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Show Thursday, November 26, THE TIMESNEWU NEI'III. UTAH 19.16 4 1 -- fM I afternoon tratn home. When she got to Sleepy Cat It was ten o'clock at night and no rig was at the station from the ranch. She was compelled to iend the night at the hotel. It was a long time afterward before she realized that the whole trip bad been planned by her father and McCrossen for a purpose. She rose early, breakfasted alone, and started out to pay the few remaining Ore bills. Bbe went first to Spoil's place to pay for the beer. Spotts was out "Ought to be back pretty soon," said Oscar. "He's got to be here pretty soon to let the bartender out for breakfast." T've an order to leave at said Jane. "I'll be back." She walked over to the general store, left her provision order for the wagon to pick up, and returned to Spoil's barber shop. Jake, bis crutches at bis side, was sluing in his barber chair. "Hello there. Miss! Well! How's things out at Gunlock?" "About as iiHiuil, Jake. I've come to pay for the beer." "No more fires botherln'?" "Not at present How much was the beer?" "No hurry about that." "Yes, but I want to clean It up.'' "Thank you, ma'am," said the saloon keeper and barber as June counted out and handed him the money. "If I could only call my old side partner back out of It" Spotts shook bis head. "None of us will ever forget Panama, Jake." "The damnedest, meanest, ornerl-es- t fires that ever swept them hills," said Spotts, counting over the money perfunctorily. "Done Rubl-do's.- 7 FRANK H. COPYRIGHT CHAPTER VIII AN rt tPf ARMAN Continued 10 That' to part ot what be', done He's stole my cattle be-- j sides. McCrossen Is the only man that stayed by me through thick and thin. McCrosseo's the right man for you. You can get uiar- rled tomorrow If you want to." "I haven't the Ifghteit Idea of getting married tomorrow, father. And If Mr. McCrossen were the only man left. I certainly should never marry. There's not straight hair In hU head." "Sounds like that skunk Dent- son's been filling your ears for 'you." "Bill Denlson's barely ever men- tloned McCrossen's name to me." "Well, keep away from Denlson for good, don't forget that" Jane flinched Inwardly but spoke low and clearly: "I can't promise that, father." ' "Why not?" "I don't think It's right" "Ain't I your fotberf "Yes." "Ain't a parent to be obeyed?" "If be Is reasonable. Tm not a child, father." He grew furious. "I don't give a damn what you are, you're not goln' to taks up with any enemy of mine, 'n' you might Just as well know It now and I'll see that you Die. ' don't" Van Tanibel. quitting the house, rode with McCrossen, over the bills burned the day before, to deter- mine what further measures should be taken to Insure safety for the ranch buildings. The two men halt-leat the foot of Gunlock Knob. "A lot of good timber gone In that blaze. Van," muttered McCrossen. Van Tairbel was silent for a moment "The ranch ain't worth as 'much as it was yesterday, that's sure," he said at last Then after another pause: "I wouldn't mind the timber If the damned Ore bad 'held on till It cleaned out Denlson." Both were looking down on the neighbor's ranch. "I wish I was rid of that fellow." Van Tambel's words fairly grated out of his harsh throat "Why couldn't that blamed fire have cleaned out bis buildings yesterday?" "It was a close scratch. If tfce wind had shifted" "Always blows the wrong way for me. I don't mind losing the timber. If it had caught him, I'd" He checked himself suddenly. "Look here," he Jerked, why can't we help the wind along next night there's a 'blow Just give things a start down there?" "What d'you mean? Burn him 'ont?" "Why notr took the cigarette McCrossen from bis mouth but said nothing. "Well?" sputtered Van TambeL "Why don't you talk?" "I don't fancy that kind of a Job." ' McCrossen shifted moodily In his saddle. "BUI Denlson and I have got our differences plenty of 'em. Some day I expect to iron 'em out with him. But It'll be done In day, light" Van Tambel sneered. "Look out be don't get you and the girl both." "Well" the words came reluctantly Til talk to Barney Rebstock. You'll have to pay him well." After Van Tambel came back from the hospital, he reopened his ofllce in Sleepy Cat "I thought you said the old devil e couldn't get well," complained to Dr. Carpy. Carpy was laconic: "He can't Some day he'll crack lip sudden." But Van Tambel kept Jane so closely under his eye that she had no chance to see Denlson. One day her father took her In town on business. The volunteer fire fighters were clamoring for their pay, and Jane, knowing the e details of the agreement with as to how much beer and !"grub" should be provided, plus their pay, rode with her father, to town, to settle with Pardaloe, "Bill," she said to Pardaloe, when the accounts bad been straightened out, "I want to ask a question and I want the truth." Pardaloe looked at her with ehrewd benevolence. "Fire away, filrl I" "Why does my father hate BUI Denlson so?" Frdnloe shifted uneasily. "You won't like the truth. Miss Jane." "Whether I like It or not I want you to tell me, Bill," she said. "Well, your dad wants the Spring ranch started a fight for It at the Medicine Bend land office. Bill beat bim there, so he goes tip to Washington, and Bill has to sell off his Par-dalo- Par-dalo- Kj SrtAKriAN w.nu. senvice cows to get money to fight and pay lawyers. Tore he got through, the boy had to sell everything to keep his end up." "It was tough," assented Jane grimly. Her eyes were half closed and her lips compressed, as If to shut out unpleasant details. Pardaloe warmed to his story. "If It wa'n't you, Miss Jane, an' your own dad. I'd call a man that'd act that way well, wonder to me Is. Bill never plugged hlra. Now don't cry; I told you you wouldn't like It" June shook her head and brushed the tears from her eyes with a gesture of defiance. "Don't mind a little shower. Bill. You've told me what I asked for the truth. Now I want to tell you something. But please keep my secret will you, Bill?" "Sheot." was all he said. Swiftly she told him of her first meeting with Denlson, and of their rides together. She described how he bad saved her life and how afterward her 'father had ridden over to the Denlson ranch with Dave McCrossen, created a scene and forbade her ever again to see Denlson. Tm watched now like a child," she concluded, "and I'm rebellious!" Pardaloe looked at her apprats-lngly- . He observed the animation of her manner and the flash of her eye; be listened to the rapid flow of her words and the spirited way in which he spoke them. The old frontiersman looked at her as an artist might look on a flower; he could see, but couldn't quite understand, all that was hidden within it ld "I wish," said Jane, musing, most as much to herself as to Pardloe, "I knew Just what to do." "Do nothln," suggested Pardaloe. Jane bridled. "Do nothing! That isn't very pleasant to think about" "You've got to realize your circumstances," he returned. "In the mess you're In all around out there, It's best for you to sit tight 'n' do nothln'. You don't know it but you're settln' on a box of dynamite." "Do you expect me to act as peacemaker. Bill?" "I didn't say that 'twouldn't be no sort of use. There'll be peace there when bobcats go back on Jack rabbits." "Well," sighed Jane, reluctant "you know best, Mr. Pardaloe" "Bill." "You know best Bill. I want to talk to you again." "Any time, honey." al- may Riding home with her father, who rode slowly, she had plenty of time to think. And her thoughts were sober-hueMcCrossen was a thorn In her side. To meet him every day and be halfway pleasant was a dally strain. He tried to make up to her. "I got off on the wrong foot with you, Jane," he said one day. The two were standing near the ranch-hous- e door, in the sunshine. "I know that, all right All I can say Is, If there's anythln' I can do to square myself, I'm ready to do It whenever you say the word. Is that fair?" Jane was looking up at the mountains. She answered without ran cor; a mild manner must be her cue now. A week passed. Van Tambel lay In bed. He had to send Jane to Medicine Bend to attend to some bank business there. To keep her under surveillance, Van Tambel ordered McCrossen to ride to Sleepy Cat with her. When Jane beard of the arrangements she flatly refused to go. "What's with you, you damned cantankerous thing I" demanded her father huskily. "Ain't my foreman good enough for you to ride with?" Jane's features set "I won't ride with him," she declared crisply. "Why not?" thundered her father, rising In bed. Jane drew herself up the least bit Her father's rudeness stiffened her attitude. "If you want to know the real reason, I don't want him trying to kiss me on the way home after be'a had too many drinks in the Bed Front saloon. I won't ride with him. If he goes, I don't" Finally Bull Page was assigned to escort the wayward Jane, and the two set off for town. Jane was most Interested to get some news from Bull Page about Denlson; but Bnll had neither seen nor heard of him since the Ounlock Knob fire. In Medicine Bend, Jane extended a note, drew some money, paid the hospital bills, and waited for the " Jane, walking In on tlpti behind guide, heard his anxwer. "Who's that with you, Slsterr Jane had stepped as lightly as pos sible; but bis ears bad detected iur footsteps. "I've brought you a visitor. I hope you're not cross." she added, banterlngly. "Who is visiting Bier he asked. Jane had been gradually drawing closer to him. "Bill?" He started violently. For an Instant he was silent as if llHtenlug for more. Then he responded, low and strangely, "Jane?" PAGE SEVEN her Yes, Hill." In the dark, her hand touched his arm. He caught both her hands, crushing them with his own, and drew one and the other hungrily to his lips. "Sister," he said, composed, yet eager, "can you find a chair. In the dark, for Miss. Van Tumbel?" With the nurse gliding out of the room, Jane's hands crept over his shoulders, around his neck, and as his arms enfolded her, their Hps met. "I didn't want you to henr that I was In trouble till we knew more about it How did you find out I was here, Jane?" "Jake Spotts. Bill. I never dreamed of such a thing," she said tremulously. "He told me the ranch house was burned last night. Oh, Bill !" T think maybe my eyes will be all right In a couple of days. Ben I'age has been working for me for a while. He got hold of Bob Scott to bring me In to see Doc Carpy and the doctor sent me here." He felt her warm tears against his check. He kissed them :.way from her eyes. "Don't cry! There's nothing' to cry over. I'll be all right when my eyes get better. Doctor says that won't be long. I wish you hadn't heard of It" "I wish you'd never heard of me. Bill. To think of It, that I should have been the cause of starting all this trouble. Oh, why couldn't I have stayed home that dreadful day Instead of riding Into danger? I'll never, never forgive myself. And I'm ashamed to say It, Bill, but the real reason I rode up there was because I was Just hungry for a sight of you." Denlson , only laughed. "Don't think you're the only one that was hungry for a sight. If I hadn't been scouting around the Knob trail where I knew you liked so much to ride, I'd never have caught sight of you. What then? Why, Jane, if you were burning In a fire, why shouldn't I Jump In after you? What would be left for me?" "Do your eyes hurt terribly, Bill?" "Tot when you're here, Jane." "Oh, I know better. I know they do. And I can do nothing to help!" He made light of her worry. There were more furtive tears, more earnest prayers, more submission from Jane. More happy laughs, more ardent embraces, more carefree cheer from Denlson. "Why, BUI," she protested at length, "one would think there was nothing the matter with you. And I am frightened to death." T was frightened to death my self till you came. It's not much fun sitting alone here In the dark. What frightens me most Is the thought that If the worst should come, I'd lose you." "You can never lose me, Bill. Re member that" "Yes, but a blind man!" he ex claimed desperately. "Jane, I never could ask yon to marry me blind " "There's only one way to keep me from marrying that good-for- nothing Bill Denlson that's to kill me and make me Into dust even then, I'd tremble under his feet I would Just to annoy him." Her tongue was light and happy but her when she said good-bheart was dread with fear. She rode straight to Carpy's office; luckily she found blm In. "Doctor! I'm so worried about Mr. Denlson" "Some Day I Expect to Iron 'En Out With Him." more damage to the range not to speak of losln' the best man we had In Sleepy Cat and crlpplin' up the best man we bad In the hills." "Who was that Jake?" "Why, Bill Denlson." Jane started visibly. "Bill Denlson?" she echoed In consternation. "What do you mean?" 'Well, you know he's In the hospital." "I know nothing of the kind," exclaimed Jane sharply. She stood white as a sheet "What has happened? Tell me I" "Why, didn't you know his eyes is gone to hell?" "What do you mean? What has happened? Tell me!" Spotts started violently out of bis torpor as he saw with amazement the effect of his news on his visitor. "Why, Doc. Carpy says that bis eyes got burned some gettln' through that Gunlock Knob fire. Then some son " Jake checked himself. "Somebody set his ranch "So am L" house afire last night and nearly "You know what happened?" burned him up. Ask Carpy; he'll "Said he got trapped in the ranch-hous- e tell you." fire." She hurried to the hotel. The but it was trying to save "Yes, doctor was out on a call. Jane life when his eyes first got hurt" hurried to McAIpln'a barn, where my"Never said a blamed word about she bad left her pony, and rode that" to hill the the hospital. straight up "I was up on Gunlock Knob, and he rode up to get me through the CHAPTER IX fire. "Doctor," she asked, unsteadily, "can't you save his eyes?" Is he- - Slsterr WHERE "Jane, my girl, give me another TIis room Is on the sec- two .weeks. If I thought anybody, ond floor 213. Shall I show you would do anything more anywhere, the way?" I'm doing, I'd put him on the than "If you please, Sister. I learned cars tonight. It's time, Jane, time." only a moment ago that he was If Jane expected to get much Inhere. Pve heard of this dreadful ranch-hous- e fire only this minute. formation about the Denlson fire at disappointed. When Did he tell you how It happened. home, she was to she reported it her father, he was Sister?" still to feel out"Ue has hardly spoken since they silent professing at her Insubordination. Mcbrought him In. But Mr. Scott said raged It was getting out of the burning Crossen was more communicative, even sympathetic; but he knew litranch house," "Do you think there Is any chance tle about the fire. (TO BE CONTINUED) to save his sight? Oh, Sister, can you Imagine how I feel?" See In Different Direction "Dear heart, I do know how you The curious little reptile that Is feel. Of course I don't know a thing about the case, except that Dr. noted for changing Its color to suit Carpy has given very strict orders Its background, the chameleon, and about his care." She was too con- the small oddly shaped fish known siderate to tell how worried she as the hippocampus or knew Carpy to be. "Of course his have one peculiar characteristic In room Is dark. And his eyes are common. Their eyes move Indebandaged. We like Mr. Denlson so pendently of each other. When a much he's always been so kind to chameleon gets one eye focused on us with nice gifts. This Is his an Insect It moves the other eye until room." The nurse laid her hand on It too, Is focused on the prospecthe knob of the door. "Shall t go tive prey. Then It darts out Its In with you?" long, sticky tongue to make the catch. Persons observing sea horses "Do, Sister," said Jane. "Onod In aquariums have noted that their Sister opened the door two eyes appeared to be looking in morning, Mr. Denlson." "Good morning, Sister opposite directions. Detroit News. " sea-hors- Lovely and Inexpensive Abo!I! r" W 77 3hmhd about Sailing Politics Away VEGAS. N. M. A few LASweeks ago everybody on the train I'm traveling on was talking politics. Today everybody nearly is talking football. Exceptions noted thus far: 1. A middle aged lady talking symptoms. It seems she has had practically everything except lock-JaAnd as for operations well. her whole life must have been an open book. I gather she never bad a secret that was not shared with at least three B (;:."' jr doctors. f 2. A gentleman connected with t h e movies talking mov- les. In an eichteen- - r hour shift f tfs vil'vv Mr ft'- h-':- ''' rfMfr - ' r-'- 1 ,v. VI M'" "' I K 3. Another eentle- - man talking self. irvi g. Cobb We can tell that up to now, he is Just browsing around the edges of this fascinating topic. By tomorrow we expect him to get really Into the meat of it 4. An elderly gentleman talking steadily. He has been going since we left Los Angeles. We don't know exactly what his subject is. He has not said yet Praising Grand Canyon . was SCOOTING across Arizona aI comweave into this plete description of the Grand Canyon. But mercy stayed my hand. Instead, I have decided to send to all deserving applicants souvenir postcards showing views of the canyon. This will give the general Idea. It looks just like the postcards, only larger. There's one thing about the Grand Canyon long after every other natural wonder has been desecrated with architectural doodads and the scribbled names of individuals whose signatures would look all right on the register of any dollar-a-da- y American plan hotel, but are sort of out of place when smeared over one of creation's masterpieces, the Grand Canyon will still be unspoiled. California Rivers. T T"S fun to cross a river with at J- least a trace of wetness in it. It must be my early raising, but I like a river to be dampish in spots, anyhow. After two years I can't get used to southern California rivers, where, for nine months a year, the only craft you can navigate is a stone- boat and unless they use a sprinkling system you can't see where you're going, and they deepen the channel by blasting and not by dredging, and you come back from an aquatic trip full of hayfever dust They do say the fish have to learn to swim all over again every fall, and down between the steep banks the poor little frogs suffer terribly from sunburn. It's a great country for Holy Rollers but hard on Baptists. Crater Versus Manville. TORN between temptations. Pd to follow the search now on aeain for Judge Crater, who has I'M been mysteriously missing all these years except for the two or three hundred times when somebody said he'd been seen. On the other hand. Tommy Manville, the husband of his country, is reported as having fresh woman trouble back east this time of a blonde nature. Ues-erts. Still, I can always prowl the looking for the Judge. Out here, we hunt him at regular Intervals. ' different from the Liberty League. It disappeared Just as sud denly as he did, but stayed Wat way. Commercializing Football. a time, and not so ONCE upon long ago, a college was known by the football team it kept Now it's known largely as the college that some football team is keeping. And sport writers say that more money is now being wagered on football than on any sport we have. And It doesn't take an exto see that, each season, pert's eye football Is becoming more and more commercialized, more and more a g industry. professional, Well if football is to go the way of wrestling and horse racing and it'll pretty soon be so that about the only game a chap can play without fixing somebody beforehand will be solitaire. Still, being a football devotee does keep you out In the open air. torBut you could say that same thing seagull. IRVIN S. 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