Show The Double Test r B By CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT t f 11 9 in list W Newspaper er Union Ul VAN stumped stamped up the throe three shI stops steps to the broad Porch At the tui tup lo Ise paused and glared at the lIy exceptionally handsome young who lud hod come to the door to meet him hini Mr Harvey In he d demanded maD ed The girl studio studied him curiously No she aD answered ut at lust last Iad wont won't be in till night Dight Im I'm the business manager of this ranch Spose Spore you sit lit down and talk to me nw Thank you you ou he said auld less gruffly than thaD before Im Mr Stormont he be continued Im a business man mun here bere hereon on OD business and I believe In putting things plainly My Illy son Jack Is Infatuated sted ate with you and anI wants to sacrifice allI all folio luu prospects I hv m vin In M t f I what nn I l y g you to bu buy him oft off and Im I'm prepared to pay pity What's your price Once more the girl studied the man Youre gambling that I 1 can cun deliver the goods sloe bhe observed and aDI Ill I'll play that you are right and lay my cards carlls on the toe table Ive I've done a good deal to pull J Jack lick out of the dregs Your son got here In an empty car He Ile Ie had bad tied from New York because he thought be he had killed a waiter walter In is Ina Ina isa a hotel botel when he lie was drunk He lie was wasa a bundle of ot dirty rags when a brakeman brakeman brake brake- man mun thing flung him out of ot the car sad and un under under der m my horses horse's feet teet Ld Id ridden riddeD over fur for the mall Coming that way he seemed to be a special charge on me So I 1 told Jim Harris dads dad's foreman to put him In tn the wagon walon and aDd take him hiD to the ranch and try to make something something some some- thing out of him That was three years ago ego Three years I I 1 suppose youre you're been hunting for tor him ever eer since Van VaD Stormont grunted You suppose sup aup pose wrong he be snorted Hed ed b e n going to tEe Ine do doss dogs years ri before be be- s for t three years before fore that and I 1 wiped him out of my books Rut Hut when my younger son died two months ago I 1 started a search If It hes he's still a sot sot sot- lie He Isn't lie He hasn't touched a adro dro drop for more than thun two tIVO years But nut If he had stayed a sot whose fault would It have been I can see gee that I 1 owe you JOu a good deal delli repented repeated But my dear young lady cant can't you see that his reformation makes It all the more necessary for tor him to marry his class The are a very old family They go back tTo to toTo to- to To Adam I I 1 know knowl I So do the thu Harveys But nut wait walt I Im I'm not through yet yer About six sla weeks ago I saw some of ot your our search propaganda In the Tucson Tue Tuc son Star telling all about Jack and the waiter waller and aDd all That put It squarely up to me and no time limo to lose It was aI a s case put of-put up or shut up So I threw U Lu myself squarely ac lit Jacks aCinI a head neau You did what Van was wa be n bewildered Proposed to him t I I knew Jack had bad been In love with me for tor at least two ears ears and I 1 know that hed he'd never ask me till he got cot that waiter off on his mind Humph Van feelings were ere sadly raised You didn't tell teU him that that that- I didn't tell trim him any truth 1 lied I 1 told him that he had been Identified ed edMnd and that officers were on the way from New York with extradition papers for him And I offered loITered to marry him and I start for tor one ODe of those Central American American American Ameri Ameri- can dumps where there Isn't any aDY ex ex- tradition Ive I've got plenty of money money money- not oot so much us liS you OU have ban I reckon but plenty and I 1 said Id I'd put up for the two of us ua Oh I I sure lure did make loveto love loveto to him all right And It would have about killed me If it hed he'd taken me roe at my ml word But Jut I had to know kIlOW of course Know what Know Enow If It he be was Wal yellow or clear white bile And he be turned out white Turned me down flat G Gild Gd d bless Mess him I 1 knew lIew he be was wu white but Lord but Lord I How I 1 did love that boy But nut I still bad had to prove him the other way Rio Show him the primrose path of course So I told him that I had been beell lying that there weren't any ony om officers cera after him that he be hadn't even stunned that waiter walter let alone killed him that kill If It hed he'd you jou OU had bad a fat Cut calf calC ready to come howl howe and last I 1 showed him the story In the newspaper And Ani then Y Van Storm out was waa breathless Then he said that he preferred chicken to fat veal any ullY day and that be he men meant at to marry me and aDd stay atoy here and that you could go to h b I I. I I knew hed he'd say something like that but Jut I was that he be scared to death leuth Van looked about him Here seems see to be a 11 pretty good he Ile observed Looks all ail place after atter I Iu a u lot better to me than It did when I Irnine rune nine half halt an hoar nun ego Probably It'll make a man of ot Jack In la time lu Iu time timeT lies He's a It man already I I IO Nellie's Nellies O tunes tone were ere Indignant Van snickered Ill take lake your our word for It he tie agreed alreed hastily hand band Shake Shake he be held beld out lots his Nellie took It Sure thing doing papa she chuckled Van chuckled too not later later later- cautioned yet et be when I think Its It's time time time- Time Humph I I see It Is time to Jack and Ind andI few wise to a put you Jacks Jack's 1 I were ere d yesterday And Aad coming up the w k right ht behind you JOu Shake again papa papa tot for keeps keep I And Van shook I |