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PAGE FOUR C7fterLANßr©F FMOTTEN MEN ’ZggZgLJF'iby CdisonJlafshcdL Released "by NEA Service. Inc, Copyright 1923 by Little, Bfown & Ca begin here today Peter Newhall, Augusta, Ga., flees to Alaska, after being told by Ivan Ishmin, Russian violinist, ho had drowned Paul Sarichef, Ish niin's secretary. Ishmin and Petei s wife, Dorothy, had urged him to flee to South America. He joins Big Ci tis Larson in response to a disti.as signal at sea, giving Lar son his sea jacket. Their launch hits rocks. Larson’s body is buried jis Newhall’s. Peter, is rescued, finds injuries have completely changed his appearance. Dorothy and Ismin go to Alaska to return Peter’s body. They do not recognize Peter, who is chosen head guid. A storm strands them at the grave. They hold a seance with or.e of the guides as medium. The mes sage: “Change name,” Dorothy be lieves to be from Peter telling her to accept Ishmin’s marriage pro posal. Ishmin goes for supplies’, Dorothy learn Peter is an exile. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY! It was the same with her, too. If | she had to do it over again she j would never barter away her birth- 1 right for a mess of pottage. She had , had all possible opportunities for happiness, but together she and Peter had wasted them; and no mat ter what she tried to make herself believe, no matter what contentment she would ultimately find in Ivan’s arms, they could never come again. Tears flooded her eyes. Slie dropped down further on to her bunk. The fire in the camp stove burned down to coals. She saw Peter knock out the ashes from hm pipe—lightly, so as not to disturb her—and for an instant he stood, perfectly motionless, at her thres hold. A faint, pale glow through the air draft in the front of the stove showed him dimly, and something in the Cast of the homely face, thu half obsecure, dim sober curl of his lips, suggested a tenderness that she had never, even in their most ex alted moments, seen in the face .of the magnificent man and genius'tti whom today she had given her prow ‘isc. She had ardor, truly, long ittg and degijfe that bewildered her by its intensity; but she had never found real tenderness, r*"~ " 4 «3ig: Meal-time, in-between- f MS I time, rain or shine, any | ■ time —Tetley’s iced is de- ’ | • licious, cooling, satisfying. LjETIEysJ Orange Pekoe Tea ■ ; HUHlhi 'j niUa - cey, ° Hand jav ° bunj m ,j • , ; y~ {“BEST INTHE LOKG RUN ,r fe i Silvertowns are built up to the highest standard of tire quality— not down to a price. And yet they cost no more than ordinary cords. • Goodrich i SILVEMOWN CORD Americus Auto Co. I* ' w '■ * I -' ll ***«■» ■ . . 4. THE FRAGILE CRUST BROKE BENEATH HIS WEIGHT. innate instinctive chivalry. “Good night, Pete,” she told him simply. "Good night, Mrs. Newhall.” His answer came soft and moving from j-the darkened threshold. “Sleep I good.” j He meant that she need not be 'afraid of tile dark. Though he him self stayed in the dugout, this humble man would be on guard through the long, empty hours. CHAPTER XIV Peter Injured This camp was home, but in Dorothy’s mind it was a very empty jand desolate place when both Ivan ! and Pete were absent. So when Pete started to his hunt | ing on the afternoon of the secjnd day Dorothy expressed a wish to ac company him. The man’s delight knew no bounds; and soon they | were tramping side by side over the tundra. It was not the kind of day , that one ordinarily chooses for a walk abroad. The clouds were sul len and gray, low-hung so that the | white peaks of the divide were ob . scured, and the seas were gray in pthejr shadow; a brisk inshore wind i blustered at them as they climbed ' the ridge, chilling them, threatening i them with the travail of the winter A that would soon strike down. I Once tney saw a black fox whose > expensive four was already long and dense in preparation for winter; and Dorothy found him even more to be admired here in his native set ting—as he raced across a patch of old snow and shimmered in living beauty—than as a neckpiece in a fashionable fur shop in her native city. On the high, windy ridges and just below the long, white sweep of the mam range they flushed up a small herd of caribou. They were out of rifle range before ever Pete gdt sight of them, far across the gulch, and it was almost incredible to Dorothy how quickly they dis appeared. “Too bad we didn’t see them in time,” Pete commented. “We’re go ing to need lots of dry meat for the trip out in the dory—and for my winter supply. And, by' George, wu might get them yet—” “Chase them down ” the girl asked. “With an airship, yes! That’s a blind canyon they are running up, and it’s an old caribou trick to come swinging back. Mrs. Newhall, if you want to be in at the death, you’ll have to travel quick —” “Go on. If 1 can’t keep up, I’ll wait for you.” So they started at a fast pace with the idea of crossing into the down the steep slope of the ridgt valley and meeting the herd as it swept back. Almost at once Dorothy saw that she could not keep pace. Pete was traveling down hill in long, swift steps. From where Dorothy stood she saw that the man was disconcerted. The gully was evidently almost an abrupt precipice, to steep to de scend easily; and if he should lower himself down without mishap, the time required to climb the opposite precipice would make him too late to intercept the returning herd. He hesitated but an instant, then turned rapidly up the edge of the gully, seeking an easier place to cross. He soon reached a bank of old snow stretching completely across— apparently a thick crust such as often endures in these latitudes from one year to another over the cold, deep gullies. He turned to laugh back at the girl, waved his arm gayly—a vivid, cheering pic ture that the stress of civilization would not soon wipe from her mem ory—then started to Cross. Her first impulse was to shout a warning. Did he not know that often such snowbanksmelt from the bottom until they were merely fra gile crusts? Her instinct was to stop him at no matter what cost of her dignity and caste-pride; to run after him, crying; to order him back; to stretch her arms to him. Her fear was so great lhat it par took of the nature of actual pre monition. Yet he knew what he was • doing. This was his home land; and if he took risks they were on his own head., It was not for her to show such interest in him, a guide. It was folly, at the best. The mar. | knew what he was doing. He was advancing with some degree of cau tion at least—one foot placed gin gerly before he stepped. Surely if he let his zeal for hunting—always a passion with the Anglo-Saxon— carry him into danger, it was no cause for her to lose her cool poise on which she prided herself. Likely it was only a silly trick of the imagi nation. Yet the shadow that had crossed and darkened her had been that of p predestined event. Her inner warning had been true; and with shameful falsehood to herself she had disregarded it. She nad watch ed breathlessly, and suddenly she uttered a strange, small sound that the wind scattered into the vastness. The elemental powers had been in ambush, just as Pete had said; and he had fallen into their trap. When he was halfway across, the fragile crust broke beneath his weight, and he dropped through as when the trap ls sprung on the gallows. BANKER DEAF FOR YEARS NOW HEARS PERFECTLY J ~ hn L ' president of the Farmers National Bank. Fairfax, South Dakota, says that after suflering from deafness for many years he can now hear the slightest whisper and is so proud and happy of his own good fortune lr at b h Y Va c nt u ev ? ryone who *s deaf or hard of hearing to know about u - , j After trying everything he could hear of without success, Mr Ellerman finally saw the announce! ThTr rl a u N ! 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She stood a solitary figure in an uninhabited waste; the empty bar uns stretching down to the barren sea; the hills, gray with dying herb age, rolling on and losing themselves at last behind the curatains of the clouds; the gray, forbidding crags piled up in endless grim heaps about her. It was a lonely, utterly chee less vista of dead sky and dead world, and the blast of the wind was too unvarying and monotonous to destroy the effect of silence. She was scarcely conscious of her own life as she stared down at the •yawning hole in the snow crust through which Pete had fallen. Her thoughts were those of half-delirium —abstract terror, queer erratic fancies, that were darkened and sha dowed with a sudden, secret knowl edge of the dread meaning of 11 Co. FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL I beg leave to announce for this umportant office in comnig prifs mary. The people elected me. My ac countability is to them. The fidelity of my stewardship is a matter of public record. 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She had known security—the last dream, the dearest blessing in all the uncertain trails of life—but it had departed, and now she was ex posed to the punishment of Destiny. Os course Pete was dead. Such chasms were of fearful depth. The dull red coloring paled slowly in her face, and she swayed as if about to drop down. Yet she must not lose conscious ness. It was part of the grim code of this grim land to fight to the lfist breath; such was part of the obliga tion of all living things. Pete him self had made that plain. She be gan to climb down the hill, stum bling, sliding in the loose earth, fighting through the alder thickets. Her delicate skin was scratched and torn; her hands bled from grasping the sharp rocks. Soon she reached the brink of the chasm. One glance showed it to be more than sixty feet in depth— at the point she encountered it first—and a small stream flowed between great boulders at the bottom. Here the banks were covered with a heavy, impassagle growth of aiders. She followed dpwu.the brink a short dis tance, ’then began to';work her way down -into the gully itself. • . Half-sliding', ’haif-rurinifig,* liiP to minent danger of breaking- her bones on the rocks at the bottom, she made her way to the stream bed, then fought on up toward the place where Pete had fallen. The banks were too sheer to .find foothold, so she walked in the stream, the icy water splashing over her as she slpi ped and stumbled on the slippery stones. 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