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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER, UTAH The Indians of California had organized school systems with elementary and higher instruction lu ceremonial and religious matters, long before white men came Into thrfr country, is the finding of an anthropologist at the University of n nrw ine seaie d Trim California. by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER Coprrlrht by Tb CHAPTER ' 1 IX 10 vnrv u tu Co. Bobb-MTr- about the girl he'd preposterously taken her to be. Did be really believe that? Was there a scrap of genuine doubt In his mind that she whs Walter MeFarland's daughter? Wasn't the whole thing a bluff to put her on the defensive and frighten her Into doing, eventually, whatever it was that he wanted her to do? It would have been a rather satisfactory explanation if she could have adopted It, If for no other reason than that It brought him out in a clearer, less ambiguous light. But she found she couldn't adopt it He wasn't a much better actor than she was. His manner while he had been trying to convince her that he had been led by nothing but disinterested benevolence in trying to find her had been sleek and sly, utterly unconvincing. But some of the things he'd told her she knew to be true. Her father had been paid every week regularly, through the whole four years they'd lived at the hotel, in cash. Forster wouldn't have known that unless he'd paid him himself, or It wasn't likely that he would. What he'd said about her father's feeling disgraced and having lived practically in hiding was confirmed, too, by innumerable memories of his having cautioned her not to talk to people, nor answer their questions, nor make friends with Continued "California!" He fairly yelped the word at her. "Now I know you're lying. This Cleveland woman worked In my office. For a while Bhe was my private secretary. Then I found out what sort she was and fired her. She may liave known that McFarland was working for me but I don't believe It. 1 don't believe she ever saw him In her life. Anyhow, she didn't know he came from California. She didn't know that until you told her about It while you were working up this plan between you to blackmail me. Come across now ! Tell me the whole story, and I'll let you go. But if 1 catch you in any more lies you'll spend the night In Jail. And to begin with," he wound up after a long stare Into her face, "who are you, anyway?" Bewildered now by the suddenness of his attack she could only echo in amazement, "Who am I?" "Yes. Thought you'd cooked up something pretty good, did you, when got you together and swapped stories with a discharged employee of miue, faked up the red hair, and came around here pretending to be Uhorta McFarland. "I am Ilhoda McFarland," she told him furiously. "I don't know who you think I am. I don't know what you're talking about." ' "I don't mind telling you what I'm talking about. I'm talking about what happened to Professor McFarland six years ago, when he got on a train here In Chicago to go buck to the coast. He'd been east to read a paper before the Oil Chemists' Institute, and he found a young girl on the train across the aisle from him crying because she'd had her pockethook stolen after she'd got on the train. "He was sorry for her and paid her fare, pullman and all, so they wouldn't put her off the train. According to his story that was all he did. And she promised him her friends would pay him back the money as soon as she got to the coast. But what she did was to make a complaint before the district a'.torney out ' there that he'd taken advantage of her. "He claimed It was a frame-up- , and when it went to trial the Jury him, although he couldn't Jcquitted fcfiow any reason why anyone should want to frame him that way ami on one else could, either. And the scandal of the trial cost him lis Job at the university. "So he came back here and told me his story, and I believed him and gave him a Job. He felt disgraced about it He was like a man hiding out from the police; didn't want anybody to know who he was or what he was doing. Well, I could see how he felt so I never told a soul anything about It. I even paid him his wages in cash every week. "Claire Cleveland couldn't have found out anything about him, even if she'd tried to. He never came near my office nor where I lived. He worked at a place I fixed up for him. and I used to go around there once a week to see how he was getting on and to pay him his I'm dead sure he never money. told his daughter anything about She was that California mess. nothing but a kid. He'd have kept her-ihe'd been telling it from f everybody else In sight. And if you want to know who I think you really are, I don't mind telling you that either. I believe you're the one person alive today who really knows whether Walter McFarland wasAelling the truth or not." Until he'd finished she hadn't seen what he was driving at. And whf;n she did she could do nothing stare at him, confounded by fa' mere the monstrousness of his mistake To complete her discomfiture she found she was beginning to whole-heartedl- y only she'd thought of telephoning to Martin before coming up here. Her thoughtful gaze came suddenly into focus upon the bust of Napoleon. If she could find the way to open that little trap door she might be able to reach Martin. Babe would be at home by now, and she might be able to get word to him. That was the thing to try, anyhow. It must have been some sort of electrical connection that opened the little trap door. She went over and sat down in his chair and looked about It wouldn't do to She press the wrong button. studied Napoleon Intently. He had several buttons but none of them looked as If they pushed in. She was guiltily restless, sitting in1 that chair. She couldn't help wondering whether some one mightn't silently have entered the room from one of those two doors behind her. She could almost feel the gaze of a pair of eyes boring iuto her back, and at last, half In- - them. Claire Cleveland, somehow, had found the secret out She'd spoken with perfect confidence of the laboratory where her father had Had she really worked worked. for him there evenings, as she said she had? It was possible, but It didn't seem very likely. At any rate, It was flatly unbelievable that he would have confided to her at those times, as she said he had, the story of his California disaster. And yet it was clear that she knew about that. She'd spoken of the trial and sensation that it created. There'd been hardly anything else in the San Francisco papers. . Rhoda sat erect and held her breath. Why, why hadn't she caught that slip at the time? All it meant, all it could possibly mean, was that it had been In the San Francisco papers that Claire had read about it She'd been in He Was Almost Inarticulate With San Francisco, then, during the Fury, but Finally Managed to trial. She hadn't said so. She Stutter. hadn't meant to give that away. She's pretend that it was from voluntarily, she started to turn Walter MeFarland's own lips that and see. As she did so her knee she'd heard this story, long after- came in contact with the inner face of one of the pedestals to the ward, here in Chicago. Of course Claire Cleveland was the girl on desk and the little trap door fell forward. She had found the telethe train. She recalled her first Impression phone button by pure accident. Heartened by this bit of good of Claire, her momentary belief that she couldn't be the woman luck, she picked up the telephone because she looked rather nice, and, speaking as softly as she and young not much over twenty. could, asked for an outside Hue Six years ago she could have and gave the studio number. The looked convincingly like an inno- luck held. Babe's voice answered She asked if cent young girl crying forlornly almost instantly. over the loss of her ticket and her Babe knew where Martin was, and money and the prospect that they'd gave a gasp of relief on being told put her off the train. She had that he was right there in the something of that look left even studio. But why was he so long now. Martin had described her as about coming? Why didn't he looking younger than her voice hurry? From where she sat In Forster's sounded. Why hadn't her voice given her away to Walter McFar-laDd- ? chair she faced the principal door, the one she hacicome in by. She Of course It was hard to tell was still waiting for Martin's where the truth left off and where voice to come over the phone when the lies began. Claire's professed she saw this door being quietly hatred of Forster was true, though pushed open. The man who came as yet specifically unaccounted for. In was Max Lewis. His look of She had tried to convince Rhoda, astonishment when he saw her sitting in his uncle's chair would though with a suspicious Insisthave been ludicrous If It had not ence upon her own lack of knowledge, that Forster was the person been followed so quickly by a glare primarily responsible for the plot of anger. "You're here, are you?" he said against her father. That felt like the truth though huskily.I" He added, "Put up that and snatching the door it obviously wasn't. Forster had phone shut behind him he bore furiously stopped being frightened and had down upon her to enforce his comburst into a rage of pure relief when she had told him that Claire mand. She didn't obey him. She clung had said that That disposed of the instrument and tried to say, the possibility that he could be to man who had compelled, or In the hope that Martin was near the cry. enough to hear. "I'm at Forster's "You can cry, can you? Well, persuaded, or coldly hired, Claire. at the Worcester hotel." But beAnd out be he couldn't left yet it worked with him but it won't of her tight throat could utter the pattern altogether. life had fore with me. So you may as well . . ." the words. Max had got the teleRhoda advertised for McFarland He broke off there and what no one but an idiot could phone away from her, and one of had interrupted him both made and beefy hands was over her doubt after seeing him and hear- his thickhis her blink away her tears and thumb and forefinger mouth, him he had so that done ing talk, A sort of checked their coming. In the furtherance of some mean pinching her nostrils together so In the front of Nalittle trap-doo- r of his own. Claire, who that she couldn't breathe at all. poleon had silently fallen forward purpose once had been his private secreand revealed, as he reached toward CHAPTER X tary, and Max Lewis, who was his it, a telephone Instrument Inside. knew, or thought they nephew, seemed startled rather tferntpr The Ogre. knew, what that purpose was, and t,y the message he was getting. HELD her so until he had had tried to forestall hlra by findhe "What's that?" barked. "Who her first It was her father's replaced the telephone in Nadoes he say he is? AH right," after ing had chest and shut the little Claire a tried to poleon's papers get a listening for minute, "I'll see hltn, chance to rummage through, and trap door upon it. Then he rebut not In here. Have him shown leased her own mention to Forster of her, saying as he did so, I'll see him at tip to the library. the theft of those papers he had "You can yell If you like but It there. And find DeGraw and tell started. won't do you any good, in this him I want him." He was still standing There must be something among room." He put the telephone back and he pretty over her so that she couldn't get Clicked the little trap-doo- r shut those papers that thatwanted had nothing up out of the heavy chair. "What badly; something upon it. Then he pressed an elec- to do with the work he had done I ought to do," he concluded, glowtric button on his desk. here In Chicago. Was there, or did ering down upon her, "is to wring "I'm going to leave you here for Forster believe there was, among your neck." a while," he said to Khoda, "to her father's papers some It carne to her that down Inside precious think things over, and you'd bet secret formula? Was that what he himself was frightened; beter think straight, If you can. I'm tvlth his dying breath he'd tried to wildered, anyhow, like a bull with going to get this Cleveland woman, tell her about? And was that what a lot of darts In his shoulders, gazI've got her now, as far as that Claire and Max had been trying ing about the ring not knowing exBut I've got nothing per- - to steal so that they could sell goes. it actly who his enemy was. If she sonal against yon. And If you can to Forster on their own terms? could Just keep out of his way. make up your mind, by the time I Was the conspiracy to ruin her faAnyhow, it was plain he didn't JKk bark, to come through clean ther at the university nn entirely quite know what lie wanted to dn ?ieJI me the whole conspiracy, unrelated thing except for the co- with her. She scrubbed her lips incidence of Claire's connection j1,' let you go." vigorously with her handkerchief had been answered before she spoke. wlih it? " wlnle beringwas speaking, not hy "I wish you'd sit down What should she do when For here I Coirtry, but by a sort of overgrown stw came back to question her ran see you." she said. "What harm page In livery. He helped the old further? Slick to the truth, which do yon think I've dime you?" ninn to bis feel and conducted she wouldn't be able to make him "What did you come here for?" him to the door fthodn had come believe? If he were honestly conhe asked. vinced that she was an Impositor "Cnless to make trouble for me?" Yrlodn sank hack In her chair. and a confederate of the Cleveland she supposed he infant. "You mean," Wt:at possessed her mind was the woman, she was In for n pretty she said, "you're afraid I've cone story Forster had been telling her bad time when he came back. If to tell your uncle that I think you . HE j , stole my three hundred dollars and my trunk." He wag almost Inarticulate with fury, Out finally he managed to stutter, "Never mind about that What did you come here for?" She decided to evade that "Your uncle sent for me," she told him. If she'd been a practiced deceiver she'd have stopped there. Not being one, she felt that the explanation sounded rather bare and added to It "I don't know how he found out where I lived? Did you tell him? Because, of course, you did find out from Babe." He sat down In the chair that she had sat in during the talk with Forster. "No," he said, "I didn't tell him, but I happen to know how he found out I guess I'm beginning to catch on to some things, too," he went on, still' eyeing her Intently. "She's quite some girl, that Babe JenHow long have you known nings. her?" "Quite a while," Rhoda told him. "Got sort of an Idea she's a friend of yours?" "No," Rhoda answered. "I know she Is." He gave a short laugh. "Did you know," he asked, "that she left for New Yolk this afternoon?" She smiled and shook her head. "Well," he asserted, "I saw her off on that train, myself." The lie was so childish that Rhoda almost laughed as she said, "That's very Interesting." "Don't you believe it?" "No." Her skepticism didn't seem to Irritate him. He stared at her thoughtfully a few seconds and then said, "Well, maybe I've got you all wrong. I thought you and she were teamed up in this business. Now I've got a notion that she's burned you just like she did me." "How did she burn you?" Rhoda asked "Never mind about that. That's my end of it. Say, what kind of a trunk was it you lost? Because she took a trunk with her. I helped her check It." "What sort of trunk was It that you checked?" Rhoda asked him. It didn't seem possible that even he would be fool enough to fall into that trap. He did give his answer a little uneasily. "Why, I didn't notice it especially." he said. "It was sort of a square leather trunk." She sat for a while In puzzled silence. How could he have hoped she would believe a story like that? Why hadn't he seemed more disappointed that she didn't believe it? was it possmie mat ne really thought Babe had taken a train to New York? "When did all this happen?" she asked at last. "What time did the train leave?' "Five-thirty.- " "What did she do? Call you up and ask you to see her off?" The question startled her a little as she asked It. It made her think of the anonymous telephone message that had come to Claire Cleveland just as Claire had locked her In the bathroom. It didn't startle Max for he answered readily enough. "No, I Just happened to run across her there." "So you helped her buy her ticket and check her trunk and then you saw her off on the train. And now you've heard my trunk has been stolen you think that must be the one you checked?" "Well, It seems kind of queer, ber going off to New York like that without letting you know anything about It You said you'd lost some money, didn't you? She's got that, too, if you ask me. She certainly talked as If she had plenty. She told me she was taking her vacation late so that the big burg would be running full time when she got there." Involuntarily Rhoda started at that Babe had been talking about that sort of vacation ever since she and Rhoda had begun living together. She'd used that very phrase. Max couldn't have made It up. He had met Babe at the station then and she had made him think she was going to New York. Why? Why had she gone to the station? Why, for that matter, had Max gone there himself? Had he meant to go to New York on that train? With her three hundred dollars and her trunk? Well, how about Claire? Where did she come in? Or didn't she come In? Had he ditched Claire, or tried to? Was that what the had been telephone message about? Never mind that now. Whatever Max had tried to do he'd failed. Rhoda remembered how he'd looked when he came Into the room. "I wish you'd tell me," she said, looking at him In as childlike a manner as she could manage, "what the terrible thing was that Babe did to you." "Never mind about that! he growled at her. "Get off it I It's no business of yours. You've got enouuh to worry about with what she did to you." "I don't think" she told him cheerfully, "that I've anythln to worry about at all. I think she's You see Lwas got my trunk back. talking to her on the telephone Just now, when yon came In here." This proved one dart too ninny and he came for her; not Mindly", either. Il seized her arm with a wrench that made het want to cry out and Jerked her Jo her feet (TO HE CONTINUED.) Established Precedent ThU Rfnrr Is tolit of the late Senntors Snooner of Wisconsin and Allixnn of lows. Thev were leav ing the Capitol one evening and It was raining heavily. yon tmnft it will stop?" asked Spooner. "It always has," answered Allison. io Watchful Waiting "I believe jn moral suasion," said Uncle Eben. "When my boy don show me rightful respect, I Jes' waits to see what'll happen when he talks to some o' de big boys in de neighborhood same as he does to me." Washington Star. Children child who "Just grows up" may do a very creditable Job of it But the fact remains that accidental growth tan never be as sure of success as scientifically controlled development, based on proper food. Exchange. Well-Nourish- A Sticking Door If doors tend to stick, Wisdom of Hammurabi thousand years ' berbre Christ, Hammurabi made severe laws against rapacious money lend ers and made the protection of wid ows and orphans and of the weak against the strong the cardinal principles of law and morals. Two Just Hard Luck Ell Whitney, Inventor of the cot ton gin having exactly the same principle in use today, was so plagued by patent tiiieves that tie gave up and never derived a cent from his labor. Country Home. especially the swinging door into the dining room, first try soaping all the outer If this doesn't work, look edges. the door over, discover Just where it sticks and shave off a little of the surface. Cunning Defined Cunning Is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people's weaknesses. Would Settle Wolf Man's Real Business The great business of a man is to improve his mind and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amus- A private In the army of the unemployed was overheard to say: "If the wolf keeps howling at my door I'm gonna shut him up in the pantry and let him starve to death." Matrimony and Finance Berkeley girl says she believes an engagement should be long enough to cover the time payments on the engagement ring. Santa Rosa Tress Democrat A Extraordinary Topazei Topazes of red color are found only in Brazil, explains a curator of geology at the Field museum,. where there is one of those rare "rose topazes." Deprived of Harmony There are only thirty sets of at tuned church chimes in the United States. ion. Home AVoman's Daily Thought The fact is that a better machine are fit to handle. 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A check is not legal tender, and although there is no uniform specific time within which it should be cashed, reasonable diligence requires that it should be cashed within 24 hours. Outside the Law The initials I. D. B. are a South African abbreviation for Illicit Diamond Buying. The buying of dia monds contrary to South African law from natives or other unauthorized persons is a penal offense, which is tried by a special court Postal Saving The postal savings system was Inaugurated in the United State by act of congress of June 25, 1910, during the administration of William Howard Taft and was started under Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock in 1911. Puzzle for Scientists Scientists are trying to determine what kind of vehicle could have made the deep double ruts in rock in several parts of the island of Malta and are believed to be the oldest existing remains of roads in the world. "Oberammergau" "Ammer" Is the name of a river; "ober" means "upper;" "gau" means "district." "Upper district of the Ammer river" is a translation of the name Oberammergau. Large Brazilian State Brazil Is larger than the United States, and is divided Into only 20 states, whereas we have 43. Three of the Brazilian states are larger than Texas. There' a Difference "De clock saya de same thing all de time," said Uncle Eben, "but it's a heap mo' useful dan a man dat does de same way." Washington Star. Tanning Old Occupation Learning to tan animal skins for clothing and other domestic uses was probably one of the first arts acquired hy human beings. Beneficent "Slaves" This new world will be a world based on slavery, but Its slaves will be knowledge and the machine. Frank Clement the old buildings replaced had none. eastern desert. When he was In the Elevator Making: Slow In the majority of cases, however, air again he discovered that he had Headway With Britons they are features of the new struc- lost a bunch of keys. Some time great Although the centuries-oltower of Windsor castle, whose topmost floors are the repository of state documents, Is to be equipped with a modern elevator or lift, as they describe It In England that convenience of modern life does not appeal to a large number of Britons. Lord Ilanworth, master of the thinks the rolls, who is as government should fix sixty-fiv- e the age limit for using elevators. He never uses the elevator in the law courts because he finds that the exercise of walking up and down the stairs is beneficial to his health. But Oldfield Thomas, a distinguished scientist who died a few years ago at the age of seventy-four- , left in his will $6,000 to install an elevator in the Natural History museum. He had toiled up two long flights of stairs at the museum daily ' for 46 years. Frequent appeals were made to the government by the museum authorities to appropriate money for a lift, but none was forthcoming. Mr. Thomas then began to set aside some of his own money for that purpose. A few days ago this lift was opened to use by the museum staff. It was on this occasion that on behalf of the trustees Lord nanworth received it and spoke disapprovingly of the use of such contraptions by persons under sixty-five- . Nevertheless, the elevator Idea is spreading in Britain. Now and then one still runs across even a new building of four or five stories unequipped with lifts, probably because sixty-eigh- t, tures, for higher rents can be charged later flying over the same desert he where they exist New York Sun. again had occasion to make a landing. When he got out of the plane be found his lost keys lying at his Stage Property Draped Even stage properties In England feet. must be properly attired, according to an order recently Issued by the lord chamberlain. As the result of his action one of the properties in "Victoria's Vanities," a revue at the Victoria palace, has undergone a change. 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