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CHAPTER v.-continued.

Betty came with only her colored
maid, old Puss Cunning, who had
taken her from the nurses arms when
she was born and taken care Of her
ever since. The two-the tall Ken
lucky girl and the bent mammy-ar-
rived at the Stone ranch one day in
June, and Richard, done then with
bridges and looking after his ranch
interests, had already fallen violently
In love with Betty. She was delicate,
but. II those In Medicine Bend who re-
membered her said true, a lovely
creature. Remaining in the mountains
was the last thing Betty had ever
thought of, but no one, man or woman,
could Withstand Dick Dunning. She
fell quite in love with him the first
time she set eyes on him in Medicine
Bend. for he was very handsome in
the saddle, and Betty was fairly wild
about horses. So Dick Dunning
Fwooed a fond mistress and married
her and buried her, and all within
hardly more than a year.
But in that year they were very
happy, never two happier, and when
she slept away her suffering she left
him, as aslegacy, a tiny baby girl. Pnss
brought the mite of a creature in its
swaddling clothes to the sick mother
very, very sick then-and poor Bet
ty turned her dark eyes on it. kissed
1t, looked at her husband and whis-
pered "Dicksie," and died. Dicksie
had been Betty's pet name for her
mountain lover, SO the father said the
child's name should be Dicksie and
nothing else; and his heart broke and
soon he died. Nothing else, storm or
flood, death or disaster, had ever
moved Dick Dunning; then a sin
gle blow killed him. He rode
once in a while over the ranch, a
great tract by that time of 10000
acres, all in one body, all under fence,
up and down both sides Of the big
river, in part irrigated, swarming with
cattle-none Of it stirred Dick! and
with little Dicksie in his arms he
slept away his suffering.
$50 ,Dicksie was left, as her mother
had been, to Puss, while Lance looked
after the ranch. swore at the price of
cattle, and played cards at Medicine
Bend. Atsten,. Dicksie, as thoroughly
spoiled as a, pet baby could be by a
fool nanny. a fond cousin, and a
galaxy Of devoted cowboys, was sent;
ID, spite Of crying and finging, to a.
far-away convent-her father had
planned eVerything-where in many
tears she learned that there were 9TH
y things in the world besides cattle
and mountains and sunshine and tall,
broad-hatted horsemen to swing from
their stirrups and pick her hat from
the ground-just to see little Dicksie
laugh-when they swooped past the
house to the corrals. When she came
back from Kentucky. her grandmother
dead and her schooldays finished, all
the land she could see in the valley
was hers.
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You wouldn'tl why. Mr.. Mccloudl
IL delightful"
"Oh, not for worlds, Marion! You
know he is discharging all the best OF
the Older men. the men that have
made the road everything 1t Is, and OF
course we can't help sympathizing
with them over our way. For my part.
I think 1t Is terrible, after a man has
given all of his life to building up a
railroad, that he should be thrown out
to starve in that way by new man
ayers, Marion"
McCloud felt himself shrinking
within his weary clothes. Resentment
seemed to have died. He felt 900 ex-
hausted to undertake controversy,
even II 1t were to be thought OF, and
it was not.
Nothing further was needed to COM
plete his humiliation. He picked up.
his hat and with the thought Of get
ting out as quietly as he had come in.
In rising he swept a tumbler at his
elbow from the table. The glass broke
OF the floor. and Marion exclaimed:
What is. that?" and started for the
dining room.
1t was too late to get away. Nc
Cloud stepped to the portieres Of the
trimming room door and pushed them
aside. Marion stood with a hat In her
hand, and Dicksie, sitting at the table,
was looking directly at the intruder as
he appeared in the doorway. She saw
in him her pleasant acquaintance Of
the wreck at Smoky Creek, whose
name she had not learned. In her sur.
prise, she rose to her feet. and Marion
spoke quickly: ooh, Mr.. McCloud, Is
1t you? I did not hear you come In"
Dicksie's face, which had lighted,
became a spectacle of confusion after
she heard the name. McCloud, con.
scious Of the awkwardness of his po-
sition and the disorder Of his garb,
said the worst thing at once. 81 fear
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of the opening, If 1t cost him his life.
"And by the way, Mr.. Sinclair, Miss
Dunning wished me. to say to you that
the lovely bay colt you sent her had
sprung his shoulder badly, the hind
shoulder, I think, but they are doing
everything possible for It and they
think it will make "a great horse"
Sinclair's snort at the information
was a marvel of INDIGESTION. Was he
being made fun Of? Should he draw
and end it? But Marion faced him
resolutely as he stood, and talking
in the most business like way she
backed him out Of the room and to
the shop door. Baked Of his oppor-
tunity, he retreated stubbornly but
with the utmost politenesss, and left
with a grin, flashing his tail, so to
speak.
Coming back, Marion tried to hide
her uneasiness under even tones to
McCloud. I'm sorry he disturbed
you. I was attending to a customer
and had to ask him to wait a mo.
ment."'
Don't apologize for having a Gus
toner"
HE lives oyer beyond the Stone
ranch, you know, and is taking some
things out for the Cummings today. He
likes an excuse to come in here he
cause it annoys me. Finish your din
ner; Mr.. McCloud."'
Thank YOU, I'm DONE"
But YOU haven't eaten anything.
Isn't your steak right?"
It's fine. but that maxwell, you
know how j like him and how he likes
me. I'll content myself with digesting
my temper"
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1 am inadvertently ~overhearing your
conversation"
He looked at Dicksie as he spoke,
chiefly because he could not help It,
and this made matters hopeless.
She flushed more deeply. II can.
not conceive why III conversation
should invite a listener"
Her words did not. OF course, help
to steady him. 4 tried to get away
he stammered, when I realized L was
q part Of it"
"Inany event" she exclaimed, hasti.
~, III you r Mr.. McCloud I think
It objectionable to do anything like
that"
II am Mr.. McCloud, though i should
rather be anybody else; and / am sor.
ry that / was unable to help hearing
what al said: II"
Marion, will you be kind enough to
give me my gloves?" said Dicksie.
holding out her hand.
Marion, having tried once or twice
to intervene, stood between the firing.
lines in helpless amazement. Fer ex.
~ - - I'M
,clamations were lost; the two before
her gave no heed to ordinary inter.
avention.
McClouud flushed at being cut of,
but he bowed. "Of course" he said,
III you will listen to no explanation
I can only Withdraw"
He went back. ~dinneriess, to work
all night; but the switchbacks were
doing capitally, and all night long
trains were rolling through Medicine
Bend from the west in an endless
string. In the morning the yard was
nearly cleared OF west-bound tonnage.
Moreover, the mail In the morning
brought compensation. A letter came
from Glover telling him not to worry
himself to death over the tie-up, and
one came from Bucks telling him to
make ready for the building Of the
Crawling Stone line.
McCloud told Rooney Lee that IL
anybody asked for him to report him
dead, and going to bed slept "a hours.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Bean MIX.

Pigeon milk is a myth" said 4
milkman, "but there actually is a bean
milk. 1t is drunk, put in tea and cot.
fee, and even frozen for ice cream.
The Japs are Its inventors This milk
is made Of the Sofa bean. The bean
is first soaked, then boiled In water.
After the liquid turns white sugar and.
phosphate of potash are added. and
the boiling is kept up till q substance
OF the thickness OF molasses is OBJ.
tanned. Nobody could tell this bean
milk from condensed milk. and when
water is added IT can't be told from
the fresh. The Japanese poor )
nothing else"
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CHAPTER vi.
in Marlon's shop.

In Boney street, Medicine Bend,
stands an early-day row of one-story
buildings; they once made up a pros.
porous block. which has long since
fallen into the decay Of painless days.
There Is in Boney street a livery
stable, q secondhand store, a laundry,
q bakery, q moribund grocery, and a
bicycle shop. and at the time Of this
story there was also Marion Sinclair's
millinery shop; but the better class Of
Medicine Bend business, such as the
gambling houses, saloons, p%awnshops,
restaurants, barber shops, and those
sensitive, c~lean-shaven, and alert es-
adjustments known as gents stores"
had deserted Boney street for many
years. Bats fly in the dark Of Boney
street while Front street at the same
hour is q blaze Of electricity and from
tier hilarity. The millinery store
stood next to the corner Of Fort
street. The lot lay in an "L,a and at
the rear Of the store the first owner
had built q small connecting cottage
to live In. This faced on Fort street,
SO that Marion had her shop and nv.
ing rooms communicating, and vet
apart. The store building is still
pointed out as the former shop of
Marion Sinclair, where George Nc
Cloud boarded when the Crawling
Stone line was built, where Whisper
Ing Smith might often have been seen,
where Sinclair himself was last seen
alive in Medicine Bend, where Dicksie
Dunning's horse dragged her ~senseless
one wild mountain night, and where,
indeed, for a time the affairs Of the
whole mountain division seemed to
tangle In very hard knots.
In her dining room, which. con-
mo man that has ever played me
dirt can stay here while / stay" Sin
clair, with q hand on the sp~ortiere, was
moving from the doorway into the
nected through q curtained door with
the shop, McCloud sat one day alone
eating his dinner. Marion was in
front serving . customer. McCloud
heard voices In the shop, but gave no
heed till q man walked through the
curtained doorway and he nav Murray
Sinclair standing before him.
stormy interview With Callahan and
Btpodsat the Wickidph had taken place
z1Stsa week BEFORE AndaAcCloud after
SMA1t Sinclair had then threatened,
A4.N-lEE.HtL[E-
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claimed. McCloud, reaching for the
message. How could 1t catch fire?
Is it burned up?"
II can't get anything on that yet;
this came from Candy. Ill have a good
wire in a few minutes and get it all
for you"
Have Phil HALEY and Hyde noti.
fed, Rooney. and Reed and Brill
Young, and get up a train. Smoky
Creek bridge! By heavens, we are
ripped up the back now! What can
we do there, Rooney" He was talk.
ing to himself. There isn't a. thing
for 1t on Gods earth but sw%itchbacks
and ive-per-cent. grades down to the
bottom of the creek and cribbing
across 1t till the new line is ready.
Wire Callahan and Morris Blood, and
get everything you can for me before
we start"
Ten hours later and many hundreds
of miles from the mountain division,
President Bucks and a companion
were riding in the peace of a June
morning down the beautiful Mohawk
valley with a n earlier and illustrious
railroad man, William G.. Brown. The
three. men were at breakfast In
Browns car A message was brought
in for Bucks. He read 1t and passed
1t to his companion, Whispering
Smith, who sat at Browns left hand.
The message was from Callahan with
the news OF the burning ofSmokyC Creek
bridge. Details were few. because no
one on the west endscould suggest q
plausible cause for the fire.
what do you think Of 1t. Gordon?r
demanded Bucks, bluntly.
Whispering Smith seemed at all
times bordering on good-natured sur
prise, and In that normal condition he
read Galatians message.
He was laughing under Bucks, scru.
tiny when he handed the message
back. Why, 4 don't know . thins
about It, not . thing; but taking I
long shot and speaking By and far,
sI should say It looks something like
hrst blood for Sinclair" he suggested,
and to change the subject lifted hia
cup Of coffee.
Then II looks like you for the
mountains tonight instead Of fol
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SYNOPSIS.

Murray Sinclair and his gang Of wreck
pr We're called out to clear the railroad
young road superintendent, caught sin
CAR and his men in the act Of looting
inc wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded in
sn1ail sum-a treat for the men. McCloud
discharged the whole outfit and ordered
me .Wrackage burned. McCloud became
aequainted with Dicksie Dunning. a girl
o. me west. h came to look at the
wreck. She gave him a message for Sim
CAR: whispering" Gordon Smith told
president Bucks Of the railroad, of Nc.
Cloud,s brave fight against q gang Of
crazed miners and that was the reason
1or the superintendent's appointment to
MS high office. McCloud arranged to
clair. the ex-foreman's deserted wife.
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carrying packages for Diclsie Dun
ming. 1t was Sinclair's trick to do
things for people, and to make himself
SO useful that they must like first his
o~bligingness and afterward himself.
Sinclair, McCloud knew, was close in
many ways to Lance Dunning. 1t was
said to have been his influence that
won Cummings consent to sell a right
of way across the ranch for the new
Crawling Stone line. But McCloud
felt it useless to disguise the fact to
himself that he now had a second
keen interest in the Crawling Stone
country-not alone a dream of q line,
but a dream Of girl. Sitting modify
in his Office, with his feet on the desk,
6 few nights after his encounter with
Sinclair, he recalled her nod as she
said good-by. It had seemed the least
bit encouraging, and he meditated
anew on the only 20 minutes of real
pleasurable excitement he had ever
felt in his life, the 20 minutes with
Dicksie Dunning at Smoky creek. Her
intimates, he had heard, called her
Dicksie, and he was vaguely envying
her intimates when the night dispatch.
er, Rooney Lee, opened the door and
disturbed his reflections.
How is Number One, Rooney?"
called McCloud, as if nothing but the
thought of a train movement ever en-
tered his head.
Rooney Lee paused. In his hand he
held a message, and he faced McCloud
with evident uneasiness. Holy smoke,
Mr.. McCloud, here's a ripper! We've
lost Smoky Creek bridge"
Lost Smoky Creek bridges" echoed
McCloud, rising in amazement.
Burned tonight. .Seventy.seven
was tagged by the man at the pump
station"
That's a tie-up for your life!% ex-
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The truth shall make you Free
&.32

P%uritanism, OF
which orthodox
Congregationalism
was q part, has
blessed the world
ID by freeing the
state from the
tyranny of the
church, (2> by
,fr e Ell ng III
church, in turn.
from the tyranny
of the state, and
80 by freeing,
finally the indi-
vidual from the
tyranny OF both,
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Good Joke on the Officers

marily ordered to deliver up what
ever they had in their hip pockets.
Meekly they obeyed. Each one car.
ried a corncob. The remarks Of
the policemen cannot possibly be re.
corded.
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How much easier It is for. a man to
dig worms for bait than to loosen the
soil around the currant bushes In the
garden.
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SAYS tha phlosnnher

$3.50 S~yS S"0 SUt0oOPtISrs EN
Fl you cant cit up the ladder Of
success on your own feet, don't grab
the cut-tails Of the Teller ahead d
q last resort" ~
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Many visited Holy piace

q 80.
The number Of. pilgrims went
to the holy places OF Islam Mecca
and Medina) this reason issestinlated
at about 17Q,Ooo. 81 a
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Social and Personal |
BOTH PHON ES SIS

Coplon, Robert Walk, Barnie McGin
ley, Tom Burger, Lewis Letchens,
Manuel Russell, of Laurel, Mike Do
herty, Ed Herren.
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MIR. and Mrs. Akers Entertain.
The pretty bungalow home, "Cassa
Iona, of Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Akers,
which stands in grove of oaks in the
suburbs of the city was on Friday
evening. the scene of a merry gather
ing when they entertained the choir
of the Columbia Street Baptist church.
The party meeting at the church
were driven out in two large wagons
furnished by Mr.. 7. S. Jackson.
On arriving the guets were served
punch on the vine-covered porch by
Mesdames Fred Perry and j. N. Nc
MILAN.
The porch and lawn of Casa Iona
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HAISFIELD BRANCHING OUT.

In another column will be found an
ad for NJ. S. Haisfield, advertising
ladies' and gents furnishing goods,
and offering some bargains to the la
dies tonight. While addig this de
partment to his business, Mr.. HAS
field did not have room in the build
ing occupied by his large stock of fur
niture so this store will be found in
the Crymes building on the opposite
side of the street, In conducting this
business it will be found that the name
of Haisfield stands for the same good
quality and reasonable price that has
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characterized his house furnishing
business, and he is especially anxious
to have his old customers visit this
department. He is making a special
drive tonight on ladies wolfe skirts
and is offering some values that can
not be duplicated anywhere in the
city. Try Haisfield for ladies and
gents furnishing goods and be con-
WINGED that he has the bargains.
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who has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Coplon in Richton, is the guest
for the summer of her son and daugh-
terinlaw, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Pool.
Frank Bethume left this morning
FOR his home in jackson, after several
weeks visit to his cousin, William
Rachard Langford
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Misses Leana, Virginia and Rose
bud MCGEE, of Purvis, are expected
today to be the guests of Mrs. R. L.
Breland on Martha street.
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Mrs. w. ]. Moore returned Friday
from a months visit to Macon and
Brookhaven.
Miss Corrie Anderson, of Meridian,
is visiting her brother, Mr.. s. c. An
derson, at DR.. Dills.
:. :. :.
Miss Carney, of New Orleans, is
the guest of DR.. and Mrs. Leo Martin,
on Bay street.
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Miss Roberta Fatheree, of Easta-
buhie, is the guest of Mrs NJ. Riley.
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Mrs Ernest Hanna and little
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For Miss Doherty.
Miss Annie Mckinley entertained
Friday evening at pound party in
honor of Miss Annie Doherty, of Jack
son.
Several games were INDUCED in.
Mesdames Dungeon Mckinley and
Miss Mary Dohetry furnished the
music. Iced lemonade was served all
during the evening.
Tempting refreshments were served
by Mesdames Dungeon and Mckinley
to the following guests: Misses Ada
Coplon, Leila Davis, Mary and Philis
Doherty, Grace and Edith Canaan,
Katie Judge, LA Harrington, BERTHE
Cannon, Annie Mckinley and the
honoree, Annie Doherty. Messrs. D. e.
Davenport Albert Bounds, George
Doherty, Royal Davis, Nj. Dungeon,
John Davenport John McInnis, Horace
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was gaily decorated with flowers and
lighted with japanese laterns.
Miss Lucille Hightower sang a pretty
solo and Misses Telulah Mcmillan and
Katie Hightower rendered several
piano selections Mrs. Akers, assist
ed by Mesdames Fred Perry and J. N.
Mcmillan served dainty two course
luncheon.
Misses Margaret and Mary Bucan-
non of Detroit, Mich, who have been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Seaman left this morning with the
Misses Seaman and will be their
guests at their home in Newton before
returning to Detroit.
:. :. :.
Misses Nellie and Sarah Seaman,
who have been visiting TT. and Mrs
Seaman returned to their home this
morning. Miss Annie Cora Gillian
returned with the Misses Seaman and
will be their guest for a week.
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Miss Willie Craft, of Ellisville, is
the guest of Miss Marie Hill at the
home of her father, Judge N. G. Hill,
on River avenue.
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Mrs. d. A. Pool, of Shreveport, La.
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daughter, Helen, Mrs. w. NJ. Edmon-
son and children, and Mrs. c. E. Fair
ley will leave Sunday for a weeks
stay at Biloxi.
Mrs. w. A. Charping returned
Thursday from a visit to her parents
in Walden.
:. :. !.
Miss Ruth Carter left Friday for
Tylertown, where she will be the guest
of Miss Robinson.
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Mr.. Bob Gallatin returned this morn
ing from visit to Central Mississippi.
Tuna Johnson.
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e CHURCH SOCIETIES. ::
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The services at the First Baptist
church tomorrow morning and evening
will be unusually delightful. Misses
Annie Lou Thompson and Lucille High
tower and Messrs. H. H. Hudson and
Sidebottom compose a quartet which
Will sing in the morning. Miss Alma
Gordon, Of Fayette, Miss. will render a
solo at the evening service.
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The Precillian Circle of Court Street
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Methodist church will not have their
regular business meeting until Sep
TENDER when they will meet with Miss
Luna Johnson.