The Springdale news., 1915-11-12

A Secret Spring Was Touched In the
 Breast of Kansas Elm.
 It. aid him ill running and caring for the great car. Durand departed from Mammoth with his still unconscious patient swathed in blankets.
 When Esther had recovered herself Il he improvised automobile ambulance was gone Esther knew nothing of Durand save what Peter Huff could tell her in answer to her frantic in quiries. Hes doctor, kid. That's all 1 know" MT. Hnf had replied Hes big doctor, too, and an old friend of YoHr friend. Mr Powell At least he's | friend of friends Of his. Ton ought b he thankful Doc Duraud told me MT Powell wouldn't have chance for his life unless he was taken to t hos Pital at once and operated on.
 There were tears in Kansas Ems worldly wise eyes at ESther'S sorrow and distress.
 If you're not satisfied you % follow fhem. Elm whispered. Have yoa any money. pet?s
 Yes, thank you. mnrmured Esther. T have quite enough money. will have Quabba here gel our horses from the stable. and Wc will ride 10 the station and take the first train ta Los Angeles.
 You will thnK sometimes of me | ii}. Here is the prayer from the lock et Did you know that il was in il:
 No said Esther "I don't think any one knew IL There seemed To be s concealed secret spring that was touched
 secret spring was touched in the sifGul breast Of Kansas Elm. Your mother put 1t there when you were baby she nurinurcd "I knew 1t. felt it. There is q faint perfume like lavender about it \ mothers ptayer," Sht sobbed as she took the paper from her bosom. where she had thrust il when the feht bad begun in the dance hall.
 "EYen sinner like 1 anu k made the better by ii continued Elm And will sea pray for me-
 Always. said Esther br0kenlY as she took the cruInpled paper, with it's faint vague old time perfume. Then Esther put her arms around the out east older woman and kissed her in teketf of pity and gratitude
 f4 thc diamond from the skvs of #tll=fie world Aaenaduke Smtfhe k 89ttr"eed hy its powers for good or ill Whether it be balefal t. those who ha1e ba claim IT right to it or @wAeth- ef il be trik I charm against harm for Sianl"ys of the blood means and matters nothing te Marmadalse SmAlhe He feels il his duty to sur fs.ttltt Il to the Stanley heir. but meanwhile it i~ il responsibility he dee~ moi deem detelveS upon him He aill bc ri1 of il
 lie hats hY ]; >isnpost That reads Twenty Miles to Mammoth He mops hi; brow and thinks. and. truly, fl < d long. hong twenty miles that he H+lN Pliifs btftitii- NttH Htii HS Its shawl strap handle the deer head that h bought at the auction at Stanley hati Personally the deer head k far more to Marmadulle Smythe than the iaIlond from the sky.
 some thirty feet from the road. in q .ffai9ht line with the sienposl. k T great live oak tfee. iii itS trunk a hoie iS holloWed. Smythe hides the dia- moud in this hole and makes a careful memorandum of the hiding place and nearby landmarks and his paced meas. ufement to the road and Signboard. Then he goes his way
 His way leads him to where two ehiidren-Toodles and Polly-cotae tod ding down the road with their dolls aitd paythings. X glass of milk would refresh him, Snythe thinks The ehil dren indicate their dooryard to the saunt but kindly stranger. and there Smythe makes his way and is regaled with milk and bread and butter and aouey by the rancher's kindly wife, the mother of To0dles and Polly. tile little children.
 The chidren go down the road to play house" as is their custom be heath the live oak Toodles finds the gleaming baubc She is q girl child. She knows it is a necklace. and with