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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH rare thing indeed to see him in when his peering eyes were not lay-lig-ht THE RED LOCK A Tale of the Flatwoods By DAVID ANDERSON Author of The Blue Moon Copyright by The last Cat Bobbe-Merri- Continued. CHAPTER XI 14 An did y'u think man by suprise? Did t take the o! yu, lad? He opened his mouth In another upheaval of silent merriment, his still 6lnewy shoulders heaving up and locks down and jostling his about his ears. Jist bracin yurself fr the rush, werdnt yu? I I thought yu was bhind the iron-gra- y log. The old rangers eyes danced and his mouth spread wide. I wus. Yes but how? wy I had m eyes on that log every second." the sinewy shoulders "Egzacly heaved up and down again yu would. Stid o keepin yur on the log, yu ort a kep It on eye the pass to the nighest cover ol trick show yu some time. The young man glanced at the log, noted the space of practically open ground that must have been crossed In order to reach the nearest cover, and turned to his aged companion In frank admiration. Wonder If I ever will be as handy as you? Taint likely yur life dont depend on it, like mine usen to sixty years ago. Yure far handler aready than any other man in the woods. But woodcraft will never agin be what it oncet wus. People even kinda look down on It, nowdays. Theyre s wrapped up In book Tamin' an lan grabbin an money graspin that they think Its a kind of disgrace some of em t even Tara t shoot No, no, woodcraft will never agIn be what It oncet wus never agin. A faint suspicion of bitterness, of homesickness for scenes long gone for the stimulating uncertainties of the perilous trail quavered In the old mans tones. He stooped, plucked off a tender shoot from a sassafras sprout and stood chewing it meditacalc-late- In-Ji-n tively. How come yu left yur trail s spen this morning? asked Jack, picked it up where yu jumped the road. The question seemed to recall the old mans straying thoughts. "Yes, an yu ort a picked It up Yu crossed It twlcet long bfore. bfore ever yu come down the bluffs oncet about a hundred yards west o' the pheasants nest, an agin a leetle noth of whar yu stood lookin down at Hen Spencers ol cabin. Yu didnt hardly act like yursef this mornin yu acted kinda keerless an fur away, like so I left the trail open a leetle thar at the road an at the crick. The young man turned away and stood gazing out across the brush-tangle- d hollow. "And me thinkln t take by suprise the famous ranger that found the trail of the great Tecumseh, when It was hid from the best of the runners," he said warmly playin with me. and you was Jist At reference to the achievement of his younger days, the shoulders of the old hunter seemed to grow a little more erect, while his dark eyes glowed with a faint suggestion of the fire that in his prime had made them the hardest pair of eyes n the border to pass unseen. Well, not Jist playin, nuther. He chewed hard on the sassafras sprout a moment. You must a purt nigh run into that gal a lettle bit ago? A statement with the force of a question the young man started, but hid the movement by fumbling with his sore shoulder. The terrified face of the mountain girl freshened in his mind, with the dread of discovery In her startled eyes. He hitched the blouse loose from his shoulder and glanced out across the hollow without meeting his old friends look. What gal? The old man jerked a hand toward the opposite bluff. Aw, I jist glimpsed one along through the brush yonder an lowed mebbe yu .might a run acrosst far-fame- he knows I saw im, but I did it was the feller that stirred up all that rumpus at the schoolhouse night bfore d The old man threw away his sassafras shoot ; an eager seriousness crossed his face. That wus Black Bogus. The younger man stared. No! Hit were. fell suddenly The woodsman thoughtful; glanced away across the hollow toward where the double trail led through the woods. The old man studied him curiously. It may be each was thinking the same thought that strange resemblance that had so puzzled them both but neither let fall any inkling of it to the other. A1 knows im," Uncle Nick went on after a moment Hes a friend of Loge Beldens an he thinks mebbe hes harborin up thar with im. He Jerked his thumb up the hollow toward where a section of the warped roof of Loge Beldens squalid cabin barely protruded above the bushes; seemed to weigh his next words before letting them fall. Anyhow, I thought Id pint m nose up the crick an kinda throw an eye on Loges cabin t see if e is. An If e Is ? the other questioned, having caught the curious look. The caution of a lifetime in the woods prompted the old hunter to look guardedly in every direction before answering. Dont let on yu know It" he came a step nearer but A1 says Belden blongs t the same gang o cutthroats down Vincennes way that Black Bogus does, an he thinks more n likely theyre plottln t crack ol Sime Colins safe." The hardness that had come at the mountain girls warning crept' again into the woodsmans eyes, but he made no comment. I low yu neen t be told they aint neither one got much time fr you, after what happened at the post office an at the schoolhouse a theyre the kind that wont stay licked, an the kind that strikes in the dark. Jack picked up the heavy shotgun from where he had laid it aside when about to rush upon his old friend, thoughtfully blew a dead grass blade out from between the hammer and the lock, but offered no word. The old man again bent his furtive look upon him and went on. Black Bogus theys fifty sheriffs fr him, an a standln reward of five thousan dollars, dead r alive The young man flinched looked keenly at the other. Uncle Nick yu wouldnt! No, I wouldnt," the old man replied with instant readiness to the Imputation. Ive' shot men in my time. I never sold one. He stepped around the great sugar maple, motioned for the other to follow, and stole away along the brow of the bluff, quite obviously In serious earnest. The young woodsman fell Into the trail. Steeped in the caution that came from much living alone, he said nothing, but it was the one thing that had brought him to the woods that s morning to have a look at Loge . half-implie- d Bel-den- cabin. Beaching a point, at length, a short distance below where the suspected cabin squatted, they crept down the bed of a dry wash-ou- t and through some thickets of brier and hazel until they lay within less than a hundred yards of its crude and mud daubed walls. There seemed to be no one about except the comely mountain girl, who came to the open door a time or two to look out, as If she expected some one some one that she would rather not see, to judge by the troubled expression of her face a face whose tragic sadness had so impressed the woodsman at that strained and hurried interview. It was late in the forenoon when, above them on the hillside, they heard the swish of a brush swinging back into place after having been dragged aside. Uncle Nick held up a cautious finger, and they crouched lower in the er. cover. He stood chewing the sassafras There came the snap of a dry stick ; ahoot and looking away down the holman emerged from the swaying low In the direction of Black rock. bushes and stole toward the back door The young man breathed easier the of the cabin, passing within a dozen EM's secret wss safe. The hawklike steps of where they lay. There could eyes had missed the chance meeting be no mistaking the powerful form seemingly the one thing they had and truculent face with its stubble of tolssed, as his next words half start- beard it was Black Bogus. lingly disclosed. What did yu make o them tracks CHAPTER XII -- yu follerd yisterdy fom them hushes on the edge o the cliff back o ur cabin an past the ol log? I seed ud ben follern em as I crossed the fail msef this mornin. The young man bent an amazed 'ok upon his r aged friend, lost In at his marvelous woodcraft. got a at the man that made , em, was his slow answer, while he Jald bhind that log me ttralghten up the fence. I dont thint-won-oe- lk Ashes of the Past. It was little enough that the poring over a book, with another usually tucked under his arm. Jack Warhope had not yet climbed the bluffs to the woods on the morning of that eventful day that flared forth the startled face of the mountain girl with her hurried warning; its dawn still clung to cliff and scar, and many candles were still alight in the village, when the preacher left the parlor bedroom and came out on the porch. Texle was already on the lawn, flitting about among the flowers and gathering a bouquet for the breakfast table. She was like them the flowers; as much a part of the rich life of the lawn as they. Life It radiated from every curve of her pliant body ; It was the one thought that came first to mind when looking on her. There were butterflies In the mellow glow already arched above the rim of the east and sifting in through the cool trees adrip with dew, but she was more alive than they. At sight of her, by a lilac bush and reaching up for one of its choicest blossoms, the studious concentration left the face of the man on the porch and there came over his features a curious sadness a sadness touched with fire, as If within him had suddenly flared up some desperate battle of the soul. , The girl had heard the step on the porch. With the coveted blossom in her hand at last, she placed it with the others, and turned with a smile of sensible frankness. The precise and studious concentration instantly returned to the eyes behind the spectacles, the stoop came back to the capable shoulders, and, with the quick, mincing step that was as much a part of him as the frock coat and neck stock, he came down off the porch and joined her. With the stately and somewhat ponderous courtesy of seventy years ago, he had taken the shears, begging to be allowed to cut the flowers, when the slam of a gate drew their eyes to the back of the yard. The old banker was just coming from the barn, his step leaving the rumpled trail in the gray dew of the lawn, his rugged face apparently full of Its accustomed strength and color. Wy, father, I expected youd stay In bed a while this morning yet, after that fainty spell the other night. Bed ! No place fr a well man after he pulled himself up to the daylight last inch of his gaunt height ; stretched up his arms; filled his chest with the air; expelled it with an explosive exclamation that scared couple of blackbirds in the brandies above; and the crags and battlements of his grim old face smoothed them selves out Into an expression as near as they could come to a smile an I am a well man fit as a fiddle. But, father, you dont think of goln to the office tday? 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