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Show fs THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1921. THE afraid when you leave me thia way at night. big man. Tolliver, patted hie head. Jlls coarse laughter was meant to reaaaure, but, as he 'a need g about the living room of his remote and cheerless house his eves were uneasy. The little boy. Just six years old. crouched by the Cook stove, whimpering over the remains of his supper. What are you afraid of?" Tolliver scoffed. The stagnant loneliness, the perpetual drudgery, had not yet conquered his wife's beauty, dark and desirable. She motioned toward the boy. "He a afraid, too, when the sun goes GET 5 Job shifted his feet. Ikmt know," he oaid uncomfortably. What you bring the kid for? Wan me to drop him at the house?" Tolliver shook his head. He placed his hands on his hips. Thats one thing I want to say to you, Joe. Just you keep away from the house. Thought you understood that when you got fresh wltht Sally the other Joe's face flushed angrily. Guess 1 was a fool to say l sorry about that. .Guess J got to teach you I got a right to go where please." Tolliver shook his hea 1. Not to our house, if we don't want "Forgot," he said as his head came comSome through the trap. ing through on a special train along about nothmidnight. Division headquarters got ing definite yet. but figure we'll have to somewhere on get her past thirty-thre- e this stretch. So keep awake." Tolliver with an increasing anxiety continued to examine the yellow" slips. "And thirty-three- 's late, and still losing. . nodded Joe "Makes tt sort of uncertain. "Seems to me,v Tolliver eaid, you might have mentioned it." "May be," Joe snet red. you'd like me to stav and do your Job." You " He went down the stairs and slammed v . The Other leered. the lower door, , down. so aura want "You darned don't Tolliver studied the slips, his ears alert Sally For a time Tolliver listened to the for the rattling of the telegraph sounder. wind, which assaulted the frame house me?" impulsively Tolliver stepped foiwanl, After a time he replaced the file qn the witn the fnrious voices Of witches detable and looked up The. bov, quite conclosing his fists? manding admittance. You drop that sort of talk o.r tented now in th warm. Interesting room, " he commenced. It'a that Joe. his fingers toward the sending stretched interrupted, laughing. She cut him ahort, almost angrily. p" "It Isnt that with me," she whispered. He lifted the tin pail that contained a small bottle of coffee and some sandwiches. He started for tho door, but she tan after him, dragging at his arm. Don't go! Trt afraid! The child waa quiet now, staring at them with round, reflective eyes. will be Joe." Tolliver said gently, sore If I don't relieve him on time," She pressed her head against his coat and clung tighter. He closed his eyes. . . "You're afraid of Joe, he .said wearbig-wi- n X 1 - . - - ily. y Without looking up, she nodded. Her voice wss muffled. He came last night after you relieved him at the tower. 'He knocked, and 1 wouldnt let him In. it made him mad. He awore. He threatened. Ha said he'd i ome hark. Ho said he d show ua we couldn't kick him out of th houee Just because' 1i couldrrt roe. We ng never ought to have let him board here at all." Why didnt you tell me before?" 1 was afraid you'd be fighting each other In the tower; and It didn't seem so bad until dark came on. Why didn't, you complain to the railroad when when he tried to kiss me the other night?" "I thought that was finished, Tolliver when answeied slowly, kicked him out, when I told him I'd punlBh him if he bothered you again. And I waa a little ashamed to complain to the superintendent shout that. Don't you worry about Joe, Sally, 1 11 talk to him now, before 1 let him out of the tower. He's due to relieve me again at midnight, and . I'll be home then." He put on his great coat. He pulled hia cap over his ears. The child spoke ' e, d. -- fee'. Ill teach you," he grunted- - "to kick mo key. with the air of a culprit dazzled into attemtting an Incredible crime. "Hands off, Sonny!. Tolliver a!d kindly. "You must run back to mother now." fine thing'? tirs, TT .vcr. If it came to a fight between you and me I'd be a most aahained to hi yuu Through hit passion Tolliver ieog-niso- d n He opened a diawer beneath the table of thet appraisal. the y monger and dregi out a polished railroad property, designed for the deman l.e said aof'iv, "are getting fense of the lower against tramps or Things, vv his hand The bov reached bandits. .m't vurk here together." Jo flung back, as ho went eagerly- for It. His father shook Ills Then. i J tvTi the stalls, you'd better be looking head. Not to play with. Bonny. Thats for for a no. her Job." Tolliver sighed, turning to the table. business. If you promise not to touch it The boy played there, fumbling with the till you get home and hand tt to mama, yellow forms. Tolliver glanced at the tomorrow I'll give you a nickel." The child nodded. Tolliver placed th top one. He called out quickly to the revolver in the side pocket of the little departing man. this Joe?" overcoat, and, the boy following him, What's special. other's feet stumped on the stairs went downstairs. "You run home fast as you can." Tol- again. trie .iistic ly be vas Ihy-sl.-- r.o match i er - e i ill health or times hit you lie doivrt dont backthat a eii man worth while is IT IS SAID THAT ABOUT NINETY PER CENT OF MEN FAIL BETWEEN THE AGES OF 35 AND 60 AND VERY FEW EVER COME BACK." A toad reason lor many of these failures is plain. As man approaches middle age THE IRON IN HIS BL06d IS APT THIN OUT and he then lacka the necessary iron in hia body to giva him the force, strength and " and iron Yitalitr, the determination" to carry him on to In hia own mind HE ALWAYS THINKS HE IS GOING TO COME BACK, but he la like crippled deer that risea up on ita four kga after being shot, only to fall back again. IRON-WILL- sue-ces- a. EVERY DOCTOR knows the tremendous power of an IRON WILL to pull a patient through a critical illness. With an iron trill, it often seems that nothing can kilt you. Without It, a patient sometimes speedily Collapses and dies from an apparently trivial cause. Lack of iron in your blood not only undermines your health and robs you of your bodily and mental rigor but it weakens your WILL POWER. Without Iron ALL THE FIGHT." COURAGE and GO AHEAD" in you taken out and you begin m s-- !! DON'T TRY TO 'POOL" YOURSELF WITHOUT IDN YQTTt BLOOD ALSO I OSES ITS POWER TO CHANGE FOOD INTO LIVING CELLS AND TISSUE and nothing you eat dors ynu the proper smaiint of yo do not get the full strength out of fact aotiMtimre the more you rot the more yon stanr, as your dlgrottve organs are tmbl to hand I modi food when your blood lacks hoe end you often think you have stomach trouble, when It bnt that at all. ri in ." -- a. - min" whls-pere- d: won-der- ad th. l4S.. hard-strikin- er . IN-- - TO THINK IN'GYOUARE A KEEN 100 IRON MAN WHEN YOU HAVE N TO SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE NOT. Iron starvation of your blood aaey be thy eausa of all your troubles, How to tell is explained in the aooompaoyinf article. take iron like Nuxatrd Iron with them and et the 4 Inst lime are for you rat If bow much more strength, t i IL end organic and endurance power you have. Nuxatrd Iron pnaitivrly belprenriiji your blood and put boninio it. It often inerraare and mental your bodily vigor in two w iia time end quickly brine revitalire your woroout exhausted nerves. There is Uke nothing filling your blood with good old iron te give you the courage, eerrogth and force to firht the bettlee of me. NUXATLl) IHON is organic iron like the iron m your Mood and not metallic or mineral Iran which people eaually lake. bite think Ira you The fart that you may have taken other forma of Iran wrt h-are a man of mrt benefit doea not prove Nuxeted Iron wiU not help you blood and iron" Try!it on tur guarantee below. whan you have e STraalW-arer-Overeat. HoHtd tm k Mt ua fNMtf nod reason lo but ana aSWfc Is aMlI Suave to kruerau eaar, aliaiIa. llaSS IM suspect that ymt leaa yrada-t- e it la aaally eaaNailata an f are not. anyway Inlar the taatk, maSa llwa SJaaa, aar y i na r X. lad taklat ef iiaki jet your doctor deride. Get him Is make a yaaae the a, riaaata Irua a Hamvt to folla-v- l blood count of your frd blood corpuariof h toto .la tea are a. Irua NaaaSae a ataaip.k and SEE WHETHER' YOU AREA W PtR Sad thet tha anal V a,ay aat to lad CENT: A D.PE CENT OR A 100 PLR Mlli at teMato. nhnituM. Tlw taiala. .! tnu do aqt wgqtlp . rrutouaBrofto iCENt TFflN MAH.. at wit , arMruo ia-- .:v r,-ntuai a euae-aa.'- 09 think it iall over theree nothing more foryou in life. BleoConvirlea - : half-clos- ed It is a man wlio can "come feed e. t v posl-tio- Jtt.OtSoMOotonod y v -- wind-haunt- t v w y77- go away, papa." He stared at tlie child, considering Put his things on, Sally," he directed at last. "What for?". "I'll send him back from the tower with something that will make you feel easier," iter eyes brightened. Isn't tliat against the rules?" "Guess i can afford to break one for a change," he said. "I'm not likely to need it myself tonight. Come, Sonny." The child shrank In the corner, his pudgy hands raised defensively. ' "It's only a little wavs, and Bonny can run hdme fast," his mother coaxed. Against his Xneffectlvs reluctance she put on his coat and hah Tolliver took the child by the hand, and led him, sobbing unevenly, Into the darkness. The father chatted encouragingly, pointing to two or three lights, scattered. visible; beacons, that barely marked unprofitable farms. It wss. in fact, onlv a short distance railroad and the sigto the single-trac- k nal tower, near .ope end of a long aiding. In the heavy, boisterous night Jhe yellow glow from the upper windows, and th red and green of the switch lamps, close to the ground, had a festive appearance. The child's sobs drifted awav. His father swung him in his arms, entered the tower. and climbed the stairs. Above, feet stirred restlessly, A surly voice came down. Here at last, eh 7 When Tollivers head waa above the level of the flooring he courd eee the switch lever, and th table, gleaming with the telegraph instruments, and dull with untidy clips of vellow paper; hut the detail that. held him was the gross, expectant face of Joe. Joe was as large as Tolliver, and n younger. From that commanding he appeared gigantic. It he fine, grumbled. "Cutting pretty Tolliver came on up, aet the child down, and took off hla overcoat. Fleet Is," he drawled. "I got held back a minute sort of unexpected." Hla eyes fixed the Impatient man. "tt hat you planning to do. Joe, between now and relieving me at midnight?" Wi I-ll! - -- lira higbrapprchetisive TOtcc: Don't i Sot thirty-three- Jr V X , almost certainly be after midnight when Joe would have relieved him. He watched the clock, often pressing his fingers' against hla temples in an attempt to make bearable the hammering at his brain, unequal and persistent. While the bands crawled toward midnight the wind Increased, shrieking around therjfbwer as If the poundin angered It, Above the shaking of the windows Tolliver caught another sound, gentle and disturbing, as If countless fingers tapped softly, simultaneously against the pane. He arose and raised one of the sashea The wind tor triumphantly in. bearing a quantity of snowflakes that flattered to the floor, expiring. Under his nreath Tolliver swore. He leaned out. peering through the stofm. The red and grqgn signal lamps were blurred. He shrugged his shoulders. Anyway, Joe would relieve him before the final orders came, before either train waa In the eectlon. Tolliver clenched his hands Jf Joe '7' X . The child nodded. He caught his sense enough to know you're on breath. broke down the door," he sa d to iJot Joe struggled to his feet and lurched But mama had the gun, Tolliver said the table Tolliver wondered at the inde. ... cision In the other's eyes, which was mors hoarsely. The boy shook his head the apparent. ' Joe fumbled aimleesly with outMama wouldn't Sonnv let pUy with Tolliver's fingers, yellow slips. stretched toward his coat, hesitated, ae If it. She locked it up in th cupboard. Joe mama, she necesand grabbed screamed, and groping for an object that must said to run and make you home." sarily elude them. In th tower, smothered bv And Kpectal!" Jo mumbled, the storm, vibratedpartially a shrill cry. For a Ain't thirty-thre- e through yet?"' He swayed, snatching at the edge of moment Tolliver thought his wife's martyrdom had been projected to him bv the table. Tolliver lowered his hands. The divi- some subtle means. Then he knew it was the had pounded out the anxious voice of thirty-thre- e sion superintendent of all those unconscious men and something about fuses. What had it been pleading women and ones. little He his up fuses flung burning. exactly? "Keep W itb angry gestures, he took hia coat arms, releasing the child, and ran to the and cap down, and put them on while he table, where he lighted another fuse, and threw it to the track. He peered from repeated all the Instructions that had been forced Into his brain with the effect of the window, aware of the sobbing refrain a physical violence. At the table Joe con- - pthly son, 'Com quick! Come quick! Come tinned to fumble aimlessly. , Ain't you listening?" Tolliver blurted quick!" From far to the south drifted a fainter out. like 'a an echo of sibilation, Huh?" whiatla To the north a glow increaatd. Why dont you light a fuse?" It was quite obvious that Joe had heard The anowflakea there glistened like deIt waa cutting It too scending Jewels nothing. doe. It was vteioua to crush all that re'Fuse" Joe repeated. on the shoulders of one igHe stooped to a box beneath the table. sponsibility He appeared to lose his balance. He eat norant man, auoh a man as himself, or on the floor with hie back against the Jo. What good would tt do him to kill Jo now? What was there left for him wall hla head drooping. lo do? , "What about fuse?" he murmured. He Jotted down thlrty-thre- 's His eves closed. order. , Th glow-to hands north the Tolliver pressed the barks of hi Intensified, eilghtly to th left as thlrty-thr- e against his face. If only his suspense awung took th siding. But she had to hurry. might force .refreshing tears as Bonny Th special was whistling Clone r too cried away his infant agonies! locomotive grumbled Numerous people asleep In' that long close. Thirty-threg of him. Something tugged at hla abreast Pullman train, and th anadalrtetmiler-Incoat. mile S Tialf Bonnv down! and Bally n Papa! - Won't you coma quick to away In the lonely house! And that drtnk-Imama? spired creature on the floor what waa Th dark, heavy car slipped by. Th he eapable of tn relation to those unglow of th fuse was overcome by known, helpless travelsra? But what was red he capable of; what had he. perhaps, been th whit light from the south. Th last cleared th capable of toward those two known ones black Pullman of thlrty-thr- e With a gaaping breath. TolIivr that Tolliver loved better than all the points. threw th switch lever. world "It's too late now. Sonny." he gald to Tolliver shuddered. As long as Joe was and Sonny would not be trou the importunate child. here The tower shook. A hot, whit eyo bled. But where had Joe been Juet now? Hojv had Bally and Bonny fared while flashed by, and a blurred streak of cars. Tolliver hgd waited for that scumbling Snow pelted In the window, stinging Tolstep on th stairs? Ha had to know that, liver! face. Tolliver closed the window order. If he vet how could he? For he couldn't leave and picked up thirty-three- 'a ' , F X , Jlc. , I Jo to car for all those live on ths had kept the revolver her he could hav Jo a leaving the tower. Wbv special and thirty-threRrevbnted locked It In Th cupboard? At He removed his coat and can, and re- -, i k"' - , . - - v, v, Vplaced them on th hook. He took a leaet It was there now. Tolliver found ' J box and lighted It. He himself thinking of the revolver as an ax. t fuse from th . : j raised th window and threw the fuse to haueted man forecast sleep. I V1' Someone ran awlftlv up th atairs. It th track beneath. It sputtered and burst waa the engineer of thirty three, surprised Into a Tame, ruddyr gorgeous. Immense. It etched from th night distant fence and impatient. Where ar my orders. Tolliver? I and trees. R bent the sparkling rails until they seemed to touch at the termi- don't want to lie over here all night." 4 He paused. Hia tone became curious. nals of crimson vistas. If in the storm ' ' What ails you, Tolliver?" th locomotive driver should miss the Tolliver handed him the orders, tremswitch lamps, set against them they couldn't neglect this bland banner of dan- bling. "I guess maybe my wife u' the house ger, flung across th night. . V' When Tolliver closed Ine window he Is dead, or YouU go ae?" The engineer shook hi head. - - r noticed that the ruddy glow filled the 'You brae up, Tolliver. I'm aorrv if room, rendering sickly and powerless the happened to vour eife, but wb jellow lamp wicks. And Tolliver clutched anything's hold ' h thirty-thre' , V even for a the table edge,, for in this atngu'ar nd couldn't , murder." Jo saw , he Illumination that penetrating Tolliver' trethbllng grew. He mumImitated the details of sleep; that, bled Incoherently: lids, lurked a fanatical "But I didn't murder all those peowakefulness, and final resolution where, " on .entering the tower, h had exposed ple "Report to division headquarter, the onlv Indecision. While Tolliver stared Jo abandoned engineer advised. ' "They'll send you help tomorrow." he got lighthia masquerade. W He hurried down th stairs. After a ly to hla feet and started for tlie trap. for moment the long train pulled out, fll'ed Instinctively, Tolliver's hand started rewith warm. . comfortable Th th drawer where customarily the people, volver waa kept. Then he remembered, child, hid aohblng at an end, watched It Tolliver tried to atop hla and waa sorry be had sent the revolver curiously, - to Sally.. For it was clear that the poison shaking.- There waa someone, else on th stairs in Joe's brain was sending him to the house while Tolliver was chained to th now. climbing with an extreme slowness, tower. - He would have shot, ho would A bare arm reached through th trap, hav killed, to have kept the man her. wavering for a moment uncertainly. Ugly He would do what he could with his bruises showed on th whit flash. Tolliver managed to reach the trap. H hands. "Where , ore you going? he asked grasped the arm and drew Into the light the dark hair and the chalky face of hit hoarsely. wife. out like dirt VIMeach you and ally." Her wide eye stared at hlgv Jo laughed happily. To keep Sally company Vhile you look strangely, ' thirty-threeDon't touch after tha apecial and ms," ahe whispered. of "i ar It ran crowded and wag rfrmtlc; didn't come! Tolliver advanced watching "What am I going to do?" more often than not, late. The fact cre. He shrank from tha force of Jtls imag- for a ehanee. When cautiously, "Joe?" he spoke hla voice ated few difficult! on an ordinary ination. had the appealing quality of a child's "Why do you tremble so?" oh asked He was glad Bally had the revolver. utgnt; but. combined with such uncertime off. If I do your work In her colorless voice, without resonance. "It'a tainty of gchedme. It worried the entire He glanced at hla watch, half believing you got myto stay at least" "Why didn't you come?" division, undoubtedly, to have running, that the clock had stopped. "Joe? h repeated hysterically. Joe laughed again. also cr an uncertain schedule, and In There at last it waa, both hands pointBh drew away from him. all to need "No. you keep ft only th o posit direction on that, single ing straight up midnight! And Tolliver those people from "You won't want to touch me again." getting killed." track, an eager special carrying Impor- heard only tha storm and th'e unbearable Ue pointed to tho repellent bruises. She sprang then, but Jo avoided tant men. Th superintendent, of course, strokes pf the 'telegraph sounder. It was thaTolliver heavier, clumsier man. H grasped hook her head. would want to get those flashy trains fairly deffnlts now. Both trains xfere a chair, over hla head. "Hs didnt hurt ms much," she said, swinging It other ullhout delay to oitiier. roaring - through the storm, destined alpast to kick because 1 I killed him. he TU teach grunted, you. That was why there lonely towers, with- most certainly to slip bv each other at me out like dirt I'll teach you and She drew her other hand from the fold out receiving definite Instructions- yet, this siding within the next hour. of her wrapper. The revolver dangled Sallv." had been warned to Increase walchfui-I'esWhere was Jot? And Bally and th - With violent strength he brought the from her finger, it slipped and fell to alone the floor. at house! The child stared at It with boy chair down.- Tolliver got hla hands uo. th Tolliver's restlessness grew. He hoped Quarter past twelve. but th light chair crashed them aside round eyes, aa if he longed to pick It up. the meeting would take place after Joe What vaet interest could have made and splintered on his head. He fell to She covered her face and shrank against had relieved him, or else to the north or Joe forget hla relief at the probable loss hla knees, reaching out hllndlv. He the wall. south. of his job? "I'va killed a lower until he lay stretched on swajed It was difficult, moreover, for him to Tolliver from th rear window th floor, dtmlv aware of Joe's descendThrough her finger she looked at her fix his mind tonight on his professional toward hla glanced smothered In the huaband of feat fully. After a time ahe of lower the the slamming night ing steps, horn, If he responsibility. His duty toward his fam- and the storm. might only run door, at last of a virtoqs pounding at hla ily was so much mors compelling. While there quickly to make aur that Bally bruleed brain. Why don't you aay eomethlngT' he sat here, listening to every word was all right! Hla trembling had ceased. His lip "NT. NT. NT. beaten out by the sounder he Pictured his Th sounder Jarred furiously. Tolliver hla knees, hla hands at were twisted ini a grin. Ha. too. to He struggled wife and son, alone in the little house half raised hts hand, as If to destroy It. hla head, why he didn't say something. Bett was the division superintendent himnearly half a miie away. And he woncause there were no word for what waa "No. by God! I won't llaten to you, dered. while he, their only protector, was self at the key. In his heart. cleared LR at U.47' "Thirty-thre- e Imprisoned, what Joe was up to. NT. NT. NT. Is was had One tower porth! Thlrty-thr- e In a corner he arranged hla overcoat Joe must have been drunk when he with you?" , coming down bn him, hut he waa only as a sort of bed for the boy. tried to get In the house last night. Had thick." It had ceased. Pretty that pounding glad Won't you speak to me? ah sobbed. hs been drinking tonight? Then th fuses burning. iPor commenced again. T didn't mean to, but I had to. You The sounder Jarred rapidly. Gods oaks,kep don't let the first In overrun NT. NT. NT. Bpeclal cleared JV got to understand. I had to." LR. I.R. LR." his switch. And clear th line like light- at. That was for the tower to the north. ning. Those fellows ar driving taster H went to th tabl and commenced Each rushing toward tha other with It wss hard to tell from Joe's manner. than hell." a minute's difference In schedule! to tap vigorously on th key. Bh ran Tolliver's mouth opened, but no round only Perhaps that would account for h's not That was close too close. But what waa across and grasped at hla arm. came. Hla face assumed th expression It he had had In hla mind? having called attention to the 'approach"What you telling them?" aha demanding presence of the special on the divi- of one who undergoes th application of He lurched lo ed wildly. Buddenlv he screamed. sion. tome destructive barbarity. hts feet and leaned against th well. He What th Why, Bally!" he said. Pound. INiund. g Pound. The "I get afraid when you leave me alone knew now. Joe, with those infused and matter of the metal had the effect of a this way, at night." you? To send another man criminal ayes, had son to Sallv and Bon- now Jo with la gone. on his brain. He visualised hia wife, beautiful, dark, ny to. get even. There could be nothing Allen report Truths emerged from hla measureless special left Oldtown at and desirable, urging him not to go to In the world as Important aa that. He .43." the tower. must get after Joe. He must stop him relief, lending thmalvo to words Ha Joe had Certainly been drinking that A rust of wind sprang through th trembled again for n moment. In -- lima. night last week when he had got freen trap door. The yellow allps fluttered. He NT. NT. NT "If I hadn't stayed! If I'd let ' them with Sally. ran to th trap. He heard the lower door In his brain about was There mash! When all along it only needed something Thlrt-lhre till losing south of An- bang ahut. Someone was on th stairs stopping a train In time. Joe to keep all those people from getting derson." climbing with difficulty, breathing hard. It only needs you to keep all those killed He Jotted th words down and sent his A hat, crusted with snow, appeared. peope from getting killed He aat down, caught her In hla arm, (X K.s while hla head. It seemed to him. There cam bad told him that. What did slowly into th light Joe's recoiled physically from each rapid atrokt face, ugly and Inflamed; th eyes restless It Somebody What had altered her in the drew her to Ilia knee, and held her close. mean? of the little brass bar. You aint going to scold? ah asked with a grave Indecision. tower all at once? ' . , Bonny, tent by his mother, had come Tolliver's first elation died In new unwonderlngly. There wae no longer any red. to tell him that night, panting up th certainty. NT. NT. H aav "NT. hla haad. H shook couldn't , atali-ihis eyes wide and excited. TollWhere you been? he demanded I wont a newer any mors Just then; but when hi tsars iver had looked from th window toward fiercely. had he nut hi cap and coat He touched her face ah seemed to underWhere hia home, hla face flushed, hla flit .Jo struggled higher until he sat on the needed them. He could go without He stand and to b oontant. clenched, hi heart almost choking him. flooring, his legs dangling through th could kill a beast without Hla foot Ro. while ths boy slept, they waited Then hs had seen Joe, loafing along th trap. He laughed In an ugly and unnatu- trembled on the flrat step. someone to take Jos's plac. road In the moonlight, and he had re- ral note; and Tolliver taw that there wai "NT. NT. NT. Why don't you an- together for more than drink, more than aleepleaNneca, swer? What'a wrong? No. O. K. Ar laxed, scarcely oware of th abomlnabl Printed by arrangement choice he had faced. In (Copyright. recorded hts scarlet face. Haired was vou burning fuses? Waka up. 8end an with Metropolitan Newspaper Suvice, NT. NT. NT." there. It esraped. too. from the streaked O. K." New own Hia call. Tolliver shrank from th eyes that looked at Tolliver as if through York.) It Th aoundsr crashed frantically. aharp blows He forced himself to a a veil. He spoke thickly. conquered him. minute attention. . Don't you wleh you knew?" It waa division headHa lurched to th table, touched th quarter Tolliver, stooped, grasping tha man's kev and stuttered out: her until Fhlrty-three shoulders In each fist he clenched Molding twenty-on- e "O. K. NT." and the special hav clearM." bunches of wet cloth. In a sort of desA little. He They war In his was a freight. Twenty-oIt was a peration he commence to shak th bun- block, laughed rushing at each other, and Jo was relief to have that off th road for th dled figure. with sone at th house Sally and th Tou tell m where you emergency. He lay back when tha atrlk-in- g child. O. JC.1 at hla head had ceased. NT. NT. NT." He lighted another fuse, flung It from the rich It wss unfortunate that Joe and hs Jo leered. the window, and started with automatic alons should be employed at th tower. Joel , You gut to tell m where you movements for th trap. oil each other at intervaia. been." Relieving regular Let them crash. Let them apl Inter, Tha pounding took Tolliver' strength, and burn, and die What waa th lot of they had never been at th houee toused in Tolliver Hither had been there H crouched lower In an effort to avoid them compared with Rally and feonnv? gether. alone with hla wife and his son or Jo It, but each blow struck aa hard as befrom th fuee aprang Into red Th glare had been. Th two men had seen each fore, forcing Into his brain word after th room. Tolliver paused, bathed In other too little, only momentarily In this word that he passionately resented, places, blood. ' busy room. They didn't really know each hours, minutes th detail of this vital to ahut out tho Ho clooed hi other. paaeag of two trains In th unfriendly wave of It. Heyasaw women like havy Hally I.R. LR. IJL" night. and children like Ronny asleep in a train. Tolliver shook his head savagely. It across seas from Norway, whichever arrives flrat, and It gav him an Impression that Rally and had been a mistake letting Jo board holdSwitch To until th othar Is through." train. Bonny war. Indeed, on th with them at all. Any man would fall in utmost in to assure be lo It was difficult to understand Tlearly, keep them aaf it wouldthirty-threlov with Rally. Tolliver had thought e th should until retard because special Joe's and persisted, laughter deflnlt hav efficacy, after that quality crashing quarrel joe would throw that known hla piaca; the danger would hav against Tolliver' brain as brutally as th b on th siding andcloehe could tha switch and lsver that would aoundsr. ended. Erery drop of mak the lln safe. He waversd. taking It wwe probably thl drinking at th "You got to tell ms If yea been botherStHttt'm tjnutgJo table between and th short the steps country inn where Jo lived now that ing Rally." la storod strangth. trap. Where were Bally and Bonny? 11 had mad th man brood. Th Inn was The hatred and tha ounnlng of th mot- had to get that clear In hi mind. Seetl a lawoo, SUee-fUloo small and removed to attract th tled face grew. ft. A A cold th It hitter sprang up trap. revenue officer, and me liquid mamifSc. , ., "Why don't you osk RsHv?" AiOA TF'rvon W 'M ir.fY Fs,1 S 'H hom '''fni-t'k- . athalahtened. facing sluwSk ft waa becoming dear enough now. lrwn. more that abomlnabl thl sounder, definitely choir. The child crawled up the steps on hla at hla cap and overrvt. The hand and knees Tolliver He took him In Where wss Joe now At th Inn, drink- lair glanced hand clock reminded him he hla arms, straining at him paiutonatnly. that ing; or had remained in th tovyer nearly half (Tablets or Granules) la It. Bonny? Whirl a mama?" What He Jotted down th outpourings of th an hour beyond hla time. Jo waa right. Papa, com quick. Com quick." voluhl More more end waa It became It key. elear he could aatufy himself He kept gasping It out until Tolliver clear that th special and thtrty-lh- r only by going home end asking "ally. lopped him. would meet near fits tower, but if would "Get up," h directed. "1 gueaa ) ou "Jos! Did Jos com?" Hver directed. "Don't' you be afraid. I'll stand right here in the door till you get there. Nothing shall huft you. The child gienced hack at the festive 1'gnta with an anguished hesitation Tolto thrust him away ftjom the liver tower. A nickel in the morning" he bribea. The child commenced to run. after he had disappeared the troubled man heard the sound of tiny feet scuffling with panic along the road to nome. When the aouqd had died away T fill, ver summed tho door and climbed the stairs. H studlej th yellow slips again, striv.ng to fix In his mind this problem. Involving the safety of numerous human be inn. that wou.d irobablv become his. He bad a fear of abnormal changes in the schedule. It had been Impressed urnn every signalman that thtrty-thre- u waa the road's moat precious responsibility. It was the only solid Pullman trwln that passed ovr tnc division. This time es help-liki- 'f By Wadsworth Camp aj flJ ,ijie,.i Great Ships n been" bring cod'liver exclusively Scotts Emulsion I Tt I the up "J I ''Toller I . RKIBIBa inDicnGTic: |