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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PPnflRERS. CASTLE DALE. AXED II Copyright 7 Th '' By Co. Botb-Mrri- H eairy Kitc&ell WeJbster who'd been waiting for tha call at the Instrument THE STORY a public danca Martin Forbaa, a newspaper man, cuta In on Rhoda White' danca with Max Lewi, whom Martin Instinctively dislikes. Ha overbear a conversation between Lewis and a woman, which he reallsea concern Rhoda. He recall a "blind ad" Inquiring: the whereabout of "Rhcda McFar-land- " and aenea a newspaper atory. He believe that la Rho-da- 'a real name, Sle refuse to deny or admit It. However, It recall her childhood In California. Her mother dead, she had been happy until misfortune befell her father. Professor Associated with the blow la her uncle, William Royc. They move to Chicago, where her father engaged In mysterious work. Rhoda take up stenography. Her father die uddenly, vainly trying to give her a messes; about "paper" in a trunk. Rhoda goes to live with a fellow-worke- r, "Babe" Jennings. Their apartment Is broken Into and $100 of Rhoda'a money taken. Martin learns that "C. J." of tha "blind ad" Is Charles J. Forster, uncle of Lewis. Rhoda admit her nam McFarland. mysterious "Claire Cleveland" aeks Rhoda for an Interview, ha ask Rhoda for a certain paper belonging- to her which, ah claim, wa In McFarland1 possession. Rhoda'a trunk Is stolen and she suspects Claire. Sha trails Claire to the Worcester hotel, where Forster lives. At hasn't, he'll stop and get it half way all down the ramp. If he has he'll go level." lower the to the way down for Evidently Max hadn't his ticket, pulldown, half way taxi his stopped entrance to ing up a little beyond the the concourse. But the person who left the cab to buy the ticket was the Max apparently didn't chauffeur. want to leave his precious trunk until it was safely checked. Martin slipped out of his cab and followed the chauffeur boldly up to the ticket window and stood at his elbow while the man bought a ticket and a lower berth, the number of which Martin noted, to New York on the Pennsylvania limited that afternoon. He tbe co. WVTT Sarvlc hair as Claire Cleveland and a Uttl of her looks, too. Martin's abstraction grew deeper and deeper. The girl In the cage cast wonsharp little glances bis way and dered whether she hadn't better have him move on. liut oerore sne came . . i. 10 l IllB UeCIDlUU lit ittiue iw vm. v hi. ... A ' " of s.K mr,A lie looBeu ti hi. nearest the to off drug "tore to went telephone to Claire. wil) worshiiuwi .u .mrtaf 5 t called their friend, These were a few 0f th. L. of the Kutenal. lived in north ... They a 4irtfU. tuano, and north In v. ."M tradition states that foZ 1 were located east of tha me Uiackfeet pushed them!1 ."Yes, of course it's Claire," Martin heard her say. "Were you expecting n Mi, , a call from somebody else? Now tvnteniil .i uiiwiiiiuE m inri listen, Max: you'll have to go and get y. Tne Blackw J I Inz I it yourself. I can tell you how to find aecomniisimHu n.i. . I img CrlVc. BH I tribeS beCama frir.r.,1it Listen. It's in a trunk. Every i ..iiius, and h " . I don't trunk. a matter for war thing; all the dope. if a Blar Martin said to his chauffeur, "That's . rled a Kut-n- m know, but you can tell because It' vat sealed up. Don't try to open It Bring the man I want And I think I know one reminder of the vieg nM-I but be sure he's It right along. The whole thing. where can't Ji(( mit going, ... "wr nam w. .rimln.,t.k., CHAPTER VII Bring it right up to the flat and wait enough to risk It Follow him, will Biackfeet "bad neonle- for me If I ain't there. I'll see that you?" The tribes joined in htrihu " "! How the Plot Worked Out . It made him feel frightfully cheap you have plenty of time but you don't nart of the moot m want to waste any. . . . Why, of to give an order like that But the The simple, but really rather thrill. to each. Thl." m nr th. "'uiicr course you'll do It It's easier now heroic alternative offered no chance play which had Its only Of meat hna vhuoi-- .... ing one-ac- t me than it would have been yesterday be at all of success. He could think of minutes few a at past many another tribal alllan U as he performance as inconspicuously returned cause you know what to look for. than to better concourse in along, tag the fivo thnr nothing . some ...... nftprnnnn reason the ivatenal " For Pete's sake, don't go yellow now make sure where the trunk went, and could to his own taxi. The other cab . . tha fTnlnn atntion. naid no roval. I Blackfeot. tuuiiu ir ao... wnen im putting it right in your try to Invent some way of bluffing this had already started down the ramp. screen drama which auarrellne. ami rAntin,. . m the to stark ties At a safe distance Martin followed hands. All right Good-by.- " pair of conspirators out of their booty was being exposed six times dally Is h riiNinrn nrn nk vu liau pr0VM . Martin stayed in his booth until he'd up In Claire's flat after she'd Joined and saw Rhoda's little hat trunk the little movie theater. to other nations without htm unseen her go back into the restaurant Max there. checked, saw Max drive away The theft of that plot was the only themselves. no doubt, Then he came out and turned a little Automatically, of course, he'd been checked, d n him! with, crime that Martin had to commit that The costume and the hundred uncertainly to the telephone directory. watching the other taxi. Now as they what was left of her three Plains Indians were too firmljeJ day. Strictly speaking there was n dollars in his pocket. Those identical Max wasn't In it, he knew, for he'd approached the drive he was astonfor Martin did not dare comi ed in the Kutenal to be entircltl bills that Martin had audience, tried to look him up. Ithoda had told ished to see it turn south instead of twenty-dolla- r close enough to hear the lines, aniJ placed, when they moved seen paid for the ticket had been very ttm him the woman's last name though : Babe Jennings, who heard everything, mountains to the lake conntr. Cleveland, that was it He'd gathered likely a part of the hoard in her buone was of the herself falo meat was still a staple of J Important reau drawer. And he had stood lookfrom the talk that the pair were living actors. uui iu ii mey now added mortal done not a on and thing! Max where that's ing together. Probably Babe had undertaken the part, cleverly trapped or adroltl; was now. Well, what could he have done? What m though at short notice, with enthusi Horses and firearms which mfc I) l could he do now? His thoughts were racing as he once she'd convinced herself that the bows and arrows of asm, other t One thing he'd better do, without turned the pages of the directory. Martin had not gone suddenly mad ucwcasuiea; and jet m loss of time, was to pay off his taxi He'd have to be quick, but he mustn't and after she had got the main lines hammers, relics of a former age, while he could. He'd left the paper, waste time making any false moves. of the scenario through her head. She be found in use In the lite J in his haste this noon, without stopping He couldn't have misunderstood the had dashed out to the studio in a taxi the last century. 1 to get some money that he needed. purport of the woman's message. all expenses were guaranteed by AsJ who claim Euthoiogists an sura meter had the the he'd After paid Heavens, he'd seen the trunk himself. been adding up so Industriously, and Martin and, thanking goodness that origin ror tne red race find the That little hat trunk under Rhoda's Rhoda wasn't there to have bis mes tenal bark canoe of Interest It bed with the lid gummed down with tipped the driver he had Just sixty sages passed on to her, made a toilet monitor-shapecould cents left and you have bought pointed at both d strips of paper to keep the moths as much like a million dollars as ber under the water, and resembled t3 him, as he stood at the curb watching out, he'd thought used in certain parts of AsIl the cab drive away, for Just about street tilings ran to. Here the address was Claire CleveHer major resplendencies were cal Kutenal also had dugouts, the con that. land. That was one of those streets culated for the evening, of course, but "hollow log" boat which was The obvious duty before him was out near the Alhambra. That's how to telephone Rhoda at the studio and even In her lesser glory she looked so many Indian tribes. she'd happened to see Rhoda turning good to Max Lewis when he caught me greatest amusement of thJ tell her what he had seen happen. in. Lucky, Just now, it was so far of her in the station good people was sight In his was The mind he that gambling, and thej kJ only plan out He could get to Rhoda's flat beand Rhoda go around together to the enough to be going to Hollywood. He orten ne round nolsely eneared fore Max could, provided Max was told her that while he sentimentally their favorite form of this pas'J city hall and swear out a warrant for starting from out there. And Rhoda's prolonged their handshake. This was a guessing game In M Lewis' arrest, along with a writ of reflat was the place for him to go. Just Her answer to this remark about bundle of sticks was divided, and plevin for the trunk, and then be on what he'd do when he got there was that she was headed odd one or a marked one was t Hollywood hand man a with when wanted a little thinking about But he Lewis came to the station to take the for a better place than that. She was cealed among them. The object could decide that In the taxi. He'd train. There was time enough for that starting off on the limited to the big to guess In which bundle of sticks done quite a various lot of more or town. She burst Into raptures abont odd one was hidden. Possessi and It would be easy enough except less unlawful things since he'd begun her trip. "What are you looking so changed hands with considerable for one that the fact Rhoda herself a being reporter, but housebreaking funny about?" she concluded, closing quency in the excitement of this pi would veto the plan. hadn't been one of them. It looked In on her victim. "Are you He hadn't the faintest doubt of that. The Man Bought a Ticket and a going te as the Inveterate gamblers warn! now, though, as If that was what he He how remembered Lower looked she'd to their valuables amid the lond cm do. He couldn't hope to deal Berth. last hate to lose me as much as that?" had not "I'm to lose you at all,1 going with Lewis except from Inside Rhoda's the players. The KutPnal IM night when he had been telling her north ; down town instead of up. That about the flat. "morgue"; they dug into Max told her. "That's the Joke. Pro dance, also, although they were going to New York on the limited, especially rich in noise matins on He hoped he had the start of Max. wasn't the way to Claire's flat. Yet that only, he had said, when someIt might turn out a little awkward If her instructions to Max had been ex thing in the current news called for a myself. What car are you in? Let'i sical instruments. he were digging away at the lock when plicit that he take it there. Was Max reference to it. He didn't know he'd see your ticket." There was a great deal to be Babe cheerfully gave credit to Mar Max came up the stairs. And It would starting something on his own acIn the Kutenai character, Ta deliberately avoided trying to find out mired what file It was she was afraid tin that this property was In place were a hospitable und moral pd be Just like him to come armed with count? betraying his ally? Or had a gun and, If he were desperate he observed that he was being folhhed never have thought of the de with good mental ability. The rii might be looked Into nor, exactly, what lowed and was he trying to throw off sort of secret it tall herself. She opened her handbag of the whites which have caused contained, but he reenough, to use it membered the deep earnestness in her ana got out one of those railway en Would he be shrewd enough to guess, pursuit? tribes to dwindle and finally "I'm .a reporter for the News," Mar voice when she'd the question was, that Martin was as begged him not to velopes that they enclose tickets in gained little hold on these eneiyrt his tin told "and that chap try to find out any more than she had it naa some driver, much a lawbreaker in that flat as he stuffing in it too. But 11 and Industrious folk. Some of thj was? It might turn out an ugly sort with the trunk Is a peach of a story if told him and not to do anything that didn't require to be opened, for on could draw with considerable abi can get It He isn't going where I of encounter if he did. Was there any might change the life she'd been so the face of it was written in indeliand even understand the principles he would though." thought to avoid it? Suppose he stole the way happy In during the past two years. ble pencil, "Pennsylvania Limited- -5 map making. to one of the going "Probably depots. :30 Car 408, Lower 10." He had been drifting aimlessly trunk, got away with it before Max arThe primitive Kutenal rellglM with that trunk?" the chaufrived, and left him to search in vain. No, isn't he, along the street in the general direcShe held It out for him to see with a form of sun worship, lnei feur suggested. tion of his newspaper office, though he out, nowever, that wouldn't do. He couldn't be sure letting go of it. "Let's departed souls was located l III "I believe you're right," Martin had no conscious reason of getting clean away. He might meet It I for going see yours," she said excitedly. glowing orb, and some day Max on the stairs. And even If he did agreed. "If he is, the story Is even back there, and presently he found He got a similar envelope out ol thought the travelers would rera get away he'd have no means of guard- better. But I've got to find out where himself standing outside a little movie his breast pocket, but it had no car from the sun and meet their m ing or of warning Rhoda. She might he's going." theater, staring in a sort of trance at and berth numbers written on it and friends once more. EverythUf Their quarry showed no signs of con- the lurid poster on its billboard. It ne naa come in and find Max there. to get out his pullman tickets credited with a soul and reincwi No, he'd have to break in and then sciousness that it was being followed. represented the for a look. She saw that he had a tion was one of their strong tW eternal trihe'd have to trust to luck to being Its destination proved to be tha Union angle, a guilty pair surprised by the trunk check In the The "medicine man" was i F" envelope. man's virtuous wife. She was defendable to bluff Max out Max hadn't station. l 11.. e fluence in those early days, his m a cnea, with "Where will he go with that trunk ing the liked the Job very well, himself. That of the hearth with a sanctity of squeal excitement "we're In tha being heeded with solemn revereMj had been plain enough from the way if he wants to check it?" Martin small revolver and you could see from same car! Look 408! and it took many years to Can y0 asked. the way they cowed before her that beat It?" the woman had talked to him. Then, i their beliefs to those more nearly "It depends on whether he's got his they recognized the she'd spoken of his being yellow as if cogency of her "I'll tell the world you can't h proachlng Christianity. it were a phenomenon she was ac- ticket," the chauffeur told him. "If he argument. She had the same colored proclaimed With nch Ideas It Is not sorprltt enthusiastically. "Look with. quainted if here, what Babe, do to find that these people enjoyed you J Can say? But why had Max been eager to do of natWH beauties swap my lower for the upper in the the Job yesterday? Martin sat foryoui appreciated ana cw section?" delighted In the scent ward on his seat and thumped his mnnv practical as Th she 1869 "Well," him told flnnn Judicially, "yo knee with his fist Max had tried It never can tell till yon nlonfa olon no food. medlCiD, W1 try." yesterday, that was why. He'd gone As far as history goes, the first inOut of a corner of her v ball through to our been discovered 4 Rh. other ways, hadKutenal. there in defiance of Claire's orders captain's of the football of all time tercollegiate she saw game thought where a woman stood utilized by the enemy's goal, and S. O. Guno, '71 and looking for "It" whatever it was. He was many R- played November 6, 18C9, at watching them. "Max," she said, sham Their folklore Included Dlx"r). '73, neatly kicked it over hadn't found It and he'd been afraid birds. N. J., between Rutgers of and Brunswick, which None beasts, in "is low, that your wife looking n,i .fnr. thought of it, so far as I know to tell Claire. But then It was he who and 25 that miles at from ns?" Princeton, city but we bad without Insects, and such had found Rhoda's money and taken previous plan or PM' "Wife!" ha echoed. thought evolved the play that became turesas frogs and turtles as It That was a queer thing for a rich away. "Say, Babe, tne n The New York World published the famous a few where do you get that stuff?" coyote rta. n ost in The man to do. m years later as HI 'the flyr of the game, as told by John ing wedge.' wstory -j he i.ut lively these looked, of and of His taxi turned the corner of Rhoda's W. Herbert many she, looking np . t t,tM saw ,ms Rutgers, 72 a particiiiiui. Rutgers won, 6 to 4. Princeton won race drain tn street and he dismissed his train of adventures were iun The teams numbered 25 playcolor of an unbaked pant the second played t M 8 to a with game, suspense-- he pie. The woman 0, on its home thought Jerk, though he was ers each. ojl, OB im'""- down trlCkS swept fiinnu l.flniid grounds. The faculty called off the v aware he hadn't quite got to the upon them and : : trau it hi. was m ri" Rutgers, appeared, having a third game because feeling was runglaring from one to the other A hundred yards up the terminus. ana was mr year. Princeton had won at ning so high between "'Babe,' eh?" she said with a fere-clou- s fore they realized who long block and, as well as he could tough the student baseball and had succeeded in obtainbodies. Detroit News. grin. "I thought so." was. guess, right in front of Rhoda's num.....JtJ ... irtvnuuu the war ing She didn't say It Revolutionary cannon, another was taxi ber, very loud, though. pulled up at the which had been stolen back and forth, Evidently she didn't care abont at- arts of peace,.the Kutenal J I Face Powder From Sea curb. Had Max got here ahead of by burying it several Inches deep In In both salt and fmh tracting a crowd, herself. him after all? us as a DgniwK ""7 ,. concrete. Football was becoming com"You yellow dog!" she' countless millions of microscopic crea"Pull up here and wait a minute," mon due to their knowMj went on to as an intramural sport, and RutJ uuress Max. "Trying to tures known as diatoms. Martin told his chauffeur. It was not, a band of Shuswap. that These dnhi. build Its the to gers rival challenged three cross me, ... rnme were von shells tiny was dhh t he of almost incredible thinaware, the heroic order to give, The first was played at games. ness, and when they die their but being no hero, only a thoroughly Brunswick. empty homes form a deposit known pragmatic reporter, he required time by tha 1 te" "Receiving the ball," Mr. Herbert rather forbidding name of dlatomace-outo think. J yu there wasn't anj trunk," them were frustrated Dy s men "our formed a perfect inhe asserted frantically earth. Experiments have shown If Max was already In the flat there writes, mc 1 ji ociweeu find it and I couldn't It was nothing to be gained by following terference around It and with short, ht from this earth can be made wasn't tbere" slnlholn, -him. Even unarmed, Max could beat skillful kicks and dribbles drove it Powder which is Ideal for toilet Rtru their position, 'inis ...r n. Tv .n,,he s. down the field. Taken by o hn,i tne i when him to a pulp and would be able to UI1Ssurprise, Norry to get you successfully that the Princeton men fought valiantly! In dutch, Max. of pes When dry, dlatomaceous Coo.lhv treaties identify him, besides, as one of Rhoda's but In five with their earth Is minutes we had gotten the easily reduced to She made n, ,f to move W allies. Call a pollcenuin? That was oflf towflrd the country, they were very iigllt poW(1f,r the finer no good, either. Police intervention and more porous than Wc.ternNe1' Ull. . that made v.. 'V IVJ him, from rice or starch. At m rront of the meant a story in the papers. And this, Specie of Snowbird woman as llnsulstl' all present, she did so. for some reason he could only half toilet good ThAKA The e pre ns distinct powders are made from one iinr. often junco, called ,,iinl -" I""1or other of these two guess, was a horror to Rhoda. the snow-bird- , visions among the understand breeds in our northern substances. But was that Max's taxi? There states, and in the me got; (.ive long diatom powder made from' my ticket." winter migrates M ..... - t tncj ' lln was no chauffeur in it, though the south almost to material collected from the off . other's language, althoun the gulf of Mexico. "n,d' seashore ;-your lamticket?" motor had been left running. The obor the beds of lakes arid near each other. s,pn...a tin r Altogether 13 species and varieties of rivers Is like vious inference was that the chauffeur juncos are c" mcitorcd a wink nf i,im ! lo make a si rone M,j r,,r popularity In use between the recognized In North Amer' r in-. had been tipped to go, in and carry out ica, and you remember? i t are fin gave at home all the way they the Itocklos, anu " Love a person ,, for .V"U cheeked luggage, such as a trunk. no from Alaska to Mexico and the gulf. my trunk. Why ftrlttsh Columbia, fldence in Is certain to It right h, your hand." bring disaster Few tribes outside u" ... 1 Would Max have the Dene to ask a taxi driver to assist him in his burglary? Well, be might If he were Martin had Just smart enough. reached that point In his speculations when they were confirmed by Max's emergence from the doorway, accompanied by the chauffeur lugging the The Kuten.: They ,moUed ' -,. . J ,..,.. X. u kj i en. 1 - J CHAPTER VI Stealing an Idea Martin had got one thing out of hit otherwise barren encounter with Rhoda that morning, and this was his day's story for the paper. At least lie wouldn't have got It If he hadn't been standing at the curb to see the limousine that Babe and Rhoda arrived In drive up. The license plate on that car caught his eye and fixed Itself In his mind by virtue of a small oddity that ha noticed about it. It was a four number arrangement of nines and eights which would make Just as good sense upside down as right side up, only It would make different sense. rrobably It was his exasperated determination to dismiss Rhoda and her and her red hair completely from his mind that caused this notion of an Inverted license plate to fructify swiftly into the amusing sort of tale of misadventure that he specialized in. It was what the editor liked, and the fact that he made It tip out of whole cloth didn't matter a bit. When it was done, since he knew It was good, he found himself in a placable enough humor to turn back to the Rhoda incident and consider dispassionately what had gone wrong with it Under his eye, as he sat musing, Tras the scribbled sheet of scratch-papon which he'd drawn the license plate right side up and upside down In figuring out his story. It had been a handsome car, all right, that the firls had had a ride In, even If they had had to sit on the little folding eats. Rather comic, that was, now lie thought about It And a bit queer, too. What had the old blllygoat topped his car for, If not for the sensation of having a nice young thing Sitting close beside him? He was still staring at the license number of that car. Suddenly, under an Impulse too fanciful to bear arguing about, he decided to look up the owner. It wouldn't do any harm to And out who the old bloke was. When he found a few minutes later that the car was registered as the property of C. J. Forster he felt for a few seconds as If he must be a victim f a practical Joke. What the devil ! He telephoned up to Rhoda's department to find out If or when she'd gone ont to lunch and when, If they knew, she was expected back. When they told him sha wasn't coming back that afternoon at all, he crammed on his hat, squirmed Into his overcoat as he ran downstairs, and started out for inn. the Tip-To- p Martin, considering his plan of action on the way over, had decided to wait in the lobby until Rhoda came out He hadn't yet settled down to his wait on tha sofa he was at the cigar stand buying some cigarettes when a woman came up beside him and bought a telephone slug. He'd been a reporter long enough to repress the start her olee gave him, thougk It was a voice lie knew, and he checked his Impulse to turn and look at her much as he'd have liked to. He never had a really good look at her. Luckily she'd never seen him at all, nor heard his voice. On tha strength of that reflection he bought a telephone slug, too, went into the next booth to hers, dropped his nickel and called his own telephone number, which, of course didn't answer. He hoped he'd be able to hear what She said. If she'd left Rhoda in the middle of their lunch to come out and telephone, it was likely to be someThe sort of voice thing interesting. she had rasped right through the thin partition wall of the telephone booth. He hadn't got there In time to hear what number she called; indeed he was barely in time for the beginning f her conversation, for she'd got her arty at once. Some one, ha guessed. wrong-headedne- er plain-clothe- s i Impi M First Flying Wedge on Football Field, in 13 d 17 t. .j r ;ply thi c tha comln A Inf H Nan Hunt cream !Cb 01 '.m ti Ntmx rganiz they of Of ti Held o !e ml) Ji am Wans. Troop erth Ncnn j On t Wan! their! hsand ff pur-pose- L rP" - (, slate-colore- Be-for- e (TO it CONTlMVa.! 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