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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH Asa bow ths tcora was a very heavy one to twy Us father's life! Well his eyes narrowed' he would pay it! "Did my father bring a native serv ant with him a man named GungaT Ml he asked dispassionately. "No," the other replied. "He was alone." Wallen nodded. "What else Is then to tell me?" "Not much but what you can guess," Laynton said. "I ran down through the Makassar strait and made for the nearest port on that list Pobi here. Your father had paid me for the three months, and if I say it my self, when I make a bargain I stick to If I could find you inside the three months I was going to do it. "I don't know what your father was so anxious about, though I under stood, of course, that he chartered me because out here, with you touching at those trading stations, he couldn't reach you by mail or cable; but made sure it was something mighty important and I thought you'd know what it was." It was almost an Interrogation, put naturally, nonchalantly enough save for a trace of eagerness In the man's tones that was not entirely disguised. "I haven't the slightest idea," said Wallen smoothly. "You haven't?" Laynton's eyes for once fixed steadfastly. "Well, that's queer! A man don't go to the ex pense of chartering a ship like this without a pretty good reason, and " "I dare say my father knew," sug gested Wallen quietly. Then briskly: "The question now is : What are you going to do, captain?" "Why?" said Captain Laynton, thought I'd made that plain enough. When I make a contract I keep it. It's it "YOUR FATHER'S DEAD." first Synopsis Stacey Wallen, mate of the bark Upolo, In tha Java sea, Is the sole survivor of the crew, all victims of yellow fever. Ting. Wan, Chinese sailor, last man to die, tells Wallen he and five other Chinamen were sent aboard by "Drink-Hous- e Sam,' notorious character of Singapore, to kill him. This recalls to Wallen an Incident of his childhood which seems connected with the confession. While delirious, Wallen enters in the ship's log the fact of his death and abandons the vessel in a small boat. Wallen's boat drifts to the island of Arru and a Scottish trader there, MacKnlght, cares for him. Learning that a ship Is In port on the other side of the island, twenty miles away, Wallen, though unlit for the task, starts to reach it. but falls exhausted on the trail. There he Is found by a man and woman who are from the ship he was trying to reach. Mott, first mate, and Helen MacKay, a passenger. They convey him to the vessel. The ship proves to be a small tramp steamer, the Monleigh, Capt. Laynton. CHAPTER III Continued. 4 was n little sfranpre. Ships like lit Monleigh weren't In the habit of indulging in expensive luxuries of that description ! His brows gathered for n moment ; and then, with a shrug of ids shoulders, he walked forward to the captain's cabin under the bridge and knocked. "Come in!" bawled a voice . gruffly. Wallen entered to face the little man with the thin face and queer eyes he promptly modified "queer" by "evasive" now that he recognized as the captain. "riello!" exclaimed the captain In suddenly altered tones. "If It ain't Mr. Wallen And on your pins al! But sit ready! Well, I'll be down '. Sit down !" He waved Wallen to a seat on the locker and pushed forward the bottle and glass that were on the table. "Sit down, Mr. Wallen, and help yourself !" Wallen shook his head as he seated himself. i "Thanks just the same," he Bald; "but I'm still sticking to quinine," "Quinine, eh?" repeated the other. "Yes, of course! Yes right yonjare! Well" he poured a glass for hlra-ee- lf '"here's to you, and just as hearty if I drink alone. And I'll add, Mr. Wallen, that It's to the rummest meeting that ever I've known In my Tt 1 bark's loss until I put in here yesterday and heard there was a survivor from her on the other side of the Island but I knew about you fast enough." He paused, shot a swift, restless glance at Wallen, then began to pace, three steps one way, three steps the other, up and down the narrow cabin. "D n it, man I" he said abruptly. "I've got bad news for you. Your father's dead!" For a moment moved nor spoke. Wallen neither It was difficult to grasp the full significance of the Ills father dead! What did this man, with the little black eyes that always refused to meet one's own, , who was tramping nervously now up and down a little cabin on a rusty tramp steamer here in the Java sea, at the other end of the world, know of his father, who never left the four walls of that lonely gray stone house in Cal ifornia? "What do you know about my father?" he found himself speaking In a quiet voice. Captain Laynton stopped impulsively in front of his table, pulled the drawer open, took out a sheet of pa per and handed it to Wallen. "You'll get the drift of this your self, I guess," he ventured. Wallen stared at the paper, at first with curious bewilderment and then, with the sudden flash of comprehension, he was on his feet. It was a list of the ports of call scheduled for the Upolo on her last voyage ports of call that she had never made. "What does this mean?" he de manded in a low voice. "How did you come by this?" "Your father gave it to me," the captain answered. "And now, if you'll just listen for a minute, I'll give you the whole story, and you'll see for yourself. First I might as well tell you, though, that I own this ship. Well, I was in Honolulu light, you understand when your father came aboard one evening and offered to charter me for a three months' cruise down here. He made the price right, paid the money down in advance, and words. thin-face- d I closed with him. "He gave me the list of ports, and said his son was on a trading bark called the Upolo, and that he wanted to get track of him as soon as possible, and offered an extra bonus for all hands if we made a quick job of it. That's all I know about the realife!" son for the cruise. Well, to cut a long story short, we started away, and r Wallen watched the man's neat of four fingers, leaned back on were down just south of the line when the locker, swept his eyes around the the accident happened. "Your father was alone down in his cabin. We heard a shot, rushed below, and, thinking it strange that he didn't show up in the excitement, called to him but got no answer. Well, we burst in his cabin door and found him dead across the bunk." "You mean," said Wallen through tight lips, "that he committed suicide?" "No. Wait!" Captain Laynton shook his head. "It wasn't that. God knows how it happened! The thing went off that's all. He was cleaning one of those patent automatic pistols. "There was a bottle of oil, a cleaning rag, and a wire swabbing brush on the floor. And" Laynton poured himself another glass from the bottle, gulped it down, and wiped his lips with the back of his hand "well, I'm trying to give it to you In a few words we buried him at sea of course." Wallen turned his back and stared out of one of the forward portholes down onto the dirty foredeck. Was the man lying? Was he telling the dls-pos- "Captain Laynton Mark Laynton." cabin, and, suddenly looking up at the captain again, Intercepted a furtive glance that the other was stealing at him over the rim of his glass. "That ever I've known," said the captain hastily as his eyes dropped. "There'll be a lot to say to each other, Mr. Wallen." "Yes," Wallen agreed. Til confess I'm puzzled on several points, Captain Laynton, Isn't It? I'm not sure 1 caught the name correctly when Miss MacKay Introduced us. "That's right," said the other. "Laynton. Captain Laynton Mark Laynton." "Well, Captain Laynton," said Wallen, "your reference to our meeting being a rum one only leaves me a little more up In the air. I can understand, of course, that you might have heard of the Upolo being missing1 or reported lost; but I can't understand how you knew I was on her or, knowing that, what Interest yon could have In me." Captain Laynton laughed a little in a constrained way. "I didn't know anything about the truth? That his father had chartered the Monleigh and sailed with her yes. But that his death was accidental the background of his father's life the recent attempt upon his own life! Ills brain was working in flashes. This man Laynton repelled him. An accident never ! There was no room for doubt "never go to the East" It was not an accident his fa ther had been murdered on this ship." And then suddenly he swallowed hard. It was to save him that his father had chw-ere- d the Monleigh and come East; fw, according to that list of ports, hu father somehow had been In touch with his movements, somehow had known the danger he was in, and. trying to avert it, had been murdered himself. A cold, merciless passion swept upon him. Someone on this ship was the murderer. Was it this man here? What was at the bottom of It all? It was a long arm of vengeance that reached to that gray stone hotu?j in California, that reached to Singapore, to this ship, to that sweliering, il;ignp. stricken hnrk where, enough, he -- lone had live.' CUT LEADERS DECLINE TO ABANDON THEIR PLANS AND WILL CALL NATION-WID- STRIKE. E c a package before the war Conference at Pittsburg Adjourns, the Plea of President Being Refused, and Union Heads Prepare for Struggle. c a package during tfw war Tittsburg. The national committee for organizing iron and steel workers on Thursday voted down a motion to rescind the action taken at Washington calling a strike of all workers in Iron und steel mills not operating un der union agreements on September 22. re c a package 2 The committee followed this by adopting a motion to affirm the action taken at Washington. Final adjournment was taken and the representa unions intives of the twenty-fou- r cluded in the national committee left for their homes to put the strike into effect. The motion to postpone the strike until after the industrial conference THE FLAVOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICES iit Washington, beginning October 6, was offered, it was announced, out of deference to President Wilson, who had Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to use his influence to have the walkout deferred. made were Fmphatic speeches against any postponement. It was de flared that neither President Wilson nor others who favored a postpone mont was cognizant of the actual con ditions surrounding iron and steel nills. It was claimed that workers were eager for the strike; that they were discriminated against for union activ ities, and that the organized workers would lose confidence in their leaders if they turned back and deserted the men at this time. Some of the committeemen said that organizers who had helped build up the unions at steel plants throughout the country would not dare go back and face the men If the strike were called off. Prepare for Show of Strength. Washington. Leaders of the oppo sition to the peace treaty in the sen ate decided at a conference Thursday to mobilize their forces at once for a show-dow- n soon on the Johnson amendment, giving the United States six votes in the league of nations, the same number as Great Britain. "These Are Your Father's Papers. up to you, Mr. Wallen. There's still say, a matter of two months before that charter expires, and the yours until it does In your father's place. That's square, Isn't it?" Wallen hesitated thoughtfully. On the face of it It was both square and honorable. He began to wonder if he had misjudged the man. And yet. Instinctively, In spite of that, there seemed something specious even in the honesty that appeared to underlie the other's motives. He had reason enough to distrust every soul on board a ship where he was morally certain his father had been murdered! Two months If he accepted the cap tain's offer. If he had only something ON QUICK "After all," remarked Methuselah, This Father About as Sensible as Many "my long life has been a good deal of a failure." Who Expect Wonders from Cor"Merely because you kept out of School. respondence Henry P. Davison was talking about the numerous correspondence courses in five lessons each lesson to be mastered in one evening over the after-dinner cigar which teach a man how .o become a Napoleon of finance. "You can't learn to be a Napoleon of finance or anything else so easily," he said. "These r mrses remind me of the man who brought his son to the school of mines and growled: Suggests Strike of Clergymen. H'I want yon to learn this here boy New York. A nation-wid- e strike of Baptist clergymen unless they are to be an expert mlnin' engineer, but I don't want him to waste granted higher salaries was advocated took his time over a lot of book nonsense n a statement issued here Thursday by Charles A. McAlpine, a member of about strata and denudations, and the national committee of northern don't bother htm with minerology and crystals, neither. What I want him to Baptist laymen. learn Is how to find gold and silver and copper in payin' quantities payin' Wilson Scores Union of Police. Washington. President Wilson, fn Quantities, mind you and I'll call for a telegram sent from Dumsmuir, Cat., htm and put him in to work Monday a and received Thursday by the local week.' " city government, said that organiza- Nothing Doing There. ion of the police forces of the country Noiselessly, but with all his might, for the purpose of bringing pressure against the public should not be "coun- the burglar tugged away at the dressing table drawer. tenanced or permitted." In vain. It refused to open. He tugged again. Mexican Mutineers Executed. "Give it another jerk," said a voice Mexiealll. Two of eight Mexicans found guilty of participating in the behind him. The burglar turned. The owner of mutiny of Mexican soldiers Septemhouse was sitting up In bed and the ber 8 at Algodones, Lower California, were executed Thursday. Six others looking at him with an expression of were sentenced to short terms in the the deepest interest on his face. "Jerk it again. There's a lot of penitentiary at Mexico City. valuable property in that drawer, but we haven't been able to open It since Hungarian Reds Wreck Schools. the damp weather began. If you can Budapest. With the opening of the nll it out I'll give you a handsome school year In Budapest. Minister of on everything that's " royalty Education Huzat finds the appalling But the burglar had disappeared of Bolshevism in the school ravages the window, taking part of situation, including distribution of lit- through erature encouraging free love among the sash with him. Pearson's Weeklv. the children. to work on ! Something! Yes, he had something. Drink-Hous- e Sam of Singapore Captain Laynton spoke again: "Look here !" he said In almost hurt tones. "I can't make you any fairer proposition than that. Can I?" "No," said Wallen instantly, his mind made up. "And I'll accept your offer, captain, and thank you heartily 1 for it." "Good!" returned Laynton prompt ly. "Well, with that settled, what's the sailing orders? We've got steam up and can get away any minute you say the word." "Then by all means get away at once!" he laughed easily. "And" he hesitated "let's see ! I guess you'd better shape up for Singapore. Yes, call it Singapore for a starter." "Right!" answered Laynton. "SingWait a min apore it is! But here ute, Mr. Wallen." He hurried to a small iron safe that was built La under his bunk, opened It, and returned with a bulky manila envelope, which he handed to Wallen. "These are your father's papers," he explained. "I collected them to gether and put them away for safe keeping. "Thank you," said Wallen gravely. He stepped out onto the deck. "Oh, by the way, captain," he observed cas ually, "I notice you carry wireless." The captain's whistle, pui'ed from his pocket, chirped shrilly. "You ihere, for'ard!" he bawled In a sea voice that was like the bellow of a bull. "Stand by to weigh anchor, Mr. Mottl Hey, Mr. Mott!" And as the second oflieer emerged from the chartroora, just abaft the bridge and directly over the captain's cabin: "We'll get under way at once. Let me know when she's up and down." He turned to Wallen. "Wireless, you said? Oh, yes; it's that blasted nevr American law can't trade in American ports without it now, you know." Somewhat Slighted. ACTION Spanish Vessel Week Overdue. New York. The Spanish passenger steamship Valbanera, owned by the Plnillos line and now more than a week .overdue at Havana, with a large number of passengers aboard. Is believed to have been disabled by the gulf hurricane of last week and stranded on some shoal or coral key. Mon-leig- h's politics?" "No. But It does seem to me that I've been at least entitled to an occasional interview as Xo whether or not I attribute my longevity to abstinence from strong drink and tobacco." The Reason. "Not every one Is successful in work." 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