The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1920, Page 15

| SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING in Lom Valley, <} Young, Beautiful and Fearless, Tharon Last Had ~} Made Vengeance Her Law. It Was Her Only Law Until She Met Kenset, the Forest Ranger From the East, and Loved Him—Color, Thrills and Action Blend in This Vivid Story of the West, (Ooprright, 1918, by Dodd, Mead & Co., Ine.) CHAPTER: strip ot muracrer, lasting majest: hands falling n @un-butts at his sides! dawn Banner fyeshed and stronger, Near o his, mountain cablt pes to win her frum ber CHAPTER VIL set and the girl felt nearer | both had a far wider under- *\@anding of the other's point of view. ,, Kenset, however, still felt that it was his duty to remain neutrai in the «Valley conflict. The news of the next ew days, however, changed all that, yin @ drunken row at Corvan, Old Pete, | af Veteran of the valley, white-haired | Pod aged, had cursed Courtrey and frie treatment of his wife and his Séhefts throughout the valley. That| Fiddicd with bullets, on the lonely mountain road ¢hat lea vo his cabin. When Tharon and Kenset met in Corvan the next day there was the} Iight of balue in {he girl's eyes. | “What is to be the answer to this comabast outrage?” Kenset asked. , Th’ Vigilantes,” suid tne girl, ‘we'll | ‘eather thom in twenty-four hours.” | ‘All right. Until they are here| ‘wo'll guard the mouth of this canon that leads into the Rockfuce, as 1 vanderstand it” At a low, rambling house in the! outskirts of Corvan they found Jim Banner, the Coroner, and sworn enemy of Courtrey’s, sitting on the edge of his bed, undeniably sick from | some acute attack. His eyes were steady, however, and he listened in Uelience while Kenset talked. that followed Kenset wiped a hand FTER the meeting both Ken-|S¢fo## his brow und found it moist with sweat and closer to each other, and | again he askedghimself that question. What was this cold fire that burned those sinister blue guns on Courtrey? Did he fear to see her kill Courtrey— bands—or worse, infinitely worse—to see Cour- trey, famous gun man, beat her to it? clear cold of the starlit night and searched his bewildered heart. He the weary one that Tharon Last must hight the old man's body was found, | pe holden from her sworn course, with those deep blue eyes and spoke so coolly of this promised killing! Whaf did he mean? Again and ‘What did he mean by Tharon Last? him when he thought of her pulling shadowy stain on her to see that he fear something did He shuddered and sweat in the ould find no answer save and except Tharon Last, who looked at him He recalled the earnest frown between her brows, the simple directness of her ducy a8 she saw it and told it to him. Hither way—either way—she was lost to him forever—there he caught himself and started all over again. What was she to him? ‘What could she ever be? She with her strange soul, her lack of soul! What did he want her to be? One moment he ached with her loveli- ness—the next he shuddered at her savagery. He did not want ber to be any- thing! Why not go out to the dim and half-remembered world that he had left, the workd of lights, padded floors and marble steps, leave this impossible land with its blood and fect. he “Mary,” he said, “bring me my|/ oots an’ guns J ibeen layin’ for this @uy ever sence I been in olfice. I! ‘wisht Jim Last was bere to witness at”? in two hours Kenset was on his ‘way to the blind mouth of thé pass that led into the Canon Country,| ‘Tharon wus shooting back to the} \ Holding on El Rey to put thingy on a) watching basis there, while Conford | and Billy went south and west to ouse the Vigilantes, o°With Kenset rode Banner, weak and tmot quite steady in his saddle, but a fighting man notwithstanding. 1 through the golden hours of that noonday while he jogged steadily | ‘on Captain, Kenset was thinking. He | hhad food for thought, ed. He | ywarried a gun at lust—he who had idden the Valley unarmod, had meant Gever to carry one. He felt a stir within bim of savagery, of excitement. ‘He meant to have justice done, to at a hard hand on the law of Lost | aNey. Murders uhinvestigated, je stolen at will, settlers’ homes 2 wurned over their heads, their hearths town up by planted powder when tmey returned from any small trip,/ their horses run off--these things hhad seemed to him preposterous, mere whadows of facts. Now they were | down to straight points before hin, tangible, solid. He got them from the blue eyes of Tharon Last, the gun woman, and he had tken sides! He who had meant to keep so far out of | the boiling mrmoil. i ‘He camped that mght at the base| of the Wall where the blind door! entered, made his bed just inside the ‘Qead black passage, and watched d still weak, eside him. work for Kenset, waiting for men who called themselves the Vigi —-for a slim golden girl who rod: s wore and pledged herself to Blood! — | More than once in the quiet night | ! | ‘ PAARAE SAAS LARA STORE HOURS ( |ALEARN WEDNESDAY 9.30 to 6 wrongs? Nay, he could not leat Lost Valley. He was as much a part of it as the grim Rocktfage it- self, the Vestal's Vell eternally shim- mering in its thousand feet of beauty, A NEW DISH TOWELING ing itdorable, yer Vecosta but bit m for the Present) Wee of Pith Aveoue Bandeaux and Brassieres See ‘other pages for our Three-Col. Adv. and Adv. of Men’s Work Clothes. 84 Our regular $1.50 Much of the success of your new suit or cos- tume depends upon the perfection of these foundation things. You will find just your style at this sale—at a marked saving. Brassieres — fine quality— well made—lace trimmed tops—sizes 34 to 48. Bandeaux — pink _ novelty material—ribbon straps, elas- tic inserts—sizes 34 to 40. group of men, determined, watchful, dent on the second step of the pi gramme to which they had pledged themselves that night at Last’s ing. Tharon was thera, too, and with her Bent Smith on Golden. Tt was a goodly number who left their horses in charge of Dixon at the blind mouth and entered the long black cut. low-spoken quiet, their volces gound- ing back upon them with an odd ef- nted thi I Lite or death, tor Kenset, 1t trust be bere. he waited and | watched the stars wheeling in ever- 'y, and he found his ow and again upon the listened awoke, the sun was along the heavens and Banner was fering him @ piece of dry bread and some jerky, spiced as dry and sweet as anything he had ever eaten in all his life. | “They're comi “thar’s five comin’ from down 4p th’ Wall at th’ sonth—that'l be ‘Jame- | son, Hill and ‘Thomas, an’ some othe! } —an’ I see about ten |I can make out, driftin’ in from up toward th’ Poma @ dust cloud movin’ up from th’ Bot- tle Neck, too. They'll be here bY one o'clock at th’ furdest.” And they were, a and emoked said the tflement. And so the Vigilantes went in and| It ws up along the lower ways. those among them who had been here | before, who from time to time had | th accompanied the snow-packer on his nightly trips just for the curiosity of the thing. These several men, among whom were Albright from the Pomo settlement—a squawgnan—took lead, and A¥oright, kten on trail, picked up Old Pete's marks and signs at a running walk. And so it was, that, while the sun was stili shining on the high peaks above and the canons were filled with strange pink light reflected from the red and yellow faces of the rock, the Vigilantes came halt, for Albright had stopped. “Here's where it happened,” said, “there's a blood-sign.”” There suddenly e_wall_at_a twelve, near's grim, ailent Hill and ‘They climbed in as a hound And as AY, FEBRUARY 3, 1920.’ about breast high. A thin dark lino, |set, “T move we all move back ani! be going to Corvan.” no wider than a blade of grams and jleave the ground to Albright. There; And so it was timt OM Pete, about as long, spraying out to|is fine work here.” snow-mmoker, went back in state nothing at the upper end, leaned! with one accord the mass moved| the Golen Cloud, by remys on men’ along the rock lige a native marking. |back, clearing a goodly space. shoulders down the eou! and No other eye had seen it. Not one| In the immediate vicinity th through the dead cut, by peck-horse in a thousand would © seen it llittle chance of doing anything, for| @0roas the levels, lashed stiffty to the re-| my 1 Kense you're the | Service's bunch, and themselves, had|sadtile, a pittul burden. | man for more of this. They crowded around and examin @d_the tell-tale spray. blotted out. ‘Not one among them but knew it for| Albright looked around and seemed the stain of blood. }to hesitate. From that they spread out and} “Me, alone?” he asked. back to search the sliding heaps of |Dick Compos, there.” dust-like powdery rock-slide that lay| “Done,” said Kenset. everywhere along the walls. A tall, silent half-breed stepped ampled over the soft floor until all (Read To-Morrow's Thrilling Instal- original traces of the murder were ment.) RT Ka OIL STOVE KILLS TWO. well and “Gimme Third Son sion Probably Will Die, man, thé height of a man’s shoulders, his step back a bit.” 4 hips, his knees, But Tharon pushed nearer “This is my work,” she said with} “Some one went along th’ dignity, “I started this, I think.” [Stel Re waved a a, pitiful s | hand at the canon face, Ab , that Service | —nere—here—here.” j He indicated the heights he had scanned, They stepped a bit nearer and looked, Several pair of Valley eyes saw what Dick Compos had seen, a sign s0 fine that few could have called it that—merely a brushing, a smoothing of the fine sandstone sur- face where a man's shoulders, his | hips, his knees might have pressed ; Saar had he stood waiting there, examined it| Suddenly Albright, looking back then every | across his shoulders, moved like @ cat ‘They |and picked up something from ten | feet away. He held it on ‘his palin—an empty shell, such as fitted a 44 Smith and Weston, He scumned it minutely, turned it over tinks way and thal, looked at it fore and aft. “Firin’ pin’s nicked,” he mid, “an': a lottle off centre.” room, He was severely burned in at- tempting to reach the iidren. old~ carried Wall ow. slender Brown “Three signs hole—no doubt with jest and laughte it was his booted foot which first came to view, sticking grotesquely up through the loose slidestuff. brief work and grim work that followed, and soon the weazened | form, bent and stiffened into son y in tho soft were minutely, group did likewise. | found evidence of one simple, staring fact—Old Pete had been shot squarely from behind, a little to the left. The bullet had undoubtedly plerced the heart—a great gaping hole tn t left centre of the breast in front at- ting its course, Here,” said Albright, coming back m a short distance down, beneath spray on the wall, ‘e's where re ten minutes the mething was taken up from th’ | tre n hand to hand. floor—th’ blood he » I make no Then Kenset guve it to the coroner. doubt” There's your claw, Mr, Banner,” he nt Gentlemen, sai, “Now we can berm. Tet ue man in th the fro t ONE OF 300 NECCO SWEETS || New es grb maga | BOSTON, MagE. to a thing went he Miss Last," said Ken BEFORE YOU TELEPHONE MAKE SURE THE CALL MAKE ONLY THE NECESSARY CALLS and MAKE THEM SHORT IS ESSENTIAL 300,000 calls daily have been added to the abnormal telephone traffic in New York City as a result of the epidemic of influenza and pneumonia. In addition to a shortage of about 1,000 op- erators from our normal force, 2,000 operators are absent from the Central Offices on ac- count of sickness. 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