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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE PALE. UTAH STORM MUSIC By Dornford Yates Copyright br Mlnton. BaJch It Co. WNU Service. SYNOPSIS John Spencer and his cousin. Geoffrey Bohun, are vacationing In Austria. Geofbut frey la a Kitted portrait painterWhile paint landscapes. prefer - to trolling- In the forest. John hears English voices, and decides to Investigate. Jrom safe cover be finds four men burying a man In green livery who, evidently, had been murdered. Pharaoh la the leader of the gang; the others are Dewdrop, Bush and Bugle. Unforknown to tunately, John makes himself the assassins by dropping a letter with Ills name and address on It. He tells Geoffrey and bis chauffeur. Barley, of bis adventure. Geoffrey, realizing that John's life la In danger, declares he must vanish. Spencer discovers that the livery of the murdered man corresponds to the livery of the servants of Torlck castle, and tells Countess Helena, mistress of the castle, what be bad seen. With Geoffrey and Barley, John starts for Annabel, a nearby CHAPTER I Continued 3 Toil go In, be said, "and have at the rooms. I imagine they're look quite all right, but you never can tell." I left him filling a pipe and walked to The Reaping Hook. Tbla was a pleasant Inn, standing back from the road. A I entered the great, stone taproom, It was clear that all was not welL It now seemed clear that some brawl r other had lately disordered the bouse and I began to wonder whether the host was absent because he had offered some hurt The poor woman's tate, however, forbade my questioning Ler, and indeed as soon as she saw me, she threw her apron over her head and abandoned herself to her grief. J, therefore, turned to the scullion and asked him where his master might be, bat the man seemed dull of com pre-- door of a car. I believe that I stopped instinctively, but almost before I could think, a figure was In the doorway a little wiry figure and was beading straight for the stairs. It was my old friend, Dewdrop. Now I saw In a flash that unless of the four it was he that had been lying in wait to identify me at Lass, I stood a very fair chance of being no more than suspected as I went by. I, therefore, held on my way, and since he was looking down, Dewdrop did not perceive me until he was three steps off. And then our eyes met for an instant His surprise was his undoing. As plain as though he bad said so, I knew that he knew who I was and the second he spent In staring served As his fingers flew to his my turn. mouth, I hit him under the jaw and leaped for the door. Now all would have been very well if I had not made one mistake. I had had the advantage of Dew drop, for he had been standing below me and I was the heavier man. But the ball below us was flagged and I was afraid to hit bard lest he should topple backwards and split hia skull on the stone. And so, though the blow was heavy. It was not heavy enough, Lay hold of me he could not, for his balance was gone, but as I gained the forecourt his piercing whistle rang out heard it I saw him. He bad bis back to the Inn, and the bonnet of the Rolls was open and he was making some adjustment, spanner In hand. For an Instant he stared. And then the bonnet was shut, and the spanner was In his pocket and a pis My cousin tol was In his hand. Before I could speak "Take the wheel," said Geoffrey, "and back her the way we came. There's a corner a hundred yards back. Turn her around there and wait Is that their car?" "Yes, but" "Quick," cried my cousin, and started to stroll to the inn. As I flung myself into the Rolls, I saw Dewdrop, running towards us, stop in his tracks. As Geoffrey fired, the fellow turned and doubled, dodg ing from side to side: to my amazement my cousin began to give chase. The engine of the Rolls was run ning and I let in the clutch. Then I lifted the car towards Geoffrey across the road. A closed car was standing In the forecourt beside the door of the Inn As Dewdrop whipped behind It, my cousin fired again. Then he turned to see me waiting six paces away. . . Pharaoh was standing in the door way, with a hand to his hip: as he drew arms, Rush thrust out from behind him and sent him against the jamb. I shall always believe that this blunder saved Geoffrey's life. I had never stopped the t Rolls and as Geoffrey leaped for the step I let her go. In that instant two shots were fired, and a bullet went by my face to splinter the driving mirror. And then we were flashing through the village. Geoffrey was speaking. "I'm much obliged, my son. But another time you simply must do as I say. It's you they're after, not me. And now please put her along. I've so I hardly holed their petrol-tanthink they'll start: all the same I believe In distance." Twenty minutes later we glided out d on to a grass-growof a track : where this curled Into a thicket, I threw out the clutch. "My God," said Geoffrey, and wiped the sweat from his face. "And after all that trouble to cover our tracks. Fate beats the band sometimes. And now tell me exactly what happened." I told him the truth. "Colossal. "Colossal," says he. There's no other word. However, there's no harm done." He pulled out a map. "And now let's see where we are. We ran through a village called Wa-ge- n some four miles back." miles from PluWe were twenty-tw- o was Just one hour and the mage, o'clock. "Tea with the goddess," he said, "at five o'clock. What could be better? But I don't want to wait till then. Besides, we must find a lodging." , Asked Him Where His Might Be. Master tension and I had to shake him the shoulder before at last he by mut- tered that the host was upstairs. I made my way to the staircase which rose from the hall, and a moment later had gained a fine, broad passage which ran the length of the bouse. Since the stairs rose again, I was about to go higher, when the door of a room was opened, and the maid who had passed me came out, and breathless. I cried. What's the matter wide-eye- d r Where's your master?" She pointed to the room she had left and fled downstairs. I now began to think that the man mast be dead, for he was a mild old fellow and not at all the sort that drinks himself into a fury and puts bis household In fear. I walked to the door and stood listening before I knocked. For a quarter of a minute I listened, bat heard no sound, and my hand was raised, ready to knock, when somebody spoke and before he had spoken three words, I knew the answers to the riddles which I had been trying to aolve. I knew why the house was disordered and why I had not been received: I knew why the maid was trembling and why the housewife was In tears: and I knew that, be they never so pleasing, the rooms at The Heaping Hook were not for Geoffrey and me . . . for the voice was the irolce of Pharaoh, who was speaking pretty fair German and was recom mending the landlord to do as he said n by-roa- Plumage lay more than two miles from the high road. The farm was set on the floor of a valley that ran due west. The dwelling Itself was handsome, white and gray and low, with shutters of olive green. "I must try and paint that" said Geoffrey. "The world will say it's unnatural, but never mind." We stole down the lane in silence and as I brought the car to rest Lady Helena Torlck came out of the house, and, behind her, a great Alsatian, a very beautiful hound. Here for the first time I saw bow truly lovely she was. I Introduced my cousin and the lady CHAPTER II gave him her hand. "I know your work," she said. "Too Plumage. painted my mother's brother six years Aa I stole away from that door, I ago." know that my knees were loose. So "In Philadelphia," Geoffrey said. "He often as I remember that my hand carried his head as yon do and he had was raised, ready to knock, the sweat the same blue-blac- k hair." will start upon my forehead. For a moment they spoke of her mother's American home. I passed down the passage aa well I might, wondering if ever be"Plumage," said Geoffrey, "deserves fore two men had been at such pains Its beautiful name. Will you let me to avoid the foe, only to choose for paint it one day, when the battle is their harbor the enemy's camp, for done?" Lady nelena laughed. tnat, of course, was the use to which "I see," she said, "that yoo have be was putting the inn. I was halfway down the stairs, been reading the map." For a moment I stared. Then whlck rose in two flights, and the door"This Isnt Yortckr I cried. way of the inn was before me, when th'o rme to my ears the slam of the "No," said Geoffrey. "But it's on fair-size- the Torlck estate. Torlck itself la three miles beyond these woods." "And alx miles from Annabel," sail Lady Helena. "Remembering that, Mr. Bohun, do you still propose to stay there?" "No," said Ceoffrey, "we don't We've er changed our minds." "I'm glad to hear it" said the girt. "Mr. Spencer Is rather headstrong, and he doesn't seem to consider that he's rather too young to die." Lady Helena then turned to the bench on the left of the door. "Let's thrash this out" she said. She took her seat In the middle and we sat one on each side. "Yon may take it from me," she said, "that this is no ordinary case. I know what these men are out for, and they're not going to stand any rot If It was my Jewels, they could have them young Florin was above Hard work and great responsibility are the best kind of Insurance agalnLi When the mind lsfuli sickness. employed, there does not seem to be Illustrations much chance for disease to and color suggestions; get In !u needed. work, for a busy, full occupied mind of all stitches or stamps rents in coins is the best kind of safeguard against to The Sewing Cir- illness. Marden. (coins .referred) Household Arts Dept., 259 West N. Y Fourteenth St.. New York. your THIRSTY? number, Write plainly pattern address. name and -- mMS& Imi fWusehoM nL. V 1 chamois fkins 10 dry on the windv .lay. will blow wind the and be will very soft so they skins the HauR "P rubles. "But they are not after my jewels: they're after something which isn't mine to give them and which they will never get "Now, how d'yoo think they feel about Mr. Spencer? They know that he has the power not only to ruin their game but to send them to prison and death. Of course I can't answer for them, but If I were in their position. Til tell you how I should feeL I should not rest until Mr. Spencer was dead." "I'm Inclined to agree," said Geoffrey. "If you'd said as much this morning, I should have said you were wrong, for I think the return of his letter was an order to him to clear out. But now the case Is altered. Through no fault of his own he's given them reason to think that he means to treat this order with all the contempt It deserves. Now, mark you, it wasn't his fault. We bumped Into them at Annabel. They'd made the inn there their headquarters, and John walked Into their arms." My God," said the girl. "But as you see," said Geoffrey, "he also walked out To tell you the truth, we had the best of the brush. But, speaking perfectly frankly, I fear that the damage is done. They believe that he's out to get them, and If he leaves the country I give you my word I think they'll follow him out." "You say," Lady Helena said, "that you had the best of the brush." "We put their car out of action. They won't be able to move for twenty-four hours." That's a start worth having. He could be In London tomorrow If you left Salzburg tonight" My cousin sighed. "My lady." he said, "for one thing, he wouldn't go: and, for another, it wouldn't be any use. Their finding that letter was deadly: It bore his London address." "Then what's to be doner "He must have his wish," said Geoffrey. "Fate has played into his hands, and the only thing he can do la to stand and fight" Lady Helena rose. As Geoffrey and I stood up "I'm sorry," she said coldly. "From what Mr. Spencer told me, I fully believed I could count upon your support He's very young and downright and he can see nothing but red. But I fully believed you would see that my consent must be given before you took on these men. The man who Is dead was my servant, and the men are after my goods. If you stand and fight you will therefore be lighting my battle, and that gives me the clear right to decline your help. And I do decline it Mr. Bohun. You cannot enter this quarrel without helping me: and, I do not desire your assistance. If London's not safe, then leave for Paris tonight" "I'm damned if I'm going," said L Lady Helena turned upon me with blazing eyes. "I beg your pardon." My blood was up and I gave her back look for look. "I said 'I'm damned If Tm going.' And I'll tell yon another thing. I'm GREAT RESPONSIBILITY Tea Toweb TheSe Colored Mammy Kitchen Will Bring Gayety to lour when dry. 55IT PATTKHX off" for this colNo ored Mammy, for she must "wash the cups and saucers up, and put the clothes away." 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