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The
Traill
By William MacLeod Raino I
(Continued)
Paget was superintendent of the
Luck Strike, a mine owned princi
pally by Macdonald. The two
talked business for a few minutes
over their c't'ars, bu: Diane Inter
rupted gayly to bring them back
Into the circle. Adroitly she started
Macdonald on the account of a -es
cue of two men lost In a blizzard
th© year before. He had the gift
of dramatizing his story, of selecting
only effective details. There was
no suggestion of boasting. If he
happened to be the hero of any of
his stories the fact was of no im
portance to him. It was merely a
detail of the picture he was sketch
tB-
- interrupted with a ques
tion a story he was telling of a
tight he had seen between two bull
moose. . ~
"Did you say that was while you
were on the way over to inspect the
KamatUih coal fields for the first
time?"
The eyes of the young man were
quick with interest.
"Yes."
"Four years ago last spring
Macdonald looked at him with a
wary steadiness. Soroo doubt had
found lodgment in his mind. Be
fore he could voice it, if. indeed,
lie had any such intention, EUiot
broke in swiftly.
"Don't answer that question. 1
asked it without proper thought. I
am a special agent of the general
land office sent up to investigate
the Macdonald coal claims and kin
dred interests."
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Slowly the rigor of the big Scots- J
man's steely eyes.relaxed to a smile
that w.u K2.ni.al and disarming. If :
this news hit him hard he gave no j
sign of it. And that it was an un- ;
expected blow there could be no j
doubt.
"Glad you've come, Mr. Elliot. Wo
ask nothing but fair play. The men !
who own the Macdonald group of >
claims have nothing to conceal. I'll
answer that question. I meant to say |
two years ago last spring."
His voice was easy and his gr.se j
unwavering as he made the cor-1
reciion, yet everybody in the room!
except Sheba knew he was delibor- j
ately lying to cover the slip. For
the admission that he had inspected ■
the Kamatlah field just before Ills'
dummies had filed upon it would at i
least tend to* aggravate suspicion
that the entries were not bona llde. j
It was rather an awkward;
moment. Sheba unconsciously re-!
lieved the situation.
"But what about the big moose,
Mr. Macdonald? What did it do
then?"
The Alaskan went back to his 1
story. He was talking for Sheba
alone, for the young girl, with eager
fascinateO eyes which flashed with
sympathv as they devoured selected
glimpses cf his wild, turbulent!
career. She saw him with other
eyes than Elliot's. The government
official admired him tremendously.
Macdonald was an empire builder, i
He blazed trails for others to fol- i
low in safety. But Gordon could i
guess how callously his path was j
strewn with brutality, with the ef- !
fects of an ethical color-blindness'
largely selfish, though even he did !
not know that the man's primitive
jungle code of wolf eat wolf had;
played havoc with Sheba's young |
life many years before.
Diane, satisfied that Macdonald
had scored, called upon Sheba.
"I want you to sing for us, dear
if you will."
Sheba accompanied herself. The
voice of the girl had no unusual
range, but It tfas singularly sweet
and full of the poignant feeling that
expresses the haunting pathos of her
race.
It's well I know ye, Sheve Cross,
Ye weary, stony hill.
An' I'm tired, och, I'm tired to be
looking on ye still.
For here I live the near side
an' ho ia on the far,
An' all your heights and hollows are
between us, so they are.
Och anee!
Gordon, as lie listened, felt the
strange hunger of that homesick j
cry steal through his blood. He;
saw his own emotions reflected in!
the face of the Scotch-Canadian, I
who was watching with a tense in- |
terest the slim, young figure at the j
piano, the girl whose eyes were soft
and dewy with the.mystecism of her!
people, were still luminous with the
poetry of the child in spite of the
years that heralded her a woman. j
Elliot intercepted the triumphant!
sweep of Diane's glance from Mac- j
donald to her husband. In a flash)
it lit up for him the words he had
heard on the hotel porch. Diane, i
an inveterate matchmaker,.intended !
her cousin to marry Colby Macdonald. j
No doubt she thought she was doing
a fine thing for the girl. He was a j
millionaire, the biggest figure in the!
Northwest. His iron will ran the
town and district as though the
1 people were chattels of his. Back
of him were some of the biggest
financial interests in the United
States.
But the gorge of Elliot rose. The
man, after all, was a lawbreaker, a
menace to civilization. He was a
survivor, by reason of his strength,
from the primitive wolf-paclt. The
i very look of his hard, gray eyes was
dominant and masterful. He would
win, no matter how. It came to
Gordon's rebel heart that If Mac
donald wanted this lovely Irish girl
—and the young man never doubted
that the Scotsman would want her
-—he would reach out and gather in
Sheba just as 'if she were a coal
| mine or a placer prospect.
All this surged through the mind
j of the young man while the singer
j was on the first line of the second
stanza.
(To bo Continued)
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"You can take my word for it,
i she's a wonderful woman."
"Have you ever met her "
"No, I'm ashamed to say I don X
s?o to the meetings very much,
know I ought to, but I don't knit
very fast, and it's such a bore lis
tening to women talk about those
awful casualties." , .
"Then, how do you know she s so
wonderful?"
"Why, the girls all say so. She j
i is a splendid manager; wny, she has ,
even taken our troubles into New
York, and people are talking of her
there. 1 do admire women who can
take executive positions and make (
the others stand around."
Mrs. Adams looked up at Sylvia
quickly. She was. unconsciously
saying just what she thought and
not stopping to consider Just how
selfish and mean-spirited It sounded. |
And although Mary Adams liked
ness, and her dash and her pretty
Svlvia, liked her winsome girlish
girl depended for a great deal of ner
mannerism, still she thought the
attraction on surface qualities o.tly. i
The two girls were on their way i
down to the executive rooms where
the women of Velmer Falls were
making garments for the soldiers
and sailors. Sylvia Velmer's father
owned most of the little town and
Sylvia had been brought up from
childhood to feel that she was of
the first importance in the place.
Just now she felt that she was the
best dressed girl, due to her supe
j rior advantages of college and travel. I
J the most charming, and by far, the
| most influential.
| little Mary Adams, who had gone 1
; to college with Sylvia, lived in the
I less wealthy part of the little town.
1 Tn fact, she had taught school, and
was evca now working for a living
| and was home only for the holidays,
j But Sylvia liked Mary; sfje liked 'to
l'eel that she was impressing her.
j but aside from that, as she often
I said, "Mary really was a dear."
Sylvia breezed into the executive
L rooms, which were situated up over
[the firehouse, and asked an insig
nificant looking little woman, who
' | was going out just as the girls were
i going in, where she could find the
i crowd of younger girls. Sylvia's tone,
i colored by the fact that the little
, woman was extremely dowdy and
; apparently without influence was
' positively rude.
j "Why, Sylvia," expostulated Mary,
her cheeks flushing red. "Why were
you so rude to her?"
1 "Oh. these women make me so
L weary," the girl exclaimed. "You
1 saw her, didn't you, a dowdy little
. creature and giving herself all kinds
> of airs."
s "But she didn't give herself airs;
I you're unfair, really you are."
> Sylvia turned to Mary quickly.
. "Well, why should you sponsor
1 her?"
( "Oh, I'm not. but Ido hate to
. have you speak that itny to any
. one, Sylvia; it sounds so foreign to
[ what you really are."
1 And Sylvia had the grace to blush
at this, although she was herself
I again as soon as she spied the
p group of girls among whom she was
1 the recognized leader. She was greet
ed with shouts of.
I "I wonder who the stunning
stranger is" and "She must be visit
ing here!" Spoken in a soft girlish
treble.
"1 know It," she responded,
"Mary dragged me out to-day, or
I shouldn't have been here. I'm a
dreadful slacker, but really girls I
don't see what you see in knitting."
Some of the girls shook their
heads despairingly, some made teas
ing remarks, but most of them felt
that inasmuch as it was Svlvia, she
really had a right to feel as she did
! and to express her feelings, too.
"Well, you're not down here, be-
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cause Mary dragged you, are you?"
questioned one.
"Not exactly," Sylvia responded,
"I really had another reason, I want
to set the wonderful Miss Arrow-
I lield I have heard so much about. A
j woman like that is certainly worth
! cultivating."
"She's a dear, and she's, a won
der," exclaimed several of the girls
spontaneously. "And the funny part
of it is, so few of us realized it until
lately."
"Why?" questioned Sylvia won- j
derlngly.
"Because she doesn't look the
port," responded one.
"Isn't she tall and commanding
looking "
"Why, no, what made you think
so? She's little and she dresses
plainly and no one would dream how
really clever and fascinating she is
unless she took the trouble to really
talk to Miss Arrowsmitli,"
"Why, Sylvia," piped up some one
i from the back of the group, "you
must have passed her coming in;
look, there she is now." And the
whole group turned. Sylvia and Mary
included, to see the dowdy looking SOl/i) CANDY IRON CROSSES
little woman just entering the room, Ncw york Dec u._ B ecause
th<> woman Sylvia had taken the
trouble to be rude to. Sylvia bit Frederick J. Heuser, a Yonkers con
her lips and did not dare to look at
Mary. She was bitterly ashamed of fectloner, sold cakes decorated with
herself, buta great part of her snob
blshness died then and there, a bit- t" e German colors, candies designed
ter humiliating death. Sylvia looks . , _ .
back upon that time as the turning as ir ° n crosses and Prussian helmets
I point in her lU'e and remembers that an( l icings representing things Teu
! more than the shame and embar- tonic. Federal authorities decided he
I inssment. Aftijr all, we all suffer was spreading German propaganda,
j some discomfort when anything and he was arrested and interned on
! really noble in our make-up is born. Ellis Island as an enemy alien.
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