Show SYNOPSIS THE STORY SO Trent 1 runs away from wedding Ned but a cay By a she becomes secretary at a camp In But Bruce newly appointed who has known her since girlhood was not aware of It till wife of the deposed chief is also attracted to Her husband treats her Hale suffers a stroke or feigns The departure of the Hales from Alaska In postponed- Hale Is believed to have an affair with an Indian Her resents Hale calls Janice In the absence of Millicent Hale to take some a codicil to his Millicent suggests going with Bruce and his Tubby on an airplane visit to the Janice Is Invited At the last Millicent can't Janice enjoys the trip and the bustling Alaskan When unexpectedly she encounters she tells him she Is married to The latter overhears it and insists on a marriage that Janice becomes Now continue with the 1 j CHAPTER LX The smile Janice loved flashed In Bruce's his hands tightened on makes it He raised her dropped them said will you do with your half What do you want Beauty much as I longed to come to the wilderness I wouldn't have dared had I not been born with a permanent I want Dozens of Any any kind that the florist thinks might grow in front I of the Samp the Samp Why not in front of The question tap-danced round and round in Janice's mind as she kept pace with Tubby Grant along the concrete They stood for a moment looking in at a fur Janice watched the bargaining without a quickening of her only to stop with an ecstatic before the window of a Japanese shop in which was seductively draped a sumptuous mandarin coat of turquoise j inquired Grant I would want a potato sack if it had that divine We have like You don't that my total principal is fifty dollars I had left from the family estate after buying a I had to One can't marry a Croesus and go to him with clothes like a They were back to the flying field in didn't you bring the Harcourt He drew Grant to one Janice heard the murmur of his punctuated by an occasional eager assent from As Harcourt turned away with a final word he caught his I forgot something He held his chief by a strap on the get Look for us at five She watched in amazed unbelief as Grant returned to the plant-laden The plane had more the look of a I sinister-eyed creature than j as Janice approached He fastened the that I would stop on the way back and inspect a gang which I is repairing a stretch of track not I far from the shore of a beautiful I The camp has a good We'll fly over hidden reservoirs of oil more extensive than I any yet above gold deposits richer than the They are so far from the railroads and shipping facilities that it would cost more to develop them than they are It's a grizzly and Kodiak Might see a His laushine ees met danger at this time of day or I wouldn't take we to wail for He will charter a small plane which will take him and those million or two directly to He has things to do for On and through a thin out Janice's thoughts were a chaotic jumble of present and What had she done to the hie of the man sitting as still as a bronze pilot beside What had she done to her own Shut the door of it in Ned Paxton's She had that She hadn't been fair to him about the Even if influence had boosted him into a he had been decorated for extraordinary The wheels lighted like a The plane staggered a shuddered a Harcourt cut the pushed up his Janice released the breath she had been holding during the It's How still the world A man with several days' growth of beard grinned a welcome to see We've been hoping you'd get this is the section boss i wanted Har-ourt to see thin Know of a good spot beside the stream where we can have So easily and casually be an- A man with several days' growth of beard grinned a his Janice felt her color mount as she met the man's astonished He pulled himself together with obvious you can call any place in this God-awful country As though we hadn't trouble enough fighting flies and a couple of hunters have been stirring up the Better take some I'll carry This Very shortly they emerged into a clearing through which the brook flowed singing to now now as it tumbled and rippled its way to the Part way up the stream a a few feet plunged into a bush-rimmed The pagan beauty of the spot was Harcourt arranged the cushions on a comparatively smooth stretch of here while I get a fire In a few moments twigs and small logs crackled having accumulated a pile of Janice laid a white cloth the Samp sisters had bordered it with feathery She spread out the tempting Gulls' eggs stuffed with sandwiches so wafer thin you could taste the as the English Little balls of minced coated with tomato A jar of mayonnaise to accompany Dates stuffed with orange marmalade or From the distance came the sound of men's the ring of steel on But Janice was Her thoughts raced She said was thinking that it was a pity I hadn't been dropped from the plane before I messed your life up as I have He clasped his muscular hands about one haven't messed up my Today merely precipitated what had to be done if you are to stay When I've been away from headquarters my mind has been half on half on my When I saw you in the kennel yard it stops my heart now to think of it I swore to myself that either you would go back to or you would give me the right to look after you I intended to fight it out with you Paxton's appearance merely precipitated the know now that I don't want Ned Paxton think you don't Wait till he appears at the mouth of the inlet in his palatial yacht gel this except that you will take up residence in my cabin and be called life for you will go on as You will have your secretarial work to help make time I shall be away days at a I shan't bother wouldn't bother me if you He stood He looked immensely his face I will interview the section then we'll be back in fifteen Don't mind what Johnson said about They are not feeding at this time of You are perfectly safe I can hear you if you Exercise all you we have a long flight ahead of but don't wander away from the Janice watched till his lean figure was lost in the How still the forest The fire had died down to blinking red coals and flaky gray Violet haze hung above it like a brooding A as large as a New York State which had perched on a swaying branch across the regarded her from beady eyes in a tip-tilted A hummingbird flashed and stabbed into the hearts of pink blossoms on a tall Bees Long festoons of moss swung like flitting gray The shadows were turning to amethyst She could hear men's the crashing of Squawking the curious took The martens She jumped to her j her heart The sound of snapping branches wasn't coming from the direction in which Bruce had The alders across the j stream shook A J Darn her Hadn't Bruce said that they weren't feeding at this time of Just the same Her eyes in Across the brook a great Kodiak crashed through a clump of It Regarded its head swaying from side to side as though in Two bloody marks on a shoulder were alive with To the girl's excited fancy the creature looked as big as a With an infuriated growl it splashed one great foot into the Coming for She kept her eyes on it as she backed cautiously She tried to Her voice wouldn't that was what it What red Terrible An ear-splitting That ought to bring the They were She could hear their Branches The bear slopped in the middle of the She tried to answer the anxious Her voice You might hit The word was a mere If she couldn't call she could couldn't not stand as though she were With all the force of her will she dragged her fascinated stare from the red coming nearer and She ran in the direction of the stepped into a hole filled with Fell The shock freed her Pulling herself up she She stumbled over a Harcourt caught her before she reached the You're not She rested against him as she struggled for Laughed At last I've I've seen a Bruce the love of What a A rifle shot followed Johnson's shout of Then a splashing A yell of feet if it's a and four feet high at the I'll bet it weighs fourteen hundred Harcourt bent over the head lying on the do you account for its being out at this time of See the two marks on the The bullets didn't kill the old fella and he hid in the I bet they gave him a He grinned at send you the pelt for a wedding I should love Johnson watched their As the plane climbed Janice waved to The wind flung her arm back across her Could it have been only this morning that she had left the Samp cabin tingling with a desire for she asked as hours later they came down in the field at his bronze face split by gleaming rows of white charged from the j j all mighty glad you and get Yes Harcourt swung Janice to the We are mighty Has Grant come two free hour Much Much Samp they They make for Yes Harcourt smiled at afraid that we're in for a She looked at the expectant flicker of amused comprehension in Harcourt's eyes was reflected in hers as she echoed I should hope that there would be a One one doesn't get married every Harcourt thoughtfully bowed his black tie before the mirror in his room at the II Little he had thought as he had shaved in front of the same glass tins morning before that he would return to it a married He spoke to Tong watchfully waiting on the we ought to keep her safe and old The dog responded with a promissory lick of his rough red BE |