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Show THE Thursday, November 19, 1936 befalls a man In a life of dancer and escnpe made little of ftmlius safe footing from rock to roik. He himself saw, before Jane real ized It, that the end of her strength was at hand. Striving vainly to keep up she stumbled and with a little moan fell forward oo the ground. Denlson picked her up In bis arms. She could not speak , only panted. "Iut me down. Bill! Tut me down !" she sobbed when she could breathe and form the words. "You must save yourself Is the spring far, now?" "Not far. Clasp your arms tight around my neck," was all he said, leaping along. "You can't save us both; save Tou are dearer to me yourself. 1 COPYRKiWT CHAPTER VII HAWK H.5PFARMAN Continued 9 She remounted and rode op the Divide trail The imoke was so dense that It cut off hope of seeing the valley, and, spurred by the determination to see by riding higher, she rode on and on till she found herself at the foot of lock Knob. Jane headed the pony np the mountain. The summit had never seemed sa hard to reach but, panting and exhausted, the pony carried Jane to the summit, and she rode out on the table to look. The scene below was terrifying. Huge clouds of smoke billowed and spread, only to boll up anew and race on the wind. It seemed aa If the whole country were In flames. Here and there tongues of Ore shot from the rolling smoke. Weary, at length, and depressed, Jane turned her pony's head to ride home. Gunlock Itself might be In danger. Even the pony took the downward trail reluctantly. 'Jane could a not tell why until, rounding shoulder of the Knob, she saw below her a fire sweeping across the trail she was following. Worse than that, the fire was spurting through the brush, up the mountain, In front of her. The pony balked. Thoroughly frightened, Jane turned him up the narrow trail and headed for the summit. Even the few moments she bad been away from the top had the scene. Overwhelmed changed with consternation, she began to think anew of her own safety. She urged the pony swiftly down the trail again, hoping faintly to find some hidden Her path was blocked. The hot air of tba fire below was catching at her throat; gusts of smoke burned into her eyes. She reined about to return, despairing, to the summit Once again the level rock afforded her temporary refuge. She dismounted. The pony was growing unmanageable. He snorted, stamped, flung his head up and down and chewed frantically at his bit Hope deserted her. She sank to her knees and fell forward, covering her face with her arms. For a moment her mind was a blank. She heard nothing of a frantic calling of her name, when a singed and blackened horseman spurred and lashed bis pony toward her, sprang from the saddle, and caught her np In his arms. "Jane!" he cried, as be looked Into ber face and shook her In his to restore consciousness. effort "Jane I Open your eyes I Speak to met It's Bill, Jane, Bill I Can't you hear me? Speak!" Her eyes opened; she looked In a daze at him. "It's Bill, Janet She threw her arms convulsively around his neck. "Oh, Bill, Bill! What can we do? Must we die, Bill, In this horror?" "No I" he exclaimed. "We can get through. But we mustn't lose a minute, not a second. Cornel" He half carried her to an edge of the summit where a rock crevice gave a slight footing a few feet below. Into this he lowered himself and raised his arms to Jane. "But the horses. Bill?" she cried. "Leave them," he called back. "They may escape. There's no footing for horses where we're He Quick, Jane! Jump!" caught her In his arms, steadied her, showed ber how to secure herself in the precarious footing, and lowered himself to another slender ledge to brace himself, bade her spring, and caught ber again In his arms. Her heart beat so violently, he seemed to feel It as she hugged close to him, There was barely room for the two to stand. "Keep cool, Jane. We can make It, bnt be very, very careful of your footing, darling Jane. The fire hasn't touched this side of the mountain yet, but If yon fell It would be hundred feet" Spurned to' superhuman effort, Denlson achieved the almost Impossible, and by sliding, cUnglng with Angers, hands and arms, and by carefully using bis lariat, he managed to bring Jane down unharmed to the foot of the precipitous wall that bad given him the bare chance to save ber life. He held out bts arms to catch her for the final "Bill I" she exclaimed, jump. breathing hard and looking up In sheer amazement at the precipice down which he bad brought her. "How did we ever get own there jro-In- g. alive?" He was still very anxious the wrinkled veins of his smoked fore- plainly mirrored that She for orders. ,"We must run through that grove of quaking asp and try to get away from the Knob. sees waited than my life, Bill." "So are you to me. Hang on," he "I'll never put you down I" After another run he paused. This will all be burning In a few "Bill, I can run a little now. Let minutes. Are you able to run?" Let uie "I'll bet I can run faster than me try it 1'leuse, dear you. Bill." The laughing tone of try I" He shook his bead and struggled her words thrilled and cheered him. He knew better than she what still on. The tire was only minutes belay between them and safety. Tbey hind him, its roar deafening. A cry roused Jane In his urms. hastened on through the light tim"The spring I" ber; then, running a broad shoulShe cried to him In happy ander, they saw a vast panorama of fiinoke, lighted In places by flames. swer. There was not an instant to Denlson hurried on, Jane briskly keeping pace with him. But when spare. He slid down the steep side they n eared the smoking pine, she of the hollow that enclosed the felt dismayed. spring. Jane, still In his arms, he "Bill, It's all on fire, yet look at rolled into the pool and lay punt the little blazes. See the ground ing beside her. The shock of the pine, and the trees are smoking and icy water revived her. lie soused burning yet. BUI! See the deer her head Into the water. The pool running, too why, every animal was wide enough to submerge Jane, but not himself. He rolled In the you can think of "They'd better run," aald Denlson shallower edge, wet himself all over grimly. "We must do some more and, holding her head Just clear of the surface as she sputtered and coughed, gave her orders: "Keep your face down. Don't don't open your eyes. You're safe if you do exactly as I say." The heart of the fire was on them. They could no longer hear or think. Flame bellied and danced Tongues of fire licked at their hid ing heads. Denlson mechanically dipped water into Jane's hair. Con sclou8ness was nearly gone. Only the effort to live and the fierce In stlnct to protect animated him. With their trial of endurance al most at an end, a sudden explosion burst in the air above them. Den Ison, forgetting his caution, opened his eyes in the fear that a tree was falling. His eyeballs were scorched In a fraction of a second. He dashed his face back Into the wa ter; but mischief bad been done. At last the terrific outburst abat ed. With the hope of life reanimat ed, the two rose in the pool in their Darkness fell steaming clothing. from the sky above, but the forest was lighted with smoking and burn lng tree torches, the afterglow of its destruction. The two who had passed through and escaped a hideous catastrophe stood clasped in each other's arms "We Must Do Some Kore Running thanking God and delirous in a new Ourselves, Jane," found. Intimate happiness. "Water I" exclaimed Denlson. "I'm running ourselves, Jane, There's In spite of my cold bath. perishing, very little danger crossing this Aren't you thirsty?" strip. But I want to get across It "Yes, but not suffering. I didn't quick." have to carry you, you know." They dashed Into the fire area to Moving a few feet up to the basin Little tongues of flame gether. darted from the still burning ground, of the spring itself, they pushed but nothing to threaten Jane's stout aside debris from the water's surface, drank from their cupped laced boots or leather trousers. hands, and dashed water over their crossed burned the and They strip broke together down a long slope faces. "Jane," said Denlson when he that bordered another forest of pine. rose again, "it was almost worth It Denlson paused and looked anx "How are you for the way It's brought you and me iously at Jane. together." standing it, girl?" "It was," she whispered. "I've She was panting, but game. Her given you my trust." cheeks, the flashing "For all time, Jane?" brightness of her eyes, her parted "For all time. Bill Nothing shall eager lips, made her a picture. ever part us, now." "Fine, Bill. Are we out of CHAPTER VIII They were standing together In the wind and smoke that swirled their way haltingly and and eddied up the mountain. His piCKINO cautiously down through smok hand was at her back as she leaned limbs on his arm. Perhaps overwhelmed ing pines, dodging burning that snapped and crackled menacthe of must be what by thought say, or crashed to the he hugged her close and, drawing ingly overhead about the refugees them, ground her unresisting lips to his own, held them In a long kiss. "I wish we emerged from the forest and could see that Denlson's ranch buildings were, Jane. We're going only now Into danger I wish It weren't so, had escaped the flames. The Instant they reached the Jane." "Don't ranch house, Denlson ran to the "Oh, Bill!" said Jane. think of me do Just as If I were well, filled the water bucket, and not here." She threw her own arms carried it to Jane. Sitting on the around his neck, and their lips met ground, bareheaded, they slaked their thirst out of the dipper to again In passionate appeal. "Then come, Jane. We must dash gether. Denlson turned to the corral. through this pine before that fire Jane, who bad gone into the house, yon hear roaring catches op to us. "Is that awful roar from a fire. had got the Are going and was slic Bill?" ing bacon when she heard the clat "It Is. It's our worst danger. ter of hoofs outside, and angry voices. Let s go, Jane." To cross the wide belt of pine "wneres my daughter, you their course lay obliquely downhill. damned scoundrel?" were the first If anything were needed to spur words she made out The sound of them on, the thunder of the Are the voice that uttered them sent sweeping down the forest behind her running, the knife still In ber served as a dread warning that they hand, to the door. Amazed to had only minutes left to escape dis dumbness, she saw her father and aster. McCrossen In the saddle, facing Halfway down the ridge, Denlson Denlson, who stood at the gate of paused to rest Jane in his arms. his corral. She was panting like an antelope. "Van Tambel," Denlson spoke "Brave girl P he murmured. "Not carefully, "you're too old a man for a sob not a tear me to quarrel with. Just remem"But we must hurry. Bill," she ber you're on my property and keep panted. a civil tongue in your head." "Get a little breath for the next "I don't want no truck with you, run." Denlson," shouted Van Tambel, rag "Can we make It, Bill, dear?" lng. "Where's my girl?" "We've got to make it," he mutMcCrossen had reined about and tered. 'Til save you, Jane, if it's was starting for the house. "Swing the last thing I do In life." back here, McCrossen," Denlson snng "Don't save me unless you save out sharply. "Stop right where you are. My cabin's not open to public yourself remember that 1" ; "Come I We must make the Inspection !" spring the spring 1" "I don't give a damn for your The timber was thinning, the cabin. There's Jane," the foreman The shouted, "standing in the doorway." ground growing rougher. frontiersman and cowman who had Jane ran across the yard to the gone through every adventure that angry men. "Father V she cried. sV.N.U Sf AVICI panted. 1 high-color- " NEP1H. I'TAII TIMKS-NEW- PACE SEVEN What In the world are ymi rtutiiK !ln here? What lirmilil you fr hospital?" Her father' ileep-wfplgisy een "You flaiihi'il his fury on tier. wenrhl Living ultb this man, are you?" "Father!" Outraged The pith of conversation does not con.si.st in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of 4 by 8 inches; illustration of all small importance, but in enlargstitches needed; color suggestions; ing, improving, and correcting th information you possess, by the) material requirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins authority of others. Walter Scott. (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. womanhood . never spoke the word more "Is It potmitile you Insult me so vilely before you have heard a single word?" she said. "What have I to do with your grudges am quarrels?" Itlgld and erert, storming within words and striking with white-ho- t at her parent's base Intimation, Jane silenced the men about her by her outraged dignity. 'What shameful words have you heard and from whom" she bare ly Indicated her father's companion by a lightning flash of her eye that put such vile thoughts Into your head?" She waited for no answer. "I rode to the peak of Gun- lock Knob to see how the flre was heading It has threatened Gun-locItanch for two days. When I tried to ride down this afternoon, the fire cut me off. I should have been burned to death where I stood on the peak If Bill Denlson hadn't ridden up through another flre to save me. And now after fighting our way for hours through smoke and finme, he brings me down by the only possible way, to hear me foully Insulted by my own father. This Is too much!" "Look here, Jane!" bellowed her rather In retreat. "You come out here for your health, didn't you?" "I didn't come out here to be grossly Insulted," she retorted. "Where's your pon.v?" "Heavens knows where It Is, or where Bill Denlson's Is. I hope they're not burned up." "Well, come along home. McCrossen will lend you his horse." "He needn't. I will walk borne Just as soon as I have cooked some bacon for Bill Denlson." mlng-Ingly- k Gift of Conversation Towels Cross-Stitc- h ' Foreign Words and Phrases . I I ' 1 (F.) Let us go Cornel Pattern 1302 Bis pueri senes. (L.) Old men You'll enjoy doing these they are twice children. Canaille (F.) The rabble. go so fasti You'll enjoy owning Ense petit placidam sub liber-tat- e them they're so effective The quietam. (L.) With the sword simple cross stitch dishes contrast so well with the dainty flowers. she seeks quiet peace under libe would be delighted erty. (Motto of Massachusetts.) Any with a set of these they'd cerFerae naturae. (L.) Of a wild tainly make an effective Fair do- nature. nation. Lose no time, for you'll Garde de corps. (F A body want to make a number of sets. guard. Pattern 1302 contains a transfer In Esse. (L.) In a state of being. pattern of six motifs averaging Lasciate ogni speranza, vol ch'entrate (It.) Who enter here, leave all hope behind. (The in Of INTEREST TO scription over the gate of Dante's Allonst al 1 I ,i I 1 mmiw Tl I Ii I wm wwm w iwafc tor kUiaf aaf . . L un miI umj mmn m saUstpwitf. lsnna 1 I CtibtattttKkuhtr. IkiVLE. Rywua Indiana Suit Fb ft iassf ! r bride-to-b- THE 1 ONLY 10 Ymt Gractr Ha U Inferno.) Pons asinorum. (L.) The bridge of asses; the fifth proposition in Euclid. HOUSEWIFE A little salt added to pumpkin sauce will greatly improve the flavor. braise roasts, steaks or first brown the meat, then put in a tightly covered utensil with very little water either on the top of stove or in oven and continue cooking slowly until meat is tender. To mas wxm chor. htii mil!:,- along now." To prevent that hard crust form"Did you hear me? Ill come ing on left-ovcooked cereal home" each word was defiantly pour a cup of cold water over it emphasized "when I have made before placing in the refrigerator. coffee and cooked bacon for Bill Denlson. When you get home, be To clean fireplace bricks, cover kind enough to ask Bull Page to them with a paste made of powsaddle a horse for me and bring it dered pumice and household amover." With this, Jane walked monia. Let it dry for an hour, swiftly back to the cabin. Van then scrub with warm soapy waTambel, in a muttering rage, fol- ter. lowed by McCrossen, started home. Cooked prunes stuffed with celA slender supper was at length got together. Then Jane made ery and nuts make a tempting salDenlson lie back In a chair and ad. Stuffed prunes can also be submit to cold compresses on his ued as a garnish for chops, roasts ,, Kssa "Come er or steaks. eyes. Waiting for Bull Page proved no hardship, but when the hands of Denlson's little alarm lock pointed to midnight it dawned on Jane that her request had been Ignored and that her father or McCrossen had meant she should walk home or compromise herself by staying all night at Denlson's. She boiled a bit inside when she realized the situation, but prepared to walk. To this Denlson would not listen. He got up two ponies he had but one extra saddle and, despite her objections and protests. Insisted on riding home with her. It needed no announcer in the morning to tell Jane that her father had come home. She lay, exhausted and with every bone In her body aching, beyond her usual rising time. But there was an unusual scurrying about outside her i l4MS v P USE M?OHO NOT.' J. Young and Old, Alike, Need Vitamin B for Keeping Fit. Supplied in Quaker OaU Vis'; 'I'M:-- t?mssmSr" .". YOUR . j. , ? Nervousness, constipation, poor appetite know oo re limits. Thev pxcy upon toe energy of thousands whea diets lack a sufficient amount of the precious Vitamin B so richly supplied by a Quaker Oats breakfast. So serve the whole family a howl of Quaker Oats every morning. Wbm poor condition is du to lack of Vitamin B : 1 J WNU Service. Bell Syndicate. i : MM 1 i X I T h n tjrf j J WHY JOHN... - I'VS NEVER seen You Act SO CROSS.' THERE SHE mi ' 3D uriffi nfrffiTTrr i ltff AND L that's final tT, . st scoutmaster's . YOU DIDN'T NEED To TAKE GOBS... NAOGINS AS A IN.'SHE ' THE POOR A MAN'S HEAD f OFF nTTZl 4! KNOWS YOU SCARCELY SLEPT WINK LAST NIGHT.. BUT SHE DOESN'T CARE room. Jane came to the table as her father was leaving It "I want to see you after breakfast," was the gruff greeting he vouchsafed Jane. She found Van Tambel seated at his desk In his bedroom, looking over bills. Jane went up to him. "I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you yesteday, father," she said coldly. "Did the doctor to come give you permission home?" After a shuffling of papers came the first shot at Jane: "What did you fire McCrossen for?" "Because he refused to obey orders," Bhe retorted Instantly. "Whose orders?" "My orders." "Who owns this ranch?" '. "You do. And," she added, keen-eye"you made me manager." "I'll take that Job off your shoulders. McCrossen Is foreman here now. And I am boss. Now what about this skunk, Denlson?" "What about Mr. Denlson, father?" "He's a crook. And as long as you live, keep away from him." "What has be ever done to you that's wrong, father?" "He and his brother's been trying for five years to beat me out of Gunlock Spring and all that ranch land back of It (TO BE CONTINUED) Los Remedios Aqueduct The Los Remedios aqueduct had s. its source in the town of Los In the Federal District of Mexico, and a short distance northwest of Mexico City. It dates from 1020 and was built under the direction of Don Alonso Tello de Gasman. The aqueduct has not been In use for many years. The water was obtained from a strong spring that threw a high stream. Around this stream a tower was built and circular runways provided through which the water passed to a lower level where the aqueduct bpgnn. 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