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Show THE Camilla Kenyon PANISH iDou BLOONS W I THE CAVE. Bynopl Jane Harding, respectable and conservative old maid-b- ut never too old to think of marthan riage Iswith more money d brains, Inveigled by a Higglesuy-Brownstrong-minde- spinster, Mib Into financing an expedito hunt for burled treasure on tion Leeward Uland. Her niece, Virundertaking to stop ginia Harding, her, gets on the vessel and is no carried along. By means concealing her distaste for the expedition and her contempt for Its members, Virginia makes the acquaintance of the Honorable with Cuthbert Vane. Talking Dugald Shaw, leader of the expedition, Virginia very frankly expresses her views, practically accusing Shaw and the other mem-a bers of the party, including uncertain somewhat personage Captain Magnus, and a shady "financier," Hamilton H. Tubbs. of being In a conspiracy to defraud Jane Harding. Landing on the island Is a matter of some difficulVirginia being carried ashore ty, In the arms of Cuthbert Vane. The Miss Browne gets settled. party about the treasure. Virginia tells declares herself out of It. e, (CHAPTER V Continued.) g Mr. Tubbs then produced a document which I took to be the original agreement of the members of the expedition. Beneath their signatures he had Inscribed a sort of codicil, by which I relinquished all claim on any treasure recovered by the party. I signed the clause In a bold and defiant hand, under the attentive eyes of the company. A sort of sigh went round, as though something of vast moment had been concluded. And indeed it hud, for now the way was clear for Violet's map. Covertly I watched the faces around, Mr. Tubbs' eyes had me. growl bright; he licked his dry Hps. B; and slightly bulbos, nose, took on a more than usually rosefte hue. Captain Magnus, who was of a restless and Jerky habit at the best of times, was like a leashed animal Beneath his open scenting blood. Bhlrt you saw the quick rise and fall of his hairy chest. His lips, drawn back wolfishly, displayed yellow, fanglike teeth. Under the raw crude greed of the man you seemed to glimpse something indescribably vulpine and ferocious. The face of Dugald Shaw wus controlled, but there was a slight rigidity In Its quiet A pulse beat rapidly in his cheek. All worldly good, all hope of place, power, Independen e, hung for him on the contents of Mie small which flat package, wrapped In Miss Browne was at this moi.ient withdrawing from her pocket. Only Cuthbert Vane, seated next to me, maintained without effort his serenity. For him the whole affair belonged In the category known as sporting, where a gentleman played his stake and accepted with equanimity the Issue. The dead sailor's legpcy consisted paof a single sheet of s of the sheet was covper. sketch In ered by a roughly-drawfaded ink, giving the outline of the Island shores as we had seen' them from the Rufus Smith. Here was the cove, with the name It bears In the Admiralty charts Lantern bay written In, and a dotted line Indicating the channel. To all appearance the map was merely to give Hopperdown his directions for entering the cove. There was absolutely no mark upon It to show where the treasure had been burled. Now for the writing on the sheet It was In another below the map. hand than that which had written Lantern bay across the fare of the cove, and which, though labored, was precise and clear. This other was an uneven, wavering scrawl : "He sed It Is In a Cave with 2 mouths near by the grave of Bll wlch was cut down for he new to much. He sed you can bring a boat to the cave at the half Tide but beware the turn for the pull Is strong. He sed to find the Grave again look for the stone at the head mnrked B. H. and a Cross Bones. In the Chlst Is gold Dubloons, a vast lot, also a silver Cross wlch he sed leve for the Grave for he sed Bill walks and thats unlucky." That was all. A fairly clear direction for any friend who had attended the obsequies of Bill Htid know where to look for the stone marked B. II. but to ierfect and a cross-boneStrangers It was vague. A blank look crept Into the Intent faces about the table. "It It don't happen to say In more deetall Jest precisely where that cave might be looked for?" Inquired Mr. Tubbs hopefully. "In more detail?" retteutcd Alls "Bray, Mr. Browne, chullenglDgly. I Tubbs, whnt further detail could required ?" "A good deal more, I am afraid," remarked the Scotchman grimly. Miss Browne whirled upon him. In her cold eye a spark had kindled. And suddenly I had a new vision of her. I saw her no longer as the of Aunt Jane, but bs herself the deluded. Her belief In the treasure was an obsession. This map was her talisman, her way of escape from so legal-lookin- tip-tilte- d oil-sil- time-staine- d Two-third- n WW WUtl the market IlulliweU's tombstone, which I'm wlllln' to lay he does yet." "Well, good luck to you," said the grim Scot, "and let me likewise warn all hands not to be too astonished if we find that the treasure Is not In the cave. But I'll admit it Is as good a place as any for beginning the search." The cave which was now the center of our hopes I say our, because somehow or other I found myself hoping and fearing along with the rest, though carefully concealing It ran under the point at its further end. The distance was about sixty feet from mouth to mouth, and back of this transverse passage a great vaulted chamber stretched fur under the land. The walls of the chamber rose sheer to a height of fifteen feet or more, when a broad ledge broke their smoothness. At high water the sea flooded the cavern to Its farthest extremity and beat upon the walls. Now and again, It was to prove, even the water-worpavement between the two archways was left bare, and one could walk along the rocks under the high lund of the point from the beach to the cave. But this Aas at the very bottom of the elih. Mostly the lower end of the cave was flooded, and the explore'rs went back, and forth In the boat. A certain drawback to boating In our island waters was the presence You of hungry hordes of sharks. might forget them for a moment and sit happily trailing your fingers overboard, and then a huge moving shadow would darken the water, and you saw the ripple cut by a darting fin and the flash of a livid belly as the monster rolled over, ready for his mouthful. What with the genius of Cookie and the frultfulness of our Island, not to speak of supplies from the Array and Navy stores, we lived like sybarites. There were fish from stream and sea, coconuts and bananas and Oranges from the trees in the clearing. I had hopes of yams and breadfruit also, but If they grew on Leeward none of us had a speaking acquaintance with them. Cookie did wonders with the pigs that were shot and brought in to him, though I never could sit down with appetite to a massacred Infant served up on a platter, which Is Just what little pigs look like. "Jos' yo' cas' yo' eye on dis yere Cookie would request, as he placed the suckling before Mr. Tubbs. 'Tendah as a tiew'ho'n babe, he am. Jes' lak be been tucked up to sleep by his mammy. Sho now, how yo' got de heart to stick de knife in him, Mis-ta- h Tubbs?" It was significant that Mr. Tubbs. after occupying for a day or two an undistinguished middle place at the board, had somehow slid Into the carver's post at the head of the table. Flanking him were 'he two ladles. Everybody else had a sense of sitting In oit'er darkness, particularly I, whom fate had placed oiposlte Cup-tal- u Since landing on the Magnus. Island, Captain Magnus had forsworn the effeminacy of forks. Loaded to the hilt, his knife would apmouth and disproach his cavern-juappear In It. Yet when it emerged Wher Captain Magnus was alive. did It go? This was a question that agitated me dally. The history of Captain Magnus was obscure. It was certain that he had his captain's papers, though how he had mastered the science of navigation sufficiently to obtain them was a problem. Though he held a British navigator's license, , he did not appear to le an Englishman. The ciiptuln. as Mr. Vane had remarked, was Miss Browne's own find. Before the objections of Mr. Shaw evidently a Negative Influence from the beginning had caused her to abandon the scheme, Miss Browne had planned to charter a vessel In New York and sail around the Horn to the Island. While nursing this project she hud formed an extensile acquaintance with persons frequenting the New York watcr-fro-t- , among whom was Captain Magnus. As I beard her remark, he was the one nautical character whom she found sympathetic, by which I Judge that the others were skeptical a..d rude. Being sympathetic. Captain Magnus found It an easy matter to attach himself to the expedition or erliaps It was Violet who annexed him, I don't BUI n dry-sho- d k Hlggles-by-Brown- COPYRIGHT THE BO BBS MERRILL COMPANY on a Blucl; him to bull Friday,' Ladles, I ain't one that's in. dined to boast, but I Jest want to warn you not to be too astonished when H. H. makes acquaintance with existence which had been drub and dull enough, I dare say, "Mr. Shaw" Miss Browne gave the effect of drawing herself up In line of battle "I feel that I must give expression to the thought which conies to me at this moment. It is this that If the members of this party are to be chilled by carping doubts, the wave of enthusiasm which has floated us thus far must inevitably recede, leaving us flotsam on a barren shore. What can one weak woman pufdon, Jane! two women my unfaltering achieve against the thought of failure firmly held by him to whom we looked to lend us boldly In our forward dash? Mr. Shaw, this Is no time for crawling eurthworm tactics. It is with the bold and sweeping glance of the eagle that we must survey this island, until, the proper point discerned, we swoop with majestic flight upon our predestined goal !" Miss Browne was somewhat exhausted by this effort, and paused for breath, whereupon Mr. Tubbs, anxious to retrieve his recent blunder, seized with dexterity the opportunity. "I get you. Miss Browne, I get you," said Mr. Tubbs with conviction. "Victory ain't within the grasp of any individual that carries a heart like a cold puncake In his bosom. I may be rather a man of thought than action, ma'am, and at present far from my native heath, which is the financial centers of the country, but If I remember right, It was Ulysses done the dome-worfor the Greeks, while certain persons that was depended on sulked In their tents. Miss you can count count, I say on old II. II. V" "I thank you, Mr. Tubbs, I thank you I" replied Miss Browne with emoAs ?er Aunt Jane, she gazed tion. upon the noble countenance of Mr. Tubbs with such ecstatic admiration that her little nose quivered like a e, guinea-pig'- CHAPTER VI. The Cave With Two Mouths. Obscure as were the directions which Hopperdown's niece had taken from his dying lips, one point at least was clear the treasure-cuv- e opened on the sea. This seemed an immense simplification of the problem, until you discovered that the great wall of cliffs was honeycombed with fissures. One of the boats which had conveyed us from the Rufus Smith had been left with us, and In it Mr. Shaw, with the Honorable Cuthbert 2nd Captain Magnus, made a preliminary voyage of discovery. This yielded the Information above set down, plus, however, the thrilling and significant fact that a cave seemingly predestined to te the hiding place of treasure, and moreover a ore with the specified two openings, run under the point which protected the anchorage on the south, connecting the cove with the sea. Only the Scotchman remained Ofp.Kperatlngly calm and declined to admit that the treasure was as good as four 1. "I'll wait till I see the color of my money before I reckon the Interest on It," he remarked. "It's true the cave S TIMES-NEW- M N If s Hal-llwe- ll s, a Preliminary Voyage of Discovery, would be a likely and convenient plnce for hiding the client; the question Is: Wouldn't It be too likely and convenient? Sampson would maylie not choose the spot of all others where the first comer who had got word of the story would be certain to look." "Well. Mr. remarked friends," Tubbs, "there's them thnt sees noth-lbut the bole In the doughnut, and there's them that see the doughnut I that's n round the hole. ain't ashamed to say that old H. II. Is in the doughnut class. Why, the Old Man hlmolf used to remark f guess It ain't news t- - some here about me be'n' on the Inside with mot of th Icad'n' financial lights of the country he used to remark. 'Tubbs has It in Made know which. The ttrsnte beast jungle wet a white of the kull-eterric- r. (TO PE CONTINUED.) n' Coming of Age. We mourn over the coming of age, hut how many of us would re lit choose to remnln young nnd so lose the treasures that the years bring; the vnrled frtendsh'p. the adventure Perpel-iii- l the garnered wisdom? voiith would leave us belied our met, 'etiera!loii wu'd rob ns of life ;tv pose and ineie lli-- S. NEPHI. UTAH C. CHICAGO IS FIELD OF EL OAUBERT I0PEN SHOP PUN ACTIVITY FOR CANAL ZONE PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER TO START CAMPAIGN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT THERE SUGGESTS CHANGE IN ADMINIS TRATIVE MACHINERY IN THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE f Bootlegging and Moonshining Are To Be Run Out of Eastern Cities By Prohibition Agents Saya Commissioner Haynes Washington Increasing dryness and eveutuully total aridity Is the forecast for Chicago and environs emanating from the offices of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Chicago Is to receive the special and personal attention of the prohibition commissioner unless within a reason, able time the local authorities succeed In stamping out bootlegging, moonshining and official connivance at violation of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. New York Is now receiving such per-eonal treatment, Mr. Haynes having Journeyed thither to put into force some measures of his own devising for the discomfiture of the traffickers In liquors. H purposes to make New York an example of the aridity he deems It feasible to attain even In populous communities largely hostile to national prohibition. Philadelphia also is on Mr. Haynes' special treatment list. Then some Chicago and other points west. The commissioner hus received a voluminous report on conditions in Chicago, which discloses a widespread contempt for the prohibition law extending over a long period and protected. If not encouraged by local authorities, who are obligated by the law to cooperate with the federal officials in the enforcement of the Volstead act. The rejmrt shows that Prohibition Director Kjellander has been unable to cope successfully with the volume of liquor traffic because of the small force of federal agents at his disposal and the failure of the Chicago ivolice to cooperate effectively. Chicago Is now on probation, the commissioner hoping that the stern measures taken by Chief of Police to break up the protection of bootlegging by the Chicago police will result in a marked improvement in the enforcement of the law. A new departure In prohibition enforcement is to be the closing of hotels which violate the Volstead act. On the eve of his departure for New York, Mr. Haynes called attention to "the first Instance of the successful invocation of sections 21 and 22 of the Volstead law to close a hotel" selling liquor. "District Attorney Madison," Mr. Haynes saiiL "filed injunction proceedings against the Hendryx hotel in Kansas City, and Judge A. S. Van Valken-Inirgissued an order closing the hotel, thus establishing u precedent in the United States." The commissioner has Issued instructions to proceed against offending hotels elsewhere with a view to closing thein and penalizing the owners of other property on which violations of the prohibition law occur. He cited the following report by District Attorney Madison. "The 'Padlock' Injunction provision Is the sharpest tooth In the law. The way to uproot liquor violations is to penalize the owners of property. In the Hendryx hotel case I did just that without bringing criminal clrurges. The hotel has been ordered closed for a year. The action against the hotel was based on testimony of federal agents nd police." Mr. Haynes said that the increased number of convictions of the Volstead act offenders through the country and the steadily growing cooperation of the state and locul authorities without the federal forces Indicated public sentl nient demanding rigid enforcement of the law. "In South Dakota eighteen offenders In the federal court pleaded guilty af ter four were found guilty by Juries, more pleas of guilty than ut any other term of court," said Mr. Haynes. "Sev ere penalties were given. "South Carolina courts age giving convicted offenders three to six months on the chain gangs. In Mississippi, during the September term of United States court, twenty-threIndictments fines. Practically resulted In ?1.'? every director reports helpful attitude on the part of the press. 1 Fltz-morr- is h 11 e Montana After Outlaws Mont. Montana bus fortified Itself against outlaws and bandits. Chief of Police Frank Perms Is on duty nil night and u watchman has been hired by the merchants to guard the town during daylight hours. In addition, a rifle squad of twelve men tinned with modern arms can be summoned within five minutes In case of need. The squad carries !V) rounds of ammunition. Billing. Red Cross Leaves Russia Constantinople The lied Cross Snt. lirdny discontinued the relief work among Russian refugees, which It has been currying on here for the past two years. Widespread appeals for the organization to rontinue Its work during the coming winter have failed to chnnge the decision of the Washington authorities nnd the Inst workers are returning to the I'nlted States. Governmental, civil ami commercial organizations In Constantinople paid high tribute to the service rendered. 9 i Secretary Week's Commission mates Annual Saving of by New Reorganization Plan v'-S- C. E, Daubert of Dubuque, la., who has the distinction of having trained 2,000 United States life savers, now In the service. He is now the swimming Instructor of Iowa State college, where he Is training the largest corpe class in the United States. g SAFE BLOWERS IN DAHO ARE BUSY POWDER BLAST MAKES RUIN OF MONEY VAULTS; MEN MAKE THEIR ESCAPE Esti Washington Thorough reorganiza tion of the administrative machinery n the Panama canal zone, with radl- ul changes in existing policies af fecting employment of labor, physical operation of the cunul and railroad. pay of employees and other Important subjects, Is recommended In the pre- imlnary report submitted to Secretary Weeks by the commission which recent- y Investigated conditions in the canul zone at his request. The commission estimates that an annual saving of $5,00,(KK) would re sult from adoption of its suggestion. Chief among the recommendations s the governor of the canal zone be directed "not to make agreements or undei standings with the canal employ es or any class thereof, for any period of time, but that the wages be per iodically adjusted, in accordance with the law, which bases the canal wages on the pay; of similar employes in the government service in the United States, nnd the governor shall "not, deal with labor organizations ns or ganizations,- but shall deal with com-- i mltees of employes." "It is further recommened, the re port says, "that the open shop principle be actually put into effect on theIsthmus and that in all departments n substantial porportion of nonunion men be employed." Asserting that it has failed to find anything to Justify continued expenditure of canal funds to maintain a na val base at the canal, the report rec-- . ommends that operation of various fa duties for naval purposes "cease Immediately, and that hereafter the canall be operated entirely as a commercial agency until congress shall otherwise, '; Indicate." the employment of United Finding States white citizens Instead of natives to be another item of expense, the commission recommends that tropical workers be employed "to the extent possible, taking into consideration the fact that the canal Is, to a certain point an element of national defense in which aliens ought not to be employed." "The commission firmly believes that If the recommendations are adopted the returns to the government will in crease year by year and that within a period of ten of fifteen: years the canat will return a fair income on the investment of the federal government therein," but the report adds and estimates the total cost to date of the? canal at approximately $."00.0(H),000. The commission was headed by Brigadier General W. D. Conner, assistant chief of staff; Captain A. B. Pry of the treasury department: F. A. Wilson, New York banker and business man. - Hazelton and Downey Banks Are En tered in Early Morning And Cash and Valuables Are Taken Away Hazelton, Ida. Three charges of nit roglycerin were used In an abortive at tempt by bank robbers to rifle the safe of the Hazelton State bank here eurly Friday morning. Several people of the town heard the explosion, which occur red shortly after 2 o'clock, but paid no ttention to the unusual noise until banking hours Friday morning. There is no possibility of this Job having been done by the gang who robbed the bank at Downing a few hours later, accord ing to Sheriff E. B. White, who invest! gated. Entrance to the bank was gained through prying a rear window. Every Indication is that the Job was per formed by amateurs, according to Sher iff White, who believes that three per sons were Involved In the nttempted Enough nitroglycerin was robbery. used to have demolished the safe, it is snid, but, due to Inexpert placing, the blast only slightly damaged the heavy steel door and entrance to the money compartment was not gained. A kit of tools left behind by the would be robbers bear Oregon Short Line marks, and Sheriff White believes thnt the tools used were previously stolen from a railroad shop. No trace of the robbers has been found. Downey, Ida. Thousands of dollars In cash and securities Is believed to have been carried away by robbers who blew open the vault, money safe and safety deposit boxes of the Downey State bank here early Friday morning The robbers made their escape nnd up to a late hour no trace had been found of them. The exact amount of the loss could not 1e determined Immediately, as Sheriff George E. Mabey refused to al low bank offlcluls to make an exnmlnn tion until fingerprint photographs had been taken. However, general obser vat ion by officials resulted in an est! mate that tlx; loss would reach many thousands of dollars. Giant powder In sufficient quantity to wreck almost completely the bank Interior and vault, money safe and de posit boxes was used by the robbers, Pieces, of old clothing and rags were carried Into the bank and used to muf fle the sound of the explosion. According to Sheriff Mabey, three Ktisniclons characters were seen around Downev Thursday. The men were I possession of an automobile anil are believed to have made their escape I It following the bank robbery. So completely was the sound of th explosion muffled that the robbery wa not discovered until this morning. Th robbery, accord1 ng to officers, gives evidence of being the work of experts rimrles Woods, manager of the Sal Lake branch of the Bums Detect v agency, was notified of the robbery early Friday and started at once fi the scene. The bank belongs to an or gnnlxntioii which Is protected by the ngenry. Woods estimated that the rob hers obtained lwtween $."nnO and ?7HK), largely In currency. I White Robed Men Fired On Durnnt, Okla. Several shots were fired lust Friday between a grounp of ofticfru cotnoosed of Sheriff Taylor of Bryan county and three deputies an a Imml of nine masked white robed men whom the officers discovered I a t.uMdire north of the city. None of the officers was Injured. The robed men fled nfter the sh.s.ting anil She Iff Tnvlor said he believed none of thfm hurl been wounded. The sheriff declared he would uot permit meeting of masked men. SECRET ORDER PROBE SOUGHT Georgia Representative Wants to See Rituals and Hear Oaths Washington Congress Is asked to investicate the Masons, Knights of Col- umhus and other secret orders in a sensational resolution introduced in the house Friday by Representative Cp-shaw of Georgia. Declaring thnt a special Investigation of the Ku Klux Klan would be unjust, L'pshaw demands congress turn the spotlight on the oaths and rituals and other secret workings of all secret or ganizations existing In the Lnited States. In his resolution he asks that con gress procure from the secretnry of tate In each state the name of every secret organization and summon the hief official of each of these organ izations before a special investigating ominttee to "give account or their lims and purposes, the funds collected ind expended nnd to disclose the oaths and rituals of the secret organization to the eyes of congress and the liberty loving people of this republic." . I - Sentenced Wrong Man Chicago A nieek man with downcast eyes standing besides Mrs. Joseph Yenhofsky was sentenced to Jail Thursday by 'judge Jacobs in mnnu irnl court, lifter Mrs. Yenhofsky IkuI told the court how her husband had beaten her unmercifully. It was not until nf ter sentence bail been passed nnd he had been subjected to n severe lecture, that the meek man. Frank Kelly, with, Mrs. Yenhofsky' "'' convinced th court that he was not her but was appearing In connect '.on with another case. The court's order was withdrawn. hu-l;in- Europeans Stir Haiti Washington European piopa-iind:particularly German, was said to tn,? trouble In Ihe root of most Haiti by the Itev. L. T. Evans, a Wyor. ming. Pa., minister, who has lived twenty-the for git the Island pat years. In testifying before the see ite committee Investigating conditions n Haiti and Sun Domingo. He chargid thnt Europeans bad made advances revolutions, placing the moiie) nt usurious rates, and directly profit-infrom the results of the revolts. i, ' e |