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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH called cut merrily. "Singapore means the dty of lions,' you know. Don't run your head into one of their mouths!" And with a wave of her band he war gone. It brought a sudden, premonitory shock to Wallen and then a grim, cold smile. The city of lions I It was only a Joke with ber, a little light hearted fling with him, God knew A might prove a ghastly reality ! At first, when be had found that paper on his cabin floor, he had thought, as he bad told ber, that he would take her straight to Sumatra, get her off the ship; and then second thoughts had convinced him that the danger which threatened him did not threaten her. She was safe there on board. But this thing it was not only the personal peril It rose a shuddering, mocking barrier between them ! Mock ton," he said quietly. "No shore leave for anybody and steam up. ni only SCRAP OF PAPER. be ashore a few hours, and we'll be first Synopsis fetacey Wallen, away from here again before mornmate of the bark Upolo, In the ing." Java sea, la the sole survivor of Captain Laynton was pulling dubithe crew, all victims of yellow fever. Ting '"'ah, Chinese sailor, ously at his chin. last man to die, tells Wallen he "Yes; and by morning the customs and five Other Chinamen were sent and quarantine officials will be looking aboard by 8am," no? torlous character of Singapore, uO for the ship that slipped out without kill him. Thla recalls to Wallen an any 'clearance I'" Incident of his childhood which "I hardly think the Monlelgh's arseems connected wth the egressrival will create much of a furor," reion. While delirious, Wallen enters In the ship's log; the fact of plied Wallen dryly. "I've a few hours' his death and abandons the vessel business ashore, and then we'll private In a small boat. Wallen'a boat drifts to the Island of Arm and a get Miss MacKay right across to Scottish trader there, MacKnlght, umatra and I don't want a rowdy, cares for him. Learning: that a ship drunken crew to do It with." la In port on the other side of the "All right 1" said Laynton. "WhatIsland, twenty miles away, Wallen, ever you say, Mr. Wallen." though unfit for the task, starts to reach It, but falls exhausted on Wallen, with a nod, stepped aft the trail. There he Is found by a man and woman who are from the along the deck, entered the smoking room preparatory to descending the ship he was trying to reach, Mott first mate, and Helen MacKay, a and came face to face companlonway passenger. They convey him to the with Helen MacKay. vessel. The ship proves to be a small tramp steamer, the Monleigh, "Of course," she said demurely. "I Captain Laynton. Laynton tella think it's perfectly splendid that you Wallen the vessel had been charare going to run the ship all the way tered by Wallen's father to find to Sumatra on account of little me; him, the father knowjng his Bon to be In grave danger because of a but I think it's sinfully selfish of you feud between the to go ashore all alone this evening elder Wallen and a notorious pirate. Hum Gulab Singh. Laynton also when we're only going to be here for informs him of the death of his a few hours. Please, Mr. Yacht-Cafather, explaining that the fatality tain, won't you take me too?" was believed to be an accident Wallen Instantly associates his faIt was the first time he would have ther's death with the Chinaman's avoided her if he could have done so. confession on the Upolo. He takes "I you that is, well, you see, Miss over the charter of the vessel and alls for Singapore. Helen MacKay MacKay I I can't very well. Look explains that she la on a visit to here!" cried Wallen Impulsively and an aunt In Sumatra. Wallen agrees caught her hands and held them. to take her there. Just touching at know you're more than half serious, Singapore, where he is determined to fathom the mystery of e and that you're keenly disappointed at Sam's" enmity. not going ashore. It's true I've been a beast today ; but I I've been worried This morning I had almost made up CHAPTER IV Continued. my mind to run to'Sumatra, and not touch here at all ; but there's a little so And they had passed those days, and It was the fourth night now since business that I felt I must attend to that's what he had come aboard and tomorrow this evening, and well,You I'm going ashore for. you un they would be In Singapore. lie lay tossing in his bunk. A tumult derstand, I'm sure, Miss MacKay." Her eyes widened, partly In merri of thought kept his bruin active and ment at this confusion, partly in a alert. Singapore! What would way. bring him? Who was this Drink' puzzled "Oh !" there was only bewilderment Jlouse Sam? It mattered a great deal now a in her eyes now. "I I'm not quite great deal more than It had mattered A . "Drink-Hous- e p "Drink-Hous- Slnga-por- before. For before, with a sort of berserk rage, ne naa Deen wining to take a gumbler's chance, and, win or lose. stake his life against this devil, who ever he might be, that had tried to strike hlra down without warning, without a chance to defend himself; but now his life meant more to him he wanted to live for her. "Thank God," he muttered, "that at least everything Is all right on board here !" He turned over and lay for perhaps ten minutes, trying to compose himself to sleep but his eyes Insisted on remaining fastened on a queer little white patch by the door. What was It? It wasn't the moonlight through the porthole reflecting on anything. lie raised himself up on his elbow several times to make sure of that, Finally, in a fretful way, he got out of his bunk to Investigate. It was a piece of paper that had evidently been pushed In under the threshold but whether ten minutes or two hours ago he had no Idea. Wallen picked up the paper, switched on the light and suddenly it seemed as though his immediate surroundings had vanished, and he was living again a scene of many years ago. He was standing on the stairway of that grim, gray, lonely house in the dead of night, a trembling child In his nightciothes, and below In the hall, holding a candle, was his father, and Gunga was bending over a form on the floor, and his fa ther's voice was in his ears: "Look again, Gunga. Has he one finger on the left hand?" answer: "I have looked, sahib, and the hand Is whole." Wallen's face was strangely white. On the piece of parchment that he held was crudely traced a human hand, and the fingers, save for the forefinger, had the appearance of having been And then Gunga's hacked away. CHAPTER V. Drink-HousSam cf Singapore. There are two harbors at Singapore; one opposite the town, which although little more than an open roadstead where the ships discharge by means of lighters, affords a safe and convenient the other, anchorage; frmged with wharves and warehouses, lies three miles west It was already dusk when the Monleigh, finding a berth nmongst a nest of junks, wiling and steam craft of all descripttCos and all nationalities, dropped anchor In the roadstead at Singapore. Wallen paused for a final word on the threshold of Captain Laynton's cabin. "It?a understood, then, , Captain Layn e land-locke- Ing? Yes! He or they, the devil or devils who had murdered his father, were playing with him as a cat play3 with a mouse 1 Why had nothing happened to him In those three days from Pobl, while he had been living in a fool's paradise of Imagined security? His lips thinned into a straight line. Well, perhaps they would play too long! He would settle it tonight. When he came back to the ship he would know or there would be one less scoundrel in Singapore! That was what he was going for now to Drink-Hous- e Sam of Singapore. Who was it aboard the Monleigh who had put that paper under his cabin door? She had called him grumpy all that day and all that day he had been studying the crew, cata loguing In his mind every man aboard. It could not well be all a plot Involving the whole ship and crew seemed out of the question. Not one of the officers had he any reason to suspect above the others I though it was true,1' and a little dis turbing now, that Captain Laynton, in turning over his father's effects, had not Included the fatal pistol that, if the story were true, was obviously his father's property but that might readily have been but an oversight, xnere was fiiott, who had grown more surly every day. Wallen shook his head. Mott's at tltude was easily accounted for the man, as witness the ride at Pobl, if It had not been glaringly evident on board since then, was attentive to Miss MacKay, and resented his, Wallen's, usurpation of what he evidently con sidered his prerogative. What of the crew then? They were a hard lot and a polyglot one! The English and Americans amongst them had every appearance of being the sweepings of the slums of London, Liverpool, New York, and, for men of their ilk, the more vicious seaports of the far East. The rest wer s of every nationality two of the were Chinese coolies, the steward was from the West Indies, the cook was a Frenchman from Port Said, and two Danes, a Swede, a Kanaka, from the Sandwich islands, and three Japanese completed the roscoal-passer- ter. Wallen looked up, and fixed his eyes, speculatively on his Chinese boatman, They were almost at the landing. "You sabe Drlak-Hous- e Sam?" he demanded abruptly. The Chinaman smirked knowingly, "Me sabe," he replied. "All right," said Wallen. "You take me there. But first, you take me where the stores are, I want to buy some things, and I don't know my waj about." "Me sabe," said the Chinaman again, "All same velly glood guide. He proved to be. Withlft half an hour after landing, Wallen had com pleted the purchase of an excellent au tomatic pistol and ammunition, and was following the Chinaman back along a dark street near the water front. Another few minutes of twist-ing-s and turnings, and the Chinaman had halted before an uninviting-lookin- g hostelry in an equally uninviting-lookinneighborhood. "Dlink-Hous- e Sam's," announced the guide. "Blim-blyou all same go back ship? Me wait?" "No," said Wallen, as he paid the other. "That's all. Good-nieh- t. Johnl" The Chinaman disappeared. Wallen surveyed the building be fore which he stood. It was one oi those Easteruized-Europea- n wooden structures, two stories high, the front rooms on the second story opening directly onto the veranda. With the gen-eraair of being disreputably out at elbows, it bore all the earmarks of a sailor's boarding house of the lowest type. Wallen stepped forward, pushed the bar-roodoor open, and entered. A bar ran down one side; a score of small tables occupied the main portion of the room, and around these were clustered some twenty-fiv- e ot thirty rough-lookin- g hands, evidently on shore leave from the harbor's ship, ping and making the most of it g y "Me Sabe," He Replied. sure I understand. I thought it was quite settled when we left Pobl that we should come here." "Yes, so It was," he acknowledged awkwardly. He bit his lips. lie could not tell her that his brain was sick with the effort to grapple with a peril that he knew now beyond question lurked aboard the ship, and that, because it was unseen, because he could not Identify it in the form of any one, or two, or all aboard the ship and fight It In the open, had made the hours since that morning like a hideous nightmare ! "I'll I'll explain tomorrow, Miss "You MacKay," he said hurriedly. mustn't " "I'm not!" she laughed. "I'm onlv keeping you." And pushing him p'ay-full- y toward the conipanionway, she ran out onto the deck. A moment later, Wallen, at the foot of the ship's ladder, was running his eye sharply over the half score of shore boats that pushed and bumped against each other nnd the gangway's platform, and whose occupants at the prospect of a fare were screaming 'and yelling In a .frantic effort to at tract his special and undivided atten- tion. A Malay boatman had the strate gic position alongside the grating. Wallen unceremoniously pushed the craft away with his foot, and beck oned to a Chinaman who was nest in line. As he clambered Into the boat he looked up. Helen MacKay was leaning over the rail of the boat deck. "Take good care f yourself!" the; l m Wallen's visit to "Drink-Hous- e Sam's" saloon com- plicates matters. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Speaker's Sore Throat "Clergyman's sore throat" is, according to Dr. John J. Levbarg of New York, due to an incorrect method of breathing, which causes .the speaker or singer to use his muscles luorreitiy and thus overtax the thrum. The proper way to breathe is to use the diaphragm nnd th lower ribs, keen ing the upper chest full of air. Mil HIIILIIUIII MEET Wild DEFEAT TREATY ADVOCATES ELATED AT QUICK DECISIVE ACTION OF SENATE Forty-fiv- e of Proposed Submitted Changes by New Mexico Senator Swept Aside by Majority of From 15 to 28. Thirty-si- x The senate on October aside in quick succession thirty-amendments six of the forty-rivwhich hud been written Into the document by the foreign relations commit- The Trouble With Velvet She was a young business woman who bad a great deal of scorn for the women of ber acquaintance who did not work. So one day when one of them chanced to ask her about the rearing qualities of velvet for a dress ste remembered and delivered a veiled reproof. "Well, I like my velvet dress," she returned. "And it has worn welL Velvet always wears well if you aren't too good a sitter. Then It gets Tery slick and sniny Element of Fear. She was Just two years older t!m8 Don, who was four, and therefore ht thought she had the right to tie , mother to him as well a a sister As they were comii.g dowa nl( street Don stopped to give a lump ,U)sf the once over. An automobile hit It and broken it off even with hj the ground. She tried and tried to get him to "come on," but it was no use. for this time he was going to have his ovm way. At last, pleading with him like a mother, she said : "Don ! Do come Many a friendless man is his own on before they blame you." worst erray. WI.en a fool offers to back up his fish dealer argument with a bet a wise man shuts Even the unmusical knows the scales. up. Washington. 2 swept e tee. The majority, recorded against any of the committee propo sals was i.i, una tne largest was s. Ail of the amendments considered had been introduced by Senator Fall, He- publican, New Mexico, and were designed to curtail American participa tion in European settlements result ing from the war. Of the nine amendments yet to be acted on, six relate to the Shantung section, two propose to equalize vot ing power in the league of nations and one would limit American repre sentation on the reparations commis sion. Iu the absence of definite agree ment for disposition of these propo sals, senate leaders thought that the debate might run on for several days before another rolk-al- l is taken. Throughout the voting the Demo crats presented a solid front against the amendments, except for Senators Gore of Oklahoma and Thomas of Colo rado. Seventeen Republicans, on the other hand, lined up against the first committee proposal ti) be considered, and most of them stood with the Democrats on all succeeding rollealls. Many of them announced they were for reservations which they believed would cover the same ground without endangering the treaty. smallest PRESIDENT WILSON VERY ILL. Doctors Decide That Absolute Rest is Essential for a Time. Washington. President Wilson, who was compelled to cancel his speaking tour at Wichita, Kans., and return to Washington because of his physical condition, is a very sick man, accord ing to Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the presi dent's physician. four doctors were in consultation on Friday, and after the consultation, Dr. Grayson announced that ail had agreed as to the president's condition, and it was determined that absolute rest was essential for a time. .After the consultation it developed that the physicians called in by Dr, Grayson had agreed entirely with his diagnosis of the president's ailment, and approved the course of treatment decided upon by him. Grayson made known that the presi dent s physical condition was fairly strong ana tirat nis Diood pressure was good. The president's age lie is approach ing ins sixty-thirbirthday it was ex plained, however, made close watching of his condition tsential. d CINCINNATI OFF TO BIG LEAD THAT Effects of Opiates. The INFANTS are peculiarly susceptible to opium and its various all of which are narcotic, is well known. Even in tin doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the functions and growth of the cells which are likely to become permanent, causing imbecility, mental perversion, a craving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet powers La their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should never receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and only then if unavoidable. The administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing Syrups and other narcotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strongly decried, and the druggist should not be a party to it. Children who are ill need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to dose them willfully with narcotics. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears the rf2- signature of Chaa. H. Fletcher. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of A&fTX --CUcUb! rSd THE RIGHT WAY... In all cases of Distemper, Pinkeye, enza, Colds, etc. Influ- of all horses, brood mares, colts, stallions, is to "SPOHU THEM" First Xj tit V SPOHN MEDICAL CO., First Choice. d Alice Is an youngster from the southern part of the state and her uncle recently brought her to the capital to see the monument, and other places of interest. The morning after his arrival he took her down to the office of a friend, nnd introduced her around. "So you came to see Indianapolis," remarked one of the men. "I suppose you're anxious to begin. Which do you want most "to see the state house or the monument?" Alice looked at him and then spoke truthfully, "Oh, I want to see both of them," she told him,- "but most of all I want to go to one of those stores where you get an Ice cream sandwich for a nickel." Indianapolis News. GOSHEN, IND., U. S. A. Panama Was Outcast City. ranama is the oldest city on this eight-year-ol- continent inhabited by white men, and is the great curiosity shop of America, George A. Miller writes, In his book. "Prowling About Panama." Some of the cities of the canal zone are among the cleanest and healthiest on earth, but laziness, shiftlessness and inefficiency are in full sway in Panama. Economic waste meets the prowler at every step. Probably Panamanians had less opportunities than citizens of some of the other cities to learn advancement In these lines, due to the fact that they were on the defense against the encroachment of conquerors for past centuries. Its author says. Not until the present republic was set up, under At the Right Time. the protection of the United States, The other night at, a local picture was the city any better than an outcast show an egotistical young man was of the world. giving a very shy, diffident person some advice, which interested the people around them. He told elaborately of his own success and then ended: "What you have to do now is to talk a little bit more about yourself and the things you do. If a fellow doesn't advertise himself who will, I want to know?" Just then a subtitle was flashed on the screen and every one around the two young men laughed heartily. It read : "A whale never gets into trouble till he begins to blow." "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Paternity has its responsibilities," sighed Mr. Gadspur. "Quite true," answered Mr. dipping, sympathetically. "Only this morning my wife lectured me severely for trying to console with my youngster because he had to practice two hours on the piano when his baseball team. was playing another team for the championship of ten square blocks." Two Games in Clash With Chicago Team. Cincinnati. Having won the first two games, the winners of the pen- ant in the National league are confident they will win the series from the Chicago team, the leaders in the A pretty young widow Is never American league. Stage Jokes are evidently made of With Iteuther pitching against kind words, for they never die. in the opening game, Cincinnati Love of a man for himself never won by a score of 9 to 1. In the secNo man Is wise in the eyes of a fool. grows less. ond game Sallee was pitted against Williams and won his game, 4 to 1 Williams allowing but four hits as against ten hits the Chicago team secured, but numerous walks proving his undoing. Coffee Costs Too Much Noted Argentine Resident Dead. Buenos Aires. Dr. Vlctorlno de ia Plaza, .former president of Argentina, died October 2. Dr. de la Plaza assumed the presidency of the republic on the death of President Pena in 1014, succeeded to the office from the vice presidency. 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