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V, | FIFTEENTH INSTALMENT “And so, gentlemen of the lijuiy, the Crown will prove that the defendants had a mo ; tive for the murder of this Smash, and did in fact kill him.” The Crown Prosecutor, Wade east a heavy lidded, - mordant stare at the jury and sat down. Bly contrast Garnet, at the ad joining table nearer the pris oner’s dock looked like an ur bane courtier. The arrival of one of the first upriver steamers, some ■weeks before, had provided the accused men with their distin guished counsel.. Garnet’s mis sion in the North had proved to be a political one. Learning, when he landed, of the charge against the two partners, he had offered to undertake their defense. Maitland looked older for the wo months of prison life that lad elapsed since his arrest. The shadowed look in his eyes, lowever, was not wholly due ;o the ordeal ahead of him; it satne from one that was past. A weather-beaten man he lad never seen was being worn in. Garnet had resum d his seat. Fallon’s bulky gure slouched at ease toward he center of the row of wit psses. .Nearer Maitland’s eyes jsted on Pete, with the emo ion which the sight of a loved nd loyal friend brings to a lan in trouble. A wave of mderness brimmed his heart, ete wore a summery frock of ght blue; her golden hair as longer than he remember 1 it, and arranged in a more iminine fashion. It was his j rst glimpse of her in girl’s tire, and she was altogether! vely. Police records of the finding I the native’s body that >ring in the breaking ice of ike Lebarge, had established e fact of murder. The Si ash had been killed by a .44 illet which struck him in the ck. His corpse had been dis sed of through an air hole in e ice, and had lain in this ncPalment through the win r . Its having floated finally tiie surface was due to the ing warm currents from the ce bed. Wade’s first witness was a ider from the old post at Og ie on the Yukon. The trad told a very gueer story, ich went back into earlier kon days, and rehearsed the e which the accused men in had already heard from ew. lure some of this testi |ny was open to objections, let passed the witness Ihout cross-examining, and jide called a seasonedjlook officer of the Mounted Po made here produced the furs muktuks Dalton had worn, compared them with those en from the bodjr of the Irdered Indian to prove, by [identical working of the ornaments, that they had fa|shionejd bjy the same Ive hand. |arnet had passed this evi ce without question. Wade bd Corporal Cathcart to the lol .thcart explained that the tangled in an odd way igh the timber that shel the camp, and were diffi t> read. He told of finding of blackening snow crys near the head of the lake, but showing through ; dark shadow. He had •ught out the defendants [uestioned them. said they had met no s*r and showed an unwil >SS to say anything more. I asked them about the dust, they explained it blood of a caribou they lot, and produced a fresh prove it. Their car .44 calibre gun, had in cleaned, and still . a powder mark.” witness told of his visit cabin in the wane of the , while Speed was be >nt to Skagway. Before ied the door, a Siwash slunk out of his way ibin wall, and he storm-whitened The discovery defendants had a mal >g was, of course, start id a fact of great im Maitland, when ask is came from, claim ive found it astray, not long after his partner shot the caribou on Laike Lebarge. “In the meantime, the Si wash’s body was found in the breaking ice of Lake Lebarge, establishing the fact of mur der. “Td establish our case ag ainst the accused men, it re mained to be proved that they actually used the dog to trace its camp or origin, and that that camp was the hide-out of an unknown white prospector with a gold secret. As was proved.” Garnet, after a brief address to the jury as to the circum stantial nature of the evidence called the first, and so far as was known, the only witness for the defense. Pete was unmistakably a ve ry attractive girl; to this crowd of hard-living men she was something more rare and gracious than the words con vey, or than may be imagined by any but men who have liv ed in frontier mining camps. “Had you ever seen the de fendants before they arrived in Skagway?” Garnet asked. “No, sir.” “What was Owens’ relation to you?” “I suppose you would call him my foster father. I was raised at his ranch.” “Did he ever speak to you of your real father?” “Only once. He spoke then as if Dalton were my father. Or anyway some near kin of mine.” “What did you do after Ow ens died?” “I went over the pass to find Dalton and warn him. I sold a goldmounted gun and some things I had for grub, and rode down the lakes looking for him. I didn’t find anyone wait ing, and didn’t have much to go on, not even knowing what Dalton looked like. When the cold came, I met a rafting out fit who camped to cut timber a little way up the Teslin, and they gave me a job cooking for them through the winter.” “Why did you leave them?” Garnet prompted. “It was only a week or two before the break-up. I hadn’t heard anything of Dalton, and was wondering what to do. ‘IThat night I woke up hear ing a voice close to my bunk, on the other side of the tent wall. The voice was shouting to me above the noise of the storm, but it sounded dim. The words were something like, ‘If you’re Pete, get out of the North and get quick! You’re in danger. I’m in a tough fix . . . . can’t take you down riv er. For God’s sake, keep clear of -’ The wind shrieked and the voice died away. I wasn’t sure of what it said at; the last. “Soon after that one of Fal lon’s men happened by the camp and saw me. I knowed Fallon was lookin’ for me, and felt that this was what he warning meant. I saddled the mare and started for the coast. “It was a heavy, cold trail. | The going was easier on the 1 level snow of Lake Lebarge, but Ghiquita and I were both dead tired by then, and there’s more than a day I’m not clear about. All the time I had a feeling of being followed or shadowed by someone or some ! thing. “Then—I kind of lost count. I think I was in a river can yon when the storm broke. There were wild voices in it like wolves. I must have pull ed the mare out of it and into the open when the storm | struck. Then next thing I know I was in Mr. Maitland’s cabin. The dog led him to where I’d fallen in the snow.” “Did you tell Maitland why you were making for Skagway in that weather?” “No, sir.” “Why didn’t you, Pete?” “He and Speed had had a quarrel with Fallon before, and I didn’t want to make it worse because of me. Or to mix them up in any trouble about Dalton either.” “During your stay at the cabin, did Maitland ask you any questions about Owens or Dalton, or his gold secret?” “No, sir. Anything I told him was of my own accord.” “Did you feel safe there?” “I felt as safe as if I was in— God’s pocket.” The courtroom smiled a lit tle at this homely but expres sive miners’ phrase. Pete then told what had hap pened up to the arrest of the accused men in Dalton’s camp. “I will ask you one more question,” salid Wade, in the deep silence that followed. “Do you love the defendant, Maitland?” Pete’s gray eyes were shad owed. She bit her lip as she had done that day when she recovered from the throes of cold. Two big tears rolled down her cheeks. ‘'I have told the truth,” she murmured. “I think, Your Honor,” said Wade,“ that the question has been sufficiently answered.’ • * • Next morning, when the court reopened, Garnet pro duce^ an unexpected witness. He looked toward the rear of the courtroom and said, “Rose Valery.” At the name, Fallon came upright in his chair, startled out of the detachment. He WANOCA THEATRE PROGRAM FOR WEEK OF MAY 20TH, 1935 MONDAY - TUESDAY Gary Cooper -in “THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER” -with- f Franchot Tone - Richard Cromwell - Sir Guy Standing “When this breed of man dies out. . . That’s the end” . . . They're the Bengal Lancers. . . heroes all. . . living dan gerously, loving recklessly, fighting madly. . . an amaz ing spectacle of swashbuckling adventure and exciting romance. . . Comedy “What! No Men” (in Technicolor) also latest MGM News. WEDNESDAY ONLY George Brent i- J. Hutchinson -in “RIGHT TO LIVE” . Comedy - Selected Short Subjects - Cartoon THURSDAY ONLY Janet Gaynor - Warner Baxter f “ONE MORE SPRING” Comedy - Latest MGM News - Also Short Subjects FRIDAY ONLY William Haines -in ‘THE MARINES ARE COMING” Comedy “Hear Ye, Hear Ye” (musical comedy) also News SATURDAY ONLY* Buck Jones I -in “WHEN A MAN SEES RED” Comedy and Chap. 4 “The Red Rider” with Buck Jones Show starts 2:30 continuous turned his head is frowning unbelief. But he was unnoticed by the courtroom as Rose approached the stand. Though the river had carried many rumors of her beauty, this was her first appearance in Dawson. Indifferent to the crowd's stare, she looked at the accus ed men and then at Pete, with some inward, unreadable thought. Her dark eyes show ed a glitter of fire when they crossed with Fallon’s, who slouched back now, carelessly, while she was being sworn. “Miss Valery,” said Garnet, "where were you born?” “I don’t know,” Rose an swered. Her low voice had the quality of p 1 u c k ed harp strings. “Where were you cared for for as a child?” “In the convent school at Notre Dame at the Mission Dorlores in San Francisco. I was taught music and singing at the convent,” Rose ventured, “until I was 15, but I was rest less, and discipline only made me unhappy. I decided to fun away, and did, and so became a professional singer. “I had a plan of reaching the gold country. A ltttle after dark I climbed over the con vent wall at a place where a sloping barn roof touched it. I got on a street car at Guer rero Street. As I hadn’t any carfare the conductor put me off at the second stop, two blocks below. “A boy was singing in a high soprano voice in front of an open air boot-black stand next to the saloon, where the sports were getting shined up for the evening. “It surprised me to see the men at the shoe stand throw him money—even one half-dol lar piece—for what wasn’t really a good song, or very good singing, except for being strong and clear. Whjile he gathered up the coins, I sang the refrain of the song. The boy was angry, but the men encouraged me, and we tried to sing each other down. As it was easier to chord with him, I sang alto, and our duet stopped the shoe shining. When we finished, the men save me a handful of silver; one of them handed me a dollar piece. “I divided what I got with the boy, and then he wanted us to throw in together and play the corner, but I said I was going to Nevada to sing in the gold camps. “The boy got excited and wanted to go. While we were talking it over, a shadow fell between us from the street lamp, and I found that the man who’d given me the dollar was standing there listening. “ ‘So you’re headin’ for Ne vada? he asked. “When I agreed we were, he said he knew all about the country; had been there not so long before and brought out a heap of gold and he was go ing again, so he could give us a steer and see that we were treated right. “On the car going down town, he said something to the boy I couldn’t hear, and gave him a gold coin. The boy got off, telling me he was going to buy some things and meet us later. “I wasn’t so sure about the man’s looks. He was big, ra ther handsome, and sunburn ed. He said we couldn’t start till morning, and he got me a room at a hotel hear the Bald win. He told me he wasn’t go ing to Nevada. “I was angry and disgusted. While he was sleeping, I got out. I still had some of the small change I’d sung for, and soon found that money was easy to' earn that way. “I bought a guitar and some clothes, and paid my own way to Nevada. One night I was playing at a camp casino in Golconda when a woman who was drinking with a fuddled, miner called me to their table] to sing for them. She was half drunk herself. Her face must have been beautiful once. (Continued Next Week) It Wouldn’t The old saying that all’s fair in war wouldn’t be true in the event of a war between the Black Shirts and the Ethi opians.—Louisville Times. BRIEF; VERY BRIEF United States lagging in avi ation, yearbook reports. Catholics in U. S. total 20, 523,053, year’s gain of 200,459. Rustproof all-steel piano is being built as an experiment. Physician calls Indian med icine men effective doctors. Supreme Court, 5 to 4, voids the railroad pensions act. Roosevelt sets up three di visions to handle relief work. Senator Cutting among four killed in crash or airliner. 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