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M RON wERY 1 tea teat f t I Id d h tI IR j WILLIAH BYRON MOWERY SERVICE 4 SYNOPSIS t i Lovett thirty three Junior I fin the powerful Wellington In III Lovett Incorporated Incorporated Mines of or I which engages In questionable secret ecret o ons on Plan to make a Canadian Arctic where a tile the Inaccessible before a rich but Kid eld has bas been discovered on Res- Res flows Into Dyna river which r high spirited andi and Patricia y dugher e o of crusty old Jasper i n. n ho ho Is I. engaged to Warren t to accompany him Over her objection he agrees to takey takee take ey e ego y go by plane Pane Pat meets meeta a French Trench french prosper t tells ulli her there are only i in N the field and that bet bethe be bee beet ion rt n r t the difficulties they are hang hang- II t by v i e thread Pat U is disturbed arren will not disclose what his is She visits the pros pros- is depressed ump ramp p and 1 II depressed to see they are She meets meeta a friend of ii Iby by the plight of am Bill Fourier a ar 1 tor r who though fatally ill UI hold his claim Pat Pal decides to Elm Informed by Lupe Chi Chi- il I I. I head of a family of or half breed i of the company about Pats Pat's g the prospectors Warren tries fc ale ade d her He tell tells her that Cral Craig with whom she ahe had once been I ii Is now deputy mining inspector Resurrection river area A n log 1st he had resigned In disi dis- dis because m i ber her lathers fathers company f lous methods Later she ahe meets t ut nt he 1 Is cold Inferring that tha t she sheI I Ir 11 feigning Interest In the pros pros- i Her Het compassion for the hapless rt n rowing growing Pat decides to build r i community house or Den When J a i nears neara completion Warren tells abandon bandon It She Shi refuses after a areas rat k APTER IV Continued IV us 5 I I didn't allow me It was my i Bea ea In fact he ordered me to toI I mean mean mean- ordered you to stop Craig 1 feted ted her slip So SoI I the lay of the land Im I'm not r r surprised Ive I've been think think- at hes he's kept you all aU In the thet ut t what Patricia demand demand- ea lieve you'd better ask War War- as fou ou ought to be on good enough I with your fiance for that So Sofai 4 as fai your own idea I Ie a e a youre you're getting a real kickI kick k I It p kick elt k out of what w iy y 1 out of taking up a new as ind and giving it a twirl The game Being Lady to men instead of ot one Bill BlU Fourier Im I'm won won- how bow long it'll ItU take you to get lot of ct this new toy tOl and junk lunk it letting e else Idas Ida's hope for a kindly word little friendship from Craig crashing His IUs remarks made iii OIlS ous There was a small elect ele ele- lot d ct truth In his Lady arge rge and this thIl infuriated her n more Once again she Ibe lost per completely g i youre you're horrid I s a she h b e a Md d stamping her small boot I wouldn't say a kind word if it I Wl loul Who's taking up the huMan hUe hu- Cl Man elan game and giving It a Who'll get tired and throw it I why Rhy didn't you yourself do doo b o for these men ment You Just lust sat satre sata a Ire re e in your our cabin and did noth noth- s d then when I pitch In n and andaU I ID aU you can do is s look at my I and nd bum humph ph and make ear sar- sarI I remarks Get awaY away from p ThIa U is s my Get away P t t come back I h hate h-hate you youl 1 ft I regarded her calmly for tor J moments I ute re still stUl a tiger kitten I see lee a voted Well Wen we w. wont won't r L Good luck to you and this of 01 den that youve you've built W wi these thele poor fellows need I hope this idea of yours youra ark ork and does hold em here her able to hold em m so 10 far W w ru be gone sped t took k up hIs Wi pact pack an and 1 m down clown to the river edge th Indian had slid IUd a motor motor- to Water Patricia watched him those of et hi sib Now Ill I'll b be gone tear fear shooting V through and 11 h her r. r What did h he mean by w moments later came cam t along lalone with a pound roG-pound pound cookIe cook cook- Ie on hll i broad h th the burden down OWn and Dd mopped head Meef Pat dl dig 1 a th kin c of wedder for lor heavy wI hemp idas ida's eyes were on the mo mo- oe 08 Which had angled out outA A and Was chug chug- P toward tot those thole misty and the illimitable do barrens on ond d' d leoni Wheres Where's he going He 1 wouldn't be here tomorrow Wl Bay not be back ay for Pt al Hell He'll manY manY night be gone Kone for tree free tour moon He Hes He's 1 starting mak make a long acid Creep In In- all de claim In de Resurrection Resurrection headwater I don he heget heget heget get back here till Christmas The news struck Patricia like a club blow Dynamite Bay seemed all aU at once empty and forsaken She suddenly realized the stark undeniable undeniable undeniable un un- deniable truth that she had stayed on and on there largely because of Craig And now he was gone CHAPTER V VIt VIt VIt It was a raw ugly day that day that fateful fate ful October eighth A cold wind was whipping down from the Arctic ocean and a white cap surf pounded pound ed against the rocky shore of Great Desolation With a sleety rain beatIng beat beat- Ing tog monotonously upon her tent Patricia Pa tricia had snuggled deep in her warm blankets and slept till nearly noon For several weeks the weather had been sharp and chill Each day was shorter each night perceptibly per longer than the one be be- fore In the middle of September a short squaw winter had blown down from the coastal hills killing I all greenery and bringing a six Inch snow Though the snow had quickly melted and the weather had fa faired Ired up a little Utie the lazy golden days of summer were definitely gone and a sullen whine in the wind heralded the savage winter storms shortly to come Just as Patricia was deciding that she ought to get up and hurry across the river to that bothersome com come community community house of at hers some lome one rapped at the front of at her tent Come In In she bade The stony-faced stony Lupe ml entered shaking the rain from his slicker sUcker Mail Mall plane come from tram Fort Smeeth dis morning he Informed He Hit handed Patricia a small packet of ot letters Dese are for you When Lupe had gone Patricia snuggled into the blankets again and read her mall mail Her lIer mother her sister Frances and several gossipy gos girl friends had written There was also a note from her Chicago bank advising that her account had bad been overdrawn Frowning In surprise Patricia studied the attached statement Why darn she exclaimed They didn't enter my September allowance Ill I'll have to get iet Warren Warren War War- ren to wireless em or my checks will start bouncing back at me meShe me She hated to ask a favor tavor of Warren Warren War War- ren after their sharp clashes of ot the thelast thelast thelast last two months after her postponement postpone ment of at their marriage but this bank mistake was serious She threw aside the blankets Jumped lumped out of bed dressed hurriedly hurried hurried- ly flung on her belted trench coat and started for Warrens Warren's tent Through the rainy gloom she could see the Rock Rock Hog Hog Den In the drogue of at pines across tion Very cheery and homelike the big house looked with lights shining through its windows and blue wood-smoke wood streaming from tram its four tour tin chimneys She wondered how bow the 75 its rock-hogs rock over there were making out with their noon meaL Without her supervision It was probably one big scram Jam ble Confound those fellows anyway any any- way weren't weren't they ever going to learn how to run that place by themselves When she wasn't on the Job lob managing and directing they were Just 75 Its bewildered big clumsier In a few tew minor respects the community community com come house now almost two months old was a disappointment to Patricia So far tar sh she had bad been forced to manage manage- it herself And she bad had had to keep putting money Into it Not Not a great deal true but buta a little bit right along And then she had built too small Iman Big as II the lodge was it could not quite cope cop with the demands made mad upon it and a few of the prospectors were living In overflow tents But Dut In to her main hope that hope that the place would be a substitute home where the man could have a real rest and a little human comfort comfort- the Hog Rock Den had come through smashingly Her ter womanly instincts had bad been a true guide she she- had bad sized up the great need of ot those thosa men meD unerringly and had Wed tilled it The proof of her success was as overwhelming as a an n avalanche They had taken to the Den DeD so avidly that at first they had bad completely swamped and burled her They were so 10 keen now to get in to the Bay that she had been compelled to make out out a rotation list In tn order that every man might have his turn To watch them come in all aU tired and spiritless spend their allotted fortnight In the warm clean place and leave again with belts tightened and their courage up up- up that was waa the finest experience of Patricia's twenty four years But for tor all aU the unexpected success suc sue cess eIn of her idea she was waa more and more afraid that when the le fur de season leason n Opened Pe her men would abandon aban aban aban- don their r cl claims lm and nd pitch oil oft from D Dynamite DR Bay ay A dozen ready i left f for had ale al good and the others othera r couldn't were on the blame f Verge of fo following ing She them-their them plight was reali really pitiful Their clothes were patched and their Prospecting equipment was worn out they were falling behind on their assessment work and another Arctic winter Ita stared red w them In ta th the face v Worst sign of all the they were losing faith in their claims and beginning be be- ginning to think this field so Inaccessible inaccessible Inac- Inac that their holdings might never cever be worth a thin Canadian nickel When she the entered Warrens Warren's tent he was standing before a chart that hung from the ridgepole the same big chart which she had seen Sten at La Salle Salic street headquarters in Chi Chi- cago Then It had been white but now It was sprinkled with several dozen squares and oblongs of ot red Many times Patricia had wondered what those red splotches meant The They looked mysterious and a bit sinister Warren she gave him the bank statement these statement these people say Im I'm overdrawn and I know perfect ly Iy well Im I'm not They forgot to enter enter en en- ter my September allowance Warren did not even glance at the paper right Patricia Im I'm sorry to say Your credit for September September and and for October too too too- was not sent In to them I dislike to tell you bad news dear but I must Your allowance has been cut cutoff off Your father decided that the only way to make you come home was to stop your money Patricia stared at Warren dum dum- founded Her lIer allowance cut oil oft she couldn't quite grasp so 10 astounding astounding astound astound- ing a fact Why her allowance had I always been one of the infallible things like day and night Warren toyed with a letter knife on his work table Patricia he z du I a 1 kA kAI I y t Dese Are for You Ton lees lees' said finally you surely must realize realize real real- ize that Im I'm here at Dynamite Bay Day Bayon Dayon on business for the company and that its it's very important business If It my plans go through the firm stands to make an extremely hand hand- come coup I presume you know by now I presume Tarlton told you that Dynamite Bay Day Is an extraordinarily ex ex- extraordinarily rich mineral field field field- What Patricia broke In For Fora a moment this sudden revelation settling a question which had plagued her for three months made her forget all about the allowance Rich extraordinarily Warren is that straight Its straight he stated The whole story Isn't yet known wont won't be known till complete surveys have been made but w we do know positively that the field is fa of the first magnitude Now dear Warren went on In his bis patient logical fashion this community house of yours broke Into my plans plan very badly Your whole project runs counter to the best interests of Wellington Parkes Lovett here at Dynamite Bay Personally I had nothing to do with cutting off your allowance I merely kept your our father tather Informed Wormed of ot the situation as I was duty bound But But but wait walt a minute Patricia Patricia Pa Pa- tricia interrupted all perplexed I dont don't follow you What is fa this coup that youre you're talking about How am amI I damaging your plans What are these thel plans of at yours Warren sidestepped We cant can't go into all aU the details dear Its It's a adry adry adry dry business matter But I insist on knowing Im I'm doIng doIng do- do doing Ing a good Job over there among those men a badly needed Job and andI I wont won't drop it without a solid reason why I Warren shrugged I dont don't see aee that youve you've got any choice Now off allowance al that your father has cut your lowance you'll have to give In and go back to Chicago That give in was decidedly the wrong expression to use on Patricia Wellington Ill Til be damned if Ill I'll go gol she burst bunt out Dad cant can't order me to around like thaU ties lies not going human domineer over me Im I'm a being the same as he Is I Ive I've ve got ideas and wishes of my own own own- But hes he's got the power Warren War War- reminded ren rea Isis His remark drew Patricia's Patricia fire lire tool too to him Youve got power Youre You're a partner in he firm You Youre You're re rethe the real brains of the firm Look going to stand Itan for here are you this Youve You've got money lots ts ol of it IL You can advance me what I need Its It's not much Only a few hundred a Will you OU or wont won't you lout loutner tier Her sharp question put Warren on the spot He ne dared not make good the allowance for she would use the mone money to keep the community community com com- house houle operating Already that Rock Rock Hog Hog Den plus the quiet word which Tarlton had passed out outto outto outto to the prospectors last summer lummer had stalemated him for three exasperate exasperating ing months month On the other hand he hesitated to antagonize Patricia by an outright refusal On his hla work table stood a desk calendar with October 8 6 8 staring him in the eyes Their wedding wed ding date The day dal on which h he was to have married Patricia Wellington Wel Wel- lington That marriage almost a certainty once was a raging doubt with him now And he was not blind to her stormy emotions toward Craig Tarl Tart ton Are you going to side with me or dad Patricia pinned him down Can I keep my community house going Yes or no nol Warren made a swift decision If It Ithe he stood firm Patricia would have to go home Doubtless she would be furious with him might even break their engagement but with patient effort he probably could win her around again Certainly anything anything any any- thing was better than for her to stay ItaY on at the Day Bay She would keep that thelt Den running to his great damage damage dam dam- age and If U Tarlton returned saw what she was doing and joined forces with willi her she would be Tarl Tar tons Dear he said firmly Im compe compelled com come pe lied to refuse All Patricia's up dammed-up anger at Warrens Warren's dishonesty and evasion all the bitter disappointment of her Arctic trip with him all the heartache heartache heart heart- ache over her failure to build up loyalty with willi him came bursting out All AU right keep your money I 1 she blazed at him I dont don't need it IL Ill I'll get along without it Youre You're exactly like dad You dictate You give me Just lust so much liberty but no more The only difference between between be bee tween you and him is II that hes he's blunt about It and youre you're diplomatic |