Show SYNOPSIS THE STORY SO Janice Trent runs away from wedding Ned but a gay Unbeknown to Bruce a family she becomes secretary of an Alaska camp of which he la chief wife of the man whom he Is also attracted to Bruce at first wants to send Janice On trip to the she encounters Paxton j and tells him she is married to Bar-I The latter hears It and insists on a wedding that At the camp to which they return by the Samp aided by Tubby liar-court's arranged a wedding Now continue the CHAPTER X Harcourt picked up the belt and holster which he had dropped to the 1 desk when he came The shoulder holster which held its twin was I No answer to his The boy was doubtless helping the Samp girls in their Plump Miss Mary In a dove-gray its balloon sleeves proclaiming it of the vintage of its rose-point bertha suggesting a grandmother of greeted him as he entered the Samp Janice is Mary and I begged her to wear one of her lovely evening dresses for our She let us choose it from a trunk in the She patted his sleeve you look goes for you Miss You almost knocked my eyes out with your pretty He bent his head and kissed her wrinkled you for arranging Jan's When did you hear the the most heart-warming I Mr I feel as though i I'd been sitting in the sun after I've been with She smiled through dabbed at her Tubby radioed the news before he left the Such a Janice was lovelier even than he had thought Her pale blue silvery as the edges of a suggested a fairy loom Slippers which matched her gown had bows of sparkling stones which were repeated in the clasp of a bag of antique She laid a mandarin heavily embroidered with mauve and purple carefully over the back of a He picked up the mandarin I'll use it as a Isn't It I found it in my room Tubby must have bought it for a wedding present when he went back to the He knew that I was mad about I suspect that it was frightfully It is taking goods under false pretenses for me to accept I ought to give it but I love Can he afford to buy a tiling like not every but weddings do not occur every day at Why hurt the donor by returning his Let's An consisting of flute and agonized into the Wedding March from as they appeared in the doorway of the Waffle Janice laughed and parried played her part No one could suspect from her manner that she was not the most gorgeously happy bride in the Harcourt told himself with a tinge of Her radiance vanished like sunshine blotted by a cloud as Millicent Hale how sweet of you to provide an occasion for civilized I am consumed with curiosity to know how you accomplished I've heard Bruce declare repeatedly that while he was in would he What brand of coercion did you The malice of the attack rendered Harcourt Was the little woman whom he had considered pathetically helpless like Was Janice as amazed as He glanced at her in She was looking straight into the eyes watching her with cat-like was a method quite my You couldn't possibly use Harcourt came out of his trance of laid his hand on her bare She shook it turned to extend her hand to Challenged the gloomy This is a not a memorial Before he could answer Tubby Grant seized Going to stage an The Samp girls are stepping out in a Miss Martha spread her plum-color skirts with work-worn hands and curtsied to the made a deep obeisance in response to a Her beautiful dignity set the keynote for the The others kept watchful eyes on the who sailed through the figures with the grace of an angular and a chubby Millicent Hale was first to give out Bhe turned to haven't danced so much nor so hard since the winter I came Do take me Jimmy has Joe will be furious If I stay can't lose what you never For the fraction of a second Harcourt Why pick on Belter to humor She might make a Anything was credible after her hateful attack on course I didn't need an escort this short but I had to consult you about What's the matter with what I want to Today when I entered our he was threatening Joe with a An empty shoulder holster hanging against a log wall flashed on the screen of Harcourt's mind and was I said Jimmy was for her again and I'll shoot you You've messed up my sister's that's Get couldn't believe it was Joe huddled in his Joe As I looked at him I thought what a poor fool I had been all these not to stand up to not to threaten He is a bully and a and I've never before found it you have lost your fear of it is a lot Millicent For whom did Joe do you Unless unless Jimmy found out about Joe has made a fool of her with Nothing I'm but she follows him about like a speak to He will have to turn over his gun to if that is the use he is making of with Poor he has never forgotten his experiences You will have more influence than anyone She laid her hand on his all dump our worries on your don't I shan't dare do it now that you are I feel as though I had lost Under pretense of producing his cigarette case Harcourt stepped can't lose what you never He heard her little gasp as he turned on his heel As he entered the Waffle Shop Miss Martha and Miss crimson faced from the exertions of the with mammoth white aprons over their creaking were serving the ice-cream which Grant had brought hundreds of miles in a As he approached Janice he heard Jimmy Chester say never send for you Had Joe Hale sent for The suspicion tightened Harcourt's The girl looked up at There was a hint of resentment in her you have come back Jimmy and I had decided that you didn't like the hadn't It was evident that she had seen him go out with Millicent He answered evenly crazy about the Did you think I would leave before I had danced with my The musicians have finished their gorge and are tuning By the be ready with a track-laying gang to go up the inlet at You have all the Short but you can make it Want to push the work while this weather He held out his dance He was conscious of Jimmy Chester's frowning regard as they moved away in rhythmic step to the He watched him until he left the Janice looked I was He held her the fraction of a degree you Millicent was raw to but don't lay it up against This last year has set her nerves on wonder if a year here will do that to won't have a chance to find Perhaps you will like having me here so much you'll beg me to His arm well don't Thera was a hint of strain in her fighting line Tubby wants me here if you don't we arc We might make a dancing if engineering a thought but it li time the festivities broke All i of us must be sons of toil again being the guests ol should make a Thai I suspect Tubby of a We will dance round I to the vanish and As they stole surreptitiously from 1 the Waffle the heavens still held a trace of the glory of the Above the broken crater spread B coppery Janice drew a long uneven is more gorgeous than I haa imagined As they turned toward the H she said since I arrived as Jimmy I have been consumed by curiosity to to see the inside of your He answered by throwing open the As they crossed the threshold a shower of confetti pelted II powdered their lay like colored snow on their one adventurous particle clung to She laughed unsteadily as she brushed it trail of the resourceful Doubtless he expected you to carry your bride over the as big strong men do in the movies and points Harcourt laid his hands lightly on her will postpone that Take off your The room is Pasca keeps these fires She slipped off the heavily em mandarin He laic it on the crossed to the fireplace and lighted a Arm on the he watched her eyes travel from the Indian blankets on the log walls to the Russian saw them glow with admiration as they rested on the Chinese pewter linger on the rich pelts on the They mel How did these rare things get into this trading vessels stop for any one of a dozen The captain or mate usually has something choice he will dispose of for a mad about that Chinese We'll have tea every I have is The of his voice sent the color to her Thai wouldn't He opened a snapped on a said the She stepped to the and a gray-and-white linoleum on the My but you are told you that I lost my head over the H After we had finished the they just naturally required bedrooms to utilize their other bedrooms required a house this size needed a I have never regretted it Planning and ordering kept Archie Harper busy and He worked up to almost the last moment ol his and now I have it for He nodded toward a lighted things are in If you are not too tired I should like to talk a for the fact that my feet are shredded to ribbons that wasn't a it was a riot I am not In the least I will change my slippers and come get your He pulled the fan-back chair a bit nearer the As she hesitated he He dropped to one knee in front ol out your He gen-j removed the high-heeled blue slipper with its sparkling pul on the She He held the slender foot in his hand after it was you don't Who the dickens is pounding like Is Tubby trying to be is beating with both Harcourt pulled open the Millicent Hale stumbled into the Her terrified eyes widened as Janice took a step toward She shut With arms she braced herself against the log walL Brilliants swinging from her on hei green quivered with light Sh Gasped for Harcourt caught her be |