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Show Tire SPANISH . . - .1.. in w rwfp prloner 0? against John Boot III I wanted to sat bint, sad If tb only help I rould now glv bits was to sit as Juda upon hi eas. then would I sit as Judgs wbalerer msntal torture It Involved, Fending fur Mr. Hlark, I asked btm point blank whether In far of th clrcumetanr that th flrtlm of this murder was my best friend, h would not prefer to plead his cast before Judge (Jrosvenor. II answered no: gniJge course lifeline Greeiv Dluslraliorvs & C D Idiocies Ml Aiwi CHAPTER XVIII II Nlr V9I4- - DODU,MJVtf Continued. moo4 than in no to encounter Insult, and what bad my-po- simple difference between us flamed Info quarrel which reached It culmination when b tuentlone4 Oliver' name with taunt, which tb toy. for all bla obatlnat clinging to bla Journalistic Idea, 414 not deservs. Knowing my own temper, I drew bark Into tb Hollow. II followed ms. I tried to apeak. II took lha word out of my mouth. Tbl may bar been with tb Intent of quelllhg my anger, but tb ton was reaping, and, noting tbla and not hla word, my band tightened Insen-elbl- y about tb atlrk wblrh tb devil (or John Hrovlllel bad put In my band. !ld he ae tbla, or was be prompted by aoma old memory of boylah quarrel that b should glv utterane to that quirk, sharp laugh of arorn! I shall never know, but er the sound bad reaaed tho atlrk was whirling over my bead ther cam a rraah and b fell My friend! My friend! Kelt moment th earth seemed too narrow, the beavena too contrarted for my misery. That b was dead that my blow bad killed him, I never doubted for an Instant I knew It as w know tb far of Duom when one It baa risen upon ns. Never, never again would this lump of clay, wblrh a few minutes before had lilted tbi Hollow with shrillest whistling, breath or think or apeak. II was dead, dead, dead! And I? What was If The name which no man bears unmoved. no amount of repetition makes easy to tb tongue or welrom to tb ear! the name wblrh I bad beard launched In full forensic eloquence so many times In accusation against tb wretches 1 bad bardly regarded as being In tb aam human rlass as myself rang In my ear as though Intoned from th very mouth of hell I could not esrap It I should never b able to esrap It again. Though I was standing In a familiar scene a seen I bad known and frequented from childhood, I felt myself as Isolated from my past and as completely set apart from my fellows as the shipwrecked mariner tossed to precarious foothold on his wav I forgot that other dashed rock. criminals existed. In that one awful moment I was In my own eyes tb only blot upon the universe the sols Inhabitant of the new world Into which I had plunged the world of crime the world upon which I had sat In Judgment before I knew What broke the spell? God know; all I can say Is that, drawn by some other will than my own, I found my glance traveling up the opposing bluff till at Its top, framed between the ragged wall and towering chimney of Spcncor'a Folly, I aaw the presence I had dreaded, the witness who was to undo me. It was a woman a woman with a little child In hand. 1 did not ace her face, for she was Just on the point of turning away from the dizzy verge, but nothing could have been plainer than the silhouette which these two made against the flush of that early evening sky. As long as I could catch a glimpse of this woman's fluttering skirt as she retreated through the ruins, I stood above the man 1 there, had slain, (taring up at that blotch of shining sky which was as the gate of hell to me. Not till tholr two figures had disappeared and it was quite clear again did the Instinct of return, and with It the thought Ixwn ( r ... of flight But where could t fly? No spot In the whole world was secret enough to conceal me now. I was a marked man. Better to stand my ground, and take the consequences than to act the coward's part and slink away like those other men of blood I bad ao often sat In Judgment upon. Had I but followed this Impulse! Had I but gone among my fellows, shown them the mark of Cain upon my forehead and prayed, not for Indulgence, but punishment what days gnawing misery I should have been spared! The horror of wh&t lay at my feet drove me from the Hollow. Aa my steps fell mechanically Into the trail down which I had come In innocence and kindly purpose only a few minutes before, a startling thought shot through my benumbed mind. The woman had shown no haste In her turning! There had been a naturalness In her movement, a dignity and a tysee which spoke of case, not shock. What if she bad not seen! What If my deed was as yet unknown! Might I not have time for for what? 1 did not stop to think; I just pressed on, saying to myself, "Let Trovldence decide. if I meet any one before 1 reach my own door my doom is settled. If I do not And I did not. As I turned Into the 'dne from the ravine I heard a sound Jar down the slope, but It was too distant to create apprehension, and t went calmly on, forcing myself Into my usual leisurely gait, If only to it Sf press, spakisii tore. preaiding ever the trial ef the mss Kcovlll. I feigned llrfanees. ettly to reallie that my place would lo taken by Judge Gresvenor, a notoriously prejudiced man. If bo sat. It woulJ go bard with th prisoner, sod I wanted I bid no acquitted. ths gaga DarkfiollowI COPYRIGHT fORK cam gain some rontrol over my own emo-Hun-t before coming under Oscar' eye. that fa bad more ronfldenr In my That sound I have never understood equity even under the circumstances bead-stronIt rould not have been Bcovllle, sine than la that of my sbl. but ms to and get prayed colleague, In th short lima which bad passed bs b expected not welL did that say lie could not hav fled front tbo point ahow even where I beard bint last Into lha ravin m on tbl very account to I below Ostrander Ian. Hut, If not b. more favor toward bla client than I am but hav otherwise don, might who was It? Or If It was bs. and sure that h meant It; and, taking hla Mims other band threw bis stick an omen. I obeyed bla across my path, wboss was this band attltud was aoon well enough and why bavs w never beard any- Injunction and seat to tak upon th bench. my thing about It? It Is n question which What men saw facing them from sometimes float a through my mind, was an automaton wound up but I did not glv It n thought then. th bench work each day. Th murh o to do I was within sight of horns sad Oliwas not ther. but re Ostrander ver's posslhl presence; and nil other unseen presence at th bsr, an stood, dread was as nothing la comparison aid by aid with to what I felt at tb prospect of meeb undergoing trialfor a crime to mak John ftcovllle, lug my boys ey. My boy's sysl my and humanity hid It weep angel greatest dread then, and my greatest dread stU! In my terror of It I walksd head: hypocrisy! Hut th day went by and th Inexas to my doom. orable hour drew nigh for th accused Tb bouse, whlrh I bad left empty. release or condemnation. Cirman's I found empty; Oliver bad not yet rewere against him so was cumstances turned. Tb absolute atlllnese of tb hla which I nlon understood. bearing, rooms seemed appalling. InstinctiveIf, as all felt. It was that of a guilty clock. It bad man. It was so because h had been ly I looked at th topped. Sot at the minute 1 do not guilty In Intent If not In fact H had aay It was at the minute but near, meant to attack Algernon Etheridge. very near the time when from an II had run down th ravine for that Innocent man I became a guilty on. knowing my old friend's purpose, fled to I Appalled at the discovery, and whlstt envying him hla watch. tho front. Opening the door, I looked hla foolish story of haring Or why not In n Not creature and out sight him? Hut th n sound to be beard. Tbo road was left hla stick behind a lonely and seemingly aa forsaken sound of my approaching steps higher had stopped him In as the houje. Had time stopped here, up on the path and sent him rushing up too? Were the world ard Its Inter mldeareer he cam ests at n pnuee In horror of my deed? the slope ahead of me. When of th fields For n moment I believed It; then more hack after n short circuit And big crime forenatural sensations Intetened. and, re- beyond. It was to the and very weapon he stalled by joicing at this lack of disturbance th Hollow as he Into bad thrown meant where disturbance discovery, went scurrying by. He had meant to 1 stepped Inside again, rewound the It was the shock attack Etheridge. room. own In down sat my clock, and of the body, heightof the discovery Was It mine any My own room! ened by the use he made of It to selooked walls the Its strange; longer? cure the booty thus thrown in his petty objects of pry daily handling, which gave him unfamiliar. The change In myself In- way without crime, 1 fected everything I aaw. might have been In another mans house for all connection these things seemed to have with me or my life. Like on set apart on an unapproachable shore, I stretched hand In vain toward all that I had known and all that had been of value to me. But the minutes passed I began to lose this feeling. Hope, which I thought quite dead, slowly revived. Nothing had happened, and perhaps nothing would. Men had been killed before, and the layer passed unrecognized. Why might It not be so In my case? If the woman continued to remain silent; It for any reason she bad not witnessed the blow or the striker, who else was there to connect me with an assault committed a quarter of n mile away? No one knew of the quarrel; and If they did, who could be so daring as to associate one of my name with an action ao brutal? A Judge slay his friend! It would take evidence of a very marked character to make even my political enemies believe that Aa the twilight deepened t rose from my seat and lit the gas. I must not be found skulking In the dark. Then I began to count the ticks measuring off the hour. If thirty minutes more passed without a rush from without I might hope. If twenty? if ten? then It was five! then it was Ah! The gate had clanged to. They He Wat Dead, Dead, Dead and I? were coming. I could hear steps What Was If loud I a voices ring at the bell. I the hangdog look we all noted moved slowly toward the front feared the betrayal which my ashy That there were other reasons that face and trembling hands might make. the place recalled another scene of Agitation after the news was to be brutality In which Intention bad been expected, but not before! So 1 left followed by act. I did not then know. the ball dark when I opened the door. It was sufficient to me then that my And thus decided my future. safety was secured by his own guilty For In the faces of the amall crowd consciousness and the prevarications which blocked the doorway I Selected Into which It led him. Instead of nothing hut commiseration; and when owning up to the encounter he bad so a voice spoke and I heard Oliver's ac- barely, escaped he. confined himself to cents surcharged with nothing more the simple declaration of having heard grievous than pity, I realized that my voices aomewheye near the bridge, secret was aa yet unshared, an. see- which to all who know the ravine aping that no man suspected me, X tore-bor- peared Impossible under the condito declare my guilt to anyone. tions named. This sudden restoration from soundYet, for all the incongruities and less depths Into the pure air of respect the failure of hla counsel to produce and sympathy confused me; and be- any definite Impression by the prisonyond the words "Killed! Struck down ers persistent denial of having whitby the bridge!" 1 heard little, till tled the stick or even of having carslowly, dully, like the call of a bell ried It Into Dark Hollow, I expected Issuing from a smothering mist 1 a verdict in his favor. Indeed, I was caught the sound of a name. It struck ao confident of It that I suffered less my ear and gradually It dawned upon during the absence of the Jury than my consciousness that another man at any other time, and when they rehad been arrested for my crime and turned, with an' air of solemn decision that the safety, the reverence and the which proclaims unanimity of mind commiseration that were so dear to and a ready verdict, I was so prepared me had been bought at a price no man for hla acquittal that for the first of honor might pay. time since the opening of the trial I But I was no longer a man of honor. felt myself a being of flesh and blood, I wae a wretched criminal swaying with human sentiments and hopes. above a gulf of Infamy la which I had And It was: Guilty!" seen others swallowed but had never When I awoke to a full realization dreamed of being engulfed myself. I of what this entailed (for I must have for a minute. never thought of letting myself go lost consciousness not at this crisis not while my heart ; though no one seemed to notice), the was warm with Its resurgence into the one fact staring me In the face was old life. that It would devolve upon me to pro- And so I let pass this opportunity nounce his sentence; upon me, Archl- for confession. Afterwards It was too bald Ostrander, an automaton no late or seemed too late to my demor- longer, but a man realizing to the full his part In this miscarriage of alized Judgment My first real awakening to the ex- Justice. Chaos confronted me, and In I traordinary horrors of my position contemplation of It, fell HI. was when 1 realized that circumSomehow, strange as It may appear, stances were likely to force me Into 1 had thought little of this possibility g e , f UTA ntomvBU I JJ previous to Ibis !: if upos th brink of tbl before 1b dlxiloren of F the other bad fully under that I replied, aaM sentence tut cl? delivering tb flow ! ? I to day there are dpibao Irredeemably-b- ut a mao cannot wblrh infamy beyond that point go I bad reached What saved nt? A new discovery, son and th loving sympathy of my on momentous tlshOlher One ram to my room and. elo to me--b behind hitu. stood with door Ins the nt is a his bark to It. contemplation we, startled way that boWhat bad happened? What lay look, and penetrating und this manthis nnxfoti and yet persistent I dared not think. not I dared ner? must folio yield to the terror which th check blanches Terror thought unblanch ever n must and my cheek never, der anybody's scrutiny. Never, so long as I lived. "Father" tb ton quieted m. for was knew from It gentleness tbt he hla own on mors to speak hesitating account than on mins "you nr not worrlea you. looking well; tht thing la It Just tbla. Ilk see I ka you to tbs foes of yoor old friend, or or lie faltered, not knowing bow to pro- df MULCH FOR POTATOES Farmer! Are Bcolnnlng to Rcalizo Importance of Practice. ? tffl Where Abundant YltW eme Desired, Is Mealy Tuber Nasf That Thin Mesne Other ture Mult Be Resorted T. Dr.W.E. Warner Office at Lcci DunjiLw Nljjftl Calls Ms-Pwmotre 1 Phone 21 SgunhhFost Dr. Joseph Hughes UniJrncr. Office nt lit South And I Cornet t Writ J iBv r, lh farmer of the great West r Office Hours, 10 lo 12 A. ,. at.d ta beginning to rcallre tb (.111. hundijf bf i.i. Years lane of mulching potatoes. Phone 53 tbl n Spanish Fork ago whin the soil of treatment was unnweevary because tbe soil was so rich In food that th potatoes took sn eucB early and rapid start and mad sirvlli-n- t growth that lh vloss shadrd County Quarantine lliyiician b preserving th ground, tbu moisture In th solL It would bav been queer Indeed Office At ReuJcnce. One Ltock for these early farmers to mulch their west of Commercial Dank. I 'hone 32 potatoes under such conditions, and when also, hay and straw were ecarc articles. Hut now tb fact must gradually dawn upon them that If they wish to ceed. keep up tbe abundant yield of large 'Fernet Imes I think." he recom- mealy potatoes they must resort to -menced. that you don't feel quit sure aom other means than merely letting matter to get Ctect BiilJing-Spani- ih of this man Frovllie's guilt la that nature attend to th Fork, Utah. o? Tell me, father?" results. I did not know what to mak of him. PHONE NO. II7-- 1 Ierhapa If w undersund th pres-en- t There was no shrinking from me; no conditions of th soli It would conscious or unconscious accusation help us to understand more clearly In voice or look, hut there was a d the necessity of mulching. Ths soil sire to know, and a certain latent re- through continued cropping has bewrite behind It all that marked ths come deficient In food elements and line between obedient boyhood and humua. Nearly every crop w raise It llscredaM. FimhiI thinking, determining man. With all Is taken entirely from the field and Fink FlovfnMiM daiM I felt ths key! m kind ml fail'd to atd'i. dread to a great dread of form In la the made my no return All kind el FwbSm K'peit'd. first grasp of age upon my heartmanure, fertilizer or humus. I Rmidrsc Tw BUI. Ninth el 1'ewtJty recognized strings at that moment I'nder these conditions the potatoes no olher enure than to meet thl In- make s slow growth and before the Ltah Spanish Fork Is. quiry of Ms with the truth that vines gt-- t the ground shadt-- th seawas aa th truth of much so with Jut son Is so far advanced that ths hot needed. No more, not on Jot more. winds and sun's heat have taken up I therefore answered, and with a ahow most of the moisture of the soli, with of self possession at which I now won- the result that tbe crop la materially der; decreased. "You are not far from right. Oliver. One should choose such time for I hav had momenta of doubt Tbs wht-the first potatoes show mulching evldenre, aa you must havs noticed, Is above ground. If mulched before this purely circumstantial." time It has a tendency to make the "What evidence would satisfy you? plants soft and puny, but if until HACK MEETS ALL TRAINS What would you consider a conclustv th first potatoes appear above tbe proof of guilt ground tb plants will be stronger and I told him In the set phrases of better able to push through the my profession. UTAH SPANISH FORK mulching. "Then." be declared aa I finished, A fairly light mutch Is to be pre"you may rest easy as to this mans ferred to a heavy one. for two rearight to receive a sentence of death." sons. First, there will be less trash I rould not trust my cars. to be removed from the fields In the "I know from personal observation," FASHONABLE fall; and. second, a light mulch will he proceeded, approaching me with a allow the vines to become low set and firm step, "that he Is not only capable therefore less liable to danger from of the crime for which he has been drought One Block North of the Hank convicted, but that he has actually A light mulching need not be committed one under similar circum- removed Utah from tbe field at all, but Spanish Fork . . stances, and posstbty for the same should remain there and thus add end." more humus to the soli. And he told me the story of that The mulching should be about two night of storm and bloodshed a story or three inches deep when fairly well which will be found lying near thla, settled. Hay Is to be preferred to In my alcove of shame and contrition. straw for mulching, as the latter has (TO BE CONTINUED.) a tendency to become hot during the FACE day. while the former will keep cooler EVERY SCAR MARKS under the same conditions. After the potatoes are mulched they Mysterious Affliction That Is Common should not be molested except to pull to All the Inhabitants of the weeds that might come through Bagdad. tbe mulching. An uncanny, pernicious pest called the "date boil" scars the face of every RYE IS DROUGHT RESISTANT human born In Bagdad, writes a correspondent of the National Geographic About the Only Crop Gopher Will Children Invariably have Not Attack Makes Good Grain Magazine. thla dreadful sore on their face. for Feeding Purposes. Throughout tbe middle east this mysterious scourge Is known by various The question Is often asked, what names "Bouton d'Alep," Nile sore, crop can be sown that the gophers will Delhi button," etc. not eat? Gophers are very troubleIts cause and Its cure are unknown. some pests, especially on the dry First a faint red spot appears, growing farm. They eat ravenously almost evlarger and running a course often ery green thing that Is planted. Rye has been found to be about the only eighteen months long. White men from foreign lands have gopher resistant crop. They do not lived years In Arabia, only to have seem to trouble It as they do the other this boll appear upon their return to grains. A number of farmers tn the civilization, where Its presence Is em- vicinity of the Wyoming experiment station have grown rye very successbarrassing and hard to explain. Maybe It was "date boils' that Job fully while their other crops were had! Once a British consul at Aleppo completely destroyed by gophers. Rye is a good pasture or hay crop IT lost almost his whole nose from one 1 mu n. ii Qi of these bolls. Nearly every Bagdad and also makes good grain for feeding native you meet has this date mark" purposes. It will also produce a crop of grain with as little moisture as any on his face. other plant Its drought and gopher resistant qualities make It especially The Likeliest One. The late Admiral Mahan, at the be- valuable to tbe dry farmer and should ginning of tbe war, was arguing with be more generally grown. On the exof being a subscriber to this a lady at a luncheon about the British periment farm rye has also been a paper is that ycu and your good crop under irrigation, either for navy. family become attached to "But my dear madam," said tbe ad- hay or forage. it The paper becomes a miral, It is bard to argue with you member of the family and bocause you are so er, pardon me BEST RESULTS OF SPRAYING its coming each week will OITSKK1 fft !!' nr J. W. Hagan, M. D. Dr. C. D. Livingston DENTIST R. M. JEX aomsT B. H. BROWN Livery and Feed Stable r Phone No. 12 Lorenzo Thomas TAILOR f The Sum and Substance ao Ignorant You remind we of the young wife Essential to Spray Thoroughly From who said to her brother about her Both Sldea of Tree Positively volunteer husband: "Isnt Jack Just wonderful? Think hes already been promoted to field marshal. "'From private to field marshal In two months? Impossible,' said the brother. "Did 1 say field marshal? murmured the young wife. 'Well, perl I know it's haps it's New York Tribone or the other. une. court-martia- Dally Thought seek no thornB, and I catch the small Joys. It the door Is low I stoop down. If I can remove tbe stone out of my way I do so. If It be too heavy, 1 go around It. And thus every day I find something which gladdens me. Goethe, 1 Ages of Various Trees. The ivy lives 200 years, the elm 300 to 350 years, the linden 500 to 1,000 years, the locust tree and the oak 400 years, and the fir 700 to 1,200 years. Not Against Wind. To receive the most beneficial from spraying and to save the mixture as much as possible It Is essential to spray thoroughly from both sides of the trees and positively not against the wind, even though the wind may seem light. It Is evident that if part of the foliage is not sprayed the unsprayed parts are as open to the attack of fungous spores and the stings of the curculio as though there had been no spray within a mile of the tree. Horse With a Cold. When a horse has a cold with at the nose see to the ventilation Give steamed hay, soft foods and a libernl allowance of linseed. The main consideration Is to give the horse and time, not send it to work until it has quite recovered. run-ntn- Strawberry Bed Is Essential. Every home needs a strawberry bed ns much as a garden. be as welcome as the arrival of anyone thats dear. 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