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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH CAN BE ADAPTED -- . TO SUIT WEARER PATTEH The Man From Yonder 2175 Harold Titus. Copyright CHAPTER XII Continued 17 Coming I" he shouted thickly and seized a hammer and attacked the trunk lock. Ammunition must be In there. The crowd milled, now, trampling the new snow, completely out of hand at this delay. Two or three aided Tim In hla plea for at least temporary moderation but others rebelled and fought to get the post which would batter down the stair door. These weaved to and fro there In the packed throng, a quarrel within a quarrel. And then came a bush, a quick, epreadlng hush which swept the crowd like a shadow; like a swiftly speeding Shadow, wiping out sound as a shadow wipes out sunlight, breaking sentences In half. And then rose a quick popping of excited voices. Here he Is! Look I Elliott I "Hes hurt Be a queen In cotton 'In this beau tlfully designed dress. The round yoke and panel front are Inevitably becoming, and the ruffle or puff sleeves may be omitted If they're not your type. Or, you may have the sleeves Ip. flaring little wings, simply by omitting the elastic which makes them puff. (See detail sketched). In any case, Its an ndor-abl- e frock. "The most delightful eolor combinations are being shown In cottons now choose unusual, delicate shades or boldly marked In percale, gingham, broadcloth or lawn they launder and wear well. Pattern 2175 is available In slv.es 14, 16, IS, 20, 32, 34. 30. 38, 40 and 42. Size 10 takes 37, yards 30 Inch sew fabric. Illustrated step Ing Instructions Included. SEND FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) In coins or stamps (coins preferred, for this pattern. Write plainly name address, and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 213 West Seventeenth Street, New York. put-tern- by-ste- p DEFINITION Izzard picnic? How would you define a Jitters A picnic Is a day set apnrt to get better acquainted with ants, bugs, worms, mosquitoes, chlggers, sand fleas and poison Ivy. I Bundled to the ears In a great overcoat, cap drawn low, supported on the one side by John Martin and on the other by Able Armltage, he came slowly, painfully out of the side street. He scarcely seemed to be aware of that throng; did not look either to the right or the left. All his energy was bent on moving forward. lie gained the middle of the street In an Impressive hush. Then he murmured a word to Able and they halted. He looked about at his men and smiled a trifle weakly, but In his look was a quality which clearly Indicated that love which strong men have for their kind. "Its all right, boys, he said and only those In the first ranks could hear, his voice was that light. They didn't get me . . . badly. I appreciate this . . . but want you to . . . get back to camp. He panted for breath and lifted his face to the broken windows above. Far back In that room be caught a glimpse of a face watching him eocked as though striving to hear. Its my fight, he went on. Not I dont want any of yoursL Will you you hurt Go back. . . , go . . . . back? The crowd stirred. You bet we will, Beni" a man Now that youre located If called. you ask It, we will! Tim Jeffers worked his way to Ben's side and put a hand on his shoulder, listening to what Able told him. Go home, boys I" Tim Jeffers called. They knifed Ben last night but hes well took care of. You teamsters, get out your horses; weve found what we come for. To camp, every last Hoot Owl handl" Men relaxed. The post that was to have battered In Brandons door was dropped. The mob was satisfied. Slowly Ben Elliott made his way back to Dawn's home. As Tim Jeffers took bis place beside the sick man, Able Armltage drew Into the post office entry to watch the oiob disperse. Emory Sweet was standing there. "The king Is dead!" Able muttered solemnly, staring at those broken windows. Long live the king I" said Emory. Pause. Dead men tell no tales. No, but sometimes a corpse will kick back I ... ... ... Fair Minded Lady, said Plodding Pete, "that dog o yours near caught me." "He did I said the lady with the Arm Jaw. "Ill give him the worst beating he ever had. Lady, be merciful ! If he finds It CHAPTER XIU as hard to git anything to eat around here as I do, I can't blame him for reachln out for the first meat that Furiously, Nicholas Brandon saw as the days passed the wreckage of his draws near. power pile up on a flood of public resentment, of loosened expressions of Limited Imitation and contempt and hatred which distrust that Washington George "They say s lan bad grown and festered unobserved for sometimes used ' years. guage. man had who The the replaced Miss glass I don't doubt It, answered his office windows that Sunday aftCayenne. "Is It not unfortunate that In ernoon worked slowly and silently only In this respect some of our modern statesmen are able to Imitate where, In other days, he had done odd Jobs with swift efforts so that his lahim! Washington Star. bor might give his employer satisfac19 35 tion, and had taken every opportunity WNU W to make talk with the town's great man. . On Monday as Brandon walked along the street he saw faces leering at him from windows, and men he passed averted thetr glances In a gleeful sort of embarrassment, or looked at him with surly, defiant glares. In yard and mill he was conscious that his employees were thinking only of hie fall. He discharged one man for loafing and the fellow only laughed at him. . . . Laughed! Theres plenty room at Hoot 0wl for good hands, he said and laughed . again. That mob yesterday hnd not wrecked the town as they had threatened but the ruin they left was of far more consequence. Their coming had stripped Brandon of everything but his material possessions and now these only mocked him in survival. Back in the office he paced the place like a caged animal. Mall arrived. He took the packet of letters and drank deeply from his bottle again. He thumbed the letters absently, until the "script on one caught his eye. The envelope contained a single sheet of note pnper and he unfolded It with .rembling fingers. On the sheet was written : "i "never want to see you again. 1 ultra-vigorou- By HAROLD TITUS know now what the whole country has known and been afraid to admit for years. I have thought you were my friend but now I know you are my worst enemy, as you are the sworn enemy of those I love most. "DAWN. He stood for a time staring at the paragraph ; then read It again and drained his whisky bottle Such a note, now, was to have been expected by an ordered mind, of course, but bis fevered brain had not foreseen any necessity for abandoning this, the most precious of his hopes. He trembled a bit and made a strange sound In his throat. . , Wheres Ben at?" he asked Martin. ."I dont know. Miss MuManus, here, was Just asking." Martin moved to the old table Ben used for a desk. Sometimes he leaves a note for me when hes going away. He bent over the table, looking at the litter of papers on It No, he left no word. . . . Hum. . . . Whats this? lie picked up a slip of paper, read the single line Inscribed on It and 1 couldnt I cant bear It No, no take a cloud to you and to your chil1 1 dren. . lie! . And It's all a mistake,-all- a My father was no killer 1" . Her voice rose In sharp conviction on "He was kind and gentle; he never would hurt another. All these years Ive know It and others know It, but Just being sure In our own minds Isnt enough. The whole world must knowl Something tells me my father Is alive somewhere, waiting, watching, suffering. . . . But until we can prove that or something else comes No, dont up to banish this cloud I cant stand It, I tell kiss me again you . 1 cant stand It, Ben !" Sobbing, she fled the room. Well, that ought not to be Impossible!" Elliott said to himself after a long, thoughtful Interval. Nothing much Is. . . ." He made no further moves toward love making after that but far Into the night he talked with Dawn of her father. She had not heard all of the that looked at Dawa I didnt mean to pry. . . . Probably hes gone to meet you, though. This Is a note from you." A note I Why, I . . ." Frowning, ... 1 office man was Nich- meticulous olas Brandon, and though he bad suffered the severest blow of his experience Just now be mechanically went about his habitual procedure. He had received and read a letter. It required no reply. The next step In orderly procedure was to file It. In the outer office were eaciks and rows of letter files. But this letter did not belong there. In the great safe to which only he had combination and keys reposed two files side by side. He took both out and placed them on the desk. lie opened one and a cruel smile twitched his lips. It contained letters on paper of varying size, color and quality. He riffled through these, stopping now and again to read a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph. . . . Ileas, these were; a writing begging for help . . . and he smiled again. In the other file were more letters, some yellowed by age and these older ones had been written In the unformed script of a child. . . . Dear Uncle Nick, they all began. Always that, though the handwriting grew formed and mature until It was identical with that on the single sheet he had Just read. These were Dawn McManus letters to him, saved since her childA WNU Service. she took the paper and read : Meet us at Antler Lodge this after-- , noon. Dawn. Why ! she cried. I didnt . . . But I must have!" looking from one to . the other. "Thats my writing. "Oh ! She let the paper flutter to the floor. I wrote that I I wrote that years ago!" she cried, struggling to speak I wrote that note for Mr. distinctly. Brandon. . . . Years ago. . . . How did It get here? Who is calling Ben to the lodge? Whats this? Tim Jeffers asked Brandon? . . . Callin Ben roughly. off alone? "Dont you see?" Martin cried and his voice was thick. "Dawn wrote It, all right. But hes sent It to Ben. . . . Its a decoy I Tim, the lads on his way to the lodge alone and Brandons planned It! No need for more words, then! On went Martins Jacket. From a corner he snatched snowshoes and a pair for Tim. Weil go," he said to Dawn. Yon tell Duller" But Im going, too! the girl cried Im going. Oh, hurry, Tim! sharply. We may be too late, now! They crossed the railroad tracks at a run, put on their snowshoes and with Jeffers breaking trail, entered the timber. Another had gone that way today, a man whose heart burned and saDg. Dawn had sent for him; Dawn wanted him Entering the office while Martin was In the mill his eyes had encountered Dawns note. No thought of how It came to be there presented Itself. The quick conclusion at which he arrived was that Dawn and others had gone to Antler Lodge; that was where the shot had been fired which sent Sam Faxson to his death. Perhaps Able had taken Dawn there. Hastily, he took his snowshoes and departed. The distance was a good five miles, however, and part of the going was In soft footing. So It was nearly two hours after his start that he came In sight of the building on the high bank of the Mad Woman. As he went down the slope he saw snowshoe tracks outside the place. Hello!" he cried, mounting a drift and stopping. Hello, In there ! He twisted his feet No answer. hastily out of their straps, wondering a bit For once his alertness was gone, for once he was wholly off guard. Dawn 1" he called again as he shoved open the door. "Hello, whos here " He had crossed the threshold, peering Into the gloom, a sudden and cold misgiving sweeping him. "Turn back; withdraw 1" a small voice warned but before be could gather himself a blow struck him and he went down under a heavy, living weight. But as Elliott went down, with his assailant on top, he drew his knees bowed his back and with a trick of fighting used the very impact which had floored him to toss the man on beyond. He heard him curse, saw the other turn as he pitched across the floor and scramble to his feet. "Brandon!" he cried hoarsely as a savage Joy swept him. At last he was face to face with the man who had struck so many times from the darkness and from behind Brandon did not speak. He rushed with head lowered. Great arms wrapped Bens body, a head drove Into the pit of his stomach, driving the . breath from his body. hood. He ran through them almost Idly, his senses dulled by whisky and the calamity which had befallen him. A narrow slip of tablet paper fell out He looked at the penciled note on one side. Meet us at Antler Lodge this afternoon. Dawn. Happier memories, that brought; of the time Dawn had brought girls home with her from school for Thanksgiving and had taken them to the hunting camp for a week-end- . Brandon had gone with the party and it was there that he had first remarked Dawn's emerging womanhood, that the desire for her had been kindled In his blood; there In the camp where her futher, as the whole country knew, had been with Sam Faxon on the night when Faxon fled to his death. But Dawn "had never known that She had laughed and been happy which make the Weat the beet pUc to lira. 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She did not know, for Instance, that the tragedy which preceded McManus disappearance took place In Antler lodge; she did not know how far her father had gone In his attempts to drown sorrow of his wifes death by drinking. But she did know that Faxon was dead, that her father was blamed and that a dusty warrant for his arrest on a charge of homicide still reposed In the county records. Next day he declared that he felt fit to drive back to camp and for an hour argued with Dawn, trying to win her promise that he might come again, but she begged him to stay away for a time, at least. at Antler lodge. Elliott did not go at once to the "Meet us at Antler Lodge this afterstable where bis team awaited him. noon. Dawn. He entered the court house and went He read It again. It bore no date over the meager records of the case, It was unsolled; It betrayed no Indi- but little that was new rewarded his cation of the time that had passed search. The net yield of that search The note had was only to Impress him with the prosince Its inscription. been left on his desk for him three portions of the new task he had set He leaned forward for himself and as he drove out of years before. and his eyes narrowed. . . . town his heart was heavier than-I- t had sharply After a moment he straightened and been In years. smiled oddly. A look like relief, alPutting the Hoot Owl on Its feet had most like happiness spread over bis been a lark; shearing Brandon of his power had been hazardous but, after face. . all, simple. . . . But this other was Fine strength of body healed Ben something else again. Blaine sat with That night Bird-EyElliotts wound rapidly. By he was dressed and sitting before the Elliott for long and went over the cirfire with Dawn, talking of his return cumstances leading up to Faxsons death. Men In Tlncup commenced to to Hoot Owl on the morrow. Its been so good, even under the whisper that Elliott was delving Into to spend time with the McManus case and the gossip circumstances, reached Brandon who was locked In you," he said gravely. The girl fluslitM but made no reply. his office much of the time, now, soaked "And all the time I've been w&nder-Ing- . with whisky. He did not drink for Dawn, why you wouldnt let me many hours after the news reached come. . . . You've been so kind, so him: He kept hls head clear and . . so friendly. " And planned. generous, so . yet, only a few days ago, you told me I must never come again. CHAPTER. XIVWhy was It, Dawn? Why, when I love you so?" Able told Dawn of Bens activity, "Dont she begged In a light whis- watching, her face narrowly because per. "Please he understood the obstacle that was ."But It's beyond any power I have between these two. He saw hope come, to keep still. I love you, Dawn, better followed by misgiving and trouble. than life. Can you believe that, when It was on Friday that Dawn left Ive seen so little of you? Look at Tlncup, striking across country fay mel Dont you like It, from the road toward Hoot Owl fiercely. . Dawn, being loved? She was going td see Ben Elliott and "Ah . . . Like It? Its wonderful, tell him that site must see him now, Ben. . ... Its too wonderful I She that her heart could have no peace averted her face.. without him ; that he must come to her And loved by me?" and let her stand beside him while he Yes, yesl It's all wonderfuL Its pried Into the past and attempted to too wonderful, Ben. Things like It Just make It give up truth. can't be! At noon, on the edge of a swamp, Why not? Its wonderful, you say. she sought shelter from the fitful wind, and yet . . . Cant you explain?" built a small fire and ate the lunch l, She was fighting for she carried. Then she went on, sightnow, and wrested her hands from his, ing her mill far, away from the top of the next ridge. backing away, white and shaken. You can't understand, Martin was alone In. the office when perhaps. Sometimes I can't understand- myself. she entered and started up so sharply Always Ive wanted to be loved by . . . at sight of her that the girl, In turn,-waIts given me the startled. by you, Ben Elliott Tin sorry! she exclaimed at bit only true happiness Ive ever had. And then I had to remember what mystified. "Did I frighten you? I am. Cant you see that a girl who Is No. Not frightened. My known as the daughter of a murderer thoughts were far from here." cant let any man love her?" "Is Ben about? Havent seen him since dinner. Thats foolish . . . Its terrible, I know, for you to bear. But let me Dont know where he went" Tim Jeffers, Just down from camp, help, dear girl; let me stand by your uTOugXJga. 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