Show R C RESURRECTION l WILLIAM tA t BYRON M MOWERY MERY ERY to II COPYRIGHT WILLIAM COPYRIGHT WilLIAM BYRON MOWERY SERVICE CHAPTER Continued KR-Continued Continued 20 20 Warm nodded Yes approximately approximately approximately he said laId Convinced now that Patricia harbored no vengeance vengeance ven ven- leance he felt more at ease ene and his hll courage was flowing back Studying Patricia narrowly he was watching for any weakness or sentiment senti ment that he could take advantage of What Is It that I X have to agree to tot You must sell ell all those claims to Craig Crall and me at the price you paid Patricia stated We will then see lee they are returned to their original owners owner Warren did not answer at once Poker-faced Poker he be regarded Patricia silently and In his manner there was confidence that be he could outmaneuver out out- maneuver and outwit her ber a girL his That a pretty sided one bargain bar ces gain lain Patricia he said laId finally His HI remark mark stirred anger in Parisi Pa Pa- du- du dd tricia sided One realize In md risi Warren that Sam Honeywell Is 11 s dead That Rosalie and Straus and Bing Odron are dead That Cral Craig is for Sar lying In an Edmonton hospital all lab 4 shot up And now when you the thea he te cause of all this are given a chance t a to walk want away from herr here safe here l safe fe and sound and scot free you call it for or one sided Youre You're right it is Its It's ize all on your side Ilde Youre You're getting IC ich all the breaks I Ilg ig lg Warrens Warren's confidence ebbed con Ir ire Outwitting Patricia was ws not so easy as he had thought She for was a totally different creature I ire ze zech from the girl whom he had brought ch c to the Arctic with him last summer lummer ig and whom he had kept in the dark n ng g for three whole months about his GW ew business there SO o After a moment he tried another is move a personal approach I think that In friendliness Patricia you ought ough to let me keep a part of this field geld You know what the situation is in Chicago You know that Ue if U ife ey e e- e I return there with nothing to show y for the time and expense of this nd Arctic expedition Parkes is going to toby toby by edge me out of the firm Do you of think that that would be lust Just As of my friend would you wish to see ch that halpen This Is a late time Warren nd rid Patricia reminded for you to beIs begin beis be be- is isS gin talking about Justice and friends friend's friend friend- s 's S- S ship Craig and I both tried to toty toty Sty ty tyis talk Justice and friendliness to you is all aU winter and you sneered at us usand nd rid and went cruelly ahead with your youre e e. e own selfish plans Now youre you're asking ask ing fag me to help you out at the expense ex ex- pense pease of these Resurrection men I cant can't do that Warren It ItI would be a betrayal I 1 As for your going back empty empty- I 1 handed I I thought of that I suga suggested sug sug- and and Craig Crall agreed agreed- s a t that you can keep the Kessler hill bID n 11 lode Phil Kessler was a traitor to 1 us us ana ann we wouldn't want him to tod J. J recover that property That mine will repay you for all your expenses a 0 t and yield you besides an eventual profit of almost a million dollars J 1 That's a lot more than you really t 1 deserve j How about Tarlton's radium lake lake do do I have to surrender that too toot t radium You dont don't own Craigs Craig's lake Warren Patricia Informed t J You merely think you do a W Dont Don't own It Itt Why- Why why Ive I've got the p papers pen to it I It t paid him a quarter million Patricia Interrupted Warren Craig told tola you explicitly that evening evering eve ring ning in the Den office that It U you dealt square with him hed he'd deal square with you He warned you twice that if U you tried to cheat or use any dishonest weapon you'd be betha bethe the tha loser Well you did cheat Worse than that you that you had him kid kid- And worse than that you that you intended to let Lupe murder him In consequence you dont don't own that lake at all Warren merely stared at her too dumfounded to speak peals Patricia explained ex ex- explained quietly Before Craig Crall and came back from their prospecting trip I Warren they staked two lakes twin lakes lake One of them has the pitchblende pitch pitch- blende deposit In It the Uie other has has has- water Craig had two sets o 0 laim papers The set Bet that he signed over overto overto overto to you covered the lake with the water water wa ter In It it Warren rose bodily from his chair chairas as he saw how Craig had outwitted him In all his life he had never been so 10 smashingly done InA inA InA in A lake lake with with water In It it be he repeated I paid a quarter mil lion dollars for that that for for a damned mud pond He Ha snarled And Tarlton Tarl Tarl- ton ton ton-he he calls call himself honest bonest That That's a plain lain swindle I Then youre you're the swindler War War- ren rea You swindled yours yourself elL It was Craigs Craig's firm Intention If you dealt square with him to give elve you the bona Me papers If U you hadn't kid kId- raped him framed these men I 1 browbeat me and Well you'd now cow find yourself In possession of a lode The dishonesty was yours yourl ours and it boomeranged on you How about my two hundred and fifty thousand Am I holding the bag That was my own personal money not the firms firm I bought that lake ake Patricia Patricia's eyes opened a little wider she he said much muchas as Craig Crall would have bave said laId It So that hat was your money I I suspected It t was You saw a chance to make a tidy fortune and you tried to get gett It t all for yourself instead of letting the he firm In on It Fine Warren Warrenl But about your quarter million Craig and I dont don't want a cent of that hat Well We'll refund It ft to you within the year and on top of it the biggest biggest big big- gest eest Interest you ever received W Warren got up and paced the cabIn cab cab- In n his manacled hands handa In front of him ilm Through the window he be saw law Corporal Northup leaning against a pine and twirling the handcuff handcuff hand band cuff key on bl his finger Cornered and helpless he be glanced at Patricia Patri cia searching her expression for hope of escape But Dut he saw no hope In her Firm unyielding she stood beside the little table where once over a cup of tea she had bad begged for Craigs Craig's life and had agreed to a shanghai marriage In order to save Craig I haven't any choice he said wearily He stopped confronted Pa tricia I cant can't go to the pen God Cod Id I'd be an old man old and broken when I got out Ill I'll do what you say Ill I'll sell ell this Resurrection field to you and Tarlton Patricia stepped over to the win win- dow Dennis she called to theman the theman theman man yonder Bring Brine me that keyl A while after Warren had left the group of prospectors who had bur led Sam Honeywell came down to the cabin They crowded the little place and some had bad to stand out out- side The towering redhead was their spokesman I Weve been working up nerve for the last two days to come here Miss Pat and speak our piece he said laid humbly crumpling his battered battered bat bat- hat Weve got a lot of crow to eat and we been eating it What we want to say lay is that after all you and Craig done for forus forus forus us we turned around and let you down We was a bunch of dirty bums Yeh Yen several other men agreed Lousy bums I IU If U you fellows dont don't get bus busy around here I will think that youre you're a bunch of lazy bums Patricia cut their apology short Weve got work to do Instead of eating crow or speaking pieces Weve We've got to put up a new Rock Hog Den Dena Den a good big one one this time time and and some lome overflow overflow overflow over over- flow cabins and a warehouse I have 40 tons of supplies and clothes and equipment on the way Nay here bere from Edmonton and not a sign of ofa a roof to store tore them under Weve We've got to send out a party to drain that pitchblende lake so sos so's we can begin operations there this summer That's lust a few samples of what's what cut out out for us us When they had gone Patricia pulled her ber table beside the window and started writing a wireless message tries mes sage to Craig a word of love and encouragement a word about her ber successful deal with Warren A As AI AIshe she wrote as she pictured Craig lying ly ly- tog ing sick and lonely In far-away far Edmonton Edmonton Ed Ed- monton she was shaken with longing longIng longing long long- ing to drop all her work and fly to him But Dut she fought the longing down Resurrection was her Job lob till WI Craig came back and took hold again Deep within her born of her desperate desperate des del homesickness dwelt the hope that when these Resurrection projects were running smoothly she could leave In charge Join Craig in Edmonton and they could go on to Chicago together The thought of f never seeing her ber mother and Frances again was unbearable To all her other sacrifices she had acquiesced but not to tha that one and she knew that she never could acquiesce acquiesce ac so- to it Yet she realized that her chances chancel of ever visiting her home were next door to nothing I She had defied her father and for for that he had cast her into the outer darkness ll In the outer office of Wellington Parkes di ai Lovett a whisper flew fiew about that July morning Cra Craig Tarlton is II herel here Patricia Wellington Wellington's Welling Welling- tons ton husband I Everybody topped stopped work Through the glass glau panels panel of doors and window windows win win- dow dows everybody Ita stared red surreptitiously at the tall rangy man who came down the corridor limping a little in spite of hi his hll cane In the Inner suite lulle Cral Craig stood a athe at atthe atthe the desk of the telephone secretary as a the high bleb and haughty Patricia bad tad stood there here on a July morning one year agaId ago aga Td Id like to see lee Mr Wellington and then Mr Lovett Lovett he requested u if if they're not too busy The girl spoke Into the Mr Tarlton Mr Cral Craig Tarlton Is 11 asking to see you please For several leveral moments the vox phone was wa silent a blank astounded silence Then came cam an explosive oath a spluttering wrathful explosion lion sion In which the words word only can can wait walt till WI hell bell free freeze ea overt overl were distinguishable But Dut then a moment afterward came the voIce vole of Warren Lovett cool and even a as always Ask him to come com In Miss Fish er er Followed by the stares of the four private secretaries Cral Craig walked over to the door and entered the tha sanctum tt of Jasper Wellington At the rosewood table Russell arkes Parkes and end old Jasper leagued together together to to- gether had bad been bavin having a hot bot argument argument ment went with their junior partner A As Craig closed the door the tha old financier opened on him like a machine machin ma ma ma- chine chin gun What are you doing here If U youve you've got any business with either Lovett ovett or me say It and It-and and then Ill I'll have you pitched outside Youve You've got ot crust showing up at my office It Its tl a wonder that that she he that Patricia Pa that tricia that she didn't try to com come along That Patricia Cral aidis Craig said aid is 1 up the North Shore at her home I X lent sent her there a short while ago igo You what She She's where At her home Cral Craig repeated eve evenly She going eoln to visit with her mother and Frances Francel for a f few w days daYI Old Jasper Wellington turned ap apo ap- ap Why you you you-you you scoundrel r. r 05 J Jd d 9 9 I Why You Yon You Yon You Scoundrel Sending lien Her Up There sending lending her up there when I wrote her when I gave her strict orders He De reached for the desk phone Ill IU have her pitched out out out- Craig put his hand on the tele tele- phone Just a minute You wont won't have hav anybody pitched out Your strict orders' orders dont don't cut any Ice with me Patricia has haa a right to visit her ber home and youre you're not goIng going lOIn go- go In Ing to trample on her right This visit home Is 11 my wedding present to her ber and you wont won't break It up up- up Ill TI be damned if U I dont don't surely be damned then for or she going to stay there and i furthermore she she's going to visit her home bome whenever she wants to and Ill I'll tell you why As the storm broke Russell Parkes stole into his own office to escape it but he left the door open so that he could hear Warren War War- Warren ren stood toed aside watching the violent vIolent violent vio vIo- lent clash between the two men listening lis Us- to Craigs Craig's withering indictment indict ment merit of Wellington Parkes Lov toy Lovett ett eft For the tha first fret time Urne in his 13 years with the firm he saw old Jasper Jasper Jasper Jas Jas- per Wellington outmatched saw the theman theman theman man stop thundering and begin to listen and finally draw back frightened fright fright- ened as a Craig kept rapping out his figures figure and names name and dates date Now you can take your choice Cral Craig wound tip up hi his philippic I t oughtn't o to give elve you any choice You dont don't deserve any Youve You've gutted more operating mIne com come panics youve you've worked more havoc In the tha Canadian mining Industry than any other man In North Amer Arner ica ice Where did I get these facts and figures forget that I was on your lOur staff for two years year and that rye Ive been a geologist and mining engineer for 12 years with my eyes eye and ears ear wide open If U you weren't Patricia Patricia's father and an old man Id I'd go 10 straight to Ottawa with what I know about your company's security manipulations manipulation In Canada and your wildcat affiliations lions and your dummy stock letups set let ups and Id I'd blow you clear out of the dominion Iv Ive I've been wanting to todo todo todo do that thai for years yeara and now Ive I've got the tha money and the tha backing What What's it going oin to be ba between you and me peace me-peace peace or war Wellington glared In venomous I si silence ii lence lens at Craig and swallowed hard Silence from him meant that h he h. was beaten and knew It To save sava hi his face faca ht he swung on Warren You handle handIe this he ha barked Do whatever you 10 damned care car tot tal Ha lie turned away strode Into Russell Parkes' Parkes office and slammed the door At nine that evening Patricia came down from the North Shore to the Loop hotel where Cral Craig was staying I had to see lee you again husband before you left for Winnipeg she explained breathlessly In their suit luIte suite She was radiantly happy over her ber visit home the tha visit that Cral Craig had bad hammered out for her ber Next Wednesday Wednesday-oh oh It its it's 10 so far away dearest But you'll be visiting with your mother and Frances Francel and Ill I'll have havea a big pile of work on my hands bandl and the fly Are you running running run run- ning back to the North Shore right away aw No I was meaning to stay Itay here hera herewith herewith with you till tIU you leave at midnight mid mid- night unless night unless youre you're too busy and want me to go now You silly They sat lat In a chair at the window window win win- dow looking out across acro the lights of the ctt city and the dim moonlit silver of Lake Michigan thinking of far-away far Resurrection and the challenging chal chat lenning work that awaited them there barrens this Our trip summer lummer Craig well CraIg well we'll never ge to make it it Patricia said ruefully fondling the black waves of his hair We will make It Well We'll wedge It in somehow sweet You and Ive I've got that coming to us be wonderful Craig It'll be like like like-like like Gods Cods I lake again |