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Show I TOC WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAIL she must hev been expecting that young fellow or she wouldn't have cut you off so short. She ain't usually that way." Her fiance?" Fairchild asked the question with misgiving. The miner finished hie stretch and added s yawn to IL Then be looked appraisingly up the street toward the retreatiny figures. "Well, some say he Is and some say he aint. Guess It mostly depends on the girl, and she slat telling yet." "And the man who Is he?" "Him? Oh, he's Maurice Rodatne. Ron of a pretty famous character around here old Squint Rodalne. Owns the Queen property up the MIL. Ever hear of him?" The eyes of Robert Fairchild narrowed. and a desire to fight a longing to grapple with Squint Rodalne and all that belonged to him surged Into bis heart. But his voice, when be Sxke, was slow and suppressed. "Squint Rodalne? Yes, 1 think I have. The name sounds rather familiar." Then, deliberately, he started np the street, following st a distance the man and the girl who walked before him. By Courtney Ryley Cooper Crjrlkl by Littla, Brows A C ho-ce- r with quick emphasis, "tbereli be a pt of things really real real keno gsi roulette and everything like that. d everybody In the costuroe of thirty or forty years ago. Dont yon want t bay a ticket? Its the last one I M T she added prettily. "Whens Jt to her "A week from tomorrow night Are you going to he here that longr She realized the Slip of her tongue and, colored alightly. Fairchild, recovered now, reached Into a pocket and carefully fingered the bills w there. Then, with a quick motion, as be ! drew them forth, he covered s bill and note a with lar thrust them forward. "Tea. IU take the ticket.1 She handed It to him, thanked him. and reached for the money. As passed Into her hand, a corner of the hill revealed Itself, and she hastily thrust it toward him as though to return money paid by mis take. Just as quickly, she realised his purpose and withdrew' her hand. "Oh" she exclajmed, almost In whisper, I understand." She flashed and stood a second hesitant, flustered ber big eyes almost childish as they looked up Into his. "Ton you must think I'm a cad!" Then she whirled end left the store, and n slight smile, came to the lips of Robert Fairchild as he watched her hurrying across the street He had won n tiny victory, at st out-you- r Fali-ehll- d'e s. Fair-chil- d. Weight Increased SS Pound, Yeare Trouble End?t. gt a-- one-doll- ar ten-doll- . ' -- r nate-volce- d 1 self-defens- e. me-we- ll, - soda-fountai- n it tCJ 2 Advertisement Profiteering by a Doctor A medical man in NaUmi a Budapest, recently charged gm, .Towns (present value 2, bt Zj Phasing value la a village about for a single visit to a patient lived not far from the doctor' m. dence. This patient sued the dyZ for profiteering but th court missed the case. The plaintiff pealed, however, to a higher which gave Judgment against the(w tor, on the ground that the denmtf. Ing of an exorbitant fee for prof slonal services was to be regarded m profiteering, wnd was therefore niega It was decided that mental work could fairly be considered as profit In such coses ; no exception conlfi hi made concerning doctors, for although the latter did not technically rceb "wages," their services came wiai, the accepted meaning of wort a , Important to Mothers Elxamtne carefully, every bottla tf CASTORIA, that fnmous old retnek for infants and children, and see that! Bears tha ore-lade- I" T tii ar -' It, "I hardly are how I awful suffering, and tf jt for Tanlac X don't believe h,i here today," said Mrs. Moil! a akv ef Jennings Lodge, Ore. "For nine yean everythin. . caused gaa to form so that if drove me distracted.' I didnt any fruit and for four year ifT drank a glass of cold .water suffer dreadfully. No one who sea me can Imagine the awful Z?? tton I was In. "But TsnUc changed all thl aow rra simply feeling fine. xT,?4 petite is splendid. 1 eat .nyS wanL have actuafly gained pound, and have so much stnJK? end energy I easily do all work. Tanlac U a wonderfm cine." Tanlac Is told by 11 good drum. ten-do- that would do It. Oot la' dressed la some of SlMles clothes, the dead night they went and half hidden between them. Nobody staked father's claim Ilsrry dreamed that I was anyone else but was to get 23 per cent and early the the Swede my 'head was Upped for TNOr8I8.-- At Thornton next morning your dad was waiting wsrd,teo they couldn't see my feahla'aon Robert learn thoro hu boon a dork period In to file on It, while narry was waiting tures. We drove outside town end lila father's Ufa which for almost for them three. And what e fight It stopped. Then w Said goodby, and I sulTw-Inthirty years has caused him must have been that Ilarry waa a put on an old dress that I had brought The secret is Mated at In a document left by tha older wildcat In those younger days." She with me and sneaked back home. Nowhich also Informs Robert laughed, then her voice grew serious. body knew the difference." ba Is wow owner of a mlnln claim "But all had Its effect. Rodalne "But Larsen ?" ta Colorado, and advlslnf him to didn't Jump that claim, and "You know ss much as I do, Ron." soo - Henry Beamish, a lawyer. few of Beamish tells Robert hta claim, a us around here filed dummy claims "You never saw Larsen again?" silver mine. Is at Ohadl, thirty. "I never saw any of them. That enough In the 'vicinity to keep him off Slfht miles from Denver. Ha also was of too the end." close wee hot there warns him acalnst a certain man, getting one way ,we couldnt stop him. lie "But Rodalne-?- " "Squint" Rod el no, his fathsr's sn. CHAPTER VI my. Robert decides to to to OhadL had power, and he's always had It "lies etIII here. Ton'll bear from On the road to Ohadl from Denver and he'a got It now. A lot of awful him plenty toon. I could see that, Fairchild assists a rlrl, apparently reason why There was no In a frenay of hasta, to chants a tint strange thing happened to your fa- the minute Bllndeye Bozeman and Robert Fairchild specific Man-ric- e should follow on her auto. When she has lert, ther after that charges were filed Taylor Bill began taking your measRodalne and woman the the sherl It and a poaae appear, ta young against him for things be never did. ure. You noticed they left the table who had been described to Mm as pursuit of a bandit. Fairchild, bethe least. Men jumped on him In the dark, then before the meal was over? It was to them misleads as to tho wildered, daughter of Judge Richmond, whoWith a new enthusiasm, a went to the district attorney's office tell Rodalne." direction tho rlrl had taken. At ever he might be. Resentment was tn destre than ever to win out greater Ohadl Fhlrchlld la warmly greeted In the Tlien hell fight me, too?" and accused him of making the athie heart resentment that the family fight which had by 'Mother" Howard, boarding him to Ohadl. Mother brought tack. Howard And was the end that her laughed funny part house keeper, for bla father sake. of Rodalne should be connected In he hurried to the courthouse and the the district attorney's office always voice was harsh. some wsy with the piquant, mysteri- various technicalities which must he "Rodalne's a rattlesnake, nia eon's believed them and not biro. .Once ous rattlesnake. Ills wifes crsxy Old a little personon he had helped oat of coped with before he could really call they had him Just at the edge ft the CHARTER-the Denver road the the Blue Poppy mine Ms own. predicament . I penitentiary, hut I I happened to Crazy laura. He drove her that way. day before. And, to his chagrin, the know a few things that wU, he She lives by herself. In sn old house It was easier than he thought A Impntlentty Fairchild awaited Moth-d- r wa fact that there connection few a very on the didn't Mother road. Howard And Ceorgevtlle signatures, and he wa free to Again go." shed and when last Howard'! mom, at added s more sinister note to the es- wander through town to where Idlers ah came forth from the kitchen, he chuckled, only to grow serious once kill for him, eveiDlf be does best her capade of the exploded tire and the had pointed out Kentucky when more. to "Men went his who house to work and for ahegoes begs gulch and drew her Into the old parlor, shadowy him to take her back. Thats the kind pursuing sheriff; as be walked along. to begin the steep ascent np the narnow In the feathering dusk, and closed your father end Ilarry disappeared, Ms gaze 'far ahead, Fairchild found row or got hurt accidentally in the mine or of a crowd It Is. Jusf to put a good road on a tour of prospecting the doom. himself wondering whether there that wonld precede the more on finish It JuRt name It the the had all, 'un moves " through young quit legal and "Mr. Howard," he began, "I could ie more than mere coincidence more One safe system of surveyor. Harry, coming In the best society In town and spends In It all, whether she was a "Mother Howard," she corrected. "I wns getting. part of moat of his t.Ime trying to argue the The ascent was almost shebr In ain't used to being called much else." Rodalne schemes the and Rodalne the former district into Judge's places, for In Kentucky gulch the daughter then although I'm not v "Mother, trickery, whether 8o him. there are. marrying you to very amiNtomed But he ceased his wondering to turn hills huddled close to the little town using the title. Thats all Mother Howard knows, and rose in preclpltons inclines alHy own mother died shortly after sharply into a nearby drug store, most before the Son." city limits had been my father came back from out here." She turned to the door and then, there absently to give an order at the reached. lie stepped aside to allow Rhe walked to bit aide (hen and put soda fountain and stand watching the n turning, patted Fairchild on the shout automobile a band on bis shoulders. For a mowho had stopped Just In front the pnRsage of pair dor. loaded until the trucks, had ment It seemed that her lips were springs him on of the comer. She was the flattened "Boy" cam quietly, "you've got a same and until the engines howled struggling to repress something which ; there could be no doubt of girl broad hark and a good head. Rodalne with their compression as they sought trvve to pass them, something locked heat your father don't let him bent that, and he raged Inwardly as ahe to hold back their burdens on the behind them for years. Then the old and chaffed with the man who And always remember one chatted you. tare, dim In the half !lght,,ralmed. looked down upon her with a smiling steep grade. And tt was ss he stood Old Mother Howard's thing: played there, watching the big vehicles travel "What do you want to know, Son?" the game before, and ahell play It air of proprietorship which Instilled down the mountain side, that Fair-chil-d "Everything I Instant In rebellion Fairchilds heart. with you dark streets aren't exactly "Hut there Isn't much I can toll" canght a glimpse of a human Nor did he know the reason for that, the for place you." which suddenly darted behind a figure He caught her band. Robert Fairchild obeyed the In- either. of scrub pine end skirted far clump "There 1st I know there Is. a After moment they parted, and structions, a victim of many a conjee-- , one to "Son - nil I run do Is to make matside, taking advantage of every ture, many an attempt at reasoning Fairchild gulped at his fountain drink. covering. A new beat came Into ter worso. If I knew anything that as he sought sleep that was far sway. She had hesitated, then with a quick FalrchlldsTieart ne took to Would help yon If I could give you the road decision turned straight into the drug Again and again there rose before again, plodding upward, seemingly a any tight on anything. Old Mother store. him the vision of two men In an open man entirely bereft of suspicion. A Howard would do It! lord. didn't I a ticket, Mr. McCauley Buy she with buggy, between person them help ouLyour father when he needed quarter of a mile he went a half. whom Ohadl believed to be an effeml asked of the man behind the counter. as the road turned, beside a It the worst way? But I'tn as much Once, Swede; In reality, only a "I've sold twenty already, this morn- great rock, he sought its shelter and to the dark e you. All that I ever woman. And why had they adopted ing. Only five more, and my works looked back. The knew was that your father came to figure still was folthe expedient? Why had not Irsen over. Flease take the five, wont yon? this boarding bouse when be was now along lowing, running carefully Then be I'll been with them In reality? It was through." the bank of the stream In an effort young man, the very first day that he houre before Fairchild found sleep, Ill be darned If I will, Nita Mc- to gain as much ground as ever struck Ohadl. He didn't have possible hacked against a shelf rase In before even and then Cauley n was It much money, but he was enthusiastic thing of the return of the road to open mock troubled visions. "Every time you've territory should bring the end It wasnt long before hed told necessity of Streaming sun awakened him, and cot anything yon want to get rid of, caution ngaln. me ala. lit bis wife and baby back In he hurried to the dining room to find you come In here and shove It off on A mile more, then, Indianapolis and bow he'd like to win "The Three again In the shelef Us Drove Up the Main himself the last lodger st the tables, me. Theres only four In my family out for their sake. Ay for ter of rocks, he swerved and sought a and all I'm fours ate Street" a lie rather hasty meal, made going to take." lie they always called me Mother How more so by an impatient waitress, tossed four silver dollars on the show- (tiding place, watching anxiously from . ard, even when I was a young thing, down from the tunnel at his concealment for evidences of disnight, then with the necessary papers in his case and took the tickets. The girt sort of setting my cep for every good iTttle covery. There were none. The shadon a stepped bridge that always pocket, Fairchild started toward the demurred. looking, young man that came along. before had been as secure and safe owed as courthouse and the legal procedure "Bat how about the fifth one? Ive more came on, displaying more and 1 gocMi that's why I never caught one the hills themselves. caution ss he approached the fell It with which must he undergone before be got to sell that too" eof 'em I always Insisted on darning him they- went. down rocks, hurriedly about him made his first trip to the mine. "Well, sell It to Mial" And Fair-chil- as he glancing their socks and looking after all their feet and there waa together thirty moved swiftly from cover to Nabut A nothing Mock or and two, into then the Fairchild looking troubles for 'em Instead of going out ture to blame for It, In spite of what suddenly halted. Crossing the street mirror, saw himself indicated as the cover. Closer closer then Fairchild bnggy-rldlnjvith some other fellow w three thought Then, at last, they at sn angle Just before him was a druggist started toward the prescrip- repressed a gasp. The man was old, and making 'em Jealous." She sighed almost with hard, knotgot a fellow who waa willing to work young woman whose over ao slightly, then chuckled. "But for them In features, whose tion case. ted hands which seemed to stand out of what Rodalne's mannerisms he aplte There wag a moment of awkward si- from recognized. The whip-corthat ain't getting to tha point, crowd and It consisted of everybody habit had given place now lence as Fairchild gazed Intently Jnto the his wrists; thin and wiry with riding though, la II In hinted about your father's to a tailored suit which resiliency that outdoor, hardened "If you could tell me about my f- badpower deprived her his soda glass, then with a feeling of muscles often back East and" give to age, and with deputation that-haof the boyishness been so queer excitement, set It on the marble a ather" face that held Fairchild almost hyp"My father never harmed a soul In apparent on their first "Im going to all I know. Things his life!" Fairchilds vole was meeting. The counter and turned. Anita Richmond notized. It was like a hot, cap had disappeared before a hawk's; was approaching In a stranger-likwere a lot different out here then resentful. Mother Howard went on: colorless, toneless In all exvaricolored turban. But the manner a ticket of some sort held from what they were later. Every "I know he didn't. Son. Tin only straying brown hair still was pressions save that of malicious where around the hllla end gulches there, before her. the eyes were slanted until s the Miners are tenacity; telling etory. the brown the eyes, little nose see piquant "rardon me," she began, "but would they resembled those of some you could prospectors, with their as a general rule, and theyre and the fantass prettily formed llpa. care to buy a ticket to the Old tic CMneke yon gads end little picks, fooling around childish at while Image, It all believing Just things. above heart nor did he thumped like life didnt mean anything In the stop Ties dance? Its a sort of munlcl- - the worked In your fathers case with the to consider curving nose a scar why. A quickening of Ms arortd to 'em, except to grub around ran straight up the forehead. Squint exception of Ilarry and Slasle Lar- pace, and he met her Just ss she ta those rocks. Rodalne! sen, a Swede with a high voice. Just stepped th the curbing. Your father was one of these men. about like mine. That's So he was on the trail "I'm so glad of this opportunity," why they already! fBquInt' Rodatne waa another they gave him the. name. He went to work. Fairchild watched him pass, sneak he exclaimed happily. "I want to reculled him that because at some time A few months later around the corner of the rocks, and got Into good turn that money to yon. I I was so la hta life hed tried to shoot faster ore. It looked like they stand a moment In apparent bewilderthe. had luck wus fussed yesterday I didn't realize" than the other fellow and didnt do over at lust. Then " ment at he surveyed the ground be"Aren't yon mistaken She looked IL The bullet hit right between his fore him. A mumbling curse and he Mother Howard hesitated at the at ITlm with s slight smile. Fairchild eyes, but It must have had poor pow- brink of the very nubbin of it went on. Ms cautjoua gait discarded, to did not catch the Inflection. all, der behind It all It did waa to cut Robert Fairchild. A long moment no. I'm the man, you know, walking briskly along the rutty, "Oh. strewn tnrougti the akin and go straight up followed. In which he. a de- who heled you change that tire on road toward a gaping hole hla forehead. When the wound healed, sire to selxe her and repressed In the hill, hardly a wrest It from the Denver road yesterday." furlong away. tlie scar drew his eyes close together, her, and at lost There he surveyed the "Pardon me." Thla time one brown ground carelike a (Si Inn man's. You never see "It wns about dusk one night," she eye had wavered ever so fully, bent and stared hard at the slightly, inRqulnt'a eyes more than half open. went on, "Hurry came in and took dicating someone behind Fairchild., earth, apparently for trace of foot"And hee crooked. Just like his me with hint Into this prints, and finding none, turned very room. He "But I wasn't on the Denver road Mother Howards voice bore kissed me and told me that he must eyes-and looked Intently all aboutslowly and If you'll excuse me for yesterday, him. I never liked a touch of resentment. go jjgsy, HejEkcd me if I would Carefully he approached the mouth of him fvm the minute I first saw him, go with him without TTheTuanel nnff stared within. Then knowing why. ing seen yon before." and I liked him less afterward. Then And, Son. I trusted hint, I would have There wns a little light In her eyes straightened, and with another I got next to his game. done anything for him hut I wasn't which took awny the glance about him, hurried off up a deof the sting Your father had been prospecting as old then ns I am now, 1 refused gulch leading away from the road nial. a light which seemed to irge caujust like everybody) .else. Hed come and to this day, I dont know why. It tion, and at the same time to tell Into the hill. Fairchild lav and on float up Kentucky gulch and wus was watched him until he wns out of just woman, I guess. Then he that she trusted him to do Ms trying to follow It to the vein. Squint asked me If I would help him. I said part as a gentleman in a end he knew instinctively that asight surthing she sow Mm and what's more, ho saw I would. wished forgotten. More fussed than veyor would only cover beaten territhat float. It looked good toJSquiut "He didnt tell me much; except ever, he drew hack and bent low In tory now. Squint Rodaine. he felt and late that night, I heard lilm and that he had been sure, had pointed out to him the Blue while she pnssed on. Half a uptown spreading apology, Ida two thinking partners, I'dtiideye he word that the ore had pinched Mock away, a young man rounded Boppy mine. a Bozeman and Taylor Bill they Just mt and that the hanging rock had corner and. Reding her, hastened o Hurriedly ht-- descended the reverse hla mmi fur the sound of It once more to turn townrd townrock caved In and that he and Sissie and join her. . She extended her hand; and talking in Hlindcyes room. I'm a your father were through, that they they chatted toward Mother Howard's boardinr moment, then strolled He woman Maurice "OK, Mother Howard chuckled Rodaina." house. lie wanted to tell her wtiv beaten and weae going away that up the street together. Fairchild what he "so I Jnst leaned m,v head against. the had lit. Hut and Harry waited a long watched h lankly, then turned at a seen and to obtain her thine, gotten the bureau up by pal and of help dor and listened. Then ! flew down- tlhie before be told me this Slsste chuckle just behind him counsel. emanating mines to celebrate the return of slV-stairs to wait for your father when was not going with them. from the hoarded lips of an old miner, or mining." he came in from sitting. up' half the Tin putting p lot In your hands, loafing on the stone coping In front "But I'm afraid I'm not touch on Sight to get an assay oa that fluid. he told me. hut you've got to help us. of a small store. "A tall, thin, dancing."' ugfy old .man Jqulnt acd them two others was figurSisabJ' won't he there and I cant "Hick Jlie wrong fil.v. pardnerT with mean squirt eyes You don't have to ll Nobody on his cialm before he tel! you why. The town. must think came the query. Fairchild ing Jumping car straight up hi forehead." managed dance much except the could file on It and all that. that he Is. Tour voice Is" just like to smile. affairs. You see, everybodys supped "Well, there was a big Kite's." You've got to help us out Guess so." Then be lied quhkly. to represent people of the days when no be vo.Mi.Nt.tu , here thut I was kind of sweet on and of town. I thought she waJ a girl from Dtm things were booming around here. I guess I always will be. He's been I And promised,. Late thaj night, vrr. There 'll be a fiddle orchestra, and a A Chilean tnountnm consist 0f in. gone now, though, ever since your fa- the three of ns drove up the main Tier? The old miner stretched dance caller and everything I ke that, tnaa nf roore thn ther left? I got him and naked him street, your father on one side of the Nope. That's Anita Richmond, old and a bar hut of course there'll e only 000.000 tons of Iron or to help. And Ilarty woe Just the kind seat, Harry an the other, and me. Judge Richmonds daughter. Guess he Imitation liquor. But," she added iveraging 8 per cent tneui of a fellow "A RATTLESNAKE!" HRS. ABBEY PROUD OF HER BIG GAB Signature of ( In Use for Over 80 Years. Children Crj for Fletchers Cwiork " Qualified Criticism. la a little southern beauty k Betty spirit as well as In body. Always As finds things lovable In everything tat everybody, and If she cannot say Mat things she speaks not at all. U wu cold and raw when she visited Odes go recently. With her aunt and noth er she sat at a luncheon table In the Ein loop. "My hands are terribly cold, sail mother. Its too had the weather should ta so chilly," the annt agreed. Betty, with even a good word f I had Chicago day, held np her hinds Mine didnt get cold," she said 14 smile. Then honesty compelled Is ta add except a little around tta edges." 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