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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930 ton and Unwin, with whoa he had row no common ground of Intercourse, MUTTONY CFTHE 'ACLIBATOD3 run; tvls-takl- vVYNDHAM i MARTYN" 0fYl6HT j iHTMf Ut ul the appreciative tew who adnired but did not bay. v "Did yoa dose that contract T ho choald It bo soT Dipra.U characUra heard hia wife ask. The contract had till Uko to ship. Tho opportunity been talked ever a great deal. Tbe tor successful pursuit would soom to commission would have removed the on tho ocesn than on tho land. Oocursncss ot modern piracy aro rare, steady calling of an Intolerant inditut it Is not Illogical to expeot them vidual who concerned himself with ow and then. payments of furniture on the InstalIn this tale of deviltry at oea, the ment plan. uthor has pictured a series of advenUnwin removed a dead leaf from a tures that are well within the realm plant He did not want to meet bis of probability and are about as as any of those glamorous epwife's eye. isode! celebrated in buccaneering: lore "The time was not ripe," he said, not romance tbe is too, There higrh any a little weakly. "Next month, perin is because it less pleasing; placed the Twentieth century and not In a haps." distant past His wife said nothing. To her it Jast picture a millionaire aboard his was an evidence that God desired her staunch and luxuriously appointed to be yet more strengthened and puriocean yacht, awakening; to the realization that, by a skilfully engineered fied by suffering. plot, most of his honest crew have "Do you think Mr. Gibbons will?" been replaced by a selected band of Abduction kidnaplu (or ruMB, tsur and loottnr, crimen one eom-no- n . ar now t th hlrh confined to th land. Why prrn-ttcil- ly 3 pulse-atirri- ng she asked presently. "Why "Yes," Unwin answered. shouldn't he? It's a solemn moral obligation and I'm not sure it isn't a legal one also. Gibbons was always a man of bis word. I know he has the name for being hard In his dealings, but this Is different" He paused as he heard footsteps. "But not a word to the children. I don't want to raise their hopes and then have to disappoint them." It was Mary, eighteen and sweet, and now hopeful. She held n her hand a packet of the literature that Smith college sends out to those who seek to know her charms and terms. Mary was more than anxious to enroll. And during the last week her father had been letting fall sly hints that Northampton might not seem so far away as she thought "Did you close the contract?" she asked, when she had kissed them. "Money Is tight," said Unwin, again plucking leaves. "I shall try them in a month's time." He saw Mary droop a little. He knew the disappointment It nerved encourhim to give her nncalled-fo- r escaped convicts all killers men who have followed the sea and are desperate to take any chance. Picture these outlaws, inflamed by money lust and under the diabolic guidance of a master mind. Imagine the thing's that may happen and tbe rare sort of pirate atory that will evolve. The skipper was dependable and there were others brave and trustworthy, but it was soon obvious to Elgrar Radway that he and his guests were under a dire menace. It was the menace of criminality backed by brains. The steward was no ordinary functionary of the type. In htm you will find a mystifying: personality, an new to the pages of adventure fiction. arch-crimin- al CHAPTER I Mr. Unwin Makes a Call Tbe financier, Bitting alone in his remote and splendid library, looked up with a scowl at the apologetic secre- tary who came softly in. "But," the secretary was reiterating, "he says he is a very old friend. Unwin is the name. Tubby Cnwln, He said you would remember Ir. foim by that" He could see that his employer remembered. Something of the hard-ces- s fell from the face. Gibbons had gone back in that moment of recollection almost twenty years. Of course, tie remembered "Tubby" Unwin. And with Tubby there swam back Into memory that other one of the three, Howard Bettington. They were inat Cambridge in the old separables days. Every year they swore to have a reunion; and In the eighteen years that had gone by he had not seen them once agement "I've something up my sleeve better than that old contract On Thursday morning ask me what I mean. It may mean Smith for you and Tech. for f Bob." I "Tell him I'm too busy to see anyone for three days. Then ask him to dinner." Gibbons thought a moment. "Find out from him if Betty Howard Bettington is In New York. If he is. ask him to dinner and let me know "when they are coming." The secretary, assuming an Intimate of his employer's must be of the favored classes over whom kind monetary angels hover, gave Unwin the message and supposed he was telephoning from another fine residence. Floyd Unwln's home was not of the kind to awaken envy even in a Gibbons secretary. It was a small apartment on the fourth floor of a structure g and now dwarfed by scornful buildings which hemmed it tn. Unwln's daughter, Mary, used to say It looked as though It wanted to run away and hide, but dare not If the place had no beauty It was home to the Unwlns; and there was a roof garden which endeared the commonplace flat to them. It was to this retreat that Floyd Unwin took his way on the receipt of His wife, who Gibbons' message. spent most of her Invalid hours on a coueh, looked up with a smile. She was one of those really good women who accept bodily Ills as God's judgments; she felt her long illness was sent in some mysterious way to pre- pure ner lor eieniai uic "I'm to go there to dinner next Wednesday," Unwin said, "and I'm to ask Howard Bettington. Gibbons is a very big man. They say, in ten years' time he will be the greatest capitalist in the country." Unwin mused a moment "He was always Inclined to be hard and masterful. . . . And yet, to tMak that but for me and my coaching, he would never have got his A. B." Unwin fell into a mood of depression. At college he had been esteemed brilliant, and Gibbons had been accounted dull. And Gibbons was a And Floyd Unwin solicited advertisements for a trade Journal and was Its associate editor Then he thought of Howard Bettington, who had made some success as a painter of seascapes. Bettington was "It seems too good to be true," the girl said. "Daddy, I'm so tired of being Mr. Radway's stenographer. I'm in a constant atmosphere of fear and it's bad for me. Every one in the office trembles when he comes In. If It weren't that he pays more than I'm worth I'd leave tomorrow." When she had gone down to prepare the evening meal Unwin looked at his wife anxiously. "Mary Is a very beautiful girl," he said. "I wonder If 1 the best of the three, ne was better looking, better bred and could have attained eminence in anything be set his mind upon. And be had chosen to adventure into far corners of the earth and teas and every now and tbea exhibit hi unusual canvases U men-servan- ts money; and with these standards he had only contempt for the small, nervous man who peered through thick lenses at him. He looked with deeper Interest at the painter. "It doesn't seem possible we are all of an age," he said, when they were seated.' "Tubby looks fifty, I look forty, and I'm d d if Betty doesnt look ten years less. How do yoa do it?" Bettington resented the sneering manner in which the successful man of affairs regarded Unwin. "To me you look the elder," he said suavely. "Tubby may have put on weight but there's age in your face, Three Brass Balls, and wrinkles a deep." Gibbons flushed. He had not forgot-tethe old nickname given him in jest, for his ability to make small gains In loan and barter. He looked half-inc- h n across the silver-ladetable at Bettington. The painter had a clear eye and a clear skin. There was a youthful poise of body and a lltheness which had long since left Gibbons. He glanced sourly at the other man. Even there he felt beaten. Unwin's gaze was serene and untroubled. There was a certain simplicity and directness about him which seemed childish. n "Fve worked," Gibbons snapped ; "that gives one lines and wrinkles." "You've hated," Bettington an swered; "your face Is a chart of un Your sort of charitable emotions. success stamps its victim. Tubby and light-absorbin- multi-millionair- e. should be his guests. Outside tbe house Floyd Unwin was waiting for Howard Bettington. He needed moral support. He had come, so ne told hlmxelf, upon a tash that hardly promised success. He cursed himself for his perpetual enthusiasms. It had looked so simple, so probable, so assured. He bad been losing coot. age ever since he had donned his ancient evening dress. He had not seen Bettington for almost ten years, but there was no the tall form that came toward him out of tbe gloom. Together they knocked at the bronze doora la the few moments that elapsed before a footman opened to them. Bettington t mind hfmiolf ahnmri rher tho aM friendship had meant so little. He was conscious, vividly, of the good, dreaming student days, when Unwin had been so close a friend. He had forgotten Unwin after the first few years. Unwin had married while at Cambridge. Then came the girl and the boy. Bettington had once sent his old friend a painting. That was alL As to Gibbons, that was different Tbe financier was so constantly spoken of that he was fresh In the mind. But all these years Howard Bettington had not once tried to meet him. He had heard him speak at a public banquet and had seen that the man he used to like was dead. In his place had come the grasping, unscrupulous capitalist who was to carve hia way to power. The footman, when he had ushered the guests Into a hall, where the butler stood commandingly, looked curiously at them, ne knew they were not habitues of the Gibbons home, or, Indeed, of any of those great homes where such as he were content to serve. At Bettington the lackey looked with faint approval. Bettington wore, as was his custom, a black velvet dinner coat But it was well cut and the man moved as though these magnificent halls were his usual haunts. It was at Unwin, poor Floyd Unwtn, scholar and failure, that the looked with scorn. Such garments were not now worn. Bettington saw that Unwin was losing what small confidence he possessed. He patted the shorter man almost affectionately on the shoulder and simulated approval "You look splendid," be murmured, "I suppose I ought to have worn full dress, too." Unwin trotted by his side vastly gratified. Gibbons was standing with that faint sneer on his face which had become habitual. The financier was prepared to be thoroughly bored. He Judged man by his ability to make I have worked, too, remember." "Indeed, I have," Tubby sighed and as a solic thought of his itor of advertising. Gibbons looked about him. His guests, following his glances, saw what he meant There was superb luxury Did not these two men everywhere. realize that they were being sumptu ously entertained in magnificent rooms by one who had no greater opportuni ties in youth than they? Less opportunities. Unwin was always a stu dent to whom academic tasks were easy. Bettington had a small property when Gibbons had but an allowance from a distant relative. From the pale secretary Gibbons had learned that Bettington had passed his life mainly in traveling and painting the sea In her sterner moods. His pictures were not such as to attract the dealer, al though his fellows revered him for his art Economically he was a failure. And yet Gibbons could not rid himself of the feeling that they were not Impressed by his position. There was something stinging and irritating in It. And he was annoyed to find that these two quiet guests were that sense of unasserted superiority which they had exercised In college. There had been a time when these two meant more to him than any other men. And when success came to him he forgot them. Gibbons grew a little ashamed; but the feeling lasted only a few moments. Ills arrogance banished it He had succeeded ; they had failed. He was even a little gratified when the pale secretary bowed his way In with two cables which demanded immediate attention. . "Made a million or so?" Bettington asked quizzically, when the secretary non-succe- Outside, floyd Unwin Was Waiting for Howard Bettington. undesirable men try to force themselves on her." ne walked about the roof garden aimlessly. That was his chief defect, this uncertainty of aim. son, with Bob, the seventeen-year-ol- d the mechanical turn of mind, came in. Unwin turned to greet him with a cheerful smile, ne anticipated the , unasked question. "I didn't Ret it," he said; "money was tight I went In at a bad time. Tm sorry, Next month, perhaps. Bob." The boy was taHer than his father. In a sense he was a more resolute and reliable man. He put his arms about the elder with a protective gesture. "I know you did your beet," he said simply. And ail through the dinner poor Unwin was haunted by the certainty that he had not done his best 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 When the hour for dinner drew near Gibbons was Inclined to blame the pale secretary that men like Bettlag- had taken down tbe snswers and gone ot "Or lost oner Gibbons "Radway la the loser. smiled. "I have Just taken a railroad from him and he's too drunk to know about It till tomorrow. Tubby Unwin made an unexpected QUALITY WHITE LEGHORN CfflGKS From the well known VESTAL hatchery, $12.00 delivered large hens and heavy layers. ORDER THROUGH F. B. BARLOW Phone 74a-- 2 or direct from Vestal Hatchery, PetaJiuaa, California. remark. -That will be tbe Memphis and Toledo road." ha said. -- It is Radway's pet lamb." "How the h I do yon know thatr Gibbons snapped, Unwin came to himself with a start. He realized that he had repeated something Mary had told him In confi dence. He made a gesture as though to say, financial secrets were not hidden front him entirely. "Well, aa yoa know so much about Radway, you'll be astonished to learn rvo got him on the run. There isn't room In New York for Radway and BALLET and TAP DANCING LESSONS at - Bothwell Ward Hall ma" taught by He told them something of his de testation for Radway; of how these five years he had been setting snares for him. "I never forgive r forget," NINA BOOTH Gibbons boasted. "I see that all marked on tbe chart which la your face, Bettington an swered. "Anything else you seer Gibbons sneered. Bettington gazed at him steadily. The painter's good looks and splendid features forced themselves on the cap- Children's class, age 4-- 7 Junior Class, age Senior Class, age 13 and over 8-- 12 . 12 Lessons, $5.00 Lessons begin Saturday, February 15 Registration, Friday, February 14, at Bothwell School, 3:30. CALL 715, For information concerning the Dancing School at Bothwell, Call Nina Booth at 715 Tremonton. italist "I see what all charts mark. Rocks, quicksands, reefs. You're headed for them, Gibbons." There was something dominating about Bettington. Gibbons felt It even In his magnificent home In a moment of financial triumph. "The unsuccessful," he said acidly, "always feel they have the right to criticize. It's about the only thing they can do; and they do that badly." "So you call me unsuccessful?" Bettington demanded. Then be smiled a little. "You are wrong. I've accomplished what I set out to do. And I have what you will never have contentment The difference between us Is we measure success by different Season For Paint and Wall finishes or - standards." "I'm the unsuccessful one," Unwln declared. "I have not done what I set out to do." "You don't have to advertise the fact," Gibbons said, still a little Irritated. "I can see It" Bettington felt the protective Instinct calling him to defend the small, shy friend of other days. "It amazes me to think you troubled to give so elaborate a feast for two DELESGO Spring and paint season is approaching. largest stock of High-Proo- ---- We have the Paint and Wall finish f Quality second to none. Price always reasonable, able. Some special and unseasonable goods sold at greatly reduced prices. Remember the Winchester Brand of Steel Goods have unsuccessful men. Why?" "Ask Unwin," the host returned. 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