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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.)
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“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. Add brandy or kirsch and
serve with pleces of French bread,
Creme Fromage.
3 tablespoons
1 cup bolling water
2 packages cream cheese
2 tablespoons sugar
3 egg whites
offee
Add coffee to bolling water, cover
and stand five minutes. Beat
cream cheese well with a fork, Stir
in coffee, has been strained,
and mix well Fold In beaten egg
whites. Chill and serve with pine.
apple wedges, which are dipped into
the mixture as eaten,
1
et
which
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