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Show Tins gpANKrn COPYRIGHT u 1314- - & murdered In sight of tbla apot of old tlm horror, nod Bcovllla accused of tho act. I was oldar now and aaw my fault la all Ha enormity. I waa guilty of that crlmo or ao I frit la tha first heat of my aorrow and drapatr. I may van hat aald no lo dreamt or lo hi ntttore laved eurtmie erowd of olrnl-f- , tho t"flii linma of Jd-- I Ohd )w. ratloaa, a.c.t.trlo nuttljr la woman oho fav Iha hlw of Dian trim! I fur a I ha Jmls liofura, ami rlwiiwuinl fur jimii liar daiifthtar Ift la Iha Jmlaa'a win. from liiun ha la aatrnnftn!. Ml lb murdrr balaaan Iha lama rba ilana In rlaar bar huabamt'a tnamory Inf aba iba Jmlaa a aid. Imlairab d'ovliia ra.i Ilia tianraior riiiinaa lallma Iha aimf of Iba wiiirlar of Alaariion f.ibarblaa hr John Kim ilia In Hollow, iwalva ara hafora. Ilia jmlfta and lr a Ilia mart at ftiwmar a fully and aba ahowa him how, on Iha dajr of Iba mur-il"- r. man. whil-ll'haba aaw Iha ahaduw of kd alkk and woarlnft lng Tha )ulaa bar ftnl rai. ilaufthlar Raul bar In Tlva Willi him In bl myalarlnua boina. I m bora b and bar law ar, lilark, go lo Iba aillra alailnn and aaa Iba ftllrk uaad In murlar KlharWaa. Hi diaaovar a hrokan knlfahlala hUiiI amlwddad In It Imlairah and llaulhar In llva wllli Iha Jmlga. Lrahorak aaa ft nriralt of Cillvar, iha Judft.'o am, arlih ft llftr k band halntad ftrroaa iha ayaa, Thai biahl aba flmla. In olivar'a room, a rap aim a paak Ilka Iba ahadnwod otia. and Anon a knlfa with ft bmkan blada-tatln- t ymoua Imiara and talk wall Miaa Works Inrraaaa bar auaploiunft and faara. Pha find that Oliver we In Iha ravlna on Iha iminlar nlaht lilark warna bar and abowa bar othor annnymnua laliara blnilng at l li var a uiu. In Iba court ronui h Judga la hamlml an ftnonrmoua Tha nia la tkud up and raad bia. aloud. A mb followa Iba Judga In hla homo. Imborah ll!a him why auaplrlon haa town arnuml agalimt Oliver. Tha Inilya almwa Imborab ft aialamanl wrlltan by Oliver yrara aao tailing bow ha aaw liar huaband murder biiu-a- r al Sn-rar'- a fully on Ilia nlgbi iha houaa wo burned. A ri mirlr nsl lari ft hr CHAPTER XIII V OOM1AMJ a found SYNOPSIS Continued. Claymore tavern did changa own era. When 1 heard that a man by the name of Scovllle had bought It, 1 went over to aee Scovllle. He waa the man. Then I began to ask myself what I ought to do with my knowledge, and the more 1 asked myself this question and the more I brooded over the mat ter the leaa did I feel like taking, not the public, but my father, Into my confidence. ' I bad never doubted hla love for me, but 1 had always stood In great awe of his reproof, and I did not know where 1 was to And courage to tell him all the details of this adventure. There la one thing I did do, however. I made certain Inquiries here and there, and aoon satisfied myself as to how Scovllle had been able to come into town, commit this horrid deed and escape without any one but myself being the wiser. Spencer and he bad aomn of mjr anlf absorbed brooding Though certainly bad not II ft ad tha tick aaalnat Mr. Etberldg, I bad laft Iba baud frao wblrh did, and tbla waa a sufficient occaalon for ramorao or ao 1 truly frit I waa ao affected by tha thought that avan my father, with bla own weight of trouble. noticed my careworn fare and aaked mo for an ailanatlun. Hut I bald him off until tho verdict waa reached, and then I told blm I bad not liked bla look for aomo time; they ere mad to convey aomo doubt of tho Juetlce of tbla man's lenience, and 1 felt that If ba bad aucb doubta, they might bo eaaed by tbla certainty of Bcovlll' murderoua tcndenclea and unquestionable greed. And they were; but aa Bcovllla waa already doomed, wa decided that It waa unnecessary to mako publlo bla peat offense. However, with as eye upon future contingencies, my father exacted from me In writing tbla full account of my adventure, which with all the aolemnlty of an oath I bera declare to be the true atory of what befell me In the bouae called Bpencer'a Folly, on the night of awful itorm, September 11, 1895. OLIVER 03TRANDER. Witnesses to above signature, AKCUIRALD OSTRANDER. HELA JEFFERSON. 8belby, November 7, 1898. CHAPTER XIV. The Telegram. This waa the document and these the words which Deborah, widow of the man tbua doubly denounced, had been given to read by the father of the writer. In the darkened room which had been and still was to her, an abode of brooding thought and unfathomable mystery. No wonder that during Its reading more than one exclamation of terror and dismay escaped her. There were ao many reasona for believing tbla record to be an absolute relation of the truth. Incoherent phrasea which had fallen from those Ups took on new meaning with this unveiling of an unknown past Repugnances for which she could not account In those old days, she now earn explained He would never, even In passing, give a look at the ruin on the bluff, ao attractive to every eye but hla own Aa fer entering Ite gates she bad never dared so much ae to ask him to do so. Then the watch! Deborah knew well that watch. She had often asked blm by wbat atroke of luck he bad got ao line a timepiece. God! waa her mind veering bnck to her old Idea as to hla for the crime com responsibility milted in Dark Hollow? Yea; she could not help It. Denial from a monster like this a man who with such memories and such spoil, could return home to wife and child, with some gay and confused story of a great atroke In speculation which had brought him In the price of the tavern It had long been hla ambition to own what was denial from such lips worth? The Judge was right Oliver whose In genuous story had restored his Image to her mind, with some of Its old graces had been the victim of circumstances and not John Scovllle. Her thoughts had reached this stage and her hand, In obedience to the new mood, was lightly ruffling up the pages before her, when she felt a light touch on her shoulder and turned with a long-close- just the drawback of buying a new ticket. I, a boy of fifteen, trespassing where I did not belong, was the only living witness of what had happened on this night of dreadful storm, in the house which was now a ruin. I realized the unpleasantness of the position in which this put me. but not its responsibility. If I were going to do anything I should have done it at first so I reasoned, and let the matI became interested in ter slide. school and study, and the years passed and I had almost forgotten the when suddenly the full remembrance came back upon me with a A uian ruth my fathers friend J start. The Judge was at her back. How long he had stood there she did not know, nor did he say, but when upon feeling bis hand upon her shoulder she turned, he was there; and while his Ups failed to speak, hla eyes were eloquent and their question single and Imperative. "What do you think of him now? they seemed to ask, and rising to her Jeet, she met him with a smile, ghastly perhaps with the lividness of the shadows through which she had been groping, but encouraging withal and soothing beyond measure to his anxious and harassed soul. "Oliver Is Innocent, she declared, turning once more to lay her hand upon the sheets containing his naive confession. "The dastard who could shoot his host for plunder is capable of a second crime holding out a similar inducement. Nothing now will ever make me connect Oliver with the crime at the bridge. As you said, he was simply near enough the hollow to toss into It the stick he had been whittling I am his advocate from this minute. Iler eyes were still resting mechanically upon that last page lying spread out before her, and she did not observe in its full glory the first gleam of triumphant Joy which, in all prob-- j ability, Judge Ostrander's countenance had shown In years. Nor did he Bee. in the glad confusion of the moment. Dr. W. E. Warner Office at Lre' DungnloW Kljfht Call! Mad From 03k Phone 21 Spani Foil Dr. Joseph Hughes n C D Idiocies DODD,AV7D ur.ark delivered with ot hm WmxoGm (& LANDS FOH SPRING PLOWING a lUtJn tnoru clrtl fly than any of bla pretloua ooeii Important Pari In Breakay not 00 Disking Playl "Wbat you call evidence Into Small Pieces Stubble ing lp the same aa I call evidence. If you'ro Evaporation. Prevent no satufied at iblnkin' my word'a I know good, tbat'a your buslnesa. (By JAMEA D, MABFHALU Colored! bow I should feel ir I waa 01 Ostrau I Ep,rlmnl Putina) know. der'a father and knew wbat In the management of land foi a wavering room. blm op go," spoke "Lt spring plowing, disking playa Whan tba Judga at lait rama forth, volra, R was Dtborsb'a When land baa ntub-t.- l It aa at llautNFa bidding. A gaotla-maBui the Judge waa deaf to tbn warn- Important part on It, disking breaks up the stub-b- l wished to aaa blm In tha parlor. ing Deborah' vole bad but remindInto amall pieces o that when It In With darb glanca, not dlroctad ed him of Peborab'a presence under a more uniform la enplowed too waa gainst bar, ho aver, tha Judga bada ton bad escaped blm. He tbe organlo matter la of bar run naay to tba kltchan and far grossed In tbn purpose he bad lo mind and tbo assured danger of retarding from nil tbaan trouble aa aba could, to notice shade of Inflection. movement of water la tbn aa upward and Mr. quick ax Black bad. But bla door behind blm, than, locking Furthermore, tbn greatly reduced. bn nUaya did, ba atroda toward tba thought be echoed ber request: will decommatter or organlo "He Is forgetting himself. Let blm stubbln front morn much rapidly. pose Ha found Deborah standing guard go, Judge Ostrander. When manure baa been applied tn But that astut magistrate, wise In over an III conditioned fellow, wbose no toll In tha naturn of a surface wan tbn alouchlng figure alouched atlll more all other causes but bis own, do to disking will Incorporate it dressing, before now mom than under bla eye, but gave no other ready much morn evenly In the soil and r lodgment of bla preatnea. Feat-lo- this "In a moment," bn conceded. "Dt duce the harmful effects of excessive blm without a aecond look. Judge Ostrander found Mr. Black awaiting me first make sure that tbla man un- fermentation whlcb Is closely associhim. derstands me. 1 bava said tbat them ated with Incorporation In tbn form ol occurrence Thera waa no bad blood between exists no evidence against my son. layer as Is the common Is manure when tha plowed simply ber I tbla tb lady these two, whatever tbelr past rela- This aver; and tion or present ausplclona, and they will aver. You bavo probably already under. Disking also prevents drying were soon ahaklng band with every recognized ber. If not, allow mo to out of tbe soil as tba capillary water tell you tbat tb la tbn Indy wbosn will have free access to tba aurface appearance of mutual cordiality. Tho Judge waa especially courteous effort bava brought back tbla cast layer. 80II tbat la dry. If disked before "I am glad, aald ha, "of any occa- to tho public mind: Mra. Bcovllla, tb sion which brtnga yon again under my wife of Joba Scovllle and tba on of plowing, will make a much better Inter- seed bed, a clods will be lest liable roof, though from tbn appearance of all others wbo baa tha greeted to form and the seedbed will ba more your companion I Judgn tbn present est lo proving ber busband'a lon most the after she tbat cence. mellow, more compact and the aurIt saya, charao-ter.on to be of no very agreeable would be less aubject to excessive face conscientious a careful Inquiry and baa aba thla of reconsideration case, evaporation. "Judge, Im your friend;" tbua Mr. When spring plowing Is delayed, Black began. "Thinking yon muat wish found herself forced to com to tbo haa already conclusion that justlct to know who atarted tho rlotoua prodisking tbe soli In tbe early spring cedure which disgraced our town to- been satisfied In this matter, you will prevents excessive evaporation aa the operation mulches tbe soil. Should day, I have brought tba ringleader believe ber, won't you?" "I don't know," drawled tb mao, rain come during tbe early spring her to answer for himself that la, If a low and cunning expression lighting time, the disked soil will be In good yon wish to question blm. want Judgn Ostrander wheeled about, up his ugly countenance. to"Sbn aon. condition to absorb tbe moisture. to ber your Root crops that are to be planted marry daughter gave the man a aearchlng look, and dead a la than live better on Any dog on spring plowed land will do much falling to recognlza blm aa any b bad ever seen before, beckoned him one; 1 guess ber opinion don't go for better If the land has been disked much." In. previous to plowing aa a more friable Recoiling before a cynicism tbat condition of the seedbed Is obtained, "I suppose. said he, when tha loungtba on the moisture content may be greater, ing and Insolent figure was fairly be- pierced with unerring skill be vul- and a greater amount of available to In bo knew his armor Joint fore their eyes, "that thin Is not tba In food material may be present minute a took the nerable, Judge exfirst time you havn been asked to whlcb to control bin rage and then adt plain your enmity to my figure In tbn dressing the son. window said: CULTIVATION OF THE TOPSOIL "Naw; I've had my talk wherever Mrs. Scovllle, will you asaare tbla and whenever 1 took tha notion. Oliver of Ostrander hit me once, f waa Jest a man that you have no expectation Os- Numerous Investigation Demonstrate to Oliver your daughter marrying little chap then and meanln' no barm That Evaporation of Water Has to any one. I kept of 1m trander?" Been Diminished. With a slow movement more suggesand be bit me. He'd a better bava bit been bad sbe of than tive any despair a feller wbo hadn't my memory. I've InTbat the stirring or cultivation of never forgiven that bit, and I never seen to make since the hour of ber the shifted she bad decision first topsoil really does diminish evapostruck, wllL That's why I'm blttln him now. of water from the toll has been with ration faced In end seat her them, finally It'a just my turn: that's alL shown by numerous Investigations In assertion: the "Your turn! Your turn! And what "Iteuther Scovllle will never marry 1868 Nessler found that during six do you think haa given you an opporOliver Ostrander. Whatever my wlsbea weeks of an ordinary German summer tunity to turn on blra?" or willingness In the matter, she her- a stirred soli lost 510 grams of water "I'm not In the talkin' mood Juat self Is so determined. Not because per square foot, while the adjoining now," the fellow drawled, frankly Inso- she does not believe tn bis Integrity, compacted aoll lost 1,680 grams a lent. not only In bis tone but tn bli for site does; but because abe will not saving due to cultivation of nearly 60 bearing to all present "Nor can you unite herself to one wbose prospects per cent Wagner, testing the correctmake It worth my while, gents. I'll in life are more to her tban ber own ness of Nessler a work, found, In 1874, not take money. I'm an boneat bard-- , that cultivation reduced the evaporafcfplneea." workln man who can earn bis own tion a little more than 60 per cent; fellow stared, then laughed: The livin', and you can't pay me to keep "And Johnson, in 1878, confirmed the trutb he sneered. a "She's goodun," atlll, or to go away from Shelby w day of the principle on American soils, and believe tbat bosh?" sooner than I want to. I was goto you Black could no longer contain Levi Stockbridge, working about the Mr. away, but I gave It up when they told himself. same time, also on American soils, me that things were b glnnln to look that cultivation diminished "1 believe you are the blggeBt rascal found black against 01 Ostrander that a In town," be shouted. "Get out, or 1 evaporation on a clay soil about 23 per woman had come Into town who was won't answer for myself. Ladles are cent, and on a heavy loam nearly 13 up things generally about not to be treated In this manner." per cent that old murder for which a feller had All the early work done on this sub-eDid be remember hla own rough already been lectrocuted, and knowln' of the sex on tbe witness was done under humid conditions, handling somethin' myself about that murder and is only in recent years that constand? it and 01 Ostiander, I well, I stayed" (TO BE CONTINUED.) firmation of this important principle The quiet threat, the suggested poshas been obtained for tbe soils of the sibility, the attack which wraps Itself MATTER OF OFFICE HOURS dry farm region. In vague uncertainty, aro ever the Fortier, working under California most effective. Aa bis raucous voice, Diverging Opinions of Two Managers conditions, determined that cultivation with sinister purpose which no dry reduced the evaporation from the soil st to Attaining Results Are man could shake, died out In an offenof Interest surface over 55 per cent. sive drawl, Mr. Black edged a step At the Utah station similar experinearer the Judge, before he sprang and Two men with offices In the Wall ments have shown that the saving of fellow the r by the ;oung caught street district, each employing a cleri- soil moisture by cultivation was 63 per and gave him a very vigorous cal force of a dozen persons, w era talk- cent for clay soil, 34 per cent for a shake. ing ahop at luncheon tbe other day coarse sand and 13 per cent for a clay he threatened. "Be- and one said he was an "See here! early riser have yourself and treat the judge like and usually was at the office before loam. Further, practical experience has a gentleman any of tbe clerks. demonstrated time and time again that But the judge was not ready for "I'm an early riser, too, and get up this. The Judge had gained a new because I like to," aald he other, "but in cultivation the dry farmer has a means of preventing evapolease of life in the last and I never get to my odlce before nine powerful from ration agricultural soils. he felt no fear of this sullen o'clock, a half hour after the office for all bis sly Innuendoes thereHe, opens for business. I do this because fore, hindered the lawyer from bis after considerable experience and ob RAISE PEANUTS ON DRY LAND purpose, by a quick gesture of ao much nervation I found tbat it Is more effecdignity and resolve that even the lout tive with tbe employees. Several Points Necessary In Order to himself was Impressed and dropped "They are shrewd folk, they are, and Insure Success Prepare Soil in some of his sullen bravado. have their own methods of sizing up Thorough Manner. "I have something to say to this fel- the boss, and I find that they concludo he announced low, "Perhaps be that the employer who gets to his For growing peanuts under dry does not know his folly. Perhaps be office early either needs tbe extra time conditions, a few are farming thinks because I waa thrown aback to do his work In or he wants to see essential In order to insurepoints success. those by today public charges against tbat his employees are not beating First, the land should be fitted tn a my son and a string of Insults for time on him. Either of these con which no father could be prepared, dltions Is, in my opinion, not to the thorough manner, plowed about the same depth as for corn, harrowed Imthat I am seriously disturbed over the interest of the employer. mediately and firmed down to conposition Into which such unthinking "Therefore, I let them see that I serve moisture, if possible it should men as himself have pushed Mr. Oli- trust them to be on hand promptly over shortly after plowing ver Ostrander. I might be If there and also that I can do my part of be gone with a disk harrow set straight, to were truth In these charges or any se- the work In less time than they can. lower strata of rious reason for connecting my up- I can't always, but when I can't I do subpack firmly the soil The point of next Importance Is and honorable son with the low It at home, where they can't aee me right seed and if possible this seed crime of a highwayman. But there is or know anything about It I respect good should be secured near where the crop not I aver It and ao will this lady my people and they mpect me, and 1 here whom you have doubtless recog- dont have to get to the office early to is to be grown rather than from some distant section. nized for the one who has stirred this do It, either." Many of the experiments in the use matter up. You can bring no evidence of peanuts on the semlarid lands have to show guilt on my sons part these Origin of Old Joke. failed because seed was procured from words he directed straight at the disHarper Bennington hat revealed the some region where there was an abuncomfited poster of bills "because origin of the "standing room only dant rainfall. Locally grown seed is there is no evidence to bring." Joke: It appears that there was hard- preferable even though the quality la Mr. Blacks eyes sparkled with admily ever any furniture in Whistler's not so good as that which may be obration. He could not have used this house. He was peculiarly parsimotained from some other section. method with the lad, but be recognized nious in the matter of chairs. Thla the Insight of the man who could. led to a remark of Corny Grains tha quhk shudder lib bleb aba lift ed bar trembling ht.d a a y from Ihosa papara and looked up, iquarely at last. Into bU transfigured elasi. "Mra Rcotl 'a, I leva nty boy. I hata that?" Tha front doorbell ringing aa out of tba fault Deborah la IMtldkw Illusl'dioiV) fork mss, spanisii ms, ma I g " at Residence. Office 1st South and Hour, Ofllc . tu. to 10 bunds 12 b J Corner lit West a. in., and 2 tot apiHilunti.-bt- . Phone 53 Spanish Fork J. W. Hagan, M. D. County Quarantine Physician 0 Office at Residence. One Hock west of Commercial Dank. Phone 32 Dr. C. D. Livingston DENTIST Geer Building-Spani- Fork, Utah. sh PHONE NO. 117-- d R. M. JEX FLORIST FimIi Flwm Mipplird lot llocruiont. FumiiI datigM kpt Oft bind lid fcllod lo oidt. 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