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A TRAP.TO CATCH AN HERES
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nd Took them ioe ea anything | ° "Please heaven, no, mother! said the girl,
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CHAPTER I.
Bernard Blake thrust his bands fn bls pookets,
‘ glancing round a lonely, almost squaild cabin,
' Tithan ate of santsaotion:
: ‘“Homember, Mother Gold," he sald,“you're to : = =
: tave charge of the gitl for me uutll I come for
Tr her.” . “WITH A TREMBLING HAND SHE” TRIED TO LIFT THE TUMBLER “SHE PUT HER VEIL BACK AND LOOKED AT HIM, HER HEART STOOD STILL WITHIN .
‘An old women, with her blue-cotton gown ” 7 RELY TH.
: tacked up overa patched-stuff petticoat, and a TO HER LIPS, : ELY THAT WAS NO SLEEP."
: Slateunbonnet tilted over her weathor-beaten | looked down into the pate face iipturned beseeoh- | “Don't t nything about your" | “Why, T.aid until this morn- | know everything there was to be known about
: Mood with her arms akimbo, looking at a | ingly to bi growled itor Tey ee et ye | ngs bub tee eonmged my mind the tase har oe | thle Foung fellow, who hud taken «0. much pains
: q io J bent nie head down to st and hissed a say. | Swmaccountot yourvelt, barthav allt | Eimeg bve neon fata yout tittle game. Til take ow Nm
Dale, slitn, yellow-hatred girl, who had drop) ‘ignoryiable gr two, write forotgn Sound to | Jack only laughed cate! Kolessly over the broeaty-| Alhind’Ta your game. pk ieras forging abend, ng he would Deve, said
i down wearlly on @ bench before the eubin hearth. harp whisper into the girls ear. implied sit om his vorn He bold Out his band etfustvety na be apoke, ge Tn'Sie talk when ho came
The girl's glances were turning inatroubled,| Then, as she meee coutig nor | "Ete “there T baye the a tage of you, my pdiinke took no noties of ft walking on with nis | PMonwMana fenmed lightly on the old tenltiae
anzioce ws na to the other of the two | breath, he shook her o1 Quectemoniously as | friend, ford ae know a 0 oad deat bow you," 1U thrust i Bee in bts poco dgor—to lightly that hé was not heard at frst. i
¥ from one to IC she had boon & Urabe cuing to hisalvave.” © | a pleasuire.to me to we my | eds win "proceedings froin the | “it'wap he who cat sound from within—a
speal ing before her. She reeled; she woul 2 ihe oor | frlondey Se Baise monkingise cmavectally whek | eabin window sonadr ork ing bie ambover ig stited, braken tobe them a faint volen:
PB vient ‘id not understand a word they | ir the womua bud mot caught her in her arms. they're'keeping tien pmselves dirk Tike to bring Shoulder tn the diree ite old ‘Gitun— promise
Bernard Blake ala not heed. ie wau oui of the | thetn to the iigbt, 9 ‘stows up all thoie | Town. “Ot toe i Hi me. fat oncan Suck tied i see Trajan, quite noisetessty, He '
bead out of the houre, ‘ood points. j Wonton, aeclug that, bie companion, Inge ara lance,
iT “afotuor Gold shook er head reluctant ng. 1] RE Ba STINE stone oar, “i Peta ovat eae on nn Sorenanton, | He Sabet Ca ae ae eee ek Be 4 na dulitin ae me gor. : :
*Waltand see my man aboot tt, Mr. Blak nore, tinder "her wing ol7& great overhabging | wh only responded with a cow). "| Retrens yoursett, orsourd never have left her inn fed By a lamp burn ‘ \
‘ one thejoh. “Hg be baa plore da Fork that Kept off the winter shows, on, cheer- | hole like that. And if you dido't mean to ont in ing ont ‘
roapeoting for gold, as ho s Biake passed the York, ho loft behind ets “dines | for hers it nmtat bo. became you could R gt hold of wed the bare and pig walls, the plas. |, .
or" hin the sige and the thought of the prosont mis- Ty's her money withont marry!ag ber, Ani Sa as soa aa in _ or two, bat still scrupu- j c
The woman nodded mournfully, ie thoughts went back to the past, which fit. Way td sea | "STnotived you didnt make much headway with | tt not more colorless
“Ye samo," she suid, teen years had left almost unchanged bere. Yooutbie | heron board ship,” said ink, grin tenes chad ines wekmrned on the pillow. ,
“And he don't nough to buy his salt in | Fhe pince might well be culed Secret Town—so, tO ea noes abut’ ow feabbing Pins deck, the faded sllow bate, streamed back from it,
tne days Blake a ve closely 1Ke desolate bilisides Kept tho secret of galne whee 0 ning bec | and a iach ofthe me 1 waa toned hee forward: with ‘feTwasted bands. were
‘Sho polnted round ‘iho bare # ched atin. | any eéttiement at tor todo for the t eth ustio's @ bad | and I eaught her in my arms re ‘Ro: she, snatched Srewreds Spon the freusts th a’still, deathly way.
ne SDolwe. look uy if the alpen ‘yas tiob, Me Rain the oxi da Oi. the California goldfever, « kee for anybody toa talks in'hissieepand’s cot | bermelt atay as ia eo, in death bad not yet calmed tatreust. Le ras a
Bhive?” Plucer tn ining don't pay; There's, fore sad trled to hide the precious | Raything ty ying he wy.and andiyostedelice on sis | aed and Ay a8 it sho wad a heathen ee etic, | hen sig with astddien, passionate energy, a8 te
Pe ce nmopening Ger baud, in which a mo- | ore they found in these hilhd, 86. youcsee, mate, when it-come out fn «| Shee oud Hitte vixens 1a rather bare alt Egon lips repeated
faent ago Blake bid, laid soverah Gold: pieaose | (Nam, tears, 18 Ot ‘onongh gold left hore to pay pig are sane Cooke #6 boltored—there was no- | her fortune without her than the whole of it with | “Promixe me, Gillian—promise!”
“than, e's got out of the grou 918 | for tho mining: Ee any taco Of thelr weil y ta vane at mg, then-and theres nobody hen at fe bo Knell ne the bedside siaing ber
ear.” ment bat that one lonel iw) that yourd lea yo al fortui rm invest sobs tn the coveriet, ralsed her tear wet face
Foltnd stl be won't gira upt, Well, isa fever | "Thorp was formerly wetation at this paint, on rom ai Harold 9 oi nk Eo ee eras eat Blake, driiy. And fe Tooked in upon it thought that no-
tnabellag pron and won et. a San Francisod, two, unde aes fou wos began to SHinkethae pay of youre The other mahi : thlng nore rarely beautiibl bad ever been seen OF
“You threw Fears ago, Mr, Blake, ee a ‘9 there 18 nothing for | ‘peur w litte looking Mato. Sean tte or other, in your hands,” Jack in- | dreai ved 0 '
And you look Iie. vond p sot pared ino foah nay ‘past on the lonohed nngers of hts right terpoecae DBon't trouble yourself to deny Itz] Some ‘pe elsa thought 90, too. ‘That .
Yee, Ear,” Bike 8 mitted, tieework witet he gorge to hoy wight like to tbrotuie | f' “a never have buried the | nard Blake, who bud ctept Up siaire ‘nolselessly
~ ad hy tan fis white angers) throws his alight: | Coid ‘nom and You Bot- vee girl Yonder with) an servderk of Bia them | after, bi, and Mood peering over Jack's ‘
ayigrizatod halt, witha ate ht stuction inthe |" hernard Bluke must walk back to Gold Run ante enough, | Sverbie shoulder toward Se he kornow, | Shomder inte the bare room, Pe ee &
y well naar iusoa gian | 30 8 ° 4 itiwaa but a poor Yor the picture w
putamen oottain sharp, mausterful bard | "Ho sot hl taco In. that ‘irectton—autekoning the ° res Blancs Jourihite inant re N "Reh others | rhe gn vd, sit reread Soule. fier, the ,
ay. : ce presently, when he heard 6 heavy stfiio mo off 0 g boat y wav ate
"2Yog," he added: 1 shen fou oo, 1 aian't | behina him, ieand ‘a a “ina Boat Siiter Pra*E pits brows the wonderful Gutk eves. drome :
9 on barro’ ety Tia worn-out file fa the, ‘earth Tt was too heav: wg to boy that of the et ‘irl be had on. He waid woth however; white they walked on | ed th tears,as sbe Mixed then om the dying wo- a
ike this. pean wate Mother Gold deserted. But he had no desire to be intorviewed | Twas nC ie! vadeiva pane tou cao some nie “e ‘silt in the direction of | man’s f :
Sha ftise Ay Tleva ‘yon'd Rot oll no out of may any moro by ether Ftheold miners wite whom be | something of yo coblane have done | wee weemanes fart SBromice me, Gillian ™—the words were again
name,’ she ahid, Napationtly., “Lm no, mother 0 at seen, or the ota miner nlmsel whom [Fete Fone migntmare Fe haan'e given nie tive alire, | COE ae AON vets, at Inst, good-bumor. | repeat ‘
~ yourn, and I'm enguah a ray, from gold” oa. | BS, b8t Incky enough to dispense Ag it did, Tenoceeded pretty woll, on the whole.” eay eat Joel * sek jmother=1 mass sobbed 0 i wos Be
2 joie's stale, | seo Fino out ila Poe who stre [ saatkiane Mike you, Gola, IUs easy eno “
- na 2a Ee aerone oid? Hows | "“So'hio struck out briskly, never looking back, “Yon seo ne Blake, noarvely. | This tine st was Binke whe stretched out BIS | tious ya be good | vow ood girl sit !
naturediy,,, ‘ag ine more astoniaied when, oy rousd.| He reeked biinsel, and, putting a good {nce 0 . Soria. ‘ .
"3 tossed her another coin carelessly. \ bint, there was'a adden rash of feat, and NGouldne gave fonnd out everything ™ sup: + pard,” he said, that—when he's ou :
Sho.canebt Heter greedily. ne aan fhe Tooke nnd stood | plied Jack, Norris, cootlye “We not CHAPTER 1. Hongcand {f-you're, hard 0 :
oan fn'the roud, facing bit Bly enongn to get you vio no ena ‘or troubles It Tmdead and gone"
een ‘pay for her board «anti T com: ngain, | | Binke stopped Shore for an instant, in utter as- | you choose. to ou neednre m Canton to Canton Avs {t doesn’t tr pethert when was f ever bard on
Neda ot ‘usings ap for her quite to the fave | tonishment. Force may If you'll divided Yeo godine | sound very fam teough It “alt Sword apare Millian, breaking into ‘more violent
SE the ‘big Frise Novels. Goodby, then, tll I TRANCE PS bern nee has anes Ksqrment of angy anaes Hh can, cule. the avtwe won
. “Jack Nore anton ae 0 in "Battin Series a m ro bard on him, eat
et tue old worran pointedly asked. | Tha otbey man, god Moking, yet Jow-baired, | interop ed Bink,” St Poors mans you were” | hhanbing tho hicketty statrs Saree Soutee bard on bith, Rta :
{ i gourit knaw wien be anid, in reply. prowd-shouldered, ‘moseular young fellow, with | “Yes, 4 found o i yond gambled all your gold nad mounted that way ie ohen ‘endah before, Mognerecursd wil tow 3 Sour
ugh youl Know weno Bess va mind, while | somotining of a sailor im his look’ and hit enit | away tn Frisco efore aatlin ie ace pie. when, ater a voyage OF tong ronining be bad | "SN Ghnen moder: Are you pot my metber, foot : :
he awung round Jauntlly on Bis heal and turned | fell into d lelsurely walk beside Biske, quite as | "And 1'vo been on a deggutly sulary” 4x—» | come ‘hor ome. nave you trustme? Have L not’ been 1
toward the Matter of course dack put in again : At was to cali home: ouly, sintenet sheer to Jack t Have 1 not been a faith- f =
crea mans bon, wim gmat egy | Shuck Voth Fam rient yey gre a aman] Uke, hh kanpened a eae nt ot on rone't mother and sister are, Jack, a8 | ful dang }
of eutly yellow iat Pa ene Bigko, my bor, fp honaweres, coolly. on the aurset Mawel? witreornscious viriue in the sentiment, Warking tore Hl
a im weft | "Move afd vot com ow suited. for . ‘ eritap t i
7 fo darken tbe. diuppeaced, too soon (0 36 “Meuning just nowt Way; took a, henger | Rome gooatpi 2 ere eben thes no placa bs none wee ames ‘Only to persuade you to trast
packs, Sarogress to the door was ‘interrupted. over th the orag, While you kept to the | In oburge ot the young as ‘That he ave made it m humble, | meth the past
‘The little, motionless figure on the bench bad | bottom. 5 Moreland, by ber eccentric er, the great | far mare ta i ole, Taetapuier nnd ister, with sist !? the woman broke in with a wall .
The Metle, ao e Nor 1 don't mean Just, now, as you know.” | American merchant; who Naa Just alle sea Cnoney'he often fonnd to sqaander oa meek w-rerright to tarow ii up fom, Gii-
"Sina and alight lh it, was no child's: | Blake, reenoaded, grofty, 10 the Stier's curetose | it eenne he was aa Su himmsotrs he mover caved to think, i pe fr fap to moth the Rext, ori
m 3 fe abandon Inthe pas: | good-natare. ssip Informed mor * ADIN worthy, i | Loar anotder | ho, bat FaMe
though there wee te Efe businoysins to leave tie i crow 3 eer ee rather prteewerth | jet offer wih the devil and his work=
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arm wildly with both bands. | mude out you were going todo? But Thappened | ing Knglish. 8 moat as well ye 8 never expect
moan aUe Nt Petied, "No, 102” {ohave iny head out of the smoking-oar window homer Chace, for aif she's @ pretty Hitle fair: | trom hea” a Weekersurs ECs “dager oorinnly stroking with ber sort hand the fest:
ectgther ‘Gold, looking dispasstonately on, sald, | when you und your young Indy got off at Gold | faced thing enough. the poor store battered siitor toey atways saw £8 levy one plucking ‘at the coverlet. “My mother
' Run station, 80 I thought I'd better follow my | "it seein he hid tore his wife anc obtid some. | hime” tt De ‘ood angels
cet {nought you sald ste aidn't know = Bend for on, ere, wa very vinit, they believed ad he war Just back | The “ating Wronkin broke in om her, rales .
mee Bega Re naar” J rk, added, with gudden sort | ty and team one init Fey gn diaast rons FO" “ viata ron her elbow, glaring. »iitisbapot
te jasness, (don jake & clea: mutter! ‘An for hia balte penniless, OO! “facil tt was | with ner fev ine cyen.
No mor eevee" anise Ey" plgoon Eng ais quamess Faz Jory aea youd Yoxt make a clea | fOr tho chiang then ite bia, vets at Trenatiens, poor. sei wae nga wtil dg ievtigangels witt earow te
er DADS LF gercy suo could even take oui About it anybow that t might Just as well Know mourn his death bed, a a depated zn we ape nee, bow. son have
sWhere does, 9h¢ cores from, ‘anghow? ‘kha the whole sto ke. of Yo ‘ous tay horn {Some tara eas the would get any amonnt ot | wronied abe, rem wilt say to me. “See De A
8 ot, to do with youth Whe woman) Jack on nano much about tt" howd, He baa tn Ameri at tat ee ee belch ore es you Sseeieiees hermyoa “who
ju ma mar vn nt or don't mind telting you, my friend, that whi en inight be in everything else), | care to have het
Dis, TE Taughed. vot | MEG om" Ris lint to the pleasant bredne Lheatd this T eaid tor myselt, Bebold my ony ey foseded 4o Bernard Dinke father! See you *
att bo you think 1’ come to Secret | walked on. 1 tunity to. marry. a. fortune Drve got tho ded so more and bso" Tait: | cheated her, and thtust the shit ‘aryou loved into
na nt aperels to Keep? Nox, thank| | “Laidnit come alt the © from Ching | wood on Binke enough to make hin sive me ving | Ponddy _thragh, Tsitimore, on, the way to Now Ser rine pinee See how:
ow other Gola! I'll Keep may secrets, a qu'il | to, San_Erancisco mit a and. ‘the e young Indy | Chance with the pretty holrew Sh ot Ithmonyghe at Baitimere. hiiakts- aera a the shuddering
my money, and petw con i ie be all #3 ‘a with my oyes shut, (rtond Blak aM, t rowahee in her com) ponition: at go a lor Prok aaying noting of bis own a Having ber softly Taek nyoa they low.
re_sure, why, then, of co Stand’ bie when Lilt Yon thar te was forthe ex: | wen in my fevorihat l worked my passnxe nom arcinonta hid qnicuty given Blake the ip. and Gian tender lips shut the wild, raviog 0
i aa ‘her meagre or press purpose of Keeping the young Indy tn sight rer Re eer eet aes ith War at aire tres steps ata time, | W1Ch
Moning ‘on the 3: that I came over on the same steamer from Chin inc hor pretty face a few times yonon thecam: | cheorily Me the tet that Blake, obsery: Ber mother, T ir blamed yout
sure, Bre ae ergot | ean amram working my eae vover, an | ton etree ing something secret in Jnck’s manner, had qui Yon: couldnt help owin g duck tore Chan nT
"changed nenanenTy wasn't 6 in "before the mast wand § tn your court. | etly dogge ia nanse, ave never besri ack. Oniy love :
and fone sont rice, a3 he | inthe days of my youth, you know ship of asian help you in Your core ey aa Well lake anid to biimselt, that beshon!d | a little, mother—mve, too!” Y \
