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SYNOPSIS.
.-CHAPTER I As a representative of
&fee toverament Gordon Elliot la on bis
"ipsjr to Alaska to Investigate coal claims.
"3 the boat he meets and becomes ln
vsted In a fellow passenger whom he
trns Is Sheba O'Neill, also "going In."
H3lbT Macdonald. active head of the land-
5?bblnff syndicate under Investigation,
uuoaxu. Macauniuu is aiiacncu uj
'vastne laborers whom he had discharged.
A-aa the active Intervention of Elliot prob-tijJUj-
saves his life.
CHAPTER II Elliot and Macdonald
10 in a measure friendly, tnougn tne
does not know that Elliot la on a
an whfrh threatens to snail Tilans of
oCftodonaId to acquire millions of dollars
trough, the unlawful exploitation or lm
t rt3iely valuable coal fields. Elliot also
v"jfets a line" on the position occupied by
""Wafcr Selfridge, Macdonald's right-hand
Va. who is returning from a visit to
btates, wnere ne naa gone in an
. to convince the autnorities mat
was nothlne wrong In Macdonald's'
"tastaoas.
SAPTER III Elliot secures an lntro
ftSsction to Miss O'Neill and while the
jyAt Is taking on freight the pair set out
vs climb a locally famous mountain. They
?$Bture too high and reach a position
"'cci which It Is Impossible for Miss
jTeill to go forward or turn back.
CHAPTER TV Etllot leaves Sheba and
"3t Imminent peril of his life poe for as-
v g&txnce. He meet Macdonald, who bad
.5eome alarmed for their safety, and they
f align and rftocu Sheba.
CHAPTER V Landing at Kuslak El
$ik finds that old friends of his, Mr. and
'"fxv. Paget, are the people whom Sheba
x Sim come to visit. Mrs. Paget Is Sheba's
SfOSBn. At dinner Elliot reveais 10 aiac-
Mr.
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&seld the object of his coming to Alas
ka. The two men, naturally antagonistic,
Saw also become rivals for the hand of
t't
CHAPTER VI Macdonald. foreseeing
3aauro of his financial plans if Elliot
iaars the facts, sends Selfridge to Ka-
'jSattlah to arrange matters so that Elliot
5rtH be deceived as to the true situation.
CHAPTER VII Elliot, on his way to
JuEtEuuiah. wanders from the trail. He
i ces his horse in a marsh and is com
f SftJjed to throw away rifle and provisions
6 9rtd all unnecessary clothing. After long
'i-'ftfOCffles he realizes that he will never
iJfrzah Kamatlah, and resigns himself to
'-'ioath.
CHAPTER VIII At Kamatlah. Gideon
"STblt, old prospector and bitter enemy of
'.Vaiodonald, learns of Elliot's coming and
"aatermines to let him know the truth.
vT4lfrldge has Holt kidnaped and taken on
ft "prospecting" expedition. Elliot, bare
- -jf dive, wanders Into their camp and Is
ired for.
CHAPTER IX Holt recognizes Elliot
-fcjd the two overpower the kidnapers and
a-ach Kamatlah. Holt gives Elliot the
rt.l facts concerning the coal lands deal.
CHAPTER X Having all the informa-
'n he wanted. Elliot, with Holt as guide,
-Ores back fo Kusiak. On the way they
i 'et a squ Meteetse. with her child,
-who Is Ma aald's son. Reaching Ku
xTTStfc Elliot k .mes convinced that Diane
riCre. Papi is doing her utmost to in
!!?.tJC Sheba to marry Macdonald. He de
''incmlaea to win her for himself.
CHAPTER XI Macdonald confesses to
-5Ueba that he had wronged her father In
mining traction and makes financial
3'stitut!on. Macdonald and Sheba be--siome
engaged, and Elliot is sent down
ihe river on official business.
CHAPTER XII Genevieve Mallory,
TToIventuress, who has determined to win
-Xftedo-ald, learns of Meteetse and her
chili 1 id sends for them to confront
"Cccdo-aid. They visit Sheba and she
T'irar the truth. Macdonald blames El
"' St fr bringing the Indian woman to
t'JCcelak Sheba breaks the engagement.
CHAPTER XIII Convinced that Elliot
"vi If ".iced Meteetse to visit Sheba Mac
Sooal: sends Selfridge to warn him to
i-.ve Kuslak at once, threatening to
-rfioot V.lm on sight. Elliot refuses to go,
czafi purchases a revolver.
CHATTER XIV Macdonald, carrying
-txrge im of money to pay employees, is
- issau! ! and badly hurt. Elliot rescues
ilm .t d carries him to Kusiak. Elliot is
arrest- I. charged with attempt to murder
. ISa. odor. aid.
CHAPTER XV Sheba and Diane visit
"tatttat and assure him of their belief in
i-itts Innocence. Macdonald's attitude puz---Bles
IDiane.
71a:.e. In deep thought, frowned
vJowa upon the wounded man, who
seemc-l already to have fallen into a
1 Usht f.eep. She told herself that this
"ws fme of Wally Selfridjre's devil
" iry. Anyhow, she would talk It over
Ti-th I'Uor.
VTh reason "Wally was so pleased
"Tifcii Iilmself was that he had dropped
a hint into the ear of the wounded
.cam siot to clear Elliot of complicity
-isrihe attack upon him. The news
tist the special investigator had been
. arrreetpd for robbery and attempted
2Krrarr, Cashed all over the United
States; would gc far to neutralize any
--report he might make against the va-
"SSdlty of the Macdonald claims. If to
tfcls vould he added later reports of
,. an Indictment, a trial, and possibly a
-conviction, it would not matter two
straws what Elliot said in his official
, statement to the land office.
"
'CHAPTER XVI.
''Gordon Spends a Busy Evening.
'"Paget smoked placidly, but the heart
"- -frfthin him was troubled. It looked as
If Selfridge had made up his mind to
;fcame Gordon for a prison sentence,
TEfceTvorst of It was that he need not
I' invent any evidence or take any
. chance3. If Macdoiiald came through
-.xefche stand with an identification of
'.-"'Slllot as one of bis assailants, the
? .young unan would go down the river
-33 -serve .time. There was enough cor
- :zoIoratiYe testimony to convict St
22?cter himself.
, Tm iust telling you what he said,"
"Paae-explained. "And it wbrried me.
: SSs-smUe was cynical. I couldn't help
linking that if he wants to get even
--rttk Gordon"
i 3rs. '-Paget stopped. The maid had
Jcst 'drought Into the room a visitor.
S3Sta moved forward and shoolrjaanda
do you- do,
Strong? Take this big chair."
Hanford Strong accepted the chair
and a cigar. lie came promptly to the
object of his call.
"I don't know whether this Is where
I should have come or not. Are you
folks for young Elliot or are you for
Selfridge?" he demanded.
"If you put it that way, we're for El
liot," smiled Peter.
"All right. Let me put it another
way. You work for Mac. Are .you on
his side or on Elliot's in this matter of
the coal claims?"
Diane looked at Peter. He took his
time to answer.
"We hope the coal claimants will
win, but we've got sense enough to
see that Gordon is in here to report
the facts. That's what he is paid for.
He'll tell the truth as he sees It. If
his superior officers decide on those
facts against Macdonald, I don't see
that Elliot Is to blame."
"That's how It looks to me," agreed
Strong. "I'm for a wide-open Alaska,
but that don't make it right to put this
young fellow through for a crime he
didn't do. Fact is, I like him. He's
square. So I've come to tell you some
thing." He smoked for a minute silently be
fore he continued.
"I've got no evidence in his favor,
but I bumped into something a little
while ago that didn't look good to me.
You know I room nest him at the ho
tel. I heard a noise In his room, and
I thought that was funny, seeing as he
was locked up in jail. So I kinder
listened and heard whispers and the
sound of some one moving about.
There's a door between his room and
mine that Is kept locked. I looked
through the keyhole, and in Elliot's
room there was "Wally Selfridge and
anothA man. They were looking
through papers at the desk. "Wally
put a stack of them in his pocket and
they went out, locking the door behind
them."
"They had no business doing that,"
burst out Diane. "Wally Selfridge isn't
an officer of the law."
Strong nodded dryly to her. "Just
what I thought. So I followed them.
They went to Macdonald's offices. Af
ter a while Wally came out and left the
other man there. Then presently the
lights went out. The man is camped
there for the night. Will you tell me
why?"
"Why?" repeated Diane with her
sharp eyes on the miner.
"Because Wally has some papers
there he don't want to get away from
him."
"Some of Gordon's papers, of
course."
"You've said it."
"All his notes and evidence in the
case of the coal claims, probably," con
tributed Peter.
"Maybe. Wally has stolen them, but
he hasn't nerve enough to burn them
till he gets orders from Mac. So he's
holding them safe at the office,"
rrvi f c e rt 1 C?4--vr rr
"It's an outrage."
"Surest thing you know. Wally has
fixed it to frame him for prison and to
play safe about his evidence on the
coal claims."
"What are you going to do about
it?" Diane asked her husband sharply.
Peter rose. "First I'm going to see
Gordon and hear what he has to say.
Come on, Strong. We may be gone
quite a while, Diane. Don't wait up
for me if you get through your stint
of nursing."
Gopher Jones let them into the ram
shackle building that served as a jail,
and after three dollars had jingled in
the palm of his hand he stepped out
side and left the men alone with his
prisoner. The three put their heads
together and whispered.
"I'll meet you outside the house of
Selfridge in half an hour, Strong," was
the last thing that Gordon said before
Jones came back to order out the vis
itors. As soon as the place was dark again,
Gordon set to work on the flimsy
framework of his cell window. He
knew already It was so decrepit that
he could escape any time he desired,
but until now there had been no rea
son why he should. Within a quarter
of an hour he lifted the Iron-grilled
sash bodily from the frame and
crawled through the window.
He found Paget and Strong waiting
for him in the shadows of a pine out
side the yard of Selfridge.
"To begin with, you walk straight
home and go to bed, Peter," the young
man announced. "You're not In this.
You're not Invited to our party. I
don't have to tell you why, do I?"
The engineer understood the reason.
He was an employee of Macdonald, a
man thoroughly trusted by him. Even
though Gordon Intended only to right
a wrong, It was better that Paget
should not be a party to it. Heluctant
ly Peter went home.
, Gordon turned to Strong. "I owe
you a lot already. There's no need for
'you to run a risk of getting Into trou
ble for me. If things break right, I
can do what I have to do without
helD."
-Ana rr tffey aon'tr Strong waved
an Impatient hand. "Cut It out, Elliot.
Pve taken a fancy to go through with
this. I never did like Selfridge any
how, and I ain't got a wife and I don't
work for Mac. Why shouldn't I have
some fun?"
, Gordon shrugged his shoulders. "All
right. Might as well play ball and get
things moving, then."
The little miner knocked at the door.
Wally himself opened. Eillpt, from the
shelter of the pine, saw the two men
in talk. Selfridge shut the door and
came to the edge of the porch. He
gave a gasp and his hands went trem
bling into the air. The six-gun of the
miner had been pressed hard against
his fat paunch. Under curt orders he
moved down the steps and out of the
yard to the tree.
At sight of Gordon the eyes of
Wally stood out in amazement. Little,
sweat beads burst out on his forehead,
for he remembered how busy he had
been collecting evidence against this
man.
"W-w-what do you want?" he asked.
"Got your keys with you?"
"Y-yes."
"Come with us.'
Wally breathed more freely. For a
moment he had thought this man had
come to take vengeance on him.
They led him by alleys and back
streets to the office of the Macdonald
Yukon Trading company. Under or
ders he knocked on the door and called
out who he was. Gordon crouched
close to the log wall, Strong behind
him.
"Let me in, Olson," ordered Sel
fridge. The door opened, and a man stood
on the threshold. Elliot was on top of
him like a panther. The man went
down as though his knees were oiled
"Did you want me for anything In
particular or just to get up a poker
game?" asked Elliot suavely.
The leader of the posse gave him
self to a job of scientific profanity. He
was spurred on to outdo himself be
cause he had heartTa titter or two "be
hind him. When he had finished, he
formed a profession. He, with Elliot
handcuffed beside him, was at the
head of it. It marched to the jail.
1 jf fir hM
Was on Top of Him Like a Panther.
hinges. Before he could gather his
slow wits, the barrel of a revolver was
shoved against his teeth.
"Take it easy, Olson," advised Gor
don. "Get up slowly. Now, step back
into the office. Keep your hands up."
Strong closed and locked the door
behind them.
"I want my papers, Selfridge. Dig
up your keys and get them for me,"
Elliot commanded.
Wally did not need any keys. He
knew the combination of the safe and
opened It. From an inner drawer he
drew a bunch of papers. Gordon looked
them over carefully. Strong sat on a
table and toyed with a revolver which
he jammed playfully Into the stomach
of his fat prisoner.
"All here," announced the field agenti
The safe-robbers locked their prison
ers in the office and disappeared into
the night. They stopped at the house
of the collector of customs, a genial
young fellow with whom Elliot had
played tennis a good deal, and left the
papers In his hands for safe-keeping.
After which they returned to the hotel
and reached the second floor by way
of the back stairs used by the serv
ants. Here they parted, each going to his
own room. Gordon slept like a school
boy and woke only when the sun
poured through the window upon his
bed in a broad ribbon of warm gold.
He got up, bathed, dressed, and
went down into the hotel dining room.
The waiters looked at him In amaze
ment. Gordon ate as if nothing were
the matter, apparently unaware of the
excitement he was causing. He paid
not the least attention to the nudging
and the whispering. After he had fin
ished breakfast, he lit a cigar, leaned
back In his chair, and smoked placidly.
Presently an eruption of men poured
Into the room. At the head of them
was Gopher Jones. Near the rear Wal
ly Selfridge lingered modesily. He
was not looking for hazardous adven
ture. "Whad you doing here?" demanded
Gopher, bristling up to Elliot.
The young man watched a smoke
wreath float ceillngward before he
.turned his mild gaze on the chief of
police.
"I'm smoking."
"Don't you know we just got in from
hunting you two posses of us been
out all night?" Gopher glared savage
ly at the smoker.
Gordon looked distressed. "That's
too bad. There's a telephone in my
room, too. Why didn't. you call up?
Pve been there all night."
"The deuce you have," exploded
Jones. "And us combing the hills for
you. Young man, you're mighty smart
But I want to tell you that you'll pay
for this."
CHAPTER XVII.
Sheba Does Not Think So.
The fingers of Sheba were busy with
the embroidery upon which she worked;
but her thoughts were full of the man
who lay asleep on the lounge. Hifl
strong body lay at ease, relaxed.
Already health" was flowing back into
his veins. Beneath the tan of the
thin, muscular cheeks a warmer color
was beginning to creep. Soon he would
be about again, vigorous and forceful,
striding over obstacles to the goal he
had set himself.
Sheba had sent him a check for the
amount he had paid her and had re
fused to see him or anybody else. '
Shamed and humiliated, she had kept
to her room. The check had come back
to her by mail.
Across the face of It he had written
In his strong handwriting :
"I don't welsh on my bets. You can't
give to me what is not mine.
"Do not think fos an instant that I
shall not marry you."
She moved to adjust a window blind
and when she returned found that his
steady eyes were fixed upon her.
"You're getting better fast," she
said.
"Yes."
The girl had a favor to ask of him
and lest her courage fail she plunged
into it.
"Mr. Macdonald, if you say the word
Mr. Elliot will be released on bail. I
am thinking you will be so good as to
say it."
His narrowed eyes held a cold glit
ter. "Why?"
"You must know he is Innocent. You
must "
"I know only what the evidence
shows," he cut in, warily on his guard.
"He may or may not have been one of
my attackers. From the first blow I
was dazed. But everything points to
it that he hired"
"Oh, no!" interrupted the Irish girl,
her dark eyes shining softly. "The way
of It is that he saved your life, that
he fought for you, and that he is in
prison because of it."
"If that is true, why doesn't he
bring some proof of it?"
"Proof!" she cried scornfully. "Be
tween friends "
"He's no friend of mine. The man Is
a meddler. I despise him."
The scarlet flooded her cheeks.
"And I am liking him very, very much,"
she flung back stanchly.
Macdonald looked up at the vivid,
flushed face and found It wholly
charming. He liked her none the less
because her fine eyes were hot and
defiant In behalf of his rival.
"Very well," he smiled. "I'll get
him out If you'll do me a good turn."
"Thank you. It's a bargain."
"Then sing to me."
"What shall I sing?"
"Sing 'Divided.' "
The long lashes veiled her soft eyes
while she considered. In a way he had
tricked her into singing for him a
love-song she did not want to sing.
But she made no protest. Swiftly she
turned and slid along the bench. Her
fingers touched the keys and she be
gan. Sheba paid her pledge in full. After
the first two stanzas were finished she
sang the last ones as well :
An' what about the wather when I'd
have ould Paddy's boat.
Is it me that would be afeard to grip the
oars an' go afloat?
Oh, I could find him by the light of sun
or moon or star;
But there's caulder things than salt waves
between us, so they are.
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Sure well I know he'll never have the
heart to come to me,
An" love Is wild as any wave that wan
ders on the sea,
'Tis the same If he Is near me, 'tis the
same if he is far:
His thoughts are hard an' ever hard be
tween us, so they are.
Och anee!
Her hands dropped from the keys
and she turned slowly on the end of
the seat. The dark lashes fell to her
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"I'm Going to lyiarry You, Sheba."
hot cheeks. He did not speak, but she
felt the steady Insistence of his gaze.
In self-defense she looked at him.
Continued next week
Old winter has recently loos
ened his grip to the extent of
about 40 degrees Fahrenheit
causing the spirits of our popu
lace to take a rise to about the
same extent.
A letter from Mrs. Lucian
Moore says the family is com
fortably located in their recently
acquired Kansas home, and that
they have a new automobile and
eight cases of measles.
Mr. G. W. Hayes, who has
been seriously ill for several
weeks, is some better.
Mrs. J. A. McFarland, Camp
bellsville, is at the bedside of
her father, Mr. G. W. Hayes.
Mr. Millard Williams, who has
been suffering from a complica
don of diseases is slightly im
proved. Three members of Mr. J. N.
I Conover's family and Welby Cof
fey, of this place, have measles.
Born, to the wife of Ed Turn
er, on Jan. 28th, a son.
Mr. A. H. Coffey, who bought
Mr Luther Williams' farm and
stock of coods at this place, has
about finished moving his per
sonal effects and is getting set
tled down to business. The
community is glad to have Mr.
Coffey, as he is a good citizen
and has an excellent family.
Measles continue to menace
the health of this section. There
have doubtless been 200 cases of
this malady in the neighborhoods
just south and east of Montpelier.
Perhaps this community has
never acquired and lost a citizen
whose removal from the com
munity met with a more univer
sal regret than that of Luther
Williams. Born and reared here
and connected from his youth
with the business at Montpelier,
he knew the custom and his line
from A to Z. His natural busi
ness tact makes him master of
any thing he turns his hands to.
Hence his sphere of usefulness
is one that cannot be easily du
plicated. Mr. Williams had
been for years superintendent of
the Sunday school at Pleasant
Hiil church and was a potent
leader in church affairs. To say
that he and his excellent family
will be missed by this communi
ty in matters of business, church
and social affairs puts it mildly.
It looks as if the whole Courier
Journal's editorial staff includ
ing "Marse Henry" would have
an extra attack of delirium tre
mens on account of the General
Assembly's hostility toward John
Barleycorn and continues to hurl
vociferous epithets ,at that body
for having voted on the National
constitutional dry amendment
before the voters of the State
have had a chance to express
themselves on that question.
This self appointed champion
of the people's cause in the pres
ervation of traffic in coffin var
nish will have a chance to un
load some of their anxiety when
a vote is taken on the dry amend
ment to the Kentucky constitution.
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