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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAn ing my Jeans. Ive got to separata myself from it or niaks my roll a thousand." of It waa that both Sara , The cud and Curly went down "To the corral and aaddled their pooles. To the iask the conspirators played up to tbelf CROOKED TRAILS AND STRAIGHT Adventurous and cited reck-las- s, by liquor, Curly n.indrau and his chum, Mac, tx.jli jrtu tlcally mere boy a, become involved . In a advemi.re Disposing of the stolen stink In the town of Saguache, Aru., the hand separates. Curly and his partner Staying In town. They are awakened and told a posse Is In town in pursuit of them. They i lode their puraueis. Overtaken next day, Mae Is killed by the posse ami Curly taken captive, after he has woundshot one and himself , ed. The man ehot Is l,uek a former fighting sheriff. friends, all cattlemen, determine to lynch Curly ae an example to cattle thtevea With the rqpe around his neck he la saved by the Intervention, of Kate I'ulllson, Luck's daughter. His wound dressed, and further violence not apprehended. Curly Is sent for lv Cullison. He questions the concerning a notorious outlaw. Soapy PtnneT real leader of the rustlers who had been Curly's undoing.' Flandrau learns that Soupy (done Is Culllson's hitter enemy and exorcises a baleful influence son Sam, who over the has quarreled with his futhir. horse-stealin- g d la-e- ('ulli-son- s (!-lison- ly . i Cui-1- brave-lieurte- Cul-liso- 1 son goes ball for Cujly. Curly rescues Soapy Stone from a hear trap. At the Imdon ranch he discovers that the outlaw la Sim ('Willson's rival for Isiuri l.omhci's linnd. CHAPTER Continued. IV. 5 Laura (Cfttno Into the room nml ranged herself beside her father. Her hand reeled lightly on Ids forearm. "110 got caught in one of your hear traps nml HiLs young lunri brought hhn lirc to v.t for the doctor, she explained. lluipr - The MHmirtnn stared without civility at his guest, turned on his heel, and with Ills daughter beside him inarched out of the room, lie could not decently tell Stone to leave while he was under the care of a doctor, hut he did not intend to make ldm wel- ' come. Well pull our freights right away, Curly, Stone announced ns soon ns bis host had gone. The young man went to the stable nml saddled Keno. While he was the cincli a shadow fell across his shoulder. He did not need to look round to see whose It was. 'Tin so glad youre going to he horse ranch. You wilt look out for I hnve Sum. I dont know why.-huthe greatest confidence In you, the owner of the shadow explained sweetly. Curly smiled blandly over his shoulder at her. "Fine! That's a good uplifting line of talk, Miss Laura. Now what is It Im to' do for you? She blushed Ttnd laughed at the same time. Her hand came from behind her back. In It was a letter. Thats to be my pay for giving Master Sant his hilly doo. Is it? "How did yqu guess? .It Is a letter to Saiu. "How did I guess It? Shows I'm sure a wlz, dont It? She saw her father coming and hnnded him the letter quickly. A spark of mh-chiHere. Take It. and the dimples enme lit her eye Good-by- , ut ou her cheeks. Curly. tight-enln- g t , ef CHAPTER V. ) - - Cad Medicine. was a ndobe structure. long, low Two men were seated on t ho porch playing seven up. One was Had Hill, the other Blackwell. At sight of Curly they gave up their game. Whore did you drop Hello, kid fronf? Cranston asked. A muscle twitched In Flandraus The house at the horse most. Sam was at an impressionable age, Inclined to he led by any man whom lie admired. Curly knew that he could gain no influence over him by preaching. He had to live the roiigh-imtumble life of these men who dwelt beyond the pale of the law, to excel them at the very things of which they boasted. Hut in one respect he held himself apart. Wtiile he was at tin horse ranch lie did not touch a drop of liquor. Laura Londons letter was not delivered until tiie second day, for, though she lmd not told her messenger to give it to Sam when he was alone. Curly guessed this would he better. Sam ran over Ills letter two or three times. It whs such a message as any Impulsive girl might send to the man she loved when he seemed to her to walk in danger. loved her for the Interest she took in him; even while he ridiculed her fears. As they rode hnokto the ranch. Curly mentioned that he lmd seen Sams people a day or two before. Cullison tasked no questions, hut he listened intently while I lie oilier (old the story of his first rustling and of how Miss Kate and her futlier had stood by him in his trouble. If 1 had folks like you have, the sal; of the earth, and they were worrying (heir hearts out about me, seems to me Id quit helling around and go hack to them," Curly concluded. The old man sent you to tell me that, did he?" Hard and hitter was the voice of the young man. No, he didnt. He doesnt know I'm here. Hut ho nml your sister have dom more for mo limn I ever can pay. Thnts why I'm telling you this." Sam answered grullly, ns a man does Much obliged, wlu'n he Is moved. Curly, hut I reckon I can look out for myself. Just what I thought, and in September I have to go to the penitentiary. Theyve got me duelled. Hut with you Its different. Theres nothing to this sort of life. The hunch up hero Is no good. Soapy dont mean right by you, or by any young followin' trails with. Ill not listen to anything against Soapy. He has been n good friend to me. I m not going to throw him down." Would it bo throwing him down to go hack to vour people? Weve got. plans. Yes, It would. Soapy Is relying on me. No matter what they are, hut Im not going to lie down on him. Aml Im not going hack to the old man. lie told me he was through with me. Im not begging him to take me hack, not on your life." Curly dropped the matter. Hut ns the days passed he kept one tiling in his mind, not to miss any chance to win his friendship. They rode together a good deal, and Flamlran found that Sam liked to hear him talk about the Circle C and Its affairs. Hut often he was discouraged, for he made no progress in weaning him from his loyalty to Stone. The latter was a hero to him, and gradually he was tilling him with wrong Ideas, encouraging hint the while to drink a great deal. That the man had some definite purpose Curly was sure. What It was, he meniit to find out. Localise he could not persuade him to join In their drinking bouts, stone nicknamed Curly the good bud man. Hlackwell picked on the youth to he the butt of bis coarse pleasantries. ria-ndra- -- ram-- 1 ch ock: Th ey got ' 'neaT the - dow n -H- im--us- Mae opened tire. Circle-C.- -- They- - killed him. nr ? - Cnrly was left to guess the other half of the question. hoi him anil took me prisoner." "They couldnt prove a tlimg, could they? . Tilin. They could prove I wounded Culli-nonThat was enough for them. They set out to hang me. Later' they changed their minds. IIow come you here? Id you 1 - ? Nope. Friends- dug- up had. Say. Soapy has been telling me that the kid Is up here. I reckon we betnot ter say anything about my mixup with his folks. Im not looking for any trouble with him. "All right, Curly. Curly sat down on the porch arid told gn edited Story of his adventures to them, liefore ' be had' lmished a v young fellow rode up and dismounted. . .... Alter. bc.had. JUDsaddiejl jmd turped Jy i T- pony Into ji iTnedTh i others 4 as the porch. Curly Lashed Out Hard With His Left. : 'Totutg- Culll yT tm J? yptrted-- rreo'f tn the chair next to"! Iandrau. lie laid. Hay after day' be peiaied''tils'jeet','at o Curly thought, n strong family Curly, who continued to grin as if he to his father and sister. did not care. When the turned, it hnpptnol KtllLa hojr In his ways, he might any I hu t Utey tj ey, were n d f i u n i g o c : h e j e r h , jciJt that would transform Mm Into a man. Curly was sewing a broken stirrup leather. Hlackwell had a qu'i hi Ids of studied the characters Curly those present. Hill he knew already hand, and from time to time tie ked it fairly well as-- a tough nut to erne, at tit" hack ojf his victim. Twite the game to the ore, and suunh to if. iush sting, not hard, but with pepper - - : Cul-liso- n r . c' a'Ci-,TTnrh- - -- y FIND THE CAUSE! It ien't right to drag along feehng miserable half rick. Find out what u making you feel so bauly and try to correct it. Per hap your kidney are causing that tbrx bhing backache or those sharp, etabbing pams. You mav have morning lameness, too, headaches, dizzy spells and irregular kidney action. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. They have helped thousands of ailing folks. Ask your neighbor! and costs only all a few cents he grew sunny again. Im going to have a talk with Laura while Im so near, ie exYou drift In . . . Just hap-peplained. along, you know. Ill stay In the 'scrub pines up here. If the old man la absent, scenery, you wave your bandanna real Industrious. If he Is at home give Lsora the tip and shell know where to find me." The owner of the ranch, as it happened, was cutting trail over by A gut Cnlieiite. Io you want to see him very bad, Mr. Flandrau?" asked Miss Laura demurely. No, I cant Ray Ive lost Mr. Lon-do- n An Idaho Cato Mrs. E. Ttockweli, Fifteenth St., Lewiston. Idaho, says: My back ao was lame and pained so Intensely n friends. Hlackwell was a 1H(1 lot, treacherous, vindictive, slippery as an eel. Even his confederates did not trust him greatly. Hut it was Soupy and young Culllson that Interested ex- hurt t CORNS! IK) William MacLeod Raine rather than criminal, ami OF According to program , Sam sulked for the first few miles of their Journey. Hut before they reached the Bar (Copyright by Q. W. Dillingham Company.) Synopsis. ' Doesn't parts. By "HAD ENOUGH?" LIFT ri Sril enough to hurt. Lach time the young man asked him to stop. that it was ImposHlackwell snapped the quirt once sible for me to too often. When he picked himself over. My stoop but of the dust five seconds later, lie kidneys were and was the maddest man In Arizona. Like no little a hull he lowered his heHd and rushed. Doana Kid not only Curly and lashed out hard $ ''iw'AD my kidneys and made them normal, with his Urt. but they relieved r It wns a with bout, the lameness In my back and helped me In very way. no rules except to lilt the other man often and hard. Curly watched his Get Doan's at Any Store, GOe a Boa chance, dodged a wild swing and You Inquired for him. threw himself forward hard with his limp! Thats different. When I FOSTER. MILEURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. shoulder against the chest of the conto come home from the swimued vict. The man staggered hack, tripped I used to on the lowest jdep of the porch and ming hole contrary to orders Magic! Just drop a little Freezone where dad was, but I didn't want mi that ask went down hard. The fall knocked touchy corn. Instantly It stops PARKER'S to see him. HAIR BALSAM lift the corn oft with then aching, you the breath out of him. BemoreIMLndnifl-Stnthi- r I see. Did you Just come down the ailing No humbug! Had enough? demanded Curly. fingers! Truly! R tom Color and the horse ranch? from Faded Hak Uaauty to Cray and For answer Hlackwell bit Flundraus Try Freezone! Your druggist sells .a iuo. and $1 n at You've- guessed right. W X. P. tr home ttT a tiny bottle for a few cents, sufficient B1wi thumb savagely. "Then I am sorry I cant ask you te to rid Since you like It so well, have anyour feet of very hard corn, HINDERCORNS Remove Onrtu.to On) Dad's orders. the gw., toM ad paio, eamirt emfurt 'light. or corn between the toes, lot!,mated soft corn, other taste. vaik me eaav. Ibo, by mail or at Drug now Curly, thoroughly In those orders about you X. Ctovinhmi Work fatcfeofuei iiiaooa flat Anything angry, sent a short-arjolt to the meeting one of the lads from the horse and calluses, without one particle of mouth. pain, soreness or irritation. Freezone Is the discovery of a noted Cincinnati Tlit' man underneath tried to throw him o!T, but Flandraus fingers found genius. Adv. his hairy thrnut and tightened. IS IDEAL- Wants to Know. Youre killing me! the convict The .Datighrer Mercy, no! I never gasped. wear this costume on t lit street. I hud Enough? Soap 25c, Ointment 25 asd 59c, Talcvm 25c. It made for gym. cs. Her Father Jim who? Curly stepped hack quickly, ready mrmnvtDbvfv frrr. Rosrnvnr Ointment Unwrlst or br either for a knife or a gunplay. Black-wel- l FRECKLES Co r heck. Dr. C. H. Ben? mii. k.c 2f0 7S MIcMumAvmuv, CfMcago. A his to feet went Irdo tin and got Remedy. That automobile' poet certainly house, swearing to get even. His face B. Watson was livid with fury. writes recklessly." Patent Lawyer. Colotnan, Then they ought Washington O. Ad Tice and book free 1. You wouldnt think a little thing to take his poetl license away. Eatea reasonable. Highest references. Ueetserncea. like a whaling given fair and square would make n man hold a grudge. My without system has absorbed doing Irimy harm." Sum stooped to inspect a rapidly discoloring eye. ' "Say, Curly, he hung a pencil of n V Net foments lSTluiAPracfrr, lamp on von. Soapy made no comment In words, but lie looked at Flandrnu with a new Infants and Children. ri sjH'ct. For tin first time a doubt as to the wisdom of letting him stay at Inranch his mind. Ills suspicion wns Justified. Curly had been living on the edge of a secret for weeks. Mystery was in the air. More than once he had turned n corner to find tin other four whispering ALCOHOL-- 3 PER CEi over something. Oecasvanlly a man I AVcefeble Preparation BfAs lmd ridden into the yarn late ut night 1 similatintlicFaod ty "Ill otayin the Scrub vines Up Here." for a private talk , with Stone, and i 1tatheSmkandBMMS rai.cn up on the luuside where It Is Curly was rfmrally certain that the Dutch neutral ground? inn ri was the little Did Sum come with you? she cried. of the Circle C. He's here. Oil, I know hes here. Thereby PromcUniDigstfctf Through It nil Curly wore a mnnncr 1 get for do acMfutncssandRcsltorts What good bringing of open confidence. Hut all the time news? neither Opiaffl.rphlnen his brain was busy with questions. I didn't Mineral. KotKAHCOTIC say it was good news. What were they up to? Wliut was It Sho! Your big eyes are shouting they had planned? it. Stone and Hlackwell rode away one Was thnt the news from the horse iSrw" To Curly the word was morning. JbdflAASS ranch?" Mesa. to were that going they given Thats part of it, hut there is more. Four days later Soapy returned alone. and Curly are on their way to Sam Lute had found u job, he said. to spend the Fourth of July. Sagunche of out That a paper sticking your NsAiyiwsfcrtr Is golfig for another reason, but Sam asked. Fl.tndrau pocket? AhclpfulRcmedyfcf I'm not sure yet wlint it Is. Theres Soupy, still astride his horse, tossed and DiafThOM I don't save., some doing something tlu' Saguache Sentinel to him as he big deal on foot that's not on the level. turned toward the stable. Is Spin is In It up to the hocks.-llffie folds of pathe between Caught fpcuftin fterefrora-inblie to outfit vvief "supposed quitting Soupy's per was a railroad time table. It raSeiidMl21f a schedule of the trains of the Texas, for good. Hut I know better. viute to the L'ps, sbo faced him Arizona Sc Pacific for July. Curly What sort of trouble is he bravely. turned the pages Idly till a penciled leading Sam into? oC marking caught Ids eye. Fnder NumI've got a kind of noMon. But it ber 4's time was scrawled, just below Saguache, the words Tin Cup. and wont hear talking about yet. Dont opposite them the figures 10:11). The tell him what Ive told yov, unless you 'IS? express was due to leave Saguache at want to spoil my chance of helping him. it From there 0:" in the evening. I won't," she promised; then addl'd, pushed up to tlie divide and slid down Maybe 1 can with air brakes set to Tin Cup three with quick eagerness: Exact Copy of Wrapper. tmi cnrraoa com cany, new voaa city. to Saguache down thousand feet lower. Soapy could not help jou. Im going 3 want to catch the train fifteen miles to visit on the Fourth. Ill look you up.. Trouble Is that the other side of Saguache. Hut this His Way. The Human Touch Lacking. mde on the margin showed thnt he Sain is bent on ruining himself. Seems old so clothes become When A Is If It friend. your best In reached v as Interested to think Soapy his the time way Is said to have been found to ashamed are ind thnt you rean for him must shabby different we he show could There tank. water washing linen by electricity. In the things wear them any longer, asked the Sal- future patrons will have to tear the son for it. might work out all right." While she climbed the hill to Sum, vation army solicitor, what do you do buttonholes themselves. Hunch, LonFlundrnus doubt had been convertdon. ed into a lively suspicion. Presently Curly watered his horse and smoked with them? Wear them!" grindv replied he took a gnu and strolled off to shoot a cigarette. He was not hired to Smith. Kansas City Star. birds. What he really wanted was to chaperone lovers. Therefore, It took Agreement. tx -i of tm hour reach be alem- hnfbeemiltt think the mutter him See Real Not here, the Thing. json, ybuarewusUng a over. Coming home tn The dusk, he Hie sorUl) pine bcit ou The 'edge of the lot of money on Miss Blondy. are What little you for, my crying saw Stone and young Cullison ' with park. nuiu? I am . wilting ..to . admit., pop, that , I ain't crying; this la just a llielr heads tugeUmr (Iowa by the corAt once he saw that they find been rohenrsal." it is money ral. Curly sat down on a rock and having a quarrel. .The girls eyes were watched them, himself unobserved. red. and she was still dabbing at them NAME-BAYER-- ON some to be with her handkerchief when he came rehearsing They appeared was kind of a scone, of which Soapy whistling along. Sam looked discourstage director. aged. but stubborn. Very plainly they The mail on the rook smiled grimly. had been disagreeing about his line of Theyre having a quarrel, looks like. conduct. . , . Now the kids telling Soupy to The two young men took the trait to go (luinea, and Soapys pawing ngaiu. About noon the next day they Safe and proper directions are in every Bayer package around mad as a bull moose. Its all reached Saguache. After they had f a plsv. to They - dont mean it, Jint enten. t erty strobed xoT by why? the depot. ' Gimme a ticket for Tin Cup for this Curly's mind was so full of guesses that his poker was not up to par that evening. I want to go by the express, night. About daylight he began to see tie told t,he agent. his way into the maze. Ilis first gleam Tth man looked at him and grinned when a row started beof light Youre so darned active, majbe you liefore could get off No. 4 when she is- fogtween Soapy and Cullison. anyone could say a word to stop them ging n e n s i x t y m i e s p c r H u t most, tlVey 'vero going through w mr'Thu't folks could n not w tli any emu for)." identical corral ypinrrei. . Meaning that the fiver doesn't ,.Fbndrau,Xtiev. now. Jhat they had side-steppe- d sledge-hamme- slu-Kt- si DOAN'S rnA - VTJL drtir-l-'- Ch-- m. Guticura Soap For the Hands jut Y-- v PATENTS v - I ! (Ell cro-M- 'd For Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always ? Bears the cow-punche- Signature of In ; e Use udUgss-- 4 For Over y Thirty Years 4 c Hos-tett- er "' Three-qttarte- rs miss-spen- t. GENUINE ASPIRIK) hiio-iel- -- ias - 1 1 . ' 1 foeif preparing it "for Ms at Tin Cup. nave to .take the afternoo" tmia Not Cranston chipped In against Sam and. iirur Cim-Ikrep'irfv I'reV"TuHdiivf the boy. Tin quarrel At last Sam drove his fist down on the table and said he was through with the outfit and was going back- to TH-e- v to- - 1 e - Saguache. Yo , - taiplof n, He punched a ticket reckon "Laver Tablets cf Aspirin to be tains proper directions to safely relieve and s listed it thne: ii the window genuine must be marked with the Colds, Headache, Toothache, Earache, Sixty-fivtoward Curly. cent, safety Then you are Neuralgia, Lumbago. Hheamatism; Neurit"Iiayer Cross. idcase." is.-Joint ralhs, End ralit;genere!ly. getting the true. Aspirin, tin boxes of. twelve tablets Handy prestrilied by physicians for over IS cost a few cents. Druggists also but years. sell larger 'Barer packages. Aspirin ATwnrs lny ati uru.mken package of Is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture "Layer Tablets of Aspirin which con of Mouoccetlcacldesterof SaJlcyilcacU. tTO UK CGNTLNL'i-U- l wodd-famou- agreed Curly. Not that Ive got arvth'ng tigain.-- t the hoD'e riimh. That ain't ft. Hut I'm sure phi ng for to bust the enk at Hronsons. I've get forty plunks burn j s |