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-- EGIN HERE TODAY ing the lifeless bodies of his two, at their gold mining camp, Gloster flees southward, know- ing that he will be accused of the . On the way Gloster is jailed after getting into a fight with several 'men over-a girl. ; Joan Barry, daughter of a famous rider of the old plains, helps Gloster ®to escape. Later Joan, in quest of "Then, Teok at this." : He tossed the bridle to Gloster, "What about it?" aiked the latter. "Look it over." / He obéyed, scrutinizing it carefully, but on the outside it was certainly the rger house could not perceive her, she saddled and bridled him. It was Lo oe e \ oe Xs SN + ¢ s, sal most ordinary of inidids in BPpeupe [IO Beet En, iy silent James, is one of those peculiar pg i ti f his mw ance. He looked on the inside, and at 01-18 | where one can take part inetve eas of fime. At the top of the headband, half od great horse had fallen into the very by an inerustation of | nearly Gloster, falls in with a bandit gang in "the mountains' Joe Macarthur, a quick onthe Lrigger scoundrel, is made jeftain of the gang when he appears th a scheme to rob the Wickson Bank. Samuel Carney, cashier, has given Macarthur the combination to the safe, but later repents and tells the president of the bank what he has ©. Gloster goes with Buck Daniels, Joan's guardian, to the bandit, camp to find the girl. She will not leave, so Gloster joins the band,too, to he near Tr. ' NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER GXX. BLOOD BROTHERS, So Harry Gloster became a sworn member of the band. It caused the sweat to start from "every pore of his body when he learned ; that they were to ride that very night. But, looking down to the floor so that none of them might read the horror in his eyes, hé set his teeth and decided that he would find a way of withdraw- ing before the actual scene of the crime-to-be was reached. "Go out and saddle, one by one, boys, so's Joan woh't hear," went on Macarthur. "Lead your horses down Made me mad. There wouldn't have through the gap and wait out there until we all are together, then we'll start." They began to follow his commands while Macarthur drew Gloster to one side and explained to him in detail the | * plan for the robb.ry of the Wigkson Bank. Two men at the most would be all that were needed to make an entry into the bank. But the other four would be posted at intervals here and there to guard against any possible danger. Now that Gloster was there, it meant that there were five extras. "An easy job for you this time, Gloster," said Macarthur. "And you'll hook in on your full share of the coin. You ought to be more"n ten thousand dollars to the zood before morning!" Gloster nodded. After all, the thing could 'be managed. As Macarthur pointed out, this was an inside job ani there would be virtually no risk attached to it. He need not keep the stolen moncy which fell to his lot. He could simply leave it behind him at the camp when he departed. Or, better still, he could send it back to the Wickson Bank. He would have no actual share in the crime. And when the good- time came and he found that mysterious murderer of Nichols and Springer, he could return to the ranks of law-abiding men with a reputation unstained. By that time, too, he should have found a way to| convince Joan that she could not lead the wild life which she had chosen] Macarthur broke in upon his thoughts. He had Leen watching care- fully the rapt face of the new recruit. "That's the way it always is," he said. "It's hard to take the plunge. But once you're in the water the swim- ming is fine." He beckoned Gloster to him, and going to the wall he took down a bridle. "Gloster," he said, "what you find out in this here gang is kept secrei. You know that?" "I know that." "It ain't to be used against any man. You've sworn to treat the worst of us like he was your best brother." "I've sworn," said Gloster gloomiily. WRIGLEY S P.K. found the initials "H, S." cut into the leather. ; 3 3 "H, 8." he mutered fo himself. "Whe's that? H. S. Hal Springer!" He jerked up his head. "Good God!" he breathed. Macarthur folded his arms. But himself to it, he managed to meet the eye of Gloster. 'Yep, he said. "I dont that job." "And tried to make me swing for it?" "I'm a hard man, Gloster," said Macarthur, but a faint flush of shame had appeared in his cheeks. "I'd of let you swing and been glad of it. When one gent swings for a killing there ain't any look for another killer. But now you're one of us. I've swore solemn that I'd treat you like you {was a brother of mine, And I'm tell- ling you the truth." 5 Gloster groaned. There was such a i mixture of astonishment and anger in his heart that he was breathing hard. "I didn't go up there to do no harm to Nichols," Macarthur went on. was flat and I wanted to touch the old boy--but he seen through me, and that | been no more than words, though, but "Yep," he said, "f done that job." | When I got mad Nichols got scared and being scared he reached for his [- "Then hell broke loose. In a couple of secofids I come back to my senses, And there they lay dead on the ground. I grabbed what was worth grabbing i then, being flat, and beat it. "Gloster, that's the whole yarn. It's the worst thing thet I ever done. And | the way I let emi hound you for the (Job was. worse still, But--I'd of let you go to the gallows right up to the {time that you got to be one of us. Gloster, if you don't want to serve under meé™after hearing that, you're free to go where you want to go. If you'll 'stick with us in spit: of that, there's my hand!" : For the split part of a second Harry Gloster fought his battle with himself. But after all, there was no choice. He was free to leave the band, to be sure, but if he, left them it meait that he left Joan. And, inh another moment, he found himself shaking hands with the mur- derer of his two old partners. CHAPTER XXXL RIDERS IN THE NIGHT. There had been no truth in the sup- pesition of Harry Gloster that Joan +had gone back to her hut to sleep as soon as he left, . She had gone to the Captain, and when she wag still fifty steps away Ahe scented her coming and raced to meet her like a great happy dog when it sees its master. He threw a swift circle around her, then came to a pause in $ront of her with his head tossed up high in the air and his eyes shining. They had a talk together after their own way. She whispered to him while she rubbed his nose, and he whinnied reply no louder than her own hush- ed voice. Of-him she aked her quesy tions--where were they going? What would they see, and what would they do on the long trail which they were starting together? And then a gust lof eh struck them and brought the stallion's head up, pointing rorth, and the cry of an owl blew vaguely and mournfully to them on the breeze, ' That was the answer, as she had known even before she asked, They 'bound although he had set his teeth to force | "1; orse sweat, he Spirit of the thing. Her stealthy ap- proach and her whispering voice had ful as those of a stalking cat. She had saddled him and was ready to mount when she saw a man carry- ing a saddle go through the starlight into the pasture. She reined the black horse into a copse and there waited. /She saw the fellow--it was the fam- iliar bulging outlines of Fatty Guiness which she recognized--saddling his horse and then riding out of the hol- low. He was no sooner gone than an- other man went out from the cabin, and then a third. One by one they were capturing their mounts and departing from the hollow; and the meaning of it gradu- 1 olly came to her. This was the reason they had retired so early that night. | There was a midnight ride ahead of them. And would Harry Gloster be cone of the party? The hope _that he would not was hardly born when she saw two men, whose height and bulk showed them unmistakably to be Gloster and Mac- arthur, leave the door of the house and | go out into the pasture. In another | few moments, they were riding out of the valley. What was there that she could do? She must simply wait until they were gone, of course. Then she could ride north as far as she pleased and before Harry Gloster and the rest cane back to the mountains she would be far beyond their ken. (To be continued.) { es : YOUTHFUL FLARE A new diagonal line appears in bodice of black lustrous crepe satim dress, with effective embroidery in silk and metal thread which combines with side drape of gkirt to carry out smart one-sidédness. It will be difficult to distinguish it from the original Paris model--and the cost is so moderate. Its sole trimming is piping used to finish neckline and bodice of the dull side of crepe. The drape is a separ- ate piece of material, shaped to fall in cascade effect, and stitched to left side of skirt. It's exquisite for more formal wear, made of perveneche blue sheer velvet. 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It meant a harvest for the hundreds of pigs leverywhere, and they. were rapidly eat- ing up the scanty supply of food left. The women of tonga, who are very respected and influential, banded themselves together into a great com- pany, seized all wandering pigs, and held them till their owners paid a fine. Incidentally, I was one of the fined. By their energy they averted what might have been a serious food short- age until the arrival of fresh stores." issn i or Land Settlement Investors' Chronicle (London): (The 3,000 families scheme is criti cized and the utter failure of a simi lar "scheme in Western Australia is mentioned as a warning. Our people have been born and bred free agents, ized schemes of land settlement is freedom of choice or of movement. The settler is "allotted" a farm or land holding, with little or no choice as to locality, and in complete ignor- ance usually of what a colonial "home- stead"--alluring term--is really like. If disappointed he cannot change. Worst of all, he finds himself under "bond" to a Government or powerful land corporation, whieh hag a schedule of exactions up its sleeve .that will hold him in bondage for tige duration of his life, and perhaps Is "{ldren aftér him. Should condi x Borove adverse, or in any way dis ing, the, mere thought of that iq may become so intolerable that is sought in flight, -«d$ 1," wi), v Settling "nz, "8, Toronto Globe ah b, Us are to be brought 2 4 to settle the West an, on corresponding numbelGu "Imen introduced into the Gorm = hon! establishéw 2 ization\uay become a fact. prairies 46 present there are than wémen. . . . This condition may be be point to which the Government shou direct attention, for it is essentia] th; the men have opportunities to lish themselves in their own hi Minard"s Liniment for Grippe. 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Tt ond The Things You Didn't Do It isn't the thing you do, dear,- It's the things you leave undone, That gives you a bit of a heartache, At the setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flowers you might have sent, dear, : ¥ Are your haunting ghosts at night. --Selected. Ten years from now, we. are as- sured, girls will \be as del{ghtfully feminine as every hey were. It looks as thought the young women of the next generation will never be the men their mothers were. better sense of Australia must be in full revolt against a policy which, to here as elsewhere the community will] i ments. The | entirely h qd last the | years before the rivolution, which is. a great deal more than can be said for the palace near by. Each year of th ds of Ameri i crowd into the Gallery of Mirrors and gaze with interest ;at the table on which the treaty of 1919 was signed; yet it is safe to say "hat not 1 per cent. of their number takes five minutes" (walk down the Rue Gambetta to the spot where some of the earliest history of their nation was written. The room is one of a suite Seeupying the whole of the first floor. Above an each side of the open doorway are: paintings by Van Blarenberghe of the capitals of Europe as they were in the closing years of the eighteenth cen- tury. : Each roo gok-its character from Lamber having the picture of Vien- Russian affairs in that with a pic- of St. Petersburg; British mat- in that with a view of London. FAround the walls of each room are | the light wooden cages that once held ies, correspond and secret re-- rts. Most of the papers are now ith the rest of the national archives. of the eighteenth ceritu ip which the treaties concernizd ca was signed was the Al in ry. The g Ant 'Duc de From days, in his davk to take his chair up' b the palace, there to King. ire books. Books over- poor of the second and he Foreign Office 'dayacarried out' nd é ing. building was. iblications of the Gov- g The books here con=- stit™@'the Town Library of Versailles. The Chllection probably has no equal in the world, A few of the rarer and more costly volumes are kept in a locked case Aunder the librari#n's personal super- 'Vision. 'Here the visitor may take from the shelves a book of prayer used' by Marie Leczinska, Queen of France; romances read by her neglectful hus-. band, Louis XV.; a book illustrated with pretty hand-colored flowers in. which their daughters, the Princesses Henriette, Victoire and Adelaide, may ™ have learned to read. One of the most. curious specimens is a book, apparent... ly presented to Louis XVI, in which is. & table setting out what would now be: called the vital statistics--figures of births, marriages and dea Paris. in one of the early years of his reign. These treasures are kept in a small apartment beyond the treaty room. In a heavy steel safe, something like that of a bank, articles of a more in- trinsic value. The heavy gold pen,. encrusted with - diamonds; rubies and. sapphires, with which Clemenceau signed the peace treaty of 1919, is in its velvet and morocco case. , Upon its. nib is still a trace of the ink of that . memorable pas sion. The precious. stones around it form togef' . word "Pax." men of the 2 Tiger"; canadia mber, |