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Show THE PAGE SIX that aha might not hear the truth till he could save Deolsoo's eyea and thus cuaulop the horrid shock that the facts muil bring to ao In ooceiit sufferer. She had thrown her arms on the d Her table la front of ber. sank between them. Dr. Carpy roae, walked around to the other side, lifted ber bead aJ. standing beside ber, supported II la bis arms. "Jane, be said slow ly, looking down Into her pitiful eyes, "from wnat you ten me, i see that you have heard loose stories flouting around." "You, too, have beard them, Doc tor. Why, oh, wby dldn t yon tell bt-a- Ml BBffsviklMt kvsw s km ma mmmi Mm p. a m mm .sw m x w m w m av vPf r V 7 FRANK H. jrw m SPEARMAN W.M.U. CHAPTER XI Continued 13 "Yea, you can, damn yon, and mo put that bandage yon will. tack where It belongs and you t Jteep It there. Dau't talk about unless you want It back. Where the hell do I come M What It eye-.elgh- , 'am I getting out of tbls?" It was a battle between two strong wills, and It was long In the waging. Out when Carpy, wiping the sweat from 'bis forehead and. himself almost unstrung, left Denlaon's side, his patient had ridden out the storm and had promised quiet till the two could think of what might be done, pledging In the Interval mutual and absolute secrecy. Secrecy, however well pledged, grows more difficult to control In proportion to the number of persons pledged. Carpy swore Sawdy and Lefever to It very easily. McAlpIn and Ben I'age were warned that If the story leaked out. It might become unpleasant for both. As for Bob Scott no one was ever known to worm a secret out of elm; Barney, of course, dared not talk. Tet It will easily be understood that too many people had the story; and only the continual effort of Dr. Carpy In silencing, through threats of what might happen to them, one or another of the con splrators kept It nnder cover. Jane, after the usual storm with her father, who knew what she was doing, rode next morning Into town to make her visit to the hospital. Denlson was a poor actor. In bis endeavor to make Jane feel there had been nothing to upset him, be was over solicitous. Carpy did better; but he was compelled to admit that Denlson had not been doing quite so well since Jane could see that for herself. Her father continued taciturn and aloof. Jane knew she was defying Mm by continuing to visit Denlson. yet being of much the same tenacious will as her father himself, she reckoned little of It. Bat her visits and ministrations to the Injured neighbor of Gunlock Ranch became so frequent, and she herself was so wholly Indifferent to be'C6mment, that the situation came food for local gossip. Here was Van Tatubel a deadly enemy of Denison's, with his daughter openly showing a very sprs!ul Interest In Denison's condition at the hospital carrying to him delicacies and spending with hluj half her time In town. Things were at this pass when one day Van Tambel told bis daughter he must go to Medicine Bend on some bank business. Jane knew that be was not able to make the trip Carpy had told her more than once that the old man's life hung by a thread. She pleaded with her father, found out what the business was, and offered to go in his stead. She took the morning train for Medicine Bend, secured the further time on his notes at the bank, spent the night at the Mountain House, and took the afternoon train west for Sleepy Cat. The Pullman cars were crowded. Jane was forced to find a seat In a day coach. Here she placed her handbag In the seat beside ber, bought a magazine, and resigned herself to a long afternoon and eve- me?" J Sf RVICt "Jane!" exclaimed the doctor. driven from his last stronghold reserve by the poignancy or grief. "How the bell could I you a story Involving those It of ber tell did talk. Presently she beard mention of her father's name. Aroused now to keen Interest, Jane was torn between the feeling that she ought not to listen and the Impulse that she must. "Of course, nobody can prove It." were the words she heard. "I didn't say they could. That old bird knows too well how to cover his tracks. But everybody knows how he deviled Denison's brother when he lived there tried to buy blm out, then scare him out, and then smoke him out. The old devil has been crazy ever Blnce he owned Gunlock to get hold of that little Spring Ranch. Why? Account of the water. It's the biggest spring In the bills. Now that he's back from the hospital, the first thing be thinks of Is to get hold of that Jane listened with bated breath "Why, It's common talk In Sleepy Cat," the narrator went on, "that he paid Barney Rebstock to set Bill's ranch bouse afire and came damned near burning Bill up In It1 Her heart stopped beating as she heard the dreadful recital, dellr drew op at the ane alighted heart fortunately, her father was welcome of broke But out ber I hem off, door. ranchhoim with beating fat when she got borne. out In the bills. Her came from (Jiiong; It sort tbe Ice of the she went to ber room, got two old suitcases, dus'ml laid them ou her bed ad. the hooks of ber closet tome-cout-lo- Light-Footedne- Is ss His Name Is Kanani and 58 More Letters of the Newfoundland Seal Hunters stripping sad opening the drawers of iter dresser, began almost furloualy to pack. While she was at this, she heard tbe heavy uneven steps of ber fa- - Fleet Brings Back grown-upMilady's makes off with other Quickly they slip into the ocean s. Shoes and Soap in the Raw. "iviilady, dressed In through convenient breathing holes. The baby seal and its playmates wriggle toward the strang ers. "Early in March a small fleet of scarred, ships sail out of the bottleneck of St. John's harbor, bound for Ice fields off Labrador. Steamers smash their way through grinding ice, guided by members of the crew in lookout 'barrels' high on the masts. Their cries of 'Seals ahead!' give the signal for frenzied preparations among the milling crews beneath. "At the call, 'Over the sides!', men jump out nimble, on spinning pans, armed with dogwood bats having iron hooks and spikes, razor - sharp knives and Acres of moon-eye-d light white pincushions await the 'fishermen,' curious and unafraid. "The sealer attacks his quarry with his bat, expertly husks off the sculps (the skins and adherent fat), leaving the carcasses steaming on the ice. Three or four sculps are strung on a rope, by which the seater hauls them to one of the colored marker flags where several men pile their catches. Later, the ship breaks through the icefields to these piles. The sculps are hoisted aboard and dumped into the height of fashion, rarely thinks of the torm-sweArctic seas where pt sturdy ships have been crushed, burned, and blown up In the race to fill staunch hulls of the Newfoundland sealing fleet with seal skins and fat, from which her fine shoes, pinseal handbag, and costly toilet soap may be made," eays a bulletin from the Washington, D. C, headquarters of the National Geographic society. "With the lengthening days of March, thousands of mother seals come up through 'bobbing holes' and bear their youn& on the shifting ice fields north of Newfoundland. Innumerable little furry, white puppies lie among the ice pinnacles, gaining weight at the phenomenal rate of two or three pounds a day. "Daddy seal goes off with his cronies to boast about his youngster. Mother seal stays home and does the work. Hour after hour she scours the adjacent icy seas for fish. She does not feed fish to her young, but gobbles great quantities herself so that she may provide abundant rich milk for her offspring. "When a baby seal is about two weeks old and resembles a fat roll of butter, it may notice its "Bill, I Thought You Ought at mother sniffing the air suspicious Least to Have a " ly. Not far away a huge black ther In the living room, and the hulk drifts close through shattered next minute bis huge bulk darkened ice pans. A clamor of strange noises fills the air and odd the open doorway of her bedroom. creatures run out over the "Hello V he snapped. She turned. "Hello, Father," she fields of ice. The baby seal is too much interested to be disturbed, responded simply. but, as several of the intruders "What are you doing?" draw near, its startled mother "Packing." two-legg- seal-pepper- raw-bone- drag-rope- d s. fat-soak- holds. . are "Back in port, the cut off the pelts and rendered into a fine odorless, colorless oil. Rough skins are transformed into fine leather. The oil is a constituent of some soaps and also is used as a lubricant, as an illuminating oil, as an adulterant of cod liver oil and in treating leather. Seal skins are cut and sewn into boots, pocketbooks, and novelty leather goods." Brlicve it or not, but llcre'i a lad whoe name it Kanani. noheaokuulioineopuukaiiiianaaluhjlo. hiohinok ea wca well lama kaokal an I. Just to make it complete, the parent sddt-llrginald Willirlm. Mr. and Mr. Raymond M. Jndd of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, were " t trying for an record when they named their baby. They were just following an old Hawaiian custom. Ths name it translated "Ths beautiful aroma of mr home at aparkling Diamond Hill is carried to the eye of hcav-eOh, ye, they will call him "Joe" for liorl. Some Thought Volt-AirNew Refrigerator Stock e Some years ago, relates David L. Salmon in "Confessions of a Former Customers' Man," one of the most important among the floor traders of the New York Stock Exchange, who was long on nerve but terribly short on education, was invited to a literary affair in Greenwich village. A lady villager, sitting opposite him, leaned over and in the confidential manner, said: - "Mr. Meadows, what do you think of Voltaire?" After giving the subject a deep ten second analysis, our Wall Street Wotan said: "I think it will go much lower." fat-laye- rs ed Earlier King Edwards Britain has had an Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, who began his reign in the year 901; an Edward the Martyr, his and an Edward ths Confessor, who died in 1066 and who prepared the way for the Norman conquest. great-grandso- MEiWiS GHOUrJSJ HIP! ' j X " , ' "V "FIRE8TOME"! JL RACTION on unimproved roads in bad weather is a problem which has g - Cardinal Virtue g. la such an affair? Actually, nobody knows Just what the facts are. Now we must get started right. First you tell me all you heard. Then I'll tell you all I've heard Is that fair?" Brokenly, and pausing at Inter vals to control her voice, Jane gave him the train story. Carpy had bowed bis bead. "Well," he commented as she looked soberly up, "that's not far from what I've been told myself But, Jane, I'm not a bit sure we have the facts In these stories. Tbey all depend on the word of one of the worst characters In this country. Harney Rehrtock wouldn't hesitate at anything low down In the whole range of crime anybody In town will tell you that He's not but the biggest only an liar In this whole country." "Doctor," she said solemnly, "does Hill know all that you and I know?" Jane," he answered In like, "Bill knows all that you and I know." "Oh. I knew It I knew It To think that poor I should bave brought tbls horror Into bis llfel" "Jane, that's not so. Tbls might all bave happened If you never had seen this country." I want you to do one last favor for me. Doctor. Will you?" asked Jane. What Trr "What Is It Janer "Preparing to go Into town." "I want you to say to Bill that I "What you goin' lo town agin freely release him from bis prom lse of marriage; that 1 beg htm to fr?" I've got a Job In town, and I'm forgive me all I have Innocently there to work at It." caused hint to suffer and that I going What kind of a Job?" be snorted. " will leave here forever to study nursing at I'm going "Jane!" exclaimed her listener. the hospital." She raised ber hand, "I've not fin"What tbe bell you goln' to do ished yet." that fr?" "Go on V he mapped, bluntly. Because things have been done "My father has made me his heir from here that make this place to Gunlock ranch; he has no other hateful to me. I couldn't stand It heir. This morning I will make my here any longer." will and bequeath whatever I In "What things you talkln" about? William to herlt from my father She looked at him steadily. "I'm Denlson, to atone as far as I can talking about burning Bill Deni for the wrongs my father has done son's ranch house." him." "What's that got to do with your "Well?" remarked Carpy coldly quitting home?" "That Is all." Everything. Everybody's talking "And that Is what you want me about that fire. Barney Rebstock to tell Bill?" has told that you paid him for set "That, Doctor, Is what I want Bill ting fire to a neighbor's ranch bouse to know. Oh, If I had another to with men sleeping In It." do It for me, dear Doctor, 1 "Why, that fellow's the worst wouldn't put It on you." liar In Sleepy Cat. Nobody believes anything be says." Carpy rose to his feet. 'I can tell yon everybody be "Jane, you re sending me on a fool's errand. But seeing I'm noth lieves It," she said, trembling. "Do you believe It?" lng but an old fool, I expect I'm Just tbe man for the job. I can tell you "Father. I am forced to unless now what he'll say as well as If you can convince me you had nothI'd seen htm and given blm your ing to do wltb It This wretch nas .V message. Hut I know, of course, had a pocketful of money." ft that wouldn't satisfy you. So I'll Van Tambel regarded ber with perfect poise. "Wby, I did give go and go now. "Now promise," he repeated. In him a little money. I'll say I've for him. I know be parting, "you will stay right here been sorry hates BUI Denlson a good many In this office till I get back." But she was 111 prepared for what folks In this country's got no use she saw when the office door was for that" "Stop!" cried Jane. "Don't say opened half an hour later and Dr. against BUI Denlson. He Carpy pushed Denlson ahead of him anything Into the office. Bill's eyes were ban saved my life!" that damned, dirty, ornery rus daged. He groped a little with his and thief" tler film the doctor while hands, guided Jane's eyes blazed. She stamped to a chair. her foot "Don't you dare!" she "Here be Is, Jane," announced cried. "What you're saying about Carpy bluntly. "Ue can speak for him Is what every one In this counhimself." try says about you." She bad not an Instant to wait There's some damned "Yes? No sooner did Denlson feel aim mean In this country," thunpeople self seated In a chair than be held dered her father. "Just look out out bis arms and said, apparently for yourself, my lady. I don't know not with deep feeling, not with more about that fire than you any In most the pained emotion, but do. If Barney Rebstock wanted to . matter-ofcommonplace, every-dayget even with Denlson, that's his fact manner: "Where's my girl? business, not mine. You shut your Come here!" trap." The old doctor watched Jane run "That's not all." I' "Bill Denison's to side. timidly "More lies, eh?" I she exclaimed brokenly. "Here "McCrossen has told In town that ami" once tried to get him to set the you "What's all this talk I hear about house on fire and be refused to your quitting me, Jane?'' be asked do It." "Let Me Put That Bandage Back unsteadily. "He lies! He did do It I I gave Where It Belongs." "Bill, I thought you ought at least htm five hundred dollars to do It to have a " He agreed to do It and took the Its myriad of heavenly lights. The "Well, I've had my chance, cool air cleared her bead. But what haven't I? And this Is my answer, money to do It If he hired BarRebstock to start the fire that's could loosen the deadly grief and Till death us do part! Nothing ney left you here to shame that clutched at ber pound less, Is that bis lookout! I and nothing else goes I McCrossen has watch ing heart? plain, girlie? I gave you a chance been things, off my steers ever running the other day to quit ue what was since I went to the hospital. He When Dr. Carpy walked Into his your answer?'' knows I know It He knows I'm gooffice from the dining room after breakfast next morning, be saw ing to get after him. And I will," CHAPTER XII he shouted with a frightful oath. Jane Van Tambel standing before I'll tell you where the window, looking out TANE did not go home that after 'Now lookoff.here! You're not going a yon get Jane !" be exclaimed. J noon. She sent Bull and "Why, "What brings yon here so early?' buckboard back with Instruction step to town! I know your scheme; She looked around at him In si not to come In for ber until sh you're going to live with that mac lence. The doctor walked over to sent word. She wrote a brief note Denlson " "Father!" her and laid his hands on ber shoul to her father, merely Raying that tiers. "Jane." ne asked, "what has she had attended to his business (TO BE COSTWUED) happened, girl?" and would be home In a few days. Nation Seek Monopolie The grief in her sunken eyes was Van Tambel, In an Impatient rage The enterprising and commercial too apparent sent Bull back with an order to nations of the world know there la "Oh. doctor I" The exclamation Jane to come home at once. came like a burst of suffering long The harsh message made less Ira- far more money to be made securing and establishing for themselves pent "I know everything." presslon on his daughter than a monopoly In the undeveloped reHe saw the fat was flatly In the had Intended; but It did bring bat- fire. Indeed he had long bad only the answer that she would be out gions of the earth than In peaceful ami competitive commerce with each a faint hope of keeping the facts soon. from Jane. His real hope had been When the buckboard next day other. ered as calmly as the merest bit of current goaalp would be discussed on street corner. According to what I hear," con tinued the narrator, "Sawdy and some of Bill's friends choked the story out of Barney. Sawdy got cut up In the fracas with blm Sawdy was laid up In the hospital month. Barney's a mean devil for with a knife." The train was pulling Into Sleepy Cat Jane, rousing herself from a stupor, ber breath choking ber, ber heart ready to burst with every beat staggered to her feet, dazed, and supporting herself along the aisle with ber bands alternately on the barks of the seats, stepped blindly down to the plutform. Bull Page, who was In with the team and buckboard to take her borne, reached for ber handbag "No, Bull," Jane said quietly. "I'm not going out tonight" "Not going out" "I'm staying In town." "Stayln' In town?" stammered Bull, vastly surprised. "Drive me to the hotel," Jane said "I'll take a room there. wearily. You drive home and come back for me tomorrow afternoon." It was ten o'clock. Assigned to a room, Jane freshened herself after the long, dusty car ride, bathed ber face and temples again and again In cold water, and tried to collect ber throbbing thoughts. It all seemed like a hideous dream. Surely It could be shaken off: surely men could not be so fiendish as to plot fire and so hor rible a death as would follow to sleeping men. Her fathprt She shuddered. This thought was most horrible of . . and yet Of one thing she felt certain: If It were true, she could no longer live under the same roof with him. and the terrifying duty of learning the revolting truth from his own lips confronted her. And her lover Bill, blinded Bill what now of him? Could she ever What would he face him again? say? What would he do? He knew the truth. No doubt re mained In her mind on that point No need now to ask why he seemed worried and changed. Was he only waiting, trying to decide how to tell her he could not marry her that her father had blinded him that they must part? 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