Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-04

such rations Of food and water as the
supplies allow"
Il see, having cornered those sup
! plies, you make your usual market
monopoly Of them, Troy" Rawson
6neered.
aHigh finances gives one at least
clear-headed way of dealing with
difficult situation" Troy smirked. Are
my dear, am the catching sort?"
he laughed. 81 leave that sort Of thing
to underlings, fortunately this steward
boy is Just the man. He has q first
class knowledge Of South America"
did he even tell you about the
water2" she asked sharply.
"Oh, yes" Troy shrugged. Though
he, like those others, thought it dam
gerous to drink. That's where I came
In. knew Maule, here, was q chemist,
and so got him to construct q filter.
You can thank your stars. my dear,
that am here. My gift of finding out
tiles has saved the day for us"
But the fire and-and the revolver"
she asked. They're yogrs?"
Not q bit of IT," he laughed. "Only
the brain that saw their value. The re-
volver belonged to that fat little pas
senger over there, only he was too
scared to use it. The fire came from
the stewards petrol lighter"
David Proctor again." she said
slowly.
sIs that the fellows nameP He's
quite an acquisition anyhow, full Of
book knowledge, but no sense Of its
value as practical asset"
"As you have"
"As have" he smiled. That's the /
half his knowledge, or half RawSon's or
Gatrie's brute strength, yet have the
wits to beat them IN the end. saw
that their strong-arm rivairies would
disgust these others, antagonize the
party into groups and leave the way u
open to me. only had to plan and
wait my moment-that's the way to
real supremacy. That's the way to
mastery In the end"
aire was right. He had come out on
top in the end. He had beaten the
natural strength Of Gatrie and the
social force of RawSon by letting them
vittate their powers against each other.
BY more subtle and cunning strength
Troy had proved himself the real man
among men,
Somehow his triumph troubled Carol
Milton. She brooded over it during the
night and all next morning when she
sat alone In the camp while the rest
explored and fOraged. In the afternoon
she joined David Proctor when he left
the others at sieSta IN the now tropic
sun TO search for food.
why" she asked, did you side with
Troy2"
a'f7e found out that / knew a lot
about South Amertcas-he's got q way
Of find out things-and he made it
worth my while TO put my knowledge
at his service In a way to give him
control
~S0-you sold yourself to finance like
Jther men," she said, and there was q
satch in her voice. Somehow I h
thought you were different"
mo" he said, II sold my knowledge
% eScape-well, from what Troy and his
lind stand for. When left the uni
Yersity felt couldn't face conditions
at home. wanted bigger, freer. less
money -grubbing life. That's why came
N this trip. I've a friend who runs Il
me or the new orange plantations
lear San Paulo. In Brazil. He offered
o give me q job until I could learn
.n0ugh end save enough 70 buy an
,range ranch for myself. I jumped at 4
he idea, even though hadn't enough
money 70 pay my passage Quit was
.asy TO get JOB as steward, as
lidF
~T See" glae said. warming to him
and did you take Troy's money be-
ag1se 1t would enable you to buy your
range groves without waiting TO save
~yOu do understand quickly" he said :
oftly. But you would. Yes, that's It. =