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BEGIN HERE TOT'AY Finding the li-zless bodies of his two rtners at their gold minin camp, | arry Gloster flees southward, know- that he will be accused of the crime, On the way Gloster is jailed after getting into a fight with several men over a rirl. Joan Barry, daughter of a famous ride. of the old plains, *.1ps Gloster to escape. After eluding a posse, Glos- ter retraces his steps to Joan's cabin and is confronted by her guardian, Buck Dsniels; they finally call a truce, however, Joan, pattwv in answer to the call of wild life within her and partly in an effort to find Harry Glos- ter, joins a bandit gang in the moun- taiss. Joe Macarthur, : quick-shoot- ing scoundrel, is made chieftain of the ganz. when he appears with a scheme to rob the Wickson bank. Samue Carney, cashier of the bank, has given him the combin-tion of the safe, but later repents and tells the president of the bank what he has done, Gloster finds Joan but she refuses to leave the bandit gang. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He said borely, after a moment: "Goodbye, Joan, for a little while." "For both our sakes, Harry, i's goodbye forever." Instead of answering he stepped closer to her and, taking her face be- tween both :is big hands, he tilted back her head and kissed her lips. They were as cold as her cheeks, and ker eyes, he thought, looked up to him as if he were as far removed as the ctars above them. CHAPTER XXIX. THE FOURTH WHITE PEBBLE He went back to the entrance to the hollow and, looking around, he saw Joan still watching him. So he went on to Buck Daniels, still sleeping at the mouth of the gap. He shook Buck into wakefulness, and, when he was sitting up in his blanket, told him briefly and clearly everything that had happened. When he had finished he waited for a reply. But, first of all, Buck found his pipe, filled it very slowly, and lighted it. He puffed away at it for a time. "I knew when I hit the trail," he said at length, "that it ain't no good. It was the same way with the trails that I took after Dan Barry. Once I tried to bring him back to Kate. And the way I worked it was by in- sulting Dan. I hit him across the face in front of a lot of other gents. "Then I turned and ran for it. He came fast, but I had a relay of hosses fixed up, and they got me back to the ranch in the nick of time. And handling Joan is like handling the ghost of Dan. There ain't nothing we ean do for her. Our work is ended, Harry." ~ a Harry shook Lis head. "I can't give her up," he said. "And the farther she is away from me, the more I want her. Buck, I've got a plan that may sound crazy, but it's one I'm going to stick to." "Lemme hear it." MI'm .goiny. to join .Macarthur's gang. That way I'll be close to Joan while she's with them, And when she leaves, I leave And suppose that you, Buck, hung around in the offing and waited for a chance. I don't know what might come up, but there's al- ~~ | -- ways a chance, you know. Two men can do a lot. You and I might be able to get Joan away. Does it sound good to you?" "To me," murmured Buck, "it sounds like fool talk." He added: "But I was always nine- tenths fool myself. If you want to take the big chance, I'll take the little one, But nothing will come out of this but a considerable bunch of hell fire for all of us. You mark my words, Harry!" ~ But the big man couldnot be moved. He saddled his horse, while Buck did the same and started off down the mountainside to find covert. Gloster himself, mounting, rode straight back through the defile and into the heglow. Straight to the door of the hw he went, dismounted, and striding into the room, stamped heavily upon the floor. Six figures started up. But only five guns glistened. For Gloster had step- ped to Macarthur in the farther cor- ner and as the chief started up, his wrists were caught and his arms were twisted up behind his back. "Be quiet, Macarthur," said Harry Gloster. "Be quiet, or I'll break your arms for you. Boys, hold off with your guns till IT hav: a talk with you. Macarthur here has a grudge against me. But I've come up here to join you if you'll take me. My name's Harry Gloster. And the country's too hot for me. What do you says?" "Take him off!" groaned Macarthur, crimson with his mortilcation. "Blow 1 il dA | Macarthur leaped to his feet in a rage. his head off, Babe. me by surprise--" "Wait a minute," said Babe. "If there's only one, I guess that there ain't any need of making a hurry call on the lead.. What are you aiming at, Gloster?" "At a chance to talk without hav- ing Macarthur blow my head off." Here he shifted both of Maegrthur's arms, held them with the mighty grip of his one hand, and then snatched the weapons from the holsters of the leader, for Macarthur wore two guns. "Thats a lot better," he declared, and 'stepped away fro mhis victim. The leader lost some of his purple color of rage. "We'll vote on this thing," he said. "Don't have to do it loud. Pick up some pebbles, boys. White ones let him in and black ones turn him out. There's my hat to drop them in." Pebbles were immediately at hand, for most of the floor of the building was gravel, The voting idea was eagerly taken up by the gang. They hurried to pick up their particular choice, And going to the hat they dropped in their votes. poured out the contents into the palm of his hand. x a "Three of us have voted him in," he remarked, "and there's three that, want him to stay out. I'm one of them, and since by tights 1 ought to have two votes anyway, and vote The skunk took lamain and that vote is to--" Gloster | "Wait a minute" broke in as he saw the tide turning a ol A hee go somali 5 i et ead # 1s pine hens that Gloster was budge a great weight. of stona which ed above the EE es a an un- and there v f the whol mass hid- es which, it was tt Tho Stier were much interested in the | of Gloster. Their faces worked with the pain of sympathy and their hands closed. He had sunk to a half-cronehing * position, now. His back bowed with the immense pres- sure. Now his shoulders began to rise. His head bowed bet-7ecn them and his swelled neck was purple with con- gested blood. ! He sank a bit lower. The ground was not particularly moist. but his feet were sinking into it. seam of his trousers over the bulging thigh parted. Now his whole body jerked up a fraction of un inch--the stene had been budged. i "By God!" whispered one. winning!" There was not a man who had not 'crouched in sympathy, saving only Dud Rainey, who was still rubbing his finger tips across his chin. "Now!" they muttered in a faint chorus, at For suddenly the stone had risen six inches. They were beginning to guess at the full hugeness of its mass. But it caught again and then with a great wrench, Gloster tore it out. The entire lower section of it was gleam- ing white, a deep and ragged hole was left in the floor, and walking as though he were carrying a mere armful of wood, Gloster crossed the room and cast down the mass at the feet of Macarthur. The very ground quaked under the impact. Gloster stepped back, his purple face distorted with the effort. "You are wrong, Joe," he said. "There are four white pebbles instead of three! And I stay in the crowd, eh?" Whatever hatred Macarthur might have felt for the new applicant, he was swept away for the moment by his enthusiasm for Gloster's physical poveer. He clapped him heartily on the shoulder. "Harry," he said, "you're one of us, and as good a ong as any!" Then Macarthur spoke slowly. "This gent comes up here,' he said, "talks to Joan, finds she don't want nothing to do with<him, and then comes begging us to take him in. What he wants ain't action, but just a chance to be near her, Ain't that reasonable? Besides, what I sa; is that we don't want to have in the gang any skunk that would murder two harmless old sourdoughs. Am I right?" "Right!" blurted ont Babe Cooney. "Right!" chimed in the others, with the exception of Dud Rainey. The lat- ter, as usual when he was most thoughtful was rubbing his finger tips lightly over his chin. "If he killed the two old boys," 3 "He's said quietly, "we certainly don't want kim." "If he killed thein?" roared Mac- arthur. "If he didnt, who the Lell did?" - : "Does he look like murder to you?" asked Dud, as quietly as ever. All eyes swept to Harry Gloster, and the sight of his frank and open face told heavily in his favor. "Besides," went on Dud, "what have you got against him, Joe?" "You tell it," he said, turning on Gloster. "We had a little argument," said Gloster. "That was all. But Mac- arthur took it to heart." (To be continued.) - Barber: Don't you want a little something on yoyr face when I have finished ? 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During the Revolution it was used 'to house debtors and poli- ticaj prisoners--some quite famous, It became a woman's prison in 1868, and at one time rc fewer than 7,822 women crowded in its tiny cells and years it guarded, while awaiting trial, have been perpetratur of th "studio crime"; Mme. Caillaux, wife of the former Premier, who slew Gaston Calmette in the office of Le Figaro, and, the Anarchist girl, Germaine Berton, who shot down Marius Plat- eau in the office of Leon Daudet. The principal defenders of the old prison have been the antiquarians; Some months ago the latter succeed: ed in having the Ministry remove all the prisoners to other places of de- tention. ~ - Now M, "Paul Fleurot, President of the Conseil General of the Seine Department, has submitted a proposal that the site of St. Lazare should be ui new boys' 'cepted, transfepring the historic edi- fice to "the Ministry of Education, pi begin its de- molition. stuffy dormitories, * - Within recent | © the beautiful Mme. Steinheil alleged to |. its principal enemies, the hygienists. | (v5 i a - "" NIGHT - P> FAMILY STE 75¢ A I -- Child; Cross-cut, Cres timber, time and la . made., This guarant SIMONDS CANAD ST, REMI STREET AND VANCOUVER, B.C. LL 5 9's 2 XE Y © In the Shopping Dist col BRONC + JOHN, N,| Reading that tigers can climb trees s us more firmly resolved than ever never to do any tiger-hunting.-- What is needed now worse than anything else is a warm dry rain.--| Woman (to tramp)--"Go away or] the little feller who told me to go away yesterday or 'e'd call 'is wite,"--Hp- British navy. Standing between ite Te LL . At ase from ich British ne. operate, take on supplies g t # | food-and effect repairs ts could A Ne di 6 of War. covered e of Dahlia Tubers Ed | at_a-respectab 7 Dattleship n {of more than 16-inch | | here by ordinary ne Which weigh 3 386 guns in hg and des le to keep The guns, whi 'One of Furious, one of the wars by Lord Fisher for h naval campaign in the Originally, the Furious. as to carry aft, but an airplane deck was con- ret. i da When the ship was com | and the aft gun was fired a few the concussion was found to have been go great that it had badly damaged the ship. The British Admiralty then de- cided to mount the guns on the moni- tors Lord Clive, General Wolfe and Prince Eugene for use in bombarding the German positions on the Belgian coast. The war ended, however, be- fore they could be thus employed. The moniturs' were thereupon dis- carded, and the War Office still had the ters on' its hands. Only re- cently did the British naval author- ities decide to use them for the de- fence of Singapore, As the guns have seldom. been. .f A istg.a 8X48 large v of ammunition on hand for | " "#%Ts0 on the way here is the largest I floating dry dock in the world, large enough to dry 'dock any Britishrware ship. It weighs 50,000 tons and con- tains 20,000 tons of steel. It is being towed here from England, Recently it passed through the Suez Canal.- Singapore is an important spot on the maps of the general staff of the u--Discovery of a new ce of dahila 'tubers is by the United * States 8, od Muring tests to fo ructure o , whic starchifke substance found in tho nila juice. About 92 per cent. of "juice was resolved into the al sady known, sugar called. levulose or ge, but the remaining 8 per cont. Bs a mystery. This residual substance was sub- jected while in syrup form to a light polarization test. = Fructose' when given d similar test rotates thé polar- ized light to the left, but this unknown syrup rotated it to the right. Other tests reduced it to crystalline form, which (h- announcement says is a sugar, tha. has "pever hitherto been isolated." be Med Britain Recovers Cape Argus: The relations between Labor and Capital are better than 'they have been for years, past and hold out the promise of more effec- tive co-operation in the future. Nor should it be forgotten that that' in- 'ant issue still survives; and that the potential resources -at her command are unequalled by those of any other nation with the possible exception of America. One does not hear over- much about the steps which have been taken by the British Government to develop the resources of the Crown Colonieg and dependencies. are noney the less of far-reaching im- portance, if they beay the fruit which ig RIDE Teas expected; the Bi over that "world has been call- "to redress the bal- once two of these guns, mounted fore and < structed in place of the forward tors' But they <<} domitable spirit which enabled Britain... to see the war through to a triumph- gids i