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BEATING. JOHN. L, CORBETT CREATED NEW RNG STLE Great Cleverness, Speed and Jabbing Ability Overcame Bull-like Rushes of Old- time Champion—High Spots of Corbett'’s Picturesque Ca- reer and How Nickname of Gentleman Jim Set New Era in American Boxing. By Robert Edgren. J. CORBETT set a now fashion in American boxing when be beat Sullivan at New Orleans. ‘ Ber years Sullivan had been consid- @fed absolutely invincible, In or out ef condition. Corbett waa a swift, clover boxer. He was extremely hard to hit—a Meeting shadow in the ring, yet with plenty of cournge. Anh inch over six feet, weighing 183 pounds, sinewy, Dailt for speed rather than for atrength, he never was a very hard hitter, ‘He won fights by wearing his rivals @own, by making them miss until they were arm weary and dincour- aged end by delivering a bewildering sueeession of jarring and annoying blows at long range. Cordett was a student of boxing, a keen fellow who set out to make polence overcome strength. When he began fighting he was a bank clerk in Gan Francisco and boxing Instruc- ter at the Olympic Club, At first “he fought as if he were “giving a boxing lesson"—the origin, by the Way, of that phrase. Corbett boxed a dozen or so unim- portant bouts before he found a real rival—Joe Choynsk!—whom he Gnally Dest decisively on a barge in San ranclsco Bay, in twenty-eight rounds. Going to New Orleans he out- pointed Jake Kilrain in six rounds, an@ returning to California became famous by fighting a sixty-one round draw with the @reat Peter Jackson. Peter bad a sprained ankle, and eoukin’t move about much. Corbett @anced around and around him end- lessly but would take no more than @ tong range chance, a) halt ot the weary spectators went home an: the rest slept oe referee finally s' e bout. A month later Sullivan arrived in San Francisco of an exhibition tour. Corbett boxed four rounds with him and finding himself able to avoid the great Sullivan's swinging blows with eage, laid plans for a match. Corbett went Hast and won three or four small bouts, made un impression, and ‘was matched to fight for the cham- pionship at New Orleans, Sept. 7, 132. CORBETT PLANNED AHEAD. Corbett’s plan for that fight had been made a year before. When the fight wtarted be danced around Sul- livan, light as a feather. Sullivan rushed. Corbett floated away, barely oat of reach, hardly striking a biow. Infuriated, Sullivan lunged and swung, and every mins weakened him, for missing continually is a heavier strain on a fighter than tak- ing punishment. Frequently Sullivan stopped, dropped his hands and dured Corbett to “come and fight hke a ‘The crowd began to jeer, Cold, , perfectly sure of himself and at ease, Corbett called to the spec- -tators that they'd eee fighting enough 4 time, and went on with his work in his own way. (He danced wbout, foated away barely out of reach when Sullivan tried desperately to catch him and knock him down, and now and then he jabbed Sullivan sharply. Sulli- van, old, in no condition, with a roil of fat hateing over his belt, wheez- img, reeling on unsteady legs, still ‘out was 0 weary now ho ould hardly raise his arms, Go Corbett increased hie efforts itttle by little amd ‘began shooting over jarring rights. Sullivan was badly battered, his eyes puffed; his Junges were off line and he could hardly keop his feet under him. The crowd, that had been Jeering Corbett, was at first silent in amazement that this unbelievable thing was happen- ing before its eyes, and then, with a crowd's inconsistency, began roaring applause for the cut) that was tear- ing the toothleas old lion down. In the twenty-first round any one with half an eye could see Sullivan was done. His arms hung slack at his sides and his legs refused to carry him forward, In all his life, they @ay, Sullivan had pot atepped back, Corbett knew his time had come. ‘Throwing aside the defense he no longer needed, he ran In and rained plows on the tottering old champion until Sullivan slowly sank to the floor. And once doyn there was no struceline vp again CORBETT SET THE STYLE. ‘The fight was cver. The great Bul- lvan had been whinned without land- ing a single #olid blow, ‘Those were great days for Corbett, He tovred the country In triumph, great crowds meeting him every. where. Papers printed pages about his cleverness, his swiftness, his amazing skill. Every young boxer in the omuntry aped hia "style" of box- ing. Hard hitting was considered a joke before #wift-footed, light tapping 1, by th then Eddie Cook, or perhaps it was the versatile William A, Brady, thought of calling Corbett “Gentleman Jim. That touch mado him a fortune on the stage. Inci- Gentally it lifted boxing out of the back-woods, bareknuckle days and ined it recognition as a “science’ Gar bank clerks and other genteel Je could indulge in without los- fim carte. ‘Sixteen months later Corbett knocked out Charlie Mitchell in three rounds at | 4 Fast B® Pom Fae AS WE We Dances OE — IN THE SULUNAN Fieatt VIM DANCED AND SULLIVAN MIS WIND CHASING HIM . HOW CORBETT BEAT SULLIVAN! est CO ee eee ’ DULDAY, SANUARY id, JIM CORBETT IS THE FATHER OF RING CLEVERNESS dvai. (Copyright by Robert Régren.) er oN SLE WAS Ty Downs AT NW ORLEANS, Serr? 1992. NEW ORLEANS SELECTIONS. FIRST RACE—Johnny Dundee, Lord Allen, Star Time. SECOND ' RACE—Frederick Brisk, Troitus. HIRD RACE—Columbia Tenn, Ultra Gold, St. Quentin. OURTH RAC voto, PRrader, eral Hate, FIFTH RACE—Lads Love, Dr. Carmen, Title SIXTH RACE—Nominee, Sandy RACE—Dark Hall, The Wit. the Jacksonville, Fla., and one Peter Court- ney, for the pictures, at Orange, N. J. Two and 4 half years elapsed, and the champion listened to public clamor and condescended to box four round in San Francisco’ with Tom Sharkey, a raw sailor, who had been beating Joo Choynski and a few others, I watched Corbett's training at the. Olympic Club. ‘7, make a sucker of this sailor du," said Corbett, smiling. But he didn’t, The, sailor dub’ dis- regarded Corbett's science entirely?! rushed and roughed him and used him 80 hardily that the bout was stopped half a minute before the end of the fourth round to save the champion from a possible knockout and maku the decision a “draw.” ‘This was practically Corbett's end asa champion. A desire to get back public favor induced him to take on a match with Bob Fitzsimmons, world's middleweight champion, who had been trying for,years to force him into a bout, and”who wus beginning to bo taken seriously. He met @itmimmons at Carson City March 17, 1897, and in spite of the date and a great collection of four-leaved clovers and rabbits’ feet sent him by admirers, was knocked out in the fourteenth round in one of the most splendidly spectacular Aghts the world had seen, under eurround- ings ramp in romantic interest. In unother year and a half Corbett fought Sharkey, and was 60 nearly knocked out in the ninth round that one of his seconds, Connie McVey, jumped into the ring to save him, for- elting the decision on a foul. GENTLEMAN JIM OUT AT LAST. In another yeat and a half Corbett made a spectacular attempt to come back, fighting Jim ‘Jefferies, who meanwhile had knocked out Fitesim- mons and had become champion. This fight was at Coney Tsland. Corbett trained quietly for nearly a year and was in fine condition. Using all of his skill he danced and jabbed through twenty-two rounds, piling up points and keeping out of danger, ‘Then Jeffries, aroused to the danger of losing Referee Charlio White's de- cision, rushed out in the twenty-third, chased and caught Corbett in full flight, threw him against the ropes with a stiff left hander, and as he rebounded cracked him on the jaw with a crushing right and knocked him @o cold that Gentleman Jim never moved until, the ten second count Was over. To show what a thoughtful youns: ster this Jeffries was, I'll mention fu t one small incident that occurred while that count was going on, George Cons sidine, a friend of Corbett's, who had bet thousands on his chances, picked up the water bucket In his corner and ran around the ring to throw cold water over him to bring him to. Jef- fries, watching this detail from the corner of his eye, reached # long leg hetween the ropes and kicked the bucket from Considine's hands, Corbett fought twice after that. Officially he “knocked out" Kid Me- Coy in five rounds. It ts said McCoy went down not unwillingly. There was much scandal over that affair, xo the leas said about it as a fight the better, Later he fought Jeffries in San Fran- cisco and was knocked out in ten rounds, Jeffries could have tumed the trick in one, but wanted to give tiie crowd “a run for its money,” and incidentally to tease Fitzsimmons, who had been knocked out in eight and ‘was seconding Jeffries in his corner and hoping Corbett would not last as long as he aid. At fifty-five Jim Corbett, remarkably well preserved physically, and carry- ing not a mark for all nis ups and downs in the ring, is still telling ail about it in A monologue and prosper- financially. 308 TGopeeight, i021, by Robert. geen.) ae, Many Other Good Basketball Games Scheduled for To- * Day and To-Morrow. The tallest basketba}i team in the world will make its first appearance in this city dn a game against the national champion Origgpal Celtics to-morrow night. The Visiting ag- gregation are known as the Buckeyes, and are undisputed charipiohs of the Middle West, which title the five have held for the past ten years. Up to the present writing, the Buckeyes have engaged in forty-three con- testes this season, meeting the leading® Western teams, and have won every game. Due to the fact that two titles are at etake, the national and Middle Western championships, a fast game is looked for. The smallest man on the visiting teams stands six feet while the tallest reaches seven inches over this. The contests wil be staged at the Tist Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Park Avenue. Columbia University's basketball quintet will cross nets against Penn- aylvania this evening on the latter's court. ‘The final reult of this con- teet will go a long way toward de- |cidin- the champions of the Eastern Intercollegiate Buskettmil League. ‘The Blue and White five havp proved Having knocked out Jimmy Wilde, the Qyweight champion of the world, in eeventeen rounds at London, Eng- land, on Thursday night, Pete Her- man the former bantamweight cham- pion of the United States, may get a return battle of fifteen rounds with Champion Joe Lynch in Madison Square Garten, Tex Rickard will surely try to sign up this pair, for if they over meet again it is a sure thing that the lads will gumpass the gate receipts of their previous battle in the Garden, which amounted to $74,881. Herman sailed for home yesterday, Mast Hinkel, the flea promoter of Clewisnd, who {6 till in town, has sucoweded in signing up Joo Berman of Chicago sod Carl Tromaine of Gloreland for w return battle of ten rvunde at Gry's Armory at Cleveland, 0,, on Wednewday night. ‘The youngsters fought @ slashing battle » tow weeks ago, Tremaine haring @ shade tho bet- tor of the milling. On account of Johny Gritmihe, the akron wet/ lerwetght, having injured bis hand while in trein- ing, Merman Taylor bas secured Jokany Tiliman Makter of Hriderport, Conn., Of eight rounds at the show of the Olympie A. A. of Pailadelphia on Monday ight, Thie ought to be & vory Interesting sorap, sa beth men are game batelee, ad At the Pioneer Sportiny Giub tn Task teh Street tonight the main event of rif rounds wit! be between Johony Tamall, the fighting Irak bemtam, And Willie Spencer, the spredy Itallan of the east side, Saummy Nable was to have met Spencer, but nad to cancel the bout owing 10 an injury to bis hand, Matchmaker Dossewreck thinks thet Ruseell will prove @ more than oapauie wubsltute, in the ton-roupd semi-final Oekey Keyes ond deck ed- Mmoad meet over the len-round route, EAdio Wollece, the veteran lightweight of Brook lyn, and Harvey Bright, the Brooklyn high schoo? boy, will clam in the main go of fifteen rounds, to & decision, at the Widgewood Grove Sporting Club of Brooklyn to-night. In the semi-final of ton rounds Jack Hanlon wil) take on Jee Doody of 1idgewood. ‘Tee Columiie Sporting Club of Youksm, whlch Was Teomnlly granted = Llconse by the Mate Box ing Commission, will bold ttm firs entertainment on Thureday night. ‘The principals in the main bout will be Billy Fitmlmmons of Yonkws pnd Kiddy Diamond of Elizabeth, N Teer will hattls for twelve mands, Norvan’ vay Johnny Hines in the semal-final. Soldlor Barifield, tne Brooklyn welterweight, wil engage in his first decision bout in this State to- Celtics Play Western Champions; Columbia Tackles Pennsylvania their ability in the games played to date. The local axgregation numbers the Army, Brooklyn Poly, Union, City College New York, and Prinveton among Its victims. Columbia should win to-night's game Another local team will participate in @ contest this evening when the New York University five, National A. A. U. champions, tackle Union College at Schenectady. The New York boys have been going along in fine style and are expected to comé out on the long end of the score. The Madison Squares, with “Swede” Grimstead at centre, will meet the Epiphany Catholic Club at Madison Square Gardén this evening. Joe Mans, Joe Rainey, Ray O'Connell and John McDonald will also be in the} home team’s line-up. In a preliminary game the St. Mon'ca Girls’ Club will play Our Lady of Mercy five. ‘The Holy Name five will hayo as their opponents the St. Jerome Cath- ollc Clute in a game at Manhattan Casino, 155th Street and Eighth Ave- nue, tomorrow afternoon. Another new basketball team has been organized, Word comes from Princeton that the faculty af that university has organized a five which is trying to make arrangemente for aj) home and home series with the Yale faculty. Aight. Mo will go ageins Jimmy Kelly of the Bronx in the mar bout of ten rounds at the Com- ‘monwoaith porting Club. In the other ten-round wo Led Monroe will tackle Terry Davis, Four ther bouts will als be staged. Tarney Lichtenstaln of Chicago, the woil known Manager of fighters, is now handling Clonie Talt, re Canadian Mebtwelght dmcapion, ‘Tait has bem doing some grout fihting in the West and Feceg!ly gave Pinky Mitchell & stiff fight at Mil- wauker, He bas also knocked cit Lew Kdwards, he Aumtimlien champion, in wwe rvunds, At Oe Woodhaven Sporting Chub of Brooktyn toami@th Battling Kiddy of thie city will take on Joe Woerts of Grvermich, Oonn,, in the main Bo of fifteen rounda to @ devision, Eddie Dealy, the Brookiyn foathorwnight, who recently knocked out Soldier Martin, mete Batting Philbin in the remii-fien! of yen rournie, Iridh Patay Chow of this city, who ia tanting again, be havi won tne fire Mert wince he re etkered (he ring ly stepping hus qqaonent in quick time at the Olrmola A, A, of Philadelphia, a fow weeks ag, i mmtahed to fight Jon Jackoon of PUiladoivhia to an eightround pout at the above Gla on next Monday night. Jimmy Auiflven, the farmer amateur tichvwnigtt champicn, doy been hooked up by bia mmoager, rank Hagey, to met Al Brown of Atiaora, Ga, tor eight roumds, at the Ulyueda A. A. of Phila delphia, oo the night of Jan, 31, Sullivan a & big favomte in “Filly” as a remit of hie great Mighting at dtmt cid, Hugo Clecmmota, the Albany, NY., swyiter weight, will hook up with Fanewonry Re Allen fiftom romnis at the Star A. ©. of Troy, N. Y., ob Moudmy wigt, Meee Murphy of Albany moots Iiny Kbiw in the semifinal of ten rum, Clements has fought many, ond faite in the lagt tweivs months, He ie coming to New York after this Gactie, Frankie Brit, of New Belion!, Mam,, and Willie Curry of Staten Itand will be the princtgals in ‘the star bout of ten rounds to & dectalon at the Vail Mier A. ©. boxing nbow to-night. Curry (rll ave vo Mgt trix bow in onder to have any- cette on Britt, as the Inter ie a eugied, hant- siuking lad, At the Freeport (L, 1.) Anditoriam on Monday tight, Berny MoChy w, Joe Lenant, for fifteen rounds; Terme Holunan m= Jimmy Dalio, for fix Founde; Lae Willette wa. Kid Jackson, for eight rounds, ai Agtie Gruet mm, Harold Abdott, for | lx round, } describable. Never had I been | LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O'Hara. Copyrignt, 1921, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Byening Wortd) abe” Ruth, the famous swat baron, denies that he is broke, “The assertion is erroneous,” says Mr, Ruth, who never uses o one-base word when there's a home run synonym handy, -“It is true that I wagered unfortunately on certain ponies in a certain climate, but what i8 a $5,000 setback to a gent who still has health for writing indorse- ments of advertised goods? You can state in the evening papers that Tam still so stuffed with dough I shan have trouble paying my income tax, Which is a fact. “Babe” has enough darby left to keep the wolf off his rubber doormtat, If the Bambino's broke then the Liberty Belt is without 4 flaw. Just to show you that “Babe” is more than one base from the poorhouse, lamp these statistics of his day's doings: 10.30 A. M.—Twirled off an indorsement of Dr. Bump's Hive Otnt- ment; $6,000 and royalties. 10.42—Signe. on agreement for chess match with Capablanca; side bets of $5,000, loser take all, 10.68—Auctioned off an autographed set of his 1B. V. D.'9; $2,021.60 for the war sufferers of devastated Hog Island. 11.06—/Ticked off an argument in favor of polsoning taxt drivers; $5,000 and expenses, 11,32—Posed for movies in the drawing-room scene of “Gertie, the Beautiful Hop Miend;" $60,000 in K. & '. money. so 8 @ " 12.21 P. M—Wrote an indorsement of the Klaxon alarm olook; ,000. 12.80—Spieled a monologue into the phonograph on “The Smport- ance of Being I:hportant;" $10,000 and the needle rights for Australia, 1.40—Iasued signed statement approving the works of Charles Dickens; $4,600. 1.46—Went to launch at Broadway hotel. $206.13, deducting the lunch check Wet profits for the day, OVER AGAIN Instalment No. 57. WHAT WAS BASIL KEEPING FROM ME? | f the ribbon which passed out under |the closed door, “Flow delightfully mysterious!" 1 suid to myself, “Who can it be?” | HE Celight of being among my| ‘Tle pull on the ribbon became I ld friends once’ more was in-| o{POneDr. pe Gort ooened and there Samil!" [ exclaimed. |gayer in my debutante days. One| “Almu—it luck ever smiled on a party followed upon another. My beset must Ando) been inepired friends seemed ta vie with Sach| “en t picked this pink ritbon, other-in arranging all’ manner of | oojor eee heartily and i sele my color ri lively entertainment for mo Only] yon. tela us te 5 two occurrences had marred mY vnaions, to wind, (hem up sist foRom pleasure—Miss ‘Hepsi Hulse’ them to the end,” said Baeil by way of explanation. “Phere he said we would find something which he could visit to me, when she had declared Hugh to be involved with a beautiful New York woman, and Mrs. Barrett’®| hot give ua, but something that : © tia, tout ome wrould il concealed jealousy of little Mar-| Ai) us with delight, something that forie'’s devotion to her maternal] youl turn a wilderness Into a purus grandmother. ' one of the glorie: Hugh had not yet returned when ia” BON rion. Clark invited me to dinner On, m not going to aendan escort f@! “Do you know what 1 guessed it to you,” she bad sald, “and be sure 0) A come early, not later than 7 o'cloc “What? ‘As 1 entered the Clark home that! Tsasil iaughed night it was a maase of ribbons of | "4 drink,” he #aid every color in the rainbow. How disappofnted you must te.” “Marion,” I cried, “what are you) “Disappointed—why, Alma, one look doing?” ) your cyes bas more of intoxica- “Asi no questions,” warned Marian tion in gayly. “Go upstairs and take off your SO, wraps. When you come down you ding oul my wrist to may know more.” | him, tu: rv In the dressing room I en | “Not yet—1 like to feel that T have Lucy Cornelius, Mary Ost win cows! Miller and Maribel Henderson. Then Basil gave me one of his bril- as much exeked over the myste jant smiles which exercised such an myvelt. niluencs of gayety over wll who came ‘When the girls and the younr ma toi: with: tins trons had gathered in the drawinf| “Don't be ridiculous, Basil, [re room, Marion told me to follow Joba| turn you must untle this, for Clark, who conducted me to Me den,| Marion will bo calling us to dinner. which was in the rear of the houre./On, by the way, you have been in Picking up the end of a pink satin| New York? ribbon he had been carrying With! “Yos, just returned yesterday." nim he tied It to one of my wrists. Did’ you happen to see Hugh “Just sults you,” he said. “A per- | there?” fect. match for the pink in your Ven—in the Hoan Roomof the War. cheeks” dort.” ‘Then Basil turned on me a “But, John, tell me*—— gaze that sald as plainly ae if he hed “Can't do li" he laughingly replied. | uttered his thoughts in so. many “Watt here ‘until somebody comes) words. “1 know something 1 am nor and get# you.” | 0 Not many minutes later I heard a!” yan confusion of masculine voices, ex- | Basil, jaiming and @peculating: | What color are you going to take, old man? Me for the orange ribbo seoms to me [ read something awfully » tell you." m was culling, who playfully #0 I preceded Insisted upon keeping me In leading strings, to the 4 dining The ret Joe Worle, We, ¢x-smateur Ughtweight champion, who Das won his lam thrve engagements by the Jnovkowt route, and Mike MoCabe. Une ‘Fightin "of Haste, are tn perfect condiiion fot thelr twalre-round contest at the Bier Bportia Gln om Manda lei Mi ts tte on rounder Matchaaky: adie ‘MeMabon has ‘made 1 map ares: to for with Courtney of Harlem. | \ romantic about It when I was a kid ut he and delicious food Nothing personal in this green rib | joyous im and light movement bon, is there?" | eh ital there ran @ strain After.that, much laughter and sout and foreboding for me. fling about, ax if the men in the} Wat was tho slenificance of Basil's party were struggling to untangle as 16 knowledge of some- Pie ribbon mase. Then I felt dis-lijine that would blast my happiness? Unotly @ tugging at my wrist, Some: Be Continued Monday. body was winding up the other end! [Te Ba Continued Monday.) Copyrigt 10uh by the Boll Byadioate, CHAPTER XII. (Contin rt. HID roar of the falta had dulled @ iittle when muddenly a sound cume out of the dark Just ahead—a sound Ike a farment rubbing against some rough surface. The Peaghhunter stepped to one side of the Neuss and flattened himself against the wall Out of the dead silence the rand came again. A grin loonened his face. The very sound he had half expected Ra horse contentediy munching his ay. The cave was not lange—hardly twice the size of an onlinary room ‘The first ewift glance showed him that—excopt for the horee—it' was The 'Pearthunter mmiled, retraced hie at 4nd came out into the moonight. Creeping to a crevice in th he Tay down wearily agd Was goon asleep. CHAPTER XIII. @ the Sheriff walked through the field near bis house that night a figure loomed be- fore him in the dusk, and he felt the butt of hie pistol against his breast. “The Red Madk—the Pearlhunter,” he gasped. Pearltunter did not stop to explain, but took the Sheriffs gun from its holster. “Go ahead of me to Mallen Rock,” he directed. “You're not going to get best 2 just want to show you some- thing.’ ‘The sheriff was @ brave man, but he did not care to argue with the de- termined youth fn front of him. He turned around end, with @ muffled oath, took the path to the Rock. Soon they were in the cave, crouch- ed iow at one end, the pistol, as al- ways, prested againet the sheriff. “You will see something soon,” de- clared Pearthunter. “You will see the real Red Mask. When you are con- vinved, nadge me and { will give you back your gun” For half an hour they wafted. Foot- staps came, a candle was lit, ahd the Men with the Fancy Vest stroked his horse. “Fooled ‘em all, didn't we, Rocket?" he chuckled. “And I gues# the kid has skipped.” The Sheriff gave Pearthunter a nudge and the youth passed the pir tol to him. Bven the slight rustic must have alarmed the Man with the Fancy Vest. The light went out; a cul of hoots, the rings of shots and he was gone. Pearlhunter guye a sigh the Sheriff rushed to the mouth the as of cave, and made his way towards the cabin of 'Wikd Rose. The candle had lingered long that | nard night in the cabin of the three gables. ‘The old man was more ‘usually restless, ‘The girl hovered about his chair constuntly. Times without pum- ‘ber she had led him up and down the floor, She had played to him, sung to him. She emcceeded at last in coaxing ‘him down in hia chair, where he ent wh the knife on the palm of his hand, had amocthed the cushions behind hts bead und stood stroking his face with ber hand, when, without the lenst warning, the door flew open and, eharpty outlined against the dark background oc the night, « man with vortng, Ike some sound from another world, #0 long had it gone unused. "Oh, Daddy!” é She threw her arme around him and dropped her head on his breast. Ho sat stroking her hair, finally raised her, Jooked hard at her, ruthed his eyes and looked again. Then he saw the Red Mask and his pupils di-; lated. ‘The old man’s strength only served to Dring iim partly up on an elbow— and that only with the Pearlhunter’s aid, “Martin Redmondi” he almont instantly: “Where is she? The woman you distained? And the boy? ‘Teil me! I've still the strength to tear it out of your cursed throat!” The dying robber fixed his failing eyes on the couch. Only God knows ~who giveth His grace to the just. and to the unjust—how he found strength for further words. “Warbritton!” He muttered the name huskity, the bloody froth wpomey his lips. “She was not distained. It « wan all a mistake. I think {t becaune I ‘hated use I © not me. these rivers, pure an the dew at dawn. © She sleeps to-night in a grave four Rook.” days olf at Paten > “And al cried the old man. hoarsely: Pearihunter is your son” —a parent only, never a father. ~ ‘His hand found its way bock into the Pearthunter’s; his eyes strained bey toward the faoe bending over. The eyes closed wearily. He lay wo still, and the pallor on his face was so ghastly that the Pearlhunter anxiously over him. But tho Mda presently unclosed; disuse, and lceably = grow! ‘weaker, faitered on. ix “Seven years! It seems only this” acrom the threshold, but both the exme name, and both of ‘The girl ecreamed and.ctung about | the same high re your o#- the old man in the chair, Her | tate with my eon. It is in the scream seemed to rouse ie | will that you do #o, and there's ample glanced up, rubbed his wide, pitiful} for you both. ‘The Judge will know.” es, and, with a wild ¢cry—more| A that of beast than man: his the chair 4 strength that sent | ine the girl reeling. His eleeping arm ground the man at the other, feemed to recognize the ob- | So still, eo motionless ‘he lay that the ject for which his ghostly eyes had| deep silence became burdened mwith | searched the woods for weary years: |@ heavy fear. The Sheriff at the foot | --@ bK of red cloth with a certain|of the couch bent forward. face behind #. His giant frame seomed to @well with a strength tremendous. He raised the knife and the intruder. ous ked of & sbot, was rain Ma head with the but! revolver. It was u horrible thing see. The girl stood with laced fin- helpless with terror. The first low brought the blood streaming out over the white hair and disabled the old man so frightfully thet he ceased the #truggle and stood quiver- ing. But the mercilos ann struck again @nd aguin unt the vast frame drooped, shrank together, the knife fel! from ‘his fingers, his knecs gave way und he mak groaning to the floor;—awrithed, straightened and tay aut. ‘The apd was broken, She started ne if from a nightmare and sprang buck of the chair, Like a man premed for tine, he dashed after her. With the chair between them, she managed for 4 bare moment to keep beyond his hands, ‘A step creaked the plank at the door. Her assailant whirled at the sound and #he sank panting against the wall Just inside the duor his crouched forward, his Nps drawn, stood the tall form of Pear!hunter, ‘Things happened so fast, in the | next instant that words are too slow to keep up with them, [t was man to man, and an even draw. ‘The iwo shots came so close together that the hills out through the open door Y | cloud caught but one echo. The Red Mask bent backward. The revolver dropped » his aide. He tried to mise it again; seomed surprised that he couldn't He laughed oddly, and swore; stared ‘round toward the girl; gasped and oboked, The revolver fupped from his fingers. He croped with bis hands, as if searching the air for it; staggered, chught himself, tottered, pitched heavily to the floor, Tn the midst of this tableau the Sheriff came in, asked a few curt questions and bent over the Red Mask. 4 . “Not dead yet.” he eaid, “Fe don’t deserve it, but Jet's met him up.” ‘The two men lifted him to a chair, and at the same time, the old man's 8 opened, Hie felt. over iis face, seemed astonished at the bead. His eyes culmly gazed up at the girl, at the Pearihunter. ‘They came back to the girtand studied her a lone time. “You coukin't be Dotty?" ‘His voice wag queer, hollow, qua- Fearfhunter turned his face, = dowed ae ee ‘The girt er eyes, en: intentty at the pigcid features, threw himself acroes the motionless body and wept aloud. ‘The intrepid soldier—was dead, CONCLUSION, WHNTNENH OF JUNE, and the world at high tide; the. ‘woods full of cradles, and each cradie housing a Insty, baby; the weak gone back to earth... the ft that survive beginning to test wing and claw, Streams and wood- land pools grow languid with mill<. jons mating. ‘ “Wild Rose” the man whispered, © “I Jove you so. The Blue Moon” he * mused. “Sorrow to some it brought, but to us—love.” ‘The girl saftty clasped her hands together and looked up at him with beaming eyes “And maybe (ll get to see it, after. allt” “L think maybe you will! & sent the draft to Solomon's widow, She'll need it, and the pearl ts mine, He reached into the pocket of his (louse, drew cut the small velvet raised the lid, lifted the girl's «1 and laid the Blue Moon in her The sunset, the green of the the glory of a silver-edged floating across the sky—the wonderful gem caught them all, and lay laughing (hem up into her ‘face. Wild (Rowe\” Her eyes left thé pearl and row to his face. What she saw there brought a little catche to her breath. And there was a note in Lis volce thaS had never been there before. “I reckon there's nobody left ut just—you, and—ne. And othing im ‘the world counts to mé ut—you, ‘The pearl is your birth- day present.” . “It's your birthday, too,” she stam- mered, her face bowed and turned a “And I have no preaent'-— | “The most wonderful a man ever received! A Wild Rose”— > He held out his unwounded arm, His heart had leaped to his eyes, His voice held the pote that makes all ~ voices musical. The girl lifted ber face—like the dawn of day; her eyes » glorious with the ght not of star or sun; the ght it is given a man but once to see. Her hands came toward him, found their way about bis neck, The sunset stole goftly through the — hushed branches and touched their. heads, and bound the two togethor— the gold and the brown—with @ shaft of living bronze. A little breeze came by, lifted @ strand of her har, Jald It Across bis face and slipped — away to tell the trees. 2 THE 5 Jook: er ney, ete ert * oes