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FRANK SAVILE (Author of "The Blessing of Esean. "Fate's Intrador oto.

Frans Burgen's band went up to his brow and cautionaly wiped aside the perspiration which was raining into bir oyes. He made the motion with infinito caro-ho seemed to ro strain his very breathing. After his five hours" trail aorces the Pfeilhorn he would have liked to All his espasions langs with air-in great gulps

Tat there were reasons against it-good Teasons. They wore standing up against the blue of the sky above the edge of a rock and woro, to be plain, the twin horns of a cha moja,

Franz had stalled it by its tracks through. out the morning. Now, when he was within fifty yards of it, he could get no nearer. A slope of loose pabbles lay between him and it, and his his experience told him that a single ston upon them would send hundreds clattering into the valloy. There was

to do bat wait

The chamois handderis had its attention

aroused, and had assumed the common attitude of small door under such conditions-it was rigidly motionless. Shortly it would more either back or on, and in any aso mast expose itself to his aim. So the man smiled contentedly se he mused on this fact, and smoothed the breach of his rifle.

His calculations received a sudden check. The two horns flicked up. With a mighty bonad the chamois deserted its shelter and came flying Boross the slope with tremendous strides straight

at him

The enddenness of the onset unnerved Franz. He made an effort to nim. But the butt barely renched his shoulder, when a shot rang out not from his rifle. The chamois rearod, fought the Bir through a wooond's agony and then fall-on Franz! He was stunned.

When his sonsos wavered back to him a min- ute later something very cold was on his face, and somebody was roughly shaking his should er. He looked up. He stored into two honest blue eyes, which, in conjunction with a pair of bearded lips, wezo furnishing the broadest of broad grina.

Franz frowned.

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Arnold.

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growled.

Arnold Late-"

The other gave a jolly laugh and flang away B handful of snow with which he had been damping Franz's face,"

"Eh, lad!" he exclaimed, still checking, "but that was a surprise, I was hay cutting on the topmost terrace of the Langenburg. When I am up here I always being my rifle, because the ohamois use that top ferries for a path between

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The fellow has gipsy blood," he radested. “He flashes. out like a match when you strikke sgainet his interests, but the fame docan't last. He'll bö himself again to-morrow."

So Arnold whistled and sang as he plied his soythe and by evening sot ont for his home with a cheerful, countenance. He had bound the hay rope and was already counting upon present chamois upon us shoulders with an end of his in the hide to his sweetheart when he had got it oured. He would be able to tell her all about. the shooting of it that evening.

There were two roada to Ubermatt, Arnold's.

village. The main road passing through Ander. thal, where Herr Eltzel, Bertha's father, was head of the commune. But there was a short but by the famous ladders of Lina. This path left the main road near the summit of a cliff two handred foot high and led to the top of the three great wooden ladders by which if was rooted Arnold debated which he should take.

If I go through Anderthal I shall see Berthe," he said to himself in his matter of feat way," but it will take me half an hour longer. So I shall really loan more of her company because I shall be later in getting back to her after I have been home.. Her's for the ladders, th

For a man in love Arnold had still a quite practical discrimination, you me but his in stincts were at fault. They should have warned him to go by Anderthal, where things were happening

Bertha Eltzel, I foar, was something of a flirt. Sho was in love with Arnold Lanenor, but at the same time had no idea of rejecting the very obvious devotion of her other admirers. She was the best looking girl in Anderthal, and her father was its first citizen. She considered that there was no need to wasts the oppor tunities of her position, and this explains why, when she met Franz & mile from the village and fresh from his encounter with Arnold, she offered to him a bright and welcoming smile. Franz beat about the bush, was still in the grip of excitement, He did not

Good day, Fraulein Eltzel!" he said. “Cou I have a word with you?"

Bertha cast a mischiorous smilent the empty. hillside.

there is nobody here to prevent you.": "Why not, Herr Bargen" she answered,

Franz's forehead flushed.

"Nobody could do that!" he cried. "Nobody in the Twonty-Two Cantons can stand between

700 and my set purposes !"

F

Bertha raised her eyebrows.

this morning," she remarked.

You seem very confident but not very polite. What has been rousing your wrath, Herr?"

That fellow, Arnold Lauener" ha roarad. #Do you know what he had the impulence to tell me?"

Bertha had a very good idea and smiled. "How can I tell ? she emporized. thought he reservad ell his impudence for me.”

Franz stared at her suspiciously.

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the Pfeilhorn and the Sallengrat. I was sit ting, eating my bit of mittagessen, and think- ing of nothing at all when, homp-la! this follow

Am I to ́understand that it is tree-actually walks into view! Fortunately there was a rock trao ? be asked in a lulf farce, baif bewildered between us only my head stored over it and I voico. You-you can't mean that ?" was able to reach my rife without his seeing a mo- Hon. But as I took aim ho ran. I fred-anapped. at him between two boulders and down to Wont But think of my feelings when I came to pick him up and found you hagging him sa if he were the chosen of your heart! Ho, ho! Clasped arm in sim, you wore, like suy bride groom with his bride!"

Frans struggled up to a sitting posture, "I had stalked him since dawn?” he said with a sour expression on his dark face." Another

minute and he would have been mine,”

Too bad!" said Arnold sympathetically, "but of course you must have a hangok or a

fore

to-nighter from him. I bring it Boross

Franz beat the powdered snow from his shoulders and stood up,

"In fairness he should be all mine," he

your rifle."

Arnold shook his head.

Bertha made an impatient gestura

How can I яNy when you don't give me a notion of what you're talking about?" she re- torted,

What has Arnold Arid Franz turned and shook his fists towards the heights where no doubt the nuco scious Arnold was still singing us he soythed.

"The dog! That you and he ate betrothed be shouted

The fat was fairly in the fire. Bertha gave a nervous little laugh.

He had no business to say so she begat, but Frans interposed with a gall of delight. He fang his hat in the air.

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I know he lied knew it he rejoiced. "I know you couldn't have dessived m13-80 ???

Bertha's brow grew wrinkled in her displan **I haven't an idon what you mean, Herr

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She tooked wildly round. What should ahe, do? Run down to the village nad send her brother Gaspar to warn her lover? It meant`

the loss of half an hour! 1

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ing his misfortunes with much discontent, His muttered soliloquy became loader.

"Go back round by Anderthal and less whole hour!" Franz heard him complain. She looked at the sun It was within a few "That would be ridiculous! We'll just see minutes of ite setting. Arnold would be starting how far this rope of mine reaches first!" by now perhaps was already half-way doon! Ha unwound the rope, looked down the val- She made up her mind upon the instanteley, selected a soft taft, and dertrously tossed began to run steadily up the path, her the chamois down to fall into it. Then he tied the point where the roads diverged-tone to one end of the call to the rang upon which Anderthal and the roucher track whio led upon he sat and let the othor end dangle. It more the ladders and the cliff.

than reached the third ladder head below.

Burgen

"Good! granted Arnold with great satis faction." Here goes" He slid down quickly hand over hand.

If she could have seen how was employed at that moueat her fears would have been redoubled. He gained the cliff of Linz au was standing looking.

Ho poísal kis foot upon the ladder top, pression upon his face. down the ladders, with a very peediar ex-

Instantly the hooks became uassated as the others had done before, and the ladder, describ. Finally be gare a short laugh. Then he reing a majestic parabola, fell at the foot of the traced his steps to the pine close by eliff, Arnold was left twisting on the rope's tore down a stout fir bough, rerned to the end like a spider on its trood! ladders, and began to descend. He halted upon the last step of the second one. He braced his left srm about the side of it and used his right hand to insert his cudgel beneath one of the two great

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Poking heart but not panic. He did not lose lis

A horrible pules of fear darted through his Tientan Paitsibo head. His eye noted the hole from which one Chingwantso point of his foot into it. This stopped the Antung twisting of the rope and relieved one of the Manchurian

train upon his arms. He began to get his breath. He looked up the crag.

retorted. "I drove him on to the muzzle of Burgen," she said frigidly, "when you speak hooks which were driven into tho rock and upon of the hooks had worked, and he thrnist the Taku

of being deceived. But, as I was saying which the ladder kung. He began to lerer it for when yon interrupted me, Harr Lagener lied ward with all his strength. Little by little the not to be announced till next week. You will no huxiness to speak of our betrothal as it is book began to give. When he had sufficiently Frized it out he began to operate upon the second one, and he did this with influïts care, work- get your official intimation, along with our other neighbours, in four or five days. I merely tell

enough lay you now to prevent leunderstand. by inch. He found the operatieontod it inch he had to change binds frequently. But after to minutes"

ed.

You can have the flesh if you like, Frans," he said slowly, "but that isn't mountain law He who kills keeps."

"After I have laboured for hours after him you pick him up between two mouthfuls of your lunch wied Fraux. "I say he is justly

mine. Year

ear part was no more than the pulling of & trigger.

A

Arnold grinned. This touched a matter long in dispute between the two, and one which had been finally settled at the Cantonal

0800 8 few weeks before, Franz had challenged Arnold to a shooting match, and he had boon -confident enough to order a dinner to celebrate his victory-beforehand. The hotel-keeper had been at no loss, for the victor entertained he friends as proposed, but he happened to be Arnold, not Frazz. The latter did not hear the last of it for some time. So perhaps it was not wonderful that Arnold's voice may have had the suspicion of a shackle in it as he replied.......---

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There are two ways of doing that, Franz!" Frons's face grow darker yot

'I'll shoot against you again--for a thousand frauds this time" he shouted. "Your victory

·last month was a paro acoident!"

Through a long, instant Fraun stood silent. Then he advanced to within a couple of paces of the girl and his rage seemed to increase his stature. His

dark ares shot lighto- inge.

Loil ho drew back satis.

The hoo's just held the ladder is position. A good jerk-the addition of a little more weight Bertha Eltzel" he cried, "you wanton tegan to mount again.

and it would full. He grinned savagely and For months-for over a year-yon have en couraged moled me to think that I was cliff head meditating, he looked less satis- But a minute or two later, as he sat upon the supreme in your regard. And now? I am to be finng aside-am IP I have amused yon-there

fied is an end of me? Is that how you dare to treat

me...me ?"

"Bertha shrank back.

«You-you have no right to say such thing she contradicted. "I have treated you precise ly like like the rest," she added weak

He laughed savagely.

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soliloquized, and it ought to finish him. Eut He'll have a fifty or sixty foot fall," he

there are some very soft tufts of herbage down there. I wonder now I wonder."

Through another quarter of an hour he sat with his chin on his hands, and then rose as if goaded by a sudden impulss. He scrambled down the first laddar with his olub and muscat the second ladder in its place. This time, as he ed the second pair of hooka--those which held

A face was peering over the cliff head-a face

"Franz," said Arnoli, still staring. wearing a moet malicious grin.

Franz!"

The othor nodded silently as he got on to the ladder. Step by step he ascended till ha rosch- od the point from which the rope was hung. He settled himself comfortably and then looked down at his rival with sparkling oyee,

Well, my good Arnolt?" he chuckled malig Tokyo mantly. Well P"

Arnold was still staring, but not speaking. Hyogo

sprang outwards from his poise Kobe Buddenly he the swift strength of despair. upon the rock and began to heal himself up with Shimonoseki

Franz snatched a knife from his pocket and unclasped it,

“Gat down, Arnold!" he ordered fercely. Get down, or I cut the rope here and now!": Arnold looked at the threatening blade and looked at Frauz's facs. What he read there former position and waited, still staring up with was only too significant. He slid back to his

him again.

"I haven't got a thousand france," said you could fool me as you fool these slow-witted dimbad back to the summit, he looked entirely a sort of bewilderment. Franz nodded down to

Arnold placidly, "nor, for the matter of that, Fran, have you! Suppose, however, we agree that it was an accident. Yon didn't dispate my taking the stakes. Well then this"-he pointed to the chomios-"is an accident, too, you like, but I claim it just the same.”

it

"I say that in common fairness it ought to be mine!" persisted Frans angrily," and I don't want your charity--I hate chamois flesh. The akin and horas are what I demand."

As the rest he repeated. Yep thought

hoors of Anderthal!" He mensced her with his lifted hand. "As surely as the sun shines, Herths Eltzel, you'll marry me yet!"

Sho made an indignant gesture. He laughed again.

Ay!" he went on confidently, "batrothal or no betrothal, it's me whom you're going to marry. You may struggle you may whine but Arnold Lanener won't keep you and live, Tell him so He kicked a pebble far out upon the hillside, wheeled and was gone. Bertha was

at his eass.

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Sixty feet he might possibly survive," he muttered, but not all the Saints of Paradise will keep his nook aubroken after a hundred and twenty !"

He lit Lis pipo, stared at the Westering sun, and then strolled quietly on to a little clump of stunted pines which clung to the mountain side down in ambush. a couple of hundred yards away. There he sat

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"Nine man out of ton in my position would give you no merey, Arnold, he said, "but my ander heart has been my oneray more than once, I'll trust your word if you give it solemnly and emphatically that you'll leave the country to-Manila night and never ses Bertha Eltzel again. Do you understand?"

"No,"

said Arnold dally straining at the Give up Bertha Why?" Because I happen to want her," said Franz, and I'm impatient. I don't offer you time the Sörnli Arnold appeared, descending the to decide. It's yes or no now!".

Arnold still looked duzoi. path with his usual vigorous strides. He was

He had not very long to wait Jost the

Arnald looked at bim narrowly, the smile left staring after him, acutely aware that heart beams of the sunset shot up from behind Bring from his eyes,

The skin and the horns ?" he repeated. The skin and the horns ?"

Frans stared back.

Well--the skin and the horns?" he said again. Why not?""

had deprived her of that feminile privi logs, the last word "

She sat down and meditated. Perhaps she felt she had flirted with Frans prodigiously Bat a tiny tinge of remprae, boonuse as I said before

then, as she quickly remiadeit herself, she had been Arnold gave a little shrug of the shoulders, no more complacent to him and to hie attentione "I think, trans," he said, that you may be than she had been to half a dozen others. Men under e misapprehension. It would be best

were so stupid! Why must they expact an ell cleared up. I happen to want the skin of the if you happen to give them an inch or two! It chamois, fes-sitco last Saturday I have wanted was ridiculous-it was unjustifiable-it must it badly. I expect our respective desires dates ba.. put a stop to. She should spesis to her fa. from the same orening. You were at Herr ther! Elteel's supper parly, and so was I

Franz's lips wore tightly Fressed together, but he nodded.

rope.

looked at it. whistling skrilly, and carried the charnois over Bat-bat ho stammered. Franz inter. his shoulder Franz

ground his teeth as he

srupted him with an oath,

beneath his breath

***Wait a bit, my lad-wait a bit!" be snarled or this, you dog!" he shouted, "Yea-- rule, but with exceptions, I think I'll carry Who kills keeps is a good

that chamois home."

It's

He laid the blade upon the straining knot. And then he nearly dropped the knife, For an extraordinary expression had dashed upon. Arnold's features. He was staring-not at Frans, but past his shoulder up the cliff.

In his turn Frans wheeled round upon the ladder and raised his eyes. As he did so a voice rang down to the two men a voice clear and

Before he began the deseout Arnold halted and tightened the loop which bound the cham. sin between his shoulders. The slack of the

dropped carelessly over the brink. could use his color as he readed both hands to steady himself. Then he

commanding, Franz was staring with wide and excited eyes. He scarcely breathed as Arnold stepped from Trug to rung, still whistling.

Lower and lower he Bank he was within ten he was on it; Frauz

rasped

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"At You heard Bortha Eltzel remark that the chamois mat in the sitting room was worn and shabby? Aye-of course you did, and so did I. Well-it was courteous of you, Frane, to spend busitiese best left to me now. You soo P

to prevent him sending Feter after his mule i "What!" roared Franz, "Yon mean to tell And when Jnoch Lachs chaffed Frans at the second ladder's topmost step the hooks quivered, Arauld slipped his foot from the crevice for the Then, in obedienos to her gesticulation, "Just this," said Arnold quietly, and there's never a Burgen yet who could see straight, The ladder slipped off the rock and fell with rock like the weight of a pendulam holding by ranges about his shooting, and said there was creaked, and finally slipped from their sockets second time and gwang out across the wall of no need to make a dia about it. Yesterday Frans twisted facob's neck till a surgeon said Bertha gave me her promise and Herr Elizel that it was little short of a miracle that Jacob resounding crash into the valley below. his hands alène. his blessing. Next week we are to be formally didn't have to spend the rest of his life

But in the fir thanket Franz was relling out betrothed.

Franz gave a beast-like yell of rage. He took great oathe, for

for Arnold bad not fallen with two or three half hesitating steps up the ladder, For a moment Franz Burgen stood like one Yes Frans was a dangerous man. She would turned to stone. Then hit made a gesture of have to warn Arnold.

It was little short of a miraola which saved and then turned, still snarling fiercely, His mingled wrath and despair.

And then a sudden spasm of fear pierced her first ladder in tension stuck on an inch or two

hier. The iron bolt which held the foot of the knife glenmed "I don't believe it! I won't believe it!" he heart. When Frans left her where had he been beyond its side. A loop of Arnold's reps had below him the storie fell and with it fell But as Arnold rocked out far to the left from cried and wheeled in his tracks. The next going

Franz Burgan-to test his own theories. No the following comb instant, and without another word, he was pass ing with farious strides down the slope which hill again towards the terrace of the Badlengrat, necesary for him to get a grip with his hands tell the taln. He lay where the chamois lay in the

She jumped to her feat. He had gone the vht upon it!

Through the fraction of a second which was man cannot fall over a hundred feet and live to led into the valley.

He had gone there wasn't a doubt of it-to Arnold watched him go, and then shrugged meet Arnold who woul I be coming down through

it held him 1 pics po

valloy and as motionless, Grasping, shivering his shoulders for the second time. Franz's the deak to his home in Ubarmatt

He romsined crouched at the foof of the first, Arnold drew himself up foot by cot to the watburst did not disturb him,

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