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w> Spoilers. I I By REX E. BEACH. Copyright. lOOo. by Rex* E. Beach. | I I [Continued from page 2.] V at Wheaton. A quarter of an hour later as they ^ Jay heaving below the ship's steel sides he thrust a heavy buckskin sack Into ^ the lawyer's hand. ' "There's money to win the tight. Bill. I don't know how much, but It's enough. God bless you. Hurry back!" A sailor cast them a whirling rope, up which Wheaton clambered; then, tying the gripsack to Its end. they sent It after. "Important!" the young man yelled at the officer on the bridge. "Government business." He heard a muffled clang In the engine room, the thrash of the propellers followed, and the big ship glided past. Aa Glenlster dragged himself up the beach upou landing Heleu Chester called to him and made room for him beside her. It had never been necessary to call him to her side before, and equally unfamiliar was the abashment or perhaps physical weariness that led the young man to sink back In the warm sand with a sigh of relief. She noted that for the first time the audacity was gone from his eyes. VAI1* M aha hatrfln * 1 waw, ucu JVUi & hv V| uuv i"It was very exciting, and I cheered for you." He smiled quietly. "What made you keep on after the hip started? I should have given up and cried." * MS? never flP anything that 1 -?Nrant," he said. "Have you never been forced to? Then It la because you are a man. Women have to sacrifice a great deal." Helen expected him to continue to the effect that he would never give her tip It was In accordance with his earlier presumption but he was silent, and she was not sure that she liked him as well thus as when he overwhelmed her with the boldness of his ault For Glenlster It was delightful, after the perils of the night, to rest In the calm of her presence and to feel dumbly that she was near. She saw him secretly caress a fold of her dress. If only she bad not the memory of that one night on the ship. "Still, he is trying to make amends In the best way he can," she thought. "Though of course no woman could care for a man who would do such a thing." Yet *>^8he thrilled at the thought of how he r^had thrust his body between her and ' danger, how, but for his quick. Insistent action, she would have failed In escaping from the pest ship, failed lu her mission and met death on the night of her landing. She owed him much. "Did you hear what happened to the good ship Ohio?" she asked. "No. I've been too Dusy to inquire. I was told the health officers quarantined her when she arrived, that's all." "She was sent to Egg island with every cne aboard. She has been there more than a month now and may not :get away this summer." "What a disappointment for the poor devils on her!" "Yes. and only for what you did, 1 should be one of them." Helen remarked. "1 didn't do much," he said. "The "Mating part is eesv. It's not half so hard as to give up your property and lie still while" "Did you do that because 1 asked .you to because I asked you to put aside the old ways?" A wave of compassion swept over her. "Certainly," he answered. "It didn't come easy, but" "Oh. I thank you," said she. "1 know it is all for the best. Uncle Arthur wouldn't do anything wrong. ntut Mr M<-V:imHrs l? an hnnnrnhlt* man." He turned toward her to speak, but refrained. He could not tell ber what he felt certain of. She believed in ber own blood and in her uncle's friends rand it was not for bim to speak of /-"-McNaniara. The rules of the game sealed bis lips. She was thinking again. "If only you bad not acted as you did." She longed to help bim now in bis trouble as be Lad helped ber, but what could slie do? The law was such a confusing, t Intricate, perplexing thing, k -I spent last night at the Midas," she E told him. "and rode back early this ^ morning. That was a daring holdup. 8 wasn't It?" "What holdup?" B "Why, haven't you board the news?" W- he answered steadily. "I just gorup." "Your claim was robbed. Three men overcame the watchman at midnight and cleaued the boxes." His simulation of excited astonishment was perfect, and he rained a ^ j?h twer of questions upon her. She with approval that he did not loofclier in the eye, however. He was P. notVjn accomplished liar. Now, McI Namjara bad a countenance of iron. I Unconsciously sha made comparison, f and t\he young man at her side did not lose thereby. "Yejs, I saw it all," she concluded, after p-ecounting the details. "The negro Ranted to bind me so that I could ( not telve the alarm, but his chivalry I prevented. He was a most gallant darky." "What did you do when they left?" "Why. I kept my word and waited * until they were out of sight; then I roused the camp and set Mr. McNa: gjara and ills men right after them ik 1 fB i OMNI t.'V 'h." " \iv n tl<?> zu!eh!" spoh* Glenlster. j r .* V Y'x. ' ! <?>. I)i 1 you 1 hoy J ... ;-;iV" She was looking j ?<r; -v*. ..t him !so\v. and lit dropped liis eye-?. "No; the posse started iu ! if- ;j- f.ij; i put theni rizbt." i There was : 1 odd li-_r!it ia her frluive. j ami lie felt the blood drittmuhij; in his j ears She sen.' thera do v.* us t ream! :so that ' was why there liad lieen no pursuit! J 1 lion s!i,> I:i:si su-ju'ct sue miisi ki:*i\v | everything! Glenister was stunned, j Again his love for the girl surged tumultuously within him and demanded I expression. But Miss Chester, no longI er feeitr.g sure that she had the situation in hand, had already started to return to the hotel. "I saw the men distinctly." she told him before they separated, "and 1 could Identify them ail." At his own house Glenister found Dextry removing the stains of the night's adventure. "Miss Chester recognized us last night," he aunouuced. "How do you know?" "She told me so just uow, and what's more she seut McNamara and his crowd down the creek lustead of up. Thafs why we got away so easily." "Well, well ain't she a brick? She's even with us now. By the way. I wonder how much we cleaned up, anyhow let's weigh It." Going to the bed, Dextry turned back the blankets, exposing four mooeeskin sacks, wet and heavy, where he had thrown them. "There must have been SiiO.OOO with what I gave Wheatou," said Glenister. At that moment, without warning, the door was flung open, and as the young man jerked the blankets into nlace he whirled, snatched the six shooter that Dextry had discarded and covered the entrance. "Don't ^hoot, boy!" cried the newcomer, breathlessly. "My. but you're nervous!" Glenlster dropped bis gun. It was Cherry Malotte. aud from her heaving breast and the flying colors in her cheeks the men saw she had been running. She did not give tbem time to question, but closed and locked the door while the words came tumbling from her: "They're on to you, boya you'd bet ter duck out quick. They're on their way up here now." "What!" "Who?" "Quick! I heard McXamara and Voorhees, the marshal, talking. Somebody has spotted you for the holdups. They're on their way now. I tell you. I sneaked out by the back way and came here through the mud. Say. but I'm a sight!" She stamped her trimly booted feet and flirted her skirt. "I don't savvy what you rneau," said Dcxtry, glancing at his partner warnIngly. "We ain't done nothin'." "Well, It's all right then. I took a long chance so you could make a getaway if you wanted to, because they've got warrants for you for that sluice The four sacks were dropped softly into the feathery bottom. robbery last night. Here they are now." She darted to the window, the men peering over her shoulder. Coming up the narrow walk they saw Voorhees. MeXamara and three others. The house stood somewhat Isolated and well back ou the tundra, so that any one approaching It by the planking had an unobstructed view of the premises. Escape was Impossible, for the back door led out Into the ankle deep puddles of the open prairie, and It was now apparent that a sixth man had made a circuit and was approaching from the rear. "My God! They'll search the place," said Dextry, and the men looked grimlv In pnrh nthpr's facps Then In a flash Glenister stripped back the blankets and seized the "pokes," leaping into the back room. In another Instant he returned with them and faced desperately the candid bareness of the little room that they lived and slept in. Nothing could be hidden; it was folly to think of it There was a loft overhead, he remembered hopefully, then realized that the pursuers would search there first of all. "I told you he was a hard fighter," said Dextry as the quick footsteps grew louder. "He ain't no fool, neither. 'Stead of our bein' caught in the mountains, I reckon we'll shoot It out here. We should have cached that gold somewhere." He spun the cylinder of his blackened Colt, while his face grew bard 1 and vuKure-like. Meanwhile Cherry Malotte watched 1 the hunted look In Glenister's face grow wilder and then stiffen into the stubbornness of a man at bay. The posse was at the door now, knocking. 1 The three inside stood rigid and strained. Then Glenister tossed his burden on the bed. "Go Into the back room, Cherry; there's.-coinr. toJbe trouble." 1 'f^ho's there?" Inquired Dextry! through the door, to gain time. Sud- J deuly, without a word, the girl gilded , to the hot l>!ast heater, now cold and j empty, which stood in a corner of the | room. These stoves, used widely in u:e norm, are vtriidii u??u i ,\ uuuco i into which coal Is poured from above, i She lifted the lid and peered in to find It a quarter full of dead ashes.; then turned with shining eyes and j parted lips to (llenlster. lie caught the hint, and In au Instant the four sacks were dropped softly into the 1 feathery bottom and the ashes raked I over. The daring maneuver was al- j most as quick as the flash of woman's wit that prompted It and was carried ( throuuh while the answer to Dextry's ; question was still unspoken. Then Glenister opened the door carelessly and admitted the group of meu "We've got a search warrant to look f.rough your house." said Voorbees. "What are you looking for?" "Gold dust from Anvil creek." "All right -search away." They tu^'-Us^scoured the premise^/ covering ;jeh. paying no hevtfT to the i -a.ked them with iudiffer. ^es, nor to the old man. who gla . at their every movement. Gleniste. was eare'ewly sarcastic, although ( o kept his fight arm free, while beneath h* sangfroid was a thoroughly trained n'ert:: *ss. McXamara d!r.*< * "I the scan h with a manner wholly lacking in his former mock courtesy. It was :s though he had been sour al by the giil of defeat. The mask had fulien off now, and his oKowo.itnM 1 inuictunf AfAr^OI*. Lu.uav in ciiiwM en lucioi^iii, v/?vi wu? Inc. cruel. Toward the partr.ers he preserve*! a contemptuous slletice. The invaders ransacked thorjugbly. while a dozen times the hearts of Cherry Malotte and her two companions stopped, then lunged onward, as McXamara or Voorhees approached, then passed the stove. At last Voorhees lifted the lid and peered Into its dark interior. At the same instaut the girl cried out sharply, flinging herself from her position while the marshal Jerked his head back In time to see her dash npon Dextry. "Don't! Don't!" She cried her tp peal to the old man. "Keep cool. You'll be sorry. Dox they're almost through." The officer had not seen any movement on Dextry's par*, hut doubtless her quick eye had detected signs o? violence. MeN imarn emerged, glowering. from the back room at that moment "Let them hunt," tl.j girl was saying, while Dextry stared dazedly over her head. "They won't find anything. Keep cool and don't act rash." Voorhees' duties sat uncomfortably upon him at the best, and, looking at the smoldering eyes of the two men, he became averse to further search in a powaery nousenoid whose members Itched to shoot him in the back. "It Isn't here," he reported, bnt the politician only scowled, then spoke for the first time!directly to the partners: "I've got warrants for both-^f you, and I'm tempted to take you In. but I won't. I'm not through yet?not by any means. I'll get you?get you both." He turned out of the door, followed by the marshal, who called off his guards, aud the group filed back along the walk. "Say, you're a Je vel, Cherry. You've saved us twice. You caught Voorhees Just in time. My heart hit my palate when he looked into that stove, but the next Instant I wanted to laugh at Dextry's expression." Impulsively Glenistcr laid his hands upon tier shoulders. At his look and touch her throat swelled, her bosom heaved and the silken lids fluttered until she seemed choked by a very flood of sweet womanliness. She blushed like a little maid and laughed a timid, broken laugh. Then, pulling herself together, the merry careless tone came Into her voice, and her cheeks grew cool and clear. "You wouldn't trust me at first, eh? Some day you'll find that your old friends are the best after all." And as she left them she added mockingly: "Say, you're a pair of 'shine' desperadoes. You need a governess." CHAPTER XI. A RAW, gray day, with a driving drizzle from seaward and a leaden rack of clouds drifting L low, matched the sullen, fitful mood of Glenlster. During the last month he had chafed and fretted like an animal in leash for word of Wheaton. This uncertainty, this Impotent waiting with folded hands, was maddening to one of his spirit He could apply himself to no fixed duty, for the sense of his wrong preyed on him fiercely, and he found himself haunting the vicinity of the Midas, gazing at It from afar, grasping hungrily for such scraps of news as chanced to reach him. McNamara allowed access to none but his minions, so the partners knew but vaguely of what happened on their propasfr Aran linear 1 An nf tVjn cil/f CICU lUUU^U, UUU^.1 UVI1VU W4 Miv law, It was being worked for their protection. No steps regarding a speedy hearing of the case were allowed, and the collusion between Judge Stlllman and the receiver had become so generally recognized that there were uneasy mutterlngs and threats In many quarters. Yet, although the politician had by now virtually absorbed all the richest properties In the district and worked them through his hirelings, the people of Nome, as a whole, did not grasp the full turpitude of the scheme nor the system's perfect working. Strange to say, Dextry, the fire eater, had assumed an oriental patience quite foreign to his peppery disposition and Bpent much of his time in the hills prospecting. On this day, as the clouds broke about noon, close down on the angry horizon a drift of smoke appeared, Bhortly resolving itself Into a steamer. 4. . - . . surra? ra vn mm*: tmti fwraHrS his glasses f.lenister saw that It was the Roanoke. As the hoars passed and no boat put off. lie tried to hire n crew, but the long-iho-emen spat widely antl shook their hea*s as tliey watched the surf. "Tli.-re's the devil < .* an undertow soil in' along this bench." they told liiu . "and the water's t >.? cold t drownd In comfortable." So he laid firm hands i pon his inipatiet r. Every day meant many dollars t > tht* watcher. siinl yet it seemed that nature was resolute in thwarting him. for that night the wind freshened, and daylight saw the ship hug^im^jhe lee of Sledge island, mile' westward. while the surf. dling milk, boomed and t-' gainst the shore. Word had gone; s street that Bill Wheato with a writ or a subpoe or whatever W?ii*ne?g* . the "kil>osh" on Ji -ara, so public excitement .icNamara hoarded his gold in ' . Alaska bank, and It was taken for granted that there would lie the scene of the struggle. No one supposed for an instant that the usurper would part with the treasure peaceably. On the third morning the ship lay abreast of the town again, und a lifeboat was seen to make off from her. whereupon the Idle population streamed toward the beach. "She'll make it to the surf ail right, but then watch out." "We'd better make ready to haul 'em out," said another. "It's mighty dangerous." And, sure enough, as the 'oVIff como fituhlnir In thmiiph th? breakers she was caught. She had made It past the tirst Hue. soaring over the bar on a foamy roller crest like a storm driven gull winging In toward the land. The wiry figure of Bill Wbenton crouched In the stern, while two sailors fought with their oars. As they guthered for their rush through the last zone of froth a great comber rose out of the sea behind them, rearing high above their heads. The crowd on :be surfs edge shouted. The boat wavered, sucked back lnta the ocean's angry maw, and with a crash the deluge engulfed them. There remained nothing but a swirling fiood through which the lifeboat emerged bottom up, amid a tangle of oars, gratings and gear. Men rushed Into the water, and the next roller pounded them back upon the marble hard sand. There came the sound of splitting wood, and then a group swarmed In waist deep and bore out a dripping figure. It was a hempen headed seaman, who shook the water from his mane and grinned when his breath bad come. A step farther down the beach the bystanders seized a limp form which the tide rolled to them. It was the second sailor, his scalp split from a blow of the gunwale. Nowhere was Wheaton. Glenlster had plunged to the rescue first, a heaving line about his middle, and, although buffeted about, he had reached the wreck, only to miss sight of the lawyer utterly. He had time for but a glance when he was drawn outward by the undertow till the line at his waist grew taut, then the water surged over him and he .was burled high up on the beach again. He staggered dizzily back to the struggle, when suddenly a wave lifted the capsized cutter and righted It, and out from beneath shot the form of Wheaton, grimly clutching the life ropes. They brought him In choking and breathless. "I got It" he said, slapping his streaming breast. "It's all right Glenlster. I knew what delay meant so I /vi-kb- a Inner nhonna with th? Illrf " ThS terrific ordeal be bad undergone bad blanched him to the lips, bis legs wabbled uncertainly, and he would have fallen but for the young man, who thrust an arm about bis waist and led him up Into the town. "I went before the circuit court\>f appeals In "Frisco," he explained later, "and they Issued orders allowing an appeal from thl3 court and gave me a writ of supersedeas directed against old Judge Stillman. That takes the litigation out of his hands altogether and directs McNamara to turn over the Midas and all the gold he's got. What do you think of that? I did better than I expected." Glenlster wrung his hand silently. while a great satisfaction came upon him. At last this waiting was over and his peaceful yielding to Injustice had borne fruit had proved the better course after all, as the girl had prophesied. He could go to her now with clean hands. The mine was bis again. He would lay it at her feet, telling her once more of his love and the change It was working In him. He would make her see It make her see that beneath the harshness his years iu the wild had given him his love for her was gentle and true and all absorbing. He wouJ4 bid her be patient till she saw he had mastered himself, till he could come with his soul In harness. "I am glad I dkln't fight when they Jumped us," he sa'd. "Now we'll get our property back and all the money they took out that Is, if McNamara hasn t salted It." "Yes; all that's necessary Is to file the documents, then serre the Judge and McNamara. You'll be back on Anvil creek tomorrow." Having placed their documents on record at the courthouse, the two men continued to McNamara's office. He met them with courtesy. "I heard you had a narrow escape this morning, Mr. Wheaton. Too bad! Wfcfit sap. L do (o? rou?" 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