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Show t, JBr a do with I". .. t n piise to I 00 uui r . ..a .nrwd UP in Vtnrned; It sunk 'ie back. He had a I Heme!' sue Mtersely. "As though er fractious animal 1jm wneu iuoc. Ham going to whip Gloria. "Oh, K but said simply the K meant-to do.' And -at three," said King. L tboagh there was a jj off! wee. "-" mU her the terrible e-i e-i tli intention, he ... ... thrno" ; to move, to obey, at jeeood. but sometinng .jrouger than herself, 'sal "1 won't!" she He blow fell swiftly. m Immediate,. hot and (Gloria shrieked once b(n new still. She L hands and' looked at h is white as a dead kau unfa: noma ble as Hash as of white fire efler brain. Some- m killed within her l bad been born. n with you," she cried. tat me; yon may kill Ee, unthinkable brute ire. 1 will not follow till never follow one Jo what I, tell you to I thickly. "It is the only II Bake you." H8 burning in a death- nre hinLhis only an on face now was no iroD-bodied asjiewas, i Yet he lifted the strike the second blow. not restrain a shudder p. But she meant what w, or what some re- said for her; he but she would not "art King, as he was Se, stayed his hand at wt and hurled the rone h and whirled and left L at came to the base He was conscious of : in all the world; about else turned and spun ut Bodies of the sky He, Mark Kine. 'toman. He had struck 8 dailfhtpr lliin'. h who had held him I In,....,. . h"""'e, Hot and G,pa Shrieked. K. nit . . 'to have the deed -ft"1 clean. . -r, ,, e ne must was but 5 back "'"f1 leave 'luation, and 5 frwtworth, men. mean cond,tJon !rW ,ination to w lthat with- i be broke into Uty She A6at means rve -ii-ni in- got to leave her every scrap of food we have between us. I can go two days without eating. ... I canlT . . Her one danger Is Brodie. Otherwise she would be safe enough for four or ' five days. ... I can get out in two days, back In two days. Somehow. Allow five days to cover accidents. Five days ; she can stick it out five days. If I don't take a scrap of her food away from her. . . . Oh, I can make it; It Is up to me to make it I'll get a fish sooner or later or a rabbit ... A man can eat his boots." After a long time be went back to the cave. Gloria faced him as he came in. Her head was up, there were spots of color in her cheeks; in her eyes was a new look. She had found herself. Or she was finding find-ing herself. Her spirit had risen undaunted un-daunted In a crisis; in a clash of wills hers had not gone down before be-fore his. Rather it had been hers that had triumphed. With head erect she awaited his speech. He began, saying very simply what he had decided must be said. "The first thing in the morning," he told ber, "I am going over the ridge and to the headwaters of the other fork. I've got a hunch a bear's in there. It will probably be dark before I get back. I may even be gone all night. If I am it will be SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS Mark King, prospector, U on his way to the summer home of his partner, Ben Gajroor. Kinf and Gaynor share with a desperado, Swen Brodie, and his crowd, knowledge of a vast store of hidden fold. King is impressed by Gloria's youthful beauty. Among Gaynor's guests is Gratton, whom King at once dislikes. Gloria and her mother return to San Francisco. In a spirit of adventure the girl accompanies Gratton on a "business" trip. At Coloma she finds .er father badly hurt He gives her a message for King. Gloria realizes she has compromised herself by her journey with Gratton. He proposes marriage, and Gloria, knowing her adventure is the talk of San Francisco, apparently accepts him. Gratton arranges ar-ranges for the marriage. King, unseen by Gloria, watches the cenemony from a window. At the last moment the girl refuses to utter the requisite "yes." King enters and Gloria appeals to him for protection. Gratton, dismissed, reveals his knowledge of the : treasure, and makes threats. With his departure King, heartened by Gloria's appeal to him, urges her to marry him. Really in love with him, and seeing a way out of her dilemma, the girl consents. Gaynor's massage to King reveals athe approximate location of the. treasure, and urges King to go at once and secure it. After the wedding ceremony, Gloria asserting the necessity for rest after her trying experience, King leaves her and prepares -for bis trip. Next morning Gloria insists on going with him. On the Journey ber overwrought nerves give way. In hysteria, sh admits to King that she married him only to "save her nam from gossip." King renounces her but refuses to take her home, declaring ha is under promise to her father to lose no time seeking the gold. She, unable to find her way home alone, has to accompany ac-company him. Her horse goes lame, and they have to abandon it, but King keeps on. Ha finds the gold.' Gloria resents his giving her orders. She has seen smoke from a campfire and threatens to make her way to it- King knows the party must be Brodie's, and of course forbids it With all the gold he can carry he arranges tb start back, but finds his horse has broken away. They are forced to return, to the cave. because 1 am playing the last card. If I don't get back tomorrow night it will be because I am trying to break through to civilization. Til outfit a party and send themin ior you. lou have food here to keep you alive a week, if you spin It out "You threatened once to go to those other men; no matter what happens you must not dojlat You don't quite understand what some men are. You would be better dead than in their hands. Never forget that .."If the worst . should happen and they came here, still you could hide. I'll show you the place far back in the cave. IH bring you plenty of wood ; I am going to make a pair of snowshoes of a sort for me. I'll make a pair for you. I hope tou won't need them." He, ran his hand across his brow but continued In a moment his voice unchanged : "111 go out before daylight In the morning; morn-ing; it will take me all that Is left of today to do what must be done first" , He turned then and went about his work. She went back to the place by the Are, terribly moved, agitated to the depths of her soul, torn this way and that But one steady fire burned in her bosom, the newly kindled white flame of her resentment He brought fragments of rock to the cave'a mouth, the biggest he could find, and In time, after hours of labor, he bad hidden the great hole as best he could, leaving only at the side a way to pass In and out which could hardly be seen from below. "If you will come with me I will show you your biding place. , She lifted her head and looked at him. Again, she thought swiftly, be was seeking to command, to dictate. Doubtless, in the end she would have arisen and gone with him, since to refuse were madness. But be had not waited. Be Jad gone aIom Into the depths of the cavern; she heard his slow, measured steps receding; re-ceding; she beard them again, slow and measured, as he came back. "It's only about thirty paces straight back," be was saying. ! "There I have made a little pile of I, rocks; you can't miss It That I marks the place, Just at the side of ' the rock pile. That's where I found the gold. There'! air down there, that comes up from? below. And It's a better place to be than here If anyone should come." . She shuddered. But he had not een. He set to work making the clumsy snowshoes. ' " They had made' their scanty sappers; sap-pers; after it both were hungry. They had been hungry thus for four days. Tomorrow they would be a great deal hungrier, the next day they would begin to starve. . King got up and went out, down the cliffs in the dark, for a last load of wood. When he came back she was lying on her bed, her face from the light He stood a little moment looking look-ing at her. Then for the last time he spoke to her: "If I am long gone, you understand under-stand why. There is not a chance In a thousand now that those men will find this place; if they do, there is not a chance in another thousand that they will frhd the middle cave. You will be safe enough. ... And, if I do not get back tomorrow, you Will know that within three days more, or four at most, there will be a party In here to bring you out." CHAPTER XI LORIA awoke with a start She had not heard King go, yet she knew that she was alone In the cave. Alone! By now Mark was far away. She sprang up and built a fire Less for the warmth, though she was cold to the bone, than for the sense of companionship. She came close to the fire and for a long time would not move from It The rooming wore on. She was vaguely aware of a difference; it was as though a presence, though what sort she could hot tell, had approached, were near her, ail about her. She turned and a little glad cry broke from her lips A streak of sunshine lay across the rocks at the cave's mouth. It was like the visit of an angel. More than that, like the face of a beloved friend. She ran to the front and looked out Far below her down in the gorge, she saw something moving. And that something, plowing plow-ing laboriously through depths and drifts of loose fluffy snow, was a man. Her thoughts raced. It was King. He was coming back to her. . . . No, It was not King; it was Swen Brodie! She began to tremble violently, but fascinated, she clung to the jocks and watched. The man struggling weakly against the pitiless wilderness. wallowing Jn the snow, seemed to make his way along the gorge inch by Inch. He carried something on his back: something to which be clung tenaciously. He stopped and looked about him how her heart pounded then I He was looking for something, seeking something ! Her I - "V She remained motionless, power less to move though she remem bered King's word of the hiding place where she would be safe; she peered out fascinated. In time the man came closer, and the first suspicion entered ber mind that after all, it might nofcbe Brodie. Bro-die. Then, he looked up. It was Gratton I Gratton alone; Gratton in a mad attempt to make haste where baste was impossible. He was escaping from something. Then what? He had left the other men ; he was running run-ning away from them. A sudden spurt of pity for him entered ber heart ; he seemed so beaten and be wildered and frantic and terrified; who, better than she, could sympathize sympa-thize with one In Gratton's predicament? predic-ament? Then she forgot, everything saving that they had been friends, that they were bound in a common fate. She leaned as far out as she could ; he was Just below now : she called to him. You I" Had not the silence been so complete his gasping voice would have failed to reach her; as It was she barely beard It "You? Gloria? Here? My G d have I gone mad?" The man's villainy of so few days ago" appeared now. In the -blessed light of circumstance, a pardonable, a forsetable offense. Here, when no considerations existed save then eternal and Vital ones,' all of Gratton's Grat-ton's futile trickery was as though it had never been. She was calling call-ing to him again, urging him to clamber up the cliff, bidding bim hurry before he was aeen. And then, before ner eager, eyes, be slumped down where he stood, lying In the snow. i rant, I've gone throuzb h I already. 1 am nearly dead. l couldn't climb up there. I Oh. : ray G d. why did I ever come Into this InTerno P "But It Is so easy," she tried to him, forgetful of her own terror at mounting up here. "I have done if "I can't" he said miserably, "it was all I could do to get this far. I I think I am dying" Again and again she pleaded with him. But be had either reached the limit of his physical endurance or, shaken and unnerved, he had not the courage to attempt the steep climb. To Gloria came the swift fear that the man might be dying. "I am coming to you I" she called. She began making the hazardous descent She did not take time to ask herself if she could make it; she knew only that she must After a weary time she came to the base of the cliffs. Gratton was not a dozen paces from her. He did not move, but looked at her in a strange, bewildered fashion. Seeing that he made no attempt to move, she made her way to him. "It's you Gloria Gaynor!" he muttered. "But I don't understand." "I came with Mark King. The storm caught us. Just as it caught you. But you must come with me ; if you lie here you will be chilled ; you will freeze." He shook his head. "I can't," he groaned. "I am more dead than alive, I tell you." He cast a bleak look up along the cliffs and shuddered. shud-dered. "I'd rather lie here and die than attempt it" Once for. Gloria was urging and pjeading. It was so clear to her that he would perish if he lay here. "There's a hole In the cliffs Just yonder," Gratton said drearily. "I was going to crawl In there when you called." Then Gloria saw for the first time the opening to that cave which In Gus Ingle's Bible had been set down as Caive "number one. . It was almost al-most directly'' under King's cave at the base of the cliffs; "Come, then," she $ald. "Let's see if it s big enough for a shelter." . Gratton heaved himself up with a groan. Gloria did not wait for him. but began the tedious breaking of a path the few feet to the hole. She could see nothing; she heard noth ing. Nothing save Gratton's hard breathing close behind her. She got a grip upon herself and made a step forward, paused, extended her arms to grope for a wall, and made another step. -There was still no sound ; she breathed more freely, as suring herself that save for herself the cavern was empty. She stum bled over a rock, stopped again and called to Gratton. Only now was he entering. . f She struck a match, carefully, cupped the tiny flame with her hands, and strove to see what lay about her. There was a litter of dead limbs about her feet She be gan gathering up some of the small er branches, groping for others as her match burned out. It was Gloria's hands which started the fire and placed the bits of dry wood upon It The flames crackled; the wood caught like tinder ; the flickering flicker-ing light retrieved much of the cav ern about them from the utter dark. "Here I stay," said Gratton. He dropped down and began warming his shaking hands. A more abject miserable specimen of humanity Gloria had never looked upon. He was Jaded, spiritless, cowed. . But he was a human being, and she was no longer alone! She was lifted from despair to a realm bright with hope. King had gone for succor she had a companion to share with her the dread hours of waiting. She caught up a burning brand as she had seen Mark King do, and hold Ing it high made a quick survey, go ing timidly step by step further from the entrance, deeper Into the cavern. It was much like the one so high above. Gratton could not or would not climb., to. the ..higher cave then why should they not make this their shelter? She would have to climb the cliffs again ; but she would have to do that In any case. Once un there it would be so simple a matter to toss down blankets and food and cooking uten slls; a half-hour would see her camp moved from one cave to the other. Eager and excited, she began be-gan to tell Gratton what she meant to do. "Wait a while," be urged her. am terribly shaken, Gloria. Do you think we are ever going to get out of this alive?" "Yes." Her voice rang with as surance. "Mark King has gone for help. All e have to do Is to wait for a few days." His. pale brows flew up. "Kine? He has gone?" He has left you alone here?" Again she said: "Yes." Gratton began plucking at his Hp, striding up and down now. It became obvious ob-vious to her that there bad been nothing wrong .within film beyond what his frantic terror had done to him. He began to look bis old selt "Now 111 go for the things in the other cave." she suggested. And as an afterthought : "Now that you are feeling better, perhaps yon will eo up with me and help? "Why," he said, "Why of course. Yes. we'll both go," nam ing,, seen .that she bad doae the thing with no misnap, ne was willing to do what before he could not da "Come." be said. "Let's hurry." They reached the upper cave. Her fire, though low; still burned. She put on more dry wood from the great heap King bad left for ber. She began to look abOHt planning plan-ning swiftly Just how easiest to move the few belongings which must K0 w5tn ner . to be contini'xjd.i SEAT OF LEARNING IN OLD POITIERS One of Europe's Oldest Institutions. Insti-tutions. The University of Poitiers, one of Europe's oldest institutions of learning, learn-ing, celebrated Its five hundredth anniversary an-niversary recently, In the little town of western France whose streets have echoed to the tread of more than 20 generations of students. "The town is all that a university town should be, relatively small (it has 37,000 Inhabitants), quiet untroubled un-troubled by much industry, picturesque, pictur-esque, and rich In mellow old monuments monu-ments of the past," says the National Na-tional Geographic society. "It lies midway between the English channel and the Pyrenees and about 75 miles Inland from the Bay of Biscay. "The English are really responsi ble for the existence of the Univer sity of Poitiers. Charles VII created the Institution in 1432 because Paris had fallen Into the hands of the English, Eng-lish, who also controlled the Univer sity of Paris. The French parliament parlia-ment had moved to Poitiers shortly before. By the close of the Fif teenth century the new university had a student body of approximately ,000, made up not only of French men, but also of Italians, Flemings, Scots and Germans "The most interesting structure In the city Is the temple of St Jean, which Is credited with being the old est Christian monument In France. It was built as a baptistry, possibly as early as the Fourth century, and was enlarged to serve as a parish church in the Seventh century. The floor of the spne structure Is now about ten feet below the level of the bordering street It Is used as museum of local antiquities. "Three battles have done more than all else to make Poitiers famous. All were fought at some distance from the town, but all were given its name. "At the first so-called Battle of Poitiers, In 507, Clovis defeated the Visogoths; at the second, In 732, Charles Martel saved Christendom overcoming the Mohammedan hosts; and at the third, in 1356, the British "Black Prince' defeated the French King John." "Lucie is the Happiest Girl" So- many mothers nowadays talk about giving their children fruit Juices, as If this were a new discovery. dis-covery. As a matter of fact, for over fifty years, mothers have been accomplishing results far surpassing anything you can secure from home prepared fruit Juices, by using pure, wholesome California Cal-ifornia Fig Syrup, which is prepared under the most exacting laboratory supervision from ripe California Figs, richest of all fruits In laxative and nourishing properties. It's marvelous to see how bilious, weak, feverish, sallow, constipated, under-nourished children respond to Its gentle Influence ; how their breath clears up,, color flames in their cheeks, and they become sturdy, playful, energetic again. A Western mother, Mrs. H. J. Stoll, Talley P. O, Nebraska, says: "My little daughter, Roma Luclle, was constipated from babyhood. I became worried about her and decided to give her some California Fig Syrup. It stopped her' constipation quick; and the way it improved her color and made her pick up made me realize how run down she had been. She is so sturay 8j.d-well.now,. and always in such good humor that neighbors say she's the happiest girl In the West- Like all good things, California Fig Syrup Is Imitated, but you can always al-ways get the genuine by looking for the name "Californian on the carton. 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