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Show IiEAVEIt PRESS most cold blooded, c a c u I at 1 n g schemer can be tortured Into crazed The millionaire lifted his head violence. net to take a gingerly nibble at bis Miss Ramlll glanced op from her hot meat His heavy face bright cooking, and uttered a startled cry. ened with a surprised smile. He It awakened her father from his smacked his Hps and bit off large doze. He sat erect to stare at Huxmouthful. At the sound, his daugh by. ter Jerked around. Garth was bit "My G d, Vivian, what's haping Into the other piece of liver. You look like something pened? The girl cried out her Indlgna the cat brought home," tlon; "You greedy pigst Where's "Those d d pests," Uuxby my piece?" cursed. "Left my headnet Hey, Garth pointed to the moosehlde. you airplane thief, fetch me a drink. "Help yourself, Jump lively," He met her furious look with Garth lifted his rifle. "Put op cool Indifference, and went on eatyour hands. No, don't reach for Unable to blast bini, she ing. your pistol. Dp with them,. or I'll turned to her father. wing you That's It Now hold "I'll take yours. Dad. You've them there while Mr. Ramlll takes had two bites. It will not take you your pistol. I've had enough of your long to cook another piece. Make threatening."' It three." The millionaire looked at Garth's At that. Garth swung around beLie stalked through the timber. cool gray eyes, and heaved himself tween father and daughter. For the first hundred feet or so be"Mr. Ramlll, we'll settle this right upon his feet to shuffle around out from the shore thickets, wil hind Huxby's shoulder. He pulled now. You to said her leave the both sides of lows grew along you'd me. I cooked that meat for you. open the leather Jacket and drew low edge, A peer through the showed the Immense palmate She will cook her own meat or go without." antlers of an old bull moose. The older man sat for several moGarth flattened down on the d dyke and crawled ments considering the matter. He away from the bank. Shoreward, then raised his piece of meat and Lilith Ramlll on the other side, he caught sight resumed his meal of a slight movement among the stared at him, her eyes wlda But wait till "My own father willows. He rose on his knees and swung up his rifle. Though he was Vivian comes back I" He winced. Garth Ignored her. still screened by the brush along "Better He down and rest sir. side the ledge, his quick movements You've done enough for a while. I'm t sent a strong whiff of going to get you Into hard training downwind. With loud snorts of alarm, two as soon as possible. But we must cow moose, a calf, and a young bull not overdo It at the start Might heaved up among the willows less mean a breakdown." "I am tired, boy and hungry as than a dozen yards apart They started to plunge forward out of a shark. Could eat all the rest of the thicket Garth's first shot that liver." "Not now. You'll rest, do some dropped the calfless cow with a bullet through the head. His sec work, and then get another slice. ond bullet glanced off the base Call this valley oue of those physiof the bull's left antler. Partly cal culture sanitariums where the stunned by the shock, the bull tired business man Is worked and swerved sideways, only to drop In dieted back into tit condition." "I have yet to agree to such his tracks, shot through the heart A ffew steps along the bank training, Garth." brought him to a game trail through "Take your choice. If you re the thickets. He laid down his rifle fuse, I give you my word you'll and waded out to the dead bull, never reach the Mackenzie. 1 might mat back-pacThe body lay on a you in some places; you of willow stems. Garth at once set don't Garth Lifted His Rifle. "Put Up weigh much over two hunto work with his knife. Your Hands." dred. Happens, though, I'm not a When he had finished with the donkey. You'll go on your era the automatic pistol from Its high-slunShe feet." bull, he went to the cow. sheath. Holding the butt weighed perhaps 200 pounds less, "Very well. Put me on them." he brought the weapon to forward, dress and was therefore easier to Obedient to directions, the big Garth. out. man stretched out flat upon tlie "Keep It yourself," Garth told With the two skins and all the rock. Garth turned about him. "You can give It back to him meat ashore, he took a dip In a to pull the moosehide and what was soon as he over this tiy madgets clear pool and washed his buck- upon It Into the shade of a birch. ness. There's headnet, Il'jv your skins. As he sloshed out of the Miss llarnill thrust in front of by. Better stand In the smoke till he willows In the wet garments, him and seized his knife. She you get It on." saw Miss, liiimill staring through slashed at the liver. The blade For the first time since Garth her headnet at the eight big legs. was razor-sharHer angry stroke had met Lllitb Uamill. she showed He had hooked them on the stubs not only cut through the liver, It consideration for someone else Her gaze low- slit the moosehide as well. of spruce limbs. herself. Her second piece of than ered from the other raw moose Garth said nothing. Enough for liver had been cooked enough to he products that were piled on one of him that hunger bad humbled the eatable. She tore It In two and the hides. She turned from them girl's pride. She had learned her gave half to her fiance, first lesson. Long hours bad passed loathlngly. Vivian. "It's Try It You "Faugh! What a sickening messl since her finicky breakfasting on must begood, famished." Have you started a packing plant?" wine and delicatessen In the cabin Her unexpected graclousness "The packing Is Just about to of the monoplane, far over on the d his mind. calmed start," he replied. "Are you too Mackenzie. She was fairly raven"Why, Lilith you roasted this feeble to carry this rolled skin? ous. It will taste doubly dell It's the lighter one." Her rouged Hps twisted with yourself He forced a laugh. . "Bur clous." as she You held the spitted 'That filthy thing? may be anticipation I couldn't take the food out of your sure I'm not so feeble-mindeas slice of liver close npon the coals mouth." fire. Well mess." butcher of satis .of the to touch any your "I'll soon cook more. There's "Very well. Only remember, It's fled. Garth hung the remaining livplenty." and muffles own under the sister." tongues er, choice, your Garth caught Mr. Ramlll's hungry He bagged the contents of the the cache platform. Miss Itamiil's only thought had look, and shook his head. "Not yet bull hide, slung It on his back, She did not for us, sir. We'll pack In some picked up his rifle, and headed for been for her food. camp. The girl looked from him think to put fresh fuel on the cook more of the meat before the wol When It died down to em verities get It" to the folded moose cow hide, hesi- fire. He laid a mat of willow foliage, tated, flushed angrily, and followed, hers, she jerked the partly burnt, . inwardly rare slice of liver from sliced up what was left of the sec While still some distance from the charred willow spit There ond liver, and started off with Ha the rill, he whiffed a tang of wood was now no finicky fastidiousness milL smoke. He quickened his step. It about her eating. She thrust off Though at first stiff, the million gave him a pleasant surprise. After her headnet and sank her teeth into aire did not get out of breath so all, the girl seemed to have given the piece of liver with the gusto quickly as before. This was an He turned to of a hungry boy Bite followed bite encouraging sign. That easy clirp'' In. at least partly. to the claim and the fast return her with a friendly look. She met In rapid succession. had been violent exercise for the It with a scornful smile. CHAPTER IV mine Investor. He could not have They enme to the opening where recovered so soon If his heart had Garth trimmed a pair of green wilThe Whip Hand. been had. low spits, opened the moosehlde licked her fingers and But when he opened his cigar girl I ) r i ' t ir ' f ) J ( f i TUB to stare covetously at case. Garth Interposed. the pieces of moose dangling In the "You have only four left sir smoke. She spoke to Better bold them back to smudge-firtaper off Garth almost civilly: gradually. This change of diet Is "I've no need to rest, like Dad. going to Jolt yoii hard enough. No Do I have to wait for another wine or whisky, either." piece?" Mr. Ramlll walked along quite a "Certainly not But you've let distance with the clgnr case open the cook-fir- e go out Keep this one his face Impassive Inside the mos going, and you can use It. Better qnlto gauze of the headnet. When cut another spit. Xllud the knife at last he looked tip. he closed the edae. If you don't want to lose a cigar case Hnd handed It to Garth finger. "You're the doctor." She showed she could be deft Garth put the case In his shirt enough whpn she chose. One stroke pocket of the knife hacked off a willow YouH pet them "All right,-sirfwlg, two cuts sharpened the end when they'll do you the most good Grasping the bottom of the nncnt and yoii'JI get them all." second liver, she sliced np lengthAgain Mr. Uamill walked along wise, all the way to the rawhide with his gaze on the ground. They thong. She poked the green wood were near the swamp benear from the edge of the fire, piled fore he looked muskeg He turned his up. on dry sticks, and crouched down shrewd gaze upon Garth, and Swl;e to hold her spit over the blaze. with blunt directness: "What's :? Garth had at once begun to make your game?" would be It sew needed to cutgut Garth chuckled.' "Did you ever the nmccnslns. He was Intently at work, and the girl was still more outwit a fox. corner a puck of Intently eyeing her meat when wolves, or trap a craTty old bear?' The rmly face f the millionaire Huxby came striding between the "What Is the connection?" purpled, The Splash That Followed Told spruces. "Nothing insidious," Garth a once was The elegant engineer Him a Moose Had Caught Hit ii red him, "1 had In mind oidy the j smeared with mud from bis Scent fun of the irnine." down to where the rck-,mil"S? Well, young man. II hn and cut two slices of liver. He put water of the ford bad drenched the a slice on each spit, and started hog slime frmn his sIhm's ami leaih already been admitted that you've taken all the tricks I guv had so smix to broil them over the coals. With er aviator ( trousers, credit for more erise. however, t you and even a look of dlust Miss Itnmlil scratched his (lying than yioi showed when you cat turned her hack and sal down on torn through one sleeve. Worst of all. his bare face and iii(e the plane. Von had no need the rill bank. Before long the broiling liver be neck was a swollen mass of urns to walk up like n dupe and permit Vlvliin to get the drop on ymi Koy gan to send out an appetizing odor quito bite welts and the bli.'dln The girl's nse went tip for an In wounds of deer-flstings. The nkttt enough for yon to've rnie out of cover with your rill rip Don't tell voluntary sniff. Garth met the In hud already begun to Ilufl and dis me you'd rather travel afoot jo the tent loofc of her father, and allowed color. his left eyelid to flutter slightly. ' At sight of the man's condition. Mackenzie than fl v out In a plane." ue Another turn of he spits complet- - Garth picked np his rifle. Even the OCTTflXOl SYNOPSIS - Dun flarth. nroguector. la piX to leave for hie mining claim Kr North, a plane lands t - rway emergency station. In r Burton Ramlll, millionaire .j, t magnate; his daughter, Ltl- tid Vivian tiuxoy, puoi a.nu r BsTineer. tseneving nira iu i prospector, the f In toIgnorant make an air trip to N Vffer refer fa claim, although they ti samples of platinum-bearin- g rly "worthless." Llltth 1, product of the jazs age, I r shows her contempt for ) Through Garth s guidance tne toon reaches the claim site. and Ramlll, after making I teats, assure Garth his claim J! Tif valueless, but to "encour- Mag prospectors they are wlll- a chance in Investing a Sensing treachery tUk secretly removes a part the plane's motor. Huxby and ( taunt Garth with his "gulli-WJ- " but their tone changes when tfj&ry to start the crippled plane. nine to shore they try to force to givrup the missing part, manages to set the monoplane and the current carries it over o lis. He points out to the that he Is their only hope llding them out of the wilder- DP- moss-covere- 1 man-scen- en-trt- Continued " the spring rill came bur-- . to the rocky jr ledges down ,te halted Id a small clear-- l re had been his camp on iWoiis visit to the valley. Ten trunks rP the braneli-tririimelr closely grouped birch trees, ered moosehlde hung over the af a pule platform, tfc glanced up at the platform, wines have robbed the food But tneres plenty more on the hoof. While I go for yotf two will start gathering d i Ramlll's nerves were on She snapped at him hysterl- "You Insolent bully! Don't lare to try to give me orders." t father had squatted down warm rock, tired out by his j 8' eveii exertions. Garth spoke to !i . igti:.'. : The con Ii was that all three of you i do as I thought best Huxby inaptly tried again to bluff me :glj your daughter balks." n &, Ramlll raised his down :n't !d head. "You'll not be able to I ed tthat of me, young man. terms. I always i 6:4 by . your i Id? to win. But no one can truth-hocclaim I ever welch or take jour trders. and f I oriill Vivian, now that he has had the situation." 32, Mo realize req ow about your daughter?" $ II leave that to you. If you ;rait control her, you'll be doing than 1 have ever been able ssy.jo much Is enough. w. sle-- ? re-tl- c rth the disdainful gaze of "So your S3 ir turns you over to me, my i Let me haston to assure you, decline the honor." rg toIndeed!" tb. es. HI let old Mother Nature k yon till you come to your red "met vrl:,g!rl with a smile. ' Do?r bine eyes flared with scorn, yDW you! P n!" ddrptter save your energy." he ad nood it all. unless ;lt: pride stoops to the squaw her of camp-firtending, Smoke wog oft" Insects. For another I, no wolf, wolverine or lynx. .ven a grizzly will venture close fire.;, Think that over. Mr. Ra- you have your patent lighter." I swung away between the r"ee without waiting for any re- J Left alone with her exhausted HJpr, the girl might come to ren-how utterly she had crashed (of her soft and luxurious civilenvironment, flrt whom even her father had unable to control! That had t evident from the first. She badly spoiled product of the willful, arrogant, utterly m sh. fortunately she had shown lf no less hard physically than " tally. Otherwise he would have ed the gome In a different way, & weak muscled - woman could e that travoia to the Mackenzie hf for her father, he had only ielf thank. A pirate should 1'Vt to take his chances. He tit be gotten out to the river, "i" lie might not. That depended t a his Soft muscles could ""iflr.tesi'd. Not so a weak heart. ' ijurstloo as to the girl and by. If they obeyed orders. They in? "Y-on'-ll e v - d make It cranli In the alders broke In mit U.irth's thoughts. The spin!)-lo'lmved told lilin a moose h id hbt his scent and taken to the Jj. To have run to the bank and i ) 1 foil-ag- ' HAPTER III ed the broiling. He handed one of theui to Mr. Uamill. the swimming beast would easy Only, he had Bo or raft, and the water here rnthcr deep offshore. n down-beate- k half-craze- 1 d low-bur- empty-handed- 1 1 1 1 1 1 Navajo Woman Boss of Wigwum, Says Authority on Indian Customs White women Insist on their rights and fight for Independence, Navr Jo women are such cotrplete bosses In the wigwam they don't have to worry about emancipation. The-- ; head their clnns, which are established on the mother's side, and holds the strings of the family purse because the Navajo wealth Is Id sheep, which are handed down from mother to daughter. This Is divulged by Wick Miller, who has given much time and study to Indian arts and customs. "Navajo women don't argue about equal rights," he. said. "And they don't Insist on deferential gestures;, they know their word is final, their position Is enviable." One of the Navajo weavers, Eekh-pa- h (Coming Again Woman), this Idea. "I don't argue about my rights," she saJd. "I don't even think about them, and neither does any other Navajo woman." moccasins and Dressed In deer-ki- n a gayly colored skirt topped by a blouse, Eekh-pa- h dark velveteen bracelets fingered her turquoise-se- t and talked quietly about the customs of her people. "Our women keep busy," she explained, "with making blankets and We get the wool from our rugs. and card It, and then comb sheep, Bpln It on that" She pointer, to a distaff, a remnant o the ancient type of spinning wheel. She further explained that the wool la dyed after it Is spnn and then woven into rugs and blankets on a loom. Eekh-pa- h speaks English as well as a white woman for she went Returning to her away to school. tribe, she married a young brave who already had a wife and baby. "I didn't want to marry him. T didn't love," she confessed. "But my people pursuaded me to marry him. 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