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U Bench Beach n amid ul has blou to a sated and yet yel unsatisfied un un- n- n satisfied sr public tales of life and human Interest The Tho Spoilers tells tell of Nome and the time days lays of gold Jold It Il tells of a strong man and a true woman It Il tells tell of love 1000 and of male hate of deeds of oC daring and of splendid achievements of a t L gambler who was square and a wicked woman who realized a rare nobility And It It tells of riches in ii such plenty that one lifts out of the time humdrum hum lium- drum lum rut of oC common criticism and stan stands amazed at the splendors of oC tin the story lory nO Roy is the limo hero He lIe i is a college man maim who comes to lo the far fai north country because he hears that thal call of nf the lie will wild which some earl carl carland and amt unknown ancestor has flung down downtime time tho generations lIe Ho Is strong and brave and has measured his life by hy bythe bytho the tho rule rulo What hal I want I take Hi Ill said that to lo Helen Chester Chesler the tho heroine hero hero- ine and and then lion takes her up in his arms brow and check li and 1 kisses her on tier on when she sho frees and ond lips 1 and hair hall and timid her little list and amid strikes him fiercely In the face he puts Juls her arm down b bills hy by his ills side and kisses lice her again aln laugh laugh- ing He lie looks at her calmly as she h stands pan panting ling in rage rago before him and tells her ho Is going to love her hel An And mo may God Coil forgive mo me If IC I ever ever- stop hatIng halIng hating hat hat- Ing you ou 1 is the tho girls girl's hot hol response She is li commissioned to carry to Nome secret Instructions the character charac charac- ter of which sho does docs not know They really set In motion a corrupt bit hit of or Judicial machinery which takes mines from front the possession of their owners and gives them to the lime looting of oC an uncle of the tho girl McNamara who McNamara-who who Is Is the Lucifer of time the plot and amid who wants in win the girl and to lo c a gifted and dissolute lawyer Smallpox breaks out In lie tho ship by which lichen Helen Is hurrying to lo Nome and she e escapes capo quarantine and seeks the boat boit in which and his partner arc are returning to lo their mine the Midas on en Anvil An creek back hack of Nome They beat off oft time the quarantine guard which tries to lo recapture her and antl see her safe to tu Nome thus bringing bringing bringing-as as as unconscious unconscious unconscious a as herself the herself tho orders for their own spoiling And Anti it Is on this trip they guard tho the maiden as knights of the round table might that thal Glenister declares his creed Thero o Is a n gambling hall picture that will not he be nor forgotten for foi gotten nor nor excelled Tho rho Broncho Kid Is dealing faro aIO and doing it Il t well and anti rapidly As he ho proceeds proceeds pro pro- with the deal pay deal pay and take take he notes the lime eyes of oC the tho men straining at something behind him and ho lie turns lums to look into the face of Cherry Chell Malotte Ma- Ma lotte lolle a young oung woman of who whoso whose o mno moral morall- tho the less said bald tho the better belloI Very beautiful beautiful ful rul very gifted sho loves lo Glenister and has left lell Dawson because e she hears ho has Interests at nt Nome The Time Kid gives her his hh chair and sho proceeds proceed with the deal and she alono alone of all ail tho faro Caro dealers never neier looks at her check rack She can tell to a chip tho the size also of a bet lost Jost and picks oft off her stack Just the right number of oC discs never having ln to pinch down It is a perfection of or proficiency which will not appeal to tho the a average verago reader But you will observe this this- I is a talo tale of or a u sort ort expressed In the Kipling line Theres never fa a a law o of God nor norman norman norman man runs runa north of fifty That would be a Jl bold reviewer who undertook to lo tell lell you OU the time story sto of or The Thc Spoilers and we shall not do it Not r even cven vanity can prevent time tho confession that thaL Mr 11 Beach Deach the author of oC the tho book bool has told it better than thane we e can But nut It ends happily happily happily-at at least for Cor every everyone everyone one but Cherry Malotte 1 who redeems a n good deal of oC her pa past t b by a a sacrifice which mo may bo be lost sight of oC In the rush of or big things Tt It Is not a tI perfect story Glenister s 's f t 1 fi j long ride to lo the tho rescue of nr H Helen Chester Chester Ches Ches- ter she I is in iii tho the power of Is a little too ton notch much considering that thal he lie has haM to light allt and break McNamara directly afterward But BUl he sloes does time the breaking and the tho mines lne are an all re restored restored re- re stored II to thick their lr owners as aR the they should bo Lo omit and 1111 1 Chester r comes to Ghouls Ghouls- I ter r in hi a very cry beautiful act acl of sel self sur sur- render From first to tn last you win revel ro In Tho Thi Spoilers for It Is elemental strong idle just In Its con Ion conclusions harper Brothers New NewYork York |