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Show THK PVYSOX CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH ship and is own intcreMs bujlng his own o in tl,o n muhim and sawing th.-amil He bought rlzht ai.,1 1, ft, leit and As anon as nnoilo-right. tn.,n "OHM plan Oj.oiale la re I'laioinn would tr to buy mt If tooldi, t buy at li s own t gure things eon, men, to tm.on to that man. . . . 1h ,1 ,.,s tiguied lu a good rimnv furmos nodd nc proroundl. The n an soomod to he ohvesMsl by the Idea th it he iniNt own all the Umber In the locality. in.'illy It came down to tlos one piece, owned hy McManus, which was the last wh'ch Brandon wanted and that he didn't have He commenced to jo, key so he could get title to it. Homer Campbell was judge of probate then. Mck wen: to Homer with a petition to have McManus declared legally dead so the estate could be probated and swinging nicely, everything run- this timber disposed of. Mac had as McManus smooth butter, ning been gone seven years and such wife died. He was as deeply In loe an arrangement could he brought as any mau Ive ever seen and It He about according to law. you see. sent him completely te pot. However. Horner got the notion took to heavy drinking and got himthat Brandon was a mite too Rnl a bad In self way. ous, satisfied himself that w h le Of the two, Denny w as the more Brnrulon was getting rich persi,ii, popular. He was friendly, charita- the was In a bad way ble, bad a heart as big as a camp and partnership decided that he woulln't be a stove and as soft as a sponge. Hed party to any scln me to rob an Why go tbe route for anybody. estate, even never heard probably youve That ended Homer po! t 'call y this when eld Don Stuart rimmed Nhk put up another candidate and the company it was McManus who trimmed us stood in the way of prosecution. that when properly and we knew the new judge came In Don had cruised and bought a lot he'd take orders from Brandon. Ro of stuff for them. He always had Homer surprised Brandon by rebeen a drinker himself and on one opening the McManus matter, de some sort Into mess of spree got him legally dead and apand crooked the company out of daring me administrator for the pointed three or four hundred dollars. estate and guardian for Dawn. to let himself lu Enough, anyhow, Nick was pretty mad, all right! for a long term In the penitentiary I commenced to pry Into things, If theyd pushed It. Brandon wanted found that the partnership books te prosecute, all right, but McManus stood up for Don. That was typ- certainly did look bad and decided to take a licking there and sold out ical of tbe man : friendly, forgivthe McManus Interest. We were ing, a real human being, If you unstung, all right, hut there was no derstand. use squealing. I took the money, But Mac went to pieces himself. the mortgage on the Hoot He would be off on a bender for paid up Owl, sent Dawn off to sdioo in weeks at a time and scarcely get the East where she wouldnt be ever the shakes before hed start known as the daughter of a muron another. Finally he got so bad derer a cloud which was m.sshap-Inthat Brandon sent him out to a her whole life and tried to on the river with a make some hunting camp money for her. fine old trapper named Sam Faxson. Thats how It stands to date. Great old character, Sam. Brandon I've failed. We're on the ragged figured and It seemed reasonable the estate right now, conedge; Sam Mac could keep that away the location of this timber sidering from the booze, you see. He was In Brandons territory as a liabilthere a week or so, tapering off ity, is Insolvent. Dawn's had to gradually, saelng nobody but Sam. come back here to live where shes Brandon was working away like a and w hat's ahead of us unhappy nailer, buying up a lot of stuff for depends on you." himself, probably figuring that If Ben gave a wry smile. McManus didnt straighten up hed This killing thing, now. . . . Did operate on his own hook. McManus anybody ever suspect Brant, on? Able shook his head. Faxson and McManus were alone And McManus disappeared. I know whats In your mind, Ben. But there was nothing to support the suspicion. He sat silent a moment and then of',. - i M ti. r 111 kettles, any cn t ry w i r j You, there ; get me mi u .Uid a sl.io cL Snappy , now IBs vuli e hud bite to It hi ) g.J he tidh d the men off for Dc-- c e phi SYNOPSIS "Tonder" t'' F!,i:;r, tmTi)' lumbering along an ' f nuP. bring!-r who had been V smart ton de- . ( -- , kW Duval tl Old Don Stuart die.. letter for Elliott, "to be too when the going become, tprtoi ip h Util , (4, RT PCS dream, Iilrd Eye. And an ace la maybe It's an I've never yet looked ;,.e hole. hole card mi til I'm beaten pi? I'm not beaten yet, ie board. 8en ST0E1 walk. long dEje scratched bis head, Nd nuy th saints vj, not jet. sjeetlr as far from a lickin But . . eare now, Ben Elliott loike to bet my noble tourin that owld Doutiy wrote some-tdo with tli killin av Sam itfti Sio la leu a ! nunw ua i pnfci racuaj her, ... man's i SIKjd dam. "Maybe It's only smiled, ,!ott ilODRH Continued III 6 CHAPTER ala od a camp f nut Jup Elliott king of the river." Brandon. , he town.! pres-"- 8 regents Stuart, leave him to to for. refuting th act, 1,nfifcanwn K.ntott Is arrest-- J a,' friend m Judge Able iJt n to The Judge hiipq him the Hoot one lumber camp, 'L, Brandon ha. not been able Dawn Thi. belongs to '.an.hter of Brandon, old with who has disappeared hi. rL Charge hanging over Du-t0 . bully, Brandon .ends h worst. Ben beat up Ben, and . . flat fight and throw, him min, t -- con, ti I would ! you can't got any Bird Eje. Not tonight. iVell, takers Into and let me sleep." tbe time Ben Elliott owed Into bis pillow and shed prob ionslbi!ly and perplexing Kir CL. Brandon turned In pacing of bis cold and other office and cocked e deserted head alertly. It was not unusual him to be late In tils office. But w drawn shades and this quick, less, harried march to and fro end and about, and that per ration which beaded his fore-id- , and the sudden stoppings and enlngs at the slightest sound . . . ie were not usunl for a man so roughly established In his com-cltthat he dictated every phase ts life and activity, le stopped after a time and open-drawer of his big desk took to It a bottle of whisky, shook iself and muttered softly. For a he held It In his hands, Then, with finality, muted: No. A clear head now! shut the liquor In Its place and used his pacing. ilcholas Brandon may have ruled imp and the surrounding council an Iron absolutism. But 'sH alone in his office, remem-n- g the words and looks and tores of Blnlne, a of an Insolvent ven- -' A Clear Head Nowl No. Kelng again the flash of that er waved before his eyes, he was had this Hoot Owl stuff cinched commanding figure. He was a In his own name before he went fhtened man, a hunted man, bat-t- o bad. retain a hold on himself. Well, one night we were In the now, nd about hay, rt b Ml IN K)L tktOt ten tvi to of fool urd g a de-n- n dlii Ufl Id, fli di fit fectidt ates . ... Bird-Ey- WIalJ. e ... CHAPTER IV EJJ'I0TT had been on the Hoot Owl just two weeks Armltage was with him for the t!re!eS9 U seemed. beginning he had labored .times, schemed until late at job lwas ! "Ivni another ,7, Mth Able, trying, as he said, every dime look like a del- - make r i'r paS6 tn dug n!9 1 g h took on a flnn,1y folded H? ,ha'Pn 1 hd much 0Ut nnythlnK i hut outfit and getting ln hut through It all jffi't bobbing Up gc, oft curiosity on Its hind McManus? What about here does the little srdlan for rome In? Able said, startled ed. Why, Dawn Is " 8hn'U thpee men and and how " WA? down '' 2?air"6 rphan "y About it chlld- - ne y 811(3 eyes. !T hst hltthThigha Sola Brandon and 'Wtoelnto !"J th erent m .fCethe " k ttl. first Shoved n!t,bed his l0n? nU' mry FIrst Mc country when than bys- - DhPre They d had flWT!ence . . ' 8 liule . money htt tH op Jft r,Pbt time, ! ' atarte,1 oe, !'mbpr for t!lr'dng it into a I'datgliTer pf,8 mnprlpd Bnd Just had Brandon never n,lt'n they were blizzard and middle of a three-da- y Sam Faxson stumbled Into Don Stuarts shanty on the edge of town, shot through the arm and frozen so badly that he died the next aftvoice slowernoon. Dons story ing and a finger raised for emphawas that Faxson told him Mcsis Manus had gotten out of booze and turned ugly and that hen he Sam tried to prevent him from starting for town after more whisky he went wild at Sam and shot him. He was hit In the arm, had to have help and In trying to get It suffered more exposure than any man could stand. Well, that caused a great stlrl A party hit straight out for the camp and couldnt find hide nor hair nor sign of Mac. A couple of old trailers agreed that somebody had gone down to the river below the camp the night that Faxson was shot. The Mad Woman Is swift at that bend and never freezes. The trail seemed to go right to the edge of the stream and the accepted the ory was that McManus, realizing what he had done, had drowned himself. The fact that nothing has ever been seen or heard of him since lends strength to that supposition. An Inquest was held, on Dons story a warrant was Issued for McManus and so It stands, after all these years. He rubbed his face. Now, thats that. The thing thats stuck In the minds of some of us Is this: that McManus, under no circumstances, ever showed a quarrelsome streak, let alone gl'lng evidence of being a killer. However." with a shrug "hed been on s long, long drunk. He paused and shook his head Then went on : Brandon carried on tin partner asked drily: Haven't read old Don's yet? Not yet. I'm superstitions. like to use all I've get until letter I don't I have to; dont even like to look at my hole card. "Well, Its your message, that letter; your property," Able said. And the nuts going to get tougher fast I hate to think vv hatd happen If we had to stop sawing for two or three days right now. A shutdown certainly would put temper Into the shell of the nut, Ben, and He stopped short. Into the stillness of the room came a muffled shout, Ben started to his feet and Able turned a bewildered face In the direction of the sound. a walling voice cried. Fire! 'Th' mill's on fire!" Buller could be heard bounding from his bed In the next room. Able lurched to the door to see Ben El, liott flying toward the silhouetted against the dull glow of angry flame which showed through cracks In the mill. The wide doorways to the ground dull of floor were rectangles orange. The fire was In there, beneath the deck, under the carrluge, eating Into the very vitals of the mllL A water barrel stood beneath the slide, Its bucket dangling from a stick laid across the top, but the barrel was empty. Ben seized the bucket, smashed the thin Ice that had formed over the hot pond, filled his pall and rushed through the He open doorway Into the smoke. voice Bullcr's of sense a clear had crying the alarm and of answering shouts as the men bpgan turning out of their blankets. Ben soused bis bucket of water Into the henrt of the burning area and It scattered the blaze with a wooshing sound. The flame did not His eyes go out; It only scattered. and his reason told him, then, what his nostrils had failed to register In his first excitement. Gasoline:' he pnnted ns he ran mill-yard- en.inds, they went on the run 1 1 It Buller! (Jet upstairs an 111 a. I can! Don t anybody think about, anything hut sending up full Inn and taking down empty ones You stand hy the hole, Buller, and knock her down us she comes! through. .Not so fast, now, that you spill water and drop mils. Hold your heads and your feet. It s our s "tily nm chance to lkk It. . . . 11. he, !' J.runtlng and cursing, four tins-- ' Kies came lugging the barrel of salt and Ben, trying to still his exelted breathing, snapped his fingers as he waited for their arrival. "Gasoline!" be shouted to Able, seeing him for the first time. " a- ter won't touch It ! We've got to smother It and we cant get sand handily and salt should do, If Buller can hold her when she sticks her head through the floor I'p here, boys! Close, now Ben heaved on the heavy barrel of salt himself, rolling It In to the doorway which led directly Into the All right . . . Jake! fire. Into the bucket line, all of you I" lie swung his ax on a wire hoop and the barrel popped open. He struck again to clear away staves and di ove a dozen quick blows Into the lumpy salt that spilled out, to pul1 verize It. Next he grabbed up his shovel, scooped It full and disappeared Into the smoke. Ills eyes smarted but he took his time, blinked and surveyed the fire. Then he swung his shovel upward and sldevvuys and sent Its burden in a plastering, spattering smear at the center of a particularly hot comspot. The blue green-orangbination of living fire gave up at once to a saffron smudge. Ben leaped Into tbe open again, breathed deeply, filled his shovel and doing Ills best to hold hls breath, edged hack Into the smoke. He drove that shovel of salt hard upon flame, too, and retreated at once. A dozen trips, and lie had the flame down In an area the size of a blanket. He worked to the right, then, going further Into the mill, coughing and reeling, and when he emerged that time be retched painfully. He stood over hls salt pile a moment, fresh air while nausea gulping shook him. He breathed quickly, forcing hls lungs to pump deep and fast, sending clearing life through hls arteries. Hls head steadied, he scooped up more salt and compressing hls lips against the shaking coughs, ducked into the mllL Faster and faster the buckets came up, some big, some small, now and then one that leaked away Its precious contents. Fire found hold on the edges of the hole Buller had made In the floor. I.lttle tongues of flame ate Into the dry wood and curled upward. To Buller's right a finger of fire crept up between two boards; beyond It another appeared. In a dozen places fire was coming through the floor and Puller, swaying on hls feet a he coughed, turned to the next man e In dismay. Calculations showing that tbe Ids wheat surpluses would disappear, If euch Individual consumed an extra slice of broad every day, can no longer be aeeepted as accurate now that lxnidon bakers have produced a loaf without any crust. Much of tlie credit for this accomplishment goes to the geniuses who made possible the transmission of electricity to bakeries and other Industrial plants. The new loaf la baked by means of electrical current Inside tlie dough, which, It will readily be 6oeu, Is Just the reverse of the old process of putting the dough In a hot oven and allowing the heat to penetrate the mass. It Is no less clear that all past estimates dealing with consumption of wheat will need correction when customers all over the world begin to demand crust less bread. For, as the British bakers point out, It will now be possible to make sandwiches without throwing the crust away. This, It Is true, bus been possible all along, and there are not a few people who prefer and even Insist upon having their frankfurters and hamburgers served between slices of bread with the crust Intact. But the practice In many home kitchens and quick service restaurants has been to cut off the crust. Indeed, many employees In these eutlng places have become expert In severing the crust from the rest of the slice, developing a technique that has elicited the admiration of all patrons. Persons Interested In economics, tn observing their speed and precision, have also reflected that tbe need for limitation of wheat acreage would be much greater If the crusts were saved. The London bakers do not explain in sufficient detail how this marvelous new loaf Is made. They do not tell us how the current that pas-iothrough the middle of the dough Is prevented from forming crust on the Inside Instead of th outside of the loaf of broad. A loaf whose mklsee-tlowas hnrd as a rock would have no advantage over one whose exterior was thickly crusted. But the claim that ft crustless loaf of bread Is soon to be marketed Is of Interest not only In London, where an International conference recently assembled to see what could be done to reduce wheat production throughout the world, but For If In many other countries. bread has no crusts to be thrown w cu kimi h hole the flour, to the let! (f tbe saw. Dimple of hoards w hie So long, measuring with tils .pie.id bands ' e'i e gut to get that tl.une drawing straight up of mushrooming all over the floor hot tom. Form the rest of jour men into a bucket brigade and pass w ter up the slide. . . . Fas: as vim a away, wheat production may have to be further curtailed. St. Lou! BRITISH BAKERS CLAIM TO MAKE CRUSTLESS BREAD j French Capital Noted for Odd Street Names Not only persons and events aie recorded In the names of Tarls thoroughfares, but colors, animals, saints, virtues and vices. God and Babylon each have a street; the Trinity has s square, the Holy Spirit ft public courtyard and tbe child Jeans Is represented by an Impasse," called Llmpasse de lKn-fan- t Jesu, on the left bank not far from the bright lights of the Montparnasse. Theie Is s Street of Bad Boys as well as another of Good Children. Near the Icre I .a dial so cemetery Is an appropriate Street of Itepose. There, Just facing the celebrated burial ground. 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FONTANA 1AKUS UAT( III. BY, Fontana,! ailf prison. Colliers' Weekly. Phillips All Alilk rf i ; s METROPOLITAN (3333505010 rirrrjifTrmitnflmffffii Qujy n aanpQHiBs Q060GQOGDQ CEHUmDO) Lawyer Johns beats hisworst .Opponent ..." be choked. He said "Got to have air! Move up!" Tbe line moved up. The man who bad taken Buller's place soused a bucket of water across the floor, knocking down those tendrils that wormed through from below. Then he attacked tbe uprush'ng column of flame again. Dow n below Ben Elliott bad tbe heart of the burning litter a writh- ing mass of saffron smoke. He started out, fell snd crawled to the entry, got hls knees beneath him and retched again and again. His eyes smarted madly and streagipd tears; he coughed as he vomited and It seemed ns though be never would find strong'!) to r'se. But, he did after a moment and renewed bis at- tack. Here, you I Three men. , . . Two buckets each!" Ben croaked ns he ran out to the foot of the slide. Throw It high, and hard. Sol" he cried hoarsely and flung the first water himself with a wide, sweeie lng, overhead swing. It knocked fire off the nigger, Molted out an orange I panel on a heavy sill. "Now, you man. he cried to the They filled their own buckets and that duty to. k them Into Hie fresh air. cleared t Mr lungs, kept the nausea down, s'..riled M th legs and heads. With hM1- - ne splashes the wnter from the'r palls went sloshIn the ing against the overhen! woodwork out, colliding with Buller Somebody touched her and gradually the glare through t'n doorway. Soaked with gasol.ne In t! Ick srnnke enhs'ded. off! . (TO PR Ct'iTI.VT ED) Lo k, It's spreading fast I there Men were coming, shouting as Job Ended r the darkness. In they ran through to W", the kings o lull thev Fr.un dres of partial all stages and Kiigbird mn'iitai ed nn oflielnl came, crowding close to Elliott a man who appeared , Buller. at mldn ght apartment the still in kites and keep Stand still, you, and crowed, to cdncs'liiv h arid nn Y'ou, ,Ii lee, Ben snapped. the nmnnnh of Thrift's beremind Individ to pointing vou and you, ( n this n'gbt In 110, the "If"11 ,b;lt barrel of salt up trayal. uaN who had Dnver re Knap Into new I'rl from the s.dlng. Now heard of tie c rower wns quietly flew open tndlciri-l- i rending whm bis doer "You and you and you. a floodle- cr el a and y ket bin eve--get z other men wns tvrlble Thus sbvk Tie Tom l.m I,. H 1 in the I'hme. Water Job. -- Col ended the T.i'J J ear oi hi the barrels in the nrd Per vveckythe tramways, pn.U Do:.) mt Cock-Crowe- "(V'.k-crower- VOU DESERVE TBf PARTV WANTS ME CERTAINLV rf. 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