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CHAPTER XXI.
The RiGht Law,


 Once again Poppy Ordway was back at Dailys. Seemingly nothing had happened in her absence. Sandry was a little stronger, bit more impatient to be at the work. able to go about the camp and the tilted meadow. He was pale still. and to her passionate eyes more to be desired than ever. She noticed quickly how wistfully tender was the face of Siletz, and how the girl stayed apart from Sandry in a certain diftidence This was balm to her fears and her anxiety.
 She went back to her work with re- newed vigor. She was happier here in this wild country than she had ever been in her life, filled with the excite ment of Fame that lured and Love that beckoned, and, so she believed, able to capture both.
 She set herself to win Sandry with more skill and cleverness than ever, calling upon all her store of blandish- ments, and it was mighty, for every art of love known to a designing woman. They spent long hours in the sun on the east porch talking of a thousand things and dual war went on-suspicion, fear, uneasiness bat ting against the woman's divine gen. tleness the blue fire of her sensuous, sleepy eyes that. despite himself, thrilled the man to his foundations.
 So Poppy Ordway sought to win legitimately, unconscious of the fact that one enemy had Tied an stole both' to show Sandry her hidden hand. She did not want to buy him with a price, though that was her reserve force-she wished with all her unseru puiQus soul to ,sin him with her ex- qUisite woman's body And to that end she used all the power of her bound as he felt himself to be by her open avowal. would have yielded to it entirely. could he have laid the spec ter of the notehook.
 Then one day an incident took place that caused her to see that she must let him feel the steel beneath the velvet.
 As usual. she sat in the golden after noon on the east porch, her work for the day being over, and Sandry lounged on the lowest step, his elbow on the floor and his hat pulled low over his eyes. gazing down the valley. Presently there came sound, a rhythmic sound at first far off. then coming nearer. the rolling thunder of a big horse in full flight, and up from
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CHAPTER xx.
A Cruel Weapon.

In the soberly correct offices of Farnsworth & Heathcote, one of New York's most solid and reputable law firms, two persons sat talking.
 The honest roses in the cheeks of Miss Poppy Ordway bloomed glorious ly. Her raiment whispered silkily when she moved her splendid ahoul- ders a bit more comfortably against the mahogany chair-back
 And now. MT Farnsworth." she was saying. can you give me the full particulars of that mysterious rob- bery?"
 The eminent lawyers quiet eyes were taking pleasurable nete of the woEaan,s beauty the concise handling of the discussion in hand.
 ''As one of the attorneys for the estate of James B. Whitby. think | am qualified to do so he stated gravely.
 Then" said Poppy 0rdway, open ing little red morocco notebook at a page far to the back, let us pro ceed.
 Mir Farnsworth spread out before him set of papers.
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CHAPTER XIX.
A Lie and a Theft.

Sandry recovered rapidly. His youth and 1.-the strength were powerful aids and the broken bones inside the plas- ter casts knitted busily. With his re- turn to consciousness, Miss Ordway relaxed her vigilance. She gave up her place without protest to Ma Daily and began to spend part of her days fr the little room This had been San drys urgent request.
 See what you've lost already in time and strength and energy he pleaded, please go to your own work :
 On one of the first days of Ma Daily's attendance, he asked to see Siletz.
 The general was wise and she sent the girl alone Sandry closed his eyes and lay waiting for the light step that always reminded him of wild things in the forest-so slipping. soft and h1shed was it.
 Presently he heard it coming down the slope. Ii slowed as it neared the office and for long time stopped al together outside the door. His heart 7 leaped uncontrollably and conflicting emotions flushed his face as he called her softly.
 Come here, S'letz," he heard him.
 saying, though for his life it was Let what he wished to say, and she came and dropped on her knees beside him, clasping her hands on the sheet at his side There was nothing of the conscious avowal of Poppy s words in her look and attitude, only the simple betrayal of nature as open as the day. The shining light of joy in her face, the hushed acknowledgment Of Gods sparing of his life, was all-sufti- cient. In a flash he heard the words of Kolawmie's halfbreed:
 flor S'letz is your woman"
 And he knew they were true. By every sign of her soul and body they were true, as simply as the flower wor-
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First Standard Copper and Zinc company, consolidated, he read with out preface, "ene of the most conserva- tive and entirely solvent concerns in the country Under the control and in the hands of Whitby, Halstead, Witherspoon & Haste.
 Suspected of crooked methods. Twice involved in suits at law, charged with rate and rebate swindles.
 'Second-On the night of June IS, 1899 President Whitby had in his pos session, for what reason has never been made known, at his bachelor apartments at Whitby place, Aredale. S502 000 in banknotes of high denomi- nations He had sent away his man for the night and was entirely alone
 'Third-He was found at nine o'clock the next morning in his library, sitting before a table several hours dead Under his hand ia9 ~a unfn- ished letter. This letter foIiy 65. yer batin:
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nous for her great gift and her mar veious beauty-and she. too, by her open word was his Woman!"
 Little S'letz." he said, though he had meant to use her name alone, Little Ssletz-"
 But what he would have said was left unspoken. for Ma Daily creaked in the doorway with d bowl of broth.
 My goodness, ma," he said whim- sically, If you don't stop filling me with broth I'll refuse to eat at all. l want slice of ham and some of your ineomparable rice pudding
 You want what you get. You sip this all.''
 As Sandry obediently finished the last drop, the general reached in the capacious pocket of her dish apron.
 Here" she said, "see what found. ,"
 She held squarely before his eyes a little red morocco notebook, opened at page far to the back.
 Miss Ordway dropped it as she rode off on the bay this mornin an l picked it up."
 Without volition, Sandry glanced at the white page, which held few neatly tabulated notes.
 "We ought not to read it. ma" he was saying, it may be private"
 Then a change came over his flea, lures and involuntarily he peered closer.
 Mas keen, old eyes were upon his face and she saw it slowly lose what little color returning life had given it. saw a look of bewilderment. of amaze and something very like fear settle down upon it, drawing the features, tightening the skin. He stared hard at the few seant notes. then raised dilated eyes to her.
 Are you sure. ma, sure-?" he asked ip a strangely altered voice.
 Sure? Ever know me to speak when I want sure, spn?" said tho gen eral grimly.
 For, though the notes on the page were so few and so meaningless to an outsider, it was plain that they had fallen under the one pair of eyes whose owner they most vitally con eerned.
 This was what Walter Sandry read Tuesday night: Ruinedi Ruined, Help less and he does not know! Wednesday: Scoundrels all-James B. Whitby-M -Musseldorn-Cepper and Zinc. Consolidated. Legitimate! My God, it's done legitimately! Within the law! May such law be damned. James B. WhltbY-- I am the law this night.
 Thursday: Dad. old chapi
 When he had finished, his weak hands trembled on the sheet and there was the look of a cornered animal in the bright. blue eyes that sought the old woman's pleadingly.
 Ma said Sandry hoarsely take 1t back and put it where Miss Ordway will casually find it, and don't say saw it"
 Without word. Ma Daily picked up her bowl, put the little red book in her pocket and took Siletz away to the noon work leaving the man for the first time alone. Of wide and cun- ming knowledge was this old handler of men. She knew that he would think best in solitude.
 Mother said Siletz as they passed up the path, "she never dropped that"
 Course not. I lied an stole both, but it's worth while. There's some thin, threatenin' Sandry, an though he's pretty weak to be worried, it's best he should know
 And in the meantime Poppy Ordway was talking to Hampden on the Siletz |. road. The man was passionate force ful, little worried by her long ap- sence from their rides. and he used every persuasion at his command to win her from the Daily camp
 What for do you want to stay there?' he begged.
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presence, an invalid since three years ago-tied to a wheel chair in his man. sion on Riverside drive. Musseldorn. a clever man, extremely capable and pleasant" 7"
 And is that all? Has this MT. Will ton Sandry any family?"
 Why, let me see-yes, believe there is son, one son. The mother is dead"
 And where is this son?"
 T do not know. He has been in Europe, I believe, though it seems to me that he returned some time ago.
 'Um," Miss Ordway was saying to herself-"a year in Europe, after col. lege."
 Twenty minutes later the eminent lawyer walked down with her to where her runabout waited
 AS she threaded among the teeming traffic, Poppy Ordway was saying to herself, Wilton Sandry, financially solid. James B. Whithy robbed by { mana young man just home from z year in Europe, after college, whose father he had found bankrupt by un wise speculation of partner and the said James B. Whitby. And Walter Sandry in the Oregon hills mutters of Ruined! Ruined, And he does not know! Legitimate! It is done legitfmately!' and I am the law this night, James B. Whitbyi' An me! Walter-Walter-h of my heart, fire of my blood-youre the man with the pistol!"
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 When she returned she carried a hand full of closely typewriter pages.
 They drew up one of the pine benches, spread out the manuscript be- tween the catchup bottles and Sat down together.
 Instantly with the touch of the shift ing sheets in her fingers Miss 0rdway seemed to drift away from the per sonal She became detached. absorbed. swallowed up in the thrall of work and Sandry had feeling of what such work must mean to one.
 Now see." she said, half excitediy, "here is the point about which l am a trifie in doubt. But I will have to sketch the situation for you so you can get a grip on it." ----------
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ships the sun all day And there in the little south room. from whose open window he could hear the click of q typewriter. was the most brilliant woman of his own world whom he had
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him to the camp
 CHAPTER II-Walter Sandrv introduces himself to John Daily, foreman, as ''the Dillingworth Lumber Co. most of it." CHAPTER III-Sandry makes acauaint- anee with the camp and the work he has come from the East to superintend and make successful.
 CHAPTER IV-Sandry wisely decides to leave immediate supervision in the hands Of Daily and writes to his father that he intends to get handful of the wealth In the uncut timber of the region.
 CHAPTER V-Sandry gives siletz per mission to ride Black Bolt. his saddle horse.
 CHAPTER vI-Sandry In an emergency mas himself no lumberrnan. but proves 10 the foreman that he does not lack Judgment Siletz tells Sandry of the Preacher.
 CHAPTER vII-sandry discovers that s!letz bears the sign of the Siletz tribe or Indians and wonders what her sur name is. In the flush of a tender moment ne calls her the Night Wind in the pines' and kisses her
 CHAPTER vIII-Poppy ordway mag azine writer from New York comes to Dailys to get material for romance of the lumber region Hampden of the Yel- low Pines Co wants Sandry to keep off tract Of stumpage he claims title to and Sandry thinks he has bought as the East Belt
 CHAPTER IX-Hampden sets up cabin on the East Belt and warns tres passers off. Sandry can find no written evidence of title to the tract. His men pull down the cabin. Sandry compares Siletz and Poppy.
 CHAPTER X-sandry's and Hampdens men fight over the disputed tract. The Preacher stops the fight.
 CHAPTER XI-sandry finds that the deed to the East Belt has never been re- corded. He decides to get out his con- tract first and fight for the stumpage aft erward.
 CHAPTER xII-Poppy scents trickery and flirts with Hampden to gain his con- fdenee. She tells Sandry that Hampden is crooked and that she'll get him.
 CHAPTER XIII-Poppy goes to Salem in search of evidence against Hampden sanary and Siletz ride to the seashore time. Sandry's men desert him for Hamp- den. who has offered more money.
 CHAPTER xIv-siletz goes to her friends the Siwashes and persuades them work for Sandry to save his contract. she has proof of Hampdens filing bogus entries in collision with the commission- CT. She sees Sfletz and Sandry talking together and becomes jealous.
 CHAPTER XVI-The big timber raft is started on it's way, but is blown up and Sandry is dangerously injured
 CHAPTER XvII-Poppy insists on talk ing care of Sandry and says she is his promised wife. No" CT Siletz "he kissed me and am his woman"
 You've been so good to mel can't say how good, how much you have stood for to me here-but-but, if you please, Miss Ordway-Poppy, my friend-Id rather you'd let Hampden alone"
 "What?" cried Poppy aloud. while all her instincts were clamoring for adjustment. What do you mean, Walter Sandry?"
 Cant you see, you clever woman. that I must get Hampden myself? That this score must be settled first hand?"
 And Ma Daily, coming softly along the grass to the door, heard the words.
 "knowed it." she said with sharp satisfaction, hes a man an 1 knowed it from tn start
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There" finished the attorney, the letter ended, signed only by the hand of death, leaving the greatest mystery of the times. There was no trace of the young man with the pistol.
 There has been found no trace of the immense bundle of banknotes, as there could be found 10 record Of their numbers nor any word of where MT. Nhitby got them. There has been found nothing, as all the world knows. The estate has employed the best de tective talent of the country to nc avail. There are no true clues, opin ions or theories. All are false when applied"
 WRh lightning rapidity Miss Ord way had been following the attorneys reading in shorthand in the red note book.
 "Ah!" she said with a breath of satisfaction, that is excellent, Excel lent-and it closes the first matter of which I spoke. Now for the second !"
 She smiled into MT Farnsworths eyes in her own beWitching manner as she told the small lie, for there were no two matters upon which she had
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CHAPTER xTI-Poppy scents trickery and flirts with Hampden to gain his con- hdence. She tells Sandry that Hampden is crooked and that she'll get him.
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CHAPTER XI-Sandry finds that the deed to the East Belt has never been re- corded. He decides to get out his con tract first and fight for the stumpage aft erward.
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New York City. New York.
 June IS, 1898. I, James B Whftoy president of the Standard Copper and Zinc company, Con- solidated, sit down to write what be- lieve will be my last word on earth.
 The telephone wires have been cut, my man is away fer the nieht and | am en- tireiy alone in the grip of one of my re- current attacks of heart trouble. but my brain is abnormally clear. l hrought out last evening from business $5a2.000 for reasons l5rdHn to myself-dH of it in bills Of high denemnaton.
 At one o'clock this night I looked up to face a pistol held Dy man young man who WAS unmasked. '.Yoa may as well be patient" he said quietly, for I intend having a talk with you"
 Then followed what sufficed te heat me into the greatest rage of my Hfe-an ac- cusation of myself my methods and my firm. the statistical colduess of which was the acme of studied insolenee. He was d young man, almost q boy, just home from year in Europe after col lege
 He had, it appears. found his father a bankrupt, through anwise speeulations of partner. and tracing some transactions 10 mo, laid 1t all at my door He de- manded the money I had in my possess siou-at the point of the pistnli
 Shaking with rage I obeyed, and threat ened to expose him by daylight. He cool ly told me ! would not dare because of proofs in his hands which would states prison me. and which proofs 1 positively know do not exist,
 The affair believe at this writing will cost me my life, so ritally did it stir my anger and here ant now before my strength fails. let me commend him to the fullest limit of the law for punish ment. He is as truly my murderer as if he had fired his gun, to this swear, and his name is
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CHAPTER X-Sandry's and Hampden's men fight over the disputed tract The Preacher stops the fight.
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CHAPTER XIII-Poppy goes to Salem in search of evidence against Hampden. Sanary and Sletz ride to the seashore and Siletz sees the ocean for the first time. Sandry.s men desert him for Hamp- den. who has offered more money.
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Sfletz of DaiIy's lumber camp watches a stranger mishandle his horse in climbing the ridge and directs him to the camp.
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CHAPTER 1X-Hhmpden sets up a cabin on the East Belt and warns tres passers off. Sandry can find no written evidence of title to the tract. His men pull down the cabin. Sandry compares Siletz and Poppy.
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CHAPTER IV-Sandry wisely decides to leave immediate supervision in the hands of Daily and writes to his father that he intends to get a handful of the wealth In the uncut timber of the region.
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REPLIES TO REDFIELD.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 9.-Charles E. Hughes. replying to Secretary Red fields telegram denying that F. D. Dana Durand was forced out of office as director of the census. today read to large audience here letter from MT Durand in which MT. Durand said that he had told Redfeld he would resign but wanted to remain and that Redfeld replied that the administra- tion had decided on a change.
 Reads From Durand.
 In his speech here. Mir. Hughes said in part:
 "In my speech at Detroit I took oc- casion to refer to the fact that in a very important bureau, the Bureau of Census, and on eminent statistician. a man of conspicuous expertness and fitness for the place. had been retired. place without qualifications for that important technical work You must know how important that census bureau is. In the proper collation. of those statistics is furnished the op- portunity for many investigators to detect important tendencies in our life It is work that must be done ex- pertly.
 Now. my statement that F. Dana Durand was relieved, as I said in effect. and his place given to a poli tician. has been challenged by Secre- tary Redfeld Secretary Reddeld telegraphs me that I was greatly mis- informed. He says 'Durand was not removed or retired, but resigned vol untarilv. unasked. I was glad to en-
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Italians Capture GatelUay to Trest the Great
 Seaport of Austria at Head of Adriatic Sea

the right bank of the Koropice River and captured a number of important positions west of Velesnieoup and southward along the Niznioff Monas- terzyka railroad
 North of the Somme River in the France the Australians have pushed back the Germans near Pozieres two hundreds yards over a front of six hundred yards, while the French have driven out the Germans from trench recently captured from them north Of the Hem Wood and reoccupied it In the Verdun sector heavy artillery activity is in progress at Thiaumont, Fleury. Vaux- Chapitre and Chenois.
 Constantinople reports and Petro- grad admits that the Turks have re- captured the towns of Bitls and Mush. in Turkish Armenia. but Petrograd says obstinate fighting is still going on in this region
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Two Trains Loaded With Sunday Excursionists Are Lost Somewhere in Fooded District. Hundreds of Houses Washed Away in Cabin Creek Valley. Damage Is es- timated at Several Millions
GOVERNOR HASTENS TO SCENE TO
 AID, MILITIA ALSO ORDERED OUT
Of Fifteen Thousand Persons Onehird Reported Home less today Relief Trains Rushed to Flooded Dis tricts. With Wire and Rail Communications Down. Rescue Work Proceeds Slowly.
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CHARLESTON, w. Va. At persons oudburst which reports received tonight
  ton has practically been off damage railroad coal oil and estimated million dollars Scores
 15o ed According officials of the 15O have their lives Eleven
  could The persons failed
 CIoudburst ec
 
   on bull dines o
 Ira in Abans which Sunday school Moth The Cabin Creek valley Advices received indicate Onhd this number probably homeless nd trains
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c. O. P. Candidate, Challeng- ed for Statement at Detroit, Reads Durano's Letter at Minneapolis.
PREPAREDNESS PLAN
 CALLED INADEQUATE
"Only Punishment Inflicted in Mexican Campaign Was on Ourselves" He Declares at St. Paul.
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ST. PAUL, Aug. 9.-Charles D.. Hughes, speaking tonight in the Audi torium here. assailed the administra- tion for its preparedness policy, which he declared inadequate, asserted that he regarded reasonable prepared ness as a primary duty" and purposed' if elected, "co see that it is discharged to the credit of the American people"
 "We are d spirited people" MT. Hughes declared. We are a people who can protect ourselves. We are not too proud to fight"
 Much of the nominee's address was devoted to the Mexican situation and the calling of the national guard to service on the border
 The administration embargo on arms to Mexico was criticized as fast and loose-no policy"
 "I don't think it a rash statement" the nominee said. "I think it is war ranted by the facts to say that any American soldier killed in Mexico is killed by American bullets that we have let go over the border"
 "The only punishment inflicted was punishment inflicted on our selves" he said. We punished nobody else.
 "A large proportion of the nominees address was devoted to reiteration of his views on the need for industrial cooperation and preparation for com mercial competition by Europe after the war.
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(ey Review Leased Wire.)

LONDON, Aug. 9.-The vigorous of fensiye of the entente allies on the French. Galician and Italian fronts is still being rewarded with important successes. In Austria the Italians have captured the city of Gorizia. 22 miles northwest of Triest; in Galicia the Russians in quest of Lemberg have further carried out their endeav- ors toward the capture of Stanislau from the Austro-Germans. while in France. the French and British forces in the Somme region have attacked and captured additional points of ad- vantage from the Germans.
 Gorizia Gateway.
 The capture of Gorizia by the Ital- ians seemingly is as important as the gains the allies have been attained in their present synchronous movement Gorizia being the door through which