 The challenge of the Yukon It's king swiftest and strongest lead dog of the north country Blazing the trail for sergeant Preston of the Northwest mounted police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers Gold gold Discovered in the Yukon a stampede to the Klondike in the greedy race for riches Now back to the days of the gold rush when sergeant Preston and his wonder dog king Battle through storm and snow to preserve law and order as they met the challenge of the Yukon Sergeant Preston with his big dog king beside him watch the passengers come down the gang plank of the Bonanza Bell dr. Dawson city He was looking for a certain person whom he had no trouble identifying As she disembarked miss Emma Scheffler stood up from the rest like a tall neat pine tree in a forest of scrub oak She was immaculate and self-sufficient a bit past middle age And the men all tipped their hats respectfully as she left the boat first one king as the mountain walked toward her He heard her parting words to the captain I wish I could compliment your cook the way I can you Say that I ever ate worse meals Tasted like fried shoe leather and his pie Guess the bonanza bell could stand a woman's touch in the gully you should have given Sam some of your recipe I'd never trust my recipe for Sam wonder where that nephew of mine is he he was supposed to meet us Oh, hello, Sergeant Preston Miss Scheffler, this is sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mountain Police King won't hurt you very friendly with people he likes I certainly hope he likes me I came down here to meet you miss Scheffler Your nephew is He couldn't get here. We'll get going as soon as we get your baggage As Sergeant Preston walked along the muddy unpaved street with Emma Scheffler He wondered how to break the bad news of Bob Scheffler's death Emma looked about her curiously Never saw a place like this one. This mug is ankle deep Hope Bob has a nice cup of tea waiting for me. Oh, it's chilly. It's a quite a distance off to his cabin Why don't we just drop in here and have a cup? It's Jim Peters place I'd like the tea, but I don't like the name of his place the sticky plate It's the only place open at this hour Step in miss Scheffler. It's not as bad as it sounds Your dog coming in too. Oh, yes King goes wherever I do Hello, Jim we'd like some hot tea He's up you mean he doesn't make it fresh sit down here, please I'd better wipe it off with my hand miss Scheffler I have some bad news for you. I didn't want to tell you there at the boat I knew from the way you were acting that you had something on your mind. That's why I came in here with you Is Bob sick? You know I came up here to take care of him and young Teddy after Bob's wife died Bob caught the theory of two Caught it from his wife. You mean You mean Teddy's been left alone Bob died We tried to reach her by telegraph which is already left I'll do everything I can to help Young Teddy is staying with some friends here in town We'll be very glad to see you and looking forward to it I'd have brought him to the boat to meet you, but I didn't want to talk about this in front of him I'm glad you didn't I love that child. I was living with Bob and his wife when Teddy was born and I Loved him like my own When they brought him up here, I I was beside myself with worry That's why I started here just as soon as I heard that his mother had died. That is a big favorite around town I can't wait to see him. I Was afraid you were going to tell me something that happened to him my nephew's death is bad enough, but I Don't think I could have stood it if something had happened to Teddy. Well, here's your tea. Oh, uh, mr. Shuffler This is Jim Wells. Howdy, ma'am How do you do I can't figure what's wrong with that tea funny looking in it Why it looks the way your tea always looks Jim free shades darker than strong coffee Well, if you don't like it just throw it away, and I won't charge you thing I Don't know why I ever started this business. I'm getting thin cuz I can't eat my own cooking. It's terrible You'd better let me taste this first Oh Jim, that's the worst you've ever made don't like it, mr. Shuffle. Oh dear a cup of tea would have helped Where is your tea mr. Wells? Would you mind if I made some go right ahead, ma'am? It's back in the kitchen Yes, ma'am right there on the school Who is she sergeant she's Bob Shuffle is that I just told her about Bob's death I think she's glad to get a chance to be alone for a few minutes I'm glad you let her make the tea. Do you think she'll live up here with young Teddy? I don't know Jim Bob didn't leave any money If she has enough to take Teddy back to the states with her Imagine that's what she'll do. I wish she'd buy this restaurant of mine instead I ain't no good at running it and can't get anybody to cook for me, and I don't know much about it I was ever happened to buy it. Oh, don't be silly sergeant. I didn't buy it. I won it in a poker game I'm trying to sell it to get enough money to go prospect. There's a fortune in this business Well, it's dangerous for anyone like me last night. The boys don't near lynch me when they tasted the stew Here's the tea. I think we'll like this a little better. I brought a cup for you too, mr. Wells It even smells like tea Say that's the best tea I ever tasted Gosh I ain't had tea like that since I left home 10 years ago. No, sir Not even my mother could make it like that. There's a trick to making tea just like every other kind of cooking Well, gee, ma'am. You mean that you can cook other things as good as you can make tea I love to cook. We'd better hurry now sergeant. I'm anxious to see Teddy It was two days later that sergeant Preston again talked to m cheffler who had moved into her nephew's cabin with young teddy She looked troubled and worried. I don't like to bother you with my trouble sergeant. Why I told you I wanted to help all I could You see your nephew was a very good friend of mine and I'm fond of young teddy Well, it's a question of money. I guess you know, bob didn't leave any There's this cabin, but I couldn't get enough money selling it to get teddy and me back home I had a talk with jim wells yesterday, mr. Scherfler jim well The owner of that awful restaurant. That's right Jim had an idea that I thought might interest you He did he wondered if you'd be interested in going into partnership with him running the restaurant But I have no money you don't need any If someone doesn't help jim soon, he's going to go out of business and lose the place anyway Now if you could take charge of the cooking jim figures, you could build up the business and make some money What do you think? I like to cook But I've never had any experience running a restaurant. I'm sure you could do it If the men here in town ever got a taste of real home cooking I'm sure you'd have more business and you could handle I could try it If I thought I could make money enough to get teddy back to the stage I'm sure you could You and teddy could move into the rooms back at the restaurant jim wants to make enough money for a grub steak and as soon as he gets it You'd probably have the restaurant all yourself. I'll try it sergeant It's kind of mr. Wells to give me the chance. I'll tell him then. Well king I guess we'd better be on our way. Teddy will be disappointed that he didn't see you He's out playing somewhere with his pup Oh, that's teddy now Hello, teddy That pup of course is going fast, isn't he? Teddy Yes, I'm a teddy How would you like to move into town and live in the rooms behind mr. Jim wells his restaurant? Why would we do that? Mr. Wells wants me to go into partnership with him We think it would be nice if the whole town could taste your ass cooking teddy. What do you think? See if you had that restaurant you could make pies and cakes and everything and cook just I think I could I think it would be wonderful Well sergeant that settles it you tell mr. Well, he has a pop It was young teddy who renamed the restaurant and m's place As word of m's cooking spread it was soon the most popular eating place in town And money poured in in exchange for m's fine stews and pies and biscuits About a month had passed and jim wells and m cheffler were cutting up their profits I never saw the like of it We could charge twice as much for everything the men would still eat here. I'm no We're just going to make a fair profit I wouldn't feel right about overcharging hungry men. You're right, but am I Just can't sit back and take the profits from this place and let you do all the work The boys are just teasing you too much pay no attention to them Well, I I had sort of an idea an idea if I could take all the profits We made this month for a grub steak and go out and do a little prospecting Maybe someday we'd be partners in a gold mine Yes That's a good idea Would you really like to do it? You mean you'd be for it am of course I would It might mean that someday teddy would be rich And he's the one I have to think of well Ned Baker wants me to go with him And if it's all right with you, I'll do it. I can run this place alone now that I'm getting that Indian girl's help Donner in the kitchen Now You just take everything that you need jim And I'll keep this place going in case you need more. Oh him. You're a fine woman I I wish you yes, uh jim I I ain't got the right to say it now I'll tell you when I make my goals The summer months passed swiftly for m cheffler after jim wells left The business continued to grow And though she heard nothing from jim she kept his share of the profits for him And then the fateful day arrived the day that m cheffler was never to forget It was sunday morning in midwinter and the excitement began when young teddy walking toward his aunt's restaurant Saw a dog team stop in front of it A loose blanket was flapping in the wind and teddy's dog frisky rushed at it playfully and tugged at it Quit it won't kick my dog. All right, you ass what? Hey needs a lesson You kick frisky get away from me mountie you're up missed well, I won't I saw you hitting this boy I I was just teaching this kid a few manners You kick frisky. You never mind teddy. I'll take care of this Good moving you two you're staying right here We're going in that restaurant to eat. Oh, no, you're not my nm won't feed people like you I'll tell her what you did you better find another place to eat get going Come on inside daddy. Come on spike. They don't serve drinks in there anyway Frisky isn't hurt teddy. Come on in frisky bring king and two sides. All right, come on fella A man kicked frisky and I hit him in the stomach and then he hit me and king saw him and jumped at him We got rid of a couple of unpleasant customers for you item Are you all right teddy? I'm all right annem, but but will you look at frisky's legs sergeant? Do you think that man hurt him? Let's have a look frisky easy boy No, he's not hurt teddy. Good. Come on frisky. I'll feed you. Thank you sergeant I'm glad you and king happen to come along. Those men were rough customers. They just come to town, I guess Im shifler. Immy shifler. Why it's Ned Baker with Jim. Hello, man. Hello sergeant Jim didn't come with me. He hurt his leg and couldn't travel, but look what I brought for him Bags of gold. We hit it. We made a strike you and Jim wells me. We're all going to be rich He sure did He sent this letter to you. Here it is. Thank you Jim would have brought the gold down himself, but he busted an ankle and couldn't walk We needed more supply. So I came alone Poor Jimmy. He wanted to see your face when you got it by the looks of her face right now There was something important in the letter too. Why it's uh, I know what's in the letter Jim told me He's asking her to marry him. Oh, that's why she's blushing. I think that's wonderful. You're you're going to accept him Why I of course he's going to accept You and Jim are both very lucky annem. You're going to be rich. There's a lot of gold here I just can't believe it. Oh, I'll have to put it right in the bank. Well, you can't do that today. It's sunday You'd better get it out of sight before your customers start coming in You have to keep it here for the night. You'd better not let people know about it. I'll take care of it I can trust una and I'll get the gold to the bank the first thing in the morning Neither aunt em or sarten queston had thought about old med baker who hurry to the gold nugget cafe to celebrate his new riches As the day wore on spiked davis and curly nolan began to get more and more interested as ned became more loquacious Yes, sir We're all going to be mindy rich That gold I left with annem this morning is just a starter. Uh, who's annem? I told you about her I know you didn't what she's a one who's jim's partner Ain't you ever eating at annem's place? That's a place we stopped in front of this morning spike where that kid and his pup were Oh, yeah You say, uh, this annem is a partner. She sure is She won't have to cook very much longer. She could quit now. She wanted to I left $10,000 worth of gold there this morning and that's only part of what you get She got a husband. No, sir And don't you think you can marry her either lots of men of askers. She's a fine woman. She can cook But she's going to marry jim Does she live at the restaurant? Sure she does Runs the whole place alone with just a ninny and girl to help her. Hey smart woman annem Yeah, the drinks boy. Oh This one's on me net Drink up. Well, I Better be careful boys Remember I've been up in the wilderness. I ain't used to it. You got them to worry you That's right I uh, I guess I better postpone eating at annem's till tomorrow Darkness had fallen and the last customer had left annem's place Spike and curly stood across the street watching as annem finished sweeping the floor Do you think she still has a gold there in the restaurant? I think wasn't open today. There's no place else. She could put it As soon as she starts going down the blind on the door We'll go in before she locks on you think this is safe spike that money's a good friend of hers You might drop around we gotta take that chance We can tie her and the kid get the gold and leave A dog team's already and nobody knows us here in town We'll be in 40 miles of our night if that old man Ned if he happens to reach out spike You won't wake up till morning And I doubt that he'll remember us much. Hey, he's coming to the door now. Let's go I'll tell her we want some supper. That'll keep her from yelling until we get in I'm sorry, but we're closed for the night. All right. You mean we can't have supper not this evening Yeah, then that's the man will kick frisky. Well that shade down curly and locked the door Why what's the meaning of all this? You men get out of here. You'll do what annem says. You can't grab the kid curly. Come here. You Let go of me. Let's go. Don't you dare hurt that child. Let's go of him. Just a minute. Get your hand dirty. Stop it. I said sit down here and be quiet You can save yourself a lot of trouble you let annem alone stick a gag in his mouth to keep him quiet Stop We want those bags of gold and Ned brought you this morning just give them to us and there won't be any trouble I can't give it to you half of that gold belongs to jim well It isn't mine. We don't care who owns it. We want it. I won't give it to you Well, then I'm gonna have to tie you up while we look for it again Hey spike sounds good to somebody in the kitchen. Who's out there? It's una The little Indian girl who helps me don't frighten her. She doesn't know anything about the gold curly go back and look If she's telling the truth, I'd advise you two to get out of here I promise sergeant Preston the mountain that I'd give him one of the pies I baked today He'll be coming here to get it any minute. She's right spike. There's an Indian girl back there washing dishes Hey, what'd she say about her money? She said he's coming here to get a pie I think she's lying but spike. We can't take a chance. We don't have to We'll send the pie to sergeant Preston. So he won't have to come here for it send it send it with the Indian girl I'm sure annam will be glad to do it to keep her nephew from being hurt But she might tell him any about it. She doesn't even know we're here Come on annam Get in there and tell her to take the pie to sergeant Preston We'll be standing right here at the door And if you tell her anything else, there's no telling what'll happen to your nephew here. Please don't hurt teddy We won't if you behave yourself I'll go on in and send that girl to the mountie with a pie And tell her she don't have to come back here. She can go straight on I'll be watching you through the door If you try anything funny, remember curly has a knife pointing right at your nephew's throat. I'll tell her I'll send her away. I remember I'm listening and watching you I'll remember. I promise If you don't hurt teddy, I'll just send her out with the pie Yes, you can leave the rest of those dishes I want to send a pie to sergeant Preston with the police barracks Uh, do you know where that is? Me, no This pie will be nice for him. Wrap the towel around it and you take it right away Me bring pan back? No, he can keep it until tomorrow. You can go straight home. I won't leave you until tomorrow Me do and hurry Una. Go right now. Use the back door. Me go now. I'll see you tomorrow, Una Good night. Good night Nice work, aunt Anne. Now we can take our time getting the gold Where is it? I'm not going to tell you the gold isn't all mine and I'll say nothing more I guess we can find it But this restaurant is going to look pretty bad by the time we get through rain second You could save yourself a lot of work. I'll say nothing more Sit down this chair and I'm going to tie you to it and keep you out of trouble Very well Curly, yeah, start looking for that gold. You take that side the roman I'll take this one Pull everything out of the cupboards and look under the counters, but ain't in here. It'll be in the kitchen Sergeant Preston sat in the office of the police barracks reading With king lying quietly beside him The dog rose as he heard a timid knock on the door Quiet king Sergeant Preston. Oh, hello, Luna. Come in Me bring you pie a pie miss cheffler. She sends you pie Here well Why would you send me a pie? I left there just two hours ago and I had a big piece of pie for supper Me not know she say bring you pie Thank her for me, you know me go now Good night. And thanks for bringing it over. Good night. Oh, you smell the pie king and I suppose you'd like some What if this is a pie? It's a heavy We better have a piece for the rest of boys get back. I'll be a crumb left after they're through with it Just a second boy to get my knife Here we are Now What Wait a minute Sorry king. We don't eat pie tonight, but we do have some work to do. Come on king. We're leaving Back in aunt em's place the scene was one of complete confusion The contents of every drawer were strewn over the floor tables were upset and flour and sugar and vegetables littered the kitchen Aunt em sat rigidly in her chair Her lips held in a firm line of determination as spite towered over her his face livid with rage Hey, you listen to me. This is your last chance. You give me one more false lead and I'll blow your blasted brains out If you got any where's the gold? Maybe it's under the floor. We're not going to start tearing up the floor now Where is it? You're right in the kitchen. I looked everywhere. You're looking at stone Yeah, nothing but pies up where the woman placed here. There's nothing in the oven I think the gag out of that kid's mouth clearly He might yeah, he does smack him over the mouth, but take it out. Sure. Teddy doesn't know anything about the gold We'll soon find out All right kid you see this gun If you don't tell me where your aunt hid that gold I'll blow her brains out Come on. Now. Where is it? Please don't hurt any of them. I won't if you show me where the gold is hidden But I don't know I didn't see your hiding. He doesn't know please let him alone kid You don't tell us it's going to be too bad for all of you We'll even go out to the dog house and shoot that puppy. It's so crazy about We'll shoot him first. Maybe that'll show you we mean business. Don't hurt him. Please. I don't know where the gold is If I knew I'd tell you please tell the man him before they hurt you Yeah, I guess maybe the kid doesn't know she's the only one that can tell us It won't do you any good to shoot me. Then you'd never find the gold Ah There's another way we can make you talk Lift that kid's chair over here in front of her curly Come on, kid There he is now See if watching your nephew being hurt won't loosen your tongue Don't hurt can you please you got the right idea spike This will make it As sergeant Preston and king approached at m's place The mountains saw the drawn window shade that covered the small glass window in the front door Quietly he circled to the back and tried the back entrance, but found it locked He listened carefully at the door It was them that the sergeant noticed the small opening covered with hide that served as a window Carefully he slid it with his knife and peered in Justin's all upset Come on king. I'm going to put you in there to guard the back I'll break in the front door. Come on fella. This window is small, but I think it's squeezed through There you go fella quiet now on guard king on guard Quietly the great dog jumped to the floor and picked his way cautiously through the litter of broken glass and dishes To the door that led to the restaurant The door was partly open and king growled softly as he heard the voice of spike in the adjoining room Quickly the big dog pushed open the door and in a flash leaked the spike whose arm was raised to strike The weight of the great dog through spike to the floor where he lay helplessly with a big animal standing over him Curly in a panic through the bolt that held the front door shop Telling to spike as he did so. Let's get out of here spike. That's the money I'm so fast you get back in there Sergeant Preston, I'm so glad you got here. Oh my adam. Pick your hands up. I haven't get a gun No, you haven't but I'll take this knife. The other one has a gun sergeant spike in the gun I'll get it. It's here on the floor. Get up spike. Buddy my king. All right, boy Wait stand over there beside your partner. Watch them king Don't either of you men move I'll untie you adam. I was so afraid you wouldn't come There you are. Oh, thank you sergeant. Now get teddy loose. They tied him too These are the same men who kicked frisky sergeant king knew they were bad. That's why I'm spiked when he was going to hurt me There you're free teddy. I was so afraid you wouldn't understand that I needed help How did you know we were in trouble sergeant? Well teddy, I guess you've heard of four and twenty black birds baked in a pie But did you ever hear of a pie made of gold dust gold dust those pies? That's where the gold was. I got worried about keeping all that gold here sergeant So I put it in pie tins and covered it with pie crust It's a smart idea adam But only a good cook would have thought of it all those pies right under our nose If you hadn't opened that front door, I thought the money was coming in the back with his doors All right you two you're under arrest going back to headquarters I think you'll be safe now adam. I can't tell you how grateful I am I don't know how to thank you. Oh, you don't well, I'll tell you how adam If king and I should happen to be here around dinnertime tomorrow Would you please see that we got a pie from the right shelf? We like your regular pies much better than the ones made of gold. Don't we king? All right king, what's the boy this case is closed The challenge of the Yukon the copyrighted feature is brought to you each week at this time And all names and incidents used are fictitious Listen again next week to another exciting adventure during the days of the gold rush Fred foie speaking this program came to you from Detroit Coming up tonight over most of these same abc stations a case of mystery on ross dolin detective The popular thrill show starring screen actor william gargan as tough private eye ross dolin And for a fast game of crime busting There's nothing so exciting as a half hour with mr. 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