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Show r x i Caught in the Robert m'1t'r:i;' THE STORY As I. Alan Garth, pros- to leave for his ector, is preparing In the Far North, a mining claim lands at the airways emergency Ration. In It are Burton Ramill, mining magnate; his daunn-,e- r Ulith: a1() Vivian Huxby. pilot Believing him tnd niininB engineer. lr he only an ignorant an the men offer to make to the to to ore as nearly Ulith KamllU product aye, plainly shows her p platinum-bearin- worthless." of the jaz -- fr contempt prospector, air trip although they refer Garth's claim, Garth. cretly removes a small motor of the plane. III. -- part from the Huxby and Ulith Returning to shorn they try to force to give up the missing part. manages to set the monoplane .adrift ai"l the current carries It over the falls, where it Is wrecked. He points nut to the enraged trio that Garth Garth Is their only hope in out of the wilderness, guiding them and to kill he be fatal would to all. 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Parent's , Mm mm mm, Bromo-Aspiri- high-slun- g hair-craze- Thry rontaln no harmful druK. but a pure aspirin, a Mmllar to Kromo a laxative and a bodybuilding fcubslanre to help tegulale and tone up the fur mid-bod- stub-taile- Distributed by "ot Though at first stiff, the millionaire did not get out of breath so This was an quickly as before. encouraging sign. That easy climb to the claim and the fast return had been violent exercise for the mine Investor. He could not have recovered so soon If his heart had been bad. But when he opened his cigar piece?" case, Garth Interposed. But you've let "Certainly not. "You have only four left, sir. the cooli-llrgo out. Keep this one Better hold them back to taper off going, anil you. can use It. Better gradually. This change of diet Is cut another suit. Mind the knife going to Jolt you hard enough. No edge. 'if you don't want to lose a wine or whisky, either." ringer." Mr. Ramill walked along quite a She showed she could be deft distance with the cigar case open, enough when she chose. One stroke his face Impassive Inside the mosof the knife harked off a willow quito gauze of the headnet. When twig, two cuts sharpened the end. at last he looked up, he closed the firasplns the bottom of the uncut cigar case and handed It to Garth. second liver, she sliced up length"You're the doctor." wise, all the way to the rawhide Garth put the case In his shirt She poked the sreen wood thong. pocket. from the near edge of the Are. tilled "All right, sir. You'll get them on dry sticks, and crouched down when they'll do you the most good to hold tier spit over the Maze. and you'll get them all." Ourth h:i at once begun to make Again Mr. Ramill walked along etitgut. It would lie needed to sew with his gaze on the ground. They the moccasins, lie was intently at were near the muskeg swamp bework, and the girl was still more fore he looked up. He turned his Intently ejeing her meat, when shrewd gaze upon Garth, and spoke Huxby came striding between the with blunt directness: "What's spruces. your game?" The once elegant engineer was Garth chuckled. "Did you ever smeared with mud from his outwit a fox, corner a pack of down to where the rock-milwolves, or trap a crafty old bear?'' water of the ford hail drenched the The rudy face of the millionaire bog slime from his shoes and leathpurpled. "What Is the connection?" er aviator trousers. Snags had "Nothing Insidious," Garth asscratched his flying jacket and even sured him. "I had in mind only the torn through one sleeve. fun of the game." "So? Well, young man, It has Worst of all, his hare face and nock was a swollen mass of already been admitted that you've so far taken all the tricks. I gave welts and the bleeding wounds of deer-flstings. The skin you credit for more sense, however, than you showed when you cast had already' begun to Huff and disloose the plane. You had no need color. to walk up like a dupe and permit At sight of the man's condition, Garth jilcked up his rille. Even the Vivian to get the drop on you. Hasy most cold blooiled, calculating enough for you to've come out of schemer can be tortured Into crazed cover with your rifle up. Don't tell me you'd rather travel afoot to the violence. Mackenzie than fly out In a plane." MNs Ramill glanced up from her "That depends, sir. Perhaps I cooking, and uttered a startled cry. It awakened her father from his did not wish to part company with doze. He sat erect to stare at Huxyou so soon. Over at the river, I could of course have Invited myby. self to fly out to Fort Smith with "My G d, Vivian, what's hapBut that would hardly have You you. look like something pened? the cat brought home." given us lime to get acquainted. 'Those d d pests," Huxby As It Is, In the weeks of close comcursed. "Left my headnet. Hey, panionship to come we may even learn to be friends." you airplane thief, fetch me a drink. Mr. Ramill frowned. "Is that a Jump lively." or maudlin sob stuff?" taunt, Garth lifted his rifle. "Put op "Neither." ynur hands. No, don't reach for "Then what's your game? If you after marooning us here In think, u .".'if!-these d d wilds you can win our friendship or gratitude by guiding t us out, you're a sadly mistaken young man." Garth agreed. "It would be a stupid mistake to expect anything decent of you or your daughter or Huxby. But think what fun I ve already had, facing that pistol and telling Huxby he dared not use it." "Fun? You must be crazy!" "Not at all. I bad him sized up. The game was to let him think he had me trapped, then give him the laugh." The big man chewed on this. "That's clear enough. Rut the plane? Will your next to walk off and leave us to be Joke starve?" "Does It look that way? Two moose make a deal of eating." As Garth spoke, he pointed ahead at the red chunks on the spruce branches. Almost at th- - same Instant his rifle Jerked up. The second shot was followed by a snarling squall. The squall shrilled Into a shriek that nipped off Into silence. When Mr. Ramill rather hesitatGarth Lifted Hi Rifle. "Put Up ingly followed Garth to the bangYour Hands." ing legs of moose, he saw a threeMack-tuftewith wildcat foot, your pistol. Cp with them, or I'll ears lying under n torn shoulhold Now That's It wing you der of moose moat. A second cat. them there while Mr. Ramill takes slightly larger, had leaped several your pistol. I've had enough of your away before dropping. yards threatening." Garth drew his knife. "Only a The millionaire looked at Garth' pair of lynx. Not much for two cool gray eyes, and heaved himself shots. We haven't any cartridges upon his feet to shuffle around beto throw away. Rut we can use the hind lluxby's shoulder. lie pulled skins, and the meat will make a open the leather Jacket and drew from moose." change the nuiotnatlc pistol from Its He flayed the bodies, bagged the sheath. Holding the butt best cuts of meat In the skins, and forward, ho brought the weapon to hung them high. The next move Garth. was to see If Mr. Uamlll could ' "Keep it yourself," Garth told pack the hide of the cow moose. him. "You can give It back to him He made a game attempt to walk soon as he gets over this fly madoff tinder It. but at once began to ness. There's your headnet, Huxstagger. Garth relieved Mm of the by. Hotter stand In the smoke till load, and In place of It gave him one of the bagged lynx skins, lie you get t on." himself bagged one of the bull For the tlr.it time since Garth showed she moose quarters In the cowhide and I.IIIth Ratuill. met had else heaved It upon his bark. for someone consideration They csme back to the camp with than herself. Her second piece of liver had been cooked enough to be Mr. RHmtll panting and swentlnr. eatable, she (ore It In two and Garth swung lightly ahead of him. He slipped off his heavy pack and gave half to her fiance. Tou It. Vivian. stood looking at the Idle couple on Try 'lis good. the rill bank. They had eaten their must he famished." fill of liver, and stretched nut to Her unexpected gracbnisneas mind. rest. No smoke was rising from calmed his thp embers of the smudge Are Files "Why. Ullth you roasted this were beginning to cluster on the yourseif! It will taste doubly delimoose tongues and other meat. cious.' IT forced a laugh. "Rut The girl met bis look with con I couldn't take the food out of your IndlTerence, lluxhy mouth." temptunns "M soon conk more. There's stared with bloodshot hostility from between his swollen eyelids. plenty." TnMesd of speaking to the couple G.irth caught Mr. ItninlllV hungry Garth addroed the girl's father look, and shook his head. "Not yet Si he relieved him of the lynx pick: for us. sir. We'll pack In some "As I rempmhrr. sir. T told Miss more of the meat brfore the wolshe could cook on the It." Ramill verines get He laid a mat of willow foliage, smudge fire If she kept It going. T will sny now Ihst t rlo not Intend siloed tip what wtii left of the nf to shoot any more meat until tn Is made of what we hnve. There Gown Gloy Lc for bice 1" ed sre none too many rifle enrtrldres. Glossy, transparent dark If the three of ymi prefer rotten, for gowns In black. ii;ivy and the maggoty meat, I'll go yon to the trims Hotter idia.h-red A pah last mouthful. I're lived for weeks lace corsage, and mlltens of the nidi the dress. mwrn If 155 Court Avenue 4 v- hnle IV why-wrec- :C.B. WALLACE. : &tltt. t Iv 'l" n Compound r' d broiled moose a time on spoiled tish and rotten walrus." Huxby's face and neck were as swollen and sore as if covered with bolls. His temper was no less sore. "You're the one who put us In this tlx. you wood louse!"' Garth gave him a pitying look. "That's the tly venom talking. No cool, calculating schemer in his right senses would ask for trouble when his hands were tied. I might point out, however, that he venom was due to your haste In trying to uh my discovery appropriate at l y with his "gullibility," taunt fiarth but their tone soon changes when they try to start the crippled plane. him with k II. Through Garth'e CJlAf'TKR guidance the piano soon reaches the claim site. lluxhy and Ramill, after making several tests, assure Garth his claim Is nearly valueless, but to -encnuraire" young prospectors they Inir willing to take a chance In vesting a small amount. Sensing the treachery that lies ahead, Garth se- CHAITKIt off e WNU Service Copyright by Robert Ames Bennet CHAPTER started e Ames Bennet - - ond liver, and The Whip Hand. T'IE girl licked her fingers and turned to stare covetously at the pieces of moose dangling in the smudge-firsmoke. She spoke to Garth almost civilly: "I've no need to rest, like Dad. ID I have to wait for another Wild i (CONTIINUED FROM LAST WEEK) CHAPTER By UAWt THE MURRAY EAGLE ggSs y Tit ,itWjBVfei!i-.ll- d and his the meat ou his half of the two quarters on the pole with as Utile dillieulty as Huxby toted the other end of the pole. When the reached the camp Miss Ramill and her father were out gathering wood. At one end of the tire, thick smoke was rising from green sticks ami leaves; at the other end, the pan of sliced inull'le was boiling hard. After he and Huxby had lifted the moose quarters upon the rack, Garth brought water In the aluminum pet and cooled down the stew to simmering heat. Miss Ramill had much to learn about the culinary art. After the meal Garth glanced lit the red afterglow of sunset. "Mr. Ramill, the leanto and blanket are for you and your daughter. Huxby can take the lee side of the Turn In I'll keep It going. tire. whenever you please." A yawn surprised I.IIIth Ramill Into a mocking laugh. She turned to her swollen-face(lance. "What a howling farce, Vivian ! Cau you Imagine me going to roost at sunset. Instead of sunrise?" Huxby forced a smile and felt nt a particular sore cluster of bites on the back of his neck. Mr. Ramill cast a wistful glance towards the leanto. "I presume, 1,111th, you will prefer not to share the hut with me. I 'crimps I can manage out here beside the tire, like Vivian." "No," Garth differed. "You'll sleep under that blanket until you have hardened Into shape, and you'll turn In now. It's been a big day for yon." The girl bridled. "How about my wishes and the proprieties?" "We'll leave that to you," Garth replied. "If you consider It Improper to share the blanket with your father, you're welcome to sit up and help me grain these moose-hides.puck-boar- I daim." You cast the "That's a lie. plane adrift. I was stung while trying to save It. I'urse the luck! I came within an ace of reaching the snagged line. Almost had It, when the plane dragged It loose and went down over those hellish falls!" "I might remind you that you ordered me to cast oiT the line at the point of your pistol." The thrust proved too much for lluxhy. He sat, silent. Garth went on with his quiet argument : "All that is now past history. We're more concerned wlih the present and future. Mr Ramill has shown common sense by facing the facts of the situation, lie has fallen Into line. The question is, do you and Miss Ramill throw In with in. or do you go on your own? If with us, I'm to he chief. I low about I!?' Huxby had cooled down enoo.rli to see the point. "Yon win. I Join up." Miss Ramill looked puzzled and a bit alarmed. "What's the great idea Vivian?" "Very simple, mv dear. He has the whip bund, lie Is boss We must obey his orders, or we'll never get back to civilization." "Oh! The despicable coward" She met Garth's cool gaze and fell silent. He nodded. "You'll begin by rebuilding that tire. After that you'll I.IIIth Ramill was no less comcook the oilier liver for your fa tber and yourself. You will then pletely outmaneuvered than the enstart graining the hair off the gineer. She spoke to her father: moosehide while lluxhy and your "Well, I must say. Pad, If you're father go back for more meat." letting htm order you around, I re"I will do no such thing!" fuse to stay up and slave all night Come on." "Very well. That means you get He crept after her Into the brush no moccasins to replace your Pools when those flimsy soles wear leanto. Garth at once set to making more catgut. Huxby had gaththrough on the rocks." ered a thin padding of spruce tips She flared: "Gallant Sir Gain and moss at the far side of the lire had !" and lay down. Mke the girl an t "Leave her be. Garth," her fa ther Interposed, 'i ll tend I he fire her father, he sinm fell asleep. After finishing his first task. and scrape the skins." Whenever you Garth tended the tire and added wa"No. Lie down. work, it's to he on your feet. We ter to the simmering muffle stew. must build up both your wind and He next began graining the hair your muscle, lluxhy. I'll ask you to from the moose bull hide. He coul I have stretched out and gone to sleep fetch that pot and the gold pan." The mining engineer rose and no less readily than had the on the other band, he started up towards the trough without a word of inquiry or protest. was able to keep awake as long as She he wished. He scraped steadily nt Miss Ramill's eyes widened. gazed wonderingly from lilin to her the coarse moose hair, the while father. Mr. Ramill had no less obe his ears drank In the voices of the Wild. diently laid down as ordered. By the time the sun glared over Garth Ignored the girl. He chopped the of In the trunks Jagged crests on the northeast the notches deep food cache birch trees, about seven wall of the valley, Garth had the feet high- He then cut saplings to hair grained from both the nmot-span across from tree to tree, with hides. As he stnrted to cut Into the ends wedged In the notches. Tb" larger skin, Miss Ramill crawled next move was to fetch a number of from the leanto. She blinked and yawned, straightalder poles. When be returned, smoke was ened her rumpled sports skirt, and blowing up to drive the flies from sat down to lace her boots. He gave the moose tongues nud muffles. MKs her a friendly good morning. Ramill had rebuilt the smudge fire "I "Good? rah!" she scoffed. and taken down the liver, ready feel like the morning after. Here for slicing. She gazed up nt bin. I am flat. Not a drop of anything stormy-eyedready to flare If be for a bracer; no bath; no clothes had shown the slightest flicker of or face cream or lotions; no makeamusement or gloating. up! Not even a cigarette! Yet you have the face to gibe me about It!" Instead, he gave her a curt no. At that, he could not resist givof acknowledgment, laid his knlie beside the liver, and turned to space ing her the old quip: "Cheer up; the worst Is yet to come." the poles across the sapling fnum-worShe Ignored It to point nt the to make a grill above the I'pon this he laid the simmering mulTle In the gold smudge. "Iiok at that filthy mess; moose leg and the pieces of lynx pan. half full of ashes. If you had a meat. spark of decency, you'd throw It Huxby came back from the discovery stake with the gold pan and out and warm me a pan of water little aluminum pot. He stared In for my face and hands." He finished the cutting of a mocsurprise at l;it of Miss Ramill cooking the liver. She shrugged casin piece before he replied: "In her slim shoulders and drew back the first place,' I'm too busy perfrom the tire to give one spit to forming needle work to act as her father After Hint she silently lady's mabl. In the second place, offered the other to Gnrih. that tmi (Tie Is not ill t hy. You'll say "I.et me It's the most delicious aspic you "Thank you." he said. suggest that you now fill the gold ever tasted. About the rest, tboise pan with water and slice Into It your head la the rill. That will nd one of the muffles. They don't look give you a combined wash Rut If simmered for a j" bracer. If joii wish a smoke, there's pronil-ln- g day t,r two. n single moose muzzle the lire. For cosmetics, I'll soon be will give us several delicious meals making up a batch of grease of what might be cnllcd aspic Jelly," ami pitch mosquito dope. My final This won no sign of Interest from dose of frogiie went on too thin to the girl. She was no longer hungry. last long." She looked her disgust. "Grease Garth Ignored her silence. When I have a head-net?"After starting that dish, you may and pitch cook as much more of the liver ns "Soon as we start traveling your father can eat. He will keep blle lluxhy and I go through brush it's a question which on resting f..r another loud of moose meat. will go first, jour net or jour stockThe sooner we park all to camp, the ings. Ios' doesn't snag on branches, surer e will be that other mouths and you'll find It a belter cosmetic than rouge ond powder." do not get away wlih It." lie unbuckled his pack, stung the Tgh! If I use your nasty d 'po puck board on bis back, and picked at all, It will be on my legs." You'll lie scraping "No go. up bis rifle and belt ax. Huxby trailed after him out of camp. They against rocks and running upon walked In Indian tile sll the way snags. Won't have Buy knees left If you try the Highland s:!e. How around t' the muskeg swamp, Huxlixed about those lynx skins for leg. upon bis coldly with gaze by gings, along with moose nioccatns?" the buck of bis leader. For the first time since they had At the swamp Curt li cut a tote-poland passed It through the met, the girl pmc Mm a genuinely hindquarters of friendly smile. "That's decent of tendons of mocM'. The remaining qunrter be you, Alan. How soon can you m ike strapped to his pack board. He them i" "Cut me a steak off that mvirost folded the second lynx skin for a of moose. White jou're cooking shoulder as use to leg pad. lluxhy I II see what can be done." rested It, It the engineer mining t'pon When she returned the knife and his end of the tote pole. Though Garth had no pad, be started to broil the great slab of Mood up with the moose quarter on meat she had Sliced (iff, he laid out his back and lifted his end of the a pair of lynx skins. A few knife off the great hair padded pole to his shoulder. Rut he was at rokes tut ccustuuie4 to packing, lie bore paws and slit jr-- legs Into thongs. When the girl brought him his si aU. he si a htnv t vr. ;. a leg like a hi.:, with 'l,e I'i'o-- . "Tin-r- oti v n 'I pair of cesloi's wore vio'.i a :n : il each lying .if. M s high M'as in ;k ; f up the 'I'll line, a '! an- -' -.-1 ;he an 'u'i'-- and- i of iii' had done liill lie ni ground. hack mid hip fs ,i:n:;l. is i. 'ir llorsa." lluxhy s.i i up. t:ii shake-dow- tor d e thin M tilW s stony fuel U I !':. thoM roc Us !" .11 The engineer h ii;e pan ly eaten steak ill tl.i: la's ha ul "How ubout bl'oa ;'a.sl ';" want. "'Help yoursell to nil Along with your OWII. J oil might broil steaks for Miss ,;iini! and her father. Mi.--s Rami'.l is about to take a lesson ui sowing. She will soon need a pair of moccasins." 'The last remark checked the girl's intended ivltisal. While lluxhy sullenly cut the three steaks and started to cool; them, she carried out, Garth's suggestion to grease tier lynx skins with a chunk of fat. When Garth finished his meal, he threaded a needle wlih n smoked catgut and hoed the girl how to hick moosehide. sew the Holes punched with tin awl made the work fairly easy. Within a sew minutes siie caught the knack of handling the uw and needle. Though her stitches were irregular, they, promised to hold lie cut out the and anmate of the lift in uva-un- , other pair smaller in she. Mr. Ramill crawled from ihe leanItut to, stiff, hungry and irriiuMo. sleep and the open air had whetted-tilnppetites. As with the broiled liver, the three cheehalicos millionaire, milling engineer and fastidious heiress went at Ihe hot meat with lingers ami teeth They were down to bedrock to the fundamentals of living. All the ele uncles of civilized ealing were absent, even the siiip...sed tieces itics forks, plales. seasonings. Yet the essentials remained. They were hungry, and here was food. Il was neither as tender nor as savory as had been the liver. None the less, It was I -- food. At the end ot the meal. Garth said that the first need was to fetch in the foreleg of moose. Mi. s Ramill rose with her father and Huxby. "Sorry." Garth told tier. "Your father needs all the walking be can get. Someone must stay to iniud the lire. I might mention there's a shallow rock pool a little way along the bank be.vond those alders. You'll find thewater pleasantly warm for a dip." took Raiullls arm and Huxby started oiT with him after Garth. They kept In the rear all Ihe way to Ihe muskeg swamp. This time, Instead of luix mates, a family of wolves were (casting on the moose meat. At sight of tin) men, the whole Jamil) bridled and growled, bui started a slow re- treat. iuii',1. "Shoot Garth!" urged "They're tll.U.il.g oil. "Qililo all right." Garth replied. "Guild ihing Ihc.l'ie gorged. I (night have had to waste canrl.lges to get rid ol theni. What I'd like to know is why tin-- iln.se ihis .solid meat, instead of the ofi.ll." As if ill ai.s.ver o the question, a snarling growl rar deeper than thai of the wolves came from the lif.rder of the iii'f keg where Garth m had killed the bull t t'p out of the Ihicl.el reared a huge gray Massive forelegs stroked head. apart the willow s:.'tih with chisel-lik- e chlvvs eight ill. lies or more Intli. It was a grizzly - a full grown urslis horribilis. G.irili believed il.o beast to be as targe as those no of the same breed (ha! ruled over the southern Rockies and tln Sierras In ihe eurlv n s when In- - - , k . W t. fi f'J ..... ,4 -A v a - ' V.J' A . ...'.i'-- 1 .'. ..'). ,.. I 1 . i I V v,?,.V jg "That Ronr - t;l . I Only a Warning." . dialis Mill oio ii.'iii.mI onl) with bows, and Ihe lev uiiiie hunter carried oi.ty en. vie loading Hint-Jock- s. e - to 1 The ears oT the g H s ' bear were flattened b.e k, U- r ..tie (dg eyes glared red. 'I in- monstrous Jaws gape.J to hi out a roar of dell, line that s!.'k 'lie solid ground. "Good G d!" Mr, Ramill gasped. - ' i "A bear!" Huxby grippe.! G.i :th's siioul "Shoot, d- -ti )ou! shoot, or give me that riilel" him. "Shut up." G.irth "That roar Is ot.ly a wi nr.ng. . 1 j (CONTINUED NLXT WKKIv) f .' |