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Show I H Cnrilh by Bca Ames wnbm bij Ben Ames Umliams enough to deter the boldest for a mo- till the doctor cornea, Harm Pierce ment They dodged aside, peering cau- confessed. I can cure some hurts, this viltiously ; and by the time they found here la too much for me. In At a Katharine of cronlei tha And later ehe Mid: "You put a pillage of Liberty, Naina, Jim 8aladpe courage to draw near, Seth was dead. llatena to tha hlatory of tha neighborBut Will, despite hie wound, waa low under bis bead, and a blunket over ing Hoatlla Valley 111 past tragedies. alive; end Luke knotted a hit of rope him, to keep him warm. Ha anparh Selling stream!, and, above But when these thing! were done around Will's leg, and twisted It with II, tha myaterloua, enticing "Huldy," wife of Will Farrln. Interested, ha a stick. Tliere was a babble of com- they could only keep vigil, till after a irlvaa to tha Valley for a day's Selling, mands sad advice and argument For long hour the doctor did arrive. though admitting to himself hla chief When that which had now to be dealre la to sea tha glamorous Huldy Keth, clearly, there was nothing to be done was done, Jenny waa left drained Farrln. lOId Harm Plarca and bar done. nlnatean-year-ol- d "Hut we got to get help for Will, and empty, her muscles limp, her heart granddaughter Jenny Since childhood here, mighty live In tha Valley. quick," Luke pointed alck. Throughout, she and Harm Pierce Janny has deeply loved young Will hnd helped the doctor; the old woinun Farrln, older than aha, and who re- out One of the other inen remembered administering chloroform drop by drop gards her as still a child. Will leaves to taka employment In nearhv Augusta. Munn Pierce. Two boards secured to- under strict direction, Jenny holding His (Bihar's death brings Will back waa bidden. to tho Valley, but ha returns to Au- gether by crosspieces served as a rude this and that as she With the first stroke of knife.- she gusta, atlll unconscious of Jenny's litter. They set out to carry Will ' was stunned as though by a head womanhood, and love. Neighbors of through the woods to the old woman's tha Plercea are Bart and Amy Carey, house. blow ; had thereafter no sense or strict brother and alstar. Bart, unmarried and It was thus that Jenny saw Will consciousness of what went forward la atsomething of a tracted by Janny. Tha girl repulses again, borne on a rough litter Impro- here at all. This still' form on the table him deSnltaly. Learning that Will vised of fresh sawed boards still red- ceased to be the man she loved; she la coming home, Janny, exulting, seta olent of anp end resin, his face drained helped like an automaton, her cheek to rlghis," and house hla white, his eyes dosed. Ills leg below white as stone, her hands precise and has dinner ready for him. He cornea trong, while flesh and blood and bone bringing hla wife, Huldy. The girl's the knotted rope a shuttered thing. world eollapses. Huldy becomes the 8he saw the men approaching with of good Will Ferrln were reduced to object of unfavorable gossip In tha their burden, and she and Harm carrion. The overpowering physical exValley. Entering hla horns unlooked on her for, Will Bnds Beamingly damning Pierce came out on the kitchen porch, perience would leave Its traces thereafter In lasting ways; yet she evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness and the old woman cried urgently: aa a man ha knows Is Seth Humph"Somebody's hurt bml I Jenny, get was for the moment spared emotion. reys breaks from tha house. the cloth off the dining room table. Thla was no tempest of the soul which Put a couple leaves In, and a blanket buffeted her. Itather she Buffered on It, soi they ran lay him there." physical blows and wreuchlngs, and CHAPTER IV Continued Jenny would bnve run desperately emerged exhausted, bruised, weary to 7 But Will had spent no energy In to meet them, but the old woman held the heart When at last ehe was no longer He had cut her from that futility. So when Luke vain direct pnraiilt and the others arrived, the tnlile waa needed, she went weakly Into the mill down for the the afeam straight end Harm Pierce met them kitchen to wash her hands and clean Talley, to wait for Seth there; and prepared, her garments; she returned to her door. at the Humphreys after a while guessed this. "Fetch him In, ehe commanded. own room to change Into her other He said to Bnrt, himself reluctantly "Who Is It? Will Ferrln?" gear, lime had flown; dusk wu purpreparing to depart: "Hie Luke shot mile said off, leg's ple In the Valley. When she returned "Bart, you got a gun In the house? somehow There1 a wild bull In the wood down hoarsely. Seth shot him; would have to the dining room, Will had b&n moved so that he lay, breathing where we'rd working, been bothering In long gasping Inhalations, on the the men. I'm a mind to shoot him." couch; and Jenny found the doctor Bart laid: Ive got an old revolver gone; and only Harm Plercei and Luke that throve a heavy slug, If yon can Hills remaining here. hold It straight Yon get near enough The old woman looked at Jenny In and yon could kill an elephant with the lamp's pale light end saw the girl's exhaustion; and she came to say Let me have that Beth proposed. to her softly: This bull, he comes right np around "Jenny, theres nought to do here for the mllL I can get near enohgh to a while. . It will be long enough till he him without no trouble at all. knows us, or knows anything. You get So Bart produced the revolver, an out of doors, get some air,, breathe life ancient model. In a heavy holster back Into you, child. You're pale as a stained by yean of use. Got quite a gone thing yourself, this minute. I'll hlatory, that gun has," he said proudtend all here." In out "Fellow a found Denver ly. And Jenny, moving with a curious In man dead a gulch In the mountains obeyed the old woman as passivity, one day, with this. gun on him and a he wae used to obey. The night would bullet through hla head. Be sent the be cold; and she put on a coat over gun to me. Triggers mighty light Sinher dress, and a shawl about her head gle action. Yon have to cock It and ahoulders, and went out Into the Seth hefted the weapon, lighted thickening darkness aiade aura it was loaded. Much Thla wm a still, cold night, with obliged, he said. I'll fetch It back to dawn. ne'er-do-we- ( ty It It yon." And ; ' I ' 3 ha got Into the track, and laid the pistol on the seat beside him, and went on hla way. The man was afraid I He was as big aa Will Ferrln; not quite so tall, but heavier. Nevertheless, Just as. a dog lights beet 1b Its own yard, so does a man In the wrong fight poorly. Seth wanted no fight with Will Ferrln; and hla very fears gave him a false courHe gritted hla age, a pseudo-ferocitteeth and shook big head and vowed that Will had better not try to lay a hand on him. He drove down the Talley road and tamed Into the rough wood track that led to the clearing where the steam mill was set beside g spring brook that furnished' water for the boilers. The mill was working, the mill crew gathered In the shed.' But Seth did not see Will anywhere about, and knew a deep relief. There was at one aide a shed of rough boards, roofed with tar paper, with dirt floor. In which the truck was customarily stored against the weather. Its doors were swung wide, and Seth . Vned the track Into this shed. But aa he did so, Will Ferrln came suddenly out from behind one wide-flun- g door, and leaped on the tracks running board, by Seths very elbow. Hla countenance was affrighting Seth's foot missed the brake, pressed the throttle Instead; then he found the brake and Jammed It down. The truck leaped ahead, tried to atop, skidded sidewise; the right rear wheel broke partly through one wall, the front mudguard burst Into the opposite wall. And Will, la silent, deadly purpose, caught Seth'e throat with both handa to drag him to the ground. Seth'e hand found the ready pistol; be thumbed the hammer back. Ae the weapon came Into hla sight. Will released Seth's throat with hla left hand and grabbed at Seth'a wrist that held the gun. The two men were falling together as the pistol exploded. Will felt the heavy hall plow Into hla leg below the knee, crashing through the bone with a shocking Impact But he did not loose the grip he bad. The mill was sixty or seventy yards away, and the saw, at the moment of the shot, wee whining through a log; but Luke Illlle wee beyond the mill, by the brook, and hla ears were clear of the saw's close proslmlty. He heard the shot, and came lumbering up the bank, shouting the alarm to the others The men came to the shed door, and saw Will and Seth down In a locked grip, and Will's leg was hideous. Hut the muxitle of a heavy pistol pointed towurd them from the ground, wavering In the tight grip of two opiNwlng liiiiids. and tills was Huldy called: "Come lnl" So Jenny entered. The two raced hpr from beyond the table; the lamplight wss strong upun them, lluldy sat with her head a little on one side, her dark eyes shadowed, her lips curled In that deep t, mile; Burt, beside one hand still upon the arm of her 'chair, as though he had been bending over her In some stern or ardent her,-sto- the Grip killed him, like as not But Will held on till he choked the life out of Seth." "Don't stand there talking I the old woman scolded. "Lay him on the table here, easy. One of yon go over to Bart Carey's and telephone for a doctor. "Wo lowed you could . . "Get a doctor, I told yon I Jabbering like a pack of crows I Lay him down. Now get out of here, the lot of you. Jenny and me, we'll tend him. One of you go telephone, and the rest, of you stay handy, case I need you. A man departed at a clumsy ran, and Harm Pierce; standing by Will, slitting way hla overalls, tugging at his heavy asked over her shoulder: shoe, Wheres Seth? He's dead. No help for him, Luke Hllla told her. Well, go stay with him, one of yon, she directed. Get along. And to Jenny: "Shut the door I So Jenny and Harm Pierce were left to tend the hurt man, and Harm Pierce as she bared the wound made little rueful whistling sounds between her teeth, and Jenny was cold aa stone, all emotions In abeyance, standing like Ice. "Get water boiling, Jenny, Harm Pierce directed. "The doctorll want that, certain. And fetch some water here till 1 clean hie leg all I can. Jenny turned to the kitchen, chunked the fire, pumped water, put the kettle on the store; then she came back to the dining room. She had not spoken. Will's eyelids wavered, opened, then uosed again. He said weakly: "Hy team's tied, up on ridge road. Somebody fetch 'em hnine. You hush up. Will," Harm Pierre told him. You'll need all the strength you've got "Nut come off the axle," Will Instiled. "There's a spare nut In th' shed, somewhere!." "Hush, 1 tell jouP the old woman cried. She loosed the tourniquet a little, till blood flowed again, then tightened It once more. She sow Jennys fearful doubts of this procedure, and Mid: "I dunno, Jenny. Seems like Pve heard tell you've got to let some blood get through, or the legU die. 1 guess It's going to have to be cut off, though. No bone left, only splinters, for four five Inches down tha shin. Jenny nodded dumbly. "All we can do la keep him quiet od u . Whether the na rs' college, Columbia university, laws been studying governing propag- anda that Influ- ences human minds, on 09 experimenting educated" adult from the list of from sixty-nin- e to twenty yean old. The ex-ewere asked to press their views of- half-erec- urgency. And Jenny Mid slowly: Mis' Ferrln, I guess you dont know It, or youd been there; but Will's hurt over to Grannys house; The doctor cut hie leg off. You'll have to come on over! ' Bart straightened up, hie face hot. "That's what I've been telling her," be Mid, yet not convincingly; end Huldy's eyes turned toward him, with sardonic upward twist of her brow. "Hell be coining to, soon, Jenny urged. "When the chloroform wears off. And he'll want you there." Bart Insisted; "Yes, Huldy 1 Hell want you! You'd ought to go along with Jenny! Huldy Mt at ease, one knee crossed over the other, one foot moving slightly In a tight little rhythm. Jenny mw that the other woman's hat lay on the table by the lamp. "Yon were getting ready to come? she haxarded. I guess Bart told you about It 1 thought you mightnt know. Huldy did not speak at all; and Jenny naked Bart: "How did you know? "They telephoned from my house, he reminded her. "I waa fishing, down brook, with a man thats been staying at my place. Amy told me, when I got home; a while ago; 1 come right np here . . a tomcat Mid Huldy, "Quick with a mocking glance at Urn; and he Mid hotly, virtuously: "It looked to me you'd need some one. Youd have the choree to do . . . ' Jenny remembered something forgotten. She cried: Oh, Bart I Will says hie teams np on the ridge road. He lost a nut off the wagon. Youd better go fetch them back to the barn. Bart hesitated; but Huldy Mid, watching him cruelly: "Go along, Bart Yon can make np to a horse, maybe I without underJenny perceived, standing, a baffled anger In Bart; she thought he wee provoked by Hulily'e heartlessness, and she touched his arm. Go on, Bart," ehe urged. Go fetch the team back and unhitch them and giro them some feed. . . . I'll take nuidy over home. threat of another frost before There was sweat on Bart's brow; The stare prickling overhead, stooping he looked from Jenny to Huldy and low, peered brightly down like the his dark eye fixed on Will's wife. "You eyes of curious children. The girl toy here till I come back, he mutlooked up at them, and she heard tered. went to talk to yon. an owls hooting cry fir down the I've heard an youve got to say," Valley; and she heard the ramble of Huldy told him. "Get away from me, a distant automobile, somewhere end stay away I There wee no heat toward the steam mill, and saw a In her tones; no trace of auger; rather weeping ray of light above the trees a slow, meddenlng acorn. aa though a car were turning there, Bart Matched at hla hat I'll come Its headlights like a searchlight's back," he Insisted, almost threateningbeam. ly, and then wee gone. So these two women were left alone, and Huldy They, would be . taking Seth Humphreys' body away,, she thought; and looked at the girl with narrowed eyes, he thought Will had killed him, and and she said tonelessly: thought of the law and what the law I guess you feel bad about WilL" would have to ray to this; end ehe "Ye," Jenny assented. Yes, I do!" thought loyally that none could blame Huldy shifted her position, spoke In WI1L Blame Huldy, It might be; but casual Inquiry. Is he hurt real bad? not WilL Jenny watched her, remembering And alow anger began to wake In that this woman wae the source from her, to eupplant the terrible stricken which catastrophe had sprung; and grief because a part of Will was gone, Huldy waved a careless hand. Will, and the sweet flesh she loved wee now he's always one to look for trouble, reduced to a noisome thing that must he reflected., "lie come Into be disposed of secretly and swiftly. the house, end flew off tramping the handle et in Humwoke at Seth Anger her; nothing, and went out again phreys for hie active part, and at That's all I know. Her lips twitched Huldy for her secret, passive role. with amusement You go on and tell Seth was dead, beyond reach of me, ahe urged. ' Jennys wrath; but Huldy lived! Will and Seth, Jenny explained: And Jenny found herself going at they fit downt the mllL Seth bad a a like swift long strides, avenger, gun . . toward the brook, along the wood That wae Barts gun," Huldy Interwhere path, toward Will's farm rupted, Seth borrowed It claimed he Huldy now would be. wanted to shoot a wild bulL 8he Jenny went In wrath ; but her deep, laughed softly. Ae If wm was wild, abiding anger was bound In fetters not or a bull either, matter of that! But easily to be broken, for Huldy wae 8eth always would He. Will's wife, end the girl had wit Seth (hot Will, Jenny persisted, enough, deep sense enough, sound wisher tones shaken. "The bullet hit Will's dom enough to understand that this was no seemly hour for a woman's leg and broke the bones all to pieces brawL To shame Huldy would be to It went smashing down into his foot; shame Will; and with sudden dear and they fetched him to the house, and the doctor cut his leg off. perception Jenny knew that this she fro BE CONTINUED) would not do. So by the time she had crossed the brook and climbed the Only Independent Republic steep trail and come up through the The ouly Independent republic that orchard to the house, the wss steady again, bent and bound first and above has existed within the present bounall else to protect WIU from ugly daries of the United States was Texas. Until ISIS It wss part of Mexico, and tongues; She came through the barn Into the In that year declared Its Independence a republic, which existed until rarmyard; and through the unshaded window of the kitchen ahe mw 29, 1843. when It was formally Huldy within. And sight of Huldy checked nnesed to the United States An atthe girl; for Will's wife wss dressed tempt by Gen. John C. Fremont and In an unaccustomed fashion. In skirt others to establish an independent Reand coat of some dark stuff. Also publican government to California to Jenny mw that Bart Carey stood 1843 wm not successful, and to 1819 e her, bending down to her, sieak-In- g it was officially made a territory of Intently; and she mw Huhly's the Unted States. slow, mocking smile as she looked at the man. her head tilted backward, the Scents Attract Timber Wolves smooth line of her throat The timber wolf, trapin-- r agree. Is sweeping deep Into her bosom. the wiliest or all animals. Only expo This much Jenny mw, not partleu rienred trnpiicra take wolves consist larly Intent on Bnrt, but startled by to Imps. They are taken mostly the fashion of Huldy's dress; and ahe ently with the shl or secret and )c:i Ioiim! . went quickly to knock upon the kitchen guarded scents which imve focii n door. traction for the wolves 1 But Ho Did Not Loose He Had. ' To Influence Men Very Cheap Empire Good Airplane News The learned Doctor Lorge, WOT Servlet. - l Knows Propaganda SYNOPSIS long-emp- Man Who THIS WEEK "some opinions" utlered hy Lincoln, favoi-abl- y Kari Marx. Many that reacted not did Lincoln of name to the approve Lincoln' statement: and Pnp'tnl Is the fruit of labor, had labor If existed have could never not existed. reaThose thnt objected had sound son on their side. Capital Is not the Is fruit, of liilmr any more than tabor the fruit of capital. Capital and labor are both the fruit of human Intelli- gence. The intelligence of Thomas A. Edison supplied labor. Jobs employing millions of men and paying billions In wages, and that Edison Intelligence alone supplied capital to those that knew how to nse Edison's Ideas on a big scnle. The great element In "propaganda, persuasion." In advertising, Is repetition. Sny a thing often enongh and the average man believes It, not asking why. Of all human convictions, none Is more firmly fixed. Immovable, than those based on supersltlon. Ignorance, falsehood and preposterous credulity. Encouraging news: "An aviation program of more than 1,000 new planes to cost approximately $00,000,000 has been mapped by the Army, Navy and Marine corps for Headaches, Neural or Rheumatism Paj is SAFE is Your Docfa Ask Him Don't Entrust Your Own or Your Family! Well-Bein- g to Unknongl Preparations T1EFORE you take any prenuJ tion you don't know all for the relief of headaches; orthl pains of rheumatism, neuritis ( neuralgia, ask your dodor what Cl in comparing I thinks about it L with Genuine Bayer Aspirin. We say this because, before tkl discovery of .Bayer Aspirin, mug II pain remedies were ij. vised against by physicians as bem bad for the stomach; or, often, the heart. And the discovery g Bayer Aspirin largely change I medical practice. Countless thousands of people I who have taken Bayer Aspirin vt I in and out without ill effect, haw I proved that the medical finding ' about its safety were correct. Remember this: Genuine L Aspirin is rated amoiw the ft method. t yd discovered for the relirf of headaches and all common paia and taje for the average pcnoi to take regularly. Yon ean get real Bayer Aspirin d simply by new any drug store asking for it by the name aspirin but alone, always Hying BAYER ASPIRIN when you buy. U ed L ... Bayer Aspirin The Barriers Laws and observances are the pro taction of the good against the bad. im" If we can afford five thousand million dollars to prevent the depression killing too many Americans we may well spend sixty million dollars to keep foreigners from shooting at all of ns. The Van Swerlngen brothers hnd railroad properties that financial writers called "three hilllnn dollar empire." Perhaps "three billion" referred to bonds, watered stocks and other "securities" of the empire." In any case, the Van Swerlngens borrowed forty-eigh- t million dollars on that "empire, largely from J. P. Morgan A Co. milThey did not pay the forty-eiglion dollars, the whole thing was pnt np st auction, the Van Swerlngens bought hnek control of the for three million empire h of 1 per cent of the dollars, three billions and forty-fiv- e million dollars less than the amount borrowed on It one-tent- The hurricane that spread destruction over Jamaica and Cuba obeyed the suggestion of Miami's weather bureau and went 200 miles ont to sea. Florida, much obliged to that hurricane, wonders whether anybody has any definite plan to control destructive hurrlranes NONE OTHER COMPARES TO OATMEAL fa one to at tho snout important thing! pradoM VStanfii for imping fit. Mighty fnu canals have iL A Many are nervous, poor In appetite, system ont of order, because their diily diets lade enough of the predous Vitamin B fix keeping fit. Few things keep them bide like a lids Of this protective food element; So give everyone Quaker Oats evety morning. Because in addition to its gem crous supply of Vitamin B fix keeping muscle sad fit; it furnishes ingredients, rot about pet dish. Start serving It tomorrow fbtt2-wee- o , tot. Quaker Oats his ft vhokw1" Jusdous appeal to the appetite; Ffatvory, surpassingly good. All grocets supply IN VITAMIN B FOR KEEPING FIT. food-energ- y, body-buildi- William J. Cameron, .brondcasting from Detroit, ahle to Interpret Henry Ford's views better than anybody else, finds economic signs already changed for the better." More Important, the "American nilnd hns mnde a remarkable recovery of equilibrium. it lc worth of Quaker Oats . u Hemedt You are taking for Ethiopias king has "about 2.000.-00men massed on three fronts, all facing Italians, and ready for anything to happen. Under those conditions something probably will happen. Whatever starts must go to the end. If Is not likely, with ITItler preparing for revenge, that France will sever her present rotations with Italy for the sake of dlatreased Ethiopia. If denr old England should Mlly forth and find herself nil alone, she would probably "sally" hark again without firing thnt first deciding shot. Mussolini knows that. Series of Fresh Yiad Qsaksr sad Mather's Oats are tho LIFE LONG'FRIEND Keeps Them Fit at 70 THEM MEMCINE CHEST Thiitafeell-veire-tab- In Nebraska President Roosevelt addressed Ms first seech of the campaign of liKUl to lfi.000 formers gathered around the renr end of his ear and 20.000.000 other formers by radio. He talked earnestly, with Jesting; he understands the silence or formers who applaud little while expressing no disapproval. The former, who lives and thinks hy himself. Is not demonstrative being. 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