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Chapter 49
THE KISS
"UUT knew something was iroubl
V lng A-K deeplr. He had been
noticing It ever since the old officer
arrived six hours ago.
"What la It, A-K?" he asked.
Marlln turned to him with a reso
lute air. "1 might as well get It over
with. I suppose. She, 1 mean Rosalie,
told me to break you the news. I
should have, before now, but It's a
dismal duty."
In a flash Curt gueasod the trouble,
Rosalie had landed a more suitable
candidate than himself! He won
dered sardonically whether the gen
tleman was the Edmonton banker or
the Seattle ship owner.
"I believe 1 know what you're
going to tell me, A-K." For Marlln'a
sake he hid his sheer delight over
the unexpected good news. "Rosalie
came to the conclusion that she and
I just weren't suited for eat-h other,
and so he "
"You're being generous," Marlln
Interrupted, more sharply than he
had ever spoken of Rosalie. "The
conclusion she came to was that she
wanted to marry money; and she
went after It, and well, she got It,
got a whole steamship lino!" He
made a weary gesture and stood up.
"Well, you know now. I don't think
It's altogether a surprise to yon.
Nor," he added pointedly, "very
much of a disappointment."
"No, It Isn't," Curt admitted hon
estly. "I was Intending to have a
frank talk with her when 1 was In
the city a month ago, but she wasn't
there. Rosalie and I can be a lot bet
ter friends as things stand than If
we'd have Liarrled."
"Yes, yon're right. She's got one
Idea of what life's all about and
you've got a different Idea, and the
two would're been oil and water,'
- When they went out to old John's
camp, the company had already
gathered. On the packing oox Sonya
aat talking with Mrs. Hodklns and
Paul and a glrL The -Indians and
prospectors were there, and the
youn; trapper had brought his two
wolf cubs, still fuzzy and playful but
now grown too big for his pocket.
One person of that former eve
ning was missing, though: and Curt
felt the loss keenly. As his glance
occasionally met Sonya's across the
Ore. he knew that she too was think
ing of Ralph Nlchol and a lonely
lobstlck up the Lllluar.
Like some wild creature brought
In from the mountains, Tenn-Og
bung back at the edge of the tire
glow, trying to understand all those
strange tongueB and strange people
of the outerworld. After an exile of
one hundred and twenty years, a
Klosohee had returned at last to the
ancestral home o. bis tribe.
Ourt felt a proprietary Interest In
that proud little band which had
fought him so fiercely. They were
bis clan, and he wanted to give them
a helping hand. and some desperate
ly needed counsel. Even In that Iso
lated country they could no longer
hold out against a changing world.
Now that the primitive Slam-Klale
'was dead and Tenn-Og's halt brother
was leading them, he-bellevod be
could wean them from their unso
cial ways.
Curt noticed how tired Sonya was,
too tired to talk or even listen to the
others. The long trip out of the Ml
luars, ended only yesterday, had
been hard on her; he himself still
felt logy from It
A LITTLE before midnight she
looked across at him with an
understanding glance, excused her
self and went up toward the factor's
house.
After a decent Interval he got up
and left, as Inconspicuously as pos
sible. In the moon shadows of the
trading post he found her, waiting
for him.
"You were so long, dear," she
whispered, "1 thought you weren't
coming."
Curt disarmed her with a kiss. "I
had to wait soveral minutes, and
then I swung out around the Indian
tepees so those folks wouldn't know
I'd followed you."
He linked his arm through hers
and they started out the path toward
the old fort.
"Does A-K still think I'm an ad
venturess, CurtT"
"When I told him how you trailed
Karnkhan, he wantod to sign you
up for the Mounted."
"Oh, that'd be fun! I think I'll do
It"
"You will not! You're going to cast
your lot with the Provincial Police."
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She mused: "Cotnmlssiuno-. u.le
of the Provincial Commissioner
that's an awfully high position for
me to llvo up to. Curt I don't know
whether I can make good at It or
not"
"But think of what I'll have to llvo
up to, sweet. Look" be took her
band ind laid It upon his-own, her
slender tapering fingers upon his
rough calloused ones.
"Don't!" Sonya stopped him. She
raised bis hand to her lips. "This
haqd fought for mo, and was
wounded. Do vou remember" they
were passing Curt's tent "remem
ber the evening when I came by here
and Paul said 'Bon solr' to me? 1
didn't know you were In the tent or
even that you existed. Six weeks ago
It doesn't seem possible. Curt"
A thousand yards from the post
they sat down on a lichen-covered
rock near the wave edge. Sonya nes
tled against him, her tired bead
against his shoulder.
She was motionless and silent so
long that he believed she must have
dropped off to sleep, but when be
glanced down he saw that she was
looking up at him, studying him.
"You're sorry, aren't you, Curt?"
"Sorry for what, dear?"
"That we're not going to live In a
country like this. That we're going
back to tbe cities."
"I am, a little," be admitted. "1
can't help being, dear. But my place
la down there, oa helped me see
that And besides, we'll have all this
summer for our honeymoon In the
Lilluara. I'm being honest with you.
Sonya I don't want to go back
down north. This work I'm taking
on Is a rosponBlble position, and I'm
egoist enough to believe that even
tually I'll climb on past lt.l
SHE twined her fingers with his, as
though she had been worrying
about bis happiness and now was
reassured by bis words.
In the distance he could see the
ruddy glow of old John's camptlre
and the twinkle of figures passing
back and forth In front of It. A night
wind rustling In the woods behind
brought him the purl of an ovorfalls
and the sad elemental song of the
pines.
Low In tbe southwestern sky red
Antares, Sonya's tryst star and the
star he had watched at Ralph's
death, was sinking out of sight In a
notch between two mountains.
When he glanced down at Sonya
again, long minutes later, ho saw
that her eyes were closed. He did not
stir, or wako her; it was coo pre
cious to have her asleep In bis arms.
She seemed so different at heart
from what she had been on their
trip north more cheerful and at
peace. With the doath of Karakhan
a black load had fallen away from
her. Sho could begin to forget that
tragedy In distant foggy Vladivos
tok, and start to live again.
He marveled at the strange des
tiny which had brought her to him
from the Volga of old Russia, across
Siberia. China. Canada, to this uorth
ern wilderness where he and she
bad mot. He thought of the night
when he had seen her looking out
into the rain, lonely and moody, with
thnt fearful trip ahead of her.
Far away across the lake a wolf
lifted Its wnlllng croscendo. Its voice
laden with the lonellnoss and sav
agery and beauty of tbe Northland.
He would miss all that, Curt thought
sorrowfully the Arctic prairies, the
Nnhannl Mountains, the happy free
dom which had been his for a year
and which ho would put behind him
Irrevocably that fall.
It seemed to him that when he
had sont his plane crashing Into
Karakhan's ship, It had been like
folding up bis wings and bidding
good-bye t -arenture. From the
very beginning of the Karakhan
hunt Intangible bonds had been
tightening upon him little by little,
drawing him back to his destined
course of life.
But he did not foel that he was
leaving the wilderness for good and
all. They could come back to It, be
and Sonya, and live tor a while In It
There would be times when they
would need to come back to keep
their perspective and got a new hold
on their strength. What If be did
regret the musk-ox prairies and the
white-wolf bills? One could not have
everything.
He felt as he smoothed a wisp of
hair from Sonya's cheek, that he had
received his full share, and more.
He hnd health and courage, and a
position that challenged all his
powers, and the vista of still more
challenging heights toward which
he and Sonya could climb together.
fCnpyrleht, ITUIiam B. V --j'l
THE END.
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States consular district, a naval party Early today, two nationalist mar
came mhore from the American gun- j lnee were slain by a leaderleaa rebel
boat Tulsa and Immediately went. band. Further disorders developed
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the Indian district medical officer
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Uamalpur railway station.
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killed and ties were not determined.
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and nine at Gaya.
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and many buildings were allghtly
damaged Including the high court
and electric corporation buildings,
two churches, the Imperial bank and
t the general postoffice.
I The quake started here at 3:45 p.
'm. local time (3:45 a. m.. E. 8. T.)
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