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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,
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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
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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.
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Introducing the “Co, - Cats ’’
Seattle tried to rid its water- 1
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CHAPTER XV
Dorothy Disturbed
To Dorothy were left the hills
and the sky, the steep crags and the
alder thickets, many-colored by the
whims of the frost. That strange
mood of utter loneliness that she re
membered from many a tragic
dream settled upon her, weighing
her down, seemingly about to kill
jier with its burden upon her heart,
and with it a sense of absolute fu
tility and helplessness. There was
no special sense of terror, because
the loneliness was itself terror in
its last degree, and it pervaded all
Jier being. She was all alone, lost
as in a dream.
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.
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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.
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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
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of this grim land to fight to the lfist
breath; such was part of the obliga
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Her delicate skin was scratched and
torn; her hands bled from grasping
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the brink of the chasm.
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than sixty feet in depth— at the
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a small stream flowed between great
boulders at the bottom. Here the
banks were covered with a heavy,
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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
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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
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cavern formed by the snow-ban!r
completely "bridging the gully. Thtf
shadows slowly gathered, the farth
er she went under the roof of snow
until finally she groped her way in
a curious, wan twilight that was like
tile grayness of a dream.
The gapping rent in the snowy
roof above showed here where Pete
had fallen. She made out a long
shadow among the boulders of the
creek bed, and at once she knelt in
the shallow water at his side.
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
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