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CAUGHT IN THE WILD
Preparing Souffles Is Not as
Difficult a Task as It Seeim
By ROBERT AMES BENNET
WXTT Service
CHAPTER XI—Continued
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Garth put his finders to tils lips for
silence, and held a fuse-wrapped stick
of dynamite close to his match. The
miner lot go of his rille and straight
ened upon his leet, his hands high
above his head.
The match flickered out. Garth
dropped tlie dynamite and darted for
ward. He was none too quick. The
alight thud of the fallen rille had
wakened Huxby. As Garth paused be
hind the corner of the leanfo, the en
gineer peered out, with his pistol
thrust forward.
As Garth jumped he struck with the
butt of tils belt ax. It cracked down
on Iluxhy's wrist. The engineer's pis
tol dropped. With a curse, Huxby
grasped at the weapon, but Garth was
quicker. As lie caught it up, lluxbj
clutched at bis throat. Garth felled
him with a tap of the ax butt on the
temple.
Wakened by the sudden flurry, the
two miners in the leanto were grasp
ing at the pair of rifles on which
Huxby had lain. Garth whirled the
pistol to cover them.
“Hands up, and get out beside your
mate,” tie ordered. "We want only
the murderer. l!ut we'll shoot you
down like dogs if you interfere.”
One of tlie pair Jerked up Ids hands
The other man hesitated. The minor
outside called warnlngly: “The jig’s
up, Haney. The other feller lias got
the drop on us too.”
Haney lifted Ids hands and stared
out niter Ids bed-mate. Huxby was
staggering up, still dazed from the
blow that had felled Idm. Wild with
desperate rage, lie struck out furious
ly. Garth side-stepped and thrust in a
tripping foot.
The engineer pitched face-down on
the hard-crusted snow. Before he
could spring up again, Garth jumped
upon his back. The blow knocked Idm
breathless. It was then as easy mat
ter to click Constable Dillon’s hand
cuffs on the wrists of the murderer.
“Stop that cursing, or I’ll gag you."
Garth said. “There's a lady present.
All right, Miss Ha mill. Join us.”
Huxby fell silent, to gape like the
miners at the skin-clad form that came
forward out of the black shadows Into
the tlrelight. The girl slill carried
the constable's pistol raised ready to
shoot. Huxby saw enough of her face
In Its border of wolverine fur lo make
certain Garth had not been bantering
him.
“Lilith! You?”
“Yes, It’s me, you cowardly sneak
killer! 1 came after you with Alan,
and lie has let me catch you.”
The murderer twisted around with
his hack to her and the lire. Ills head
sagged forward. With a sudden re
turn of alertness, Lilith turned her
gaze away from his shadowed prolile
to watch the three lined up miners.
Garth did not smile at the girl’s
needless caution. She had earned the
right’ to think herself an invaluable
helper. lie allowed her to stand
guard while lie gathered up the three
rifles and unloaded them.
“Right-o, Miss Ramil)," Garth said.
“Sit down. It’s all over now but the
talking."
She lowered the pistol but drew
back where she could watch Huxby ns
well as the miners. Garth looked
soberly at the men.
“If you know Kipling, you’ll hear in
mind that the female of the species
Is more deadly than the male. 1 dare
say, though, you can safely venture
to lower your hands and sit down
with us."
At the welcome permission, the three
dropped their arms. Two of them at
once squatted on n log. Haney lin
gered for a surly question, before fol
lowing suit:
“What’s the play?”
“All we came for was to arrest llux-
t>y. Help with the cabin plane, and
there will he no mention of any shoot
ing other than Ills murder of the eon-
stable. What wages uid he promise
you?"
“Double the usual. Tole us he had
to get in his assessment work before
the freeze-up."
“The claim belongs to me,” Garth re
plied. “1 will pay you the double
wages."
“Ugh," growled Haney. “You out
played the d—n fourflusher. It’s a
deal. You’re boss. We're working for
you.”
Garth walked back Into the black
ness of the spruce trees. He returned
*ith the floursack paekbag, his own
and Lilith’s buckskin suits, and a hind-
quarter of fat caribou meat. At his
invitation, the men eagerly went at
the frozen meat with an ax, and put
the big teapot, full of snow, on the
fire.
i Lilith and Garth had eaten before
coming down from tlie igloo. They sat
back, on a snowdrift, and watched
while the others devoured the tender
broiled meat and gulped down cups of
hot tea. The flesh of the old she-bear
had been as tough as leather and her
fat very rank.
Huxby continued to sit in morose
silence, with his hack to the tire. The
feasters paid no heed to him. After
a time Lilith began to stir uneasily.
At iMt she had to act. She handed
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her pistol to Garth, and went to put
a piece of ine.it on a spit. When it
was broiled, she took it and a cup of
tea to Huxby.
He started up at her as If durn
founded, then shook his head sullenly.
She put down the cup arid plate beside
him, and returned to Garth. At his
look of cool Inquiry, her eyes flashed
with defiance.
*'I don't care! It's not right to
starve anyone.”
lie replied in a noncommittal tone:
“You're a woman."
The murderer took up his cup of hot
tea in tils tranacled hands and drank.
He began to eat the meat".
When daylight came, Garth ordered
everyone out to the cabin plane. The
hard-frozen slush Ice gave solid foot
ing over the hog. It also gave a solid
foundation out at the plane upon
which were based the engineer’s lifting
operations. The ice had been chopped
from around the floats, and a crib
built under the Inner end of each
wing. By hoisting first on the outer
end of one wing and then the other,
t)u« cribs had been heightened until the
floats were level with the top of the
ice.
A glance inside the cabin showed
Garth the body of Constable Dillon
lying where lie had left it. Haney ex
plained, with a jerk of a mittened
thumb to Huxby:
"He first says we’d chuck the stiff
under the ice. Then he says, no, to
wait an' heave it out when we was
flying over the muskegs."
“We’ll wait still longer,” Garth
said. "That brave constable Is going
to receive an honorable burial. Now
got to work with those sapling levers.
Another pair of logs on the cribs will
raise the floats high enough to roller
her clear."
Garth showed the men how to skew
lh(> rollers for turning the plane. He
went to shove sidewards on the tail.
The plane started to curve around.
A shriek from Lilith whirled Garth
face about. Iluxliy was rushing at
him, with an ax lifted high In his
manacled hands. Lilith flew at the
attacker as if frenzied. She sought
to block his charge, lie gave her Ids
shoulder with the skill of a football
player. It caught her on the chin and
sent her spinning.
Hut the slight check allowed Garth
time for a leap In under the nx before
llii> blade could whirl down on his
head. His left list appeared to punch
deep into the pit of Iluxhy’s stomach.
His right drove up under the chin of
the gasping murderer. The uppercut
lifted the killer off Ids feet and dropped
him on ids face, clean knocked out.
With no more than a glance at Ids
fallen attacker, Garth sprang to help
Lilith's dazed effort to sit up. “Well
played,” he said. “Not hurt, are
you ?’’
"N-no—I—you — lie didn't 1” she
cried, and burst Into tenrs.
Garth gave her a pat on the head,
and turned away, embarrassed. "No
wonder you’re overcome', it’s been too
much for a girl. We'll hop out of here
at once."
lie lashed die unconscious killer's
wrists to his belt, tied ids ankles to
get her, and climbed into the cockpit of
the plane. After replacing the breaker
points, lie had the men take turns
spinning the propeller, lie then tried
the self-starter. The engine roared.
Dulled by the whirling propeller, the
plane slid forward off the log rollers.
After cutting the gun, Garth or
dered two of the men to heave Huxby
into the cabin. The third man he sent
for the rifles. “I want the one with
which lie shot Constable Dillon. But
you may ns well bring die others—
also a lot of that hear fat.”
He himself went to pick up the still-
weeping girl and help her to the sec
ond seat in the cockpit. He made
sure of the supply of gasoline, and
climbed down again to see that ths
men gave the bottom of the floats a
thorough greasing with the bear fat.
After that, when all were aboard,
and the rifles In Lilith’s keeping, he
started the engine. The plane at first
moved slowly. The floats dragged
on the rough surface of the frozen
slush. But when they glided out on
the streak of glare ice, tlie friction
became less than that of a water
take-off.
Within a half mile the speed had so
increased that an easy pull on the joy
stick sent the plane skimming up off
the glassy surface. Garth banked in a
long curve to the left, listening to the
roar of the warmed motor. Every
cylinder was hitting sweet.
He made a wide spiral over the val
ley for elevation, and drove out east
wards above a saddle In the jagged
mountain harrier. When clear of the
valley, lie did not keep straight on
across to the Mackenzie. He turned
more to the south.
CHAPTER XII
Squaw Lilith.
The cross-country flight brought the
plane to the Mackenzie at the great
bend below the Liard. But Garth did
not come down at Fort Simpson, lie
flew on up the vast river to Great
Slave lake, and east across the lake
to Fort Resolution.
Some time before sunset, he set the
cabin plane down at the landing of
the Airways base by the mouth of the
Slave river. After handing Lilitn
ashore, lie left her standing while tie
went to speak to tlie Airways superin
tendent. That courteous gentleman
hastened to tell the girl that ids wife
would he delighted If tlie daughter of
Mr. Burton Itamill would honor their
hospitality.
Garth was not Invited. He turned
away to meet tlie red-coated sergeant
of police for whom he had sent.
Lilith did not see him again until the
next morning.
Told by hel- hostess that Mr. Garth
wished to speak with her, she made
a hurried effort to adjust tier bor
rowed dress. Though more stylish
He Kissed Her Red Lips and Scar
let Cheeks and Tightly Closed
Eyelids.
than tlie one loaned to her on the
steamer by tlie Fort Norman mission
ary's wife, It was not cut for her lithe
figure. She went hesitatingly into tlie
room where Garth waited alone for
her.
Sight of him in Ills caribou parka
brought her to a startled halt. ITer
eyes widened. “Oh, still in your skin
suit! You—you’re going back!”
“What difference does It make to
you?” he asked. “You’ll soou be in
Edmonton—and civilization.”
She stepped suddenly close to him,
her hands held out In appeal. “No!
I—Alan, take me back with you 1”
"Hack there? Don’t tell me you
like that squaw life. Those days in
the valley and the trip out must have
been a li—I of torment to you—dirt,
rags, mosquito dope, flies, starvation.
And now ice, snow, bitter cold.”
“Anything—anything just to be with
you, Alan—dear I"
He put ids arms about her. He
kissed her red lips and scarlet cheeks
and tightly closed eyelids.'
“My girl,” lie said, “you are going
with me wherever I go. Get on your
parka."
Her arms were clasped tight about
his neck. She lingered a moment to
return ids kiss. Then, her blue eyes
aglow, she ran to obey 1dm.
When she came hastening back, in
her Eskimo costume, she ventured an
appeal: “Can’t I have a comb and
brush and—and soap, Alan?”
He looked soberly past her shoulder
at the amused face of her hostess.
“Well, yes, I dare say you can. We’re,
going first to Edmonton. Y'our father
is thejre. I sent him a message that
we are coming.”
She plucked at the wolverine fringe
of her parka hood. “You—you cheat!”
lie took her into his arm3, regard
less of the onlooking lady. “My girl,
we are back in civilization. We arc
first going to be properly married.”
“But these caribou suits?”
“Best of flying costumes. We’re
taking a two-seater. The suits will
come in handy again this winter when
I teach Mrs. Garth how to drive a
dog team. Until that It’s to be silks
for my girl. I must first testify at
the trial. After that we’ll hop over to
Victoria and take a steamer to Japan
for our honeymoon.”
“Oh, Alan, how—how delightful!
But Japan? Why, I never dreamt a
prospector like you would care to
travel in the Orient. So, If—if you’d
rattier go hack to the valley, dear—”
Iler hostess could no longer keep
silent.
“Frospeetor, Miss Ramlli! Is that
all you know about Mr. Garth? His
father is one of the heads of the Hud
son’s Bay company. He himself is a
member of our parliament, a fellow of
the Royal Geographical society, a noted
explorer—”
“And the winner of the gamest girl
I ever knew,” Garth cut in. “Come on,
Squaw Lilith. You’ve proved your
self a mate woman. Now you're going
to be my lady wife.”
[THE END.]
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The outlying territories of the United
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Hawaii, annexed in 1808, at the re
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the other being British. These islands
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Tlie Philippines, taken from Spain
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American Samoa, consisting of four
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Trick Is to Make a Base
Like One Used for
Cream-Puffs.
“Will you please at some conven
ient time, tell us would-be cooks
something about souffles? Mine are
either too dry or they fall.” So
writes a reader. Fortunately I can
answer this question satisfactorily,
says a well-known food expert.
Souffles used to puzzle me. I tried
to duplicate that perfect scouffle to
he found in an old French hotel In
lower New York. I was never able
to get one crusty on the outside and
soft in the center, until I asked the
chef to make one for me. Now a
souffle is no problem. It can be made
even for the quick meal, because
you may use a hot oven.
The trick is to make a base like
the one that is used for cream-
puffs. The base is the same for all
with the exception that for cheese,
meat or vegetable souffles you make
it thinner. The Hour and water are
cooked together until thick. Then
tlie egg yolks are heaten in one by
one; tlie cheese, the chocolate, the
finely chopped vegetable or other fla
voring are added. Last of all the
heaten egg-whites are folded In.
When I make a sweet souffle, I
fold half of the sugar into the egg-
whites while the rest is stirred into
the hot foundation. The baking dish,
which may be of silver, oven-proof
glass or pottery, should he greased
with soft, not melted butter. For
sweet souffle, this should be sprin
kled liberally with granulated sugar,
to make a “chemise” as the chef
says. A 400-degree oven for twen
ty minutes is the proper tempera
ture for a souffle.
Menu for Quick Meal.
Cream of Pea Soup
Cheese Souffle
Baked Potatoes Baked Tomatoes
Pumpkin Tarts
Coffee
Order of Preparation.
Light oven
Scrub potatoes and bake
Prepare souffle and bake
Prepare tomatoes and bake
Open can of soup, dilute and heat
Make coffee
Cheese Souffle.
% cup flour
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
% pound grated cheese
ifa teaspoon paprika
4 eggs
Mix flour and salt with one-half
cup of cold milk and stir this mix
ture into one-half cup of hot milk.
Stir over lire until mixture thickens
and boils. Remove from Ore, beat
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In cheese and paprika. Beat In eg*
yolks one at a time. Fold In beaten
egg-whites. Fill greased baking dish
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1 cup milk
cup flour
>i teaspoon salt
cud sugar
4 eggs
2 sq’iaies of chocolate
Mix flour nnd salt with one-half
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half of the sugar. Stir over the flra
until mixture thickens and boils.
Remove from fire, beat in egg yolks
one at a time. Add remaining sugar
and melted chocolate. Fold in beat
en egg whites. Fill baking dish,
greased with soft butter and sprin
kled with sugar, three-quarters full
and bake twenty minutes In a hot
oven (425 degrees Fahrenheit).
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