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\ — 2. anuary 29, 1912 The Range Riders sasssieeeanstina Eevennmnenessanranieninintiisnanitetatasasiandlidd Another Great Cowboy Romance By C.A. Seliger, Author of “1HE 1WO-GUN MAN” ASK Your MOTHER For ANOTHER PIECE - BUT SAy You Copyright, 1912 ¢ (The' New York Wore MRS. JARR FINDS A HARLEM GOLD MINE. R. JARR got home long before M his wife did. In fact, dinner was kept waiting for Mrs Jarr 80 fong that Mr. Jarr, on his own responsl- bility, requested Gertrude, the matd, to give the clamoring children something to eat and permit them to depart from} the dining room in peace. Mrs. Jarr arrived (in radlant haste And with an armful of packages and] Wearing a new hat) somewhere about § @'clock. ‘hy, am TI late? she asked. fo, indeed, dearte,” replied Mr. Jarr; “you are up bofore sunrise, Why, it's still yesterday!" “f hope you didn't keep dinner walt- ing for me,” said Mrs. Jarr, ignoring these sarcastic pleasantries like the even-tempered little wifle that she was. hy didn't you all just s{t down and have dinner and never mind me?” Mr. Jarr looked at her, but did not answer. Why answer such a question? What married man would dare eat, his diner in his own home when his wife an@ master {n't there to preside?” ‘T had Gertrude give the children their dinner,” said Mr. Jarr, “Surely you dfdn’t let them have pork Shope?” asked Mrs. Jarr, noting a cold and solitary chop of that species, ty, thére were pork chops, and so of course they had pork chops,’ ex: plained Mr. Jarr. “Oh, dear!" cried Mrs, Jarr, taking of! her pew hat and forgetting she had in- him whether it wan be- t be}. » “Oh, dear! 1 can’ out of this house one minute but ever thing goes wrong! You know, I never let the children have pork chops at night! They should have had soup and apple sauce and bread and butter and milk, and that's all «She Was directing her remarks at Mr. Jarr, but they were intended for Ger- Arude. A ‘woman can say to her hut tand what she should say to the maid, for trusband’s can't leave. They can threaten to leave, eometimes, husbands can, and they often do threat Servants are different. They don't \gloomily. “Shall we have dinner?” he quietly. “Oh, I've had my dinner,” repiled Mrs, Sarr. Stryver and Clara Mudridge- Smith took me to the Hotel St, Vitus after we were through shopping. For- tunately there are some people who are nice to me, But please have YOUR dinner or you will be complaining that its my faut.” Mr. Jarr ate his dinner, while Mrs. Jarr took her new hat Into her boudoir and tried {t on again, also the near- pearl necklace and lace shaw! Mrs. Stryver had given her. She also posed ofore the glans with the eilver chain purse Mrs. Mudridge- Smith had presented to her, and this, with the memory of having dined at the St. Vitus and also having ridden around in a real automobile, made her forget the many Injustices she endured. #o when Mr, Jarr had finished his delayed and lonely meal and was sulk- ing in the front room, she rejoined hte, the samo smiling patient creature she ‘ou haven't sald how you liked my new hat that was given me to-day, and my lace shawl and this ever hand bag.’ Mra. Jarr displayed all these tributes as she spoke. Mr. Jarr regarded them “That's right!” remarked Mre. Jarr. ook angry because, no matter how you treat me, I siill have some friends who are kind and considerate!" “Why, I'm glad you got all those things. 1 don’t kick at any honest \ friends pitied me and wished to show @raft,” said Mr. Jarr. “Honest graft! repeated Mra. Jarr. “Do you know w I received these things? It was because more fortunate me they would stand by me no matter how you act “Act? echoed Mr, Jarr. “Yes, ACT!" cried Mrs. Jarr, “No matter what you say, Mrs, Stryver is FOR YER —ME-€-0 MAMA, PETER THAYS A PIETHE OF YOu Come OUT ANYMORE, TONDLES? (Copyright, 1911, by Outing Pubishing Company.) AYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, compuncher, who hae « pusitive be it oe 8 ee | oy ieaaten, it Poche secret. feaacne hie ta ss “tenderfoot” and sficte 9 oing ranas toras Sire prevents porate. e dhe. onl io lence tne ranch otherwiae, Deveny will eurely “get hia, | CHAPTER VI. hie iy ‘thet, Continued.) The Man Who Rode “ Purga- | ” { tory. | UT evidently, judging from De- veny's manner, it was not bis Intention to goad Ball into drawing his @un. If this was his intention he concealed it with consummate skill. It was apparent, however, that he took pleasure in place tng Ball In auch positions that he ap- peared a ridiculous figure among the mon of the outfit. Bosides, having the reputation of be- ing a gunfighter, Deveny might have naive Ball, for while the men of the outtit were quite willing to laugh at the young man, they might have re. rented bie being forced Into a gun fight that would end in bin death, The Six- teenth Man communteated this to Bail one night after supper, The boys know Daveny ts after you, and while they're not adiniring you any, they're going to see that you Ket a square deal.” py ‘The Sixteenth Man was surprieed that Bail showed no signs of appre: Then, one morning about a Deveny entered the bunkhouse while the men were ut breakfast and Ball was Pouring coffee, ‘Tho range hows's man- ner was one of domineering Insolence. “Well, Sonny, how do you Hike cook. Ing?" he asked. Hull did not look at him as he replied: It's a heap better than breakin horses."* The range boas meditated, frowning at Ball's averted face. Then he smiled with lascrutable humor. “You don't Ike to break horres, 1 tuke tt," he sald “That's #0," assented Ball. drawied, ‘ ‘Purgatory’s’ killer,” came away from the door of th tend nd stood silent, his eye lerii about picking a quarrel with (p had known he was going to ¢ry and ride “Purgatory” — “My orders,” Interrupted Deveny curt- ly. eyes of the two men met— Tucker's wide with comprehension, Deveny’s under his shaggy eyebrow: “It's murder!” declared — Tucker hoarsely. He was white to the lips. He was thinking of the day Ball had come to him, That meeting had aroused a slumbering sentiment which had devel- oped into something almost like affec- tion for Ball. Deveny jughed evilly. "Yea," he sure a men- The manager 1d nothing more, but ‘anoh- with a deep fire, watching Bagi a Puri “Purgatory” had been only astonished when Ball had tightened the cinohes: he was stunned when he felt the maa’ weight on his back. But only for @ mo- ment. He required only this small space of time to realise that his arch enemy— man— gain bragenly attempting to conquer him Then, his train afre with the man- tred of hix wild ancestors, he squealed most human rage and flung him: t, standing diasily upon his pawing the alr frantically, Finding the man unshaken, he bucked. A doen times he sprang wildly tato the alr, coming down with arched spine, hia four hoofs bunched, his head well down, his thin nostrils distorted with a snorting terror, But Ball sat in the saddle, swinging his lithe body cleverly to “Purgatory’s” sharply with his epure when it launched its body into the air, twining his lege around it when with ad down and heels in the alr I tempted to pitch him out of the saddle head foremost. Sitting on the top rail of the corral fence, the Hixteenth Man ceased mum- bling a crude prayer and sat erect, suddenly aware that prayers for Ball were quite superfluous; evidently he had ridden ‘“Purgatory's* breed ®e- = 2 » the Lord!” exclaimed Tucker, at rved Tucker, triumphant- of them!" coming down with @ prodigious buck, had suddenly rolied. This was accomplished by atri the earth with his forelegs unjointed and stiffening bis hind lege at the moment of Impact. Hut evidently anticipating thin move, Ball had flung his fest free For the first time in many weeks he A. have to put up with @ word from any-)a good soul. she told me I could con- ody. They are of the free people, and) sult her |. wyers if I contemplated a no Domestic Relations Court can in-/divorce. And Clare Mudridge-Smith fringe upen their personal liberties said I could bring the childrren and “wile wouldn't eat his soup, and|/come to her house, if my mother both the children sald they didn't want/ wouldn't stand by me!” Betty Vincent Gives Advice on Courtship and Marriage er milk,” “ ” My parents object to my having any-| become acquainted with when I seid dhe MUGT Grin her milk,” | prise, Tell Her ~ thing to do with him, What shall I[in Texas and writes to hi y grinned around at the men. nd up a tuinch of I reckon you'll f Malf an hour ta as Pall was thehtening the cinches of his saddle, Deveny came up to him. You won't ride that skate!" he youhg man me not to let his family know of his Jerr. “ they re every week, | attentions. At a surprive party tive | gioorod, indicatt et tea of the stirrups, landing lightly on. the Lier prion the way!” cried his AdeBeiad tela Fhe _fhink you have] WF e young fe very much in love do?" Is this treating me fatrly The He aleter Waa presunts G81 QlSR'EL Chee outeu ieee ne: wer aeabrek ape: | PaTR Desite “Purgatory.” and. wan us. Sr taser Earaes: (x cant mavetliewee ere pies tod, Mra Jere. | J with a girl he ought to take great 1 think you are old enough to follow | T think she should give up the corre-| notice him much. Me went home with-|ing to the Sixteenth Man, eer sat mnied GO eae Lipews '. ry a oh eee Se, eee ba pains to go to bakacs rrhaod for his, your own inclinations. spondence, in view of her approaching | out bidding me good-night. Ought I to Deven? Sree re ine he pectaciiar performance c F oo ° vere’, marriage. write to Lim firet?’ doparted for the {manager's office. : thing goes wrong!” bestpeep opin p (eke nach Me) ‘That is, tell her| “A. L." writes: “T expected to marry |"Nor He haw been extrene!s ude und] "Thunder and biases!” exclatmed the nen, AAA Y. NORD SAO AEN | E96 ENS ae . Serr cighed. Ho wae « much-/the set of mink furs sie promised. And frankly and man-!@ young lady very oon, but #he ha lowes sou au: epeloay: Sixteenth Man, white-lipped, to Bail. ("42 Titer | os ne been forced to” sed man, but what was the use to/she never will if she thinks we're protest, reconciled.” lightning a man in “*Purgatory's’ a dev! ‘ dolt on legs! He Is Ill. the Territory can “B. H." writes: “A man who is al" Ia the corner?” sntere friend of mine and has called on me Bedding Jom ere 8 Ais frequently ts very {ll In the hospital, raceoiored pony thet Ted fully of your af-|— fection and ask her point blank if whe will marry you. It may be a trying interview, undergo the humiliation of @ whipping had attempted it. Hard avy lash that took him upon all 2, “Purgatory” scrambled wildly to his feet, eyat on escaping his tormentor. Brfore ho is face Gaubed with dirt and grease Ww. 5 ai clear space around him In} nea taken two steps Ball hed vaulted When You Are bat even if tne Fair Play. [Oder Se th AEP SRST ap ag | Wola It te proper to viet im and A hea Taken ro sie Pall ad vases reeult dashes HILE riding on an east-bound Woodland |W Again after you bad washed yourself Boe tun Sewers? an _afirmetive feet were in the stirrups. e your dearest car a few days ago I noticed am im | tines man asl ‘ Not only proper but kind. unalinging the colle@d rope that hung “Whoop-e-e-e!" yelled the Sixteenth Married Woodward hopes you will portant fookinyg gentleman boant the car| ,Ufinuing guilty, the lumber reotiel, “Itt — at the pommel! of his saddle, Thelaian trom his position on the fence. e feel a certain sat- | 2%, While reaching into hie pocket for change | Dy w ined “Deen” Woafing "ua the| “A. 2” writes: “E have been paying {Sixteenth Man stepped over to him) Ang then, in a lower voice an@ re- {® dime accidentally dropped to the floor and fetaotion in your positive, firwt hand] toed under the scat onpmte. When. the eon. | 2%." and laid « Getaining hand spon Bim. "And I totd him he waga’t ‘Telexram, at provinaly, tion to a girl for six months. In|” “Don't try to ride hin, Copyright, 1912, by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York World), ‘knowledge of the situation. ductor demanded his fare the important gentle paencnaidianeeenessies my absence my chum insists on doing ‘its tone waa almont a pies. “Me'lt wit] sme Dt to dinner at the Langdons’ tovmorrow It 1s worse than foolish to pump | ipo sald’ “There is sour fare under thet seat, The Poor Vegetarian #0. What shall I do?” !you ko the did that other tendertoot | Again ten ee ena et bed {plomacy. ning. Mre, Langdon didn’t know our, her best friend for information, or to] ‘tie conductor, who bappenel to be the only le Uniess you are engaged you have no|that oune out here two years ago, He! rosary. ‘Rargutely | Mamie Seeene . author of | right to object to hia attentions, if a" only a kid, and Deveny made him HERE are so many things) oi ong number, #0 Bob called me uplask your best friend what he (thinks | Irishman on the line, went over and picked : a ; the girl has promiged to marry you | "le ‘Purgatory'—and ‘Purgatory’ killed woods ai RK, ARCHIBALD HE: thet one has to got used to Of your chances of success. At leamt {dime and deposited # nickel in ite place D the new life of He 4 the ranchhouse, wil - | downtown.” turned, to neve te ing about segetarianiom at a “gh ‘Piet | desperate, making abrupt plunges, as one grows olter. For !n-) wz gon't want to go,"" I decided very| one-half of Benjamin Franklin's 04 | Sa tear a foe cen dee” Ke she should wend the other man may Ne ee ie ee te PUR \awerving with sudden, slde-stepping stance, diplomacy has stom, | quickly. motto applies perfectly to love affairs: \— “Mr, han” ue sad, “han Ween pats je Chat kid?" questioned Ball brusque. | J¢res rearing so far beck, | that an taken a9 a hoon compenon'{ ‘But we HAVO to go," he replied just | 2 you want @ thing Gone do it your, Si f Honest Ti very ettitly, At the saute ime ‘he. dossert 5." writes: “A young man paid ty Jah Ore er kent dan ee whether one will OF no. atpio- Jas quickly. self.” Or in other words, if you want gns of Honest Toi their taste over uich me attentions for two years, but Ij “A boy named Malone,” anid the six. [Qe Ann, SUN ae entry te aatere I was an absolute strang “Bhaw, at his home at Ayot, St. Lawience, [have net seen or heard of him for aj teenth Man tenderly. mination; still the sharp spurs ge- Why do we have to £0?" I asked in-|‘t® know whether she loves you go and AFTER the thadde bad’ flowed eoiee ried. I was not " imey. pecore Twat me ly, “Can't we refuse an invita- e digtomatic, even in handling some of | dign: about his office aid to mes You should have 4 kind-hearted ask her. ng tinw, He has a ring belon«ing to| “Die kid ought to have known better,” | minded him that his ancient enemy come in time for lumehoos. inp ardent admirere—that's the reason | tion Wha Ht writen 1 am. twentyefive| i tunctieam toxtay nee Woat abel & do? | Sealared” Beal eae ane Aree was supreme. Ps: ny ard errs up in devpalr after a] “Some invitations, yes: but It's policy| A) Oi am in love with a mun wh 1 mh you know his addrena, write and|astening mennwhie to the Mixteomn | _ it Was, the most terrific time - 7 very short time. |to accept this on (ae PRGA) Ade bes reat lth d bd pruced up afl ak him for it, And don't lend any, Man and stil! working to uncotl the rope | atory's” ag He had boon coon ta 1 was drought| ‘But I don't want to go to dinner be-| rs convinced me of his reformation, (it. Norke Date io the astonisl | more Jewelry to young men, no matter \¢rom the puddle hom, LF eee a ee, eae had Hae “nat: Se nailer oa e mation, ' nese man, he ‘appenral a few how well you know them, ‘Shucks!” sald the Sixteenth Man) f° up to be “nat-|cause it's policy,” I djected. =" = Secreta hdl IRD 5 SR +t Me the line that had separated him from ural” —affectation| “My dear Joan," anewered my hus- : with reproving heat, “You dtén't know | {he two-legged animal that he feared | and artificiality] pand, sllkhtly peeved, “life is not made Ca Or a ta that may and hated. And heretofore when they I was told were|up of things we WANT to do. It le Copertacht went (0 hell for hin! ft cane forget | had attempted to sit astride him he had the cardinal sins. | composed, mainly, of things we do NOT by The Prem Vublining Writ ee tM fee me" The Sixteeren ; disposed of them quickly and finally. One can't be nat-| want to do, with a dash of the other (The New York . Man's volda eottened, PEN But now here was one of them who ural and diplo- | thrown in, just to Jolly ue along.” MAWhat dé the Kid slo to Deveny that | could not be dispinced, who clung te matic at the same! “But, Ted, I don't want other people. Deveny made him ride ‘Purgatory's” | im ae though pe: Tall, his face averted of him, who, when he reared, flung time—so there you are. . I'm perfectly contented to stay at home | auextio boi RO Be: SOncee eae With those elements of my training] with you and read or go to the theatre cH 3 | The Sixteenth Man cursed woftly. Bloat as Rim with the cruel quirt. sll fresh in my mind, I balked when |once in a while or’— Tit SHover : What Wl 70H 20 0 sl tet he wants he would arch his back ‘Yed first introduced me to diplomacy| “That's a great mistake,” he inter- c 2 , . qo fo rides fmt te Ceres bean: dusty with him and at last ft and bade me cultivate its acquaintance. |rupted, “You MUST see other people, - ‘Yer SNow Mn aly iniege hae He poet | ddle to ply the It was night before We'g had mix with other people, note their failings a) F FER 4 CENT, | Showed it the same way, too. Gets both | '! uddenly end an awfully good dinner and thi and their good points. In a few years’ you to ride ‘Purgatory.’ And ‘Pure | gg trarea ninselt git ee al 3 3 i 2 & 2 & S B = time, unless we mingle with people, {ook up the book we are reading aloud |we'l! te bored to death and yawn in fust now and opened to the place Where | each other's faces.” left off the night before. “Never!” I cried indignantly; “I'a a dandy book, and I have great never be bored by you—ang I'm sorry dimculty to keep from peeking during jto think that you might ever yawn In the day to see what's goin to happen ee at’ | satory killed the kid and he'R kill you ‘As his sinews mbled on the verge Gaartty. Ho shook ‘arta of action he heard his enemy's voice, nia Iarlat and climbed the corral | Meee atm: making his way slowly toward ? “Buck, will you, you red-eved devil? ny. A brille trailed from hie left | wo uek, then! Buck!" nth Man leaned against the (Te Be Continued) corral fence, prepared to extend his sym- —— next; but I promised Ted I wouldn't ‘ow, Joan dear, pathies to Ball when the latter should| ag read a word of it without him, so of get huffy. return-defeated. The SMxteenth Man “Uplifted. course that goes! You know that kuew that “Purgatory” had @ repute-| es , ‘Weil, just as I was about to start, Ted will never happen; tion for evasion that extended through. | (Coprright, 1912, ty Baker & Tarior sou , oud: but It's best to do it the erritory, Several of the men, | ne is id = Bg ba Bag ee pod . ‘i 4 eady) for the trip to the range, rode up eUigtor fell, yew, of ‘Oh, by the way, Joan, we're invited things to) prevent corral bars and halted to watoh But certainly goin’ to churches : . Anyway, ; tefeat y sald no word, but| Ain't all the religion I find, ‘ i ppv ere exchanged eloquent glances. They had! pve a certain fair human L worship. “ y vice-president o: all had their trial with “Purgatory.” | gj kin’ me do bett | Heating the Carpet our firm, so I think we ought to accept Hut Ball no me’ ip tatea| ee ae eee Ive Iately been sort ¢ An’ my ambitton’s taken new wings, ats hia rape low, so that tf alunost trafled the ground, he ape | " i proached wiihin fifty feet of “Purga-| iPR ‘orl, WHAT AM I GOING - tory.” Then while the watchers mar-| 4 feller don't do things that's rotten, i cold feet when a recent invention, |" don't like Mre, Langdon—can't you in Germany, {# fully developed. | hold your job without toadying to peo By means of electricity {t 1s proposed | pie \ Te will be no need of having | tnjs invitation.” | to make the carpet, the Persian rug or} was sorry the minute after, but 1/ A er To T3E IN THiS JoTS- vole tee n HN = rhirarrty werd tans bapet hers Anke br § a i the tiger's pelt as warm In cold weather | gajq it, ' TR0oH KEEPER, TREASURER, Purgatory” rensed the Impending dan-| Jes’ lead you away from the bad, 4 as in summer, The experiment !s NOW| «Are you trying to hurt me, Joan?” ger, a and “Purgatory” lay! when you feel a superior bein’ being tried of wiring the floor covering! meq gaid eo gently that I felt like iia head held down “yi 2 iehcey with yourself atl fe so as to heat the carpet or rug and 40/niaing my face from his eyes, ‘I am \ oo ’ away with cold floors, says the Wash-| Nop toadying—I am trying to be as he Sixteen’h Man took down the cor-| 2 atid in awed al Why, you've lately been sort of uplitted, ington Star, A patent has been taken | courteous to my employer's relatives as out for running Wires through the car-|_ am to my own. Mrs Langdon ts not Ball lead “t x" forth the bei An’ you know you've done right by pet in paral in such @ way that | opjectionable—merely uninteresting. As Rha’ Papiae bare and nad Ciba an ord! Ughting current can be run! tap ag the job goes I guess I can hold Hall placed the) When you sort o' shake out all tne through the wires, The conductor be- | jt, e you willing to go, Joan, or Purkatory’s”’ efforts | lakes comes Warm and heats the carpet, The | not? heat in large carpets can be controled | “Op, us desired, and the carpet will remain! to q warm for two or thr ning of the cinches, ay: for the swift and su s new man took him the wantin’ to “do. thin real, . "i do anything you say Is right I sald miserably, “but 1 HATE ¢ hours after the | tg he diplomatic!" J you know that she'd Ile tt, ft moment he stood ey ah! They'se no ron appea'. Cufrent Is turned off. A small foot rug| “Very well,” he answered, amiling ane Lat Pars 4 Aat-cared| widen fen ten ihe eco eee can be herted 1 taken for comfort | “coat your statements to others with a| fear » years no man had dared | lekin’ during a carriage ride. thin layer of augar—bit tell ME exactly sindienity, and tts moment) An’ you Jes’ take your shoulders and The wiring of carpets for thin purpose} what you t' ink of me!” ion was given over to @ dis Phe jp new, but patents have been Issued] “T think you're a dear, and you know forse expresaton why, youve levetybeen “bert ée'uiy foment B had sprung into Ufted At that moment also De , wut gf the managers omee-| BY the Kind 6! ralgion called tov MAZZARD, before for passing wires or wire gauze |{t," I told him. “So here goes for a through compartments in table covers, | try at diplomacy, although T’nt afraid carpets end other coverings for lighting lit will always be a etepchilad in my purposes, heart -~ “The crazy: fool: J, Sim “Verse and Wore” | ce een mt NN NE cl ie RS