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to lift and shake like the top of e
canvas tent in a gale. At the same
time mighty gust OF wind swept
athwart the waste, hot as furnace
blast. In trice dust enveloped man
and horse, a sitting cloud of super
heated particles that stung the flesh
like a myriad needles. And then dark
ness fell, the twilight Of hades, a cop
per-colored pail. Nothing remained
visible beyond arms length.
Blinded, half suffocated, unspeak-
ably dismayed and Dewildered, the
broncho swung round, back to the
blast, and refused to bulge another
incn.
Himself more than half-dazed, but
still bounded by his nightmare vision
Of Judith, Alan dismounted to escape
being torn bodily from the saddle by
that hellish sand-blast, and seizing
the bride sought to draw the horse
on with him.
He wasted his strength in that en-
deavor: the animal baked, planted
its hoofs deep in the sand. stifeneo
its legs and resisted with the stub
bornness of rock; then, of a SUDDEN
jerked his head smartly, snapped the
bride from mis- grasp and flung away
scudding before the storm.
Pursuit was out Of the question:
indeed, the bride was barely tori
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ion through the driving sheets Of dust
of horse that plodded up the arroyo,
bearing two riders on its back.
Weary with the weight of its double
burden, it went slowly and passed so
near to Judith that she was able to
recognize the features Of her sister
and Tom Barcus.
Be sure she made never sign to
catch their attention.
Within the next succeeding hour
the coppery light lost something OF
its hot brillance, took on darker
shade, and then one darker still. TWl'
light stole athwart the desert, turning
Its heat to chill, it's light to violet.
Growing more intense, the colo
eventually reused the sleeping man.
And hardly had his eyes unclosed
and looked up into the eyes OF judith
i bending over him than he started up
and out of her embrace, got INSTEAD
lily upon his feet and after moment
of pause, watching her rise in turn
strobe away-or, rather, staggered
with the gesture Of exorcism.
Uncomplaining, hugging her new
born humility to her with the ecstasy
of the anchorite his horse-hair shirt,
Judith followed him patiently, at
little distance.
Not far from where he had rested
| there was a break in the overhanglng
wall of the arroyo. Through this he
scrambled painfully, reaching the level
Of the desert only after cruel effort
the unheeded woman at his heels.
A brief pause there afforded both
time to regain their breath and survey
the desert for signs of assistance: II
offered none, other than what they
might accomplish through their OWL
exertions. For leagues in any quarter
it stretched without a break other than
the black cleft Of the arroyo, cleaning
a. bleached and deathly white in the
moonshine-like the face Of a frozen
world.
With tacit consent both turned that
way, Alan leading, Judith his pertina'
cious shadow, with never word or
sign between them to prove that either
was aware Of the others company.
But this was a state of affairs that
could not long endure. Judith had the
price to pay for her own trials, suf-
fering and privation: the strain began
to tell sorely upon her. She reeled
slightly as she walked, weaving
winding trail across and across the
straighter line Of footprints that
marked Alans course through the or
dered pattern Of the powdered sage
brush.
And of a sudden she collapsed.
Instinct alone made Alan glance
over-shoulder: for she had made no
sound whatever.
He turned and came directly back
to her, knelt beside her, lifted her
head, pillowed it gently on his arm
and piled her In turn with the dregs
Of the canteen.
With sigh, a stifed moan and
little shiver, she revived.
He helped her gently to regain her
feet, passed an arm round her.
In this fashion they struggled on in
strange, dumb companionship Of mis-
cry and wonder.
Thus an hour passed; and for all
their desperate struggles neither could
see that the light on the mountainside
was yard the nearer.
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Alan had fallen in his dizzy blindness.
She found him insensible, lying with
an arm bent under him in pose
frishtfully suggestive of Gislocation.
Yet when she turned him on his back
and released the arm, he made no
sign to indicate that the moyen ent
had caused him the slightest pain.
There was a slight cut upon his
brow, bruise about his left temple.
She tore linen from her bosom, be.
meath her coarse flannel shirt, and with
sparing aid from the canteen, washed
the cut clean and bandaged it.
Then. seeing that the storm held
with fury unabated, she rose, recon.
noitered and returned to exert all her
strength and drag the unconscious
man across the dry bed of that ancient
water-course and under the lee Of its
farther bank.
There, sitting, she pillowed his
head upon her lap, and bending over
him made her body an additional shell
ter to him from the swirling clouds
Of dust.
And for hours on end Judith nursec
him there. scarce daring to move
save to minister to his needs, bathing
his fevered brow and moistening hi!
parched lips and throat.
In the course Of the first hour she
was once startled by the spectral Wis
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c,,vriaas, 1914, BY Louis Joseph Vaace

TO avert it-no matter what we may
have suffered at Judith's hands?''
With an indignant grunt, but con-
siderate none the less, Mr.. Barcus
caught up the glasses and turned his
"Go on!" he grumbled, pretending
to ignore the hand Alan offered him
from the saddle. "Ive got no patience
with you :. But go!" he insisted,
Of a sudden seizing the hand and
pressing it fervently. "And God go
with you, my friend!"
Then hoofbeats drumming on the
hard-packed earth Of the canyon trail
struck a hundred echoes from its
rugged, rocky walls.
Mr.. Barcus showed Rose Trine a
face almost 1udicrous with its an
guished smile that was intended to
seem reassuring.
Lets look sharp and follow him
as quick as may be-" he urged. Light
ming will never strike US so long as
we stick to Mr.. Law of the charmed
! life-but don't mind telling you, once
, out Of his company. I'm just naturally
afraid Of the dark"
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from his hand before Alan lost sight
of the broncho.
For a moment he stood rooted in
CONSERVATION as in a bog-with an
arm upthrown across his face.
Then the thought Of Judith re-
CURED. -.
Head bended and shoulders rounded,
he began to forge a way into the teeth
Of the sandstorm.
How long he fought on, pitting his
strength against the elements, cannot
be reckoned.
In the end he stumbled blindly down
a slight decline and was abruptly
conscious that he had In some way
found shelter from the full force Of the
wind
He staggered on another yard or
two, breathing more freely, and blum
dered into rough-ribbed wall Of rock
some sporadic outcrop, he under
stood, whose bulk stood between him
and the storm.
He thought to rest for a time, until
the storm had spent its greatest
strength; but as he laid his shoulder
gratefully against the rock and
scrubbed the dust from his smarting
eyes he saw what he at first conceived
to be a hallucination: Judith Trine
standing within yard &C him, alive,
strong, free.
He stared incredulously, saw her
recognize him, open her mouth to
utter wondering cry that was maud,
BILE, and come quickly nearer.
Alan, You came for me! You fol
lowed me, through all 'this!"
He threw of her hand with a bitter
laugh-that was like the croaking of a
raven as it issued from his bone-dry
throat-and in momentary possession
Of hysteric madness, reeled away from
the woman and the shelter Of the rock
and delivered himself anew to the
mercy of the dust-storm.
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straight Ahead, My Mani" She Said
hundred yards from the mouth of the
pass.
AS it drew near the spot where she
paused, waving both hands frantically
the head Of the pursuing party swept
into the mouth of the ravine.
At the same time the chauffeur no.
ticed that the two men on the hillside
were following the woman pellmell,
throwing themselves down the SLOPE
with gigantic leaps and bounds.
And then great explosion rent the
peaceful hush Of night-that till then
! had been profaned by the pattering
cracks of the revolver fusillade.
AS the roar Of dynamite subsided
the entire side of the hill shifted and
slid ponderously down, choking the
rayine with debris to the depth Of
some thirty or forty feet, burying the
leaders of the pursuit beyond hope Of
rescue.
Only instant later the motor car
jolted to halt and Alan pulled him
self together to find that Rose and
Barcus were standing beside the door
and jabbering joyful greetings, mixed
with more or less incoherent explana-
tions Of the manner in which they had
come to seek shelter for the night in
the prospector's shack and, reused
by THE noise Of firing and recognizing
Alan in the car by the aid Of spy
glasses, had with the prospector's aid
hit upon this scheme of shooting
landslide in between the pu-suit and
its devoted quarry.
Continued Next week.
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quickly answered by fainter yells from
a distant quarter Of the desert, then
by pistols popping and flashing some
two miles away. then by growing
rumble Of galloping hoofs-
The night glasses in the car anofoeo
her flashes Of bod- of several horse
men-some six or seven, she Judged
making at top speed toward the spot
where Marrophat, Hicks and Jimmy
waited beside beacon which they
had built and lighted.
Half dozen sentences exchanged
with the chauffeur advised her that
these were horsemen from the town
Of Mesa who had charged themselves
with the duty Of avenging the death
Of Hopi Jim Slade.
A sardonic chuckle from within
Trine's gag goaded the girl into sui
len fury.
Exacting his utmost speed from the
chauffeur, under penalty of her dis
! pleasure, she set herself to revive
| Alan.
With the aid Of such stores Of food
and drink as the car carried, this was
quickly enough accomplished.
Strangling with an overdose OF
brandy too little diluted with water
Alan sat up, grasped the conditions
! in a flash, and gained further informa
ton as he deyoured sandwiches and
emptied a canteen.
The mountain pass was now, ne
judged, mile distant. The light on
the hillside, according to the chauf
feur, was that of prospector wnc
had camped there temporarily. There
was nothing, then, 10 be feared from
that quarter, but soleey from the real
where the horsemen, having plckec
up Marrophat and his companions
had instituted hot pursuit, and were
now strung out in long, straggllne
line, three horses carrying double tne
farthermost-perhaps mile and
half away-one with single ridel
the nearest, well within three-Quar
ters Of a mile.
Nobly mounted, this last came OF
like the wind, gaining on the moto'
car with every stride; for his hors'
was trained to such going, Wherea'
the car at best could only labor heaV
lily in dust and sand.
None the less, it had won to pom
within a quarter Of a mile from tn
pass before the horseman got Wlthll
what he esteemed the proper range
AMI opened fire.
He fired thrice His first shot winge'
wide, his second by ill-chance rippe'
through a rear tire of the car, thu
placing upon it an additional hand
cap, while his third sought the zenltI
as his hands flew up and he droppe
from the saddle, drilled through tn
body by Alan's only shot.
A long-range pistol duel was
progress before the car had covere
half the remaining distance to tn
pass.
By the time it entered this las'
which proved to be narrow rayin
with towering side Of crumbiy cart
and shale and broken rock, the pul
! suit was not hundred yards behin'
while the firing was well-nigh conti
uous.
Two hundred feet above the ira
two men were working with despera'
haste at some mysterious business
though none noticed them.
Only the chauffeur was aware Oh
| woman running down the hillside
an angle, to intercept the car sever
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CHAPTER xl-.
rha M, in the Shadow.

The Man in the SnaooW'
Two hundred feet, if one, Hopl Jim
fell from the lip of the cliff. Then sud-
denly the thing that had been Hopi
Jim siade was checked in its headlong
descent By the outstanding trunk OF a
tree, over which it remained, doubled
up, limp, horrible
The miniature landslide that had
been caused by his fall went on,
settling gradually as the slope be-
came less sheer. Only part OF II, a
double handful Of pebbles, gained the
bottom of the canyon.
It's muf1ed impact on the grouno
round his feet reused the man VINO
had compassed the bandits death from
the pose he had unconsclousiy as
sume5 on the instant Of firing.
he stepped back, and snatched up
a case containing binoculars.
Not before the glasses were adjusted
to his vision did he find time to re-
spond absentiy to the alarmed and in
sistent inquiries Of his two compan-
ions,a man Of his own age and girl
of some years less, who had been
wakened from their sleep by the re-
port Of the rife.
Now the latter pmcked his sleeve,
momentarily DETECTING the glasses
from the object which they were fol-
lowing so sedulously as it moved
along the heights; wildly running
horse with woman bound helpless
upon it's back, both sharply in sill
houette against the burning blue.
.sAlan!'' the girl demanded, what
is it? Why did you FIRE? Why won
Won answer me? What is it?"
.ssJuditas Alan replied tersely, again
picking up with the glasses the run
away horse that fed so madly alon
the perilous and narrow track Of tn
hill trail.
The name was echoed from tw
throats as Alan swung sharply an
thrust the glasses into the hands
the girl.
Judith" he affirmed with look {
poignant solicitude. "She's roped
the back Of that crazy broncho-hell
less! See for yourself; one false ste
suppose a stone turns beneath It
hoof-she'll be killed."
While the girl focused her glasse
upon that speck that few against th
sky Alan turned to the two horse
hobbled near by and seizing saddl
threw it over the back Of one.
At this the other man turned to hi
side and dropping a OBTAINING han
upon his arm asked:
What are you going to do?"
Alan shook the hand off and wen
on with his seIf-appointed task.
go after her, Tom, Of course" b
replied. What else? That animal
crazy, tell you"
Even So" Tom Barcus argued, ttyo
can't climb that hillside on horseback
and if you could, you'd be too late t
catch up, p.acb less prevent an az
= kno4 4. But suppose it doesn
fall -. You know what's beyon
these hills-deserts! And the girl
helpless, tell you, bound hand an
foot. Think of her being carried tina
way-aIl day, perhaps-face up to thl
brutal sun! She'll go mad II some
thing. isn't done
you've gone mad yourself ALREADY,
Mr.. Barcus contended darkly. What
it to you if she does? Suppose you d.
succeed in rescuing her: what tnen
AS soon as she gets on her pins she,i
try to stick a knife into you-hke a
not. What's she been chasing you fol
all over this land Of the brave ant
home Of the free, but to take your foo
Hfee And now you want to sacrifice
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KoN.T WEAR or
As Easy as1r Y MGsg A EkeysERS
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yourself to her, out of sheer, down.
rightfoclishness in the head! sup
pose you'll like me to call it chivalry:
I'll ten you what I call it-lunacy!!"
Don't be an asst" Alan responded
tempsrately, gathering the reins to-
gether and instinctively lifting a foot
fc the stirrup. "Who warned US yes
terday in time to prevent our being
crushed by that rock? Judith! Why
wss She separated from Marrophat
and the others-alone up there when
that Beast sheaked UP behind her-o,
/ saw him-S,saw it all-and grabbed
her snd her to that bronco-lr
II ywsss5Y ywz aGse she had broken with
than, soy good and all and started to
bur side?"
aS77sT,sss raVlng," Barcus commented
less tone. He looked to the
]: 8 5se-Miss Trine-reason with
- Aman-"
,SS.ssss ing the glasses, the girl came
And confidently to her lovers
~ g her lips to his.
8 8 e.etheart." she told him.
Ss If you CAM
gS sook Of triumph for the bene-
n Barcus Alan Law gathered
Z ~ s into his arms.
sA dream for an instant Rose
~ own sister carried to
=. Fss6 linything could be done
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Aug. Wall and family and
Johnnie Skjei and wife spent
Sunday at the Anton Wall
home.
Miss Minnie Krogen return
ed to Bottineau Monday morn
ing after spending the week
end at her home in the country.
Bernhard Wall was a Botti.
neau visitor Monday. A very
sore foot impeded his progress
but he got here just the same.
Mrs. Ingvai Berg was taken
i'll Saturday and at once re-
moved to the hospital at Botti-
neau. We are glad to report
that she is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. B.. Ryan and
Miss Ryan of Antler arrived in
this locality Saturday and spent
several days visiting in the
Rafael Henning and Anton
Kornkven homes north of
town.
Miss Olive Crogan left Mon
day for Antler where she will
visit the Misses Mabel Gorder
and Carrie WIKI who are teach
ing in the Fairview consolid-
ated school, ten miles from
Antler.
Alfred Hansen arrived in
Carbury Monday evening from
Bottineau. He left again on
Tuesday for Wolf Point, Mont,
where he will spend the winter
with his brother who is living
on a claim there.
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GRAMMAR GRADE.

Examinations were taken in
the grammar grades Monday.
John Glomseth jr. is the
proud possessor of a new pair
of moccasins. Being asked
why he wore them to school,
he quickly replied: so the
teacher wont catch me running
down the stairs"
High school students have
just completed the wood and
coal business in bookkeeping.
The sales book will be intro
duced for the first time in the
wholesale flour business.
Teacher: Helen, what do
we get from Long Island
Sound?
Eelen: Tobacco.
Boys at home who have not
been attending school on ac-
count of work should enroll
now and take advantage of the
short course in agriculture and
general science which twill be
taught after the holidays.
Who will be the next visitor?
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LOCAL NEWS

Be sure to read the Carbury
adds. They are good.
Bernt Wall made a business
trip to Bottineau Saturday.
Ole Dyrstad spent Sunday
under the parental roof.
Percy Russell of Bottineau
was a caller in town Sunday
evening.
Misses Alma Wall and Lara
Noun spent Friday in Botti-
neau.
Rev. J. l.. Redal and Olaf
Redal of Souris spent Friday
in town.
Sever J. Dalen attended the
school directors meeting at
Bottineau Friday.
Miss Olson, who teaches the
Bakkon school attended instit-
tute at Bottineau.
Carl Arntzon and Gina Pet
erson took in the movies at
Bottineau Thursday.
Oluf Guttu and family and
Nils Stivland spent Sunday at
the G.. O. Berge home.
Miss Katherine Scully of
Bottineau spent Sunday at the
John Krogen home north of
town.
Miss Olga Draveland, who
has been working at the Cafe
in Carbury, returned home on
Tuesday.
Mrs. S. G.. Berg and Mrs.
Nels B. Arneson went to Botti-
neau Friday morning, return
ing in the evening.
Sivert Langnes of Landa
spent Friday and Saturday vi
sitting friends and looking after
business interests.
The Misses Clara and Olive
Krogen accompanied by Ole
Anderson spent Sunday at the
Claus Anderson home.
The Misses Karen and Anna
Noun of Gardena, spent the
week end with home folks, re-
turning to Gardena Sunday.
Misses Ringer and Jacobs al
80 Messrs. John O. Peterson
and @. H. Samuelson attended
the teachers institute at Botti-
neau.
Alma Gorder, who is teach
ing near Roth spent Friday and
Saturday with home folks, re-
turning to her school Saturday
evening.
Miss Hilma Jelleberg, who
teaches in the Forsberg district
north of town, took Thursdays
train for Bottineau to attend
the institute.
A large number attended the
ladies aid which was entertain
ed by Mrs. O. E. Hegg in the
assembly room last Friday
afternoon.
John O.. Peterson, Harold
Haroldson, Irwin Crowder, Ole
and Selmer Dyrstad were in
the mountains hunting Sunday
and bagged SO rabbits. How's
that for sport?
Olaf Redal, relative of Rev.
Redal and we'll known around
here has purchased an interest
in a bakery and confectionery
business at Stanley with Joe
Johnson as partner. We are
confident that Olaf will do we'll
providing he has the right kind
of a girl to mix the dough.
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CARBURY SCHOOLS
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.

DEPARTMENT.
Gilbert Iverson was promot-
ed to the fourth grade. These
grades are COM encing the
Christmas work.
The story of the Wise Men"
has been read and a poster has
been made to illustrate the
story.
The doll house has been COM
pleted and now furnishes an
abode for a whole family of
dolls.
The second and third grades
are doing good work in their
new Baldwin and Bender read
ers.
The third graders are making
stocking booklets for spelling
words.
Those having perfect attend
ance through the month are:
Third grade-~Walter Gorder,
VIM. Gorder, Olga Iverson and
Gilbert Iverson.
Second grade-Adolph liver
son. Julien Noun, Johnnie
Rosberg.
First grade--Ingrid Holt.
INTERMEDIATES DEPARTMENT
The fourth and fifth grades
will start work in United States
history this week. Next week
these grades will be busily &C.
cupied in making a few Christ
mas gifts.
The following named stu
dents received perfect attend
ance certificates for the month:
Gilbert Noun, Charlotte Cro-
gen. Peder Wall, BENJAMIN
Gorder, Martin Moen, Victor
Crogen, Adolph Wall, Paul
Henning and Da gny Moen.
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CHURCH SERVICES

Sunday, Dec. 12-Services at
the Turtle Mountain church.
Sunday, Dec. 12-Young Peo-
pies society will meet in the
Turtle Mountain church at 100
p. m.
Services at Bethesda church
at 5 p N.