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sheltering trees and. Judith at his
heels, pelted headlong down the slope
to the spot where the others had van
/ ished.
To find them not only alive but
practically unscathed affected tina,
loyal soul almost to tears.
But when congratulations had been
mutually exchanged, there fell al
awkward pause. The eyes OF the four
sought one another's ruefully, each
pair quick with the unuttered but In
exorable inquiry: What next?
In the outcome, 1t was Mr. Barcus
who advanced the suggestion which
was adopted-though this was its re
ception more through lack of a better
than for any actual appeal intrinsic
In the proposition.
When We broke down, I saw" he
yentured, with a backward Jerk OF
his thumb to indicate the road, "a can
yon branching off from this one abou,
quarter of mile over yonder. If it's
all the same to you people. we might
stroll round that way and see what its
natural attractions may be-if any
But it's sure mighty poor sort of a
canyon that doesn't lead anywhere
and nothing could possibly be more
fatlguing to our mercurial and rest.
less tempers than to squat down here
and fold our hands in our laps and
wait for something to turn up-and
anyway We can't be worse off than we
are-and-"
Sufficient" Mr.. Law interrupted
with bleak smile.
Crooking deferential arm, Barcus
offered 1t to Judith.
Everything is lovely in the formal
garden" he insisted-"so sweetIy 70.
mantle. Are you game for an idle
saunter, just to while the idle hours
away"
The woman found spirit enough for
wan smile as she tucked her hand
gratefully beneath his arm.
You're the cheerfulest soul I ever
met" she said demurely. What I'm
going to do without you when-if ever
we get out of this awful business.
goodness only knows"
Lets talk of something else," he
suggested hastily.
Unless. Of course" she pursued
with unbroken gravity, 81 marry
you. -
Heaven" the young man prayed
fervently, "forfend!"
That is hardly gallant"
Il mean-heaven forfend thai ro,
should throw yourself away"
Humph!" she unused. PERHAPS
you're right"
The1r banter was not without n
subtle object. namely, to reassure the
glri VINO followed. supported by her
lovers arm.
In the course Of the last a honre
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STRENGTH.
Without Overlooking The Stomach.

The business man, especially, needs
food in the morning that will not over
load the stomach, but give mental Wig
or for the day.
Much depends on the start man
gets each day as to how he may ex-
pect to accomplish the work on hand
He can't be alert with heavy, fried
meat-and-potatoes breakfast requiring
q lot of vital energy in digesting it.
A Calf. business man found food
combination for producing energy. He
writes:
For years l was unable to find q
breakfast food that had nutrition
enough to sustain business man
without overlooking his stomach, caus-
ing indigestion and kindred ailments.
Being a very busy and also very
nervous man, I had about decided to
give up breakfast altogether. But luck
lily was induced to try Grape-Nuts.
Since that morning / have been a
new man; can work without firing.
my head is clear and my nerves strong
and quiet.
Il find that Grape-Nuts, with little
sugar and small quantity of cold
milk, makes delicious morning meal.
which invigorates me for the days
business"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read, 1.-THE Road to Well
ville," In pkgs. There's q Reason"
Ever read the above IctteRf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true, and fun 81 Auzaa8
Interest.
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wrist. Mr.. Marrophat sent the card
spinning and sailing out through the
open window to lose itself In the night
The watcher didn't see II fall, ano
though he spent an unconscionable
time searching for 1t In the deep dust
of the roadway, he went his way In the
end with curiosity unsated: Fate had
reserved that card for higher pur
pose.
Undisturbed, 1t lay where 1t had
fallen, face upward, not dozen feet
from the front door of the Mountain
house, until another day dawned on
Mesquite.
Then, In the clear light Of that dawn
four more strangers struggled into
town-two weary and haggard men,
two footsore and bedraggled women.
One of these last was dressed In a
suit of mans clothing, much the worse
for wear. The other members of the
party one and all wore the look of
people who have escaped the jaws OF
death by the narrowest of imaginable
sQueaks.
At sight of the Mountain house the
party betrayed slight symptoms OF a
more cheerful spirit: rejoicing in Its
promise Of food and drinks and beds
withal wherein to sleep, the four
Quickened their steps.
But of a sudden one of the women
she who wore the garments OF her
sex-paused, uttered low cry
a-thrili with terror. and clutching the
arm Of the man nearest her, pointed
down to the card that stared up from
the dust at her feet.
It was a trey of hearts.
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CHAPTER XIX.
Sacrifice.

Sacrifice.
But Tom Barcus hadn't failed to
profit by the warning implicit in Alan's
accident.
Alan, he told himself shrewdly.
would never have run his cycle at so
foolhardy O pace without good rea.
son: and under the circumstances good
reason was synonymous solely with
pursuit.
He was therefore on the alert. quick
to see the racing automobile when it
came hurtling round the bend. and in
the very nick of time grasped Judith s
arm and swung her bodily with him
back out of harms way. amid the
trees that bordered the inside of the
road.
OF necessity his motorcycle suffered
Abandoned in the middle of the road.
1t was struck by the buffers of the
motor car and flung aside as If it had
been nothing more ponderable than a
truss of straw-landing halfway down
the embankment, hopeless tangle OF
shattered tubing and twisted wire
At first blush the circum stance
seemed surprising, that the car dio
not stop. But then Barcus reminded
himself that Marrophat and Jimmy
could not possibly have witnessed the
accident involving Alan and Rose. who
together with the wreck of their ma
chine, remained well-cloaked by the
underbrush at the bottom of the can
yon. In all probability, then. the as
sassins had assumed that Alan hao
hurried on; and since their own first
business was concerned exclusively
with them, they had done likewise,
reasoning that they could return and
deal with his unfortunate friend at
their convenience after overhau!ing
their quarry, whose life they most
coveted.
AS for Rose and Alan-heaven alone
knew what had happened to them. So
Barcus set himself to find out what
ever Providence knew without more
delay. The racing car was barely on,
Of sight when he sprang from the
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from a standstil into full flight.

Il must have been IN hour later
when Alan, checking his motorcycle
az It surmounted the summit OF q
long upgrade. looked back and dis.
covered. several miles distant on the
far.hung windings Of the mountain
road. a small crimson shape that ran
like . mad thing tirelessly pursued
by cloud Of tawny dust like a gold
en- ghost.
A motor car, beyond all question,
and one Of uncommon road-devouring
quality: It might or might not con-
tain Marrophat and Jimmy. once more
in pursuit. Whether or not, bitter
experience had long since educated
Alan in the gentle art Of taking no
chances.
Though It was his life that they
sought so pertinaciously, no later than
yesterday land then by no means for
the first time). they had proved that
II Rose were with Alan they would
include ha- ruthlessly in whatsoever
scheme they might contemplate for
his personal determination.
Nor would Tom Barcus be exempt.
if they were caught in company
though Judith might be, in view of
Marrophat's infatuation for the girl
These two were far ahead, out of
sight, indeed; and must somehow be
overtaken and warned-no easy mat
ter. since the machine which bore
them was. II anything, faster than
Alan's. just as the racing automobile
was faster than either.
From its jog-trot the cycle swept
into its greatest speed: ventre-a-terra,
ears back. tail a-stream, It roared
down the road at such speed as tore
the very breath from the lips of those
whom It carried.
Alan kept his gaze steadfast to the
road before them. daring not once to
look up and round or back, but con
strained ever to watch their way; for
at such frightful speed as they were
now making the slightest obstruction
was fraught with direst peril; one little
sidelong swerve from that narrow and
tortuous path, and death would be
their portion.
So sinuous and meandering was its
course, indeed, that Alan seldom couia
see hundred yards Of it ahead, but
must pelt on in panic flight. hoping
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PUT WARFARE ON NEW BASIS
Use Of Field Artillery at creey Marked
the End of the MaiI-Clad
Fighting Man.

OF all the worlds great battles
Crecy possesses a unique interest The
English used only three pieces Of field
ordnance. They were small cannon
made Of trees, bored, and bound with
iron hoops, and the missiles were of
stone, scarcely larger than baseballs-
Doubtless this rude artillery made far
more noise than it effected damage.
1t was the longbow and the broad
sword that won the battle. but never
theiess gunpowder was kenceforth to
play an ever-increasing part In the
strife of nations.
Explosives wrought a vast change
In fighting methods on land, for many
Of the old-time weapons were rendered
quite useless in face Of death-dealing
ball and shot. Warfare afioat, too.
would be revolutionized. Hitherto the
lighting ships had been largely car
-iers of soldiers in order to board and
fight, as on land; whereas the time
was at hand when ships could be rid
lied with cannon-balls without the
crews coming into actual contact
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ram. His eyes started in their sock.
cts, the blood drumm.d in his ears
with roar resembling distant thun.
der. His fingers grew numb, Lis throat
dry.
He felt that he could not hold on
another instant when, abruptly. that
torture was no more. The RIPE had
been relieved of its burden. He heard
q scream from below echoed by oua
from above. then the thump Ut Judith
body falling on the sRal-. then the
slithering rumble Of the landslide
gathering momentum. -.
Farcus. at length arrived. assisted
him to place of security. Spent
enc faint and sick with horror. he lay
prone and shuddering.
Only the assurance Of Barcus that
Judith had somehow escaped being
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Sounded Personal.

In a town in the West there is
church that has bright young pastor,
out the attendance Is unfortunately
small. Among the parishioners there
beautiful young widow. One eve
ling, just as the little widow was
.bout to leave the edifice. she was
addressed by the deacon.
Good evening, sister," he cordially
remarked with the usual handshake.
How did you like the sermon this
svening?"
Il think that it was just too perfect
y lovely for anything" was the en-
:husiastic reply of the widow.
1T was, indeed" heartily returned
he deacon. Il only wish that larger
congregations would come to hear
aim"
$50 do l." declared the pretty little
widow. THE congregation was SO
small tonight that every time the par
son said dearly beloved positively
olushed. "-Philadelphia Telegraph
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| for the best-that Judith and Barcus
would soon show up in front, that
something might happen to hinder the
pursuit-never knowing whether the
latter lost or gained.
| And thus catastrophe befell
| Round the swelling bosom of wood.
ed mountainside the motorcycle swept
like hunted hare, and without the
least warning came upon Barcus and
Judith, dismounted, Barcus bending
over his cycle and tinkering with its
motor, at point where the road ran
narrow between the heavily forested
hillsides and terracelike slope OF
bare, brown earth, shooting downward
at an angle of nearly forty-tive degrees
from the horizontal. and fully ninety
feet In length from the roads edge to
| the underground that masked a little
stream idling through the bottom OF
| the canyon.
For one horripilating instant COLI.
| sion seemed unavoidable. Barcus and
Judith and the motorcycle occupied
most of the width of the road; there
was little room between them and the
declivity, less between them and the
forest. To try to pass them on the
latter side would be only to dash his
brains out against the trees while to
make the attempt on the outside wo1id
be to risk leaving the road altogether
| and dashing off into space
And 1t was impossible to stop the
cycle-so brief was all his warning.
In desperation Alan chose the outside
of the road: and for the space of a
single heartbeat thought that he might
possibly maize 1t, but with the next
realized that he would not-seeing the
front wheel swing off over the LID of
the slope.
At this he acted sharply and upon
sheer instinct. AS the cycle left the
road altogether he risked a broken
knee by releasing his grasp of the
handlebars and Strengthening out his
leg and driving it down forcib!y
against the roadbed. The effect of this
was to lift him bodily from the sad
die: the machine shot from beneath
him like some strange projectile
hurled from the bore of a great gun;
and Rose crashed against him In the
same fraction of a second.
Headlong they plunged as one down
the hillside. struck its shelving sur
face a good twenty feet from the brink
of the road, and flying apart tumbled
their separate ways down the re-
mainder Of the drop and into the
friendly shelter Of the underbrush.
Something nearly miraculous saved
them whole. Beyond a few scratches
and bruises and severe shaking up,
they escaped unframed. And they
were picking themselves up and re-
gaining their breath and re-collecting
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Urine, distorted with grimace of the
cruelest joy that ever heart OF man
conceived. He saw Marrophat ap.
proach his master with a drunken
swagger and a speech which, though
mdistinguishable to the unseen au-
ditor. unquestonably afforded both of
the other men ample excuse for &c.
static glee. Toward its conclusion
Mr.. Marrophat apparently capped the
peak OF jubilation by fumbling in his
coat pocket and bringing forth some
thing which strongly resembled sin
gle playing card.
Now when he had contrived to
master his mirth, the cripple made a
gesture which eloquently abolished
this card, gesture which said quite
plainly: "All that is finished. The
thing has served its purposel To
hell with it,"
Whereupon. with smart jerk of his
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CHAPTER xIVIi.
The Last Warning.


In the chill, vtolet-shadowed dusA
OF that clear evening. a chap fallen
motor car crept sluggishly into the
little mountain town Of Mesquite a,
che heels of two mutinous mules, driv
en- by chauffeur who steered with
one hand while the ether f1ourished
cracking whip-lash over the backs
OF Its sole motive power.
Its one passenger, a cripple as helm
aess as the car itself. huddled in a
corner of the rear seat, saluted Mes
quite with snarl. Though he was in
sore need Of such rude comforts as
che town stood prepared to afford him
us demeanor toward it was that OF
one who suffers an indignity rather
Ehan beGs accommodation.
And now, as the car crawled to a
pause before the Mountain house
Aesqultes one caravanserai-and
Mesquite itself. to the last flea bitten
hound. gathered round to view this
wonder, Mr.. Trine's indignation and
chagrin distilled words of poisonous
import. He sat still (for the simple
ana adequate reason that he could
not move without assistance) and
sawed the air with his one able arm
and blistered his thin old lips with
curses as black as his hate-ridden
heart.
Far from resenting this, Mesquite,
pipe In mouth, hands In pockets, ad-
mlred and applauded, and rather re-
scented the change that befell when
cWo other strangers (whose earlier ap-
pearance in town had helped make
Chat one day memorable beyond all
others in Mosquitoes history charged
out of the Mountain house and inter-
rupted the elder devil with cries of
greeting and jubilation.
The leader of these answered to the
name of Marrophat; his companion
vas a person named Jimmy Mes
quite acquired this information
through paying close attention to the
substance OF their communications
With the cripple. More than this, how
ever, 1t learned little. Something
seemed to have been accomplished by
the two, something that was highly
'SA"-AAJ AA6 W oCASCd LOT one
guarded word from Marrophat was all
chat was required to change the old
mans oaths to phrases OF honeyed
appreciation, his scowls to such smiles
as called to mind fugitive flashes Of
sunlight athwart q snowbound land
scape. And he was chuckling almost
mirthfully when lifted from the car
and. carried into the hotel.
What passed between the trio after
they disappeared behind that bed
chamber door Mesquite could by no
means guess. But that a celebration
of some sort was In progress was evil
aenced by the frequency with which
Marrophat and Jimmy called on the
bar for more liquid refreshment, as
well as by bursts of laughter long and
loud and somehow strangely cynical
OF accent.
And toward midnight one belated
Mesquite paused in the street outside
she Mountain house for one last curl
Gus stare at the lighted windows Of
Mr.. Trtne's quarters, and SO witnessed
an incident which puzzled him by fits
and starts throughout the balance of
his days.
He saw, clearly silhouetted against
enc glowing obloug of the window, the
Mephistophelean profile of Seneca
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SYNOPSIS.

The Of Hearts Is the death sign" en-
-9ioyed by Seneca Urine In the private war
OF vengeance which he wages against
vas innoccDtly responsible for the acct
gent which rendered Urine a helpless Grip
PIE Tor hfe. Alan loves and is loved by
ifihe's daughter Rose. Judith Roses
twin and double, but a woman OF violent
and uncertain temper. promises her father
90 compass Alan's death: but under dra-
and so. unwiIingly wins her love as well
Is Roses In spite of her Jealousy OF
a sSfose, Judith refuses to serve out the vow
glory opens is actively assisting Alan and
Rose and their friend Tom Barcus to es-
ape the persecution OF Urine and his
Aarrophat ~
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precipitated over the caves of the
shale roof reused him and gave him
nerve enough to resume the climb.
1t was true. when ne found courage
to look and see for himself; she lay
within three yards of the brink SUI
pine, her face uplifted to the sun. un-
stirring; she dared not stir; single
movement was calculated to set the
shale bed again in motion
Painfully he realized that II. as Bar.
Gus asserted, she had deliberately cut
the rope herself, Judith had offered
up her life to spare his own.
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their scattered wits when. with I'M
petus no less terrific than their own
had been. the pursuing motor car
swung round the bend and hurled It.
self directly at the two who remained
upon the road above.
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Generally Amusing.

Would-Be Contributor-Do you print
serious poetry by amateurs?
Editor-Only in the humorous col
ann
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out, leaving a drop Of SO feet to a
shelving ledge Of shale as steep as a
roof, whose eaves-perhaps another
fifty feet below-jutted out over an
other fall of hundred feet.
Alan shuddered and swallowed hard
before resuming the ascent.
Another 20 feet brought him to
a ledge quite six feet wide, offering a
broad and easy path 70 :he summit.
He gained this with a prayer of heart
felt relief and was on the point of
rising to his feet when cry of horror
from Barcus and scream of terror
from Rose, watching over the upper
edge, warned him barely In time to
enable him to snatch at and grasp q
knob of rock before Judith's weight
tautened the rope between them and
jerked Alan's legs from under him
His feet and legs kicked the empty
air beyond the lip of the ledge, he
lay face downward, clutching desper-
ately the knob OF rock. praying that it
might not come away in his grasp,
that his grasp might hold. that Barcus
might arrive in time to save them
both. The rope was cutting into his
waist like a dull knife. The drag OF
Judith's body was frightful. He could
feel her swinging like pendulum at
the end Of its 80 feet, and could
imagine but too wildly what would
happen If the rope should prove
faulty.
The fall OF 20 feet to the shale
roof was nothing. What would fol-
low would, however, spell death. The
impact of her body would set the
shale in motion, like an avalanche
and beyond the caves was only empti-
ness and the bowlder-strewn bed of
the chasm. hundred feet belowi
The sweat poured from his face like
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-10
town and taking in the ball game.

town and taking in the ball game
Miss Minnie Olsen accompanied by
few of her pupils attended the Play
Day exercises at Valley City Saturday.
Geo. Stroh and family were among
the Island Lake people who were in
attendance at the Didier silver we'd
ding Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. L. Green with He'll
rietta Ness motored to the county seat
Saturday and were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Beal.
A number of the young people of
the neighborhood are looking forward
with pleasure to the Friday evening
dance at the John Sauer home.
The school in District So closed a
profitable years work Friday, June 4.
The patrons of the school are hoping
to see Miss Olsen with us for the COM
ing year.