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Bench. a bE} },} SS She did not answer, only continued to look at the "layout" "What a woman!' he thought. She was not too tall, with smoothly rounded bust and hips and long waist, 411 well displayed by her perfectly fitting garments. Her face was oval, the 'mouth rather large, the eyes of dark, dark blue, prominent- ly outlined under thin, silken lids. Her dull gold-hajr was combed low over the ears, and her smile showed rows of sparkling teeth before it dived into twin dimples. Strangest of all, it was un innocent face, the face and smile of & schoolgirl. The Kid finished his shufling awk- wardly and slid the ecards into the box, Then the woman spoke: ; "Let me have your place, Bronco." The man gasped, the Jew snickered, the lookout straightened in his chair. "Better not. It's a hard game," sald the Kid, but her voice was imperious as she commanded bim: "Hurry up. Give me your place." Bronco arose, whereupon she set- tied in his chair, tucked in her skirts, removed her gloves and twisted into place the diamonds on her hands. "What the devil's this?" sald the lookout roughly. "Are you drunk, Bronco? Get out of that chair, miss!" She turned to alm slowly. The inno- cence had fled from her features, and the big eyes flashed warningly. A change had coarsened her like a pul? of air on a stHl pool. Then, whilé she stared at him, her lids drooped dan- gerously and her lip curled. "Throw him out, Bronco," she sald, and ber tones held the hardness of a inistress to her slave. "That's all right," the Kid reassured the lookout. "She's a better dealer than I am. This is Cherry Malotte." Without noticing tife stares fhis evoked, the girl comménced. Her "This 18 Cherry Malotte." bands, beautifully soft and white, flashed over the board. She dealt rap- idly, unfalteringly, with the finish of one bred té the cards, handling chips and coppers with the peculiar manner isms that spring from long practice. It was seen that she never looked at her check rack, but when a bet re- quired paying picked up a stack with- out turning her head, and they saw further that she never reached twice nor took a large pile and sized it up against its mate, removing the extra' disks, as is the custom. When she stretehed forth her hand, she grasped the right number unerringly. This is considered tlie acme bf professional finish, and the Bronco Kid 8miled de- lightedly as he saw the wonder spread from the lookout to the spectators and heard the speech of the men who stood on chairs and tables for sight of the woman dealer, For twenty minutes she continued, until the place became congested, and never once did the lookout detect an error, While she was busy Glenister enter- ed the front door and pushed his way "Back toward the theater. He was wor- ried and distrait, his manner perturbed and unnatural. Silently and -withont apparent notice he passed friends who greetey] him, ¥ "What ails Glenlster tonight? asked a bystander. "He acts funny." "Ain't you leard? Why. the Midas has been jumped. He's In a bad way-- all broke up"... LL : The girl suddenty ceased without fin- ishing the deck and arose. 3 "Don't stop," said thé Kid, while a murmur of dismay came from the speg- tators. She only shook Mer head and drew on her glaves with a show of ennui. Ao, Gliding through the crowd. dignity serving her as a barrier even here. She stopped a waiter and ques- tioned him. 4 . "He's upstairs in a gallery box." ! "Alone?" ; "Yes'm. Aunrbow. be was o ninute unless some of the rustlers bas in on him." Zioomy absorption by the click of the door ind the rustle of silken skirts. nl devouring him hongrily 'to her cheek and cuddled it. moment later Glenister, watching scene below, was aroused from bis | out.' please," be suid. without | Ste pulled kim towards the fight and with ber greal, iznguorous eyes. She i held to his coat Igpels, standing close beside him, her warm breath beating Isoouer she knew and the colder it left up into his face. | "Well," she sald, "kiss me!" He took her wrists in his and loosed ber bold, gravely and said: "No--that's all over. when 1 left Dawson." "All over! Oh, no, it Isn't, boy. You thik so, Dut # isn't--it' can't be, I love rou too much to let you go." "Hush!" said he. "There are people in the next box.™ "I don't care! Let them hear," she cried, with feminine recklessness. "I'm proud of my Jove for you, I'll tell it to them--tg the whois world." "Now, see here, lttle g'rl." he said quietly, "we had a long talk in Daw- sor and agreed that it was best to d4i- vide our ways. I was mad over you once, us a good many other men have been, but I came to my senses. Noth- ing could ever result from it, and I told vou so." I told you so "Yes, yes; 1 know. I thought 1 could give you up, but I didn't realize till you had gone how I wanted you. Oh, it's been a torture to me every day for the past two years." There was no semblance now to the cold creature she had appeared upon entering the gambling hall. She spoke rapidly, her whole body tense with emotion, her voice shaken with passion. "I've seen men and men and men, and they've loved me, but I -never cared for any- body in the world till I saw you. They ran after me, but you were cold. You made me come to you. Perhaps that was it. Anyhow, I can't stand it. I'll give up everything, I'll do anything, just to be where you are. What do you thigk of a woman who will beg? Oh, I've lost my pride! I'm a fool--a . fool--but I can't help it" "I'm sorry you feel this way," said Glenister. "It isn't my fault,qand it isn't of any use." For an instant she stood quivering, while the light died out of her face; then, with a characteristic change, she rsmiled till the dimples laughed in her | cheeks. She sank upon a seat beside him and pulled together the curtains, shutting out the sight below. "Vory welll" Then ghe put his hand "I'm. glad to see you just the same, and you can't keep me from loving you." With, his otfier hand he smoothed her hair, while, unknown to him and be- neath her lightness, she shrank and quivered at his touch like a Barbary steed under the whip. "Things are very bad with me" he sald. "We've had our mine jumpzd." "Bah! You know what to do. You aren't a cripple. You've got five fingers on your gun hand." "That's it! They all tell me that--all the old timers. But I dont know what to do. I thought I did, but I don't The law has come into this country, and I've tried to meet it halfway. They jumped us and put in"a receiver, a big man by the name of McNamara. Dex wasn't there, and I let them do it, When the old man learned of it, he nearly went crazy. We had our first quarrel, He thought I was afraid" -- "Not he," said the girl. "I know Kfth, and he knows you." > >. "That was a week ago. We've hired the best Jawyer in Nome--Bill Whea- ton---and we've tried to have the in- junction removed.: We've offered bond in any sum, but the judge refuses to Faceept It. We've argued for leave to appeal, but he won't give us the right. The more 1 look into it the worse it seems, -for the court wasn't convened in accordance with law, we weren't notified to appear In our own behalf, we weren't ullowed a chance to ar- gue our own case--nothing. - They sim- ply slapped ep a receiver, and now) they refuse fo allow us redress. From a legal standpoint it's appalling, I'm told. But what is to be done? What's thé game? That's the thing. What are they up to? I'm nearly out of my mind, for its all my fault. I didn't think it meant anything like this or I'd have made a fight for possession and stood them off at least. As it is, wy partner's sore and he'g gone to drinking---first time in e years. then looked down on her . fwas sure--sbe never cou i Y 13, 1918. hateful, as the case might loved to play with her in 'the furmer cn" to work upon her pas- d watch thie changes, to note her features mirror every varying emo- tion from tenderness to fiippaney, from anger delight, and at his bidding to {soe the pale checks glow with love's fire. the eyes grow heavy, the dainty ! Cherry was a per- led. nnimal, he reflected,' ! ful, Jusiful, 11 ie r inns' 1 (lips invit i fect little spo innd a very d rons one; "What g she questioned again, | ind Le knew beforehand the look that wént with it i "The girl 1 intend to marry," he said i slowiy, looking her between the eyes. He knew he was cruel--he wanted to It satisfied ihe clamor and turmoil while he also felt that the be. Lyithin him, hor the better. He cond ust note the offect of the remark on her, however, for as he spoke the door of the box wened, and the head of the Broneo Kid appeared, then retired instantly with apologies. "Wrogg stall," he said In his slow voice. "Looking for another party." Nevertheless his eves had covered ev- ery inch of them--noted the drawn cur- tains and the breathless paise of the woman, while his ears had canght part of Glenlster's speech 5 "Yon won't margy her™ said Cherry mietly. *I don't know who she is, ut 1 won't let you marry ber" She rove and smoothed her skirts. *It's time nice people were going ao." She said it with a sneer at' herself. "Take me out through this crowd: I'm living quietly, and I don't want these beasts to follow me." As they emerged from the theater the morning air was cool and quiet, while 'the sun was just. rising. The Bronco Kid lighted a gigar as they passed, nodding silently at their greet. ing. THis eyes followed them. while his hands were so still that the match burned through to his flusers; then when they had gone his {eeth met and ground savagely through the tobacco so that the cigar fell. while he mnt- tered: "So that's the girl you intend to man 2 We'll see, by God!" . a CHAPTER VIIL LE water front had a strong at- traction for Helen Chester and rarely did a fair day pass with- out finding her in Me quiet spot from which she could witch the shifting life along its edge, the ships at anchor and the varied ineldents of the surf. This morning she sat in a dory pulled high up on the beach, bathed in the bright sunshine and staring at the rollers, while lines of coneentration wrinkled ber brow. The wind bad blown for some days till the ocean beat heavily across the shallow bar, and now, as it became qitleter. longshore- men were launching their craft, pre- paring to resume their traffic. Not mtil the previous day had the news 'of Tier-Triends' misfortune come to her, and salthovgh she had beard uo hint of fraud, she begin to realize that they were involved in a serious (angle. To the questions which she anxionsly put to her wuncie: he had replied that thelr difficulty arose Grpm a techuical- ity in the mining laws which another man had been shrewdienough to profit by. It was a complicated question. he said, and one requiring time to thrash out to an equitable settloment. She had undertaken to remind him of the service these men had dove her, but, with a smile, he interrupted. He could not allow such things to influence his Judicial attitude; and she must not en- deavor to prejudice him in the dis- charge of his duty. Recognizing the justice of this, she had desisted. For many days the girl had caught scattered talk Between the judge and McNamara and between Struve and his associates, but it a!l seemed foreign and} dry, and beyond the fact that it bore on the litigation over the Apvil creek mines, she understood nothing and cared less, particularly as a new interest bad but recently come into her life, an iuterest in the form of a man --AeNamara, He had begun. with quiet. half con- cealed admiration of her, which had rapidly increased until hig attentions kad become of a singularly positive and resistless character, Judge Stillman 'was openly delight- ed, while the court of one like Alec McNamara could but fatter uny girl fu his presence Halen felt herself ree belliog at bis suit, set as distance sep arated them she thought ever wore Rindly of it. This state of mind con- trusted oddly. with ber feelings toward the other man she bad met, for in this country there were but two. Wien Glenister was with her she saw lis love, lying nakedly fu his eyes, and it exercised some spell which drew her to him ii spite of herself, but when be had gone dack came the distrust, the terror of the brute she felt was there behind it 2ll © The one appealed to her while present: the other pleaded strongest while away. Now she was attempting to analyze her feelings and She did not know. Of the other she ticed the fai figure of Dextry wan He not um Nempt. sud yet his air gave hér the im- ying ber, he approached and seatad | {a third member of the party. ; fi0¢ Jor the. physienn and the under- ler rights slic marnifen her wrones rather pur- inter- that but of one mild you palliation after the manner veying news of est, as he would inform Tequire "We're tn turrible shape, miss." his surcingle had broken or that he had witnessed & lynching. ' "What made them jump your claim?" "1 don't know. 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