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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEIII, UTAH I i II1BIBIvOW BKOlhl A Romance of the North Woods Coprrlcht W ... .... r n l. d S3. n' e ... thls-a-wa- y e ' ... honest-to-goodne- blood-staine- n. h - : :' D 1I.. to New Guinea Natife Though to us the wrkii, itt r. for less than a dollar a , h of elavery under another namT the New Guinea native it re,, wealth obtainable lu no other His culture is that of ,,e " Stone age. It reuir u.g of careful and ex,. laf-- .r to ion and polish a stone (,i or Scb tn implement, primitive uW it may be. Is of to an owner. Even thoti-- i, the ' fill labor required to Ml Rni Kh trees into canoes, shields or oti carvings with It is of the most art ous and tedious nature, it serves u ptiriMtse nevertheless. The young .nan sees years ing ahead, before through leanZ the craft and fashioning his 0WB i plements or by seizing them n ra'fo upon his enemies he will acquire sufiicient stock wherewith to n chase and maintain a wife. For two months' work among the whiles be may acquire a steel hgM ax or an adze; for three months' pa, an ax or a mattock ; for two week endeavor, a butcher knife or a da., ger. A shilling will purchase brilliant loin cloth of red, green ororanw cloth finery unknown to the interior villages. With the proceeds of his thr year term of labor, he may return to his village while still in his teem and be the richest man in It Hii steel implements and his acquired knowledge of how to use them win enable him to perform many tim the amount of work that could tx attained by the Ijest artisan in hi tribe with stone Implements. Hal G Evarts In the Saturday Evening Post NT Service J? 'Horseshoe. There's where the calk 1 He went tin, Saunders hard after got Queer, they call oe, but I CHAPTER IV Continued went in" pointing. feelln's like anybody else, Steele. If him. Tait Etared hard at John. were Horses now, and I to Ellen dunno squealing anything happened ! I looka he tell you -, "Spilled nothin' T you notice anything special In heard He Td what more do." kicking furiously. I best man I lied my through right the barn?" wood splintered under a hoof and Something pathetic In his earnestand be sneered at me and threatened "Smell, you mean?" ness. could the see, opened through partially If I didn't come to you and tell you The other nodded grimly. barn the to have will do of cavern low It the her "Well, good doorway, what he'd said that he'd tell the crew "I smelt gasoline," he said. you to visit her. Wolf," John agreed. lighted by angry flames. What'd happened And I wasn't "So did 1 !" He was Into it throwing an arm to squawk In the fare of that! "Make yourself comfortable. I've a Job "Where was he?" Tait asked. over his face to strain smoke from the folng got 'em with him; they'd . . . to do, and I'll see you at dinner." "Right behind your pile of baled He tore away, leaving the little man air he breathed. He caught a distant !Wny, they'd 're moblied me yesterhay." still spewing words, and walked over odor, though, and through his mind day i'rince got him!" he muttered. to the barn to Join Jack Talt and went one word : "What's the word he Bent?" the only horse in the lot "He's oasoline! "He said" clearing his throat "he Saunders. He" gesturing behind. that's light center A "Who's and Richards?" he windrow of the asked, hay along said you was snakes In the grass and ! Old off, the the "touched place of the building burned. Flakes of the that he'd treat you like that, and he they grinned. !" him "lie's Ellen's uncle," Saunders chuck- bales, half torn apart, were strewn I'rince gut came aid to come on and do your worst, In, breathless, slamSaunders that he bad bis crew with him and led. "Her dad's only brother. 'Course, there. It seemed, and they blazed bright- ming the door. wasn't going to be put out of the he's cracked. D n good trapper, too; ly, orange fronds of flame leaping up"Got her soused down," he said. ward to find hold on cobwebbed raftwould make well at It If he'd leave running yet a while." over. Who's that?" "Worst's wolves alone, but when he hears of a ers as the draft of the ventilators Gorbel leaned back and smiled. see him?" John asked. "Ever roof. sucked the the wolf or one gases through thinks he knows where And don't think he's out. either." A pause, while the foreman stared Smoke about the floor and he Tucker leaned forward suddenly, as If might show up, he'll stay by him un- stumbledswirled hard at the face. as he ran on, striving to gain this were the most Important thing he til he gets him or drives him out of the the rear stalls "Never." first tiad to say, "Don't you believe It, country. Lives alone away down on "And what did you smell?" John deHe choked as he entered the stall, Gorbel! He's a whirlwind, that ladl the Mad Woman. Has for years. They manded. over but and mane horse's the all grasped get that way, you know." He's a logging fool and he knows bis Mark looked from one to the other. a hand on the rump. tuff. He'll keep that mill logged spite "Yup," Jack Tait agreed. "A queer over, putting " 'I) you both get it?" "Come to he on, said, boy!" trying ot h 1 'nd high water, 'nd you, Gorbel I old duck. Harmless for the most part, "Both of us. . . ." speak without excitement "Steady, but he'll make trouble yet, I'm afraid. lle'a . . . he's a logging fool!" G d d n 'em, "A bug fire! now !" town or You'd him in think, to see weakly, as though no words at his a The horse stall into sidled, banged they'll" command could convey his respect for here, that he was the friendliest codJohn held up a warning hand. leaped the other way. kicked ger alive, but he ain't Won't take a stanchion, John Steele's abilities. as flame He touched his "It's between the three of us, for broke, belly. "Where'd he come from?" Gorbel traveler In at all when he'n alone. All tried to run and went now. with John him, Keep It from the men. This but Ellen. She goes up to see him for asked. from the smoke, strangling bumping now a or so and then." day "God knows. D had some Job down Until noon hour John thought no Into another led horse, out into the below, I guess. Ain't you seen hlra?" night "I think I more of Wolf Richards. He and SaunThe other grimaced. Men were running ; others were back did . . . once. But I didn't get a ders were busy trying to figure a way In there, shouting at horses. through the complications which congood look." "How many in there?" John yelled, fronted them. Talt's arm as the barn boss, grabbing Burke had put on even more saws at CHAPTER V now, ran past him. the Belknap & Gorbel camps. The crying "All out but two. Prince won't switches at the crossing were plugged come !" John had been in camp for two with loaded cars bound for Kampfest ; John saw men struggling with a Bights. The train rolled In on time the equipment breakdown on the branch horse Inside and turned to their aid. next morning and from the way-ca- r had delayed movement, but when John He found a pitchfork and got behind merged an unusual passenger. First, had called this to Burke's attention, travel-wortoboggan, shoved through arguing that It achieved his employers the horse, striking It witnout mercy, with the tines. They got Then packs, of the door by Way-Bllto keep insisting that their prodding nothing out and Jack Talt reeled, animal the as .various sizes and shapes. Finally, logs were moved to the crossing as John backed gagging with nausea. odd a human being as John had obsoon as loaded, the man only grinned. from the building, shielding his face served for a long time, "Orders are orders; contracts are with an upraised arm. Flames were ne was short and apparently emaci- contracts. I've got mine; go read through the roof now, licking at the ated, and yet from the apryness of his yours, Steele!" cornices, melting holes In the walls. was certain muscles movements It that And so John buckled down In earn"All out. Jack?" he croaked. of steel cloaked the small frame. His est to the uphill pull. "Look out !" beard was gray, streaked with brown, Through supper and for a brief time The warning shout made John whirl. and covered his face almost to the In the ofllce "Steady, Now!" afterwards, the old trapHe threw himself forward to grab at small, bright eyes. His coat was of held to voice its shrill sustained, per's the rope as the horse shook off the fellow was suffocated, as far as bearskin, hitting hlra at the hips. they abruptly, he rose, and, last restraining hand, throwing a man know. Great gauntlet gloves of fur were on gabble. Then, Stranger; drunk; got In, tried himself of his outer clothing end over end, and broke for the stable, divesting to smoke. . . . And here we are! his hands and moccasins covered his with rapid Jerks, Jumped Into the bed screaming shrilly. John could see h!m, feet "But the three of us smelt gasoline. and within seconds was outlines distorted by wriggling heat He was starting to stow the packs assigned him, man's hair Isn't even singed. See? This In. low snorlnjr. and He crouched rushed waves. on the toboggan when John apdie from fire. It was the didn't He In came to talk to John Jack Talt He heard the horse scream again proached and, seeing him, the old man who sat before the stove, smoking and and kick. The terror of the creature's kick of a horse. We find out who he spat and nodded and exclaimed in his going over plans with Saunders. He Is and where he came from and why cry gave him strength. It screamed voice: was there a few minutes and went the third time, and John dropped to If we can and we make things as hot "Name's Richards! Wolf Richards! for other parties as they made them Saunders yawned, rose and his hands and knees for relief. out. Wolf Richards from Mad Woman! for us tonight!" stretched. He rid himself of his chew He stopped crawling. He had alUncle to Ellen on her pa's side, . . . Hot for other parties! And even as and unbuttoned his shirt. most gone on, across that thing. It The light was turned out, and superfelt like a bag of oats, a sack of Inert he swore that this thing would not go intendent and foreman lay In their material, until his hands brushed unpunished if he could track It down a sort of terror seized him. Old Tom, flesh. beds, still talking lowly. "I feel like a fella at the edge of a He had come upon a man, lying his father, behind this? The thought T, V u ,f big dropoff In the dark," Mark said, there, when he sought to save a made his middle go weak. and stirred In his blankets. "Every horse I Oh, a man's temper can stir him John grasped the limp arm and to bitterness against those for whom thing's rosy so Ion? 's we keep the ground under our feet, but any step pulled the figure about He got to his he has had affection. But old loyalnhead's likely to send us tall over feet and, bent double, ran three steps. ties, old respects are hard to down. The heat and the burden beat him For nearly a month now John Belkears down to the rocks yonder. Some-thidown. An eddy brought in a gulp of nap had thought of his father as an might happen here In the woods fresh air. He rose again and made a enemy, but this night's work killed his to slow us down; Tiny's old coffee-po- t stride or two . . . and went down, temper, replaced It with a profound may go all to h I In a henp and then fear. where are we?" cowering from the terrific punishment Old Tom In a "Over the edge," said John morosely, of standing. Another man was crawling towards fight? Yes, that was Imaginable! But and rolled over on his side. For a long time he lay sleepless. He John from the doorway. He found a old Tom resorting to the torch? That hold and they went for the open with was unthinkable, did not square with dozed and suddenly saw his father a rush. anything In experience. pursuing someone who fled towards It was Jack Tait who had come In to A hard old bird, men had said of him. screaming for his help, and this his father; a relentless fighter when was help. Ellen other, suddenly revealed, who's this?" John driven to it . . . when driven to it! "Who . . . Richards. He woke with a start and rolled But a fair fighter, It was agreed, and choked, rolling the man over. "Big Fellerl Handsome Feller, Toot" Firelight fell on the face as a score even beaten enemies had admitted over, muttering to himself. He did not of men pressed about. that Name's Steele! John Steele! Heerd dream then that the time would come He looked at the others and sent "Never saw him!" panted the burn 'bout you; know all "bout you! Curl-ou- a when the girl's voice would be lifted boss. In screams as shrill as those he heard them out to see that the guard against 'bout you, so come back Someone began to fan the face with He dreamed of the last chance of spreading Are was at John Steele In his dreams. to take a look-semuch's to save time glttin' back to stamping his foot, stamping his font on a cap and Jack Talt plucked ot John's safe. He needed to be alone. Old Tom In this mess? It could not a resounding floor and demanding of arm. Mad Woman! The old veteran was holding up a be; simply was beyond all reason! "Wouldn't come In 'f 'd be'n able to Paul Gorbel that he come Into the open That hand had That the responsibility for all Ellen Of stamping, stamphand, pack out enough grub before snow and fight Just turned the unconscious man's Richards' trouble should rest on his facome. Wrenched my back 'nd no ing . . . and when he stopped stamphead over, had been pressed against ther's shoulders seemed to be reasoncould do much. Lucky couldn't ing the sound continued. able . . . seemed to be. But It could He sat up. The sound continued, ve heerd 'bout Ellen's the side of the skull. Wouldn't not be. His father was no Incendiary "Get over with Mark !" John ordered trouble If Td stayed In. Interestln", and he looked about for Its source, those about him. "Jack and I'll tend his father was no wrecker; his father! trouble. Interestln', seeln' men who bewildered by sleep. gruff and bluff as he was, unjust as he Sounds, yes; coming from outside. to this lad." ain't scared from Tom Belknap's The group scattered. may have been to his own son. would shadder 1" Heavy thuds. Horses kicking I A numThe burden that the two carried not hire bullies to malm the men of All this with scarcely a pause to ber of horses kicking, and a shrill was not heavy. They went across the other employers, would not take unfair draw breath, and when John stopped nickering. His feet bit the cold floor and he trampled snow towards the office, advantage of a weaker competitor! beside the man his eyes were twinas neared their He drew his palms over his face and a window. In the faster a extravan to like More 'hey lunged figure walking kling. shuddered. The whole thing was a "Turn out!" he croaked, as he objective. aganza, this Wolf Richards seemed, cltl-aewhirled back to grope for his pants. John lighted the hanging lamp and nightmare, some wild. Impossible bit than a regular, "Turn out, you I The barn's afire!" they stood looking down into that set of fancy! Suunders was up; Jerry was rolling face. "B!g feller!" he went on, not pausThe barn was gone; one horse was a more than "Never seen hlml" the barn boss ba'hbllng as sleep added to his for out, fleeting glance ing gone; some harness burned, and the said. upward as, he shook out a tarpaulin panic. Wolf Richards chattered shrilrest In a sorry tangle. Not a pound to cover the packs. "Big fellerl Hand"Nor did I." ly. . . . the examined of feed was left In camp. John some feller, toot No wonder a girl "Fire I" John yelled, as he ran outgreat Gingerly John ordered the stranger's body gets soft 'bout a big feller, handsome side and buttoning his coat over his mark on the skull, tracing It out with placed In a box car bn the siding, shut feller who's a handy man to have In underwear made for the men's shanty. his fingers through the thick hair. "What's It shaped like?" he asked, the door and told the men to keep "Fire!" as he burst in the time o trouble. Can't fool me, girls! . . . away. The belief that an unknown Kllen 'special. Knowed her too well door. "Out you bullies I Fire!" looking up. to a " sence she was knee-hig"Ilello, Mr. Richards iH John said. EVENTS LEADING UP TO THIS INSTALLMENT Tm glad to see you. too." said Ellen be. would "Thought you "Tom" Belknap, big- timber operator, ordered by hit physicians to take complete rest, plana a three months' trlD so. Said Td be welcome to stay long 's abroad. Promise of advancement he has made to hla son John are broken, and the yuunur man Is Indignant. Paul ijop nn understanding. At Shoestring his I like." bel, Belknap's partner. Is a bone of contention. Father and nn part without once. Ha refuses. After a flst flirht. his attacker renllx it is a train He stepped close and the metaldelayed by a wreck. John Is ordered to leave laat believed cas to be out to wreck the Richards lumber company. Bewildered of mistaken Identity. John learns his father lic quality went from his voice. nd unbelieving, he seeks employment with that company. At tha office he finds Gorbel bullying a young Kri "She looks bad!" he said lowly, and threw him out Corbel does not recosnlie him. The (rlrl- Is Ellen Richards, owner of the company A letter he' car and John, knowing the feeling In the queer little eyes John dettcted rle gives John s name as John Steele, the Belknap being- dropped Inadvertently, name. Fllen engages John as her superintendent. A seris of agaln father, allows F.llon to bellev thai Is his of und.r a genuine concern as a man will have hi In the deliberate culminates Richards company the to hand trick designed handicap operations wrecking when one deeply lored Is In trouble. bravery under the condition, begin to have a iontim-A- ., locomotive drawlm a mow plow. John, admiring Ellen lai attachment for tha girl, which Is returned "She's ail I got now; I'm all she's got high-pitche- R--- 7 By HAROLD TITUS Hit "UVW a :...-- . i imu rha horn nnd man nau wauuereu off was well esIt set inadvertently tablished. But In the office a small group waituned while John repeatedly made It central. rouse to efforts availing was four o'clock before his persistent ringing brought an answering sleepy voice. He called Roberts, the mill foredisman, at his house, not wanting to turb Kllen. Rapidly he told what had happened. "We'll need a car of lumber," he said, "and saws and hammers and The fire was set by a drunk nails. He suffocated. who wandered in. Send the sheriff out with the train to take charge of that angle. Guess I've told you everything. Don't forget the grain and hay." While the crew was still at breakfast the shrill, familiar scream of the locomotive's whistle came echoing down the forest. A car of lumber and the caboose made up the train. Ellen was the first off. Her mouth was set. Old Wolf ran towards her as she and John dropped from the way-ca- r could see the paternal light In his face, the protecting posture in his whole body as he reached out for the girl. Their meeting was so obviously an affair for the two that John did not approach until Ellen, who had been looking at him an Interval while she listened to her uncle, raised her chin In a beckoning movement. "One more body blow," she said as he came up. Her tone made him wince, and the fragment of a smile which she sought to summon wrenched at his heart. It was unfair for a girl to be forced to mix in a man's fight ! "No getting around that," he agreed. "But it might be a lot worse. Suppose the whole set of camps had gone? Where'd we be then? I went right ahead without consulting you and I guess we'll have a new barn, of a sort, up by night." He took her over the ruins, outlining He did his plan for reconstruction. not go Into his theory of the fire's origin. loss, of "ourse," he said "One horse gone; some har- "There's finally. ness ruined and some lost; several hundred dollars' worth of feed gone up In smoke. But they haven't got us licked yet!" "Haven't they?" she asked, and In the tone was a cynicism, a suggestion of surrender. "Come Into the office," he muttered, and turned to lead the way. Alone, there, she stood before him, wearily drawing off her gloves. "Don't quit now!" he said. "It's a body blow, yes; but we're not licked, Ellen! We're not through yet! We've only commenced to fight !" She looked up at him, studying his face with her large eyes, and smiled a trifle, with her lips, not with those f v tVV & 'H "if7 STOPS a headache There seems to be no safer way to end a headache and there certainly is no safer way than two tablets oil Bayer Aspirin. You've heard doctors say Bayei Aspirin is safe. If you've tried it, yon know it's effective. You could take these tablets every day in the year without any ill effects. And every time you take them, you get the desired relief. Stick to Bayer Aspirin. It's safe. It gets results. Quick relief, from headaches, colds, or other sudden discomfort. eyes. "You're fine!" she said. "You . . . Without you doing Just what you've done I'd have given up weeks ago, I'm afraid. You've done so much for me, you've fought so well and so hard to make a showing. But It seems a little unfair, doesn't It? A little as though the cards were stacked against us? To have a thing like this happen on top of all the things that are planned and executed against us?" She turned away suddenly, as though fearful of breaking down before him. "I wish I were a man!" she said tensely. "I'm tired playing a man's part; worn out wilth trying not to show what I think and feel and . fear !" John stepped forward and put his hands on her shoulders, forcing her to face'hlm. "I'm glad you're not a man," he said gently. "I'm glad you're Just . . . who you are." He felt her tremble as his fingers pressed the firm flesh beneath her ... Mackinaw. "Oh." she said weakly. "Oh . . that !" "That!" he repeated with a vehement nod. "And the reason I haven't said it before, the reason I haven't said a lot of things that there are to ne said, is because trouble has been coming too fast! In a pinch, survival comes first; living afterwards. "That's one thing I want to say. The other Is that you'll have to keep up your courage. I don't want you ever to to again say yourself, even, what you said to me out there, I want you to keep on saying and thinking and what believing you said to Gorbel that night when I stood outside your office door: that we may lose, but we'll go down fighting! ... And I think we're going to lose!" don't It's Eternal Truth To get water you must dig-a- nd the same thing is true in getting other things, too. What SHE WORN-OU- 1.13? g HUSBAND T I TOLD could have reproached SHE his fits of temper h hia "J" had whipped. Constipationl very moraine al- -i ter taking NR H m comnlaints. But wisely saw in his frequent colds,li condi"fajrged out." "on edge' (Nature's Rem edy), as she advised, he felt like himself iiirain keenly alert, peppy, cheerful. NR the safe, dependable, all- - .?' vegeiaoie laxative and correc tiveworks gently, thor-- Km1 naturauy. ustim-uiaiesme eiiminat've tract to complete, regular luiKuoni ng . raj r. uuRniy, TK IS t- a box. 25c j ryat lorming. aruggists . Hums" reaSggSS- Consider the Colt Tou enn try everything once, W vou'd better not. AdvicetoDaughters (TO BE CONTINUED.) Little Left of Great City The traveler today sees very little at the site of Carthage, which was deIn 14(1 B stroyed "For centuries after Its final destruction," says Prof Harry Peck, "Carthage was a quarry for both the Africans and the merchants of Europe. . . Recent times have also added to the w rk of devastation, since the marhe of the ancient walls have been within the past few years In part destroyed by the operation of the Tunisian railway. ,lhe aqueduct .over (W miles in length. Is the only 'remnanf of tha greatness of the city's past that still preserves a real Impresslvenesa," Y who sufffr f f'"" monthly a headaches, s.de ot m and women age who a g ufe'JI ness. should taU ror a 00. KDU i Mr tnP nHviee of "of- -. Pierce's Imprint Avt A.Tobey of No. 320: 7th At o ling, Colo., who says wns very Dcrvous and rr',a"' ; nch, too. was to sicK Hut Dr. Tierce s 1 v : tim res. .n,ifl) . overcame the stomach compifl""; if0 more strength and energy an",, away thoRe awful hcaifiicbcs. Write Dr. Pier.'. CUnf, B"'ta! |