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CHAPTER w.
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An hour prior % this little episode
Jim Manson hau sauntered up to-
the ticket window only 90 find that the
train from the east was 80 minutes
late. He turned away with a little
shrug of relief. IL was a foreign role
be was playing-this assumption or
the duties OF a knight in dancing at
tendance on strange ladies' Secretly.
he chafed under 20: outwardly, he was
magnihoenuy Indifferent lie had a
reputation 10 sustain, a reputation OF
having yet 20 meet that which would
lower his proud boast that he was
afraid OF nothing under the sun, Meth
er man nor devil But he doubted his
ability so 20 direct the point of view
OF the Boss or the Scribe or the rest
OF the boys OF the Three Bars ranch.
who were on sull hunt for his spot
Of vulnerabuity.
The waiting room was hot-unbear-
ably so TO a man who practically lived
In the open. He strolled outside and
down the tracks He found himself
wishing the train had been on time
Had Ii been so, 1.-THE impending
meeting-would now have been a
thing OF the forgotten past. He must
needs fortify himself all over again
But sauntering down the track toward
the stockyards he filled his cob pine.
lighted il. and was comforted. He.
had a 45-minute reprieve.
The boys had tried most valiantly
to persuade him to FIX up" for this
event lie had sconed them indig
nantly. If ne was good enough as
he was-black WOODEN shirt. red neck
erchief and all-for men. Just so was
ne good enough for any female that
ever lived So he assumed a little
s"agger as he stepped over the ties
and tried TO make himself believe that
he was glad be had not allowed him
self TO be corrupted by proners Of
blue shirts and white neckerchiefs.
lie was approaching the stockyards-
Ihere was movement there. Sounds
OF commands, blows. profane epithets.
and worried Rawlings changed the
placid evening calm into noisy strife.
II is always place interesting to
cowmen. Jim relocated thoughts Of
the coming meeting 10 the back
ground while he leaned on the fence.
and. with idle absorption. watched the
loading OF cattle into stock car. A
switch engine, SCANNING and spiutter-
ing, stood ready TO make way for an
other car as seen as the present one
should be laden. re vas not the only
spectator. Others we're before him.
Two men strclled up to the side OBJ
posite as ne settled down to musing
interest.
Gee! he swore gently under his
breath, "ef tina; amt Bin Brown! Yep
II Is for a ia Wonder what he's
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for Dick Gordon Co show OF what stun
he is made IL was for this that I
worked for his election. though I con
TESS little thought at the time that
proofs for him would be furnished
from my own herds. Present condi-
lions humiliate me utterly. Am a
weakling that they should exist? Are
we all weaklings?
A faint. appreciative smile passed
over Wiliston's face 80. Langford
did not look a weakling. neither had
the professed humiliation lowered his
proud head
Langford STROBE to the door. Then
he turned quickly
Look here. Winston. 7 shall make
you angry, I suppose. but it has to 20
in the cattle country. and you little
fellows haven't shown MP very white
in these deals. you know that your.
SELF"
"Wcu?"
us2~
"If You mean. am I going 10 tell
what ] know whom called upon" an.
swered Wmiston. with simple die
nifty that made Langford color with
sudden shame. Il am. There are many
or us little fellows who would have
been glad 90 stand MP aeainst the
rustng outragcs long ago had we re-
ceived any backing The moral sun
port OF men OF your class has not been
what you might call sort of 'on the
spot support now. has it?" relapsine
into gentle sarcasm. lat least. un-
I'll you came 20 the front" he quail
fed
You win not be the loser. and
there's my hand on it, sad Lang
ford. frankly and earnestly. ignoring
the latter part OF the speech. The
Three Bars never forgcts friend
They may do You before we are
through with them. Wimston. but re.
member. the Three Bars never for.
gets"
Mary Williston. from her window.
as is The way with a maid. watched
the two horscmen for many a mile ass
they eailoned away She followed them
with her eyes while they slowly be-
came faint, moving spccks in tho level
distance and until they were altogeth-
or blottod out. and there was no sign
or living thing on the plain that
stretched between. But Paul Lang
ford. as is the way with a man. for
got that be had seen a beautiful girl.
and had thrilled 10 her glance lie
looked hack not once as ne urged his
trusty little mare on TO see Dick
Gordon.
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NAL was cieversy roped and THROWN 20
the ground. The man who was plain
iy directing the affair. he OF the droop-
Ing hat and lazy shoulders. stepped TO
the fire. Williston held his breath
with the intensity OF his interest The
man STOPPED and took an iron from
the IRE IL was the endyate rod OF a
wagon and Il was redhot In the act
OF STRENGTHENING himself from his
STOPPING position. the glowing iron
stick In his right hand. he nung from
his head with an easy swing tie aop-
ping hat that inte:ferei with the nicely
or sight requisite in the work he was
about 20 d. and faced sluarcly that
quiet innocent locking srot which
held the watching man in iis brush:
and I'm the moment I'm which Wllstou
drew hastily back the fear OF discov-
cry beat.ng talto3 OF cola chlis down
his spine. reco-nitoa Of the man came
70 him in a clarifying burst of con.
prohension
But the man evidently saw nothing
and suspected nCh.ug Ills casual
glance was probably only manifesto
ton OF his lab.tual attitude OF being
never OF his guard. lie approached
the PROSTATE steer with Indifference
TO any meaning that might be attached
10 The soft snapping Of twiss caused
by WHEslCn's Involuntary drawing
back into the denser shadows.
~ don't suppose now. do YOU. that
any blamed. interferin' officer IS
a-loafn round where be oughtn't TO
be-" said the second man with
laugh.
Wlliston. much relieved. again
peered cautiously through the brush.
He was confident a brand was about
70 be worked over. He must see
what there was 20 see.
Easy now. boss" said the second
man with an ofcious warning. He
was a big. beefy fellow with a heavy.
hardened face. Willston sounded the
depths OF his memory but failed 20
place him among his acquaintances in
the COW country.
Gamble on me-" returned the lead.
err with ready good nature. "Tn make
IL as clean as a boiled shirt / take it
you don't know my reputation. pard.
well, you'll learn. You're all right.
only trine green. that's alI"
With a firm. quick hand. he began
running the soaring iron over the
right hip OF The animal When he had
finished and the steer. released. stag.
gored 20 its feet. Wiuiston saw the
brand clearly. To was J. r. II &c had
been worked over another brand. it
certainly was a clear job. He could
see no indications OF any old markings
whatsoever.
Too clean 20 be worked over
lazy 8, thought Williston. but not
over three bars"
There were six reds" said the
chief. surveying tho remaining bunch
with a critical eye. zone must have
wandered on while I was zone. Get
out there in the brush and round him
up, Alec. while tackle this long
horned gentleman"
Williston turned noiselcssly away
from the scene which SO suddenly
threatened danger. Both men were
fully armed and would brook no caves
dropping. Once more he crossed the
sand i'm safety and found his horse
where he had left him. up the ravine.
He vaulted into the saddle and gal
loped away into the quiet night.
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CHAPTER n.

Williston himself came 20 the door.
HIS thin, scholarly face looked drawn
and worn in the midday glare. A
tiredness in the eyes told graphically
OF sleepless night
I'm glad TO see you. Langford." he
said. 1T was good OF YOU 10 come.
Leave your horse for Mary. She'll
give her water when she's cooled on
a bit"
you sent for me. Wnlston2" asked
the young mau. rubbing his face affec-
tionately against the wet neck OF his
mare
Il did. It was good OF you to come
TO soon"
Fortunately your messenger found
me at home. AS for the rest. SADIE.
here, hasn't her beat in the COW
country. If She is only COW pony. eh.
Sadie?"
AT that moment Mary Wuliston
came into the open doorway OF the
rude claim shanty set down In the
very heart OF the scared plain
which stretched away into heart-cbol,
ing distances from every possible
point OF the compass. And sweet
she was TO look upon. though tanned
and glowing from close association
with the ardent sun and riotous wind
Her auburn hair. more reddish on the
endges from sunburn. was fine and
soft and there was much Of IL. It
seemed newly brushed and suspicious
ly glossy. One sees far on the plains
and two years out or civilization are
not enough 10 make girl forget the
use OF a mirror. even IL IL be but n
broken silver. propped up on a pine
board dressing table. She looked
strangely grown-up despite her short.
rough skirt and badly scuHed leather
riding leggings. Langford stared az
her with a startled look OF mingled
admiration and establishment. She
came forward and put her hand on
the mares bride. she was not en-
barrsssed in the least. But the color
came into the strangers face. He
swept his wide hat from his head
quickly.
NO indeed. Miss wnliston; I'll
water SADIE myself"
Please let me. I'd love to-"
She's used TO it. Langford," said
Wiliiston in his quiet gentlemanly
voice. the well-bred cadence Of which
spoke OF training far removed from
the harassments and businesses Of
life In this plains country. You see,
she is the only BOY have She must
OF necessity be my chore boy as well
as my herd boy. In her leisure mo-
ments she holds down her kitchen
claim: / don't know how she does Il.
but she does. You had better let her
do it; she will hold it against you If
you don't"
But / couldn't have a woman do
ing my grooming for me- Why, the
very ideal"
He sprang into the saddle.
But you waited for me to do it,"
said the girl. looking up az him GU
riously.
Did i? l didn't mean to. Yes,
did. too But beg your pardon. You
see-say. look here; are you the little
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an untried trail What n he should 20
lameg Accordingly he was left behind
In a slight depression where he
would be pretty well hidden. and VIII
hsIon scrambled down the steep in
cline alone. When foothold or hand
hold was lacking he simply let him
self 90 and slid. grasping the first root
or branch that presented itself in his
daredevil course.
Arrived at the bottom. he found his
clothes torn and his hands bleeding:
but that was nothing With grim de-
termination he made his way through
the rayine and struck across the sand
trail with a sure realization of his
danger but without the least abate-
ment OF his resolution. The sand was
firm under his feet The water had
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again Bllndly, she picked up her un-
oreIla. suit case and rain coat.
"Homesick?" asked the kindly brake
man. with a consolatory grin as he
came to assist her with her bag.
gage.
She bit her lip in modification to
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Ny Dear Miss Dale. The eighteenth or
august is the date set Tor the prelmin-
afy nearing az Jesse Black. VIII YOU
come ana take the testimony / am very
n competent reporter and shall he 9rate-
ful 10 you ~ YOU decide 60 come
me judge viii tell you about our poor
accommodation. Let me recommend TO
your consideration some good friends OF
hlhc. tuc MtlliGtCnS, father and daugh-
ter They live three miles northwest OF
Nemah. The judge will remember Will
lslon, George Willstou OF the Lazy. 3
Lney are cultured people. though their
way or living Is necessarily primitive. 7
AZ our shabby little hotel. which Is n
LcnueENous Tor pretty rough class OF
men, especially at court time.
~ You decide to come. Mary Wlliston
VIII meet you M Nelpen. Please let me
know your decison. Very sincerely
RICHARD GORDON.
80 here she was. going into the In
dian country at last A big state,
South Dakota. and the phases OF it's
civilization manifold. Having come
so far, TO refuse 20 so on seemed like
turning back with her hand already on
the pillow. so with stout heart she had
wired Richard Gordon that she would
go. But ii was pretty hard now. to
De sure, and pretty dreary. coming
into Velpen knowing that she would
see no one she knew in all the wide
wide world. The thought choked her
and the impish demon, loneliness, he
OF the smirk and horns and devils
eyes, doomed leeringly before her
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NERVY ALASKANWOMAN
MAKES SERIOUS CHARGES

were buriedsin committee.
She charged the missionaries
with immorality and claims to
have named specific instances
where the men trafficked in white
slaves. g
She also charges that govern.
ment ofncfala are guilty of allowing
the sale. of|1iquor to the Indians
by bootleggers and druggists.
She claims the Indians are rob.
bed by the representatives of the
big trading concerns, and that the
representatives, officials and mis-
sionaries are leagued to protect
each other in their iniquities.
This indomitable woman is de-
termined that her charges, shall be
investigated, and that the Indians,
in whom she is greatly interested,
shall be given care and protection
instead Of being treated as she de-
clares they have been.
Mrs. Peterson halls from Kan
sas, her home being near that of
the redoubtable Carrie Nation.
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WASHINGTON

The audience gets its fill of mys.
terry this week in Deamon's per-
Torrance. He let's you write him
questions and then dispose of the
paper as you like. Then he answers
the questions. If you tear the pa
per up he tells you about it and
supplies the information just the
same. Vaudeville seems to have
hit on a genuine triumph in this
telepathy, mind reading business
or whatever it is. In addition the
bill has clever hoop act, some
fancy dancing, and Alice Mortlock
and company in a comedy sketch
A Jap juggler works in a few puz
zles of his own. Werden is still on
the bill with his illustrated songs
the handsomest feature of this
sort that has been sent out. Tom
Dempsy has single turn of stories
and songs. The bill is a good one
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ORPHEUM.

Hope Booth, headliner for the
week, justified all the nice things
said of her in advance. She is
appearing in sketch strong
enough to carry along a weak per
former, but in the title role of "The
Little Blonde Lady" Miss Booth
added strength to the skit. The
Tom Davies trio of motor cyclists
have an act that seems to border
pretty close on the suicidal. On a
circular track about 10 feet in
diameter at the base and 1g at the
top, the three performers circle at
neck-breaking speed, passing and
repassing each other in an amazing
manner. They seem to court death
at every turn, but their act brought
frequent applause. Noblette and
Marshall, in musical skit called
Hints in Soldiery' have the open
ing place on the bill and are up
to the usual standard. Nell Lock
wood and Hazel Bryson have a
number of singing and whistling
selections. The whistling is a
pleasing diversion from the usual.
Oscar Lewis and Sam Green have
comedy novelty called Engaging
Cook" one OF the best mirth
producers on the bill. Valadon, ma
gician, performs number OF
clever tricks. One of his best is
the disappearing act. The Basque
grand opera quartet is composed
of good voices that blend well, and
they were repeatedly encored The
bill closed with the usual Offering
Of comedy moving pictures.
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SPOkANE e.

1.-The Honeymooners' Is a typical
Cohan show Everything goes with
a dash, and at times the Lerform-
ers are kept On the trot in the
hurry to cram the whole thing into
the regulation two hours or so al
lotted to the average production.
There isn't an old joke in tho pro-
duction. Willie Duniay, the "rah,
rah" kid, isn't quite the whole
show, only at times He's i'll on
almost everything, however The
story is of a small town election
with the prohibition candidates
running against the wide open Gle.
ment During the mixup a few
widows descend upon the place
marry the candidates, then the
kids come on when everybody is
trying to conceal the fact from
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maturgy demonstration. You won't
know what it is until you see it,
and then you know just as much
as you did before. Telling the
audience individually where it was
born and other personal matters
like that from questions written
and hidden are apparently easy lit
tie matters for her. She doesn't
need to see them. The exhibition
is as much of a puzzler in it's way
as Harden in his, and the big
audience enjoyed it hugely. An act
apparently creating a deficiency in
the millinery line is put on by the
Two Stellings, and the lie Monts
have lively banjo novelty. Harvey
and Lee have quaint Hebrew
comedy turn and there is a hand
somely illustrated song by Mr.
Gibson.
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AUDITORIUM

There Is nothing missed or
omitted in the Shirley company's
presentation of "The Gilded Fool
this week. From the time that
Mr.. Gum as Chauncey Short and
Mr.. Amory as valet appear in the
first act the play radiates with a
snap and activity that is good to
see. The work OF Mr.. owen NJ.
Williamson as the well dressed
villain, and Mr.. Less c. Greer who
has mission and who later turns
up as u detective from Scotland
Yards, and Miss Jessie Shirley as
the charming daughter Of Matthew
Ruthven, the capitalist who is on
the verge of failure, and Miss Anna
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HOLDING Her BABY
BOY FOR the RENT

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2S.-Al-
leging that another woman is hold
ing her four year old son because
she is unable to pay debt due for
back rent, Mrs. Jennie Copeland is
preparing to make a legal fight to
regain possession of her child She
accuses Mrs. Frnak l.. Dodge of re-
fusing to give her baby up.
Mrs. Copeland says she left the
baby with Mrs. Dodge last June be-
cause she was unable to care for
the child while she was at work,
and that when she went to get the
boy back, the toher woman re-
fused, saying that Mrs. Copeland
owed her money for back rent and
should give her the boy in pay
ment
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DROUGHT CRIPPLES
GREAT INDUSTRIES

PITTSBURG, Pa, Sept. 2S.-
Business of the various manufac-
turing and mining industries Civ
ing employment to hundreds of
thousands of men throughout West
Virginia, western Pennsylvania
and eastern Ohio is practically at
a standstill, owing to the great
damage done by the recent forest
fires and the lack of water caused
by two months of drought. Health
authorities are apprehensive of
epidemics.
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PROF. WILSON FOR
CITY COUNCIL

Professor S. G. Wilson, residing
at Standard and Dalton, has been
recommended by the committees
from the two improvement clubs
in Lidgerwood as a candidate for
councilman to fill the unexpired
term to be caused by the resigna-
ton of Councilman j. S. Phillips
January 1. This term will run five
months and the man who is sue
cessful in securing appointment
will probably be a candidate to
succeed himself at the city primar
les next spring. Professor Wilson
is connected with the staff of teach
ers at the Hawthorne school.
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MAN MONEY AND
WOMAN MISSING

TACOMA, Sept. 28.-With short
ages in his accounts that will run
up to $4,000, Frank d. Pinkham,
cashier of the Tacoma Mill Co.,
who has been missing since Au-
gust %, is now supposed to be on
his way to South America with the
woman who caused his downfall.
The first known of the missing
mans irregularities was four days
ago when 1t was discovered that a
check for $3.50 had been cashed
and appropriated by him.
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before me; to make my inventions
commercially successful, and l
could not go into the bypaths Of
discovery.
Those things / observed I made
notes of. l have it all recorded
somewhere, and l am continuing to
make notes. Now / shall go back
over these long years of work and
l shall pick out the things that
were brought to my attention.
shall work hard; harder than ever
in my new field of endeavor.
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II have liked the study Of chem
istry better than anything else all
my life. l continued my work in
venting electrical machines be-
cause it brought results quicker.
did not deal primarily with funda.
mental scientific laws, but with
things that had a definite CONNER
cial value. Now l do not worry
whether my work produces money
or not, so long as it adds to the
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authorities her story of abuses
which she claims are being COM
mitted by territorial authorities.
Incidentally, she says she will tell
the world a few things about mis-
sionaries, whose influence with the
natives, she says, demoralizes in
stead of uplifts.
Mrs Peterson has lived in Alas
ka for eight years. Her home is
at Shakan now, although she has
lived in various places during her
residence in the north.
On May 20, Mrs. Peterson says,
she placed charges of misconduct
by missionaries at Shakan, Juneau
and Klawock before the board of
home missions of the Presbyterian
church, in national convention at
Kansas City, but that the charges