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EDITORIAL
GO AFTER THE PURVEYOR OF HOME
BREW AND WHITE MULE" AS YOU
WOULD A MURDERER
' r.urder cases brot
dl tiict court this week
, >1 ir tly by booze- These
is, s have tost the govern
•> 'pie of Alaska are
I ■■ . - nvrnmeJK, many thou
!, There Is a certain
1 v. s.< in tkt moral fibre of many
touches the
•: - i tlve of evi
d a . lu d many Persons turn a
vi. little interest In
. r • . if .1 man < ommit
-. Ion ,ot i the? statute
: • v tulil !>rlng about
' : hai, :i: of the offender
, way to r-rotect our officers
r.r.J society is to treat the law
alaw breaker. Statistics have
resiiUs of jrohibition so
< ly tL- ; a man must have
mental strabismus to deny these
fa.ts. AVere the bJOtleggers and
1 sellers bri t it> with a roun,i
t : r.j v. i;!J be few niuH'fra
c , a::.', f, wer crimes of any
kr The human i-araslte who Preys
« • a • mmunity by the sale cf
"v.hite " or home Imetr is lit
r than a murderer at he-ir:
f is v; are numbered by the
scare. Ti:« n.aa vho makes tie li
r J°r Ui own use can hardly be
condemned for his own weakness,
b.;t v. hen l-.a offers it for sale at a
j. ruf:t he is a social outcast. His
! the ken of lawabid
T • . ■ ei :iio United States
found in a i- i-y si -;..n 10 [kiss
u law i-iyiuz for a set of false teeth
for a navy-yard worker who lost his
own while a: « k !n tl.e yard. Thus
Is exetnpimel a paternalism that even
the : •: ;••••• P>'>eminent in
tli.. world J...s pr/jalily never up
If r'.ere is a t'e
and ti ■! «'(>■
revolution, •
kt:o»- that i it
eno:J> T*'i
Wi'.r!.me:
attention t" '»■
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empi'-i icu!>
fit.
ni.'i I> *5« •- a:
cn»e t! at *'
scarce :
llri- v vteviwu*
- : ;s apparent,
[ion for president
-ettled witlio-jt a
..f the world will
Income a sure
.—a'! are calling
' rr.iiiis list of
!»> developed un
m, which was so
<; for their bene
■I r1 •• 'rv law lm!I
i «■ _:i r will lie
uud the campaign
ItsT
A TALE
'lue moon
> OF THE FLATWOODJf
vidmdeksqhM
C OPvtl &H. BY THE
Tlie m.ia in the underbrush stif
fened ; slowly rose, noiseless as
smoke. The man approaching the
door seemed to hesitate: stopped. Tlie
other sank down again in the bushes.
The head of flowing hair rocked back
and forth across tlie curtains.
It was a strained moment; a three
handed game in the dark; nn intense
three-angled drama of life—mayhap
of more than life. If the honor of a
woman Is more than that.
The man hesitating before the door
had the ne\t play. What held his
hand? The song? Perhaps his plans
were not yet ripened to the full. He
made another step toward the door;
stopped; jerked his shoulders up sav
agely ; glared about: brought his eyes
back to the rocking shadow; swore
softly; turned and stalked silently
away down tlie path toward Fallen
Rock.
CHAPTER IX.
Once to Every Man.
' For some distance down the brunch
j the I'earlhunter followed the night
| prowler. Within sound of the water
j fall he followed him. and then turned
back toward the cabin of the three
gables. He hnd come into the path
and was passing the pool when the
light went out In the windows. He
was sorry for fiat. He had hoped to
have speech with the girl. Tomorrow
would he too late. Tomorrow the law
would be on his trail—and a pair of
eyes more terrible thun the law.
Leaving the path, he stepped out
upon the flat rock that Jutted from
the bank Into the pool. Owe he
glanced at the cabin: then sprang to
the bank nnd went on lip the path.
It was far the hardest thing he had
ever tried to do In his life to go round
to that east window. It was partly
open. His breast was pounding: his
ear* humming. He forced himself up
to the window and brought his lips
close to the sash.
"Wild Rose!"
He heard her stnrt, nnd spring up
In bed. Then all was breathless still.
"Wild Rose.1"
The bed creaked. He heard her
soft feet moving about over the tloor.
A muffled shadow came toward the
window—n shadow anil a whisper:
"I'earlhmiterI"
He reached his hand Inside. A white
arm and slender lingers came out of
tiie gloom and found h's palm. The
shadow on the outride and the shadow
on the Inside drew closer, the one
searching what that word would be.
The man swallowed hard. "I sold
the Blue Moon to Louie Solomon to
day—five thon«and dollars."
He felt a thrill in the girl's fingers.
"Tills afternoon Louie Solomon was
murdered, and the pearl stolen."
She shuddered, took her hand out of
his and fumbled the loo-e garment
about her shoulders, hut made no an
swer. Her mind was unconsciously
prepared for terrible things.
"They accused me of H e crime!"
The girl gasped. Her hands flut
tered, toward her throat.
"You
"Me," he answered, strained nnd
slow. "I've come to toll you. myself,
because—because—you trusted , me.
The mob had the rope around my
throat. Rut the sheriff got me away,
and put me in jail. I broke out, nnd
••nine to tell you. I couldn't bear for
,vou to think—"
She stood perfectly still inside the
, window. Up mistook her silence. He
I laid his hand on the window ledge nnd
! tried to drive his eyes through the
, gloom to her face.
"Please believe mp!" hp plpaded. Fie
1 wouldn't have pleaded harder had he
| faced }udge and Jtirv. Instead of mere
j ly a ragged girl of the Flatwoods. "I
j didn't kill Louie Solomon. I didn't
' take the Bine Moon—"
The white arms reached out toward
j him.
| "No! No! I do believe yon!"
1 Her face had come close to the win
i dow. He could see her eyes—like star
| spots In the dark—big with startle
ment, for they had caught sight of his
tattered blouse; the dried blood on
him. and clotted in his hair. With a
cry. her hands went to his face.
"Why. your head Is bleeding! And
yonr face!"
"Scratches! Nothing but scratches!"
he hastily reassured In tones that cau
tion held low; pained at her distress;
pleased, too; his eyes alight.
"But this one on your head! It's a
cut—deep—nnd still bleeding." Her
voice was steadier. "You must let me
bind up this one."
He glanced toward Fallen Rock.
[ "We da'sn't risk a light," he said.
I "For your sake we da'sn't The night
has eyes. And they'll comb these
i woods tomorrow."
I She shrank back Into the room. He
drew half a step nearer, laid his arm
on the ledge and stood fumbling the
1 casement, lost Id thought.
B03BS-MERRJLL COttPAftY
"And yet I've that to do that must
have light," ho mused, more to him
self than to her, raisins his head after
a time and glancing toward the dim
outline Inside the window. "Is there
a Wind on your window that would
hide a candle?"
"Why—yes—" she nnswered, puz
zled and slow.
It was a long time before he spoke
again. Had the light served, she might
have seen In his eyes the struggle he
was going through. He rubbed Ills
drawn lips together to loosen them.
"Will you trust me In your room?"
The girl started. Her hands clutched
each other. She knew it was not to
have his wounds drtssed that he
asked. Short as her acquaintance
with him had been, she knew It was
not that. It was no light reason that
had driven him to ask such a privi
lege. It gripped her. shook her, but
strangely enough did not frighten her.
Til trust you."
Not often In a man's life does he
hear such gracious words. Nature is j
not lavish of such gifts. The shoul
tiers or tHe ivarirumrer mieu. me |
droop left Ills head.
t "liny 1 come now? The night Is go
ing. The moon will be up In another
two hours."
"Yes
She stood farther back In the gloom.
ITi' slipped I'glilly In over the sill.
"I'lwise draw the l.liml before yon
light the candle." lie directed.
He saw her arm reach up along the i
casement. The blind came down, j
within touching distance :>f each other
they stood in pitch darkness: a man!
and a woman--alone—wrapped in the j
silent s'-crecy of the deep woods. He
heard her ipilrk brehtli. Ills heart
beat up Into his throat. Her gar
ments brushed against him. He heard |
lior slippered feet feeling their way 1
across the floor.
There came the guarded scrape of
a match. A sputtering, tardy tlamu
was laid to the wick of a candle on a'
small stand in tin under 11 mir
ror. The wick caught; smoldered;|
llared to full strength. The wonder !
of her hair and throat and arms
sprang out of tl:o night. Plie laid tin1 |
burnt match upon the candlestick and j
"Forgive Me That I Come before You
Like—This."
turned. A gasp broke from her at tlie
sight of liim—tattered, tintless;
bruised and bloody.
"Forgive me that I come before you
like—this," he stammered.
An impulsive step brought her to
his side.
"Forjive me!" she repeated, her
I voice still iwpiiver; her face pity-ten
dered. "You must let me dress your
hurts."
| He shaded-'the enndle with his body
while she raised the curtain over the
door and slipped out to the kitchen.
| She was back before he could have
believed it, carrying a basin of cold
| water and some strips of muslin, all
of which she had managed to get to
gether in the deep dark.
Drawing a chair near the candle,
she made him sit down—n quite obvi
ous necessity, if she was to reach his
head. Rut she didn't stop with wash
ing the clots out of his hair and bind
ing up the scalp wound. The cuts and
bruises on his face and chest came in
for their share. When her ministra
tions were over he was another man.
All unsuspecting, the girl did other
things for him that night besides
washing his wounds. Nothing can so
refine a man as the mlnlstrv of a eood
woman's liands. it never leaves Wm
quite as It found film. He Can never
again be quite the same. His life out
he will be a grain the finer for It. So
great is the grace of nature that no
man Is denied that touch. Once to
every n-.an It comes—to recreate; to
make him new; to call him up to his
higher self. It cnme that night to the
Pearlhunter.
The girl seemed to lose all fear of
him; to forget that he was In her bed
room In the secret night. She even
smiled a contented smile of satisfac
tion as he rose and stretched himself.
He /umhled In' his tattered blouse and
drew forth the draft.
"Have you a pen and Ink?" he asked,
his voice, his manner, again the voice
and manner of the alert, keen woods
man.
Wondering, she opened the drawer
of the small stand under the mirror
and placed pen and Ink before him.
He picked up the pen, awkwardly—a
fish spear, an oar, or a sir-gun fitted
his hand better—dipped It In the Ink;
laid the draft upon the stand; squared
himself; and after no small pains suc
ceeded In writing the word "Pearlhunt
er" across (he back. It was quite evi
dently a relief when the unaccustomed
task was over. He laid the pen down
asHf g'ad to be flult of It and handed
the draft to the girl.
"It means that I have five thousand
dollars In the hank," he said, "and any
body that takes this draft there with
my"—he hesitated—"name across the
back can get the money. The banker
said so."
Her lace snowca now nine sue
guessed whnt his words were leading
up to. It was some time before he went
on. "I'm askin' you to keep It," he
said. "And If anything should happen
to me. I'm asklu' you to keep the mon
ey. too."
The girl caught his tattered sleeve.
"No! No!" she said. "Don't say
that !"
He looked down at the hand on his
sleeve; picked it up; held It an In
stant; suffered her to take It away.
"I know who killed Xouie Solomon,"
he said slowly. "I know who has the
Blue Moon—absolute knowledge, but
no proof. He'll be on my trail tomor
row; and his eyes are the most danger
ous eyes in the Flatwoods. He'd ask
nolhltiR better than a chance to kill
me. And I nm any man's game now."
It Is marvelous how a woman"® In
tuition will drive at the very heart of
a matter that puzzles men. She saw at
a Hash what had escaped the wits of
the whole village.
"You mean the—the—timber buyer,''
she said.
"I mean the timber buyer," he an
swered. with a quick look at her. "His
eyes see everything. Ton must destroy
these bloody rags, and you must rake
the yard In the morning. Rake the
east yard first, and then the west. I'm
not aiming to leave any tracks, but
i^ so dark I can't make sure." He
was talking rapidly. "I'm not erpectln'
to leave the Flatwoods, and—you, un
less they crowd me hard; not till I've
run him down and found my proof.
T'.ut the odds are against me. If any
thing should happen, I want you to
have' this money. And the minute you
hear they've got me, you must co
straight to the sheriff. Don't risk the
woods another hour. Put yourself un
der his protection, and tell him why;
have the money transferred to you;
—send for that surgeon."
The tears beat their way up Into the
girl's eyes In spite of her, nnd ran
down lier cheeks. Her hend bent low.
It was the one thing he knew not how
to face, nis hard life hadn't taught
him that. The tears hurt him. What
had caused them? Maybe it was Just
a woman's way. Maybe he had done
wrong to come to her with his cuts
and Wood nnd danger.
She raised her face after a time. He
drew a long breath; dropped his hand
to his side; stared in astonishment.
She was smiling—smiling through the
tears—and the dimples were back. The
ways of woman—utterly beyond him,
and past finding out! She smoothed
the draft out in her hands and was
looking at him over it.
"I wonder if I ought to tnke It." she
mused to herself, as much as to him.
He took the paper out of her hands,
folded It and with a masterful air
thrust it under a fold of the loose gar
ment across her bosom.
"I haven't a soul In the world to
leave It to but—you."
His slow eyes left her face and
stared hard at the basin of red water.
Stepping over to the stand, he stooped
and snuffed the candle. The huge
shadow of him tilled, the room. Turn
ing away, after he had the handle
again at full flame, his eyes came back
to the thoughtful face of his compan
ion.
"That revolver I saw yesterday on
the mantel—Is it loaded?"
"I think so."
She looked up In curious half sur
prise. as If the question had brought
her thoughts back from afar.
"May I see It?"
"Why—yes—"
Re shaded the candle again wnne
she lifted the curtain over the door;
paused a moment to listen to the
heavy breatldng of the sleeper In the
west room; crossed to the mantel over
the fireplace and brouglit him the re
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"I've shot lots of squirrels with It,
sometimes clear In the treetops," she
answered. "And once I killed a hawk
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