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Show 1 THE PAGE TWO BAREE Son of Kazan By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD ((E). DoubUday, Pas 4 Co.) WNU Bervlc Chapter XVI Continued 26 to the deep, dark pool In which he and the Willow had disportso often: Bnree, too, had stopped. He could hear the rippling of water, and his eyes shone with a gleaming Bre n lie quested for Nepeese. He expect ed to see her there, her slim white body shimmering In some dark shadow of overhanging spruce, or gleaming suddenly white as snow in one of the warm plashes of sunlight. Ills eyes sought out their old hiding places ; the great split rock on the other side, the shelving hanks under which they used to dive like otter, the spruce houghs that dipped down to the surface, and In the midst of which the Willow loved to screen her naked body while he searched the pool for her. And at last the realization was borne upon him that she was not there, that he had still farther to go. He went on to the tepee. The little open space In which they had built their hidden wigwam was flooded with sunshine that came through a break In Ihe forest to the west. The tepee was still there. It did not seem very much changed to Baree. And rising from the ground In front of the- tepee was what had come to hlra faintly on t tie still air the smoke of a small fire. Over thnt fire was bending a person, and It did not strike Baree aa amazing, or at all unexpected, that this person should have two great shining braids down her hack. He whined, and at his whine the Person grew a little rigid, and turned slowly. liven then It seemed quite the most natural thing In the world that It should he Nepeese, and none other. He had lost her yesterday. Today he had found her. And In answer to his whine there came a sobbing cry straight out of the soul of the Willow. Close world for the Willow, and In the flames he could see faithful old Tuboa aa he called on his last" strength to bear Nepeese over the long miles that lay between the chasm and his cabin ; he caught shifting visions of the weeks that followed In that cabin, weeks of hunger and of Intense cold In which, the Willow's life hung by a single thread. And at last, when the snows were deepest, Tuboa had died. Carvel's fingers clenched In the strands of the Willow's braid. A deep breath rose out of his chest, and he said, star ing deep Into the Are: "Tomorrow I will go to Lac Bain." For a moment Nepeese did not an swer. She, too, was looking into the fire. Then she said : "Tuboa meant to kill him when the spring came, and he could travel When Tuboa flled I knew that It was I who must kill him. So I came, with Tuboa's gun. It was fresh loaded And M'sleu Jeem" she yesterday. looked up at lilm, a triumphant glow In her eyes as she added In a whis per "You will not go to Lac Bain. have sent a messenger." "A messenger?" "Yes, Ookimow Jeem a messenger, Two days ago. I sent word that I had not died, but was here waiting for htm and that I would be Iskwao now, his wife. Oo-ohe will come, Ooklmaw Jeem he will come fast. And you shall not kill him. Non 1" She smiled Into his face, and the throb of Carvel's heart was like a dream. "The gun Is loaded," she said softly, will shoot." "Two days ago," said Carvel. "And from Lac Bain It Is " "He will be here tomorrow," Ne peese answered him. "Tomorrow, as the sun goes down, he will enter the clearing. I know. My blood has been singing It all day. Tomorrow tomor row for he will travel fast, Ookimow Jeem. Yes, he will come fast." Carvel had bent his head. The soft tresses gripped In his fingers were crushed to his lips. The Willow, look ing again into the fire, did not see. But she felt and her soul was beating like the wings of a bird. "Ookimow Jeem," she whispered a breath, a flutter of the lips so soft that Carvel heard no sound. If old Tuboa had been there that night It is possible he would have read strange warnings In the winds that whispered now and then softly In the 1 Carvel found them there a few minutes Inter, the dog's head hugged close up against the Willow's breast, and the Willow was crying crying like a little child, her face hidden from him on Barec's neck. He did not Interrupt them, but waited; and as he waited something 1n the sobbing voice and the stillness of the forest seemed to whisper to him a hit of the story of the burned cabin and the two graves, and the meaning of the Call that had come to Baree from out of the south. V. Friday. October 15, 1926 NEPHI, UTAH S, low cry of exultation. He came to the edge of the forest; chance directed his steps to the overgrown trail; he followed it, and the smoke smell camel stronge to his nostrils. It was the forest man's Instinct, too,' that added the element of caution to his advance. That, and the utter still-- ! ness of the night. He broke no sticks' under his feet. He disturbed the brush so quietly that It made no sound. When he came at last to the little open where Carvels Are was still sending a spiral of spruce-scentesmoke up Into the air it was with a stealth that failed even to rouse Baree. Perhaps, deep down In him, there smoldered an old suspicion ; perhaps It was because he wanted to come to her while she was sleeping. The sight of the tepee made his heart throb faster. It was .light as day where It stood in the moonlight, and he saw hanging outside it a few bits of womd an's apparel. He advanced as a fcx and stood a moment later with his hand on the cloth flap at the wigwam door, his head bent forward to catch the merest breath of sound. He could hear her breathing. For an Instant his face turned so that the moonlight struck his eyes. They were aflame with a mad fire. Then, still very quietly, he drew aside the flap nt the door. It could not have been sound that roused Baree, hidden In the black balsam shadow a dozen paces away. Perhaps it was scent. His nostrils twitched first; then he awoke. For a few seconds his eyes glared at the bent figure In the tepee door. He knew that it was not Carvel. The old smell the smell, filled his nostrils like a hated poison. He sprang to his feet and stood with his lips snarling back slowly from his long fangs. McTaggart bad disappeared. From Inside the tepee there came a sound ; a sudden movement of bodies, a startled elaculation of one awakening from sleep and then a cry, a low, frightened cry, and In response to that cry Baree shot out from under the balsam with a sound In his throat that had in It the note of death. FLOOD WATERS l X X RISING RAPIDLY ONE DEAD IN TEXAS; THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN ILLINOISl RAINS CONTINUE d Only One Dozen Homes Above Water In Beardstown; Cold Adds To Misery; Many Periah Chicago Flood waters of the Illinois and other rivers in the state had spread over nearly 200,000 square acres, according to reports received here. The Illoinis river was still rising at its confluence with the Mississippi. The water was falling slowly In the upper reaches. At Beardstown, where the Sood has Inundated the city for two weeks, only a dozen homes stood above the water line. Nearly 4000 people are homeless in Beardstown and the immediate vicinity. Cold weather has caused much suffering. Scores of families are living In army tents which have been pitched on a piece of land that ia still above water. The stage of water was within a fraction of twenty-sifeet Sunday, the highest ever recorded. Mississippi is rising slowly, many acres of bottom lands and islands being flooded. Dallas, Texas One death, scores made homeless, heavy damages as yet unestimated and many narrow escapes was the toll exacted by heavy rains, which, in at least two cities, was the heaviest in more than fort; years history of the local weather bu reaus. The fatality occurred neai Sherman, where E. W. Haynie, Jr., 16, was swept to his death when he and Ray Bible, 20, attempted to ford a swolIn the edge of the spruce thicket len stream in an automobile. Wible Carvel rolled uneasily. Strange sounds swam to safety. were rousing him, cries that In his ex$50,000 Mystery Blaze In Pocatello haustion came to him as if in a dream. Pocatello Pocatello- suffered its At last he sat up, and then In sudden horror leaped to his feet and rushed worst Are in many years early Sunday toward the tepee. Nepeese was In the afternoon when a blaze starting from open, crying the name she had given an unknown cause damaged the north him "Ookimow Jeem Ookimow building on South Arthur to the apJeem Ookimow Jeem " She was proximate extent of $50,000. Smoke standing there white and slim, her made it difficult for firemen to locate eyes with the blaze of the stars In the source of the blaze. The building them, and when she saw Carvel she has store rooms on the first floor, while the second is occupied by the flung out her arms to him, still crying "Ookimow Jeem Oo-oOokimow Gordon apartments. The building is located in the heart of the west side Jeem" In the tepee he heard the rage of a business district and it was only beast, the moaning cries of a man.. Ho yirough the efficient work of the fire forgot that It was only last night he departments that the fire did not hnd come, and with a cry he swept spread to adjoining buildings. the Willow to his breast, and the Wil low's arms tightened around his neck Cards Annex First World Series Title as she moaned : New York The gaunt, weather-beatet "Ookimow Jeem It Is the figure of Grover Cleveland Alexfrom ander came back in all its ancient in there! It Is the man-beaLac Bain and Baree " pitching mastery Sunday to check the Truth flashed upon Carvel, and he Yankees for the third time and clinch caugiit Nepeese up In his arms and the first world's baseball championran away with her from the sounds ship that St. Louis has known in forty that had grown sickening and horrible. years. Through the haze of this cruIn- - the spruce thicket he put her feet cial test, the seventh and deciding once more to the ground. Her arms same of the 1926 diamond classic, the were still tight around his neck; he Yankee defense cracked to yield the felt the wild terror of her body as It Cardinals their winning margin of 3 throbbed against him; her breath was to 2, but it was Alexander the Great sobbing, and her eyes were en his who saved the day with as dramatic face. lie drew her closer, and sud- and exciting a finish as any chamdenly lie crushed his fac down close pionship conflict has ever witnessed. an and felt hers instant far against the warm thrill of her lips against his Mexicans Open Yaqui Campaign own. And he heard the whisper, soft Mexico City General Joaquin Am-arand trembling: minister of war, formally will open "Ooo-oo- , Ookimow Jeem " a campaign against the Yaqui Indians, When Carvel returned to the fire, the end of the present week, according alone, his Colt In his hand, Baree was to a statement. General In front of the tepee waiting for him. Amaro leave Monday for Guaymas to Carvel picked up a burning brand Inspect the war preparations and conand entered the wigwam. When he sult with General Francesco Manzo, came out his face was white. He commander of the campaign against tossed the brand In the fire and went the Yaquis. From official sources it is back to Nepeese. He had wrapped known definitely that General Obre-goher In his blankets, and now he knelt will not cause the army to be sent his arms down beside her and put against the Yaquis. about her. "He is dead. Nepeese." Enemey Forces United In Army "Head Ookimow Jeem?" Hankow A typical Chinese agree"Yes. Baree killed him." ment of capitulation, whereby the adShe did not seem to breathe. GenCantonese army bargained to vancing tly, with his lips In her hair. Carvel take over into its own whispered his plans for their paradise. boasted rifles, wns "No one will know, my sweetheart. enemy forces, who of lack of agreebecause held here up I him will and burn the bury Tonight over of artillety. ment the disposition tepee. Tomorrow we will start for The northern forces evacuating W Nelson House, where there Is a Mis. attempted to move their artilsinner. And after that we will coma buck pud I will build a new cabin lery with them. A battle. In which no where the old one burned. Do you icaths were reported, resulted the advancing southern arnr love me, ka sukahet?" "Oui yes Ookimow Jeem I love md the northern forces soft-foote- man-beast- x 's - n Then, Still Very Quietly, Ha Drew the Flap. tree-topIt was such a night ; a night when the Bed Cods whisper among themselves, a carnival of glory In' which even the dipping shadows and the high stars seemed to quiver with the life of a potent language. It Is barely possible that old Tuhoa, with his ninety years behind him, would have learned something, or that at least he would have suspected a thing which Carvel In his youth and confidence did not see. Tomorrow he will come tomorrow! The Willow, exultant, had said that. But to old Tuboa the trees might have whispered, why not tonight? It was midnight when the big moon stood full above the little open In the forest. In the tepee the Willow was sleeping. In the balsnm shadow hack from the fire slept Baree, and still farther back In the edge of a spruce thicket slept Carvel. Dog and man were tired. They had traveled far and fast that day, and they heard no sound. But they had traveled neither so far nor so fast as Bush McTaggart. Between sunrise and midnight he had come forty miles when lie strode out Into the clearing where Pierrot's cabin had stood. Twice from the edge of the forest he had called; and now. when he found no answer, he stood under the light of the moon and listened. Nepeese was to be here waiting. He was tired, but exhaustion could not still the fire that burned In his blood. It hnd been blazing all day, and now so near Its realization and its triumph the old passion was like a drutikenlng' wine In his veins. Some where, near where he stood. Nepeese was waiting for him. waiting for him. Once again he called, his heart beating In a fierce anticipation as he listened. There was no anwer. And then for a thrilling Instant his breath stopped. He sniffed the air and there came to him faintly the smell of smoke. With the first Instinct of the forest man he fronted the wind that wns hut a faint breath under the starlit skies. He did not call again, but hastem-across the clearing. Nepeese was off beside somewhere there her fire, and out of him (here rose a Aside semi-offici- n army,-norther- you" Suddenly there came an Interruption. Baree at last was giving his crj It rose to the stnrs; II of triumph. wailed over the roofs of the foresti and filled the quiet skies a wolfish howl of exultation, of achievement, of vengeance fulfilled. Its echoes died slowly away, and silence came agsln. A great pence whispered In the Koft breath of the tree tops. Out of Mi north came the mating call of a loon, about Carvel's shoulders the Willow' arms crept Closer. And Carvel, out of his heart, thanked C,.d. THE END. Probable Reaton "Well ! well I l.ook at that fellow running and turning his bead first one way. then t lie other, as he tlees!" "What do you exclaimed a guest. suppose he Is doing that for?' 'Not knowing the gent, ran't say fur certain." rcptlel ttie hndlord the tavern at I'eeweeruddj hump, "bit ! i tile l turn proh'ly It Is b'cuz he aili it hot li ways at once " - I in , i lluies Former Enemies Chat Business London British and German Indu and financial leaders have met ,n at the conference over tho week-enresidence of Colonel Ashley, minister jf transport, near Romsey. Coal, Iron, textiles, shipping, electric, mining and the banking industries of both coun- tries were represented, and the conver- nations, which were carried on In an atmosphere of confidence and good will, ranged over a rariety of topics In the field of buslneti. d War Veterans In Convention Philadelphia, Pa. With hundreds ol ielegntes pouring Into the city from a ill parts of the country, quiet awoke Sunday with a gasp of realization that the national convention of the Amerlcin Legion will be under way in full force at 9:30 a. m Monday, when the first session will be railed to order In the auditorium of l :he exposition. An fMtlmafe of 150,000 made by the local ronvtntlon committee as the nurav.w ot oui of town visitors coming. Phila-lelphl- Ssqul-Centennla- RED CHINESE ARMY News Notes it a Utah m 10 CLOSES CITY GATES ivw Because the grazing Salt Lake e round of a band of deer in Parley's canyon is in such close proximity to the route of sightseeing trips, fataie Fish and Game Commissioner D. H. Madsen has issued a proclamation for the protection of the animals. man-beas- Chapter XVI! That night there was a new camp-fir- e In the open. It was not a small fire, built with the fear that other eyes might see It, but a fire that sent Its flames high. In the glow of It stood And as the fire had changed Carvel. from that small smoldering heap over which the Willow had cooked dinner, so Carvel, the officially dead outlaw, had changed. The heard was gone from his face; he had thrown off his carlbou-sklcoat; his sleeves were rolled up to the elbows, and there was a wild flush in his face that was not altogether the tanning of wind and sun and storm, and a glow In his eyes that had not been there for five years, perhaps never before. His eyes were She sat In the firelight, on Nepeese. leaning a little toward the blnze, her wonderful hair glowing warmly In the flash of It. Carvel did not move while she was In that attitude. He seemed scarcely to breathe. The glow In his eyes grew deeper the worship of a man for a woman. Suddenly Nepeese turned and caught him before he could turn his gaze. There wns nothing to hide In her own eyes. I.Ike her face, they were flushed with a new hope and a new gladness. Carve! sat down hostile her on the birch log. and In his hand he took one of her thl. braids ind crumpled It as he talked. At their feet, watching them, lay Baree. "Tomorrow or the next day I am pi;'ne to Lac Bain." he said, a hard rnd bitter note back of the gentle wor-- f hip of his voice. "I will not come bnrk until I have killed him." The Willow looked straight Into the fire. For a time there was n silence broken only by the crackling of the flames, and In that silence Carvel's fingers weaved In and out of the silken of the Willow's hair. His strand thoughts Hashed back. What a chance he had missed that day on Bush McIf lie bad only Taggart' trap-lin- e known I Ills Jaws set hard as he saw In the red hot heart of the fire the mental pictures of the day when the factor from I.ac Bain had killed Pierrot. She had told him the whole story. Her flight. Her piling" to what she had thought was certain death In the Icy torrent of the chasm. Hir miracand ulous escaie from the water how she was discovered, nearly dead, old free whom by Tuboa, the toothless I'ierrot out of plly hud allowed to hunt In part of his domain. He felt within himself the tragedy and the horror of Ihe one terrible liour in which the lun had gone mt of the TIMES-NEW- dairy cattle Ephraim Forty-eigh- t with tuberculosis were found in the county in a test just completed. The testing was done by Dr. C. L. Jones and Dr. E. D. Liely, government vetof erinarians, and Dr. W. E. Thorpewere About 500 cattle Ephraim. tested. Those infected were shipped from Manti. Ephraim and Fort Green were the only towns in Sanpete where no reactors were found. Frovo Plans for the expenditure of 1150,000 on the Provo canyon road between Bridal veil falls and Olmstead, as a federal aid project, have been completed and bids will be received for the construction of 2.82 miles of road there until October 22, 1926, according to announcement of the board of Utah county commissioners. Salt Lake Most of Utah, including the Salt Lake region, is "in tha vhite," which means ir an area of go I business conditions, iccording to tha "crop and general conditions" map of the latest Business Bulletin, issued by Extension university of Chicago. The collection map also show most of Utah in a good area. In the matter of collections, the bulletin says- "Collection taken as a whole for the eatiie United States reflect a sound and favorable business situation.' Delta The Sevier Ri.sr Lain & Water company, the holdings of which were purchased during the summei by banks, Huntley & Co., of Los Angeles, under the Lame has been of the Central Utah Water company and the principal office has been changed from Salt Lake to Delta. Kaysville Willard Ashton of Salt Lake nad his associates have purchased the milk cooling station at Syracuse and are now converting the station into a plant for manufacturing cheese, according to information received from J. R. Gailey, cashier of the Barnes Banking company of this city. The milk cooling station is now being enlarged and renovated, and chese making will start within a week, it is reported. An experienced manufacturer of cheese will have charge of the plant. Bountiful Sinking of a test well on tin Ray farm, purchased by tho city of Bountiful as a possible source of future water suppy, will start next week, according to Mayor Ernest M. Madsen. Lay ton The Layton Sugar factory, weather permitting will begin its fall campaign Saturday of Monday, according to J. E. Ellison, of the Layton Sugar company. Mr. Ellison says that the hauling of beets has been under way for the past two or three days. The rainfall 'which recently occurred was valuable to beet farmers and softened the earth so that beet digging was facilitated. One of the effects of the rain was to start green leaves sprouting from the tops of the beets. This tendency to resume growth reduces the sugar content of the beets. Salt Lake Disbursements of road funds amounted to $214,264.36 during the month of September, according to figures compiled in the office of John E. Holden, state auditor. Those figures show that $50, SI 2.25 was spent for maintenance, $7307.48 for adminlntra tion, and $1845.36 for equipment. The money was distributed between the counties. Ephraim In a fire which broke Out in the Ephraim pavilion at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and did damage estimated at. $8500 the business center of the town was seriously menaced until the work nf firemen brought the blaze under controL La-Cal- 200-aci- e Salt Lake Range conditions southern Montana, Idaho and Utah are jnly fair, due to tne lack ot moisture. George A. Siott, federal livestock statistician annunoced on his return Monday. The hiy crop in most sections was good, wViile the cattle and sheep are reported .o be fair. Ephraim Forest Ranger Anderson reports that a heavy snowstorm visited the Mantl forest on the evening of September 29, and that six to eight Inches of snow fell at the higher elevations. FACE PEOPLE MILLION DEATH BY STARVATION; COLD AND GUNFIRE HALF Dead Scattered Thrauoh Streets; Bom- bardment Promised for Sunday; Cantonese are Waiting Patiently Outside Hankow Penned up more than a month by the red Cantonese armies beChisieging the city, a nese people face death by starvation, cold and gunfire in Whuchang. Large numbers of dead He in the streets. Those remaining have eaten dogs, cats and rats and are dropping in public places or dying miserably in shelters Into which they have crawled. The troops of Marshal Wu , garrisoning the city, having been refused, terms of surrender, are holding on desperately, hoping for armies of their ally, Sun Chuang-Fang- , to break through the Cantonese corhalf-millio- n no-th- en Pel-Fu- don. Meanwhile, the relentless and well fed Cantonese outside the walls rest patiently on their arms, having block- aded all exits from the city and await time when they shall enter. What will happen then is not known. The Cantonese have notified the that next Sunday they will loose a general bombardment upon the city of misery, firing from Hanyang arsenal across the Yangtze river and" pouring shells from Pagoda Hill and elsewhere In the iron ring upon tha suffering. Trains Halted by High Train Beardstown Waters passenger ser vice into Beadstown, flooded by broken levees along the Illinois river, was stopped Thursday as the river stage reached the highest point on record, 25 feet 8 inches. Weather bureau officials had predicted that the rise would stop at 25 feet 2 inches. One death from pneumonia, due to exposure, has been, reported. Numbing cool weather was added to the difficulties of streets and homes, the first floors of which in many instances are flooded knee deep. The only warmth available was that coming from electric heaters. water-covere- d d Fire Damages Utah Oil Following a fire, startat 2 o'clock and lasting six hours, work of repair to the damaged distilling machinery at the Utah Oil Refining company's plant was started Thursday afternoon, according to Superintendent E. S. Holt. Although the blaze threatened to do a great deal of damage, the loss was estimated to be less than $50,000 by tho superintendent. The fire damaged one battery of ten stills, but the plant contains four batteries that function independently of each other, and it is believed that the output of gasoline and oil will not be Impaired, Salt Lake ing Thursday morning France Shows Debt Changes Paris Prospects of ratification ot the Washington debt settlement hare so increased during the past few days that talk In the lobbies of the chamber of deputies now is turning on its probable majority. The strength of the franc in the past two days is attributed to a change in attitude tor ward the agreement, and preliminary prophets now figure on 350 votes In the chamber for ratification with reservations In the This would give a clear majority approaching 100 In favor of the The Socialists will pro-Beagreement. a motion to send the accord back to the government with instructions to reopen negotiations with the United States, but it Is thought that his motion will not be eblo to muster more than 150 to 200 votes. Mellon-Berenge- pro-ambl- e. nt Blahop Mltty Is Installed IU. Rev. John Joseph Mltty, D. D., consecrated bishop of Salt Lake, look possession of t Is diocese on Thursday morning at the Catljedral of the Madeleine, wh ;re through a grant of Pope Plux XI, he was officially installed in the presence of his eminence, Patrick Cardinal Salt Lake The Hayes, archbishop of New York; Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco, three score of clergy and a conP Jt Lake--T- he board of directors of gregation which left no seat in the tbi Utah state fair find themselves large edifice unoccupied. 'All that the confronted with the difficult, though Roman church knows of sumptuous ritperhaps pleasing, task of building for ual. Impressive pomp and stately ex. the future. With the forty-eigh- t to say nothing of the dignity hibltions entering the last halt Wed- which Is the residue of hundreds of nesday the board members are noting years ot tradition, characterized tho places where expansions must be tvent. Event It was, of such Importprovided between now and the open- ance and magnitude, especially to the ing date for the forty-nintshowing Catholic comunlty of Utah, as has next fall. seldom. It ever, been equaled here. Mnntinello Montlcello and vicinity France Sweltering Under Fall Heat have benefited from recent rains, in some places the best In more than two f Paris The clock seems to have lipped back a month .Instead ot an years. There Is a heavy sprinkling of hour, at the cnange ot daylight saving snow on the Blue mountains west of time to regulra time last Saturday Montlcello. Previous to the rain the night. France Is sweltering unrir an ranges were the driest they had been unseasonable heat wave which threatfor several years. Springs have dried ens disaster to the farmer. The up this year that never have been is aggravated by the fact that known to be dry before. Tho cattle for three months there has been no men and sheep had begun to worfj rain. The ground Is hard and dry lest they would be compelled to send that fall cereal sowings will be almost their sto k out of the county because lmposible unless there Is a change ill of the sb irtage of water. tha weather before the frost cornea. e, h alt-uail- tt |