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Made only by ' @ The Kitchen Overall & Shirt Co., « Ontario Limited HE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918. - »r ' w Copyright, 19083, The Spoilers. . By REX E. BEACH. * »y Benelh, =~ Rex B. | "Let's hurry up," said one. "It's a | long 'mush' and the mud is knee deep." | "No walking 'for us' said Roy. "We'll go by train" { "By train? How can we -get a { train *" v "Steal' it," he ai ered, at which Dextry grinned delightedly at his {loose jointed companion, aud Slapjaek | showed his toothless gums io answer, { saying: } | "He sure/is" : A few more words and Glenister, ac- companied by these two, slipped out | into the whirling storm, and a half hour | later the rest followed. One by one | the vigilantes left, the blackuess biot- iting them up am arm's length from | the door, till at last the big, bleak | warehouse echoed holiowly to "the | voive of the wind and water, Over in the eastern end of the town, | behind dark windows upon which the i sheeted 'rain beat furiously, other | armed men lay patiently walting-- { waiting some word' from the bulky | shadow which stood with folded arms | close agalust a square of gray, while | over titeir heads a wretched old man | paced back and forth, wringing his {hands, pausing at every turn to peer {ont into the night and to mumble the | name of his sister's child CHAPTER XIX, ARLY in the evening Chérry Ma- lotte opened ber doof to tind the + Bronco Kid 'en her step. He | entered and threw off his rab ber cont. Knowing him well, she wait- | ed for his disclosure of his errand. His j sallow skin was without a trace of | calor, his eyes were strangely tired, { deep lines had gathered about his lips, | white Lis hands Rept up constant litte | nervous explorations as though for | days and nights he bad not slept and | now hovered ou the verge of some hys- | teria. He gave her the impression of la smoldering mine with the fire eating [oe up to 'the powder. She'judged | that his bedy had been racked by evs | ery passiqn till now. it hung jaded and | weary, yielding only to the spur of his | restless, revengeful spirit. | After a few objectiess remarks he { began abruptly: | "Do you love Roy Gleuister?"' [lis voice, like his manner, was jealously f eager, and he watched her carefully as | she replied without quibble or deceit: "Yes, Kid, and I always shall. [He is the only true man I have ever known, ant I'm not ashamed of my feelings." For a long time he studied her and then broke into:rapid speech, allowing her no time for interruption. "I've 'held back nud held back be- cause I'm no talker. 1 cdn't be in my busivess. But this is my Tst- chance, | and I want to pot myself gight with | you: T've loved yon ever since the Dawson days, not in the way you'd =saxpect from a man of nry sort perhaps, | but with fhe kind of 1¥ve that a wo- | man wants. I never showed my hand, for what was the use? Thatman out- i | i { ! | held me." I'd have quit faro years back only I wouldn't leave this country as long as you were part of it, and up hare I" onlv a Enmbler. fit for vothiug else. I'd made up my mind to let you have him till something happened a | couple of months ago, but now it can't go through. I'll have to down him. It isn't coneerning you. I'm vot a | welcher. No, it's a thing I can't talk about--a thing that's made we into a | | wolf, made we skulk and walk the { alleys like a dago. It's put murder ; into my heart. Fve tried to assassi- | nate him, 1 tried it here last night-- i.but--1 was a gentleman once-~til the | cards came. He Knows the answer | how, though, and he's ready for me. so one of us will go out like a eandle { when we meet. . I felt that 1 had te ; tell you before I cut him down or he- | fore he got me." 1 ry. i fove vou the wapia man ovgnf te love a woman. It's one of the two good things deft in me, sud 1 want do take you sway from here where we can both hide from the past, where We can start ney, as youn say." "You wouid marry me?" she asked. "In an hour and give my heart's blood for the privilege, but I can't stop thig thing. not even if your own dear life hung apon fb 1 must kil { that man." | She approached him and laid her j arms about lis neck, every line of het body pleading. but he refused sread- fastly, while the sweat stood out upon his brow. \ She begged "They've all against him, Kid. He's fighting a hopeless fight. Fe laid all he had at that gini's feet, and I'll do the same for you" The man growled savagely. "He got his reward. He to ul she had" "Don't be I guess | know You're a faro but yon haven't any right te talk like that abont a good woman, even fo a bad one like me" Into his dark eves slowly crept a hungry look, felt him Begin to tremble the least bit. He undertook to speak, paused; wet his lips, then eare- and she fully chose these words: "Do you mean----that he did not-that she is a--a good girl? "Absolutely. Fle sat down weakly and passed a shaking hand over hi which bad begun 6 twitch and jerk again as it had on that night wheu his vengeance was thwarted "lI may as well tell you that 1 knpw she's more than that, - She's honest and high principled. 1 don't know why I'm saying this, but it was on my mind and 1 was half distracted when youn came: She's in dunger tonight, though ---at this minute. ['don't dare to think of what may have happened, for she's risked everything to make reparation to Roy aud his friends." "What" "She's gone to the Sign of the Sled alone with Stroveé." "Struve!" shouted the gambler, ley ing to his fest. "Alone with Struve oh a uight like this?" He shooi her fiercely, erying: "What for? Tell me quick!" Slie reconnied the reasons for Helén's adverture, while the man's face be came terrible, *Oh, Kid, 1 am to blame for letting Why did 1 do it? I'm afraid-- id," "The Sign of the Sled belongs to Struve, and the fellow who ruus it is a rogue." The Bronco Jeoked at the clock. his. eyes hioadshot and dull hike those of a goaded, fly maddened bull "I's 8 o'clock uwow--ten miles--two hls. Too late!" "What. ails you?" - ghe questioned, bailed by his strange demeauor. "You called me the one woman just new, and yom : He swung toward "She's my sister." "Your--sister? Oh, I-I'm glad, I'm glad--but don't stand there like a wooden man, for you've work to do. Wake up. Can't youn hear? She's in peril!" Her words whipped him out of his stupor so that he drew bimself somewhat under (ontrol. "Get Into Your eoat. Hurry! Hurry! My pouy will take yeu there." She snatched his garment from the chair and held it for him while the life ran back into his veins. Together they dashed out into the storm 'as she and Roy had dee. and. as he flung the saddle on ihe buvk skin, she said: : "1 understand it ali wow. You heard {the talk about her and Glenister; but bit's wronngn, 1 lied and schemed rand intrigued against her, but it's jover now. 1 guess there's a little j Streak of good in me somswhere, af- ter all." face, ber: heavily. "You're 'talking like a i Kid," she replied, "and you mustn't | turn against him now. He has 'trou- ; bles enough. 1 never knew you cared j for me. What a tangle it Is, to be { sure, "You love me, I love him, he loves that girl, and she loves a crook. Isu't that tragedy enough without your adding to #? Yon come at a bad time, too, for I'm half insane. There's something dreadful in the air tonight"-- "I'll have to kill him," the man mut- tered doggedly, and, plead or reason as she would, she could get nothing from him except those words till at last: she turned upon him frercely, "You say you love me. Very well, let's see if you Have You Friends Who Suffer? i You have friends who are discour- | aged, who seem to have lost all inter eat in life, and whose sufferings are acute--~hecanse they are afllicted with Kidney or Bladder trouble? | _ Here is your golden opportunity to | | be a real friend to your friends. Tell | them about Gin Pills, what they have ¢ dome for others, and about the thou- sands who have found relief by taking this remedy. Porsusde your friends to try them, if enly a box. Mrs. James Harris joak, the advice of a us the saddle Cherry, She smiled He "It's. more than s you're m spoke un under 3 deft handed, Kid. 1 want to be your k bis kind-or your sis - * ving the re ister and hi purposes written there. brought them to a cabin st the wast- 'paused Jong enough to adjust some- thing beneath the brims of their hats. which narrow gauged road " "Must "I don't want to be your kind, I want to be his kind."" across the quaking tund 10 Yag mou tains apd the mines. Upon this slender trail of steel there rolled one small, ungainly tespot of an engive which daily cregked and clanked back and forth at a snail's pace, sereaming and walling its complaint of the two high loaded flatoars behind. The ties be- neath it were spiked to planks laid lengthwise over the seml-liquid road- bed, in places sagging beneath the sur- face till the humpbacked, short waisted locomotive yawed and reeled and squedled like a drunken fishwife. At night it panted wearily into the board station and there sighed and coughed and hissed away its fatigue as the lungs. perforce the motto of its grimy crew, who lived near by. Tonight they were just rétiring when stayed by a sum- ons at their door. The engineer opened it to admit what appetred to his astonished eyes fo be a Krupp ean< non propelled by a man in yellow oiled clothes and white gotton mask. This weapon assumed the proportions of a great one eyed monelier,. which stared with baleful fixity at his vitals, giving him a cold and empty feeling. less Orb were two 'other strangers like- wise equipped. The fireman arose (rom his chair, dropping an empty shoe with a thump; or waste of wind he stretched his hands above Lis head, balancing on one foot to keep his unshod member from the damp floor. kied his belt, and now, loosened by the abashment at the intrusion, whereupon elevated as thougly in the grand bailing sign of some secret order. The other man was pew to the ways of the north, 50 backed to the limit of his quarters, laid both hands protects vidly: . ""Pou't point that damned thing at my stomach." unnatural loudness. "Have your joke, boys." "This alu't no joke," said the fore most figure, its breath bellying out the mask at its mouth, "Sure it is," insisted the shoeless oue. be. We ain't got anything worth stealing." along. We won't hurt you." The two engine and there instructed to produce or suffer 1 premature taking off and a prompt elision from the realms of ap- plied mechanics. As stimulus to their efforts two of the men stood over them till the engine began to sob and sigh reluctantly. Through the gloom het forms materializing and climbing sj- leatly on to the cars behind, Then, as the steam gauge touched the mark, rumbled out from its shelter, its shefll away and drowned in the storm. lap. while Dextry climbed back to Glenister. He found the young man in good spirits, despite the discomfort of his exposed position, and striving to Hight his pipe behind the shelter of his the lantern dow't | two friends siunk through | the night, avoiding the life and lights | of the town, while the wind surged out | Of the voids to seaward, driving jts | wet burden through their flapping slick- | €I8, peiting their faces as though en- | raged at its failure to wash away the | Their course | RF Away | back beyond this Cyclops of the Sight. | but, being of the west, without cavil | movement, his overalls seemed bent on | sinking fikorivard in an ecstasy of | with convulsive grip he hugged them i to their duty, oné hand and foot stih } and | Because of the purity and high quality of the ingredients of Magic Baking Powder; its leav- ening qualities are per- ct, and it is thepefore omical, : arn outskirts of the city, where they | Past them ran the iron rails of the | led out i RR coals died and the breath relaxed in its Early to bed aud early to rise was | King ns He had uubuc- | SEE THEM 'SMILING Am rig, "Brother Feels Sick! 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