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Show THE aooooooooooowocoooooooooooooooooocooooooaoooooooo mm I r VA - SYNOPSIS. Word that their are distasteful to nightly frolics"high-toned a party of Britishers" recently arrived at the Lodge, among them an army captain and his sister of the same name as himself, is brought to Jack Kllmeny (known to his Intimates as Crumbs) and some friends camping on the Qunnlson Called to account in Colorado. for the uproar by Dobyans Verln-de- r, snobbish millionaire, member of the British party. Jack snubs that individual and has a friendly chat with Moya Dwlght, attractive Irish girl. Jack has no use for his British relatives, two of whom he knows are at the While fishing, Kllmeny Lodge. again meets Miss Dwlght. and by her Is introduced to the other members of the party, chief of r, whom are Lord and Lady as "Mr. Crumbs." Jack Is Immensely impressed by the loveliness of Joyce Seldon, companion of Moya. Next day, at Gunnison, the Farquhar party sees "Mr. Crumbs" win the bucking broncho championship. He disappears after the contest. On their way home Moya and her companions are overtaken by a sheriff's posse In pursuit of two men who have robbed the treasurer of the County Fair association of the proceeds of the Bhow. The sheriff declares the men are Jack Kllmeny ("Crumbs") and his friend Colter. Captain Kllmeny and his sister realize that Jack Is their cousin. His participation in the Jack robbery seems assured. meets Moya and convinces her of his Innocence of the crime charged against him. Joined by the Farquhar party. Jack's to Captain Kllmeny and htw He sister is established. leaves them. With Jack Kllmeny his prisoner, the sheriff makes a short stay at the Lodge. Jack, on leaving, takes the captain's hat Instead of his own. In Jack's hat Moya and India discover a paper giving directions for finding a package. Captain Kllmeny and the two girls find It the money stolen from the fair association. Convinced that Jack 1j altogether unworthy of her thoughts, Moya becomes engaged to Captain Kllmeny, who has long been her suitor. Far-quha- ip Continued 5 It was, though strictly speaking Jack Kllmeny was not yet with her, since she was still unaware of his Moya was sitting on a presence. moggy rock with a magazine In tier hand, but she was not reading. By the look of her she was daydreaming. Before she heard him he was close upon net. She looked around, and wlti a little cry got to her feet and stared at him, her hand oa her fast-beati- heart Joyce waited to see no more. "No business of ours," she announced to yerlnder, and, without regard to bis curiosity or her own, turned heel and marshaled him from the field. "You!" Moya cried. Kllmeny bowed. "The bad penny turned up again. Miss Dw'ht." Scorn of him flushed In her dark She stood straight and rigid, yes. but in spite of herself she breathed fast. "You've forgotten your promise. You've lost faith again," he charged. Ills Impudence stirred contemptuous anger. "I know you now, sir," she told hi in with line contempt. "And you promised to believe In tne." lie said It quietly, with Just a touch of bitterness In the reproach of fcls wistful voice. The first hint of startled doubt cnme Into her eyes. She stood pulsed as It were on the edge of hope. "How could I believe wh:a I found your guilt on you? Whnt right have you to ask Itr "So you found the paper In the hnt, did yon?" "Yes." "Certain about my guilt this time, are you?" He said It almost with a sneer, but nothing could crush the resurgent glow In her heart. Why was It that the mere presence of this man called to htr no potently and shook her confluence In his guilt?" "We found the money." she explained, thinking to confound Mm. "I guessed that. It was gone when I went to look for It this morning. I've come for It now." Ills assurance a ma set! her. "Come for It I" she repented. "It Isn't here." "No, didn't expect to find It In your Hut It Is at the Lodge." Ciurse. "No." "Where, then?" "I sha'n't tell yon. The money will be returned to those from whom It was stolen." He looked at her with hard, narrowed eyes. "It will be returned, will It? When?" "Today. Within a few hours." "Who Is going to return It?-- ' Moya had It on the flp of her tongue to tell, but pulled up In time. "I think we'll not ro Into that." The American looked at his watch. The hands showed the hour to be 2:30. tf the money was to be returned that day s.imeone must already be on the way with It, He had seen bis cousin. Captain Kllmeay, take the Gunnison road In a trap not half an hour earlier. "8a ttk raptala la Uklnj 4 back - 8 Co. ceocoooc "NOT GUILTYI" CHAPTER VI ooooooooBooooaaooaaaot By WM. MacLEOD RAINE by O. W. Dillingham iPOOPOOOQOOOPCCOaOOO NEPIII, UTAH S, MGEABE cOi JUmi Copyright TIMES-NEW- today?" he mused aloud, wary eyes on Moya's face. A startled expression leaped to her countenance. "I didn't say so." "I say so." Beneath his steady gaze her lashes fell. He nodded, sure that he had guessed correctly. "I Intended to have a talk with you and straighten out some things," he went on. "But I find I haven't time now. We'll postpone It till tomorrow. I'll meet you here at ten o'clock In the morning." "No," she told him. The wave of hope had ebbed In her. Given the opportunity to explain the evidence against him, he had cared more to find out what they were doing with the stolen money. He had no time to save his good name. Remember. "Ten In the morning. It's Important. I want to see you alone. If I'm not Oil time wait for me." He bowed, turned away almost at a run, and was lost In the small willows. Presently she heard the sound of a galloping horse. He was following the cutoff trail that led to Gunnison. She wondered what was taking him away so abruptly. He had meant to stop, then had changed his mind. He had told her calmly she must meet him here tomorrow, and If he were late for the appointment she must wait. His Impudence was enough to stagger belief. She would show him about that. If he wanted to see her he must come to the Lodge and face Lady Jim. Even then she would not see him. Why should she, since he was what he was? Ah, but that was the crux of the whole matter ! Had he proved his Innocence and been released? Or had he broken prison, an alternative of which he was quite capable? And, guilty or Innocent, what could be the explanation of his extraordinary demand that she should turn over to him the stolen money? She divined again the hint of a mystery. Something deeper than reason told her that the unraveling of It would prove him no villain. One Immediate duty alone confront ed her. She must confess to Lady Farquhar that she had met and talked with him again. It was likely that she would be well scolded, but it was characteristic of her that she pre ferred to walk straight to punishment and get It over with. No doubt she had been too free with this engaging Scamp. The rules of her set prescribed a straight and narrow road In which she must walk. She was to know only such people as had the password, only those trimmed and trained till there was no Individuality left In them. From birth she had been a rebel, but an Impotent one. Each revolt had ended In eubmlsslon to the silken chains of her environment. Fret as she might. none the less she was as much a caged creature as Lady Jim's canary. Jack strode through the young al dors to his horse, swung to the saddle without touching the stirrups, and was off Instantly. An hour of rapid travel brought him to the Gunnison road. He swung to the ground and examined the dusty roadbed. Apparently he wns satisfied, Ha Was Following the Cut-oThat Lad to Gunnison. ff Trail horse for he took his bHck Into the brush and tied It to a Cottonwood. From its case beside the saddle he drew a rifle. He retraced his own steps and selected carefully a place among the thick bushes by the roadside. With his pocketknlfe he cut eyeholes In the bandana handkerchief that had been round his neck and tied It over his face In such a way as to conceal his features entirely. Then he carefully emptied from the rifle all cartridges It contained and dropped them Into his pocket. These preparations made, he sat down end waited. There came to him very soon the rumble of wheels. Prese trap appeared at a ently a curvt of the road. Captain Kllmeny sweat-staine- one-hofs- waa the driver. Jack was within six feet of the road and he waited until his cousin was almost abreast of him. "Throw up your hands!" The captain knew in an Instant what he was up against A masked man with a rifle In his hands could mean only one thing. Ned Kllmeny was no fool. He knew when to fight and when to surrender. His hands went Into the air. "Kick that rifle Into the road with your foot, not with your hands." The Englishman did as he was told. "What do you want?" he demanded, looking sharply at the masked bandit. "I want that satchel beside you. Drop It out." Again the officer obeyed orders. He asked no questions and made no com ment. "There's room to turn here by back Hit the grit for the Lodge." After he had faced about, Ned Kllmeny had one word to say before leav-Inging. Devil's slide and he would come to the appointment he bad made to find her not there. He would go away, and next day she would leave with the rest of her party for the Big Bend mining country, where Verlnder and Lord Farquhar were heavily Interested In some large gold producers. That chapter of her life would be closed. She told herself that It was best so. Her love for a man of this stamp could bring no happiness to her. Moreover, she had taken an Irretrievable step In betrothing herself to Captain Kllmeny. When Fisher wakened her to dress In time for the early breakfast Moya felt very reluctant to Join the others. She would have to laugh and talk and jinke merry, and all the time she would be miserably unhappy. It would be Impossible for her to stand Yerlnder today without screaming. A sheer physical lassitude weighted her limbs. In the end she went back to bed and sent for India. "I'm not feeling fit, dear. Would you mind If I beg off?" she asked with a wan smile. Her friend took In keenly the big eyes ringed with weariness. "I don't believe you've slept a wink, Moya. Of course you needn't go. Shall I stay with you? I don't really care about going." But Moya would not hear of this, She protested so much that India saw It would be a greater kindness to leave her alone. "You must try to sleep again, dear." I'm all right, you "Yes, I will. deep-pupile- d at the- bottom of your heart you know I didn't do It." "Can you tell me you didn't hold up Captain Kllmeny? Dare you tell me that?" He shrugged his broad shoulders. No, I held him up." "And robbed him." "If you like to put It that way. I had to do It An opera bouffe holdup. I'll make It right with him when I see Captain Kllmeny." You admit you took the money?" Sure I took it Had to have It In my business. If you'll sit down again and listen, neighbor, I'll tell you the whole story." The amused assurance In his man ner stirred resentment. "No." "Yes." The clash of battle was In the meet ing of their eyes. She had courage, Just as he had, but she was fighting against her own desire. T have listened too often already," she protested. 'It hasn't hurt you any, has It?" 'Lady Farquhar thinks It has." The words slipped out before she could stop them, but as their import came home to her the girl's face flamed. "I mean that that " 'I know what you mean," he told her easily, a smile In his shrewd eyes. "You're a young woman and I'm an So Lady Farquhar ineligible man. thinks we oughtn't to meet. Thnt'a all bosh. I'm not Intending to make love DA DEVICE STIRS MILK WHILE IT IS COOLED Fresh milk la often stirred In order to cool It, and this la usually done by hand, which la a alow and tiresome task. A simple device for doing tha work automatically by water flowing Into a tank, as shown In the drawing, can be made by any farmer from materials that are available everywhere. The device consists of a shallow box, made of pine boards. The ends are sloping and the box la divided Into two equal parts by a one-inc- . h know." Left to herself, Moya tried to sleep. "I know who you are, and there's Just one name for your kind you're It was no use. She wns wide awake, an No rotter." beyond hope of another nap. "It's a difference of opinion that sooner had the voices of the riders makes horse races, captain," answered died in the distance than she was the masked man promptly. dressing feverishly. She told herself Ned Kllmeny, as he drove back to thnt she would go outdoors some the Lodge, was sick at heart. He came where with a book and rest. of a family of clean, honest gentle She made an elaborate pretense men. Most of them had been soldiers. with herself of hesitating which way Occasionally one had gone to the devil to go. Her thoughts, her eyes, and as this young cousin of his had done at last her footsteps turned toward But there was something In this whole the grove where yesterday Jack Kll affair so contemptible that It hurt his meny hnd surprised her. But she was pride. The miner had traded on their too used to being honest with herself faith In him. He had lied to them. to keep up the farce. Stopping on Even the elements of decency seemed the trail, she brought herself to time. to be lacking In him. "You're going to meet that outlaw, India and Moya were on the veranda Moya Dwlght. You said you wouldn't, One but you are going. when ttie captain drove up. That's why you glance at his grim face told them got out of that ride. No use fibbing to yourself. You've no more will something had gone wrong. "I've been held up," he said simply. power than a moth buzzing around a "Robbed with a rifle within reach of candle flame." my hand all the time." So she put It to herself, frankly "But how?" gasped India. and contemptuously. But no matter noth said to the lips, Moya, white how she scorned herself for It there A premonition of the truth was not In her the strength to turn ing. clutched Icily at her heart. back on her temptation. Slowly her "A masked man stopped me Just as reluctant steps moved toward the I swung round a bend about three grove. miles from Gunnison. He ordered me She reached her flat rock and sank . . . .1 i ...t.v. . . .i . ,, n.. io utow out u.e its moss ungreeted Her disap ""W,pon luuuey. l uiu us l aa iuiu. was keen, even though rea pointment "Did you recognize him?" Moya's son had told her he dared not show throat was dry, so that her question himself here after adding a second came almost In a whisper. crime to the first, and this time steadThe captain's eyes met hers against her friend, the man who had ily. "He stayed In the bushes, so that offered to stand by him In his trouble I didn't see his body well. He was An Instinct deeper than logic some masked." sure understanding of the man's reck "But you know who It was. Tell less courage had made her feel cer me." tain that be would be on the spot "I couldn't take oath to the man." Mingled with her disappointment "It was your cousin." Moya was was a sharp sense of shame. He had to the lips. pale told her to come here and The officer hesitated. "I'm not pre- him, as If she had been a waif for country pared to say who the man was." milkmaid and here she was meekly The pnlse In her throat beat fast. waiting. At any rate, she was spared "You know better. It was Jack one humiliation. He would never Kllmeny," she charged. know she had gone to meet him. "I could tell you only my opinion," he Insisted. CHAPTER VII "And know all about It" Moya came to time with her confession promptly. In the fearless fashion charKilmeny Explains acteristic of her. "It was I that sent Into the depths of her scorching him to you. It was I that betrayed came his blithe "Good you to him." morning, neighbor." India set her lips to a soundless Her heart leaped, but before she whistle. Her brother could not keep looked around Moya made sure no out of his brown face the amazement tales could be read In her face. Her he felt. eyes met his wlih quiet scorn. "I don't wonder yon look like that." "I was wondering If you would dnre Moyn nodded, gulping down her dis- come. tress. "You can't think any worse of "Why shouldn't I come, since I me than I do of myself." wanted to?" him "Nonsense! If you told you "You can ask me that now?" had a reason. Whnt was lt?" India Her manner told him that judgment asked, n little sharply. had been passed, but It did not shake "No reason that Justifies me. He the cheerful good humor of the man. He had come took me by surprise. "I reckon I can." to get the stolen money and I told "Of course you can. I might have him we were returning It to the Fair known you could. You will probably Alassociation. lie guessed the rest. have the effrontery to deny that yon most at once he left. I saw hltn take are the man who robbed Captain Kll the canyon rond for Gunnison." meny." "You weren't to blame at all," the "Did he say I was the man?" There captain assured her, adding with a was amusement and a touch of Inter rueful smile: "He didn't take yon any est In his voice. more by surprise than he did me. 1 "lie didn't deny It. I knew It must be you. I told hint everything how hadn't time to reach for the rifle." Moya, too, kept silence. Her heart you found out from me that he was was seething with scorn for this handgoing to Gunnison with the money some scamp who had put this outrage and hurried away to rob him of It upon them all. It waa bad enough to Because you are his cousin he wouldn' But I did. I do now. be a thief, but to this he had added accuse you. deception, falsehood and gross Ingrati- You stole the money a second time." tude. Nor did the girl's contempt Her words were low, but In them wns spare herself. Neither warning nor an extraordinary vehemence, the tense ness of repressed feeling. advice and Lady Jim had been prodi"So he wouldn't accuse me, nor yet gal of both had availed to open her She had wouldn't deny thnt I was the man eyes about the westerner. been as foolish over him as a schoolWell, I'll not deny It either, since girl In the matter of a matinee Idol. you're so sure." "You are wise, sir. You can't de That she would hav to lash herself for her folly through many sleepless lude me a second time. Your denla would count for nothing. And now hours of the night was a certainty. A ride had been arranged for next I think there is nothing more to be morning to the Devil's slide, a great said." She had risen and wns about to slab of rock some miles away. The young people were to have an early turn away. A gesture of Ms band breakfast and get started before the stopped her. sun was hot. "If you were so sure about me why But though Moya reached her room didn't you hnv the ofllcers here to before midnight,- It was not until day arrest me?" was beginning to break thnt she fell "Because heaus you are a rela Into a troubled sleep. She tossed five of my friends. "That was the only reason, was It?" through the long hours and lived over ever scene that had passed between "What other reason could there teT her and Jack Kllmeny. It was at to she asked, a flash of warning In her end. She would never see him again. eyes. She would ride with the others to tha "There might ta this reaaoa that J F A for Stirring Simple Rocking-Bo- x Fresh Milk Automatically by Water Flow. board extending vertically In the center about eight or ten inches above the sides. The box is mounted at Its center on a wooden axle, and a stirring paddle Is attached to each end as Indicated. These paddles are made from laths, planed smooth, and having a number of short crossplecea nailed on. In use, the tniik cans are placed In the water tank and the stirring device urranged as shown In the being located drawing, the rocking-boonder a water pipe so that the water first flows into one side and' then Into the other side alternately. As soon as one side of the box Is filled the weight of the water causes the box to tilt over, and the other Bide of the box Is-then filled. Popular Mechanics Magax , zine. "I Know What You Mean," He Told Her Easily. Young Calves Made Good Gains on Corn Silage-- - to you, even though I think you're a three or four months old, produced' mighty nice girl. But say I was. good gains economically, with no bad What then? Your friends can't shut nhrlfnl pfTfvt In n test mnria ftlirlnir you up In a glass cage if you're going the past winter at the Iowa experito keep on growing. Life was made ment station. to be lived." Five Jersey and four Guernsey "Yes. . . . Yes. . .' . That's calves, averaging at the start about what I think," she cried eagerly. "But fifty days of age, were divided Into three groups. Before the trial they It Isn't arranged for girls that way not If they belong to the class I do. received whole milk, skim milk, grain We're shut In chaperoned from ev- and alfala hay. After being divided erything that's natural. You don't Into groups, they were continued for know how I hate it" eight days on part whole milk and "Of course you do. You're a live then changed wholly to skim milk. A wire. That'a why you're going to sit grain mixture consisting of three parts cornmeal, three parts ground oats, down and listen to me." She looked him straight between two parts bran and one part ollmeal the eyes. "But I don't think morality was hand fed. Timothy hay, salt and Is only ft convention, Mr. Kllmeny. water was available at all times. y Each group waa fed silage for a 'Thou shalt not steal,' for Instance." In addition to the regular period "Depends what you steal. If you take from a man whnt doesn't belong ration and then sliced roots replaced period. Still a to hltn you're doing the community a the silage for a period was used In which service. But we won't go Into that third received only the timothy now, though I'll say this: What Is the calves and grain ration. Slightly more right for me wouldn't be for Captain hay than four pounds of corn silage a day Kllmeny. As I told you before, our was consumed by each calf during the standards are different." period. The consumpfeeding allage to me Just "Yes, you explained that sliced beets ran 5.74 pounds tion of after you while you were hiding calf day. from the ofllcers after the first rob- perIt wasperfound thnt the sllnge or she assented bery," dryly. roots reduced the amount of hay eaten He looked at her and laughed. and that growth was more rapid. "You're'pfosocutlng attorney and Judge Less other feed was required with the ami Jury all In one, aren't you?" or roots, and the gains were She held her III tie head uncompro- slluge No scouring due to silage misingly erect. Not again whs she go- cheaper. occurred. feeding let him her for to ing warp sympathy her Judgment. "I'm ready to hear what you have to say, Mr. Kllmeny." "Not guilty, ma'am." His Jaunty Jnsouclanee struck a spark from her. "That Is what you of poor relations, consider told us before, and within half an hour theSpeaking scrub bull. we found out thnt you knew where e e the booty was hidden. Before that Give dairy cows more clean drinkdiscrepancy was cleared up you con- ing water and shade. vinced us of your Innocence by stealing the money a second time." If pastures are short, give the cows "What did I do with It?" he asked. a larger grain ration. e e "How should I know?" The wny to Improve common stock From his pocket he drew a note book. Between two of Its leaves was Is by using good sires. a slip of paper which he handed to Clenn water should be placed beMoya. It was a receipt In full from the treasurer of the Gunnison County fore the calf at all times. e Fair association to John Kllmeny for ICt the calf suck Its dam for the the Bum previously taken from him first four or five days or until the milk by parties unknown. The girl looked at him with shining Is fit to use. Then wean the calf. eyes. "You repented and took the Blood will tell, but not blood alone. money back?" bred cow In the world won't "No. I didn't repent but t took It The best keep up good milk production unless bnck." she has plenty of feed rich In mate. "Whyr milk. That's a long tale. It's tied Of rials that produce e e with the story of my life goes back Is a constant Job. cows the Culling thirty-on- e years, before I was horn No matter how good your hvrd, there In fact. Want to hear Itr la always a chnnre to improve. When "Yes." yon get hlth up the scale of produce tlon the culling process may ba very profitable. Jack evidently has cleared e e e But Moya has said himself. control must be regardto Tuberculosis the captain. Trouble "yes" ahead? ed as a problem. Its eradication cannot be accomplished In one clean sweep. A ery gradual reduo TO BE CONTINUED.) tlon Is all that caa be expected sod that will take persistent and consistFortune favors toe fee are ent effort - 40-da- 40-da- y 40-da- Dairy Facts . long-tim- ; |