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*AGE TWO LURE OF HIDDEN GOLD CALLS "ROARING BILL” AND -4' HAZEL INTO THE WILDERNESS. ' -- - / - ' V • b 1 Synopsis.—Miss Hazel Weir, a 'ktcnographcr, living at Granville,^ Ontario, is placed under a cloud by circumstances for which she ds entirely blameless. To escape from the groundless gossip that pursues her'-she secures a position as schoolteacher at Cariboo Meadows, in a wild part of-British Columbia, There, at a boarding house, she first sees "Roaring Rill”'Wagstaff, a well-known character <»f that-country. Soon after her arrival Hazel loses her way whUc~,i5ajlkiug.J.fi( the woods. She wanders until night when she reaches ' Roaring Rill's*’ camp fire in the woods. He promises to take her home in the morning, but she is compelled to spend the night in the ■woods;—After wandering in the woods all the next day,‘"Roaring Rill" finally admits that lie is taking Hazel to his cabin in ffie’jniountains. Hazel finds upon their arrival at the cabin that she cannot hope to .escape from the wilderness lief ore spring. During the long winter "Roaring Bill” treats Hazel with the greatest respect. He tells her he loves her and tries to induce her to marry him, but she refuses. In the spring he takes her to Bella Coola, where she can get a boat to Vancouver. AC Vancouver Hazel takes a train for Granville, but on the way she realizes that she loves Wagstaff. and decided to return to him. "Roaring RiM” is-overjoyed and to gether they travel to a Hudson bay post and are married. manifested itself by suBflry yawns on their part, they went to bed. With breakfast over, Rill piH x a com pass in his pocket, after hnving'&rpund his ax blade to a keen edge. -N. : “Come on,” said he, then; "I’m going to transact some important business." J’What is It?” she promptly demand-' -* CHAPTER IX—Continued. ' —9-r- "This is July the twenty-fifth. Mr. Roaring Rill Wagstaff.” she announced. "We’ve been married exactly one month.” * . "A whoTe month?” 'he echoed, in mock astonishment. “You don’t say so? Seems like It Was on!}’ day before yesterday, little person.” “I wonder,” she snuggled up a-little closer to him, "if any two -people were ever as happy as we’ve been?” Rill put his arm nrross her shoulders and tilted her head back so that he could smile dowtn into her face. ‘‘They have been a hunch of golden d ivs, haven’t they?”'* lie whispered. "You won’t forget this jov time If we ever do hit real hard going, will you. Hazel?” “The bird of 111 omen croaks again," she reproved.* "‘Why should we come to hard going, as you call it?" "We shouldn’t,” he declared. "Rut most people do. And we might. One never can tell what’s ahead. Ry and by when the novelty wears off—maybe ' you’ll get sick of seeing the same old Rill around and nobody else. You see. I’ve always been on my good behavior with-you. Do you like me a lot?” Ills arm tightened wHh a quick and powerful pressure, then suddenly re laxed to let her lean hack and stare up at him tenderly.^ "I ought to punish you for saying things like that,” she pouted, “(inly I rnn’t think of any effective method. Sufficient unto the day Is the evil thereof—and there is no evil In our days.” "Amen,” he whispered softly—and they fell to silent contemplation of the rose and gold that spread In a, wonderful blazon oveV all the western sky. t 'Twenty-fifth of July. ch?'Mfe mused presently. “Summer's half gone al ready. I didn’t.realize it. We ough.t to be stirring pretty soon. lady. These northern seasons a re-so blessed short. We ought to try and do a little good for ourselves—make bay while the sun shines. We’jl needn da nionV”-* "Needa fiddlesticks,” slm laughed..! “What do we need money for? It costs practically nothing to live up here. Why*this sudden desire to pur- most; natural tiling in the w : orld. And when we go out to mix with our fellow humans we want to meet them on terms of ^worldly equality. Which Isf to say with good clothes on, and a fat bank roll in our pocket. And last, but not least, old girl, while I Jove to loaf. I can only loiif about so long in con tentment. Snbe? I've got to be doing something; whether it was profitable or not has never mattered, just so it was action.” v "I sabe, as you tall it,” Hazel smiled. Of eo.urse I do. Only lazy people like to loaf all the time. I love this place, and we might stay here for years and be satisfied. But—” "Rut 'we'd be better satisfied "to stay if we knew that we could leuve It whenever we wanted to,”- he inter rupted. “That’s the psychology of the human animal, all right. We don't like to be coerced, even by circumstances,” “If you made a lot of money mining. ed with much curiosity. "This domicile of ours, girt," fie told her, while he led the way through the surrounding‘timber, "is ours only by grace of the wilderness. It’s built-on unsurveyed government land — land that I have no more legal 'claim to than any passing trapper. '* But. I’m going to'., remedy that. I’m going to formally stake »a hundred and sixty, acres of this and apply for its pur chase. Then we’ll have a cinch on our home. We’ll always have a refuge to fly to, no matter- where we go.” She nodded appreciation of this. The cabin In the clearing, stood for some of thoke moments that always loom large and unforgettable In every wom an’s experience. She hnd.^come there ; once in hot, shamed anger, and she had coine again as a bride. It was the handiwork of a man she loveH with a passion that’ sometimes startled '>her by its Intensity. Just the mere pos sibility of that place being given Over to others roused in her a pang of re sentment. It was theirs, hers arid Rill’s, and. being a woman, she viewed its possession Jealously. So she watched with, keen interest what he did. Which. In truth, was simple enough. He worked his way to a point southeast of the clearing till they gained a' little rise whence through the treetops they could look back and see the cabin roof. There Rill cut off an eight-inch Jack pine, leaving the stump approximately four feet high. This lie hewed square, the four fiat sides of the post facing re spectively the cardinal points of the Compaq,” On one smoothed surface Rill set to work with his pocketknlfe. Hazel sat down and watched while Ije busied himself at this. AntT^nhen he- eye, carried in a pair of leyaks six, weeks’ supply of food. Bill led the way, seconded by Hazel on easy-gaited Silk. B,eh)nd her trailed the pack horses like dogs well-broken to heeK patient under their heavy burdens. Off the east .the sun was barely clear of N Vhe towering- -.itockies, - and— the woodsxwere still cool and shadowy, full of arbtnntic odors from plant and tree. There was- noNpionotony in the pass ing days. Rivers \burred their w^y. pas* These they forded orNiwnin, or ferried a makeshift raft of logs, as Seemed most .fit. Haps and mishap^tike 1 they- accepted with an equable spint and the true philosophy of the trail—to take things as they come. When riYin deluged them, there was always shel ter to be found and fire to warm them. If the flies assailed., too fiercely, a smudge brought easement of that ill. swift glance of admiration at Hazel, and they passed with ’a mutual “so long.” ‘ "What do you think of that, old gjrl?” Rill observed presently. "A real, honest-to-goodness railroad going by within a hundred miles of .our shack Three years. It’ll he there be fore we knew It. We’ll have neigh bors to burn.*' “A hundred miles !” Hazel laughed.- - ^ “Is that your, idea of a neighborly dis tance?” /• ~~ “What’s a hundred miles?” he de fended. "Two 4 days’ rfde, that’s all. And the .kind rtf people that come to awful pains—a n d nothing seemed to do me any good. A friend advised mo to take Lydia ET Pinkham’a V e g e? table Compound. I did eo and got re lief right away. I can certainly re commend this valu able medicine to other women who sutler, for it has done such good U work for me and I know it will help others if they will,give it a fair trial.” —Mrs. Lizzie Courtney, 108 Sth Ave., West, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Why will women drag along from day today, year in and year out, Buffering settle In a country like this don’t stick such misery astiid Mrs. Courtney, when^ we could travel—one could do lots of,. . tiling." »he "I don’t * h * "**! I’d want to live in a city again-. Rut It would be nice to’-go there, some times.” "Yes. dear girl,' it „would." Rill agreed. "With a chum to help you en joy things- We cap do things together that I couldn’t do alone, and you couldn’t do alone. Remains only to get the wherewithal. And since I know how’ to manage that with a minimum nmount of effort, I’d like to be about It before somebody else gets ahead of me. Though there’s small chance of that.” "We’ll be partners,” said she, “How will \ye divide the profits, Rillum?” "We’ll split even,” he declared. 'That Is, I'll make the money, and you’ULspend it.” They chuckled over this Conceit, and ns the dusk closed in slowly the*y fell to planning the details. Hazel lit the lamp, and In Its yellow glow pored thefr route on a sheet of puper. His letters: W. WAGSTAFF’S S. E. CORNER. • Then he penned on a sheet-of let ter paper a brief notice to the effect thnMie, William Wagstaff, intended to apply for the purchase of the land em braced in nn area a half mile.square, of which the post was the southeast corner mark. This notice he fastened to the stump with a few tacks, and sat down to rest from his labors. "How long do you suppose that will stay there, and who Is there to rend it if it does?” Hazel observed. "Search me. The moose and the deer and the timber wolves, I guess.” Rill grinned. "The chances are’ the paper won’t last long, ivith winds and rains. Rut it doesn’t matter. It’s sim ply a form prescribed by the land act of Rritish Columbia, and, so long as I go through the legal motions, that lets me out. Matter of form, you know.” The Surveyor Lifted His Hat With a Swift Glance of Unconcealed Ad- miration at Hazel. i over maps -while Rill idly sketched^, -“Then what else do you haw to do?" sue the dollar? Resides, how are you going to pursue lt?Y <■ "Go prospecting,” he replied prompt ly. “Hit the trail fur a place I know where there’s oodles of coarse gold, If How’d you eap get to It at low water, you like to go Into the Upper Naas country this fall, trap all winter, work the sandbars In .the spring, and come out v pext fall with a sack of gold It would take a horse to pack?” J Hazel CRmped her hands. vv ()h. RllhWmildn’t that he fln'e?”sne cried. "I'd love' "It won’t be nllNimooth sailing.” he warned, “It’s a long lrlp and a hard one. and the winterWiR^hf longer and Pored Over Maps While Bdl Idly a Sheet of I* II harder than the trip. StiIK there s p chance for a good big stake/Xight In that one trip." i "Rut why the necessity for ninKTqg a stake?” she inquired thoughtfully! nfter a- lapse of five minutes. T thought you didn't care anything about money so long as you had .enough to gef along on? And we surely have that We’ve over two thousand dollars In real money—and no place to spend ™4t—so we’re compelled to save.”- Rill blew a smoke ring over his head and watched it vanish up toward the . dusky, roof- beams -before he answered, "Well, little person." said.be. "that’s v4*rv lrue. utul we can’t truthfully saw that stern necessity 1s tivt.dlng on our heels. The possession of money .has never been a Crying need with me. But I hadn’t many wants when I was playing a lone hand, and I generally let the furure tuke "care of Itself. It was always easy to dip up money enough to buy hooks and grub or. anything I waited. Now? that I’ve assumed n.oer- tain Sketched Their Route on Paper. objective lav east of the head of the Naas proper, where anrfd a wild tangle f . mountains and mountain torrents thiH^* turbulent rivers, the Stlklne7the Skecbtt and the Naas, took their rise. A Godforsaken region, he told her, where fewNyyhlt e. men Imd-ponet rated. The pe/jks fliHedwith the.clouds, and their, stdos wa-re'scarred With glaciers. A lonesome, brood! of a vast and seldom-'hamken silence. “Rut there’s all kinds fur In there,” Rill remurbeiKJhougiit fully. “And gold. Still, it's’ country for n man to take Ids-b^fSurl into. I don’t know whethej to tackle i,t.” ’ <■ •“We-couldn't he njofe"Isolated wo are here." Haiel argued, "if we were in the Ajniki Look at that poor woman at -Felt House. Three babies born since she saw a doctor or another wqman of her -ow n color f What’s a “Nothing hut furnish the money When the land department gets around to accept tny application.” he said. “I can get an agent to attend to all the details. Well, let’s take a look at our estate from another corner.” This, roughly ascertained by sight ing a line with the compass and step ping qff 8<80 yards, brought them up on a knoll that commanded the small basin of which the clearing was prac tically In the center. "Aha!” Rill exclaimed. “Look at our ranch, would you; our widespread acres basking in the sun. A quarter section is quite a chunk. Do you know I never thought much about It before, hut there’s a piece of the finest" land that lies, outdoors. If this coun try should get a railroad and settie up, that quarter, section might produce all the Income we’d need. Just out of hay and potatoes. How’d you like to be a fa rmer’s wife, huh?”— “Flpe.” she smiled. “Look at the view—it isn’t gorgeous. It’s^—lt’s sim ply peaceful and quiet and soothing. I hate to leave It.” “Better he sorry to leave a place Each day was something more than a mere toll of so many miles traversed. The unexpected, for which both were eager-eyed, lurked on the shoulder of each mountain. In the hollow of every dool canyon, or met them boldly in the open, naked and unafraid. v ■ Bearing up to-where the Nachaco debouches^ from Fraser lake, with a Hudson’s huyNfur post and an Indian mission on its eastern fringe, they came upon a blazed line in the scrub timber. Roaring Rill ^pulled up*, and squinted away down the narrow lane fresh with ax marks. “Well,” said he, “I wonder what’s coming off now? That looks like a survey line of some sort. It Isn’t a trail—too wide. Let’s follow It a while. —— lightly. “Come on. let’s pike homejrfid get things in order for the lopg"trail, woman o’ mine. I’ll tench yrfu bow to be “I’ll bet a nickel.” he asserted next, “that’s a railroad survey.” Half an hour of easy Jogging set the seal of truth on his assertion. They came upon a man squinting through a brass Instrument set on three bgs, directing, with alternate wavlngs of his Tfiifspread hands, certain activi ties of other men ahead of him. “Well. I’ll be—’’ he bit off the sen- tence, and stared n hioraent In frank astonishment at Hazel. Then he took off his hat and bowed. “Good morn ing.” he greeted politely. “Sure," Rill, grinned; “We have mornings like this around here all the time. What alj are you fellows.doing in the wilderness, anyway’ Railroad?” “Cross-section work for the G. T? P.,” the surveyor replied,' -' “Huh,” Rill grunted. “Is it a-’dead cinch, or Irlt something that may pos sibly come to pass in the misty fu ture?” , in sight of the cars, mer—need lots’of * lbow room, be hardy souls looking for a location \ip. where we are before very long. You’ll see." Theyxi )asse d other crews of men. surveyors\ with transits, chainmen, stake driven**, ax gangs' widening the path through The timber. Most of them looked at Hazel in frank sur prise-,.and stared lonfNjfter she passed by. And when an open'Kottom beside a noisy little creek show«Hl the scat-"j tered tents of toe survey camp, Hazel sold: / " ^ s v~~ "Let’s notXtop, Bill.”, He looked back oyer his shoulde with a comprehending smile. "Getting shy? Make you uncom fortable tq have all these boys look at you, little person?” he bantered. "All right, we won’t stop. Rut all these fell<Avs probably haven’t seen a white woman for months. ’ You can’t blame them for admiring. You do look good to other men besides me, you know." , So they rode through the camp with but a nod to the aproned cook, who thrust out his head, and a grny-lmlred man with glasses, who bumped over » a drafting board'under ftn awning. Their noon fi^e they built at a spring five miles hevond.\ At length they fared Into Hazelton, which is the hub of a vast area over which men pursue gold and furs. Some hundred odd sopfs were gath ered there, where the stern-wheel steatners that plvxhe turgid Skeena reach the head or navigation. A land- .recording office and a mining recorder Hazelton boasted as proof of Its civic importance. The mining recorderV* whoxmnhined in himself many capaci ties besides his governmental functions undertook' to put through Bill's land deni. He knew Rill Wagstaff. "Wise man.” be nodded, over the de scription. "If some more uh these boys that have blazed trails through this country would do the same thing, they’d he hetter off. A chunk of land anywhere In this country is a good bet now. We’ll have rails here froth , the 'const in a year. Better freeze onto a couple uh lots here in Hazel- ton. while they’re low. Re plumb to the skies in* ten years. Natural place for a city. Rill. It’s astonishin' how the settlers Is cornin’." There was ocular evidence of this last, for they had followed In a road well rutted from loaded wagons. But Rill Invested In no real estate, not withstanding the positive assurance Thi'v’rp like 8uch letters as this are continually being There’ll Published. Every woman who Buffers from displacements, irregularities, in flammation, ulceration, backache, ner vousness, or who is passing through the Change cf Life ehould ^ive this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, a trial. For special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. ' The result of its long experience is at j’pur service. Quit Laxatives, Purges; Try NR NR Tonight—Tomofrow Feel It Is a mistake to conttnuafijr yourself with so-called laxatlye pills, .•alomel, oil, purges and cathartics and fores bowel action. 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YAGERS LINIMENT RELIEVES PAIN and the coming boom that would make them all rich, Rill Wagstaff added two GILBERT hhos.z co„ lUltlmore,Md. more poniesTd hls^ack train. These rito&T PROOP-cabbaoc PLANTS he loaded dowrv with food, staples only, Byexprckv buyer paring chargee. p J,, "— sugajv"beans, salt, ten and eof- —’ * flour. 1 i fee, and a sack of dried fruit. Also “As near «- cinch as. anything ever he i^owed upon Nigger a further is.” the surveyor answered. “Construe- of six dozen steel traps. tlon has -begun—at both ends thought Jthe few white folks l country kept tab on unythifi^as Im portant as a new railroa "We've honrdbJL lot^but hone of ’em f. O. b. here 100. Xy 1.UU0. tUAU And In the cool of a midsummer morning, before Hazelton had rubbed the sleep out of its collective eyes and taken up the day’s work of discussing its future greatness, Roaring BUI and *i w i at; 1.74 has transpired yef; not in my time, wife draped the mosquito nets ove anyway, replied dryly. and turned ever, the jworld keeps on moving. I’ve lore or less talk of thls.'but I It had got past the talking than glad to get away,” he answered^Tstfcge. WhhUs their Pacific terminal?" odland vngabor .y ” ■ En Route. - rjf since Hazel had become n\Vnre t whatsoever her husband seUnbout doing he did swiftly and with inflex ible. purpose. There wasjio malinierer- Ing or doubtful hesitation. Once liis ipind was made up. he acted. Thus. the third day from the land stak ing, Lfiey bore away eastward from the el en ri n g\a cross a trackless area, trav eling hy tYht sun and Bill’s knowledge of the count "Some day tliero’U be trails blazed*, through here hy \ paternal govern- wlnter hy ourselves compared to that responsibility, It has begun to, And she didn’t .think it so great a j ment,” he laughed oV«£ his shrtujder, dawn on me that we’d enjoy life bet- j hardship. Don't you worry about me. [ “for the benefit of the public. But'wc modern labors of Hercules, ter If we were assured of a compe tence. We won’t stay here always. I’m pretty much contented-just bow. So are you. But I know from.past ex-* perlencc that the outside will grow more alluring as time passes. You’D get lopesome for dTlilzAtlon. It’s the “Prince Rupert—new town on a pe ninsula north ofstoe mouth of the Skeena,” said the surveyor. "It’s-a rush Job all the wH.v v thn>ugh. I believe. Three years to spike up me last rail. And that’s going some for a mm scon- tinental road; Roth the Dotninio B..,C^ gojernments have guaranty the company’s bonds away up Into mil lions.” ! ,.--v "Be ft great thing for this country— say, where does It cross the Rockies? —what's the general route.?” Bill asked abruptly. _ v - "Ooes over the range through Yeh lo’whead pass. From herejt follovvs the Nachaco jto Fort George, then up the Fraser by Teto-'iftlan (’ache. | through the pass', then down the Ath abasca till ib swit,rhes over to strike Edmonton.” V. “ITi-huh." Bill nodded. “One of the Well. their heads north. They bore out upon a wac^ifi road. For a brief distance only did this en dure. then dwindled to a^jiath. A turn in this hid sight of >he clustered log houses and tents, arid the two steam ers that lay up against the hank. Th« river itself was soon lost in the far stretches of forest. Once more they rode alone In the wilderness. For the first time Hazel felt a quick shrinking from the North, an awe of its huge, lent spaces, -which could so easily thousands such as they and still reinaltKn land untamed. . \ 600,’ l.OUO, 6.000 i 10.000 a} l’®PK?r Plant*. Roby King—May 1st deli Terr lunta, N. V. Improved. - •1251- POST PA 11> 000, 2.2ft) t. o. b. 100. ftCc 6.000 at 2.00J here 1.000, H vft D. F. JAMISON, SUMMERVILLE, H. C. Cuticura Soap Is Ideal For the Hands It sometimes happens that an firm-, est nmn employs a press agent to do his boasting for him. * Mr. BjJL 1 think It will he fun. I’m don’t need ’em. thank goodness.” 1 WP ; V e cot to peg. So long.’ a real pioneer nt henrtr The wild The buckskin., pony Hhzel had "Our camp’s ohouDflve mihV* ahead. places look good to me—when yrfu’re bought for trip In wUh Limping ; B e(ter „ t op In ami n®on.“ the ^irtveyor along. -i m, ‘C 1 v - c She received her, .duo. rewacxl fob that* and then, the long twilight h*v ? tnr brought the hour to a lateness that George ambled sedately under a pack containing bedding, e&thcs and a light shelter tent. The b’aek horse. Nigger. : turned'' u invited} "if It’s on your h*ad. M “Thanks. Maybe we will,". Bill re- he of the cocked ear and the rolling | •' \ ' • i The surveyor lifted his hat. with a Hazel oe^&^terrifying.glimpee of the ruthless way of the wil derness. * She learns that the great wide sp*> «• of the north are merciless to those who make mistakes. How she learns the lesson i§ told in the next iivVaH. ment. “ " .« tTd BE CONTINUED* CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that It Bears the . 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