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Show THE GRANTSVILLE, UTAH NEWS-OBSERVE- R, WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSICS The Red Lock By DAVID ANDERSON Author of "The Blue Moon Copyrllht by Tlia BobboBfeniD Cfc CHAPTER XI 13 Continued. flash of red flamed through the directly ubove his head In the top twigs of s hickory sapling and there swelled out a wild burst of reckless melody that clothed the hickory with music as the opening buds clothed the crab-apptree with beauty. I thought so, ol warcoat," the man muttered, glancing up. You know where she Is, dont yu?" He stepped softly toward the crab-appl-e In the tree the wild song-burhickory ceasing the Instunt he moved and peered In through the gnarled limbs and tangled twigs. Snugged down among some drifted dead leaves he found it, the treasure that Inspired the cardinal's song a roughly built, deep little nest, and, shining above its edge, a dark glossy crest, some long tull feathers, a short, heavy,' reddish bill and a round glittering eye, black as a dewberry. lie let the limb he had bent aside swing slowly back Into place and stole away. Alw'ys two." ran his thought a pair; mates its nature's way. Pheasants and cardinals and folks they're all the same though birds and beasts alwys run true, wlille folks sometimes oh, well " He walked away toward the west, coming at length to where the uplands ended abruptly In the line of wooded bluffs that fell steeply to the deep and winding scar of Eagle hollow, und the exact point where the double trull had run plainest the day before a fact that had doubtless brought lilm Just there. He bent a critical look upon the loutish trail ; carefully crossed It ; stepped out under a clump of huw trees at the very brink of the blulf and stood keenly searching the woods In every direction. Below him and a short distance further down the hollow an old deserted cabin of logs squatted against the blulf a few yards back from the Eagle Hollow road. The place had a reputation In the It was the uncanny hovel of dead Henry Spencer, a woodcliopper, who, on a winter night years before, while in a drunken frenzy, bad murdered his wife and Infant daughter with an ax, then had wandered out half nuked und frozen to death In the snow. Wliat bad once been yard and tiny garden was now overrun with weeds so rank that storms and snow could no longer break them down. A fallen oak had but Just missed the cnbin, and luy so close to one corner that some wild cucumber vines of the aeason before had crossed to the ruined roof and still hung In bruwn and dead festoons stretched from the fast decaying clapboards to the fungous warted branches. A pair of chimney swallows, true prophets of summer, darted In and out of the crumbling chimney. A yellow-hammloped down out of the woods, lighted upon the dry and and drummed a Bounding comb-boar- d challenge to all and sundry other or waa It a love cull to Ids mate In the dead limb of a sycamore down at the creek across the road? The sound drew the eyes of the man. At the moment one of the swallows rose above the roof. As he Its flight, the chimneys and d cottage, neargables of the ly a mile away down the hollow, came unexpectedly within Ills range of vision. His brows drew together; he gripped the shotgun ; turned and strode through the fringing brnpibles back umong the trees. Half a mile farther up the hollow, at the point where lie had left off following the double trull the day before, he picked his way down the rough and stony side of the wooded bluflT to the road. He was Just in the act of stepping out from the fringing trees to cross It when the soft swish of t. bush a short distance above caagbt his quick ear. ltemembering that sinister face behind the log, he threw the heavy shotgun to Instant readiness and stood dead still, his eyes searching every leaf and twig along the hillside. There came a soft footfall, the hushes swayed, parted, and a young woman stopped out Into tlie comparatively open glade where he stood a girl that lie had never seen, flushed and breathing hard. 8h saw him on the Instant, and her face went white. She darted In umong ths bushes again, stopped, came slow-l- y flack, stood studying lilm. lie was as closely studying her plainly, even shabbily dressed; her faded sunbim-ne- t awry; her hair disheveled by the brambles ; but. In spite of all, comely, and ruddy with heulth. She made a quick effort to adjust tlie sunlionnet; spared a hasty touch to the disheveled hair and raised her eyes. He noticed they were blue. You dont chance t' be Mr. Big trees and stopped almost le st and back to his face. Half covertly searching his eyes, she seemed to gather reassurance from the level frankness of them. I lowed y'u must be She glanced back at the bushes; drew a step away from them, as If she feared that hands might come out of them Pm Jennie Belden und clutch her. an I wua on the way t find you " Quite evidently much disturbed, she missed the quick lift of the man's shoulders. She glanced again at the bushes, listened a moment, drew a step nearer and lowered her voice. You're in dreadful danger, an I wua cornin' t' want yu. I don't know what y'u've done, but yu ain't safe a minute. Of course I know yu hurt brother Loges hand, but It aint that, an there's another man more dangerous than him, an a third man more dangerous than both. There wus eyes on yu ylsterdy. Ther aint none on yu this mnmln' n'r on me, an thnti why I could slip away but ther will be. Stay out o' the woods, an' don't show a light st night, an' dont come out If anybody culls yu she Involuntarily glanced up the hollow, shivan please. ered, wrung her bands mud-daube- d Flat-wood- s. er Jack r The woodsman studied lier front under hulf dosed lids. They call me that " He rn inert Ms eyes a trifle. Anil you?' She gli.,o"! 'inoiislly up the hoi Inn You Dont Chance Jack?" f Bs Mr. Big please, dont breathe a word about seeln me! They'd kill me If they knowed not even brother I Age could withstand em. She was talking fast. In low and hurried whispers. Apparently she funded that her words were not making the full Impression she wished, for she drew still nearer so dose that Jack could hear the quick purr of her breath. You aint skeered 7" Slie stopped ; stood studying him: But, of course, I dont reckon yu would be a man like you. But please b'lleve me, an heed me. The woods has eyes; the bides his time, an when he strikes, he She bent her night hns knives. head; she seemed struggling with some Inner thought. That third man, she muttered, "he waits, an kills." She whirled on the instant, like some startled creature of the woods, and wus gone. lie strode a surprised step after her, even called softly. I here came back to him only the low swish of the bushes and the soft full of receding steps. Like a shadow the girl a far wanderer from the Kentucky mountains hnd come ; like a shadow gone. One moment the swaying bushes hnd flared forth her fuce. with Its sturtled eyes, the next moment had swallowed it up. Tlie woodsman came back to the edge of the road find stood pondering tier message her warning; felt over in his careful way each hurried word ; tried to enst them up nnd arrive at the exact sum total of them. The thought crossed his mind that she might hare been wrought up over an Imaginary dungcr ; blit no, It was real enough tlint she hail dared pergonal liurin to wurn him and her eyes were honest. That the man who hnd glowered at him over the log was In some way associated with Logo Belden he hnd already surmised from the fact that the mun laid taken up Belden's quarrel at the sehoolhouse besides, his trail had led that way. But the utmost of their combined grievance could hurdly warrant such a threat as the mountain girl had plnlnly hinted. There must be something back of It all something tlint cut dqeper than gushed bunds and sore Jaws. Tlie girl's last muttered words "that third man that waits, an hides his time, an' when he strikes, he kills suddenly assumed a deeper meaning. He darted a quick look down the hollow a deep acur winding like the trail of a dragon between the hills where, more than a mile twny. hidden from view by the dense vniiils. the vlllnge lay like some Lap- - less creature that had barely escape! the dragons Jaws; then frowned toward the narrow valleys head where tlie weather-blackene- d roof of a squalid cabin could barely be aeea through the trees. A slow sternness crawled into his eyes; he dropped the butt of the shotgun to the leaves; leaned upon It and stood staring down at the road. Gradually, as he stared, there grew upon him tlie consciousness of an outline of a single footprint at the other aide of the road detached, alone, apparently with no mark of any kind leading either to It or from it The singular fact of Its seemingly perfect Isolation slowly readied him, and won a place among the troop of thougUn that gripped him. He studied it closely a moment grunted and then grinned. Uncle Kick, he muttered. Heel deepest he's Jumped where from 7 He glanced at the other side of the road where tlie take-of- f must have been to land a leap Just there and after a short search found where the old man's boot had scraped the moss a little In making the spring. "Aimin' fr that slab of sandstone," lie chuckled, his eyes losing a mite of their hardness, fell a bit cby and landed in tlie soft dirt mighty good Jump, at that, fr a man with elghty-od- d years on Is back." Stooping again over the Isolated footprint, he examined It with closest attention, trying at tlie same time by call up all the lore of the trail that the old ranger had taken such pride In teaching him the wise and wonderful ways of woodcraft that he had taken an equal pride In learning, until, next to Uncle Kick hlmaelf, he wna known to be the most skillful woodsman along the Wabash. As he looked, a gran stem that bad been bent down and slightly hung In the soil suddenly loosed and straight- Men are every now end then put, by the complexity of human affairs, Into strange situations; but Justice Is the came, let the judge be in what situation he will. Speech on Conciliation With America. sable-lettere- y hand-dresse- d Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for at once of that ruler of ancient Sparta, who announced that We think the next man who violated a certain law should he put to death, and the first violator to be brought before him was his only son. The people pleaded with him not to break hla own heart by sentencing Ui son, for the ruler was much loved and respected by his countrymen. He felt, however, as did Burke that Justice Is the same, let the judge be in whatever situation he wllL He reasoned that If the offender bad not been bis son, he would have been the son of some one else who would have loved lilm just as dearly, and that, therefore, the question of affection could not be considered. Modern judges are rarely called upon to sentence their own sons; but they are frequently called upon to sentence their own ambitions. Our present system of' electing Judge makes It highly Improbable that a Judge who offend! an Important political boss or a strong organisation will ever advance far in Ms profession. Some years ago, for example, there waa a great scandal In one of our states about the spending of state money. Tlie graft cases were tried before a Judge who refused to be Influenced by anything except the evidence, and the millionaire grafters were found guilty. Those who did not escape by suicide were sent to the penitentiary. These men were friends of the strongest polltlcul boss then living. When that Judge was nominated for a place In the Supreme court r elecof hla state he was defeated tion, although all the state, with the exception of two cities, voted for him. ened. When a judge lets himself be InfluHot trail, ol' scoutmaster, he mut- enced by the strange situation In tered, m the half spoken soliloquy that which he finds himself, we may be nature sometimes teaches her favor- pretty sure to hear of the tyranny of ites. And there yu go, pickin' y'ul the law rather than of the justice of steps so' t hit the hard spots and the law. Bacon, an eminent authority miss the soft ones. on the subject of judicature, if ever A sudden thoughtfulness crossed his there were One foul senone, says: face. I wonder why yure so ptlc"- - tence doth more hurt than many foul lar t hide yur trail, though Hrtxaraples. For these do but corrupt aint no Iottawattomles t find it no the stream; the other corrupteth the more. Mcbbe the woods jlst filled yu fountain. s full this wonderful morning, like A judge ought to preAnd again: they have me, that yu cant help pare his way to a just sentence, as playin a while at the ol war game of God useth to prepare his way, by the trail. Well, 111 play with yu and taking down and Ill run yu down bfore the praisingso valleys there when hills; appeareth on shadow of the bluff climbs out of the either side an high liund, violent prosecrick." comAfter a searching glance in every cution, cunning advantage taken, Is then counsel, power, bination, great direction, so keen nnd critical that It tlie virtue of a judge seen, to make Into handle with minuteness apiieured equal ; that he may plant his every bush and tree within range of equality as upon an even ground. his eye, and a further moment spent Judgment In sounding tlie woods for any false note they might carry, he threw the In vain the learning of the ege shotgun Into the hollow of his well arm and took up the trail. page; Unclasped the It led across the two or three rods Even In Its treasures he could find of broken ground between the road Food for the fever of his mind. Lady of the Lake, nnd the little stream, which, at that ' shallow over a old story, three to an point, spurkled along According riffle. Once, ns his old friend had men, a lumberman, a botanist and a sprung from stone to stone In cross- poet, went for a walk together through ing, his boot hnd slipped and gone a forest After the walk, the lumberInto tlie water. After that every alman could discuss the sort of lumber ternate stone on which he had the trees would make, and how much stepped, wus still damp from the wet It would cut to the acre; the botanist boot. could name the species of trees and Jack had followed to a point well undergrowth, and could discuss the within sight of Loge Beldens cabin ecology of the region; the poet could when, biirely a hundred yards ahead, talk of the arching of the branches, he caught a glimpse of a man stealing the flecking with light and shade of from rover to cover Just a flash ns the forest floor, and the coloring of he flitted from one hazel thicket to the tree trunks nnd leaves. All had another, but that was enough. Tlint looked at the same things; but each tall form, erect hs an Indian, those had seen just what his Interest and iron-gralocks, falling loosely from training had fitted him to see. under tlie quaint old cap of It Is much the same with reading. coonskin, could belong to but Three men muy read the same book one man In the world Uncle Kick. fnd get from It three totally different Jack instantly durted to cover and messages; or the same men may read begun stalking the old ranger. Barely a book at three different ages and get fifty yards separated them when, aa from It three different messages. We he peeped from behind an oak, he saw ran understand of any book or poem the old man steal out from a dense only what our experience has fitted us thicket of wild grape-vinedart across to understand. We cannot comprehend an open space and throw hlmaelf flat a thought that la outside our know! behind a decaying log. edge. When a man evolves a new idea Crawling up behind a huge sugar the rest of the world Is unable to unmaple that stood barely more than a derstand It until Intellectual bridges rod from the log, Jack rose to his feet, have been built to connect our old a grin spreading over his face as he Ideas with the new Ideu. thought of the surprise he was about When people find Shakespeare and to spring upon Ills old friend. Stilton and Thackeray dull. It merely He was just bracing himself for the means they lack knowledge to enable rush when a hand fell upon his shoulthem to enjoy the works of these der, and, whirling with sudden sturtliv writers. Fupils who find Shakespeare ment, he found himself looking with a bore while they are In high echool foolish vncancy Into the quizzically are lively to And him a most fascinattwinkling eyes of Uncle Kick. ing writer when they reread hla works At sight of his young friends be- iiftecn or twenty years after they are wildered fuce the shoulders of the old out of school ; because they will have hunter shook with merriment, though gained In knowledge and experience not a sound passed his lips the silent In the meantime. laughter that long years In the woods, If a man hue a mental obsession, when they were dangerous, had taught of hla mind, he will find food fever him. It In whatever he rends. A beto feed (TO BE CONTINUED.) liever and an unbeliever, for example, can read the eaine book, and one will Quits 80. 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