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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929 of glass. I was cruelly rut, bleeding tion of It an. Ah me! I would go worry, to that I knew only a trip In- again. Then, I thought, I would marry OUR to Dawson would satisfy me. Ac- Berna and go "Outside." I wai sick In a dozen places, yet I was half Into home. room. In drab the the of There, dirty, the I of a to take hired Swede cordingly. country, big everything. "Yes," I said, "I can't go too soon; I was lying thinking over inese light, I saw a face, the fiendish, my place at the shovel, and set out I'll start tomorrow." face of Locasto. once more on the trail for town. things, when I became aware that the So I rose and proceeded to gather He turned at the crash. With a man In the cot e My strange, formless fears for Ber In the right was try my few belongings. together 1 na were soon set at rest She was ing to attract my attention. He had curse he came at me. Then, as morning I would start out early MAKE GOOD OB WE DO awaiting me. She looked better than been brought in that very morning. hung half In, half out of the window, Jim came In and sat down quietly. I had ever seen her, and she welsaid to have been kicked by a horse. be clutched me by the throat Using The old man had been very silent of Co. all his strength, he raised me further late. Back In .Dawson there was a comed me with an eager delight that Hetwas In great pain, but quite conUtah Phone 21 Tremonton, kindled me to rapture. scious, and he was making stealthy Into the room, then he hurled me ruthman whom he hated with the bate outside. onto out rocks the to me. lessly We crossed the Yukon to the green motions that only death can end, but for the A I rose, reeling, covered with blood, glades of North Dawson, and there, "Say, mate." he said. "I piped you peace of his soul he strove to conon a little rise, we sat down, side by off soon's I set me lamps on you. blind, sick, speechless. Weakly 1 quer It Romance side. Never was lad so happy as 1. Don't youse know me?" staggered to the window. My strength out a scheme," "I've been was leaving me. I felt the world go said Jim I spoke but little, for love's silences I looked at the bandaged face won- to "an" I'm suddenly, are sweeter than all words. From deringly. Then, with a great start, I blank. I swayed; I clutched at the put all of that twenty-fiv- e thousand of time to time she would give me a saw it was the Worm. walls; I fell. mine back into the ground. I can't I hud lost ! 'Taln't no horse done me up." he by ROBERT W. SERVICE glance so full of trust and love that quit this mlnin business." my heart would leap to her, and wave said in a hoarse whisper; "'twas a "What's you scheme, Jim?" on wave of passionate tenderness nir.n. You know de man, de worst "No, no, I'm all right Really I am. "It's just this: I'm goln' to Install on Irrigated Land. per come sweeping over me. devil In tUl Alaska, Black Jack. Bad Please leave me alone. You want me a hydraulic plant on my Ophlr creek Illustrations by Irwin Myers cent. No commissions. "Yes," she was saying, "doesn't It luck to him! He knocked me down to laugh? Ha! Ha! There! Is that claim. I'm goln' to begin a new era In seem as if we were dreaming? You and give me de leather. But I'mgoin' oil right now':" Klondike mlnin'." JOHN J.SHUMWAY know, I always thought it was a to get even some day. I'm just laying "No, it isn't all right. It's very far "What are you going to do?" VTU Bervic Phones: B. R. V. 69.a-2- ; Bell, 129 dream, and now it's coming true. for him." from all right, my boy." "Well, I've written out for piping You'll take me away from this place, So, once more, witn redoubled enThe man's eyes glittered vengefully In It was the big cabin on Oo!d hill, an' a monitor, an' next spring I hope ergy, we resumed our tense, unre won't you, boy? far, far away. I'll between the white bandages. and the Prodigal was addressing me. I'll have the plant in workln order. "'Twas all on account of de little lie went on : mitting round of toil. It proved a tell you now, dear, I've borne it all The stuff's on the way now. Hullo! most erratic and puzzling paystreak for your sake, but 1 don't think I girl he done it You know de girl 1 "Now, look here, kid. I'm giving Come in!" one day rich beyond our dreams. could bear it any longer. I don't mean. Black Jack's dead stuck on The visitors were Mervin and new- a straight line of talk. Ever another too poor to pay for the pan- - know what I'd have done if It hadn't her, an' de furder she stands him off you son on their way to Dawson. These since the start I've taken a strong noWe swung on a pendulum of been for the rough miners. They've de more set he is to get her. Youse tion to you. We've been In tight two men had been successful beyond been so kind to me. When they saw don't know dat man." (and despair. we've been stacked their dreams. They were offensively places together; looking back, there will always I was straight and honest they "Tell me what's the matter, for up against hard times together: and prosperous; they reeked of success. seem to me something weird and inManufacturers of the Famous couldn't be good enough." Heaven's sake." As I went on with my packing I now I'll be if I'm going to in those She looked at me archly. comprehensible twilight "Well, when youse didn't come, de stand by and see you go downhill, paid but little heed to their talk. "PRIDE OF UTAH" days, an unreality, a vagueness lik'j "And you know, I've had ever so little girl 'she got worried. I used to while the devil oils the What mattered It to me now, this hearings." some dreary, feverish dream. For many offers of marriage, from honFLOUR de round restaurant, be doin chores babble of dumps and dust of claims "Oh, I'm ail right," I protested. three months I did not see my face est, rough, kindly men and I've re- an' she asks me to take a note up to clean-ups- ? I and to was thrust going "Yes, you're all right," he echoed In a mirror. Not that I wanted to. fused them ever so gracefully." Also all Kinds of Mill Stuff. you. So I said I would. But I got grimly. "In an impersonation of an' it all behind me, blot it clean out of but I mention this just to show bow "Has Locasto ever made any more on a drunk dat day, an for a week Best Mill in the Bear The man It's the hook for yours. my memory, begin my life anew. little we thought of ourselves. overtures?" after I didn't draw a sober breath. I've seen t' hitonce men all Then like at I my River up pricked you Valley. h when we finished It was Her face grew grave. When I gets around again I told her ting the hurry trail for the boneyard ears. They were talking of the town, We had working out our ground. bea note month an' he de about "Yes, ago rd seen you an' given you before now. You've lost your grip, my of the men and women who were makHighest Cash Price Paid for done well, not so well, perhapg, as sieged me, gave me no rest made all you was comln' In right away." You don't care whether school ing it famous (or rather Infamous), boy. we had hoped for, but still magnifikinds of proposals and promises. He GOOD WHEAT "Heaven forgive you for that" keeps or not In fact if It wasn't for when suddenly they spoke the name There were our two wanted to divorce his 'outside' wife cently well. dat's what I say now. But your folks, you'd as lief take a short of Locasto. "Yep, Near the Depot dumps, pyramids of and marry me. He wanted to settle it's all too late. Well, a week went cut across the Great Divide." "He's gone off," Mervin was saying ; dirt at whose value we could only a hundred thousand dollars on me. on an' Garland Utah you never showed up, an' "It's all very well for you to preach," "gone off on a big stampede. He got guess. We had wrested our treasure Then, when he saw It was no use, meantime Locasto was her I said ; "you forget I've been a pretty pretty thick with some of the Peel pesterln' of from the Icy grip the eternal frost he turned round and begged me to cruel. She River Indians, and found they knew got mighty peaked like, sick man." Now It remained and Oh, tht sweetlet him be my friend. He spoke so g as a ghost, an' I could see she "That'g no nursemaid's dream. Too of a ledge of ness of It to glean the harvest of our nicely of you. He said he would help pale somewhere out there in the cried most all her nights. Den she almost cashed in. Typhoid's a serious quartz toil. us in any way he could. He's everyLand Back of Beyond. So he's off gives me anudder note. I said she We were working at the mouth of thing that's kind to me now. He could lay on me dls time. I was de proposition at the best; but when you with an Indian and one companion, on of a take crazy streak 't. make top a creek down which ran a copious can't do enough for me. Yet, some- hurry-u- p kid an' I Btarts off. But a from the slck-war- d that little Irish satellite of his, Pat getaway midnight little stream all through the spring- how, I don't trust him." Black Jack must have cottoned on, and land up on the Slide look-tin- g Doogan. They'll be away all winter." time. We tapped it some distance "Well, my precious," I assured her. for he meets me back of de town an "What's become o that girl of his?" as If you'd been run through a above us, and ran part of It along "all danger, doubt, will soon taxes me wld takin' a message. Den despair, asked Hewson, "the last one he's been our line of sluice-boxeI remember be over. I'll take you away from it he sets n me like a wild beast an' thrashing machine, well, you're sure You remember she came with? on a living death short option get letting how I threw in the first shovelful of all, soon. We'll go to my home, to does me up good and proper. But Til you. And you gave on with us. Poor little the in boat up. You didn't ; dirt, and how good It was to see the Garry, to mother. They will love you fix him a good little girl bewas kid! That yet" You but want to shirked, your fight bright stream discolor as our friend as I love you." "Where are the notes?" I cried. i youth and constitution fought for you. fore he got after her." the water began his magic work. For 'Tm sure I will love them. What "In de pocket of me coat Tell de Hewson growled like a wrathful three days we shoveled in, and on the you have told me of them makes them nurse to fetch in me clothes, an' I'U They were a great team, and they -pulled you through. And you weren't bear, but Mervin smiled his cynical tth we made a clean-up- . seem very real to me. Will you not give dem to youse." one bit grateful seemed to think they smile. fVhen we ran off the water there be ashamed of me?" The nurse brought the clothes. had no business to butt in." "Oh, you mean the Madonna," he were some of the boxes almost full "I will be proud, proud of you, my There were the notes, folded very "My hurts are more than physical." said; "why she's gone on the dance of the yellow metal, wet and shiny, On the first day of June, be small, and written In pencil. There girl. I was balls." there that "Yes, know; girl gloriously agleam in the morning light. loved, I will come to you, and we was a strange faintness at my heart, As I camped there by your bedside They continued to talk of other Day after day we went on shovelwill be made man and wife. You will and my fingers trembled as I opened to and ravings, your listening getting things, but I did not hear them any ing in, and about twice a week we be waiting for me, will you not?" them. Fear, fear was clutching me, a strangle-holon you when you took more. 1 was in a trance, and I only The month of May made a clean-ucompressing me In an agonizing grip. 'it into your head to get funny, you aroused when they rose to go. "Yes, yes, waiting ever so eagerly, was half over when we had only a Here was the first lover." my blabbed out the whole yarn. Oh, son to the kid here," "Better say good-bthird of our dirt run through the didn't I kissed her passionately, and we you Why Boy: "My Darling ny, why didn't you tell your uncle? said the Prodigal; "he's going to the boxes. We were terribly afraid of come? I was all ready for you. Has W7hy didn't you put me wise? I could old each other tightly for a mo country tomorrow." the water failing us, and worked held I saw come into her eyes that anything happened to you, dear? For have given you the right steer. But iuent I'm not" I answered sullenly; than ever. "No, , harder look which comes but once into the Heaven's sake write or send a mesyou kept mum as a mummy. Wouldn't "I'm just going as far as Dawson." One afternoon I was working on of a maid, that look of ineffable even tell your old pard. Now you've sage. I can't bear the suspense. He stared and expostulated, but my the dump, intent on shoveling in as eyes "Your loving of passionate abandonlost her," mind was made up. I would fight, much dirt as possible before supper, "Berna." ment "Yes, I've lost her." fight to the last when, on looking up, who should greet She rested her head on my shoul"Did you ever see her after you Blankly, dully, almost mechanically, me but Locasto. He held out his (To Be Continued) her lips lay on mine, and they I read the second. came out of the hospital?" der; to as no hand I had me, and, great moved faintly. "Oh, come, my dear, at once. I'm "Once, once only. It was the first desire to antagonize him, I gave him the first of June. in serious danger. He's grown desI dragged along wearily, lean lover, yes, "Yes, day. own. my fail me." me don't fail Don't If he me, on can't Swears honey, a stick. I was thinking of her, by get perate. ing "I've just been visiting some of mj We parted, buoyant with hope, in fair means he'll have me by foul. I'm thinking, thinking always. Then sudcreek properties," he said. "I heard terribly afraid. Why have you failed denly she was before me. She looked you fellows had made a good strike, an ecstasy of joy. me? Oh, my darling, have pity on like a ghost, poor little thin; I got back to the claim. Every and I thought I'd come down and conI but was felt your poor little girl. Come quickly "Yes, what did she say?" going merrily, gratulate you. It is pretty good. thing little desire to resume my toil. I before it Is too late." "Say! she said nothing. She just Isn't it?" It was unsigned. looked at me. Her face was cold as "Yes," 1 said; "not quite so good was strangely wearied, worn out Heavens ! I must go to her at once. ice. She looked at me as If she as we expected, but we'll all have a somehow. Yet I took up my shovel I was well enough. I was all right wanted to pity me. Then Into her rebelled in a with that body again tidy sura." Never had I felt like again. Why would they not let me eyes there came a shadow of bitter every tissue. "I'm glad." this before. Something was wrong go to her? I was strong, so strong ness, of bitterness and despair such He was turning to go when, sudas might gloom the eyes of a lost with me. I was weak. At night I now. denly, he stopped. soul. It unnerved me. Then she drew Ha ! there were the Worm's clothes. LfcOh, by the way, I saw a friend of sweated greatly. I cared not to eat JvVs before I left No need to men"Well," said the Prodigal one day, It was after midnight The nurse had a great, gasping breath, and turning tion names, you lucky dog. When's "it's all over but the shouting. From just finished her rounds. All was on her heel she was gone. "She cut you?" the big thing coining off? Well, I my calculations we've cleaned up two quiet in the ward. must congratulate you again. She hundred and six thousand dollars, "Yes, cut me dead, old fellow. And Dizzily I rose and slipped into the " looks sweeter than ever. That's a hundred and three between frayed and greasy garments. There my only thought was of love for her, I must eternal love. But I'll never forget the He was off, leaving a very sinister us four. It's cost us about three to were the hospital slippers. look on her face a? she turned away. impression on my mind. In his partget out the stuff; so there will be, wear them. Never mind a hat I was out in the street I shuffled It was as If I had ltshed her with a roughly speaking, about twenty-fiv- e ing smile there was a trace of mockery that gravely disquieted me. I thousand for each of us." along, and people stared at me, but no whip. My God !" How jubilant every one was look "And you've never see ber since?" had thought much of Rerna during one delayed me. I was at the restauthe past few months, but as the gold ing every one but me. Somehow I rant now. She wasn't there. Ah I the That wa'& enough, "No, never. fever took hold of me I put her more felt as if money didn't matter just cabin on the hill. wasn't It? I went back to the ward; and more from my mind. I told mythen, for I was sick, sick. then, In a little, I came on here. My I was weaker than I had thought. self that all this struggle was for her. "Why, what's the matter?" said the Many times I stumbled, cutting mybody was living, but my hoait was In the thought that she was safe Prodigal, staring at me curiously. self on the sharp boulders. The way dead. It will never live again." calmed all anxious fear. Yet at "You look like a ghost." "Oh, rot! You mustn't let the titog seemed endless, yet stumbling, stag"I feel like one, too," I answered words all my old longing and down you like that It's going to M was cabin last. there the at on, gering "I'm afraid I'm in for a bad spell. I in heartache vehemently resurged. the end. Buck up ! Be a ma3 ! you On my hands and knees, I crawled 47 In spite of myself, I was the prey want to lie down awhile, boys . . to the door and hammered with If you don't care to live for yourseli, of a growing uneasiness. I began to I'm tired. . . . The first of June, clenched fists. There was silence live for others. Anyway, it's likely I've got a date on the first of June. within, then an agitated movement all for the best Maybe love had you I must keep It, I must . . . Don't Maybe she wasn't really I knocked again. Was the door ever locoed. I mustn't me too now how she lives openlj See let long, boys. sleep good. It to be last At You Think When swung going opened? fall. It's a matter of life and death. Inward, with a suddenness that prewith Locasto." HARDWARE The first of June. . . ." I rose and looked at him, conscious cipitated me Inside the room. Alas, on the first of June I lay in The madam was standing over me that my face was all twisted with tht the hospital, raving and tossing in the where I had fallen. At sight of me pain of the thought. "Everything to Build Anything" clutches of typhoid fever. "Look here," I said, "never did Got she screamed. Surprise, fear, rage, Phone 11. the breath of life Into a bettei on put for her face. mastery struggled CHAPTER X girl. There's been foul play. I know! "It's him," she cried, "him." "Berna," I gasped hoarsely. "Where that girl better than anyone In tht 1 Is she? I want Berna. What are you world, and If every living being wenf I was lying In bed, and a heavy doing to her, you devils? Give her to to tell me she wash't good I would! weight was pressing on me, so that, in I me. She's mine, my promised bride. tell them they lied, they lied. I would! not could of my struggles, spite burn at the stake upholding thai 1 me move. was hot, Insufferably hot Let go to her, I say." All at once I realized that the air girl." The blood ran boiling through my He looked at me thoughtfully. was heavy with a strange odor, the veins. My flesh was burning up. My "I say, old man, do you ever hear Frenzied with brain would not work. It was all odor of chloroform. from char-neI as rushed forward. your old lady?" a l fear, cobwebs, murky and stale Then the Amazon roused herself. house. Then came the dreams. "Every mall." With a cry of rage she struck me. There was always Derna. Through "Why not go DackT Thats your Also all kinds of Fire and a mass of grimacing, Savagely both of them came for me. proper play; go back to your mother.! Automobile Insurance She want9 you. You're pretty well! I struggled, I fought; but, weak as 1 faces gradually there formed and linnow. You'll be comfortable I 1 me and heeled sweet carried her one. before them and was, pensive gered they Apply struggled to go to her. She was waiting threw me from the door. I heard the you'll devote yourself to the old lady A for me, breaking her heart at my delay. lock shoot; I was outside; I was imyou'll be happy again. I hate to see I Yet behind Then the fever, the ravings, the wild those you go. I'm really sorry to lose you,; I log potent V. wniiii nnl crnlvnHnn bi wrr ntv I" was of all It walls. Oh, horrible! my Treasurer pillow, threshing passed Secretary and rever nau i tnougni 01 it oerore. 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