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Show rv r . i l m V 9 r THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH a white heap of bones remained, for many and terrible had been the agents at work upon them. The clothes, however, particularly the coat, were prac; tically intact. Gripping himself, Dan thrust his fingers into its pockets, then into the pockets of the shirt and trousBy JONATHAN BRACE ers. All paper that would in any ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) way serve to Identify the murdered man, or tell what his purpose had been MARYLAND in Journeying down the trail the night of the murder had been removed. Onljr INDIAN arrow one explanation presented itself. an imCranston had come before him and portant part in the searched the body himself. founding of MaryDan looked about for tracks, and he land. Lord Baltiwas considerably surprised to find the more had been inblurred, indistinct imprint of a shoe in terested the other than his own. He hadnt the company London least hope that the tracks themselves which was financially responsible for would offer a clue to a detective. the settlement of Virginia. He became surtoo were dim The for that They so enthusiastic over the possibilities prising fact was that since the murin the new colonies that he desired der had been committed immediately to found a colony himself. After exbefore the fall rains, the water had the country just north of the ploring ' not completely washed them out. The Potomac he persuaded King Charles only possibility remaining was that to grant him this territory. In honor I Cranston had returned to the body of the queen, Henrietta Marla, this after the weeks rainfall. The track new colony was called Maryland. had been dimmed by the lighter rains - The payment for this grant was that had fallen since. specified as two Indian arrows a year, But yet it was entirely to be extogether with a fifth part of all prepected that the examination of the cious metals which might be mined. As body would be an afterthought on the produced no gold or silver Cranston's part. Possibly at first his the colony cost of Maryland amounted to followonly thought was to kill and, only two arrows each year, and Lord ing the prompting that has sent so Baltimore became to all intents and he to murderers the gallows, many purposes an sovereign. had afterward returned to the scene As a matter ofindependent fact the charter was of the crime to destroy any clues he not issued until just after the death might have left and to search the of Lord Baltimore, but as the deed body for any evidence against the was hereditary it descended to the arson ring. second Lord Baltimore, under whom Dans next thought was to follow the first settlement was made at St along the trail and find Cranstons Marys in 1634. This hereditary mon ambush. Of course it would be in the archy continued in force until, under direction of the settlement from the the sixth L6rd Baltimore, the Declarabody, as the bullet had entered from tion of Independence in 1776 brought the front. He found it hard to believe it. to an end. that Hildreth had fallen in the exact In 1788 Maryland adopted the Conspot where the body lay. Men jourstitution and took its place as the sevneying at night keep to the trail, and enth state in thq Union. Its area tothe white heap itself was fully forty tals 12,327 square miles, and it is feet back from the trail in the thickthickly populated, so that Maryland ets. Perhaps Cranston had dragged it is entitled to eight presidential electhere to hide it from the sight of any- tors. one who might pass along the lonely trail again; and it was a remote posSOUTH CAROLINA sibility that Whisperfoot, coming in the night, had tugged it into the thickets for dreadful purposes qf his own. AShadMARYLAND been made Likely the shot was fired when Hildreth was In an open place on the a proprietary govtrail; and Dan searched for the amernment, in like bush with this conclusion in mind. He manner the terriwalked back, looking for a thicket tory extending from which such a spot would be visfrom Virginia to ible, Something over fifty yards down Florida was. granthe found it; and he knew it by the ed by Charles II In 1663 to eight genempty brass rifle cartridge that lay tlemen as a reward for their efforts in his behalf. The name Carolina comes half buried in the wet leaves. The shell was of the same caliber from the Latin, Carolus, meaning as Cranstons rifle. Dans hand shook Charles. It was not really named after Charles II, but originally "in honor of as he put it in his pocket. Encouraged by this amazing find, Charles EX, king of France, by Huguehe turned up the trail toward Hil- nots who built a fort near Beaufort in dreths cabin. It might be possible, 1562. s he thought, that Hildreth had left The fact that the Carolinas became some of his testimony perhaps such later two distinct colonies was due to rudely scrawled letters as Cranston chance. It happened that the earliest had written him In some forgotten settlements located at points far redrawer In his hut.4- It was but a short moved from each other. The first perwalk for Dans hardened legs, and he manent settlements In South Carolina were about Charleston, while those in made it before midafternoon. North Carolina were around AlbeThe search itself was wholly without result. But because he had time marle sound. The life In the two sections also was quite different South to think as he climbed the ridge, because as he strode along beneath that Carolina was largely devoted to the wintry sky he had a chance' to con- 'cultivation .of rice and indigo and the sider every detail of the case, he was planters soon grew very rich j with able to start out on a new tack when, their large estates on which the labor just before sunset, he returned to the was performed by slaves. In fact, just body. This new train of thought had before the Reyblution the population as its basis that Cranstons shot had showed twice ns many bracks as ,s not been deadly at once ; that, woundwhites. Hildreth had himself into crawled ed, In 1729 the government of the Carothe thickets where Whisperfoot had linas was turned back by the lord found him. And that meant that he proprietors to the king and, there was had' to enlarge his search for such formed the two separate provinces. documents as Hildreth had Carried to South Carolina was the eighth state ihclude all the territory between the to adopt the Constitution, the vote of trail and the location of the body. ratification being passed in May, 1788. a distance of forty The Palmetto state, , It whs possibly as South Carolina feet, and getting down on his hands is sometimes called, extends over and knees, Dan looked for. any break 30,989 square miles, and It participates in the shrubbery that would indicate in the presidential election to the exthe path that the wounded Hildreth tent of nine electors. had taken. And it was ten minutes well rewarded, as far as clearing up Cigar Nomenclature. certain details of the crime. His The nomenclature of the cigar trade senses had been trained and sharp-- ' ened by his months in the wilderness, is one of the very interesting phases No gentleman intent and h$ was able to back-trac- k the of democracy. t wounddd man from the skeleton clear upon building up a market for a to the clearing on the trail where he cigar ever named it for a stateshad first fallen. But as no clues pre- man. He complimented, instead, an sented themselves, he started to turn actor, a philanthropist, a race horse, a hypothetical Indian maiden or a suphome. He walked twelve feet, then turned posititious Spanish grandee. To have cigar for a statesman back. Out of the corner of his eye it named a seethed to him that he had caught a would have been to queer both the flash of white, near the end of a great, cigar and its involuntary patron. The dead log beside the path that the people would not have stood for that It would have prewounded Hildreth had taken. For a sort of thing. sumed a certain superiority which they moment he searched in vain. Evidently a yellow leaf had deceived him. would have rebukpd both at the cigar Once more he retraced his steps, try- stand and at the polls. Philadelphia On Second Thought." ing to find the position from which his Public Ledgers eye had caught the glimpse of white. Then he dived straight for the rotten Tides Move Big Building. end of the log. The historic Tower of London moves (TO BE CONTINUED.) four times dally as the tides of the Thames river ebb and flow. The Valuable to Science. movement Is most pronounced in the The telescope gives enlarged views 'part nearest the river. The moveof distant objects, the microscope ment is due to the fact thnt many tons shows only what is almost in contact of water penetrate under the foundawith its lens, and by giving a means tions with the rising tide, which ribve-meof making intermediate observations has the effect of moving upward the modifications of the Davon micro the whole mass of the tower. telescope have proven a boon to the naturalist-- With great depth of focus Much American Wood Wasted. and a large field of view, the short At the fountain source of our timfocus type, for example, has a work ber resources the growing wood-landing distance of 10 to 18 Inches, and 16 per cent is squandered In magnifies 15 to 38 diameters. An ad tops, limbs and stumps; 10 per cent rod serves as a is represented in edgings and trimjustabie rubber-tippe- d rest to support the Instrument at the mings; sawdust takes a toll of nearly desired height for studying such ob 11 per cent; 10 per cent is wasted in jects as insects, plants and rocks. t slabs; bark represents nearly 11 per qn cent of waste; something over 5 per Chief Ailment. cent is lost in seasoning; careless A large proportion of our troubles per cent. manufacturing loses 2 is caused by too much bone In the while the planing mill renders Irhead and not enough in the back. recoverable still another small Incre (S. C.) Record. ment in excess of 1 per ent - THE STORY OF OUR STATES 1 " 3 I f . ' CHAPTER 18 But the terrible fangs were never to know her white flesh. Some one had come between. There was no chance to 'shoot : Whisperfoot and the girl were too near together for that. But one course remained; and there was riot even time to count the cost. In this most terrible moment of Dan Failings life, there was not even an Instants hesitation. He did not know - that Whisperfoot was wounded. He , saw the beast creeping forward in the weird dancing light of the fallen lan, v tern, and he only knew that his flesh, not hers, must resist Us rending talons. Nothing else mattered. No oth- er consideration could come between. It was the test ; and Dans instincts , prompted coolly and well. He leaped with all his strength: The cougar hounded into his arms, not upon the " " prone body of the girl. And she opened her eyes to hear a curious thrashing in'the pine needles, a strange grim battle that, as the lantern flashed out, was hidden, In the darkness. And that battle, in the far reaches of the Divide, passed into a legend. It , was the tale of how Dan Failing, his gun knocked from his hands as he I met the cougars leap, with his own g nnaided arms kept the breath from the animals lungs and killed him in the pine needles. Claw "and fang and the frenzy of death i I. , I ' life-givin- eould , not, matter at all. Thus Failing established before all men his fight to the name he bore. And thus he paid one of, his debts tife for a life, as the code of the forest has always decreed and in the' fire of danger and palp, his metal was Wed and proven. - . springs of motive that few men can see clearly enough within themselves to recognize. Even the first day, when he lay burning from his wounds, he worked out his own explanation in reHe gard to the murder mystery! hadnt the slightest doubt but that Cranston had killed Hildreth to prevent his testimony from reaching the courts below. Of course, any other member of the arson ring of hlllmen might have been the murderer; yet Dan was inclined to believe that Cranston, the leader of the gang, usually preferred to do such dangerous work as this himself. If it were true, on that tree-claridge clues would be left. Moreover, it was wholly d possible that the written testimony Hildreth must have gathered had nevDan er been found or destroyed. didnt want the aid of the courts to find these clues. He wanted to work out the case himself. It resolved it- -, self into a simple matter of vengeance : Dan had his debt to pay, and he wanted to bring Cranston to ruin by his own hand alone. While it was true that he took rather more than the casual Interest that most citizens feel in the destruc-lio- h of the forest by wanton fire, and had In actual sense of duty to do all that he could to stop the activities of the arson ring, his' motives, stripped and bare, were really not utilitarian. He had no particular interest in Hildreths case. He remembered him simply as one of Cranstons disreputable gang, a poacher and a fire bug himself. When all is said and done, it remained really a personal issue fce- - BOOK THREE The Payment. . CHAPTER I. The Lennox home, in the wilderness of the Dmpqua Divide, looked rather like an emergency hospital for the first few days after Dans fight with WhisIts old sounds of laughter perfoot. and talk werfi almost entirely lacking. Two injured men and a girl recovering from a nervous collapse 'do not tend 1 ' v toward cheer, But the natural sturdiness of all three quickly came to their aid. Of course Lennox had been severely injured by the falling log, and many weeks would pass before he wopld be able to walk again. He could .sit up t for short periods, however; had the partial use of one arm ; and could propel himself after the first few weeks at a snails pace' through the rooms ' In a rude wheel chair that Bills inge- -' nuity had contrived. The great livid , scratches that Dan bore on his body quickly began to heal; and before a " week was done he began to venture ' v forth on the hills again. Snowbird had remained in bed for three days; then she had hopped out one bright afternoon, swearing never to go back ' Into it again. Evidently the crisp, fall air of the mountains had been a nerve tonic for them all. . Of course thera had been medical attention. A doctor and A nurse had motored up the day after the accident ; the physician had set the bones and , departed, and the nurse remained for a. week, to see the grizzled mountain eer well on the way of convalescence. But it was an anxious wait, and Lennoxs car was kept constantly in readiness to speed her away in case the snows should start At last she had left him in Snowbirds hands, and Bill had driven her back to the settlements , . In his fathers car. The die was now cast as to whether or not Dan and , the remainder of the family should winter in the mountain. The snow clouds deepened every day, the frost was ever heavier in the dawns, and the road would surely remalji open , only a few days more. . Onee more the three seemingly had , Bert v the Divide all to themselves. Cranston had evidently deserted his on cabin and was working a trap-lin- e the Umpqua side. The rangers left f' , the little station,, all danger of fire , ' ' past, and went down to their offices 1 In the federal building of one of the little cities below. Because he was worse than useless in the deep snows 6at were sure to come, one of the ranch hands that had driven up with BUI rode away to the valleys the laSt - . of the live stock the horse that Dari ' had ridden to Snowbird's defense. of Landy ' ' ' Nothing had been heard .i Jaildreth. who, used to live on the . frail to the ftiarsh, 'and both Lennox , , ; and his daughter wondered why. There - were also' certain officials who had L ' As yet, Dan curious. be to begun had told no one of the grim find he , had made on his return from hunting. And he would have found it an ex- tremely difficult fact to explain,. ' ' It all went back to those inner - , r S V V p A 8trange, Grim Battle. tween Dan and Cranston. And personal issues are frowned upon by law and society. Civilization has toiled up from the darkness In a great measure to get away from them. But human nature remains distressingly the same,' and Dans desire o pay his dept was a distinctly human emotion. Sometime a breed will live upon the earth that can get clear away from personal code from that age-ol- d vengeance of the hills that demands a blow for a blow and a ifje for a life but the time is not yet,And after all, by all the standards of men as men, not as, read in Idealistic philosophies, Dan!8 debt was entirely real. By the light held high by his ancestors, he could not. turn his other cheek. Just as sOon as he was able he went back to the scene of the murder. He didnt know when the snow would come to cover what evidence there was. It threatened every hour. Every wind promised it The air was sharp and cold, and no drop of rain could fall through it without crystallizing into snow. The deer had all gone and the burrowing people had sought their holes. Hie bees worked no more in the winter flowers. Of all the greater forest creatures only the wolves and the bear remained the former because their tear of men would not permit them to go down e lower hills, and. the latter because of his knowledge that when food became scarce he could always burrow In the snow. No bear goes into hibernation from choice. Wise old bachelor, he much prefers to keep just as late hours as he can as long as the eating places in the berry thickets remain open. The cougars had all gone down with the deer, the migratory birds had departed, and even the squirrels were in hiding. The scene didnt offer much In the way of clueg Of the body itself onlj to-th- 10-ce- Forlnfantsand Children. .otfcrs Know That Gonuina Castoria Always similatinttieibodbyKeSular tinStheStoa&risaadBqrejs 1 , 7.1. pinOa.- -- Bears the - Signature neither (bldflbMcrpMheJ1i Mhieret NotNargotic In Dsc dFFeverishnessMd For Over Thirty Years nnCanxBCasPx Exact Copy of Wrapper, SMS CENTAUR ( fir What to. ID) WkmtaeA StmmA Take a good dose of Carter's little liver Pills then take 2 or 3 for a few nights after. CARTERS i You will relish your meals without fear of trouble to follow. Millions of all ages take them for Rniftnanw, Dizziness, Sick Hetfache, Upset Stomach and for Sallow, Pimply, Blotchy Skin. Then end the mitag of Comttpotlm. aP!LSS SaaD Pill: Saull Dots; SoiII Pries ianatwe WAS NEW ONE ON KITCHENER OF COURSE IT WASNT TRUE Great British Soldier Somewhat Out Good Illustration of German Characof His Element When It Came ter in Simplicity Displayed by to Chaplains. Soldier in France. Here Is a Lord Kitchener story Jtold by the anonymous author of The Mir- rors of Downing Street. Kitchener a 'soldier and absorbed In his profession. Details outside of his ruling passion annoyed him. During the early days of the war Lloyd George went to him at the war office and asked the appointment of denominational chaplains for the various sects of the army. Kitchener had no Interest in chaplains. He regarded them as 'a negligible factor in the fighting machine. He opposed the appointments. Lloyd George insisted, especially with respect to Presbyterians. Kitchener finally yielded and picked up his pen. Very well, he said, you shall have Then a faint smile a. Presbyterian. Let me see. lighted his serious face. Presbyterian? how do yoq spell it? was ' ""-- a , Much Worse. Youll have to work hard If you want to win Miss Bond,, the hgiress. Yes, and Ill have to work a deuced ' One American who remained Lille during the German occupation used his time to study German character. He told Mrs. Corinna H. Smith and Mrs. Caroline R. Hill, authors of Rising Above the Ruins in France, one astonishing thing that he had noticed the childish unreasoning confidence that the German soldier had in whatever he was told by his superiors and he gave this example of it. I knew German, he said, and one day I talked with a German sentry who was standing over some French civilians at work in a field. He was reading a newspaper and, turning to me, said indignantly. The French say we force civilians to work against theirwill. Thats not true; this German paper denies it. I looked at him in amazement and asked, Well, what are you doing yourself, standing here with your gun over these poor people? 'If I did not, was his naive answer, they would run away. sight harder If I dont. The Mpdem Accountant. Few of us have trouble meeting Stella What is her husband worth! these days. 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