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CHAPTER XIX.
A Perfect Crosa.

On the floor Of the richly furnished library Of the Dale home. near a west window, Miss Elizabeth Littleford sat reading by the fast fading light of an early March afternoon. Somehow she liked to sit on the floor, and alway8 she liked to read; for one thing, books helped her to forget that she was ionely.
 There were footsteps behind her, soft footsteps because of the thick vel vet carpet; then low voice inquired:
 Aren't you afraid you will injure your eyes, Elizabeth? Better have a light, hadn't you. dear?" The old coal king turned toward the switch on the wall.
 "No!" she answered quickly. "Tm through reading for today, and like this twilight"
 Her improvement in speech snd in manners had gone on at surprisingly rapid rate. She rarely spoke win any but the simplest words. but she never fell into anything more than bare sem blance of the old drawing hlll dialect unless It was while she was un6er the stress Of some strong emotion.
 She closed the book and looked up with eyes that were like inc first stars in a summer sky. Her beauty was wonderful: 1t was finer and sweeter than 1t had ever been before.
 Old Dale stood looking thoue htfully into her upturned face. He was It. tie pale, and he seemed troubled and uneasy
 Elizabeth shook her head. You're worrying again!'
 He dropped Into Il nearby chaiFs leaned slowly forward and let one hand fall gently on her thick and silky chestnut-brown hair.
 "I-wish." he said as though to him seelf. that had daughter Ike you
 He took his hand from her lead, lay hack wearily Tn his chair and closed his eyes. Then he bent forward again.
 'The Morelands, Elizabeth they've moved away from the settlement. haven't they?'
 'Ycs; Bill Dale has done wonderful, things for theni'' the girl answered.
 John r. n.,e waS si,eat for , no
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John MOreland. They're all shet up tight in the downstairs O the office buildin'. opder gyard. The ain't but one of 'em plumb teetOtally dead. fo' wonder; but the's a whole passel Of 'em hurt. I've done sent Luke to town on hOssbaek, alter doctor fo' you and Saul and Little Tom; and he can tend to them crippled Balls, too. reckon, ef you think it's best. What're we a-goin' to do with them fellers, Bill?"
 We're going to take them to the Cartersville jail," Dale answered promptly.
 "I had different plan 'an that planned out. John" said By Heck, winking at Ben Littleford. T had it planned out to hang 'em all on q big green hAmlock as a Christmas tree fo' Bill Some devilish rough Christmas eve ye're a-haYin'. Bin, old boy, ain't it?'
 Rather" smiled Dale. He closed his eyes Ills head aened, end he was somehow very tired.
 Within the hour ne went to sleep,
 
 Christmas morning. Ben Littleford, talf dressed. was stirring the coals to life in the wide-mouthed stone fire place. Dale felt better than he had expected to feel; he greeted Little ford with the compliments of the sea- son, arose and dressed himself.
 Littleford had just gone with handful of kindling wood toward ihe kitchen, when there was low, light tapping at the outside door Of Bill Date's room. Dale arose from his sheepskin-lined rocker before the cheery fog fire. went to the door and opened it. Before hlm stood q slim, barefoot boy in the poorest of rags; in the pitifully slender arms there was something wrapped rather loosely Tn crumpled brown paper. Dale did not remember having seen the lad before. but he knew # was no Littleford.
 Come in, son." he invited cordial iy--"coine in and warm yourself. My goodness alive, It's too cold to go barefooted like thati Haven't you any shoes. son?'
 "Shoes?" muttered the boy. queerly. "Shoes?'
 He was shivering from the cold. His thin face looked pinched and blue, his eyes big and hollow. Dale stopped, picked him up bodily, carried him to the old rocker he had just vacated, and put him into it with hands as gen. tie as any woman's
 "H-l," began the boy. staring hartl-"what--"
 Now stick your feet out and warm them, son-that's It." and Dale chafed the poor little, dirty. half-fTo2en feet and legs
 "Son." ite went on after a moment, his heurt throbbing out of sheer pity, you go to the commissarg clerk and tell him 10 dress you up like the crown prince of England, if he's got 1t. and charge the same to the account
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 .,ent. after which I.e said suddenly ' vnnt to see my Goa; there Is something | must fell him. Will you go with me 1lizabeth?'
 "of course. I'll go with you"
 She thought she knew what it was hal stirred him. By intuition, supple nented by Bill Bales occasional cryp- lie utterances. and pleced out by hill tradition. Elizabeth Littieford graau- ally had come into possession of the old coal mans grim secret.
 Neither of them knew that John Moreland was then visiting his beloved old hills for the sake of some shooting. 
 The following day John k. Dale and Elizabeth Littleford alighted from a northbound passenger train at the Halfway switch. The mountains were covered with three inches of snow, and the hemlock and pines bore heavy bur dens of the beautiful white stuff; but the air was still. and 1t wasn't very cold.
 You'd get your clothing all black on the coal train" Dale said to his companion, ''so you'd rather walk over, wouldn't you? Anyway, the train isn't here. I'm good for six miles think. ]" aYes," smiled Ben Littieford's daughter. "Pd rather w8ik-if you're sure that six miles won't be too much for you"
 Together, with the girl leading the way, they set out across David More lands mountain. The old trail showed
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ASKS L-EG|JN ID
 TAKE UP PR0BE
8EGR RETARY WEEKS AppE.o COMMANDER MAcN,nrn 10
 HELP asFuTE CHARGES
QUOTES wATs0N's CHABeve
Was Department Viii Render An ,.. E';rssible-says That the ppa,,. ''4 Entitled To All the
 Facts.

Washington. The zmer;oor i, gien was asked by the War Danas ment to lend it's assistance in o5.os1 ing all facts relating to the chs,s. made by Senator Watson of eeoys, ss'' that soldiers were shot and hanss9 = frequently without court-lnartial ar. s' ing the war.
 Secretary Weeks appealed fo u.. ford MacNider. commander of lsa American Legion. asking the assist ance of his organization in ordey :, make public all records and insorms ton relating to the senator's alle,a. tions.
 After quoting the senator's eharsas az printed in the Congressional Rae ord of October 31. the secretary sad
 '"The foregoing statement, comiur so long after the commission of tNe alleged crimes, constitutes a reaea ton upon the entire personnel of th, American Expeditionary Force. cos. slider the public entitled 60 all the facts which 1t is within the power es my office to produce. If there posa. bly, exists any basis for such an q. legation the responsible persons shc1ld bear the odium. Otherwise dc. finite refutation is desirable.
 '"The War Department will make available all of its records and suoh information as may come from per. sons under it's control. However, such persons constitute but a small percen. tage ofthose who served overseas and who have been attacked.
 T request that the American Ie. zion lend its assistance toward obtain. ing all facts bearing upon tue issue which has been raised.''
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tteanfnu.eer coue Ol hUllor delnaiius hat the mountaineeF himself collect that which is 6ue him.
 4rell me. he said in tones so low that Elizabeth barely heard, where IS David Moreiand buriedY"
 He had turned, and stood facing her. She pointed to the soutlward.
 .sThey buried him out the crest O tbe mountain q little ways. on the highest place, by the side of his wife. That was always a touchin' thing to ne, that he buried hIs wife oo the very highest poin; of his owh mountain. You know why, don't you? David Moreland believed in God and hereafter. and he believed that heaven was up. He wanted tO get even his wife's ashes us close 10 heaven as he could"
 "I-Pd like to go out there" John Dale said. his voice almost whisper "Td like to see the place.
 T wouldn't" replied Ben Little ford's daughter. For she knew-oh, she knew.
 "Yes. yes. my dear--I must see tho place." declared Joh.s K. Dale, hoarse- ly whispering-'lct's go out there"
 There was never any disobeying him when he was determined, and he WAS determined now. 1t is strange, that dread human thing that drew him.
 Elizabeth turned and started ont the snowy crest of the mountain, wend- ing her way here and there between ciuinps Of snow-beaVy laurel and ivy and under snew-heayy pines. After a quarter og an hour of this somewhat difficult travelling, the two drew up be- fore a small fnclosure made of round oaken pests and round open railIngs and band-spllt and pointed oaken pal ings as high as mans shoulders, all of which were gray and weatherbeat- en. Elizabeth knew the spot well. She swung the gate stifIiy open on it's wood en hinges and stepped inside. Old Dale, trembling in every fiber, followed her. His face was very, very pale.
 Before u em were two snOw-eoyered mounds bordered with the dead stalks of flowers of another year-marigolds. pretty-by-nights, zinnias. Near the two graves there grew bare-branched wild honeysuckle and redbud. and green-leaYed laurel, which in the sum mer time were covered with beautiful and fragrant blossoms of golden vel low, royal purple, and waxen white. it the head Of one mound a great. rough ly-shaped slab Of brown sandstone marked the last resting place of Davisl Moreland's young wife; 1t had been lettered by David Aforeland himself, and 1t was crude but sincere tribute to w0mankind.
 On the face of the other great slab of brown sandstone were chiseled other ill.shaped letters and misspelled words. The hands of John M0reland had done this. Old John Dale stepped unsteadily closer and read:
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Kindness to Animals pa.a

There are four important places from which pureSred dairy cattle come: The isles of Jersey and Guern
 sey in the English channel, the Ayr country in Scotland, and the Frleslan country in Holland. |. ia q charue- 'erlstic Of the people In all the eight regions from whieh pures red catfle cone that they are always kind to one another and to all animals
 Kindness makes better beef, and ,nnro cream. ''' V
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Chicago Attorney Wants Protection.
 Chicago. - Unless Mayor William Hale Thompson and Charles Fitzmor ris, chief of police. supply him with protection to work under his direcuos Robert E. Grove, states attorney, in a letter to the peonle of Chieaeo soN he immediately will ppeal to ths sheri ffof Cook county to asign sufa- cient deputies to his office ito give proper pToteetjon +o the law abiding people Of thie city.''
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not one. footprint ahead of them; it was not sO much used now. They said little. Each thought their own thoughts, and neither cared to speak them to the other.
 Just before they reached the noun. tain's crest, they passed a group of snow-iaden pines that concealed big, hrown-bearded man who had been stealthily following the trail Of il lone wild turkey. He Wore khaki hunting clothes and high laced boots, and there was certain English fneness about him. In his bare hands ne carried a repeating rife, which marked him as one born in the hilis; a l0wlander would have had choke-bored shotgun
 When he saw John k. Dale he stopped suddenly. It might have been intuition. or It might have been sheer curiosity, the average hillman being q stranger to neither--he followed and watched the two, unseen by them.
 On the pine-fringed crest, Elizabeth Littleford halted to view that which lay around and below him. Old Dale stopped close at her side, and he, too, looked at that which lay around and below them; and to his mind also there came memories crowdlng.
 The young woman brushed back q wayward wi9p of brown hair and turned to tlie man beside her.
 '.The MOreland part O the settle ment looks lonesome, don't itY' she said. See. there's no smoke comln' from their cabin chimneys. ;" She went on absently. But the Llttlefords arc there yet
 Old Dale caught the meaning that was in the latter sentence. It was not shallow meaning.
 We are going to take care of the Littlefords, Elizabeth" he assured her. Eve thought much over it, and Just now I've decided. When I decide. it's for all timei you know that, don't you:'
 \ great gladness filed Elizabeth's heart. It did not occur to her to ask how, in what manner, he was going to take care of her people; 1t was enough to know that he was going to take care Of them. He put a fathers arm lightly around her shoulders. She tried to speak, choked, and couldn't utter q word. But 1t didn't iaatter John k. Dale understood perfectly.
 Then he took his arm away, faced to tie right, and drew his hat rim low over his eyes. For two minutea he stood therc and looked for the little old cabin down near the foet of the north end of the mountain, and he failed to find it. His mind had gone back once more to that woeful night that had cut his life in twain. He remembered plsiniy waking In the early morning with. an aching head and with tho ranking taste of much dead whisky in his mouth. Remembered seeing Da- vid MorelaHd. with q bullet hole through and through him, lying on the floor beside him. Remembered his horror. his sinothered cries of af-ruish. and his hurried flight. =.
 He had wondered, he rcmemberca why tie law made no attempt to track him doan. Ie haa not known t,.a; ...a
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consesses To Double Murder.

Portsmouth, o. - Roy Sha'nblin 37, a shoe worker. arrested fin Cincfn- natl and brought here confessed, ac- cording to Sheriff Hickey, killing J'hH W. Newman and Miss Louise Doyle whose bodies were found October y ia a cabin near here.
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City To Provide Work

St. Louis. The Board of Aius, men passed the emergency bili as propriating $S0,00o with which to s,I ~ ploy men at s2.50 day as means ~ relieve the situation of the "i'''s ployed here.
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House To Delay Aoti-Lynehlng filE

Washington. House Republican leaders, it Is said, have agreed not to call up the Dyer an''-lynching hill foF consideration at this session. Fe. cause of it's farreaching provisions. which virtually would attempt 10 sup press mob outbreaks by subjectirg n. diyiduaIs and counties in which they occur to punishment in the federal court, some of the leaders intima'ea that the hilI win be redrafted before its presentation to the House.
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Forest Fieee In Missouri and Rrkansa,

Forest Fieeo In Missouri and Rrkansas
 Poplar Bluff Mo Forest fires re. ported here for several hours, con tinned to swee southward througa Butler county. Missouri, into Clay county. Arkansas, extending over al area eight miles wide and 10 miles long. The fire swept through tho bot. toms which are reported IS being heavily forested and dry
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mas g1f' fc you. He pointed g dirty forefnger toward the bundle in lis lap. ~But you ain't a-goin' to git il now"
 ";Thy1" Dale asked smiilnsly.
 "Wayi Shoes -'ar's ws.. H-l did ever have any shoes atcrc? Bare footed IS a rabbit. That's me. Bare footed as d-n' ra5bit.r
 "son," protested Bill Dale. you're entirely too small to gwcim. You mustn't do it. yknow."
 'fses," quickly. I'm small. I'm small to ny age I'm done twelve year old. I've been measured fo' the go-hacks."
 Measured for the go-backs, laughed Dale, whats that?"
 Why" soberly, "when ye grow lit- Tor 'stid Q bigger. ye've got tie go- hacks. Nav. she measured nln with Q yarn string out c Il stocking which had been wore by woman seventy seven-year old, and 'en sbe wrapped the yarn string around ti5e foog-hinge. I'll gin to grow higher, or die, one or t'other. afore the string wears ont en the hinge. Bound to-"
 Again Dale laughed. Mountain su- perstitions always amused him. Ben Littleford came ipfc the room. and Dale arose and faced him.
 Do you know this boy, BeaY''
 "Tt's Lyss Balls boy" answered Littleford, puckering his brows. What's he a-doin' here?s
 "ae brought Christmas present for me-" said Dale, ''but he has de- cided that I shan't have it."
 ."rhe only Christmas present you could git from Bah would be bull let" drowned Ben Littleford.
 He stepped to the rocker and took the bundle from the boys lap; he took away the crumpled brown pa per-and there in his hands was loaded and cooked revolYerl
 "By Georgein exclaimed Btn Dale.
 'Whatd l tell ye?" smiled Ben Lit tleford.
 An hour later Dale and score of Littlefords and Morelands entered the big downstairs room of the office and supplies building. The defeated Balls and Turner's lounged here and there, sullen and silent, on the rough-board fieor of their temporary prison.
 Dale walked into thelr midst and addressed them quietly.
 You'll admit, won't you, that I've got what you fellows call the dead wood on you? And that It lies in my power to send every single one Of you to the state penitentiary
 .I reckon s0.s admitted Adam Balls father. He was pretty we'll cowed, and so were the others.
 But I've decided not to do t." went on Bill Dale '1 can't forget that this is Christmas day. You may have your liberty as a present from the man you've tried so hard and so unjustly to kill. After the doctor gets through with Little Tom and Saul Littleford, he will come here 10 dress all your wounds; then our guards will give you back your rifles, and you may go home, I'm not asking you to promise me anything, you understand. I'm simply trusting the human heart, and l don't believe I'll be disappointed.
 Dale turned to John Moreland. Moreiand's rugged face wora pug zled, displeased smile.
 If your brother David was here" Bill Dale demanded with a bare shade of anger in his voice, @what do you think he'd do about it? It's Christ mas day, isn't it?''
 The old Moreland chiefs eounte- nance softened; his grey eyes bright ened. Yes" he said. It's Christmas day, Bill" He looked toward the Balls and Turner's.
 Merry Christmas. geniemen" be said.
 Adam Balls father immediately asked him for a chew of tobacco.
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Belfast. - After raIding 9 place p Kent Street, the police reported ~ had discovered a prison tnain'ainsu by the republicans. 4 young a who was found confined in the piAes' they. said. had ben condemned to eN' cution.
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President To Resign.

Bosota. - Opposition in the Co'a's a bia Chamber of Deputies to tne =. a ministration of President que asl. reached such point that tue p's-' dent decided to resign
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orde- Court Investigation of X. k' x
 Houssop, Tex. investigation v the Kuklux Klan was ordered v JudgosC. " Robinson in his charge the new Grand Jury in Criminal p's' triet Court.
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World Caila for s.r,..A.

lie serves best who serves most and ne should serve most who ;s host equipped for service. Unless ha 1a serve crooked paths will not be ,node straight, or errors corrected. g,e,lav serVlce alone exalts the uan-Er.
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SOLE

It was living curse. breathing curse--a terrible anathema. IT dead David Moreland himself hnd arisen from the tomb and uttered 1t, it would net have struck John K Dale with greater force. He grew weak, as though with fatal sickness. He sank to his knees In tue snow, and his iron- gray head fell forward 10 hls breast. Elizabeth Littleford knelt in the snow beside him. She tried to find comfort ing words, for she loved him and was sorry for hin, but no words would come.
 There was a slight sound, the muf- fled breaking of a dry twig iD the snow just beyond the palngs in front Of them. Elizabeth Littleford looked up to see the giant figure Of John Moreland, whose face WAS white and whose eyes were filled with the fire of hate and anger, who held rifle in his cold, bare hands. Ihe rifles hammer came back. and the fine trigger caught fl with faint click.
 Moreland took auotEer step forward and ieveled the weapon across the palings.
 "Ef It was any use fo' ye to pray, Carlyle" he said. and his voice was shaking and hoarse and ehoked. "pd give ye time. But if aln't 10 use at all LOOK up Face 1t. Try to be man 10 one second in yore low-tlown life"
 .a n
 Old Dale raised his head. saw David Moreland's brother. and realized all there was to realize. His eyes widened little; then a look Of relief fitted across his heavy countenance.
 Shoot and even up the seorep he said brayely, and lis head was high According to your code, ii Is just. And III be able to forget at last, at last. So shoot and settle the account
 cTo BE coNTINUEn)
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sansits Stage Train Robbery.

Chicago. - Illinois Central Ira" No. 2, which left Chicago to New of leans was held uD by five maskea bandits at a crossirg six miles sHusp of Paxton, III The robbers fagTed l'e train and also drove their automoD i.s across tie tracks to give the semu' lance of an accident.
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of Bill Dale. It wlll be my Christmas gift to you, little boy. What's your namef"
 The lad turned his surprised black eyes upon the face of the big and sun- Drowned man,
 Are you Bill Dalef'
 Yes"
 That which the hoy said next struck the big and snnhrowned man with all the force of bullet.
 50 you're Bill Dale. Well. D. my oul Y
 Don't. buddy. don't!a
 The boy went on: My name, it's Henery. come here with Q Christ
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HEAR LAYS DAVID moaELAhp
THE BEST MAN GOD

THE BEST MAN GOD EVVER MAID
 KILLED BY JOHN x cARLiiE MAY GOD
 DAM HiS
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-10-08
COOPERATION ON
ARMIST|CE DAY BY
CITY AND COUNTY
Program to Be
Planned Under Tou-
louses Direction

Tho county WEI cooperate with tho
CIV ~ lis program for Armisticc day.
Il was announced hy Major j. "A. Tol.
luuH,. chairman OF tho committee ap-
pointed hN 2" county commissioner
on Wednesday, 90 take care OF tho
appropriate celebration of the day In
the county.
~ think the best plan Is FOR tho
county ana city To work together on
TINS program and make II much NOR,
effective than II each planned It's own
celebration" Major Toulouse stated.
"our committee will not be called to-
gcthcr Ia make any plans until tho
city has planned their celebration"
Tie said that probably "a Joint COM
mttt'" ~ county and city would b,
arranged To TAX care Of the rogra
would Include tho dedication OF the
soldiers monument az the court house.
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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-10-08
Real Minstrels at the
Crystal Tomorrow

with the coming az the famous
G,urgin Ninstrols Goo the Crystal opera
house tomorrow, the minstrel fans
will have something Co look forward
Co with real enjoyment az the rcputn-
ton at this wen known organization
is well known. with a. continuous rec
ord OF SO years Of travel both In this
cuuntry and in foreign oilmcs Ga "A
guarantee OF merit and people can rest
assured OF an evening of music and
Iun. such ns these SONS OF Ham have
been giving for 80 long.
The company numbers so people,
and make "a street parade daily with
\ bard ruuc,rt tn front OF the theater
In the evening.
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HOSPITAL SEEKS rNrERNEs.

Los ANGELES. CALI Oct. So
nc tionwide search has been instituted
by the Los Angeles county hospital
for IS internca Civil service exami-
nations FOR the positions Will be held
In many cities. as far caat as New
York and south as New Orleans.