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Show THU BRAVER COTTNTY WT,FKT,Y PRESS, ftp; A VFR. ITTAII TTTV Mrs. Robert 0. Reynold " :?:;; "" " plied. "I hope, unknown to me, that wan nas already dispatched those The arm of th law is long, Cranston. It's easy to forget that fact HP here. It will reach vou in th. end." Cranston turned throuirh the Attar Into the kltohen. He" was aoue a lonr Unie. Lennox heard hlra at work; the crinkle of paper and then a pour-In- a sound around the walls. Then he beard the sharp crack of a match. An Instant laler the first wisp of smoke came curling.' pungent with burning "Oil. through the corridor. "You crawled from your couch to reach that gun." Cranston told htm when he came la. "Lei's see you crawl out no." Lennox's answer was a curse th last, dread outpouring of an unbroken will. Ue didn't look again at the He scarcely watched eyes. tianstou's further preparations: the oil poured on the rugs and furnishings, the kindling placed at the base of the Curtains. Cranston was trained lb this work. He was taking no chances on the tire being extinguished. And Lennox hegan to crawl toward the door. He managed to grasp the corner of the blanket on 'he divan as he went, and he dragged It behind him. Pain d wracked him, and smoke him. But he made it at last And by the time he had crawled one hundred feet .over the snow crust the whole structure was In flames. The red tongues spoke with a roar. on his Cranston, the face, hurried to the outbuildings There he repeated the work. He touched a match o the hay In the ASPIRIN let-ten- .1 Mes s CHAPTER I Continued. 1 1 mhhmhhm . bave actually gained twenty-fiv- e J'i ounds and I Just think Teniae is the randest medicine In the worid,Tald frs. Robert O. Reynolds 127 North Vnver St., Kansas City, Mo. I "For ten long years I suffered from I very bud form of rheumatism, stora-f- li und nervous troubles. My apje-t- e was very poor. What little I did d Kt soured on my stomach and I the most severe pains In my ack, nips and shoulders. My rheumatism was so bad that I could not ilse my bands to comb my hair and jy arms hurt me to my finger tips. i became so weak and run down that I lost all my energy and life had e almost a burden. I tried many kings but nothing helped roe. i "I had only taken my first bottle t Tanlac when I noticed my appetite as Improving and I could sleep bet-e- r at night. I have taken three bot-te- s and the way It has helped me and I nllt me up is really astonishing. an eat anything and everything wth-O- t suf-erv- be-om- He came stealing across the snow i musher of the first degree. Very silently and swiftly be slipped off his tnowshoes at the door. The door lf was unlocked. Just as be bad supposed. In .n instant more he was tiptoeing, a dark, silent figure, through the corridors of the house. JJe held his rifle ready a his hands. IJe peered Into Lennox's bedroom first. The room was unoccupied. Then the floor of the corridor creaked beneath hl step; and he knew nothing further was to be gained by waiting. If Lennox suspected Ms presence, he might be waiting with aimed title as he opened the door of the living room. He glided faster. He halted once more a moment at the living-roodoor lo see If Lennox had been disturbed. He was lying still, however, so Cranston pushed through. .'Lennox glanced up from his magazine to find that ' unmistakable thing, the barrel of a rifle, pointed at his breast Cranston was one of those rare marksmen who shoot with both eyes open and tiat meant that he kept his full visual powers to the last Instant before the hammer fell. "I can't raise my arms," Lennox said simply. "One of 'em won't work at all besides, against the doctor's orders." Cranston stole over toward him. closely for weapons. He pulled looking the slightest disagreeable after-fect- aside the woolen blanket that Lennox I sleep just fine at night and had drawn up over his body, and he m in better health than I have been pushed his hand Into the cushions of or years. I am glad to give this the conch. A few deft pats, holding tatement, hoping that any who are his rifle through the fork of his arm, affering as I did may experience the finger colled Into the trigger guard, ame wonderful results, which I be-e- assured him that Lennox was not they will if they give Tanlac a "heeled" at all. Then he laughed and s. lir trial." .Tanlac is sold by leading druggists went towork. "I thought I told you once," Lenverywhere. Adv. nox began with perfect coldness, "that the doors of my house, were no longer More Disarmament. open to yon." "Ton did My that," was Cranston's This would be a "better world If hoi guttural reply. "But you see I'm here Terybody would take a y from gossip. Chicago Daily Just the same, don't you? And what ' ews. are you going to do about It?" "I probably felt that sooner or later would come to steal just as you " yon Fails. WW Wiiardry and your crowd stole the supplies Kaicker la that seer any good? iBocker No, she could tell my for- from the forest station last winter and that probably Influenced roe to me, but not my Income tax. five-ye- ar )OCICROACHES StLt KILLED j TODAY BY USINQ TMI 6ENUINK itearns' Electric Paste B. DKATH to Yttatan Aata. carrlara of 4 Tim Ml am th fnfUaat F aa MUST B itii i fcTm. Thar hmm bo IVB1 Mica. a4 4t too Vfopany. . Mmottoa t It teafiMM I tium MtMAj for BM-t-wo I V. . Gorar-uaa- at give the orders. I didn't want thieves around my house, and I don't want them now. I don't want coyotes, either." "And I don't want any such remarks out of you, either, Cranston answered him. "You lie still and shut up, and I suspect that sissy boarder of yours will come baek. after he's through embracing your daughter In the snow and find you In one piece Otherwise not." "If I were In one. piece," Lennox answered him very quietly, "instead of a bnndle of broken bones that can't ta mrr Sol. ko and KM. by mull Pmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrmrmmmmmmmrmmmmii It. ; under the dark lashes. He went to Dan's room, searched his bureau drawer and all the pockets of th clothes banging In his closet He on set bis trunk and pawed among old letters In the suitcase. Then, stealing like some creature of the wilderness. he came back to the living room. Lennox was not on the divan where be had left him. He lay instead on the floor near the fireplace; and be .met the passion-drawface with entire calmness. Hit motives were perfectly plain. He had just made a desperate effort to procure Dan's rifle that hung on two sets of deer horns over the fireplace, and was entirely exhausted from it. He bad succeeded in getting down from the couch, though wracked by agony, but had been unable to lift himself up in reach of the gun. Cranston read his Intention In one glance. Lennox knew it but he simply didn't care. He bad passed the point where anything seemed to mat ter. "Tell me where It la," Cranston ordered him. Again he pointed bis rifle at Lennox's wasted breast "Tell you where what My money?" "You know what I want and It Isn't money. I mean those letters that I'm Falling found on the ridge. through fooling, Lennox. Dan learned that long ago, and It's time you learned It now." "Dan learned If because he was Sick. He isn't sick now. Don't presume too much on that" Cranston laughed with harsh scorn. "But that Isn't the question. I said I've wasted all the time I'm going to. Too are an old man and helpless; but I'm not going to let that stand In the way of getting what I came to get They're bidden somewhere around tbla house. I've watched, and he's had no chance to take them Into town. I'll give you Just five seconds to tell me where they're hidden." "And I give you," Lennox replied, "one second less than that to go to h 11!" Both of them breathed hard In the quiet room. Cranston waa trembling now, shivering Just a little In his arms and shoulders. "Don't get me wrong, Lennox," be warned. "And don't have any delusions In regard to me, either," Lennox replied. "I've stood worse pain from thia accident than any man can give me while I yet live, no matter what he does. If you want to get on me and hammer me In the approved Cranston way. I can't defend myself but you won't get a civil answer out of me. I'm used to pain, and I can stand It I'm nut used to fawning to a coyote like yoC. nnd I can't stand it" But Cranston hardly heard. An Idea had flamed in bis mind and cast a red glamor over all the scene about him. It was Instilling a poison In his nerves and a madness In hla blood, and it was searing him, like fire, In his dark brain. Nothing seemed real. He suddenly bent forward, tense, "That's all right about you," he said. "But you'd be a little more polite if It was Snowbird and Dan that would have to pay." Perhaps the color faded slightly in Lennox's face; but his voice did not change. "They'll see your footprints before they come In and be ready," Lennox replied evenly. TTiey always come In by the back way. And even with a pistol. Snowbird's a match for you." "Did you think that waa what I meant Cranston scorned. "I know a way to destroy those letters, and I'll do It In the four seconds that I said, unless yon tell. I'm not even sure I'm goln" to give you chance to tell now; n Name "Bayer" on GenulaT " -- Aa Idaho Cve Warning I Uifteaa you see Ui nam Bayer" on package or on tablets yoa are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for twenty-on- e years and proved safe by millions. Take Aspirin ouly as told In the Bayer package for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago and for Fain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger passages. Aspirin is th trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Uonuacetlcactdeater of Sallcycacid. . . Adv. .. ng .. Jaa. Peacock, 3D 8. R Main St., Black foot. Idaho, ays; "1 waa subject to attack of kidney complaint by th cauaed heavy work on th farm. Th attack were s v r and I wit aa lame I could hardly walk or bend over often to lirt anything. uI'M I rkiHn'a Kidney and cot a box. That boa entirely relieved bm of the advai-tlae- on backache." Cat DaaaS at An Stare, . 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KttUU, Alton, Tenn, to th Prone Body Lennox. t . barn, and the wind flung th flam through It in an Instant The sheds and other outbuildings were treated with oil. And seeing that hla work waa done, be called once to the prone bodf of Lennox on the snow and mushed away Into the silences. Lennox's answer was not a curse this time. Rather It was a prayer, un uttered, and In his long years Lennox When bad not prayed often. prayed at all, the words were burning fire. His prayer was that of Samson that, for a moment his strength might come back to him. CHAPTER U ridges, Dan Two miles across th and Snowbird saw a faint mist blow- ing between the trees. They didn't ' recognise It at first. It might be fin anow, blown by the wind, or even one of those mysterious fogs that sometimes sweep over the snow. "But It looks like smoke," Snowbird said. "But It couldn't be. The trees are too wet to burn." But then a sound that at first was just the faintest whisper in which neither of them would let themselves believe, became distinct past all denying. It was that menacing crackle of a great fire, that In the whole world of sounds Is perhsps the most terrible. - "It'a oar house," Snowbird told-hi"And father can't get out" She spoke very quietly. Perhaps .the most terrible truths of life are always spoken In that same quiet voice. Then both of them started across th now as fast as their unwieldy snow-shoe- s Mrs. Mary IAster of Adrian, Micbtulds her testimony to tbe Yln of Lydla E. Pinkbam'i Vegetable Compound to carry women safely through the Change of Life. She say t ; . "It is with pleasure that I writ' to yoa thanking yon for what yoor wonderful medicine has don for me. I was passing through th Chang of Life and had a displacement and weakness so that could not stand on toy feet and other annoying symptoms. A friend told m about Lydia E. 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What ft Mie foe would permit "He can crawl a little," Dan called aVlaslali aUbaUaw" afa aOi Jfa..IooiooLAchcnie Therej"':f'n't 9'1ieTrWt"rrp;--SnowWf- 4 be any witnesses then to yell around Take a good dose of Carterf little Ihcr I think hell be aafe." In the courts. What If I choose to set mine," PiUa then take 2 or 3 for afew nights after.' They mounted to the- top of th fir to this houser forA few doses restore your organs to their the of the and long sweep CARTER ridge; "It -- wouldn't surprise tno a great est functions and the Headache and the was revealed t them. Th house proper deal. It'a your own trade." Lennox alcauses of it pass away In the same manner of flame, tall was singular pillar shuddered one on hla place on the dreadful red from They regulate At Boaeb mi pmtni CtutlpalimJ that glowing ready floor. , v which firemen, despairing, turn away. SmI til ImtM Baat laal hlnl "I wouldn't have to worry about Then the seised hla hands and girl those letters then, would IT They are danced about him lo a mad clrcl. somewhere in the bouse,-anthey'd be "He' allvr ah cried.. "Too can burned to ashes. But that Isn't all see dot on the snow. lie him Just that would bo burned. Too could may- crawled out to safety? be crawl out but you couldnt carry She turned and sped at a breakneck ra the guns, and you couldn't carry the down the ridge. Dan had to race pace pantry full of food. You're nearly to keep up with her. But It wasn't eneighty, mile up here from the nearctf tirety, wis to try to mush so fast A occupied bouse, with two pair of dead IVc-r-a Death ooJy a matter of ahort time. Says t!ow log lay beneath the snow with snowthoes for th three of you and to lt lmost stretched Doot wait until pains and aches "I was hPflriy dead until I fend walk broken limb on dinky pistol. And surface, and It caughl her soowsho. become incurable diseases. Avoid Eatonlc and I can truly say It mv4 t alt ' It would be a nice pickle, Th ' wood cracked sharply, and sh fell my life. It 1 the best stomach uwn-d- o by taking wouldn't it? Wouldn't you have a fat forward In snow. But sh wasn't painful consequences ever made," write lira. ISia the chaoc of. getting; . down. tQ .jcJtIII aad the aooweho lUeif. iaaplU Bnjltluv hart " . V v UonT Acid stoma ch causes "aw iul "misery small crack In the wood, was stilt The vole no longer held steady.- It ofervlceabte, which Eatonlc quickly gets rtd of by ' trembled with passion. This was no taking up and carrying out tb cidlty "Haste tnskes wsste," be told her. Idler threat fc4 already ; .anl jcasfS. which, pment good onBOPounCSnow-blrdfeet A tablet taken after meals brtnr seised upon th scheme with every In- "Keep yourhouse la and th gone already relief. Keeps th atowac quick tention of carrying It out The wilU Mfe. . Remember what father your for and helps to prevent tb mtpy of Standard world" rwnwty healthy Udaer, Tb derness lay stark tod bare,' stripped IU so liabl to arts from esc? lies before us.bladdw and orie add troublae lh 11 delusion raf, not only In the snow (TO BB CONTINUED.) Natlooat Rtndy of Holland aloe 1690. Don't auffcr from stomach mlseil world outside but In th besrtsof when yoa can get a big box of Litotia all drogglsta Tare It fiction. If truth la atranger than these two men, fu aona. for a trifle with your druysf gsmp Urn ( aV mm CM MJU mmrr "I hav only on hope," Lennox r- - la becans fact catrans ImagtiiaUo, ntee. WaaaU - To seal In the delicious Ourley - tobacco flavor 4 It's Toasted "I Can't RalM My Arms," Simply. KeepYoujSkin-Pore- s Active and Healthy With Cnticura Soap Itnnox Said . ' lift Its arms. T6 get up oft this couch, .unarmed as I am, and stamp on your 'ylng Up, But Cranston only Unshed and tied Saaj JSe, Oiste- -t 2S ml Mc. TaW XS. LnBeK'-iet.lts .rord.rom tba shade. window JACKS 123 EIAT.2H0TII 11 went to work very systematicalI kT " tamla tot w. ivkLows jack rljuc ly. First be rifled Lennox' desk la err hfTtooked-t- wr "U"nVTD 11 the mantels and ransacked th PATEr and tha dra vera. H .was a4 fnpboards ITtrtaanataiaaaaa. Banaanl. calm at first But aa th and tanntlng Cb.w and ameka.' Naiaral laat momenta passed, his passion rrew upTt)HA0 aa ar Ih., aoatpat. fttaia which, ahaw a on him. Ha do longer mulled. The ameka. RICHARD KKWMAM, llosivadir. K. rodent features' became Intent; the W. H. U, Salt laka City, No. birrowad to carious, bright slita ... r, ). TS att&WM W u 21. ;Tl I TOO LATE SavGiinylifo with ' yon-can'- a- Jersey t '' The-brsl- mm 8 - d!sc-tlo- -- l ; k n. ai, |