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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH cartridges was exftnle. way. v Again she went forth and this time it seemed CHAPTER Continued. III 77 Good evening, Cranston, he said pleasantly. Cranston was also upon his feet the same Instant. His Instincts were entirely true. He knew if he. leaped for his rifle, Dan would be upon his back In an Instant, and he would have no chance to use it. The rifle was now out of the running, as they were at about equal distances from It. and neither would have time to swing or aim it. had been for, that for a moment Cranston could find Ho answer. His eyes moved to the rifle, then to his belt where hung his. hunting knife, Good that still lay on the pallet. evening, Failing, he replied, trying his hardest to fall into that strange spirit of nonchalance with which brave men have so often met their adversaries, end which Dan had now. I'm surprised to see you here. What do you want?" Dans voice when ne replied was no more warm than the snow banks that I want your reinforced the lean to. rifle also your snow shoes and your supplies of food. And I think Ill take Dan's sudden appearance so utterly unlooked your blankets, too. And I suppose you mean to fight for them? Cranston asked. His lips drew up in a smile, but there was no smile in the tone of his words. Youre right, Dan told him, and he stepped nearer. Not only for that, Cranston. Were face to face at last hands to hands. Ive got a knife in my pocket, but Im not even going to bring It out. Its hands to hands you and I until everythings square between us." Perhaps youve forgotten that day on the ridge? Cranston asked. Yon havent any woman to save you this time." I remember the day, and thats part of the debt. The thing you did yesterday is part of it, too. Its all to be settled at last. Cranston, and I dont believe I could spare you if you went to your knees before me. Youve got a clearing out by the fire big as a prize ring. Well go out there side by side. And hands to hands well settle all these debts we have between us with no rules of fighting and.no mercy In the end 1 They measured each other with their oyes. Once more Cranstons gaze stole to his rifle, but lunging out, Dan i ,. ri.,tt n,e 0 lt.r Dan was upon him before he ever reached It. lie sprang as a cougar splngs, incredibly fast and with shattering power. Both went down, and for a long time they writhed and struggled In each others arms. The pine boughs rustled strangely. The dark, gaunt hand reached In vain for the knife. Some resistless power seemed to be holding his wrist and was bending its bone as an Indian bends a bow. Pain lashed through him. And then this man. who had never known the meaning of mercy, opened his lips to scream that this terrible enemy be merciful to him. But the words wouldnt come. A ghastly weight had come at his throat, and hus tortured lungs sobbed for breath. Then, for a long time, there was a curious pounalng, lashing sound in the evergreen boughs. It seemed merciless and endless. But Dan got up at last, in a jtrange, heavy silence, and swiftly went to work. lie took the rifle and filled it with cartridges from Cranstons belt. Then he put the remaining two boxes of into his shirt pocket. The supplies of food the sack of nutritious jerked venison like dried bark, the little package of cheese, the boxes of hard tack and one of the small sacks of prepared flour he tied, with a single kettle, into his heavy blankets and flung them with the rifle upon his back. Finally he took the pair of snow shoes from the floor. He worked coldly, swiftly, all the time munching at a piece of jerked venison. When he had finished he walked to the door of the lean-to- . It seemed to Dan' that Cranston whispered faintly, from his unconsciousness, as he passed ; but the victor did not turn to look. The snow shoes crunched away Into the darkness. On the hill behind a half dozen wolves stragglers from the pack frisked and looped about in a curious way. A strange smell had reached them on the wind, and when the loud, fearful steps were out of hearing, It might pay them to creep down, one by one, and investigate its cause. .tJ It instant that her gray watcli-or- s had been waiting for. The wolf that stood nearest leaped a gray streak out of the shadow and every wolf in the pack shot forward with a yell. It was a short, expectant cry; but it chopped off short. For with a , l and seemingly without : process, she aimed her pistol and i'j was she simply tossed the ax th rough Hie air, sne could fell one of the gray crowd. But when she stooped to pick it up she didnt finish ,ie thought. Site turned to coax the fire. And then she leaned sobbing over the sled. Whats the use?" she cried. He wont come back. What's the use of fighting any more?" Theies always use of fighting," her father told her. He seemed to speak with difficulty, and his face looked strange and white. The cold and the exposure were having their effect on His weakened system, and unconsciousness was a near shadow iudeed. But, dearest if I could only make you do what I want you to " What? You're able to climb a tree, and If youd take these coats, you wouldnt as steel, the hard lines, the slim, pow- freeze by morning. If you'd only have erful hands. He could read It In the the strength And see you torn to pieces !" tones of the voice tones that he himIm old, dear and very tired and self could not imitate or pretend. The hour had come for the settliug of old Id crawl away into the shadows, where you couldnt see. Theret no use mincdebts. ing words. Snowbird. You're a brave Me tried to curse bis as a adversary aiwavs have been since a little girl weakling and a degenerate, but the obscene words he sought for would not tiling, as God is my Judge and you come to his lips. Here was bis fate, and because the darkness always fades before the light, and the courage of wickedness always Dreaks before the courage of righteousness, Cranston was afraid to look it in the face. The fear of defeat, of death, of heaven knows what Temorselessness with which this grave giant would administer justice was upon him, and his heart seemed to freeze in tils breast. Cravenly he leaped for his knife on the blankets below him. 0010 un mv she wont to urn or saplings. Inn sin siuiuWeil k...f won! in lior face at tho first Mow. lio half-sob- :en-ta- fired. A wolf Is one of the most difficult pistol targets that can be imagined. It bordered on the mirnem Ions that she did not miss him altogether. Her nerves were torn, their control over her muscles largely gone. Yet the bullet coursed down through the lungs, inflicting a mortal wound. The wolf had leaped for her throat; but he fell short. She staggered from a blow, and site heard a curious sound ln the region of her hip. But she didnt know that the fangs had gone home in her soft flesh. The wolf rolled on the ground ; and if her pistol had possessed the shocking power of a rifle, he would have never got up again. As it was, he shrieked once, then sped off In the darkness to die. Five cr six of the nearest wolves, catching the smell of his blood, bayed and sped after him. But the remainder of the great pack fully 15 of the gray, gaunt creatures came stealing across the snow toward her. White fangs had gone home; and a new madness was in the air. fast-leapin- g . Straining into the silence, a perfectly straight line between Cranstons camp and Snowbirds, Dan Falling came mushing across the snow. His sense of direction had never been obliged to stand such a test as this before. Snowbirds fire was a single dot on a vast plateau ; yet he had gone straight toward it. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Gogaretitie To seal in the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. Its Toasted Naming the Birds. Orville Wright said at a Dayton banquet : Flying becomes more popular every day among our wealthy young men. Certain newspaper humorists, in fact, are trying to invent a suitable name for the new fad. I have seen it called flyphoid fever, inflewenza, and aerosipelas, but my own suggestion would be skyatica. Shave. With Cuticura Soap And double your razor efficiency as welf as promote skin purity, skin comfort and skin health. No mug, no slimy soap, no germs, no waste, no irritation even when shaved twice daily. One soap for all uses shaving, bathing and shampooing. Adv. Blood Infusion. In cases where new blood is required to fill the depleted veins of a Come Again. human being, it is not practicable to Marybetli was looking over her birthuse for the purpose the vital fluid of a day presents, among which was a dog or any other animal, because it dress from pretty would act as a poison, destroying life her aunt. instead of saving it. Her mother said. Arent you going This is for the reason that the blood to give auntie a nice kiss for your of a lower animal is not chemically dress? the same as that of a man. The fact She Oh, yes, thank you, does not seem very surprising, but the auntie. replied, returns of the day. Many recent discovery that the various races of mankind differ in respect to the Important to Mothers of their blood is chemical make-u- p Examine carefully every bottle of undeniably curious. CASTOItIA, that famous old remedy Experience has proved that it will for infants and children, and see that it not do to introduce the blood of a neBears the Some Resistless Power Seemed to Be gro into the veins of a wihte man or of i Signature vice versa. And the same remark apHolding His Wrist In Use for Over 30 Years. plies to the Mongol, the Malay and Children Cry for Fletchers Castoria we must face the truth. Better the American Indian. In any such know one of us die than both. And I prom- cases a chemical reaction follows The Advantage. ise Ill never feel their fangs. And I which is injurious. said the professor, is Medicine, me wont take your pistol with either. the most noble of all professions. We Her thought flashed to the clasp Device Overcomes Sleeplessness. heal the sick, we pore weary hours No one need suffer from sleeplesshunting knife that he carried In his over laboratory problems for humanA But her and she device been has eyes lighted, ness any longer. pocket. bent and kissed him. And 'he wolves invented which, it is claimed, will ity, we Yeah, said the student, but uhat leaped forward even at this. send the worst case of insomnia to Well stay It out, she told him. the land of nod In a few minutes. I like about it is that we write all Well fight it to the last just as Dan The machine, which in appearance is our prescriptions In Latin and can get Richwould want us to do. Besides it rather complicated, consists of a numaway with such a lot of bunk. mond would only mean the same fate for ber of discs which, when the starting me. in a little while. , I couldnt cling handle Is moved, rotate in opposite up there forever and Dan wont come directions. All that the sufferer has back. to do is to keep his eyes on the discs as they turn, until after a short spell Now b tho Tim. to Get Rid of She was wholly unable to gain on of watching he gradually sinks Into These Uglr Spots. the fire. Only by dint of the most a sound sleep. There no longer the slightest need of toll was she able to sefeeling ashamed of your freckles, aa Othlne double strength guaranteed to remove cure any dry fuel for It at all. Every these homely spots. Hadnt Wasted Any Time. ounce an of Othlne double get Simply A young couple rushed Into a, marlength of wood she cut had to be trength from your druggist, and apply a half and the of time the tt of little bark, scraped night and morning and you riage license bureau recently and anshould soon see that even the worst freckles fire was only a sickly column of white nounced to the clerk that they wished have begun to disappear, while the lighter have vanished entirely. It ta seldom smoke. It became Increasingly diffi- to be married at once. Dan Cupids ones more than one ounce is needed to comthat cult to swing the ax. The trail was executive officer surveyed the couple pletely clear the aktn and gain a beautiful clear complexion. almost at its end. from under grizzled brows and said Be aure to ask for the double strength hours drew one severely: Im afraid this is a run The Othlne, as this Is sold under guarantee ef money back If It fails to remove freckles. Well, your honor, by one across the face of the wilder- away match. I ness, and she thought that the deep- returned the prospective groom, The gray circle about the fire was Ask Something Hard! cold presaged dawn. Her fin- cant exactly say we ran, but wa ening are these called silver growing impatient. Snowbird waited to gers were numb. Why walked pretty fast. the last instant before she admitted onions? this fact. But it is possible only- so Because they coine in sets and are' for table use. Farm Life. long to deny the truth of a thing that BURROWED BY PRAIRIE DOG prairie dog. Excavation of actual rg cent prairie-doburrows, after filling all the senses verify, and that moment them with thin piaster of parls, for her was past. WestIn Devil's Corkscrews" Found showed an Interesting fact: the burNo She noticed that when she went to Are Plains ern Mountains and rows of the prairie dog and the preher hands and knees, laboriously to Longer a Mystery. historic corkscrews were closely simIs backache keeping you miserable cut a piece of the drier wood from the Are you all played out, withou ilar. The Is considered mystery rotted snag that was her Of the many fossils which have solved. strength or vigor for your work? Thei find what ia causing the trouble am principal supply of fuel, every wolf come out of the mountains and plains correct it. Likely, its your kidneys would leap forward, only to draw back of the West, few have excited wider You have probably been working to Gulf Coast Sulphur Deposits. when she stood straight again. She Interest than the devils corkscrews." hard and neglecting rest and exercise some At time fire to there must worked desperately repiote keep the Your kidneys have glowed up and poi found, in rocks of the Miocene period, eons have accumulated. burning bright. She dared not neglect In northwestern Nebraska. They are have been tremendous volcanic activThat, then, i the cause of the backache, headaches It for a moment. Except for the single usually white, and stand out clearly ity in the region which is today the dizziness and bladder irregularities pistol ball that she could afford to ex- against the buff background of the gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas; Use Doans Kidney Pills. Doan', for ln those parts are found deposits pend on the wolves of the three she rock which incloses them, often attainhve helped thousands and should hell of sulphur vastly exceeding in quanhad the fire was her last defense. you. Ask your neighbor! ing a length of 15 feet, with many But It was a losing fight The twists and turns, ending at .times In tity any known elsewhere in the world. An Idaho Case are covered over by hundreds of wood smoked without flame, a Mrs. R. D. Barrj large bulb, with occasional side pas- They feet of later sedimentary material, and the comparatively dry core with which sages. 834 Third Ave., Pay ette, Idaho, saya Dan had started the fire had burned When first discovered it was thought to get at the sulphur deep wells have am had backaches Superheated water is down, end the green wood, hacked with that these gigantic "corkscrews were to be sunk. trouble with my kid neys. There wai such difficulty from the huge petrified vines of roots of some forced down the pipes to melt the sullameness and sore ness across my kid saplings that Dan had cut, needed the strange plant. Study of the cork- phur, which is fetched to the surfaco of compressed air. On neys and a dull most tireless attention to burn at all. screws, however, failed to reveal any b.v the power throbbing ache ln mj Her nervous vitality was flowing traces of plant structure. Later the cooling it Is ready for shipment, being back and loins. M kidneys acted irregu from her in a frightful stream. Too skeleton of an animal liko the badger 99 per cent pure. larly and I had long she had tolled without food In was found ln a large bulb near the of th Jud Tunkins. I was adbladder. the. constant presence of danger, and end of the corkscrew, and bones of to vised try Doani Where King Solomon showed most she was very near indeed to utter ex- a .small camel and small deer were Kidney Pills and i few boxes put me ln perfect health.' haustion. But at the same time she found in others. After that it was of his smartness, said Jud Tunkins, Cst Doaa's at Any Stem, 60e a Bsa was in bein ahie to be the richest knew she must not faint. That was discovered that many of them conin of the fact tiad a he that small one thing she could not do to fall man, tained bones of spite burrowing before the last of her three animal about the size outlie western so many wives. CO. BUFFALO. K. V, dark-hearte- d d ' Times-Dispatc- FRECKLES heprt-breakln- g 1 -- after-midnig- ht - g Why That Bad Back? rain-soake- rain-soake- Good JK4 Evening, Cranston. n"'ee feet farther Into ti tlle ,eanfDan saw tl ,ce drawn with passion, tl Erowf r e,nchS, the shoulder musci nt0 ,iard knots. And Cra stnn ,n?, looked and knew 'that merclle . fn?eance that age-o'- d sin listless treetl which he lived lnid 77." 11 darif0'8 - him at last. "an w- r'" ' ln t,le l,0!,tion of the sti efore tbe clear lei the moon light made brig 'I heart-breakin- d g doans F03TER-MILBUR- N |