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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH m? ranen reached out and took the gun, turned It over and hesitated. No telling wjiat Insane Impulse fever might bring upon him and still no telling what Buck Olney might do when he discovered that he was not In any Immediate danger of hanging. Then he removed his boots by the simple method of slitting the legs with Rucks knife, bared his broken leg In the same manner, braced himself mentally and physically, gritted his teeth and went doggedly to work. A man never knows Just how much he can endure or what he can do until he Is making his last stand in the fight Ward had no for self preservation. mind to He there and die of blood poisoning, for Instance, and broken bones do not set themselves. So, sweating and swearing with the agony of it, he set his leg and bound the Bplints In place and thanked the Lord It was a straight, clean break and that the flesh was not torn. Then he dropped back upon the bed not far from the cabin. He could get and didn't care whether he lived or not there by crawling. Rut what then? Followed days of fever, through which Ward looked at Rattler, standing docilely within reach of his hand. He Ward lived crazily and lost count of the considered getting on if he eouid, and hours as they passed. Days when he riding well, the nearest place was fif- needed good nursing and did not get teen miles. And that was a good, long way from a doctor. He glaTced again at the cabin and tried to study tbe situation impersonally. If It were some other fellow, now, what would Ward advise him to do under the circum- WOLVERINE d.m.bowi:r. I nr erf cofivncvr rvta comunr u aon CHAPTER X Continued. Sorry I cant stay to see you off, he told Ruck maliciously. Ive decided to let you fro alone and take your own time about starting. As long as that cayuse stands where he Is youre safe as a church. And youre got the refns. You can kick oft any time you He studied Rucks feel like It. Fabe? horror marked face pitilessly. Youve got about one chance In a million that you can make that pinto stand there till some one comes along. he pointed out Impartially. "I'm willing to give you that chance, such as It is. And if you're lucky enough to win out on it well, I'd advise you to do some going. South America Is about as close as youll be safe. Folks around here are going to know all about you, old timer, whether they get to read whats on your hack or not. Aud,.on the other hand, its a million to one shot youll laud where your ticket reads. Id hate to gamble on that horse standing In one spot for two He or three days, wouldnt you? wheeled Rattler unobtrusively, his eye I hope he dont try to on the pinto. I want you to have follow, he said. a little time to think about the things I said to you. Well, so long! Ward rode back the way he had come, glancing frequently over his shoulder at Ruck, slumped In the saddle with a paper pinned lo his back like a tire warning on a tree and his own grass rope noosed about his neck and connecting him with the cottonwood limb six feet alove his hat crown. Ward had not ridden a hundred yards before he heard Ruck OIncy scream hysterically for help. He grinned sourly, with his eyebrows pinched together and that hard, strained look In his eyes still. Let him holler awhile! he gritted. I)o him good, hang him! Until distance and the Intervening hills set a wall of silence between Ward heard Ruck screaming In fear of stance? Phoebe put that letter on the mantel over the fireplace the da 7 after Christmas. Billy Louise refrained from expectThe charm of hospitality ing any reply until after New Years; then she began to look for a letter, the pride of the hostess the and when tbe days passed and brongbt delight of guests. her no word her moods changed often-e- r You can buy from us by than the weather. perfectly safe. mail; Wards literary efforts along about that time consisted of catting notches In the window sill beside his bunk. On tbe day when tbe stage driver FOUNDED IfKV MAKERS OF JEWELRY gave Billy Louises letter to Phoebe SALT LAK CITY ms MAIN STREif Ward cut a deeper, wider notch, thinkUnder ing that day was Christmas. tbe notch he ecratched a word with the point of his knife. It had four BARGAINS IN USED CARS letters, and It told eloquently of the state of mind be was In. ?0 plend d used Oldm(ble t.uirauieed rirt clan to $6U0. The letter gathered dust upon the if warned by condition eav te'm runvig mantel down at the Wolverine. When Write lor deuiieJ st aiul descripgi! pari.etion, l'ed Car Dept., the postmark was more ttam two Randall-DodAuto Co Salt Lake City weeks old another letter came, and Phoebe laid It on the first one with fingers that trembled a little. Phoebe had a letter of her own that day. Both Full-of-Li- fe were thin, and the addresses were more scrawly than usual. Thoebes Indian Now is the time to buy your seeds for spring are good Instinct warned her that something planting while shipping facilitiesWrite for and the quality of seeds is high. was amiss. catalogue of Vogelers Purity Seeds. This was Ward's letter: the question of diet and at using his resources to the best advantage. He had nothing else to do and his alert mind seized upon the situation and brought it down to a fine system. For Instance, he did not open a can of fruit until the prunes were gone. Then he emptied a can of tomatoes Into the bowl as a safeguard against ptomaine polsonlnt from the tin, and set the empty can on the floor. During the warm part of each day he slid open the window by hia bunk and lay with the fresh air fanning his face and lifting the hair from his aching temples. He tried to eat regularly and to make the fruit jttee save his water supply. Good Silver BOYD PARK Sometimes he chewed Jerked venison from the bag over his head, but not very often; the salt In the meat made him drink too much. On the whole, his diet was healthful and in a measure satisfying. He did not suffer from the want of any real necessity, at any rate. He had his few books within reach. He read a good deal to keep from thinking too much, and he tried to meet the days with philosophic calm. He might easily be a great deal worse off than he was, be frequently reminded himself. But he was lonesome so lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a r stler preying upon his neighbors cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly. He bad all those moods, and they left their own lines upon his face. But he bad one thing to hearten him, and that was the steady progress of his broken leg toward recovery. A long, tedious process it was of necessity, but as nearly as he could Judge the bone was knitting together and would be straight and strong again If he did not try to hurry it too much, ne tried to keep count of the weeks as they passed. When the days slid behind him until he feared he could not remember he cut a little notch on the window sill each morning with Buck's knife, with every seventh day a longer and deeper notch than the others to mark the weeks. The first three days had been so hazy that be thought them only two and marked them so, but that put him only one day out of his reckoning. lie lay there and saw snow slither Iiast his window, driven by a whooping wind. It worried him to know that his calves were unsheltered and unfed while his long stack of hay stood untouched unless the cattle broke down his fence and reached it. He hoped they would, but he was a thorough workman, and In his heart he knew that fence would stand. ne saw cold rains and sleet. .Then there were days when he shivered under his blankets and would have given much for a cup of hot coffee; days when the water froze In tbe palls beside the bed what little water was left and he chipped oft pieces of ice and sacked them to qnench his thirst Days when the tomatoes and peaches wer frozen in the cans so that he chewed jerked venison and ate crackers rather than chill his stomach with the icy stuff. Day by day the little notches and the longer ones reached farther and farther along the window sill until Ward began to foresee the time when he mnst start a new row. Day by day his cheek bones grew more Clearly defined, his eyes bigger and more wistful. Day by day his knuckles stood up sharper when he closed his hands, and day by day nature worked upon his hurt, knitting the bones together, $2-- d Seeds VOGELER SEED CO. car-boltz- Sea-hec- is e, Salt Lake City, Utah God, Ward, ntommlt'i dead. She died last night. I thought she was asleep till the nurse came In at I oclock. Im all alone and I don't know what to da I wish you could come, but if you don't get thl3 right away. 1 11 see you at the ranch. Im coming home as soon as I can. Oh. Ward, I hate life and everything. BILLY LOUISE. Oh, Ho reached down and felt his leg gingerly. So far as he could tell it was a straight, simple break snapped short off against a rock, he Judged. He shook his head over the thought of riding fifteen miles with those broken bones grinding their edges together. And still, what else could he do? He reached out, took the and led Rattler a step nearer so that he could grasp the stbkip. With his voice he held the horse quiet while he pulled himself upright upon his good leg. Then, with pain hurried, jerky movements he pulled off the saddle, glanced around him and flung it behind a buck brush. He slipped off the bridle, flung that after the saddle and gave Rattler a slap on the rump. The horse moved away and Ward stared after him with set lips. Anyway, you can look after yourself, he said, and balanced upon his right leg while he swung around uud faced the cabin. It was not far to a man with two sound legs. A hundred yards, pe baps. Ward crawled there on his hands and He Felt His Gun at Hia Hip. one knee, dragging the broken leg after him. It was not a nice experience, but so much as a drink of water except it served one good puniose It wiped through pain and effort Hours when from bis mind all thought of that black he cursed Ruck Olney and thought he past wherein Buck had figured so had him bound to the chair In the cabshamefully. He bad enough to think of in. Hours when he watched for him, with bis present plight, without wor- gun in hand, through the window beside the bunk. rying over the past In half an hour or so Ward rested his He had made a final trip to Hardup aruis upon his own doorstep and drop-le- d two weeks before and bad brought back his perspiring face upon thru. Ha supplies for the winter. And because his pay streak of gravel bank had yieldlay there a long while in a dead faint. After awhile he moved, lifted his ed a fair harvest he had not stiuted head aud looked about him dully at first himself on the things he liked to eat and then with a certain stoical accept- He lay looking over the piled boxes ance of his plight He looked into the against tbe farther wall and wondered Immediate future and tried to forecast If he could reach the box of crackers Its demands upon his strength and to and drag it up beside the bonk. He prepare for them. He crawled farther was weak, and to move his leg was up on the step, reached the latch and agony. Well, there was a dish of prunes opened the door. He crawled In, polled on the window sill. himself up by the foot of his buuk and Ward ate a dozen or so, but he wantsat down weakly with his head In his ed the crackers. He leaned as far aa hands. Like a hurt animal, he had he could from the bed. and the box was obeyed his instinct and had crawled still two feet from his outstretched finhome. gers. He lay and considered how he Ills eyes went slowly around the cab- might bring the box within reach. At the head of the bank stood the in, measuring his resources and his needs and limitations. He pulled his case of peaches and beneath that the one chair toward him the chair which case of canned tomatoes, the two formBuck Olney had occupied so unwillinging a stand for his lantern. He eyed ly and placed his left knee upon it them thoughtfully, chewing a corner of lie manuged to reach the cupboard his underllp. ne did not want peaches where he kept his dishes, and took down or tomatoes Just then he wanted those II. soda crackers. a bottle of liniment gnd a box of CHAPTER-XHe took Buck Olneys knife he was vaseline which he happened to have. He was near the two big zinc finding It a most useful souvenir of the The Brave Buckaroo. water palls which he had filled that encounter and pried off a board from Boise, Ida., Dec. 23. Buckaroo I wonder If you ever morning just to show Buck Olney how the peach box. Two nails stuck out inBrave whole life got a Christmas presyour He cool he was over his capture, and he through each end of the board. ent? Ive been cultivating the Louise of bethought him that water was going to leaned again from the bed, reached out me, and here are the first fruits of my with the board and caught the nails in endeavor I guess that's the way they say be precious In the next few weeks. I've spent so much time sitting by He lifted down one pall and swung a crack on the upper edge of the crack- it. mommle when shes asleep and I get tired It forward as far as he could and set er box. He dragged the box toward of reading all the time, so a nurse in this It on the floor ahead of him. Then he him until It caught against a ridge in ward mommie has a room to herself, of He Had Back the Rode Ward but not a special nurse, because Way swung the other pall beside it. Pain- the rough board floor, when the nails course, I can do a lot of the little Well, Come. fully he hitched his chair alongside, bent outward and slipped away from the nurse taught me how things. to hemstitch. the crack. Ward lay back, exhausted So I got some silk and made some nice forward them set and lifted the so was pails he until death, screaming with the effort he had made and tor- soft neckerchiefs one for you and one hoarse he could only whisper, scream- again. He did tbnt twice and got them for me. mented with the pain In his leg. In went and back He beside his bunk. ing betause be had not seen Ward take This one I made last. I didn't want full of After he awhile found took half the the it elected piece teakettle, the his knife and slice the rope upon your eagle eyes seeing all the bobbly under bunk. to board and slide beside the and also it carried that managed stitches on the first one. I hope you like limb so that It would not have held the the box, lifting a corner of it over the It, Ward. Every stitch stands for a Then he rested awhile. a rabbit. of weight of the hills and our good times. Bandages! Well, there was a new ridge. That was hard work, harder thought Ive Mlnervy back to life, and I brought than tried unless would believe stood He a on nail. flour sack hanging you you CHAPTER XI. try to play my old pretends sometimes. up, leaned and got It, and while he It yourself after lying three days fast- But they always break up into pieces. Im was standing he reached for the cigar ing with a broker, leg and a fever. lie not a kid now, you see. And Ufa Is a lot Fortune Kick Again. different when you get out Into It. Isn't it? was pust noon when Ward rode box, where he kept his bachelor sewing had to rest again before he took the doesn't seem to get much betIT down the steep slope to the creek outfit two spools of very coarse thread, other end of the board that bad the ter.Mommle I'm worried about her. She eeems hank just above his cabin. He was some large eyed needles to carry It, an good nails and pulled the box up be- to have let go, somehow. She never talks about the ranch much or even worries sunk deep In that mental depression assortment of buttons and a pair of side the bunk. about whether Phoebe Is keeping the wtn-dofew a minutes In he made into another flour sack cut He the scissors. the close follows so often upon which washed. She talks about when she heels of a great outburst of passion. strips and sewed the strips together effort and pried part of the cover off was a little girl and about when she and first married. It gets on my Mc'chuuically he twitched the relus and his stitches were neater than you might the cracker box with the knife. Then daddy were see how she has slipped out of nerves to out a he dozen and crackers half bank think. of shelf pulled last the sent Rattler down life. The nurse says that's comWhen tin bandage was long enough ate them, drank half a dipper of water everyday and he did not look up to see just She says I mon, though, in sickness. could go home and look after things for where he was. Rattler was a well train- he rolled it as he had seen doctors do, aud felt better. He aud fished some pins out of the cigar lie had held himself aloof from the a week or so would just as well as not. SheI ed horse, since he was Ward's. be all right. But rays mommle k obeyed the reiu signal and stepped off a box an laid them where he could get men of the country. He knew the lie.te to leave her. 1 xee piled riders had he stood talked He ou them of nest a hs by sight; Into fingers quickly. homesick bank for a good old ride two foot I'm awfully Have you rocks that slid treacherously under his up again, reached across to a box o: little with Floyd Carson two or three on Blue. I miss him terribly.folks lately? anything of the cove feet. Sure footed, though he was, he canned milk and pried off the lid. I'm times and had met Seabeek himself, seen Seems like I'm clear out of the world. I IncasIn Fox a knew Charlie to muttered lie need he sheer liable was too," and you, it purely tumbled and fell, hate town, anyway, and a hospital Is the stinct that took Ward's feet from the to the rows of cans, and pulled the box ual way, as has been related, and Peter limit for dismalness. Even the Louise of me is getting ready to do something awclose. He took Buck Olneys knife and Howling Dog the same. stirrups in time. ful if I have to stay much longer. Mom-mNone of men to were these ride whittled some creditable the likely splints rocks, very Ward sprawled among sleeps most of the time. I believe they out see now 1dm. Aud of their way to She doesnt dazed. The shock of the fall took him from the thin boards and rummaged lu dope her with something. out of his St of abstraction and he his warhag under the bunk for hand- that his mind worked rationally he had have that awful pain so bad. So I dont to wrap the no fear of Buck Olney '9 vengeful re- have anything to do but sit around and pulled away from Rattler as the horse kerchiefs with which turn. Buck Olney, he guessed shrewd- read and sew and wait for her to wake scrambled up and stood shaking before splints. and want something. was extremely busy ins1, now put- upAnd When could had he he done also. all that ly, scramble to up this Is Christmas, almost. T wonhim. He tried as as miles his to do many possible between der what you'll be doing. Say, Ward. If prepare for the long siege of pain ting Ward sat and stared stupidly at vou want to be a jewel of a man left leg where, midway between his knee and helplessness ahead of him he mov- himself and that part if IJaho. Unless send me some of perfect that jerky you've got Louise would or unnatsend for bunk was ed the an inme he until out at along sitting Billy and his foot. It turned hanging at the head of your bunk. I there. ural angle. He thought resentfully that near the head of it with his broken leg htm he would in all prbab Illy lie alone swiped some that last time I was was abln to walk. Ward It would taste mighty good to me now, he had had enough trouble for once extended before him and took a last there until he to comfort :(iimKf with any after all this hospital truck. without having a broken leg on top of look to make sure that everything was did not try Well, a merry Christmas. reof his delusions He his felt at hope. gun ready. hip, It alL and here's hoping you and mommie and he settled As and himself and belt back the moved It threw all he a fix. I passed of days will be eating turkey together at the Now this is one deuce bed. Then he turned his head frlmly to the business of getting through Wolverine when next Christmas comes. the had when upon pain stated dispassionately, Wouldn't that taste good, and stared, frowning, at the black butt the ordeal as comfortably as possible. Nummv-num- ! In a measure cooled his first anger. He though? a food his within rench and He from holster had the It Is where who protruded Now remember and write a whole tablet looked around him like a man BILLY LOUISE- scant supply of water. He worked out full ta to He his hand. was He ready resources. suggestively of his taking stock rt-ln-s -. ? MEN AND WOMEN. YVV am now l&AKTFfl YTHniCi lounttd at 4 I S We- Temple Street. We guarantee to teaeh you the burlier trade in a abort time. We get you a job and furnish tool. Cnmtnu-io- n paid ('ail or write. Moier Barber College, 4i S. Vet Temple St , Suit Lake City. -t Please Ward, stay at the ranch till I TAKES PLACE OF GASOLINE I want to see you. I feel aa If youre the only friend Ive got left, now Mixture of Alcohol and Benzol mommle's gone. She looked so peaceful when they took her away and so strange. Found to Be a SatisfacI didnt belong to her any more. I felt tory Substitute. as if I didn't know her at all and there is such an awful gap In my life maybe The high cost of gasoline is beeoin-- j you'll understand. You always do. such a problem that governments! Ing The day that letter was written and scientists all over the world lmvej Ward drew a plan of the bouse he to find a substitute. Iu (Jcr-- , meant to build some day, with a wide attempted where many, gasoline is almost unobporch on the front, where a hammock tainable, it is understood that a new' would swing comfortably. He had no presentiment of Billya mixture of alcohol and benzol has need of him, which was Just as well, proved satisfactory. A writer in the since he was absolutely powerless to Scientific American gives the following table aa an indication of the results help her. achieved : a With one part benzol and one part Billy Louise, having arrived unex- alcohol a tonring car equipped with an on off the her stage, pectedly pulled carburetor made 42 miles an ordinary fur lined mittens and put her chilled hands before the snapping blaze in the Lour aud ran a distance of 4.(10 miles one pint of the fuel. With one1 fireplace. Her eyes were tired and upon benzol and two parts alcohol the part sunken, and her mouth drooped pitif'Peed was 41 miles and the distance at the but aside from comers, fully 4.47 miles. This shaded down that she did not seem much changed covered from the girl who had left the ranch to 3C miles an hour and 3,72 miles on ft mixture of one part benzol and five two months and more before. alcohol. parts "IH take a cup of tea, Phoebe, but The same car, operated with pure I'm not a bit hungry, she said. I ate just before I left town. How have benzol, acquired a speed of 42 miles an hour and ran a distance of 3.79 upon-onyou been, Phoebe? pint of fuel. With pure gasoline' We been fine. We been so Borry made 44 miles an hour, running 3.G0 it for you miles. "Never mind that now, Phoebe. Id Alcohol is easily obtainable, and bennot rather talk abont it. Has anybody zol in large quantities is now being disbeen here lately 7 tilled in both the United States and Charlie Fox, he come las week Germany from coal tar. So the mixmebby week before las. Marthy, she ture, as worked out by the Germans, got rheumatis in her knee. Charlie, can be had cheaper than gasoline, and he say she been pretty bad one night the are results almost as good. In the I guess she's better now. I tol I wash case of Germany, the discovery has for her if he brings me clo'es, but he been a boon of inestimable value. says he wash them cloes hlsself. I guess Charlie pretty good to that old Cavits Flashes Time Over Pacific. lady. He's awful plite, that feller Is. Since October 1 the radio station at Yes, he Is. Ill go up and see her with the PhilipCavite, when I get rested a little. I feel tired to death somehow. Has Ward been pine bureau of posts and the Manila observatory, has been sending out around lately? time of the 120th meridian Ward, he aint been here for long east ofsignals Greenwich at 11 a. m. and 10 time. I guess mebbe It's been six m. every day, says Science. p. weeks I aint seen him. Las time he For the purpose of sending time sigwas here he wrote that letter. He the transmitting clock of the nals, aint come no more. Manila observatory is connected with in Louise the last few months Billy had tried to picture herself alone, with the Cavite wireless station through mommie gone. Her Imagination was the bureau of posts. Manila observatory time signals begin at 30 :75 a. m. and 9:33 p. m., standard time of the 120th meridian east of Greenwich, and continue for five minutes. During this interval every tick of the clock is. transmitted, except the 2Sth, 29th, 54th, 33th, 50th, 57tli, 5Stli aud 50th. of each minute. The situation of Manila in the Pacific makes this service of the greatest Importance to the mercantile and naval fleets that ply upon that ocean. come. Has-Bee- Showing Him Up. We must light on till the German see how absurd their aspirations are, said Janies W. Gerard iu New York the other day. Yes, we must show up the domineering Gorman militarists thoroughly. We must act like the professor who visited a loan shark to borrow $100. You want $100 Has Anybody Been Here Lately7" too alive and saw too clearly the possibilities for her never to have dweit upon this very crisis in her life. But whenever she had tried to think what it would be like she had always pictured Ward beside her, shielding her from dreary details and lightening her burden with his whimsical gentleness. She had felt sure that Ward would ride down every week for news of her, and she had expected to find him there waiting for her after that last letter. Whatever could be the matter? Had be left the country? (TO BE CONTINUED.) Mean Query. He (pompously) I have many solemn thoughts to be read In my mind. She (sarcastically) Bound in calf? About 70.000 church bells, In dor-manhave been melted for munitions of war. y for one year? the loan shark said. Well, sir, here you are. My terms are 5 per cent a month. That leaves jut $40 coming to you. Here you are four crisp ten spots. P.'it the professor mildly to-.out his own pneketbook and extracted a couple of bills from it. You're mistaken, sir, he said. I want the money for two years, not one. How much, then. Is there coming to you? That Atchison Bey in K. C. There is n young man who is known as mamma's darling in AbliKon. hut down in Kansas City they say he is n regular pupil's tom eat, Airin-n- ti Globe, Sues for Canarys Lost Love. Charging that her neighbor, Mrs. Martha Traylor, had alienated the af. lections of her pet canary Pete, Mrs, Anno Mallott of Syracuse, X, y start, cd a suit for $300 damages, 'in lie? complaint she said the bird escaped from her home and that her coaxed it iuto a cage and hasneighbor kept it since. Mrs. Mallott says she has made re, pented demands for the bird and ij sure It Is hers, for she has often heard It singing and knows its voice, but that he has been unsuccessful. |