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SYNOPSIS
As Alan Garth, prospector, is pre-
yaring 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, Lil
tth; and Vivian Huxby, plliot 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 Ram-
tll, product of the jazz age, plainly
shows contempt for Garth. Through
Garth's guldance 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
& chance in Investing a small amount,
Bensing treachery ahead, Garth se-
crotly removes a part from the mo-
tor of the plane. Huxby and Lilith
taunt Garth, but their tone soon
changes when they try to start the
plane. Returning to shore they try
to force Garth to give up the miss.
ing 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 insists
that the others help. Ramliil and
his daughter must be hardened for
the hardships ahead in their trek to
the outpost on the Mackenzie. Garth
experiences difficulties in getting
his companions into line.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
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Though Garth had no pad, he stood
up with the moose quarter on his back
and lifted his end of the pole to his
shoulder. But he was accustomed to
packing. He bore the meat on his
pack-board and his half of the two
quarters on the pole with as little difi-
cuity as Huxby toted the other end of
the pole.
Wnen they reached the camp Miss
Ramill and her father were out gath-
ering wood. At one end of the fire,
thick smoke was rising from green
sticks and leaves; at the other end, the
pan of sliced muffle was boiling hard
After he and Huxby had lifted the
moose quarters upon the rack, Garth
brought water in the aluminum pot
and cooled down the stew to simmering
heat. Miss Ramill had much to learn
about the cuilnary art,
After the meal Garth glanced at the
red afterglow of sunset.
“Mr. Ramlill, the leanto and blanket
are for you and your daughter. Hux-
by can take the lee side of the fire,
I'll keep it golng. Turn in whenever
you please.”
A yawn surprised Lilith Ramil into
a mocking laugh. She turned to her
swollen-faced flance, ,
“What a howling farce, Vivian! Can
you imagine me going to roost at sun-
set, instead of sunrise?”
Huxby forced a smile and fell at a
particular sore cluster of bites on the
back of his neck. Mr. Ramill cast a
wistful glanee towards the leanto.
“I presume, Lilith, you will prefer
not to share the hut with me. Perhaps
I can manage out here beside the fire,
like Vivian”
“No,” Garth differed. “You'll sleen
under that blanket until you have
hardened Into shape, and you'll turn
in now. It's been a big day for you."
The girl bridied. . “How about my
wishes—and the proprieties?”
“We'll leave that to youn,” Garth re-
plied. “If you consider it Improper to
share the blanket with your father.
you're welcome to sit up and help me
grain these moosehides.”
Huxby stiffened. “None of your In-
solence! You'll treat Miss Ramil with
utmost respect.”
“The lady shall recelve from me all
the respect to which she shows herself
entitled,” Garth sald. “Why not make
it mutuval, all around?”
Lilith Ramill was no less completely
outmaneuvered than the engineer. She
spoke to her father: “Well, I mus:
say, Dad, If you're letting him order
you aroumd, I refuse to stay up and
slave all night. Come on”
He crept after her into the brush
leanto. Garth at once set to making
more catgut. Huxby had gathered a
thin padding of spruce tips and moss
at the far side of the fire and lay
down. Like the girl and her father, he
soon fell asleep.
After finishing his first task, Garth
tended the fire and added water to the
simmering muffle stew. He next be-
gan graining the hair from the moose
bull hide. He could have stretched out
and gone to sleep no less readily than
had the chechahcos. On the other
band, he was able to keep awake as
long as he wished. He scraped stead
ily at the coarse moose hair, the while
his ears drank in the voices of the
wild
By the time the sun glared over the
Jagged crests on the northeast wall
of the valley, Garth Mad the halr
grained from both the moose hides. As
he started to cut into the larger skin,
Miss Ramilli crawled from the leanto.
She blinked and yawned, straight.
ened her rumpled sports skirt, and sat
down to lace her boots. He gave her
a friendly good morning.
“Good? Pah!” ghe scoffed. *1 feel
like the morning after. Flere I am
flat. Not a drop of anything for a
; no bath; no clothes or face
cream or lotions; no make-up |
even a cigarette! Yet you have the
face to gibe me about it”
At that, he could not resist giving
her the old quip: “Cheer up; the
worst Is yet to come,”
She ignored it to point at the sim-
mering muffie In the gold pan. “Look
at that flithy mess; half full of ashes.
If you had a spark of decency, you'd
throw it out and warm me a pan of
water for my face and hands.”
He finished the cutting of a moe-
casin plece before he replied: “In
the first place, I'm too busy perform-
ing needed work to act as lady's mald.
In the second place, that muffle Is not
flithy. You'll say it's the most de-
liclous asple you ever tasted. About
the rest, douse your head In the rilL
That will give you a combined wash
and bracer. If you wish a smoke,
there's the fire. For cosmetics, I'll
soon be making up a batch of grease
and pitch mosquito dope. My final
dose of frogite went on thin to
last long.”
She looked her disgust. “Crease
and pitch! When I have a headpet?”
“Soon as we start traveling through
brush It's a question which will go
first, your net or your stockings. Dope
doesn't snag on branches, and you'll
find It a better cosmetic than rouge
and powder.”
“Ugh! If I use your nasty
all, It will be on my legs.”
“No go. You'll be scraping agalnst
rocks and running upon snags. Won't
have any knees left if you try the
Highland style. How about those lynx
skins for leggings, along with moose
moccasins?”
For the first
met, the girl
friendly smile.
too
dope at
time since they had
gave him a genuinely
“That's decent of you,
Alan. How soon can you make them?”
“Cut me a steak off that nearest
leg of moose. While you're cooking It,
I'll see what can be done
When she returned the knife and
started to broil the great slab of meat
she had sliced off, he laid out the pair
of lynx skins, A few knife strokes
cut off the great hair-padded paws and
slit the legs Into thongs, When the
girl brought him his brolled moose
steak, he showed her how to wrap a
skin around each like a high-
topped legging, tying It with the
crossed thongs,
“There you are, Miss Ramil. It's
a pair of leggings such as our an-
cestors wore when they pirated the
high seas In viking ships and sailed
up the Thames with Henghist and
Horsa”
Huxby sat up, blinking. The thin
shake-down of moss and spruce tips
had done little to soften the stony
ground. He rubfled his stiffened back
and hips. “Confound those rocks!”
he engineer looked at the partly
eaten steak In Garth's hand. “How
about breakfast?”
“Help yourself to all you want
Along with your own, you might broil
steaks for Miss Ramill and her fa
ther. Miss Ramill Is about to take a
lesson In sewing. She will soon peed
a pair of moccasins.”
The last remark checked the girl's
Intended refusal. While Huxby sulk
lenly cut the three steaks and started
to cook them, she carried out Garth's
suggestion to grease her lynx skins
with a chunk of fat.
When Garth finished his meal, he
threaded a needle with smoked catgut
and showed the girl how to sew the
thick moosehide. Holes punched with
the awl made the work fairly easy.
Within a few minutes she caught the
knack of handling the aw! and needle,
Though her stitches were irregular,
they promised to hold. He cut out the
mate of the first moceasin, and an-
other palr smaller in size.
Mr. Ramill crawled from the leanto,
stiff, hungry and Irritable. But sleep
and the open air had whetted all ap
petites, As with the broiled liver, the
three chechahcos—millionaire, mining
engineer and fastidious heiress—went
at the het meat with fingers and teeth.
They were down to bedrock—to the
fundamentals of living. All the ele
gancies of civilized eating were ab
sent, even the supposed necessities—
forks, plates, seasonings. Yet the es
sentials remained. They were hungry.
and here was food. It was neither as
tender nor as savory as had been the
liver. None the less, it was food.
At the end of the meal, Garth sald
that the first need was to fetch in the
forelegs of moose. Miss Ramill rose
with her father and Huxby,
“Sorry,” Garth told her. “Your fa-
thar needs all the walking he can get,
Someone must stay to mind the fire.
I might mention there's a shallow
rock pool a little way along the bank,
beyond those alders. You'd find the
water pleasantly warm for a dip.”
“Really? That's not so bad.”
“Yes. Only be sure to keep the fire
going. It will hold off the wolves and
wolverines.”
Huxby took Ramill's arm and start
ed off with him after Garth, They
kept in the rear all the way to the
muskeg swamp.
This time, instead of lynx mates, a
family of wolves were feasting on the
moose meat. As sight of the men, the
whole family bristled and growled
but started a slow retreat,
“Shoot, Garth!” urged Mr, Ramil,
“They're making off.”
leg
“Quite all right,” Garth replied.
“Good thing they're gorged. I might
have had to waste cartridges to get rid
of them. What I'd like to know Is
why they chose this solid meat, in-
stead of the offal”
As If in answer to the question, a
snarling growl far deeper than that of
the wolves came from the border of
the muskeg where Garth had killed
the bull moose. Up out of the thicket
reared a huge gray head. Massive
forelegs stroked apart the willow
Stems with chisel-like claws eight
inches or more long.
It was a grizzly—a full-grown ursus
horribllis. Garth believed the beast
to be as large as those monsters of
the same breed that ruled over the
southern Rockies and the Slerras In
the early days when Indians still were
armed only with bows, and the few
white hunters carried only muzzle
loading flintlocks.
The ears of the great she-bear were
flattened back. Her little pig eyes
glared red. The monstrous Jaws
gaped to let out a roar of deflance that
shook the solid ground.
“Good Gd!" Mr.
“A—a bear!"
Huxby gripped
“Shoot, d—n you!
that rifle!”
“Shut Garth ordered him
“That roar Is only a warning. She'll
not charge If we mind our own affair
You and Mr, Ramill take hold of that
nearest untorn leg and start off quiet
ly. Deon't hurry and don't run”
* The cool certainty of Garth's tone
compelled belief and obedience even
from Huxby. Mr. Ramil was already
reaching up for one of the two moose
legs that had not been pulled down by
the wolves. The engineer hastily
Ramill gasped.
Garth's shoulder.
Shoot, or give me
"
mn
up,
“That Roar Is Only a Warning.”
turned to help him. As they started
off, Garth took the other unmangled
leg on his shoulder and sauntered after
them,
The grizzly mother had not repeated
her roar. Had they run or.given any
sign of hostility, she would have
charged. As It was, she stood, an
enormous quivering mass of curlosity,
watching thelr quiet retreat. Her
Jaws had closed thelr ferocious yaw,
and her ears were no longer flattened
back.
Garth's gray eyes twinkled as he
glanced back over his shoulder at the
huge beast. He could not have asked
for a better bugaboo to make his com-
panlons behave, Safe out of her night,
he told the two to halt and get the
moose leg on a tote-pole. Husby at
once started to curse him for pot
shooting.
“Go try it yourself,” Garth replied.
and when Huxby drew away from the
offered rifle, he nodded approval. “You
are wise not to attack a she-grizzly
with cubs.”
Spurred on no doubt by the knowl
edge of that gray monster behind him.
Mr. Ramill managed to hold up his
end of the totepole all the way to
camp. There he sank down, purple
faced, wheezing that the exertion had
killed him,
His daughter sat by the fire brood-
ing. Though refreshed by her bath
in the warm pool, she had begun to
feel the craving for drink and tobacco.
She had done little stitching on the
moccasing. But she livened to horrl.
fied alertness when Huxby told about
the grizzly.
Garth fcrestalled an outburst of
hysterics. “Keep cool. The old lady
will let us alone of we keep clear of
her cubs. Keep up the fire, and she
will shy clear of you. She doesn't
fancy fire. Burnt her paws trying to
rob me of a roasting porcupine.”
A look at the gold pan showed
Garth that the moose muffle had be
gun to dissolve. He cooled some of the
gelatinous broth in the small pot. Mr.
Ramill not only gulped down the
drink. He smacked his lips and asked
for more. At that, both Huxby and
the girl were stirred to try the rich
drink.
Garth was glad to have all three
take their fill of the savory, highly
nourishing dish, He knew what was
coming. He asked only that the pan
be refilled to dissolve more eof the
muffle,
The three were accustomed to the
free drinking of their kind. They had
already begun to feel the lack of the
usual cocktalis, mealtime wines and
between-meals whisky. This was ag-
gravated by the lack of tobacco. To
ease them as much as possible, he
brolled lynx meat on a grating of
willow stems, basting It with moosa
fat. The tender meat kept them oc-
cupled until the muffle broth soothed
their jangled nerves.
There was a limit, however, to ea!
ing, and once its effecr began to pass,
their craving returned more Intense
than before. First Miss Ramill, then
Huxby, and last of all Mr. Ramil]
began to make {ronlcal remarks almed
at Garth. He Ignored them
time. The remarks become
fensively witty and
dropped the tnoccasin
had
rifle,
“I've had enough bitters
berries, thank you all.
yourselves for a while.
for some
more of-
He
he
sarcastic,
upon which
been sewing, and picked up his
and sour
Feed them tn
I'll go get the
sleep 1 missed last night while acting
a8 guardian angel of your sweet si
bers.”
am
CHAPTER V
Mate Woman.
Far up the t
trough of bis platinum place
found a dry moss be
sunny side of a
nnders Lose
undara siope,
i 1 .
lded nool
He
in over Lis
houlder
pulied his hatbri
let {
himself fall
A full
or
swung
ulleep,
arcu
shadow of
Roused by
rays,
sat
Mr,
he
up.
Miss Ramil
contents of the suca
of ten She
Garth's noiseless ang
“Hall
“My dear
fashionabiy
not join us in a cup of tea?"
Her father turned
vited guest with a
ness. “You see we found what you
were holding out sn Garth. It's
the only trick you failed to put over”
Huxby sald nothing He
ready to spring up and fight.
{TO BE CONTINUED)
was emg
thick
to the chile
Mr. Garth, you
inte to dinner
fo eve the
shade of uneas!.
us,
tensed,
Finland's National Bath
Is Worth Talking About
In some country districts of Fin
land, both sexes frequently share the
same vapor bath, for preparing the
“sauna,” as it is called, Is an arduous
task and the steam for one is enough
for several people, according to a cor
respondent in the Detroit News
All afternoon the housewife is kept
busy heating great stones In the bath
house oven. Then when the ba
or bathers, as the case may be—Is
ready, she throws water over the
rocks, so causing the room to fill with
clouds of hot steam.
Wishing to make the most of
portunity, Finnish bathers stay on a
platform near the roof, where the hot
test steam collects, Once perspiration
sets In, someone rubs the bather's back
with a branch of birch leaves. The
aroma from these is quite pleasant
and fills the bath house,
After they bave steamed well the
bathers like to cool off by taking a
dip In one of Finland's many Inkes
If there is none nearby, they must be
satisfied with a cold shower, or In
winter a hurried roll in a snow bank.
The Finns are so fond of thelr steam
baths that farmers often build their
bath houses before constructing thelr
home, and all the large cities have
public bath houses,
ther
on
Drowning Persons
It"ls a common belief that drowning
persons rise three times, but accord
ing to the United States public health
service, it has no scientific basis
Many drowning persons do not come to
the surface at all after thelr first
submergence. When a person finds
himself drowning he naturally makes
a frantic struggle to save hig life. In
doing so he draws water Inte his
windpipe, which causes him to cough
and expel alr from his Jungs. He
then sinks. If all the alr is expelled
surface at all, especially if he 1s fully
clothed. On the other hand, a drown.
completely.
Pheasants Poor Mothers
While the incubator is a satisfac
tory method of hatching prsnssnts, the
hen has many advantages
for the little ones. As mothers,
ants in captivity leave much to
sired. Instead of worrying with a
and family, the real mothers
thelr summer roaming in & large Geld
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THIS WEEK
Newspapers Are Useful
A Leisure Class, Also
A Real American
Offense and Defense
The Supreme court says: “The free
press stands as
one of the great in-
terpreters between
the government and
the people, To let
it be fettered is to
fetter ourselves”
Certainly ; the news-
paper is to a nation
what speech is to
an individual, and
it Is to the crowd
what a looking
glass is the In-
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will judge a people
by its
Arthur Brisbane its laws,
have reason
to
NEWspapers,
then.
to crit-
its
ters, and it will
felze us,
Mr. J. Plerpont
what Aristotle sald
civilization needs a
fefined as the “leisure class”
that keep a hired girl.
Mrs. Franklin D
ful and wise,
& leisure ciasg for her Is made up of
indis “3
nomic
nd of
factior
Morgan, repeating
before hi
leisure cl
m, sald
1s, and
those
$
Roosevelt, thought.
fear y ha 144% 3 9 *
improves that definition:
a} oa ¥ hava i Rp
iduaia that \ 3 { 1
security
riunity
HH
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Han
has
and all
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nying
“offset Ge y." but
all E luding Russia
Asin, about in
days. We should perfect our “defense
. attack
worl
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rope, }
to think these
plans and particularly our
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to look over our equipment and realize
that It would be foolish to attack
Senator Pittman of Nevada sees Ja-
“even at
business
pan shatting us out of China,
the risk of war”: says our
been run out of Manchuria
that her
of the
men “have
already Japan mi
workingmen
United States
The map will comfort Senator Pitt
man, Gigs Manchukuo, bigger
than all of old Japan, leans up against
Mongolia and lussia,
Japan will not invite trouble with those
and war with the United
States would Invite it.
have been run ont
srt
intic
Outer Soviet
couniries,
If you wonder “where all
money
“in six months the state of New
York paid $801.612 for official automo
bile expense.”
And that does
bilea for the
the tax
goes.” read this:
not Incinde automo.
department of mental
One offic discharged his
paid by taxpayers, accus
ing him of cheating the state out of
£2000 in year through dishonest
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almost
hygiene. ial
clinuffeur,
one
“a business.™
“Charlie” Schwab may be seventy
years old, hut he still “knows his way
around” The government tried to
get KIDG51.8558 from Schwab's Beth
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fteering., Instead of giving the govern:
ment R1D0.000.000, the “special master,”
hearing evidence, says the government
must pay £5000.154 to Schwab and
lethiehem Steel No wonder Carne
gle, who was Scotch, thought a good
deal of Schwad,
Dr. G. A. Stevenson, “fellow” in the
University college of Oxford, suggests
to the London Times that the pax Ro- |
mana (“Roman peace”) of ancient
times, when Rome ruled the world |
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world, telling everybody what to do.
Olymple squads, The Americans, who
defeated Germany at hockey, score 1
to 0, will survive the silence. Had
they been wiser, they would have
stayed at home. A German-Jewish
player, Rudi Ball, by the way, was
the star hockey player for the Ger.
mans,
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