The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1914, Page 23

“si ions RO MeciagtSiaiicsiesn. Sa peaaG Ss MAN OMe So a ee - . \ Phe Evening World Daily ‘Magazine, Friday, March 8: 1914 fA COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD = Caroline Lockhart poCoOCONCONC Author of ‘‘ ME, SMITH, the yellow sheet from the operator } who delive: ment for her ambitions—for daring to belleve she was intended for eome Sra Rae. leme, se Te Erte other tite than thie? vaguely at the swiftness of the gait He's always kept « I've seen it it in perspn. The upon so hot a day, She could hour Aaa message rea: the labored breathing of the horses a law of Nature, flew to bi © the’ Western boom town of be Upon that vious occaston rie wan ute. ie Something re ‘ang Suda two riders flashed clung like @ bit of steel to re *: bat ‘Andy Symes, black jer the . aro e curve of the zy Fharous amen, Ady “< the old Frenchman had made bh MUDGE. hill, Instantly they pulled their offer of Marriage which had seemed it 1: ving through tho 8 t ‘3 8 grotesque and Impossible at the Un ikea bad engl nd ewune a) while di conversational purposes as he ie . " into 7 t x ‘ Lema py een eT pony sal It was the sentence “Something (eon washout in the gulch, where the She looked at him ateadily. he banker stood at tho front wi “ ng penich wave Symes that weak xlant ange brush hid then. “I naw no one. thd witched a mud’ tha OC nd watched a mad race between It wan so quickly done that De. Lis eyellda slowly veliod hin oyea, ! : Mudge refer, to the atock and bond yrarpe had only a glimpeo of Mash: ,_ "WAY do you wak that?” Min-tatnt Vic, Ps ps le IE eae holders oF to the project and himalt? ing ‘eyan, awnrthy king, and clove. amlle teritated her, “Don't you sup- Why which imust intervene before w letter cropped. cont-black hair, but the pone dugpel have sald fo long be- wirotty raw plece of work,” could reach him with that sinking Col— look for that gun.’ the dep. finued Oem ane erie abe TOR aeeae ede tetpeane ce iis meine? _“Breeds—and a long way from the Bits every ancenmns pinan shot dead in his tracks the THe lived through it somehow with. TADSS.” she added musingly, “Laks ry y sheepman Jame day ho was married to & @itt out betraying Bimaelf and when would be nmohin’ Um thele horses In id of a lantern and the young enough to be hia gran: % Edouard Dubois some day,” and soot had turned her back upon him in light contempt—now she was, not giad, she could never be that, but grateful. “But 1—don't love you.” Her voice sounded strained and hoarse. tw “Zat question { did not ask you—I ing ask you will you marry me?" He did not wait for an answer, but went on persuasively, yet stating the bald and ba ahh letter came it read in part: peat like this?” mare of, Li — bn et at (nee ia Lome tens Hire She h's money : ite that seemed ushin “E tell you, Symes, something or i! searched in the Immediate vicinity there's no doubt In anybody"s ml hopeless facts tha so crushing poisson), has. Gosered "ue have A barking sheep-dog ran up the for the gun and in the hope of finding but that she killed him for the same leads to her youth and inexperience. “You hi No parent—no home, Mees Tees- dale; you have no money and not so many friend in Crowheart. You marry me and all is change. You have good home and many friends, ee a ne Cong! eeuaed “when I die you have thirty thousan: Maui HE long shadows of the af- sheep, Plenty sheep, plenty friends, | ternoon’s sun lay in the my girl, How you like be the riche. ( and road to greet her when, after another dental clue, 8 it you can Bnd out who or what 1 te hour of plodding, who finally reached write wan behind tho cabin that Dan ferccn’ for ob ait beable te ier tal > do. \iaven't yo got bid gt the ridge where she could look down ‘Trew stooped quickly and brought the fight with old Dubots’s coin.” ‘ 4 wn the alkali fat where Duboti nt " {nlite proposition? Rack your reine Nad, built his shenring-pens, hia lox Her tcoked at tt long and lntenttyy etowseg ty ite ay eee ahd LING knew the Fenn. store house and his cabin of one and when he atraightened himself btn “Whatever's at the bottom of It, — ‘Thore was no sign of life anywhere oe vy Voi ha ers os gral face wore Matnst'e blank walle I've exhauated Save the sheep-dog. leaping at her ‘ome here,” he called finally to the banal ‘can't voles 6 eanY, Wheels, Coroner. He pointed to the indistinct study un his, mind ured ‘aavertios Wales or ee About, she outline. “What doca that look Uko. Bree through the years : purchasers to nised «ray horses feeding some dia ihe C was not long from —..p0U,*ay he was murdersd—ehett make part payments down, 1 baer g fance away and the sheep-wagon in one” Scena i please Shave Tou (a bt d Ce fe te Oak of the question.” tay had tert town was drawn “It looks to mo like romebody nad ee ee ihe gpd ‘0 the house. tled her made a track in hin atockin’ feet.” : anes t Symes laid the letter fogged team to tho shearing-pens —“Thadeputy was born tear the Rose Piety 8, bullae wn. It wae against the law to sell and sauntered toward the house, but lorehead snd the, otper in kis land before the water was actually with something of uncertainty f wae ‘ |, Hive a good snck this fice hee aoe wen it, but was it out of the ques- face. ointy in Doon it?" he added. “I guess w ti back yard of the Terriberry women in thie big country, mam'- House when Essle sat down Selle Tho girl was listening, that was in the doorway to rest be- something; and she was thinking fore her.evening’s work began. The hard. " eur, for her, had gone down, and eee How they ait Earped upon : rT —when she ha 10 Ug 1 mo! bc a enone tage re sees important thing in the world was did not believe it ever would r love. Even Ogden Van Lennop she @galn. . remembered had called it the great eZ won't walk ATOUnM @1Y MOTO eT eee ret ag absent. min dedty, . jon had been seen and the tne.” ‘The girl sat motionless, her chin csscntial and now she saw that old In his desperation Symes decided pois d morning. and. sek Ed bois, who had lived fo pois did not mean to rev Th was & moccasin print to “s, , tilt resting in her palm, until a trem. doused, Dupple, wea iia e wholly that tt was not. A faint, quavering moan stopped (di daps Maley ba Do you know her—this, Mra, Dib lous volce behind her spoke her reverent light. Casually imparting the information her at the corner of the house, Rhea "They found the gun th the morning, Dele?” naw si “in a An one person knows \ When you marry me you have no x fo the Crowheart Courier that he was jistened. It was repeated: Sho caught in a giant angebrush where rt ose more worry, no more trouble, no more Lad 2 arvana is A wens Sao meet a Lente 4 % Igneeed epost wey $e the doorway and it hung concealed until aceldentihy tased Galloatel fo TOO toclame ae a BXe turned to vee Mrs. Terriberry, ‘“Her lips moved; she was repeating \ EQcrshi Amr Vat fy Kymes packed his sult cus and af- jn a limp heap on the bunk hee oe ety parrot who had arrived Sit Wan-never in society.” buttoned into her steel-colored bodice to herself: i fi rived in the State Capital as soon As face, her hands and wrists, her white early to give. hin “unsolicited aid to . The banker looked at ly flustered. “No more worry, no more trouble, negiect our patients, se you see what “Wait a minute! Ahem! there's one “express train could get him there. shirtwaist smeared horribly with the deputy-sheriff. eget SR nin MeL 5 eet cares 6. no more tears.” de says ain't sense. thing more.” ‘When he appeared before the State blood, while an unforgettable look of ‘The Colt’ automatic was easily pa twitched auspiciously @t seer’ There was a trace of won- gn, th \. Yand Board the arguments he used (error ‘and obs Mad ty CORNETR. " 0 was bewildered with the prob- The deputy sheriff's face cleared The deputy halted. that bod: ‘made public and re jon seemed frozen identified as Du! ‘8 wun, “T'd like to have a look at , + Gag in ber voice. Jems which confronted her, frightened gradually at Lamb's explanation and “You will arrange with the County {0 (nat body never wens, pubic, in her eyes. Gight startled even shells were missing. Dubols, it it ok at this max ‘Ab the sight of the pale face the by the overwhelming odds against solicitude. al ; but they wore aumMiciently convincing pr, Harpe. Ail the town turned out to look Dubois, If It's possibly” Be ald spdq Mrs. Terriber- her. tired of thinking, elck to death of “Yes, T guess he is a little ‘off,’ ty? Billy Duncan's to enable him to send a guarded t “What's the matter? What's hap- when Dan Trew drove Into town with SCY: é M60 Girt upturned :to ber, Mrs. the humiliation of her position. She though I must say he don't exactly no pauper. am to Mudge that night telling him pened?” she shook her roughly by the girl sitting bolt upright and very ity. Fou sald Symes oe Fy'a courage nearly failed ber in the stopped the guttural, wheedling voice look It. But do all you can for him, Way ain't he? I've been around t© prepare additional literature ine the shoulder, for the half unconecious white upon the seat beside him, Mow a hina the ace going to the, hail task to which she had nerved herself. with a quick, vehement gesture. Lamb, for Bill: fine chap at heart and found out he's got nothing:in the commence a campaign of advertise-. pir) 9 About to faint. “Where's They stopped at the Terriberry 7h 0 services,’ : “Eagle,” she faltered, twisting her "Give me time to think—give me and he's a friend of mine. The boys bank.” ment. Also to arrauge with the rail: Dunois Hotise and her old room was assigned _ The banker followed | the ga nervously, finally blurting out, until to-morrow morning.” have raised some money for any ex. “You have?” He eyed Lamb for a Foad for a homeseckers’ excursion at " ghe bent her head to catch the an- to her, but all the caping crowd con- fr’ UP the stoop stulre to the ball Te afraid you'll have to go, * “sWhat time to-morrow morning?” tras that he wante—I put ft under his moment, “Billy Duncan will not be @ early a date as possible. ower. sidored her a prisoner. it sented himself on one bf The started violently, an RY oer —ahere, wee desper- pillow.” buried by the County,” he finished en bcs dere muy +4 ar “Outaide.” Soe sayheking Faiding: chairey The 3 ‘gasped. Go?’ ation in her volce—“at 10 to-morrow — Lamb bright 0 curtly, — 4 Dr. Hi of he? rertiuerry evolaed her eyes: Mae went for notin ‘while he's “I'm glad to hear tha thusiasm and courage. Ho composed seturntd te stand: tena” ‘cote CHAPTER XIX. = ,_~—_s Fated with the gaudy: inatgnig. : rder was tilled to overfio 5 raw, cling- under ow ." Lamb's t w conciliatingly, and added: “Of course © pamphlet for distribution among j 40411, order . tng toa faint hope which had not suddenly ‘conciliatory. “Youd better youre not counting on thet @0T” Fasten and Middle Went farmers, that In the dimnoes of tue iy Hianted Symes Meets the Homeseekers. the sitiscus of Ceowbears, cntirely Aeverted her; she might Yet gu now, your presence excites him (here must be some St ide adie of the apted SDY'YBYMAS AWokertrom Gthor reason than Reepesk Ae t- was even harder than she “You can't afford to keep bi cnbin shone with the baleful " get @ letter from Van 0 “Oh, Arm amputa- wife in the middie of the night, gieinly, can't Otre A onlepered oat~ & line to let her know that he cared door and say goodsby, If sou Uke; tions are $100, 7We are really out $10 awakening her for that purpose. OP ath aten iit tess pa dead i night of troifbted dreams Luts, in the trednitoas, ratio nestly In a confidential corner. fh to send it; and if it came, a but no conversation, please” Snore than that with hie board and — In Crowheart the coming excursion a. ¥°\ dit 8 good job, with ‘the impression atilt {Flmmed voice and “4 she had protested in feeble sentence, she knew well “adios, Billy!” The deputy thrust all, but"—his tone was magnanimity of home-seekers was the chief. he anawer was the faint, broken strong upon him that he b.- ‘a 8) Natene: loyalty, “but I like Elsie. 7 couldn't er ase her answer to Dubois be lead and broad shoulder in the 5 eee all 4 wuty-Bherift weat ont in Se ay Cncn toa eommnere moan which came and went with her was the exact contre 0€ 4 Pvirrki dont Bag are eae ce eatee ee out just when Goodby, ped Ce B gece. the works and raised $125 more @dvertising campaign was giving to °"% ‘go to town for help—” typhoon in the China Seas, He rea- #0 fo step, forward and pasa s keeps, " Billy Duncan's friends, he banded If the town, and increased deference fo ye Til be here to Luts, the hospital ® Foa- £9 \ Mice your own, affair natur: undertaker, a04 fymes'was the result, {oF the mér- The «irl opened her eyes and looked lized gradually that the house wae xe fare fa rd . CHAPTER XyI. old man. 'T don't ut the miser. to read, and a special nurse if he needs ‘#{ed Billy suncans arm. she had etherised for a minor opera- CHAPTER XVIII. icwo ahote, and each made 6 bull's: indifferentl; when you come again.” All the ex- t he “dh rocking, was ! Punave yetira accommodations elee- ° An Unfortunate Affair. — ‘wement was gone and the boy spoke Sald— Go tor the money, chants of Crowheart made no. spcret Se erate nee alona alternately ssivering ised rocking, abortt that: ; Obetinat weer Te Tine caslonaliy, mares X DUNCAN was in a.bad "pannus trousled eyes sought Lat Hive got to go to the County Mitta tn, tay fou of tho Symes DF Harpe Ignored the whispered eave seecapoinn teres that, yours, "Twenty Years! Tt was fessionally, mere- . an u's troul eyes soug! y i indow e . ! Tyra boarder, you can guess what 1 way,.00 it was reported to Lamb's, who waited 1p the hallway & case and I can't be Bere Frrigation Project real money would PEayer | Me nose and. throat were raw" fmt since ho had seen old. * yu do to you in a business way, the men upon the works, and "He'll be. himself-when yol co! bing ete Ras be Casommoely, SeArce, and jbbiould ina Mat karate erent cone; trom. the ny particles of dust: indian ng hile gold duet on ag fad,” she had added signifcantiy, the men to show their aym- Sgnin.” sald Lamb ree, The few in Crenests ee ats: Milty’ made them shudder. Gradu- “It'll be better for you.” which covered the counterpane end. :oung Dick Kincaid had dered - tie ict etood up now, a slender, ‘pathy and liking: for the fever down. Don't let his talk worry the laughed openly ot ts ‘made ally it had dawned upon these ven- | Hefere sho untied her team.at the furniture, that pebbles were. strik- through the drifts in cmountiin pase wie aioct nites desolate, with fair-helred, happy-go-lucky Billy Dun- you.” ment which ned to. camp gne aay turesome ploneers from “way back Siting per ee eee ere aee the ing the window panes lke th® coq "once more he was tae u ted arms outstretched, she looked can made up @ purse of $90 apd sent But in apite of Lamb's confident as- a4 deciared that while n in the East in Nebraska” that the surround. Teputviye object lying upsw'a dines bombardment of ¢ gattling sum scuffing rocks was on, % | Iikg.g storm-whipped uower. it to him by Dan Trew, the big deputy- surance Dan Treu.waiked away from YWorwey of the operating room of ing country had few, If any, renources ill "Heo naG reused Dubois even (ling and shricking without a stop here . oppression whic! 10" ve jars : 1 RF tow, broken-hearted cry of de- fritad. the day. ‘Tho next morning he heard aco Dr. Harpe take fim the pocket they preferred not to contemplate, 8 open, and hie eyes; he looked 11) Nn fretting and BAnEINE sone’ of thet thoes amall the loss is set Mrs. Terriberry's plain face 197 buy fruit for the kid, something "pon the street that they had ampu- of nis cousin Antonio Pelesso, whom outside which conveyed the knowl- bushes that looked Ii 2 fe Danke 4 iene C gchory . Cdge that the sheet {ron root on hia of snow. He felt again the i "t feel hard toward me, Essie, “Amputated Billy Duncan's arm!" | an@ she would have taken the girl = ¥ they told the deputy and they rye deputy sheriff kept saying ttover “'\inough antonio turned his empty Crowheart’s First Murder eye. One in the temple and another Oo; nouse was loose, while a clatter Son of the silence tp the va 3 for luck. Pith r low—the all : hand, but she drew it quietly away and gave the money with the warmest of and over to himself as he hurried to pockets inside out to verity Glovannt's Mystery. iin hither would have killed from the street told his experienced ate jonce 2 Be he heard, a stood with folded arms in an attitude gooq wishes, the hospital. He was shocked; he gtoutly reiterated assertion, the camp HE tmaster’s curt “noth- ered face with a corner ears that some one's tin garbage can ing children, the bea bis son of atootness which was new to Trerri- Dan Treu took their gift to the hos- 14 Siled witha Foaret Cast wae soaked cues mOry Boe ‘hone jauee, Lge 9 ‘sooran" and glanced aroupd. was passing. heart. | Ho had nover forgotten the “ rfectly, Mra. ae rsonal a more hea! bau! short, hight; lished b ¥ sight that me’ pent don iike ine—you like me very pital, and Billy Duncan burst into tears exactly what such a loss meant to the tale than Dr. Harpe nereuf, When tence to Exsie Tisdale, for It u Colt's automatic Peotraded free a He groaned. This was the day the cajieg jt napa eient ite Dovel pF 5 ¥' re one kind of ® when he saw him. Billy Dune who earned his living lared that it was only one il- T td seekers’ Excursion was due— made bij re 4 mug iad of what. value 18 & "LOK Come, come! Buck up, Billy, with his hands and glofied in_ his she dcion of the lengths to which meant to her the end oe eee eae awoned coinin Gane one ere erimty suhece #00, aatiling aleceae Tea voice | coward's friendship or regard? L a Reni it through all right.” Stfength—independent young Billy ignorant and suspicious foreigners things. And now the marriage cere- iio. it and broke it open. The frat fanned the cheeks °f # half-naked, amaciated boy. 9 don't mean to be impertinent—I a youre ase he pul Duncan an object of pity in hig mutl- would go, her listeners agreed ae mony was over. She looked at the cartridge had jummed and every perfumed sephyrs lanne eo without bra; to saying Just trring to orieve Wom Stet ott in oeaen! Goa lated manhood! Dan Trew could not she must indeed | have much trovire sold band upon her finger with a other chamver was filled. Dr. Harpe of men and brothera!” Coming to’ ™? ‘ your he 7 ! 4 wi goin’ hold tt in the palm of her band, re- breathe “the elixir of life,” while they when T¥o I id. of public opinion— The deputy looked his surprise. hosp! ‘subject. heavy, sinking heart. She must wear Sifala of eine eft, out of the teas. Whats the matter, SiR? Whats arab met him at the hospital door employed Upon, the te did not laugh. it always, ehe was thinking, to re- ferdine It reflectively, Then she took inspected the portion of the desert, that man t and card parties which mean more wrong?” in, beside the countrymen of the two ning ner that she had sold herself jammed cartri: f phoak ae eecang Which was “blooming like the rose!” — fantures hardened. to fo you than I do. You've known me = “Everything's wrong, Dan, every- . in.” he began Itallans, was Dan Treu, He made no from the cha ‘Th he hep, Even the elements were agaiast him: ventrated mane of meet the com. ‘omy iife and fail me at the first ening!” Voice was shrill in his | Blood polsonin’ set in.” be began Tislteee when be heard the tale, but for a place to lay her head and thirty [hin ine fami. | Tihes olwith ali *centrated axe Of & procession test.” weak ym goin’ to droak if you with @ haste which see MSiad he eat for a long time on the corner thousand sheep. 4 m her with all it seemed. n 4 he turned away and walked t excitement. “Developed sudden. iW rt get bi Elephant’ her strength. eseekers’ Excursion af- Slanced about hitny she veard, the corral where the black om oan Trew Sa Civer hiss ane patied (0 Sexpntate to save his life, He was of the White t's billiard table, 1+ was tess than an hour after the Bhe Jost no time in urging her 28° Hom : cnly lady in the rogm! horses nickered softly A his shoulder as he would have com- a ough: he knew it was for holding a cigarette which he forgot to 140) 1.20, nag rumbled out of fagwed horses up the steep hill rived at last—hours late—delayed by Faxie ant with the nibus the be: A Jy chance in fact.” L . site the ranch house on the road the worst dust storm in months. The had formed about her heart, coming, while Alphonse and ‘eater forted « child. . aoueed palettes aut in, pow, aay? . town with Dubois slapping the reins tC. owheart, At the top ane let them committee of prominent citixene met Dear unfiinchingly the curious’ op, anes 28 ee penere, there, don't, talk wie ‘you He, eyed Lamb steadily. CHAPTER XVII.} loosely upon the backs of the sham” Dant a moment before they atarted it whore the cinder platform had been "™MAering looks of those she ‘ a ferous by jas iy. + 4 b ing graye e telegraph opera- up another almost as steep. well enough to call by ae only ériends—and s smiled preg wie down in the mouth, thay ‘3 we pads $0 step inside, but Lam! Turning a Corner. tor, hatless,.in his shirt sleeves, Out of the hills behind Re cam before it blew off, names, It was torture for 1 bit ae *He hasn't come out of the ether NDY P. 8YMES rly. muoh golden voice that had the carrying Crowheart found iteelf in the posl- sitive girl who aaw in each cold. ood for a tong time with her room, “It looks clean and comfortable I bumped into Dr. Harpe as she was the thought th: had killed ihe My} Testing on her folded arm® 170. you're lucky to have a place like yet—I'll let you know when you can A occupied with Bis OWN jeaving the hotel. ‘ Qualities of a flute. tion of the boy at the double-ringed °° ieht that sho kell ; ' _ well, my own dear Napoll, circ, he knowl. ~ ‘ied # human being-—for which lay upon the top rail of the this to go to and Doc's » blamed good See him. eer ae thoughts, be was not sleep- — «iteve they gone?” ell, MY own Gear Napoll, circus who suffers from the knowl- A ‘feeling of overmbolal corral, The big ‘bus Rover uasies, fellow, he'll pull you through” | Darren turned on his heel’ and ing well and all food tasted = -whot—but her eyes looked fright- 4 trom ber face, odie that there te ssiathing: Ne Must Reneee Ore a hens eee per etient to be noticed, but she did thing, that we thought. Lay here sick walked away, angry, sceptical—with- much alike, while the adula- ¢ fa itaad) cia Guba as ae Sairpee eer nae at hegrog tech been iy, +4 raibed ferns ie heey be! Nast Canes not lift her head until & eter UPC? ie you want to find her out, — Bhe out exactly knowing wiy. tion of his fellowtownsmen did not " ‘Those of Crowheart’s citizens who sume time attend the funeral of old !to his he wondered if he sed Dan rece! \- ‘Ages ago.’ had y the hard-trodden yard rouse? gne thinks we don't count, us fellows on Treu did not receive the prom eo .4 nim the usual pleasure. These «I'm sorry, I hoped I'd catoh her; yawned at 8 and retired at £30 were Kdouard Dubols, which waa to be #loud. | They were blue and beat glanced sround indifferently to see pee Del Vaan't Cus wan ea eeniea be trees ehich symptoms are most frequently ea- perhaps I've something she ought to pages Lave thee Dascefis shieabers held Under ine Suapions gf the wanes — ‘eater’ io mountens = it | ol cl had ined tid ‘Edouard Dubols lumbering to- Pew, mete Mieod the deputy'’s face Was not strange, since Billy Duncan sociated with lack of funds, and in Mave” 8 une teeta Tindale had ahot und Killed old Edous a member. thought, that had bean hut te ward her in the fast gathering dusk. f°)", Foment, then cried pitifully, was dying—dying because a man and 111.400: gar, mymen's ca WAS Perhaps it wae somethiag she cught ard Dubois, and the very same day In tho long journey acrose@@&o He could remember having seam tier mit Set eea ee ecaae. sho ee gant “peleve ps Tea them to jusgien with num n ifevand not @ peculiar one, the fact being that to have also, that she had married him for his plains one man had been tacitly as- OMe Other pair ike them, a An impulse #6 strong, a resold: 5 ther 3 " o ‘Look here. I've got a call tomake money. As a result, Crowheart waa signed the position of spokesman fbr 3 fer ete town, "Ho tooke more than fet you ney death. | 1s 9c, Dao t iad inckperienss to ep tae ow of the:setat of a ape PAST Se in ie’ Girection’ of Dubola’s astir st dawn, bearing every evidence the excursioniats, Ho wae big, this udden and violent that it sent ; blood in w crimson wave fa arr unwelcoming face to divert {10 T'was brought in until the next fore- blood. Vital, life-loving, happy-RO- Ti." suse in sight—interest in the haspaan eh the Mite ceuetten ere DIERE Gnd 8 BAM petted so unconscious of his leader: Soueh ond. over iq, ae aR ; 3 3 cs A u Dy ats obetiaueaemnly fixed in hia mind. | noon Without | iauersaned the hols Wueky Py Uncen Any wiike’room, great Symes Irrigation Project have ,,,Will you, Doct” he said in reltet, | I0a1\Trau and the coroner, who was ship, as big as Andy B. Symes him- tmoved toward the door ; Sua otc te movomens, and went Hil teen cE ME CHE, Seep ACHE, [Fnominy faving te vatuck gl cera + atatoe, to RR TREN ic Keees wceeeirtiet san Si oft une sasha" pee” ht aon” Se ons ih? 1 Jack-knife could do a better job than With a last effort he turned his head ‘Maybe I imagine it,” M e “T know that, Doc,” he assured her. planation W. e non ach’ aaa poe A pHs freeze! ot hear You are dn ge, hotel jack-Knite “done. ‘They don't. know upon his pillow and through the win- promoter, bad written, “but it look® wpuynoon : " F They found the girl and the Dago hever acquired in Oak Grove, Towa, were going monn see heey nd ; begs you ect fre word. when if, bis: how, Dan, and what's worse they dow by his bedside watched the col. to me as though Capital was giving tobe, Was already hastening away Duke waiting by the fre which he His eyes were both humorous and corks sunk. Lé ~ |." she re- lon’t cars n ‘ ron't even for © purpose, outside e cabin, judd lee hrewd, pelle ttention an > shooter is dlemissed mvt Care!” tor the deputy's hand from gold to purple—purple like the we the frosty mit. They w “Whew!” Dr. Harpe threw open in a blanket which he had thrown deference without demanding It. the teof tinite wink h lows of the Big Dark for which listen, I can't raise @ dollar @MODG pop cont jy audden warmth. “I'm glad about her shoulders she sat staring cult. . tanned coldly. nd \ tunad colds: get lef by that loafer, and clung to it as he berged again ah They explained him with pride, the turned at an angle \ ‘salle, that fel- ‘My God! Dan, won't you bell bound, And when at last the the stockholders or sella bond. Could ghe didn't get that!” into the fire with the shocked look Homescekers, to inquiring citizens of the M she, a ev soll Janeen good, I know me and get me out of here? Honest, night shut out the world he loved #0 anybody have been knocking the sho re-read the message— which never left hor eyes, Utter, ut- Crowheart s the mutch, pals t low Van Lennon, “that kind before, honest, I'm goin’ to die If you don't!” well, Billy Duncan coughed “a chok~ proposition?” Have’ heard nothing fram “70 ter weariness was in her flower-like ‘That fellow? Why he controls gone.” anid the Dane Dule with ae that & ing, strangling cough and ‘ied alo Symes had written back— anxious, In all welt ‘with you? Tele- face and over and over again her sub- all kinds of money beside what he’ ago Duke, with an “Ridiculous! Who would knock? &raph answer to a8 given in let! expressive . “Over there, it brought Lamb quickly from the of- was no doubt about that—perfectly 7 pave no enemies of sufficient im- Dr. Harpe tore the tel consciousness was asking her tired got himself; cattleman, banker, land, where I was reposing under the \ , { ¥ 1 In his growing excitement the boy's | Mees 1 TTeondale. ak ener tet voice rose to a penetrating pitch and Yes, Billy Duncan waa dead—th an’ good " i. U } legram bits brain, “What next? What horrible money to burn. He's representin’ i io wal” hotly, her fice in the front. He looked discon- and safely dead. There was no ques- portance to hurt me, and particularly and watched the pieces flutter into thing can happen to me next? Wat fa: fi hii tion that shade of a sagebrush, IT opened she turned upon bim hotly: and certed for an instant when he saw tion of it in Dr. Lamb's mind when there, Do your utmost, for the the waste basket. fa there left to happen?” wae a areat ie the. propositions tien ‘wk ae tise to.see the ‘tape fees: a mix! the deputy, for he had not known ho slipped his hand beneath the pil- situation is growing critical here— “The Old Boy certainly looks after With the surprising tact and gen- pond." ‘1 Kc angry TeReMIMED. 6 nim to me, Mr. of hla presenes in “the hospital. low and withdrew the 4 ae oer (oss listen, If I have Glancing from one to the other, he Duncan had so obstinately refused ‘rhe question which Bymes was now her Gnger tips were cold with ner- sometimes show, the deputy ae 1 enough to misunderstand read something of the situation in to turn over toward his hospital ex- trying to decide was whether it was Vvousness. drew from the girl her story of the been Se haste my fault, not his.” Billy Duncan's excited face and Dan penses. Ninety dollars; yes, it wae better to meet day with his own Dr. Harpe had paid her professional murder. ' hig kindness thats came suddenly in- Treu's pussled look. Btepping back all there; Lamb counted it carefully. money and trust Mudge to raise suffi- visit and her horses were dragging “I went to the creek—down the hich Billy desperate, in fact.” Ais own, Harpe,” she murmured, but tieness which blunt men of his type ‘This was enough for Crowheart, and bls wire ‘Be Continued). fy Debois's eyes t'e silence from the doorway, he beckoned the Little enough for the trouble and cient to reimburse him and meet the the buggy through the deep sand in trail there—to get - sorutable, | After @ momen! deputy into the hall. ansiety he bad been. The eminent next Davday or to bare'the Wtuation the direction of Bubols'e Gets Talch: Wes auld wana Eemeetr i San tend: bondholders wi ik, Zat iss "T guess he was talkin’ wild, wasn't surgeon's waistcoat bul; with the to the stoel she contemplated staying for ad 1 thin! boy's nine Billy Duncan's [indi whee aitl ne teeretion eee cree PI ying ing down—dipping with the patl—I he sald quietly: “You lose heem, you do now, he?" He walked out of th 2 “Kickin', wasn't hi too bad for you. ‘ing home in the cooler heard two shots—close together, I The exploits of a, | hearing. he closed the door behind him. In the end Symes's own money met evening. i) matter of being thought h hoot t 1 Mees Teesdale? Where you #0 ous! 6 was shooting at prairie 1 a hands ‘A curious stillness came over Dan the payroll, and the sensation of unwel: deterred Dr, Harpo t . Whi ! Ho saw that her clapes ‘Treu when Lamb himself brought the checking it out was much like part, when she gry and could cave fone he wae ining goat the wens young New: Yorkiy repied sy ot yet,” jer’ way i fn ce earty “me, mam’: of his head most of the time. eelie? 1 ask you once—I haf not “He seerhs to think his arr e shock—his weakened condi- est bills, lay was no longer pos- change my mind.” had the care it should"—Treu's voice tion—it was to be expected, though sible, He must Play his last card. An WILL BEGIN IN } ‘She stared at him with @ kind of t the wound ain't we hoped for the best.” Lamb found imperative call must be made upon terror in Ber ores. y out! Was this op ewell 4. i A enething of an effort to syeak oe Stockneders | an6 x tele- was Lani . naturally bene uty -sherift' ludge to this Seceth in "ils baldngtion; bu way off ot put be wantea for, 4 Greaded NEXT 4 sh Redtetne danny was meant ma, Mee boy and hoe Bavia’ ‘ a her : vas toned, egepister thers Emig aes aces Jere eee Ey Seep ca f Monday's Bronin . who buys a roman= lic German castle it was horrible! I called and called, ge tn aight nor hu, Hie'wen dead, ‘The Hood wan running || BY George Barr McCutcheon wes { | Mage “ , though she tightened at the question, thous news that Bily Duncan was dead. His ing with hie heart's blood. pel jaw dropped slightly and he forgot to Ke the black day came when t om the ‘tres ry coed not meet the small. of like everything. I got a quilt and to- dragged and dragged until I got him . IT saw no one, I hands were clenched