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Ne We tery, romance and lure of the great woods is in this adventure story that Stewart Edward White. All the mysâ€" This is a swashbuckling story of pirate days. It has as leading charâ€" acters the Buccaneer and his sinister Second in Command; the Fair Damâ€" sel in Distress; the Brightâ€"Shining Hero and those great Intelligencies by whose capriceâ€"or by whose orâ€" dered Lawâ€"our tiny world carries on among its millions of sister worlds. from the first page to the last. . CHAPTER I Follow and you shall see brave adâ€" venturing and dastardly piots; and a little affairs were swept into the mllyin-'d‘flfln-vurruu of Fate. So upâ€"anchor and away! At the moment our story opens the Pirate, appropriately named Grimâ€" stead, was leaning back in the sternâ€" but each other. Indeed, the man at the wheel alone seemed to be at all aware of his surroundings. For the only other human being visible on the craft was the Damsel in Disâ€" tress, and she was completely occuâ€" pied with her own thoughts, which scemed to be resentful and unpleasâ€" sheets of his craft smoking a cheâ€" root. He was a large, square man, with thick bushy eyebrows. Gardiner; the Second in Command, with cleam shaven face and an inâ€" story she was young and beauteous and as daughter to the Pirate Chief, caparisoned in costly garments. The Brightâ€"Shining Hero had not _ Suddenly and most unexpectedly a loud bang sounded under the port ‘heartfelt but not too serious. It conâ€" sisted in the fact that she Had been ravished away against ~het will; which is the usual and proper reaâ€" sonâ€"for the distress of females aboard pirate craft. At this moment she should have been listening to the dulcet strains of a jazs archestra, or mayhap bossâ€" "When she blew she slid into the rut and let us down pretty hard on one of these little stumps in the midâ€" dle of the road," he answered Grimâ€" _"What is it, Simmins?" cried the Pirate Chief, "Are we damaged?" "Blowout, sir," replied Simmins. . He walked around to the rear of the car, and uttered an exclamation "The gasoline is all run out," reâ€" plied Gardiner calmly. "We‘re stuck, all right," Grimshaw agreed. "How far is it to help!" "Nearest garage is about twenty the tire, walked the 20 miles and got ing about infatuated youths in any old haunt where sport clothes are Mo-al On a barren Caliâ€"] miss." fornia of high brush and an| Simminsa was enjoying himself cccasional tree! Stranded! Hot!!|thoroughly. He knew just when to Uncomfortable!! No wonder the lines | put the accents and yet avoid imâ€" of her figure were unbending; no}| pertinence. It was his last shot. marvel that her eycbrows were level|. The next instant he exploded. Miss and that the regard below them was | Burton had seen! â€"sujlent e tale _ __| For a long time his world was in young and beauteous. Smouldering | the integrity of his attitude toward | of dressed turkeys, a total of 4,000,â€" Lfl. , Of ten thousand people| Miss Burton. It wasn‘t done, you | 000 pounds. half would have symâ€"| know; but he rather liked it. *Texas andâ€" the "national turkey with Burton, by| After supper, Simmins most reâ€"| market is rivaled at present by Arâ€" fl!xdmm”mmmwmmumMAmw in the of the Del Monte tourâ€"| the nearest garage. and _ several European countries nament; and the other half would| Burton brought to the carnp fire| whose dressing seasons come during have muttered things about spoiled|a small covered basket and removed| American summer months, thus givâ€" brats and an indulgent father and|the contents, a Pomeranian dog, halfâ€"| ingthe foreign points opportunity would have regretted that she was | size even for that breed, named Punâ€"| to get to the United States markets too old to be spanked. _ . _ |ketyâ€"Snivvies. The men surveyed | before the native American birds are When her father insisted, in . face| chicken and then he curled up in a of her first carcless refusal, that she | small fluffy ball and went to sleep. of her first carcless refusal, that she | small fluffy ball and went to sleep. join him on this trip into the backâ€"| â€" Burton reclined on cushions, look~ woods, she was vastly surprised,| ing straight up, still within her inâ€" though not :u&“*-‘b silence. _ Gardiner â€"was at the lastâ€"minute she found that this | clever enough to realize that this was INSTALLMENT I "Few men know the forest as Neither of these men were paying Gardiner joined the chauffeur "It‘s ‘ buckled the tank," he It Now to be considered is the Damâ€" Out upon you! This damsel is And nome of this wouldâ€"have afâ€" was agreed that Grimshaw "We‘re Stuck!" . "We‘re stuck." " of excitement gasoline‘s cipal deviser of stratagem, or not. why ome should not like Gardiner. He is tall, slender, very dark, with a sleepy wellâ€"bred supercilious exâ€" pression on his thin long face. Ail his movements are languidly graceâ€" ful. He is exceedingly well dressed. His ability is enormous. He knows all about electricity,.and water powâ€" er, and oil wells, and Diesel engines, and railroads, both theoretically and practically, for these things_are some, of the loot the Pirate Chief has capâ€" tured. Burton said she didn‘t like hi!n bgclue he played no bridge nor golf; but that was fidt it. She had other reasonsâ€"no, not refsons, inâ€" stinet. â€" At the present moment the second in command did not attempt to apâ€" proach the aloof young goddess. Inâ€" finished he was just as hot and dirty. There were qualities to the man, beâ€" sides those necessary to boarding and scuttling! By the time the job was finished Grimstead reappeared. "Found a great place!" he anâ€" mounced, and partly on the little "gas" in the vacuum tank and partly by gravity the big car glided around the corner of the mountain. the chauffeur, and when the job was CHAPTER II Enter the Hero As often happens at skylines in California, the nature of the counâ€" try there changed. Burton had.seen redwood trees before, but never‘ had she seen one of the redwood forests of the north. The sullenness in her eyes was replaced by a startled and somewhat awed look. where a tiny patch of green had won for itself a tiny patch of unobscured aky. "Stop here, Simmins," Grimstead commanded, and all debarked. Simmins hustled out the lunch basket and the thermos cuses zud proceeded to lay things out in seemâ€" ly and proper style, _ f & Simmins was an engaging person. The natural self within him would bave carried him through life skipâ€" tiously, like the giddy goatâ€"but it wasn‘t done, you know. He loved playing up to his part, which was solemn, eminently correct, terrifically imposing, and he could do it in such a manner as to make self conscious all but the most conventional. When at home Simmins became a house man. In this capacity the one fatal misfortune of his professional career overtook him. nessed his answering of the door bell. He came down the hall cakeâ€"walking, a wonderful double shuffle, snapping his fingers, his head thrown baek, his eyes closed; but all quite noiseless. Then he turned the door knob and singâ€"song voice deciaimed immpersonâ€" ally that he could not say, madame, but that he would ascertain. O fatal day! Next time he tried to instantancously a wonderful transiâ€" tion took place. His elbows snapped the perch and be human. I like friendly looking people about me." "Sorry, Miss" said he nonâ€"comâ€" mitally in his best manner. "I was not aware of giving offense. It is pawsibly the result of my training, e The car coasted slowly for a half ile and came to a little stream "Look here, Simmins," she said herself, had witâ€" wagon load of milk cang." . But the doubt was almost immeâ€" diately resolved by the dancing glare of headlights through the trees, and an instant later a small light car swerved off the road and came to a The thing he rode was one of those nondescript homeâ€"made things of galâ€" light hair, and what had been a fair complexion darkâ€"reddened by much exposure. Behind him, seated atop a canvasâ€"covered pack. was an [rish terrier dog. The third occupant was Simmins. "‘This gentleman picked me up, sir," said he glibly, "and I conceived msâ€"how it would be more expeditious, sir, to come back with him." "More expeditious! He‘s going in the other direction!" said Grimstead. (Continued next week) Gardiner; "must be horseâ€"drawnâ€"a vanized iron by which the youthful attempt in vain to disguise and renâ€" der sportful a certain otherwise jokeâ€" ful brand of inexpensive car. The occupants of this craft were three. The young man at the wheel, & pleasantâ€"faced youth, with short, TEXAS IS TURKEY STATE OF AMRERICA PRODUCES THE MOST BIRDS Texas has become the turkey state of America, and the commonwealth which produces the greatest number of this great and popular holiday bird according to Homer D. Wade, manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce who has an interesting article on Texas and the turkey inâ€" dustry in the current issue of the Naâ€" tional Republic. Incidentally it may be said that the most dangerous turâ€" key rival to Texas is South America, and the Texas turkey raisers are now asking for an increase in the tariff on "foreign born" turkeys. Mr. Wade Thousands of Them Raised and Shipped to Outside Marâ€" the Lone Star State, where one west Texas county alone produces enough Christmas birds to feed oneâ€"half the people of Chicago, to "talk turkey" is the vernacular for "talking busiâ€" Texas leads the nation in point of turkey production. Raising of Amerâ€" ica‘s national bird at present is cenâ€" tered in the Heart of Texas region. a section of some seventeen western counties grouped about the exact which last year peer turkey producing point of the whole United States, and perhaps the world, and celebrates this faet annually in its mammoth fall ‘Turkey Trot‘ parade in the town of Brady, in which thousands of fine looking birds are herded down the streets by wb-o.mfunu.vh&h is an ive event in the nation. Hage Shipments In 1926, fifty carioads of dressed birds were shipped from Brady, county seat of McCulloch county, to eastern and westerh markets. Each of these fifty carloads consisted of 20,000 pounds of dressed meat, makâ€" ing a total of 1,000,000 pounds, or enough to feed 1,000,000 people with a bountiful turkey dinner. ‘The enâ€" gnrymn.muuldilflh)ic" Growers association and the Southâ€" ern Tariff association have recently filed a brief with President Calvin Coolidge urging a three cent raise in thepresent turkey tariff to proâ€" whose dressing seasons come during A-r::n-â€"t-th.h.lv- ing foreign points opportunity to get to the United States markets "Texas to Show Yalue is talking turkey! Down in to the tariff law has their fraternity brothers, sorority sisâ€" ters, and faculty advisers, are heretical [mtheamethny‘udilmnt from the rank and file but because they think tthgnaelvu. Dr. Arthur J. Todd, proâ€" fessor of sociology at Northwestern university, told representatives from 200 American colleges and universiâ€" ties attending the annual meeting of the National Student Federation of America here recently. THINKERS ARE SO DUBBED Misnomer, Says Profegsor Who) Uncle Sam is spending h Declares That Best to "Boil levflywhniflfifit reseany io Everything in Your helpt:h_ehr_m.:plegfion'n Busiâ€" Because They Think "College heretics are punished not because they think differently from the orthodox but because they think at all and forget that safety and smugness lie in copying the gang, respecting mob mind, and being }itt.le slaves to the established order," said Student heresy should express itself ‘ in demanding orientation to the pracâ€" tical world, in integration of the soâ€" cial structure, in‘ finding a suitable vocation and a worthwhile avocation, said Dr. Todd, who insisted that@he modern heretic would really fit himâ€" self for the duties of the husband and the wife as well as of the citizen. What Is Heresy "Heresy is not dressing freakishâ€" ly," warned the speaker. 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