THE TIVOLI

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 3

THE TIVOLI

-THE GRIP OE THE YUKON. Farrell O’Neil, mystery man of the Yukon wastes pays for his food and liquor with sacks of gold nuggets. He seems possessed of something that tears at his very soul, and when ho sends money to his daughter in the States, so that she might come to Alaska in the spring, people talk oi him in undertones. He is carefully guarding his secret when Colby MacDonald and Jack Elliott, lost in tho blizzard break into his cabin. They are not welcome, and after a gun battle, O ’Neil is laid to rest in a gully not far from his mine, and the partners take possession of his. cabin. Tho two partners work the claim until the spring when Sheila O’Neil comes to Alaska in search of her father. She waits patiently for her father, but eventually runs out of money, and is forced to work in Chardon's danco hall where MacDonald and Elliott see her often and becomo quite attached to her. Chardon has her in his power, however, and eventually asks her to marry him ,which she refuses to do. She becomes desperate and offers herself to the winner of a poker game which costs an anto of £IOOO if the winner will marry her and take her back to the States. Elliott sits in the o-ame and after considerable betting, ho raises the bets until everyone drops out, and under the pretext that she belongs to both of them, a partners take her to tneir cabin When they learn that she is the daughter of tho man they have killed, it is impossible for them to tell her of then love and she lives with thorn as partners. The men quarrel over-thoi girl and MacDonald gives his halt of the girl for Elliott’s half of the mine, ft vhe same time Marshall Hoit has discovered who murdered O Aeil, and comes to take the partners, but ho is outwitted, and is forced to pursue Jack and Sheila with their dog team. 'Dm climax of this gripping drama ol the great northern wastes will be seen in The Grip of tho Yukon. It™ “ to be a matinee to-morrow at p.m.