Show i 'I CHAS LAM MEKSDOUF Pros ( — IIANS TUFT Cashiur Hans Tuft W H Brown V Hutsh James Farrell IIUISII V A DIRECTORS— Chas Lammorsdorf P U Scorup gensen a Chris Jor 1 I i First State BANKS Salina of (Copyright 16 8YNOPSI3 Jack Keith a Virginian now a border plainsman la looking tor roaming war parties of savages He sees a wagon team at full gallop pursued by men on ponlea When Keith reaches the wagon the raiders have massacred two men and deHe searches the victims finding parted papers and a locket with a woman’s portrait Keith Is arrested at Carson City charged with the murder his accuser being a ruffian named Black Bart A negro companion In his cell named Neb tells lilm that heone knew the Keiths In men Virginia Neb of the murdered was John pav Sibley the other Gen Willis Waite formerly a Confederate officer The plainsman and Neb escape and later llie fugitives come upon a cabin and find Its occupant to be a young girl whom Keith thinks he suw at Carson City The girl explains that she Is In search of a brother whoa had deserted from the army and that Mr Hawley Induced her to come to the cabin while he sought her brother Hawley appears and Keith In biding recognizes him as Black Hart There is a terrific battle in the darkened room In which Keith Is victor Horses are appropriated and the girl who says that her name is Hope Joins In the escape Keith explains his situation and the fugitives make for Fort Larned where the girl Is left with the hotel landlady Miss Hope tells that of General Waite ehe the daughter Keith and Neb drift into Sheridan where Keith meets an oid friend Dr Fairbain Keith meets the brother of Hope Waite nndcr the assumed name of Fred Willoughby CHAPTER XVIII— (Continued) A C MoClurg A He would dig into this until be girl to the young wrong perhaps disgrace the truth uncovered he would find out what dirty trick “Black Bart" was to up As he thought this out not swirtly as recorded but slowly deliberately piecing the bits together within his mind blindly feeling his way to a final conclusion tbe boy had sunk back upon the bed overcome with Keith and fallen liquor asleep stepped over and looked down upon him' in the dim light He could recognize something of her features in the face and his eye3 softened upturned There was no use seeking again to arouse him even had he bceu sober he would not have talked freely Keith lifted the dangling feet into a more comfortable turned the position lamp lower went out and latched the door Two men were tramping heavily up the stairs and they turned Into the hall at the very moment he distie appeared within his own room still retained his grasp upon the latch when a voice outside asked: “What number did you say Bill — 29’” Keith straightened up as though Co 1910) his hands apparently hastily reading them with some difficulty in the dim light “Nothing there to give us any help" he acknowledged leluctautly “mostly advice as far as can see Damn the light a glow worm would be better" There was a pause then be slapped his leg “However It's clear they live In Springfield Missouri and this Is a peach ' Just look bere Ain’t tell you? What did Bill! Christie a dead ringer for this girl?” "You bet she Is Bart” admitted the other in maudlin admiration "only reckon uiaj be some older” "Well she ought to be accordin' to an’ them papers story Willoughby’s bear him out all right so I reckon It straight — this Phyllis told he’s now and that’s would be twenty-sijust about what Christie is It wouldn’t bave fit better If we bad made It on If tbe girl will only play purpose up to the part we won’t need any other evidence" Keith could hear the beating of his own heart in the silence that followed Here was a new thought a new new turn a complete understanding then Maclaire Christie to affairs "but what a little” carelessly a trick could he be working to make you acknowledge Christie Maclaire as your sister?" Willoughby did rot answer shifting on the bed about Keith uneasily waited and at last the boy blurted "Just sort of trying out: - - j I told “Oh It wasn't nothing much was drunk him something when once that I thought maybe might Odd he should have stuck to him make that mistake too for I showed him Hope’s picture Bart's a schemer and I didn’t know but what he might have figured out a trick though don’t see how he could It wasn't no more than a pipe dream I reckon Where did you meet Hope? Back In Missouri?” "Oh I’ve known her some time Not long ago I did her a service for which she Is grateful Did xyou know she was out in this country searching for yCuV5 "Out here? In Kansas?" "Sure that isn’t much of a trip for a spirited girl She got It In her head from your letters that you were In trouble and set out to find you and bring you home She didn’t tell me this but that Is the way I heard It It was for her sake I came In here and Why not go to her Willoughby then both of you return to Missouri?" The sullenness had gone out of the boy’s face he looked tired discouraged “Where Is Hope?" be asked "Fort Larned I suppose She went 'to Carson "Well that aettles It" shaking his head "You don’t suppose I could go browsin' 'round Larned and not get snapped up do you? They don’t chase deserters very far out here but that’s the post skipped from and they’d Besides I'm damned Jug me all right if I’ll go back until I get a stake want to see a fellow first” "What fellow?" If you want to “Well It’s Hawley know so bad He said If I would come here and wait for him he’d put me on to a gMd thing" Was there a deeply laid plot back of all these preparations Involving both and his sister? What Willoughby was It Hawley was scheming about so carefully holding this boy deserter in one hand while he reached out the other after Christie Maclaire? Surely the man was not working blindly he Wilmust have a purpose In view be bad told loughby bad acknowledged the fellow something once when he — was drunk about his family history had shown him no doubt for he What that family Hope’s picture secret was Keith had no means of the moment be but Hawley guessing saw the face on the cardboard had evidently recognized Christie Maclaire — bad thought of some way In which what be now knew could be turned to advantage The few scattered facts which Keith had collected all seemed to point to such a conclusion — Hawley had sent the boy to Sheridan’ where be would be out of sight with orders to wait for him there and the promise of a “stake” to keep him quiet Then he had gone to Independence and Topeka seeking after Christie Maclaire Evidently he meant to keep the two apart until he had gained from each whatever It was he But what could that be? sought What family secret could Willoughby have blurted out In his cups which bad so stimulated the gambler’e wits? to cause Two things comolned Keith to determine he would uncover this rascality— his desire to repay Hawley and his Interest In the girl rescued on the Salt Fork This gossamer web of Intrigue Into which be had stumbled unwittingly was nothing to bad It not involved him personally both Hawley and Miss Hope he would bave left It unsolved without another thought But under the circumstances It became hie own battle There was a crime here— hidden as yet and probably not consummated— Involving “Let Upl Damn Yerf He Called Himself suddenly pricked by a knife he could never forget that voice — It was Hawley’s CHAPTER XIX A Glimpse at Conspiracy Leaning against the Inside of his door own startled by the rapid of events Keith was able sequence from different sounds reaching him to most of what ocpicture mentally He beard curred In the next room BUI sink down into the convenient chair and drink from the bottle while toadvanced the gambler apparently ward tbe bed where be stood looking down on Its unconscious occupant "The fool is dead drunk" he de"We can't do anyclared disgustedly thing with him tonight” “I say — throw bucket water over him” hiccoughed the other genially "allers sobers me off” no made evidently response Hawley finding a seat on one end of tbe "Hardly worth while Scott” he returned finally “PerhapB I better have some understanding with- - Christie before I pump the boy any anyhow further If we can once get her workwon’t have ing with us Willoughby much hand In the play— we shan’t need him Thought I told you to keep sober?” “ain’t had "Am sober" solemnly but six drinks Just nat’rly tired out" well such a room as "Oh Indeed man to drink this would drive any Did you get what I sent you here after?" "I sure did Bart” and Keith heard the fellow get to his feet unsteadily an’ some letters "Here’s the picture I didn’t take only what he had In the grip” shuffled letters over In tbe Hawley Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of tbe United States and Europe Banking la aII its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Jack Keith" was not Willoughby’s sister Hope The on the desert — the girl he rescued brown eyes girl with the pleading and the soft blur of the South on her lips — was not the music hall singer He could hardly grasp the truth at so sharply with first it antagonized Yet all he had previously believed If this were true his own duty became clearer than ever aye and would be But what more willingly performed Did he already did Hawley know? realize that the girl he had first met on the stage coach and later inveigled Into the desert was Hope and not the music hall artist? He of course fully her to be Christie Maclaire at that time but something might have occurred since to change that belief Anyhow the man was not now seeking Hope out the other Apparently the latter was either already here In Sheridan or expected soon And exactly what was it the gambler this Maclaire woman to do? desired This was the Important matter find for Its solution Keith possessed merely a few hints a few vague suggestions She was expected to represent herself as Ph Ilia — Phyllis who? Some Phyllis surely whose physical resemblance to Hope must be sufficiently marked to be at once noticeable Willoughby bad evidently to revealed Hawley some hidden having family secret In no doubt and money involved which the discovery of this mysterious Phyllis figuied She might perwho haps be a sister or had disappeared and remained Ignorant ns to any Inheritance Hopes reshown and the boy by plctuie minding Hawley at once of Christie Maclaire had been the busts of the whole plot Exactly what the details of that plot might be Keith could not figure out but one thing was reason— it was proposed to deably certain fraud Hope And who in the very truth was Hope? It suddenly occurred to him as a remarkably strange fact that he possessed not the slightest Her inkling as (o tbe girl's name brother had assumed to be called Willoughby when he enlisted In the army and bis companions continued to call the him this If he could Interview girl now for only five minutes he should be able probably to straighten But out the whole intricate tangle where was she? Would she bave remained until this time at Fort Larned with Kate Murphy? In There was a noise of movement the next room Apparently as Hawley from bis edge of the arose carelessly he bad dislodged the glass washstand which fell shivering on the floor Scott sw ore audibly at the loss “Shut up Bill” snapped the irritated ’’you’ve got the bottle left Pm going there’s nothing for any of us to do now until after I see Do you You remain bere! Christie understand? — remain bere Damn me if that drunken fool Isn't waking up" There was a rattling of tbe rickety bed and then the sound of Willoughby’s voice thick from liquor — “Almighty glad to see you Bart Want money — Bill an’ I am indeed both want money — can’t drink without money— can’t eat without money-sh- ay whenvyou goln' stake us?" “I’ll see you again In the morning Fred” returned the other briefly “(Jo on back to sleep” “Will when I git good an’ ready-- go please— sleep stay wake Just as do — got what yer don’t care damn new frlen’ now" Who?” Hawley “A friend? new spoke with aroused Interest “Oh he’s all right— he's mighty fine In — InvitaIn wisout fellow — come tion —called her Hope— you fool Bart think my sister Christie— Hawley Christie — damfino the name— my sister Hope— don’t want yer money— — my — my new friend he'll stake me he knows my sister — Hope” The gambler grasped the speaker him Into gome slight semshaking blance of sobriety want “Now look here Willoughby the truth and mean to have it” he In“Has some one been In here sisted while Scott was gone?” Just tell yer?— “Sure — didn’t friend o’ Hone’s” I want “Who was he? 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