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Show 1HE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S, BOY E lire SCOUTS 5 VICTOR ROUSSEAU Ce by STEWART K1DD COMPANY thf Nut tonal Geographic C ciety, Wawhineion. (Prepared A CHAPTER XXI " "You are acquainted with the cir- crept up behind the rocks till I was a cumstances of Joe Bostock'g death?" hundred paces . an a'. Joe Bostock's A cry broke from Wilton's lips; he asked I'ayne. "Tell us what you know back was turned. I drew a bead on his heart and fired. raised his arms aud let them fall again. about It." They baltU fell "I killed him," said McDonald, slra-I-I- down. I ran back to the store and I'ayne glanced at the jury. Their eyes were riveted on Kitty's face. He knew went to bed. Jules didna see me, and that he had scored. A disagreement Bowyer leaped to his feet ; the Molly hadn't come harae." He groaned and hung his head upon even un acquittal If all went well. crown attorney, turning, us If he had "Thank you," he said quietly. been prepared , for the movement, his breast. The voice of I'ayne cut the The crown attorney, who had been pushed him down sharply into his silence like a knife. d "You are telling this of your own chair. whispering with Bowyer, came to Then the story, at hist unsealed, free will, McDonald?" he asked. "You told us, Mrs. Bostock," he said burst from the factor's lips In an Ir"As God is my witness! I'm tellin' ' In his sua vest tones, "that you loved, resistible ffood. this because my time's come now, and Ilow and still love, the defendant. "Aye, I shot Joe Bostock !" he cried. I wouldna have Will Carruthers swing "Often I'd warned him what would be for that red fox yonder." long have you loved him?" "Ever since I first saw him," whis- If ever he came betwixt me and mine. "What was the nature of Mr. BowAnd when he sent Will Carruthers yer's hold on you, McDonald?" pered Kitty. "How soon after your marriage did there to steal Molly from me for I The crown attorney stood up with a ken weel that was Joe's doing I wry smile. you make his acquaintance?" "I object to that question," he said "I saw him first on my marriage knew the time had come. "Tom Bowyer there had a hold on quietly. He was my husday, at the church. me. Aye, Tom, your time's come, now, "I'll put it in this way, then: Why band's best man." A stir among the spectators. I'ayne and I've listened to ye so long ye'll did you hate Joe Bostock?" clenched his fists and groaned. Every- listen to me. He was ever at me "Aye, I'll tell that, too," : nswored one saw what was coming everyone threatening me with the auld threat McDonald. "Joe was married when if I dlnna obey. When he came to he was a young man, long ago. A but Kitty. "Then you were In love with him the store a year ago I spoke of Will good girl. A sweet lass from my ane before you married Mr. Bostock? Not Carruthers, and how I feared he'd been town in Scotland. They were both long before let us say half an hour? sent by Joe to take Molly away from young. They quarreled. She wanted You married a man whom you had me. 'Your hance will come. McDon- - to vex him. She made up a story that ceased to love for half an hour?" ald,' he said. 'Ye'll catch the twa o' showed her to be a bad woman. She them In the bush togither.'' 'I ha' one went too far. Joe believed her. She "I did not realize it thfn." "But you realized it soon after? went to him and told him that she'd Vou were not heartbroken when Mr. lied. He wouldna believe her word. Bostock died?" Because the foolish girl had manufac"1 cared for Joe. I admired and retured proofs false proofs; and the lyshe trusted spected him." ing scoundrel whom "But not in the same way? You claimed they were true. couldn't love two men in that way at "He blackmailed her after Joe had the same time?" left her. She was at her wits' end. She "No," said Kitty tremulously. went to his office to beg him to tell "In fact, after the first shock was I happened to go there. the truth. over, you felt that life might become I overheard. She became frenzied and worth living again?" drew a revolver on him. He struck "I don't know what you mean" cried her. He got her by the throat. He had t on the table, a sharp-edge- d a Kitty desperately. "The court will," said the attorney, iii'-itl thing like a cleaver. I with a meaning glance toward the struck l.iiu once with it. It split his skull from side to side He died. E'tn jury. "Don't let me perplex you. Now r.lease answer me carefully. You perwhile I watched him he died. suaded the defendant to let you build "The girl was mad wi' fear. I took and occupy a cottage on Big Muskeg, her awa'. I married her, for Joe had close to his own, and hidden from the But that divorced her in the States. In my folly I'd sight of the camp?" fox, Bowyer, knew. "He tried to stop nie. I've said that told him all. He said he'd he my ii I ready." friend. , He got me my position at the Bos-locMrs. "It has duly impressed us, portage. I've lived there ever since However, in the end he yielded?" first with my wife, then with my fears, "He yielded because he thought that and always with Molly with Molly, I was only interested in the work. He her child and Joe's '" cared for Miss McDonald. He never The girl's cry rang wildly through dreamed I cared, until 1 told him. She reeled and ran the courtroom. he "So you told him! did What toward him. Wilton, unhindered, ay?" stooped down from the dock and sup'It cut him to the heart." ported her. She clung to him, wild-eye- d Only a thread divided the tense and helpless. Nobody intervened. drama of the colloquy from inexEven when Bowyer sprung forward. Said Killed "I McDonald, Him," The attorney tinguishable pathos. though the Judge rapped" his gavel Simply. snapped in: smartly. It seemed only an automatic a "In fact, you found him regular death on my soul now,' I said. He or perfunctory act, for he made no efJoseph In his relations with you?" of his. 'Te're fort to prevent his speaking. that And the whole court was dissolved laughed "Let me finish It!" he yelled fiercely. he taunted me. And that taunt afraid,' In laughter. Even the judge placed ind didn't die, you fool you old "He de'll into me. the laugh put Ms bund across his mouth. " 'Listen, now, McDonald,' he said, fool ; I.ord, you've been a laughing how me will tell you "Then you He's here if ye could kill Joe Bostock and no siock these twenty years two came to he seen kissing and emin court, and ke's been blackmailing on come do would ye. suspeeclon ye bracing one evening on the shores of It?' He knew the rancor that was me as he blackmailed you. Clark, But I won't press that like a r r Big Muskeg? and living coal in my heart, and he the master-forgeeviWe further have shitll question. ia that he'd won. Then be told though we didn't need you for thatMcdence to offer." Look at his head. I was to pretend a Mep forward! The net me his plan. The mischief was done. so that my foot would he use Donald, and then see if you remember stroke, woven Wilton been about that had my arm would hang useless him ! could not be broken by the hypothesis less, andside. "lies spoken true! The old fool's at my Then, he said, there'd of conspiracy. Kitty's confession of true! I've handled many a man her love supplied a stronger argument be no possible suspeeclon on ame. As he spoken and woman in my time, bin God Himstroke said, 'twas nought to feign dark the threw him. and ugainst nought at all. Just to lie down and self, they say. can't handle a fool." ahadow of collusion about her, too. Me- breathe heavy, and never forget I He swung around on his accomplices. witnext the called chanically I'ayne use my arm or leg. couMna "Keep your whs, I'h ,yre!" he howled ness. In wild derision. "You didn't know how me left went awu' the and wi' "lie But before he could take the stand You're only the thief the It gre.v In me until it filled Joe died. there came sounds of an uproar In the thocht. heart. Then one flicht he cam' to common thief I hired to work fi r me. treet. There was a struggle at the my didna know that and tie You umi'' swing for this. Neither will entrance. Then, to the amazement of me Molly told me that Joe an.l Will Carruthers I. I took my chances but, by God, In stood the doorway. all, Molly I couldn't handle a fool !" Jim Belts was with her. and to- were coining to the portage, and I could catch The chalice them alone. They rushed toward him, but Bowgether they supported the frail form came. Jules was In the btisli, and yer was qi.hker than they. And. as of McDonald. the single shot echoed through the gone to the Indian camp. Unhindered, they went down the Mclly'd "I slippit out bed ar.d took the courtroom Wilton saw that Molly was courtroom, while the spectators gaped, rifle and one cartridge, put on my snow-shoe- , already mercifully unconscious. and suddenly, standing up in their But he knew that all the past woul 1 ran across the muskeg. It and riotous cheers, places, gave rousing, Uiinmed with her awakening. on saw wasna become before them the long unhindered and unrebuked. black against the gray sky. I (THE END.) Despite the general belief In Wil- ridge, ton's guilt, stories concerning Bowyer's piesence at the camp on the night of the tire had been widely bruited. The party were still advancing when Bowyer loosed himself in one of his paroxysmal rages. "Put them out of here" he bawled. Ceylonete Creditor Have a Remark, refusal to pay, the creditor would ably Effective Method of Enforcnot be wiser to lose his money than "It's a trick a staged trick to win ing Collections. man!" for ids life. that sympathy "Be silent!" thundered the judge; The native of Ceylon Is an Intractand then he turned to Payne, who Rot to the Occaaion. He possesses an Irrewas at his side, speaking In a low able creditor. The doctor had left his instruction method sistible of securing payment voice. sufficient to carry on during his ab"The cot:rt w III adjourn for half an without recourse to the bailiffs, cita- sence through the afternoon. All went Iietir." lie ordered. "And no person tions, Judgments, duns or s;iiiniMries well till the phone rang and a sweet will leave this courtroom In that inter- which fall like hail about the ears of feminine voice Inquired; ls the doc. European f'btors. val." in? May I speaK to him?" The tor him betake The creditor Ceylonese Molly, with a little cry. run to the assistant, per Instructions, explained dock and flung herself Into Wilton's t the house of the man Who owes him the doctor's absence and If nrms. Anil at this the building rang money, holding In his hand some leaves be would be of any use. Inquired The lady an of the poisonIt extremely neiingaln, cheers. with the spectators' Again voice win worried n she went plnnt. and declares that, unless he caller's t not for a full minute that the ous on. "ih. I am so sorry. I am phonhimon Is will he the paid poison spot fi:ard dnw her away. ing for Mr. P.lHnk, and It Is very self. Tell the doctor Immediately hesitaThe debtor paya up without CHAPTER XXII Is havAt home he would of course on his return that Mrs. Blank tion. a gymkhana coming on. and she simply laugh In the face of the shoe- ing The Amaiing Truth wonders If he could do anything for "Donald McDonald to the witness maker or tnllor who made such a It." The aistant made a nurried til but and to in tell go ahead; threat, box!" sain the court clerk. Is a local law which note and reassured the caller. "I'll Helped by Payne and the policeman. In Ceyhm there m aa he returns. on anyone Irll the doemr a fine enormous fie ild fnclnr made Ms way painfully lnioes muswho Is the cause of the suicide of an- And mennwi He tell her to pat a toward It and sst down. rn It and renew It tard Death was upon Mm; so meager and other. And there h no case on rec- every poultice two honra." freak he looked that It seemed as If ord In which a creditor whs permitted his to threat. mit carry the man lived only In the Impassioned The heat way to ne from tne temphowever, teems to he Cre of hi eyes and the piirpo IUt The question, all whether In the face of an obstiaue lar la ta A to your hlM trtunbllug iJoay, knw Continued. 17 for-war- cross-examin- paper-weigh- t 8s by So- Al'lli Will La Fcllette Head a New Party? Senator Hubert GLORIOUS OUTING Tramp, tramp, tramp dignified and quiet tramp, tramp, tramp sturdy and bronzed, into National Headquarters on July lil! walked till hardy lads, paclrs in their backs and the spell of the about them, fresh frnn a hike of 2'.'."i miles through the stale of New York. To Scout Executive W. F. Abriel, boy lover and outdoor enthusiast, the credit Is due for the trip enjoyed by these i (Ml honor scouts of Trenton, N. J. For months before the great trip, a merit system was in practice among the scouts at Trenton. hikes were made of 12 and 3.1 miles. Personal health and correct diet were stressed. The C0 hoys ranking highest in physical fitness and efficiency in scouting were selected for the trip. Trenton bade tliein Godspeed when an July 10 they left in autos for New York City. There they took the boat for Albany where the hiking began. Up to Fort Ticomleroga they pushed. sleeping out of doors each night, cooking their meals in the open, stopping for rest periods and practice of swimbut always with ming mid scoutcraft an objective point to reach each day Scut Executive Abriel had hiked the entire distance twice in advance of the trip, arranging every detail. Albany, W a t e r t o w n. Stillwater, Schuylerville, Fort Edward, Saratoga. Schenectady. Sabbath Day Point. Fort these were among the Ticomleroga stopping points. At each place con tingents of local scouts met the party and entertainments were carried out, the Trenton lads' own fife and drum corps doing its share. The historic points of the famous ground they covered were explained by the scout leaders and educational side tours, such as visits to the General Electric plant at Schenectady, the Capitol and the Educational building at Albany, were features of the S.'O-inil- e Semi-weekl- y AI'OWT M. LnFolIctte of won his campaign for nomination as senator by a landslide victory. The politicians are now saying' that his alliance with radicals is taken to mean that he will seek the presidential nomination of a proposed new national party. Tl.ey say that LaFollette's attack on Harding aud Itepubllcan policies and his acceptance of the Socialist indorsement of his own candidacy are straws indicating he would like to run for president Wisconsin I , -- - ? s, X Vf VX r in 1024. Anyway. I.al'olletto defended his record In the senate, laying particular stress on his stand on questions relatlie lias deing to the World war. r nounced the treaty and r tariff called the measure the "greatest robber tariff In reviewing the ineve;- attempted." dustrial situation, he bitterly attacked law and the pro the William A. Gunficld. who sought to displace Senator posed snip sulismy. declared during his campaign "that of all the radical things LaFolIctte has proposed, the one most subversive to the government of the I'n'.ted States is Ids proposal to take away from the Supreme court the final decision as to the constitutionality of laws." llo criticized the war record of Wisconsin's senior senator, and warned against what lie termed "the danger of experiments of untried radical theories." "Bossism run mad" is the way he pictured the campaign methods of Senator LaFolIctte. four-powe- Fordr.ey-McCumbe- - Esch-Oummi- Miller of New York Is a Live Wire It is not unlikely that the man who is governor of New York in BI-- 4 will be a candidate for the nomination for President of the United Slates so if say the politicians. They also say that if Gov. Nathan L. Miller Is ret ' p-?velected next November it Is practically - " a foregone conclusion that his friends will bring him forward for the Republican nomination, though he consistently discourages any suggestion of the sort nilw and leaves no doubt that he is a loyal supporter of President ... Harding for renoininution. It is admitted all around that Governor Miller has achieved the leaderrrip. Not one boy was sick, although the ship of the Republican party in New sun aud rain vigorously challenged the York. The net result has been the scouts. Enthusiasm for perfect scout-craf- t disappearance of all opposition to his reigned ; tents were pitched with renour.nation and the coalition of nil (lawless precision; tests were passed factions of the party in the most forwherever opportunity presented itself midable political organization seen in to advance in scouting rank. Twenty-on- e New York in many years. Fifty-fou- r merit budges were won. years old, with a vigorous physique Besides Scout Executive Abriel and and a commanding presence. Governor Miller lias a way of going to the heart four adult leaders were in of a question with rapier strokes of lo; :ie that bewilder his opponents. Public the the i arty. men in New York have grown weary of drawing him into debate. In commenting on the trip. Mr. Abriel said. "To me tills is real scouting a combination of work and play that brings to the boys the love of the its wholesouieness and Joy, with the opportunity to learn to work together generously and helpWhat's this ge a! luck or bad. or retributive justice? Many years agc fully, each for all. all for each." John D. RockefellT. retiring from This Itinerant camp was called active leadership in the affairs of the "Camp Kiwanis" in honor of Trenton Klwanians who are backing the scout Standard Oil company, went to the movement in their city. Poca ii tlco hills to .vt away from oil and anything suggtuive T oil wells. WILL LEARN TO FIGHT FIRE Now, on the I'orval' and Forshap land located not more '.ban half a mile Pueblo (Colo.) scouts have formed from the oil king's estate, diill'ng la ..notlier class in rircnanship under the time, us Indicalikely to begin at af-direction of the city's fire chief. tions point to oil anticlinal. Scouts who graduated from the last Roy Forshay. yiuthful proprietor V f S course received badges exactly like of the "Pleasantvllle Bike Garage." up l' " ex' !'; i those of the city firemen, with the In Westchester county, had some buildJ ception that the badges f the former ing lota for sale until a few days ago. were inscribed "Scout Fireman." The when they were suddenly withdrawn record of the Pueblo scouts when from the market. The reason was the in June. was endungered their city iccidental discovery of an oily lilin one is that IJIL'1. by flood and fire, n water seeping through raln soaked I. Records of will be long rememlieie and immediately adjoining, which belthe Western Union office show that Pofvall. K ongsTheto William were delivered by ICMKrfi telegrams news tnivcP-to New York, scouts within u few day after the it was recorded in a few brief para anxious to the relief flood, bringing graphs mid then tilings commenced to happen. Folks :wnrmcd in from t!,e people awaiting word from the outroundabout Pleasantvllle. asked questions, studied a small bottle countryside side world. In addition, scouts carried of liquid which might or might not be oil of some kind, and asked Roy what food ar.d clothing to homeless and he proposed to do when he got to be a petroleum king. marooned victims, warned families Meanwhile Mr. Porvall. on whose land the oily substance first was found, when to leave their threatened homes, no lie has lived longer stays w'tliln sourd of the telephone in his home, circuof health thousands distributed for tit teen years, working as a carpenter and buiidcr by day. and In there lars and performed Innumerable the pleasant evenings looking after vegetables, fruits and flowers. Vr Will fox-laug- h safe-breake- John D. Drill on His Golf Lin! iti " 1 THREAT THAT BRINGS ONE GOOD TURN Here Is the story of a recent goKl iurn performed by a Buffalo scout of Troop 30: "One day while I was walking down the street I noticed u little boy sitting on the curbstone, his feet In some sand on the street pavement. Ills old grandmother, was standing nearby. Suddenly a dump wagon came rattling down the street. I saw the dangerous position the little boy was In and ran to him, but before I reached him the wagon had passed over one of bis feet. The oid grandmother liegan to cry piteously. Then I remembered all my scout training. I comforted the old lady, picked up 'he child, carried him to "his home, which whs very near, and there I bandaged his Injured RESULTS foot." WHY HE 13 A SCOUT LEADER ! I j - 'Kiiir brtW j i Herbert Mooney, assistant deputy scout commissioner. District 5. C'leve- land, o., says he la engaged In scout work because be believes It Is the best recreation a man can find after wcrk-- ) Ing hours. "A man should get out uiid forget business after the day's work i done, nays Mr. Mooney, "and how else can he spend his time to better advantage than by mingling with young boya, the men of tomorrow?" G. H. Sutherland Goes to Supreme Court former H. Sutherland, George United States senator from Utah, has taken the place of John II. Clarke of Ohio as associate Justice of the United 1 State Supreme court. Justice Clarke resigned and President Harding's nomiY nation of Mr. Sutherland was promptcona Mr. Sutherland Is ly confirmed. servative of widely recognized legal ability and his appointment will leave Justice Brainleis the only "radical" memlier of the court. He Is a close personal friend of President llnnling. He was born "n Buckinghamshire, England. In W.2. r nd received bis education In th scli'iols of Utah and at As the University of Michigan. member of the senate his ability commanded the respect of his colleagues and he established a reputation for his knowledge of International law. Justice Clarke's resignation September IS. on which date In raa sixty-fivyears old, the age ol retirement for the federal Judiciary. As Justice Clarke himself put It, he desired to retire "In order to conform to hi own philosophy of life and serve his neighbors and some public cnnsea." Justice Clarke was nominated by President Wilson In 1910. He hopes to make a trip around the world next spring. He la fraown to be greatly of Nations and considers America's entrance highly Interested In the desirable. He la president of the Vindicator Printing company, which pubcither la lishes a dally newspaper in Tonngsiown. lie la likdy to C1trel,J or Nw Turk but will not practice 'aw. tool-effec- t e 'l |