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Show FORK. UTAjj THE SPANISH ffnPTf PPttSS. SPANISH theyll hare to bring If they want to snatch over yonder to the that young womtell llophra House and and she can off, bridles the an that to!" talk all she wants I know said Smith shortly. on as shall go I and whut I am doing, Matway. the only Its begun. hnve I us now, with ters are desperate enough and If I should drop out" and The telephone bell wus ringing, himBaldwin twisted his chair to bring self within reach of the desk set. lhe and at Its message was a brief one, was ranchman-presiden- t finish the Tlmnnyonl. REAL MAN FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright by Chu. Scribner Sow) CHAPTER XV Continued. 12" Smith was Jabbing his paper knife And absently Into the desk blotter. yet we go on calling this a civilized country I ho wild meditatively. The with a midden change of front: Im In this fight to stuy until I win out or die out, ITllly; you know that. As I have aald, Miss Verda can kill me off If she chooses to; byt she wont choose to. Now lets get to work. Its pretty late to rout a Justice of tho peuce out of bed to Issue a warrant for us, but well do It.1 Then well go after Lanterby and make him turn state' evidence. Come on ; let's get busy." Hut Starbuck, reaching softly for handhold upon Smith; desk, made no reply. Instead he sunpped his lithe body out of the chair and launched It In a sudden tiger spring at the door. To Smith's the door, which should have been latched, came In at Starbuck! wrenching Jerk of the knob, bringing with It. hatlcss, and-witthe breath startled out of him, tho new stenogra phor, Shaw. Theres your states evidence," snld Starbuck grimly, pushing the half-daze-d door listener Into a chair. Just , put the auger a couple of Inches Into this fellow and see what you can find, Richard Shaw had an exceedingly had quarter of an hour when Smith and Starbuck applied the thumbscrew to force a confession out of him. knowing the dangerous ground upon whleh he stood, he evaded and shuffled and prevnrleated unde the charges and questionings until it becurne apparent thut nothing short of bribery or physical torture would get the truth out of him. Smith was not willing to offer the bribe, and since the litoral thumbscrews were out of the question, Shaw was locked Into oni of the vacant rooms across the corridor until his captors could determine what was to be done with him, That Is orie time when I fired and missed the whole side of the barn,1 Starbuck admitted, when Shaw hud been remanded to the makeshift cell across I know that fellow Is on the hall. Stantons pay roll ; and It8 reasonably certain that he got his Job with you so that he could keep cases on you. But we cant prove anything that we say, so long as he refuses to talk." Smith agreed. No, I can discharge hi in, and that's about all that can he doue with him." He Is a pretty smooth article, said Starbuck reflectively. "He used to be a clerk la Muxwell'a railroad ofllce, and he was mixed up in some kind of crookedness, I dont remember Just chulr-rlghtin- aston-Ishment- , what. Smith caught quickly at the suggestion!, . "Walt a minute, Billy," he broke In ; and then; Theres no doubt In your mind that he's a spy? Sure he Is," was the prompt re- joinder. I was Just thinking he has heard what was said here tonight whleh Is enough to give Stanton a pretty good chance to outflgure our outfit again.' Right you are." la which case It would he little short of Idiotic In us to turn him loose. i Are They Sure-Enoug- h John!" Chasing You Weve got to hold him, proof or no proof. Where would we be apt to catch Maxwell at this time of night?" "At home ami In bed, I reckon. rail bint upon the phone and state the case briefly. Tell him If he has any nip on Shaw that would warrant us in turning him over to the sheriff, we'd like to know It." You're getting the range now," and Instead laughed the of using the desk set, he went to shut telephone hlmsejf Into the sound-proo- f closet. When he emerged a few minutes later he was grinning exultantly. That was sure n smooth one of yours, John. Dick gave me the facts. Shaw's a thief; hut he has a sick sister on his hands or suld he had and the railroad didn't prosecute. Dick soys for us to jug him tonight und tomorrow morning liell swear out the necessary paH's." , Good. Well do that first ; and then well go after this fellow Lanterby. want to get Stanton where I can pinch him, Billy; no, theres nothing personal about It ; but when a great corporation like the Escalante Land company gets down to pluln anarchy and dynamiting, Its time to make somebody sweat for It Lets go und get Shaw." Together they went across the corri dor, and Smith unlocked the door of the disused room. The light switch was on the and Starbuck found and pressed the button. The door-jam- b single Incandescent bulb hanging from the celling sprang alive and showed the two men at the door an empty room and an open window. The bird hud flown. Starbuck was grinning again when he went to look out of the window, The roof of tho adjoining building was only a few feet below the sill level and there was a convenient fire escape ladder lending to the ground. Its us for that roadhouse out on the Topaz trail before the news gets around to Stanton and Lanterby," he said definitely; and they lost no time In securing an auto for the dash. But that, too, proved to be a fiasco. When they reached Bartons place on the hill road, the bar was still open and a card game was run nlng In an upstairs room. Starbuck did the necessary d of the bartender. You know me, Pug, and what I can do to you if I hnve to. We want Hank Lanterby. Pitch out and show us where." The barkeeper threw up one hand as If he were warding off a blow.' You cd hnve him In a holy minute, for all o me, Billy; you sure could, ho protested. But hes gone." On the level? snapped Starbuck, Thats straight; I wouldnt lie to you, Billy. Telephone call came from town a little spell ago, and I got Hank outa bed t answer It. He borrad Bartons mnre an faded Inside of pair o minutes. "Which way? demanded the ques- that he had forfeited the right to see her. Out of the chaotic wreck of things but one driving motive had sur lived, and It had grown to the stature of an obsession: the determination to wring victory out of defeat for Timan-,vonHigh Line; to fall. If he must fall fighting to the lust gasp and with his face to the enemy. I know," he suld. replying, after the reflective pause, to the charge pussed on by Colonel Dexter. There Is friend of mine here from the EuHt, and I have been obliged to show her some attention, so they say 1 am neglecting my Job. They are also talking It around that I am your Jonah, and say ing that your only hope Is to pitch me overboard, PIPP. You g frowning ht avily. seem ns if the By Jupiter It does bad luck nil comes In a bunch!" he ! , WALTER CLEVER derrick along you out of tho "Williams was rushing protested. things Just a little too fast, and theyve lost a whole section of the dam by constripping the forms before the ancrete wus set. That puts us back hours, at least. Dont other twenty-fon- r mischief? the beat that Its six Smith reached for his hat. o'clock." he suid; and Williams have furnished one more reason why I shouldnt keep Miss waiting for her dinner." And with that he cut the talk short and went his way. With a blank evening before her, e Miss Rlehlander, making the dinner count for what It would, tightened her hold upon the one niun nvuiluhle, demanding excitement. Nothing else offering, she suggested an evening auto drive, aud Smith dutifully telephoned Maxwell, the railroad superintendent, and borrowed a runabout. Smith drove the borrowed runabout In sober silence, and the glorious beauty in the sent beside him did not try to make him talk. Perhnps she. too, was busy with thoughts of her own. form-strippe- Rich-land- tete-a-tet- That's Duve Klnzle, growled the He seems to have It In Missourian. for you, some way." Nevertheless, he was right, Smith returned gloomily. Then : I am about at the end of my rope, colonel the rope I warned you about when you bronght me here and put me Into the saddle; and Im trying desperately to hung on until my job's doue. When It Is done, when Tiinanyonl High Line cun stand fairly on Its own feet and fight Its own battles, Im gone. Oh, no, youre not," denied the ranchman-president In generous protest. You come on out home with me tonight and get away from this muddle for a few minutes. Itll do you a heap of good ; you know it always does.' Smith shook his head reluctantly but firmly. Never again, colonel. It can only be a matter of a few days now, and Im not going to pull you and your wife and daughter into the limelight if I can help it. Colonel Dexter got out of his chair and walked to the ofliee window. When he came back It was to say: Are they h chasing you, John? for something that you have done? Is that wlint youre trying to tell me? That Is It and they are nearly here. Now you know at least one of the reasons why I ennt go with you tonight." tioner. Ill be shot if I dol stormed the T the hills; leastways he aint There Is a limit, Verda. headin fr town when he breaks from generous one. I promised the missus Id bring . you." here." At all events, when Smith hud helped You must make my excuses to her ; her out of the car at the hotel entrance Starbuck turned to Smith with a wry and to Corona you may say that I am nnd had seen her as far as the elevasmile. Shaw beat us to It and he scores once more carrying a gun. She will un- tor, she thanked him half absently and on ns," he said. We may as well derstand. took his excuse, thnt he must return hike back, phone Williams to keep his Which means, I take it, that youve tile ruunbout to Maxwells garage, witheye on things up at the dam, and go been telling Corry more than youve out laying any further commands upon to bed. Therell be nothing more do- told the rest of us. That brings on him. more talk, John. I havent said a word ing tonight Just as he was turning away, a bellbefore, have I?" boy came across from the clerks desk CHAPTER .XVI. No. with a telegram for Miss Rlehlander. Well, Im going to say It now: Ive Smith had no excuse for lingering, hut At Any Cost got only just one daughter in the wide, with the air thick with threats he made With all things moving favorably for wide world, John. the tipping of the boy answer for a Tlmnnyonl High Line up to the night Smith stood up and put his hnnds momentary stop-gaMiss Verda tore of fiascos, the battle for the great behind him, the older man the envelope open nnd rend the Inelo-sur- e facing water-righ-t seemed to take a sudden squarely. with a little frown coinslant against the loenl promoters, after Coldnel, Id give ten years of my ing and going between her eyes. the failure to cripple Stanton by the life, this, Its from Tucker Jibbey, she snld, minute, if I might go with attempt to suppress two of his subordl to HUlcrest this evening and tell you Someone has glancing up at Smith. Conates. Early the next day there were rona what I have been wanting to tell told him where we are, nnd he is folpanicky rumors In the air, none of them her Vver since I have come to know lowing us. He says hell be here on traceable to any definite starting point. what her love might make of me. The the evening train. Will you meet him One of the stories was to the effect fact that I cant do It Is the bitterest nnd tell him Ive gone to bed?" that the Ttmunyoni dam had faulty thing I have ever had to face, or can At the mention of Jibbey, the money-spoile- d foundations and that the haste In ever be made to son of the man who stood next face. building had added to Its Insecurity. Colonel Buldwln fell back Into his to Josiuh Itlchlnnder in the credit ratOn the heels of this come clamorous swlng-clml- r and thrust his hands Into ings, and Lawrencevilles best Imitacourt petitions from ranch owners be- his tion of a flaneur, Smith's first emotion pockets. low the dam site, setting forth the beats It how things was one of relief at the thought thut the Dutch exflood dnngers to which they were tangle themselves up for us poor mor- Jibbey would at least divide time with posed and praying for an Injunction to tals every little he com- him In the entertainment of the bored stop the work. mented. after a frowning pause. And beauty; then he remembered that Jib-be- y That this was a new move on Stan- then: You havent said had once considered him a rival, anything like ton's part, neither Smith nor Stillings that to Corry, have nnd that the sham rounders" presyou?" questioned for a moment ; but they no ence In Brewster would constitute a "No." sooner got the nervous ranchmen puel That was white, anyway. And now menace more threatening than all the fied by giving an indemnity bond for I suppose the other woman this Miss others put together. any damage that might be done, than "I ennt meet Tucker." he said blunt-- . over at the hoother rumors sprang up. For one day tel has come and You know very well I cant." and got you up dug and yet another Smith fought mechan"Thats on end so," was the quiet reply. "Of the of her you trailing rope. ically, developing the machlnellke dog Thats the way it goes when a man course you cant. What will you q0 gedness of the soldier who sees the mixes and mingles too much. You ivlien he comes? run away?" battle going Irresistibly against him never can tell No; I cant do that, cither. I shall and still smites on In sheer desperaout of his way, If I cun. If he Hold keep Smith Interposed. "Whattion. He saw the carefully built or- ever elseon," I may be. Im not that kind finds me nnd makes any bad breaks, ganization structure, reared by bis own of a scoundrel. I dont owe Miss hell get wlint's coming to him. If hes efforts upon the foundation laid by Itlchlander that I cant pay worth anything to you. youll put him anything Colonel Baldwin and his ranchman aswithout Injustice to the woman on the stage in the morning and send sociates, fulling to pieces. In spite of I love. doing But In another wuy I am a him up Into the mountains to join vour all he could do, there was a panic of scoundrel, colonel. For the past two 'nther." stock-sellinthe city council, alarmed "The Idea ! she laughed. I hnve been contemptible enough days lie's not by the persistent story of the unsnfety to a womans vanity merely coming out here to see father. Poor upon play of the dam, was threatening to caned for the sake of keeping her from talk- Tucker I If he could only know what the lighting contract with Tlmnnyonl Is In for! too much." Then: It Is beginning ing High Line; and Klnzle, though be was old ranchmun shook his to look ns If you might have to go still The grizzled the had caused doing nothing openly, hem! sorrowfully. deeper In debt to me. Montngue. There word to be passed far and wide among I didn't think that bf you, John ; I Is one more thing Id like to do before the Tlmnnyonl stockholders, disaster sure didnt. leave Brewster. If Ill promise to Why. thats what you could he averted now only by prompt Tucker away from you, will you call u keep might sort of action and the swift effacement of their a drive me out to the Baldwins tomorgame." secretary and treasurer. Is Just that, and I know It as row afternoon? I want to see the Theyre after you, John," wus the wellIt as you do. But its the price I olonels fine horses, nnd he 1ms Invited of It colonel close at the way the put to for have few days of grace. me, you know." pay the second day of "They Miss Itlchlander my Smiths eyes darkened. knows the Stantons: Rome's while fiddlin say youre There Is a limit, Verda, and youve tnude It Gsrtr business to they've get Maybe you know what they reached It," he said quickly, "if the with One her. word from acquainted mean by thut; I don't" colonel Invited to Crawford her you to HUlcrest, it was and a wire Stanton, Smith did know. During the two from him to my home town la the mid- hecuuse.you didnt leave him any been Miss Verda had stress of days hnnee not to. I resign In favor of Jil,. dle West would settle me. very exacting. There had been another nnd with thnt he handed her Into bey, man older The straightened himself night at the theater and much timethe waiting elevator nnd snld, "Goosteel-graIn and his his chair, the of eyes in meals the pnrlors killing after dnight" llophra house. Worse still, there hnd dazed suddenly. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Break away from em, Jnhnr he been a daylight auto trip about town Break It off short, and let em and up to the dura. The victim was urged. Anticipating a Slump, writhing miserably under the price-payin- all do their worst I Away along at the The Victim "And why should you hut there seemed to be no help first, Williams and I both said you be so much concerned even If wasnt a crooked crook, and Im bp. losing my hnir?" The Barber l am for It. Since the night of Verda Why not In llevlng it yet. When tt comes to the sir, anyone Is annoyed to fiud arrival Brewster, he hnd his bust we'll all fight for you, aud acu Corona ; he was telling himself, show-dowDess fulling off." Yankees First Baseman Is Most A new flour mill Delta whleh mid Remarkable Player. Clouter cf Earned Title of Home-Ru- n Hie Circuit While but Twenty ,. Three Years of Age In Clean Up Position. 1 , 7 Ilarry James stale. The fruit better or larger. displays Mere never At a reception given la Paysu m boys who Imve been enrolled in army, each member prew was presented with n $5 bill and th Walter Pipp. same amount will be sent to the one Is a good base runner, one capable of who are it wuy on duty. find In overalls, ten women ten getting the utmost inch on both his own and Bakers blows. placed at work In the Ogden railin' direction of Ilpp stands today as au example of yards Monday under the the sound baseball sense of Manager the division storekeeper. Their wi Donovan. When Wild Bill was brought will consist of sorting small la over from Providence pennant fame to articles In the scrap pile. Au employe of a Smlthflcld daitj assume charge of the Yankees by Messrs. Ruppert and Huston, the new has iniide u record on milk deliver? d owners, he found thnt the Detroit club this (Summer. Out of 3C,0i0 pound had given New York options on Pipp milk not one pound was second grade and Ilnghle High. He delivered on an average of 13.AW Both Ilpp and High made good, and pounds n month for eleven months. formed a nucleus around which It was As u preliminary to the state M to nt Salt Luke, the students of their build the present strong possible structure. Like most of the promi- Tooele schools held a fair of nent American league sluggers, Walown. The exhfbits consisted of gaanimals ter Pipp Is a d batsman. He rden und farm products, farm throws with his right hand, a qunllficn-tio- n and preserving nnd cunning and , regarded as a great advantage luff. for flrst-lms- e A meal consisting of ouist play, pipp is a grand fielder, active, agile and certain with mashed potatoes, gravy, bread, bolter to $ his hands. He is possessed of a wonund sliced peaches, was served derful reach lie stands six feet two den high school students for 13 tho inches In height, and weighs ISO nt noon Monday, when first Its for pounds. was eafeteria opened THREE SWATS WERE ENOUGH Gawky Michigan Pitcher Who Could Fool Ty Cobb Is Given Chance to Show Jennings. Ilnghle Jennings, manager of the Tigers, recently hnd a letter from a Michigan plteher Mho stated thnt he could strike out Ty Cobh three times out of four trips to the It plate. onty cost $1.80 to get a peep at this plteher and, working on the old motto that von never can tell, Jennings forwarded the one buck and eight dimes. The pitch,, r came, n six-fofour ! ! a"k and be was H;was nil Joints nn 1 honp. Cobb was called and he fared o.bi! Th nK"l,,rt field right wall. ;; p'M"1 four bags when it, nnd tllft th(r( flow f(j mL four-pl- y shot. ,77'' iin'1 nn, ;1:77 7s ,,! fr Lik "li,k f pitcbJr" trit7w''SS !',m tlmtS S1,y career. many N bnck-sllpplng- s. Cobl ,hnt snltl th Mll tho PLAY BALL IN FRANCE nSK,B? Mcrad,an' Nifty Payer, Among Australians. boys in France are they are not the onlv ball. Not P'y or Americiumcounting it, A'bdrallnn part of tiio Brit- - (J!l out that 77"' 7 I"h NbSe'7 77777 v7 nlf,y g, Rich-lande- it I lie tlu-hor- n . Thompson, arrested Ogden several weeks ago ns a mllitaq draft evader, was releusel after m deuce hud been Introduced provlo; that lie Is 34 years of age. Twelve hundred bushels of oat u, eight hundred bushels of wheat til, he the product of the Suit Luke Cin farm at Mountain Dell und ItlveM farm will run at least 1500 bushel, Electrification of the Denver 4 & Grande between Salt I.uhe and Helper will be undertukin goon after tit merging of the road with the MKwt Pacific und the Western Pacific, It k suld. This years state fair wag fur itf away abend of any similar show, It i, said. This year has been a banner, one in almost every industry of th sure-enoug- y 7,7 ,7 g n v n n dog-face- low-dow- 77 85 barrels, '"Purity The records show n,,.t divorce to every six m 01017 Wa Lake the past year. ? Knit Kluikl uniforms members of S..li Lai, cadet llllttUlloilH this you The Salt Lake conn , N(lllff voted .$200 to the m,i fu Utah contingents of ,e - ffpi'. d i,,,,. Walter Ilpp, first baseman of the Yankees, Is one of the most remark able players developed In the last deUtu army. cade by the American league. Last "'omen of the e Red twenty-threCross yenrs season, while only are endeavoring to furnish old, this clever performer earned the f home-rutitle of his circuit and also soldiers either departing fro, 1,7 tug through Proto. hatted In more runners during the sea' 'Pbe plant of the People son than any other ball player of the Johnson organization. Ills hitting was pany at Mronl will be giv7. out October 10 and should com 11 more effective than that of Trls SpeakCol-iln- s Eddie operating Oetolier 20. Joe Cobh, Jackson, er, Ty Between 3000 and fiuuo by and several others who topped him In the official averages. potatoes will be harvested fmm 1 Iipp bats fourth In Bill Donovans on public property h, Sult JJ order. Fourth place Is considered the planted under the supervision of 7 "dean-up- " position. There Is a fine officials. distinction when It Is remembered that Hundreds of Japanese laborer i J. Franklin Baker, the home-ru- n king have been employed la the tome of Connie Mark's famous world chamfields In Weber comity nnd it pion pennant trust, Is nowr a team-mut- e lty will now transfer their of the Michigan marvel. to the beet fields, In Ilpp nnd Baker the Yankees pos iNew locomotives of the 50()0 das ness an ideal offensive pair.sueh as has are being tried out by the Union h parried more than one team to success. clflc with a view to using them Wulter and Frank are to New York draw freight trains Instead of Just what Ty Cobb ami Sam Crawford motive and u helper. were to the Tigers many yenrs before to the report of ftofw,, Wahoo began to slow up. Pipp Is not A. According I Mathews, superintendent of to so fast as Cobb, of course, bat still be citys war gardens, no per cent of to gardens undertaken In Suit kite year' were successful. all-nig- fine-line- l i r- - s ;r iss: s tt FranlS?1 y to many now 0 uainthesundcofAita v ,hnl! 7m . business. ('buries f season, age 10 TLa. for Ilurrlsvillc may be disfigured h accidental the of ns a result near of un automatic shotgun an ( tore City. Tlu wild ami slmt c ee t Swensons groove through . w and temple. u The seasons campaign at the We sugar factory will begin most Prospects are gissl for a fill run. The prelimlimO' beets shows them well up In 8tS tent nnd the tonnage per acre well up with average years. Fatally Injured by by u motorcyclist who lift dead on the country road nir Island, urmy Mineola, t ration cninp, Earl I. of age, of Salt Lake, died ''I "n-m- 28 In the military field camp. w thi- county It Is understood that located If'1' station, farm experiment continued Cedar Fort, will be i,. fore long, both heeiius of t labor and the recent dcat Hackling, who owned ll,p D neet-'copied by Ibe station. estate. lutes changes In his Representatives of eight the S!,lt union men, who compose Lake Federation of lathor, l7u,ri(,ln of l,(' Izing a local branch Allltince for Labor and , , .,HKt which lias been funned to fm faithfully nnd loyally the "r of He United Slates In in A $10,000 school ItuliGiiig I", CItP the girt of the Granite srm' w to Magnn. The structure trlC. story, und n contract for im, lion has been awarded. Protests of the drusifW f V lathe against the lm,v !,,ne ;W state prohibition law prnb 0f of alcohol for the n Attornrf ministering alcohol bath (m In the Issuance of nn rIr 7 General Dan lL Hhlehls IMr ' sale of alcohol denaturml .j(,rllW a formula prescribed W I tunas, stute chemist. - J 7 |