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CHAPTER I—Continued.
—18—
He-came stealing across the snow—
a musher of the first degree. Very
silently and swiftly he slipped off his
snowshoes at the door. The door it-
self was unlocked, just as he had sup-
posed. In an instant more he was tip-
toeing, a dark, silent figure, through
the corridors of the house. He held
his rifte ready' in his hands.
He peered into Lennox’s bedroom
first. The room was unoccupied.
Then the floor of the corridor creaked
heneath his step; and he knew noth-
ing further was to be gained1 by wait-
ing. If Lennox suspected his pres-
ence, he might be waiting with aimed
rifle as he opened the door of the liv-
ing room. • ...
He glided faster. He halted once
more—a moment at the living-room
door io see if Lennox had been dis-
turbed. He was lying still, however,
so Cranston pushed through.
Lennox glanced up from his maga-
zine to find that unmistakable thing,
the barrel of a rifle, pointed at his
breast. Cranston was one of those
rare marksmen who shoot with both
eyes open—and that meant that he
kept his full visual powers to the last
instant before the hammer fell.
“I can’t raise my arms,” Lennox
said simply. “One of ’em won’t work
at all—besides, against the doctor’s
^orders.”
Cranston stole over toward him,
looking closely for weapons. He pulled
aside the woolen blanket that Lennox
had drawn up over his body, and he
pushed his hand into the cushions of
the couch. A few deft pats, holding
his rifle through the fork of his arm,
finger coiled into the trigger guard,
assured him that Lennox was not
“heeled” at all. Then he laughed and
went to work.
“I thought I told you once,” Len-
nox began with perfect coldness, “that
the doors of my house were no longer
open to you.”
“You did say that,” was Cranston’s
guttural reply. “But you see I’m here
just the same, don’t you? And what
are you going to do about it?”
“I probably felt that sooner or later
you would come to steal—just as you
and your crowd stole the supplies
from the forest station last winter—
and that probably influenced me to
give the orders. I didn’t want thieves
around my house, and I don’t want
them now. I don’t want coyotes,
either.”
“And I don’t want any such remarks
out of you, either,” Cranston an-
swered him, “You lie still and shut
up, and I suspect that sissy boarder
of yours will come back, after lie’s
through embracing your daughter in
the snow, and find you in one piece.
Otherwise not.”
“If I were in one piece,” Lennox an-
swered him very quietly, “instead of
a bundle of broken bones that can’t
V
“I Can't Raise My Arms,” Lennox Said
Simply.
lift its arms, I’d get up off this couch,
unarmed as I am, and stamp on your
lying lips.”
But Cranston only laughed and tied
Lennox’s feet with a cord from the
window shade.
He went to work very systematical-
ly. First he rifled Lennox’s desk in
the living room. -Then he looked on
all the mantels and ransacked the
cupboards and the drawers. He was
taunting and calm at first. But as the
moments passed, his passion grew up-
on him. He no longer smiled. The
rodent futures became intent; the
eyes narrowed to curious, bright slit*
under the dark lashes. He went to
Dan’s, room, searched his bureau
drawer and all the pockets of the
clothes hanging in his closet. He up-
set his trunk and pawed among old
letters in the suitcase. Then, stealing
like some creature of the wilderness,
he came back to the living room.
Lennox was not on the divan where
he had left him. He lay instead on
the floor near the fireplace; and he
met the passion-drawn face with entire
calmness. His motives were perfectly
plain. He had just made a desperate
1 effort to procure Dan’s rifle that hung
on two sets of deer horns over the fire-
place, and was entirely exhausted
from it. He had succeeded in getting
down from the couch, though wracked
by agony, but had been unable to lift
himself up in reach of ..the gun.
Cranston read his intention in one
glance. Lennox knew it, but he sim-
ply didn’t care. He had passed the
point where anything seemed to mat-
ter.
“Tell me where it is,” Cranston or-
dered him. Again he pointed his rifle
at Lennox’s wasted breast.
“Tell you where what is? My
money?”
“You know what I want—and it
isn’t money. I mean those letters that
Failing found on the ridge. I’m
through fooling, Lennox. Dan learned
that long ago, and it’s time you learned
it new.”
“Dan learned it because he was sick.
He isn’t sick now. Don’t presume too
much on that.”
Cranston laughed with harsh scorn.
“But that isn’t the question. T said
I’ve wasted all the time I’m going to.
You are an old man and helpless; but
I’m not going to let that stand in the
way of getting what I came to get.
They’re hidden somewhere around this
house. I’ve watched, and he’s had no
chance to take them into town. I’ll
give you—just five seconds to tell me
where they’re hidden.”
“And I give you,” Lennox replied,
“one second less than that—to go to
h—11!”
Both of them breathed hard in the
quiet room. Cranston was trembling
now, shivering just a little in his arms
and shoulders. “Don’t get me wrong,
Lennox,” he warned.
“And don’t have any delusions in re-
gard to me, either,” Lennox replied.
“I’ve stood worse pain from this acci-
dent than any man can give me while
I yet live, no matter what he does. If
you want to get on me and hammer
me in the approved Cranston way, I
can’t defend myself—but you won’t
get a civil answer out of me. I’m used
to pain, and I can stand it. I’m not
used to fawning to a coyote like you,
and I can’t stand it.”
But Cranston hardly heard. An idea
had flamed in his mind and cast a red
glamor over all the scene about him.
It was instilling a poison in his nerves
and a madness in his blood, and it was
searing him, like fire, in his dark
brain. Nothing seemed rea^l. • He sud-
denly. bent forward, tense.
“That’s’all right about you,” he said.
“But you’d be a little more polite if it
was Snowbird—and Dan—that wrould
have to pay.”
Perhaps the color faded slightly in
Lennox’s face; but his voice did not
change.
“They’ll see your footprints before
they come in and be ready,” Lennox
replied evenly. “They always come in
by the back way. And even with a
pistol, Snowbird’s a match for you.”
“Did you think that was what I
meant?” Cranston scorned. “I know a
-way to destroy those letters, and I’ll
do It—in the four seconds that I said,
unless you tell. I’m not even sure I’m
goin’ to give you a chance to tell now;
it’s too good a scheme. There won’t
be any witnesses then to yell around
in the courts. What If I choose to set
fire to this house?”
“It wouldn’t surprise me a great
deal. It’s your own trade;” Lennox
shuddered once on his place on the
floor.
“I wouldn’t have to worry about
those letters then, would I? They are
somewhere in the house, and they’d be
burned to ashes. But that isn’t all
that would be burned. You could may-
be crawl out, but you couldn’t carry
the guns, and you couldn’t carry the
pantry full of food. You’re nearly
eighty miles up here from the nearest
occupied house, with two pair of
snowshoes for the three of you and
one dinky pistol. And you can’t walk
at all. It would be a nice pickle,
wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t you have a fat
chance of getting down to civiliza-
tion?”
The voice no longer held steady. It
trembled with passion. This was no
idle threat. The brain had already
seized upon the scheme with every in-
tention of carrying it out. The wil-
derness lay stark and bare, stripped of
all delusion—not only in the snow-
world outside but in the hearts of
these two men, its sons.
“I have only one hope,” Lennox re-
plied. “I hope, unknown to me, that
Dan has already dispatched those-let-
ters. The arm of the law is long,
Cranston. It’s easy to forget that fact
up here. It will reach you in the
end.”
Cranston turned through the door,
into the kitchen. He w-as gone a long
time. Lennox heard him at work;
the crinkle of paper and then a pour-
ing sound around the walls. Then he
heard the sharp crack of a match. An
instant later the first wdsp of smoke
came curling, pungent with burning
oil, through the corridor.
“You crawled from your couch to
reach that gun,” Cranston told him
when he came in. “Let’s see you crawl
out now.”
Lennox’s answrer w-as a curse-—the
last, dread outpouring of an unbroken
will. He .didn’t look again at the glit-
tering eyes. He scarcely watched
Cranston’s further preparations: the
oil poured on the rugs and furnishings,
the kindling placed at the base of the
curtains. Cranston was trained in this
work. He was taking no chances on
the fire being extinguished. And Len-
nox began to ci*awl toward the door.
He managed to grasp the corner of
the blanket on the divan as he went,
and he dragged it behind him. Pain
wracked him, and smoke half-blinded
him. But he made it at last. And by
the time he had crawled one hundred
feet over the snow crust the whole
structure was in flames. The red
tongues spoke with a roar.
Cranston, the fire-madness on his
face, . hurried to the outbuildings.
There he repealed the work. He
touched a mnteh tr, the hay in the
PRAISE CO-OPERATIVE
TRUCK ASSOCIATIONS
CHAPTER ||.
- Two miles across the ridges, Dan
and Snow-bird saw a faint mist blow-
ing betwreen the trees. They didn’t
recognize it at first. It might be fine
snow, blow-n by the wind, or even one
of those mysterious fogs that some-
times sweep over the snow.
“But it looks like smoke,” Snow-bird
said. .
“But it couldn’t be. The trees are
too wet -to burn.”
But then a sound that at first was
just the faintest whisper in w-hicli
neither of them would let themselves
believe, became distinct past all deny-
ing. It was that menacing crackle of
a great fire, that in the whole world of
sounds is perhaps the most terrible.
“It’s our house,” Snowbird told him.
“And father can’t get out.”
She spoke very quietly. Perhaps
the most terrible truths of life are al-
ways spoken-in that same quiet voice.
Then both of them started across the
snow as fflst as their unwieldy snow-
shoes would permit.
“He can crawl a little,” Dan called
to her. “Don’t give up, Snow-bird
mine. I think he’ll be safe.”
They mounted to the top of the
ridge; and the long sweep of the for-
est was revealed to them. The house
wras a singular tall pillar of flame, al-
ready glow-ing that dreadful red from
which firemen, despairing, turn away.
Then the girl seized his hands and
danced about him in a mad circle.
“He’s alive!” she cried. “You can
see him—just a dot on the snow. He
crawled out to safety.”
She turned and sped at a breakneck
pace dow-n the ridge. Dan had to race
to keep up with her. But it wasn’t en-
tirely wise to try to mush so fast. A
dead log lay beneath the snow with a
broken limb stretched almost to Its
surface, and It caught her snow-shoe.
The w-ood cracked sharply, and she fell
forward in the snow. But she wasn't
hurt, and the snowshoe itself, In spite
of a small crack in the wood, was stil!
serviceable.
“Haste makes waste,” he told her.
“Keep your feet on the ground, Snow
bird; the house Is gone already and
your father is safe. Remember wlm
lies before us."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
If truth is stranger than Action, h
1b because fact outrun* Imagination
Handy Means of Transportation
at Reasonable Cost.
Opportunity Afforded Farmer of Get-
ting His Produce to Consuming
Centers and Securing Supplies
for Farm Needs.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
In many sections of the country dur-
ing the past few years the motor truck
lias met the need for some reliable,
convenient means of transportation at
a reasonable cost whereby the farmer
can get bis produce to the consuming
He Called Once to the Prone Body of
Lennox.
barn, and the wind flung the flame
through it in an instant. The sheds
and other outbuildings were treated
w-ith oil. And seeing that his work
w-as done, he called once to the prone
body of Lennox on the snow and
mushed away into the silences.
Lennox’s answer was not a curse
this time. Rather it w&s a prayer, un-
uttered, and in his long years Lennox
had not prayed often. When he
prayed at all, the words were burning
fire. His prayer was that of Samson
—that for a moment his strength
might come back to him.
MOLES ARE GREAT NUISANCE
GRINDER HANDY AND USEFUL
Work Is Done Much Faster When
Tools Are Sharp—Grindstone
Put Out of Business.
Sharp tools make the work go fast-
er, but it’s impossible to have them
without something w-ith w-hicli to do
the sharpening. A tool grinder of the
high-speed type, either pedal or hand-
turned, is handy and useful on any
farm. These grinders have about put
the old grindstone, so disliked in our
boyhood days.-; out of business.
ANY DETERIORATION IS LOSS
Sooner or Later It Must Be Replaced
Whether Inside or Out—Wear
Starts at Surface.
Any deterioration is a loss which
sooner or later must be replaced;
whether of buildings inside or out, of
iron or wooden fences, concrete or ce-
ment structures, furniture, carriages,
wagons, tractors, implements—every-
thing. Anything with a surface needs
protection. All w-ear and tear starts
first at the surface.
GROWING SUGAR
BEET FOR SEED
Annual Requirement in This
Country Is Approximately
16,000,000 Pounds.
A Particularly Serviceable i ype of
Truck for All-Round Work.
centers and secure the commodities
which he must obtain from these same
centers, specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture have
found. There lias been a keenly felt
need in many rural communities for
such a means of transportation.
While in most places trucks are
owned and operated either by the
farmers for their personal benefit, or
by private individuals who hold them-
selves ready to haul for the public
generally at an agreed rate, it is be-
lieved that many_ rural communities
would find it more economical to form
motor truck co-operative associations.
Many fanners w-ho live within 10 to 25
miles of consuming centers raise ber-
ries, fruit, and truck crops, and most
of them deliver their produce directly
to the city markets. During the busy
Season this requires several trips each
week. To make the trip by team means
a long, yhard day for both men and
horses.
Before undertaking the formation of
such an association, specialists of the
department advise that a survey be
made to determine that an actual need
exists and that there will be sufficient
business to warrant operating at least
one truck. It must be remembered,
too, they say, that the personal factor
will in a large measure determine the
ultimate success of the association.
REQUIRES LARGE INVESTMENT
Plant is Biennial and Roots Do Not,
Under Normal Conditions, Send Up
Seed Stalks and Develop Seed
Until Second Year.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
One of the first requisites of a per-
manent- and satisfactory beet-sugar in-
dustry is an adequate supply of seed
of good quality. It has been scarce
and as a result the production of
sugar-beet seed in the United States
lias made rapid progress during the
past few years. The present annual
requirement in this country is approxi-
mately. 16,000,000 pounds, of which
about 50 per cent is now produced
within the nation’s borders. With the
continued development of the sugar-
beet industry more and more seed is
required each year, but it is confident-
ly expected by specialists of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture that eventually the total Ameri-
can requirement will be grown in this
country. In order to encourage the
growing of sugar-beet seed and .assist
in its development along proper lines,
the department recently published
Farmers’ Bulletin 1152, “Growing
Sugar-Beet Seed in the Rocky Moun-
tain States.”
Investment Required Large.
The development of ttjis industry
lias been greatest in the irrigated sec-
tions of Colorado, Montana, Utah and
Idaho, and special reference is given
in the bulletin to the growing of sugar-
beet seed in this region. The industry
is best adapted to large operators, the
investment required for special ma-
chinery being so great that the busi-
ness is not really profitable on less
than 100 acres. It is to the growing
of sugar beets on a large scale that
the instructions in the bulletin refer.
The sugar-beet plant. is a biennial
and the roots do not, under normal
conditions, send up seed stalks and
develop seed until the second year.
Beets of small size are grown the first
season, are stored in pits known as
silos during the winter, transplanted
in the spring, and the seed is har-
vested at the end of the second sea-
son.
Only small-sized roots not over -16
ounces in weight are used for com-
mercial seed production. The eight-
ounce beets are usually considered
Bureau of Biological Survey Encour-
ages Eradication of Trouble-
some Little Pest.
“The little gentleman in black vel-
vet” who caused the death of King
William III by digging the burrow that
tripped the English king’s horse Is
finding his black velvet jacket a
coveted possession. Reports from the
leading fur dealers in this country In-
dicate that the number of American
moleskins marketed during the last
fiscal year was 20 per cent greater
than for the preceding 12 months. The
bureau of biological survey, United
States Department of Agriculture, is
largely responsible for this increase.
In conducting demonstrations in co-
operation with public schools, states
extension services, and other organiza-
tions, the bureau has encouraged the
eradication of the mole from territo-
ries where the little animal has be-
come a pest. Boys’ and girls’ clubs
have been given an opportunity to
study the trapping methods most ef-
fective and also the best way to care
for the tiny pelts. The year’s calch
of moles yielded a peltry value in the
state of Washington of $60,000, and,
due to the efforts of the specialists, a
costly nuisance has been reduced.
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Cigarette
To seal in the
delicious Burley
tobacco flayor.
It’s Toasted
|§|
All Run Down
Now Feels Fine
Eat&nie Ended
Him TsrmsbSes
“Eatonic is the only thing I have
found to stop my heartburn and I
think it has been a great help in
nervous spells,” writes G. C. Johnson.
An upset stomach jnay cause lots
of suffering all over the body. Eatonic
helps in such cases by removing the
cause of the misery, because it takes
up and carries out the excess acid
and gases and keeps the digestive or-
gans in natural working order. A
tablet after meals is all you need. Big
box costs only a trifle with druggist’s
guarantee.
One of the Many Widely Varying
Types of Sugar Beet Found in Com-
mercial Fields.
the most profitable. These are known
among seed producers as stecklings.
Roots' for commercial seed produc-
tion are usually started about the
same time as beets intended for fac-
tory purposes, though some growers
have had better success _by starting
their strecldings a little later, as in
June. July sowings, may be satisfac-
tory if conditions happen to be just
right, but usually, contain a large per-
centage of roots too small for profit-
able handling. To keep the roots
from growing too large, seed is gen-
erally sown at the rate of 10 to 16
pounds per acre and the plants are
left unthinned. It is Important that
the seed be of highest quality and, be-
cause an even stand is highly desir-
able, the bulletin recommends- that
germination tests be made.
Harvest of Steckling.
The steckling harvest should be
started before freezing weather. In
northern Colorado it generally begins
by September 20 and is usually com-
pleted with all the beets in The silos
by October 10. Harvesting begins by
mowing the tops of the stecklings as
close to the ground as practicable. If
the mowers are run first one way and
then back again on the same row,
many leaves will be cut off which
would not be removed if the machines
were run in one direction only. The
beets are then plowed out, and In or-
der to do this work so that tbey may
be gathered more readily, it is fre-
quently desirable to irrigate before
harvesting, especially if the soli is
dry. If the foliage of the stecklings
is thick and heavy, it pays to gather
the leaves and silo them for feed, but
usually they are left on the ground to
dry. In order to prevent drying out,
stecklings must be hauled Immediately
after being pulled.
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IS MONEY AND INDEPENDENCE YOUR
WISH? Would you invest $10 in Syndicate
offering chance to make thousands. Partic-
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Agricultural Gloom.
“Still thinking of buying a farm?”
“No. I’ve always prided myself on
taking a cheerful view of life.”
“What has that to do with your buy-
ing a farm?”
“Judging, from the kind of talk I
hear in rural communities. I wouldn’t
own a farm more than six months be-
fore I’d be a confirmed pessimist.”—
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Good fortune nearly always finds a
man in a receptive mood.
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