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Show Possession Demands Our Service, Lest We Perish LONGEST fire-brea- k The 1ondirona Way, kiiIO to lie the firebreak In (lie world, la caring completion, J. II. Price, writ tag In American Forests, reported recently . It extend lengthwise through major part of California, from the lift river In the north to the Kern river In the south, a distance of 660 mile, it varies In width from 60 to 200 feet, and follows the lower proedge of the Ponderosa pine-bel- t, tecting the plnca from Urea starting In the foothills below. HOSCTlLEwDALLEl Cayyriste hr Bra Anri btj Ben Ames IDilliams WIDiaam SYNOPSIS A Law Every Never Give Your Child An Unknown Remedy without Asking Your Doctor First According to any doctor you aak, the only y, neer-do-we- safe way is to give your child a remedy you don't know all about, without asking him first. When it comes to "milk of magnesia," that you know everywhere, for over 60 years, doctors have said "PHILLIPS' Milk of Magnesia for your child. So always say Pkillips' when you buy. And, for your own peace of mind, see that your child gets this; the finest never knew. Ywunin Irtothmbyrrfmim acetpta substituts for Iho nuMni.Hlim' Milk of Ms. pmo. Da tn in Ih) i Marat efnuneif and your children and lath In At a gathering In tha village of Maine, Jim Saladlna llMena to tha Valhistory of tho neighboring IloHtilo Hul-dley, and tha mysterious, enticing wife of Will Frrrln. Intereatad, ha drlvaa to tho Valley for a daya Railing, and to aaa tho glamoroua Huldy Perrin. 'Old Marm" Pierce and her nlnetaen-year-ol- d granddaughter Jenny live la tha Valley. Since childhood baa deeply loved young Will Janny Perrin, older than ahe, and who regards her aa atlll a child. Will leavea to taka employment In nearby Augusts. Hla father's death bringa Will back to tha Valley, but ha relurna to Augusta, atlll unconacioua of Jennya womanhood, and love. Bart Carey, la ataomething of a tracted by Jenny. Tha girl repulsea him definitely. Learning that Will la coming home, Jenny, exulting, seta hla house to rlghta, and haa dinner ready for him. 11a cornea bringing hla wife, Huldy. The girla world collapses. Huldy becomea tha subject of unfavorable gosalp In tha Valley. Entering hla home unlonked for, Will flnda aeemingly damning avldenca of hla wlfaa unfalthfulneaa aa a man ha knnwa In Seth Humph-rey- a break from tho house. Will overtake! him and chokea him to death, although Humphrcye ahatlera hla leg with a bullet. At Harm Pierce house the leg la amputated. Jenny goea to break tha newa to Huldy. Huldy makea a mock of Jennys sympathy, declaring ha haa no uaa for "half a man, and la leaving. Will la legally exonerated, and with a home-mad- e artificial leg "earrlee on," hiring a helper, Zeko Baca. Months later Huldy cornea back. Will accepts bar presence aa her right Two years go by. Zeko and Bart Carey engage In a flat fight tha trouble aria-lu- g as all know, over Huldy. Baladlna cornea to tha Valley. Bad roads eauaa him to atop at Perrin's farm, where ha masts Huldy. Baladlna, caught In heavy rain, takes rafuga at Marm Plerea'a Bart Carey arrival, carrying Huldy, whom ho claims haa fallen from a lodges and aeemingly u dead. Marm Pierce declare! bar dead. Lib-art- y, Mother Should Know and Observe A.ui trtcjaJsjMraL Phillips AfrfA. cfAlaqttUicL. . long-emp- ty CHAPTER ,- Deaplte What? Why don't they make s thorough survey of men over one hundred years old end find out why they live e long? Science onght not be content simply to point at and wonder. VI Continued -i Laqdl'crieq the little old woman, my' wits are akrtmahawP "t declare, She flitted to the kitchen. Td be letting thla boll dry In mother minute. Nothing (tick) like burned vinegar I What'a the matter, with me?" ' Saladlne followed her Into . the kitchen. Bart, stayed with Jenny In the dining room. Tty ret It tank to cool, or Itd take the hide off. yoti," Marm 'Pierce 'decided, and suddenly she was busy with another aaucepan, water, some twists of herbs from the cabinet above the Ink. I might try a hot steep on her chest, ahe whispered, half to herself. "No good Just standing by. And ahe called: "Jenny I Jenny P The girl came softly to the door. , , "Jenny, yon loose her clothes, Marm Pierce directed. want to rub thla on her cheat, soons its ready. Get her wet things off, easy aa yon can, not moving her. Get a blanket round her... . Jenny tried to apeak; and after a minute she' managed an assenting word. Yes, Granny," ahe said, and closed tha door. Her knees were wavering; ahe turned and set her back against the door, and stood there weakly, looking toward the couch where Huldy's broken body lay. So, slowly, at last she moved across the room. Jenny approached the task of tend' tng Huldy with a deep reluctance; but thla was not because of the-paHuldy had played In her life heretofore. Shu bad cause enough to hate the woman, nut so much because Huldy had preempted the place In Will's heart to which the girl so long had yearned, but because Huldy had wronged Will and flouted him and embittered all hla Ufa there later yean Bnt In thla hour Huldy was no longer the woman whom Jenny at once bated end despised ; but only one who was hurt to death, and needed tendance. So after that first reluctance, Jenny began the task Imposed upon her with gentle hands and pitying solicitude. Once while she worked Murm Pierce called some question, and Jenny an wered It almost heedlessly ; bnt a moment later ahe was alert watching the hurt woman keenly. For Huldy had stirred; and Jenny saw a faint movement ot the other's breast. But Huldy did not rouse, and when there was no more that Jenny could do, she stood beside the couch, lost In dim drenms and long thoughts of what had been. After a long time, the pattern of the pnst began to shift and change, and Jeuny glimpsed the future. Huldy was hurt, was dying. She would die and Will be left alone. And Jenny, un Alone, and free. demanding, felt her pulse quicken Its beat, and her cheeks grow warm. Her eyes began to shine. She had for the moment forgotten Huldy, In her thought of Will ; yet she Still stood above the hurt woman, looking down at her. And now suddenly she forgot Will again; for Huldy moved. Jenny saw her eyes half open, saw the lids crack, and the eyes blank and wandering stare up at the And from there Ups came n sound, a low murmur of Ironic laughter, perhaps a word. Jenny bent lower, Infinitely gentle; she whispered: "It's all right. Mis Ferrlnl We're taking care of you. Don't try to talk, ma'am. Just rest yourself." The smile widened, and this time Huldy spoke audibly. Her voice was thin nnd strained, yet the words were clear enough. And they cut and burned and atung; for she said: "You ran have him now I" Jenny's eyes widened at that, as though nt a blow. Khe recoiled, faintly, her check crimson; lut she gathered patient strength again. she whispered. Hush, ma'am," "We're sent for Will. Hell be right here. You rest yourself." Huldy's head moved faintly, at though It were terribly heavy, as though she moved It by a alow tremendous effort. Her mouth was smiling still, dry lips twisted mockingly; and she spoke yet once more. "He's finally fixed it bo's he can have yon," she said clearly, in that thin, strained, burning tone. "It waa Will knocked me off. . . She gasiied and seemed to choke as though she would cough. Her breath withheld, she whispered: "He hit me I" Her mouth opened wider. She seemed to Strain as though In the effort to produce one further word. Her lips drew tight across her teeth. Then she coughed faintly, convulsively; and her breast swelled, and remained distended, hollow, aching, for a long Instant TUI the mockery faded from her eyes and left them blank and glaxed; and ahe lay still, her smile now a fixed and mlrthlere grin. And there was no beauty In this that had been Huldy now. For a apace after the woman died, there lay In the dining room a long silence of horror and dismay. Jenny conld not for her life hare moved. NEWEST HOSTELRY lobby Is deUghtfnHy air HOTEL rt Temple. Square Kates $i.SO to 3.00 TVm I!atl Tmpla Squaiw has a dwirabla. friradl hiehly will always fiad ltlmaiaw wlata. annwasly cawifartabU. aal aaisisafcls. Yaw aaa Inaw Ihwsjhl, faaa aadarstaad why this hetal iai bUms-fkqaV- M niCHLT BEOOMMEMDED Taa aaw alaa appradala whf ire a awrft of Otataietiaa la mow af Sri taanliM fcaitalry ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. 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"Jenny, did she come to at all?" he asked. Jenny wetted her Ups ; but she could nut speak. She could only move her head In desperate denial; and there was a dreadful, shaken terror In her. Then Marm Fierce demanded Irritably: "Well, Jen! What you goggling for? Folks have died before So Jenny found an exjiedlent to turn their scrutiny away from herself. She remembered that toppling chair. "There'a someone In the Win-sid- e the house," she said; and with n vast surge of relit f saw their glances swing that way. When Jenny bad closed the door, shutting herself Into the dining room where Huldy lay, Marm Fierce said Insistently to Bart: "You go along and fetch Will. Not that hurrying can help her; but Will had ought to know." "I might do some help here," Bart still protested. Marm Fierce' spoke to Saladlne, TUI "Set down, you," ehq bade him. And I can rub that ankle of yours. then, over her shoulder, to Bart atlll lingering: "Well then, go out In the hen pen end get me some feathers. "Feathers? he echoed. T11 burn 'em under her nose. Might make her gasp and gag and start breathing. Don't stand there arguing. Go along with you I 8o Bart went out through the shed, and Saladlne said gravely: "Ma'am, thla ankle of mine can wait. If you can be doing anything for her. "Theres nought to do few Huldy Ferrln now, she told him In alow tones, and tossed her head. "And 1 dnnno as I'd do It If there was I Bnt 111 have to wait till the pot bolls, anyhow. Might as well be doing thla si setting here. He suggested: "Ton lent Carey to get some feathers. If there's no chance, why. . , She retorted: T got fidgety with him hanging around. And after a silent moiqpnt she looked toward the dining room, as though her thoughts turned that way. Saladlne asked: "How do you reckon Mis' Ferrln come to fall?" I want to know, said old Marm Pierce, and Jim stirred In quick attention. The phrase was usual enough, as an expression of surprise and Interest and wonder: yet Saladlne 1 - thought her accent and her Intonation had not been usual. There was a step In the shed, nnd Bart returned. She looked over her Ill SALT LAKE'S "No use now!" shoulder, saw him "Where's them empty-hande- d. feathers?1 she de- manded. Bart seemed faintly to hesitate. 1 couldn't find n dry one anywhere, he declared. "The rain haa wet them all! "Ho Hit Mel But the deep silence was broken presently, by a sound, sharp and startling; and at the same time hollow and chair had oversodden, as though turned and fallen on a rotten floor. Jenny heard It with half her mind; and a moment later ahe heard a stir In the kitchen, and movement there, and voices too. Yet It was as though these things were far off, remote from her and from the world In which she must hereafter dwell. A world forever shadowed by the knowledge that Will, no matter under what ugly provocation, had struck this woman down to her destruction In the end. Will, whom Jenuy loved. Blind, spinning chaos whirled Uke stars through the girls thoughts; but through this chans like a lightning stroke came her grandmother's voice. Marm Fierce called, from the kitchen : "Jenny, I'm opening the door I" And at once she did so; but that Instant was for Jenny an eternity, In which she had time to comprehend, and to consider, and desperately plan. When she whirled fo face them, she wns already resolved that this dark secret none but herself should ever know ; yet her own countenance might betray her to the old woman's shrewdly understanding eye. Nevertheless she must face them; aud the whirled toward the door, standing with her arms spread as though to hide this behind her. as though half fearful that even now Huldy would speak again. And she sought desperately some expedient to divert their eyes from her. their minds from her, lest her secret be too desperately plain. For secret It roust be! Though this hour must shadow and distort her whole life hereafter, yet none should ever know. The dour opened and Marm Fierce came In, came toward her; but the old womans eyes and mind were on Huldy, and Jenny made way for her to come to the dead woman's aide. Tet she felt 8a glance upon her, and fought desperately for composure ; and then Marm Fierce said solierly: She "Land protested irritably: akes, 1 sh'd think you could find a dry one somewhere ! Ton come along of me I" And he said to Jim, pointing toward the stove: "Let that boll up good, and then ret It to cool. Ill be bark In a minute to try It on her." He nodded, and she went out through the shed with Hurt on her heels; and Saladlne was left wondering why old Marm Fierce wns so bent on finding feathers to burn under Huldy's nose, If there was In fact no chance that the hurt woman could revive. Then auddenly his hnlr prickled faintly; for It seemed to him there was n low murmur In the dining room. And chair toppled over, somewhere. The sound was loud and startling. Saladlne came to hla feet, ready for any apparition; but nothing did appear, nor did he hear any further sound. Tet he felt, suddenly, rottenness all around; and he remembered that this waa a house divided, half of It crumbling In a gangrenous decay. That toppling chair If It was n falling chnlr which he had heard might have been tn the disused part of the house. There must be many such sounds there, when sodden plaster fell on rainy days, or beams gave way. . . . The pot on the stove boiled, and aa he lifted It, Mann Fierce stid Bart returned, and the old womnn had a tuft of feathers In her hnnds. "Men are all blind as bats!" she exclaimed Irascibly. 8 he saw the boiling poL "Now well try If there's anything to do!" And she went directly to the door between kitchen and dining room. "Jenny, I'm opening the door," she called, and waited a moment and then made good her word. So they came Into the dining room, and learned that Iluldy wu dead; and when Jenny said there waa gome one In the e of the house, remembered that sound or a Tailing chair; and there seemed to him something hideous In the thought that anyone should prowl through those moldering and empty rooms while a g, . Win-sid- e Too go along, Bart, and fetch Will, and dont waste no more time. So Bart at Inst departed; but Saladlne paid no particular attention to hla going. lie was watching Jenny, (misled by aomething In her eyes he could not read. He had seen In her a while go deep terror, unmistakable; yet now It was gone. She had put on composure; and n steady courage; and he wondered, and wished to rend .her mind. There was nothing to keep Saladlne here; yet he stayed, aud with a sense of waiting, an acute expectancy. He thought more end more of Jenny, lie ring her terror at the sight pf death, and the shadow In her eyes. Life for her must In the end center about some man. Bart Carey, perhaps? Burt stood straight, and his eye wu bold and strong. It was suddenly strange to Saladlne that Bart and Jenny were not married long ago. They were nelghlmrs, of a like age, both comely with the splendor of youth, their Interests skin. Between them no obstacle siipesred. Unless old Marm Pierce were an obstacle? Yet Saladlne thought site had met Bart kindly today, treated him with courtesy. Thla might be guile; ahe might, while appearing to approve, nevertheless check In every possible way the tendency of there two lives to flow together. Inconsequently, Saladlne recalled the heavy rootstock of the water Illy, which Jenny bad fetched that morning from the brook. Some shadow of a forgotten memory stirred In him, and wu gone without recognition; yet thla memory would recur. It was one of the Intangibles which made the whole of thla day like a disordered dream. The root Itself wu tangible enough; yet there were Implications In It, Just as there were Implications In that peg leg Will Ferrln wore, and the cowboy bat re Jauntily ret atop the bowed and humble head of Zeke Dace, and the knotted rope that held Huldy Ferrin'a garment dose about her, and the boot prints on the fisherman's trail beside the brook, which had somehow ended without Saludlne's remarking where r they turned aside. But most of all he thought pf Huldy, and wondered how she came. to fall to her death thla day. Then suddenly the dining room door opened, and Jenny 'came out Into the kitchen, the old woman following-tier- . "Id best go myself, Jenny Insisted ; and 8aladlne saw a sort of stubborn haste in her eyes; Marm Pierce protested : "Like enough Will and Bart will remember to bring something." "Not Will," Jenny retorted. Her voice was gentle she spoke the name. "A man wouldn't think of It And It Isnt for men to do, anyway Rummaging through her things." She took down a heavy oilskin coat from behind the kitchen door.' "I'll go myself," she said. "If I meet Will, IH have him come on here, care yon need anything. FU get what'a wanted nnd fetch it" Saladlne asked: "Anything I can woman here was dying. But Burt suld Do You Ever Wonder m . u dor But Jenny said: "I'm going after some clothes for her. The ones shes got on are all wet I could dress her in something or mine, but she wouldn't want that She'd want her own things. You stay here with Granny, ahe requested, and he nodded. Then she was gone. 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