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Show tended attack. RingUrand saw the look of grim determination come into the yes of the elder Latimer, and a moment later Ludlow came over and began ;to talk to Hester, while the colonel and ihis son left the room. When they came (back the conversation became general, and was glad of this, for lu felt that the one thing impossible under dhe circumstances was a e Avith Hester. After a little, the colonel suggested to his daughter that she retire, adding that they had a little matter of business to talk about that would keep then up aw hile longer. She went willingh enough, being in a beatific frame o. mind which would have made her obedient to a much more unreasonable request, and when they heard the door of her room close behind her they drew their chairs together, and Ringbrand gave a rapid outline of liis plan for the capture of the marauders. Upon hearing it, Col. Latimer demurred at once because of the danger attending Riugbrands part in the undertaking; but he acquiesced finally when Ludlow added the weight of his advice, and the young man glanced gratefully at his friend for the timely assistance. When the details were arranged, and Ringbrand had appealed to Henry not to fire unless it became plainly necessarv', the colonel spoke again: In that convesation in the cave, Mr. Ringbrand, did you happen to heah any thing that might thovv any light oil this? handing a soiled and note to the young man. Ringbrand unfolded it and spelled out the contents penciled in crabbed characters scrawled irregularly across the sheet. dere Mis ester, it ran, hit mout be a beep beter ef you loud not to stay on the mounting two nite spose you go down T ludlos fer a spel yure friend. Where did this come from? he asked. Thats whats us. Hester found it wrapped round a piece of flint rock lyin on the floor of her room this d aftenoon, and she reckoned thovvn it in at the window. I think I know' who wrote it, said Ringbrand, reflectively, recalling the One of words of the conspirators. them asked: IIovv about the girl?" and the other replied: Xeednt mind about her; shell look out for herself, and then he added : I shouldnt wonder if Jed would be glad enough to take care of her if shed allow it. Jed is the one who will hold the horses, I believe. Blame his cussed impudence! exclaimed the colonel, blazing up wrath-fullWhat right lias he got to bo Ihinkin about my Hester? Xot the least bit in the world, colonel, replied Ludlow, ; but dont let us forget that he had enough humanity in him to send this note; he knew quite well that he did it at the risk of his neck, and its the first decent thing I ever knew one of them to do. 1 Ringbrand looked at his watch. our be better think wed places, taking gentlemen, he said. They set no time, but vve had best be ready for them. Henry extinguished the light, and the four men filed noiselessly out of the house to their several stations. The colonel and Henry, armed with repeating rifles and provided vith buckets of water for vise in ease the fire spread too rapidly, concealed themselves in the shrubbery to the right and left ofLudthe small clump of Ring-bran- tete-a-tet- some-body- y. good-natured- laurel-bushe- ly s; quirements of the part he had volunteered to take in the approaching drama stood out in v ivid and disconcerting relief. Common sense awoke and demanded a reason for the hazardous V. plan, pointing the finger of ridicule at the melodramatic' stage setting, and suggesting that nothing had been omitted save a calcium light to be flashed u;on the scene at the critical moment. He saw the absurdity of it all, and more sensible it would have been to take Ludlows suggestion, surrounding the house with a posse of armed men whose numbers would have made resistance on the part of the mountaineers useless and lienee improbable. And what was there to lie urged against such a safe and practical plan of procedure? Xotliing, or less than nothing; merely the demonstration of an abstruse metaphysical problem within himself; the application of a R. L. heroic test which had no place outside the realm of fiction. And with this WATCHMAKER. thought it occurred to him that lie had UTAH. unconsciously' planned the whole thing NEPHI would have made upon the lines that it most effective in a story! And then the suggestion of the calcium light and live alarmed young woman looking down upon the theatrical tableau from her window came again, making him NURSERYMEN, sick with disgust. COLORADO. DENVER. Looking at it from any point of view, the romantic project, which was more than likely' to cost him his life in the executing, was merely a fantastic idea of Book prov ing himself in some way a knight Ail who are interested in furthering the eale without fear a modern type of of Eon. W. J. iiryuns new batik ehouid correspond immediately with the mediaeval personage who went publishers, liis word about slaying impossible dragons and will oontain . . AS ? HIS disembowelling mythological giants. UUfAlUS ItCR. It was absurd ridiculous preposterHIS BirSAFIT. ous! and from this point in the arguft 1750 BifiSWI HIS IMfSSTAKT ment the descent to the Avernus of terSFIiMS. r ror as easy'. At the end of a TUB RimTB 67 res he felt the premonitory spinal chill CA1IPAISI1 0 1K6. n heralding a return of the LOT ARIVIBW8BTC3 Ihr'J poimCAl HTUATIOa. symptoms; in five minutes more the ACENTS WANTED was he was and him, paroxysm upon Mr. hr db of all bit iBtention of devoliag struggling furiously in the grasp of his utruaetd royalties to furthering the ranee of DizaeUiilUm. There are already ind icationt of an enormouaaale. familiar demon, blind, deaf and helpAddress W. B. CONWY COMPANY, Publisher less, with every fiber of his being strainDearborn $t. CHICAGO so an real in itself for impulse ing flight that he turned and grasped at the rough msaoBsxso bark of the tree to keep himself from d being carried bodily away by the We Forfeit $icoo lLlb how-muc- Ve gor-tesq- . A0C8CCT HOET half-hou- v well-know- one-b&- lf vv liirl-vvin- terror. The attack did not last long, and about the time the blood began to tingle in his veins again he heard the muffled trampling of horses approaching along the dusty' road. At the signal the very of fiokCtfrfl fc 3avy recollection of his late discomposure seemed somehow to vanish into the limbo of a remote past; his pulses quickened and his muscles thrilled vviith the vibrations of an accumulating energy that sang joyously' as it leaped through the tense nerves and the throbbing arteries. His sharpened senses were unnaturally' acute; he heard the woody clink of the rails as the men made a breach in the zigzagfenee, then s of the horses the smothered soft across the turf of the law n ; coming a moment later, in an interval of silence, he fancied he could almost hear the whispered instructions given to Jed. When the two men emerged from the deeper shadows of the grove he saw them quite distinctly in the starlight; they came directly toward his hiding place, and when they paused within a few feet of the trees he could scarcely restrain the eager ferocity that prompted him to rush out upon them. In the instant of hesitation he had time to note that one of them carried an armful of kindling wood; the man gathered it into a firmer hold while they paused, and there was a smothered tinkle of breaking glass, and the pungent odor of kerosene filled the air. What was that tliar noise? asked the other. Hits that tliar blame bottle o coal-oithats what hit is; hits done busted an run all down into my boots, replied the first; and they moved forward and disappeared behind the corner of the house. Ringbrand kept them in sight as long as he could, and then ran across to the clump of laurels, going down on his hands and knees and slaring intently into the gloom until he found them again, two darker blots of shadow crouching in the angle formed by' the bay window in the parlor. While he was straining his eyes to catch the gleam of the match which would be the signal for their return, he did not hear the stealthy steps of a man who was approached him irora behind, nor did lie know of its presence when the gliding figure came quite close and stood with dubbed gun waiting for him to rise. The appearance of the third brother ELYS CREAM BALM Is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 69 cents at Drinrststs or by mail ; samples 10c. by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 63 Warren St., New York City. hoof-beat- Juab County Abstract Co. 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Latimer and Henry in doudt as to what they should do. Wli'n the elder liynum stooped to light the pile of kindlings. Hud started back toward the ambush alone; and as the first match went out, the younger brother had time to reach the clump of laurels before Jeff could find and light another. Seeing but oue of the men appear, the colonel and his son both hesitated, and Bud confronted Ringbrand just as the latter recovered himself from the grapple witli Jed. There was Hew York World, TWICE-A-W-E- EDITION. K in 13 135 Papers a Year Pages a Week. A paper as usual vo you as a great $3 daiiy for only one collar a year. Better Dias tvs-- . All tbe News of all the world all ih Time. Accurate and fair to everybody. Democratic and for ilw people. Age mat trusts and nil monopo ics, s, by-pla- r J. Brandenstein & Co. av::g'' illustrations. Stoi y oc-cur- ed Ring-bran- I j no time for deliberation, and, realizing that the mountaineer could not use liis rifle at close quarters, he flung himself upon the newcomer, taking him unawares and throwing him heavilj- - just, as a bright blaze sprang up beside the house and a howl of agony rang out on the still air of the night. A single glance revealed the cause of both. There was a terrible picture of a man wrapped in a winding sheet of flame and running toward him a yelling human torch blazing from head to foot and swinging its fiery arms frantically as it ies by great au- thors in every number. Splendid reading for women and otlit r special departments of unusual interest. It stands first an, ng weekly papers in size, frequency of uublication and freshness, variuty and leuablity of contents. It is practically a da ly at the low price of a weekly; and its vo.it list of subscriber, expending to every state and territory of the Union and foreign countries, will vouch for the accuracy and faernessof its news columns. We offer this unequaled newspaper and The Republic fgetherone jear lor 2.50 . he regular subscription priced the two papers is f 3. Oq. National Educational Association Meeting . ran. At such a crisis, thought and action are one. Shaking himself loose from the grasp of the struggling young brother, Ringbrand quieted him with a single deliberate blow with the butt of the pistol; the next instant he had tripied the shrieking firebrand and was rolling it over and over in the damp grass when the colonel and Henry ran For tbemeeting of IheNational Educa-tionAssociation nt Buffalo in 1S93 the excellent service given by tbe Union Pacific was commented on by all those who had tbe pleasure of using tbstlme. This dear our educational friends meet in Milwaukee, Wis., July 6th to 9th and members of the association and othors from points we.it of the Missouri River should byal! means take tbe Union Pacific. The servl'e of the Union Paciflo via Omaha or Kansas City is the very best. The equipment consists of handsome day coach- -, CheirCtns, Pullman Buffet and DrawingRoom Sleepers, DlningCars and, Buffet Sm king and Library Cara Fewer changes than via any other line. One fur, plus 2. 50 for the round trip will be the rate, from all points weet of the Missouri River for this meeting. For illustrated matter, folders, etc., call on your nearest agent, or address af up. It was all over quickly, and they were binding Jed and 15ud when Ludlow-joineAlso have complete set plats them. The colonel sent Henry to and lands the negro servants, with orarouse to entry open showing the horses and the farm to ders of get do all kinds to are prepared E.L. Lomax, at once, and then an awed wagon ready Gen. Pass, and Tkt. Agt. bmaha. Neb. business with district land office. little group gathered around the burned Money to loan on improved man while Ludlow examined his infarm property, or on wate stock. juries by the light of the lanterns. I guess lies past help, he said, quietT. C WINN. Manager. How did it happen? ly. It was keroRingbrand answered: sene. He had a bottle in his pocket, and broke it just as they passed me. He was carrying an armful of wood. Ludlow glanced at the other two: 1 missed have (Successor to Fred Sesensen Gardner.) my man, but I see him. How did you manage it ? I didnt manage it: It was managed sdlinsn.-.- n for me, replied Ringbrand, lowering his voice at the sound of a slight noise at one of the upper windows of the manconout the' Ringbrana umoided It and spelled tents. sion. When I got upon my feet behind the laurels Lt ttuce, Asparra-gu- s, there, some one knocked me Raddiehea, low went down the avenue and I tried clubbed a it down with gun; crouched in the black shadow of a Onion, and and threw- the fellow just as the again, armed and Car Ringbrand, servlet. other came up. I closed with that one pine; Tourist or Family Sleeping now ready. had been only with the revolver which took his Denver & Rio randeR. R. In connection to keep him from using his rifle; and ns cavern, the in " .. r,.n. i , lus companion with the R. G. W. runs a Touriat or t, Diird mar " Leave Ordera for Delivery with T. 0. in which stand against the trunk of a great oak, Family Bleeping: Car to Denver, d In C. Winn, first door north of for h be can J2.00? overshadowed limbs a lower br ereqef whose spreading upon the scene was due to the fact that addition to this daily tervtce, thtD. & R. mountainthe Hawkins restaurant, selected ambush by the Ludlow had chosen his position unfor- Q. aiao operate on Wednesday. ThursExcursion Rates. Tourist eers. distinct three to see the unable was day and Fridays, tunately and so toOmaha, Kansas City, Up to the moment when the complemen when they dismounted. For this sleepingCarlines Boston and New York no Chieago, tion of the arrangements for the capsure To Salt Lake City for the Trara was he that reason, he w aited until for Utah passengers at greatly ture of the conspirators had begun tod the two incendiaries had started for change Commercial Congress July 14, 15 cars These Touritt ra tea. reduced berth Pullman cancel the factor of excitement. the holder 13 1897. The O. 8. L. R. R. Co. Company, and are managed by the house, and the delay gave the Annual Conference. had not reflected upon the pe- cf horses time to yield to a sudden im- and are provided with all necessary con- makes an open rata of one fare for tbe The Tourist he and test appliances. of venience the nature on line thsir culiarly trying pulse horn of a desire to know if his car Ff.. together with the admirable round trip from all stations had proposed for himself. When the warning to Hester hail accomplished its trainfeature, service and scenic att actions of the to Salt Lake for the above named event. welhe had R. & in G. the D. itself, the 13. had bridles suggested route, has placed of Western Railroads. Belling dates South of Santiquin July plan purpose. Looping the horses Young mens and youag ladies Mutua comed it gladly, hurrying forward to together and throwing them over the foremost rsnks final limit July and innous Cont passage detailed iaformation, apply For rates snd Improvment Associations Salt Lake City its culmination with the eager impa- branch of a tree, he followed noiselessly to H. thsR.G. W. Ry., 26 1837. wickiss, Agt, L. B, Ticket Agsntof any sees the he July 17, 18 aud 191397. TheO. S. Geasral Ajeat, or U. tience of one who imagines F. Nevins, and ortoB. one of his fare for rate brothers; oi an in the footsteps open R. Co. makes of his life in the perspecturning-poin- t M. Cnshinr, Traveling Paeaeagsr Agent, to time in lawn Utah in t on the all out from stations open 58 2nd Boath West Mo round it. coming the trip D, A. R. 0., tive and runs impetuously to double conference. a glimpse of Ringbrand as he ran Street, Balt LakaOlty. above tbe catch for Lake under Salt City his taken position Who can think After he had across to the laurels, he crept forward of some aim pie Selling dates south of Santiquin July 16, anted-- An the oak, however, the suspense, and the behind thing to patent? with stood gun he until uplifted beAll tickets limited to continuous passage the of night, our Ideas; they may& bring you wealth. darkness and silence d When Patent Attor-- i sentinel. CO., WfclHiERBDKN OHN the unsuspecting of in east direction with final limit July 2 fire enthusiasm; the 1,RU) offer C to D. tor their , prize ''Washington, dampen gan Cura.xnires, e the match, of flash at &ne the Cough rose (it Min wanted. Inventions E. D. Wick ins. Agt, hundred and two 1897. list of turned of excitement the flood-tid- e That Is what it was mode for. re heroic the and ebbed slowly away; d l, low-branch- T. 6. 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