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le The Evening World Daily Magazine. Thursday, June 8, epson a oneennnnngnyg ‘ Z AAS ut Gs Py THER EFRON RI “ (Such Is Life Ae, By Maurice Ketten| | ost F _ Were possessed by FRANCOIS VILLON. the a ee 7 SUNTAIN ROMANCE | — — loved vagabond poet of France. All his lova- OF ATIGHTING RAILROAD BAN 4 LET'S SEE THAT. ALL RIGHT DEAR How ble brilliant qualities are brought out vividly in “vy FRANK L. PACKARD |. TeRRiaLE ! § By FRANK L. PACKARD ; ANE AGN ERENT Sete ininsie rade deeks MRA REAM HIRI thing, and they dou't know I have | PHOTO. DRAMA disappeare e returned, “They dunk Tb d for the nigit. THE GLORIOUS RASCAL By JUSTIN HUNTLY M’CARTHY (ow Frame AM AYNereiE OF PRECEDING ty OMows And they won't find out anything — THe — , i Seal eal Ss about ubiear tation’ hapeens (© | PAURDER of NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD You will be thrilled by the flashing of sword and color in this fascinating story of ROMANCE AND ADVENTUR payroll tins t " y the ead of the sang “Sain?” Met fesrenine famine teen a beer 7 ' Sani is the porter. I locked him ISARELLA ' in the stateroom,” she explained. “I IN AN am quite sure that that is what is ICE OX with Meson. Me Towa sound ruby tar in his off and Mason's ping them.” “Well—granted,” admitted Larry; | they are not likely to catch Gtnnot and you mustn't”— ‘Al derstand, Mera, that, stripped of ail “Dad!” ne reached the da fen ota A Stot pein aaany wot THE REAL HEART aa a, tha pped o! ad!" as he reached the doorway. alive. ry beats off the obstructing — He turned I'n going to stop that train w: and abetting in Widing Inoue it | BREAKER the law and aiding she, asserted quietly, - comes along,’ pe of a criminal” Tt suddenly with tears. a ele at him again, is not a criminal!” she bir | s you, dad!" she said. Larry came up on his elbow. 1, defiantly, "I know he is not! He She awitched off the sug fhe hysian's “But you must stop that train!” he f innocent matt! light, and lay down fully dressed on ee witacher eried, “You can’t stay out here alone while her fatoer and Supt. Pel. in the jountain: ni $ Fase eihrurte Shee Ie etna Wace Ce DeRTS Sri ysianeene All night! Tt te the that Sor murder but sesauut and robery la tie ONT way know he is not?’ Mr. Peles the bed. And over and over in her | noff's bushy eyebrows Went up and mind she rehearsed the scenes of the his forehead furrowed night gharge ane momfuliy"ordere ‘him to "ve gone; | But now the alr of ightness left | “Oh, T know what mean!” she = Her mind ran on—she was con- Harry later overrmwets the telegrap! her suddenly, as she forced him gent- exclaimed, tensely. w should I sclous that after a while the train had i ly back on to the ground, Heo abwat v9 Tea the nest freight, train “a ‘you big, brave, foolish man"—her | gf the care the face of Sasana, s voice choked a littie—"do you think [| faging from arrest. Lars boards anthesis would leave you like this!’ Why, yo! imber leag it to 8 u'd probably die before morning. 7 “But I tell you I'll be all right after k fellowy” There is a contilet, routed and Larry ja wounded. * Me 4 ereape on a hind-ear, dresse his wound and a little rest,” declared Larry stoutly. Taken a dangerous ride @ith bim down the moun “1 know. i'm a lot better now. I won't let you stay!” | know that he is innocent just because stopped, and sie knew they had he, perhaps, told me? Well, he did reaghed the station beyond Passnock. | tell me wo! And [ belleve him. Hels Thon, @ lit later, she heard her guiltless! I think it must have been father enter his stateroom, which was bia tine, strong face that m me do the next one to hers. what I did the first time he ‘% It was perhaps ten minutes after “phe first time he came?” echoed that that she sat suddenly upright | Mr. Pelenoff ina startled way, “What on the bed, as the door at the forward what do you mean, Mera?” end of thy car opened, and an instant “I don't see how you are going to La after » he amiled inserutatly. ward the footsteps of two men CHAPTER XV. prevent it,” she said softly. rOn, Tm going to tell you,” she aatd. outside in the corridor pasued het own (Continwed.) ode eny or i ha gel te ata Not ‘where he 1s, you know—that door, Sho listened intently. A mur- Ho tabl veilf, Zou won't signal the train, for |wouldn't be fair to you. But I've got mur of voices came to hor from the woma lemma. z iw at “oi have only to Ito make you help me. I'm your direction of the living-room eom- ae tire a few shots from my revolver as daughter, and you'll have to protect partment “ ATER?" ho repeated per- it comes along. They'll hear It. \eer won't dad?” She got up, opened her stateroom plexedly. “Why did you | “Which would Oui Gua | eye) mean,” gasped Mr. Pelenoff, door softly, and stole out along the do that?" Ted, CC “that—_that there's something more to corridor, One of the men was Fel- 5 ‘ my verry did not answer. | hia affair? Something that I don’t ton, of course, for no one else would hy do you suppose?” She spoke again: | rendy know?” havo tho right to enter the car, and she countered lightly. “In other words, I am to have my| [eane nodded, she was almost sure that she had “Dia uit J choice between leaving a wounded oy an tell you that T was an ex: nan out here alone in the mountains, pert at ‘tirst-ald’ work? or of handing him over-—to prison.” Conscious for the first time of a “There iy no other way!” Larry's } "Ad she announced calmly. recogatzed the volce of the other man J-on the way up from The Forks to who was there, evidently, on Felton’ Manloops, while Mr. Felton was tell- invitation. And then she was glut ing us the story of the robbery and she had switched off her Iight before Grateful coolness where before bis Voice was low. “I can’t let you stay | o t that state- | . fe . < lTeat with my back agains! a ying down, for it would have shone wound had been hot and feverish, Out here Tt cant Jet you do it aly | room door—he hidden inside, I out through the broken door. She Larry slipped his hand inside his shirt gow! NEVER AGAIN ! No MORE For ME Fas him, got off at Manloops. I'm See eee other man was to find his side neatly and tightly She broke a long moment's silence IND OF beast . * py, r i * bandaged, ve got you Into a _"To-night, It seems as though it Aare He FR SnOY LIFE 1S SAD ENOUGH [Swnati" Me. Pelenoft eat down She recognized Felton’s tones i ; were a year ago,” she sald almost to > WITHOUT CRYING ~ | anzedly on the edge of the bed again, going back on No. § when brutal mes#!” he burat out bitterly. perself, “I called you @ thief and p “Good Gor ejaculated Mr, Pelenoff she comes along. | advised it myself-- “God knows, I’ drove you from the car after I had AT THE SHOW IT'S Fuct oF in earnest perturbation, & Iny-over at Angel. We don't want Her fingers lay across his lps. heard Mr. Felton's etory. I would THRILLERS |" Mera nodded her head again, ; oy eee ot Ber kind of thing—gives Was : fot ilaten: to your story <hen—will “and #o you see,” she added com- road a black eye. We can't do “Let's find the way out, then,” sha ait wae cewee ‘piacently, “that, as they aay here in any work around here with a wpman amiled. “You can't stay here on the ” have no proof,” he answered ‘America, I'm tn ‘good and deep’; and on board while any of that Masseno track. They'll be coming to try and did not ask for proof,” she said now--so are you.” aa wang are still at large, One narrow find you, won't they?” “I've had my lesson too late, 1 |""Mr. Pelenoft’s fingera twisted nory. aquenkia enough” i: “Yes,” he sald. guess,” he said slowly. "My temper's Jously at hia beard, then at hie watch | "Well. then, in that case I'm going Her forehead 1 at me Into trouble all my life. X told chain and then back at his beard back with you,” ane heard the sberift rehead wrinkied in pretty you that I thought I had killed Ma- jagain. ‘The bis, dr ells Pelco growl. perplexity. fon to-night. Te is true that 1 am | Meee Ue. ginny Parsons can look after the “I don't see why you ever le the one who knocked him out; and dt vexatio! . 8 prea y you over let them fhe vue that otherwise ail this could | cMutebut this ts an absolutely un- men here. I'm going back to. look now—I mean Mr, Felton-—that you never have happencd. Yew, I'll tell tenable position!” he burst out fnal- after—that gir! A fist crashed sud- intended to take the hand-car.” she you,” | SHOOTING ‘iy. “What am I to do? ine ane Say CO EI Ld Sry Of wicker sald slowly. “You might almost as And then, still slowly at first, the RRILLINGS Keep tne tony” she replied father can't do anything with Wi well have given yourself up on the story came: but presently he began | with thelr quem nt as well; for oh? Well, tt had my way, she'd talk Aa to speak orm tapldly “Until @agerly, | fom | |ProMPHy. vt not auswer them, but damned fast. And because she's the On the contrary,” sald Larry, a Passionately. immersed in It all nim. not only Yo do everything Loan to daughter of who she ts I can't do ia sce self, unconscious of his own fine ear- 12,4? vnnuigan from being anything, eh? Well, theres more tle grimly, “I wanted them to know, nestness, his life from his boyhood |ererene, ae ways than one. 1 tell you, Felton, aha only I didn't expect to go off in a lay bare before her. She did not str: | enue tut! ‘This is altogether too knows where Lannigan ts. There fainting spell. It would have worked Shé did not turn her head to look at lquinatic, too—too"—— Words fail- ain't a doubt of tt! The man was ail right but for that.” him. Sometimes bis eyes sotight ber QUIKOLNe, toe his arms helplessly, wounded; he couldn't have got very face, more often he spoke staring, as |! 0 waved more and again be- far alone. What's become of him” “What do you mean?” she asked, she stared, straight before him. He [jumped up once mort ateroom Moor, It's @ ten-to-one bet she fixed him 1 “It was almple enough,” Larry ex- camo to the end, and there bis voice . Han to wiat on earth have you done? somehow defore whe showed hersci? | plained. “The Passnock River swings dropped again sarannely, Pash se apts want you. te Angel. I don't know how—but I She began to wave her arms fran- She flung his hand away florcely, @® +4 iman actually seems to have If we could find that hand-car |! | around again in a half cirel 4th “IT meant to find the man who stole Help us to m eomewhere wi will, and”—— tloally. Nearer tt came—nearer, Im- #he threw back her head. tracted you--there appears to be @ would help some. The men are goins f in in @ half circle, and the ,,/1 meant to And (ne manar mysoif, Ne Will be safe, I'll pay you well for “Hop on there, mies!” broke nm the cy a hae ast the ,“Don't you dure to touch met" ahe yroat deal of the personal element back again over every inch of thn right of way crosses it a second time (eee st ee te eM phat it—anything you ask—if we can de- rancher sharply. "I figure we've got Pulse Urged her bl da dag) flashed out, “You've had my anawer, Beat see right of way from here to Passnock a balf mile this side of the station”. would end the whole thing. I was Pend upon you agg to,move smart. ‘ track; will power made her stand her Jr's the only one you'll ever get! Now. “There is," she declared ingenu- as soon a it's daylight—and sh “E ken 4 ia oe eee ee nel ag ween aa they "Cert!" growled the man. “If “Go on, then,” she sald, “I'm not ground, told her that her fears were stand ade, and father!” Tene hould rag his’ damn {t, ehe knows where he 4 ow,” she nodded. “We crossed 80'NK Ee there's any one hurt there, T'll sure going with you.’ ue The big Tt fae fh hh ously. “That a man show , ei a al! ea be ‘i Viet up a bit on the chase—I think ; jy be baseless, that there was always time ig Russian had burst through fif, for mine is a very personal thing the time! By God, Felton, I call tha tee) ge 80 fast that I was terri Inet ls there. Hed have no reas [ehd.A hand. But what you mean by | "You ain't? he ejaculated in so ss away if it ald not atop the crowd and caught her in his arms. (5° je, a bit too thick! I'll teach her to hand mi re. He dbs d ‘depend’ is another matter, 2 ; — ap away | © was holding her close to him, pat- ‘., ne “E only Intended to go that fa DO cl kere tae el i ee ar t mixin’ up in any phony busi. I'm going to signal the train—tt | Her arms dropped to her siden {ing her head that ne had. deawn peti, at thats of course—he me the laugh before I'm through! a Larry continued, “I was going to ‘ i ne hat are you doin’ out here in will take me back.” Tho engine stopped a few feet away down upon his shoul kissing her, DUbshee 4 . hand. ded un. e hi car the mountains alone with a wounded nh! Is that right, Larry?” de- from her-—ind on the instant, it © t tp ‘s with an impatient wave of his hand, volce respon: un- tier che brides into tho iver ‘they ,'You pave fought pretty hard, man manded Wilson, In a sort of stunned seemed; n docen men were running cried brokeniy, “Younk Gedethane “But you know what | meaa—rour CE AC AA hl) 4 haven't you--to keep them from cap- “I know," she answered; “It must bewilderment a 2 . position, you me pretty long strings. follow and run slow, looking for “he , . ; ™ toward her ! Sheriff Lat laughed 4 ; turing you?”—ber voice was scarcely seem very strange to you, but I'M As though to prompt his reply lton's voice reached he Yes, I aa a “I know quite well what you meat ing laughed } enacpin iby aie side ct tis crane Silas he'll explain, ['m—I'm’ sure we can nd closed over Larry's It's Miss Pelenoff, all ri One ont ane eet ok totes sho oald scftly, “There is only one unpleasantly, “Khate Just what I'm ; 3 ‘There was no other chance for trust you-can't we?” Aa AB thks at ; e only take back to ea eg gs te th, no mat. Koing to be—careful to #ee that eho where I would have deserted it, either ¥ of you tell her father—quick now, father,” she pleaded. nawer to that, No wom ni O ane me,” h id. “Humph the man inted, ; it's t m1 vay,” Larry nor! i “Het ; * A en don't get away with it! It's her next Decause they were preasing ine 100 ™and’now iam to take that chance " RERATUaltetL RAC Rotate AN YETI ela doLten en: TG Mice ne > HEU RETA et oom sorry, Mr Pelenott,” Sherif Yitof’ that position or lowered It'be: move~at Angel. And I'l be there to near’ the next station weet of thie ®Way from you—or else leave you easy! But lead the way, young "Then we'll wait and see that sho Felton forced his way through tho Laing interposed; “but, for some rea- Cvuw of her interest in an honeat check It! Bee?” Bee Ee owt wouldnt dare run here. Well, I will not do it! I-1'll woman, and we'll have a look at him. makes it all right,” sald Wilson, group of men, son or other, your daughter refuses jun; no woman, no matter what her Mera crept back to her stateroom— tr. Fey Kno Maan't your Ite over ABHt pretty hard myself before I let We'll talk about the trust end of It "No, No! No, ‘you won't!” Mera " "Yex," he answered a Httle shortly to answer any questions, or to fur- station, could reach higher than to a 4nd undressed tn the derk. seven miles between the two stations, them get you, because”-— after I've heard what it's all about." cried. “There's no telling what they'll “and ho's half mad with analety aan any information that, on the » and true gontieman, Wealth “I know what you are going to “No; I—I think | must make you suspect when they stop and find me. er cies y ‘ace of it, she must possess. I don't not buy one, does it? Nor does 4 when they got through the; about you. When we found you had iy f ~ ati be up in te alr, Tt Was as good "ho interrupted quickly, "Be- promise first''—her voice had grown You must be as far away As possible gone, he insisted that his car he ty \now whether Laniiooe te bong. wealth mike on i Bats ne’ use you think you owe me some- anxious, distressed, dismayed. “I—" by then Broun we o know whether Lannigan ts bang- — “Gracious heavens!” murmured Mr. ‘board. L pales Fo ane ye reer she ting for— “I ucss you've gone too far to quit “Well, protested the rancher Diane one te re oe oe §og around here or has gone on snoff weakly. “Has it gone as The Man With the Buckboard: cried in sudden inspiration. “The {No! HOW THIS ANG, bluntly, “Say, I don't like it! That's evidently of his brusquencss, he spoke TUrther. e far as that!” IN wicker lounging chaér eat Fete te eae ee or whatever it ia, She had turned toward him now. “Ben n Wilson!" Larry. was the limit of a way to treat a lady!" OY Utia more graciousive “Your are Why, Mera,” protested her father “Lam only replying to your argu- Mera, her brow puckered up sae oT aig but It's deep enough to THO great dark eyes were shining; shouting wildly at top of his “It's the-only way to treat a lady— Qn right, Misa Polenoft?, Not hurt? &6Btly, “surely you’ ment; and, for that matter, only re- iets pation geseveatie’. cover the hand-car, I know It is, be- ne ips were Syverites ber ince wa voice, Under Tiaae, SE SUmELAnEE aid ABs Quite sate?" ‘ “r Waar man disengaged herself poating what T have A you oy wrinkles. She alternated 4 ‘| w: umined, smiling tremulously into : swered quaintly and with a las “Quite—th SS Bee rom her father's arms. “I won't!" yourself many times,” she return ‘ oe Vollmbedi dawn te DRNk 50 ery his a CHAPTER XVI. quick pressure of her hand over an ank you,” sho reuponded gig cried passionately, and advanced calmly, | “As Nor it having ‘pone a8 : an abstracted gaze between er, No--but because I believe every : arry's, turned and ran toward the “°2h%' was quite here toward the lina of men that spread far as that, tt has gone this far: that the Little Italian boy, Tommaso Ingor- bs el erm was supporting him Word you have said I bel ved in on An Old Friend Appears. track, minvevadl ihe pt pe 9 amar he werons the track “What would you I have helped him, that you should bordino, and the uninepiring, butte- ine cal when you came to the the second T was Ben Wilson. one of t he train was coming. her j ort o} ont do--what would any of you do, v have helped him, and that) you iy if prebod nia qoulders, helping Mim off time to-night. I believ in sou mow. 1 ares en lsehs 238 ft the Hard! muattered the rancher 9 Pent tte yok dinpermonal way af inen— if he saved your life?” Sha inuat help. him new—because the aging, ig at the lower and quieter pS ORFs know you are guiltless. They shall not BROS a Eom alg + lessly, us he picked u sia APC Jae b reached out her arma implort simplest way to protect me from ¢nd of the Angel yarde—the sole and " be able to walk out ot its end— them—and, their faces in shadow, ™ ma imploringly , y r over those open, ties, you know,” ane set, you through me-—they shall nett’ Bon Wilson © tHendtnet wiloped Hila hore nie 2 salloD: the fieadilght miaying abave. them, He Ruel filne, Will you let me What sol aay aie he serious) }(Ouue OllaaNinen UaUtAG view siereee | eaid cheerily, “You must save your 4), 7 . O bs fe! TAyKy AIA Hak panier over their heads, there was something » ple a to Gata! hia innocenc: by the car window. : ghtly between both his own. It was 7 . - aarry did not reply. ile was try- 4 " do not admit him to strength to get down the srihenk: the only way of telling her. His voice Why hadn't he recognized ing to look buck, striving to fix hi *ntastio in the scene, is surest thing you know, mia!" | "But Io not a ad Tommaso, obviously conecious of ment and a little way from the track yo, en if ty that gruff, blunt, b d growl of @ eyes on the spot where she had dis= If you will be good enough to a voice, instantly, “You bet Q é Until the train goes by, T'll push the uld have broken if he had tried to i : P aa these ce to 1G) che eae ce, Wt It wan Poasiey, the en- "Then prove It to aatisty yourself!" the luxury of hie eurroundings to hand-car to the middie and drop tt "PERK, yo oom ghe eald, “that I “Home he. shouted, “it's Torin that RieMe “there nud ‘been Felton.” she eaid telly, “Twill go to EIN, and his torch hinged forward, “ho ureed. “He saved your life—end which he could not esccommodate over. am going to stay.” : Se PCRs — le and divmay and death and My father at once.” clearing @ way for her, "Get out of [nine Don't you owa him BI® himself, though It was by no means Came a loud splash, then @ cheery “te came up straight now into a sit- Mirry Lannigan nger, but out of them had come a “Just a minute, miss'~-a tall, dark- road there, you! I got a little ees his first vistt to the car, shifted un- shout, and she was running back tO «ng posture, though tt took all his There was a rush, like a bull charg- nger thing than all the @ eyed, sharp-featured man of middle pentane ve sate with Lannigan my- ne Bi hag jaca Mr peeneg easily «n another chair opposite to him ; through nicket, and then a xlad thing, and yet a eruel thing— topped up to her. “We're loo d you don't eet film through Deavily,, | Mere t Gent Know whee so | “And How you must get away froOM forcing himself to speak calmly, “It | "Eternally andeveriastingly damned of a man athirst to death that was on the hand-car from back there at Pies rou re & brave ttle kid, miag, WA2t me 10 Gor at ah , {na mirror, as he watched her, the | thos track, amongst those bushes hag made me atrong again to know Til be!” came the profane explosion, sWept AWAY again before he could Passnock. I don't want to keep you hn threw the engineers aieits ly, earnestiy, Soke ane said quick- pertarbation that was in her own, there, so that the headlight of the that you believe in me, I shall al- “For God's sake, what's wrong, Lar- drain tt, ‘There had come love to an unnecessary moment from your 0 throw the engineer a grateful '¥,, 0a! y " “Tommaso,” she said suddenly, im. engine won't show you to them ey TAME ES thin, ARACANG thane <7h) SUMO Landa sal inlet aaties RUT RAE Nene father, who, 18 Mr. Felton there has Mance: and, the way cleared for her, And then- what? : f DN at Hier arm went areund his shoulders Go. for—you,” body stuck you up? A pay-roll Job— — Just inside the fringe of b Aalde in beside himacit with ameicees ONO Fan, @ Mitte blindly, along the , Oh. I don't know yeti" she ao- petuously, “there's just you and I! again, supporting bim cana, LATEY too had caught a sound— eh that hid her from the road Mera bUt every minute, If the follow ia frack fide Past the engine and toward Boetatet, hore te ce eries ower, What ore we going to do?” “Thank you," he said hoarsely: andy distant rumble. ‘The train! No! It “Yes,” said Larry, and emiled faint- paused to watch the buckboard out around here, is valuable, and Tam "ay cere “Something, Thi s another reasoa — -Tommaso's eyes flashed with 4 Sheriff Tat y he whould i tacy pas then, forcing the words from bin UPS: was from the other dirsction and iy. Some ono lifted threo thousand of sight, sure you can help us angrily bebind hor tee anariad omit Nhat ta that?” inquired Mr. Pela- #!0n. and his hands clenched, Cetcby te she atared at him ane from aM eee. Med ahaa they eee te cknmel,f0° | With @ deafening roar the train Mora, her way blocked, looked the command: a “We will kill the Signor Laing, who 4 _iapcauiae you musk fo, back, am, {3 sgon of some sort.” lin waid toar from the rancher. “Who Say8 curve, of course, that hid ita littia | "Twas not ‘carried off by any one," nd, Thene WAR 8 Art Ot Dont hat ald that tt was evidence of her distraught your. wrap soon you see LCR spar pnd ic Bag Var. TO ervbody sald Larry. “Andon qy4) weer sebae Sha ramembered sha mswered ¢ ad Y. I went of my CHAPTER XVIII road men that existed nowhere elae— State of mind that she should answer headlight. They'll stop for you.” ere. there Md Vale | “Everybody.” sald Larry. “And on that sho had held her breath, fearing own wocord, ax I preferied the hand ER . M you were prouder of being a rail. the boy's wild outburst seriously } “And yOu she asked, with a bald jwaers here: ere one OF two: The Orie Wy ia eB — every moment that t ey would ups oar to minds ed by thosa ruf- Forewarned. re ud man than anything else. Well, “That Would not do any good, Tom Ct Lt Neither spoke, ‘The sound of the after me—it'il be along now in & curve on the handcar ‘ Well, we won't argue t." re Taisa Ania ihavlancinia@ine WHO loveR f Mori nd (hana masse. Some on would take his Pett Ge Mil Palit he anawered (he. unspe ken question | (til be along just st minute 100 tie to them! Why should she? ‘They Was on the hand-car with you NAA Tin ea Nicaea he bractical side of it, Just as You were, again to the wide It was the Will vou?) And what of the train My ee As 4 e a graft Would question her, of course and {nterestat He's: wounded, T unde . heel ng dad, when you were working your third aftertoon since the car had been stopping here and fin me apn Sia simply, | te It Was Mera who spoke rp hang She would refuse to ar r, what. stand. Want far as the private car, She heard wider experi- brought back to Angel i ‘rhes'il think 7 let you of here | BA she Reslieted—"'suppase tt isid anxiously on the ranchers mecye, Sve? {he consequences, That wan all. got? Tid he have ta atop have, 9 her father following har, where you are ne atanch ally and confident that Ise gone on with the hand cay." SOU be Some one wine ene Then—then you will help him Lf abe could enlist her fathe nocounts f ring here? Or did calling to her, as he elimbed aboard Was this boy of fifteen sary, bur I'm not #0 sure! straight over to the poltes?” “Help him!" “Wilson stared. at Sympathy and. co-operation, or, !f you Ket away from lim? Or did be “yy Ri) Bet U8 le CMMI Alo tur Edo not know these things — ‘The net reault had been that, white Pa Sala ae wena “EI have to take that chance,” he wyqielP him! not that, induce him in some way let you off and go on himself?” a clo in any MiOEAC Chinn Ol ROM TNAL Rein Lasiy's cocardlak t/ Pallrona man ait i ground beside him and clasped her “aid quickly, “Fut.” he added grim- could Hoomin’ to return to Angel! She must get t Tam afraid you will have to ask Switching on the light inno objected Mr. Pelenott, won her father's frank admiration bands calmly around her knees: Wy there's only one or two of them Rocky Mountains and walked off with An&*L She had given her promise else." “They baven't found him!” she “Hut jo!" she cr joyously. the evidence against him only stood Mee aot do ansthiug of the "Eley went fem for all of me! You go ahead and {hat she would. What she would do one else? What do you erted And | know you Will help me. Don't out the blacker, the more conclusive kind, of course!” xhe announced with fie toon ee her geet, ho it te" ane KeeP the branches out of nis tee, Wneres what she could do there, she mean ; ‘ “You moan that he ls here?” hep YOu think f can read that dear old She had, accompanied by her fath placid finali if | wanted to get I'll go then, and gee who It 18," ahe while 1 carry him to the buckboard. Aid not know-only that it waa at That I dectine to answer" anid | y Ey heart of yours? { knaw you would! gone to see Maxon, the paymaster Be eae sa HAR eta fle Miles cstistevat steresca escheat Cr AMRGE: RAOUA TD Mid thon Angel that thera lay any hope M ily father asked, quickly Thier. vou WOuld!” Vou Afar ech RARORRAT Gene TARIOURd CEO ene f train went by ott nly two miles.” ahh a . phe ner Pa) jay Iso n happy relief BUCCORS, here! 6 vords came “I don't mean that he ta hare or to oxpital to his board rouse. That “No! he id almost. flercely, (08 bushes we she forced her wa Then hurry!" s Urged, pressing , Sh@ cried out middenly aloud. ‘The 0 f ha : f-amaned t he tentt he paid: quit lame to have a bad en the day betore yesterday pio!” he wuld ulmost Aeccely. throughs rd the rattle of tho gig arm gratefully agli “Listen: heMdlight’s ray, ewaeping around the expoxtulation. "i'm Sherif® Laing, Ait he Ieete’ ane malts auite We aie node he interrupted hurriedly BOR ie aT mere eartens r Ane Hote alent opnas him The rancher stooped hastily cown Maze of light to before have found nothing that sheriff, thar to a@ very ob- sort of Anal, deciding ipon her | dant: (athe thes Areata: now: Ci eeD aa ce Rout clearly. ayor furry —— this ev rather “It Is a very serious offense In the durate and incomprehensible daughter father. Smothered in ba , the don't think they are there ni Mae Aidit atSocae beanie | 7] i mdiclously. lve n WON cheney MAM, AtopRed AOrUptlY ‘aa UD you come, sont” he orled and CHAPTER XVII au i Wt eyen of the law,” he inaiated, gently. “ho flaunts t his face.” paymaster had ferked himself up in | iy ing what Was delaying the Shevif€ yeyued on to its. hau A ee ne Larry in tis arm lowe « y fut this won't do, ing lady!" fay pales Nineeas Her arms went around his neck doand had sh h in a count for it is that they waited to iment thro ia Hla OR ne Pang thiiw = ect tha \ a n le fo romisa me," she whispered ary alone overcam his phyasteal a a ar A tw at ihe tral a i ‘ nthe Maa th might Lebel aa rt good jis engins aimed. fish 4 1a line 4 she re » no doubt but wha Well, w ae tle kissed weakness. She could hear the man ey wouldn't uit f i z yo Saal ee t upon her, within a few fee “ ' wo t not that Lam a her affectionate nf walked toward scream out in bis rage now aaa you had disappe: Atrio D pas AER YS ' ra ae by the h f where she stood He stepped quar t foreign official and a guest-and nae oor, “Ho to: hed, how, Mee T hope they get him: Look at mat } objected i track Badly: wounded,” Larry ‘heard oy ' a ca arin a n year on Vve been through a terrible night.’ Damn him! [hope he spenda the reas “But they are walting for some. he: a | HAP Hu IEE & though: lt wae very mas In that man here not know to whut extent aven my po- ~ She watehed Him croas the states of his life in prison for this ! 5 w peak apidly, “f'n yards away angrily @ition will protect you. You must un- room. (To Be Continued) i) { ‘ q = ~ . t - ewe noeree