The
Yukon
By William MacLeod Kaino
J
(Continued)
f CHAPTER VIII
Ciiil Holt Goes Prospecting
As soon as Selfridge reached
\uniatlah he began arranging the
tage against the arrival of the EOV
■rnment agent. His preparations
vere elaborate and thorough. A
oung engineer named Howland had
icnn in charge of the development
'.ork, but Wally re-arranged his
orces so as to let each dummy en
r; man handle the claim entered in
us name. One or two men about
I'hom he was doubtful he discharged
nd hurried out of the camp.
The company boarding house be
ame a restaurant, above which was
uspended a newly painted sign with
lie legend, "San Francisco Grill, J.
Jlynn, Proprietor." The store also
lassed temporarily into the hands
f its manager. Miners moved from
he barracks that had been built by
lacdonald into hastily constructed
abins on the individual claims.
\'ally had always fancied himself
.■= a stage manager for amateur
heatricals. Now he justified his
aith by transforming Kamatlnh
utwardly from a company camp to
mush room one settled by wan
ering prospectors.
Gideon Holt alone was out.side of
11 these activities and watched
liem with suspicion. He was an
Id-timer, sly but fearless, who
ated Colby Macdonald with a hit
v jealously that could not b-3 pla
nted and he took no pains to hide
le fact. He had happened to be
l the vicinity prospecting when
lacdonald had rushed his entries,
artly out of mere ( perversity and
artly by reason of native shrewd
ess, old Holt had slipped In and
•eated one of the best claims In the
eurt of the group. Nor had he
pen moved by persuasion, threats,
r tentative offers to buV a re
nciuishment. He was obstinate,
le knew a good thing when he had
, an.l he meant to sit tight.
The adherents of the company
ight charge that Holt was cracked
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in the upper story, but none of
them denied he was sharp as a
street arab. He guessed that e.ll this
preparation was not for nothing.
Kamatlali was being dressed up to
impress somebody who would
shortly arrive. The first thought of
Holt was that a group of big capi
talists might be coming to look over
their investment. But he rejected
this surmise. There would be no
need to try any deception upon
thin.
Mail from Seattle reached camp
once a month. Holt sat down be-
I'ore his stove to read one of the
newspapers he had brought from
the office. It was the P.-I. On the
fifth page was a little story that
gave him his clue.
ELLIOT TO INVESTIGATE.
MACDONALD COAL CLAIM 3
The reopening of the contro
versy as to the Macdonald
claims, which had been clear
listed for patent by Harold IJ.
Winton, the Commissioner of
the General Land Office, tr.kes
on another phase with the ap
pointment of Gordon Elliot as
special field agent to examine
the validity of the holdings. The
new Held agent won a reputa
tion by his work in unearthing
the Oklahoma "Gold Brick"
land frauds.
Elliot leaves Seattle in the
Queen City Thursday for the
North, where he will make a
thorough investigation of the
v. hole situation with a view to
clearing up the matter definitely.
If his report is favorable to the
claimants the patents will be
granted without further delay.
This was too good to keep. Holt
pulled on his boots and went out to
twit such ot the enemy as he might
meet. It chanced that the llrst ot
them was Selfridge, whom he hud
not seen since his arrival, though ho
knew the little man was in camp.
"How goes it, Holt? Fine and
dandy, eh?" inquired Wally with the
professional geniality he affected.
The old miner shook his head dole
fully. "I done bust my laig, Mr. Sel
fish," he groaned. It was one of his
pleasant ways to affect a difficulty of
hearing and a dullness of under
standing, so that he could legiti
mately call people by distorted ver
sions of their names. "The old man
don't amount to much nowadays."
"Nothing to that, G>id. You're
younger than you ever were, judg
ing by your looks."
"Then my looks lie to beat the
devil, Mr. Selfish."
"My name is Selfridge," explain
ed Wally, a trifle irritated.
Holt put a cupped hand to his ear
anxiously. "Shellfish, did you say?
Tha' 's right. How come I to forget?
The old man's going pretty fast, Mr.
Shellfish. No more memory than a
jackrabbit. Say, Mr. Shellfish, what's
the idee of all this here back-to-the
people movement, as the ol(} sayin'
is?"
'I don't know what you mean. And
my name is Selfridge, I tell you,"
snapped the owner of that name.
'"Course I ain't got no more sense
than the law ollows. I'm a buzzard
haid, but me I kinder got to millin'
it over an # d in respect to thees here
local improvements, as you might
say. I'm doggoned if I sabe the why
for."
"Just some business changes."
Holt showed his tobacco-stained
teeth in a grin splenetic. "Oh. That's
all. I didn't know but what you
might be expecting a visitor."
Selfridge flashed a sharp sidelong
glance at him. "What do you mean
—a visitor?"
"I just got a notion mebbe you
might be looking for one, Mr. Pel
frich. Ijikie as not yo uain't fixing
up for this Gordon Elliott a-tall."
Wally had no come-back, unless it
was one to retort In ironic admira
tion. "You're a wonder. Holt. Pity
you don't start a detective bureau."
The old man went away cackling.
If Selfridge had held any doubts
before, he discarded them now. Holt
would wreck the whole enterprise,
were he given a chance. It would
never do to let Elliot meet and talk
with him. He knew too much, and
he was eager to tell all he knew.
(To bo Continued)
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HAMUSBTraG TELEGF/AP&
Life's Problems
Are Discussed
I
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By MllS. WILSON WOODROW
This letter I give below is one of
many of the same kind which are
I sent me: _ •
"Dear Mrs. Woodrow: I am one
j seeking advice. Recently a kind and
j well-meaning friend informed me
I that with some study I ought to be
j able to earn my living by my pen.
J Needless to say, I scoffed and ridi
j culed the idea. But apparently it
j fli on fruitful soil, for here I am
I importuning you for advice. lam
: fully cognizant of th# fact that a
! series of studies must be taken up
which will give me a fitting start for
a writing career. I also know that
long, hard and discouraging work is
necessary before one 'lands.' And
then sometimes one never 'lands.'
"But I am willing to face that,
as I don't expect to go down in
Greenwich Village a"hd live in an at
tic and go hungry so that I can ab
sorb atmosphere. If I am to suc
ceed. I can do it right at home. Life
is not long enough to waste one's
energies in unprofitable wanderings,
and in the wrong direction most
likely. I don't wish to see the world
afire, or anything so foolish; but I
do wish you could tell me what
course of studies you deem profitable
and which are in the right direction
to enable me to gain my end."
My dear young friend, I do not
believe in discouraging people. If
you wan', to do a thing, go ahead and
do it. Have the fun of trying it,
no matter how badly you come out,
and no matter how your friends may
croak and predict disaster. Adven
tures are to be adventurous. And
don't be afraid of "unprofitable
wanderings," or of "wrong direc
tions." There are no such things.
And don't take yourself to task
for loafing or leaving the main
traveled roads for the by-paths.
Life offers plenty of side shows be
side the three-ringed circus in the
bit; tent, and they are all instructing
and amusing. Neither can you be
merely a "looker-on in Vienna."
You've got to take your part in the
sfcufflc. ascend to heaven and make
your bed in hell: or what have you
possibly to give your readers?
But—and this is important—do
you leally want to write, or do you
only think you do? We can't fool
all of the people all the time; but
we can and frequently do fool our
selves every hour in the day. For
txample, during the years that I
have 1 een living by the pen—l have
not been quite sure sometimes that
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I was not dying by it —I have never
been thrown with any group of peo
ple for any length of time that the
same experience was not repeated.
A certain meditative, speculative
look comes into their eyes, and I
can follow their mental processes
wi.hout difficulty. They are saying
ta themselves:
"Why, she's no great shakes. If
she can earn money by writing, why
not I?" I have always wanted to
Write. It's s*ich a nice, ladylike oc
cupation, and cheap, too. I won't
have to go through any long, ex
pensive course of preparation, as I
would if 1 wanted to be a musician
or a painter. The only outlay I need
is about twenty-five cents for a pen
cil and some pads of paper. No
body need know that I am trying iv,
and 1 clo r.eed the extra money."
This is a very natural course ol
reasoning. But having thought It,
as you probably have, eschew It.
Throw it in the ash can. where it
belongs. It won't take you any
place.
What you must have, and what is
ir dispensable, is a basic Impulse,
something deep in your nature
which demands an outward expres
sion. You must be able to create
your own worlds, to live mentally
and intn'tionally in more than 0110
—in five or six, let us say, and paoJ
easily from one to another. You
must be tpen to all impressions, to
be as sensitive to them as a film is
to the object it photographs, and to
be able, mentally, to co-ordinate and
synthesize them and store them away
ready f0.." use whenever you press the
button.
I realize as I write that that
sounds rbstruse and academic. You
will say, "For pity's sake! I want
to write, but I don't feel any of those
things."
You probably do not feel thfcm
consciously. But I will try and put
it me re clearly. If you want to get
the things' you feel and think out
on paper in some concrete form, if
anything you see suggests a whole
group of other things and they seem
to throng around you saying, "Ex
press me. Express me —somehow,
but express. me!" then write.
It doesn't make any difference
how bad that expression may be, or
how crude in form, the professional
touch, Ihe professional facility is jut>t
a question of work, and still mors
work, and still more.
You ask me about courses of
study. 1 here is only one real study
—life. The great classics of litera
ture, if you are not already familiar
with them, will certainly enrich your
mind and quicken your spirit. And
if you wsnt to study a well of Eng
lish undefiled, there is the King
James version of the Bible. Forget,
if you wi.sh., that it is a sacred book,
,nd reiid it solely for its literal 5
style. You have heard of the muaie
and rhythm of combinations ,f
words; you will find them all theie.
You have heard of the art of lit
erary construction; you will find it
there, in the stories of Esther, of
Ruth, of Job, of the Prodigal Son,
and countless others. You will find
there a knowledge of human nature
which has plumbed all its depths
and soared to its supreme heights.
All poetry, all drama is there/
And don't give all your time to
tie classics. There are great mod
ern writers, painters, sculptors and
musicians. And don't, above all. ac
cept any one's else opinions. When
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wo accept the views of others, no
matter how resounding may be the
voice of authority, we have about
"as much individuality as an echo.
And foi a final and most perfect
receipt. I refer you to the methods
of Air. pfiueers as set forth in ihe
account of the manner in which he
conducted his school, Dotheboys
Hall, in "Nicholas Nickleby."
"We go upon the practical mode
of teaching;, Nickleby. C-l-e-a-n,
clean. To make bright, to scour,
W-i-n-d-e-i, winder. A casement.
When a boy knows this out of a
book, he ,Toes and does it."
So go and write. AVrite to your
soul's content, 110 matter who says
that you are wasting your time, and
that it is the most difficult of pro
fessions to enter, and that there is a
long, hard, discouraging way before
you. Forget all that. Make the
sacrifices it asks of you. It will ask
tlVj- 2Jut if you love your chosen
worn enough to marry it, you won't
consider them sacrifices.
And then, if you stjck it out — it s
tan to one you won't, but If you da
—why. you'll probably get your stuff
published as fast as you can turn
it out.
And here's hoping you have a
good, sirong constitution. You'll
need it.
Advice to the Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
IT WONT no
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am 23 and in love with a girl a
few years my junior. She also claims
that she loves me dearly, therefore
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we have become engaged to marry. .
Irately I have noticed tha* she has j
been always keeping me away with
some pretext in order to go out and
[ receive attentions from another
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she assured me that she loved me so
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broke her vow. When I remonstrat
ed she even threatened to break our
engagement if I did not approve of
. and acknowledge her right to such
behavior. I have suffered a great deal
for her sake. My parents are wealthy
and have threatened to disinherit me
if I insisted on marrying this girl,
who comes from a poor family. I want
■ you to tell me what you would do if
I you were in my place, as something
tells me that a girl that has no respect
for God's name will never become a
good and faithful wife.
F. A. J.
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