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The
Yukon
By William MacLeod Ratne
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(Continued)
The Scotch-Canadian stood at the
edge of a willow grove. His face
was grim as the day of judgment.
"Don't move," he ordered.
Elliot laughed irritably. He was;
both annoyed and disgusted.
"What do you want?" he snapped.
"You."
"What's worrying you now? Do
you think I'm jumping my bond?"
"You're going back to Kusiak
with me —to give a life for the one ,
you took."
"What's that?" cried Gordon, sur
prised.
"Just as I'm telling you. I've;
been on your heels ever since you I
left town. You and Holt are go- j
ing back with me as my prisoners."
"But what for?"
"For robbing the bank and killing
Robert Milton, as you know well
enough."
"Is this another plan arranged for i
me by you and Selfrtdge'.'" de- [
manded Elliot.
Macdonald ignored the question j
and lifted his voice. "Come out of
that tent. Holt —and come with your I
hands up unless you want your head
blown off."
"Holt isn't in that tent, you idiot.
If you want to know—"
"Come now if you expect to
come alive," cut in the Scotsman
ominously. He raised the rifle to
his shoulder and covered the shadow
thrown by the sun% on the figure
within.
Gordon flung out a wild protest
and threw the frozen slab of bacon
at the head of Macdonald. With
the same motion he launched his
own body across the stove. A fifth
of a second earlier the tent flap had
opened and Sheba had come out.
The sight of her paralyzed Mac
donald and saved her lover's life. .
It distracted the mine-owner long
enough for him to miss his chance.
A bullet struck the stove and went
off at a tangent through the tent
canvas not two feet from where
Sheba stood. A second went speed
ing toward the sun. For Gordon
had followed the football player's in
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Rheumatism's Pangs Multiply
With Winter's Icy Blasts
Torture Is Worst in Severest
Weather
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Soon you will begin to reach for
the liniment bottle, Just as you did
all last winter, and begin to rub the
painful parts, seeking relief from the
pangs of Rheumatism, which your
own experience has taught you can
only be temporary.
Why not throw away your lini
ments and other external applica
tions and get down to a sensible and
rational treatment, which is bound
to get results?
Rheumatism is a disordered condi
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WEDNESDAY EVENING;
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stinct and dived for the knees of liisi
enemy.
They went down together. Each i
squirming for the upper place, they I
rolled over and over. The rifle was
forgotten. Like .cave men they j
fought, crushing and twisting each j
other's muscles with the blind lust;
of primordials to kill. As they
clinched with one arm, they struck |
savagely with the other. The im- j
pact of smashing blows on naked j
flesh sounded horribly cruel to!
Sheba.
She ran forward, calling; on each l
by name to stop Probably neither |
knew she was there. Their whole [
attention was focused on each other. |
Not for an instant did their eyes j
wander, for life and death hung 011 j
the issue. Chance had lit the spark j
of their resentment, but long-banked '
passions were blazing fiercely now.;
They got to their feet and fought
toe to toe. Sledge-hammer blows
beat upon bleeding and disfigured
faces. No thought of defense as yet !
was in the mind of either. The I
purpose of each was to bruise, maim,!
make helpless the other. But for!
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may temporarily relieve the pain, but
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the impotent little cries of Sheba
no sound broke the stillness save
the crunch of their feet on the hard
snow, the thud of heavy fists on
flesh, and the throaty snarl of their
deep, irregular breathing.
Gid Holt, from tile window of
the cabin, watched the battle with
shining eyes. He exulted in every
blow of Gordon; he suffered with
him when the smashing rights and
left of Macdonald got home. He
shouted jeers, advice, threats, en
couragement. If he had had ten
thousand dollars wagered on the
outcome he could not have been
more excited.
Swiftwater Peter, drawn by the
cries of Sheba, came running from
the stabl#. As he passed the win
dow Holt caught him by tliQ arm.
"What are you aimin' to do, Pete?
T.<et 'em alone. I.et 'em go to it.
They got to have it out. Stop 'em
now and they'll get at it with guns."
Slieba ran up, wringing her hands.
"Stop them, please. They're killing
each other."
"Nothing of the kind, girl. You
let 'em alone, Pete. The kid's there
every minute, ain't he? Gee, that's
a good one, boy. Seven—eleven—
ninety-two. "Attaboy!"
Macdonald had slipped on the I
snow and gone down to his hands
and knees. Swift as a wildcat the
younger man was on top of him.
Hampered though he was by his
parka, the Scotsman struggled
slowly to his feet again. He was
much the heavier man, and in spite
of his years the stronger. The
muscles stood out in knots on his
shoulders and across his bacfc
whereas on the body of Tils more I
slender opponent they flowed and
rippled in rounded symmetry. Ac-1
live as a heather cat, Elliot was far j
the quicker of the two.
Half-blinded by the hammering
he had received, Gordon changed
his method of fighting. lie broke
away from the clinch and side
stepped the bull-like rush of his foe,
covering up' as well as he could
from the onset. Macdonald pressed
the attack and" was beaten back by
hard, straight lefts and rights to
the unpVotected face.
The mine-owner shook the matted
hair from his swollen eyes and
rushed again. He caught an up
percut flush on the end of the chin.
It did not even stop him. The
weight of his body was in the blow
he lashed up from his side.
The knees of Elliot doubled up
under him like the blade of a jack
knife. He sank down slowly, turned,
got to his hand sand knees, and tried
to shake off the tons of weight that
seemed to be holding him down.
Macdonald seized him about the
waist and flung him to the ground.
Upon the inert body the victor
dropped, his knees clinching the
torso of the unconscious man.
"Now, Pete. Go to him!" urged
Holt wildly.
But before Swiftwater could move
before the great fist of Macdonald
could smash down upon the bleed
ing face upturned to his, a sharp
blow struck the flesh of the raised
forearm and for the moment stunned
the muscles. The Scotch-Canadian
lifted a countenance drunk with
rage, passion-tossed.
(To be Continued)
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THE FOUR O
A SERIAL OF YOUTH AND ROMANCE
By VIRGINIA VAX DE WATER
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CHAPTKR II
"The rooms are very pleasant, and
I thank you for engaging them for
me." Cynthia Long said to the el
derly man who, with the boy carry
ing her suitcase and handbag, had
escorted her to an upper (loor of a
large hotel in Chicago. "I am sure
I shall be very comfortable."
Darius Blake handed the porter the
tip for which he waited and dis
missed him. Then he turned to the
slender girl standing before him.
"Child," he said, "you know how
glad my wife and I would have been
if you had been willing to stay with
us this last night before you go east.
Our home is certainly less dreary
than a hotel."
Cynthia Long smiled gratefully.
"You are very dear and good, Mr.
Blake. I do not believe that any
other lonely girl ever had her affairs
attended to by such a kind and un
selfish lawyer as you are. You have
made everything as easy as possible
for me. And I have let you do it.
But, much as I wanted to accept your
kind suggestion that I go to your
house to-night, I was sure it would
be easier for me to start to-morrow
morning from a hotel rather than
from a home-like house such as
yours."
"But," the man objected, "you are
very young, and—excuse me!—very
.attractive; apd it is hardly the cor
rect thing for a girl like you to spend
a night unchapcroned in a great
hotel."
Cynthia glanced down at her black
dress. "My mourning would protect
me, if I needed protection, a id 1 do
not," she reminded him. "Please do
not worry, dear Mr. Blake. I will
rest until dinnertime: then I will go
into the diningroom and take a table
near some very respectable-looking
middle-aged people, after which I
will return to my rooms, read for a
while and go to bed. And early in
the morning I start on my eastward
journey."
could perhaps come to-morrow
to see you off" the man began.
The girl interrupted him. "At the
dismal hour of 7.30 a. m! Indeed you
will not! Why should you? I have
everything here in my bag—my tick
ets through to New York, my Pull
man car reservation—everything. No.
I would rather you let me tell you
good-by now—and then." with an
effort at a smile, last hard thing
will be over."
"It must be as you wish, dear
child," the lawye racqulesced. "I hope
you will not be too dreary."
"I will not," she assured him. "I
am hoping that a letter from New
York may come to me this evening.
When I last wrote to my uncle I told
him where I was to be to-night. Yet,
since all arrangements have been
made and agreed upon between us,
he may scarcely write again.'
"Good-by, dear," Darius Blake said,
holding out his hands to her.
She placed both her hands in his
and smiled bravely.
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"Good-by—and again thank you. 1
believe." with a little catch in her
voice, "that where Dad is he knows
how good you have been to me since
—ho went."
The man's eyes were suddenly
misty. "God bless you!" he mur
mured. "Write to me when y.ou care
to. Remember I am always at your
service. I was not only your father's
lawyer, my dear—but his friend, and
yours."
"I know it," he girl returned. "You
have proved that."
At the door he paused and looked
back. "You have the telephone num
ber of my house if you should want
to ask me any questions this eve
ning-, haven't you?"
She nodded. At the moment she
could not trust her voice to reply.
Yet when the door had closed behind
her elderly friend. Cynthia Long did
not cry. Throwing off her hat and
coat, she began to walk rapidly up
and down the room. The long mir
ror on tile wall reflected her grace
ful figure, but she did not even
glance into it. Her thoughts were
too busy just now for her to con
cern herself about her appearance.
Mr. Blake had spoken truly when
he said she was attractive. Her girl
ish figure waß excellent and her black
dress fitted her perfectly. It also
cast into strong relief her auburn
liaid and fair complexion. Her eyes
were of the shade of hazel-brown
that sometimes accompanies auburn
hair.
Until she smiled, she was not actu
nily pretty. But Mr. Blake had seen
her smile many times. Therefore
he thpught her uncommonly attrac
tive.
She was not smiling now. Instead,
the curved lips were set in a line
that was too stern for such a girlish
face.
Cynthia Long was but twenty-two.
Until her father's death, six weeks
ago, she had petted and guard
ed, for she the only child of a
lonely widower. Now her father was
gone, and his daughter was going
east to live with her mother's broth
er, Stephen Livingstone, of New York.
She had seen her uncle occasionally
when he had come west on a business
trip. She and her father lived in
Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago,
and several times Stephen Living
stone had run out there to spend
the night with the husband and child
of his dead sister. He had always
been kind and agreeable, but Cynthia
did not feel that she knew him inti
mately.
When he received the telegram an
nouncing his brother-in-law's death
he wrote at once that, when her af
fairs were settled, she must make
her home in his bi£ house.
At first, Cynthia had hesitated to
accept this Invitation. Then,'as her
loneliness pressed down more heav
ily upon her, she turned instinctively
to her only blood relatives.
All arrangements had been made
for her by her father's friend and
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exeeutoi, Darius Blake. Now the home
in Forest was closed and Cyn
thia was spending the last night be
fore her departure for the east alone
in a big* hotel in Chicago.
(To He Continued.)
Advice to the Lovelorn
A Quiet Man
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am twenty-four and engaged to
a man four years my senior. My
fiance is very well situated and is all
a woman eould desire in a husband
as far as wealth, personality and
character are concerned.
My betrothed has always led a
quiet life, and has never shown any
desire to mingle with people.
. I cannot decide whether I can rely
on our love to bridge this gulf, or
whether it will mar our happiness.
Do not for a moment think I am
an unfeeling young woman, but, on
the contrary, consider me a thought
ful and perhaps practical woman,
who hesitates for fear of bringing
unhappiness not only upon herself,
but upon her future husband and
children.
I would like to have your advice
or opinion as to whether you would
marry this man.
D. F. L.
I think you are making trouble
for yourself, nothing more. I would
hardly advise a cultured and edu
cated young woman to marry a man
who was uncouth and ignorant and
who would shame her among her,
triends, because for such a man she I
would lose respect, and, failing to
respect the man she loved, she would
probably in time cease- also to care
lor him. You, however, have no such
problem. Yu like society, the man
you love prefers to lead a life of a
simpler sort. Tact and real affection
will make each of you concede some
thing to the other and in that way
you will work out your problem.
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NUARY 30, 1918
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