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SYNOPSIS 8t?phen Drake, with his four-year old ion, la rescued from a blizzard by Jim Flynn, big timber operator, whom Drake has robbed. Flynn forgives the theft, and Drake, until bis death, 1m presses on the boy. Stove, the debt they Vow* "Old Jim." Twenty years later, r*Bt?ve meets "Younn Jim" Flynn, his benefactor's son. Sent by Old Jim, In capacitated through an accident In which Kate, his daughter, is tempo rarily blinded, to take charge of the company's ? the Polaris ? woods op erations, the youth ts Indulging In a drunken sprced. Learning of Polaris' dire straits, and hoping to do' some thing for Old Jim, Steve hastens to the company's headquarters, lie finds Franz, a scoundrel, plotting against the Flynn Interests. Worsting Franz In a flat fight, the Polaris crew, by lucky chance, assumes that he Is Flynn's son, and he does not disillusion them. Steve takes charge, as "Young Jim." A photograph of beautiful Kate Flynn, which Steve finds, Immensely Increases his deslro to aid Old Jim. He learns MacDonald, eccentric old Scotsman, holds timber vital to the Polaris Interests. H 1 CHAPTER III? Continued ? s ? Steve decided to wntch I,aFane closely, Jost now lie was chaining some setters and, after a moment, ?with a final playful toss of the young Pest child, set off Into the woods with two bird dogs. After he went, a great, gray creature that had been pacing at his chain length while LaFane sat on the bench, but which lay fiat, head on his paws, while the man was near, rose to his feet. He resumed that restless pacing, back and forth, back *nd forth, watching the children with ears stiff, . . . For another hour .Steve and McNally talked and might have continued so nntll noon had not a shrill, long drawn scream brought them to their feet Steve was first to the window. Fie saw LaFane's three children on the beach, walking toward the store, the youngest with a hand held by each of the others. The scream came again and they turned and saw what Drake saw, a huge, wolf-like dog, a length of chain attached to his collar curling and snapping behind him, racing along the sand,' head low, the hair along Ills back on end. A man appeared In the doorway of the store, looked out and whirled back. The children stood still an Instant and then the eldest, with a frightened cry, ftugged at the baby's hand and ran for sanctuary. "Come on !" cried Drake. "Get a gun, Mac !" He vaulted out the window and ran to intercept the dog but he could not cover the distance rapidly enough. He could hear the ragged roar In the ani mal's throat as he swerved a hit to circle the quarry, could see the orange glitter in his eyes and the flicker of saliva on his lips. "Hi 1" he yelled In a voice sharp with fear. "HI, you 1" He might as well have whispered to the winds of heaven ! The children had stopped, were hud dled together ns the dog. lashing with his fangs at the youngest, ripping a slash in her dress but evidently miss ing flesh, went past, whirling to a stop. His feet clawed in the wet sand for hold to turn a"hd be at them again. The man reappeared in the store doorway, rifle butt against his cheek. "Don't shoot !" Steve cried. "Don't ? M No need of that warning: the man saw that he could not send a saving bullet without grnve danger of having It Injure the child. He came down the steps, limping badly, and hobbled for ward. The largest girl, sweeping the others behind her protectlngly, stooped, scooped her hands full of pehhles and sand and as the dog rushed her, fangs bared, flung the grit full In his face. It drove him, blinking and raging, from his course, made his rush harm less and gave Steve Drake time to close In. No more than time. The dog leaped for the baby and bore her down. The teeth had missed a hold hut Steve saw blood on the child's cheek where a paw had rnked. as he raised a foot for the kick that lifted the animal, spun him about and threw him clear of the little girl. "Pick hor up I Oet her away! Kim!" he shouted to the largest, stamping and kicking at the dog. Ills toe caught the beast on the point of the nose ns he leaped In to accept this challenge. With a short [ yelp the creature backed away, cir cling, and Steve, not taking his eyes from him, stooped and seized a stout hardwood stick which lay on the sand. The dog had forgotten the running children, evidently. He circled the man, Jaws drooling, eyes fixed. Steve, turning as the dog moved, braced him self for the rush which he knew would come. When It did come It was with that suddenness which only a creature with the wild In his blood could summon. He hurtled straight at the man. . With a grunt, Drake put the whole of his strength into the hlow. The club caught the anltnal along the ribs, knocked the breath from him In s belching grunt and sent him roiling. He went over twice, chain wrapping about his body, and even though the man closed quickly, raining blows, he scuttled free and circled briefly at a safe distance. Once again he rushed, hurling his hundred pounds of fury through the air, straight for Steve's throat. Thjs tlltt* the club cauftht him atop the skull a i he ifc'*?nt down with a yelp. ? ? By HAttOLD TITUS Copyright by Harold Tltua ' WNll Sarvlc* The limping Individual with the rifle was close, shouting, his weapon at his shoulder. "Put up that gun 1" Steve snaj^ped. "You'll get me ? " He struck at the dog's back. but the animal threw himself sideways, going with the blow and, scuttling a few feet to safety, whirled again. "Now !" panted McNally, coming with a gun himself. "Get back I I'll fix him !" "Let him alone," said Drake, lifting his eyes Just long enough to see the children disappearing Into the doorway of the store, to see their moth?r, who had run past him, close behind them. "This seems to be a kind of personal matter." Indeed It was. The look In the dog's eyes was of such unmistakable hatred, so Intense, so personal that It carried a direct challenge. Again a rush, but this time the ani mal feinted, went under the swinging club and slashed at Steve's thigh as he passed. The fangs missed by inches. But the next time the club found its mark, blood slavered from the dog's lip and he backed off slowly, grudgingly until Prake, setting his foot on the dragging chain, checked his retreat Steve walked down that chain with the precision of a tightrope walker, keeping his full weight always on it, and the dog, digging Ijls feet Into the sand, strained backward with all his strength, throwing his head from side to side as he sought to tear free. . . . The animal was belly down, now, and Drake raised the club high. One fair blow on the skull and ? "I/et me take him," said a voice close behind. LaFane was looking at the great beast, face unperturbed, but he was But th? Next Tim* tho Club Found It* Mark. breathing quickly and when he turned his gaae to the others an expression lay In the eyes such as Drnke had never seen before. "What you were going to do would spoil my chance," he said quietly. "Chance?" Steve demanded In credulously. "Chance for what?" "To save myself in the eyes of my children, perhaps. I>et him go . . . please." Amazed. Drake hesitated ; then took his weight from the chain. The dog turned to skulk away, licking his chops. LaFane Rpoke : "Duke!" The word wns crisp and sharp, not loud. "Come In!" The animal hesitated, stopped; the tall dropped between his legs, he low ered his head In shame or fear. "Come In !" his owner Insisted and snapped his thumb. Slowly, then, belly to the sand, the dog slunk toward him. "flood Lord, man, are you going to keep that thing around after what al most happened?" "Yes," said LaFane. "And because of what almost happened." He searched Drake's fare and his mouth twitched. "If I killed him before I made him safe for them, what would the children think of me?" Steve scratched his head. "Well, that's one way to look at It," lie muttered. "Rut what . . ." LaFane, evidently, wns not Interest ed In what Drnke had been rbont to ask. "Heel I" he said and started for the store, dog close behind. lie did not look at the creature ngaln. The children nnd his wife were In the doorway, the woman trying to still tho frantic crying of the youngest. The man brushed her aside, almost roughly. He took the babe In his hands nnd held her out before him. Then, with a quick movement, he crushed her close, putting his cheek to her scratched cheek, wrapping his arms about her. lie started off for his home as others approached. The dog slunk st his heels. As he passed, Drake saw that tears were on the man's fnce, "A queer one, for sure," he snld, thinking of McNally's words. That afternoon Steve found LaFane In the store. "I want to send a telegram In to town," ho said "Can you start early In the morning?" "I will start now," he snld. "That's fine of you but It Isn't nec essary." "Anything you want of me I wlU do, Young Jim,** LaFane said quietly. "If you had not been here . . . He shrugged. "1 have you to thank for something which Is priceless." He went out abruptly and Steve felt that In those few words he had con veyed as much feeling as most men could In an oration. The message which Steve sent out, addressed to Katharine Flynn, was as follows : "Am on Job. Situation bad but i nothing Is impossible. Don't expect letters until I have something to re port. Jim." He had experienced some qualms about the signature, but It hud to be. No concern would be content to know i that a stranger held Its destinies In J his hands and he knew that the truth would be the last straw for the burden which Old Jim and his daughter bore. Immediately, he commenced Inform ing himself of the Polaris holdlnga He went to inspect the proposed route of the railroad, temporarily, at least, blocked. He looked over other possi ble routes; all, he agreed, were out of the question because of the nature of the terrain. "It looks," he told himself, "as though we'll have to beat either Franz or this other man, MacDonald." On the fourth day, after meeting with Wart In and the wood-choppers and conceding to their demands, feel ing guilty at spending another's money and yet bolstered by the knowledge that It was the only way out, Steve set out te Inspect the lower river. McNally was busy and Steve, want ing gome one familiar with the coun try along, asked LaFane to go In the canoe with him. For a mile no word was spoken. Then LaFane said, "This Is the I^aird's line." Steve was wondering about the own er and how he might be approached when they shot around a sharp bend, coming from strong current to a quiet, velvety pool. It was a surprise to see another canoe there, and a sort of shook to oh serve Franz In the stern, holding It In the shallows by a paddle against bottom. A decided shook, however, to meet the peculiarly angered glare | turned on him by the white-haired mountain of a man who sat In the bow, a fly rod in his huge hand*. "Thanks !" was his first word, spoken bitterly. "Thanks, Meester LaFane 'nd yer companion! Thanks fer puttln' doon th' grandest fish that swims th' stream I" Steve turned the canoe quickly iito the shallows and brought It to a halt. "I'm sorry, sir!" he said. ''We couldn't see around the bend. I didn't know ? " "Seel Know! What gude'd It've done, had ye? What glide to me. I'd choose to know!" Ills gray eyes burned. "1 wouldn't have done lt^ for the world, sir!" Steve protested. ~"T know what It Is myself, to work over a fish." "Ay! Wl' spinner, likely! Most yoong men use th' spinner. They're not anglers; It takes an angler to ken !" "Yes," Steve agreed. "A splnn, r fisherman, a plunker wouldn't under stand. For them, a fish Is meat. For the dry "fly" . . , He's something else again. I'm sorry. Come on. LaFane." He spun the canoe about and they proceeded. He was conscious that the Scotchman was eyeing him. somethlnc like puzzlement evidently mingling with Mb HI humor. LaFane spoke after n time: "It's little things that touch hun ofT . . . or win his friendship. Likely, he won't speak to you for months." They rounded a hend or two nnd the voice of the river became a mutter. "We stop here," LaFane said. "That's Twenty Mile rapid below us. A man don't run It unless he has to. And then, only some get through." They beached at n trail nnd stepped out. A sharp hend was below n-id following the nnrrow ledge of rocks, they moved nlong to where they could see the beginning of the rapid. Stevi shrugged as he surveyed the rock strewn torrent. "Franz did it once," LaFane said, ns though sensing what his companion's shrug Indicated. "Two years ago. It s what got hi in Into good standing with MacDonald. MacDonald couldn't do It even In his younger days, nnd he was a good man, too. Some men nre like that : they'll have nothing to do with any other until ho can beat them at something they're good In. Franz Is no fool." Steve thought this Inst might have been added as * warning. And ho thought agnln thnt this compnnlon wns n strange creature. The Laird was not In sight on their roturn and when they came to the pool where his great trout lived Steve called n halt and sat there for many minutes, peering down Into the dark water. It was A .iuperb lair for ? hlg fish, presenting Hazards which would put the best of anglers to n disad vantage. For some time they r<v i malned there, moving up and down | while Steve, though saying little. ] studied the character of the hend. | As they entered Good-Bye lakeafcaln i La Fane, apropos of nothing at all, said : "Old Jim left a fly rod and tackle here two years ngo. t have fresh lend ers." "Thanks," muttered Steve an I grinned. This fel.ow wns good I (TO IIR Woman's Right to Thought of Self Weakness in Self-Sacrifice Is Without Sense of Proportion. A school to make wives selfish! That Is the demand of Mary Plek ford. "Women," she says, "ought to be taught how to bo reasonably selfish; there ought to be k school where they could learn. "Kindness Is sometimes the most devastating and weakening Influence. And wives especially make this mis take. It Is the unselfish ones who ruin themselves and everyone de pending upon them." One New Year's resolution she made, says our own Mary, and that was to treat herself as well as she treats the persons she likes best. That is not a bad resolution. Every wife and mother should show herself the consideration she shows those she cures for ? consideration for her health, consideration for her disposi tion, consideration for her looks. Her husband and childrer will benefit by nil of that. Rnt this writer takes Issue with our own Mary. No woman, and no human being on earth should be taught or learn now to be selfish. No wife ever made a mistake In not be ing selfish, nor can she do any good to anyone else or to herself by being selfish. Selfishness Is a poison thnt warps one's soul nnd leaves one for ever unsatisfied. It Is like a hole that keeps growing bigger as you try to fill It up. Nobody who has lived a while In this world and made observations can wish any woman to be selfish. It must be Just a confusion of terms be tween our own Mary's Idea of selfish ness and the real meaning of the word. Perhaps when she speaks of wom en losing by being unselfish -she means by being weak, by lacking stamina. She may he thinking of mothers who "spoil" their children by over-lndnlgence. But that Is not un selfishness. In fact it is something closer to selfishness, for It Is taking the easier way at the expense of the loved one. Perhaps by the too "kind" nnd "unselfish" wife our Mary means a stupid wife, or a wife without a sehse of proportion. She may have thought of a woman who Cld not know enough to "treat herself right" or one who js conception of love was the blind aqd unthinking adoration of a primitive slave for a mystic idol. If a school is necessary to correct such faults In women and wives, then let us have one by all means. But let us not confuse them with lack of selfishness, and leCXis not condone or approve or suggest to anyone that selfishness might be anything but what It Is ? something ugly and de structive and unsatisfying. ?. 13*11 Syndicate. ? WNU Servic*. 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