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CHAPTER VII,


VT UC1LE'S gasp Of establishment when
she saw what / had rescued was
followed by an exclamation or
womanly concern.
us she drowncd!" she asked.
l shook my head negatively.
Just swallowed q little too much
water, l guess" explained one Of the
men from the boat. She'll be all right
as soon as she gets n cup OF hot coffee
in her"
"Who is she, Captain Perkins, and
why Is she dressed that Mny?" asked
Lucille, ignoring the reference to coffee.
u dunno who she be-" said the cap
tain. :She como aboard ut Buenn
Vista md said she WITS going to Fiir
View"
Dressed like that?"
NO, sir; she was dressed swell
When we struck the rock over vontler
L told her we might have to swim and
she'd ortcr dress just rs light rs posi-
bic. SHE went into tho cabin with her
grip, and when she came out she was
like this and asked me IL | calculated
that was light enough. / lowed 1t was.
and we didn't have no time for cXDlu-
nations, because Just then we broke in
two"
We made n rough stretcher ana car
ried the unconscious girl to the house
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Within two weeks he became des-
perate. He rode the gap trail from
Sleepy Cat again and again for miles
and miles in the effort to encounter
her. He came to know every ridge
and hollow on it, every patch and
stone between the lava beds and the
Rat river. And in spite Of the coun-
sells of his associates, who warned him
to beware of traps, he spent, under
one pretext or another, much os the
time either on the stages to and from
CalabasaS or in the saddle toward Nor
CAMS gap, looking for Nan.
Killing time in this way, after q
fruitless ride, his persistence was ore
day most unexpectedly rewarded. He
had ridden through a hot sun from
Sleepy Cat to Calabasas, where he had
an appointment to meet Scott and Lee
fever at five o'clock. When De Spain
reached the Calabasas barn, McAlpin,
the barn boss, was standing in the
doorway. "You'd never be comm
from Sleepy Cat in the saddle!" ex-
claimed McAlpin incredulously. De
Spain nodded affirmatively as he dis
mounted. "Hot ride, sir; a hot day."
commented McAlpin as he called q
man to take the horse, unstrapped he
SPANS coat from the saddle, and fol-
lowed the manager into the office.
The heat was oppressive, and De
Spain unbuckled his cartridge belt,
slipped his revolver from the holster,
mechanically stuck it inside his trou-
sers waistband, hung the heavy belt
up under his coat, and, sitting down,
called for the stage report and asked
whether the new blacksmith had So
bered up. When McAlpin had given
him all minor information called for,
De Spain walked with him out into the
barn to inspect the horses. Passing
the very last Of the box-stalls, the
manager saw in it a pony. He stopped.
This wiry, sleek-looking roam, con-
tentedly munching at the moment some
company hay, was Nan Morgan's.
Whats that horse doing here?" de-
manded De Spain coldly.
Before answering, the barn boss
eyed De Spain very carefully to see
how the wind was setting, for the
pony's presence confessed an infrac-
ton of very particular rule. "You
see," he began, cooking at his strict
boss from below his visorless cap a
questioning Scotch eye, 81 like to keep
on good terms with that Morgan gang.
Some of them can be very ugly. That
little pony Is Nan Morgan's."
whats her horse doing here?"
asked De Spain.
McAlpin made even the most incon-
sequential approaches to q statement
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CHAPTER TX.
The Glass Button.

Even as the big fellow stepped light
~ just inside and to the left-as De
Spain stood-of the door and faced
him, the encounter seemed to De Spain
accidental. But before he could speak,
second man appeared in the door
way, and this man appeared to be jok-
ing with third, behind him. AS the
second man crossed the threshold, De
Spain saw Sandusky's high-voiced
little fighting crony, Logan, who now
made way, as he stepped within to the
right of the open door, for the swing
ing shoulders and rolling stride of
Gale Morgan.
Morgan, <eying De Spain with inso-
lence, as was his wont, closed the door
behind him with a bang. Then he
backed his powerful frame significant
ly against 1t.
A blind man could have seen the
completeness Of the snare. An unpleas-
ant feeling flashed across De SPANS
perception. 1t was only for the i'm
measurable part Of second--while
uncertainty was resolving itself into a
rapid certainty. When Gale Morgan
stepped into the room on the heels
OF his two Calabasas friends, De Spain
would have sold for less than q cup
OF coffee all his chances for life. New
ertheless, before Morgan had set his
back fairly against the door and the
trap was sprung, De Spain had
mapped his fight.
He did not retreat from where he
halted at the instant Sandusky entered.
His one slender chance was to hug to
the men that meant to kill him. Nor
gan, the nearest, he esteemed the least
dangerous of the three; but to think
to escape both Sandusky and Logan
at close quarters was, he knew, more
than ought to be hoped for.
While Morgan was closing the door
De Spain smiled at his visitors: "That
Isn't necessary, Morgan-Tm not ready
to run" Morgan only continued to
stare at him. II need hardly ask
added De Spain, whether you fellows
have business with n~s7"
He looked to SandUrky for reply:
u was LoRa, who answered In ahr.ll
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CHAPTER VIII,
A Cup Of Coffee.

he was willing, after a long and
bootless search, to confess to himself
that he would rather see Nan Morgan
for one minute than all women else in
the world for q lifetime. The other
incidents of the evening would have
given any ordinary man enough food
for reaection-indeed they did force
De Spain to realize that his life would
hang by slender thread while he
remained at Sleepy Cat and continued
to brave the rulers of the sinks.
But this danger, which after all was
n portion of his responsibility in free
Ing his stages from the depredations
of the Calabasas gang, failed to make
on him the moving impression of one
moment of Nan Morgan's eyes. There
was in the whole world nothing he
wanted to do so much as in some way
TO please her--yet it seemed his Ill
Iuck to get continually deeper into
her bad graces. Every day that he rode
across the open country, his eyes
turned to the far range and to Music
mountain. The rounded, distant, i'm
mutable peak-majes as the sun.
cold as the stars, shrouding in its un-
known Businesses the mysteries OF the
ages and the secrets of time--meant
10 him now this mountain girl whom
Ats solitude sheltered and to whom his
thaaEhts continually came back.
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FALLING HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Save Your HaIrI Get IS Cent Bottle
of Danderlne Right Now--AIso
Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
iair Is mute evidence of neglected
scalp; Of dandruff that awful scurf.
There is nothing so destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
of its luster, Its strength and its very
life; eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching of the scalp, which
Ii not remedied causes the hair roots
TO shrink, loosen and die--then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get rs cent bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life, luster and luxuriance
which Is so beautiful. It will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear.
ance Of abundance; an Incompatible
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after Just a
few weeks use, when you will actual
~ see lot Of fine, downy hair--new
growing all over the scalp. Adv.
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CHAPTER Vll-Continued.

s.
Logan pushed back his chair. AS he
turned his legs from under the table
to rise, a hand rested on his shoulder.
He looked up and saw the brown
face and feeble smile of Scott. Logan
with his nearest foot kicked Sandusky.
The big fellow looked up and around.
Either by chance or in following the
sound of the last voice, his glance fell
On De Spain. He scrutinized for Il
suspicious instant the burning eyes and
the red mark low on the cheek. While
he did so-comprehension dawning on
him-his enormous hands, forsaking
the pile of chips with which both had
been for moment busy, flattened out,
palms down, on the faro table. Logan
tried to rise. SCOTS hand rested heav-
lily on him. "Whats the row." de-
manded Sandusky in the queer tone
of deaf man. Logan pointed at De
Spain. "That Medicine Bend duck
wants fight"
with a man, Logan; not with a
cub" retorted De Spain, matching in
suit with insult.
Maybe can do something for you,"
interrupted Sandusky. His eyes ran
like fash around the table. He saw
how Leftover had pre-empted the best
place in the room. He looked up and
back at the man standing now at his
shoulder, and almost between Logan
and himself. 1t was the Indian, Scott.
Sandusky felt, as his faculties cleared
and arranged themselves every in
slant that there was no hurry what
ever about lifting his hand; but he
could not be faced down without a
show of resistance, and he concluded
that for this occasion his tongue was
the best weapon. "If can," he added
stifly, I'm at your service"
De Spaiu made no answer beyond
keeping his eyes on Sanduskys eyes.
Tension, oVerhearlng the last words,
Rwoke to the situation and rose from
his case. He made his way through
the crowd around the disputants and
brusquely directed the dealer to close
the game. While Sandusky was cash
ing in, Tension took Logan aside. What
Tension said was not audible, but it
sufflced to quiet the little fellow. The
only thing further to be settled was as
TO who should leave the room last,
since neither party was willing to go
first. Tension, after a formal con-
ference with Lefever and Logan, Of
fcred to take Sandusky and Logan by
h private stairway to the billiard room,
while LefeVer took De Spain and Scott
nut by way of the main entrance. This
was arranged, and when the railroad
rcp reached the street rain had ceased
falling.
Scott warned De Spain to keep with
in doors, and De Spain promised to do
Sc. But when they left him he start
ed out at once to see whether he could
not by some happy chance, encounter
Nan
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shine than it had looked in shadow ;
and, true to its traditions, not a living
being was anywhere to be seen. The
door of the Office stood ajar. De Spain,
pushing it all the way open, walked in.
No one greeted him as he crossed the
threshold, and the unsightly room was
still bare of furnishings except for the
bar, with its two broken mirrors.
De Spain pounded on the bar. His
effort to attract attention met with no
response. He walked to the left end
of the bar, lifted the handrail that
inclosed the space behind it, and
pushed open the door between the mir
rors leading to the back room. This,
too, was empty. He called out-there
was no response. Mrs. McAlpin had
apparently gone home for while.
Irritated at the desertion of the
place, due, he afterward learned, to
the heat Of the afternoon, and disap-
pointed at the Illustration of his pur-
pose, he walked back to the Office. AS
he lifted the handraii and, passing
through, lowered it behind him, he
took out his watch to see how soon the
stage was due. While he held the time
piece in his hand he heard rapid
clatter Of hoofs approaching the place.
Thinking it might be Scott and Lefe-
yer arriving from the south an hour
ahead Of time, he started toward the
front door-which was still open-to
greet them. Outside, hurried footsteps
reached the door just ahead of him
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Probably Not.

"The clock Is striking twelve" said
the impassioned sutton. "Oh, that I
might turn back the hands Of time for
one hourw
"You might be able to do that, Al
gernon," said the beauteous maid, "but
father will be coming downstairs soon
and I'm afraid you couldn't turn him
back. Birmingham Age-Herald.
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(To BE coNTlNUED.)
influential clt,,en.

Mrs. Youngwife- husband is 4
very influential man in politics.
Friend-"You don't sayl" Mrs. Young
wife-"Yes. George has voted in two
presidential elections, and both timss
1t has gone the way George vo.ed.s--
Puck
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with a keen and questioning glance.
"The girl went up to the Cat on the
early stage, sir. She's coming back
this afternoon"
what is she riding away over here
to Calabasas for to take the stage, in
stead of riding straight into Sleepy
CatY'
Once more McAlpin eyed him care
fully. "The girls been sick"
"Sicke"
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and large man, stepping quickly into
the room, confronted De Spain. One
of the mans hands rested lightly on
his right side. De Spain recognized
him Instantly; the small, dropping
head, carried well forward, the keen
eyes, the loud-patterned, shabby waist
coat proclaimed beyond doubt-Deaf
Sandusky.
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When man proposes he doesn't
seem to realize that 1t may result in
his losing control.
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The finest harbor in the world is
said to be that of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
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Do you believe that De Spain
could save his life by surrender
ing to the ganssters and offer
ing to get out Of the neighbor-
hood If they spared him2 Would
you do It In these circumstances?
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Entertained Friends.

A party was given by Miss Nellie
Travis at her home In Edgemont on
Thursday, october IL in honor of Her
man J. Hawkins who was home for a
ten day furlough from the y. S. Naval
Station at Chicago, Ill.
Music was rendered by Harvey Ad-
ans, accompanied by his daughters,
Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Price. Also by
Miss Marchie Nutter and the Misses
Minnie and jimmie Evans. Refresh.
ments were served Those present were
Edyth Louden, Marchie Nutter, Anna
Torrell, Virginia Manley, Hazel Man.
ley, Virginia Harper of Grafton, Min.
ME Evans, Jennie Evans, Anna Travis
and Nelly Travis. Messrs. Herman ].
Hawkins, John Hawkins, Charles Haw.
kins, Pete Parrish OK Worthington,
Walter Nutter, Ray Coffman, Warren
Carpenter, John Jenkins, Howard Lou.
den and Lawrence Travis. Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. c. Valentine and children,
Gertrude, Eva and Junior, Mr.. and Mrs,
f. P. Travis. Mr.. Hawkins left Tues,
day for Chicago, Ill.
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Golden Wedding Celebration.

Mr.. and Mrs. e. E. Keener, we'll
known residents Of Riverview Farm
near the city, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary on Sunday at
their home when they entertained a
large number OF relatives and friends.
Mr.. Keener who is veteran Of the
Civil war, raised an American flag on
the lawn as the guests were assembled
about the dinner table, where a splen.
did dinner was served. The guests in
cluded children and grand children OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Keener, the latter having
been before her marriage Miss Sarah
Hildebrand. An association of the
family was formed Sunday which will.
hold an annual reunion. Officers were
elected as follows: H. C. Keener, pres.
ident; Mrs. c. F. Malone, vice presi.
dent; L. H. Keener, secretary anu
treasurer. Mr.. and Mrs. Keener were
the recipients of many beautiful pres.
ents. Each Of their children presented
them gold piece. Several recitations
given by the grand children we're
much enjoyed. Those present were j.
E. Daugherty, L. Keener, Mrs. A.
Z. Keener, Wauneta. Pauline, Paul,
Genevieve and Emojene Keener, Mrs.
Emma Vance, II. c. Hildebrand, Mr.
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PERSONALS

Mrs. Henrietta Davidson. Mrs
Claude Davidson, of Pennington, and
Mrs. William Feltner, of Webster
were in the city several hours yester.
day en- route to Morgantown to attend
the Baptist General association. They
will be entertained mt the home of
Mrs. A. Rightmire, sister of Mrs
Feltner.
Rev. W. ]. Eddy went to Morgan
town this morning to attend the Bap
fist General association.
Mrs. Jesse LeMasters has gone to
Morgantown to attend the Baptist
General association. She is the guest
while there of her sister, Mrs. Martha
Eddy Taylor.
Mrs. Edward Gilhart, OF East Side
underwent an operation yesterday
evening at Cook hospital for appendi
citis. Her condition was thought tc
be satisfactory today.
Mrs. John W. Mason. ST., and Mrs
John W. Mason, Jr., will go to Pitts
burgh tomorrow to spend the nexl
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Coe. OF
Brownsville, Pa, Mrs, Martha Cowan
and Mr.. Froham, of Nebraska, who
had bee nthe geusts of Mr.. and Mrs
c. o. Jackson on Fourth street fol
several days have returned to theil
homes.
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PERSONALS,

Mrs. W. H. Goodnight spent the
day yesterday at Morgantown the
guest Of her grandmother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lake are moving from
Morgantown into Mrs. Cora RACERS
property on the corner of Diamond
and Guffey street.
Mrs. Charles White and children,
of Morgantown who have been at the
home of Mrs. Whites parents, Mi
and Mrs. Charles Jones in State
street since Friday, returned home
today.
Mrs. Bone, wife of DR.. Jesse Bone
Of Moundsville, and son, George. are
guests of Mrs. Bones mother, Mrs
Sinia Harr and grandmother, Mrs
Graham in Vermont avenue.
Mrs. j. NJ. Smith and Mrs. Artie
Collins have returned from visiting
relatives at Terra Alta.
Mrs. John Brown, wife of Rev
John Brown, is i'll at her home in
Newton street
Miss Icie Lee has returned from
Lumberport, where she had been the
guest OF relatives for several weeks.
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WEST VIRGINIA FOLKS, ATTENTION!
AutO-IntOxicatiOn.

This is to certify that have taken
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and
round them to be all that they are
recommended to be. They are a
splendid regulator Of the stomach.
liver and bowels. For headaches,
constipation or biliousness they are
fine, never causing distress. | once
kept DR.. Pierce's remedies In NV
store and have sold many a package
anu never had any complaint as fo
their effects, SO judge they were al
ways satisfactory. l can recommend
these medicines as being good"
Mrs. Mary Murrell, of 72O Seventh
Ave, Huntington, w. Va, saws: 81
have taken DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
let's and found them excellent, For
sick headach constipation, hill
iousness or sluggish liver they are
tho best 1 have ever taken. They
tone up the system and are very easv
and pleasant to take. / am glad To
recommend them"
II not obtainable at your favorIte
drug store, send rs cents IN one-cent
stamps to DR.. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel.
Buffalo, N. Y, and he will mail Won
a package of the Pellets.
Mrs. John Combs, of 7O4 Second
ST., Moundsville, w. Va, says: II
think DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are the best medicine OF their kind
that have ever taken. 1 have taken
them for sick headaches, biliousness
and constipation and found them a
splendid regulator Of the stomach,
liver and bowels. They are very
easy, never causing distress and seem
o tone UP the entire system"
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which brought me out of it all right, so
I am now well and do all my homework,
besides working in my garden. Several
of my neighbors have got well BY TAX
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. Mrs. VIOLA F1N1cAL, Wagon.
er, Okla.
Such warning symptoms as sense Of
suffocation, otflashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be needed
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
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us. FOOD Man IS
IN FAIRMONT TODAY
Field Man Expects 5000
Pledges in Marion
County.

Expecting Marion county residents
to sign up at least 5000 pledge cards
to conserve the food supply in this
country, Charles H. Hall, field repre-.
sentative Of the United States food ad.
ministration headquarters, Washing,
ton, D. c., is here today to confer with
H. L. Smith, county farm agent, and
Miss Blanche E. Price, farm home dem.
onstration agent.
Mr.. Hall plans 20 have a conference
here late this afternoon at which he
will meet representatives of the Wo.
mans Club. the scaool authorities and
others. At this meeting Mr.. Hall will
tell in detail the awful condition that
United States will face II conservation
is not practiced.
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]. c. Keener. Mrs.. Daisy Keener, BIanch
oddrie Werner, Mabel, Ebert, Wiz.
ginia and Joseph Virgil Keener, Jr., Ar.
minta sines, L. II. KeeneS Jennie
Keener, Clarence, Opal and Ralph
Keener, Mr.. Chas. Keener, Eta Keen.
er, Hazel, Cecil aud Saraetta Keener.
H. c. Keener, Marina Keener, Rexford,
Vendetta, Clementine, Lourine Keen.
er, Mrs. May Freeman, Chester and
Carlton Freeman, Mrs. ]. NJ. Stiles.
]. j. Nixon, Jr, Mr.. c. F, Malone, Mr..
Frederick Keener. Mr.. and Mrs. c. e,
Keener. At the close OF the day the
guests motored to their various homes,
wishing Mr.. and Mrs. Keener many
more years Of welded bliss.
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For VISITING DELEGATES.

Mrs. John ]. Cornwell, wife of Gov.
ernor Cornwell, will entertain dele.
gates to the Womar's Federation con.
vention at tea on Thursday after.
noon at the Governors mansion. Mrs.
]. G. Cochran, president, OF Parkers.
burg, and Mrs. G. f. Coyle, president
Of the Charleston Woman's club, will
receive with Mrs. Cornwell. Last night
Judge and Mrs. H. D. Rummell enter.
tanned the delegates at a musical and
tea at their home.
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Marriage Announced.

Announcement has been received
here by friends of the arrlage OF Miss
Joanna Mailman, formerly Of this city,
now OF Cumberland, Md, to Joseph
Burke, of Clarksbprg, which event was
solemnized in Cumberland on Wednes-
day of last week Mrs. Burke who
lived in Fairmont for several years
before moving to Cumberland with her
parents, taught in the Monongah and
Barrackville schools for several sea
sons. They will take up their resi-,
dence in Clarksburg
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LOCAL . SOCIAL EVENTS

guests at the home of the groon's par
ents. Mrs. Morris visited friends here
last summer and made many friends.
Mr.. Morris is graduate OF the law
school of Washington and Lee Univer.
sity and Lexington, Va, and is a
young man OF splendid personality.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Weaver, parents
OF Mrs. Morris, have issued cards an.
uouncing the marriage.
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The victims of auto-intoxlcation
are many thousand every day. By
reason of the toxins, or poisons bred
in the intestines. these poisonous bac-
terra are sent all through the blood
channels and the victim feels tired,
sleepy and headachy, or the brain
doesn't work as usual. The best
treatment for this is to drink hot wa
ter before breakfast-plenty of water
all day and procure a simple laxative.
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ia bl e Compound
bee a u e during
Change of Life l
was in bed two
years and had two
operations, but all
the doctors and OPP
erations did me no
good, and I would
have been in my
grave today had it
not been for Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
otah1a Torono,,pJ