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A -- re Og 1 Th as pes An Sob, « ne Tg BT hon EY lA Bm Ld wp No SYNOPSIS. Jim Wall, in the early days of the tattle "industry. seeks a new field in Utah. He meets Hank Hays at Green fiver Crossing, who admits te being a robber, working® for an Englishman pamed Herrick, who: has efnployed a "small army of rustlers. Hays and others ars plotting to steal thelr -em- ployer's "cattle. Arriving at th2 Her- rick ranch _Wall is elected best man lo get Heeseman, rival outlaw. The pand leave Wall at the ranch. Heese- man calls in a friendly mood and in- © panion forms Jim that Hays in untrustworthy, Jim is ordered to meet Herrlck's sister -wt Grand Junction. He informs "her {hat he is a desperado, but she treats the information lightly. Jim fears -the effect Helen will have on Hays. NOW U0 ON WITH THE STORY. -CHAPTER XIII Barnes turned Herrick's horse over lo a stableboy, and with his com- fell' in - behind Miss Herrick, who rode wut upon the valley. Jim rejoined them, and they trotted their. horses together. "Why didn't Herrick come?" asked Jim. "He was rowin' with Heeseman," replied Barnes, soberly. - "You don't say! What about?" "Reckon 1 don't know. They shet wp as 1 come along," returned the :owboy. "But I seen enough to calki- ate somethin's wrong. They was on he porch. Herrick looked sort of seevish, He didn't want his sister © go huntin' today, I heard thet. An' he said right pert she was goin'." How did Heeseman look?" went yn Jim, ponderingly. Something was wp. For two days Heeseman's out- it- had been through hauling timber. "Dead serious, like he was tryin' 0 persuade the boss to somethin'. Jim lapsed into silence. What turn would affairs take fiext? It wags get ing warm around Star Ranch, Each day the hunters had to ride rarther afield toifind game. Jack rab- jit chasing had grown too tame for Miss Herrick. Three or four miles out the hounds jumped a coyote from a clump of jagebrush. ' : The cowboys took the lead, then .ame Miss Herrick, while Jim brought ap the rear. It was a long, gradual ascent up to. an open ridge. Here the hounds jumped a herd »f deer. Despite the yelling of the rowboys they dashed up the ridge with a chorus of -wild yelps and barks. Barnes and his companion rider gave pursuit; trying to call them off: They all passed out of hearing. * Jim caught up with Miss Herrick, © who waited in an open spot among the pines. Flushed and disheveled, with her sombrero on the pommel, panting "from the arduous ride, she made a -distracting picture. "Hunt's off for us, Miss Herrick," wid Jim. : "Too bad! But wasn't--it fun-- while it lasted," she replied gayly. "Shall we ride down?" went on Jim, oneasily. . : "Jet us rest the horses. of breath myself." ) Jim dismounted fo tighten his sad- #le-cinches. ee 5 "Wall, take a look at my cinches," I'm out ~ ~she said. - "May 1 ask you not to call me Wall? 1 must remind you I'm no sutler."' . . "Pray pardon 'me; she rejoined, in jurprise. "I presume I should ad- 'Jress you as Mr. Wall?" : ies, if you're too stuck up to call "gie Jim," he said. <a She lifted her chin and" deigned 30 reply And that infuriated him. «While I'm at it I'll tell you this, loo," he went on doggedly. "You must not ride around alone again. I've had no chance to speak with you. But . [told your brother. He laughed in ny face. He is a fool." co "My. Wall, T will not listen to such walk," the spoke up, spiritedly. "Qh, yes, you will," he flashed, striding over to her horse, "you're not In an Englich drawing-rcoin now, wonfronted by a disrespectful butler. * You're in Utah, girl. And I am Jim Wall. "That last is obvious, to my regret," the returned coldly. "Will you please be so kind as to tighten my cinches? It will be the last services I shall re- yuire of you." "Thank the Lord," ejaculated Jim, Ip grim heartiness. "All the same Ill tell you. If you were an Ameri- ian tenderfoot, it wouldn't be hard to nake you understand. If you were Western, you would not need to be }old. But ag an English lady of qual- Ry, who thinks class, her class, will protect her anywhere, you need to be rred. -. oo It's wrong for you to tide around alone on this range like wy wild tomboy." : J "Why?" : : "Some of these men might kidnap you.for ransom." p rion sen SE," she retorted, contempt- ~ pously.' RA 'Y/hat do ou sa : Miss petri Pa tasted {ank Hays has feen watching you from the ridges, Jidin ,the lonely trails, bidding his ri fo waylay you?' She paled at that." © "1 don't believe it," she said, pres- mily,Y "And you'll go on riding along 'when it suits your royal fancy?" he "gueried, witheringly. 5 © "That is no longer any concern of yours," che replied, at Jast stung. fi I certainty shall ride when and 1 pe, ; ery " J v Tos ¥ ROBBERS' ROOST by ZANE GREY {yet as if fascinated by something ox "Then you're as big a fool as your brother," declared Jim; hotly. "Here I am, the only man in this Star out- fit. with honesty enough to tell you the truth, And I get insulted and fired for my pains." J She sat her horse mute. Jim laid a strong hand on her - pommel and shook it. "Your saddle's loose. oblige me 'by getting oft?" "I -can ride it back,' she rejoined, icily. ; "But your blanket will slip out. The saddle might turn with you." She removed her foot from the stir- rup. "Tighten the cinches, then-- and hurry." = : oo Jim complied expeditiously enough, but in doing so he accidently touched her. -Something like fire shot through him at the contact. Under its stimu- lus he looked up to say a few more words to her, words to mitigate his offense and protest his sincerity. But they - were never uttered. She had bent over to fasten a.lace of her boot, and when Jim raised his head it was to~find his face scarcely a foot from her red lips. Without a thought, in a flash, he kissed them, and then drew back, stricken. . "How dare you!" she cried, in in- credulous amazement and anger. "It just happened. 1-1 don't know ", She swung her leather -quirt and struck him across 'the mouth. The blood spurted, The leap of Jim's fury was as swift. He half intercepted a second blow, which stung his neck, and, snatching the quirt from her hand, he flung it away. Then his iron clutch fastened in her blouse. One lunge dragged. her out ,of the saddle. Hé wrapped his other arm around her back so quickly that.when she began a furious struggle it was too late. . . His mouth hard pressed on hers stilled any but sn.othered cries. There was a moment's wrestling. She was no weakling, but she was in the arms of a maddened giant. Repeatedly he kiseed her lips, long, hard, passionate kisses. : Suddenly she collapsed heavily in his arms. The shock of that--its meaning--pierced Wall with =ome- Will you staggering than bitter wrath. He let go of hery: There was blood on her lipe and - cheeks; otherwise her face was like alabaster. . d "1 think I must have been in love with you--and wanted to protect you -- from men worse than myself," he went on, huskily. "I hope this will be a lesson to you. ... Your brother was crazy to come here--crazier to let' you come. Go home! Go before it is too late. Make him go. He will be ruined shortly. She wiped: the blood from her cheeks, and then shudderingly from her lips. ' «You--did that--to frighten me?" she presently whispered, in horror, looming. --t Fri "Get on your horse and ride ahead of me," he ordered, curtly. "Now, Miss Helen Herrick, one last word: Don't tell your brother what 1 did to you till after I'm gone. : .. If yoa do I'll kill him!" . She left a glove lying on the ground. Jim made no effort to recover it. His horse had grazed a few paces away, and when he had reached him and mounted Miss Herrick was in her saddle. Jim let heyy get a few roda in advance before h followed. ) The excess of his emotion wore off, leaving' him composed, and sternly glad the issue had developed as it had. The situation had become in- tolerable for him. It mocked him that he had actually desired to appear well in the eyes of this girl. How ridicu- lous that one of a robber gang should] be vain! But he was not conscious 'that being a thief made any difference in a man's feeling about women. He knew that he could not command re- spect or_love; but that in no wise inhibited his own feelings. Strange to realize, he had indeed fallén in love with Helen Herrick. oh She-rade on slowly down the ridge without looking to right or left. Her gaze appeared to be lowered. The ranch-house came in sight. Miss Herrick saw it and halted a moment, to let Jim catch up with her. "Can you be .gentleman enough to tell me the tyuth?" she asked. "I have not lied to you," replied Jim, "a "That--that first time you kissed me --_was it honestly unpremeditated?" "Misa. Herrick, I don't know what to swear by. But, yes, 1 have. My mothe! I swear by memory of her --1 looked up, There your face was close. Your lips red! And I kissed thew." en Tay went on for perhaps ten paces, as far as the road, before she spoke again. "I believe you," she said, with. out a' tremor of t ¢ xich lo yoice, though it was evident her emotion deeply stirred. 'Your action Was in: excusable, unforgivable, But I should not have struck you with the whip. ..", That, and your passion to fright- en me, perhaps justified your brutal: ity, + . + I shall not tell, + ++ Don't Jeave Star Ranch." thing infinitely more imperious and |. that I never dreamed of insulting you - For an instant Jim felt 'as if he were upon the verge of a precipice. . Parisians are Now instructed in the use of gas mask at the In-~ valides. Young and old are shown how to combat poison fumes, But her change from revulsion to in- scrutable generosity called to all that was good within him. "Miss Herrick, I'm sorry, but I mast leave," he replied, sadly. "I'm only a wandering rider--a gunslinger and--a member of a gang of robbers. And I was made enough Jo fallin love. with you. . .. Forget it. . .. Go home to England. But if you won't do that--never ride out alone again." He-spurred his horse. and galloped down the road, by the barns and across the court, into the lane that led along -the brook. Suddenly he espied a compact group of mounted riders coming down the road beyond Hays' cabin. They bestrode bays and blacks, and there was that about them which drew Jim sharply up with a fiery thrill. Smoky's outfit! = Tre (To Be Continued.) --_-- pee. Country Window This is a4 country window, 'wreathed with vines, The wooden shutters you may open or close, Fling them wide to greet the gun' in "the morning; Draw them against the heat of the day and doze, . 2 ' While the sun-lays ladders of gold on » the bedroom "floor, 3 And airs of summer slip through the half-swung door. Then when the sun is low, admit the CL light, 2 . For the dew is sweet and so i8 the cool of night. " But draw the slats against the mutter- ing thunder, ) The lightning's dagger, and the acbing wonder re ) Of moonlight; seal your shutters to the sleet, To direct cold, to panting breaths of heat, So will they serve you, gpread = or > locked together . Against the glare, the unfriendliness of weather. --Marie Bilchrist in'the New York Pedestrians Given Rules for Safety| Average Man Inclined to Measure in Ternis of Dis- .. "tance Instead of Time * Critics of man's traffic conduct are | convinced that the human eye is not being used to the best advantage from the standpoint of safety. Their point js that the sense of } sight could make a larger contribu. tion to safe walking and driving. if | the knowledge it transmitted to the brain were used more wisely. Pedestrians, it seems, are the great- est offénders in this respect, but mo- torists' by no means .escape criticism. Says William Ullman in his Feature Service (Washington): An analysis of the pedestrian's fail- ure indicates ene outstanding flaw' in thinking. It is his tendency to esti- mate the danger presented by an ap- proaching automobile in terms of dis. tance. 'This habit of mind, a heritage of the days when trafic moved at a slower speed, was 'all right'at one time. Traffic moves at a greater speed these days, however, and it calls for a readjustment of the thinking pro- cess, , : Instead of the distance yardstick in measuring the potential danger of an approaching automobile, it is suggest ed that the pedestrian, start thinking in terms of time; in terms of seconds instead of feet. : He can not entirely divorce the two, to be sure, for the time will be de- termined to some extent by the dis- tance the car must travel before it reaches him. Yet to make distance the only consideration is to overlook the tremiendously important fact that cars: move at speeds which vary from one to seventy-five miles an hour. Just how important. it is for the pedestrian to think in terms -of car speeds. can be shown with a few simple - figures. The average fast walker covers ahout four feet per sec- ond. If the car 200 feet'away, and whose pafh he must cross, is moving at twenty miles an hour, the pedes- trian can cover the distance of twenty- six feet before the vehicle comes abreast of the line upon which he is walking. A Suppose, however, the car is 'travel- ing at a vate of thirty miles an hour? In that case the pedestrian will be able to progress only seventeen feet before the car reaches his line of passage, The. distance away of each' car is precisely the same, but in point of time, the car moving at thirty miles an hour is one-third again as close as the" one proceeding «t a twenty-mile rate. In seconds, the first-mentioned vehicle is hour and one-third away, as compared with the six and one- half of the slower machine. The fig- ures indicate quite emphatically the Tmportance of estimating a car's speed as well as calculating the distance it must traverse. To quote again: Admittedly, this suggested task set for the pedestrian is not a simple one! It is no ¢a¥y*matter to determine the speed of an approaching automobile from a position almost in front of it, for the vehicle can not be seen in its relationship to, fixed objects which it passes 'in its forward flight. Yet by striving to make such calculations, it is believed that any person can acquire reasonable accuracy in'doing so. : If pedestrians were to think in terms of {ime as well as distance in fixing their relationship to potential hazards, their thought processes would bear a closer kinship to those © Sun. of vehicle operators. , While he is by === a __. f Pretty Raquel Torres decided her pet chow dog was tired of being' _ Hollywood's Latest. Blonde ha ' * a red-head so had her pet touched up at a dog beauty salon, It's the first the movie capital has ever geen. . ~ ies Pees 4 Infuse six heaping teaspoonfuls of YSALADA" Black Tea in a pint sized tea-pot. After six minutes stein and pour liquid into half-gallon container. While hot, add a cup ond a half of suger and the juice of two lemons; then All container with cold water. Do not re- frigerate as tea will tum cloudy. Serve as required, with en ice cube in each glass. or alter his cally those There is get comes at 8 luncheon 8.30, p.m. oh 2 i sale of tea | peanized, and 'Government, employees, up a large part of Madrid's population, have their working hours arranged so that the habit of taking an afternoon nap is not interferred with, Officially, they are suposed to work from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m, but in the Ministry of Fin- ance, the strictest of all, the hours are 9 a.m. to .2 p.m. . The Ministry of Ag- riculture's hous are from 10 to 2. In many other offices the general run of employees begin their working hours about 11 a.m. ~jart with a 'leisurely perusal of the morning newspaper. Towards 1.30 p.m. they begin look- ing for their hats and preparing for the luncheon appetizer, the day is free, except in a very limit- ed number of cases. Many Government employees, after having done their day's "work" from - 11 to 1.30, go to outside jobs during the Jate hours of the day. A large per-| centage of newspaper employees are in Government offices in the mornings. Life in Madrid is virtually at g gtang- still * from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.h.,™ so there is plenty of time for everybody to go home to lunch, have a siesta, lin- ger over a drink and a cup of coffee in a cafe, and still be back in time for work, From noon to 3 p.m, is, in fact, known as "midday." <And, in Spain, there is always an other day to-morrow, - waren IIASA bs y "Seeks to Popularize Tea \ London.--The. Indian Tea Assocfh: tion ig makipg efforts to increase the fn diffierent parts of the world, It will spend £40,000 in India alone, for India uges very little of the | tea grown within its own borders. | .| Unlike the Chinese, very few Indians are tea drinkers; and the proper use of it is limited to those who are Kuro no means perfect at calculating' its effect, the motorist always is instinct. ively aware of the factor of speed in the distance between himself and the object ahead, for which he must stop course, - However, when he steps out of his car, his mental processes become Lypi- What evidence is available. on the subject indicates that he makes no use what-|- ever of his experience behind wheel of hig car; at least with respect to considering the épeed of dpproach- ing vehicles. y of the' pedestrian, no implication However, Spain Still Favors ~ 2-Hour Luncheon Even Tobacco Shops Close For Two Hours in Mid- dle of Day The new regime in Spain has made the afternoon siesta apply so widely that even the tobacco shops now close for two hours in the middle of the day. Madrid in the after-luncheon hour is like the famous "Deserted Village," for the hour is the most elastic in Europe, lasting never less than two hours and more often three or four.. Most business houses open between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., and close down for at least three hours in summer, gen- erally from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m, But Spain being what it is, that does mot}: mean that the employees get back at 4.30. They generally arrive about 4.40 | and give themselves a few minutes to really going. -- And closing time y 11; REE A Food stores .open from 8.30-a.m. to 1.30 p.m. and then take-four hours for the afternoon siesta. They re-open at 5.30 p.m. and close at a \ the ) that the responsibility is-entirely the pedes- trian's in. the suggestion that he use his eyes to better advantage.in mov- ing safely through traffic. torist still has the same obligations he always has. had, f proposal would find the two 'thinking more . alike, and that holds promise of helping an unhappy situation.' The- mo- the who make ' They usually The rest of Man Kept Alive After Heart Failed Kept Alive by Doctors Forty- - eight Hours to Communi-' cate with Son Milwaukee, Wis.--The strange story tui man literally "raised from the hi ad" and kept alive after his heart d failed so he might tell his son a confidgntial matter of great import ance 'was revealed last week at the American Medical Association meet- ng. 'His heart was kept beating artificial ly for two days by a machine known as the "artificial pace-maker," developed last year for re-starting heart beats stopped by shock or other means, The man knew -he was dying and urged his doctors to keep him alive until arrival of his son, who had been summoned from *San Francisco, and was hurrying' to New York. A few minutes afterward his heart apparent- ly stopped beating, said Dr. BE. Fritze, of Beth David Hospital, -New York, who told the story. 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