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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN ce anj lrrf 'ft! CHAPTER VII Continued 11 Indead of taklug out his water-jroof water-jroof match case Garth took up Ills piddlo. "The rule la never burn jour last match until you have to." Busby dipped his own paddle. Come on Mr. Ramlll. By his own iccount, three hours more will rid u of him and his Insolence." -Walt," said Llllth. She pointed H the hank where the pleasant green of young spruces showed imong the weathered white trunks tf fire-killed birch trees. "If we tire so much time we'll land there jnd clean up." "But with the post so near, my ieur Lllllth!" Huxby protested. That fellow Tobln had aDy amount af soap." "All the more reason. I'll not Live even a common navvy see me la this condition. The ras cnn't be helped. But the dirt!" Out burst her suppressed loathing for ill the grease and grime th.it imlrehed herself and the men. M"d! slime! runt-Id fat! spoiled eat! Ainu fJnrth, I know tlmt I bave to go In dressed like a squaw. But till this filth!" lie surged the canoe around shoreward with a powerful sweep of his paddle. "Not necessary. Miss Ramlll. A iron ring with hardwood nslies and cam) will do the work of soup. We tan go In sweet." They landed where an Ice jam of some spring break-up had gouged through the muskeg mud at the end of the ridge and' left a clear bench of glacial sand and gravel. Up over the ten-foot cut bank. Garth started I tire with one of his two remaining remain-ing matches. No cleaning could be done until the fires burned out. When Mr. B.'irnill took off the spits of cooked Beat, all squatted down as usual tu share the meal. Garth smiled his thitnks as he took the stub of hot Beat handed to him by the million-tire. million-tire. The smile hardened. A sudden change had fallen upon bis three companions. He could easily guess the cause. They realized real-ized that this was the lust tueul they were to share as fellow Toy-incurs Toy-incurs with him. The niomeut they stepped from the canoe onto the wharf at the emergency refueling post, their forced companionship with him la the lost valley and on all the long trip would be at an end. Instead Of a trio dependent upon their opponent op-ponent for food and guidance for life Itself they would be a trio Dot only Independent of, but hostile to him and his Interests. That was at least true of the two men. And even Ulltb betrayed Jo her look and manner vivid consciousness con-sciousness of the Impending change f relationship. As for Huxby, the Mid gloating In hla stare showed how he was anticipating the robbery rob-bery and ruin of the man who bad o far outplayed them. Mr. Ramlll had reacted In his n way. Ills temporary friendliness friendli-ness had disappeared. He was spnln the bland, adroit Investor In lines who so generously presented present-ed worthy prospectors with a thousand, thou-sand, gnd In return took over claims worth many thousands. Huxby Sad been a hopeless case. Rut Cari h had fancied there were possibilities pos-sibilities In the older pirate. l-INth Ramlll, however, was the real dltnppolntment. Though she kad done nothing so far as Garth Guild tell, to disprove her declared bat red of him, she had seemed fcore and more to show a spirit f fnlr play. It had led him Into thinking she possessed a true spirit Of sportsmanship. It.v the time Garth finished his 0n half spoiled meat, he managed 'o to swallow his bitterness. After II. what else could he have ex-px-tedf The girl was the daughter daugh-ter of Rurton Ramlll the seltls'i Mled daughter of an unscrupulous unscrupu-lous business shnrper. He broke In upon her rubbing Of tiie begrimed diamond: "May I .von for the salt and tea bags, lllss Ramlll? They're as good as '"I't.v. I see. But I can relil) them for my return to the volley." s''e stored at him, wide eyed Vnlieyt You you're going back there?" "T be sure. Why not? You f"'l. suppose I'll abandon all that bullion In my platinum placer" llnvliy'i face had gone blank III" agate eyes stared with all their f"ld riio.-or. But Mr Ramlll churl; ""'I "Of r nurse, my dear- the ""er e will be going hnrk to Ul I'l.-u-er t.ext spring." "'e girl did not turn her asion lhei a.i.v hm.v from Garth. "Ha 1 0' o( understand I do Vol. t'ritm inea' h"'!l" h"W ! ,'imi planned i "" til!. All no thp tlmt r.'irilmii "Good guess," he broke In. "It has taken a bit longer than I expected ex-pected to get you out. But In my light birch-bark, I fancy I can mnke the head of canoe water before the freeze up. After that, frost and snow will make no difference. I'll have a pair of webs snowshoes." The millionaire spoke In place of his wild eyed daughter: "But, man, the cold?" Garth smiled. "Have yon forgot ten I told you that I wintered with the Eskimos at Coronation Gulf?" "They have dog teams." "Some of those teams were reared from wolf pups. I might experiment. ex-periment. There are several wolf families In the valley." "You're stark mad! If you think you can" Mr. Ramlll paused. lie listened to what Huxby was muttering In his ear. His frown smoothed out, and he again favored Garth with the smile that did net go up as hlrh as his shrewd eyes. "Oh. well, my boy. If you're bound to risk your life In foolhardy fool-hardy adventuring, that's none of our business." "Quite so," Garth agreed. "If our sixty forty ileal bad not fallen through. It would bave been your business to do the legal assess merit work on the claim. But as things stand. I may as well put In tiie winter doing the work myself. The metal I sled out with my wolf team should pay enough to buy me a fair-sized freight plane." The millionaire beamed. "Yes ah true!" Garth smiled back at him. "By the way, I meant to let you discover dis-cover for yourselves at Fort Smith the happy surprise I've had all along for you. But since you're so pleased already over my prospects. I'll let you Into the secret right now." "Secret at Fort Smith?" "Yes. I forwarded my papers by the southbound Bellauca before I had the pleasure of meeting you and Miss Ita mill. My claim has been on record for the past four weeks or so." Huxby glared with t sudden change from gloating to cold rage: "You He! You were going out In your canoe." He was on his feet almost as soon as Garth. His fists swung in blows, driven by all the force of his furious anger. Garth sidestepped side-stepped both, and clipped In a hook to the Jaw. Huxby dropped as If hit by a sledge. Yet It was not a complete knockout After three or four seconds, he sat up, blinking like a dazed owl. Garth had stepped back. He said: "Apologize, or get np and take what Is coming to you." Huxby stopped blinking. The daze cleared from his eyes. They took on their usual calculating look. He felt the beard on hla sore jaw, and replied with cold deliberation: deliber-ation: "I withdraw the term." Arrogant aa was the tone, the words were an unqualified apology. Garth turned to Llllth, who stood gazing at him with a peculiar hard glow In her blue eyes. He spoke aa If nothing had happened: "Some of the ashes are now cool enough for you to use. Miss Ramlll. Rub them on as a mud paste till the potash cuts the grease, then scour with sand, and rinse. Better take your ashes In the blanket, and use It for protection while you do your laundering. The skeeta and bulldog files are awarming. You'll llnd a bit of snnd beach just untler thut clump of spruce." Without a word of thanks, she dragged the blanket to the edge of the nearest outburnt Are and began brushing the fluffy gray wood ashes umiu It with a spruce spray. Her father had been gazing thoughtfully thought-fully at Garth. He took up his empty foxskln bag. "Come on, Vivian. This Is wash day. Take I. tilth's bag and get your potash." v. The wolfskin knnpsocX, with Its platinum alloy treasure, hnd been left attached to the mooring line of the canoe. There was no bag for Garth, lie made one by opening the front of his buckskin shirt and hand ladling wood ashes Inside. I.lllth went over beyond the spruce thicket with her blanket-bagged blanket-bagged ushes. Garth led .Mr. Ramlll and lluxhy to the strip of sand below be-low the beached ciinoc. There he showed 1 1 it m how to cheat the buzzing Insect pests. Instead of stripping for his laundry work, he muddled his ashes and plastered j the p'iste all over his body and on j the inside unit outside of his ; fliithes. j lie rubbed In the mess and gave ! the weak lUfnUotr nf potash he; llinoto act Alter Ihut in me lite rinsing, lie w.iih-d out mid ll .m n j in the water up lo l(ls peck Thus ' protected from the swarms of stingers, be stripped off- one gar ment at a time, washed it clean of ashes, and tossed It upon the edge of the beach. Before coming out, be toek a luxurious swiin in the clear river water. ( First Ramlll and' then Huxby rather gingerly copied Garth's method. Like him, both wound up with a swim. Neither, however, ventured far out Into the vast slow flood of the Mackenzie. With the landing came the com edy. The others ended their bath Ing before Gurth. He tread water to watch them. Both had wrung out their clothea and flung them well up the beach. The moment they splattered ashore, the waiting swarms of blood suckers buzzed to the feast Huxby cursed, snatched up his half dry rags, and dashed back In, to dress untler water. .Mr. Ramlll. however, had no desire to put on wet clothes. He beat at the zlzzlng pests with his tattered union suit. It enabled him to get into the leather trousers and coat without being stung more than half a bun dred times. Garth's mirth was mixed with admiration for the mine Investor's nerve. Along with this he felt a glow of satisfaction over the results re-sults of what hla rigorous training had done for the once soft millionaire. million-aire. Though still heavy set, the portly gentleman had become something of an athlete In appear ance. Hla flabby muscles had been hardened; his loose jowls were now Arm. His paunch hnd disappeared "My word, sir," Garth sang out. "you look fit for the football squad. That should be worth more to you than a dozen platinum claims. At least, you might toss me my buck skins." Mellowed by the bath and swim to a temporary return of friendliness, friendli-ness, the millionaire chuckled and came down the beach to (ling the sodden garments out to their own er. His loitering afterwards may have been for Huxby. Yet he went back to the dead fires with Garth, when the engineer muttered some thing about having dropped his penknife. As the two disappeared over the top of the Ice-gouged bank. Huxby sprang to open the wolfskin knap Garth Side-Stepped Both, and Clipped in a Hook to the Jaw. aack. From it ha anatched out a piece of rancid bear-cub fat, a clip of pistol cartridges, and hla "lost" automatic. With swift, purposeful movements, move-ments, he rubbed the fat on the rusty pistol and began working the mechanism. It jammed repeatedly. repeat-edly. But aa the sun-melted fat soaked the rust, the action became normal Still quick yet unhurried, he loaded the clip Into the hollow butt and slid back the outer barrel to throw a cartridge Into the breech. As was of course to be expected Llllth Ramlll had not returned from her own dip and wood-ashes laundering. laun-dering. Garth sat down beside the tin cup and little aluminum pot to mend a rip In bla bucksklu trousers. Still In a friendly mood, but with shrewd calculation In his eyes, Mr. Ramlll stretched out on his back In the long grass beside Garth. "Well, young man. It appears that the game Is played out The joke on us Is that you had the cards stacked. A cold deck, and no stukes up." Garth differed: "Why not put It according to the facts, air? I of fered a square deal a straight business proposition. The placer was In on that. Had I not sent out my paper for record, I would have had no legal claim to offer In my bargaining." "Why er But when I refused your terms, and you refused mine, you said you preferred to play out the game." "My game," Garth qualified; "not yours. It was you and lluxhy who thought you hail the cards ctucked to win." ."But - your game? Vim -ind the placer clinched Why not have s.iid so nt once, or nt leasl Hi re at the lake when you turned the fables on us? I might have aciepted your terms At leasl we could Iij r il.m n out together. Instead ot going through nil' these neel; of pr,a lion, and hardship " The I :sl words on a- tie :;d glance from Garth. TUrtlahlp privation? Ton must know several fellow millionaires who call it prime sport to spend a month In the bush." "Sport?" "Oh, well. If you can't see that side of It, Just recall yourself as , you were when I had to hoist yu out of the monoplane cabin." That held the millionaire for s long moment. Then "Admitting how much I've benefited bene-fited from your henlth cure, hoctor Garth, your methods have done my future son In law no good. As for my daughter, to drag a delicately nurtured lady Into the dirt and privations and dangers of your ruw wilds!'. "Kellcafer Garth cut In. "Ho you knov of anyone more hard? The point In her case Is that she was only a brittle, harsh alloy. Now she's at leust partly tempered Into true steel. I hud hopes of still better bet-ter results from the both of you. But hate and treuchery blacken the blood." At the bitter statement, the millionaire mil-lionaire Hushed with anger. He started to turn over on his side to frown at Garth. The movement drew Garth's glance. Above a clump of wild currants, less than ten paces distant, he glimpsed the top of Huxhy's hat and the outthrust muzzle of the automatic. As Garth ducked forward, the pistol blured. Garth pitched down on his face. At the same Instant, startled by the shot, Mr. Ramlll Jerked up on bis elbow. The long grass bad hidden him. Huxby could not have known that his partner was lying so close bcshle Garth. In the excitement of the moment, he must have thought he had missed hla kill and that Garth was bounding up again. He Instantly pulled the trigger a second time. Knocked over by the shock of the bullet, the millionaire sprawled across the flaccid body of Garth. Kven as the roar of the second shot dinned In his ears, the killer saw what he had done. The pistol dropped from his paralyzed hand. Betore he could recover his wits, Lllith burst screaming from the spruce thicket. Half clad, wet hair (lying, she dashed forward to tling herself down on her hare knees beside be-side her father. Under the partly washed off cont of mosquito dope, his face was the same sallow gray as Garth's. She looked np, her eyes black with horror. Huxby had risen to his feet He w-as advancing, once more cool. She flung out a forbidding forbid-ding hand. "Stop I Keep away! You murderer mur-derer !" His lips tightened. "You're mnd, darling clear off your head. 1 shot to suve your father, not at him. No, listen you must listen to me! The d d roughneck attacked your fatherwith fa-therwith the knife had him down. At my first shot be dodged. I thought I missed. Your father sprang up just as I fired again. It's the truth." "Truth!" she cried "t r u t h 1 You've killed them both!" Huxby advanced with wary quickness. quick-ness. But at sight of the (wo na-u he had shot, he thrust his coat-bidden coat-bidden pistol Into Its sheath. All the back of Garth's sideward turned bead was a crimson blotch. Wh.it need of wasting powder on a man shot through the head? Mr. Ramlll's wound gave him no less satisfaction, though for an exactly ex-actly opposite reason. The bullet had struck high up on the shoulder blade, between neck and arm. Huxby Hux-by pulled the thickset body from under Llllth and opened the front of the leather coat The steel-Jacketed bullet had drilled clean through and come out below the collarbone. "Look!" he shouted his relief. "Your father he's not killed, only knocked out The wound's not serious, seri-ous, so high up through the chest Same way one of my classmates was shot by a holdup. Take hold. We'll get him Into the canoe and make a quick run down across to the refueling post. That fellow Tobln will have a medical kit." The pulling of her father from under her had let the girl down upon the body of Garth. Huxhy's eager assurance roused her from the semi-swoon. She struggled partly part-ly up, to peer at her father, her hands braced upon Garth's lax side. Even as she giized, the gray of her father's face became less ghastly. But In place of the smile of relief for which Huxby looked, she sprang up to Hare at him in another an-other outburst of denunciation: ;'Murtlererl Liar There's his knife where i left It. He did not have It! I.lnr! Snenk! He did not attack Dad. But you you crawled up and shot him without warning!" warn-ing!" lluxhy dropped his mask. "What of It? The d-d wood louse lied tirst. He thought It funny to keep mum about having recorded his claim to pluy your futher and me ull this time. Great Joke that. Only It back fired on hlrn. I'm the only pilot who Oil it Mnd the valley. No one can say that the claim we file on is the sti me us the one he re corded." (TO UE CXmiXVKD) Lafayette Lovrd Dogs The great l.n'.-m-tte. mie nf t' must f:itinii inai-lilaiK of the l.i-reiitlirv. l.i-reiitlirv. so loved MS dug I'.i-iihH iliat ti MH t r: i IT ot the dug iiilrliel .ill nil i In rl.i and thrnler runt met A plelnre of the dog hung outride liis I. nil Ion I te Willi the inscilp i hill, " I he more I it of men tinmen' tin-men' I love il";; " Wmmm "Maniac in SchooV By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. SUPPOSE, for the sake of arment, that you had to choost between being confronted in a lonely spot by a ruthless, crafty murderer who hated you. or'an armed irresponsible maniac who didn't even know you. Which would you choose? Man fears the unknown and, not knowing the mental processes of a lunatic, 1 think I would prefer to go up against the known danger of the most cunnnlg murderer. Don't you? Mrs. Fannie SI. Foot didn't have that choice, aa thla true adventure will show. When Fannie wis -only sixteen, she taught In a little district school In ths mountains of Vermont Ths school-house stood In a lonely hollow at the foot of a towering mountain In a wild and Isolated spot Ten pupils were In her charge, all young children who lived oTer the mountain. The children came to school In an old buckboard wagon pulled by a gentle old horse and driven by the oldest boy. School-Marm Learns About Bears. Fanny lived a mile from the school-house and walked morning and afternoons through the woods to her furnished room. At noon children and the teacher ate their lunches from din. ner palls by the side of the brook and laughed at stories of bears that ate up Little Red Riding Hoods and Goldle Locks. "A bear won't hurt you," the mountain youngsters told their teacher from the city, "unless you pester him." There was nothing In those wild woods, Fannie says, that frightened those nature loving kids and soon she began to feel the same way. But one tiny, while the sun shone brightly overhead, something came out of the woods thut sent the cold chills of horror and dread to the young teacher's heart Bears Weren't the Only Frights Around Here. It was during the recess period after lunch. The children were romping romp-ing and playing in the yard. Fannie sut at her desk preparing the n lesson. Suddenly one of the girls rushed Into the schoolhouse and pointed excitedly to the edge of the woods. Fannie glanced out and her heart, she says, came Into her mouth. A strange man stood staring at the children In a way that alarmed her. Tattered rags draped his tall, powerful form and a shock of long, unkempt un-kempt hair hung down on his shoulders. He was barefooted and In bis bund t-arriet, a heavy knotted club. The man watched the children playing for a moment and then with a silly laugh hounded among them as though to join In their play. Despite Without a Word He Shuffled to an Empty Desk. bis size he was as active as a cat. He giggled as the frightened children ran from him and swung his club wildly about him. just missing their little heads. Fannie says that she could see at once that the man was either drunk or crary. With fear clutching at her throat she rang the school bell for the children. And with them marching as though he were one a the pupils pu-pils came the strange mm I Fannie didn't know what to do. She was trying bard not to show ber fear to the pupils but a close view of the man, she says, simply terrified her. Teaching "Book-Learnin " to a Madman. She could see now, by the wild light In his staring eyes, that he was not drunk. She had a maniac on her hands and prayed to God for strength o protect her charges. The children went to their seats, their little faces pale and tense. The man stood looking about him in a dazed way. Without a word he shuffled to an empty desk and squeezed his huge bulk Into it And then began the strangest class ever taught by a schoolteacher! school-teacher! Fannie realized that the ragged stranger's diseased mind had gone back to his school days, lie clutched the club In his hand still, but sat staring at her like a little hoy of six. The teacher decided to humor him and at the same time try to quiet the fears of her charges. She picked up a book and holding Its pages with both bands to hide their trembling she read a story. As she read, Fannie listened hopefully for the sound of horse's hoofs along the country road. If someone would only come. But no one did come. At last It was time to go home. She dismissed the class aa though nothing was wrong. The children hurried nervously for their wraps. And, as they did, the thlrvg the teacher dreaded hap. pened. The Insane man started to leave tool This would never do. The .hlldren above all, must be protected. Fannie never hesitated. hesi-tated. She walked right up to the man's desk and pointed a stern finger at him. "You must stay after school," she ordered. Well, sir. It worked. The deluded man hung his bead md the chll-i'i-cn, wasting no time, were soun rattling off. Her charges were safe, hut Funnie was now alone with a maniac I Madman Proves Just One More Unruly Pupil. She wulted until tiie biiekhourd was out of earshot. Should she run ind trust to her heels? No, the man could easily catch her. Better keep up the delusion of school days. The man's eyes still bored hers with that awful stare. What If he should suddenly change and become violent? She pulled herself together and picking up a tirst render walked right up to him. "Here," she said sternly, "Go home now and study your lesson for tomorrow." Mechanically the man took the book and stood up. He towered tow-ered over Fannie and clutched his club. And then, by golly, he walked right out the door like a dutiful little boy and disappeared Into the woods. ow l-'unnie was lit to be tied by the time the mountaineers came and got her. They took her home and then scoured the woods for the cause of It all. They didn't Mud the si lunger for a w hole month. I'niiule says, and when they did, he uus deud. And in bis rigid hand clutched In deutli wa the little Brat reader I O WNU Svrvlc. The St. Lawrence River The St. I.nw'i ence river iiciually rises at the sou ire of the Si Loots river, neur I he headwater of the MKslxslppI In Minnesota 0ows Into Ijlke Superior, then thrioigli the other Ureal l.nl.e mid empties lixrlf Into Ihe lliilf of Si Lawrence, nt Cape G-ipi Province of (Juelieo. I f course, tochiilr-iU speaking, the St Laurence Is only that part of the river which ll" from Uike Ontario to Cape Guspe, 770 miles. FLOYD GIBBONS Adventurers' Club The "Copperheads" In the Civil war the inline "Copperheads" "Cop-perheads" was applied as a tent of reproach lo those In the North ho were sympathetic with the South Mot of theiu ere the so-rnlled so-rnlled pence I iciuocmrs. They were strong in New York, tihlo. mid In dmnu. and In ISU't their Ohio lead er. Cle;m nl L. 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