The
Yukon Trail
By William MacLeod Raine
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(Continued)
But if 't was only Sheva Cross
To elimb from foot to crown,
I'd soon be up an' over that,
I'd soon be .runnin' down.
Then sure the great ould sea itself
Is there beyonf the bar.
An* all the windy wathers are
between us. so they are.
Och anee!
The rich, soft young voice with
its Irish brogue died away. The
little audience paid the singer the
tribute of silence. She herself was
the first to speak.
'• '.Divided' is the name oL" it. A
namesake of mine. Moira O'Neill,
wrote it." she explained.
"It's a beautiful song, anil I thank
ye for singing it," Macdonald said
simply. "It reminds me of my own
barefoot days by the Tay."
Later in the evening the two din
ner guests walked back to the hotel
together. They discussed casually
the cost of living in the North, the
raising of strawberries at Kusiak,
and the best way to treat the mos
quito nuisance, but neither of them
referred to the Macdonald claims
or to Sheba O'Neill.
CHAPTFJit VI
Wally Gets Orders
Macdonald. from his desk, looked
tip at the man in the doorway. Self
ridge had come in jauntily, a cig-ir
in his mouth, but at the sight of
the grim face of his chici the grin
fled.
"Come in and shut the door," or
dered the Scotsman. "I sent for you
to congratulate you, Wally. You
did tine work outside. You told me,
didn't you, that it was all settled
:it last —that our claims are clear
listed for patent?"
The tubby little man felt the edge
of irony in the quiet voice. "Sure.
That's what Winton told me." he as
sented nervously. ' ,
"Then you'll be interested to know
that a special ngent of the land de
partment sat opposite me last night
and without batting an eye came
across with the glad news that he
was here to investigate our claims."
Selfridge bounced up like a rub
ber ball from the chair into which
he had just settled. "What!"
"Pleasant surprise, isn't it? I've
been wondering what you were do
ing outside. Of course I know you
had to take in the shows and caba-
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to attend to business?"
Wally's collar began to choke him. I
The cool, hard words pelted like
hail.
"Must be bluff, Mac. The muck-!
rake magazines have raised such a)
row about the Guttenchild crowd
putting over a big steal on the pub- j
lie that the party leaders are scared I
stiff."
"I understand that, Wally. What;
I don't get is how you came to let !
them slip this over on you without
oven a guess that it was going to
happen."
That phase of the subject Self- j
ridge did not want to discuss.
"Bet you a hat I've guessed it
right—just a grand-stand play of the I
administration to fool the dear peo
pie. This fellow has got his orders]
to give us a clean bill of health.,
Sure. That must be it. I suppose
it's this man Elliot that came up on
the boat with us."
"Yes."
"Well, that's easy. If he hasn't i
been seen we can see him."
Macdonald looked his man Friday j
over with a scarcely veiled contempt. I
"You've about as much vision as a'
breed trader. Unless I miss my >
guess, Elliot isn't that kind. He'll j
go through to a finish. If he sees'
straight we're all right, but if he
is a narrow conservation fanatic he
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might go ahead and queer the j
whole game."
"You wouldn't stand for that."!
the quick glance glance of Selfridge
asked a question.
The lips of the Scotsman were!
like steel traps and his eyes points]
of steel. "We'll cross that bridge
if we come to it. Our first move is 1
to try to win him to see this thing
our way. I'll have a casual talk I
with him before he leaves for Kam- !
atlah and feel him out."
"What's he doing here at all? If;
he's investigating the Kamatlah |
claims, why does he go hundreds of
mils out of his way to come in to i
Kusiak ?" asked Selfridge.
Macdonald smiled sardonically. |
"He's doing this job right. Elliot i
as good as told me that he's on the
job to look up my record thor- j
oughly. So he comes to Kusiak
first. In a few days he'll leave for ;'
Kamatlah. That's where vou come!
in. Wally."
- "How do you mean?"
"You're going to start for Kamat
lah to-morrow. You'll arrange the
stage before he gets there—see all
the men and the foremen. Bine 1
them up so they'll come through
with the proper talk. If you have
any doubts about whether vou can 1
trust someone, don't take any
chances. Fire him out of the camp.
Offer Elliot the company hospitality.
I.oad him down with favors. Take
him everywhere. Show him every
thing. But don't let him get any
proofs that the claims are being
worked under the same manage
ment."
"But he'll suspect it."
"You can't help his suspicions.
Don't let him get proof. Cover all)
the tracks that show company con- |
trol."
"I can fix that." he said. "But I
what about Holt? You know how i
bitter he is—and crazy. He ought j
to be locked away with the flitter-1
mice."
"You musn't let Elliot meet Holt." 1
"How the deuce can I help it? No .
chance to keep them apart in that'
little hole. It can't be done."
"Can't it?"
Something in the quiet voice rang 1
a bell of alarm in the timid heart
of Selfridge.
"You mean—"
"A man who works for me as my
lieutenant must have nerve, Wally. I
Have you got that? Will you take I
orders and go through with them?" I
Wally nodded. His lips were dry. •
"Go to it. What am I to do ?" j ■
"Get Holt out of the way while'
Elliot is at Kamatlah. It isn't do- |
ing Holt any good to sit tight \
clamped to that claim of his. He I
needs a change. Besides, I want \'
him away so that we can contest his I
claim. Run him up into the hills. ;
Or send him across to Siberia on a J'
whaler. Or, better still, have him ! '
arrested for insanity and send him 1
to Nome. I'll get Judge Eandor to
hold him awhile."
"Leave it to me. The old man is I,
going on a vacation, though he,
doesn't know it yet."
(To be Continued)
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Life's Problems
Are Discussed
BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW
Do you want a second chance in
life?
What would you do with it if you
had it?
Suppose a tricksy, mischievous
fairy named "Lob" should pick you
out for his attentions; and it is quite
possible that he might, for. of course,
Mnce "Peter Pan." we all believe in
fairies?
Suppose he should suddenly trans
port you to his enchanted island, and
there", by his magic, have things so
arranged that you could begin life all
over again, say. at the age of twenty,
one?
To draw long dreams of beauty,
love and power
From founts o£ hope that never
will outrun.
And drink all life - s quintessence in
an hour.
Give me the days when I was
twenty-one!"
And suppose you had that "sec
ond chance" under exactly identical
conditions and circumstances to re
deem that crowning folly, or wrong,
or mistake to which you look back
with such regret, and which you feel
Has materially distorted your des
tiny?
Wouldn't you regard that good
fairy as a supreme benefactor, one
who has granted you the greatest
of all possible boons? Since the be
ginning of the world man has spent
much of his time crying: "Oh, if I
only had it to do over again!" "Oh,
if I could only be given a second
chance"
Well, the Second Chance is the
theme that Barrie has taken for his
latest play, "Dear Brutus." now run
ning in London; and he has used the
fairy "Lob" and the enchanted
island as the method by which to
accomplish it for his characters.
Opinions differ about the merits of
the play. Some critics regard It as
the greatest achievement of Barrie's
peculiar genius, while others call it
incomprehensible nonsense. To set
tle the question to our own satisfac
tion we shall have to wait for the
production of "Dear Brutus" on this
side of the water.
But the fact remains that Barrie
has as usual hit upon a profound
truth concerning human nature to
embroider with his fancy; for of all
those whom "Lob" carries off to the
magic island none alters in any way
his original experience. Tlicy make
exactly the same errors over again,
commit exactly the same follies in
the second chance that they did in
the first. The mismated couples
choose once more the wrong ma
trimonial partners, and the thieves
again show their bent for dishon
esty.
The author's theory is that our
mistakes and sins are due to some
inherent quality In our individual
characters, and that so long as this
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remains unchanged our destinies will
continue unaltered.
Of course, in the dramatic form
tlie theme is presented with all Mr.
Barrie's exquisite fancy and deli
cious humor: but taken simply as
a bald statement, it is rather dreary
and depressing.
It is rather a favorite subject
with the imaginative writer. I re
member a magazine story which I
read some years ago of two men
who were shipwrecked on a desert
island. One had been a financial
success, the head of a great cor
poration; the other, as he bitterly
declared, his "industrial slave." Ar
riving on the island, however, their
positions are reversed.
The subordinate by a ruse ob
tains possession of all the weapons
and supplies which tney have saved
from the wreck, and during sleep
ties up his former employer, refus
ing to release him unless the latter
agrees to work for him under con
ditions of virtual slavery. The cor
poration chief, compelled to assent
or starve, enters into the agree
ment and faithfully keeps it for a
year. But by the end of that time,
through the exercise of those char
acteristics and talents which had
previously advanced him and
through the lack of these same Qual
ities in the other man. there was a
second shift In their relative posi
tions. The moral is, that a special
aptitude will always express itself
under any conditions.
It is a sort of doctrine of "pre
destination" as applied to temporal
affairs. We all have our different
bents, and the only way we can
achieve success is by following those
bents and trusting to them. The
man on the desert island who usurp
ed the authority was not a born
executive. His talents lay in a dif
ferent direction. lie should have
found out what they were and have
cultivated them. Our destiny is
within us. "I myself am good for
tune."
We are not forced like cattle in
the stockyards to follow certain set
runaways, but are free to roam the
range. If we go slam into a barbed
wire fence, or get ourselves bogged
in the mire, that is largely due to
our own heedless blundering. It is
silly to blame it on destiny.
There is this to be said, though,
for Mr. Barrie's thesis in "Dear
BrutUS," that practically every one
of us would, as he claims, make ex
actly the same errors on a second
chance that we did on the first. Hut
it is all 'nonsense to cry: "Oh. if I
only had a second chance!" You
have dozens of second chances.
There seems to be something in
the great scheme of things which
keeps presenting the same' problem
to us over and over again—generally
in a slightly different guise, but un
changed in its essentials —until we
finally succeed in mastering it.
It may be a fear. Again and
again, and at the most unexpected
times and places, that haunting ter
ror will rise to chill our souls until
we deliberately face it, walk straight
up to it, and find that it is only a
spectre. "Oh, friend, never strike
sail to a fear."
Or our special problem may be
some lack of moral stamina or
weakness of character. Again and
again you will find yourself put to
the test until you brace the weak
wall within you and throw out a sup
porting buttress of two.
It is idle to attempt to side-step
or run away from anything. The
thing you have lied from will be
the first one to greet you on the
new ground. You have about as
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much chance as Little Dtiffydown
dilly in Hawthorne's fable had of
escaping old Schoolmaster Toil, for
it will be remembered that every
where Daffydowndilly went he dis
covered Toil in one shape or an
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whom he had been throughout his
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If your lot seems bitter, then, and
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Then there is only one thing to
do. Weed the garden thoroughly.
It isn't easy. Very few worthwhile
things are easy. But it is certainly
possible, and there you'll have the
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Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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planes, besides a great fleet, which
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