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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929. nii fierce blue eyes were wild and roving, his lips twitched nervously. He was an atavism ; of the race of those white-bodieferocious sea kings that drank deep and died In the din of TIHE d, TTKAOIL (Dlf 99)8 A battle. Romance by ROBERT W. SERVICE Illustrations by Irwin Myers Wru 4 Suddenly, Servio. without warning, As we walked along, Jim did most of the talking In his favorite morality n vein. The puffed silently at his briar pipe, while I, very listless and downhearted, thought largely of my own troubles. Then, In the middle of the block, where most of the musk halls were situated, suddenly we met Locasto. I had thought much over this meeting, and had dreaded it There are things which no man can overlook, and, if it meant death to me, I must again try conclusions with the brute. He was accompanied by a little Jew named Spitzstein, and we were almost abreast of them when I stepped forward and arrested them. My teeth were clenched; I was all with passion; my heart beat violently. He was dressed in that miner's costume in which he always looked so striking. His mouth was grim as granite, and his black eyes hard and repellent as those of a toad. "Oh, you coward!" I cried. "You vile, filthy coward!" "Get out of my way," he snarled; "I've got to teach you a lesson." Once more before I could guard he landed on me with that terrible right-arswing, and down I went as if a sledge hammer had struck me. But instantly I was on my feet, a thing of blind passion, of desperate fight. I made one rush to throw myself on this human tower of brawn and muscle, when some one pinioned me from behind. It was Jim. "Easy, boy," he was saying; "you can't fight this big fellow." Spitzstein was looking on curiously. There was a breathless pause, then, at the psychological moment, the Jam- wagon intervened. The smoldering fire in his eye had brightened Into a fierce joy ; his twitch ing mouth was now grim and stern as a prison door. For days he had been fighting a dim intangible foe. Hen at last was something human and definite. He advanced to Locasto, "Why dont you strike some one nearer your own size?" he demanded. "You're a brute, a cowardly brute." Black Jack's face grew dark and terrible. His eyes glinted sparks of fire. "See here, Englishman," he said. "this isn't your scrap. What are you bald-heade- he 1 struck me square on the face, a blinding, staggering blow that brought me steer. to my knees as falls a I was stunned, swaying weakly, trying pole-axe- d vainly to get on my feet Then he struck me again, a bitter, felling blow. I was completely at his mercy now and he showed me none. He was like a fiend. Rage seemed to rend him. Time and again he kicked me, brutally, relentlessly, on the ribs, on the chest, on the head. Was the man going to do me to death? I shielded my head. I moaned in agony. Would he never stop? Then I became unconscious, knowing that he was still kicking me, and wondering if I would ever open my eyes again. Jam-wago- . nan-- Jam-wago- n Jam-wago- Jam-wago- Northland brought his right op to the other's chin. Locasto swung a deadly knockwhich just out blow at the grazed bis Jaw, and the retaliated with two lightning rights and a nervous left, all on the big man's face. Then he sprang back, for he was anxiety. now. la and out he wove. excited Time was called, and Locasto sprang Once more he landed a hard left on m uy retresneu up. seemingly quite stomach, and then, rest Once more he plunged after his Locasto'sIn,heaving he rained blow after blow rushing his see rushes I now could but man, on Ids antagonist They came Into a were more under control, his smash clinch, but this time the ing blows better timed, his fierce Jabs broke away, giving the deadly kidney I more shrewdly delivered Again be blow as they parted. When time was hut the for to quake gan called both men were panting hard, he showed a wonderful quickness In with blood. his footwork, darting in and out. his bruised and covered Locasto Round six. sprang Into the hands swinging at his sides, a smile center of the ring. His face was hidof mockery on his Hps. eously disfigured. Only In that bat "Who Is he?" those at the ringside mask could I rectered, it and again began to whisper. Time black the eyes gleaming deadly ognize seemed as if he were cornered, but in hatred. Rushing for the himself wormed he a marvelous way he hurled hiai across the ring. Again free. I was all keyed up, on edge with he overbore him to the floor, charging, to man for my excitement, eager failed to hold him. but strike, to show he was Vt a mere there awoke SB Then in the But the ring tactician. Berserker. of the the ancient spirit bided his time. He care no more for punishment He was And so the round ended, and It was insensible to pain. He was tho evident that the crowd was of the e again, mad with the lust of same opinion as myself. "Why don't battle. Like a fiend he tore himself he mix up a little?" said one. "Give loose, and went after his man, rushing him time," said another. him with a swift, battering hall of Locasto came up for the third round blows around the ring. looking sobered, subdued, grimly deterNow they were la a furious mix-up- , mined. Again he assumed the aggresand suddenly Locasto, seizing him savn sive, gradually working the agely, tried to whip him smashing to into a corner. ' the floor. Then the wonderful agility Suddenly Locasto closed in. He of the Englishman was displayed. In He swooped down on the a distance of less than a two-fodrop had him. He shortened his right arm he turned completely like a cat. Leapr. for a jab like the crash of a ing up, he was free, and, getting a 1 The arm shot out, but once waisthold with a Cornish heave, he was not there. bore Locasto to the floor. Quickly he again the He ducked quickly, and Locasto's great changed to a crotch-lock- , and, lastly, fist brushed his hair. Locasto's legs, he brought him holding Then, like lightning, the two came to a bridge and worked his weight up to a clinch. Now, thought I, it's all on his body. I saw Locasoff with the Black Jack, with a mighty heave, to's eyes dilate with ferocious Joy. He broke away and again regained his had the other in his giant arms; he feet This seemed to enrage the could crush him in a mighty hug, the the more, for he tore after his hug of a grizzly, crush him like an man like a maddened bull. Getting a eggshell. But, quick as the snap of hold with Incredible strength, he lifted n had pinioned a trap, the him straight up In the air and hurled his arms at the elbow, so that he was him to the ground with sickening helpless. For a moment he held him, force. then, suddenly releasing his arms, he Locasto lay there. His eyes were caught him round the body, shook him closed. He did not move. Several with a mighty side heave, gave him men rushed forward. "He's all right," and, before he could the said a medical looking Individual; strike a single blow, threw him In the "Just stunned. I guess you can call air and dashed him to the ground. over." "Time!" called the umpire. It was the fight The slowly put on his all done so quickly it was hard for the was He clothes. badly bruised about eye to follow, but a mighty cheer went the not but seriously hurt In body, rose to up from the house. Locasto any way. Shudderingly I looked down his feet He was shamed, angered beLocasto's face, beaten to a pulp, Heaving and at yond all expression. his body livid from head to foot. And and his to corner, lurched he panting, then, as they bore him off to the hosin his eyes there was a look that boded pital, I realized I was revenged. ill for his adversary. Time again. With the lightness of (To Be Continued) met Locasto, a panther the and now his Intention seemed to De to draw his man on rather than to avoid him. He had resumed his serpentine movements, advancing and re quietness, treating with shadow-lik- e feinting, n edging Then 1 saw the up to Locasto. lie ieuueu wuuij, Last chance then, stepping in closely, he swung a right and left to Black Jack's face. A moment later he was six teet away, with a bitter smile on his lips. With a fierce bellow of rage Lo We Leave Sunday casto charged him. He smashed his for the all with its might heavy right Not one of his sledgehammer smashes reached their mark, and the round closed without a blow having landed. I was at the ringside. At the be ginning I had been In an agony of fear But now I took for the heart and looked forward with less d tribe ! Long "Lohg live the cold-fee- t !" soreheads live the It was the Prodigal who spoke. "This outfit buying's got gold mining beaten to a standstill. Here I've been three weeks In the burg and got over ten thousand dollars' worth of grub cached away. Every pound of It will Det me 100 per cent profit" He was very sprightly and elate, but I was In no sort of mood to share In his bouyancy. Physically I had from recovered my terrible manfully handling, but in spirit I still writhed at the outrage of it And the worst was I could do nothing. The law could not help me, for there were no wit nesses to the assault. I could never cope with this man In bodily strength. Yet how bitterly I brooded over the At times there was even business. black murder in my heart I planned schemes of revenge, grinding my teeth butting in about?" in impotent rage the while; and my and "It isn't," said the feelings were complicated by that I could see the flame of fight brighten awful gnawing hunger for Berna that in him. "It isn't, but I'll soon never left me. It seemed to me as If joyously make it mine !" !l saw all the world through the meQuick as a flash he dealt the other dium of my love for her, and that all d a blow on the cheek, an beauty, all truth, all good vas but a blow that stung a like a whiplash. setting for this girl of mine. "Now, fight me, you coward." "Come on," said Jim ; "let's go for a There and then Locasto seemed walk In the town." to spring on his challenger. about The "Modern Gomorrah" he called clenched and teeth bared, hands With it, and he was never tired of expatiathe half bent as If for a charge. Then, ing on its iniquity. he straightened up. He had suddenly, We met the he said softly; "Spitz"All right," mushed in from the creeks that very can we have the opera house?" stein, looked he supreme. day. Physically "Yes, I guess so. We can clear He was berry-browlean, muscular the benches." away an as and as full of suppressed energy tell the crowd to come along; "Then he bear Financially trap. unsprung we'll and give them a free show." was well ballasted. Mentally a in of state was the he morally I think there must have been five volcano before an eruption. hundred men around that ring. A big You could see in the quick breathSome ing, in the restlessness of this man, a Australian pugilist was umpire. one suggested gloves, but Locasto pent-uenergy that ciamnred to exhaust itself in violence and debauch. would not hear of it "No," he said, "I want to mark the son of a dog so his mother will never know him again." He had become frankly brutal, aLd prepared for the fray exultantly. Both men fought in their underclothing. was Stripped down, the seen to be much the smaller man, not only in height, but in breadth and weight Yet he was a beautiful figure on Irrigated Land. 6V2 per of a fighter, clean, with a body that seemed to cent. No commissions. from the shoulders down. taper looked almost too massive. Locasto J.SHUMWAY JOHN His muscles bulged out The veins in Bell, 129 Phones: B. R. V. 69.a-his forearms were cordlike. His great chest seemed as broad as a door. His legs were statuesque in their size and strength. In that camp of strong men probably he was the most powerful. And nowhere in the world could a When You Think have been awaited with greater fight HARDWARE zest These men, miners, gamblers, adventurers of all kinds, pushed aud struggled for a place. A great joy "Everything to Build Anything" surged through them at the thought Keen-eyePhone 11. of the approaching combat with ex pectation, the crowd packed closer and closer. As the two men stood up It was like the lithe Greek athlete compared with the brawny Roman gladiator. "Three to one on Locasto," some one shouted. Then a great hush came over the house, so that it might have been empty and deserted. Time wm called. The fight began. With one tiger rush Locasto threw himself on his man. Right and left he struck with mighty swings that would have felled an ox, but the Jam. wagon was too quick for him. Twice hi ducked In time to avoid a furious blow, and, before Locasto could recover, he had hopped out of reach, The big man's fist swished through the empty air. He almost overbalanced with the force of his effort, but he swung round quickly, and there was cool and watchful, the Jam-wago- open-hande- Jam-wago- Jam-wago- Cft.4LS.Mt Oft - f : COMBINED HARVESTERS n Jam-wago- biood-staine- d Jam-wago- n Jam-wago- Jam-wago- n sea-pirat- Jam-wago- Jam-wago- pile-drive- Jam-wago- n I The Old Reliable 'Holt' ORIGINATORS AND LEADERS FOR THE PAST FORTY YEARS'. 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