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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD. present when would that any representative know of the Flynns his terms arriving bring currency. - He called LaFane now to. one stars eat undo tt and anothe: was in the making that very mo ment, perhaps, and a fear such as and would Steve side. the ‘I'm dropping back to headquar-: ters just to have a look,” he said. “T’]] take a canoe because Wartin may need the boats for had never him, He went known quickly room and | MORNING THE possessed | down a. rifle PATTERN supplies. He Copyright: By = GR. ’ No Harold Jitus ~ ees CHAPTER in the IX—Continued eR She stumbled stood still a moment, forward those last ‘ew steps, knees weak with misgiving and when Franz, pistol in one - hand, brief case in the other, stepped over the prostrate form of the old man he came face to face vith her, “You .. .” she: moaned. » *You hot him! You killed him! Youwll :nswer for if! I heard everything! i was just outside.” For an instant Franz stared at “er, Then an odd smile crossed his heavier air of approaching evening, obscured all landmarks, Back in the store. old Tim had rolled over. He tried to rise and could not; tried to crawl and could not so much as get his knees up. So, pain, slowly, he at the hitched cost of infinite himself along half“way to the open door, He saw the eanoe making northward; he tried to call out. His face dropped again to the planks and he.moaned answer, and in Progress. Those their onttion of trouble went crawling — his spine. He called again; still no response. He could see that ‘store was open ~ the door of the and, stopping - only to take an electric flash-light from his jacket in the canoe, walked swiftly toward it, : “Tim! he called sharply from the steps, that pom uae} more pronounced. in” self. “I didn’t _ block didn’t intend-‘to want to your deal kill. “What - alarmed things?” for “You are I with only, but”—with a, broke badly. With ing against you, you can. So, with you, to be done.” steal; wanted I to she whispered, safety, When now, you go, both, seeing that they’re | all I own. “We'll start, now; just you and I. We'll be together long enough so I'll be sure I’ve a start. And then . . . we'll cross that bridge when we reach it.” She commenced to grasp, twisting her kicking out. with her her efforts were struggle in his arm to free it, small feet. But futile. Franz dropped the brief case, turned her roughly about, pulled her hands together behind securely. her and bound “Oh, help!” she screamed. ; them “Help, Hel—” Stephen Drake, with his four-year-old from He drew a slow seemed breath as_ thought of the girl. She was lovely than he had believed. to he: more The, The impression of a girl which he had built up for himself in those past weeks was-a feeble thing compared to her reality. Evening was at. hand. The fire was under control. Already: Wartin was preparing for the night’s work. Steve beckoned to him. “You. told me where she started. Got any idea how?” The man pursed his ine and ‘shook his head, be .a bug fire.” “What makes you think that?’ — took “Kate? body heard , - ae me. He took ps ‘nih . . her . “Oui. she so, all red - Steve stepped With scrawled would be going on the We’ ve through. that his breast; to tell tell. this, he to Why, Franz could not know that the money had arrived, he argued silently as Wartin talked on. about plans for the night; but in the next ‘breath he was remembering that hurry. Kate need you’ve McNally Tim Is it.” got to get somehow. Todd Old Jim. a long and this stole getting to killed money Understand? time note Franz from If you take this to McNally you’re likely to sizzle in h—I for it !” And leaving the bewildered chopper duly impressed, he ran down to the river and began paddling up the current, believing that a man planning a get-away would take the first portage into the CHAPTER he asked quickly. | When did he go? cerned with the dead. One tragedy had ended and nothing beneath the : Not for me, understand, but may cois, he He was-dead, slain in the service of the Flynns, but this was no hour to give way to regrets, to be con- Why, Mabby she can’t be, but De sun, she stan’ op in sky laak coal.” brushed past the man and into his shanty. . the stub of a pencil he a hasty: note: “There,” he muttered. “Now, Fran- Most ' comfortably _ “When, Tim?” “How long ago? sure? headed up the river with a long start and I’m going my best. Send plenty of help on my trail and in a @USE . ues tied her which a are you and forced Kate to go with him. She His chin sank mabby “Franz killed Tim, took the money The old man’s eyes were closing. lived hour, that can’t be!” h—. See ; Dee Steve's moan was thick and heavy. His mouth was dry; his heart, flailed: his ribs. had seex After— “Good Lord, . .,. Had. canoe , . . and outfit. . Took her north, ... Up lake. . Said he'd . 2th be*. 2 past alone could man, Franz, she go was it, Francois?” mabby four hour. Steve’s voice sounded like a woman’s, so drawn by panic, particular country gettin’ from one! | How long ago was it. Franz took viver to. the other because there's. ‘Katie away?” better ways. Se The suggestion of a frown crossed “Who'd have a ‘reason? That we: the graying face. Old Tim drew a know, I mean? - ~ What’s in your «glow, labored breath, head?” ‘Just, . es ee began’ and his: “Well, you "Ve just about deena chest collapsed and as the last of up on Franz. When you got here he the breath slipped from his - torn was sittin’ in the golden chair. ‘and tortured lungs it carried. the You’ve made a monkey out of him. - long-drawn whisper: “No-w-w-w.” He ain’t quit the country i since. ~The word was faint, but’ unmistakand he ain’t the kind to forgive. If. able. She Commenced to Struggle In His I was to want to nab the. man who. Tim lay wholly inert In Drake’s Grasp, Twisting Her Arm to Free started this fire I'd begin right now arms, The old heart had fluttered It, Kicking Out With Her Small checkin’ up on where Mr. Franz its last.’ Trying to be true to his Feet, esquire was at this forenoon. % | trust, to function. until he had disA crawly premonition’ ran ‘through breast, and with quick movements charged -his duty: Tim had failed. Steve. The future of Polaris lay So much had happened of treachery. Slipped the gauze across her lips, twisted a knot at the nape of her between the folds of a heavy brief and pain in these last hours that it neck and then held her at arm’s case back there at headquarters, seemed to? him as though Franz had protected only by an old, crippled only: just then. shoved off, bearing length, bound and gagged. man.and a temporarily blinded girl. Kate-as a hostage. . Kate made inarticulate, raging This fact assumed ominous propor- | so nds, but he paid them no heed. “Just,” he had said; ‘and then, at Lifting her in his arms, with only tions. although he tried to ae after .that last pause he was ever himself. ene look behind at old Tim’s form, to make in speaking: “Now.” | the smoke shroud, now hanging low “Oh, Shot Kate?” “Didn't shoot.. ... her. :.. the jump!” Wan “How long it.. seemed to nestle alin the. strong arms which held. him. He had done -had no men over theré all summer. |’ all that he could possibly do, Now, There. ain’t any berries in that he wanted rest, ‘country so there wouldn’t be any * But Drake could not let him rest. Injuns there lookin’ for fruit. No“Well, she come up over southwest of twenty-four, che walked quickly out to his canoe, and laid her gently in the bottom with the duffle. He headed up the lake to where “Sure; oul. nd shot me....:..’nd Katie .. .” He “Must . . ..He : “en op rivair long taam— “Alone, Francois? Was he alone?” He grasped the man’s arm and shook it, “Oui! She got-canoe all load ver’ heavy.” “Heavy packs, eh? Lots of grub?” “Oui, oui!’ The man nodded. “Lo’s stuff, Yo’ng Jeem.” bled as Drake tried to ease his pos“Money. called, go until he nad done .the thing that he alone could do, “Money,” he mumture, On he Mad Woman. a “Quite different, my dear, from a trip I’d once planned to take with you!” He ‘laughed dryly. “That mouth were loved was ... twisted another year.” oddly, as though His he drowning futile regrets. “I you, Kate. Maybe I still do .’. . maybe. ... . With twentyfive thousand dollars and you vi “Not by so much as the flicker of a lid did the girl indicate that she gave heed, PB her heart was in tumult. Franz paddled atone and ane darkness had. fallen guided his } canoe against the bank and stepped out. He helped Kate to a sitting posture and. then to her feet. She was stiff and lame from her long confinement and swayed as if she might fall. 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Pattern 9789 may be ordered only in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires 354 yards 36 inch fabric and 5% yard contrasting, X N on about position floors. These have the merit of having one smooth surface easy to er?” reveal to Kate Flynn the facts of i sciousness that remained, fighting his pretense. The twin goals for to keep mind and voice functioning which he had struggled have been attained. and standing tasks shallow seats, and low backs, and can be lifted and carried about easHowever, an old piano stool or. ily. typist’s chair is equally good, and has the advantage of a revolving seat ad- |. justable to many varying heights. Some modern kitchens have com- i now outfugimuch then, It was the French-Canadian with a crippled foot who had given Steve his directions the evening that he arrived at Good-Bye.| His crutches. were discarded now, and he hobbled with only the aid of a cane, “Francois, you been here all day?” “Oui! Dat foot, she hurt lak h—l so—” “Seen anybody oe up the riv- a blizzard by Jim Flynn, big timber operator, whom Drake has robbed. Flynn gives Drake another chance,.and the father, until his death, impresses on the boy, Steve, the debt they owe “Old Jim.” ‘Twenty years later, Steve meets “Young Jim” Flynn, his benefactor’s son. Sent by Old Jim, incapacitated through an accident in which Kate, his daughter, is temporarily blinded, ‘to take charge of the company "s—the Polaris—woods operations, the youth is indulging in a drunken spree. Learning of Polaris’ dire straits, and hoping to do something for Old Jim, Steve hastens to the company’s headquarters. Worsting Franz, a plotter. against the Flynn. interests, in a fist fight, the Polaris crew assumes that. Steve is Flynn’s son, and he 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, Drake escapes a death trap set for him. Franz discovers Drake’s impersonation. Threatened with disclosure, Steve accuses Franz of setting the death trap,: exhibiting evidence, and the man dare not act. Steve sends LaFane to find Young Jim and sober him. up. Steve wins the friendship of MacDonald, owner of timber land the Flynns need, and the Scotsman gives him an option for Polaris to buy his timber. Knowing of the option, and wanting the timber for a rival company, Franz plans to put Steve out of the way, but the latter outwits him. Franz, believing Steve had drowned, secures another option and records it, learning then that Steve is alive. Knowing Drake has wired Kate, he steals her reply and learns that $25,000 is to be forwarded, and the time of its arrival, and plans to steal the money.. Kate Flynn “arrives at the camp. Her eyes. are bandaged, and before: Steve has to betray himself by speech a forest fire alarm is sounded. Drake hastens to take charge of the fire fighters. LaFane arrives with Young Jim. Flynn distinguishes himself, winning the regard of the crew. Kate instinctively “knows it was not her brother who had greeted her. Franz, having fired the woods, to draw off the crew, comes to. steal the money Kate had. brought. He-«secures it,. but old Tim Todd catches him in Hoek act, and he shoots the old man, His palm cut off her words, “No one near,” he reminded her. feel of her lips had stirred in him _ “However, there might be a little} all manner of incredible impulses. later. We will take no chances,” ‘| _ The bandage she had torn from her eyes hung loosely about - her neck. He put one arm about. her head, drawing it tightly against his son, is rescued dump, Francois? MacDonald, there will be none to know whet happened.” “No, no, You can’t do that !” ‘J can’t? Ha!” He snuggled the brief case clgser against his side. _“What’s in here, and liberty, are all I have left.”. He caught her hand as she started to turn away. “T can use them OPENING CHAPTERS OF THE erent | the weary a back should be used. There are kitchen high chairs in the market. They are lightweight, with rather un-. shrug—“things the breaks godo the best you: there are things her own alone. ® get doing making mats on which to stand. A faint, faint sound rewarded him: a seraping on the floor, a husky gasp. twice and was still. et Steve reasoned, was to get ahead He stepped within, snapping on Oe ee Wee the beam of his torch... He halted of him up into the river beyond the Steve Drake stood aside as the with a sharp oath at sight of the’ smoke where he could lie in wait. ave, he shoved the pistol] into its other men clustered about Young He approached the northern end. . figure: sprawled there. nolster against his side and he wet Jim Flynn, the men he had saved He was tempted to “Tim!” he cried. “Tim, what. of the lake. ‘is. lips. from probable death and the oth-}. cut across to summon help, to call happened?” “Yes, you heard. But, you see, ers whose hearts he had. won by _ “Franz,” the old fellow gasped. the entire crew off the fire which you are here alone,” he said simply that achievement, READS access Shot me. ... ss ie was a menace only to property and ind the quality of his tone was omLaFane approached him, that turn them out to head off the ie aROHOY. . - jnous. “And with you gone? What: grim smile playing about his lips. scourge which threatened such a Words. died to bubblings ‘in his then? Who would know?” “Broken, would you say?” throat as he strugggled yaliantly f for precious thing as Kate Flynn. Behind him Tim Todd closed one “Lord, no! Made!” Steve. re And yet that would take time and hand. From his chest a dark stain plied. “He’s got the boys with him the breath to speak. Kate was Franz’s prisoner and he .-“Pranz!’ Steve echoed. “Fe ehiot was’ spreading on the floor boards. from the start!” _ knew he was capable of . effecting you down, Pim? “You mean, you’d shoot me down, “And he’ll keep ’em. He’s wound rescue alone once he could locate “Yes,”—a faint dente. ¥ too? Because I know?” Simplicity, neatness and practicalon grand stuff. No need of your The light Steve held on Tim’s that other canoe. His eagerness, Franz laughed mockingly, and ity combine to make a most attracfearing to let ’em know who a face revealed the heroic struggle his anxiety, therefore, upset his tucked the brief case ander one tive morning frock for the woman of are, now.” usually good judgment... arm. larger proportions. Her figure will Drake experienced an odd let- he made for strength to speak further. “No,” he said, and etene closer, - He could not sit still. If he had actually appear more slender bedown on this. The Polaris property One of he old hands, cold as ice. “Tt isn’t pleasant business, I’ve. dis- was safe, with Kate’s arrival; miscalculated, if old Tim had been _-ecause of the unbelted waistline and covered.” <A. slight shudder trav- Young Jim was finally on, the job, now, gripped his wrist. wrong about the time of Franz’s. the diagonal bodice and skirt seameled his’ big body. “I wouldn't harm capable, competent and his courage departure, they might be still be- ings.A becoming collar is fashioned “'m dusted ... Jimmy. Foc eS a hair of your head, Kate yond him. The wood camp was not of contrast—sleeve cuffs and vestee a ee had been spectacularly demonstrat-| . wealsa money Seu GE less it became necessary.” He. ed. far away; he would go ‘that far, match. A wash silk or cotton neatly There was no longer any rea-. was struggling ‘against the darklicked his lips again; the lights in son for him to use another’s name; ness which closed over his mind, anyway. ... printed will give delightful results. his eyes were shifting and changing no longer cause to be reluctant to cBpeing o Eat peHtties of. conLong sleeves are included, shown in A solitary oe gleamed yelas he planned a way out for himthe small back view. low as he rounded the bend below oe feet An important thing to learn is to work: without standing. At first it will seem very strange, but it is amazing how much can be done equally as well sitting as standing. An adjustable stool, with or without was clear and he could see fairly well. But no craft, no movement, no suspicious shadow rewarded his| vigilance. He stopped paddling and again to listen. With an fit and Kate in his canoe the tive would be unable to make speed. The thing to be done who house can remedy this trouble in large measure if they really want to enough. They can so manage that they do not stand as much as they have been accustomed to, they can soften the tread on floors, and they ean supply themselves with comfort- idea that.old Tim might have been mistaken in what he had told entered his mind. He felt that they were out there on the lake, almost within sight, perhaps still within the distance that ordinary sounds of travel might carry. In the beginning the evening air again a prem- of kindergarten is the safest and best place for the young child. To my mind there they have established the ideal of freedom under self-control; ideals of health; the ideals of mora} conduct; the ideals of citizenship, and the ideals of co-operation.—Nathaniel M, Salley, dean, School of Education, Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee. Ways of Being Cue When Housework Is 9789 As he launched the canoe his only thought was swift pursuit. No listening, and then called sharply: “Tt, Tim h . .S. You, “rim 1% I fully believe that the right kind From Tire Tired Feet ‘told what we three know, we should all be together.” (‘Biebt Dusk was falling as Steve landed. A silence hung over headquar- | somewhere not.so far off, heading for the upper river and the big | ters which seemed weighted with eountry to which it gave access, import as he stepped to the sand. | WENA SERVICE KINDERGARTEN BENEFITS Take the Burden FOR. to the far end of’ took from its resting place on a set of antlers. It was loaded. He slipped more ammunition into his pocket and ran out, ape the door behind him. ° He strained his eyes up the lake to where the first stars struggled. to show through the edge of the smoke haze. 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