Show M arl ink RYLEY COOPER a 6 courtney Court ncy cooper service oil SYNOPSIS ini w audrack tu drack rack hammond gold prospector returns prince rupert after a spree in seattle two otia d learns that a gold rush is starting as result suit of some careless remarks he had capped op d at a party concerning a gold diga lt 14 h re ery ile he finds that his partner mckan 1 I 1 joe I 0 britten has gone on north to protect tir claims besieged hammond decides they tle i tell the would be prospectors how to 3 i each ach the new gold fields around the world contile llyle a frontier dance hall proprietor has ill rj 1 ij 4 a troupe ot of girls and Is bent on W harting arting a dance hall at the new camp jack iest ess uses ses about kay joyce the girl in seattle bo bom he loves and to whom he confided the ley hoeret 0 of his gold strike going to his lawhe the lefts Ts office he passes a young girl on the tars s jack asks barstow the lawyer about a girl and learns that she Is a volunteer onti bent lent jack tells him about kay timmy Lb koon a mutual acquaintance had brought ted red ai tem together kay was chilly at first but ot of his gold nuggets I 1 hen ben she saw some th e kaey ey got along beautia beautifully ully ile he had met her and a friend of 0 the family bruce i t benning ye nning a geologist sergeant tel terry of the ayal canadian mounted police joins the ald id on their trip north jack en of saunters unter s the girl jeanne towers and she him to lend her a team of dogs and ile he consents the next day the lek elc to the new bonanza begins later sta 1 l the trail jeanne Is lost and hammond Ort F leaves NAves her the gold seekers arrive and the alpa ap ew camp Is soon in full swing ham lond and joe have a secret theory that e real gold find will not be on the pi csont of ft the big moose river but on its all rehl bed abich they are seeking e penning enning turns up with messages from seattle eattle springtime comes then an airis dane arrives bearing kay her mother and moon the aviator mckeral mckenzly lc joe I A moody while they are eating at the jeanne towers appears she dmd lS aid kay dislike each other at first sight ond old she sits by herself kay urges jack r V take kenning into his confidence about i leis operations jack notices a seedy look actie ys g man come into the restaurant when the h e youth sees jeanne she smothers 1 l scream hammond sees the young man 1 I 1 in company with timmy moon who reveals that his name Is lew anade and nd f jl j ecat at he has asked him to make a bootlegging trip for annie timmy tells jack alint the joyces joycea once wealthy have lost all linthe lr money jack asks jeanne about the jl young man and she Is evasive A miner er named olson makes a rich strike 4 1 hi all CHAPTER V continued F 9 jor ik l do oh oi I 1 see then you stop chov pricing aling and pick up the gold not N not that that easy it takes a long d i jime for those riffles fiffles to fill up then Lavery everything thing c caught a u g h t is i scraped out after that the mm miners ers van it top pan it tapp yes theres one he pointed to a discarded gold pan on the the creeks bank banic flat bottomed and with sharply sloping sides they aut the scrapings in there and drip fater into it swishing it around intakes It takes a long time to get rid of everything but the nuggets or oho oh id love to see a I 1 nugget again like those you gave me ff jui abi seattle hammond laughed cc jit it looks like get your wish olsons 01 sons pretty excited 5 the bi big man was running about with th both hands in the air other ni iners attempted to halt him hi I 1 but donly bremond momentarily at last im he e saw and headed for him 1 I told you it was a new klondyke akel he shouted look what I 1 fo und in the cleanup clean up he opened his clutched hands in each beach was at least a dozen nuggets some no larger than a pinhead oth fers ers bigger than peas kay squealed I 1 with interest it perfectly thrilling she p asked there was a queer feverish glint in her eyes her hands opened and closed spasmodically ajust just to think of digging up the ground and picking out gold olson veered again into mad gyrations iati rations ons at last to bring up short before mrs joyce and extend his treasures to her t look at mother the girl said ashes actually interested mrs joyce was asking questions and andi with an extended finger was turning over the nuggets as they lay lin in the giant paws of olson the big man inan stood there grinning some what surprised hammond saw mrs joyce smile quite gayly he laughed cf gold certainly is introduction tro I 1 g kay shrugged her shoulders but mother she exclaimed and did not finish the sentence they went on then to examine the sluice box after a time hammond followed kays glance as she once more looked back olson and mrs joyce were still talking at last kay said almost fretfully f but jack all this getting me ine started on my gold mine he looked at her why the hurry rya but that what a person is supposed to do the minute you get fia in camp I 1 jack stared youre not serious S of course im serious silly why else should I 1 have a gold mine A placer claim since you are os erious he corrected her laugh singly angly but I 1 just laid the thing inside for you merely for tun fun then you mean there any gold in it afi of course it I hope theres gold h but the need kay therell be enough coming out of joes claim and mine I 1 but that be my claim would it I 1 want to feel its really that I 1 got it out of the I 1 ground aground I 1 but you could riol do the actual labor a bor 11 no she hesitated of 01 course I 1 do that then ill try lo 10 scare you up tip some men tomorrow I 1 have any idea actually want to work this I 1 just laid it aside so you could say you owne owned d a placer why I 1 work icv it I 1 it walt wait until we get back from vancouver voir vancouver she asked or he bantered shall we be married marrie d here by sergeant terry of the mounted police oh she pushed him playfully 1 I thought for a minute you were serious quickly she turned oh mother Mo therl 1 she cried almost petulantly arent you ever coming still smiling mrs joyce parted from the voluble volubly olson and then a few feet away raised a hand wiggling g her fingers in an extra gesture of parting kay straightened well she sha asked in a tone meant to contain banter is he dark clark gable or john barrymore hes a very nice man snapped mrs joyce her features again emotionless ti and an a n end to the matter shortly after that kay complained of a headache and led the way back to the cottage hammond 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 alast to veer under the jutting point of land which ran out from beneath the cottage the trail here himli N b I 1 1 ok aal K I 1 R al I 1 1 ma aoi V 71 A 31 why are you so nervous so III at ease followed the cliff almost to the veranda where it jutted butted straight upward and came out at the cabin steps suddenly he raised hiA his head lead low voices which had come faintly from the rear of the building now had shifted closer until he could hear every word and im telling you mother that im not going to stand tor for it I 1 I 1 wont I 1 wont how are you going to help yourself the usually calm tones of mrs joyce were high pitched excited you live your life and ill live mine but ill tell you this I 1 had all the damned hypocrisy I 1 wanted with your father but mother this terrible olson A enough about olson airs mrs joyce cried out ill be the judge in that matter desperately hammond began to whistle the voices ceased A moment later kay joyce met him at the door heru her usual ual vibrantly pleasant self oh come in she said and kissed kissed him we had begun to wonder what on earth had bec become 0 me of youl you o late that night jaak Jacki hartmond Harp Hammond mond stood with kay on eio a cutting utting point overlooking the tha valley here heap and there a faint light glear gleamed ried in the settlement a vagrant candle or the dying embers of a prospectors evening fire y kay said the man man almost abruptly 1 I want vant to talk io to you about ourselves and I 1 lantto want to talk to you about yourself why are are you 0 so nervous coill at ease 1 1 I it amazed him pits its all news to me maybe ive been overanxious to please you perhaps it she clasped his hand with both of hers raising it to her breast the yield of soft flesh fired him he whirled and caught her tight to him his kisses burning her he felt the touch of her soft hair against his cheek the brush of an earlobe on his forehead as eager rovin roving 91 he bent to caress the smoothness of her throat ive waited so long for you he begged all my life jack dear she gasped freeing herself you say you want me and then try to crush me to death but she shivered deliciously how I 1 love it from afar came the roar of an airplane motor at last to reveal the riding lights of timmy moons plane skimming high 0 over er the mountains in the moonlight it was the third trip the pilot had made to wrangell that day at last the ship banked in wide circles and with the motor cut off dropped downward to the surface ol of the moonlit sapphire and the nicety ol of a safe landing jimmys Tim mys taking chances said hammond oh hes gone mad with a little money well dont we all 1 I su suppose appose so although its been so long since ive seen any this was a different kay strangely frank calmly bringing up a subject 1 1 Na inmond had been n reluctant r even to mention 1 I want to talk about that he said at last and I 1 still want to talk about you she countered about your plans he was silent a moment then did I 1 build too pretty a picture down there in seattle dont be silly im thinking chinkin g of you has everything turned out the way you wanted it of course he answered with blittle a little surprise naturally were we I 1 re not making a lot out of those loon creek placers but youve got some other claims worth a lot more yes if we can only find the gold what you mentioned last night yes where are they the claims back on the flats away from moose river but how would you go about finding gold away off there A long period of silence followed 1 I dont know how joe will feel about me telling that came finally but youre just telling me to yes true if the theory ever got out this camp would go crazy staking claims and youre afraid I 1 might publish it she asked with a queer little laugh oh kay of course not everything ive got is yours even my thoughts she pressed his arm youre awfully sweet do you know it im crazy about you 1 I know that he said with a short laugh 1 I can say the same to you and oh jack I 1 want you to strike A it rich richer than any other man on earth he looked out over the shadowy valley somewhere over there he said throatily is enough gold to make us all millionaires a dozen times over tons of gold kay the deposits of thousands of years just waiting for someone to come along and wash it out of the gravel but where she insisted he ran a hand across his forehead A long moment passed jack hammond was struggling with his promises to joe then suddenly the secret flooded forth the belief that somewhere far in the past moose river had run in a different and long abandoned bed there to deposit alluvial gold washed down from the hills by thousands of fresh ets and spring floods once we find that old river bed he said but where will you find it the problem theres nothing to indicate where it might be were sure its there somewhere but all we know then its like looking for the proverbial needle just about jack agreed well just have to keep on putting down test holes one of them may turn out that rather silly hammond shrugged his shoulders all we can do is follow joes hunches as to where lie he thinks that river should have run of course other persons might go at it scientifically and find what they were looking for perhaps then why dont you you dont know joes breed they distrust scientists any old prospector will tell you that an engineer or geologist can ruin the finest mine ever discovered oh funny funnye I 1 kay tossed her head 1 I cant see anything funny about it why should you give up everything in life just because your partner is what do you call it bushed but hes my partner kayl kay weve fought the north together carrying chivalry too fir far both be better off with scientific help of course we would kay but I 1 sell joe that idea in a month of new moons and hed rave if he found out that I 1 went after advice myself besides where would I 1 go where I 1 knew i I 1 could be safe she looked up you thought of bruce kenning hammonds eyes widened no I 1 my father trusted him for years and sorry he did all that work down in peru and bolivia she added bitterly we be penniless now if he had listened to bruce again there was silence at last kay clenched her hands and walked to the edge of the ledge slowly slow y jack followed entranced by the picture of her in the moonlight 1 I wish I 1 could talk to that part ner of yours TO BE BC |