ry _ however, when the brakeman dropped "i pert Jeu clear and effervescent © 7 person of boyish __ ¢onspicuous in the background of De. _ PAGE FOURTEEN CHAPTER XXXVI. ff Detail Across the plain purple shadows Were sweeping, close-ranked, like some i Yast dark army invading the land pouring on over the rampart of moun | tains in the east : Within the rim of hille that ringed the plain. like the chipped and broken i flange of a titanic saucer, silence brooded and solitude held eway dwarfing the town of Detall that oe cupled (he approximate middle of ihe sagebrush waste, fo proportions even less significant than might be inferred | from the eandor of its christening (A plaifarm, awiding, a svater tank, a | Wells-Fargo office and a telegraph and ticket office, backed by three rough frame huildings: that is Detail item- ized completely. Shortly after niglitfall the steel rib- | bons of the Santa Fe began to hum. A headlight peered suspiciously round % i shoulder of the eastern range, took | heart of courage to find the plain still | wrapped in peace, and trudged stolid ly toward Detail, the engine. whose | eye it was pulling after it a string of | freight cars, both flat and box. | At Detail the train paused. Its i erew 'slighted and engaged in ani | mated argument. Detail gathered that | the excitement was due to the unac- countable disappearance of the ca- boose; none seemed to have any no tion a8 to how it could have broken loose; yet missing it conspicuously | was, In the pause that followed, while a report was 'elegraphed to headquar- ters and Instructions returned to pro- | ceed without delay, one of the train- | men spied & boyish figure lurking in the open door of an empty box car. | Cunningly boarding this car from the | Opposite side, the trainman caught, the skulker unawares and booted him vaingloriously into the night. As the figure alighted and took fo | its heels, losing itself in the darkness, | It uttered a cry of pained surprise and | protest which drew a wrinkle of as. | tonishment between the brows of the trainman, "Sounded like a woman's voice." he mused; then dismissed the suggestion as obviously absurd. It was not. . , Shortly after the freight train had "gone on its way--betore, indeed, the slimmer of its rear lighte had heen lost among the western hills--a gec- ond headlight appeared in the east. swept swiftly across the plain and in turn stopped at Detail, The 'second - bird-of-passage proved to be a locomotive drawing a single car----a Pullman: - Hardly -had it run past the switch, down, ran quickly back to the switch and threw it open. Promptly the train backed on to the As the Pullman jolted across the frogs the brakeman, Intsrposing him. Self between it and the tender, re- leaned the coupling, ' ~ By the time that the Pullman had' come to a full stop on the siding, the he had 'drained the well of virulent humor: the wrath of the valetudinarian began to vent itself upon the hapless heads of the tric who stood before him, While this "was in process, the | appearance, who had been keeping religiously aloof and in. tail ever since that unhappy afiair with the trainman, stole quietly up to the rear of the stalled Pullman; climbed aboard, and creeping down the aisle unceremoniously interrupted - the conference just as the invalid was "polishing off a rude but honest opinion 'of the Intellectual caliber of one of the three named Marrophat, who figured as his righthand man and familiar genius. 3 : © "Amen to that!" the boyish 'faculated with candid fervor person { to miss the crash. {| served { pens to tip the others off." | wouldn't if the lady's clothes didnt fit THE TREY DHEART taken all that trouble--cast boose loose in the middle trestle at "the risk of my didn't have the nerve to go ithithe business!" . We went through with it all rignt," { replied Marrophat defensive! but | sual, they were too quick for us Ihey jumped out and dropped off the trestle before our engine hit the ca We smashed that to kindling ood--but they got away just in time And by the tlme we had stopped and eslmed down the engineer--well, It was dark and no way of telling which way they had rym \ the ca- tnat ~you rough of life bose Ibe girl started to speak, but merely ved imp hands at her sides and rolled her eyes helplessly. ; We do onr best," Marrophat ob- | "We can't be blamed if something ~~ somehow -- always hap- are The girl swung to face him with b ng eyes. "Just what does that 17" she demanded in a dangerous voice. : Marrophat. lifted his shoulders. "Nothing--mueh," he allowed, "| am only thinking hew strange it ie that Mr. Law can't be caught by any sort oi stratagem--when you are on the job, Miss Judith ¢ . The girl's hands were clenched into filets, white knuckles showing through the flesh. "Yom contemptible puppy!' she snapped, bis But on this her yolce failed: for her | tyes traveled past the person of Mr. Marrophat to the doorway of the draw- ng room and found it framing =a s{ranger Excuse me, friends," he offered in a lazy, semi-humorous drawl, "It pains me considerable to butt in on this happy family gathering, but business is business, same as usual, and I got to asl youall to please put up your hands!" 'What do you want?" the invalid de- manded "Why," drawled the bandit, "nothing in particular your cash. Shell out, if you please--~gents all and the lady, too." He ran an appreciative glance down the figire which Judith's disguise revealed : rather than con- cealed. . "If you'll pardon my takin' - oy only fed w Hirling round. DAILY WHIG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 1915. See The Motion Pictures Of IDEAL THEATRE On Mondays And Tuesdays This Story At The "Give me a thousand on account," ssid the other, "and a paper saying vou'll pay me nineteen thousand more in ex- change for it and one dead man, prop- erly identified as the one you want-- wigned by you--and your man's as 00d as dead this minute, providing Les in riding distance of this here car." rine waved his hand at bis secre- | Jimmy, find a tifousand dollars | tary for. this gentleman... Make out the praper he indicates for the halance, and I'l! sign it" "Aln't yop. powerful trusiful, Mr. Trine? How do you know. I'l do any- thing more'n pocket that thousand and ade delicately away." "My daughter and this gentleman, Mr. Marrophat, will accompany you." "Oh, that's the way of it, isfit 2" "Name?" interjected the secretary, writing busily with the top of his at- tache case for a desk "Slade," said the bandit, "James Slade." Again Trine punctured the at- mosphere. with his index finger. "The man whose life I want is'named Alan Law He is running away with my daughter, Rose, accompanied by a per- son named Barcus, disguised as a Pull man porter--" y The three of them having recent' escaned from a train wreck up yonder ou the trestle?" "Hopi Jim interposed. "¥aw've met them?" Judith demand "About an hour ago, or mayhe an hour and a hall" Hopi Jim replied, "a good ways down the road. They stopped and ast where they could get put up fer the night. 1 kindly directed them on to Mesa, down in the Painted hills yonder.' CHAPTER XXXVII, Fireplay. Contented with the promise of a thousand dollars advance on his con- tract, providing he returned 'with horses within a stipulated time, Mr. Hopl James Slade drifted quietly away into the desert night, 'Well content, persuaded that the morrow's aun would never set upon a world tenanied by one Alan Law, that monomaniac, Seneca Trine, torgot his récent ill temper and set himself diplo- Marrophat at Her Elbow to Egg Her On. notice," he amended. "Perhaps 1 her so allfired quick!" "Keep & civil tongue in your head, my man!" Judith counseled, without armed -- At the same time her father's voice" brought her to her senses. : "Judith! Be quiet. Let me" deal With this gentleman. I am sure we can come to some arrangement." "You bet yourdife," agreed the gen- tleman as the girl mutinously stepped back. "1 know what I want, and you- | all know you got it: so the name of the said arrangement is Just 'shell out.' "One minute," the 'invalid inter posed. "Don't misunderstand me: I guarantee you shall be amply satis. fled. 1 give you my word---the word of Seneca Trine" : The =eyes of 'the bandit widened: "No? 1s that so? Seneca Trine, the railroad king? Sure's you're born you're him:: I've seem your pictupe dozen times. Well, could not be trusted to work. with a | because of his infatuation | night, the girl maneuvered her horse 4 the side of Hopi Jim, and then dropped back, permitting Marrophat to lead the way with Texas. As deliberately she eet herself to work upon the bandit's susceptibility to her charms. s Within #n hour she had him ready to do anything to win her smile, in that first rush of galden day a thwart the land, the party came quietly into the town of Mess, riding slowly in order that the noise of their approach tight uot warn the fugitives, who Hopl asserted confidently would still be sound asleep in the accommoda- tons offered by the town's ome hotel. "It wag to be termed a town only in courtesy, this Mess: a straggling sireet of shacks, ramshackle relics of what had once been a promising com- munity, the half-way station between the rallroad and the mining camps secreted jn the fastnesses of the Paint. ed hills--camps now abandoned, theft very names almost faded out of the memory of mankind. Midway in this string of edifices the hotel stood--a rough, unpainted, wood- cn edifice, mainly veranda and bar- room as to its lower floor. Jealously Judith watched the win- dows of the second floor: and she «lone of the four detected the face that showed for one brief instant well back in the shadows beyond oné of the bed- room windows--a face that glimmered momentarily with. the pallor of a ghost's against the background of that chscurity, and then was gone. Her eyes alone, indeed, could have recogmized the features of Alan Law in that fugitive glimpse. Two sentences exchanged hetween ITopl Jim and a bleareyed fellow vhom he roused from sodden slumbers behind the bar sealed their confidence with conviction: the three fugitives were In fact guests of the house, oc- cupying two of the three rooms that composed ite upper story. In the rush that followed mp the narrow stairway, Judith led with sueh spirit that not even Marrophat sus. nected her revolver was poised solely with intent te shoot from his hand his. own revolver the instant he leveled it at a human target. Closed and locked doors confronted them; and their summons educed no response; while the first door, when broken in by a wholesouled kick, dis- covered 'wothing more satisfactory than an empty room, its bed bearing the imprint of a woman's body, but that woman gone. » From the one window, looking down - that the woman had not escaped by i Inmping out. have 'had warning. of their arrival, « after all; and presumably were now I © which looked out over the verinda i roof, 'waiting in " and' in fact immediately aid, matically to adjust the differences be- : tween his daughter, Judith, and his first Heutemant, Marrophat. : It was no facile task: Marrophat for Judith; Judith could no more be trusted faithfully to serve out her vow to bring Alan Law to her father's feet, alive or dead, truel irony of Fate!--she herself had fallen in love with that same man whose 'death she had pledged herself to compass. Only when, as now, half mad with Jealousy, determined to see Alan dead rather than yie block it for a fall half minute by pre: the side of the house, Texas announced So it seemed that the three muet lrerded togethér in the adjoining room, fear and trembling for the assault that must soon come-- Hut it met with more stubborn re sistance than had been anticipated. Tha door had been barricaded from within -- re-enforced by furniture raced against it. 'Four minutes and the united efforts of four men (includ- ing the bleary loafer of the barroom) wera required to overcome its inert re- sistanee. But even when it was down, the room wag found to be as empty as the first. Only the fingers of two hands grip- ping the edge of the veranda roof showed the way the fugitives had flown; and these vanished instantly as the room was invaded. Followed a swift rush of hoofs down the dusty street, and a chorus of blas- phemy in the hotel hallway: for Ju. dith had headed the concerted rush for the s and contrived to tending to stumble afd twist her ankle, : In spite of that alleged injury, she never limped, and wasn't'a yard be hind the fi GOTEI (0 (he open, mor yet appreciably behind him in vaulting to saddle. Well up the road a cloud of smoky dust half dd the shapes of three clouds of dust and profanity, and de- parted in search of a mount to replace the horse that had been shot under him; and Judith sat her horse calmly, smiling sweet insolence into the exas- péfated countenance of Marrophat. Incidentally ihe fugitives disap peared round a bend in the road that led directly into the wild and barren heart of the Pajuted hills. In the brief interval that elapsed be- fore his return with Hopi Jim, Marro- phat contrived to persuade the bandit that Judith had 'been, at least indi rectly, responsible for the catastrophe, with the upshot that, temporarily blinded to her fascinations by the slit. ter of nineiéen thousand dollars in the near- distance, Mr. Slade maintained his distance and a deaf ear to her blandisbments. The only information as to their purpose that she was able to extract from either man, when the pursuing party turned aside from the main trail, some distance from Mesa, was that Hopi Jim knew a short cut through the range, via what he termed the upper trail, by which they hoped to be able to head the fugitives off be dore they could gain the desert on the far side of the hills. Only at long intervgls did they draw rein to permit Hopi Jim to make re- connolseance of the lower trail that threaded the valley on the far side of the ridge. Toward noon he returned in haste from the last of these surveys--- serambling recklessly down the moun- tain-side 'and throwing himself upon his horse with the advice: "We've headed 'em-----can make fit now if we ride like all get-out!" Tor half an hour more they pushed on at the best speed to be obtained from their weary animals, at length drawing rein at a point where the trail crossed -the ridge and widened out upon a long, broud ledge that over hung the valley of the lower trail, with & clear drop to the latter from the brink of a good two hundred feet. One hasty look back and down Into the valley evoked a grunt of satisfac tion from Hop! Jim. . "Just in time," he asseverated, "Here they come! Ten minutes more . a His smile answered Marrophat's with unspeakable cruel significance. "Texas will sleep better tonight when be knows how I've squared the deal for him!" the bandit declared. "What are you going to do?" Judith demanded, reining. her hore in beside Marrephat as the latter dismounted. A gesture drew her attention to a huge boulder poised insecurely on the very lip of the chasm. "We're going to tip that over on your friends, Miss Judith!" Marrophat replied, with a smack of relish in his voice. ~ "Simple---neat--efficlent--eh? What more can you ask?" She answered only with an irrepress- ible gesture of horror. Marrophat's | I4ugh followed her ae she turned away. For some moments she strained her vision vainly, endeavoring to pene trate the turbulent currents of super heated dir that-filled the valley. 'Then she made out indistinctly the faintly marked lne of the lower trail; and Iminjediately she caught a glimpse of three small figures, mounted, toiling painfully toward the point where death await®d them like 4 bolt from the blue. Hastily she glanced overshoulder: Hopi Jim and Marrophat, ignoring her, were straining themselves against the | boulder without budging it an inch, for all its apparent nicety of poise. For an instant a wild hope flashed through her. mind, but it was immediately ex- orcised when Hop! Jim steppéd back and uttered a few words of which only two--"dynamite" and "fuse" --reachec her ears. Kneeling beside the boulder he dug busily for an instant, then lodged the stick to his satisfaction, attached the fuse, and breaking off, edged on hie belly to the edge of the c¢lif and loaked down, carefully calevlating the lenigth of the fuse by the ce of the PETTY down where the rock must fall. But while he was so engaged and Marrophat aided him, all eager inter- est, Judith was taking advantage of their disregard of her. : Turriedly unbuttoning her jacket, ,| she whipped a playing card from her drew 'Pocket, & trey o' hearts, and. with the spot | fhe edge, threw himself flat and swore bitterly, with an accent of grievance, as he rose. - - : From the canyon below a dull noisé of galloping hoots advertised too plain: ly the failure of their attempt. | And Hopi Jim turned back only to} find Judith mounted, reining her horse | In between him and Marrophat, aud! prepared to give emphasis to what she! had to say with an automatic pistol that nestled snugly in her palm. "One moment, Mr. Slade" she sug- gested evenly. . "Just 8 moment before you break the sad news to Mr. Marro- phat i've something to say that needs wqur attention--Ilikewise, your respect. It is this: | | am parting company with You and Mr. Marrophat. I am riding on toward the west, by this trail. Ir either of you care to follow me" --the automatic flashed ominously in the sun glare--"it will be with full knowl- edge of the consequences. Mr. Marro- phat will enlighten you if you have any doubt of my ability to take care of myself in such affairs as this. If you are- well advised, you will turn back and report failure to my father." She nodded curtly and swung her horse round. "And what shall I tell your father from you?' Marrophat demanded sharply. "What you pléase," the girl replied. flashing an impish smile over-shoulder. "But, since when I part company with |. you, I part with him as well--for all of me, you may tell him to go to the devil!" | "Well," Mr. Marrophat admitted con- Tdentially to Mr. Slade, "I'm damned!" "And that ain't all," Mr. Slade con- fided in Mr. Marrophat, whipping out 'his own revolver: "You're being held up, too. I'll take those guns of your'n, friend, and what else you've got about 1 you-that's of value, including your hoss --and when you get back to old man Trine you can just tell him, with my best compliments, that I've quit the Job and lit out after that daughter of his'n. She's a heap sight more attrac tive than nineteen thousind dollars, and not half so hard to earn!" CHAPTER XXXIV, Burnt Fingers. Once she had lost touch with her fa- ther"s creatures, the girl drew rein and went on more slowly and cau: tioukly. Below her, in the valley, the lower trail wound its facile way. From time to time she could discern upon some naked stretch of its length a cloud of dust, or perhaps three mounted fig- ures, scurrying madly on with fear of death snapping at their heels. It was within an hour of midnight, a "iight bell-clear and bitter cold on the heights, and bright with moon: light, when Alan's party made its last Pause-and camped to rest against the dawn, unconsclous of the fact that, .a. quarter of a. mile above them, ont the upper trail, a Jonely woman paused when they paused and made her own camp on the edge of a sharp declivity, The level 'shafts of the rising sun awakened her. She sat up, rubbed her eyes, yawned, stretched limbs stify with the hardship of sleeping on un- 'yielding, sun-baked earth-----and of a sudden started up, surprised by the grating of footstéps on the earth be hind her. Before she could turn, however, she was cauglit and wrapped in the arms of Hopi Jim. She mustered all her strength and wits and will for one last struggle-- ' and in a frensied moment managed to break his hold a trifle, enough to en- able her to snatch at the pistol hang: ing trom her belt and present it at his head. ; But it exploded harmlessly, spend g its bullet on the blue of the morn- ing sky. The bandit caught her wrist in time, thrust it aside and subjected it to such cruel pressure and such sav- stub of a pencil scribbled three words on its face--"Danger! Go back!" =~ Then finding a small, flattish bit of rock, she bound the card to it with a bit of string; and with one mere backward glance to make sure she 9 watched, . approached the k. : Hopi Jini was meticulously shorten- ing the fuse, Marrophat kneeling by within point. It was mo trick at all to stone $0 that it fell two minutes of the danger Iu the canyon below: the three were |. FEE i Hat if i i Look at the diagram below. It shows how the lungs and the stomach are entirely sepa rateorgans reached by entirely separate tubes, What you swallow goes to the stomach. What you breathe (and on'v what you breathe) gets to the lungs and air passages direct. Now you see how useless it is, when you have a cold, or a cough, or bronchitis, or catarrh, to dose the' s: ach (which may be quite healthy) with drugs! What you need is something you can breathe to the lungs direct! That is Peps. t Peps ia the name of a now scientific preparation containing highly medicinal essences and pine extracts, condensed ito tablet form. You put a Pep un your tongue, and a8 it slowly dissolves, these volatile essences turn nto vapor, You BREATHE the remedy to your sure, ailing chest and Juogs, direct--not swallow it to your stomach, which is uot ailing, The heal ng fomes, thas Lredthed down, bathe the delicate, in. famed mefibranes of your breathing. tubes, and pass right on te the tiny passages of the lnrgs--a course no liquid ve solid medicine could possibly take. Pops fumes are - healing and antigep- tic. They hernl gore tissue and kill disease gorms. Peps bring pine forest fumce to your home, instead of you going to the pine forest! Just as the open-air cure § ~the breath. ing cure--is the only ra tional cure for consump- tion, so the Peps breathing cure is the enly rations! curs for catarrh, colds, coughs, usthna and bronchitis. SEES -------- Dominion Senator Praises Peps Senator DerByshire, of Brockville, writing - from 'the Dominion Senate, Ottawa, says :-- . '* 1 am ploksed to express my high opinion of Peps. 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