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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, Mifiliy of the AlMt rosi TE Bt wykdhah ka&tyr COPTBIGHT THE STORY Floyd the fuel. The worker. .t... ,nd nerdhard and at high speea, ...rir. Lkst eat and drink .11 be can.; Bel--There's a limit somewhere, Cnwla ana - IN TH a WKOI Howard Btttlartoa tak dinner with an 14 aollega chum, Alfred Gibbon, . Unwln pro financial duess a written 'pUdf Uken by the three at college to help each roer owner who placed dictagraphs In so that be might overhear what was said about him by two guests whom be s inspected." The Boss took from ether In adversity, explaining bis pocket a pad of paper. "Metzger that he Deeds financial aasist-ane- e said on many occasions that there to educate his son Bob and was no reason, because I commenced a danfhter Mary. Gtbbona scoffs at the "legality" of the pledge, voyage, I should ever finish It Leary but screes to make a place for said that It would Dot take him ten the daughter In hla organisation. seconds to pick me up, break my neck Mary Unwln la stenographer to a wealthy debauchee, Elgar Rad and dump me into the ocean." way. Calling at Gibbons' office, He turned to look at the two men. as arranged, Mary Is asked to Their confusion was intense. They betray her employer's secrets and knew denial was useless. refuses. Railway plans an ocean voyage to recover from the ef"Don't give yourself sucb concern," la to fects of dissipation. Mary Boss admonished; "It was a perthe to brother as her go secretary, fectly natural thing to say. her. Bettington, accompany is the first law, one is told. painting on the Maine coast. Is kidnaped, and taken aboard a I could put you each one in danger vessel. Bia clothes are found by of your life and you know it. I am Glbbe, a fugitive from Justice, not In the least offended. I have- no who dona them and goes to studio, and there falls doubt the doctor here has his own to his death. Bettington finds plans for my sudden death, and that he is aboard Radway's yacht. Sam, although he has resisted temptaBettington Is questioned by a He man known as the "Boss." tion, will eventually fall into It" Is shown an account of Gibbs Bettington looked at the man with death, the body being Identified amazement He was calm and cool. as Bettington. The "Boss" InHis smile was unabated. He looked tends to hold Radway for ran torn. at four men, whom he believed to be murderers, and unrepentant and defied them. With what weapon, BetCHAPTER V Continued tington wondered, was this to be accomplished. When the Boss bent bis eyes on "What a fool I should have been to Metzger, the engineer leaned back In come into a ship like this without safehis chair and sunk his yellow teeth guarding myself first! In my home In the cigar. Metzger bad sworn to city there Is a lawyer who attends to unmask the riddle be was compelled my business. Recently he made my to call the Boss, the man who had wilt When this voyage is over I shall tapped him on the shoulder, disclosed go back and destroy a letter on which bis power and commanded him to be- It says, 'Not to be opened until one come the engineer of the Albatross. year from date.' In that letter Is an Metzger was sitting In the corner of a account of the life and works of each West street saloon not far from Fulton of you gentlemen. I have also given street He had more money In his pocket myself the trouble to pen memoranda than his appearance indicated and was concerning our cook, Kenzle, the second afraid to spend it He was wonderengineer; Graumann and Ham-ner- . I shall talk to them tomorrow, ing to what town he should go and dissipate it It must be some town but I think you will find it advisable where he could be sure of not meeting to watch over my health very carecertain detectives who had their sus- fully. If I am killed you go back to picions concerning him. prison, all of you." The entrance of a stranger, a small, "What do you want us to do?" t d man, put an end Leary asked anxiously. smiling, to speculation. The stranger had , "Do your duty without giving Hallett cause for offense. I don't want whispered In his ear certain charges his suspicions to take such shape as against a man whose name was certainly not Metzger. Tet the man, who will make Radway distrustful." had engineer's papers calling him "That d n boy. Bob, Is In the way," Metzger, dared not deny. He rose, Sam grumbled. "We're all like one followed the stranger and was now happy family down there in the foreengineer. And that promised holiday castle and we have to keep mum bewas still afar off, and the gold its cause of him. I believe he's been avoidance had saved was still In his planted there for a purpose." The Boss shook his bead. "Mr. Rad money belt . "This is our chief engineer, Herway told me all about it He is the man Metzger. Metzger is not his girl's brother, sent on board as a sort name. There was a Herman Metzger, of chaperon." but his life went out as a knife went "She may need one," Sam sniggered. "She's sure a little beauty!" in, at Macau, where the Portuguese "None of that," said the Boss sharp opium dives are. It was our engineer's hour. He killed a man, took ly. "We are here to make money his woman and became a chief en- and not to fool with women. Don't gineer all in the same evening. This stare at her, Sam; I can see you fondness for women may yet be his frighten her. I'll break any man here who disobeys my Instructions." undoing. "A man has his rights on sea as 'Next, Mr. Leary commands your attention, Doctor. When , I suggested well as land," Metzger observed imthat be should accompany us as first partially. "If I see a pretty woman officer he refused. Then I spoke of on shore I stare at her, and If 1 see the sad wreck of the Pendennls on the a pretty woman aboard I do the same Sam likes chickens, I don't Manacles, when so many were lost thing. Without a word, Leary reconsidered Tm all for class. Radway's wife the situation. As a murderer we must she's class." reckon Mr. Leary in the wholesale The Boss was Impatient for them to way of business. be gone. He waved them to the door. "I only Insist you disarm suspicion, Leary's confusion was not due to any heart pangs over the ship he had and God knows, with faces like you cast away for a share of the Insur- three carry, that's hard work. I don't ance money. It was inarticulate rage want you and Sam fighting over a that be dared not beat into pulp the girl." "Me and Sam?" said Metzger. 'euiiliug face and still that sneering "We're not rivals." Metzger had deole for ever. Leary pointed to Bettington. At ny cided by this time he did not like the rule, he was not afraid of Bettington. doctor. He remembered what innumer"What's the Idea of letting him In able occasions there would be for him on all this?" and Mrs. Radway to meet and it made him exasperated that his duties were Metzger nodded vehement approval. in his a hand," not of a different sort "The Doc "It's putting weapon here and I are the ones that would get said Metzger. ain't we?" scrapping, his said the has "Tie, too, history," Bettington turned his back on him. Boss. "Gentlemen, this is the celebrated Andrew Orme, once of. Yale When they had gone, be looked at the and later of San Quentln. You have Boss. 'If those two brutes got loose, clone murder; so has he. His use here to pay." on board is a double one. First as there'll be b "I keep them chained," said the ship's surgeon and, second, as a forger other. "I'm glad you seem to be getof first rank." on with those women. I'm keepting him looked at with Metzger respect He remembered the trial years back. ing Radway quiet Find out what women friends Mrs. Radway has. You No wonder he looked coldly on commonplace crooks like Sam. In all may have to write to them later and the use of any pet names Is always things Metzger liked class. advisable. It should not be difficult was relieved that Bettington vastly the mistake In his Identity remained for you to find out what I waut" "Why not?" Bettington asked coldly. undiscovered. This Interview had ban"Because Mrs. Radway Is a woman ished for ever the hope that the Boss was Insane and had begun an adven- and women always trust the wrong ture which would end in failure. As- man, as their history proves. She suredly these three men were not to thinks you are the soul of probity befall because of lack of brute courage. cause your face masks your soul so And there were others whom he had well. Those men who have Just gone not yet met subordinates of these advertise the seven deadly sins whenthree who would stand or fall with ever they look at one. and are less them. He was wondering if the tasks dangerous." "I like Mrs. Radway," said. Bettingdemanded of him might not yet betray him as an lmposter, when the Boss ton, "and no matter what I have done, according to your ideas, no woman rapped on the table. "The main reason why we are here need be afraid of me. You were right tonight," he said, "is to correct cer- - i to warn Metzger. You may as well tain impressions which are held by tell him that if he tries to force himsome of my men. You, Leary, were self on Mrs. Radway, I shall give him gratified that I allowed you to take a beating." The Boss leaned over the tnble and one of the guest rooms from Bur Harbor to New York. Mr. Hallett was looked the other man full In the face. scandalized, but knows better than to The hands were clenched and the try conclusions with me. The same voice that spoke was sharp and thing applies' to you, Metzger. You metallic. "You heard what I said about quarused the room the doctor has now." Metzger looked at Leary. What did reling over women? You risk a great the Bogs ment They were already deal by taking that tone to me." In their usual quarters. "Less than you think," Bettington "You probably were not aware that answered. He knew his remark would those rooms were planned oy a for-- puzzle the other, and he waa right Biag-naU- l,Sut"Xlimcu.ty.- was "Do not let us misunderstand one another- ,- said the I!os with a more cordial manner. "You and I stand to secure enough money out of this to for ourselves make independent life. . . . The others here are pawns on the board and can tie sacrificed when the time coms. We must not Imperil our success by misunderstand In Ing. I do not want Mrs. Radway suited and I don't w ant Mtz;er In one of his Jealous rages to go to Hallett or Radway and talk. . . . There is always sucb a possibility in the sir." "And if it happened?" "H I let loose, as you observed. In that case, your Mrs. Radway Is in Now she may possibly real peril. have to endure SMzgers staring at her. Make up your mind which is the more real danger?" Unquestionably the Boss gave good advice. Bettlnjrton felt that a man bad never been In a more difficult position than that In which he found himself. To tell Radway what he knew was only to precipitate mutiny. And to wait until the plot matured, seemed almost criminal. Unfortunate- - ' 1 "'""V. admitted. There the pit burning sensation at "ietntsr be called. "A little of It old cognac; not a pony-b- ring that in a cocktail glasa." man, -Oeruents eerus a remarkable nsl0US He hazarded. Bettington to know more of him. an"A disbarred lawyer," Radway of place "Had a gambling swered. once. at Saratoga, class the highest wouldnt He must have lost It all or he and so need to attend to the catering of smile Odd a wear livery. on. and of kind a his. isn't it? I believe its me of that old paralysis. Reminds of the smile near to we phrase that wouldn't come off." old Under the influence of the French brandy. liadway's discomfort He was beginning to find w as dulled. talker Bettington was an entertaining when when he chose, and frowned Clements said that a trifling accident to a member of the crew demanded the doctor's attendance. with Bettington followed Clements he Suppose misgivings. Justifiable should find that some bad accident called for skill not at his command. methods beWould his crude first-aiof the Boss? alert to eye him the tray "What Is it?" he demanded, as he followed Clements through the saloon d door. well-dresse- l the capitalist "I Have Just Had a Delicious Swim." ly Hallett was one of those honest and obstinate men who Imperil undertakings very often by their suspicions of what they do not fully understand. It would be very difficult to explain the situation to bim and prevent him from disclosing that knowledge by an ac cusing face and a greater severity of " demeanor. The Boss broke In on his reflections. There was In his voice no longer the sharp assurance of the commander. Almost, Bettington thought he detected an air of diffidence. "You had the reputation of being one of the greatest surgeons of our day," he began. "Supreme skill al ways commands my respect I had no Idea of your ability until 1 read, almost a year back, an article In the Lancet on the operation they call by your name." "One can't give up work of that sort for ten years and get it back. Black-porMaine, killed all that" Bettington could see that the Boss eyes were fastened on the painter's t, hands. "Those long sensitive hands of yours don't show me that you have lost your skill. Some time when we are not so tired, I want to have a long talk to you about certain surgical matters. I may need your help." Bettington was startled. "You'll need a higher aid than mine, if It's anything serious." "It Is not a major operation, but It needs a man with the skill you used to demonstrate. I shan't need you yet. This business must be accomplished first If you do what I want I will give my word that I shall forget all your past life. You will be free." "You forget that you told everything' to those three men." "They may not be in a position to bear witness against you. They are outlaws, remember." Bettington went to bis room in no calm frame of mind. The Boss had evidently decreed wholesale death. But for the moment the time was not come for action. Not until a month had gone by would Clements attempt to extort his ransom. CHAPTER VI "That d d Unwln boy," the other said Impatiently. "He's a nuisance to the men. I don't think it's anything bad." Bob, looking very pale, had a scalp wound. Examination proved It to be less serious than the forecastle had assumed. The dressing of it was well within Bettington's range of skill. He had tied miles of bandages in his day. "Now, my lad," he said kindly, "how did this happen?" Bob explained that Sam wanted a photograph of his sister, and when he would not give It, had taken It by force and In the struggle knocked him down. Bob was very miserable. "Walt here," Bettington commanded. "I'll see what can be done." Captain Hallett received him, as usual, with a great deal of suspicion. Bettington explained the nature of the accident and its cause. "If you would allow this lad, Bob Unwln, to take advantage of your nephew's kindness and berth with hlra in the wireless room, where there Is plenty of space, I should be greatly obliged." "That's a clever way of planting a spy amongst us," sneered Hallett. "How am I to know what you are saying Is true?." Bettington set a guard on his temper. He tried to realize how Hallett must be chagrined continually by the which Clements was alauthoritj lowed. "But the boy is the brother of your owners' secretary." "He stays where he Is," said Hallett. "One minute," Bettington cried. "Ever since I've been aboard you've shown hostility to me. There has been absolutely no reason for it Why have you done so?" "Because you're a friend of Clements, and he has undermined me with Mr. Radway, as I've no doubt you are trying to." "I've not given you enough thought for that," Bettington answered; "but I may as well warn you, I shall ask Mr. Radway to let that boy come out of the forecastle." He sought out Radway and put the thing before him. "Do as you please," Radway said Idly. Bettington went back to his first patient "I've got leave for you to shift your quarters. The wireless operator told your sister he'd take you In hand. Tnke my advice, and keep out of people's way. I refer particularly to the eM Bettington morning by was awakened next the consciousness that the Albatross had slopped and was rolling ' gently. He rose and dressed quickly, and ere he had finished the yacht was under way once more. On deck ' he was surprised to see Elgar Radway striding up and down briskly. There was an amazing look of vigor and health about him. He came cheerily to the other's Rid "I have Just had a delicious swim. It invigorates one. I dived down an enormous distance and left all my aches behind me." So that was why the Albatross was stopped. Bettington followed the owner to the saloon. It was his habit to eat sparingly at breakfast Plainly It was Radway'a, habit to eat a huge meal. He was concerned at the other's small appetite. "Take a dip with me tomorrow morning and you'll eat bettor. I eat a great deal because I work a great , QiZ,! jouehewitAtyourdruSff answer. Ut mall or iIaiiu .wwHUij laaar FOR CONSTIPATION (TO BE CONTINUED) Re. There's a She-- I'm v uv-u- . He U J going to the beaatj IV wc llltVf e)iy Here, take $20. V U U U 111 I u No matter how severe. jvu vm aiways nave f immediate relief: Bayer Aspirin stops pain does it without on ill effects. HarUJ,I to the heart; harmless to Miybodt Bd It ; quiddy. always brings relief. Whymffer' In Bad Shape half-an-ho- w Ella My face Is my fortune. Stella You'd better call a meettn of your creditors. 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Walking up Adderley street, principal thoroughfare of the city, he Is told to "Keep to the left Links houden." If he wants to mall a letter back home he must by a "stamp poseel," and if he buys more than one stamp he will find that while one is inscribed "South Africa," the next Is marked " At the railroad station he will find that the name of the city Is given as Cape Town and Kaapstad, and the dining cars are labeled "Dining car Eetsaloon" on a railroad known both "Suid-flfrika.- The Surgical Smile Interference, skipper, who resenta my varfe whose temper end the owner, of day." time the to according The boy forgot hla palng In the proa, to leave the society pert of being able Ua lister. see and crew of the Radway went below. Presently It waa When Bettington came on deck the opportunity He took. deserted. Al. to make an Investigation of the batross. engine-rooMetzger was not in the at looked anxiously Bettington needed Ue waa planning ahead and hold the) what wondered He allies. aeU Boss had upon this engineer who dom. or ever, left his engines, except to sleep. Tbe cook welcomed the chance to stom- talk. "What's good for a aick he Doc?" Inquired.. ach. "Fasting." he was told. This time look at the Bettington had a good man and his fat a was very chef. He The first close too together. were eyes him a gross. Jovial showed glance hiin man; a closer Inspection showed vain. and sensual to be scheming, deBettington went from the f alley of assured feel to order In pressed. success in case he had to declare open war against Sam, Metzger and their commander, he had at least to remove the disparity In numbers by recruiting some of the men to his cause. So far he could only1 think of Slivers, minute of the Insalubrious representative which lies along Hill district Cherry the lower east side of New York's waterfront Bettington knew the gamins of that district Slivers, had hand probably started life, feeling the of the law was against him. He would arreadily fall in line with those who established themselves against rayed order. On his way to his own quarters Bettington saw Clements. "By the way," he began, "I wanted to ask you about meals. Am I sup. posed to dine with the Radways?" "You mess "No," said Clements. with the officers. That is Hallett, Leary, Metzger and Hallett's nephew. I usually mess in my room. I'd like you to share lunch with me today. There are certain business matters I want to discuss." "Very well," Bettington answered. It was eight bells when Silvers brought luncheon into the room. At half-patwelve the lad had removed the dishes. before I need "I have put on that damnable Jacket and ask Hallett If he wants a second helping. I beg you to believe, Doctor Orme, that I am not a servant by accident but by design. "I know all that Is Interesting of your career," Clement went on. "Do you know anything of mine?" "Absolutely nothing." "Have you ever seen me before?1 "Never. I'm sure of that My memory for faces is unfailingly good." "And yet," Clements went on, "my face has been in almost every big newspaper in the world. There have been rewards for my apprehension which in the aggregate exceed those ever offered for another man." Bettington smiled politely. It was as though he did not want to awaken the other from a pleasing delusion. "I see you do not believe me. That Is part of my triumph. Did you ever hear of Reuben Beardsley?" "Not to my knowledge." "And yet you had no more sincere admirer. He was In one of your classes In surgery. To him there was no such operator in the world as Andrew Orme." Bettington said nothing. This resurrection of another man's past was apt to prove embarrassing. "That's all left behind long ago," he observed at length. "How could I ever hope to get famous as a surgeon with San Quentln hanging over me?" "You will have no need to make money when this trip is done," the Boss reminded him. "Your pupil, Beardsley, Is dead." "Too bad," Bettington murmured. "He was young to die." It seemed a safe comment. Dog Saved Browning Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett did not elope alone. Miss Barrett's lap dog went along. "Not because the lovers wanted It particularly," Dr. Andreas Bard Informed the Kansas City Browning society at a luncheon, "but because they were afraid to leave It behind. One bark would have spoiled everything Miss Barrett's father disapproved of the intended marriage. 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