The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-02-08
TheSpoilers.
ny REX E. BEACH
Copyright. 1905. by Rex n Beach.
CONTINUED from last issue.)

(COnttnue0 from last hbsuesb
Eyes. this whole disturbance is caus-
ed by those two. Only for thers we'd
be all right"
"Who is Miss Malottew
He answered promptly. "The hand
soonest woman in the north and the
most dangerous"
"In what way? Who il sheT
"It's hard TO say who or what she
Is. she's different from other women.
She came to Dawson in the early days
Just came--we didn't know how,
whence or why, and we never found
out. We woke up one morning, and
there she was. BY night we were all
Jealous. and in week we were most
Of us driveliDg idiots. II might have
been the mystery or perhaps the COM
petition. That was the day when a
dance hall girl could make a home
stake in a winter or marry a million
ARE in a month. but she never bother
ed She toiled not, neither did she spin
on the waxed floors. yet solomon in all
his glory would have looked like a
tramp beside her"
"You say she is dangerous?'
"Wdl. there was a young nobleman,
in the winter Of '9S, Dane. | think
fine family and all that-hlg yellow
haired boy He wanted 70 marry her
but a faro dealer shot him. Then there
was Rock of the mounted police, the
finest officer IN the service. lie was
cashicrcd. She knew he was going TO
pot for her but she didn't seem to
care-and there were others. Yet. with
il all. she is the most generous person
and the most tender hearted Why
she has fcl every stew bum on the
Yukon. and there isn't busted pros
pector in the country who wouldn't
swear Ivy her, for she has gruhstAksd
dozens OF them I was horribly in love
with her myself. Yes. she's dangerous
all right-to everybody but Glcnister."
"What do you mean"
"She had been across the Yukon 20
nurse man with scurvy, and coming
back she was caught in the spring
breakup. | wasn't there. bat Il seems
this Glenister got her ashore Sohehow
when nobody else would tackle the job.
They were carried five miles down
stream In the ice pack before he sue
ceedcd.'
What happened them
"Shc fell in love with him. of course"
"And he vOrshlped her rs madly rs
all the rest Of yon, | suppose" she said
scornfully
~'Thlt's the peculiar part. She hyp-
Noticed him NJ first. hut he ran away.
and j didn't hear of him again ill
came TO Nome. She followed him final
" and last week cvened uD her score.
She paid him back for saving hcr."
Il haven't heard about IT,"
He detailed the story Of the gam
bling episode at the Northern saloon
and concluded I'D like TO have seen
that turn. for they say the excitement
was terrific she was keeping cases
and at the flush slammed her case
keeper shut and declared the bet or
because she had made a mistake. OF
course they couldn't dispute her, and
she stuck 10 it. One Of the bystanders
told me she lied. though"
$50, in addition to his other vices,
Mr.. Glenister is a reckless gambler. is
hep said Helen with heat Il am
proud to be indebted to such a charac-
ter Truly this country breeds wonder
ful species"
''There's where you're wrong" Strive
chuckled. He's never been known to
bet before"
"Oh. I'm tired of these contradic-
tons she cried angrily. saloons,
gambling halls, scandals, adyentur-
esses, Ugh! hate it! ! hate It.
Why did | ever come hereT
CHOSE things are a part Of every
new couptry. They were about all we
had I'll this year But 1t Is women
like you that we fellows need. Miss