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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH Sure I i ! i t Vk fSa ? ff tla Pack 4 4 4 4 4 4 big-ga- 6 4 4 4 .' --- CRANSTON - "O " from the beasts in regard to keeping the laws of the hills. The moon looked down to find him waiting on a certain trail that wound down to the settlements. his rifle loaded and ready for another kind of game than deer or wolf. He was waiting for Landy and the greeting he had for hint was to destroy ail chances of the prosecuting attorney in the valley below learning certain names that he particularly wanted to know. There was no breath of wind. The great pines, tall and dark past belief, stood absolutely motionless, like strange pillars of ebony. Bert Cranston knelt m a brush covert, his rifle loaded and ready in his lean, dark hands. No wolf that ran the ridges, no cougar that waited on the deer trails knew a wilder passion, a more terrible blood-lus- t than he. It showed in his eyes, narrow and never resting from their watch of the trail : it was In his posture; and it revealed itself unmistakably in the curl of his lips. Something like hot steam was in his brain, blurring his sight and heating his SEES RED. Synopsis. Warned by hts physician that he has not more than six . months to live, Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The onlv other members of the housenold are Lennox's son. Bill,' and daughter, Snowbird." Their abode is in the Umpqua divide, and there Failing plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. From the first Failings health shows a marked improvement, and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits Into the woods life as if he had been born to it, Bv quick thinking and a remarkable display of nerve" he saves Lennoxs life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he Is a reincarnation of his grandfather. Ban Failing I, whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. Dan learns that an organized band of outlaws, of wl lch Bert Cranston is the leader, is setting forest fires. Landry Hildreth, a former member of the gang, has been induced to turn states evidence. .,: CHAPTER - - ... I Continued. nil-dret- h; blood. C "Hes got n cabin over toward the marshes, and it has come to me that hes going to start tomorrow, or maybe has already started today, down into the valley to give his evidence. Of course, that is deeply confidential between you and tue. If the gang knew about it, hed never get through the thickets alive. But Dan was hardly listening. His attention was caught by the hushed, Intermittent sounds that are always to be heard, if one listens keenly enough. I wish In the wilderness at night. the pack would sound again, he said. I suppose it was hunting. Of course. And there is no living thing in these woods that can stand against a wolf pack in its full strength." Except man, of course. A strong man, with an accurate rifle, of course, and except possibly In the starving times in winter hed never have to fight them. All the beasts of prey ore out tonight. You see, Dan, when the moon shines, the deer feed at night .instead of in the of twilights and the dawn. And course the wolves and the cougars hunt the deer. It may be that they are running cattle, or even sheep. But Dans imagination was afire, ne wasnt content yet. They couldnt be hunting man? he asked. rso. If It was midwinter and the have tp lispack was starving, wed to me as looked ten better. It always a law had creatures wild the if humans as against killing men, just have.' Theyve learned it doesnt pay something the wolves and bears of found o;ft. Europe and Asia havent reason Is the that say naturalists The the European rather simple that out of him by peasant, his soul scared the government he lived under, has always fled from wild beasts. They were' tillers of the soil, and they carried hoes instead of guns. They never animals put the fear of God into the a numand as a result there are Quite ber of true stories about tigers and wolves that arent pleasant to listen to. But our own frontiersmen were not men to stand any nonsense from wolves or cougars. They had guns, and they knew how to use them. And and they were preceded by as braveon the as warlike a race as ever lived arrows. and bows with eartj,nrtned imAny animal that hunted men was rest found the and mediately killed, out it didnt pay. Just as human beings have found out the same thing that it doesnt pay to hunt their fellow men. The laws of life as well as the laws of nations are against It. But the words sounded weak and dim under the weight of the throbbing darkness; and Dan couldnt get away from the idea that the codes of life by which most men lived were forgotten quickly in the shadows of the pines. Even as he spoke, man was hunting man on the distant ridge where the cougar had howled. The pine needles hung wholly mo-- " tionless above his head ; but yet the dead leaves on which he knelt crinkled and rustled under him. Only the keenest ear could have heard the sound ; and possibly in his madness, Cranston himself was not aware of it. And one would have wondered a long time as to what caused it. It was siniply that he was shivering all over with hate and fury. A twig cracked, far on the ridge above him. He leaned forward, peering, and the moonlight showed his face in unsparing detail. It revealed the deep lines, the terrible, drawn lips, the ugly hair long over the dark I&E 12 brush-cove- rt Oiut-men- t, full-grow- n When Grandmother Was a Girl gun-barre- l, le - He Knew He Had Not Missed. ears. Ilis strong hands tightened upon the breech of the rifle. His wiry figure grew tense. Of course it wouldnt do to let his prey come too close. Landy nildreth was a good shot too, young as Cranston, and of equal strength; and no sporting chance could be taken in this hunting. Cranston had no intention of giving his enemy even the slightest chance to defend himself. If Hildreth got down into the valley, his testimony would make short work of the arson ring. He had the goods ; he bad been a member of the disreputable crowd himself. The mans steps were quite distinct by now. Cranston heard him fighting his way through the brush thickets, and once a flock of grouse, frightened from their perches by the approaching figure, flew down the trail in front Cranston pressed back the hammer of his rifle. The click sounded loud In the silence. He had grown tense and still, and the leaves no longer rustled His eyes were intent on a little clearing, possibly one hundred yards up the trail. The trail itself went straight through It. And in an Instant more, Hildreth pushed through the buckbrush and stood revealed In the moonlight. If there is one quality that means Bert Cranston, head of the arson In the mountains It is conon disuccess the that operated Umpqua ring Cranvide, was not only beyond the pale In stant, unceasing But had he of perIt that the laws ston to the but thought valleys, regard he could have learned valuable lessons haps he had waited too long for Hil . Whis-perfo- water 4 Jr i I O Relief half-burie- By EDISON MARSHALL ,1 3-- entirely to forget It was a , motion that no man could pretend. And he he had not missed. knew i i He waited till he saw the form of 4 i d his enemy rock down, face 4 i In the pine needles. It never even oci 4 i curred to him to approach to see if he i i had made a clean kll. He had held ; on the breast and He had a world of i i confidence in his great shocking, Bell-an- s ! rifle. Besides, the rifle fire might and In some the Hot hunter attract hills; there would be time in the morning Sure Relief to return to the body and make cerLL-A- NS 4i tain little investigations that he had in mind. And running back down the FOR INDIGESTION trail, he misled the sight of Hildreth Co & Copyright 1920, by little. Brown Deserved. dragging Ms wounded body, like an The head of a department in one dreth to come ; and the strain had told injured hare. Into the shelter of the of the downtown stores has her own on him. ne had sworn to take no thickets. Ideas of sane dressing, and is very false steps; that every motion he made should be cool and sure. He Whisperfoot, that great coward, critical of the girls under her charge. when the Recently one of them has been talking didnt want to attract Hildreth3 at- came out of his tention by any sudden movement All moon rose. It was not his usual rising a great deal about the bad cold she must be cautious and stealthy. But time. Ordinarily he found his best has and the fear she feels of taking in spite of all these good resolutions, hunting in the eerie light of the twipneumonia. She was in the midst of Cranstons gun simply leaped to his light hour; but for certain reasons, her discussion when the head walked shoulder In one convulsive motion at his knowledge of which would be ex- in. She listened a minute and then the first glimpse of his enemy as he tremely difficult to explain, he let this said: I wouldn't blame the Lord if time go by in slumber. Whisperfoot he did send you pneumonia. emerged into the moonlight The end of the barrel struck a had slept almost since dawn. It is a The girl was aghast. Why? she branch of the shrubbery as It went significant quality in the felines that gasped. up. It was only a soft sound ; but In they simply cannot keep in condition Just for the way you dress, the the utter silence it traveled far. The without hours and hours, of sleep. In older woman retorted. You dont gun barrel caught the moonlight as it this matter of sleeping, they are in a dress as if you cared a bit for your leaped, and Hildreth saw its glint in direct contrast to the wolves, who health. Your dresses are entirely too the darkness. seemingly never sleep at all, unless it low down at the top and entirely too He was looking for trouble. He had is with one eye open, and in still Indianapolis up at the bottom. dreaded this long walk to the settle- greater contrast to . the king of all high News. ments more than any experience of beasts, the elephant, who is said to his life. He didnt know why the let- slumber less per night than that great To Have a Clear Sweet Skin ter he had written, asking for an electrical wizard whom all men know Touch pimples, redness, roughness had armed escort down to Jie courts, and praise. if any, with Cuticura or itching, not brought results. But it was The great cat came out yawning, as bathe with Cuticura Soap then wholly possible that Cranston would graceful a thing as treads upon the have mywered this question for him. earth. He was almost nine feet long and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and This same letter had fallen into a cer- from the tip of his nose to the end of dust on a little Cuticura Talcum to leave ft fascinating fragrance on skin. tain soiled, deadly pair of hands his and he weighed as much as tail, 25c each. Adv. which was the last place in the world man. He stood and Everywhere many a that Hildreth would have chosen, and yawned insolently, for all the forest A Flying Furnace. it had been all the evidence that was world to see. He rather hoped that meteor when first seen The average needed, at the meeting of the ring the the chipmunk, staring with beady eyes 13 about 80 miles above the surface a night before, to , adjudge Hildreth from his doorway, did see him. He of the earth, and disappears from view merciless and immediate end. Hil- would as soon that Woofs little at 30 miles. Thus, just it travels 50 miles dreth would have preferred to wait In son, the bear cub, should see him too. before the atmospheric friction burns the hills and possibly to write another But he wasnt so particular about letter, but a chill that kept growing Woof himself, or the wolf pack whose it up. This friction, it is reckoned, raises it to a temperature of something at his finger tips forbade it. And all wakened him. And song had like 3,000,000 degrees. these things combined to stretch his above all just he wanted to keep nerves almost to the breaking point out of the things,of men. sight as he stole along the moonlit trail under the pines. A moment before the rush and whir of the grouse flock had dried the roof Whisperfoot stalks new game. of his mouth with terror. The tall trees appalled him, the shadows fell HOOP skirts were by those who upon his spirit. And when he heard (TO BE CONTINUED.) when he saw final the this sound, first asked the druggist glint that might so easily have been a NUMEROUS PHASES OF LIFE for, and insisted on his tfo.Ls and muscles reacted at once. Not even a fraction of having, the genuine be Likened, with a second intervened. His gun flashed Existence May Medical Golden Discovery put Truth, to Any One up and a little, angry cylinder of over 50 years of Pierce Dr. Many Things. by up flame darted, as a snakes head darts, has Dress from the muzzle. changed very ago. Life, says the Ladies Home JourHildreth didnt take aim. There But Dr. then! since much like aca savings wasnt time. The report roared in the nal, is very much the r'arkness ; the bullet sang harmlessly count in the bank. You get out all Pierces medicines contain inand considerable into it, you put same dependable ingredients. and thudded into the earth ; and both of them were the last things in the terest oesides. They are standard today just as road. AlA winding country world that Cranston had expectthey were fifty years ago and ed. And they were not a moment too though one cannot see far ahead, zest to the fact the Journey by soon. Even at that instant, his finger is given never contained alcohol. was closing down upon the trigger, that something new and interesting Dr. Pierces Golden Medical nildreth standing clear and revealed will be revealed at every turn of the Discovery for the stomach and through the sights. The nervous re- road. The new spring bonnet A great blood cannot be surpassed by any sponse that few men in the world of its charm depends on the tonic and alterative deal would be to enough today. a face that peeps out beneath of kind prevent occurred at the same instant out of sorts all feel When you that he pressed the trigger. His own IL ebb the low a at An fire answered, so rfear to the other Requires quilt your vitality to dark and both carry them both of patches that light sounded as one reblood becomes surcharged with out the design successfully. port. poisons! The best tonic is called Your wife. You find It very tryMost hunters can usually tell, even Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Disif hey cannot see their game fall, ing at times, but ail things considwithdo not to want whether they have hit or missed. Thi3 ered, you would covery. Dr. Pierce manufactured was one of the few times in his life out it this Discovery from roots and An education. In order to make it that Cranston could not have told. He a corknew that as his finger pressed he had really worth while one must share barks without alcohol held as accurate a bead ns at any it with others. rective remedy, the ingredients of A garment It has its seamy side, which nature put in the fields and time in his life. lie did- not know still another circumstance that in the but it is not policy to wear it insde forests for keeping us healthy. moonlight he had overestimated the out It puts vim, vigor, vitality into distance to the clearing, and instead of one hundred yards it was scarcely Forewarned, Forearmed. the blood. Our idea of a prudent man is one fifty. He had held rather high. And Try it. All druggists. Liquid he looked up, unknowing whether he who never sees a vampire without had succeeded or whether he was face thinking of a buzz saw. Dallas News. or tablets. to face with the prospect of a duel Not Like Wall Paper. to the death in the darkness. He I suppose youve read about And all he saw was Hildreth, rockShe No, this new paper clothing? ing back and forth in the moonlight a strange picture that he was never really. Do they put it on with paste? ot self-contr- NOT SO TRAGIC, AFTER ALL Fair Travelers Emotion at Seeing fecting Parting Was in Large Part Uncalled For. Af- The temperamental difference between a restrained and an emotional race occasionally brings about kindred effects through accident. A lady, waiting for a belated train, witnessed a most affecting parting between an aged father and his son, both Italians. The old man seemed in a frenzy of He moaned, raved, lifted his woe. clenched hands toward heaven and shook them despairingly. she exclaimed, Poor, poor souls The young man gocompassionately. ing away to seek his fortune and the old man left behind. I suppose he fears they may never meet again.. A common tragedy, but it grips ones very heart Cheer up I briskly advised her companion, who understood Italian. I The young chap is only going to the next town to visit his married sister and the venerable old person is worried because he . loaned him his season ticket and wishes now he hadnt promised to do so. He says he knows the boy will lose it, but, anyway, If he does, hell break every bone In his body when he gets home. Thats all. Lucky re cigarette First Campaign Tour. Political history shows that Horace Greeley was the first candidate for the presidency to make an extensive, tour over the country. That was 48 years ago. speech-makin- g That's the Way It Is. Uncle Bill Bottletop says that too few people lay by anything for a rainy day and too many lay by something for a dry spell. Washington Star. An average man would soonattAtn perfection if be followed the advice ht hands out to his neighbors. ( It's toasted |