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TURNING POINT &if Mary imiay Taylor .sv.NtJi-yi.s rHAITKIl Xli Jim fulvit-es Slier- win to run nwaj'. (Jld Mnc learn;^ that Steiihart and Slierwin arc C0U8ln». and that Steiihart's testi- mony also sent Shcrwin to prison. CHAPTF-.R XIl Tlic moon was risiiiR over tlic top of the mountains as- Slierwin swung himself out of the saddle. They had left the' road and were on a mountain trail; great trees sur- rounded thtm, their spreadinpc boughs making a dense shade through which the rising moon shot, here and there, an arrow- head of light. MacDowcU led, and, as they advanced, the almost impcr ceptible trail grew larrower. tree trunks of gigantic size locked them in; far off was the sound of rushing water, a mere murmur at their cars. "Walk slow," Mac cautioned him, "th' path's mighty narrow in front now an' a mite Ircaclicroiis. We're coming to the edge of a precipice, ain't nothing to save you if you fall." "I hear water .somewhere," said Sherwin. "Mighty pretty little cascade be- low us, 'bout two hundred feet. It's too far down for th' moonlight to strike it yet â€" mind th' turn now â€" there, you can see th' drop, it's mighty steep." * • • They stood on a narrow ledge. Some convulsion of nature had long ago ripped out the side of the slope. Behind them was a bit of sheer rock; on either side the great trees stopped and there was only a narrow path at the edge of a deep ravine. Far down a turbulent little river roared over the broken rocks and tumbled from a high cliff into the depth below. The moonlight revealed a sheer precipice with nothing reaching out from it but »ne old, gnarled tree. "A mighty bad place to slip," Sherwin said musingly; "easy to thrust a man over there â€" to his death!" Old Mac grunted. "Mighty easy â€" but you ain't goin' to get th'c chance, he's too lame a duck to get this far!" Sherwin felt the hot blood burn in his face; how easily the old man had read his tnind! Mac stopped now and pointed, ignoring what he had just said. "Th' cabin's hid in there â€" among them trees. I built it most forty years ago. I hadn't no health those days; doc said I'd got to live out, up here in the redwoods, so. I knocked up th' shack. There used to be mighty good shootin' an' fishin'. It's stood weather better'n I expected. There ain't anybody knows about it â€" except Jane; she saw it once, I fetched her up here. You can camp here safe enough till I bring you word where Cut- ler's gone. * * * Sherwin, looking ahead into the dense shadows of the mountain- side, saw a light. Bolh men stood ttill, electrified. "By gosh!" Mac caught at his •tompanion's arm and gripped it, listening. "I'm darned if Jordan ain't up hereâ€" sure as shootin'!" he whispered. "In your cabin r" Sherwin smiled grimly, loosening his pistol in the shoulder holster. MacDowcll cautioned him to si- lence with a gesture and they both crept forward. .As they did so, Sherwin discerned the outline of a little cabin set luidt'f a sycamore. A rectangle of light appeared, the door was open! Softly, step by step, the two men approached, keeping in the shadow. Sherwin slipped behind the house and look- ed in the window. A man was sit ting on the floor, smoking and reading a newspaper by the light ol a candle. It was the outlaw! Sher- win signaled to MacOowcll and the old man came softly over and look- ed ill. The man was an easy mark, b'lJ they did not shoot, both loved fair play too well. Making a sign to Mac, Sherwin went quickly to- ward the thicker shadows of tlie trees in front of the cabin, then, deliberately and slowly, he began to tramp down dry twigs and make the noise a man might make in carelessly approaching from the woods back of the ravine. The sounds reached the rustlers ears. He extinguished the candle and stcpiied outside the door. "That you. Kenny?" For answer Sherwin sprang for- ward, pistol in hand, and old Mac emerged from behind the cabin with a roar. "We've not you now, you skunk!" he shouted. The outlaw dodged, dropped to his knees, rolled over like a ball and went spinning down the slope, Shcrwin's bullet speeding after him. A sailing cloud suddenly ob- scured the moon and. in the dark- ness, a gun flashed below them and a bullet whistled past. They heard a scrambling fall. Sherwin fired again into the dark, a man cursed and .silence followed. "Darn that cloud, I can't see a thing!" old Mac whispered. "You think Jordan's down there. Sher- win?" * » * Sherwin. who had gone to the edge of the ravine and came back after the last shot, answered as softly, "Yes! 1 can hear him scramble â€" I'm hanged if I_ know how he got away witliout falling over the precipice! There comes the moon â€" back out of range or he'll pick you off, MacDowcll!" They both stepped back into the shadow of the cabin and waited, expecting a rush by Jordan and his confederates, but nothing happen- ed. Far below them they heard a twig snap and some gravel slide. "Comin', I reckon!" Mac whis- pered. Sherwin shook his head. "Still going, the same man. Very likely he's gone for help." "That's true, ain't any use stayin' here to be shot at!" As he spoke he felt his way into the cabin. "Want to risk lighting the can- dle?" Sherwin asked him from the door. "I've got matches." "Nope! We'd be targets sure then. I can see from th' moon. Where you goin'?" "I'm going to stay here." "You'll have to give th' cabin up, son; you'd have a batch of them rustlers to fight â€" if he comes back." » * » "And the sheriff on the road," Sherwin replied grimly. "That's true!" Mac thought a moment. "I say, Sherwin, you'd better just keep under the trees for th' night an' skip at daybreak. The posse'll be most likely tired an' restin'. You'll get some hours start anyways." Sherwin nodded. He had other plans, but he would not tell them. He grasped the old man's hand. "Come, I'm going to see you off safe with the horses, tlicn I'll come back here quietly." Mac protested, grumbling, but he finally let the younger man ac- company him to the road. His lame arm still made the old man more or less awkward. Sherwin helped him get the two horses and saw him mount. "You skip at daybreak," Mac said kindly, and leaned from the saddle to hold out his hand again. "I don't believe yoti did it," he ended brusquely. Sherwin wrung his hand and stood under the trees, watching iiim go. The old man's blunt sym- pathy and active help had touched him to the quick. He watched until the old figure in the saddle and the two liorses became mere specks on the white road toward Las I'alonias. (To be '^ontiniic.l) ISSUE 23â€"1946 EAGLE, ILL, REPORTS TO POLICE 'â- '^*•^.^ •»-• NATIONAL CLOTHING COLLECTION Send what yoii <'uu to your local collection centre JUNE 17-17 "saiada: TEA Maybe his "mama done tole" the American bald eagle in photo above that when you're in trouble, call a cop. Anyway, after circling the 'town for hours, the bird, ill and exhausted, dropped into the back yard of the Port Washington, N. Y., police head- quarters. He's pictured held by James Callaghan, Roosevelt Bird Sanctuary warden, who said the bird had probably eaten polluted fish. Mr. Eagle got a dose of castor oil. Snndoy School Lesson CHRONICLES oi GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke Well, I could write what I think about the railway strike, the ship- yard strike or the coalminers' strikeâ€" but I certainly am not going to â€" you can read all you want to know in the news â€" and if you do it will probably leave you just as bewildered and distressed as it does us. A strike is such an awful tiling â€" as one columnist put it â€" "In a strike everyone loses, even the strikers." « ♦ • But out in the country, where evcrylliing is fresh, green and growing after that wonderful rain; or working in the garden, or among the iliickens, one can forget for awliilc liow easy it is for nen, who should know better, to stir up strife and unrest among those people who liave been caught in a net of their own weaving. In the garden, as I work among the flowers and shrubs, the only unhappy things is a robin who has her nest in-a small spruce tree at the back of the border. Poor Mother Robin â€" and yet I have been out in the garden so much lately you would think she would know by now that I wouldn't hurt her fledglings. How- ever she evidently doesn't like the look of me for she flies to a nearby apple tree every time I appear, and there she sits, chirping and scolding, as long as I stay around. • * * I am beginning to realize to my sorrow that a garden is one thing: that can't be neglected with im- punity. Last spring, when I was really very worried about Partner's healtli, and about getting Bob home from overseas, I gave little time or attention to the garden, .As a re- sult, the shrubs, weeds and grass have surely had one great old time trying to see which could choke the other out. The grass and the snowberry bush were definitely in the lead, but now I really believe I have them both in clicck. Part- ner and I work outside every night until it is too dark to seeâ€" Partner at the grass and I at the flowers and shrubs. But oh, that snowberry shrubl Garden Notes By GORDON L. SMITH Keep Them Growing The real secret of crispness and garden freshness is quick growth. This is especially true of leafy and root types. Lettuce that has been checked in its growth period, or carrots or young beets, and then start to grew again are almost sure to be tougher or woodier than they should be. The reason is simple. Once growth slows down for any reason the roots or leaves start to toughen and dry out, with the re- result that erispi.css and tenderness soon disappear. ICven if quick growth is resumed again there is liable lo be a lowering of the high, fresh quality one has a right to associate with vcgclal)lcs grown right at the kitchen dour. Cultivation Important (.'ultivation ii' June will kill weeils wliicli might become really lioublcsomr in July, and it will break up soil which would bake iiard and be impossible to work after the sun really turns Wirni If the lawn is kept regularly mown ill June, at least once a week in the moist parts of Canada, then we will really have something worth taking the uoighbour.s out lo sec later on. The old warning ot a stitch in time saving nine really holds good for garciei ing too and espcially so with such jobs as weeding, cultivatioi and thinning and last but not least, for protect- ive steps against disease or pests Have you any in your garden? If you have then you will know what a fight I've been having. If you haven't, then don't let a snowberry bush come within a mile of you. It sends out runners that come up where you least want or expect them. If you try digging out a big root you have to follow tliose run- ners all over the place, even to the lawn itself. .And to think that I, of my own free will, once planted snowberry bushes in my border! * * * I just love shrubs â€" all but snow- berry â€" but there is this against them. If a shrub dies â€" as it may well do if there are many rabbits around â€" then it leaves a rather un- sightly bare space that is hard to fill. To grow another sh'-ub in its place takes time. Then, too, if one has too many shrubs one's space for growing flowers i* naturally restricted. For that reason Daugh- ter said one time when she was home â€" "Mother, for goodness sake don't grow any more shrubs!" Well, I am doing away with quite a few, but there are still others I would like. Si metime I hope to get a tamarisk, a smoke tree and a butterfly bush. In the meantime we have the usual run of good old annuals â€" zinnias, snapdragons, pet- unias, salvia, French marigolds, pansies and geraniums. Disappearing Act British textile scientists have in- vented a fabric that completely disappears in soap and water. It is used for weaving into woolen cloth so that it may be washed out afterward to produce an extra fine lightweight material. Working With Christ Mark 6:7-13; Luke 10:1,2. 14:25-27. Golden Text.â€" And he that tak- eth not his cross, and followcth after me, is not worthy of me.â€" Matthew 10:38. Message to The Disciples- There is no doubt that the going fortl of the disciples two by two la meant to teach us the advantage:; of Christian company to all who labor for Christ. The disciples were to go fortn just as they were without makinji any provision wliatsoever. They were to live a life ct absolute trust in God who would not suffer them to want. They were not to go from house to house seeking where tliey would fare best. They were to be grateful for the simplest fare where offered willingly, faintaining a spirit of restraint and self-denial The Gift of Healing The apostles were to call men to repentance, ti beseech them to inwardly to God and outwardly from the errors of their ways. An- ointing rtith oil as a medium ot which the miraculous gift of heal- healing would foster faith in those to whom it was applied. The an- ointing was the outward sign with which the miraculous gift of heal- ing was accompanied. Christ's Harvest of Souls Christ and his little band of fol- lowers were few to do the great work oi gathering this multitude of needy soulf for God. Therefore He exhorted His disciples to pray for more laborers to help gather in the harvest of souls. True Disciples Suiireme affection for and alleg- iance to Christ are absolutely es- sential to true discipleship. Jesus declared that no one is worthy of Him who loves father and mother, son or daugfiter more than he loves Christ. The nearest and dearest must be forsaken, and op- posed, and offended, if need be, to follow Christ. Love to parents is one of the first requirements of ethics; love of life, one of the strongest laws of nature; but even these must not come into competition with the claims of Jesus. Sacrificial dis- cipleship is imperative. As Christ sacrificed Himself for our salvat- ion so we must sacrifice ourselves in His service. 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