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Show V THE PAGE SIX TIMES-NEW- Friday, October 1, 1926 NEPHI. UTAH S. Serie BAREE, Son of KazamiTlhi e. Woirldl i i Chapter XIV By James Continued The stranger was looking at ISaree. His face was turned awny from McTaggart He swtd : "I km ess you are right. Let the devil rnt. If you're bending for Lac Rain, tu'sioti, I'll travek a short distance with yen now. It will take a couple of miles, to straighten out the line of my compass." Ho picked up his gun. McTaggart li'il the way. At the end of half-ahour the tranger stopped, and pointed north. "Straight up there a good five hundred miles," ho said, speaking as lightly as though he would reach home that night. "I'll leave you here." He made no offer to shake hands. I'.ut in going, he said, "You might report that John Madison has passed this way." After that he traveled straight northward for half a inile through the deep forest. Then he swung westward for two miles, turned at a sharp angle .Into the south, and an hour after he had left McTaggart he was once more squatted on his lieela almost within arms reach of I'aree. And he was saying, as though speak lug to a human companion: "So that's what you've been, old boy. A trap robber, eh? An outlaw? And you beat him at the game for two inonths I And for that, because you re n better beast'thnn be Is, he wants to let you die here as slow as you can. An outlaw!" Ills voice broke Into a pleasant laugh, the sort of laugh that warms one. even a beast. "That's funny. We ought to shake hands. Hoy, by George, we had! youre a wild one, he says. Well, so am I. Told Mm my name was John Madison. It ain't I'm Jim Carvel. And, oh Lord! all I said was 'Police.' And that was right. It ain't a lie. I'm wanted by t lie whole corporation by every danged policeman between Hudson's bay and the Mackenzie river. Shake, old man. We're In the same boat, an' I'm glad to meet you I" Chapter XV Jim Carvel held out his hand, and the snarl that was in Baree's throat died away. The man rose to bis 'feet. He stood there, looking In the direction taken by Bush McTaggart, and chuckled in a curious, exultant sort of way. There was friendliness even in that chuckle. There was friendliness In his eyes and In the shine of bis teeth as he looked again at Baree. About him there was something that seemed to make the gray day brighter, that seemed to warm the chill air a strange something that radiated cheer and hope and comradeship just as a hot stove sends out the glow of heat. Baree felt it. For the first time since the two men had come his trap-torbody, lost Its tenseness; his back sagged ; Ms teeth clicked as he shivered In his agony. To this man be betrayed his weakness. In his blood-pho- t eyes there was a hungering look as be watched Carvel the outlaw. And Jim Carvel again' held out his hand much nearer this time. "You poor devil." he said, the smile going out of his face. "You poor devil !" The words were like a caress to Bnrec the first ,be had known since the loss of Nepoose and Pierrot. He dropped bis betid until his jaw lay fiat Carvel could see the In the snow. blood dripping slowly from It You poor devil ! he repeated. There was no fear In the way be put forth his hand. It was the confidence of a great sincerity and a great compassion. It touched Baree's head and patted It in a brotherly fashion. and then slowly ond with a bit more caution It went to the trap fastened to I'.nree's forepaw. In his brain Baree was fighting to under stand things, and the truth came filially when he felt the steel Jaws of the trap open, and be drew forth bis maimed foot. He did then what be bad done to no other creature but Nepeose. Just once his hot tongue shot out and licked Carvel's hand. The With his powerful man laughed. hands he opened the other traps, and Baree was free. For a few moments he lay without linking, his eyes fixed on the man larvol had seated himself on the miow covered end of a birch log and was lilting bis pipe. Baree watched bliu light it; he noted with new in tei est the first purplish cloud of smoke that left Carvel's mouth. The man was not more than the lenuth of two away and he grinned at n d half-craze- d trap-chain- I'.iree. "Screw up your nerve, old chap," he encouraged. "No bones broken. Just a til He stiff. Mebby we'd U tter get out." He turned bis face In the direction of Lac Bum. The suspicion was In bis mind that McTaggart luluht turn bui k. Perhaps that same suspicion lis luipresxed Upon Baree, for when be was One looked at lilin again on his feet, staggering a bit as be gained" his equilibrium. In another tnoiiient the outlaw bad swung the pack sack from bis shoulder and a opening It. lie thrust in his hand and rew out a chunk of raw, red meat. "Killed It tills timniiiig," he explained t Baree. "Yearling bull, tcn-ic- r that's as line a as partridge-an- d nweelliiead a ever came out from under a backbone. Try It!" i to Baree. There He tossed) 'tie was no equivocation In the manner of Ms Bcvepl a rice. Baree was famished and tho meat was flung to him by a fie-d- (. Oliver Curwood Doubledar, Face A Co.) WNTJ Barrio friend. lie burled his teeth In It. His Jaws crunched It New fire leaped Into his blood as he feasted, but not for an instant dm his reddened eyes leave the other's face. Carvel replaced his pack. He rose to his feet took up his rifle, slipped on his snowshoes, and fronted the north. "Come on. Boy," he said. "We've got to travel." It was a matter-of-fac- t Invitation, as though' the two had been traveling ompanlons for a long time. It was. perhaps, not only an invitation but partly a command.- It puzzled Daree. For a full half minute he stood motionless in his tracks gazing at Carvel r.s he strode Into the north. A sudden convulsive twitching shot through Unree; he swung his head towurd Lac Bain; lie looked again at Carvel, and a whine that was scarcely more than a breath came out of his throat. The man was just about to disappear into the thick spruce. He paused, and looked back. - "Coining, Hoy?" Even at that distance ISaree could see him grinning affably; he saw the outstretched hand, and the voice stirred new sensations In him. It was not like Pierrot's voice. He had never loved Pierrot. Neither was It soft and sweet like the Willow's. He had known only a few men, and all of them he had regarded with distrust. But tliis was a voice that disarmed him. It was lureful In Its appeal. He wanted to answer It. He was filled Carvel went on, as If speaking to a human, "Let's see It was five years ago, five years this December, Just before Christmas time. Had a dad. Fine old chap, my dad was. No mother just the dad, an' when you added us up we made just One. Understand? And along came a white-stripeskunk named Hardy and shot him one day because dad had worked against him in polities. Out an' out murder. An' they didn't hang that skunk! No, sir, they didn't hang him. lie had too much money, an' too many friends in politics, an' they let 'iui off with two years In the penitentiary. But be didn't get there. No s'elp me God, lie didn't get there !" Carver was twisting his hands un-tihis knuckles cracked. An exultant smile .lighted up bis face, and his eyes flushed back the firelight. Baree drew a 'deep breath a mere coincidence; but it was a tense moment for all that. "No, be didn't get to the penitenwent on Carvel, looking tiary," straight at Baree again. "Yours truly knew what that meant, old chap. He'd have been pardoned inside a year. An' there was my dad, the biggest half of me, in his grave. So I just went up to that white-stripeskunk right there before the. judge's eyes,-an- ' the lawyers' eyes, an' the eyes of ail his dear relatives an' friends and I killed him ! And I got away. Was out through a window before they woke up, lilt for the bush country, and have been eatAn' I ing up the trails ever since. guess God was with me. Boy. For He did a queer thing to help me out slimmer before last. Just when the Motilities were after me hardest an' It looked pretty black. Man was found drowned d wn In the Reindeer country, right where they thought I was cornered ; an' the good Lord made that man look so much like me that he was buried under my name. So I'm officially dead, old chap. I don't need to be afraid any more so long as I don't get too familiar with people for a year or so longer, and 'way down inside me I've liked to believe God fixed It up In that way to help me out of a bad hole. What's your opinion? Hh?" He leaned forward for an answer. Baree had listened. Perhaps, in a way. he had understood. But it was another sound than Carvel's voice that came to his ears now. With his head close to the ground lie heard It quite distinctly. He whined, and the wlijne ended in a snarl so low that Carvel Just caught the warning note in It. He stood up then, He straightened. and Meed the south. I'.aree stood beside him, his legs tense and his spine bristling. After a moment Carvel said : "IMatives of , jrTirrs, old chap. Wolves." He went Into the tent for his rlfls and cartridges. Baree was on his feet, rigid as hewn rock, when Carvel came out of the tent nnd for a few moments Carvel stood In silence watching him closely. Would the dog respond to the call of the pack? Hid he belong to tlieml Would be go now? The wolves wera drawing nearer. They were not circling as a caribou or a deer would have circled, but were traveling straight dead straight for their camp. The significance of tills fact was easilj understood by Carvel. All that afternoon Baree's feet had left a blood-smelin their trail, and the wolves had struck the trail In thn deep forest, where the falling snw bad not covered it. Carvel was nut alarmed More than once In his five years ol wandering between the Arctic and tin Height of Land be had played th game with the wolves. Once be hail almost Inst, but that was out In th open Barren. Tonight he bad a fire, and In the event of his firewood run ning out he had trees he could climb His anxiety Just now was centered It Baree. So he said, making Ids voh-quite casual. "You aren't going, ar you. old chap?" If I'.aree heard him he gave no evidence of It. I'.ut Carvel, still Watching him closely, saw that the hall along bis spine had risen like n brush, and then he heard growing slowly In Baree's throat a snarl of feroclout hatred. It win the ort of snarl thai had held back the Factor from La( Bain, and Carvel, opening the breech of his gun to see that all was right, I'.aree may hn chnckied haVplly. heard the chuckle. Perlxtps It meanl something to him, for he turned hl head suddenly and with flattened earl looked at his companion. il S) fellow-townsmen- n I - elol-'Tiel- l M. G. (Cartoon by ALL OF US Kettner) i l Authors Who Evinced Interest in Cookery x Bv ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE early poets used to sing of October and Us "nut brown ale." One American poet made famous "October's bright blue weather." But to Mr. Average American Citizen October isn't so much a matter of color schemes. His Interest In It is of an entirely different sort. For now conies the time when the attention of a whole nntlon Is concentrated upon the dally athletic activities of approximately eighteen ?v- Wii men In two of the leading cities 'of the In those cities, thirty or country. forty thousand people fight for a chance to see the eighteen perform. The performance Is you've guessed It, .s .'V r.J.;-? of course the World Series. Not that Interest In the contests to determine who shall be named baseball champions of the world Is confined to the thirty or forty thousanj In the two cities which are lucky enough to be the scene of the performances. Wherever the telegraph, the telephone and radio operates and that means In every one of the 48 states In the Union, plus a territory or two and a few other possessions you'll find Mr. Average American Citizen standing In front of an elecThe Meat Was Flung to Him by a tric scoreboard In the- - afternoon durFriend. He Buried His Teeth in It. ing one or all of the five to seven with a desire, ail at once, to follow days during which the performance close at the heels of this stranger. lasts, or ringing up a newspaper ofFor the first time in his life a cravfice on the telephone or calling across ing for the friendship of man posto his neighbor, "Well, who won tosessed Baree. He did not move until day" So the cartoonist who labled Jim Carvel entered the spruce. Then his cartoon "All of Us," spoke laconibe followed. cally and truthfully of what the World That night they were, camped In a Series means to America. dense growth of cedars and balsams At this writing It Is not yet known ten miles north of Bush McTaggart's two cities will be the scene of rhat trap-line- . For two hours It had the 1920 World Series. The National snowed, and their trail was covered. league Is seeing a stirring finish with It was still snowing, but not a flake the Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinof the white deluge sifted down nati teams battling desperately for through the thick canopy of 'houghs. the honors. The citizenry of the PennCarvel bad put up his small silk tent, sylvania steel metropolis saw their and had built a fire; their supper was team lose the title to the Boston on Baree and his over, lay belly facing Bed Sot In 1003, win It from the the outlaw, almost within reach of his Detroit Tigers In 1009 nnd they want hand. With his buck to a tree Carvel to keep the banner which they won was smoking luxuriously. He had last year from the Washington Senathrown off his cup and his coat, and tors. Cincinnati's Beds have been in the warm lireglow he looked almost crowned only once In 1919 and some boyishly young. But even In that of the sweetness of their victory was none of their glow his Jaws lost soured by the famous "Black Sox" squareness, nor his eyes their clear St. Louis fans enjoyed a scandal. alertness. world title four years straight, back He rubbed his hands together, and In the eighties, when Comiskey's held them out toward the lire. Baree Browns of the old American associawatched his movements and listened tion won It for them, but Rlnce that Intently to every sound that escaped time neither the P.rowns of the AmerIn had now His them his Hps. eyes ican, nor the Cardinal of the National a dumb sort of worship, a look that have even won the flag In their rewanned Carvel's heart ami did away spective leagues so that they could with the vast loneliness and emptiness battle for baseball's highest honor. of the night. Baree had dragged himSo the 1920 title may be fought for self nearer to the man's feet, and In the National league park of suddenly Carvel leaned over and of the three cities, Pittsany patted bis head. Cincinnati or St. Louis. burgh, "I'm a bad one, old chap,", he New York probably will be the other chuckled. "You haven't got it on me battleground, for the' New York Amerinot a bit. Want to know what cans, otherwise known as the Yanks, He waited a moment, and seem to have the American league Baree looked at him steadily. Then (To UK eo.NTINl'EIt.) pennant nailed to their flagpole. Barring an unforeseen and almost unbelievable upset, this team, which won the world's championship In by , M,r. defeating their McOrnw's Giants of the National with a cook book written by Mrs. Con- league four games to two, will again If the stories of Brlllat-Savarlwhich It Is proposed to publish In com- rad, gave a high place In his esiPni be a title seeker. Interest In this year's WorM Srie memoration of his centenary reveal to the culinary arts, while Ce.rg recalls championship game Inevitably n successa as Meredith book of world to the left their author cookery In his own liamhvrlllng w'hl b of other yenrs. but It Is doubtful If ful writer of fiction as well as a gasthe oldest tt the old fans can recall tronomer, he may perhaps be regarded figured in a biMik seller's catal'igu as repaying t lie Interest which some sonic oars ago and ma? possibly yet the days when the Atlantic of Brook-ly- n end the Athletics of Philadelphia noted novelists have taken in niancs appear in print. of the table. Balzac took a keen Interest In cookery, as befit trd a man of Cropa North of "ZZ' Extreme "Cold" Smoking gigantic appetite. So also did (Jeorg" Wheat, oats and similar grain Iron Sand, whose cookery mut have teen been M found ripen satisfactorily lh pretty good, since It was reputed t be that nit of Camilla The rubber cigarettes Invented by north of tho f f.y. as exciting as bcr romances. Jouipli a li.irallcl. our third vtiileties of Mnyfalr chemist with the Idea if In connection Conrad, as he admitted hme been iriod. some nooning In nine- providing a check on the cigarette davs The fields IJ fight varied habit by supplying the "feel" of smokChinete Surprise Devil ing without the resulls, would seem to twenty th rep to forty Viols, dcwrid be merely nn old friend In disguise, Mre n The upturned eaves whii-ting on the variety, nnd from fifty font characteristic architectural fi'ature of to seventy llfee bushels (if fiats to t'.ia "Cold" smoking, generally with an all fblnese houses are Iniernfrd m acre were obtaine!, depending also on empty pipe. Is fairly common and, accatch the dev'l should he venture ton the variety p' lnted. The experiment cording to some of Its practitioners, almost as good as the real tiling. Liszt Close to the domicile and throw him u considered itnporfiiut for liwhadtat J (lev Invented a method of "cold" smoking fur up Into the heaven Ci--' S5-lCg (Copyright; W. N. W.I UtXi ffiv? Vi Kv was 60 yEaRS AGO Tne second cnampionsnip BASEBALL AS IT game between the Atlantics of Brooklyn and the Athletics of Philadelphia In 1866. From an old print in the possession of T. H. Murnane, reproduced In "Annals of American Sport" In the ''Pageant of America"; Courtesy Yale ' University Press. Tear (no. It wasn't one of Connie Mack's teams!) were fighting for the championship away back In 1800. Take a look at the picture of the second game In that series which Illustrates this article and see If you can visualize the 1920 World Series In terms of a championship contest of CO years ago. Notice particularly the underhand delivery of the pitcher, the barehanded catcher standing at such a respectful distance back of the batter, the wide swing which that gentleman Is taking at the ball and the basemen "frozen" to the bags. Notice the ca!m Individual sitting in the chair near the first base line Just In the foreground of the batter, the his feet on the boxr That one Can you Imagine Hank Is the umpire O'Pay or Billy Evans officiating In a World Series game thus? Notice, too, the crowd probably as many as It Is doubtful If any of 100 people. them stood In line all night to get first chance at the best seats, as Is the custom nowadays. But they saw lots of baseball In those days. Here's proof of that statement: this particular game ended with a score of 33 to 33 and It was called at the end of the seventh Inning on account of darkness! Even if the Oidest Fan can't recall this classic contest, he tuny be able to remember the World Series of a little later date 1888 when ' the St. Louis Browns, four times winners of the American association pennant, defeated the New York Giants of the Natlojial league for the then fourth consecutive rhamplonshlp of the world. But the World Series did not become a national Institution until the "turn of the century." The National league has been In existence since 1876 and the American since 10iO. The custom In each of having the champion lenrue meet at the end of the season to determine the world's championship began In im3. There was no World Series in 1904 but In lOO." It was resumed nnd has continued nnlnter-ruptedl- y since that time, if your mind needs refreshing as to who won the World Series In what year, here's the Information: Turn Yar Boston Americana DO Nattonala Pittsburgh York 1)05 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 X916 1914 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 Year 1 ...... New York Americana.... New York Americana.... New York Nationals 1907 . 91.031 99.2S4 78.06S .. 4 2.2.12 191& 1917 1911 1919 1920 1121 1922 1'2J 4 I Attendance ,. - 19IS I nf a more peculiar type. In his later yenrs be could not piny without a cigar In bis mouth, but this he never lit. Hp would sit down to the plan-- i with a Havana between bis teeth and keep tnunchlng It all the time be 1 Philadelphia Americans.. New York Nationals 1 Boston Nationals 4 Philadelphia Americans.. 0 Boston Americans 4 Philadelphia Nationals... 1 Boston Americans 4 1 Brooklyn Nationals 4 Chicago Americans New York Nationals 2 4 Boston Americans J Chicago Nationals 8 Cincinnati Nationals 1 Chicago Americans Cleveland Americans .... 2 Brooklyn Nationals S New York Nationals New York Americans.... I New York Nationals 4 lns IMS 1909 1910 1911 1912 1911 1914 S , I Nationals..... t4 New York 1 1 0 4 1 Some indication of the importance of the World Series In American life Is shown by the attendance records during the last 20 years and the amount of money that has been spent by the American people to see these games. Here's the record. See for yourself how the World Series takes its rank as a big affair In the financial as well as In the sport sense : Won Tla .... t 2 Chicago Nationals 4 Chicago Nationals 0 Detroit Americans 4 Chicago Nationals 1 Detroit Americans Pittsburgh Nationals .... 4 S Detroit Americans Philadelphia Americans.. 4 1 Chicago Nationals Philadelphia Americans.. 4 New York Nationals I Boston Americans 4 Waahlngton Americans t. 4 New York Nationals I 192J Pittsburgh Nationals .... 4 Washington Americans .. 1924 ' Nationals Nrw 1'hltndclplila Americana Won Tla Team Chicago Americana 1924 192S . . 145.807 .. 124.222 . . 1T9.S51 .. 252.237 .. lSD.9n2 .. 111.009 .. 143. 35t .. 162,359 . . .. 18.r.,91 128. 43 .. 23.928 . . i7.ar,7 . 209.977 . . 18.r.,947 . . ann.430 . .. 283. 495 . . 282.930 rUcetpta $8,401 106.660 101,728 9R,!7 188,881 179.980 342,364 490,838 82S.979 22.73 320 381 285. 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