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PAGE SIX .rrj SLUMBER] By AUBR1 SYNOPSIS--On the old sidewheelvr Gebr|c E. Starr, cn its way to the Yukon gold fields in the first iush o: t*7. Speed Malir.t, experienced gold-camp follower and gaiafcler. ar.d young Ed M ait land. on his first trip, trying to tecoup his lost family fortune, struck i:p a strange friendship. Mait! in 1 left Speed playi:.g Solo with tv... -the: and wandered forward to be sharply recail cd by the report of a pistoi and the -eves thhis partner had been shot ar?i had gone overboard. Ed juh^pei in after him, without second thought. But the cold waters got him, and in the er.f it was Speed ho did the r-.selling, holding F !'s head a bo :*e water until they were taker* aboard a little boat by a fisherman from Seattle. Maitland, knowing the sea took charge of the little boat when they persuade! Frenchy to take them to Skagway. After a hard journey t.hey reached Skagway where they find a ship unload! rig miners and horses. Xow go ] on with the story: FIFTH INSTALMENT Speed merely nodded when told of \ the failure of his quest. "What haonened at Steiner's?"' Malt land asked. It seemed that Frenchy and the Jew had formed a partnership, to start a haukr.g business from Skagwav with the horses arid boat for capital. With a glance at the clouds Speed suggested that it was going to rain, and he would do a "sketch, round'' for some blankets while his partner was drying out. For an h< ::r >r s:> alter ho had g :.c, Maiilaf.a sat pondering over fire. From this abstraction he was roused by a slight crunching sound in Ik-- gravel, and glanced up almost absently at the shape of a horse, ttneii m iigry tines against the dark. An upward glow from the fire lighted a woman's fae-: which he seemed to remember. Then a low, musical laugh gave body to the vision. He stood up. stiii haif-dreaming, as she pulled her horse under the shadow of the wharf. Her dark eyes masked with a vagrant humor some caprice he could not fathom. When she seated herself on a fallen wharf timber, leaving a space beside her in wordless invitation, he obeyed, without knowing that he did so. "Meet Lady Luck." she said, and to his complete stupefaction, turned 1 his head toward her and kissed him lightly on the mouth "You have a fur.nv, serious, wondering look I like," \ she explained. "Of tracing something that keeps drifting away. Luck's nee.n passing you. too. so I've decided to j give you a break -if you want it. Do you V" be murmured, with a melting'' fall in l,oi voice that drained his blood. Her lies hovered nloke U\ fvffe he? ]jait ulihusl brushed his face with j a t ; i)>*-i) took i?g i h - . Appalled at what he had almost done, he held her crushed fingers between his hands till he could win back some degree of sense. "1 think it would be safer." he pleaded, "to be ! unlucky." She looked at him with an oddly j shadowed reflective smile, as if (he j scruple intrigued her. or he had j brushed some chord of memory. "Sup-j pose 1 were to offer, you and your; pitrtner ait outfit., a job and a big j stake in the Yukon, would you trust; "Whether 1 would or not," he said, | "ray partner wouldn't." j THE GLAE HAND... The Watauga Coi te glad and to all n< its interest in ther This bank strives dialitv in all its de with its first heart wrkTkurk VT1 Lll 1UVJ1 I. 13 A f BOON Deposits Insured up to $5,C Insurance C u r \G GOLD Y BOYL) ?- _ ? -? 'p n..- sr.'t know what the stake is. Kosc C?>ur.:&d. - You're going North to look for scui l ean put it in your way irr one throw. There's a :ooi ir. camp who's due to lose a gold mine -or.e that isn't his to lose. I cant' t-*:: you any more just now. except that the .game is worth the risk You're running some risks anyway as drifters in a camp where you've made an enemy of the range boss." tie couM make little of that, except to wo oder If Fallon was involved in the mysterious gold secret she spoke of And. while their hands v.*: re tangled, she drew a ring 'from ore of hers arid slippe'I it mischievously on the tip of his little finger. At that moment a thud on the . wharf above them froze them both. A dark figure loomed with a bulky menace in the dusk. .MaiHand thought of Fallon, but a flare from the fire revealed an apparition much more; disturbing tc him just then. Speed's J apparent size was dik to a roll of . blankets on his shoulder. The outlaw came: down the sand . and dropped his burden near the fire, j stib regarding the girl. After a mo- \ men! he walked over to the horse and j t held the stiVrup for her. with a ges-' ture that was polite but implacable. I She waited before mounting, returf jh r ing his stare with a look of inter- ii est. "Lady,"' he said, pointing north j 1: "up there is all-Alaska and the Yu- j t kon Territory. If that air.'t a big en-1 r ough huntin* range for you and me ' r and my pardner to keep untangled in. j n it's too damned bad. But when I ask' vi you to get the Hell out of our camp. E 1 mean stay out." u Her laugh was a ripple of spontaneous music She mounted easily, fird at Mcitland. | e l her fingers to her lips. Tlie horse's 0 hooves ground softly in the sand, and a she vanished. f, Speed threw a fresh log on the fire, n and after kicking if into flame, he drew from his pocked a new bag of e Durham', rolled a cigarette and lit it i with a brand from the fire. p "Seems like this man Garnet likes s to gamble," he observed at la3t. ^ "What he don't know about callin' j] a pair of deuces gives us the ponchos and smokes." i Maitiand scarcely heard him. He :) 'naif-opened his hand to look at Rose's j ring, and shut it again quickly, sis if j he were holding a witch's bond. 11 It was not till they turned in that Speeded alluded to the subject that troubled him. "From where I set." c the Westerner observed musingly. I "which is look in' at the sky- -this I v man Fallon listens like four good aces ? c?.> i?wi, it uut live, niss navm traces ; .3 of catamount and curly wolf in his r pedigree, \ dor'c question. But he's t got someUim' eise that makes a bunch ; af hard-rook, hard-mouth miners an- ^ swer his jerk line. A quick hand, a t cool head, and enough ornery guts to swing a twenty-four horse span of . \-rnngh . lhi> r.f . Hell, if him and Satan had a feud. j Offhand. I\1 reckon that crossin* that * man in any game was a kind of hair- , line play. What's his sequence with the wo- : man I don't just get. Maybe none, | < sou think. But it looks to hie like a \, young buck, say from Boston, would ; , kind of regret havin' his grave dug j for him this side of the summit, tho' t not suspect in' wlien gettin' curious < about a woman means flirtin' with j 3 the muzzles of a pair of forty-fours, j ^ Which iji the wiv of the guns that i? start tatkin' when you ramble into j j Fallon's private game, and make it \ j ?~ |' ^ i ^ _____i I . i 11: ; i inty Bank extends sw faces, but there n does not stop, to maintain a cor- !, alings comparable , y greeting j t i; cn>\ I MTV ^ 1 1 iK ! E. . N . C. I s s 100 by the Federal Deposit r s !oi-poration. p s t ??? ????? a mmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmamtmmmmmmmmmmmmm&mmam f AT AUG A DEMOCRAT?EVER 'i CHERRY QUEEN Mary Bell Bennett Reigns at | Northwest Festival. j ; **?% -j, v ! i 1 s- | j; 4 JfVlJ ; - "-.a J ^ ^""^L \ "1^. : ..$mL:. . LKWISTOX. IDAHO?Mary Bell Bennett, "beautiful college coed f pictured alio vol is this week ruling as Queen of the Annual Cherry ; Blossom Festival, a colorful May j event in 1 iaho and Washington. } I hree-handed." ? 0 m Maitland wakened shivering in; j alf-darkness. The gulf was smudged \ i n fine rain that streamed dismal-, -v over the riffled san'dl left bare by ] he ebb tide. Speed's blankets were . oiled up. and a pile of driftwood lay i cady for* their breakfast fire. An- i; oved at himself for having slept j? :hi!e his partner was huntincr a iob. i, :d washed in a tide pool, and went j ; p to look for Imcv He learned that Steiner had offered U 3 sell Garnet his pintos. Garnet (s ?ni?a.vl .rith him nt r?rice ' . v...r?v - f four hundred dollars for the team, ; nd engaged the two partners to haul ?r him at the wages Speed had first. { amed. 1 This swift adjustment had all the ffect of a miracle to Maitland, but 1 he Westerner accepted i! as a simile caprice of the goddess who preides over mining camps. Nor was 1 iteiner visibly troubled by the change ' rs his plans. "Gold is where you find it, ain't it? i you put it in my hands, I don't toed a shovel, do I ? Let the saps 1 lig for it." "Reckon that ain't so foolish, nei- ( her." Speed concurred. : ? ? ? * The pack train had been tugging, ursing, halting and sliding for hours ti a disjointed snake-line up the gra- ( 'eled. river canyon, through a driz- ? iling rain that soaked Ihe lashmgs i ind shoulder straps, cut flesh to the A aw changed gravel to mud, and with .he. churn of hundreds of hooves miong the slippery wrack of coUen.voods. made footing almost iiiiposjdjle. By the order of the trail, prospectors moved their outfits in relays. In>iAlt riw, 7SSBSBBmg na ldr up CI oi" aa hey could between midnight ami one i the afternoon, there to cache their Micks arid return, during the remainng hours, for other loads. Garnet's outfit was ah odd one, unincumbered by mining tools or instmnents. or by any special equipment that might give a clue to his purpose in the North. It was rather Uke the outfit a rich man might have chosen for a lor.g cm .ping tour, thought this was not a journey which anyone would be likely to undertake for pleasure or health'.' Two game "rifles and -ods, however, showed that he hoped for some diversion by the wav. AL last a ring: of axes, pans and /oices floated up from a mountain ioUow through the rain. The trail lipped down toward a camp, which vas pleasantly announced by the arona of coffee and of wet pine burnng. Tethering the horses under some irippin^ boughs, where the needles spread a carpet free from mud. Speed unmade the packs. "Belly up to th*? bar for some close harmony, cow bands " bo sane* oil? cheerily. "We've bit the camp of Liarsville." Garnet stood bowed under his load and asked in a spent voice how far they had come. Speed swallowed his chuckels. The distance was said to be five mries. "Maybe," he added as an encouragement. "they call it 'Liarsville' in mcmry of whoever said it was just, five miles." Garnet showed so little interest in continuing his travels after lunch that they left him in camp to rest, and I wrought up another load on the nieht I i'um sxagway, for the moral ef-1 ect of getting the outfit well started, j Garnet was in his blankets when I hey returned. "I'm going to oievp .ill noon, boys," he said, next mornng. "If you feel so energetic, have a ook at the trail above here. I've been tearing some bad rumors about it." His misgivings did not weigh on heir minds at first. They set out on his excursion in the light-hearted nood conferred by a scrubbing, a have, a good breakfast and morning unlight. Avoiding the camp, they crossed a iver bridge, and from there, by a teep and broken track which the ac,. animals of earlier corners had carred out, climbed into some rnoun-, ain ravines that begun to reck with j mephitic odor of death. The sham ' THURSDAY- BOONE. N. C. Itii I.TK Ql'RSTION V r : I ??> stop iv.y chickens :h their I'-nthcrs? ; r-ji .. - :r. .> . :??>l of It C y parasite called the B n ?:e ar.ci car. be controlled R y . p: : the v:: as in a saiukur-soap B y "iix./.y two ounces g *> ?u phur ana six ounces E 1 ;,v. wins5 "vcr the UlO oil'ds I?H~* v th.'- head is <> :*. of the '.V-.ih the free rutfi. hv i. rt:u :3 to ltisaxe iionCtratioR. The ! > ?vo i r three t: . peiatioii. !yi;> tl.e - . , th. ..'ay s,, ,uk to aliuv. the:. ..thly dry he u> ro >st , - . 'V.::..- ghostly as thi\v ] .hps f the so-called - : iv-; of quagmires had been en-? ? a.I ir.kv.-; by the > ; hcrwes round the The swoi *-?? carcasses of dead ) : ; : t' " - . : hah -5 v.vw.i in :..skeg? ' shrams >:i 5 keen reount?'* trail -rv:::- a. in p'atvs cattle track : its hazels to! : s an: *y en v.v. e rir>pr wed by the relies that lay scat-' ;rr?i in the ear.yon troughs y .... travelers who appeared to; . it-st their horses, were Strug-; - - hard-haul their packs thru; r.v r.oi rM-rv than a mile. above ', - alie !t was all the progress they j tad t en able to make since morn-! : Others, incredibly plastered with : - i'v.t;.. :h war. stamp of; ! ofoat in their faces, were back!rail- j r.g toward camp. These were trail; fter.ius who took ordinary hardship j Vitn a sinue. ! Plainly one look at it would be! Touffh for Garnet. As they stood considering the dis-' nay prospect. they were joined by a nan whom they recognized through ; ir-y wising mud smears as the old-; : .to prospector. Brent. iTelly, ain't it"" Brent commentspitting tobacco juice into the :]?ufrh It wouid look a heap better " said fi';ugh, thoughtfully, "if the camp together ar.d graded a trail. A t'\v days' work would corduroy these ..-.nskegs." Just what T toM 'cm," Brent nobled. Who's against it?" Fallon's outfit. He claims we can't each Bennett before the freeze-up f we stop to make a trail It's tough? >r. the boys who'rc snort of horses. The way he sees it. it's their har! uek. A stampede is a stampede, says .he trail boss." 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