CHAPTER XIII.--The Hidden Treasure.

Bulger looked around cautiously on every side, and believing that the

person who had discovered him had gone away he sank back into his

hiding place.

Dick hastily rejoined Madge and told her about the identity of the man

in the tree. He also outlined his plans for the rascal's arrest. They

were about to hurry to the house when Dick caught sight of a figure

slouching through the trees toward the gully. He guessed it was Parker,

and he altered his arrangements.

"Parker is coming to see Bulger. There he is yonder, just going down

into the gully. I'm going to remain and see what happens. You hurry to

the house and send John and William here as fast as they can come. Tell

them to fetch their revolvers and a piece of rope. Now, then, Madge,

put your best foot forward."

She hastened away, while he crept back toward the big rock. Parker

was coming up the gully with a package and a tin bucket in his hands.

Presumedly they held food for the escaped convict. Dick gained the

rock without attracting Parker's attention. The ex-convict approached

the tree, laid his burdens on the ground and, climbing up, stuck his

head down the opening. He remained a few minutes talking with the man

inside and then returned to the ground and carried up first the package

and then the pail, which he passed down to Bulger. He remained at the

crotch talking to his pal. Suddenly there was a cracking sound and the

tree began to bend over.

Parker uttered an exclamation of alarm and started to clamber down. His

movements brought matters to a head. The tree broke off at its roots

and went over, carrying the ex-convict with it. As it hit the ground

Dick saw a pair of legs, which belonged to Bulger, kicking like mad in

the air. As they hit the roots of the tree they made the punky material

fly about in a cloud. Parker was half-stunned for a moment and then he

got up and went to his companion's aid, catching him by the legs and

pulling him out, all covered with dirt. Bulger swore like a trooper,

blaming his pal for the catastrophe.

"Where am I goin' to roost now?" said Bulger. "You'll have to take me

over to your place after dark and let me stay in your barn. I can't

stay out here all night, and, what's more, I won't."

"I s'pose you'll have to come, but it's dangerous for me."

"Dangerous be blamed! It's your duty to help an old pal when he's in

deep."

He gave the roots of the tree a kick, expressive of his sentiments. The

kick uncovered something that attracted his attention.

"Hello! What's this?" he cried.

He stooped and picked a bag out of the dust.

"What have you got there?" asked Parker, looking interested.

"Blame my hide, if it ain't a bag of money!" cried Bulger.

"Money!" cried Parker. "Then we'll divvy up."

"No, we won't divvy nothin'. Findin's is keepin's. I wonder if there's

any more?"

Down he got on his hands and knees and scratched in the dust, bringing

to light a second bag.

"Hurray! Another! I'm made for fair. Here's a third and there's more

underneath. I'm rich!"

Dick beheld all this with feelings of the greatest astonishment. Bags

of money hidden in the roots of the dead tree! Then the gypsy woman's

prediction occurred to him like a flash. This was his fortune, then,

and these rascals had brought it to light. What was on his property

belonged to him by right of ownership in all. And now these fellows

had it in their clutches, or rather Bulger had it, and seemed disposed

to hold on to all of it. That was too much for Dick to stand. He was

about to rush on Bulger and order him to give up the money when Parker

snatched up a couple of the bags.

"Drop them!" roared Bulger.

"I'm only takin' my share," said Parker.

Bulger sprang up and jumped at the ex-convict, who had to let the

bags fall to defend himself. In another moment they were both at it,

hammer-and-tongs, with the advantage in Bulger's favor, owing to his

build and strength. Dick saw his advantage. Dashing forward, he picked

up the long stick which lay on the ground and began laying it on the

heads and shoulders of the two fighters. That brought the scrap to a

sudden end, and the men turned to face this new and unexpected trouble.

They at once recognized Dick, and as they bore him no good will, Bulger

particularly, they lost no time in making a rush at him.

"Now we've got you!" hissed Bulger.

At that critical moment for Dick the gardener and the footman came

on the scene and sprang to the boy's assistance. The gardener seized

Bulger and the footman nabbed Parker, compelling them to release Dick.

The boy then assisted the gardener in securing the escaped convict,

and they had their hands full doing it. The butler was able to subdue

Parker alone. Bulger was bound with the rope, and he was furious at his

capture, not to speak of the loss of the money he believed he had come

into. The young New Yorker then called the attention of the butler and

the gardener to the bags of money lying on the ground.

"They came out of the roots of that tree, and as this property is mine,

the money is mine, too, unless somebody can establish a mighty strong

claim to it. It has evidently been hidden there for a great many years.

The person who put it there is doubtless dead, else he would have

reclaimed it long ago. I shall take charge of it by right of ownership

in the property," said Dick, who at once set about gathering together

the six bags Bulger had brought to light, while the ruffian hurled

imprecations at him as he watched him. Dick then hunted for more, and

found six additional bags. The weight of the whole was more than even

the three of them could carry, had they not been embarrassed by the two

prisoners, so Dick told the men to take the rascals to the house and

lock them up while he would remain in charge of the money.

Then came a fresh difficulty. Bulger refused to walk.

"Return to the house, William, and get Mr. Mason to telephone to the

village for the constables," said Dick. "I'll see that Parker doesn't

get away."

So the butler departed on his errand. He was back in twenty minutes,

accompanied by Mr. Mason and a neighboring farmer, who had called at

the house. The prisoners were taken to the road where the automobile

stood. Then the twelve bags of money were carried and put in the

vehicle. Leaving the two servants to walk, the rest of the party

proceeded to the house in the vehicle. Bulger and Parker were locked up

in an outhouse to await the arrival of the constable, while the money

was taken into the house and displayed before the astonished eyes of

the ladies.

The money-bags were then opened and found to contain gold eagles of

a date about the time of the War of the Rebellion, and being counted

footed up $120,000.

"What a lucky boy you are!" Madge said to him, after supper.

"I hope I am," he replied.

"Hope!" she exclaimed, in surprise. "Why, you are, with all that money."

"There is something better than money. Something I'd rather have than

all the gold I have come in possession of."

"What is that?"

"It's your love, Madge," he replied earnestly.

"Oh, Dick!" she cried blushingly.

"Have I got it, or have I dreamed in vain?"

He put his arm around her waist and she did not draw back. Dick did

not return to New York by the early train on Monday morning, as he had

arranged to do, instead of which he went to Carlin with Mr. Mason in

the auto and placed the money in the Carlin National Bank, receiving

therefor a draft on a bank in New York for the amount. Then he sent

off two telegrams--one to the manager of the store, the other to his

mother. The first read: "Will report Tuesday morning."

The second was worded: "I've found the fortune. Will be home to-night

in time for dinner." Then he returned to the house to take lunch with

the Masons. On the road he confessed to Mr. Mason that he loved Madge,

and that she reciprocated his affection.

"I want you to sanction our engagement, with a view to our marriage as

soon as she shall have graduated from Vassar."

"Ask her mother, my boy," said the gentleman. "As far as I am

concerned, you need fear no obstacle from me."

While they were away, Madge sought her mother and told her that Dick

had asked her to marry him four years hence when she had completed

her education. Then Mrs. Mason kissed her daughter and told her that

she and Mr. Mason were both well disposed toward Dick, and they were

perfectly satisfied to receive him into the family at the proper time

as their son-in-law.

Then the happy girl ran and broke the news to her aunt, who

congratulated her on winning such a fine young man as she had always

believed Dick Darling to be. Dick decided not to press any charge

against Parker, and so that rascal was allowed to go free, while Bulger

was taken back to Trenton, and his punishment for taking French leave

was the loss of his commutation time, so he was obliged to serve the

full ten years, after which he would have to face the other indictment,

so his chances of staying in prison for a good part of his life were

good.

During the summer the Darlings moved into a house of their own in the

Bronx, and Nellie and May gave up their jobs for good. So four years

passed away and Dick continued to rise in the store till one day Mr.

Bacon offered to sell him a half interest in the business, and make him

the manager of the store. Dick accepted his proposal, and thus, on the

eve of his marriage to Madge he invested a large part of the fortune

which came to him through the acquisition of a five-acre plot of ground

worth not over $250.

Next week's issue will contain "BEATING THE MARKET; or, A BOY BROKER'S

BIG DEAL."

CURRENT NEWS

JANITOR AN HEIR.

Charles Wineland, an $8 a month janitor at the City Hall, Fort Wayne,

Ind., leaned on the handle of his broom long enough to read a letter

the other day and then a few hours later started for California to

claim a 114-acre fruit farm on the outskirts of San Francisco and

$28,000 deposited in a bank there. The letter informed him that his

brother had died leaving his estate to the janitor and a sister, Mrs.

Caroline Bowman, of Burlington, Ind. The farm is appraised for taxation

at $78,000, according to the letter.

SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE.

Pedro Sacherelli, a boy in the eighth grade in the Little Falls, N. Y.,

High School, was sitting at his desk, wiggling, as boys do. Another

boy, sitting near him, saw a column of smoke ascending along Pedro's

backbone and circling toward the ceiling. A quick look revealed the

fact that matches in Pedro's pocket had been rubbed violently enough to

set them on fire.

Other pupils and the teacher jumped to the rescue and Pedro's sweater

was jerked off, the fire beat out and the small boy returned to his

seat. A considerable hole was burned through Pedro's clothes and he was

not hurt, though the fire extinguishers shook him up considerably.

MUSICAL PITCHFORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

A tale comes out of England which illustrates admirably the sort of

unexpected demand which may have to be met in building up a foreign

trade. A British manufacturer of edge tools made up his mind to secure

a share of the trade in Kaffir picks, and obtained a sample of the

native-made pick, which he reproduced so exactly that it seemed to be

impossible to detect the difference between it and the native article.

His tools, however, did not sell, and a representative was sent out to

investigate. He found there was one thing for which the Kaffir used the

pick that had not been taken into consideration. The native took it out

of its haft and used it as a cattle call, and every Kaffir had found

that the British-made pick had not quite the right note. It speaks

well for the enterprise of the maker that, having discovered this, he

produced a Kaffir pick with the right note and established a trade

which, the story goes, he has retained ever since.

A PARIS HOLD-UP.

Paris Apaches, imitating their New York brothers, got away with one

of the most daring robberies in the history of the city, carrying off

500,000 francs' worth of jewels from a shop in the center of the town

and distancing their pursuers after an exciting motor car chase.

About 9 o'clock in the evening a policeman passing across the street

from a jewelry shop in the Rue Tronchet running from the Place de la

Madeleine to the Boulevard Haussmann saw a man deliberately break a

window of the store with a hammer, seize a tray of jewels and jump

into a car, which drove away at high speed. The gendarme succeeded in

getting on the running board of the car, but was pushed off by the

robber. The thief fired twice at him. The policeman commandeered a

passing taxi and began a vain chase, for the bandit's car disappeared

in a network of side streets.

SCORES OF GIRLS LOSE $50.

Dreams of becoming cinema stars are being shattered in the minds of

scores of girls throughout the Middle West as a result of the bursting

of an alleged promotion bubble in Kansas City, Mo., known as the

International Pictures Corporation.

The scheme, according to Federal officers, was simple. An advertisement

in an Eastern theatrical magazine asked for chorus girls and leads. On

beautifully engraved stationery, the applicants were told of a trip to

California, a chartered yacht that was to sail the South Seas, drop

anchor in Egypt and cruise European waters. The only requisite was a

deposit of $50 to "keep away curiosity seekers."

The money came with answers such as the following:

"I am five feet four and very pretty. Inclosed is $50."

Then along came the agents of the post-office department and spoiled

the plan. Hubert Settles and his wife were arrested. Post-office

inspectors say they have scores of the letters from girls.

NAVY RECRUITING STOPPED.

Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced on January 4 that recruiting

for the Navy has been stopped for the present, the enlisted strength

having reached 132,000. The naval appropriations for the current

fiscal year were made to take care of the pay of an average of 120,000

enlisted men. By expiration of enlistments the number soon will drop to

about 122,000, which will give the Navy an average of 120,000 for the

fiscal year ending June 30. One reason for the action is uncertainty

as to the number of enlisted men Congress will authorize for the next

fiscal year. Navy authorities have recommended 143,000. Another reason

is found in the fact that the U. S. Atlantic and Pacific Fleets soon

will sail for their rendezvous at the Pacific entrance to the Panama

Canal. It was not deemed desirable to go ahead with further enlistments

with most of the active ships in distant waters. Although the Marine

Corps has not suspended recruiting, the standard has been raised,

requiring a minimum of twenty-one years of age, five feet five inches

height, and 130 pounds weight. The quota for January has been cut to

1,400 and this low figure will keep the enlisted personnel of the

corps within the average of 20,000 for the fiscal year 1921 for which

appropriations are available. Two-year enlistments have been suspended,

and recruits confined to a choice of enlisting for either three or four

years.

A Lawyer At Nineteen

OR

FIGHTING AGAINST A FRAUD

By GASTON GARNE

(A Serial Story)

CHAPTER I.--(continued)

And then the busy lawyer caught up his satchel and started out of the

office to catch his train. Lew opened the bundle of papers, and was

soon studying them hard.

He had tried minor court cases, but had never had one in the supreme

court, and he felt that it was rather unkind of fate that the first

one that came to him to try in the upper court was regarded by even

his shrewd employer as quite hopeless. However, he bent himself to the

task, reflecting over the one saving point of the week that Smollett

had worked, and trying to decide just how to make that fact effective.

Just as he had made up his mind what course to pursue about it, the

telephone rang, and he was notified that the case was called and that

the office boy had answered ready.

Stuffing the papers in his pocket, Lew walked over to the courthouse,

thinking deeply over the idea that had come into his mind. He got there

just as the jury box was filled, and eyed them narrowly while the

counsel for the plaintiff was examining them. It looked like a good

sensible jury to him, and he made but two objections to the men in the

box.

The jury was sworn and the case opened.

Smollett's lawyer told how the accident had happened, and then drew

a touching picture of how the plaintiff's wife, a sickly looking

woman who sat at his side in court, had slaved to support the family,

Smollett being unable to work, and not having done a day's work since

the time he was injured. Lew cast down his eyes when this statement was

made, and began to feel a little more hopeful.

Then Smollett was put on the stand and told his story, moaned about the

constant pain that he had suffered since he was hurt, while the jury

began to look sympathetic. In response to the questioning of his lawyer

he declared that he had not been able to do more than to sweep a room

since the day of the accident. Then Lew arose to cross-examine him.

"Mr. Smollett, what was your business before you were injured?"

"I was an iron worker."

"That requires great strength, does it not?"

"Yes, it does."

"All parts of the work?"

"Yes, all parts of the work."

"And you could do any part of the work?"

"Yes, I was a pretty powerful man."

"And you have not been able to do anything more laborious than to sweep

a room since you were injured?"

"That is true."

"How long have you lived in this city?"

"Three years."

"Where did you live before you came here?"

"In Far Rockton."

"At what address?"

"Two-forty-one Vine street."

"How long did you live there?"

"Four months."

"Where did you move to when you came to this city?"

"One-seventy-two Bear street."

"How long did you live there?"

"Six weeks. The house was cold and we could not stay there."

Lew bent down and selected a paper, glanced at it as though to refresh

his memory, and then went on with the examination.

CHAPTER II.

The Result of the Young Lawyer's Keen Management of the Smollett Case.

"Where did you move to then?"

"Seventy-nine-eight Locust street."

"How long did you live there?"

"Only three weeks. The plumbing was bad."

Lew kept on in this line of questioning for several minutes more, by

which time Smollett had testified that he had moved thirteen times

during the past three years, in each instance telling the address of

the house he had lived in and the length of time he had lived there.

"This is astonishing," said Lew. "You certainly possess a remarkable

memory, Mr. Smollett."

"I think I have got a good memory," complacently said the witness.

"There is no question about that," said Lew. "I very much doubt if any

gentleman on the jury could have remembered so much and so positively

as you have done, and yet you have apparently forgotten that you worked

for the Continental Iron Works for one entire week since the date of

your accident!"

A murmur of surprise went around the crowded courtroom. The witness

grew pale and then flushed fiery red, and shifted uneasily in his seat,

while the members of the jury glanced at each other in a significant

manner.

Smollett's lawyer half arose as though to make some objection, and then

seemed to realize the hopeless nature of the situation and sat down

again with a scowl on his face.

The witness was trembling, and Lew went at him savagely.

"I have here a sworn copy of the time-book of the Continental Iron

Works, in which your name appears as having worked from the seventh to

the thirteenth of June in the year you were injured," he said, fixing

the unhappy witness with his piercing eyes. "Do you deny that you did

that work?"

(To be continued.)

THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES.

"NO JOB; NO BRIDE."

The extent and the effect of unemployment in Detroit was shown recently

when it was learned that twenty-six bridegrooms have recently returned

their marriage licenses to the county clerk. All gave the same reason:

"No job, no wedding," they said.

BABY OSTRICH SCRAPPY.

Jonathan, the first ostrich chick hatched in Canada, is progressing

under the care of Zoo Manager F. Green in Stanley Park, Vancouver.

It was at first believed that the rare and valuable bird would not

live, and it was taken from its parents and placed in the Green home.

Appearance of weakness proved deceptive, for Jonathan quickly whipped

the house cat and won a decision over the family spaniel.

CRACKS SAFE, GETS 16 CENTS.

William Redke, forty years old, with no permanent residence, out of

employment and broke, is in the Washington County jail, Pennsylvania,

a confessed burglar and attempted suicide. Redke's cracking of the

safe in the Pennsylvania Station at Houston the other night, he told

the authorities, netted him but 16 cents. Discouraged over the small

haul, he turned on all the gas in the station office. Five hours later

he awoke still in the land of the living. In disgust he surrendered to

the officers. He pleaded guilty and was committed to jail in default of

$1,000 bail.

WHERE DO SEALS SPEND THE WINTER?

No one knows where the seals go in the winter. In Alaska they begin to

appear on the Islands of St. Paul and St. George about the end of April

or the first of May, and toward the latter part of August or in the

first weeks of September they disappear as strangely and mysteriously

as they came. This is one of nature's secrets which she has kept most

successfully hid from scientists as well as the prying eyes of the

merely curious and inquisitive.

Even in the days, years ago, when the seals numbered five millions or

more, apparently some signal unknown to man would be given and the next

day the fog-wreathed rocks would be bare, the seals having deserted the

islands. With their slipping off into Bering Sea, all trace of them was

lost until their return the following spring. Then some morning they

would suddenly reappear, disporting themselves in the water or on the

shore.

ABOUT SCENTED WOODS.

With the woods of the world to choose from one can easily arrange a

whole scale of scents from the sweetest and most delicate of perfumes

at one extreme to rank and overpowering odors at the other, says the

American Forestry Magazine. The stores of the perfumer's shop will not

yield a greater variety than one can find in woods.

The most famous of all scented woods is the incomparable sandalwood.

The true sandalwood (Santalum album) is an Oriental tree, the use of

which for perfumery and incense began thousands of years ago, and its

popularity remains undiminished. The later Greeks considered it one of

their greatest luxuries, and no festivities were complete without it.

There are many false sandalwoods, at least three from India, one or two

from the Philippines and Java, one from Australia and another from the

West Indies and Venezuela.

In some parts of the Himalayas and in the Khasia Hills the yew tree is

called deodar (God's tree), the name that is elsewhere applied to a

true cedar. The wood of the yew is burnt as incense, as is also that

of the cypress. One of the favorite woods for incense in the Buddhist

temples of India is the juniper. In parts of South America a wood

closely related to the lignum-vitae is called palo santo (sacred wood),

because of its use for incense in churches.

The Northwestern Indians nearly always made their totem poles out of

Western red cedar, but this choice was probably due more to the fact

that the wood is easy to work and extremely durable rather than to its

fragrance. It may be taken as a very good general rule that woods that

are scented are resistant to decay and insect attack and have good

cabinet qualities.

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THE RENEGADE'S FATE.

By Kit Clyde.

"Then you will not listen to me?"

"No. I believe you to be a wicked man, and I will never consent to

sacrifice my child to such as you."

"But if she loves me?"

"She does not--she cannot! She knows your evil reputation, and her

heart is another's."

"I will wait. She loves me, and will be mine. I am sure of it."

"Never! And now, as we have already prolonged this meeting beyond

reason, go, and never speak to me on the subject again."

"Very well, Giles Raynor, I shall not. I shall speak to your daughter

instead."

"Do so at your peril, Tom Walden! Now go!"

"Good-morning, Farmer Raynor, and a better temper to you when we meet

again."

The man whose suit had been refused went away with a smile upon his

dark face, and without the least threat against his rival, or the man

who had given him his dismissal, nor the least suggestion that he meant

otherwise than to honestly win the girl whom he professed to love.

Giles Raynor was a settler in the far Northwest, and a man of

importance in the little town which he had founded.

Tom Walden had come among the settlers within a year, and had affected

a great liking for Grace Raynor, the farmer's daughter, and had asked

for her hand in marriage.

Walden claimed to be a lumberman, but there were those who said that he

had come into this lonely region to get ahead of an evil reputation,

and although he might be what he avowed, he was no honest man seeking

to make a living in these wilds.

It was said, although not too openly, that Tom Walden was a gambler and

a thief; that he had fled to escape punishment for his crimes, and that

even now, in his new home, he was not above suspicion, and that many

had been made victims of his unscrupulous methods.

Grace Raynor had expressed an open dislike to him, and was reported

to be engaged to marry Jack Woodson, an honest young fellow at work

in the sawmill in town, the only support of a widowed mother, and as

free-hearted, generous-handed a young man as one could meet.

No one knew definitely if the young people were engaged, for they kept

their own counsel, and when slyly questioned about the matter replied

that people would know all about it as soon as it became necessary for

them to do so.

Tom Walden left the farmer's house, ostensibly to go to work in the

woods, and Giles Raynor gave little thought to him, having other

matters to occupy his mind.

He left his daughter to look after the house, as usual, when he went

into the fields, saying nothing to her about Walden's proposal, not

deeming it necessary to worry her.

When he came home at noon his wife said that Grace had gone to another

town to make some purchases, being unable to obtain what she wanted in

their own village, expecting to return by the middle of the afternoon.

When evening came she had not returned, and the farmer began to feel

a vague alarm concerning her, although Walden had uttered no threats

against her, or any one in whom she was interested.

At nightfall a boy brought a note to the farmer, saying that it had

been given him by a woman closely veiled, an hour before, on the

extreme verge of the town.

The note read as follows:

"Dear Father: I have gone away with the man I love--Tom Walden. Do

not pursue us, for we will not be brought back alive. By the time you

receive this we will be married.

"GRACE."

The farmer handed the note to his wife, his face expressing the

astonishment he felt.

"It is not true," said Mrs. Raynor. "Grace told me only this noon that

she loved Jack Woodson, and that they intended to be married in the

fall, but that they did not want it generally known just yet."

"Then this scoundrel Walden has carried her off!" cried the farmer.

"Grace never wrote that letter," said the wife. "She is a truthful

girl, and has told me often that she never loved any one but Jack, and

to-day, as I told you, she said that she and Jack had fixed on the day

for their wedding."

The farmer took the note, put on his glasses, and read it again, more

carefully.

"It's her handwriting, as sure as I sit here," he said; "but that

scoundrel has made her write it, and has carried her off."

"Grace would die sooner than write a lie," said the mother.

At that moment Jack Woodson entered the room.

"Where is Grace? What is this story I hear?" he asked excitedly.

The farmer handed him the note, which he read hurriedly and then tossed

upon the floor.

"It's a lie! a false, cruel lie!" he cried. "My darling never wrote

that--never could write it. It's the work of that villain, Walden. Do

you know what I have just heard? Tom Walden was arrested on a charge of

forgery in Chicago--would have gone to prison, for his conviction was

certain, but jumped his bail, and fled. His name is not Walden at all.

There is a man at the hotel who knows all about him, and described him

this very hour. More than that, there is an old indictment against him

in New York for murder. The plea was self-defence, and the case never

came to trial. Now they have new evidence that he deliberately murdered

the man. He was then known as Tom Walden. My Grace run away with a man

like that! Never! He has carried her off, and has written this note

himself to deceive us. He has stolen her, but I will pursue him and

bring her back, if I have to kill him to do it!"

Then, without further words, he rushed from the house into the darkness.

The next morning he had disappeared, and no one knew where he had gone,

nor for months did the settlers hear tidings of him or of Grace or of

Tom Walden.

In one of the wildest parts of the Northwest woods an Indian village

had been built.

There were no white settlers within many miles, and the tribe was said

to be a peaceful one, never going on the warpath, and always treating

with kindness the few straggling whites who made their way into this

wilderness.

In one of the larger lodges of the village, one pleasant afternoon in

the late autumn, were a man of about forty and a girl not much over

twenty.

The girl's complexion was fair, and she had none of the characteristics

of the Indian, although dressed like one.

The man was tall and swarthy, with long, black hair, which hung

straight down upon his broad shoulders, his face was cruel and crafty,

and his every look was evil.

He was dressed in half-savage, half-civilized style, wearing a fur cap,

an embroidered hunting-shirt of buckskin, woolen trousers, heavy boots,

and a red sash in which were thrust a brace of pistols and a knife.

"See here, Grace," he said to the girl who sat before him on a low

couch of skins, "I haven't brought you here for nothing, and you must

be my wife."

"Never, Tom Walden, or whatever your evil name is," said the girl. "Far

from home and friends, among these wild and savage men, less pitiless

than you are, I can still defy you. I will never be your wife!"

"These people are my allies," said Walden. "I have inflamed them

against the whites, and they are ready to go on the warpath if I bid

them. They will kill you as soon as any one, if I give the word, and I

will if you do not consent to----"

"Never!" cried Grace, springing to her feet. "I doubt not that you have

told many lies to account for my disappearance, since you dragged me

from my home by your baseness. You are false enough to make war against

your own people, but I do not fear you, no matter what you threaten.

Kill me, if you will, and release me from my misery!"

"I've a mind to take you at your word!" cried Walden, seizing the girl

by the wrist and raising his knife as if to strike.

The maiden never flinched; but at that moment an Indian youth sprang

into the lodge and threw himself between the renegade and the girl.

"White man no strike the white flower!" he cried.

"Who are you?" growled the man, looking fixedly at the youth.

"Me Young Elk. Me live far off, me come to village, me have friend."

"Well, Mr. Young Elk, this is my squaw, and you will take yourself off

and mind your----"

"Paleface lie! The white flower is not his squaw!" the young Indian

replied.

"Get out of here!" hissed the renegade.

"No! Young Elk stay. White flower need friend. Me be her friend."

"Blame you!" hissed Walden. "We'll see if any mere boy can defy me! Out

of the way, dog!"

"No," said the Indian. "Not while white flower stay. Young Elk be

friend to white woman; bad paleface shall not strike."

"Thank you, my friend, but I fear him not," said Grace.

"I will conquer you yet!" hissed the renegade, as he rushed from the

lodge, the Indian boy having stepped aside.

As soon as Walden had gone, Grace left the lodge and hurried into the

forest, where she ran on till she reached a pool of water which made

its way swiftly into a cave amid the great ledges of rock.

The spot was at some distance from the village, the trees grew thick

and high, and the path between them was narrow and winding, and easily

lost; but the girl had evidently been there before, for when she

reached the opening in front of the pool she looked around her with an

air of security.

Walden, leaving the lodge, went to the chiefs, whom he found gathered

in council.

"Who is Young Elk?" demanded Walden.

"He is my kinsman," said one of the chiefs.

"He is a meddler!" snarled the renegade. "I will kill him if he does

not take care!"

"No, False Heart will not!" cried the old chief. "False Heart lies, he

has told crooked tales of the paleface, he is a bad man. He would make

us go on the warpath when the whites have not wronged us. It is he who

will have to take care lest Young Elk kill him!"

Inflamed with rage, Walden left the council and hurried into the

forest. As he hurried along the narrow path he was followed by Young

Elk.

Reaching the opening, Walden found Grace upon her knees at the edge of

the pool. "I cannot bear to leave this bright world," she murmured,

"but I could not bear the disgrace, the shame of being that man's wife!

Oh! why is there no one to help me?"

"Die, if you will have it so!" cried the renegade, raising his hand to

strike.

Upon the instant, the young Indian who had been trailing him, sprang

forward, seized the renegade by the throat and hurled him into the pool.

"Grace, my darling!" he cried, taking the girl in his strong grasp and

drawing her away.

"Jack! You!" she cried. "Then you are Young Elk?"

"No; he is my friend. He it was who found you here in the village,

and told me, and none too soon. I have sought you in many places. The

Indian boy who gave your father the letter forged by Walden confessed

that the villain had taken you to some tribe far away, and I began my

search. I went from tribe to tribe, finding you not, and at last met

Young Elk, whose life I saved. He went with me from village to village,

making inquiries, and here at last he found you. But what has become of

that scoundrel?"

"The strong current must have carried him into yonder cave," said

Grace. "The Indians say the stream never issues forth after leaving the

light."

"Then the scoundrel has met his just reward for all his crimes," said

Jack. "Come, I have found you, and now we will return, never to be

parted again."

It is needless to say that Grace's parents were overjoyed at her safe

return, and on the appointed day Jack and Grace became man and wife.

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WILD DOG ATTACKS MAN.

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The fins are sold for consumption by Chinese in shark fin soup. The

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under the name of grayfish.

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[Illustration]

Had Suffered

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To Friends

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Fishing

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Laughs at

"URIC

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Transcriber's Notes:

Added table of contents.

The title story of this issue originally appeared in _Fame and Fortune_

#341. The later reprint represented in this e-text contains some

condensations (for example, the first two chapters of the original

version are combined into a single chapter here), several chapter title

variations, and the removal of many paragraph breaks.

Retained some inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. suit-case vs. suitcases,

to-day vs. today).

Retained some inconsistent spelling (e.g. Pittsburg vs. Pittsburgh).

Bold is represented by =equal signs=, italics by _underscores_.

Page 5, renumbered "The Missing Diamond" from Chapter V to Chapter IV.

Page 6, changed "Piont" to "Point" in Chapter V title.

Page 7, changed "attack it to" to "attach it to."

Page 8, changed "containing silverwire" to "containing silverware" and

"porprietor" to "proprietor."

Page 9, changed "wasd not very" to "was not very." Replaced misprinted

text "inventory of the loss showed that it was not very" (a duplication

of text lower on the page) with "their statement, for he knew exactly

what was in" (the correct text recovered from the earlier appearance in

_Fame and Fortune_ #341).

Page 10, added missing quote after "him to wear."

Page 13, the last line of the column ("him, so Dick laid himself out to

please her. He") was accidentally duplicated between "Monday morning"

and "eleven o'clock." This duplicate text has been removed.

Page 16, changed "Fnish" to "Finish" in Chapter XI title.

Page 19, added missing "you" to "I'd like you to know."

Page 20, added missing quote after "BIG DEAL."

Page 21, changed "becomoing" to "becoming" in "becoming cinema stars."

Page 22, changed "consel" to "counsel," "plantiff" to "plaintiff" and

"objecions" to "objections."

Page 23, changed "rank any overpowering" to "rank and overpowering" and

"Foresrty" to "Forestry."

Page 24, the line "ing her, although Walden had uttered no threats" is

missing from this printing between "vague alarm concern-" and "against

her." The text has been filled in from a later reprint of the story, in

_Fame and Fortune_ #828.

Changed "thatt villain, Walden" to "that villain, Walden."

Unnumbered pages, added missing quote after "usually the limit." Added

semi-colon after "Courtship." Changed "In fact, a reporer" to "In fact,

a reporter." The address "438 West 63rd Street" is a best guess based

on very blurry printing.