Show a wA ei v i U II pre AI bl claim for 1 at a plane eta In pt tb a a o alto Of LII all hi t I pilot pilot and anc HusbY a tad a him to fe MS rig III u ut sag I S- S make an prospector r air trip tile the to toI t to theY refer I has althOUgh ing t tail of p J cearly Lilith III arl of the Sara JUI age product for am her can tempt guidance tile the 11 Gartha guidance t the claim SIte elte 1001 oar after aking i un Garth hla hie claim ae Inure teats but to the they are V si roaD a chance hance In Inviting U Isk t treachery mun removes a part and i anc motor dI tU Garth i with this bis hi guill gutla u taunt t when w bUtt tone ton changes tWo b t their th It dart tM the crippled plane to le to they try to force shore hore ors to e ei g up P th the Using mIning part ant to give rl to set eat the monoplane e apt menages I current u carries I t over Id till the n out ut to H atria III aU lB that that he hi l is II theIr n lr O on only I hope hopet wilder wilder- them out t of the i the work of p pre pre- J Gf G lie He In In- long journey the 1111 tn for that thai tie tae other help Ws must be hardened d tin II their toll In ahead I Ir Irek to the th outpost on the ReturnIng from a long GArth ands the thew i the tea and sugar augar lugarI b au stolen M u w I kUi au ten I mine fin for emergencies Ii butt I 11 10 DO objection simply limply coed point point- toots et hl III 1111 tb t be n la I. to a e ohi meat eit diet and that they are MM evil oDI elvea The work tUn ready may for the trip eon con and Suit ea refutes refuses to help and andI tab I ti ee the th mining claim f f CHAPTER V V Continued k a alila KM lila eyes widened She eared from feels hll hie stilt back to the theD k D clad shoulders that had bad badI hada I a toted her father Into sap amp All AU this ibis had been a ma matter Iter da In to another soother moment she to fading over to the rill with the k Step cap the ate earn cime to the leanto with b to almost scalding hot mixture of ot ltd water and ad tea her ber father tather uttered beneath groans that he be Ii If tot act want lilt It No No so not I Oh b I Wee It me die in peace I 1 V Girth Garth heaved op tip the lax head bead sod aDd held beld the cup to to'S toS toIs o oDe S 'S Is De interim Ups lips Drink or Ill I'll pw tt it down don your Jour throat A few minutes later the dying tegan becan to eat lie Ue bolted in tt the juicy Jolty tender meat until him In the midst G of tint Ib Lilith was tar far dos Ia bring ur a tool fool She had bad b begun began gun Mai a that tint to get jet what she want want- more than wishing w necessary Her per father tather bad had gone jw to o Garth Garto Even had bad hadn bud her n ne le rub rob was a u over for tor Garth Miss Lairs MITi mender lUrrender meant that he N III M now the acknowledged muter mater the lie part nb had als also ad- ad aIt K 4 the fact by going off oft Instead F i op up his hi hi implied threat HG He Be however would reW re- re W witching tu g his bIa All 1111 Garth took to tott tad beil beside the smudge smudge- tt 1 lIe Ee nea to find that the Is b had bid takes taken Its northern dip and lu bI just It De meting up P as again in above I crests eresta it had bad been Li much longer than In ln J Tune June fc had was getting setting well along ti bep stayed Ved on watch to ton the he Are re going n Ue met Garth's g dEV rood good mornIng with a show lila c cool reasoning bro ht M h t I him to the realization to i was to be I Garth gained by thea Girth le left the lean lean- and In und under the thelow low brg began a to rub her father fathers and i- i hips The millionaire tha- tha the he rG s had been stricken terrible attack ot of f lumbago tr Hm It was impossible AlII to move Dove af ot of lh the 14 the s plaint Plant Garth e old ld bated baked COmplaIner out beside ki man Ie leg ot of moose The ate more than either or l i at urging Garth Afterwards Afterward j i It Iii work out dork and aM the promise of ot out lit persuaded d III bin him to tOs fret teet j They wandered 4 gi the woods I P II with IreI Ire Ire- jn III I e 4 the glades glade hours hour later later- I to they sang Imp Miss I hied d one had 11 DIe ae stitching do moccasin et at its It mate m and flux was tit 4 d dae U from m the trough Jd Pili pi with Ith I Garth fad melted the last lut iu mod fat In a It and tried fried II he e hook t ot a f mushrooms mushroom For a I id of plus If 4 Ja JaI pan IOnel I from t the bottom With i berrIes hg for des des- It nest l 1 became etame e 8 a banquet r. r lilted fed there Of Dt was VII a general T 8 Even l to Garth or Ca Garth turned in at the L same lame time as Mr Ir He lie wakened wakened wak ened to had the first pair of ot moccasins moo moc finished hed The girl had met methis methis methis his terms Jl He Ile gave y the moss bed and started to collect flattish stones as heavy as he could toss When he had bad pitched a dozen or so upon the cache platform he strung the smoked slices of meat on rawhide thongs Raking aside the smudge- smudge fire Ore he stood on the rack and tied all the meat close up under the cache platform He lIe then climbed upon the platform plat pint form torm and piled the stones atones on the tie tie thongs thongs where they came around the poles That would keep wolverines wolver- wolver Ins ines or other pilferers from gnawing gnaw ing lag the rawhide to let the meat mat fall faU No creature could now get at at the tile meat on the under side aide of the platform and even een ravens would have difficulty stealing much of ot It To complete the Job Garth pulled oft off the cross poles of ot the smoke rack For breakfast the party finished the baked leg of ot moose As Garth bad had foreseen his three city camp mates had developed camp appe appe- urea Utes Better etter still BUn they were less leg Irritable Their craving for tor drink and tobacco had bad begun to lessen At timberline went up the trough with the gold pan Garth headed again for tor the glacier This Thill I time Mr did not pant and gasp so hard nor did he be have to stop so 80 often otten lie managed to climb to the lower end of ot the glacier glader While he be rested In a sunny Bunny sunnynook sunnynook nook on the rocky side Ide of ot the lateral lat lat- lateral eral m moraine his daughter went lent down In front of the glacier glader with Garth They Thel came to the channel where the milky stream gushed out of ot a tunnel cave In the white blue-white Ice Garth pointed to a shelf shelt of ot rock on the near side of ot the stream He walked Into the the cave along the smoothly polished ledge Lilith Eta Ra- a t I WW She Sho Followed Garth Into the Chilly Blue Diu Shadow of the Cave Cavo mill shuddered and glanced up fearfully at the steep over overhanging over hang ing Ice face that seemed about to crash down Yet after atter a moments moment's hesitation she ehe toll followed owed Garth Into the chilly blue shadow of ot the cave Several yards ards from the entrance Garth stopped before a narrow side hole that opened above a waist-high waist In the bedrock He lie reached In and picked up a bundled white skin Out In the sun he opened the skin and showed a piece of ot frozen meat Bows that for tor cold storage he be said Killed a young mountain she sheep p on my ml way out last month Thought Id I'd test the glacier Looks as aa If It It Its It's a safe meat house No chance of ot spoiling and not even a wolf had ventured Inside Miss Loss said nothing She saw laW no reason to consider the cave of ot the slightest Interest There was however the meat She suggested that If It It was not spoiled It would make a change from tram the moose I meat This proved true The descent had been made by without aid There was no need to support much less backpack backpack back back- pack Urn him Ue had bad really reaU begun to get a start tart In training To Garth this was wan all aU the more reason for pushing the millionaire the harder In the week that followed he alternated alternated al al- more climbs with trips around Into the muskeg musker swamps He led his hll sweating swearing wearing charge charre over grass where the he heavy bodied city man had to Jump nimbly from one big tussock to another or take a tumble Miss Mis tagged along on these grueling hikes bikes She also aJao made another an other climb up the gulch Garth cached In the cave care the hundred i pounds of tt smoked mOo moose monse e meat he had bad brought up on his hie Pack pack board He Ile then led on up the glacier halfway half halt way from Its toot foot to the top of ot the pass flass That gave care ave the three thre climbers some real Ice Ire work ork Coming Corning back Garth Oarth knocked three brace of t fool hens bens from spruce limbs with a stick The tin half bait If dozen grouse groue made a pleasant change But even efen with a pall of ot salmon berries for dessert they proved a scant meal for tor the four tour meat The last lust leg lg of moose had already been ben baked and eaten the tongues broiled and the second nd cc-nd muffle stewed The remain I der of ot the smoked meat would not last long So far Garth had bad not interfered in in- in with day all panning pan pan- ning out of ot the platinum alloy allol He Re had not even asked to look at the take of ot precious us metaL Food was a different matter Instead of ot shooting shootIng shoot shoot- Ing another moose he called upon to Join In a caribou hunt A band of ot the big animals had bad drifted along the tundra terrace over oer towards the glacier Garth counted J 13 lIe He walled waited until the band came within 75 yards lie He then let drive shooting rapidly yet with careful aim One after another another another an an- other dropped each with a bullet through the bend bead The stupid bea beasts ts stared In the direction of ot the sharp reports But Dut they thel could see lee noth- noth Ing ng The sixth went down before the nine survivors wheeled and Battered clat Bat off oft In panic flight The flaying was well under way when and Miss came rame hastening aslant the tundra ahead of Mr Hamill The girl eyed the clean looking delicious looking white fat tat on OD the first flayed body That looks go good Alanl Alan I Vivian you can go back to your mining Dad and I J will ill II help here Her IIer father tather called out a panting suggestion for tor to wait walt and carry down a load of ot meat meal No need Garth said Dont stop Most of ot this venison n Is I. going on Ice None will be allowed al ai- al- al lowed loved to spoil spon The The engineer did not linger Unger lIe He had looked none too well pleased over ver the girls girl's familiar use of ot Garth's Garth first name Along with his displeasure about this there could be no doubt of his hll eagerness e to get back to the platinum panning When Garth finished the flaying of ot the caribou he started to dress out ut the bodies Greatly to his bis astonIshment astonishment astonishment aston aston- at the cutting up of the second caribou Lilith took the belt belt- ax al and began to help Mother Nature Na Na- Nature ture had cracked the polished shell of ot artificiality In which the pampered pampered pampered pam pam- heiress had been Leen encased The girls girl's few days In the Wild had awakened primitive Instincts ground deep Into the nature of ot woman durIng during during dur dur- ing the remote past of ot mankind So upon reflection Garth's amazement amazement amaze amaze- ment meat passed He lIe had bad managed to cover It even at the first fint when Ln- Ln Ith took look the belt belt belt-ax ax in her slender hand and severed the neck bone bonet of t the caribou with a single blow Her er father tather was the one who stared lIe He sat watching the girls girl's quick eager wielding of the hand- hand ax his mouth slack almost agape Garth could only surmise how she had bad always been coddled and pam lIam IIer Her father kne knew It lIe He knew how since her lIer childhood she had been wrapped about with silken luxury waited upon b by attentive servants petted and spoiled The millionaire had been born ona on ona a farm lIe He could recall seeing his mother help butcher sheep and hogs But Dut she was a farmers farmer's wife Lilith Lil- Lil ith would not t have known how to prepare a spring chicken for tor the pan And now she was vas cutting up caribou Aside from rom an occasional word of ot direction Garth said nothing When he finished dressing dressing out the fifth firth carcass he handed banded his knife to his eager helper pack packed d a 11 load of t meat and carried It to the Ice cave Down In the gulch bottom he chose a pothole le stone that would hold perhaps three quarts In the bowl he be coiled colled a wick of ot twisted dry caribou m moss Ss piled plied In caribou fat tat and lighted the wick When the fat tat melted the wick burned with a strong stead steady flame Caribou ribs furnished a 8 grating on which to broil steaks The fat fut meat was deliciously deliciously de- de tender teader its Us flavor between venison and beef beet When even Mr lr could eat no more Garth carried the stone atone lamp Into the Ice lee cave Upon his bis return he had bad Mr Ir and aDd look close at the caribou skins You see they are hair nc not t fur But Dut ut every hair Is la hollow Nothing Is warmer than a caribou parka In fact the winter coat Is 18 too warm to tobe tobe tobe be worn That li is why I J killed six now Instead of or one You rou have bate never wintered In the North Mr tensed as if it prodded Wintered You cant can't mean to Inter Infer Inter In In- ter fer you expect to stay on here We have your promise to tale take us out out Garth answered Mr fir You have hae my promise promise mores mores more's the pit pity A winter a la Eskimo would kea ha He ke Hea a wonderful experience for tor Miss she will of ot course prefer to go back to Jazz and cocktails to paint powder and lipstick She flared And rid of ot you OU I ITo ITo To be sure lure That above aboe all else b ha he agreed So how could I deprive you of ot that pleasure or taU tail to give your our father and your four fiance another chance to bilk me we out of ot my placer back to claim I 1 agreed to get you fOU Mackenzie When we reach the theold the old pfd post we part company You aol will then be free tree to go 0 astar as asfar asfar far tar as aa you rou can But Dut in that case cue case cueNo No you IOU cant can't make moke me swallow W It I know youre you're not such a fool tool as 81 to risk losing that placer pincer said Bald Garth laughed outright What dIoU take me for Your brand of gold gold digger digger God Gad that's the nubbin of ot It all It Its It's the reason tea rea son SOli why men like you ou and lose out You worship the golden calf Yet what bat value Is there to riches other than what you OU get from them Can you yoa on think of ot a more enjoyable en en- game than playing pl draw poker with Ith our lives In the Jackpot and Fortune dealing us u. the cards card of chancel chancer What the tha catch t Inquired Miss Iss with a t sudden upwell- upwell log Ing of ot her ber sophisticated cynicism Lives In the jackpot that Jackpot that lt-that that means nothing Its It's your placer that's In Inthe Inthe inthe the pot What stakes takes do you consider con conS sider elder we have In to balance It IU That would b be telling he teased know If I 1 win It 1 I lose It will not matter t to to- any of you IOU what youve you've risked The showdown show down may come sooner than I J ex Your father tather Is I. already In fairly good shape Well We'll start the trip out as soon loon as II those caribou skins have been tanned CHAPTER VI Hell In the Muskeg GARTH O ARTH sat beside the camp lire fire J sewing new moccasins for tor him him- self Nearby the millionaire dealer deal er In mines mine and his fastidious daughter daughter- scraped the raw sides of ot the six air caribou skins and rubbed them with the tanning mixture of ot fat liver and Ind brains Garth Oarth had told them the they could |