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BY AUBREY BOYD
body across the floor to the en
trance. He emerged on the empty
landing, a step above the lighted
street, which was the scene of a wild
ly scattering stampede. There he
paused, framing liis next move.
It was now his turn to* see a mir
acle, or what he would have called
a ‘'natural.” A rider with two fright
ened pinto horses in tow, came clear
of the mob. Pete, riding the Diack
mare with a foaming -rein, was1
shouldering and backing the broncos
in to the platform. It was a superb
feat, of horsemanship. Speed took the
’•break” a® readily as if he had ex
pected it. He dropped his partner
across its back and fastened him
there. In another instant he detached
the halter line of the second bronco.
Mounting, he curbed its plunging
close to Pete's stirrup, while he held
the dynamite stick away from the
mare’s head. The fuse was burning
close.
"Up the river canyon,
said, ‘‘and -don’t pull rein
ye.”
A quirt bit the bronco's
flying start matched the mare's leap
as Pete leaned close to1 the black
neck, holding the pinto’s head and
riding both horses as one. They
flashed through he chequered street
lights and vanished in a drumming
of hooves.
Speed cheeked his own rearing
mount, wheeled it sidelong on its
hind legs, to block any threat of
pursuit. Then with a < measured
glance at the crowd, he tossed the
sputtering explosive down the cen
tre of the street into trampled va
cant snow.
Almost as it struck, the camp was
land found a half-frozen figure m I. rocked by a thundering detonation,
a storm, and discovered it to be j The bronco gave a bound like a
Pete, who turned out to be a girl'stage’s and tore after its team mate,
stung to a soaring gallop by the
north; (Lucky Rose, the beau-
girl who gave Maitland a
for a keepsake; Fallon, trail
of the minens and resentful
SYNOPSIS; Strange partners they
were-—Speed Malone, hardened
, gambler; Ed. Maitland, young
New Englander, son of seafaring
folks, They met on. their trip north
to the Yukon gold fields in ’97.
Maitland in pursuit of lost fam
ily fortunes, Malone evading the
Jaw o.f the goldcamps, Frenchy,
-the fisherman who took the two
men
tiful
ring
boss
of Rose’s attentions to Maitland;
Brent, old-time prospector; Gar
net who gave Maitland and Speed
hi® outfit and horses when he quit
- the trail; Pete and his drunken
partner Owenh-, drowned on the
beach; these were among the
crowd of gold seekers. After a
. hard trip north, with many ha
zards—and Speed killed a man in
Skagway, the manager of a shell
game who was out to get Speed—
the two partner®.^made camp for
‘ the -winter near Bennett, where
the Canadian Mounties held sway.
Drew, head of the Mounties there,
said there was a strange legend
about a ghostly Siwash who left
tracks in the >snow—his new man
Cathcart was specially interested
in it. One night t'he two partners
■were surprised to have a half
starved dog join them -while they
were eating steak® from a deer
Speed had just shot. A little
later a man came .out of the storm
to them—the ghostly apparition
of the Mounties’ legend, they de
cided—and took half their deer.
While Speed had gone to. Skagway,
with mail for the Mounties. Mait-
Pete,” he
till I hail
flank; its
Pete, who turned out to be a girl '
■disguised as a man. Speed, when •he got back to Skagway, was ar- j rocketing blasts of -Speed’s gun on
rested on a charge mf murder. In : either side.
a jail break Fallon captures Speed
j and is trying to lynch him when
r Maitland and Pete come t»o the
rescue. NOW GO ON WITH THE
r STORY. * • I
Rusty was shifting nervously. His
nose, searching the inshore shadows
had a more con®tant direction. It
kept pointing downstream. Rusty
was watching and scenting along the
bank for some remembered place
which old habit had printed deep in
his dog memory.
“By the Great Dog Star.” Mait
land exclaimed. “The dog'®
map.”
“It’s what I’m banking on,” Speed
said. "Dogs get attached to places.
Sensing a death fight, the crowd
pressed in. They forgot the table'
scaf£old and the man who1 stood
there with a noose about his neck.
Only Lefty had a glimpse of the
bound boot ankles wrenching fierce
ly against the rope . . .
The craning spectators Haw that
Fallon had sunk his fingers in the The pull of a“hangout they’re used
youngster’s throat. The crowd grunt- to- last longer than their fear of a
ed and turned rigid as Maitland sud- man they don’t like. Specially -Si-
backward with wash dogs. We could maybe have
Fallon’® weight clamping his neck j landed anywhere around the Stew-
to the floor, and the man’s great 1 art and followed Rusty to Dalton’s fist sledging his face and head. The|camp by his own route.”
boy’s destruction looked certain for > petP had fallen asleep with her
one desperate minute. Hi® hands •' head on the meal .sack. She had
caught his assailant in a gripping; seemed to feel a peculiar uneasiness
hold at the waist and with a lift and , about the outcome of their journey,
a heave of one knee he twisted free. 1 which deepened and darkened Mait-
Streaming blood, Maitland reeled | ]and‘s sense of Dalton’s mystery.
.to his feet. He swung with a mortal; The mouth of the creek which the
concentration, one smash after an- j dog led them to choose was. so sc-reen
cither, back and still back to- the-e(f witli brush that in the dark they
flimsy side-w’all of boarded canvas,
which gave with a terrific crash as
their combined weight struck the
■wood. Some of his men started
across the floor to-.hispid, 'while the
crow’d still hovered, mute and still
with its eyes on that seemingly life
less fc-rm of Maitland.
Out of that .silence, a sudden
ing voice cut the air like a
crack.
"Back away from him, you
of my track!
this pack and
denly sagged, falling
leap
whip
buz-
zards, and stay -clear
I’m a’beadin’ through
I sure come loaded!”
Every eye froze in
lyzed -consternation at the man on
the gibbet table. The noose was
gone form his neck; his feet were
dree; a six-shooter gleamed in each
hand and under one arm something
else burned with a
sputter. Dynamite!
“Crash! ”—roared
of Soap’s hanging
splinters.
Speed shifted the stick with the
burning fuse to his mouth, and grip
ped it between his teeth as a second
and third gun blast at the lamps
plunged the room in half-darkness.
Then with his face lit by the flare
of the shortening fuse he leaped to
the Hoot.
The crowd jumped as if dynamite
itself had lifted them.
They smashed their own exits
through the side-walls in a frenzied
3’ush for the outer air.
Maitland lay alone by the break
in the wall. Fallon had dragged
himself away. Returning one gun to
his belt, Speed pulled Maltland's
your
The mouth of the creek ■which the
gaping, para-1
sizzling baleful
a gun, and one
lamps fell, in
it unnotic-
from the
malamute
along the
restricted, and they knew how in
visible Dalton’s trail could be,
At the head of the ravine they
emerged on a blind, steep-walled
gulch.
Here Rusty stopped and looked at
them expectantly as if it were now
their move.
“Doggone,” Speed muttered, and
frowned at the blasted pine which
Rusty seemed to have regarded with
a little more intention than the
stone, The dead tree spread its
branches, dl-o-se to- the cliff, one of
the high branches almost touched
the rock face.
glncoiling a rope from -his belt
Speed made a careful throw at the
pine limb—and tightening the rope
on it securely, hauled himself -up the
trunk. He climbed till he reached
the limb that touched the wall,
crawled out on it to the end, and
dropped to a ledge, There he gave a
Shout of discovery.
Hi® .partner swung up the rope he
had left dangling, stepped out along
the high limb, and joined him.
Above the ledge there was a fault
in the cliff, a fissure with broken
steps that offered an ascent to the
summit. It seemed to be one trail
of entry into Dalton’s secret range;
there might be others. They hoisted
the do-g and the packs -with the rope
and then hauled Pete up.
From the cliff summit Rusty kept
climbing into a high, wild country
near .timber line, with a certainty
that confirmed Speed’s guess and
over a trail that-grew more and more
rugged. Tie snow was still free of
footmarks.
Rusty’s climb ended at the head
of a snow-trougihed, rocky gulch.
Where the gulch broke away, Rusty
stepped to a ledge hardly wider
than a sled track, and ivent around
the cliff face. They came out on a
■widening step of tihe mountain. A
rough log cabin was perched on this
sloping rockly platform. From the
brink of the mountain step, Mait
land looked down into a yawning
chasm. He shivered to tfhin'k of
the odds that might favor a desper
ate man at bay in this stronghold.
Though the cabin tseemed deserted
Speed motioned them to keep back,
while he carefully approached the
door. His knock echoed in the hol
low chasm. The door yielded stiffly
to his pressure. From the threslliold
he nodded to the others.
Not only was the interior unoccu
pied, but it evidently had not
in recent use. The walls "were
bered with trophies and tools;
-of -rather crude make; , traps,
harnesses, snowshoes, ‘ and -
paddles. Opening the stove, Speed
found wood laid in it, ready for
lighting. He touched it ■with a
match.
“Ain’t got back from up the Yiver
yet,” he said. His v-oice had a ■de
liberately casual tone, as if he were
trying to make light of a -dark sign.
“Anyhow, let’s eat.”
Pete removed a gun stock, and a
half-mended snowshoe from the
table, and had lifted the -cover to
shake it, when he paused to look
more closely at the table top.
The table boards were made of
split logs with the hewn side up and
leveled -off with some care. But this
smooth wooden surface was discolor-
a
been
■ cum-
some
dog
canoe
might easily have passed
ed.
Speed hitched a line
prow of the boat to the
and allowed it to run
shore. Delighted to be afoot again,
Rusty started upstream, drawing the -------- ------------------- ----
boat with him. All they had to do ed, tattooed and smeared with
was use an oar occasionally to clear maze of mark® and drawings that
a rock or shoal.
The dog had come to a
the creek. The canyon was
ing, and it wa® plain that they were
reaching the limit of the
draught.
They now looked around
covered mooring place.
With strange providence, it was
Rusty again who found the place to
cache the boat, He halted at the
foot of a mountain ravine, do-wn
which a thick growth of brush fell
into the .creek. Between the outer
fringe of vegetation and the bank, a
concealed tunnel flowed under the
brush. The space would have held
two canoe®, and it neatly -harbored
their boat when they unmasted it.
This disevery did not look like
accident The place appeared to
have used before. It was possible
that they were picking up a hidden
trail, which other® had searched for
and puzzled -over through a whole
winter. Their interest in what they
were about to do was taking on a
tense precison, *
“I’ve said the magic was simple.*’
observed Speed. "Now we’re goin’
to ®ee whether it’s true,”
The dog scrambled up the cleft
of the ravine under tangled brush,
Their range of view was painfully
bend in
narrow
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almost hid the grain. The drawings,
had been made with lead, ink, spill
ed coffee, whiskey, lampsoot—almost
•anything, apparently.
The drawings were similiar in
subject but greatly varied in detail.
They seemed to represent a gulch
With a stream running through it.
and with the ruins .of an Indian set
tlement at -one end, denoted by the
scrawled words, “Siwash igloos,” or
“Siwash ruins.” A figure like a pick
was posed experimentally at differ
ent ponts in the gulches,
“These all seem -to be pictuers of
the same gulch,” Speed said. “The
gulch where he found the gold . .?”
He studied the table until burning
pans called .him back t-o- the stove.
When he served the rashers and hot
bread, they sat down' to supper with
fifty confused pictures of Dalton’s
gold prospect staring up at them
from the table top.
“Must have been almighty puzzled
soffle time about where that gulch
was,” said Speed.
“I think he found it once, and then
couldn’t track it,” Pete said vaguely
Maitland noticed the veiled ques
tion in Speed’s look at her. “Did Bill
tell you that,” he- asked.
"No,” Pete’s answer seemed reluc
tant. '
“Maybe the igloos are a symbol
.of something else,” Maitland ven
tured.
“Then why are they drawed so
dear,” Speed said doubtfully, He
gave the thought a more mystical
turn. "You’d think some jinx was
riding Dalton. His hidin’ from
eryo-ne because of the gold, and
gold hidin' fro-m him.”
Knowing the gambler’s vein
supersitutlon. Maitland was not alto-
gef'her astonished to- hear .him ftsk
her. “That strange flgger yon seen,
Pete, didn't maybe give you a whis
per about Dalton’s reasons for keep
ing his trail so dark?”
Pete was visibly disturbed by the
question. She parted hw lips as if
ev-
the
Of
to answer; then changed her mind
and shook her head.
They did not speak, for a while,
but sat pondering in the gloom over
empty plates. Rolling and lighting a
cigarette, Speed said. “Anyway, it’s^ a quiet place to wait in, It we wai?
long enough, somethin’ or other is
pretty liable to- show,”
The night passed uneventfully.
During the next day, they found a
distraction in exploring the single
approach to the cabin, and examiha-
ing the traps and tools that lay in
open views Speed spent some hours
pondering over the table drawings.
Xhey left the chest by the wall un
touched.
(Continued next week)
is remaining
visited on Sun-
Smith in Exe-
village on business on
this week.
Calfas, icif Saskatchewan:
with her sister Mirs. M.
CENTRALIA
(Too late for last week.)
Mrs. Rex Mills and daughter Mar
ilyn, of Wyoming visited with Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Mills -on Monday of
■this week. Marilyn
for some holidays".’
Miss Greta Polllard
day with Miss Hazel
ter.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Thompson
and Jean, of Sebringvi'lle, visited
over the week-end 'with Mrs. Thoma®
Willis.
Misses Gertrude and Lula Demp
sey, of Toronto, are visiting with
Mr. and Mbs. John Essery.
Mr. and Mrs, Ewart Powe, Lon
don, were Sunday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Brooks.
Miss Ila Willis, of Exeter, is holi
daying with Mrs. Thomas Willis.
Mr, Fields an-d family moved last
week into the residence which they
recently purchased from Mr. Gabriel
Mutolski. Mr. Fields is the C, N. R.
agent replacing Mr. George Thomp
son.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Steeper and
sen Rayburn of Par'kihill; Misses
Muriel Steeper and Jessie Smith, of
Land-on, visited on Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Pollard.
Group No. 4 of the Women’s As-1
sociation held a successful c-ooking
sale in Pollard’s store on Saturday
afternoon of last week.
Miss Mary O’Brien, of London,
spent the week-end at her home
here.
Mr. Gordon McDo-nald visited at
his home in Glencoe* on Tuesday of
this week. s
Mr. Fred Warner visited tvith
friends in London over the week
end.
Miss Iva B-rokenshire of Windsor,
is holidaying with her m-other Mrs.
Brckneshire.
Mrs. Mi'lt Mitchell is visiting with
friends at Grand Bend.
Miss Lorraine Hamilton, Win-gham
has been visiting for the past couple
of weeks with her brother Mr. .and
Mrs. Gordon Hamitlon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Essery and
Misses Gertrude and Lula Dempsey
atteded the Harris Reunion in Strat
ford on Tuesday o-f this week.
Mr. Gabriel Mutolski, of Windsor
was in the
Tuesday of
Mrs. E.
is visiting
Sleamon.
Master Teddy Powe, of London, is
visitng with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Brooks.
A number fro-m the village attend
ed the funeral at Parkhill cemetery
on Wedneday afternoon cif this week
of the late Mr. Robert McFall®, of
London. Mr. McFalls. is a brother
,of Mr. John McFalls.
Orville Schoeder son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm, (Schroeder had the misfor
tune to fall fr,o-m the limb of a tree
on Tuesday of this week and dislo
cated his arm at the elbow.
Mrs. Chas. Hofifman, of Saskatche
wan, visited with Mr. and Mrs.
Sleamon for a few 'days last week.
Mr. Truman Mills is relieving
the station at Komioka.
The Annual Centralia Sunday
School Picnic
The annual Centralia Sunay School
picnib was held at Grand Ben-d on
Tuesday, July 9th with good atten
dance. Almost every1 family was
represented. After the spolrte around
120 sat down to a bountifully laden
table. After -supper a game of soft-
ball and foot ball was played.
The following are the result®, of
the races: -Boys and giitls under 5:
Samuel Skinner, Ross McFalls, Helen
Taeko; boys under’ 8, Harry Hodgson
Douglas Fletcher; girls under 8, Isa
belle Blair, Annel-da Shold ice; boys
under 10, Elim-er Powe, Freeman
Sholdice, Steve Manion; girls under
10, Hazel Langford, Helen Essery.
Marjorie Smith; boys under 13, Jack
Hepburn, Clifford Hicks, Bob Blair;
Girls under 13, Hazel Buswell, Ha
zel {Langford; y-oung men, Herman
Hodgson, Ed. Daniels; young ladies
Hazel Buswell, Beulah Skinner; mar
ried men, Will Essery, Harry Bow
den; married women, Mrs. R. Pank
er, Mrs. T. Boyes; three-legged race
for boys, Homer Buswell1 and Will
Essery, Donald Blair and Walter
Mitchell; three-legged race for girls,
Dorothy Hicks and Beatrice Essery,
Alma Skinner and Marie Buswell;
pop bottle race, Geo. Hepburn jan-d
Wm. Essery; men kick the ball, R.
Hodgson; girls throw the ball
Thelma Cook, Beulah Skinner; elope
meat race, Donald Blair and Thelma
Cook, Clififord Hicks and Mildred
Hicks; bean race, Will Essery, Dor
othy Hicks; women driving nails
Mrs. John Thomson; men driving
nails, Geo. Hepburn; mon skipping,
Will Essery; girls skipping, Marie
Buswell, Alma Skinner;
weight of a woman, Otto
M.
at
guessing
Brown;
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