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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVTEw IS fia imn. .r ,B1 1 Prli could if it wilt IK 111 Mm..' riasuMS per 'i ... r.reirory L, U-Continued , tbat bis visit to Loony J w pass unnoticed. f J counted on was 5iel.in.self before shanty. Ashe J to tl first of the libe neard voices. JJu who bud once gdwMullen bass of Brt forgone . Qnlck recognition. U when ne spoK f"" . Klorloa tllest or w1"""'"-" , been known In these . heard, as though M lis speech for the burled it "ke a chal-man chal-man he did not know L when stripped of its foilflltb: foot ton're aymg ngm 'or me or wars rus It ain't going to ne m the time was whln- leeble spWt in. Pain nls Me the final dwindlings spirited dog. V ernaps the, ultimate argument Ad him. King threw iod old Honeycutt, trem-ield trem-ield upon his sawed off le, Beyond him, facing t Swen Brodie, his 1m- towering over Honey-ling Honey-ling one, his bestial face Sits contortions as at once and .threatened. In tads, which were twice an. ordinary ma na, was SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS In the California tltrr. MarktWn,, prcwrtor . i a , Sm Bnrfle, Parlor-. end.. enpl V" W br to tfa home ol u old frimd. B ciynoV. Th5 5 'JL hi. waT awria,.. King hat not Bet Mrs. or OortT1 " b W dauthur. Kin, and Garnor ahar. with Brodi. aodlu Zfu Wt,-rwld .tor. of told hidden b th. aiarra ,ur b.forTv l!, b,l'. 1 a vt eutt. U beli-v-d to know th. hldin, placT ' r Lny" Ho preued by Gloria', youthful beauty. Amot L7 ? "d U im-Franciaco im-Franciaco capital! appar.tly a f.vorwiTtor CXuVCd.1 " S" Jen hoi, to which Honey-were Honey-were glued with frantic silently the box had only taken from its hiding- lr a loose board In the i lay tossed to one Irodie's legs straddled the a did not know Immedi- anyone had entered; old ears had not heard, lied mind was concentrat- iitogly on Brodie that he Ithonght of anght else. iwever, turned his small, yes, that were like two ht-blue buttons, upon the Ddte was the biggest man erer come to the moun i aid, unless that honor be of the'seven who more tikentury ago had per du ingle. And even so r Bt the honor in- his own fsting that Inele's eiant I the worst of a bad lot, m ftther. The elder come from Iceland, had sqnaw, had sired the "Brodie. And this last house of outlawry and a Bine Devil, as manv f Aooi sli or eight clear fit Mart King, who was f to feet His head was Mitening off an Inrh esa brows; his" face double-toothed hig mouth closed. The jes narrowed and dint. fw ace reddened. Old J tw. He began to sput- i-'wi load voice had I Vm nd drowned odt 'hriUiDg8. Brodie Irani? nf j. 'Id jon to What Is more, I had a talk with him before I 'burled him." ' Brodle's big mouth dropped open ; bis little blue eyes rounded, and he put one hand to his throat nervously. ner-vously. , 'Andy's a liar; always a liar." he said thickly. .But he seemed annoyed: an-noyed: Then his face cleared, and he, too, laughed, derision In his tone. "Anyway, he's dead and can't lie no more, and your word against mine ain't more'n an even break. So If your nosing sheriff gets gay with me I'll twist his cursed neck for "Suit yourself. Tve told you already al-ready I came for a talk with Honeycutt Honey-cutt and not with you." "Then you'll wait until Tnj done with him," roared Brodie, all of his first baffled ' rage sweeping back through his blood. "And now you'll dear out!" . " King stooped forward just a. little, lit-tle, gathering himself and ready as he saw Brodie crouch for a spring. It wag just then that both remembered remem-bered old Honeycutt lVor tile old man, tottering In the opening of the rear door, was muttering In a wicked sort of glee: "Up with them hands of your'ri, Swen Brodie. High up an' right quick, or I'll blow your ugly head ofrn your shoulders I" In his trembling hands was double-barreled shotgun, sawed off and doubtless loaded to the muzzle with buckshot. Though the thing wavered considerably,. Jts end was not six feet from Brodle's head, and both hammers were back, while the ancient nervous fingers were playing play-ing as with palsy about the triggers. trig-gers. King expected the discharge each second. Brodie whirled and drew back, his face turning-gray. - ' come In? Ton N timing to kin i mn 7Z. t0 the flan, rm. y P.okerb't double. u. King, fir t0day Brle 'Wing for trouble, J ord with Honey- aone;.from the look .flstha, kSS by that," 1 I B.v. lf'ttT reaay t0 take ana without a JSf ? her il.LIflnSer for what Cn. I?" or miss. Was "Put it down, you old fool; put It down!" be cried raspingly. "I'll go." The old man chuckled In his delight de-light "I'll put nothln' down," he announced an-nounced triumphantly. "You set down that box." ' . Hastily Brodie put it on the table. "Git!" cried Honeycutt. They could bear the air rushing back Into Brodle's lungs as he came to the door and his fear left him. "I'll b backv Honeycutt, don't you fear," . e growled savagely. "As for you, King, you and me ain't done. I'll get you where there's no old fool to butt In, and I'll break every bone In your body." 'Til be ready, Brodie," said King. He watched the great hulking figure as it went out ; two hundred and fifty pounds of brawn, every ounce of it packed with power and the cunning of brutish battle. ' If he ever fought Swen Brodie, just man to man, with only ,the weapons nature na-ture gave them, what would the end be? But Brodie was gone, his shadow withdrawn from the door-step, and he had his business 'with Honeycutt 'Tut your gun down, Honeycutt," he said qufetly. "I want to talk with you." "I got the big stiff on the run!" mumbled the old nAn, "He caln't come 'an' bulldoze me. Not me, he caln't No, nor if Swen Brodie caln't git the best of me, no other man can," he added meaningly, glaring at King. "There's that box on the table," said King. "Maybe you'll want to put It away-before he makes you another visit"' j nJ'.mer 1 -be too late. Don 1 1 tell you that already Brodie has gone as far as Lookout Ridge? That means he's getting hot on the trail of it, doesn't It? As hot as i am." Then what are you comln' pes- tttoV48''0" If y0D know where "I don't know." Honeycutt cackled and rubbed his hands at the admission, admis-sion, "But I'm irolnir rn fin So, probably, ia Brodie. Now, look here, Honeycutt I am for making you a straight business proposition. If you know anything, I stand ready to buy your knowledge. In cold hard cash." ' "No man ain't got the money-not enough not any Morgan or Rockefeller" Rocke-feller" King began opening the parcel he had brought from the post officers he cut the heavy cords with his pocket-knife Honeycutt looked on curiously King stepped to the table, ta-ble, standing so that out of the corners cor-ners of his eyes he commanded both doors, and stripped off the wrapping wrap-ping paper. "Look sharp, Honeycutt," n'e commanded. com-manded. "Here's money enough to 'LiH rn, hi. Ff " l nine more'n It M W men Etudy- 4 lUt M'Ce got r- nln you . t " "iCI) the sheriff? tttdl, ou and Andy rSi1? on th. ' orerboard. Honeycutt" hastily set -his-gun down, leaning It against the wall with both hammers set back, and shambled to the table. He caught the box up and hugged If To his thin breast breathing hard, went to his tumbled bunk in a corner, sat down on It thrusting the box ont of sight under the untidy heap of, dirty bedding. bed-ding. - He glanced at his gun. "You git too." King felt that he could not have selected a more Inopportune mo ment for hlsvlslt and already began be-gan to fear -that he would have no success today. :- But It began Jo look as though It were a question of now or never; Brodie would return despite the shotgun, and Brodie might now be lookedio for--rough, shod methods. So, to catch an interest in-terest which he knew was always readily awakened, he said: "Brodie and Parker were on Lookout ridge day before yesterday. Brodie shoved Parker over. At Lookout' Honeycutt" Honeycutt jerked his head up. "I wish Td of shot him," he wailed. "I wish Td of Mowed his ugly head off." ; "It might have saved trouble," admitted ad-mitted King coolly. "Also, It might have been the Job to hang you, Honeycutt Better leave well enough alone. But listen to me: Brodie told you, and he meant it, tflat It was going to be Brodie or King who got away with this deaL" "He lied I Like you lie!" Here was Honeycutt probed In his ten-derest ten-derest spot "ItH be mel lie, I tell you. Think rm old, do. you?rm feelln' right pert this spring; by Summer III be strong as a young feller again." His Whole Argument Was on the Table. ' last you as long as you live.' ' All yours If you can tell me what I want to know." A golden twenty-dollar coin rolled free,' shone with its virgin newness and lay on the table-top, gleaming its lure into the covetous old eyes. Another followed It and another. King began counting. There's one thousand dollars. Right in that pile," he said, "One thousand dollars." "One thousand dollars. An' some of It gold. New lookin', ain't It Mark? Let me have 'the feel of one of them twenties." ' - King tossed It; It fell upon the bedding, and Honeycutt's fingers dived after it and held It tight He began- rubbing it caressing it King went on counting. . "Ofie more thousand in this pile," he said. "That's ,two thousand, Honeycutt 1" Two thousand," repeated Honeycutt Honey-cutt nodding. He got up and shambled sham-bled on his cane close to the table, leaning against It thrusting his peering eyes down. King counted out the last crisp note. . "Three thousand dollars." He stepped back a pace. "':rpbsaW"dbnar8''r-ThTrt,B a sight of rooney Mark. Three thousand dollars all on my table." His thin voice was a hushed whisper whis-per now. "I never seen that much money, not all at . once and spread out" "It's likely that you'll never see that much again. Unless you and I do business." 'It's a sight of money, Mark, Honeycutt whispered again. "It's a sight of money." King held his silence. His whole argument was on the table. He went to the door, standing In the sunshine, filling Ms lungs with the outside air. The sight of the gloating miser sickened him. More than that It sickened his fancies so that for a minute he asked himself him-self what he and Brodie were doing do-ing I The lure of gold. . The thing had hypnotized bim; he wished that he were ont In the mountains riding rid-ing amohg'the pines and cedarer-lis-" tening to the voice of the wilderness. wilder-ness. It was clean out there. But the emotion; like a vertigo, passed' as swiftly as It had come. For he knew that though be bad traveled on many a golden trail It was clean-heartedly; that It was the game Itself that counted ever- with Mm and no sueh poisonous emotions as grew' within the wretched breast if Loony Honeycuiw r tnrneaDa? eycutt was near the bunk, pon-tag pon-tag for his shotgun. He started euiltlly, veiled his eyes, and turned empty-handed to the table If It was all in gold, now," ghM Honeycutt hurriedly. King made no reference to Honeycutt's Hon-eycutt's murderous Intent . "Tllat PPer is the same as gold " he said. "The government backs it "I know, I know. Bui; "what's a govment? They go busted, don't tfey sometimes? .. Same as folks? Gold don't go busted. There ain't nothln' like gold. If that was all In twenty-dollar gold pieces, now" "Hi get a car here," said King VYell drive down to Auburn and take a train to San Francisco. And there I'll undertake to get you the "uuie-tning m gold. One hundred and fifty twenty-dollar ..pieces.".. . But Honeycutt shook his head. VI couldn't leave here, an' you know It I-i got things here," he said with a look of great conning. I wouldn't go away from. With the world full of robbers that would be after me like hounds runnin' down a rabbit I won't go; you caln't make me. No man caln't" King's patience deserted him.. "I am not going to make you do anything. Further, I am not going to put in any more time on you. I have offered to pay you three.thou-sand three.thou-sand dollars for what you know and there is the very strong likelihood likeli-hood that you don't know a bit more than I do" "Don't know " shrieked Honey, cutt "Wasn't I a boy when the dyin', delerious man stumbled In on the camp? Didn't I hear him talk an' didn't 1 see what he had In his fist? Wasn't I setting right side by side with Gus. Ingle when that happened? hap-pened? Wouldn't I of been one to go, If It hadn't of Jbeeri that I had a big knife-cut In my side you could of shoved a cat In give to me by a slant-eyed cuss named Baldy Winch. Didn't I watch 'era go, the-whole seven of 'em, Baldy Winch, rot him, Jeerin' at me an' me swearin' I'd get him yet, him an' Gus Ingle an' Preacher Elsbn an' the first Brodie an', Jimmy Kelp an' Manny Howard an' the Italian? . Wasn't I there? If I don't know nothln'," what're you asKin' me for?" King had learned little that he did not' already know. He came back to the table and began gathering gather-ing up .the money. "Wait a minute, Mark," pleaded the old man, restless as he understood under-stood that the, glittering coins were to be taken away. "Let's talk a while. You an' me ain't had a good chat like this for a year." "I'm going," retorted King. ; "But I'll make you one last proposition." He thrust into his pocket everything every-thing except five twenty-dollar gold pieces. "I'll give you eiactliy one hundred dollars for a'.' look at what Is In that box of yours." In sudden alarm the old man shambled back to his bunk, his hands on the bedding over the box. -"You'd grab It an' run," he clacked. "You'd rob me. You're worse than Brodie" . "You know better than that," King told' hlra sternly. "If I wanted, want-ed, to rob you-I'd do It without all this monkey business." In bis suspicious old heart Honeycutt Honey-cutt knew that. : "I'll go "you !" he said abruptly. "Stand back. An' give me the money first.". King gave him the money and drew back some three or four paces. Honeycutt drew out . the box and poured out the contents. " What King 8awTlhfeeartIcle8 only, were these: an old leather pouch, bulging, probably with coins ; a parcel ; and a burnished gold nugget nug-get The parcel, since It was enwrapped en-wrapped in a piece of cloth, might have been anything. It was shaped like a flat box. Honeycutt leered. .."If Swen Brodie bad of knowed what be had right m his hands," he gloated, "he'd never of let go ! . Not even for a shotgun at his head !" "Brodie hasn't gone far. He'll come back. You have your last chance to talk business with me, Honeycutt Brodie will get it next time.". . " -v Ho! Will be? Not where I'm go-InT go-InT to hide It Mark King. I got another place; a better place; a place the old hell-sarplnt himself couldn't find." King left bim gloating and placing plac-ing his treasures back In his box. In hla heart he knew that Brodie would come again. Soon. It began to look as though Brodie had the bulge on the situation. For that which Mark King coiild not come at by fair means Brodie meant to have by font For he had little "faith In the new "hidln place." ' rtnt on a near-by knoll, where she Lgat. with bfr back to a tree, was Gloria. Hefturnea luwnra ner; she waved. He saw that; -Brodie and two men with him were looking out a window, he heard one of them laughing. They . were looking at-Gloria at-Gloria " King quickened hi step to come to her, Bs blood ruffled by a new anger which he did not stop to reason rea-son over. He could Imagine the look in Swen Brodle's evil little jTO BT'W . . LANGUAGE CLEW TO ALL PAST HISTORY Why Archeological Work Is Important To some It may seem foolish for a man to spend weeks and months recording the pecularltles of Bpeech of an aged Indian who recalls a "lan guage which Will vanish completely with that person's death. That lan guage Is completely outworn. The descendants of those who used It are now speaking English or Spanish. To the uninitiated, It Is the mere record ing of Useless gibberish. let the American Council of Learned Societies reports with pride that one research worker has nearly completed records of the Southern Caddoan language, that another Is piecing together a record of the nearly near-ly vanished Mohican dialect of the Eastern Algonqulns and that still an other has found that a handful of Indians In Oregon still speak the Cayuse language, which It was thought vanished 50 years ago. Such work Is more than a pastime or a hobby. To archeologlsts and others Interested In America's past it Is of vital Importance. Native languages form one of the most reliable re-liable means of tracing movements In prehistoric America. Pottery, weapons, weap-ons, jewelry, basketry, design and architecture all are clews to events in that forgotten past But language is a thread running through them all. 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