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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Oarfnf t him wide-eyeshe saw him flush like a schoolboy, and at that she flew at him and hugged him. She This call was even more astonishing. It was the Worcester again and he asked for Mr. Forster's apartment. He couldn't help It "Did you get ours, reoognized the answering voice, for he too? she asked. said, "Conley? Take this message for He nodded. "I thought It was Mr. Forster. Say that Miss McFarland he said. "Just in case of emerhas recovered her father's trunk and gency. That's what I told myself at if the contents of It Interest him, as the time. But will you, Rhoda, now? we believe they will now we've exBefore we go and get the trunk? St. amined them, he can come to he'r stuTimothy's Is Just around the corner. dio this afternoon at three o'clock and I know the curate and he'll be there." discuss what's to be done about them. "I'll get my hat and coat," she said. F ind out if we're to expect hira, will And It wasn't more than ten minutes you?" There was a breathless pause before she found herself being marof about a minute. Then Martin said, ried by a hearty young man who had. "All right. Three o'clock," and hung up. It seemed, put out his pipe There was a queer, rather scared just before he'd put on his cassock. look tn his face as he turned back She wondered later, when she had to her. time to think things over, about how "Martin," she cried, "have you found vague an impression this service made it? have you found the thing he upon her. She was barely able to rewants?" member anything about It. On the He shook his head. "I haven't found other hand, every word Martin had a thing," he told her. "But now, you said during their walk to the church see, I've got to find There's nothit was etched deep upon her memory. ing like a deadline to stimulate the The force of his purpose to set up her wits of a reporter." father's name again in Its proper As soon as he had swallowed what Of cleansed mud the of place, scandal was on his plate he took his cup of and suspicion ; the fact that he had a coffee and went back to the floor. plan and that until he had set that He was still there when Uncle Wilplan in motion everything else, even liam came; so strangely transformed would have to wait, put an Uncle William that Rhoda forgot a new dimension into her love for him. ail about Martin for several minutes. From the church door they took a There wasn't a trace of the ogre left taxi to the railway station, found the about him. He Jocosely claimed the trunk without misadventure, and took right to kiss the bride and did It, said, It back to the studio. By that time' as he patted her on the back, that he they were both wildly excited over the thought she was going to be very mystery of Its cc ntents. happy, and reproached her playfully What they found was just what for having kept him in the dark about Rhoda dimly remembered the contents something, though what It was she to "nave been, sheets of yellow paper couldn't at first make out. It was not, covered with notes, equations and dia- It seemed, her unpremeditated marriage grams. Some of them looked to her this morning. He said he quite underlike gigantic magnifications of a child's stood their acting as they had done about that and thought that In the game of naughts and crosses. Pictures of molecules, Martin said he circumstances it had been wise. Then he began apologizing to Marguessed they were, but it was all, he frankly admitted, considerably worse tin. He was afraid his manner last than Greek to him. There was an night when he had been quite In the enormous amount of It, thousands of dark as to who Martin really was, he sheets. Several thousand. They behaving merely been told that he was a gan taking them out reverently, one at reporter, hadn't been quite appropriate. a time. Then they took them out by "But," said Rhoda blankly, "he Is a handfuls. There was no sort of order reporter." to them, apparently. It wasn't con"Yes, yes, of course," Uncle William ceivable that this mass of stuff was agreed uneasily at a sudden movement of Impatience on Martin's part, "but anything that Forster wanted. Well then, what else was In the I want to acknowledge that my motrunk? They got to the bottom of it mentary suspicion that his Interest In at last and gazed at each other with you was heightened by his knowledge It of the possibility that you might turn eyes blank with disappointment. seemed there was nothing in the trunk out to be, so to speak, an heiress, became grotesque as soon as I looked but those yellow sheets. Rhoda got up stiffly and announced up what he spoke of on the way home her intention of getting lunch. "I'm as his references and learned that he an Independent fortune of his going to cook my husband's first meal." had She made coffee and heated up a can own." She turned a bewildered look on of corned beef hash and set the little table while he continued to sit on the Martin. "It's nothing to bother about, darfloor in a brown study, shuffling his ling," he said. "I wasn't keeping anyyellow papers. thing dark. I'd have told you If there'd They were so occupied when Babe, been time. But there's always been It being Saturday, came home from more Important to talk something war she unaware that looking work, matter of fact, there Is a As about. at a married couple. RVcda told her now. Forster will be getting here any over exuberant and her joy promptly what was the date the news combined with her fury at minute. Rhoda, Do you redeath? father's of your not having been invited to the wedding member exactly?" an active young produced the effect of She did and she told him. tornado. She hugged Rhoda and kissed He looked down at the papers again In her both them berated and Martin, with an intensity of concentration. best manner all the time. After perhaps a minute he drew a It was right In the midst of this breath. "Look here, darling," he long distumult that Martin announced a "Look at the date on these said. covery. "There are about a hundred sheets. They're carbons, you see, of In lead of these sheets that are written See the last notes he ever made. pencil, but all the others are carbon what he's written on the bottom of difaren't sheets copies. The penciled this page. It's the last page of all. ferent In any other way that I can this tomorrow. Think It's right 'Try see from the carbons. They're In the at last.' Well, It was right Those Can you same handwriting, anyhow. few hours he begged the doctor for make anything of that?" were all he needed, but the doctor Rhoda was busy opening the hot couldn't give them to him." can of hash and she said she couldn't. Down at the foot of the long flight Just after Babe went out she saw of stairs they heard the street door him get up, In a preoccupied sort of open. Martin turned suddenly to Un way, and go over to the telephone. cle William. "Have you got that conHe called the Worcester hotel, asked tract with you, sir? Right here in your pocket, I mean? Because If that's Forster coming up the stairs we're go ing to need It." Uncle William, speechless for once, felt In his pocket and nodded. Martin went out into the entry and looked down the stairs. "It's Forster," he said as he came back into the studio. "Conley's carrying him up." No one spoke after that and the wait while Conley struggled with his burden up those long straight flights of stairs seemed endless. Forster, by the time he'd been de posited in a big chair, was as breath' less and as nearly exhausted with terror that he'd be dropped, most like him. lyas the heman who carried "Well," panted, "I've come on some fool's errand, I expect I can't think of anything among the professor's papers that I'd be especially Interested In, now." But his look, e about the studio, be darting lied his words, and when It lighted upon the little hat trunk surrounded by the heaps of yellow sheets, It re mained fixed, fascinated. "I thought," Martin observed, "that you'd be interested in these notes. You must have seen something very Pictures of Molecules, Martin Said like them before In the laberatory He Guessed They Wore. Just after Professor McFarland died." "Possibly," Forster admitted. "I'd for Uncle William and got him. Then been financing him for four years he said, "This Is Martin Forbes. Rhoda was trying to discover an oil he while and 1 were married this morning. He died without getting anyprocess. this conference We're going to have a it. I hired another man with where afternoon at three o'clock and we'd the thing almost at discovered he like you to be here If you can, and and valuable discov was a once. It very bring the contract between Forster and a made I've great deal of and ery Professor McFarland with you." on it. The professor aiunc money she to Rhoda that It seemed strange It. He tried to and he railed. didn't see any blue flames from the make believe that these papers you ve don't ear. Martin's about receiver licking here are worth anything. But if Uncle William was even, judging from got are worth anything ana roe proMartin's fragmentary replies, being they held them out, they're tny propfessor to him?" polite. "What's happened was working under contract He erty. she asked as Martin hung up. "Didn't he had no right to noia and me he breathe any fire at ail about our with out." anything being married?" "He didn't hold anything out," Mar"Oh, no, he took that all right I said. "There was nothing In that tin would." thought he that you didn't find the exact trunk saw he He spoke absently and she of when you took possession duplicate to again. telephone was getting ready d bet-ter,- By Henry Kitchell Webster Oo. (Wrrlfat by The WNU Servlca Bobbs-Merr- hAPTER XIV Continued 14 .pnt for the expedition to recover tmut there was no reason why she nldnthave gone iu mi n"a iiu- - u nuo. Deen tun ai usual, altnougn wune isaDe pretend to be asleep auu 13 SOI Ul Buuuril fill jjjgjjlng nitous noises iu um bluii iu set Ued and get her nreaurasi in perran to and asleep really t gilence, U for another twenty minutes aner studio door had siammea Deninu But hy half past nine she'd fin- her own breakfast, washed the Ibes, put the studio to rights and, for the street, was wishing that He krtln had set his hour earlier. said ten o'clock, hadn't he? 'hen ten o'clock passed without id m"1, o" just gone off to work as usual forgotten all about her? At half mm t ten sne sioppeu upiuk cio Had Uncle to be frightened. iliam done some horrible thing to Or to get him out of the way? pglDg J he with ire, a pearl handled revolver, in her little wrlstbag? time, Or or Conley? He's been formidable enemies In her king se, hand over fist, during the last Lewis, finally a few minutes ;Vhen after heard a step she thought s his come bounding up the studio irs and had darted to the door and ng it open, she was so glad to see Intact that her eyes filled up with llj tears again and she was In his before she knew it. ;By and by, over on the divan, Mar inade a confession.. "I d fully made my mind," he told her, "that I'd be calm and brotherly this morning at least give you a chance to Ink, if you wanted to, that the whole tag had been a bluff for Uncle Will's benefit, I told myself I'd be a I to take advantage of you. It isn't the money I minded so much I an the chance that you're going to horribly rich. That was what was wring Uncle William, of course, it I reminded myself that you'd only iown me about a week, and you were mere child and probably didn't know at love was about, and how much Mer it would be if I showed you I set just greedy and was willing to It And I will wait; I'll wait seven ars If you want me to. But do you nt that could make you any surer?" "I think." she told him. "that if n'd said that first night at the 'Will you marry me?' instead Do you want to be rescued?' I'd re nodded my head at you Just the me. Anyhow, I've known since Bhe iren id a, Well, then," he said, "that's set- - anyhow," and he let go one of her ids to fish a ring out of his walst- t pocket and slip it on her finger. t was a bllndlngly beautiful thing, i sne sat gazing at it, spellbound, about a minute,- - trying to realize t It was and what it meant. But 'en she turned back to Martin to nk him with a hira kiss, she caught the act of looking at his watch. without that she could have told m the way his kiss felt that he had raethlng on his mind. ' 'What is it?" she asked. "Are you about that old trunk? Does natter if we don't got It this roorn- f Does anything matter?" "There's onlv nno thlnir that nint. s" he suid, getting up and moving aJ a little to put himself out of nptation, "and that's your father. I s perhaps we can do something if strike while the iron is hot. I V('t got it clear enough to talk te Rood sense nhour It. hut It's a Uke the old woman and the pig Jt wouldn't (ret over the stile. Do u remember, 'Stick won't beat dog, '! won't bite pig'? You see, the only n who can set your fahter's mem-r'gbefore the nnlvei-sltworld that's the world he cared only "it- -Is Uncle William, who Is nresl- !nt of the board of trnstepa out thpre. !Dc,e William's the pig, all right. He tne facts and I think he them. But ha won't vet over "king be-:v- a stHe until snmehnilv hltm him on leg; ftho'B I'Oin!? tn hlfn Mm V ohn octroi when ho aed the name In slmnlft I nstnnish- - can't guess what it is, darling," MS her. "tint thorn'e omoHifni In M Httle trimlf nf vnnra tKat Wnmtnf fSS lie can't livo nIH.nnf T wont ' out What It I nnrl hurl It nt fin's still fYl,.Mn,w,l Ho la f"1 Willie lanS Max marru tlinr nipvi!nnrt I cam ft, en f,l mm' ,HJM III LIII9 !!,, Wn t the Citv hall. he with her all bandaged up and Max looking "uni as If he was waiting to be UW(1 to n term In tha nmiMnn. With Oonlpv on ffiuinl tn s tlmt tarr1'1','1 do a bolt' WftluK for the iUrTlan. U p - Nciiac oureau io open up. rat-lik- of the laboratory. And to put It the other way around, there was nothing among the notes in the laboratory that there wasn't an exact duplicate of In that trunk." "What's that?" cried Urle William, so sharply that Forster started In his chair. Martin turned to Rhoda. "Don't you see how It was? Your father safeguarded himself against the very thing that finally happened. During the whole four years that he worked In Forster's laboratory he kept a dally record, a sort of log, of everything he did, of his experiments, of his calculations, even his guesses as they occurred to him. He wrote them all down in tablets which had alternate pages that could be torn out, and he kept a carbon copy of every note and diagram, every pencil scratch that he made. Every night he brought home the dated carbon copies of that day's notes and threw them In that trunk. "That's what he almost always did; ninety-nin- e times out of a hundred. But once In a hundred times It happened that what he brought home weren't the carbons but the original TBI fc He paused an Instant, then turned to Forster. "She isn't vindictive and she doesn't want any revenge. She won't prosecute you and your nephew's wife for conspiracy unless she's forced to. But she wants a sworn statement from you that to your persoal knowledge her father was Innocent of the California charges and that they were framed against him for the purpose of forcing him out of the university." This time it was Uncle William who started to protest "My dear Mar- tin . . . ieware mosquito bites! Flit kills skeets quick! But Martin cut him short 'The two go together," he said. "We'll accept a settlement if the sworn statement goes with it Otherwise we'll publish the notes and prosecute for conspiracy. We want this thing cleaned up." There was still some fight In Uncle William but Forster threw up tha sponge. "All right," he grunted. "We'll get together next week on the settlement and I'll have my lawyer draw up a statement I don't mind that I never had anything to do with It It was my scamp of a secretary who Largest Seller In 121 Countries fixed up the whole thing, and he's dead." Then, to Conley, "Take me out Salt of here." 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On the night of shall be called the Walter Whitehouse December 31, 1927, after a strong McFarland memorial. That will settle Uncle William and all the rest of the northerly wind had carried thick clouds of dust over Victoria and And it'll be news, scandalmongers. blown the finer particles southward too." Bass strait, there were heavy over as dusk drew the Rather soberly, but Irregularly distributed falls Of down to dark, they discussed the wonred rain. Mr. Chapman estimated der of this prospect and other won the amount deposited In Balwyn, a ders. They'd set off tomorrow, Mar suburb eight miles east of Melbourne, tin said, on their honeymoon. They'd tons to the square mile; the 51 at and when York New they got go to H. A. ready they'd sail for Europe. Paris. commonwealth meteorologist, 24 at estimated the deposit Hunt, Morlts. San Riviera. The They'd mile. tons the to square have a good long play. The red dust on this occasion was "That's what father and I were al sticky, as the Innumerexceptionally ways going to do," Rhoda said with a able diatoms nltzschla and cocco-nei- s her and held Martin and quietly gasp, still contained their endoch-romlet her cry as long as she liked. The red stains on leaves The jingle of the telephone brought In the gardens were reflowers and moment Martin them back to the and even weeks. The for tained days switched on a light and Rhoda went on glass Indicate that impressions was he It to the Instrument Babe, was coated by a thin made out, and he'd have liked to hear each raindrop the dust. On November 3, all she was saying. Rhoda's report of ihn of after a northerly gale, showers it when, a little flushed and startled. 1920, rain fell at 7:00 p. m. and of red she had hung up, was clearly con 9 :00 p. m. The amount of the after densed. red sediment collected In a vessel tn "Chicago won. And Babe and Ida Mr. Chapman's garden Indicated a Remington and two men are going to of 64 tons to the square mile, or. fall And dinner together and a' show. If It had been equally distributed Babe Is going to stay all night with over Victoria, a fall of nearly 6,000.-00- 0 Ida. And she says, why don't you tons in that state. Both the mistay here?" nute reddish flakes of sediment and "I'll do," he told her quietly, "what the diatoms and sponge spicules show ever you want me to, darling." that the material had been derived "I want you to stay," she decided, from the arid regions in the north-twes- t a little shakily. "But, Martin, will you of Victoria and in central Ausdo something else? Something rather tralia. Nature Magazine. silly? After we've had dinner, will you take me to the Alhambra and "Urban Population" dance with me a while?" Heretofore it has been defined by "Sure I will," he assented with a the census bureau that the term "urlaugh, "if you'll agree not to let Lean ban population" Includes all cities der Higgins cut In." and other incorporated places having THE END. 2,500 inhabitants or more. For us in connection with the 1930 census the definition has been extended to include townships and other similar political subdivisions (not Incorporated as municipalities) which have ;i total population of 10,000 or moiv; monds and gold packed in tins were and a population density of 1,000 or to be rushed Into the bush. The lead more per square mile. ers of the party were Lobengula, Ja cobs, four indunas (native officers) and 14 Matabele, who dug the holes In which the treasure was hidden, One night on their return, Lobengula ordered the Indunas to slay all who had taken part in the burial All save Jacobs and the indunas were as Lake Directory 229-23- 1 Cullen Hotel CULLEN GARAGE Little Motel Both Going to Be Good, Now," He Concluded. "But They're penciled notes. From his point of view It wasn't Important which he brought home. He had with him In his personal possession all the time an absolutely complete record of all the work he had done, against the chance that Forster might some time try to beat him out of his dues. "Well, he completed his process right up to the outline of the last confirmatory experiments. He had It right, at last, the day before he died." "You can't prove that I" Forster snarled. "You're going to prove It for me," Martin answered, "within five minutes." Then he turned back to Rhoda. "Forster had his process and he didn't doubt that he was safe In stealing your father's share of it. He made his deal and his contracts, collected his royalties. The probable existence of your father's copy of their contract didn't bother him a bit He could say what he said to us Just now and there was, he thought, no proof to the contrary. But at some time or other, not so very long ago I Imagine, looking over the log that he'd found In the laboratory, he discovered here and there a carbon sheet In place of the original. And then he knew what your father had done. He knew that if these sheets hadn't been destroyed and ever fell Into the hands of any friend of yours who recognized what they were, he could be forced to an accounting and made to pay every cent that the contract called for. AVhen he realized that he began to advertise for the whereabouts of Rhoda McFarland." Forster's face was shining with sweat but once more he bleated stubbornly, "You can't prove it!" "I said you were going to prove it," Martin reminded him. "You have proved It to my satisfaction by coming here today. But I'll tell you what I'm going to do. If you insist that the process you are using isn't Professor McFarland's process but something else, I'll publish these notes of his and make the world a present of them." Forster sank back In his chair with a groan. "All right," he said. "I'll buy' them of you. How much do you want?" Martin turned to Uncle William. "I think we'll leave the price in money to the legal department," he said. "But Rhoda wants something more out of Forster than the money her father earned." Ued UTAH-IDAH- O e. Still Hope to Locate Savage King's Treasure A king's treasure ivory, raw gold, British and Kruger sovereigns and diamonds valued at 2,000,000 lies hidden somewhere in the Rhodesia bush. 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