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Show cached In the cave the hundred pounds of smoked monee meat he had brought up on his pack board! lie then led on up the glacier, halfway from Its foot to the top of the pass. That gave the three climbers some reallce work. Coming back, Garth knocked three brace of fool hens from spruce limbs with a stick. The half dozen grouse made a pleasant change. Itut even with a pall of salmon berries for dessert they proved a scant meal for the four The last leg of moose hail already been baked and eaten, the tongue broiled, and the second muffle stewed. The remainder of the smoked meat would not last long. So far, Garth had not In- UK) irUULa (Tsty' C&LnJir WOQr meat-eater- terfered with Iluxbya SYNOPSIS ., Han Garth, prospector, is pre-i- bs to leave for hls mining claim t Far North, a plane lands at In airways emergency etatton. millionaire Ramlll. t Pqrtew Ul-- C Lm magnate; hie daughter, and Vivian Huxby, pilot and engineer, - Believing him to an ignorant prospector, the to mahe an air trip to claim, although they refer platinum-bearin- g Iilsf samples Of -Lilith worthless." nearly product of the Jass age, shows her contempt for Through Garth's guidance the M soon reaches the claim site, jjby, and Ramlll. after making rsi tests, assure Garth his claim isarly valueless but to sncour- -' young prospectors they are I.iilng to take a chance In Investing ibioU amount. Sensing treachery ad, Garth secretly removes a part Huxby and tin the plane's motor. nth taunt Garth with his "gulll-jnity- ," but their tone changes when tty try to start the crippled plane. Lturningo shore they try to force krth to give up the missing part, krth manages to set the monoplane &lft and i the current carries It over It falls. He points out to the tr(o that he Is their only hope k guiding them out of the wilder-let- s Garth begins the work of pre- for the long Journey, He Siringthat the others help. Ramlll kls daughter must be hardened fa the hardships e ahead Ip their trek to the outpost on the lackenzle. Returning from a long Jeep In the woods. Garth finds the jerty has stolen bhe tea and sugar ke has been saving tor emergencies, it makes no objection, simply point-ji- g out that he Is accustomed to a I ict meat diet, and that they are fcrtlng only themselves. The work H getting ready for the trip Huxby refuses to help, and jerks on tbs mining claim. sn-kr- ed toll-pm- -- con-jnue- s. CHAPTER V Continued J Ramllls eyes widened. She from his stiff back to the pekskln clad shoulders that had I lightly toted her father Into imp. All this had been a matter seconds. In another moment she ls darting over to the rill with the Miss anced - n cop. When same time as Mr. Ramlll. He wakened to find the first pair of moccasins finished. The girl had met his terms. He gave Huxby the moss bed, and Wted to wiiwt nattlsh stones as heavy as he could toss. When he had pitched a dozen or so upon the cache platform, he strung the smoked slices of mejt on rawhide thongs. Raking aside the smudge-fire- , he stood on the rack and tied all the meat close up under the cache platform. He then climbed upon the platform and piled the stones ou the where they fame around the poles. That would keep wolverines or other pilferers from gnaw Ing the rawhide to let the meat fall. No fourfooted creature could now get at 'the meat on the under side of the platform, and even ravens would have difficulty stealing much of it To complete the Job, Garth pulled off the cross poles of the . I smoke rack. For breakfast, the party finished the baked leg of moose. As Garth had foreseen, bis tnree city camp mates bad developed camp appetites. Better still, they were less Irritable. .Their craving for drink and tobacco bad begun to lessen. At timberline Huxby went up the trough with the gold pan. Garth headed again for the glacier. This time Mr. Ramlll did not pant and gasp so hard, nor did he have to stop so often.- - He managed to climb to the lower end of the glacier. While he rested In a sunny nook on the rocky side of the lateral moraine, his daughter , went down In front of the glacier with Garth. They came to the channel Where the milky stream gushed out of a tunnel cave In the tle-thon- blue-whit- e Ice, Garth pointed to a shelf of rock near side of the stream. He walked into the cave along the smoothly polished ledge. Lilith Ra on the she came to the leanto with ilmost scalding hot mixture of lied water and tea. her father tered, beneath groans, that he d not want It. "No I no I In peace I jet me die I Garth heaved up the lax head H shoulders, and held the cup to he quivering Ups. Drink, or Ill )onr It down your throat A few minutes later the dying" Millionaire began to eat Be bolted Wn the Juicy tender meat until leep overtook him in the midst of Oh-oh-- h 4 something more than wishing ret 'it tel.' tr. teir' had gone Even Huxby had v r t itS r. hi 5 H f- - Iff If V sy "v A A r S- - -- Staging Garth. f When Miss Ramlll left the lean-- K Garth "ktooped In under the low f and began to rub her father's and hips. The millionaire Puned that he had been stricken Mlth terrible attack of lumbago d rheumatism. It was impossible r him to move. Heedless of the' plaint. Garth "'ed the complalner out beside ? cold baked leg of moose. The ck" man tte mort thau either daughter or Garth. Afterwards, ent urging and the promise of &sy work-opersuaded him to JL?n HI? feet They wandered rough the wooefl! with fre--s ,Dse n ths glades. wi! 8eTeral houri later, they Miss ItanrtM' bad Pleted one moccasin and was JTgcdly stitching at Its mate. IIux-- J eame down from the trough with gold pan. Garth melted the last fat In 1 fnd Wed a WPmg moose mess 0f mushrooms. For shook quantity of pleas w if. ,clt korrel from the bottom w l P11-- With berries for des iel became a banquet ,astfd there was s gen-r- tl y feeling. Even Huxby w. to Jarth. fore. Garth turned in at the ut . wen f 1 t1 panic-stricke- n g ax, his mouth slack, almost agape. Garth could only surmise how she had always been coddled and pam He pered. Her father knew knew how, since her childhood, she had been wrapped about with silken luxury, waited upon by attentive servants, petted and spoiled. The millionaire bad been born on a farm. He could recall seeing his mother help butcher sheep and hogs. Bnt the wss a farmers wife. Lll 1th would not have known how to prepare a spring chicken for the pan. And now the was cutting np cariboo. Aside from an occasional word of direction. Garth said nothing. When he finished dressing out the fifth carcass, he handed his knife to his eager helper, packed a load of meat and carried it to tbe Ire cave. Down In the gulch bottom he chose a pothole atone that would hold perhaps three quarts. In the bowl he colled a wick of twisted dry cariboo moss, piled in caribou fat and lighted the wick. When the fat melted, the wick burned with a strong ateady flame. Caribou ribs furnished a grating on which to broil steaks. Tbe fat meat was deliciously tender, Its flavor between venison and beef. When even Mr. Ramlll could eat no more, Garth carried the stone lamp Into the Ire cave. Upon his return, he had Mr. Ramlll and Lilith look close at the caribou skins. You see they are hair, not fur. But every hair is hollow. Nothing is warmer than a cariboo parka. In fact the winter coat is too warm to be worn. That Is why I killed six now. Instead of one. You have never wintered In the North." Mr. Ramlll tensed as If prodded. "Wintered? Yon cant mean to In fer you expect to stay on here. We have your promise to take ns out' Garth answered Mr. Ramlll ; You bt v - my proml?niorr tlie ptty A winter a la Eskimo would le a wonderful experience for Miss of RaxnUL,.llfl w e course, prefer to go back to jazz and cocktails, to paint powder and lipstick." She flared: And rid of your To be sure. That above all else,' be agreed. So bow could I deprive you of that pleasure or fall to give your father and your fiance another chance to bilk me out of my placer claim? I agreed to get you back to the Mackenzie. When e reach the old post we part company. You an.! Huxby will then be free to go as far as you can." it lu necessary. Her father , . Her father was the one who stared. He sat watching the girl's quick, eager wielding of the hand Though spoiled, Lilith was far tan being a fooL She had begun I realize that to get what she want- - her. rub was over for Garth. Miss mill's surrender meant that he lu now the acknowledged master Itfhe party. Huxby had also admitted the fact by going ofL Instead I following up his Implied threat attack. He, however, would retire watching. After eating his fill, Garth took to Sax by bed, beside the smndge-He wakened to find that the Mm had taken its northern dip and Mu just slanting up again above mountain crests. ' It had been lader much longer than in June. summer was getting well along, ixby had stayed on watch to the fire going. He met Garths Aand good morning with a show )f civility. His cool reasoning 4 brought him to the realization rLwlhlng .was to. be. gained by ning out of the platinum alloy. He had not even asked to look at the take of precious metal. Food was a different matter. Instead of shooting another moose, he called upon Huxby to Join In a caribou hunt, A band of the big animals had drifted along the tundra terrace over towards the glacier. Garth counted 15. He waited until the band came within 75 yards. He then let drive, shooting rapidly yet with careful aim. One after another dropped, each with a bullet through the head. The stupid beasts stared In the direction of the sharp reports. But they could see nothing. The sixth went down before the nine survivors wheeled and clattered off In flight. The flaying was well under way when Iluxby and Miss Ramlll came hastening aslant tbe tundra ahead of air. Ramlll. The girl eyed the clean dellclous-looklnwhite fat on the first flayed body. That looks Vivian, you can go good, AlanI back to your mining. Dad and I will help here." Her father called out a panting suggestion for Iluxby to wait and carry down a load of meat No need," Garth said. Dont stop, Huxby. Most of this venison Is going on Ice. None will be allowed to spoil" The engineer did not linger. lie had looked none too well' pleased over tbe girl's familiar use of Garth's first name. Along with his displeasure about this, there could be no doubt of bis eagerness to get back to the' platinum' panning. When Garth finished the flaying of the caribou, he started to dress out tbe bodies. Greatly to his astonishment at the cutting up of the second caribou, Lilith took the belt ax and began to belp. Mother Na ture bad cracked the polished shell of artificiality In which the pam pered heiress had been encased. Tbe girls few days In the Wild bad awakened primitive Instincts ground deep Into the nature of woman during the remote past of mankind So, upon reflection. Garth's amazement passed. He had managed to cover It even at the first when LilIn her ith Ramlll took the belt-aslender band and severed the neck bone of the caribou with a tingle blow. I ker to Garth. pan- y x I bite. klled t The all-da- She Followed Garth Into the Chilly Blue Shadow of the Cave. mill shuddered and glanced up fearfully at the steep ing Ice fare that seemed about to crash down. Yet after a moment's hesitation, she followed Garth into the chilly blue shadow of tbe cave. Several yards from tbe entrance Garth stopped before a narrow side hole that opened above a walst-blguprise In tbe bedrock. He reached In and picked up a bundled white skin.' Out" in the ' sari' he open the skin and showed a piece of frozen meat. Howa that for cold storage?" he said. Killed a young mountain sheep on my way out last month. Thought Id test the glacier. Looks as If It's a safe meat house. No chance of spoiling, and not even a wolf had ventured Inside." Miss Ramlll said nothing. She saw no reason to consider the cave of the slightest Interest There was, however, the meat She suggested that If It was not spoiled, it would make a change from the moose meat This proved true.. ' The descent tad' bwn" made "by There was no aid. Ramlll without need to support, much less backto pack him." He- bad really-begun get a start In training. To Garth this was all the more reason for pushing the millionaire the harder. In the week that followed, be alternated more climbs with trips around Into the muskeg swamps, lie led his sweating, swearing charge over niggerhead grass, where city man had to the on big tussock from nimbly Jump to another or take a tumble. Miss Ramlll tagged along on these grueling hikes. She also made another climb up the gulch. .Garth over-han- g h -- heavy-bodie- d , Hut lo that ease t No u make me swallow It 1 k re wu not such a fool aa to A that placer," said Ramlll. ' Garth laughed outright. What d'you take tue Y'ir j ' i brand of gold digger? t,u the nuhbiu of it alL It? "ue tea sop. why men like you ati llnvhj lose out You worship t ' gtiflu calf. Yet what value N t ore to riches other thau what y ,ot trout them? Can you th'luk of a nre enjoyable game thau pl;n ; draw poker, with our lives In il'- wkpot, and Fortune dealing ua tm- t.u,u of chance?" . "Whats, the catch?" Miss Ramlll, with a sud. n upw.-iIng of her sophisticates ewiieism Lives in the Jackpot. th means nothing. Its your placer mat's in the pot What stakes vm con aider we have in to balat v it?" ti " g," he That would b teased. You'll know If win. If l lose, it will not matter to any of you what youve risked. Tin showdown may come sooner t in 1 ex pected. Your father la a heady In fairly good shape. Wel sttrt the trip out as soon as th"?e caribou skins have been tanned." New York City Still IIa Its Indians and Farms u.-o- ig There nre more people name.? ew Cohen York than nny other I name. fact, there are 10,000 Cohens In the Bronx a'uk Manhattan alone. Tho Kellys are forgotten and overlooked. Indians' like to live In New Yorkliy. Koemft to agree with them as the number Is Increasing, There are now 3SH - of them living there. , There nre two buildings that each has five floors below the street leveL , There Is one store for every 70 , In-N- ADVENTURERS CLUB ' ' - pep-amis- i "Gum in the Nizht' r By FLOYD GIBBONS rOU know, hi.s 1 , , CHAPTER VI , Fatuous Headline Hunter. d- and ptis. when a f;uv pets ii: tpuilde, tirst tlroupht is: "Boy, 1 wt-- h there was a cop Lo pen-eral- ly around to pet me out of this. And if then is a cop around, the chances arc he can pet you out of almost any sort of jam in the world. The police art called cm at aii hours of the day and nipht, to do eer thinp from straiphteninp out a family arpument, to catching a cat thats crawled' up a tree and wont come down. But here's the story of a hunch of hoys who couldnt call on the cops when they pot into trouble. In fact, -- it was the cops who were making all the trouble for Frank Zappala, and for his three FEEL' FINE Mothers read this: Not that Frank had done any thing to deserve nil that attention from the New York pollen department. All he was doing was trtng to get moccasins tor himto New Jersey, There nre some funny laws on the statute books, I'll self. Nearby, the million lire dealadmit, but there Isn't any agutnst going to New Jersey, so Frank er in mines and bis fastidious entirely within hls rights when he tried to dig up the half buck he needed daughter scraped the raw sides of to get through the Holland tunnel. the six caribou skins and rubbed But things were happening around New York, that night, that them with the tanning mixture of Frank and hls friends didnt know about. Old Lady Adventure fat liver and brains. Garth had and she ueed the cops for , was setting the stage for big doings told them they could either tan the actors In the drama she staged with Frank In the leading role, skins, or wait for him to do it. UnFrank and hls friends started out one September evening for a ride til the tanning had been finished, in a car that belonged t one of the fellows' dads. They had the car ' the trip out would not begin. byt doggone little money. There was only twenty cents In rash In the Mr. Ramlll was so keen to start whols crowd, and they wanted to go over to New Jersey to back for civilization that he went friends they had over there. at the disagreeable task with enBoys Would Rather Be in Jersey So Watch. I.lllth not ergy end determination. Going to Jersey, though, rest fifty cena the price mf admission to only worked as vigorously as her So Frunk anggested that one of the other lads a real Interest the Holland tunnel. father, ahe showed named Jim sell an old dollar and n half watch that he carried. fellow In the tanning. Jim was agreeable, and handed over the watch. Frnuk got out of the Iluxby took no part In this prepfor a customer for it. aration of the sklna. When he came car and went looking car wat The parked at the foot of Wall street end It wae down to the camp from the plat10:30 at njght. Prospective watch buyer were few and around inum placer, the eight of hls far between. At a matter of fact there wat only one man In fiancees doing such squaw work dough he had wae twenty cent. The boy eight, and all struck him speechless. He stared so Ji was Just no alo. needed cents, thirty tu blank amazement" When at last drove the car down to the Battery and tried ngntn. A street They he found bla voire, be started to cleaner was working there, and they offered the watch to him. He threaten Garth: didnt want It, but he talked to the hoys for a while. And then suddenly You've gone a bit too far, you thing began to happen. roughneck. Stand up, or I'll kick Police Speed After Some Wrong-Doeyou up. I am going A police car shot around the corner, siren screaming, and sped off The girl broke In, with cool scorn; miles an hour. About ten seconds Tune off, old dear. Youre set ou down the street going about stxty-flveven faster than the first. Both cars one followed another it, going static. It's not interference we want. later, the boys even had a clmnee to corner before disappeared around another Dad and I are giving this performran for the corner to get cleaner Tho street look them. at ance under our own direction. You get s good back Into their own car. climbed four at look the and boys last them, see. It's a bargain. Alan agrees to our as as soon start trip out Just these skins are all tanned." The mining engineer drewTneIT So soon as that My dear girl. If be'a going to rush us off, 1 don't ee how fcan spare any time here In camp. I haven't yet sampled all the area of the placer." YouH have two more days for It Garth told him. Only don't forget that an alloy of platinum and gold weighs more than lead. Youll be toting my CO per cent along with the 40 for yourself and Mr. Ramlll If you hide the loot lu your pock eta, youll go down like a shot first time you slip Into a muskeg pool or quagmire. Think of the Dont Shoot, Mister Dont 8hooL" calamity that would mean. You lose your life, Mr. Ramlll would lose bis Jim got In front and took ths wheel. Frank was In the back Man Friday, Miaa Lilith her fiance, seat with a lad named Charlie. While Jim was etarting the and I Id lose my CO per cent motor, Frank turned to Charlie and aald: What luck weve got Mr. Ramlll Interposed: Ws cant even aetl a watch I" And then he aaw Charlies hands Its no Joke, Vivian. Ive seen a strong go up In the air heard him cry out: Dont shoot mister dont swimmer sunk by the gold In hls shoot 1" A bag can be thrown Frank sat gazing, spellbound, past Charlie and out Into tbe street. money-beoff the shoulders. Another thing. Two men were standing there detectives, they looked like pointing sawed-ofGarth Is to receive hie three-fifth- ! police rifles Into ths back seat of the car. Two uniformed police o f whatever you have panned out cams up then, and one on the detectives opened the door and yanked Cbarlis out of ths car. Another poked a rifle Into Frank's midriff end That le understood. It was bla bargain," Huxby re- told btm to climb out too. And up ahead, the two boys in the front seat were also being pulled out onto the pavement plied. He went to gorge on the leg of It Begins to Look Like Theyre Public Enemies. caribou that Garth bad roasted By this time there were sight policemen and detectives clustered over the fire on a twist-thonof around tbe car. A couple more were Inside, going through It with a When he could eat no rawhide. Where are the guns?" they asked Frank. "Where are comb. more, be hastened back to the fellows?" two other ths placer trough to resume bis panAll four boys satd they didnt have any guns didnt know ning. anything about any two other fellows but they couldnt convince Before eundown. Garth set ser the cope. A robbery had been committed In the neighborhood, era! rawhide snares, each attached and thee lade answered the description of the men. They were to a pair of dowobent saplings. carted off to the station hous fingerprinted, questioned. They For bait be need raw pieces of carihadn't been there long before they realized that they were In bou flesh. ' Tbe beasts of the valtrouble likely to be put on trial for a crime they had no hand In. ley bad never been trapped. When Where were they when tbe robbery waa committed? Thats tbs at aunrtse. be went tbe rounds of Jbetranswer jJIjrked.?n,.s hls snares, be "collected a lynx, corner down by the Battery" waa not good enough. two red foxes, a wolverine, and a Street Cleaner Cleans Up Their Slate. wolf. snares. ' Then Frank thought of the street cleaner. If ths eopa could only find Garth did not reset the He bed more skins than be need- him, be could back their story. Frank told ths detective captain, and he made a ths captain sent a man out to bring him In. He got tber about fifteen ed. From tbe wolf-bldknapaack for nuxby. The fox skins minutes later. furnished smaller bags for Mr. Did you ever see thee boys before?" ths detectives asked Ramil) and Lilith. him. I wae talking to them for twenty At tbe second sunrise. Garth banSure I did," he replied. cars cam shooting around the died tbe lynx end wolverine pelts the before Just police minutes, end a quantity of catgut with tbe corner." caribou sklna. And that waa all the cops wanted to know. But for a half hour or so. It sure looked to Frank as though four guys were going to jail for the Huxby eyed the bundle Ironically. Mr. Ramlll told me about your heinous crime of trying to get to Jersey City. caribou parka talk. I take It you eWNU service. elm to go back and live among tbe beside GARTH sat new tin- e imp fire. to" A liquid laxative is ths answer, mothers. The answer to all your worries over constipation. A liquid can be measured. The dose can be exactly suited to any age or need. Just reduce the dose each time, until tho bowels are moving of their own accord and need no help. This treatment will succeed with any child and with any adult. . Doctors use liquid laxatives. Hospitals use the liquid form. If it is best for their use, it is best for home use. And today, there are fully a million families that will have no other kind in the house. The liquid laxative generally used Is Dr. Culdwells Syrup Pepsin. It U a doctor's prescription, now so widely known that you can get it all ready for use at any drugstore. r. e all-arou- lt f g fins-toothe- d .queatloathft-poRce..kep.t.ask!pgtbe.mA..A- e : Eskimo." do worse," Garth re- Eighteenth Century Clockmakere I might Tbe Eighteenth century dock-makplied. Here's your wolf packbag. was In no wlee It narrow Load. our.. metaL enlinnt..up ,from meet the at IpedaIfsraFmBanIcrn.ufd5tn: you the placer. Well er glacier." Lilith Ramlll crept Into the leant for tbe last time. She came out with the pouches of salt and tea. Neither had been opened since Garth put them In her care. Her worn boots lay at tbe foot of the leanto. Garth added them to hls pack. We might sew on rawhide soles," be said, "All set Ilo about you, mates? Ready to bit I Is pals. 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