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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH you need and need right away Is Jiiitlk f Mie Lake Ekncl home. By JACKSON GREGORY Copyright by Charlea Scribner's Sons CHAPTER XVII Continued 19 Trevors was upon him again, bnt Lee slipped aside even rolled over, managed to get to Ills feet Again Trevors bore down upon hfm, a new leaping fire In his eyes. Again, though barely In time. Bud Lee slipped away from him. lie drew Treors harsh laugh after him and Trevors questing, eager fists. Lee put up hs arm, his right arm, guarding his face, and drew away, back and back. Carson was almost whimpering, calling wblnlng-ly- : Stand up to him, Budl Oh, go get him, Buddie 1" Still up and down the room th y went, Trevors rushing at Lee, Lee taking what blows he must, striking out but little seeking now only to pull himself together, to get his head clear of daze and dizziness. Itun away, will you? panted Trevors. "Ive got you, d n ou. Got you right. Lee didnt answer. He was thinking dully that Bayne Trevors was near telling the truth, that Bud Lee was almost beaten almost That was was as far as a gentleman ever went almost Just to that desperate beaten. Not quite. No! not quite. Never that. Both men were nearly spent; Car-sosaw that Wlille he cursed softly In his corner; Melvin saw It and watched for the end, wondering Just how It would come. Trevors should swing for the point of the Jaw, put all that was In him Into a final, smashing blow, beat through an insufficient guard, do It now, quickly. Foe both Carson tnd Melvin saw another thing, a thing which both had sensed at the outset: Bud Lee was harder than Bayne Trevors. Lee, slipping away t every step was getting something back which had nearly gone from him; Trevors was breathing In noisy Jerks; save for the vital fact that he now had two hands to Bud Lees one, Trevors was showing more signs of weariness tha Lee. Budll get him somehow," whisGood old Bud. Somepered Carson. how. What Carson and Melvin sensed Trevors knew. Lie saw that Lee was having less trouble In eluding him now, that Lees feet were quicker, lighter than his, that Lee was beginning to strike back viciously at him, and when the blow landed, Trevors big body rocked, shot through with pain. There came to him the thought which was Melvins, but it came in Trevors way : Now, quickly, before Lee was ready for it, must come the end. So, for the third time that day Bayne Trevors, with much at stake, resorted to what weapons God gave him, what weapons he could lay his mind to, his eyes to, his hands to his feet to. Resorting to the old trick which came up from South American ports In disreputable windjammers which Is known to the San Francisco waterfront, he raised a heavy foot, striking for Lees stomach, seeking with one low, horrible blow to double up his already handicapped antagonist In writhing pain on the n floor. An I gave my word I" bellowed Carson, the sweat on his own tor- tured brow. steam-drive- n pain-racke- d s. weight Lees grip at the strangling throat relaxed. band. But be did not move his Got enough? he panted again. The answer came brokenly, weakly, almost inarticulate. But It did come and the men drawn close heard It: Yes. Youll get out of the country?" Yes." Bud Lee drew back and rose, going to the door swiftly. He stooped for his hat and passed out. And as Bayne Trevors got unsteadily to his feet and sank slumping Into the chair offered him, two big tears formed in his ey and rolled down his cheeks. The first tears In many a year, the tears of a strong man broken for the first time in his life. Sand did It I grunted Melvin. Just sand, Carson. Ill stick aroun an see he moves on, Bud, Carson followed Lee to say. Oh, hell go. But Ill Just tell him how the boys Is headed this way by now an Its tar an feathers for him If he dont mosey right along. Thats something he couldnt stand right now. An, Bud He put out his hands and locked Lees in a grip that made the sore fingers wince. Then, swinging upon the heel of his boot, he went back to collect a hundred dollars from Melvin and help Bayne Trevors shape his sun-sh- plans. But Bud Lee did not wait. He was on his horse, swaying a little, an arm caught in a rude sling, glad to be out in the late sunlight. Fog along, little horse, he was Fog right along. Shes saying dully. waiting, little horse. Judith is waitThink of that. Thats right ing fog right along. n non i flTTEHTIH!i! Read this Remarkable Testb mony Regarding Results from Taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound I If you Norfolk, Virginia. knew how many women and girls taken onj have your medicine f i by hearing my testi- - I mony, it would seem wonderful to you. Every day and every chance I have I advise some one to try It was in June 1904, when I hai given up to never get well, that I wrote to you. My husband r it went to the drug- store and brought the Vegetable Compound home to me. In a few day9 1 began to improve and I have often taken it since. I am now passing through the Change of Life and still stick by it and am enjoying won-derful health. When I first started with your medicines I was a mere shadow. My health seemed to be gone. The last doctor I had Baid he would give me no more local treatments unless I went to the Hospital and was operated on. That was when I gave the doctors up. Now I am a healthy robust woman. I wish I could tell the world what a wonderful medicine Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound is. I will be only too glad to answer letters from anywhere. I wish all sick women would take it Mrs. J. A. Jones, r f I f I 317 Colley Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia. horses or males being laid up with Distemper, Influenza, Pink Eye, Laryngitis, Heaves, Coughs or 11 Colds. to SFOHVS to both the sick and the well ones. The standard remedy for SO years. 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Tomorrow he could take It to a doctor; perhaps In an hour or so he could get Tripp to look to It; Just now he must do what he could for It himself with hot water and strips torn from an old shirt. Night had descended, serene with stars. He wondered if the boys vere He from the lunlber-camback y -- p. yet had met them, as Carson had predicted he would, riding in a silent, ominous body. He felt assured that they would find no work for them l- do at the companys office, that Carson was right and Trevors' would be on his way. But he stopped at the No, the boys hadnt come In yet. But there was a message for Lee, Just received by the cook. It was from Greene, the forester, brief and to the point : Greene had lost no time In finding the sheriff of the adjoining county at White Rock and in going with him to the cave. They had found Quln-nloHe was dead, the manner of his death clearly indicated. For he lay at the foot of the cliffs straight below the caves mouth, his face terribly torn and scratched by a Bad close-packe- - bunk-hous- sick y, 1 Xes, Youll find your work cut out for you, Mr. Lee," she told him. Its the kind of work I want," answered Bud Lee. Then suddenly her arms went about his neck and tears sprang Into her eyes and she set her lips to the cut he had sought to cover with his hair, and took his sore, swathed hand tenderly Into her own two hands, laying It against her cheek. Carson telephoned me," she whispered, her lips trembling all .of a sudHe told me how Trevors den. . fought . . and how you fought! And he was half crying over the telephone, he was 60 proud of you. And I am proud of you I And oh. Bud Lee, Bud Lee, I love j u so I From without enme the sound of the Blue Lake boys returning, Carson at their head. Riding clos together they were singing, their voices floating through the night In an old cowboy Mrs. Simpson heard and ran song. out Into the courtyard to listen. Marcia and Pollock Hampton, loit to all save each otter In the shadows far down the veranda, listened, and Marcia clapped her hands. The voices were to be heard from afar, the strong voices of a score of men. The strange on. thing Is that neither Judith nor Bud Lee heard ; that neither had the vaguYes, Judith was waiting for him. est consciousness just then that there She was there In the living-roowere In all the world any other morcurled up on a great couch, lifting her tals than Judith and Bud Lee. THE END. eyes expectantly as his step sounded A wonderfully on the veranda. gowned, transcendently lovely Ju- Saved Time by Taking ' a of bare white arms, Judith dith; round and warm and rich In their Three Meals at Once tender curves; a Judith softly, allurMy mother, writes a subscriber to ingly feminine even In the eyes of the Youths Companion, told us chilBud Lee, no longer theorist; a Ju- dren many times over of an Incident dith whose filmy gown clung linger- - that once happened in grandfathers home when she was a girl of sixteen. shiftless old felA low by the name of Joe Minnick was In debt to grandfather, and in order to get what was coming to him and also to help Joe out grandfather enthe gaged him to cut some wood In' timber section about a mile from the home place. Old Joe lived only a mile farther on from grandfathers, but, as It wa3 customary for a day laborer to have his meals included in his wages, he walked over to grandfathers for breakfast. The family had already finished the morning meal and my mother was old clearing the dishes away when the man came In. Mother promptly prewas pared the extra meal, and, since It a mile to the timber, she put up a substantial noonday lunch. After Joe had finished his breakfast he said to mother, Susan, If you will put the dinner on the table, I will eat It now, for I dont like cold victuals." Mother did so, and when he had eaten he turned to her and said: Now, Susan, If you will get my supper for me, I will eat It here and now, and then I wont have to walk all this way back before going home. Mother Immediately cooked old Joes supper and spread It before him. He ate with avidity, and after this third Got Enough?" He Panted. meal he turned to grandfather and mist, a said : Isaac, I never work after eating Ingly to her like a Judith whose tender mouth was a my supper. Good evening. And away red flower, whose eyes were Aphro- the shiftless old fellow went! Nor did soft grandfather ever collect the debt. dites own, glorious, dawn-grawith the light shining In them, the unhidden light of love for the man Men in Africa Stone-Ag- e who came toward her swiftly; the Jutells of a tribe Johnston Sir Harry dith he had first held in his arms and who wander South in Africa, Venya, kissed. He came In quickly, his heart sing- among dense forests and , Tha tribe, the wilderness. ing. The color suddenly ran up hot reproduces In a most striking and vivid In the girls cheeks. Standwhich we may suppose ing over her he put out his hand. But manner the life anled been to have own behind by our hands her she slipped cestors in the earliest Stone Ages," he her. Good evening, Mr. Lee, said Ju- says. They lead, in fact, very much the dith brightly. Really, you have life that the most primitive types of taken your time In making your first man led in Great Britain and France In the far back days of big animals, poscall. Wont you sit down? "No, said Bud Lee gravely. Ill sibly before the coming of the glacial take mine standing, please I" periods. Like a man to be shot at dawn?" They live entirely by the chase, Dear me, Mr. Lee, that often consuming the flesh of birds and cried Judith. sounds so tragic. What, pray, are you beasts uncooked. Though they comtaking? mit considerable devastation among A new Job," said Lee. Ive come the game of the province, they are a to tell you that Just being horse fore- picturesque feature when encounman doesnt suit me any longer. What tered. Detroit News. Quln-nio- death-locke- Oh, my Gawd. But Just that one brief Instant too late did Bayne Trevors lift his foot For Bud Lee had expected this, never had forgotten It, had prayed within his soul that the man he fought would use It. Just by that fraction of time which has no name was he quicker than Trevors, and he knew it Now, as he read the sinister purpose In Trevors glaring eyes, as he glimpsed the raised boot as it left the floor, he lowered his own head, averted It ever so little, stooped and hij hand closed like locked Iron about the calf of Trevors leg. A stifled' cry from the bulkier man, a little grunt of effort from Lee, Lee straining, heaving mightily, and Trevors went back, toppled, fought for his slipping balance, and fell. As he went down Lee was upon him, Lees arm about his neck. Lees weight hung upon him, Lee bolding his body between a powerful pair of knees which rode him as they rode daily some struggling Blue Lake colt. Now Bud's left arm, defying the agony of t broken hand, was around him, Lees legs were about the frantically fighting body, and at Inst Lees fight hand went Its sure way to the thick, hared, pulsing throat. Trevors right arm was caught at his side, held there by the body upon h's. His left band bent at Lees face, struck and battered again only to come buck like piston to hammer womans nails, the mad woman herself lying huddled and still close beside him. He had allowed the escape of her captive; she had accused him after the two of them had gone back to the cavern, had thrown herself upon him, tearing at his face, and the two had fallen. Mother and son? Lee shuddered, hoping within his heart that Judith had been mistaken. It was too terrible. Bur, such Is youth, such Is love, Bud Lee promptly forgot both Chris and Mad Ruth as he went through the lilacs to the house, ne remembered how Marcia had flown once to Pollock Hampton when he had made a hero of himself, how again just today she had gone swiftly to him because he had made a fool of himself and because It seemed she loved him. In due time there was going to be a wedding at Blue Lake ranch. A wedding I Just one? Lee hurried d But Bud Lees body clung on, his thumb and fingers sank and sank deeper into the corded muscles of the heaving throat, crooked like talons, white and hard and relentless. Trevors eyes were terrible, filled with hatred, with rage. He sought, with a great sudden heave, to roll over. But he could not shake off the legs which were like stubborn tentacles about him, could not free his throat of the tensing clutch. He tore at the wrist, smote again at Lees head, set his own hand to Lees throat In an Instant his hand was back at the hand worrying him, but he was unable to drag It away. Ills face went white, flamed red, grew purplish. His eyes bulged up at Lees, his deep chest contracted spasmodically. Lee, summoning all of the force within him, drove thumb and fingers deeper. Got enough? he panted. For the last time Trevors strained d with him and they rolled like mountain-lionBut still Lees left arm was about Trevors neck, his legs about the tossing body, his hand at Trevors throat. Trevors breath caught, failed him. . . . Then and then only did a new look come Into the bulging eyes. A look of more than fear, or utter, desperate terror. Trevors threw up his hand weakly, then let it fall so that It struck the floor heavily, a dead again. a general manager. Thats what I want to be, your general manager, Judith. For life I" Judith laughed softly, happily. Her hands flew out to him like two little homing birds, and she followed them e. - n. Cutlers Realize That Twain Had Right Idea Many years ago Mark Twain wrote one of his characteristic little sketches about a boy buying a Jackknife. His observation was Jhat In the presence of the infinite variety of shiny knives which the hardware man had In his showcase any knife that the boy selected from the rest looked like a clumsy. Inferior affair, but that as soon as the boy bad made his choice and got away from the influence of all of the other knives his particular knife became a precious and radiant thing of beauty. It was generations ago that the great humorist discussed this topic, but the cutlers have taken the lesson to heart at last and decided that they have been making too many kinds of pocketknives. Their Interest In the matter Is economic; their aim Is more profits and they hope to achieve that end by ceasing to turn out many eccentric varieties of knives that are slow sale and not much good anyway. Their meeting was. In fact, a part of Mr. Hoovers comprehensive scheme for saving money by standardizing products and scrapping unnecessary models, but behind 811 of that one sees the eternal small boy, who Is just the same now that he was when Mark Twain observed him relieved of an an dent embarrassment Detroit Free Press. 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