OCR Text |
Show fcs, J ' to tie Pa, J ti 4 -- il,., a i ' r" Kr7lfntomhelu',,,',er,n1li BD kcl ifcli citizen, i e towns to smarts presence, tr.vins wv. town and Ell.ott, ?ihe knocks h m down. b .300 ArV.take AJ - who :b.i'leol.ns N'ho ;nr( 'l aa tat belo ;d.ah'o U ' i n h throws n in" Stuart f.r Elliott. dd letter a eavinn i I'- - d a n B, n old w.th mr over hls s bully, c .' b f of on 5 -- d nJon sends n ED . to I MW n of lu.mdon'a , TTs to the Hoot been able ban-lo- "" Hen hoes hi litrhas mil', not C 4bO ton ns an had been hr... , TincuP. - V" ng becomes Ben r. fus. - t i rend It at the ,.!e tel, el iiC I e an win sub-J its Hire, Vby his own e Vned xs.h " whm b.en started , found to The Hoot Owl pets j easohne cash for timber 0((r of spot to tide It W prnv de nu time But there Is a d. Unite H" n d.seovers on the offer. he as ch Id, Mo.Mtrus Is not a hue m Si ttca ny in fill younp suppo.ed, bin a b'.uit bri.lce over rain. The ra.'rond must wl limber Hoot ich the By superhuman .s. Is blown on I S VII CHAPTER AM ii4 d bridge Continued 11 ! I'd love the honest "M ml face lighted. jTe s.iiil and Ter el a her voice mused Nich-at her to look In liran'T'O M- f ata new a bu.Ids rts Ben jrnighL W. 4 . other name for Identification In The women who, with her, occupied that short and bleak and isolated row of houses across the tracks Section Thirty-Seven- , It was called by the town needed none but a given name. He had summoned her and she had come according to Instructions, furtively and alone, long after the rest of the town slept She sat, a hit tight lipped, her button eyes on I'rnndon's face, and listened to bin. talk, crisply and incisively. I?ut after he had stopped the woman leaned just a bit further forward. "Its a rotten deal ! she said In a quick, nervous manner. by, she's only a girl, P.randon ; and the boy, lie's as clean as a hound's tooth. Its rotten I" Brandon shrugged and looked away. I dont care to be mixed up In this, she went oil. I don't fancy playing any such game. Defiance was there, and It struck the mans temper. His dark eyes swung hack to focus on her face and about hls lips was the beginning of a malicious smile. You refuse? "If I do, what?" He leaned quickly against the desk edge. "One word to the immigration people and you go hack to Canada. Io yon think lliey forget . . . the Canadians? I.ydia blinked rapidly and hit her Tin-cup- SYNOPSIS rplj. Jilurhy night, then. Good-by- , villi that chulleng-,mi!e- . lips. dnniDn, You wouldnt turn me up! she He turned to the woman said sharply. Good by. I guess the doorway. Brandon leaned back, laughing to call you Aunt Km. have comfortably. ats the only name I know you Wouldn't I, though Wouldn't . . . Try It, my I? If refuse you AS Ben out beneath the ! ii! 4 r a t-- passed turned Into the street, razed at Brandons manner, he .shed against a man who, lie adit afterw arils, must have been ailing there. In the twilight he Id not be certain but he believed nt he had never seen that heavily urded fare before, lie looked er hls shoulder later to see the in, who had started on In the ''site direction, return and pass wly before Dawn McManus homo ''nlocks and :j1il CHAPTER THOI.AS man of VIII BRANDON , forty-five- t was powerful, ch of what he was a lie was rich, he had achieved held to be desir- - I'e, liljl But of uta ral- - sW ISP EM era nlfl hls experience had been emp- things that most men crave all else. Up had friend, and then try Canadas memory. Youve bepn safe from their law for three years. In twelve hours I could and would toss you to them and have the satisfaction of a duty done. For a moment they sat In sllpnce. Then Lydia spoke with a bitter shake of her head. I know when Im licked, she said crisply. "Its rotten ; a foul blow . . . but Ill have to go through with it, It seems!" She rose, and her breath was somewhat quick. "But some day, Nick Brandon, youll slip! For years, as I get It, youve had others carry your dirt for you. Remember, the time will come when this power you feel so sure about will crumble I The time will come when youll have no one to turn to, no one to threaten Into fighting your fights for you I wonder . . . whatll you do then?" That, he said easily, "is distinctly my own affair. not seen three ypars nn-- i came back to Tlncup that cvemher. ne had known her He had watched CHAPTER IX her grow Mi Infant to child ; from child to Tln- Istful, shy girl, living under the IT WAS Saturday night and id of Odd was the Iu her fathers cup dancing. disap-wanctragic but the transition from Fellows hall a violin, a cornet and to womanhood had been a piano made music for the scores e durIn& her longest absence who had paid their fee and danced And ";a he to"'n that hail been her In the glaring, barren room. EJ home. And so when he saw among them, a cynosure for all After her arrival, Instead of the eyes, went Ben Elliott and Dawn ms slrl he remembered, toward SlcSIanus. e la It was the first time many of the always been gentle ,, ?. hl,e had had a real good he townspeople to ,s7 sought pilfer mage, he encountered a love- - look at Dawn since her return; It l'mT"inR ynnnc "man. She was Ben Elliotts initial encounter him, stirred In hls heart with a social function In Tlncup; In an,! nmv listed and It was their first appearance ; h wants which, given liberty public together. Curiosity prompth m!pht ni,nU hnvp hopn flne ed much of the neck craning because Dawn, the daughter of DenM h, nHverlind ny McManus, always had been a i- -M TT anything hefore. conspicuous figure, but now her hv a 1rrp,ng loveliness was heightened flush and both men and women forw In hi. f'ing, taking got that she was known chiefly as n 8 (lrlve to a the daughter of a murderer. hpr ,r? r:,a,,y ning "lth hlmThe two were apparently having he , Ir "' hr lp!rlte hls the time of their lives. Ben talked. 8n'1 now another How he talked! He talked of this, l the other thing constantly. 1 "'hen Lnrtp'1 ,tlto the sltua-tha- t that, Pnon,n,'red Ben Kill- He felt he must talk and keep talking of Impersonal matters or he would find himself blurting words Tircefl '''" all rp,l,,Irpt f of love Into Dawns ear, there In a T"8 tn r,'tnin a show rh s haLrt n"nr,,ly he seethed public dance hall. He felt that unrh nw hnrt the less he kept talking of trivial of tlrh 8,1 p"lt-"things he would find himself shoutally Ie hn!ptl rui Klllott ing: an hu S(1'd and You are the most lovely thing mingled with , was that ever breathed and I love you, hate1"71 He hated love you, love you 1" So he seized upon every subject r;h;:r her came Into hls head eagerly, to that ;;,,o"er almost desperately. foible VP Now he was telling her of the 'm"Med him. rter "to"!?' m" new bookkeeper he had hired the UlP day hefore. (hv1 "nil'an ,!ie fortidy "Queer fellow, in a way. Seems ir,,.ht rt Wfi'Tfi he"nir, represent to he capable of a much better Job "i!tl'"t resources than keeping books for the Hoot lit Owl. At first I was a little leary of letting him into the olliee ami h sm h!s had him In the mill a couple of lhs,,r cant let a man V,1P at In hlsnight days but, gee, you a high grade olliee whos certainly T," the other side hand do work like that! lf 'lour I L ,1 "1 brought him In and told him l till! hl.e needed no needed a bookkeeper but bud Juh McManus In al--- w gSil II erji VO ii eel ) ii tiS 4 - i hC rt 7'' - 7 fr !, fr j- ,lt Ti"t ,1:I-- Z of-,"- n I had one experience with a man that made me a little Jumpv. I ,;i hoy out there who was a i;,riH light lingered, lie di iut got ith anv tiling, p,, ivlv "But I told Martin- - ,I,,hn M irtiu his name H lt I w,: to put him on the hooks If h,-t d.e the job with the undn M.ivhng that I was going to .onqioct lum of a lot of th.iigs for a long time. He gave me one of the Innim- -t looks Ive ever seen and said he wasnt afraid to he suspected. So there he is Were in the new othee, now. lie and I each have a little room Just big enough for a hod and I like him a lot." The dunce ended and they vv.allied toward vacant chairs and vve-so occupied with one another that they did not notice tile hush that had fullen over the place, nor the woman wdio had entered, until she had crossed the floor and stopped before them. I.ydia stopped just within the threshold and shook the light snow from her fur coat and that gesture was enough to cause words to vile in the throats of those who saw. Lj dia. here! I.ydia, from Thnty-Seven- , Invading this place whore decent people, where good men ami women and l.Uie children, were assembled. The woman did not hesitate. Head up, Intently, she crossed the floor straight toward Bon Elliott who, eyes fast on Dawn to mls no change In her mobile face, still talked vvilli animation, unaware of the hush abort tin m. lie not ship t 1'.L.g uoM! the woman's si.i fed t.. ,,,, t :rj I lien he looked' lip, saw In r, ami rose, lie rose, lieeiu'e a worn in was standing there, evidently wailing to speak to him. He d not know hefr re. IL her; had never seen had no time to observe and Judge He would have risen, auvlmw, cause he was n Rurally coiiiieous to women. He 'did more than rise, lie even bowed just a trifle when lie saw that her eves were so fast on him. He did not indhe that Dawn started, that one ham! i.fte quickly to her cheek. Lydia's voice sounded slurp an) hard and rasping In the siletne. "I thoulil think youd he ashamed of yourself! she said. Ben had started to smile, hut tills changed to a frown of perplexity d-- I d scurry down the stair. But Elli-Pwas unaware of all this. There's no stopping me now, Elliott! Ive come to show ERAIDED STAR Inkberry Weed Clings to Accustomed Haunts RUG PRACTICAL A t e lor g the shady path Sprain lake, In Yonkers, c!o-- e by the s!te of an ancient Indian village, grow the pokevveed pigeon berry, garget or a decandra, a Inkberry, I'hy coarse smooth weed with acid poisonous root and stem, branching some times six feet or more tall. With racemes of flowers, white with preen centers en angular peduncles, two to four Imhes long, they become clusters of scarlet Juice berries In the autumn. The Indians used the deer-kl- n red Juice to stain and paint their faces In wartime. White people settling on farms among the Westchester lulls and writing home to relatives in England about the hardness of their lives and the be-!d- u; You come to mn' foui.,i 'tot! 11 0f itu-- tr. he ed closer to her. s face was drawn v m.j :d nr I By CRA.NDMOTHLR CLARK on a i pa'--- , jaws set, and his eye, timed dangerously li.s is some outraged' plot." s.ii-evenly, and so low ih it nn'y those nearest him could hear "Tl- s is deliberately to give im, a black eye hefore these people hue! Youre a party to a filthy scheme, whoever you are! "Fine w orils, Elliott I Fine words; But this girl's tears ami misery are on your head and If you wont help her, I will. She goes Park where she came from tomorrow Witt) that, she turned and. almost proud In her hearing, crossed the floor. Ben wwtehel her go until she had disappeared down the stairway. Then he face-about, wondering what he coal, I say to Dawn McManus, hut she was nut now, 1 there. Hls face went blank with amazement. bewilderment. She ducked out, a man whisand the souud earned pered, through the room. Gone ! Fled because she beheved this woman? Hls heart went , hut lie gathered himself and stalked out of the hall. col-1- Bramh-n- alone In hls uth e, drank deeply from a whisky bottle Then, oil a telegraph pad scrawled an Ontario address. The messi.e Itself contained hut two words: "Send llcil. He signed Ids name and sat hick, drawn and utter a me nodded vindictively. , I r of the country, wrote with A star rug with points on the out er edge Is not practical, because the points are easily turned up when the rug is in ime. This Ims been overcome in the braided rug shown here, and n round rug can be used In many place-- . This model Is made In six ' shades of blue but many other color schemes can be to si t off the pattern. Size Is o.'i Inch' s and re quires about three pounds of mate rial. Three strips are used In braid lug. The six diamonds to form .ur ore 4 Indies wide, 7 Inches long Fill In space hi tween points of stai to make round, Scvv about 20 rows -1 around In colors d. iIc-I- in Tills is one of the 2d braided and crocheted rugs shown In rug hook No. 2a. Directions are given with each rug; al-how to braid and . Out at the Hoot Owl Im Klllott went through a week of in, broken It was a situation such as dismay. he had never dreamed of f.nliig. Dawn had heard and seen ami . . . believed! She ha-fled the hall, him of her belief In convincing Lydias accusation. Days had ami he had heard nothing from her. He was Impelled to go to er, hut under such circumstances, a young m in does not do that. There are some affairs so embarrassing that words fall flat. lie was walking, wondering grimly what Davvu was thinking then, ,,0,1,1, ' ,i.., Ml what she was doing; he was hear.1 o, S' ing once again the biting voice of hearing, In memory, the hush fall over that dance hall. He was wholly alone. Far behind him loggers worked in the timber; down yonder the n,Hl eat up Its plume of smoke am! lie could hear the distant pulling of the exhaust in the stillness. No wind blew; nothing stirred . , . that he could see. He could not observe that slight, camions movement to tils left, that figure whi'-watched him some ami edged out through young hemlocks to a point from which hls view was but where he still had good cover. The man up there stood still. Slowly he shook off Ids mittens and with a bare thumb released the safety on uie rifle he carried, settled slowly to one knee, placing lt on the tail of the other snovvshoe. Ills breath was not Just steady s he snuggled hls cheek against the rifle butt No man's would be, shooting from ambush that way. Nor I Should Think Youd Be Ashamed were Ids hnnds Just steady. of Yourself! He sighted carefully, trying to he asked. still the tremor of hls arms. He let maam? "Ashamed, hls breath slip out slowly, he Why, I squeezed. There's that ashamed! Yes; The crack of the rifle echoed and poor girl In my house, sick and aeross the chopping. Ben her You for brought days! crying Elliott still, as he had pitched lay one here, didnt you? Youre the was who got her to come to Tlncup. on hls face. One of hls hnnds other the pinned outstretched, needs And now, when she you, you him. Hls face, one cheek In wont couie near her! toward the Ben looked at Dawn, who was the snow, was turned fired but lt was far had who man shrinking back In her chair; at other people, whose faces reflected away. For many minutes the man in the Incredulity, or vicarious guilt or Elliott timber remained kneeling. fright. the Then, not stir. cautiously, did I dont That I . Is, . . "Maam, for the shell, ejected killer groped understand you," he stammered. Into Ills pocket, raised to Ills eyes were taking her In, now, slipped lt his feet and, hacking cautiously, from her costly fur coat to the Into the deep timber. struck the hardness and emerald earrings, of her eyes; and, as In a daze, lie CHAPTER X classified her, put her in the shameA was hers. great ful niche which n; rifle bullet had passed so flush of bewilderment swept into rys 1 close above Bens head that he his face. even before he Maybe you had felt its breath "Don't understand! of Its whine. aware was like a that abuse can girl think you for him! A bullet . . . here and get away with lt In this town, A hunter? But what would a huntIn housea, she's my while not but er he shooting at here? That bulyou can't I" him and had wave of humiliation over- let was designed for A Inches. And he was pitchmissed a by could min What whelmed Ben, What ing forward, simulating a fall, letdo In a situation like tills? outwas ting himself go limp. It was the fouled, He could he say? onlv protection he could conjure. matched. Nothing In his experience saw nothing, no movement, He suen meet to stead in him stood nothing. He was a tinheard one. even; an emergency as this Is an out- gle, scalp creeping with an odd sen"Why . . . Why, this waited for another bulhe began weakly. But hls sation as he rage, these heights to the eastfrom spirit surged upward, let fighting ward. seen never you Ive steadied him. But no other come. Ben lay in my life! 1 don't even know what until deep dusk had fallen. Is either tiu-rThis about! youre talking he rose to tils hands and Then a mistake or After a the woman crleu knees, wilt. leg. listening Mistake! , still Then, s'oo-lie moment with to get away Dont try shrilly. ro.id. wallowed the h'ft he that! 1 suppose it does surprise you But through the deep snow, crossed the to have me find you here! and up the s glit, dodging railroad you've kept out of nt on through the I,. ,i i(,. me and fr.i ge of trees to tie "P It, I Stop!" he thundered. a tight In hall : so'. e j .j ,,n snv !" Pul " "1elv ; t,d dropped conviction dl his Bor an Instant o her. .Movement was going - I, i.d a i r: i ) x rrsi to (t Hllng ,ui about them, peope and lour better, "tie m,n M.e Sprng in Gzerkt The by uioi.i.t o g a chair ' " ss.mrl r , k to tun- -' ha ihe ri,l-- A uio; him after watching Dawn MsMat-j! I unob-scure- hook by mail postpaid. Enclose a stamped uddre-se- d envelope when writing for any Infer nintlon. Bittenweet Feed Bird Bittersweet, the highly decorative wild plant much prized for Its brilliant red berries, Is an Important food of game ami song birds that have to scratch hard for a living during the winter. The berries cling to the vines after other nntural foods are gone, sustaining wlhl life In the period of greatest scnrrlty. The Bulldog is no longer the hull-loa utility animal, hls Influence on the canine race has been considerable. It Is snhl that even In Its most diluted form the blood of the bull-lotransmits Its qualities to every descendant, and that hls Indomitable courage has been passed on to every breed with which be has been crossed. Clarification of tbe Hindu The Hindu Is brown, but practically all authorities agree that he Is a member of the subdivision of the white or Caucasian rare. As far ns the Fnlle-- l Slates government Is concerned, however, a Hindu Is not a white person, the Supreme court having ruled to that effect on February 10, 1020. a laxative three for a catliarlic. Live in Hole in Rock Mountainous rock spires near Mt. Argus, In the heart of Asia Minor, hnve been honeycombed and hollowed by the hand of man for hud hundreds of man habitation and monasns churches ago years teries, these hard rock apartments are now Inhabited by modern troglo-d- y tes. Adv. Historic Precedent Nero fiddled while Rome burned, said Mr. Grovvcher. But thats no excuse. For what? Tree The fastest growing tree In the world Is said to he the Imlsa whose seed Is not much larger than the head of a pin. In five years the tree grows to a height of 75 feet with a diameter of two feet or more. Quick-Growin- g Our cook playing the piano while the turkey scorches. i l g Art Art Is more godlike than science Science discovers; urt creates. J. Opie. t'-e- Dr. Tierce's Pellet nre best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for with ftlll grows lovingly and atone above the arrowhead hamli hopper sleeping In the Mark loam of Rocky Ixme.some, Once the lovely color of the berries decorated the tiankets of hundreds of warriors about campfire, where now Boy Scouts sleep out overnight and Imagine they nre Injuns. Old fashioned herb doctors thought the root an emetic, and n tincture of the ripe berries was once used as a popular for chronic rheumatism. remedy Wild birds use the fruit for food, and robins with their hills staimzl scarlet In August or October are not uncommon sights. Its rtilef benefit to humanity is its beauty In fruit. J. Otis Swift, In the New Yoik quill pens dipped in inkberry Juice. 'I lie Indiana are pone from the bill, lint the weed the squaws used to dye o, prepare the material for work-ngIf you want to make a pood look lng rug, sen-- f-- to the Home Graft Go., Dept. G, Bind St. I. ouls avenue St. Louis, Mo, and revolve (Ids rug feather Although Valley Forgo Valley Forge received Its name from Valley Forge Greek, ami the creek received Us name from the Mount .Toy Iron Works, which were built on the stream, 1!) miles northwest of Philadelphia. The foundry was known locally as the valley forge ami In time the stream was ralle-that, too. The site of the camp Is now a slate park. Proof Coin Proof coins are coins struck from pollhhed blanks f I I I illy and dies, ami finished by hand, which smooth, gives them a mirror-likereflective surface, the must nearly perfect comlll Ion known. The mint nml-e- s n small charge for the proof coins, and they can he had only during the year of the Issue. , Buddy Tradition in Franc The cnpaln or buddy tradition Is so firmly Implanted In the French Foreign Legion that when n Legionnaire gets Into trouble, Ills copaln Is supposed to follow suit so that he can go to the guardhouse with him. Iow$ J -- y jA, one over J JUST LEAVE IT m n THAT d i n ni7 DARN TRAMP STOLE . MY GROCERIES! h SOME TWO THINGS ABILITY AND JUST LOADS OF ENERGY .... Q tw Boys! Girls! . reso-lutelv- Tust S' nd the blue Grape-Nut- t package, with ycur fst , ' , s -j O'sgy , N- i , A V -- t,:iv 1P from one yellow an - s ' - WAHOO IN YOU 'Htz' I nk AND I'LL TELL YOU ONE SUCK WAY TO BUILD UP YOUR ENERGY, EAT GRAPE-NUT- S1 IT'S PLUMB FULL OF THE STUFF THAT PUTS THF OLD TO BE GOOD AT ANYTHING, SON, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE fr mmbnH-- hrone A pm you U be I " - ',j -- il Kiris, pin f.,r hm red eeiinekii Icttcru f-- ar. fuud tf rWVM.'rmA.zl.Wi . , Join the Dizzy Dean Winners uts, Battle Creek, Mich., name and address, to Grape-for your membership insignia .and free cony of the club and l.'t cf Other Win wih Dizzy Dean manual vaiuabe free prizes. And start building up your energy by enGr.z Giapc-Nuts- . It lias a vanning ila.- - r i.lh i ' n crop, Cr.uri . ', t"0. Tv v t .dc- nuhice, delicious. z I" 'c : t r ct : whole n.,' wi'h rpoonf lit, d. A vanej nourishment tlcn iim.oy a l..u.ly Fozui. General of product '9 J 7 M Is U- - - s if I |