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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
mining magnate; his daughter, Lil-
ith; and Vivian Huxby, pilot and
mining engineer. Belleving him to
be only an ignorant prospector, the
men offer to make an alr trip to
Garth's claim, although they refer to
his samples of platinum-bearing ore
as nearly “worthless.” Lilith Ram-
fll, product of the jazz age, plainly
shows contempt for Garth. Through
Garth's guidance 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 se-
cretly 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 thelr only hope In
uiding them out of the wilderness.
Garth begins the work of preparing
for the long journey, He Insists
that the others help. Ramill 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. An experi-
ence with a bear helps. Returning
from a long sleep In the woods,
Garth finds the party has stolen the
tea and sugar he has been saving
for emergencies. He makes no ob-
jection, simply pointing out that he
is accustomed to a strict meat diet,
and that they are hurting only them-
selves. The work of getting ready
for the trip continues. Huxby re-
fuses to help, and works on the
mining claim.
CHAPTER V—Continued
wont nine
No man of the engineer's coldly cal
culating character would stop at any-
thing, when the stakes of the game
meant a placer worth a million or
more. Mother Nature could now be
counted on to ka2ep the spoiled helress
in line. jut the Wild would only
sharpen and Intensify the engineer's
craft and avarice,
After eating his fill, Garth took to
Huxby's bed, beside the smudge-fire.
He wakened to find that the sun had
taken its porthern dip and was just
slanting up again above the mountaln
crests. It had been under much longer
than in June. The summer was get.
ting well along.
Huxby had stayed on watch to keep
the fire going. He met Garth's off-
hand good morning with a show of
civility. His cool reasoning had brought
him to the realization that nothing
was to be gained by upstaging Garth.
When Miss Ramill left the leanto,
Garth stooped In under the low roof
and began to rub her father's knees
and hips. The millionaire groaned
that he had been stricken with a ter
rible attack of lumbago and rheuma-
ism. It was impossible for him to
move,
Heedless of the plaints, Garth rolled
the complainer out beside the cold
baked leg of moose. The "sick™ man
ate more than either his daughter or
Garth. Afterwards, insistent urging
and the promise of an easy work-out
persuaded him to get on his feet. They
wandered around through the woods,
with frequent pauses In the glades,
When, several hours later, they re
turned to camp Miss Ramill had com-
pleted one moccasin and was doggedly
stitching at its mate. Huxby came
down from the trough with the gold
pan. Garth melted the last of the
moose fat In it and fried a heaping
mess of mvshrooms. For salad, he
shook a quantity of pleasantly acid
sorrel from the bottom of his pall
With berries for dessert, the meal be
came a banquet. While it lasted
there was a general glow of good feel
ing. Evea Huxby spoke pleasantly to
Garth,
As before, Garth turned In at the
same time as Mr, Ramil. He wakened
to find the first palr of moceasing
finished. The girl had met his terms.
He gave Huxby the moss bed, and
started to collect flattish stones as
heavy as he could toss, When he had
pitched a dozen or 80 upon the cache
platform, he strung the smoked slices
of meat on rawhide thongs. Raking
aside the smudge-fire, he stood on the
rack and tied all the meat close up
under the cache platform.
He then climbed upon the platform
and piled the stones on the tie-thongs
where they came around the pdles, That
would keep wolverines or other piifer
ers from gnawing the rawhide to lot
the meat fall. No fourfooted crea.
ture could now get at the meat on the
under side of the platform, and even
ravens would have difficulty stealing
much of it. To complete the job, Gartn
pulled off the cross poles of the smoke
rack.
For breakfast, the party
the baked leg of moose,
finished
As Garth
of foreseen, his three elty camp
tes bad developed camp appetites,
etter still, they were less irritable.
Thelr craving for drink and tobacco
Bad begun to lessen,
At timberline Huxby went up the
trough with the gold pan. Garth
headed again for the glacler. This
time Mr. Ramil did not pant and gasp
so hard, nor did he have to stop so
often to rest, The first climb had done
more than strengthen his wind and
flabby muscles. It had burned up the
autotoxins in his system as well as
sweat off many pounds of fat.
He managed to climb all the way to
the lower end of the glacier. It took
him less time than his part-way climb
and he was far less exhausted. While
he rested in a sunny nook on the rocky
side of the lateral moraine, his daugh-
ter went down'in front of the glacler
with Garth. They came to the chan-
nel where the milky stream gushed
out of a tunnel cave in the blue-white
ice.
Garth pointed to a shelf of rock on
the near slde of the stream. He
walked Into the cave along the smooth-
ly polished ledge. Lilith Ramill shud-
dered and glanced up fearfully at the
steep over-hanging fice face that
seemed about to crash down Yet
after a moment's hesitation, she fol-
lowed Garth Into the chilly blue
shadow of the cave.
Several yards from the entrance
Garth stopped before a narrow side
hole that opened above a walst-high
uprise in the bedrock. He reached
in and plcked up a bundled white skin,
Out In the sun he opened the skin and
showed a plece of frozen meat.
“How's that for cold storage?’ he
said. “Killed a young mountain sheep
on my way ouf, last month. Thought
I'd test the glacler. Looks as if it's a
safe meat house. No chance of spoil
ing, and not even a wolf has ventured
inside.”
Miss Ramill sald nothing. She saw
no reason to consider the cave of the
slightest interest. There was, however,
the meat. suggested that if It
was not spoiled, it would make a
change from the moose meat. This
proved true. Down at camp the young
mutton was first thawed In cold water,
then stewed in the gold pan,
The descent had been made by Ra-
mill without ald. There was no need
to support, much less back-pack him.
He had really begun to get a start in
training. To Garth this was all the
more reason for pushing the million-
alre so much the harder.
In the week that followed, he al
ternated more climbs with trips around
into the muskeg swamps. He led his
sweating, swearing charge over nigger
head grass, where the heavy-bodied
city man had to jump nimbly from one
big tussock to another or take a
tumble,
She
Miss Ramill tagged along on these
grueling hikes. She also made an-
other climb up the gulch. Garth
cached in the cave the hundred pounds
of smoked moose meat he had brought
up on his pack-board. He then led on
up the glacier, halfway from its foot
to the top of the pass. That gave the
three climbers some real ice work.
Coming back, Garth knocked three
brace of fool hens from spruce limbs
with a stick.
The half dozen grouse made a pleas.
ant change. But even with a pall of
salmon berries for dessert they prove
a scant meal for the four meat-eaters.
The last leg of moose had already
been baked and eaten, the tongues
broiled, and the second muffle stewed.
The remainder of smoked meat
would ‘not last long. So far. Garth
had not interfered with Huxby's all
day panning out of the platinum alloy.
He had not even asked to look at the
take of precious metal. Food was a
different matter. Instead of shooting
another moose, he called upon Huxby
to Join in & caribou hunt,
A band of the big animals had drift
ed along the tundra terrace over
towards the glacler. Garth counted
fifteen. He waited until the band
came within seventy-five yards. He
then let drive, shooting rapidly yet
with careful alm. One after another
dropped, each with a bullet through
the head. The stupid beasts stared in
the direction of the sharp reports. But
they could see nothing. The sixth
went down before the nine survivors
wheeled and clattered off in panle
stricken flight,
The flaying was well under way
when Euxby and Miss Ramill came
hastening aslant the tundra ahead of
Mr. Ramill. The girl eyed the clean
deliclous-looking white fat on the first
flayed body. “That looks good, Alan!
Vivian, you ean go back to your min-
ing. Dad and I will help here.”
Her father called out a panting sug-
gestion for Huxby to walt and carry
down a load of meat.
“No need,” Garth sald,
Huxhy.
on lee.
spoil”
The engineer did not linger. He
bad looked none too well pleased over
the girl's famillar use of Garth's first
name. Along with his displeasure
about this, there could be uo doubt of
his eagerness to get back to the plat.
inum panning. Each successive day
he had shown himself still keener to
continue the sampling of the placer.
When Garth finished the flaying of
the caribou, he started to dress out the
bodies. Greatly to his astonishment,
at the cutting up of the second carl
bou, she took the belt-ax and began to
help. Mother Nature had cracked the
polished shell of artificiality In which
the pampered heiress had been en
the
“Don’t stop,
Most of this venison is going
None will be allowed to
cased. The girl's few days In the
Wild had awakened primitive Instincts
ground deep into the nature of woman
during the remote past of mankind,
Down through countless ages her pre-
historle ancestresses had learned the
bitter lesson that, in the Wild, days of
plenty are certaln to be followed by
days of famine. The cave man hunted
the meat; the cave woman hoarded
what she could of It against the time
of want, Otherwise her children
starved,
So, upon reflection, Garth's amaze-
ment passed. He bad managed to
cover it, even at the first, when Lilith
Ramill took the belt-ax in her slen-
der hand and severed the neck bone
of the caribou with a single blow,
Her father was the one who stared.
He sat watching the girl's quick, eager
wielding of the hand-ax, his mouth
slack, almost agape. Garth could only
surmise how she had always been
coddled and pampered. Her father
knew it. He knéw how, since ber
childhood, she had been wrapped
about with silken luxury, walted upon
by attentive servants, petted and
spolled,
The millionaire had been born on a
farm. He could recall seeing his
mother help butcher sheep and hogs.
But she was a farmer's wife, Lilith
would not have known how to prepare
a spring chicken for the pan. And
now she was cutting up caribou,
Aside ffom an occasional word of
direction, Garth sald nothing. When
he finished dressing out the fifth car-
cass, he handed his knife to his eager
helper, packed a load of meat, and
carried it to the ice cave.
Down in the gulch bottom he chose
a pothole stone that would hold per.
haps three quarts. In the bowl he
colled a wick of twisted dry caribon
She Followed Gartn Into the Chilly
Blue Shadow of the Cave.
moss, plied In caribou fat, and lighted
the wick. When the fat melted. the
wick burned with a strong steady
flame. Caribou ribs furnished a grat.
ing on whieh to broll steaks. The fat
meat was deliciously tender, its flavor
between venison and beef.
When even Mr, Ramill could eat no
more, Garth carried the stone lamp
into the ice eave. Upon his return, he
had Mr. Ramill and Lilith look close
at the caribou skins,
“You see they are hair, not fur. But
every hair is hollow, Nothing is
warmer than a caribou parka. In
fact, the winter coat Is too warm to be
worn. That is why I killed six now,
instead of one. You have never win-
tered in the North"
Mr. Ramill tensed as if prodded.
“Wintered? You can’t mean to infer
you expect to stay on here. We have
your promise to take us out.”
Garth turned to meet the Intent gaze
of the girl's blue eyes. They looked
as cold as the blue Ice of the glacier
tunnel. None the less, they had great-
ly changed since he had first seen
them, over on the Mackenzie. They no
longer showed a trace of thelr former
cynical tiredness. The girl might be
a8 hard as ever, but she was no
longer bored or ennuled. For another
thing, she had begun to lose her exces
sive thinness,
He answered her father: “You
have my promise—~more's the pity.
A winter a la Eskimo would be a won-
derful experience for Miss Ramil
However, she will of course prefer to
go back to Jazz and cocktails, to
paint, powder and lipstick.”
She flared: “And rid of you!”
“To be wure. That above all else,”
he agreed. “So how could 1 deprive
you of that pledsure, or fail to give
your father and your flance another
chance to bilk me out of my placer
claim? I agreed to get you back to
the Mackenzie. When we reach the
old post, we part company. You and
Huxby will then be free to go as far
a8 you ean”
“But In that case—~ No, you ean't
wake me swallow It. I know you're
not such a fool as to risk losing that
placer.” .
Garth laughed outright.
“What d'you take me for? Your
brand of gold-digger?
nubbin of it all. It's the reason why
men like you and Huxby lose out. You
worship the golden calf. Yet what
value Is there to riches other than
what you get from them? Can you
think of a more enjoyable game
than playing draw poker, with our
lives In the jackpot, and Fortune deal
ing us the cards of chance?”
“What's the catch?” inquired Miss
Ramill, with a sudden upwelling of her
sophisticated cynicism. “Lives In
the Jackpot'—that means nothing.
It's your placer that's In the pot. What
stakes do you consider we have in to
balance ft?"
“That would be telling.” he teased,
“You'll know if I win. If I lose, it will
not matter to any of you what you've
risked. The showdown may
sooner than I expected. Your father
is already In fairly good shape. We'll
start the trip out as soon as these
caribou skins have been tanned.”
—————
CHAPTER VI
Hell in the Muskegs.
Garth sat beside the camp fire, sew-
ing new moccasing for himself. Near-
by, the millionaire dealer in mines and
his fastidious daughter scraped the
raw sides of the six caribou skins and
rubbed them with the tanning mixture
of fat, liver and brains. Garth had
told them they could either tan the
skins, or walt for him to do it. Until
the tanning had been finish, the trip
out would not begin.
Mr. Ramill was so keen to start
back for civilization that he went at
the disagreeable task with energy and
determination. Lilith not only worked
as vigorously as her father, she showed
a real interest in the tanning,
come
Huxby tock no part In this prepara
tion of the skins. When he came down
to the camp from the platinum
of his flancee's d
squaw work struck n
He stared in blank ama
be found
Garth:
gone a bit too far, yon
Stand up, or I'll kick you
going to—"
The girl broke In, with cool scorn:
“Tune off, old dear. You're set on
static. IC's not interference we want
Dad and 1 are giving this performance
under our own direction. You see,
it's a bargain. Alan agrees to start
our trip out just as soon as these
skins are all tanned.™
The mining engineer drew back. “Ro
soon as that? My dear girl, If he's
going to rush us off, I don't see how
I can spare any time here In camp.
I haven't yet sampled all the area of
the placer.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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