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Show THE North of Fifty-Thr-ee BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR BY (Copyright: Little, Brown & Co.) HAZEL ATONES FOR HER THOUGHTLESSNESS BY ING A putting a stop to her activities with shovel and pall. Until the wound lost Its soreness she was forced to be idle. So she rambled along the creek one afternoon, armed with hook and line on a pliant willow In search of MAK- LUCKY "STRIKE." sport Synopsis Miss Hazel Weir, a stenographer, living at Granville, Ontario, Is placed under a cloud by circumstances for which she Is entirely blameless. To escape from the groundless gossip that pursues her, she secures a position us schoolteacher at Ctirlboo Meadows, la a wild part of British Columbia. There, at a boarding house, she first sees "Honrlng Iilll" WuKStuff, a character of the country. Soon after her arrival Hazel loses her way while walking In the woods. She wunder8 until night when tdie reaches "Itourlng mil's" cump Are In the woods. He promises to take her home In the morning, but she is compelled to spend the night In the wood. After wandering in the woods nil the next day, "Roaring Iilll" finally admits that he is tuklng Hazel to his cabin In the mountulns. Hazel finds upon their arrival nt the cabin that she cannot hope to escape from the wilderness before spring. During the long winter "Roaring Bill" treats Hazel with the greatest respect. He tells her he loves her and tries to Induce her to mnrry him, but she refuses. In the spring he takes her to Bella Coolu, where she can get'a boat to Vancouver. At Vancouver Hazel takes a fuln for Grauvllle, but on the way she realizes that phe loves Wagstnlt and decided to return to him. ''Ronrlng Bill" Is overjoyed and together they travel to a Hudson bay post and are married. After several months they decide to go further into the mountains to a spot where Bill Is confident there Is gold. Arrived at their destination, Bill builds a cabin and cuts sufllclcnt liny to feed the horses till spring. Hazel allows sparks from the chimney to set Are to the stable, which Is burned with all the hny. To keep the animals from death by starvation, Bill Is compelled to shoot them. The trout were hungry, and struck at the bolt She soon had plenty for supper and breakfast Wherefore she abandoned that diversion and took to prying tentatively In the lee of certain boulders on edge of the creek prospecting on her own Initiative, as It were. She had no pnn, and only one hand to work with, but she knew gold when she saw It and, after all. It was but an Idle method of killing time. In this search she came upon a large, rusty pebble, snuggled on the downstream side of an overhanging rock right at the water's edge. It attracted her first by Its symmetrical form, a perfect ovul ; then, when she lifted It, by Its astonishing weight She continued her search for the d stones, carrying the rusty pebble along. Presently she worked her way back to where Roaring Bill labored prodigiously. "Look at these pretty stones I found." she said. "What are they, fiercely well-know- n CHAPTER XII. 11 Jack Frost Withdraws. All through the month of Jnnuary each evening, as dusk folded Its somber mantle about the meadow, the wolves gathered to feast on the dead horses, till Hazel's nerves were strained to the snapping point Sometimes, when Bill was gone, and all about the cabin was utterly still, one, bolder or hungrier thnn his fellows, would trot across the meadow, drown by the scent of the meat. Two or three of these ITuzel shot with her own rifle. But when February marked another span on the calendar the wolves came no more. The bones were clean. There was no Impending misfortune or danger that she could point to or forecast with certitude. Nevertheless, struggle against It as she might, knowing It for pure psychological phenomena arising out of her harsh environment. Hazel suffered continual vague forebodings. The bald, white peaks seemed to surround her like a prison from which there could be no release. From day to diiy she was harassed by dismal thoughts. She would wake In the night clutching at her husband. Such days as he went out alone she passed in restless anxiety. Something would happen. What It would be she did not know, but to her It seemed that the bleak stage was set for un toward drama, and they two the pup pets that must play. When Bill drew her up close In Ms arms, the intangible of the wilderness and ail the dreary monotony of the days faded Into the background. But they, no more than others who have tried and failed for hick of understanding, could not live their es with their heads In an emotional clou.. For every action there mat be a corresponding reaction. They who hnve the capacity to reach the heights must likewise, upon occasion, plumb the depths. Life, she began to realize, resolved flsw-linto an unending succession of little, trivial thing, with here and there some great event looming out above all the rnt for Its bestowal of hnpplncKs or pain, February and March stormed a path furiously arrows the calendar. Higher and higher the drifts piled about the enbln. till at length It was bnnked to the eaves with snow save where It'll shoveled it away to let light to the windows. tay after day thry kept Indoors, stoking op the Ere. Ils!entn2 to the triumphant whoop of the wind. "Know, snow 1" Haz' l burst out one "Frost that cuts yon like a day. knife. I wish we were home again or some place." "So do L little person," Bill said gently. "But spring's almost st the door. Hang on a little longer. We've made a fair stake, anyway, if we don't wash an ounce of gold. "How are we going to gel It all outT She voiced a troublesome thought "boulder pack to the hp answered laconically. "isuiid a dugout there, and Coat downstream. Portage the rapids as they corne." "(Hi, Blllf She csme and leaned ber heart against him contritely. "Our poor ponies! And It was ail my f . . . la that prrrmt fallow tnatal eovebt men tr rsion Far"l toil; mlt la pstisat hop of farloas Breaker of discord, wars, aad tnardrf u lat; s spoil. Th victor Bo Ilssel quoted, leaning over her kusband's shoulder. In the bottom of tf pan, shining among a Elm of black mm r.f lav half a Art9jn l.rlcKt gold rIs, woman." "It mock solemnity. gold he declaimed, with "Gold glittering "Say. where did yon find this?" he asked when Hazel stared at the nugget dumb In the face of this unex pected stroke of fortune. "Just around the second bend." she cried.- "Oh, Bill, do you suppose mere- any more there?" "Lead me to It with my trusty pan and shovel, and we'll see," Bill smiled. Forthwith they set out The over hanging boulder wss a scant ten min utes' walk up the creek. Within five minutes his fingers brought to light a second lump, double the size of her And. Close upon that he winnowed a third. Hazel leaned over him. breathless. At last he reached bottom. The boulder thrust out below In a natural shelf. Fmtn 1hls Bill carefully scraped the accumu lation of black sand and gravel, glean ing as a result of his labor a baker's dozen of ssjMirted chunks one glsnt that must have weighed three pounds. He sat back on his hsuncbes, and looked at his wife, speechless. "Is that truly all gold, Bllir she whispered Incredulously. "It certainly is as good gold as ever went Into the mint." he assured. "All laid In a nice little nct on this shelf of rock. That's a real, honest pocket And a one, if yon ak me." "My goodness p she murmured. There might be wagonloads of It In Ibis cretk." There might, bnt If Isn't likely." Bi'l shook his hid. "This Is a simon-pur- e a grsd-nnt- e pocket, and It would ke-mineralogist guessing to sa how It got here, because It's a d'fferent proposition from the wsh gold In the crwk bed. It's rich placer ground, st that but this pocket's almost Mnst be forty pounds of rold there. And yon found If. Tou're the orlclnsl mascot, little perwn." He bestowed a bearlike hug upon her. "Now what 7" she asked. "It hsrd'y erns real to pick np several thousand dollars In hslf sn hour or so like this. What will we dor To? Why. Mess your sotjl." he lanehed. "Well Jnf ronsider ourselves extra Inrky. and keep right on with the gm till the high water makes us qTilf." Whirti si as a contingency neorer at hand thnn Bill, with a first-hanknowle.'. f,f the North's vagaries-- In the way r,f fowl, qtilte Three dsys after the finding of the pneket the whole floor of the creek wss awash. His rocker went downstream overnight When Bill saw that he rolled Mrnself a cigarette. r,d. potting one loor arm across his wife's hoii1rs. said whimsically: "What o"yow say we stsrt horn 7 well-line- vc x p In the Bottom ef His Pan Lay Half a Daren Bright Specks. make a resrpectabU showing on Hazel's And Hzd outspread handkerchief. "as In a gleeful tnood over the fart that she had nnearthed a big nnget t,y Beginner's lock. Bill said tessinely, but that did not diminish her elation. As the days passed there seemed no nistIon of their complete success. Bill fabricated Ms rocker, a primitive, bojlike device with a blanket screen snd transverse slsts below, ft wss thsn the pen, even rude ss H wss. and It caught all tot the fmr particles of gold. A twist of Inck put the rsp-sbeon tfcelr nndertaklng. Hazel ran splinter of wood Into band, thus brif. fir qnr sf tr to glamor, but hud become a thing flee from. She bestowed a glud pressure on her husband's arm as they walked up the street, Bill carrying the sack of fluid perched carelessly on one shoulder. "Say, their enterprise has gone the length of establishing a branch bank here, I see." He called ber attention to a square-foote- d walls edifice, Its as yet guiltless of paint, except where a row of black letters set forth that It was ths Bank of British North America. "That's a good place to stow this bullion," he remarked. "I want to get it oft my hnnds." So to the bank they bent their steps. Englishman A solemn, horse-facereweighed the gold, and Issued Bill a that ceipt, expressing a polite regret finelack of facility to determine Its ness prevented blm from converting it into cash. 'That means a trip to Vancouver," Bill remurked outside. "Well, we can ei NERVES CAVE OUT Serious Kidney Trouble Had Made Life Miserable, But Doan's Removed All the Trouble. Ilasn't Suffered Since. "I had such severe pains tn my back," says Mrs. Albert Akroyd, 304 w. Indiana Avenue, Philadelphia, Fa., "that tbey almost doubled me up. Many a day I could not do my housework and at every move it seemea as ir my back would break In two. My feet and ankles swelled until I had to wear large-size- d slippers and sometimes I cou'.du't stand up. "I had dizzy spells and dreadful head-ach- d and fiery flashes passed be- -a Mrs. Akrerd fore my eyes. Had heavy weight been resting on my head, the pain could not have been more distressing. The least noise startled me, I wus so nervous. I couldn't control d the kidney secretions and the pain """ In passage was awful. "It began to look as though my case was beyond the reach of medicine until I used Doan'i Kidim Ftllt. The first box benefited me and four boxes cured all the troubles. I have hud no further cause for complulnt." Sworn to before me. Thus. 1L Walters, Notary PubHo, Cat Doss's at Aav Star. 60s Baa stand that" From the bank they went to the hotel, registered, and were shown to a room. For the first time since the summit of the Klappan Range, where her tiny hand glass had suffered disaster, Hazel was permitted a clear view of herself In a ntlrror. "I'm a perfect fright I" she mourned. "Huh!" Bill grunted. "Tou're all right. Look at me." The trail had dealt hardly with both, in the matter of their personal appearance. Tanned to an abiding brown, e they were, and Hazel's smooth face was spotted with fly bites and marked with certain scratches suffered in the brush as they skirted the Klsplox. Her balr bad lost Its sleek, glossy smoothness of arrangement Her hands were reddened and rough. But chiefly she was concerned with the sad state of her apparel. She hud come a matter of four hundred miles In the clothes on ber back and they bore unequivocal evidence of the Journey. "I'm a perfect fright," she repeated "One's manners, morals, pettishly. clothing, and complexion all suffer from too close contact with your beloved North. Bill." "Thanks 1" be returned shortly. "I suppose I'm a perfect fright too. Long balr, whiskers, grimy, calloused hands, and all the rest of It A shave and a balr cut a bath and a new suit of clothes will remedy that But 111 be the same personality In every essential quality that I was when I sweated over the Klappan with a hundred pounds on my back." "I hope so," she retorted. "I don't require the shave, thank goodness, but I certainly need a bath and clothes. I w l.sh I had the gray suit that's probably getting all moldy and moth-eateat the Bine River cabin. I wonder If I can get anything fit to wear herer "Women live here," Bill returned quietly, "and I suppose the stores supply 'em with duds. Unllmber that bank roll of yours, and do some shopping." She sot on the edge of the bed. regarding her reflection In the mirror with extreme disfavor. BUI fingered his thick stubble of a beard for a thoughtful minute. Then he sat down beside ber. '"".??.' 1 mollnh. honr he wheedled. "What makes yon men patch all at oncer "Oh, I don't know," she answered dolefully. "Fro tired and hungry, and I look a fright and oh. Just everything." Tut. tut!" he remonstrated That's Just mood sgaln. We're out of the woods, llterslly and figuratively. If you're hungry, let's go and see what we can make this hotel produce in the wsy of grub, before w-do anything else." "I wouldn't go Into their dining-roolooking like this for the world," she said decisively. "All right; yon go shopping, then." he proposed, "while I take these furs op to old Hack's place and turn them Into money. Then we'll dress, and make this hotel fHd us the best they've got Cheer up. Maybe it was tough on yon to slice a year out of your life snd leave it In a country where there's nothing but woods and eternal silence but we've got around twenty thousand dollars to show for It. Hazel. And one can't get something for nothing. There's a price mark on It somewhere, always. Be my good little pat snd see if yon csn't make one of these stores die op a white wslst and a black skirt, like you had on the first time I ssw yon." He klswd her. snd went quickly out And after a long tiro of sober staring nt her Image In the glass Hazel shook herself Impatiently. "I'm a silly, selfish. Incompetent little beast" ahe whispered. "Bill ought to thump me. Instead of being kind. I can't do anything, and I don't know much, and Ira a scarecrow for looks right now. And I started out to be a real partner." .ft" "Oh Bill," Hazel Called from the Bow. "Lookl" shoot to the Skeena. I don't think it's more than fifty or sixty miles to where we can take to the water." They made better time on the west ern slope, but the Journey became a matter of sheer endurance. Food was scanty flour and salt and tea; with meat and fish got by the wuy. And flies tho black and mosquitoes swarmed about them maddeningly day and night So tbey came at last to the Skeena, and Hazel's heart misgave her when aha took note of Its swirling reaches, the sinuous eddies a deep, swift treacherous stream. But Bill rested overnight and In the morning sought and felled a sizable cedar, and began to hew. Slowly the thick trunk shaped Itself to the form of a boat under the steady swing of his ox. In a week It was finished. They loaded the sack of gold, the bundle of furs, their meager camp outfit amid ships, and swung off lolo the stream. The Skeena drops fifteen hundred feet In a hundred miles. Wherefore there are rapids, boiling stretches of white water In which many a good canoe baa come to grief. Some of these they rnn at Imminent peril. Over the worst they lined the canoe from the bank. And In the second week of July they brought up at Uie bead of Klsplox Canon. Hazel ton lay a few miles below. But the Klsplox stayed them, a sluice box cut through old stone. In which the waters raged with a deafening roar. No man ventured Into that wild gorge. Tbey abandoned the dugout lull slung the sack of gold and the bale of furs on his back. "It's the Inst lap. Hazel," said he. "Well leave the rest of It for the first Slwash that happens along." So they set out brsvely to trudge th remaining distance. And as the fortunes of the trail sometimes befall, they raised an Indian camp on the bank of the river at the mouth of 111 made the canon, A them possessors of another canoe, and an hour later the roofs of IlnzeKon cropf-- np above the lmnk. "Oh, Bill." Hazd called from the bow. "Look! There's the same old steamer tied to the same old bank. We've been gone a year, and yet the world hasn't changed a mite. I won der if Hazelton has taken a IUp van Winkle sleep all this timer "No fear," he smiled. "I can see some new hous-inite a few. In fact And look by Jimloyl They're work ing on the grade. That railroad, re-- DOAN'S r d s r tneUibef He drove A two-stor- CO, BUFFALO. N. Y. FOSTER-MU-BUR- Jane Susie June knit Io No. All Knitting. you knit? (let busy, kid ; even bones FRECKLES Now U tb Tia.9 to Cot Rid of TbcM Ugly 5pu Thtre'a no Innircr tho oltKhtrot nrtd of no thv ii a uahamfd of your fret-kila othlne double irn-gtto rrmovo thapoto. homely Mm ply on ounco of otbine Hloublo otrcneth (mm your 4rujrlat. and apply ft little of It nliUit and morn in and ymi attould aoon aca that even the worat frecktra havo bt run to dianppear. while tho IlRhtrr ont-- i have vanished entire!. It la Oftdom that mora than one ounce la needed to mmpletpfy clear the akin nd gala ft beautiful clear completion. lie aura to oak ft r the doubta otrenrth oth Ine. at thte la add under guarantee of money back if It faUo to remove frerkleo. Adv. t fc-- tuar-ontr-t- -- Bitter Thoughts. IVsttr Have you forgotten that Oils U. our wetMlnj annhrertuu-yMrs. f Mr. IVstt'i Whiit a pKKlmlHt you ure to brood over such 8ubJcU. LEMONS DO MAKE THE WHITE SKIN n . sr e the canoe alongside a float. few loungers viewed tl.etn with frank curiosity. Bill M--t out the treasure sack and the bale of furs, and tied Bill suddenly realizes that the canoe. Hazel is tired of ths wildcrneas "A new hotel, by Jove!" he re and he decides on a move thst Is marked, when epon gaining the level to have a big effect on their of the town a new Wild;rg later lives. A hint of what la to blazoned with a huge sign Its funccorns Is (lven In tho nest install. tion ss a hostelry, "Getting quite mnU metropolitan In this neck of the woods. Hay, little person, do yon think yon can relish a square meal? Blanked TO BE CCTINCKD. steak and lobster salad huh? I wonder If they could rustle a salsd In this "Doctorlno" Hsliotropo. man's town? Ssy. do yon know I'm The delicate be I lot rot I. srirrs mnit t Just ginning to find out bow hungry unprofitable to the nerfun.ee. It Am. I in for the flesh pots. Aren't yon, tects In Its odor, however, the sroma CHAtTER XIII, j hour or vsnna combined wltn the ahsrper She wss; frankly so. For long. scent of bitter almonds. Therefore, he Tes 8tres f th TrsiJ. monotonous; months she bad been sdls to a tincture of vaniu a Hiring Bill dnrnpM Mss-rvrnpark struggling sgslnst Just such crating, quantity of the otto of Mtt. almonds on fhe rsmmlt of the Klspr-sn- . end irprrsif,i ef realization, and thererose and orange flower essence. lookw) ar--y to where the val ey that fore all the more tantalizing. She had and ana thus easila makes extract of "pened out of Ui asin showed Its been a ys t la U rildrBs a4 d-- care-lessries- a. "Never mind, hon," he comforted. They blinked out without suffering. And we'll make It like a rbarro, Iu gam It'll soon be spring." By April the twentieth the abdication of Jack f'mst was complete. A kindlier despot ruled the land, and Bill Wagsfaff began to talk of gold. "Those?" no looked at her outstretched palm. "Cornets." "Garnets? They must be valuable then," she observed. -yes, ir you can tlnd any of any size. What's the other rock?" he Inquired casually. "You making a col lection of specimens?" "That's Just a funny stone I found," she returned. "It must be Iron or something. It's terribly heavy for Its size." "Fh? Let me see it" he said. She banded It over. He weighed It In his palm, scroti nlzed it closely, turning It over and over. Then he took out his knife and scratched the rusty surface vigorously for a few minutes. "Huh!" he grunted. "Look at your runny stone. He held It out for her Inspection. The blade of the knife had left a dull yellow scar. "Ohl" she gasped. "Why it's the wilderness had not only lost its one-tim- BillT" size to the big varying from ness of a grain of wheat 'That's the stuff," Bill murmured "It looks as If we'd struck It pretty fair. It's time, too the June rise will hit us like a whirlwind one of these days." "About what Is the value of those little pieces?" Hazel asked. "Oh, fifty or sixty cents. he answered. "Not much by itself. But It seems to be uniform over the bar and I can wash a good many pons In a day's work." "I should think so," she remarked. "It didn't take yon ten minutes to do that one." "Whlty Lewis and I took out over two hundred dollars a day on that other creek last spring no. a year last spring, it was." he observed remlnls-centl"This Isn't as good, but It's not to be sneezed at either. I think I'll make me a rocker." "I can help, can't IT" she said eagerly. "Sure." he ml 1. Ton help a lot. little person. Just sitting around and keeping me company." "But I want to work." she declared. "I've sat around now till I'm getting the fidgets." "All right; Til give you a Job." he returned "Meantime, let's eat that lunch yon packed up here." In a branch of the creek which flowed down through the basin. Bill hnd found plentiful colors as soon as the first big run-of- f of water had fallen. He had followed upstream painstakingly, panning colors always, and now and then a few grnlns of coarse gold to encourage him In the quest The loss of their horses precluded ranging far afield to that other gtaclat stream which he had worked with Whltey I .en Is when be was a free lance In the North. He was close to his hsse of supplies, and he had made wages with always the prospector's lure of a rich' strike on the next bsr. "In the morning," said he, when lunch was over, "I'll bring along the ax and some Balls and a shovel, and get busy." That night they trudged down to the cabin In high spirit. Bill hsd wnhed out enough during the afternoon to . blurred hollow In the distance. But he uttered no useless regrets. With horses they could have ridden south through a rolling country, where every stretch of timber gave on a grass-grow- n level. Instead they were forced back over the rugged route by which they bad crossed the range the sum mer before. Grub, bedding, furs and gold totaled two hundred pounds. On his sturdy shoulders Bill could pack half that weight. For his wife the thing was a physical Impossibility, even had be permitted her to try Hence every mile advanced meant that he doubled the distance, relaying from one enrap to the next. They cut their bedding, to a blanket apiece, and that was Hazel's load all he would allow ber to carry. "Tou're no pack mul little person," he would sny. "It don't hurt me. I've done this for years." But even with abnormal strength and endurance, It was killing work to buck those ragged slopes with a heavy load. Only by terrible, unremitting ef fort could he advance any appreciable distance. They were footsore, and their bodies ached with weariness that verged on pain when they gained the pass that cut the aummlt of the Klap-pau range. "Well, we're over the hump," Bill re marked thankfully. "It's a downhill plnk-Ish-re- pin-poi- mt-nnc- NEPHI, UTAH. 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