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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM. UTAH Iukrection 7 The glint In the fellow's eyes puz-zled Craig. It was a sinister glint, a look of man-to-ma- n hatred. He stepped across to the table to see whether any of his papers had been stolen or destroyed. To his surprise his Wolf-Lai- r charts had not been touched at all. The only thing he missed was a little clip of notes from Patricia hasty little scribbles which she had sent him at times when they were both busy, and which he had carefully treas-ured, because they were from her. He turned to the half-bree- "Hand over those notes, you." Lupe sullenly took them out of his pocket and threw them on the cot. "What the devil did you want with those?" Craig questioned. Lupe refused to say a word. "I ought to have Corporal North-u- p stick you in the police butter-tub,-" Craig said. "I'd do it, but it strikes me that if anybody ought to be jailed, it's Lovett. You were only doing his dirty work for him. So I'm going to let you go. Clear out and stay clear! Get back across the river and tell Lovett that if he can't fight clean and keep inside the law, he'll find himself fac-ing some of those 'consequences' that he warned me aboutl" CHAPTER IX After a day of hard work, Craig had called past Patricia's cabin around nine o'clock and taken her on a long night walk to a rocky islet three miles out upon Dynamite bay. other experienced prospector, Into about Kessler's lost them strike, and cave instructions: "You fellows take two dog teams and whip northeast to the W Lairs on the jump. Pick up that mTnd 8t the PQint I've go here, follow it through its whole length, take samples every four chams. keep air-tig- record, vnn.VeIyt mand hurrv ba with Don't let it take you rnana,month at outside. you're doing that, I'm go- ing to make a thorough and ac- curate study of the material I've got here, so that if we don't locate the lode along this principal band, we 11 know where to look next." As soon as the party had left the Bay, he himself settled down to a siege of intense research with his survey notes, ore fragments, micro-scope and assay outfit Though he hardly ate or slept those days, he did manage to squeeze out a little time each eve-ning to spend with Patricia. It was fine to drop down to her cabin for a visit, after long hours of tedi-ous research; and fine to have her come up to his place for a book and then linger for a chat. Her mere presence seemed to warm up his cabin and take away its bache-lor austerity. He happened to notice, once in her cabin, that she was no longer wearing her engagement ring. When he asked her about this and Pa-tricia told him of her Christmas eve talk with Warren, he experi-enced a queer leap of heart and then a sharp uneasiness. Was God's lake reaching out for him, rising out of the dead past and claiming its own? Was this Arctic trip of hers the accident it appeared, or was destiny overtaking him and Patri-cia Wellington? "I've got to tell her about Rosa-lie," he decided. "She's got to know about that." One evening, when he left Pa-tricia's cabin earlier than usual and went up the dark hollow, he looked ahead and saw a light in his own cabin. It was not a candleglow but the yellow shaft of a flash. Slipping up to his window, he peered through at the intruder. The pane was frosted so badly that he he talked and pleaded with the dis-heartened prospectors, till he finally checked their rising wave of despair and swung them back into line. He also wrote to the bureau at Ottawa and resigned. He hated to sacrifice his Job, but this move would give the men three months of grace, for it would take that long for his successor to reach the Bay and begin inspecting the claims. With these preliminary steps out of the road, he tackled the big crucial problem, the necessity of raising a lot of money quickly. The men had to have clothes, outfits, equipment; and to feel the power of money behind them. They had lived on hope till hope was burned out. He estimated that he had to raise at least a hundred thousand dol-lars. Under ordinary circumstances he would have formed a corporation among the owners of the richest claims and sold a portion of the stock to a financial house or operat-ing company. But this field was so remote that investment houses were not interested; and mining compa-nies everywhere were reefing their sails instead of putting on more can-vas. A good gold deposit would turn the trick. Gold was at a high pre-mium among the metals; and down in the city country, low-grad- e mines which had been closed for years were running full blast. A silver deposit, or copper, or even plati- - sInopsis 1 thirty-three- , Junior rpowerful Wellington, I incorporated Mines of nage In questionable to make . secret Radian Arctic, where . X, rich but Inaccessible been discovered on Res- - which flows Into Dyna-icia- . i high spirited and ier of crusty old Jasper fis engaged to Warren, panyhlm. They go by ts "Poleon." a French-acto- r, who tells her there specters in the field and i the difficulties, they are thread. Pat is disturbed dU not disclose what his $. She meets Sam Honey f Poleon's. Moved by the prospector who, fl, struggles to hold his jjes to help him. Informed aghimi, half-bree- retain-sliy- , about Pat's befriend-.$rs- , Warren tries to dis-Jel-her that Craig Tarl-- 4 she had once been in Juty mining inspector for i river area. A brilliant id resigned In disgust 4't company because of sjhods. Later she meets I cold, inferring that she fng interest in the for the hapless ing. Pat decides to build jity house or Den. When icmpletion. Warren tells fit. She refuses after a jCraig leaves on a three- - trip to the north. Pat father has withdrawn her iren tells her now she lome. He refuses to ad-- to aid the prospectors. I tent across the river SShe learns now of War- - In the last fortnight their days had become so crammed, their time so limited, that they had begun tak-ing walks at night as a way of lump-ing together their association, their outdoors and their "war talks." Now and then Craig peered through the ghostly half-lig- to-ward Resurrection mouth, trying to glimpse the shadowy Lupe Twice, while Patricia and he were coming across the bay, he had heard the squeak of a rac-quet beam on the dry snow behind them; and he knew that somewhere among those hummocks yonder the metis leader was hidden, watch-ing Patricia and him. It was seldom, during these night walks, that he and she talked of any personal matter. Little by lit-tle the easy friendship of the New Jiopes to starve the pros-- 4 make them sell their ms. Pat tells the pros-rren'- s plan. Still wages a subtle St the claims. Just be- - Craig returns suddenly guyed at his changed s her a present of furs I (or his former suspi-in- s that she cannot ever Pat returns her engage-jreveal- s that Craig Tarl-parrie- Warren Lovett tay away from Pat, say-Ibo-his previous mar-Ill- s him he will inform (nisadventure if the oc- - mi ii'immMmnw (jus jajijjM,, ju u.niii iihi inj I J" iVw, num, would not do. It took gold, or possibly radium. But so far or at least so the special government ge-ologists had reported no gold at all had been discovered in the Resur-rection Held. From a little cardboard box on a shelf Craig picked out seven care-fully labeled hunks of gray-roc- one evening, and laid them on his work table, and sat looking at them while he smoked a thoughtful pipe. "Hmmph!" he muttered, once or twice. "No gold on Resurrection. Hmmph!" Those seven hunks of rock came from a range of hills, the Wolf Lairs, about 50 miles northeast of the Bay. Last spring a city rusher called Phil Kessler had gone pros-pecting through those hills and had brought back a sackful of ore speci-mens. In that collection mostly ores of yellowish mica, or fool's gold Craig had spotted seven odd-looki-fragments of a gray gneiss. Sticking one carelessly under the microscope, he was surprised to find that it contained wire silver. Interested then, he ran an assay. The test brought out not only co-balt and silver in paying quantities but a heavy gold content $200 to the ton. Kessler had no idea where he had picked up those seven hunks of gray-roc- A greenhorn at pros-pecting, he had wandered hither and thither all over that range, knock-ing off samples from any formation that took his eye and dumping them helter-skelte- r into his bag, without numbering them or keeping any rec-ords whatever. With a host of duties on his hands, Craig had thought no more about the lost strike till now. He looked thoughtfully at the seven hunks, looked at his original assay sheet and at his careful on it. Gold ore, $200 a ton, with enough cobalt and silver to pay all mining and milling costs that was a prize deposit, a sure S VII Continued 1- -9- ce clouded over at I the Den. "The men l&uess," she said list-- i toward him. "But Id, then, that her eyes fcious redness about pugh she had been s gone wrong, Tree-it?- " except that I I'm avered. Two big tears r dark eyes. "Every-- s gone to pot in the I'm broke, I haven't I can't keep the Den bnger; and these men Ne open. Warren is right and left, and t any way to turn or I l-i-" down into her desk ried her face in her heavens, girl! Why me about all this?" uppose you cared las happening," ut looking up. !" Craig asserted, patting her shoulder. Mack days that she Ngh, he reproached ytor not helping her Year's period had receded till now it was definitely gone; and in its stead a tension had grown up be-tween them, a sharp quivering ten-sion that threatened to snap at a word or a glefnee. Not mortally sure just how Craig felt toward her, Patricia had kept flouncing from one extreme of be-lief to the other. At times she in-dulged in the sweetly anguishing no-tion that Craig considered her only a friend and ally. At other times she believed, ecstatically, that his friendship had become quick with passion. In the night silence the long-draw- n howl of a wolf came floating down from some granite ridge far up Resurrection. Miles distant, but clear and vibrant on the frozen air, the cry was packed with all the loneliness and savagery of those Arctic wastes. As it died away it was taken up and echoed by a score of other wolves. Craig broke the. long silence, abruptly. "Treeshia, Warren told you that I was married at Vancou-ver, didn't he?" Patricia straightened up with a jerk. "Y-yes- she managed. And then she suddenly realized that Craig had brought her on this long walk, out to this islet under the cold stars, for the express purpose of telling her about his marriage. "Warren seems to attach a lot of importance to that fact," Craig went on. "Well, it is important, but not in the way he sees it. On the surface there's little to tell. Out there on the West Coast I married a girl, Rosalie Layton. We lived together for about a year. Then we broke up. I gave her every-thing I had, totaling'around a mil-lion and a half; and came north. The marriage has not been formally dissolved. I thought she'd get a divorce, but she apparently hasn't." Patricia winced with jealousy at his words, "We lived together for about a year," even though his tones said unmistakably that this Rosalie Layton meant nothing what-soever to him now. "I've told you the facts about my marriage; now I'm going to tell you the truth," he said. For a moment he looked thoughtf'illy out across the frozen bay. "When I went over to tha West Coast six years ago, Treeshia, I was in a cynical and disillusioned mood. I had just taken several stiff jolts the break-u- p be-tween you and me, for one thing and I wasn't old enough or steady enough to absorb them. I guess I went pretty thoroughly to pieces in a moral sense. When we don't have any goal or objective, we do go to pieces. (TO DE COXTIMED) Patricia Straightened Up With a Jerk. could not recognize the man but merely could see a dim figure lean-ing over the work table, apparently examining the Wolf-La- ir charts and diagrams. Craig eased over to the door and waited, flattened against the .logs. In a few minutes the door opened, and the intruder stepped into the darkness. Craig reached out and seized him by the shoulder. "I say, friend, don't hurry away." The man whirled, tore loose from Craig's grasp, and bolted down the hollow. Craig lunged after him. At the granite boulder he caught the unknown intruder again and grap-pled with him. The man swung, struck him in the face, struggled to tear free. Craig drew back his arm and drove in a g blow to his enemy's jaw. The man toppled backwards, cracked his head against the boul-der as he fell, and sprawled on the snow. Craig bent down, struck a match. "Lupe!" he gasped. "Lupe The metis leader was limp and unconscious. A trickle of blood from his nose was dribbling down across his iron-gra- y temple and staining the snow. Thinking that the fellow might be badly hurt, Craig carried him to the cabin, laid him on the bunk and lit a candle. As he started to examine the halt-bree- Lupe's eyes flickered open. After a few dazed moments the metis sat up. over her, with his T hair, a disquietude Lovett's warning dating with Patricia 1,ay went jigging Until that instant Jt imagined the pos-- 1 an association. But agme it, with some- - n him that he Patricia Wellington lat in the God's lake 'ee" to him a living nat m his thirty-on- e yer oved any other ner things which he ;t about her and him try to forget Z harsh judgment creature had giv. ;'Jf to them by her these men. ie sa'd gently, "this "gnt now as yours. "8 to the barrens. J a'one so far, but ? take part of the soulders." TEU VIII ep 'hat same after-v- f Patricia his ur.e-j- noo of ac- - keep the comma. ind all the next day money-make- r. If he could locate it and if the deposit was not a mere pocket, any operating company would jump at the chance to buy an option or part interest. Sitting up all that night, he made a thorough study of the chemical and crystalline structure of thosa gray gneiss fragments. This structure, he found, was rather distinctive. He did not re-member encountering it anywhere else in the Resurrection field. Somewhat encouraged by this pos-sible clue, he went up to the Land-Offic- e storage building; got out a bulky packet of notes and charts which he had made on a survey of the Wolf Lairs two summers pre-viously. A three-da- y study of these old notes, charts and fragments brought him a surprising discovery. None of his samples showed any traces of gold; but he found that this gray gneiss with the odd chemical and crystalline structure was rather common in the Wolf Lairs. A size-abl- e stratum of it, with a green dolomite on top and a brownish granite beneath, ran the whole length of the range. Though the gray-roc- k outcropped at other places in those hills, he figured that the chances were a dozen to one that the gold deposit occurred somewhere along that principal gneiss strrtum. On that presumption he called Poleon, Kessler, Sam and three Craig brought him a wineglass of brandy. "Here, swallow this. Sorry head against that you busted your boulder, Lupe. How d'you feel-anyt- hing bad wrong?" "I'm Lupe grunted. He got to his feet, somewhat groggily. "Why were you sneak-thievin- g here in my cabin?" Craig demand-ed. Lupe refused to answer. "Lovett sent you over here did-n-- t he? to pilfer around in my pa-pers and find out what I'm doing." Lupe merely stared at him, tight-lippe- Foreign Words A and Phrases Resurgam. (L.) I shall rise again. Presto maturo, presto marcio. (It.) Soon ripe, Soon rotten. Lis litem generat.(L.) Strife be-gets strife. Hominis est errare. (L.) It Is common for man to err. Bacio di bocca spesso cuor non tocca. (Ii.) A kiss of the mouth often does not touch the heart. Fide, sed cui vide. (L.) Trust, but see whom. Detur dignlorl. (L.) Let It be given to the more worthy. Contra fortuna no vale arte nin-gun- a. (Sp.) 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