Show I ck Sh ps y C Cold id 1 t J JY BY Y BEATRICE Illustrations h by Irwin Myers C Copyright ht by Hughe Mass ft dr Co Service PTER XIII XIII-Continued XIII Continued i 23 23 them mountains k now Its It's like o se k 5 e called after you Ever er so soe to look at att 6 the he field Id I'd used J t OD oa there they was the Fat r t sun sunup sun up high up and cold with tanners i S Jg on them and you you'd d see tl them Ie m m I fie little while all all gold and then fhe the S sun un was warm and andI I looked k e d sort of ot homelike and not finay 2 th the mists would come updike up t r dike cloaks s nuns nulls white c cloaks 1 oa k s I I r rind land nd they were gone e tears were ere near Pias Pia's eyes ejes IOU oure re a poet she said light light- Abide ide de her emot emotion J on Im I m not nt loeven musical It Its It's s sC C you yoa ha have hae e so much that int ent ri a and d there are things hell he'll laut But Jinny weve we've got to a lt hat we e toe love him and want to do doa doest est eSL a for tor him and he would Just fit we couldn't couldn f t be friends r I en d. d sm s. s mean m J you'll be my friend friend- no nonsense about doln doin I od d and ln me and gettin ito j a nice place where they they'd d ld d to to me mer rent vant t to be your friend Just as 1 Irl ito to another to If It I may II y pu you u may mayl I said Jinny and flung IDS cons about the others other's neck s given ghen without reserve reser till on Sher her lips when Jinny If cot warning sprang awn away leaped r meet feet listened a moment a and andin d dIn In frantic hurry burry began to put rothes I at's ats S the matter asked PIa Pla tier Her Hark at that 1 rn ear ear nothing drag Wg h i h-i 1 That's rain memory leaped Into Pias Pia's Plash i h hat t happens If It rain comes 7 I Im sa say altogether we die I Ii did i d not quite understand understand yet l to ran n out of ot the tent and une un un- e et effew few Vi faint drops that were be be- ijo fall fall looked up and down rge Irge Camp had been made on one e ejof f ban barren barlen en sand and grav gravel l at of ot a rock wall There was doll f there and plenty of wn water ter hen Een h they had halted baited just before it had been impossible to see better place behind them or orall all th the gorge for miles was waso o with a bottom almost level made made good going in spite of at remand moraines of ot loose st stone ne of ot water that here rep rep rep- T the Romilly had not seemed I of Ij-of t any Importance already eady that thread was making al Tort ort felt already a small grow grow grow- ice olce was aud audible Jle among the rs tinkle and ana tripping of water ame ime uie from somewhere far away i Md bad heard already he lie was up rI s tent and ond running round the other tent flies with a stick sUck e hand and and a n lantern in the EGet Get G up you ou s 's s s. they biro bira im shout he wielded his stick powerful arm and many a car car- 2 olve Oise shrieking under his lira blows them out he did not note me e on Pia and and Jinny seeing already eady up and dressed Lan Lan- eie re hurriedly lit all aU over o camp not yet hea heavy y but It Increasing easing a ln in the sl slow w steady Jat at presages a downpour UP ID altogether you yon load get along creek quick shout shout- e ergeant Ve We go back hat is s It In asked Im I'm Pia as ns he c came gp p to her t tent nt answered the time serg sergeant ant line He this place quick time You along creek you two fellow a you Jou run like me hell I. N here re to demanded Pin Pla coolly s w you YOU YOU firs firs' n h go a Re ae was away again driving Ys like ke cattle Some ome of them Nto i collect their little belong belong- their betel betel bags their pipes their theirl eta l 8 the Simoi cracked them thorn Si head OVer ver the legs less hustled i mercy Yon You want to todie die die you jou black swine he d U. U d. d Get on on I e It Into no the boy had alre already van van- I. I Re De darkness behind the theno needed no one to tell him vas ads coming PIa Through n a raffle rame of I and Jinny hurtled hurried back back- along the way by winch which t traveled ra they the knows earlier In the day ny some It I place we can get must be as pretty near gasped they P ed forward Run Hun h had a to walking n not easy I led c balance and scramble PIa Ila Savin 1 h L to 1 J the of both ni b Sot not ot be Was the e lt It ht J t I Ing g- g to ll his near n enough nou h- h Simoi ol- ol olno acI acing ac- ac b had if lights had hall acted wise wise- here l Camp carup- campIn In the one ODe there wand standing re was driftwood od for tor d left ground f for r tents of t behind him a way out In neceSSity pr Per place Doubtless I for Cor hl above ascending to the e each c Ch h In to n was 8 on ahead to too tar far G tl r Il e got th the e Gaik dark Doubtless one onela I l la t the e Si back ack to the other t er way 1 was Lut-was Ce Of ot a nr any 3 or ordinary rain- rain the II-the t s this this' ordinary I 1 tear ear ot of both Women omen there that al Where th It WaS nothing of ot the i he 3 t they V were the tho rain wast was to fI inn n t th tha hissing on the stones r girls rl the tho bent shoulders of at the theN N t u d C thread ot of f water In ln the was eau C aa rising r f so so that they had I to walk knee-deep knee in many places But that was not all that was by no moans means nil all Behind them chasing chasin threatening thundering like some colo colossal sal drugon dragon of th the prime In search of at prey came something Infinitely In In- finitely worse They could hear it more distinctly with every minute It It was not like a dragon now It was WitS like a y train running away I like three trains trails ten trains roaring I through on one tunnel all together And they were like people trapped In a tunnel who couldn't find the refuges In the walls In truth the walls at of i ithe the canyon auyon were as much a trap as any tunnel and Jinny at I least well kne knew v that between those I walls you might be b beaten and und battered bat bat- to fragments by the thing that was coming just as you might be battered bat bat- under the furious Curious wheels of at a train The darkness and th the ruin rain were terrible The t torch was was was' wasa a mock mockery ry To o be drowned In the dark 1 I thought Pin sliding over boulders splashing In and out of or pools that deepened with every minute Then Oh Then Oh theart will jou you ever know 7 Then as ns she struggled through water nearing her waist staggered against the clawing current felt that the end of the time fight was very near came thoughts that she has ne er told to tu any ani broken and breathless prayers that remain between between be e tween Pin Piu and her God And still sUll In the roaring darkness In the time rising water uter the tiny ray of at the torch showed no sign of at Sergeant Simoi A gust of at wind came suddenly sweeping the canyon i she did not need Jinnys Jinny's clutching hand Jinnys Jinny's half half- heard shout to kno know that It was the outrider of ot the flood the end They flung Hung themselves again the merciless rock wall For the last time Pins Pia's torch swept up the dark darks She She saw they y they both saw saw saw-a a rope dangling down the wall Through the shout of the coming flood pierced Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant Imol bull voice from up above ahem rope lie Ile had found some all but sible sable place of of or ascent torn n a a liana Cramone from Cram one of at the thc trees that clung to the slope above e the rocky wall and was nas flinging It down to the two fellow r The wall sloped outwards The rope seen In the stream of torchlight was very ery long In a single tense Instant both girls realized that only one could be saved and each In the same moment moment mo mo- ment determined that It should be the other But nut Jinny Jinny y the the gypsy the dancer unstable In to all things swift In all aU things was in n that last moment swift to seize and hold the glorious chance of death While Pla PIa more mor deliberate cooler was was was' endeavoring endea to fa force the rope Into the others other's hands while the wall of water and tumbling rock before which no human human- thing could live was sweeping d down wn upon the two Jinny crying Take him that I I kissed PIa Pla and flung herself herselt Into the flood There here was but a n sec second md 1 left eft The Pia Iia clear of ot the rope swung roarIng roaring roar roar- Ing just In t time me Above Sergeant Above Sergeant Simoi and the greater part of ot the c carriers carders r some had been swept awn away but some had followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed the boy and climbed satel safely out pulled heartily landing in to toa Ina a a. a few minutes one white who strange to say wept and amid led cried a at being rescued CHAPTER XIV The sun was climbing high above the proclaimed d goldfield g a of now no now changed han e Indeed from the lonely basin baIn that held all nil Its treasures treasures' untouched for Cor so long Light blazed from Cram the Intolerable silver of ot tinned roofs cl clustered low down in the valley val magistrates magistrate's ley magistrates magistrate's s house licensed hotel store i small field hospital 1 Light danced on running funnIng water that was led from springs hl higher her up and Into the various arlous claims dotting dottin dotting dot dot- ting tin the whole ole extent of at the basin basin basin- the the basin that was gold bearing almost almos e everywhere e where but nowhere carried anything anything anything any any- any any- thing to touch the wealth accumulated accumulate in one prospecting claim at the very cry bottom On new clean tents on old oM soiled toiled tents on bush ush huts made of sago nn and black palm p m the sun struck fiercely making e every eri ri place It t touched for tor It was ya gow growing g now v towards noon and In to the thelow tow low latitude of midday found no cool ness almost no shadow w anywhere Near the tle bottom of ot the pit al above o e the small flat that lu held Jd the prospectIng prospect- prospect Ing claim w were re guth gathered red the strangest group that perhaps had ever been seen In Ira that country of s 's strange range happenings Papua It JY was was 8 far fur inland days and days das from th the sea but here on a big bib tint flat rock as ns on the deck of of a n ship stood together a n num number et of at men watching with the utmost attention two who held beld chronometers and sextants sex tants hunts and were verc apparently apparently waiting for tor twelve o'clock to take an nn observation observation tion of at th the sun Bun These were old sailors of ot whom every ery goldfield holds u Ii few They had held to on their Instruments as a amate amate mate mute or a master will so long as he can keep himself and his ills goods away from tram the pawnbroker The field had found them out out and urged and urged by one Spicer and his mate C xon who held the ground nearest to the coveted prospecting claim at ot th the bottom had got them down here toward noon on the thirtieth day of at Smithson's absence absence absence ab ab- sence from tram Nothing was to tobe tobe tobe be done Illegally As soon as ns the thirty days das were up and not one second sec and ond before the goldfield at large would compete for the possession oi of that treasure-hole treasure at the bottom would place Its Us pegs all over the coveted coveted coveted cov cov- eted gr ground und Spicer and It was well known would run the best hest chance They had bad been car careful ful to take up much less than their legal share but to place their ground be ground be being ing almost first In the Ilse field all field all round the prospecting claim On On this account account ac nc- ac- ac count they were were sure sore to be the first who l would strike strike In the pe pegs pees s. s since goldfields goldfields' custom forbids trespassing GIve GI us ns our bite at It Cason had asked the others and well we'll stand aside to let the time rest of at you In n right after atter The miners had agreed there was nothing to be gained d by rushing for tor and Spicer having no prospectors prospector's prospectors prospector's pros pros- p claim could take tale up only two full claims between them though the they might and would pick the best est bits What was twenty nIne left twenty nine claims claims- would be w welt well It worth worth- getting worth fighting for If fighting had to be done The warden waiden and magistrate had left his house and come down to the fiat flat he wasn't very sure about that matter matter mat mat- ter Papuan goldfields had hud always nl been conspicuously peaceful but then no field had ever er shown so much gold goldIn I In so small a place at al and oud on a n field the more gold the more mort trouble For the last two hours bours a party of ot natives had been visible mal making their way down the time sides of at the b basin They seemed natives seemed for tor natives to to be in a a tremendous hurry but no one troubled much about that since nob nobody had hind come to to study t the i habits of ot Papuans If It an anyone one thought about It at nt all nil he put down the haste to U the pig that the men were carrying wrapped In lea leaves heaves ves and slung slims from a pole pole pole-a a good pig Its by-Its size si probably one of at the tuskers that Wat the Papuan holds something better than his wife a little dearer than his child chill When there Is a feast In prospect and especially espe- espe espe dally a feast with tusker pI pig In It the Papuan usually sl slow w can can call o on reserves reser of or speed that astonish and exhaust the very best of at active white hl e men the time n somewhat some Impatiently Impatiently Impo asked asked of f the nearest nearest old salt snit Looking at a huge silver w the tc sailor replied Ten replied Ten past eleven eleven Arent you ou slow Me slow My watch slow That watch hasn't lost lost- not two not h two seconds In I I. I ten years Then Thea why cant can't we use It and bang hang this sextant business said tall fair mad Because a u tall ma man with a prett face fac face we Spicer we we want to tu be absolutely legal ad If two master mariners make malte It twelve o'clock on the day flints that's the thirtieth after Smithson went away away away-at at twelve o'clock nobody o'clock-nobody nobody can con say a word n about out any of ot our claims afterward Its a long time to wait walt Theres Bob nob Whitson hell he'll shorten It for tor you OU if you him a boy TO BE nE |