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Show THE ML VICTOR ROUSSEAU iw Illustrations Lv RHXivintf stone rggyr-r- fV.tjlf JJ(I CHAPTER Ir, 4 4 XVI- -i 15 ' I1--i n- y il ifiiiii Continued. Molly ran behind tha blazing dlvun, picked up tlie rifle, and drove a smash-- ' log blow against the hack wall. It crHcketl ; again and again, she dashed ttie slock against It, until a section of the iiine planks gave tvay under her 8SB1I lilt. Together they carried Wilton through Into a room behind. Outside It was ' quite light; a gust of wind came through an open window and funned the flnnies to fury. With a roar the fire leaped up the outer walls, and the whole front of the camp was ablaze. Molly scrambled to the sill, clung there, and dropped. The factor, leaning out, lowered Wilton's body. And lie himself dropped to the grouud beetle the girl. As he dropped she perceived, without realizing it, that he had used both arms and legs. The paralysis hud left Mm. They ran down toward the lake, carrying Wilton between them, and making Instinctively for the shelter of the undergrowth, As they passed the road, Bowyer mine out of the stable, pulling fiercely at the horses, which were fastened to the rig. Me had set his foot upon the step when Lee Chambers and Hacked' broke upou hi in from among the trees. They made a leap for the vehicle. "Let us In, d n you 1" Chambers yelled. Bowyer dealt him a blow with the JijMpatocIc that sent hlra staggering, Villi a vile oath Hackett sprang for the step. Bowyer lashed him across llic face, causing him to miss his foot ing, and cursing and shouting, the two men rushed after him and disappeared down the road. The sound of the galMolly loping horses died away. kneeled at Wilton's side, bathing his face with water from the lake. The factor held his wrist. "Ills pulse beats sound." he said. "He'll come back to himself soon. Let's owa', lass; let's ana'." The girl hardly heard him. Plteously she scanned Wilton's face for some sUns of returning consciousness. Hut Will on did not stir, though he was breathing easily. I'rcseiitly, with a hideous clamor, the two outlaws returned. Molly held her breath as they came buck along ll:e ro:id, only a few yards above vi here she crouched with the factor. Itut they passed on, and turned up toward (he Cimip, which blazed furiously, a Ilamlng .parallelogram against the glow of the eastern sky, into which the rim of the sun Just projected from horizon. Hven as she watched the girl saw (he blazing walls tumble Inward. The men leaped buck, and then, shouting i unkeiily, made their way toward the 'e fitnliles. "Con io ana", lass!" muttered McDonald, pulling at Molly's ann. lie took Wilton by the legs, and together they crept with him cautiously further 1 1 into the bushes beside the I.e. Suddenly Wilton opened his eyes. And his first words fell like an Icy Chill on the girl's heart. "Kilty. I tried to save your line!" he Mattered. He was thinking of the fire. He Mti red into Molly's eyes without recognition, and Ids own closed again. Once more the factor pulled at the girl'r sleeve. "Come lass!" he whispered eagerly. "He'll get well. Comet It's our rhitnre a grand chance for us!" "What Uo fon mean?" she back. "Dlnim ye see? They think we're dead. Tom Uwycr'll think we're dead in the lire. He'll never trouble us :ln. Come, lass! He winna come to iit harm I" As he spoke, Molly perceived two liorneinen rliling ulong the rid. They were policemen; thry moved at a slow walk, and they lurried tlelr rifles on their linos. When lliey were within two hundred jnrd of the cmiip they tied their hiri-- to a tree, and to run forward rwlftly the mud. Tie ujiioar in the CiMe lliid not reused. Lee 'hiU'il'iTs mine staggering out. .Mittli- - In hi hand. And suddenly. hundred vnrda away, he saw Qunln and ilie constable. lie hoUcd l.riik with a screiim of en foMmved Hiickett's belternir low In.our, arid the two men np-- !' 'l 'it the O'Hir with rifles In their hum's rnn toward them, Tie (lie Way. fju.'t "Ilrnji those! Kim'! ifi! We've got you!" be snonfe mw lln'iptf drop to one knee v a mrcful bea4 upon tie urn' er ;.f n.o.iTit the p.ms(i''le fired. Thi lof. tiled bend over heel lit. ,. .i .j fi.i i, t.nd t.svpr ilireil ai', whls-jiere- I I - '( I S!-- -- ','' j..- I KM VKK again. heart. hr KY Ml W.O.KI The bullet hud n ' v n'l -. hlllll 1 .11. M A N Tinr pierced IV his With a cry of despair Chambers fired wildly and turned to run. Once more Quuln shouted, and the fired again. Chambers dropped In his tracks and lay still. Horror-strickeat the sight. Molly crouched by Wilton's side. Ills eyes were open again. He did not yet recognize her, but It was evident that consciousness was coming hack to lilm. As the policemen begun to curry the bodies of the outlaws Into the stable the factor plucked violently at Molly's arm. "What do you want to do, father?" she w hispered. "I ll tell ye. Inss. Ye ken the trail that strikes olT from the road below the lake and runs nigh the portage? We'll travel east through the bush twa about. We'll go to the store and pack our few things and go. Aye, we'll go. We'll travel east through the bush twa hundred miles or maybe more, till we strike the line somewhere. And then we're free. Pinna say no, lass!" She was touched by the babbling stammered words. They went straight to her heart. "He's naethlng to ye, lass?" asked the factor, pointing at Wilton. Molly looked at him. He had fallen Into a deep sleep. She could do not!) lug for him by remaining. "So, father, he's nothing to me,' she answered. "We'll put hlra a wee bit higher on the slope, where they'll Bee him," the factor whispered. They raised Wilton and laid him on n the snow, not far from the read. Then, cautiously and secretively, they turned and plunged Into the depths of the underbrush. It was two hours later when Wil ton opened his eyes, to find himself lying in the stable. The Inspector was standing at the door; the con stable paced at his side. Wilton looked at Quuln with astonishment. He could remember nothing since his plunge into the burning build eon-stab- n new-falle- ing. Carmthers, and he was resolved to free him. That, of course, presumed his own belief In bis client's Inno cence. He found his client seated In his cell, scribbling upon pieces of paper covered with diagrams. Just as he had found him on the occasion of his previous visit. Wilton rose and they shook hands. The- lawyer sat down. "Let's go ever the facts together," he said. "There's going to be a fight. You realize that? Not that you won't win out. Of course you will. But when popular are stirred---whea newspaper c.im the palgn has practically prejudg.-case. It's apt to be reflected In the minds of the jury. I've thought of asking for a change of venue. Hut I'm frank, Carruthers the feelin" Is widespread, and Clayton is the town where your enemies have the least I think we'll light them Influence. here." "Ill fight It out here," answered obtained a permit to Bee him, and appeared outside the bars, accompanied by the warden. "WH1," he said huskily, "we're going to get you out of here. I told you them two snakes would be found at the bottom of the brushwood. X believe in ye, boy I That ain't much, maybe, but I want ye to know It." Wilton was deeply moved. Thank you, Jim," he said warmly. "And listen, boy ! Ye remember how ye came to me about meeting that note when it falls due? I told ye I couldn't help ye. Well, boy, I was lying, I was trying ye, Will, and ye've made good ; and I want to say" the old man's voice almost failed him "I want to say the money's yours to meet that note when it fulls due, and I I want Wilton. "Your luck has been Infernal. If It could be proved thut Howyer hired thtise men to kidnap Miss McDonald and hor futher though- It wouldn't help directly It would create a prejudice In the minds of the Jury. We could bring that In as evidence. It would discredit Bowyer. It would force him Into the witness-boand give ne an opportunity. If those men If Miss McDonald could go Into the witness-bowe could present something ot a case. Hut they're dead at least those outlaws are dead and their secret died with them." "We can get Tonguay there." "Y'ou don't consider that he may be a star witness for the prosecution, Carruthers? He's got his neck to save. And, if your Implicuikw of I'hayre Is the correct one, you remember that I'hayre is a director or the Clayton hospital, and donated a large sum of money to it. Three weeks in a private room there offer opportunities." "You do believe that Phayre is Implicated?" cried Wilton. "I do, Carruthers. I'll be frank with you. I didn't at first. Hut I'm convinced that either I'hayre or Howyer was privy to Joe Rostock's murder. I believe it was an accident, and that they're playing on it to get you conx victed. "That's what we can prove agal'ist them, and It amounts to nothing. Now what can they prove against us? You were Joe Bust nek's friend. You knew all his affairs. You were his executor. For some reason or other Joe Bostock raised a loan of a large sum on five hundred Missatlhi shares probably to cover some other investment, and knowing thut he could meet It when the time came. There's nothing abnormal or unusual about that. "The money disappeared. Checks aggregating four hundred thousand dollars signed by Joe I'.ostock and made out In your favor are found In your safe. It Is claimed that you presented them; that they passed through the bank in the normal way, and that they went back to you at the time you signed the monthly statement as his executor. "You are presumed to have cashed those checks. Two days later you went Into the bush wilh Mr. Bostock. He died at your side. Do you see the Implication, us a Juryman would see "Jack !" he called feebly. "Whut's happened to me? How did you get here, old man?" Qua in, who appeared to be struggling w 1th some deep emotion, did not answer him. "You know how I got here?" con tinued Wilton. "They trapped Miss It?" McDonald and her father where is "And you believe I forged those she, Jack?" checks?" "They're not here. Will." "I do not," said Payne emphatically. "They must be here. I tell you I "But I'll be frank I couldn't see " saw her. That beast Howyer had her "Then It was Phayre." "Phayre or Clark. Clark has a first-rat- e record. He was twelve years with the Iteginu brr.nch of the Western National. We haven't been able to trice anything to his discredit. Still, there's not the least doubt P.'iayre and Bowyer fixed up tills scheme to get control of the Mlssatild and ruin you, at the best. Joe Bostock's death fitted In only too well with their purposes. But how those checks got into your safe, Carruthers " "Chambers placed them there, of course. I went over the papers Immediately 1 discovered thut the sufe was open, but the checks were the last thing I should huvtt thought of looking at. 1 thought they were after the of the townships." "Then Cliamliei must also have abstracted the checks showing how Joe Bostock expended that five hundred thousand, und left those In their place. It's a diabolical contrivance, and I'm afraid we can't hope to make much lmpressioii wlili hi, i a story on a Are you positive Jury, Carruthers. you closiil the safe?" "I am absolutely sure, because I always tried II uifer dosing, and made sure thut the combination was not set." "It couldn't be opened without the combination?" "Impossible. Of course, I'm not say At That Moment the Cor.itabU Fired. ing what mightn't be done by a miistvr by the throat. It made me see red! rraftsi:iaii " "But Chambers wasn't a burglar. He They got me down, and the place was was an engineer,' and always hud been. atlre. n iid " 'Ion t tell me that. Will." said the He was a skilled one, too. He could Inspector In a rhoked voice. "Ion't do better by his profession than by tell me any more." burglary. That's the heaviest Item In "V, iiy not. Jack? What's the matter the prosecution's bill. Carrutlicr. It wl'h you?" establishes a strong motive. That's you're under arrest for what I mean when 1 say that we're on the willful murder of Joe I'.ostock. the defensive. The thing we have to And I've I've cautioned you!" do Is to clear tip this forgery " blue-print- s e situa-tM.n.- lie hesitated. "Carruthers, 111 be frank w ith you." lie said. "There an The Trap. other motive olmost as strong. It's floh Pnvnp. flip Inn vr muiii fi Mrs. Bostock. She went to Jive lit Big male up his mind whether his client. Muskeg in en Nu'iiieil cottage Will Cjirruthers, was Innocent or your own right after her husband's guilty, and that was a position In deuth. A diivilillig thing In the eyes which he did not often find hlmclf. of men of the world, as all Jurymen Hither Cnrruthcrs was one of the pride themselves on being." coolest and most deliberate murderer 'She was like a sNter to me for that l;ad ever lived, or he was the Joe's sake." said Wilton. 'Which in the last the very last vlitlin il nn extraordinary suggestion that I would ut before n conspiracy. Whether Wilton was Innocent m Jury." answered Payne. Wilton bad another visitor that Any. tnilfy. P.ob I'nyne meant to fight to the jiisi. He had taken a liking to It was Jim Letts, who had s meliow CHAPTER XVII lo-n- r well-wove- NEPHI. UTAH S, d fit -- TIMES-NEW- "Will, We're Going to Get You Out of Here." ye to know this when ye're in trouble, and not when ye're out of it and all the world's slupping ye on the back and cheering ye, and and d n It, I'm going to get ye out of here a free man, or my name ain't Bettsl" CHAPTER XVIII Confession. When Wilton was arrested Kitty had been stunned by the news. She had made frantic attempts to see nlm, but without success. Kitty knew on what the charge was built, and the consciousness that Wilton's freedom could only be purchased caused her an by her confession agony of shame and fear. Yet she would have purchased Wilton's freedom even at the cost of that hrmllla-tion- , had she not known that she must Inevitably lose him. Instinctively she realized that treachery was the one sin that be would never condone. At last, when she could bear tt no longer, she resolved to go to see Bow yer. She left secretly, nt an early hour one morning, and reached Cold Junc tion a little before noon. At the same hour Bowyer was seated In the oflice of his house there. Facing him across the desk was Clark, the manager of the Bank of New North Manitoba at Clayton. "I'm not going to take you up on your preposterous story, Bowyer stormed. "I won't answer it. Nor will I deny it. You won't get "yes" or 'no' out of me. Let's say you've rendered special and confidential services to the hank this past year and you want a bonus. How'H that do?" "Cull it what you like," said Clark. "But get me straight, Jlr, Bowyer. I didn't tackle that Job to be fobbed of! with a paltry two hundred dollars. I know what It was worth to you and I want a proper price for It. I'm not bargaining. I'm going to bleed you Just what you're willing to stand. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bonds, which I'll specify, and fifty thousnrd In cash." Bowyer went white. Clark had gauged his limit exactly. The two meo eyed each other In silence for a few seconds. Then Bowyer caoltulated. "Your talents are wasted here," h said. "I'll take you up on thut, and I'll he able to employ you to bet i el advantage after the first of the year, You're not afraid of a check?" "Not In the least," suld Clark Thank you !" He tiMik the check and sauntered out of the house. When he was gone Bowyer gave way to one of his mad He called up Phayre and rages. liiinned him. He stamped up and down the oflice: and In the middle of It lill man announced Kitty. When she came In be was smiling and admirably under control. "Well, Mrs. Bostock, I guess this isn't social," he Mild. "Last fine we parted you were quite vexed with tne." Kitty put her hands to Iter eyes and broke down. "I cunt liear II." sli sob bed. "It's too awful! I've been III for days, and I had to come to you It's Wilton mid Molly. If yon had any hand In that poor child's death, may tied forgive you. Tom Bow yer (TO V.K i ONTlNfKD) Not Unimportant Territory. I'lip lllatrid nf I 'filtn.iltiii l nftli Phi miles squi.re, and most of that hundred n.lles Is oci lllilcil l v tnte men, fbiiter and oflice hmrers. Bui urn nipeus. me oitrici aside troin Inst year ove- produced worth of live stork of the q iudmpe fi.nr r,erui:if nn ftfiil fivpr n tutllii dollars' worth of green things that dl not wear liorl lreses l.ut coiiti.n more vhnnil- is. A in illoti fl.H'a-wort- of vegetables were grewn In otherwise bile fence Conieis of b and fields. MEDAL OF HONOR MEN GUESTS Wearers of Congressional Decorations Will Be Prominent at Legion National Convention. Prominent among the distinguished guests at the American Legion national convention In New Orleans, Ocwill tober be wearers of the This Department Cpyh for Supplied ty c ongress lonal American Leffion New 8ervir.) medal of honor, the award WAR RECORDS OF GRANDDADS for highest made bravery by the United Mrs. Edward W. Burt of North CaroStates. Lieut. Sydlina Working on Hereditary ney G. Gumpertz of New York was Society Plan. the first medal of "Granddad, what did you do during honor man to ac the war?" will be the special query of cept the conventhe young Amer- tion invitation. icans of the next The citation of Lieutenant Gumgeneration that pertz came as a result of an act of heroism while serving as a sergeant CmS'-"'1- ' ' 9 I5urt of Salisbury, with the One Hundred Thlrty-sesnn- d N. C., has set her- Infantry in the Bols de Forges, Sepself out to an- tember 26, 1918. ' swer. Mrs. Burt Advancing under hostile machine of gun fire, Gumpertz killed two German Is chairman Lethe American gunners with pistol fire and the region Auxiliary maining 14 members of the crew surcommittee to per- rendered. About thirty minutes after this exploit the platoon was again held petuate the organization In a heup by German machine gun nests. Volunteers were asked for to silence reditary society. makeThe Auxiliary, in its present the guns. Gumpertz, a corporal and a up, Is composed of mothers, wives, private volunteered and the trio addaughters and sisters of the members vanced In single file. of the American Legion, and of the Encountering the enemy's barrage, women of the same status who lost the two companions of Gumpertz were men in the World war. There Is no killed by a shell, but Gumpertz conJunior society to the Auxiliary or to tinued to advance alone on the nest by the Legion, such as there Is to other the flank aud located it. He then patriotic societies for Instance, the threw into it a Mills hand grenade and Sons of the Revolution but when a killed and wounded several members generation has passed undoubtedly of the crew. The remaining 18 memuch a society will come Into existence. bers surrendered themselves and the It Is to prepare the way for an hereditwo lieavy-typ- e machine guns. The tary society, composed of the daugh- action of Sergeant Gumpertz enabled ters and granddaughters of World war his unit to continue the advance. veterans, that Mrs. Burt is working. Her plan will Include Incorporation WHAT THE LEGION IS DOING Into the Auxiliary records of the war records of the Legion men, so that Reno (Nev.) Editor, on Bike Rid future genealogists will have no Through Country, Spreads News trouble in locating the war records of of the Posts. their granddads. Traveling 125 miles a day, and THE VETERAN OF SEVEN WARS camping at night by the roadside, Donald F. Chase, twenty-on- e years old, reRobert Bruce MacGregor of Seattle, cently passed through Middle Western cities on a bicycle from Reno, Nev., to One of Eleven Survivors of Syracuse, N. Y. His Old Regiment. Young Chase's family lives at Syracuse and, as a vacation from his duties A veteran of seven wars at forty-eigyears of age, Robert Bruce Mac as city editor of the Nevada State Journal, the energetic lad decided he Gregor of Seattle, would ride through and see his mother. Wash says that The Reno American Legion saw a his days on the adverchance to do some worth-whil- e battlefields are over tising. So arrangements were .made and forever whereby Chase should speak before 110 that be expects to Legion posts on his way across the devote the recontinent. At first he spoke only of maining years of what the Reno posts of the Legion and his life to peacethe Nevada state department are doful activities. ing, but later be found that he could Mr. MacGregor be of greater service by telling each served In the post of all the good things that other World war wilh posts along his route are doing. the original PrinThe young gatllng gun which he ce s s Pat regi ment, which numbered 1,003 men In carried with him saw service when an 1914. Kleven of that 1,093 are now automobile driver ran Into his bicycle alive and only two of the eleven can near Topeka, Kan., and then refused walk. Mr. MacGregor is one of the to stop to see what damage had been done. Chase put a bullet in a tire and two. He fought in the Philippines during then made the driver haul him and his the Spanish-Americawar. In China bike to town. "One doesn't realize Just what the during the Boxer rebellion. In South Africa during the Natal rebellion, ths American Legion is doing until he vis-ILegion posts and sees the efforts Matabele uprising and the Jamieson of these posts to Improve their com,rald. Twelve medals, four decorations and wounds which keep him constant- munities," he said. ly under the doctor's care constitute WILL DANCE FOR DOUGHBOYS his spoils. Although Mr. MacGregor lias left the battlefield, he believes that there Mies Emily V. Schupp, Duluth, are peacetime battles to be fought. He Services at New has been fighting unemployment In Orleans Convention. Seattle In behalf of the American LeMiss Emily V. Schupp of Duluth, gion for a number of months. He recently landed Jobs for 236 former sol- Minn,, has volunteered to dance for her doughboy diers. More than that, he has adopted frleiits at tha and la educutlng a American Legion boy. national convention In New OrDESIGNS THE LEGION POSTER leans next October. Drawing by Ciarence heeder, NewsDuring the war paper Artist, Advertises the Big Miss Schupp, Meet at New Orleans. who Is known as professionally Nineteen New Orleans artists com"Lada," enter, peted In a contest for a poster to talned thousands the of soldiers In tha ,pnn legion na cantonm e n t a ot tlonal convention. America. She has appeared at Lea but former "top J gion entertainments In a number of ergeant" won th cities. Miss Schupp, who of $100. Minnesota Or ; prise Is also a soloist. Is scheduled to apClarence Reeder, at a recital to be given at the staff artist of a pear New Orleans convention by the Duluth New Orleans American Legion band, which won newspapet, who first prize over 75 competitors In the drilled rookie at hand contest held at the Legion conCamp Pike during vention In Kansas City last fall. the World war, drew the winning s aw.-- poster. The successful design represents a Carrying On Wilh the doughboy, a sailor and a marine In American Legion uniform, looking at a guidebook, labeled "New Orleans, the Paris of the I. S. A.," with a view of the Huge sign boards "telling the famous French quarter belovr. Above world" how to find the American Lethe three figures are the Legion emgion clubrooins have been erected on blem and the words, "Oh, buddy, left all roads leading Into IMceville, la., go," and Jwiow, "AmerlraiJ Legion by the post there. National Convention at New Orleans. October 1(12"." Auxiliaries fashioned on Identical Forty thousand copies of the poster lines with the American Legion auxwilt be sent to all Legion posts and iliary have been organized In Canada will be on display In railroad stations and In England. In each the women !n many parts of the country. eligible must lie wives, mothera, sisters or daughters of members of the war veterans' associations, whose disBoycott Them. "Now, children," beamed the Sun- - charge comprises their eligibility. The day school teacher, "who ran suggest i women of Canada and England visit the lesson we are taught by the down- - (he disabled veterans and care for fall of Samson? Very well, Georgie." their dependents and aid tha veterans legislation to mitigate "Ion't patronize women limbers, la obtaining their after-wa- r burdens. tia'am." American Leglor Weekly. 16-2- n ts re fifteen-year-ol- d Amer-irT'"V"- j Jt"imj h I |