Show TWO jVAlLUJlES I Ho was not much of a man lo look alI al-I he leaned back In the chair opposite Iho city editor In the dingy little newspaper news-paper office Ills rough sandy beard showed several weeks growth hit blue eyes hid an uncertain vacant expression expres-sion In them that verified the story told by hit breath his clothes were shabby and his old overcoat even In tho warmth of tho office wns buttoned up close undir hla chin In n way that suggested sug-gested a ilMrlh of other clothing Ho did I I not look like a gentleman The city editor opposite even In his shirt sleevtf with the ugly green shade pulled down over his eyes hud n pa Irlolan bearing that was unmistakable They were not at work They were walling for the telephone to ring up tho account of Ihe hanging down at Scoop The office IoU dark except for the ono Incandescent light that swung OUT the city editors table and tho Inure I-nure of the two men on either aide stood out In bold relief showing limp Iy I the contrast between IIlrllla con trust so decidedly In tho city editors fivor Yet there bad been a lime leu yea ago when Mr Miirvln the soclut leader of the own then mining camp liad refuted to allow llctherly tho city editor to lavish hla attentions and affections af-fections upon her pretty titter and had smiled en Sherwin Helhcrly and Sherwin were friends + rltmYkd bm hwmrat ewtlWmwo Sherwin the more brilliant of the two had coached Hetberl all Iho way through and solved his problems translated his Ircck anti written his dally themes A few year after they graduated 1 they hud 1 met In Iho west iinexpcrtedly unit hud renewed tho friendship For more than a year they worked together oil a laity paper I It was not strange after having learned during his college course to believe be-lieve that Sherwin was allpowerful that Httbtrly thnuld turn lo him when the courie of his loon affairs fulled to run smooth Hherwln was equal to the emergency It was a comparatively simple tirnngemcnt Mrs Marvin favored fa-vored Sherwin sod Elite the pretty little hazel eyed slater favored llcth erly erlyThe The scheme by which Helherly and hale profiled everything and Hherwln nothing was first put Into execution he night of a firemans ball to which 1 t er READ Till MAOAZINia Sherwin took little There was little irsemblanco between the Hherwtn In the tliblly buttoned old overcoat and slouch hat and tho Sherwin In drens suit who called for KUIc thnt night nt I Mra Marvin While he waited for her I he sat In the bark parlor and talked to Mrs Marvin with ns much composure com-posure and tood fcllowahtp aa If ho bad not been plotting to deceive her Wale caine downstairs In her fluffy white gown and long white cloak her dark hair piled high on the top of her head I her eyes tptrktlng her cheeks flushed I tl I not bringing with her the fragrance of the rotes Sherwin had tent her And Sherwin looking at her as the stood a moment In the doorway did not wonder at lletherjys detpcrailon They went to the hall and Sherwin danced the first dance with her and then left her not only to dance with lletherly but to walk homo with him after the ball That wan In the spring and all summer sum-mer the little drama went ou Biter win took Kttte lo parties and lletherly took her home Sherwin look Elsie to drive and they drove out of town Into he tpley lute forests t where lUthtrly was wtttlng for them While 1t I tether and KM t drove Sherwin lay on hta tack on the pint nell > a and klnno Unick i l riot tits magsiliio lie htd brought with him until they returned Then ht drove the young lady home and Hetlrerly returned by another way After awhile Sherwin seemed l to low I Intermit In the stories sad topic of the day His msgailnet lay uncut em the round beside him while he watched the dlsoppMrlng carriage until It was lost to sight on the farther slope of the Mil Then he would throw himself down with his fare toward sky that seemed scarcely higher then the top of the pine trees and philosophize on life In general As the summer waned hit philosophy grew bitter One day ho reached out for II lltllo cluster of the grayblue Oregon grape that grew close to his hand halfhid den under their rich crimson and dark green foliage He studied them for n moment noting Ihelr artistic twenty and then put them In his mouth finding find-ing a keen relish In their internee Theyre like everything else In life he mused And Elsie found him cross and unreasonable as they drove back to town He had not sympathy with her enthusiasms and ho expressed bits lick of It sharply and abruptly He taw no beauty In the scarlet sumach against the gray cliff he lAW nothing remarkuble In the bllmllnk that hurried hur-ried across the road and along the fallen tree by Ihe way he had no de alto lo get out and dig ferns when they saw them tall and luxuriant by the roadside And the view of tho town aa they saw It first from the top of the long road cut out of the lime rock the scattered little town encircled by mountains some In tho shadow snit some glorious In tho fast vanlaidng sunlight stretching away till tho far off ieaks were blue and hazy ngalntt Ibo Ikhe had teen It hundreds of limes so had the What was there to rave nboiitT Kherwlns part In tbo affair Mrs Marvin never knew but the did bravo enough to know that opponltlon In the matter of her sitters lovo affairs was useless And early In the winter lletherly nit Ktslc wcro married KIslo was Just 18 and childish frlvoloua oral light Most of lletherly friend doubted tile wisdom of hla ronmo Ho was young nod had hits way to make In Iho world and llltlc with her pretty face and Irreaponidble In poiiM > qtirnl wad seemed tho last woman wo-man In the world to Im I Ibo making of a man Sherwin was not present nt tho wedding wed-ding lie WU capful out of town a few days before on urgent biulnex ijo raid that note which brought his congratulations con-gratulations and accompanied tho little Diesdon clock Ho did not como back Homo ono heard from hlmn few months liter In Kansas City where ho wna doing police reporting on a dally paper Then his friends lout track of him Helherly and hits wife went east Ibo Marvin moved away and they too dropped out of Iho life of which they had been n part People lilt not long lultsed In tboto western towns that have to little that In pcrinnont It was nearly ten > curs after that 4letteaelyoeturonloot t aU volition on his old 1 paper A few month later Hhorwln his life wrecked by to ho weakness weak-ness that had always stood between him and success drifted Into town and applied for work on the old paper No one oIl would hate given It to him but lletherly bad inner horn In a position po-sition to refuse Sherwln anything You can go down and da the hanging hang-ing If > ou want to he said but Sher wIll didnt want to so lilt Inborn refinement re-finement revolted ngnlntt lIch u scene So lletherly sent a OUIIR fellow fron tho office lo get the notes unit kept Sherwln la write It up Tho whole office was waiting Ou III tho eomputlngroom thin printers wore having lunch Ono wat worklni elturoly on the last little Inky Icthcrly and Hhcrwin smoked and hiked of old times of college dnn and lion days of tho early gold excllo bent In lie hills when they hat worked together tho paper lletlicr Iy talked freely of hula buslnes until Inanclal affair for Iho last ten years lie had worked for nwhllo on a pipc In el Chicago then In New IAbolll he nnd not been very successful elthe from n business or a professional stand paint He talked rapidly and then hulled Sherwln with questions nut Mierwln was reticent And you never married Helherly asked and Hher join shook his head Why didnt you Sherwln laughed Wouldnt any woman wo-man have me he said this Up framed themsclve for a question hilt tho door opened nnd tome ono came III I with a want ad Interrupted him When tine man went out lletherly rung up tho olephono savagely and ukrd II I there wa no word from Scoop jet and when they told him No ho tat down anathematizing the world In general nnd Scoop In particular Once again Sherwln tried to put huts question 0111 was Interrupted by the foreman with some proofs They read thorn silently and when the last ana was hung im the hook Sherwln knocked the ashes out of his Pita and nuked In tho most mat tcrotfact way And Mrs lletherly How It I the Tho telephone boll rung sharply and lIelherlY sprung up to answer an-swer It Come here Sherwln htl mid Ita the hanging Ho tunnel the receiver over to Sherwin sod walked out Into the compostng room An hour later when the prcitman alone In the office was turning out tho morning papers containing the two column account of the hanging of lied bitted Jim the murderer written In I Shcrwlns easy flowing descrlptlv style Sherwln waa walkltiR down street with an old friend It Will hla first night In town They spoke 01 lletherly and Hhorwln asked his qnen lion again In a different form Ia I Mrs Hitherly hero The other gel low started Havent you heart She ran off with another fellow nearly threw years ago lletherly hero tor a divorce |