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Show that It if ; Highgrader m not nJth7tbort7 would Pass the mout.f ,l haft far up ta tne wiu thh, season of the year. But It was.t quite the probabilities Aat tn. tunnel Ted 0 . some of t; . ,t'-...uany miles of drifts were connected by underground slopes of adjoining mines. ,Intercept, If he could W8T throU11 toe f there might be safety beyond! To go moling -'- thout timbering ! uaugeroua .. business, but was one tnat Justified any I c"m TirJl . I jiuimeiy ne nad bought at a lnn.h counter a ham sandwich to am hi. appetite during the night trip. This - sua ib nis pocket, badly mashed but still edible. Fire cigars were in Bq . MacLEOD RAINE WM. "SiiS I by G. W. DUItogfaw Co. " SYNOPSIS that bWasTSR I Word LEST tblr nightly anion mem an the Lodge, htm aistar of the nn. as himself, la brought to 'Srtumbs) and some friends camping Call d i2 toe Gunnison in Colorado. uaccouul lor me upror oy uuuyam i uiiw iuai it Britisn pany, i.itvidiutl and has a friendly Chat with IZtn DiSfht. attractive Irish srlrl. CHAVTLK III. Next day. at the nr i,unuir.iii. 'M-uai win the bucking 'uKt "ilr. Crumbs" wcho championship at the County fair association snow, tie disappears un ineir way noma ,uter the conicsi. are over-feke- o Soya and tier companion sheriff's a posse la pursuit of by have robbed the treas-ir- r ra Binthew'uassociation of the proceeds of The sheriff declares the at toe show. Ben are Jack Kilmeny ( crumbs ') and kil friend Colter. Captain Kilmeny and tit sister India realize that Jack Is His participation in the Uieir cousin. roobery seems assured, II. HAFTKR i Kiimeny's father member of an old Irish family, had murriud a Colorado girl, now dead, be ivren wiiosu and her BUkband'a family ud developed a bitlar feud. Jack's in.paihits have been ail-- With bis mm mm iwr nis jioiutr, a.iu ue two aS wfaoca he BrltisH relatives, knuns are at the Ui&st. While fish- inK. kilmeny again nieeta Miss Dwlgrht Mi by her is introduced to the other Embers of the party, efclef of whom re Lord and Ldy tarqunar, as "Mr, which she has heard him Crumbs," ! j , ic u immensely impressed JKi'It called. L V the lovelness of Joyce Seldon, of Aloya. ; CHAPTER IV. Moya. who has &jr deeply Jack's frank impressed by com-fasio- hen bear-la- g and apparent honesty. Is downcast the sueiningly overwhelming; evl-ln- c fey of his guilt. While fishing, alone, jack finds her and witiout offering convinces, her of his evidence inno-evn- c of the crime charged against him. Joined by the Karquhar party. Jack's nlitlonahip to Captala Kilmeny and Is sister Is established. He leaves Ihtm. CHAPTER With Jack Kllmtnv V. the sheriff make a short itay at the Lodge. Jack, on leaving, takes th captain's hat instead of his own. In the hat Moya and India discover a paper giving directions for finding a package. Captain atUmeny nd the two girls find it the money itolen from the Fair association rvn. : ... his prisoner, I vlnuJ k( HAnw ..1, T thA...l. lin mm mwua trnei I to Captain Kilmeny, who haa long been her suitor. B ha A i CttAPTBR VI. Meeting Jack, and apposing he has escaped from the la Uicers. Moya frankly tells him the discovery cf the "loot" has convinced her he ii s thief. She incidentally reveals the fact that Captain Kilmeny is on his iciuih mn 111UIIVJ iv iib neutral owners. Practically ordering Moya v umi ai wic acinic iavo ill wiw Biornini?, Jack leaves her. The captain Ii held up and robbed of the cash, Jack undoubtedly being the thief. at ;C jacK rue KUmeny tha &ery HyVhe been 'tory l&a Ertv liemc?nndence 01 the FarqJhar re8tred. to Moyali de-- S Ler'nder concealed dla- IU K17 uit-v- ly n..kt vttt CHAPTKR - tttd, iloya and Joyce Seldon in save their by taking refuge in a cabin occupied by two miners, who insult the . lss-irlsA man s entrance into tM cabin creates a diversion. He tikei ;l".t.6a8 Oafety & Ull- to Moy8" D,, to Ooldbanks. that Jack t&R. M cW L(receiver f i,ra"r hfKe valuab aggravate. 2TZ' 1H,.b.,Lkis i h anees increases' whicn ,80cialisto JU8trlou8ly circulated to hosy utter-Verind- er by the miner a degree, and by no t0 his looks and thelr to ta'lf,T extent ro ot an ment o rflthe hes th. i reflect,lon- 1'owever, she real- iia.tlou-8,t- Sin. afc love-maki- - nraTv2" Xl1 i m wh,cn overhears a PrinXai y; Vertnrter is a JaCk K'lm"y- - She ,0av?P Sloya warns the miner, The tranu . filly ki m pru?s' 8emlngly success-frohny ts by th m,ner who Jm ,nd n's S rclcued Moya and S m body concealed. torgPt ki VtIVl0 lymakeFarqnhat herself aiv:lsl, to l3T absen?: 8 alarmed at start a frieds, search for him. Ver'"der mines, MTa temrmt ri . y thf twt hea E .3et!1d rom the eri0"8 raPPinK- - Later, n'iS ! from v11 Was a messae (Continued from last week. knew now that his situation wa L!;'7 ferlns one. for he had been into a grave that offered " slight prospect of escape. He w withnnt f00d effecrualJy- cut ofT ffl the gnrface of the earth aB(, those wl)o hod assaulted him that he was buried. & CI 5 J" JP alternatives that lay before him P'am. He might climb the la K n to the timber ledge and calling for help, 0r he might nt-f- h a way over the cave--l Jv'g Ctw,Vnd Iba Cwd Us M-knl- f, e torvT was a chance simple, and a slender one at Good Work Alw ays ne carried and upon his perlut son all told he found eleven matches A little trickle of water ran the tunnel and gave assurance through that be wuuiu not aie of thirst. His pocket anire was a serviceable one and he naa plenty of physical streneth Jack decided that he would eat half of the sandwich that day and reserve the rest for the second one. His cigars were precious luxuries to be indnlwi In once every twenty-fou- r hours after ne naa Knocked off work. .... l i XJ "c uuhlkcu tne cave-l- with the cooi energy that characterized him. Out of a piece of board he fashioned a kind of shovel with his knife. Rlra of broken timbering lay at the foot of tne snart. These he dragged Into the tunnel for fuel to feed a small fire which he built to give light for the work. All through the night and till noon the following day he du? anion the fallen rooks and dirt, cleaning this aeons away after he had loosened it with his bare hands. The Impact of the fall when he hart been thrown down the shaft had Jarred him greatly; With the slightest movement of the body his back and shoulders ached, sending shoots of pain in protest to his brain. The sprained ankle he had bound tightly in a wet but every time his handkerchief, weight rested on that leg he had to grit his teeth. But It was not In hira to quit. Me stuck to his Job till he had done the shift set himself. At noon he crawled back to the foot of the shaft. He was fagged to exhaustion. For half an hour he lay stretched on his back with every muscle relaxed. Presently he cut from his coat the pocket that contained the sandwich and divided the mash of ham and bread Into two parts. One of these he ate. The other he returned to the coat. Favoring his ricked ankle as best he could, Jack climbed the wall ladder to the ledge upon which he had found himself lying the previous night. Five minutes' examination of the walls showed him that there was no chance to reach the top of the shaft unaided. He tested the Jammed timbers to make sure they were secure before he put his weight upon them. During the Beit six hours lie called aloud every few minutes to attract the attention f anyone who might chance to be passing near. Toward evening he treated himself to Ms first cigar, making the most of the comfort' that tt gave him. When the stub grew short he held It on the mall blade of his knife so as not to What was left he Kiss a puff. wrapped in a pocket handkerchief for n &IERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLg PAIR UTAM Presently did with a start-- he seemed ""car lu " would scarce have surprised him if m the darkness his hands had come in contact with the rft Besh of her vivid face. Nor did It mm as at ail odd that it was Uie Moya and not Joyce who was rtslUng him when he was in The face prison. he saw was the mocking one of the young woman, in which gayety overran the tender sadnesa of the big. dusky eyes beneath which tiny freckles had been sprinkled. More than once he clearly heard her whisper couraes to him. Xext day the notes In his diary were more fragmentary. "Broke my rule and smoked two cigars today. Just finished my fourth. one more. I drink a great deal. It helDS me to troef Vm himm Find a cigar goes farther if I smoke " m sections. I chew the stubs whlla I'm working. ; "Have tunneled in about seventeen reet. rso sign that I'm near the end of the cave-in- . There's a lot of hell In being buried alive. "Think I'm losing my voice from shouting so much when I'm in the shaft. Gave it up today and ! little Moya call for me. ihe's a trump. Wish she'd stay here all the time and not keep coming and going." The Jottings on the fourth rtiiv show the Increase of the delirium. Some times his mind appears to be quite clear, then It wanders to queer fancies. "Last cigar gone. Got sick from eating the stub- - Violent retchlnes. Kept falling asleep while working. Twenty-nin- e feet done surely reach the end tomorrow. .1, . Another cave-iJust after 1 crawled out from my tunnel. All my work wiped out. Moya, the little devil, laughed and said It served a higligrader right. . . . "Have telegraphed for help. Can't manage alone. Couldn't make It up the shaft and had to give up the climb. Ordered a biir breakfast nt the Silver Dollar steak and mushrooms and hot cakes. The telegraph wires run throncrh nf n.r.r lUUlHTl. e,. nlna ntunir flwt. ll inrniAl Why don't the operator stay tin his Joo? I tap my signals and get no an swer." He began to talk to himself In a rambling sort of way. Sometimes he would try to Justify himself for g In Jerky phrases, sometimes he argued with I'eale that he had better let him out. But even n tii'-ii- high-gradin- half-cohere- light-heade- Moya, and after he awakeaed- -a f gloom. Where away. Jackr The man was Ned Kilmeny. The captain had Insisted a!) the more because there w as some danger In it that he should be the man lowered to the aid of his cousin. that "Bring breakfast ? Jack snapped, testily. "Yes, old man. Ifi waiting np above. Brought some soup down with me. WITCH TEG'S SON YAC. who the soa of old Wltfh Ter. lived on the moun'aln aide, wanted to be rlcte. He did not want to ltv in a cave with hk Witch Mother, though she did everything within the power of bcr magic arm to make him ft harry. It was not, however, la the power of Witch Tef to give gold to her son, part," retried the ungrateful Yaco. "You wl!,l hoi eeot me to notice you, or to any one else. "I ordered two hours ago. What's been keeping yout I'm golnjr to comStones she could change Into animals or mountains into rocks and plain of the service.'? The captain saw at once that Jack trees, and It waa whispered she bad was end he humored changed more than one Into the shape him. of a wild animal. So when her son asked for gold that "Tes, I would. Now drink this he might become rich and live In a soup." The Imprisoned man drained the bucket to the last drop. Ned loosened the rope from his own body and fastened it about that of hit ' ,? fT" cousin. He gave the signal and Jack was hauled very carefully to the sur face In such a way as not to collide with ti;e Jammed timbers near the top. Colter and Bleyer lifted the highgrader over the edge of the well, where he collapsed at once into the ar us of his friends. j Moya, a flask In her hand, stooped over the sick man where he lay on the grass. Her fine face was full of poignant sympathy, j Kiimeny's mind was quite clear now. The man was gaunt us a famished wolf. Bitten Into his face were the lines that showed how closely he had shaved death. But in his "Soon I'll Bs a Rich Man, Mother," He Said. eye w?s the gay Inextinguishable gleam of the thoroughbred. "Ain't I the quitter, Miss Dwlghtt palace Witch Teg knew she could not grant his wish. Keeling over Just like a sick baby." There was one thing she could do, The young woman choked over her and that was to help him get aaoney, answer, "lou mustn't talk yet. Drink and this she did by changing the big this, please." He drank, and later he ate sparing- rocks around her mountain cave Into fat pigs which Yaco drove to the marly of the food she had hastily gathered from the dinner tablp and brought ket and sold for gold. Soon the gold began to pile up In with her. In Jerky ilttle sentences he sketched his adventur". mingling fic- the corner of the cave, for Yaco'a pigs tion with fact as the fever grew on were the finest In the market and brought the highest price. 'V him again. "Soon I will be a rich man, mother," a himself could man, game Bleyer, said Yaco one day, "and I shall live In not withhold his admiration after he had heard Captain Kllrueny's story of a palace, and when you see me riding wbat he had found below. Tl two, In my coach with four prancing horses with Moya, wore riding behind the you will be proud of your son." Witch Teg listened with downcast wagon in which the rescued man lay. "Think of the luck of the fellow-bo- ring eyes, for she began to understand that when any this selfish sen had no thought of her, away at that cave-la million tons of rock and dirt but would leave her as soon as he waa minute might tumble down and crush the life rich enough to satisfy his greed. out of htm. That's a big enough thing. Lut add to It his game leg and his wound and starvation on top of that. I'll give it to him for the gamest fellow that ever went down into a mine." "That's not all," the captain added quietly. "He must have tunneled In Bq HELEN ROU71AMD feet when the roof about twenty-fiv- e caved again. Clean bowled out as he was, Jack tackled the Job a second '"PHE same woman may bs a goddess A to a boy, a temptation to a martime." Moya could not think of what had ried man and a menace to a baoheler. taken place without a . fli.u coming over her eyes and a sob choking her No man is ripe for matrimony until A vagabond and worse he his heart has been broken at leant throat. might be, but Jack Kilmeny held her ence ; and the first girl who threw hla love beyond recall. It was useless to ever is an angel In disguise. ' remind herself that he was unworthy. None the less, she gloried in the splenEvery man believes tliat woman! did courage of the num. Whatever Is but that girl "sphere" ebe he might be. Jack Kilmeny was hould never,marriage; never think about It, exwan. Inch a every cept In the beautiful abstract, until There, was a little discussion be- seme man mentions it to her. tween Colter and Captain Kilmeny as to which of them should take care of True love says, "Love ne or I WKt- the Invalid. The captain urged that fer!" Infatuation says, "Love he would get better care at the hotel, suffer J" YOU make I'll where Lady Farquhar and India could look after him. Colter referred the Fortyive is the magic age at wMrti matter to Jack. man has Just begun to LIVE when a Farto burden "I'm not going Lady he still retains all his teeth, some of quhar or India. Cclter can look out his hala the outlines of his youthful said. sick mtin the for me,' and most of his really worth- figure, It's no trouble. India won't be snt whiIe b'Jt has nli kfled unless you. come. to the hotel," i his his eaolsin. cynicism, his foollih Mova said m a low voice. expec-tattoHe looked at her, was about to de- dranrufs, and all his impossible life. of The his mind. apcline, and changed peal In her eyos was too potent. Youth's idea of "success" consists In "I'm In the hands of my friends. SetHu It anv wavf vou like. Miss covering the course (of life) with the i Dwight. Do whatever you want with fewest yosslble strokes (of effort). me, except put me back In that hell." After a doctor had seen Jack and - In China, a wife can be divorced In taken care of his ankle, after the half a minute for talking too much. trained nurse had arrived and been Oh, Reno, where is thy atlng ! pnt In charge of the sick room, Captain Kilmeny made a report to Moya Somehow, a girl In breeches only and his sister. Beems to lock more giriy'J (Copyright by Helen Rowland.) "He's gone to sleep already. The O , doctor says he'll probably be as well as ever In a week,' thanks to you, Moya." A LINE O' CHEER "Thanks to you, Ned," sb i amended. "He sent to you this record of how he spent his time down there said it ' By John Kendrick Bangs. might amuse you." her at looked The captain straight as he spoke. CITY FLOWERS "I'll read it." "Do. You'll find something on the may be flowers In tha last page that will Interest you. Now, r.IERE fields. It's time I'm going to say But sometimes on the city Hnie girls were in bed." ; street Amid the surge of weedy yields bloom I chanca to A rar (To be continued next week) meet f Some flower of childhood on tha light-heade- If Yan had his mothers eyet his answer m hr nwstlon would perhaps hate been more gimr.led, but h didn't, and mi when Witch Teg asked, "And how tihall I ' be able to see m fine a perwn as you will be when yoe drive out In uuch style? Yu cannot drive cp the Hide of the mountain." "Oh, you can Kit at the of the mountain .nonte day and I will drive d sfw'';!, de-?- of course, rfur I could not have a mitt-I- t for my mother, you know, and live In a palace." "No, no," answered th witch, tha wtwld nver di." But Khe did not Intend that her selfish wn should leave her to live in a cave while he rode about In a beautiful coach axhniiied to own her for his mother. One morning when Yaco started for market the pigs he drove before hint were the plumpest nnd finest he had ever driven down the mountain and Yaco thought of the gold he would bring back to add to his more. Yaco did nut know that Ida mother, before the sun was up and while the mountain was yet misty In the early morning, bad gone part way down t! mountain and, at retching out her I'Miy arms nnd hands, had caused walcr t run over the rockn and form a brook. If he had he would not have guessed the reason, hut his witch mother wnt linking surt hr Ron ionlil not linvn her. She knew that all chnrms are broken when the one upon whom the spell Is ca:t Mep Into running wat-r- . Yaco she had formed from an ug'y black rock that stood by her doorway, and now she would let him take his form again. ' Slowly down the mountainside Wltfh Teg watched her son driving his pls. For a minute Yaco stopped when he saw the water. Then, seeing It was not deep, he drove the pigs In. Before his astonished eyes they resumed their former shape a heap of stones. Yuco stepped In to touch the stones and Instantly he became one of them, only big, black and ugly Just the shape he had been when Witch Teg changed htm Info the son of a witch. The village folks at the foot of the mountain point out the black rock and call It the Witch's Son because It Is shaped like the head of n man, but fhey do not know thut once It was Yaco, the son of Witch Teg, who was ashamed of his witch mother. liSi by McClure But Even In His Delirious Condition Ha Stuck to His Work in the Tunnel. In his delirious condition he stuck to his work,in the tunnel, though he was scarce able to drag himself about. As the sickness grew on him, the d Intervals became more frequent. In one of these it occurred e him that he had struck ore and he filled his pockets with . There samples taken from the cave-lnwas no sequence to his thoughts. They came In flashes without logical connection. It became, for instance, a firm obsession that the pipe running through the tunnel was a telegraph Ire bv means of which he could com municate with the outside world If the operator would only stay on duty. But his Interest in the matter was In termittent. It is suggestive of his condition that hen Mova's answer oame to his seven taps he took it quite as a matter of course. 'The son of a Greaser Is back on the Job at last," he said aloud without j the least excitement, ".now, hi get that breakfast I ordered." Ha crawled back to the foot of the shaft In a childish, absurd confidence that the food lie craved would soon be sent down to him. While he waited, Jack fell Into lignt sleep where he inst himself In fancies that voiced themselves In incoherent snatches of talk. light-heade- high-grad- . t Syndicate) By MILDRED MARSHALL Ft about your hmi It history aicsnlaitl wb.oc, H wm rlf iieuwst rur lucky day, fateky )owt drlli ir$dNeeNr"se ELLA is an elfin mime. Its scotirce Fairyland, whore the elv, or white spirits, were' supposed to b gifted shadowy beings given to influencing strangely the lives of mortals. Ella means "elfs friend.". The elf klny; was called Elberieh. His fairy kindred and their popularity in England and Ireland, established the use of elf names early In history. thf litKVurvfina ,rnmmiiliara Aatfplfll. " V.IIVIUIH:. D ...... UlblVUU p,.U, fortunate Elglva, whose beauty was like the fairy gift which her name signifies, and brought ruin upon herself and her husband. Aelfwine (elf darling), daughter. nf the earl of Southampton., was Knut's first wife. A bishop of Lichfield was called Aelfwine, but he preferred to This Is the be addressed as Aella. first appearance of Ella, and it aeems curious that it should have been of a masculine name. Aella, as it was then spelled, named the sponsor for the execution of Rag-na- r Lodbrog, and It was Aelle of Delra whose name caused Gregory the Great to say that "Alleluja" should be sung in those regions. Ella Is much used in this country, but her significance Is bo little known, that her popularity must be attributed to harmony of sound. The opal is Ella's talismanlc gem, but the fairy, which popular superstition declares is imprisoned within the stone, must be a good fairy, for Ella Is promised many friends, success and much happiness. Friday Is her Jucky day and 2 her lucky number. ELLA In (6 by WhltrBynd!cat. Inc.) , CHAPTER XVI Ret'res Captain Kilmeny name from the voice calling his Jack Kilmeny top of the shaft brought hack to consciousness. He answered. him A shout of Joy boomed down to could hear, In Colter's heavy bass. He tones of a too, the sweet troubled A woman. T ... Nwipapr "What sin a Name?'1 Bachelor Qirl stars began to come out In the little patch of blue sky he could closed so tightly that he could not pry a way out. When his watch told him It was shaft eight o'clock he staggered to the to back his on down and lay again rest. Before climbing to the platform above he finished the sandwich. He was very hungry and could have eaten he been enough for two men had for Again iriven the opportunity. hours he called every few minutes at the top of his voice. In his vest pocket were a pencil the and a notebook used for keeping with accounts of the hlghgraders the whom he did business. To pass of the story the down set he time here crime which had brought him and his efforts to free himself. himself After darkness fell he let and shaft the of foot the to down from or slept. Either from hunger fever In his ankle he slept brokenly. delirium He was conscious of a little com ins in his waking spells, but the himmatWWrf him of.mldnfcnt found self, though a trifle steadIt was impossible to worths the two preduring done had he as ily aad Hunger and pala out vious nights. wea toll were doing thelf bet ta moved lafr his strength. Hi Mmba In the ganlly. Once ho fell asleep of dreamed He labor. his viidst of -- Reflections of a use. As the shovel. All his life he had fought for his own hand. He would not let nimseir believe fate had played so scurvy a trick as to lock him alive into a tomb the n later ee Just above his prison Jack lowered himself again to the foot of the shaft. Here he lay down a second time nnd within five minutes had fallen Into a deep sleep. About midnight he awakened and was aware at once of a ravenous hunger. He was still resolute to win a way out, though the knowledge pressed on him that his chances were lender at the best. Till morning he worked without a moment's rest. The fever in his ankle and the pain of the praln had Increased, but he could not afford to pay any attention to them. Blood from his scarred, torn hands ran down his wrists. Every muscle Still he in his abused body ached. earth Into the knife his stabbed with that filled the tunnel and still he his pulled great rocks back with "What forr "We're lowering- - scmeon to you. T?1 timberings are rotten and they might fall on you. Get back." "All right-Fi- ve minutes later the rescuer reached the foot of the shaft. He stood for a moment witc a miner's lamp above hl head snd peered into . . . Thank-God' Hurry, please, hurry. we:re In tftne," j -Got that breakfast with you, little called weakly. He up Jack neighbor," did not need to be told that Moya since she was Dwlght was above, and, Mm there of course she had brought had ordered be that breakfast the . from the Silver Dollar. Jack, tunnel, the Into back "Get ' Colter presently shouted. good-nigh- t. i THE Merchants who advertise lit. this paper will give you best values fori your money. ! way. Of naln. with eyea like Tioleta, Whose laughter eases th dark , day i Of all lta trials and regrets; i i Some flower of womanhood that groes to tha arid depth care, And !ike some lovely human With beauty veils tha ecrrew Down t there. (9 by McClura N iwipapw By 4lease.) ( by McClure Newrpaper Syndicate.) |