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J V % M f-s' Page Two THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. Thursday, March 12, 1925. 1 iv/AL^HiIvo JIM PATHWAY SYNOPSIS.—Anderson. Uoy- ul ('imndlan Mounted Police ser- Keant, In eent to Stony ranKe to arreHt a man named. Pelly for murder He we, also Inatructed to look after JimUmjiway^ reputed head of the “Free Trad.?rB. , j Ullcl'L llijuor runnera. A< Lljtle Fj^lls he flnda Pelly la credited with havInK found a (fold mine, and la mlsalnK At the hotel appears a nirl, obviously out of place In the rouirh aurroundlngs. A half- breed. Pierre, and a companion. "Shorty." annoy the girl. An derson Interferes In her behalf. The girl sets out for Slaton Lake, which' Is also Anderson's objec tive He overtakes her and the two men with whom he had trou ble the night before. She Is bus- plclous of him and the two men are hostile. Pierre and Shorty ride on, Anderson and the girl following In the hills the road Is blown up, before and behind the twit. Andersop, with his horse, Is hurled down t.he moun tain side, senseless. Recovering consciousness, Anderson finds the girl has disappeared,, but he concludes she Is alive and prob ably In the power of Pierre and Shorty. On font he makes his way to Slston Lake CHAPTER V—Continued the 1 Satisfying himself that there was no way "f approach except hy water, un less there existed some trail across the swamps, which there was no time to find, Lee waded into the lake, then swam. * The current rati strong; the shock of the icy water at first numbed, tlmi Invigorated him. It cleared the douhts and fears of night from Ids brain. Swimming diagonally against the cur rent, in a few minutes Lee had reached the flat terrain at the base of the promontory. He waded ashore, shaking himself like a dog. On the terrain were heaped great mounds o/ waste and garbage from the encampment above; piles of disintegrating cans, rotting cases, In numerable bottles partly covered with the silt and protruding ^rom it accumulation of a long period. Looking through the mist. Lee per ceived a small York boat, of the kind used universfilly between Hudson's hay and the Mackenzie, riding moored against the rocky edge of the promon tory some distantT away. The elevation, long, low, and flat, formed an ideal fortress; with the only approach apparently hy water, It was evident that it would Ite a formid able proposition for any body of the police to attack, in (lie event of de fense. Lee began to make his" way across the terrain, keeping under the shelter of the eliff to escape observation_Isom the lints above. It was growing light now, and he could see the surround ings clearly. He reached the end of the patch of ground without coming upon any place by which It might lie possible to ascend to the summit of the promontory. He hurried hack, doubling on his tracks, examining the cliff in the other 'direction. He reached the other side* of the flat terrain, only to , nd that the elevation presented the same insur mountable (lank to him everywhere. Hut then of a sudden lie realized that the York boat must he drawn up at tiie point of entrance. And it was with tlds that he must make ids flight with the girl, beaching the boat across the water somewhere, taking to the forests. And without l|esitation he took to the water again and swam with steady strokes toward It. in two or three minutes ije had gained its side. The kidnapers must have left their horses at some PPfllk't 1 i>P in the forest and brought the girl by boat to Siston lake. And it was evident that they could not have arrived so much as an hour before. ' - The York boat was moored opposite a cleft in the great dome of the prom ontory, which offered easy access to the summit. Lee waded ashore once more. Hut before attempting the as cent he drew his automatic from its holster and examined it. The holster was lined with waterproof, and only a few drops glistened upon the surface of the, weapon. Sera milling up the acclivity, Lee saw the two huts amohg the trees im mediately overhead. He scrambled up tiie low wall of rocks, and was about to step on to tiie elevation when of a sudden a man came ont-of'the farther hut and made ids way toward the nearer one. Lee ducked ids head down Just In time to escape detection, and through the interstices between the bowlders he watched tiie man until he had en tered tiie hut immediately above him. He looked about forty years of age He was shorter than Lee, but appar ently of great strength He-had an untrimimAl black heard, lie walked with hunched shoulders, and there was a look of singular ferocity and cunning on his face. ‘ A dangerous, treacherous customer, Lf»e thought. Rathway! When lie had disappeared within the hut Lee stood up. Craning over the rocks, he could Just catch a glimpse of the interior. He saw the man standing over what looked like a camp bed, on which he could dis tinguish the hea*d and shoulders of a girl, lying perfectly still. Lee’s heart leaped. He gripped his automatic, levelled it- A aingle ahot from where he stood, vail aimed, would be auffleh lent. i And at tl^it moment'Instinct nod de sire struggled with discipline as never before, with tiie maxim Inculcated dur ing his eight years of service, never to tnke life ^except when life is in im mediate danger. Then discipline vyon. Lee let the muzzle drop. , And at that moment he heard the growling voice of the man. and the an swer of a third person Inside tiie hut— a woman. ‘ The words were Inaudible, and now, hesitating no longer, Ia-c- scrambled over the rocky ridge and made his way toward tiie door obliquely, so as to re main concealed from tiie sight of'those within. The man's voice rose In a falsetto snarl. “What 'do I mean to do with her? What would I do with her? She's mine, ain't slipT’ —"And wfint about me?” Low as the voice was, rvstrajned, yet passionate, some.thlng about it sent a sudden shiver through Lee, and for a few mo merits lie could only remain a help less listener, “You?" lie laughed. ‘‘You can stay on here's long us you want to, I guess. There’s IMerre and Shorty If you want a man—" "You coward!" Her voice was vi brant with Indignation'. "1 tell you you've made a mistake In bringing that girl here. You'll regret It. That mine doesn't exist. And when site finds you've fooled her, what are you going to do?” “So we’re jealous, are we? Well, I’ve been tired of you for a long time," he' Jeered. ".Mm—” There was desperate plead ing In the woman’s tones—"I gave up all for you. Let her go. Don’t cast me off. I love you, Jim—” And now Lee knew A mist trembled before Ids eyes, anti, gripping his auto matic, lie sprang forward to the door. He must have shouted, though lie w’as unconscious of everything Rut the desire to get Rathwny hy the throat. * Wheeling. Uathway swore, and then. I teed less of Lee's pistol, leaped. Hut in the moment before they .closed,' Lee saw tin* woman's face and knew her for ids dead hive, who had broken his life and changed It utterly —Estelle. ' / Lee did not shoot. Instinctively he obeyed that unwritten law of tiie po lice tradition not to take life stive In tin* last extremity. Hut the sight of tlds sinister figure, tiie wholly Incmliide presence there of Estelle, tiie woman who had wrecked his lift*, and tiie'girl lying tin conscious tin the hell In this man's power, aroused in Lee’s heart a sleep ing devil of whose existence lie had hardly been aware at any t+me in ids life before. He was conscious only of a mad de sire to kill, hut to kill with nature's own weapons. In obedience to man's Insynctive law. Clubbing ids automatic, Lee leaped to meet Rathway's charge, and breast to breast they met, rebounding like halls of rubber. Ratlsway’s hand shot out and grasped Lee's wrist before the weapon descended. Then, interlocked, they stood almost motionless, matched so evenly that helther budged an Inch before the'other for a full minute. Rathway’s sneering face was up turned to Lee’s. Malice and hate gleamed from ids bloodshot eyes. Re side them stood Estelle, with her hands ! open his arm. rescue her?" By Victor Rousseau ' (Copyrlsht' by ' W O Chapmun.) WNU 8«*rvlce, cession of pile-driver blows that fell like flails upon each other's faces and bodies. They clinched, rebounded, clinched again; then of a sudden Rath way got home a furious kick to the groin that sent Lee stumbling. For tiie flrstTltne Estelle screamed, and that aroused Lee to Hie conscious ness that tie must finish his enemy almost immediately, before aid arrived. He shook away the film that was creep ing over ids eyes, and, sick and nau seated from the kick, lie closed with Rathway again. They went to the floor of the hut together; and struggled there like two dogs In the dirt. 'Hiere was tin longer any attempt at fisticuffs. Tiie primitive instinct to rend and tear possessed both of them equally. They scrambled about the floor of tiie hut, clawing at each nth-, er’s throats. Lee got Rathway's heard in Ills riglit hand, and with Ids left began smiishing at Ins nose and lips. Rathway bellowed, his hands closed on Lee's thrnnt, clung there, worrying him like a bulldog. Lee felt that lie was fainting. He was slowly forced over; Rathway’s fingers closed on his -neck. f 'lla* two tightened, and the walls of tiie lint began to waver. Lee’s trachea flattened, his lungs felt as if they would hurst. Rathway grinned dbt> bnlirally Iffto Ids face; nis heard TTke some foul fungus swept It. Lee fl-hng Ids arms oat Instinctively to breathe. < >ne of his hands encountered some thing. It was the pistol. Lee's fingers closed on it. And. as if he concentrated till that was left of himself in his left hand, he raised the weapon and brought it crashing down upon Rathway’s skull. Instantly Rathway's clutch relaxed, ids eyes glazed, as chicken's eyes glaze at the moment of^huith. The man's head dropped foolishly forward on Lee’s breast. A stream of curses was cut off in foolish mutferings. Lee struggled to his feet and stood gasping fur breath, while Rathway, mumlding stupidly, swayed to and fro upon ids knees on the floor of the hut. Suddenly Estelle appeared ^to he galvanized into life. With a low cry stie run to Rathway's side, knelt down hy him. and'put her arms about Him. She drew his bend down on tier knees and began chafing ids hands. She. looked- at l.t'e in bitter hate. "Haven’t you done me wrong enough in the fiast, that you should come hens to kill my man?" she cried. "Do you think you J-erm iffrest^rtvim? Yon couldn't get a mile fHnm here before you would lie captured." Rut Lee, without paying any atten tion to her. hurried to tiie bedside, and looke.d down at Hie captured girl. She lay there, an unconscious, huddled heap, one knee bent under her. Her face was deathly white, and there was a scalp wound at the hack of her head which had heen bleeding freely. She breathed faintly. Her hair was cul Sdnirt and jagged about, her jielid, making her look "more than ever 11^ a boy. r Estelle laid Rathway gently “dnvfti and came toward Lee witli sudden comprehension. "It's for her?" she whispered earnestly, laying her hand' ‘You came here to She read the answer In ids eyes. "Oh, I'll help you. I'll help ydu, then !" she cried wildly. "You'll take her away! Trust me, then, and listen to me. There's no time for explana tions now. It's only a miracle of luck you found him alone. Some men are due at any nnjnient In the motorboat. Two more have gone to meet them message. hey re e s v A Single Shot From Where He Stood, Well Aimed, Would Be Sufficient. still clasped in the gesture That she had made at the moment of Lee's inter vention, struck dumb and" motionless With terror and amazement. Rathway was proving himself the stronger. Malice and hate became tri umph. derision; Lee's pistol hand was being bent hack. Lee adapted himself with quick Instinct to tiie discovery that he was tiie weaker in arm and shoulder muscles. As Rathway’s body slowly assumed a forward tilt, shifting his center of gravity, Lee syddenly drove his knee into the bnefe of Rath way. causing the man to stumble for ward. The impetus of the body pro jected against him sent the pistol fly ing out of Lee’s hand; but Lee„ ln4hij moment of Rathway’s loss of equipoise, drove his fist home Into his face, split ting his Ups and sending him reeling. In an Instant they were together again, delivering and receiving a anc- dov n the lake. There may be just time to escape tlilmi. You must take -the York boat; You can't pull It alone against tiie stream. Keep to tiie left channel past tiie island, then run ashore, and you'll he safe in tiie forest. wherever you are going. Hurry, hurry!” Let* made no audible reply, hut ids mind automatically registered Hs- teile’S instructions. He bent ovOr tiie girl again, raised her in ids arms so that her face rested—against his shoulder, and carried her out of the hut , As* lie turned at . tiie ^‘ntnince he saw that Rathway had risen to his knees again. Blood was drijiping from tiie wound —in his sea I p, and he was staring about him in Hie eager effort to remember. Lee crossed the open .space at,a run, scrambled down the descent, placed tiie girl In the .bottom' of the boat, and, seizing a pair of oars, be gan to pull furiously for midstream.. The current caught him and sent Ijim whirling -along toward tiie long, fiat, wooded island in the middle of the lake that came into view. In a minute or two, however, tiie flow of tiie river, diffused over the whole of the lake, eeased^o afford him any appreciable assistance. The heavy York boat responded only slightly to 1 the pull of the single oarsman, seem ing to creep on by inches, j Suddenly Rathway appeared tfpon tiie promontory, Estelle beside him, clinging to hltti. He pushed her from him, shaking his fist at Lee, and his hoarse, furious bellows came scross the water like the roaring of an en raged beast of the forest. For a few moments he ^ stood thus outlined against the rising sun; then he dis appeared. Lee struggled at the oars. From time to time he strained his ears to catch the sounds of the oncoming motor boat. Although the new arrivals would know nothing of Jiis activities at the promontory, he was pretty sure that any solitary oarsman ap pearing In that region would be stopped hy them; then he would be at their mercy, for Rierre and Shorty would be members of their party. If once he could round the point of the Island, where he would be out of sight both of Hie promontory and of the motor boat coming-up the chan nel, lie could {alii straight for theiake shore, take to the woods, make for tiie mission, where he meant to leave the girl f/»r safe-keeping. Lee folt his spirits rise. It was a matter only of a naif hour. And- there were two packs in Hie boat. With one of these they could live in the forest till she was aide to continue Hie journey. And, looking down at Hi" tmepnsiJoys girl, he felt again that odd sense of tender companion ship in his heart for her, fed, perhaps, hy the realization that the one thing he had dreaded had not come to pass. He had feared that if ever again he met Estelle Hie old passion for her would flare up in him. Now they had met, and that love of the past filled him only with wonder, and a vast pity for her, that she should have come to this—to lie tiie discarded companion of an outlaw. He no longer condemned her. He no longer resented his wrongs. It was as If a cleansing sponge had been passed over all that had happened. Tiie left channel between the island and the shore was almost blocked, in places, with reeds and water growth. It was a huge-, water morass of dead vegetation, nearly half a mile wide. A few more strokes, and lie- meant to {mil toward the lake's shore. Tiie pulling had grown to be an enormous effort. Lee was again con- scions of fatigue*—Tie felt dmwsy In tiie increasing warmth of tiie sun. He could have/alien asleep in a moment. Hut suddenly ills senses leaped into activity. From far away he had caught tiie urgent warning of immi nent danger, tiie faint put-putting of tiie motor boat. ing up the o^en channel hardly a stone’s throw distant. He could hear Rathway in It, bellowing commands to his companions. He could hear the reeds rustling against the boat's side as she forced her passage through them. "They're not In here!" he heard Rathway say with an oath. "Get into the channel and bent up the Island!” Lee, crouching In the stern of the York boat with his pistol In his hand, breathed a sigh of relief as the motor boat withdrew. The roar of her en gine begun to grow fainter. In a few minutes it had died away. Lee forced the York boat ashore upon the spit of sand, and stooping, raised the girl In his arms and carried her Into the shelter, of the spruce thicket, where he laid her gently down. For the first time since her injury, he had the opportunity of examining After Every Med CHAPTER VI Trapped on the Island ■ i And instantly he began straining at the oars again, redoubling Ills efforts RJ train tile shore before the motor boat rounded tiie point. And of a sudden his attention was attracted by something* creeping along the opposite shore. It was a small canoe and a single man in it— Rathway! It was Impossible not to admire the courage that Inspired -the man after Hie drubbing he laid received. Rath- way was, of course, on his way to warn tiie expected party. Lee drove hard for the left middle channel of the lake. The main body of Siston lake came into view, a rot+d expanse, of shining water, tlo bores receding Into tiie hazy distance, out of which ji small, black object be gan to be'visible, like a hug skimming the surface. Now Hie canoe containing Rathway was almost abreast of him. 1 A few more furious pulls—ten. fif teen; now canoe and motor boat and promontory were ail hidden behind j tiie point of the island. Lee labored at a the otirs, turning tiie York boat’s head : toward the hank. Once there, they would he safe. But his strength was, failing him. Curse Hie clumsy boat, which hardly seemed to move!’ The {Hitting of tin* motor engine had grojwn Infernally loud. It added a horror of its own to that sense of pur suit which makes something of a coward, tiie added hor ror of tiie fugitive who hears Hie dis tant hay of bloodhounds. Then suddenly the motor stopped. That meant that the canoe had come abreast of it. Rathway was passing the intelligence. And the shore was still a hundred yards distant. There was no chance of reaching It unobserved. It would he neck and neck for It. and it was doubtful whether Lee could have escaped alone, much less with the g^rl and the pack to carry. He swung the boat's blunt nose toward the nearest patch of reeds. Twenty yards! He {ait all his strength into that last effort. Now the reeds were closing about him. In front of him a little open channel ap peared. Fsing one shortened oar as a pnddRche drove vigorously, and.^ound himself in temporary safety^ A tnT/'k wall of reeds extended between him self and open water, rendering the York boat invisible. Then tiie motor began to roar. The shmrt* of its occupants became audible. The motor boat had rounded the point* Lee had escaped discovery by the skin of his teeth. And very cautiously, so as not *o betray his whereabouts by any un due agitation «f the reeds, Lee pushed the boat toward the Island. His plan must now be to’ drive ashore, trusting to escape detection until nightfall and to make tiie wooded shore of the lake in the darkness. Through the reeds the marshy fore shore began to be visible, and a sandy spit projecting to the water’s edge. Above It was a hummock overgrown with birch and red spruce, with a tangle of sheep laurel and birch and poplar behind It. Lee worked his heavy boat ttolae- lesaly toward this spit. But suddenly he stopped. The motor boot was com- Lee Forced the York Boat Ashore Upon the Spit of Sand, and Stoop ing, Raised the Girl in His Arms and Carried Her Into the Shelter of Sprues Thicket, Where He Laid Her Gently Down. her. Her prolonged'* unconsciousness alarmed him. / -> , _ But |he was beginning to revive at last, ami, after assuring himself that tiie pulse heat fairly* strong, he pro ceeded to make as thorough an exami nation as possible of lief - injuries. He turned his examination first to tiie cut in her head. He tore strips from his shirt, went down to tiie water ami cleansed them* thoroughly; then, returning, lie proceeded to wasli and bandage it. It was a bad gash from a rock, and she had bled a good deal, which was a good thing, relieving the concussion which had no doubt been Hie cause of the prolonged insensibil ity. Having ascertained that she seemed to have received no bodily In juries beyond contusions. Let* exam ined her limbs. He saw that one knee hung awry. In a moment he had Hie gaiter off, and discovered that tiie Joint had been dislocated. Short of the setting of a broken bone, there are few operations more V»ainful than the restoration of a joint into position, and Lee prayed fer vently that the girl's unconsciousness would last until lie had put to her service the knowledge which lie had acquired with tiie Canadian army medical corps upon tiie westerly'front. It was unnerving, holding thnf^vhlte with life, so fragile, delicate, so won derful when viewed as a piece of mechanism which he w as to manipulate like some clumsy journeyman, called in to repair tiie work of a master. fortunately Lee had assisted 1 * at precisely that same operation several times m tiie field; and, trying to dis regard Hu* fnoans or {tain that came from Hie girl’s lips as he proceeded, he fumbled with -the displaced hone. Rut that struggle was terrible, for the body of itself knows no dignity. (Ymselous, Lee knew that the- girl would neither have flinched nor moaned; but unconscious she could not control tiie protests of the body, which had to lie restrained hy some thing almost brutal in its frank vlo lence.' -JLlut Lee struggled on, feeling the shaft head of the hone scour tiie edges of the socket under the cap. 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