Show r POOR POORMAN a. a r f 1 N MAN 5 GOlO COURTNEY CoURTN EY RYLEY COOPER COURTNEY CHT RYLEY COOPER COOPE SERVICE gold prospector w- w Rupert after alter a pree spree prince Price learn that a gold cold rush I and careless to a. a M as a rc of some ome circles careless E. E had dropped at t a party eon conS conf f e gold discovery discover He lIe finds that na Joe Britten ha has bal r r. r claims north rth to protect their n the Hammond mond decides to tell teU how to reach the World Annie elds fields Around o the r feda dance hal hall proprietor has hasa o of girls s and U Is bent troupe a hails hail r g T a dance hall at the new newe about Kay Joyce the theattle theattle le muses e attle attic attle whom hom he loves and to confided the secret of his gold oln to his lawyer office a young girl on the stairs Jack about the girl gIrls girla itow tow the lawyer a s that she the Is a volunteer client I him about Kay lay whom he had hadU hadas U as a little girl but whom lg- lg In childhood Timmy Moon I 1 acquaintance had brought ether Kay was chilly at first t she he saw taw some tome of his gold Rold old nug nug- y got alan alons be friend He HeI Heher I her mother molher end and a friend of the he ruce nice Kenning a geologist Ser Ser- Terry erTY of the Royal Canadian Police Joins the gold seekers trip north Jack encounters the thenne theone one uie Towers and she asks him himer her er a team of dogs doge and sup up e consents The next da day the thee e new bonanza banana begins Later Inter trail traD Jeanne Is 15 lost and lIam Ham yes ves her The gold seekers arthe arthe arthe ar ar- the new camp Is I. soon loon In full fuU Hammond Rammond and Joe have a sery sery se se- etI ry tI that the real gold find will willon on the present site of the he Big ver r but on Its lis prehistoric bed ey are seeking Kenning turns messages from Seattle Spring Spring- mes PI Cs Then an airplane arrives Kay ly her mother and Tummy Timmy the we aviator 8 McKenzIe Joe is While they are eating at the Billion thon lUon Jeanne Towers appears I Kay dislike each other at first d she he sits ails by herself Kay ILay urges I take Kenning Into his W. confidence confidences ls s operations Jack notices a akin aking kin king young man come into the nt t. t When the youth sees Jeanne there then a scream Hammond leer sees lee mg r g man again in company compan with 1 1 Moon loon who reveals that his lila i Lew and that he has bill hasin in to make a bootlegging trip e. e TImmy tella tells Jack that the theone one once wealthy have lost loat all aU one oney PTER V Continued V-Continued 1 7 I changed the whole camp campi claimed rearranging a few fewers ers erg of dried food on the aly al- al shelves me when I Intended to new Dew stock j me some tobacco that Isn Isn't f t tsy ay sy when you do Hammond li Ii with a grin Th ts t's Mei Mea Me Me- Mc's i s Ive I've been using using using-he he could i moose hide ne e got out a pencil and a lot of paper already there was ginning of quite a lis list t. t fant ant get it for a week or so pid id Mr Moon is booked up ten en I was up early early but but theon the on people and the flop flop- I and the hotel were already I of me ats at's a week asked Ham Ham- be the merchant i of ot Sapphire lake first thing ow i afraid Im I'm getting as bad as came with an un- un laugh Ive been wishing for forer w er mining rush W WS S shrugged her shoulders I 1 dont don't know the know the excite excite- I 1 guess the thrill of going where doesn't Then Im sorry I doesn't sound grateful Jut ut art this camp hasn't really got started Quickly he aske nile what's bothering you i ring wing maybe mabe I Iet ire et el i fenced What else rho ho Was that man in the last night h that she exclaimed with fi ile e that for or the moment dis dis- d hi him j It was all to ld d have sWorn I knew him him-a a Pd Id gone to 10 sChool with up P in- in home homel t was as I a mistake then h b yes Id I'd looked up hurried hurried- t was as Just like seeing E a ghost you fOU h hear EJ me I J ked a almost The poor fellow must thought Id I'd gone crazy I dId like an Idiot agreed that It was In In- InI I a Silly feeling S Soon n he went ard again in to take lake the trail up e an cottage But he carrIed with LW ne Towers uneasy presentIment that had ad not told the theas 7 was as ed waiting for him as well IS as it if she had corne come from aut y Parl parlor Hamm sun EUn Hammond nd watched nth ith b her hw play I n on her hatless hatless he head hedd d mother mOlher trail Then they went down at last on the banks bankst creek the Claim man POinted t out a stretch which he had saved for Of C the gravel extending stream ed toneS stones near where up kings and earth told of the are held e by kik self McKe e Joe and andI I 1 got cot them as he be near mine a. a J I AM I h this Ibi a claim Im asked d I. I I IAM Ka Kay Why It Its It's Just the bank of the stream Look Hammond answered All along the creek were evidences of labor Here lIere and there disregardIng disregard disregard- Ing the high water waler men labored at the shoveling of earth into long wooden sluice boxes which picking up the water from a flume running from a higher point In the stream carried it downward on a slow decline de do cline You Just wash It through and It becomes gold Kay said curious ly Iy that cute cutel It It looks like a day laborers laborer's Job to me her mother reflected A shout answered her from upstream upstream up up- stream where the rawboned raw raw boned Olson 01 Ol son and two partners were work work- Ing Instantly labor stopped else where Necks craned Heads appeared appeared ap ape above the higher portions of earth where the stream temporarily ran between cut banks Then men men began to converge upon the sluice box Lets go up Hammond ex- ex claimed Olsons found something In the clean up The up clean-up Kay asked hurrying hur hue beside him Mrs Joyce followed fol lowed somewhat In their wake glancing acridly about her a woman woman woman wom wom- an who who seldom seldom smiled who seldom gave Interest yet who seemed always al ways to be weighing everything within her range Hammond turned to explain Yes the clean clean up You see those long wooden chutes are called sluice boxes They've got cleats cleat across the bottom called riffles runes The dirt Is shoveled In at the top and is carried along by the water The dirt and light gravel flow on out Anything heavier settles behind behind be be- hind those riffles rimes Oh I see Then you stop shoveling shoveling shoe eling cling and pick up the gold Not that easy It takes a long longtime longtime longtime time for those rules riffles to fill up Then everything they've c caught a u g b t Is scraped out O After that the miners pan It It Pan U ti Yes Yes theres there's theres one He pointed to a discarded gold pan on the creeks creek's bank flat fiat bottomed and with sharply sloping sides They put the scrapings in there and drip water into It it swishing it around It takes a long time to get rid of everything but the nuggets Oh Id I'd love to see a nugget again Like those you gave me mein mein mein in Seattle Hammond laughed It looks like you'll get your wish Olsons Olson's pretty excited The big man was running about with both hands in the air Other miners attempted to halt him but only momentarily At last he be saw Hammond and headed for himI himI him I told you It was a new Klondyke Klon Klon- dyke he shouted Look what I found in the up clean-up He lIe opened his clutched hands In each was at least a dozen nuggets some no larger than a pinhead others oth oth- ers erg bigger than peas Kay squealed with Interest It perfectly thrilling she asked There was a queer feverIsh feverIsh feverish fever fever- ish glint In her eyes Her hands opened and closed spasmodically Just to think of digging up the ground and picking out gold goIdl f r m n veered again into mad gyps gyM gy gy- M ns ps at last to bring up short Mrs Joyce and extend his treasures to her Look at Mother the girl said actually interested I Mrs Joyce was asking questions and with an extended finger was turning over the nuggets as they lay In the giant paws of Olson The big bigman bigman man mim stood there grinning somewhat somewhat some some- what surprised Hammond saw Mrs Joyce smile quite gayly He lie laughed Gold certainly is anybody's Introduction introduction In in- Kay shrugged her shoulders But Mother Mother I 1 she exclaimed and did not finish the sentence They went on then to examine the sluice box After a 8 time Hammond followed Kays Kay's glance as she once nce more looked back Olson and Mrs I Joyce were still talking At last almost fretfully I But Jack all this Isn't getting I Ime me started on my gold mine I He looked at her Why the hurry hur hue ry I But Isn't that what a person is supposed to do the minute you ou get In camp Jack stared Youre not serious seri serl serious ous Of course Im I'm serious silly Why else lse should I have a gold mine A placer claim since you yot are serious he corrected her laughingly laugh laugh- But Dut I Just laid the thing aside for you you fun tun Then you mean there Isn't any gold In U It m Of Ot course I t there II gold old But Dut what's what the need Kay Therell There'll be enough coming out of Joes Joe's claim and mine But that wouldn't be my claim would It I want to feel It its it's really mine that mine that I 1 got it out of the ground But you cou couldn't do the actual labor No No she hesitated Of course I couldn't do that Then Ill I'll try to scare care you up some men tomorrow I didn't have any Idea you'd actually want to work this I Just laid It aside so you could say you owned a plat er Why shouldn't I work it It wait walt until we get back from Vancouver I Vancouver she asked I Or he bantered shall shaU we be married here by Sergeant Terry of the Mounted Police Pollee Oh Ohl She pushed him playfully I thought for a minute you were serious 1 Quickly she turned Oh Mother she cried almost petulantly arent you ever coming Still smiling Mrs Joyce parted from the voluble Olson and then thena a few feet away raised a hand wiggling her fingers In an extra gesture ture lure of parting Kay straightened d. d Well Well she asked In a tone meant to contain banter is he Clark Gable or John Barrymore lIes Hes a very nice man snapped Mrs Joyce her features again emo ems And that's an end to the matter Shortly after that Kay complained of a headache and led the way back to the cottage Hammond Ham mond returned to his work with McKenzie Joe It was evening when he once more took the trail upward This time he did not hurry The man was thoughtful obsessed There was something strange about Kay her nervousness her quickness Higher he swung along the trail at last to veer under the Jutting point of land which ran out from beneath the cottage the trail here followed the cliff almost to the veranda veranda veranda ve ve- randa where it jutted straight upward up ward and came out at the cabin steps Suddenly he raised his head Low voices which had come faintly from the rear of the building now had shifted closer until he be could hear bear every word And Im I'm telling you Mother that Im I'm not going to stand for It iU itt I wont won't wont won't-I I wont won't How are you going to help yourself yourself your your- self The usually calm tones of Mrs Joyce were pitched high-pitched excited ex ex- cited You live your life and Ill I'll live mine But Ill I'll tell you this I this I had all the damned hypocrisy I wanted with your father But Mother this terrible Olson 01 Ol son I enough about Olson Mrs Joyce cried out Ill be the Judge In that matter matteri Desperately Hammond began to whistle The voices ceased A mo- mo s 9 y t t v r w f z W n w H 7 a II d v SG x ic icI I v I I I I Why by Are You So Nervous So Ill III at Ease Case ment later Kay Joyce met him at atthe atthe atthe the door her usual vibrantly pleasant pleas ant self Oh come in she said and kissed him We had begun to wonder what on earth had become of you youl Late that night Jack Hammond stood with Kay on a Jutting point point overlooking the valley Here and there a faint light gleamed in the settlement a vagrant candle or the dying embers of a prospectors prospector's evening eve fling ning fire i Kay said the man almost abruptly I want to talk to you you you- ou about ourselves And I want to talk to you about yourself Why are you so nervous nervous- so ill m at ease I n It amazed him Its all news to me Maybe Ive I've been overanxious over over- anxious anxious to to please you ou I Perhaps that's it She clasped I his hand with both of hers raising it to her breast The yield of soft flesh fired him He lie whirled and caught her tight to him his kisses burning her her her-he he felt the touch of her soft hair against his check cheek the brush of an earlobe on his forehead forehead fore fore- head as eager roving he bent to caress the smoothness of her throat Ive waited so long for you he be begged All my life life life- Jack dear she gasped freeing freeing free free- ing herself You say you want me and and then try to crush me to death But But she shivered deliciously I how I love it iti I From afar came the roar of an i airplane et at t V U to reveal the riding lights of ot Timmy Moons Moon's plane skimming high over the mountains in the moonlight it U was the third trip the pilot had made to Wrangell that da day At last the ship banked in wide circles and with the motor cut off dropped downward to the surface of the I moonlit Sapphire and the nicety ofa of ofa a safe afe landing Timmy taking chances said Hammond Oh Ob hes he's gone Ione mad with a little money moner money Well Wen dont don't we all aU I I suppose so so although although It Its It's been been so long since Ive I've seen any This was a different Kay strangely strange ly Iy frank calmly bringing up a subJect subject sub sub- which Hammond had been reluctant reluctant re re- even ven to mention I want to talk about that that he said at last And I still tIn want to talk about you she countered About your plans plan He was silent a moment Then Did I build too pretty a picture down there In Seattle Dont be silly Im I'm thinking of you Has lias everything turned out the way you wanted It In Of course he answered with witha a little surprise Naturally were we're not making a lot out of those Loon creek placers But youve you've got some other claims worth a lot more Yes Yes it if we can only find the gold what you mentioned last lasi night Yes Where are they The claims Back ot on the flats fiats away from Moose river But how would you go about finding gold away off oft there A long period of ot silence followed I dont don't know how Joe will feel about me telling that that came fi ii fl- nally pally But youre you're Just telling me Yes that's true If U the theory ever got out this camp would go crazy staking claims And youre you're afraid I might publish pub lish It in she asked with a queer little laugh Oh Kay Kayl Of course not Everything Everything Every Every- thing Ive I've got Is yours yours even even my thoughts She pressed his arm Youre awfully sweet do you know it Im crazy about you you you-I I know that that he said with a short laugh I can say the same to you And Andoh oh Jack I want you to strike It Itrich rich rIcher rich richer than any other man on onearth onearth onearth earth I Ilie He lie looked out over the shadowy valley Somewhere over there he said throatily Is enough gold to mako make makous us all millionaires a dozen times over Tons of gold Kay the Kay the deposits deposits de de- posits of thousands of years just waiting for someone to come along and wash It out of the gravel But where she Insisted He Heran Heran ran a hand across his forehead A Along Along Along long moment passed Jack Hammond Hammond Ham Ham- mond was struggling with his promises promises prom prom- to Joe Then suddenly the secret secret secret se se- se- se cret flooded forth the belief that |