Show SYNOPSIS THE STORY SO Janice Trent rons away from wedding Ned but a Kay Unbeknown to Bruce a family she becomes secretary of an Alaska camp of which he Is chief I wife of the man whom he la also attracted to Bruce 1 at first wants to send Janice On a I trip to the she encounters Paxton j and tells him she Is married to The latter hears it and Insists on a wedding that At the camp to which they return try the Samp aided by Tubby Har-court's arranged a wedding I asks to see her Her Joe had l been laid up by a when and Ids bride arc at knocks at the door and stumbles Now continue with the CHAPTER XI What has asked Her throat Her voice was a hoarse She covered her eyes with one white as Don't be sorry for I'm If you'd only With a stifled exclamation he withdrew his She crumpled to the picked his way through the maze of the Eskimo camp and ordered to appear at the office at two o'clock for questioning by the Commissioner now on his On his way back to the office Har-court recaptured the picture of last night in the H What had Jan thought of Millicent Hale's frenzied If you'd only He had been furiously angry at the had opened his lips to refute it when Millicent had For an instant he and Janice had stared into one another's then she had pointed to the woman on the put her on the Looks as though she had been Her skirt is He had only vaguely noticed that as he lifted Shortly Grant and he had entered the Hale Joe lay where he had They had searched for a had found nothing but Hale's own which hung in its clean He had Tubby for Jimmy Chester and two While he was he had picked up the dog to shut him out of the A blue glass bead had rolled from between his He put his hand over the breast pocket of his khaki The bead was safe in case it was needed in He had not told the other men of his Could it have been He would have a hard row to hoe if his threat to Joe Hale came out at the Millicent had heard Had she confided in anyone but No matter what Jimmy had he wouldn't shoot What had he been saying to Janice when be had interrupted their talk at the never send for you Good In the excitement I forgot about that track-laying gang you told me to take out at Chester been at the H house with Millicent this morning trying to find out what she wants done about I you were all excited day before yesterday because Hale had i sent for For whom did he I Jimmy Chester stared out of the Miss How did you 1 her coming out of his cabin I Had just been talking with Millicent at the Waffle so I knew she wasn't She wouldn't tell why she had been I went at her I so I just walked in and read the riot act to Joe Hale The Commissioner and his deputies were coming by up to the and see if you can help in the landing Harcourt looked after Chester as he hurried He liked neither Jimmy's color nor his unsteady Martha Samp hailed him from the steps of the II danger to Hale in moving a I was to speak to you about Your cabin's no place for her You send Pasca along to help and I'll see that she's that Janice comes back to the H Little lines crinkled from the corners of her eyes like rays drawn to indicate the setting do my but what'd you do to hurt her last hurt looked white still when I went into the II When I told her we'd better leave Where she she kinder sniffed I haven't a doubt but she'd like to stay here off she I was that troubled about her that I kept run-nin over to the Waffle Shop to stand outside her There was a light but it was still as Sakes don't go so walked in and read the riot act to or I'll be sorry I told You've got so much on your be sorry that you have told me anything about Miss Tell her to come If she tell her that if she doesn't come I will come after her I may have much on my but not too much for Janice stepped back to get the effect of the red geranium trees in nail-kegs on either side of the Waffle Shop Gorgeous against the background of weather-bleached log She looked thoughtfully at the Hale Not yet twenty-four hours since Joe Hale had An hour or more ago the Commissioner and two deputies had landed on the She had not seen Bruce since he had lifted Millicent Hale from the floor and laid her on the With a the Samp he had dashed As she had worked over the unconscious she had tried to crush back the memory of her frenzied If you'd only The Samp sisters had spent the night at the H had sent Janice back to her cabin at the Waffle She had dropped to the edge of the stripped Rigid and had sat there listening for Bruce's waiting for him to come and tell her that Millicent Hale's insinuation was He had not Toward morning she had dozed Head hands thrust hard in his Tubby Grant approached along the board Tong paced with magisterial dignity behind muscles rippling under his tawny Grant overturned an empty Seated on it he took one knee into his embrace do you think did wouldn't put it past He's talked long and loud and red against but that doesn't prove The Pekinese must have been among those present when it He would have scented the would have warned Hale with his bark are they begun they've been busy in the Hale They want you in the office after lunch to take they question You were in tho II house when Millicent Hale burst in with the weren't Something flashed in Janice's I never have thanked you for that gorgeous mandarin I wore It to the H had just taken it off when Millicent Hale burst in on us and I haven't thought of it You're a Sorry to hand back the but I didn't buy Who boy How did he know about told him that you'd almost cried your eyes out wanting You should not have let him spend all that money on me when you knew you knew what a fake that marriage that Bruce sacrificed himself to help His face lost its usual expression of cherubic The pupils of his green eyes contracted as he inquired has it ever occurred to you that you might be a million light-years behind the The zoom of a plane drowned his The motor thrummed as it It circled luVe a great bee to get its bearings before it shot for the Its wings became shadowy and its hum a mere Janice clutched Grant's watched the great bird from hand-shaded eyes till it seemed as small as a fly on an enormous blue w-who was He patted her get all I got a jolt at as the Commissioner has forbidden anyone to leave Then I remembered that he told one of the to fly back to the city for an expert he them blooms Martha Samp sat on the Grant had Pulled 1 I I I off one heavy grimaced with pain as she flexed twisted toes in their white cotton ache like the I know I had a body if it wasn't for Janice gently massaged the cramped do too Miss I would have been glad to take care of Hale last wasn't the place for Thai feels You've got what my mother used to hands Mary I can take care of her Pasca's to bring her tc the cabin you had so she'll be You pack up the rest of your things he'll carry them to the H house Bruce wants you wants anything about Those officials are after him every He's the tragedy awful think his fault it not let Hale stay where she talk like a an you a married Even li it wasn't hard for Mary me tc be trotting there from a man's cabin is no place for a She cautiously twisted her fool free of the comforting Grimaced as she pulled on her M's Hale settled before lunch Those officials being here make more but don't they make life Her eyes her cheeks flaunted red flags of do you think did Miss haven't asked me they think because my joints are stiff the arteries of my brair are but they're I'm not anything till I can say il before the right Did yoi hear that plane go They've seni for a finger-print They'd ought to have questioned mt I heard the airplane I thought the criminal was would be wouldn't The party who snuffed out Joe Hale is too scared or toe clever to I haven't made up my mind yet I read the newspapers for years without learning Her voice prickled with excitement In her own gazing out al trie Stars and Stripes floating higl and strong in the clear Janice faced two She could allow Millicent Hale's II you'd only to fester in her memory until she became a unhappy person would be sent out on the next boal amidst a silent chorus of God she's it was human na ture to dodge a person with a or she could take up her life from the time Bruce had get your go on from there as though the rest of that evening never had It would take a big inside resistance to withstand the bitter pressure of Could she do She It was not surprising that the Commissioner had given Miss Martha an impression of Janice concluded as after the midday meal she entered the He was the antithesis of all the prose officials she had seen on the He was bland and fair His eyes met Steel The deputy beside him was small and Janice glanced surreptitiously at Two little lines cut deep between his eyes as he bent a supple ivory letter-opener back and forth with his strong Tubby Grant opened the door to the shuffled into the In obedience to a curt word from the he perched on tiie edge of a threatened to get haven't Evidently the official believed in the attack I say that tree The Indian's beady as a trapped shifted to the Commissioner's steal BE |