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Show TIIE S A LINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH am SYNOPSIS. Copyright by th McCall Company WNU Sorvlca. Cathrew. Kate relaxed her grip, let go the backward pressure. Tbe collie Jerked free and By VINGIE E. ROE boy and dog "Cattle Kate," owner of the .Sky Line ranch, on her way to store at Cordova, seemIngly Infuriated by the sight of a girl plowing In a valley below, places a rifle bullet near' the horses feet. The girl takes no -. notice. Kate goes on to town, where her presence brings on a fight between McKane, the trader,, and Sheriff Selwood. Nance Allison, the girl on whom Kate Cath- rew had vented her spite. Is with her widowed mother and crippled brother Bud farming land taken up by her father, killed a short time before In a mysterious acBud is the victim of a cident. deliberate attempt to malm or' kill him. Kate Cathrew wants the farm for. pasture land, and Is trying to frighten the Allisons Into leaving. Big Basford, Sky ' Line rider, desperately In love with Kate, picks a quarrel with a fellow rider, Rod Stone. Kate, to part them, lashes Basford across the face with a quirt. ; CHAPTER IV Continued With a snarl and a whine the owner of the tail faced her In the low mouth of a cave, his pointed ears flat to his head, his feet spread wide apart, his back dropped, his jaws apart and reudy, and round his outstretched neck there stood up in quivering defiance, the broad white ruff of a pure bred - collie dog! The girl stared at him with amazement and at the more which lay along the astonishing thing ' pebbled earth beneath him for this was the thin little leg and foot of a small child. In utter silence and stillness she stood so, her hands on the rocks top, and for all the length of time that she watched there was not a tremor of the little leg, nor a movement of the dogs crouching body. The only motion In the tense picture was the ripple of the stream, the quiver of the lips drawn back from the gleaming fangs. When the tension became unbearable Nance spoke softly. Come, boy, she said, come hoy come." She ventured a hand across the rock, but the quivering lips drew back a trifle more, the big body crouched a bit lower and the little bare leg drew out of sight behind the caves edge. Carefully the girl slipped back from thr rock toward the pool, gained Its lip, and dropped swiftly away down the canyon. At a little distance she drew a deep breath and' looked back.. The mouth of the cave was black and vacant. There was no sign of the fiery eyes and slavering jaws, of a thin little leg under a fringe of blue jeans rags! With eyes dilated and lips closed In amazed silence Nance Allison made her way hack to Buckskin, mounted and returned to the flats of Nameless. She had found Mystery with a capital, hut she knew that she must wait with patience its unraveling. Those pule eyes between the flat ears held a challenge which only a fool would disregard it would take time and patience. . But, for the love of huraanify, why was a child hiding like a fawn In Blue Stone cabyon with only a dog to guard it and with no sign of camp or people? open-mouthe- d . Not one chance in a thousand of that. No some one else Is there, thats sure. An I dont believe Id meddle." But Nance rose determinedly. Tve got to, Mammy," she said, Id never sleep, another night' If I didnt, Tomorrow Ill go back, bright and early. The mother, regarded her with troubled eyes. "Let Bud go, ..too you never' know might be a trap pr somethin." With such bait? No. That little 4eg was bo thin like its owner- was wispy. I wish It was morning. All the rest of the day and the tranquil evening Nance felt a thrill and stir within her, 41 trouble. She milked old Whitefoot and her sleek black, daughter, Benrly, to the remembered sound jf he fairy voices of .the canyon, and when she sat to her nightly reading of the Word beneath the coal-oi- l there. intruded" on lamp on the sacred page the gleaming fangs above that motionless small leg. With gray dawn she was up .and about her work that she might get. an early start. Bud was all for going' with her, but .she would not have It so. Tlf have- trouble enough getting near, she told him, the best I can stranger would make them . wilder still. The boy caught her hand, as she swung up on Buckskin. . fie careful,- Sis," he said, look' shnrp on every side." He had never forgotten- that stretched rope. Neither had Nance, but she walked bravely In a faith which made her serenely bold. Commit thy. way unto the Lord, she said smiling. Trust also In Him. Dont you fret nor let Mammy, if you can help it Ill be back soon as I can. Then she was gone down across the flats with Buckskin on the lope, one hand feeling carefully for the package she had tied behind the saddle. This - the'-iabf- e . - - . . Come, CHAPTER V . What Nance Found. Nance pushed Buckskin hard and rode In early to the cabin and her mothers counsel. She put the little horse away in. the stable and fed him bis quota of the precious hay, for Buck skin was not turned out to graze. lie, along with Dan and Mollie, was too necessary to the life of the homestead to take chances with. They, would miss him sorely should he go the way of the six steers. She hurried up and pulled open the kitchen door. "Mammy," she said excitedly to the gaunt woman shelling peas by the table, Ive found something in the canyon. .1 wonder should I meddle? Mrs. Allison laid her wrinkled brown hands on the edge of the pan and ' looked at her daughter. she. said soberly, Its according, does it need meddlin'? Thats what I dont know.- I found a collie .dog a savage dog. for 'hat breed and a little child hiding In a cave. I couldnt get near to them; but they act' like they know what they're .ddlng--th- ey had watched me from behind a rock and crawled to the' cave In line with it when Iturned. I only saw the childs foot hut it 'was "a thin little was thing and the old jeans pant-leweathered to rags. There wasnt a sign of camp nothing. What could it . . - ' g . ' mean?-.- The anxiety of a universally loving .heart was in Nance's voire. Did I do or should "right to. tried- sortie more to see .them? It couldn't be done. though--tti- e dog Is on guard. He'll have to be' handled lowly. Im sure of that. Mrs.' Allison 'considered this odd information gravely. "It 'means some one else besides the child and dog, that's certain. They never got. there by their lone selves. "But maybe they got lost from some come-awa- . one and they may he hungry the fin half rose at that thought, her brows gathering In distress though whoever could be In Blue Stone can nnd what for, I don't know. Tb elder woman shook her head. Boy,' She Come, Said.-Come.- Boy, went carefully, picking her way, eyes scanning each turn and boulder. At the pools edge she stood a long time, watching, listening, but there, w as nothing to be. seen or heard. She went, to the mouth of the cave and peering In cautiously, called softly. She waited, but there was no anrush as swering growl, no she had half expected. The shallow cave, was empty, save for some ashes of a dead fire and blankets. She circled the rock and began hunting for tracks in the white sand of the canyon bed and presently she found them small tracks of childish feet, set close beside the padded narrow prints of a dog and they were going, up the canyon,, deeper into Its fastnesses. She trailed them easlly for a distance, then lost them --In the foaming shallows Tf "a riffle, and search as she would she could not find Where they came out. There was a flat lip of rock on the other side, to be sure, but beyond that was sand again, and It lay clear, unruffled. Above the riffle was a long-deepool, swift and flowing, and she stood for a tinne contemplating It, It hardly seemed possible that the two outcasts could have swum It, and yet where were their" tracks If they had not? . She circled the pool and went on, '.trailing carefully, hut the bed beyond was composed of shale, blue and sharp hard going for a childs bare feet, she and thought compassionately gave .no sign of . a crossing. For another hour she went on, scanning the walls, the fallen stones, the stream Itself and every nook or corner where anything might hide. She was far In Blue Stone canyon by- this time and wondered at the endurance which could have brought a child so far. Or hnd some one come and taken It away? That was possible, of course, and yet a grownup person would have left marks-ithe soft sand assuredly. She would but at this point In her train of thought, she came around a sharp In the wall and face to face with her quarryor at least with part of It. Startled, the dog she had seen the day before was crouching In the narrow way- that led around the jut, his body half turned, one foot raised, tall lowered, and the face he turned back across his shoulder was 'the most vicious thing Nance had ever seen. He was crouched to. spring, and the fury of his snarls,, audible above the sound of the stream, made ..that 'odd clutch close her throat which always accompanies sudden horror. Nance Allison was a brave woman, but she was scared then. She stood rooted to The spot and could not tear her eyes from the dogs pale flaming orbs to look at the little creature which she knew was running with a flurry of rags and naked arms up along the'eanyon wall. . For a long moment they eyed each other, then, without . other warning than a flicker of those flaming eyes, ' the eullle. sprang. He came high, sailing up and for ward, his forepaws spread, his. heat thrust .out and downward, his jaws gaping.. In the second that followed Instinct acted in Nance, not .reason; Instead of recoiling; she surged forward to meet .the onslaught, heF right arm raised becontained a goodly piece of boiled, corn fore her. like a horizontal bar. The faded denim sleeve was down beef and two slices of her mother's bread, fresh baked the day before. She and buttoned at the wrist, where the was going armed with bribery. gauntlet of. her cheap leather 'gldve The whole Nameless valley between made a ruff. Into that gaping month- went . the its great escarpments was fresh and cool with shadow, for the sun was not arm, Jamming hurd, while she flung her left arm around .the ruffed white yet above Mystery ridge and the that, marked the way to the throat like a clamp, ' If she was .surprised at. her own incanyon. The river Itself talked to the boul- stinctive and prompt action, the collie ders In its bed, and the little Winds was niore so. Down on the sand went that drew up the myriad defiles were girl', and dog,' a rolling, tumbling sweet with the fragrance of pines and bundle. In' the hstjf second which that nameless scent of" water which served to make.' the dog the victim- Incannot be described. All these things stead of the attacking his outlook on the situation was completely were the joy of life to Nance. She loved them with a passion whose changed.. He had charged la a fury of but force she did .not comprehend. They rage. Now he- fought were what sweetened her hard and it was to free bis mouth .from the filled. It, to. get bis new choking ceaseless toil, what made of ea-chead out of the vise which held- it; Btr day In her monotonous roun.d something to'be met with eager gladness", Nance found herself in' a dilemma, too to he lived through joyfully. missing 'She was afraid to let go. "As she rolled nothing of the promise of dawn. the over in the struggle she cast desperate fulfillment of noon, the blessing of twl eyes up. alwig the wall whe're sii.e had light. They had stirred and delighted seen the eerie small figure, .running fn the nomad heart of her fnther. before its rags'.' True enough, it was there, her, they had filled' her own with con stopped, facing her, bent forward, Its a curiously old tentment.. little hands clasped-inshe-wa. In to as the of fashion be distress. canyon Eager Little hoy !" she called.-Vomhere of she d.id not miss the or fail to watch Come and talk to your .dog come light above rlmro-.K- , the golden halo come- along the crest quick ! I .wont, hurt you.- Come and' . call him please come-:of Rainbow cliff. . For a moment she lay panting, balkBut she soon crossed the river and .entered the mouth of the great cut. ing 1'nto. the ili'ated- eyes so near her . leaving behind the miracle of burgeon-- ' face. (.lid- chap, she 'said- softly, what's ing day, for here the shadows were ' still thick, like' gray ghosts. She pushed all the fuss? . I;rn your friend If ydu on up for an hour or so, listening to only knew it. Nice doggie She glanced at theyhlld again, .who the voices which were still talking, ' ' . . while the shadow's thinned between the hnd Come on, sonny,- 'sh called coitx-Ingt', dusky walls. come on please. At the point where she had left the before she dismounted the Slowly the child raine forward, hesiday pony and dropped his rein. tant, afraid, his small face pale with You wait here, old nuisance. she fright. He sidled near and "put out a dirty said, darkly, rubbing his restless ears "for I may have sudden need of you. If hand dogs right eai The little you see me come flying out with a hand closed pulled and Nance felt streak of tawny fur behind me, don't the dogs body twitch in m effort to obey. She knew at once 1i.it- that as you daie break when I jums. So long. She took the bread and meat from the way they traveled together the the saddle and started on foot. She child holding to bis ear. Slowly slit . - rim-roc- ' bucked off shaking his head, and Nance sat up, folding her feet beneath her. Then she smiled at the two waifs of Blue Stone canyon. That isnt a nice way to treat folks who come to see you, Is It, sonny?" she asked, "to set your dog on them? I didnt set him on, said the child. In a high treble," lie set himself on you. "I guess you're right," answered the girl, but dont let go of him again; Uo over there and pick- - up (that package' and bring It to me. She pointed to the package of bread and meat which had been flung wide In the recent trouble, and the. child obeyed, draggiftg the collie along, who went unwillingly, his distrustful and baffled eyes turned back across, bis shoulder to keep her In sight. The child, .too, was wary, reaching far out, stretching his small body to the utmost between her haud and his hold on the dog's ear. Quickly Nance unrolled the cloth. She counted on the aroma which now arose on the clear air. Im hungry," She said nonchalantly,: are you? ' . The boy nodded. ' And your dog, too? I 'spect so he answered gravely.' She broke the food into sections and handed a portion over, Tim dirty little hand reached eagerly this time. Feed him some," she Said,- Indicating the dog, but already the child was dividing as best he could without releasing his hold. The dog grabbed the fragrant ment a.nd bolted It, watching her the while. Quickly she tossed him a bit of her own.' He snapped that up also and she fancied the expression of the pale She remembered now eyes- - changed. the extraordinary lightness of the great furry body, as if there was little beneath the splendid tawny coat save bones and spirit. Plenty of the latter, she reflected, smiling.. Whew I but wasn't he a fighter? But trained to he regarded the last degree-thougher as a foe, still at th touch of the small hand for w hich he had fought he stood "obedient. Pretending to eat herself, "she managed to give the greater the two before her, part of the' food and they devoured it to the ultimate crumb. Where you live? she asked the child at last he did not answer. He was picking the crumbs he had dropped from the front of his blenched blue shirt the pitiful excuse for a shirt, .without sleeves, If one excepted the strings that' hung from the shoulders, .without buttons and all but falling from the scrawny little body underneath. As she watched him Nances heart ached .for his poverty, for. his woebegone appearance. She 'was filled with a cautious excitement. The collie had sat down beside the bov, who- had loosed his hold by now-..- It seemed that hostilities were relaxed, though she took no chances. I live down on the flats by .the T get lots river, she said presently. of. fish from these pools. They're awfully good, too. The child nodded. I know, he said, we do, too. . ' Who catches em? asked Nance. Not you?" .He shook his head. "No. Brand does. Whos ftrand? she followed quickly, hqt once more th.e child shook his ' unkempt head. Just Brand, he said. Nance saw that further questioning would not do, therefore, she fell back, on the wiles of woman,- the blandish'' . . ments of .sex. fock'ed on her heels, holding her Slip ankles in- her hands and smiled with the 'wlnso'rne sweet ness which so few in the world knew she possessed. ' little boys," she said,' and" I havent any.- But Tve .got a pony. Nomes' Buckskin. - pale-pagean- . to-th- SHORT SAYINGS Time is the surest judge of trjitli. There la. nothing Insignificant-nothi- ng! . TWICE IN THIS WOMANS LIFE Lydia EL Pinkhams Vegeta ble Compound Helped Her from Sickness to Health When I Ellensburg, Washington. was first coming into womanhood I suf- fered terribly every My mother did everything sho could think of, so she month. ' beget fool Fool questions usuully answers. Who bathes In worldly Joys, swims In a world of fears. Our care should not be. so much to live long, as to live well. 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