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The
Route of
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SERVICE
SAFETY
Through Tickets to and rom Atllo, Dawson, Fairbanks, and
all Interior Alaska and Yukon River points.
During the season of navigation our fleet of modern up-to
date steamers will operate regularly the entire length of the
Yukon River and tributaries, giving a service never before ®
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DAILY TRAIN SERVICE
(EXCEPT SUNDAYS)
will be maintained, between Skagway and Whtit© Ht>rse. Par
lor Observation Cars on every train afford travelers every
icnifort and convenience. "*
A. F. Z1PF
Traffic Manager
For full information apply to
SKAGWAY. ALASKA
and 612 Second Ave.. SEATTLE. Wash.
White Pass dc, Yukon Route
T7\tR TIRT.E Vrt. S() .
TIME TABLE No. SO
Dally except Sunday
>* ■ v >*«• - s- Bound
: ,-i » 1st Class \
Leaves SKAG'tVAY Arrives 4:30 p. m.
AVH1TS PASS Leaves 3:20 p. in.,
*• LOO CAMS " 2:30 p. in.
BEXXETT " ' ! 1:50 p. in.
CARCROSS " 11:48 a. in.
Arrives WHITSHORSE M 9:00 a. ni.
Passengers must bs at detxt la dm* to have Baggape In
spected and checked. Impaction U stopped SU srlnat<e before
leaving Un^e of trains.
150 pouxul® of bAggajre will b» cheeked free with each full
rare tick#* and 75 pousds with each half fare ticket.
.No. 1. X. Bound
1st Class
»::50 a. m.
12:05 p. in.
12:»'> p. m.
1-40 p. in.
3:20 p. m.
5:50 p. ni
V>AA*W/- _ .
Relieves CATARRH of<
the
SADDER]
and all
Discharges in
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SYSTEM AND PRlXTLNG
Don't 'put It otf, but order your
prlatlks. now 'whlci* you will aeed
wlien you put 1m you?'new »yBtem.
Tbe Dally'Alaska®, job daP®|rtiiient
Is be't^r ^qulFPed tka* e^er to do
youT ■work. Prices 'right and work
promptly executed. tf.
You make a mistake it
vou df QOt stoo at
THE
Pullen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own dai'v.
Fresh Eggs, etc'
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN, Prop.
Skagway. Alaska
FOR SALE
For $350.00 you can buy
the property corner 9th. and
Main streets, consisting [ of
two lota the finest In the city,
with a small two room [house.
ThU la a bargain for some
ono looking for a good HOME
site. i [..jr.:
-COME AitC PEE ME
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
"Established in 1897
SYNOPSIS.
Luclle Green, charming, but with, (feds,
to visited at the Greens' summer Island
fcome by .Monty Blainey. She proposes •
week's fast. All food Is banished.
Prank Bopp. a rival suitor, appears un
expectedly. To pet food for himself M
attempts the mainland by motorboat.
Blainey receives a telegram addressed
N. Blaney from Vlda Duiunore,' an acttcas,
speaking of marriage. He Is nonplused,
but Luclle's Jealousy Is aroused.
A supply boat Is wrecked on rock* near
by. The crew lands safe and Blainey res
cues Vlda. She Is dressed as Rosalind.
The boat's captain explains that Vlda
had donned the costume for safety. All
are forced by the high sea to remain so
the island
Vlda discovers In Blainey a dramatlo
critic who had praJsed her work besides
being her roscuer. She explains to hlra
that sbo Is engaged to a Ned Blaaey.
The bout breaks down and Bopp Is Ma
rooned. During a fierce Btorm Mrs. Green
faints and is revived by a stimulant,
which Intoxicates her.
Blainey discovers Luclle and Bopp nib
bling dog biscuits, lie proposes to' end
the fast, but there Is no food. Mrs. Green
suddenly disappears, and oil hunt for her.
Mrs. Green suddenly phones tnat sne
la stranded on another Island. While
ovcrstlmulated she had put out In a small
boat.
Vlda out of mischief wins a proposal
from Llpton Clair, another stranded vis
itor. Not wishing to marry, he swims
away from the Island.
Mrs. Green phones that a strange man
is docrslng her. Luclle hears her scream,
then the phone won't work again. Luclle
phones the sheriff on tho mainland.
A reporter Invades the Island to writ#
up the mystery. Blainey makes him a
prisoner and In the evening hires a launch
to hunt for Mrs. Qreen.
CHAPTER XVI.
A Fire and a Rescue.
TriE journey back to Green's Is
land was uneventful'. The sea
bad calmed down enough so
that we shipped very little wa
ter. When we lauded I was thankful
to note that there were no llgtits In
the house. Apparently every one had
gone to bed for a much needed rest I
sent Bill up to get Clair's clothing,
while I unloaded the supplies and hid
them under the dock. I expected to
telephone Jim in the morning and tell
him where they were so that he could
cook breakfast for the castaways.
When Bill returned 1 helped him put
out to sea again. This required consid
erable persuasion and $3 iu money. 1
also had to promise to make it all
right with the newspaper man whom
he bad brought over.
Now the next adventure In this
Arabian nlghtmnre occurred. At first
I thought it was the reflection of the
risiug sun in the windows of the cot
tage which causcd tile red light, but
when I looked to the cast i saw that
tbe sun was not up.
Then the house must be on fire!
Clearly I bad no time to lose. Proba
bly every one was sleeping. I ran up
the path from tbe !>oacb to tbe house,
my temples bursting with the exertion.
By tbe time I got to tbe frout door the
tlamcs were beginning to lick out of
one of tbe upstairs windows.
I threw myself against the front
door and broke tlie lock without cere
mony. The stairway wns still clear.
I dashed up. yelling, "Fire!"
The people began to come out In
various stages of undress, carrying
clothing and valuables. Yida's stage
experience stood her in good stead.
She emerged from her room cotnplete
! ly dressed aud went downstairs us if
she were answering u rehearsal calL
Ail were accounted for but Luelle.
I pounded on ber door again and
I again.
"iiurryi" i commanuru ui in-'iuum
intervals.
"1'in hurrying." slie always an
swered.
At last the smoke began to be un
bearable in the hallway, and the
crackling of the flames warned me
that tn an instant the stairs would be
impassable. I stood on ceremony no
longer. I threw open Luclle's door.
She was looking uiinlessly about her,
with a stocking.in one hand.
"I can't find my other stocking," she
announced calmly.
"Don't be excited!" I shouted. "The
house is on fire, and we've got to get
out!"
"I'm not excited. But how can I es
cape with only one stocking?"
There was no time for argument I
grabbed a blanket that was flung over
the foot of her bed, wrapped her In It
and swept her off her feet and Into
my arms.
The rescue was very Blmple. There
was a little smoke on the stairway,
and in a minute it would have been
hard to get down, but as it was I only
had to hold my breath for a few sec
onds and we were safe on the fi ret
floor, which had not caught yet
• However,- I carried Lucile clear QUt
in the front yard and deposited her in
the. }ittl© group of scantily clad hut
"Wtere'a thd firti dfepartm&ttt?" ask
ed Vida.
"Thera Isn't any fire department,"
Kent volunteered gently.
"CaAl anything be done?"
"Not tnuch How." I shrugged my
shoulders. "When a Are gets that
much headway In a country house
built of wood there Is nothing much
to do but save the nearby buildings."
"How could It have caught?" asked
Bopp, trying to put his left shoe on his
right foot He had carried them both
out In his hands.
"No one was up," said Jim. the fire
man.
"How did you come to be around,
Monty?" Bopp straightened up with
a quick glance at ma "Mrs. Green
telephoned that you were goingfo the
mainland."
It hardly seemed possible, but I knew
that for a moment they all suspected
me of having set Are to Luclle's house
In revenge for our quarrel of the even
ing before.
"I came back to the Island for some
thing, and I noticed the fire," I ex
plained weakly. "The flames were
coming out of the window of the north
east room."
"Who slept there?" Captain Perkins
asked practically.
No one answered.
"That's funny." Captain Perkins
was sarcastic. -'Didn't anybody sleep
I 8w«pt H«r Off Her Fe«t and Into My
Arm*.
In the northeast room, or don't you
know where yon slept?"
"You slept there yourself," Jim ex
plained, rather hesitant about calling
his superior officer's attention to such a
damning fact
"Ohl" The captain collapsed. "I
guess I did."
"Where did you empty the ashes of
your pipe before you went to get that
drink of water?" I interrogated.
"Why, lemme see. I must hare
dumped 'em In the wastebasket But
the fire was all out"
Any further discussion was cut short
by the violent ringing of the telephone
bell Inside thfe burning building.
"Who can be calling up at this time
of night?" wondered Vlda, voicing tbe
general curiosity.
"We probably will never know."
Bopp gazed dreamily into the Are.
"Maybe some one saw the blaze from
the mainland and is calling up about
it"
"No," said Luclle, with conviction;
"It's my mother. She has seen the Are
from Huntingdon's and wants to know
If I am safe. We must answer it and
tell her that everything Is all right"
"No one could go In there," I pro
tested. "The fire Is raging In the liv
ing room, and the walls may fall any
moment"
"But mother will worry. '
"What if she does?" A man under j
stress of excltemcut is sometimes un- j
Intentionally brutal.
"If you men are not brave enough."
Lucilo declared, with eyes flashing, "If
you're so afraid of getting singed, I'm
going In to answer that telephone my
self and tell my mother that I am
safe."
"You wouldn't be safe if you were
talking over thtft telephone." I was
esasperated, but It was impossible to
allow a girl In a flimsy negligee to go
Into that furnace. "Since you put it
that way, I'll go."
I grojied my way to the Instrument,
Jammed the receiver to my ear and
shouted, "Hello!"
"Sorry to waken you, old chap," said
a male voice apologetically, "but I sim
ply must speak to Miss Dunmore."
"You go to Halifax!" I requested
loudly, —and, dropping the receiver,
made a wild dash for the door, from
which I emerged with my clothing on
fire in only one or two spots.
"Thank you!" Lucile was very
■weet in bestowing her gratitude.
"Was she very much Worried?"
"It wasn't your mother," I said
shortly. "It was Mr. Blaney."
"Ned?" asked Vida; then, without
waiting for an answer, "I must speak
to him."
I gently restrained her.
"Blaney?" queried Ladle blankly;
then, turning to me, "Your brother?"
"No relation," I returned.
"He's my fiance," Vida explained.
'"Just the darllngest old Blaney that
ever lived. He's waiting for me at
Fair View. We were to have been
married today, or yesterday, rather."
"Oh!" LUcllo retired to her inner
consciousness to think.
I told Vida that Blaney knew she
Was safe, as he bad called np several
times during the day.
' "Where was 11"
"Yon were always out somewhere
With Mr. Clair," I explained,
i "Yonxildn't teU that, did.yon?"
"Why, yes.T guPss I" <7id' *tYhy7"
"lie's so Jealous," sighed Vida. "It
makes him furious when I talk to oth
er men. Of course after we're mar
ried I'll train him differently, but now
I have to be careful."
Our attention was distracted from
the burning building by the arrival of
Bill Johnson, who walked unannounced
Into the circle of light. The noiso of
the Merry Widow arriving had appar
ently been lost in the crackling of the
flames.
"Well," 1 Inquired, "were Mrs. Green
and Mr. Clair all right?"
"I shall not know It," Bill replied
phlegmatica.ly. "5, can t, by Yimminy,
find 'em."
"Can't find !bcnj? Nonsense! Did
you go up to the house?"
"Yes, sare. And I look In all the
rooms. No one shall be in each."
"They can't have left. Mrs. Green
saiil she wouldn't."
"What's up now" Bopp inquired.
"Mrs. Green has disappeared once
more."
"Eloped with Lipfr.n S. Clair?"
"Impossible! You haven't seen him
since he left here."
"What else could have happened?"
"I can't Imagine. It's a small island,
and there would be no sense in sup
posing that she was biding anywhere
outside of the house. Besides, they
both knew that the boat was coming
back soon to pet thrin."
"Mrs. Green is so elusive." Bopp
criticised, "that I should think that
when once you located her you would
have kept your eye on her."
"If I had," I reminded him, "you
would probably all be burnt to cin
ders now. There must be some plausi
ble reason for Mrs. Green's disappear
ance. Suppose we don't tell her daugh
ter right away until v.'o try to lind out
what has happened. It would only
cause her additional worry."
That was agreed upon.
"At any rate," Bopp said, "we ran
all go over to the mainland in the Mer
ry Widow and get breakfast."
"No," declared Bill, shaking his
head. "Merry Widow she shan't run.
She broke her waive spring. Maybe it
take all day to lis she up."
"Then for heaven's sake get at It!"
Bopp growled crossly.
"I fix him up wit' some wire may
be," Bill cheerfully promised as he de
parted.
Lucile and Vida rejoined us pres
ently.
"I have some breakfast for you," I
tmniintuwifl
"Soup J" Bopip uttered the word sar
castically.
"Oh, Tootles!" murmured Ladle.
"I forgot," I said. "Tootles la found.
I found Tootles last night"
"Where is my little sweetheart
now?"
"In the summer house," I replied.
"Oh, my Tootles girl," she exclaimed,
"locked up in that cold tarn of a place
all night!"
"I was there," I reminded her. "I
stood It all right"
Lueile started out as fast as she
could for the summer house.
"Wait a minute," I protested, wish
ing to explain about the reporter.
"Walt," she flashed at me, "when,
Tootles wants me? Never!"
Lueile broke into a run when she
saw that 1 was following her and
reached the door of the summer house
first When 1 arrived I heard a scream.
(Continued tomorrow)
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