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Show "That's nay Papago herdsman, I! keep watch over the horses saw day and night Lord, bow JM hats to have Rojas or Salaxar any ,of those bandit rebels find my horses! Gale, can yon rider" Dick modestly replied that he could, According to the eastern idea of RAT WHIP; CAT, lCKLES , PESO MJ AMD LED by ZANE GREY T horsemanship. g The ringing of bell, which said was call to supper, turned the men back toward the house.' It was not until .they jreached It and were about to go la- that : Belding chanced to discover Gale's crippled " -hand. j "What an awful band T - he "Where the devil did you ' Bef-dln- Author of RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE, WILDFIRE, ETC. Copyright by Harper NELL BURTON 'STNOI'SIS K"M In the desert. "Cameron," mluurv forms a partnership with an unknown man whom he later learns la Jonas H arroi, father Of r, .. a girl whom ' amt-rowronfje.l, JiUt Liter marrifl. b a. i m Illinois, f ameron'g epl imttions appose and ilie two prutvul an n(. Taking retire front a sarid.ttr'rm in a law. i ann-iosold, but t'jo jtt-- . Loth mt-teviPie Oii;i. (anicfni thi-if dence, tn the a'. of golil, ai.il m iu-aRiclianl Hale. aH .tur.-- r in (,'asita. M Waii bj:ilT town. itl e u t tin Tlioine. the Ninth nnalry, old rt.,U gr f rlcnii. 'i'linimhe is tells thi-rto save M a cedes Castaroda, Sparili-.wile, girl. Irn Mtliatietd front Itojas. M. in handit. (Idle his Kolas and "roiitjlihouhies" KaiiK, with the lie i of two Annraaa cowboys, and he, Mi'tredes and Thorne es aie. A biiyle cill from the fort ord. ra Thorne to his regiment. He leaves Mereedes uniler Gale's protection. The pair, ntdul by the rowboys, Charlie l.aod and Jim Laeh, arrive In safety at ranch known as Forlorn River, across the bolder. The fugitives are at Tom home. Ueld-in- g Is Immigration Inspector. Living with him are his wife and stepdaughter, Nell Burton. Brother. - Continued. 5 "What Is lie? U'Iid Is he? Where flirt lie come from? Surely you must be" "Laddy swears lie's nil right," Interrupted tlin hushnnd. "That's enough reference for nie. Isn't it enough for you?" 'Humph ! Laddy knows a lot about young nun, now ilnesn't lie, especially Strangers from the East? . . . Torn, He'll fall In yen must he careful love with Neil !" protested Sirs. ! Bel-dln- "Well, wouldn't that he regular? Doesn't every man who comes along fall In love with Nell? JJasn't It always happened?" "But, Tom, Nell might fall In love with this young man!" exclaimed the wife. In distress. "Laddy, Jim, didn't I tell you?" cried Holding. "I knew she'd say that. My dear wife, I would be simply overcome with joy f Nell did fall in love once. Heal good and hard! She's wilder than any antelope out there on the desert. Nell's nearly twenty now, and so far as we know she's never cared a rap for any fellow. And she's as good anil lovable as she Is pretty, but I'm afraid she'll never (trow Into a woman while we live out In this lonely land. And you've always hated towns where there was a chance for the girl just because you were afraid she'd fall in love. You've always been strange, even silly, about that. I've done my best for Nell-lo- ved her as If she were tnv owo ... By CDMA MARY BOOTH (6. IMS, hp MeClar . a cop S Giant Jersey City Rodent Causes Consternation in Crowded ajrMUe,) When she was a little girl Cell Subway Statioii Kent was very food ot twe little boys. When she grew up she was gracious to two men Ralph . Barnett and Ben : New York. Squeals, snarls and Rowe, cousins and not unlike In apshrieks buret "in upon the peaceful pearance. But fbe time came when medltatfflps of Detective Tbm Burke Ben begaa to fight the suspicion that as bo ambtenNMPfortably down Grove Ttnrttt In Tnrii7yntfit'HI''1 mt0 Ralph was the favored one. On the way home one night they, for irofeaslonal alertness, he was voouf the first time, acknowledged 'them-selves convinced that-- a murder was being as rivals. Balph' began It as committed when a strange procession novo In view, at the corner. they were going down Stony Hill. , t been down "Ion and I've this up and At th head of the procession, acbill a good many times," be said, "Recording to Burke, ran a rat fully 15 member the night the birches over Inches long, with Us beady eyes verithere got us scared, they showed np table balls of fire and froth coming go white? We were little fellows and from Its mouth. "Just behind ran a not used to being out "without the fully grown tomcat powerful of build grownups. We held on td each other and determined of behind him mien; tight and marched straight up o- the dreadful thing and found the birches. We bad some fright that night the ripper swerved going down, but managed to get her back and land the crowd safe. Your old Bill ran away with us once going down this hill ahud we came out of it unhurt, I Mawapaaae "An' It's your Idea that cowboy help the girl. So me an' Jim started thing as you came oat?" asked Bel compliments are pluivbbad for girls?" off with them for Sun Felipe, got ding, with twinkling eyes. get that?" "Downright bud, Laddy, so my wife switched, an' then we headed for the "Why, yes; I met something white "I stove In ray knuckles on Rojas," Rio Forlorn." says." and swift flying by," replied Dick. Dick. "I'll be darned If I believe any girl "Oh, I think he was perfectly splen"That was Nell Burton,; my gir- l- replied "Yon did that In one punch? Say, can be hurt by a little swaet talk did I" exclnlmed the girl. "But, Laddy. Stepdaughter, I should say," said Bel I'm glad It wasn't me you hit I Why It pleases" 'em. you haven't told me whut he looks ding. "She's sure some whirlwind, as didn't you tell me? That's a bad "Chop It," Interrupted Belding. like." Laddy calls her. Come, let's go tn hand. Those cuts are full of dirt "Here conies Nell now." At this Juncture Dick Gale felt It and meet the wife." and sand. Inflammation's setting In. to the Dion's tingling ears took In the pat absolutely worn In Mrs. a found Gale Impossible play Belding, It's got to be dressed. Nelll" he terlttg of light footsteps, the rush of eavesdropper any longer. Quietly he an of noble proportions and striking called. rolled out of bed. Bel ding's kindly appearance. Her hair was white. She someone running. Dick saw a glimpse of golden hair Interest, Laddy's blunt and, sincere had a strong, serious, face "Here you are," cried a sweet-ha- p and a white dress In the door. But sweet the eagerthat bore haunting- evidences of past girl's py voice. "Dad, the senorita Is per cowboy eulogy, they were not visible longer than a redly lovely. I've been peeping at ness and praise these warmed Gule's beauty. The gaze she gent upon him second. her. She sleeps like like death. heart. He had fallen among simple was almost piercing In Its Intensity what's the matter?" asked She's so white. Oh, I hope she won't people, Into whose lives the advent Her greeting, which seemed to Dick a "Dad, voice was still as sweet as that an of man unknown was welcome. rather slow In coming, sm kind he 111. How strange and sad, that but now rather small and He was wild to be one of Beldlng's though not cordlali first formerly, Gale's about tier! Tell me mure, Laddy. constrained. You promised. I'm dying to know. ransers. The Idea of riding a1 horse thought, after he had thanked these Bring the antiseptics, cotton, ban in don't know how. the a with open desert, dangerous good people for their hospitality, was Didn't you say the senorlta had a and things out here. Hurry, "So tonight isn't the first time, Ben, duty to perform, seemed to strike him to inquire about Mercedes. Mrs. Bel dages swoil heart?" with an appealing force. Something ding said the girl had suffered no now." that old Stony has seen us scared. It "Shore I did." a fetched pall of water looks as If we were up against it this "Is he the young man who came within him went out to the cowboys great hardship, other than mental, and andBelding a basin from the kitchen. His time. I'm to this blunt and kind Belding. He would very soon be rested and well. with you?" going to win Cella, If I can, wife followed him out, and, upon see and was to meet afraid the every .If said who one when you have the same idea, sure girl. "Now, his the fellow's Gale," That Belding, "Nope. Dick's was all solicitude. hand, man who came along fell In love with wife had excused berself to get sup- ing enough. But, look here, Ben, for a saved the girl from Itojas." this Nell, then what per, "the boys, Jim and Laddy, told Then Dick heard light, quick foot- couple of headstrong fellows we've got "Ah! Where is be, Uiddy?" on pretty well together. Whether It hope bad he to escape now, when his me about you and the mix-uat Ca steps, but he did not look up. "He's In there asleep." Nell, this is Mr. Gale Dick Galei was work or whole"' Inner awakening betokened slta. to take care of the "Is be nice, Laddy?" games we've trusted each who came with the boys last night," other and change of spirit, hope, a finding pf girl till It's ssfe for your soldier "Shore." played fair. Let' always "He's got an awful real worth, real good, real power in friend to get her out of the country, said Belding. "What Is he like?" play fair now . . . let's see this hand. Got Greaser it that punching' himself? That won't be very soon, don't mistiling through on the square. If we "Well, I'm not long acquainted, Gale Imagined he made noise take me. I don't want to seem Rojas. I want you to dress it . . . do . that there'll never be a time when never saw him by day, but I was some this Is my stepdaughter, Nell we about you Laddy has Gale, tolerable took with him. An' Jim enough as lie clumsily pulled on his can't walk down this hill and talk,' She's he choked Burton, of whom I spoke. a little, "of old times- - What here, Jim says the young man can boots; yet the voices, spilt by a merry Interested me In you and straight some when there's good somebody do you say?" laugh, kept on murmuring outside the out I'd like to know what you propose nave his gun an' bis boss." or sick hurt Shove out your fist, my to do now." on what "I'll say you're talking sense and "Wonderful! Laddy, "I haven't any plans," replied Dick ; boy, and let her get at It. Supper's speaking the truth," agreed Ben, with earth-- did this stranger do to win you nearly ready." and, taking the moment as propitious, a sigh of relief. "This, thing Isn't go cowboys In just one night?" Diek felt that same strange, quick he decided to speak frankly concerning to be the beginning of a row." "I'll sltore have to tell yon. Me an' "I JjisJt drifted down ening heart throb, yet he had never ing himself. A few weeks later came a night of Jim was watchln' a game of cards In been cooler in his life. More than here. My home is in "Chicago. When wind and rain in March, when Ralph the Del Sol saloon in Caslta. That's else in world the he wanted called I left school some years ago I'm anything We bad acquaintneross the Hue. up Ben and asked: now I went to work for to look at Nell Burton; however, di twenty-fiv- e ances four fellows from the Cross "Going over to Kent's tonight that the be situation vining might my father. He's he has business In Bar outfit, where we worked a while "Tough night, guess not" answered terests there. I tried all kinds of In- embarrassing to her, he refrained Ben. back. This Del Sol Is a billiard hall. from looking up. She began to bathe faI side couldn't jobs. please my saloon, restaurant, an' the like. An' "That's what I think," returned ther. To tell you frankly, Mr. Bel- his injured knuckles.. He noted the Some of It was full of Greasers. softness, the deftness of her touch, Ralph, and talked for a few moments I I much care." didn't ding, suppose drlnkin' an' Campo's rebels wore there and then It seemed her fingers were of other things. "What do you want to do?" Then pretty soon In Had Caught the playln' games. Ben paced about the house for an fugitive. "I want a man's Job. I want to do not quite as steady as they might come Itojas with Dome of his outfit. if" he have In been. a hour moment and then his asked father Still, they 1 ran with hands. more other of want action. the my cats, things to polite sex, an kept They were packln' guns appeared to become surer In their could take out the car. Permission I want to be outdoors." forth encouraging meows. themselves off to one side. work. When she sat down beslde hun given, he started out. He went np giving Belding nodded his. head as if he As the rat passed the detective "A little while afterward I seen a and rested bis Injured hand In her Stony Hill with a guilty heart. understood that, and he began to kicked at it and the rodent turned and restaurant In the fellow standin' as she cut bandages, she was so lap For the first time that he could re speak again, cut something short, then He was a young American door. thrillinglynear that he yielded to an member Cella met him with unsmiling snarled ferociously. As If by Instinct, went on, hesitatingly: dressed In corduroys an' hoots, like a Irrepressible desire to look np. She lips. "Where's Ralph?" she asked It then turned and made straight for "Gale you could go home again the Grove street tube station, where prospector. He looked round the sahnd a sweet, fair face warmly tinted fWhy didn't yon brings ntmrBen?" to the old man it'd be all right Y' scores of women were congregated. loon, an' when be spotted Itojas he with that same healthy golden-brow- n "Too rainy for him," langhed Ben; Mr. Belding, there's nothing shady sorta Jerked up. Then be pulled bis The entrance of the rat was accomHer hair was light gold In my past. The governor would be sunburn. "Not In your car," returned Cella. slouch hut lopsided an' began to stagand a mass. Her abundant, by the departure of most of the panied waving glad to have me home. That's the She was not at all like herself. ger flown, down the steps. First off I women. Moving briskly, Burke areyes were shaded by long, downcast But I'm consolation I've only a got. Ralph seemed to rise like mude shore he was drunk. But I respectre rived a minute afterward and with Pothem he caught not going. I'm broke. I won't be a lashes, yet through between them as they clumsily at membered he didn't seem drunk beof blue. gleam Andrew Crlbben as reinforcetramp. And it's up to me to do a light conversation. Ben liceman So I It was some queer. fore. ment went Into the station prepared to Despite the stir within him, Gale, tempted something." some watched that young man. stayed on, hoping happy word do battle with the outlaw. "How'd you like to be a border seeing she was now absorbed In her might put him right with Cella, bnt "lie reeled around the room like a sec- a studied task, her with critically The tomcat In the meantime, had a asked hand Belding, raying ranger?" fellow who wns drunkev'n a lord. She was a sweet Cella became steadily more unfriendly, on Dick's knee. "Part of my Job ond closer gaze. the fugitive, but In the battle caught When finally he was on his w ay, the Nobody but me seemed to notice him. that was raging was getting decidedly Suddenly, Sweetly, She Blushed. here is United States inspector of Im- wholesome. Joyous, pretty girl. wind bowled car a the like Then be began to stumble over through Shore It rausta hurt?" inquired I've got that boundary the short end of It migration. an' get his feet tangled up In door. It was awkward for him, hav Laddy, who sat an Interested specta- ravaging wolf. What a fool he was Hue to patrol to keep out Chinks Crlbben swung with his club, and I to be here What, devil of an Imp had chairs an' bump against tables. He ing only one hand available to Ince and tor. . You'll not be hired by the the rat turned and snapped at him and tatter! him? was of the It possession got some pretty hard looks. He came up his boots. He looked out of the U. S.Japs. I confess It "Yes, did," replied You'll simply be my ranger, round our way, an' all of a sudden be window. He herifd bees, birds, chick he'd ever played llalph a concentrated the attack upon him, unsame as Laddy and Jim, who have Dick slowly, with 'his eyes on Nell's nrst, time mean trick. He came to Stony Hill til a lucky blow of the policeman's seen us cowboys. He pave another ens, saw the red of roses and green to work for me. I'll pay face. "But I didn't mind." and The start, like the one when he first seen of grass. Then he saw, close to the promised lashes the?, as he went down the hill. stick stunned his maddened assailant girl's swept up swiftly you well, give you a room here, fur The rat was killed. The philosophical Itojas, then be made for us. I tipped wall, a tub full of water, and' a bench nish everything down to guns, and the in surprise. She had taken bis words at the side of the road, was a man dark-blusized object He had a swift Intention tomcat, which had sat down, after the Jim off that soniethin' was dotn'. njtcin which lay basin, soap, towel. finest horse But the literally. met eyes you ever saw In your life. his Then this queer young man shot some tomb and brush. for only a fleeting second. Then of stopping the car, but Instead be policemen entered the lists, dragged It Tiie window was Your job won't be safe and healthy. the warm cool, polite words at me an' Jim." ' also a door, for under it there was a tint in her cheeks turned went down the hill and past that thing away,' followed by half the cats In the but a man's It'll be Job sometimes, as red as "He was only Muffin' at boln' drunk step. her lips. Hurriedly she that, ns lie passed, the wind caught neighborhood. You can gamble don't mistake me! finished tying the bandage and rose np a part of and spread out before its he meant to rush Rojas, to start a Gale hesitated1, n moment, then on to do outdoors. Now, things having to her feet rmii,rh house. The bandit was after a went out. lie steprled naturally, hop velocity, what do you say?" I thank you," said Gale, also ris He drove on, meaning each Instant STAMP OUT LEPROSY IN KOREA girl. Tills girl wns In the hotel, an' ing and expecting that the cowboys I accept, and I thank you I can't she wns the sweetheart of a soldier, would hoar him. But nobody came say how much, ing. With that Belding appeared in tor turn the ear, but a terrifying guilty ear Gale, replied the doorway, and, finding the opera fear controlled Ms brain. It was all the young fellow's friend. The hotel Awkwardly, with left band, he washed tion concluded, called them in to sup- clear to him. Ralph had found out Head of Fusan Asylum Says the Dread was watched by Itojiis" guards, an' the his face. 1'pon a null In the wall nestly. Good I That's settled. Let's go Disease Is Curable Death per. After the meal, having a favorplan was to make a fuss an' get the hung a llltle mirror, by the aid of out nnd tell Laddy and Jim." that he bad gone to the Kents. In Rate Low. able Well, which Dick combed and brushed his when a for moment girl away In the excitement. opportunity his quick way he'd believed Cella a Both boys expressed satisfaction Jim an' me got a hint of our belli' hair. He Imagined be looked a most at the turn of affairs, and then with no one was at band, Dick went out party to the deception. He'd come to Americnns that cowboys generally haggard wretch. With that be faced through the yard, past the gardens Stony Hill for Ben to find him. It was Tokyo. The future of the leper li Belding they set out to take Gale and bad a name for loyalty to women. forward, meaning to go round the cor- around the Melds, and climbed the first knoll. ranch. The wide grounds terrifyingly clear to Ben. He knew, now bright and the disease being much Then this amazln' chap you can't ner of the house to greet the cowboys were covered with Westward the setting sun gilded a too, that he must call less contagious than Is generally up Hiram luxuriant grass said for me and these friends. limitless ex- How ells, first selectman, as soon as he imagine how scornful a Judicious system of segregaand flowers and different kinds of spiked, Dick had taken but one step when trees. an' Jim to watch him. panse of desert. It awed Gale. What got home. tion, with the present methods of tfenj;, a strange, gray, somber place "Before I could cntch my breath an' he was halted by laughter ami the There ment will rid Korea of the Ned Howells, sixteen and sleepy, an Belding explained that the luxuri figger out what he meant by 'rush' an' patter of light feet. He saw a little ance of this desert place was owing was a lighter strip of gray winding swered him. "We're all abed," he said. according to Mr. Mackenzie, head of down between darker hues. This he "A man "rough house' be had knocked over a foot sweep Into view, a white dress, to a few springs and the dammed-udead? Stony Hill? Why the Fusan asylum. The mission to realised presently was the river bed, table an' crowded some Greaser half then the swiftly moving form of a waters of the Rio Forlorn. didn't yer find out something? IH lepers baa three asylums In Korea. and he saw now the pools of water off the map. Then, qtilcker'n I can girl. She was looking backward. one I've wake 'lm up. Some night 'Spose Til spring narrowed 'At one of these nine patients havs "Dad. I shall fall In love with your on and diminished in size till have to tell you the young man dove at Itosaid too." my place," "Fine, Belding. out been get discharged with no trace of tha " jas. Like a mad steer on the ram- now ranger. I will I have sweet water I You know what that they lost themselves In gray sand. Ben returned to the hill. disease left" said Mr. Mackenzie. "BeThis was be his Then an' she men. the Into charged Itojas near plumped season, page squarely rainy Its means In the desert. I like this oasis. They had taken the body away, but fore the special treatment was begun Dick's arms. The whole outfit went down smash The longer I live here the better I end, and here a little river struggled something was shining at his feet in the Fusan asylum the yearly death I ftggored then what 'rush' meant. Dick saw a fair face and dark-blulike It. It's beautiful and healthy. hopelassly forlornly to live in the Slowly he picked up a short strip of rate always was above 2 per cent The young fellow came up out of the audaciously flushing eyes. Swift Forlorn and lonely, yes, especially for desert. lie received a potent Impresnew tin. He held It In his band dazFor the last year It stands at 2H per n pile with Itojas. an' Just like I tl sling is lightning their expression changed women like my wife and Nell; but sion of the nature of that blasted seen He'd edly. something ent, but as half the deaths resulted "fTTetTtor shining sent he ompty"sacT an waste which he had divined to surprise, Tear, wrrmtrr: Tin hii "along' I lllse-f- r: ; : : And hutwuua. ruu a pistol in the outstretched said that the !'nrajtiphc4d Jtmay war the bandit. But swift as that went slant they were level with Dick's nnd me, boys, I've got something up hand . . . this piece of tin . . . leath rate from normal causes was he was on top of HoJas before the grave questioning. love. and sweetSuddenly, my sleeve. There's gold dust in the A few yards from hlrn there was someonly slightly over I per cini, chairs nn' tables had stopped rollln'. ly, she blushed. uud there's mineral up In the arrofos, else. With teeth clenched he thing "Oh-The government plans t erection !" she faltered. "I woke up then, an' made for the mountains. If bad water! strode on and found a loose, ragged of a large national asylum mtslde f Then the blush turned to a scarlet There are was center of he room, Jim with me. I "It sweet Indescribably possibilities, and I want roll of old tar paper roofing. Could and provocative of begun to shoot out the lamps. Jim fire. She whirled past him, and like Tokyo for the accommodatlo. 0f lepou boys to stay with me and get In thoughts" ? The wind it be Ihrowed his guns on the crazy rebels, a white gieam was gone. caught ers, of whom there are about soOO In on tiie ground floor. I wish this rebel ns af ra ill tliere'd he blood strip nnd stretched It out like an arm, Japan. un' I Dick became conscious of the quick- w ar wns over. . . . Well, here ore (TO BH CONTINUED.) Like chimes at eventide rang in spilled before I could get the room ened beating of his heart. lie expe- the corrals and the fields. Gale, take Ben's remory his father's voice: dark. I'.eln' shore busy, I lost sight rienced a singular exhilaration. That a look at that hunch of horses !" Domestic Animals Necessary. "Steve Carter's having that old tar of the young fellow for a second or moment had been the one for which Man couldn't get along without doBeldlng's last remark was made as so, an' when I got an eye free for him he had been ripe, the event upon he paper torn off his sheds. Putting on led his companions out of shady mesticated animals. Girl Strangles Herself The now world I seen a Grouser about to knife him. which a new kind of roofing. Looks pretty circumstances strange had gardens Into the open. Gnle saw un has one ' sheep and one head of cattle While Skipping Rope Think I was considerate of the been rushing him. adobe shed and a huge pen formed for each five people, and one head of good to me." Greaser by only shootin' bis arm off. With a couple of strides he turned Ben stood over to quietly looking strangely twisted and contorted swine for each 12 people. - America, London. Inadvertently stranThen 1 cracked the last lamp, an' In the comer. Laddy and Iish were by brancfles or trunks of mesqulte, and, with only a sixteenth of the world's the cross road where lived Steve Carherself to death with her the hullabaloo me un' Jim vamoosed. there talking to a man of burly form. ter. gling he con"Gosh," blurted, "my beyond these, wide, flat fields, green population, has a sixth of the world's own skipping rope was the re"We made tracks for ur bosses an' "Hello, there's the young fellow," a dark, rich green and dotted with cattle, a tenth the wind and tnr science, Ho paper." of the sheep and s markable fata of Marguerite packs, hh' was hittln' the San Felipe spoke up the burly man. "Mr. Gale, beautiful horses. There-wer- e of the swine. We ore the went buck to his car, grinning. "That .whites road when we run right plumb Into I'm glad to meet you. My name's and Martin. blacks, and buys and grays. In greatest meat eaters on earth. Yet little devil of a Ned Howells. I ll nevthe young man. Well, he said bis Belding." It was learned at the inquest er hear the of last this." his admiration Gale searched his we are the most peaceful people. Milname was Gale Dick Gale. The girl after skipping with her His greeting was as warm as his that to see If he could remember itant Japun's diet Is based on rice. It was with him safe an' well; but her handclasp was long nnd hard. Gale memory aha fastened one ehnolmntM the like of these Congratulating the Landlady. animals. Is an uucomfortable contrast for the 2 sweetheart, the soldier, bein' away saw a heavy man of medium height. and had to admit magnificent of her ropt to a gate, the end -Tha "bill seaside visitor the rwd' that the only ones theorists who preach that without leave, had to go back sudden. His head was large and covered with other end she then wosnd arounu through in all Ha horrible details, he could compare with them were the makes people ferocious or There shore was some trouMe, for grizzled locks. He wore a savagely her neck to play. ' while the landlady watched fir lgns Arabian steeds. emotional. Jim an' me heard shootin'. Gale A strong wind resulted In the muBtache and chin beard. HJa of weather. "Shore I reckon I savvy why you said he hnd no money, no friends, was skin was brewn, and his dark swinging to and fro, and But aWt-alfano was gate storm. there bn All sp said eyes nights," drawled Laddy. Ancient City of Carthage. a stranger In a desert country; an' beamed with the was: genial light. girl was swung off her feet "Ah, well, madam, I am glad yon I see a Orsaser out there noCarthage was founded by tite Pboe he was distracted to know how to " Young man, did yon run Into later of strangulation. have dying our any--- ! an Indian " tere." enjoyed Louden stay nlclans about 850 B. C i s. ..." well-line- d double-- J Ml - sweet-voice- p d -- ... over-curio- CHAPTER IV. S ; f A pool-playe- . e sup-pote- frost-colore- new-foun- 1 p gt never-fallin- age-wor- In-- "What Did Must Is He? Who li Ms? Where He Come From? Surely You Be" I've changed many holidaughter. ness plans to suit your whims. There are rough times ahead, maybe,' I need men. I'll hire litis chap Gale if he'll stay. Let Nell take her chance with him. She'll be all the better for it." "I hope Laddy's not mistaken In bis opinion of this newcomer," replied Mrs. Holding, with n sigh of resignation. "Well, supper is to be got. That young man and the girl will be starved. I'll go In now. If Nell around don't don't flutter her. Laddy, like you did at dinner. Don't rwike her think of her looks." Dick heard Mrs. Belding walk way. "Shore she's powerful particular bout that girl," observed Laddy. "Say, Tom. Nell knows she's pretty, doesn't she." "She's liable to find It out unless you shut up, Laddy. When you visited us out here some weeks ago, yoti kept paying cowboy compliments to er." bap-peri- s 1 1 . nr-gif- we-onl- y ... r three-seventh- meat-eatin- g short-croppe- d - - l' Ttt-Blt- (Continued In Sunday's Herald) . |