WNU Service CHAPTER XI—Continued — Garth put his fingers to his lips for sllence, and held a fuse-wrapped stick of dynamite close to his match. The miner let go of his rifle and straight. ened upon his feet, his hands high above his head. The match flickered out, Garth dropped the dynamite and darted for ward. He was none too quick. The slight thud of the fallen rifle had wakened Huxby. As Garth paused be- hind the corner of the leanto, the en- gineer peered out, with his pistol thrast forward. As Garth jumped he struck with the butt of his belt-ax, It cracked down on HHuxby's wrist. The engineer's pls- tol dropped. With a curse, Huxby grasped at the weapon, but Garth was ker. As he caught it up, Huxby tehed at his throat. Garth felled with a tap of the ax butt on the temple, Wakened by the sudden flurry, the two miners in the leanto were grasp- ing at the pair of rifles on which Huxby had lain. Garth whirled the pistol to cover them, him “Hands up, and get out beside your mate,” he ordered. “We want only the murderer. But we'll shoot you down like dogs if yeu interfere.” One of the pair jerked up his hands The other man hesitated. The miner outside called warningly: “The jig's up, Laney, The other feller has got the drop on us too.” Laney litted his hands out his bed-mate, staggering up, still dazed from the blow that had felled him. desperate rage, he struck out furious- ly. Garth side-stepped and thrust in a tripping foot. The engineer pitched face-down on the hard-crusted snow. Before he ould spring up again, Garth jumped upon his back. he blow knocked him breathless. It was then as easy mat- ter to click Constable Dillon's hand- cuffs on the wrists of the murderer. and stared Huxby was after “Stop that cursing, or I'll gag you." Garth sald. “There's a lady present. All right, Miss Ramill. Join us.” Huxby fell silent, miners at the skin-cl forward the the 80001. firelight. The girl still coustable’s pistol raised ready to bim Lilith! You? “Yes, it's me, you cowardly sneak iller! 1 came after you with Alan, and he has let me catch you." The murderer twisted around with his back to her and the fire. His head sagged forward. With a sudden re turn of alertness, Lilith turned her gaze away from his shadowed profile to watch the three lined-up miners Garth did not smile at the girl's needless caution. She had earned the right to think herself an Invaluable helper. He allowed her to stand guard while he gathered up the three rifles and unloaded them. “Right-o, Miss Ramill,” Garth sald. “Sit down. It's all over now but the talking.” She lowered the pistol well as the miners, soberly at the men, “If you know Kipling, you'll mind that the female of the species is more deadly than the male. I dare ray, though, you can safely venture to lower your hands and sit down with us.™ At the welcome permission, the three dropped their arms. Two of them at once squatted on a log. Garth looked bear in lowing suit: “What's the play?” “All we came for was to arrest Hux by. Help with the eabin plane, and there will be mo mention of any shoot- ing other than his murder of the con- stable, What wages did he promise you® “Double the usual. Tole us he had to get In his assessment work before the freeze-up” “The claim belongs to me.” Garth re- plied. *I will pay you the double wages.” “Ugh” growled Laney. “You out- played the d--n fourflusher. It's a deal. You're boss. We're working for you.” Garth walked back Info the black ness of the spruce trees. He returned with the floursack packbag, his own aad Lilith's buckskin sults, and a hind- quarter of fat caribou meat. At his invitation, the men eagerly went at the frozen meat with an ax, and put fhe big teapot, full of snow, on the Lilith and Garth had eaten before coming down from the igloo. They sat back, on a snowdrift, and watched while the others devoured the tender broiled meat and gulped down cups of hot tea. The flesh of the old she-bear bad been as tough as leather and her fat very rank, Huxby continued to sit in morose silence, with his back to the fire. The feasters pald no heed to him. After fn time Lilith began to stir uneasily, At last she ha% to act. She handed her pistol to Garth, and went to put a plece of meat on a spit. When it was brolled, she took it and a cup of tea to Huxby. He started up at her as If dum- founded, then shook his head sullenly. She put down the cup and plate beside him, and returned to Garth. At his look of cool Inquiry, her eyes flashed with defiance, “1 don't care! starve anyone." He replied in a noncommittal tone: “You're a woman.” The murderer took up his cup of hot tea in his manacled hands and drank. He began to eat the meat. When daylight came, Garth ordered everyone out to the cabin plane. The | hard-frozen slush ice gave solid foot- ing over the bog. It also gave a solid foundation out at the plane upon which were based the engineer's lifting | operations, The ice had been chopped | from around the floats, and a crib | built under the Inner end of each | wing. iy hoisting first on the outer end of one wing and then the other, the cribs had been heightened until the floats were level with the top of the ice. A glance Inside the cabin showed Garth the body of Constable Dillon lying where be had left it. Laney ex- plained, with a jerk of a mittened thumb to Huxby: “He first says we'd chuck the stiff under the ice. ‘hen he says, no, to walt an’ heave It out when we was fiying over the muskegs."” “We'll walt still longer” Garth! sald. “That brave constable Is going honorable burial, Now get to work with those sapling levers. Another pair of logs on the cribs will raise the floats high enough to roller her clear.” Garth showed the men how to skew | the rollers for turning the plane, He | went to shove sidewards on the tall | The plane started to curve around. | A shriek from Lilith whirled Garth | It's not right to face about. Huxby was rushing at | him, with an ax lifted high in his manacled hands Lilith flew at the attacker as If frenzied. She sought to block his charge. He gave her his shoulder with the skill of a football player. It caught her on the chin and sent her spinning. i But the slight check allowed Garth time for a leap In under the ax before the blade could whirl down on his head. His left fist appeared to punch | deep Into the pit of Huxby's stomach. | His right drove up under the chin of the gasping murderer. The uppercut | him on his face, clean knocked out. | With no more than a glance at his | fallen attacker, Garth sprang to help | Lilith's dazed effort to sit up. “Well played,” he sald. “Not hurt, are you? *N-no—l—you —he didn't! cried, and burst Into tears. Garth gave her a pat on the head, and turned away, embarrassed. “No wonder you're overcome. It's been too much for a girl, We'll hop oui of here at once." He lashed the unconscious killer's | wrists to bis belt, tied his ankles to- | gether, and climbed Into the cockpit of the plane. After replacing the breaker points, he had the men take turns spinning the propeller. He then tried the self-starter. The engine roared Pulled by the whirling propeller, the plane slid forward off the log rollers. After cutting the gun, Garth or dered two of the men to heave Huxbhy into the cabin. The third man he sent for the rifles. “I want the one with which he shot Constable Dillon. But you may as well bring the others— also a lot of that bear fat” He himself went to pick up the still weeping girl and help her to the sec ond seat In the cockpit. He made sure of the supply of gasoline, and climbed down again to see that the men gave the bottom of the floats a thorough greasing with the bear fat After that, when all were aboard and the rifles In Lilith's keeping, he started the engine. The plane at first moved slowly, The floats dragged on the rough surface of the frozen slush. But when they glided out on the streak of glare ice, the friction | became less than that of a water | take-off, Within a half mile the speed had so | increased that an easy pull on the joy- stick sent the plane skimming up off the glassy surface. Garth banked in a long curve to the left, listening to the roar of the warmed motor, Every cylinder was hitting sweet, He made a wide spiral over the val ley for elevation, and drove out east wards above a saddle In the jagged mountain barrier, When clear of the valley, he did not keep straight en across to the Mackenzie. He turned more to the south, CHAPTER XII Squaw Lilith, The cross-country flight brought the plane to the Mackenzie at the great bend below the Liard, But Garth did not come down at Fort Simpson. Ile flew on up the vast river to Great Slave lake, and east across the lake to Fort Resolution, Some time before sunset, he set the she | cabin plane down at the landing of the Airways base by the mouth of the Slave river, After handing Lilitn ashore, he left her standing while he went to speak to the Airways superin- tendent. That courteous gentleman hastened to tell the girl that his wife would be delighted If the daughter of Mr, Burton Ramill would honor thelr hospitality. Garth was not Invited. He turned away to meet the red-coated sergeant of police for whom he had sent. Lilith did not see him agaln until the pext morning. Told by her hostess that Mr, Garth wished to speak with her, she made a hurried effort to adjust her bor- rowed dress. Though more stylish nN 1 Lh SH) 9 J WH He Kissed Mer Red Lips and Scar. let Cheeks and Tightly Closed Eyelids, than the one loaned to her on the ary's wife, it was not cut for her lithe figure. She went hesitatingly into the room where Garth walled alone for Sight of him In his caribou parks brought her to a startled halt. Her eyes widened. “Oh, still in your skin sult! You—you're golng back !™ “What difference does it make to he asked. “You'll soon be in Edmonton—and civilization.” She stepped suddenly close to him, her hands held out In appeal. “No! I—Alan, take me back with you!™ “Back there? Don't tell me you like that squaw life. Those days in the valley and the trip out must have been a h—1 of torment to you--dirt, rags, mosquito dope, filles, starvation. And now ice, snow, bitter cold.” “Anything—anything just to be with you, Alan—dear!" He put his arms sbont her. He kissed her red lips and scarlet cheeks yout” “My girl” he said, “you are going with me wherever I go. Get on your parka.” Her arms were clasped tight about his neck. She lingered a moment to return his kiss. Then, her blue eyes aglow, she ran to obey him. When she came hastening back, In her Eskimo costume, she ventured an appeal: “Can't I have a comb and brush and-—and soap, Alan?" He looked soberly past her shoulder at the’ amused face of her hostess “Well, yes, I dare say you can. We're going first to Edmonton. Your father is there. I sent him a message that we are coming.” She plucked at the wolverine fringe of her parka hood. “You—you cheat!" He took her Into his arms, regard. less of the onlooking lady. “My girl, we are back In eclvilization. We are first going to be properly married.” “But these caribou sults?” “Best of flylng costumes. taking a two-seater, The sults will come In handy again this winter when I teach Mrs. Garth how to drive e dog team. Until that It's to be silks for my girl. I must first testify at the trial. After that we'll hop over to Victoria and take a steamer to Japan for our honeymoon.” “Oh, Alan, how—how delightful! But Japan? Why, 1 never dreamt a prospector like you would care to travel In the Orient. So, if—Iif you'd rather go back to the valley, dear—" Her hostess could no longer keep silent. “Prospector, Miss Ramill! Is that all you know about Mr. Garth? His father Is one of the heads of the Hud. son's Bay company. He himself is a member of our parliament, a fellow of the Royal Geographical society, a noted explorer—" “And the winner of the gamest girl I ever knew,” Garth cut In. *Come on, Squaw Lilith. You've proved your self a woman. Now you're going to be my lady wife.” (THE END.) mate Outlying Territories of U. S. Are Worth Millions he outlying territories of the United States and the manner In which they were acquired are the following: Alaska, purchased from Russia In 1867, for $7.200,000, Hawall, annexed in 1808, at the re- quest of the people of Hawall, Porto Rico, ceded by Spain at the conclusion of the Spanish-American war, Virgin Islands of the United States, consisting of the more westerly of the Virgin island group In the West Indies, the other being British, These islands were formerly known as the British West Indies, and were purchased from Denmark in 1017 for $25,000,000, The Pbilippines, taken from Spain by the Spanish-American war, $20,000. O00 being paid In settlement. Guam, an island of the Mariana archipelago In the Pacific, also ceded by Spain in 1808, American Samoa, consisting of four Islands of the Samoa group in the South Pacific. From 1880 to 1000 the United States, Germany and Great Britain exercised a kind of joint pro tectorate over Samoa. In 1800, follow. ing the overthrow of the native king, the islands were divided between this country and Germény, by agreement among the powers—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 65,000-Year-Old Monster A 65,000.yearold prehistoric mon. ster, a relic of the days when semi tropical waters covered most of Man- itoba with their ooze, is on exhibition at the Winnipeg museum. The skele- ton of the reptile was found on the banks of the Ablssibolne river near Treherne. It Is 30 feet long and re. workers 18 months to assemble bones, the false clues. Wide Range of Recipes. “Will you please tell us eooks something about unusual ways of serving and cooking cheese dishes?” So writes a homemaker. Fortunate- ly I have some rather interesting in- formation on the subject, says a well-known food expert. Evidently, the use of cheese which has been increasing very much in the last twenty years is going up in 1936. Cheese 18, of course, our very old- est manufactured food. [t was dis covered accidentally at first, no one knows how, many thousands of years ago. In the following centuries, all kinds of variations of the original pot cheese type had been developed in various parts of the world, Alex. ander Togoroff, In his simple and ac- curate gulde entitled “Food Buying Today,” states that there are eight- een distinct types of cheese compris- ing some four hundred varieties, He goes on to say that these may be di- vided Into two groups—hard cheese, such as American: Edam and Swiss and soft cheese, such as cream, cot tage and Camembert. “The proportion of butter fat or cream re- tained or added to the milk, the meth- ods followed In separating, preparing, seasoning and handling the curd and to the handling and the ripening of the cheese” American Cheese Popular, The type of cheese known as Amer. fcan, “store” or “rat trap” cheese, is used mot than any kind in this country. t is also known as Ched Hh the Eng- 1s se dar, 51 lish made flavor ording to the way It cured The first tablished in the Mohawk New York. New is still famous, valley of Wisconsin cheese, Many other kinds of made in this cot bearing foreign names. When the Europeans came to this country, they naturally tive cheese of the cou birth, ful in duplicating it. cheese has been greatly improved in the 1 unlles tried cate Sometimes they were Success. Our domestic Inst few years, eral bureau of dairy industry. A cheese of individual flavor and texture which is purely American is Liederkranz, which ranks with the of many experts. This cheese, with Camembert, Stilton, Roquefort, Pont L'Eveque, Port du Salut Bel Paese and Gorgonzola, is used with crack. ers or French bread as a dessert. Pineapple, Edam, Munster and Neuf- chatel are other popular dessert cheeses, main course accessory. For Cooking Purposes. For cooking we use In this coun- try American cheese almost entirely, although grated Permesan and Ro- ! man cheese are used to some extent In using cheese for cookery remem ber that It needs either a short cook Ing or a low temperature, Oven cooking gives a stringy texture which is neither pleasant to eat os easy to digest. While our staple American chees still comes in the traditional “flats” from which the grocer slices wedges it 1s also to be found In packages and in cans and in this case, of course, rind is lacking. Much of the pack ag. cheese is “processed” so that fla. vor and texture will be consistent Cheese making today is a sclentifig art, Alsatian Fondue. 1 pound Swiss or American cheese &% cup white wine 2 tablespoons brandy or kirsch French bread Slice cheese into a chafing dish, cover with wine and let stand sev- eral hours. Stir over fire until cheese is meited. 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