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BEGIN 1 HERE TODAY "Joan" closes the book she is read- ing and goes to the door of the ranch house at the sound of wild geese fly- tos in the northern night. Buck Dan- who is presumably her' father, rustles his paper and wal with a frown of alarm. "Jean, | ain't you happy?" asks Buck. "I never go where other girls 507 complains Joan. "When you went out- side, what were you listening to," asks Buck. "The wild geese," she tells him. The crying of the wild geese, the girl says, brings to her "a happiness --a queer, sad happiness." Then Buck says: "I once knew a man who found all those things in his head when the wild geess flew over"--but he refuses to say more, and sends Joan off to bed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER L-- (Cont'd) She hesitated. There was a storm of questions lying locked behind her teeth. But she let them remain un- spoken. "When this man chose to be silent there was no winning him to speech. And besides, he had said enough to make her wish to be alone, so that she could turn all that had happened over and over in her mind So, after that thoughtful instant, she kissed the bronzed cheek of the big man and went slowly up the stairway, which creaked and groaned beneath her foot- falls. Buck Daniels watched her going with an anguished face, and when she had disappeared he swiftly packed a pipe, lighted it, and went outside to walk up and down, up and down, for a long time. It was the beginning of the end, he felt. And he was filled with a cold and helpless sense of doom. The tobacco had been long burned to an ash before he finally went inside again, Up the stairs he climbed and paused at the door of the girl "Joan!" he called very gently. There was no answer, and, confi- dent that she was asleep, he went on to his own room. But Joan only wait- ed until his footfall had gone dowh the hall; then she slipped from her bed. CHAPTER IL WHERE THE LAW SLEPT. To Hal Springer and Rudy Nichols the setting of the sun was most wel- come, for when one has 'broken ground" all day, and when the "ground" is hard quartz, fatigue be- comes$ a thing which bites clear to the soul. And, as a matter of fact, they could not have sustained the burden as well as they had done had it not been for certain gleaming little threads of rich yellow in the stone which told them that their labor now meant rest in the days to' come When they laid aside their double jacks and their drills, however, they did not instantly set about preparing supper. They first sat down on a stone and lighted their pipes. To be sure, the twilight would make the feature they were as different as men could be, yet their expressions were taken for brothers. The third party, Harry Gloster, was absent hunting to stock their larder. They began to hear, now, the sharp sound of shod hoofs striking the rocks MN below them, a noise which constantly climbed closer. They knew who it was. As a matter of fact, for the last two hours they had watched the rider working up the valley from far away, the distance diminishing his size al- though the clear mountain air let them see him distinctly enough. They had watched him, from time to time, when they came out from the shaft to let the wind blow them cool. But neither had said a word to the other. closer, Hal Springer went to the lit- tle shack, half cabin and half dugout, in which they bunked, and came back wearing his cartridge belt with a re- volver dragging the right side of it far down over the hip. His companion appeared to take not the slightest note of this preparation. He seemed to be only intent upon cer- tain light effects and climbing sha- gun spoke and the miner slumped over: His dows which were blurring the harsh outlines of a southern peak. But after a dozen puffs of his pipe, he also arose and went to the shack and returned similarly accoutered. He had barely appeared when the stranger came into view. He had been obscured for some time by the sharp angle of the mountain side, now he was seen to be a fellow in the prime of life, wide shouldered, long- armed, and sitting as lightly in the saddle as if he had not been riding hard through the entire day. He dis- mounted, throwing his reins, while the hungry horse, daring not to move, reached in a guilty fashion after a blade of grass which was near its cooking of supper more difficult, more | head. unpleasant, but this small interval was refreshing théir muscles, their very hearts. They were of an age--perhaps forty-five--and although in body and eee "Helo; Hal," he said. "How's things." "Things are tolerable well, Mac- arthur," said Springer, and he took the hand of the other in a relaxed grip. "This is Rudy Nichols," he said. "Make you known to Joe Macarthur, Rudy." The two shook hands, but Maec- arthur swung back to Springer. He wasted no time in preliminary re- marks, but went directly to the point, "The damm 'vein pinched out on me," he said. There was no response other than a puff of smoke from Springer's pipe "Looked like the real thing," went on Macarthur. "Then it faded, Never - | was worse fooled in my life. Showed the thing to old man Shaughnessy. Hie said the same thing." "Too bad," drawled Springer. "So youn, brubstake was throwed| svar went on Macarthur. ringer shrugged his shoulders. n D omarel to have found with his glance the same mountain which had But as the noise of the horse ¢ame ,| aint no good, Macarthur. paper, "what I'm up here about 'is apother grubstake." The silence of Springer was pro- found. "I've found the real thing at Inst went on Macarthur, as he twisted and licked his cigaret paper. it and turned his head to watch the match fall. "If I told you all the facts about where and what it was, you'd pack up your things and leave this here hole in the ground and come along with me." "Maybe," said Springer. "It's rich!" cried Macarthur with enthusiasm. "All you got to do is to give the rock one clip with a hammer; ind Jou wee sanagh io star you damc- ng! "I've done my dancing," drawled inger. "Hal," eaid Macarthur, leaning for- ward and speaking in the soft voice of persuasion, "you may have used up a lot of hope on me since that last job didn't pan out, but take this from me: you're a fool if you don't try another go similar that they might have been | 1¥¥: * "I could of got backing a good many. places with a specimen like this to show. But I wanted you to get your money back--and more, too. So I come clear up here instead of show- ing this here ore to Milligan or to one of them other rich gents that ain't got the gunts to gamble on nothing but a sure thing. Take a look! What d'you think of that sample, Hal?" "For a sample," murmured Spring- er, "it looks like something." And, he tossed it back. The other pocketed the specimen in silence. His jaw had thrust out and his scowl was black. "That 'means you don't give a damn | about making your fortune?' he asked. There was another depressing in- terval of silence "Hall," sald Macarthur "at last, "don't you believe me?" There was another little interval of dragging pause in which Nichols discovered something of interest some distance down the slope and rose and sauntered down. "I don't believe in you," answered Springer at last, with all the delibera- tion of a matured judgment. "When I grubstaked you, I was drunk. You got me when I was in town drunk, and you worked on me until I handed over enough money for you to use as a grubstake, as you called it. That made us come up to this job short of everything that we needed." Macarthur bit his lip. "Look at the sample, though," he pleaded, fighting down his passion. "Samples ain't hard to get. Some buy 'em, and some borrow em." Macarthur arose to his feet. It was too direct an affront. "Springer," he said, "what d'you mean by that?" "I mean just this," said the other, spelling out the words on his fingers, "I've looked you up, and what I've heard would of made a dog sick. You ned me out of one neat little bunch of money: You won't skin me out of another. That's the straight of it. I'm through with your kind. I've heard how you--" He stopped. Something had hap- pened in Macarthur like a silent ex- plosion. His lips were trembling and his lean face seemed to have swollen. "You damned old fool!" he whis- pered. "Look here--" began Springer, but instead of finishing his sentence, with a gasp which let the pipe fall from between hig teeth he reached for his gun. It glided out of the scabbard with an ease which told of a skill which had at one time, perhaps, been great. 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Gladstone beholds the backs of a dozen beauttiful women, | while Disraeli is almost lost mon four Venuses, a couple of Eves, Lady Godiva and some nymphs about to enter invisible baths. Joseph Cheek, superintendent, nufSe and surgeon for all statues, busts and the {iying hand of Macarthur. His gun spoke before the muzzle of | Springer's revolver was clear of the leather, and the miner, with a cough, | twisted around and slumped over to' one side. There was a yell from Rud; Nichols. (To be continued.) ein admin Grrr-rh! « The train drew up with a mighty crash and shock between stations. "Some one pulled the com- munication-cord!" said. the guard. "The express has knocked our last car oft the rails. .Take us four hours be- fore the track is clear!" "Great Scott! Four hours! I am supposed to be married to-day!" groaned a passenger. The guard, a bigoted bachelor, raised his eyebrows suspiciously. "Look here!' he ejaculated, "I belive you are the chap who pulled that cord!" eee Approximately 28,000 men and wo- men turned their backs on the farm in South Dakota to attend 'agricul tural short courses and then turned back to the farm better equipped to face their problems. Ae Keep Minard's Liniment handy. her war paint on§ © models in the palace, admits that the classification might be improved, but explains that he has had -a big job the last seven years getting them all to light again and repairing the damage done when tliey were hustled out to make room for war-time oschipation of the. palace. "I have put together beauties that have been broken Into bits, to say nothing of providing new noses for old Venuses by the score,' he sald, "and making ears and feet and arms and legs for all sorts and conditions of nymphs, ancient heroes and Vie torian 'statesman. The most difficult task is fingers. But I have made so many hundreds. of them now that I merely take one look where the miss- ing finger was and go straight away and make another that wiil fit on cor rectly. / "Don't worry,about the classifica: tlon,." in time." ' Mr. Hangofft--"Why, no.. Whatever | 1 put such an idea in your head?" Bob- by--"Pa did, T heard his say to Ma a little while ago, 'I guess Liv] 1 got ils | 4 i Scalp to-night 1 |trto Company at Philadelphia, in . | nothing wrong with the 'superstition We'll get them all placed right' a ora y the | You 'ate right. There be afraid of, The chance of & person | being struck in his home is one in} several million. desk in some downtown skyscraper, the lightning cannot reach you. You have the ascurance for this of | R. M. Spurck, an engineer of the new | {switchgear plant. of the.General Bleo- charge of the high voltage testing of elrcuit™ breakers, where arcs of arti ficial lightning at from fifteen to twen- ty feet are played over apparatus to make: sure there cre no defects and | ir that it will withstand conditions when put into service, out in the open in natural lghtning areas. "Shooting a million volts into circuit breakers to thoroughly thest them before leaving the factory is not mere guess work. The tundamentals are based on studies made in the company's laboratories, fleld observations and the classic Spurck said. It you reside on the top of a hill with no trees about, you are in a comparatively perilous position. Such a house is likely to be struck once every 100 years. But if yol live in 3 home, with houses of put you, lightning is out about once every As for the residents in gerched upon the hill, the & in several million that tiéy will be struck by the bolt that comes once every 100 years, The bolt might tear up the roof, or even set it afire, but likely would get no closer to you. It would encounter the electric house wiring and would be carried, impotent, to the ground. Or it would hop onto the plumbing system and docilely speed off into the earth. 15 The safest place in your house is ~Fanywhere except where these light- %fning conductors are centered. Most nd down in the middle of the house. Keep away from the walls fn which they run. Do not stand between two metal objects, such as a heating radia- tor and the plumbing pipes, There is that bed is a safe place. "In the modern steel office building, lightning can't even ge't the reof. Most roofs of such buildings are metal and"are purpesely bgought in dontact at some point with Ylie steel framework and this circuitf absorbs and carries off any lightning/that may chance to shoot down. ~~ Perhaps the question of the efficacy of lightning rods has never been fil Bettled in the public mind. Lightning rods are now to be seen' chiefly in the country. There is a lightning rod on nearly every house in the cities, THERE Is nothing that has ever taken Aspirin's place as an antidote for It is safe, or physicians wouldn't use it, and endorse its use others. Sure, or several million users would have turned to Chics of To Struck k inl Your He ve is One in | : Several Million; He eS Estimates And if you chance to be at your| work of the late Dr. Steinmetx," Mr. MADE IN NO AL £.W.GI J TORON i Fi though it may not be visible to the pre. Every plumbing system has an nt--a pipe--that runs upward to, 1f- fot through, the roof. 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Firestone Stave Dealers. kow tire construction service, ving been trained at 'Dealer » taken for granted, re-long it became matter of rt that some of these tors found themselves un- women able to get enough patients to make a living and had to turn to some other As an example of what women can do in the fleld of medicine, the career of Dr. Mary Scharlieb, who at efghty- three years: old' 'Harley Streot physician, 14 being cited. | Dr. Scharlieb, who is a Dame of the Bri: tish Empire, keeps regular office hours and has a large practice. She is the leading woman doctor in the isin Empire. ; But other women who aspire to medical honors are finding their paths harder than ever, for some of the hos- pitals are refusing to admit and train any more students, and it seems that soon there will be only three hospitals in London open to girls for the pur. pose of training, one being the Royal Free Hospital for Women, where the students are all women. Officials of the Charing Cross Hospi- tal, one of those which is shutting its doors on the young women, say that the number of applicants has so great. ly dwindled In the last two years that, a® far as this particular hospital is concerned, the question is solving it self. But anyway, these officers say, the profession is overcrowded. To this the women reply 'that they roved themselves as capable as men in many branches both of medicine and surgery, so why not divide the openings between men and women, The cause of the women students .|has been taken up by the National .| Union of Societies for Equal Citizens ship which has decided to advise its '| supporters to subscribe only to hos- pitals whose schools are open to both also declares that, unable to suc- now a"bigger 5 than ever re Given To Na« hanghai From Formerly They Vere Debarred - A NEW ERA Shanghal--That a new era in the relations between foreigners in China and the Chinese actually has begun, in which the Chinese are being ad- mitted to participation in functions from which they bitherto have been excluded, was shown by several re- cont events. It is known that four Chinese em- ployees in the maritime customs serv vice had been appointed deputy com- missioners, from which rank they pre- viously * had been debarred. This marksg a breakdown of the rigid foreign deadline in the customs service that endured for more than forty years and is an entering wedge to Chinese con: trol of China's fisedl affairs. Equally Given Chinese At a meeting of foreign ratepayers in. the British concession at Tientsin there was unanimously adopted a re- solution conferring absolute equality on Chinese re#iidents and giving the Chinese equal membership in the Municfpal Council." In Shanghai the Chinese ratepoyers have elected three members of the . Municipal [Council of the International _jsettlemen aid six members of a com. following the annual for- Testing,