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Show T"E LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAH .Pi fwum iijiiu.. i ii.n hi. ii- i. a i mi.. .i mi iimim.ii mi mil inn iii I I ill ka' -lff . ....... nl "Tea. Want to see him?" "I reckon. Before he goes." night maile maSS MUg for the a good night "Hope you'll have and sleep well," she said. "I'll be fine an' dand? sured. Outside dandy," he as the eirl snnto initr. ently to the night, -Mr. Yerbj wants to see you before you go" . Slnce Doctf Sanders had just been explaining that he Intended to stay all night with his patient, Mc-Cann Mc-Cann was Justified In M i . v"a' impersonal remark aressed to him. house. was ad- He went Into the BEGINNING THE STORY Aenert lgnl of distress, Wilson McCann, young byt flnd an old friend, Jim Yerby, with a broken yn Bt "7 i-uKhter of Matinew Biar. inveterate enemy or juji !o(i ana ! tvei.uow.iB imhib uun SiicC" r f.ther. Wilson Is fired on but Is unhurt. r ...ii. to ner , JUl. jffl CpTER I-Ctinued i 0 I it W Ihapter -- I ths Circle Cross gteadliy wimuui be message . .Art flniTlE UUS led at last abruptly. , mo to bring a iftct,Mn Stark." ji tana hmn dared down .ui, r -- iless, the cool eyes m anvinkingiy. interested." the old man re-"fj re-"fj deliver 'em now I'm in- son bushwhacked me up "".. ctPrtaddled to n tne pttoa ;.. hide after he'd sent a hino whistlers at me." cattleman turned to his so sbout that, Jas? e was weakness and vice In U of young jasper oiar. Lin the jaw. He answered : 1 didn't aim to kill him I warn him to turn back." fet was why you fired at me frtite I was makin' for cover, r McCann asked with a Lit-SeaUcal Lit-SeaUcal laoeh of scorn. Vifi t lie. The second shot ton ron olugfced at me.' :i rider from the Flying V T m his belt and handed it to Jew Start "Look at my gun e who's a Uar. AU thecham-Ire thecham-Ire loaded." old man broke the revolver, ed it, and returned It to Its I "Don't Drove a thing. Like I yon reloaded it" lile my hoss was hittln' the l?ota tryin' to catch that lobe the son of Peter McCann sug-I sug-I with obvious sarcasm. " ft carried the war Into the ene-eountry. ene-eountry. Iou got a nerve to tout bushwhackin' after what f.d to pore Tom McArdle," he oat angrily. I young man's answer was In-I In-I "Tom McArdle would be alive I if he hadn't died till a Flying ler killed him." 'nt tefl that to me. I know P' all yore lying breed," Stark font bitterly. 'Tm tellin' yon I'd aa soon put faith in & yel-fojote yel-fojote as In any McCann ever I An' Tm sendin' word to Pete fen that there's a day comln' I I'll settle with Interest a-plenty f iat he did to McArdle. Now J that fuzzy an' light out I 1 want yon here." J st about that gunplay up In mv joes as it stands. suits me." . erent here, an I'm liable to -a so when we meet again," said boldly. old man's eyes blazed. "Like him now maybe V Wm VI rider looked from The boy's 4 to the men waiting tensely for ? -4 w lift of g hand that : n order to begin u cuneJ in an ..ot now, gentlemen." 'hit the dust pronto." 4in?VheproaMr- Stark. ; inloaaea that second mes- L?om yonr daughter." w.;.r.8ee ta the old sSn struck to.ln. ?rdby to tell h,fh0Dlate. I saw fteg. Thedoc'aontheway iJl? Mys; she,u com 'Place.' ' Ierby need loot any helpr , on,aboQtTerby nQn of watchful bI- Sri?le vacktne taunt-OIeowbo,8ong: taunt-OIeowbo,8ong: nd roU h high, CHPTER tairsemaa asked. for hinx HoWd you come out at the Circle Cross? I see they didn't scalp you." No," McCann said dryly. "They sent a messenger to meet me." The doctor's sparkling eyes guaranteed guar-anteed attention. He guessed that something Interesting had occurred and he was a born gossip. Mas Stark shot at me an' lit out I followed him lickety-split to the ranch. We had a few pleasant words, the old man an' me." "Shot at you? He didn't I How come he to do that? They don't like you a lick of the road, you or any of your kin. But shooting 1 Who started it?" In a few crisp sentences McCann told the story. The doctor listened, absorbed. Was this the beginning of the end? Would the smoldering feud break Into open warfare, bitter and tragic? If he knew theMcCanns and he thought he did they were not the kind to take this challenge tamely. They came of fighting Irish stock, upon which had been grafted four generations of American frontier fron-tier life. There were likely to be reprisals. Even now both camps were waiting wait-ing tensely for the signal to begin hostilities openly. The death of Tom McArdle had brought them to the point of war. But the doubt as to who had killed him had made for delay. Matthew Stark had hesitated to give the word. While he brooded, brood-ed, willing to let events shape themselves, them-selves, Jasper had fired a wanton shot that might be the first of hundreds. hun-dreds. The doctor rose and with a sigh of resignation knocked the ashes out of his pipe. He saw busy days and nights ahead of him. ' Well, it was in the hands of the gods, or rather of two grim hard men with too much of the desert fierceness in their blood. He was a pawn In the game they played, Just as were the rollicking boys who would ride out laughing to meet death at the lift of a hand. No use tellin you so, of course, but it's all wrong, Wlls this put ting yourselves above the law and killing so free and easy." "Have I keen killin' anybody free and easy, Doc? Better speak to Jas Stark about that, hadn't you?" Tm not meaning you, Wlls. But some one shot Tom McArdle." None of our outfit Doc. You don't mean we had anything to do with It" The eyes of the range rider were bleak. "No, Wlls. Nothing like that But you know how the Starks feel. They're holding it against you boys of the Flying VY." Sanders knew by the other's face that they were no longer alone. He turned to see Julia Stark In the doorway. "Who else would we hold It against, Doctor?" Bhe asked curtly, looking straight at the younger man. There was a thin Ironic smile on the brown face of McCann. He murmured, with the soft drawl of Insolence to which he sometimes reverted, re-verted, fNobody else would have dry-gulched him, would they?" "What d'you mean?" the girl demanded. de-manded. The man In chaps said nothing, but he continued to give her that mocking smile. It was the doctor who answered at last "Tom was oulte a boy for the girls. Miss Julia, Folks say some folks do that maybe some one who was jealous or wanted revenge mfght have laid for him." The girl's dark eyebrows gathered gath-ered In a frown. "First I've heard of It that Tom was so fond of the girls. And If he was If he did like them Is that any crime, any reason rea-son why some one would want to kill himr T reckon you didn't know Tom very well," the doctor 6aid Judicially Judi-cially with Intent to hold an even balance between the Stark and the McCann. "He was a mite wild, Mis Jnlla. hw the stories Tve heard." t Ann't know anything about that I never saw him but once.' sha ewont dpfiiint eyes over the ridor. -Bnt I don't believe a word about a private enemy killing him." You wouldn't" agreed tne young e man. The Implications of hla amlle stirred her anger. Stiffly she turned and walked into the house. Those outside heard verby: Don't I hear that Flylnj YY boy "How they stackin', old-timer?" be asked. Til make a hand yet What's worrjin' me is I've got to lie here like a bump on a log an' let a kid like you see Miss Julia home. She's outa luck. WelL eivA m in Pa Stark when you cet to th n. cle Cross." "Was that what you wan tn tell me?" Little imps of deviltry danrort in the beady eyes. "No, Wlls. A wink is as good as a nod to a blind hoss. acratcn gravel, boy. You know tha ol saying : Onnnrtimini to nv . bald-headed guy with chin whiskers; whis-kers; you can catch him comin' but not going." McCann's answer was direct 'Tm not liable to forget that she's Matt Stark's daughter, so you needn't "Don't Prove a Thing. Like at Not You Reloaded It" look so blamed knowln', Jim. I don't like her any more'n she does me." "Shot She's a mighty nice li'l girl, an' the best lookin' one In Ari zona." "No Stark looks good to me," the son of Peter McCann said grimly. They were taking the short cut across the desert before either of them spoke. "What did you say your name is?" she asked, rather Imperiously. "They call me Wilson." The girl noticed the slight pause before he had drawled the answer. It probably was not his right name, she reflected. A good many men did not use the one to which they were born. In that country It was not good form to insist on particulars as to who a man had been or from where he had come. "You ride for the McCanns." He assented, without words. Silence fell again between them. They had come out of the silt and were threading a way among the steel-thorned yuccas. The moon and the stars were out touching the land as by a magic wand. All harsh detail was blurred. Ten thousand years of drought were wiped out A soft desert breeze was sighing gently across a sleeping world. His words, when at last they came, were a surprise. "Why isn't it always like this?" he asked, speaking almost to himself rather than to her. "How do you mean like this? But she knew, she hoped she knew, what he meant oeiore u answered. For the desert had entered en-tered Into her life, too. She sensed its moods and reflected them in her owa Sometimes it was a hot de vouring monster blasting au living thinra with its fiery breath; again at sunset when light was flooding over the sheen of the mesquue, u might be a silver dragon less destructive. de-structive. In the moonlight It was kind of lovely, all ugliness and threat obliterated. A crouching animal siippea qu-- ly across tne irau uuu . arraL . . "Coyote T she asuea. Wildcat" he answered, with unexpected bitterness: the desert for you. Again she understood meant and again asked, you mean" "Survival of the fit" -Isn't that true everywhere?" -Maybe so, but the conditions are different Everything that Uvea here S horn and bred In hardship, trained ?or attack an' defense. No escape from It All the planU have I Wck an' callous rinds. They have thorns ttat sting. They have to push the roots -way Into the ground to get water H they don't toughen they Je. Tha's what'srilln' us bumans. We're desert-bred." "Aren't people the same everywhere every-where r she asked. 'So. Here we have to fight or go under. We fight the bought and Sat of natuit.W.fibt each other for the water holes. If we don't we lose out Consequence Is we get fierce and savage like that wildcat" Yes," she admitted with a ugh. w e're all under the spell of It, all hard and relentless, klnda. But we don'r have to be what Is It you called that wildcat? ferocious and 'y. The desert shows its teeth most of the time. It's full of sting and barb and thorn. But that's only one side of It AU th m. It's trying to tell us something else, isn't It?" His brooding eyes rested on her. So she, too, felt it this wild young thing, so full of contrary impulses, of passionate resentments, of brave elusive dreams, of mysterious cravings crav-ings for goodness and beauty. He forgot that she was of the enemy. Something primeval stirred in him, a Joy old as the race, that walked with Adam and Eve In the garden. Without taking thought of It he knew that they rode alone In a world wonderful. "What's it tryin' to tell us?" he asked In his low gentle voice. "I don't know quite. But something some-thing good and hopeful. The lovely flowers of the yucca and the cactus aren't they a promise (-us?" She laughed at herself, soft-eyed. "May-be "May-be that seems silly to you. But it's the way I feel Tonight now. In all this still moonllcht tha dpsprt isn't threatening us, is ItT They were drawing up Into a country of creased arroyos. On the crest of a hillock they stopped and looked back across the Painted desert des-ert The man was for a moment carried out of himself. Looking at this starry-eyed girl, clean and In nocent and rhythmic In the fresh ness of her youth, It seemed pos sihie to escape the Inheritance of his dark environment There was something in life deeper than hate and selfishness and revenge If he could only find It Down the wind came drumming, the sound of hoofs. The two lis tened in silence. Each, sitting poised and alert on their mounts, knew that several horses with riders were moving rapidly toward them. The fact had its significance In a country coun-try where one might travel a day without meeting a human being, Voices became clear, a snatch of laughter, an oath. Silhouetted against tne skyline, three cow ponies moved along the ridge across the arroyo. Julia gave a little cry of greeting, greet-ing, lost in the cllpclop of the hoofs and the chuffing of the saddle leath er. She turned to her companion, to suggest that they canter down and intercept the riders. But the words diec" on ber lips. The man beside her was watching watch-ing the riders as they descended from the ridge and disappeared. He sat crouched, eyes narrowed to hard shining slits of light teeth clamped iike a vice. The change in him shocked ber. He had become be-come a machine designed to' stalk and kill, a desert animal savage and ferocious, the deadlier for the still ness of his emotion. "Did you know who they were?' she asked. The eyes that looked at her were chill He nodded without speech. "I reckon Dad sent them to bring me home." She knew he would not accept that explanation, since she could not believe It herself. They had come through TIncup pass and were honriort Rnnth. Mnrpnver. thev Car- ried rifles. Why? What did they fossils rroor or .5 .tf hajwfsj'sWWsi 'I V"- tho greatest name In rubber is back of that price tag! II you're looking for the greatest thrift tin money can buy take a look at the one you see pictured here. It's a lifetime guaranteed Goodyear Speedway built in the world's largest larg-est tire factories bodied with genuino Supertwist cord marked with the name Goodyear Speedway guaran teed for life end sold at the prices listed below. 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Near Heidelberg, In Germany, a iuman Jaw was found during corn ier, England, and consists of a very Then, "That's what "What 'Killers! Who says my father's inlma)s of at lea8t a naif million men are killers?" she flamed, "wno fearg ag0- Tnia beingt cauea pune-are pune-are you, anyhow?" :anthropus erectus, had a small head. "Wlls McCann." he flung back at Kuh huce ridges over the eyes. Its her. He could see her recoil and stiff en. "I might have known it You liar!" She threw the epithet like missile In his face. "If I were a man" "You've got an able-bodied broth' er," be suggested ironically. "Maybe you could hire him to take a crack at me from the mesqulte. He might better luck next time." "I don't know what you're talking uercial excavations. The stratum in about" the girl said scornfully. rhlch It lay was deposited in the "Ask Jilm when you see him iecond Interglaclal epoch, probably again. He wouldn't lie, Jasper 250,000 years ago. The Jaw Is huge, .,,Mn'f no'a a Stark, you know." Lt has no chin, but the teeth are she swung ber horse and gave It unman. a touch of the spur. Before lt had Another find of about the same gone twenty steps the man was rid- tge was made near Plltdown, Sus- lne beside her. "Hit the traill" she ordered hotly. "I don't need your help to get home." "i rpekon not." he drawled. "But I Dromised Doc, so 111 mosey along." She pulled up, a diamond-hard glitter in her eyes, -im going 10 my brother. Td advise you to light out" "After I know you're safe." His voice was cool and dry, his gaze level and unwavering. "If I tell Dave Stone and that mtnpr what you called them kill ers "Why, then, they'll prove It to yon right there," be cut in with a Jeer-m Jeer-m lauch. "Seeing Is believing. nio rialm we owe 'em one for Tnm McArdle. an' they'll collect now." (TO BE CQNTI-VUED.) Hawaiiaa Celebration irav day Is Lei day In HawalL On May 1 everyone In the Islands wears a flower garland In special observance of the friendiy cuBtom of giving lels. simple skull, combined with a Jaw which resembles that of a chim panzee. Fifty thousand years ago a people called Neanderthal were living in the caves of Europe. They were distinctly dis-tinctly human, but In ninny ways resembled re-sembled the anthropoid apes. They had long, low heads, projecting faces. and walked In a semi-erect position. About 25,000 years ago they were displaced by newcomers, the Cro- Magnon, a people much like modern Europeans. Drew His Owa Teeth Missionaries' hardships were Illustrated Illus-trated by Kev. A. II. Cropp, who lives on Bougainville, Solomon islands, is-lands, now on furlough In Auckland, New Zealand. The medical service on Bougainville Is limited, and before be-fore he left on his furlough he wanted want-ed to have several teeth removed. There was no dentist available, but he had a set of dental instruments. Seating himself In front of a mirror and giving himself an Injection of cocaine, be extracted the teeth him self. Human Side of Apes Apes display several human pas sions. The gorilla will fly into 1 fearful rage. The orang Is wonderfully wonder-fully affectionate to Its young. Gibbons Gib-bons have a sense of humor. Thej delight in mischievous play and, being be-ing tailless, will, when they have th chance, pull other monkey's tails ai a great Joke. Chimpanzees have 1 gift which dogs have never beei. known to display they can see 1 picture of themselves as a picture They will recognize their own por traits, or grow excited If shown 1 study of a bunch of bananas. Amonj the gifts or powers which man pes sesses and apes lack It Is remark able that man can weep, but apes cannot Compliment "I wish I had come to this hotel I month ago." "Ah, you flatter my place." 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