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CHAPTER ".

TURING; the evening Emerson
al left the two other men in the
store. and. seeking Cherry out
1851 in the little parlor. asked her
to play for him. Again the blend
ing of their vc!ces brought them
closer. his aloothcss wore of. and he
became an Agreeable. accomplished
companion whose merry wit and boy
18Th sympathy stirred emotions in the
girl that threatened her peace of
mind. 1t was their last hour together
before embarking on his perilous Jour-
ney in search of the golden fleece. and
his starved affections clamored for
sympathy. while the iron in his blood
felt the magnetic propinquity of sex.
For her part. she lay awake far into
the morning hours. now blissfully
floating on the current of half formed
desires. now vaguely fearing some
dread that clutched her.
The goodbys were brief and com.
monpace. There was time for moth.
ing more, for the dogs were straining
to be off and the December air bit
flercely. But Cherry called Emerson
| aside and In Il rather tremulous voice
begged him again to consider we'll this
enterprise before finally committing
himself to It, IF this were any other
country. II there were any law up here
or any certainty of getting square
deal I'd never say Il word: I'd urge
you to go the limit But
He was about to laugh off her fears.
as he had done before. when the plain.
tive wrinkle between her brows and
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the forlorn droop of her lips stayed
him. Without thought of conse-
quences and prompted largely by his
leaping spirits. he stopped and. before
she could divine his purpose. kissed
her.
"Goodby." he laughed, with dancing
eyes. That's my answer" And the
next second he was at the sled. The
dogs leaped at his shout. and the caval-
cade was In motion.
But the girl stood without sound or
gesture. bareheaded under the wintry
sky. startled. wondering light in her
eyes which did not fade until the men
were lost to view far up the river trail.
Then she breathed deeply and turned
into the house. oblivious to COnstan-
tine and the young squaw. who held
the sick baby up for her inspection.
The hazards Of winter travel In the
north are manifold Mt best. hut the
,runtry which Emerson and his COM
psnions had to traverse was particu-
larry perllous owing to the fact that
their course led them over the back
bone of the great Alaskan range. that
dcsolate. skyscraping rumpart which
interposes itself between the hate Of
the arctic seas and the tossing wilder
| ness Of the north Pacific.
week of hard travel found the
party camped in the last fringe OF
cottonwood that fronted the glacial
slopes. their number augmented now
by n native from a Russian village
with an unpronounceable name. who.
ut the price Of an extortionate bribe.
had agreed to pilot them through For
three days they lay idle. the taut walls
OF their tent drumming to an inces-
SAINT fusilade of ice particles that
whirled down ahead of the blast. while
Emerson fumed to be gone.
The fourth morning broke still and
quiet but after n careful scrutiny Of
the peaks the Indian shook his head
and spoke to Bait. who nodded In
agreement.
whats the matter?" growled En-
erson. why don't we get under way:"
But the other replied:
Not today. Them tips are smok-
Ing. see" He indicated certain gauzy
streamers that floated like vapor from
the highest pinnacles. THAT'S snow.
dry snow, and it shows that the wind
Is blowing up there. We dassent tackle
It,"
do you mean we must lie here walt
Ing for an absolutely calm day!
Exactly"
| why. 1t may he a week."
IL may be two Of them; then, again.
e "sV h" oil right tomnrrnw>"
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HeHsN

TOGETHER THEY AsCrNpED THE BANK AND
SURVEYED THE SURROUNDINGS
the money but If you will build
cannery on it I'll turn in the ground
for an interest
Emerson meditated moment then
replied. II can't say yes or no. Its
pretty big propositions 600, you
saidT"
"Yes It's a big opportunity. You
can clean up 100 per cent in year.
DO you think you could raise the
money TO build plant?"
II might" he said cautiously.
AT least you can try?"
but | don't know anything about
The business"
1--WE thought Of all that. and there's
I way 10 make success certain. be-
iieve you have executive ability and
IAN handle these men"
"Oh. yes. I've done that sort of
\hing.' His broad shoulders went up
rs be drew a long breath whats
your plan?"
There's a man down tho coast,
George Bait. who knows moro about
the Business than any four people in
Kalvik. He discovered the Kalvik
river, built the first cannery here and
was its foreman until he quarreled
with Marsh Bait isn't the kind Of
man to be disciplined, so, not having
enough money to build cannery, he
TOOK iiis scanty capital and started a
saltery on his own account. Marsh
broke George In year. ruined him.
utterly wiped him out. Just MS he in.
tends to wipe put insignificant me.
VhinI'nE to recoup MS fortunes. George
came back Into camp. but he owns a
valua bio trap site which Marsh and
his colleagues want. and ccfoyu they
would give him work they tried to
make him assign it 10 them and con-
tract never 10 20 ia business on his
own account Naturally George re-
!ussd. He's aeen starving new for two
yeais.
mo man dGres to furnish food tc
George Bait; 40 man Cares to give
him bed; no cannery will let him
work. lie has 10 take Il dory TO Dutch
UarbOr to get food. lie DOESN'T dare
cave the county and abandon tho
m4oEer thousands he has invested In
puildc1gs. and every summer when
slis run staNs he comes across tho
marshes and sinks about the Kalvik
shickets like wrath. watching from
kfar just In order to be near II all.
He stands alone and forsaken. barking
to the clank Of machinery. every bolt
6: which he placed. watching his
enemies enrich themselves from that
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CHAPTER III.

~~1HE girl dartcd a swift look at
Boyd. but he fell TO broodins
again. evidently inscusible to
C-.-.J hnr presence At length lie
stirred himself to ask:
Can | hire guide hcreabout? Wen
have to bc going on in Il day or So
Constantine will get you one. l
suppose, of course. you will avoid the
Katniai pass?"
avoid ii? Why?"
ITS dangerous. and nobody travels
1t except in the dircst emergency. It's
much the shortest route to the coast.
but It has record of some thirty
deaths. should advise you to cross
the range farther east. where the di
vide is lower. The rlail boat touches
at both places
On the following morning Cherry
told Constantine to hitch up her team
AID have 1t waiting when breakfast
WIS finished. Then she turned TO En-
erson. who came into the room aud
said quietly:
Il have Somcth'n. to show you II
you will tni:c Il short ride with me-"
The young man. impressed by the
gravity of her manner. readily con
scented. Constantine freed the leader
anl they went off at II mad run. They
sl;immcd over the snuU' with the flight
OF II bird
The Young man gave himself up TO
Tie unique and rather delightful OK
perlencc of being transported through
an unknown country to an unknown
destination by II charming girl or
who,a he also l:uew nothing.
yesterday you seemed 10 be taken
by the fishing business" she finally
said.
Il certainly was until You told me
there were no cannery sites left"
There is one. When ! came here
year ago the whole river was open
so on IN outside chance ! located II
site. the best one available. When
Willis Marsh learned Of it he took M
oil of the remaining places. and. nj
though at tho time had no idea wha
was going to do with my property
hung on to It,"
IL can't buy your site"
"Nobody asked you to-" she smiled
VI wouldn't sell 1t to you If yon ha(
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holy joy ovcrsprcad the nshorman's
visagc. and his hairy paws continued
to open and close hungrly.
"Do you mean bus!ncss?" he below
ed ut Emerson "Cln yOu fjrhtt ,"
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THE GRATITUDE OF ELDERLY
People

Goes out To whatever helps give then
ease comfort and strength. Foley Kidney
Pills cure kidney and Bladder diseases
promptly, and give comfort and relief ia
elderly people. j, w OSullivan, "A
Church street; STANLEY & Estey, Wino.-
ski
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1CRING the evening Emerson
Al left the two other men In the
store. and. seeking Cherry out
- in tie little nnrlNr. asked her
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ONE INSTANCE.

Fathor-Politoness costs nothing. sir.
SOM don't know, dad. Try putting
"Your ohcdicnt servant on the bottom
of telegram. Boston Transcript
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REPUBLICAN CONTROL or THR
sen ATE,
Grom tho New York Sun.

tFrom the New York SUM-
The republican majority on joint hallo
IN tho laet Maine Legislature was sixty
four there were eight democrats and
twenty three republicans in the Senate.
and TN the House fiftT-one democrats
ara loo republicans If the Legislature
elected on Monday should be controlled
h. the democrats. as now seems assured.
tto minority i'm the United states Senate
vill y" UNEXPECTEDLY Increased by
strau4,r from Maine. He will be more OK
surprise than even the stranger from
Missouri was: We refer to the Hon. Will
lam Warner, a republican,.
rno democratic landslide in Maine
prompts an ovcrhau1lnp of the Senate list
end an inquiry whether there is danger
Of ;he republicans losing control of that
body in the siXty-second Congress, which
viii meet in December. lsll. The Senate
now stands: Republicans. IS; democrats.
~ counting the successor to the late
s!;,uGel II. Nc Emery of Louisiana), so tina.
to obtain a majority of one the demo-
Gratis would have to gain thirteen seats.
Assuming that The Hon. Eugene Hale will
be succeeded by a democrat. the question
Is what prospect has the Democratic
party Of carrying twelve more Legisla-
lures in States where the successor OF \
republican senator IL to be elected at
the next session.
The terms of twenty-nine senators end
on March .. 1911. II the Hon. John w.
Ilniel of Virginia. a democrat had lived
he would have served until March 3. l91l,
and he would undoubtedly have heen re-
elected or succeeded by a democrat. Five
of the twenty-nine senators are demo-
cra,s: Taliaterro of Florida, Rayner of
Maryland. Money Of Mississippi, Frazier
Of Tennessee and Culherson of Texas. II
may he assumed that Rayner and Gull
hrrson will he reelected and Taliaferro,
Money and Frazier will I've succeeded by
democrats. E.X-CiovoruOr y. b. Broward
has been chosen in the primary to take
the rlacc of Senator ralialcrro Of Florida
and cN-Eepresentativc John Sharp Will
ilrts VIII succeed senator Money Of Miss
issipp, there is opposition in Tennessee
to senator Frazier. but democrat. it Is
safe 20 say. will be sent to Washington.
The terms of 'WertY-four republicans
end m March 3. 1911. Their names. States
and the majority on joint ballot in the
last legislatures elected III those States
| appear in the following table:
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her betrothed had failed to with their former
regularity. He would sit with the running down
his quilted cheeks; but going again out into the
actual world he Just loath to bestow dime
to speak kind word to the distressed as he had been
before emotional art Redeemed his eyes.
Once when he had cornered wheat and caused the
price of bread to advance he shed tears in the play
house, ragged child pleading at the door of
bakeshop but the next day. in the wheat pit, he
thrilled to 1ggle with hunger Joyous when his criminal
interest advanced another point And yet this old man
read books, great books Shakespeare and MOnaigne.
In way, too he thinker, at least dreamer;
and one of his dreams is worthy to be recorded.
TT brought to light when he called at the office of
l detective agency. The manager pleased to
Gobson, and before him bowed low.
"Ah Mr.. Gobson l delighted to see you! Sit
down, sir"
Gobson remained standing. Out of his shrewd old
eye he gave the manager sharp splinter look sup
pose said he, you have about your establishment
very bright fellow"
"some of the very brightest the manager replied,
rubbing his hands
MAN of education?"
college Bred
But has he any sense on his account"
"A of commonsense trained to fine point.
Il should like to have talk with him. May put
important into his hands,.
The manager bowed, opened door, and said, Just
step in here, please, and will send him to you.
Gobson entered small room and sat down. Pres
emily young came in. GObSOn looked at him and
said, II want man of experience"
Il the man. said the young fellow, sitting
down.
Gobson looked hard at him. "You are the man, eh2
What experience can you have had?"
Every phase of experience, you might say. have
handled some of most important cases." Here he
looked with half-smile at Gobson "You must know
that experience is not merely matter of years"
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BY OPIE READ

Good enough, replied Gobson. What's your
manner"
"Hackett."
II never heard of you, don't know anything about
you"
:: Hackett did not vince But he smiled again and
said, Il have heard of you know good deal about
you, and therefore wiser toward you than you
toward me-
Gobson grunted. What do you know about me?
Tell the truth
II know that you weep in the theater at night and
the price of bread to be raised the next day..
"Ah! But do you know why man weeps over art
and looks with cold eye real distress?"
Because he enjoys emotion. but resents dis.
tress."
Good enough. What's your fath?"
II don't know that understand you.
What church do you attend?
Il am attracted by the preacher rather than the
denomination
"Do YOU believe in the sou?"
Undoubtedly. But l don't why
should have souls when all through life they do nothing
to develop the when in fact they seem to do every
thing they to expel or kill them.
Sunlight through the window fell on the old mans
purple jaw he sat apparently in deep thought. The
young waited for him to speak,
II Think, said Gobson, that you fitted to take
charge of the case have brought the strangest war
rant you that has crossed your threshold. While
other have slept have thought; not only as to
the methods of making money, but have thought
about the soul. l have read books, and they have
stimulated my speculation without leading me to
thing definite What l want is direct evidence of the
SOUL And want you to 60 out and bring me that evil
dence.''
Hackett opened his eyes. Surely this was strange
assignment! Could the man be sane? He was going to
speak, but with a gesture Gobson shut him off,
Books, as l say, have failed me, and now appeal
to detective. Let state my object in doing this:
At first it may evnce to you unsound mind; but let
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resentment offer no reproof She would be the same
girl he had loved from the day he had first her.
whom he had endeavOred vainly and fooshy forget
THE dinner is over Langtree is talking to Gregg.
They smoking.
Tonight" he said, II am going up to see her and
ask her to marry Let show you her picture
he added, taking his watch from his pocket and open
ing the case.
7She is beautiful girl said Gregg, regarding the
picture. I'm fact Mary Wharton is the most beautiful
girl have ever known"
Wharton"
Il know her we'll enough to have carried her picture
in my own watch for these three years., said Gregg
quietly, handing his watch to Langtree.
Langtree gasped.
by the way, Langtree," added Gregg, Il shouldn't
bother about going up Mary Wharton tonight.
asked her to marry me day before yesterday, when
called to report that had become wonderful found
that she had been married for year"
For moment Langtree was silent: Then he spoke
rapidly as follows: Come here, waiter! Bring me
rye hghball: What'n you have, Gregg? Make it two,
waiter And this time put in some whisky-for Heav-
ems sake, some whisky!
Il guess you and l have been pretty much in the
same boat old man. said Gregg after a moment. Il
came along sometime after you went to England |
remember Mary mentioning your name several times.
You certainly described her right minute ago. She
the kind of girl that could make do anything
under the She was the sort that could make
buck the biggest odds and get away with the impossible
Just to illustrates: Without limiting that there
might ever be chance for me to slip ring on her fin
GER she Jared me loose from the nut n and made
get out into the world and make good. Somehow, of
course, it the feeling that maybe sometime she
would listen to me that made 60 to Alaska and sue
coed. And that's why, the minute l made my strike,
hotfooted it back New York if she'd marry
l might have known better. I'm rough customer,
with nothing for recommendation but gold
so she's married, eh?" said Langtree bewilderedly.
Eyes, to chap named Clark I used to know him.
He was in the shoe business, believe.
HAS Mary been happy" asked Langtree, and the
hand with which he raising his tumbler of water
shook visibly
ISTEN,' replied Gregg gravely: She's just getting
- over bad attack of typhoid. Her husband has
Just been operated on for something other at the
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!
IT WAS regarded as natural deduction that
@0M> old Gobson should be peculiar, not
LHz#M MMSN to say mean. Old Gobson
NfVHHM9ETEabJEN millionaire. The newspaper reporter
5NSibnADpIN4A that succeeded in getting inter
'tNENS HN0~ view out of him considered
WHtMN fortunate, not that his journal should
<LM be enriched by wisdom, but that it
NWN might be made entertaining with the
&N snarls and snaps which from million
w aire eccentric" pass for wit and
- urbanity. Gobson was bachelor.
M look would have assured one that
tender had encircled
VT that scraggy neck. Once, when he
dismissed servant who for years had
been in his employ acquaintance remarked, The
old duffer let him 60 because he afraid he might
become attached to him. Occasionally charity worker
would call Gobson to his interest in favor of
the distressed; but with decided success. One
of these callers, woman made bold by rebuff, said to
him:
Il suppose, sir you think that you going live
forever"
Gobson looked hard at the woman and replied 1t is
matter of small concern to you whether do not"
bowed to the old Exceedingly small" she
agreed; but it ought to be of to you.
Or perhaps you have decided that, being different
from other men, you going to take your money
with you.
The old man glared at her. So far as you or any of
me. Good day..
Gobson had no companions He lived in big house,
with two servants, negro butler and Chinese cook.
1t said that the big house had been built habi
tat1On for handsome woman who had opportunity
changed her mind She married poorer man, lived in
smaller house, and unconsciousy angered Gobson by
appearing to be happy Gobson sometimes went to the
theater, and he had been seen to weep the
hearsed distress of poverty the starving inventor the
unapprecated poet and the maiden whose letters from
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it, produced it, and almost drowned its author instead
in a river of wealth.
ments Scribes, who few weeks ago would not have
lent him shilling, sought his opinion Shaw Shelley
Schopenhauer Schierbrand, Chartreuse, and Charlie
magne. They begged him to tell the story of his lfe
and to discuss the future of the drama People with
coats of and buffers and frequently scheduled
engagements with the King begged of him to dine with
them. He accommodated most of them. Also being
American, he had press agent. He was paid big
advance fees to grind out further dramas. The Froh
and Others fought for the American rights of his
productions The literary societies of continents
listened to papers on his art and his methods. He
addressed meetings at Oxford and Cambridge.
Life, in short, lay along paths beside which orchids
bloomed. But even orchids grow monotonous and the
traveller yearns for something different
Grown weary of the eshpos, the playwright returned
the haunts of his earlier days in London. Frequently
he would don suit of shabby Clothes thus gaining the
entry into paths where who wear hundreddollar
suits and fancy waistcoats may intrude. He sought
adventure and found it, adventure that evadeS the
gentleman within his coach. A strange, many sided
life he led. And his escape from the humdrum, which
the secluded comforts of easy wealth impose upon the
m Ike it.
And now that the girl of the hazel eyes was within
easy reach he had resoutey ruled recurring thoughts
of matrimony off the He would continue life
merry hazard gay uncertainty, quest for conclusions
out of keeping with their premises eager testing of
the understandable. He would be avenged upon the
bitter fate that had kept him in chains so long
A ND then, manlile, while rummaging through pile
of old letters day, Langtree happened across
bundle of familiar mssives read them everyone, per-
ceved certain hitherto undetected meanings between
the lines, and engaged stateroom next day for New
York.
AS Langtree gazed out the broad sweep of the
December ocean, his thoughts with the young
woman in New York. With what superb patience he
mused she had been awaiting his during all this
time. He would find her the same older by few years,
but just as Ovable sweet courageous quick to
understand, the day when she had him forth
With the sweet cordiality of old friendship she would
receive him. there in that peaceful ordered draw
se Sbe
would Jest about his long silence. She would show
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POl1clnlc Hospital. Mary father the old Judge, died
year ago, after losing nearly everything he had in the
panic. Mary's husband is in tight place, hear, fnan
cially. The house they're living in is heavily mort
gagged and likely to be grabbed, I'm told Theyr re up
against it right and the doctors getting what little
is left
Then you and haven't got minute to waste!r ex-
and we've got big evening work ahead of u.s. Do you
catch what I'm driving at, Gregg? You and l owe
everything we have to Mary Wharton
I'm on answered the miner, thrlsting his hand
Langtree. And in silence the two gripped each Others
hands
Its long Christmas journey that you and have
come here on from opposite directions said Langtree
softly, with the hint of tren1or on his lips Ion
thing like the journey of the Wise Men-remember?
We to offer Mary our hearts. We can't do that.
But we bring her something she needs,-gold and
frankincense, and myrrh Of priests and marriage
license scnbes you and have no need But must
hurry and find the scribes who release mortgages.
transfer gold mine stock Mary becomes the owner
tonight of of the finest blocks of SUCH if have to
rout dozen presidents and secretaries. out of bed
And We'll take care of that mortgage if we have to
break up hundred Christmas tree parties to ind the
right man.
And know of particularly fine landscape by Corot
here in town that Mary used to love. She shall have
that" added Langtree.
II wonder if she'd be interested in great big tour
ing carr" asked Gregg: Il believe I'll just jam one
which plays while Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
by Night and violates the speed ordinance at the
time ,--r
7 IKE tidal waves flowed the money of Gregg and
IL Langtree that Christmas Eve. And at midnight the
twain repaired to the writing room of hotel on Fifth
ave. and letter to Mary Clark, nee Wharton.
And this what they wrote:
DEAR MARY-We have star in the East. and
have worship And rejoice that
few gifts And depart each back to his
'>''0~ THE WISE MEN.
And they were Wise Men. Who knows but they were
descendants in very truth, of the Magi of old? AT
least they wise enough and men enough, to turn
bitter defeat into happy triumph Perhaps the special
lists family trees follow the long dim trail of their
ancestry back those wise old gentlemen in Matthew