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Show 1 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH AWaSY 4Vtf rairraYif I'SNtt'irrO't The Red Lock By DAVID ANDERSON Tie Bobbe-Merrf- JW Economical IimiM(tNte qA Tale of the Flatwoods Author of The Blue Msoa" Copyright by ' MILLIONS WASTED IN HEAT Quality Cars at Quantity Prices Chevrolet now leads all highgrade cars in number sold. Our new low prices have been made possible through doubling our productive capacity. We are now operating twelve mammoth manuthe facturing and assembly plants throughoutwork-men United States in which thousands of skilled are turning out 2500 Chevrolets per day. Survey Indicates $2,000,000 Per Day Co. Could Be Saved by Efficient Methods. "MISTOOK" On the bank! of SYNOPSIS. the Wabash stand Texts Colin and Jack Warhope, young and very much in love. Texle is the only daughter of old Pap Simon, rich man and money-lende- r. Jack is the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate. At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the girls missing brother. Then Jack says that In ten days his servitude will be over, that he will ride out into the big world to seek his fortune. Both knpw what that will mean to them. Texle and Jack talk of the red lock of Red Colin," inherited by Ken. And Jack says hes coming back as soon as he finds gold In California. Then arrives the new preacher. Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon introduces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate of Ken. At supper at the Colin home the preacher tells how the boy killed a gambler and disapHis father attributes peared. Kens fall from grace to his red lock of hair. Then Pap Simon has a sort of stroke, brought on by reading a letter from Ken. somewhere in New York, who curses his father on his death bed. A postscript by another hand says he is dead. At the village store and post office Loge Belden, a newcomer says he saw the new parson with his arm around Texle. Jack licks him, shoots a pistol from his hand and makes him say he was mistaken. CHAPTER IV Continued. "Tea, thems mighty fine sentiments, cut the thin edged voice of the postmaster across the silence and the dream dissolved In the fishermans an I mostly agrees with em an eye says amen to em, an the new parson may be all es cracked np to be, but still I aint takln back nothin. Zekes thin voice ceased, lost somewhere In the cavernous labyrinth of his sharp, Inquisitive nose. Uncle Nick prodded down the contents of his pipe with his finger and smoked a while In silence. Taking the stem from between his lips after a time, he blew the smoke away, slowly, as If to get the full taste of it, and waved the pipe across toward the postmaster a well understood preliminary to a renewal of the argument. t the moment Loge Belden took a gulp from his bottle of squirrel, put the corlr'ln, slapped It tight and slouched up along the counter. Say, Td just like t put one t that. This evenin as I come up the River road past this hyur Warhope homestead an Slme Colins house, I stopped a little bit on the bridge acrost Eagle run an happened t look over in the orchld btwlxt oP Simss an the parsonage. Tu know Biers a spring along the crick thar under the edge o the hill, an thers a bench t set on under the maple tree by the spring. thar set this Well, as I eome hyur new parson an that Texle gal on that bench, an as near as I could make out, bein purty well along towrds dark, he had Is arm around er. Tou fellers r wastin a lot o breath on that gal. I low the parson The room suddenly was deadly still, with every eye turned toward the door.' Belden felt the stillness; hesitated; turned In the open door, framed in sharp outline against the dark background of the nightfall, stood the tall form of Jack Warhope. Belden grinned oddly; muttered a word or two ; leaned against the counter and looked down at the floor. With the reach and spring that only the woods and hills can give, Warhope walked into the room. ' I low yu must a been mistook about that arm. Not a d n bit. Like lightning came the sharp smack of an open hand that fanned Beldens head back. He leaped away fyom the counter and struck a good slashing swing, clean from the hip; bit It didnt land. It was apparent that Belden had a high opinion of his ability as a rough and tumble fighter, for he stepped right In and mixed It fast and furious the whirlwind give and take of the mountains. The man he faced ducked or sidestepped or dashed aside everything Belden had, and came back with an occasional jab that was maddening. Belden lost his temper th mistake of many a better man and lunged viciously. He ran Into an uppercut to the chin that doubled him back over a barrel of salt. He whirled up, and his right hand clawed the butt of a pistol out of his pocket. The pistol came out, but that was n alL A heavy leaped from the woodsmans side, a bullet crashed into the pistol butt, gashed Beldens hand lightly and tore on into the salt barrel. n The woodsman stuck the back Into the holster at his hip, hidden by his hunting blouse, snatched Bolden by the collar and jerked him at Into the middle of the door. I low m must a ben mistook bout that arm. ) Bsldna small btady eyes burned six-gu- six-gu- like hot copper as be wrung his hand. He cursed the pain; swallowed hard; finally muttered. The light werdnt none too dem good. I low I must a. The woodsman dropped the others collar, talked a moment or so with Uncle Nick and Counterman about the seining trip next day the matter that had brought him Into the store and passed out at the door. The crowd gathered around Belden. Uncle Nick picked up the broken pistol and stuck It back, muttering as he examined the gashed hand. Tu ort a had more sense than t pull on him. He aint no ways spry on talk, but he can pick hlckry nuts with a six-gu- CHAPTER V Arrows of the River Gods. The Rev. Caleb Hopkins was at the boat landing In good time next morning. The others were already there, sitting In the long skiff, Uncle Nick In the stern, Jack Warhope and A1 Counterman at the oars, the latter still holding the boat to the wharf. In his nervous and mincing way the preacher scrambled In ; Counterman shoved off; the oars dropped Into the water; and, with the seine colled up on the stern locker under the experienced care of Uncle Nick, the live box towing behind, the skiff slipped away up the river toward Alpine Island. Alpine Island divides the Wabash Into two nearly equal channels. The skiff was guided into the north channel, and had glanced along nearly to the head of the Island when Counterman rested his oars with the remark that just there would be a good place to make the first haul. The skiff was accordingly turned In to the Island, and the prow drawn up on the sandy margin. Each man. Uncle Nick excepted, hurriedly undressed, stacked his clothes In the boat and drew on his rough fishing garments. In strict justice to the truth It must be stated that only Counterman and the woodsman hurriedly undressed. The preacher was far slower and quite noticeably embarrassed over the unusual experience. The ragged boots too large, the shabby trousers too tight, the faded straw hat ridiculously unbecoming, It was the queerest wading rig ever seen along the Wabash. The others ' eyed It askance and winked around at one another. Even The good fish were dropped Into the live box, the others thrown back Into the river precisely as war claims the best men and leaves the defective and the fisherman seined on. Several hauls had been made; none of them quite so profitable as the first, and the sun was fast mounting toward mid-skwhen, as a wind-up- , they prepared to drag the famous Alpine hole that lay along the south edge of the narrow sandbar Jutting far downstream from the lower end of the Island. - ' This hyurs a hard hole t fish, observed Counterman, handing the near brail to the preacher and taking bis place at the oars with Jack, but theyre thar, If we can git em. Banks purty steep, called Uncle Nick from his place In the stern. Better not try t wade out none. The preacher nodded and the othei stooped to his task at the seine. But when the usual circuit was completed and they began to haul In on the seine, It was noticed that It did not bow out In the wide curve a spread seine should.' Instead, as the men pulled, the sides drew In toward each other until the floating corks stretched out Into the river in nearly parallel y lines. Hung up, by thunder, growled Counterman, scraping the sweat from his grimy forehead with a grimier forefinger. Snag r somethin about forty yards out thar right whar the bottoms out, too, as the feller says. Jack walked up the bank a short distance to where the boat was beached. Stripped to the skin, a figure that might have been a model for' those master sculptors who conferred Immortality upon the gods of classic Greece, he was just slipping Into the water when Uncle Nick came up the bar. Youll find the lead line fast on somethin a snag moren likely, he directed. Jist hIst it off. Talnt no trick but weve lost our fish. Warhope glanced back over his shoulder and nodded. The next 'moment he was plowing through the stream with strokes so powerful It seemed his great shoulders fairly scorned the water and spumed It out of the way. But the task ahead proved harder than the light remark of his old friend had Indicated. It was only after he had three times dived to the bottom of Alpine hole that he was able to locate the snag and release the seine. When he swam ashore, following the seine as Uncle Nick and Counterman hauled It in, the preacher, who had come up the bar, was seated on the forward gunwale of the boat, feeling over his clothes stacked In the bow, as If eager to assure himself that they had not come to harm. The woodsman was putting his wading clothes on again when a slight thud, as of some heavy object striking the bottom of the boat, caught his quick ear. Without turning his head he happened to be just then squeezing the water out of his hair before putting his shirt on he was able to catch n a glimpse of the Ivory butt of a protruding from a pocket of the bl'fe frock coat as It was being tucked back In the pile with the tall hat and shiny boots. Nor was that all with a deftness that would hardly have been expected In one of his profession, the slim fingers were feeling over the other two stacks of clothes as If making sure n he had just tucked that the away was the only one In the crowd. SU11, probably such an Intention was and farthest from his thought. all, It was likely merely another of the many eccentricities of a man who had the double drawback of being a professor as well as a tenderfoot In the eyes of the woodsman, a combination about as bad as could be made. Uncle Nick and Counterman had just finished hauling In the seine when Jack Warhope, followed by the preacher, came down the bar and rejoined them. But the old mans prediction about losing the fish proved correct. The haul produced not a thing except a very surprised, highly indignant snapping turtle. Counterman kicked the turtle back Into the water and six-gu- six-gu- Six-gu- Even the Preacher Himself Mutt Have Caught Something of the Humor of the Odd Make-u- the preacher himself must have caught something of the. humor of the odd make-up- , for his studiously circumspect face relaxed Into a suggestion of a grin. After a mild bit of urging, a prodigious deal of coaching, he was left near shore to hold the brail stick while Jack and Counterman rowed out around as great an expanse of water as the length of the seine permitted. On nearing' the shore at the completion of the circuit, the two rowers leaped Into the water the moment It was shallow enough, leaving the boat to Uncle Nick, and raced for the bank at top speed, holding the brail stick to the bottom as they ran. With the frantic river tribes thus forced to shore, the water began to be Long ripples shot wildly agitated. from side to side of the rapidly diminishing space Inclosed by the net, as n some swimmer plowed his reckless way near the surface. Even the preachers tired and studious eyes waked with the excitement, and he tugged eagerly at the brail as the bass and pickerel began to leap, glittering In the morning ssn like silver arrows shot up by the river gods Thar, boys, haul er easy, directed We got em. Counterman. They caynt git away now. Man! halnt ther a wad uv em I I knowd this wus a good bole. -- panic-stricke- n -- stared ruefully at the empty seine. Them fish has t be made up he an thars Jlst glanced up the river one shore place t do It Mud haul," Uncle Nick finished. Egzacly. Hits slch a nasty place t fish that It aint hardly ever fished, but theyre thar. The -- preacher had turned a quick look up the river ; an expression of polite displeasure clouded his face an expression which the others, busy with the seine, failed to notice. As a matter of fact, his part In the mornings sport had been next to negligible. After the mild and momentary excitement over the first haul, his Interest had obviously waned. The average use of fuel In the home Is grossly inefficient. If correct methods were generally understood and applied throughout the country, the same heating service could be obtained with one-hathe fuel and there would result a saving of $2,000,-00- 0 a day. These are conclusions reached as a result of research by the United States bureau of mines, in cooperation with other agencies and with other data assembled by Samuel S. Wyer, associate in mineral technology, of Smithsonian institution, In an educational program of resource lf conservation. 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