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Show v.fl?-Kk!-iir- . v, - y" f-- 'M " I : THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH .wssiTri T f f The Mystery of Hartley Houase won et Content! 15TluidDfacy For Infants and Children: By CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND s g Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS V CHAPTER XVII Continued. 17 "There was a lot of malevolence In Mr. Sidney's tone, a tremendous amount of hate. Richard Dobson uttered the quivering, quavering little cry again and started to run. As he got under way, he shrieked. It sounded like an old womans shriek. Mr. Sidney started after him. Me had that Cane you saw him take out f this room. That was the one he was beaten down with. "I think for a moment he wanted to kill Richard. He flourished the stick and yelled. Riehard, being In a frenzy of fright, was stronger on his legs thnn his brother. He was off Into the bush. Mr. Sidney stumbled and fell. He got up rather slowly, as if he were either hurt or as if his strength were leaving him. I could hear Richard shrieking farther off In the bush. "When Mr. Sidney got up, he turned toward the house, and I ran to beat him here and found you. Jed rocked a while, and I did not say anything. I am decidedly shaken, he said I was very fond of after a while. him, and I am a useless old man, an alcoholic of no account except to him, and he is dead. There is only one thing to do, I said. Richard Dobson must be on his way to freedom tomorrow. We shall have to see to that. Jed aroused himself for an Instant. k You moralist! he said. "You would interfere with a genial, lovable mans magnificent hate just because he is dead and your scruples have become Important You ought to choke. Let the brute Dick Dobson rot in prison. Its his desert It cant be done, Jed, I said. "Tomorrow well go to Alwlck prison and explain. - ' ran have It either way you want You are going to force him out of the only place he has to live, and ycu are going to give him the tragedy of knowing that his life was wrecked. He Is a rich man, I said. Half he old Dobson estate is his.. All of It is his. His brother was legally and Is uow actually dead. You are a worse man than I was, Mid Jed. "I never Interfered with Mr. S dneys scheme of punishment You are trying to. His scheme was Just Whats the use of this debate? I exclaimed. "You are morally incapable of right doing. And you are a foolish collection of pious axioms, said Jed. When we came to the penitentiary entrance, we encountered Morgan of the Metropolitan agency, He stopped me. You had me fooled," be said. I really thought you didnt know. I did not know, I said. "Didnt you! he exclaimed. You are here to see Richard Dobson. I followed my hunch. I have the answer to the thing. I know why this man Sidney never was younger than twenty years. You are here to see Richard Dobson because you are representing Arthur Dobson." Arthur Dobson is dead. I know he is as a name; but he is alive as Sidney. Mr. Sidney is dead, I said. We have come here to tell Richard Dobson that he can go free. I did not know who Arthur Dobson was until last night. As Morgan stood before us on the penitentiary steps. I thought how true had been my conception of him as the inevitable. Mr. Sidney had outplayed fate, but It was by using the trump card death. Morgans face showed some unpleasant lines. What do you mean, that Sidney Is For me to act without telling Mrs. dead? he asked. Sidney was impossible, and it was al"He died Christmas night I read most impossible for me to take the subject up with her. I saw her only his diary last night Jed gave it to for a moment, told her that being ac- me. It Is the one Dravada tried to quainted with the facts, I thought I steal. We came here at once to tell knew what the conscience of the house Richard Dobson. Let his brother Arthur tell him. would require. Her world had been destroyed; her Richard is dead, said Morgan, going But I am not light had gone out. She had no pride on down the steps. for herself ; she shrank from the posthrough with you people. Publicity is sibility of a hurt to Isobel, but I had just as good npw as It was before. He got into an automobile, and was judged the conscience of the house correctly. She would have protected driven away. Mr. kidney against all the equities and Something always happens to these said Jed savagejustice in the world that was her moral consciences, sin in her own esteem. But now he ly. Youll learn life some day, young was dead: justice could be done. fellow, Now keep your mouth shut Inside here. I did not want to act without The warden told ns that Richard I knowing what I was doing. loped she would approve of what I Dobson had died the night before. He intended to do, though I Intended to had sustained a great shock the night do it whether she did or not I had he walked out of the penitentiary and was found on Mr. Sidneys grounds. tq tell the story. You are right, John, she said. The adventure not only overtaxed him But how magnificent father was I physically, but It had affected his imHe was stark Nemesis, the cleanest, agination. When the guards found him, after the message from Hartley purest Justice there is! She was a bit ecstatic. They teach house, he was incoherent and in a fever. young ladies too many generalizations, He never regained strength or raI thought. There was no rhapsody in this; it was ugly. ! tionality. He had been quiet at times, Jed had one more flash of spirit as but at other times was In delirium. When delirious, he suffered chiefly we started for the penitentiary. You poor old copy-boo- k fool of a from the delusion that he had seen moralist! he said. Why cant your his brothers ghost. He died slowly and in great misery, insignificant conscience be satisfied without doing a lot of damage tc no the warden said. Now keep your mouth shut, you good end? Hang you moralists ! You wreck life. Richard Dobson cant 7 ve fool, Jed ordered by merely prodding me In the ribs. The warden was affected by the news of Mr. Sidneys death. He remembered him as the pleasant man who had called one day. It seemed to me that our visit, so shortly after Mr. Sidneys death, must appear as a thing strangely without purpose to the warden, but Jed was so apparently' right In asking for silence at this time that IN yielded to his prudential course. The right and wrong of the Dobson affair was in the grave. Our departure from the penitentiary was awkward, I thought. The warden did not copy-boo- Iso-fee- ls seem to find it so. On the way back Jed presented, viciously, the sharp edges of OHr trouble. You have that fellow Morgan to deal with, he said. If you are going to be morhlistic, you will ruin the lives of two ladies who have trusted you. Morgan has to be bought You are not doing anyone any hurt now. You are not keeping an innocent man in the penitentiary. You are not disturbing Justice or defeating punishment You Are taking the surest means to the Mr. Sidney Started After Him. He has no money, no way of making any no gftee to go, no friends. You rre g to throw him out of his home. Yflu are going to torture him with tfee knowledge that his life was wasted la prison when he was a free man in law. You are going to destroy the Sidney family. "Richard Dobson saw his brother, lwiid,that night at the pool. "He saw a ghost," asserted Jed. Or if lie un't see a ghost, he must want w stay In the penitentiary. If he knew it was his brother, why didnt fe demand an inquiry and his freedom? Either because he saw a ghost ar he dops not want his freedom. You ortside the penitentiary. go-lfc- "A i' protection of the Innocent by bribihg this man to silence. Of all the obvious things I might have said to this man who for a long time had terrorized the Sidney household, none seemed pertinent They would have been imprecations and reproaches. They would have dealt with the past He, as if he had a clean slate, was dealing with the future. It did Mrs. Sidney and Isobel no good to tell Jed that he had been a rascal and was unfit to advise. If you go to Mrs. Sidney, said Jed, she will sacrifice herself and everybody else. Go to Miss Sidney and tell her that the family must pay Mr. Morgan $20,000. Hell want Hell take twenty. Give It to him in five annual installments. At the end of five years hell be harmless. You and Miss Sidney will bave $50.-00- Copyright by Geer s established yourselves, and Morgan's story will be a dried-u- p walnut The proposal was so repulsive that I did not answer Jed. He said a great deal more in a great deal of bitter, ness, chiefly against me and what be conceived to be my moralistic ideas. When we had returned to Hartley house, Jed said: Do at least one thing, ask Miss Sidney what she prefers. ,, I had no right end no Inclination to make a decision which concerned the family and not me. I did not want to speak to Mrs. Sidney Jed was right her conscience might permit only the answer which would expose the family to consequences. I spoke to Isobel. We compromised with Morgan. Jed again was right Morgan wanted $50,-00He took $20,000. - Isobel had been Insistent She bad been Impatient of any suggestion that there could be anything immoral or dangerous In such compromising. Feminine morals are selfishly protective of things near and dear. 'A generalized Immorality, an unembodied immorality, is to women unimportant It is less than unimportant; it Is impossible; it does not exist This is a part of the instinct which nourishes and protects the infant. I dont understand you at alt John, she said. Is there any question in your mind that we ought. to protect my father's memory and my mothers peace of mind? You admit that even now this man Morgan can wreck the things we bold dearest. You admit that a small payment can protect these things. You know that the one thing of which we have more than we need is money, and you admit that we are not doing any person any ham by using It to bribe this ' man Morgan. Of course, I had to give In. f others Know That Genuine Castoria H. Dm Co. 2SS&S5S& Always I'll he saying good-by- e tomorrow, I said. What are you going to do?" I have made some arrangements. Til build up a small practice. I may I think that go to a small town. would salt me. I havent the temperament for a city. It is chilL ' You have really set yourself back by coming here, she suggested. in purely "Possibly," I admitted, material ways; but I have lived the wonder time of my life here. The sacrifice was cheap. But it was a sacrifice? In a strictly pragmatic fashion, yes. You I do FBR OEM1 " were morose. Please sit down, John. I did, in a comfortable chair. We looked at the fire. 0. ndihertoliMn.Mwpttne Mineral. notKahcotic In JUfe art i Use "VSSSZt think of it as a sacrifice? , not I think of it as my real For Over Thirty Ypars Exact Copy o'f Wrapper. NEW YORK CITY. THC CICRTAUR COMPANY, Kill That Cold With CASCARA for CHAPTER XVIII. creaked underfoot, and the sun. In a cold blue sky to the southwest above the hills across the river, could hardly be regarded as a warm and sustaining star. The servants were pall bearers sad ones; and we had the chaplain from the penitentiary to read the service in the room Mr. Sidney had used. The sun came in the southwestern windows, and the canaries sang. Algol was afraid of strangers and hid him. self. Otherwise it was Mr. Sidneys - Thereby Promote Cheerfulness andR QUININE AND , La Grippe Colds, Coughs Mr. Sidney was buried by the pool oh a bitter afternoon when the snow Neglected Colds are Dangerous ' You Presume That I Am Not in Love With You. The rest of my existence will be the sacrifice. You are a simple sort of a person, life. Take no chances. Keep this standard remedy handy for the first sneeze. Breaks up a cold in 24 hours Relieves ; ' Grippe in 3 days Excellent for Headache Quinine in this form does not affect the head Cascara la beat Tonic Laxative No Opiate in Hills. 1 , John. I presume so. I have no reason to think otherwise." Where did you get your ideas of Announcer Was Right. v, women, John? Pollard, movie comedian, was Harry no ideas of women. I am at the I have of a Los Angeles boxing ringside not presumptuous or, in that fashion, show when a little bantamweight was " egotistic, introduced as The California Catashe said. Yes, you are, mount. room. I dont think you are right in say. What do they want to call a little We carried the coffin the half-mil- e ( tag that kid like you by such a long handle? In the bitter cold to the grave which You ard presumptuous about me." asked Pollard. Why dont you use had been dug by the pool with mat-tocI am not! I exclaimed in hurt name? real your Mrs. earth. the frozen through pride. I wanted to, answered the midget, Sidney took my arm, but walked the You are, she said. You presume but the announcer would not let me distance bravely. Isobel went as If that I am not in love with you. use It. she were a clear-eye- d Spartan girl ac(THE END). What Is your name? asked cepting life without a quaver or whimlard. per, upon the terns offered. We left WANTED TO GO IT ALONE Solis Mlotkowski, chirped the remains of our gracious gentleman youth. there. That announcer wqs right," So genial a man could not die. He Man Years Ago Missouri Declared Her Ambition to Become an Instill pervaded the housfe. He had imHarry. Minneapolis Tribune. dependent Republic. pregnated it His death could not deThe best part of beauty is that which stroy his influence. Even his room, Missouri once had intention of set- no his death chamber, remained jovial; picture can express, Bacon. as an independent republic but Algol attached himself to Isobel ting up and could not be parted from her. He all by hgrself. The Session acts, state of Missouri, 1838-183contain a mewent to her room that night morial to the congress of the United both and sugNecessity delicacy States relative to the Santa Fe trade. ' gested that I go away for a while the It tells of an expedition of traders It was necessary to Santa following morning. Fe in 1812 from St. Louis, for me to establish myself in the city, not specifically stated ttlrt in material and physical facts of lodg though it is went over the Santa Fe trail. they lng, and so forth, and delicacy intlmat The early Session acts of the Mised that I was an alien in the house New souri legislature, starting in 1824, conhold upon a strangely fictitious standtain many Interesting resolutions slid s ing. memorials to congress on all manner Breakfast-i- as tooa I went away in the early morning, of and historical political subjects. leaving word that I would return in a Incidentally the Missouri constitution duty rather than a joy. The Royal Educational I came of 1820 starts with the preamble that day or two to say good-byback the evening of the second day, the citizens of the state Department presents agree to form here some breakfast by automobile from the city. I had and establish a free and Independent been Impelled to go back and had so dishes that will stimurepublic by the name of the state of late the most critical far resisted the compulsion that I had Missouri. missed train time. Then the impulse appetite. one of the pivotal was Missouri reasserted Itself so irresistibly that I states in . Muffins the history of this country. 0 took an automobile for the 2 cups flour was made such in the ancient fight It ride. teaspoons Royal Baking In congress over the slavery question, Powder Jed met me at the door. His 1 tablespoon sugar which took up the admission of free was unforced. It was the din- and slave states and considered H salt teaspoon the 1 cup milk ner hour. Jed suggested either some balance thereof In 2 eggs Missoucongress. 1 tablespoon shortening biscuits and sherry in my room or an ri was also a pivotal state in yet anomelet with muslfe-ooms-. Mrs. Sidney, Sift together, flour, bakother and larger sense she was the ing powder, sugar and he said, had been Spartan, but was in jumping-of- f n salt; add milk, place for that wild and collapse. Miss Sidney was somewhere unknown country called the Wild West eggs and melted shortmix well. Grease ening; about he did not know where. the land west of the Missouri river. muffin tins and put two I did not want anything to eat and She made the midway point between tablespoons of batter Into each. Bake In hot oven went toward the library. Isobel was the frontiersmen of Kentucky and 20 to 25 minutes. sitting there by the fire. of a the great plains, occupying those Coffee Cake I had often seen her thus before. It generation of history herself as a 2 cups flour one I was of the familiar pictures frontier commonwealth. teaspoon salt 1 should remember. There were probatablespoons sugar 4 teaspoons Royal Baking bly a half dozen others none better Value of Snakes. Powder 2 tablespoons shortening than this. shrink-taa have Most decided people cup milk She looked up as I entered. r from snakes, which Is not to b Mix and sift dry ingrediI am glad you are back, John, she wondered at in tropical countries, ents; add melted shortensaid. . ing and enough mllK to where their bite Is venomous and often make very stiff batter. I could think only of a commonfatal. But the grass snake ought not thick In Spread place. greased pan; add top to be confounded with the rattlers, mixture. Bake about 30 did not Intend to disturb you, I cobras or pythons. It V- - as harmless minutes in moderate oven. said. How is your mother? to humanity as a frog arl a good deal Top Mixture I said more useful. No greater enemy to , Utterly and happily stupefied, 2 tablespoons flour Isobel. Her pain waits for her. nd slugs are ' 1 tablespoon cinnamon bugs is In existence . , , 2 tablespoons sugar And yourself? among the most hurtful of garden and 2 tablespoons shortening he field pests. They keep town the numI cant find a tragedy In it, Mix dry ingredients; rub said. I feel a sense of terrible but bers also, of such other pescs as mice, In shortening and spread loss. I had reconciled my- shrews and other sroaf rodents. But inevitable thickly over top of dough before baking. self to It I cant be a sentimental reb- as slug destroyers they deserve to be el against life. His life was happy to cherished rather than Massacred at the end. He would hate ns if we sight, which M their usual fate. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT The Mercenaries. , Brander Matthews, the famous 1c, discussed at a Columbia tea1 American shprt story. M The American short story Wo be better, he said, If the Anie short story writer were less nary. 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