Show One Shall I I Be Left t B By ANTHONY NTH Y-R Y REIMERT M T f I 4 1923 by McClure Newspaper N Ne r Syndicate S SERGEANT RICHARDS sat beside Paul La Farge Forge inside the snow hut It was ivus a hastily made mace structure and amI had been made under emergency when the first sweep of the blizzard bUzzard struck the plains Both Doth men were experienced experienced plainsmen and knew what its oncoming portended For three days the tho storm would sweep with unremItting unremitting unremitting ting fury Richards had been sent to get La LaFarge LaFarge LaFarge Farge for murder The trapper had shot down another in h hot t blood but blood but buthe he would probably y swing for for all that It was Richards' Richards last patrol for he was to leave the force the following follO spring and marry murry Marie Dupont a little girl of the wilderness whom he had met on his last Journey north northward ward Marie had promised to wait walt for him and his Journey in search of La Farge Fargo would take him quite close to her place Richards found La Fargo Farge In the Barr Bar Bar- r rens ns He had lead put up a trappers trapper's shack four h hundred miles miles' from the place I where he lie had killed his enemy With him was Marie MarJe They had been married two months before It was a pitiful story that was unrolled unrolled unrolled un un- un- un rolled as us captor and captive sat together together together to to- gether n Richards with his automatic prepared for an any possible attack and andLa andLa andLa La Farge Purge handcuffed La Farge Falge had long wooed Marie unknown unknown unknown un un- known to Richards There had been a third man man too Marie l had engaged herself to e each ch of ot the three thinking it mere coquetry Bat in the North you cannot play with men like that In the end La Farge had killed WIlliams Williams Wil WIl- liams and Marie had agreed to marry him and flee with him They ey had been married before the discovery of the dead mans man's body They had fled together Marie loved La urge Farge She sobbed at Richards' Richards feet for tor his release Of Ot course that was Impossible Yet hot with anger angel though he was Sergeant Richards realized that all three e were vere In a way victims victim of ot cir cIr- cir cir- When he took La Farge away both men forbade Marie to fol fol- fol- fol low La Fax Fargo said cheerfully that he would be back a n free man by spring But all three understood It was Impossible for Marie to accompany accompany accompany ac ac- company company them for Richards' Richards dogs had died on the trail and they could barely barely barely bare bare- ly carry enough food for two over the four mile hundred-mile Journey Marie would have to wait walt till spring In the lonely place The two men started carr carrying ing Just enough food to suffice them on half halt rations On the third day daJ La Farge Fargo broke through the rotten Ice of at a muskeg and plunged to the should shoulders rs In the treacherous swamp Richards pulled him out In n the nick of time but his food supply was sucked Into the fathomless muddy depths beneath him After that It was a race of desperation desperation desperation despera despera- tion against time Richards had his rifle but there were no signs of game anywhere even the foxes taxes had deserted desert desert- ed the waste of at country that the they were traversing Handcuffed and bound at night free by day La Lu Farge stumbled southward with Richards at his side both men gaunt gaunt specters with hollow cheeks overgrown with scrubby beard Only two men accustomed to the wilderness wilderness wil wll- wil- wil could hope to make it t. t And what what a hope I T The e gallows at the other end for La Farge for Richards the eternal memory of his lost love In the lonely cabin northward Then came the blizzard Richards made a rude hut but of snow and for three days they listened to the howling wind without To step five yards from the hut but into that storm meant the probability probability proba proba- of at never finding It again It was the elemental fury of at the North let loose against them Richards sat beside La Farge LIsten Listen Listen Lis ten old man he said If It any anything thing should happen to either of us there would be food enough to take tale the other safe to his destination Im I'm thinking we cant can't make headquarters now Agreed It doesn't much matter does it asked La Farge with a hollow hollow hollow hol hol- low laugh Richards was thinking of at Marie And he was wondering what a policeman's duty was under the circumstances He didn't care very much Weak and emaciated and tortured by his mental sufferings he lie felt that he could meet any fate that befell him with ference I guess It ought to clear up soon s said Id Richards Then well we'll have to be begetting begetting getting along La Farge Fargo agreed indifferently There was a few moments' moments silence I guess you and she were pretty happy asked the Sergeant I guess so the other answered Ill Just go out and auS see If the storms storm's lifting old man said Rich Rich- ards Might l as well take your handcuffs handcuffs hand hand- cuffs off what ofT what He unlocked them and stepped out into the storm which Instantly swallowed swallowed lowed him No need to take those dozen steps from the hut they might fi have been a thousand miles mUes It was strange how warm and comfortable comfortable com one felt lying In the snow |