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Show a SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH through the surge. Its occupants being drenched and sprinkled with salt water. They made their way to the Inn of the Three Kings where two men stood watching as they approached. One of them Jack recognized as the man Slops with the black IRVING BACHELLER now ye tell me ye dont want it, which y In his month. pipe Copyright by Irving BacbeUtr it makes me feel lonesomer n a tarred Thats him, said the man with the Tory an kind o sorrowful ayes, air, black pipe, pointing at Solomon, It does. whereupon the latter was promptly A THOUSAN' POUNDS Solomons voice sank to a wblsper. arrested. I didnt ' What have I done? he asked. Forgive me, said Jack. know you felt that way. But Im glad SYNOPSIS. Solomon Binkus. Youll learn directly at eadquar-terveteran scout and Interpreter, you do. Ill tafe It on the understandsail 'he ifficer. and bis young companion. Jack ing that as long as I live what I have Solomon shook hands with Jack and Irons, passing through Horse shall also be yours. said: Im glad I met ye, and turned Valley, New York, in September. 1768, to warn settlers of an InIve two hundred poun an six shil- and walked away with the two men. dian uprising, rescue from a band lin In my pocket an a lot more hid In Jack was tempted to follow them, of redskins the wife and daughter the bush. Its all yourn to the last but feeling a bidden purpose In Soloof Colonel Hare of England. Jack round penny. I reckon Itll purty nigh mons conduct went Into the inn. distinguishes himself in the fight and later rescues Margaret Hare bridge the slough. I want ye to be So the friends parted. Jack being from the river. Jack and Marmarried respectable like a gentleman puzzled and distressed by the swift garet fall in love. On reaching slick duds, plenty o cakes an pies change In the color of their affairs. Fort Stanwix, Colonel Hare says an no slightin' the minister er the The letter to Doctor Franklin was in both are too young to marry. The rum barL Hare family sail for England, and his pocket a lucky circumstance. He the Irons family move to Albany. Major Washington give me a letter decided to go to London and deliver beUnrest grows in the colonies to take to Ben Franklin on tother side the letter and seek advice regarding cause of the oppressive measures o the ocean. Ye see evry letter thats the relief of Solomon. At the desk Soloof the English government. sent ercrost Is opened an read afore In the mon and Jack visit Boston. In lobby of the Three Kings he to It gits to him essen Its guarded keer-fu- learned November, 1770, Jack goes that he must take the post Philadelphia and works in BenThis ere one, I guess, has suthin chaise for Canterbury, which would jamin' Franklin s printing plant powerful secret In It. He pays all the not be leaving until 6 p. m. This gave Nearly three years later Margaret bills. So Ill be goin erlong with ye him time to writes him from London, remindtake counsel In behalf on the nex ship an when we git thar of ing him that her youth is passing his friend. to Turning toward the and saying she has appealed I want to shake hands with the gal Doctor Franklin. door, he met Captain Preston, who and tell her how to make ye behave. him with great warmth and That evening Jack went to the man- greeted wished to know where w7as Major ager of the Gazette and asked for a Binkus. CHAPTER III Continued. six months leave of absence. 6 Jack told the captain of the arrest of his friend. the Tills letter went to the heart of CHAPTER IV So I expected it," said Preston. young man. She had deftly set before mm I have waited here for your ship. Its him the gross unfairness of delay. He The Crossing. that mongrel chap on the Star who felt It. Ever since the parting he had were curious events In the There a from Binkus and his been eager to go, but his father was got of Jack and Solomon. They friends. tarring He saw Binkus on your deck, not a rich man and the family vas voyage on or about the eleventh of Ocsailed large. His own salary had been little tober, 1773. Their ship was the Snow as I did, and proclaimed his purpose. So I am here to do what I can to help more than was needed for clothing and which had arrived the week before I cannot forget that you two you. books. That autumn it had been with some Irish servants, inden- men saved fifty assured had my life. Are there any doubled, and the editor tured for their passage. The food was on .his person which are likely g him that higher pay would be papers of poor quality, the cooking a tax upon to make him trouble? He hesitated to tell the girl palate and digestion, the service jaw, No, said Jack, thinking of the lethow little he earned and how small, unclean. When good weather came, ter lying safely In his own pocket. when measured in money, his progress who had not the important thing," Preshad seemed to be. ne was in despair by and by, and those Thats food for days began to feel the ton resumed. Binkus is a famous when his friend Solomon Binkus ar- tasted of the ship was filled scout wrho is known to be rived from Virginia. For two years pangs mosthunger' a passionate lot of pilgrims. Such a man coming here Is supposed the latter had been looking after the with It was then that Solomon presented to be carrying papers. Between ourInterests of, Major Washington out, in the of the passengers to the petition selves, they would arrest him on any the Ohio river country. They dined captain. pretext You leave this matter In my Crooked the together that evening at Capn, were bout wore out with hands. If he had no papers hell be Billet and Solomon told him of his admeat an slobgollion. Were all coming on In a day or two. ventures in the West and frontier sto- whale the head." down by Id like to go with you to find ries of the notorious robber, So m I, said the captain. This him, said Jack. Micah Harpe, and his den on the shore ere man had a good recommend an, Better not, Preston answered with of the Ohio and of the cunning of the he could cook perfect. said a smile. outlaw in evading capture. A man like that kin cook the pasWhy? Solomon read the girls letter and with their own heat, said sengers Because I suspect you have the pasaid: I Solomon. If I was you Id swim the big pond full o rocks. feel like mymebelly was pers. Theyll get you, too, If they into the learn you are his friend. Keep away If youll let if necsary. This ere is a real simon an shift the from him. Sit quietly here in the inn Ill galley, up ye right d an she womern pure, o the wind an the course o the until the post chaise starts for Canwants you fer captain. As the feller way bow toward terbury. Dont let anyone pick a quarthe Ill ship. swing said when he seen a black fox, Come heaven stead o hell an keep her rel with you, and remember this Is all on, boys, its time fer to wear out yer pinted straight an it wont cost ye a a sacred confidence between friends. boots. penny. Theys too much swearin on I thank you and my heart is in Im tied to my job. this ere ship. Cant nobody be a every word, said Jack as he pressed Then break yer halter," said SoloChristian with his guts His the hand of the captain. After all, i mon. I havent money enough to get mar- tonguell break loose an make his soul friendship is a thing above politics look like a waggin with a smashed even the politics of these bitter days. ried and keep a wife. wheel an a busted ex. A cook could He sat down with a sense of relief What an Ignorant cuss you be! Sol- do more here than a minister. good and spent the rest of the afternoon You to omon exclaimed. dont pear Can you cook? reading the London papers, although know when yere well off. You try me an Ill agree to happy he longed to go and look at the fortWhat do you mean? ye up so ye wont know yer self. Yer ress of Deal Castle. He had tea at I mean that yere wuth at least a meat wont be raw ner petrified an five and set out on the mall carriage, thousan pounds cash money. there wont be no insecks in the bis- with his box and bag,, an hour later. I would not ask my father for help cuit. was The road and muddy, with rough in I tho have and only forty pounds So Solomon was installed as cook deep holes in It. At one point the ' . t bank," Jhck answered. and hanplness returned to the ship. chaise rattled and bumped over a Solomon took out his wallet and reIn the course of the voyage they plowed field. Before dark he saw a moved from it a worn and soiled piece overhauled the man hanging in a gibbet by the roadStar, a of paper and studied the memoranda bound from New York to Dover. side. At ten oclock they passed the ship some he did Then It contained. cipherFor hours the two vessels were so huge gate of Canterbury and drew up ing with a piece of lead. In a moment close that the passengers engaged in a at an inn called the Kings Head. The : he said kind of battle. Those on the Star be- landlady and two waiters attended for You have got a thousan an fifteen gan It by hurling turnips at the men orders. He had some and went pounds an six shillin fer to do with on the other ship who responded with to bed. Awakened at sypper 5 a. m. by the no an as ye please questions asked a volley of apples. Solomon discerned sound of a bugle, he arose and dressed ' . nary one. on the deck of the stranger Captain hurriedly and found the post chaise You mean youve got it. Preston and an English officer of the waiting. They went on the Kings ' Which means that Jack Irons owns mime of Hawk whom he had known road from Canterbury and a mile out It hide, horns an taller. to came the boys eyes. He at Oswego and hailed them. Then they came to a big, white gate in the Tears said Solomon: dim light of the early morning. looked down for a moment without a o A young man clapped his mouth to Its Tories shipload whove had Thank you, Solomon, he speaking. of Ameriky. Theys a cuss on the window and shouted: enough I use cant said presently. your that tub that I helped put a coat o Sixpence, yer honor. money. It wouldnt be right. an was a real turnpike and Jack on tar in feathers It Ohio the one an kentry. eye Solomon shut squinted one with the black pipe in stuck his head out of the window for Hes the if as he were other the with taking It. They stopped for breakaim along the top of a gun barrel. his mouth. I dont know his name but a look at inn far down the pike and an to at use him call fast the dirtithey head Slops his and shook drawled: Then he on went d n through Sittingbourn, Faver-shaTory traitor Cats blood an gunpowder I That est, ever lived. Rochester and the lovely valley that the out Helped Injuns ere slaps me in the face an kicks me of the River Medway, of which Jack In the West. See thar ere that black Solomon answered. on the shin, Ive walked an paddled eighty mile in a pipe? Alius carries it in his mouth had read. At every stop It amused him to hear cept when hes eatin. I guess he goes day an been stabbed an shot at an to with o one words chaise an pair, Hying feathe the Its sleep it which run fer it life, my to bad aint tures o his face. We host to waiter and waiter te. him from tarred me. Who do ye plenty no fun you hear to now me. to hear and back in the wink of an eye. hostler you but it fer done I an you my spose a That boat was Jack lowered spent the night at the Rose In evening There o aint nobody my kentry? the and of the and went on next morning Snow Dartford crossed on blood captain this side o the name an ocean not nobody at all. An If I a hundred yards of quiet sea to dine over Gadshill and Shootershlll and with the captain of the Star In the Blaekheath. Then the Thames and klnt work fer you, Jack, Id just Next cabin of the a latter. and Greenwich stiff soon This Deptford, from which day ere quit money .bout as out came west. of see wind the the crowds and domes could he to me no fer good cept aint body Because he had to take off his coat and- towers of the big city. A little cover an powder an balls. Id as leave drop It in the river. It bothers while he was working in the galley, past two oclock he rode over London me. I dont need It. When I git bum Solomon gave the precious letter Into bridge and was set down at the Spread Eagle, where he paid a shilling n mile I go an' hide it In the bush some- - Jacks keeping. noon on the twenty-nintAbout for his passage and ate his dinner. It out to of o git I my whars jest way. ' November they made Dover and anSuch, in those days, was the crossbeen thinkln all up the road from o this ere got demnable money chored In the Downs. Deal was about ing and the trip up to London, as Jack to do with it three miles away and Its boats came describes it In his letters. an what I were me. to do an what it could An, sez I, off for them. They made a circuit and to to ask Jack It an sailed close in shore. Each boat that take Im ergoln She Is a lovely girl, Jack. I use It fer a wall 'twlxt him an trouble, went for passengers had Its own landmen a threw across Its mo the ing. hurried rope honcongratulate you. an the idee erlong est ! 'Kind o made me happy. Course, breakers. This was quickly put on If I had a wife an chlldern, twould windlass. With the rope winding on (TO BE CONTISUSAJl he different, but I aint got no one. An Its windlass the boat was slowly In the Days cf Poor Richard hauled If s, , l. , Girls Put Color of Girls judge food mostly by their They talk about the color rather than the taste. A red cherry or a green leaf, a fancy shape or a dab of Mrs. Shaw Calls Lydia E.Pink. whipped cream casts the die. This Is the belief of Miss Mary Vegetable Compound Swartz Rose, a professor of nutrition God-Sen- d to Sick Women at Columbia university, writing in on The High Cost of Growing. Cambridge, Maine. I suffered Although it costs more to prepare with and soreness pains in mv these in serve food and fancy guises, sides. Each month Miss Rose tells parents that it pays I had to go to bed, to use the girls love of beauty to supand the doctor told me I simply had to plement her weaker urge to eat. 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