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CHAPTER XXI.
The Riqht Law.


Once again Poppy Ordway was back
at Daily's. Seemingly nothing had
happened in her absence Sandry was
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
certain ditfidence. This was balm to
her fears and her anxiety.
She went back to her work with re
newed vfgor 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.
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 Sandrv
lounged on the lowest step, his elbow
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Have Something to Saw.

Robert w. Chambers gave this au-
vice to the beginner some years ago.
says the Strand, and it holds good to-
day.
Have something to say and learn
by experience how to say 1t. The i'm.
portant thing, to be su is something
to say. The trouble with most people
who try to write stories is that they
have nothing to rite about. Next,
5ont talk about It. 10 it. A writer can
make his own market.
1T is the only way to do Write
what appeals to you, and find pub
Usher who will take it. Don't go ia
a publisher and ask him wka. he
wants Make him wan. wtst you nav
% offer II it is the real thing you
wont have much difficulty. You will
break INTO print with -FOUR first ct.
fort"
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SYNOPSIS.

Siletz OF Daily's lumber camp directs
stranger to the camp Walter Sandry
introduces himself to John Daily, fore
man. as the Dillingsworth Lumber Co.,
or most of it." He makes acquaintance
with the camp and the work. In an EN-
ergeneV he proves to the foreman that he
does not lack Judgment SiletZ tells him
Of the Preacher. He discovers that Sietz
pears the sign of the Siletz tribe of In
clans ana wonders what her surname is
IN the flush of a tender moment he calls
ner the Night Wind in the Pines" and
KISSES her. Poppy OrdWay. a magazine
Wftcr from New York. comes to Dailys
70 get material for a romance Of the lum
per region Hampden of the yellow Pines
Co. claims title To the East Belt and
sets Up cabin on 1t. Sandry's
men pull down the cabin Sandrvs
end Hampdems men fight over the dis
Iuted trdot. The Preacher stops the fight
Sandry finds thar the deed to the East
Beli has never been recorded. Poppy
glfts with Hampden to gain his conf
dence She tells Sandry that Hampden is
ciro ted and that she'll get him. Poppy
goes 10 Salem In search Of evidence
against Hampden. Sandry's men desert
him for iIdmpden, who has offered more
money Sletz goes TO her friends the
S'Wasbes and persuades them to work
TOR Sanaiy To save his contract Poppy
tells Sandry that she has proof of Hamp-
cen ming bogus entries in collision with
the commission. She sees SletZ and
5sandry talking together and becomes
4 tDNo' it ulE tltiDeT TdIt is started on
way. but Is blown up and Sandry is
dangerously injured Poppy insists on
taxing care OF Sandry and saws she is his
promised wife No cries Sletz "he
Kissed me and am his woman" In San
arys delirlum he gives Poppy a clue to
MS past. on recovering Daily tells him of
me successful filling Of his contract and
ne says that he is going after Hampton
nninself and get him straight" Ma
lazy shows. Sandry Poppy's notes of his
den. p
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on the floor and hts nat pulled low
over his eyes, gazing down the valley
Presently there cana a sound, a
rhythmic sound. at first far off, then
coming nearer. the rolling thunder OF
big horse in full flight, and up from
the lower rollway came Black Bolt
cleaning, dark. splendid AS if she
were a part of him, Siletz rode, sway
ing with her loose motion that always
suggested the very drunkenness of
speed. In her arm she held a great
bunch Of wild bleeding hearts, .1eir
brilliant crimson spashing gorgeously
along her olive throat. where the blue
shirt lay open bit.
With slight pressure of knee and
heel the girl sent the great black horse
directly at the steps Of the porch. AS
he came on Miss Ordway sprang UP
with little scream, overturning her
chair. But Sandry sat unfinching on
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CHAPTER Xxx.
4 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 Shout.
| ders bit more comfortably against
the mahogany chair-back.
And now, Mr. Farnsworth." she
was saying. can you give me the full
particulars of that mysterious rob
berry,"
The eminent lawyers quiet eyes
we're taking pleasurable note of the
woman'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
gravey.
Then" said Poppy Ordway, open
ing a little red morocco notebook at
a page far to the back. "let US pro
ceed"
Mr.. FarnSWortn spread out Derore
him set of papers
'First-Standard Copper and Zinc
company. consolidated. he read with
out preface, "one 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 18,
| 1899 President Whitby had in his pos
session. for what reason has never
| been made known. at his bachelor
apartments at Whitby place. Aredale
100000 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 lay an unfin.
ished letter. This letter follows. ver-
batim:
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THE BUILDING
OF A COUNTRY
The Natural Pride of Those Who
Take Part in 1t.

To those who have built railroads
through and across the prairies of
Western Canada connecting that great
empire of grain and cattle, horse and
sheep with the worlds markets in the
east, must be awarded the privilege
of looking upon their work. and its
results with pardonable pride. If they
Renaissance, and tell CT the hardships
and the priyations, why shouldn't
they? The broad prairies on which
the buffalo roamed and fed, are now
alive with cities, towns and villages.
Farms-large and small-on which
machinery has chased the bugaboo Of
laborious work off the fe.rm and maxi
ing farm life one of the most pleasant
and prosperous of occupations-are
being cultivated by men of the highest
stamp of manhood. Many of these
have inherited from their forebears
the physical strength and the high
type of manliness that was theirs in
the days when they hewed their homes
out of the virgin forest, and made
them what may be seen today, beau
tiful farms in the east. On the whole
the western prairies breed a high type
of manhood, wrest from him faults
and diseases which would be his were
1t not for the upbuilding influence and
character Of prairie life.
When the builder of the western Ca
madam prairie looks upon the result OF
his work, why shouldn't his chest ex-
pand? 1t was probably some of this
feeling of pride that took possession
Of Sir Donald Mann, vice presiSe nt of
the Canadian Northern Railway the
other day in Winnipeg, when he said:
Il am not in the habit of giving adj
vice, but / have no hesitation of advis-
ing the young men of Canada, every
young man, to get out and get piece
Of western Canada's land that now
can be had for the asking and be their
own masters"
1T was SO years ago when / first
came to Winnipeg" he said. Eat that
time there were less than 10000
people west of Lake Huron in Canada.
and the only bit of railway in opera
ton was between st. Boniface and EN-
erson-about sixty miles. Today there
are nearly 10000 miles Of railway in
actual operation and the population is
over two and quarter million, won
derful achievement in such short Pc
Rod you will agree, when you have
contemplated it moment"
AT that time all the flour, meat and
many other supplies for our contracts
were brought from the States. Now
consider what the west is doing to-
day. You have a grain production ex-
ceeding a billion bushels and yet only
comparatively small area Of the till
able land of the country is occupied.
Five years hence you will be more
than doubling that "-Advartisement
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Arcade Place,
nj CiUS IdCt,
New York City. New York.

New YORK CITY, New York,
June IS. 1899
l. James B whitby. 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 for the night and | AM en-.
tirely alone in the grip of one of my re-
current attacks of heart trouble. but my
brain is abnormally clear. | brought our
last evening from business s502.0ON. for
reasons known to mysel-all of it in bills
of high denomination
At one O'Clock this night looked up to
face pistol held by man. young man
who was unnasked You may as wei,
be patient" he said quietly, "for I intend
having a talk with YOU"
Then followed what sufficed to heat me
into the greatest rage of my life-an &C
cusaton of myself. my methods and NV
firm. the statistical GOODNESS of which
was the acme of studied insolence He
was a young man almost a boy lust
home from a year In Europe after col.
lege.
He had. 1t appears. found his father a
bankrupt through Inwise speculations Of
| partner, end tracing some transactions
to me, laid II ali at my door n de-
manded the money I had in my possess
7sion-a' the point of the pistol,
Shaking with rage | obeyed and threat
ened to expose him by daylight. He cool
y told me ! would not dare because Of
proofs. In his hands which would states
| prison me- and which proofs | positively
know do not exist.
The affair. ! believe az this writing viii.
,, cost me my life. so vitality did It stir nv
anger and here ana 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 II
he had fired his gun. to this swear. and
his name is
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 bankuptes as
there could be found no record of their
numbers nor any word of where Mr.
Whitby 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 no
avail There are no true clues. opin
ions or theories. ALI are false when
applied"
With lightning rapidity Miss Ord.
way had beea following the attorneys
reading in shorthand in the red note
book
All" she said with a breath OF
satisfaction. that is excellent! Excel
lent-and it closes the first matter OF
which spoke. Now for the second. :
She smiled into Mr. Farnsworth' :
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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,OpX2rCHT SY DOOD MEAD AND cOIN04NY

ing her face with startled eyes. and
though Miss Ordway was smiling
sweetly at the girl, she knew that his
face was going gray.
"Yes?" he asked unsteaduy. The
tone pierced her heart with pain
that stung, but she put it resolutely
aside. She had determined to have
this man by fair means or foul and
she knew that in the future she would
repay him for any pain size might
cause in the process of winning him
Yes she answered quietly but
I'm coming back ! want to see my
publishers"
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Fault of the CLERK.

The court clerk was examining an
applicant for citizenship papers. I'm
fortunately the clerk didn't ask his
questions in the order in which the
man from across the seas had been
taught the answers
DO you speak English?" asked the
clerk
Sure Mike" was the answer.
How long have you been in tn
country?"
Michigan"
How tall are you?"
Forty years.
The clerk sighed. Il think you'd
better get an Interpreter he said
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"UnquestionabIy."

"Unquestlonably"
She dropped her eyes. toying with &
bone-handled fork lying near.
Thanks. Walter" she said at last
gently: Il shall go on with more conf
derce. II is a daring thing to make
my hero do-but-the woman loves
him in spite Of thousand crimes
above and beyond them"
Her heart was beating so fast that
her white throat iuttered spasmod.
icaIly at the soft hollow at the base
and she knew that she took. chance.
She knew also. as Sandry rose alb.
ruptly and left the room. that he had
felt the steel. for his face was gray
again.
In the silence OF the little south
room she stood long. staring into the
yellow fame of the hand lamp on the
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ITCHING, BURNING ScALPS
crusted With Dandruff Yield Readily
to Cuticura. Trial Free.

Cuticura Soap to cleanse the scalp of
dandruff crustings and scalings, and
Cuticura Ointment to socthe and heal
itchings and limitations. Nothing bet
ter, surer or more economical than
these super-creamy emollients for hair
and scalp troubles Of young or old.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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The Advantaoe

Hearing those high-priced opera
singers on the monograph is almost
as good as hearing them on the
stage"
Better. You can shut them on
whenever you like on the phono-
graph
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Home Medicine Chest.

Keep your medicines in one place.
out of reach Of children. Be sure to
have Hanford's Balsam Of Myrrh on
hand for emergency use. 1t should
take the fire out of burns, heal cuts.
remove soreness and be worth many
times over its cost. Adv.
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Daily Thouoht.

He that VIII not reason lie bigot:
he that cannot reason Is fool. and
he that dares not reason Is q slave
Sir w. Drummond.
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Uncle Eben

Patience is fine said Uncle Eben,
lei IT keeps u man workin Bur II
amt much good eff il keeps him stick.
in to crap game.
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The Fad.

Knicker-Tired?
Bocker-Yes, | was up all night
skating the baby.
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A girl sometimes encourages one
man in order TO make some other man
jealous.
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Deep cuts should be healed by Han
ford's Balsam. Adv.
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A small boy says the road to knowl-
edge has .co many branches.
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Miss ordway Was Talking Slowly.

stand Then, suddenly. she covered
her flushed face with her hands and
shuddered
IF ! should blunder!" she gasped
my God! II | should fail to win him
after all Oh Walter. Walter-heart
of my heart!"
tTO BE CONTINIrE,D,
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make us look older than we are Keen
your Eyes young and you will look Young
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes Don't
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.
Chicago Sends Eye Book on request
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HIS CHILLY RECEPTION.
Mark T~ain's Visitor When the Hu-
morist Was Absentminded.

Observation-Disclosures was characteristic
of Mark Twain. He lived so much in
the world within that to him the mate
rial outer world was often vague and
shadowy.
Once when he was knocking the
balls about In the billiard room
George, the cOlored butler, a favorite
and privileged household character,
brought up a card. So many canvass
ers came to sell him one thing and an
other that Clemens promptly assumed
this to be one of them. George insist
ed mildly, but firmly, that though u
stranger the caller was certainly a
gentleman, and Clemens grumblingly
descended the stairs.
As he entered the parlor the caller
rose and extended his hand. Clemens
took 1t rather Imply. for he had no.
ticed some water colors and engrav-
ings leaning against the furniture as il
for exhibition, and he was instantly
convinced that the caller was a pic
ture canyasser.
Inquiries by the stranger as TO Mrs.
Clemens and the children did not
change Mark Twain's conclusion. He
was polite, but unresponsive, and grad
ually worked the visitor toward the
front door. An inquiry as to the home
of Charles Dudley Warner caused the
caller to be shown eagerly in that di-
rection.
Clemens, on the way back to the
billiard room. heard Mrs Clemens call
him-she was Ill that day.
YOUTH
"Yes, Ivy" He went in for word.
George brought me Mr.. BIS card.
1 hope You were nice to him; the
BIS were so nice TO us once in Europe
while you We're gone"
"The b. s? Why. Livyw
"Yes, of course, and l asked him TO
be sure to call when he came to Hart
ford!'-Albert Biselow Paine in st.
Nicholas.
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How to Contribute to
the Wilson Campaign
Fund

Sign the Coupon In this corner and al In
the amount you give. Then attach your
Money to this Coupon and mail today to the
address given on the Coupon.
Issue all checks. money orders and
address all contributions to Henry
Morgenthau, Chairman Finance Com
mittee, Democratic National Commit
tee, 80 East Forty-second Street. New
York City.
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fishing trip, but remembrance or his
fellow, he resolved to send her a five
dollar gold piece.
His first surprise came when he
found that his trade dollars, which con-
tanned more silver than do the silver
dollars. were valued only as bullion
and his whole SO VISA worth only
$3.50 He had overlooked the fact
that when those dollars were issued.
back in 1873. Uncle Sam had omitted
to indorse them or to give them any
monetary value other than their silver
content.
So he did with his Sc what his Uncle
Samuel had done-he went through
n little transaction in high finance
which makes one blush for him. He
mixed his dollars up with some stand
ard" silver dollars and persuaded a
small storekeeper to give him bills for
them. 1t happened that these bills
We're silver certificates.
He tried to induce the treasury de-
partment to take them In exchange for
the gold piece intended for his mother.
but the treasury department politely
told him that, while the law provided
that the secretary Of the treasury
should maintain gold and silver on a
parity, the section had been construed
to mean that silver certificates could
not produce gold coin.
Thereupon wild thoughts of the bait
and the fishing trip rushed upon him
again, but his blood was now up, and
he determined somehow to secure that
gold piece for the mother, who was be-
coming momentarily dearer. He sue
ceeded after time In exchanging his
silver certificates for legal tender note
for So, and, although such notes are
protected by gold reserve equal to
only about third of the issue, the de-
partment without hesitation gave him
the gold coin.
The narrator of the tale could not re-
member whether the gold piece ever
reached the mother or was spent to
celebrate the modern method of the
transmutation Of metals Washington
Post.
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Imitation Dar1ask.

Imitation damask is made today b,
means OF printing upon the surface,
with a sort Of transparent mucilage,
the designs. These designs appear to
be woven into the cloth. By immersing
a sample in boiling hot water and al
lowing IT to boil for several minutes the
design will disappear - Washington
Post
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OUR VARIED MONEY
No Two Classes Have Exactly the
Same Quality or Value.
A GOLD AND SILVER COMEDY

Tribulations of a More or Less Honest
Citizen Who Was. Stuck With Six
Trade Dollars and Who Wanted to
Exchange Them For Gold Coin.
When new treasurer of the United
States takes office his predecessor
hands over to him assets to the value
of billions. But 1t is a varied lot of
securities that come into his possession
bonds, securities Of all kinds, gold
bars and silver coin. base metals, gold
notes, silver notes, gold in the reserve
fund, governmental legal tender notes,
national bank notes. fractional cur
rency and subsidiary coin.
No two classes have the same quail
ties, no two exactly the same value. In
trinsic or otherwise. Yet people are SO
eager to get anything with the stamp
of Uncle Sam that they accept 1t any
where at its face value unless 1t is re-
quired for some purpose which calls
for the peculiar quality of certain
kind of money.
It. is mark of confidence In Uncle
6dul tuut us Dtdutilul SliNcT CeItlu-
Gates are taken at their face value.
when in reality they bear about the
same relation TO gold dollars as adul-
terated food does to pure food-only,
like the adulterated foods. certain
artificial value must be given to them.
When the food adulterater turns
out his product, the government. in
just horror. says 1t Is wrong to tam
per with food. and the person who
does 1t must go to jail. When Uncle
Sam sends out silver disk stamped
9TH his mark he has made very
good business stroke, for he has
placed In circulation as a dollar 56
cents worth of silver and put A
cent? worth of bullion into his treas
urers charge and. like the adulterated
food dealer, has made good trans
action.
A poor wreck Of humanity with
grateful streak In his heart not long
since found himself IN possession OF
six trade dollars. His first inclina-
ton after the shock was to buy
whole lot Of bait and go away OF on
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Woodrow Wilson
Campaign Fund
LOYALTY COUPON
To HENRY MoRGRNrHAU, Chairman
Finance Committee,
The Democratic National Committee, 80
East Forty-second Street. New York
City.
A. Q believer In the progressive ideals OF
goverrment represented In the candidacy Of
Woodrow Wilson for president of the United
Office free -handed, untrammeled, and obli-
gated to none but the people Of the country.
I wish to contribute the sum of s.
toward the expenses of President Wilson's
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TESTING Ideas.

l say wisdom is gathered on foot.
along country roads. Collect your
IDEAS where you can. alley, boulevard
office. lecture hall, theater. dinner
table, library, wharf, picture gallery,
street car. opera house. curbstone or
courtroom. but test them ON the read
Confronted with the realities of soil
and salt water and the character
shaped by these they viii look vastly
less momentous or vastly more so.--
Atlantic Monthly
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Lost and Found,

why are We lukin' sac pleased wi
yerser?" asked McQulntOn.
"Weel, mon." replied Farquharson.
II dropped a saXpence l. the market
place. an couldna find it,"
That's naught to be lukin' sac gay
ABBOTT" said McQuinton.
AYE, but We dinna KEN" explained
Farquharson. Il found n shillingr'