Show THE CIE RED LOCK LOCKA A A. Tale of the Fl Flatwoods at woods B By DAVID ANDERSON Auti c ef of of TU Blu Moon s' s by The n. Dobbe C C. C CHAPTER XI XI Continued 14 An did ya u think t take the ol of olman man by Did yu lad He Ile opened his life mouth month in another upheaval of silent merriment his still sinewy shoulders heaving up and down and jostling his Iron gray l locks about boot his ears Just bract fr rr the rush yujI u 2 I thought I I thought yu u was the log The old rangers ranger's eyes danced and I his bis mouth spread wide I II I was Tea Yes but but wy how wy I had m m eyes on that log every second the the sinewy shoulders heaved up rod lid down again rate again yu u wod d. SUd Stid o yur eye on the 1 log leg 1 yu u ort a a kep kept It on the pass to the tile cover cover ol ol InIn In In- Jin jm trick trick show v sho-v yu u some time The young oung man glanced at the log noted the space SPI of practically open I. I r r v t 4 l II a a r An Did Yu Vu Think t Take the 01 Man by Did Yu Vu Lad ground that must have hae been crossed In n order to reach the nearest cover and turned to Ills Ids aged companion Infrank In Infrank frank trank admiration Wonder If I ever will be as handy as you Taint likely yur likely yur life lite dont don't depend depend depend de de- pend on It like mine usen to sixty years ago Yure far tar handler handier aready than any other man In the woods But woodcraft will never ngIn be what It People even look down on It They're s' s wrapped up In book an Ian Jun an money that they think Its It's a kind of ot disgrace some disgrace some of ot em t em t even Tarn t shoot No no woodcraft will never alln be what It 11 never ne ne er agIn ugin A faint suspicion of bitterness of homesickness for tor scenes long lung gone gone gone- for tor the stimulating uncertainties of ot the perilous trail quavered troll quavered In n the theold theold theold old mans man's tones lie stooped plucked l off a tender shoot from a sas sassafras atras sprout and stood chewing Jt t t How Ilow come yu left yur frail fall s s' s open this morning asked Jack I picked It up where yu U Jumped jumpe the road The question seemed to recall the theold theold theold old muns mun's straying thoughts Yea Yas Y s an on yu ort art II a picked It up long Yu crossed It ever yu come down the bluffs bluffs- about a n hundred yards west o 0 othe othe the pheasants pheasant's nest on an an agIn n a roth of It whar yu stood down n at lit Hen lien Spencers Spencer's ol of cabin Yu didn't hardly act like this mornin yu acted kinda an on fur tur away Dwar away like like so so I 1 left the trail open a at an un at the crick The young Joung man turned away and stood gazing out across the tan brush hollow And me t V take by the famous ranger that found till the trail of ot the great Tecumseh when It was hid from the best of ot the runners lie e said warmly warmly and and you was with me At reference to the far famed achievement of ot his younger days das the shoulders of ot the old hunter seemed to grow Irow a little more lIlore erect white while his dark eyes s glowed gloved with a faint suggestion suggestion tion of ot the fire that In his prime hud had made mude them the hardest pair pall of ot ryes jes ryeson jeson es on the border horder to pass puss unseen Well not just pla ln nuttier He lie chewed hard on the tile sassafras sprout a moment You must a purt part nigh run Into that gal a n lettle fettle bit ago A statement with the force torce of ot a question the question the young Joung man started but hut hid the movement by with his sore shoulder The tei face of ot the mountain girl freshened In his mind with the dread of ot discovery ery In her startled eyes eyu lie He bitched hitched the blouse loose from his shoulder and oud glanced out across the hollow without meeting his old friends friend's look What gal gan The old man Jerked a band hand toward the opposite bluff Aw I just glimpsed one a a peak In long along through the brush yonder an an lowed p yu might a run across era er er lIe He stood chewing the sassafras shoot and looking away down the hollow hol low In the direction of Black rock The young man luau breathed easier the easier th girls girl's secret was safe sate The eyes lyes had missed the chance meeting seemingly the one thing they bad had missed as 01 his next words half balf startlingly star star- disclosed What did yu make o them tracks yu u them bushes on t the e edge o 0 back o yur ur cabin an an past the ol of log I 1 seed ben em as I crossed the trail this The young man b bent t an amazed look upon his hits aged ard friend lost in won won- wonder wonder wonder der at his mat marvelous woodcraft I 1 got a n look at the man that made em em was his slow answer while he laid that log a a me me straighten up the fence I dont don't think lie he knows I saw Im Ira but I did did it It was the feller that stirred up all that rumpus rum rum- pus at the schoolhouse night last The n nd d man threw away his sassafras sassafras sassa sassa- fras soot an eager seriousness crossed his face fore That was Black Bogus Hogus The younger man stared stored Not Nor lilt Hit were The woodsman fell tell suddenly thoughtful glanced away across the hollow toward where the double trail troll led through the woods The old man manI I studied him curiously It may be each was thinking the same thought thought that that strange resemblance that had so puzzled puzzled them both but both but neither let fall any Inkling of ot It to the otherAl other AI Al knows hn ha Uncle Nick went cn on after a moment lIes Hes a friend of Loge Belden's Beldens an an he thinks hes he's up with Im He lIe Jerked his thumb up the hollow toward where a section of the warped roof of Loge Beldens Belden's squalid cabin barely protruded above the bushes teemed seemed to weigh his next words before before be be- fore tore letting them fall Anyhow I thought Id I'd m nose up the crick na an kinda throw an eye on Loges Loge's cabin cobin t see If It e 1 Is An If e Is is- is ls l 7 the other questioned questioned ques ques- having caught the curious look The of ot a lifetime In the woods prompted the old hunter to look guardedly in every direction before before be be- fore tore answering Dont let let on yu know It It he he came rame ramea a step nearer nearer but but Al says Belden t the same sane gang gongo cutthroats o down Vincennes way that Black Bogus Bogus Bo no- gus does an he thinks more fn n likely they're plot tin t t crack ol of Sime ColIn's ColIns ColIns ColIn's Col- Col Ins In's safe sate The hardness that had come at the again I mountain girls girl's warning crept again Into the woodsman's eyes but he be made no comment low neen t be told I yu they aint neither one got much time fr fryou fryou fryou you after what happened at the post ounce an at the schoolhouse on schoolhouse an they're the kind that wont won't stay licked an the kind that strikes In to the dark Jack Jark pick picked Id I'd up the heavy heay shotgun from where he be had hod laid It aside when about to rush upon his old friend thoughtfully blew a dead grass blade out from between the hammer and the lock but offered no word The old man again bent his furtive look upon him and went on Black Bogus Bogus theys they's theys fifty sheriffs a a look In fr him an a reward of ot five thou san dollars dead r e alive alive- The young man flinched looked keenly nt at the other Uncle Nick yu Nick yu wouldn't wouldn't r 1 No I wouldn't wouldn't the old man replied replied replied re re- plied with Instant readiness to the Implied half Imputation Ive shot men lIlen In my time I never sold one lie He stepped around the great su sugar ar maple motioned for tor the other to follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low and stole stolp away alon along the brow of the bluff blurt quite obviously In serious earnest The young Joung woodsman fell tIll Into the trail Steeped In the caution that came from much living hiving alone he ho sold said nothing but It was the the one one ne thing that had brought ht him IllIn to the woods that morning to morning have hae u a look at J p age oge ge Belien's Bellens Bellen's Bel Bel- lens len's cabin Beaching a p point Int at length a II short distance below where the suspected cabin squatted the they crept down the bed hed of ot a II dry out wash on and 1 through some thickets of ot brier and hazel until they la lay within less than a hundred yards of ot Its crude nude and mud daubed walls There seemed to be no one about except the tamely comely mountain girl who came ame to the open door dour a time hr r two to look out as If It she expected some on some one some one that she the would rather not s see to Judge by h the troubled expression ex expression X of ot hf br r fuce face it 1 face tue whose tragic sadness ladT had hail su so Impressed the at ut that strained and hur bur rk rued 1 d Interview It was late In the forenoon when above them their on un the hillside they heard hard the swish of ot a n brush swinging back Into place after atter having been dra dragged ld aside Uncle Nick Irk held heid up u a cautious finger and they thel In the cover coyer There came rame the snap of ot a dr dry stick a mun man emerged from the swaying bushes and stole toward the back bock door of ot the cabin passing within a dozen steps of ot where they lay There could be no mistaking the powerful form and truculent face with Its stubble of ot beard beard It It was Black Bogus CHAPTER XII A Ashes he of the Pa Put Past it It was little enough that the red red- roofed rooted cottage saw of the young preacher preacher breakfast breakfast by candle cande U hl supper lupper the same an hour lion of twilight with on the rustle rustic seat aut at Whis- Whis Whispering spring The rest of the day dal he be spent In the study at the parsonage where at the Insistence of the venerable venerable vener vener- able widow he lunched He lie proved tobe to tobe tobe be a very studious roan nan It 1 was a rare thing Indeed Inde 1 to I tee see him In da daylight day light when Ills his r. r peering eyes eyl'S were not poring over a book with another usually tucked under his arm Jack had bad not yet et climbed the bluffs to the woods on the morning morning morn mom ing of ot that eventful day that flared forth the startled face tace of ot the mountain moun mOUD taco tain girl with her hurried warning its dawn still clung to cliff and scar and many candles were still alight Inthe Inthe in inthe the village when the pr preacher acher left lett th the parlor bedroom and came out on th tM porch Texie was already on the lawn flitting flit tilt ting about among the flowers and gathering a bouquet for the breakfast table She was like them them the the flowers as much a part of ot the rich life lite of ot th tM lawn as they It Life Life It radiated from every curve of her pliant body it was the one thought that came first to mind when looking on her ber There were butterflies In the mellow glow already arched above the rim of the east and sifting In through the cool trees with dew de debut but she was wa more alive e than they At sight of ot her tiptoe a by a lilac lIIa bush and reaching up for one of its it choicest blossoms the studious concentration concentration con ron left the face tace of ot the man on the porch and there came enroe over his hll features a curious sadness sadness sadness-a a sadness touched with fire as if within him had suddenly flared up some desperate battle bottle of ot the soul The girl had heard the step on the porch With the coveted blossom In her hand at last lost she placed It t with the others and turned with a smile of ol sensible frankness The precise and studious concentration tion Instantly returned to the eyes eJes behind behind behind be be- hind the spectacles the stoop came back to the capable shoulders and with the quick mincing step that was WOl wasas wasas as much a part port of him as the frock coat and neck nerk stock he came down off oft the porch and Joined her With the stately and somewhat ponderous ponderous pon derous courtesy of ot seventy years ago he e h had d ta taken e the shel shears be tn tr I oo Salt Lake City Utah January 7 1924 Serial No no 00 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Utah Iron Mines Corporation a corporation of Utah by its duly authorized authorized auth auth- agent and attorney in fact Clarence Bamberger whose post office office of of- fice address is South Main 1 Street Salt Lake City Utah has made application for patent for the Wilson Iron Placer Mining Mining- Claim situated in the Iron Springs Mining District Iron County State of Utah ascribed as follows wit to-wit The northwest quarter of the quarter and the south half f the southwest quarter of Section 2 and the north half of th the south south- test ost last quarter of the southe southeast quarter Ind nd the south half of the northeast of the southeast quarter of ol section 31 all in Township 35 South Range ne 12 2 West Salt Lake Base nad Utah EXPRESSLY EXCLUDING howver howver how- how ver yen the areas in conflict with the named lode mining claims wit o yit 0 Survey No Cora No 1 o ode de e Amended Lot 48 Little Alie Alle Al- Al ie le Lode Survey No Last hence nance Lode and Survey No once cure cace Lode lAde and Geneva eneva Lode leav leav- g the n net t area of said said Wilson Iron lacer Incer Claim applied for acres ure or less Said Sold claim is of record in the of- of 06 re o of the County Recorder in and the Jr-the County of Iron state of itch Any and all persons claiming ad- ad erse r said mining claim or remises or any part or portion described surveyed and lor Sor are hereby notified that their adverse claims are duly led according to law and the regula regula- ons within the time pre- pre by 1 law with the Register and of the United States Land at zd Salt Lake City State of ah tb they will vB be barred b by t MW I I j 10 lar I I IA A Man Emerged From the Bushes and Stole Toward the Back BackDoor BackDoor BackDoor Door of the Cabin flushed and spangled with the close coining coming of ot the sun the girl bent her IlIr head the preacher stood fum t this the shears In his hand 1 I will quit the office one cIne o 0 these days I Ills eyes es were still lost In th the east past he spoke as If it his heart was there Ills daughter her ber lead bead and searched his face You lou say that but yu never dc de I I danno better walk out tl I bi be carried o- o O ott othey they say uy an on an I le Ive e co corn n 1 almighty al III almighty mighty I h that very cry r thing a 1 time f t two two heap h tp Higher he be he brought hi his hi IJ eyes ejes 18 back bark out of ot the east noticed the hurt or on his daughter daughters and putted patted p hT her shoulder iTO TO via IlIe |