt prth,
zation
some long to ran
about
Disconra
wrecked
decided that
are not
easily.
Mussolini
league If It on ofl in
its sanctions n mw ir. no oil,
no war, Mussa vy buy
old Amer
ican ships to use asx floating
gasoline
litle
sooner he could have had plenty of
them at a bargain, about thou-
' worth of expen
* built when
wntrance into the
World war found It unpre;
:
storace tank {ind he come 8
one
sand million «do
give Biles
this country's fo
ared,
England and I getting
slong nicely, and now the Russian en
voy, Litvinofl, snttending
funeral, the
donable sin
sain were
the ate King's
commits British uanpar-
vinoff, instead
tion for the
tellect, remarked that
Edward VIII, was “inst 8 mediocre
young Englishman” and repeated what
the young king bind said te him, some.
thing “not done”
of expressing sadmira-
overwhelming roval
fst left wing runs for President some.
times and says the “New Deal” Is
leading to Fasciem, a dictator.
methods
gome radicals will look back sadly to
the good old days when you could
epeak your mind without being shot
or put to work.
One man's frosthite is another man's
good news, New Jersey fruit growers
gay the extreme cold, freezing the
coddling moths, The cold, which has
not injured treos, ia expected to dis.
Some day scientists will show fruit
farmers, including this writer, how to
penetrate the earth by radioactivity,
or otherwise, to the necessary depth
and kill the hibernating pests, A rem.
edy for borers would be welcome. Ra:
dlo power should solve the insect prob-
lem.
Col. Charlies A. Lindbergh spent his
thirty-fourth birthday in Wales his
wife and one son with him. He must
have felt as though he had already
tived 100 years, and have wished, al
most, that he had been content to re
main in the nirmall service apart from
the limelight _
IRE entrees Ren dicate,
eRm WNL ter vies
| All Around
| ze House
Cactl plants grown in the house
should be given alr and light, To
| water set pots in a pan of water
| and do not remove until soll has be
come moist,
Apply paint remover with a brush,
When paint begins to curl remove
with a putty knife, Remover takes
time and cannot be hurried,
4 =» »
When poaching eggs let water
come to a full rolling boil, drop eggs
into it, turn out gas and eggs will
| finish poaching In the bolling water,
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig-
imal little liver pills put up 60 years .
They regulate liver and bowels.—Ady.
Push It Aside
When you meet trouble, just go
| ahead, Often, it skedaddles,
IT WORKED
MOE, me.
Eon Mievng Compan:
Ospl mn i cons
pee ay is
harsh in action. Or one, the dose of
which can't be exactly measured.
Doctors know the danger if this rule
is violated. They use liguid laxatives,
and keep reducing the dose until the
bowels need no help at all.
yHleduced dosage is the secret of
aiding Nature in restori
You must use a little oy A
gach Sane, and hats Shy # should
a ligui yrup Pepsin.
DF lamer as tof 8 bottle of
T. wi 8
it doesn’t give you absolute relief, if
it isn't a joy and comf-rt in the way
it overcomes biliousness due 0 con~
stipation, your money back.
Yawn Explained
A yawn is only a gap in the con
versation,
VEGETABLE
CORRECTIVE
DID TRICK Jy
They were getting on each
other's nerves, Intestinal
sluggishness was really
the cause-—enade them
tired with frequent head.
aches, blious spells. But
that » all changed Dow,
For they dmcovered, like
millions of others, that
ratare provided the core
ees laxatives in pants 1
and vegetable onagh
try Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets). How much
better you fecl—invigorated, refreshed. -
tant—you do not bave to increase the
They containno
phenol of ane.
Re Fle hg
all Ree EN
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Only 250 ==
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