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Dave walked down the steep hill
side, and dropped into the corral
A man came TO the back door of
the cabin and stretched in long and
luxuriant yawn. Carelessly and
casually his eyes wandered over the
corral For a moment he stood
frozen, his arms still flung wide.
From behind him came Crawford's
voice, cool aud ironic. much
obliged. Shorty. Leave EN- right
up and save trouble
The squat cowpuncher's eyes
found there the owner Of the D Bar
lazy r "Wha'dya WANT" he
growled sullenly
You just now Dave, step for
ward and get his six-shooter. Keep
him between You and the house. If
anything happens 10 you I'm goin'
Ito kill him right new
Sanders took the mans gun and
ran his hand over his thick body to
make sure he had no concealed wea-
pom. I'm going to back away. You
come after me, step by stey, so close
could touch you with the gun, >"
ordered Dave.
The man followed him as directed,
his hands still in the air. His cap
tor kept him in line between him
aud the house door. Crawford rode
down to join them.
You live here, Shortly" asked
Crawford CURLY.
/ Yes" The answer was sulky and
reluctant.
/ "Alonc?"
: Yes"
Crawford turned to Sanders.
What about the horse you looked at,
Davc?"
] Same one we've been trailing.
Tie one with the broken shoe"
/ THAT yore horse, Shortly"
"Maybeso Maybe no."
You've been havin' company here
lately" Crawford went on. who's
yore guest?"
+ You seem to be right now. You
and yore friend the convict" sneered
the s1ort cowpuncher.
Don't use that word again
Shorty' advised the ranchman in
voice gently ominous.
"Why not? True, amt it? Doesn't
deny it none, does he?"
Before he could answer Dave
spoke
MAN coming up from the creek.
! Crawford took crisp command
Back in that corner, Shorty. Dave
you stand back, too. Cover him soor
as he shows up"
Dave nodded.
A man stood in the doorway, big
fat, staggering. He was mountain
of sagging flesh. His breath came il
wneezy puffs.
! Next time you get your own
The voice faltered, died away Tht
protuberant eyes, still cold and fishy
passed fearfully from one to an
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CONTINUED from Our Last ISsue.)

On the evening of the tenth day
Burns put in the cork.
A string of eight-inch pipe sixty
feet long was slid forward and der
ricked over the stream. The pipe
had been fitted with valves of yari-
Gus sizes After it had been fasten-
ed to the wells easing. these were
gradually reduced to check the flow,
Six hours later q metropolitan
newspaper carried the headline:
. BIG GUSHER HARNESSED
AFTER WILD RAMPAGE
Jackpot No. at Malapi Tanned;
Long Battle Ended
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CHAPTER XVII

1t was a surprise TO Dave to dis
cover on setting out for the scene
cf the hold-up that the horse
Steve had got fer aim was his own
old favorite Chiquito The pinto
knew him. He tested this ny put
ting him through some Of his old
tricks. be nuzzled his silky nose
against the coat OF his master just
a. in the days Of old.
Crawford searched over the
ground Just ike / thought, Dave.
The posse has been here and stomped
out any tracks. No way of tellin'
which Of all these footprints belonged
to them. Likely none of en-
They made a wide circle to try to
pick up the trail wanted, and again
still larger one
The trailers scanned closely the
edge of the irrigation ditch.
Dave pulled up. He went down
on his knees and studied the ground,
then jumped down into the ditch
and examined the bank.
Here's where they got out;' he
announced.
The old cattleman examined the
, side Of the canal The clay showed
where a sharp hoof had reached for
footing, missed, and paved down
the bank. Higher up was the faint
mark of a shoe on the loose rubble
at the edge.
'Jsooks like" he assented,
The trail led through the canon,
over divide beyond, and down into
small grassy valley
A log cabin squatted on the slope.
One had to be almost upon it before
it could be seen. It's back door
looked down upon the entrance to a
canon. This was fenced across to
make a corral.
The cattlema9 and the cow
puncher looked at each other with.
sout verbal comment. This was the
haunt of rustlers.
Horses were drowning sleepily in
the corral. Dave slid from the sad
die and spoke to Crawford in low
voice.
I'm going down to have look at
. those horses he said, christening
| his rope from the tientos.
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Miller pleaded for his life abjectly.
His blood had turned to water.
Honest, i didn't shoot Harrigan.
Why, I'm that tender-hearted |
wouldn't hurt kitten. IL
Crawford's face was as cold and
as hard as steel. why not? You're
murderer. You tried to gun Dave
here when the boy didn't have six
shooter"
The man under condemnation
could hardly speak. His throat was
dry as the desert dust below. o."
| done Mr.. Sanders meanness. I'm
sorry"
"You lied about him and sent him
to the penitentiary
"I'll fix that. Lemme go an I'll
make that right
How will you make it right?"
asked Crawford grimly, and the
weight of his arm drew the rope so
tight that Miller WINGED. ''Can you
! give him back the years he's lost?'
mo, sir, no." the man whispered
eagerly. But | can tell how it was
that we fired first'at him. Doble
| did that, an then-accidental-
killed Doble whilst / was shootin' at
| Mr. Sanders"
/ "Yessir. | did it = accidental
when Doble run forward in front of
inc. Tha's right. I'm plumb sorry
didn't tell the cou't so when you was
! on trial, Mr. Sanders. reckon /
was scairt to-
!. will you tell this of yore own free
will to the sheriff down at Malapi?"
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| IDEA1T1HIS !
MRS. RETTrE SINGLETON

ELLAVILLE, Feb. THE body
of Mrs. Bette Singleton who died at
Whieham February 4, was brought to
ElIaviIle Sunday morning and inter-
red at HopewelI cemetery by the side
of her late husband, Rev. Wyatt
Singleton, who died many years ago.
Mrs. Singleton had reached THE 80
milestone of life's journey, and until
a few years ago she had resided in
Schley county where she was born
and reared. She was of a deeply
pious nature and greatly beloved by
all who knew her. Older citizens re-
member well her charitable DISPOSE
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ton and the esrnestness with Viii,
she entered all religious activitis, =
can be truly said of her that r.h'
fought a good fight, she finished ~
course and she kept the faith.
Mrs. Singletary is survived h,
sister, Mrs. Mary Cox, of WHICH,, :
with whom she lived; three brotban
I. V. Bridges, of Ellavillc; rra.
Bridges and Jim Bridges, of Terro -
county, besides a large number =
other relatives. "
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said Brad steelman sent him to fix
things up for me-"
CONTINUED in Our Next issue.)/
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FLoRENcE,s WEAPON.

Synopsis-Proud possessor Of a
printing press and equipment, the
gift of Uncle Joseph to his nephew,
Herbert IlIingsworth Atwater. Jr.,
aged thirteen, the fortunate youth.
with his chum, Henry Rooter,
about the same age. begins the pub
LEGATION OF a full-hedged newspaper,
the North End Daily OrioIe. Her
bert's small cousin, Florence At
water. being barred from any kind
OF participation In the enterprise,
on account OF her intense and nat
ural feminine desire to boss is
frankly annoyed, and not at all
backward In saying so. However,
a poem she has written Is accepted
for insertion In the Oriole. on a
strictly commercial basis-cash In
advance. The poem suffers some-
what from the inexperience of the
youthful publishers in the ''art
preservative." Her not altogether
unreasonable demand for republic
cation of the masterpiece, with its
beauty unmarried, Is scorned, and
the break between Miss Atwater
and the publishers OF the Orioie
widens. The Sunday following.
klorence's particular chum, Patty
FairchiId. pays her a visit. They
are joined, despite ~Florence's open
ly expressed disapproval. by Her
bert and Henry. Florence will not
play. Patty and the visitors in
dulge In a series of innocent sun
day games. Among them is one
called TRUTH" the feature OF
which is a contract to write a ques
ton and answer. both to be kept a
profound secret. Tie agreement is
duly carried out Florence is told
as a family secret that her beauti-
full aunt, Julia Atwater, has appar-
emily become engaged TO a nan
named CruTn. altogether unknown
to the Atwaters. Florence finds
the notes In the Truth game, in
which both Herbert and Henry adj
NIT that they have pretty eyes,
and threatens TO tell the much
feared Wallie Torbln OF the cpl
soda.
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NARY GRAHAA BONNER
ROBBIE RAccooN

az have been spending the winter in
sleeping and resting" said Robbie
Raccoon, and Ralph Raccoon said:
$50 have l."
"YOu see,r said Robbie, "when we
live up North and winters are cold II
Is too much for us to be out all the
time. Down in more southern climates
the raccoons never bother to sleep and
rest but keep busy all winter long
rushing here and there and every
where.
"HOw ! do love to be about though
now that it is getting a bit warm.
er. | have been having a nice walk
along the brooks and rivers nearby.
/ found some goodies inside shells,
too! L had a regular feast and so did
some Of my relatives"
Good" said Ralph Raccoon. 81
have been ~feasting a bit, too, this
year"
"They say hat W q re very curious
and inquisitive. and | believe it is
true. | never see anything" continued
Robbie, that l don't want to know
what II Is.
Especially I like to know about
things which shine brightly. Some of
my family have been caught that way.
But / am very careful.
"How | do enjoy eatingl"
$50 do l." said Ralph. Lets talk
about food for a bit"
"All right" said Robbie. 81 couldn't
talS about ii so cheerfully were 1t not
Tor the fact that | have just eaten well
and so am not hungry.
II like anything to eat. enjoy
fresh-water clans. Frogs and tur-
ties and eggs, / like. Nuts and fruit
and vegetables / can also sat
Green corn, ! especially like. /
will even venture near f%armhouses so
as to get the corn that is growing
nearby.
Il run great risks for green corn"
$50 do l." said Ralph.
g" do most of my marketing at
night" said Robbie.
YES" / like the night time best"
said Ralph. I'm fact like the night
time better than the daytime anyway,
though | am not wholly a night crea
ture as the owl is"
"The same is true Of me-" said Rob
bic.
well. to continue my talk on food"
he said, II always like to wash my
food and have it nice ana clean. And
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ole
ORIOLE

to tease Herbert any way | could
think up"
ooh, was that allq" A hopeful light
faded out Of Uncle Joseph's large
and inexpensive face. 81 thought
perhaps you'd detected him In some
indiscretion."
Florence laughed, ~ was just
teasln' him. 1t wasn't anything, Uncle
Joseph"
Hereupon, Herbert resumed a con
fused breathing. Dazed, he remained
uneasy, profoundly so; and gratitude.
"a no part Of his emotion. He well
understood that Florence was
susceptible to impulses Of compassion
In conflicts such as these; In fact, IL
there was warfare between them, ex-
p%erience had taught him to be wariest
when she seemed kindest. He moved
away from her, and went into another
room where his condition was one of
increasing mental discomfort, though
he looked for a while al the pictures
In his great-uncle's copy of Paradise
Lost" These illustrations, by NJ. Gus
tave Dore, failed to aid In reassuring
his troubled mind.
When Florence left, he impulsiyely
accompanied her, maintaining a nerv-
Gus silence as they compassed the
short distance between Uncle Joseph's
front gate and her own. There, how
eyer, he spoke.
"Look herei You don't haf to go
and believe everything that ole girl
told you, do your"
NO" said Florence heartily. 81
don't haf to-"
well, look here" lie urged, help
less but to repeat. "You don't haf to
believe whatever IL was she went and
told you, do your
"What was 1t you think she told
me. HerbertY"
"All that guff-you know. Wen.
whatever 1t was you said she told
you"
II didn't" said Florence. 81 didn't
say she told me anything at all"
"Well, she did. didn't she2'
"Why, NO." Florence replied, light
ly. "She didn't say anything to me.
Only I'm glad to have your opinion
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"a Regular Feast

I like TO make 1t soft and squashy,
too. | have been brought up by my
mother to do this"
.Just as l have BEEN" said Ralph.
"We're said to be very intelligent"
said Robbie. land l do believe we're
bright.
II think II is sensible of us to come
back to the same hollow trees where
we make our dens and to do this I'M
til we're grown-up gentleman and lady
raccoons.
I'VE wait until we're really grown
up, too. We don't consider we're
grown up when we're only a few
months old. We have to be a few
years old to consider ourselves grown
up.
Our dear mothers say they like TO
bring up about four or six little rae
coons q year. They say they can do
this and train them well"
IL suppose every one knows what we
look like" said Ralph. with our
bushy tails and our hind feet which
are fiat on the ground like a bears.
OF course they aren't fiat on the
ground unless we are walking on the
groand. That is, understood, Of
course"
"Of course" said Robbie.
-And I suppose every one knows
that our tracks look very much like
the tracks of a small child. j sup
pose they know that. too"
Il don't imagine they do" said Rob-
bic. "as I've heard Of people who have
said:
"'Some child has been walking
along here and they have pointed 10
the tracks of n OF our family"
"Well." said Ralph. "it may have
been a child. but a raccocn child and
not a little boy or a little girl. But
what say you to another meal now?
I'VE got my spring appetite"
$50 have t. agreed Robbie.
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PART Il--contInued.

"Oh, nothtn'," she replied, alrily.
Herbert began to be mistrustful OF
the solid earth. Somewhere there was
n fearful threat to his equipolse.
what you talkin' about?" he said,
with In effort to speak scornfully /;
but his sensitive voice almost failed
him.
"0h, ~nothln'," said Florence. "Just
about what pretty yes you know YOU
have, and Patty's being anyway as
pretty as yours-and so you're glad
maybe she thinks yours are pretty,
the way you do-and everything
Herbert visibly gulped. SO Patty
had betrayed him; had betrayed the
sworn confidence of "Truthi"
That's all was talkln' about"
Florence added. "Just about how you
knew you had such pretty eyes. Say
not SO, HERBERT Say not sol'
"Look herel" he said. "When'd you
see Patty again between this after
noon and when you came over here"
what makes you think | saw herr"
"Did you telephone her?'
"What makes you think so7"
Once more Herbert gulped. We'll.
4 guess you're ready to believe any
thing anybody tells you" he said, with
a palsied bravado. "You don't believe
everything Patty Fairchild says. do
you?"
away, Herherti Doesn't she always
tell the TRUTH"
"Her7 Why, half the time" poor
Herbert babbled. 'you can't tell
whether she just maxim up what she
says or not. II you've gone and be-
lieyed everything that ole girl told
you, you haven't got even what little
sense I used to think you hadin SO
base we are under strain. sometimes
40 base when our good name is tn-cs.
ened with the truth Of usi 81 wouldn't
believe anything she said" he finished.
IN q sickisa voice, "if she told me fifty
times and crossed her hearth"
wouldn't you If she said you wrote
down how pretty you knew your eyes
were. Herbertf"
whats this about Herbert having
NfEtAJ CtES I NIL 1UoERA AtCI III
qulred: and Herbert shnddered. I'm
Gle Joseph had an unpleasant reputa-
tion as n joker.
The nephew desperately fell back
upon the hopeless device OF attempt
ing to drown out his opponents voice
as she began to reply. He became
~vociferous with scornful laughter bad
~ cracked In the scorn. Florence
rot mad" he shouted. mingling the
supported Information with loud cack-
Rings. "She got mad because I and
Henry played games with Patty She's
fryin' to make up somep'm to get ever
she made 1t upf It's all made up
She
"No. no." MFR. Atwater interrupted.
~Tef Florence fell us. Florence. what
was IT about Herbert knowing he had
pretty eyes?"
Herbert attempted ito continue the
Idrowning out. He bawled. "She made
III upl It's somep'm she made up
.harselfI She"
.f7erbert," said Uncle Joseph-air
.you don't keep quiet. I'll take back
me printing press"
Herbert substituted another gulp
for 4 continuation Of his noise.
~n1ow. Florence = said Uncle Joseph,
zen ii what ron were saying about
now Hetbert knows Ne had such pref
" eyes"
Tnen ii seemed 4 miracle befell.
Florence looked up, smiling modestly'
soh II WASN'T anything. Uncle Jo-
.eub.v Ill saId. r va Just trying
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How Noiseless Is the Growth.

Much has been accomplished; more
than people are aware, so gradual has
been the advance. How noiseless is
the growth Of corn! Watch 1t night
and day for a week, and you will never
see 1t growing; but return after two
months, and you will find it all whlten-
ing for the harvest; such, and SO
imperceptible in the stages OF their
motion, are the victories of the press.
DE Quincy.
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SHE DYED A SWEATER,
SKIRT AND CHILD'S COAT
WITH DIAMOND DYESn

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49,
Of her, how she's such a story-teller
and all-if I ever want to tell her.
and everything"
But Herbert had greater alarms than
this. and the greater obscured the
lesser. Look here" he said. IF she
didn't tell you. how'd you know 1t.
then?"
How'd / know what7>
"That-that big story about my ever
sayin' l knew / had"--he gulped again
pretty eyes,"
sOh, about thatl" Florence said, and
swung the gate shut between them.
"wels. ! guess It's too late to tell you
tonight. Herbert: but maybe II you
and thSt nasty little Henry Rooter do
every single thing I tell you to, and
do II just exackly like / tell you from
this time on, why maybe-I only say
'maybe'--well. maybe I'll tell you
some day when | feel like It."
She ran up the path. up the steps,
and crossed the veranda, but paused
before opening the door. Then she
called back to the waiting Herbert.
"The only person I'd even think Of
telling about II before l tell you woulG
he a boy I know" She coughed, and
added as BY an after-thought. "He'd
just love to know all about Il; I know
he would. So. when I tell anybody
about 1t I'll only ted just You and this
other boy
"What other boy7" Herbert de-
handed.
And her reply. thrilling through the
darkness, left him paralytic with hor-
ror. awallie Torhinir
The next afternoon, about four
o'clock. Herbert stood gioomily at the
main entrance of Atwater 4 Rioters
newspaper building. awaiting his part
.ner. The other entrances were not
only nailed fast. but massively bar
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Funny Way 10 spelI.

James wentsto a movie theater with
his Aunt Florence.
He had been in school but a short
time and was leaning TO spell. He
knew only about q dozen words. bur
ne knew those we'll. There was a title
shown upcn the screen that contained
the word worse"
James said: "0h. say Aunt Flor.
repce. isn't that . funny way 70 spell
horse with . W.T.
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Ereahen a Heavy Skin

With the antiseptic, fascinating Crti-
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Renders other perfumes superhuous.
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han

when is your new cook coming to
work.
@Not for some time" said the pa
tient woman. "She demanded a
months vacation and Is taking 1t In
advance"
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Different

Movie Sign-"Why Girls Leave
Home Monday" That's easy It's
wash day.-Chicago Evening Post.
Not necessarily, brother, there's one
dear girl we know who leaves home
Monday because It's Bargain day
Boston Transcript.
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Forty-six persons are said to havs
died In England at more than 100
years OF age.
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King Georges life insurance policies
total something like $10.eO0,000.
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why Is the woman seldom sincers
who tells another woman she's pretty
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A woman seldom knows just what
she wants, but she usually gets 1t.
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The partnsrs feel the heavy
hand Of the master.
Gro BE C~oNTINuEDo


on MIX
A man may, n he knows not how
to save as he gets, keep his nose to
the grindstone all his life and die
worth a great al last.-Benjamin
Franklin.
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