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Show (Continued from Last Week) When Garth had J finally Caught in the Wild By Robert Ames Bennet WNU Service Copyright by Robert Ame Bennet THE STORY The morning of day after Jeaving XI m they light the Mackensl to make camp rr,r Wh.n they stop to return r.rth tells them he plane In tha valley pend the winter on the eeoret when be leti them in r, he l'e forwarded hit claim bv plane before they left the emergency station for the mine. a fluM Huxby lose his temper, amHuxby shoots Garth from hidden bush with the pistol - he has first shot in his pack. Thinking- his and bit. ha, missed be Are.m again Ramlll. Hearing rlins to the scene, and aocuses Huxby is of the crime. Huxby thinks Garth threatens to ded Furious, Lllith not leave. He kill Huxby If he does In the takes the un and sets out fate. canoe, leaving the trio to their CHAPTBR VIII. Garth's wound he returns Is not serious and when to consciousness after two days finds Llllth has been nursing him and her father. She admits she drove Huxby he away because she was afraid wou'd kill Garth if he found he was still alive. With his knowledge of woodcraft. Garth builds a fire, snares CHAPTER VII. twenty-fourt- h pa-Z- game, and while Ramill is recuperbuildating from his wonnd, starts remaining a raft to carry them the der of the journey. Just as they are about to set out, a steamer sights their signal and rescues them. Garth radioes for a plane and a constable meets him. as he Is going affr Bulky, whom he learns Is flying to the claim, taking three miners with him ''' t are working the claim. The constable Is killed attempting to arrest Huxby Garth builds a snow house for Llilth, who has sprained her ankle.and from a cache secures food and hides. snow-covere- IS 1220 Industry is climbing back to the peak which was reached in 1929, in the judgement of J. R. Davis, assistant sales manager of the Ford Motor Company, who sees his opinion substantiated by direct evidence of general business improvement throughout the CHAPTER snow-covere- for-var- f! g j s 100.07 eit l. m-- tsrlteht. SERVICE AT THE FRANK NELSON BARBER SHOP WmsiTE CITY HALL ..lrt (TTTING and tlTHf K M RVIC i; iN Tm- - M()I)F OF THE DAY THK Cl'STOMF.U IS THE BOSS E".vlnit over the Dawn when v;.:l-- y mountain will of the fro"''1 " th' he neural 1 ovr the fr..f fo'-- "1 in a?er plane three the at le. iherr.nxWtwnifhf. lifted he hnd much le't h'gher than lew showed that the A close and hi men bud uon.i"d the craft above water by rie Un IL under the shattered Th to pen- - iP of the fh'H brought the bottom ekua re. level with the thickening to brace bM-let had b.ng poles wlaJ P"iSt Ui lut ,a1' from the lake shore to tiioberUne and searched the spruce woods. Hut the hunters had found no trace of their quarry all the way to the hank of the frozen glacier stream. There, however, the snow shoe tracks coming down from the tundra made plain sign even for eheehahcos. Huxby came running along the trail, followed by the man with the moosehlde. Near the plane the engineer stopped for the miner to overtake hlni. They approached the strand ed aircraft ritles warily, with raised, ready to shoot. When nothing happened, Huxby signaled for his companion to drop the bide and climb aboard. As the man obeyed, another of the miners came run nlng down the trail. Huxby was looking at the tracks that led on along the lake shore. The man on the plane peered into the three cockpits. Huxby sighted the cabin plane across the comer of the hike. He shouted and pointed to It, but waited for the second miner to come up before starting on along the trail. The fourth man of the party appeared up the stream bank. Garth slipped back behind thick cover nnd swung into a fast pace. He struck the stream bank above the ford. Trees nit ofT nil view of the four trackers. Gartli crossed the ice in the open stream bed ami found cover again on the west bank. I!ut Instead of heading up the gulch, he kept straight on. paral lei with the lake shore. He held to a fast pace. There was a chance that the trailers might lose time in trying to get aboard the cablu plane. ItiU Huxby was no fool. He would know that the plane would be easy to reach after the sludge hnd frozen. In nil pmh ability, lie would at once tboindei on along the snowshoe trail with nil his men. The thought of Mlith amuse' him. She had been seen only by tin miner who had tired down froei tlmberliiie. At the distance she ninsi have been mistaken for n man Only a degenerate criminal would knowingly s!nxd at a woman Itut her short snowshoe trail following his own and Dillon's must have shown the trailers that the third member of bis party was as help less ns the dead or wounded con stable.. They would be perplexed to gues what had become of his two com pauions No man could make oil with two persons on Ids hack Kven If Huxhy had guessed the truth thai Dillon was dead and his body aboard the cabin plane, be would be mystified by the puzzle of the third person who, with the snow had been kept from boarding the plane. Still smiling. Garth came to the placer camp. The big lire tinder the gravel thawing kettles had died down to a bed of coals. The fore legs i nd hindiU!irters of the newly killed moose lay In the snow beside the brush lenntn. On the Moor mat of spruce sprays, along with the bedding, was n pile of food bacon, flour, sugar, dried fruit, tea. P.ack of the food were cans tilled with dynamite, colls of fuse, and nips. Gartli Jerked up the blankets. Un der one set lay the strong canvas bag for which he was looking. He bad hoped to find the constable's ritle. Hut one of the miners must have come to the valley without a gun. The carbine bad not been left in cntnp. The failure to find the weapon did not niter Garth's plans. Work lug fast, he rilled the three-gallo' teapot with package of tea, salt sugar. The pot went Into un , and i( empty llmir sack, along with a little ! dried fruit, some dynamite, nnd a each of tin cups, plates nnd , pair spoons. On the big staik of fuel beside the ieaiito, be piled all the rest of ' the food and dynamite, the I. latikets, and the quarters of niixise. With a shovel that was leaning against the rocker cradle he tossed coals from fire Into the base of the stack. i'the i The wood soon blazed up In several sluK-runne- motor. lamp-seare- snow-shoe- d d X T L-- rh.-ke- d foot-bridg- e The Bedeviling. ILITII opened nor eyes ns Garth finished his hasty meal of meat and fat He explained his plans to her. Her hands clutched together until they whitened. "You you'll be careful?" peared m October, spoke recently "Never fear I'll come back to look in Salt Lae City Dtiore groups of intermountam dealers and out for you. The storm lias blown out. Clear sky ntitl about ten below local Ford branch olncials. 'There isn't a bad region in zero. Keep treating your ankle and the country", he reports. "As lar work on your suit." T.ut how long?" as the nation is concerned, it s He handed her the knife, but a network; of good business. And "If I'm not back took the belt-ax- . business is on the increase everysoon. It will nt be till late afterwhere." noon or after dark. They may turn The automobile business, he to have a said, is showing a steady rise. out early, like myself, Business is 20 per cent better look at their plane In that case. I'll have to hide out all day." than last year, and is still im"You'll freeze." proving. That won n smile from him. "This Continued Mr. Davis, "The reIs on Eskimo rig. I've sat in one tail automobile business is a good a seal hole, ut W index to general conditions as a for hours before Einish r.oro. below your suit, and whole. I look for 193G to be one crawl out to enjoy the frost. Only, of the biggest years in the auto- he careful of that ankle. When out mobile industry. And there is side, keep close to the Igloo, and nothing on the horizon to show If yu see anyone else that the improvement will not duck Inside than myself." continue in 1937. She lluni out her hands. "Oh, If "There are more than 9.000.UO I'm only I could go along to help! cars running in the United States i so afraid be ll find yon. All those wat are over seven and Ids men you, empty-handeyears old guns-- he thus a tremendous !" replacement outness is inevitable this comintf j Garth met the almost frantic out )w. When the Ford Motor Com-- 1 burst with a look of cool Irony. my brought out the new model "Do you take me for a rhochaheo? m October it was predicted that Mark this that scoundrel Huxhy I PfJuction would be reach-;- a the man who's In danger." " December and that a sharp With this assurance. Garth crept Houualun dr(ip WoulJ bc noUHi out through the tunnel, sinning hi the beginning of the new year, snow shoe ahead of Mm. Snow had instead, we started out pro-5-ncontinued to fall after th? wind hnd . nu, a day, in-"- 7 died down. Thnt meant easy track-Inhnl be In the dim starlight, this month, et to hurras to sues at tln covering of hi trail odueti..n pi n January 1, tn4 KcHruary 1. to the stream channel. dwln-dlinHT th.in During the night, the lav. dwea.a pr(xluc!l channel tho flow bad iu incrca.-it to tin the 'Cad:!v nv.i,, . j... ... t r with anchor Ice. had flooded over solid. Garth new product" the anew, mid fror-eand crept took off his without Ice leaving acres the glare any murks. on the other bank, he plowed tunnel. heavy trail up h.t the the storaie from nJ brought one of th reinvnit b'gs f at itop He le't the down the tun-dstarted and moraine, 7 f""'1' XTy' as fnii nation. Mr. Davis, who is returning to Detroit alter a trip through all sections of the United Mates since the 193d Ford model ap- to. The plane had been driven across into this corner of the lake, along with the sludge. The shoreward-swuntail was only a biscuit loss out from the solid bank. Garth hastened to fetch small trunks and pieces of rotted logs from the down timber under the nearest trees. ISy tossing out chunks of logs on the sludge and bog, lie was able to make a slender with pairs of trunks. The last extension proved touch ind go. Cross pieces and stringers drove down under his weight Into the sludge-tillewater and the mud beneath. I'ut he had made a dash 'or It. His hands clutched hold of he rudder before he could sink. He climbed upon the tail, ran to the cabin, and swung The frnxen body of Constable "I'lhui lay on the floor where he 'iad placed It He buckled the car-- ' ridge belt with its bolstered pistol :ihout his own waist, took the keys ind handcuffs from Dillon's pocket, ind climbed out to scramble for .vard into the cockpit. The side of the cockpit hnd been pierced by several bullets. But when Huxby tired at the drifting plane, in bis attempt to kill the supposedly hidden fugitive, he had aimed with great care to avoid damage to the Instruments and controls and the 1 BACK nia-ne- u;j n Llllth insists on going with Garth CHAFl 1.1: i.N Arriving hi itie vl-Uy- . they fl tul Huxhy and the miners INDUSTRY CLIMBING TO POINT REACHED G.ut!i Rwuns ab uird. As he ex I. all the food bad heen Ukon nva.v. .So also li.t l heen the break loin s fn in the Huxby no tloiiiit lotd tigured that the canoe liuihlei iiii.'la repair the Hunts with rawhide, and run with the threeseaier. To hulk the erIneer. in turn. Garih helped h mseli' to the hreaker chid. He Jumped Jjaek on the bank, and mushed eastward along the shore in the d.m gra.viuss. At tlrst, thickets of alders and willows cut o:T ull view of the la!;e. lie did not trouble to seek an opening until he had covered a half mile. There lie came to a remembered stretch of partly open 15ank. Though the gray dawn had grown a little less faint, he peered for several moments without sighting the cabin plane. It seemed as if its pontoons much have been sawed sheet of through by the sharp-edgelee, so that the aircraft had foundered in deep water. lint then he made out vaguely a white shape against the white of the ice. A short dash brought him close to the grounded plane. It lay in shallow water, surrounded by freezing slush. The blizzard had hit the lake hard enough to break up the sheet Ice and crack it into pieces too small to grind through the sides of the oaten his fill, he spoke a sudden order: "Bare your foot." She obeyed, tensely silent. He looked close nt the swollen ankle In the lamplight and felt it with his finger tips. Knsy as was his touch, Lllith gasped with pain. But he smiled his relief. "No broken hone or dislocation; only a sprain. You'll soon be all right. Start packing it with softened snow. Keep It as cold as you can without freezing." At that, all her pent-uemotion burst out: "(Hi, how you must de spise me! Get you into this frightful danger then go lame! A helpless, useless drag on you! That beastly coward he'll hunt you out . . . murder you like the poor policeman. And all my fault!" Garth shook his head. "You take too much of the credit, Miss Ramlll. So far as regards Constable Dillon, the result would have been tli same If you had stayed at Fort Simpson." "But but you can't get away!" Garth's smile hardened. ' Neither can they. Now tend to your ankle. I'm going for meat." He dressed and crawled out Into the storm. When at last he came back in, he had brought nearly half of the caribou meat from the Ice cave and stacked It around the Igloo. He had also set "up blocks of snow-crus- t to shape a drift of new snow In a certain way. IL unrolled the thawed wolverine pelt and showed a big hank of cat gut. With his knife he started to shape caribou skins for parkas and trousers. Lllith's eyes brightened. She softened a length of catgut in the melted laiupfat, and asked for a needle. All the remainder of that day of death and storm, both of them plied awl and buckskin needle and catgut thread. Neither was an Eskimo Dut seamstress. their stitches, By though coarse, were strong. nightfall they finished the first caribou-skisuit walstlong and parka with hood-fron- t fringed with wolverine fur. After another meal of broiled meat, Garth went out and climbed the lateral moraine to gather a quantity of caribou moss from be rween the snowdrifts on the wind swept .jndra. When returned, Llllth lay asleep on one of the uncut skins She had sunk down, completely tired out. Garth covered her over blocked the roof hole with a chunk of soft snow, and spread his own skin mat on the other side of the lamp from the girl. He lay down on It and snuffled out the light After removing the breaker points from the magneto. Garth ran hack to the tail of the plane. Here came the greatest of his risks. The bridge poles bad risen to the surface again, but the outermost cross logs remained embedded in the mud under the water. He let himself down sideways. As Ills moccasins touched the slender trunks, lie lei go of the rudder and Though the ends of the leaped. poles shot downwards, his swift dash carried him up their sharp slant to the next pair of trunks. The rest of the Improvised bridge was fairly firm. A single misstep landanywhere along It would hnve bog; but he had ed him In done far too much canoeing and balrough ground running to lack ance or sure footedness. Safe buck on solid ground, he nt once stepped into his snowshoesand headed straight nwny from the shore Into a dense growth of spruce. There he circled to the right towards the glacier gulch, keeping well back from the lake. he Midway to the stream channel 'where, separate through stopped vistas, he could see both planes.The gray dawn had brightened enough to make them visible at a distance In He sat down on a b'i! to wait. was cold the suit, the Ikimo negligible. A look nt the constables pistol showed It to be fully bided. He ' on took off the belt and buckled It ' place. With the ftonrsaek pack and the fullness of the under loo, up ag.tin the of platinum alloy slung over between (bag Ilolstered hi parka. ' his shoulder, he went downslope. caribou sk!n and Ms rabbit fur the oil in the pistol mech- .' Garth lugged the sack across the Cold .'open space and past the stunted anism would become warm. j' spruce beside which Constable nil-Iooil Is art O Jnm bad been murdered. In a drift of the plftol, After making ure north side of the next tree, on the he' had nothing to do except give a hole, dropped In the wdt he t dug to nib ' his face Bn occ.is'.onsl and covered It over. of alloy, refrostbite. He mt restfully A backward look at the camp laxed, M pml'nt M in rkisM the bonfire flaming high. At eeal hole. ry ' showed toiler ledo a d.twn moment the frozen dynnmlte any brightened. ii'owly the grny wns spf to thaw enough to explode. It nt 'but began to mellow Into gold. nngry the From off to the left From acron the lake rnme The direction of Garth's , shouK In shots quick crack W rifle three himself that trail had at lat warned the pursu,ucewlon. r..irlh r hutitlm ant ef his raid on their ramp. They Huxby or his were heading for It ns fnt as they mooe. lie s'ir!n;el whT- Theihat-,- ' could flounder through the drifts. phjnned to frer the Instead of circling t" double rast en li ef the three eater them again. Garth nklrted off down iih rawhide. plsne's f).'n' towards the weM lde of the ,: i!ope J"""1 mfr The was no need to warn There lake. harrier tm'untaln Into the them about the dynamite. Hefore later. a while valley. Quite he hnd taken a dozen strides, the enemlM Garth saw ore of M four like frosty sir rr.thd with a thunderthe near come out of the tree ing explosion. He bent forward and snore. .n the far side of the freren went a pnunding downhill through carried man -hirer strenni. Thehi left shoulder. the so't snow as If break ins trail Ji- t- foMr-on hide fnsi driven d"g tenm. for for a (juirk Hp held his ride ready he hen red the border of the When be peered advanced, h"t nnd n he he trlimpfd a fray shipe muskeg nrouiol at the bruMi and trees. In tie outer fringe of willows. No a stei u.au the A shout turned wolf could bulk so large. The she the ford. Other ahouli ... ll.A irlzily tiad been first of the flesh Hiiove. vinrm putn ironi me alope to find what wns left of the caters . -- ' he hnd foreseen. ., . ii sinl.eu. t. killed moose. newly of floats the SWltlllftff tO repair f " I" Close, locking and listening showed . the three senter putm-the cues of the treat benr that a ime and hll OKI had formed tight-lidde- di-e- I ' pre-ver- j rn-n- tn-a!- - ' frost-gripp- tord lt.l. du.j were not with her. Garth went straight towards the hoggishly feeding beast until she caught his scent. She reared up to gape her bloody jaws and roared as she had roared at him and Huxby and Mr. Ilauiitl. Garth very quietly turned to the left and angled otT away from her. He was the creature who had several times shied respectfully around her nnd her cubs during the summer. She watched him go, then returned to her grits ly gorging. He skirted along the border of the muskeg to where a narrow neck of the swamp extended up a little valley to a gulch In the side of the west mountain. At the far bank he shifted sideways nnd crouched down behind a clump of willows. He did not have long to wait, rinraged by the destruction of their food and camp outfit, Huxby nnd his men must have rushed fast down the trull of their bedeviler. From over across the corner of the muskeg came the warning roar of the disturbed grizzly. A quick shot followed. Close upon the report dinned an outburst of terrific snarling roars nnd a whole fusillade of shots. The roars suddenly ceased. Hut the firing kept up for four or five seconds. "Scared. cartridges," Wasting Garth told himself, "hopping mad at me. and, atop that. Hurried by her charge. Hope she didn't get any of them." His wish was soon fulfilled. AI) four trailers came plodding along the border of the muskeg. Huxby was In the lead, tut the bearded man next behind shoved forward beside him as he came striding out on the bog. Both happened to step two or three times on nlggerheads Then the miner hit the snow between tussocks. The bearded man's curse ns he plunged down Into the quagmire Jerked Huxby's glance around. He saw t he trap a split second too late to keep on the tussocks. Like the miner, he shot down through the frozen crust Into the deep slime nnd mud. The third man followed suit. Hut he was near shore, where the The fourth, bog was only knee-deeplagging behind, halted on solid ground. At Huxby's shouted orders, the last man ran to fetch poles of down timber. The two leaders were In almost to their armpits before the dead aspen trunks could be brought and shoved out to them. Set on nlggerheads, the poles gave support for the trapped men to pull themselves up out of the sucking quagmire. treacherously Other pedes made a bridge for them, back to solid ground. But the bearded miner left bis rllle dowu In the two-legge- "Me too," declared the second man. "I won't break my neck for nobody." A second look ut the crossing forced Huxby to shout his agreement: 'Curse the devil! We'll chase back, lie's going on around to our plane. That's where he must have left both of his disabled compan- ions." Along with the angry statement, the engineer signed for his miners to start back ahead of him Garth smiled. Thetwowho bad seen that offer of reward would not forget it, and Huxby was keenly aware of the fact. When all four disappeared up on the moraine, Garth recrossed the boulders. There was no sign of Mlith when he came down from the moraine. He called into the entrance tunnel. jam It tfiLf Sc A Quick Throuflh sage. 1 i Crawl Took Him the Low Narrow r Back came a quavering cry oi r. lief. A quick crawl took hlni In the low narrow pa- - through Mlith was breathing hard a! most" gasping. "Oh! oh, thank God' I looked and looked, but I could not see you. I thought you must be- lying there like that poor police . mun deadl" "Hardly. Look here and here." He showed the pistol, then dumped "How about his lloursack pack. salt on our meat, nnd a cup of tea with sugar?" "Alan!" she cried. "You made them give you all this!" "In a way yes. Set a pot of , snow on the lump stone, and slice some meat." ooze. Llllth gazed at him In apeeeb Garth chuckled and looked to see less wonderment, her blue eyes He pre Huxby backtrall with his men. Inwide and very lustrous. stead, the engineer headed up the tended not to notice. He salted bog valley towards the gulch. That and started to eat the first hot fat added to Garth's mirth. By a quick caribou steak that she served him return, the hunters could have on one of the looted tin plates. stripped oft the grizzly's hide before But after he had told about the It froze. They were walking away bear scare and the luring of the from a rug that would have gone men Into the bog. her surprise far towards replacing their burnt found utterance. blankets. He had so tantalized and "Why didn't you kill the beasts enraged them that they could think while you had the chance?" only of revenge. Garth answered with sudden To add Insult to Injury, be gravity: "For several reasons, my tramped a heavy trail up Into a girl. The main ones are because I spruce thicket and built a small am not a killer and because I Infire. Beside the fire be scattered a tend thnt Vivian Huxby shall be handful of dried apricots and tried and hung for murder." prunes. After that be skirted along Site gasped: "You hung I But he the edge of the muskeg to Its" north has all those men to help him. end. You're alone worse than alone Here be came to where lu anI'm only a hindrance." cient times, before It Btarted to re He smiled banterlngly. "Well. I cede, the glacier had piled a big wouldn't any thnt A bandy cook terminal moraine. This was the ImIsn't altogether a nuisance. The pt mense natural dam that held the Is beginning to simmer. You might lake In Its bed. In a pinch of tea. How's jour drop Among the rocks of the rapids, on ankle?" the slope of the lower valley below "L'ver so much better. I've exer-cUc-d the fnlls, Gartli made out the w reckIt a little every time I went age of Mr. BamM's custom built ouNldo. And I've half finished my monoplane. But bow' she Interrupted He worked bis way down alongside parka. "bow enn you win If you herself the rapid to look closer at the kill them?" don't of wrerk. What little had been left "Why, for a atarter, Miss Cook, the costly aircraft was not worth we'll let them slew In their owu salvaging. I'ut the tattered cover Julie for a few days. That will tend of one broken wing thrust up out to soften their bonds of mutual aid. of the white water within reach No bedding nnd a diet of sallied from the bank, meat will help those three plioer Garth started a fire of small to consider the desirability Jacks It with He sticks. damp of that five thousand dollar reward quenched moss, and used the charred stick I offered for their boss." ends to write on the wing fabrics: "Alan Garth, you're marvelous!" "$. niO reward for "Not nt all. it Just happens I V. HUXBY know this game, and I told you beThief and fore that Huxby Is only a common, Murderer." place wolf. If be were a wolverine, I'd hno to look sharp. As It Is. CHAPTER XI we'll stay up here snug and rosy, and enjoy their ! and sugar while Female of th Species. you're learning to use your Shortly lefore noon, tie four trailers appeared on the moraine. By tumn the next day Lillth's The man who bad not been bogged led the way down. Another miner liskinw suit was finished. Her anwn no weak. kle, longer though man The followed, then Huxhy. note or swollen. Garth bandaged It who had lost his rifle lagged be bind The two leaders reached the firmly with a strip of kln. and had broken monoplane wing. Garth saw hr-- begin practicing on her webs. Not bring hurried or excited, she them real the writing. soon r.'ituhl the knack of the snow-shoHnxby Jumped down beside the stride. As her ankle became miners, to stare t the offer of reand her feet hardened she stronger ward that branded him for what be lido a fairly fast snow- was. With a cure, he ripped the j developed runner. shoe tattered piece r.f fabric from the Their last climb took them up wing frame and flung it down Into t d the bend In the great cb'ft. ativ the foaming rnpld. Before tlu-turned back. Garth had The two men flamed furtively at the girl lire the pistol. She neither each other. Huxby pointed to the Mint her aiming eve nor flinched as trail en Hie opposite bnk mil .he pulied the trigger, liach time signed for them to bad the way the bnlht strmk wlthla a foot of The first the acreM. Neither moved. nearby mark that Gnrlh set up, man cursed, and shouted Ms re"Not half bad," be approved. "I ll fusal: let you go down with me tomorrow Mump them boulders? I ain't no morning." lynx. I'm through trailing that (TO BE CONTINUED IN THE devil" Is EXT ISSUE) snow-shoes.- i e j |