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Show t tmmaivl 11 " iwwiwtwmwwm t mil mi i) iiiiiiiiiiMiiiii iiiibi mm miiihii iwiMiimiMnwiliniirtlrfM a. )l(MaWMI'i"' ..... ' THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM, UTAH . Man Still la Rated As "Forest Enemy No. One Man Btlll rauks as "Forest Enemy Mo. 1." More than half the fires In national forests this year, reports the Forest Service, were caused by man. i The number of these fires was 5,777, i as compared to 5,282 last year, and to J an annual average of 4,091 over the I 1W31-3- 4 period. s I These fires were started by brash ' burners, by residents on land newly J acquired by the forest service i many of whom still believe that an t annual "burning-over- " Is good for the f i woods and by campers, hunters, rec- - ' j reationlsts, and tourists who have made greater use of national forest facilities this year than ever before, j When he returned from his plunge, a fire was flaming high In the cook hole. Well uway from It, the heir ess to millions was smearing one of the moose legs with mud brought up from the lake shore by her fa-ther In his expensive soft hat Carth raked the thigh bones from the smudge-fir- e and set bark the spits of the partly burnt steaks. He then dripped melting mooce fat Into a small twist-cu- p of blrehhnrk that he had brought back with him. The cup already held two or three gills of spruce pitch. Garth offered his dope. "Best cos-metic In the North. You may as well go the limit" "I'll die first 1" Herfather dipped his fingers In the dope and smeared the stuff on his face and neck as Garth had done. Gnrth said: "Eat your fill. Miss Rnmlll will stay to tend the fires. You and I are to climb. You'll wear Uuxhy's leather trousers outside your own." "Hut they're too small for me around the belt" "They'll not be after a few days. You'll wear the Jacket also." A taste of hot marrow reused the sewing done on the moccasins, muf-fle all eaten, woodpile nearly used up. You'd better cook and eat ail the meat you can before the rest of the wood Is burnt When the Ore goes out, we'll have plenty of four-foote-visitors to relieve us of those moose legs wolves, foxes, wolver-ines." There followed a silence, broken at last by Miss Ramlll. She repeat-ed her first Question, but In a very different tone: "Mr. Garth, may 1 pour you a cup of the tea?" "Thank you, I do not need It The rest of you I suggest keeping It for breakfast You'll have no other taste of sweets for over a month, unless we find a bumblebee nest" The girl silently covered the top of the pot with the Inverted tin cup. Her father heaved up his soft bulk. He beckoned to Huxhy. "Come, Vivian. The agreement was that Garth should be skipper. Tiiut wood pile will not last another hour. We can't permit any bear ruids on our bull market" Garth lifted one of the moose quarters from the smoke rack and began to cut off large thin slices. These he laid on the poles for quick-er smoke curing and drying. lie paid no attention to Miss RauiilL When the girl saw he did not In-tend to speak to her, she picked up the salt and tea pouches and went into the leunto. Garth thought she meant to go to bed. Instead, she crawled out again, put one of the freshly cut slices of meat on a wil-low spit and held It over the end of the fire where the muITle had simmered. As soon as the steak was broiled, the cook sullenly offered it to Garth. He took It with no betrayal of his surprise and sat down to eat "Thank you, sister." She frowned. "I never hated any-one so much In all my life as I hate you. But that was a mean trick, stealing your sugar." "All the more reason for you to hate me. Not that It matters a penny the sugar or your hote. I'll admit, though, It's very Interesting to watch the reactions of yourself "and your father. Huxby Is Just a commonplace wolf. But your fa-ther and you the lady of leisure and the millionaire acquirer tossed from the lap of luxury Into the raw wild. You'll have to ac-knowledge It's high comedy." Miss Ramlll turned her back on him and went to crawl Into the leanto. Her father and Huxhy came with still more wood to pile on the already high heap of fuel. The en-gineer went to lie down at his sleep Ing place on the lee of the Are. During the day he had gathered a much thicker bed of spruce tips and dry moss. The long hours of twilight slow-ly faded to the soml-dus- k of mid night and as slowly brightened full day. Sunrise found the three visitors from the cities still asleep. Two hours or so later the crack of moose bones under the blows of the belt-a- x wakened Huxby. He sat up to turn hungrily In the di-rection from which came a savory odor. Garth had drawn a thigh bone from the fire and was butter-ing a pleoe of broiled meat with hot marrow. The engineer came around and laid one of the thigh bones on the fire. Above It he slanted a steak on a spit Neither he nor Garfh spoke, D started to eat his steak and marrow before either was more than half cooked. Garth finished his own breakfast and began to sew a moccasin. As soon as Uuxby had bolted down his food, he picked up the emptied gold pan. Miss Ramill bad sat up in the front of the leanto to luce her boots. Her father crept out past her. "Morning, Vivian," greeted "1 see you're going to set the pan on the fire again. Good Idea. That muffle aspic is all Garth told us it would be." "No." Huxby's tone was almost curt "We've lost too much time already. I am going to make a complete test of that placer de-posit." He looked with cold wariness at the rightful claimant of the placer Garth smiled. "Go to It The more you pan out the more of my 00 per cent I'll be able to jingle In my SYNOPSIS As Alan Garth, prospector. Is pre-paring to leave for his mining-- claim in the Far North, a plane lands at the airways emergency station. In it are Burton Ramlll, millionaire mining-- magnate; his daughter, Lll-llt- h; and Vivian Huxby, pilot and mining engineer. Believing htm to be only an Ignorant prospector, the men otter to make an air trip to Garth's claim, although they refer to his samples of platinum-bearin- g ore as nearly "worthless." Llllth Itamlll, product of the Jazi age, plainly shows her contempt for Garth. Through Garth's guidance the plane soon reaches the claim site. Huxby, and Ramlll, after making several tests, assure Garth his claim Is nearly valueless, but to "encour-age" young prospectors they are willing to take a chance In investing small amount Sensing treachery ahead, Garth secretly removes a part from the plane's motor. Huxby and Llllth taunt Garth with his "gulli-bility," but their tone changes when they try to start the crippled plane. Returning to shore they try to force Garth to give up the missing part. Garth manages to set the monoplane adrift and the current carries It over the falls. He points out to the en-raged trio that he Is their only hope In guiding them out of the wilder-ness. Garth begins the work of pre-paring for the long Journey. He in-sists that the others help. Ramlll and his daughter must be hardened for the hardships ahead In their toll-som- e trek to the outpost on the Mackenzie. Garth experiences diff-iculty in getting his companions into line. CHAPTER IV Continued 7 "Shut up," Garth ordered him. "That roar Is only a warning. She'll not charge If we mind onr own affairs. You and Mr. Ramlll take hold of that nearest untorn leg and start quietly. Don't hurry and don't run." The cool certainty of Garth's tone compelled belief and ohedlence even from Huxby. Mr. Ramill was al-ready reaching up for one of the two moose legs that had not been pulled down by the wolves. The engineer hastily turned to help him. As they started off, Garth took the other unmangled leg on his shoulder and sauntered after them. Garth's gray eyes twinkled as he glanced back over his shoulder at the huge beast He could not have asked for a better bugaboo to make bis companions behave. Safe out of her sight be told the two to halt and get the moose leg on a tote-pol- Huxby at once started to curse him for not shooting. "Go try it yourself," Garth re plied, and when Huxby drew away from the offered rllle, he nodded approval. "You are wise not to at-tack a y with cubs." Spurred on no doubt by the knowledge of that gray monster be-hind him, Mr. Ramlll managed to bold up his end of the tote-pol- e all the way to camp. Then he sank down purple-face- wheezing that the exertion had killed him. Ills daughter sat by the fire brooding. Though refreshed by her bath In the warm nool. she had hi. the moccasin upon which he had been sewing, and picked, up bis rifle. "I've had enough bitters and sour berries, thank you all. Feed them to yourselves for a while. Ill go get the sleep I missed last night while acting as guardian angel of your sweet slumbers." CHAPTER V Mate Woman. FAR up the tundra slope, above trough of bis platinum placer. Garth found a dry moss bedded nook on the sunny side of a boulder. lie Iny down, pulled his hatbrlm over his eyes, and let him self fall asleep. A full eight hours later the sun swung around Its wide circle until the shadow of the rock fell upon Garth. Roused by the passing of the warm rays, he pushed back his hat and sat up. He came down to the camp. Mr. Rnmlll sat beside the fire between his daughter and nuxby. Two or three pouches that Garth had hidden nnder the moss In the leanto lay open before the men. Miss Ramlll was emptying the last contents of the sugar pouch Into a pot of thick tea. She was first to see Garth's noiseless ap pronch. "Nail to the chief," she mocked. "My dear Mr. Oarth, yon are most fashionably late to dinner. WJ11 you not Join ns In a cup of ten?" Her father turned to eye the guest with a slinde of nn easiness. "Yon see we found what you were holding ont on ns. Gnrth. It's the only trick you failed to put over." Garth laid down his rifle and came forward. He Ignored the wary hostile look of the mining engineer, nodded to Mr. Ramlll, and took off his battered hat to bend low before Miss Ramlll In a polite bow. "You are-ver- y kind, my dear lady. I could not depYlve any of you of your sweets. 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow You may recall the rest of the quotation." Mr. Ramlll went red. "What If Llllth did happen to find these things you were hogging for private use? We need them as much as you." "Quite so. While you're about It. you may as well make a clean sweep. Here." Garth tossed the gold-mount- cigar case to Ramlll. "Oh, so that's how Dad lost his smokes," exclaimed Miss Ramlll. "Who's the real sneak around here? Steal all those cigars, and the gold case, too. Then come whining be-cause we've kept you from cheating us out of our share of these things you hid." Ramlll handed the case back to Garth. "Wa-wa- lt I" cried his daughter. He waved her away. "No. The joke Is on us. He knows what Is ahead. We do not We've emptied "You Are Very Kind, My Dear Lady. I Could Not Deprive Any of You of Your Sweets." girl's appetite. Hunger overcame her other cravings. She said noth-ing even when, at the end of the meal, her father drew on Huxby's flying suit over his clothes and started off with Garth. Though Garth had spoken of a climb, be first led along the lake shore to the beginning of the mus-keg swamp. Then turned and slant-ed gradually up through the belt of spruce trees until the west side of the trough was reached at e. He stopped to look at Hux-by while Mr. Ramill caught bis sec-ond wind. The mining engineer gave no heed to them. He was hard at work panning out gravel, midway up to the discovery stake. Garth led across to the east side of the trough. After every halt he started the portly millionaire on again as soon as he could draw a deep breath. They kept plodding up the tundra slope until at last Mr. Ramill's legs gave out lie stag-gered and collapsed. He lay, and quivering, spent. Three hours later found them still below the lower end of the glacier. Gnrth at last called a halt to the climb. He headed back. When able to speak, he gasped an appeal: "Ka-qul- tl 'U'U kill me I" The exhausted man turned flat on his back and basked. Within a few minutes he drowsed off. Garth let bim nap a long two hours, then started him on up the long climb. Midway down to tlinberland, Ra-mill collapsed, so utterly spent that he could not get up even after a long rest Garth took him on his back and packed him on down to the camp, without a halt. Huxby and Miss Ramlll were feasting. They had pried the moose leg out of the fire hole and broken off the clay shell The meat had baked to Juicy tenderness. Even the gristle was melted Into gelatine. When Garth laid her father in the leanto, the girl brought a big chunk of the best meat But the million- - gun to feel the craving for drink and tobacco. She had done little stitching on the moccasins. But she livened to horrified alertness when Huxby told about the grizzly. Garth forestalled an outburst of hysterics. "Keep cool. The old lady will let us alone if we keep clear of her cubs. Keep up' the fire, and 6he will shy clear of you. She doesn't fancy fire. Burnt her paws trying to rob me of a roasting por cupine." A look at the gold pan showed Garth that the moose muffle had begun to dissolve. He cooled some of the gelatinous broth In the small pot Mr. Ramlll not only gulped down the drink. He smacked his lips and asked for more. At that, both Huxby and the girl were stirred to try the rich drink. Garth was glad to have all three take their fill of the savory, highly nourishing dish. He knew what was coming. He asked only that the pan be refilled to dissolve more of the muffle. The three were accustomed to the aire ciimner was too exhausted even to eat His daughter turned upon Garth. "Another of your damnable Jokes I He's dying I You've killed him I" Garth smiled approvingly, "So, after all, you're capable of feeling a little concern for someone else than yourself. Boll the cup two-third- s full of water, and put In enough of that sweet tea to cool it for drink-ing." "The tea is hot already. I've kept back Dad's share. I'll give It to him straight" "You'll warm that water." The mining engineer stood tip. "I've told you to speak respectfully to Miss Ramlll." Garth paid no more attention to him than to the buzz of a mosquito. The girl looked expectantly at her fiance. He stood waiting for Garth to apologize. When Garth neither replied nor so much as glanced around at him, the engineer's cold assurance gave way to doubt He turned and went down to the lake. (TO BE CONTINUED) pocket." That sent the engineer off with a crease between his hard eyes. Mr. Rnmlll studied Garth's amused face. "What is the Idear he Inquired. "Do you Infer yon still stand by the terms you offered?" "Well, 1 may at least allow you four tenths of what your Man Fri-day sweats out of my placer. The laborer Is worthy of his hire I'm going for a dip. You and Miss Ra mill might get your moose bones to roasting. The marrow goes well with the steaks. Let me suggest that you build a large fire In the regular cook hole. When It burnf low, rake out the coals and lay In one of the forelegs, thickly smeared with mud. Then rake on dirt, em hers and ashes, built a small fire on top. and keep it going four ot five hours." Miss Ramll looked down at het slender hands. They were already roughened and grimed, and two of the highly manicured nails had been broken. The large diamond of her entrapment ring flashed blue-whit- e tire up Into hor angrily flashing blue e.ves. She Jerked her head up to flare out at Garth. He was al-ready disappearing In the brush on his way to the rock dooL free drinking of their kind. They had already begun to feel the lack of the usual cocktails, mealtime wines and between-meal- s whisky. This was aggravated by the lack of tobacco. To ease them as much as possible, he broiled lynx meat on a grating of willow stems, bast-ing It with moose fat. The tender meat kept them occupied until the muffle broth soothed their Jangled nerves. There was a limit, however, to eating, and once Its elTect began to pass, their craving returned more Intense than before. First Miss Ramlll, then Huxley, and last of all Mr. Ramlll began to make Iron-ical remarks aimed at Garth. He Ignored them for some time. The remarks became more offensively Witt and sarcastic He dropped "That Roar It Only a Warning." the sugarbowl and half the teabag. Tie up that bag and the salt Viv-ian, and hand them to him." Garth shook his head, and bowed to the angry-eye- d girl. "Thank you, no. Miss Ramlll has taken charge. As I recall my Anglo-Sa-xon, 'lady' originally meant bread-cutte- She was the one who rationed out the food. I figure upon at least five weeks before we reach the Mackenzie. Miss Rnmlll will keep charge of the 6alt and tea-- do with them whatever she thinks best." She flared. "I will not I I'll do no such tiling." He glanced around, taking stock of the camp. "Everything in keeping, I see. Ho Sally Sez . ' .",'" 4 v''t .vTr it It i'i f .' Y T.VU.'-t-JK-.i- . .! Till way to Mint hurt b thra hit tomsch. For ejaaUtr In toad. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. 150.000 feet Used & New Pipe Sizes W, 8i". 1" Structural Steel and Plates Monsey Iron & Metal Co. 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