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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH MW jMMiimn ftTil 1mm 1" II' never killed except when he needed meat. But that as you say aint the Impression Im trying to convey." He seemed to be groping for words. What is it, Mr. Lennox?" Dan asked. Instead of being sorry, Im mighty glad youve come," Lennox told him. Its not that I expect you to be like your grandfather. You havent had his chance. But its always the way of true men, the world over, to come back to their own kind to die. Thnt deer we Just saw lies your people, and so are all these ranchers that grub their lives out of the forests they are your people, too. And you couldnt have pleased the old mans old friends any better, or done more for his memory, than to come back to his own land for your last days." The words were strange, yet Dan Intuitively understood. It was as If a prodigal son had returned at last, and although his birthright was squandered and he came only to die, the people of his home would give him kindness and forgiveness, even though they could not give him their respect i I ff He ipsa I I I i I I I ! By EDISON MARSHALL jt i ' SYNOPSIS. Warned by his physician that he to has not more than six months a live. Failing sits despondently on where he park bench, wondering months. A should spend those six friendly squirrel practically decides is the matter for him. His blood to decides pioneer blood, and he end his days in the forests of Oregon. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him in reaching a In a large southern decision. Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. l'he only other members of the household are Lennoxs son, Bill," and daughIs ter, Snowbird." Their abode In many miles from civilization, and there divide, the Umpqua Failing plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. His extreme weakness in the face of even a slight exertion convinces him that the doctor had made a correct diagnosis of his case. Q - 1! CHAPTER Q Continued. II 3 Yes, Steele knew Bill. Bill weighed two hundred pounds, and he would choose the biggest of the steers he drove down to the lower levels In the winter and, twisting its horns, would make it lay over on its side. Besides, both of the men assumed that Dan must be only in the first stages of his malady. And even as the men talked, the train that bore Dan Failing to the home of his ancestors was entering for the first time the dark forests of pine and fir that make the eternal background of the Northwest. He was wholly unable to understand the strange feeling of familiarity that he had with them, a sensation that in his dreams he had known them always,, and that he must never go out of the range of them again. Dan didnt see his host at first. For the first instant he was entirely engrossed by a surging sense of disappointment a feeling that he had been tricked and had only come to another eity after all. He got down onto the gravel of the station yard, and out on the gray street pavement he heard the clang of a trolley car. Many automobiles were parked Just beside the station, some of them foreign cars of expensive makes, such as he supposed would be wholly unknown on the frontier. A, man in golf clothes brushed his shoulder. Dan looked up to the hills, and he felt better. He couldnt see them plainly. The faint smoke of a distant forest fire half obscured them. Yet he . one-fift- You're Dan Failings Grandson, Aren't You? untrained eyes could see that they were clothed in forests of evergreen. Over the heads of the green hills Dan could see a few great peaks; McLaughlin, even and regular as a palnt-- d mountain ; Wagner, with queer white gashes where the snow still lay In Its ravines, and to the southeast the misty range of d hills That were the SIckeyoufl. He felt decidedly better. And when he saw old snow-covere- NEWHOUSE HOTEL by Little, Brown & Co higher ridges, and the shadow of the deeper forests fell upon the narrow, brown road, there began to be loug gaps in the talk. 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Those we have are perfect, The, Lennox home was a typical ultation, over the constant stir and mountain solid, square, movement of the forest life. Once, as comforting in storm and wind. Bill they stopped the car to refill the ra was out to the gate when the car JEWELERS yZL drove up. He was a son of his faPARK. BLDG ICO MAIN STREET BOYD In and man pera ther, body strong sonality. He too had heard of the elder Failing, and he opened his eyes when he saw the slender youth that was his grandson. And he led the living room. way into the You must be chilly and worn out from the long ride," Lennox suggestformation writ ed quietly. He spoke In the tone a KRRI strong man Invariably uses toward an Invalid. Dan felt a curious resentment at the words. Im not cold, he said. Its hardly dark yet Id sooner go outdoors and look around. 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It was true that lie wore a flannel shirt, riding trousers and rather heavy, leathern boots. But sportsmen all over the face of the earth wear this costume at sundry times. Mountain men have a peculiar stride by which experienced persons can occasionally recognize them; but Silas Lennox was standing still when Dan got his first glimpse of him. The case resolves itself into a simple matter of the things that could be read in Lennoxs face. Dan disbelieved wholly in a book that told how to read characters at sight. Yet at the first glance of the lean, bronzed facd his heart gave a curious little bound. A pair of gray eyes met his two fine black points in a rather hard gray iris. They didnt look past him, or at either side of him, or at his chin or his forehead. They looked right at his own eyes. The skin around the eyes was burned brown by the sun, and the flesh was so lean thnt the cheekbones showed plainly. The mouth was straight; but yet it was neither savage nor cruel. It was simply determined. Lennox came up with a light, silent tread and extended his hand. Youre Dan Failings grandson, arent you? he asked. Im Silas Lennox, who used to know him when he lived on the Divide. You are coming to spend the summer and fall on my ranch. The Immediate result of these words, besides relief, was to set Dan wondering how the old mountaineer had recognized him. He wondered if he had any physical resemblance to his grandfather. But this hope was shot to earth at once. His telegram had explained about ills malady, and of course the mountaineer had picked hlip out simply because he had the mark of the disease on his face. As he shook hands, he tried his best to read the mountaineers expression. It was all too plain: an undeniable look of disappointment The truth was that even In spite of all the Chamber of Commerce head had told him, Lennox had still hoped to find some image of the elder Dan Falling in the face and body of his Because of the thick grandson. glasses, Lennox could not see the young mans eyes ; but he didnt think it likely they were at all likgthe eyes with which the elder Falling saw his way through the Wilderness at night Of course he was tall, just as the famous frontiersman had been, but while the elder weighed one hundred and ninety pounds, bone and muscle, this man did not touch one hundred and thirty. Evidently the years had brought degeneracy to the Failing clan. Lennox was desolated by the thought. He helped Dan with his bag to a little wiry automobile that waited beside the station. They got into the two front seats, and a moment later were starting up the long, curved road that led to the Divide. During the hour that they were crossing over the foothills, on the way to the big timber, Silas Lennox talked a great deal about the frontiersman that had been Dans grandfather. A mountain man does not use profuse adjectives. He talks very simply and very straight, and often there are long silences between his sentences. Yet he conveys his ideas with entire clearness. Dan realized at once that if he h could be, ir. Lennoxs eyes, of the man his grandfather had beqn, he would never have to fear again the look of disappointment with which his host had greeted him at the station. But lustead of reaching that high place, he had only death. He knew what his destiny was in these quiet hills. And it was true that he began to have secret regrets that he had come. But it wasnt that he was disappointed in the land that was opening up before him. It fulfilled every promise. His sole reason for regrets lay In the fact that now the whole mountain world would know of the decay that had come upon his people. Perhaps ,it would have been better to have left them to their traditions. He had never dreamed that the fame of his grandfather had spread so far. For the first ten miles Dan listened to stories legends of a cold nerve that, simply could not be shaken; of a powerful, tireless physique; of moral and physical strength that was seemingly without limit Then, as the foothills began to give way to the ) I DIR 1920, ranch-hous- e BOYD PARK white-walle- d Dan Failing is introduced to Snowbird, who prove to be a decidedly interesting member of the Lennox family, and Dan shows new interest in life in the next installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) HUMOR Dan. dlator from a mountain stream,, Len- nox looked at him with sudden curiYou are getting a thrill out osity. of this, arent you? he asked wonder-lngl- SUPERIOR TO WIT Former Quality Always Kindly, While the Latter Is Inclined to Be ' Caustic. y. It was a curious tone. Perhaps it was a hopeful tone, too. He spoke as if he hardly understood. Dan echoed. He spoke A thrill as a man speaks in the presence of Good Heavens, some great wonder. I never saw anything like it In my life. In this very stream, the mountaineer, told him joyously, you may occasionally catch trout that weigh three pounds. But as he got back into the car the look of Interest died out of Lennoxs eyes. Of course any man would be somewhat excited by his first glimpse of the wilderness. It was not that he had inherited any of the traits of his It was absurd to hope grandfather. that' he had. And he would soon get tired of the silences and want to go back to his cities. He told his thought that it would all soon grow old to him ; and Dan turned almost In anger. I he said. You dont know, didnt know myself, how I would feel about it. Im never going to leave the hills agnln. I You dont mean that. But I do." He tried to speak furBut I ther, but he coughed Instead. couldnt If I wanted to. That cough tells you why, I guess. Silas Lennox You mean to say turned In amazement. You mean that youre a a goner? That youve given up hone of recovering? "Thats the impression I meant to Ive got a little over four convey. months though I dont see that Im any weaker than I was when the doctor said I had six months. Those four will take me all through the fall and the early winter. And I hope you wont feel that youve been Imposed upon to have a dying man on your hands. It isnt that. Silas Lennox threw his car into gear and started up the long grade. And he drove clear to the top of It and into another glen before he spoke again. Then he pointed to what looked to Dan like a brown streak that melted Into the thick brush. That was a deer, he said Just a glimpse, but Jour slowly. grandfather could have got him between the eyes. Most like as not, though, hed have let him go. He Both wit and humor, like, art, poetry and love, are quite indefinable. But humor is the more elusive of the two. There are national types of wit, an English wit, a French wit, a German wit, an Irish wit, and yes a Scottish wit. But humor is something universal, the curious and blessed gift that man has, all the world over, of discerning the Incongruous In most things, remarks a writer in the Edinburgh Scotsman. Wit Is related to the superficial, but humor dwells deep down In the inmost heart of ns. Wit may be caustic ; humor is kindly. Wit Is the accompaniment of comedy and draws forth the loud guffaw of the top gallery of the music halls. But humor Is not divorced from tragedy, and Its laughter may be very close to tears. 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