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D PRCES| > PRC EWS =S) SHOTFOR AVOID EHURCHONSUNDAY, “OY AY NOT LE i Officer Upheld by People of Tangier Island for Enforcing Blue Law. With Pistol penne AEDES CRISFIELD, Md., April 26.—Some hope is expressed to-day for the re- covery of Roland Parks, seventeen- year-old boy, who was shot by @ po- liceman on Tangier Island, twelve miles from here, in Cheeapeake Bay, while trying to elude arrest for dis- obeying an antiquated to Sunday observance. This law com- pels attendance at church service to those who do not remain secluded at home and is being rigidly enforced. Tangier Island is, perhaps, the most unique in point of religious ideas and general manner of living of any com- States. The island is a Methodist community and Swain Memoria] Church is the only house of worship. Absence from reli- gious sqrvice is considered a mark of ANCIAL N 3 Adam Exton _ LIBERTY BONDs. Off .20; ist 46 $6, up .60; ‘up .08; lat 4 1-46 86, off .' 85.96, up .12; 34 41-48 90,5 4th 41-49 86, up .10; Victory 48-48 96.50, up .02. meh. a ‘excellent bank statements comn- an improved labor out- resulted in higher prices at the Baldwin was the real leader. was up 21-2 points. 13-4 to 841-4, whil at The stock quickly Agri, Chemical 80% ks Mexican Petrol, .. Midvale Stool, . law relating n onal’ Petroleum 37—39; Re- Candy 14—14 1-2; Stute 460—475; 181-4, up 1-4; White 26 1-2— } Asphalt 76, ap 1; Carib 231-2 Prices quiet. St ‘and Rotiners 7 ; Retail sonny, 1+— Norfolk & Wem. Nova Gootia Steol.. 60 Ap. Writ, I, pf. Pen Amer, Metro). Atlantic © Tine... 40 1-2—42; Ryan 3 1-4— Pau, Geaboerd BU. 28% remarkable ‘town orcknance which led to the shooting of young ‘harles Connortob Tepre- Incere sentiment of a mi | Jority of the older heads as an en- tirely legitimate manner of instilling religious principle: Young cular Was uD the purea of | his father’s home when Ofticer Con. ! norton demanded that the boy obey the Church Attendance Law by either going to church or into his home. ‘The law makes it a violation for a person tobe seen on the street or in his yard or porch on Sunday, unless ‘on the way to or from the church, Carib 23—25; Boat 131-3141 0 Petroleum 37—3! 2 1-2—95; Steamship 2 i liland 35—387; Tropical 18—1! — 10—10 1- iD FINANCIA! “ogy end Pond Creek “Coal,. into the people. SUFFRAGISTS SURE + OF VOTE THIS FALL Women Base Hopes on Five States fo Consider Amendment Be- fore. November. WASHINGTON, April '26.—A poll Just completed by Suffragixts here in- dicates that the Womun Suffrage Amendment will be ratified in time for the women to vote in thy November election. Five States, North Carolina, Louis!- ana, Delaware, Connecticut and Ver- mont, are being worked for the neces- sary votes, The Democratic States of the South are being played against the Republican States of the North and East. Preliminary results of a poll of the North Carolina Legisiature by the lobby department of the National Woman's Party were announced to- day. “The poll,” the Woman's Party de- clared, “bears out the prediction that THE LAST STRAW, BY HAROLD TITUS An Exciting Western Romance of Adventure and Love his way, had take ect her standl Others of her men had heard f sulted, men from other ranch been there, but of them all Beck ha her champion ‘ ‘And it was Beck who nad pullle 4 doubted her in the fac convinces him of & had gone out of Broke, disheartened, a New York society girl suddenly finds herself heiress to a vast Western This thrilling story tells of the life she found there, and of how she won for- tune, a home and happiness. cattle ranch. her best efforts to He had even chatlen: make herself his friend. She had belie to those hfils that she but now she ed before she of all sorts, something new. in her presence, humiliate her and yet wh r his loyalty and Copprixht, Small, Maynard and Company, 1920. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Jeno Hunter, pretty, young Raster soctet: 18 broke and ¥ caitte ranch in. few ihe despondent Be gooe to the rai simple of the Suffrage Amendment will be ratl-/ iter Ans fied by the North Carolina Legislature one of the ri at its special session in July. * “Out of the total of sixty legi tors to answer tho. questions sub- mitted by the Woman's Party, thirty- eight pledged themselves to vote for ratification and only eleven were definitely opposed. Non-committal re- plies came trom eleven, “Louisiana, where the Legislature meets in regular session on May 10, may race with Delaware, whose Legislature reconvenes on May 5, the honor of being the thirty-: xth State, while Connecticut and Ver- mont are also possible candidates for that honor. The Woman's Party has campaigned and is continuing to cam- paign in all these States, BABY FOUND ALIVE IN MURDER HOME North Dakota Family of Seven and Hired Boy Are Strangely Slain. . TURTLE LAKE, N. D., April 26.— In defending the law, the municipal The first clue to the wholesale murder officials of Tangier contend that witn.. at Turtle’Lake was found yesterday out some compulsory method half of with the recovery of a shotgun from CM & & Paul Ry the chirch attendance would congre- gate around the store porches or at other places on the street. the waters of a slough one mile from the Wolf farm, where the mu- When the youth refnsed to obey the tilated bodies of Mr. and Mrs, Jacob Bt L & Ban, Pra commands of the officer, the police- man grappled with the boy for the Purpose of arresting him, and it was Tenn Cop & Chem Wolf and their five young daughters and a young boy farmhand were dis- when the boy was getting away from covered ‘Saturday after being dead hat the tatter drew a re- volver and shot him through the body. Parks was hurried to the gasoline yy... ¢ furnished, gi and low for 1919, price to April, 1920, and rate, in our ‘Tabacco Prod , Tranme & Willianks for two days, The authorities are confident they murdered, and that the person boat and brought to the hospital in Jy persons who committed the deed Un Beg & Paper, 116 UARTERLY to Accomack op the mainiand, live in this vicinity. The shotgun, a two-barrelled, 12-guuge gun of latest the pattern, was lirst seen by a neignbor- jay following the shoo ing farmer, who informed the au- Mayistrate who thorities. placed bi under $2,000 bonds for the ‘Un Retail Stares ‘County officials investigated the actlou of the County Court. The bond erie Sunday, and held an inquest was furnished and the officer re- over the cight bodies. Witnesses ex- his duties dn the island. of Tangier, Unted Food .. amined told of the finding Saturday of the bodies of Mrs. Wolf, three of those who have come in contact with the daughters and the hired boy in the outsive world more or less and the cellar under the kitchen, and the U 8 Realty & Imp, who are giowing away from the nar- disc: ery of three bodies in a nearby row and repressed ideas of the older, cowshed, heads, demanded that the officer at} They ‘heard the crying of the least be removed from hir post, but. famished cight-months' old daughter, fficiats upheld him in his) he continues on his b trouble is expected when the local election 1s held th's summer, | Vanadium steel , for at that time a new bbard of town | officials will be elected, and the shoot~ ing of young Parks for his refusal to | attend church has given the younger |. clement an issue on which they be- Neve they can sweep the old board nothing; it may bring large Willy-Ovorland "p. churchesing ordinence and of many similar laws ¢vill be the lone Issue’cn which the election will be fought. BONUS IS OP BY BRECKINRIDGE, Men Who Fought the War Must Pay for It, He Tells Senator FOREIGN EXCHANGE EASY. Demand sterling opened 3.851 13-4 cents; franc checks 17.02 centimes; lire checks 23,02, off 12; Belgian cables 15.85, off 10; Swiss up 1; marks demand 0172, cables .0174, up .0007 cents; peseta Stockholm cables tates dollars on ‘BOY MARRIED AT 15; GETS ANNULMENT. Save Stranger Asked Him and Cirl, 17, if They Wanted to Wed> and They id, A decree was entere’ to-day annull- ing the marriege ®f John O'Toole, of Ar Corona, fifteen years cables 17.10 cent: 21.65 cents; Paried 8 deman eee asand 1.0280, cables 23.00; guilders de- mand 861-2, cables 36°5- burtis Avenue, old and model scholar at St. Xavier College in this city, and Helen Shea O'Toole of No. 95 Jamaica Ave- nue, Astoria. ‘The evidence was heard by Justice Faber in Queens County Supreme Court. Lieut, Col. Henry Breckinridge, for- istan€ Secretary of War, has added his protest to thoge of George Brokaw Compton and others who see demoralization of finances and ideals proposed flat National bonus for veterans of the Great War. “The men who fought the war must) They are the able- PUBLIC UTILITY MARKET. Market opened quiet. Cities Service, 369875, up 3;, preferred, 68-49, uP 4; te ne royal’ road Bankers Shares, 39%—40%, UP '#i| John, who“had .been her sweethcart tion, 160! for a year or more, she went on a visit to friends in Hoboken. man asked them if they wanted to be ‘They had not thought of it, but decided to do #0 and had the cere. mony pertormed, giving their ages as Bach returned to the is seventeen, pay for the war. bodied of this gerftration. every dollar of a Government bond} now outstanding they must pay $2 in| principal and twenty years or more that it runs.” to Genator Warren of the Finance Committee of the Senate and to Representative Fordney of the were and Means Committee of the 01 American Light and 165; preferred, 85—8 17% —18% ; preferred, monwealth Bdison, 107-109. PARNINGS. Maryland—Second week April, $384,407, Increase $81,989; from ‘| January 1 $4,938,820, Increase $1,123,- 235. pi sy His be i 39%; Com- twenty-one. Parental roof. - Lawrence O'Toole, heard about the wedding and had the hildren's So le" and then insti- nulment proceedings, SAILOR HELD AS SLAYER. Brought te Port tm Iroms by Cap- tain of O11 Tanker, When the ofl tanker William T. Stoua of tho Pan-American Steamship Com- pany docked here yesterday afternocn, af Berg sent word to Police Headquarters he had a man in troas, Detectives went to the tanker and ar- Francis Gilhooly, seaman of No, | Providence, on the SAD TEETH IN THE SCHOOLS,| in John Cannava, owner of the Har- vard Inn, a cabaret at Seaside Walk “Market Baromet end the Bowery, Coney ~ or" 146. | rother Joseph, twenty a2? President Street, Brooklyn, and |, & walter, were ar- Prohibition En- is Affected In Nearly 97 per cent. of the children at 106, No, 253 Lafa: Public School No, 222 Mott Street, and No. 180, in| defective teeth, according to figures given out yester- New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Publie School No. James Sarrapedi, yested yesterday by Baxter Street, ter, Einstein alleges, he and his two mitistanta had been served with threo inger ale highballs and six Man- 10 East 43d St. | 8! 407 NewYork Vanderbilt 1085 | FNFOr Seccalts, children have been examined, and of 4 Bridge; Dies. Hut by Train on this number, 1,334, 165 O'Connell charge of hy of Edward. of Glastonbury, Conn, rly in the United Sta.es vi in an alterca on April 15, whe of Tampico. i heavile to or 96.5 per cent., dental survey work is being carried on in connection with the community stituted two years ago b; r cent, health programme | for ‘school children ‘is. be IBERTY BONDS Goerck $Street, Manhattan, died this rning in the Flushing & Juries received. yosterday land train knocked him he Hospital of bi- when a Long into Flushing was walking across the Fis skull was wenn, forme health plan in- ve me | with Puller developed | Statistics ‘on crim o Gildge over that. stream. the only survivorsas she lay in the cradle in the front bedroom. John Brekken, farmer, told how he had seen two suspicious looking men | walking away from the -Wolf farm toward Turtle Lake shortly after noon Thursday, It breught out at the inquest that s of. those “killed were murdered a small hatchet, while the others were slain by shotgun fire. Wolf was worth $30,000, and boasted to friends that ho often kept large sums of money in a| small safe in his farm house. | — PLAN EDUCATIONAL WORK IN NEAR EAST Committee Formed to Standardize Methods in the Interest of Efficiency. An “educationa; mandate” for the Near East is foreshadowed in the organization of a committee of ex- perts in this city to work on a plan of standardization educational methods. This committee seeks to mergo the interests of more than 500 educational institutions in the old Ottoman Empire, including Robert Coltege’ at Constantinople, the Con- stantinople College for Girls and the American University at Beirut, Syria, in order that there may be economy in effort and outlay. The work is to be pported pri- the Tix phurn wine the draw, but solely man who was In love with Jane in New York, follows however, saying that she haa dct t ‘Beek, the rancher, is seerctly in love with Jane, Tater Jane Hunt And what was it, ice and counsel, , rhe ranch, and ‘again ‘make the running of the ranch her life work. CHAPTER Y. her voice, trembling with emotion but | gratitude. It was not merely Le ° lie resisted her efforts to Ww HREE weeks after her arrival Jane madesher firet trip to town and Beck drove the pair of strong bays, which swirled their buckboard over the road at a spanking trot. Events had arisen to prevent their being together in the daye diately following the frank discussion of their attitudes toward one another and Jane tYought that she detected a feeling of curiosity in him, though he wondered just how she would go about forcing him to like Shrewdly, she avoided person- alities an@ talked much of the ranch. When they broke over tite divide and began the long drop into town, was easily heard. m1 a kid. When | a basic qua pefore encountered jn ni ‘ever since I wa: 1 come into this country maybe I'd get a little respect ny’ just a girl. I've got to take itr. at man’s a sample of the kind you've got here ‘And you tlk easy hereafte of you, becay I've got a quirt and an you till you breaks like had sensed {ts grow n felt, but could 14 Two-ita opyned the gate arried her bundles into e 80 lone a um, [ll hide u make any eep that in bes 8 h, Tommy, bh. he did. K her settin’ up beside She released her hold on the door; it swung outward smartly and as it) mp, struck the horse he sprang sideways, only we didn’t swear wheeled, and clearing the shallow gutter with a lunge, swung down the street at a gallop. When she passed Jane stuod amazed in her buckboard, tears got lors of re you're a danurey Hunter, who | !! “Since you asked advice from me, I thongh, perhaps, the other had beet keep thinkin’ up more, ma‘am,” “That's nici back was as erect, her shoulders as) y set as though no gres “Two weeks now Be - “I s'pose Dad mentioned that water ¥ in Devil's Hole looked from a windo in the bunk house had gone’ out | the place was quiet, to sec jtent figure move slowly b cottonwoods, pausing at times as if listent ack through more rapidly, as though statist’ all was woll. Many times she had tug and turned to face Jane. His eyes were fired with admira- ut a girl——" “She was Magnificent It was Dick Hilton w j rupted with the him further, but he| at him suid it might be well for her to mvn- tion it to Hepburn. you know.” ‘They swung into the one street of ossing and stopped before the As Beck stepped down to tie the team a girl came out of a store across the way and yaultad into the saddle on a big brown horse with ‘It was the nester’s |: things that perhaps it’s slipped my ho had inter- | faded, He eyed had beca in hie face and turned to Basterner brie adjust a buckle on the harness, “And only a gir aes ela breath. watched this | but to-night it seemed of greater s' nificance than ever before. nied her his friendship; hp had made Webb his sworn enemy by defo her (she had not told him the of the tale she heard in Ute Crossing) “He's foreman, exclaimed Jane Dick, did you see and yet disclaimed any great interest in her as a motive. Still, he patrolted her dooryard at night! A sudden impulse to do something that would make him give consideration im her presen he gave before others came to life. His attitude suddenly, angered her beyond reason and she felt her bod she king as tears sprang into her oyes. The great thing which she dosired was just there, just out of res the fact exasperated her, grew, bo: came a fover unttl, on her knees e window, hammering the sill with fists, she cried: ‘om Beck you bor and associate panion, Jane?” he asked. you want to cast your lot with “And a moment ago you thought she taunted as she stepped down and offered him hey. graceful ease. her magnificent! Tyo men came from the saloon juat as sho reined her horse about. eyed her insolently with that a type of loafer which is eloquent of is despicable and them, a short, stodgy man, # in, say, two hours, ma'am" Beck said. “Very well; right here," she re- plied, and he left her as she turned to meet Hilton's unpleasant smile. ‘They began the return trip shortly after noon, Hilton had Jane when ‘Tom stood beside the buckboard talking some minutes after Beck had picked up the reins and was ready to com- 4 ‘The girl gave them one stare, hos- jooked away, her lips moving in an unheard word, surely of contempt, Then the man spoke. going to love It is not well His words were few, but mence the drive, Occasionally Dick's they were ugly. The girl had touched eyes wandered from Jane to the other her horse with a epur and he leaped man's CHAPTER V1. WO-BITS was the last into the bunkhouse the following eve- ming. He had ridden his Nig- ger horse in from the west- ward hills and had not come through the big gate, so not until he stepped ‘oss the threshold were the others aware of his presence, said a rider, from down the creek who was stoppin for the night and the Sroup ‘n the centre of the low room troke apsrt. “Two-Bits, here's your brother,” said Curtis. A smal man stood beside him. He ° wore a green, battered deby hat, band and binding of which were sudly frayed. He wore spectacles, rimmed, over searching gray eycs. le was unshaven. A celluloid collar bu’ toned behind, made an overly larse cylinder for his wrinkled neck, wore a frock coat, also green with age, the pockets of which bulged and and théir torn corners spoke of long overloading, patched and newly washed, into boots with run-down Just that one bownd. As crossed, idly toying with the whip, e made {t the man spoké and with a as indifferent to what was being said wrench she set the brown back on as if the others were out of sight or his haunches and whirled him about. Her face was suddenly whe, her fort to exclude the Westerner but lips in @ tight, red line, and her eyes Beck's disregard of him was as genu ine as it was evident Hilton made an obvious ef. He sat pa- She rode back to the men, who had | tiently, with an easy sense of 8' continued on their way, holding her! ority and the contrast was not horse to a mincing trot, for he seemed | on Jane Hunter. ‘The town was far be! hind and peiow | them, a mere cluster of miniature | buildings, before either spoke. it was Jane. ‘ “That girl. thing ‘splendia “There was,” he agreed. essed her opinion of men in gen- to have caught the tensity of her “Did I hear you right?” to the man who had spoken. He stood etill and looked up with the rude leer, “That depends on your ears, likely. All I said was that you"— She did not give him time to repeat. Her right arm flashed up and the quirt, slung to its wrist, hissed angri- ly as it cut back and with a stinging crack wound its thong about the man’s face. | . There was some- A newcomer, evidently.” Beck nodded. ‘Came in soon after you did, with her father, it looked ii nge men by blows!" she said. ‘He deeerved all he got, didn’t he?” At the first blow the man ducked and turned, throwing guard, and as other slashes, rel~nt- rapid, “of scourging vigor, fell upon his head and face and ni doubled over and ran for the shelter ef a store. But the girl's wrath was not satisfied. She sent the big horse Beck asked, smiling. “I Ike to see a ad hombre like that get set down by a woman. There's something humiH- ating about it that counts a lot more ‘than the whippin’ she gave him.” ‘But wouldn't it have spoken more for the chivalry of his hands to the country if vately and under the direction of a Committee of Co-operation on Amer- ican Education in the Near East, in the charge of Albert W, Staub, for- some man had done it for oer?” from street to sidewalk where his “That's likely. But there ain't much hoofs thundered on the planks, crowd- Sam ed in between her quarry and the| Chivalry here, ma'am. building front heels. In his hand he held a fountain pen. I 40 fortunate as to have| At the entrance of Two-Bite ali merly Acting Manager of the At- jc Division of the American Red | Cross. He said that’ a substantial sum had been assured by persons | whose interest in educational affairs in the Near East is of long standing. Through co-ord.nation of activities | and elimination of duplication and overlapping work, it is believed by the committee ‘that considerable economies can be effected. ee LESS CRIME IN N. Y. STATE. 2,057 Fewer Convictions 1919 Than in 1918, Figures Show. ALBANY, April 26.—There has been general decrease in crime in New York State in the last year, according to Secretary of State Francis M. Hugo. prepared by his of- ew fice, show that while 57,316 persons iy tnd Fuller to Education Depart- ILLNESS CAUSED SUICIDE. Rear Admiral B Reach Washington To-Morrew. GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 26 Press).—Rear Ad- Brittain, Chief of Staff friend of Laver ", hor dent, but escaped woin- Githooly said Fuller's death was caused by the fall and not by a — y P. Bewie Henry’ P. Erwin, Brooklyn Edison B4 Pine Bt N. Ye \ured, Treasurer of the Electric Light Com-~ pany and residing at No. 62 Montague * ‘ A FUNERAL ARRANGEMENT in our hands means atten- every eee), no matter how seem- MPBELL SERVICE” Dus 8:00"Any Hour,Dayor Night AMPB Ol Street at 8% Ave. . Designs our Specialty, miral Carlo B. Saturday midnight at Clinton and Dy Kalb Avenues, Brooklyn. ing with Alderman Michael Hogan when At various times ne to the Commander in Chief of the At- lantic Fleet, who comniitted suicide by shooting ‘Thursday, was in poor health, He was walk he was stricken. was leader of Lhe First Assembiy trict Republican Club and ent in Brooklyn polities. vived ‘by his mother, his widow and sev- eral brothers. oe Chil) Buys Britis) He was an ambitions, brilliant officer worker, and his iMness brought his mental strain to the breaking point, On the evening of April 21 Rear Ad- miral Brittain attended a reception aboard the flagshi He was in his follow! n= hevended his life in his cabin. has accepted the offer by Great Britain ught, three torpe to boat destroyers of 1,590 tons each, aud ‘Th @ Wanmport, ee a ad to ‘buy one dread 8] we dead , body, were convicted in the courts in 1918, the nuthber dropped off to 55,359 the fol- lowing year, The gain has been fully as great a:nong the women as with the men. ‘Two hundred and thirty-seven farmers t wrong last year, as compared to 149 during the‘ year before; 8 lw BI found themselves unable to talk their way to freedom; 2 letter carriers broke | Uncle Sam's rules, while 22! {slipped a cox, as compared w |Stenographers, as a whole, behaved \hetter last year than the twelve months preceding, all but a dozen keeping out \Of the courts, as compared with 16 in }1918. Chorus girls and manicurists we ; 100 per cent, perfect, far ae court records ¢o. Editors and printers did hot make a8 Goo | a recor), however,twe of the former and 46 of the latter hav- Iyg been convicted of crime, Only one rter is included in Secretary Hugo's Calmo list. ore persons convicted of various offenses were on probation at the end is were inmates of ie institutions of thy rt of the miwission, talk had ceased; at Curtis’ introduce Two-Bits stopped. He ewal- lowed, setting his Adam's apple in protection of what little He looked at her blankly. “I had to come clear to Ute Cross- ing to learn how one man defended ¢ from the insult of another.” He stirred uneasily on the seat. “That was nothing,” “I'd been’ waiting for a chance to land on Webb for a long time.” He did not look at her and his man- ner had none of {ts-usual bluntness clearly he was evasive and, more, un-| comfortable. ’ “First, I want to thank you,” Jano after she had “You don't, know woman such as I am can feel avout| a thing like that. the finest thing a man has ever done and many men have jo fine things for me| otriking faster, harder, tee! now between her drawn Ii The man fled into the street again, but she followed, guiding he horse without conscious thought surcly, for no woman roused was roused could, have thought for other than the thrashing she administerod, Endangered by’ the excited hoofs which were al’ him as he ducked and dodged in vain to escape, the man ran with hands and arms close about his head, mov- ing them with each blow that fell in futile attempts to save other parts from the cut and smart of that caw- “Pleased to meet you, Mister Beal,” said Two-Rits, Tom Beck bit his lips, but one ot! two of the others laughed outright; they ceased, however, when the Rev. jerend Beal, ina voice that was’ tre. mendously deep and impressive {51 guch a small man, sald: ne “My brother, I extent! to you t} right hand of fe her fuce showe. te growled. into your beloved fac, after these many years of separations Give me your hand, brother. May the. blesings of Heaven descet abide with thee!" He whook Two-Rits’ paw, looki y into his face, e blushing became more rat Me be "Marvelous ure the ways of Provh The girl uttered no word. All the all the rage he had roused nd upon and) lithe torso each stroke as yhe put lownward swing all strength sho could command, across the man's cheek rose broad red welts, contrasting with his pallor of until his face looked fancy’ berry pie. Seuttling, dodging, doubting, man worked across the street, turned: back time and again, but,persisting until, with @ cry of pain and despera- tion, he threw out one hand, caught the bridle and in the instant’s respite the move gave him stumbled to the other sidewalk, across it and sprawled the swinging doors of the saloon he had left moments before. The horse came to a halt with a slam against the flimsy front of the been trying to for a long time. She was de touched and voice was not just steady, but when Beck did not’ answer, ahead with flush deepening, a delight crept into just looked; thanks.” e doffed his hat, and stilt clingine) to Two-Bits' handy lowered his hen ‘Almighty Father, whose are diverse and* ers of the flesh, give our thanks t»| Thee for bringing about this wagicg | We realize, oh Loni, that se Mundane moments a "i forerunners of greater jo her eyes and the corner of her pretty mouth quir! was a great deal expect of a man who has made up his mind not to like me!” ‘They had topped the divide and the | sorrels had been fighting the ‘As she spoke Tom gave them thi heads and the team swept the buck- board forward with re but driv? | vs that Ae | are but passing! joy here below ie} rare thing and from this valley ut | tears and sin we lift our our voices in thanks tho ings have becn visited Thy blessed mag: Te lifted his head and showed behind his: nging and, words anyhow, but the fact that he | did not reply gave Jan such blancs a feeling of upon wg be quint as for a final blow, but the man, had _pritked | regaining his feet, fled and disappeared, dropped her haad to the top af’ the door, pushed it open and held it so, peering darkly into the room, People had come into the street to wateh. There had been excited shouts and a scream or two, but as the girl place u quick ‘abut down and wen she through the his reserve, wholly genuine! Dick Hilton had told her of the te encounter Beck had had with Webb, ‘business-like’ manner, “you, told it jeeringly as he attempted to be interested in’ this’ artic} the distasteful was about to He bad gresation,” demonstra es environment. 5 te to tho cope * had impressed only with the tact that To - Morrow's

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