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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSOX, UTAH P.rE six done, ne knew Masterman had lived GERMAN PILL BOX TURNED INTO A DRESSING STATION there ahme for yearn, In tb intervals , between his voyages. MacBeard come up to Donald with a smile of affected friendliness. I understand that there Is no record of our friend's address, he said poor Masterman was a very retiring man. No doubt we shall learn from bis friends in a day or two. I will have an announcement published, and have arranged for the funpral to he held from Ilyam's undertaking establishment the day after tomorrow at noon. Is there anything further t he done? Oer w c cm a pn. am I hardly think so, answered Donald. Then If you can look In here to morrow at eleven, we may talk mat MASTERMAN'S LIFELONG ENEMY APPEARS AND THE FORters over. And now permit me to wish MER IS SEIZED WITH A FATAL APOPLECTIC STROKE. you good evening. said the professor cordially. Donald took the proffered hand and a sense of disgust at the touch felt a Naval Lieutenant Donald Puget, just given command of tlie of the limp fingers. He strode out of old frietel ami distinguished though it submarine, meets at the duh and took a taxicab to the somewhat eecetitrie seienl Caiitain Mnsleruiun. Masterman 1ms just station. returnetl from an xtlori n jr expedition, bringing with him u member of The Baltimore train was Just about the strange ruet, the existence' of whose spceh-she asserts, menaces to leave. Late that night Lientenant the human family. At the club, the ".Mar' h Hares, Mastenuuri exfound the captain's house. It v - ;t;. f , Paget ; Ills to I'agct. theory plains In a little proved to be thoroughfare flanked by neat tvvo-- I CHAPTER II (Continued.) "I had sonic acquaintance wlrh Cap- story houses. Each had a tiny back surrounded by a high wall. tain Masterman, lie said, in fact, garden was about it an atmosphere, if There 1 know anwe tint were our it, my hoy, captain strung friends, although not of at any rate of the remystery, ever swered. T've been called crazy views were divergent upon certain since I saw the sea serpent off Aber- subjects. I shall he happy to see to tirement common to such backwaters deen. I have to thunk Maelleurd for the Interment and to take charge of in the roaring streams of efty life. The captains was the last house In thut. Ever since he learned that I any papers that my old colleague may section ot he v.'si trout, has been convened into a It stood a little farther This capliiivd German pill box" in a muddy, lorn-u- i was on tin? track of something big, have left, pending the appointment of the street. Lite rest, and was turned dressing station. These dressing stations, being elose to the tigibing linos, are the means of saving many lives by hack than he has been trying to queer me. And an ollieial trustee. to t lie wounded. when I discovered mammalian life on Lleutemint 1agit was convinced slightly askew, facing them obliquely, quick attention as Itself knew to be out it of though I was called an impos- that MacHcard was lying. the sea floor, Why, It and wns wntching its neighbors tor, which hurt more. Ilut as 1 see was hardly ten minutes since Master-ma- n place over its shoulder. HELPING WOUNDED COMRADE WHILE PRISONERS TRAIL ALONG apprehensively lie true can a man It, lieutenant, laid denounced him in ids charonly no was There of behind light any to himself, and I stand for truth and acteristically unmeasured terms! And fulr play, moderation and courteous at that moment, apparently by coinci- the drawn shades. A small dome on a flat roof seemed to contain a teledcullngs, not mudsllnging and Invec- dence, hut doubtless on account of a scope. tive, and calling names, like that to on the couch which the slight Jar Donald climbed a fence, walked porous plaster, body had been laid, a bulky envelope round to the back, and went up the MacBeard. fell out of the dead mans pocket. weed-growpath. The grass had not Hut at least you wont mention MacHcard stooped hastily and was been mowed since it sprouted In these matters to people who who about to transfer it to ills own when spring; the garden was unkempt and haven't open minds, pleaded Donald. Donald Intervened. Donald felt sure that there No, sir. I wash my hands of them Excuse me, but is thut not ad- ragged. was nobody within. all, Tlmts w hy 1 have told you about dressed to me? he asked. My name As he trod the flags of the garden this. l!ut If you dont listen, if you is I'aget Lleutemint Iaget." he fancied he heard the footdont vvur.n the world lie was sure that he had seen his walk, of a man in the street, following steps Hood "1? exclaimed Iumald. Lord, name upon the envelope, and it ochim. He stopped and listened, but Masterumn, you cun't suppose thut 1 curred to him that this must be the now no sound was to be heard, ne am able to stake my professional ca- document about which Masterumn hnd the darkness, but back into peered reer upon the retailing of such n spoken. Donald felt greatly touched saw nobody. Doubtless it was a halthe Even to think that Captain Masterman had story! supposing it true, lucination ; it wns a place of echoes riling wont happen in our time. Why laid him in his crazy mind, even beand haunting. And it seemed singushould a world epoch terminate in fore their accidental meeting, out of larly appropriate for old Masterman lids particular generation uud another all his acquaintances. to have had his lonely residence here, MacHcard had placed his hand over begin? his lonely life. Masterrunn leaped out of his chair the envelope, as if to hide the ad- matching As Donald had anticipated, the front and stood beside the lieutenant, lie dress; but, seeing that it was impos- door was locked, and the window of twined his Angers convulsively in his sible to deny Donalds assertion, he reroom was apparently nailed the living long heard, and there was a look of plied: up. ne .traversed the narrow path fanaticism upon his face. I suppose that you are the man that led to the back of the house. To Because it has already terminated you claim to be, and can prove it? A his surprise, the kitchen window was Because I good many persons' are anxious to and begun," he shouted. open. ! have felt them profit by Captain Mastenimps discovThen it occurred to him that MasSeen them, you mean !" eries." terman had, of course, gone directly MonFelt them, sir! Ocean men. The insolent challenge, and the home on his return from his last sters, between the Shetland anil the sneering tone awakened Donald's anearthly voyage. He swung himself Kuroes, Just where the continental ger. lie grasped the professor by the across the window sill and dropped to shelf rises to a hundred feet feet, wrist which held the letter. the kitchen floor. He lit a match and D I am not accustomed to having my found the gas. sir, not fathoms timl then sinks to the uttermost abysses of the sea. A Identity questioned, The yellow flare disclosed a very hi answered. natural ladder, sir, a mountain path Youll hand over that envelope, and ordinary kitchen. Mastermans coat This characteristic scene from the west front shows n (aimdian soldier !u iping a wounded comrade back to the fL up to the world. And If you won't on a nail beside the window, and trendies while two German prisoners, only too glad to be captured, follow after quite S hung unguarded tell the world " la he had been cooking porridge upon lie broke off and stared at the door the range. Donald went through Into leading into the passage from which a room at the back of the house, which RAVEN JOINS BRITISH NAVY NEW AMERICAN AIRPLANE BOMBS A they had entered the cardroora. had apparently been built out at a tnnn was standing there. lie was perAnte subsequent to the completion of haps fifty years of age, short, rather the structure In Its original form. ne stopped short at the threshold, chubby, his round face covered with a sparse, prickly growth of hair. Ilis hearing the swish, swish" of water. figure was rotund, and like many It was not falling water, but a short, round men with sparse beards, gentle and continuous rippling. It oche had an appearance of pompous digcurred to him that it was, on a smaller nity. scale, the sound that a seal makes in Somehow Donald Imagined that he the course of Its ceaseless peregrinahnd been behind the door for n long tions around its tank. time, and that Ills entrance hnd been There was a palm tree In a huge prompted by curiosity so uncontrolpot on either side of what looked like lable that it overcame all sense of tin enormous goldfish bowl. Behind shame or fear of discovery. this was a second bowl, even larger. MncBenrd!" ejaculated the captain In the middle of the room was a comDonald, my lad Donald quickly, plicated apparatus resembling a reHe stopped and looked at Donald in tort. ne saw a chandelier close to the a dazed way. He put Ills hands to his wall. Donald lit three gas-jethead, a look of bewilderment succeeded that of anger, and he sat down The light flickered and sputtered as the air rushed out. Then, when it again heavily. Ills features were sufThis raven joined up with the Brir fused with blood. had grown steady, Donald saw that ish naval forces in the Mediterranean ata sort of photographic lens was Donald sprang toward him. and is now an especial pet aboard on tached to a box in front of the appaCaptain Masteriunn! Are you ill? of t!e cruisers. Sailors the world toward directed the great tank he cried, shaking the old man by the ratus, over are of fond ak and very mascots, between the palms. shoulder. A Man Was Standing There. r;--"ays have them aboard ship if they MacHcard came Into the room and Approaching, he perceived that the can. to I will submit ufterward my proofs stood beside him, looking down at the top of the tank wns covered with Is qualified to receive them glass. A slender tube of the same captain. Donald was conscious, even whoever material entered the water from Annexation of South Sea Islands, in that moment, of a strong personal and you can do the same. DonMucBcards hand and A formal declaration opened above, where It was supported upon man. this toward s untugontsm that Japan Im ald took out the envelope. an arm extended from a wall. There I am afraid he has had a seizure," ti mis to retain possession, after ths v. ar. of tin Why, my dear sir," said the pro- was a connection between the tube said MacBeard. South Sea islands, now un--i der her protection, is urged Cnpt. Jonathan Roderick Mnsterman fessor with an embarrassed laugh, I and another which ran upward from upon the no had of intention withholding the top of the retort looked into the lieutenant's face with renlly government by tlie Tokyo AsahL The an expression of pathetic helplessness, anything that is legitimately yours, I Presently Donald caught sight of a new I rench cabinet has declared la the chamber of deputies, says the smiled, sighed very deeply, stretched assure you, nor of questioning your barometer attached to Ihe front of the I was a little startled mechanism. Now he began to undergood faith. out his legs, and died. Journal, they will not stop fight- I 4 at the momeut. terhaps, as mutual stand. The object in the tank, whating until the recovery of CHAPTER III. friends of the late Cnptaln Muster-maever it wns, was under a pressure of it is wise for a nation to e 1 we may take care of his inter- a number of ntiltospheres. its siinis in prosecuting a war. The House In Baltimore. ests jointly. He approached the tank and walked Noth.vv itlistsinding this, some JapanesH Life was extinct, and the doctor As Donald made no reply of any round It, peering into it from every bureaucratic statesmen make a point who was hastily summoned could only nature, MacHcard turned to the side, lie saw the ripples on the wavww,w.i'y of denouncing the attitude of those la confirm what all perceived. He gave lf ll!rl'l"he and had soon completed the ter, and there was a faint sound as of invented by Americans and favor of declaring to tlie world the ba fyr"1 adopted It as his opinion that heart disease arrangements for the removal of the a fin brushed against the glass. But the States government are shown in the illustration. The man is and proper demands of the Japajust was the cause of death, and stated body. Then he went to the clerk's be could see Uv.thing in the nature of m,e of the misstles to show that it is harmless unless its nose hits somt- - nese people, in thut there would be no need of an desk. a living thing. connection with the war. lest it hurt the He held In his hand inquest, feelings of the allies. It is n mistake to view a decWas he excited Just before his seiz still, and he was about to place It In MUCH IN LITTLE laration of the The Grand Falls of Labrador ure? he Inquired of Donabk his pocket when his glance fell upon Lieutenant Paget sees a specijut claims of a tuition are a a tlie highest in ihe world Yes, answered the lieutenant, lie a sentence of the manuscript within. men of the strange race which demonstration of selfish intenhave tions was worked up about a theory of his Donald drew It forth and read: or breach of international etFraulein Then von lattkiner. at- a sheer drop of 2.000 feet they Masterman has described. The falls own. tached to the Turkish forces operat- of .Niagara drop 164 feet. iquette. says the Tokyo paper, and the In the event of your hearing of my sudA very happy The doctor nodded. in is ing womthe Mesopotamia, den death you must not delay a moment, ln 1910' 8lashtered Japanese government should follow only '1 I'lO BK CU.ViTM ED.) rp7?ln'1, an war correspondent otlieially recogthe example of the French cabinet and death, he said. "He didnt suffer. but go to my house at 166 street lambs for food. his relatives 1know where Paliimore. Above beware of nized by tlie German government. all, supiHse you Her Generosity. Argentina s national wealth is es- make a public declaration at once as ; He Is an enemy of the human are to be found?" to Miss s Seaman Augusta of Milwau- timated at $! LbUtU KHl.tHKC Japan intention to retain posses-!Jeweler "For cash, madam, I give rue. So much I have learned, but Donald was entirely Ignorant. The kee, whose father was iti officer in of the South Sea islands after the 5 per cent discount" Customer (airBritain has about Donald replaced had loose thrust the 1,250,000 men war and to sheet Into little group that gathered the German army, will purchase and in industries make other proper claims. no Oh, to Ive desire It ily) charge by women. the body their own theories tempo- his trousers pocket and replaced the reduce your outfit a Red Gross automobile and Sueh frank declarations on the part profit in were in the Ignorest of the laid 1916 totaled of aside, equally envelope, containing drive it herself. rarily belligerents are important in malof which $230,004,231 rance, Nobody wns much Interested manuscript, in the Inner pocket of his Foa Tlie Central railroad of Georgia emWaste. ting known to all concerned their true imports. In anyone else at the Inventors club. coat Just ns MacBeard returned. "Are you a tramp? No, mum, Tin ploys 19 women agents, whose duty represented intentions. The Tokyo Asahi conclude in some MacHcard of to would the house In Balti- n food eonserver. nave you lie the cigar stores of Italv go stepped Then Professor got any it Ls to solicit and handle all freight ' hiring that the Japanese people f more, and sue what there was to be old food you don't want wasted? from a Pie forward. KSht and other matters ThTb'i of rope are desirous that to this ptrtuiniug s hung up In a their government convenient place snail take such ed of the business. and u flowed to burn at the present step slowly. important t-i- ES PI-IDI- L VICTOR COUSSEAV , i 11 , s 7 I pigeon-- brained, pot-fuce- d n I- 'tpi-Ji- J To-I'.- 'o J Alsuce-Lor-min- n, de-ni- phy-stein- n, I Mac-Hear- d. juncture. |