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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Gay Hostess Apron llnchi Phil With Poppy Motif By Vllllca Dyrcn r.3ovcry CHATTER XIX Continued 19 - a bullet from Lupe's rifle came zipping into the tangle. Craig paid no attention. Lighting a match, he held it to the fuses, waited a second; then drew his knife across the taut babische cord. The sapling snapped up with a swish; the sticks went hurtling out through the air. One of them, the first he had lit, exploded halfway to the thicket, tearing the top out of a squatty balsam. Another flew off to one side, struck a tree bole squarely, knocked off the mercury cap, and fell without exploding. Another went spinning clear over the thicket, 30 yards beyond it. The other two fell into, the thicket itself. Craig waited, a sickening moment, afraid that the caps had been knocked off. But then came a terrific bellowing roar. The explosion Flit from pantry to parlor in this tore the thicket to bits, whipped "hostess" apron, so gayly the taller trees with the blast, flung with poppies, and guests a cloud of snow and water and torn re sure to ask how its made! deerbrush higher than the tallest Choose bright contrast for yoke, pines. border, poppies. One poppy forms Forgetting all danger from Lupe, the pocket. Pattern 1495 contains Craig rose up and peered at the a transfer pattern of the apron place where the thicket had been. and a motif 6 by 10 inches; a He saw no stir of life there; heard motif 6 by 0 inches and the nothing but the dripping of debris applique patches; illustrations of from the pine branches. A bullet from Lupes rifle caught all stitches used; material rehim in the left shoulder and knocked quirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins him back against a rock. He strugyards away, coins preferred) for this pattern gled up. Twenty-fiv- e to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Lupe was crouched behind a windlog, jamming a fresh clip into Department, 82 Eighth Avenue, fall his gun. New York City. Heeling and groggy, with the woods braving in front of his eyes, Craig struck another match; lit the fuse of another stick; waited waited then took a step forward, and flung the stick at the windfall. Lupe jumped up as the stick hit Y, in the snow just behind him. Unkeep food waste soft and able to get away from that deadly moving, many doctors recomthing in time, he grabbed it up, to mend Nujol because of ite fling it back at Craig. But he was gentle, lubricating d too late. too late, a Craig had timed his throw too well. As Lupes arm arched back, the dynamite exploded in his hand . . . e There was a puff of a of reddish a flame, 6moke, leap blast that hurled snow and spume into the tangle where Craig stood . . . When the smoke and debris cleared away and he looked, he saw a tatter of cloth dangling from a INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL pine branch, and a blotch of red on the snow beside the windfall log . . . Laugh Each Day No day is more wasted than one In the ghastly silence of the little in which we have not laughed. drogue Craig turned to Poleon. Chamfort. "Get up, he stammered thickly. "Theyre dead. Were going on in. Poleon tried to rise but he fell back, weak and powerless, all the strength gone out of his huge frame. I can make it, he moaned. from common colds Dey got me twice in de leg, in de heep. Im done op, Craig. I can go long no more. We can go in togedder. I I terrible seeck, No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest Craig. cold, or bronchial irritation, you can In a daze of pain and sickness get relief now with Creomulslon. himself, Craig dragged his partner Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance from between the rocks, slashed off with any remedy less potent than some spruce branches, made a Creomulslon. which goes right to rough comfortable pallet for him. the seatxf the trouble and aids naIll send back for you, Poleon, ture to soothe and heal the inflamed he mumbled. "Im going in to the mucous membranes and to loosen n and expel the phlegm. Bay. Even if otheiremedies have failed, He took off one of Poleons shoe-paSont be discouraged, try Creomul-sio- n. and used it to bind up his Your druggist Is authorized to refund your money if you are not own shattered ankle. From his thoroughly satisfied with the benejacket he cut strips of leather and fits obtained from the very first bound the ankle firm and hard so bottle. Creomulslon Isone word not that he could bear a little weight two, and It has no hyphen In It. on it. Then he cut a length Ask for it plainly, seq that the name on the bottle Is Creomulslon. and from the aspen sapling, as a crutch. youll get the genuine produce and Even with its help he could not the relief you want. (AdvJ walk; his ankle was shattered too badly. But he could shuffle along, a slow halting progress, each step a jar of pain. HOW OFTEN . With a last word to the helpless Poleon, he left the tangle, climbed the east slope out of the death valCAN YOU KISS AND ley, and turned his face again toward Resurrection. Kr-ii-- ng i i 0 William Bjfoa lloaarj. WNU Service. ! CONSTIPATED;? T After a moment he tried another move, a personal approach. "I think that in friendliness, Patricia, you ought to let me keep a part of this field. You know what the situation is in Chicago. You know that if I return there with nothing to show for the time and expense of this Arctic expedition, Parkes is going to edge me out of the firm. Do you think that that would be just? As my friend, would you wish to see piciously, as though he did not believe that, after all he hat done to her and Craig in the past week, her kindliness could be genuine. "I hope, he remarked, awkwardly, "that your newj about Tarl-to-n is uh favorable. Patricia winced. An hour ago she had received a wireles? flash from Leo Sneddon, who had flown Craig out to hospital and medical care at Edmonton; and the message was none too reassuring. Craigs arm and shoulder wounds were nothing sqripMk, but his shattered ankle . . . At best he would not walk again in many weeks; and Sneddon had hinted at danger of an amputation. "I suppose," she commented, "that I ought to be glad Craig is alive, after what Lupe intended doing to him. But lets not talk about that, Warren. Before Craig was taken away, he put everything here on Resurrection Into my hands, and told me how I should deal with you. Thats what I want to talk to you about. I presume you realize, Warren, that you stand guilty "Yes, I know," Warren interrupted, flinching. "Northup read me "" the detailed charges." to had I and fight Den"Craig nis, Patricia said. "We put up a fight for you, Warren a harder fight than you know anything about. We both felt that theres been suffering and violence enough in this struggle, and we wanted to call a halt to it. We argued and pleaded with Dennis till he finally agreed to free you completely of these charges against you." Completely? Warren echoed. His face, sullen and haggard, lit up at this unexpected mercy. He that happen?" This is a late time, Warren, Patricia reminded, "for you to be- gin talking about justice and friendship. Craig and I both tried to talk justice and friendliness to you 11 winter, and you sneered at us and went cruelly abfead with your own selfish plans. Now youre asking me to help you out at the expense of these 300 Resurrection men. I cant do that, Warren. It would be a betrayal. As for your going back I thought of that. I suggested and Craig readily agreed that you can keep the Kessler hill lode. Phil Kessler was a traitor to us, and we wouldnt want him to recover that property. That mine will repay you for all your expenses and yield you, besides, an eventual profit of almost a million dollars. Thats a lot more than you really empty-hande- d, of" deserve." "How about Tarltons radium lake do I have to surrender that too? dirty-whit- Beware Coughs That Hang On Lighting a Match, lie Held It to the Fuses. had knewn that Patricia and Craig had befriended him, against the law; but he had never imagined that they wanted all those charges dropped. Yes, completely, Patricia assured. "But youll have to do your part, Warren. Youll have to agree to certain things. "What? "Between the time that I burned the community house and that Craig reached the Bay, you bought out most of these men. Previously to that last fall and winter you bought up a large number of additional claims. ' Craig and I estimate that you owi f more than two thirds of this field. Warren nodded. "Yes, approxiCHAPTER XX mately that, he said. Convinced, now, that Patricia harbored no venFrom the police jail Corporal geance, he felt more at ease, and Northup brought Warren, hand- his courage was flowing back. cuffed, down to Patricias cabin. At Studying Patricia narrowly, he was the door "he. hdlted. watching for any weakness or sentiPatricia is in there alone, Lov- ment that he could take advantage ett, he said. "She asked to see of. "What is it that I have to agree you alone. Shels too considerate a to? You must sell all those claims person, I guess, to want me or anybody present when she talks to to Craig and me, at the price you We will you. paid, Patricia stated. Now, befoee you go in, let me then see they ar returned to their' give you a bit of advice, friend. original owners. Youre in the hands of the Mounted Warren did not answer at once. d Police; weve got an Poker-facehe regarded Patricia case against you; and all your and in his manner there silently; money and legal smartness cant was confidence that he could get you free. If you know whats and outwit her, a girl. good for you, talk straight and deal bar"Thats a straight with Patricia. She and gain, Patricia,pretty he said finally. Craig are the only friends youve His remark stirred anger in Pagot. If I had my way about this d? Dyou realize, he tricia. kidnaping and this death Sam that Warren, Honeywell is out to a the pointed through pines dead? Straus and and Rosalie That granite slope where a group of prospectors were preparing a grave for Bing Odron are dead? That Craig is Sam Honeywell I say, if I should lying in an Edmonton hospital all do my sworn duty in this affair, shot up? And now when you, the of all this, are given a chance youd spend the rest of your born cause days in Stony Mountain peniten- to walk away from here safe and sound and you call it tiary. Youre right, it is; it's He opened the door for the handall on your side. Youre getting cuffed man. "Im risking a court-irtifor what Im doing this all the breaks. Warrens confidence ebbed conmorning, Lovett. I dont know whether youre worth it or not. That siderably. Outwitting Patricia was depends on what you say to Pa- not so easy as he had thought. She tricia. Go on in. Ill be waiting was a totally different creature from the girl whom he had brought out here. "Come in, Warren, Patricia said to the Arctic with him last summer and whom he had kept in the dark gently; and because he was handcuffed she placed a chair for him. for three whole months about his Warren sat down, eying her sus- - business there. cs five-fo- MAKE UP? TjTEW husband! can understand why a wife should turn from a r pleasant companion into a threw (or one whole week in every month. You can say Tm aorry and and make up easier before marriage than after. If you're wise end if you want to hold your husband, you won't be a ha three-quart- wife. For three generations one woman has told another how to go smil's ing through with Lydia E. Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. S. Preparing for motherhood. S. Approaching "middle age. wife; Don't be a take LYDIA E. PIN KHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go Smiling Through." Pink-ham- three-quart- ot iron-rivete- d, er one-side- d One-side- HEt!PJKIDN&Y& To Get Rid of Acid End Poisonous Was to Your kidneys help to keep yoo vnfl by constanUy flltenng 'trait matte from tbo blood. If your kidneys get functionally disordered and fail te rernore moms impurities, them may bo poisoning of (he whole system pad body-widistress. Burning, scanty or toe frequent urination may be a warning of soma kidnap or bladder disturbance. You may suffer nagylng backaeho persistent headache, attacks of ditxinea getting up eight, swelling, puffinms under th eye (eel weak, nervous,- - all played out. In rack eases it b better to rely oo a medicine that has won eountry-wi- d acclaim than oe something leaa favorably known. Gee fWa PiUs. A multitude of grateful people Doan's. Ask pear msitkiorl litoiimnd scot-fre- e, one-side- al d! "You dont own Craigs radium Patricia informed. lake, Warren, "You merely think you do. Dont own it? Why-w- hy, Ive got the papers to it; I paid him a quarter-millio- n Patricia interrupted. "Warren, Craig told you explicitly, that evening in the Den office, that if you dealt square with him hed deal square with you. He warned you twice that if you tried to cheat or use any dishonest weapon, youd be the loser. Well, you did cheat. Worse than that you had him kidnaped. And worse than .that you intended to let Lupe murder him. In consequence you dont own that lake at all. Warren merely stared at her, too dumfounded to speak. Patricia explained, quietly: "Before Craig and Poleon came back from their prospecting trip, Warren; they staked two lakes, twin lakes. One of them has the pitchblende deposit in it; the other has water. Craig had two sets of claim papers. The set that he signed over to you covered the lake with the water in it. Warren rose bodily from his chair as he saw how Crai had outwitted him. In all his life he had never been so smashingly done in. "A lake with water in it," he "I paid a quarter-millio- n repeated. dollars for that for a damned mud pond. He snarled: "And Tarl-to- n he calls himself honest! That's a plain swindle." "Then youre the swindler, Warren. You swindled yourstlf. It was Craigs firm intention, if you dealt square with him, to give you the bona-fid- e papers. If you hadnt kidnaped him, framed these men, browbeat me, and Well, youd now find yourself in possession of a $2,000,000 lode. The dishonesty was yours, and it boomeranged on you. "How about my two hundred and fifty thousand? Am I holding the bag? That was my own personal money, not the firms. I bought that lake. Patricias eyes opened a little wider. "Hmmph," she said, much as Craig would have said it. "So that was your money! I suspected it was. You saw a chance to make a tidy fortune and you tried to get it all for yourself instead of letting the firm in on it. Fine, Warren! But about your quarter-millio- n Craig and I dont want a cent of that. Well refund it to you within the year, and on top of it the big gest interest you ever received. Warren got up and paced the cabin, his manacled hands in front of him. Through the window he saw Corporal Northup leaning waitfully against a pine and twirling the handcuff key on his finger. Cornered and helpless, he glanced at Patricia, searching her expression for hope of escape. But he saw no hope in her. Firm, unyielding, she stood beside the little table where once, over a cup of tea, she had begged for Craigs life and had agreed to a shanghai marriage in order to save Craig. "I havent any cfioice, he .said wearily. He stopped, confronted Patricia. "I capt go to the pen. God, Id be' an old man, old and broken, when I got out. Ill do what you say. Ill sell this Resurrection field to you and Tarlton. , Patricia stepped over to the winshe called to the dow. "Dennis! me that man yonder. Bring key! "W-h-a-- split-secon- germ-lade- S t? he said humbly, crumpling his battered hat. "Weve got a lot of crow to eat, and we surava been eating it What we want to say la that after all you and Craig dona for ua, we turned around and let you down. We was a bunch of dirty bums. "Yeh," several other men agreed, "Lousy bums! "If you fellows dont get busy around here, I will think that youre a bunch of lazy bums, Patricia cut their apology short. "We've got work to do, instead of eating crow or speaking pieces. Weve got to put Den a good up a new Rock-Ho- g big one, this time and soma overflow cabin and a warehouse. I have 40 tons of supplies and clothes and equipment on the way here from Edmonton, and not a sign of a roof to store them under. Wava got to send out a party to drain that pitchblende lake so'a we can begin operations there this summer. Thats just a few samples of what's cut out for us. When they had gone, Patricia pulled her table beside the window and started writing a wireless message to Craig, a word of love and encouragement, a word about her successful deal with Warren. Aa she wrote, as she pictured Craig lyEding sick and lonely in monton, she waa shaken with longing to drop all her work and fly to him. But aha fought the longing down. Resurrection was her job, till Craig came back and took hold again. Deep within her, born of her desperate homesickness, dwelt the hope that when these Resurrection projects were running smoothly she could leave Poleon in charge, join Craig in Edmonton, and they could The go on to Chicago together. thought of never seeing her mother and Frances again was unbearable. To all her other sacrifices she had acquiesced, but not to that one; and she knew that she never could to it. Yet she realized that her chances of ever visiting her home were next door to nothing. She had defied her father, and for that he had cast her into tne. outer ; darkness. far-aw- ay ....... ( 'It isnt laws that Americans need to enable them to get along together, but a decent regard for each other. You cannot often eommanieate the lesson you have learned by experience. Display windows of a large city are a great expositions! delight, even if one cant afford many, objects ha sees or cares not to have them. Truth IS stranger than fiction, but most of the facts about truth never come out. Ts Considered Eccentricity In e village, as elsewhere, gen- ius is usually not encouraged. But few know that is what it is. Logie, la time, conquers all. Because logic Is distilled common sense. Overeating is what sHortans a pigs life, too. A Very Salutary One The best part of experiencs is the scares it puts into you. Be free with compliments. They cost yen nothing, bnt the snrrea-- 1 ill win. der of your Photograph albums should ba revived. That waa the only way of getting some idea of tha family trea. itiff-neek- MOV ed TO DIO Y00 RELIEF I1III1ES IN ce In the outer office of Wellington, & Lovett a whisper flew about, that July morning: "Craig Tarlton is here! Patricia Wellingtons husband! Everybody stopped work. Through the glass panels of doors and win- -' dows everybody stared surreptitiously at the tall rangy man who came down the corridor, limping a little in spite of his cane. In the inner suite Craig stood at the desk of the telephone secretary, as the high and haughty Patricia had stood there on a July morning one yeaf ago. "Id like to see Mr. Wellington and then Mr. Lovett," he requested, if theyre not too busy. The girl spoke into the voxiphone. "Mr. Tarlton, Mr. Craig Tarlton, is asking to see you, please. For several moments the voxiphone was silent, a blank astounded silence. Then came an explosive oath, a spluttering wrathful explosion in which only the words wait till hell freezes over I were distinguishable. But then, a moment afterward, came the voice of Warren Lovett, cool and even, as always: Ask him to come in, Miss Fish-- TceRuscs Parkes "can BAYER ASPIXIX KCXXS Prep Mar lyar Asplria toMat of water. . tt FAST MmSo Sy Hi time ft hit A hartaai of the flats it te SUIatefratiwf. spaed at eUlntapraHaa aaoMst BAVfa Aspirin tahtets to start tafctaf hold" of haodadi and sted lar pate m tew win ate after leMag. TM fsnvia pay A high ss you YOU caa for remedies claimed to relieve the pain of Headache, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Sciatica, etc. But the medicine so many taa doctors generally approve one used by thousands of families 15 a daily is Bayer Aspirin1 about 4 apiece. dozen tablets Simply take 2 Bayer Aspirin tablets with a half glaas of water. Repeat, if necessary, according to directions. Usually this will ease such pain in a remarkably short time. For quick relief from such pain which exhausts you and heep ask foe you awako at night genuine Bayer Aspirin. ?r- - Followed by the stares of the four private secretaries, Craig walked over to the door and entered the sanctum of Jasper Wellington. At- the rosewood table Russell Parkes and old Jasper, leagued together, had been having a hot argument with their junior partner. As Craig closed the door the old financier opened on him like a machine gun. "What are you doing here? If youve got any business with either Lovett or me, say it and then I'll have you pitched outside. Youve got crust, showing up at my office. Its a wonder that she that Patricia that she didnt try to come along. That Patricia, Craig said, is up the North Shore, at her home. T sent her there a short while ago. "You what? Shes where? At her home, Craig repeated, evenly. "Shes going to visit with her mother and Frances for a few - days." (TO BE CONTINUED) Wives Sold at Auction ; e. virtually 1 cent a tsb!st WNU W 42-- 37 SAVES MONEY! TUir.iv SAN FRANCISCO Challenger ... gives you more comfort and travel dollars services for your than ever before in history to San Francisco. Designed for chair car and tourist passengers, the San Francisco Challenger speeds daily from Chicago and Ogden to San Francisco. Features of the new train include : low-codining car meals (253035f), special-buichair cars; improved tourist sleeping cars, lounge car for tourist and passengers, stewardess-nurs- e service. Completely porter Our lowest fares are on the Challenger. For st Less thah a century ago 'vives were sold in England in the public market-placA husband wishing to get rid 61 .a bad bargain led his wife round Jby a halter and called out her good points. In 1832 a jovial farmer, Joseph Thomson, tried to be fair by thus describing the wife he wished to drive from his bosom: She has been to me a serpent, my tormenter, a domestic curse, a night invasion and a daily devil. She milks cows, makes butter and can A while after Warren had left, the scold the maid. She can sing Moore group of prospectors who had bur- melodies, plait frills and caps. For ied Sam Honeywell came down to this paragon Thomson received 1 the cabin. They crowded the little pound and a Newfoundland dog I In 1815 a wife went for 11s., in 1820 place, and some had to stand outside. The towering redhead was one fetched 5s., and at a later sale, their spokesman. at Dudley, in 1859, a perfectly good Weve been working up nerve wife changed hands at the bargain for the last two days to come here, price of 6d.t Pearsons London Miss Pat, and speak our piece, Weekly. ... 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