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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
airways emergency station. In it are
Burton Ramil], millionaire mining mag-
nate: his daughter, Lilith; and Vivian
Huxby, pllot and mining engineer, Be-
lieving him to be only an ignorant
prospector, the men offer te make an
air trip to Garth's claim, although they
refer to his samples of platinum-bear-
ing ore as nearly “worthless,” Lilith
Ramill, product of the jazz age, plainly
shows contempt for Garth. Through
Garth's guidance the plane soon
reaches the olaim site. Huxby and Ram-
iil, after making several tests, assure
Garth his claim is nearly valueless, but
to “encourage” young prospectors they
are willing to take a chance In Invest.
ing a small amonnt, 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. Returning to shore they try
to force Garth to give up the missing
part. Garth manages to set the mono-
plane 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. Ramlill
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 experience
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 objection, simply pointing
out that he is accustomed to a strict
meat dlet, and that they are hurting
only themselves. The work of getting
ready for the trip continues. Huxby
refuses to help, and works on the min-
ing claim. Garth stores food In an Ice
cave.
CHAPTER VI—Continued
we] Cn
“You'll have two more days for it."
Garth told him. “Only don't forget
that an alloy of platinum and gold
welghs more than lead. You'll be tot-
ing my 60 per cent, along with the 40
for yourself and Mr. Ramill. If you
ide the loot In your pockets, you'll
go down like a shot, first time you slip
into a muskeg pool or quagmire. Think
of the all-around calamity that would
mean, You'd lose your life, Mr. Ramill
would lose his Man Friday, Miss Lilith
her fiance, and I—I'd lose my 60 per
cent.”
Mr. Ramill Interposed: “It's no joke,
Vivian, I've seen a strong swimmer
sunk by the gold in his money-belt, A
bag can be thrown off the shoulders
Another thing, Garth Is to receive his
three-fifths whatever you have
panned out. That is understood.”
“It was his bargain,” Huxby replied.
He went to gorge on the leg of cari.
bou that Garth had roasted over the
fire on a twist-thong of rawhide. When
he could eat no more, he hastened
back to the placer trough to resume
his panning.
The others had already feasted upon
the tender venison, that was self -bast-
ed In its delicious fat. Lilith and her
father had helped Garth pack it, with
more meat and the skins, down the
long slope from the glacier.
Before sundown, Garth set several
rawhide snares, each attached to a
pair of downbent saplings. For bait,
he used raw pleces of caribou flesh.
The beasts of the valley had never
been trapped. When, at sunrise, he
went the rounds of his snares, he col-
lected a lynx, two red foxes a wolver-
ine, and a wolf.
Garth did not reset the snares. He
had more skins than he needed. From
the wolf-hide he made a knapsack for
Huxby. The fox skins furnished small.
er bags for Mr. Ramill and Lilith,
At the second sunrise, Garth bun.
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a quantity of catgut with the carl
bou skins,
Huxby eyed the bundle ironically.
“Mr. Ramill teld me about your carl
bou parka talk. I take It, you alm
mos.”
“I might do worse,” Garth replied.
Load our
We'll meet you at the glacier”
At Mr. Ramill's nod, the engineer
took the knapsack and started off.
to strap it on his pack-board with the
Lilith Ramill erept Into the leanto
for the last time, She came out with
the pouches of salt and tea, Neither
had been opened since Garth put them
in her care, after the wasteful eating
up of all the sugar,
Her worn boots lay at the foot of
the leanto. She had on her moose
hide moccasins and lynx-skin leggings,
As she backed from under the low roof
she picked up the boots and eyed them
with amused contempt. They had been
fit only for show, not for use. But
when she flung them down, Garth
added them to his pack, al ng with the
last emall pleces of the moose hides,
“We might sew on rawhide soles,”
he sald. “Now--all set. How about
you, mates? Ready to hit the trail?"
The girl showed the whisky flask
that he had left in her father's care,
It was full of fly pitch
mixed with caribou tallow. She put
the flask into her foxskin bag, along
with the pouches of tea and salt.
Mr, Pamill was already walking off.
Garth had made a tump-line for his
pack. As he fitted the band across his
forehead and stood up, rifle in hand,
he glanced over his shoulder at the
girl,
She turned and met his glance. Her
lips curled in their old scornful smile.
“What are you waiting for? Aren't
we ever to get out of this beastly val-
ley?”
He started off without any reply but
with a glow of exultance under his
outward show of indifference, Lilith
Ramill thought she was about. to
escape from the Wild.
He had promised to gulde them all
to the Mackenzie. The probabilities
were now In favor of even her father
making It. The girl would go back to
what she called civilization—to luxury
and self-indulgence, to jazz and night.
clubs—the vapld pursuit of sensation.
Yet a part of her would linger be-
hind in this lost valley of the deso-
late subarctic Rockies. She had eaten
of wild meat; she had smelled the tang
of smoke from man's first friend, the
camp fire, She had come face to face
with the Primitive—and had lived fit.
The real woman of her had awak-
ened—had thrust aside the superficial
self whose world was made up of arti.
ficiality and dissipation. She had been
compelled to face the raw realities of
Life. And there were weeks more of
it to come,
Fortunately, she had already been
hard. Now she was fit. Under the
smear of mosquito dope, the lines had
smoothed from her face, The drawn
look had disappeared. Instead of the
scarlet of rouge, her lips were cherry
red with healthy natural color. She
had gained weight. Her body now
looked lean rather than emaciated.
As Garth overtook the girl's father,
he eyed him with a smaller yet no less
genuine satisfaction. For every pound
gained by the daughter, the father had
been rid of three or more. Though
still far from hard, the millionaire had
worked and sweat into vastly Wetter
condition than at the start of his
training.
Huxby did not come into sight, out
of the placer trough, until the others
were well up the tundra slope, bhalf-
way to the glacier. That gave Garth
an excuse to tell Lilith to ease her
father along while Huxby was closing
up with them,
Garth himself swung briskly ahead.
So far, nothing had been sald to Hux-
by about the cache cave in the ice
tunnel of the glacier stream. He knew
only that the caribou carcasses had
been put on ice,
The one thing of which Garth felt
most certain regarding the engineer
was that he would pever give over try-
ing to get the platinum placer until
every possible scheme had been balked.
Mr. Ramill might quit. He already
possessed a fortune,
But Huxby was still a relatively
poor man, and he bad now made cer-
tain that the placer was worth at
least @ million dollars. Behind his
polished front, he was no less un-
scrupulous than his millionaire part.
ner, and he was absolutely cold-
blooded.
Among the cards that the future
was to deal in the game, the ice cave
might prove to be anything from a
two-spot to an ace. If the play should
shift back to the valley, a cache full
of meat would most benefit the player
who knew about it. No less so, the
caribou skins. In any event, it would
do no harm and might prove of ad-
vantage to leave Huxby In doubt re-
garding the location of the cache.
Lilith made the last climb to Garth
without effort. But Huxby ploddes
up almost as winded as Mr, RamiiL
He lowered from his shoulders the
small but heavy load in his wolfskin
knapsack. The chunks of frozen carl
bou meat beside the bulky blanket
wrapped bundle on Garth's packboard
drew his displeased attention.
“You can't expect me to carry any
of that venison. I'm no pack jack of
the woods. Forty pounds is quite
enough to sult me”
Garth hefted the wolfskin sack.
“My guess is forty-five. Figuring
roughly, that makes forty-one troy
k pounds, or four, ninety-two troy ounces.
Call 1t five hundred even. Platinum
Is around sixty dollars an ounce troy.
The values of the alloy will average
at least thirty. That gives us a total
of say, fifteen thousand dollars. Not
80 bad for a few days’ panning.”
Huxby's face showed that this was
no news to him. For all his cool self-
control, his fingers clutched tight
hold of the wolfskin as he drew It out
of Garth's careless grasp.
Ever since coming into the valley
he had spent the greater part of every
long day scratching spots all over the
great placer claim and panning sam-
ples of the gravel, Fifteen thousand
dollars was no fortune. But If a few
score panfuls of grassroot dirt could
yield that amount, there could be no
| doubt of the vast treasure beneath.
Even If bedrock lay at a shallow
depth, the platinum placer was worth
at least a million dollars,
Though Garth smiled at the engl
neer's betrayal of cupidity, he took
note of it as an additional warning.
He had sald that Huxby was a com:
monplace wolf. But any wolf is apt to
be deadly when ravenous,
—
w
Garth's sldeward glance caught an
amused twinkle in Mr, Ramill’s shrewd
eyes. The hard training had put the
millionaire in better health than he
probably had enjoyed for many years,
Also, his mind was bigger and better
poised than that of his prospective
son-in-law, He could smile with Garth
over Huxby's obsesslon—smile and
put aside all thought of the placer
until in a position to take it from its
discoverer,
Lilith saw the situation from a
still different angle. She opened the
wolfskin sack to peer inside. At sight
of the nodules, she dropped the flap,
with a look of disgust. Mere value
meant nothing to her. The alloy
looked dull and uninteresting.
“Worth only fifteen thousand dol
lars™ she bantered her fiance. “You've
dug dirt all this time for a trifle lke
that, and lugged it all the way up
here. Don't tell me you're so dumb
that you plan to pack it for the weeks
Alan says we'll need to get back to
the Mackenzle. Forty-five pounds of
that stuff—how silly! From what
Alan told us, we may have all we can
do to earry ourselves on: this cross
country hike"
“With my blanket and the meat
that's in it, I'm starting off with some-
think like two hundred pounds,” Garth
sald. “Game was scarce on the other
side of the pass when I went out the
other time. The welght of our metal
in meat may be worth more than the
fifteen thousand dollars. Let Huxby
choose which he prefers to pack”
The engineer compromised by shov-
ing one of the twenty-pound chunks of
caribou meat into the sack, on top of
the metal. This left a second chunk
of equal weight. Lilith bent over to
put it in her own sack.
“lay off," sald Garth,
choice. Besides,
“It 1s his
rozen meat soon
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“Alan Garth, You're a Man”
spolls when It thaws Fall into In-
dian fille. Here goes”
He backed up to his boulder
perched pack, slipped the tump-line
over his forehead, and started up the
great cleft as If his 200-pound pack
weighed no more than Huxby's 65
pounds of meat and metal
He halted only when the other men
were compelled to stop for breath.
Huxby, though carrying a load only
a third the weight of Garth's, had
soon begun to strain and puff as hard
as Mr. Ramil, He was larger than
Garth and seemingly stronger-muscled,
But he lacked Garth's wind and en-
durance and the knack of back-pack-
ing. At every halt he sank down on
the ice or a moraine stone, panting,
Garth merely eased his back-break-
ing pack upon a boulder, slipped the
tump-line from his forehead, and walt.
ed for the other men to recover, Lil
ith Ramiil's pack was too light to
hamper her. She climbed with the
agility of a goat.
In places the pitch of the glacier
became too steep for ordinary climb-
ing. Garth had to draw his belt-ax
and chop foot holds. The last of these
steep rises was far up towards the
head of the pass,
The remaining distance to the sum.
mit was not so steep, and there were
no dangerous crevasses. Garth made
the climb at a swinging pace. He was
halfway down before he met Huxby
plodding slowly upwards with Mr.
Ramill. The engineer looked at him
with cold-eyed rancor,
Mr. Ramill panted a wistful ques.
tion: “Wh-when--do we—eat?"
“At the top. Take your time”
Lilith had chosen to wait for Garth
down where he had left them all, His
pack lay on the snow below the boul.
der upon which he had set it. She
pointed her slender finger at the fallen
bundle,
“I tried to find out If you were lying
about the weight. I couldn't even lift
one end. But you see how the top of
the stone slopes. The beastly thing
slid ofr."
“That's all right, Miss Ramill. Easy
enough to up-end It again”
“Easy |" Her blue eyes glowed with
an odd light. “You carried Dad back
to camp that day.
hill,
all the way up here!
you're a man!"
he admitted. “But we'll goon make
the downslope. I left the knife on the
knapsack. Go up and slice that cari-
bou meat.”
The girl whom her own father could
not command
cheerful nod.
up the gap. Garth's steady climbing
brought him to the top of the pass a
few paces behind Huxby and Mr,
Ramilil. Lilith was sprinkling salt on
slices of the raw meat,
The pass was barren even of ecarl-
bou, moss. The meat had to be eaten
cold or uncooked, or not at all. Six
hours had passed since the party left
the camp in the valley bottom, After
the long, hard climb, even the girl was
hungry enough to have eaten rawhide,
The caribou meat was tender, and the
first taste of salt since the party had
come to the valley turned the meal
into a feast,
Less than half of the 20-pound chunk
of caribou remained by the time even
Mr. Ramill found he could eat mo
more.
All were so refreshed by the food
and rest that no cone objected when
Garth gave the word to start on. There
would be no more slogging up-hill,
with lungs beliowsing for air. One
would only have to hold back,
But that was the rub—the holding
back. The south side of the pass was
far steeper than the north, and there
was no glacier to offer stretches ot
smooth footing. The bed of the sharp-
ly tilted cleft frequently dropped over
small cliffs. Between these high ledges
were slides of frost-shattered rocks,
Patches of ice here and there made the
footing doubly treacherous,
In places Garth had to drop his pack
down before him. Not infrequently,
even Lilith had to be given a hand
down slippepy chutes, or caught in
Garth's upraised arms when Huxby
lowered her off the edge of a sharp
drop. Still oftener, her father had to
be helped by both Garth and Huxby,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Shovel-Tusked Elephants
Used Big Jaws as Dredge
Nature never made any real me
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iy through her agent, man, but 20,000.
000 years ago, before the Gobl desert
had reached its present barrenness and
before man had put in his appearance
on earth, she had a creation far more
remarkable. It was an animated
dredge—a great elephant whose tusks
had taken the form of shovels extend
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of prehistoric swamps for water lilies
and other swamp growths which
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discovered in the Gobl desert, but in-
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ghovel tusks. This doubt, however, is
now cleared. Other discoveries have
shown that these long-extinet elephants
also lived in America and dredged the
swamps of California, Nebraska, and
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