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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH icsoooocoooooooooooosoqi HEART OF THE WORTH By WILLIAM venture and throw J!m Into prison and make bis marriage to Elizabeth Impossible I Baker was walking all unknowingly Into a deadly trap. Walking Into arrest and criminal disgrace and prison. He would be lucky to get off with a sentence of two years. That was the statute minimum for his offense. Haskell Buckling on his belt-gusnuffed the candles and went out of his cabin on the easiest, most exultant most deadly certain trip he bad ever made. CHAPTER IX MOWERY Wings Over the Wilderness (TNU Strrit.) kr Williu Bna Una; Boseoscooooeeeecoosoeoeoa THE STORY 81 x bandits hold up the stesm- er. Midnight Sun, on the Mackenzie, kill Jimmy Montgomery, and escape with gold dust and furs. At the Mounted Police post at Fort Endurance, Sergt. Alan Baker disputes with his Incompetent superior. Inspector Haskell, regarding plans for the capture of the bandits. Baker starts out in the police launch with five men. At the MacMlllan trading post, Joyce MacMlllan Is thrilled at the arrival of the police She had expected to marry Baker, and had been stunned at the news that he was to marry Elizabeth Spaulding. Stolen furs are found on the MacMlllan place and evidence points to Joyce's father. Alan leads his expedition up the big Alooska. Compelled by Haskell's foolish orders to divide the party. Alan fails to capture the bandits, and returns to Fort Endurance. Haskell blames him for the failure and Alan is allowed to buy out of the Mounted on condition that he absolve Haskell from blame. Alan starts out of the country in a motor canoe. He meets "Bustard" Featherof, famous aviator, and enlists him in the enterprise. "Slob-Ice- " Jensen, leader of the bandits, plans to capture Joyce. Haskell suspects Alan's plans. CHAPTER VIII - - But-za- rd "It's the day of days," Alan agreed, but be Continued 18 "Snakes!" Bill breathed to himself, aa he thanked Haskell and went oat the door. "That Spring-hee- l Johnny must be winding up to ask a favor of me, or something. But I've got my three days to help Alan out Lord, I hope Alan shows up during my free time. He might maybe let me go along on his trick." With no suspicion of the ugly truth, he turned up the twilight slope. When Whipple came In, Haskell ordered him to close the door and pull down the window, to guard against Then he possible eavesdropping. He tersely explained .the situation. On that first day of flight as dawn broke full and the sun chased away a layer of gossamer clouds beneath the White Speedalr, Alan looked down with marveling eyes at a strange panorama. Evergreen forestry, silvery lakes and silvery network of rivers far below, swam past at a speed to amaze him. In thirty minutes he was covering a distance which would take a whole day's hard traveling by canoe or komatik. Knowing showed up that If he and Buzzard at a police post or larger trading center, it would mean a quick and sorry end of their flight, Alan planned to avoid such places religiously. He had a conviction that he and Buzzard were "wanted." They bad left too many tracks In Edmonton-cle- ws that would speedily be followed up. The police there, a wise live outfit had certainly connected them with the theft of all that government property and had radioed Instructions for their arrest. Eventually he and Buzzard were going to be caught It was as Inevitable as sunset Soon or late they would have to return to civilization and face the music. To Alan the worst of It was that Buzzard was going to pay a heavy price for helping him on this thankless Job. For himself he did not greatly care; he hardly thought of it . . , He was headed north again, on his last patrol, his greatest patrol. As they worked on north, they made moderately good time, but only by Incessant care and worry. Engine trouble caused them delay. Again and again they sat down on some unknown river or lake and sweated for hours over the old motor. Fuel was a constant problem. Avoiding Mounted detachments and Royal Signal corps stations like the plague, they dared stop only at wilderness-burieposts where radios were unlikely and no police handy. They could never be certain of getting fuel, and what they did get was usually half kerosene. Alan wan looking forward to his rendezvous with Bill as the end of all this worry about gas and oil. Be- d added: "Hardsoek will probably steal some more gasoline and oil tonight. What he's already stolen isn't enough for a plane to do much maneuvering on. I want you to watch him stealing that AW stuff so that you can later be a witness. He'll probably have time to take those drums only a couple miles from here tonight Tomorrow he'll take all of it on to the place where he's to meet Baker. He's been sneaking It away little by little when he had the chance, and hiding It close by; but during his three days he'll take It to the meeting place. "You go down to the river bank now to those two tepees and get that InYou rememdian called ber Hardsoek thrashed him one time last winter for carrying a squaw-cluand beating his wife. He's got a grudge against Hardsoek, he'll have a personal interest in this, he's just the man we want Take a carton of my cigarettes with you and a little rum us a silence present I'll personally He Tried to Look Steadily at His pay him five dollars a day. Do you Looming Marriage to Elizabeth. understand so far?" Whipple nodded. Haskell went on: sides the fuel there at Goose point, "You and the Indian are to shadow Bill had promised to cache some supHardsoek tonight and tomorrow. Find plies up the Alooska near Joyce's cut where he's taking that stuff and home. Alan was fervently looking ahead where he's going to meet Baker. As to meeting Bill at En Traverse lake, poon as you do that, whip back here to getting those precious supplies, to and report to me." It was late the nest evening before seeing Joyce again there on the Big Alooska. All of his loyalty to the He came back Whipple returned. of his dead partner could not sister with but electric tired, bedraggled, keep him from comparing Joyce's news. He and the Indian had watched Bill vital spirited personality with Eliza leisure-boreennui, and Joyce's steal more gas and oil from the stores. beth's two years of heroic sacrifice with him to temshadowed had the They Idle deliberate dependence. porary cache two miles up the Mac- Elizabeth's On their lust evening, worn out by kenzie. There he had loaded his canoe to the gunwales with the drums a day of engine trouble and head winds and cans and had taken them all to a and blinding rains, they alighted in lake on Silver- big lake twenty miles on up the river. a little spruce-buriea short hundred miles south river, tip He had cached the fuel on a headof Fort Endurance. Anchoring the land called Goose point; and was waitplane, they paddled ashore, cooked a ing there without the faintest suswarm meal, and rolled up in their picion that he had been trailed and was being watched. The Indian, lying fr low back in the willows, was keeping an eye on him. As Haskell listened to the report, he forgot the haggard day and night All the great religious have stories Just passed. He had scarcely dared that parallel each other In some de hope for such news as this. After careful thought, guarding gree. For Instance, Jephthah, one of the judges of Israel, made a remarkhe ordered Whipagainst any slip-uable vow before he marched against belt-gu"Go rifle and get your ple: the Ammonites, that If he proved victoo. We'll take there mine, I'll go up torious he would offer to the Iord In the launch. You can drive it. We'll the first living thing which should Hardsoek and those supplies. capture That'll be that Then we'll wait there. come to meet him on his return. The plane'll be alone in a couple days. This happened to be his only daughWe'll keep the launch in cover close ter, whom he sacrificed to fulfill his rash vow. The history of Jephthah by. When the machine lights down s contained in the second book of and they go asnore to get the supplies, we'll ram it and put It out of Judges. Idonieneus, In Homeric leg commission. Then we'll have Baker end, king of Crete, succeeded his fa and this Featherof and we'll put them ther Deucalion on the throne, and ac where the dogs won't bite 'ern !" companied the Greeks to the Trojan war with a fleet of 90 ships. During After his despair of fholr fast week, after his helpless festering anger at this war he rendered himself famous Baker, it was a new lease on hope to by his valor. While returning, he know be was going to smash Baker's made a vow to Neptune In a dangerous b , d Zl Wll X II was thinking of Joyce running down the path, bareheaded In the sun, to greet them. Tomorrow he would know If she was safe. Tomorrow, after the rendezvous with Bill, the White Speedalr would be dropping down upon the Big Alooska. Buzzard was asleep almost Instant-l- y, but Alan, tossing in a useless to sleep, finally got np, built ADJUSTMENT a tiny Gre, and sat beside It thinking, a dead pipe in his teeth. Aa he sat there under the solemn "Hello, Is this JonesT asked the spruces, he tried to look steadily at voice at one end of the telephone. his looming marriage to Elizabeth, and Jones said it was. decide his course. No longer blinded by "Come and have a round of golf," Idealization of her as a girl, he saw asked the first voice. ' I'm sorry," replied Jones, "but I'm now, with pitiless Insight that all along she had not wanted him unless afraid I can't You see, I'm in half he had a good Income and was out mourning." of the North. She might love him as "Oh '." dubiously from the other end. well as she bad ever loved anybody; Then brightly, "Oh, well, what about but to her he was not greatly more nine holes?" Tatler. than a means of getting what she wanted out of life. DIDNT DOUBT HIM The prospect of marrying her, when his respect was gone, made Alan I wince. And his respect was gone with a vengeance. Those moments in the cabin, when she offered herself to him, had been a shock and revelation. She had acted not out of excusable passion, not out oi love, but as a guarantee that he would take that Victoria Job. He thought of the in cldent with something of revulsion. Now he was groping to see the hon est and righteous thing for him to do. He wondered whether It would be courage, or a weak yielding to desire, for him to break with Elizabeth and sweep aside the obligations binding him. There was right on both sides. Elizabeth was waiting for him; he had promised to marry her and take "That druggist has scales that weigh her out; he had burned his bridges and committed himself to that Victoria unbelievably small amounts of anyjob. Yet It was wrong to enter a love- thing." "I have no reason to doubt your less marriage that would bring tragic word I've dealt with him at times." to was It wrong unhappiuess. marry reElizabeth when his Agriculture, 1931 Model spect and love went out to Joyce Mao "You don't seem to be raising anyMillan. In the lonely anguish of his thoughts thing much this year," said the city d he laid his decision more or less In visitor, as he looked over the fields. the hands of time. He felt he must "You're wrong," replied the farmer, see Joyce again before he could take a decisive step. If he did capture "since I opened up the filling station stand out front I've those six criminals and so cleared her and the hot-dofather, she would be grateful with made so much money I was atle to ail her heart He meant to tell her raise the mortgage on the place." about the tragic happening which had Cincinnati Enquirer. bound him to Elizabeth. If he could win back that old Intimate comradeFor Safety ship with her and they could begin Mrs. Newlywed was entertaining her anew, then the righteous thing was to mother. put Joyce's happiness above Eliza"When did you learn to cook?" beth's. asked the fond parent. A little after gray dawn Alan re"When my husband was away," rebuilt the fire, cooked breakfast, and plied the young wife. reluctantly awakened his partner. "And what did he say when he came Later, when they skirled out to the back?" inquired the other. plane, Buzzard glanced at the tanks The young wife blushed. and remarked tersely: "He went away again," she replied. "I hope your buddy, this Hardsoek, has got some gas and oil out to that Curtailment lake. It'll be our finish If he hasn't." "I heard a man saying your style of "Bill will have it there," Alan asis .showing great Improvesured. "He may not be there himself, oratory ment." he's probably on duty; but we agreed "But I haven't made a speech In a exactly where to cache It It'll be great many days," protested Senator waiting,, for os." Sorghum. climbed twice around taxied In, They "Maybe that's what he was talking the lake to warm the spluttering moabout" tor, took off and headed north toward Goose point at Lake En Traverse. Misnomer With the heavy rains stopped and "This Isn't a hot dog," cried the disthe insect scourges abating, Alan knew the bandits were on the move again satisfied customer. "Then what is it?" asked the man or shortly would be. When they did the apron. with on to wanted be there the stir, he "It's a tepid, flabby, spiceless, lifeBig Alooska to look out for Joyce. ' Ever since he came to believe that less canine without a bark left In Dave MacMillan knew nothing of the him," grumbled the buyer. crime, he had been puzzling about that IMPOSSIBLE THINGS pack of stolen furs. Something dark and sinister lay behind that pack. There was some connection between the trader and those criminals. But what? Alan reasoned: "Those furs didn't get in that slied by accident. Those men might have had a grudge against Dave MacMillan and planted them there. They might have figured he'd show them to us and get In ,hot water. That guess is at least possible. If it's true, then their grudge might lead them to strike at Joyce." If they intended anything against Joyce, they doubtlessly would attempt It just before they started eastward on their trek through the Great Barrens and Strong-WoodAlan had dreamed of that, dreamed of her being capHe 1 dreamed last night that you tured and taken along, as the bandits loved nie. had captured Margaret Fournier. She Strange, Isn't it, the Impossible With Haskell refusing to extend her things one will dream? any protection whatsoever, Alan felt that he and he alone stood between It's Normal State? her and a terrible danger. 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