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Show FT? i 1 11 f Foxy Little I Terrier r For Tea Towels !&r when on ijS. nwtih i. i. By William and your It juat to see his towel you use. require o lew glum will make rolling . ihurdljnM Step With Santa Claus In 1 Byron Mowery S WHKam Bjhm Mowery. wvuidfiHM. CHAPTER XIII Caalhwed 14 The night was very dark, the enow was swirling and crawling, and in the blackneaa under the pines they could scarcely see two rifle lengths ahead of them. More by guess than by sight, Craig headed up slope toward a big pine with a nest of boulder beside it From there, he believed, Lupe must have fired those four shots. When he could dimly see the pine and boulders he pointed them out to Foleon. Separating, one to each aide, they flattened themselves on the snow, circled around and closed in on the place, edging up inch by cautious inch. The little ambush was empty. 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Apple Custard Pudding. d lVi cupa near 1 teaspoon nutmef pplei 1 teaapoon vanilla dtp milk ft teaapoon aolt eupe medium-size- merel Iren re him. works I thakl oymaJ neacbl lofhk.1 Peel and core whole apples and ace in a buttered casserole, ive the whites of two eggs for eringue and beat remaining eggs j gether lightly. Combine with I ilk and flavorings. Pour over id around apples. The apples the top of the uid. (It may be necessary to ce a smaller pan on top of the to hold them down into the luid.) Bake in a pan of hot w about 1 hour at 300 degrees hrenheit. When custard is set, l ust not rise above rer with meringue made of 2 whites, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Brown J1350 degrees Fahrenheit, mouth of a big cave she and War-re- n took off their snowslioes end at down on them for a short rest before starting back. Aa she noticed Warren poking nervously at the snow with his cane, Pat surmised that he was badly troubled by news from Chicago, and ahe believed that she was somehow Involved. He waa going to maka some adroit move, some brainy play of that she waa certain. Though the had no idea what his trouble waa or what play he would make, she felt very sure of heraeif, very positive that he could say or do nothing that would faze her. Patricia," he said presently, with a directness unuiual to him, I'm needed in Chicago end I ought to get beck there at once." "Why, Warren?" The company is facing a serious federal investigation some stock and securities deals made in '30 and '31." But' Mr. Parkei and lather are foot of the pine, Craig found a scooped out hole In the snow where a man had Just been lying; and Poleon. feeling around with his hand, discovered an empty cartridge that ws still warm iaihe. touch,-.- "Craig, he can' be far away! Les on the job." comb trough dis bois and ferret "Parkei doesn't know enough heem out" about the matter, and moreover stood Craig up and brushed the hes on the aide of the posnow from his clothes. "Forget litical fence. wrong Your father thinks about him, I tell you! He's probably that this investigation can be bought clear across Resurrection by this off or else embalmed and buried in time, Man, we've got to get away court technicalities, like former infrom the Bay tonight Come on. vestigations. He's mistaken. These They went back to the cabin and federal men mean businesa. 1 befinished packing. Poleon slipped out, lieve that 1 can pull the firm through returned with Sam's five huskies. all right, if I dont delay." When the team was hitched up, .Then by all means," Patricia Craig instructed: suggested, you should leave here "You take the outfit, Poleon, and Immediately." head up Resurrection. Ill dog along "My leaving this place depends a few minutra behind you, to cover on you," Warren answered. He our back trail and make sure we're stopped poking patterns In the (now not being followed. I'll catch up and looked at her squarely. Tve with you at Goose Headland." got a proposal to make, Patricia. A bargain, if you like. To be blunt CHAPTER XIV and forthright, here it is. Tomorrow morning you and I will get into One afternoon, half a month after a plane and go back to Chicago. Poleon and Craig had slipped away on their secret trip, Warren appeared at the Den office, where Patricia was at work. He looked nervous. worried; and Patricia surmised that he had got bad news of some sort a mail plane had crane from Smith that morning. "Care to go for a little walk, dear? he suggested. There's a sun today and no raw wind, for a -- change." Patricia readily agreed. Besides wanting a breath of fresh air, she was curious to know what Warren's bad news from Chicago was; and also his manner hinted that he had something of especial importance to say to her. They left the Den, passed the Hudson Bay station and the government buildings, and headed on north plong the lake shore. The sun had broken through that day, after a solid month of dismal weather; and it was beating down in a glaring dazzle on the white snow. There was power to it now, for it stood high in the sky; and the days were lengthening swiftly. Twilight came at eight, dawn at four; and would be In 1869 the per unit of popula-- n in another month therestill covered value of manufactured prod-t- s no night at aU. Snow the land, the waters were all in America amounted to 689.60. as at midwinter, but the r the year 1929 the unit of per wn not far off. When it pulation value of manufactured break-u- p iducts had increased to a total did come, it would come with a leap and a roar that would sweep winS579.70. Advertising created demand that called for the ter away almost overnight iployment of three to four times Daily and with growing anxiety number of workers and re- - Patricia was expecting Craig and ced the coat of to Con- Poleon to return. Site was not worproducts . .. . ried about their safety they had ner. given the Chiwaughimis the comwere plete slip, and the glumly hanging around the Bay; but she did worry about Craig's radium-lak- e plans. The pitchblende from common coM deposit might not be large enough or rich enough for him to raise money on. Their battle all hinged on that lake now. Their whole nine 6o matter how mwtMuM months of struggle was rushing to many for your cough, chest i a head as swiftly as spring was or bronchial irritation, . you can rushing toward the break-uprelief now with CreanuUdon. dui trouble may be brewing and Warren remarked, with a wry cannot afford to take enhance "This north shore' is a bit nr remedy less potent than smile, from our North Shore, different whteh goes right to think, Patricia? He gesdont you the trouble and uda na--1 soothe andheal the Inflamed tured at the frozen granite swells ttwnbnuiee and to loosen and the stark pines. the germ-ladPatricia winced a little as she pMfgw, If other remedies harefiiued. the North Shore drive and pictured TCfceomul. estate at this May the Wellington druggist Is authorised to season. Spring was beauteous there at home tow. The trees were soft with buds, the cherries were in blossom, the woodlands were lovely with kSSttii hyphen in it. white sorrel and violets. Here were only snow and ice end rock. Yet she was coming to like this stem land It held a challenge which no other land in her experience had IU-W ever offered; it very harshness 48-- 37 waa a welcome contrast to the bewarm southlands; and she on the disdain with lode to ginning iUlEIlJEWEST HOSTELRY soft pampered life of the city counI half-bree- eware Coughs That Hang On . , E 'f en KYm i 'Oar lobby le l6dertagbe hotel emple Square j!1 Sl.8ai.etiM try- siShe walked on with Warren, lent A shore cliff began rising from the water edge, and they veered out upon the level lake, keeprock ing close to the foot of the well. "You might be Interested to that Warren informed, know, Rosalie Tarlton is at Fort Smith, on her way here. She dawdled around in Edmonton for weeks, but now she's craning In. Pilot Odron, who's at Waterways, is to pick her up when he cornea north." Patricia waa not interested. Just e few weeks ago the mere mention of Roealie'a name had suffused her with shame and made her feel like a corespondent in aome dirty triangle mesa. But not now. Rosalia was too insignificant Rosalie was Juat a bit of froth on the stormy waters. Three miles north of Resurrection mouth they stopped at a promontory where a stark blackish cliff, rearing up 200 feet high, had been at lie base Into fanwave-erodtastic caverns and grottoes. At the ed will lie with you. You will be wholly and solely responsible for whatever happen during this craning week." Back at her cabin, Patricia made tea, read her mall, and then sat on the cot by her window, thinking, with an uneasiness deepening upon her like the gathering twilight outside. She had thought it impossible fra Warren to touch her, but he had, cruelly. Juat when she had achieved a little calm and certainty. he had upset her again, planted doubt and confusion in her. While the dark crept into her lonely cabin, she set by the window, brooding over the dilemma that Warren had put her In. If only ahe could feel sure that Craig's radium-lak- e plan would go through. But she was torn with doubt. Even if the pitchblende deposit did prove valuable, Warren might unloose catastrophe against Craig, aa in the Kessler hill affair. Hia words that afternoon hinted that he had some definite scheme in mind, some weapon more crashing than any he had hitherto used. If Craig and these Resurrection men went under and if Craig's great The guilt project waa destroyed will lie with you. She could not escape this truth. She could not deny that if she refused Warrens offer she would bo gambling with Craig and these men end Craig's huge undertaking. A few hours ago she would have laughed at the very notion of her ever leaving Craig- - Now she did not laugh. The same convictions of righteousness and duty which had led her into this Resurrection fight were now, ironically, pointing her down across the wilderness latitudes to her Chicago home. With a Jolt she remembered Warrens engagement ring, lying over there in that little plush box, waiting fra her . . . 1 creased by Advertising ! (rasping ha was, Patricia thought. Hia proposal, generous at first sight, was in reality shrewd bold play fra his own personal advantage. She wanted to tell him that leaving Craig, living without Craig, was unthinkable to her; but she knew that this would hurt him, and so she said, as gently as she could: "No, Warren. I can't take your offer. It' impossible, if for no other reason than the tact that I've already cut myself off from home" 1 can manage that I'll smooth that out." But don't you see, Warren, that I can't desert Craig and these Resurrection men? I must say no." "I that final?" "Yea." When Warren spoke again, after several moments, his voice had turned cold, and his times were edged with threat. "My dear, you're making a bad mistake. You'll bitterly, regret it. likely.be,. fore the week la out Your refusal forces me to stay here. If I have to do that I'm going to fight Tarlton with every weapon I've got I'm going to smash him and have this field in my brief ease when I do go back to Chicago. "Youve already used every possible weapon against Craig. "Maybe! I stopped him once, with that injunction. I stopped him again when X took the Kessler hill lode way. But those two times were just skirmishing compared to what I can do to. him If I'm forced to. After It's done, after it's too late, you'll remember what I offered you today. If Tarlton gets smashed and these men lose everything, the guilt Craig, 1 Guess We Keep en Eating, Hein? We will both completely forget Dy- namite Bay and everything connected with it. I'll give up my plans to buy this field. The claims I own already, including the Kessler Hill lode, will eventually make several millions for the company. I promise that I will not buy another claim, but will leave this field to Tarlton and these men.' "On your part you will give up your plans and your work here, and cut free from Dynamite Bay without reservation. That, by the way, doea not mean that you need resume your engagement to me, unless and until you yourself wish. His startling proposition was like out of a clear sky a thunder-yel- p to Patricia. After fighting all winter for this field, after setting his heart on this immensely rich prize, he was suddenly willing to abandon it. Ordinarily (he did not trust his statements, but now he plainly meant every word he was saying. The terms of his bargain were clear enough. In return fra hie givher ing up the field, he was asking to give up her work, give up Craig, end go back home. Though he was not asking her to resume their enbegagement, he undoubtedly waa win her could he time in that lieving round. She knew that this federal investigation, though a serious matter, waa not the real motive behind his proffer. His actual reasons lay deeper, and. as usual, he was concealing willthem. For one thing, he waa to sepalmost any to price pay ing arate her from Craig. And then, he was badly afraid that In the battle over this field Craig was going to whip him. At any day Craig thunder bolt might return with a of that would blast the company out to the Arctic; and Warren wanted few days bargain now lest in a more he might have no bargaining power at alL But his chief motive was the tact of that in his absence the control erf out slipping we rapidly the firm his grasp. Russell Parkel h,d coma back to Chicago last winter end resumed an active partnership uid was shouldering Warren out Warren had far more brain than in every way; he, waa a better men financial but Psrkes had powerful in the East to even up the b,fnng struggle. If Warren should return at once, that take up bis work again, beat Investigation and put the company's could affairs In order, he probably if he (marEspecially Psrkes. whip ried Jasper Wellington' daughter! id How narrow and aclltah CHAPTER XV supper before crawling into their 'pokes. At any other season of the year the Job that they were doing, 'prospecting the bed of the lake, would have been Impossible, because of the water; but at the end of winter the little plover pond. shallow aa a teaspoon, was frozen to the bottom; and at any point they ehoie they could blast a hole down through the lee end take samples from the lake bed Itself. Their job now waa nearly over. Taro more holes, end they would be done. Craig was hurrying through hia assay work, at this noon mug-uin hopes that they could finish that afternoon. He picked up a hunk of the blackish mineral, laid it on the dynamite ease and touched the two poles of his apparatus to the specimen. On the Instruments dial the needle moved up to .15, indicating only a trace erf radioactivity. Hero" he handed Poleon the fragment stick a label on this. Mark it: Content .15, Boring No. 62, fifty yards out from wrest bank. Then put it in our box." While Poleon was doing tiiat, he tested a sample from Boring No. 63, two hundred and fifty yards out in the lake. The needle flipped up to 4.60 end quivered there. Thirty times aa much radium as from No. Poleon came back end looked at the Jigger Ing needle. "Sacrebieu!" he exulted. Wit lakeful of dat stuff In our pocket, Craig, I guess we keep on eating, Y Hope so," Craig granted, absorbed In hia testing. Yes, I guess that you and I end Patricia and Sam and the whole beggarly outfit of us will keep on eating, Poleon provided I can find some mining company that'll believe my figures bout this deposit and advance us ome hard cash. But you hurry up with those labels. We've got to finish this, swallow our tea end jerky, and get back out to our work." His next specimen came from Boring No. 64, five hundred yards out in the lake. When he touched it with the poles, the needle jumped violently, whipped beck end forth, and quivered around 7.10. Poleon stopped hia labeling end craned his head to see whet the needle registered. "Nran de Nran! he swore. "Sept He thumped Craig on the shoulder and gave a little Jig dance. Hey, how much dollar a ton la sept stuff ns well-planne- A devil of a lot! I haven't figured It out exactly myself. You quiet down and keep busy on those la- bels." Poleon remonMy gooness, strated, don you ever get excited, taller? Dis stuff, she ran mebbe free t'ousan dollar ton, and you don say Whoop! or bat eye or nuting. hard-boile- Gun Found in River Believed to Have Been De Soto Weapon muzzled Spanish An old bell matchlock gun, found at the bottom of the Mississippi river, may be the evidence necessary to prove that Hernando de Soto first saw the "Mother of Waters from tho bluffs of Memphis. Charles Groom, an employee of the government fleet, found the gun Har-ah22 years ago while working on bridge, which spans the Mississippi here, writes e Memphis United Press correspondent I was fixing e leak in the cork chanlining of caisson where the nel pier on the Tennessee aide was Groom being Installed," About 20 or 10 feet under the botlayer of land, e digger tom, in found the old gun. 1 pulled It out It proved to be n old matchlock with a muzzle. It waa about five feet long and wood extended the full length of the barrel." Wood on the handle still g in condition. A Spanish ingood th- scription is carved on an 'said. De Soto end hie men visited this section in 1541 end there is no indication that white men visited the banks of the river again until shout 1700. By that time the Old matchlock had been superseded by flintlocks end other guns. There was supposed to have been a terrific battle on the Mississippi when De Sotos party sailed southward. Indians In canoes attacked his boat, Groom explained. The matchlock gun was Invented bout 1475, about 20 years before De Soto was born. It was fired by s phosphorous match, held at the end of one arm of a crooked lever attached to the side of the gun, so that the trigger action struck the match to the powder. The gun was not Improved on to any great extent until the wheel-loc- k end the snap hence were Invented in the Sixteenth century. It was particularly prevalent in Spain end is beliaved to be the type used by De Soto end his men. 1 our-Ow- 39-in- wortT Bell-Muzz- le bell-shape-d 54-in- beta?" mid-lak- Sew-Your- 39-in- 621 We counted our chickens once and they didnt hatch, Craig reminded. When I've pried a hundred thousand dollars out of some d mining company, then Ill say 'Whoop,' but not till then. After entering hia assay figures, he reached for his map of the lake end plotted the three last borings on it Except for a email area near the center, he had a detailed picborture, backed up by sixty-od- d ings and hundreds of samples, of the underlying pitchblende deposit Close to the share the deposit was thin, often no thicker than piece of paper, sometimes only a blackish stain in the old "country-rockai.d its radium content waa practically nil But as one went farther out from shore the lense steadily got thicker end richer till e it waa a foot thick and t its uranium oxide content, in which the priceless radium occurred, ran aa high a 50 per cent at places. Though Craig could only guess, roughly at the lodes total tonnage and at the accuracy of hia testing apparatus, he knew beyond all doubt that he had a lifetime strike in his hands. At the lowest possible estimate, a cold $2,000,000 was lying out there under that innocentlooking plover pond. Hidden by water. In summer, hidden deep under snow end ice in winter, the treasure had gone unguessed at, though hundred experienced prospectors had combed that region thoroughly. (TO BE CONTINUED) its keeping up with short sleeved one in jersey for -( sports and all occasion wear? Pattern 1412 is designed for Own in stitches currently. We got a peek at hia wares, though, and sizes 32 to 42. Size 34 requires 414 material and 14 frankly we copied some of his art- yards of istry. (You can see for yourself yard for contrast Short length theres a Christmasy look" about requires 414 yards. Pattern 1394 is designed for todays trio of fashions.) And happily you can do more than look sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size and wish you can make them re- 16 requires 2 yards of alities the easy way: just sew, fabric. n Pattern 1417 is designed for sew, Se w-sizes 34 to 44. 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Let HOUSEHOLD us think of this the next time we are tempted to excuse ourselves to QUESTIONS ourselves on the ground that we "didnt mean to. is easy Santa Claus that has j eagy-to-ma- ke Manipulating Velvet. The usual method of pressing seams, espeCalming Influence cially in velvet, is to get a second Good nature is the most person to hold one end of the mate- preejus gift of Heaven, spreading rial while you hold the other. itself like oil over the troubled sea Flatten out the two sides of the of thought. Washington Irving. seam, then pass the iron along on the wrong side. I i : ... ' i ' I. - That Breakfast Omelet. That omelet will not fall if a pinch of powdered sugar and a pinch of cornstarch are added to the "; - In their tent at the edge of the pitchblende lake, Craig and Poleon were testing samples of the radium ore which they had blasted out that morning. Using an empty dynamite ease ae a work table, Craig was making the testa with a crude little instrument which he had rigged up at the Bay and which, in lieu of precise laboratory methods, gave him a rough idea of the ore's radium content. For three weeks now he and Poleon had been driving themselves to the limit 15, 18, even 80 hours a day. Every morning they were out on the lake at the earliest gray At noon they came in of dawn. then hurried fra a hasty "mug-up- , back to their work, kept at it till dusk, and finally trudged in to camp at nine or ten in the evening, so weary that they hardly paused for Old TEEPING up with the Joneses model in silk crepe for dress; the omelet mixture. enter. I j Ripening Bananas. IN HIS FACE 1 ONCE TOO OFTEN Mirrors. Never Concerning hang a mirror where it faces a glare of light. 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