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Show THE SMITIIFIELD SENTINEL, SMITH FIELD, UTAH COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER 0 Courtney "No" she hesitated. "Of course, I couldn't do that." SerricOL "Then I'll try to scare you up VyNU some men tomorrow. I didnt have any idea youd actually want to work SYNOPSIS this. I just laid it aside so you could owned a placer." Jack Hammond, (old proopector, rrtumi say you "Why shouldnt I work it?" lo Princ Rupert urter a opree in Seattle Sjlcy Cooper. and leer no that a (old rueh la itartlnf as of some careless remarks lie had dropped at a party concern Inc a gold dis- a nault covery. He finds that his partner, McKea-si- s Joe Britten, hss (one on north to protect their claims. Besle(ed, Hammond decides to tell the would-b- e prospectors how to reach the new (old fields. Around the World frontier dance a hall proprietor, has Annie, assembled a troupe of (iris and is bent on atartln( a dance ban at the new camp. Jack nines about Kay Joyce, the (Irl in Seattle whom be loves and to whom he confided the secret of his (old strike. Coin( to his lawyer's office, be passes a youn( (irl on the stairs. Jack asks Bars tow the lawyer about the (irl and learns that she is a volunteer client. Jack tells him about Kay. Timmy Moon, a mutual acquaintance, bad brought them togctlier. Kay was chilly at first, but when she saw some of his (old nuggets they got along beautifully. He had met her mother and a friend of the family, Bruce Kenning, a geologist. Sergeant Terry of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Joins the gold seekers on their trip north. Jack encounters the girl, Jeanne Towers, and she asks him to tend her a team of dogs and supplies. He consents. The nest day the trek to the new bonanza begins. Later, aa the trail, Jeanne is lost and Hammond saves her. The gold seekers arrive and the new camp is soon in full swing. Hammond and Joe have a secret theory that the real gold find will not be on the present site of the Big Moose river but, on Its prehistoric bed, which they are seeking. Xennlng turns up with messages from Seattle. Springtime comes. Then an airplane arrives bearing Kay, her mother and Timmy Moon, the aviator. McKenzie Joe Is moody. . White they, are eating at the Slumgulllon" Jeanne Towers appears. She and Kay dislike each other at first sight and she sits by herself. Kay urges Jack to take Kenning Into his confidence about his operations. Jack notices a young man come Into the restaurant. When the youth secs Jeanne she smothers a scream. Hammond secs the young man again In company with Timmy Moon, who reveals that his name Is Lew' Snails and that ha has asked him to make a bootlegging trip for Annie. Timmy tells Jack that the Joyces, once wealthy, have lost all their money. Jack asks Jeanne about the strange young man and she is evasive. A miner named Olson makes a rich strike. seedy-look-In- g "Couldnt it wait until we get back from Vancouver?" "Vancouver?" she asked. "Or, he bantered, shall we be married here, by Sergeant Terry of the Mounted Police?" "Ohl She pushed him playfully. "I thought for a minute you were serious!" Quickly she turned. Oh, Mother!" she cried almost petulantly, "arent you ever coming?" Still smiling, Mrs. Joyce parted from the voluble Olson, and then a few feet away, raised a hand, wiggling her fingers in an extra gesture of parting. Kay straightened. "Well," she asked, in a tone meant to contain banter, "is he Clark Gable or John Barrymore?" "Hes a very nice man, snapped Mrs. Joyce, her features again emotionless. "And thats an end to the matter." Shortly after that, Kay complained of a headache and led the way back to the cottage. Hammond returned to his work with McKenzie Joe. It was evening when he once more took the trail upward. This time he did not hurry. The man was thoughtful, obsessed. There was something strange about Kay, her nervousness, her quickness. Higher he swung along the trail, a' last to veer under the jutting point of land which ran out from beneath the cottage; the trail here CHAPTER V Continued The big man was running about with both hands in the air. Other miners attempted to halt him, but only momentarily. At last he saw Hammond and headed for him. "I told you it was a new he shouted. "Look what I found in the clean-up- ! He opened his clutched hands. In each was at least a dozen nuggets, some no larger than a pinhead, others bigger than peas. Kay squealed with interest. "Isnt it perfectly thrilling?" she asked. There was a queer, feverish glint in her eyes. Her hands opened and closed spasmodically. "Just to think of digging up the ground and picking out gold!" Olson veered again into mad gyrations, at last to bring up short before Mrs. Joyce and extend his treasures to her. "Look at Mother," the girl said. "Shes actually interested!" Mrs. Joyce was asking questions and with an extended finger was turning over the nuggets as they lay in the giant paws of Olson. The big man stood there, grinning; somewhat surprised, Hammond saw Mrs. Joyce smile quite gayly. He laughed. "Gold certainly is anybodys introduction!" Kay shrugged her shoulders. "But Mother!" she exclaimed, and did not finish the sentence. They went on then to examine the sluice box. After a time Hammond followed Kays glance as she once more looked back. Olson and Mrs. Joyce were still talking. At last, Kay said, almost fretfully: "But, Jack, all this isnt getting me started on my gold mine." He looked at her. Why the hurry? "But isnt that what a person is supposed to do, the minute you get in camp? Jack stared. "Youre not serious?" "Of course Im serious, silly. Why else should I have a gold mine?" "A placer claim, since you are serious, he corrected her laughingly. "But I just laid the thing aside for you merely for fun "Then you mean there isnt any Klon-dyke- !" gold. Spots in America That Resist the Melting Pot Yes 11 "Where are they? "The claims? Back on the flats, away from Moose river." But how would you go about finding gold away off there?" A long period of silence followed. "I dont know how Joe will feel about me telling that," came fir nally. "But youre just telling me." "Yes, thats true. If the theory ever got out this camp would go crazy staking claims." And youre afraid I might publish it?" she asked, with a queer little laugh. "Oh, Kay! Of course not. Everything Ive got is yours even my thoughts." She pressed his arm. D t your lant b, ., your job! fook at your job makes ,S difference to your caru-S? you regard it only a, u I;11) making stunt? Or do Vou con! sider it a position L. inhabitants. Folk songs are sung to balalaika accompaniment d by bearded men and women. Finns Settled in Forest Lands. u Put If ur "Although Finns dwell in small soul into your effort, uu an, in the bound to numbers in every state make good and Union, they have not found the wake up one fine inwnir. South appealing, and have settled discover that you are one rfthe chiefly in Michigan, Minnesota. indispensable!;. The vo-I- d re! Massachusetts, and Washington. you because ii cannot spects of a Land the From Finland, get along without you.-- G Thousand Lakes, they have been trey Rhodes. Minnesota to drawn especially Their physical stamina and experience as lumberjacks in Finlands vast forests have fitted Toimi, and Toivnla are some n-- i place names that tell of ny of them particularly well to take part in America's lumber in- Finnish population. Shipping Lures Dalmatia, dustry. For centuries Dain.ations'h'ave "The Finns retain their love of either tilled the soil or sailed un schools and to. flocking education, Ragusan and other iU;rS .' night classes. As in their home der land, they build log bathhouses over the world. Today those'd-r- k of bod in which to take steam baths, and spirited people, with b'a-.carve from birchwood skis which sea rovers in their veins, not only the orange-saile- d fisMiy. carry them over the fields in rig- malt orous winters. Finland, Suomi, boats off the Dalmatian cuapt, but they man American ship anj work in fisheries of Louisiana Florida, and California. Somehow the Proverb From green vineyards, gray Sounded a Bit Off olive groves, fig and orange on chords steeped in almost perpetuHe had only recently joined the al sunshine along the Dalmatian ranks of politicians, and he was coast, have come many of the anxious that his first speech to his large commercial fruit growers of prospective constituents should be the Pacific coast, particularly a great success, says London An- those in Santa Cruz and Santa swers. Clara counties. Watsonville, south He spoke for a long time, warn- of San Francisco, has a population ing his hearers of the dangers of almost entirely Yugoslavian. war and the importance of keepThe majority of fishermen in ing a large army. Wishing to fin- Provincetown, Massachusetts, are ish with some quotation, he Portuguese. Their ancestors thought of the proverb about lock- sailed there on whalers from Poing the stable door. But he want- rtugal and the Azores. The city ed to be a bit more original. directory is filled with names that sound strange among those ot Suddenly he had a brain-wav- e. "Ladies and gentlemen," he most New England towns: last cried, don't, I beg of you dont names such as Silva, Ramos, Fun wait till your house catches fire tado, Costa, Zora, Dutra, Cabral, before calling the fire brigade." Almeda, Agna, and Corea. Festivals of Various Kinds Cali Attention to "Bits of Europe" Here. 2,000 r long-haire- ? Un It takes celebrations like a tulip festival to call one's attention to the many bits of Europe' scatthe United tered throughout States, says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. Recently thousands of Americans descended on Holland, Michigan, to witness the towns annual tulip festival. The gay blooms stretching for eight miles, lure visitors each spring to this largely Dutch community sprinkled with Dutch names and, for the festival period, with residents in Dutch costumes. A Little Greece in Florida. "Holland is one of the largest Dutch communities in the United States. Until recently, many of its factory workers spoke only Dutch, and neighboring farmers 3 flower-lovin- g Mb-neso- wore wooden shoes. "Tarpon Springs, about half way down the west coast of the Florida peninsula, is the home of swarthy, mustachioed Greek sponge divers and their families. They came to the warm blue waters of Florida fisheries from the sponge fishing grounds of the Mediterranean, and have made Tarpon Springs famous as Their brightly a 'sponge city. painted diving boats are patterned after those used in Greek waters. The town supports a Greek Orthodox church, and on January 6 annually celebrates Greek Cross day, a religious fete brought from the homeland. "Northwestern Pennsylvania has its Russians. Nearly half a century ago, some 'Old Believers, descendants of seceders from the Russian church in the Seventeenth century, settled in Erie. The Russian colony now numbers about "Thats what you mentioned last many night. Your Job t X9U realise job is the most affair in the world, just "Youre awfully sweet, do you "Oh, I see. Then you stop shoveling and pick up the gold. "Not that easy. It takes a long time for those riffles to fill up. Then everything theyve caught is scraped out. After that the miners pan it. Pan it? "Yes theres one." He pointed to a discarded gold pan on the creek's bank, flat bottomed and with sharply sloping sides. "They put the scrapings in there and drip water into it, swishing it around. Zt takes a long time to get rid of everything but the nuggets." "Oh, Id love to see a nugget again. Like those you gave me in Seattle." Hammond laughed. "It looks like youll get your wish. Olsons pretty excited." plane, skimming high over the mountains in the moonlight; it was the third trip the pilot had made to Wrangell that day. At last the ship banked in wide circles and with the motor cut off, dropped downward to the surface of the moonlit Sapphire and the nicety of a safe landing. "Timmy's taking chances," said Hammond. "Oh, hes gone mad with a little money." "Well, dont we all? "I suppose so although its been so long since Ive seen any." This was a different Kay, strangely frank, calmly bringing up a subject which Hammond had been reluctant even to mention. "I want to talk about that," he said at last. "And I still want to talk about you, Bhe countered. "About your plans. He was silent a moment. Then: "Did I build too pretty a picture down there in Seattle?" "Dont be silly, Im thinking of you. Has everything turned out the way you wanted it?" "Of course, he answered, with a little surprise. "Naturally were not making a lot out of those Loon creek placers." "But youve got some other claims, worth a lot more. "Yes if we can only find the know it? Im crazy about you I know that," he said, with a short laugh. "I can say the same to you. And oh. Jack, I want you to strike it "Why Are You So Nervous, So 111 at Ease?" followed the cliff almost to the ve- rich richer than any other man on earth! He looked but over the shadowy valley. "Somewhere over there," he said throatily, "is enough gold to make us all millionaires a dozen times over. Tons of gold, Kay the deposits of thousands of years, just waiting for someone to come along and wash it out of the gravel." "But where?" she insisted. He ran a hand across his forehead. A long moment passed. Jack Hammond was struggling with his promises to Joe. Then suddenly the secret flooded forth, the belief that somewhere, far in the past, Moose river had run in a different and bed, there to deposit alluvial gold, washed down from the hills by thousands of freshets and spring floods. Once we find that old river bed he said. "But where will you ed randa, where it jutted straight upward and came out at the cabin steps. Suddenly he raised his head. Low voices which had come faintly from the rear of the building now had shifted closer until he could find it? "Thats the problem. Theres hear every word. to indicate where it might nothing "And Im telling you, Mother, be. Were sure its there, somethat Im not going to stand for it! where. But thats all we know. I wont I wont!" "Then its like looking for the How are you going to help yourself? The usually calm tones of proverbial needle." "Just about, Jack agreed. WeH exMrs. Joyce were cited. "You live your life and Ill just have to keep on putting down test holes; one of them may turn live mine. But Ill tell you this I out. had all the damned hypocrisy I Isn't that rather silly?" wanted with your father." Hammond shrugged his shoulders. Ol"But, Mother, this terrible "All we can do is follow Joe's son hunches as to where he thinks that Thats enough about Olson!" river should have run. Of course, Mrs. Joyce cried out. "I'll be the other persons might go at it scienjudge in that matter!" tifically. "And find what they were looking Desperately Hammond began to whistle. The voices ceased. A mo- for. ment later, Kay Joyce met him at Perhaps." the door, her usual vibrantly pleasThen why dont you? ant self. "You dont know Joes breed. "Oh, come in, she said and They distrust scientists. Any old We had begun to prospector will tell you that an engikissed him. wonder what on earth had become neer or geologist can ruin the finest of you!" mine ever discovered. Oh, theyre high-pitche- d, I Late that night. Jack Hammond stood with Kay on a jutting point overlooking the valley. Here and there a faint light gleamed in the settlement, a vagrant candle or the dying embers of a prospectors evening fire. "Kay," said the man almost abruptly, "I want to talk to you about ourselves." "And I want to talk to you about yourself. Why are you so nervous so ill at ease?" I? It amazed him. "It's all news to me. Maybe Ive been overanxious to please you. 'Tcrhaps that's it." She clasped his hand with both of hers, raising it to her breast. The yield of soft flesh fired him. He whirled and caught her tight to him, his kisses burning her he felt the touch of her soft hair against his check, the brush of an earlobe on his forehead as, eager, roving, he bent to caress the smoothness of her throat. gold in it? "I've waited so long for you, he "Of course, I hope theres gold. But whats the need, Kay? Therell begged. "All my life "Jack dear," she gasped, freebe enough coming out of Joes claim ing herself. "You say you want me and mine." and then try to crush me to death. "But that wouldn't be my claim, she shivered deliciously, would it? I want to feel its really But, mine that I got it out of the "how I love it!" From afar came the roar of an ground." "But you couldn't do the actual airplane motor, at last to reveal the riding lights of Timmy Moon's labor." will know the minute you see YOU tire why car owners everywhere gives patented process of greater protection against blowouts and is used only in Firestone Tires. 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My fattier trusted him for years and wasn't sorry. lie did all that work down in Peru and Bolivia., She added bitterly: We wouldnt be penniless now if he had listened to Bruce. Again there was silence. At last Kay clenched her hands and walked to the edge of the ledge. Slowly Jack followed, entranced by the picture of her in the moonlight. I wish I could talk to that partner of yours. 110 HE COXTIMIDJ sags-- . Ssayffi TWIN horns T1r$ton! RADIO AUTO 29 1 Th. anwicn notan n 11 tnjrfandnwl,,. 1917 r with 6 to?!39!jL taka (rill Bait Hanthp Ualaw ia ila TahacfBuNi AT COVI r cool, chan J - I Bt I al to bn, 8 dynamic apeakcr. THOUSANDS OF OTHER , j rVOU SAVE IECAUSE THE1 DONT BISK Y0URLIFE ON THIN WORN TIRES PkMact round f and yaw family from th. duigcT of driving act thin tint which nay tt b Stetttm tfstmti anna tin wiiek MAKE THE MUCH the internal friction and heat that coat the lima lAYItl ' gum-diffi- d COCOS funny! Kay tossed her head. 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