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CHAPTER I—As a representative of the government Gordon Elliot Is on his way to Alaska to Investigate coal claims. On the boat he meets and becomes in terested in a fellow passenger whom he learns is Sheba O'Neill, also "gotta* In." Colby Macdonald, active head of the land gvabblrig syndicate under Investigation, comes aboard. Macdonald is attacked by mine laborers whom he had discharged, and the active Intervention of Elliot prob« ably saves his life. CHAPTER ll—Elliot and Macdonald become in a measure friendly, though the latter does *iot know that Elliot is on a mission which threatens to spoil plans of Macdonald to acquire millions or dollars through the unlawful exploitation of im mensely valuable coal fields. Elliot also "gets a line" on tho position occupied by Waly Selfrldge, Macdonald's right-hand man, who from a visit to "the States," where he had gone In an effort to convince the authorities that there was nothing wrong in Macdonald's* methods. CHAPTER lll—Elliot secures an intro duction to Miss O'Neill and while tho boat is taking on freight the pair set out to climb a locally famous mountain. They venture too high and reach a position from which It is Impossible for Miss O'Neill to go forward or turn back. CHAPTER IV—Elliot leaves Sheba and at imminent peril of his life goes for as sistance. He meets Macdonald, who had become alarmed for their safety, and they return and rescue" Sheba. CHAPTER V—Landing at Kuslak El liot finds that old friends of his, Miv. and Mrs. Paget, are the people wnom Sheba has come to visit. Mrs. Paget is Shebn'a cousin. At dinner Elliot reveals to Mac donald the object of his coming to Alas ka. The two men, naturally antagonistic, now also become rivals for the hand or Sheba. CHAPTER Vl—Macdonald, foreseeing failure of his financial plans if Elliot learns the facts, sends Selfrldge to Ka mntlah to arrange matters so that Elliot will be deceived as to the true situation. CHAPTER Vll—Elliot, on his way to Kamatlah, wanders from the trail. He loses his horse In a marsh and Is com pelled to throw away rifle and provisions and all unnecessary clothing. After long struggles he realizes that ne will nevftr reach Kamatlah. and resigns himself to death. CHAPTER Vin— At Kamatlah. Gideon Holt, old prospector and bitter enemy of Macdonald. learns of Elliot's coming and determines to let him know truth. Selfrldge has Holt kidnaped and taken on a "prospecting" expedition. Elliot, bare ly alive, wanders Into their camp and la cared for. CHAPTER IX—Holt recognizes Elliot and the two overpower the kidnapers and reach Kamatlah. Holt gives Elliot the real facts concerning the coal lands deal. CHAPTER X—Having all the Informa tion he wanted, felllot, with Holt as guide, goes back tp Kuslak. On the way they meet a squaw, Meteetse, with her ehlM, who Is Macdonald's son. Reaching KJ slak Elliot becomes convince that Diane (Mrs. Paget) Is doing her utmost to In duce Sheba to marry Maodonald. He de termines to win her for himself. CHAPTER Xl—Macdonald confesses to Sheba that ho had wronged her father in a mining traction and makes financial restitution. Macdonald and Shaba be come engaged, and Elliot it sent down the river on official business. CHAPTER Xll—Genevieve Maltory, adventuress, who has determined to win Macdonald, learns of Meteetse and her child and sends for them to confront Macdonald. They visit Sheba and she learns the truth. Macdonald blames El liot for bringing the Indian woman to KusiAk. Sheba breaks the engagement. CttAPTEB Xlll—Convinced that Elliot had lnducod Meteetae to vlelt Shaba Mac donald lends Bel fridge to warn him to leave Kuslak at once, threatening to ■hoot him on eighty Billot refuses to go, and purchaaea a revolver. CHAPTER XVI. Qordon Spenda a Busy Evening. Paget smoked placidly, but the heart within him was troubled. It looked as If Selfrldge had made up his mind to frame Gordon for a prison sentence. The worst of It was that he need not Invent any evidence or take any chancer?. If Mftcdonnld came through on the stand with an Identification of Elliot as one of his assailants, the young man would go Sown the river to serve time. There was enough cor roborative testimony to convict St Peter himself. % "I'm Just telling you what he imld," Dlnne explained. "And It worriji} me. Ills smile was cynical. I couldn't help thinking that If he wants to get even with Gordon—" Mrs. Paget stopped. The mnlrt had Just brought Into the room a visitor. Diane moved forward and shook hands with him. "How do you do, Mr. Strong? Take this big chair/' Hanford Strong accepted thfc chair and a cigar. He came promptly to the object of his call. "I don't know whether thla Is where I should have come or not. Are you folks for young Elliot or are you for Selfrldge?" he demanded. "If you put It that way, we're for El liot," smiled Peter. "All right. Let me put It another way. Ton work for Mac. Are you on his side or on Elliot's In this matter of the foal claims?" Diane looked at Peter. He took his time to answer. "We hope the coal claimants will win, but we've got sense enough to see that Gordon Is In here to report the facts. That's what he Is paid for. Hell tell the truth as he sees It. If his superior officers decide on those facts against Macdonald, I don't see that Elliot Is to blame." "That's how it look* to me," agreed Strong. "I'm for n wide-open Alaska, bat thut don't make It right to put this young fellow through for a crime he didn't do. Fact Is, I like him. Be'a square. So I'vfc come to tell you some thing." lie smoked for a minute silently be fore he continued. "I've got no evidence In his faror, but I bumped Into something a little while ago tt»t didn't look good to ma. Ton know I room next him at the ho tel. I heard a nolge In his room, and I thought that was funny, aeelng aa be was locked tip In Jail. So I kinder listened and heard whispers and the aound of some one morlng about ; There's a door between his room and mine that is kept iocied. I looked through the keyhole, and In Elliot's room there was Wally Selfrldge and another man. They were looking through papers at the desk. Wally pat a stack of them in his pocket and they went out, locking the door behind them." "They had no business doing that," burst out Diane. "Wally Selfrldge Isn't an officer of the law." Strong nodded dryly to her. "Just what I thought. So I followed them. They went to Macdonald's offices. Af ter a while Wally came out and left the other man there. 'Then presently the lights went out The man Is camped there for the night Will you tell me why?" "Why 7" repeated Diane with her sharp eyes on the miner. "Because Wally has some papers there he don't want to get away from him." „ "Some of Gordon's papers, of course." "You've said It" "All his notes and evidence In the case of the coal claims, probably," con tributed Peter. "Maybe. Wally has stolen them, but he hasn't nerve enough to burn them till he gets orders from Mac. So he's holding them safe at the office," guessed Strong. "It's an outrage." "Surest thing you know. Wally baa fixed It to frame him for prison and to play safe about his evidence on the coal claims." "What are you going to do about It?" Diane asked her husband sharply. Peter rose. "First I'm going to see Gordon and hear what he has to say. Come on, Strong. We may be gone quite a while, Diane. Don't wait up for me If you get through your stint of nursing." Gopher Jones let them Into the ram shackle building that served as a Jail, and after three dollars had jlnglod in the palm of his hand he stepped out side and left the men alone with his prisoner. The three put their heads together and whispered. "I'll meet you outside the house of Selfrldge in half an hour, Strong," was the last thing that Gordon said before Jones came back to order out the vis itors. As soon as the place was dark again, Gordon set to work on the flimsy framework of his cell window. He knew already It was so decrepit that he could escape ahy time he desired, but until now there had been no rea son why he should. Within a quarter of an hour he lifted the Iron-grilled sash bodily from the frame and crawled through the window. He found Paget and Strong waiting for him in the shadows of a pine out side the. yard of Selfrldge. "To begin with, you walk straight home and go to bed, Peter," the young man announced. "You're not in this. You're not invited to our party. I don't have to tell you why, do I?" The engineer understood the reason. He was an employee of Macdonald, a man thoroughly tcusted by him. Even though Gordon Intended only to right a wrong. It was better that Paget should not be a party to It. Reluctant ly Peter went home. Gordon turned to Strong. "I owe you a lot already. There's no need for you to run a risk of getting into trou ble for me. If things break right, I can do what I have to do without help." "And If they don't r Strong waved an Impatient hand. "Cut It out, Elliot. I've taken a fancy to go through with this. I never did like Selfrldge any how, and I ain't got u wife and I don't work fer Mac. . Why shouldn't I have some fun?" Gordon shrugged his shoulders. "All right. Might as well play Mill and get things moving, then." The little miner knocked at the door. Wally himself opened. Elliot, from the shelter of the pine, saw the two men In talk. Selfrldge shut the door and came to the edge of the porch. He gave a gasp and hla hands went trem bling Into the air. The slx-gnn of the miner had been pressed hard against his fat paunch. Under curt orders he moved down the steps and out of the yard to the tree. At sight of Oordon the eyes of Wally stood out In amasement. Little sweat beads burst out on his forehead, for be remembered how busy he had been collecting evidence against this man. "W-w-what do you want?" he asked. "Got your keys with you?" "Y-yea." "Come with us." Wslly breathed more freely. For a moment he had thought this man bad come to take vengeance on him. They led Mm by alleys end back streets to the office of the Macdonald Yukon Trading company. Under or ders he knocked on the door and called out who he was. Gordon crouched close to the log wail. Strong behind him. "Let me In, Olson," ordered Bel fridge. The door opened, snd a man stood on the threshold. Elliot wss on top of him like a panther. The man went down as though bis knees ware oiled hinges. Before be could gather bis slow wits, the barrel of a revolver was shoved against his teeth. "Take It easy, Olson," advised Gor don. "Get up—slowly. Now, step back Into the office, Keep your bands np." Strong dosed and locked the door behind them. "I w«at w papers, gelfrldse. Dig GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28,1918 Was en Top of Htm Like a Panther. up your keys ana "get' them for me," Elliot commanded. Wally did not need any keys. He knew the combination of the safe and opened it. From an Inner drawer he drew a bunch of papers. Gordon looked tbem over carefully. Strong sat on a table and toyed with a revolver which he Jammed playfully Into the stomach of his fat prisoner, "All here," announced the field agent The safe-robbers locked their prison ers In the office and disappeared into the night. They stopped at the house of the collector of customs, a genial young fellow with whom Elliot had played tennis a good deal, and left the papers In his hands for safe-keeping. After which they returned to the hotel and reached the second floor by way of the back stairs used by the serv ants. Here they parted, each going to hi* own room. Gordon slept like a school boy and woke only when the sun poured through the window upon hi* bed In a broad ribbon of warm gold. He got up, bathed, dressed, and went down Into the hotel dining room. The waiter* looked at him In amaze ment. Gordon ate a* If nothing were the matter, apparently unaware of the excitement he was causing. He paid i not the least attention to the nudging 'and the whispering. After be bad fin ished breakfast, he lit a cigar, leaned back In hi* chair, and smoked placidly. Presently an eruption of men poured Into the room. At the bead of tbem was Gopher Jones. Near tbe rear Wal ly Selfrldge lingered modestly, ne was not looking for hazardous adven ture. "WJad you doing here?" demanded Gopher, brlatllng up to Elliot. ■ The young man watched a a moke [wreath float celllngward before he turned bis mild gaze on the chief of police. "I'm imoklng." "Dotv't you know we Jost got In from hunting you—two posses of us been out all night?" Gopher glared savage ly at the smoker. Gordon looked distressed. "That'* teo bad. There's a telephone In my room, too. Why didn't, yoa call up? I've been there all night!" "The deuce you have," exploded Jones. "And as combing the hills for you. Toung man, you're mighty smart. But I want to tell you that you'll pay for this." "Did you want ine for anything In particular—or Just to got up a poker game?" asked Elliot suavely. The leader of the poase gnve hlm aeif to a Job of *clentlflc profanity. He waa spurred on b> outdo himself be cause he had heard a titter or two be hind blm. When he had finished, he formed a procession. He, with Elliot handcuffed beside blm, was at the bead of it It marched to the Jail. CHAPTER XVII. Sheba Deee Net Think So. The finger* of Hheba were busy with tbe embroidery upon which she worked, but her-thought* were full of the man who lay asleep on the lounge, ni* •trong body lay at eaic, relaxed. Already health was flowing back Into his veins. Beneath the tan of the thin, muscular cheeks a warmer color was beginning to creep. Hoon he would be about again, vigorous and forceful, striding over obstacles to the goal he had set himself. Sheba had sent him a check for tbe amount he bad paid her and bad re fused to see him or anybody else. Shamed and humiliated, ahe had kept to her room. Tbe check had come back to her by mall. Acroaa the face of It he had written In hla atrong handwriting: "I _don't welah on my beta. Too can't give to me what I* not mine. "Do not think for an Instant that I ahall not marry you." Hhe moved to adjust a window blind and when the returned found that hi* •teady eye* ware fixed upon her. "Tou're getting better f**t," *be ■aid. "Yes." The girl had a favor to aak of blm and teat ber courage fall ahe plunged Into It "Mr. Macdonald, If 70a any the word Mr. Elliot will be released on ball. I am thinking yon will be ao good aa to aay It" Hla narrowed eyes held a cold glit ter. "Why r "You 111 ant know he la Innocent. Too mmat—" "1 know only what the erldcnr# shows," be cot In, warily on hla gnard. "He may or may not have been one of my attackers. From the flrat blow I was dazed. Bnt everything point* to It that he hired—" "Ob. no!" Interrupted the Irlah girl, her dark eyea ablnlng softly. "The war of It la that ha eared your life, that be fought for yon, and that he la in prison because of It* "If that la true: wh» doesn't ha bring some' proof of Itt" Proof!" she cHed scornfully. "Be tlMen friends—" jr. He's np friend of mine. The man is a Weddler. I despise him." 1 ' The scarlet flooded her cheeks. "And I am liking him very, very much," she flung back stanchly. Macdonald looked up at the vtvtd, flashed face and found It wholly charming. He liked her none the less because her fine eyes were hot and defiant In behalf of his rival. "Very well," ho smiled. Til f«t him out If you'll do me a good turn." "Thank you. It's a bargain." "Then sing to me." "What shall I slngr "Sing -Divided.' " The long lashes veiled her soft eyes while she considered. In a way he bad tricked her into singing for him a■ love-song she did not want to sing. But she cade no protest. Swiftly she turned and slid along the bench. Her lingers touched the keys and she be gan. yShoba paid hj»r pledge Jin full. After the first TWO stanzas were finished she, sang the last ones as well ; An' what' about the wether when I'd have ould Paddy's boat. Is It me that would be afeard to grip the oare an* go afloat 1 Oh. I could and him by the light of sun or moon or itar; But there's caulder thing* than salt waves between u*. eo they are. Och aneo! Bun wall I know he'll never have the heart to oome to mi An' love la wild ai any wave that wan ders on the sea, 'Tls the same If he Is near me, 'tis the same If he Is far: Bis thoughts are hard an' ever hard be tween us. so4hey are. Och anee! Her hands dropped from the keys and she turned slowly on the end of the seat The dark lashes fell to her "I'm Going to Mirry You, Shaba." hot cheek*. He did not apeak, bat nhe felt the Hteady Inalatance of hi* gnze. In aelf-defeqpe aho looked at blm. The pallor of hi* face lent accent to the Are that smoldered In hi* eye*. "I'm going to .marry you, Hheba. Make up yoor mind to that, girl," be ■aid harshly. There wa* Infinite pity In tbe look •he gave blm. " There'* caulder thing* than aalt wave* between ua, ao they are,'" ahe quoted. "Not If I love you and you lore me. By the Lord, I trample down every thing that come* between ua." She knew the tremendous driving power of the man and *be waa afraid in her heart that he would aweep her from tbe mooring* to which *he clung. "Tbere 1* something elae I haven't told yon." Tbe embarrassed laabes lifted bravely from tbe fluabed cheeka to meet steadily hi* l6ok. "I don't think —that I—care for yon. *Tl* I that am ahamed at my—flckleneaa. But I don't—not with the fall of my heart." Hl* bold, poaaenalve eye* yielded no fraction of all they claimed. Time enough for that, Hheba. Truth la that you're afraid to let yourself love me. You'ro worried becanae you can't mea*ure me by the little two-by-four foot-rule yon brought from Ireland with yon." Hheba nodded her du*ky little head In naive candor. "I think tbere will be some truth In that, Mr. Macdonald. Tou're lawle**, you know." "I'm a lav. to myself, If that'* what yoa mean. It I* my bu*lne*a to help hammer ont an empire In thl* North land. No need for me to brag. What I have done speaka for me aa • guide poet to what I mean to do." "I know," tbe girl admitted with the Impetuous generoelty of her race. "I bear It from everybody. Ton have built town* and rallroada and devel oped mine* and carried the twentieth century Into new outpo*ts. Too have given work to thousand*. Bat yoa go ao fast I can't keep step with yon. I am one of the little folk* for whom law* were made." "Then 111 make a new code for yon," be said, railing, "Just do a* laa f and everything will come ont right." Faintly her nolle met hi*. "My grandmother might have agreed to that. But we live In a new world for women. They have to make tbeir own decisions. I suppose that I* a part of the penalty we pay for freedom." Diane came Into the room and Mao donald turned to her. "I have Just been telling Sheba that I am going to marry her—that there I* no eecape for her. Hhe bad better get uaed to the Idea that I Intend to make her happy." The older cousin glanced at Hheba and laugbed with a touch of embar rassment. "Whether she want* to be happy or not, O Cave Manf" "I'm going to make her want to." Hheba fled, but from tbe door she flung back her challenge. "I don't think eo." e e e • e • • Macdonald kept hi* word to Sheba. He used his Influence to get Elliot re leased, and with a touch of eynldam quite charncterlatlc went on the bond of hi* rival. An Information wa* filed against tbe Held agent of tbe land de partment for highway robbery and at tempted murder, tint Gordon wsnt aSout his business Just sa if he were not under a cloud. None the less, he walked the streets a marked man. Women and children looked at him curloualy and whis pered aa he passed. The sullen, hos tile eyes of miners measured him si lently. In the statea the fight between the coal claimants and their foes was growing more bitter. The muckrakers were busy, and the sentiment outside hnd settled so definitely against grant ing the patents that the national ad ministration might at any time Jettison Macdonald and his bsckers as a sop to public opinion. It wss not hard for Gordon to gueas how unpopular he was, but he did not let this Interfere with his activities. He moved to and fro among the mining camps with absolute disregard of the growing hatred against blm. Paget came to him at last with a warnlag. "WhaVs that I bear about you balng almost killed up on Bonanxa?" Peter wanted to know. "Down In the None Such mine, you mean I It did seem to be raining ham mora as I went down the shaft," admitted his friend. "Were the hammers dropped on pur pose?" Gordon looked at him with a grim smile.- "Tour guess Is Just as good as mine, Peter. What do you think?" Peter answered seriously. "I think It Isn't safe for you to take the chances you do, Oordon. I find a wrong Im pression about you prevalent among the men. They are blaming you for stirring up all this trouble on the out side. and they are worried for fear the mines may close and they will lose their Jobs. I tell you tbst they are In a dangerous mood." "Sorry, but I csn't help that." "You can stay around town and not go out alone nights." "1 dare say I csn, but I'm not going to." "I think you had better use a little sense, Gordon. J dare say lam exag gerating the danger. But when you go around with that Jaunty devtl-niay csre way of yours, the men think you are looktng for trouble —and you're likely to get It." "Am IV "I know what I'm talking about. Nine out of ten of the men think you tried to murder Macdonald after you had robbed him and that your nerve weakened on the Job. This seems to some of the most lawless to glvs them a moral right to put you out of the way. Anyhow, It Is a kind of Justifica tion, according to their point of view. I'm not defending It, of course. I'm telling you so that you can appreciate your danger." "You have done your duty, then, Peter." "But you don't intend to take my ad vice?" "I'll Ml you what I told you last time when you warned me. I'm going through with tbs Job I've been hired to see those In the car as they wers to see htm. "Gordon!" cried Diane. Oat of the house poured a rush of men. They too palled up abruptly at sight of Mnrdonald and hi* guest*. A sardonic mirth gleamed In the eyes of the Scotsman. "Do you al ways come out of a house through the wall, Mr. Elliot?" he asked. "Only when I'm In a hurry." Gor don palled oat a handkerchief and dabbed at some glass-cut* on his face. "Don't let us detain you," said the Alaskan satirically. "We'll excuse you, since yoa mast go." ' "I'm not In such a hurry now. In fact. If you're going to Kuslak, I think I'll ask yoa for a lift," returned the field agent coolly. "And your frlends-ln-a-hurry— do they want a lift too?" Big 1)111 Macy came wwaylng for ward, both hands to his bleeding head. 'He's a spy, curse him. And he tried jto kill me." "Did he?" commented Mncdonald evenly. "What were you doing to him?" "He can't sneak around our claim under a false name," growled one of the miners. "We'll beat his bead off." "I've had notions like that myself sometimes," assented the big Scots man. "But I think w« hud all better leave Mr. Elliot to the law. He has Uncle Bam back of him In his spying, snd none of us are big enough to buck the government." fJrisply Macdonald spoke to Gordon, turning upon blm cold, hostile eyes. "Get In if you're going to." Elliot met him eye to eye. "I've changed my mind. I'm going to walk." "That's up to you." Gordon shook hands with Diane and Bheba, went Into the house for his coat, and walked to the stable. He brought oat bis horse and turned It loose, then he took the road himself for Kuslak. A couple of miles out the car passed him trudging townward. As they flashed down the road he waved a cheerful and nonchalant greeting. Hbeba had been full of gayety end life, but her mood was changed. All the way home she was strangely silent. • •••••• The days grew short. The last river boat before the freeze-up had long Since gone. A month earlier the same steamer had taken down In a mall suck the preliminary report of Elliot to his department chief. One of the passen gers on that trip hsd been Helfrldge. sent out to counteract the Influence of the evidence against the clalmsnts submitted by the field agent. An In formation bad been filed against Gor don for highway robbery and attempted murder. Wally was to see that the damning facts against blm were brought to the attention of officials In high places where the charges would do most good. The details of the story .were to be held In reserve for publicity In case the muckrake magazines should try to make capital of the report of Elliot. Kuslak found much time for gossip during the long nights. It knew that Mnrdonald had gofto on the bond of Elliot In spite of the scornful protest of the younger man. The case against the field agent was pending. Pursuit of the miners who had robbed tlio big mine-owner had long ago been dropped. Somewhere in the North the outlawa lay bidden, swallowed up by the greet whit* waste of snow. The general opinion waa that Mac was playing politics about the trial of tils riv«). He would not let the case come to a Jury until the time when • conviction woald have most effect In the State*, the gossips predicted. They did not know that he waa waiting for ithe return of Wally Selfrldge. The whtapera touched closely the personal affalra- of Macdonald. The report of hla engagement to Sheba O'Neill had been denied, but it waa noticed that he waa a constant guest at the home of the Pageta. Tonng Elliot called there too. Almost any day one or other .of the two men could be seen with Sheba on the atreet. Those who want ed to take a sporting chance on the issne knew that odds were offered sub rosa at the Pay Streak saloon of three to one on Mac. Sheba rebelled lmpotently at the situation. The mine-owner would not take "No" for an answer. He wooed her with a steady, dominant persist' ence that ahook even her strong will. There waa something resistless In the way he took her for granted. Gordon Elliot had not mentioned love to her, were times when her heart fluttered for fear he would. She did not want any more complica tions. She wanted to be let alone. Bo when an Invitation came from her little friends the Husteds, sighed by all three of the children, asking her to come and vjslt them at the camp back of Katina, the Irish girl Jumped at the chance to escape for a time from the decision being forced upon her. ShebA pledged her cousin to secrecy until after she had gone, so that Miss O'Neill was able to Blip awoy on the atage unnoticed either by Macdonald or Elliot. The only other passenger was an elderly woman going up to the Katma camp to take a place m cook. Later on the soma day wiilly Set fridge, coming In over the Ice, reached Kuslak with Important news for his chief. He brought with him an order from Wlnton, coinmMsloner of the gen eral land office, suspending Elliot pend ing an Investigation of the chargea against blm. Oddly enough, It was to Genevieve Mallory that Macdonal(] went for con solation when he learned that Sheba hid left town. He had always found It very pleasant to drop In for a chat with her, and ahe SAW to It that he met tha same friendly welcome now that a rival had annexed hla scalp to her alender waist. For Mrs. Mallory "Look out I He's got a gat," warned Macy. Gordon fervently wished he had. But he was unarmed. While his eyes quested for a weapon be played for time. "You can't get away with thla, you know. The United States government la back of me. It'a known I'left the Willow Creek camp. I'll be traced here." Through Gordon's mind there flashed • word of advice once given him by a professional prizefighter: "If you get In "a rough house, don't wait for the other fellow to hit first." They were crouching for the attack. Tn another moment they would be upon him. Almost with ona motion he stooped, snatched up by the leg a heavy stool, and sprang to the bed upon which he had been alttlng. The four, men closed with him In a ruiih. They came at hlra low, their head* protected by uplifted arms. Hl* memory brought to him a picture of the whitewashed gridiron of a football field, nnd In It be saw a vision of safety. The stool crashed down upon Big Bill Mnry's head. Oordon hurdled the crumpling figure, plunged between Ptungsd Between Hands Outstretched to Seize Him. hands outstretched to seize him, and over (he table went through the win dow, taking the filmxy sash with hlu. To be continued. A HIMOUB ATTACK. When you have a l-i itua fit tack your liver fails to perform |t- functions. You become co.is'i ii ted. The food voi oaf ferajent' In your stomach instead of iligent in# tlil* infl im?i the *t >rnv-h an I causes naunej, vomiting ami a terrible headache T'lU • Chiflhc • lain's Tablets. 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