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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUJI, UTAH H The Red Lock A Tale of the Flatwoods By DAVID ANDERSON Author of ThoBlmMooa " Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS .v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.vv.v.v. Copyright by The Bobbs-Meni- ll Co. THE RED LOCK SYNOPSIS. On the banks of stand Texle Colin the Wabash and Jack Warhope, young and very much In love. Texle Is the only daughter of old Pap Simon, Jack rich man and money-lende- r. Is the orphan bound boy of Pap who had foreclosed a Simon, mortgage on the Warhope estate. At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the girl's 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. Texle and Jack talk of the red lock of "Red Colin." Inherited by Ken. And Jack sayB he's coming back as soon as he finds gold in California. Then arrives the new preacher. Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon Introduces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate of Ken. licked Im and reasoned with 1m and prayed over 'lm but I knowed all the time It wouldnt do no good. Thats the main reason I sent lm off t the kind of a college I did where ther aint nobody much but preachers it. He didnt like t go t that kind, but I hoped bein throwed amongst men like that might head off what I knowed was In Im." The preacher leaned back in his chair ; dropped his hands in his lap. "Permit me to say, he observed In his jerky fashion, that was as grave a mistake as you could possibly have made. Mebbe so, the old man answered. But the devil imself couldnt a coped with that boy. The oid 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 Texle, cradled In the same arms and nursed at the same breast, and shes as different fom Ken as sunshine Is different fom the wost storm that ever wrecked the woods. The preacher put his napkin by. Heredity plays many a queer trick, be said in a tone of finality. In the silence that followed the old banker took the bunch of still unopened letters from his pocket, laid It on the table and began to sort them. The preacher looked around the room and, noticing the night at the windows, rose. arter them, stirred by ad anramlhai emotion to see Texle walk away Into the dark with another man. At the spring the preacher suddenly grasped the girls hand in both his own and held it with the same fervid eagerness ne had shown that evening In front st the post office. She suffered her hand to remain slightly longer than it had before, then she gentiy withdrew it. ' Miss Texle yon will grant me the privilege of calling you by your first name, will y 1 not? She did not answer. Your brother, my roommate, waa very enthusiastic about his pretty sister. But even he did not do yon justice. You are He stopped abruptly, stared past her 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 his face, and his shoulders dropped as If weary with bearing the burdens of others. Mumbling a further word or two, he turned from her, with mincing step, crossed the foot-lo- g and passed on through the orchard toward the parsonage. Words were never too plenty with the woodsman, even in his most fluent moments. He 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 he sat reading them at the head of the dining-rootable, carried to them out on 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. It was characteristic of the woodsman that he should answer by another question. What d you? The girl laughed a contented little laugh like the lilt of the happy water at the bridge. Oh, I think hes There came a groan from the diningroom, and the sound of a heavy fall. They sprang up and dashed into the house, just as Mrs. Curry rar In from the kitchen. The money-lendlay sprawled on the floor. In one hand an open letter. In the other an empty envelope. The girl darted across the room and bent above the shrunken figure. m "If you will please excuse me, you remember I promised to run over to the parsonage for a few minutes, and Mrs. Mason probably retires early. The others rose and gathered about him In polite protest, but the preacher Mrs. Curry picked up a insisted. candle and led the way into the sitting-roowhile Texle brought his tall bat from a rack In the corner. He stood gazing about, peering through the CHAPTER III Continued. open door to the right Into the room where the banker kej5t his safe and "Really, Miss Colin, there Is very papers; Into the bedroom at the left little to telL Your brother was the where the old man slept ; past the fireah most puzzling psychological prob- place and through the open door to the lem that I ever tried to solve. lie parlor, as If Impressed possibly could have been one of the most bril- amused by the novelty of a liant scholars the Institution ever home. turned out. He literally drank up evIlls eyes, searching the walls, came erything the college had to give, and at last to the portrait of a woman. that without apparent effort as the desert drinks the dew. His penmanship; his drawing; his command of English very remarkable. I was his Jack I Jack roommate and classmate, and yet I Texle, no, dont be flustered. Its never saw him apply himself seriJust another one o them faintin' spells. 1 did. ously to study. dont think he Hell be all right In a minute. And that was probably his limitation He raised the old man in his great learning came too easy to him. It arms and laid him on a sofa at the can, you know. side of the room. He stopped, as if he had no more to Mrs. Curry had hurried back to the say; stared at his napkin and folded kitchen for cold water and cloths, and It with careful precision. Texle was urging Jack to run for the The presidents letter said that ' doctor, when the old banker opened that his eyes. The girl seemed unable to finish the Doctor! he panted hard for question,, but the preacher guessed wants a doctor? Its breath. Who what she wanted to know. He again Jist another one o them fainty spells, fumbled his napkin, unfolded It, and Loaft there I looked around the table. It was an He held up the letter. The girl embarrassing moment. glanced at It carelessly; then, with a With all due respect to you, his quick exclamation, turned It toward he glanced at Mrs. Curry and family the woodsman. And thns holding It 1 the woodsman "and friends, though between them they read It slowly, would rather not speak of It at all, word by word. and should not do so, only that It is Somewhere In New York, my duty as your minister to tell you May 2, 1849. the truth Kenwood Colin was a very Simon Colin, severe trial to the college authorities. His talent for learning was equaled Buckeye, Ind. Sir: only by his talent for mischief. Yet, I caught a fellow with' a card up wild as he was known to be, nobody his sleeve and called him. He beat thought that he would ever have on the draw, and here I am. This me He was At the Spring the Preacher Suddenly forged his fathers name. here says I can'? last till the Inks girl deeply in debt before his very clever Grasped the Girls Hand in His dry, and Im not dountJa her. Shes forgeries were even suspected. much Own. less detected. always played square with me. I Then came his sensational killing framed in gilt and hung above the reckon you wouldnt allow her Inside of of a gambler over a card game, and his fireplace. your little old synagogue down there The In the Flatwoods, but shed be the followed his girl gaze. Into the subsequent escape somewhere My mother, she said softly. "Seven whitest one there except Sis. great underworld of the city. Since of a father "Youve been one h that, nothing more seems to have been years ago she left us ; the very year Ken went off t college. to me, Ive heard you pray by the heard of him. She had a serene face, said the yard, and Ive heard cussln that was There was a moments silence. The as he turned away. The more religious. Yon starved mothers preacher leaned her girl Ups apart; forward; banker crossed the Hoot, picked up a life out, and youre starvin the life her eyes wide. Pore Ken I she said softly. He key from the mantel and unlocked the out of Sis, but you didnt starve my couldnt hep bein what e was. It door leading from the porch to the life out, d n you. Ive got a drop of ol Red Colin In me him that brought parlor. was the red lock." I lowed Id better show yu where all this cussed red lock mess into the The preacner raised his spectacled eyes up from his plate and stared at yur room Is bfore yu go, sos yuU family. Ive had my fling and thats know how t git In If were In bed more than you can say, with all your the girl curiously. when yu come back. We Flatwoods money that youve wrung out of better "Red lock? men. folks turn In purty early. Didnt you know e had It? He took the candle that Mrs. Curry I reckon Ive got but a few minutes The preacher looked bis bewilderwas. carrying and led the preacher in to live. Id give half of them to see, ment Then please, please, dont mention across the parlor to the spare bedroom Sis. But If youd come In right now. that you know It I Please, dont ever I opening from It on the east, where the Id try to get up and kick you out. I lowed you knowed, bein his room- two satchels and umbrella had already Im dyln' as ol Red Colin died with mate, or I wouldnt a told. He was been carried. my boots on. Im expecting to meet I low this might be called a preach- him and you both in h that shamed e had It and alwys Aint nothin' hep it combed under sos t didnt ers room, purt nigh. KEN CO Bhow, but preachers slep' in It hardly sence Is dead. He died P. S. Mr. Colin The banker had been staring at the It was built. before he could quite finish signing his tablecloth. He lifted his face. The eld man chuckled as be led the name. You can see the blot where the The 'curse of Colin.' ' be com- way back to the porch, closed the par- pen fell. I am respecting his wishes mented thoughtfully. He was a sea lor door, locked It and handed the key and sending this letter without any Pirate In the days of Queen Elizabetn. to the preacher. The latter topped a street uddress, or other marks, whereRed Colin, they called Im. Looks moment on the step and fumbled bis by you might trace him. HIs confilike his blood would a' run out b this tall hat. dence I shall never betray. I will only time, but It haint. Every three T four Miss Colin, won't you please acsay that be shall have decent burial. generations It shows up, generly one company me as far as your ah THE GIRL. fhlld in a family with a lock o balr Whispering spring and show me how 88 red as fire. Nobody would think a to get a drink?" lock o' hair and a The darkness hid the flush of color drop o blood could But aint he some looker et a child back hundreds o genera- that played up Into the girls face. that killin' rig he's hobBarrio tions t what ol Red Colin must a She glanced at the woodsman; turned bled up in? oen. but It does. to .the preacher and followed him The minute I saw that red lock on down the steps. Ren, I knowed 't wag doomed. Ive The hit w'wv'lstnan stood looking ITO BB CONTXNVBXXI Flat-woo- er J r MOTHER! GIVE SICK BABY CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Harmless Laxative to Clean Liver and Bowels of Baby or Child. Relief Sure FOR INDIGESTION Even constipat- ed, bilious, feverish, or sick, colic 6 Babies and Children love to take genuine California Fig Syrup. No other laxative regulates the tender little bowels so - nicely. Itv 8 Bell-an- s Hot water Sure Relief 25$ wee tens the stomach and starts the liver and bowels acting without griping. 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