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SYNOPSIS TUB STOKY SO FAR: Jaelce Trent rant away from wrdduu Nrd I'atton. rich, but a cay blade. Ul^tultrd a* a tubercular \outh. shr becomes camp sec retary In Alaska where Hrure llarcourt bad been made chief, replacing Jo? Hale who had been coins down hill. Janice keeps oat of sight of Brace, who knows her. But oae day. while visiting the cabin of the Samp sisters, who run the Waflte Shop, he sees her asleep in a chair. Jimmy Delevan, the secretary, t% the very Janice whom he had on his last vlalt to New York impulsively advised not to marry Paxlon. He de ciac. '? no place for a woman, but Tubby Crant, his assistant. it's bard tu set a co??d secretary in the wilderness. Janice tells llrure her story. Now contlnur with the story. CflAPTER V "Anil then?" asked Harcourt. Janice wen! on: "I saw you. I clutched at your anpacctinn thn* we go out for din ner. Suppose my resentment provuu hut a wooder. sword of defense against Ned Paxton's persuasive smile, suppose :t broke. I asked myself. If I were out of the house when he came, its strength wouldn't be touted. Aw? ?>???? as we talked all my old liking for you. my trust in you, came sweeping back. You sold me Alaska. When you spoke of the secretary you couldn't get I had an inspiration. After my first year in Society with a large S, feel ing as futile as a goldfish in a crys tal bowl, bored to tears by the ceaseless round of teas and dinners and dances, of ushering here, sell ing something there, I plunged into a secretarial course and made good, rather exceptionally good. Father lost his money before he died. I had the choice of three alternatives: marriage, living on my brother, or getting a job. The first was no longer to be considered; the second was an impossible situation. Why should I not take that Alaskan posi tion? Remember that I observed that there would be dozens of girls ready to go?" "I do." "Well, later in that sleepless night I began to wonder why you should have been the man out of all the hundreds astir in the city to appear at the dramatic moment to pick up my slipper. You had ac knowledged that you believed that there was an unknown force in the world which no one as yet under stood. That force wouldn't bother with me the second time, I argued, if I were dumb enough to ignore its attempt to help. Was this my chance to earn a living, to escape the pub licity which my cancelled wedding would broadcast? Remember that you said chat young trees grow more sturdy after transplanting?" "They don't bring plants from a hothouse to this wilderness and ex pect them to grow." "Perhaps they don't, Bruce, but I'll take a chance that I'll flourish." Harcourt steeled himself against her charm. "Go on! Explain Jim my Delevan." "Mussolini! Holding my nose down to the grindstone of facts, aren't you? I devoted two days to thinking the situation through, while at the same time I superintended the return of wedding presents. I knew that so far as the work went I could do it. I decided to try for the position, to put thousands of miles between myself and Ned Pax ton." "Do you still love him so much?" "I wonder now if it was love. This northern country has done things to my sense of values. To proceed with the story 6f my young life? I left New York stealthily ? to evade reporters ? with my trousseau ? almost all of it? 1 remembered what you said about the chic women ? and a few cherished possessions. I had told Billy that I had broken with Paxton. He was white with relief. Then one day I slipped away leaving a note, telling him not to try to find me. "That was what I did. I went to Seattle. It had seemed delightfully easy when I planned it. Imagine my amazed consternation when I found that the agency at which I applied would not send a girl to an engineers' camp in Alaska." "At leas! there is one man in the business with sense." "Don't growl; I settled down to constructive thinking. I remem bered a newspaper story of an Eng lish woman who for years had passed herself off as a man, re membered that because of the husky note in my voice I had taken men's parts in dramatics. Good old sub conscious had done the trick. I would apply as a boy. A dye for my hair, a low drawn hat. Prince of Wales style, tweed suit, a hectic, a super hectic flush on my cheeks to suggest a reason for my exile, and lo, Jimmy Delevan evolved." "And one darafool a sent fell for you?" ?'With a groan of relief he swal lowed me, bait, hook and sinker, signed me on the dotted line." "I have no words in which to express my opinion of your infernal recklessness in coming to this wil derness!" "You are doing fairly well. Stop pacing the floor as though you were an Alaskan bear and listen. I'll ac knowledge that for a moment the silence, the wildness, the ter:ific ex panse of land, sea and sky got me by the throat. I hadn't had the slightest conception of what the wuiu Aiaaku siood for, mis part of it. When later I thought of the clothes I had brought? trunks of them? ordered and designed for the prospective wife of a millionaire, the table linen and bedding I had selected from my bountiful supply, for the first time in my life I touched the borderland of hysterics. I laughed till I cried. But I licked the fear-complex. I'm here." She rose laugning, exuiiout, ieve lv. "And I have made good, yes? Haven't I, Mr. Grant?" she de manded of the man who entered the cabin with the husky at his heels. The doc thrust his nose into the girl's hand ttvhi v hair of Blot, the black cat, bristled as though elec trified. 'Til say you have. What's he going to do?" Harcourt looked from Grant's round, smooth face, with its bellig erent green eyes, to Janice's. A man like Paxton wouldn't let such "They don't bring plants from the hothouse to this wilderness and ex pect them to grow." a lovely girl slip away. She was safe here. The outfit needed her. "Jimmy Delevan goes." At Grant's sharp protest and an indignant exclamation from Janice he held up his hand. "Wait a minute! Your secretary stays. Tubby, but only as Miss Trent. And if she stays she will do exactly as I say." Ignoring her in dignant protest, he went on: "Make up your mind to it ? otherwise there is a boat going out tomorrow ? and you go with it." His jaw set grimly. How a femi nine invasion could mess up a situa tion! His turmoil of mind was re flected in his voice. "Does Jimmy Delevan go or does Miss Trent stay?" "Miss Trent stays," the girl as sured promptly. "Then she is not to report for work until after the boat goes out tomorrow." Without waiting for an answer Harcourt crossed to the door. As he walked toward his office his thoughts returned to Janice Trent. She had run away from her pro spective bridegroom because she didn't trust him, yet loved him so much she didn't dare stay. His lips tightened. The Hales would Ue off tomorrow. Millicent was sweet and much to be pitied, but she had claws, and he had a conviction that she would scratch deep and raggedly where other women were concerned. She had reigned as queen in this outpost camp. She would not abdicate gracefully. At the door of his office he col lided with a man coming out. His red face registered relief. "Been looking for you every where, Chief." "What's wrong?" "Hale! Had a slight shock. We radioed to Fairbanks to ask if we should take him to the hospital by plane. Answer came, 'No! Keep him there.' " "We can't keep him here." jarch me. Mrs. Hale says he'll go tomorrow if he Roes on n stretch er ? but the Doe will have the say." ? ? ? ?'Where were we. Miss Trent?" Theodore Grant Junior tilted back in a chair beside the typewriter desk in the administration offU-e he and Bruce Harcourt shared at headquar ters. Janice rend from her note-book. Grant's voice went on and on till steam-shovel gsngs and ditching gangs filed in endless procession through the g'*;'s mind. She stopped for an instant to flex her fingers, r.otcd the 5*Jr?*pptitious action. "I'm sorry. You're such a imu at it I forget that you're not a ma chine. That will do for the present." He departed. Tong bestowed a moist doggy kiss upon Janice's hand before he followed at his heels. She clasped her hands behind her head, tipped back in her chair, re garded the moss-chinked wulls, the old-time Yukon stove, which made the modern filing cabinets seem bla tantly nouveau riche, ine "nigii desk at which the chief of the outfit worked when he was in the office. Through the open window she i:Ou!d see the kennels and the huskies in the yard, some rollicking, some awaking in auiisliir.c, seme Months had passed since the night Bruce Harcourt had returned her slipper, had brought vividly to mind her childish adoration of him. When he had stepped out upon the siage of her life again he had seemed a divine answer to her prayer to know what was right to do. Their paths crossed. Immediately the pattern of her life was changed. Her trust, her belief in him, in his power to surmount obstacles, surged up from her subconscious where it had Iain quiescent through the years. He knew what he wanted and went aft er it. Why shouldn't she do the same? The way which had threatened to be rough with complications had smoothed out like a trotting-park when she had seen the Samp sis ters. She had told them the truth at once. Gaunt Miss Martha's ag ate eyes had disappeared in a net work of fine lines. "If you're bent on keeping this job, tell Harcourt the truth, quick, or he'll send you back hummin". Keep clear of Hale; he might ? well, just keep clear of him, that's all." Three weeks had passed since she had discarded her disguise and gone to the office in one of the sports suits of her trousseau. The engineers had greeted her with smiling courtesy, the workmen with sheepish grins. What explanation had Bruce Har court made to them? She had her own log house now, connected by a covered passage with the Samp cab in. It had gone up as by magic after Bruce had decided that she might stay. Bruce had commanded her to keep out of sight till Hale had sailed and then ? Hale hadn't sailed. The phy sician from Fairbanks had decided that it would be a risk to move him, that he would be better where he was, had warned him against ex citement, letting his temper get the best of him. Was his wife in love with Bruce Harcourt? Was he in love with her? Had Millicent Hale been one of the lures which kept him in this northern wilderness? Did she resent the presence in camp of an other woman of his class? What did Bruce Harcourt think of it all? He was rarely in the office One day he woulJ be up the inlet in the launch to inspect the damage done by the rise of a stream, nexl he would be off with a section-gang and a steam-shovel; perhaps before forty-eight hours had elapsed he would be miles away inspecting the work of a ditcher. Not once had he entered the Samp cabin which had become the evening rendezvous for the engineers. Why didn't he join them? Why did he treat Tubby Grant s secretary with distant cour tesy? Her leisure time was full. Jimmy Chester was teaching her to shoot; Tubby was patiently training her to be a fairly efficient photogra pher; the geologist of the outfit pro vided her with a hammer and showed her how to get at the secrets pebbles and rocks had concealed within them. What fun she and Bruce might have together. The ring of the telephone brought her iridescent day-dream and the front legs of her chair down in a simultaneous crash. She answered the call. "Officc." "Hale speaking. Is this Miss Trent?" "lies." "Will you take pity on a poor duf fer who's been forbidden to write and take a letter or two for me?" "Certainly, Mr. Hale. When?" "At once if you will. I want it ready to go in the first plane that takes off." "I will come." i (TO BF. CONTINUED! ASK MS 7 A quiz with answers offering ANOTHER I information on various subjects The Question* 1. What arc agenda? 2. What is the Dick test? 3. Who cut the Gordian knot? 4. What docs frappc mean in cooking? 5. Was "Old Ironsides" sheeted with iron? 6. Who wrote the lines, "The world is so lull of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings"? 7. Mohammed fled what city on what is known as the hegira? 8. What are the two most north erly countries in South America? 9. In what country did Napole on flglit the battle of Waterloo? 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