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Zurich Herald, 1925-10-08, Page 6Your Grocer ells l''1Cayou tried it? The tiny riche: flavored leaves and tips are sealed ant .tights Finer than any Japan or G meow ere Insist Upon SALADA. Love Gives Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD CHAPTER XXX.—(Cont'd.) "The Klondyke`:" repeated Garvock Arrived at his journey's end, condi- find- questxoixeixgiy. in himself amid the .ha iu t condi- The banker nodded. •�' - • - "They're near one of the milling e G , run was six in 'ninety-eight. Yes -it's practically smoke a little distance off indicated plated out now. But there are still the proximity of a wigwam or shel- a feve cranks mooching about the old ter of some kind. • Presently he de- scended upon the left bank of; the Klondyke River, and began to find more signs of life. �* Here and there he saw the ruins of a tumble-down shack, the remnant of a disused gold dredge, a- heap of tions and the most eaquisit. sue camps 1�h_re tit elev.! ronndings, Garvuck naturally found it difficult to realize the Klondyke in winter. To him it was now a region of enchantment and of dream; and whether or not he was to be success- ful in his search, he must- for the remainder of bas life be glad that he had penetrated so far into the heart of Alae'' -=a. On tee morning after his arrival he sallied forth from his comfortable hotel to find the Canadian Bank o Commerce, which was only a stone's - throw off. His inquiry for the man- ager was courteously met, and when •e.t iltg, and some things that were almost incredible, about the strange new land to which he had come, EIe heard :stories of .theold Dawson days, when the gold born .city' was in the full grip of lawlessness and -lust; Tint the face, save that at was th} dirn, 1, bad hardly altered. At sight cif its ineffable sadness, something gripped Peter Garvock by the throat, • and he:•. couid have stood still in the roadway anal ceded like :a child, heard, too, howAthe troops can sive ' . The beautiful head. was quickly the White horse Pass to proeleae turned, a pair of startled eyes dwelt martial law; and: many stories of on the face of the•approaehing stran- personal he and adventufre which ger, then ensued silence, absolute. and put into the sharia a;.; the fiction of prop sono. adventure., he had consumed in•his Alan i ilei ine looked precisely as a youth. In fact, he felt inclined to mein might look who suddenly found ask himsellf whether he was in his. himself face to face with sone deni-` sober senses, and listening to tali of another world. actual' life. CHAPTER XXXL GRl7AT)R LQvn; g siilck anddying man, and he had now On Friday, about ten of the morn- no doubt that his imagination had ing, he got'on board the' stage once roaway with him, more, bound for the nearest point to But this wraith was very real, for t Gold -water Creek. In the late after- presently it stepped nearer, and with noon, having left his small handbag outstretched hand spoke these words: at the rest -house, and received fulllix- It's Peter Garvock, Alan—come to•', structions, he set out on foot to find take you home!" Gold -water Creek and the shack Peter Garvock!" where Alan Rankine and Affery .were leading the simple life, To the death, Garvock would rem- ember that day of heavenly beau+ last week he had dwelt inuch among dreams and shadows; and lis tened by; day and through the silent night watches to : the meanderings of " G 1 !" stammered Ran- kine. "But how have you come? How did you• know I was here?" "I mane it illy business to find out, y• lix,4he old chap, said Garvock joyfully, for the entrancing blue of the skies, the now that Rankine spoke, the strain, vivid coloring on the mounts in and of the moment almost anguished in its wood, the glow of the summer sun on the snows, and the wealth of wild flowers—frail creatures of a day, many of them, but incomparably beau- tiful. The only living thing he encounter- ed on the way was an Indian squaw of unimaginable ugliness, who stared at him with -the utmost stolidity and made no sign that she even recog- nized his existence. •The sight of dredgers, and making raids on the creeks. 'You don't know Affery, I suppose?" Garvock replied that he had never hi Jc"He was here in 'ninety-eight, and he knows more about that queer page tin pannikins and cans, eaten through in Alaskan history than any living with red rust, and at rare intervals man, I do believe! He made a !lit a thin line- of smoke curling upward himself; but what he's cranky on is to the sky, indicating that humanity a fortune be imagines was hidden by was to be found in these strange and a pal of his called Arizona Red, who desolate solitudes. he was ushered into the private room, was one of the biggest boosters on the Presently, Iow down upon the creek he was politely received by a thin, trail According to all accounts he he came upon an old grizzled man intensity, was relaxed. "I don't understand," said Rankine chilly.. "It's the queerest thing I've;, ever heard—that you should seek and; find me here!" "There's nothing queer about it, Alan," said Peter Garvock, still cheer-' fully. "Let tis sit down here and just talk it out." He made for a bench in front of i the shack, but Rankine looked round at the door with a somewhat wavering smile, "There's a dead man inside, Peter. My pal -the best pal ever pian had in this God -forsaken world!" Peter looked aghast. "Affery?" Rankine nodded; then all at once, as if feeling the infinite comfort` of a kent face and a friendly eye, he put his hand on Peter Garvock's arm. "Let us go into the scrub a bit, and ,sit down. Peter Garvock in the flesh ern the Klondyke! Gosh, but it's a funny world!" He laughed then, the str• angest laugh! It was without -mirth, and clean-shaven man whose appearance was a holy terror, He staked one of setting on his hunkers, a black and sounded, in Garvock's ears, sadder suggested that of a lawyer in prac-'the first claims on the Klondyke, and foul pipe in the corner of his cheek, than tears. He cast a swift glance at tice rather than a Klondyke banker. ! it is a known fact that he was luckier ande a pannikin in front of him, in his• cousin's face, which Alan caught "Morning! And what can I do for :than most of them; but nobody ever whlit% he appeared to be washing the and fully understood. you, sir?" he inquired, with an un- knew what he did with the nuggets. precious dust. , (To be continued.) , doubted American roll on the "r." , He used to come into Dawson and The ice was moving out of the • "My name's Garvock. You don't have a blow-out once in a blue moon, Klondyke now, and its, mid -channel' making Music Well -Balanced know me, and it would be hopeless to but he never exceeded a certain limit. was clear, but at the edges it had to explain," said Peter quietly.. -"I've Nobody ever cleaned out Arizona. Af- made a long journey from Scotland fery and he were thick pals, and he's to inquire whether you know the never been the same man since Ari - whereabouts of a man named Affery zonas death. He nursed him through --I don't know his Christian name, his last illness in the shack they but I think I've got the surname shared together on Goldwater Creek. And he's there now with Rankine. right?"1 He added that because he saw the They've been there since Rankine gleam of quick intelligence on the came to the Yukon." banker's face. I "Doing what?" "You have, sir. Mr. Affery is a The banker shrugged his shoulders. client of ours, and 1 do happen to I Prospecting in the good old-fash- ioned where he is at this very min-•' %seed way, I m told. Washing out the ute." 1 gold dust in their pannildns on the ' "Ohl" said Garvock with a little creek when it happens .to be there; gasp.and in their odd minutes hunting for of relief. "Can you put me en to him then? Is he anywhere in this Arizona's pile. Affery thinks he has district?" i a boost "on it, and will find it before The banker nodded, and made his he dies. mouth into a long, queer line which' "But sou don't think that?" said seemed to indicate that he knew much Garvock significantly. more than he wouldput into words I Once more ° the banker shrugged, his shoulders. even tinder severe pressure. I "1 don't believe for a second that "What do you want him forhe there's any treasure. I p•ut it to you it's a fair question," ds asked as" he —is it likely, after all these years, intervened between hilliself and the pushed a chair towards Garvock, at and with the crew of prospectors that man he had made such a tremendous the same time studying him keenly. have been lover every blessed inch of journey to find, he was overcome by "Scotland, did you say? Affery's Irish the ground a thousand times? You that strange sort of reluctance which —at least three parts Irish. He has see, the story of Arizona's buried causes men of his nationality and tem - bought opiate in his father -country treasure got about, and a good many perament to shrink from -scenes of in. Donegal.", 1 of the tenderfoots and some of the emotion or personal feeling. It is "Wes, as a matter of fact, I don't old hands as well have had a try for within the mark to say that that was know Mr. Affery, and my only inter- it „ quite the most poignant moment in est in him is on account of a third I "You've seen and spoken with my Peter Garvock's momentous under party—a relative of my own, who was cousin? He isn't the kind of man t be broken and pushed aside to get at the running water no difficult task, now that a sun of daily -increasing in- tensity.was blazing high in the hea= yens. To this dishevelled and uncouth old figure Garvock addressed himself civilly, asking for the location of Affer ' 1 He stood up stolidly, and without he says,:"should be found in the school. uttering a single word, pointed with a: There is so much meaningless stuff skinny and blackened hand, from printed under the name of good music, which two :fingers had gone in the -7-filch is only jingles; There is no in frost -bite, to a little wooden `frame house hanging sheer on the edge. sPi of ra.tian to be found in words or tuns the.. bank overlooking the iver. It S;Ius'ic which causes the feet to move was about five'hundred yards distant. and the body to sway should be avoid- Garvock thanked him, and pondered ed in the Sunday school service. • This whether he might offer 'some honor- is. characteristic of the jingle stuff, arium for service rendered, but was and'is but another means of adding to restrained by the reflection that 'per- the disorder of the Sunday school haps he might be offering alms to some 'life. For example, we have not infre- Bonanza king, who would scorn it. quently' leen boys during the:reading As he walked away face to face with of the lesson and recitation period the fact that so short a distance now hum one of these catchy songs, and keep time by moving their arms and swaying their bodies 'and stamping with 'their feet, much to the amuse - inert of the other teachers and the an- noyance of the teacher. Such antics not only added to the disorder of the school, but at the same time prevent- ed serious study. We need bright musfc in the school, but worshipful, inspirational and dignified music which will instil within the soul that spirit of reverence." ys sl Feature in Sunday School. !'A very essential feature in a well - ordered Sunday School is the music," claims a superintendent who is in a good position to judge. "There is a vast difference,'.' he claims, "between jingle and music." "The very best kind of music only," At one time in his company, and who,be taken in with afairy-tale like this, it is surmised, came out to Alaska I should have thought—" with him." I "I see. Name of Rankine perhaps?" i ted across the banker's lindefinable ean faccen flit - The blood rushed, full and hot, to i "A inan is not the same man here Garvock's face. He knew now that 1 as elsewhere. There's something in though he was in close touch, he had the air that nips the blood. I loathe ha"That's d:y expected this. it, but, all the same, I'll never leave it. That s the name! He's my cousin. And things have happened here that, I'm here really on behalf of his wife and his other near relatives. He' --,8 s n they were believed..in books, would been lost to them for over two years. never be dIt's a land of t The banker nodded understand- tery this!And it's that it ingly, never was intended to be conquered "I see, Well—he's been here in the by civilization—like the rest of the Yukon with Affery for the- lastsix world—and that they few who have made good here will have to pay the months let me see—yes, longer. He price, sooner or later." carne in October, just before the navi- "Queer idea! But it's a gorgeous gation was closed. I believe he came country," said Garvock. "It's the fin - down the Yukon on the last boat of the season." "And isn't he here now?" asked Garvock feverishly. "Not in the eity. But he's get -at - able. He's no further off than on one of the creeks in the Klondyke," - IGL • FTERA EVERY Probably, one reason for the popularity of WRIGLEY'S' is that it lasts so long and return suck great clivideliclo: for 8o small an outlay. " It keeps teeth clean, breath sweet, appetite keen, digestion good. Fresh and fttll.flavored always ni ha' Wax. wrapped package. 4seue No, 40...46, taking. • • But pulling himself together, he. advanced in a straight line towards the indicated shack. It stood alone in the midst of a clearing, with a hill rising behind it, every available inch of which was ablaze with flowers. In front lay the winding river and hills upon hills beyond, with snow -peaks rising to the sky. He marched on, stumbling now and again over some rut in the track, and keeping his eyes fixed on the half -open door, And, presently, it was drawn back from within, and a man came out—a long, gaunt' man, in top boots into which his trotisers were pushed, and a digger's shirt of grey flannel,. open at the throat, and guiltless "of a collar. est in the world, surely. I've never seen anything to touch it!" "Nor anyone else. But don't for- get that you see it now under the most. favorable conditions. We have eight. months of an Arctic winter when the Yukon comes to its own, returns to its primal silence and desolation. You can't getover eight months of Arctic winter. It'll effectually bar the way to further progress—in the ordinary sense, I mean. Personally, I think the Yukon in its primal state is some- thing ome-thi g •nearer heaven and all the m s- tef s of eternity than any other bit of the earth! And I'm a Hard-headed Yonker from Albany—and don't you forget it!" "Well now,"' said Garvock, trying to shake off the singular spell he felt being woven about him, "this Gold- water Creek ---how does one get to it?" "Xau'll have to go back on the trail about forty or fifty miles --nothing. in this weather! The day after to -mor- row the stage starts on the return journey—probably the last of the sea- son. Would you like me to go with you?" Garvock hesitated a moment, and the Yankee was quick enough to grasp the significance of that brief hesi- taney. "No. Of course you don't want any strangers messing about the family • bgathering. I ought to have known etter, Well, then, where are you stopping? Will you come alid ,lunch with ,1na at my place? I'm a bachelor, but I'can do you fairly well." 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