The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-17

| dressed his wounds. He was tn. only
man living save Belcher, who lad
robbed Paul. and told them wher, the
treasure could be found, also making
q full confession of his crime. admit.
ting that Lakeland had hired then 10
| detain Paul in Alaska until he ack.
| land. should win a certain lady's hand
| and heart.
The second day after the startling
incidents narrated above the little
camp was broken. all the dog sIeds
secured and porters. packers and
Esquimaux set out for the Klondyie.
Providence favored them. for ,here
was no snow fall during their march.
At the Klondyke Ethel Berry gave
them reception in her shanty. Her
amazement was unbounded to learn
that Laura was in Alaska. and still,
strangest Of all, Paul had found a
father who had been dead twenty
years.
Kate went to Dawson CITY and
established her laundry, though Jack
tried hard to dissuade her. She said
until she was Jacks wife she would
support herself, and as there was no
priest or parson on the Klondyke she
saw no chance to marry until they
left. Kate did big business that win
ter. and as soon as the spring of 1897
came and the pass was open our
friends went to Juneau and took q
ship for San Francisco.
Paul had not only recovered his
gold, but much more, which he took
out that winter, while his father re-
covered his gold. Jack Ralston was
worth seveIty-five thousand dollars.
while Clarence Berry and his sweet.
brave little wife were rich several
times over.
1t was several months before the
real fate of Lakeland and his compan-
ions was known. After their failure
to abduct Laura Kean the three men
dared not return to the land of civil.
zation, but went to Sheep Camp.
One morning, while the camp was
still buried in sleep, there came a
peculiar rumbling sound from the
southwest side of the mountain. and,
like an avalanche. the great glacier
came rumbling, laundering down.
burJirg tents and shanties and men
beneath 1t. Some fled and a few
escaped, but when the debris had
cleared away several were missing.
Buried deep under the landslide were
Lakeland, Cummins, Allen, Morris and
Belcher.
Some one had gone on to Fresno
and broke the news to Mrs. Miller by
degrees. She could at first hardly be.
more difficult to believe the husband,
whom she had for twenty years
thought dead alive When she was
told that she would see them that very
day. she swooned for oily.
She was at the depot when the train
came In and Captain Miller, shaven
and shorn, and dressed in the garb of
civilization, looking twenty years
younger than when wanderer in the
Klondyke. stepped from the train to
receive his fainting wife in his strong
arms.
There was wedding-of course
there was. No story would be COM
plete without a wedding, and in this
there were two, for Jack Ralston
would insist on being married to his
faithful Kate on the same day Laura
ard Paul were welded.
Clarence and Ethel Berry, who
contributed so much to bring about
the happiness of their friends, were
present, and declared they never en-
joyed but one other event more
that was their own wedding, of course
AS these young people are wealthy
beyond their fondest dreams. as they
have tasted the bitter cup of poverty
and take delight In making others
happy, it is safe to predict that their
millions will not be squandered in
frivolity, but the world will be better
by their having lived. toiled and suf.
fered.
May they live long to enjoy the
golden riches taken from the treasure
house of the Ice King on the Klon.
dyke.
The End.