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I CAUGHT IN THE WILD |j \ . By ROBERT AMES BENNET I # WNU e ? Copyright by Robert Amei Bennet % SYNOPSIS As Alan Garth, prospector. Is pre paring to leave for his mining claim in the Far North, a plane lands -at the airways emergency station. In it are Burton Ramill, millionaire mining magnate; his daughter. Lil ith; and Vivian Huxby, pilot and mining engineer. Believing him to be only an ignorant prospector, the men offer to make an air trip to Garth's claim, although they refer to his samples of platinum-bearing ore as nearly "worthless." Lilith Itam ill, product of the jazz age, plainly shows contempt for Garth. Through Garth's guidance the plane soon reaches the claim site. Huxby and Ramill, after making several tests, assure Garth his claim is nearly valueless, but to "encourage" young prospectors they are willing to take a chance In investing a small amount. Sensing treachery ahead. Garth se cretly removes a part from the mo tor of the plane. Huxby and Lilith taunt Garth, but their tone soon changes when they try to start the plane. Returning to shore they try to force Garth to give up the miss ing part. Garth manages to set the monoplane adrift and the current carries It over the falls. He points out that he is their only hope in guiding them out of the wilderness. Garth begins the work of preparing for the long journey. He insists that the others help. Ramill and his daughter must be hardened for the hardships ahead in their trek to the outpost on the Mackenzie. Garth experiences difficulties in getting his companions into line. An experi ence with a bear helps. Returning from a long sleep in the woods. Garth finds the party has stolen the tea and sugar he has been saving for emergencies. He makes no ob jection. simply pointing out that he is accustomed to a strict meat diet, and that they are hurting only them selves. The work of getting ready for the trip continues. Huxby re fuses to help, and works on the mining claim. CHAPTER V?Continued No man of the engineer's coldly cal culating character would stop at any thing, when the stakes of the game meant a placer worth a million or more. Mother Nature could now be counted on to keep the spoiled heiress In line. But the Wild would only sharpen and Intensify the engineer's craft and avarice. After eating his fill, Garth took to Huxby'g 'bed, beside the smudge-fire. He wakened to find that the sun had taken Its northern dip and was just slanting up again above the mountain crests. It had been under much longer than In June. The summer was get ting well aiong. Huiby had stayed on watch to keep the fire going. He met Garth's off hand good morning with a show of civility. His cool reasoning had brought him to the realization that nothing was to be gained by upstaging Garth. When Miss Ramill left the leanto, Garth stooped in under the low roof and began to ri^b her father's knees and hips. The millionaire groaned that he had been stricken with a ter rible attack of lumbago and rheuma tism. It was Impossible for him to move. Heedless of the plaints. Garth rolled the complalner out beside the cold baked leg of moose. The "sick" man ate more than either his daughter or Garth. Afterwards, Insistent urging and the promise of an easy work-out persuaded him to get on his feet. They wandered around through the woods, with frequent pauses In the glades. When, several hours later, they re turned to camp Miss Ramill had com pleted one moccasin and was doggedly stitching at Its mate. Huxby came down from the trough with the gold pan. Garth melted the last of the moose fat In It and fried a heaping mess of mushrooms. For salad, he snook a quantity or pleasantly acia sorrel from the bottom of his pail. With berries for dessert, the meal be came a banquet. While it lasted there was a general glow of good feel ing. Even Huxby spoke pleasantly to Garth. As before. Garth turned In at ihe same time as Mr. Ramlll. He wakened to find the first pair of moceaslns finished. The girl had met his terms. He gave Huxby the moss bed, and started to collect flattlsh stones as heavy as he could toss. When he had pitched a dozen or so upon the cache platform, he strung the smoked slices of meat on rawhide thongs. Raking aside the smudge-fire, he stood on the rack and tied all theqmeat close up under the cache platform. He then climbed upon the platform and piled the stones on the tie-thongs where they came around the poles. That would keep wolverines or other pilfer ers from gnawing the rawhide to let the meat fa!L No fourfooted crea ture could now get at the meat on the under side of the platform, and even ravens would have difficulty stealing much of It. To complete the Job. Gartn pulled off the cross poles of the smoke j rack. for breakfast, the party finished the baked leg of moose. As Garth had foreseen, his three city camp mates had developed camp appetites. Getter still, they were less irritable. Their craving for drink and tobacco had begun to lessen. At tlmberline Huxby went up the trough with the gold pan. Garth headed again for the glacier. This time Mr. Itamlll did not pant and gup so hard, nor did he have to stop so often to rest. The first climb had done more than strengthen his wind and flabby muscles. It had burned up the autotoxlns in his system as well as sweat otl many pounds of fat. He managed to climb all the way to the lower end of the glacier. It took him less time than his part-way climb and he was far less exhausted. While he rested In a sunny nook on the rocky side of the lateral moraine. his_daugh ter went down In front of the glacier with Garth. They came to the chan nel where the milky stream gushed out of a tunnel cave in the blue-white ice. Garth pointed to a shelf of rock on the near side of the stream. He walked into the cave along the smooth ly polished ledge. Lilith Ramill shud dered and glanced up fearfully at the steep over-hanging ice face that seemed about to crash down. Yet after a moment's hesitation, she fol lowed Garth into the chilly blue shadow of the cave. Several yards from the entrance Garth stopped before a narrow side hole that opened above a waist-high uprise in the bedrock. He reached in and picked up a bundled white skin. A..S < - ? - ? - ? yui iu me sun ne openea the skin and showed a piece of frozen meat. "How's that for cold storage?" he said. "Killed a young mountain sheep on my way out, last month. Thought I'd test the glacier. Looks as If it's a safe meat house. No chance of spoil ing. and not even a wolf has ventured inside." Miss Ramill said nothing. She saw no reason to consider the cave of the slightest interest. There was, however, the meat. She suggested that if it was not spoiled, it would make a change from the moose meat. This proved true. Down at camp the young mutton was first thawed in cold water, then stewed in the gold pan. The descent had been made by Ra mill without aid. There was no need to support, much less back-pack him. He had really begun to get a start in trainiog. To Garth this was all the more reason for pushing the million aire so much the harder. In the week that followed, he al ternated more climbs with trips around into the muskeg swamps. He led his sweating, swearing charge over nigger head grass, where the heavy-bodied city man had to Jump nimbly from one big tussock to another or take a tumble. Miss Ramill tagged along on these grueling hikes. She also made an other climb up the gulch. Garth cached in the cave the hundred pounds of smoked moose meat he had brought up on his pack-board. He then led on up the glacier, halfway from its foot to the top of the pass. That gave the three climbers some real ice work. Coming back. Garth knocked three brace of fool hens from spruce limbs with a stick. The half dozen grouse made a pleas ant change. But even with a pail of salmon berries for dessert they prove I a scant meal for the four meat-eaters. The last leg of moose had already been baked and eaten, the tongues broiled, and the second muffle stewed. The remainder of the smoked meat would not last long. So far. Garth ho/I tint Iniupfororl uith Hnthr'a nil. day panning out of the platinum alloy. He had not even asked to look at the take of precious metal. Food was a different matter. Instead of shooting another moose, he called upon Huxby to join in a caribou bunt. A band of the big animals had drift ed along the tnndra terrace over towards the glacier. Carth counted fifteen. He waited until the band came within seventy-five yards. He then let drive, shooting rapidly yet with careful aim. One after another dropped, each witn a bullet through the head. The stupid beasts stared In the direction of the sharp reports. But they could see nothing. The sixth went down before the nine survivors wheeled and clattered off In panic stricken Night. The flaying' was well under way when Utixby and Miss Ramlll came hastening aslant the tundra ahead of Mr. Ramlll. The girl eyed the clean delicious-looking white fat on the first flayed body. "That looks good, Alan' Vivian, you can go back to your min ing. Dad and I will help here." Her father called out a panting sug gestion for Huxby to wait and carry down s load of meat. "No need," Garth said. "Don't stop, Huxby. Most of this venison Is going on ice. None will be allowed to spoil." The engineer did not linger. He had looked none too well pleased over the girl's familiar use of Garth's first name. Along with his displeasure about this, there could be no doubt of his eagerness to get back to the plat inum panning. Kach successive day he had shown himself still keener to continue the sampling of the placer. When Garth finished the flaying ot the caribou, he started to dress out the bodies. Greatly to his astonishment, at the cutting up of the second cari bou, she took the belt-ax and began to help. Mother Nature had cracked the polished shell of artificiality In which the pampered heiress bad been en cased. The girl's few days In the Wild had awakened primitive Instincts ground deep Into the nature of woman during the remote past of mankind. Down through countless ages her pre historic ancestresses had learned the bitter lesson that. In the Wild, days of plenty are certain to be followed by days of famine. The cave man hunted the meat; the cave woman hoarded what she could of It against the time of want. Otherwise her children starved. So, upon reflection. Garth's amaze ment passed. He had managed to cover it, even at the first, when Lilltli Rami 11 took the belt-ax in her slen der hand and severed the neck bone of the caribou with a single blow. Her father was the one who stared. He sat watching the girl's quick, eager wielding of the hand-ax, his mouth slack, almost agape. Garth could only surmise how she had always been coddled and pampered. Her father knew It. He knew how, since her childhood, she had been wrapped about with silken luxury, waited upon by attentive servants, petted and spoiled. The millionaire had been born on a farm. He could recall seeing his mother help butcher sheep and hogs. But she was a farmers wife. Lilitb would not have known how to prepare a spring chicken for the pan. And dowt she was cutting up caribou. Aside from an occasional word of direction, Garth said nothing. When he finished dressing out the fifth car cass, he handed his knife to his eager helper, packed a load of meat, and carried it to the ice cave. Down in the gulch bottom he chose a pothole stone that would hold per haps three quarts. In the bowl he coiled a wick of twisted dry caribou iMWiBi i, r She Followed Gartn Into the Chilly Blue Shadow of the Cave. moss, piled in caribou fat. and lighted the wick. When the fat melted, the wick burned with a strong steady flame. Caribou ribs furnished a grat ing on which to broil steaks. The fat meat was deliciously tender, its flavor between venison and beef. When even Mr. Ramill could eat no more. Garth carried the stone lamp Into the ire cave. Upon his return, he had Mr. Ramill and Ltlitb look close at the caribou skins. "You see they are hair, not fur. But every hair is hollow. Nothing is warmer than a C8ribou parka. In fact, the wlnrer coat is too warm to be worn. That Is why I killed six now, instead of one. You hare never win tered in the North." Mr. Ramill tensed as if prodded. "Wintered? You can't mean to infer you expect to stay on here. We have your promise to take us out." Garth turned to meet the intent gaxe of the girl's blue eyes. They looked as cold as the blue Ice of the glacier tunnel. None ttie less, they had great ly changed since be had first seen them, over on the Mackenzie. They no longer showed a trace of their former i-vtiiml tlrMn^is ThA irlrl micrlit h<< .is hard as ever, but she was no longer bored or ennuied. For another thing, she had begun to lose her exces sive thinness. lie answered her father: "You have my promise?more's the pity. A winter a la Eskimo would be a won derful experience tor Miss ItamilL However, she will of course prefer to go back to Jazz and cocktails, to paint, powder and lipstick." She flared: "And rid of you!** "To be tfure. That above nil else," tie agreed. "So how cou'd I deprive you of that pleasure, or tall to give your father and your fiance another chance to bilk me out of my placer claim? 1 agreed to get you back to the Mackenzie. When we reach,, the old |>cst, we part company. You and Huxby %U1 then be free to go ss far as you can." "I5ut in that case? No, you can't uiake me swallow IL I know you're not su<-h a fool as to risk losing that placer." v Garth laughed outright. "What d'yon take me fort Tour brand of gold-digger? Gad, that's the nubbin of it alL It's the reason why men like you and Huxby lose out You worship the golden ealf. Yet what value Is there to riches other than what you get from them? Can you think of a more enjoyable game than playing draw poker, with our lives in the Jackpot, and Fortune deal ing us the cards of chance?" "What's the catch?" Inquired Miss Itamill, with a sudden upweiling of her sophisticated cynicism. " 'Lives in the Jackpot'?that means nothing. It's your placer that's in the pot. What stakes do you consider we have In to balance It?" "That would be telling," he teased. "You'll know if 1 win. If I lose, it will not matter to any of you what you've risked. The showdown may come sooner than I expected. Your father is already In fairly good shape. We'll start the trip out as goon as these caribou skins have been tanned." CHAPTER VI * Hell in the Muskegs. Garth sat beside the camp fire, sew ing new moccasins for himself. Near i'.?, me uiiuivMauc ucaici IU iiiiucs auu his fastidious daughter scraped the raw sides of the six caribou skins and rubbed them with the tanning mixture of fat, liver and brains. Garth had told them they could either tan the skins, or wait for him to do It Until t lie tanning had been finish, the trip out would not begin. Mr. Ramill was so keen to start back for civilization that he went at the disagreeable task with energy and determination. Ullith not only worked as vigorously as her father, she showed a real interest in the tanning. fluxby took no part in this prepara tion of the skins. When he came down to the camp from the platinum placer, the sight of his fiancee's doing snch squaw work struck him speechless. He stared in blank amazement. When at last he found bis voice, be started to threaten Garth: "You've gone a bit too far, you roughneck. Stand up, or I'll kick yoa up. I am going to?" The girl broke In, with cool scorn: "Tune off, old dear. You're set on static. Ifs not Interference we want Dad and I are giving this performance under our own direction. You see, it's a bargain. Alan agrees to start our trip out just as soon as these skins are all tanned." The mining engineer drew back. "So soon as that? My dear girl, if he's going to rush us off, I don't see how I can spare any tinje here In camp. 1 haven't yet sampled all the area of the placer." (TO BE COSTINLED) Manure Most Important in Aiding Plant Growth The chemist's analysis of a short ton?2,000 pounds?of well rotted barnyard manure reveals that It Is made up of 1,500 pounds of water and 500 pounds of dry matter. This 500 pounds of dry matter contains approximately ten pounds of nitro gen, five of phosphoric acid, IS of potash, eight of lime and five of sul phur?a total of 41 pounds of chem icals?plus 459 pounds of organic matter, or "humus." In addition, as serts an authority In the New York Times, it contains a supply of cer tain bacteria and other microscopic organisms which are essential In ef fecting changes in the soli?the "breaking down" of chemical com pounds existing In the soil Into sim pler and more soluble forms. In other words, manure Is so val uable In gardening because U pro rides. combined In this one substance, three distinct soli aids: first, small amounts of the main plant food ele ments (nitrogen, phosphoric add and potash) and also of lime (not a food element but a "digestion accelerator" In the plant's diet); second, a supply of hnmus or organic matter which helps to change any uncongenial, un responsive soil Into moisture-holding, friable, productive loam; and, third ly, an active, thriving population of bacteria beneficial to plant feeding and plant growth. Pressed Wood Pressed wood, especially the tern pered grade, has almost unlimited uses In home Improvement and dec oration. One woman used It effective ly to replace the bottom of a piano bench that had fallen out long ago; and now the music Is no longer scat tered In window sills and on chairs. This same material was used to cover the unsightly top of a general utility table. Made entirely of wood and be ing warp-proof and moisture-resistant, pressed wood Is sturdy; It yields easily to the saw and does not chip or crack under prcsaure of nails or screws U. S. Public Health Service The United States public health serv ice official seal hears the date of Ita origin. 17H8, when It was known aa the Marine Hospital Service. The pres ent name waa authorized by OMgTMi In 1012. Fur Coats Atop Bright Wool Frocks - - By CHERIE NICHOLAS mrntmmmmmmmmmmmmm FCRS play an Increasingly Important L " role In the American woman': ward robe. 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