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he can put it across when he's mind
to. He's a forceful devil, and he can
be mighty !ikable one. But when he
is friendliest you want to watch .out
he don't slip an uppercut at you that'n
put you out of biz. He done that to
Farrell-and done it a-plenty."
'How?"
"O'Neill got mellowed up till he
thought Mac was his best friend. He
was ready to eat out of his hand. So
Mac works him up to sign contract
before witnesses too; trust Mac for
his half interest in
the claim for five hundred dollars in
cash and Macs no-'count lease on
Frenchman creek. Inside of week
Mac and Strong struck big pay
streak. They took over two hundred
thousand from the spring cleanup"
ut was nothing better than rob-
berry,"
"Call it what you want to. Anyhow
it stuck. O'Neill kicked, and that's all
the good it did him. He consulted law
yers. at Dawson. Finally he got so
discouraged that he plumb went to
pieces-got on a long bat and stayed
there till his money ran out. Then
one bitter night he starts up to Bo-
nanza to have it out with Mac. The
mercury was so low it had run into
the ground a foot. Farrell slept in
deserted cabin without fire and
not enough bedding. He caught pneu-
mony. BY the time he reached the
claim he was mighty sick man. Next
week he died. That's all Mac done
to O'Neill. Not thing that wasn't
legal, either"
Gordon thought of Sheba O'Neill as
she sat listening to the tales of Mac
! donald in DANES parlor and his gorge
rose at the man.
"But Mac had fell on his feet all
right" continued Holt. "He got his
start off that claim. Now he's mil
lionaire two or three times over,
| reckon"
They reached the outskirts Of IA.
matlah about noon of the third day
| Gordon left Holt at his cabin after
they had eaten and went In alone to
look the ground over. He met Self.
ridge at the post Office. That gentle
man was ELUSIVE in his greeting.
'This is pleasant surprise, Mr.. Ell
liot. When did you get in? I'm dowr
on business, of course. No need to tel
you that-nobody would come to this
hole for any other reason. Howlant
and his wife are the only possible
people here. OF course you'll stoI
with u.s."
Elliot answered genially. "Pleasan
time we had on the river, didn't we
Thanks awfully for your invitation
but I've already made arrangement
for putting up"
"Where? There's no decent plac
in camp except at Howland's."
II couldn't think of troubling him,
countered Gordon.
mo trouble at all. Well send TO
your things. Where are they?"
The land agent let him have it be
tween the eyes. 'At Gideon Hollis
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AT Gideon Hollis"

I'm staying with MN on MS cIalm.
Wally had struck a match to light a
cigarette, but this simple statement
petrified him. His jaw dropped and
his eyes bulged. Not till the flame
burned his fingers did he come to life.
did you say you were staying
with Gid Holt?' he floundered.
"Yes. He offered to board me-" an
swered the young man blandly.
"But-I didn't know he was here
seems to me l had hcarl-somewhere
that he was away. Seems to me |
heard he went prospecting"
Gle did. Up Wild Goose creek.
with Big Bill Macy and two other men.
But 1 asked him to come back with
me-and he did" :
Feebly Wally CROPPED for the clue
without finding it. Had Big Bill sold
him out? And how had Elliot got into
touch with him?
"Just so, Mr.. Elliot. But really, you
know, Rowland can make you great
deal more comfortable than Holt. His
wife is a famous cook. I'll have a
| man go get your traps"
TITS very good of you, but think
l won't move.''
"Oh, but you must. Hollis nutty-
nobody at home, you know. Every
body knows that"
us he? The old man struck me as
being remarkably clear-headed. By
the way, want to thank you for send
Ing relief party out to find me, Mr.
Selfridge. Except for your help
| would have died in the hills
This was another facer for Wally
What the devil did the fellow mean
The deuce of it was that he knew al
the facts and Wally did not. Ont
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CHAPTER TX.

ne Rah-Rah Boy Functions.
kBill grumbled a good deal a. the
Es0n to the party. Il would be de-
kaH awkward if this stranger
"a become rational and under
II the status of the camp he had
~ The word Of old Holt alone
ht be negligible, but supported by
of disinterested party it would
i sery different matter. Still, there
1ne help for it. They would have
|hke care Of the man until he was
b travel. At the worst, Big Bill
NJ give him q letter to Selfridge
slning things and so pass the buck
bat gentleman.
d Holt had, with the tacit consent
8 guards, appointed himself as a
Of nurse to the stranger. Early
y evening the sick man fell into
I'D sleep, from which he did not
y until morning. George was
looking after the packhorses,
VAS cooking breakfast, and Big
bis rifle close at hand, was chop
yunng frs fifty feet back of the
The cook also had a gun, load
Nth bucksh0t, lying on a box be-
him, 50 that they were taking NO
nrea with their prisoner.
= old miner turned from rearrang.
he boughs Of green fir on the
We to see that his patient was
le and his mind normal. The
steady eyes resting upon him
him that the delirium had passed
ffetty nearly all in, wasn't II" the
g man said.
Ae answer of Gid Holt was an ode
Yep. STANDARDIZATION
e er easy, old man." he said in his
Y high voice as he moved toward
nan In the blankets. Then, in {
tone, while he pretended to ar
the bedding over the stranger
eked a quick question.
~ ron Elliott"
Tea
INIT tell them. Talk football
! - Il you was still out of you
bolt turned and called to Dud
Re wants SOME breakfast"
Y the way" the cook answered.
oR seemed to be soothing the de
9 man. What he really said wa
Selfridge has arranged a plan
ycu at Ka;natlah. The camp ha
turned inside out to fool you
we brought me here a prisone
= % keep tee from telling you tn
- psf! Tune up now"
Bill had put down his Ak an
approaching. He was not ez
y suspicious, but he did not be
: ~ taking unnecessary chances.
lal you I'm out of training
ea the last game, haven't we
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thing stood out to Selfridge like sore
thumb. His plans had come tumbling
down like house of cards. Either
Big Bill had Numbered amazingly, or
he had played traitor. In either case
Wally could guess pretty shrewdly
whose hide Macdonald would tan for
the failure. The chief wanted results.
they got them. And this was the Sec
ond time in succession that Selfridge
had come to grief.
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on the gullet of the man so tightly that
not even a groan could escape him.
The old miner, waiting with every
muscle ready and every nerve under
tension, flung aside his blanket and
hurled himself at the guard. 1t took
him less time than it takes to tell to
wrest the gun from the cook.
He got to his feet just as Big Bill,
his eyes and brain still logged with
sleep, sat up and began to take notice
of the disturbance.
"Don't move" warned Holt sharply.
"Better throw your hands up. No
monkey business, do you hear2 I'd as
lief blow hole through you as not
Big Bill turned bitterly to Elliot.
$50 you were taking all the time
young fellow. We save your life and
you round on US. You're pretty slick
proposition as q double-crosser."
"And that amt ALL" chirped up Holt
blithely. LET me introduce our FRIEND
to YOU, Mr.. Big Bill Macy. This is
Gordon Elliot, the land agent ap
pointed to look over the Kamatlaf
claims. Selfridge gave you lads this
penitentiary job so as I wouldn't NEE
Elliot when he reached the camp. L
he hadn't been so darned anxious
about it, our young friend would hav'
died here on the divide. But Mr.. Self
ridge kindly QUILTED party and sen
us hundred miles into the hills t.
rescue the perishing, as the old sayin
goes. Consequence is, Elliot and M
meet up and have that nice confiden
tial talk after all. The ways of Prov
idence is strange, as you might say
Mr. Macy"
"Your trick" conceded Big Bill sui
lenly. "Now what are you going t
do with us?"
! "Not a thing-going to leave yo1
right here to prospect Wild Coos
creek" answered Holt blandly. "Dul
den says there's gold up here-heap
of it."
4 Bill Macy condemned burden In lar
guage profane and energetic. II
didn't stop at burden. Holt came !
for a share Of it, also Elliot and Sell
ridge.
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-As a representative of the
Gordon Elliot is on his way
- to Investigate coal claims. On
NJ. meets and becomes interested
s.,ow passenger whom he learns is
sn.vaill also going in Colby Mac
a.t,ye head of the land-grabbing
:. rrder investigation, comes aboard.
VA is attacked by mine labOrers
T. had discharged. and the active in
.,ion Of Eliot probably saves his life.
rr, IJ-Elliot and Macdonald be-
measure friendly. though the lat
4 mot know that Elliot is on a mis-
Itch threatens to spoil plans of Mac
q aearire millions of dollars through
..t,l exploitation of immensely val
81 fields. Elliot also gets Il line
sedtion occupied by Waly Selfridge,
LIDS right hand man, who is return
- visit to 1.-THE States" where he
- in an effort to convince the au-
g. that there was nothing wrong in
sAaaIds methods.
,..rra III-Elliot secures an introduc
: uIss O'Neill and while the boat is
- freight the pair set out to climb
m famous mountain. They venture
a and reach position from which il
s.ssibIe for Miss O'Neill to go forward
D back.
,rrp Iy-Elliot leaves Sheba and ut
III peril of his life goes for assist
He meets Macdonald. who had be
,Iarmed for their safety. and they re
I'd rescue Sheba.
,,prrR y-Landing ut kusiak Elliot
tbst old friends of his, Mr.. and Mrs
src the people whom Sheba has come
n Mrs. pagct is Sheba's cousin. Al
!, Elliot reveals to Macdonald the OBJ
I his coming to Alaska. The two men
,slly antagonistic. now also become
far the hand of Sheba.
h.rrER yI-Macdonald, foresceing fail
4 lis financial plans if Elliot learns
tarfs. sends Sclfridge I'd. kamatlah tt
~ matters so that Elliot will be dc
N As to the true situation.
H.pTyg vlI-Elliot. on his way to ka
hi. wanders from the trail. He lose
horse in marsh and is compelled t
NJ away rife and provisions and Ill
ecssary clothing After long struggle
Eralizes that he will never reach IA
|ah, and resigns himself to death.
HAPPIER VIII At kamatlah, Gidcol
old prospectOr and bitter enemy O
donald, learns of Elliot's coming ant
mines to let him know the truth. Sc
has Holt kidnapped and taken on
ewting" expedition. Elliot. barrel
.vanders into their camp and is care
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m Go back the simple e be contented with simple food
II simple pleasures simple clothes Work hard hard
play hard Work. and Sleep Do it all
eeousIy. We have victory to win. HOOVER.
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Elliot Glanced at the Woman.

Elliot Glanced at the Woman.
ally took less time than to try to hurry
him.
"Name of the kid mean anything
to you?"
"Can't say 1t did"
Elm! Named for his dad. First
syllable of each Of his names"
The land inspector stopped in his
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You may buy
for cash,
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inStaIlment
plan
rs cents
down and
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For other
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SYNOPSIS.

r.r;eht by William Macleod Rainel
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IContinued il merit ,ceek's Baaner.l
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Gilbert K. ChestertOn'S London Letter

of movements and never saw the end of them. 1t
may sound paradox to say that the English we're
theoretical while the French were practical. But
it is certain that England had revolutiOnsts while
France had revolutions
England, Exporter of Visions.
Victorian England boasted of being the work
shop of the world Oddly but obviously enough it
is not in the workshop that We see how things
work Suppose for instance the Spanish lnquis-
ton had been in full blast in Queen Victoria time
One fancies that Manchester would have manufae-
tured the neatest pattern of rack and advertised
our latest line in thumbscrews
The Manchester School might have justified 1t as
supply and demand, but the Manchester School
would not have entered into the spiritual sentiment
which enables man to work rack or the even
stronger sentiment that enables him to endure or
enjoy it.
And as England would have exported guillotines
she never saw used, she would export visions she
never saw verified Swnburne would invoke the
terrible truisms of the Republic, but they never
appeared to him as they appeared to Victor Hugo
on the Partisan barricades. Carlyle would invoke
the mystery and mastery of the strong man; but it
never appeared TO him as it appeared TO Nietzsche
in the Prussan conquerors Their gods were never
incarnate; therefore their gods were only ghosts.
What They Dreamed, We Face.
This is why there was after all frivolity in the
solemnity of the English Vietorians; that is why
there is after all deeper spirit in the English OF
the Great War And this, which is the limit really
common to all the great Victorans, is the real case
against Newman one of the very greatest. 1t is
true that he who had clear a vision of an ideal
Catholic was almost alarmed at crowd of real
Catholics, especially at real nation of real Catho-
lies, as in the mystical democracy of Ireland.
This ignorance of the word made flesh did really
touch these great men, with something thin and
theoretic, and permits the children of the Great
War to hope for new aetuality even in their
agony. For when the word is made flesh it is eruei-
fed G. r CHEsTERTON.
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Covenant: An Ode, July t. l9l8 by Zoe Atkins
Ethel College Printed for

Stood not by England where her colors flame
With star spangled banner over France!
I'LL
For England England of the million slain,
Could we, land
With rushing strength in every youthful vein
Behold your hand
Tremble, and strike again, and yet again,
And see your blood waste on the battlefield,
And not to you to kinsman go
When that tense line of yours that viii not yield
Before the impious dream maddened foe
Braves every anguish for the whole worlds sake!
Could still take
From the wide seas that wash against our shore
The empty handed children of the earth
And teach them freedom and equality
And bid them bend to tyranny
And breed their ehidrens children from their birth
To own heritage-Democracy-
IF for that heritage did not
With you, o England, vow
To bear all pain,
To forego gain.
To robe ourselves in black for heroes slain,
To give, to give,
Until We live
In the white light of a holy peace again!
".
And yOu France-France of the radiant tears,
So beauty loving and so beautiful,
We cannot give you back the thousand years
Your land needs for its mendng-fOr its towers,
Its trees, its towns and its historic laughter;
But hear us We will make
One gift sweet than Springs first heat flowers
Or earth's first fragrance in the light rains after,
For Vengeance shall be yours, o France!
Even though it take
Each tree of ours, and drain each town of youth,
And make all laughter bitter to our ears!
You have not suffered vainly for the Truth;
You have many wars in these four years;
And men and women who have lived afar
And never your cities your trees
Your poplars shaken silver in the breeze
And never known your language, know your soul!
And know the Star
That you still follow where your heroes pass
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Victorians and Visions
Copyright, 1918. All rights reserred.

much in the tone Of Gibbon and about Newman
he is, think, really wrong. He exhibits form
of narrOwness always feel in the sceptic: not that
he cannot believe in heaven or hell; but that he
cannot quite believe in belief. | do not mean that
he questions NEWMAN sincerity; but that he ques-
tiOns about it. The sceptic is puzzled by it and is
always trying to explain it-that is, to explain it
away.
He suggests that much modern Catholicism is the
effect of Oxford on Newman; when it much
more the effect of Newman on Oxford. He talks
with Matthew Arnold of "the last enchantment of
the Middle Ages though Oxford is not medieval,
and Newman began to be medieval after he left it.
He suggests that Newman at Cambridge would
have followed poetry and common sense with
Gray-the eighteenth century touch But surely
this is an impossible way of Judging any man whose
creed was his life We may guess that Votare
born at Mecca would be a mad and unreasonable
Moslem: but Voltaire Without reason would really
be Arouet without Votare. Among recent publ
cations on this problem, tn, last volume of the late
Wilfrid Ward s admirable lectures would probably
dssipate such misconceptions; but nothing will
dssipate into dust the diamond of Mr. Strachey's
best irony.
The Riddle of the 10TH Century.
But while Mr. Strachey is Satire and Mr.. As
quith sympathetic about Victorian Conventions, it
is possible to doubt if they conventional at all
The Nation has recently urged that after ALL the
Victorian age very revolutionary age; that it
developed to the last point the French theory of
citizenship and the German reaction from it.
Carlyle did not only write copy books; Swim
burne was not welded to Mrs. Grundy Huxley and
Bradlaugh were not precisely fitted to be curates
in Anthony Trollope's novels. 1t might be held
that the romance was prim and the reality wild
Yet we might hesitate to describe Wuhering
Heights as prim.
There is, think, better way of stating the
riddle by which the epoch in England was really
storm, and yet something of storm in teacup
The truth was that VictOrianism saw the beginning
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GENERAL important books and publications
- have lately revived interest in the Victorians;
notably Mr.. Lytton Strachey's brilliant book and
Mr. Asquith's lecture, now rcpublished in book
form. Both raise some really new questions about
the Victorians; though Mr.. Asquith benignantly
smiled on them and Mr.. Strachey, somewhat I'M
benignantly, smiled at them.
The term of description, of course, merely means
the English for the last three-quarters of the nine
teenth century, but the term is not wholly trivi-
atty. There is reason to think that the name Of
Victoria will survive in history otherwise than as
the name of colony in Australia and a railway
station in London
Mr.. Asquith remarked on the fact that three
female rulers have alone given their names to
epochs of English history: and it might well be
said that it took the world some time to realize
that Queen Victoria would die, as that Queen Anne
was dead. Mr.. Wells wittiy and dsrespectfuy
compared Queen Victoria to paperweight it is
certain that she was a popular stopgap; she at
once sOothed and stifed the Jacobin as Queen Anne
did the .JacObite.
Here her sex counted; and even still counts. As
Meredith said of the status of a woman, 1--WE have
passed Seraglio Point but we have not yet doubled
Cape Turk, - we might say-of the status of queen
"Our train has left st. James s Park but it is not
yet out of Victoria But the real interest Of
course, is in the great men and great movements
and about these some really suggestive differences
have recently appeared.
Mistakes About Victorians.
In Eminent VictOridns (Chatto Windus) Mr.
Strachey has looked at the nineteenth century from
outside; but rather from the eighteenth century
than from the twentieth. His wit is as keen and
delicate as rapier and, 1 will add as narrow. He
is perfect in pricking bubbles: but he sometimes
mistakes for bubbles what are in fact worlds: it is
an easy mistake to make.
l shall not complain that he takes some of the
Stiffness not to say the stufng, out of DR. Arnold of
Rugby: but he writes of the age of Gordon too
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o Engand-of the thousand ships,
Whose fertile loan
Fostered the speech our forefathers lips,
And was their home;
1t is in memory of that clean
When your own sons
Threw off your hand to follow their star
That the solemn guns
To-day salute the heavens with earth born thunder,
And soldiers pass,
And legends stir and haunt with the wonder
Of those first days when hills and trees and grass
And dreaming men and women gathered under
The banner spangled with stars and striped will
The red and white and blue
That States united in young natiOnhoOd
Against their radiant sunrise threw!
IL
o England-of the thousand thousand songs,
Never from home
Did any depart brooding on wrongs
Down the white paths of foam,
That through your wind blown gardens wind
So brave of heart proud of race, as those
Who came with British strength Of heart and mind
To these strange shores to find
New fields TO SOW with seed from British soil,
New winds to listen to the English speech,
New lands to tame with patient British toll,
And the wide reach
OF empire westward TO another sea
Still slumbering, still wildwood hill and glen,
But destined soon to be
Charted by youths whose sires were Englishmen
To-day we can remember stories told
By old folk, learned from folk already old
When they were children, of those early days
When the bronze native saw the pioneer
Down trackless forest tangles peer;
And saw his hut built where his axe had rung.
His children playing where the wolf and deer
Had lately roamed, his chimney smoke curl on
Above the wood each chill and misty dawn.
Old tales Of our new land come back indeed
To make us proud of our inheritance
But proud we could not be Of dream or deed
If on this day who from England came
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Above the wild grave-grass
Where other hosts Of heroes are.

Above the Wild grave-grass
Where other hosts Of heroes are. &.
v.
And Italy-you with your ancient race
Sprung from a thousand wars, a million .
You too now face
The foes of peace along your northern streams;
Not for the sake of those old wrongs you bore
You leapt to man your lofty mountain forts,
And through your sloping snow white meadows wore
line of blood the Teuton could not pass!
Rather because of your romantic part
To hold the world to order and to give
The world your Art
In marble and in glass,
In colors and in stories,
And cities whose immortal names shall live
Among the glories
That-nan will cherish always and keep whole
Even should million million Prussians east
The dreaming walls of Venice to the foam
OF her dream haunted seas; and with the blast
OF guns plough up the plain where France stands,
And in their hands
Carry away the fragments that were Rome!
Sweep on, then, you who cannot die! whose cheers
At the Piave yesterday still sound
Across the allied battle ground
Like holy thrilling music in our ears!
They march, the nations, TO the Victory;
They wait, the captive lands, for Liberty;
Still Belgium wears her bonds with lifted head;
Japan and Portugal have pressed the cup
In covenant with against their lips
To bear all pain,
To forego gain,
To robe ourselves in black for heroes slain,
To thirst, to hunge., to 60 cold to bed,
To send the living firth to join the dead
The youth that other lands have offered up
On EARTH in air, and underneath the sea;
To without faltering or fear
Endure year after awful year,
Until housekeeping folk are safe and free.
They go-our best loved and our best.
God grant them victory and rest!
God grant u.s. and our titles, all
Grant those returning and grant those who fall
Dawn's peace and evenings rest