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Show TINTAH CASIN RECORD still a little shaky, I guess. . . But come ashore first. You need rest." "No. Open It now. . . . Please 1" She opened the case and exposed the red envelope, sealed and sound and safe. A great sigh left Steves breast and he lurched against the canoe, shoving it sideways through the reeds, all but falling across It Safe, "Good 1" he said thickly. eh? Listen . . . Listen, Kate He wet his lips and tried Flynn. to fight hack the overwhelming weakness. Listen, that moneys got to be You're bleeding!" Her cry cut him short She screamed out again that he was bleeding, Nothing, he muttered. Nicked But he me a little . . looked down, following her terrified glance, and saw the red life fluid seeping through and mingling with the muddy water In which he stood. She got out of the canoe herself and stood beside him, putting a slender arm about his waist, dragging one of his over her shoulder. Cornel she said, calmly enough. "Walk with me. So. He tried to move, but his feet seemed to be burled deep in clinging clay. He reeled as he tried, and all but fell Thats splendid! she said again. and laughed, and her voice was filled with vigor. Just a little way, now. Careful Dont fall There, thats better I As one would encourage a timid child she talked him Into effort which otherwise would have been beyond his strength. Here we go I We're out of the water, now. . , . Just a few more steps. Over yonders some bracken. Better to lie In that than on this wet sand. Sure, he said dully. "Sure thing. . . . Now . . . Careful. . . . Here, Pll let you down." But she did not let him down. She could not ease the slump of his weight and It dragged her to her knees with his fall His face had lost all color, his eyes were closed and a fine sweat pricked out on his brow. "Cant you speak to me? she "Listen t If you hear me begged. just open your eyes. Cant you do that much?" But the eyes did not open. His breathing was scarcely perceptible and the hand she held was without the warmth of life. Oh, merciful God! she prayed. "Oh, God, let me save him I Oh, God, let me serve him as he has And then, conscious served me! of her own Inadequacies for such a 1 1 CiptftiqfJ? TITUS By JiaroUJtlui CHAPTER XI Continued IS He groped the bottom for the weapon but Kate leaped from the canoe, raised the paddle again. lie fended the first blow with his arm and lunged for her, but she Jabbed at him with all her strength, hurling him backward. Steve Drake was within twenty yards when Kate struck the weapon from Franzs hand; within ten when she struck again with her paddle, was dragging himself through the shallows for the reeds when Franz turned In flight He gained the channel bank and dived. Breathing hoarsely, Steve followed. Franz looked behind and gasped out a curse. He threw his hips upward and dived . . . He went under abruptly and drove himself down, but Steve followed the eddies and bubbles he left, knowing the others panic would cost him dearly though he might gain for the moment. Franz came up to the right, shaking water from his eyes, gnsp-Inair My. A moment later he cried on is Steve's one hand fastened In his shirt. Franz struck out, but the blow, though It caught Sieve on the point of the chin, teas light and Ineffectual. Drake seized one of Franzs hands and twisted the arm cruelly. They went under, Franzs legs groping for a hold on Steves, his Angers scratching at the throat. They turned over. Franz tried to shove Drake deeper but could not and, as If by prearrangement, they broke their holds and shot to the surface, gasping for air. A brief Interval they rested so, face to face, trending water, and then Franz commenced to swim again toward g land. But on his third stroke a hand grasped his ankle, his head was dragged under and Drakes body floated over him, binding his arms and legs close. He struggled an Instant and then went limp. Steve let him up, then, holding firmly to his shirt front while the man gagged and choked. You cant ... Enough? panted. ...Franz's go back, now? mouth convulsively. rasped. Then I'll cried. you . . he got away, . . Wilt you . opened and closed . . to h 1!" he take you! Hold you under . . . Drake . until . Franz half turned and fought Steve away with thrusts of oue arm. Beneath the surface his other hand was busy, seeking, tugging at something, and as Drake broke through his guard and grasped for a hold on clothing It came up with as much of a sweep as he could manage In the water and on that movement a glint of flashing brightness swept for Steve's middle. He threw himself quickly on one side to elude the blade, gasping out a word as he realized he had failed. A sharp sting above his left groin manifested Itself hut he had the knife hand securely, twisted and wrenched It, sending the man under, holding him there mercilessly until the fingers finally opened and the knife sank slithering toward the bottom. Then Steve had to let go, strangling as he was from the water he had swallowed. The sting In his aide had became a burning, lie He gave that no heed, however. raised one arm high and turned his face toward the rushes where he had last seen Kate, Got him! he called hoarsely. Bring the canoe . . . Got him But he winced from the . . . throb In his belly which had by then replaced the sensation of burning. He had believed he finally had Franz captive, hut before Ills words were well spoken, the fellow broke loose and was swimming away, Steve followed, a great weariness, something more than the effects of tills tremendous exertion, creeping through his muscles. He shut his eyes and used all his will to close quickly before tint could happen which, It seemed certain, was going And when lie to happen, now. opened them Franz was nowhere In sight. lie stoppl'd swimming at once, water sluggishly and treading pressed one hand to bis wounded aide, wincing from the pain the touch rendered. Behind, he heard the canoe approaching. The sounds penetrated through a queer sensation In his ears. It was like a thickness, something hampering his hearing as fog will hinder sight. The approaching paddle dipped rapidly. Still Franz did not show himself. Steve brushed a hand across his eyes. Ills ears were going bad; were his eyes playing tricks, also? An odd warmth lay over his side, now; It was almost comfortable. . . . Movement hurt him, now., ne moaned from the pain and then, a few yards beyond, came a ruffling Bubbles. . . . of the surface. Bubbles, coming upward from deep down. . . . Stay back! he gasped over his shoulder and the sounds of the paddle ceased. He waited an Interval for breath. The sun broke through the clouds again. Somehow, Its light seemed feeble. Perhaps his sight was dimming. . . . Nevertheless, he let himself under water and stared about and saw what he saw. . , . Speech was Impossible when he rose that time. He scarcely had strength to beckon Kate forward. It seemed that she would never get across that Intervening strip of water; seemed as If he could not stay afloat another fractional second. But he did. Ills fingers found the gunwale and curled over It. With great effort he raised his other hand and took hold and leaned his forehead against nls wrists, breath quick and shallow, not caring a great deal, now, that what strength remained In his body seemed to be pouring Into the lake tnrough his side. Get In!" the girl said huskily. Here! Let me help you 1" No, he tried to say stoutly, but the words came only In a whisper. Let me . . . Please, he added. just rest a . . . moment. That was better. Rpstlug was sweet. But the fingers of one hand wanted to let go. He shut his teeth as he fought to retain a hold on Uls Job was not consciousness. done. He had one more obligation to discharge. he began, without liftWhere, Where . What ing his face. was It he had wanted to say? What had prompted a question? . . . Wheres Franz?" he finished dully. Franz? Hes . . . hes gone. You saw. He didnt come up. Wliats wrong with you?" sharply. Whats happened? The loveiy timbre of her voice shot through his veins like a stimulating drug. He raised his face to look into hers. Her eyes, those clear, widely set, blue eyes which had been bandaged when he looked at her closely before, set up a strength within him which gathered wit, marshaled his resources, gave him strength and clarity of mind. Im all right, he muttered. Tired. . . . What I started to ask was, wheres the brief case?" That was the thing he had left to do! Today was Wednesday. Tomorrow at four the contents of that portfolio must be In MacDonalds hands or all that he had tried to do for Old Jim Flynn would be as nothing. It must be here," the girl said. He had It In the store. But thats no matter now. Are you . . . Are you all right? Bight," he answered, but his voice was thick despite the comparative ease with which his mind functioned for the moment. "Get in, then. Oh, tills Is terrible I And w'j must hurry back to headquarters. Theyll have found Tim and will be searching the whole country for us I Yes, he muttered mul tried to smile. Theyd be searching, well enough. Theyd been on his trail for ... situation: help Oh, send God, me ! And then man help. were of no be slipping she called aloud for huBut she knew screams avail, and his life might away as she tried to make them serve. Kate told herself this as she knelt beside this man she did not know, whose Identity, even, was not within her wildest guess but who, for weeks, had been fighting her fight and who, today, had saved her from whatever might have been. She rummaged his pockets for a knife, found the slit In his clothing through which the wounding blade had cut, made It larger and exposed the lacerated flesh. Blood oozed out tn regular gushes and, loosing the bandage which still hung about her neck, she spread Its folds over the long gash, pressing It down, holding It firmly, fighting the tremors tn her hands, sobbing a little and calling out to Steve to speak to her . . just to give some sign that he heard her. . . . . CHAPTER XII WAS a long ITWolf finished time before Mary the task of scraping a resting place for her father body. Then she lowered It gently. For an Interval she knelt there on the soft, sweet earth, hands lax at I'll ask the sisters to her sides. pray," she said aloud ns If to end an annoying quandary and began scraping the fresh earth back upon the blanketed form. She displayed no emotion. She was of a people which knows the futility of regrets. Her father had reached the end of an arduous tralL long, now. But he must finish his This was what she had known must Job before more strength drained he and It was better so. She would go back to Good Bye and on to Shoefrom Ills body. . . , Ill rest here, he said. Puddle string. It was about school time I might . . . and Young Jim had told her to go Into the shallows. to school. She would do what he upset you. , . ." Kate picked up the paddle and said. He we.s right. . . tioaded for the little Island. Steve did not look up again, hut he knew For hours. It seemed, Kate Flynn that the girls ejes were on him held that wad of gauze against the much of the time. Ills feet trailed wound In Steve's side. In the behelplessly behind. IBs side begun ginning, blood had persistently to throb ami sting, lie felt bottom oozed beneath (he edges of the and floundered to a stand, dinging bandage hut that Imd finally dizzily to the canoe so he would not stopped. However, she did not dare fall. relax the pressure. , IBs life was In Should he In hero," he mum- her hands. Others would he searchbled, reaching uncertainly for a ing. She knew McNally and Wurtln; pack sac. We've got to know . , . she knew that with the discovery of now." Tims body and her absence ami the He loosed the straps of the puck. absence of this man whoever he "There! lie pulled hack the he, they would fling their companies flap, exposing the duffle within. of searchers far. There It Is!" lie drew out the But It might he days before she light leather case as If It were a was found and tn mere hours the great weight. Ills hands were colj, fight rise and fall of this man lingers like sticks of wood. He tried hest might cease, . . siie cried to open It and failed. . . . aloud at the thought and hit her lip You better," he said, lie couldn't and toll herself again that screamlet her know that he was hurt. ing would do no good, that she must He'd worked for her, fought for hold her tnlml and courage and her; she was dependent on him, strength under strict discipline. now. If she knew that everything Help wa nearer, then, than she was getting fuzzy , , , "I'm . . . could have dreamed. . , In Old Francois had taken long teUr-erlnand reaching the fire fighters weI1 afte Steves note. It was canoes began midnight before two . the dash up their first, LaFane. tn the bow of the Mad Woman stepped ashore at the gave tralL The battery of flashlights read the sufficient light for them to . sign left there. sa d Down . . . both of em, trail LaFane, at the forking of the believed so, have would other Any and too. The tracks of both men right-han- d the girl they followed took the so fork and, with their faith them led had firm In the one who them all summer, tt did not occur to Indications. to search for further went It sure looks as tf they But down river, LaFane repeated. to a we may be wrong. You, take strapping young woodsman and the trail back to the Good-Bygrub with canoes plenty two bring over here to wait for orders. Wholl go with you? Young Jim and asked. His voice was strained his Ups twitched In suspense. LaFane said promptly: Wartln and L You and Mac g Good-Bye- e scout the lake. If you find anything S that looks hot, follow It If there no sign, come back here. Wellget word up If we need help below. And so Young Jim Flynn entered the lake from which LaFane had dragged him a fortnight before, eyes tho Isscanning the near shore and lands beyond. the They went slowly, following eastern shore lina Young Whats that yonder? Jim asked some time later, pointing with his paddle. Looks like a canoe. They headed on It and as they drew near old Y G d, 'tls a Mac said starkly: canoe !" They went swiftly after the craft Its Young Jims! McNally said not yet knowing the sharply, strange tangle of names which had concealed Identities from him and aU others except LaFane. Look 1" cried the boy. "Isnt that a bullet hole? One . . , two , . . why, three of 'em! For a moment they stared at one another, mutely questioning. He caught up with them!" the He caught up boy said huskily. and there was shooting and . . . God knows what else!" "All we know Is that theyre up And you and me are ahead, son closest to em and we got no time to lose. No use proddln around here any more. After murder, theft and, anyhow, more shootin' and whatever happened to Katie, hell make tracks up country, If hes able. He wont be around here. Hell be goin yonder with all hes got. Our only chance Is to find where he leaves the upper river. Anybody curious about us and who comes lookin' 'II find this canoe. Set her adrift and lets git on our way!" They began to paddle desperately as mist flowed down Into the lake again, obscuring landmarks more than a few rods away. 1 Burial in Royal Tomb Not for Old Hickory Washington tomb of possesses the SrZ Mm ct m was the occasion Without noticing, . dramatic Incident 90 years ago wt brought to ?he Commotomb was secured by commander of Elliott, It. dore Jesse which was the frigate Constitution, United S the of the flagship Mediterranean In squadron in tthe behind the city 1839, from a hillside the eviAlthough of Beirut, Syria. would satisfy as dence was not such believed it Elliott an archeologist, emwas the tomb of the Roman He Severus. Alexander peror, with to Washington brought It back Wm. Jack- - A few years later Andrew son was reported dying at the near Nashville. Elliott had to the happy, or unhappy, Inspiration as a offer the tomb to Old HIckery last resting place. Jacksons reply Is one of the classics of American literature: Although laboring under great a severe debility and affliction from attack from which I may not recover" the dying man wrote the navy officer, I raise my pen and endeavor The steadiness of my to reply. nerves may perhaps lead you to conclude my strength Is not as great as here expressed. Strange as It may appear, my nerves are as steady as they were 40 years gone by, whilst from debility and affliction I am gasping for breath. I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid In a depository prepared for an emperor or a king. My republican feelngs and principles forbid It The simplicity of our Her-milag- e, of us there to remain until the last trumpet sounds to call the dead to udgment, when we, I hope, shall rise together, clothed with the heavbeenly body promised to all who lieve In our glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we might live, and I hope for a by whose atonement blessed Immortality." Perhaps Alexander Severus la Just well satisfied that the school children of a democratic land troop past his empty tomb without notic- forbids It of government e Every monument erected to perpet-atthe memory of our heroes and statesmen ought to bear evidence of the economy and simplicity of our republican Institutions, and the plainness of our republican citizens, who are the sovereigns of our glorious union, and whose virtue Is to perpetuate it. True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions. It can only dwell with the people, the great laboring and producing classes, the form, the bone and sinew of our confederacy. I cannot permit my remains to be the first In these United States to be deposited In a sarcophagus made for an emperor or king. I have prepared a humble depository for my mortal body beside that wherein beloved wife, where, withpomp or parade I have rewhen God calls me to sleep fathers, to be laid, for both Playtime Fashions for d the Tot Well-Dresse- CHAPTER XIII TPllE first drop of rain falling on her cheek forced Kate Flynn to a decision. To remove the pressure of her thumbs from that bandage might permit the blood to flow again; to leave this unconscious, weakened man exposed to a soak lng might take away his last chance of ultimate survival Slowly, she relaxed the pressure she had held on the wound and anxiously watched the edges of that clotted gauze. No fresh flow ap peared. The bleeding was stopped for the Interval. She staggered and almost fell from the cramps In her leg muscles when she tried to rise. She has tened to the canoe and threw the duffle ashore. A tent was there, of balloon silk, packed In Its bag. This girl had been In the woods enough with her veteran father tn know something about making catnp. Swiftly she shook out the shelter and set it up over the spot where Steve lay. She placed a blanket gently over him after an other Inspection of the bandage pausing only an Instant to look Into his white, still fare. She ran Into the timber, gathered fuel, and heaped It In three piles along the beach, fifty paces apart, and, with matches found In Franz's pack, Ignited her fires. (TO BE CONTINUED ) Father of Factories Richard Arkwright, the Inventoi of the spinning-frame- , was born on December 23, 173 Before the days of Arkwright. British cotton manufacture w ns a home industry, car ried on in the cottages of the work era Ills Invention of the water frame, which made spinning a mechanical process for which waterpower could be used, started the factory system, which, after a period during which the old methods and the new existed side by side, killed completely dustry. wright A Is the domestic of in,, the men. I1M has known It "art York BD't authority who - , 84 j tb to Please themsewe, en Is uttering "th. 4; ! In the good old summertime, young fashion plates become And for the fastidious two to who wishes to devote all attention to boating, bathing, and basking, rather than to seams and buttons, here are the newest creations In playtime fashion. Not following, but leading the vogue of the elders, the youngster these days who would be really In the swim, must have a e bath eight-year-ol- d, two-piec- i pr, If! J? C ri n - open-minde- d tel liK lti! iat ;0l sse 6 ft! iM c ill B C ie B C ire SOME NEW FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF GOLD MONEY It Is quite a comedown for gold to be used for money or the basis for currency. would require a combination of historian, philosopher, banker, poll It tlcian and mystic to write the history of the precious metal, Dr. Frederick G, Howe, consumers counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment administra tion, told the Cosmos club the other A Few Drops Eve Niht and Moral Will Promote a Qe f i Healthy Conditio; At All Drug Stores Write Marine Co.,Dpt.W,Qiciucr OLD AGE PENSION INFORM! Send stamp Htunlk LEHMAN JUDGE aighl A Among the ancient Hindus It was Tin Cans Make Wonderful Prod: we revered as sacerdotal. He who tam- toy, flnwor-)- . S4 to Dfltrl dies on IRCKIAE SEUUCE said the with law, it, pers a dunghill and rot3 in hell to the end of time. Flyer Matrimonii! Only princes could so much as touch It. So Maud Is entering tl Gold was first demoted to the pro- monial market and with ; fane status of money, Doctor Howe aviator? said, by the Lydians, who put the Yes, shes taking a ' kings stamp upon it and used it as a speak. medium of exchange. Interest immediately arose to 30 per cent, farmers vhen SHES lost their land and sold themselves UPSET and their families into slavery In order to live. This 30 per cent, Doctor Ilowe said, was the first money Interest and arose naturally out of the former Lydian system of doing business. Trade had been primarily In cattle. When cows were sold on credit It was assumed they would have calves. maaenff ift1So the seller demanded the price of Vv 1 la acn?,, a calf as additional payment. This has a lovable disposition, ne Heed Nature's warning: was calculated at about the ably result m poisonous wastes s tem often the direct cause value of a cow. w1' zincs, colds, completion When you pay Interest to the hank REMEDY the mild. alkrflKM d tun the stimulates scfdy today you are paying, genetically strengthens, regulates considered, the price of the calf of natural funion- ing Get a 25c box Vi': the cow you borrowed. at yourljGfT . Other notes on gold from Doctor today druggist's. nowes studies: All the gold on earth Is worth about $11,000,000,000. It could be stored In a room of 30 cubic feet The workers of the United States could earn it all by working CO days at $5 a day. They could earn all the Cit gold In their own country In 20 days. The total of gold In the United States fewest Hold has about the same Intrinsic value as to total of diamonds. Washington Star. 1; fly 1 1 ml; ey LBo To ire Jv Conslipation Her one-thir- 'Pt nn-- d ,rg Salt Lake Fruit Tree Good Bet Some years ago so orchards were planted that thereninny was over- lng suit In the newest knitted weave, gay In white, red, or navy. Felt tabs attaching top piece to shorts add the Jauntiest of fashion touches. And what more fitting fashion for tho fastidious all-wo- than a seersucker sun-suas gayly striped as a stick of candy. Red, green, or blue striped suits with fitted waist-1-n- e and a catch-al- l pocket which Is perfectly Indispensable for precious stones gathered along the beach, will be worn this year wherever two to s are gathered for quiet game of leap frog. Carolyn T Rndnor Lewis In Child Life Maga- line it eight-year-old- an abundance, but this condition promises to be greatly changed In the future. Many orchards have been slowed to die out and the time is coming when fruit will be In much better demand. As It is too late to start an orchard after the domnnd has come, WlSG plan to lnvest a llttle ,n this form of land Improvement. The trees cost so litle that this does not have to prevent anybody from having an orchard, or at least a few select trees. The United States is esnecially blessed because fruit of some sort can be grown In every state. We should appreciate this fact all the more when we remember that In many countries fruit Is such a luxury that It Is beyond the reach or average people. Pathfinder : t "He hi igh M.'kiji HOTEl TEMPi-j- ) SgilARii 200 Rooms 200 Radio connection RATES from Jmt ofpoult Mor1 ttte .11 ERNEST C. RSSIL in- comparatively wealthy Montreal Herald Fj- - was a pleasing ter n t0 masculine curious fact about Arkthat, all hough his Inven- tion revolutionized cotton manufacture he had very little nuvlmnlcal skill himself, and had to enlist the services of another man to carry out hi Like other designs. of the period, too, he had considerable trouble over patent rights. But he was luckier thaa some In being able to make money, n- - Criticisni It costume the brute!- -, ond place hi Is primitive. How have been tom by th!T? unobservant husband his wife had a new drs many have been their places antly reraaiked thaf? ing It. 222 to 235 color would be more from Rome of Emperor It Is with due diffidence A. D., successor to the degenerate Hellogabalus, who had himself off- gest anyway, if tl neat'. icially created a god, he might have say. their wives would nott appreciated Andrew Jacksons emo- lng these little saucepan hats tional outburst. lie appears to have down over one ear. And ha, h been somewhat of a skeptic regard- tured thus far we bare our br the New York stylist for , ing the divinity of emperors and enreply. Kansas City Star his boy despite an vironment of degeneracy. Ferrys Seeds are sold only nls brief reign Is chiefly distindated packages. When yon t betto efforts feeble his for guished ter the hard lot of the common peo- rys Seeds you are sure of M ple. He established government loan quality available. Adv. offices where they could borrow at The Wrong Tme low Interest to get them out of the lie (on the dance floor- j-i He did clutches of the "bankers. much to Improve the status of the were in your shoes. She Perhaps, but I common soldier of the Roman lewould refrain from attemptm. gions. Christianity was making headway Into them now. in Rome. The emperor was not a convert, but he neglected no chances to Improve his fate hereafter. He kept a private chapel with statues of Orpheus. Abraham, Apollo and Jesus, and paid equal homage to all of them. 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