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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH . Tkc COW PUNCHER By Robert J,C. Stead s Ctutfioro kitchener, end other poems nutations DAVE BECOMES tle of the fine, stern honor of the ranchman of the open range; an honor curious, sometimes terrible, in Its Interpretation of right und wrong, but a fine, stern lionpr nevertheless. And he Instinctively felt that to accept this money would compromise him for evermore. As he turned the bill In his fingers he noticed that It was for one hundred dollars.. He thought It was ten. "I cant take that much, he exclaimed. It isnt fair. Fair enough," said Conward, well pleased that Dave should be impressed Fair enough." he by his generosity. Its Just ten per cent of repeuted. WEALTHY. Synopsis. David Elden, son ot a drunken, shiftless ranchman; almost a maverick of the foothills, Is breaking bottles with hla pistol from his running cayuse when the first automobile he hus ever seen arrives and tips over, breaking the leg of Doctor Ilardy but not Injuring his beautiful daughter Irene. Have rescues the Injured man and brings a doctor from 40 miles away. Irene takes charge of the housekeeping. Dave and Irene take many rides together and during her father's enforced stay they get well acquainted. They part with a kiss and an Implied promise. Daves father dies and Dave goes to town to seek his fortune. A man nanjed Con ward teaches him his first lesson In city ways. Dave has a nar. row escape, Is disgusted and turns over a new' leaf. Kate brings him Into contact with Melvin Duncan, who sees the Inherent good In the boy and welcomes him to his home, where he meets Edith, his hosts' pretty daughter. Dave becomes a newspaper reporter and advances rapidly to a position of responsibility. my profit." You mean 181: CHAPTER 4 VI Continued. -1- 0- Durlng the following days Dave Imd a keener eye than usual for evidences of industrial development." He found them on every hand. Old properties, long considered unsalable, were changing owners. Money moved easily; tradesmen wgges were stiffening; were In demand. There was material for many good stories in his Investigations. Lie began writing features on the citys prosperity and prospects. The rival paper did the same find there was soon started between them a competition of optimism. Ths great word became boost. The virus was now in the veins of the community, pulsing through every street and byway of the little city. Dave marveled, and wondered how he had failed to read these signs until Conward had laid their portent bare before him. 'Hut as yet It was only his news sense that responded; his delight in the strange and the sensational. lie was not yet Inoculated with the poison of easy wealth. His nights were busy with his Investigations, but on Sunday, as usual, he went out to the Duncans. Mrs. Duncan explained that Edith had gone to visit a girl friend In the country; would be gone away for some time. Dave felt a foolish annoyance that she should have left town. She might at least have called him up. Why should she call him up? Of course not? Still, the town was very empty. He drove with Mrs. Duncan in the afternoon, and at night took a long walk by the river. He had p vague but oppressive sense of loneliness. He had not realized what part of his life these Sunda afternoons with Edith had come to be. A few days later Conward strolled In, with the inevitable cigarette.. He smoked lu silence until Dave completed a story. "Good stuff youre' giving us. he commented, when the article was fln- - you made a thousand dollars on that deal? "Exactly that. And that will look like a peanut to what we are going to make later on. We?" Yes. You and me. Were going Int6 partnership. But Ive nothing to Invest Ive only a very little saved up. "Invest that hundred. Dave looked at Conward sharply. Was he trifling? No, his eyes' were frank and serious. You mean It? Of course. Now, Ill put you onto something, and its the biggest thing that has been pulled off yet.. Theres a section of land lying right against the city limits that is owned by a fellow over in England ; remittance man who fell heir to an estate and hnd to go home to spend It. I am arranging through a London office to offer him ten dollars an acre, and Ill bet he jumps at it. Ive arranged for the necessary credits, but there will be some expenses for cables, etc., and you can put your hundred into that. If we puli it off and we will pull 1. off We start up in business as Conward & Elden, or Elden & Conward, whichever sounds better. Boy, theres a fortune in it. What do you figure its worth? said Dave, trying to speak easily. Twenty-fivdollars an acre? Twenty-fivan acre! dollars Conward shouted. Dove, newspaper routine has killed your imagination. Twenty-fivdollars an acre! Listen I The city boundaries a're to be extended probably will be by the time this deal goes through. Then it is city property. A system Is to be built, and well see that it rnns through our land. We may have to grease somebody, but its a poor engineer that saves on grease. Then well survey that section Into lots and well sell them ot two hundred dollars each for those nearest the city down to one hundred for those farthest out average one hundred and fifty total nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Allow, say, sixty thousand for grease and there is still nine hundred thousand, and that doesnt count resale commissions. Dave, Its good for a cool million. Dave was doing rapid thinking. Suddenly he faced Conward and their eyes met. he said, you dont Conward, need' my little hundred ,to put this over. Why do you let me In on it? Conward smiled and breathed easily. There had been a moment of tension. Oh, thats simple, he answered. I figure wall travel well iL double harness. Im a good mixer I know people and Ive got ideas. And youre sound and honorable and people trust e e e street-railwa- y twenty-flve-fo- ot you. said Dave, dryly, Conward continued. Well be a combination hard to beat. Dave had never felt sure of and now he felt less sure than ever. But the lust of easy money was beginning to stir within him. The bill in his hands represented more than three weeks wages. Conward was making money-ma- king money fast, and surely here was an opportunity such ns comes once in a lifetime. Ill go you, he said to Conward. at last. Til risk this hundred, and a little more, if necessary. Good,- said Gonwa'rd, springing to his feet and taking Daves hand in a warm grasp. Now were away. But you better play safe. Stick to your paycheck here until we pull the deal through. There wont be much to do until then, anyway, and you can help more by guiding the paper along right 1 lines. "It sounds like a fairy tale, Dave demurred, as though unwilling to credit the possibilities Conward had outlined. Youre sure it can be done?" Done? Why, son. It has been done In all the big centers in the States, and at many a place thatll never be a center at all. And It will be done here. Dave, bigger things that you dare dream of are looming up right ahead. "Thanks, Thats right, Con-war- d, I Cant Take That Much, He It Isnt Fair. claimed. Ex- ished. Remember what I told you the other day? Its just like putting a match to tinder. Now were off. Conward smoked a few minutes In silence, but Dave could not fall to see the excitement under his calm exterior, lie hod, os he said, decided to "sit" in In the biggest gnme ever played. The intoxication of sudden wealth had' already fired his blood. He slipped a bill to Dave. For your services in that little transaction," he explained. Elden held the bill In His fingers gingerly, as though It might carry infection, ns in very truth It did. He realized that he stood at a turning-poin- t that everything the future held fur him might rest on bJs present decision. There remained it him no a lit . , i Bert.' Dave said, mvtdealy. dont you get married? David Elden smoked his after-dinne- r cigar in Ills bacjielor quarters. The of firm the to had been years good Conward & Elden; good far beyond the wildness of their first dreums. The transaction of the section bought from the English absentee had been but the beginning of bigger and more daring "why . "Who, me?" ' Then she kiUghed, It would he mean to put tvar anything like that on e man, uud a girl wouldn't first Conward, adventures. wild prophecy of his, had spoken of a city of a quarter of a million people; already more lots had been sold than could be occupied by four times that population. Pave had often asked himself where it all would end. The firm of Conward & Elden bad profited not the least in the wild years of .Their mahogany-finishe- d quarters were the last word in office luxuriance. Conwards private room might with credit have housed a premier or a president. Its purpose was to be impressive rather than to give any other service, as Conward spent little of his time there. On Dave fell , the responsibility of office management, and his room was fitted foi efficiency rather than luxury. It j commanded a view of the long general office where a battery of stenographers and clerks took care of the details of the business of Conward & Elden. And In ky Inrlft Myers ' CHAPTER vii. that gain-gettin- first-flo- 'Well, then, why .dont you buy some real estate?" he continued, Jocularly. Every man should have some dissipation something to make him forget his other troubles. A little late in the meal for that word, Isnt It? But the fact Is, I have invested." A look came Into his face which she did not understand. With whom? he demanded, almost peremptorily. With Conward & Elden," she answered, and the roguishness of her voice suggested that her despised femininity 'lay not far from the surface. Were you about to be jealous? Why didnt you come to me? She realized that he wqs In deep earnest. I did, she answered canAt didly. least, I asked for you, but you were out of town, so Conward took me In hand and I followed his advice. Do trust Conward? he dealmost manded, fiercely. Well, hes good enough to be your partner. Isnt he? The thrust hurt more than she knew. He had his poise again. you we pick up Irene Hardy again. CTO KEEP BE CONTINUED.) KNOCKED-OU- T TEETH Dentist Can Replace Then In Mouth So That They Will Soon Give Good Service. Dave had established his ability as an office manager. His fairness, his fearlessness, his Impartiality, his courtesy, his even temper save on rare and excusable occasions had won from the staff a loyalty which Conward, with all his abilities as a goon mixer, coaid never have commanded. He had prospered, of course. His statement to his banker ran into seven figures. Dave, was still a young man, not yet In his thirties; he was rated a millionaire; ho had health, comeliness, and personality; he commanded the respect of a wide circle of business men, and was regarded as one of the matrimonial prizes of the city; his name had been discussed for public offiee ; he was a success. And yet this night, as he sat In his comfortable rooms and watched the street lights come fluttering on as twilight silhouetted the great hills to the west, he was not so sure of his success. He was called a success, yet in the honesty of his own soul he feared the coin did not ring true. He felt that the crude but honest conception of the square deal which was the one valuable heritage of his childhod was slipping away from him. He had little in common with Conward outside of their business relationship. He suspected the man vaguely, but had never found tangible ground for his suspicion. He was turning the matter over In his mind and wondering what the end would be, when a knock came at the door. Come, he said, switching on the light. . . . Oh, it's you, Bert! Im honored. Sit down; Roberta Morrison threw her coat over a chair and sank into another. Without speaking,, she extended her shapely feet to the fire,, but when its soothing warmth had comforted her limbs she looked up and said:. Adam sure put it over on us, didnt he? Still nursing that grievance over your sex? laughed Dave; I thought you wbuld outgrow It. I dont blame him, continued the I am girl, ignoring his interruption. just getting back from teas.' Gabble, gabble, gabble. I dont blame him. We deserve It. Then you have had nothing to , forty-seve- n eat? Almost. " Only insignificant Indl-gestlbl- es Dave pressed n button, and a Chinese boy (all male Chinese are boys) entered. Bring something to eat. Go out for It. and be quick. For two. "Youve had your dinner, surely? asked Bert Such a dinner as a man eats alone, he answered. , Now for something real. You stick to the paper like the Ink, dont you, Bert?" Cant leave it I hate It and I love it Its my poison and my medicine. Most of all I hate the society twaddle. And, of course, thats what I have to do. FROM PAIR have me., Now It Would Be Mean to Put Over Anything Like That on a Man, and a Girl Wouldn't Have Me. HOW FREE When ones front teeth are knocked out there is no need to leave them on the floor, for they can be reinserted very well by a good dentist. Dr. H. M. 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