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Show IcdvWosfrFRlBAY, 1 back after "Dinner Mr. Noreroes gave ne a cigar end said wed go out to the observation platform to smoke. When we reached the door we found the young lads and the gltl standing at the rear railing to watch the track unroll Itself under the trucks. The young iHdy Was 'wearing a emit with a storm collar, but the girl bad a fur iking around her neckandjier .stocky., Thunk jrTltflearins were elbow deep In a big pillow muff to match, though the April night wasnt even half-wa- y i v ChlHy. MARCTI 11, 1921. spur running off Into the htnar and the water tank. The aiding switches hod no lights, which argued at j that there wasnt even a pump-ma- n the tank as there waa not, tbe tank being filled automatically by a gravity pipe line running back to a natural reservoir In FREE LECTURE .on CHRISTIAN; SCIENCE-- ; the tuountaln. tlila time the boss waa beginning to get a little better grip on himself and heTaugliedC "Weve all earned the leather medal, I guess," he chuckled. Its done now. and It cant be helped." But Isnt there anything we can do?" said the young woman, Cant we walk somewhere to where there Is a station or a town with people in P.y v Columbia Theatre The boss stepped out on the platform to close the side trap door Which, wlthThe railing gate on that aide, had u T been toft open by a carelesa rear Dag-maJust then the big Pacific type" I saw Mr. Norcross look down that was pulling ua let out a whsrtle her skirts and then at the girls. screech that would lhave waked tfce You two couldnt walk very faf ' nd the went oa dead, or very fast in those things you are with s jerk that shouted how beautiwearing," he grunted. Besides, we fully reckless the railroading was on aoe In one of the desert strips, and it the Pioneer Short Line. la probably miles to a night wire ata-t- ti Mr, Norcroaa was reaching for the In either direction." , VZ catch pn the floor trap said The Jerk We trailed off together up the track, didnt throw tiim. But tt mapped the two and two, the boss walking with 111. yeung woman and the girl away from the young woman. After wed counted the ratling so suddenly that the little A few of the cross-tlethe girl said : one had to grab for hand-holdand "la your name Jimmie Dodds And he did that, of course the big when I admitted ItT "Mine la kfalsle when etaff went overboard. Ann. Tm Sheilas cousin on her mothAt this, a bunch f things happened, ers side. I think this la a great lark; 11 la aa The train ground dont your 1 and Jiggled to a atop ; tbe girl squealed, "I con tell better after Its over, 1 Oh, my nrafff and skipped down said. "Maybe weU have to stay here -the steps to disappear in the general all night" Pacific coast the ; r ( A "I shouldnt mind. she came back I young woman shrieked after her, airily. rTiavent been up all nlghl 1 Malele Ann come back here youll since I waa a little kiddle. and our ba left! and then took her torn at house burned down." . disappearing by the same roots ; and, We reached tbe big water tank, and on top of It alt, the boss Jumped off the boos picked ont one of tbe square and sprinted after both of them, leavfooting timbers for a aeat It seemed d coming a string of large, as If he were finding It a good bit ments on tbe foolishness of women harder to get acquainted with hla half as a sex trailing along behind him a of the combination than I waa with he flew. mine, but after a little the young woRight then It waa my golden moment man thawed out a bit and made him ts play safe and sane. With three of talk to help pass away th time, I T it them off and lost In the gathering took It and the little girt and 1 sat night, somebody with at least a grain and listened. When the young woman of scnee ought to have stood by to finally got him started, the boss told pull the emergency cord If the train her all about himself, how hed been should start. But, of course, I had to railroading ever since be left college, take a chancy and splU the gravy all and a lot of things that Pd never even over the tablecloth. The stop was at dreamed of. Its curioua how a preta blind aiding In the edge of a mounty woman can make a man turn him tain desert, and when 1 squinted up self Inside out that way, Juat for her , ahead find saw that the engine was amusement. taking .water. It looked aa If there The boss asked her if she were were going to be plenty of tlma for a warm enough, saying that If she were i , tbe back of The young bit of promenade under tbe stars. So not, he and I weuld scrape up soma been 'studying CHAPTER i i I swung off and went to join tbo muff sage-brus- h or something and make a I waa woman's neck. aura measurably H1 : - - -bunt fire.' She replied that she didnt care It wasn't tbe little girl's. At Sand Croak Siding 1 J bad found the for a fire, that the night wasnt at them, Amongst they Along In the forenoon I made an ex; Aa a general proposition, 1 dont be-I bad a chance to all cold which It wasnt Then she bqfore thing pillow to cuse and a of water drink go get jeve mneb in the things called out of the forward cooler, and on the horn In. They were coming np the showed that she was human, clear J 'hunches." - But there are exceptions track, and the boas had each of tbo down to the tips of her pretty fingers. o all rules, and we certainly uncov. way back I took a good square look two by an arm and was telling them "You may amoke If you want to,", at our neighbors in Number Five.' Tbe , ired the biggest one of the lot the that theyd bo left to n dead moral she told the bos. "I shant mind It woman waa to pretty enough was and I the night w left Port-- I young didnt run. - They In the least. start a stopped clock only "pretty" certainty run and and the good old Pacific coast because their skirts were couldnt The boss lighted bla cigar. Then either; there too It waa this way, - Wo had finished Isnt juat the word, and there were narrow, fashionably 1 come when wasn't waa more talk. In which 'it any word, right there you he construction work on tbe Oregon atm three or four to go turned out that the young woman and midland ; and were on our way to tbe down to It And the little girl was nice, downy, rosy when tbe tank spout went np with a her cousin were to have been met al rain, when I bad one of those queer simply a peach around-facesunny-hatreclang and a clatter of chains and tho Portal City by somebody she called , Ittle premonitory chills you bear so peach ; chunky, old "Pacific type" gave a couple of "Cousin Basil," but there wouldnt lie Jolly ; with a neat little turned-uy pnch about and knew Just aa well as hisses and a snort" nose and big sort any scare, because she bad written jould be that we were never going I the boss, ahead to aay that possibly they might world. that the . dared, t "They're going eyes fairly Ing gritted get-n- g without to p Chicago pull through r At the second call to- dinner Mr. sort of between bla teeth, and with- atop over with some friends In one of a Jolt of soma sort The reason Norcross told me to strap np tbe ma- out another word he grabbed those the apple towns. ,.Hf youll call It a reason waa that -chine' and put the files away in the two hobbled women folks np. under Then Mr. Norcross said ha wouldnt . a at before we came to the railroad hla been as if a was eat. arms, juat they'd lie i tatlon, tbe boss walked miss anything by the drop-ou- t pretty but an calmly under grips and ved go " ladder standing In front of a new quiet, breaking out once, In the meat couple of sacks of meal, and broke appointment he had with an old course, to tell me that bed just bad a Into a run. i ullding; and besides that It was the w friend, and he guessed that could wait. It wasnt a morsel of use, you know. I listened, thinking maybe he would forwarded telegram from an old friend Fri-a t , ilrteenth day of the month, Old Hercules himself couldn't have mention the name of the friend, and ay, and raining like tbe very mla- - of bla (hat would atop us off for a run very far or very fast with the after a while he did. The forwarded In heador two Portal the City, day alef. Just to' sort of toll ua along, may- -' quarters of the Pioneer Short Line. handicap the boss had taken on, and Portal City telegram the boss had gotFarther along, pretty well into the Ice- In leas than half a minute the Paci- ten just before we went to dinner In 9, the fates didn't begin on ns that cream and black coffe, he came to life fic type had caught her stride and the dining-ca- r waa from Uncle John next the until waited They Ight to shove 'us again to ask me If I had nottcedthe the red tall lights of theIn train were Chadwick, the Chicago wheat - king ly, and then proceeded the night. and that left me wondering what th WTeck at young lady and the girl In the Pull vanishing to pin points behind a freight-trai- n ; We were beautifully and artistically mischief Mr. Chadwick was doing seettoa to ours. next man e where-wtwelve lost ldner, Idaho, I told him I had, and then, becauye left ura. It looked jta If that didnt away out in the wild and woolly westTHE KIND YOU WANT When he saw that It was no man- ern country where they raise more I had never known him to bother his , nount to much, because we werent Standard King Panther te anywhere at any particular time. head for two mlifutes In succession ner of use, the boss quit on the hand! apples than they do wheat, and more Gate Castle Clear Creek Black Hawk armfuls two race hla and about any woman, he gave me a cap put He boas was on hla way home for a mining stock schemes than they do he bad still while breath down were enough said to ORDER ticketed TODAY in hla folks they shock; either. Illinois, tie visit with to talk with. i d beyond that he was going to meet We had been marooned for nearly Portal City and to find that out be left e Well," he said. In hla best rusty-hlng- an hour when I struck a match and bunch of Englishmen In Montreal, must have asked the train conductor-addi- ng rasp, "youve done It Why, In looked at my watch. Mr. Norcroa d maybe let them make him general that when we reached Portal one rail' Canadian of was doing hla best to kill time for th$ the of It would be the neighborly thing for Inager Phono 17. kds. young woman, and he was jUBt In the me to o to h p them off with their Bo Mr. Norcross was In no special exciting part of a railroad story, telling hand bags and see that they got a cab y and neither waa I, I had been If they wanted one. about a fight on the MidTry, ! afldenttal clerk and shorthand man land, when the little girl grabbed my Sure I will, suys L That la, if 4 t k tbe boss on the Midland construe-- j arm and said; Listen the Inils huslmnd Isn't thereto meet 1 n, and he was taking me atong I did, and broe In promptly, Exthem. Her suit case has her name, JESSE HARMON, MANAGER. he knows a cracking good cuse me, I called to the other two, Mrs, Sheila Macrae. on it." . . "but I 'think there's a train coming." Biographer when be sees one, bnt Tbe boss has a w ay of making two 160 West 5th. North Phone 282 stly because I was dead anxloua to The boss cut bis story short and "wrinkles and a little waa going. we all listened. It seemed that I was curved horseshoe line come between j anywhere he But, If It hadnt been for that CLEAR CREEK hla eyes when he ts going to reach wrong. The noise we beard was 'more Qy-ou- t I, elve-howe would have for you. " like an auto running with the cut-oBLACK nAWK i tght the Saturday night train on t a train rumbling. when you than are There times, open Jimmie, ROYAL STANDARD f 1 Pioneer Short Line, Instead of the see altogether too much," be said, What do yffi make it, Jimmie? ' i Un Sunday morning, and there sort of NUT AND SLACK from timLUMP, the tame end of .boss' the gruff. uld have- - been no meeting with ber. Macrae, you sayt that la Scotch. ' Kindling, Lumber, Shingles, Roofing a. Shelia and Malsle Ann ; no tele-And so is Sheila. Most likely the Motor car," I Bald, pointing In the from Mr. Chadwick, because It nan and Cement of both are darkness toward the east. them, only e, uldn't have found ua ; no hold-u- p She looks straight American waa In less than My gtirta A Square Deal to Every Patron right. , Band Creek aiding ; In short, nothing to me." a minute we saw the lights of the car, aid have happened that did bap-- she la pretty enough to look any-- 1 It stopped a little way below the water I. I threw In, just to see how he thing. tank and sbout s tOndred'yards north t waa on Snnday that the Jolt be- .would take tt of the track, or maybe leas, and four 1 to get ua. on land to Right ready Right you are, Jimmie, he agreed. men came tumbling out of it If H after breakfast, with the help of been looking at the back of her I'e had been alone on the job I should berth table and me neck all day. There are so many , Ittle Pullman probably have called. Jo tbe men f Mr. Norcross my typewriter, women who dont measure up to the thtOme.!rPn?P!,i-0Tio the sideP, ,ied our section Into a business office, promi e they- - make w heU jou jee.Iem Mr. Norcrofts bad a diftrack. But we a now good that had Capital Stock Paid in $100,000 Ing quiet, fMTrrbeIiTn(J."'fou catch a glimpse of Surplus Fund $100,000 ferent think coming. T7Wedclean up "the million or so a pretty neck, and when you get ? Reed Out of eight quick, Jimmie I" he Smoot, President C. E. Loose, Vice-Presidea and ends of correspondence hed around to the face you find out that Juat as If jThayd Been a Couple of whispered. And In another second he J. T. Farrer, Cashier p letting go while we were tuesllng Sacks of Mast A BnttleAss t. Cashier the neck was only a hit of bluff." y -the Midland had whipped the young woman over j through If I had been eating anything In the the name of common G. F; Richmond, Asst Cashier. sense, couldnt the big footing timber to a standing Oregon mountains. world but Ice cream I believe It would rotn where be sat dictating to me have choked me. What he said led you have let me go back after that place under the tank among the Our growth is accountable to at least two muff thing?" boss waa facing forward and now things. First, braced, and I had done the same for to the admission that he had been waa the young woman win It ' then an absent sort of look came up the confidence the of this the people a comparl-songlrL these making community have in this the boss. hla eyes while be wasjalklng off and tbe What knows how long, followed was aa mysterious bank, service second, has brought about that that I I didnt stop to think!" sh as a letters, and .Tfpurzled me because and 1 couldn't surround that, all at out of an Anna Katherine confidence. chapter fluttered, taking the blame aa if she Green detective 'asnt like him. One of the times once. You see, he waa such a story. After doing picture been the one to head the procesy he had given me a full grist of of a man's man In to the switch of the unnsed We solicit your patronage. sense of the hid every something sion. Isn't we had "off there to can amoke is and any way1 gone a .fighter and a hard-hittethe four men separated. One spur weM; track, 'e I typed a' few thousand lines atop that train? of them went back to the auto, and right from the jump. And to'a man s my notes to catch up, I made The bos snH there wasn't, md I of Hint sort women are usually no kiiow the other three w alked down the main the only reason why he d In't iR'overy. There were two people n.ore tb.in aa fluffy little a lot of Ctl'i r things y as bqouuse track to the lower Switch of the short n Five -- Just ahead of ua, a Ee snjd when they told her she was sny was uthftn and a girl of maybe flf-a-o te too much' of a gentenu.n to aiding, which waa on the same aide of made out of Adams rib. Tbe sun ' nevef seta on American the main line aa the spur. - Here the Tbe Christian nations ar f--a and the Pullmaq was the say themln cot pie fourth man That ended car tbe of in which there la sale for charity.dining and the part rejoined them, .w on en. 'u lemed kind, with tow seat- - of "it. Tlie sure enough, fcuoek-ou- t round nostrums while a large pari 11 So far as we ceutd see, the suit girl at my elbow told ua what he had ! cant fuse world la Even u melUng-po- t thatv those ab- . ?p th end of onr rar ,t . . eyed Intervals had PullniSa, which sldeof a 6 starring. conssted short Europes refuse. (Continued on Page Seven.) happened to be the roundings n. a, eye-win- . Sunday Eve. Mar. 13, 8p.mr r by ;T Miss Mary G. Ewing C.S.B. of Chicago, a member of tlm Board of Lectureship of the mother church theFirst Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. r k. lr,rt0 pnan-alze- o VI 1 THEATRE CGHtemr. omits saamses&m Utah Stake M.; I. A. - PRESENTS Vta 4 lf-th- V - y... The Varsity Players ey IN car-lengt- Hobsens Choice d, p . Monday, March - 14 14 THAT GOOD COAL 1 SMOOT & SPAFFORD 1 right-of-wa- Utah Timber &.Coal Company 1 part-becau- se 1 ur ut 1 O j band-down- s. 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