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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH ominous to offset Wards attempt at An old prospector had shown him ones faeetioustiBss. Indeed, tbe very Weak- how ft was done. ness of the attempt was In itself omiOf course a plain slipknot would do nous. Ward might try to be coldly the business all right, he said. But malevolent, but the light that burned Ill try and give you the genuine thing, In his eyes and the rage that tightened same as you gave the other fellows." his lips give tbe lie to his forced com"Ward, for Gods sake, let me go!" Should Read Mrs. Monyhana Ward started. He did not know that posure. Letter Published by He went out and led np the horses a man's voice conld change so much in to tbe door. He came back and started so short a time. He never would have Her Permission. to untie Buck Olney's feet, then be- recognized the tones as coming from Mitchell, IncL Lydia E. Pinkhams thought him of tbe statement he had Buck Olneys loose, complacent lips. Vegetable Compound helped me so much to write. He got a magazine never Ill leave the counpromised Ill Ward, during the time I By B. M. BOWER and tore out the frontispiece which, try I'll go to South America or Auswas lookingforward (Copyright, Uttls, Brown Co.) " of tralia or oddly enough, was a somber picture to the coming of my Death hovering with outstretched You'll go to a hotter climate, Buck, little one that I am wrote over battlefield a and You've got Ward cut in inexorably. wings recommending it to the several lines In pencil on the back of It, your ticket. years. Tou havent, unless Its for otherexpectant worse. Youve got to the end of the where the paper was smooth and mothers. Before "I'll own np to everything. Ill tell WARD EVENS UP OLD SCORES WITH OLNEY IN A MANNER went old timer. layWhen you white. trail, taking it, somedaya you where some of the moneya cached I suffered with neu. ing for me you fixed yourself How's that?" he asked, holding up we got In that Hardup deal, Ward THE LATTER IS NOT LIKELY SOON TO FORGET Do you want to know what I'm going the paper so that Buck could read Theres enough to put yon on Easy ralgia so badly that I thought I conld to do to you? what he had written. "I ain't In the street Ill tell you who helped " not live, but after Ward, you wouldnt dare shoot me mood to sit down and write a whole Youd better not, advteed Wan taking three bottles With the record youve got you book, so I bad to boll down your pedi- harshly, or Ill make a relief of Lydia E. P i n Synoptic Marthy and Jase Mellke, pioneers, have for twenty hanging wouldnt Btand gree. But that will do the business all to you. I know pretty well right now years made a bare living out of their ranch at the Cove on Wolverine Vegetable "Who gave It to me, huh? Oh, creek In the mountain range country of Idaho. Their neighbors, the Compound! was enall yon could tell. And If I wanted to right, dont you think?" word with left your heap sabe; youve Buck read with staring eyes, looked send your pardnera np I wouldnt need tirely relieved of MacDonalds, living several miles away, have a daughter, Billy Louise, pardnera that you were coming up here into Ward's face and opened his lips your help. Its partly to give them a neuralgia, 1 had now about nineteen years old, whom Marthy has secretly helped to to arrest me single banded. They will for protest or gained in strength folThen bt chance educate. At the time the story opens Billy Louise la spending the this oat pleading. that Im sending you and was able to go show don't if alarm up, the you give on knife lowed. Wards glance to the afternoon with Marthy. A snowstorm comes up, and on her way home way myself. I dont call this m order, around and do all and on the and get Ill go caught dodge the girl meets an Interesting stranger, who Is invited to stay over" Ward threw away his ciga- tbe table and shut his mouth with a Buck. I'm saving the state a lot at my housework. My baby when seven and Ward laughed grimly, picked time and trouble, thats all, and yoor months old weighed 19 pounds and I feel night at the MacDonald ranch. Ward Warren and Billy Louise berette and took a step toward his cap- snap. knife the and ran his thumb lightly pardnera the black eye theyd get for better than I nave for a long time. I up come firm friends. Jase dies and Marthy buries his body without aid. tive, a step so ominous that Buck over the to test Its keenness. throwing in with you. I heap sabe never bad any medicine do me so edge Charlie Fox, Marthys nephew, comes to the Cove. He discovers evibonds. Mrs. Pearl Monyhan, squirmed in his a fresh edge on It for me, huh? who was the bead push. Yon got them much good. Put dence of cattle stealing, and Billy Louise verifies suspicions. Billy Mitchell, Ind. Well, you can rest easy on one point be commented. well as we In to so may Louise discovers what she thinks is evidence of W ards connection with Well, yon dropped, Good health during maternity is a Im not going to shoot you. Ward get started, I reckon. I'm getting al- conld take offwhatever slick and clean. Just as most important factor to both mother the thefts. Her troubles are Increased by the serious illness of her get stood still and watched the light of mighty sick of Beetng you around." and child, and many letters have been mother. Ward discovers a hidden corral In which are three men, one of youve done before, you you hope flare In the eyes of his enemy. received by the Lydia E. Pinkham He loosened bound Buck It the the from that then whom he believes to be Buck Olney. When they leave he finds in the hot rope got Olney take dishes to and Im going wash the Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., telling of Buck to fires does and stood of man chair A Ward's the wrath. corral stock on which the brands have been changed to his own mark scowling a shave, and then Im going to take restored during this trying period health down corner He of not brood over treachery and wrong at him, drawing in a obliterates the in an attempt to brand him as a cattle "rustler. you out somewhere and hang you." by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham a Vegehis Then witha and and blackened future for it lip I brands. Later he discovers Olney hiding behind a rock with gun trained thoughtfully. biting A- years My God, Ward You you table Compound. on his cabin and takes him prisoner. "I told you seven nears ago, went on he took his revolver and held it In hla out storing up a good many things that Are Your Livestock and Ward steadily, "that I'd see you bung left band, while with his right be un- he means to say to the friend who has F ree Fram Lice? Poultry before I was through with you. Re- did the rope which bound Bucks played him false. Ward had been a Don't use a liquid insecticide in cold Use DM. weather. It Is d&ngaron Bucks presence. As be climbed the member? By rights you ought to hang hands. happy go lucky young fellow who had CHAPTER IX Continued. DAVID ROHKHTtt bluff and mentally relived the last by the heels over s slow fire. Youre Stick your hands out In front of faith In men and In hlmaelf and in his DIOLICE and Louse Powder Poultrv You'll have to future. He had lived through black, Buck got up awkwardly and went hour he wondered how he had kept about as low s specimen of humanity you, he commanded. Kffeeiive dry powders that arty Inez to apply, tosudttt. and soon saw Buck weeks as he from as easy and months and pensive know You a of. ride or hopeless with shooting heard down saw the There days ever isnt as I ways. steep slope any gallows stumbling Read tbe Practical Home Veterinarian because of this man who tried now to Saad fur frua booklet oo ASortioa la Cows his hands trembling in the air upon him. Still, that would have defeated what you did for me. Buck. And yon tree in walking distance. dealer In your town, write either side of his head. From their his main purpose, which was to make know what I told ou would happen. For Gods sake. Ward! Bucks buy mercy with the faith of his part- Dr. Ditld Kobirtt' (el IfCo.no 100 Sraad keoue, Waukesha, WlL he could was Buck He suffer. ners. afraid was come evident off to nervous quivering it that according voice was hoarse. The plea came out Well, it's going suffer as Buck had to the program. In tbe saddle Buck sat all hunched his memory was good and that it was not make Buck of its own accord. He held his hands Small Pin "I did think of running you In and before him, however, and he made no together as if Ward had lashed him working upon the subject which Ward made him suffer, because there were Small Doss had suggested to him. He did not give obstacles In the path of a perfect retri- giving you a taste of hell yourself. attempt to get out of the chair, ne with rawhide instead of with stinging Small Price Ward the weakest imitation of an ex- bution. But, as usual, youve gone and tangled knew Ward could shoot all right with words. The muscles of hla face twitchWard was not cruel by nature at up a couple of fellows that never did his left hand, you see. He bad watch- ed spasmodically. cuse to shoot And so the two of them Ills eyes were came presently down upon the level least he was not more cruel than the me any particular harm and I don't ed him practice on tin cans long ago growing bloodshot Ward spilled two papers of tobacco and passed around the cabin to the rest of us but as he went after Bat want to hand them anything if I can when the two were friends. door with no more than ten feet of tier and Buck's horse It pleased him to help It So Ill Just string you up-a-fter You know what I told you, Ward before he got a cigarette rolled and awhile, when I get around to it space between them, so inexorably had know that Buck Olney was tied hand reminded him grimly and took up the lighted. lie wondered a little at the Ward crowded close upon the others and foot in his cabin and that he was and leave a note saying who you are knife with a deadly air that made the physical reaction from his outburst hut sick with dread of what the future and that youre the head push In this other suck in his breath. stumbling progress. Hold still! he wondered more at Buck Olney sit held for him. "Hold on a minute! rustling business and that you helped I'm liable to cut your throat If I make ting alive and unhurt on tbe horse beBuck stopped as still as though be fore him, a Sea beck horse which Ward Ward was gone an hour. He did not spend the money thatvHardup bank a mlsllck. one of had gone against a ock wall. hurry; there was no need. Buck could lost awhile back and that you're It was tbe way he did it that bad seen Floyd Carson riding once or Really, Ward came closer, and Buck flinch- not get away, and a little suspense the gazabos He wondered what Floyd made It terrible. The thing Itself was twice. You cant prove ltl You ed away from the feel of the rifle muz- would do Mm good. would do if he saw Buck now and the have stood the test of time. tlfPback of drew He nothing. merely I don't have to prove it The au- tbe blade down zle between his shoulder blades. Ward use to which the horse was being put. Purely vegetable. Wonderfully Bucks face was pasty when Ward ear Bucks alongside reached out a cautious hand and pulled opened the door. His eyes were a bit thorities will do all that when they get and Ward finished the cigarette, rolled quick to banish biliousness, scratch to the point permitted the six shooter from Its holster at glassy. And from the congested ap- the tip Ill give them. And you, being headache, indigestion end to smoked another and before that also to skin let the barely enough can't through clear up a bad complexion. Bucks right hip. pearance of his hands Ward judged hung np on a limb somewhere, dou- out a thin trickle of blood. A pin he could put bis hand out before him Genuine beere (ignature "Got a knife? fou always used to that be had tested to the full his help- very well give your perdu ers the hold When and It reasonably steady. would have hurt worse. But Buck Speak up and lessness In his bonds. Ward looked at ble cross. So theyll have a fighting go heeled with one. he of sure felt himself he fairly again an lost groaned and believed he had dont lie about It" him a minute and got out the makings chance to make their getaway. ear. He breathed In gasps, but did not lifted bis hat to wipe off the sweat of Inside my coat, grunted Buck, and of a smoke. His mood had changed , Now, Im through talking to you. his anger, gave a big sigh and returned word. Ward's lip curled while he reached in his absence. He no longer wanted What I say goes. You can talk If you say a to the tying of tbe hangman's noose. want to. Go all ahead. Talk carve yon to want to, Buck, but Im going around the mans bulky body and found When he finally bad it fixed the way a steak out of yon every time you open Buck, Ward Invited, and wiped the he wanted it he went close and flung the knife in its leather sheath. EviHe pulled Buck's own knife blade on Bucks shoulder before the noose over Buck Olneys head. He Generally Indicate a leek your mouth. dently Buck was still remembering of Iron In the Blood knife out of Its sheath and laid It con- he returned tbe weapon to Its sheath could not trust himself to speak Just with disquieting exactness what reacoat in Inside as looked hla he and pocket his to to hand, sons Ward might have for wanting venient then. He cast an Inquiring glance upBuck flinched from the touch and set If he would do any cruel thing be kill him. ward, took Bucks horse by the bridle Will help this condition his teeth. threatened. Take down your left hand and open and led him forward a few steps so him and that Buck was Ward tied his hands before the door. directly under the overCHAPTER X. told him to get up and go out to his Buck did so and put his hand up hanging limb. Then, with the coll of Ingratitude inukes us doubt the suchorse. Buck obeyed with abject again without being told. in hla hand, he turned back cess of tbe teachings of civilization. Bucks rope Buck! So Long, "Now go in and stand with your face and Wards lip curled and squirmed up the tree trunk until relighted the fire, which again as he walked behind him to the With the rifle muzzle to the wall. had reached the limb. He crawled Catarrh Cannot Be Cured WARD gone out long ago, and set door, ne had not the slightest twinge he Ward indicated which walL He noout until he was over Back's ballet by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they with stove on the the dlshpan ticed how Bucks fingers groped and of pity for tbe min. He was gloatingcannot the seat of the disease. bat crown, sliced off what Catarrh reach punctured his bunk, remade a He local is to water disease, heat greatly Influtrembled against the wall. Just under ly glad that he could make him suffer, rope be did not need and It to the enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS spreading on the army blanket which and he Inwardly cursed bis own hu ground. He saw Buck flung the eaves, and his Up curled again In MEDICINE cure catarrh. CATARRH will wince as the on Rattler. saddle the Is from acts and he took It so Louise taken which Internally the expression Billy manky for being so merciful. He went past him. The pinto horse the Blood on the Mucous Surfacesthrough of the He swept the floor as neatly as any oght to have cut Bucks ear off slick rope hated to see. System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE out of position. woman could have done It and laid and clean Instead of making a bluff at shied is composed of some of the best tonics Ward had chosen the spot where he Take the reins and bring him back known, combined with some of the best two wolf skins down In their places it, he told himself disgustedly. Buck eould reach easily a small coll of rope. Ward called shortly, and gave a blood purifiers. The perfect combination , here, He as rugs. where they did duty He kept the rifle pressing Bucks shoulof the Ingredients In HALLS CATARRH deserved It and more. as a hint. of the twitch rope MEDICINE Is what produces such wonwashed and wiped his few dishes, ders until he had shifted the knife Into He hdlped Buck into the saddle, took In catarrhal Mechanically Buck obeyed. He did derful results one hand, leaned and laid its blade 75c. Testimonials free. keeping Bucks knife always within the short rope in his hands and hobbled not Druggists was know not the that rope yet F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. reach and sending an Inquiring glance Bucka feet under the horse, grasped against Bucks cheek. to limb. the tied that Buck whenever unhappy the bridle reins and mounted Rattler. toward "Feel that? Ill Jab It clear through Ward tied the rope securely, leaving Honesty Is the best policy in pubman made the slightest movement, Without a word he set off you if you give me a chance. Drop up the rough enough slack to keep Buck from chok- lishing tvar news as in other tilings. not did Buck to tell. truth He though, your hands down behind you. trail toward Hardup, leading Buck: ing prematurely. He fussed a minute make many. He brought two palls of horse behind him. spent a busy minute with the rope beDr. Pierces reliefs are best for liver, longer, with his lip curled Into a grin water and set them on the bench Infore he pushed Buck Olney roughly to"Before go, Buck, I want to tell of sardonic humor. Then he crawled bowels and stomneh. One little Pellet you cookhad he side, and in the meantime ward a chair. Into back to the trunk of the tree and slid for a laxative, three fop a cathartic. Ad. ed a mess of prnnes and set them In a you that you neednt Jolly yourself Buck sat down, and Ward did a lit-il- e be avenged. down carefully so that he would nr death will your thinking beside his sill window bowl on the more rope work. A full purse is the best pocket comIt wont You noticed what I wrote, frighten tbe pinto. "Say, Ward, youre making a big bunk, where the air was coolest He and there a of Isnt Off scrap .1 went my You writing He took hobble If and What the Turn panion. Buck, Loose, up and mistake If you stropped his razor painstakingly Will You Do?" Shut up! snapped Ward. "Cant shaved himself In leisurely fashion and anywhere in the country to catch me Buck Olney's feet, felt in the seam of Wards thoughts went to Billy his coat lapel and pulled out four pins, can Only One BROMO QUININE" aU his up stand see I Im standing jpu silence between them; Instead sent an occasional glance toward absolute got tbe genuine, call for full name LAXATIVS who had some very good sam- with which he fastened Buck's pedi- To Louise, BROMO qUININH. book for signature of H. W. just with the sight of you? Dont pile he showed symptoms of wanting to prisoner from the looking glass, which UUoVU. Cures a Gold to One Day. ttlio. He gree between Bucks shrinking s. made Buck swallow hard at his Ad- ples, and he stopped suddenly. it on too thick by letting me hear you talk. was to not think of Louise Then he Billy off surstood trying as and too often once I talk. heard you Lots of good people would go wrong If I turn you loose, Buck, what will ams apple. Also when somebody happens veyed his work critically before he It is." And Buck during all this time never today. do? he asked at last in a curious to ride this way and sees you I wont went over to Rattler, who stood dozing f they did not fear punishment. Buck Olney caught his breath and sat you once opened his lips, except to lick his tone. be anywhere around. in the sunshine. very still. His eyes followed Ward tongue across them, and never once a Im If prove Ward, Ill you No Raise he is the This added, tree, as the eyes of a caged animal follow stopping off Ward. friend to yuh In spite of the Idea youve took his eyes cottonwood a a under that flung Its keeper. big In I've sure put the fear of the Lord got that I aint I never done nothbranch out over the narrow cow trail Fortune aims another blow at obWard tried to Ignore his presence Buck? Into Ward havent I, you, Of ing were traveling. The chances are Ward, but his Iron nerve enables completely while he lighted a fire and Wards lip curl- served maliciously, wiping a blob of they No, of course not. will be ambling around him to survive terrible ordeal. friend Floyd fried bacon and made coffee, but the ed. an from tom a lather That was my mistake, maybe. hairy mail-orde- upon page this way in a day or two, he said The story of Wards new misr hard set of his Jaw and the cold n You was I old catalogue. were to used my say you always He can tend to tbe last fortune Is told in the next intness of his eyes proved how conkind a hoping you had more nerve. I heartenlngly. friend when sad and rites of take stallment. charge your scious he was of Bucks presence. He wanted to get a whack at you Just to And thats the Gods truth. Ward! liable to be sore when he ne's horse, tried to eat just to show how calm he Bucks not Im Joshing." prove face was becoming flushed with CASCARAF& QUININE was, but the bread and bacon choked his Buck swallowed again, but he made reads your pedigree, but I don't reckon (TO BE CONTINUED.) I done everything I eagerness. his in nerve make will differa deal feel of could that him. lie every great could for you, Ward, but the way the no reply. body quiver with the hatred he felt for cards laid I couldnt washed his face In a basin of ence. Youll get buried, all right, Shoes Worn in Early Days. Ward The standard cold cure for 20 years Buck. the man and the bitterness which the in tablet form safe, sure, no opiates Illgh-hceleboots were worn by a can talcum of water, I got sure steaming me Get know; you banged. cures cold in 24 hours grip in 3 out of the past Ward dismounted with a moBt busi- ladies for three parts of the sight of him called up eighteenth Ward puffed hard out of the dish cupboard and took the nesslike manner and untied Buck days. Money back if it fails. Get the He drank four cups of coffee, black tried hard enough! genuine bos with Red top and Mr. century. . They raised their fair wearand the lips that held soap shine off bis cheeks and chin. He Hills picture on it. from and sweetened at random, which at his cigarette, saddle. cun't tbe "I rope mirsome his little combed ers hair before the inches, rendering walking Costs less, gives trembled a little. Otherwise he seemhe steadied him a little. That he did not it mine, explained spare laconically. more, saves money. difficult and running Impossible. ror, trying unavaiilngly to take the cool and calm. 24 T ablets for 25c. oflVr Buck food or drink showed how ed perfectly some in a had trouble He fashioning were fashions wave with water of and But out confined to these it leaving Say, Ward, them lawyers lied to At Any Drug Store noose. intense was his hatred. As a rule, your had bad not lie hangman's it more crinkly over his temples than the rich. The poor wore shoes of true ranee man is hospitable even to you. he to remarked much Buck practice, rewood, reeds and untanned leather. Oh, cut it out. Buck. Ive seen you It had been in the first place, and his enemies. after the first attempt soft tied the under The the Highlander made brogans out of a snake hole before. through He rose and inspected the ropes to wriggle do do You Buck? know IIow it. you deer hide, and the southern untunned of his collar shirt friend the Just way make sure that they were proof against I believe you're my more about these things than I do, he nations wore cloth snndnls and slipI he wish said, talk. been. Buck, youd always youve took and twisting, straining muscles You've helped hang lots of pers. It was not until the year 1800 Thats right, Ward, and I can prove turning toward the other. He looked tasnted. an extra turn or two with the loose that will be glad to meet Hint an Englishman Invented rights devils exand poor almost handsome, very boyish end just to make doubly sure of the It" and lefts ; previously both shoes were You proved It old cept for the expression of his eyes, yuh with the devil today. snorted. Ward With mans helplessness. Buck Olney moistened his dry lips. shaped exactly alike. So far as we which gave Buck the shivers, and the laid there behind when up you horse? timer, leave your did Whee you Soap 25c. Ointant 25e it 50e set of his lips, which was crueL "Ive Ward ganced at his face and looked can discover, the aboriginal tribes of he asfced him curtly when he was a rock with your sights on this shack, went never out America barefooted. hand terror how Chinks what read the away. I came me when abject Staring, They out quickly to get ready through. la not nice to look upon, even though always made and wore moccasins, the Buck told him, his eyes searching sabe now how it happened Jim Mc- they call the PERSISTENT COUGHS out on to was like it I'd I down in the man is your worst enemy and Is easiest shoe ever Invented. found was face the try Guire thinking Ward's face for mercy or at least for are dangerous. Relief Is prompt from Fisos his Is Ward's sins. for this But oh, well, Friday. It suffering justly some clew to his fate and dulling with spring behind his shack with a bullet you. Remedy for Coughs and Colds. Effective and A Good Theory. He fingers fumbled the rope as though his back that time. You were may as well go as a hanging. wfe foi young and old. No opiate in Jisappointment because he could read hole In his made a poor Job of his calm Irony, but determination were weakening. Then tool Why is that old captain persistenthis friend but loathing. there nothing Buck was not In the mental condition he remembered some things, hunched ly hugging the shore?" Ward, I Without speaking again Ward went I suppose he thinks he ought to his shoulders, Impatient of the merciShut up! I Just wanted to see If to be critical. yut and closed the door firmly behind Tbe main facts were sufficiently ful impulse, and began the knot again. embrace the opportunity." Ua. lie felt relieved to be away from yrjd changed any In the last seven MOTHERS The Ranch at the Wolverine A Story of Love and Adventure BE TO on Idahos Plains . FOR CONSTIPATION PALE FACES Carters Iron Pills sbonl-derblade- Price This Great Remedy In-te- d 01-ne- four-in-han- d j d Soothe Your Itching Skin Cuticura sis& |