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Show THE RICII COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH her band to remain slightly longer than It had before then she gently Confidential withdrew Miss Texie you will grant me the privilege of calling yon by your first name, will you not?" She did not answer. Your brother, my roommate, was very enthusiastic about bis pretty sister. But even be did not do yon Justice. You are . to the Ladies Dont overdo that for him A Tale Of The Flat woods HL L .5L David AipeKron gift gs Illustration L win. MyV.r Copyright. TV BU ct , THE RED LOCK and In casting about for an example, somehow pipes and pipe tobacco come-fir- st to our mind. If we were a woman e full-siz- pipe-smok- er safe choice. The jar sells for $1.65 at any tobaoco store. If your regular dealer hasnt enough glass jars to supply the Christmas trade, let us play Santa Claus for you. Send us $1.65 for a jar, his name and address, and your personal greeting card. Well do the rest. Well pack the glass jar in an appropriate Christmas box, enclose your card and send it in plenty of time to reach him before Christmas. Address Larus & Brother Company, 74 South 21st Street, Richmond, Va. To Retail - Tobacco Merchants : If your jobber cannot supply you with Edgeworth, Larus & Brother Company will gladly send you prepaid by carton parcel post a one-- or of any size of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Ready-Rubbe- d for the same price you would pay the jobber. ce two-doz- Timely Hint. Staylate Isn't that an alarm clod going off in the hall? Miss Weerie Yes. Staylate Who on earth In you: family rises at midnight? Miss Weerie Papa does, if I havent gone to bed then. Boston Transcript DEMAND BAYER ASPIRIN Aspirin Marked With "Bayer Cross Has Been Proved Safe by Millions. Warning! Unless you see the name "Bayer on package or cn tablets yot are not getting the genuine Bayei Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 23 years Say Bayer when you buy Aspirin. Imitations may prove dangerous. Adv. Being indignant all the time Is touch of hades. Women are never Insincere 'a when angry. On the banks o! the Wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack Warhope, young and very much in love. Texie is the only daughter of old Pap Simon, Jack rich ir an and money-lende- r. is the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate. At first Texie and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the girls missing brother. Then Jack says that In ten days his servitude will be over, that he will ride out Into the big world to seek his fortune. Both know what that will mean to them. Texie and Jack talk of the red lock of Red Colin, Inherited by Ken. And Jack says hes coming back as soon as he Then finds gold In California. arrives the new preacher. Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon Introduces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate of Ken. SYNOPSIS. moreover, he can use a lot of thjm. and we wanted to get right next to a mans heart, we would smuggle a good pipe and some good pipe tobacco to him around December 25th. Or, if he already has a pipe that he thinks was divinely intended for him,-thtobacco alone makes a e gift. Other advantages of good pipe tobacco as a Christmas present include the following: You dont have to engage in any detective work to find out his size, favorite color, or other specifications. And it doesnt make any difference whether he already has plenty or not; nor need you be concerned lest your gift be duplicated. A man can smoke up a lot of tobacco between this Christmas and next; while the humidor jar, in which we put up a pound of Edgeworth, keeps the tobacco in prime condition indefinitely. Edgeworth is a tobacco that practilikes; its a cally every He stopped abruptly, stared past her of Stores are full of "gift-thinfor him of which he lives in mortal dread. For to receive a gift involves an unwritten obligation to wear it, or carry it, or to otherwise use, display, or consume it, as he lawyers would say. It is usually surprising, and often disappointing, to a woman to find out how few things the average matter-of-faman really wants. But for some of those things he has a good deal of affec-tio- n CHAPTER III Continued. Really, Miss Colin, there is very to tell. Your brother was the ah most puzzling psychological problem that I ever tried to solve. He could have been one of the most bril- little liant scholars the institution ever turned out. He literally drank up everything the college had to give, and that without apparent effort as the desert drinks the dew. His penmanship; his drawing; his command of English very remarkable. I was his roommate and classmate, and yet I never saw him apply himself seriously to study. I don't think, ho did. And that was probably his limitation learning came too easy to him. It can, you know. He stopped, as if he had no more to say; stared at his napkin and folded it with careful precision. The presidents letter said that it But the devil Tmselt couldnt a coped with that boy.". The old man beat the tines of his fork on the table ; gazed absently at a candle, reached over and snuffed it Aint It strange, he went on, how the past fangs the present the past with its sins and blunders and Imperfections? Now theres Texie, cradled In the same arms and nursed at the same breast, and shes as different fora Ken as sunshine Is different-fothe wost storm that ever wrecked the Into the night, as if groping for words to clothe a thought unusual with him. The look of a tired student came slowly back to bis face, and his shoulders dropped as if weary with bearing the burdens of others.- - Mumbling a further word or two, he turned from her, crossed the foot-lo- g with mincing step, and passed on through the orchard toward the parsonage. The girl walked back np the path and sat down on the porch step Words were never too plenty with the woodsman, even In his most fluent moments. Me leaned against a post and looked down at her. She seemed busy with her thoughts. The silence was so deep that the clink of the dishes, as Mrs. Curry put them away, and the crinkle of the old bankers letters, as be sat reading them at the head of the dining-rootable, carried to them out the porch. The man roused himself from the spell of the silence; stepped off the porch and sat down by the girls side. What d' yu think of him? she asked. ' woods." ) The preacher put bis napkin by. Heredity plays many a queer trick," ' he said in a tone of finality. In the silence that followed the old It was characteristic of the woodsbanker took the bunch of still un- man that be should answer by anfrom It laid his letters pocket, opened other question. on the table and began to sort them. What d you? The preacher looked around the room The girl laughed a contented little and,- noticing tie night at the windows, laugh like the lilt of the happy water rose. the bridge. at If you will please excuse me, you ; Oh, I think hes " remember I promised to run over to There' came a groan from the diningthe parsonege for a few minutes, and room, and the sound of a heavy falL Mrs. Mason probably retires early." and dashed Into the The others rose and gathered about They sprangas up Mrs. Curry ran In from him In polite protest, but the preacher house, Just The money-lendlay insisted. Mrs. Curry picked up a the kitchen. on the floor, In one hand an sprawled candle and led the way into the sitting-rooIn the other an empty while Texie brought his tall hat open letter, from a rack in the corner. He stood envelope. The girl darted across the room and gazing about, peering through the bent above the shrunken figure. open door to the right into the room - er Jack! Jack! where the banker kept his safe and Texie, no, dont be flustered. Its papers; into the bedroom at the left another one o them faintin spells. where the old man slept ; past the fire- just Hell be all right in a minute." place and through the open door to the He raised the old man in his parlor, as If Impressed possibly arms and laid him on a sofa atgreat the amused by .the novelty of a side of the room. home. , Mrs. Curry had hurried back to the His eyes, searching the walls, came at last to the portrait of a woman, kitchen for cold water and cloths,' and. framed In gilt and hung above the Texie was urging Jack to run for the when the old banker Flat-woo- doctor, his eyes. Doctor fireplace. opened The girl followed his gaze. he panted hard for My mother, she said softly. Seven breath. Who wants a doctor? Its years ago she left us ; the very year jist another one o them fainty spells. Ken went off t college. that? Look there 1" The girl seemed unable to finish the She had a serene face, said the He held up the letter. The girl the but preacher guessed preacher as he turned awfiy. The question, glanced at It carelessly; then, with a what she wanted to know. He again quick exclamation, turned it toward fumbled his napkin, unfolded it, and the woodsman. And thus holding it looked around the table. It was an between them they read It slowly, embarrassing moment. word by word. With all due respect to you, his Somewhere in .New York, Mrs. he and at Curry family glanced May , 1849. and friends, though I the woodsman Simon Colin, would rather not speak of It at all, Buckeye ind. and should not do so, only that It is Sir: tell as to minister you my duty your I was a very caught a fellow with a card up the truth Kenwood Colin his sleeve and called him. He beat severe trial to the college authorities. me on the draw, and here I am. This His talent for learning was equaled girl here says I cant last till the inks only by his talent for mischief. Yet, dry, and Im not doubtin her. Shes wild as be was known to be, nobody me. I would ever have he always played square-wi- th that thought reckon you wouldn't allow her Inside of forged his fathers name. He was your little old synagogue- - down there deeply In debt before his very clever In the Flatwoods, but shed be the much even were suspected, forgeries whitest one there except Sis. less detected. , Youve been one h 1 of a father Then came his sensational killing to me. Tve beard you pray by the of a gambler over a card game, and his yard, and Ive 'heard cussin that was Subsequent escape somewhere Into the You starved mothers more religious. great underworld of the city. Since life out, and youre starvin the life that, nothing more seems to have been out of Sis, but you didn't starve my heard of him. Ufe out, d n you. Ive got a drop of There was a moments silence. The ol Red Colin In me him that bronght girl leaned forward; her lips apart; all this cussed red lock mess inro the ber eyes wide. family. Ive had my fling and thats Pore Ken ! she said softly. He more than you can say, with all yonr couldnt hep bein what e was. It money that youve wrung out of better was the red lock. ' men. , The preacner raised his spectacled I reckon Ive got but a few minutes eyes np from his plate and stared at At the Spring the Preacher Suddenly Grasped the Girls Hand In His to live. Id give half of them to see the girl curiously. Own. Sis. But If youd come In right now. Red lock? to get up and kick you out Id Didnt you know 'e had It?" banker crossed the Hoot-- picked up a Im try dyin as ol Red Colin died with The preacher looked his bewilderkey from the mantel and unlocked the my boots on. Im expecting to meet ment. door leading from the porch to the him and you both in h Then please, please, dont mention KEN CO that you know it! Please, dont ever! parlor. I Towed Td better show yu where P. S. Mr. Colin is dead. He die I Towed you knowed, bein his roomroom Is b'fore yu go, sos yull finish signing his before he could mate, or I wouldnt a told. He was yur know how t git In If were In bed name. Yon can quite see the blot where the that shamed 'e had it, and alwys when come We back. Flatwoods yu pen fell. I am respecting hie wisher kep it combed under sos It didn't folks turn In purty early. and sending this letter without any show, ' He took the candle that Mrs. Curry street address, or other marks, whereThe banker had been staring at the was carrying and led the preacher in face. his lifted He tablecloth. by you might trace him. His conft he com- across the parlor to the spare bedroom dence I shall never betray. I will onlj The curse of Colin, He was a sea opening from it on the easti where the say that he shall have decent burial. mented thoughtfully. two satchels and umbrella had already THE GIRL. pirate in the days of Queen Elizabeth. been carried. im. Looks called Red Colin, they I Tow this might be called a preachlike his blood would a run out b this room, purt nigh. Aint nothin ers r four three But aint- he some looker it haint. but Every time, in it hardly sence but slep preachers one shows up, generly Barrin that killin' rig hes hobgenerations it was built." bled up in? child In a family with a lock o hair it The old man chuckled as he led the as red as fire. Nobody would think a lock o hair and a drop o blood could way hack to the porch, closed the par(TO BB CONTINUED.) set e child back hundreds o genera lor door, locked it and handed the key tions ? what ol Red Colin mast a to the preacher. The latter stopped a moment on the step and fumbled his Strange Mongolian Whisky. ben, but it does. A kind of whisky known as airik ll The minute I saw that red lock on tail hat. Miss 3oiin, wont you please ac- distilled from mares milk by the naKen, I knowed e was doomed. Tve me as far as your ah tives of Mongolia. This milk, which. Is company with im and reasoned Tm and licked show me and how thicker Jhan cows milk, has a sort of spring Whispering prayed over im but I knowed all. the to a sour taste even when fresh. After fte-i- i drink?" get time it wouldnt do no good. Thats hid the flush of color Ing allowed to stand for several days The darkness the main reason I sent Tm off t the into the girls face. It attains the consistency of buttermilk. that up played ther1 I did where kind of a college ; turned woodsman at the Then it Is put into a huge pot and She glanced aint nobody much but preachers to the preacher and followed ' him covered with what looks like a barrel like that t t didn't He go it with both ends knocked out. The veskind, but I hoped bein throwed down the steps. stood woodsman Is suspended In the middle of the sel The big looking a&ongst men like that might head off after them, stirred by an unfamiliar barrel, a kettle of cold water Is set on what I knowed was In im." a few minutes ol The preacher leaned back im his emotion to see Texie walk away into the top, and after still the milk man. In this with another primitive The dark boiling chair; dropped his hands in his lap.' 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