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THE TEST

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"Why not?". He jerked his head at Fisher. "He was never meant for you. I was." Some- thing in her expression moved him profoundly, and he put an round her drooping `shoulders.

You come with me by-and-by and live. You haven't done that ¡ret"

"Don't!" she whispered again.

If she had fought him he would have. held her the closer, but even while he thrilled to the thought! that this was the first time he had ever touched her, she seemed to be released from his caress.

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Bullock

a deep remorse, as though she were transformed into hot wires! might have left undone something that burned.

She stared at him for a moment. But ever the smali then burst into a passion of tears that would have helped Fisher to procession moved across the rigid Half an hour afterwards she was live.

lakes or trawled like a blind worm sleeping like a child. Fisher slept, "Sure!" answered Bullock slow. through the burdened forest.

But Big John sat all night "He's going to die."

That night, when the big man by the fire. had made camp, Fisher took a little "How soon?" She dragged out food and slept. As the thin, high- They made the Lost River por- the words.

pitched voice died out, silence. tage into Deer Lake a little after

next day. Snow Over Sundown Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- He moved to the other side of utter and profound. settled

and was followed burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bull the fire, where the wizen Sgure the two beside the fire. Bullock ceased falling, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

lay, for the moment. perfectly gazed at the dark eyes, the droop by a sharp frost. This formed a Marseilles, Havre, Londos, Ham

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and his face was the colour of al Marseilles, Havre, London, Eam-child who has played all day in and his soul was shaken anew at trail. In the afternoon the dogs!

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the thought that all this might feet began to give out, and the Bombay, Marseilles & Londos.

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"He may last another two days." for a while-if he only took it: small pink stains. Fisher seemed Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamm

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"How far are we now from Lost) looked straight at him.

his wife with, a sort of infantile Marseilles, Havre, London. Ham-River?"

"Do, we make Lost River

placidity. burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall, Bullock drew a long breath. Hemorrow?" she asked slowly. Bombay Marseilles & London.

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volve. He didn't want confidence. "And how can we find a vein but a return of his own passion. beneath this snow?" This sort of thing disarmed him completely.

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its

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ran dall, ripping Fisher glanced up. saw the bird,

Deer Lake portage is but three hundred yards long, and half-way over it is crossed by a low ridge. On the south side of this Big John made camp, keeping off a little,; "The Indian blazed a tree close so as not to disturb any signs the by.

We ought to find that" Indian might have left. The job "And if we do, and it's like the was to clear a space a hundred piece you saw, what should it be yards long and ten yards wide] from an eighteen inch blanket of "Anything-perhaps a hundred snow. and search every cranny and fissure for trace of the lead- She glanced at the silent forest.grey argentite. "Two days to live: two days to Then I could take Jim out of this They went about it at the first travel." Her dark eyes were fix for good?"* -

bint of light Fisher lay on his ed on the senseless man, and she

"Yes, and for God's sake take back in camp, too weak to move, spoke with a sort of wistful won him!" he cried thickly.

but full of a great content

Hlaughed hysterically, the flash hands. der. "I was afraid of you just!

She stole a look at his face, had never found anything yet mounting his follow cheeks.

went on with bare fingers that now-terribly afraid, for the very then moved swiftly to the other himself like Bullock, who had Julis pat first time. We're both he and side of the fire, crouching

his soon lost all feeling. There seem- elose made ten thousand out of a claim shoulder, and he subsided into aed to be voices all around bidding Tin the hollow of your

to the sick man as though for two

years 280, and had rua querulous, childish chatter, er-bim hasten, telling him and I thought the hand was 9-protection. Something

in through

six plaining that this was all bis idea, argentite was alive and would get the whole sum in Bullock's throat, while tiny sparks weeks. Fisher knew that he was and he didn't propose

to give it away. "Go on."

Then he found a crack in danced before his eyes. He walk-kept alive, by his wife, and what UP on account of a little snow.

the rock and knew the stuff be "When I married Jim I knewed round and stood over her. His other men thought of him for it.

Then, as though humouring the sought was hiding there. It wink- he couldn't protect me. I wanted blood seemed to be on fire

But the possession of her more sick man, the snow ceased, and fed at him, grey-black, to protect him. Some women are. "You had no right to do this!" than made up for everything else. the cold came back, more bitter brother had in the bar at Moose like that, and they live just

as His voice had a curious lift in it. At noon the two returned, to and intense than before. Gradual-Mountain. ¡much as if they'ċ married the

"know that now," she said camp. Their backs and armsly the chill, strček into his thin other kind of man-your kind."

"Come out!" he cried. "I've meekly.

were aching. They had cleared, body and he fell zilent. - "Not in this

got you!" “And you knew when you start-perhaps, a quarter of the ridge.! answered doggedly.

That night there was seventy The stuff grinned again and did ed that you couldn't make it. That with no result. It was necessary degrees of frost. From the bush not budge. A blue jay hopped "Yes, in any country." And"was why you get away first, so to work closely, for the treasure came sharp, rife-like reports as it on a branch overhead and survey- she hesitated that sort of wo- that I would come along and help. might only show in a width of reached the heart of trees. Across ed him with bright, curious eyes. man tries to forget the other kind You were afraid to try it alone. half an inch. Argentite is nearly Deer

You thought if he was here it pure silver. with a little sulphur, sounds, when the ice expanded and began to explain that he was A white owl hooted in the would be all right."

and in that country the big things and heaved. shrouded wilderness hard

The wilderness was going to stake this claim himself, by.

She nodded. her lips quivering. are small in point of size; Bal-dipped in white moonlight, and in and it was no use him hanging Fisher, twisting himself half-

"Well, I'm going to put you lock knew of one vein an inch the north flickered the painted about there. erect. laughed foolishly and tried through I find that lode if it wide that produced two

Then he put his million banners of a great Aurora, that lips close to the frozen rock. to imitate. He seemed in doing takes all the winter, and stake it, dollars, What troubled him now hung like a shimmering, quivering

"Come it to shift himself still further half in your name--not his and was that the Indian's blaze seemed enrtain,

out: it's your last away from these two vital living half in mine. And my pay."

to have disappeared. That night Fur and feather lay close, while a beings. Then he sank back, bab-

The blue jay "hopped nearer She peered up like a frightened it grew milder and the sky be-mile away lifted the voice of the while he waited for an answer. He went prospecting while he ray-shoulders drooping with intense things that would defeat them- terrible note. bing unintelligibly of Lost River bird, then stood, arma loose, came overcast. There were two timber wolf in a long-drawn and Suddenly his arms weakened, and

Julia forced a

he lay down, his breast against between his teeth. All the pity of the beauty that enveloped her.

water fatigue He caught his breath at scarcity of food and more snow." It was not yet light when the lode. His eyes closed wear. Next day the snow came. Fisher Fisher screamed out that it wasy. One hand had turned marble the would was in her face.

"He's not going to

"What you say is quite true," staggered out with them, made a time to get to work. Bullock white, and a strange pallor spread die," she she said. "I did all that. It was few impotent strokes, and reeled piled wood beside the fire, and over the emaciated face and neck presently. "Do we zo on in the my only chance of getting Jim back to shelter

the two struck off. morning?"

Some of the snow fell in, cover. Bullock fixed his eyes

out of this country. Do your part By the end of the second day! Fisher, with a strange expresing his legs. The jay lighted on on the of it, and — and F' pay." they had examined three-quarters sion, watched them go. He had the tail of the snow-side and sent sleeping dogs They were curled Her voice faltered and broke. }

of the area, and were charged had a dream about argentite that out an enquiring chatter. tight, each at the bottom of a Bullock made 2.

of with a sickening gesture small pit melted by the heat of triumph, but in that

doubt whether lay close at hand. The thing was Two hours passed.

The work instant his or not the argentite was behind to find and keep it for himself.jers came back, defeated, from the their bodies. pits that would be triumph faded. She stood, bean-them. They moved now as in a No reason to let Big John in on trampled ridge, stared at the a foot deep by morning. He won-tiful and more desirable than any dream, making dream-like motions this. What started the trem empty cimp, then followed dered what it would be like to be woman he had ever seen, and even against dream-like snow, muscles was that just behind the tent lay fresh tracks. They found him as a dog, and not asked to save as he gazed there gathered round and sinews operating without a six-inch spruce with a blaze on the blue jay had left him, dead, a useless human wreck to be loved her a protecting cloak of pure their volition. It seemed they had its gummy stem. John had slash-monolith in the semblance of a by the woman one wanted oneself. innocence that he know he could been doing this since time beganed it down when making camp, man. For he believed now that Fisher never defile. The spirit of the The trees all round became alive and it came to Fisher in one of would not could not-le,

Big John did not dare look at just wilderness that had so lately sug-and watched the puny effort with his lucid intervals that one does the girl's Tace when he picked up because this girl of his willed he gested she was his for the taking amusement. What did it matter, not blaze a tree before felling it what had been her life's burden. should live. So there left now invited him to touch her ff anyway, whether these humans The spot was a hundred feet from She made no sound except a little jonly the damnable hunger that he dared. Again he perceived the found the absurd lead-grey thing the crown of the ridge.

would never be appeased, and the strength of utter weakness, and about which they were so excited?

ery of fear that went straight to The others were some distance his heart. But when the argen- hateful duty of dividing a valuable in a country where strength Was On that second night Bullock off now, working hard. Fisher tite lay bars in its grey-black claim with the man who had robcovered by all. Wild and untutor-cet his teeth and stared at the got dizzily to his feet. bed him of his heart's desire.

seam, a sudden ferce joy took ed he might be, and hard from girl.

There came a sudden, sharp hold of him, so that he stood gaz- "Yes," he said dully, "we will the battle that strong men wage

"We'll have to get out of this pain in his heart, but be seized aing down at it with the body of in the silent spaces of the north, in thirty-six hours.”

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of the spruce. Presently the ruxkļ "You're going to live continually closed in again, damp, light that dawned in her eyes. "We're here, and we stay tiwas visible. deadening, and clinging. By noon-} "Forgive me." he said huskliy. we find it," said ̈ Fisher. “I tide the sinews in Bullock's legs"Forgive."

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(The End.)

He slid to his knees, brushing voice. the snow with trembling)