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NEV. G. E. CESAOG, •
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CAIIGIIT I TIIE WIb
By Robert Ames Bennet
SYNOPSIS
Allen Garth is preparing to make
a trip to a inane which he has discov-
ered in the Canadian Northwest when
an aeroplane appears at the little re-
fueling station and an elderly man,
a young man and a . young woman
alight.
The two men who are looking for
mining prospects, become much in-
terested' in some specimens of on
shown them by Garth. They are all
Lather haughty, especially the girl,
and treat Garth like a servant, but
he shows his independence and does-
n't allow himself to be ordered about.
They decide to take Garth in their
aeroplane to inspect his mine and if
it turns out to be worth working to
take a lease for a year and give him
sixty percent. of the output. Garth
leads them to his claim' and' Huxby
professes td think that he might have
salted it.
After some digging, which is done
by Husby—and some consultation
by Huxby and Ramill, Garth feels
that they are convinced of the poten-
tial wealth of the mine. The party
proposes to go back to the flying ma-
chine for lunch, Huxby saying he will
come back and do some more digging.
They suggest that probably :Garth
does not wish to come back with them
and he says he will take a trip up
the mountain side while they are'
gone. But Garth is suspicious of the
two men, so as soon as he gets out of
sight he makes for the flying ma -1
chine, takes a part from the engine
and disappears again. The party,
comes up to the machine in frantic,
haste, the elderly millionaire being
almost exhausted by the speed at
which . they have hurried him along.
Just as they were about to take offs
Garth walks out • of the brush and
wants to know what is the matter
and Huxby covers him with his pistol
and tells him to place his gtm on the
wing. It is evident that they intend
to fly back to the Mackenzie and
leave him.
Garth places his gun as ordered,
then unties ' and rope holding the
plane and stands holding it while
Huxby tries to start the engine, which
would not go. He then tele them
that he has the part of the engine in
his pocket but will not allow them to
come nearh i m until a 11 a r e
out. He then lets the plane go, fling-
ing the line out into the water and it
drifts down stream towards a falls.
When they see the plane is doomed
and realize that they are in his pow-
er Mr. Ramill says they will do just
as he says if he will lead them back
to the Mackenzie.
Garth shoots a moose and prepares
food for the company, which they are
hungry enough to enjoy. Miss Ra -
mill, although still very disdainful of
Garth, is brought to the extremity of
slicing off a piece of .moose liver and
cooking it over a fire for her supper.
NOW GO ON WITII THE STORY
"Don't tell us he's smoked thein all
himself." •
Mr. Ramill opened 'the case, show-
ed the four cigars, shut them in a-
gain, and handed the case back to
Garth.
"Wa-wait!" cried lais daughter. •
He waved her away. "No. The
joke is on us. •He knows what is a-
hoad. We do not. We've emptied
the sugarbowl; and half the teabag,
Tie up that bag and the salt, Vivian,
and hand theta to, him."
,Garth shook his head, and .bowed
to the angry -eyed girl, .
"Thank you, no. Miss Ramill has
taken charge. As I recall my Anglo-
Saxon,•'lacly' originally meant bread -
cutter,. She was the one who ration-
ed out the food. I figure upon at
least five weeks before we reach the
Mackenzie. Miss Ramill will keep
charge of the salt and tea—do with
them whatever •sire thinks best."
She flared. "I will not! I'll do no
such thing."
"As you please. It's a matter of ut-
ter indifference to me. More than
once I've gone for two months on
pleat alone. You're quite welcome to
throw these pouches into the fire."
He glanced around, taking stock of
the camp.
"Everything in keeping, I see. No
sewing. done on the moccasins; muf-
fle all eaten, woodpile nearly used
up. You'd better cook and eat all
the meat you can before the rest of
the wood is burnt. When the fire
goes out, we'll have plenty of four -
footed visitors to relieve us of those
moose legs—wolves, foxes, wolver-
ines, Also ravens and moosebirds.
Even Mama Grizzily and her children
may turn up. •
Huxby °was first to reply: "How
about yourself? You've been gone
for hours. Loafing, I'll wager."
"Like the rest of you, it seems,"
Garth replied. "The difference is
•that I stayed on watch and worked
' all during last sun -under, while the
Irest of you slept"
There followed a silence, broken at
hast by Miss aRinill. She repeated
: her first question, but in a very dif-
i ferent tone: "Mr. Garth, may I pour
• you a cup of the tea?"
"Thank you, I do not need it. The
rest of you will. I suggest keeping
it for •breakfast. You'll have no oth-
er taste of sweets for over a month,
unless, we find a bumblebees nest."
The girl silentlycovered the top
of the pot with the inverted tin cup.
Her father heaved up his soft bulk.
He beckoned to Huxby.
"Come, Vivian. The agreement
was that Garth should be skipper.
That woodpile will not last another
hour. We can't permit any bear
raids on our bull market."
The engineer met the quip with a
rather thin smile. However, he set
about gathering firewood with quick-
ness and efficiency.
Garth had left his knife in camp.
He lifted one of the moose quarter8.
from the smoke rack and began to
cut off large thin slices. These he
laid on the poles for quielcer smoke
curing and drying. He paid no at-
tention to Miss Ramill.
When the girl saw he did not in
tend to speak to her, she picked up
the salt and tea pouches and event
into the leanto. Garth thought she
meant to go . to bed. Instead, she
crawled out again, put one of the
freshly cult slices of meat on a willow
spit,' and held it over the end of the
tire where the muffle had simmered.
As soon as the steak was broiled,
the cook sullenly offered it to Garth.
Be took it with no betrayal of his stir:
prise, and sat down to eat. "Thank
you, sister." •
She frowned. "I never hated any-
one so much in all my life as I hate
you, But that was a mean trick,
stealing your sugar."
"All the more reason for you to
hate me. Not that it matters a pen-
ny—the sugar or your hate. I'll ad-
mit, though, it's very interesting to
watch the reactions of yourself and
your father. Haxby is 'just a com-
monplace wolf. But your father and
you—the lady of leisure and the mil-
lianaire acquirer —tossed from the
lap of luxury into the raw wild.
You'll have to acknowledge it's high
comedy."
"If it is, then you're theclown,"
was the best she could counter.
He agreed: "That's it, the jester—
the fool of the play-- the loon who
was to have been gulled and bilked.
Who knows? He may be yet. But
he ,will have had the fun; of the
genie."
"Furl! Hold can even you see any
fun' about this damnable mess you've
forced us into?"
"Forced?' IY .Why, my clear young
lady, the shoe is on. the other foot.
Can t be mistaken in my belief that
your brave fiance threatened to shoot
me, and your father planned with
him to—er--lift my platinum placer?
Force and robbery with a gun."
'"It was not! A mining claim does-
n't • belong to anyone until it is ,re-
corded."
Garth smiled. "The pirate code of
honor. Jolly pirates of the air, ail
Huxby said nothing. He had tens-
ed, ready to spring up and fight. The
owner of the pilfered goodSe hardly
would attack the helpless Yiriddleaged
millionaire. He might well be ex-
pected, however, to vent his anger on
that one of the trio who was nearest
him in size,and strength.
Garth laid down his rifle and came
forward, He ignored the wary hostile.
took of the mining engineer, nodded
to Mr. Ramill, and took off his bat-
tered hat to bend low 'before 'Miss
Ramill in a polite bow.
"You are too kind, my dear lady.
1 could not deprive any of you of
your sweets. Eat, drink and be nrer-
ear, for tomorrow—' You may recall
the west of the quotation."
Mr. Hamill went red. "Dammit,
man, you've no Ball to play mummy
at the feast. What if Lilith did hap-
pen to find these things you were
hogging for private use? We need
them as much as you." •
"Far more so,".Garth amended the
statement. "I don't need them at all.
Go right -ahead and waste what's left.
You of course are certain there'll be
no emergencies on the way out—no
occasions when a pinch of tea. or sug-
armay make the difference between
life and death for you."
"How frightful," said Huxby.
"Quite so. While you're about it,
you may as well make a clean sweep.
Here." Garth tossed the gold -mount-
ed cigar case to its owner..
"Oh, so that's how Dad lost his
smokes," , exclaimed Miss Ramill.
"Who's the real sneak around here?
Steal all those cigars, and the gold
case, too. Then come whining be-
cause we've kept, you from cheating
us out of our share of these things
you hid.—Hand over the cigars, Dad.
My throat's still rasped from the vile
smoke of that willow bark Vivian
dried for 'our cigarettes."
Her father did not open the cigar
case. His eyes had fixed upon it in
an intent gaze, Huxby looked at him
with surprise that darkened into im-
patience, His craving for tobacco
was no less intense than the, girl's.
"What's the ]ratter?" he•.asked.
set to maroon the duped fool and fly
off to file en his treasure trove. But
then that little slip. The stupid pis-
tol -covered eloWn lets go the, nope.
What, no fun about it all! Have you
no sense of humor?"
Miss Ramill turned her back on
him and went to crawl into the lean-
to. Her father and Huxby carne with
still more wood to pile on the al-
ready high heap of fuel. The engin-
eer wen to lie clown at his sleeping
place on the lee side of the fire.
During the" day he had gathered a
much thicker bed of spruce tips and
dry moss.
When the millionaire quit puffing
for breath, he brushed off the front
of his soiled business suit, and paus-
ed to watch Garth's swift and skill-
ful meat slicing.
"How about the fire?" he inquir-
ed. "I doubt if I could keep awake
now. Call me later. I'll take my
turn."
"No need, sir. I've had my sleep.
Get all you can. You're going to
climb tomorrow."
' Mr. Ramill was only too willing to
turn in. Garth went on with the cut-
ting. When all the meat had been
sliced from the bones of the first
quarter, he went at another.
The long hours of twilight slowly
faded to the semi -dusk of midnight
and as slowly brightened toWardc full
day. Garth had kept to his meat slic-
ing. Only now and' then he stopped
off to sharpen his knife on a'little
whetstotne, tend the fire, or listen to
the many weird noises of the twi-
light. -
Sunrise found the three visitors
from the cities still asleep. Along
with the tea and sugar, they had
worked on the muffle gelatine and the
tender lynx meat. Garth did not
waken them. He looked speculatively
at the smoke rack. All the lynx meat
had been eaten. But the wide spread
of moose hindquarter - sliees made a
great showing around the two uncut
moose forelegs. He decided to let
the tongues and the remaining muffle
keep on smoke curing..,
Two hours or so later the' crack of
moose bones under the blows of the
the belt -ax wakened Huxby. He sat
up to turn hungrily in the direction
from which came a savory ,odor.
Garth had drawn a thigh bone from
the fire and was buttering a piece of
broiled neat with hot marrow.
The engineer came around and laid
one of the thigh bones on the fire.
Above it he slanted a steak on a spit,
and Went to bathe his face and neck
in the rill. They were still swollen
and sore from the great number of
deer -fly and mosquito bites. •
He cane back to throw more wood
on the fire. Neither he nor Garth
spoke. He started to eat his steak
and marrow before either was more
than half cooked.
Garth finished his own breakfast
and began to sew a moccasin. As
soon as Huxby had bolted down his
food, he picked up the emptied gold
pan. Miss Ramill had sat up in the
front of the leanto to lace her boots.
Her father crept out past her.
"Morning, Vivian," he greeted. "I
see you're going to set the pan on the
fire again. Good idea. That muffle
aspic is all :Garth told us it would
be."
"No." Huxby's tone was almost
curt. "We've lost too much time al-
ready. I am going to make a com-
plete test of that placer deposit."
He looked with cold wariness at
the rightful claimant of the placer.
Garth smiled. "Go to it, The more
you pan out, the more. of my sixty
per cent I'll be able to jingle in my
pocket,"
That sent the engineer off with a
crease between his hard eyes. Mr.
Ramill studied Garth's amused face.
"What is the idea?" he inquired.
"Do we infer you still stand by the
terms you offered?"
'!Well, I may at least allow you
four -tenths of what your Man Friday
sweats out of my placer. The labor-
er is worthty of his hire. -I'm going
for a dip. You and Miss Ramill
might gat your moose 'bones to roast-
ing. The marrow goes well with the
steaks."
The girl cane forward to Took at
the shattered thigh bones, "I' should
hope you're right, That meat is as
dry as it's tough. We simply had te
eat the Lynx flesh. What a sickening
mess of this other stuff you've cut
up! We'll never be able to chew all
that. And there's those two huge
other legs besides!"
"It might be worse," Garth reas-
sured her. "We'll be keeping back
some of the jerked steaks for emer
geney rations, on our trip out.' The
rest will go down quicker than you
think.K
"It will—like fried rubber tires!"
"Good exercise for the teeth. Howe
ever, you have yet to develop Eskimo
jaw muscles. Let me suggest that you
build a large fire in the regular cook
hole. When it burns low, rake out
the coals and lay in one of the fore-
legs, thickly smeared with mud. Then
rake on dirt, embers and ashes, -build
a small fire on top, and keep it going
four or, five hours."
Miss Rainrll looked down at her
slender hands They •were already
roughened and grimed and two of
the highly manicured nails had been
broken, The large- diamond- of her
engagement ring flashed blue -white
fire up into her angrily flashing blue
eyes. She jerked her head -up to flare
out at Garth. He was already dis-
appearing in the brash on his way to
the rock pool.
When he returned from his plunge
a fire was flaming high in the cook
hole. Well away from it, the heiress
to millions was smearing one of the
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moose legs with mud brought up
from the lake shore by her father in
his expensive soft hat.
Garth raked the thigh bones from
the smudge -fire and set back the
spits of the partly burnt steaks, He
then dripped melting noose fat into
a small twist -cup of birchbark that
he had brought back with hinr. The
cup already held two or three gills
of spruce pitch.
The mud -daubers washed' their
bands in the rill and came for their
overcooked breakfast. While Mr.
Raniil cracked open the marrow
bones with the belt -ax, Garth stirred
his dope together with a twig. He
took off his hat before starting to
smear the dope on his face. Miss
Ramill gazed at his wet hair.
"You have a comb!" she accused.
"Of a sort." He pulled from his
pocket a small coarse -toothed piece
of ivory. "It's hand -carved from a
walrus tusk. Traded my own comb
to an Eskimo Iady for it and a cari-
bou parka."
Mr. Ramill took the offered comb,
and without a glance at the curious
carvings on its back, at once raked
the teeth through his tousled thin
hair.
"It might be worse," he said. "A
good combing sets one up like a Cock-
•
tail."
His daughter's nerves snapped.
"Oh, damn; damnt damn! To say
that, when you know I'm crazy for a
drink! Give me that comb."
She took it and went to peer at
herself in a pool of the rill. The Es-
kimo comb did little. to. help her preen
the wrecked permanent wave. She
came back angrier than she had gone.
"It's simply ghastly!' I rook a
fright. Hair like a Pekingese poo-
dle's; face aII shiny—no rouge or
powder! Next thing, 111 be all swol-
len with bites, like Vivian. There's
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