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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929. TIH IE TTKADIL A beet-colore- d 99 DQ Northland e, Romance rt by ROBERT W. SERVICE Illustrations by Irwin Myer Wru Servlc. "Next June," I heard a voice echo and there, looking at me with a smile was Locasto. Bate was far from my heart, and when I saw the man himself was re- garding me with no particular unfriendliness, I was disposed to put aside for the moment all feelings of enmity. The generosity of the victor , ' glowed within me. As he advanced to me his manner was almost urbane in its geniality. "Yoa must forgive me," he said, noi without dignity, "for overhearing you; but by chance I was passing and dropped upon you before I realized it." He extended his hand frankly. "I trust my congratulations onyoui luck will not be entirely obnoxious. I know that my conduct in this affair cannot have impressed you in a very favorable light; but I am a badly beaten man. Can't you be generous and let bygones be bygones Won't you?" I had not yet come down to earth. I was still soaring in the rarefied heights of love, and inclined to a general amnesty towards my enemies. As he stood there, quiet and compelling, there was an assumption of frankness and honesty about this man good i that it was hard to withstand. Foi the nonce I was persuaded of his sincerity, and weakly I surrendered my hand. His grip made me wince, JjSJ "Yes, again I congratulate you. "1 know and admire her. They don't make them any better. She's pur You mustn't mind me taking gold. an Interest in your sweetheart I'm old enough to be her father, you know and she touches me strangely. Now don't distrust me. I want to be a friend to you both. I want to help you to be happy. Jack Locasto's not such a bad lot, as you'll find when you know him. Is there anything 1 can do for you? What are you going to do in this country?" "I don't quite know yet," I said "I hope to stake a good claim when the chance comes. Meantime I'm go ing to get work on the creeks." "Well, I'll tell you what: I've goi 1 laymen working on my Eldorado claim ; I'll give you anote to them it you like." I thanked him. "Oh, that's all right," he said. "I'm .sorry I played such a mean part in the past, and I'll do anything in mj powervo straighten things out . you get a Job elsewhere, don't turn It down." fiibwood was a tall, gaunt Cornlsh-man- , with a narrow, jutting face and a gloomy air ; Hoofman, a burly, Australian with a bulgiwf stomach. "Yes. we'll put you to work." said Hoofman, reading the letter. "Gei your coat off and shovel in." So, right away, I found myself In the dump-piljamming a shovel int.' the pay-diand swinging it Into a sluice-bo- x five feet higher than my head. Keeping at this hour after hour was no fun. For three days I made the dirt fly : but toward quitting time, I must say, its flight was a very uncertain one. Again I suffered all the tortures of The constant becoming hoisting Into the overhead sluice-Bo- x somehow worked muscles that had never gone nto action before, and I ached elaborately. I was glad, indeed, when, on the evening of the third, day, Ribwood came to me and said : "I guess you'd better work np at the shaft tomorrow. We want a man to wheel muck." . They had a shaft sunk on the They were down some forty feet and were drifting In, wheeling the pay-didown a series of planks placed on trestles to the dump. After the first day I became quite an expert at the business. My spirits rose. I was on the way of becoming a miner. Turning the windlass over the shaft was a little, tough mud-ra- t, who ex cited in me the liveliest sense of aversion. Pat Doogan was his name, but I will call him the "Worm." He was the most degraded type of man I had yet met on my travels, a degenerate, dirty, drunken, diseased. One day Hoofman told me he wanted me to go down the shaft and work In the drift Accordingly, next morning I and a huge Slav, by name Doo-leRileyvith, were lowered down into the darkness. The shaft was almost forty feet deep. For the first ten feet a ladder ran down It, then stopped suddenly as if the excavators had decided to abandon it I often looked at this useless bit of ladder and wondered why It had been left unfinished. Every morning the Worm hoisted us down Into the darkness, and at night drew us up. Once he said to me : "Say, wouldn't it be de tough luck if I was to take a fit when I was hoistin youse up? Such a nice bit of a boy, too, an' I guess I'd lose my Job over de head of It" I said : "Cut that out or you'll have me so scared I won't go down." He grinned unpleasantly and said nothing more. Yet somehow he was geting on my nerves terribly. One evening we were ready to be hoisted up. Dooley Rileyvieh went first and I watched him blot out the bit of blue for a while. Then, slowly, down came the bucket for me. I got in. I was feeling uneasy all of a sudden, and devoutly wished I were anywhere else but in that hideous hole. I felt myself leave the bill-side- rt y Be- lieve me, I mean it. Your English friend gave me the worst drubbing of my life, but three days after I went round and shook hands with him. ,Fine fellow that We're good friends now. I always own up when I'm beat-Ln- , and I never bear l. If I can Belp you in any way, and hasten yout marriage to that little girl there, well you can just bank on Jack Locasto: that's all." I must say the man could be most As he conciliating when he chose. talked to me, my fears were dissipat- lulled. And when we parted we shook hands cordially "Don't forget," he said; "if you want help bank on me. I mean it now, I mean it." ed, my suspicions Crp AM? Hoof-man- 1 half-sobbin- y i -t x I pay-dir- responsible for the development of an of "taking the Veterans Bureau to organization which carried 2,082,000 the Veterans," General Hines was insoldiers safely to Europe in eighteen strumental in securing' legislation months, and after the war returned authorizing the establishment of them all in eight months. On April 18, fifty-fou- r regional offices with full 1918, Colonel Hines was appointed power to administer all phases of Brigadier General in the National immdiate veteran relief. He also recommended the extension to veterrans Army. General Hines was awarded the of the World War, and the revision of Distinguished Service Medals by the the compensation schedules resulting War and Navy Department for in marked increase for thousands of especially meritorious and conspicu- veterans. ous service as Chief of Embarkation, However, no feature of General also the British "Companion of the Hines' direction of veterans relief is Bath," French Legion of Honor, Bel or more significant of the quality of gian Order of Leopold (Grand Offi-- ! of more importance to the veterans cer), Czechoslovakia War Cross and, his service than - the confidence the Japanese Second Class Order of which has been established throughout the country year the "Sacred Treasure. by year In 1920 General Hines resigned through the course of his administrafrom the army to join certain ship- tion, culminating in his reappointment director by President Hoover, who ping interests in New York, to take as returned his resignation, tendered in Amerithe of the upbuilding part can Merchant Marine. From these in- March 4th, with the request that he terests he was called by President "continue his distinguished service." Harding March 1, 1923 to take the First Pig: "I never sausage heat-- " Directorship of the U. S. Veterans Second to serve in Pig: "Yes, I'm nearly bacon. fifth the Bureau, being that capacity. The Bureau's chief functions then were the award and payment of compensation, writing and payment of insurance, vocational Money rehabilitation and hospitalization of veterans of the World War. Since General Hines' induction as Director, the administration of the Adjusted Compensation Act (bouns) and the have been added to the Bureau's Emergency Officers' Retirement Act 6V& per duties while Vocational Training was on Irrigated Land. terminated by law July 2, 1926. cent. No commissions. In 1923 the organization of the JOHN J. SHUMWAY Bureau consisted of the Central Office in Washington and fourteen disBell, 129 Phones: B. E. V. 69.a-2- ; trict offices with their suboffices. 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HALL large shipment Freight from the Union Pacific R. R. will be sold to the highest bidder with out reserve merchandise consisting of 3 Living Room sets, Bed Room Suites Dining Room Sets, Axminister Rugs, 27 ft. x 54 ft. and 36 ft x 72 ft; 8 ft. 3in x 10 ft 6in. and 9x12. Pabco Congoleum Rugs 6x9, A Also all kinds of Fire and Automobile Insurance Apply JAMES BROUGH Secretary and Treasurer Garland National Farm Loan Association UTAH GARLAND out- ' p lead Instead of gold." Lying there, I got to thinking of the robberies. They were remarkable. All had been done by an expert Each time the robber had cleaned up from two-- to three thousand dollars, and all within the past month. There was some mysterious mastercrook in our midst, one who operated swiftly and surely, and left absolutely no clew of his Identity. I was quiet for a while, watching dreamily the dark shadows of the dusk. Hist I What was that? Surely the bushes were moving over there by the hillside. I strained my eyes. I was right: they were. I watched and waited. A man was parting the bushes. Cautiously, crawling like a snake, he worked his None but way to the sluice-boxea keen watcher could have seen him. Again and again he paused, peered around, listened intently. Very carefully, with my eyes fixed on him, I lifted the gun to my shoulder. I had him covered. I waited. Somehow I was loath to shoot My nerves were Proof, more proof, I said. I saw him working busily, lying flat alongside the boxes. How crafty, how skillful he wasl He was disconnecting the boxes. He would let the water run to the ground; then, there in the exposed riffles, would be his harvest Would I shoot . . . now . . . now. . . . Then, in the midnight hush, my gun blazed forth. With one scream the man tumbled down, carrying along with him the disconnected box. The water rushed over the ground in n deluge. I must capture him. There he lay in that pouring stream. . . . Now I had him. In that torrent of Icy water J grappled with my man. Over and over we rolled. IJe tried to gouge me. He was small, but oh, how strong He held down his face. Fiercely I wrenched it up to the light Heavens ! it was the Worm. 1 gave a cry of surprise, and my clutch on blra must have weakened, for at that moment he gave a violent wrench, a cat-lik- e twist, and tore himself free. Men were running in from ail directions. -Catch' him!" I cried. "Yonder he goes." But the little man was shooting forward like a deer. Right and left ran his pursuers, mistaking each other for the robber in the serai-glooyelling frantically, mad with the exAnd In the citement of a man-hunmidst of It all I lay in a pool of mud and water, with a sprained wrist and a bite on my leg. s. 'Twas early in the bright and cool of the morning when we started for Eldorado, Jim and L I had a letter , from Locasto to Ribwood and the laymen, and I showed it to Jim. He frowned. "You don't mean to say you've palled np with that devil," he said. "Oh, he's not so bad," I expostuI Wa3 Hanging Desperately on lated. "He came to me like a man There Lowest the Rung of the Ladder. and offered me his hand in friendship. sincerhis I've no reason to doubt ground and rise steadily. I was now ity." ten feet from the top. The Ducket "Sincerity be danged. He's about was rocking a little, so I put out my as sincere as a tame rattlesnake. Put hand and grasped the lowest rung of his letter in the creek." the ladder to steady myself. But noi I refused to listen to the Then, at that instant it seemed the old man. weight of the bucket pressing up own gait" he said; against my feet was suddenly re4 "Well, go your soot don'i say that I didn't warn moved, and my arm was nigh Jerked out of its socket. There I was hang .(Jjou." Following the trail, we struck up ing desperately on the lowest rung of Bonanza, a small muddy stream in a the ladder, while, with a crash thnr narrow valley. About noon we demade my heart sick, the bucket scended into the creek bed and came real dashed to the bottom. A last, to the Forks. It was a little town, lzed, the Worm had had his tit. a Dawson in miniature, with all its Quickly I gripped with both hands. sordid aspects infinitely accentuated. With a great effort I raised myself There in the din and daze and dirt rung by rung on the ladder. Dizzily A we tarried awhile; then, after eating I hung all minute seemed like a year. heartily, we struck up Eldorado. Ahl 'there was the face of Dool-At the Forks I inquired regarding Ribwood and Hoofman: "Goin' to looking down on me. He saw me He was anxiously work for them, are you? Well, clinging there. they've got a blamed hard name. If shouting to me to come up. Master-Ins- t an overpowering nausea I raised At Inst I felt his strong arm and I was on firm ground around me, When You Think once more. The Worm was lying stiff HARDWARE and rigid. Without a word the stalwart Slav took him on his brawny WILSON The creek was down hill shoulder. "Everything to Build Anything" but fifty yards. Ere we reached It rhone 11. the Worm had begun to show signs of reviving consciousness. THINK "Leave me alone," he says to Rileyvieh; "you Slavonian swine, lemme fo." Sot so the Slav. Holding the wriggling, writhing little man in his powerful arms he plunged him heels over head in the muddy current of the creek. "I guess I cure dose fits anyway," he said grimly. Struggling, spluttering, blaspheming, the little man freed himself at What a record of achievement is lu.and staggered ashore. He cursed represented in progress from a serRileyvieh most comprehensively. geant in the Utah Field Artillery in 1898, to Brigadier General in the regular army, U. S. A., in 1918 CHAPTER VIII That briefly, is the span of the military career of Brigadier General "You'd better quit," said the Prod Frank T. Hines, Director of the U. S. gal. It was the evening of my mishap, Veterans Bureau. and he had arrived unexpectedly Entering the Regular Army as from town. "It Just fits In with my Second Lieutenant Coast Artillery, in 1901, he was a captain at the outplans. I'm getting Jim to come in, too, break of the World War. and in 1917 I've realized on that stuff I bought, as a Colonel and Chief of the Emmade over three thousand clear profit barkation he was largely Service, and with it I've made a dicker for a property on the beach above Bonanza, Gold bill they call it I've a notion "Why didn't you hold htm?" shoutIt's all right Anyway, well tunnel ed Ribwood. in and see. You and Jim will have "I couldn't" I answered. "I saved a quarter share each for your work, your cleanup, and he got some of the while I'll have an extra quarter for lead. Besides, I know who he Is. the capital Fve put in. Is it a go?" Pat Doogan." "You don't say. Well, Tra darned. I said it was. We'll get him. I'll go into town first Next day found us all three surveying our claim. The first thing to do thing In the morning and get out a was to build a cabin. Right away we warrant for him." He went, but the next evening back began to level off the ground. The work was pleasant, and conducted In he returned, looking very surly and such friendship that the time passed disgruntled. "Well, what about the warrant?" most happily. Indeed, my only worry was about Bema. I schooled myself said Hoofman. "Didn't get It," snapped Ribwood. into the belief that she was all right, but thank God, every moment was "Look here, Hoofman, I met Locasto. Black Jack says Pat was cached bringing her nearer to me. We had hauled the logs for the away, dead to all the world, In the cabin, and the foundation was laid. backroom of the Omega saloon all night There's two loafers and the Every day saw our future home nearbarkeeper to back him up. What can er completion. we do In the face of that? Say, young One evening I spied the saturnine Ribwood climbing down the hill to feller, I guess you mistook your man." "I guess I did not," I protested our tent He hailed me: stoutly. "Say, we want a night watchman They both looked at me for a moup at the claim to go on four hours a night at a dollar an hour. You see, ment and shrugged their shoulders. robthere's been a lot of sluice-boTime went on and the cabin was beries lately, and we're scared for our clean-up- . There's four hours ev- quietly nearing completion. The roof ery night the place is deserted, and of poles was in place. It only reHoofman proposed we should get you mained to cover it with moss and thawed-ou- t to keep watch." earth to make It our future home. "Yes," I said; 'Til run up every More and more my dream hours evening if the others don't object" They did not ; so the next night, were Jealously consecrated to Berna. and for about a dozen after that, I How Ineffably sweet were they. How How spent the darkest hours watching on full of delicious Imaginings the claim where previously I had pregnant of high hope ! O, I was born to love, I think, and I never loved but worked. one. This story of my life is the It was the dimmest and most unof Berna. It is a thing of words story certain hour of the four, and I was and words and words, yet every word of at As the my post sitting guard. Is Feel the heartache Berna. Berna, night was chilly I had brought along an old gray blanket similar in color behind it all. Read between the to the mound of the t There lines, Berna, Berna. The Prodigal was always "snoophad been quite a cavity dug In the dump during the day, and into this ing" around and gleaning information One I crawled and wrapped myself in my from most mysterious sources. blanket From my position I could evening he came to us. see the string of boxes containing the "Boys, get ready, quick. There's a riffles. By my side lay a loaded shotrumor of a stampede for a new creek. gun. Ophir creek they call it away on the "If the swine comes," Ribwood had other side of the divide somewnere. of A prospector went down ten feet and said, "let him have a clean-u- 7x9, 9x9, 9x12, and 9x15. 1000 Pes. China-war...Pictures, Coal ranges, Tw o Electric e. Ranges, Heating Stoves, Simons Beds and Springs and Smith Bedding Co. 50 lb. All Wool Double Blankets of the Baron Woolen Mills. Practically all this merchandise is new having been rejected at U. P. R. R. and will sell without reserve. This will be your opportunity to buy first class merchandise at a price Tremonton lias never heard of before. "The Proof of the pudding is the eating thereof. If any citizen has any article they wish to sell call 23 and arrangement can be made. Mat-resse- s. Garland Milling Company Manufacturers of the Famous "PRIDE OF UTAH" FLOUR Also all Kinds of Mill Stuff. The Best Mill in the Bear River Valley. 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