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Show 2a. Clogging snow at ;he run, thi time to the bouse; bore ho hS got Ut and 1.1s oat. hi gi..,M and his rs. After that to the 'table. a:'d rut a loop up..,, the Pony wh.ch he believed (.me he nearer to the (1,. nans s performance a tonight wiry, almost underfed Ju-In- n htent lt.g y, rty-pon- j Ruon Bones Shed Light 'tin Earliest Americana A . - se Institution scientists diMVvered ancient animal bones Is t'eliivl to Bo tim oUlest habitation he la America, s.iys Batlitlmlcr Magazine, The bone4 have been Identified ns those of a species ef bison whii h are thought t have followed closely upon the receding gin c'cis of the last lee age ami to have Inhabited the North American continent at ttie so me time as the uiys tenons "Folsom men. These men ,n!ule O'id looking fools know Q 8S Folsom points, which have been found s, jittered widely 'over the con tinont and In connection- with bones of .gTnt age. More do tailed evidence of the race, however, has never teeu found. Scientists are, therefore, looking hopefully to th s s te with the expectation that It may throw light upon the nature and .origin of this primitive AmerUun. The "Folsom man," ancestor of the American Indian, Is believed to have come from Asia. , r t - t- s -i, h,-- i half an hour passed when he ort than w ,, itJoad Ut " by bls door opo Be ini Je through t v- i- there kj lit joa r lket ST . iii m? big rj bee mit lnt0 nail she came close to op eyes U ,trDck d thumb hU and darkln u wft,Ung ttr bat Is r-meb0(5y -S- -l Qj St Mariesaa quletlyasghosts. ja-J-ust What do you o! Jup iromid ,rll i kooJt" i of them?" many t Be was prowl jd!j I emngb the shadows more than ten horse plainly, not j one. jaw carrying some-v- j Then I I heard a walking horse." 9h did you see this?" Vm the window of my room. 1 rhi1 stand It alone there any L sometimes I think Im going ,fiy. He was n ill shoulders. Kentucky 'jCt Mvi a look." 4 tf hls gun belt fillet," she cautioned him. ' 'me doesn't want to be It Is certain. If were going hj st who It is, he mustnt ) that bei been seen." Sat for hls yroped the way through tag ranch house. hand and led cold dark of had two windows, one wu wide open. At this t she knelt peering out and rapped to one knee beside her. first saw him from my bed, whispered. He went behind ink room hid For a while spruce. 3ood filers behind It as If he watching the house. Then he a, walking as quietly as as !a human. As he went out Mfi I got up and came to the and I watched him until I k; dnt aee him any more. He it toward the pump house, and d fight" tot we any sign of him now." "u seized him arm, and he her breath in her teeth, haft that? There, close in the low of the pump house?" atecky looked hard where she :d. Aa he stared, straining hls i ln the bad light he pres-heju to believe that be could a out the crouching figure of a dwarfed 1 fan hh City ed La ncwij sdcotd it fame and otitt Matt, ! s CISCO 31.00 37.10 rs.H llam J aa Fo alike f la a long time they it there, their eyes fixed upon todo against the pump house. a the telephone broke into K eatery in the house behind JtjJ UTlH K SWEET 1 - m--- , - l A RY 44 PREMIUMS - cnc-alme- nt nnl-nm- X tin-Ba- TOO for r i ' r ffiSIMU Qei:R6 03705? hom-vn- , -- n X, 4906917 1$ W& (BG.d0KJO -- OU& we , k d What aeemed Viskiit ple& TWEET! J- her- e- mnna the layout o THE FLAVORS TWEET, spot In northern Col rado where n'.hoiii.ui' . -- f'ALANLEMAY .) wu epsi strong nut, the markings of 't Indian blood, Kentuok had the blanket on and was swii-io.ji, saddle aboard f7the horn as Jean, cornu c out from tbe house, reached hls sale. father's brand What where But the d e .veiery of t! Whats happened V rule told him at once that A sudden crazy ang,-ofle tame into Kentucky, like a strike of white tredddy, she was playing an n:;.-lightning. At its Impact all the lj.ione hand at least, he i. as far as the Bar U .. Icrn.-companion, all the he bitterly, -TBUY IT, Concerned. Fur certainly m, had felt for this girl m eined to had RIOT ITS had to do w !. 'anish, as if she had him a riiie anya tiling IT in tied, Burled In the mattress hls fingers under a hjpnosn the sped ofwhbh only a w found the polished wood of a rifle had snapped. lie turned on her fu would select a cache so c! . t he light. stocky ' and beside It, dismounted, rloucy. She was acting, theq, wc!., cool smooth of steel the the barWhat Is l! to you w he-- p j g0 with her futhe- or operation a moment hls hand For rel rested or what I do? Men their hands Other of the Bar Hook on these while something turned In th lions mouth put for you, and you The association of this fuelpetsa.m won over lo the pit of hls stomach and tell them nothing n,.t even enough of Jeans run). to refused go back Into place, lie so that they mu take care of their with' her father's enemy w.i-- , un withdrew hls hand and sat down own lives!" Suffering avoidable. minds suffer without comlimply on the edge of the bed. lie Strong She stared at him a moment in To this unhappy situation liio plaining, weak minds was not ready to say what the dis utter complain bewilderment, and one hand levclatlon of St. Maries com- -, n,,,, out suffering. covery meant; but he knew Instant- went to her throat. a added H "Why, Kentucky sharp immediacy lc ly that Jean was more deeply inw by, I e toid you lieved now that the materi.i's loi Kentucky volved than he had supposed per- more more than solution had been under then haps far more deeply. "Dear G d, He snid, You trust no one, and wire now petiiip- hd you hands; he whispered, "wliat have we here? HEY THERE YOU, work with no one; everyone trusts to them because Jean had con we What have here?" . . .Clabber cealed the that and let very would you, us all ride blind you signs The murmur of Jeans voice withYOULL LIKE IT Girls Record ,,f He turned furiously to his horse have shown t he trail. Be, in tbe house had ceased; he heard perfect her of evld, rethe faint stir of the door as she and drew the latlgo up with a snap baking Hook urn had moved ttainiy. sults tbs at came lntor the room. lie stood up. that Jerked a grunt out of the ant In t he dark; and the result A Indiana Stats overwhelmed with such pity for this mal. And he set his teeth in his lip helpless was that a good tall boy w.is (,ad. lest 1934. he utter the heMef wlmh had Fair, girl that he was the and others would perhaps - i, h,m victim of an unaccustomed timidity. overwhelmed him; that Jim Humph before It was through. She came close to him and her hand reys bad died bwau.se of the reIn hls present state of dis ilu ticence of this slim now stand sionment and the touched hls arm. girl, dreg of ancer. he "That shadow was a misdeal" he lug beside him in the snow. was supported by no panicle of "Ilut but Jean Raglands eyes fal'h. He could not put her out of whispered. There Isnt anybody In that shadow. I dont believe theres looked enormous In her wh!e hls niiml. But she seemed to h.tn anybody out there any more." She face. Kentucky Jones lxnied above to be like a miruge, whlh lures all her like a tree, so that even In the sanity out of a thirsty man, said, Oh." yet He felt Infinitely gentle toward his anger he saw that she was a contains nothing of r,,,r her, and compassionate. PreKntly pitiful and desolate figure. ?et he sincerity, nor faithfulness. when he knew that he would have to ask was seeing Jim Humphreys face finally it Is reached. her why that gun was concealed In as he had seen It last, staring with He pushed on steadily, counting her mattress, ne was unable to unseeing eyes at the first stars; and, upon the toughness of his pony. ask her yet "What was the phone believing that Jim Humphreys' His hojte that he, would be aide to death could have 'l.oen prevented make IIIgbtinoDB Gap laToie SL call? he asked. - - - ----Will a cheap quality spray OnCE you taste Grape-Nut- s Flakes, youll "That . was for you," she told had Kentucky known what this girl Marie was very like a prayer. He do the job?... Q wui notj had a stubborn ugly urge to throw flakes cheer, tool Crisp, pwcet, golden-browWhats the aniwer?i bullets Into something alive, and with plenty of real nourishment One dishful, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS SUBSTITVTtV blow it off the face of the earth. DcwutnJ with milk or cream, contains more varied nourHe hoped fervently not only that TLY-TOishment than many a hearty meal Try it At tbe inquest Into the death of John Mason, banker, Jean, daughter of he would head Joe St. Marie, hut Campo Ragland, owner of the Bar Hook ranch, where Mason met death, sur- that St. Marie would your grocer has It I Product of General Foods. fight. reptitiously passes to Kentucky Jones the bullet which had killed Mason, Then, unexiectodIy, he found that she having abstracted It from the evidence. Kentucky goes to work on the Bar Hook ranch. The Mason verdict Is accidental death. Bob Billot, owner he was In country that he knew; of the "81 ranch, adjoining the Bar Hook, drives hls cattle on the Bar and In three hundred yards more Hook land. Lee Bishop, Ragland's ranch boss, expostulates, and Bill Mche Into nightthe trail recognized him. Cord, Elliots foreman. Insults Bishop and Jones are astounded by Ragland's Indifference to Elliots action. Jones tells Jean Elliot knows she mans Gap. He approached with purloined the bullet at the inquest, which Jones has got rid of. Her re- caution, stopjvd bis horse and action mystifies him. Zack Sanders, rook at the Bar Hook ranch, is found swung deep out of the saddle, not dead, murdered. Sheriff Hopper, investigating Sanders death, announces hie knowledge that Mason also was murdered. In s gun fight with riders during to set foot to the ground. of tbe "88 ranch Jim Humphreys, Bar Hook cowboy, is killed, and Billy Carefully, with ungloved hand, he Tetersen badly wounded. Jones sends for fighting cowmen, but Ragland erplored a section of the' trail Inch countermands the order. Jones seeks to trace the ownership of a gun found by Inch, until he was satisfied that on Jack Banders, which hs is confident has a beaming on the mystery. Jean sella him her share In the Bar Hook ranch, thus giving him a free hand In no man bad passed this way before him In the last twenty four hours. any .controversy with Elliot He proceeded Into the gap. Ice under foot where the $HE PUT MS IWOUSH crackling him. "It wai Mark Ferris, that gun- most know, be could not forgive snow had been crushed by passing AN 0 IM SCHOOL, HONEV.ANO her. smith .at Waterman. Heg trying to A little way shove the trail HANDLING HER AFPAIK trace Zack Sanders gun for you. "Ive been taken for a fool and hoofs. In a twisted hunch of Junlpera, he I a used But as he said. fool, I "Yea? Quick What did he any? gissssTifcai easily found cover for a man and a "He said" Jean waa shivering tell you thla: Im going to ride this horse. Kentucky Jones brushed so violently that she could hardly thing clear through to the end, re- the snow off a bit of rock, rolled well-the- n we control the chattering of her teeth. gardless of what the end is. You himself a cigarette, and listened to IT ALL BETTER Cm "Walt a minute. Kentucky picked hear me? And when thats done I'm the quiet I YOU LOVE JACK! UP, her up, sweeping her off her feet through. Im going to try to cut off He had time for a second cigaI AUNT YOUR BUT , with an arm under her knees, and St Marie at nightmans gap. If rette, and a third, leisurely smoked, we couio never laid her on the open bed; then dont get him there, I may or may with long waits between. He presnot go on. I havent dedded yet ee had to think that he happy; pulled the blankets over her, and began the gun Into ently "The man who misread Joe St Maries purpose, pressed the edges close about her Zacks hand la theput man responsible and that the man had taken some throat "Now go on," he said. "He said that he has a record of for the death. Just as surely as If other way. But there waa nothing he shot Zack himself and that gun to do bnt wait such a gun. He Bold It second-hanwas St Maries. Tm going to have When at last he heard an apabout a year ago." me that man. When Ive got him. did horse it startled him, it In G a name, woman, who proaching Im going to tnrn and get me the he sell It to?" man that killed Mason. And I dont To Joe St Marie." care who It Is, or how close to home, For perhaps half a moment Ken- or If It splits the rimrock wide open tucky Jones waa completely still when hea caught" Then be sacked In a deep breath 1 on hls tongue to tell been had It and began to swear between hls whom shield she CURSESt I her that might MARS MOTHER HAD OH.MERW! Pimse me poor A0NTwcy..sHE of teeth with the vicious Intonation KNEW THAT SOUR TROUBLE ONCE! OOESN'T MEAN TO BE 8 HER WHAT I VDU, a man who puts hls whole heart she wanted to, Us to whom she conceal what evidence PEAS- .- Tf REAUV MAY CROSS. CUT HER into It He had suddenly become wanted to, SHE CUT OUT COFFEE YOlLiWSr GlRLMAfiY.WAfi1 to. but he would see wanted ahe S BE aware that he had perhaps put off I HEADACHES ANP WO TRIED POSTUM. Stop RAVING UP TO NO GOOD! of Mason hung. In the tbe formation of one theory for a the killer MAKE THE CHANGE VJOf&D Rr-rTvnf- 7 INDIGESTION Nowrai end ; but he bit It back. Still jerky little bit too long. IRRITABLE U VJDWT YOU HER SO WONDERS! vaultbe with and anger, explosive Suddenly be whirled to the winTRY IT, ed Into the saddle. dow, crouched low to avoid the sash, miles he held steadily AUNT For four and vaulted the sill racing for the then turned and awung northward, bunk house, A match was already to cut a trail In hls hand aa he thrust open the a broad circle, seeking would the supposed which verify door; he struck It on the logs and direction of Si Marie. He waa with quick efficient motions lighted far to the eastward when be at last one of the banging lamps. track - made cut - a- straight-drawn- "Str-Ma"liesaiaAloud. within the hour. lie Judged that Joe SL Maries bunk was empty. the bronc rider wa pushing northKentucky swore again, blew out the east at a l trying aa Jones light, and left the bunk house on had guessed for Hlghtmana gap. the run. He beaded now for the The hours passed and the pony corral nearest the pump, bouse, and It aeemed to Kentucky tired, and sprang half way up the corral sappose 1 DIDN'T Jones that that ride waa perhaps coffee could harm fences and loneliest he had The half dozen horses In tbe cor- tbe longestin hls Ufe. He could not anyone. .except, of made ever course, children!, ral were huddled together near the Jean Ragland out of hit mind. Shs Cams Closa to Him and Har OhI yet.. .many 1 empty feed box. The ponies moved keep remembered the strong sharp Hand Touched Hla Arm. a He and shifted, hot by tbe time too, And that adults, of her fingers, and the pressure caffein In coffee knew the heard had counted them Kentucky before be her cheek, and the pliant, bad come so close can freed nervea, rose which horse was gone. Thla in- touch of upeet cautiously, curve of her body In bla It at alL He sound or causa bis sleep! and indigestion, prevent formation only verified, how- yielding leather put In ita be could see the stir and hls gun f the poty'a bead to ever, what Kentucky had already arms; her loose hair aa they had left arm around of drift a If St-It yovl luspect that coffee' disagree with'Jrou I .'.try' .. Marle,.. leavLng guessed-- - Joe- Bold Utiwir 4ta 'nose, preventing stood In the corraL 'This girl had far 30 days. Postum contains no caffein. It's Poetua now knew aa Kentucky stealthily, aU living. a a whinny to the stranger. of center the become whole wheat and bran, roasted and slightly imply Jean bad seen him leave, was cerAround a shoulder of rock sevla the center of a range, waterhole sweetened. Its easy to make... and costa less than away the rider aptain to take the center of a camp. He enty five yards he - half a cent a the a fire or Ita ddidous. too. ..and may. tbe cup. recognized horse upon the place. In thla case and a bad never been called upon to ad- peared; real help A product of General Foods. . prove Mack white and black a daybank. Kentucky mit thla to himself, until suddenly wore. FREE ! Let ua send you your first week supleaned against tbe fence and circumstances had asked him to ac- Inaw that Joe St. Marie hands hls of COSTISVED ply of Postum reef Simply mall th coupon. tbe ) BE pressed palms (TO cept also the certainty that she against his eyes. He was pictur- had betrayed them alL w. a. a. Poona, Battla Creek, Ukh. Omul C." ing to himself the lay of the cotin-trMeaning ef Scad DM, wriUkout obligatwe, a wrecks supply at Bostons. could not avoid recognibe For of Intricacies card and the probable haltingP. P. Or,0.1 concealment of the VJoe St. Maries mind. Immediately tion that Jeana the card wa sent or that means than meaning different a bad rifle c friend that the he came to a conclusion which he feat of bera left to notify the had no reason to be certain was had that extraordinaryshe had lifted person waa leaving town. "P. P. when sound, but which was the best be at the Inquesl killed Mason from C." stand for the fYench words, ftU in aomptatatjr print sin mad srfJrsM that bullet Tkia offer expires December 3L 193S conge; literally, for could form from what Information the prendre sheriff. pour the of nose very the under he had. a 1th the bullet had to take Jeave. Once more he drove through the Her concern - W that some one if tml the killer !!.,, leii'.t some one wliTT . mij;l t , ls have been open to un sifFTr:n. Ahhoiijib" in tin- , ,, iniii nvaileii i, thobui!et, of his help, he had 1., vii a , i, ,, dervtaml that he remained Ni, herewho could not i, he tolifTn what sort of thii assisted tier. But In spit Man Coffee he had assir she was at leant cooarn the Interest of her father 3 the eudden burst ecroae their ' of sound tense nerves f .Crick whip against Wngt Jean Jerked herself together. The tclePbone violent-pulUn- h, i EJ whispered. One lDswer that I of ns think tay and watch u fot me ru faj8, at bm. the J g message," hesitated, then with hls eyes ttelr ark, Kentucky what seemed a long mnrmur of Jeana t, K-S--w an3 with hit 1 tbeIr Work he the f tbe w flssokl ysterious tbat he finally what it was a priEe- - nd a broken he obeyed, ,7:J JJJ Whomsoever fiiSA .g u e I .3 now, he was hadw of the not wince Jjad hwaM tocether. J r8e 8traISht-- I h thPIin,nee ne long st001 Jean ' t Vilt limJrn It PP creaking 0f the : vwumt W A 0 iwia...tr COfFEE-NERVE- mnmi fZ - rte cat-tro- VCW'W Wod i ' ' . Wtrm t0 hls lain and Wed fj?,ha1 ;and f tht the to Tmnt he mar-tar circumstances fJnn'i11!, J 1 Heten?1 rbuoua rW C 4 Pon blm 80 little meUlIne else, Jtattrpj Wla Va-- ; omethlng at had noth-- r Hped tnSudden,j'Ken-tattoilth, kne broad-bande- ed 1 beside nw f y, Jh,!0Cg wlu the Ciash,8at raw-bon- Z- - I i . ,f. v.'t. |
