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'CHAPTER VIIL | The statement took Houston off his feet for a moment; but recovery came i just as quickly, a reeoil with the red i splotches of anger blazing before his| /' eyes, the surge of hot blood sweeping | through his veins, the heat of conflict! tiny leaf is a of flav 'Fresh from the gardens' BEGIN, HERE TODAY | A father's lack of confidence in his | n's ability caused Barry Houston] inherit a lumber mill on condition that he maintain a high output. A series of mysterious accidents are pre- venting this and when young Houston! arrives in the Colorado timber lands | he finds that hig superintendent, Fred Thayer, has been systematically' wrecking his plant. In making the] discoveries, Houston has been assisted by Ba'tiste Renaud, an eccentric French-Canadian, who quit the prac- tice of medicine and retired to a cabin to forget the double tragedy of his son's death in' France and the murder of his wife. He nurses Houston back to health when the latter's automobile plunges over a cliff. Houston, to de- ceive Thayer, feigns complete loss of memory. In Ba'tiste's cabin, Houston meets Medaine Robinette, a girl who owns the adjoining timber lands. Sud- denly, Thayer arrives from the-rail- road station with Agnes Jierdon, a rl who has a mysterious hold on louston. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI. The woman in the buggy was held- ing forth her hands to him and he assisted her to the ground. "Well," she asked, in a sudden fawn- ing manner, "aren't you going to kiss me?" "Of course.", He took her in his arme. "I--I was so surprised, Agnes, I never thought of you--" "Naturally you didn't." It was Thayer again. "That's why I sent for her. Thought you'd get your memory back when--" "I've had -my memory for long enough---" Houston had turned upon him eoldly--*" to know that from now on I'll run this place. You're through!" Three hours later, the last of the men paid off, Barry Houston approach- ed the door of Ba'tiste's cabin, Barry raised his hand to knock--and halted. His name had been mentioned angrily; then again-- y "I don't know what i Fred wouldn't tell was something too } know. I can't be -plea when I feel this way." She ceased. Houston had knocked on the door. A second later he enter- +d the cabin, to return Medaine Robin- ette's cool but polite gree "I'm afraid I've stayed ! 1 intended," she apolo late. Good night." Then she was gone. Houston look- ed at Batiste, but the old French- Canadian merely waved a big hand. "Woman," he said -airily, "peuff! Eet is nothing. Eet will pase. Now, what mus' Ba'teese do?" "At the mill? I wish you'd guard it for me. I'm going to Denver on the morning train to hire a new crew." "Ah, oui. It shall be." The next morning brought Barry to Denver, and the three days which followed carried with them the sweaty smell of the employment offices and the gathering of a Tie werew. Then, tired, anxious with an eagerness that he never before had known, he turn- ed back to the hills. With his rough-faced . men about him, Houston reached Tabernacle, and started the journey to the mill. Into the canon and to the last rise. Then a figure showed before him, a gigantic form, running and tumbling through the underbrush at one side of the road, a dog bounding beside Bim. Jt was Ba'tiste, excited, red- faced, his arms waving like windmills, hig voice booming even from a dis- tance: "M'sieu Houston! M'sieu Houston! Ba'teese have fail! Ba'teege no good! He watch for you--he is glad you come' Ba'teese ashame'! Ashame'l" They had reached the top ofthe vise. Below them lay something which caused Barry Houston to leap ~ Trainfor Business Ba'tiste. ept thet it i > for me te to him is, er than "It's COUPON coupon wailed to us will | a Free Booklet mailed to "Opportunities in Business People." i to his feet unmindful of the jolting wagon, to stand weaving with white- grip od hands, to stare with suddenly aeadened eyes-- Upon a blacened, smoldering mass of charred timbers and twisted ma- chinery--the remainder of all that orice had been his mill! ' CHAPTER VIL "Eet was my fault!" The French- Canadian still stared at th _eruins.! "Eet is all Ba'teese' fault--" "I thought you were my friend; Batiste." "Sacre! I am." "Then show it! I've got about fifteen" thousand in the bank. There's enough lumber around here to build a new saw-shed, and money to buy a few saws. And I need help--I won't be able to move without you. But--" "Qui?" "But," and 'Barry smiled at him, "if you ever mention any responsibil- ity for this thing again--you're fired. Do we understand each other?" The next morning Barry went to] Denver and in a week returned to Tabernacle, thence across country to camp. He found no Ba'tiste but there was something else which held Houston's interest for a moment and which stopped him, staring wonderingly into the distance. A new skid had made its appearance on the side of {reeling backward; while the other men grip tightened about the cant hook in his brain, His good hand clenched, A leap and he had struck the foreman on the point of the chin, sending him rushed to his assistance. « "That's my answer to you!" shouted Houston. ' "Run_ tell Thayer!" shouted the foreman, ahd then with recovering strength, he turned for-a cant hook. But Ba'tiste seized it first. _ "Here comes somebody!" Ba'tiste's and he rose, squaring himself, Hous- ton seized the club and stood waiting a few feet in the rear, in readiness for anyone who might evade the bulwark of blows which Ba'tiste evidently in- tended to set up. ) A moment more, and Batiste, with a sudden exclamation, allowed his cant hook to drop to the ground. "Eet is Thayer and Wade, the gher- iff from Montview, and his deputy. Peuff! Have he fool heem too?" The sheriff pulled two legal docu- ment from his pocket, and unfolding them, had shown Houston the bottom of each. Barry's eyes opened wide. "That's--that's my signature," came at last, "This one's the same, isn't it?" The second paper was shoved forward. "Yes." wis "Then I don't see what you're Kick- ing about. Do you know anyone nam- ed Jenkins, who is a notary public?" "Yes." "Then look 'em over. If that isn't a lease to the lake and flume and flume site, and if the second one isnt a con- tract for stumpage at a dollar and a can't read." "But I'm telling you that I didn't give it to them." Houston had reach- ed for the papers with a trembling hand. "I don't remember--" "Didn't I tell you?" Thayer had turned to the sheriff. "There he goes pulling that loss of memory stunt again, ~ That's one of his best little bets," he added sneering, "to lose his memory." "I've never lost it yet." "No--then you can forget things awfully easy. Such as coming out here and pretending not to know who you were. You can't even remember the night you niurdered your own cousin, can you?" "That's a--" "See, sheriff? His memay's bad." All the malice and hate of pent-up enmity was in Fred Thayer's voice now. One gnarled hand went forward in accusation. "He can't even remem- ber how He killed his own cousin. But if he can't, I can. Ask him about the time when he slipped that mallet in his pocket at a prize fight and then th his cousin. Ask him of Tom Langdon after . Facing him were five men with thovels and hammers, workmen of the Blackburn camp. the jutting mountain nearest the dam. Logs were tumbling downward jn slow but steady succession, to disappear, then to show themselves, bobbing jerk- ily outward toward the centre of the lzke. A thunderous voice was boom- ing belligerently from the distance: "You lie--un'stan'? Ba'teese say you lie--if you no like eet, jus'--what- you-say--climb up me! Un'stan'? Climb up me!" Houston broke into a run, racing along the flume with constantly in- creasing speed as he heard outburst after outburst from the giant trap- per, interjected by the lesser sounds of argumentative voices in reply. Faintly he heard a woman's voice, then Ba'tist's in sudden command: - "Go on--you no belorg here. Ba'- teese, he handle this. Go 'long!" Houston, at last made the turn of the road as it followed the flume, and saw the broad back of the Canadién, squared as he was, half across the road. Facing him were five men with shovels and hammers, workmen of the Blackburn eamp. Houston looked more cloely*then gasped. It was an- other flume; they were making a con- nection with his own. "What's this mean?" he demanded Jwon't--" rize fight. He won't a, of course. He 5 he will be able {to ren father spent a jlot_of y and hired 'some good {lawyers and got him out of it. He won't be able to tell you a thing about how his own cousin was found with his skull crushed in, and the bloody wooden mallet lying beside him--the mallet that this fellow had stolen the night before at a prize fight! He (To be continued.) pm : The Open Door Louelia C. Poole They searched the barn, they search- ed the shed, 3 And all about the old farmstead, For Dobbin--Ilast seen in his stall; Then off they hurried, one and all, To hunt him, with a right good will, The length and breadth of Chestnut Hill, And disappointed, in dismay Went home again at close of day, Concluding they would advertise The truant Dobbin, and a prize Would offer for his safe return-- Or e'en' his whereabouts {~ learn! Back to the old farml. ~se they went, 'With their vain search footsore and spent, And entering the big "vont deor, Right in the middle of the floor Of their best parlor (left to air, That summer day so bright and fair), Still as a statue, looming white In the gray twilight's dusky light, There stood Dobbin, tal] and grim! Oh, how they all then fell on him! They actually kissed the beast! And none reproached him in the least, So glad were they to see the gcamp That sent them on that fruitless tramp! angrily. : The foreman looked up caustically, "I've told you about ten times," he answered, addressing himself to Ba'- tiste. "We're building a connection | on our flume." * "Our flume?" Huston gasped the words. "I own this flume and thie Jake and this flume gite--" "If your name's Houston, I guess you, do," came the answer, ut if you can read and write, you : know that while yo may own i don't use it. 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A furiher study of this important field recms likely to add valuable data wish re- gard to the structure and behavior of atoms. : y The Future of Lord Oliver, one of the representa [fives of Labor in the British House of Lords, has been asking in that As- who now rule autocratically 70,000,000 of the people of India, when the time comes for the remaining 250,000,000 to be given de- mocratie institutions. His own view is that their powers ought to be re- stricted so as gradually to fit them into the scheme now under discussion for making British India self-govern- ing . In answering Lord Oliver the Mar. quess of Reading holds that constitu- tional reform should be a gradual'de velopment from within, not an im- position from without, The princes themselves naturally object in the strongest possible woy to any inter ference with their powers. For the same reason they are apprehensive that the somewhat shadowy super- vision hitherto exercised over them by the Government of India may get |to be intolerable if that body becomes truly elective. The solution they have been urging before a committee of in- vestigation which has been sitting in England under that able Apglo-Indian Chaat to that of London. . As 8ir Malcolm Halley, Governor the United Provinces Afia and Ou has recently pointed out, however, the fate of the independent princes of In- dia is In their own hands. "The princes' rule," Sir Malcolm said, "lies less in the protection of a sovereign power than in the appreciation of their own subjects." If the princes can so broaden the basis of their rule as to render it ac ceptable in the future to their peo- ple in the gradual political awakening that has begun, their dynasties may be able to survive. Otherwise, soon- er or later, the whole system they. present must, pass into the limb nl, sembly what is to become of the semie - independent princes administrator, Sir Harcourt Butler, 16 'that they" should be taken.out of the jurisdiction of 'Delhi and transferred guarantee for the permanence of the Sir. Macolm here touches the kernel of the situation. - 'No suzerain pow- grams, frequently contain sharp, tran perse lines which reveal the kind ol v The Indian Princes®