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Show EMERY COUNTY npon Peale and Trefoyle. fcoth becanse Jack had so recently had trouhi. with them and because they knew beforehand of his Intention to remove the O f. But be could find bo evidence upon which to base his feeUnj, thoujh he and Curly. In company with a dep- uijr Buerjtt, naa put the Cornishmen through a grilling examination. it bad been understood that the $oung 'women should take a tr'.n through the Never Quit before they left Goldbanks, but for one reason or another this had been postponed until after the captain and Farquh had started on their final hunting expedition. Jhe second afternoon after their departure wag the one decided upon for the little adventure. Verinder, with the extravaranop that went hand in hand with an occasional astonishing parsimony, had ordered oilskin suits and waterproof boots made especially for his guests. A room was reserved for the young ladies at the mine, equipped for this one occasion to serve as a boudoir where they might dress in comfort. The mine owner's guests donned. with a good deal of hilarious merriment the short skirts, the boots and the rubber helmets. The costumes could not have been called becoming, but they were eminently suited for the wet. damp tunnels of the Never Quit. After they had entered the cage it was a little terrifying to be shot so rapidly down into the blackness of Highgrader RAINE Wg. MacLEOD j Tii br C W. WUtasfcai. Co. SYNOPSIS nlsThtly iWord thatto thSlr a smrtr of SB1"" j..,,.f,ii f?'ifte"? them an Lodge. moa of the and his Wl is hiniseir. orougni to ag to his intimates Gnenyintl(known some i T Tiwi CalUd Colorado. in myrX'n.Tmme uproar bjr Dobyam ff Sun" fur VS Cf .i.m.iaona.r. member British party. Jack anuba thatI: chat wit divlduai and hue a friendly Dwiaht. aureetive Irish slrL III. Next day, at the u riPT7R I r. li.niTiison. j the Farquhar party "Mr? Crumbs" win the bucking Kncho championship, st the County Ho disappears E5r association show. Xr the contest. On their way home K and her companion are over-Sk.- n by a sheriff 'a posse la pursuit of mti ho have robbed the treaa-'"- r at (he aasuciatloB of the proceeds 3tae show. The sheriff declares the S.n re Jack Kilmeny ("Crumbs") and mi friend Colter. Captain Kilmeny and Intiia realise that Jack Is lb Tlv.. ..iin His participation In the Kobery seems assured. iwumenys iamer ciHrTER II. ember cf an old Irish family, had Lrried a Colorado girl, bow dead, be- teen whom and her buaDsnas family S,. ;hd oeveiopeu iHmpathUs have Vti.h relatives, the is al Witt two f Whom he While .knows are at the Lodge. Kilmeny again meets Miss Dwight, w us otner introduce her i lud by -and Lady Farqtthar, as Mr. ire Lord which she baa heard him Crumbs." silled. Jack is immensely impressed i the loveliness of Joyce Seldon, combee flsh-Iib- k. panion of Moya. Moya, who has been impressed by Jack's frank bear- gag and apparent honesty, Is downcast tjr toe seeming vvernoviuunK of his guilt. While fishing, alone, jack finds her and without offering; trldeace convinces her of bis inno- of the crime charted afaiast him. Jrnce by the Farquhar party, Jack'a CHAPTER IV. letnlv evi-lis- te Captain Kilmeny and rtlatlonship sister Is establiahed. He leaves latm. CHAPTER V. With Jack Kilmeny Mi prisoner, the sheriff makes a short Jack, on leaving;, itay at the Lodge. tdi high-grad- takes the captain's hat instead of his own. In the hat Moya dis cover a paper giving- - directions for finding a package. Captala Kilmeny tnd the two girls And money Convstolen from the Fair association. aad Iadla itthe inced tbat Jack is altogether uaworthy of her thoughts. Moya becomes engaged to Captain Kilmeny, who has long been nor suitor. CHAPTER VI. Meeting Jack, and supposing he has escaped from the la officers. Mova frankly tells him the dis covery cf the "loot" has convinced her is a thief. She incidentally reveals the fact ti.at Captain Kilmeny is on his Its rightfway to return the money it to ul owners. Practically ordering InMoya the place Tne captain the cash, Jack undoubtedly being the thler. CHAPTER Pll lok Kilmeny jMt tells Moya the true story of the ,,as oeen shielding a cnBdence of the Farquhar ESi.1? RXf7 'B..hJ.m !" ,restored, to Moya's and Ver nder'a lliv ..nr.,..., Rri'.rrt ,ya adr?lts she looks Jack at Goldbanka. ?h7 & nas lar8 m'ning in- ferf. CHAPTER VIII. Cautrht in a bus Moya and Joyce Seldon save their trd, lives by taking refutre In n rahln nonu. Pled by two miners, who Insult the A man s entrance lnte helpless girls. ms caoin creates a diversion. j?AJ?ER recognise Kilmtny. The miners order him UunU them lnt VteVe; but i?MouV5de Lh cabi"- - 'B wh'ch he aunng '.. Joyce's."V' beauty and .helnlesa. U:?U!rh ha ben to Moya. vueai ib maty to Uoldbanks. CHAPTER X The charar. th J.Ak vaCbiJ "nlhKrr" (receiver of stolen ore), ?oetaK?ic which by his ,J iLSHtej 'Bdurtou6ly circulated by M08e hostility to the miner actively defends him. Kh ' W1ya irouniea. micuj CHAPTER XI inrv eompletely infatuated with Joyce. n?"thrtatious mo. to a dtgree, and by no ans insensible to his looks and niinega, allows their good to ?1 hi in extent or an engage' 5T.. on pent, reflection, however, she real ws ine impossibility of her marrying t,?lf man' and accepts Verinder's farnage. Kilmeny, disillusioned, to meet him at the same BOrnipg. Jack lsaves her. li held up and robbed of hre vi?i-rfetln- utter-VertJd- love-maki- '.f willingly. Up nllTER inxl1-wnich Joy" i:?"v"i-y-, overhears Vfrinilp- - la ntraP Jack Kilmeny. She i,luya warns ine miner, . seemingly success"ham he had rescued Moya and and his body concealed. T. ; Th. fnn ' 1 "'. bu 10 8l)r'-'ns- j" ""e b8n. advised tn hcraalf Jack s friends,mil. alarmed at start a search for him. in tyCviuJER The Farquhar the Verlnder mines. r""t i,r uKidcnea irom ine paf . . raPPing;- Later, he h .naim.yt?rious11 was a message from th. ,; ""n U." XIy of. par-X- n ); (Continued from any-ffcl- last week. CHAPTER XIV Spirit Rapping ' mine. Don't be afraid. It's quite safe." Bleyer told them cheerfully. At " the tenth level the elevator stopped and they emerged Into an open space. "We're going to follow this drift," explained the superintendent. They seated themselves In ore cars and were wheeled Into a cavern lighted at internals by electric bulbs. Presently he mrs slowed down and the r occupants descended. "This Way," ordered Bleyer. Tliey followed in single file into a hot, damtf tunnel, which dripped moisture in big drops from the roof upon a rough, uneven floor of stone and dirt where pools of water had occaThe darkness Insionally gathered. creased as they moved forward, driven back by the candles of the men for a space scarce farther than they could reach with outstretched hands. Moya, bringing up the rear, could hear Bleyer explain the workings to those at his heel. He talked of stopes, drifts, tunnels, wage scales, shifts, e ore and other subjects that were as Greek to Joyce and India. The atmosphere was oppressively close and warm, and the oilskins that Moya wore seemed to weigh heavily upon her. She became aware with some annoyance at herself that a faintness waa stealing over her brain and a mistiness over her eyes. To steady herself she stopped, catching at the rough wall for support. The others, unaware that she was not following, moved on. With a hajf articulate little cry she sank to the ground. When she came to herself the lights had disappeared. Sse was alone In the most profound darkness she had ever known. It seemed to press upon her so ponderably as almost to be tangible. The girl was frightened. Her Imagination began to conjure all sorts and exploof dangers. Of cave-in- s sions she had heard and read a good deal. Anything was possible In this a In taousand-foot-dee- p grave. frightened, Ineffective little voice she cried out to her fjiends. Instantly there came an answer a faint tapping on the wail almost at her ear. She listened breathlessly, and caught again that faint far tap Hp taptap taP taP- - Instinctively her hand went out, groping along the wall until it fell upon a pipe. Even as she touched this the sound came again, and along with it the faintest of vibrations." She knew that some body at a distance was hitting the pipe with a piece of quartz or meiai. gtooplng, she found a bit of broke rock. Three times she tapped the once. pipe. An answer came, at I tap-t- a tap tan tap Tan tap he tried two knocks. Again Ost row response of seven taps sounded, Why blows brought still seven. seven? She did not know, bat fee was greatly comforted to know communie-tta- o tbat her friends were in was Wt she all, with her. After alone. A light glimmered at the end of ttt tunnel and moved slowly toward he. name. Pre Bleyer's voice called her was about bat whole party the eatly and With sympathetic questions plsnations. gfce made light of her fainting on tack but Verinder Insisted gettaj her back to the upper air in spitethat her protests. He had discovered t to return Joyce was quite ready curiosity her that now the sunlight, of was satisfied. A very little a loaf went was unpleasant that there J and Seldon. with Miss this about undergwttj something bmmb that reminded her strongly tomense grave. to tM At dinner Verinder referred "Feel quite of vertigo. attack ' again, Miss Dwight?" w "Quite, thank you." Moya little Irritated at tne of . hatlaf cause she was ashamed weakness, "tt to physical way given loafs was nothing. I was a goose, .Taniuliar and Captain Kilmeny left oay for another short hunting lle faPtain had offered to give u " "P. but Moya had urged upon lilm 2l 11 ould not be fair to disappoint 'jtttilTPani"n' ' He ,13 K,ine because he saw that his fiancee worried. His own was ' ws cousin Jack had opinion disappeared pjwasons of his own. DOt reIax In his searcn- t a!rdi1 Cm within days passed "or n,ra08t him. Jack had plenty of 88 an aggressive flphter In a tw a'Ways must hnve- - Hl8 JHwffa was that some, of them L Kll"'n.v to his death. -Iks , pld0a of the miner centerejd . " PROGRESS. India looked puKled, "Tapped. What do you meany "On the pipe." "What plpey "The one that ran through the tunnel.' Miss Kilmeny shook her head. 1 didn't see anybody tap. Perhaps one of touched it ty chance." "No: That couldn't be. The tap came seven times together, and after I had answered it seven times more." "Seven times asked Bleyer quickly. "Yes seven. But. if you didn't tan. who did?" "Sure it wasn't imaginationr Verinder suggested. "Imagination! ;. I tell you It was again and again." Moya said Impatiently. "Spirit rapping," surmised Joyce -It doesn't matter, anyhow. lightly. Since it served its work of comforting r Moya." "It might have been some of the workmen," Lady Farquhar guessed. "Must have been," agreed Bleyer. "And yet we're not working that end of the mine now. The men had no business there. Odd that it was seven raps. That is call for help. It means danger." A bell of warning began to toll in Moya's heart. It rang as yet no clear message to her brain, but the premoni tion of something sinister and deadly sent a sinking sensation through her. Verinder sat up with renewed inter-est- . "I say, you know spirit rapping. Weren't you telling me, Bleyer, that there was a big accident there some years ago? Perhaps the ghosts of some of the lost miners were sending a message to their wives. Eh, what?" "The accident was In the Golden Nugget, an adjoining mine. The prop erty was pretty well worked out and has never been opened since the disaster." Th? color had eebbed from Moya's She was a sane young woman Hps. not given to nerves. But she had worried a great deal over the disappearance of Jack Kilmeny. This, coming on top of It, shook her composure. For she was fighting with the dread that the spirit of the man she loved had been trying to talk with her. Joyce chattered gayly. "How weird Moya, you must write an account of your experience for the Society for Psychical Research. Put me In it, please." "Of eourse, it must have been some of the men, but I don't see " Moya Interrupted the superintendent sharply. An intuition, like a flash of had Illuminated her brain. light, "Where does that pipe run, Mr. Bleyer "Don't know. .Maps of the workings at the office would show." "Will you please find out?" "Glad to look It up for you. Miss I'm a little curious myself." Dwight. T mean now at once." , He glanced at her in quick surprise. Was she asking him to leave the dinner, table to do it? Lady Farquhar saw bow colorless Moya was and came to the rescue. "My dear, you are a little unstrung, aren't you?" she said gently. "I think we might find something more cheerful to talk ''about. We always have the weather." Moya rose, trembling. "No. I know . DALE. UTAli them from the callous eyes t an un sympathetic world. "You jump to conclusions, my dear. Sit doan aad we'U talk It over." . ."No. He called tot help. I'm going to take it to him." ' Again Verinder laughed unpleasantly. Moya did not at this moment know the man was In existence. One sure purpose flooded her whole being She was going to save her lover. India wavered. She. too. bad lost color. "Uui yflu're only guessing, dear." j "lou'll find it's true. We must follow that pipe and rescue him. Tonight." , "Didn't know you' were subject to nerve attacks. Miss Dwight,"" derided Verinder uneasily. Moya put her hand In front of her eyes as If to shut out the picture of what she saw. "He's been there for five days . . maybe." She j starving, i shuddered. "You're only guessing. Miss Dwight. What facts have yw to buck It?" Bleyer asked. "We must start at once this very hour." Moya had recovered herself and spoke with quiet decision. "But first we must find where the pipe leads." Bleyer answered the appeal In Lady Farquhar's eyes by rising. He believed It to be a piece of hysterical folly, Just as she did. But some Instinct of chivalry tn him responded to the call made upon him. He was going, not to save Kilmeny from an imaginary death, but to protect the girl that loved him from showing all the world where her heart was. "I'll be back Inside of an hour Just as soon as I can trace that pipe for you. Miss Dwight," he said. "After ail. Moya may be right," In .' dia added, to back her friend. "It's Just possible," Bleyer conceded. BROWN HEN'S PRIDE DROWN HEN was very much sur-prise- d one morning when she returned from her breakfast to find In her nest, which she had left with three eggs In It, five very large brown eggs. Her eyes popped open with wonderment for a minute as she gated at the handsome eggs, but her pride soon got the better "f her surprise and she said to herself, "I must have been mistaken. That is all there Is about It, for here are the eggs and tUls U the nest I have been sitting on. ' "Anyway, why shouldn't the eggs be brown? My feathers are brown antl I think It very good. taste to lay brown eggs and such beauties, too. "But, of course," and here Brown Hen tossed her head with pride, "of course, I have always laid large eggs, but somehow these seem to be the largest I ever remember; the chicks from this batch should make all the other hens very envious." , Brown Hen could not sit still. She had to Imp off her nest every little while to look at those big eggs and once when she was admiring the eggs CHAPTER XV The Acid Test Jacy Kilmeny opened his eyes to find himself In darkness utter and complete except for a pinpoint of light gleaming from far above. His head was whirling and throbbing painfully. Something warm and moist dropped into his eyes, and when he put his hand up to investigate the cause he knew it must be blood from a wound. Faintly the sound of voices and of harsh laughter drifted down to him. Presently this died away. The stillness was almost uncanny. ' "Something laid me out, I reckon. Must have been a bad whack." His finger found a ridge above the temple which had been plowed through the thick curly hair. "Looks as though a glancing bullet hit me. Golden luck It didn't finish the Job." A sharp pain shot He moved. through his lower right leg. Trying to rise, he slipped down at once from a badly sprained ankle. Every muscle In his body ached, as If he had been Jarred by a hard fall. "Better have a look around first," he told himself. ,? Groping in his pocket, he found a match case and struck a light. What he saw made him shudder. From tha led;e upon which he lay fell away n gulf, the bottom of which could only be guessed. His eyes, becoming accustomed to the darkness, made out that he was In some sort of shaft, thirty feet or more below the surface Rotten from age. the timberings had slipped and become jammed. Upon some of these he was resting. The sprained ankle, by preventing him from moving, had saved him from plunging down the well. Be held out a silver dollar and dropped it. From tie time the coin took to strike Jack judged he was a hundred feet from the bottom. ' The flare of a second match showed him a wall ladder leading down, but unfortunately It did not extend above him except In rotting fragments. Whal had happened he could guess. Sup. posing him to be dead, his enemies had dropped the body down this de serted shaft. Not for a moment did he doubt who they were. The volcei bad been unmistakably Cornish, and even without that evidence he woultf have guessed Peale and his partner ai the guilty ones. Since he could not go up he went down, moving warily so as not to Jat loose the timbers upon which he lay, Every rung of the ladder he tested with great care before he put hit weight upon It. Each step of the JourI Know Now Who Called for ney down sent a throb of pain from "No. the ricked ankle, even though he restHelp. It Was Jack Kilmeny." ed his weight on his hands while he now who called for help. It was Jack lowered himself. From the last rung Kilmeny." it was by actual count the one hunVerinder was the first to break the dred forty-thirhe stepped to the nonsense, that's strained silence. "But ground. you know." Another match showed him a drift "It's the truth. He was calling for running from thefoot of the shaft. help." Along this he dragged himself slowly, Where from? What would he be, uncertain of direction hut determined I mine?" doing down In a wJmt possbIty of escape to find -I dotft know. ' Y;S' hl8 prison offered. For two hundred Moya corrected herself, , .mrior the stress of her emotion. ..,.. ,.. put down the re. to die He has "To uie. jujw "Check," Jack told himself aloud in a frightened whisper. grimly. absurd. Dobvans laughed. "This is would put him (To be continued next week) Who under heaven there?" In second flash of light burned 1 "Clucked and Squawked in Vain" old Speckled Hen .was passing and Brown Hen called to her to look at the handsomest eggs she ever saw. Speckled Hen looked into Brown Hen's nest and then she looked at Brown Hen a second. "Don't you know what those eggs are?" she asked. "If vou take my advice, and I a enouch to know, you will peck every one of them and get them out of your nest. Then make a nest in some place that cannot be found until yon hnve hatched your chicks." . , oi r d dbr.; bn A fu man, Peale-- nd upon the girl. "That knew about the other ruffian. They did L They as you the shipment Just him In . .. . and buried him waylaid 811. . ... -- r, in cr Am- - some old mine." Moya faced them ror with a guest Bleyer. a slim wraith of a girl forhad She ndefH young womfirHEBi her tensely, blazed. dark eves that about all "It own swn. heat gotten all abon conventions what her The way the first time, a what they would think of knew once I .lack Kilmeny was closeness. saw and the . over while on thing she heir. for champion puginv.iiit1i a mine. in peril, calling remembered - . he was going But Udy Farquha was her iouiw when you t duty not. did "Were vou afraid what Moya asked. the against Joyce alone?" charge yourself of the heart, to scree. , "I was until you tapped. f'' 4nrtB "Spoil thwe wnadt'ifu! egs?" said Brown Hen. "Yoi: Hre Jealous. Specku want ine lo deled lien, and stroy them. I thull do nothing of the kind," and Itrown Hen Jumped on her nest again and looked after Spec? kled Hen with angry eyes. "You won't be proud when you see thie rfiieks," was Sjierkled Hen's parting lmt. On morning Brown lien proudly showed herself with live little chicks I'.rown Hen was the In the liHWiv.'inl. only ore that did not notice that her children's feet were queer. "Madam, I would mh Ir, Drake If I were you," said old White Hen, "your children do not seem to walk as chickens should. They waddle a bit." "F.nvious," said Brown lien to herself. Then she said aloud, "My children are more graceful than most ; rhlcU, White Hen. that's all." But when old tiranny Duck spied Brown Hen and her family sh het'sn to qnark. "What do you mean by strutting around here with my grandchildren?" she nsked. "f'an't you hatch out a brood of hen chickens Instead ' of mixing into our family?" "What do ynn mean?" Inquired Brown Hen, so surprised she didn't kuow what else to say, "I mean," said Granny Dnrfc, "that those chicks yon are so proudly show- Ing around here are ducks." "I don't believe It," said Bmwn Hen. "You are jealous because I have such handsome children. That Is all." "Walt and see," said Granny, wad dling away. A short time after this Brown Hen was walking around by the duck pond and awnv ran her children and Into the pond they went while poor Brown Hen clucked and squawked In vain trying to call them luck. "What did I tell you?" said Granny, Duck, swimming along beside the ducklings, "I knew our children the ., minute I saw them." "I told you so," cackled White lien. I "You let the farmer fool you. would Just like to see him try that on me. I'd peck evary big brown egg I found In my nest before I would be seen with a brood of ducklings." Poor Brown Hen, there was no use saying anything now for there were her big children swimming out on the She had been fooled and her pond. tall feather drooping, she walked sadly away to hide under the currant bushes, feeling she could never again hold up her head In that barnyard. US) CUieWhy o WhatsmaName?M By MILDRED MARSHALL Fact about year um 1 J I Superstitions J Its blstoryi sMsiatl whence It was derived ; rear lucky day, lucky iewel By H, ELIZA MARE-BROWE- "C LIZA is another of the Elisabeth cycle of feminine names. Wltfc the single exception of Mary, there Is no other name in the language of nay country which has so many EllM, fully independent offsprings. which at first glance would seem to be Elizabeth with one syllable removed, has really an interesting little fe!s!y s of her own. . The name means, of course, "God's oath." The Divine title known to man before especial revelation to Moses la the burning bush was the Hebrew word Ell, which corresponds to our term Deity. This word served as a prefix to mnny Biblical proper names. The first was Eliezer, the name of Abraham's steward who went to bring home Rebecca. Later the name changed to Eleazer and was applied to Aaron's eldest surviving son. ' Following this bit of etymological history, Eliza would seem more likely the feminize of Eleazar than a mere The latter contraction of Elizabeth. explanation, however, is most generally adhered to, due, perhaps, to the influence of Elizabethan poetry and drama, which endeavored to improve on the name of the good queen, by terming her Eliza. The popularity aad prevalence of Eliza became widespread early in the Nineteenth century, and there are frequent Instances of both names being given In baptism to different children In the same family. The aquamarine is Eliza's tallsmanlc gem. It promises her travel and change, and many friends. Saturday is tier lucky day and 2 her lucky number. full-gw- l by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) 1171 HQ XI NQ MEN D TARE BROWED men are de-... jscribed us those wnust.' ... meet above tlie nose. Xii ninny sections of this country and Canada It is considered unlucky to meet such a man when starting on a journey, going hunting, or about to engage in any new enterprise. The superstition Is patently a ferns of t!w superstition uf the evil eye which, having come down to us through unnumbered centuries, is as potent now in some countries as It ever was.. In Italy and in the Le vant, for instance, the belief In the evil eye is taken as a matter of course and few there be in those lands who would question It. The superstition as a whole has already been dealt with In this series. That the man superstition is a phase of It Is evidenced by the fact that in some sections of Canada and this country such a man is supposed to be able to "cast spells." The uniting of the eyebrows gives a peculiar look to the eyes and offtimes a sinister one It emphasizes the power of the glance, as It were, and thus naturally calls to mind the "evil-eye.- " The superstition regarding 111 luck attached to crosspereyed persons and sons are the two most common forms in which the evil eye superstition manifests Itself in tliis country; except In cases where immigrants have brought with them across the Atlantic the 88 perstitlon in Its original form. TV mare-browe- mare-browe- d d (d) by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) O LEARNED HOW THERE (by WheelerOSyndicate, Inc.) I H III I ' t 1 M 1 1 I I 1 1 I 1 1 1 A LINE O CHEER By John Kendrlck Bangs. I I III I M I I I III I 1 Ml I 1 14--t 1 AS TO GRAY a neighbor saf, I HEARD This life is pretty graP hereat it was my whisi WHE Merchants who advertise in this paper will give yon best values your money. for To answer unto him , . Tha gray e'er seemed to 8M A color Kood to be. , It was the color fair Of my dear father's hair, And many a friend of ml Be Whose friendship was divias In kindliness and wit Was fitly crowned with M. ' (4, by McClure Newspaper Syadlesse).) llllllilHIIIUIII "You believed Jack when he told ffJJ he never kissed another ' 4 girl?" "Certainly when he explained that oe goes to the movies every night i |