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fn glittering letters. The wind seemed
be shrieking them in a thousand
voices, hurling them at him from all
sides. The words burned themselves into
his. brain and took their place besides
the picture ofhis wife and little girl who
beckoned him on, hey seemed to be
crying the words to him now.
The snow had obliterated all fraces. ot
the trail and the white storm made
Mason tried
d blinded
ig eyes with water. He
see where his footsteps were
leading him, but stumbled on thru the
storm, guided by blind instinct alone,
Then he felt the trail cropping beneath
his feet and knew he was on the decline
tnat Jeads to Soosetrack Creek
é of winning!” he shuoted
pack at the snow-encrusted dogs. “Mush!
—one cha
Dimly he saw the door-of the old store
‘shack at Moosetrack diggings looming
before him t white storm, and. he
had scarcely “irength enough to stumble
t
NSIDE the shack Mason found a stove.
He did not stop to consider why it-
should be there, he realized only that it
It had a fire in it, which was
e stove was rapidly cooling. Mason
seized several sticks of wood from a pile
on the floor and shoved them into the
stove, which was one of the rapid-heat-
ing, sheet-iron kind, and it was soon
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faculties and remembering the
dogs he went out and unharnessed them,
then threw them their ration of, fish.
Scooping up a kettle full of snow, he
seized his grub sack and returned to the
shac
Mason mechanically melted the snow
over the stove and threw into it a hand-
ful of tea. He hacked off a hunk of beans
from his: frozen supply, and, putting
them in a skillet, placed it on the stove.
Then everything went black and- he
ceased t
When “Mason “recovered consciousness,
he pulled himself to his feet dazedly, He
smelted something and lopked at the
He snatched the skillet of smok-
e and hungrily
The boiling
tea scalded his mouth and, carrying the
kettle to the door he scooped some snow
into it. He sw allowed sSreat draughts of
the strong bre
The still hot ‘tea stimulated Mason‘s
whole system, it sent the blood cours-
ing thru his veins and restored the
warmth to his body. It had the same
effect. on his clouded mind as a ray of
ile saw every-
First it flashed upon him as strange
that the stove should be there. He had
supposed the old shack deserted. Ile
looked around the large room and Sstart-
ed with a shock of surprise,
Lying on a cot in one corner of the
room was a man. His features were
darkened from the effect of the frost,
and his eyes were sunken. The pinched
[look on his face indicated that the had
been suffering heavily. Apparently he
was asleep,
Wonderingly, Mason, stepped to the side
of the cot and looked a
closely. He was young, and altho he
wore the garb of a miner, it was evident
that he had not been long in the couatry.
Mason quickly seized the kettle of tea
from the stove and shook the man gently,
then saw that he was unconsctous.-
Dragging the cot closer to the stove,
Mason removed the man’s boots and part
of his clothing and examined his body
for signs of injury. He found a great
puffed condition indicated
that the man had received internal in-
juries. Mason made him as comfortable
as possible, and chafed his wrists.
After half an hour the man opened his
eyes and stared at Mason vaguely. Ma-
son raised his head and placed the tea-
looked at Mason with a brightening light
in his eyes.
“Where did you find me?" he whis-
pered. (atten several attempts to speak.
“He replied Mason.
“on? exclaimed the other, "I remem-
ber now, I dragged myself here“when I
came to after I fell. I was stunned for
a while.
“Where did you fan” asked Mason._
“Of the ledge down at the old Creek
diggings,” replied the other; “the dirt
gave zs ut,” he asked, looking at
‘where did you come
“! was crossing the pass to Upper Yu-
kon,” exclaimed Mason, “and I stopped
here for the night; there's a gold strike
at Upper Yukon.” -
"Gold!" cried the man excitedly, ag
tho suddenly remembering, “gold! Why,
man, I've got thousands of dollars’ worth
of it. I've found ft, after months of
searching. <“Say.”’ he turned to. Mason
mie shining eyes, “now I can go back to
girl who's waiting In the States,
Look there!’ He ratsed himself from
the cot in his eagerness and polnted to
a smal feather sack in one corner of
the room, : .
' ~
LEDGER
Mason picked the sack up curiously,
He grew interested as he felt its weight,
and when he opened it he whistled
surprise, ‘It contained some of the rich-
est pay dirt he had ever seen.
“Where did you get that?” he cried
5
"I told uso!” erled the other tri-
umphantly. “I got it down at the lower
diggings. I've got a claim graced. san
it’s worth thousands, man!
strike, all in one claim, an
A sudden pain convuised the stranger’ 's
a pocket
features, and with a choked cry he sank
back into unconsciousness,
Jason worked over the man long. but
his efforts to bring” him back: to con-
sciousness were fruitless.
‘What he needs,” Mason reflécted, “is
a doctor, and that bad!”
ASON sat. down on a stool by the
stove and reflected. Ifthe man were
only. at Old Jim’s place, the doctor from
White Owl could.be sent for in a hurry.
But the only way to get the stranger
there“ was to take him.
A ull import of the situation pre-
sented ‘tselt before Mason with forceful
clearness.. He. had had his fight ‘with
the storm, conquered the one chance
Old Jfm had allowed him, and now he
could make the dash to Upper Yukon in
a day. It all down-hill sledding,
and he would arrive at the strike with
the first of the gold rushers. That would
mean wealth and happiness for the wife
man here in the shack. He ¢
back forthe stranger after he had staked
his claim, Mason reflected noperully, and
then take him to Old Jim
But there was a staister truth Mason
could not gef away from, an 8:
would be delayed as much by the s'
he knew there was no doctor at
Upper Yukon, There was only one
chance of saving the man’s life, he had
to-admit to himself finally, and that
was to get him to Old Jim's place and
the doctor by the next nig.
And there was only one chance of |
ning wealth and. happiness for his
wife and little girl. yrhat was to make
Upper Yukon tomorr
All that night Mason tossed in a tor-
ment of mind. Towar morning he
fell into a fitful sleep, and he dreamed
he had gone to Upper Yukon and staked
Jim's place with a human burd den
Jashed to his sled.
TIEN the doctor from White Owl
arrived at Old Jim Cogley’s road
house on the Yukon trail in response to
a hurry call, he found a lot of work
awaiting dim,
Mason had a frost- bitten face, pinozen
eet. and a chill, contracted in su-
perhuman effort
$ his winning that
had saved the other’s life.
The stranger opened his eyes to look
at his savior lying near him. flash of
neeoenition came to his eyes.
‘Where are we now?” he a
ont ee Jim Conley’s, replied: Mason,
smilin,
“And” you brought
me here!" The
time getting me here in that
owe -you my chance to make
her happy!”
Mason saw the other seize his trousers
which were on a chair beside his cot
pockets, then he drifted off into” a heavy
sleep.
When Mason opened his eyes again
the stranger was asleep. The wallet
lay where he had dropped it on the cot,
and there was a small photograph be-
side
Mason glanced at the photograph,
then a look of astonishment came into
his eyes and a startled cry escaped his
lips. He was looking at the picture of
his little girl of. five years before!
The other man, awakened by the cry,
saw the look on Mason's face and the
picture held in his trembling fingers,
He stared at Mason keenly, and a light
of half-credulous realization fiashed
over his own face. .
“Say!” he _ cried eagerly, are you
muses smiled, and could only nod in
re
2Gtory be!” cried the other joyously,
"I came. north to win a fortune for my
girl and her mother and to find her
Daddy, and I've done it, I~I. ” His
volce choked with the emotion of his
happiness and he turned to Mason with
shin
Dut with a smile on his lips, Mason
the other man's
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