The
Yukon
By William MacLeod Halno
(Continued!
'Til meet you outside the house
of Selfridge in half an hour.
Strong," was the last thing
Gordon said before Jones came back
to order out the visitors.
As soon as the place was dark
again, Gordon set to work ® n
flimsy framework of his cell win
dow. He knew already It was so
decrepit that he could escape any
time he desired, but until now there
had been no reason why he should.
Within a quarter of an hour he
lifted the iron-grilled sash bodily
from the frame and crawled
through the window.
He found Paget and Strong watt
ing for him in the shadows of a
pine outside the yard of Self ridge.
"To begin with, you walk straight
home and go to bed, Peter," the
young man announced, iou re not
in this. You're not invited to our
party. I don't have to tell you why, j
do I?"
The engineer understood the rea
son. He was an employe of Mac
donald, a man thoroughly trusted by
him. Even though Gordon intended
only to right a wrong, it was better
that Paget should not be a party to
it. Reluctantly Peter went home.
Gordon turned to Strong "I owe
you a lot already. There's no need
for you to run a risk of getting into
trouble for me. If things break
right, I can do what I have fo do
without help."
"And if they don't?" Strong waved
an impatient hand. "Cut It out, El
liot. I've taken a fancy to go
through with this. I never did
like Self ridge anyhow, and I ain't
got a wife and I don't work for
Mac. Why shouldn't I have some
fun ?"
Gordon shrugged his shoulders.
"All right. Might as well play ball
and get things moving, then."
The little miner knocked at the
door. Wally himself opened. Elliot,
from the shelter of ihe pine, saw
the two men in talk. Selfridge shut
the door and came to the edge of
the porch. He gave a gasp and his
bands went trembling into the air.
The six-gun of the miner had been
uressed hard against his fat paimch.
Under curt orders he moved down
the steps and out of the yard to the
tree.
At sight of Gordon the eyes of
Wally stook out in amazement. Little
sweat beads burst out on tiis fore
bead, for he remembered how busy
he had been collecting evidence
against this man.
"W-w-what do you want?" he
nsked.
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AREN'T VOL) <,Ol*-' MO- I HAD WELL-VHA"T t'N <OlN' VOO'LL DO NOTHtN<,
TO DINTVb HAT -RIDE GETTER STAT TOO DOlN<, to OF THE KIND - I'M H \ <IVE
HOME FOR A H THE IN
"Got your keys with you?"
"Y-yes."
"Come with us."
Wally breathed more freely. For
a moment he had thought this man
had come to take vengeance on him.
They led him by alleys and back
streets to the office of the Macdon
ald Yukon Trading Company. Un
der orders he knocked on the door
and called out who he was. Gordon
crouched close to the log wall,
Strong behind him.
"Let me in, Olson," ordered Sel- j
fridge.
The door opened, and a man
stood' cn the threshold. Elliot was
011 top of him like a panther. The
man went down as though his knees
were oiled hinges. Before the could
gather his slow wits, the barrel of a;
revolver was shoved against hisj
teeth.
"Take it easy, Olson," advised i
Gordon. "Get up —slowly. Now, j
step back into the office. Keep your j
hands up,"
Strang closed and locked the door j
behind them.
"I want my papers, Selfridge. Dig
up your keys and get them for me," j
Elliot commanded.
Wally did not need any keys. Het
knew the combination of the safe 1
and opened it. From an inner j
drawer he drew/a bunch of papers.!
Gordon looked them'over carefully. [
Strong sat on a table and toyed with |
a revolver which he jammed play-!
fully into the stomach of his fat
prisoner. I
"All here," announced the field
agent.
The safe-robbers locked their 1
prisoners in the office and disap- i
peared into the night. They stopped !
at the house of the collector of cus- j
toms, a genial young fellow with
whom Elliot had played tennis a !
I good deal, and left the papers in
L his hands for safe-keeping. After
which they returned to the hotel
and reached the second floor byway
of the back stairs used by the serv
ants.
Here they parted, each going to
his own room. Gordon slept like a
schoolboy and woke only when the
sun poured through the window
upon his bed in a broad ribbon of
warm gold.
[To Be Continued.]
Hotels vs. Housewives
Woman Traveler Find** Hotelrles
Are Helping More in Jlentlexn
nnil Wheat lea* Day*.
i "My trip East proved one thing to j
1 me and that is, that the hotels and
i public eating places are doing more
systematic food saving than we
housekeepers are accomplishing."
i ?he had come from the Middle West
■ and it was her first visit to the East
ern cities.
| "Why I was astounded," she con-
I tiniied, "to find such patriotic co-op
: nation in every hotel we were in.
| And from travelers who had been out j
| through the West," she went on, "I ;
I learned that the sa/ne thing is true;
i.n all the big hotels clear to the 1
' coast. You see I have never known
much of hotel life. I've never travel
| i d. to speak of, and when I go to the
I city to shop it is only for the day and
: I have no occasion to stay at a hotel.
But I have been helping in this food
saving campaign at home and I feel
! like going back and starting a regu
lar crusade among the housewives to
> urge a mere definite and systematic
j program."
1 And she was right. The reason the
saving <n hotels and public eating
! places stands out in such amazing
figures is not only because these
I places are dealing in such quantities
of foodstuffs but because they have
1 set for themselves definite programs
I for the definite saving of definite
s foods. That is the real secret.
I The housewife, on the contrary, has
I too often begun her saving in a desul
tory way.
Life's Problems
Are Discussed
■ 1 I get many letters from discour
| aged young people. Letters that be
gin this way; 1 quote from some
| before me:
"1 am a lonely, disheartened girl
l of twenty-two." "X am eighteen
j years old and very unhappy." lam
despairing. I may live to be an old
woman and 1 do not see how 1 can
, I bear my life." And here is a letter
I from a young man: "I am miserable,
> because I seem to be incurably dls
> contented. Everything annoys me
and nothing ever pleases or satis
; ties me. And X want to Know how
X can overcome this."
The only trouble with all of you
. is, that you haven't yet got your sec
. i ond wind. You've lost your nferve
t . and your spirit. Your ieet are tlag
' | Bing, and you think this state cf
! j mind is eternal when it is merely a
■ | temporary phase. You'll get your
. j second wind presently and be able
,! to go on indefinitely.
I j You are all seeking something,
. | the bluebird of happiness. Every
- ! one in the world is. We wouldn't
I I be alive if we were not. We all of
" j us want those particular things, xhat
1 ! we believe will beautify our lives and
c i 1111 us with an abiding content. And
e we all return to find that our search
- might have begun and ended at
i home.
When we get the things we seek
they immediately become commoii
places, and again we begin to grasp
at that which is just out of reach.
But no matter how varying and
■\arious our needs and demands may
be, we all want happiness.
Very well. The next thing to do
is to get it. Here, let us take the
concrete cases of the boy who is
discontent," or "let those girls stop
the girl who is despairing and needs
courage. How are they going to get
it? No use in leaving the matter to
chance; that is entirely too uncer
tain and disappointing. Nor are
they fooling themselves with the
belief that any outside circumstances
can bring them a permanent content
and a permanent courage.
Their woes may sound silly to
many people who would say: "Let
that boy take an interest in his
work and he'll soon get over his
discontent," or "letthose girls stop
their morbid imaginings and tliey
will be all right."
But that doesn't dismiss* the ques
tion. It is very generally recogniz
ed it is our mental sates
which directly affect our health, our
spirits and our measure of achieve
ment.
Discouragement, doubt of one's
self is the worst devil there is. I
speak feelingly and from experi
ence. i
Formerly I never undertook a
new piece of work without suffer
ing acutely from what you might
call "stage fright." I remember still
the dreadful moment when an edi
tor to whom X had sold my first
stories said to me quite casually:
"I want you to write me a novel
of seventy-five to one hundred thou
sand words in serial form."
I nearly dropped oft my chair,
and when I found my voice X stam
mered: "Oh, I couldn't. I've never
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done any long work, and wouldn't)
know how to go about it. It's out;
of the question."
He replied laconically: "Oh, yes,!
you can. I want the first install-!
ment in six weeks."
I tottered away feeling as if 11
were going to faint and walked
the streets four hours in a sort of aj
daze, my hands and feet like ice.j
Even after 1 began the serial I was!
so dead sure that I was going to
fall down in the middle of it and j
leave it unfinished that I published |
it under another name than my own i
because I didn't want my friends
and relatives to suffer with me in j
my first humyiation.
But the novel was finished, and j
every installment was ready on
time.
Yet that experience didn't cure!
me. 1 still approached a new piece j
of work with some return of the
old terror. I invariably quaked i
and trembled mentally, sometimes
physically, and I'd say to myself
with chattering teeth: "Good heav
ens! Here I've actually gone and
signed a contract, and I know I'll
never be able to meet the require
ments. Oh, how shall I get out of
it?" I
This cranky kink was brought
home to me once when a palmist
read my hand and said: "You will
never have any trouble with the
world or with people. Your battle is
all with yourself.
I looked at her for a moment in
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deep surprise. "You're right," I
said. And I was soon convinced of
the truth of her statement that I
went on: "But if you think rfiy
picayune doubts and fears are go
ing to boss me, you're mistaken.
I'm going to be the boss from now
on."
Thereafter, whenever my pet,
particular demon began to stew
around and get restless and set up
his favorite whine, "You can't do
it. You know you can't," I would
immediately mentally whack him
over the head and say: "Oh, shut
up. I'm not paying the least atten
tion to you. You don't interest me.
1 am going to do this work; and so,
no more about it."
The result is, that I am now per-1
fectly reckless. If an editor should
ask me to write a brochure deal-!
ing with "Home Life on the Moon," j
01 a monograph on "What I Know
About the Fourth Dimension," I
should merely stand at attention,
salute, go home and set cheerfully
to work.
A fear is just like a horse. You
ore only laying up trouble for your
self, if you permit your mount to
turn away from the .thing he has
shied at, or to refuse a jump. He
has got to be made to go past the
object he doesn't like, again and
again if necessary; and he must be
made to take his fences in spite of
his obstinate determination not to
do so.
I have lately been reading up on fairly well broken
the fascinating new science of
psycho-analysis, which holds some
interesting explanations of our vari
ous states of mind. According to
these authorities our doubts and
fears all lie in the subconscious or
unconscious part of our minds, that
vast area of which we know so very
little.
One of these writers states that,
"all of the natural and uncontrolled
cravings of the unconscious are in
fantile."
"Intellectual sloth," he says, "is
tho characteristic of by far the
greatest majority of even the so
called cultivated people, and hav
ing accomplished a few hours of
mental work they think that they
] are tired out that is will injure
I their brains to work constantly,
' and so on, all these generalities be
j ing pretexts furnished by the un
. | known Titan within them. But
j the Titan within us must be har-
I nessed, and he will work for us
; I and with us as does the horse."
On this theory it was "Infantile
Unconscious" within me that
1 wanted to play instead of work.
Therefore, it made dreadful ruc
' tiens, and did everything to prc
'l vent me undertaking anything
! j new. But by goiiy; on working
! j whether I was in the mood or out
1 of it, whether I was sick or well,
| whether 1 had a strong impulse to
1 write or an equally strong one to
1 do anything under the sun but
write, the Titan within is now
I haven't got It perfectly trained
yet, but it does trot better in har
ness than it did.
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Most soaps and prepared sham
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