Show TIIK OAKLAND OAKLAND TIMES UTAH ancient a ancestry for theae very AARDVARK EASILY animals which are probably the laat - OUTCLASSES MAN -- remnant of an order of which all other species are now extinct avers AS FAST DIGGER Doctor Osgood - EMILIE LORING Copyright br Til Pena PublUhlng Prudenc 8chuyler cornea to Prosperity Farm to make a new life for and her brother David his health broken by tragedy The second day Prue falls from the barn loft Into the arms of Rodney Gerard rich young man la at once a neighbor There but Prudence mutual attraction men since her slater' husband ran away with her brother's wife Ren Calloway tries to buy Prue'i timber but she contracts with Rod to dispose of the trees David comes to the farm Prue accompanies Rod and Jean Rod's niece to a circus Chicot an old clown la accidentally killed He was the grandfather one of the circus of Mllly Gooch rldsrs Rod became friendly with Mllly when she lived on Prosperity Farm laborers so that Calloway Intimidate they cannot be hired to cut the timber for Rodney Gerard After Chicot’s death Rod calls on Mlllr to see If he can be of any help Prue sees In a newspaper a flashlight picture of him with Mllly Rodney goes to New Tork for timber cutters taking David with him to help select men from among the Rescue Mission hangers-oRod sends word of his coming with a crew of laborers To keep the knowledge of the workers' arrival from Calloway Prudence enters her timber tract with him on the pretense of bargaining on He confines her In a the lumbering cabin An escaped convict appears and robs Prudence of her pearls Then Rod arrives and holds a gun on Calloway and the convict recovering the Jewels Escorting Prue home Gerard assumes something of a domineering attitude which the girl resents and In a spirit of defiance she tells him she Is engaged to Jim Armstrong Rod- men nsy'bj closest friend Twenty-fivare (brought to the forest and put to work m CHAPTER WKD Co SYNOPSIS J if my Word? may be a hard man but I'm Just Mllly Gooch Is at the Puffers she's come to see suppose Rod’ ” ‘Mllly—’ “That was all I heard Father say for the door closed I waited till I Then I was sure they were gone sneaked out and made Patch drive me over here" So Prudence crossed to the window — Mllly Gooch had arrived on the She scene Now what would happen? thrust the thought of the circus rider Into the back of her mind and said without turning: “Repeat what Calloway said about meeting your father Jean" at the old smithy “‘Tonight Eight’" Are you sure?" "Eight o’clock? “Yep" “Where’s the smithy?" “lie meant the old blacksmith shop When Grandfather ran a big farm he Uncle Rod had the horses shod there keeps It In repair because he thinks It’s Interesting” enhas Mr Calloway "Perhaps gaged your father to boss a lumber crew for him" “Payment on delivery doesn’t sound like that kind of a Job Father boss a crew? Don't be dumbl It's someYou don't think It Is anything else thing that will hurt Uncle Rod do you Miss Prue?" "Of course not Perhaps they are planning a party for — for Mllly Gooch X— Continued — 5 “Sure an’ ye're nay In’ little about the chance ye took” he growled "Three cheers for the Big Bogs!" aomeone shouted In the midst of the deafening response True started down the trail to her car parked on the road Body and mind were In a tumult When Itodney Gerard had flung himself under that falling tree the world had stopped for hfer Nothing nothing mattered If he were safe she had vowed passion- ately Aa ahe stepped from the car Jean flung herself upon her "Oh Miss Prue! Miss Pruel I’m so glad you've cornel” Her breath caught In a sob ' I’ve got something cagey to tell youl" laid an Prue arm across the shoulders “Don’t get Jittery dear Come Into the house and tell me about It” Jean closed both doors “Can anyone hear?" Impatient at her temperamental to Jean's histrionics Prudence hook her head vigorously “All rlghty over by the Come mantel” Standing close she whispered: ‘‘Lcn Calloway’s got something np his sleeve" The Information coincided so exactly with what Prudence had been suspecting that her response was Immediate "I thought so What have you found out! Quick Tell me!” “About an hour ago I was looking round the gun room at home— I had a hunch that 1 might find your jewels there — I thought— well I thought perhaps I might— I might have walked In my aleep when I waa visiting you — you know I was nuts about them — and have taken them — not knowing It— understand?" Prudence nodded She understood Jean perfectly Loyal little aouL drew a long relieved high I was poking "You would round when I heard someone coming I was Beared t My father uses that room I knew he'd be mad If he found me I so of one the there slipped behind window hangings He opened the door Said to someone: softly “Come Ini' “My heart was pounding ss if Its enTwo peogine was running on high I thought ‘I'll never get out ple! My father growled: “ ‘Come across Calloway What's on your mind now? ” “What did Calloway want?" “I don’t know I remembered that I'd promised you that I wouldn't pry so I stuck my fingers In my ears hard" If only the child hadn't taken that moment to keep her promise Prudence wished fervently "Go on Jean You must have heard vital something" I heard something After Td kept my fingers In my ears for — It seemed hours I pulled them out I Mr heard Calloway say: “Tm going’ “He didn’t see you did he?” “Gee you’re pinching 1” Jean rubbed her shoulder ts Prudence quickly re“Guess you’re as moved her hand Mr Calloway didn’t excited ss I am Ills voice soundcome to the window ed ss If be was at the door for he said quite loud: “Tonight at the old smithy Eight Safer than here Too Report there many door and windows In this house’ “When he said that I almost died but was live I enough to hear my father “Sure say: “’It’s a payment on delivery proposition Len? Suref “’Sura Ever know me to break t an “Sure Ys'rs Saying Little About the Chancs Ys Took” That’s Just what It la Weren't we foolish not to think of It before? By the way Jean tell me again where to find that blacksmith shop” Before the mirror In her room Prudence slppered the Jucket of her She pulled over the orange shirt fastened on warm oversocks heavy boots while her thoughts 1?nn on: "What luck that Dave phoned he lie would was dining at High go Into the air If he knew whnt I am What he doesn’t know about to do I that won’t worry him suggested Macky go to the early movie with the the and presto Puffers way Was conducted cleared for my personally expedition to the smithy to find out of Cnlloway and what the rendezvous I can't get lost Walter Gerard means The snow Is marked with No danger of meeting anyone Eight How soon should o'clock Is zero hour I start? I ought to be parked long before the conspirators arrive" She counted the strokes of the old Seven clock In the hall Better get She thrust a flashlight Into the going In the back pocket of her trousers hall she frowned appraisingly at the collection of Impedimenta hanging and leaning against the walls She visual“Skis or snow8hoes?H ized a steep declivity "The skis have and shouldered a it” ahe decided Poles In hand she stole around pair the house to the road With frequent pauses to listen she entered the old lumber road that She looked wound up to the sky line back What was that? A shadow She waited across a patch of light! Would It come Held her breath Must have been a vlue No again? awaylng she turned her back on Resolutely warmth and security and slipped and atumbled over the rough road whose hidden pitfalls were tricked out wltk Was she doing a crazy spotless snow thing to try to And ouUwhat Walter Gerard and Calloway were scheming In spite of her She was not about? to Jean she was convinced reassurance that they were conniving against the lumber firm of Schuyler and Gerard That being the case It was her Job to find out what It was all about wasn't It? She adjusted her skis picked up her serried poles and slid on between She had a phalanxes of evergreens prickling sense that she was not alone Had a shadow slipped In the wods behind that large pine or was It a ghostly Illusion? “Don't be foolish" she scolded herself “Everyone you know Is too busy with his own affairs to be stalking you" The clamp She proceeded cautiously of a ski snapped open the leather binding slipped trom her heel "Darn 1” she muttered and readjusted the ski Uprlgjit she rested on her poles until she could collect her breath A little afraid? What was there to fear now that the convict was behind bars? Didn’t every minute count? She looked over her shoulder She bad shaken off that skulking shadow Of course It had been but a creature of her always supeructlve Imagination Just the same she was glad to have left It behind She stopped on a little shelf of level land on the hillside Was that shadowy blotch the blacksmith shop? Her heart caught and raced on with Was Infected she becoming fright? She wouldn't turn back now Time was flying Calloway and Walter Gerard might reach the smithy first Then where would she be? She couldn't see herself listening at cracks and windows She must get Inside fore they came She frowned at the slope which until It neared the road was almost clear of trees White Hard Dry A jump would save Dare she time try It? She had been good once Why not? It was a short Jump Suppose she flopped? What waa one flop In the day’a work? She dropped her poles sklled back on the level rounded up all the structions she could- remember She turned She Raced forward Was was In the alrl She landed No she going over? She clasped too bad Not her hands behind her when she had been so long without practice Steady on her skis again They barely etched the hard surface She was going like a thousand race horses merged In one Not so far away as The smithy she had thought Straight ahead She would crash Into It She must stop! How did one stop? She had forgotten She would drop Stars rained In a golden shower The She opened her eyes world rocked That crash ought to have broken every bone In her body she reflected aa ahe rolled over on her side She pulled herself to one knee floundered upright on her skis The blacksmith shop was barely two Its one window stared at feet away No light! That her like a ltdlosa eye meant that she was the first arrival at the “conference” In a pool of purple shadow at the she removed foot of a giant spruce her skis cautiously and rested them No sound but the against the tree whispers among the dark green houghs and the chime of fairy Ice bells No could stalk her down that shadow She had better get under cover slide She tiptoed to the shop she pressed her fingers Soundlessly against the door Noiselessly It swung In She peered Into the Too easy Swallowed the lump In dim Interior her throat she "Anyone Inquired softly Quiet as a tomb and cold as death She stepped over Cheery comparison the threshold and closed the door the floor which broadcast a crossed creak with every cautious step and appraised the narrow space between Should she slip In forge and wall there? No Too near the conspirDid that opening at the left ators lead Into a shed? The glow of her flashlight Illumined That high the corners of a lean-tpile of firewood would serve is a screen If either of the conspirators She pulled felt moved to Investigate glanced at the oft her mlttena luminated dial of her wrist watch before Five miuutes eight She leaned against the door frame Why didn’t the men come? How long should she wait? It would take longer to go back than It had to come If she weren’t at home by the movies were out David when would be wild with anxiety Crunch Crunch! This time her Someone coming heart refused to be swallowed it parked In her throat and thumped Calloway or Walter Gerdeafenlngty ard? As a companion la a lonely there wasn't much choice beshack tween them Of course the fiery Len was a "Just man" A light! It flickered She crouched A door dosing? behind the wood pile The sound as of a lantern set down a soft framed The doorway The door again! glow “1 beat you to It Calloway" That was Walter Gerard's silky- assured voice the money Len' "Come across “Ilow do I know you've done the trick Walt?" "If you don’t believe me go and It laid down and look at the truck died almost at the door of the cattle barn Neatest trick of the ’week" “What time did It "Didu't you set the time? Just as the crew had finished supper They The aardvark —whose name comes Pleasant Thoughts from the Dutch and means “earth All men are glad to have pleasant pig" Is on of the strongest of living memories but not all are providing If mammals— extraordinary In appearthe material for such memories ance In structure" and In- habits you would look back by and by to Museum Field says the Chicago something that you will be glad News you said or did now Is the time to are common through- do or say something which will glva Aardvarks states Dr you food for gladness— Ilenry Clay out southeastern Africa of H curator Wilfred Osgood Trumbull They are zoology at the museum shout the size of a large fat hog weigh up to 150 pounds and have a snout which accounts for the name given them by the early In South Africa Dutch colonists That they are so abundant over so wide a range of territory can grow on to such lnrge size as Individuals Is eloI diet of ants exclusively of quent evidence of the prevalence mts In Africa and the problem they present to settlers Being nocturnal In habits and livA Few ing In burrows aardvarks are rarely Doctor Morning Night leen says Osgood They cannot therefore be hunted Ilka a Clean Will most animals but Instead by the unusual method of seeking their burr rows and digging them out At All Drug Stores this presents difficulties be- WritMarinCoDplWChioofar FrBoofc cause an aardvark can dig faster than six men with shovels' and thus The escape farther Into the earth It Seldom Does members of the expedition Instead of digging directly after The restless don’t want lore to the aardvarks pushed the earth run too smoothly This Interfered lown behind them with further digging by the anlma s ind the men then dug in front of them and :hem shot through the In the P'ound as their movement If poorly functioning Kidneys and jarth became visible Bladder make you autfer trom Getting Rheumatic Nervoiuneea Up Night The teeth of the aardvark have a Burning Smarting Phu Htiffneea most tubular structure Itching or Acidity try the (uarmuteed peculiar O Doctor's r I PreecriptlonCytexlSiee-tethose of certain closely resembling -- Mail fix you up or money Ashes This would seem to Indicate UySIBX beck Only et draggle ta Bsrvtos got the full effect of the crash- - I around for a few minutes to make sure they were on then I beat 1L No bung chance of a flop now the cart’s backed up you win Don't stall Calloway come across with the money you promised when you wrote asking me to come to High Ledges to do a little work for you Cash on delivery remember— but of course you won’t stall you’re such an honest man" There was sardonic mirth in Walter Gerard's voice and a hint of hatred “Oh all right I’ll pay Here’a your money" Prudence crept on hands and knees to the doorway She must watch the Someone passing of that money would pay for the destruction of the truck belonging to the Arm of Schuybe wouldn’t It and Gerard and ler either of the partners Crouched In the dusk she watched the two men standing within the radius of light from an oil lantern on the forge A knitted cap was pulled ears low over Calloway’s Facing him Walter Gerard counted the bills In band Now I’ll light out I’m not “Okay going back to the house I’ll catch a ride—” A tap on Another the window “Put out that light The harsh whisper tap 1" was Walter Pruwent dark The shop She dence tiptoed to the wood pile the distance struck misjudged With sickening moderation and rumslide the sticks to ble began Now what She held her breath would happen? Someone was breathlean-tat hard the opening ing “Find out who’s at that window Walt" It was Calloway’s hoarse low voice she couldn’t mistake It “I’ll take care of the snooper hiding In mm r e Drops Every and Promote Healthy Condition! Help Kidneys it fl Doctor Knows ! And doctors use a liquid laxative bere” CHAPTER XI the living room at High glowing fire on the hearth A vague sense of tension In the air A coffee table with empty Sevres cups Jean In a gay little frock behind It Jim Armstrong sprawled In a big chair David Schuyler chin la cupped hands Two black field frowning at space spaniels prone on the rug Itodney Gerard arm on the mantel staring at the licking flames “I know as well as I know that 1 m standing here that someone Is working "That’s on the crew” said Gerard why I persuaded you to stay for dinWanted to talk It over ner Dave of slacked Two my men today They were surly when I asked why ’Something Said they had a pain they’d et they guessed’ Have either of you noticed anything to make you uneasy or am I having a bad case of the jitters? What do you think Jim?" to rose precipitately Armstrong knock his pipe against an andiron “I agree with you Rod Something Is working on the crew Via the grapevine route In fact I’m so uneasy that I’m going back to my cabin now" Itodney Gerard threw his cigarette into the fire "I’m going with you" “I haven’t rose David Schuyler seen the Inside of the cattle barn since I’ll It was made Into a buuk house drop In on my boys” Armstrong stopped on his way to I not door “Better may tonight the but I have be having the a hunch we ll find things In a mess” "All the more reason I should go -” “What’s the matter K K?" Rodney Gerard’s sharp question focussed attention on Jean who was standing In the geographical center of the room twisting the gayly printed crepe of her skirt between nervous Her brow was as furrowed fingers brow may be as a Her eyes seemed enormous as she looked it Gerard TO BB CONTINUED Dusk Clean In ci- There’s a very good reason why doctors and hospitals have always used liquid laxatives! You’d use a liquid too if you knew how much better it makes you feel A liquid laxative can always be taken in the right amount You can gradually reduce the dose Reducea dosage is the secret of real and tafe relief from constipation Just ask your own doctor about this Ask your druggist how popular liquid laxatives have become The right liquid laxative gives the right kind of help and the right amount of help When the dose is repeated instead of more each time you take less Until the bowels are moving without regularly and thoroughly any help at all People who have experienced this comfort never return to any form of help that can’t be regulated! The At all drugstores QUEpQtaEmG) GOSOeQOOG cnnmnixj" QnsQBEm Spark Plugs Will Best Performance Motorists who get the best perare formance from their automobile the ones who give proper attention to the cleaning and readjusting of the other Important park plugs among details was made This observation by a prominent engineer who has given much study to economical operation of automobiles he says fires more A spark plug than 5000000 times during every 3500 miles of car operation The spark plug must be kept therefore firing points at proper adjustment If they are not the engine will miss This means uneven engine performance although the driver may noC be On the other handi a aware of it the combustion gases coating trom forms on spark plug Insulators usually tfter 3500 miles of operation which also causes missing and a waste of one out of every ten gallons of gasoline It Is quite natural that the motorist who twice a year has his spark plugs cleaned and adjusted gets more miles per gallon of gasoline gets better car and reducea repair experformance pense to a minimum If you are seeking something that will relieve your occasional upsets safely and comfortably1 try Syrup Pepsin Give regulated doses until Nature restores regularity SYRUP PEPSIN GDGEBGSMD THE Insure ' liquid laxative generally used is Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin It contains senna and cascara and these are natural laxatives that form no habit — even in children Its action is gentle but sure It will relieve a condition of biliousness or sluggishness without upset It’s the ideal family laxative because it’s a family and perfectly doctor’s prescription safe and effective for family use MEWJHKDHJSE rT ‘ lfflOTTEE A Distinctive Residence Waters Mrs J Abode renowned President Throughout the West Salt Lake’s Most Hospitable HOTEL Invites You Art H RATES SINGLE $200 ta M OO DOUBLE $250 to $450 400 Rooms 400 Batks THE Hotel IVewEiouse WL SUTTON General Manager W WEST CIIAUNCEY Jsist Gen Manager i k r- - jr: |