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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, Mooooooooooooooooooooooceooooooooooooooooooooooaoooooooooooooooooo evenly than ours. You dont let the conventions hamper you." "The convention of honesty, for In9 stance. Thanks, Miss Dwight" "I didn't want to believe it, but " The penitence in her vivid face pieaaeo for her. He could not refuse the outstretched hand of this slender girl whose sweet vitality was at once so delicate and so gallant. Reluctantly his palm met hers. "You're quite sure now that I didn't do it?" Coprrttht by Q. W. Dillingham Co. "Quite sure." "Even though I'm wild and lawooooooooooooccoocooco ooccocccosoccoooogcooogooooccoqoooooocooo less?" "Aren't you?" she flashed back with ceipts of the day. The men had not down through that grove of pines to smile that took from the words any a been but the the river saw I when recognized, ilm." THE PRISONER description sting they might otherwise have had. of the horses corresponded closely to "He may come back." Mirth overflowed In his eyes, from those ridden by Kllmeny and Colter. I reckon not. Let's sit down and SYNOPSIS. Word that their which now many little creases radito It was recalled that these two men talk." nightly frolics ared dlatasteful British-era- " a party of "high-tonehad disappeared aa aoon as the buckHer first thought had been of his ated. "You're a good one, neighbor. recently arrived at the broncho contest was not ing over, but she remembered something But since you will have it, I am. I half danger, Lodge, among them an army capan hour before the robbery. This else now. "No, I think not, Mr. Kll reckon my standards even to honesty tain and hla alster of the same wbuldn't square with yours. I live In name aa himself, la brought to would allow them Just time to return meny." Jack Kllmeny (known to his Ina rough mining camp where questions to the corral on the outskirts of the The met his that deep eyes aome aa steadily timates Crumbs) and town, where they had left their had In them the rapier flash. friends camping on the Gunnison He have two sides. It's up to me to play the game the way the other fellow In Colorado. Called to account mounts, and to saddle so as to meet smiled. It. But we'll not go Into that for the uproar by Dobyans Verln-de- r. plays treasurer on his way to the bank. the "Because am I a miscreant, snobbish millionaire, memnow." It dewas that corral he the happened drawled. reckon," ber of the British party, Jack and masterful, she Strong, clear-eye- d "You say It, not I." serted at the time, the boy In charge snubs that Individual and has a with chat left to see the finals of the "Now you're dodging, neighbor. You knew him a man among ten thousand. Moya Dwight, friendly having attractive Irish srlrl. Jack haa He might be capable of great sin, but contest. Cumulative evidence of guilt think it" no use for hla British relatives. "If so, do I think more than the what he did 'would be done with his lay In the disappearance from the While fishing, Kllmeny again eyes wide open and not from innate fishing camp not only of the two men truth? Your actions convict you." again meets MIsa Dwight, and by her Is Introduced to the other weakness. Her heart sang Jubilantbut also "So of their think. suspected, it you companIsn't Just possible of members the party, chief of How could she ever have dreamed ions, Curly and Mosby. you don't understand them?" There ly. r, whom are Lord and Lady "Think he really did It, Ned?" India was the faintest hint of derision in this crime of him? Her trust was now as "Mr. Crumbs." Jack la a thing above any evidence. Immensely Impressed by the loveasked hfr brother. his polite Inquiry. liness of Joyce Seldon. companion "And sit down with me now A "Can't sis. Looks like say, he in flashed her it," light dusky eyes, a If I ask you'll of Moya. Next day. at Gunnison, you, neighbor," he laughed. answered gloomily. the Farquhar party sees "Mr. shining hope newborn In her eager She did not wait to be asked, but Crumbs" win the bucking bronOf the party at tbe Lodge only one heart "Are you telling me that you sat down, tailor fashion, and looked" cho championship. He disappears was pleased at the turn are innocent?" member after the conteat. events had taken. Verinder's manner "You've been thinking me guilty, expectantly up with a humorous little twist of the eyebrows. Flakes was as openly triumphant as he dared then," he countered swiftly. of dappled sunlight played on her It to become. It cried offensiveallow "What else could I think?" CHAPTER III Continued "You might have waited to hear the through the moving leaves and accently, "I told you so!" ed the youthful bloom of her. defense." The Innk man with the rifle across With a sigh of content he stretched "If to had make you but one, stayed CHAPTER IV Ills saddle bow laughed grimly. "Yes, on the himself loam. "It's ran you away." he Is not. His name Is Kllmeny. I'm sometimes a mighty good world, neigh"How do you know I did?" the sheriff of Gunnison county and I "I'm Here, Neighbor." "You were gone when the officers bor," he said. wnnt him bad." "I'm thinking that myself," she adMoya still rode afternoons with her reached your camp." "Did you say Kllmeny?" asked the friends, fished occasionally, and took His smile was grim and his voice mitted, laughter welling softly out of captain sharply. her regular hand at bridge. But it defiant. "There a man up In the her. "That's what I said the man that was unaccountably true that her zest hills I wanted towas The sun lit the tips of the pines, so see In a hurry." won the broncho-bustincontest in these amusements was gone. She By the look in her eyes It was as if that they looked like burnished lances could give no satisfactory reason for he had struck her. With fine contempt in battle array, poured Its beams over To Atoya, looking around upon the lit- it, but she felt as if something had her answer came. "Was there another the scarred hillside, and bathed the tle group of armed men, there was a passed out of her life forever. It was man now little valley In effulgent glory. up there in the rocks menucing tenseness In their manner. as If the bubbling youth In her were that you had to see until thejust "You can always find it somewhere," deputy was Her mind groping for an explana quenched. The outstanding note of left?" he said with deep content, leaning on tion, but she understood this much her had been the eagerness with "Anyhow, there was a young woman an elbow indolently. 8 hat the law was reaching out for the which she had run out to meet new down by the banks of Sunbeam I She asked for no antecedent to his youth who had so In- experiences. Now she found herself wanted to see after he was gone," the pronoun. What he meant was not terested her. shrinking from thein. Whenever she ambiguous to her. claimed boldly. "What do you want with him? What could the girl was glad to slip away fugitive "If one knows where to look for It," A faint angry flush glowed delicatehas he done?" she cried quickly. by herself. To the charge that she ly beneath the olive of her cheeks. she added softly. "He and his friend held up the gate- was In love with this young "That's the trouble. We get so busy vagabond "Evasions nothing but evasions." keeper of the fair association and got she would have given a prompt denial. She turned away, sick at heart. He with our little everyday troubles that with three thousand dollars. Nevertheless, Lady Farquhar recogaway had treated with flippancy the chance How long since they passed?" nized the symptoms as dangerous. him. Would an Innoshe had "Pvtween a quarter and half an On the fifth day after the Gunnison cent man given have done that? Jiour," answered Farquhar. the young people at the Lodge trip Swift as an arrow his hand shot out, 'J'he sheriff nodded. "All ready, made a party to Psh Sunbeam creek. her shoulder, and held her tjrm-lcaught ffonys." They followed thevstrCam far Into the The eyes that lifted to his.ued Tlie clattering hoofs disappeared In hills, riding along (he trail which bor a cloud of dust down the rpad. dered It Kllmeny and Verlnder car to let you go like "I'm not The rough places of life had been ried lunch baskets, for they were to this. Don't going think It." for all women. these a make young padded day of It and return only In "Sir." Never before had they come so close time for a late dinner. "You'll do me Justice first." His to Its raw, ugly seams. The shadow Moya made her brave pretense of hand dropped from her shoulder, but of the law, the sacredness of caste, gayety. With alacrity she responded the masterful look of him her had always guarded them. to Verinder's challenge of a bet on steps. "You'll tell me whatstayed evidence .India turned upon her (brother big the relative sizes of their catches. you've got against me." iMa'ted eyes. "He said Kllmeny. Who But as soon as the rest were out of Again an Insurgent hope warmed con the man be?" sight she sat down In a shady Bpot her heart. Wild he might be, but "I don't know." He was silent a and fell to musing. surely no criminal if there was any moment In frowning thought, struck The voice of a grizzled rider startled truth In faces. by an unwelcome Idea, "you rememher from her dreams. Her lifted eyes What she had heard against him she ber Uncle Archie. He had a son named took in the grim look of the man, told. "The robbers were horses Jack who lives somewhere In Colo- garnished with weapons ready to his like yours. You left the riding fair grounds rado. D'ye remember he came home hands. early. When you passed us on the road when you were a little kiddie? "Mornin, miss," he nodded amiably. you were anxious about something. I at had Stopped granddad's. Thought And swift on the You looked back two or three times. seen his face before. He's our cousin heels of It, "You are a deputy sheriff, Both you and Mr. Colter showed you Jack. That's who he la." are you notf were In a hurry. Then you ran away "And now he's a highwayman. By "Rung the bell, ma'am. You belong before the sheriff reached your camp. Jove, he doesn't look It," contributed to the English outfit, I reckon. Funny Does an Innocent man do that?" She Farquhar. about some members of your crowd put her question as an accusation, but "I don't believe It. Such nonsense I" having the same name as the man in the voice was a little tremble that flamed Moya. "There must be a mis- we're looking for." asked to be refuted. Clear-Eyeand Masterful. She take." "Mr. Kllmeny, you mean?" "Sometimes he does. Now listen to Strong, Knew Him a Man Among Tan ThouI was "lie troubled about something, "Jack Kllmeny Yes, ma'am. Came me. The horses ridden by the robsand. Lord Farquhar suggested. from the old country, his father did Moya," bers were Colter's and mine. We cer"He and his friend were riding fast son of some big gun over there. Like- tainly were worried about the time we forget to look. But the Joy of life and plainly In a hurry." we met you. And we did break camp Is always there If we'll forget our ly he's some kin to your friends." "Didn't he stop to talk?" as a He put the last observation In a hurry so as to miss the sheriff. grouch and see It" "He had to do that to avoid . "Yes If having eyes we see." question, with a sharp glance from Does this prove me guilty?" I could see his mind wasn't under his heavy gray eyebrows. Moya She brushed away the soft waves of "I'm comforted a heap to know that on what he was saying. The man was chi.se to regard It as a statement. dark hair that had fallen over her fore- you believe in me even If I'm not anxious." "Are you still searching for him?" head In little escaping tendrils. The Captain Kllmeny," he assured her with "I thought you liked Mm," Moya she asked. fearless level eyes of the outdoors his slow rippling laugh. charged scornfully. "You bet we are. The sheriffs got west were looking straight at her. Had lie been looking at her he would Her guardian smiled. "I did, hut a notion he's up In these hills s. "I don't know. Does It?" have seen the telltale color tide her that isn't evidence that will acquit "We'll say this evidence had piled cheeks. "If that Is a comfort you are But If yon ask me, I'd say him In court of being a road agent." he was busy losing himself 'way off In np against Captain Kllmeny Instead welcome to It. I might have known "lie's India's cousin maybe. How Itoutt county, clear off the map. He of against me. Would you have be- Uie Idea of connecting you with such oiiM he be a criminal? Shall we have a thing was folly." used to punch cows up there and he lieved him guilty?" to cut her and Captain Kllmeny now?" knows all kinds of boles to hide In." "No. He couldn't have done It." He glanced whimsically at her. Alls Dwight demanded hotly. "On the same evidence you would "Don't be too sure of me, neighbor. "Yes," Moya assented listlessly. The captain laughed, but there was "He had hla getaway all plni.ncd acquit him and condemn me. Is that I'm likely to disappoint you. You'd ro mirth In his laughter. "You're a before ever be came down here. fair?" have to make a heap of allowances for Mrttx h friend. Miss Dwight. By Jove, That's a clnrh. The fishing was all a "I have known him for years Ills me If I were your friend." I hope you're right about him." bluff. The four of them had the hold-n- p standards, his ways of thinking. All Isn't that what friendship Is for In her heart Moya was not at Ms life he has schooled himself to to make allowances?" arranged weeks ago." all sure. What did she know of him? "Don't you think there's a chance run a straight course." You've found that out already, have And why should she care what he he didn't do It?" she asked in a for"Whereas 1 " He waited, the sar- you ?" was? The man was a stranger to her. lorn way. donic frosty smile on his lean strong lids fell to her The Forty-eigh- t hours ago she had never "Not a chance. Jack Kllmeny and face. Not for worlds cheeks In Moya knew that the flutter of her would she have had him guess the wi'ii him. Why was It that every Colter pulled off the play. What the trooil looking vagabond with a dash of others had to do with it I don't know." pulses was telling tales In the pink swift message ready to leap out to 1h- - ilevll In him drew on her sympaThe deputy passed to tbe fishing In of hex cheeks. "I don't know you." ward him. He seemed to be drawing thies? She recalled now that he had his conversation, hoped she would "I'm only a worklngman, and an htr soul to his unconsciously. Tinhesitated when she had mentioned his have luck, stroked his white goatee, American at that ao It follows that gling In every nerve, athrob with an I must be a criminal," ha answered emotion new and Inexplicable, she amine, no doubt making tip his mind and presently departed. to let her think him other than he The man had scarcely disappeared with a touch of bitterness. drew a long slow breath and turned was. The sheriff must know what he around a bend In the gulch before a But "No no I you're different her head away. A hot shame ran like was talking about when he said th sound startled her. Moya turned There's something untamed about you. quicksilver through her veins. She maa drop down the I don't quits know how to put It as whipped herself with her own scorn. man was an outlaw. Rut the appear- quickly, to see ance of hl?n pleaded potently. Surely face of a large rock to the ground. If you had been brought np without Was she the kind of girt that gave hose clear unflinching eyes were not Kven before he turned she recognized restraints, ai If you didn't care much her love to a man who did not want It? 1lip homes of villainy. Nor could she that pantherine grace and ber heart for law." find It possible to think bis gallant lost a beat His next words brought to her the "Why shouM I? Law Is a weapon He came straight toward her, with to bolster up the rich and keep down shock she needed, the effect of a grace vt bearing the possession of a tbe smile In his blue eyes that claimed tha poor," he flung back with an acid plunge Into Icy water on a warm day. nilirennt. I'.efore the day was out her faltt In comradeship as a matter of course. "What about your friends what smile. "But there'a law and law. "You here," she gasped. Kven In our class we have our stand- about Miss 8eIdon did she believe me Vm had sunk to rero. Captain Kll"I'm here, neighbor. Where ought ards, such as they are." meny returned! from the camp o? the guilty too?" He could not quite keep out of his vole. miners with the detailed story of the t to be In Routt county losing my"Now It's you that Isn't fair." she tha self?" Hadn't you better ask her that?" told him quietly. "Yon know I meant holdup. Her little hand was lost In Ms big nothing like that The point Is that she suggested. Two masked men on horwbtok bad brown f)t, her gaze locked in bis. I don't know what your standards are. Tfibhpd the treasurer of the Gunnison Kllmeny's alert eyes had swept again "You heard him?" Law doesn't mean ao much to people and again tha trail leading np the Cour.ty Fair association as ha was Van t depos'.t the re "Couldn't betp It I waa working bera. Tour blood runt freer, laas gulch, He did not Intend to b caught j striving to lance-straig- By WM. MacLEOD RAINE , Far-quha- sun-warm- g Oevll-mny-ca- I "Oood-roornlng- ." d sus-filrio- some-where- iH-e- long-lashe- d self-defens- napping by the officers. Now lie roe and offered her a hand up. "Your friends are coming." Swiftlv Moya came to earth from her emotions. In another moment she was standing beside the fugitive, her gaze on the advancing group. Captain Kllmeny was In the lead and waa the first to recognize her companion. Moya took a step toward her friends, so that for the first time Jack Kllmeny stood plainly revealed. India's pretty piquant face set to a sounless whistle. Joyce stared In frank amusement. Verlnder, rutted In enste and respectability as only a social climber dubious of his position can be, ejaculated a "God bless my soul!" and collapsed beyond further articulation. Captain Kllmeny nodded to the westerner without embarrassd ment Mr. Crumbs." But you have the name wrong, sir." "Mornin', "Good-mornin- "Beg pardon." The captain's eyebrows lifted In Inquiry. "Kllmeny," the American corrected. Nonchalantly the captain came to time. "Same name as ours. Wonder If by any chance we're of the same family. Happen to be any relation of Archibald Kllmeny, wly died in Colorado fifteen years ago?" Jack looked at him quietly. "A son." "Makes us cousins. He was my father's brother." The .westerner nodded coolly, not In the least Impressed. "Yes." , It would have been easy to read hostility In his bearing, but India sailed past her brother with hand extended. "Glad to meet you. Cousin Jack. 'Member me? Last time you saw me I was a squalling The American warmed a trifle. "I remember you, all right. Never saw a kid before so fond of currant Jam." "Still am. You've Improved In yosr Last time I saw personal appearamce. your eye It had been beautifully blacked, kindness of Ned." "Fortune of war. My lip was swol-le- n for a week," her brother laughed as he extended his hand. "Ned got caned for fightin' with a guest Served him Jolly well right" ." Miss Kilmeny eaidt. Joyce sailed forward Into the picture gracefully. Her radiant beauty took the westerner's breath. "You'll stay with us for luncheon," she said with soft animation. "For, of course, this Is an occasion. Long-los- t cousins do not meet every day." Verlnder, making speechless sounds of protest at this Indiscretion, grew very red in the face. Would he have to sit down to eat with a criminal at large? Jack hesitated scarcely a second. He could not take lils gaze from this superb young creature, whose every motion charmed, whose deep eyes glowed with such a divine warmth of molten gold. "Thanks awflly, but I really can't stay." He bowed to one and another, turned upon Joyce that look of dumb worship she had seen on the faces of many men, and swung off Into the confident, and pines, as elastic-heelecompetent a youth as any of them had seen In many a day. India's eyes danced. She was Irish enough to enjoy a situation so unusual. "Snubbed, Joyce, by a highwayman," she laughed. But Joyce merely smiled. She knew what she knew. SThc DA iry: CLEAN UTENSILS ARE ESSENTIAL IN DAIRY Every utensil which comes In contact with milk or cream must be thoroughly washed and sterilized Immediately after It Is used each time. Tbe utensils which require this care are milk buckets, cream separators, cream cans, strainers, and stirring rods. The following procedure Is recommended by a dairy specialist 1. First rinse the milk off these utensils with cold or lukewarm water. If hot water Is used for this purpose. It will scald the milk on the utensils In a thin film which Is very hard to remote later. This thin film of milk or cream that Is left is an ideal medium for bacterial growth, and will contaminate the next batch of milk or cream handled In the container. 2. Wash thoroughly each utensil In hot water containing alkali washing powder. Do this washing with a brush rather than a rag. A rag Is a filthy carrier of germs and does not scour the surface of a smooth metal utensil. A brush Is much easier to keep clean and will reach ail corners and sections of the utensil that cannot be reached by a rag. Also soap or soap powders should never be used In washing dairy utensils. The base of all soap Is a grease which forms a film on the milk vessel, which will In turn collect dust and dirt and thus form a place for bacteria to lodge and a medium for their growth. Soap also leaves an odor in the vessel which Is taken up by the milk and cream. 3. After the utensils have been thoroughly washed as outlined above, they should be rinsed In clean hot water to thoroughly remove all the washing powder and wash water. 4. Scald all utensils with boiling water, or better still, sterilize them with live steam by Inverting them over a steam Jet or by placing them In a sterilizer In which live steam can be held under pressure. 6. Never dry the utensils with a rag. Let them dry by the heat acquired during sterilization or by hanging them In the sun under a screened sunning rack. It Is better that this sunning rack and drain board be placed Inside the milk room and next to double windows. This protects the vessels from files and dust and dirt The wash vat should have two compartments, one for the wash water with washing powder and the other for rinsing purposes. wind-blow- n Saving Can Be Made on Calf Raising Expense , Six calves have been raised success- fully at University farm at St Paul, Minn., by using skim milk powder in place of ordinary skim milk. The experiment was In charge of Dr. C. H. Eckles, chief of the division of dairy husbandry, and T. W. Gullickson, a member of his staff. The change from the whole milk to the skim milk powder was made at the age of three weeks, they report At the end of CO days the skim milk powder was gradually withdrawn from the ration. From the age of 70 days CHAPTER V the calves were fed alfalfa hay and a standard grain mixture. At six months of age they were somewhat below norMoya's Highwayman. Dinner at the Lodge was Just fin- mal, but attained the normal condition ished. It was the one hour of the In both weight and height by the age eight months. day when anything like formality ob- of Ten pounds of powdered skim milk tained. Unless there was to be night to 00 pounds of water will make fishing the whole party usually ad- added 100 pounds of normal skim milk. The journed from the dining room to the can be bought for 10 cents the' river-fron- t porch, where such members powder pound. The grain ration consisted of of It as desired might smoke the postfour parts of corn, one of bran and one prandial cigar of cigarette. Tonight of linseed. This mixture serves the to cared nobody get out rod and line. ' Voices drifted up the trail and pres- purpose Just as well as more expensive commercial calf Doctor meals, says ently riders came Into sight They Eckles. halted among the trees, where one disTo raise the calf with the minimum mounted and came forward. He bowed to his audience in general, amount of milk was the motive of the and again and more particularly to experiment "The milk of 45 out of every 100 cows kept In the United Lady Farquhar. States Is sold as whole milk." Doctor eriff "Evening, ma'am. My name's Eckles says. "Owners of dairies where of this county. I hate to trouble you, but my men haven't had a milk Is marketed In this way are conbite to eat since early this mo'nlng. fronted by a serious problem In raisThink we could get a snack here? ing the necessary number of calves to We'll not get to Gunnison till most maintain their herds. If no calves are raised snd the farmer must buy eleven." rose. "I'll have Lady Farquhar the what be needs, there Is constant dancook make something for you. How ger of disease and his herd seldom Improves from year to year." many?" "Six. Much obliged. Just anything that'a handy." Sheriff Gill beckoned to the men In the trees, who tied their horses and presently came forward. All but one of them were heavily armed. That Give car to cooling the one walked between a 30-3and a 32 cream. special carbine. was It observable special that the men with the rifles did not Clip pastnres every two weeks to lift their eyes from him. kill obnoxious weeds. Moya felt ber heart flutter like that of a cnged bird. The blood ebbed Milk cows have Increased In numfrom her lips and she swayed In her ber and value In the past 15 yearn, seat The prisoner was Jack Kllmeny. but not In proportion to the Increase Farquhar, sitting beside the girl, let In the human population. his hand fall upon hem with a comforting little pressure, The advantage of a scrub cow "Steady!" his voice murmured so la that only It doesn't take so long to milk thnt she alone beard. her. d, GUI-sh- Dairy Notes Jack talis Moya ha Is not guilty of tha holdup. Ha convinces her. But does ha convince you? (TO BB CONTINUED.) Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to tbe present hour? Horace, Cows ought to do ery well on a liberal allowance of alfalfa ha mnn. plemented with ground barley and beet pulp. Of the total number of pnre bred dairy cattle of , the United Rfatea, about 69 per cent are Ilotatefn-Trleals25 per cent Jerseys. 0 per cent Ouernseya, S per cent Ayrshire, ad 1 per cent Brown Swim. n, |