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She summered 'uncertalnly till the humiliation and chagrin the had sut- I want you to be my wife. I want to give you everything the world offers, and I want to make you happy, girl. There'll be no gossip hereafterâ€"I’ll shield you trom everything unpleasant, andlftherelaanythlnzyouwantln Me, I’Il lay it at your feet. I can do it.” He lifted his massive arms, and in the set or his strong, square race was the promise that she should have what- ever she craved if mortal man could give it to hei~love, protection, poslo flan, adoration. ‘ “Not tonight. Don’t say it now,” she managed to articulate. “Yes, this is a good time. If you can’t answer, I’ll come back tomorrow. “I had rather leave that for you to and out, for I’m not much at scandal. 1 have something more important to tell you. It‘s the most Important thing I have ever said to you, Helen.” It was the first time he had used that name, and she began to tremble. while her eyes sought the door in a panic. She had expected this moment, and yet was not ready. man puthiswiferlght. toreingthrough heraneluddationofthesilb'aflalr in such a way as to spare Helen’s feelings and cover the busy tongued magpie wig confusion. Yet he heel- txted. Itlsawisesldpperwhotrim his sails to every breeze. He thanked ht informant and left him. Entering the lobby, he saw the girl hurrying toward him. “Take me away, quick! I want to go home." “You’ve changed your mind?” “Yes, let us go," she panted, and when they were outside she walked so rapidly that he had dificulty in keep- ing pace with her. She was silent, and he knew better than to question, but when they arrived at her house he entered, took of! his overcoat and turned up the light in the tiny parlor. She flung her wraps over a chair, storming back and forth like a little fury. Her eyes were starry with tears of anger, her face was flushed, her hands worked nervously. He leaned against the mantel, watching her through his cigar smoke. “You needn’t tell me.” he said at length. “I know all about it.” “I am glad you do. I never could repeat what they said. on, It was brutal!” Her volce caught. and she He studied for a. moment. while she watched him. What a splendid figure he made in his evening clothes! The cozy room with its shaded lights en- hanced his size and strength and rug- ged outlines. In his eyes was that ad- miration which women live for. He lifted his bold, handsome face and met her gaze. bit he: lip. “What made me as: them? Whydidn’tlkeepstfll? me: “lettlwenttothmowomam Badman. Oh. outmywem am- an Yet. why should I care?” She tampedherwpperedroot “I shall have to kill that man some durmwmnecmmdnruhea you I'd have that him up long ago." “It didn’t 'come tron: hlm,” she cried. hot with indignation. “He’s a gentle- man. It’s that at. Mrs. Chunplan.” He shrugged hls shoulders the Inflat- at bit. but It was eloquent. and the noted it. “Oh. I don’t mean that he did It inmnflonallyâ€"he’s too decent a chap for thatâ€"but anybody: tongue will wag To a beautiful girl! My lady Malotte is a jealous trick.” “Malone! Who Is she?” Helen quea- fluoed curiously. He seemed surprised. “I thought ev- ery one knew who she is. It's just us well that you don’t.” looked at him. “Gleam, of W. “I am sine Mr. Glenlster would not talk or me.” There was a pause. “Who is Miss Malotte?” intotho grate. from the States. and she 88" thing‘- Now, as far as I’m concealed. 8 girl can do as she pleasa, but M3,: Cham- pian has her own ideas of proprietY- From what my wife could learn. tha'e’ssometruth inthestory.t00.9° you can’t blame her." With a word McNamara could have “Go on.” “There has been a lot of talk among the ladies aboutâ€"well, erâ€"the fact is, it's that young Glenister. Mrs. Cham- plan had the next stateroom to themâ€" aâ€"himâ€"Ishouldmâ€"onthewnqup “I say you will, and you'll make your wife apologze before she leaves his hall, too, or you’ll answer to me, man to man. I won’t stand to have a ctr! like Miss Met cold decked by a bunch of mining camp swells, and thatgoesasltnes.” Inhlsexdtement XcNamara reverted to his westa'n idiom. Theotherdidnotreplyatonee, forlt is embarrassing to deal with a person who disregards the conventions utterly, andatthesametimehastbelndlna- tion and force to compel obedience. The boss’ reputation had gone abroad. “Wenâ€"erâ€"I know about it in a gen. eral way, but of course I don’t go much on such things. You’d better let it no other shook his head amusedb’: at which McNamara flared up. ‘ "Your wife has been en Miss Chester’s house. I’ve seen her there. Tonight she refuses to speak to the girl. She cut her dead, and I want to know what it’s about.” “How should I know? “It you don’t know, I’ll ask you to man?” She stood still and The Spoilers. “pyruht. 1903. by la. y, By max B. BEACH: ever "Yes, yes. He’s.not well.” Again the lawyer smiled. “Who is behind this vigilante movement?” Strfive laughed aublt, eying her cu- rlously. “Does Uncle Arthur know about this?" she continued. “No; we don't let him know anything more than necessary. He’s not a strong man.” “We think it is Glenlster and his New Mexican bandit partner. At least they got the crowd together.” She She wrung her hands. “That’s what uncle feared before we left Seattle. That’s why I took the risk: I did in bringing you those papers. I thought you got them in time to avoid all this.” "Sure. We had to. The other people shadowed us, and it’s come to a point where it’s life or death to one side or the other. I told McNamara we'd have bloodshed before we were through, when he first outlined the schemeâ€"I mean when the trouble began." Helen questioned Struve at length. but gained nothing more than that se- cret service men had been at work for weeks and had today unearthed the fact that vigilantes had been formed. They had heard enough to make them think the mines would he jumped again tonight and so had given the alarm. “That’s Just why I must so." cold McNamara. “I’ll come back in the morning. though. and I’d like to see you alone. Good night!" There was a strange, new light in his yes no he left her. For one nnversed In womn'n ways he played the game surprlslngly well, and as he hurried toward his ot- flce he smiled grimly into the dune”. “She’ll answer me tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. Glenister,” he said to him- “Have you hired spies?" she asked incredulously. ' must go at once." “You bet! It may be too lite now. The news came an hour ago, but I couldn't find you," sald Strnve. “Your horse is saddled at the 061cc. Bette: not wait to change your clothes.” “You say Voorhees has gone with twenty deputies, eh? that's good. You stayhereandnndontallyouecn.” “I telephoned out to the creek tor the boys to arm themselves and throw out pickets. If you hurry. you can get there in time. It's only mldnlght now." “What is the trouble?" Min Chester inquired anxiously. ‘1‘here's a plot on to attack the ulna tonight," answered the lawyer. “The otherddearetrylngtoneimthem,“ there’s apt to be a fight." “You mustn’t go out there.” she cried. aghast. “there will be bloodshed.” everymmg. He was blgger than all the rest combined They were his play- things, and they knew it. She was not sure that she loved him. but hls mag- netism was overpowering and her ad- miration intense. No other man she had ever known ared with him. except Glenlsterâ€" ah! The beast! He had insulted her at first; he wronged her now. “Will you be my wife, Helen?” the man repeated softly. She dropped her head, and he strode forward to take her in his arms, then. gunned nsteninz. Some one ran an on the north and hammered loudly at the door. McNamara scowled. walked into the hall and flung the portal open, dis- closing Struve. “Hello, McNamara! Been lookingan over for you. There’s the deuce to pay!” Helen sighed with relief and gathered up her cloak, while the hum of their voices reached her indistinct”. She was given plenty of time to regain her composure betore they appeared. or them, who would ostracize her and make her life in the northiand a mis- ery, make her an outcast with nothing to sustain her but her own solitary pride. She could picture her future clearly, pitllmly, and see herself standing alone, vilified, hanged in a thousand cutting ways, yet unable to run away or to explain. She would have to stay and face it. for her life washoundupheredurlngthenextrew years or so remained a fared thls’night swept over her 888-111- This townâ€"this crude, half horn min- mg campâ€"had. tamed against her: “115' judged her cruelly. The women "1" envious, clacking scandal m all ,, 4â€": “Edam! Who is the" t. Helovedherzhoofruedhu .Oltfio‘: the north," Struve had said. She raJsed her eyes to the glass and made a mouth at the petulant, tired reflec- tion there. She pictured Glenlster. leaping trom 1100 to floe with the hun- gry rlver surging and snapping at his feet, while the cheers of the erowd on shore gave heart to the girl cmudnns. out there. She could see him snatch be: up and fight his way back to! safety over the plunging ice cakes with death dragging at his heels. What e strong embrace he had! At this she blushed and realized with a shock that while she was mooning‘that very man might be fightinghsndtohsnd in'the darknessofamountungorgewiththe man she was going to marry. A moment later poms one mounted the front steps below and knocked Sharply. - W_¢wÂ¥8§? 791 risk of his own. Wha't a very gallant cavalier he was, to be sure! He should bear a coat of armsâ€"a dragon. an armed knight and a fainting maiden. “I succor ladies in distressâ€"handsome ones," should be the motto on his shield. “The handsomest woman in The clock showed half past 12. so, after letting him out, she extinguished the light and dragged herself wearily up to her room. She removed her outer garments and threw over her bare shoulders a negligee of mnny flounces and bewildering. clinging looseness. As she took down her heavy braids the story of Cherry Malone re- turned to her tormentingly. So Glen- lster had saved her life also at the like you that we fellows need. M183 Helen. You can help us a lot.” She did not like the way he was looking at her and remembered that her uncle was upstairs and asleep. “I must ask you to excuse me now, for it’s late and I am very tired." gambling halls, scandals, mm- essea! Ugh! I hate It! I hub m Why did I ever come hue?" “those things are a put of every new country. They were about all we had till this year. But it in women he?” said Helen Wm: heat. “I am proud tobemdebtedtonchtm tar. Truly this country bmdlmdeti course they couldn't dispute her. and she stuck to It. One of the W told me she lied. though.” “So. in addition to his other flea. Mr. Glenister la a realm gambler. ls “That's when you're wrong." Strum chuckled. “He's never been known to bet before." pot for her. but she didn’t seem to Md there were others. Yet, with it all, she is the most generous person and the most tender hearted. Why, shehssfedevery ‘stew bum'onthe Yukon, and there isn't a busted plus» pector in the country who wouldn‘t swear by her, for she has grubmked m of them. I was horribly in love yith be: myself. Yes. she's dangerous all rightâ€"to everybody but Gm." “What do you mean." “She had been am the Yukon to nurse 3 mugwith scurvy, and coming back she was caught in the spring breakup. I wasn’t there. but it seems this Glenister got her ashore somehow when nobody else would tackh the job. They were carried five miles down- stream in the ice pack before he suc- “That's the peculiar part. She hyp- notized him at first, but he ran away, and I didn’t hear of him again till I came to Nome. She followed him final- ly and last week evened up her score. She paid him back for saving her.” “I haven’t heard about it." He detailed the story of the gem- bling episode at the Northern saloon and concluded: “I‘d like to have seen that turn, for they say the excitement was terrific. She was keeping cases and at the finish slammed her one Iigpe‘rvsgdt £31me hot 01 because shehadmade a mistake. or “What happened then?” . “She fell in love with him, of course.” “And he worshiped her as madly as all the rest of you. I suppose,” she said scornrully. ins Rock of the mounted police, the finest officer in the service. He was cashlered. She knew he was going to stake in a winter or marry a mllllon- aire in a month, but she never bother- ed. She tolled not, neither did she spin on the waxed floors. yet Solomon in all his glory would have looked like a tramp beside her.” “You say she is dmzerons?’ "Wen, there was a young nobleman. In the winter of ’98, Dane. I think-â€" tlne family and all thatâ€"big yellow haired boy. He wanted to marry her. but a taro dealer shot him. Then there “Yes, this whole disturbance 13 cans- ed by those two. Only tor them we'd be all right.” “Who Is M138 Malotte?" He answered promptly, ‘The hand- somest woman in the north and the most dangerous.“ “In what way? Who is she?” “It's hard to say who or what she is. She’s dltl'erent from other women. She came to Dawson in the early days -just came-we didn’t know how, whence or why, and we never found out. We woke up ,one morning, and there she was. By night we were all jealous, and in a week we were most of us drlvellng ldlots. It mlght have been the mystery or perhaps the com- petition. That was the day when a dance hall girl could make a home fully and was more at sea than ever. There was a disturbing undercurrent of alarm and unrest that caused her to feel insecure, as though standing on hollow ground. vwn those mines." 'Undouhmdiy.” ‘ *But they don't. do they?” Somehow this question had recnrned to her in- sistently or late. for things were con- stantly happening which showed there wasmorehackorthisgreatflerce struggle than she knew. It was 1mm sible that injustice had been done the mine owners. and yet scattered talk reached her which was puzzling. When she strove to follow it up. her acquaintances admitiy changed the subject She was bathed on every side. The three local newspapers up- held the court. She reed them care- mmenttoranme. It was some time later that one of the detectives employed by the Swedes met Glenlater on Front street and by an almost imperceptible: sign signified his desire to speak with him. W119n they were alone he sud: “You've been shadowed." “I’ve known that for a long “1130;" _ drinking pnetty hard of late-that 13. hard for you.” The old man shook his: head. “Yon're mistaken. It ain’t hard for me.” “Well, hard or my, you'd better eat It out.” “I don't count on him. McMmam don’t care for California courts no more’n he would for a boy with a pen shooterâ€"he's got too much pull at headquarters. It the 'Strangiers’ don't do no good we’d better go in an’ clean out the bunch like we was killin' snakes. If that tails I'm goin' out to the States an’.be a doctor." “A doctor! What tor?” “I read somewhere th1.t in the United States every year there is {0.000.000 gallons of whisky used for medical purposes.” Glenhter laughed. “Speaking 0‘ whisky. Dex, I notice that you’te been “Good! How many can we count on to help us?" “About aixv. We've kept the num- be: down and only taken men with so much property that ihey’ll have to keep their mouths shut." “I wish we might engineer some kind or an encounter with the court crowd and create such an uproar that it would reach Washington. Everything else has failed, and our last chance seems to be for the government to step inâ€"that is, unless Bill Wheaten can do something we: the California courts." “I don’t count on hin. McNamara CHAPTER XV. N the morning after the episode in the Northern. Glenister awoke under a weight of dis- couragement and desolation. The past twenw-tour hours with their manifold experiences seemed distant hnd unreal. At brmktast he was exhumed to tell Dextry of the sam- Sung dehunch, for he had dealt trench- erously with the old man in risking half of the mine, even though they had checked the senseless, min: lust for play that passed him later. This lapse m the last stand of his old. untamed instincts. The ember- of nevoit in him were dead. He felt thtt he would never min lose mastery of himself, tint his passions would never beat him hen-after. Dextry spoke. “We had a meeting at the Merv last night.” He ei- “What was done?” “they decided to act quick and do an: odd jobs of lynchin'. claim Jump- in' or such as needs dom'. There’s a lot of law Inn-pa and Wpcu 1n the bunch who figure McNunm's gun; will wipe them ol‘ the up next." “It was bound to come to am." ‘They talked of ejafdn' the mech- er's men and pumn' all u tellers hack on our mines.” She laid a trembling hand on her bosom, and the color died out of her face. then at a slight noise above they both looked up to see Judge Stillman leaning fax; over the banister. He had wrapped himself in a. dressing gown and now gripped the rail convulsively, while his features were blanched to the color of putty and his eyes were wide with terror, though puffed end swollen from sleep. His lips moved in a vain endeavor to speak. “I don‘t understand." “The vigilantes are on their way here to hens: hlm. Come with me to my house, where I can protect you.” alarms. Would people never cease coming? She was worn out. but at thethookhtotthetngedy abroadand the sick (dd man sleeping near by she lit a candle and slipped downstairs to avoid disturbing him. 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