OCR Text |
Show T11E SMITH Mlivl Xuu,'' Sure. poi:-.ln.- ? I! !r. get-awa- y POOR outside. -- ... ! ... the sj..l " Mother.. K:.v. jt u-- .-, e Courtney ' ; ' . i Bylej Gaper. WNU Serried SYNOPSIS ' ' jack Hammond, cold proipector, Ktumi is Print Buprt after a ipree In Seattle end lean that a (old ruih la a tar tine as a mult tf aoma careleaa remirka he had dropped at a party concern! ne a gold discovery. He And .that hla partner, McKen-ei- e Joe Brijtetl..hai goqe on north to protect their claims. Besieged, Hammond decides prospector how to to tell the would-b- e resell the new gold flelda. Around the World a frontier dance hall proprietor, haa assembled a troupe of (irla and la bent on starting a danoe hall at the new camp. Jack musea about Kay Joyce, the girl in Seattle whom he love and. to whom h confided (he secret of hla gold atrlke. Going to hla lawyoung girl on the yer office, he paaaea-astalra. Jack saka Bars tow (lw lawyer about' eh la .a volunteer the girl and lea mi that client Jack telle him Shout Kay. Timmy Moon, a mutual acquaintance, had brought them, together. Kay waa chilly at drat, but when aha aaw aoma of hla gold nuggets they got along beautifully. Ha had met her mother and a friend of the family, Bruce Xenidng, a geologist Sergeant Terry of thg Royal Canadian Mounted Police joins the on their trip north. Jack encounters the girl, Jeanne Towers, and she to lend her a team of dogs and asks him supplies. Ha consents. The next day the trek to tba new bonanza begins. Later, an the trail, Jeanne Is lost and Hammond saves her. The gold seekers arrive and the Ham' new camp la soon In full swing. mood and Joe have a secret theory that the real gold And aim not be, on the present aite of the Big Moose river but, on its prehistoric bed, which they are seeking. Kenning turns up with messages from Seattle. Springtime comes. Then an airplane arrives bearing Kay, her mother and Timmy Moon, the aviator. McKenzie Joe Is moody. While they are eating at the "Sluingulllon" Jeanne Tourers appears. She and Kay dislike each other at Srst light and she lit by herself. Kay urges Jack to take Kenning Into hla confidence about his operation. Annie, leg-eab- in ns Iv.ir-talloMimd a w. slapped Mj-aJoyce lUij ;,s:,le her kv.'i- -i Cigarette holder and with thof queer, ciili'.y acquiescent n nwhich seemed a part of the rest of the group onher,theJoined tir.v veranda. The moon hod rise:! shimmering u!e great expanse of Sapphire lake, lying no like an irregular plate of silver between rugged mounds of black vehet. Ifs an inlet, over there to the right, Hammond said. Land on that, and youll be safe. "Safe? broke in Kay, with a little laugh. From v.hom? The Mounties. lies is a boore trip, isn't it? Kay faced the aviator. Timmy! You haven t gone in for bootlecii'pir already?" The tone was jesting, but Timmy was tired. "It isnt against the law to bring liquor from American territory to American territory. I'm not sneaking anything into Canada." -Who's this fellow who hired you? Hammond asked. Curiosity pulled hard at him; he was sure ' r bed-w.i- -i candle mosquito-ne- t he icorn-da- Adventurers y. "Youve hud a long , lonely, j cab-.n- . J- -i purled. a bit de- - went onward toward his wlH.re JV. snored Club MeKen--i- f This night of nights had 01 tamed at all the way he li'ihepod for it. however, brought a spirit eff gavoty; everybody had been tired and excited the night before. Hammond told himself. Nev- crt.iclcss, on his way from break- co,l'd r'ol help turning Vi t.n1 ciibin-stor- o of Jeanne Tow- ers, nor conl.l he conceal a certain expression of concern as she be- gan what was meart sprightly conversation mends guests. Then she tumedTo subject of Timmy Moons air- - ' Moi-irn- Murder on Soochow Creek a rom China, whore life is cheap. They'll kill half-th-e you for your shoes in that desperate, starved country. Or they'll kill you for nothing at all. Ive seen Chinese killed by the dozen over there for no reason, as far as I CUld SCC but USt for the 80110 of killinR- - 1,1 no Htry ln world except possibly revolutionary Spain, is death spread with TT over-crowde- p i rattrrn 5801. and running stitch, you'll find it fun to embroider these large and small nosegays. Choose all the gay colon you wish, in wool, silk floss or chenille and know you're in style. In pattern 5801 you will And a transfer pattern of one and one reverse motif by BY inches; one and one reverse motif anese. 6Vh by 6 inches and six motifs SY Along the Shores of Soochow Creek. by 3tt inches; color suggestions; we Marines illustrations of all stitches used. Says Milt: You probably remember the little dug-oand all the wurlike atmosphere that surrounded us along Soochow To obtain this pattern send 15 creek? And Milt is right about that. I sure do. I spent a lot of time cents in stamps or coins (coins down there when the fighting was going on over in the Native City, and if preferred) to The Sewing Circle 8aw Milt I'd probably remember him, too, for I talked with a lot of those Household Arte Dept., 259 W. and stood guard along the creek. Milts Fourteenth Street, New York, boys who garrisoned that dug-oadventure, though, is one thing I missed, and I'm gjad Milt has given me N. Y. a second chance at it a second chance to put in on the wire and tell it to Write pattern number, your the world. . name and address plainly. It was a cold morning that one in February and Milt was patrolling his post along Soochow crock. Outside the walla of the International SetSense of Honor . tlement a furious battle was going on between Japanese troops and Chinese soldiers. Refugees were seeking safety in the Settlement by the The sense of honor la so fine end thousand, but they weren't allowed to enter at night. The patrols along delicate a nature, that It la only to the boundaries had strict orders not to let anyone enter before six a. m., be met with ln minds which ere but all night long terror-stricke- n Chinese refugees many of whom naturally noble, or In such aa couldn't pass the inspection at the bridges kept trying to force tlicir have been cultivated by good way through the patrols and get in behind Settlement walls. aniplea, or a refined education. Addison. At the Mercy of the Chinese. It was about live In the morning when Milt aaw a sampan, loaded with Chinese, making its way aerosa the creek. Immediately Milt shouted to them to go back, but on they came until :i A ' ft the nose of the boat touched the shore. Then Milt aaw he was la for an argument maybe even a little trouble. But if he'd known how much trouble it was going to be, hed have sounded the alarm and called out the guard before he tried to do anything else about ut we know. ' . j I'm afraid Im getting as bad as you prospectors, came with an uneasy laugh. Ive been wishing for another mining rush. Why? Women are right sometimes," Mrs. Joyce added. Timmy fussed with his knife and fork. Wish that Yellow Peril would y Im Making an Early in the Morning." bring on the steak. Im going to eat the tablecloth in a minute." was the man who had frightened Itll be along," Hammond an- it Jeanne Towers. Timmy rubbed his conswered, glad of the change of face. round versation. "Ill try to get hold of Damned if I know. He said his that Chinaman Lew Snade. I think he He raised his head, looking about name was Around the World Annie. for works the shoddy restaurant, only to pause Kay laughed, somewhat harshly. as the door opened and a young So thats what becomes of our man entered, paused a moment, Timmy. He comes into the darling then started forward at the sight North and immediunfettered new, of Hammonds party. He was a man Jack had not seen before, once ately becomes a bootlegger." It was badly timed. Timmy well built, but now somewhat fallen nerves were raw, from a Moon's away, as though his clothing did not session at the stick. fit, or an inactive life had robbed long at least Im honest about a frame once well filled by the it. Well, not being a damned preIm outdoors. The sagginess extended to his features, deep lines about his tender! asked Kay, with Why, Timmy, mouth, a thickness of the cheeks an air of amazement. Who's preat each side of his nose. He raised tending?" a cigarette to his lips with a jerky We've all been pretending, said movement, then snapped the arm Moon. ' Jack caught the Timmy quickly down at his side. Now he scent of liquor on his breath; and hesitated, aa if wondering whether Lew Snade, whoever he or not to interrupt. At last he de- evidently And Im had been generous. was, cided against further approach and sick of it. Were up here and lets turned again to the door. be honest as to why were here. Hammond aaw him glance toward in the reflected light Timmy! the comer where Jeanne Towers sat of the doorway, Hammond saw that and stiffen as .though with surprise. the face had gone white; there Then he heard a sound from the was girls rage in her eyes. The aviator comer, half gasp, half scream, that did not notice. was smothered almost before it behe exDon't Timmy me! gan. For an instant the two stared, claimed. We're all broke and we as if each were petrified by the might as well say we're broke and othera presence. Then the young be done with it! man swung out the door, and Perhaps you'd better go to bed, Jeanne Towers, fighting mightily to said Mrs. Joyce icily. pretend unconcern, returned to her I think that's a good idea. Hammeager meal. mond took him by the arm. Time for us to go, Timm- yThe round little Oh, all right. CHAPTER V didn't pilot was grinning again. I fireworks. start to any mean in hour later, Hammond saw the Hammond pulled him oil the ven again. The meal was finished and with an effort at a jokranda I the Jack was strolling through to the two women, good-niging np with his guests; Kay had trail. the down him led a tremendous interest in I cant put you up in my Sorry not could she fry thing about her; cabin, he apologized, when they it until morning, she said. toward town. But 0 now, picking their way along were well alongtwo bunks there. got dark passageways and trails weve onlycouldn't go, anyway. Ive Oh, I ich passed as streets, Hammond too out early. Timmy to get done his best to give a picture got his hands over his face. the place, its beginnings, its nibbed how a couple of shots can . At last, tired, they had Wow,fellow when he's tired. a hit Moon ned homeward, Timmy out of turn rather spoke "You ging somewhat in the roar, the miner the house, at there ncing back, Hammond saw the up avi-r the i form of a man follow Timmy raised his head, pulling for a few moments at last for air. hard late was him. ling Timmy I guess I did, he conYch, thing the cottage. fessed. Kay will hate me for that. asked Whereve you been?" it dark been trying to keep Theyve t. The pilot grinned. cent. But a got haven't A fellow wanted me to make a that they it. If everybody in Seattle knows Brace for him. that money the for wasnt it the That man who came Into wouldnt asked, Kenning slips them, they Hammond mgullion? dime. thin a Kay Joyce have mmy nodded. Hammond gasped. ugged her shoulders. But they've always been the nen How far is it from here to Wran-I?- " people of Seattle! heads in the air. asked Timmy. Y'eh, with their was To where? yawning. Kay em up any . But they cant hold s why Wrangell, Alaska," Jack sup-dthey that there down It's about a hundred miles, longer so glad to get out. were line." came into A certain grimnesa ts Get-Awa- -- ht an-uic- She shrugged her shoulders. Oh, I don't know the excitement, I guess, the thrill of going somewhere. I'm sorry. Then, That doesn't sound gratcfuL But this camp hasn't really gotten started. Quickly he asked, Jeanne, what's bothering you? Spring, maybe. Sure? Site fenced. What else? Who was that man in the restaurant last night? she exclaimed, with Oh, that! a smile that for the moment disarmed him. It was all too silly. I could have sworn I knew him a ack boy I'd gone to school with up home! It was a mistake then? Oh, yes. Id looked up hurriedly it was just like seeing a ghost. Did you hear me? I almost shrieked. The poor fellow must have thought I'd gone crazy, I did feel like an idiot. Hammond agreed that it was indeed a silly feeling. Soon he went onward, again to take the trail up to the cottage. But he carried with him an uneasy presentiment that Jeanne Towers had not told the it. Aa the boat touched shore Milt stepped. aboard and began telling the I hud to do this in sign lancoolie who ran it to turn around and go back. guage, Milt says, "because the coolie, apparently, didn't understand English. The coolie appeared to be doing what I told him. He was trying to awing the boat around when a small tugboat qame along and rammed into his sampan. At the same time it pushed the sampan out into the middle of the stream, making it impossible for me to jump . ashore again. And then, all of a sudden, the demeanor of tfie Chinese In the boat changed. A few seconds before Milt had represented authority! with a guard of soldiers at his call. Now, out there in the middle of the' stream he waa alone helpless and darned well those Chinese knew it- They began swarming toward him, babbling, gesticulating, threatening. Milt saw what was coming saw that he had one chance to ' get away, and that waa to jump aboard the tugboat lie turned toward it, and then a thing happened that put him completely at the mercy of the occupants of the sampan. As he turned toward the tug, a puff of smoke, full of fine bits of coal flew straight in his eyes. He was blinded!'. It was only for a few moments, but during those few moments of blindness Milt experienced the worst fear of his whole life. The natives, seeing him helpless, rushed him and a man that gets mobbed by a crowd of Chinese natives has darned little chance of getting out alive. in-b- truth. Kay was waiting for him, as well groomed as if she had come from a beauty parlor. Hammond watched the sun play on her hatless head, as with her mother, they went down the trail Then at last, on the banks of Loon creek, the man pointed out the claim which he had saved for her, a stretch of gravel extending along the stream near where upturned stones and earth told of the workings held by McKenzie Joe and himself. I got them as near mine as X could, lie announced. asked And is this a claim? Why, it's just the bank of Kay. the stream! Look, Hammond answered. All nlong the crock were evidences of labor. Here and there, disregarding the high water, men labored at the shoveling of earth into long, wooden sluice boxes which, picking running ui the water from a influme the stream, from a higher point . carried it downward on a slow ae- - dine. and It just wash it throughcuriousKay said Isn't that cute? ly. It looks like a day laborer's job to me," her mother reflected. A shout answered her, from upOlstream, where the son and two partners were workelseing. Instantly labor stopped where. Necks craned. Heads apof peared above the higher portions stream temporarily the where earth, ran between cut banks. Then rnen sluice began to converge upon the You becomes gold? raw-bone- box. d ex- Let's go up, Hammond claimed. "Olsons found something m the clean-ug Kay asked, The clean-up- ? beside him. Mrs. Jojce jot, lowed somewhat in their wake, a womglancing acridly about her, who seldom smiled, seldom who an who seemed gave interest, yet ways to be weighing everything within her range. Hammond turned to explain. You see, Yes, the clean-u- p. those long wooden chutes are called cleats sluice boxes. They vs got riffles. across the bottom, called top The dirt is shoveled in at the Hammonds features. to by the water. carried along is end worry. flow on Kay doesn t need The dirt and light gravel beSure, not with you. out. Anything heavier settles Then lets drop riffles. those Besides, here s hind CONTINUED said qif-'- y. That's okay, said Timmy. a mile; a hundred bucks the round trip. Say, he que-there's a part of this lake I dips over on the Alaskan side miner the line, isnt there?" your flop joint I, d, die exclaimed1 rcarraS Tfew containers f dried food on the al- suck a careless hand. niost empty shelves. been asking me when IEverybodys Yes, life is cheap over there in China. Many a man has been killed intended to for something that wasn't worth a Chinese dollar. But our Distinguished lay in new stock. Buy me some tobacco that Isnt Adventurer of the day Milton Weaver of New York City aaw the time half hay when you do wasn't worth two cents. Hammond once wllen his That was in Frbruary, 1933. Milt Weaver was in the Ihiited ordered, with a grin. That's Me- - ' States Marine corps then, and the Marines were stationed in Shanghai protecting our nationals snd the International Settlement during the fighting that went un between the Chinese and the Jap- she said. Mr. Moon is booked up until then. I was up early but the Slumgullion people and the flop- house and the hotel were already ahead of me. What's a week? asked HamYou'H be the merchant mond. queen of Sapphire lake first thing CHAPTER IV Continued Fif-een- ' By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ' . i Fashion decrees that flowers bloom on our dresses in embroidery this Spring and Summer. Give this smart touch to that new frock surprise yourself and all your friends too by what it will do to renew that plain dress from last year. So easily done In singla him on the to bed. Timmy! -i Courtney Ityley Cooper of the - i Frocks Made Gay With Stitch Flowers oxc'.j-.ir.ed- ut.'ruN '. w hiccoughed. . looking at , 'id. " . GOLD I""1-'1- -- i : yawn, if titeiv'j! let & take a hmk .MARIAS. FIKI.O SENTINEL, SMITIIEIEIJ). UTAH i p. hur-ryin- at ITO BE San Francisco1 (Oat w tf fort from Ogden at Salt Laka City, goad he teacbet at chair cart.) We have the FASTEST TRAINS to San Francisco, all meals on the Desperate Fight on the Sampan. j They came at me with bamboo sticks, says Milt, trying to push me overboard into the filthy waters of the creek. I knew I was doomed if I let them get me into the water, for once I was in it they would push me under and bold me there until I drowned. I blew my whistle for help. I had a pistol in a holster at my hip, but I couldnt see to shoot it. But I also carried a baton like n policeman's nightstick and I began swinging it around my head as best I could. Milt says he doesnt know how he managed to stay on his feet all through the hullabaloo. He could feel bamboo poles poking at him, and he could feel that his own stick was doing some damage, too, for every once in a while it came in contact with something that felt like n coolies head. But little by little he was being forced back toward the edge of the sampan. Milt was getting desperate. Another step or two and hed be overboard. He was thinking of drawing his pistol and firing blindly into the mob, when suddenly he heard English voices on the bank, mixed in with the native shouting and cursing. That stopped the coolies. A minute before. Milt had been a lone, hated foreign devil. Now he was backed by authority again. They put the boat back to shore, and Milt was helped ashore by English policemen and a few of his own pais, the American Marines. They gave Miltfirst aid treatment for his eyes, and for the cuts and bruises he had received, and Milt says he was mighty doggone glad to get his feet back ground of the International Settlement where good old American, British and French law and order were in force and life was worth more than a couple of plugged Chinese pennies. Facific . limited. 31 ROUNDTRIP to San Fran- cisco; $32 ROUNDTRIP to Los Angeles via San Francisco both fares good In standard Pullmans (berth extra). Southern Pacific ArSAnulAi'siAinLOws Cm. Alt. Dept. A. 41 So. Main St, Sail Lata City IN UTAH AND WNU service. First Before British Royalty Bom in 1744, Abigail Smith became the wife of a young Massachusetts lawyer, John Adams, when she was twenty. Acknowledged as one of those who helped shape a new nation, John Adams waa rewarded with the appointment of first United States minister to Great Britain in 1784, and his wife and eighteen-year-ol- d daughter Abby joined him in London. The following summer they curtsied, as the first bona fide Americans, before British royalty thereby leading off a picturesque procession which a favored few of their sisters have continued for years. Blondes and Brunettes The brunette is thoughtful, imaginative, serious and tenacious. When they start anything they ace it through. They are conservative and more stable than blondes, de clares a writer in Pearsons London Weekly. They are emotional and it is remarkable that many of the great religious cults have been founded by brunettes. The brunette is slower than the blonde, not so brilliant, but sometimes more sure of getting there in the end. The blonde is the builder, the seeker after fresh fields and pastures new. They are the explorers and inventors, the civil engineers. The Chaldeans Claims First Sleeping Car The Chaldeans were not EgypThat the first sleeping car to be built and placed in actual service on tians but were a Semitic tribe, simithis continent was designed and lar to the Babylonians, who probmade in Canada ia stated in an ar- ably migrated from Arabia into lowticle in the Canadian National Rail- er Mesopotamia about 700 B. C. in the great way Magazine. The plan for a sleep- They were absorbed and- some of their 185!) Persian in in was car empire prepprepared ing aration for the visit of the then descendants probably remain in Prince of Wales, later to become that part of Asia. They were polyEdward VII, and the actual con- theists and noted for their knowlstruction was carried out at Brant- edge of astrology and occult sciford, Ont., in a plant later used for ence. It appears quite likely that malleable iron castings for passen- the Wise Men from the East were Chaldeans or Babylonians. ger and freight cars. HOTEL BEN LOMOND ' Ogdens Finest . . One of Utah's Best 350 Baths 350 Rooms $100 to $4.00 Ar Cooled Corridors Delightful Rooms Coffee Shop Grill Roan Spacious Lounge and Lobby Courteous Service Every Comfort and Convenience will be found at THE HOTEL BEN LOMOND OGDEN. UTAH COME AS YOU ARE CHAUNCEY W. WEST, GZN'L MS. - CIGARS riciir Hundred Mia tun ITgara, box Of nO postpaid ihzoo dollar, aatlafa. guaranteed or money refunded, US S. Sauna St., Syrasaao, N. XJ miles, linn |