The evening world., 1915-03-16
CHAPTER v.
tContinud.)


ssThat I'll have to work out and tell
" you. Enough to let you 60 to the
4 dsvil In an automobile when you get
home. anyhow
? "Aw!" said the man scornfully; and
: Hazard looked at the pinched face
that had never known good from evil.
that's straight. Kelly" he said
quietly, III you can do 1t out of
few thousand dollars. / couldn't
but I wasn't brought up in Boston"
Kelly's friends laughed. and the
man scowled at them. II guess was
| brought UP q quarter OF a mile too
close to hell to care for ghost stories."'
he snarled. 'I'll stay"
Kelly's friends would stay, too;
! also q raw young devil called West,
: whose boast was that he had been
Kicked out Of Yale. They were the
-,toughest part Of all the gang. and
Hthere we're fifteen Of them.
Hazard did . mental sum, with
Them for figures. Drillmen he had no
need of, 90 fai as he knew; rock men,
gravelmen, in this case-say eight.
!, THAI left him seven. four Of whom.
even i've, must DO timber men-the
first thing needful was the timber
l.1ng-and two over He must have one
). more man. unless he and Rider were
never to be of duty. He might use
Kelly and his friends, but he could
4, 1eyer trust them. nor West, either.
!. For Nelson he had no use or any
= thing else; he could CO. like poor
Bernstein. the sooner the better.
He did not lift his eyes toward
Olsen. who stood apart with the bet
ter members Of the gang; he would
not ask any man to stay. Olsen was
genius at timbering. as the first
q, A.Srtive mine had shown: was all
that kelly's gang was not: but he
= would not even look at Olsen to stay.
And suddenly he knew Olsen was
!, Looking at him.
"You have no fear" said the Swede
=, aloWly. "and SO you stay. l have
much fear. butt shall stay. too!
That 10 SO. have always thought to
die In Stockholm. but IL has come to
a mo in this half-hour that do not
see Stockholm again IN time to die
there. stay here"
Hazard was put to II not to cheer.
\, and the curious fatality in the
y BWede's voice did not strike him; per-
hape for the sordid reason that 1t was
In the afternoon and he had had
NO breakfast.
q, -sThat leaves twenty four Of you to
60" he said. N you like you can
before you on a long winter road.
i4Ill give you what you can carry;
and It's giving. mind! II you break
.s4owp and come back there'll be no
more. unless you work for II. One of
lou come with me now. and I'll give
n.in some medicine for Bernstein"
- It was not the way Hazard had
fs0eant to leave the bunk-house; ne
lad made no very brilliant showing
. there, and he was nc nearer Sophy's
4 gold. He swallowed his lunch In
silence, and In silence started with
Rider and Olsen to do his stalking.
suddenly he turned on the foreman
while the two measured distances.
4 .'What Is there in this thing. any
wayT he demanded. bernstein. OF
a course. Is cracked. and Olsen's mys-
s>tic-but most Of the others aren't
e. II don't know" Rider spat rcf!ec-
!, tively. Sometimes / believe in what
:. ever Il 10. and sometimes don't
When I first came here l got an Idea
a there was something round didn't
= like. but l kind OF got used to the
feeling of it-I knew I didn't like
u anything about the whole show, II II
came to that. ] never saw anything
of the monkey -shincs Olsen talked
n oE.''
'srhey might have been Bernstein:
a he's the kind to stir up trouble by
play-acting." put In Hazard. "He's
!. ,chock full OF hysteria."
Nv ~ dare say" carclessly. Anyhow.
losing q pick or so shouldn't have
y worried them; they weren't using en-.
mi hi nj a. m
know what. that kind Of ate into
/, them; you could see for yourself they
were afraid o-day. with the only kind
Of fear some Of them could be scared
by. And there were things all along
!. T. couldn't sec into myself. IL was
'ttruc Ridgeway was always looking
over hts shoulder after you left, but
I thought he was afraid OF the men
What they say about the stores
doesn't worry me. for ! believe Ridge
way took them. He was the kind to
have them cached somewhere, and
ft'd be easy to get them off with the
: Indians helping him."
~ 1t was Hazards own idea> ana he
nodded. .Ridgeway i.s,ed the stores
and some of the men lifted the gold
and took Bernstein's fit for cover
= that's what the wolf story comes
co." ne said quietly. But 1t sticks In
my throat to let them get off with
z IL"
~ Rider marked the point for the last
stake and stood up, "Mr. Hazard" he
iss'uaid desperately. "thc men haven't got
the gold. II they'd known about II
there isn't one OF them but would
" knoW!"
syThen who looked In through the
*. ,craek In the outside shutters last
u1ght when Miss Ridgeway was show
.s1nS me those nuggetsT demanded
~ Haxard. 81 didn't tell you because
= forgot about II, but I'll tell you now
y while we were standing over the
things heard the man come and lool
4 1nS beard him breathe: heard him
y e(lH II didn't get out In timo to see
him eccause 10 wss too clever for me
Il ~ nm0w - Woo go Jt seeml