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Show - } By Franklyn William Walace jr. had gone . George jhis uncle jsouthern : and; aunt, who , t California, not far } in whose to visi lived from very breakfast es in A gent the |} sent heart wu and } | trave} > ea ae et unel ti make a } cat, a een¥ laughe regular ‘snack 7 as." ry ae ri nneve- you, ee wal Pee r merr att Caen ily . Vegterner 2 eee \ of Ber¥« il | beforre Ve you be- op ge ina ae % i |, at ‘ See: the u the ¢ oe ‘ d Sanee l eorral oe ‘ vA "A I'm a So Tom fire spitting don't you think Cat: or come that P near I'm ltoo me! much heat | clothing afraid of w for at you, j teresting comfort Yuma. town in winter Ariz.. that Iles that laughed in-|/iving below sea Tom, So, T will say, take care And do not come too close Or beware! | = ess sunshine, a problem George could not| solve, "Why, he asked himself, : "if the mountain tops are nearer to the R bya "HNN NY) ye r t G, eae they tion As the poor and frightened silly cat! then a sight you'll Cee heat became George the of os blizzard blowing and great drifts, ‘ Aunt too fond chances of "Mary,may fod = Agogh oh of} the bag ga Lj atti ' » ke tl . t . , . a 1) lit tr iF tG i2thle fi ert : : called And So, if the Big Cat Me ou'd better e Killer, there's blood within ou'd live to catch a not me eye, mouse, ome MAUD ° nigh." "Grandpa, what's tween rheumatism Pia who ae é "Well. ell, you sonny," put turn knew at till both pee your difference Se these answered thumb in can't tae ind ie ‘ And. was Willie eee suffering & B f his from 9 ca it » ‘ ent :i not yet uncle at i interested very. LISA'S of. this his "l'll said randfatt ner | disubedi mb ' fart ‘ thut t ther ; a Oe A fte hie ‘ led vive 1 (cy r what little shetwas ent the be edge she knew of that See Pant with her. Pearl house Anderson, ' w ee his tell you to the 7 to nule food =p : at. who you was ye, oe ae and mamma € madame, saying she rit |a of that low range Of the shade ofthe mule and proceeded ok, do,''| his| ee rest He sat mule. and stovd"| down and in mountains the proceeded not seém rose "Dear to to mind'! was preparing came a sudden to desert. Then sandstorm He sprang hie Poor, mountains. | poor Called From Was Tank NAT IES Ki, Ohi The his laundry house doomed to fly in? kretarter yellow @hin-ce: into old intetise saw | progress the just | old saddle.and} ae Sanereeaneaa arse nae nom, hats | iv "Listy. ATIC his' QUEENS and: they |qvoyv it, tl he story ; old cruel yk pant nk ireaktabrit oe between ree ee them. Oey eae A was te nea ast thee of ane a At ae on hand.e "A quarter," a, eae é lng N0/ and' you How could) io daughter young : the < **,\she she said, . gloating-| S| ‘coin p into: s get ih me low. ‘there her knew beg it that pre tty erittle | Waat a ar ae. arely" Sé mitt in she were impossible a_night like to! tress. nia:lher herry this. very seldom that she} Wéewr , eonts ants ct an svenav do?) and sick. lstreet be on was ths ic should eav| hungry en 3 Gee would much | Indeed, it ae re pocket. | Fre ‘And rivers » « comes Roupin. "Gaberese course withhorror. her which the child ee for alms recoil in Eachmade everine she!| passed on wit was taken by the old woman = oye ent tome | girl say ity' it Cae sh @ was going and that , han non ha a ri would also with cae And the to Lisa| that aan mie pontiac ies hate os fas tke cel i Genus ae Tnliea etnias Pearl same would little then baby say, "An' girl, Lisa, you're! . fine ee iwi ee sa buy seni Thel ful little with pad : at ‘dice She The getting cs a: 1 Nar & Gone was | ae that cold,/ and - ful she people on the| fewer eyes, old wate At the Trusty tit , "eull, ce of tnd & hoarsely, penny A ; Boley lof own91 court‘ourt and and oe Anne ne a herself schemed jn the hear | Without the sum-required by old Mathelr dame Blanchard: she would be beater! || unmerci ‘re was was ™tne) at imercifully P Then; there Bianchard, *wp! aa: he a ve take hom«e poor, shivering, Madame! cried imp!" jerking "Why them Lisa didn't pluck you .ad by the shoul-| Lisa's, shook 50b8 little frame run. alonglndy's| be-|¥8¥ get ‘at' the Pour. to She During her the room days j}about -to sleeping, pititears, there' had while the "old drinking worth eating, Lisa was to Lisa do. called ‘and aa. | Who [the to hee did what old toOnce her theknees have one of ‘breathéda how we single a word ‘ Ney and work woman) and in) a threatening voice ‘had "warned to keep secrecy "If I find that to her| vou! any-| . wf ) évenings ri Neat Sou till you} helpless in your tracks and shut in the drop ou'.in the cellar ‘with the rats for company Do you mind?" } VAN <s0 "poor: littl Lisa had been! afrald: to" Say.a word of her ‘most un-| thappy' life to ‘Péarl or Pearl's kind=j hearted "parents; . who‘ sometimes {n-| i vited "Lisa: in-to have a "bit ‘of tea! with them "when old' Madame Bian-| chard was away for an hour or so. ty as she crept sheltertoo was ~ her cansine m a at; George made shane: »./did (dl causing she hea ac ! i layer so dish nents Fiar and on ss her he his listen to ba we usatlo vhe usurp, of Queen Katherine of Arragon| scl nets to become seems that shaped out the throne.| Henry's second wife. Anne's punishment j her own hands, : in ine getting Within execution cocondemn r ane wewe her for to queen Jane and disown womanhood, we! j s to feel very') fer Ande : ane yaad most shameful means{ into the One® evening. she said. got a home old Madame ‘Blanch-) "Now dollar.) with go, and Don't less. you The beg till you've) dare more ‘to you come get) the eat that gentleman thats coming," the old "lag whispered. with dear a fee ling of old fellow; of two land, eee hours George from and the hon, set. In the a tiny speck distance on the the ranch house of He down. ‘Trusty went to. a-terrible could |limber not eel on, |eold walk see of him and eould for' an instant. water |all any jin internom your home reply, rid she ae reap. ne passed letter. Once darkest for séated corner closed her eyes her ofin the the from bands °™ his "er in." always deepest doorway, ee All to scandalous of ittle ; werm arms Ay the dreamed "Are ‘of her youumy. mother mother?" Lisa pered. whis-) a Jane Seymour. him and once a bis Henry wife he wit the She should would knew become find the thats tired of means of soft and snothingly in Liens ears. With ber own little arms, blue with the! brulses from old Madame Vlanchard's! ‘Tin enard come shivered with| he mother vuice was whispered When al mvdke it wis lave-chil Of cid w ireed \ ut. inte her reward. la in of tt I'm his wishes gait of his as if young - lies helpless task tan © accused hours after the the monster whieh gece woul chase! ne hounds! the loose "Let To of his speed the chase!" ce ‘rah where Jan awaiting life And} . _, at the thetime with Boley: she at But th blade that cut 7 . hpearyeripige eed About the house, White ' : But wren Pecos aeae obscurity involves; fancy birth of through tndbrother, Tommy theytea, Go Excepting to school.the whole Saturda oO ; known. Sh ccompanied ofyears, honor , Polly Siste eight for het her son her "Polls seon nnd They And ag gothe to Sane104 ds it Is week ake the oe oa dough afternoor dinner visit work some the moatest have through, help reo you knov ls done friends young fun! | They play and play till almost Then heme they go to tea, . W!th in Loge eo ther AN AUNGNI dark, arms Mitele TE ES baJAMES Es pre- decessor's little neck glistened before her hauntéd eyes At an rate, her ife wa hort and full of anticipated danger after she heeurme Henry's queen MARY GRAHAM Thre fascinating and discreet Jans as many biographers call her, knew Hen: ifishne and weaknesse'.| (ar did I iate 10 come betweet _ the Set dampness. Few people! | except the poor laboring class were on| the street tonight, and vainly did Lisa she he : period of her queenhood she lived In constant peril lest Anne's ruel fate vertake her he was most obedient » Hen humbled herself before his powerful friends lest they take pffensi her dignity, and flattered and fawnedthrough fea Perhaps there were times when Anne's face came to accuse her, oF ridding himse f and England's throne of hex So the wily Jane plotted to have orae accusation breugat against Any which would free Henry of her = ~ ss ; beating around the dear mother's nec ver cheek nostled against. the dea rmoilrer breast, Liss fell asleep shoulders, aoe vho succeeled Henry VIIIJ to the It; as Edward Vi. throne of England is rald of Jane that during the shor! "¥en dear" came the loving answer. | T'veccome. tortake you away from) that: wicked eld woman to a beautiful home, Where: we shali forever be to-) gether. you and°L> Now, myviittle ons rest on my breast and sleep, sleep, for we shali soon start «is our Journe When you awake you will be at hon where all is happine Rest, my- and o Boleyn her life thll Henry became noticeable She died at the nes the full Trusty, readily| 1 more embraced is France riage maid |some for fear the policeman, coming beat, might hear her and "run : as old dame. Blanchard had told her he would do in the Then the in the country nd for paring Of the early w comfortable, huddled there int the corner, which began to feel warm. Het Mts of coughing ‘ceased and she feit S@te happy. . As-she was smiling to erself, having forgotten old Madam« Planchard, she was conscious of. someOMe Near her... Looking up she beheld 2 beautiful woman with a sweet face fu of tenderest love bending over 5€r.. _ twenty-four of Anne to his grooms: To he event of his catehing her begging After a jittle while she felt quickened open } unde rstanding at a "naster tub wellodry;' never a word enemies whispered moré terrible the ac- a ler Cas | itwithbreakneck a number Fre- overcame soun a you, the said: barreleor prrhe bell ‘tow x 9 Bn tolled the7 i hs « 7 a » ieth l a Peck . Eo ee Ret peel Ru ened ‘and Lisa weariness @2ent #tid ‘she coughing smothered fitsthe in for vou and supper? - I While the blade descended which sev-| ered Anne's small head from her slenwedding feast feas i der body, y theie wedding was s in door- grandmother too te can Hvelier ao ~ Polly and Tom queen. the for "arink. I drink Trusty but bit time As you old Come. legs:a in and night. ufraid And fear|. ant up cehAPor*chulll Henry was wedded to the shimeless | wa Janenry Seymour As some. historians have said: "While Anne was making her last speech on the scaffold Jane! ‘vas nreparing for the evening's célebration of her marriage to the king. | It| ,was] that| better you will sleep tonignt and tomorrow. Do you mind?" 4A went to the corner where she! usually stood, for nearby Was a dark) ‘and deep doorway, where olf. Madame Blanchard could secrete herseif| |as Lisa begged. As the rain was com-| ing down steadily and Lisa was thinly) clad, with only an old cape about jre r) head of Bete did by from young theto downknew ard' was il, and as it was ratning she| 200 she found her golden head pillowdecided to send Lisa out to beg alone,| * d‘en-a warm: breast Looking into cautioning her to' be Garéful in sclect=|. the beautiful -woman's eyes her heart ing her prey. . "Choose. only them as iuttered for thayowere the gentle biue! jis dreseéd well and. seems happy.'"' eyes: she always, saw whenever she "Beg were now The there- sald ° George mule emerged Jevel George. |retus of ENGLAND woman | skirt? "You lazy; worthless thing!" what to do. Running away from old oecurfever had Blanchard Madame were nichts next the and fext The the | til Beg of) the same. As' soon as it. was dark|2e4 to her. She obyed the old hag oe ina coming. And "You, homeward could see great EOC impossoble "storm was that own a shame "andalcourt andfact. causing she played)-the| Anne's numerous scandal. In fact. ithels she played;ses the | i« The.e Seava s ear the good fewer,! Was they hel] = sonewith: Ata the finished -crowd, laughing ats. : Tna Pee mane ane $ nothing but thelr} °° £o: too. if she failed to that's coming-| out went Madame Blanchara .the shiner. on his! poor, suffering little Wave-oulld Bae walapered eee Sheena voice tearful) pedestrians.; play the beg-\ der. side and :the old. it pinched with pain. gentleman. one, tall and the to little a ree Paes paaine ie of first Lisa,money ashamed ea ee ee eo se are Zines to ralse | child eried. out confide not a ii cshaa bor a Bene atte aa ace = At eat. by, Trusty!"' the joy blindeds forcsuch head urged: ARIS. almost. &@ jt distance ahead lhis ‘eyes only" aoe: Mecke stopped, cold THE such. Then selzed Clubbing very hard TAH ee REA Lee paused, looked the child over and took | Moonee ndn hur ‘outstretched what Glose mount|other breeze | healthiersidefor ofus." the George in and who oh finding washee-man, ue ‘Trusty, "a opening: f may take over be-| Sue et ec doing to |}embracing water. the Trusty-did the eae Bides: waiting ‘on her at all hours of | But the Soule holiple ala the night if she should be called from the plaintive child's voice. pallet } bed in the corner to do-so:| 80:'| ejbow ‘a 7 Nor &ee the tell hs of regular old |: _her long ago whenarch old Madadame Blanchard BL ora} nat jas, t sn i fact, over a mile Hav- |} examined the ground, Yes, they distance he drew old at the edge of the désert And: and ~ dismounted The he eould sée aehadof "him sons Yad vendor five goats hla gration "na Vora" etexe| ieee wb ae hem enote Tints | Nd Beat wmee he engnte edt ah ot he cxampie nmi Jang au to l Preyarauin, Avi the layin of heded her tneinma Racer directly in their pat Was the roi Jeading Into the enny aah atalan hey had come at noonday.- Old way. of hem that's : < going te heir homes fast sic nile : Eall :a at's laughing . witl their homes she aas would 45/So while burden, carrying coal in a bucket UP! the white Wits 7B ARG eee au they going could. to Pretty soon be) per that disloyalty two flights of stairs and the ashes it again Madatné Bisnch sa' dew 1 h alone except' for the big policeman-!joyalty to her made down in the sa m Way: ' , . aene she was taught to hide from by| car ot find i Shells, el whom washed the dishes and helped to pre-) Feely ag ag the doorway, push: | running rdutd the cérner-and sa oe rns ‘ caine pare the meals for the ola woman, be-) "Please. sir. elve me . ; | casional pedestrian. If she went home! y; BoTICntolthe tenement, fanrilies had deal good about! op-| portunity tothe know a great en otters affairs. Little Pearl often| BoC \vave old Trusty the refns, for his un-|George's uncle, The sin was setting jele had warned him of these. desert) in» their. faces, and George, Wiraty, squalls, as he termed the sand-|hunery, exhausted from the heat and storm blowing sand, smiled wearlly, but mindly } But hardly had he got Into the No more of the desert for me, old saddic when the wind-full of sand- | bwa about him, making it impossi- | Trusty I don't know how you feel ble for reins hold his. eyes ape about it, but I guess you've no love fur- of. in-the across the valley. Tt was thickening |-faces jad spreading ~ rapidiy-coming his | they advan-| may yond nldod did) was} , \ nead sleeping Being arm and. thirsty yeor ee de-to refresh himself with - some jacross ® science | fond You ride glad |jagain As George there uncle} This little ofgfrl,|an own grandmother treat her so? e child a Lisa was a veritable lit tle beast mast not honest." hit.: and ries Ch a Rowe HA; : no ; ' i ws ' j the heat or. absence. of water. George's | brought' me. safe-from the desert I uncle hed. said that -he was e a2 | would have gone in an opposite dicame) could" gt , anindefinite" time /}rection had] followed Iny own ideas without water He had been known) of the compuss But we'll not tarry ;te go. two. days: without a drop and) here to congratulate ourselves No jhad suffered no bad results from it, | telling what this mystery might take either 1 notion to do We; ge » i ; stayed night, to down d and hade they set out take be ery ide It} his jour- that Was 1 ene West sat mile was, in ng gone that Prusty's rein" KiciitiC what uncle, Bliaeharied or oh i fans = g Then | He that in much visit ones ¥ r who, with his wife, did or a great wholesale cloth-| ng house. The Andersons lived across| the hall from old Madame Blanchard,| pe Pearl often whispered the fact to| Sacew ann into rr ‘ Cain) iN. HINAMA knowledge. sides this proof of sides dear ! Ls i a ws g WAY Ki I i« j ) ‘of : Jie It's good day's journey to go and return. You'll have to start before But| t henad he | his: But bright young nephew. a mule tomorrow and ‘ a baby. . I ‘ th Ms 1 muile ‘nae at emI it ing "| 1 "when " REWARD 2 when . are Ke | hi about » Wa of °méasuring "distance Tinger to George. than-ait>reall¥ wa i} gleaming Surface George | Old Trusty stumbled over. "Some deon and on Into the trackless sand, | rocks dnd "dead tree Hhranches Hon ving no trael behind: him What hot through George' heart Whe & supposed to be about a quarter of prang. from the -‘Trusty's back -and whose eyes were blue and tender. Lisa| could to educate and rear their- 1/ ttle|. way 2 picre she "had fidden . herself>,.| e felt quite sure it was her mother, , who| daughter, . Pe ar], in the right wa: Be- and jerked the moneye from : the ehild's way. " died to . : y ; : apeqcoininto from his pocket, whicee oe e e ae a great eens y IMaud Walker, bad ole woman is not your -gran'ma| the wot Hitt ea fer palm. But when clock neari Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry! Divorce, death even, was contemplated Lisa couldn't remember when she|at all. She's a wicked woman." to receive {t. reas | the corner struck nine, Lisa, cold and) yyJ17, has left in history's a name coy-| with deliberation > Sy Sarde r . / was taken to live with old Madame ona Deen every counted her money and! ered with infamy Openly she coquetBut Henry did not need urging. Inword that Pearl The instant the gentleman had pass- exhausted, 5 r , Blanehard. Sometimes in her dreams! woefully' FOES bon eit SLDUBH | ed.-on withthe. crowd. old' Madame| *?Und she had just ten cents. Ninety / ted and flirted with the faithless Hen-| deed, Oyce he became enamored of | ana eenmIroGr Macias sae. | at ey vee ence industrious} Blanchard came from the dark ‘door-| Cems to get yet! Lisa' shuddered, for! yy in the very eyes of her royal mis-; Jane, he could not rest till ne had had i : " and feeourse had drunk ' ae jr l j was that Doubtless where ended. a hotel decply |/ther pain 5 furnace ti During the pleasant ride George ex-| nM Gi: bir ont take I t animal a 1 | 1 pressed his wish to go into the desert to make some packers! study. He | ee eakrit faint . tf to 1s i day ueee early in the morning and Sren a that day. gout town at the station. wished a i ‘had | of G piling everywhere in| while here was he, less ; the one Na had> . trusty » hat S ‘ be- | sation. and 1 ov on : « re i 1 pallid ne meh ronint 4 : at . Bim Pe A 0 aerEn t echuded. y ‘ Oneling ih: he 1 Ce Lid ea h1ad Our ned ys i nq I aris iy tothe jr { 1} :* rned ni} j mide ! eu L-quarifteri im t } ‘ t ' uly i : a ‘ ‘ : heat' the! George kind | jug t } ; 9 Onde according ¥ Vay t i desert| August how home. painful |] was vice bear eS of extra vii and y infaie "of rs ti was his grandpa, | tage a Littl ai Neat called { ca ; > & for a ten-mile drive over dry, sandy roads, . His unele had a fruit ranch right on the edge of a desert, his | orchards being fed by means of ‘irri-| was hat I ral do greater. an ee e him ney with askea | grandfather ; you Hach the and gout?" his from @ mét and WALKER. Jokelet. f SW ‘ i ab ' 5 } ; achat T ' i 2 T <- t tues : eit t ¢ = "There's not a cat In all this town than 2,000 miles from home, riding : : I rsun g ra | Who : doesn't, fear my bark; underTae a tropical through great {eisyey eekeepokthemselves vec he thatquite I'm dark. around | wastes of sand oeandwhen endless satid:" ween George reach- | "I'm th I i : ¢a ; r of mit of ; C With ke:.a patios The ni ; f : i ter full f : | f ittle" eee j himself so 5 va ; ed quite: idina: ‘Drawing Oia Wrudiag eee eorge & breathless, ‘looking about ! i j .of refre rore rl tiimt lay ee. 3 at td |4 i t Py ee blioan-jug~ Pee eens Le m reute SLUT' ‘ 2 ' t ie : Valley,‘ J ! b "Not THE : i i t Wut 1 ‘ i j A 4 ‘ of } et Gea towat it } } } I George coffee, FIND ee i and : nm ned a up r-trot- i which his.meal" flavoér ‘as esee A of yilec VAS- from /afier ll t } I Od rine ( aN ter omy for --w A to himself { } i ‘ 1 t g H cat ‘ c i il losing) put sfpper, for pot the In ti | Das fru r . vic 1c d ou n ja) : nd: I teed | ig ques- in his own state, he fell to thinking very moment at his be, valleys, much think during a drouth You'd better climb a tree Or I will let my temper loose nd sun keep so cald?" But the remained unanswered. they pushed on Into the made "You I'm take*great life." from Je im ip ij up the great Salton desert baain, mak | jing of it a sea : George left the train at Yuma and = = z Beware! es The to me- | walked about the station, buying a string of beads from a Yuma Indian squaw, who, with a number of her tribe, was squatted on a blanket in ‘front of the railway stafion offering her wares for sale | | In ten minutes George was again on the train going westward through the ; Yuma _ desert. As they sped along }through sand and sand George be-j; jcame deeply impressed with the mystery and silence of the desert, and} longed to go about in it. In the distance, both to the right and the left, were dim mountains, at times almost lost in the purple haze that denoted great distance. On top these moun-'! tains gleamed snow in the tropical! Beware! .George to. my name double; have houses whose and jlevel, é T'll climb a tree » Or that raofs to protect the inhabitants from down | comes which sur tropical ; -j/the o . " oT during of the | months fiercely nine dogs | ; many erent Ive .apen: A great, year. you're just a candle (to which There June found a he day sun), to bright sun and winter, compared the great lin warm! As soft, And each one I'could handle: | Sands stretching all around. At Yuma | the train crossed the Colorado river, uncontrollable stream which has . * , | t hat I'm Known as the Great Fighting l broken through its banks and is filling| ther to slept £1 ee Nonsense - Khyme. little, boylet brand new toylet mean and poor it on the floor Saving, "You 1 will degtroylet! a M. WwW ace eeenemnnensalfe Uiinsieesinitanenem . \ Riddle, Paradix Riddle came Madame TMlanSie aad i riddle, come ree Vhat is it that is covered with Rut. which can never ‘cee? (A street full of people.) eye : « . g & ' ras acs Don't my inmign mM uo ie Ut Oi } »m sight, ita very . presence almost suffo- |eVOS seen on . some y of "o bu Waving 2 t mups,elo roo ‘he.f v jéating him The next morning, on| most of them. Ignor¢ its. exi tenes the } h irising from his berth, he dispensed | Since It belongs to a chain of greater | familys were not I with some of his heavier garments) ones. But it is about as treacherous) struck off, at when dressing, for he had now come/|@ one as.a man can lose his way. in. | néart nonuntai frito a salubrious climate where the!And IJ'}l advise you to foll northerner sometimes finds even Feb- | structio to the letter or il to h up show never for comfort warm too lruary i But George did not feel uncom-/| With us Pret g . T er OL a folloy your advice | fortable vet The first suggestion of, oe eure helping » Salton sea. ° fore we let you return to civilization nd horse The ae Sent ; ; , George left hi home in on agai Bed to F ThG » eastern states, the temperature Nothing would suit me better dé-). dled Tor Geo! : s 2 Ie rea ih lesert bélow zero It w in the | cired).Gcorge + tne, desert: just | U Peer ier of February, oy and snoy beyond thej Uncle Goer ae 4S) i month "a r nountains, h! for } i hi pS ay all over the ground. George was eee ere) are. DAO cro eee . Nee is tre eee « si ny | tfec Tae vit dressed for that sort of weather, andj uncle. Pruth 1 ther ATA I a ; rey ‘ when he artived at El Pas Tex., en |deserts in'this part of California that) cour pare route to southern. California, he was! one Is lost for names hem Phe nie dd am obliged to put his overcoat out of : | geological. name for desert is to od i 1 0 zt hE" I Wee . 9pe=x LiCeVy t es PAGE in the Desert Got Lost George When | | LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1907. CHILDREN'S Hero Meets Hero The Cat. SALT » OUR 8 KP==re REPUBLICAN, 9 THE INTER-MOUNTAIN 6 2 |
