New Britain herald., 1925-01-17

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 wen find her. though, and bring her." insisted Gloster. "We1l use force if we have to. But we can't let her"
 "Force?" cried Buck Daniels. Son, don't you know that she's Dan Bayry's daughter?"
 "Who was Dan Barry? And what does that mean?"
 There by the fire, as they finished their coffee, he told the story of Dan Barry how he had come out of the south, drifting north and north. how Joe Cumberland had taken him In and had to keep him by force, of how he grew up to love Kate Cumberland; of how, at last, he married her; of how a girl was born to Kate; of how they lived hap piy in a, cabin among the noun tains with Dan tanned at last, so 1t seemed; of how he had taken Up the defense of fugitive for justice and 1 by that had been led onto a long blood trail and outlawry.
 Until at last" said Buck Dan- | iels, Kate saw that there was a wildness in him which would never go out. She could see that Joan had the same spark in her. She had no fear of animals, just like Dan; and she could do all sorts of queer things with them. Finally she made i mp her mind that, for Joan's sake, she had to leave Dan.
 Dan had taken Joan, that wee mite of girl, up into the moun- tains with him to the cave he was | living in. Kate trailed her baby there. And she found Joan as wild as a little rabbit. She stole Joan away and brought her down to the ranch.
 T and couple of other men stayed there with her. We knew that Dan would come for Joan | sooner or later, and We knew that we had to try to keep him away, and we knew that we didn't have a ghost of chance to do it, him | being a tiger in fight.
 ''So finally one night when we were all sitting around the fire and Joan getting sleepy, she raised up her head with queer look. Then she got up and went over to the window and pulled the curtain aside and looked out into the black of 1 the night, It sure was ghostly thing 10 See mite of a kid do.
 And pretty soon we heard that whistle of Dan Barry's coming away off in the night and we knew that Joan had heard 1t first. It gave me | he horrors. Kate sent one look at 1 her baby and knew that it was either Joan or Dan that had 10 be sacri- ticcd.
 "She ran out of the house and met pan coming down the path. She told him to go back. that she still loved him, but that he would 1 ruin all their lives If he didn't go away. I was looking out watching with gun in my hand and my hand shaking life a leaf.
 "I seen Dan standing in the path with his hat pushed back from his face smiling at her. He started walking toward her. She warned him. He kept on. And then She fired
 His wolf-dog stood over his body and snarled at us until Dan was dead, and then the dog and the black hosS went tearing off through the night. l picked Dan up in my arms, He'd been a lion of mar when he was alive. But being dead he wasn't hardly no more'n bo! in his weight,
 "But that was the end of Du' Barry, Glostcr. And what I've be- waiting for all these years has be- in fear that the same wildno would come out in Joan. And
 came, It started the night S talked 10 you at the dance.
 And now she's cut loose fro me and gone off by herself. she never come back and nothing c, make her. It's a wild goose cha' we're following Gloster."
 (To Be ContinuedD
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