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r * > [The Spoilers. "i REX E. BEACH. -i ? 1 Copyright, 1306, by Re* E. Beach. 1: [Continued irom page 2.] C&jjse trouble i ' ^uTt bribe." | "Lord! What'll I do? They'll watch ^ every lighter that leaves the beach. \ end if they don't catch ine that way they'll search the ship." "I've thought it all out" said the old mau, to whom obstruction acted as a stimulant "Yes; but how?" "Leave it to me. Get your things together and be ready to duck In two hours." "I tell you they'll search the Santa Maria from stem to stern," protested the lawyer, but Dextry had gone. "Better do as he says. His schemes are good ones," recommended Glenlster, and accordingly the lawyer made preparation. In the meantime the old prospector had begun at the end of Front street to make a systematic search of the gambling bouses. Although It was very late, they were running nolsliy. and at last he found the man he wanted playing black jack, the smell of tar In his clothes, the lilt of the sea in his boisterous laughter. Dei try drew him aside. "Mac. there's only two things about you that's any good?your silence and your seamanship. Otherwise you're a i disreppitable, drunken insect" The sailor grinned. "What Is It you want now? If it's concerning money or business or the growed up side of life, run along and don't disturb the carousals of a sailor man. If it's a fight, lemme get my hat" "I want you to wake up your fireman and have steam on the tug In an hour, then wait for me below the bridge. You're chartered for twenty-four hours, and. remember, not a word." "I'm on! Compared to me the splnks of Egyp' Is as talkative as a phonowrnnh " fThe old man turned his steps to the Northern theater. The performance was still in progress, and he located the man he was hunting without difficulty. Ascending the stairs, he knocked at , the door of one of the boxes and called for Captain Stepheris. "I'm glad I found you, cap," said he. "It saved me a trip ont to your ship In the dark." "What's the matter?" 1 Dextry drew him to an isolated corner. "Me an' my partner want to send a man to the States with yon." "All right." "Well?er?here's the point" hesitated the miner, who rebelled at asking favors. "He's our law sharp, an' the McNamara outfit is tryln' to put the steel on nim." "I don't understand." "Why. they've swore out a warrant an' aim to guard the shore tomorrow. We want you to"? "Mr. Dextry, I'm not looking for trouble. I get enough In my own business." "But. see here." argued the other, "we've got to send him so he can make a powwow to the big legal smoke In 'Frisco. We've been cold decked with a bum Judge. They've got us into a corner an' over the ropes." "I'm sorry I can't help you, Dextry, but I got mixed up In one of your crapes and thafs plenty." "This ain't no stowaway. There's no danger to you." began Dextry, but the officer interrupted him: "There's no need of arguing. I won't do it." "UIl. you wont, enr saiu me uiu - man. beginning to lose his temper. "Well, you listen to me for a minute. Everylwd.v In camp knows that me an' the kid Is on the square an' that we're getthf the bunk passed to us. Now. this lawyer party must get away tonight or these grafters will hitch the horses to him on some phony charge so he can't get to the upper court. It'll be him to the bird cage for ninety days. He's gjln* to the States, though, an' he's goin'-In?your?wagon! I'm talkIn' to you?man to man. If you don't take hiiu. I'll go to the health Inspector ?he's a friend of mine?an' I'll put a Awlmr. In rnn nn' rnvr ctnnmhAot T V A lUi y tu j vu an ,? vui otvuiuwuv, don't want to do that?it ain't my reg*lar graft by no means?but this bet goes through as she lays. I never belched up a secret l>efore. No. sir. I am the human hu.'itln' css? watch, an* I won't open my face uule*s you press me. but if I should, you'll see that it's ^ time for you to hnnt a new .lob. Now, W here's my scheme." He outlined his directions to the sailor, who had fallen r silent during the warning. When he had done. Stephens said: "I never had a man talk to me like that before, sir?never. You've taken advantage of me. and under the cir^ cumstances I can't refuse. I'll do this thing not because of your threut, but ^tjec&use i heard about your trouble * over the Midas and because I can't help admiring your blamed Insolence." He went back into his stall. Deitry returned to Wheaton's offlc . As he neared it he passed a lounging figure In an adjacent doorway. "The place Is watched," he announced as he entered. "Have you got a back door? Good! Leave your light burning and we'll go out that way." They slipped quietly into an Inky, tortuous passage which led back toward Second street. Floundering through alleys and over garbage heaps, by circu!tous_routes they reached the bridge. / woere in the swift stream beneath they : saw the lights from Mac's trig. Steam was up. and when the captain j had let them aboard Dextry gave hlni Instructions. to which he nodded ac- ( quiescence. They bade the lawyer adieu, aud the little craft slipped its moorings, dance I down the current, i across the bar and was swallowed up . In the darkness to seaward. "I'll put out Wheaton's light so they'll think he's gone to l>ed." "Yes. aud at daylight I'll take your j place ia McNamara's loft." said Glen- | teter. "There will be doings tomorrow when they don't find him." rntumoil hv tho wav thev had ! come to the lawyer's room, extinguish- j ed his light, went to their own cabin ; and to bed. At dawn Glenlster arose j and sought his place above McN'a mara's office. To lie stretched at length on a sin gle planlc with eye glued to a crack is not a comfortable position, and the watcher thought the hours of the next day would never end. As they dragged wearily past his bones began to ache beyond endurance, yet owing to the flimsy structure of the building he dared not move while the room below was tenanted. In fact he would not have stirred had be dared, so Intense was his Interest In the scenes being enacted beneath him. First bad come the marshal, who reported his failure to find Wheaton. "He left his room some time last night. My men followed him in and saw a light in bis window until 2 o'clock this morning. At 7 o'clock we broke In, and he was gone." "He must have got wind of our plan. 8end deputies aboard the Santa Maria. Search her from keel to topmast, and have them watch the beach close or he'll put off In a small boat You look over the passengers that go aboard yourself. Don't trust any of your men for that, because he may try to slip through disguised. He's liable to make up like a woman. You understand? there's only one ship In port, and?he mustn't get away." "He won't," said Voorhees, with conviction, and the listener overhead smiled grimly to himself, for at that moment, twenty miles offshore, lay Mac's little tug. hore to in the track of the outgoing steamship, and In her tiny cabin sat BUI Wheaton eating breakfast. As the morning wore by with no news of the lawyer, McNamara's uneasiness grew. At noon the marshal returned with a report that the passengers were all aboard and the ship about to clear. "By heavens! He's slipped through you," stormed the politician. "No, he hasn't He may be hidden aboard somewhere among the coal bunkers, but I think he's still ashore and aiming to make a quick run just before she sails. He hasn't left the beach since daylight, that's sure. I'm going out to the ship now with four men and search her again. If we don't bring him off, you can bet be's lying out somewhere In town, and we'll get him later. I've stationed men along the shore for two miles." "I won't have him get away. If he fcbould reach 'Frisco? Tell your men I'll give $000 to the one that finds him." Three hours later Voorhees returned. ' "She sailed without him." The politician cursed. "I don't be- 1 Here It. He tricked you. I know he 1 did." I Glenister grinned into a half eaten ' sandwich, then turned upon his back 1 and lay thus on the plank. Identifying 1 the speakers below by their voices. I He kept his post all day. Later In 1 the evening he heard Struve enter. The man had been drinking. "So he got away, eh?" he began. "1 was afraid he would. Smart fellow, that Wheaton." "He didn't get away." said McNa- ' mara. "He's In town yet Just let me land hlru In jail on some excuse! I'll hold him till snow flies." Strove sank Into a chair and lit a cigarette with wavering hand. "This 's a hell of a game, ain't it Mac? D' you s'pose we'll win?" The man overhead pricked up his ears. "Win? Aren't we winning? What do you call this? I only hope we can lay hands on Wheaton. He knows things. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but more Is worse. Lord! If only I had a man for judge in place of Stillman! I don't know why I brought him." j "That's rieht. Too weak. He hasn't got the backbone of an angleworm. He ain't half the man that his niece is. There's a girl for you! Say, what 'd we do without her. eh? She's a pippin!" ! Glenister felt a sudden tightening of every muscle.' What right had that ' man's liquor sodden lips to speak so of her? "She's a brave little woman all right Just look how she worked Glenister and his fool partner. It took nerve to bring in those instructions of yours alone, and if it hadn't been for her we'd never have won like this. It makes me laugh to think of those two men stowing her away in their stateroom while they slept between decks with the sheep, and her with the papers in her bosom all the time. Then, when we got ready to do business, why, she up and talks them into giving us possession of their mine without a fight. That's what I call reciprocating a man's affection." Glenister's nails cut into his flesh, while his face went livid at the words. He could not grasp it at once. It made him sick?physically sick?and for many moments he strove blindly to beat back the hideous suspicion, _ the horror that the lawyer had aroused. His was not a doubting disposition, and to him the girl had seemed as one pure, mysterious, apart, angelically incapable of deceit. He had loved her, feeling that some day she would return his affection without fall. In her great, unclouded eves he had found no lurking \ V I I placa for"dou6T?~ deallnF Now?Godt It coaldo't be that all the time she had known! He had lost a part of the lawyer's speech, but peered through his observation hole again. McXamara was at the window gazing out luto the dark street. Ills back toward the lawyer, who lolled In the ; chair, babbling garrulously of the girl, j Glenister ground his teeth?a frenzy possessed him to loose his anger, to rip through the frail celling with naked Kon/(a on/1 foil vln/llptlvolr iiiinn th<? i two men. "She looked good to me the first time I saw her," continued Strave. He paused, and when he spoke a Tain a change had coarsened his features. "Say. I'm cni^y al>out her. Mac. 1! tell you. I'm crazy?cn I she likes mc i ?I know she does?or. anyway, she; would"? "Do you mean th-.t you're in lore witli her?" asked the man at the window without shifting his position. It seemed that utter indifTorence was in his question, although where the light shone oa his hauls, tight clinched behind his back, they were bloodless. "Love her? Well?that depends?ha! You know how it is." he chuckled coarsely. His face was gross and bestial. *T got the Judge where I want him. anc .'11 have her"? Ills in ,ernb!e words died with a gurgle, for JcNamar.i lud silently leaped Hit miserable wordt d.ed with a auryle. and throttled him where he sat, pinning him to the wall, (J.enister saw the big politician shift his fingers slightly on Struve's throat and then drop his left hand to his side, holding his victim writhing and helpless with his right despite the man's frantic struggles. McXamara's head was thrust forward from his shoulders, peering Into the lawyer's face. Strove tore Ineffectually at the iron arm which was squeezing his life out while for endless minutes the other leaned his eight against him, his Idle hand behind his back, his legs braced like stone columns as be watched his victim's struggles abate. ? ftmAn/thAH TT'Vll Id OirUVU lUU^m auu n Ituvuvu II -..V bis breath caught In his throat with horrid, sickening sounds, but gradually ? tils eyes rolled farther and further back till they stared out of his blackened visage, straight up oward the ceiling, toward the hole through which GieijIster peered. His struggles lessened, his chin sagged, and his tongue protruded, then be sat loose and still. The politician flung him out Into the room so that he fell limply upon his face, then stood watching him. Finally, McN'amara passed out of the watcher's vision, returning with a water bucket. With bis foot he rolled the unconscious wretch upon his back, then drenched him. Replacing the pail, be seated himself, lit a cigar and watched the return of life into his victim. He made no move, even to drag him from the pool in which he lay. Btruve groaneu anu suuuuereu, &d to his side, and at last sat up weakly. In his eyes there was now a great terror, while in place of his drunkenness was only fear and falntness?abject fear of the great bulk that sat and smoked and stared at him so fishily. He felt uncertainly of his throat and groaned again. "Why did you do that?" he whispered, but the other made no sign. He tried to rise, but his knees relaxed. He staggered and fell. At last he grained his feet and made for the door. Then, when his hand was on the knob. McNamara spoke through his teeth, without removing his cigar. "Don't ever talk about her again. 8he is going to marry me." When be was alone, he looked curiously up at the celling over his head. "The rats are thick in this shack," he mused. "Seems to me I heard a whole swarm of them." A few moments later a figure crept through the hole in the roof of the tiouse next door and thence down into the street. A block ahead was the ilow moving form of Attorney Struve. Had a stranger met them both be would not have known which of the two had felt at his throat the clutch of a strangler, for each was drawn and haggard and swayed as he went. Glenister unconsciously turned toward his cabin, but at leaving the livhtoH ctraato fhn thAimht 4to Hoplr. ii^uvvva uiivv uj Luvu^ui wi 4 io uai a ness and silence made him shudder. Sot now! He could not bear that stlllaess and the company of his thoughts. Se dared not be alone. Dextry would !>e downtown undoubtedly, and he, too, must get Into the light and turmoil. Se licked his lips and found that they were cracked and dry. At rare Intervals during the past rears he had^staggered In from a long march where for hours he had waged a t>ltter war with cold and hunger, his ilmbs clumsy with fatigue, his garments wet and stiff, bis mind slack and jullen. At such extreme seasons he iad felt a consuming thirst, a thirst which burned aDd scorched until his rary bones cried out feverishly?not i thirst for water or a thirst which eaten eofwr cwM qami'li, bat a urage yearning of hJa whole exhausted system for some stimulant, for some coursing fiery fluid that would burn and strangle, a thirst for whisky, for brandy! I!emec:!>erln* these occasional ferocious desires, be bad Income charitable to such unfortunates us were too weak to withstand similar temptations. Now with a sboe'e he caught himself ill the grip of a thirst as Insistent as though the cold bore down and the weariness of endless heavy miles wrapped him about. It was no foolish wish to drown his thoughts or to banish the grief that preyed upon him. but only thirst, thirst?a crying, trembling, physical lust to quench the ires that burned Inside. lie remembered that It had been more than a year since he had tasted whisky. Now the fever of the past few hours had parcfed his every tbsue. As ho elbowed In through the crowd at the Northern those next him made room at the bar, for they recognized the hunger that peers thus from men's faces. Their manner recalled Glenister to his senses, and he wrenched himself away. This was not some solitary, snow banked roadbouse. He would not stand and soak himself shoulder to shoulder with stevedores and longshoremen. This was something to be done In secret He had no pride In it. The man on his right raised a glass, and the young man strangled a nmuuess iu ieui n num uu hands. Instead, he hnrrled back to the theater and cp to a box. where he drew the curtains. "Whisky."' be said thickly to the waiter. "Bring It to me fast. Don't you hear? Whisky!" Across the theater Cherry Malotte had seen him enter and Jerk the curtains tcgether. She arose and went to him. entering without ceremony. "What's the matter, boy?' she questioned. "Ah. I'm glad you came. Talk to me." "Thank you for your few well chosen remarks." she laughed. "Why don't you ask me to spring some good, original Jokes? You look like the finish to a six day go-as-you-please. What's up?" She talked to him for a moment until the waiter entered. Then, when she saw what be bore, she snatched the glass from the tray and poured the whisky on the floor. Glenlster was on his feet and had her by the wrist "What do you mean?" he said rough'y "It's whisky, boy," she cried, "and you don't drink!" "Of course It's whisky! Bring me another!" he shouted at the attendant. "What's the matter?" Cherry insisted. "I never saw you act so. You know you don't drink. I won't let you. It's booze?booze, I tell you, fit for fools and brawlers. Don't drink it Roy. I Are you in trouble?" "I say I'm thirsty?and I will have It! i Haw vam Vnnn' trhof It In tft QTTinlrtpr inside and feel your veins burn dry?" "It's something about that girl," the woman said, with quiet conviction. "She's double crossed you " "Well, so she has, but what of It? I'm thirsty. She's going to marry Mc? Samara. I've been a fool." He ground hLs teeth and reached for the drink with which the boy had returned. "McNamara Is a crook, but he's a man, and he never drank a drop In his life." The elrl said it casually, evenly, but the other stopped the gluss halfway to his lips. "Well, what of It? Go on. You're good at W. C. T. U. talk. Virtue becomes you." She flushed, but continued: "It simply occurred to me that If you aren't strong enough to handle your own throat, you're not strong enough to beat a man who has mastered his." Gleulster looked at the whisky a moment, then set It back on:the tray. "Bring two lemonades," he said, and with a laugh which was half a sob t'.lAii. onH Luerry Jiuiuue iraucu iui nuiu uuu kissed him. "You're too good a man to drink. Now, tell me all about It." "Ob. it's too long! I've just learned that the girl Is In, hand and glove, with the Judge and McNamara?that's all. She's an advance agent?their lookout. She brought In their instructions to Strove and persuaded Dei and me to let them Jump our claim. She got us to trust lu the law and in her uncle. Yes. she hypnotized my property out of me and gave it to her lover, this ward politician. Oh, she's smooth, with all her Innocence! Why, when she smiles, she makes you glad and good and warm, and her eyes are as honest and clear as a mountain pool, but she's wrong?she's wrong?and? great God! how I love her!" He dropped bis face into his hands. When she had pleaded with him for himself a moment before Cherry Matrnu cTAnnlna nn/1 HrHah hnf now as he spoke thus of the other woman a change came over her which he was too disturbed to note. She took on the subtleness that masked her as a rulq, and her eyes were not pleasant. "I could have told you all that and more." [Continued next week.] Tickling or dry Coughs will quickly looeen when using ?Dr Shoop's Cough Cure. And it is so thoroughly harmless that Dr bboop tells mothers to use nothing else, even for very yonng babies. The wholesome green leaves and tender stems of a lung healing mountainous shrub give the curative properties to Dr Shoop's Cough Cure. It calms the cough and heals the sensitive bronchial membrances. No opium, no chloroform, nothing harsh used to injure or suppress. Demand Dr Shoop's. Take no other. D C Scott, * \ I ^ Don't neglect your 5 Statistics show tha J alone over 200 people # consumption. 1 X And most or these q be living now if they h J warning cough. 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