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Show I i THE LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAH 0 Iff I LBY HAROLD TITUS .PTERVIII-Continued j vou L. war iaiu" Si to school You are Toi can learn " Brc i and maybe they can Zemt trom you. iou re J it loa should keep on 1... Do the things your rryanOjtbway boy; ,WJ 01 UJiunuj "trails, remember. You go fly,Igotnemau m can't cross. Understand sl said and looked away 'scgestloo of disappointment ihTut her red mouth. It was Ln not despair; just an ac- , of frustration, pernio, touched Steve profoundly. Ul be here very long, now, be said. "I may be going m, now. I will go, perhaps, tiefore your father dies. I know where. I haven't any Rut before I go I'm going to ,ij ap and see how your .fa- is and it It some way so Franz bother you even after I'm out country. You'd better get ml now. Want a canoe?" fe 1 walk fast In the woods, hi yon hungry r tad risen and looked at him mm which made him wince. is sot a conscious glance of re- bat her face reflected i- wen as he had not had in he put the question. She .wed, silently crying for sSwat; but it was not a hun- I,' the body, not meat and drink I the needed, m bread," she answered. "I t. Good-by, Jim." I talked down the trail to another branched off to take I ng the lake shore and Drake ttae, feeling small and hu-U hu-U I sense of having failed so misty mis-ty to meet a situation clung. It I'm and that was why life the arrival of McNally's I so need for the moment m he glanced up McNally was f-tof down over the wagon 1 ud, standing where she had I from ber place on the seat, f'tfrl Outlined there against ( "be was a Diana. Her laced fm trim; the riding breeches ttnely molded legs. A gay W well over a slender torso pare, boyish shoulders. Her " roae In a fine column and d. flung back with the brisk blowing tendrils of fair hir f ft. seemed like a posture of i w ulc Wuue oanaage f wertj her eyes. fnjttl Kate Flynn, holding - aands a worn brief case, f nm tonilng herself as a liUKssenger for Polaris! h out of Steve's L, as more fair to look ehad ever dreamed in kTaiM he ha1 had her these feverish ,v It waa thi hot -v,.v him, not the thought that I Person whom he mnM w . u now ana Hi! ttat vldual at i" one wm tn F;a. Mt to him:. U.v l Here's Katie L? U' hIde the high f5P0SSmeI her. She "You did It, Duffer I You did It all yourself 1 You're the old Dad's son for certain. . . ." She pulled his face down, offering offer-ing her lips. He wrapped his arms about her; he kissed her on the mouth, a long lingering kiss unable to resist the Impulse before the strength of her appeal. She re- m ft "You Did It, Duffer! You Did It All Yourself!" sponded as their lips touched and then he felt the breath gush from her lungs warm on his face, felt her body tense as If In surprise and, possibly, fright at the ardor of his caress. She put a palm against his chest. bewildered, and resisted his tight embrace. "Jim 1" bewildered. "Jim, why don't you say something to me? Ever since bis arrival at Good-Bye, Good-Bye, Steve Drake bad been Insistent Insist-ent that every man In Polaris' employ em-ploy be ready at a moment's notice to give battle to fire. As the weather weath-er hazard Increased he had been constantly on the alert for reports of smoke. Today, the money which was to remove the Laird's timber forever from the horizon of Franz's hopes would arrive at headquarters. Timed properly, the alarm of fire would drain the place of every able man and once that brief case which Fran had seen McNally place carefully care-fully beneath the blanket on the wagon seat In Shoestring passed out of the possession of the Flynns or their loyal help without being delivered de-livered to MacDonald, the principal princi-pal point In his plotting would be achieved. So the man bad waited even past the time when the fire would take a rapid hold. Then he had heaped materials ma-terials together against a huge pile of brush, applied the match which would send a destroying element on Its way, and turned In flight southward, south-ward, the direction of headquarters. Those woodsmen In the boats knew what a fire meant, starting In that resinous slash, with the whole country like tinder. It would leap across the country, burst upon the stand of green swamp tinder with such a fury that spruce and balsam, cedar and pine would flame like torches, leaving valuable timber dead and spoiling In its wake. It seemed to Steve that the boat scarcely crawled, as If Good-Bye lake expanded, stretched out Its boundaries; as though many hours Instead of less than one elapsed before be-fore he cut off his motor and leaped out Men flung themselves Into the shallow water, carrying equipment with them, and Wartin, who had seen their approach, came running. "Got your crew all on It?" Steve called. "Yes; Just now. But G d, Jim, she licked up four-five forties before we could even git in berel She's goln like h 1 Itself V The man was badly frightened. "Going to be licked without a try?" Drake snapped. "Get hold of yourself, Wartin I Where ve you put your men?" A small crew was behind the fire, armed with shovels to throw sand and hold the line from crawling back against the wind. A larger detail de-tail was on the western flank, supplied sup-plied with hand water pumpers, trying try-ing to squeeze the fire toward the lake, to keep it from, widening in their direction. 'We'll start In at the creek and backfire the whole works," Steve announced an-nounced decisively. "Maybe we Speak to me. Duffer!" He let her go, feeling weak and can't stop It from crossing, but no- contrite. His voice, he knew, would reveal to her the secret confirm the suspicions that his kiss had awak ened. And then, Instead of his voice, McNally's rose. "Fire!" he cried. "Good 0 d, Jimmy! Look!" He stood beside them, pointing body'U ever say we didn't try I Hop, now! We'll fire a few rods at a time and see what kind of a job of holding It we can do." He knew that he was taking a long chance, setting a fire to work backwards toward a phalanx of ap proaching flame, burning the ground clean as It went so that when the OPENING CHAPTERS OF THE STORY Stephen Drake, with hie four-year-old son, Is rescued from a blizzard by Jim Flynn, big; timber operator, whom Drake has robbed. Flynn g;lvei Drake another chance, and the father, until his death, Impresses on the boy, Steve, the debt they owe "Old Jim." Twenty years later, Steve meets "Youna; Jim" Flynn. his benefactor's son. Sent by Old Jim, incapacitated through an accident in which Kate, his daughter, is temporarily blinded, to take charge of the company' the Polaris woods operations, the youth is Indulging- tn a drunken spree. Learning of Polaris' dire straits, and hoping to do something for Old Jim, Steve hastens to the company's headquarters. Worsting Frans, a plotter against the Flynn interests, in a fist fight, the Polaris crew assumes that Steve is Flynn's son, and he takes charg-e, as "Young Jim." A photograph of Kate Flynn, which Steve finds, immensely Increases his desire to aid Old Jim. He gains the warm friendship of LaFane, queer woods scout Drake escapes a death trap set for him. Frana discovers Drake's Impersonation. Threatened with disclos ure, Steve accuses Frana of setting the death trap, exhibiting evidence, and the man dare not act. Steve sends LaFane to And Young Jim and sober him up. Steve wins the friendship of MacDonald, owner of timber land the Flynns need, and tha Scotsman gives him an option for Polaris to buy bis timber. Knowing- of the option, and wanting the timber for a rival company, Frans plans to put Steve out of the way, but the latter outwits him. Frans, believing Steve had drowned, secures another option and records It learning then that Steve is alive. Knowing Drake has wired Kate, ha steals her reply and learns that $25,000 is to be forwarded, and the time of Its arrival. ' u .1 !,lL??ffer' l m here! r r "er annrnaK i- v. eVd7ver ' ear as her body took her cedhlsron- NShewa, sL,b?nt neck ",rata wi 'tobjn,. op the lake to its western side where a great column of gray smoke, tinged with orange, rose like a thunder head. Almost roughly Steve put the girl to one side and ran from the store down to the beach so be might be beyond the scattered trees and see better. - Fire for certain ! The thing which he had feared and prepared for through these weeks of drought had come but because of it he would not for this hour at least be forced to unmask and tell this girl that her brother, so far as any man at Good-Bye knew, was still a wastrel, was still bearing the shame of a trust betrayed. Calmly and rapidly he gave his orders. The fire fighting equipment held for such emergencies was rushed to the lake shore; outboard motors were clamped to two large, flat-bottomed boats and the pumps and shovels and axes loaded. Within a aurprislngly brief time the laden boats were beading up the lake across the head of which, now, drifted the first outriders of a heavy smoke palL And up there In the timber, to the southward of the burning slash, a man fled rapidly. Once he paused at an opening near the water and stared out at the boats making their way up the lake. His mouth twitched as he watched them. The weather had played Into rranz'a hands. Had It rained the night before, hii well laid scheme would have fallen to uselessnes. But It had not rained. Heat would be great toward midday and there was do sign of a change la the skies. main front met It there would be no food to feed It If they waited for night the proper time for backfiring back-firing when heavy and quiet air becomes be-comes an ally of the fighters, the front surely would have reached the green timber and might be a raging monster beyond human control Drake with a gasoline torch set twenty rods of Are and then waded the stream that he might better watch his handiwork and the functioning func-tioning of the crew. The men, he saw, believed their fight hopeless and he rushed in among them. "Give me that pumper!" he cried to one and pulled the device from the fellow's back. "Hot?" as the man made his excuse. "Hot as the hubs of h 1! Bat that's all the more reason for keeping after It . . Crouching low, he edged In. closer than the closest of them. He held his breath because the air was liquid beat -Shovels, now." be croaked. "Get your shovelers In, Mac! Close In, Sand as well as water commenced to fly. The burning spot was surrounded sur-rounded by fighters. The skin of Steve's face was taut and dry with the torture of beat but they were making headway, checking the spread of the fire, driving it back. "Good!" he panted, relaxing a trifle. "Three of you keep her where she is, now. Bury everythin? with sand that smokes. Spread out the rest of you. . . . Tonder! There! another one!" A second serious blaze was ae-veloping. ae-veloping. set by sparks from his backfire, and wallowing through the down-stuff a half dozen men followed fol-lowed him to another Interval of heart-breaking, lung searing work. "Coming great lads!" he cried when that particular engagement was won. "All right, Mac. She's cooler, now. Cross over and touch off some more. Give us a few minutes min-utes every ten rods or so and don't get caught yourself. Keep to the west of your bacMre all the time." He made his way eastward, mounting a sharp little knoll so he could have a fair view of the terrain. ter-rain. On beyond, great plumes of smoke gushed upward emptlvely as the front of the main fire opened and closed again, Its points Joining forces here and there to create great quantities of gas. It was coming rapidly. Two, perhaps per-haps three miles an hour that front was traveling. His backfire was small and relatively cool, and still he had held the first section of it by the skin of his teeth ! What would happen if the main fire reached the creek before he had burned a gap all across its way, or if the wind rose higher to make It roll even more rapidly? For a full half mile to the westward west-ward that backfire must be laid In before the front of the burning area would be wholly blocked. It did not seem to Steve that his crew could possibly hold the pace for the length of time that would be required. re-quired. He needed men, now; all along this battle line he needed them; more men and fresh men, because an hour In there was more exacting than a dozen at ordinary labor. And the men were coming. At least, two men. They had been coming com-ing down the Good-Bye since early day and as they saw the smoke they came faster, paddling in quick cadence. ca-dence. They were stalwart men. LaFane, In the stern, sat as straight as a proud Indian. The other was not quite so large of frame, not so deep In color, but Young Jim Flynn's eyes were clear, his mouth set In a line of assuring firmness and he bore his share of the task with relish. A different boy, this, from the one who had been "kidnaped from his camp In a drunken stupor days before; another lad than the one who bad defied bis captor and sulked and sworn that he would not do as bidden. Resolution, ability seemed to be his characteristics this hot, windy morning as the canoe finally cut the waters of Good-Bye lake. From the knoll on which he was directing the redistribution of his forces, Steve Drake could have observed ob-served the landing of that canoe, but his eyes and attention were centered cen-tered on the area he sought to save from destruction, so he was not aware of their arrival until they approached, LaFane la the Jead. "One of you" Steve began, pointing toward a place that needed need-ed guarding. He stopped short. He had addressed ad-dressed LaFane. The upraised hand sagged and then he turned to stare at Young Jim. The boy looked straight Into the eyes of the man who. for these weeks, had used his name. It was a hard look, a square look, difficult to determine because of its sobriety whether It was one of regard or offense. And then, after a moment, the lad smiled. "You're Steve Drake," be said and put out his hand. Steve did not speak, ne was searching the other's countenance and thinking swiftly of what hinged on the nature of LaFane's handiwork. handi-work. The real Young Jim was here. now. Pretense was done, a play ended. The Flynns must from this hour take their destinies In their hands and win or lose. He shot an Inquiring glance at LaFane. The man's lips twitched and his eyes smoldered. "You bet!" he said in response to the unspoken query and his voice carried more enthusiasm than Drake had ever heard In It before. "Goodf" he muttered. "You've hit the Job at the right time, Jim! Until now, I've run things high, wide and handsome, but from now on" "Not yet, Drake! Lord, man, you've got to stay on the Job through this! I'm Just bringing In another pair of hands and a tolerably toler-ably good back. What'll yon have me do first?' That was good sense. Even though he was no longer even a usurper of authority Steve could not then take time to confer with the newcomer. His task, this day, could not be shouldered on another. But as be outlined what bad happened, hap-pened, what had been done, how he had spread his forces, he was anticipating: an-ticipating: What would the me a think, when they knew? This boy, come to take charge, must have them with him from the beginning to avoid trouble. KnowlDg what he bad been tiey might be reluctant to accept him for what LaFane evidently evi-dently now believed him to be. It was not going to be clear sailing for Young Jim. LaFane. If you'll drop over to the left there, and spell some of the boys who're all in. HU help a lot Flynn, I'll find a chore for you In a second." He started walking down the lope with the older man, leaving Young Jim alone. (TO BE OONTIJOrED.1 CotiaaT aJ "Coatiaao.s" -Continuous" means connected throughout In space f time, without with-out Interval or break, oninterropt-ed. oninterropt-ed. -Continual" mr,s seeming Is-rests Is-rests nt occurring on every ccaaJoa. May Learn Queen's Secrets Results of Excavations in What Is Thought to Have Been Site of Capital of Sheba Eagerly Awaited by Feminine World. Women throughout the world are eagerly waiting for excavations In what ts believed to be the capital of the queen of Sheba. French aerial explorers have reported that they have sighted the towers of the lost city on the edge of the Arabian desert When the sands of the centuries have been dug away, It will be possible pos-sible for women of today to learn how the glamorous queen looked, what beauty aids she used, and most Important of all what were her secrets for fascinating menT Her charm was extremely potent In winning King Solomon, she had to combat the allure of 701 wives and 800 concubines. Dr. George S. Duncan, professor of Egyptology and Assyriology in the graduate school of American unlver-versity, unlver-versity, believes that one of the chief feminine sources of Interest In the queen's burled city will be her Jewels, "She was famous for her Jewels," Raid Doctor Duncan. "She took huge treasures of precious stones when she went to visit Solomon. But In spite of all her own riches, when she saw him sitting In all his glory, she was almost shocked to death at his magnificence." mag-nificence." . Doctor Duncan does not accept without questioning the report of the finding of the lost capital of Sheba. "Only excavation will reveal whether or not It Is the legendary city of the queen," he said. "And these excavations must produce Inscriptions In-scriptions that will satisfy archeol-ogists." archeol-ogists." If the newly discovered city Is the Shebnn stronghold, excavation may reveal some of the queen's beauty secrets, Doctor Duncan believes, and also provide more knowledge of her personality. Women of all ages have felt great curiosity concerning the queen, because be-cause of her great success as a charmer. She set a precedent for all gold-diggers by coming away from Solomon's court laden with 0,000 wagons of Jewels, perfumes, oils and myrrh. Although Solomon wanted to make her his 7G2d wife, she was too much of a feminist to relinquish her own kingdom and turned down his pro posal. Legend has It that after she returned home, she had a child by Solomon. According to Doctor Dun can, the present royal house of Abyssinia Abys-sinia claims descent from the queen of Sbeba's son by Solomon. The Biblical account of the queen's visit to Solomon nffords the best Insight In-sight so far found Into her personality, personal-ity, Doctor Duncan believes. This account shows that the queen was among the flint of her sex to realize that the most brilliant feminine fem-inine conversationalist Is a woman of few words; that expert listening Is more effective than talking. The Bible states that she plied Solomon with hard questions, drawing draw-ing him out and steering his thoughts to that most engrossing of all subjects himself. Nor was the queen of Sheba above using a little well-chosen flattery. Her expertness In that line Is shown in the following passage from Scripture: Scrip-ture: "And she said to the king, it was true report that I heard In mine own land of thine acts and thy wis dom. "Ilowbolt I believed not the words until I came, and mine eyes had seen It; and behold, the half was not told me; thy wisdom and prosperity ex- ceedtn the fame which I heard." Small wonder then that the Bible reports that: "Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked." from the pntols of the p!:-nte of tin Spanish Main. St I-oula Globe Democrat Largest Lamp of Gold The bureau of mines says that so far as it knows the largest piece of gold ever found was a chunk from a deep mine In Chile, weighing 4,000 troy ounces, or 830 avolrdupola pounds. The largest loose piece-was piece-was a Beyer & Holterman nugget found at Hill End, New South Wales, In 1872, weighing 030 avoir-dupois avoir-dupois pounds gross, and contained 103 pounds net of gold. Idioms Used to Build Up English Language A savage tribe in TIerra del Fuego has a vocabulary of 80,000 words and are the only savages In the world so richly supplied. We might borrow few and they'd never be missed. We thus appropriated "hooch" from the Alaska Indians and have much en- Joyed using it; that Is, using the word. Hooch Is a phonetic Joy, It has thnt wild and slightly vulgar sound that seems to fit a crude Intox icant English-speaking peoples are quick to pick up words odd to the ears from their neighbors, giving them a twist that may make their utterance ut-terance more or less comic. "Hooso-gow," "Hooso-gow," made over from the Spanish "uuskado," provokes a laugh. The English In India soon appropriated "loot"; and "bulldoze" arose out of the swamps of Louisiana, where It was for long a neglected verb derived de-rived from the French. Other terms that spring Into being In the underworld under-world in time get fairly Into good society by succeeding gradations and there are now In good standing some Early Silk Manufacture A silk mill established at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, In 1S40 turned out a silk suit which was presented to Henry Clay, and also furnished allk for the first silk flag made In the United States. This flag was taken by Caleb Cushlng to Tokyo when ha went there as the first United States ambassador to that nation. Sappho's Leap Sappho's Leap, so called because of the tradition that the poetess, Sappho, there threw herself Into the sea, is a high cliff at the end of th promontory now called Cape Duca-to Duca-to on the island modernly known as Leukas or Santa Maura. The cliff Itself was anciently called Leucaa or Leucadla. Long in Construction , To the cathedral located In Cologne, Co-logne, second highest building outside out-side of the United States, goes th honor of being In the proces of construction con-struction longer than any other structure In the world. It was started start-ed In 1218 but wasn't finished until un-til 1SS0C32 yenra later. Freo Smart Student Do you charge for the water in the coffee? Restaurant Owner No. That, of course, Is thrown In. Nature Has Qualified Butterfly as Chemist In a report to the Smithsonian Institution In-stitution Dr. Austin II. Clark marvels, mar-vels, and with reason, at the curious adaptability of the cabbage butterfly, a small chalky insect with white wings. In Europe the caterpillars feed on the leaves of cabbages and closely related plants. Why these? Because they contain food of the proper chemical composition for the young, and the young are bred from eggs laid on the leaves. About the middle of the last century cen-tury the cabbage butterfly was brought to this country. It began to lay eggs not only on cabbage but also on the leaves of the garden nasturtium, which originally came from Central and South America. How did the butterfly know that the nasturtium is chemically of the right composition, although it Is not even remotely related to the cabbage? The European ancestors of the cabbage cab-bage butterfly knew nothing of the nasturtium for thousands of generations. The wonder grows when Doctor riark noints out uncanny powers i in inswts. Two varieties of i fritillarles live entirely on the hack Korri? rw If they make a roistase Doll Weddii-f Presents The problem of what to do with 16 pairs of candlesticks seldom arises for the young bride of India. The doll, the world's oldest toy, la one of the most popular wedding presents. This, observers say, ts due to the prevalence of child marriages. mar-riages. A Political Unit In American politics political milt called a territory Is a dependent depend-ent unit whose government Is similar simi-lar In many respects to that of a state, but whose political entity Is wholly under the authority of the federal government World's Smallest City The world's smallest city Is Chippenham, Chip-penham, England, which for 800 years has consisted of two thatched cottages, an abandoned canal and a railway station, yet is classed as a "city." - ' Tha Oldest Will The oldest will wlilch has been found Is that of Cah, Amenemhat IV, of Egypt It was executed Id 2543 B. C. It Is written on papyrus, papy-rus, unearthed at Kahun, Egypt, and Is part of the archeologlcal collections col-lections attached to London unlver-slty. Carbon MonoaiJa Few poison gases are more dangerous dan-gerous to man than carbon manot-Ide. manot-Ide. Where phosgene and wartime gases have a characteristic color, taste and action which warns everyone every-one of their presence, carbon monoxide mon-oxide Is colorless and tasteless. tlyana U Cowardly The hyena Is a cowardly animal which preys, as a rule, on carrion, or on animals weakened by wounds or disease. A single hyena will not attack a man unless desperate from bunser or protecting Its young. Picked From Directory In London's telephone directory are listed 40 Angels, 82 Darlings, 84 Dears, 1 Dearie, 17 Ducks, 1 Dear- love, 20 Honeys, 60 Loves, 8 Love-Joys, Love-Joys, 0 Uveleys, 8 Prettys, 12 Peaches, 87 Sweets, 7 Truclovcs, 8 Cheers and 1 Fullilove. 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