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Show PAGE FTVE BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1932 "Maybe not But yon mustn't think of that now. You did what you thought was best; we both did. Do you think they've got Wally. toor ' "Im afraid they haTe." ' "If he Is gone, there Is nobody to miss us; not very soon, anyhow. The Slilllngs will think I wag Invited to fctay overnight with the Smiths; and the people at the hotel won't miss you, will they?" "No. I suppose not." As he spoke, the remaining bit of candle wick fell over, to burn flicker-lngl- y for a few seconds before It went out. After a moment In the Stygian darkness that followed the extinguishing of the candle. Hetty said wearily, "I'm awfully tired; aren't you, Owen?" "Xo ; not very tired. But I know you must be. Put your head on my shoulder and go to sleep, if you can." She did It, and after a little while he knew from her regular breathing that she had really fallen asleep. Before long he felt that he, too, was succumbing; and after a few efforts to fif:lit off the lethargy of fatigue, his eyes closed in spite of his resolve, and he slept. When lie awoke Petty was still sleeping, with her head on his shoulder, and, 'sharp as was his desire to move and stretch and get the stiffness out of his muscles, he was unwilling to disturb her. It was while he was sitting with wide-opeeyes ,starlng into the dark ness that he saw, or thought he saw, a faint thinning of the darkness at a point directly opposite. He stared again and saw nothing. Then, in a flash, the faint thinning of the blackness came again, and his start at this repetition of the phenomenon awoke Betty. "What Is It?" she asked. "I don't know. Look straight ahead ; do you see anything?" "Why why, yes ; it's light ! Is someone coming for us?" He rose stiffly and lifted her to her feet. "We'll see," he said, but he did not say it hopefully. What they saw. when they, crossed to the mouth of one of the passages leading out of the space where they had slept, was a thing that Landis was not remotely expecting to see. The passage mouth was the entrance to a long, gently Inclined tunnel, at the lower extremity of which wag a faintly glowing electric light "What does that mean?" Betty asked, whispering as If she were afraid the miraculous light might disappear If she spoke above her breath. "It means that my guess was right. We've been lost In the old workings of the Quavapai, and that light Is In one of the new workings!" "Now that we know where we are, we can get out, can't we?" "We can try mighty hard, anyway. We'll go down and see what's at the bottom of this rathole." Approaching the lower end of the Inclined passage, they could see that the light bulb was suspended from the roof of a much larger drift, through which ran a miniature railroad track. Landis asked Betty to stay behind In concealment while he went on to Investigate. She consented, merely urging him to be careful. "Don't worry about me; I'll hurry back after 1 find out whereabouts we are, and the way out." Reaching the larger tunnel he found it empty. Though the working tunnel was lighted, it was driven on a curve which limited the view in either diroc tion. Since there was nothing to determine a choice. Landis turned to the left. Before he had gone very far he heard the rumble of a car on the rails behind him and hastily crowded himself into a niche in t lie tunnel wall. When the car came in sight he saw that it was pushed by a single man. A slight upgrade in the drift made the man put his head down and brace to his work, so he saw nothing as he passed Landis' hiding place. Watching the car, Landis had a curious shock when, just before it disap- The Black Box of Silence By Francis Lynde Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers El THE STORY CHAPTER I. Having demonstrated the power of an extraordinary ailenotr, the "Black Box," which he has perfected, Owen Landls, young Inventor, in the little town of Carthage, confides to hia chum, Wally Markham, that he fears the device, if exploited, might be used for evil purposes. That night the black box is stolen from a safe in Landis' laboratory. CHAPTER II. Landls tells Markham the only person, beside himself, knowing the combination of the safe- is Betty Lawson, with whom the inventor Is In love. Markham takes' a plasler-casof a woman's footprint,' fouttd beneath the window of the laboratory. CHAPTER III. Betty, daughter of a college professor, is well known to Markham. Both he and Landls believe her to be above suspicion, but to assure himself he takes an opportunity to fit the cast to one of Betty's shoes. They are identical. Betty tells him Herbert Canby, a stranger in town, who is posing as a "promoter," had driven her home from the theater the previous night, and that she had dozed, in the car. Markham does not tell Landls of his discovery. That the girl should have deliberately stolen the Invention from Landis' safe Is unthinkable, but the evidence of the plaster cast seems to prove she was present at the time of the robbery. CHAPTER IV. Markham. vaguely suspicious of Canby's honesty, searches nis notei room, in nis absence. He nnas hidden there two loaded automatic revolvers and a complete set of burglar's tools. Canby. returning, brings the revolvers and burglar's kit to the hotel clerk, claiming to have just found them In his room. That night the safe in the bank of the small town of Perth-dal- e was blown open and looted, the noise of the explosion being unheard. Satisfied that his "black box" Is in the hands of crooks and Is being put to the uss he feared, Landis, with Mirk-hadrives at once to Perthdale. - , n CHAPTER V. At Perthdale they find enflrmation of their fears. Three and trcnrers,- riding in a Fleetwlng,Louis-lite, claiming- to be business men of are the only possible suspects. Markham and Landis decide to follow them, although advices from Louis-vll- le seem to guarantee the standing f the three. At St. Joseph Markham see Canby's car, a Nordyke He learns Canby'' is driving west, with . Lawson as his and father her Betty The Fleetwlng, in the car. jraasts Markham's car, and the Nordyke, form a procession on the Pikes Peak highway. CHAPTER VI. While he and Landia are sleeping, Markham's car is stolen and wrecked. He buys another and they go on. On the road to the mining town of Copah they get news ofa At the Fleetwing, ahead of them. hotel in Copah they meet Betty. She is surprised at their presence in the West, and explains the reason for her Markham and her father's journey. verhears a conversation between Can-b- y men which and the three Louisville convinces him he is on the right track. 0 CHAPTER VII. Markham and Landis follow the three men in the FleeThey find the commissary of ting. the Cinnabar mine has been held up and robbed and two men killed. Again there was no sound of the explosion. At Brewster they learn of the arrival Markham of Canbv and his party. meets a distant relative, William biar-bucmine owner. He gives them some Information which piles up the evidence as to Canby's crookedness. k, CHAPTER VIII. At Brewster they meet Canby. He tells them he is in the West on business connected with his mine, the "Old Quavapai." Betty and her father are with him as guests, the professor being interested in paleare asontology. Landis and Markham saulted on the street by knife wield-er- s, but beat off their assailants. Hence-of two forth, Markham decides, the enemies them will go "heeled," their evidently having become desperate. CHAPTER IX. Landis, despondent because of his belief that Hetty is in love with Canby. is encouraged in-by Markham. Leaving the car to a burned au'o, off the road, vestigate shot are at, but unharmed. The they hooters declare they took the two to be bears, which they were hunting. Evidence, later, convinces Markham and that the shooting was attempted murder. BetCHAPTER X. Returning, with Star-bucof ty, from a dinner with friends men who Markham beats off two to kidnap him. At the hotel attempted he finds Landis has gone out. Three men from Louisville arc registered, of the same names as the three whom he and Londis have been following,men.and they certainly are not the same k. XI. Landis, CHAPTER Seeking Markham Is decoyed into taking a and gets from Brewster, long trip back to find both Betty and Landis are missing. CHAPTER XII. Landls, lured from Ir. the hotel, is kidnaped and continedfinds an old mine drift. Wandering, ho her He tells part Betty, also a prisoner. but learns little of his experiences, from her. Seeing what appears to b4 toa Betty, light, far away, he aleaves of miners gang Investigate, and finds muffin the noise. at work, his silencer of In anger he destroys the mechanismrun the machine. The gang, dismayed from the drift, two men remaining. From their talk, landis fears they may find Pettv. and from a hiding place In the attacks them with a shovel. both men, but is fight he subdues to back his way badly hurt and makes unBetty only to fall Into hsr arms conscious. CHAPTER XIII In a hospital Lan-of dls learns from MarVham the details One of his accomCanby's plotting.of the seizing of Betty plices had told Imand Lajidis and the place of their followed. rescue Their prisonment. had Canby, head of a criminal hand, It to a "salted" the Quavapai men whose three the Louisville group names his confederates had use but, badlv needing money and learning of landis', silencer, he had In stolen It and had his gang ue It and their bank and other robberies,In the his also to conceal operations herSelf Land's Qusvapal. From Betty learns how Canby. the nighthadof the silencer, of the disappearanceand had her open the safe. her cleared up, That part of the mystery Is the wonder, as all that remains ever had had sees why It, Betty love for him. fcbe any doubt of her error. his convinces him of l hyp-notic- i peared, the squeaky rumbling of the The car wheels slipped abruptly. moved as silently us if the wheels and the rails upon which they were running were shod with velvet. Convinced instantly that there could be but one reason for the sudden silence, Landis crept forward. The tunnel straightened itself and the scene he was more than half expecting to see was revealed. In (lie tunnel heading a number of men were at work ; two of them manip- ulating two big air drills which were visibly churning away at the rock face of the heading. But Instead of the mucous Clamor which this should have raised there was a silence as profound as that of the grave! Fully aware now of the use to which his stolen Invention was being put, Landis made a quick search for the hiding place of the black box. lie had little difficulty In discovering it It was half concealed In a shelf-likniche of the tunnel wall close at hand, the electric current for Its operation being taken from the light wires overhead. Ijindis saw that bis time for action was short. In a few minutes, or percomhaps seconds, the car would be he out. up quickly, Reaching ing opened a slide in the black box and did that which was needful to paralyze Its delicate and Intricate mechanism. Then, ns the deafening, clamor of (he chattering drills hurst out In the heading, he leaped for a branching side drift. The effect of the suddenly released din upon the men In the heading was They bad evidently beastonishing. well used to the abnormal so come conditions that the sudden resumption " e of the natural order of thing 'precipitated a wild panic. While two of the men hastened to shut off the air pressure from the drills, the remainder came .stumbling out. some with their fingers In their ears, and so on out of, the picture. A moment later the two who had run to stop the drills came along, but dismayed. "Sis groping "hand reached backward and fell upon a miner's shovel, and with only this for a weapon he leaped up and darted out Berserk-mato fall upon the retreating pair.. Fortunately for hlra the two men had their backs turned when he made bis silent charge upon them, and before they heard him he had hit one a smashing blow over the head with his shovel, knocking him across the rails of the mine track. But before he could swing the shovel a Becond time, the other man had whirled, drawn his Colt and fired. It was merely a lucky chance that the heavy bullet struck the shovel blade and glanced aside to flatten harmlessly against the tunnel wall, but the chance sufficed. Before ; 1 "II !" "What for?" queried his companion. "Smashed all to the devil," said the Investigator, replacing the box on Us shelf. "Say! Didn't the captain give orders that one of us was to keep a strict watch on that box every minute of the day or night It was In here? And that Isn't the worst of It. Do you know who smashed It? If you don't, I do. d d well! It was the fellow who made It the fellow we locked up 'in the old Indian mine last night !" "You're crazy. That chute Is a good two miles from the place where we locked that fellow up; and. allowing that he had a light which he didn't he'd get lost a million times before he could find the way over here." "I don't care. He's the only " There were two empty dynamite boxes lying beside the railroad track, and Landls, looking on and listening In his covert, saw one of the men suddenly push the speaker to a seat on one of them, planting himself quickly on the other, and saying as he did so, "Cut out the chin music! Here comes the captain with his goldfishes! We want to let him find us keeping watch on that box!" Landis craned his neck to enable him to see farther down the tunnel. A group of four men was approaching, the one In the lead carrying a flagh-iisrhAs the four oassed he saw tfiat the light carrier was Canby; but ihe three men who were picking their wiy In Canby's wake were strangers. As the four came np, Canby stopped and spoke to one of the workmea ; "Air quit on you, did It, Jim? It's all right, I was just about to send In to tell you to knock off a bit until I could bring these gentlemen in and show them what we've got." Landis reasoned Instantly that this was said for the benefit of the three strangers. Canby must have learned miners the from the true cause for the stoppage. "Of course, you can't tell much about a gold mine by merely looking at it." Landis heard the speaker say to the three as they stood in the heading. "The assavs tell the true story of the values, and, as you know, we have given your examiners a free rein." "You have done everything you agreed to," said one of the three. "There is only one thing that puzzles ns a bit; nnd that is, why you are willing to let go of so good a thing as this mine seems to be." Canity laughed easily. "I can give you the reason in four words, Mr. Fleming ; I'm no mining man. A year ago I thought I was. and I let a bunch of scamps stick me for the old Quavapai. I found out pretty t. panic-stricke- n soon that IM been 'done', but the ex lent of the old workings was sulliclent proof that the mine had once boon a producer. So I sent some good money after the bad, developing one of the old veins. Here Is the result; but, good as it is, it hasn't made a mining man out of me, my interests now are all in the Fast, and I can't ride two horses at once." There was more talk. After a time one of the three said, "Well, 1 guess we have seen all we need to, and I think we are pretty well satisfied. I guess we may as well adjourn to Brewster and have our lawyers draw What do you say, up the papers. Fleming, and you, Cantrell?" There was no dissenting voice, and a moment luter the group of four was passing the mouth of the shallow drift on Its way out. For perhaps five minutes after the sound of the footsteps of the retreating quartette had died away In the distant reaches of the tunnel, the two men who were barring the way for Landis made no move, and his Impatience to get back to Betty became a maddening obsession. Then one got upon his feet nnd began where he had left off when the Interruption had come. "I'm telling you that the fellow we locked up the fellow that made that back action loud speaker over there, Is the one that turned h I loose on us a little while ago, and I'll make n bet he's hiding In that old chute right now. Let's go back and get him." Then to Landis came the thought of what they would find In the Inclined chute Betty, waiting bewildered and :x: Mrs. Charles Peterson had as Sun- day guests a week ago, Ara Pierson, Dean Madsen and Farrell Scothern. Emerson Abbott of Ogden, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Abbott. J. W. Ault of Logan, was a guest of his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Ault, Tuesday. There were 15 from this community who went on the temple excursion to Logan, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Tollman Burke, of Honeyville, spent the week end at the home of 0. A. Seager. Reuben Law, County Supt of Rich county, who is also attending school at the U. S. A .C, at Logan, visited Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Seager. Mrs. P. E. Ault attended the fare well party tendered Mrs. J. W. Mc- Dowall .at the home of Mrs. N. E. Shaw of Tremonton, Friday afternoon. Tre Ladies Farm Bureau met at the home of Mrs. George Abbott Thursday afternoon. Christmas gifts were discussed and annual reports made out The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. P. E. Ault. Dec. 2nd. Mrs. George Beal will be assistant hostess. The lesson will be a continuation of the subjert, Christmas 4ifts. All ladies are invited. Before He Could Squeeze, the Trigger Again, Landis Was Upon Him. he could squeeze the trigger again, Landls was upon him, flailing at him with the shovel, mad with the madness that makes the fighting maniac invincible. Driven back by the furious attack, the man tried to cover his face, A chopping blow of the shovel made him drop his piatol. At this he sought to close with the maniac, but Landls low ered his clumsy weapon from cutting to thrusting and the sharp blade of the digging tool caught the charging enemy Just above the belt. He gave a grunt and bent double over the thrusting shovel, but In falling he got his hands upon his lighter antagonist and dragged him down. Dropping the shovel, Landls tore fiercely at the grinning hands. Like grim death his opponent heldon, Strug ells desperately for the breath the savage stomach thrust had deprived him of. It came at last, and when It did. Landls knew that the fight was lost; the man had him down, while he rroned with the other hand for the dropped pistol. Pa st this, Landis' recollections were He remembered dim and confused. seeing the pistol upswung for a blow that descended once or a dozen times, he couldn't tell how many ; that he had finally got a hand free to clutch at the merciless club that was beating his head to a pulp, and that when he did, there was a crash as If the roof of the tunnel had caved in. Landis struggled from under an inert and heavy body. In the strucglr for the possession of the clubbed pis'n the weapon had been discharged an the bullet had plowed a furrow through the hair of the clubber. Will a grim determination not to give u; until he had made a finished Job of it, Landis rubbed the blood out of his eyes, rolled the wounded man over and made shift to tie his hands behind him with his own pistol belt. That done, he did the same for the other man, who had not yet recovered from the smashing blow given him at the beginning of the mad battle. There was one thing more to be done, and he did It. Taking the black box down from Its shelf, he laid it and, with upon one of the cross-ties- , a fragment of ore for a hammer, beat nnd battered at it until it was reduced to a shapeless ruin. Ten minutes later, dragging the ruin after him by one of Its Internal wires, he stagrcrcd into the mouth of the old working 4hto e had left Betty, and heard dimly lu r cry of dismay or both, as slio caught him In her arms. After which the waves of a deep sea of unroiisiousness rolled over him and he knew no more. I TO BE CONTINUED ! SALE OF ANIMALS FOR DAMAGES ) STATE OF UTAH, County of Box Elder )ss. IN TREMONTON CITY OF ;') SAID COUNTY. I have in my possession the following described animals, which, if not claimed and taken away, will be sold at public auction to the highest cash bidder at Tremonton City on the 1st day of December, 1932, at the hour of 12 noon. 1 DESCRIPTION OF ANIMALS Jersey cow, branded W on left hip, right eye gone. Said animals are held by me to secure the payment of $1.00 damages done by said animals upon the premises of D. W. Jenkins, on the 16th day of November, 1932. T. P. Meister, Poundkeeper of Tremonton City. :x: RASMUSSEN Nov. 11, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rasmussen of Bear River City, a boy. LEFLER Nov. 11. Mrs. Ray Lefler of Snowville, a boy. THOMAS Nov. 11, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Thomas, a girl. NISH Nov. 10, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nish, of Plymouth, a boy. HESS Nov. 9, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hess of Plymouth, a girl. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT Snowville Land and Water Company, Principal Place of Business, Snowville, Utah NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the directors held on the 29th day of October, 1932, an assessment of nineteen cents (19c) per share was levied on the capital stock of the corporation, payable to Moroni Arbon, treasurer of the company, at his residence at Snowville, Utah, on the 31st day of October, 1932. Any stock upon which the assessment may remain unpaid on the 2nd day of December, 1932, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 23rd day of December, 1932, to pay the delinquent assessment together with the cost of advertising and expense of sale. WM. HURD, Secretary Snowville, Utah 12-- 1 0 t4. 11-1- NOTICE i Curlew Irrigation & Reservoir Co. Principal Place of Business Snowville, Utah NOTICE is herby given that at a meeting of the directors, held on the 27th day of September, 1932, an as sessment of five percent was levied on the capital stock of the corporation; also an assessment of one percent was levied on the stock in the East Canal, and an assessment of four percent on the stock, in the West Can al, payable on the 27th day of October, 1932, to Jesse Arbon, the treasurer of the company, at his office or residence at Snowville, Utah. Any stock upon which these assessments may remain unpaid on the 28th day of November, 1932, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 22nd day of December, s, 1932, to pay the delinquent together with the cost of adr vertising and expense of sale. EDMUND HURD, Secretary t4. ' Snowville, Utah. aaeess-ment- 11-3- 24 The Forgotten Man . By EDWIN MARKHAM Co I L 1 Hrf 7km & Tf-- 'Mt iaxxrUji 0 ... NOT on our golden fortunes builded high , Not on our boasts that soar into the sky ' Not upon these is resting in this hour j The fate of the future; but upon the power Of him who is forgotten yes, on him Rest all our hopes reaching from rim to rim. In him we see all of earth's toiling bands, With croc ked backs, scarred faces, shattered hands. , : HE seeks no office and he asks no praise For all the patient labor of his days. He is the one supporting the huge weight: He is the one guarding the country's gate. He bears the burdens on these earthly ways: AVe pile the debts, he is the one who pays. He is the one who holds the solid power To steady nations in their trembling hour. ' ' ' Behold him as he silently goes by, For it is at his word that nations die. Shattered 4 4 ft. f - EDWIN MARKHAM Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe," "Lincoln, the Man of the People," and other famous poems, h'i3 written a poem to "The Forgotten Man," dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt. "1 have written this poem," writes Mr. Markham, "after hearing Franklin D. Roosevelt, candidate for the Presidency, make a lofty and noble appeal for the Forgotten Man." " with loss and lack, ' He is the man who holds upon his back The continent and all its mighty loads This toiler who makes possible the roads On which the gilded thousands travel free Makes possible our feasts, our roaring boards, Our pomps, our easy days, our golden hoards. He gives stability to nations: he Makes possible our nation, sea to sea. His strength makes possible our college walls Make possible "bur legislative halls Makes possible our churches soaring high With spires, the fingers pointing to the sky. SlIALL then this man go hungry, here a... E - By Mrs. P. E. Ault BIRTHS OF WEEK ' ten-to-o- NOTICE E. TREMONTON d, When they they were not hurrying. came under the nearest light bulb Landis recognized them at once as two of the three be and Markham had seen In the lobby at the Copah hotel, two of the trio who had driven westward from Copah to disappear so unaccountably and mysteriously. do you suppose went "What the h wrong with the machine?" one was saying as they passed. "It got me for a second," said the other. "I wasn't looking for it Think it gave the snap away?" "If it did. there'll he merry h 1 to pay. The captain '11 want to kill somebody. Today is the day when the big deal is to be pulled off." This was all that Landis heard ; and when he looked out he saw that they had taken the black box from its niche and were trying to make it function. Presently one said. "It's no good; she's gone out blink; burnt herself up inside somehow. I guess." Then Landis saw him open the slide In the side of the box and direct the beam of a pocket flash into the Interior; saw him do this and heard his low whistle punctuated by the single word. 1 4- in lands West by his honor, builded by his hands? Do something for him: let him never be Forgotten: let him have his daily bread: He who has fed us, let him now be fed. Iet us remember all his tragic lot , Remember, or else hi ourselves forgot! A LL Cries J . , , honor to the one that in this hour to the world as from a lighted tower-C- ries for the Man Forgotten. Honor the one Who asks for him a glad place in the sun. lie is a voice for the . oic Jess. Now, indeed, Wt have a tongue that cries the mortal need. Ceprrlfht, 1931, Bdvil Ifartfcii |