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Show J Murray Eagle, Murray, Utah fjimrL TTO ft EdnaFei'hei mr fj ' J fw W" THE STORY Vanrev cravat J"i returned the newly opened maian trill nere na ui ii.irv Run over tne Doraer, relates adventures to a gathering: of xancey is a he Venalfle family, nlnal lawyer, editor or me husband of and I'U'hlta Wigwam, When the Kun ibra Cravat. larted, Yancey raced his pony lalrift the thoroughbred mount if a girl. The thoroughbred Drone to legs and when 1 ancey stopped elioot it. the girl grabbed his ny and beat him to the land he mled. Yancey, with his wire ana son, Cimarron, start r the Oklahoma country. They rive at Otage, where Yancey '. nds to start a newspaper. Yan- v thous he can handle a gun. preparations for the publication y the wigwam anare completed.to Invitation ineey accepts ..miuct church services on Sun- m Diue i utiicu CHAPTER IV Continued, n cles iimniK: It fr-- Thev ? v. us M ' oup t wont to work early Sun- - So us not to mar ii .1. .1 I hey covereu me the num- .1 iuiu uiiu nulette tables with twenty-twiot boards. Such of the prospec- )f in hc conciliation as came early ng tit mild use these for seats. There i!s tij "re, too, a few rune nencnes on uu hich the players usually sat. The ' tern t iiiainilrr must stand. The meet-- i li nere ? was to be from eleven to twelve, lie fee early ns nine o'clock they be- d to arrive. tn,t They came from ' fun J, cabins, dugouts, tents. Ox take: ttugnns, buggies, horsemen, jrirts, teams. titer I 'smile They were starving te tk" It wasn t religion company. jfir traW it was the stimulation sought; strut jthat comes of meeting their kind a Ha lu Hie mass. They brought picnic i itimkets and boxes, prepared for a o tin-- t-- irchrt' Siiollday. ltl I usiratlon. Irwin. My iiiy ? rat WAJ.U rJ3j.rwiegr strutting In an absurd and yet un mlstakably recognizable imitation of Yaucey's stride and swing. Around bis waist was wound a red calico sash, and over that hung a bolstered leather belt so large for his small waist that It hung to his knees and bumped against them at every step. Protruding from the holsters one saw the ugly heads of what seemed at first glance to be two but which turned out, on Investigation by the infuriated Mrs. Cravat, to be the household monkey wrench and a bar of iron which went to make up one of the printing shop metal forms. On his head was a battered an unspeakable sombrero which he must have salvaged from the back yard debris. He managed, by the very power of his dramatic gift, to give to the orpre-ciativonlooker a complete picture of Yancey Cravat In ludicrous In grotesque miniature, lie advanced toward them with an appalling Imitation of Yancey's stride, Sabra's face went curiously sallow, so that she was, suddenly, Felice Venable, enraged. Yancey gave a great roar of laughter, and at that Subra's eyes turned from the ludicrous figure of the black boy to ber She was literally panting with fury. Her Idol, her god, was being mocked. "You laugh I , . . Stop. . , ," She went In a kind of swoop of rage toward the now halting figure of Isaiah. The black face, all eyes now (and those all whites), looked up at ber, startled, terrorized. She raised ber band In Its neat black kid glove to cuff him smartly. But Yancey was too quick for her. Swiftly as she bad swooped upon Isaiah, Yancey's leap bad been He caught her hand half quicker. His fingers way In Its descent closed around ber wrist In an Iron grip. "Let me got" For that Instant she hated him. "If you touch hlra I swear before God I'll not set foot Inside the tent d e bus-ban- The town seemed alive with blanot? keted Indiana They squatted lo (, pwe shade of the wooden Bhacks. KB! 5'Jliey walked In from their near-bnjersf srewrvatlons, or rode their mangy f Worses, or brought In their entire be If imilies squnw, papoose, two or Look at him!" three children of assorted sizes, The black face gazed up at hira. t In.'; 4', icq In it was worship, utter devotion. h , J IB.!, Yancey, himself a born actor, knew 4 ternly that she must remember to that In Isaluh's grotesque costume. Ion I f a iiave Christian spirit, and they In his struttlngs and swaggerlngs. were all Hod's children ; that these been only that sincerest had there red men had been converted. She of Imitation of that which flattery, didn't a word of It. was adored. The eyes were those dan Hangers, storekeepers, settlers, of a dog. faithful, hurt, bewildered. eop! r.enn squatters with their bony ettic; Yancey released Sabra's wrist wives and their rickety ne turned his brilliant winning children, as untamed aa little smile on Isaiah. He put out bis it to wolves. hand, removed the mangy sombrero Sahra superintended the toilettes from the child's head, and let his mif of her men folk from Yancey to fine white hand rest a moment on itair; Isalnh. the woolly polL Vancey chlded ber, laughing, "My ujtf" Isalab began to blubber, Ms good woman, do you realize that en I "Ah giving way to Injury. fright this Is no way to titivate for the didn't go fo" to fret nobmiy. Yon-al- l work of delivering the Word of was dress up fine fo' ch'ch meetln' t God? Sackcloth and asbea Is, I so I crave ;o dress myself up Sunbelieve, the prescribed costume." He poured and drank down three day style" t.' "That's right, Isalnh, Ton look tinkers of whisky, the third Since liner than any of ns. Now listen breakfast lo me. Do you want a real suit of Clin cavorted excitedly In liTs clothes?" best suit, with the bright plnld silk Sunday The white teeth now tied with tie and the buttoned shoes, tasseled fo' at the top. The boy. Sabra thought the rolling eyes, "Sunday suit as the dressed him. grew more and me to wear I Fo truel" more like Yancey, "Listen close, Isalnh. I want you except that he seemed to lurk his father's driving to do something for me. Something force, his ebullience. big. I don't want yon to go to the meeting." Then, as the church Yancey's sure dramatic Instinct face, all bade him delay until he could make black boy's expressive smiles the Instant before, became an effective entrance. A dozen "Isaiah, listen limes .v'abra called to him. as lie sat suddenly doleful: Is something Important. this hard, In 1ii front tilllce busy with pnper Everybody In town's nt the church nnd pencil. This was, she decided, Jesse Itickey's drunk meeting. his sole preparation for the sermon The house nnd the newspaper oilice he would be bound to deliver with left alone. There are people In the next hmir. biter she found nrc In town who'd sooner set fire to in the pocket of his sweeping nnd the house 1'rince AlU-r- t the piece of paper on the newspaper plnnt see the paper come out on than widen no iimi ,m,e notes. One I want you to go back ", he had written on if, and then ThurS'lav. house to the hh'iiel It with meaningless where you canandseeIntothethebackkitchen, yard iiia rks but not quite. Sabra study-liit- f entrance, too. Pntrol the paper after the events of sml the side what Tta putting you the nmrning, made out the word duty, that's IS it y ,..l bare-legge- it fa I 1 4 f "lotimis." At last he was ready. Sabra J' nil put on, not her second best tl.iik grosgraln, but her best, and he hat with the plumes. She and Yancey stepped sedately down the street, with Clm's warm wriggling Ijtile fingers In her own clasp. Sabra was a silmly elegant little figure In her modish black j Yancey, as always, a dashing one. Tiny went on their way. It occurred neither to Sabra nor to Van- niznrre j nun mere was or even unusual In anyiiung their thus pro- r,,e,ltlRi tnrpe and "Yes, stih. Mr. Yancey!" agreed His dejected Isnlalu "Patrol." trnnfnr-matlofrnme now underwent as It stiffened to fit the new mnrtlnl role. "Xow listen close. If snybody comes tip to the house they won t come the front way. but at the ynu bark, probably, or the side took lie take this and shoot." from beneath the Prince Albert a under gun, which, well on the left, were the coat, was not tlslMe as tbe two stx shooters tbst he always rnrrled st bis belt. It was a of the kind known as the reasonably conventional figures, to-The Wwr a gnmbilng tent nnd saloon single action. was tbe deadliest of It dead. "Hh. packed to suffocation with Southwestern weapons, a six shootthe worst and best that fronhammer, when pulled tier tuwn bus to offer, was for one er whoe ths thumb, would fall tnck by "'on hour to become a House of released. No need sgnln as soon as small forefinger to Isaiah's for "v iivii'miis, iiiin v m in i sugar. Though 1 will say times rather plead with a Jury of Texas Panhandle cnttlemen for (hp life of a professional hnrf 'I' t f thtin stand up to ,irea h lie-- ' te this gang lie broke off 'I niptly. "What's everyltody Inuch-h'- i nt din! pointing to'" Certainly t akers by were acting sirsngely liftiiietively sabra nnd Vance. t'inieil ( look behind them. lowit He Mreet, perhaps fifty pnees be l'!tnl them, came Isalnh. He W"o lu" of" n wrestle with the tricar. In "Oh Vnncey!" hrentbed Sabra. a child!" I He's "Yancey hormr. Now It was she who whs protecting Van th black boy from Yancey. cey Ignored her. You remember whnt I told tmi tn- -t week." be went r.n. cpmbl "When we were sheeting st the tin M in the can n the fence I i... it t,it n voti did It he- n- draw, sim. motion." o'l a1'001 ,,,e onP "Yes. suh, Mr. Yancey I kill 'em daid." "You'll have a brand-nesuit of Sunday clothes next week, remember, and boots to go with It Now. scoot 1" Isaiah flashed a brilliant, a glorified smile at Sabra over bis shoulder and was off, a ludicrous black Don Quixote. All Sabra's pleasurable antici pation In the church meeting had tied. "How could you give a gun to a chllii like that I You'll be giv ing one to Cim, here, next Alone in the house, with a gun." "It Isn't loaded. Come on, honey We're late." For the first time in their married life she doubted Ms word absolutely. He strode along towards the tent She hurried at bis side. Cim trotted to keep up with ber. his hand In hers. "What did you mean when you said there were people who would set fire to the house? I never heard of such . . . Did you really mean or was It an that some one excuse to send Isaiah hack because of the way he looked?" "That was it" For the second time she doubted him. "I don't believe you. There's something going on something you haven't told me. Yancey, tell me." Don't be "1 haven't time now. foolish. 1 Just don't like the complexion of 1 Just thought that muybe this meeting was the idea of somebody who Isn't altogether Inspired by a desire for a closer communion with God. Just occurred to me, I don't know why. Good Joke on me, If it's true." "I'm not going to the meeting. Pm going back to the house." She Her house was was desperate. burning up, Isaiah was being murdered. "You're coming with me." He rarely used this tone toward her. Yancey, I'm afraid to "Yancey have you stand up there, before all those people. I'm afraid. Let's go back. Tell them you're sick. Tell ally been unaware. As a matter of fact the leader of this spectacu lar group hnd arrived lu Osage only the day before, accompanied by a bevy of six young ladies. Osage, since that first mad day of its beginning, had had its quota of shady ladles, but these had been raddled creatures, driftwood from this or that deserted mining camp or abandoned town site, middle aged, unsavory, and doubtless slightly subnormal mentally. These were different. Tbe leader. woman of a handsome black-haireor three, not more than twenty-twhad taken for herself and her companions such rooms ns they could get In the town. Within nn hour it wns known that the woman claimed the name of Dixie I.ee. . That she was a descendant of decayed south- ern aristocracy. ing companions That her bloom- boasted such fancy nomenclature ns Cherry de St. Maurice, Carmen Itrown, ISelle Mansero, and the like. That the woman, shrewd as a man nnd sharp as a knife, had driven a bargain whereby she was to come into possession, at a stiff price, of tbe building known ns the Elite lloomlng House and Cafe, situated nt the far end of Puwhuska avenue, near the gambling tent ; and that she contemplated building a house of her own, planned for her own peculiar needs, If Lnslness warranted. Thus harlotry, heretofore sordid enough in a wrapper and curling pins, came to Osage In silks and plumes, with a brain behind it and a promise of prosperity In its gaudy train. Dixie Lee, shrewd saleswoman, had been quick to leurn of Sunday's meeting, and quicker still to see the advantage of this opportunity for a public advertisement of her business. So now, at Osage's first church meeting, In marched the six, with Dixie Lee nt their head making a seventh. They rustled In silks. The nlr of the tent became suffocating with scent as a Persian garden nt sunset. The them" worthy wives of tent. The the reached had They Osage, In their cheviots and their A ronr of talk came was open. flap failed bonnets nnd cotton gloves, to them from within. The entrance suddenly seemed sallow, scrawny, smoklean with figures was packed almost spectacularly uniiilur-luand ing and spitting. "Ill, Yancey! How's the preacher? Where's your All this Snbra beheld in a single Uible, Yancey?" ns did the entire congregaglance, And Yancey here, boys." "ltlght Yancey, having lifted Cim reached Into the capacious skirt of tion. his Prince Albert to produce In tri- Into the chair next his mother, looked up nt the entrance of this umph the Word of God. "Come In or stay out, boys. No loafing in splendid procession. His "God Almighty!" he said. the doorway." With Sabra on his arm he marched through the close- - tone was as Irreverent as the words packed tent "They've saved two were sacred. A dull flush suffused his face, a thing so rare in him is seata for you and Cim down front or should have. Yes, there they to startle Sabra more than the words he had uttered or the tone are." Sahra felt fulnt She bad seen in which he bad said them. "What Is It? Yancey I What's the foxlike face of Lon Yountls in "That mnn," she wrong?" the doorway. whispered to Yancey. "He was "That's the girl." there. He looked at you as you "What girl?" passed by be looked at you "That one Dixie Lee she's the "That's fine, honey. Better than In the black tights and the I hoped for. Nothing I like better girl skull-cnon In the ltun than to have members of my dock . ." be was . the thoroughbred under my eye," right ... 1 close-packe- hard-workin- g. so" ... ... CHATTER V rear of the RANGED along the the Indians. Osages, Poncas, Cherokees, Creeks. They viewed the proceedings ImpasIn masks sively, their faces bronze which only the eyes moved. Later, on their reservations, with no white man to see and hear, they would gossip like fishwives; they would shnke with laughter; they would retail this or that absurdity which, with their own eyes, they bsd seen the white man perform. They would slap their knees and rock with mirth. "Great Jokers, the Indians," Van-cebad once said, offhand, to Snbra. She had felt sure that he was mistaken. They were sullen, taciturn, grave. They did not speak; they grunted. They never y laughed. Holding Clm's hand tightly In ber own, Sabra, escorted by Yancey, found that two chairs had Snbra for them. been placed glanced shyly about her. of men. They were strangely alike, all those faces; weather beaten, deeply young-oldseamed, and. for the most part, beardless. The Plains had taken them early, bad scorched them with her sun, parched them with her drought, buffeted Ihem with her wind, stung them with ber dust. Sabra had grown accustomed to these faces during the pnt two weeks, P.ut the women she was not prepnred for the women. Calico nnd stmhonneis there were In plenty; but the wives of Osage's ritlr.enry hnd taken this first opportunity to show What they had In the way of finery. Near Sahra. and occupying one of the seats evidentpersons of distincly reserved tion, was a wottmn who must be, Sahra thought, about her own age; twenty or twenty-one- . perhaps bine eyed, almost childlike In fair, her glrllch sllmness and purity of well wns very She contour. dressed In a wine-colobustled, very tightly henrletia. basqued. and elaborate with fluting Dresa and on sleeves and collar. bonnet were city made and very Snbra tvnver, From modish. thought, or Knnsns City, or even Chicago. Sabra further decided that the man beside ber. ho looked old enough to be her father, must be. nfler all, ber husband. It was In the ny he spoke to het, pncd a: her. Ynnecy hnd her. touched pointed him out one day. She remembered his name became It had amused her at the time: Walts. He wns a noEvergreen Wall. torious Southwest gambler, earned his living by the cards. The gin looked unhappy: and beneath that rebellion Silll. the s'ebt of this lovely dire nnd of (tie oilier fem'tittie face looking nut fnnii nt leist f.ilny niedi'h and decent straw bonnets and Impic. cue Satin a glow of Immediately Ibis wn renssiirnnre. quenched st the late, sliowy. and dramatic entrance. Just before Van group of cey took hi place, of women of whom Sabra had actu Men-hun- fr r sllk-wrn- dreds whispering. "Oh. no!" cried Sabra. aloud. It was wrung from her. Those nearby stared. So this wns the church meeting toward which she hnd looked with such hope, such happy- assurance. Harlots, Indians, heat, glare, her house probably blazing at this moment Isalnh weltering In bis own gore, Urn Yountls' sinister face sneering in the tent entrance. And now this woman, unscrupulous, evil, who had stolen Yancey's quarter section from hltn by a trick. Yancey made his way through the close packed crowd, leaped to the top of the roulette table which was to be bis platform and, lifting the great lolling head, swept the expectant congregation with bis mysterious, bis magnetic eyes. Probably never In tbe history of the Christian religion hnd the Word of God been preached by so romantic and dnshlng a figure. Ills long black locks curled on his shoulders; the fine eyes glowed; the Prince Albert swayed with his graceful movements; bis one on each side, bulged re- Device Converts Auto Cylinder Into Air Pump Feel 100 Younger If you feel older than your years it " and unhappy if you are you lone for the vitallt y and enthusiasm of youth you can filit weakness and aid Nature by taking Fellows' Syrup. It builds up t!e weakened system by icstoring what Nature demands. The result is an immediate improvement in appetite. You eat better, sleep better, and feel years younger. Thrc is new pleasure in living as your stamina and strength return. 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In the course of my career ns a lawyer and an editor I bnve been required to speak on varied occasions 1 have and on ninny subject. of In defense my country spoken and In criticism of It; I have been called on to defend nnd lo convict horse thieves, harlot, murderer, samples of w hich professions could doubtless be found In any large gathering In the Indian territory I point tiMlny. I name no names, no linger. W hether for good or for evil, tbe fact remains that any man or woman, for whatever pnrtKtse, found In this Brent Oklahoma country today Is here becntise in his or her veins, actuated by motives lofty or base, there U the splrll of ad venture, Though 1 know the P.lble from cover lo cover, and while mnny of Its psssil(;ei and precepts are graven on my heart and In my memory, this, fellow citizens of Osage, Is the first time that I have been required to speak the Word of God In Ms temple." lie glanced around Ihe gaudy, glaring tent. "For any shelter, however, sordid, however humble no offense. Grat bl word Is while becomes, spoken within It. his temple. Sup-pose. then, that we unite In spirit b uniting In song. We hne. yno will notice, no hvmn books. We will therefore open this suspicions occasion In tbe brief but Inevitable glorious history of the cit? of Usage do you all nh wb-i- t by slnclr-know anyway? n a There slightly embarrassing pnue. Vnncey ra'e( ment "C n arm in on. boj? Name It' Any surges tlons. ladies and getulenienr1 Danger A new device that can be screwed into the spark plug hole of one of the auto's cylinders turns thut cyl inder Into an air pump that will produce two nud a half cubic feet of free air per minute. This much air Is sufficient to spray oil paint, germicide, Insecticide, und liquids, says Popular Science Monthly. On the down stroke of the piston In the cylinder to which the device Is fitted, the piston sucks in outside air fliroush a valve. 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