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Show THE SHAVER COUNTY WEEKLY PRESS. BEAVER. UTATI TMS IMPOSTOR By FRANK L. PACKARD w v fx t. mutton Gulab Singh was black with hate and cloud obscured the . moon, and the revenge filled his soul. It Is too long riding lights of the vessel gleamed and "It la as the Kanaka said," Gunga a story to tell now, sahib. Great wealth twinkled brighter In the greater darknodded. : "Sahib, a question : How did was his; those In his pay were every-wher- ness, and until the moonlight strug yon know of those Chinamen and ,. i 's.SL.JZii-isilver, waving f gled forth sgaln In r Drink-Hous- e Samf ; Twlce he tried to bring worse than path until there came a little splash . "One of them told me as be was death upon the master by sttscks npon In the distance, as though a fish bad dying, Wallea replied, "because, J your mother, And the second r time, Jumped. auppose, I had nursed blm as best I sahib" Gunga'a band . around the Then Wallen raised hla head, . " could through the night". 1 . ears tightened until the knuckles were ' At the sound Gunga too had stirred, IE . ,.11 . Tea," Gunga nodded his head again. as white knobs protruding from the for now he dipped his oars and rowed "But I will end first the Kanaka's swarthy skin "It was only by a mir- on toward the Monleigh, And then he tale so that the sahib wtU understand acle that she was saved. But, sahib, spoke again: all else the better. The Kanaka bad it killed her, even If it were months "Wash your hands, sahib," he said been a long time a member of the afterward when your father bad hid- in low tones, "for they are red." crew, long before the ship came to den her In the gray, house the sahib At the gangway Gnnga sent the boat " '. Honolulu. -- knows, forlshe was Jwlth. chlld then, ' adrift .with push toward the Mon- - -1. a (X?J -Jit waa in Honolulu that for much and when you were born she died. ; lelgh's stern ; and Wallen, with the money be was hired by one of Ram "And then, sahib, the master stayed other behind him, mounted to the boat Gulab Singh' agents to kill the mas on. there to protect you, as he had deck; There was no one on the bridge; ' ,. ter. , ' anchor-watch lo. and-- if there7was-a- a at rl-- '.' ' 'M promised your mother -a-I If he failed In that he was1 to Bnt even there It was not further than all, the man was asleep, for they had : stir up the crew to dream of the trees- - j the arm of Bam Gulab Singh could come alongside. unnoticed.' v u In the doorway of the captain's cabin sahib, which, with so strange j reach; Does the sahib remember the voyage as was theirs, would readily night as a .child, he crawled from bed Wallen baited, with Gnnga beside him. be believed, so that It might come and' came down the stairs, and there There were empty glasses on the lock about that the crew and officers would t was a man dead upon the floor?", er and an empty bottle. Captain Layn-to- n take things Into their own hands, and j "I remember," said Wallen In a fully dresred,' was snoring In his would take the ship to the place Ram voice be did not recognise as his own. bunk. He sat up with a start at WaV , Gnbb Singh had set- - dawn upon the) And then ten's second ttMkr-r- " "Hello T he blinked. "Oh, you, Mr. , paper, and where Raja Gulab Singh j "And then," said Gunga, "the young ass EARO11N0 for a small. would lie In wait to work his will upon sahib went away; and the master had Wallen ! And" he blinked again, at almost thin, the master and npon them all, sahib, no longer sny heart for anything but Gunga "who's this you've got beret" 0 white caterpillar In for dead men tell no tales. But tor to stay on in the grey house. When My father's servant Gunga," Wal acres of Texas cot- that paper, sahib, tt so fell out, he had next the master learned of you you len answered. You remember, I asked , I ton land; confronted with no need until yon, by Allah's will, came were at see, sahib ; and after that he you about him. Gunga, this Is Captain I the necessity of making L-also to the ship, as I have related. AH watched your comings and your goings Lajnton."" VV -- r 1 certain that in all that I .'j- - , , -- o The East Indian salaamed gravely this, sahib, I learned tonight while I always."', "';.':"-- ' area no single caterpillar ; "And all this time Ram , Gulab and profoundly and stepped respectlay hidden." , made good Its conceal"Go on urged Wallen tensely. "1 Singh gave no sign. Then came the fully back out onto the deck, away ment In boll or stalk or ter careful examination. At the end ''.i' . begin to see -- a little. My father, Gnn- time that word reached the master from the cabin. leaves or grass or trash; forced to of the season the reports of all the Gulab Ram that you had taken berth npon the ga and this SlnghF Captain Laynton 'stared at Wallen. sweep every Inch of the 10,000 acres Investigators showed that absolutely "The yomur sahib Is twentr-four.- " Cpolo, to trade among the Islands of Then he rubbed his eyes and stared as closely as a scrupulous housewife no evidence of the presence of the ' '. said Gnnga. "It began two years be- Ram Gulab Singh and upon the mas again. v sweeps the kitchen floor and to sift bollworm could be found. The botlworm from the danger pink . fore ytfu were born. The master was ter fell again the old fire, for he knew he ejaculated ; Ton every pint of the sweepings as care "My word had But the success of the campaign will been recognised, and regula great merchant here, owning schoon- that It wag the hand of Ram Gulab look as though you'd been In a bally fully as a miser would sift dirt with tionslong not be regarded as absolutely certain ' were made the government by -' :,tr--ers by means of which be traded with Singh that struck. fight" gold nuggets In It there Js a task be cotton the all two other summers have passed. until of requiring fumigation "A few side which the one of searching for a the natives. Ram Gulab Singh was "I sahib, he sent here immediately smiled Walton "Do could In the meantime the quarantine will from it before countriea foreign wharf-rats, the native governor over a group of to spy npon them, and this I learned; that's all, captain. Well needle In a haystack appears simple be landed In the United States. Ev- be rigorously enforced. Drink-Hous- e these islands. Sam, taking with him the get under way now. If you're ready." and as requiring no patience worth ery measure possible precautionary to I'rlor the dlscovery-o"He waa very powerful, and hla Chinese of whom the sahib knows, was f the actual "Aye, Tra ready," Laynton replied ; mentioning. ;. was taken, but there came one Jhlng of the pink bollworm In Tex ' presence wealth was beyond reckoning. sent to Shanghai to wait the coming of be was still staring, only more fixedly But that Is exactly what the United against r which even the government as the state, taking precautions "Also, sahib, he was a murderer and the Tokamaru, the sahib's ship; and now at Wallen's clothes, i States department of agriculture, with could not guard. The great storm against Its presence not far away In ' ' a thief, whereby he had hla wealth; there at the time the Upolo was In Wallea, following the direction of tbe help of the state authorities of that ravaged the Gulf country In 1913 Mexico, had enacted legislation glvinz ' and he hid his face behind the British port He bribed the man who was the other's eyes, glanced down and Texss did In the campaign for, the washed ashore armmd Trinity Bay, authority to establish a sone free from government, whom he deceived.. Tour mate to leave the1 vessel, and also some his own eyes fixed on an ugly rel elimination ; of the pink boll worm of and possibly elsewhere en the Texas cotton culture on the border of Texas father lost one schooner and then an- of the crew, that there might be room smear across his pocket He had for- cotton. It was . done so successfully great quantities of cotton lint adjacent to Mexico. Since that time, other and many goods; and knowing for the men he had brought ; and then. gotten Hbatl : It waa when he had felt thst not a single egg, larva, or moth coast, snd cotton seed. tones have In his heart that It was Ram Gulab quarantine and cotton-fre- e for a match, of the pink bollworm appeared In 1018, to Ka?4n 414W1u 1h VkSUA atMAAfli gave Nobody any thought special '''.. Singh, he complained to the govern"Aye, rra' ready," said 'Laynton a result that appears to Justify the the matter at tbe moment, but when The normal planting of cotton In the ment But because he could prove, was sitting up for you, characterization of the Job as the big again. the next year tbe pink bollworm apof these areas Is about 50.000 Reckon -- finding that chap was your gest successful entomological experinothing, nothing was done, sahib; only largest peared all around the bay, It became acres and the For God's ment of Its kind In. history, that tt came to the ears of Ram Gulab business, eh. Well, I Inability to plant has,' waslied-usome of that the apparent . :1 Singh, and he mocked your father, my sake, what's thatr When it was first found that the cotton must hare come across the oi course, entailed hardship on the. trianters. Individuals 137 to be exmaster, by messengers In private. It came sudden, quick as the crsrlr pink bollworm of cotton had gained Gulf from Laguna district of Mex act of doom two revolver ahota in rapid a footing upon tbe soli of the United ico, where tbe the law and planted v "Sahib, my master was' a brave man, the pest had gained a foot some disregarded He loaded a succession from without and then States, the consternation that resulted cotton, a total of a few hundred , and of great cunning. " some not earlier. time That Ing may 4 schooner with such richness of goods acres.; Legal action was taken against silence.',, ' Wallen whirled and rushed on deck; wss hardly less than It would have have been the only source of Infesta tuem and they have since signed common waa in but talk ; that also, it an t been If the discovery had been made tlon, but It was the one that gave the secret he placed Abundance of arms to bear all the cost of cleanwith Laynton stumbling madly behind that German gunboats were coming up agreement greater part of the trouble. him. There was no one In sight save tb npon the vessel; and at night as she ing up their farms, under the superMississippi river. But ..the con An oil mill at Hearne hod received meet to came vision of government Inspectors, and . who sailed, he himself came aboard J(n the Gunga, running "was sternation among agricultural some seed from Mexico In 1016, and to leave the .' darkness with many men to join the them from the rail though now from scientists. .The disposal of the cotton not general public did crew, and of these I was one, sahib... aroused, know the desperate danger. The sclen the bollworm appeared In a few fields grown absolutely in. the hands of the forward, the crew evidently In tbe Immediate neighborhood of the f -came commotion. ' "It came about as the master had , tlsts knew, however, that unless mill. The Infestation at this point authorities. foreseen. shouted Laynton "What was Is Interesting to note that a con It Checked, the little bollworm meant an warearireiynraTnatedTTn short order, siderable number- - of - these Tfa mIImI to tha lalanda where Sam. "Who fired lhose"shotir annual loss of not less than $50,000,burning all outlaw cotton Golan Singh was; and Ram Gulab "They seemed to come from tlvre. 000, If. Indeed, it did not threaten the however,, by uprooting andand fields were discovered cotton, growing collecting burning fawas im answered that Sahtb." it your Gunga Singh,; knowing Captain existence of the cotton Industry, and allr scattered parts, the by aerial observation. Much of the V. 14 l.. ' .V I J J.. prompt milling luera uiuvuer, auu uiiu&utg, ii yiuc passively' and pointed forward. in the infested areas is heav their alarm was not materially less- and destruction of the seed, and the country of great value, fell Into the snare. With an oath Captain Laynton ened because the Infested timbered. Roads are neither plenwas ily area, to Europe of the harvested Sahib, he came upon ns with four Jumped for the ladder and - swung him- limited to small areas around Trinity shipment nor good In many places, and It tiful : ". I self down to the foredeck. proas, and our men lay hidden below was possible for an outlaw planter to , Bay, Beaumont and Hearne, Texas. lint A mill at Beaumont, too, hnd re Wallen's eyes met Gnnga's. the decks, that they might not be seen tuck away a few acres of cotton In bollworm the ' For not ceived-seefrom Mexico vio pink and had spreads,, until the pirates, led by Ram Gulab "Sahib," said Gunga softly, "shall or acres, but by hundreds of lated Its agreement to use It only for some nook of the , woods beyond proba viper sting twicel I was watching by yards Singh himself, boarded us from the a miles The chief agent of milling. st leap. It developed that some of ability of discovery by ordinary means. . . '"' '" la the boat for I knew we were ahead proas. man with dissemination his rail this seed was sold to planters through- This gave the Inspectors of the fedbeing "It was a fight sahib, that I would, jr . of him. He swims wett, but once he road from distance Texas out a radius of 20 or 90 miles from eral horticultural board the Idea of the trains, splashed. It wss Kanaka, .He will to f to Allah I might see again before I die, or is no the milt- - Each sale was traced and using airplane observers to spy out the Carolina North. Georgia swim no more, sahib." for my arm la still strong and my" not tbe surrounding district Included in bidden fields. The scheme worked ad and It would great Jump, probably r blood Is the blood of youth, and 'the L, It la Tea Long a Story to Tell Neva, mirably., the first flight alone reveal- - -a be The would direct larva Jump. the clean-u- p operations. . saw ,v- CHAPTER VII. " uc jvmiw vvwhv nyM be loaded Into a car of cotton at Beau cotton In- Ing no less tlmn. seven outlaw cotton But It waa tbe washed-u- p tiles fight who must either fighter die. to ' New mont Bedford, festation at Trinity Bay that deveioped fields which had escaped discovery by say, shipped ' But half escaped, and those by swim-.'mln-g The Wirslesa Messas. through the Influence of ethers of Ram In the litter at the the really alarming situation. Involving all other means. and left Mass, to the proas which. In their first .Gulab 8ingh's agents rln higher quar Wallen stretcned out hla arms m a bottom of While a feeling of reasonable safety the car, which would then acres of cotton sur ' onslsugbt after all had come on board ters, the captain, who was an honest sort of glad relief as he came on deck go to Brockton for a load of shoes more than 6,000 Is Justtfiublo as to the elimination of the and ass there it bay, rounding ; of us, we hsd cut adrift from , the men, sablb, was led tor Induce you to t morning. He had breakfasted to Atlanta, and would final- that the really big operations were tbe bollworm from Texas, the danger consigned . late because bad and he .achooner's sides. hlra'ln alone, the qther'a place.. sail with slept of new r Infestation' remains so long out on some siding In the undertaken, In the melee, m mas-he, had slept .well, once he ly get swept I did not learn "Bat sahib, ali-thi'.; "Many times fields.' cotton as ine oouwonn exists in Mexico, ana, A of Georgia laborforce and experts large - ter tried to single out Ram Gulab at once; and .meanwhile jour father, had got to bed. 800 therefore, extreme vigilance will not ers not less than And It anew with would tbe there negroes begin time being. If he wished Singh, that they might meet face to , knowing well what threatened, had be. relaxed. All railway cars and Oththe num of asslstsnce . has la devastation that it any voluntary wrought fSce, but It wss only at the last the . utopped at Honolulu and chartered the nd be did wish It he could be care-er vehicles Riming serosa the line are bef and the" members fanners of of their Indian Japan;Egypt'1 Philippines, Bam as master came apon the other knows.' . to fol-'- ! free and laugh with pure happiness. " as .the. sahib rjjonlelgh. he . . . . a a a . a TV rt was i w"tr tnnpocted, I'leuned," and fumlgatedf "were families, the assembled," Straits Settlements,-tamps Gulab Singh was climbing over the rail low the upolo in jne nope that be vnnmooiw oam no longer uvea oe-- I Ceylon, ami ears dlnlnfectlon The of freight to escape, and Ills hand was on the might reach you jn time before the 'ore him day and night threaten-wor- k Hawaiian Islands, BanzlJ, Mexico, and established.' and the cleanup was be with g gas. from generators placml withcoun gun on a thoroughly systematized plan ' - lng, sinister; the ship Itself, with the practically every was done. 7 . rail, but before he had dropped Into on tbe globe except the United that Involved every . Inch of surface, in the cars has been discarded as givthe water 'the master's cutlass hsd sev"Sahib, there Is but of the murder Kenaka gone, was purged of Its men- - try States. It U the most destructive of to make sure that no lurking place was ing --no- secnrlly against Inwcts- - that d f nf Drink-Hous- e ered three finger from ; ana ne knew an now ana tne Sam to ten. Here ln lie" renting on the exterior of Ram Gulab SiDgb such, sahib. Is the Singapore I have crept Into the house knowledge,- - concrete, definite, tangible. all enemies of cotton, often "rednclng left for a larva to winter. 7Alf (he might Dial nfctlon tonne haw "tienr" w fcl Aa area-wiWat. JK) tatevi of. hy, and rent .grown the.yleld, per of, jhc bankejCLpo aa cld and crafty .,ulbd. the rerll .OuU stlU-- exUted-- of reading of the paper with the one-finerected Into which cars are run and " Chinese fox. who Is the chief stent of that sense of impotent dread, which la sometimes by more thsn 00 per cent. to Galveston: under supeninlon and disinfected liotli g'ered hand. All Internally and exter-nntl-v. and countries. to seed of the foreign lessening greatly quantity hlppl "Snhlb, this time the government Ram Gulab Singh.' And It was there the attribute of the mysterious and the ; V milled under wss oil the of direction produced, from the seed.. In the we bsd prisoners who learned of Drlnk-IlouK- e Sam, who, unknown. The. work ended agents. The qii'(tln Is now ru'se.l: Han confessed : hilt' sgalnst these Rnm thoo.Th he wts one of them, wns hated ll 0W cloudless and blue the sky was; Hawaiian Islands the cotton industry Gulf of Mexico hurrlcnn Gulab Singh sent many to lake the. by them bocauxe, his demands for nad the fresh, clean breese filled the has been practically abandoned be-- with tbe whole srea as clettn as the the rect-ntr-a table. It cone of wherever It. and the cause, has top pent, again to the Texns Vt brought the money were ever !nnltent, and be lungs as with a magical elixir! Life oath lhat he had been elsewhere awaited lMre1 Tim xtonn ravaged the Gulf the Industry has suffered terribly, file reult. natursHy.--as tlme And so again there was not the cause, snhlb, with the years he knew was good! He had paused Just outside the Thst is why the department of agri- with much anxiety. In the spring of Hhore from Brownsville beyond t full measure of proof, but my mauler j too much to be refused. culture, when the worm appenrml in 1018 the entire area wss watched. The Key Wct. If the storm of 101 i j lounging room, aid now a crackle from an and asked matter house to came that "And there the the that pressed CoRsm sent wireless the hoost caught his ear. That Texas, thought It worth while to un - planting of cotton was prohibited, of brought the next to the American, armed force be j Ksnnka tonight; and there, ton, came against court, and every stalk of volunteer shore from Mexico, why ahoiitd not ihe lab Singh. Sahtb, If that had been i word that you had niiide trouble at accounted for no sight Of ber npon the derttake a campaljtn out of all propor- j' cotton was pulled up snd destroyed f-- xante conditions now obtulnt tlon Infested. r to area the Drink-HousI deck been well. have Seni's. And, sahib, as done,' all would "Good morning, MIts MacKayP he "Instead, the government deemed It wolves that feed tpon themselves, and wise to bring only great dishonor upon because It would Seem thst the guilt jmig out cheerily as he hurried fided to a vltdtor after the doctor had to enable her to attend rehearsal. Ram Gulab Slbgh, and they stripped fall upon the stranger, upon you, ward. "Found some one to gossip finllied an auttulng sort of highland ARked to explain, "Dtentje" said (bnt Rsm Qulsb Singh of all rank and au- sahib, who had come and fought al - , with this morningt I " fling, "a very remarkable state of af- she was a memiwr of the orchestra Drink-House He was atandlng !n the doorway of Sim tonight, thority, and for several years patrolled ready with An official of an Insane ayluro Is a fairs, when they shnt me f here and of the Concert Jetton w (the Queen'' the raters of the Islsnd closely." they went sahib, and did even as you ' the wireless room now, and the words firm believer In the vslne'of amuse- leave him on the outside r ball of Amsterdam), and needed leisGcnga paused. The muscles of his have seen. Would the sahib, too, have died on hla Hps. Brown eyes, staring ment on a deranged mind ; and. being ure moments In which to practlc fsce were twitching again and the paid with blood for his fatner'a blood 1 out from a very white face brown a.good;.amatfur comedian, he occasIn Holland, Too. . Brahms, Spohr, Iluch and Beethoven "I meant to do that thing myself; eyes that seemed to hold a shudder of ionally assists at ' an entertainment. The typical Dutch honncmald In for the autumn concerts, I,ond n hard, fijntlike gleam was back once k nd His last more In the eyes that al- but because I could not escape from contempt and loathing met hi d r skirts Pallr- - Express.--''''- ' performance was especially, wooden clogs and audiman In to room one lias ways swept the wa?er,; that , never where I was hidden la the house Tintil she turned away her head.' " '' make the for a but away passed ludlcroua; t all were gone, I was too late. Sahib, (TO BK coimxtfED.) looked at Wallen. Chinese University Expjind. ence sat through It with a grave and totally different kind of being." An t . . ...1 K waa urvauar i juur i ui .u wi I lie title Is told." SSaniut The Fukleo Union university i.f unmoved countenance, a look of per- Amsterdam indy engaged not long ago Optlmlatie Tbowght o word came irora Wallen. For a er, oerore you were wra, mai toe nu- To the wise there la cleasnrs In aofc plexity In bis eyes. "It certainly s a a new housemaid who stipulated lhat Toochow Is shout to erect ter left the East-- . The heart of Bam long time he sot Immovable while a Itnde. remarkable state of affairs," he con fctie houtd have two evenings a week dollar group of building. CHAPTER VI Continued. e, f . v xV 1- M . 7ir.UJrr.:'-4- -- be-wo- T - "V re-hu- : ; J Gngtt'rfr""w" roHO-tlnte- 10,-00- III if ' r -- r - .ir ir ''' .'.-:,. ' -- -- . 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