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Show Woman Writer Objects to Term "Weaker Sex" Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers By VINGIE E. ROE SYNOPSIS Setting death a, to escape dishonor at handa of drunken .v. " nsriin "" top Savarin allow herself to be d Sony har uddenly repentant by The rlrl Is ticlan to the Navajo Indiana, living to an Arizona sheep ranch with her Serge, his wife, Ula, and their ,Ball daughter, Babs. She Is engaged to itoonej weminy mew xorker. but her heart is with the friendless f.milni and ah Jt vn rl h. J!n. little Mftnn wifa. rf Twm cvi nulla a Navajo, through the crisis Fingers, . t res-ena- Copyright. Doubleday. Doras WNO Service Co, too, er. ed oi, Twm Vt,.... lit.., meets Sonya m the man again whose advances she had repulsed on Meaa. He tells her he bitterly ijon (ratefuL regrets his action. Sonya is affected h On Liona tinfonrtvlnar. kii Lgain comes upon the strange young nan. " imnoic, u i a Burrow Hu his misconduct, she Indicates forgiveness and urges him to abandon tla life of lawlessness. From conceal over Ince of objects from an airship to her ueinanaa mai rtiac&or. At ft,,.uaiiuo bubtl. . i7i m u iinjiio. no bkji Lne. is Kiarr Stone, but that ha mnm hi a EC name In thla recHnn II iAnu.a Lie dance with a tall, fierce Mexican, . , I .i u v. ! ub I. wuuiu nijraieriousiy fun Sonya realizes she Is falling man wnom sne can I love wiia nv famm aa a rnntraAm an md that she can never marry Blake, tir.ra n f . ,,! Influenza .epidemic among the She. and keeps Sonya busy. tone declare their love for each oth-- r, In all doubt the mind of the girl in In-!l- ns the pair at a meeting place, piles oiurio awaj, inq warns Ine gin lereaner to let nis "lieutenant alone. rising- - CHAPTER IX 12 The Dark Threat Falls. Rodney Blake had brought a friend kith him. A tall, quiet man by the ame of Marston. Sonya. herself rain to all outward appearances, met m at breakfast His face arrested er. a Keen tace. out still as arctic Ice, Its eyes penetrating everything they met. She felt uneasy under them, as If of her key could read the secret eart. Rod seemed to know him well. But she was soon so taken up with ler own problem that she had no time o study this stranger who sat and imoked and asked odd questions of erge:'her problem of what and when tell Rod Blake, how to break her acred word, to ask him to release er. Rod, who had said that no man, people, no country should ever take er from him. But Mr. Marston's aestions were very strange. Were liere any people In the country whom Ie, Serge, did not know 7 Any stran gers about? Any airplanes flying off :e regular lane above the new port jon danced with at the Neldllngerr and the funny thing that happened?" Sonya did not speak, and Serge went on excitedly. "There was a dance at a neighboring ranch, and my sister was dancing with a stranger when the biggest Mexican 1 ever saw appeared and dropped a hand on the stranger's shoulder. The man followed him out I'd forgotten the incident" "What sort of looking Mexican?" "Don't know, only that he was monstrously tall and broad." Marston sat In silence for a little time. "El Capitan stands six feet three In his boots." he said. "Then who was the man he took away?" "If I should make a guess, which I never do," said the other, "I'd say It was Quince Eeenthal Number Fifteenthe wildest white man In Mexico, and El DIablo's ablest lieutenant. I've heard of him. But hla master owns him body and souL They say on the Border that twice El Capitan' spread him op, after his amusing little custom of crucifying any and all who Incur his anger, only to take him down again. Be's too valuable to kilL But some day the butcher will be too mad to think of that I'd hate to be in Quince's shoes." Sick to her foundations. Sonya Savarin excused herself. And John Marston looked curiously after her. The rest of that day was like a nightmare to Sonya. She had to be about the house, to help LUa with the work, and Rod was everyhere she went leaning fondly on her shoulder, tipping her face to look into her eyes, whispering of that future which she knew could never be. Misery was her portion through it all. She sorrowed for the blow she must deal him sooner or lo id It Williams? said Serge positively, "only regular mail planes, and they're far off that we only hear their iglnes. Why?" Just wondered," said John Marg in. But Rodney Blake 6mlled and leaned cigarette ash In s saucer. "I may as well tell you, folks, that pu're entertaining an angel unawares Jor rather, to quote the gentry he's fays after, a fallen one. Mr. Mars-- o is the government's crack man of ie secret service, whose rare talents e enlisted only as a last resort. He here on a mission of his own. I wely accompanied him as an excuse be here." Be smiled and looked at Sonya. Marston fingered his cigarette, look- down gravely. "For months our department In New rk has been puzzled by a certain iter, a serious matter to thls'coun- which has been baffllngly mysterl-B- y our department I mean the A steady peral narcotics bureau. of 'mud,' or pure raw opium, has o coming through, which we could trace. We have reason to believe Ss coming In on the west coast of sico at Mazatlan, to be exact ught Inland and across the Border fast and private planes, and. sent t by train, from somewhere about middle of the line. I am here ut the middle to see what I can I need not tell you that this pwledge Is dangerous for anyone possess, and that it must be held the utmost confidence chiefly be-s- e of that one across the Border Capltan Diablo, as he is known i" Is Mexico's king racketeer. Any- tarn'El with Capitan tampering s with death. I should not have you this If Rod had not spoken lie did. Let me Impress again the jer of any mention of this affair rward, tapping his anyone." Savarin wet her lips, which suddenly gone dry, laid down the 'e in her trembling hand. he had her answer at last! lie answer to that night on the ce hall floor to the little gray 5 settling so swiftly on the sand at canyon's mouth to Starr Stone's of love and all It meant W answer to Starr, Stone himself. that answer was El Capitan :'lo. El Canitan Diablo who ter-!ed the north of Mexico, who raid- nines, who levied taxes on the '. nnri trim rnpiflprt hla dim hila wiytt rs ! know too much of El Capitan lo and ever leave his service was fie and one's friend also who to share that knowledge. One's !4's friends, maybe, his relatives. '3 riilntori evea the eirl looked 3i 'he table, at Serge, at Ula. at ' Hubs. LUa's face was pale, but was talking eagerly. l!J George I" he was saying, his flst ne table, "there have been stran-her- e and I'd stake my last you remember that chap 4 And Then Stark Drama Took the Silence and the Still Shadows. later, for herself In her fear and her loneliness, and for the disaster she might some day bring on this house. And fear rode her like a witch whenever she thought of Starr Stone riding to the Border with that prince of butchers, El Capitan Diablo. "What ails you, Sonya?" asked Rodney Blake. "You don't hear half I'm saying." "Nothing," she lied. "Of course I do." "You do not! You're obsessed with something. Is It these d d Indians?" "If you don't stop that, Rod." she flamed, "I'll not forgive you. I told you once that one's life Is his own. I still think so." "Not a woman's when she has given her promise," he said calmly: "it then belongs to her man." "I'm sorry you take that attitude," she said, "my life will never belong to any " She did not finish, for the flashing thought that already her life was not her own, that for better or worse it was irrevocably connected with the precarious existence of Starr Stone Quince of the Border! The time was ripe to tell Rod the truth, yet she did not speak. It seemed that something stronger than herself, some vital caution, held back the words. "Lila," Sonya told the other woman later, "I've got to get away by myself a while or go crazy. You know I want to think." "I know." said Lila. "Go ahead. I'll keep Rod here. But, oh, Sonya, do be careful I I have a strange feeling In my heart today, a premonition of evIL When will you be back?" "Around evening. Don't worry. I'll only ride the desert for a while. Maybe go as far as town." "Well," said Lila uneasily, "do be careful." And she stood on tiptoe to kiss the taller woman. So Sonya rode away on Darkness, and Rodney Blake stood watching her with a strange expression !n his eyes. It was far past noon when she tied Darkness to the hitching rail beyond the general store and climbed the worn steps to the porch. At the hollow sound of her booted feet on the floor. Parks, fat and oily and wide eyed, came swiftly from the open door of the back region of the store. He PLAN LARGE FAIR GAS TAXES LARGER SELLING CULL CATTLE LIVESTOCK PRICES UP some reason Sonya stooped and picked it np even before the man could catch It as It fell "I II take it" he said quickly, rglve It here." But again for some dim reason Sonya held the little thing and looked at it curiously. It was a flat narrow can about the size of the little can la which Serge Savarin got his tobacco for bis pipe, and it was shaped very much the same, having a rounded top and a flat bottom. But there the similarity ceased, for this container was made of solid brass and thickly and beautifully carved with Chinese characters, while at the lower edge the small, belligerent figure of a fighting cock stood boldly out In bas relief. And It was unbelievably heavy for Its size. This much she saw and felt before the proprietor of the store reached out and took it from her so quickly as to be rude. He fairly snatched It and dropped It once, more in the sagging Then he laughed unctuously, rubbing his wet palms together. "A new tobacco. Miss Sonya," he said, "for my personal use. Very select and, I may say, costly. Now, what can I do for you today Looking at him curiously Sonya named her small purchases, and he bustled about getting them from shelf and bin. And turning Idly the girl looked directly into two dark faces under Mexican hats which peered furtively at her from around the door Jamb. She knew with a thrill of portent that they were the same two men whom she had seen that day long back with Starr Stone, when he had brought her purchases out to the car in Parks' place. Their black eyes stared steadily at her, and turning again she caught a flash between them and the store's owner. Chilled and frightened, she gathered her things fond went swiftly out mounted Darkness and rode from the town at a long lope. She knew Instinctively that she had stumbled on something of importance, and that Parks was, In some dim way, a part of it Where Oh, what was It all about was Starr Stone, and what would his master do to him? , Starr Stone and Parks and planes and contraband sent east from somewhere along the Border about the middle about here. She knew deep In her heart she knew what Mr. Marston would give a lot to know, what he had come here to find. What Rod Blake would help him find If he knew. Rod Blake Rod Blake on Starr Stone's trail He would be as unrelenting as El Capitan if once be knew all the shining things, the sweet things, that Sonya knew, the dark things, the evil things which she knew, too. The whole terrible thing was too much for one girl's loving heart to hold, and Sonya felt as If the bottom were falling from the universe, as If soon she and all her little world would be destroyed. Her hands, clenched tight on her reins, were ice cold, the heart In her breast as cold. And the shadows of twilight were beginning to fall across the great levels of the sage, the sun was down behind the Bad Lands. And then, from high up and far away, a sound fell on her ears, the thin small sound of engines in the blue coming rapidly nearer. She stopped and looked up anxiously, and presently she saw It a tiny speck that grew and lowered until It was circling over her, seeking a place to land. It was the little gray ship she bad seen before, the powerful blunt-nose- d thing which could land and take off with such Incredible swiftness. It was down. Its bouncing tail stilled. Its engine throttled down but running, and a man was climbing over the side, coming toward her across the sand. Was It could It be, Starr Stone? She peered hard for a glint of bronze hair beneath his helmet but could not see it nor his eyes behind the disfiguring goggles. And then he was here, close at Darkness' head, and his hand was on the bit She saw then that he was dark, a Mexican that another like him was coming from the ship and then stark drama took the silence and the 6till shadows. . For Sonya Savarin, fighting for her life, came out of her saddle, saw Darkness sailing away In a panic of fright his empty stirrups flying felt the sand giving nnder her stubborn feet, saw the ship loom large as her captors brought her, struggling, to It felt her hands held behind her. She was lifted up and put over the side into a gray leather seat, a strap was buckled tightly around her. The man who had first approached her climbed Into the pilot's seat the other squeezed in somewhere at her back and side, the engine roared for a moment the plane quivered, surged ahead, surged faster, its tail came up, and almost immediately the vast spread of the desert began to drop away beneath. With a gasp stifled on her ashen Hps Sonya Savarin was away among 7. r ' the stars. TO BH OONTINUSIX BOISE, IDA. Gasoline tax receipts have increased more than a half million dollars this year, compared with last year. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Approximately $50,000 will be paid to Salt Lake county farmers who are selling their cull milch cows and beef cattle to the government under the emergency cattle program this summer and fall, C L. Bello. assistant director of the emergency cattle work in the county announces. FORT HALL, IDA. The Indian service's campaign to do away with the boarding school, In favor of day' schoolg, so that children may spend more time at the homes of their parents, will be partially in effect this year. FILLMORE, UT. A crops and livestock show for east Millard county Is planned for September 14 and 15. A special flower show will be featured. The show will be the biggest of its kind ever held In this part of the state, according to the committee in charge. BOISE, IDA. 315 projects In 34 Idaho counties have been approved by the governor's drouth relief commission, it is reported. The sums appropriated total $729,119.-5Ada, Minidoka and Valley counties have recently been transferred from secondary to primary drouth classifications. UT. Federal hog OGDEN, checks have been distributed to growers in this district. FARMINGTON, UT. A shipment of 18 tons of Kentucky blue grass seed has been received in Farming-ton- . In the late fall, when moisture Is sufficient, this seed will be distributed among Davis county farmers and stockmen for use in rehabilitation of pasture lands destroyed by the drouth Shipped here by the government as a surplus commodity, this seed will be handled by the local emergency relief administration and the county agent OGDEN, UT. During the twelve months that the nome Owners' Loan Corporation has been in operation, mortgage indebtedness on 905 homes has been refunded for a total of $1,878,384.60. LOGAN, UT. The Cache County fair will be held here September 11, 12 and 13. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. More than 1,500 of North America's finest rams will go on the auction block at the nineteenth annual national ram sale to be held at the Union Stock Yards in Salt Lake, September 11 and 12. Entries have already been made by more than 75 consignors in Utah. Idaho, California, Texas, Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, Illinois and two Canadian provinces Alberta and Ontario. MERCUR, UT. Former Mercur-lte- s will celebrate in their old home town, September 9, and unveil a monument erected to the memory of the founders of that early day mining camp. Renewed activity at Mercur gives many hopes that this once metropolis of Tooele county will again make industrial, civic and romantic history. Bids have SHOSHONE, IDA. been called by the Big Wood Canal company on the first two phases of construction to be done on new control gates for Magic reservoir, for which the government has allotted ' pocket 1 No," 18 TONS OF SEED was hastily putting something In the pocket of his white linen vest aa be came, and fumbled hla damp band free to greet her. Now, aa he reached out his hand, the small object which he bad so hastily hidden In the sagging pocket tumbled out It struck the floor with strange sound of weight and for pro-Aucti- , A woman columist noted for her keen Insight Into events and things, elects this subject for comment: The papers tell of a federal Judge la a New York courtroom who compelled the men to give women their seats. A reader sends pa the clipping, wondering what we think about It nere it Is: "In a courtroom crowded to capacity with creditors and stockholders of the Ambassador Hotel corporation, Federal Judge J. M. Woolsey said recently : "It seems to me that the men sitting over there should stand up and let the ladles sit down.' "When the men did not budge, he added : Go over there, marshals, and roust them out The marshals obeyed and the women sat down while the men grumbled quietly to themselves, saying they thought the order un- self-sacrifi- nipped in the bud. And, anyway are we WEAKER? For my part I should feel cheap to have a man forced out of his seat for my benefit C Bell Syndicate. WKU Service Little Zion Named by Mormon Colonist Band Every once In a while some locality Is fortunate enough to be baptized properly. We can thank Brlgham Young and his Mormon followers for the fact that we may now glibly say, "We're Oft to Zion" instead of twisting our tongues around "Mukuntn-weap.- " fair." What do we think about It? Well, It all depends on what we women Mukuntuweap is a nice enough name, meaning "land of the springs," want If what we want most Is the seat according to a Utah scholar, John Wallls, who has traced the name to Its Indian source. The name waa given to this national park when It was first created by congress. That may be the reason that travelers were slow in discovering its wonders. They Just didn't know how to ask for it, like the man who would like to buy a wife a fancy French perfume but has to compromise on "violet," which he can pronounce. In 1918 President Wilson went back to the name originally given the region by Brlgham Young, Young and a band of his colonists looking for new territory came upon the shining domes, rainbow colors and unearthly shapes, and immediately named it "Little Zion" as It seemed the one place on earth closest to the heavenly Zion. Chicago Dally News. I man occupies, then we should not Inquire too closely Into the method of taking It away from him. In this case they were, we must admit questionable. Some of those mep may have been more in need of a seat than any of the women to accommodate whom they were ousted. And some were probably there in the line of duty, while the women seated by the gallant Judge were merely spectators, presumably on pleasure bent. We repeat, If It's the seat only that interests you, you will applaud the Judge whose motto Is apparently under all circumstances, "Ladies First." If It Is chivalry on the part of men In this day and age that you care more about than the seat in court or subway or street car which they may have to give up to you, then you will not favor forcing them out of their seats. There Is no romantic satisfaction in taking a man's seat If he has to be thrown out of It And the compulsion Is hardly conducive to developing in him a greater gallantry. In fact the man Blindneti Fallacy The popular belief that blindness is tSM--i i ' f - - compensated for by increased acnteness of other senses Is not upheld by tests ; the blind merely train their other senses and use them to better advantage than the seeing. ' once forced to get up for a woman will vej i - - i i have your PLUGS CLEANED by the NEWACMETHOD-- 5c per plug Dirty spark plugs kill your car s pep waste as much as I gallon of gas in 10. Oxide coating is the chief cause. Let a Registered AC Cleaning Station thoroughly remove oxide coating every 4,000 milesl WOK FOR THE THI QUALITY SPARK PLUO $180,000. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The chamber of commerce livestock committee has decided to sponsor "Eat More Lamb W7eek" from September 8 to 15, and to seek the cooperation of other chambers of commerce in making it a statewide event Both the National and Utah Woolgrow-er- s' associations are lending their support in the effort to stimulate the consumption of Iamb for the benefit of western sheepmen. BURLEY IDA. Earl R. Stansell, club agent, announces district no county club fair will be held In Cassia county this fall. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Shooting of ducks and geese in Utah will commence at sunrise October 12 and continue on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week until sundown on the evening of December 6. Bag limits in the aggregate will be 12 daily and 24 in possession. Five of each daily limit may consist of canvasback, redhead, elder duck, greater scaup, lesser scaup, ringneck, bluo wing teal, green wing teal, cinnamon teal, shoveler and gadwnll ducks. Ten of these only in possession will be a limit. Remainder of daily bag limit must consist of other varieties of birds. Geese limits will be four per day and 8 hardly take the lead In making the gallant gesture of his own tree will. That sweet flower of chivalry, the sense of on behalf of the WEAKER sex, will have been REPLACE Tune Im RAYMOND KNIGHT and the CUCKOOS Soturdayi, 10:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Saving Time BADLY WORN PLUGS WITH NEW AC, - PaTe,8mooth,mildlyantiseptic,and medicated with fragrant, oriental oils, is ideal tor daily toilet use. It protects baby a delicate skin against chafing and irritation, ""1 imparts a distinctive fragrance to Mother's skin and cools and soothes Father's freshly shaven face. Sold at all druggist Price 25c 4-- 4-- in possession. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah's hog farmers will realize an additional $100,000 or more for their hogs this year because prices being paid at the Salt Lake union stock yards at North Salt Lake are nearly double the average of the last few years, livestock officials announced recently. WOODS CROSS, UT. The U. 8. government is erecting a new experiment station about a quarter of a mile from the CCC camp at the head of Parrish Canyon, east of Farmington. PBf Si THE IffltJDTEIL A Distinctive Residence Mrs. J. H. Waters, An Abode. .,renoicned President West Throughout the Salt Lake's Most Hospitable HOTEL Invites You RATES SINGLE $2.00 to $4.00 DOUBLE . $&0to$4.50 400 Booms 400 Baths THE Hotel IewIioiise W. E. SUTTON, General Manager CHAUNCEY W. WEST Assist. Gen, Manager i |