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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH - f- I , HOSTILE VAIXEY ..... 'ni J s"e said SYNOPSIS of L,b Mif,Mr! listens to the Val-- s. neighboring- Hostile "HuU enticing nterious, Interested. f Will Ferrin. T ! to the Valler. tor a day' Huldy " " nd to see the slamorout Pierce and her Md Marra" Ttrt granddaughter Jenny jet"-?!,.,,,. Since childhood V loved young Will b.M.. than she. and who re- Fe?Vr i till a child. Will leaves His . employment InhimAugusta. back to the bring, bit he returns to Augusta, still la the fh. ISSetoM jenn".r;oTa".h!?"d UIIlcluiiiK v. The attracted by Jenny. . .. .im ripflnitelT. Learning .r will coming home. Jenny, house "to his "I, ha. dinner ready for him. his wife. Huldy. 2 m nllnnues. Huldy be- of unfavorable gos- the subject MBl .,)- - hie homo ii. tne . ...sucj. will finds seemincrly evidence of his wife's unfalth- n..t ftl . f as, TflpPV. ex-w- 1 long-emp- wmei-hrin- ty ging !;, "....."o ' amM " the house. from . vm overtakes him and chokes him to Humphreys shatters Jan. although uw . h.illt At Marm Pierre's rr1. " 111 ; V ttf w" is amputated. Jenny goes kooM the leg to news Huldy. Huldy de-dtr- ei It break the she has no use for "half a man." ui leaves. Will is legally exonerated, e artificial leg hiring a helper, Zeke pace. Months later nuiay comes uacs. Till accepts her presence as her right. Two years go by. saiaaine comes to Bad roads cause him to the Valley. rtop at rerrin s larm. wnero ne meeis Huldy. Saladlne, caught in heavy rain, ..i... Mfucr. at Marm -PIatoa's. Rarfciucs i"o carrying Huldy, whom Carey arrives, U claims haa raiien irom a tenge, ana n la AaaA Tnrm P1rfA ill. " . . IRIBIII67 ti.r;s ber dead, but while Huldy and with her Jenny are alone, the woman, killed- her. Jut breath, asserts Will to tell .no one Horrified, Jenny decides . " nnHfv .f ih. . ... J ma .tmisoHnn vi " vvmc..w1.. Rhft " ootia Will With him Jenny returns to Marm fierce, one nas ioiu nim oi nuiays is bewildered. death, and he Zeke Dace cannot be found. Saladine Informs Sheriff Sohler, by phone, of Hul-4y- 'i death. The sheriff comes to Marm at home-mad- with tarries on," - -- firm. Pierce's IX Continued CHAPTER 16 bard last "Rained Bart re night" "They was fresh today. myself, when I fished him. I tee them minded Awn." asked : "Carey, you cot who'd want to hurt Mis The sheriff idea any rerrin?" hesitated. He reluctance : "Not Zeke Dace, works Bart "1 wouldn't ko to added, with a deep unless It was Zeke. for Will. Zeke was kind of crazy about her, and Jealous m ner. He might have got mad at to." Tet he added honestly: "But Will don't 'low that Zeke would touch be said. say," her." "Where Is Zeke?" the sheriff asked. "Dnnniv Nn. tody's seen him sence." Harm Pierce came out of th din- to? room. She told the sheriff she was glad to have him here. He nodded, and asked slowly: "Was Mis' Ferrin dead when she got here, Bart Shook his head. ma'am?" "As good as." the old wnmnn as "She was all broke to Pieces, and bled white, and she died wiore i got around to It" won't come to?" sured him. o," Marm v-- , I'lero tnin hin, V. . A. V. UtUb look her nvop rliH k U JVUI LUG urged. He exnlained: "I likely- I'll Wflnr. a Anntn . " MWVWi IV DCC "M. DUt you niicht lmv nntlno fecial hurt on her." "be old Wmmin fnM hk.. , "IIU. MUJ, e was hurt lot! , n. cruel. Sheriff. Looked "wined fell on her head and side, inere was sprmMma cuia uuu over ss ind a deep bad "uu cut on her neck. ber 7 tree,faceor awasrockbanged where she'd or the like." I mean to say." he persisted, "noth-U- S to show. oj The old . nv.mo . neaa. shook ner . B touian .tc nave got falling the way she did." S's,,eiJ as tnouKn discour-"onl- . and MfiT-, i: '0thn? that fmn, 'icice asuea: "iou didnt know Huldy, did you, Sheriff?" ive heard tell of her." he answered. Uess the uhni. nas, u u om t0 ., iat," the "uuiy Old woman . WtM. "But vn vau Ior your- f!f . i . . .... wl to a woman WL aLlCCP.!,?t ', Bumphre shot Seth-- lim. "I s ,at like her." of he-.Bart re- W1U kIIled Seth . . . ani.... nein; dui ana Wlll wltl "Is eg '' i PT es' tie had t0 han on to Bet another bullet ,n dy was back o' that" hf 8eDCe " thC ounno Seth hart as lie . " 7 Sbe 8 reflected come back," Bart exnlained. and de" Lv..s"lne t0 to ner back- - did he?" UnL "e co"'d help it," Bart he sald slowly: "Will. Ko a,;,! 8(0(1(1 a '"tfrom her, Sheriff That 8he d!d- - 1 dunno as "BBH?Vn,.ler" He added harshly: IIU ,1 ' ' ,vol"'ln't blnme him!" Them v. W01)l:mV ..I , im. v. nn.irii pyes nnea on t0 killed h ryin? let on that Will r. ' ,'lr" she asked, in a mat terof.fn, n No out. i . ,""e' !l- rnlin ""II IIC13. 'uini Rarr '"5 a thing about It." '" r' "I lU tiiroti!, tryinS t0 sef the same as you.' '';,"v, tonwj. ktvtP 1 M L' i!' - "I ran Thl sheriff crisply. Baid. flounderlnR- like to talk to this Zeke. . After the Shprlff OnsilrA. "K" weir wis for a moment; then Jenny M,Pht be nad respite for Joe Matthews, the Sometlli,1S- Maybe Will, undertaker, came 11 fetch him. Looks like I'd out of the dining have room. He to talk to that man." spoke to WllL "There, Will," he said. Tve done But when Will and Jenny presently all that needs did return, they were alone. doing tonight; and If you want, I'll carry her home." This hour she spent with Will Be Vii hesitated, added : "But If for Jenny deeply comforting. you take my Huldy's advice, let her accusation had faded into a lay here tonight I can cloudy untend to everything a sight better In reality, like the substance of a dream the morning." But Jenny now, more than any other Marm Pierce said: tlon' fe! a grievous 'She's welcome sympathy for mil. for the remorse she knew he to stay. Will !" Will nodded. must endure; and she strove in small "Weil, likely that's ways to reassure and comfort him sensible," he agreed. not by words, hut by her steady supJenny, while their attention was thus turned away from her, opened the door porting presence at his side. They tramped in silence through the and stepped out on the porch, gratewoods, the lantern swinging in Will's ful for the taste of cool, moist air. In hand making the black shadows of the the kitchen she heard the sheriff say trees along the way swing like somber doubtfully: "I guess. Joe. you'll want pendulums. They crossed the brook, to go along home now. I don't know and climbed the steep trail, and came as I ought to leave yet, though. I'd up through the orchard to the barn; like to see this Zeke Dace, first But and while Jenny held the lantern, Will I wlsh't you'd bring Doc Harris In the let the cows into the tie up and se- morning. I want him to look her over." When cured them there. He pulled down presently the undertaker hay for them, and went to the kitchen came out to depart, Jenny drew aside for the pail and returned to milk. out of his way. Sohler and Saladine Jenny stood silently by, while he sat. crossed with blm to where his truck his head against the warm flanks of the cows, the lantern here beside him on the floor. He spoke only once of that which filled both their minds. "I'd like to know where Zeke's gone to," he said. "He'll be around by and by," Jenny promised him. "It's all right. Will." But her own words faintly startled her; since" clearly, If Will must live with the secret knowledge that he had killed Huldy, the world could never be all right for him again; and she wished suddenly to take him In her arms, and tell him that she knew, and held him blameless. But she perceived that to do this, to confess her knowledge of his guilt, would be to open between them a gulf never to be bridged. So she was silent; and later, when they came back through the wet woods together, she decided that this was a matter none should ever know. And thus resolving, she found strength for the task before her, and was at peace again. Iluldy was dead. Let It be by accident. The world would presently forget that Iluldy had ever lived. When with Will she came back to the little house In the Valley, she had Jenny Stood Silently By. somehow stilled her fears. Then stood, spoke with him there. Till she saw the sheriff there. When they came In, she felt her Bart came out and said to Jenny strength drain away. Bur then, and casually: "Hot In there, ain't It" And in a by Will himself, her foreboding was turned Into fearful certainty; for Will lower tone: "Don't you worry, Jen! Nothing to be afraid of." said to this man: He too had seen her terror then! "Why, Sheriff, what fetched you It must have been plain, for them all here?" The sheriff hesitated. "I kind of to see. But even as she thought this, hoped you'd bring this Zeke Dace back she realized suddenly that she was no with you," he said, evasively. longer afraid, and wondered why. And Will shook head. "I dunno where then, without speaking to Bart she Zeke's got to," he admitted in troubled came quickly back into (he kitchen tones. "He wa'n't to home." And he where were Marm Pierce and Will. Her persisted: "But Sheriff, what fetched hand touched Will's sleeve, and peace filled her; and a deep enlightenment you?" for the and certainty, like a revelation. was waiting breathless, Jenny Then the truck departed, and Bart answer. Then Saladine said gravely: and Sohler and Saladine returned In"I sent for him, WllL" After a moment the sheriff Will stared at Saladine. "What for?" doors. he protested, bewildered. appealed to Saladine. "Jim," he said. And then the sheriff said: "Why "'Looks like you could figure someWill the thing is, it looks to every- thing out of this business. I guess you didn't was the last one to see Mis' Ferrin body as if maybe Mis' Ferrin of that ledge. They think alive." off fall just Saladine shook his head. "I don't someone maybe throwed her off." strang-llngly- . see Into It at all," he confessed. Jenny's throat constricted The hounds were on the trail. Bart turned to Will. "How about she heard As though from far away you. Will?" he urged. "Didn't you "Killed her. you hear her screech when she fell? I'd stammer: Will mean?" have said everybody in a mile could "Something like that." have heard that It sounded mighty bowed. 1 Will stood with his head loud to me." said firmly at last "The noise Will shook his head. guess not," he "Who'd do that?" up to the farm, with carry wouldn't this Zeke "I was thinking maybe the hill between, and the trees." He suggested. "I mind," he said, Sohler Dace," o looked at Saladine. head. off with Huldy, Zeke went But Will shook his you "when did Sheriff" he Insisted. "Whatever out of the shed like he'd go wouMn t he come He Zeke. wa'n't It after you. I stopped him, made And he continued along him stay behind." And be continued So to hurt her." have half to himself: "There m.ght after a moment: "Seems like I kep but no ; been some to hurt Huldy him there a sight longer'n it'd take think I did brook. SupZeke! Why, I'd as soon you to get down to the on time the any didn't stop mvself," he said. posing you TennV felt the shock of a great blow ledge." turned 'Then Bart chuckled ; and Will matter "1 didn't," Saladine said. the "What's him. at was silence for a moment; look to There funny? Will Bartr he asked. "What's spoke again, gropingly. then h to "What you said," Bart time I figured you'd be the think "By to I mean, "I left Zeke and "That's a joke, Will. he explained, gone," went Into the house; but when it come on to rain, I wondered where Huldy I come out on the porch and was for Zeke, but he didn't answer, veiled I started to here will say the same. ird him. so I went hunting (hem. tow to the brook. But Will moved a little the path down he r0 Bart, J then I decided there wa'n't any use in don't take that kind y. kind "I don't want that that" He added with a glance at " a00"1 you or anybody. Saladine: "I see tracks where you'd Not now." vt after gone down, where your boots had There was, briefly. 61 him ' sa.d. "Boots? a moment the sheriff hjf f Saladine spoke quickly. It was someone self, in to ions I've got shoes on. "It wa'n't me." "It's a pity she pie" hesaidinsisted. wh.t ;jnly tell to stubbornly: "It was boot Will enough I see. Somebody withAnd t seemed to that tracks 7ol had gone down the trail." on thatth.8 boots -"Guess Zeke had And Bart spoke. small, and crowded, a d hertan he?" didn't wangled felt She boots on, ie nodded. "IJke-ly.- " Will considered, and he to her lips, and stark Ma saw he did. I mind, "Yes, she Then he agreed. her. silent i J sW!c Z tnmtt now. 1.11 Ue dld" The sheriff stirred. "The way it 'Zekrt the decided. ,ooks to me." be th door. I a t WOMEN SLAVES . (Golden IPliantoiiis Acute famine has driven hundreds of Chinese women In Anhwel prot Inre to offer themselves as slaves; the price averaging about $3. FASCIN ATING TALES OF LOST 3IINES BEN AMES WILLIAMS Ben Ames Williams. t, j DON'T SLEEP B Kdlthm L. Wmfm OH LEFT CATHEDRAL LOOT SIDE, AFFECTS HEART TN TUB shadow of Mount Taylor, near the old road house and stage Gas Pressure May Cause Disone to find ; and we ain't likely to find comfort Right Side Best on ihe Butterfields Central station him. long as we're setting here!" Overland route, a treasure la hidden. If you tost in bed and can't sleep on "Nor you can't find him outside," The old stage route dates back many right side, try Adlerika. Just ONE dose Marm Pierce cried sharply. "Show back still relieves stomach GAS pressing on heart some sense. Sheriff! Ton couldn't see years, but the treasure dates s Old Mexico so you sleep soundly all night. to when farther, Zeke ten feet away, a night like this. Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and lower New Mexico were one. If he was a mind to hide. Set down. and bowels and brings out foul matter you He Don Gonzales was a Mexican. would never believe was in your system. Use your head, 'stead of your feet ! Use came north to live, and he built an This old matter may have poisoned your eyes!" adobe house near what Is now Blue-wateyou for months and caused OAS, sour "What good's my eyes going to do raised Here settled he rtomach, headache or nervousness. down, me here?" he urged. Dr. H. L. Shoub. New York, report:-"Inadditio- n and made friends with the Insheep, "There's been enough to see, If you to intestinal clo&nainf, dians. wa'n't blind." she told him; and she idlerik greatly reduce bacteria before the Don came op Into Just looked briefly at Jenny. "Jenny," she ind colon bacilli." country, there bad been trouble said sharply. Mrs. Jas. Filler: "Gat on my stomach "You were almighty that in the south. One of the great cathewas so bad I could not eat or sleep. Even scared a while ago. . I think you know drals bad Leen looted, and bandits ny heart hurt. The first dose of Adlerika something more'n you've told. You was were abroad. The story traveled a irought me relief. Now I eat at I wish, down brook this morning. Did you see little more slowly than the Don did, deep fine and never felt bettr." Her all?" at hear anything, anything but it reached bis neighborhood after Oive your stomach and bowels a REAL tones were insistent with Adlerika and see how a while, and It, too, settled down. It ood you feel. Just ONE dote relieves Jeony, though her heart was pound- was said that Don Gonzales had the 3 AS and chronic constipation. Sold ing, spoke after a moment steadily loot from the church. No one saw It, all druggists and drug departments. by enough. The way was clear before but rumor persisted that it was someher now, all doubts resolved. But she where around that adobe ranchhouse. only said: "I told you I heard someIt Fits The Don finally died, and those who one talking, In the woods." No good word has been found to lived nearby would doubtless have InMarra Pierce protested Irascibly: fke the place of smart-alecvestigated, but Apaches swept down "Nothing In that to scare you!" She and across the land, and everyone was came closer to the glrL "Jenny, I can too busy with the Invading hordes see more than most; but 1 can't see to bunt for treasure. a everything. What was It scared you, It was in lSft3 that a certain rancher while ago? When the sheriff said that No matter how many medicines came Into the country to live, and he about wishing Huldy had come to, beyou have tried for your cough, chest over to the old Gonzales place rode fore she died? What was it, Jenny?" cold or bronchial irritation, you can one day. He went Into the adobe she demanded. get relief now with Creomulsion. house out of curiosity, for there Is alSerious trouble may be brewing and The girl smiled slowly, as at some you cannot afford to take a chance ways something attractive about an secret thought with anything less than Creomulold ruin of the sort and began look"Go on, Jenny," said old Marm sion, which goes right to the seat The fireplace was about him. of the trouble to aid nature to Pierce. 'Tell the truth and shame ing choked with debris, and rags hung soothe and heal the inflamed mem-bran- es the devil!" as the germ-lade- n down from the chimney. phlegm is loosened and expelled. Jenny look at Will's bowed head, he pulled at the rags, the Why Even if remedies other as have and her smile suddenly was radiant rancher probably could not have told. failed, dont be discouraged, your the sun. "It don't mean a thing to me Why does one aimlessly pull at such druggist is authorized to guarantee now," she protested softly. "Because things? Creomulsion and to refund your He was no doubt prepared I can see It wa'n't true." money if you are not st.tisfled with, for a slide of dusty debris, but certainresults from the very first bottle. "What was It Jenny?" the old womly he did not expect what he found Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv.) an insisted. in hidden oil an painting rolled up and "Huldy did come to, for a minute, the apparently solid wall! before she died," said Jenny then. Poisonous Gossip The rancher's appreciation of art Marm Pierce cried in a deep incre- was not Gossip Is told with leers that engreat. The painting was a venom It dulity: curiosity to him, and nothing more. "Jenny, she never did!" Accordingly he sold It to an Indian And Bart exclaimed: "She couldn't, trader for a few dollars, and the ! Why, she was as good as dead Jenny trader, not much better Informed, before ever I got her here!" passed it on to an El Paso dealer Jenny repeated slowly: "Sh did. for a few dollars more. COMMON anyway!" And for a moment she said The El Paso man, however, knew no more. She stood near the cabinet that he had a valuable picture In bis over the sink, where knives and forks hands. He sent It to New York, where and cooking dishes were stowed away. it was found to be a masterpiece of Bart was by the door Into the shed. religious painting, a product of the Marm Pierce was between Jenny and golden age of Spanish art. and It Relieve the distressing the stove; and Sheriff Sohler sat In finally was sold to a wealthy man for symptoms by applying front of the oven with his greatcoat his private collection, bringing a price Menlholalum In nostrils loose about him. of $40,000. and rubbing on chest. Will was beyond the stove, near the Rumor again flew to Bluewater, other door, impassive, waiting. Treasure hunters, convinced anew that u Saladine, watching Jenny, thought Ihe church treasure was concealed In n she seemed in this moment to wear a or 'near the old adobe ranch house, rTmTin,v.ij.i:W7.r!-" mantle of grace. She looked at Will, traveled from near and far to search If yon prefer nose drops, or and her eyes held his, and her tone for It throat spray, call for the MEW MEHTHOUTUM was gently mirthful. LIQUID But the painting was all that has In handy bottle with dropper "She told me you did it Will," said ever been found, and the lost loot of Jenny, with a smile on her lips, and the Mexican cathedral still stays hidher glance serene. den beyond the sight of man. Bart uttered a low ejaculation; but There is other hidden treasure of Marm Pierce spoke In brisk Insistence the same sort In Arizona. Once In a "How come you didn't call me?" IS callbrs Colt Army Bis Shootsra iverJ while some fortunate person accl men used In Civil War. Would also b "I didn't want you," Jenny told he dentally finds some of It to prove that interested In 44 calibre Colt Plaint Pistols 4 ind and pepper-bo- x gently. It really exists. For Instance: pistols. Please Trite weapons, statins condition describing Marm "The more fool you!" said Joe Wulsey, a cowboy, was riding ind price (or which 70a will seU. Pierce briskly, ber patience near tb after stray cattle on the Box X ranch DAVID MAGOWAlf UO "What 45th East Street Kew Toik Otr breaking point happened?' in Graham county, Arizona In 1907. she demanded. He happened to notice a dead tree The sheriff spoke heavily. "Mis propped up by four large rocks, with PARKER'S Pierce, you let ber tell It her own a shovel handle protruding from the HAIR BALSAM way," he urged. So Marm Pierce wa trunk of the tree. Remorse silenced; and Jenny's eyes turned ampans tLOMr and Walsey dug below this monument Beantr to Grav and Faded Hair oue ana si wi at again to WllL The big man shook and and found an iron chest containing old Chtm. Win,. Ptchcnn.N.T. swayed where he stood, as though this Spanish coins, worth $40,000, and gold FLORESTON Hloni SHAMPOO Ideal tor use in that Jenny bad to say bad struck hin vessels whose value could not be esti- connection withParker'sBairBalsam.Hakea the 60 hair and cents soft fluffy. nerveless by mail or at drag--, mated on account of their exquisite Hiscox Chemical Works, Fttchog-ue- , gilts. N.I, (TO BE CONTINUED) ivnrkmanship. It is thought that the chest must nave been hidden by Mexican padres Mastiff Is Considered some one of the many uprisings British Isles' Oldest during ivhlch have troubled the Southwest, or There may be older breed of dogs Wse that It represents loot from some than the mastiff but not so In the Mexican church, brought north and British Isles for here this dog Is con burled by the robbers, who may have of them sidered the oldest all, its ori iieen killed before they could return gin dating back to the Sixth century 6 for it, At that time, writes Albert Stoll Jr., in the Detroit News, It was DESERT GOLD brought Into Britain by the adventur ous Phoenician traders and was adopt Try Cuticura for all skin blemishes ed by the Britons for hunting and In station In the Calidoe to external causes. Ointment 25c warfare. fornia desert, In the year 1894, a Soap 25c FREE trial sizes if you For years the breed was used to prospector was found, old. tired, and write "Cuticura," Dept. 8, Maiden, Uass. In animals and wild was name the hunt Ills crazed from thirst larger bear baiting but as the centuries Colder, and he carried with him three passed It was adopted as a guardian 2 SC large nuggets, whose price has been VVNU W ' lixed at the odd sum of $3,6."4. Borax for property and as a canine com panion for those who fancied the wagon teamsters, who discovered the dd man, took him to Mohave, and here larger breed of dogs. Mastiffs may be either fawn with a he was nursed back to a semblance of dark face or brlndle. They weigh health. from 150 to '170 pounds and stand After Golder recovered somewhat, about 23 Inches high at tbe shoulders. ne tried to draw a map of the location Be Sure They Properly According to the American standard of where be had found the ore. He had Ueanse the Blood perfection they should be large, mas been out of water for three days, well-kni- t a with are constantly slve and powerful he said, and his burros could go no YOUR kidneys matter from the blood frame. The legs should be wide apart farther, so he turned them loose. He stream. But kidneys sometimes lag in and squarely set The coat Is short had climbed a hill, bad seen some their work do not act es nature inbut not too fine over trees about five miles away, and on and close-lyintended fail to remove impurities that back. and neck In directhe mountain their the shoulders, descending poison the system when retained. Then you may suffer nagging backtion he had found a gravel bed full ache, dizziness, scanty or too frequent International Coldish sett of nuggets. urination, getting up at night, puffinesj Searchers went out to find this new In February, 1920, at the first plea under the eyes; feel nervous, miserinter-alllecommishis of the by story. They location, guided ary meeting ableall upset sion and the Germans, a pretty fsree found his burros, dead from heat and Don't delay? Use Doan's Pills. Doan't are especially for poorly funcwas played out when the German chier thirst They found the hill he deinsisted on opening the meeting. In scribed, too, twenty five miles from tioning kidneys. They ere recommended by grateful users the country , spite of the fact that the allies weri the nearest water at Red Rock. But over. Get them from any druggist. no trees were visible from Its summit, Imposing terms and the Germans ac Golder no foot its a at on and lay gold pro them, cepting compromise had wandered In mind as well as body, cedure had to be made wherein and the allied di'loninns ei and the place where be found his precious handful of gold has never been tered the council room siuuJ'aui;-juadiscovered. the-day- r. , Still Coughing? .COLDS 4 II WtiUU WANTED TO BUY 0(KrUU2A Aim J a AT SIX-MIL- E mm g d -- |