Show — CHAS LAMMERSDORF Pros IIANSTUFT A V HUISII Cashier DIRECTORS— Chas Lammorsdorf Hans Tuft W H Brown gensen F C bcurup A V bluish James Farrell Chris Jor- First State BANK (Copyright U SYNOPSIS Jack der IV Keith plaint-ma- now a bora Virginian is riding along the Santa the lookout for roaming war trail ofon savages Ho notices a camp purtlea hie at a distance and then eeee a team full attached to a - C visible here and there flickering marking where a straggling town had of the sprung up under the protection in the post— a town garish enough daylight composed mostly of shacks and tents but now with its deficiencies mercifully concealed by the enThe trail easily veloping darkness followed led directly along its single street but Keith circled the outskirts of and through a wilderness heaps of other debris until he halted his charges beside the black shadow edifice In the of the only the This was the Occidental place hospitality of which he had frequently wagon and atWhen gallop Keith by men on ponton the wagon the raiders have massHe searches two men and and a locket victims finding departed papers to resolves a woman’s portrait He Is arhunt down the murderers' Keith rested sat Carson City charged with the murder his accuser being a ruffian named Black Bart He goes to lall full v realising the peril of swift border A (ustlce In his cell Is a negro who companion tells him he Is Neb and that he knew the Keith family back In Virginia Neb says one was John men of the murdered ‘ fortested other Gen Willis Waite Sibley the merly art officer In the Confederate army A light streamed from out the front The and Neb escape from the plainsman cell later the two fugitives become windows and uncertain who but might lost In the sand desert They come upon be harbored within Keith a cabin and find Its lone occupant to be a tapped young girl whom Keith recognises as a gently at the back door It was not singer lie saw at Carson City The girl and when It was that she came there In search of opened Immediately explains a brother from who had deserted the finally shoved aside the merest crack Mr to Induced her army A no glow of light revealed the darkened come while he sought to to the cabinHawley cate her bi other The voice which spoke howappears aid Interior Hawley Keith in hiding recognises him as Black was amply sufficient to Identify Bart Hawley tries to make love to the ever ' Kiri In is a terrific the Its owner battle There darkened room which Keith overcomes Black Bart Horses are appropriated and "Is that ye agtn Murphy a playin' the who says that har name is Hope girl thricks?” av dlrthv yer Joins in the escape Keith explains ills situation and the fugitives make for Fort “No Mrs Murphy" he hastened to Larned "this is Keith— Jack Keith explain of the ’Bar X' CHAPTER XII lc— (Continued) “The Lord deliver us!” whs the the door opening It was noon the sun pitiless and hot stant exclamation above them before they straggled wide "They do be afther tellin me av the throuble ye was in within the partial shelter of the sand an’ 01 t’ought maybe dunes and sank wearily down to their over at Carson It was meager lunch Tbelr supply of water ye moigbt turn up this way was limited and the exhausted ponies must wait until they reached the river to quench their thirst Yet this was very far off now and Keith had seen enough of their surroundings to locate the position of the ford Slow as they must proceed three hours more would surely bring them to the bank of the stream their plans discussed They pursued reaches acred the with McCIurg & Co $&K' rMnO WMtn WlLufcRriEoo IuUATRATIONS By 1910) Oi’d loike ter turn up huntin’ her take one slap at the spalpane'' Fully convinced as to Mrs Murphy’s good will Keith slipped back Into the darkness gpl returned with the girl Introductions wtre superfluous as the mlstrpss of the Occidental cared little regarding ceremony “An' is this you my dear?” she burst out endeavoring to curb her vdice to secretive softness "Sliure Jack Keith 'has told me all about it an’ It’s safe It Is yer goln’ ter be here Come on in Oi’ll give ye number thet’s next belilnt me own room an’ we’ll go up tbe back sthalra Hllp the young loidy Jack ter shure ye know the way" with She disappeared evidently some hospitable purpose in view and Keith clasping the girl’s hand undertook the delicate taejv of safely escorting her through the dark kitchen and stairs Only up the dimly remembered a word or two passed between ti but as they neared the second sti b® light suddenly streamed out tints a fr the opened door of a root jy" left Mrs Murphy greeted them at the landing and for the first time saw the girl’s weary white face her eyes filled with appeal and the warm Irish heart responded Instantly “Ye poor little lamb it’s the bid Jack ye want an a dhrap o’ whiskey Keith why didn’t ye till me she was Here done up wid the hard ride? honey sit down In the rocker till Oi It’ll bring tbe get ye a wee dbrlnk as the three sat together on warm Band revived both by the and the brief rest There was not a great deal to be determined only where the girl should be left and lij briefly the food the two men had better proceed observation Fort Lamed was the nearest and safest place for their charge none of the expressing any desire to adparty venture themselves within the Immediate neighborhood of Carson City What future plana might be were not revealed and Keith forebore any direct questioning Hi3 duty plainly ended with placing her in a safe enhe vironment and felt convinced that Mrs Murphy of the Occidental Hotel would furnish room and if necessary companionship The sole problem remaining — after she had rather listlessly agreed tq such an arrangement — was to so plan the details as to permit the negro and himself to slip through the small town clustered about the post "without undue attentattracting ion No doubt the story of their escape had already peached there embellished by telling and serious trouble miglit result from discovery Keith was surprised at the slight Interest In these arrangements she exhibited merely signifying her acquiescence by aword but he charged it to physical Vearlness and the reaction from her night of peril yet he took pains to fully his plan and to gain explain' how escape to her her consent This ' settled they mounted on through the lanes traversing the sand dunes ' keeping headed as straight as possible toward the river The ford sought was some miles down stream but with the horses' thirst mitigated they made excellent progress and arrived at the Not In all spot early in the evening the encountered a livday had orthey seen a moving thing ing object ad Id surrounding desolation Now across to the north a few looking gleaming lights told of Fort Larned upon the opposite bluffs perchnd again finally and rode the CHAPTER XIV The Landlady of the Occidental Keitb had crossed at this point so frequently with cattle that once having his bearings the blackness of the difference very little night made Nevertheless in fear lest her pony over some irregularity stumble might he gave his own rein to Neb and went on foot grasping firmly the forward It was a long tired animal’s bit stretch of sand and water extending from bank to bank but the water was the qnly danger being that shallow will guard you as though you were her own daughter She is a bit rough maybe but a big hearted woman and me She nursed despises Hawley once through a touch of typhoid — yes about in sudden by Jove" glancing "and tn this very room recognition loo " The girl’s glance wandered over the plain neat furnishings and the rather pathetic attempts at decoration yet with apparently no thought for them “You— you have not told me where you were going" He laughed a little as uneasily though he preferred to make light of the whole matter have "Heally hardly decided the world is so wide and i bad no reason to suppose you Interested” "But I am interested" resenting bis ”1 tone of assumed indifference would not want to feel that our acwas to wholly end now" quaintance "Do you really mean that?” You have been not? "Why should t"rdai friend to me shall remember you always with a gratitude beyond words want you to know this and that — that shall ever wish to retain - "He do be a ihoigbty folne bye Jack Keith” she said apparently address“Oi wish Oi'd a ing the side wall jAnowed him whin 01 was a gyurl shure it’s not Murphy me nolme’d be now Oi’m t’lnkln'" Left alone the girl bowed her head on her hands a hot tear stealing down As she glanced through her fingers that glittered on up again something the floor beside the bed caught her je7&i83he stopped and picked it up 1g the trinket to the light starIt was ing at It as though fascinated the locket Keith had taken from the neck of the dead man at Cimmaron Crossing Her nerveless fingers pressand the painted face ed the spring within looked up Into her own and still clasping It within her band sue “Shure It’s Safe It le Yer Goin’ Ter Be Here" sank upon her knees burying her face a nate trick ye played oa the loikes roses back to the cheeks av ye" She on the bed av ’em Jack' but this Is a dom poor was gone bustling down the dark “Where did be get that?” her lips stairs and the two were alone In the place fer ye ter hide In Bedad there’s "Where did he ever kept repeating in the parly now talkin’ room the girl looking up into hl face a get that?” the cushionfrom her av a officers wid It head about couple resting against (TO RK CONTINUED! he He thought ed back of the chair the fort Is the eager wid ye?” She Probably Was Worth It “Yes but we have no Intention of saw a glimmer of tears in the depths "1 proposed md her last night and today I eyes I’d rather take my of her hiding here round whftd throat seemed to choke have to See the girl's father" chance in the open The fact is Kate secure ” “A be will "You here" ’Bar perfectly we started oft for the painful ordeal” X’ can remain “Yes feel morally certain that ne “and “Av course ye did 01 was shure av he said soothingly Mrs Murphy is going to borrow at least $50” as long as you please it” "But down on the Salt Fork we ran 2 across a young girl whom Black Bart had Inveigled down that way on a lie We had a bit of a fight and got her This Is what brought away from him us back here — lo put the girl where she will be safe out at his clutches” New-Bor- n The door was wide open now and solid Mrs of straying off from the morea towerMurphy outside her Interest at Muscles of the Forearm Especially With bottom into quicksand At four days old the fever heat half a minute Seem to Be Powerful Saye a oddly mising cottonwood as guide and child's strength has Increased "Ye had a folght wid Black Bart' London Periodical out gauntly and standing shapen tbe time Is two and a balf minuted Oh ye dlvlll An' ye licked the dlrthy the the sky slightly lighter against for 9S per cent of babies The maxian' got away wid his gyurl! spalpane Hercules led on unhesitatingly until of the Infant Tbe myth mum Is attained at a fortnight Few plainsman And would Oi take her? Glory be! in bis two Berpents they began to climb the rather sharp Infants can hang on for more than Well 01 would Niver doubt that me whq strangled Here there cradle may not have been a myth at uplift of the north bank one bye She may be the quane av Shaba all but a fact says the London Tele- one and a half minutes thougb Into smoothwas a plain trail pounded remained Hercules young an" she may be a Digger Injiyi Squaw has proved exceptional Modern science ness by the hoofs of cavalry horses and 38 for two minutes but the loikes av him had better kape graph The suspended that It is quite a possible feat ridden down to water and at the sumseconds by his right band After that It's glad away from Kate Murphy babe Is mit relatively much be still hung on with his left for 15 they emorged within fifty yards of Oi am ter do it! Bring her in Oi man acthe stables stronger than a It is not stated seconds longer” don't want ter hear no more” some The few lights visible cording to the result of medical teats: whose babies were put through these Kate "Just a word don’t know "The muscles of tbe forearm are surwltb others dancing about lika whether horizontal bar gymnastics at ths early Bhe has any money or not prisingly vigorous A few boun after revealed Imperfectly one of from hour to a fortnight age but but I’ll pay her bill as soon as it is blrtb a baby suspended by Its finger the contour of various buildings safe for me to come back" to a stick or to the finger of a perKeith turned sharply to the right anxA woman "Oh tor She'll ten her the divll take bill son can bold Itself tn the air rarely uses toilet vinegars sliD past without being chalious to house annybow seconds and In the case of particu- and oils In her dressing until shs lenged by a sentry Beyond the brow have the best in tbe an’ Oi'm only hopin' that fellow will larly strong Infants for as long at past her salad days of the fdnff other lights now became Streegth of Four per cent interest paid on time’ deposits '3l SAUSAGE the and Fins Freik need ' Like Mother to nuke Choicest line oi MEATS and GROCERIES The White Front W G LONG COFFINS and CASKETS and Burial Supplies that friendship" Keith struggled with himself doubtful of what he had best say swayed by unfamiliar emotions “You may be sure shall never be blurted forth desperately “and If you really wish it I’ll certainly see you again” “I do” earnestly "Then I’ll surely find a way don't know now which direction we will ride but I’m not going very far until I clear up that murder out yonder on the trail that Is my particular job just now” Before she could answer Mrs Murphy and forced her to drink the concoction prepared the girl ac ceptlng with smiling protest The landlady empty glass in hand swept her eyes about the room “Bedad but the place looks betther than Iver Oi’d belaved wid the gyurl Ol’ve got tindln' to It She’s that lazy she goes ter slape swapin' the flure Jack would ye moind hllpln’ shure it’s raU maJfjff- mp(ve the bid an’ so heavy It breaks me hogany back intolrely to push it ’round" He took hold’ willingly enough and the two together ran the heavy contrivance across the room to the position selected Once a leg caught In the rag carpet and Keith lifted it out bending low to get a firmer grip Then he held out his hand to the girl “It is not going to be good bye then Miss Hope: I’ll find you" She smiled up into his eyes much of the weariness gone from her face "1 am going to believe that" she answered gladly "because I want to” Mrs Murphy lingered until his steps on the stairs as he slowly sounded felt his way down through the Saliriar of Drafts drawn oa all tie principal cities of the United States and Bnrope Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited I? kept in stock at my store imported from leading dealYou can examine the goods and make seletion at ers any moment Call in and see my stock of burial goods PF PETERSON Furniture Store! leeiMi St LUMBER LUMBER Nephi Plaster Portland Cement and a fine line of Builders Hardware Doors Windows PhoneJ Moulding 6 Black JOHN ARNESON LUMBER CO t?¥ mn If! 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