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Show THE OGDEN POST tlmsi !i. j to klliuv hut If Islll tit) ft.you. any way I tau i.rov true friend, i4.;i 'Wit )oi;V n,,t W-i,Mw at i.,hv. indeed -r a l..,:s JI ti:il0. seemed ns if nia.t u, dumb, eras If i.. feelings were flhtlns within her. Thou at list . - . j Romance " SYNOPSIS LDlaartlafled with the bln home nurroundinB. -- o young Scotsman who j leaves bln mother end UVrrv to aeek hie fortune. At faclKO.' practically penniless, hs a hhoren Job. andhomeets dubs. and whom Prodlthe as. known ttSdrum. The Prodigal la rush of void neek-..- .i and Meldrum agrees fJrVh him after he (the Prodigal) beck from a visit to hie wealth Athol, In great the East befriended by Jim Hubbard Whan the Jim"). three men Join the to"he Frosen North, the the pl and Hubbard financing IL ter to loin tbe Prodl-Mtar- na chairs, we aquat-i- b stateroom floor, narrow the Bian's eye. She old kindly r the stud-te- r daintily, and as we talked, I etch it on face as if I would lfcr the lack of yu run do. kim1,uss to grand n.e, ami I ,1(.xer , k you enough. t Nonsonso1 Dn-- talk of , hank,. Berna. Tou dn t know what a Imp plness Ifs been to y,m. r,u S0P. ry I ve done so lini,., o,-- t t j ly and truly your friend, lVrtu; yt,.lr friend that would do uiueh for you: lAt ine do souiethiiig, to anything, show now earnestly I moan V Yes, I know. Well, tln-n- , j'u , my dear, true frlend-th- ere. now es-hut, Berna ! Tomorrow you II go and well likely never each other again. Whafs the good of it nil?" Well, what do you want? We will both have a memory, a very sweet nice memory, won't we? Believe me! It's hotter so. You don't want to hau anything to do with n girl like me. .You dont know anything about mo. and you see the kind of people I'm going with. Perhaps I am Just us bad as they. Don't say that, Berna, I Interposed sternly; youre all thats good ami Dure and sweet." No, Im not, either. Were all of us pretty mixed. But I'm not so bad. and It's nice of you to think those Oh! If I had never 'things, come on this terrible trip! I dont even know- where we are going, and Im afraid, afraid." lest I ap-t- o be taking a too eager inter-!- a the girl, that up till now the oit be remembered, ; hod been terra lncog-t- o me; that I had lived a slngu doiitered life, and that first and I was an Idealist This girl had action, mystery and charm, and not to be wondered at that I Her j a Joy In her presence. teemed nimbly to outran mine, the divined my words ere I had uttered. Yet she never apoke enelf, and when I left them to-I was full of uneasy questlon- woman j of er I found the ras on the third day up and dressed, su and Berna looked brighter and ler than I had yet seen her. and peeted me with a smiling face, after a little, she said: 'r grandfather plays the violin. 1 yon mind If he played over of onr songs? It She him. comfort him." d ahead, go V I said ; T wish he ihe got an ancient violin, old man cuddled lovingly and and it ed soft, weird melodies, songs of tech race, that made me think nance, of love and hate, and paa-tn- d deipalr. music throbbed with wild a past- sweetness and despair. Un- -, the pale twilight stole into BttW cabin. The raggedly line of the old man was like one In-a- nd with clasped hands, the st. very white-face- d and motlon-Tbe- n I saw a gleam on her too Mft falling of tears. I felt to share with consecrated to and that they knew I I had been allowed a few moments sorrow, wool a day as I was leaving; this la wrrow our onr I said last night on trails divide, maybe to cross. ck for to talk a to Will you come a little while tonight? to you." mer bMkUfl faintly, hut her )o starlike. 'IVn. f.T llf bewildering I;lay on mine, aud 1 t faintly answer. lot.r lips! They were cold as lee. Incredulous. i.,t up!.::, Well, Berna, If It's like that, why dont you and your grandfather turn back? th.-n- i CHAPTER IV Newr shall 1 f.aget the hist I saw jf Iter, u lmltini, paihrile tijiure in wailug a farewell to me as I Mo,.d on the wharf. The gray eyes Wire char mill steady as she hade good hjr to inc, and from where we Mood aparr. her face had all the pa thetic sweetness of a Madonna. Nell, she was and sad enough her g..ing to me. They were all for I'jea. and the grim old (.Mill loot, wall Its hli.ii'ard healen steeps, while we lim chosen the less hut more drawimut, Skngwuy trail. Among them I saw the Inseparable twins ; the grim llewsoii. the silent each quiet and watch-ful- . as if Mor.ug up imwer for a tremendous effort. There was the largo unwlioleu.meness of .Madam Winkle-stein- , all Jewelry, smiles ami coarse badinage, ami near her, her perfumed squint ing ami smirking abomhere was the old man. with inably. his face of a Hebrew seer, his visionary eye mnv i.g'ow with tinam-laenthusiasm, his lips ever muttering : "Klondike. K'omlike"; mid laslly, by his side, with a little wry smile oil her lips, I hen w as the white-facegirl. How my heart ached for her! But the time for sentiment was at an end. The clarion call to action rung out. The reign of ponce was over; the light was on. Hundreds of scattered tents; n few frame buildings, mostly saloons, dance hnlls and gambling Joints; an eager, excited mob crowding on the loose sidewalks, floundering In the .inlre of the streets, struggling and squabbling and cursing over their outfits flint Is all 1 remember of . a.-k- , g.-in- s. Mi-nin- , l. 1 l Why go on? lie will never turn back. Hell go on till lie dies. He only knows one W'ord of English and thata Klondike. Klondike. He mutters It a thousand times a day. Hes like a man thats crazy, lie thinks he has been chosen, and that to him will a great treasure .be revealed. You might as well reu-son with a stone. All I can do Is to The Prodigal developed a wonderful follow him, Is to take care of him." executive ability ; he was a marvel ol What about the Wluklestelns, activity, seemed to think of everyBerna?" thing and to glory In his responsibility Oh, they're at the bottom of It all ns a leader. Always cheerful, always It Is they who have Inflamed his mind. thought rul, lie was the bruins of our He has a little money, the savings of party, lie never abated In Ills efforts a lifetime, about two thousand dollars; a moment, and was un example and a and ever since he came to this coun- stimulus to us all. I say oil.- for we try, they've leen trying to get It lind added the (A was the general name given to They'll rob and kill him In the end, and the cruel part Is he's not greedy, an Englishman on the trail) to our he doesnt want It for himself but number. It was the Prodigal who disfor me. That's what breaks my heart covered him. He was a tail, dissolute Surely you're mistaken, Berna ; they Englishman, gaunt, ragged and ver can't he so bad as that." nilnous, but with the earmarks of a Bad I I tell you they're vile. 1 gentleman. A lost soul in every sense should know it, I lived with them for of the word, the North was to him a refuge and an unrestricted stamp three years. Where? So, partly in pity, partly In New York. I came from the In hope of winning back his mnnliood old country to them. They worked me we allowed him to join the party. In the restaurant at first Then, after Pack animals were In vast demand, a bit I got employment In a shirt-- . for It was considered a pound of grub waist factory. I was quick and handy, was the equal of a pound of gold. We and I worked early and late. I at- were lucky In buying a yoke of oxen tended a night school. I read till m from a pucker for four hundred doleyes ached. They said I was clever. lars. On (lie first day we hauled halt The teacher wanted me to train anr of our outfit to Oan you City, and on be a teacher, too. But what was the the second we transferred the balance. good of thinking, of it? I had my Tills was our plan oil through, though living to get so I stayed at tbe fac- !n had places we had to make mail) tory and worked and worked. Then clays. It was simple enough, yea, oh when I saved a few dollars, I sent for lie travail of It! All days were hard grandfather, and he came and we lived all exasiiernting, all crammed with in the tenement and were very happy discomfort ; yci. bit by bit, we forged fbr a while. But the Wlnklestclns t head. The army before us and the never gave ns any peace. They knew uriny hi'hliul never faltered It was he had a little money laid away, and an endless procession. In which ever) they Itched to get their hands on 1L niun was for hlmselL There was no I wasnt afraid In New York. Up hers mercy, no humanity, no fellowship Its different Its all so shadowy and All was blasphemy, isfury and ruthless the spirit of the determination. It sinister. I didnt mean to tell yon all this, At the canyon hend was a large but now. If you want to be a true and there, very much in evifriend. Just go away and forgi-- t me. camp, the gambling fraternity. On dence. Yon dont want to have anything to one side of the canyon they had estabdo with me. Wuit Ill tell you somecn a lished . mi). It was evening and wp thing more. Pin called Berna the Prodigal, Salvation Jim and three, name. Thats my grandfathers myself, strolled over to where a three-shel- l My mother ran away from home. Two man was holding forth. years later she caiue back with me. was It Mosher, with his bald head, Soon after she died of consumption. his little eyes, his flat nose, his crafty She would never tell my fathers name, black beard. I saw Jims face harden. bat said he was a Christian, and ol He had always shown a bitter hatred good family. My grandfather tried to mun. and often I wondered why this of find out He would have killed the a little way off. The We stood man. So, you see, I am nameless, a and filtered away until thinned crowd child of shame and sorrow. And yon one of the tall one but remained, are a gentleman, and proud of your We heard Minnesota. young men from family. Now. see the kind of friend Moshers rich voice. you've made. You dont wont to make Say, pard, bet ten dollars you cant friends with such as L the lcan. See! I put the little I want to make friends with such place nmlcr here, before your as need my friendship. What is going joker Now, where Isright It? eyes. to happen to you. Berna? Here" said the man, touching one Happen I God knows! It doesn't of the shells. matter. Oh, Ive always been In Bight you are, my hearty! Well, trouble. I'm used to It It's what I heres your ten." was made for, I suppose." The innn from Minnesota took the What she had told me had somehow money and was going away. stricken me dumb. There seemed a Hold on." said Mosher; how do I stark sordidness In the situation that know you had the money to cover 1 repelled me. She had arisen wheD that bet?" aroused myself. The man laughed and took from his Berna," I said, "what you have told pocket a wad of bills on Inch thick. me wrings my heart. I can't tell yon "Guess thats enough, aint It?" how terribly sorry I feel. Oh, I 'hate Quick as lightning Mosher had to let yon go like this." snatched the bills from him, am! the Iler voice was full of pathetic resig- man from Minnesota found himself nation. gazing Into the barrel of a were gowe If do? Tids heres my money." said "What can you different. be It In might Mosher; now you pit. together ing 1 a shot rang out. I A moment only When I met you at first I. hoped, oh. 1 what saw the gun fall from Moshers hand, hoped well. It doesnt matter he all and the roll of bills drop to the ground. hoped. But, believe me. Ill rewill Quickly the man from Minnesota right Yon wont forget me, 1 II you?" never covered them and rushed off. Berna, No, "Forget yon heart 1 That night I said to Jim: forget Jon. It cuts me to the meet weII "IIow did you do It?" now, but ran do for divided he He We cant lunghed nnd showed me a hole there. up believe In Ms coat pocket which a bullet had long. And you'll be all right, sweet and Be good bma&. me, too, little girl. (Continued next issue.) and true and every ore will love and knee-dee- K3 :TE3t zZ lore remarkable airplane view of the recent forest fire (hat swept up the slopes of Mt. Taumlpals. and destroyed tlu tavern on the top of the mountain. This Is the Latest Type of Helicopter p Skag-way- Ajo 1 - ... - Jam-wago- Ing-gronn-d. gold-trai- i Untied, ... - forever. xemory Air View of Forest Fire on Mt. Tamalpais . - J wxu Butleo Al,t W1! )i'ii happiness aj sue- oess, ,tMr irj,..,,! lf Ulill0 i !..) a gr-- ; Impulse of tendcr- and pity e.n-out me, und be-i-e I hiit-ii. i:.y arms were around iv-- V"J0 Irwin Myers by niut go. wfell, j.rj, Benin." Sm- - h,-l- p Action, Ar. you il i.;v.NS ..kv u., J.T' r ami W. SERVICE ROBERT ,,,t & !, j f- Northland n. ) we.l-i- - 5 n Jain-wago- n 1 - , i'- - Lj wVHi . V t r The Malden Milwaukee," monoplane which has been purchased from the Hamilton Metulplano company of Milwaukee by the Johnson Aeroplane company of Delray, Fla. Jesse G, Johnson has converted the plane Into an experimental helicopter by providing horizontal propellers for eucli wing, lu addition to the front prop. The wing props ore driven by shafts from a motor In the fuselage and are expected to cause the plune to rise and lund almost vertically. all-met- 18-fo- Young Marquess a Regular Feller GIVEN VAIL MEDALS TT- - I l. 1 WHo-vlch- "t, T the I time." she answered In a low eet me, She wa Wvered ao S Mound her lily-whi- te but thinly that I put CfU a kflppy' SJU. trouble, Berna little girl. coo,e P Toare I don't to this God-onnt- ry or why you are with Scores of people probably owe their lives to Mrs. Althea P. Murks, telephone agent at Suilcoy, Culif., who, when the St. Francis dam collapsed a year ago, remained at her switch-hoar- d three nights and two days without sleep, at first to warn homes In the path of the flood and later to assist relief. She has been awarded the Vail silver and bronze medals anil $2.7) In cash by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. MAY BE AMBASSADOR George John Patrick Dominic Townshend, marquess of Townshend. twelve years old, came to Lynn, Mass with Ms mother, for the celebration of that city's three hundredth birthday, and turned out to be Just one of the hoys. Here he Is (left) tossing the bat for sides In a baseball game with casual acquaintances at King's beach, Swampscott $ Vith Despair. ' A "i.Ui '' i I i 1 is.? V ' .. if v 7 no-bin- s and r ah's.-- . Old Monitor Now a Country Club 1 lM1e,7hrofched ' the L S. S. Monitor which helped guard New The Ampl.lt rile, floating country' York harbor d jrit,' He World war, Is now a island. clJb, at UM.hor off Port VuhlD;toii. L"Ug A John N. Wlllys, who has retired from active work as an automobile manufacturer, Is mentioned as likely to he appointed ambassador to Turkey. |