Show THE SAUNA CALL SALINA UTAH Q of Pauguk JBL The Stalking By HERBERT QUICK — Author of "Alladia & Co" of tit Air Lanes" Etc Virgin! Copyright by the Bobba story has been blamed Its lack of a moral Feople seem to expect one so put to the rack the facts In the case that they will Bhrlek out some well HIS for tried message Some MerriU Company Most of these city hunters were anxious to talk but what troubled Trudeau was the manner In which Van Dorn sat by the fire wrote In a book from time to time and gazed Into the flames Now that they had reached the old camp Trudeau hoped that actual hunting would bring to his man's eyes tbe fire of interest in the thing he had come so far to enjoy “I’ll fix up camp” said he “If you like you hunt Big partte Chlcageau men ove' by lake — keep othe’ way” "How far to their camp?” asked the have behaved as If they the moral here thought Colonel Loree but faulty of the Solar Selling Com pany however thinks the affair rich element So in the does Williamson soliciting agent and Life for the “’Bout two mile” answered Truso— does the so —emphatically itself frudeau the “breed” deau “Chicago men?” queried Van Dorn has had so few years in guide How many?” which to turn It over In his Trudeau "Mebbe ten” answered mind as he has lain roll'mebbe six She have car on track ed In his blankets while the snow sifthe at depot down ed through the moaning pines that Big man— come ev’ry wintalre Jacques Lacroix guide heem has not made up his mind As for Fostheir Colonel Lorle — Big man!" ter Van Dorn and Gwendolyn From Chicago?” “Colonel Loree! opinions— but the story Itself Is not cried Van Dorn long “Oui yes!” replied Trudeau “You Williamson says that when he left know heem?” Van Dorn’s office with his application on air as he was as near walking “No” said Van Dorn The man who did not know Loree men ever are People had been so slow In writing their auto- went to his knapsack and took out a graphs on the dotted line— and here Jacket made of deerskin tanned with with a the hair on was a It was lined with red application Hs held It up and looked at check by the flannel These accompanied Jnto It fixedly Williamson exploded Trudeau started as It met calm of the agency his gaze and he came up to Van the Dorn and pointed at the garment headquarters like the news of a ennui “You wear zat?” asked he? strike in the of a Poverty flat “Yes" said the other "It’s a good ejacul“What’s that Williamson?” warm Jacket” wear ated the cashier “Five hundred — you “A man w’at deerskin lon't mean thousand?” zhaquette" said Trudeau "In zese wood’ in shooting seasons sartaine “Why confound yon’ sneered Williamson “look at that application!” go home In wooden ove'coat — sure’s r hell!" “Let me see It!” panted the ' Oh I guess there’s no danger!" bursting in ‘“Foster G Van Dorn’ half a million! Holy cat Will- said Van Dorn his lips parting with a iamson but this will put you and mirthless smile Is he the agency in the lead for— “Non?” queried Trudeau You ben In zese woods before?” good for it Williamson ?” “Oh yes!” replied Van Dorn “Lots "Why don’t you see that check?” “I tell you of times!” Inquired the lofty solicitor Fellows there's always a way to land “Zen you know ” asserted Trudeau ny man Why for a year I’ve— by “Zen you are zhoking wlz me Zese George! I’m forgetting to send Dr huntalre sink brown cloth coat gray Watson over to make the examinaticoat black coat anysing zat moveB— onVan Dorn's going on a hunting zem evbry time a deer Las’ trip and we’ve got to hustle and get wintalre lots men killed for deer Pete him nailed before he goes!” St Cyr’s boy kill deer hang heem in The manager stood by Williamson tree and nex morning take heem on “Who is t Mr back An’ tote A city huntalre see deer JurJng the telephoning Van Dorn?” he asked as the agent hide wlz hair on moving an’ blm! hung up the receiver bullet go throo deer throo "President of the KoBmos Chemical Pete St Cyr’s boy’s head! Zat l Company” replied Williamson thing!” zhaquette and enemy of Colonel Loree of “It goes either- side out” said the the Solar Selling Company you know" hunter “I can turn It you know said the cashier “I turn heem! I turn heem!” said replied the manager as Trudeau suiting tbe action to tbe If recalling “I remember word “Red Is bettalre by gosh —In something In the newspapers but zese wood’’’ the ’romance’ I thought Trudeau watched bis companion as the young fellow was poor Fixed It up with the colonel I sup- he made his laborious way through pose— the usual thing” the cutover chaos until he disappear“Not on your life!” replied Williamed but he did not see him pause son “Loree would kill him if he when out of sight of camp and turn dared — old aristocrat you know but toward the lake Van Dorn’s too smart for him You “I would rather It were any one remember he was an engineer for else” said Van Dorn bb if to someLoree's company and mfet the daugh- thing that walked by his side “but ter on some Inspection trip Love at what difference does it make? Why first not let him finish bis work?” sight — moonlight on the mountains— runaway and wedding on the The sheer difficulty of the country curse — turned out to brought back to Van Dorn something sly— father’s starve and all that” like the forester’s alertness The lust "I remember" answered the mana- for lumber had ravaged the sptry forger “but It doesn’t seem to lead log- est and left Inextricably tangled the ically up to this application” wrecks of the noble trees — forest “Well” went on Williamson “Van maidens whose beauty had been their destruction Dorn turns up with a company formed only the crooked and to work a ugly having escaped So deep and comdeposit of the or asphaltum or whatever the stuff plex was the wreckage that It seemed the Solar Company had cornered may like the splllklns of a giants’ game of be and gnarled logs limbs like began trust busting The colonel swo'” the new deposit really besaplings and underlonged chaos nis company because Van brush growing up through Dorn found It while in his employ and And spread over and gifted through all was the Bnow as light as down called him all sorts of a scoundrel Van Dorn must have told the truth Dut the young man’s gone on all the same floating his company and flying as to his former visits for he’ went on like one used to this terrible high” maze Nowhere could he take three "I heard that Loree was sure to ruin him" Interposed the cashier steps straight forward It was always Williamson climbing up or leaping down or going "Ruin nothing!" said or crawling under Here thick around "It was a case of the whale and the swordfish Van Dorn’s got him lick- leaves upheld the snow and In the ed— why don’t you see that check!” dry pine straw on the ground he could "That does look like success” re- hear the forest mice rustle and scurry “I hope his stren- There a field was smoothed over by plied the manager uous life hasn’t hurt his health — the snow as a trap Is hidden by sand is fussy about hearts and lungs” covering debris Just high enough to “That’s the least of my troubles” Imperil the limbs of the pedestrian “Van Dorn’s an Yonder was a tamarack swamp too replied Williamson athlete and a risk There’s thick to be pierced: and everywhere It was over and under and up and aothlng the matter with Van Dorn!” down and desperately bard for miles And yet Trudeau the guide far up In the Minnesota woods looked at the and miles with no place for repose He gazed away over the strange man and wondered if there young of desolation blindly rewasn't something the matter with Van abomination Dorn They had come by the old flecting on man’s way of coming doto the deserted lumber camp ing hlB worst and passing on with sated appetite leaving ruin— as he armed and equipped to hunt deer Most young He wondered why men In Van Dorn’s situa- had done here tion were1 eager for the trail that tall tract of virgin pine over at and the chase — at least until tamed by the right had been allowed to escape’ weariness But Van Dorn was like a standing against the sky like a black somnambulist Once Trudeau bad wall spiked with tall ramplkes He left him behind on the road and on re- stared fixedly at tbe snow the blue the black pines somnambutracing his steps to find him had dis- shadows listic again covered him standing by the path To the something that seemed to gazing at nothing his lips slowly moving as If repeating something under walk by his side be spoke of these his breath — and he had started as If things as If it bad been visible He had Strange actions strange thoughts for in fright at Trudeau’s hall been careful to give Trudeau his card the president of the Kosmos Chemiend admonished him to keep It but cal Company the great antagonist of he seemed careless of all opportuniLoree of the Solar Selling Company ties of following upthe acquaintance the David to Loree’s Goliath thet I swordfish to whale! the colonel’s Think however of David with all the atones spent against the giant’s buckler and cowering within the lethal reach of that spear like a weaver’s with beam or of the swordfish broken weapon hunted to the uttermost black depthB by the oncoming And In silent yawning destruction Van Dorn’s case tbe enemy was an avenger as well as a natural foe Poor little Kosmos Chemical Company with Its big name its great denecesposits of “a prime commercial sity”— see prospectus— Its dependence on railways with which Loree was on terms of which Van Dorn never dreamed Its old and wily foe skilled to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat raging for tbe loss of his ewe lamb whom notwithstanding his he had loved for twenty years dreamed had to Dorn’s two and crimes for! dreams and committed Not very strange after all perhaps that the man went on muttering somThey say that one nambulistically gripped In the lion’s mouth Is numb and filled with' delusions Suddenly putting life Into the dead Into a bounding form came Beene view past a thicket— a noble buck with many pointed antlers moving with great deliberate leaps among the giThe delicate gloesy ants’ spllllkns hoofs the slender brittle limbs and boms fragile as china seemed Courting destruction In these terrible enYet tbe beautiful anitanglements mal as if by some magic levitation crevice rose lightly from a perilous between two logs turned smoothly in struck the four pipestem limbs Into the only safe shot thence with arrowy spring be branches to anothtween bayonet-Uker foothold and so on and on every rod of progress a miracle InHe stepped snuffing the (dr the hunter leveled his stinctively rifle and then came Into view the buck’s retinue two does one large and matronly tbe other a last summer’s fawn The eyes softened the rifle swung downward aim snapping a from the In swift Its descent and with twig vanished mighty bounds the deer between putting & clump of bushes themselves and the foe with unerring strategy "Toward the lake” said the hunter “I’ll follow” Then came the report of a distant rifle from the direction of the deer’s flight then another and another Some one was working a repeater rapidly The hunter stopped took off his deer- - uMlBani vr- silly tragic letter it was’ this product exhausted him He felt like crying of insane commercialism He thought out In agony as he realized that his life and the woods enough and won- age was telling against him He felt dered at the shaking of the man’ strangely tender at this meeting with and was amazed to see the death in Its simple and most mercishoulders tears dropping through his fingers as ful form He clenched his teeth hard he bowed bis head upon his hands— felt his heart swell as If to burst his a man with a sleeping-hag-! lungs labor in agonized heavings— and when Trudeau the guide overtook him Over at the Loree headquarters he found him a frenzied man covered were venfresh fires there roaring of with dark streaks and splashes ison a skilful chef Jolly companions blood unconquerably burling upon bis and the perfection of camp life The Impossible task his last reserves of storm cleared That strong old hunt- strength with all that iron resolution er Loree declaring that his business with which he had beaten down rewas to stalk deer marched off In "the sistance in his long battle with a resolitary quest which Is the only thing lentless world that brings the haunch to the spit in “For God’s sake” he panted hoarsethe Minnesota cutover forest He was ly “help me get him to camp! We’ve briskly bearded keen of eye and vig- got a doctor there!" bandied his gun cannily orous and “How’s the colonel?” said the doc craftily negotiated the fallen and tan tor when he had done all he could for his gled timbers glance sweeping the colonel's victim There “Knocked all to pieces” answered every open vista for game was no time to think of anything but a young man “Wants to know if the making of bis way and of the we’ve found out who the man is” chase Troubles and triumphs retired Loree was Colonel Interrogating to the outer verge of consciousness Trudeau surprised that he did not claimed Primeval problems his know the name of the wounded man thoughts and the primeval man rose “Non” answered Trudeau “she tell to meet them It was In this ancient me his name and give me carte but had sharpand effective wtee that-hI lose heem an' forgets firs’ day Reened his weapons set his snares and member rewood’ remember trail hunted down Foster Van Dorn — and member face ver' well — hut name left him In the apparShe write lettaire an’ she I forget but to unhurt smitten the really book Zis time an’ all put fig’ in ently cry heart and staggering to his fall It Is heem mebbe she tell name!” was the Loree way As an old hunter he smutched names were strange he knew just where his shaft bad to the colonel but on another page struck and how long the quarry could were some Inexplicable references to Had he not Kosmos Chemical affairs and on the endure the hemorrhage said that the fellow should he made cover were dim initials that looked to rue the Loree displeasure? Colonel” beLike a flash these ”1 know something is wrong” went came no thoughts as a dark blotch on Trudeau for I tell her it ben tres snow off on his the far eye caught dangereuse to wear deerskin zhaquette I beyond a little thicket in zese wood’ In shooting seasons “What Is that?” he said to himself She go toturn zhaquqette red out It Is a little hard to say but the mat- ward your camp I watch I see her ter is worth looking into Just the turn heem hair out I tell you mescolor of a deer! Just where a deer sieurs zat man want to go home in We must work up the wooden would rest! She have hungalre wind a little closer for some mea are to die” so foolish as to wear those duns and “Here’s a letter we found In his but that!— that is a deer’s browns said the man “Look at young pocket” coat It won’t do to jump him and colonel” trust a shot as he goes — those firs will The colonel looked saw his daughhide him at the first leap A long shot ter’s name remembered the familiar at a standing "target — there! He look in the white agonized pitiful moved! There’B not a second to lose! face and saw the whole situation asA long shot truly but that graceful baleful some hy rifle thinks nothing of half a mile “Good God! Good God!” he cried There are many intervening bukhes “It’s Van Dorn! Get things ready to and saplings but the carry him In his bed to the bullet would kill on the farther side Johnson! And get' the wire of tbe thickest pine and even a as soon as you can Have TabbaL one will cut cleanly to this Dorn— Vah bring Gwennle— Mrs mark The colonel’s practised left to Duluth Wire the hospital there! You know what’s needed — look after —I think I Johnson for things right think — I’m going mad old man!” Mrs Van Dorn ran Into her father’s anteroom arms In the hospital Through mazes of frenzied anxiety she felt an epoch open in her life with that embrace from the father who had put her out of his life forever as they it it Her Unappreciat Efforts “Men” said cally “haven’t economy! Mrs They Wittance the remotest are naturally emphatiIdea of extrav- agant!” Wittance snapped at the bait like & terrier at a rat “There you go!” he cried “With one of your offhand Judgments that have no sensible foundaI have just a tion! Rank nonsense! good an Idea of economy as you have!”' “You may have the idea” said sweetwith the crushing ness that Is the privilege of wives “but you have it tied up In pink ribbons and laid away in your safe It you have! That's all the good it does you!” Wittance began to turn purple and clinch the chair arms “Just specify!” he Insisted “Just name one example — you can’t do It!” “I can” Insisted Mrs Wittance “Any time you feel like hearing me run off a list of several dozen perfectly good examples and I have the time don’t hesitate to ask me to oblige you because being agreeable is about the best thing I do “For Instance" she went on "a few minutes ago you made the remark that you must remember to buy yourself a new straw hat You never stopped to wonder whether or not you had a straw hat left from last summer which would do to start out the Beason did you? “Now a woman's first instinct when she needs Anything Is to wonder whether or not she has something laid away that would do and so would save her from making a fresh purchase What 1b past Is past to a man whether it Is his last summer’s clothes or a presidential election Now as It happens you bought a new straw hat just a few weeks before the season closed last year and it Is all right to wear It may be necessary to have it cleaned — ” “There you are!” cried Wittance to travel “Do you think I’m going downtown with a hat In a paper bag and waste good time hunting np a cleaner’s and meantime lose a customer or so? That’s a woman's idea of economy all right!” “If you’re so fussy” said Mrs Wittance “I’ll clean It for you myself 1 can do It perfectly well with some acid I used to do it when I wore sailor hats myself” “It’ll look homeWittance groaned made” he complained “Something on the order of knitted wristlets and mitts! I don't like the Idea!” "You leave it to me!” said Mrs Wittance sternly “If you are so anxious to get rid of $5 just hand it over to me!” So Mrs Wittance scrubbed last summer’s She was hat with acid thought rather In a hurry because she wanted “Dear dear papa!” she whispered to get to a club meeting and so she “let me go to Foster quick!” she “Not just now Gwennle little girl” did not removeShe the band tobefore with left it dry he said patting her shoulder “He’s scrubbed it consciousness of a deed well done the asleep Did you bring the — the baby?” but when she got home she found to “No no! I thought — but Foster?” band was he— will her horror that the black cried Gwendolyn “Will all splotched with dull orange where he—” It Wittance’s “He’ll live by heaven!” cried the the acid had touched with was hers simultaneous arrival “1 fired 006- fool for hinting colonel too saw the tragedy that he wouldn’t and now they’re all so he I hope” he said severely "that you sure he’ll pull through Why he’s got now see the folly of trying to do the to live Gwennle!” who knows work of a professional The colonel reached for his handhe Is about! I shall buy new kerchief much hampered by Gwendo- what for I wouldn't be caught dead hat lyn’s arms “And when he’s well” said he “I wearing this thing!” “You'll do nothing of the sort!" dewant your help— In a buslnes way I'm clared his wife “There is my econtoo old to fight a man like Foster He's got me down Gwennle — beaten omy theory demonstrated again! 1 me to earth If hs won't come In can buy a new corded ribbon for 50 with me it’s all up with the Solar cents or less and sew it on just like this one Don’t be so silly!” He’s a fine fellow Gwen — I — like him Mrs Wittance was determined to you know— but he doesn’t know bo’v So she You’ll help your old prove that she was sensible hard he hits went downtown the next day to buy dad won’t you Gwennle?” When she got It sewed To this point had the appeal of con- the ribbon crete piteous need brought Colonel on she found it was a shade narrowLoree the ferocious whose heart had er than the old one but the black never once softened while he did so was sufficient to display a little line much more cruel things than the mere of satin black and orange on ths shooting of Van Dorn It broke Gwen- straw Wittance refused to argue the madolyn’s heart afresh “I will not wear that hat!" he “Oh don’t papa!” “I tter she cried can’t it! He sha’n’t use his stormed' "I shall buy a new one!” “Nobody can see that little mark” strength against you! I’ll be on your side He’s generous papa — he wanted "Yob are persisted Mrs Wittance to name baby Loree — and oh I must extravagant that’s what you are!" I can’t wait!” She laid the hat tenderly away In go to him papal its box and put It pn the shelf In the coat closet downstairs Woman’s Day in Austria The next day Wittance paid $5 for a The women of the Social Democrat new hat and when he arrived home ic party held lately a “woman’s day" and saw the box he In Austria The Vienna town hall that afternoon was filled to overflowing with women jerked it down and grabbed out the bearing banners The speakers at the old straw hat in a desperate fury the new one In depositing Tenderly meeting said that women must organthe box for he is a neat man and ize themselves with the object of getting the law which forbids them to dislikes dust Wittance Jammed the hold political meetings or to form po- old straw into the ash can and raked litical organizations repealed During ashes over it to hide It The next day the temperature had the meeting It was pointed out that and It was early when the men had been called away fallen 40 degrees for straw hats anyhow so Wittance from their daily avocations without warning to spend weeks and months wore his derby when he went downon the frontier the women at home town Mrs Wittance had a resigned and had been obliged to work for the supInjured expression' at dinner that port of their families as the allowance made by the government to the night “You made such a fuss over that wives and families of reservists was straw hat I cleaned and fixed up for ridiculously Inadequate you" she informed him “that I gave it away today The collector for charHorizontal Wireless successful results have ity clothes called and I handed the Surprisingly — been attained In making use of hori- box over to him so you needn’t be troubled by it any longer You didn’t zontal antenna for the purpose of wireless telegraphy One thousand seem to— appreciate my trying to save across the money so the hat Is gone” feet of wire stretched “I should say it is gone!" yelled ground at a height of three feet was found to equal an antenna forty feet Wittance in height and messages were very satisfactorily received from several Esprit du Corps “And why do you wish to call stations located in various directions The wire consisted of several lengths in consultation? physicians I directions stretched out in different know did not the case was so serand crossing In the center at which ious” “Professional ethics madam W point connection was made with the doctors must stand together” receiving instrument i Trudeau started as it met his VAfl DDRH CA2EAND HECAMEUPTO POINTED TO THE CARMEMT” AMD skin jacket turned Its hair side odt and like a soldier making for the pressed forward after the deer Trudeau saw his man halt on the edge of the firelight that evening turn his jacket and come wearily Into Trudeau sat and thought that camp night while tbe other slept heavily Next morning there was a raging Btorm and the guide was puzzled that the hunter refused to braye its danIt was not sure then that the gers monsieur desired the wooden overcoat? He told Van Dorn many stories of death In these storms and watched for tbe effect “Wen man Is lost in blizzard” said Trudeau “ze vldow mus’ wait an’ wait an’ mebbe nevaire know If he is vldow or not" “It would be better" said the other “to have the proof ample reflectively — ample!” Trudeau pondering over this watchhis ed charge putting names In a book opposite amounts In figures but he did not know that here was the lost fortune of an old aunt there the savVan Dorn ings of a college chum looked them over calmly as if it had been a sheet to be paid Then the strange In tbe morning began writing a letter to a sweetheart to whom he seemed to be able to say only that he loved her better than life that she must try to love his memory and to train up the baby to respect bis name that the right thing is not always easy to discern that sometimes one has only a choice of evils that when a man has made a mess of It which he can off tbe Btralgbten out by stepping stage he might as well do It — and that he had had his share of happiness since she had been with him anyhow and was far ahead of the game! could not know what a foolish §5 hand Immovably supported the barrel the colonel’s keen eye through the adjusted sights saw plainly carefully the blotch of deerskin down the little and the colonel’s steady foreglade finger confidently pressed the lightly-se- t The colonel felt trigger Spat! delicious certitude that the rifleman's his bullet had found Its mark threw In another shell and stood tensely ready to try the bisecting of the smitten deer's first agonized bound— but the blur of fur Just stirred a little and slipped down out of sight Panting in the killer’s frenzy Loree struggled over tbe debris to reach his game How oddly the deer had fallen! as It went Heart or brain likely Here was the thickdown like a log et and on the other side — yes a patch of reddened snow and the body of— no not a deer but a man dead It seemed clad In a deerskin Jacket a rifle by his side and in his hand a notebook full of figures its pages all stained and crumpled! There was a shout in the far distance but Loree heard It not He and never looked knew his solitude Tbe white strangeness of the for aid face of the man he had shot overcame the sense of something familiar in it after a moment’s and the colonel addressed himself franticscrutiny A ally to tbe stanching of the blood seemed to warrant hope deep groan and stooping beneoth the body Loree took It up and began bearing it toward He had an overwhelming the camp of the terrible task beconsciousness fore him but the realization of the huout some home blastdashed man life ed some Infinity of woe and the bare rolled slckenlngly chance of rescue over him and he set his teeth and atlike an Incarnate tacked the task will and Logs and boughs countless obstacles ield him back ' |