The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28

why did you deny | was your son
when those men threatened to hang
me?" Paul asked.
MY boy, knew it then as well as
now, but to acknowledge you to be
my son was to be your own doom
They'd a hung ye hen for sure, OF
tortured us both"
What was they toin to hang
Crack-lash for?" asked Jack Ralston.
Because l wouldn't tell where ID
cached fortune in gold got from
the Alaskan mines. so long as they
didn't know he was my son they could
not force the secret frAs me that
way
well, cap'n, you played your part
very fine, an now that we have out
witted EN-, an all goin' home soon
can you find the place where the gold
is cached?"
IF | had a certain walrus hide |
could. 1t is the one my son took from
! the cave
Il gave it to you, Glum."
And I've got it safe at camp
In the midst OF their rejoicing
Paul did not forget the poor wretch
who was lying in the cavern mangled
and torn by the dog, Clarence and
two Indians went and brought Morris
to the camp, where Kate carefully
dressed his wounds. He was the only
man living save Belcher, who had
robbed Paul, and told them where the
treasure could be found, also making
full confession of his crime, admit
ting that Lakeland had hired them to
detain Paul in Alaska until he, Lack
land should win a certain ladys hand
and heart
The second day after the startling
incidents narrated above the little
camp was broken, all the dog sleds
secured and porters, packers and
EsquimauX set out for the Klondyke.
Providence favored them, for there
was no snow fall during their march
At the Klondyke Ethel Berry gave
them a 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 a
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 seventy-t1ve 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.
ons was known. After their failure
% abduct Laura Kean the three men
Jared not return to the land of civil.
sation, but went to Sheep Camp.
One morning, while the camp was
IT'LL buried in sleep, there came
peculiar rumbling sound from the
southwest side Of the mountain. and,
ike an avalanche, the great glacier
anne rumbling, laundering down,
'urying tents and shanties and men
'eneath it. Some fled and a few
scaped, but when the debris had
feared away several were MISSING.
Buried deep under the landslide were
Cummins, Allen, Morris and
'elcher.
Some one had gone on to Fresno I
nd broke the news to Mrs. Miller by {
egrees. She could at first hardly be.
eve her son alive, and it was still
lore difficult to believe the husband.
HON she had for twenty years
lought dead alive When she was
I'D that she would see them that very
ay, she swooned for oily
She was at the depot when the train
anne in and Captain Miller, shaven
nd shorn, and dressed in the garb of
vilization, looking twenty years
ounger than when a wanderer In the
londyke, stepped from the train to
'ceive his fainting wife in his strong
ms.
There was wedding-of course
ere was. No story would be COM
etc without a wedding, and in this
ere were two, for Jack Ralston y
ould insist on being married to his
ithful Kate on the same day Laura u