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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD him, I had had him here only three you put it away days. knew him pretty well but I made one mistake: I was careless about the did not. I saw it in your face as you looked at it. “No man, you know, would look at his sister’s photograph as you strength of the chain that held him. were looking at Kate Flynn's.” EF had been watching him, try- ing to find out what he was like. I I should have made sure of that, knowing him as well as I did, and -| with the children here.” He was still a moment. “He was as dangerous as Yd guessed, If it had not been for you, we would be bearing a great sorrow now. I took him that afternoon into cabin = BY HAROLD TITU Byr = gig “Well, one thing. CHAPTER IV—Continued so keeping the far. “Howdy,” trailing his Jim he said paddle. peculiar words and like “Talk !’ he snarled. “Bunk! he was grinned in with some- outfit. The bottom of his canoe was smeared with red - elay. . ‘Don’t you figure you’ve crawled _ about far enough out on this particular limb?’ Franz asked. _ A Sharp thrill of apprehension gun case But Pll make as I’m ran Drake’s body. ee drop. Nothing no move to do a month ago! And when he finds you here, playing his part, even he'll run you off so fast it’?ll make your head swim!” _Steve’s head did swim then, for ia! an instant. crumbling. ‘The portance items As important “What're you “Not driving at, a great deal, that’s true. But interest er “Buttons!” | The in other as ? the that shotgun. “It’s fingers!” ; a double motive to raise the devil _ with me. Twenty men saw me knock " you for a row of something on my headquarters. It - spilled a lot of beans you'd taken a - lot of pains to gather. Old Man -- We"t and Mary would be believed. in _ court if they told what happened up above the other day. When one man _ interferes between another man and girl that also establishes motive, doesn’t it? “So much that, I’ve for reasons. a witness who a Added heard to a other chuckled then, as one dog to follow. Duke .still sat his Wl i } Hi UreR es You Do It, as fast as But: has a thing to do it must be done. Isn’t that so? When you OPENING : Stephen Drake, with first saw CHAPTERS his without h—l Steve, “Young through to take is the debt Jim” Flynn, an accident charge coming earth the thing indulging in to my home. would make I have done it.” Steve locked his hands around one knee and stared out across the lake. “Do you like to try handling men? Young men? Who are strong enough but who haven’t discovered themselves yet?” ‘ “No, I’m happy here, wih the dogs and my family. But . ..you’vea man in mind?” “LaFane, can I trust you to keep a secret? A special, personal secret which involves others.” “TI have kept it.” “T have not even ... you’ve told myself that cabin I walked in quietly. I thought you were out, but you were sitting there at a table and you thought, even though I surprised you, that spree. a king might be used as propaganda for human equality, but ideas were rushing too fast in one direction for Soviet officials to see it that way. He draws upon America for support: I can’t keep this game up very long. But until Old Jim gets squared away somebody must be in charge who has a clear head and the respect of the men,” ee La TE “The American Republic has sur- vived the perils implicit in fairy tales for a century and a half without ever having had to revise the stories so as to make the beggar-maid marry the president instead of the king and to leave Cinderella living happily ever after as the wife of the mayor of New York.” Mr, Lynd does the : Russians jus- tice in saying that they have not been the first people to suspect the presence of poison in nursery literature. “There have been Puritans of so stern a cast that they looked on are with him, it may be not too easy.” LaFane shrugged and rose. fairy tales as frivolous lies which it was dangerous to put into the hands of children.” It might also be added that modern radicals have come near the Puritan ideal by condemning “I will do what fairy tales for another Jim ig still .on the Mad bound to come here, it If the rest I can do.” ~~ —S +=. ee & > - that Steve had way. to Good-Bye lone man pack was in a light descended on went another canoe, and LaFane’s he paddled reason—that they give false ideals of life. Our early Puritans may have known nothing of these stories and so did not condemn them, but the substitutes they offered are shown in a recent book by Dr. A. S. Rosenbach, “Early American Children’s Books,” upon which Miss Carolyn Wells offers this comment in the New York American: _. ; “To me the book is of absorbing interest, because it convinces me of something I have heretofore refused to believe in—the stern and rockbound hearts of the Pilgrim Fathers. steadily until he was well past the I felt the awful tales of their strict wood camp. Steve had described the camping spot where he had met Flynn but none with a good eye would have needed the directions he gave because smoke was rising from a camp-fire against the after- and rigorous training of young peo- OF THE Son, STORY is rescued the asked. _ “Dick party for and were washing from a blizzard has robbed. Flynn gives death, impresses on the Steve meets incapacitated his daughter, is temporarily blinded, Polaris—woods operations, the youth Learning of Polaris’ dire straits, and hop- Kate, ing to do something for Old Jim, Steve hastens to the company’s headquarters, He finds Franz plotting against the Flynns. Worsting Franz in a fist fight, the Polaris crew assumes that he is Flynn’s son, and Steve takes charge, as “Young Jim.” A photograph of Kate Flynn, which Steve finds, immensely increases his desire to aid Old Jim. He gains the warm friendship of LaFane, queer woods scout. Steve adds to Franz’s hate by driving him away from Mary Wolf, young Indian girl whom he has been abusing, and escapes a death trap set for him. a ) Matter of Comparison At that, we don’t believe the paint have full of quirer. as big a kick as the womwhiskers.—Cincinnati WHEN SHES UPSET © now?” Smoky V’ll be. Jim, though, Pe Constipation ! 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The sleeper made no re- The man pearetully’ and went over the packs finally one that contained apparel selected which would fit the sleeper, discarding that which by any chance might belong to the others, and packing those belongings which were obviously Jim’, —- _ This done, he carried the pack fo the canoe on the shore and set the craft. in the water. The other canoe had disappeared among the islands, _ (TO BE CONTINUED.) En- HE SUFFERS in cakes men who now have to kiss a face full of It Means the REAL ARTICLE. dawn. the lake. “Ready gest. REMEMBER THIS CROSS _ When light was strong he began to walk slowly and silently through the timber. He did not stop until he could observe the activity about the camp. Smoky, the guide, was up. Two of the three young men who com- prised glib reply (for I always knew my lessons) was, ‘I am an enemy of God, a child of Satan and an heir of hell.’ “At that time I had reached the mature age of four.”—Literary Di- en used to when they had to kiss one ple must be exaggerated, if not positively untrue. But judging, as one For a long time LaFane sat listening. and watching; then he backed noiselessly away, paddled half a mile, landed, concealed his canoe in the bushes and slept in a single blanket. He did not sleep long. He was up while many stars were still brilliant, folded his blanket, ate a cold snack and waited for the coming sponse. “Jim!’ He shook the lad’s Shoulder but, except for a long breath, Flynn made no response, of the company’s—the a drunken this puting as you handled Duke? his what I , .. If the belief is widespread that the its feet and, while handle him as... toward ND that night, up the waters that to your question. four-year-old which for CHAPTER V them fit and safe to walk alone, free. Some, of course, must always be herded: the weak ones. But so many of the others never have a chance, because of bad handling.” Drake thought rapidly ag he received this confidence. e ' “You think, then, that if you had a chance you could break men as you break dogs?” ° ‘I’m no breaker, I say. I ‘can handle men, yes. That is an answer they owe “Old Jim.” Twenty years later, his benefactor’s son. Sent by Old Jim, in much , That is why I have been waiting to do something, anything, for you.” Steve oddly touched, growled that LaFane owed him nothing. “But men and dogs, LaFane... glow. You’ve not always lived here then?” |} LaFane idled along waiting for “I have tried living many places.” night to come, then he let his canoe “And handled men?” drift into the rushes and sat listen“Handled? Handled! I’ve herded ing to the sounds that came from men, I was deputy warden in a big the camp. penitentiary once.” : Sounds of revelry, they mostly “Didn’t like man herding?” were; the snatch of a song, loud “Didn’t like seeing them herded laughter, a careless oath occasionwithout a chance to find and un- ally. by Jim Flynn, big timber operator, whom Drake Drake another chance, and the father, until his boy, done : gave me the chance to finish had planned to do without _ children be thing really on yowre doing it, : LaFane?” “What? You mean guessed something?” the her Steve pondered. “How much red clay is there in this country? Within a day’s travel, I mean.” “Only in one place. On a portage between the Good-Bye and the Mad | Woman.” “I. came that way. And the bot: tom of Franz’s canoe was smeared “Great Hat!” Declared Drake. “How’d flying after at Then, without speaking further he walked toward his house. Steve stood on the beach watching him | and thinking that, for sucha situation, no better man could have been found to accomplish all that might = be done. “Go on!” the man said. “Go on! Take care of ’em, Duke!” With a great bound he was gone, en?” Drake insisted. “T had it to do. And when a man Yd figured on!, You see, Franz, it’s _ one of these air-tight cases. You’ve at ashore had py will be across that trail. “You.” s “i dren he ran among them, bunting them aside, licking ecstatically at “I? I haven’t breathed it!” hands and faces, frolicking like a .“No. You have said nothing. You spaniel puppy! roetais : ‘have been smart and wise, But the “But how in the name of Heay- first day I took the mail up to your a _ to keep the rust off and to take the here hailed looked there’s, nothing “Tf Young Woman and you are not Young Jim Flynn.” | this day he did not pursue to maim |. “Well, how in— When did— Who or kill. When he overtook the chil- told you that, LaFane?” _: “I don’t know. what you’re talking about, I tell you!”. __ “Then you’re a lot dumber than first night Steve he had rushed on another day. gun. It had been well cared There’s plenty of gun oil on it _ print of a man’s Res there but he stared eagerly at master, ears cocked expectantly. - button,” Drake went on, “TI haye plenty on you. I took a lot of pains handling the] will whose pride has been fed. “There are ways,” he said. “Take him down to the beach, children.” The three little girls scampered along the sand, the eldest calling to right-hand shirt pocket. No button _ there; this one’s mate is on the other pocket.— oe _. “And even if it weren’t for ‘this . good po SOR saw in “Great hat!’ declared Drake. | “How’d you do it, LaFane?” “Yes, Like this one.’ Steve opened : his hand, displaying a smooth, brown _ button, “You see, this one happened Eee belong under the flap of your _ in La- he now?” @ man who’s careless about where he leaves buttons from his clothing _ folks’: minds,” . : The other sneered. of return light caress he flopped his bushy tail and let his tongue loll again. I look? __ is likely to stir up abreast children his his and at him “A lot of interest you've got in how on “Hyening!” _ his shirt. He raised a hand to fum_ ble in one of his own pockets, fingers _ losing on that which reposed there. _.. “Franz, you’re untidy,” he said. “he asked. came cabin man and on such credit, and LaFane saluted gravely. As Drake stepped ashore he saw the dog’s lips draw back, exposing the long, white fangs and then the animal, as if reminded of some important matter that had been temporarily forgotten, looked up into LaFane’s face. “Walk up and touch him,” LaFane said, amusement in his face, “Hullo, Duke,” Steve muttered, stepping forward, hand extended, The dog lowered his head, stopped his leisurely panting and stiffened. But when the hand touched him in a”: looked hard and a child. studied the other closely, not- man effect he heart with it today. It was fresh. He had just come across the carry.” mean doorway. More, the great dog, Duke, was with them, walking slowly about and on his either side walked _ing the deep pockets in the breast of . Jaughed.: * the production Steve the a pretender spread, and should he be questioned, he would be forced to admit the truth. That would ' be enough to put everything in a oS -. . "The than as Fane’s should the rumor that he was only _. He would when his “Where is he?” to of the property; just as surely as it would precipitate trouble here, it would eventually mean heartbreak for Kate Flynn and this, oddly, seemed to him to be of greater im- _- matter before Drake now was to - Seal Franz’s lips, to prevent spread of the news the man bore because, _« -BOUry Bemis coming how Childish Classics Restored, Though the Russians Were _ by No Means the First to Consider Nursery Literature Dangerous. to say!” he laughed, abashed. | world is going mad, counter-evidence “And no need of it. Your business is furnished in a quarter least to be may and must, by the literature givis not mine. Why you came as you suspected—Russia. en to youth in those times, it is evidid, I don’t know. I’m not curious, That country has removed its ban dent that the Fathers were more even. I know what you have done, on children’s clasdics and fairy tales. cruel to their offspring than the which is to save Old Jim’s hide for “Robinson Crusoe” is first on the list younger generation of today is to its} a time, anyhow. That is all that of nursery favorites to be reprinted parents, matters. He, too, is my friend.” -by the hundred thousand. “The first book for children printed “Thanks,” said Steve, feeling that It may be that this book will not .in America, published in Boston in any words were inadequate. “I’m glad you found out about me for come from the press just as Defoe 1682, was ‘The Rule of the New-Creature to Be Practiced Every Day, in yourself. I was wondering how to wrote it, for it has an element of piety that. Soviet Russia does not All the Particulars of It Which Are Te i by Ten.’ The book begins thus: ‘Be “Now, here’s my present prob- formally endorse. Robert Lynd, of the News-Chron- sensible of thy Original Corruption lem .. .” and swiftly he told of how he had blundered on; Young icle (London), finds it difficult to undaily, how it inclines thee to evil, Jim, of how he had come to derstand how the Russian authoriand indisposeth thee to good; groan masquerade and of the worry which ties originally came to believe that under it and bewail it.’ Franz’s news today had given him. reading the nursery classics was like: “J had no reason to be surprised “And if I leave the job and try ly to turn good Bolshevik children at these admonitions, for at my own to persuade Young Jim to stay away into wicked reactionaries, He points Sunday school I recited from an inthat “The Emperor’s New or to brace him up, things may all out fant catechism, which I still rememClothes” is ‘as sharp a satire on the go to the devil before I return.” ber almost word for word.’ One of | ways of courtiers as any Communist _ The other agreed. ees its early questions was: ‘What are Also he argues you then, by nature?” To which my “Do you suppose you could do could have written.” that the marriage of a poor man two jobs in one? Keep the boy away with a princess or a poor girl with until we have a chance to see what can like that. advisable more than disaster for the operation It was not thought of what Young Jim Flynn might do that caused confusion. Steve had kept the job alive by his ability to give men confidence in his leadership. This was no feeling of self-satisfaction, of conceit; it was simply the fact. : But Young Jim’s advent would - send the fragile structure of Polaris hopes Jim’s with dugs. men. in it so long convinced it’s Young with dogs and are few outlaw are few outlaw he must—and there you are, “If I had shot him that day after he had rushed my babies it would have been a coward’s way out and they would have known it. You keep on playing the game I’ve been “Meaning just what?” he counplaying since the start ... that tered. is, unless you want to find out just “Principally, that the original how quick and how hard I'll bear young Jim Flynn is on his way in; down, just let your tongue run, I or will be when he sobers up.” The don’t care where the story comes man laughed. “Won’t it be inter- from; if it so much as starts I'll esting to watch McNally and the put the clamps on you. Get that?” _rest of these dubs? And to see the Franz caught his breath to reply. real boss, well pickled, a shaking, “Hold it! I don’t want to hear anmiserable spectacle, come to take other d—d word from you! We seem charge of a sinking ship? to understand each other plenty, and “And won’t it also be interesting| using up more words now is... for you to explain to somebody how just using up more words!” you came to be spending Polaris He resumed his way, leaving money so free and easy? Why, you Franz with a baffled look on his face d—d pretender, he’ll have licked up in which a helpless rage and great what booze he’s got in a few hours; relief mingled. . he’s out of money; he’ll come to try Drake went on to the wood camp, to do what he was supposed to try pondering this new complication. his forced Give a man or a dog an idea of his duty, of his job, and see that he knows he must.do it—knows clear, down to the roots of his heart that ‘Tll make you this promise, Franz: one word from you about the game I’m playing—which I admit to you freely, now—or about another man said to be Young Jim Flynn in this country, and I’ll have the sheriff on you.and an attempted murder charge against you. s “I’m not promising to let this set- the insolence. and his “It works, men. There just as there If you On that Steve grinned easily. Steve’s eyes dropped to the man’s ¢elothing _ then Steve sat down with a surprised ejaculation and the other smiled grimly. That gun is think you can tie me up to something I don’t know about you’ve got a flock of guesses coming!” But the paddle held tightly .in one of his hands rattled against the gunwale. a inference come. covered with finger-prints.” The other’s face paled. in an odd tone, ‘“How’s Young Flynn today?” A thing _ and me to kingdom all, was He pointed his canoe at Drake's. 3 up was He quirked. It was Franz, whom he had not seen or heard of since their _ encounter on the upper river. es hung job alive for a few weeks and that Another canoe rounded a long point and came toward him and as the distance narrowed Steve’s lip _ get him to try his best to pull loose. His best, understand; made him pull his heart out. And then, when he’d used all his strength and could not get free, I helped him. When he found out he had a job to do and could not do it without my help, and that he must put into trying all the strength of muscle and heart he “Right after we tried to get had before I would help or else sufmore than a buttonhold on this bird, fer .. . why, then he was all this witness and I found a gun set | mine,” in my trail, loaded and ready to blow tient creditors. 2s over, I other night and warned me to be cagey and was with me when this skulker was interrupted slightly in his get-away. I made a grab for him. The witness saw it. All I got was a button, but it’s this particular button. No good in court, likely, but it convinces me, you see. ed him to fresh effort. And yet, what to do? .No new capital was forthcoming, no extension of time could be anticipated from impaBeer him man land at the foot of my trail the That noon LaFane had brought a letter from Kate, written after receiving word that the railroad construction was blocked. Her despair had touched him profoundly, goad- aS Be a ae After that was of Russia Removes Fairy Bans me put him in harness. I made him drag things through the brush. I let =e and speeded up likeness, of him?” LaFane shook his head. “No. I did not strike him often. When I did, of course, it counted. That was RaxeE “WNL SERVICE But you Steve felt himself flushing. He recalled how he had been re-reading her letters that first day in his new to bush. Just the two of us. He came back . .-. mine.” ie “You knocked the poison all out Copyright’ in time. Commercial users of Conoco Bronze like it for its instant start- Af the Sign of the Red Triangle ing, lightning pick-up and smooth operation. They must have, however, extra power and greater mileage—so that their selection is an unbiased compliment for Conoco Bronze. It is where records are carefully kept and mileage checked against all competitive gasolines that Conoco Bronze finds it easy to prove its leadership. 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