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Show r THE MAMMOTH RECORD. MAMMOTH CITY. UTAH DIG IIUtlT IS Oil FOR OUTLAW THE IMPOSTOR JOE State and Federal Officers Have Been After Him for a By FRANK L. PACKARD Mi. Year. SLIPS ALWAYS uv Mi. &!. --Mi- M Mi. vUil!. M . vie vie vsF3ie AWAY (Copynght.) If He Cut Notch in Rifle for Every Time He Shot a Man, There - Wouldnt . LOVE, ADVENTURE, FIGHTING! Be Any Butt Left. Hillsboro,, N. C., Nobody will sleep in Hillsboro or the country around til "Outlaw Joe" Riley Is caught. un- "Outlaw Joe is a moonshiner, slack- er and assassin. If he cut a notch in his rifle for every time he shot a man, there wouldn't be any butt left to his gun. For a year the state and federal ficers have been after him, but he day or the day before. Well, what did it matter; and, anyway, it was time to make rounds. Rounds ! ,What rounds were there to make? Everybody was dead. Johnson, the second mate, had died that morning, though he hadnt made the entry of Johnsons death in the log; what was the good? There wasnt any more use for a log. Everybody was dead except himself the other two white men and the crew, who were all natives. And now he was down, too ; he was only waiting for the fever to run its course. That would take maybe a few hours more. A voice within him seemed to keep Rounds! Youve got to whispering: make rounds, make rounds. For two days or nights, or whenever It was since Johnson had first taken sick, he had made rounds unceasingly with the medicines ; that was why the medicines were on the skylight, so that he wouldnt have to go below. But making rounds was over now; .here was no one to make rounds for Rounds! there was only himself. Make rounds; its time to make rounds ! the voice Insisted. . He roused himself. Yes, that was so. Last time he had gone along the deck Ting YVah was still alive. The man would be dead now probably, and the medicines werent any good, anyway; it was air, Gods air, that was Rounds! Make rounds! wanted. He staggered up from his chair, collected some drugs and, reeling to the ships side where the rail would help support him, made his way painfully forward to where another awning was He kept stretched over the fore-dechis eyes In front of him; there were shapes about the deck covered with of- The Impostor is a story of action of love, adventure and fighting. Its no society novel. Its no detective yarn. Its no study of the sex problem. Its no preachment in disguise. Its narrative of a the sea, with an unusual plot, just enough mystery to keep the reader guessing and the fascination of the Orient thrown in for good measure. The adventure comes first, as it should. Then comes the fighting. And in the events leading up to the .finale Cupid takes command. The hero is American and worth while. The heroine is red-blood- ed al- ways slips away, says Sheriff Rose-juaof Orange county. Ill pay a good price to anybody who brings him in, dead or alive! Shoots United States Collector. Riley is sought by Uncle S'am for nioonshining and for shooting Deputy Collector T. M. Arrowsralth, a revenue officer. He is wanted by the army for refusing to register for the draft. And he is wanted by the state for several shootings and for jumping bail. Recently he was caught making moonshine whisky. But Joe isnt one of the surrendering kind. He raised his shotgun and fired a charge full into tlie face of,, Deputy Arrowsniith. By Home miracle Arrowsmiths eyes were missed, but the rest of his face is still full of small shot Recently Joe Riley shot through tlie head a companion whom he accused of having reported his moonshine still to the revenue oficers. The companion recovered, and so loyal are the members of Rileys gang to their leader that he rejoined him. Riley was arrested for this shooting .after he had first jumped from the second-story window of his home when the officers came to get him, and had shot, six times at Deputy Collector A. ' P. Cates. He was placed under .bond; but lie jumped it and fled to the lulls. n ... American and lovable. The pirate villian is able, mys- terious and aggressive and when the hero evens up the score youre glad of it. And the story is well written. The word pictures are can get thrills in graphic.-Yoinstallment. Youll be every hold to of it and get eager youll wish there was more. u CHAPTER 1 TheLast I. . Round. The man tried to speak, tried again, but without avalL YYallens own head was reeling, premonitory of coming nausea. Its all right, Ting YVah, its all right, he said soothingly. "Better not try to talk. But now Ting YYTah, with a desperate effort, raised himself to his elbow. Yes, me talk ! he gasped out. But must talk quick. Me here, YVon Su here, four more all same Chinamen come on bloard and make crew on ship here for all same knifee you. There was contortion in the mans .face, a pitiful struggle to fight back the weakness and exhaustion that was upon him. YVallen stared at him In a dazed way. Kill me. Ting Wahl he cried out. "What for? You you dont know what you're saying, do you? You The Chinamans dont mean that! elbow was slipping gradually away from beneath him, his eyes were closed. The medicine spilled from YVallens hands onto the deck, and he caught at the other, propping him up. Ting YVah! Ting Wah! he cried again, shaking the man to rouse him. YYhat do you mean? Ting Wah, don't you hear me! YVhat did you mean to kill me for? There was no answer. The man was no, not yeti Ting YVahs lips were moving. YVallen bent his head still closer to catch the words. Dlink-Hous- e Sara Singapore him know. That was all. It was over now. YVallen straightened up unsteadily, and lurched to the rail where he could cling on to something. Six Chinamen had shipped as part of the crew so that they could kill him. YY'hy? He laughed In a sick fashion. YYhat did It matter? They were all dead, those six and every one else and In a few hours he would be dead too. He laughed again, a little hysSam of terically. This Drink-Hous- e Singapore, whoever he was, ought to be satisfied with that He clawed his way back to the afterdeck, and dropped into his chair again. Ills brain seemed to go numb for a time, to be indifferent to everything and then suddenly to become strangely active. Six Chinamen had shipped as members of the crew so that they could kill him. It wasnt a pleasant thought, even if the whole six were dead now, and that he himself would be dead, too, before long. Oh, yes, he believed it now, right enough why shouldnt he? YVhat about that murderous attack YVon Su had made upon him, and that he had was delirium ! But that thought wasnt all, he had reason beside that to believe Ting YVahs story; reason enough, God knew ! now that he came to think of the things that were crowding Into his mind. Out of the shimmering heat waves that rose along the deck and seemed to hover so weirdly over those covered shapes that ought not to have been there, another scene gradually took form, at first indistinctly, vaguely, then In sharp outline, startling, distinct. It was a stone house, a gray stone house, ail by itself, without neighbors, isolated, a silent place. Yes, he remembered it! It seemed to bring a chill upon him now the cold, dreary, lifeless house hnd done Its best to crush even a laugh out of his boyhood with Its eternal, silent brooding mystery. Thnt was why he had run away ten years ago, when he was fourteen. All his earlier recollections were of thnt place. His mother wasnt there, he had never seen his mother. There were just his father, and that tall, swarthy Eastern servant, who frightened his boys heart just those two and himself. He never saw anyone else. No one ever came to the house. No one was ever admitted. Gunga, the servant, fetched the supplies from the nearby village. Ills own education was superintended by his father. But there had never been any Intimacy between his father and himself. He had never questioned his father but once after that he had never dared to do so. He remembered the deadly whiteness that had come over .the morose, taciturn face, the grip of iron upon his shoulder, the hoarse passion In his fathers voice. Never speak to me again of that," his father had said. YVhen you are older, when the time conies, you shall know." YVallen rocked unsteadily In his chair. YVhat a frightful stench the ship possessed or wns It only his What wns It he had Imagination! been thinking of? Oh, yes, tlie six Chinamen who had come to kill him. and the gray house where there were I so many bars and locks, and where every night his father and Gunga turned the keys and the chains rattled on the doors as they fastened ' them. He raised his hand and passed it across his eyes in a startled way. How vividly it came back to him, that night as though it were Just happening now, as though he were in tlie very, act of living it again ! A crash in tlie dead of night through that silent house, and he had sat up, trembling, in bed. Then a cry, tlie report of a pistol shot, and the echoes of the shot rumbled and reverberated through the house, striking terror into his young heart. And he was crawling out of his bed, and out into the hall and down the stairs in his nightshirt. And half-wadown he stopped In horror. . Below, in the hallway, stood the giant form of his father holding a candle, and on the floor lay stretched a huddled form, and Gunga, with, a revolver, was bending over the Thing that did not move. Then came his fathers voice, in a strange, queer note of tense eagerness. Look again,' Gunga. Has he one finger on the left hand? 1 Stillness absolute oily sea Stillness, save for the groan and creak of the yards and booms, as the bark rolled lifelessly on the long, shimmering swells. Not a breath of air; only a stifling heat that beat upon the decks until the pitch in the seams bubbled. Only a waste of water that reflected the merciless tropic glare of the sun and hurt the eyes cruelly. Under an awning in the stern a man in cotton shirt and trousers, who was huddled in a chair by the cabin skylight, lifted his head and mumbled through cracked lips. ' Twenty grains of calomel, twenty-fou- r quinine magnesia, peppermint-wate- r gone. His hands fumbled with the drugs from the ships medicine chest that strewed the skylight, and guessing at the quantities, carried portions to his mouth. He swallowed with difficulty, and relapsed into a huddled position. After a little he raised his head once more, and began to count upon his fingers. One, two, three, four,' five was it five or eight days, or ten, or a month that the calm had lasted? He did not know. He had lost all track of time. But it worried him, and to his sick brain assumed very vital proportions. The ships log would tell An him. He reached for It and began to scan the entries. It was strange that trying to read brought red flashes and I gin to his eyes. Fired Full Into the Face of Deputy The words came only to him in Arrowsmith. snatches. October . 10. Still becalmed. InHe has a wife and children living near tense heat. Native boatswain took the village of Caldwell, N. C. sick this morning. He is as famous down here in Or. Burled boatswain last October ange county as the- notorious Allen more of crew down. Four night. in of mountains Is the Virginia. family Weve got yellow'fever aboard. God Riley used to come boldly to Hills- help us if we dont get a breeze! ' boro three or four times a week and His eyes went on down the page In store. in the general spend his money a haphazard, Irresponsible way, skipOnce he flashed a foil of thirty-twping entries here and there uncon' ' hundred-dolla- r bills.' sciously. Deputy Arrowsmith, the particular Still becalmed. God have mercy man on us ! Native crew all down. Chinaenemy of Riley, is the right-hanof Col. Yanderford, chief of the reven- man named Won Su, after making a ue raiders in the Carolina district. murderous attack In his delirium on He's Efficient Raider. Wallen, the first mate, jumped over, He has the reputation of being one board. of the most efficient raiders in the Yes, he remembered that. He was country. In stature and appearance he Wallen Stacey Wallen the first mate greatly resembles the ascetic, thin of the bark Upolo. It hnd been a horfaced movie actor, William S. Hart rible sight. and he is Just as "quick on the draw. The poor devil had rtished at him He has an almost uncanny nose for screaming and he shuddered a little he did not want to think of that. stills they say he can smell one two What was this entry here? miles away. "The heat Is horrible. Survivors too Arrow smith works practically alone, except that occasionally Sheriff Rose-ma- n weak to bury the dead. Captain Mitchell died at 2:10 a. m. of orange county accompanies That was the Inst entry. There him on. Ills raids. Ills methods differ from those of the Hasnt any date on It. He couldnt reVirginia moonshine raiders In that he member whether it hnd been yesterat night. With does his an electric flashlight to aid him, Its only an excellently camouflaged distillery path in the woods that escapes - o i d : Making Rounds Was Over Now. anything that had first come to hand shapes that should not have been there only at the last Johnson and he had been too weak to do anything but throw coverings over them. He didnt want to look at the shapes. There was one form, only one, that was uncovered, and he knelt beside It. Ting YVah was still alive. "Medicine, said YVallen hoarsely. The Chinaman pushed It away, No can take, he answered weakly. "Me finish." YVallen steadied himself with an effort, and looked at the other closely. It was near the end ; but still, as under certain conditions It sometimes did, the disease lmd left the mans Intelligence unimpaired. Look here, old chap, said YVallen cheerfully through his own cracked lips. You never know. Buck up. Take the medicine." He stooped to lift the others head gently, and nearly fell himself in doing It. A sudden gleam of gratitude came Into the Chinamans eyes. !You glood man, he whispered. You all same glood man. But no can take all same finish now." He pushed the medicine away again; and then plucked at YVallens sleeve, evidently trying to get the mates head down closer to his lips. The man was going fast. YVallen tried to force a kindly smile. YY'hat Is It? he asked. Listen I said Ting YVuh. Mebbe you die too. Mebbe no. All same me tell you glood man last night bling medicine all night you glood man me me tell His voice trailed off weakly. .Yes? prompted Wallen kindly. . work-entirel- Marks Famous It int. . St. Twelve to Bury Giant. It required 12 men to bury Jomilluiii Svvnn, the Leylnnd giant. The coilin measured three teet wide, six feet nine inches long, and with the body weighed 1,102 pounds, No hearse could be secured large enough to carry the remains. The 12 men took 30 minutes to get the coltln Into position In . the grave. The horses of St. Mark's are four Stood famous bronze horses that linve for several hundred years in a lofty entrance of the position over the tnnln In Venice. St. Marks of cathedral great war the the entered Shortly after Italy horses were taken down and removed o a plnee of safety to prevent them rom being damaged or destroyed by hostile Austrian airships or warships. London. Horses til Napoleon removed them to Tarls, more than 100 years ago. But they were soon returned to their former position In Venice nnd stood there unThe history of the bronze horses dates til taken down! back to before tlie Christian eru, when The Mongols. they stood on n triumphal nrch In The "Mongols, Tartars or Huns are Rome. Constantine took them from Rome when he founded the city of now generally held to belong to neiConstantinople, nnd they were In thnt ther "the Semitic? Hamltlc or Aryan dty- for about 700 years, when they raees." The latest authorities divide were taken to Venice at tlie .time of the Inhabitants of the world Into the nnd Cnucnsle Mongolia (lie Crusades. There they stood above Ethloplc, the portals of St. Murk's cathedral un groups. Centrul and north Aslu, the - y WIFES DETECTIVE IS GOOD SPENDER Squealed at $6.50 Drink Bill, Husband Writes; Evidence Wins Decree. But Chicago. Harold A. YYaterbury may not he the truest husband in the world, but be Is one of tlie most obliging. A few weeks ago, for instance, Charles E. Erbstein attorney for Mrs. Pauline YY'aterbnry, 5333 Michigan avenue, sent a private detective to St. Louis to obtain evidence for a divorce. Waterbury didnt keep the detective waiting long. After it was all over he wrote his wife a letter, which Stacey Wallen writes in the log: Died today, S. Wallen, first mate. (TO BE CONTINUED.) MAKE BUSINESS CALL BRIEF Well to Remember That Executives, as a Rule, Have Little Time to Waste. Mouth-talor brain-tal- k which kind do you chiefly use during a business call or conference? I cant see half as many men as I could see or as I should Uke to see during the day because my callers, once they get In to see me, waste my time with Inconsequential talk," said a busy executive recently. Consequently, my secretary Is under instruction to admit only such persons as she thinks I must see. If you make a business call know beforehand what you 'are going to present nnd how. Dont waste time in nonessentials and trivialities. Fix the objective of your talk before you o call. It mnybe a decision; it may be a promise merely to consider your proposition ; it may be the fixing of a specific date when you can go Into the matter in detail. Whatever your objective is, work toward It as rapidly as you can ; and when you have reached It pick' up your hat and say Good-by- . This Is one of the surest ways of making a favorable impression. Pace Student k He Squealed a Little. was offered by Attorney Erbstein b fore Superior Judge- - Hopkins yesterday. It read: Dear Pauline Your detective came and saw and conquered. He Is now on his way rejoicing, though I had expected an offer from him for his silence. . i He was quite a joke, and at that did have me fooled for at least two hours. I do not know' who paid for It, but he showed me a good time, though he squealed a little when one round of drinks set him back over $6.30. At firsj I thought I would work fast and let him get away Saturday, but reconsidered, afid kept him waiting for the proper staging for the climax. He has all tlie evidence now. Fortunately. the police station is only a block from the hotel, so I was not put to much trouble and only detained a When the Alabama Went Down. In 1S64, on the nineteenth of June, moment. If you had seen fit to consult me I the battle between the U. S.- S. Kear-sarg- e exand the Confederate cruiser Ala- could have saved you considerable bama took place outside the harbor pense. The lack of confidence Is one of Cherbourg, France. The Alabama of the fundamental principles which had been fitted out at Liverpool by are responsible for our separation." Mrs. YVaterbury named an Ethel agents of the Confederate government The wdfe was granted a difor the purpose of destroying the mer- Root. chant ships of the Federal government. vorce. For two years she sailed the seas un3 der command of Captain Semmes, destroying commerce. In June of 1864 Death of Bear Is the Alabama was lying In the harbor Birth of Romance of Cherbourg and the Kearsarge, which had been pursuing her for more than a San Francisco. Robert Prosyear, arrived outside the harbor and ser of Comstock, Tex., millione three-millimit waited beyond the aire rancher and sheep owner, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth. was married, to Mrs. Joseph On Sunday, the nineteenth, the AlaHurt, wealthy young widow of bama came out and after a battle lastAshland, Ore., at St. Lukes ing two hours the Confederate sank Episcopal church on Yaa Ness without surrendering. avenue. The bride Is known throughout Lonely Britisher. the northwest as an Intrepid Living on an Island belonging to the big game hunter and fisher. She Paumotu archipelago, a French posses was the' widow of Joseph Hurt, slon in many thousands of miles from the Australian continent, Is refrigerator magnate. Prosser met his bride while Edward Davies, who claims the distincon a hunting party in the north-.wetion of being the loneliest Britisher. and stood beside her when There are only three other white men she shot a black bear. on the island, which is 40 miles long and 20 miles broad, but these are three Frenchmen. Hundreds of miles to the K southward of New Zealand are the LEAVES HUBBY FOR CAGE Macquarie Islands, on one of which a wireless service two men manipulate to Australia. Their small habitation is Six Months of Matrimony With Red. .Haired Man Entirely Too the only one on the islnnd, which has - Strenuous. no trees or shrubs, natives, harbors, and very little sunshine, being bitterly Philadelphia. After .six months of cold nnd most desolate. Their only husIt la the married life with a companions are penguins. most southern abode In the world for band, Mrs. Olga Celeste Murphy is going to resume her comparatively resta Briton. ful occupation of training and exhibiting a troupe of leopards In their big Edinburgh Landmark Gone. cage. An Interesting bit of old Edinburgh, Olga Celeste began with training dating back about 1600, has been burnhorses, after running away as a little ed. The destroyed building, which consisted of a single story and attic, was girl. Her parents tound her several one of the landmarks of the Holyrood days later living In a barn with a area. It was the old Yew Tree tavern, manger for a bed and hay for food. Subsequently she advanced to leopnnd stood Inside the bounds of the But when she tried ard training. Holyrood sanctuary for debtors, within next step she went as the matrimony In of the yore, fugitive which, dnys a woman used to for too she says, far, of his wns free from the companionship of nothing more vicreditors. cious than leopards. Germany has begun to Import wood SHOOTS FIVE IN QUARREL pulp from Sweden, the British blockade on the Same having boon removed. Woman Turns Shotgun on Neighbor Crowd Which Came to nnlknus, parts of Russia, Tibet, China, Remonstrate. HunJupnn, Finland, Lapland, Siberln, gary, the Malay peninsula, MadagasMiami, C'kla. Charged with shootcar, Philippines, are all peopled by five persons, two men, two boys ing to which Mongols family are also slid one woman, Mrs. Currie Brooks, ascribed the North American Indians of Miami, OUla., Is In nnd the Eskimo. YVe hnve traveled 'orty years old, mil. far from the elementary teaching of Alleging that a daughter of Mrs. the geographers you will 'trunks lmd severely beaten a wo are still compelled notice, though child earlier In the day, a to accept ns characteristics of the dito the Brooks home to went visions the colors black for Ethloplc, As they neared the cause. the yellow for Mongollc and white for Mrs. Brocks, armed with a shot-- ' louse the Caucnslo. ;un, fired Into the crowd. yes-or-n- mld-Pacifl- c, st red-haire- d three-ear-ol- d dele-ratio- HSit |