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Show inr, Black Box Lyndc 0y Francis llutrtin! by 0. Irwin Myers m'NI! - Gerard Chapman.) cvrr! SYNOPSIS Litial L'UH dt'r' lu Ii Ii.c t., swells inventor, extraurtl.uary id stolen from a I.andis tells ,,r. t,;s cliuin, the &, Ax. b.iy u of the safe, i viitti whom the intakes .Mailvham .ii wil. man's lout-tli- u a tcli'ar kllW- - I,. window ami takes an op-l- o of Hetty 8 one to n portan-'Hetty tI, .ilentiial. t hei t Cathy, a ji. a it, as a piumoier. I' name the previous drtv eii had dosed ;J the nsM' r'1 Ma'hl.um does not tell a ....uri. The safe in h, larthdale IS blown Wif Ue the mdse of the Satisfied optm,n la, lit; unheard. eipUoms 'i ' u k t.nx ' is In the hands Hat .Maikliam, Wth j te. Three strangers resto herthu.' men of to I' business ;ae s fie ate the only possible decide Marsh am and I.andis advices them, although n to seems guaran-"lai'M.le ; Jr At s xiamlua of the three. i? .Markham learns Canby driXii.b west, with Hetty Lawson i.r as his guests in the ard Uhde he at.d Land.s are sleep-Markham'S tar is stolen and crecked. He hues another, and they At 8 hoUl ln 1 ,,I,ah ,thY p.atlff rj.l, loulaiat. tl 6 lahel X Mats.-t.'tii-tr- A 1 I ?.L Brttv. bite is surprised expresence m the West, and the reason for her and her fathers journey. I", the plains Continued VI CHAPTER 8 and I? Oil, no; we Just Hut when until dinner time. leave Carthage? tan you Paddy res;ed d;d named the date, and she must have been right Or no; you dong the road together! said you came by train, didn't you? We got 1 said, 'part of the way. tired of the train, so I bought a car, Markham Why, we lid, md we came on in that. are you going? his chauff; I'm merely Cut where Ak Owen eur. Thus drugged in, I.andis played up is best he could. I don't know any more than the We've just trundled along cat, Betty. one from knowing another, never next stop would place to where the be. be simply spiffy to drift that way, with no responsibiliti- must 'It about es. I.andis agreed. I'm er my life. Yet you don't look it, asserted the frank one, fixing him with an You look haggard and eye. wried. You ought to stop over in the Timanyoni and go fossil hunting is. 'It bniug the time of with daddy. Markham had been keeping an eye and now the group of three below, be stood up and turned to on and tb'ee, face the For Canby had joined the was giving one of them a balustrade. Mied paper. Markham excused himself and rs'Jubt a descending elevator, and when Cauhy and the three moved away toward a side exit he was able o fu'lnw without being seen. The dupe was a short one, ending at the Mel garage, which the four men entered together. Markham, slipping in open the heels of the four, was able to "'wal himself. In a few minutes a handsome Flcet-M- ! Eight came rolling velvet-footeo pause with its front wheels on the of the entrance. As the car 'Sme to a stand Canby got out. As I ve told yon, youll have to use your head," he was saving to the man st the wheel of the The Eight. layout I gave you Is the I could do. Your route hook will d you where turn to off. Jo chance for a break on the date, iere? came in low tones from the of the car. I dont make breaks, was the t, You've got a monopoly in 4 AlnonK you, you've balled itra up beautifully ! Jhe j.ou &ay, Krowled lhe in the interior darkness. How brit-rctor- -- M we know?" was your business to know ! You tl'ing in your hands ,a8 ag0 you tmd to do was hole L,e ?if an ,iiovOWD a" Dl1 J0U (iili "'ttS t0 Jell But thats a hack number. to and get out of hore. And dl heini r P' "a't until the flurry 1 don on i;bt I'll meet you i this business to- as arranged. Get mote Cealk? ro"e'l Ca,r out across the toa,nheCm, entrance of the y. . prkham followed, but not di- tlle tel counter he Wa ware nierdiant tg for th Just clos-tt- a to cn ffht nnd Persuaded the antl Se" hlm a eouple omatics. Then he !i kir h? f Ml-aS- lobh' "Iere "''ting for hi i yu t0 u'!rh ; '1 1 '' as v. e k 'eaving time for 'r a I he fln(1 warrant '! lV'.l. : 4r. n,'d wont to get "rllt up in an eie- nt "f 'y,"p hi ir.i l ,ri av jv,tft I ''1 ! f'Ut "n: V ,V stglit. nr '"Te toil iiitn if her way. is it to he? ",l:'t "ait'aV0.; ':?t "re,, Silence In rather less than five minutes Markham was placing the roadster at the side entrnnee to the hotel I.andis stowed the suitcases in the rumble and climbed to his place, saying, Can't you tell me now? Wait until we pet out of town. Landis waited, nnd he was still waiting wiien t tie roadster bumped er tile final railroad crossing in the lied Iiuttle Western yards and shot out upon the broad, silent expanse of 'he lied desert. CHAPTER VII S'l!p V(U,r entrance. the car inside of five I UIKOMU.K, PAYSON. TTMI both of these roads go over to Brewster the Timanyoni?" Tl speaker was ev' They do. dentlv the leader of the squad o armed men. Tlie one to the left fnl lows t lie railroad as fur as it can, an-then climbs tlie Tjmanyoiil range of I.ed Horse pass. Tlie ottim begins to climb right here and goes in over Dump mountain, and the two come together as one in the big of I row st or. Ilmi.ks, sal Markham; tint w don t know which way our the Fleet in hill-Sou- wing went. "I can help you there, ' imt helps di-i- oer A u," Markham asserted 1 "Something, imt not ns much as I hoped to, said Markham. In answer to I.andis' repealed question as to what he had learned by following Canby anti tlie three; and lie recounted the talk lie had overheard. All I can make out of it is that Canby is hooked up with these men in some sort of a deal in which lie is the kingpin. You say Canby gave the others a map? Something of the sort. He called it tlie layout. Wlmt did he mean hy saying that tlie three had yelled for help? "That Is Just another of the mvs-tories- You heard what Hetty told us; that they hud bought their train tickets, nnd then Canhy changed his mind and asked them if they didnt want to drive? I'm wondering if it wasnt the yell for help that made him change his mind and plans. It may have been. Landis spoke of something else. You asked Hetty what time they got into Copah, and her answer was, About five oclock. Also, she said she and her father watched the sunset from the mesa road ; and not very long after that. Canby, with two people ln his car, overtook us in the outskirts of town. IIow do vou make that fit in? I don't," said Markham shortly: nothing fits In." Step hy step, each new development, or half development, pointed to Canby as the thief of tlie black box of silence. Hut if Canity were the thief, I.Ptty Lawson was just as certainly bis accessory. And that, he told himself, was unbelievable. Yet there was the great stone, tumbling down tlie mountain side in utter silence, to point the finger of implication at What desperate undertaking Canity. was Canby engaged in that would wardouble murder as rant a one of its conditions? Tlie lights of Copah had long since vanished in tlie eastward distance before Markham spoke again. "Sorry your time with Hetty was cut so short, Owen. Hut maybe well see more of her later. The time was long enough. was the sober reply. And then, half hesitantly, I'm nut of It with Hetty, Wally. Canbys the man." No, he isn't; not if our suspicions are justified. I.andis smile was a more baring of the teeth. Ton ought to know women better than that, Wally. Husiness deals, straight or crooked, dont mean anything to a woman in love" If you think Hetty would wink at criminality, even in her lover We havent anything to base a charge of criminality on. Nothing positive, maybe. Hut w hat I overheard in Copah seems to lean that way not to go any farther hack in the mess." Do you think so? Im thinking so hard enough to make me run tlie wheels off this wngon to keep in touch with that Ficetwing Eight somewhere ahead of us. As he spoke, tlie roadster was topping a slight rise, and Landis pointed out a faint red dot in tlie forward distance. Tou've got the touch, he remarked. After this, for an interminable time, the two flying cars held their relative positions. Front time to time Landis looked over his shoulder. There were no headlights in sight to the rpar. If Canby was making tlie moonlight run, as planned, the headlights of his car were not yet visible. Needn't look for him, I guess, We re Markham offered, at length. than faster bit a good hitting it up he'll want to hurry his passengers. It was not until they began to draw in toward the foothills at the northwestern edge of the desert that they lost sight permanently of the red dot In advance. They came to the little way station of Atropln on the railroad, where the road forked. Here's where we balk, Markham announced, slowing down. Then lie recalled what Canby had said to tlie mnn who was driving tlie Fleetwing, "Your route book will show you where Hut which was the turn to turn olT. off to the left with the railroad, or to the right up the mountain? Climbing out, they crossed the tracks to tlie railroad station. When ran they stepped inside they almost Into the arms of a group of roughly dressed men, each man nursing a W for M.irkliam apologized stumbling over the feet of one of the said Hie one whose feet I wasnt looking for had suffered. anybody to open the door. Are you traveling or just going somewhere.n grin. Hoth, said Markham with More pnrtieul.irly. we are trying to keep in toueh with three er friends Just ahead of us In a ilcitwlrtg I. giit, and we don't know whoii road they ,e taken, ivrhaps you can !.' 'p u. I'o - Cinnabar, ping ore name. Markham is mine," was tlie prompt rejoinder ; and this is my friend, Dwen Landis. Much obliged for the information about the roads. Well be gelling along before our Fleetwing party gets too far ahead of us. As they went out tlie young mine owner followed them. "I'm no alarmist, he said, "hut are you gentlemen heeled,' as we say out in tliis part of the world? Markham grinned and pulled out his two automaties nmeh to Landis' astonishment, sinee Maikliam had neglected to mention his purchase. "Will those do?" line and dandy, if you know how to use 'em. Reason I spoke was that we re down here for our payroll money it's coming in on Forty-On- e and I had a hint that Red Gunter and bis gang might try to grab it off. Thats why so many of us are here with the hells on. Itut if theres anything ln the rumor, and they are after us, they likely wouldn't bother with you. So long, and he went back into the station building. As tlie two friends reached the car tiie bellow of a locomotive whistle broke tlie silence of the desert night. There comes Rroughton's train, said I.andis. "Lets get away ahead of his truck. Then we wont have to pass it on tlie mountain road." You didn't speak soon enough," Markham grumbled, kicking a flat tire distance-diminishe- d under the roadster. did that?" Whatever had done I wonder what It, the tire had to lie changed, and they fell to work. When it came to tlie replacement they found that tlie spare was only about half inflated and would have to be While they up by hand. pumped were rigging the pump the train came thundering in. made its brief halt, and went clamoring on. Shortly after tlie disappearance of tlie train they heard the starting roar of tiie mine trucks motor, and a moment later the truck, with its load of armed men passed them. The young mine owner was at the wheel. After the truck had gone, they found tlie tire pump in t hoi r roadsters , equipment kit had a leaky and wouldn't hold long enough to put tlie proper pressure into the tire. While they were taking turns at the leaky pump, the railroad agent came across on his way home, and asked if he could help them out. Not unless you can tell us where we can borrow a docent tire pump," said I.andis. Why, yes," was the friendly answer. I've got a flivver, and a tire pump is about tlie most useful n'taeli-nien- t it has. Wait, and Ill fetch it. He crossed to a filled behind tlie darkened nearest of the houses arid presently returned with tlie pump, taking a hand and helping them fill tlie big cheek-valve- half-inflate- d half-doze- n spare. Y'ou'xe saved our lives," Markham said, returning file borrowed pump. Good Thanks a thousand times. night." As he started tlie motor he glanced at tlie dash cluck. It was just midnight when we stopped, and now it's a quarter to one; three quarters of an lionr wasted time enough to put tin Fleetwing thirty miles abend! That' the toughest piece ef luck weve struck yet Hut, as t hey were soon to learn, e was net through with them. a than more made they had collide of miles up the stiff mountain grade tlie roadster's motor sputtered, began to miss, and then stopped dead, tlie brakes slipped and let the car drift backward. Landis caught at the emergency brake and stopped the drift. As he did it, he pointed at the gasoline gauge on the dash and said, Look at that, will you! Markham looked. "What do you about that! I told thosp know tie sure garage fellows at Copah to and fill her up you heard me! That the devil and Tom Walker ore we to ! k He-for- do now. I'd like to know!' "Tlie little railroad man back there I.andis suggested. at tlie station? Max he lie 1ms an extra can of gas. Markham turned the ear nnd let It drift down to the railroad hamlet. Tiie agent had gone to bed. and they had to get Him up. Again western kindliness camp to the fre. Just wait till I can get dresM-- nnd e'il S( e. lien ti c They waited, pi rfnree. and Mcout he said, Pt;le man came re may the Dowell -- he keeps have a can or two." The: e was another wait w !.!! the Mo agent hummer d en the door ef wa Dowdl's emporium; and when it more uncertainty enfinally of cm disrernerrv-Tim storekeeper sued. He'red." lie noght have Bom n see. and come w st-- - ,T ' ns Speaking Frankly GuRiy or not guilty? Accused Not guilty. Judge Have you been sentenced before? No. It'S till first time I Accused was ever caught. Die Woche tin Judge gvcTsfa Rild. SHOWS HIGH VALUE OF DAIRY FINDINGS MercolizedWax Keeps Skin Young Oat iii oo&m io) um m dlrMltd FiMpvticiiitad kio pwd ofl uotiJ til tucb m hver and froeklM diAApputr. Mitt pu. mud velvety Your fM look veers youoer. Mnfoolucd et t'lior Hit the bwideo beeuty of yur ikm, T remove wrinkle nee one ouoos Fowdsrei bexohi dueuired i oue-Upint nOcb heeel, A I drug sWrw. ta Specialist. Summarizes Good Results. li Women said ; N. I. airy Collrga Ohio State Lnlvarajty. W'NU ruining man, are you? t know there were any mines here. "Tlit-r- At the Cinnabar DAIRY By T s Si T of Aiii-uiinre- . the mountain." Then, men. My fault. )(,uv. Hio'e A he of i servlca Summarizing some of the results of agricultural experiment stations ln various parts of the country, I find that considerable information of practical xalue to Ohio dairymen has been uncovered recently. 'Hie Missouri agricultural experiment station lias tumid from a study ot proven sues that a sire should have ten or more daughters with yearly records in order to predict the average of future daughters with reasonable accuracy. W orkers at tlie Illinois station report that while green feed enriches tlie color of milk, proteins from different sources fed in concentrates did not affect the color. Tlie same experiment station also finds that soybeans are best cut for bay when tlie pods are well filled. This conclusion is based on the fact that the highest total yield per acre was obtained hy cutting at this time, 41 per cent of the total weight was leaves and BO per cent was pods. Other investigators in Indiana discovered that soybean hay cut when the pods were completely formed, the beans well formed, and tlie lower leaves turning yellow. Is superior for both milk and fat production to hays cut in earlier stages of maturity. Still other workers in Nebraska have reported some Important data concerning the Influence of the number of milkings on the production of dairy cows. Analysis of their records show that high producing Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cows of different ages milked three times a day produced from BO to 52 per cent more fat and 44 to 05 per cent more milk than do cows milked twice daily, Dows milked four times daily produced from 110 to 127 per cent more far and from 140 to 100 per cent more milk than do cows milked twice a day. that eraGEsDGBGEntib llUT that eras before they knew how kind the Xew Oxitlol is to hands and dainty things I -- herd test, says euds longer-lastin- g thats the reason this amazing soap can do so much and still he Lind to hands and dainty things. Rinses clean, softens water, never balls up. Splendid for use in washing machines. Procter & Gunible MADE BY THE MAKEHS OK 1VOKV SOAP u.v.arr.err. Pioneer Telephone Iaris tlie red In (Jxer ribbon of ! lie Le- gion of Honor was recently awarded to a man named Girnmlatix, because he hud been tlie first person who, fifty years ago, subscribed to the telephone! In the newly-introduce- eighties of tlie last century there were only about 2ihi telephone subscribers in Paris; at first they tmd no numbers, but were rung up by name. Wiiconxin Eden Found Galesburg (WIs.) newspaper has discovered nnd republished a pamphlet written years ago hy Rev. D. O. Van Sljke, preacher, soldier and farmer, declaring that "the veritable garden of Eden, or a place that answers tiie Rible description of t lint notaide spot better than anything yet discovered, Is lonited In Trempealeau county, Wis. Washington Star. A You needn't climb over tlie house A cubic road was at best a to unlock tlie gate. pulling affair. 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