Show J to GAT ND AT BY Meredith (First State BANK Salina :of Nicholson ILL UoSTPA TOicS 3Y PAY WALTLR6 907 BV B0BMOfU CA CQYRKHT A J Lewis Alma Y President Huieh Cashleri 8YNOPSI8 MIm Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen Holbrook her niece were entrusted lr the car of Laurence Donovan a writer Miss summering near Port Annandale Patricia confided to Donovan that sin feared her brother Henry who ruined by a bank failure had constantly threatenei her for money from hla father's will ol which Miss Patricia was guardian They came to Port Annandale to escape Henry the two with Donovan sympathized women He learned of Miss Helen’s anDonovan discovered and noying suitor captured an intruder who proved to be Reginald Gillespie suitor for the hand ot Miss Helen Holbrook Gillespie disap A rough peered the following morning sailor appeared and was ordered away CHAPTER IV— Continued The place was clearly the Bummer home of a city man In search of quiet and I was turning away when sud denly a woman’s voice rang out clear ly from the bank "Hallo the houseboat!" "Yes I'm here!” answered the man below "Come on father I’ve been looking for you everywhere” called the voice again It’s too bad you've been waiting” he answered f “Of course I’ve been waiting!” she flung back and he Jumped up and ran Then down the steps toward her She flashed Helen Holbrook In white paused at the gate an Instant before ' her descent to the creek continuing bending her head as she sought the remaining steps "Daddy you dear old fraud thought you were coming to meet me on the ridge!” I turned and groped my way along the darkening path My heart was thumping wildly and my forehead was wet with perspiration Ijima stood on the bank lighting his lantern and I flung myself into the launch and bade him run for home ! We were soon crossing the lake and gazed lay back on the cushions Had Ordered from It Flashed Over Me That He Was the Dark Sailor Before up at the bright roof of stars Glenarm I reached Glenarm the shock of finding Helen Holbrook in friendly comthat hear his quick breathing he had chosen a secluded and picturcould munication with her father had and something in bis dimly outlined for it and I sat down to dinner at esque spot passed Then As I leaned against the rail study- crouching figure was familiar nine 9’clock with a sound appetite ing the lines of the house I heard sud- it flashed over me that he was the denly the creak of an oarlock In the dark sailor I had ordered from GlenCHAPTER V t stream behind and then low voices arm that afternoon talking I drew back against the He was now within arm's length of A Fight on a Houseboat me and I jumped out swung the chair house and waited Possibly the At ten o’clock I called for a horse had been abroad or more high and brought it down with a crasTi and rode out into the night 'turning The force of the blow Holbrook had gone forth on his bead with the intention likely Henry into the country some mlchief and my mind flew carried me forward and jerked the of following the lake road to the re- upon chair out of my grasp and down we once to the two jyomen at St Agaat gion I had explored in the launch a tha’s one of whom at least was still went with a thump I felt the All was dark at few hours before The boat ap- Italian’s under my protection body slip and twist lithely No doubt St Agatha's as I passed and I heard now under me as I tried to clasp his arms furtively Helen Holbrook had returned in due proached words distinctly spoken in He struggled fiercely to free himself course from her visit to her father very and I felt the point of a knife prick to her Italian: and after accounting plausibly climb up with the my left wrist sharply as I sought to “Have a care aunt for her absence was sleeping the hold hi3 right arm to the deck His rope and I’ll follow” sleep of the Just Now that I thought Then the boat touched the platform muscles were like iron and I had no of the matter in all its bearings I acman wish to let him clasp me in his short second later a a and lightly for not having gone cused myself thick arms nor did the idea of being comBide climbed the His up nimbly directly to St Agatha’s from the loneand they tied their struck with a knlfo cheer me greatly panion followed creek and boat ly house on Tippecanoe to the railing They paused now in that first moment of the fight waited for her there demanding an to reconnoiter —so close to me that I My main business was to keep free was She of her perfidy explanation have touched them with my of the knife He was slowly lifting that could treating Miss Pat infamously in a colloquy me on his knees while I gripped his hands — and engaged and yet in my heart I was was plain arm with both hands man The other man The the taller directions gave her A famexcusing and defending to had dropped into the boat and was other replying in monosyllables ily row about money was ugly at show that he understood us across the rail watching an and unfortunate — even best "Make haste Giuseppe!” he called ‘Go to the side porch of the cottage criminal — father may still have some and I laughed a little When the man comes to Impatiently and knock claim on his child the door tell him that you are the either at his confidence in the outThen as against such reasoning chauffeur from an automobile that has come or at his care for his own sethe vision of Miss Pat rose before me broken down in the road and that curity and my courage rose to find —and I felt whatever chivalry there I for a woman who has that I had only one to reckon with of you want help with a rattle is in me arouse been hurt” suddenly slipped my left hand down to spears Paul Stoddard in committing where my right gripped his wrist and "Yes sir” that dear old gentlewoman to my care — you know the rest” rewrenched it sharply “Then His fingers had not asked me to fall in love with laxed and when I repeated the twist “The knife — it shall be done” her niece so impatient to be thus I have made it the rule of my life the knife rattled on the deck two inclinations I between swayed I broke away and leaped for the much painful experience and against horse to the and galloped the admonitions of chirruped many philosophers rail with some idea of jumping into swiftly over the silent white road the creek and swimming for it and to act first and reason afterwards The whole region was very lonely then in the man two was case one the a of boat let And here it to go twice and now that the beat of hoofs no lonthe echoing exploThe men stealing across the with a revolver ger rang in my ears the quiet was op- deck towardbegan the steps that led up to sions roaring over the still creek with I wood struck the pressive through and with rather more the sound of saluting and found the creek and the path be- the cottage "Hold on to that man — hold him!” zeal than judgment I took a step after side it The little stream was still I heard the them and clumsily kicked over a he shouted from below its own name musically murmuring Both Italian scraping about on the deck for chair that fell clattering wildly with perhaps a softer note in defermen leaped toward the rail at the his knife as I dodged round the house ence to the night and following the sound and I flattened myself against I was satisfied to let things stand as path carefully I came in a few minThe they were and leave Henry Holbrook house to await developments utes to the steps that linked the cot- the and the to defend their silence was again complete tage with the houseboat at the creek's Then when blew over" remarked one own lives and property It was Just there that I had of "A chair edge I was about midway of the steps a the voices seen Helen Holbrook and I stood man plunged down from the garden Is no wind” replied the oth“There quite still recalling this and making er the one I recognized as belonging and had me by the collar and on my sure that she had come down those back before I knew what had hapto the leader corsteps in that quiet ‘See what you can find— and have pened ner of the world) to keep tryst with There was an instant's silence in a care!” her father The The speaker went to the rail and which I heard angry voices from the was covered with vines and houseboat with My new assailant lisThe the fumbling rope began in shrubbery A semiwas slipping quite tened too and I felt his grasp on me circle of taller pines within shut the other I realized along the smooth planking tighten though I was well winded and cottage off completely from the high- noiselessly tame silenough I crawled through the cedars toward me his bent body faintly way I heard the boat strike the platform 1 knew in the moonlight houetted and walked along slowly to the gate as the second man jumped near which a post supported a sign- that I could hardly be distinguishable sharply fhto it then for an instant silence of I line house the from the and long I struck a match and read: board had the additional advantage of know- again held the valley the My captor seemed to dismiss ing their strength while I was still an RED GATE unknown quantity to them The men retreating boat and poking a pistol R HARTUIDGE into my ribs gave me his attention would assume that I was either “Climb up these steps and do as Tippecanoe Indiana the boatmaker or Henry HolIf you run I will shoot brook one of whom they had come I tell you This then was the home of the to kill and there is as every one you like a dog” a mistake — ” "There’s I I knows little honor in being the victim mentioned began by Ijima for the Italian had almost I heard i the chokingly found his name repeated on the rural of mistaken identity me and my lungs were as man’s hand scratching along the wall strangled delivery mail box affixed to the signwas advanced as bellows a as a was Holbrook he there spent empty cautiously probably post Hemy “That will do Climb!” He stuck boarder at the house — It required no no doubt but that he would discover to fathom me in another moment so I resolved the revolver into my back and up I great deductive powers that I stole back through the hedge to take the Initiative and give battle went and through the garden toward A door touched the back of the cottage Several and down to the houseboat My opening on the one of the folded camp chairs that veranda was slightly ajar and I was with tarcovered canoes carefully paulins la about the derlc and chairs rested against the house and I slow- thrust forward none too gently into a I lo’v saw room the leader still lighted were drawn up close to the long ly clasped it each other If this standing by the rail the rope in bis My captor and I studied house in shij shape fashion His accomplice was so close attentively foe half a minute He was houseboat was the shop hand ’m k ii I ' 1 f T 7 U beyond question the man whom Helen Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United had sought at the houseHolbrook States and Kurope Banking in all its various forms boat in the summer dusk Who was did not matter it was eviAccounts Respectfully Solicited dent that Holbrook was quite at home in the house and that Four per cent interest paid on time deposit be bad no intention of calling any one else into our affairs He had undoubtedly heard the revolver shots below and rushed from the cottage to inves tlgate and meeting me in full flight he had naturally taken it for granted that I was involved in some designs on himself As he loaned against a table by the door his grave blue eyes me with mingled indignascrutinized tion and Interest I seemed to puzzle him and his gaze HIDES PELTS WANTED swept me from head to foot several Then his eyes GEO WLONO PROP times before he spoke flashed angrily and he took a step toward me “Who in the devil are you and what do you want?" and I don’t “My name is Donovan want anything except to get home” “Where do you come from at this hour of the night?” "I am spending the summer at Mr Glenarm’s place near Annandale” “That’s rather unlikely Mr Glenarm is abroad What were you doing down there on the creek?” “I wasn't doing anything until two men came along to kill you and I mixed up with them and got badly mussed for my trouble" He eyed me with a new interest "They came to kill me did they? You tell a good story Mr Donovan” I was “Quite so standing on the deck of the houseboat or whatever it aid MEATS GROCERIES Everything for the table for all occasions Fresh and Fine The White Front Market 0 mmm ii' “Where to you had no business be—" I had no business "Granted to be there but I was there and came near getting killed for my impertinence as I have told you Those fellows rowed up from the direction of the lake One of them told the other to call you to your door on the pretense of summoning aid for a broken motor car off there in the road Then he was to stab you- The assassin was an Italian His employer spoke to him in acI happen to be that tongue quainted with it” “You are a very accomplished person" he observed dryly He walked up to me and felt my SCENIC LINEOFTHEW0RLD THREE SOyD VESTIBULED ‘ SALT LAKE CITY and DENVER PASSING THROUGH CANYON of the GRANDE EAGLE RIVER CANYON RUBY CANYON GLENWOOD SPRINGS THE FAMOUS CANYON of the GUNNISON GARDEN of the GODS MANITOU SPRINGS THE ROYAL GORGE FERTILE FRUIT AND THE AND AGRICULTURAL COLORADO AND UTAH pockets fired that pistol?” “The man in charge of the expedition The Italian was trying to knife me on the deck and I broke away from him and ran His employer had gone back to the boat for safety and he took a crack at me as I ran across It’s not the fault ot the platform either that I’m not quite out of business” An inner door back of me creaked slightly My captor swung round at the Bound It’s all right A gen"O Rosalind! tleman here lost his way and I’m giving him his bearings” The door closed gently and I heard the sound of steps retreating through the cottage I noted the anxious look in Holbrook’s face as he waited for the sounds to cease then he addressed me again “Mr Donovan this is a quiet neighman and I am a peaceable borhood whose wordly goods could tempt no one There were undoubtedly others besides yourself down there at the have creek for one man couldn't made all that row but as you axe the one I caught I must deal with you But you have protested too much the idea of Italian bandits on Tippecanoe creek is creditable to your imagination but it doesn’t appeal to my com- TRAINS EACH WAY DAILY BETWEEN DISTRICTS OF “Who know about your being a guest at Glenarm house-e- ven that is flimsy A guest in the absence of the host is just a little too to I’m strongly fanciful disposed take you to the calaboose at Tippemon sense I don't canoe been in jail several times in different parts of the world I was not anxious to add to my experiences in I hal come Moreover that direction to this lonely house on the Tippecanoe to gain information touching the and I of Henry Holbrook movements did not relish the idea of being thrown into a country jail by him I resolved to meet the situation boldly “You seem to accept my word reluctantly even after I have saved you from being struck down at your own door Now I will be frank with you here—” I had a purpose in coming He stepped back and folded bis arms so” He looked I thought "Yes before his eyes met about uneasily mine His hands beat nervously on his sleeves as he waited and I resolved to bring matters to an Issue by speaking his name HolMr “I know who you are PULLMAN FROM SALT F A AND TOURIST SLEEPERS LAKE TO DENVER CHICAGO AND ST WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS LOUIS FOB FOLDERS BOOKLETS ETC ADDRESS WADLEIGH GP& TA I A BENTON GAPD Denver Colorado Salt Lake City Utah Johnson- - Ameson LUMBER CO - - Everything In Lumber - -- We sell Jumbo Plaster and Portland Cement Doors Windows Phone 16black Mouldings Mo It Go After Grantod Don’t For that just because you are in business everybody is aware of the fadt Your goods may be the finest in the market but they will remain on your shelves unless the people are told about them Business a business way — the advertising way An ad in this paper offers the maximum service at the In minimum cost It reaches the people of the town and vicinity you want to reach ADVERTISE you want to move your Reach the merchandise buyers In their homes through the columns of THIS PAPER and on every dollar expended you’ll reap a handsome if Try It-I- t Pays dividend Horner Rasmussens Call THE CAFFETERRA For Choice Confectioneries Fresh Fruits Ice Cream Tobacco Cigars Stationery Restaurant Old Post Office All Bakery Bldg Hours brook” His hands again and went into hts pockets he stepped back and laughed bad guesser “You are a remarkably If you had visited me Mr Donovan by daylight Instead of coming like a thief at midnight you would have much trouble saved yourself My name is displayed over the outer gate I am Robert Hartridge the (TO !"- - ' BE CONTINUED ) A Leather Goods Harness Shop and Shoe Store Tents and Wagon Covers and a Harness Saddles Ilorpo RIankets We want your trade full line of Men’s and Boys’ Dress Bnd Work Shoes Our goods are the best and our price the lowest Drop in and look over fj our line and he convinced |