The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1916, Page 15

Oll Field Fight i a By FREDERICK B. BECHDOLT 04 Pires ares ~~ eeiloped away in @ cloud of tied them watil they bad the some of & low oe et blue when ete mgt we four: tpamn afternoon he strove to recount venture to Kyan and to Mart, iy enough, Bprechios had fore a the mention of Hart's name. juet hows b finally re marked, “one of thom aoye something about you, Mr. Mart Hart bo knew ho w Homething ecratehed hls od at him eurlonaly; be around bere ut you.” Bpreckies 4“) was tellin’ her ab about the work, and (hen ehe baye ivan bad lopped the engine, and Vd stopped ty unfasten the longs. Loosen (vat red, The tool drowmer. gave him & despairing look, but nelaed « n-po sud sledge and openen the trapde’, whiek led into the cellar, In this ten-foot cave under the der- rick floor lay @ thick, Ineclowing ring, fitted With several wedges, The * trivanoe supported th ry] fishing job began, Law809 droppin treo in the hole, Mprocked rdiy slept, and Hart found deparie footy we loosen those . himself often in the tower at Wedges with bis sledge, and then ro. i wo that it lo midnight, until ten days la the whole etring of casing gown, Tor pulled back the tovle. After the new length, The tool @resser 1 @rilling went for a month, wita CHAPTER XIII. Below the Trapdoor. MM repairing of the derrick went to completion, The ere, Hg thy vy trapdoor, Kyun stood wit t ap * only ‘minor mishebe, ‘The = ta whieh controlled tee senate becca thi 2,060 feet, when Bpreckies, the tool for a signal, before he started tho dresser, took « momorable day off aod machinery. adventure, sounded a queer, muffled énolamation, . ied Ox _ Ha allied in tbe cook house one Thon soft thump. ‘Then silence, evening, after Nyar bad gone back to = yan waited for a moment. We derrick. He jerked his head mys- teriously to Hart, and when the lat- ter had followed bim outside beyond large, grave face became puri iy Abruptly he started toward the trap- door, ane. Hitting on the lasy bench, Hart earshot of the other men: ae big driller say: “Something “Bay, Mr. Hart it ty into Hart's eyer—"I've just got to 4 yan vanished through the trap. take a day off and see how Kern- field's gettin’ on.” Hart laughed. For somo time now, ever since he had gone back on after- noon “tower,” Kornfield had been an @ver-present topic with Spreckles. “How much money do you need?” | He asked the queetion, »miling, but hig smile couceaied worry, for In wages Spreckics bad $300 to his ac- Hart had been thinking of Jean, During this month she bad written him only three letters, and these let~ tera were all cool, He every wook, te he work, every hope, id every fear; and telling her of bial He had sald no word of thetr He had waited for the day she would relent, when con- t would vanish, and the old warmth of love return, It had been punishment, and his mind had gone count. to her at all hours, Durin, i 1K Spreckies’ The tool dr © returned the smile. talk ho had hardly Matened ‘Now, “Twenty dollars will do mo fine.” He went on swiftly: “I'm aiming to take $260 of what's comin’ to mo in stock, © But I just got to slam a gold pleco ~ on one o' them bars! And hear some ragtime, too.” Bo it camo that Spreckles journeyed to Kernfield the next day; and Hart took his place during one tower. For Hart was becoming accustomed to all manner of emergencies; and was earning many things about this busl- mess from the bottom. Of his visit to the town Spreckles mever gave more than a chaotic ac- count. It was on his trip home that vaguely, it came to him that some- thing was going wrong. The details of what had just happoned—Spreckles going Into the cellar; the curlous cx- clamation; the soft thump; then Ryan's disappearance—these thin, crept into his mind, He came ba to_the present with a jerk. Ryan had gone. Below there was & noise as of a heavy body scraping over the earth; then a hoarse, amoth- ered shout. Hart sprang from the lazy bench, As he Was running to the trap, he cauggt a glimpse through the derrick. house door of two figures on hors back galloping toward him, a qua ter of a mile away. He pald no hood to that sight. He reached the trap and peered down, @dventure came. aeuey Se | was lurking _ there? He had just time for the From Sunset he walked that morn thought, Inatinctively he held his fag northward on the dusty wag- foad. It was hot, and Spreck- " Bad not tasted sleep the nigut He endured the bout, aud Gust, and the thoughts of ‘welve hours’ work ahead of hin; and all pleasure with a fuent, drying tongue. For him there have to breath as he descended by the ladder. Spreckles had taken @ lighted lan- tern down with him. But now the place was dark. Hart reached t earth. His foot touched sometht!i soft, He was boginning to take the breath which fear had made him withhold. He stooped to touch the thing on which he nad stumbled, It was the prostrate body of a man. He clutched the body and began to drag it toward the ladder, He re membered to hold his breath again. He struggled, holding the body tn his arms, half lifting it, half dragging it. Ho felt the pounding growing harder at his temples, Blackness came, He knew that he was falling, falling as through vast distances, Then a ter- rible blow smote him, and he knew no more. CHAPTER XIV. With a Woman to Aid. EAN had been riding In at- lence for some time; and for some time she had been deaf to the constant good natured chatter of the gold- enhaired girl who rode beside her. She had seen the off derrick from afar; lonely in the flat, saffron land. With her eyes fixed on that tower sho had seen the ending of a long struggle, Now, at the turning point of that battle with herself, she urged her horse into @ gallop. For a half mile the two animals clattered on, The derrick loomed taller; its timbers ehowed separately. Jean could see the great, thick walking beam, Her heart leaped. ‘The longing to see him had grown, Chance helped her, Virginia Henry wrote to Jean, a@ she had written every few months, ‘The annual tn- Vitation for a visit was included tn this letthr; an invitation which Jean had never thought of accepting. But this time Jean rqmembered in a vague way that the Hehry rancho was some~ where in the vicinity of the wildcat well, She determined to come thus and satisfy that yearning, Jean arrived at the Buena Vista Rancho in the afternoon, The next mornipg Virginia Heury knew some of the Nopes which were centred in that wildcat well, Then the two en- countered Spreckies by tho irrigating ditch, Now they were galloping thelr horses toward the derrick, When they drew rein besjde the tall, gaunt structure the place was silent, apparently deserted, A quoer, din- agreeable odor caused the two gira to sniff; @ heavy, sulphurous smoll. They sat for @ moment in their saddles, staring up at the summit of the tower, As Jean noticed that odor and sensed these things she felt a sudden clutch of fear, She frowned tn a half-frightened, half-puzzied = man- ner. happened? dismounted, Virginia followed hor with a ner- vous laugh, The two girls went hesl- tatingly to the derrick bogpe Vista Rancho, and Spreckles appointment with the , spamster for @ spot near the villages ke cluster of buildings which was the centre of that stock-raising on- . So, when he had gone five from Sunset, Sprockles took &@ aide road to the right, and he trudged through tho soft alkali dust until he reached the low range of Bills which separated the lake from the flat plain, He rested there, under a clump of Dushes beside a wide irrigating ditch. le romoved his shoes and socks, und thed his feet in the cool water, He began to feel better now. Tho memory of his pleasures camo back to him, clothed in brighter hues. He Whistled; then he began to sing. He heard somet behind him, and be stopped to fook around. His face stiffened; song froze on his lips. ‘Two young women on horseback Were regarding him, thelr faces two jctures of mingled amusement and plexity, That they were beautiful, that they were gazing down, through a sort of swimming, dazed mist, toward where his bared legs met the cool water, was all that reckles knew. ‘Then, vaguely, into embarrassment, words penetrat- @4. The one who uttered them had & mass of golden hair, As to the er, Spreckles saw tliat she was darkly beautiful; and that her faco Was grave. ‘Why, that's one of the new men now.” ‘These were the words spoken ‘by the vision with the golden hair, “Excuse mo, lady,” he muttered, “1 didn't know anybody was around “Vou are working on tho oil well f@ren't you?” the girl demanded. reoklow remembered her now; ho ween her once at Sunset; she right himself, was waitin’ for @ tule team. I n to town.” ‘The horses were »ecoming restive; 4 were moving to and fro, The jark-baired vision reined in hers, and iD.w sho spoke. “Are they working there to-day?” Bhe seemed to hesitate, then added: “All of them?” Spreckles answered two on the tower there any one you lhe flushed deeply and shook her head. And while he was still wondor- ing why they persisted in looking down at him when he could not hide his bare shins, they started away, ‘The light-haired one was laughing; and when the horses had taken a fow nein; eps, she reigned in, Bho over her shoulder: I'm going to sev,” She Mr. Hart thepz, *te Prestdent of company “Doe you think anything has "the derrick-house door. pyr oe al The Evening World Daily Magazine ‘ ene saw Mart’s hat on the lazy ench. Then she nd something, what, made her walk over to tt, She peered down, Blickness lay below her. The odor Was stronger now. As her eyes become more accustomed the open trap door; whe did not know nded Into that gloom; casing the middle of the cellar, losing tte in the dark, And, down there, where the ladder melted into” blackness—something se. “Virginia,” she cried, “run to that house, Go call somebody, The girl vanished, “It's some kind of ga She leaned far Get nelp.” " Jean called. down and called through the trapdoor; “Frank, are you there? Frank!" Her ‘volee echoed In tho cellar, She felt a sense of suffocation, as Ifa hand were on her throat, Sho drew away from the trapdoor and got breath of cleaner air, It revived her, Then, holding her breath, she stepped down with one she found the first round of the and begun descending. Sho in of awkward. that ‘ove to hurry, 1 bruising hor he rungs of the lad. d at the bottom, trem She felt a wild im- m this black hole, Hart's hat, She searching for him, She could breath no longer; she gaspod vy air, The gas had become loss, but ft was still potent potson. Groping, she bent low, Her head was recling ‘again, , Her hand touched Hart's prone body. She seized him with all her strength, A sort of bilpd fury camo over her now, and forgot everything; for- got her swimming senses, the pound- ing in her head, the horror of this black place, her own weakness, and the immipence of death, She had him in her ar and she must drag him up to the alr, ho lifted him, and she tugged, and for that moment she was possessed of the strength of the mad, Bhe felt the shock of a sharp collision; her back struck the ladder; she heaved with every muscle in her body to lift him up. Meet were pounding on the derrick above her head, An suw a shadow coming to that 1 of light at the top of the ladder, A man hurled himself on the ground beside her, It was Lawson; he seized her, supporting her, lifting her, She cried out to him to leave her, to take her precious burden, which was al- ready slipping from (Mer arma, As she called, Frye droppell tuto the cellar, disdaining the ladder's aid, The old cook®tore Hart away from her, And then, half swooning, #he felt horself lifted up and on up into the light and the sweet air, She struggled to keep hor feat, Lawson left her sinking to the floor and rushed back to the trap, Then she saw Frye, his grizzled hair all Tumpied, his eyes dilated, his chest heaving to his labor, emerging through the hole, with Lawson tug- ging at his shoulders, And over Frye's shoulders, beat Ike a half- empty sack, the imp body of the man sho loved, ‘The two men carried Hart toward Johnson, the tool dresser, almost collided with them there, They dropped their bur- den. “Sulphyr gas,” Lawson shouted, “Come on, Mhye.” ‘They did not wait to get the breath which their lungs ‘ id from whi beck gina Henry came running down t “They're going to live!” she ; temper acrow abdut the cable, = Were soaked with tho flu on you come you Bill, whitectaced, white-eved, dean “Both ofthat’? orled. oa the engine and the walking beam ‘ Bet, Pay ae a ena ateen to about It, dear, I've a dozen saw the girl as one aces things in & Lawson entered from the other end went up and down, eee et er tues heck Tee do myself. 1 won't be dream; and dropped on her knees of tho building, where he had been ~ Mornlng and afternoon Hart pleas | ee eecleum tan oalleaty, ROY: Hh upon the earth beside Hart's out- helping minister to the senseleas man, Watched drilling, attel pron St pee © ¥+ But when he had closed the door be- tretched form, Johnson was loosening Iie seomed to be strangly exultant lazy bench, Morning and afternoon, Hho squirming shakes, c Thursday, July 6. 1916 Reedy ter another gued Clever outher of *Get- WEEK'S COMPLETE. MOVEL ThE TT. N | ' S Ror oe ¢ em) : 1 s | é $ I Md i} || ment evens | 1's @ human, humerous and timely @ | Fomance with a dash of politics and s oplash of mutt, lan / \ % | \ the wee li with ile strong, mS aden . oe, pat aweon gestured = widel looked where he painted A talle @ few derrick (rame wae reine the ground, a hy about hi Mt down® Toto bis command there penetrated rile interruption Out of the re mote depths, where the bitt locked it from its prison house, ¢ oll Was speak A deep growl waa for another Down the gray, dusty road ule teame AY. Worse S nee persisting tb male tal ere 60 lata, Groop NiGuT ! Mea’ from tne wealth, whic a ‘iad a wealth which thesg mea Frank,” oried Lawnon, "we're 4 Hart nodded, thinking brie before he prouted back hie answer P want to Know about pipe Hinag @ Vin watiafied.”’ " Lawn at ‘Th your end,” he W handie it, 1 kne Hrown was coming up with the mules Hart reached out and Lawaon by the hand. he called bit of sleep And, aa they fed, t ro. him at CHAPTER XVI. The Gusher, 111 black-oll column arose, @ upward, in the | Umbered framework, About its clroumference whirled a cloak of misting dropa, The roar of Ariving wases made it seom alive; « monster unleashed from blind eub- terranean cave Abruptly the thunder ceased, ended in « aigh, signifieant voices sounded, and Ryan back to the derriok house. ul ken me feos joneiy, your d marrying pow,” ‘# eyes went far away. thinking of thowe ation be he had ridden forth w woke neary, Virginia Henry had gone with Jean to Kernfleld the day before, That afternoon Hart met the twe girly, and he wae able to put by & hundred vexing little problems bors of the oll problema of property. ‘Tho marriage Was #0 Quist, au Into the eilence, ine Lawaon Hpreckles followed — the: yo wtter-of-fact in ite brevity, ‘hen he held Jean in hie arm: fought in a frenay of hast and looked down in h on the oll-soaked jwod the lighter atriving, slipping planks, as they di her upon the th ft sea, wort of shock that now the; 0 toe iL tage deay"tamiie teal father that he had ho for hs own ak once more, They fled, drenched by Mt Joan and Hart went to the Bouthera the first outpourings; and they stood oie) When t a fow brief moments, watching sie looked wt oye were in their roome sol into his face. Her eyes, the colmun climb, It rose more ‘itn all of i deep Sen, ed Wi swiftly thia time, capped by a whirl ing fan of wind-driven spray; until, with @ sharp rattle of stones, It reached the crown block, And now the dorrick’s upper timbers were hidden in the cloud of black petroleum, cascas downward, The roaring deopened and grew more loud. ‘The oll columa, broken by the crown ‘block, still spouted on upward for twenty feet, until ite wind-apread | pall fattefed out nearly one hundred and thirty feet above the earth. Over to the leeward the plain was already black for half a mile, The whole derrick ran with filma of oll, Hyan, Lawson, Spreckles and Hart " whe said, “I know vouny You go now, a worry about me.” She smiled as it there was an effort in her brigh! “You go, and, dear heart, come As 2008 as you can, But not until we ean,” He bent hia head and xideed her. “Joan,” he eald softly, understand, There's i. coming back to the bank eco me. And all that oll—we've ge find out what chance there te a pipe line now. craved, but stamped back. They van- proaches on hers. They knew. The fehed in the cellar again, pass was done with. As they w Johnson had already seized Hart, beginning to talk @ the future agafn, and was dragging him outside, Vi ering the ton'a welght of ateo! into the earth. Lawson clamped the Bhe was emiling more Virginia Henry came into the room, Frye, the cook, hitohed the mules to the buckboard, driving at reckless ‘pp, peed to Buona Vista Rancho, to get more teams and grading implements. ‘To Hart fell the task of riding down to Sunset on a similar errand, and to notify the othor stockholders by wire. He took the saddie horse which Law- gon had been using that afternoon; he mounted it, drenched as he was Jean aat beside him, intent, silent like himself, At intervals they looked Into each other's § faces, amil) hope, Promising themaelves eace Joan rode up from the Buena Vista Rancho every day, Often Virginia Henry rode beside her; and some- times gat with her in the derrick house, But in the afternoons, when the collar of the flannel shirt. Sud- jn this moment; aa if some good news denly he began moving the back had suddenly come to him, He walked and forth in the wide,vigorous eweep over beside Hart, and stood looking to induce respiration. down on him. With @ savageueas, Jean shook off ‘Well,” he aald, and his eyes were Virginia, who waa chafing at ner,@ll alight, “I can tell you now.” hands, She seized one of Hart's arms Hart stared dully at bim, and strove to help the tool dresser. “That sulphur gas"—Lawaon's emile An sho was toiling thus, Lawson and gro@ broad. nearly killed you thelr hom: ‘would order Down in the lobby, among. crowd of men of many Frye reeled forth from the derrick three. But it's ali right, that gas—'t Lawson was not working, Virginia o le house, They bore Ryan und Spreckios; lies fust above the olf sand, Inside of fell Into the habit of riding over the With oll, ANG as he started, Jean red, they dropped them on tho earth, and # week wo ought to know.” saffron plain with him. ‘When they had gone half @ mile, successful men other sank down beside them Late that night, when Virginia Henry — Tie unclamped the acrew, leaving and ‘turned their horses to look wdewsik. Suddenly Virginia Henry seemed to 8nd Jean had ridden back to th@ the cable free, Spreckies sprang tO briefly at the enormous fountain , Ho found Jacoby waiting for him ta ‘ Huena Vista. Raneha, convoyed by cy, She knelt iiwson, Ivan did his firat talking in the bunk house, Ryan sald, in a hoarse bank, es wy rant at nm tol TWe can store @ million barrele by the bull wheel and slung its rope belt over one disk, Ryan started the en ©; the great spool revolved, wind- ing tho steel cable, yard by yard. whose thunder atill welled down upon them he leaned over in bis saddle and two senseless reat man Jean and Hart sat, with thoir eyes joy damming the arroyo further covering from his ry -prowlin’ on the round rim which marked the “She reached out and took hts h..d Laweon thinks it ought to drop round that ranch, and then lettin’ on . 1 rt soon, though, If eands from the fumes of the gas helped her that you hive made a hit with Mr. qa) oe te Bole re Sane cera ihe to. We waited #0 long—and Cian her out, and then we Jean labored doggedly over Hari'e girt oF aay. Up and up; and then « now He aaid te her In on the beam, pumpin She saw no signa of breathi And Spreckles made no reply. For yint showed, small dropa, whitled wiw ‘na achamnyn oF hundred barrela nay with the solemnity of sudden great 18 In that moment he reallzed how there loor, " flow gently for some face of the dead. 1 of hi ie! over the happiness, “Now, Joan , Still ehe struggled; and she sobbed pee ea geen wine wor A 1 Be, ew, snose So they parted ‘at the forke of the oe ceeene ive! ‘rhe toart a Peart me must to revert to that painful nubject he brinkly, aa water prayed away, sone, LT al fo Sunesh ie the company was taking two.” Te een Now trom wie just laten hetpless. Fervently now, hut they olung to the cable with te- | mia to Olds and Porter. He ..“Th® assenement derricks will hold she swept his arms, now from his he wished that he had nover thought body, now back again, of going to Kernfleld, and it almost Lawson left his iabor of resuscita- seemed to him that they had done him tion and came beside her, Leaning an ill turn in reauacitating him at down, he looked intently at Hart. He all, bent lower; he seemed to be listening. Then, turning bis¢eyes on Jean, sald them for a year," Hart “and we'll let them ite until we this of! to market. ‘The associat! ought to extend its pipe ling Sunset, This ts twenty-two oll, They're hungry for it.” sputtered lagily down tools came auddenly a thin, brown-biack film the length of the steel stem. Ryan said no word, but atop- ped thi nacity, and clone by t hardware, supplies for the nen, lumber and pumps. He found @ ne\. demeanor on the Wi of those with whom he dealt, ith the news of this flood of oll edit, Me need not ask for 't. CHAPTER XV. e ° ‘Maont ke solidly. “Fifty cents uletly: s The tools bu above the hole, in this ‘arge moment of lacoby spoke coldly. witte ie beginning to breathe.” Striking Oil. swaying gently to and fro. Ryaw nis tite looked ahead with grim & barrel now, are eager to pay It was as if aha herself had come HAY landed the eight-inch atopped over them; he bent to the lips and a frown. He had property, that— to-day. 0 paneed. “te. from death to life again. Inch pitt; he detached a #mall handful of Hut, with coming of that black rho od £ im neoey, Xa Gaus aad teen Gad comeved tke casing in the next hard atioky earth as black aa coal and flood of day! How about to-morrow! three victims to the bunk house, And formation; drove down that dripping ewart drop. He stalled: 4, stern necosal 00) “ani 0 ‘Then mu ja thas yranent befor m Ser shortly after that Hart opened his pipe, instead of letting it forth in hie palm and nodded » at cin thor hold, And holding, he must be ready to fight for It, whoever sought to take it away, And, from this time, Frank Hart walked among men, more coolly alert, more guarded, than he had been dur- ing the day» when he was poor. CHAPTER XVII. When Comes Succesa, eyes, Ho saw Jean bending over him. Ho struggled, as if he were trying to rise; then he fell back, uttering her name in a wondering whisper, She placed a gentle hand upon bim, and thoy let it stand for a night and straining him, and he sank again into @ day, and then another night, At Ble swoop, tater, whee B é manened the end of that time they lowered the cs roe chin a lone baler again, The long tron bucket Dear heart,” she aid, in a low oi nt up empty. They had shut off voice. “I caine. | couldn't stay away fy were ready to wo bay Po Hen returned, and an OM; to drill again until they encoun. drop free with space about It; drove it down for forty feet, Then they baled the water from the hole, Hart was beside Ryan in a aingle leap, He reached forth bis hand, But Ryan held the earth away from He watted until Jean bad control, Hart aank back in bis chair, The railroa He spoke thickly. “That means the United, too, They've got us." His volce sank to a whia- per, “And I married to-day.” What are you going to,do? Ja- coby looked him keenly, . “ight.” voice was ceptle. cing something whieb ” Ryan eald simply, drop into her white alm oll stained er fingers, She bent her head to tt, and she almost touched It with hor lips; then, straightening--and her ri as if ho were ¢ f oy y tered the oll sand—or drow the atring eyes were moist now With @ sudden 7 pleased him, “If I can do tt, Gis tactibieal ang Be talked witb nar, Ot toole froma Gry hole, rising of teare-ahe pressed the olly ANT eae Marla & “Pho other produgre’—— Jacoby blac’ 0 \ ‘iret they lowered, inside of ry Into Hart's hands, evenly, hea Havana a etna ana aA eight-inch casing, the six-inch pipe Mae saniee ag run notatly over Hart's ear, Don't they know it yet?’ Hart in- Bee thle Bite how she ned comer and which ‘Hart hed bought from the 65 grom his piace by the bull wheel: ¥Encireled about the gusher, terpepied. sie will, Zaanbaieaaeae d n ar ol acramento @ stop! ow upruptly, He @too y no hy 5 Pome: ne curt Ret Tigcen.UR “hoatn. Ail four men worked tonethor Hien. Uehen catching H¥An'e fw, ory qq get, one, hundred m8 wpe papers are here from the elty . | ; at this, during daylight, laweon, he looked away. ve 0 a nd scores of m thm And thon ane whuddered. OE went Johngon, the red-haired tool dreamer, “Joan and Tart were clumping ach dragged acrapers, tearing out the iiart looked up. “They'll I found you, dear. Put T couldnt k¥@", and bprecklos, Length bY other's hands. The oil from that wand stumps, heaping embankments to follawa. They aren't cow: carry you any farther. I tried ao (0hath they dragged the smalier eas ooged glowly over thelt united palm& dam the accumulating pools, Rin y've fought before, We've hard; and Iwan fainting when they ink,t2,the walting elevators, coupled Bho raised her lips to his, Ryan ming these working ones, a acattoring Kot to organize.” came and got us.” able inte tho derrick abave the holes gruffly ordered Sprockieg back to the throng, Ranchinen and ohoepherderg Jacoby remained allent. Ho atretchod forth his arma and “rug for threo days the pipe went Puiiwheel brake from the countryside; oflmen and | “Organize,” Hart repeated snarply, ‘The strong, primitive odor of the ofl was in tho air. Whon some moments had passed, spsech cama back to avery one. Inco- herent words of rollof and of joy, of thankfulness for hopes fulfilled Ktyan stepped to the door of the derrick house, Ile raised his voice In a mighty shout, '‘Lawaon!” be cried; then: “Lawson! Ol!" Lawson e@trode into drillers from Sunset, and already @ sprinkling from the Haker River field, Those siood staring frem a distance, “Twouty thousand barrels a day,” Lawson repeated. "She's keeping it up. Lord knows when we will be able to put up a Rate on her.” Hart leaned closer to his friend, “Work enough now to cateh tbe oil,” he cried lawson nodded drew her head down to his. “Jean!” gown and down and down, until at he cried, “You! And you might have jast the hole was satiated’ filled to ¢led!" the bottom, twenty-fiv red fee! What timo passed they did not plow. mt ‘entysAve hundred fect know; but there was no need of ex- — Rrown hauled water again from Planations now hetween em; no Buena Vista Lake, They poured need for promises on his part; for ra- while barrels into the hol And TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION “Jacoby, this means that the railroad $ and the United are holding the whip hand, As soon as contracts with the producers run out, they'll hammer down prices, Right away. Oll goes down to 20 cents!" Jacoby nodded, Btill he watched Hart allently, “Remember? Hart asked abruptly, “What you sald about ofl? thought of tt often, Supply iner the derrick “Wo're getting house, Virginia Henry was by bis most of it already,” he called; “as in| demand increasing, If that So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and PRUee lor eaee were Bright. her good as e100 & dey for ua” ** irue"——-. He looked up, his may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other cheeks flunted, Ryan spoke’ with Thousands of dallare's day soaking alight with 5 aim. tlng Joy. +4 quiet solomnity: into the saffron plain and blowing way the market fs, I'll bet ne! epecial features, Include them in your summer reading. “Had, It looke like light ollt twenty- away In the denart wind! Aud suit eesoalation r the United dan two gravity, ! a ator art etar oll on jove! Order the Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address fi { the pooming fl by As if tho earth had spoken, an- ming riches which they had ewering bis words, a sullen, thick havel*