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va smectite arch z. 1914 gazine, Saturday, ae — ~ ah it Ma M z 0 \ en, “Net-th id, wir.” “{ didn't think so,” returned Van . Letinop grimly, He continued: “I . want you to telegraph the operator in Crowheart and find out positively if the message was delivered to the person to whom it was sent.” “Tl get it off at once, sir.” So this was being “in love?’—this frensy of impatience, this unceasing anxiety which would not let bim , sleep! It séemed to Van Lennop that he had nearly run the emotional gamut since leaving Crowheart and atl that remained to be experienced was further depths of doubt and dark it despair. Had he been too sure of her, he asked himeelf; had something in his let or the ending of hin tele- Gram displeased her? Waa she ill? To shorten the long hours which must intervene before he could ex- pect a reply from Crowheart Van Lennop ordered hie saddle horse and rode to the mine, where a raecally superintendent had stripped the ore chute and departed with everything but the machinery. As hie horse picked tte way over the mountain trail the fresh air acomed to clear his brain of the jum ble of doubts and misgivings and re- Place them with a growing conviction that something had wrong that all was not well with Eeslo Tv His unanswered letter and stam was entirely at variance with her sweet good-nature. What if she were needing him, calling upon him now, this very, minut He urged*his horse uncoflsciously at the thought. Some accident—ho could think of nothing else—unless a serious Mlness. His horse was sweating when upon his return he threw the reins to an idle Mextcan in front of bis hotel and hurried into the office. Yes; there was a telegram for Senor Van Lennop-two, in fact. He tore open the envelope of one with fingers which were awkward tu their haste. The telegram read: Message addressed to Mise Esele Tis- dale received and delivered. Operator. Van~Lennop stood quite still an read it again, even to the unintelli- gible date line. He felt suddenly lite- loss, lstiess, as though he wanted to ait down. It was all over, then, She had received his letter and his tele- gram, and her reply to his offer of his love and himself was—silence. It was not like her, but thero seemed nothing more forghim to do, He could not force himself and hia love upon her. She knew her own mind. His conc had led him into error. It_was done. He opened the other telegram me- chanically. It was from Prescott partialy in code. It was a long on for Prescott to send, but Van Lennop looked at it without interest. He would translate it at his leisure— there was no hurry now—tha game had lost its sest. He walked languidly over the stone flagging to his room and dropped Parrott, the whole out- ly into a chair. He picked up Gay, Dago, I wasn't raised the travel-worn newspaper on the women.” table and glanced at the headlines. A Crowheart date line caught his ehivalry extend to the eye. "WEALTHY SHEEPMAN 'MUR- DERED EDOUARD DUBOIS SHOT AND KILLED AT HIS CAMP BRIDE OF A DAY TO BE ARREST! ‘ED. The story of Essie Tisdale's mar- riage with Dubois followed, foe rrest of the murdered pa- triarch's beautiful bride ie expected hourly, as the Wading citizens of Crowheart are clamoring for justice and are bringing strong pressure to bear upon Sheriff Treu, who seems strangely reluctant to act.” ‘The paper dropped from Van Len- yi r nop's nerveless hand and ne eat star- haven't got the right kind of ing at it where it lay. He picked it Dan, to sabe women of her up and read the last paragraph, for - his dased brain had not yet grasped ita meaning. But when its en! sig nificance was made clear to him it R came with a rush; it was like the in- ‘and to tinderstend their moods stantaneous effect of some powerful ‘azan Anglo-Bazon never drug or stimulant that turned the clally-and socially I am blood to fire and crased the brain. physically my fac- The blind rage which made the room ‘disposal, Do you swing round was like the frenzy of insanity. Van Lennop's face went crimson and oaths that never had paseed his lips came forth, choking- hot and inarticulate, bid “The leading citizens of Crowheart, Gepaty gave the Dago Duke the outcasts and riff-raff of civiliza- Jpok, but Shs not ener ene fomieete excbankrapis and Ubartines, 5 gzlers, ex-ban! A ‘ the sheep-herders and reformed said Dan cattle-thie the blackmailers and dance-hall its swollen by prosper- Ity, disguteed by a veneer of respect- ability, want justice, do they? By Ged!" ‘Van Lennop shook hin clenched fist at the empty air, “the leading sitintne of Crowheart shall have jus- tice! Q ‘He smoothed Preacott’s crumpled telegram and reached for his code- book. he had its meaning jhe piilled a Yelegraph-biank toward him, and my inatructions to the letter. detail. Leave inturned to end ppeh the secornpiien ihe ‘VAN LENNOP. CHAPTER XXIl. Latin Methods. $6 6) HH, Doc!” It was the tele- graph operetor, hatless, ‘in his shirt sleeves, hurrying toward her from the station as she passed. Doctor Harpe stood quite etill and watted, not purposely but because @ sudden weakness in her knees made it Impossible for her to meet him half wey. She waa conscious that the color was leaving her face even as her upper lip stretched in the greight, mirthiess smile with whith she faced a crisis. She knew well enough why he called her, the dread of this moment had been with her ever since her foolish boast of Van Lennop's letter and the destruction of his telegram. “You gave that message to Essie? She got it all right, didn’t she, Doo?” “Sure, she got it; I gave it to her that afternoon,” La aberiff stepped off the dis- stance. “Lease than a hundred yards. She must have seen them plainly.” "Certainty ; v's when they swung into the guich.’ / “Well, sir, it gets mv.” - With the ‘Qdmigaion the sheriff thrust bis hands dm bie t.vusers pockets and frankly nonpluseed. * Sipby dented as plain os fm Waglish that she had seen or f@nybody and she'll probably do {He sme under oath aie doubt about it,” replied. the why should she?” demanded in’ frowning perplexity. ‘ea think of no reason, yet she ‘Be ¥ moccasin tracks the soup Til oe sent ee Getigret with conviction. “I'vo ~with' Injuns and fit ‘em, too, to know their tracks in the ut, man, there ain't an Injua hundred miles of here.” ~ Duke looked refiectively of his cigarette. they are urging you to ar- “Better save your breath.” "Way t" -apentally and there is," awkward hesitation. eo flerce that I hate even to you for fear there some press. It's hard to ft myself. It sounds 90 pre- at I'd be laughed at if I ft tp any one else in Crowheart.” rit sedt laugh.” said the Dago tie prpposterous—the most thing you true. can think of that I've studied. that » with my comparatively lim- tunities, until I know think and far, fi ‘than she thinks.” the big deputy squirmed the tt juestion: lieve her a petty . Mago Duke composedly. Pgmat she would riffle a man’s pock- vol mies Ee @ny common woman aa wafe—quite, quite safe.” even reluctantly, Dan Trou Dee Red heard it in Walt eae from thelr own lips. all the Dago Duke eoftly, listening without Demands Justice. 11H utterly insignificant tele- “graph operator at an equal- ‘ty insignificant railway “station in’ Mexico loomed @ person of colossal impor- tance to Ogden Van Len- had calculated that the re- telegram was considerably ' @ week overdue. As Ls woke: fe so far as the telegraph operator was of it to Doctor Ha whoee intelli- gence enabled her realise utmost the position in which she now had irrevocably placed hi her she paced the floor with excited strides. It hide from herself the fact that she wae horribly, cravenly afraid of Og- den Van Lennop; for she recognized Deneath his cal xterior a quality which inspired fear. She was afraid of him as an individual, afraid of his money the power of his influence ff he chose to use them, for Dr. Harpe had brains enough, worldly wisdom enough, to know that he was beyond her reach, A hand upon the doorknob atartled her. Hastily she shoved the viass and bottle from sight and pulled herself together. “Oh, it’s you?” Her tone was not cordial as the Dago Duke stood be- her, “Did you think {t was your pastor,” inquired that person suavely as he the air, “come to remonstrate th you upon your intemperate habits?” “If you're here on business, cut it short,” she said curtly, “I cal imagine myself here on any other errand,” he returned placid- . “Bay, Doc’—there was a note in his wonderful speaking voice which made her look up quickly—“why don’t you give back that $5.00 and four bits ou pinched from Giovanna! Pel- lesz0?" The moment showed her able self-control. She coul overtaxed nerves jump, but muscle of her face moved. ela are you driving at?’ ahe de- manded. “Don't rush me, Doc. I have so few pleasure zoe know that, and the en- joyment I'm extracting from ur suspense makes me dosire to prolong it. You are anxious, you must admit that, although you really conceal {t well, But you're gray around the mouth and those lines from your nose down look like—yes, like irrign- tion laterals—furrows—upon my soul, Doc, res wn ten years older since remark. feel her note came in.” Her tense nerves seemed wuddent: to snap. Fh 8 bape ing deak with her open palm, an H 1 won't etand thts! I don't have to stand it!” jeisurely. Non y3u don't have bat but er Neve I wou! were you. The fe, Doo, I di in merely to make @ little deal wit! 5) “Blackmail!"* ‘The Di Duk purring, feline softness which was more emphatic and final than any, loud-mouthed vehemence: “I want you to tell Soe smere Soak you passed two men Ing on & from Duboie's sheep-camp—two In- dians or ‘breeds’ in moccasins—and I want you to do it quick! “You want me to perjure myself and you ‘want me to do it quick’! bas) mimicked. oe ie no attention. “T want you to help clear that girl; if you refuse, Giovanni Pellesso swear out a warrant for your rrest, charging you with the cee jor a ailence. She said finally: “Do you imagine for a moment that an ignorant foreigner can get arrant for me on such @ charge?” “If we fail in this,” continued the Dago Duke evenly, “there's the case of Antonio Amato, whose band the nurse, acting under your instructions, pr. held after thrusting a pencil in his limp fingers and signed a check when he was dying and unconscious. Which check you cashed after his death, in violation of the State banking laws, from which perhaps even you are net exempt if this man's relatives choone to nt, you to account for arity. Nell Beecroft came, knew enotigh about yon both to ‘ bs over the road.’ It is not too dif- cult to bring to light the examples of poet incredible incompetency which prove you unfit to sign a death certificate, nor is your record in Ne- braska hard to get.” ‘The sneering: emile she had forced faded as he talked. It was like the Geliberate voice of Prophecy, 4 ing pictures whioh he had seen in waking nightmares that she called the “blues” and was wont to drive away with a drink or @ social call outelde. The Dago Duke threw up his hand MS characteristic fore! 5 concerned; it was the real beginning “Ww: to the me was useless to attempt to di grasped Kesie mn wrist a oe which left ite imprint for hours il you!” ‘The tense fingers were curved like ates! hooks as she sprang for Kesle Tisdale's slender thi but even as the girl shoved ber chair between them a masculine voice called “Esther” and @ rap came upon the door. Doctor Lai gnt adel arms 4 to her eide and she clutched fandtule of her ekirt as she struggied for self- walked ewiftly to the The tower- man to @ % ‘The girl turned and sald with care- ful _distinctness: “You have been #o occupied of late that you have not heard the news. My ‘Mr. Richard Kincald—Dr. Hi CHAPTER XXIV. — He lifted hie shoulders, ane Your reputation or Kesie Tis- The name seemed to prick i gol Her hands one “4 deci as moves, ly mon & com: impulee the lesser of two evils.” Care! care—I'l it He eyed her again with a recur- rence of Bie impersonal professional copution. Gavask ou can't go through it, Doo; ce kaon mre) nny sore, a I haven't hall ( ve mo personal grievan know, but the wro: ne of my countty= men are my wrongs, and for your pearaiey, to them you shall answer to me. t it u will, but when you're done you'll not disgrace your ~ ssion again in this or any other wi this scene was occurring in Dr. Harpe’s office Andy P. Bymes in tn unopened letter trom Mudge 0 er from Mu Even Symee’s confident asourances that the complete failure of the Home- seekers’ Excursion was relatively a mall matter, could not entirely erad- feate from the minds of Crowheart’s The Sweetest Thing in the the, processic: World. R. HARPE etanding at her |) Eee curled and dressed at ten in the morning, trip down the street bearing a glass of buffale berry jelly in her white-gioved hands, while Mrs. Percy Parrott sitting erect in the Parrott’s new, second-hand sur- rey, drove toward the hotel, carefully protecting from accident seme prised package which she held ta her lap. Dr. Harpe could not see Mrs. Abe Gingerly across lots Of baked ‘beans and as though she had been running & istance. He saw, too, the desperation ie lig eyes. “Give mea little— ime!” The Dago Duke's tone was one of easy friendliness. “All you need, but don’t forget the suspense is hard on Essie Tisdale.” CHAPTER XXIil. Essie Tisdale’s Moment. NOTHER intelligence, a new } fre fpnveetlyg ng Personality looked through ‘Tutts, but Dr. Harpe knew from what Dr. Harpe's familiar fea- she already had seen and from the tures. A grayish pallor had cast at the windows settled upon her face, and her neck, by the simple turning of her head, had the lines of withered old age. Her lips were colorless and dry and drooped in a kind of sneering cruelty, while her restless, glittering eyes contained the malice and desper- Dic! ation of a vicious animal when it's cornered. The uneasiness and erratic movements of a user of cocaine was in manner. @ was a look of evil upon her eg org A Felled—for the frat time—and when of he cor least rd to community, an a uld I for uarrel. ¥, sippi with ite She climbed the stairs 0 her offies f 4 r in a kind of nervous frensy. She fel * like screaming, like beating upon the black-walout timber which walls with her bare fists, Inaction stituted the Anancial was no longer possible. She must do Kincaids. The little something, else this agony of uncer- tainty and suspense would drive her mad. She strode up and down at a pace which left her breathless, clench. 5¢ ing and unclenching ber hands, while thickly, between eet teeth, she raved at Essie Tisdale, upon whom her be | Ht ule fj bd Bo FY G “I've made her suff her, but there's soms that I haven't crushed iafied; I haven't done enough. I want to break her epirit, to break her heart, to finish her Yor all time!” She groped for the door knob as one searched who sees dimly, and all but ran down the corridor. Even as she went the thought flashed through her mind that she was making a fool of her- self, that she was being led an impulse for which she would be sorry. But she was at a pitch where the voice of caution had no weight; she ‘wanted what she wanted and in her heart she knew that she was going to ¥ Essie Tisdale with the intention of t leaped onigeoey ih. Nothing lees pstotend . her. Yet, when the door pleture ‘wi we up someceee fo ee Neem Oe the single clue to her identity. we eee eck 0 valine of tha Dags Dune’ con: “Hello, "She stepped a cold, bit into the dimly lighted corridor fhe strangers and the girl all but shrank from the malice glowing In ker eyes. She stepper door behind her. Dr. Harpe looked at her searching- . ‘There was a change in Kasie Tis- le. She bad a new confidence of © trust, Nell others, were spectres that sleep from her strained eyes. band seemed stretched across forehead. Bome one whistled in the corridor. She listened. “Farewell, my own Gear Farewell to . Farew Thee’—— How she bated th: jong! The Dago Duke was coming for his answer. He stood before her with his hat in his hand, the other hand resting on his hip smiling, confident, the one long, black lock of hair hanging nearly in hie eyes, He made no com. ment, but she saw that he was noting the ravages which the intervening hours had left in her face. He fumbied in his ket for a paper which he handed hez to read. “It's always well to know what you're signing.” he aid, and he r face as her eyes followed the lines, with the intent Kr imper- ‘4 sonal scrutiny of @ specialist study- cha ing his case. ‘Haven't I yet made it clear to you he looked, as she read, like that I care no more for your friend- that has been propped to ship than for your enmity? Do you sitting position, with nostrils eunken imagine that you can frighten Iiking, Her hand after the occasion id when she raised reel “There's one thing I can do—I can her eyes they looked ae though the make Crowheart too hot to hold you!” iris itself had faded. The Dago Duke Her grip on herself was going fast. seemed abso: he cyrious effect. Essie Tisdale stood ue and, folding He could hearthe dryness of her her arms, drew herself to her stim mouth when she asked at last: height while she looked at her in con- “You expect me—to put my name— jence. te this?” tm Crowheart fs of no} = He inclined his head. importance to me. But"—her voice “It is—impossibie!” out like finely tom ateel—don't He replied evenly: me too far. ‘t forget that I “Tt ig necessary,” you for what you are—e moral “You are asking me to sign my own like Gente warrant” ‘Tisdale welcomed her coming. Cer- tainly her assurance and animation were strangely at variance with her ‘lous position. What had hap- Nagel, ? Dr. Harpe intended to learn 2 before she had left the room. “Ess, ‘tronizing drawl, “why don’t you pull your freight? T'll ad- vance you the money mysel “Run away? Why?" “You're going to be arrested---that's @ straight tip. Yuu may get off, but think what you'll have to go through firet. Skip till things simmer down, They'll not go after “Why should I, since I am inno- cent? Take @ vacation yourself, Dr. Harpe. with money you so gen- erously offer me, You need it.” She turned uron her flercely— “Look here, Esa, if you want to be friends with me, and hav dt aan oe, office window saw the fra a #35 ‘ : 5: eg cht dow and shake the latched door. “Let me in!” It organs threw the catch back hard. “Yea, Dr. Harpe, I'll let you in. I've business with you. For the firat time in my life I want to see you.’ His tone was BC ii eg eer hee fe laid his huge “avo, ebalt. der and thrust her sMGowering, above her in the faced, loud-voiced fury of @ man who has lost his self-control, wea want uu to met out!” want yor He stopped, choked with the vio- lence of his feelin nd in the pause which followed she sat looking up at him unmov The shock seemed to her. § ined--do you understand?’ ae he Bhe winced under his “The smash was due id the wows me fear in her face op,” he reiterated, “Van Lepnop that you've made my enemy to fs tity apite and jealousy, CHAPTER XXV. “The Bitter End.” DHE ain't here,” Nell Beo- ct) iS ] croft, with arms akimbo, } blocked the hospital door. J “Upon your honor, Nell?” She looked the sheriff squarely in the eyes. “Upon my honor, Dan.” She saw the doubt lying bebind his look, but she did not filnch, “When she comes, No,” on second thor Ti be back.” He ta) pocket of hie coat i ll was a peremptory 1h you're t showed my'hand, Shot to i : i i 4 Bs i i ze gf i ‘a i i i E H E j ri, i i i ie of ts fl nla af i i t i E i i iu Ht i i if ¥ f : j i i [ te tf E Y ge ‘ Ss i F i it i 5 f i Hl E 5 if 3 i ? ik i x f td | ts bir Fete i i t i ti “ i i ti : iy ite COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD cry Bess Fi | i i it if Hf d i ij j i i fi ip hae ; : te i] ie | E if g i ihe i t J v ie ae HH i te ef i 3 ‘ i i H eff E ta ij f a : i é i brought @ rush of tears ‘They were still moist when ard Kincaid ap fy yea twinkling‘above a and bundles which he & Fr i Z 2 5 [ i "What's has happened?" He packages and went to her She threw her arms about his neck and laid Be x. breast while she sobs of tears and lai m so happy! happy! Uncle Dick—that's all. And ful, tov. want to cry, and so happy it f g H H f i a I love you so much af fs i ‘ ef i i i i Tf 7 | Next Week’ AFOOL AND HIS MONEY By George Barr MeCatcheon The 62 ploits. of @ young New Yorker who buys a roman tic German casile and finds he has us- knowingly acquired @ lille lo mystery and trouble as well rye + $