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IN, THE NEWS -RECORD -IT WILL PAY YOU— vosarrammeramsomesok CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., JUNE 13, 193 Speed Malone, hardened gambler, baby's supper. While she was gaop- and Ed. Maitland, son of a seafaring ing• for nests in, the hay, she caught New England family, were partners Ihold of a mans boot. 'She didn't in the Yukon gold rush of $97. They scream. The first thought that flasit- met en the trip north in e crowd that ed through her mincl was that this included Frenchy, the fisherman, ; was the man who'd brought the child Lucky Rose, the beautiful girl who and the gold. took a fancy to Maitland; Fallon, I "Butthe man sat up and• smiled at ' leader of the miner's, who resented Ruse's interest, in Maitland; Brent, old-time prospector; Carnet, who gave Maitland and Speed his outfit when he quit the trail, and Pete and his drunken partner Owens, who was drowned after brawl. Pete turned ,e a "It was his ,turn to be surprised out to, be a girl in disguise, Pete kill- when she . spoke about the child and ed a man at Skagway—a cheat man- ager of a shell game—and months later was arrested and put in jail for his murder. Be got out, but while he Waited for -Lefty, who offered to. help •him, to get back the mail he had been carrying for the Mounties at Bennett --where Drew and Cathcart were stationed—he was 'recaptured by his enemy, Fallon. But Maitland and Pete rescued him as Fallon wasabout to lynch hint, They made for their camp at BennettLePete and Maitland with the horses, by one route, Speed by another with the dogs, led by Ruse ty, who had come to them in a bliz- zard. her, and then her knees almost gave way. It was Dalton—whom, she'd nev- er expected to see again. Hid prob- ably learned .she was married to the rancher, and had counted on. her help- ing him if it came to that. tI!' * * t NOW G0 0'N WITH, THE: STORY "In Nevada the woman in the sal- oon told me my fingering wasn't so good; took the guitar and showed rte. That interested me a lot, I asked her to have eupper with me. "She had sung in the camps in the Seventies, when mining was a big game on both sides of the Sierras. In Placerville, en the California side, she had met a. young adventurer named Dalton. She took him at first to be a prospector, and he did prospect to seine extent.. But a. little Iater, when she became his sweetheart she learn- ed that he often took the road with a route agent he 'called Retires. They worked the mountain perces, holding up pack trains and wagon shipments cf gold till the country got too hot for theme, and they disappeared. ".So !!l'ay's love affair didn't Iast lenge ' I gathemed it was she who did most of the loving. Dalton was a thing, Owens came in that night with swaggering young rascal, with es Ion the news. The posse seemed to have of life and wood soaks,. and no heart lest the trail',ef all three of the fugi- to spears of. It wee that; I thirst, Liven but the father of the missing that attracted her. She was used to child had been killed in the hold-up, being 'courted• and—iwozse thee that --was' a United "After Dalton left her she had a"flies marshal." baby girl. Whether it was hit' or. not, The man in the barn had plenty time to take stock of Owen's char - she didn't know for certain, She'd er known him that short a time, It in - pursuit • and of his ,own position. As the Mitered with her work, so she sent pursuit died away and no word cane it away to be cared for, shot it out from Reeves Dalton realized that his efliem' life and forgot about it, as .she partner had deserted hint. He had al tried to forget about Dalton, so done sense 'thinking about the way na "Then she met a rancher med the pease had been mistracked. Owens, who was taking up a grazing Dalton proposed sta,jgbeg at the claim on the Nevada side, south of ranch' as a hired' man until the trail the' Carson Valley. cSo site married was cold, and calling himself the Owens, ,and went with him, to Ne- father •of the little `boy. The very vada, to settle down and be a faithful daring of the scheme would. protect wife,,lice had "Though the o "Her marriage: to Owens was un p given up happy. H2' was ungenerous and un- hope of finding the lost child, there sociable—almost a miser. The ranch was no slacking in the hunt for the the gold. He hadn't had anything to do with leaving them there. But af- ter thinking it over, he told her haw it must have happened. i. "He and the roan he 'called Reeves had been waiting by a lonely stretch of railway track in :the desert to stop e• pay train, when a stranger on a bay horse rode -by the place where they were hiding. He looked like a good gun hand, and they cut him, in. Dur- ing the hold-up the child strayed off the train. When it pulled out and they found her, ` Reeves wanted to leave her there. They spliton that; the man with the bay horse picked her up and rode south alone, with his, shareof the loot. Dalton believed he had happened on Owen's ranch by letting his horse hunt water. "Tho other two struck west for the mountains. Dalton's horse had gone lame, and Reeves took all the gold' on his tn:ount to lighten its weight. But it still lagged and when the posse caught their trail, Reeves was far ahead and kept going. Dalton left the lamed horse on some rooky ground, so he would seem to have gone on with Reeves, riding 'double; and after several days trailing *en foot by a roundabout way, came to Owen's ranch. "As to the child, Dalton thought it was a bad break to find her there, but he encouraged May's desire to keep her—since giving. her up would ruin his hideout. So the baby had its hair cut, es well as being put in ov- craps, "Just after May had done this rash was a day's journey from, any neigh- three road agents involved in the kil- bor. No one, hardly, came near it. ling of the Fedora] marshal, and Dal - 1 -Ie was jealous' of. that old life of ton knew that there would 'be none Deciding to leave the country, he her -had suspected, when he Married demanded a grubstake from Owens, her, what it had been. He wealeed to take him prospecting in the Norte. the ranch himself, so there was no The rancher grudged the money, but was anxfou,s to get rid of hire. "Owen's jealously got worse after ens had watered the steCk and she the matt was gone. In his brooding was watching him for the umtieth rages; he spoke of Dalton's willing time draw a lamp alongside the table, Hess' to appear as the child's father fix the wick and read some •...nth- al:, if that were a deeper sigh 01 un - old newspapers, she heard a faint clerstsntiing between. them. His fury tanning p drove nim to the gcg that may have pg g •, en the door. She smelled it, bordered on .a teeth em .didn't' know. and there stood a visitor. For hex! "He gene' lie' $u'e1Y tt terrible time "A little visitor about three years that finally she• Ib11 Mill and her ad - old, and small for her age, with` a opted baby;• and went hack to her cute, solemn baby face, and wet eyee, old life, where I found; bees in the blinking in the lamp'ligh't;. looking dregs •of: it. lost. `•`Seine years later 1' came into' Car - "'Nice mans said you know wwlere'son City, just before des rumor 5rtrke is my Daddy." ' • about the big' gold strike fir the "The woman' gave a smot meed cry 'North. And tater tlie elnhg• !§wren' - 'and gathered the child hongr'ily' 'itr ,ed that ,begins, to tie tilfa, up• her arms, not askierg yet liow-nnrwry j Fallon, twisting in his chair; caggli s it had came there., cher eyes now, squarely: "Owens lit a lantern to go out and i "You don't d;me-! a lin );Bated see who had brotrght the IittMe one out with -a dark menacme to the door. The rider was: out ef "Do you dare threaten a, witness; in earshot now,hat on; the porch was a Her, Majestyis Court?"' Jrudge Dugas sack of gold' and a note, saying; 'Thi. demanded. baby wandered; off a train diming a Muttering something, Fallon liv'i'd. hold-up. Keep her till else, posse Ids tongue and waited. comes booking for her. The gold is ` 8 was missing. a planked'. sine - from the robbed train, and is yours p walk," ' continued Rose, "when r al - you want pay for your: treubl'e•;' most bumped into a mere stepping "That was all• 'The test they tried• down fromthe porch ,of the Nevada to piece together from what they. Hotel. I•Iis face• came -beck to me ov- eould snake of the child% talks er 0 bong gap.ef time me" well a5' (Ilse "For hours Oviens pored over that lance He'd changed some. I passed note and over the gold, handling it, him (blank.. counting it . , . And the woman was "We stet agaih• ibr a place, where, 1 yearning 'over the 'treasure in Her sang, and hes invited, ms to, drink something la did!. beast -use at was ra- ther funny- to talk to a man w14o'd tricked me with, April Foca candy the way he'd alone and not be vemesnber ed: "So 1 said, 'Your face looks kind of familiar, Haven't I seen it tacked up in the post: office eomi:where?" "He almost limped. I hadn't had a notice how near the truth a reward one to talk to but him, and he didn't taut. "One night in summer,. when Ow - arms. Suppose, by some great, chance, , it was, never claimed? "Neither of thein slept tilat night,' and the next day they waited ' and watched' the trails. The samehope was in their' minds, though their -rea- sons for hoping were far apart, "`Several days passed with no sign of the posse. Finally Owens made a trip to the nearest freight station to get the newly. In ,his, absence, the Poster might be.; When I smiled he wotnan started making a little suit of. gave _a laugh that sounded flat. overalls for the girl, "You've got the start on me, baby,' "Toward . sundown she went into he said, patting may hand. 'The near - the 'barn to look for eggs for the test I ever mouse to imaginin' you was a fool kid I met in Frisco. You're pretty, wise and you've been around. Maybe as a woman, you can answer a question that got ante curious once. It just come into my mind. Do you believe a -girl could bebrought up as a boy without anyone on the outside guessin' it?" "'It depends on the girl• and the surroundings,' I said, still not sus- pecting anything in particular. I think it could happen, but I wouldn't bet on a particular case without see- ing the boy you suppose to be a girl." "Well, you31 never see him,' Fal- lon said, a little to offhand. It juste come intomy mind.' " "He started' his meaningless love- making again and I left him. "What he'd said chimed with some- thing else in my memory. Though I didn't recall right at first what it was, I kept looking as I played the camp for a boy who might not be. so boy- ish except for the clothes. The only one I noticed was a boy with gold hair. He didn't look girlish—wore his clothes, I mean, as if he had a right to them. But it struck me that I could have dressed him up as a dunning girl and it was a crime to see hair like that wasted on a• boy. He was with an older, whisky -faced man I'd never seen in the calnps be- fore, and whose name I.Iearned to be Owens. The man was, buying an out- fit to go to Alaska. Owens are, uncommon, but it . was the name .of the rancher May had married, rend with that I remembered, in a shack of understanding, that the child left at the ranch house :had had blond hair and hacl been dressed as a bey; "Dalton had gone North. Owens had staked him. A man like May'e Owens wouldn't make that trip with - " 1fiflrkTlltll`,�.•-c- '"" � P15 She didn't scream out a solid lead to go on. I remem- bered his passion for gold. Dalton must have made a strike and sent for him, "Certain this was the same man, I wondered how much Fouler had gums - teed. Maybehe had just suspected a girl int bey's clothes and waw curious about it. She was young and inno- cent and he Irked them that way. Tier name, `Pete' was as boy -like as pee- sible, but since it didn't fit her ap- pearance, it vas a kind of give-a- way." The chartliitg voice of the river rippled through the silence as Rose paused Speed leaned on the bar of the pliJomcris d'oek, ardently watch- ing her aeloss the e'cdtcoated shoulder of the police guard, Fallon half -re- clined in his •ehair,id a smouldering silence—,the sheathed' fife of one who holds a final' answer, in re•serera, "That same niglit, the big Yukon news came down on the wires from Seattle.. Praspitetors who lust been waiting and measly were pulling. stakes for San Francisco and the first steam- ers. Owens ,heat the gun by starting ahead of them' and showed that lie'cl bad a definite reed on something, "I caught a tbmthe for Seattle; and overtook Falion's steamer there: He utas wary enough to keep Owens out of my way. Pete avoided mea of her own accord. May talking to, Fallon may have given, her the idea r was a friend of his, and shemistrusted him Fey instinct. "Fallon started the rancher Owens drinking and gape!bling—c first sign that he had geessed true; about the gold. That it was' true, I_ made sure in a more direst' wait "` _ Wade rose, to objet, "Your Honor," he said, "1 have}is- tened to the, witness's; vi'id story without offexfhg an: objection till now. I feel it r .intY,ae counsel el for the Crown, to, abject to IIt as. theoretical and move that it be thrown out." Judge. Dugas Molted' reflectively at Rose. "Now did you prove, 'Mi'ss `,'al- ery, tleat, there was 'a gold mine at stake a", '(Concluded Next Week) AND ALSO RABBIT 'Customer; "Have you any good pork?" , Butcher: "'Good pork? 'I've got some pork that will make better chile- ken salad than any veal'. you can buy." N ik1!-/® BY.:'ETHERlTE"• 5 .11,1411011,1.1111.1.1.114/0.1.1...11411111,11.0.11401.-M10,1 INTRODUCING THE CAMPBELL SISTERS TRIO COMMISSION'S' BRO' AACASTOI` WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT R � I'AVYN'EIGII:f CHAMPIpiVSHII FIGHT TO BE ,HEARD AT 9.00 P.M. EST.,. ON THURSDAY JUNE 13TH Ladies and gentlemen,: presenting has dards brown hair, dark' blue eyes, Myrtle, Ethel, and Jeanne, the Camp weighs 98 pounds, and is five feet, bell Sisters' Trim whose eharming two and a half inches tall. Jeanne. faces appear below, and to whom should go the week's orchid for hav- ing turned in one first 'class' program after another. Actually sitters, these three sang- sters have 'stapled their way into. the hearts of radia listeners throughout Canada and the United Staten ever since they first appeared over the THE CAMPBELL SISTERS Commis'sion's Toronto station. Ac- complished - uisicians, they have play- ed piano since early childhood,' and have become versatile on various oth- er instruments of musical expression. Eleven combined years of vocal and instrumental training in Toronto are totheir credit. Myrtle, at the top of the picture, is a 21 year-old brunette, has dark brown eyes, weighs 110 pounds, and is five feet, five and a half inches tall. Ethel, in the centre, is 24 years old, at bottom;, is 19 years old. ,has dark -brown hair, brown eyes, weighs 115 pounds', and is five feet, six inch- es tall. • Myrtle, Ethel, and Jeanne are pre- sented each Triday evening at 7.00 p.m. EST, aver the Canadian Radio Commission's eastern network, from Toronto. Boy! A Lobster Dinner 1 When the Maxie Baer -Jimmy Brad- dock 'world heavyweight champion- ship fight goes on the air. Thursday, June 13, at 9.00 pan. EST, listeners on the national network of the Cana- !Ilan anadian Radio Commission will bear the familiar voices of Graham McNamee apd Ford Bond, veterans of the mic- ropbone and two of the hest known sports .announcers in the United States: McNamee and Bond will do the "He's up!" "Ile's downs" "They clinch!' stuff while the two fisti- cuffers• try• to pound the daylights out of each other during the schedul- ed 15 rounds at Madison Square Gar- den Bowl. This battle, which is be- ing . made available to the CBC through the courtesy of the sponsors, is the subject of much speculation a- round G'omneission headquarters, Pro- duction Chief George A. Taggart and Horace Brown, hie assistant, have promised to treat the Ottawa pro- gram staff to a lobster dinner if Maxie goes down to the count of ten, while Ernest Bushnell and Ar- thur Dupont will draw on their sav- ings for a similar function if Jimmy goes to the tnat. Such is the spirit' of modern youth. 'felling on Bert Anstice Reminiscing to your correspondent recently, after his return front Sher- brooke, Quellec, where more than 400 r. ersons weae turned away frown the theatre where he and ; his company were playing, Bert Anstice, leader of the Gommission's popular hootin', tootin', shootin' westerners, the Mountain Boys, revealed that he; and his music -makers became established quite unexpectedly. In 1930 he was one of a number of musicians at .a n informal tete-a-tete. All were ac- quainted with each other. At that time mnsie ans, even the best of. them, were finding it •hard,luggin p g and se, as a result .of the :meeting, the group decided to experiment with mountain music. The idea grew into a serious undertaking and the same year Bert Anstice and Hie Mountain Boys appeared for the first time in publics at a benefit concert for Mont- real's "Sailors' Institute" The 'group was well received and two months,af- terwards made a radio debut over a eommereial station.. Their conquest of the air waves was successful and • when the Radio Commission inaugur ated coast-to-coast broadcasts, they were presented to the national aud- ience, At the present time Bert and hiss 10 entertainers' are making a tour of the Maritime Provinces where, from time to time, they will be heard over Conentission stations, They will return within the next few weeks to resume their regular schedule. , • t ell' da Parisian Novelties' A Iively half-hour of Parisian nov- elties, to be presented in the true Parisian manner by Andre Durieux, his orchestra, and Lucienne Delval, singer extraordinary of French blues sings, will be heard over the eastern and midwest network of the Canadian Radio Contitdssion on Sone 14,, at 8,30 p.m. EST, from Montreal. The program will also feature an accor- dion solo 'by a masterof that in- strument, Seturhe Gentiletti, who will present his version of "La Mont- parnassienne." Another good num- (Continued on page 3) Foos =,regesseretielawaasa ia . 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