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Show yan V By 0 WtfiUa that a tremendously rich m infield had been discovered in die Mackenzie. iynamita Bay, the place was led. fewspapers throughout Canada I the States printed sensational ries about this discovery; but at t particular time Black Thurs- had Just spread its pall over h nations, and in the general tic nobody paid attention to ru-r- s about a far-o-ff El Dorado. II during the four stricken years t followed, Dynamite Bay stories it trickling out to civilization nors about ataggerlng finds of rer, copper, platinum and radium. Incept for a few experts with in-- s knowledge, no one knew rk, Winnipeg, Toronto. kfcey were not an actual mining Wellington, Parkes & Lov-oi in their thirty-od- years they d never mined a ton of ore. an Investment house, they ffatght and sold mineral properties, Francis nipulated stock issues, rigged the (in coin, rket, and formed holding com-lie- s that brought streams of gold srvlc' ring in to them from the small arporations that did the real work. t was Warren Lovett. Junior part-ithe firm, who first had seen unique opportunity that Dyna-Bay offered. Old Jasper Well-ton- , founder and head of the ise, was getting slow to grasp r situations; Bussell Parkes, who I gone la far diplomacy and had n minister at aa European cspl-- 1 for several years, was out of eta with things and living in New and an it was Lovett, young alert and 'brainy, who had imed the whole venture and had the stage for his company to n ke a thtmdereus coup in the Arctic. 1 be WTTU perhaps his poker face to explain why it was that he, who had come to Wellington k Parkes twelve years ago as an obscure assistant attorney, was now a partner and a millionaire, climbing swiftly on to complete mastery of the powerful house. In Patricias affection for Warren there was little romance and nb passion. A succession of hectic love affairs had made her cynical about the love relationship in general. But she did like Warren a great deal, and considered him the most able man she had ever met. Coming from nowhere, a poor boy from a g Wisconsin hamlet, he had risen to the top through sheer ability. Steady and he would wear far better in the long run, she told herself, than any other man in her wide acquaintance. What brought you back so suddenly, dear?" Warren queried. Nothing went wrong up lake, I hope." No, nothing, Patricia answered. and kissed him She stood on e in order to whisper hurriedly, Warren, I want to do something that dad may object to; and if he does, youll help me out, wont you?" "If I possibly can, Warren returned, in his cautious way. They walked on over to the table. As Patricia had guessed, the big map was a chart of that Arctic mining field which she had heard so much about On it she saw a large area of marine blue marked Great Desolation lake." From an eastern arm of Great Desolation a river called "Resurrection" wound northeast into a huge blank region marked "Barrens. Resurrection river the name had fascinated Patricia ever since she had heard it What sort of country was that Polar land, up there at the top of the world, basking under the midnight sun? And those unknown barrens what mysteries and adventures were linking on their praisilvery rivers and musk-o- x ries? I She looked up from the map. hear that youre going to lead an expedition to Dynamite bay, War- ; even-tempere-d, Chi-uirei- ro 39-a-a William Byron Mowery iron-minin- ether Dynamite Bay was a gen illy rich field or merely another 1 alarm such aa the Canadian ling frontier so often sounds. no party which did have au-otic data about Dynamite Bay , oi nbba a the powerful Wellington, a rkes it Lovett; Incorporated . siened with headquarters in snd branch houses in New . wwe. Byroa Vowciy. a the fall of 1921 a rumor drifted of the far Worth, out to Edition-- , Sesir;-el- y n Ca-tia- . tip-to- ren." Yes, dear. Pm starting early next week. Raoul DeCarie, head of our geology staff, has a plane party waiting for me at Winnipeg. "When are you coming back?" she asked. I cant say definitely, but likely within two months. He touched the engagement ring on her finger, and smiled. "I must be back in Chicago by the eighth of October, dearest It was this very matter, this eighth of October, which Patricia herself was thinking about and which had made her decide to go along with Warren on his Arctic trip. Her engagement to Warren Lovett was almost the only stable and solid thing in her chaotic situation; and a truly fine married life was almost the only ideal left to her. With their wedding so near at hand she desperately wanted to overcome the feeling that, Warren and she were strangers. She felt confident that two months of intimate association would draw him and her very close to each other and that all her secret doubts about their marriage would be stilled. Old Wellington said roughly to her was almost the only honest life, he thing in his poker-face- d grasped eagerly at this prospect of having her with him for those two months. But his chief motive in wanting to take her was entirely If Patricia was in the far North for the next eight weeks practically till the day of their wedding she would have no chance to fly off on some unguessable whatnot that might delay their marriage or even spike it altogether. ' Keeping out of the argument, he waited until old Jasper had thundered his final "Nol and Patricia had burst into angry tears. As she turned away, he stepped up and took her arm; and at the door he bade quietly: Let me handle this, Patricia. club You run over to the Tree-To- p and wait there till I phone you. Dont worry in ten days from now you and Ill be camped on Resurrection." Stirring out of a long deep sleep, Patricia reached up, as her habit was, to touch the button that would bring her maid into the room. Her hand encountered canvas, a canvas wall. Opening puzzled eyes, she looked up and found herself staring at the ridgepole at a tent For a minute she lay quiet with her sleepy thoughts drifting back 1. Who was the greatest woman financier of all time? 2. Is the only child in a family superior, aa compared with a child who has brothers or sisters? 3. What is the proper way to address a letter to the President? 4. From how many acres up is considered a farm? 5. What trees are said to build islands? 8. How many miles can a man walk an hour? Icrvle. Along the landwash to her left stood tents of her parthe glistening-whit- e ty; and in the shallows the five big red airplanes rode at anchor. To d her right a river, swift and turbulent flowed .into the bay. n tents were Half a dozen scattered along its near bank, but the main prospectors' camp lay across on the north shore. With a start Patricia realized that this blue beautiful stream was Resurrection river, whose name had caught her fancy in far-of- f Chicago. good-size- was Casabianca? makes a violins tone, the varnish or the wood? 7. Who 8. What dirty-brow- As Patricias Answrrs Hetty Green had the reputation of being the greatest woman financier in the world. voy-age- ur Your foot is caught in the snare invisible. In the cruel bablsche. You will flutter, you will struggle and die, Oh, Little One . . . Looking around, Patricia spotted the singer, at one of the tents over near the river bank. Sitting on a box labeled DYNAMITE, he was plucking away at an old guitar and singing endlessly. It suddenly occurred to Patricia that it was this man's singing which had awakened her a little while ago, before she was ready to wake up. If he sang like that every morning, when his tent was so close "Hullo, over there! she called. The noise broke off. The man arose, looked around, saw her. You call me, hein?" "Nobody but you I Come over here! The man came, carrying his guitar tenderly beneath his arm. As he drew near, Patricia saw by his features that though he was no he did have a metis (half-breetinge of Indian blood in him. A stalwart big fellow, thirty years old, he was strong and powerful bull moose, but he trod with the I Say No!" light step at a Cree woods-runne- r. What'll you take for that thing? across the long Journey north. Chishe demanded, pointing at the cheap Then Edmonton. cago, Winnipeg, the lengthy flights, hundreds of battered guitar. (TO BE CONTINUED) miles at each hop, across the AthacounMackenzie and Slave basca, tries, to the Arctic. Then the swing Submarine Dates to Day eastward toward the North Magof Alexander the Great netic pole, and at last their goal at will never be known It probably Dynamite Bay. who built the first submarine and The North so far had keenly diswhere it was submerged, because appointed her. No snowy moun- the idea of submarine navigation with no romantic rivers tains, to achieve it date and white-watportages, no wild In- back experiments to ancient history, says a writd boatmen sing- er in the Cleveland dians, no Plain Dealer. disAt worked. the while ing they Alexander the Great was interestmal frontier posts where the planes ed in the scheme for its value in stopped for gas, the Indians had war, and in more recent history the seemed slouchy and tame, the idea was studied at least as early as sullen, the white men un- the Thirteenth or Fourteenth unitself and the couth, country By the Seventeenth century Water-logge- d by submarine speakably dreary. experiments were begin-- ! marshy lakes, slow rivers and slimy ning to be almost continuous. In immense Three the green muskeg, 1624 Cornelius van Drebbel sub-- j Rivers region seemed to her Just a submarine and displayed merged thouone huge dismal swamp, a of his own design in the Thames for sand miles of stagnant green ooze the benefit (A King James I. that was neither land nor water. By 1727 no less than fourteen At the other side of the tent her types had been patented in England. English maid was noiselessly un- In outer structure some of these packing baggage. Patricia sat up. were very similar to the later subEllyn, is there any breakfast marine. the great handicap to dearound this place, or does a person the fact that there being velopment cariout shoot a and have to go was then no satisfactory method of bou?" propelling them; some were op"Breakfast is ready for miss in erated by man power and some the dining tent were designed to be towed behind tent. in "I'll have it here, my other craft Get one at those Chiwaughimi In 1774 David Rushnell built a subto help you bring it marine which later attacked H. M. When Ellyn was gone, Patricia S. Eagle in New York harbor and slid out of bed in her pajamas, found have sunk the British ship might a pair at slippers, and stepped over but for defects in the torpedo r, anxious to see what to the employed, rather than in the looked like. At the Dynamite Bay submarine. Later, Robert Fulton exarrival at her party eight hours perimented with submarines and d that contributed a great deal toward ago she had been so she had crawled into her blankets their development without a glance at anything. Engines were first used in them in Her tent faced the blue lapping Civil war times, and though Confedwaves of Great Desolation, where erate experiments with them were Arctic gulls were wheeling and not very successful, the developmewing in the golden sunshine. ment since then has been rapid. Answers Offering 1 nformation on Various Subjects walked 8 miles, 566 yards in one hour. 7. Louis Casabianca was a French revolutionist and naval officer. At Aboukir bay, in 1798, he was in command of the Orient, which caught fire. He refused to quite his ship and his young son refused to desert him. This event is the basis for Mrs. Hemans poem. 8. It has been found that wood fiber, not varnish, has a vital effect on violin tones. Phil Uncle 1. eyes followed Res- urrection river far away into the northeast till it lost itself in that Jumble of wild hills, a little shiver went through her; a shiver of misgiving and fright; a wordless desire to flee back to the familiar country of cities and warm comforts. Fresh and dear, because it was a first impression, the tone of that Arctic land came starkly home to her. In spite of its balmy air and mellow sunshine, she knew that it was a harsh land, severe and forpure as its icy blue waters bidding country that tolerated only those who were courageous and strong of heart Somewhere a man was singing, in bush French. Patricia listened, followed the words of the old song: Ob, ptite Oiselet, in the Strong-Wood- s, ne July morning Patricia Well-icold Jasper's eldest daugh unexpectedly appeared at the Salle afreet headquarters of the i. The previous midnight, while die family yacht up near Macki-- , she had made a sudden bold ision; and hi her Impetuous way had whipped back to Chicago plane to cany out her idea, dll in yacht togs Jacket, linen u, white sandals she swept down the corridor of the x and into the inner suite, hatever else you might think of ricia Wellington, there was no ying that she was lovely. Medl-tagloriously athletic of body, had a dash and fire that had rled her to national champion-- x in swimming and tennis. Her s were dark and flashing; she I thick black hair, parted in the idle; and her face was as starkly utiftil as an Egyptian profile. 1 the desk of the telephone sec-ir- y Patricia asked, "Where's Mr. her: See here, if youre winding up to say you're going along with I rett? In Mr. . Wellington's office, Warren for a little Arctic picnic, But you might as well not say it! That ase,n the girl replied. , country is no place for a woman. confer-an important y're having and they gave instructions Warren has business to attend to on this trip, and he cant be botht no one Oh, yes? said Patricia. And ered. You run along and let us get h that she started for the door of back to our work. His order made Pt'.ricia angry. father's room. lie phone girl and the other three You run along he was always retaries sent a battery of hostile like that, always treating her like a child or an inconsequential person. ks after her. lifting from pleasure to pleas-wit- h As he treated her mother and Frantwo continents for a play-Hin- d ces. It seemed to her that a great and nothing to do except many men in her world had that 1 new diversions with a kick to same attitude toward their womenSometimes she wondered m, she seemed to have had all folk. splendid things of life handed to whether Warren too was going to on a golden platter, regard her as a social pet Instead low, as the climax to her good of a mate and a life partner. she was going to marry But dad she swallowed her I uUM tune, . Lovett, who in a few years I wont and wounded pride ire would have complete control be a bother to Warren. I'll keep the company in his capable out of the way, honest" T "I say Nol" p Ini ids. rhose were the envious thoughts But dad . . . fa-r' into her Patricia followed it While they argued it back and office, but the truth, within forth, Warren stood aside, listening ar tricias own heart, was vastly to them and thinking swiftly. Until 4 Oik erwise. Providence, which that moment he had not thought imed to have been so lavishly about Patricia's going along, but id to the girl, had in reality now that she had suggested it he rved her, tangled her life all into wanted her to go. Because he loved iM, Hp-narl and plunged her into chaos. her sincerely, because his love for ritaUy alive girl, she had nothing her gilded world into which she lid throw herself, heart and souL idealist, she had nothing to ideal--. Bitterly dissatisfied, she had i a gamut of madcap adventures a frantic search for something to ench tills deep nameless thirst. It a rosewood table in her fairs office, Warren Lovett and William Byron Mowery offers a new thrill in serial fiction with sper Wellington, an I financier of sixty, were studying big white map. The bang of the powerful story, "Resurrection River. Read today's installment . . or caused both men to look up. and each succeeding episode as this drama of the Canadian Where the devil did you come ml" old Wellington demanded, Barrens unfolds in these columns! There's an intriguing tnd dont, you see were busy? Her father's tone warned Patricia villain at he waa having a crabbed mom-- I heroine, a stalwart hero and a black-hearte- d and that she had better broach . . waging a terrific battle under pressure r wish carefully. In a good many specta he was a tyrannical old of the isolated Northland. Does justice man with her and her sister ranees and their mother; and he nue rule such a conflict? Read the story uld say Nol" like a person driv--g ewsl a rivet tolly . . . discover the amazing outcome! Lovett got up courteously and i tine across the big room. Only nine years older than rest strlcia, he was a quiet poker-face- d Mdc an, handsome in a way, in a gray business suit iw utwardly he had nothing remark-ol- e about him, nothing except n, Ask Me O Another a PRIDE A Quiz With 2. i i ' .Psychologists that the find only child," aged five, in a fam--: ily is apt to be superior in health, intelligence, play habits and other points, as compared with a child of five who has brothers or sisters. 3. The President, Washington, Salutation, Sir, or informally, My Dear Mr. President. 4. In taking the census, anything from three acres up is considered a farm. No tract smalL er than this is recorded as a farm unless it produces $250 in crops D. C. annually. 0. Trees that actually build islands and create extension of coasts are the mangroves, common seaside trees, found in profusion on shallow shores in the American tropics and subtropics. They collect mud in their tangled roots. 6. In 1928, N. Altimani of Italy By frank A. Gosbutt DRIDE can be a mans greatest 1 asset or it can be a fatal weakness. Which is it with you? How often have you heard some pompous individual proclaim, It is evident you dont know who Z am, or words to that effect. You can be sure that there is a man with a false pride who doesn't amount to much, even to himself. It is a safe bet that he is overbearing and that he will selfishly take any unfair advantage that less belligerent and less disagreeable people will let him get away with. The man with the right kind of pride will not push himself forward, will not take advantage of any position he has been able to create for himself and does not consider that he is entitled to any special consideration. When we see a man whose pride is publicly in evidence we can be sure we see an inferior individual. When we see a man who is properly proud we see a man who is retiring, unassuming and trustworthy, whether he be rich or nt, Mania of 1937 There have always been manias in the world. A conspicuous one now is the frantic desire to go somewhere quickly and lose your poor. The life at it. Many a man pulls down his character in an effort to build up his reputation. Newspaper publicity can create a prominent citizen. It is up to him to profitably use the distinction. There's Your Chance When people are embarrassed, say or do something to help them out and they will be grateful to you for the rest of their days. There are men who are loved by their friends simply because they are men through and through and are not particularly brilliant. One mans pride will cause him to live beyond his means in order to impress his neighbors. Anothers will cause him to starve rath- er than accept charity. Discard false pride. Los Angeles Tribune. Over With the Night Quick is the succession of human events. The cares of today are seldom the cares of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night, we may safely say to most of our troubles, Ye have done your worst, and we shall meet no more. 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