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Show F 7 PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH TU tell you, Margaret," he said This buck has tried his blamedest to at last speaking with apparent un- kill me and done worsen that Noconcern but with deadly point Im body outside a lunatic asylum would sorry youre mixed up with that fel- turn a hand to help him. If I wasnt low. But I coqjdnt do a thing for a blamed fool, I wouldnt." Ask Bob She bowed her head. you, if I wanted to and I cant hondo to went on, "to bring McAlpin estly say Iin looking anything Scott, he for that man. Theyre going to hang in here McAlpin is waiting for me him and its almost too good for down stairs. But if you want to save Mm that, if you want it, is my honyour man, dont let Pardaloe come est opinion. But you might go and in. When Scott and McAlpin come talk to the two Cole boys, John and In here, stay outside the door till I Abe, 'If Abes aUve .ypt; and to the send for you. Copyright by Charlei Scribners Sons. teamsters. If theyre willing to let Boys, he said to McAlpin and Mm go he shifted again on his feet Scott the moment the door of his I wont say anything. room closed behind them, Meg, out heartIn she there, is the wife of this hound "But, John, pleaded moment I tell you, I must talk to You didnt know it; I didnt breaking tones, If you wont say anyhim alone now. men of Im lost. None these around here knew It. I ean't thing, nobody It was Impossible not to acknowltotell would me have ; or for for you any everything she told me mercy, edge her extremity. Carpy reopened him have If to no I to, have but him. theyd night stopped They hang Selwoods door. He spoke to Parda-lo- e down and Scott. Look here, boys," he hearts, no feeling you know, I might Starbuek hanged before I got Ive as tell well stones in there. And I cant why the out and you go beg said, beckoning with his head, both of you. Step out hre a minute. Meg the streets for mercy. Selwood stood motionless. He wants to talk to John, private. a knife on me in that clinch and brushed pulled Selwood, cleaned By FRANK H. SPEARMAN WNU Service. Continued CHAPTER XV 18 it, Bob? he asked at length. Scott, lifting his eyes, answered with a broader smile and another question : Got any money? What is No inquiry have surprised could Sehvood more. Not a whole lot." he confessed with abating interest. How much do you want? Two thousand dollars. Selwood took it for a Joke. Well, Im broke Just et present; but if its coming to you, youll get it. What do you want with two thousand dollars? Tve got a man down below the barn you been wanting to see. Who's the man I inant to see? asked Selwood, with only moderate Interest. The old padre." Carpy was stowing his instruments away in his bag. lie looked up with d an exclamation' of astonishment. Scott searehingly. regarded You mean the old padre I wanted to see? Scott nodded. Selwood, who had taken a chair, rose to his feet, and with one hand picked up his coat to throw ovpr his shoulders. Scott helped him. Where in thunder did the old padre turn up? asked Carpy. "McAlpin passed him on the Cala-basa- s trail about an hour ago, when he was bringing in Dave. He had a couple of Gunlocks with him. Scott so designated the Indians from Gun-loc- k reservation, "McAlpin told me he met a black-rob- e and that he was on his way up here and going to camp along the river. So I rode down there and talked with his guides. They told me they had a very old black-rob- e So I talked to along. him. Theyre heading for the Black-fee- t country. Tsaw the big fire In the sky, he told me, and I said to my men the new town is burning; many people are in distress. We will go there before we start up the river! I held my lantern Into his face, continued Scott. He is the same man whose picture you had in your room up at the hall. And I, told him there was a white man herA wanted to see him.' And toVo to thf horse barn if it wasnt burned. But he said he would camp down by the river. Hes Sol-woo- - there. If there was a surprise for Carpy In the recital there was a greater one awaiting him in Selwoods reception of it. For a moment Selwood did not I I f ! i ! When he did, Well Carpy stood Selwood deliberately. If youve got the man, the money is coming to you when I can dig it up. But dont hold him on my account I dont care about seeing him. Carpy was well nigh speechless with amazement. What ! he exhis breath. claimed, recovering Don! care about seeing him? Man ! he cried. Don't want to see the man if it is the man thats got your whole story? Have you lost your senses? Selwood, standing unmoved, parried the attack with stubborn indifference. He felt that Christie had cast him off what did a name, good or bad, mean to him now? But he would say not one word, and Doctor Carpy, unable to stir him with eloquent reproach, in the end lost his own temper. Here after all these years,. he protested, "that blamed old martinet Roper has been running over you, and you get a chance to nail him, by Jing, you wont take the trouble to do it! All right. Ill do It myself. the I wont let that doctor exclaimed. old buck run over me any longer. Bob, continued the incensed surgeon, pointing his finger at Scott, hold on and his to your black-rob- e If we can't find anything else for breakfast, bring em up here for a cup o coffee, anyway. And with Selwood staring at the wall, and the half-bree- d grinning perplexed, .Carpy flung out of the room. In the gloom of the hall, Carpy, still exasperated by Set wood's obstinacy and talking resentfully to himself almost ran into Christie, a pathetic figure, he thought, waiting for a chance to speak to somebody. As he stopped with an apology, she seemed encouraged, for she stepped Doc-torshe exclose to him. a in claimed, frightened whisper, is Mr. Selwood terribly hurt? Carpy laughed as he looked into her appealing eyes one of those reassuring laughs that would bring life and hope to a dying man. Christie, he murmured, there's more the mats ter with that fellow than Just slashing. I think, continued the doctor, eyeing her with a signif- leant expression, that if youd talk yon could tell better than anybody with else whats him. Christie, youre a fine girl, good enough for the best, or I wouldn't talk to you so plain. But youre in love with John Selwood and hes in love with you. There, there! I didnt mean to make you cry, child. Ehe looked up. What can I do, Doctor? I thought she pleaded. the world of him why shouldnt I confess it to you? You wouldnt betray me. I do yet. Now he has saved my Ufa and more than my life. But speak. open-eye- said red-skin- f ? s t i l I t Star-buck- t . (ls how do you think I felt when I was told by that vile man and by him that he was a gambler? The doctor looked perplexed. I knowed It, Christie. I knowed that was what made the trouble , tween you, he said. I couldnt blam you so much, neither," he added regretfully, even If Tin nothing but a poor drunken doctor myself." You shant say that! she exclaimed indignantly. You're nothing of flie kind ! Youre the kindest, best doctor In the whole world ! He shook his head. Tel! the truth, girl, and shame the devil. If I wasnt I wouldnt be wasting ont my life in this But I want to say only this: I wisht somehow it could be fixed up. I may not be able to speak it in words, but I know what goes into the making of a man, my girl; and whatever it is, its in John Selwood. And if he ever quits the business lies in, youll see a man all through him. A flood of words broke through Christie's pent-uOh, I feeling. believe every word of It, Doc-toYou've no need to tell me that. lies just the finest man In the world, if A timid suggestion oched only You, Doctor, curred to her. if youd ask him to give up that business you have more influence' with him than any one else he Christie, Carpy cut her off. said, emphasizing every deliberate word with a shake of the head, youve got more Influence over him in your one little finger than I have all over me. "But. Christie, Tve noticed this: it aint so good when somebody coaxes a man to quit anything even if he does quit it as when he quits a thing himself, out of Just his own free will. Now If John Selwood ever quits the game of his own accord bet on him!" The look Christie gave him ns she went back to her room made him ten years younger. He strode toward the stairs, only to encounter- Margaret Hyde hurrying to meet him. Why, yes, the boys chipped up a little, grumbled Carpy in answer to Margaret's manifest anxiety for he was thinking of his own perplexities "ncttliing to hurt much, he added. You look queer; what's with you? Aint shot anywheres, are you?" The drawn face and the sunken, anxious eyes of his housekeeper made his question nlmost an involuntary one. She answered to reassure him, but she could not hide her distress. Im not wounded. Doctor. , But might she managed to say in I, I wonder, her low, restrained voice a voice that, no matter how often it broke, never wholly lost a note of once gen' tie breeding 'might I, she added, repenting her plea, speak to John Selwood right away just for a few hell-hol- p r. Star-buc- up up as decently as he could be with his bandaged arm end hands, stood before the table preparing to go to the barn. He was buckling on hfs cartridge belt; his cont was thrown over his shoulder. Hearing Margarets footsteps, he looked around. One glance revealed the agony In her face. He laid unlighted on the table a cigarette that Scott had rolled for him, and spoke. What is It, Margaret? He pointed to n chair. Youre not hurt? Looking at him like one dumb with she emotion, she sat down. Wlu-spoke, she had already forgotten the question he had Just. asked. Mr. Selwood He interrupted her. He had taken his revolver up from the table and was slowly slipping cartridges hack Into the cylinder. S'nce when, he demanded with good nntured unconcern, .did I stop being Just plain John? Never, to me never,"- she said But tonight I come to beg brokenly. my life at your hands hoping, pray-'n- g yon wont deny ine. Let me tell ion what I mean tel! yon my story. wns married ten years ago, when I was eighteen. Oh, yes. she said, to cut off ids surprise, I know how old I look trouble has done that. For three years I had the best husband in the world kind, considerate, devoted. His friends persuaded him to go into politics. They elected him city treasurer of the little town where we lived in Michigan. That was his undoing; it meant being out nights, being a good fellow, drinking, spending. wasting. It lasted two years. And during that time I fell sick. I was very sick, a long time, and lie did everything he could In the world to care for me to relieve me. I cost him so much, oh, so much for doctors more' than I wanted him to spend; but he would try everything that gave us the least hope. He said I should have the best care, and he gave it liberally, extravagantly, to me. Then one night he come home. He had been drinking. She stopped an Instant. It was the first time in my life, John, I had seen him in drink, she went on. "He told me that night his accounts were short that the next day his books would be examined; that he must face the penitentiary or run away. In her agony she sat, now twisting and clasping her fingers, now-- her minutes? hands; now looking at the floor, now Doctor Carpy lifted his eyebrows looking at Selwood Imploringly her with a grating laugh, and as if words wrung from her reluctant lips. When he told me that, she faltered things were getting too complicated. I was frightened. I was so weak on, "So thats what youre hanging that night! And I was wicked. I told him to go, John to go at once. But to write me. And that when he found some safe place far away In the West, I would join him. Selwood only Ictoked at her not unfeelingly, but as one who could say nothing because he knew of nothing to say. Slargaret moistened her parched lips. He never wrote me, she said, in a low, hard voice; If lie did. I never got the letter. I made up my mind he must have been hurt, or killed, aud that I would find out, or find him, myself. And after wenty, weary months of search I did find m.v husband here In Sleepy Cat." Her eyes had dropped from her listeners eyes. Her head hung. Her He was not voice fell still lower. hurt, nor dead. But worse for me Ids feeling for me was dead. He cared nothing for me nothing " But you, interposed Selwood coldly, you cared for him. Its an old story. Well, what then? I stayed here while he was here; then I went to Thief River to be near him not chasing him, not bothering him hoping sometime to repay hitn for his old goodness to me. But he had chosen had company, and through drink was going from bad to worse. I can't excuse, him for the evil. But So I Talked to Him. I know there is good in my husband. around for? Why didn't you say so? Ive come to you to plead for Ms life." To me?" echoed Selwood, mildly Well, now, I'll tell you; if youre worrying about John, dont do It. That astonished. Why to me? Whats his boy aint hurted none to speak of. name? Shucks I I never thought It took all her courage to speak. She caught her breath. Its not He doesn't use his real name here," about Min, she exclaimed. In d!stre. she said in strained, broken tones You wouldnt know it if I mentioned far from it! But I must speak with him. It. H & is known here as Cliff Star-bucFraid its too late to ketoh him now, objected the doctor, still mys"Starbuek ! ! tified by her strange interest. "The She heard the name blurted out in With dry, deboys are waiting to set up another hateful amazement. telegraph pole party. And they're spairing eyes she watched the paswaiting for John to come down to sionless features before her harden the station before they begin. See into the cold refusal that she saw him when lie comes back, Meg. was coming. Her lips could scarcely frame Leaning against the table, with his I must see John Selwood, words. hack to it, the gambler shifted from she repeated, with a supreme effort one foot to the otlier, his eyes, that l. at "I must see him now. he might avoid her eyes, fixed on 4he Who is in there with him? floor; he flattened his left hand at Bill Iardaloe and Bob Scott. Ids side on the table, and his right she exclaimed, stepping hand rested on the grip of the ievoi Doctor, closer In her almost frantic appeal, ver lie hud slung lu the scabbard at help mel Ask them to step out a his hlD. , self-contro- 1 k. he muttered. tonight, Her plea was so swift. He was , . , drinking tonight He dragged Christie Fyler out of this hotel down to that Words could convey no more of hateful, bitter angerothan his words carried. He was drinking, John drinking! And the others were going to burn the hotel I was here, I know and I went with her to protect her, John. I went with her! Id have given up my life rather than she should come to harm. I thought of her. I thought " to you would be to let him hang." , She sprang up from her chair, and clasping one of her bony hands In the other, at the waist of her worn dress, before him. "John, stood, listen! Have you' never done things you wish you hadn't done? He snorted. "I hope they dont class me with that You know what whisky will do to a man , For God's sake, dont blame his meanness on whisky whiskys got enough to answer for! I dont, I dont. I blame it on myself. When I should have told him that terrible night to do right, I told him to do wrong. Hty me I Have a little mercy for me, John. Think of the old- padre whose picture you kept here on the wall so long who has spent his life forgiving men, helping them. Oh, Ill pray that you find that padre,. John, If. he were here, he would ask you for the sake of Christ and Ilis Mother to pity me tonight, to 'let Clift go. Think of Christie, John-- . You love her, she loves you. Would you spare him If she asked you? Ive told her all this. Shes In my room now down the hall. Shell beg for his life of you this moment if youll let her she told me she would. She has forgiven him. Oh, ner words poured out In a God ! torrent low, tearless. She sank before him on her knees. Til do anything for you you could ask of a woman, John. Ill pray for you every day and night of my life. Have pity on mel Spare him to me for one more just one more chance ! She had caught his bandaged1 hand in her thin, knotted fingers and covered it with her forehead. He stood irresolute, wanting to puli it away and ashamed to uneasily listening and thinking. A long time he stood. Then, suddenly, his face darkened. He jerked himself angrily up. What do you want me to do? He threw the words at her with a rude savageness that would have frightened another. But Margaret knew what his words meant. She scrambled to her feet and caught his hand again in her hands, and broke into a flood of tears. Oh, I dont know. I dont know." she sobbed ; then she lifted her streaming face with the tender confidence of a child. You will know, John. "Sit down, She he snapped. shrank away. From her chair she only looked her hope and her gratitude and watched anxiously the play of his features. Selwood with a vacant expression, took up from the table Scotts cigarette, put it between his lips, and slowly felt for a match., Im doing something I dont approve of, he said sulkily. "Nobody else will approve of it, thats a cinch. My advice T elephant: on Organ The organ at the Liverpool (England) cathedral la equipped with a complete telephone system. The In- strument Is so vast that, when the tuners are at work, 17 telephones are required In order that those engaged on outlying parts of tl.e organ may communicate with the mu a manipulating the karnoaia. Utah : i A was Recommendation OGDEN Unimade by the district office of the ted States bureau of public roads that conOra Bundy of Ogdqn be given the section the Stanley building for tract road in Idaho. of the Ketchum-Claytoat the bubidder low was Mr. Bundy of $52,994,58 offer with-areau office road and of the miles for grading were rebuilding a bridge. Two bids ceived on the surfacing Job of 4.75 s road. miles on the These were taken under advisement. LEHI Expenditures amounting to about $61,000 have been made in preat paring the national guard camp Utah for the guardsJordan Narrows men, who will go into training there AdJuly 15, it was stated Thursday by He W. G. Williams. General jutant thought that work on the -camp would be completed by July 10. EPHRAIM Forest supervisors of Idaho district No. 4 held a, meeting at the' Great Basin experiment station. station supervisor, was C. in charge. . A1 members of the forest supervision of district No. 4 of Idaho were present with the following memdistrict office of Ogden; bers C. N. Wood, Ernest Winkler and Dana Parkinson, all of whom are assistant n McCall-Meadow- In an effort to save turkey industry from the various competition Argnetine producing organizations are combining to- procure a duty increase of three cents a pound on birds imported from The Utah Poultry South America. Producers Cooperative association has been asked to cooperate with other westen organizations in a communication received Thursday by C. C. Edmunds, secretary of the Utah assoDUCHESNE - Just ciation. Spare Him to Me for One More One More Chancel SALT LAKE For the first time in Utah fruit annals, an entire special promised her his life but I've been train of cherries from Utah county just blamed fool enough to do it left for the Chicago market. The that's all. And he spoke low and cherries from Utah county left for the I Chicago market. ' The cherries were when with stubborn intoning make a promise, I dont allow any expressed over the Denver & Rio man to Interfere. To begin with, Grande Western Railroad company Starbuek is my own personal prison- and the eight cars are expected to arer. I want to get him away without rive in Chicago Saturday. Utah cherhurting some peoples feelings you ries are said to sell as high as 75 cents can- - understand that. Will you help? a pound in Chicago, which would give Well, he continued, as he listened each carload a retail valuation of to their protests of loyalty with an ungrudging assent, I thought maybe MT. PLEASANT Mayor Joseph you would. Now call in Meg. Seely said that it is generally believed Scott opened the door, and Margarthat sufficient pledges have et Hyde, looking questionlngly from been received acceptable to assure the success of one to the other, as if to read her the Sanpete Water Users assiciation fate in their eyes, stepped inside, and for rite storage of water on project the door was closed behind her. SelGooseberry creek. wood Starbuek and poke again. RICHFIELD There will be some Big Haynes, he said to her, are tied more highway construction in Sevier harness-rooIn the at up and locked the barn. Lefevers men are guard- couaty this summer. Bids are being advertised for tfye construction of a ing them. Ill go down with you all concrete road exceeding three miles and take care of Lefever. Hell call in length, to be laid between Richfield of T his men and leave me to look and Venice. These bids are to be after my prisoner. Bob, you cut 15, loose. McAlpin, you have horses opened at Salt Lake City on July is expected that construction and it saddled at the hack door of the barn, thereand Bob will ride with Meg and him w'ork will begin immediately comso1 that the work will be after to the east end of town. Nobody, he the summer months. spoke now to Margaret Hyde, will pleted during PROVO That Utah is coming back bother you beyond that. Keep out of the way of travel and of our men, but in pork production is indicated in the get east as fast as you can. If you June 1 pig survey of the department can get to Medicine Bend, youll be of agriculture, issued by George A. all right nobody there to bother. But Scott, regional statistician. The surbetween here and th'ere youll have vey snows an increase of 21.2 per cent to look out. Any of our hoys or the in the number of sows farrowed in the Vigilantes will shoot him on sight. spring of 1927, compared with the Leave the horses at Medicine Bend spring of 1926. For the United States, as a whole, this increase is 3 per cent. in our barn Well, I guess thats all. . $14,-00- 0. , Star-buc- k Under one pretext or another, Lefever, amenable to Seivvoods plea for Meg Hyde, who, for Lefever, had never refused to take care of a sick teamster, got rid of the guards. It was more trouble for Lefever to dispose of the remainder of his fighting men, but on the strength of burning rumors, in the invention of which the wagon boss easily excelled, the men were sent on various but pressing wild goose chases, aud Selwoods way was cleared. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Addition to List of Fruits Without Seeds - Itt a Privilege the American :xxzxxxxxxx'xxxxxxxxxzxxxxx$x missionary of Bahia, Brazil, discovered a new kind of orange growing wild which contained seeds of propagation not lu its own body, but in a little sae at the top. He sent 12 of the trees to the United States, and although they did not live long, others were budded from them, and are budding still. A Mrs. Eliza Tlbbets gave us Wash- t News Notes to Live in district foresters. dry-eye- There have long been seedless oranges, lemons and grapefruit, and now there are seedless apples. A seedless fruit does not propagate its own species. It grafts Itself on branches grown from fruit with seeds. The seedy mother provides the fecundity; the seedless fruit gives the pulp aud the flavor. The idea of a seedless apple comes from the seedless orange of California, a freak of nature discovered over a hundred years ago. About 1820 a X of-th- e . of you I Ington Navels, oranges without seeds. One of the trees she planted In 1873 is still alive nnd producing good fruit. Next In favor come Valencias, with about a seed apiece. It is as well they retain it, for California grows most of the best oranges of the world, and if there were no seeds there would soon be no oranges.' Napoleon Rude to Women Seeing that the emperor was Inclined to be talkative (1815, after the return from Elba), I told him that in general women did not like him because he did not bother to he agree-ubl- e to them, although they influenced the minds of tnen far more than he perhaps realized. Napoleon laughed and said; Do you think the empire ought to fall into the hands of the women? When I compliment them on their appearance or tell them they are not becomingly gowned, what more can I say? I have other things to think about. They have changed beyond recognition since I have been away. Now they all talk politics, whereas before they talked about clothes. From the Memoirs of Queen Hortense, in Revue des Deux Molides, Paris (Translated for th Kansas errty Star). The number of pigs saved is 15.5 per cent greater than the figures for the of 1926. MYTON According to spring the report of the rainfall for the month of June, as given by the government record at Myton, precipitation was 1.96 inches. The heavy rain for the past two weeks was quite general all over the basin. During the same period in 1926 the rainfall was .16 of an inch. The rain of the past month was the first heavy fall for the season. PARK CITY The dampened "pop, pop of occasional firecrackers was all that marked the observance of the Fourth of July here. The rain, which commenced Sunday night, fell heavily most of the day and spoiled the big celebration that had been arranged. LOGAN Seven thousand live hundred automobiles passed over the highway In Logan canyon during the per- -' iod from June 3 to June 24, Inclusive, according to a register which has been placed on a bridge near the mouth of the canyon at Owens camp. CEDAR CITY This years lamb crop in Utah is smaller than that of last year, but it is in splendid condition, according to George A. Scott, U. S. livestock statistician, who Thursday from a- tour of the sheep sections. Mr. Scott made visits to Utah, Juab, Millard, Beaver, Iron, Garfield, Piute, Sevier, Sanpete and Wasatch counties. The sheep are juKf beginning to go to the summer ranges, he reports. - HEBER CITY Due to an unusually high yield per acre, Utah promises to have a larger crop of canning peas this year than in 1926, according to estimates made by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the department of agriculture at Salt Lake. The Utah yield is forecast at two tons per acre, compared with an average of one ton per acre for the rest of the country. It is estimated that production of canning peas in Utah this year will be 16,900 tons, compared with 12,400 tons last year, in spite of the fact that the Men, like bullets, go farthest when acreage this year is only 8460, while in 1926 it was 9510. they are smoothest. Richter. |