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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. ITTAH. S. S DIAPHANOUS STUFF NOW BOY ANSWERING SUMMER'S CALL The Voice nf dbe Pacfe SCOUTS By EDISON MARSHALL (Cndilatd CHAPTER I. 18 Continued. Into a little hollow in the bark, on the underside of the log, some hand had thrust a small roll of papers. now, and the They were Ink had dimmed and blotted; but Dan realized their significance. They were the complete evidence that Hlldreth hud accumulated against the arson ring letters that hau passed back and forth between himself and Cranston, a threat of murder from the former If Hlldreth turned state's evidence, and signed statement of the arson activities of the ring by Hlldreth himself. rain-soake- d snows had started, and Jlra Glbbs had but evidently empty-handenot empty-minde"I've found that the body's been un covered and men are already search-I- n for clues. And moreover I think He paused. they've found them." weighing the effect of his words. His eyes glittered with cunning. Rat that he was, he was wondering whether the time had arrived to leave the ship. He had no intention of continuing to give e his services to a man with a closing about him. And Crans ton, knowing this fact, hated him as he hated the buzzard that would claim him in the end, and tried to hide bis apprehension. "Go on. Blat It out," Cranston or dered. "Or else go away and let me sleep." It was a bluff ; but it worked. If Glbbs had gone without speaking, Cranston would have known no sleep that night. But the man became more fawning. "I'm tellln' you, fast as I can," he went on, almost whining. "I went to the cabin. Just as you said. But I didn't get a chance to search it " "Why not?" Cranston thundered. His voice among the snow-we- t returned my Hand Had Thrust a Small Roll of Paper. Tliey were not only enough to break up the ring and send its members to prison ; with the aid of the empty shell and other circumstantial evidence, they could in all probability convict Bert Cranston of murder. For a long time he stood with the shadows of the pines lengthening about him, his gray eyes In curious shadow. For the moment a glimpse was given him into the deep wells of the human soul; and understanding came to him. Was there no balm for hatred even in the moment of death? Were men unable to forget the themes and motives of their lives, even when the shadows closed down upon them? Hlldreth had known what hnnd had struck him down. And even on the frontier of death, his first thought was to hide his evidence where Cranston could not find It when he searched the body, but where later it might be found by the detectives that were sure to come. It was the old creed of a life for a life. He wanted his evidence to be preserved not that right should be wronged, but so thut Cranston would be prosecuted and convicted and innde to suffer. His hatred of Cranston that had made him turn state's evidence In the first pluce had been carried with hlin down Into death. As Pan stood wondering, he thought he heard, a twig crack on the trail be hind him. and he wondered what for est creature wns still lingering on the ridges nt the eve of the snows. The snow bcgnn to fall In earned at midnight great, white flukes that al most In an instant covered the leaves. It wns the real beginning of winter, and all living creatures knew It. The wolf pack snng to it from the ridge a wild nnd plaintive song that made Rert Cranston, sleeping In a lean-ton the Uinpqun side of the Divide, swear and mutter In his sleep. But he didn't really waken until J Ira Glbbs, one of his gnng. returned from his secret mission. Tliey wasted no words. Rert flung aside the blankets, lighted a candle and placed it out of the reach of the ulght wind. His face looked swarthy In Its light. and deep-line'"Well?" he demanded. "What did o ron And?" "Not bin'." Jim (llbbs answered "If you ask me what I found out. I might have somethln' to answer." and Rert, after the man Tl,n tier of his kind, breathed an oath "What did you find out?" Ilia tone, except for an added note of savagery, remained the same. Tet his heart wss thumping a great deal louder than be liked to have It Reafs-In- e that the snows were at hand, he had sent Glbbs for a last search of the body, to find and recover the evi dence that Hlldreth had against him nd wh.ch had not been revealed either on llibtr.h's person or in his cabin. He bad iecome Increasingly apprehensive about those letters he had written Hlldeth, and certain other document that had been In his pos He dldat understand why session. turn! op. Awd now tte gone over It too many times.' After while he went away but I didn't turn back yet. That wouldn't be Jim Glbbs. I shadowed him, Just ss you'd want me to. And he went straight back to the body.".. "Yes?" Cranston hod hard work curbing his Impatience. Again Gibbs' eyes were full of ominous speculations. "He stopped at the body, and It was plain he'd been there before. He went crawling through the thickets, lookin' for clues. He done what you and me never thought to do lookin' all the way between the trail and the IkmI.v He'd already found the brass shell you told me to get. At least. It wasn't there when I looked, after he'd gone. You should've thought of it before. But he found somethln' else a whole lot more Important a roll of paiers that Hlldreth had chucked Into an old pine stump when he was dyln. It was your fault, Cranston, for not gettO" them that night. This detective stood and rend 'em on the trail. And you know just as well as I do what they were." "D n you, I went back the next morning, as soon as I could see. And the mountain lion had already been there. 1 went back lols of times since. And that shell ain't nothing hut all the time I supposed I put it in my pocket. You know how it is n fellow-throwhis empty shell out by habit." Glbbs' eyes grew more Intent. What was this thing? Cranston's tone, of commanding, was almost pleading. But the lender caught himself at once. "I don't see why I need to explain any of that to you. What I want to know is this: why you didn't shoot and get those papers away from him?" For an Instant their eyes battled Rut Gihbs had never the strength of his leader. If he hod. It would have been asserted long since. He sucked In his breath, and his gaze fell away. It rested on Cranston's rllle. that In some manner had been pulled up across his knees. And at once he whs cowed. He was never so fast with a gun as Cranston. "Blood on my bands, eh same a on yours?" he mumbled, looking down. "What do yon think I want, a row around my neck? These hills are big but the arm of the law has reached tip before, and It might again. You might as well know first as lust I'm not gohi' to do any klllrin's to cover up your murders." "That comes of not going myself. You fool If he gets that evldem-down to the courts you're broken the same as me." "But I wouldn't get more'n a yeor or so, at most and that's a heap different from the gallows. I did aim at s him" "But you Just lacked the guts to pull the trigger 1" "I did, and I ain't ashamed of It. But besides the snows are here now. and he won't be able to even get word to the valleys for six months. If you want him killed so had, do It yourself. This was tbougnt Indeeii. On ti e other hand, another murder might not be necessary. Months would pass before the road would he opened, and In the meantime Cranston would have a thousand chances to steal back the censing letters. He didn't believe for an Instant that the man Gibbs hnd seen mi a detective. He had kep too close watch over the roads fo, that "A dark-haire- . d tall chap. In ontlng ctotltes and clean shaven?" "Year "Wesrs tan batf That's the man." "I know him and I wish you'd punctured him. That's Tailing the tenderfoot that's been staying at Ile a a longer." Lex-Doz'- Iff the chance of Dan starting upan any there's nothln' there, anyway. We've A boy is naturally a loyal young animal. He will stick to his "gnng" through thick and thin, will never "go buck" on a chum, no matter at what cost to biinsolf, and scoul'.ug, dealing: as usual with fundamental boy instincts, makes use of this natural tendency, turns It to consiructlve ends-I- n scouting, lwy Joyulty Is both taker account of and developed. loyalty to the patrol, the troop, the scoutmaster, go over Into loyalty to the community, to home and church and school, to Oodt nnd country as pledged by the scout oath. No one who has ever seen a troop of boy scouts taking the oath of allegiance tr, the flag, grave, earnest, sincere, enn doubt that here are Americans in the making to whom the Sturt nnd Stripes are not merely a strip of bunting, but stand real and true, something worth dying for, if need be. Scouts are being' trained In citizenship which means not only that they know the history of this country am! bow Its laws are made, but that they stand ready to serve the nation in whatever ways a boy may. little words." such Journey before the snow had melted was not one In a thousand. To he caught In the Divide In the winter means to be snowed in as completely as tire Innults of upper Greeulatid. No word could pass except by man on snowshoes. Yet If the chance did coiue. If the bouse should be left unguurded. It might pay Cranston to make an Immediate search. Dan would have no reason for supposing that Cranston pines. "I'll tell you why! Because some one else evidently a cop was al ready searchln' It. Roth of us know 6om IMS, In the meantime the best thing t do was to move at once to his winter trapping grounds a certain neglected region on the lower levels of the North Fork. If at any time within the next few weeks, Dan should attempt to carry word down to the settlements. he would he certain to pass within view of his camp. But he knew that rope-noos- AND LOYALTY SCOUTING C. by IJttU, Brwa "He didn't look like no lunger to me " "But no matter about that It's Just as I thought. And I'll get 'era back-m- ark Copyright. by National Council of tha Hot Soouia of America. N. 'm d suspected his possession of the letters; he would not be particularly watchful, and would probably pigeon hole them until spring iu Lennox's d(sk. And the truth was that Cranston hnd reasoned out the situation ulmost perfectly. When Dan awakened In the morning, and the snow lay already a foot deep over the wilderness world, he knew that be would have no chnnee to net upon the Cranston cae until the snows melted in the spring. So he pushed all thought of it out of his mind and turned his attention to more pleasant subjects. It was true that he read the documents over twice as h lay In bed. Then he tied them into a neat packet and put them away where they would be quickly available. Then he thrust his bead out of the window and let the great snow flakes sift down upon his face. It was winter at last, the season that he loved. He didn't stir from the house that first day of the storm. Snowbird and he found plenty of pleasant things to do and talk about before the roaring fire that he built In the grate. He was glad of the great pile of wood that lay outside the door. It meatrt life Itself, In this season. Then Snowbird led him to the windows, and they watched the white drifts pile up over the low underbrush. When finally the snowstorm ceased, live days later, the whole face of the wilderness was changed. The buck-brus- h was mostly covered, the fences were out of sight ; the forest seemed a clear, clean sweep of white, broken only by on occasional tall thicket and d trees. by the great, When the clouds blew away, and the air grew clear, th temperature began to fall. Dan had no way of knowing how low It went. Thermometers were not considered essential at home. Rut when his eye-Hthe ongenled with the frost, and his I , in. , i i. in ii i.i.rhirt THK warmth of midsummer we INturn burdenaway from everyth-iisome, or that even looUs burden some. and hlh color Magnificence fall to charm splendor-lovinwomen; l hey are privileged to wear materials as thin as mist in pale reflections of color or in frosty white. All the diaphanous stuffs answer the call of and furnish ituiumcr bewltclriig .aiiiient that makes us forget the heat and burden of the day. A frock made of line voile Is shown In the picture, hut this model Will look well In any summer material includAs picing taffeta silk or foulard. tured. It has parallel frills of vol lace arranged in groups, running up and g in a mil and skirt. If organdie is chosen instead of voile, these frills are likely to he made of It, hut lace is pretty with ury sheer goods. The sleeves, are short and plain mid the girdle, with sash ends, is made of the same material as the frock. It tics at the hack In a hutterfiy bow, with short ends that are scalloped nt the and bound with the material. A bow nnd ends of narrow ribbon finish the neck. Nothing would look so well with this da:nty dress as white sIhk's and stockings nnd canvas pumps proxe themselves the most useful of summer shoes. They are shown lu the picture worn with white silk hose. down lhe bodice ion-wid- e Fores! Protection wee;, ns they did in May lust, fightlug fori si fires, planting trees, nidiiiiT, nnd health surveys-In city clean-up- s lighting gypsy mollis and Imgwr'u-t and fungus blights, sharing In cfl'oat wi.'d life conservation, nblitig V. m police in directing tralllc, serving aides, etc., they are prac tleing citizenship here and now, nr learning It, by living It, day by day Kverywbere we nre see'ng today war's dangerous aftermath of lawless g ness, especially among our offers one of the best antidotes for this ill, for n scout stand for law and order. Scouts lenrn Ut obey, not as "blind driven cattle, hut as good citizens who recognize tJw necessity n.T. reasnnidiVin ss of law-scout executive Jn West Vlrg'li'a recently examined the court records itt his town for ten years hack and found that not a singJe scout or a boy ttnitei" scout Influence had ever pnssetl through the court, and similar reconln are every now and then reported frcm various parts of the country. A scout Is loyal too loyal to be a liw breaker. Ours Is a great count')' and ha t problems to meet. So one cas tell what the next few years will hob!, but we can be sure of one thing, that no nation can be stronger than it men, and that every hit of splenoiif volunteer leadership In the work of making men 'physically strong, menwill tally awake, moralJy stralgh u.J B count immeasurably for the best sort of patriotic sorvfep. "Save a man. you save one person. Save a boy. you save a Whole multiplication, table." J inrimfiifri- ' youth"-Scoutin- A WORK FOR DEFT FINGERS FOR SPARE MOMENTS PICK-U- P snow-covere- HEROIC WORK IN PUEBLO FLOOD Among the many Instances of heroic service In rescue work during the? Pueblo tbiod disasters, that of w( boy scouts s'ttids out conspicuously. On hearing that n man and bis younf son were trapped In a burning building, surrounded by the ever rising: tides of onrnsblng water, they hastily manned a lifeboat and pulled through the dangerous current to the I.urninx belli! tig. The o.vner of the place nii.I his sen were rescued with great rNk. not only because of the flood but because the burning buihl'iig wns nil the shaken by tenitk exp'o-iontime from the lime stored tbcrebi. Having d'scovercd that three employees were olo In ti e hnrn'ng point, plain sunn rlhhon put on smoothly. tbe scouts retimed n second time Tl e fiirdlioard for the sides is a No battling desperately with the waters, covered, but only on one side (to form nnd got tbe ot er v!e; n also to the lining) and Is sewed to the inti-Inafe'y. Hardly lad they gott n it to A bo: tout. very wide, soft mii.ii ,'he boat wi-enncthc- wore v'o'eef ribbon Is gut ered on one s ib- - about explosion occurred nnd tbe tuil'i'ifits lhe bottom of the box and tacked to It crumbled and fell Into the water. at intervals along Its upper ciIkc. Th's ribbon Is hemmed along It t uppei e U'e MOTHER D2SCR7CS COOD TCH I ii i:n now ribbon for lumber.-- run through the hem. A Wasb'ngton. Ii. ".. Kcoutnio ter of ribbon or silk Hie In swnklmr ft ibe good turn sin' : Triaitgb-sewed together along the edges or set "Ore fellow more enl'I'ed to our good eon-!d- e ingether with a plpli.g. leaving a Utile turn and courteous and opening for the Insertion of seen led ntlon than nnv o'h-- r l MOTIIliU. cotton, to f ,rm sai ets. After Ihcj She has done a who'e lot for m. On have been stuffed with the cotton the our account she lm given up p"''e . open nts are sewed up and a narrow end waro pleasure, pre'tr dres-esribbon attached to two points on emii and new bats. She has ut uj crn's are tied togciher n picsachet. They to en-- e fo" u or ni', ,il our tured and when one of t! em is to be n'gbts ! and pTyeil She bn ctotles iisi d It ('Mi be untied from the oib ns. Tn fact there ib esn't seem tc for t rs nnd placed wherever wanted. I 'If; te anyth'nr she h'f not done for n ferent colors of ribbon are chosen. and ve cnn'l even hn'f rcinv her. .ny brown canvas bag The simple scout who let n who'e f'nv paM" wl'b-ottwith bliby ribbon, will serve for ni' tl er dolns SoioeM lug to mn'-shopping, school or work lag. The ghul Is S scout wlo fn!l to tle up In by ribbon Is threaded through the to the standard of Troop z?,." ennvns and a wider ribbon run tl .rough the drawn portion nt the hot DO PRACTICAL MAP WCHK. loin. IMihoti bows ami bangers tin's!, 4 s I.O.M us women continue to ASlove pntty things they will love to make them for themselves and for their friends. It Is an Invilnct with them, not to le eradicated, to grihcr about them I ttle niceties of dress and house furnlsii'ngs. and they ore ingenious nnd patient In making them. If ever they run out of Ideas, manufacturers of ribbons see to It that they are Immediately supplied. Krery woman knows bow welcome m gift Is when It takes the form of n little bug for face powder and powder puff, that may be conveneiitl) tine of thesv carried eveiyw here. Is shown l.eie. A small clriiilar mirror Is place. I oer the bottom of ,i round pasteboard box and fastened to rihbon "You JuU Lacked the Guts to Pull the It by menus of shirred satin hut is broixht up over I he sides nf Triggsr." the box and sewed to Its ed'e. A lite to froze ing. cut to fit. Is pasted to the bottom the log of firewood mittens thot he carried through the door, and sod shies of lhe box. A wide sal In the pine trees exploded and cracked In riblx'h. wwi d to the upper edge, forms tl e bg, ai'd narrow gold lace the dnrtnes, lie was correct In b stretched over It finishes this port Ion belief that It wns verj, very odd. t the bag. At the top of the bug the Rut he loved the cold, and the silence and austerity that went with It ribbon is turned back to foii'i a frill and a casing. Narrow suiin ribbon The wilderness claimed him as nevei before. The rxgired breed that were run through the ca.'iig. draws the 'ug his ancestors bad struggled through tip and forms the frill. A small box such seasons as this and passed a love of powder and a tlul puff furnish the of them down through the years to equipment for this gift nnd the IHtle mirror on the bolt mi aids In lis use. him. A pretty bag to hang by the dress(TO BE COlNTimmD.I ing table will answer fur many purposes. Cardboard makes the foundaWedding Rings Use Mucn Gold. More than 7,K) pounds of pur tion, which Is a box with sloping sides. It has a circular bottom. alMiin epial gold, says an authority are required each year to supply Ox aedditg rlna In diameter to an ordinary sauce dish. u.tii Is covered on both sides wil'bride. j I fr r - I be-in- nin-'-oi- dee-orate- It. A flat holder fiw manicure set nnd shoe book Is made of wide satin rile It rolls .up Ism nod nnirow ribbon. and fastens with simp fastener under a ribbon bow. prrGHT tTltN MTWWtll UNI OH ne of the r q 'ircineiits for a firl class boy scout Is to be able to rend n miip correctly, and draw, from tlebl petes made on Hie spot, an lntejliglble rough sketch mtip, Indicating by their IiI iils pro er marks Important rot'ds. tloMey Pnes. mcin h'twb inrVn prlnelj ill elevations, etc. AH Ibis In volves no si"nl nnioen' of jonelbal skill nnd fleld worir nd In li.inj rc owilm pls-- e rcfipwork diss s uts. e,l |