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we've been looking so hard for is gone.
That face sugreon-"
THAT face surgeon will get a case
of poison-ivy one of these days" Dry
den said without feeling.
Drinkwater left the cell for several
minutes.
I'm curious to know how they hap
pened to get you in New York; the
Ranger began.
Il was mugged here after the bank
affair-prints sent all over, offering
reward" Dryden said. an New York,
got one of those ideas of going
straight. A scar on my cheek left me
wide open. A face specialist cleaned
me IN. He took six hundred dollars
cash from me for his ope' :tion, then
turned me over for the fifteen hundred
| dollars reward"
"Staggers a mans faith in the hu,
man family-a chap like that" said
Ranger Billings.
Dryden glanced at him with a
queer dry smile, but saw that the
Ranger more than half meant what
he said. -,
"What did you come for, Ranger!"
Dryden asked. .,
Il haven't been able to forget that
hold-up gent we met on the Trans
con-"
"There was one good kid" Dryden
said sadly. I'D like to have known
him better"
"You mean that masked young per-
son is dead?"
Il didn't know there was any doubt
about that" Dryden said.
If there was a secret back OF Dry
denis words there was not n flick or
culver of a tissue in his face to betrsy
| what he knew.
Billings hated thief. but he hated
the face specialist sort more, right
now. Dryden faced ten years oblivion
at Barclay. If the hold-up party
wasn't really dead. and Dryden was
quietly insisting he was, to keep o
pal more safely at large-well. this
was the sort of thing Ranger Billings
fell for, in spite of his Disagreement
and the secret ache in his heart about
the girl waiting in Iowa.
"Of course, after he had taken the
pains to free me, / couldn't leave that
kid" Dryden was saying. 81 saw
he was hard hit, from that last shot
of yours--hard hit and leaking. The
rest of his bandit crowd outside had
been driven off by the postoffice clerks
and express messengers, but We found
two loose horses. One horse was the
kids. The other belonged to The
bandit they got outside. We hadn't
ridden far, before / had 10 stop and
tie the kid onto his saddle. j hat
to tie IN his neck, too. Later
heard him Observation-Disclosures fol
me 10 go on, that he was done for
When / stopped while after that, h
had made good on those last words
couldn't get the lariat loose, 20 lief
him, saddle and all. But his hors'
followed mine, loose"
"The body was never found" thu
Ranger said.
1T was dark, couple Of hours be
fore daybreak. 1t was a pebbly hol
low l left him in-like an arroyo"
Gould you go there again."
"Only BY luck" Dryden said quiet
ly. 81 didn't know the country"
Billings arose TO depart.
Roger Dryden's hearing was set TO
four the same afternoon, in Judg
Bakers court on the sixth floor of tn
/. Sequoia building. Didsey Dreir wa
there from BOlima, Judge Baker
Drinkwater and two other deputies,
court clerk or two. Ranger Billings
and four or five men from the hills
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parison as to which of those bullets
hurts the most now
at don't look so bad, Ranger. 1t
was only at first l thought you had
a hare-Iip," said Mr.. Dreir.
Null Akers eased the tension.
Il never could get it straight in
my mind how the bandit got away that
night, hard-hit as he was; and
about the fellow who helped him"
The man who helped him was
Roger Dryden, the bank-robber of
Pasadena, on his way to serve ten
years sentence at the pen in Bar
clay" said the Ranger. "He was sit
ting in the middle of the car, man
acled to Deputy Sheriff Drikwater,
when the bandit comes along aud re-
leases him on general principiaes. This
Dryden appears TO be the sort who
pays cash for favor. j was on the
floor by this time, but they tell me
Roger Dryden fought his way out of
the car for two. They ran onto a
couple of horses outside, and haven't
been heard of since. All who saw the
hold-up man after my last shot sag
that he couldn't possibly survive that
holue in the neck and live"
IF it was Dave Ilcomb who held
up that train, he lived" said Mul
Akers. And, as / was sayin', Mr.
Rob Travis sees the remains of that
hole in the neck you speak of"
What you goin' to do about it,
Ranger" TOllier Dip inquired.
That train-robber spoiled me-" the
Ranger answered slowly. II feel call
ed TO be interested in his case"
Il wouldn't Ike TO be Dave Ilcomb
not with that fellow after me-" unused
Tollier Dip, after the Ranger had
backed out Of the barrOUm.
Three weeks later Didsey Dierl
stared at the front page of yester'
days paper from Los Angeles. and
what he saw there caused him &c
announce to those present:
Gents, you'll sure have to excuse
me abrupt. I'm takin' the stage fol
On the same day Ranger Billings
sat at the door Of his station as the
sun went Town and stared away of
! toward the sea. The leg of his chail
dug into the lisintegrated granite Of
Little TOpnot's crest. over eight thou
sand feet high. and commanded 4;
| hundred miles of surrounding scenery
Back and little north. Big Top him
self hunched up nearly three Thousand
feet higher.
Killings had always hat =. laugh a
life, but the laugh was gone. Hi
upper lip was a broken thatch. !
didn't grin when the rest of his fac,
did. Also, there was a girl in lows
waiting to be sent for, but no cir
could live with that sitting oposit
at her table-not on a rangers raj
az.
The Ranger opened yesterday
paper which his assistant ad jus
brought up from the postoffice. Aftp
one long look at the front page, b,
called:
Put on what you've got handy
Jake. I'm riding down trail bpfor
lark to get a stage for Pasadena
where they need M tomorrow. whethe
they know it or not. They caugh
Roger Dryden in New York five day
ago, and he arrives in Pasadena to
NIGHT"
Next morning Billings sat wit
Denutv Sheriff Drinkwater and tn
recaptured bank-robhcr. in the LAT
ter,s re,I at the Pasadena Jail.
You've changed, Ranger" Roge
} Dryden remarked with his tired smile
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The proceedings were rushed through.
The Ranger scarcely listened. The
slight, natty figure of the bank-robber
standing between Drinkwater and an
other deputy, held his eyes. Now he
saw Roger Dryden slowly turn his
way.
Presently, just behind him, a body
whipped up from the seat and voice
above his head called quietly:
"Come on, pal. I've got every gent
in the house covered"
1t was a voice that Ranger Billings
knew, that kidding, bantering voice
he had heard in the day coach of the
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THAT mCstache When / saw you last,
you didn't have enough upper lip to
excuse me, if the subjects pain
full"
You're changed yourself, Mr.. Dry
den," Billings said.
Deputy Drinkwater's mood was
jovial and proprietary as he explained.
Rogers been in the hands of
face specialist in New York-been
peeled and reefed tight, so he looks
like a movie-queen, all but them gray
eyes. They're just as old and danger
Gus as ever, Ranger. The face scar
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THE SILENT SPRING
ACTION COLOR THRILLS SURPRISES AND GIRL BACK IN IOWA

still half dark in the Bottom of the
ravine. Minutes passed bsfore voice
reached him:
Sure, I can make it!
Back at dark, with coffee, beans and
pork. You can lie up safe here. No
one comes to this spring"
A weak murmur of voice answer
ed, and then laugh from the first
laugh Billings had come to know.
'I'll take a chance. Not on
your life, won't stop for n big feed
over there in Caliente. I'll be hurry
in back here to on own poison oak
tree for our party. So long, pal"
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close as one in the same room.

close as one in the same room.
Hello"
Don't draw, young fellow. It's sui
eide to draw. What's the matter
hurt, hungry
'Lost-mister-lost!" came a sud
den wall.
Billings chuckled inaudibly. Dryden
still had shift to work to cover Dave
Ilcomb's tracks.
Now that's too bad" Billings said
indulgently. Excuse me for being sus-
picious, but l noted that you reached
for a six-shooter."
The Ranger hoped down from his
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of that bandits shots. His other shot
took to myself about as close to
the place where l wear the Rangers
badge as a man can assimilate a forty
five slug and prosper much afterward,"
"But you got him after that-ac-
cording to the papers, breathed Toll
lier Dip.
YES, I registered in his neck, af.
ter l had been sentenced to three
months in the hospital
There was another silence before
the Ranger added:
"Of course there isn't any com
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BY WILL LEXINGTON COMFORT
Illustrated by FRANK STREET

sheltered seat and minute later Dry
denis gray eyes steadied upon him from
the deep shadow of the ferns.
"Hello, Billings" he said quietly.
"Your voice was familiar, but l didn't
place it for a minute"
"Where is your partner, Dryden"
Tell me. That's what l want to
know most. Dave and 1 lost each
other four days ago."
Billings sat down close to Dryden's
head. The face, so round and filled
six weeks before in Pasadent, was
darkened and wasted now.
Dryden" the Ranger said quietly,
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into life a one-pan fire. Coffee water
was on to boil.
Roger Dryden spoke:
Excuse me, Ranger, but I'm eat,
ing when Dave comes in tonight, ana
not before. If you heard what ne
said as be was leaving, you must have
marked that he wouldn't stop IN
Caliente for a feed, only to pick up
what he could and hurry back"
"Nou won't have breakfast with
mel" the Ranger inquired, his eyes
fixing themselves upon the wasted
face.
Dryden shook his head.
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Copyright. All rights reserved, q. :
Printed by arrangement with Metro
politan Newspaper Service New York.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
FIRST GONZAGA COLLEGE
CLOSING EVENT TONIGHT
Elocution Contest Will Be Conduct
ed and Prizes Awarded
Undergraduates.

The initial exercise of closing week
at Gonzaga College will be held in
the college theater tonight at
o'clock, when the annual elocution
contest will be conducted and prizes
awarded to the undergraduates.
The seventy-fourth annual com
mencement of the college will be
held Thursday evening at s o'clock In
the college auditorium. when Arch
bishop Michael ]. Curley will preside
and confer the honors and diplomas.
Participating in the elocution con-
test this evening will be Daniel J.
Gallagher, Arthur l. Meegan, Francis
l. McGarraghy, Aloysius P. Kane.
Daniel V. O'Leary and Daniel T. sui
livan of the senior division; and Rob
ert NJ. O'Connor, J. Raymond Raedy,
Stephen A. Mccarthy, George A. Gar
ner, John X keane and Frederick w.
Baltz of the junior division.
r. Regis Noel. Earl P. Ready and
Edward r. Walton will be the judges
of the contest. A musical program
will be given by the Gonzaga Col
Iege Band under the direction OF
Capt. Karl E. Schaefer
Under the direction of the Rev. j.
Charles Davey, vice-president of Con
zaga an examination will be conduct
ed at the college Saturday morning
at o'clock, when graduates of the
parochial and public schools of Wa sh :
ington will compete for four full
scholarships to Gonzaga. The exami-
nation will embrace arithmetic,
grammar, history, civics and geogra-
ply. The contestants must register
with Father Davey before Friday
evening.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
GIVE SUM OF $4,000
TO CITY ATHENEUM
Speaker Gillette and His Sister
Aid in Remodeling Building
Bearing Their Name.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WEsTFIELD, Mass, June 12.-Fred-
erick H. Gillett. Speaker of the House
Of Representatives, and his sister, Miss
Lucy D. Gillett, have donated $4,000
toward the remodeling Of the present
Atheneum building in this city. The
building was the former Fowler-Gillett
home and the birthplace OF Speaker
Gillett. The announcement Of this do
nation for the development Of the work
Of the Westheld Atheneum came from
William B. Reed. chairman Of the COM
mittee named to secure plans for the
new Whitney Library.
1t Is planned that the use of the
present building will be continued
after the construction of the new
library. Mrs. Florence Rand Lang
of Montclair, n. j., who was born
in Westfield also has become inter-
ested in the project and has donated
$4,000 toward the erection of an art
museum to become a part of the
atheneum group.
The house in which Speaker Gillett
was born was built as the residence
of James Fowler. the grandfather OF
Mr.. Gillett. and when it is restored
!, for atheneum purposes it will be
known as the Fowler-Gillett House.
The Whitney Library. toward the
building of which the late Milton b
Whitney left to the Westf1eld
| atheneum 10000 will be the dominat-
ing feature of the atheneum with
!, its art museum and Fowler-Gillet'
House.
1t is the intention of the directors
to secure plans which will combine
these three projects in beautiful
and harmonious building or group
OF buildings. After the plans have
been decided upon the constructor
will begin as soon as building condi-
tions warrant.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
RITES FOR MRS. BADGER,
WIFE OF REAR ADMIRAL
Services to Be Conducted by Rev.
Warner of st. Adams
Parish.

Funeral services for Mrs. Sophia j.
Badger, sixty-one years old, wife Of
Rear Admiral Charles ]. Badger. Z. 5.
N. retired, will be conducted by Rev.
Warner Of st. Adams parish. from the
residence. 350S Lowell street, tomorrow
morning at II o'clock.
Interrnent will take place in Arlington
cemetery.
Mrs. Badger was the daughter OF the
late Steven r. Champlin and Elizabeth
S. Chainplin of st. Paul, Mimi, and the
granddaughter of Commodore Stephen
Champlin, who commanded the Scor-
pion at the battle of Lake Erie, and was
the cousin of Commodore Oliver Haz-
zard Perry, the commander at Lake
Erie.
She was married to Admiral Badger,
then Lieut.. Badger, in st. Paul in 1882.
and was for many years identified with
social activities in the Navy, particu-
larly while her husband was superin-
tendant and commandant at the Naval
Academy.
She is survived by her husband. two
children, Elizabeth Champlin Bryan.
wife Of Capt. II. F. Bryan, U. S. N,
retired. and Lieut.. Commander Oscar C.
Badger, U. S. N. now serving on the
flagship of the Asiatic squadron. Mrs.
Marion S. Denegn. a sister, and the wife
of James D. Denegn of st. Paul, also
survive her.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia and Maryland
Cloudy, with showers tonight and
tomorrow morning; moderate tenn
perature: gentle to moderate north
east winds.
virginia-Probably showers tonight
and tomorrow; moderate tempera-
ture; gentle variable winds.
West Virginia-Showers tonight and
probably tomorrow morning; no
change In temperature.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Thermometer--4 pm, 60: pm. So;
IL midnight, SO: am, 90; am, 60;
noon, II.
Barometer-4 pm, 1888; 8 pm.
1887; 12 midnight. 1888; am, 1885;
s am, 29.89: noon, 1891.
Highest temperature. II. occurred At
noon today; lowest temperature, bs,
occurred at 2 am. today
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81: lowest. 50.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition of the
water at 8 am: Great Falls--Tem
perature, IS; condition muddy.
Weather I'm Various Cities.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
GRADUATES WITH HONOR.

Miss Alice Fenwick Hill, who re-
ceived her degree of bachelor of arts
last week at George Washington
University, was awarded II with
distinction'-an honor which means
that she stood among ten highest of
Columbian College, and that her aver
age during her entire college course
was over 80 per cent.
She received this honor in addition
to completing her entire college
course in three years.
Miss Hill has been for three years
the recipient of the Nellie Margaret
Knapp scholarship, scholarship
awarded by the Columbian women TO
girls who maintain a high standard
OF over two scholarships. Columbian
women have something over two
scholarships and expect this coming
winter to make a drive to complete
the third scholarship fund. The re-
cipient Of the second scholarship, 'The
Founders of Columbian Woman"
scholarship. this past year has been
Miss Helen Hastings.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
GdrnS nf ThaukS.

ROBINSON. ! wish to extend my sincere
thanks for the kindness shown during the
illness of my son SAMUEL and the many
horal tributes at his death.
SARAH II. JONES. .
TIBHS. We wish TO extend our sincere thanks
TO our relatives and friends for their kind
expressions of sympathy and beautiful floral
tributes given during the illness and at the
death of our beloved brother. STEPHEN A.
TIBBS.
HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. .
Evening star., 1923-06-12
FILES IN BANKRUPTCY.

with ofices in the Cont'nental Trust
Building, today fled !. petition in
voluntary bankruptcy. He says he has
assets of $14 in cash and submits a
schedule of liabilities totaling $s4s.-
Rohert t. Thomas of Charlottesville,
Va. who holds a claim OF si75,ooo
and the Boyle-Robertson Company.
holding a note for $165.000. Attorney
Tracy L. Jeffords appears Tor the
h L.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

North Washington Citizens Associ-
alton will meet Monday. 8 pm, in
Sunday school house of United Breth-
+ ern Church.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Mirandy's MinAtrels. by young
ladies' OF Chapel of TRANSPORTATION
Parish, will be given tomorrow, pm,
at ST. Paul's, Rock Creek.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Chief Justice Smythe OF the Court
of Appeals of the District of Column
bia is to address the Life Under
writer's Association of the District.
at a luncheon Thursday, at the city
Club His subject will be the making
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Meeting OF officers Of the air service.
officers Of Reserve Corps, U. 8. A., at
Graham building, 14th and = streets:
Moving pictures. Lieuts. Kelly and
Macready of New York-San Francisco
nonstop flight fame, will be present.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

ID. C. Public School Association will
meet tomorrow, 8 pm, in Franklin
School Parents. teachers and school
officials welcome.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
w.mher. Of the optimi.t Club Will

Members of the Optimist Club will
hold their regular luncheon meeting
tomorrow at the City Club. The pro-
gram Is under direction of Optimist
Whitney. Tomorrow night the organi-
cation will attend the performance at
Keith's, when c. b. Ferris. director
OF entertainment of the club, will be
on the program. G. E. S. Williams,
secretary, is handling arrangements
for the club.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Arrangements have been completed
for a meeting of the Sthrmont Ala
for Consumptives at the Hotel Har-
rington tomorrow morning at 1880
o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
On mef1torianI.

pUCKETT. In loving memory Of my dear
parted this life two years ago today, June
L.. 1921.
Sad are the hours of that unhappy day
When God called my dear husband away;
A loving husband, so good and kind,
No friend on earth like him can find.
For me he did his very best,
May God grant him eternal rest, 4
HIk LOVING WIFE, dARAH DUCkHrT.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Phil Sheridan Post. No. g, will meet
Friday, pm. in Grand Army Hall.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TO-DAY.

School officials and teachers have
been invited to attend q meeting OF the
District of Columbia Education Asso-
citation, in the Tech High School audi
torium this afternoon at 3 40 o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

The District Of Columbia branch OF
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People will
meet In the assembly hall of the 18th
street branch of the Y. M. c. A, to-
morrow, 8 o'clock. The reports of
teams working in the drive for an in
creased membership Of 10000 will be
rendered.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Barry Farm Citizens Association will
meet. s15 o'clock. In St. Johns M. f.
Church southeast.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
TONIGHT.

Card party and dance in st. Stephens
school grounds, gath and K streets.
Dancing, 8 80 o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

of Wills and probating them. The
luncheon is the regular monthly
meeting Of the association.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Brookland Brotherhood will hold Its
last meeting Of the season. O'Clock, In
Lord Memorial Hall.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

Washington Council, Knights OF Co
first degree Of the order at its meet
ing in the knights of Columbus Home
at 8:l5 pm. Following the degree,
the chaplain, Rev. j. ]. Barrett. will
give the last of his series OF lectures
on Catholic subjects.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

The Woman's Club of the Commu-
nifty Church of Washington will hold
an ice cream and strawberry fesu-
val at the residence of Mr.. Benjamin
Stickney, 1892 Madison street north
west, tonight from to 10 O'CLOCK.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
FOREIGN.

IS am, Greenwich time, today.
NJ
Evening star., 1923-06-12
FOUND.

AIREDALE. North $50.
POCKETBOOK - Saturday, on 9th st. Sc.
owner may have same by identifying. Apply
AIS 3rd ut. Sc.
PURSE-on 18th st., Monday afternoon, con-
tanning small amount Of money. Owner can
obtain same by proving ownership. 1921
18th st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
AIR FLIVVER OF FUTURE.

From the Anaconda Standard. -.
"Dewoitine" IL not so short and
simple a name as Ford" though pos
sibly to French ears 1t 10 moro
rhythmic and euphonious. Juliet may
doubt 1t all she pleases. but there is
a good deal in a name. One that EN-.
braces a felicitious combination OF
vowels and consonants, is terse and
easy Of pronunciation. is a CONNER
cial asset of recognized value. But,
Its musical or unmusical qualities
aside, under the most favoring cir
1t will take at least CAL
culatiop some little time for the name
Of Emile Dewoitine to supplant that
Of Henry Ford as a household word
and universal ideophone.
The Frenchman does not aspire to
be a manufacturer anyway; he says
he is an inventor pure and simple and
his highest ambition is to produce an
air fiyver which, selling at a low
cost. will bring 1t within the reach of
all and make flying as common as
motoring. The machine. which Georges
Barbot has been demonstrating In the
east, cost $4,000. but NJ. Dewoitine
tells us il such planes were produced
on a large scale they could be turned
out as cheap as $1,000.