Show IVER ILIAM LLIAM zIL a artY ON e J Ill 11 BYRON MOWERY SERVICE SYNOPSIS Lovett thirty Junior Wellington the tt powerful incorporated Mines of Lovett engages engage es In questionable plant plane to m make k a secret secrete ret w fcC e CanadIan n l n Arctic ArcUe where a before a rich but Inaccessible Res- Res been bee discovered on d bas I river dyer which Sows flows Into Dyna Dyne Patricia high spirited and of crusty old Jasper L who rho is U engaged to Warren accompany him They beJ go by t meets H a prospector r. r who tell ten teDs her there M prospectors In the field and ue II of the difficulties the they ar arn are n to hl a a thread Pal Pat Fat Is o disturbed bed will not disclose what his bIa hise Ion e Is U. She meets Sam Hone Honey d of Moved by bJ theW the W a prospector who lU Rl struggles to hold his hi i decides to help him Informed halt half breed breed retain retain- about Pats Pals befriend befriend- Warren tries to die He tells her that Craig Tarl Tarl- whom she had once been In Ini w i deputy mining Inspector for foron foron on river area A brilliant be he had resigned in disgust I fathers father's company compall because of ofa a methods methodi Later she he meets t be hi Is U cold Inferring Interring that she he sheI I feigning Interest In the pros pros- Her or er compassion for the hapless haplea i growing crowing Pat decides to build unIty house or Den When lean arl ara completion Warren tens ten adon It She refuses after a tent ne Craig leaves on a three three- Ron trip to the north Pat Patt t her father lather has withdrawn her Warren refuses to advance i to aid all the prospectors She tent across the river near the learns leams now of Warrens Warren's plan to starve the prospectors out them sell seU their claims claim for a at t tells teUs the prospectors of 01 War War- Still attentive to Pat Warren Warrent t subtle campaign to get the Just before Christmas Craig and Pat Is overjoyed attitude lie He brings her tot of furs fUrl and apologizes for his Concluding that she ahe sher aheI tt r I marry Warren Pat returns ement ring lie He reveals that tan Is II already married WarI War War- I Craig to stay Itay away from Pat I knows about his previous mar mar- tat ter Pat Is ii thrilled when Craig ill hi bs will join her In fn th the fight parren men amen Craig sends send a party larch arch for a rich claim that Phil PhilI I peen freen prospector had located lie e year before Craig surprises in his cabin and finds n a some notes notel from Pat Craig Pat Pal about his hla unfortunate Ito to Rosalie tells tella her how it was waa waslow low how he had bad given her every every- lad ad and erroneously supposed a divorce lTER ITER Ill Continued IX Continued 10 10 rant ant of any better aim I t Io to o pile up money for myat mye my my- myat e at Vancouver I made short horl order that order that zinc- zinc i process From having baving I was Wal an easy step to begin bein Jit it and I did that too I ID Ip up p D with a fast e I moved faster than they I met Tact Rosalie She was 1 creature with an peal al to the senses and she Into my frame of didn't matter that she was to 0 a rather close of ut nt In took her away from fried led iee her that epicurean p ph phase h a s e eat eat hit at and didn't last It was wase e We life and I was born to le Ie and cold waters of One On On- e relationship between lad ne nd myself was merely an ano o II Q with nothing fine tine or en- en out it and it burned out e d came when I discovered pane alie had renewed her 1 with this former fiance i meeting him frequently had bad a talk Because she It and because I was r whole hole apostasy I turned her er everything I had I W that I could have bave beat beat be- be at money more worthily time me I didn't care about I eXcept to cut clean and get all If I 1 left I Vancouver I had r to in my pocket and I t onto into the river ver I worked north norm rth to Fort Fot Smith sea seI se- se I a job at Dynamite Bay Day een en here ever since r left Patricia Immensely for n she he had been i of or things about those years Yeara She could under under- revulsion which had led I throw everything over over- w seek seclusion in the hh the Ibe u th and nd she he understood cold harsh purity of l had bad appealed to him so soad sota ad Where is 11 ta 14 Europe the last I II intimated to me that I In Vancouver Has lias she he Pen en n YOU Kt live or expressed any aDY With you ou again ironically 01 11 d have nave Dy u Y I 5 any Interest In a I making eighteen bun hun Jl Was it part of your agreement that she Ih would get a divorce Yes I dont don't know why she didn't unless from plain Inertia Just as soon as this fight eases up enough so that I can spare pare the time and money I intend to get the divorce divorce di dl vorce myself Theres There's no question that I can ultimately get the detree decree de de- cree tree If U I didn't know U this s positively positive positive- ly I wouldn't say lay la so lie He seemed to believe that Rosalie was out of the picture and would cause no trouble but Patricia was worried In the eyes eye of the law Rosalie was still sUli Rosalie Rosalia Tarlton Warren the lawyer was looking at this situation from a legal viewpoint viewpoint view view- point whereas Craig was seeing It ItIn Itin itIn in a sense common and human way If U there was an any legal technicality b by which Craigs Craig's marriage could be used as al a weapon against him Warren War ren would seize the chance With a shock of misgiving she recalled recalled re re- called that Warren was flying out outto outto outto to the city country In a day or two He lIe bad had told her ber so so Just that morn morn- Ing big Sh She wondered what business was taking him south Was there any connection between his biJ trip and this Rosalie situation It was after midnight when she and Craig got back to 10 camp At Atthe Atthe Atthe the door of her cabin they stopped awkward and uncertain with that painful throbbing silence between them In the last half hour bour neither neither nei net ther had spoken once Wont you come in Craig she invited We haven't spared time for a cup of tea in the last week Id like to to if you dont don't think its it's too late dear Patricia trembled at that word dear It was the first token of affection affection affection af af- that had escaped Craigs Craig's lips Maybe hed he'd been holding back because of his bis marriage not knowing knowing knowing know know- ing definitely how she would react to it Im not tired at all she lied And Id I'd like like like-I I want to give you those three books I borrowed Craig stood their snowshoes by bythe bythe bythe the door and stepped inside with her Except fo tot the Aurora glow beatIng beating beat beat- Ing lag against the north window the cabin was entirely dark Patricia groped across to her dresser and fumbled for matches to light a can can- dIe dle She was ashamed of herself for urging Craig to come in Why didn't he say something do something something something some some- thing There was no longer any reason for his holding ba back k Surely she had made it plain to him out yonder on the rocky Islet that she considered his marriage dead and meaningless She heard him lean his rifle rine against a chair and start over toward toward to to- toward ward her I Ills His strange tone made her whirl around No wavering uncertainty in that tonel It was like a summoning call Yes Yes here here she stammered her heart thumping wildly Craig had interpreted her reaction right When he stepped into her cabin all his hesitancy had fallen away from him lie He came up to her In the dark his hand touched her shoulder Patricia Patricia Patricia Pa Pa- tricia wanted to flee to escape but she could not move Before she could stop him Craig took her Into his arms with an overpowering insistence in that swept her off her feet till girl girl till tonight till I told you about Rosalie and you said it didn't matter And I held oK off because I didn't want to force my love on you or Influence you in any way It didn't seem right right- right tO Craig Dont Don't She f fought 0 ugh t against him tried to free herself All her aching dreams of the past half year were springing into actuality actuality actu actu- allty as she felt feit Craigs Craig's arms I around her Gods God's lake and all its Us haunting sweetness were being resurrected res res- after alter six years Craig You we we mustn't she Crt she turned her face away away dont dont lie He brushed back her parka parka hood kissed her hair sweet as as he sought he her lips please lips please dont don't turn away like that Say you do care care care-a a little girL Her lIer hand band crept up to the black ripples of his hair Oh Ho lo care- care dearest Sleepless that night Warren Lovett Lov Lov- Lovett ett had bad read till nearly two Iwo o'clock in a blanketed chair near the stove As he finally laid his book aside and stood up stiff and eye weary eye weary a knock came at his door Who is it he be asked surprised to find tind anybody else awake Lupe I wan wan to see you Put It off oft Im I'm going to bed Instead of obeying the metis meUs came in and confronted him the trouble Warren de de' demanded Lupe gestured across lion tion Dose 1 ose two Iwo go walking agin tonight Long walk Well what's that's new about that than Warren snapped mapped Irritably Patricia had been the cause caule of his sleepless ness fleas and nd he had been trying to top atop thinking Waking about her Tarlton hu has taken her walking waiting ever every night for lor two weeks hasn't he het But Dut dJs die night It different Wen dey y get back h he go 10 Into her cabana cabane wit her and Ita stay itay dere derv whole hole hour bour Warren stiffened Yes Yes 1 Yet t I go round behind cabane crawl op on snow mow the metis meUI went on on In cold clipped words word I III look down over top of ot window curtain watch W Vat wat at de dey do For a Wile Vile at first de cabana cabane dark Den wen de dey light candle on dresser Tarlton Tarl Tarl- ton got rot her In hees bees arms de aey dey fix tea After long tam tarn he leave for hees bees cabane The vivid words word of ot the half-breed half aroused a storm of Jealousy In War- War Warran ren ran Patricia In Craig Tarpons Tarpon's arms the arms the hateful picture of It floated float float- ed In front of his hil eyes Hitherto he had bad clung to the hope bope that Patricia Patricia Patri Patri- cia would come to her senses censes and see how utterly Incompatible Tarlton Tarlton Tarl- Tarl ton was waa with the main tenor of her life Ute But Dut now she had yielded Now there was an open avowal between them Lupe demanded Wy don you put her In plane and sea len her back to W Wy y don doni you pr pry her away from dat feller feUer How lIow th the devil can I force her to do anything I tried once to tomake tomake tomake make her go back home bome and you know what happened W We got lot pitched across the river I haven't bavent an any power over her Aw right den Lupe Lupa stated I 1 been wait wait-wait walt wait walt for you to do and you do Now I wait no more Ill I'll stop dat feller myself Some of des dee night wen you hear bear beeg beel b o m o-o-m o op dat hollow hollow hol hal low you'll know Ive I've stop heem heem- plenty Big Dia boom what boom what mean I mean dat box of dynamite in bees hees cabane Lupe said cold blood edly Some night Wen ha he alone op dere Ill I'll put a rifle bullet int into dat dynamite Warren was frightened b by the threat Remembering the case of dynamite near Tarlton's Tarlton work table ta table ta ble he realized how bow easily Lupe r 4 r rI I I l hi hii I i a ii 4 t 7 4 w A y I 11 s t V Beeg Cee News Allons could send a bullet sizzling into It By Dy crooking a trigger finger the theme themelis metis melis me could blow Tarlton to atoms and scatter that cabin all ali over the hollow He knew Lupe too well to think that the half breed was bluffing and he understood the half-breed's half mo mo- mo- mo tive Lupe considered himself the wilderness guardian of Patricia who had been In his charge on several several sev eral of her Ontario trips and he to protect her now according according ac ac- ac cording to his code For more than thana a generation he and the other Chi Cht- had been personal guides and retainers to old Jasper Wellington on the latter's latler's visits to the Canadian mining frontier The financier had taken care of them and their families had been liege lord to their clan through all those years To him and to his family they were Intensely loyal however warped and minded dark-minded their loyalty loyalty loy loy- alty might be Now Lupo Lupe saw old Jaspers Jasper's daughter in love with a man who was a bitter enemy of the Welling Welling- tons who had no more money or social rank than a common prospector pros and who worst of all was married It was in his code to guard her even If he had to l kill ll You get that dynamite idea out of your head Warren commanded Im boss of this party You'll south ina in ina ina obey me or Ill I'll ship you a plane tomorrow morning Lupe regarded him stonily If I my Job I 1 be free tree manno manno manno man- man no I 1 stay Itay here long tam as I lak and do wat I lak no lak no Warren saw that orders orden were fu fu- tile They glanced off the metis mells without fazing him Lupe took orders orders orders or or- ders from only one person on earth Jasper Wellington He tried another tack But it'd be murder man plain murder I You'd never get by with that Corporal Corporal Cor Cor- Northup knows know I youre you're shadowing shad shadowing owing Tarlton Hed He'd know you killed him Hed He'd you and you'd be hanged Lupe shrugged his shoulders so no Thoroughly scared Warren tried a last argument See here Lupe Lupe- think Ive I've sat back with my hands folded and watched this go goon goon on without doing doin something about it H rye rn been working out CU CUa a plan of my own to stop top Tarlton It Its It's safe ate and nd It Its It's certain Day after tomorrow tomor row Im I'm leaving for the south to take the final Anal steps against him Wait Walt till I get let back one back one week two weeks at the most Two weeks Lupe Lup grunted la Ia 1 dat tam lots can happen over dere Jere I hold of off Dat Bat on Tarlton He lie turned toward the door CHAPTER X For two weeks week after Warren left lert for the south Craig waited impatiently day after day for end and his party to return from the Wolf Lair range rane They were er long overdue The days day were precious time Urne was wu slipping slip ping the sun was wu swiftly coming back the spring license fees feel would be payable shortly and in the community com eom house the gloom was wa thickening thickening thickening thick thick- ening again Just as he was on the verge of sending a second party after Po- Po leons leon's they came dragging in to Dynamite Dynamite Dy Dy- Bay Day one evenin evening In the midst of a raging woolly woolly whipper Back Dack In the Wolf Lairs Lain their explorations ex ex- explorations had bad been slowed down by storms and below sixty weather but they bad had stuck tuck with the job till Ull they had bad carried out Craigs Craig's instructions Instructions to the last letter They brought back with them a sheaf of ot crude field charts chart a great mass mall of notes and measure measure- menu mental and two heavy loads load of ore fragments carefully numbered and recorded Within an en hour bour Cral Craig was bard hard at work on this thi new batch of material Allowing only In his hi cabin to cook meals and attend to the stove he burled buried himself oblivion oblivion- deep In this last lAt phase of his hla re reo search earch Four mornings later Patricia was wu awakened Just at gray dawn b by a tremendous thumping on her door Meer Fat Pat t It was wa excited ex cited voice wake voice wake opt by lyl Beeg news newel I sat up hastily In bed Why Why she uh she rubbed at her sleepy leepy eyes what eyes |