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Show THBJORDANJOURNAL.NITDVALE.UTAH fernally about thla Black Gana of JOUMI." / • Sir Bryan leaned bd Ia h1a chall and lit a clga rette. ,"There are one or two gups I haven't 1 filled In myself at the mom('nt," he answered. "flut I (•an tell you very brit>tly what led us to onr discoverie s at that house in Es~eJ. of whkh I 1 spoke to you-1\luy brick hull. About ; 1 six duys ago I received a typewritte n communle ation of a similar type to one or two which I hod seen before. A certuiu defect In the typewriter made It clear that the source was the same, nnll that source was the leader of the Bla('k Gang. Here is the communic a- • tiun :" A Sequel to Bulldo11 Drummo nd. .BYCYRIL JfcAfUL£ SAPPER W.N.U. .f>Gr>'.it?e XIV -Contin ued --22Peterson was no coward. In world In which he moved, there many strange stories told of his De"e and his complete disregard Moreover Nature hutl en· him with physical strength fnr ..., . the average. But now, for per· the ftrst time In his life, he knew meaning of stark, abject terror. sinister men In black-me rnhers that .v ery gang he had (•ome 0\'er to to de~~troy--seemetl tn llll the Silently, as If they had been to It, they disarmed everyone: they stood round the \\'ailsNo one spoke: only the horlmprecatlo ns of the dying Rus· broke the silence. as he strove to pull out the rille and ha~·onet rJ,;.:~ IIJa cliest. whlcb had tlxed him to waD as a dead butterfly Is fixed ln eolleetlon wlrh a (.lin. Petenon had a fleeting vision of a with white foce and wide, star· eyes, beside whom were standing of the motionless black figures as girl . whom he had just to a dreadful and horribl.! and then his eyes cume bock as If fascinated to the man who eomlng toward him. He tried •o F-a.~riRIIt back farther [!Ito his cornPr, ~lu~!klna: with nerveless fingers at his collar-wh ile the sweat poured face In a stream. For there .no mercy In Hugh Drummon d's : no mercy In the great arms thnt loosely forward. And Peterson llzed he deserved none. ADd then it came. No word was beyond was - Drummon d Peter· nnd out iileeel!l. His hRntls shot y t • relentlessl felt himself drawn kill, to the man he had planned his was two minutes hefore. It It If y now to wonder desperatel even some hideous nightmare , he strtJggled impotently In his frenzy with a man whose strength llillemeid equal to the strength of ten. was choking: the grip on his was not human In Its ferocity. ~~ ...... was a great roaring In his ears. suddenly he ceased to struggle. glare In Drummon d's eyes hyp1,8c,tll~d him, and tor the only time In life be gave up hope. The room was spinning around : the black llgures, the dying Yulowtbe girl-all seemed merged In vast jumble of color growing dark· and darker, out of which one thing one thing only stood out clear and ~stflD.ct on his clylng consclous ness.blazlng eyes of the man who was llll'lr>ttllng him. And then, as he felt sinking Into utter blackness. dim senae Jess paralyzed than rest seemed to tell him that a had taken place In the room. new had come Into that nightmare that spun round : dimly he beard a voice-lou d and voice he recognized . It l -a breathing- space. And that was ull tnat muttered for the moment- that and the fact that the madness WIU gone from Hugh Drummon d's eyes. The black figures were still stand· lug there uwtlonless round the walls; the Husslnn was lolling forwarddeud, Phyllis was lying back ln her chair unconsPiou s. But Peterson had eyes for none of these thlng'l: Count ;f,udowa ~hl\·erlng In a corner-th e huddled group of his own men · standIng In the center of the room he passed by without a glance. It wns on Drummond his gaze wns fixed. Orummond , who stood facing Irma with an almost dazed expression on his face, whilst she pleaded with him In an agony of supplicatio n. "He ordered that man to brain my wife with a rlfle butt." sold Drummond "And yet you ask tor hoarsely. mercy." He swung round on the cowering clergyman and gripped him once again by the throat, shaking him as a terrier shakes a rat. He felt the girl, Irma. plucking feebly at his arm, but he took no notice. But once again Fate was to Inter· vene on Peterson's behalf, through the And Instrumen tality of a woman. mercifully for hlm the Interventio n came from the only woman-fr om the only human being-wh o could have influenced Drummon d at that monwnt. It was Phyllis who opE>nE>d her eyes suddenly, and, h:llf·dnzed still with thP horror of the lnst few minutes, gazed round the room. !<'or a second she stared at Hugh's face, and saw on it a look whleh she hnd never sPen before-a look so ter· rlble, that she gave a sharp, convul· slve cry. "Let him go. Hugh: let him go. Oon't do It." Her \'olce pierced hi!! brain, though for a moment it made no Impression on the muscles of his arms. A !lllght· ly bewildered look .:on me Into his eyes: he relt as a dog must feel who Is called oft' his Ia wtul prey by hill muster. Let him go--let Carl Peterson go! That was what Phyllis was a!lldng him to do--Phylli s who had stood at death's door not llve minutes before. Let him go! And ~uddenly the marl· ness fuded from his eyes: his hanrls relaxed their grip, and Carl Peterson slipped unconseto us to the ftoor-unconscious but still breathing. He had let him go, and after a while he stepped hack and glanced slowly rounJ the room. His eyes lln~-:ered for a rn~> ment on the dead Husslan, they trav· eled thoughtful ly ou along the line of black figures. And gradually a smile began to appear on his face-a smile which broadened into a grin. "Perfectly sound advice, old thing," he remarked at length. "Straight from the stable. I really believe I'd almost lost my temper." Lie oppned a 'drawer In hls desk, and pa~sed u sheet of paper across to the l'aliinet minister. "If," it run. "jolly old llfclver will take his 1110rning constitutio nul to ll!u) brick hall In r.:~~ex, he will find mucb to Interest hlm In thut delight· ful uud rural SJ.IOt. ~!any specimens , both d\•ad and alive, will be found there, nll In a splendid state ot presermtl on. He will also find a great many Interesting devlres In the house. Above all. let him be careful of an elllerly elergyman of benellcent a1:pect, whosP beauty Is only ma rre!l by a still' and somewhat swollen neck. acCOili(Hlflil'd hy a charming Indy who an· They ~wet·s to the name of Janet. form the peerless gems of the collec- I Incredible, Johnstone ," He Remarked for the Fiftieth Time. "Simply Incredible ." "But It's • make your mouth water? It does, of course; cemetery, New York city. The photograp h shows By JOHN DICKINSO N SHERMA N tlou, and WPre ou the point of leaving otherwi;;e you are not normal and should be put the 1\!oore family plot, with Doctor Moore's grave OR nlnet~n centuries the palnt· the country with the enelosed packet ln solllary confineme nt for about 48 hours beat the left. The children of the Sunday school er's brush, ·the graver's tool which I removed ft•om them for safe inning Christmas I~ve. Nature appare ntly crented g his decorate or the Chapel of the Intercessi on and the s<'ulptor's chisel have keeping. .My modp::;ty forbids me to turkey e;;pecinlly for the family feasts ot the sing Day grave every year and on Christmas been busy with the represents · tell an uumart·ied man lll;e y('u In whal • and Thanksgiv ing. Christmas carols and place fresh decoration s. Uons or Jesus Christ. But In vorti<)n of dear Jar.et's garments this America that was It thing: odd an here's And Doctor Moore's writing of the famous poem and all the world is there a likeness little hag was found, but there's no delicious this ~·et turkey, the world the gave Its publicatio n are a story In themselve s. Doctor harm il! your gup;;slug." /~!b~~~~~ of Him with any credible claim Is get· feast Christmas the of piece de resl:stnnce Moore (1779-1863) was born In New York, the "Whal the del II?" sputtered Slr 1!:.i:::A:~::::.<~~e....J to authentici ty? To one who Is ~.. produ the ls only Not year. by tlng scarcer year son of Bishop Benjamin Moore, once rector of Old not satisfied with the efforts of .John. "Is it a practical joke?" Increase tbe with up ·tlon of turkeys not keeping Trinity, the second Protestan t Episcopal bishop "~'ar from It," answered the other. the artists and sculptors of all ages Is recomIn P<JpUlat!on, but Is · actually decreasing year by pres!rtent third the and of the diocese of New York "Head to the end." mended the word picture which Is attributed to year. \Ve are raising not more than someDr. Clement C. l\Ioore of Columbia uniYersity . "After .Mciver has done this little Publlus Lentulus, who Is said to have be€'11 a thing like 4,000,000 turkeys a year nowadays, was grudnated from Columbia and studied for the job," Hlr John read out, "he might like Homan centurion In Pales~ine during Ills lifetime. which is not enough to go around among a became he a trip to the nortb. There was an un· The centurion -captain of one of the sl:rty com· , ministry, but was not ordained. In 18~1 of more than 100.000,000. Chicago, fGr population professor of Blblicnl learning In the General Theo· inhabited lslund ofT the west coast of pan!es Into which the Roman legion was dividedpaid $2GO,OOO more this year probobly example, logical seminary, New York. There he served Mull, which Is uninhabite d no longer. hall u!s virtues as WE'll as his vices. He was as ' ing turkeys. Thanksgiv its for last than until his death. He wns u noted scholar nnd comHe may have everything he finds there. <>ffldent anti aR "hard-boil ed" as a modern ser-' near future wlll s~ the thnt Is guess good A piled the first Hebrew-E nglish lexicon published In with my love.-The leudet· of the g-ennt of the United States marines. His pas!=>lon a large !'Cale. Tha on us raising wlld turkeys America. HI11Ck Gang.'' was service to Home. And In statement of fact several plnces and In tried experimen t has been In 1822 he wrote the famous poem as a CbrlstSir Juhn laid down the paper and to his supPt"iors he was of nece!"slty and by trn<li· gh·es evidence of proving successful . The domestl· mas gift to his children. A "1sltor mode a copy stared at the director of criminal In· tlon ami training- as literally exn<'t us lay within cated turkey is a hard bird to raise. The wlld 1·es t igu t ion. of it, with the result that tlle ne'l:t Christmas It him to be. And here Is the stafement of Publlus turkey, on the other hand, s~m!'> to be able to "Is this the rnmbliug of a partially Lentulus, the Homan centurion In Palestine, as was published anonymou sly In the Troy (N. Y.) talce care of himself and to multiply- with roorn rliseased Intellect?'' he Inquired witb It hns come down to us through the ages: Sentinel. It went over the whole country In no natural conditions . Hlfitor.v shows that the and Doctor mild sar<'nsm. time an!l then sprend all O\•er the world. In thls, our day, a man of appeared has Thero American continent was just alive with wild North finl\lly "Nothing of the sort," returned the groat vtrtue, named Jesus Christ, who Is yet living l\loore was vexed over Its publicatio n, but once upon a time. turkeys •)titer shortly. "Mciver an(] ten plt1ln· amongst us, and wlth the Gentiles Is accepted as a admitted authorship . Now his scholarly lexieon 111m call disclplos own elothes men went immediate ly to :\1uy- prophet o! , truth, but His Is forgotten. Btn his poem has made hls name tho dead and cureth all ISTLETO E as a time-hono red part of the br!ck hall. And they round It a l'ery the Son of God. He raiReth Immortal. diseases; a man o! stature somewhat of manner festivities of Christmas way be doomed-s o peculiur plal·e. There were some fif. tall and comely, with a very reverent countenan ce; the rising generation should make hay while the teeu men there-tru ssed UJ.I tilre so such as the beholder may both love and fear; His ~CREDIDLY prosperou s are the American peoplain and I rlpe, full ftlb€'rt. sun shines-or words to that effect. Mistletoe Is many fowls, and alive. '!'hey were laid halr Is o! the color o! a ple these days. Their wealth Is shown lu many • downward ears His from but ears, His to uown suppo:;ed to have been a sacred plant, much out In 11 row in U1e hall. ways, but In no way more strikingly than by their som&whn.t curled, and more orient of color, waving CHAPT ER XV affected by the Druids in their myl;ltlc ceremonie s "Enthrone d In state, In two chairs about. His shoulders. In the mldRt of His head expenditu re for Christmas gifts. Experts estimate in old Gaul nnd nritnin. For this reason it was at the end, and also trussed hnnd and goeth a aea.m or partition o! hair, after the manthat their ante-Chris tmas shopping the country very smoot& In Which the Threads Ar~ foot, we1·e the beneficent clergy111an ner o! the Nazarites; His forehead so the frown of the church. As late us the under billions oYer will total between 11e1·eu and eight framed as and plain; Hls face. nose and mouth liv· the t cPntury It was forbidden In English for much Nlnctcentl So are .Janet. and Aliss of dollars this yenr. One reason why they C ..thered Up nothing can be reprehend ed: His beard somewhat an of still may be! Now It Is rapidly -and exception the churches lug ones, with thick, £.greeablo to tho hair of His head for color, able to spenrt sucb u staggering sum Is that untold It was a weel• Iuter. In Sir Bryan middle; the " In forked but of Christmas demands. Anti length, great pt>acefully bt>cause ug any of fouuu not di~appeari ltulinn, who was thousands have been !'a\'ing for It nil the year Johnstone 's office two men were seat · at~d mature look; His eye11 gray, innocent an of :States Depurtme ut of wrist United right the his on top of this stePping upstairs, with through whnt has come to be known as the .ed, tbc features of one of whom, at clear and quick. on the mi stletoe !n chain. war long Ap·icultur e ha9 declared padlocked to the wnll by a "Christma s Bank." In Chicago, for example, u In reproving He Is terrible; In admonishi ng any rate, were well known to the pub· the hope that he expt·e~ses because the national forests nnd l'\·e mentioned him last, courteous and fair spoken, pleasant in speech. canvass of the larger bank!! or the city shows thut Jlc. SL Bryan en('ourage d no notoany that ed remember be cannot It gravity. within ten years It may be erudicnted . You see, was destiued to play a very impo1·tant amidst they distribute d approxima tely $25,000,00 0 In Hlm seen riety: the man In the street passed have many but laugh, Him eet>n have the matter." He frowned sud· weep. the mistletoe Is a parasitic plant, which tlouri;;hes Christmas savings early th!~ month. This was an him by without recognition every part in part, con· important very "A denly. ten straight; on the life sap of' the tree on which it grows. of and and shaped 1924 well over In proportion of body, hl<'rease of flye mlllions time. But with his companion It was , his hands and arms most beauteous to behold; In "llowever repeuted. he him." found IndiSo the Agricultur al departmen t hns declared It a merely millions over 1!J23. Th!R, however, different: as a member of several suc· spec!· speaking very temperate , modest and wise; a man other the to palls now will we pest. However, the moln sup;)Jy come$ s forest cates the growing popularity of the "Christma cesslve cabinets, his face was well of singular virtue, surpa,sing the children of men. di:seovered were grounds the In mens. South, where the national forests ure the from flank" plan. It gives no renl Idea of the amount known. Ani' It Is safe to say that three • fox-and dead o fowl, And Oklahoma remains a fint~l dead nblP. -a lnconsider LnYolved. For the plan has been In operation In never In the course of o life devoted UP TO the Thirteenth <'entury the pictures of devotee-f or there It Is the men." mistletoe dead the for refuge practically every large Industrial establishm ent, to the peculiar vagaries of polltl<"s hall Je!"us Christ and of the Nativity were fonnal, sity, explos!vel, ejaculated John ~ir state flower. without recourse to the banks. that face worn such an expression of Impersona l und convention al. But In 12~3 was held chulr. his In up ting complete hewlldenn ent. may be rel!nrdf'd as the first Christmas cele"They had all died from the same what IIRIST.l\IA S time again emphasize s the fact 0 HICH are the American people and so fast "But It's incredible.•Johnstone, " he cause," continue<! the other lmperturb · bration, Inasmuch as it marked the linking of the thnt all the world-ex cept Young Americaand furious Is the Christmas spending that tbey remarked for the fiftieth time. ''Sim- ably-"elec trocutlon. But that wns church observanc e or the birth of Jesus with the Is fn('reaslng ly rending the Bible. The printing do not even take the pains to see that their gifts that had come down festivul midwinter ply Incredible ." popular fnuntl they nothing compared to what presses are busy day and night and yet cannot sent by mall are pr@erl~· wrapped and nd<lres!!Pd. "Neverthe less, Sir John," returned inside. In an upstair room was a from the Romans and the Rorbarlan s of Dritaln tbe demand. More than 30,000,000 volsupply Uncle bnt ft. Of ·course all are nt.t cureless about the other, "It Is true. I have absolute dreadful looking specimen more like and the Continent . It was staged by St. Francis been printed and dh<tribute d this year. have umes boll· the Sam, postmaste r, has a bad time dnrl~g Indisputab le proof ot the whole thing. an ape than a man, whose neck wus of Assist, of beloved memory, In a grotto near bt·ings word of new editions, of new day Evar,.Y days. Extra clerks cost him a million dollarsAnd If you may remember, I hnve long broken. In addition, the main artery Grecclo In the Abruzzl mountains of Italy. A translation s. The1·e are something new of forrr.s, and no small part of this extra force Is kept busy drawn the governme nt's attention lo of his left arm hud been severed with pageant ut midnight portrayed the Nativity- strawlike 1,000 lunguages and dialects In the world. Tho bandllng poorly wrapped and lmpro~erly adthe spread of these activities In Eng· u knife. And even that wus mild to filled manger, ox and uss; adoring sheplierds and whc.le Dible hns been published in 159; the !"ew dressed packages. 1\luny thousands of Christmas Thomas of Celano, who was land." what they found downstairs . Sup(.lort· Wise Men and all. Te!ltamen t In 138 more; portions consisting of at gifts tbls year-&s every year-will be sold by "Yes, yes, I know," said Sir ,John ed against the wall wus a red-headed among the worshiper s, writes that they saw a least one book In 428 more. From Albanian, Uncle Sam lnstefl.d or go!ng Into the Christmas Haverton a little testily, "but you have man stone dead. A buyonet fixed to a smiling babe appear In the· arms of St. Francis aa Aruhlc and Dulu to Yhldlsh, Zapotec and Zulu stockings for whi<'h the givers ln~ended them. The The report or this Ononmon d'e Hand• Shot Out and Pe- never given us chapter and verse !Ike manger. the over bent he hls through clenn driven been had rifle almost every tongue hc.s Its Bible. Yesterday th11 unaddress ed departmen t of the Inquiry S('('tion of convent still tlrlon Felt Himself Drawn Relent- this before. Incredible ," he muttered. Inches into the miracle spread over the Jan([ and a six stuck and chest, warea American Bible society gave an order for 3,000,000 resemt.les t.be post office In the large cities rate lt. Glotto paintleal) Toward the Man He Had "Ineredlbl e." wall behind him. And on that the extant was bunt to cmnmemo a copies of ~bt separute books of the Scrlpture shave 1 ouse. And at that Uncle Sum's experts PJanftCO to Kill. ed a picture of It In a humun sort or :way. And ..And yet-tbe truth," said the other. body was supported. Milrk, Luke, .John, Actf! an!l Prov~rbs-each tlrry positive genius fur !>Olvlng mysteries &tnd sending this celebratio n and tttls picture was the source there Is an organized and well· "That the sputtered fellow," dear my "But, a after ancl voice, woman's was a book to be sold In America and South Amerlcil lost packa~es on their way. In about 300 cases to preat·h Bolshev· cabinet minister, "you can't expect me from wbich sprang the countless masterp!P. ces repronsplracy financed relaxed. throat his on while the grip for one cent! 'l'odny a French publls!H~r announces out ot 1,000 letters or cards Inside s~ve as the we have known for to l.Jelleve all this. You're pulling my 1 resenting the Nativity and the Adoration by the England In Ism wall the against staggered back an edition of thirty volumes, with !Iehrew and saving clue. Some gifts cannot be held long"weat artists of all the world. well organizl'd It Is leg." how time: some gradual· :.east'lng and spluttering , und Greek texts Ol'POS!te the l<'rench. Tomorrow there alllgntors from l<'iorida, for e.xnrnple, fruit, muo;hyou will see "~fadonna and Child" Is a reprodnctl on of as But The realize. not did CONTINUE D.) we BE CTO rounu-the room ceased to whirl witt upp~.>ar a translatw n of some new tongue or rooms, ll'e chickens and turkeys. These are Luca della Uohhla (Lnca dl Simone df ,;ingle of a not work is the there paper, thnt from upon lron bands (."eased to press dialect. Chinn, torn by civil strife, Increasing ! quickly sold nnd the sale price held Jn a fund~~E" della Robbla of Florence, 1400·8~). This town or city In Great Letter ·ing The Mnrco rnanufa<·tm heart and lungs. demands the I~ible. Russia iR the only forbidden which Is ultimately turned into the treasury. When that has not got a brunch of 'fhe letter "e'' Is the beginning of i famous Itnllan sculptor was the founder of a It was Inna who stood there: lrma Britain groun•1; tLe ~oviet authoritie s will not permit It to d unidentifie all efforts have been exhaustE'<l the organizati on Installed, which can ele:;ance. energy, endurance , eminence, ' school which he and his family populurizP d for a piteous cry had pierced through the cross the front ler. an by and un<"lalmed packnges are sold at auction if need be draw plentifully on funds e\·olution, empyrean. ernul a tion. enter- century or more. He worked with terra cotta bla brain: Inna who had caused '.rhis lnn·easlng world-wid e demand for the Bible auctionee r who has little Christmas ilentlmen tfrom beudquart ers." figures In white and with colored drnperles. prl~e. enthusiasm and exult a t!on. it ~!lb61.. awful hands to relax their grip emphasi7.e s anew that Chl'lstlanl ty Is still the driv· he gets rld of about 100 lots an hour. Sir John Havt:rton nodded thought· Is the center of usefulnPss and the end before It was too late. Little by lng force of dvlllzatio n; thut the central fact of NE grave at least ls sure or decol'atlon s at of hope. It Ia also the beginning ol eveeyth!Dg steadied down : be fully. Christiani ty i~ .Jesus Christ-H is lifo ancl person, HRISTMA S Day has runny Important aspects C'hrll:'tmas time. That one !s the grave ot "I must go Into all this In detaU," Ernest, the eenter of spare ribs. the · could see again-cou ld bear. and thut tlte II oly Scriptures are the fount and from many Important viewpoin ts-bat don't the author of "•rwas the the be remarked. "But In the meantime support of delectatlle and the charm Dr. Clement C. Moore, lnspirution o! Christmas Day. let us overlook the turkey. Dol"Sn't Picture No. 8 Trfbtme. I Night Before Christmas ." His gra\·e Is l.o Trlnlt7 1F M S .. C I I ! O C ~ |