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By William MacLeod Ratne
(Continued)
"Of course, I knew you would
liave an alibi. Have you got one
to explain why you left town so sud
denly the night the bank was
robbed? Milton was killed after
midnight. Before morning you and
your friend Elliot routed out Ack
royd and bought a lot of supplies
from him for a hurry-up trip. You
slipped around to the corral and hit
the trail right into the blizzard.
Will you tell me why you were in
such a hurry to get away, if it
wasn't to escape from the town
where you had murdered a decent
old fellow who never had harmed
a soul.
"Sure I'll tell you." The b'nek
eyes of the little man snapped
eagerly. "I came so p. d. <l. be
cause that side pardner of mine Gor
don Elliot wouldn't let me wait till
He had a reason for'
leavin' town that wouldn't wait a
minute, one big enough to drive,
him right into the heart of the
blizzard. Me, I tagged along."
"I can guess his reason " .ieered
the Scotsman. "But I'd like to hear 1
you put a name to it."
Holt grinned maliciously and:
waved a hand toward the girl who
was pillow ing the head of her lover. ]
"The name of his reason is Sheba ■
O'Neal, but it's to be Sheba Elliot
soon, looks like."
"You mean —"
The little miner took the words
triumphantly out of his mouth. He
leaned forward and threw them into!
the face of the man he hated. "I i
mean that while you was danein'
and philanderin' with other women,
Gordon Elliot was buckin' a bliz
zard to save the life of the girl you
both claimed to love. I-le was
mushin' into fifty miles of frozen
hell while you was fillin' up with
potted grouse and champagne. Sim
ultaneous with the lame :.roose and
the monkey singlestep you was
iloin", this lad was windjammin'
through white drifts. He beat you
•it your own game, man. You're a
bear for the outdoor stuff, they tell
me. You chew up a blizzard for
breakfast and throttle a pack of i
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wolves to work up an appetite for
dinner. It's your specialty. All
right. Take your hat oft to that
cheekacko who has just whaled you
blind. He has outgamed you, Col
by Macdonald. You don't'run in his
class. I see he is holding his haid
up again. Give him another half
hour and he'll be ready to go to the
mat with you again."
The big Alaskan pushed away a
fear that had been lingering in his
mind ever since he had stumbled on
that body buried in the snow yes
terday afternoon. Was his enemy
goinir to escape him, after all?
Could Holt be teling the true reason
why they had left town so hurriedly?
He would not let himself believe it.
"You ought to work up a better
story than that," he said contemp
tuously. "You can throw a husky
through the holes in it. How could
Elliot know, for instance, that M'ss
O'Neil was not safe?"
"The same way you could* a'
known it," snapped old Gideon. "He
phone to Smith's Crossin' and found
the stage hadn't got in and that
there was a whale of a storm up in
the hills."
Macdonald set his face. "You're
lying to me. You stumbled over the
stage while you were making your
getaway. Now you're playing it for
an alibi."
Elliot had risen. Sheba stood be
side him, her hand in his. She
spoke quietly.
"It's the truth. Believe it or not
as you please. We care nothing
about that."
The stab of her eyes, the carriage
of the slim, pliant figure with its
suggestiAi of fine gallantry, chal
lenged her former lover to do his
worst.
On the battered face of <3ordon
was a smile. So long as his Irish
sweetheart stood by him he Mid not
care if he were charged with high
treason. It was worth all it cost
to feel the warmth of her brave, im
pulsive trust.
The deep-set eyes of Macdonald
clinched with those of his rival.
"You cached the rest of the gold, I
suppose," he said doggedy.
With a lilt of his shoulders the
younger man answered lightly:
"There are none so blind as those
who will not see, Mr. Macdonald."
He turned to Sheba. "Come. We
must make breakfast."
"You're going to Kusiak with me "
his enemy said bluntly.
"After we have eaten, Mr. Mac
donald," returned Elliot with an
ironic bow. "Perhaps, if you have
not had breakfast yet, you will join
us."
/'We start in half an'hour," an
nounced the mine-owner curtly, and
he turned on his heel.
The rifle lay where Sheba had
dropped it when she ran to gather
her stricken lover into her arms.
Macdona'd picked it up and strode
over the brow of th hill without a
backward look. He was too proud
to stay and watch them. It was im
possible to escape him in the deep
snow that filled the hill trails, and
he was convinced they would at
tempt nothing of the kind.
The Scotsman felt for the first
time in his life old and spent. Un
der tremendous difficulty he had
mushed for two days and had at last
run his men down. The lust of ven
geance had sat on his shoulders
every mile of the way and had driven
him feverishly forward. But the salt
that had lent a savor to his passion
was gone. Even though he won, he
lost. For Sheba had gone jver to
the enemy.
With the fierce willfulness of his
temperament he tried to tread un
der foot his doubts about the guilt
of Holt and Elliot. Success had made
him arrogant and he was not a
good loser. He hated the man who
had robbed him of Sheba, but he
could not escape respecting him. El
liot had fought until he had been
hammered down into unconscious
ness and he had crawled to his feet
and stood erect with the smile of
the unconquered on his lips. Was
this the sort of man to murder In
cold blood a kindly old gentleman
who had never harmed him?
The only answer Macdonald found
was that Milton had taken aim and
his partner by surprise. They had l
been driven to shoot the cashier to
cover uP their crime. Perhaps Holt
or another had fired the actual shots,
but Elliot was none the less guilty.
The heart of the Scotsman was bit
ter within him. He intended to see
that his enemies paid to the last
ounce. He would hurry them to the
gallows if money and influence could
do it.
None the less, his doubts per
sisted. If they had planned the
bank robbery, why did they wait so
long to buy supplies for their es
cape? Why had they not taken the
river nstead of the hill trail? The
story that his enemies told hung to
gether. It had the ring of truth.
The facts supported it.
(To ho Continued)
HARRiSBURG TEI.EGRAPH
THE FOUR OF HEARTS
• A SERIAL OF YOUTH AM) ROMANCE
By VIRGINIA VAN' I>E WATER
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CHAPTER IV
There are few more dreary ex
periences than that of awakening
early in a large hotel, taking one's
breakfast alone and boarding a train
lor a place where one has few ac
quaintances.
Such thoughts as these were up
permost in Cynthia Long's mind as
she left Chicago and its familiar
environs behind her on the morn
ing after her parting from her fa
ther's old friend and lawyer.
But she was determined to make
herself as comfortable as possible
in the Pullman in which she had
her seat. So after taking off her
hat anel coat, adjusting a footstool
under her feet and settling herself
back in a cushioned corner, she
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■ opened her handbag and drew forth
a couple of magazines.
As she did this, the letter she had
■ received the night before caught her
j eye. She had laid it away in her
. bag with the consciousness that she
I would want to read it again some
j time. That time had come now.
j She needed the courage it might
j give her. She was uncomfortably
homesick at seeing the last of the
! place near which she had spent all
j her life.
"I may some time marry and go
I back to Lake Forest to live," she
, mused. "Meanwhile I must try to
| learn to be content elsewhere."
! She had been to New York twice
with her father—once when she was
a child of twelve, soon after her
mother's death; the other time,
when she was sixteen. Mer father
had been too busy to stay away
Irom home long, or to make many
social visits. He had taken his
daughter with him to the Waldorf,
and had dined or lunched several
times with the Livingstones. Cyn
thia recalled these occasions now,
trying to recollect just what her
aunt and cousin had been like. She
remembered that Dora was pretty
and vivacious, and that her Aunt
Amanda Mrs. Livingstone was
stately and rather conventional, yet
ltindly.
She had now wondered for tho
twentieth time If she was doing right
in making her home with these rela
tives. It might not be easy to ad
just oneself to their ways. Well, she
would not be a burden upon them,
for she had a sufficient income from
her father's estate to dress herself
well and to supply her various
needs. But she was occupying a
loom in her uncle's house. Would
she be in the way when the first
novelty of her arrival had worn
off?
She realized with relief that she
had not proposed this arrangement.
It had been her uncle's idea. Her
lawyer. Mr. Blake, had insisted that
her father would have wished her
to agree to it. That and her lone
liness had moved her to do so. At
any rate, the letter she had received
last night had convinced her that
her cousin joyfully anticipated her
arrival.
A Xico Letter
She reread the letter, now slowly.
"Dear Cynthia," it ran. "Of course
Father and Mother have written
you the proper and altogether
truthful epistles of welcome to pur
home. I have not written, although
I have been thinking a lot of and
banking on your coming to live with
us. It occurs to me to tell you this
in a letter to reach you on your last
evening before you leave Chicago.
Father tells me you are to stay at
a hotel that night. Mother thinks
that most unusual. I think it must
bo rather jolly. Only I suppose you
will be blue and will feel that you
are leaving behind you all your old
friends and everything.
"Dear, please don't be blue. Try
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[ to think what good chums you and
1 will be. I never had a sister. I
fancy Mother fhought it more con
ventional and select to have only
one youngster. Anyway, I am the
only young person in this big house,
and I do so often long for a girl,
who will belong to me, to have
good with. I have always
wanted a sister. I want you to make
believe you are one. Won't you'.'
You will not have a chance to an
swer this letter, but please let it
tell you all the things I am not
cle\ er enough to say.
"Come as fast as the train will
bring you, Cynthia, my dear. Jt
cannot be too soon for your loving
cousin-sister. DOHA."
"She's a dear!" Cynthia decided,
her eyes tncist and her lips curved
by a tender smile as she gazed on
the landscape beyond the car win
tlows.
Everything was bathed in the
midwinter sunlight—a sunlight thnt
was cold, yet brilliant. After all.
the girl mused, she was young, and
all life lay before her.
'Hie Spirit of Adventure
A spirit of adventure stirred with
in her. There were going to be
new experiences in her life; she was
goinf' to meet new people; perhaps,
in spite of her misgivings, she would
not be as homesick as she had fear
ed.
Her father had always spoke of
New York with admiration. His
wife had been a New York gir).
That may have accounted for his
sentiments. His child, remember
ing th'is, felt a growing certainty
that she might be happy in the great
city toward which she was travel
ing.
She looked back at her loneliness
of yesterday and last evening. What
had wrought this change in her
state of mind? It must have b6en
the rereading of Dora Livingstone's
letter. Cynthia had slept better
last night for having received this
message. She was glad she had
stopped to ask the hotel clerk if
there was any mail for her.
Suddenly she remembered how, in
crossing the lobby, she had dropped
Ihe letter and a young man had
sprung forward and picked it up for
her. She did not see where he
came from. It was as if he had
started up from the floor right In
front of her. He had very blue
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eyes, she had noticed. In fact, she
had iconsidered him really quite
good-looking.
Yet she had not thought of the
incident from the moment of its
occurrence until now.
(Tto He Continued.)
Advice to the Lovelorn
Ry BEATRICK FAIRFAX
THE SOLDIER'S SWEETHEART
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am drafted into the Nattonal
Army. Expect my call any day.
I had planned on marrying some
time during the middle of next year.
But it does not seem right that I
should marry before going to the
front. What might happen abroad
in the way of injury or death may
mean a great disadvantage and sac-
I rifice to the girl I adore. The ques
tion I would like settled is: Is it
right that one should continue his
engagement when he realizes he may
be away for two or more years; that
the girl would have to deprive her
self of many enjoyments during this
time, and that he may be so crippled
as to be unwelcome (from his own
viewpoint) to the girl he loves?
Your opinion would greatly ease
the mind of one who is very anxious
to do what is right and best for the
girl he loves.
ANXIOUS.
Why will the soldier boys, to
whom I feel like a loving big sister,
insist on asking me this difficult
question? I dare not try to settle
this problem for other women. If
I answer as they desire I will bring
happiness—but think what infinite
mischief I can work by trying to
settle this grave problem for people
I have never seen. This Is my atti
tude: If I were deeply in love with
a soldier boy I would want to marry
him before he went Over There. I
would gladly take my chances—if I
cared enough—that is the whole
point.
With real devotion in her heart,
any woman who loves the spirit
and mind of her man would proudly
welcome him back however ho came.
A lesser love might fail. Years of
separation might weaken a small
love. None of us can be sure of our
selves or our own loyalty. To risk I
7
so much because of a mere infat
ration is foolish. To risk it for big
love is noble. The hysteria of war
time makes men and women rush
into situations that will make them
unhappy later on. Try to be reason
ably sure of yourselves—then act'
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