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Md a Ai i A B.M.BOWER. uy BY LITTLE; BROWN4GCO. From Qur Las¢ Issue.) | You? quit, or Pi ki P hie Mocking feet he-went to pRitchen, found hot water in the tle, carried ft to his room and rn He are himself ¢ as tho he were going to meet still in his! the dresser je tie that best with the shirt he He pulled tho tan Ipather ight, so that the plain silver Was in the middle, took some the bed and pushed it care ¥ ide the waistband of his Om the left aside, taking | re that its position was right ction of @n inch moving \ -y vottly, he went he path to the bunkhouse, the door and walked in, never that Belle was no more @oren steps behind him, or The bldbod of his actress mother /as you are carried him insouelantly ever the! youl" pregnant silence that received him.! He waited He leaned negligently against the /watehing Lance, wall beside the closed door, his arma! him coldeyed, unafraid, “welghin fokled, his ¢ we tilted upward at} noc chances, but values rather the Inner ends, Dis lips smiling quix “You'd kill me, would aloally asked his voice matehing be funny story to tell you/of Lance fellows,” he drawled, Just before the! “sure I'd kill you!" silence became awkward, “Glad! back you're all here—it'y too good to waste! Kyes on a leve on part of the outtit. I want yeu all/each othtr, smiling that deadly Lor to get the kick, You'll enjoy it-—|rigan smile, the aqaile of old ‘Tom being cattiomen. Its a Joke that was! Lorrigan the killer pulled on an outfit down tn Artgona.” You w all plgeht 1 a trained monologigt, be bad) Then 1 mu Ithem stenting, deceived by his) A twink into hia eyes, “It smiling ease ‘Tom and Al, at the|you're game enough to do that, kid. table with some papers before them, | by God, I'm game enough to quit! [he quite overlooked, | Lance unfolded his arma, reached } It was Tom who first felt a sus-|out with bis open right hand and met | |picion of Lance's purpose, and shift: | Tom's hand in a close grip. “That's watehing ‘Tom. om got up and ¢ you the draw Lance smile 1, the two stared a Tom sald elaxed tone nin ix generally accom. dache, & sense of weak- arms and legs. depression of | @ sense of fear for imaginary oring sensations along the Craving for special articles ‘The peurasthenic patient Weight, sleeps poorly, has ms and wakes unrefroshed Morning. All the symptoms henia indicate the need of , tree from alcohol and opi ling just outside, listening. /FNt hand would be free. As he did |you-—T knew it!" } s eh =a {#0, without looking toward him,| Outside the d le hugged her . [Lance's fingers began tapping, tap | sixshooter to her ned NEWS FOR | ving the muscles of his right arm:| against the wall, h es shaking jie right hand bad sagged a little. under her Thank Ge Ob, thank a |Tom's eyebrows pulled together.|God a Lorrigan can be bigger than Quite well he knew that pose. He /all the Lorrigan wlood that's In him!" NEURASTHENICS waited, listened With closer attention |she whispersd, “Ob, Lance, honey —--- to the story, joh, thank Goa! | Lance's right hand sagged another Aeiearet cates 34 this tepie [half inch, his lips pulled sidewise in | CHAPTER XV can dinease {a an excessive |t@* eMigmatical smilie of the Lorri-| The Making of Now Trails re of nervous energy with: |®""* At the corral, that time-honored naot. | ats, tied, ot oouree—aheut wag outet | conference ground fs ou true ness “ this joke is on. It's really the Devil'’s|men, the {hree Lorrigans lean eee oe sus | Tooth Im talking about their backs against the raile and ‘overstudy, lack of proper | ‘I'm a Lorrigan. Two of you arejtalked thing over in true range | exercise. In some cases | LOrFians, and you know what I)style; laconic phrases that stated | fare borg with a tendency |Meen When T say that, The rest/tt meaning without frills or of you had better cuews what I mean,/mental reservations, and silences if you don’t know--and guess right! that carried their thoughts forward “What I said—well, I have the/to the next utterance, dope, you kyow. I know where you) «ay ea: ke the outfit and érift,” : took that Mast buna of stolen said’ rate, be the he ware «Ba horses, and T know the date when | some detail of the round-up. “Ife you turned them over. T have 4 map! knows where—and they can scatter. oF two--I know those secret trails} 11) give ‘em a horse aplece as a—® you made. T've dope enough to in-|kinda bonus. I'll have to stay, looks dict the whole outfit on five sep like. Ball roundup's coming on.” arate counte—and any one of them! “well,” said Lance, throwing an will put every man ef you in thé arm over a rail and drumming with pen for a term of years—well, from | his Cingers, “I was raised on round Bews of the successful treat-} € neurastheinia iy good news ims of the disease, and they! With Interest the account Clara Buehimeyer, of No. | uthern avenue, Dubuque, Iowa, | her experience. blood became go weak.” says Imeyer, “that I suffered al | five to ten up to fifteen or twenty a mere detall ups, I don't suppose I've forgotten jal about it. You might turn the “I know why Duke didn’t come) management over to me for a year back. There's a yellow ed to parts unknown. not curious to discover, mains unknown. reak in|or #0, and take a trip. Helle needs Duke. and he lost bis nerve and drift:| it dad. T think I could keep things Where, I'm | riding along, all right.” It doesn't | matter, so long as his destination re “Sounds kinda like you had that idea for a joker up your aleve,” Al observed = =meaningly. “Are a “That's the story, And pow, here's! plumb sure of that dope, Lance?” the point: Others, detectives wor! Lance removed his arm from the i ly of dina { Metlch Twat te ducer at tatt |e at the other end of the business, [¥ complexion was poor and || h#¥e n inkling of some of this dope. e chilled very easily. There | They haven't got what I've got, but | any nights when I had to ge: |**Y may DoeMbly get it. They may | Tub my feet until I restored | Possibly, And if they do—webil-—"| T feit dut| He smiled at them, his eyebrows fingers corral rail and reached ito his pocket. “I didn’t think you bad it tn you, Al, to be that big a fool. But since you've wald it, here's the dope. Take it, dad. I said I'd turn ft in, reulation in them. pointing Ble all the time and worried | meaning stock detective that's been cam ly. generally over imaginary | “PPns. tapping on bis ary. lon your trail for the last ew pee 4 Or little occurrences that| “You've gut to quit. Now, with-| was Killeg on the lava beds today. $ amount to anything. My ap-|t turning the deal you're workin« | found him. He's at Conley’s, Dow. was poor and J suffered from | You've got to quit. You men that | wasting for the coroner. 4 al yea nahin “The coroner won't get on the job Reve. been bired to steal, you've go: tt 2 fr, eae of we soeg before tomorrow or next day, and tt Will take @ little time, I suppone, for me at all. Whery Duke went is good Parts Unknown. Brownlee’ “You two Lorrigana—T'm not think: | a nq Wontr Stee T was able to|ing of you now as my brother and dence he was sen¢ to° collect. Appetite was|my father—the same advice “I'm not getting myself up as a xion has im-|to You. Yot're 4 | judge. or anything ike that—but— have dizzy | rather fight it out than ‘pull out. BUt/ well the going’s g00d, Fight now. It returned Ij you won't. You'd rather Kill me than |may not be so good if you walt" depressed He lighted a mateh and heid It up | Be. ‘That ofl right; I underst now for perfectly. But I'm Lorrigan, ‘| #0 that Tom could skim the contents “lof the m book. By the neurastbenia You'll go. or I! kill you, blaze of the match Lance's face still | t a blood is so |rigan, your hand is pret do not haye your gun! burn that stuff, dad. And in the morning—how pai it be if we went to town and the “|lewal end of my new fob straight ened out? I'l want a power of at torney. You may be gone for some Ume. I suppose you know,” he add- ed, “that Mary Hope and T are foing .to be married. So you and but I didn't say who'd receive it. The} he closed the door, she 4 bis position a IfMe, so that his the stuff, dad! 1 knew you had it in), | Belle can take a trip somewhere. They say it's worth while going down | to the big cattle country in the! Argentine ~~ South * you! know.” Tom did not'reply. He had lighted | & second miateh and was studying at jtentively the data in Burt Brown | lee’s book. The third match told him | enough to convince him. He | ® snort when darkness enveloped them in. | mK rpened my pencil pretty | darn fine when I made out P bin) become morejends right here. You quit. You sit there ready to kill. But I'm as ready Prevent Flu and Colds Three Rules You Should Observe $s ith wi 5 Baar cheat ccatcte “vettiecly too worry Avoid crowds and persons having colds Wa This Year Is Milder “The rules given above, recom- by the New* York City of Health, are guides to good @t all times. Particularly they be followed just now, influenza {s again abroad in } land. Authorities agree, low: , that the fii this year is lees than in the last epidemic @ttacks are shorter and the h tate lower. In fact, many ns insist that the epidem- now being reported from #0 sections are not flu at all, simply the old-fashioned grip. ep the Air Passages Healthy hile we know yery little more it the flu now than we did last —the germ iteelf has never Positively fdentified -- still authorities agree that the flu are breathed in. If the sys- shape apd the mem- or ining of the air pasnages in healthy condition — these thrown oft. pl le to melt @ iittle VapoRub in 9 spoon, night Morning, 4 inhale the , also apply @ little up the several times @ day, espe ly just before being exposed to ago-—-and by the humpin' hyenas, [these figures here kinda go to -show |} overcharged ‘om. Some. Not so damn much, either. if you wok at! |my side. Better get up the horses, | | Al, and you'n the boys take the trail. | |The kid's right. The goin's dern |good, right now. Netter'n what it! will be.” | In the scuffed sand before the jeorral gate, Tom made a smali fire with a few crumpled papers and one small book, which he tore apart and fed, leat by leaf. to the flames. The light showed him grimly atniling, |when he tilted his head and looked |up at Lance, who watched him. “So yo'n the Douglas Kid Iw tig juring on getting hitched! well, |don't ever try to eye her down like you done to yore dad. She'll brain |yuh, likely—if you wait long enough | |for her to make up her mind. Lance laughed. Up at thi shoulder blades, to open the pores Then Vicks should be rubbed in over the parts until the skin ts red—spread on thickly and covered | with two thicknessew of hot flan |! nel clothe. Leave the clothing loowe around the neck, So the vap- ors released by the body heat may be freely inhaled. Theee vapors, inhaled with each breath, carry the medication direct ly to the lungs and alr passages At the same time Vicks is absorbed thru and stimulates the skin, thus aiding to relieve the congestion within. Use of External Treatments for Colds Increasing ll Viek's VapoRub ia the discovery | of a North Carolina druggiet who | An Easy Way found how to combine In salve farm the staddard time-tested rem- | to Obtain | Money house edies, Camphor — Menthol — Buca lyptus~Thyme, etc—go that when the salye is applied to the body heat these ingredients are liberated in the form of vapors. Vickg Ws particularly recommend: ed fof children's eroyp or volds, sthee it is externally gpplied and therefore can be used freely and often without the slightest Larm. ful effects. The best evidence of the value of Vicks is the steadily increasing number of people who have been converted to the use of thig “out side” treatment. Beginning with the customers of a small retail drug store, the use ot Vick® has grown year by year tate by state—until now more than 17 million jars are used an- nually, And this in epite of the fact that Vicks {4 a new form of treatment to many folks in the North and West. Vicks can be had gt all druggists in three sizes ~—B0c, 60c or $1.20. Is to come here and make a liberal loan, on your personal valuables. You pay us back in nominal amounts Above all, keep free from colds, ty the manth, Colds irritate the lining of the ing grounds for germe, Prompt | Vick's VapoRtyb aids in pre colds. For hi prost or hoarseness, rub Vicks Over the throat and chest and with @ warm flannel cloth. deep chest colds, severe sore Det of bronchitis, hot wet towels firet be appited to the it, chest and back between the against the Black Rim a few years |_ here is the secret of tobacco Turkish” ae Fatima’s distinctive andever-pleasingtu:: Belle heard him and caught her! breath. She stared hard at the three | forms silhouetted like Rembrandt figures around the little fire, started toward them and stepped. She was! a wine woman, wow Belle. Some} things a woman may know—and hide the knowledge deep in her heart, and! in the hiding help her mate | Black Rim folks, who always knew 80 much of their neighbors’ affairs, once more talked and chortled and surmised, and never came within a} mille of the truth. The Young college | rooster had come home to the Devil's Tooth, they goxsiped. ond Nad a row with Al; #0 Al left home an@ Duke, too. The Lorrigans always been | hard to get along with, but that Lanee—he sure mu a @uiton to cats, the way he’ the ranch. Marrying the Douglas girl, and taking that paralyzed old lady right to the ranch, had probably had a log to do with it. Lance might be will-| | For Grip, Influenza, Catarrh, Paing | and Soreness Jn the Head and Cheat, Cough, Sore Throat, General Prostra- tion and'Fever, To got the best results take “Sev enty-seven” at the first sign of a Cold, the first sneeze er shiver, It you wait till your bones begin to ache, it may take longer. Doctor's Book in English, Wrench, Spanish, Portuguese or German—| mailed free. ry atores. Ine Co, 196 eT" at all drug and cou Humphreys’ Homeo, Med Willem ot, New York, 4 $300,000, ing to forget thit old trouble with | Scotty, but the rest of the Lorrigans | sure never would. And it was queer, | too, how all that rustling talk| petered out. Mebhy there hadn't! been much in it, after all. Not even Mary Hope guessed why @ and Lance were left ro complete ly in charge of the ranch, Some-| | times, when the invalid was captious | — and showed too plainly that sh¢ pre ferred Belle's playing and singing to the musical efforts of her own daugh fer, and scrawled impatient questions about Helle's return, Mary Hope| ould wonder if Tom Lorrigan really | hated her, and if her coming had} practically driven him out of his own She would ery a little, then Tance happened to be some re near. If he were, there was ho crying for Mary Hope. | “He's a good son," Mother | Douglas once wrote. “I wish Al was alive, to seo how the Lord has changed the Lorrigans. Put on High Speed; Escape Two Holdups| Speed enabled two boys to avoid holdups in the city Wy y night.! Jotin’’ Kerng, 15, 1401 Greenwood | aye. rote past a holdup on his bicyolo after the man had flashed 4 Nght and commanded him to stop, Clarence Landon, 16, 4427 42nd aye. 8. W., ran when two men com:| manded him to stick ‘up his hands, Woman Discusses . | Housing Problem’ Mrs. Gertrude F. Brawley, presi- dent of the ¥. W. C. A.,' addressed the King County Democratic club Saturday noon, at Meves cafeteria, on “Housing apd Welfare for Gir! in seattle.” Walter L. Nossaman “Free Speech and Free Py garage and 40 ay +E cA fact: At Yale, as at Haryard, Fatima leads. According to the widely-known “Yale Record," "Fatima is the i sat Byers Balls ws vel op Ponlor an as we TL "A Sensible Caretio Electrification Is About Completed Electrification of the lines of the Chicago, Milwoukee @ St. Paul rail-| road between Black River Junction, hte end of the Milwaukee's own rails to Seattle will be in operation about |ararch 1, according to General Mana- ger H. B. Barling.” Completion of the electrification between Black River Junction and Seattle will link up the entire unit between Othello and Pu get Bound. : DONT FUSS WITH PAINS NEARLY MUSTARD PLASTERS! 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