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Show the very fact of change outwardi, argues change (flame" 2k thl gpread of desert shimmerC to" of the i Border By VINGIE E. ROE Copyright, & Ino. ponbleday. Doran Co, WNU Servica SYNOPSIS L.kln death by throwing: herself Lone juea hanas ui to be v. Savarin allows herself . hpr suddenly repentant th ' ,, Tin girl a 1 r 1 at- - ....... iij" to tn Arizona sheep ranch Lher Serge, his wife, Lila, ivsi'-la- ree-- with her and their tall daughter, Babs. She Is engaged !one Blake, wealthy New Yorker, her heart is with the friendless ?' ihn evades a weddlne. rirya pUiia untie ItHc Mrvn wifA nf Twa - .. crisis "rs ft Navajo, through the 'an illness. Two Fingers is deeply LtefuL Blake returns to New York, r. i.n nrill irivo Rnn Vfl bIt mnr fUring .,.tnI and then demand she keep her him. Sonya again cmise to marry the man wnuae auvniitea biiis et He tells li repulsed on Lone Mesa,regrets his action. r be bitterly ryt i affected, abut unforgiving. She Border bandit "El ia rumors of Ipitan JJiaDio, ana vaguejy connects la with her attacker. On Lone Mesa L .r4in nnmen unon the stranfire vounar jjjn, but she no longer fears him. . T F?ER IV Continued lose my ngnt nana lr it would p," he said doggedly, looking dowu The fiddling with bis latigo. Men horse turned a loving head and bed !t gently along his arm. fl'm," said the girl through her nos- - fid way, under early afternoon sun When h turned back to was shocked at tb look onher. Sonva his hand some face, a sunken look, If some cruel vise of the haggard, as spirit had suddenly been set upon it He smiled for the first time in her experience of him, and something leaped In Sonya's CaPtiVe bird beafle" strugglin8 t0 "Miss Savarin," he said, "that's the sweetest and the cruelist you thing ever said in your life. It's a dangerous thing, too for me. Yet I'm glad you said It. It'll be somethln'-some-t- hlng to remember among worse orles. And now I'll be getting Flease come here whenever you along want to. Lone Mesa Is yours from now on." He swung into his saddle, and the girl put out a quick hand and caught his sleeve. "No," she said swiftly, "why should you give it up? There's something here for you, something good, I know. It's In your eyes when you look out yonder,, a peace and a healing, and I want you to have that. You need it It it's something of the of the soul, If you see what I mean." Gravely he looked at her, shook his head wonderingly. "My G d!" he said softly. "What a woman you are ! I didn't know there was one like you outside of th' story books! Are you, by any chance, a lady preacher?" "No," said Sonya, "of course not. I'm a physician. But I'm a woman first, and I can see when a heart's sick as well as a body. You're sick In your soul, your character, or I miss my guess and I usually don't do that." "No," he said, "you haven't now. But It don't matter in this case. It's too late for medicine even yours." "It's not," said Sonya, and was astonished at the passion of her tone; n sharp and cynical sound. a s, ket which the woman laid across her auees. Sonya stroked the latter with ciative fingers but shook her apprehead, smiling. "What I did for you." she told them In Navajo, "was a glving- -a service to y people. You are my people. I have chosen the Navajos before the Great Spirit. Let be. It Is well." After a long silence Two said. "It is well. And we and Fingers all the navajos around here are your little People, under your feet A soft blanket to keep your heels from the stones." "It is very well," the girl said gravely and knew he spoke the truth. There was to come a day when she would have ample and tragic proof of that, but it was Just as well she could not see ahead. From Chee wash she rode down along the levels of the sage to where the debouching canyon had up Its pitiful small caravan thatgiven she day had seen Mr. Satter from the school taking away the children. On an impulse she turned and rode into this rugged cut that bisected the rising land. She rounded a far-iturn and came upon a habitation. There was no sign of life about It though It bore evidence of occupation within the hour a mutate damp from the recent mixing of meal, a tiny fire on the sand. For a time she sat her horse and contemplated It a good hogan set against the canyon's wall. There was little sign of prosperity. No rug bloomed on Its hand made loomthe hogan was bare of comforts, the beds on its floor being thin and scant. Evidently these Indians were very poor. She did not call or move about, but sat still in her saddle, waiting, and presently her patience was rewarded, for a soft step sounded behind her and she turned to see the wild buck, the squaw, and the littlest child of that pitiful drama In which she had participated. She smiled at them, and when Sonya Savarin smiled, a window of her soul opened and disclosed a light The family came carefully up to her. "I come to see if all is well with you and yours," she told the man In Navajo. "It is well with this one," he replied, touching the child, "but not with this one," touching the mother. "Her heart runs away in water, and she does not "muijr. iatrustvon now a considerable way He drw a long breath of fraerant h repeated, "an' all set a mark to prove Is there anything any single ag that a man can do to prove his irdl Tell me, and I'll do It." Who is the bandit across the Bor- would," he li've got to do is r who eat" And looking closer Sonya saw In astonished sorrow that It was so Indeed. The woman, who had been plump and hale some weeks back, was now a scarecrow, her old velvet Jacket hanging loose on her form, her tragic eyes sunk In hollows. Her brown lips looked dry and hard. For a moment the girl felt such a revulsion against the whole white race as to give her an actual nausea. Her hands ached to get hold of Satter's fat neck for one good minute. "So," she said, "I see. Have you told her that the little ones will be coming home soon? Did the agent tell you " crucifies his like a shot and gasped at ner own words, it seemed 1! another person spoke them, so oily unintentional had they been. The man's eyes flashed up to hers, Id once again they were wild as any wit 8, the black of the pupils spread- I over the blue of the Irises. Slow- double-crossers?- led Sonya souna or drained from his face, ring It ash white beneath its bronze, lips pale as blue milk. Good G d!" he said and was the color ifc rat. girl was silent, too, and for the ft time she felt a flash of fear, as if ehad set in motion sinister forces of lich she knew nothing. They stared each other for a moment aghast at li thing which had sprung between tm, stark and terrible, and then when to go after them?" "No," said the man, "and I do not know where to go." "Oh," said Sonya under her breath, The her rein, moved In her She knew- she recovering. a touched disaster too deep for a man's hand, and she drew back oya flicked idle - itinctlvely. V icr. no of. she said swiftly, "don't an- shouldn't have asked. And proof, anyway. I don't want What's past Is past I take I ;r word." be man wet his stiff IIds. Ion do? Do you believe what I've that for n trying to tell you ever since ay: that I could kill mvself pat I did? Do you believe me?" pes," said Sonya. "Not that It mat- but I do." ' took out a white handkerchief wiped his face, which was sweat- in the high cool wind. f V he said unsteadily, "not that NtterS to VOll. Hilt If Hnoa tn ma h, I don't know, but It does. More jn anything has ever mattered In fiole d- -d life I beg your par- "TGranted,' said the girl pars." f Serge?" "Serge Ny brother." it matters, and I've snent F1" alone up here and other places Nerlcg about it and why It does. f "own women all my life, In sev- wuniries, and never a one that In my mind a week after I left ' I'm a bad lot. as I told vou be- e' and It don't mean a irrpnt 1pa1 rl I Ui'hk, one wav or nnnthpr. nnlv Pt ever felt ro sorrv in nil mv dnvs r animthlnpr. I was Just wondering, rode around th' wall yon- H 'nJ rernriliwl !u ies 1,1 m atontttn matter," she said, "what " minus and does. No man lives nitnsolf alone, an thn n To every man his place and a "mount of Influence, And to P'" FT man his rpmnnnlhlllt., wnuence. You've got Influence, "flw for something." itM'tirrei1 unpasl,y. moved on his feet, felt In his pocket for a - ''areite. r- i t "oiTH.thir.R'B changing In girt wetit on. "Hioi-o- ' kSnu H P . you," you'd be right" "Maybe I do know a little," Sonya flashed, "but I'm not afraid. I'm never afraid, of anything." "No. You're like a white angel In armor," he said gravely : "you haven't not any need to fear. Even I could You're to. wanted I when hurt you safe anywhere any time. Th' devil hirtiKHf couldn't hurt you." "Will you remember what I say-t- hat It's never to6 late to change?" "I'll remember," he said politely, and good "an' thanks. Now, good-by- , Savarin." Miss luck always, said Sonya, "and the "Good-by,same to yon." He carried his hat In his hand as he whirled the horse away around the corner of the ancient stone house, and did not look back, and Sonya listened deto the shod hoofs striking Into the file that led down the face of the " sheer cliff. She sat stiffly quiet In her saddle and was conscious of a strange tumult within her spirit What had she done, solitude with talking here In this high Inner self whose this mysterious rider whose was black with unnamed sins was a land the In very presence menace and a portent of disaster doubting that For she knew past all One of whom Clue-eyethe was this .par-ablehis In vague the Servant spoke who Beelzebub of that henchman who before trouble. And she Jwcd him hatred, who had towed to of flesh from hlra her ftat had tried to do that he of mesa's rim I She hadthe at day and withtalked with him, earnestly, d se 1 F L f .....uo since since the first timemilitia I saw Q JOtlr fnro In ng n")re ,g'a on tn e,i(1 of W(jrds, for on, and your thngi 'b mncrpiit." u "I Am Hosteen Nez," He Said Presently, "and She Is Cactus Flower." "It's never too late. Not till one's last heartbeat only then." "What are you tryin' to do?" he asked her gently, smiling Into her eyes again "change th' spots of th' leopard? Be careful. There's no more treacherous beast alive. An I'm telling you true, Miss Savarin. I'm a leopard at heart, cruel and fierce, and not fit for you to speak to like this, straight out, man to maa I don't deserve It If you knew what an' who I am you'd turn your horse an' ride for that down trail like all possessed, and ' w lower than I am, ty low." f'utf-L.T and that's ngaln," said Sonya calmly "'M 1,10 8,ow tiao of red that over his cheeks. "But pale of twilight were along the deserts 0UThera blue veil, beginning to trail mused herself and .h. for nt down lb; Bleep declivity b went to see Little The next day she bundle of sheep Moon and refused the Two Fingers offered her, wtS the gorgeous finished blan Si J "the dirty beast!" Aloud she said slowly, "Well, you tell her to look up to the east and before many days she will see her children coming. What Is your name, Hosteen?" The man hesitated, since the naming of one's own name Is not good, but this was a desperate matter. "I am Hosteen Nez," he said presently, "and she Is Cactus Flower." "And I am Sonya Doctor Sonya from down on the desert beyond Lone Mesa, and I will see the man who took the children. Maybe four sleeps, may be five. You tell her eat and get strong." "I will tell her," said Hosteen Nez, and his eyes looked so deep Into Sonya's that the girl's heart hurt with their probing. "I will come again," she said and, turning Darkness, went back down the great cut of Blue Sand canyon as she had come. That night, talking with Serge and Lila In the twilit patio with Babs asleep on her lap, she protested passionately against the treatment of the Indians by the whites In authority. Serge smoked In silence, his dark eyes gazing out along the gray sage stretches that were turning purple in the falling shadows. "Kid," he said presently, "you're the best little scout ever, but I'm afraid that Borne day you're going to get messyourself into a peck of trouble, ing in where you don't belong." 1" "Messing In where I don't belong cried the girl hotly. "Do you call helpones ing thnt mother get her young messback for the summer vacation ing in, when she's actually grieving herself to death In her Ignorance and fear? Suppose It were Lila and Babs, for instance?" knocked out Serge moved uneasily, his of pipe. dottle the "Well, of course" "Yes, of course! That's It That's white man's viewalways It from the old dear, you can Just Well, point hold yourself In readiness to ball me out of Jail, for I may need It I'm goschool and get those ing over to that them back to that youngsters and take last the thing I do. School It's If nognn, the season, and for out Is already taken the trouthat fat Satter hasn't to even tell the or them return ble to father where to come for them. Can sheer downright you bent that for meanness? If yoa don't need the car, go over to the school Iil take It andweek-rooybe day after this sometime tomorrow. O. K.. Serge?" I'll hdn looking "O K., honey. round for bail in the meantime In case can use as an you find something you school authorities." the to hop exoiw 10 BB CONTLNUSD. Egyptian Sphinx Merely Portrait Bust of King The Egyptian sphinx Is no longer a mystery. Dr. George S. Duncan of American university told an Archeo-loglcInstitute of America meeting. The titanic statue which has excited the wonder of the ages as to its meaning and purpose, he declared, was nothing more than a "portrait bust of an Egyptian king of the Fourth dynasty placed on the body of a lion." The builders, he said, had no hidden purpose, but proposed only an extraordinary honor to the king. "There Is nothing whatsoever mysterious about it," Doctor Duncan said. "Any such vagary, even on the part of laymen, now Is Inexcusable." Doctor Duncan presented evidence of the origin of most of the Institutions of the civilized world In Egypt thousands of years before the Christian era, and declared the Egyptian delta may have been Inhabited by human beings as much as 200,000 years ago at the very beginning of the Ice most of the medicines employed by the Egyptian physicians are used today. Among them were cod liver oil and yeast for anemic conditions. At this time also dentistry hnd its first development. The king was attended by three specialists one for the eyes, another for the teeth and another for the stomach. The royal dentist developed the difficult feat of draining tooth abcesses. There was In effect at about this time, he pointed out, a tax system based on the varying amount of land, which might be adopted today. The agricultural prospects of the country were dependent on the amount of the Nile overflow, which was measured by a "nlleometer." If there was a good overflow the taxes were assessed over a large area. If It was slight the border lands were left unassessed, because it was obvious nothing could be raised on them. Washington Post Ages. Scientists Find New Senses, or New Names The great development of the human mind, Doctor Duncan said, came In Egypt about 3000 B. C, and he gave his own translations of Inscriptions which, he insisted, demonstrated clearly that the Egyptians not only believed in Immortality, but had established ethical tests. Some of these inscriptions might have been taken from the Bible, he said, such as: "Thou has departed that thou mightest live. Thou hast not departed that thou shouldst die." The famous "Book of the Dead," he said, was intended as a guide book of the Journey to the nest world and contained a list of 42 questions which the dead man must answer gatisfactorily in respect to his conduct on earth. Among the sins which would bar him was laziness. At about the same period, he said, there grew up a strong monotheism with the sun as the sole deity. Two hymns of this period have been preserved, Doctor Duncan said, "which, if the name of Ammon Ra was changed to Jehovah, could be sung In any Christion church next Sunday without striking the congregation as unusual." At about the same time, Doctor Duncan said, there was a great development In the medical arts, and We have fifteen senses, not live, according to German men of science who are determined to upset theories. They have discovered many new names for many old sensations. Among them are the sense of temperature, for instance, which Is not sense of merely the touch but an entirely different matter. If the sense of temperature Is lost, a man Is able to touch fiery coals without feeling pain. Some parts of the body have an apparently strong sense of temperature, as for Instance the tongue and the eyelid which are especially sensitive to heat It Is closely related to the sense of balance. On board ship, for Instance, the muscle sense tells you what movement you must make to counteract the rolling of the ship. The sense of time, German scientists aver, is so strongly developed In some people that they are able to tell the exact time within a minute or two. The "sense of rays" Is one of the latest discoveries. It Is located In the skin and reacts to the different rays of light to which the skin Is exposed. SIMPLE WAY TO KEEP CHILDREN'S TOYS IN ORDER "This can't be where the children sleep and play?" inquired the visiting grandmother, as she looked skeptically around the unnaturally tidy room, with its small twin beds, large bare table and few closed closets. "Haven't they any toys?" she pursued, In a pained voice. With a dainty little kick under the bed, the proud mother revealed the explanation. It was a very flat but capacious box on rollers. Opened, it l disclosed the usual of children's toys, balls, blocks and mechanical contrivances, evidently stowed away In great haste. Not much order, but everything visible and easy to get at, because the fiat box didn't permit piling one thing on top of another. "This thing slides under the bed when not In use," the mother explained, "but It's so easy to pull out, that the children can get their toys and put them away themselves. As for books and games well, here's a closet full." The closet was merely an old wooden bookcase, with wooden doors and plenty of shelves. No need to pile one thing atop of another, and) the wooden doors kept any disorder hidden. "Of course, this Isn't so cute as having the nursery walls lined with d shelves, and all the dear little teddy bears, books, dolls and games exposed," admitted the young mother. "I tried that at the beginning, but found I was a slave to neat-nespent all my spare time tidying the place up, for they couldn't be trained to put each object In Its own cubby hole. "This scheme is much better. There's no struggling and fussing ever exact places for everything, and the children rather like the Idea of shutting doors on their games, or rolling them under the bed out of sight." Cleveland Plain Dealer. pell-mel- odd-shape- ss Puts Blame on Smoker Smokers are the cause of half the forest and chaparral fires that occurred last year In the Angeles national forest and adjacent Los Angeles county lands, according to reports made by Regional Forester Show, chief of the California region of the United States forest service and chairman of the federal board of fire review. Look to Father Time to Historians Stirred by Shorten George's Nose Find of Ancient Coins POLISH ESTATES BACK TO HEIRS OF LOSERS GIVEN Coins that shed new light on an obscure period of Jewish history have been discovered In a private collection in Jerusalem. The coins are of the Fifth century, B. C, which is 300 years older than any Jewish coins heretofore known. The money known to have been regularly used In ancient Palestine was foreign money, chiefly coins of nations which in turn dominated the Hebrew country. It has been supposed that the Jews were not allowed to Issue their own coinage until a Syrian king granted that liberty about 139 B. C. The discovery shows that after th? Persians swept the Babylonians from power and allowed the exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem, the Persian king granted autonomy. The Jerusalem coins are said to match a small silver coin which for the last 150 years has been in the British museum. It bears an Inscription of three Aramic letters, which it Is said always have been wrongly Interpreted by scholars and therefore the significance of the coin was not completely understood. He reads the letters as "Yehud," which was at one time the official name of the province of Judea. The coins bear the engraving of an owl, under which appear the three letters In the old Phoenician Hebrew script. When the czar of all the Russias ordered the confiscation, more than a century ago, of the property of the Polish nobles who had taken an active part In the abortive uprising of 1SoO-3- 1 against Russian rule, the domain of the Russian state was enriched by many thousands of acres of meadow and forest, dotted with numerous castles and other buildings. And when Poland arose again as a nation out of the ruins of the World war, most of this confiscated property passed Into the possession of the republic. But under a decision recently handed down by the highest court In Poland and reported In European papers, the republic Is likely to lose nearly all these estates. And while regretting the loss to the state, most patriotic Poles are said to agree with the court that the heirs of the nobles who fought and died In the century-ol- d effort to free Poland from the Russian yoke are entitled to the property confiscated by the czar. Among the leaders of the 1830-3revolution was Gen. Count Tyskle-wlcHis broad estates were taken over by the Russian crown. Now the Warsaw court has decided that all that property, valued at about And Destructive must be returned to the presIdle curiosity Is probably the ent Count Tyskiewicz, a direct heir. This decision is expected to be fol- est thing In the world. lowed by many others of the same sort Involving a great deal of property. 1 z. Salt Lake City's fewest Hotel G&jWUS'i,.,,,; feasor i HOTEL busi- Stamps, Like Currency, May Not Be Reproduced The printing in any publication of an Illustration of a United States postage stamp Is prohibited by law, says the Washington Post In the press, however, as well as In stamp catalogues, are found Illustrations showing a small portion of a stamp, a part of a bottom or top scroll, or portion of some lettering or even figures. These, of course, do not re produce any real part of the stamp Many collectors have In their pos session, however, stamp catalogues of foreign publications that illustrate the United States stamps. These are purchased outside the country. While a reproduction of a United States stamp cannot appear In any paper or catalogue, It Is lawful to reproduce foreign stamps, providing that each stamp so produced In the Illustration has a small white line running across the stamp. This answers a query as to why all foreign stamps that arc shown In the pres are "spoiled" by the white Hn The albums and stamp catalogues that are printed In Europe show tha United States stamp In full lllustra tlon In scores of Instances. George Washington's nose Is three Inches too long, but nature will take care of that. Gutzon Borglum has purposely chiseled It in exaggerated fashion In his Mount Rushmore memorial because be Is looking Into the future. In the year 301934 the elements wilS have whittled It down to right pro--' portion. Meanwhile, George's proboscis, constructed originally on a grand scale, will have to remain further "out of drawing." Time makes great adjustments. Perhaps by 301934 A. D. a lot of other things we have been chiseling; out for posterity may also be reduced In proportion. Philadelphia Inquirer. TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Radio connection in every room. RATES FROM 1.50 Jiul eppotitt Mormon TahemacU YOUR LYtJ ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. 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