THE MASTER KEY By John Fleming Wilson By special arrangement for thh paoer » photo-drams corresponding to the tnst&llmenti of "The Master Key" may now be teen at the leading mov ing ptcturr theaters By arrangement made with tha Universal Film Manufacturing company it It not only possible to read "The Master Key" in this paper, but also after ward to m« moving pictures o< oar story. COPYRIGHT. 1014, BY JOHN FLEMING WILSON CHAPTEft V. ' The Night Rider. Irr* I TIB light In the bungalow on I E I the hill across the valley laGSSI winked as some one passed |ar&-Jw beneath It and the window. ; "I can see clearly enough," said Wll kerson, "that there Is a girl mixed up In this affair. Tom Gallon never jwalked like that" ! He rode slowly down the steep hill kill he reached the pumping engine. (Bill Tubbs, the bulky, sodden taeed Engineer, came to the doorway. "Is this "The Master Key?"* de manded Wllkerson. j "It certainly Is," was the response, j "And—old Tom Gallon runs It?" Wllkerson pulled out a flask, divining Bill Tubbs' ruling vice, and the en gineer, after a long drink, wiped his mouth with the back of his oily hands. ; "So you are looking for Thomas Gal ion, are you? Well, he owns this mine, but ifs mostly run by a young girl there In that bungalow on the hilL You see, Tom ain't up to what he used 'to be. The ore is getting worse every iday and the old man's sick up there In his house." "I'm going up to see him now," said Wllkerson. He rode on a few yards and surveyed the snug houses, stamp mill and all the apparatus of the grow ing mine and snarled: "So this Is what he wanted for himself!" The man he was seeking lay prop ped up In bed. To Ruth he gave ev erything—silks and down and all the soft things of this life. Himself he still slept on a hard cot with a straw pillow under his head—that Is. he had slept It seemed to him that sleep had forever fled, and he was now look ing up into Ruth's face almost plead ingly, trying to keep his grim old lips from asking sympathy. There was reason in his mind that he should ac cept no tender ministration from the lovely girl who stood beside him. His sacrifice must be complete; so when his daughter bent over him and asked him if he felt all right he mustered a smile. "There's nothing the matter with me, Ruth," he was saying, and his glance sought that of John Dorr, who stood at the foot of the bed. The eyes of the two men met, and Dorr impercep tibly nodded his head in token that he would not tell. Not that he yet knew the secret of "The Master Key," but he recognized the fact that sooner 01 later he was to know. Ruth stooped over and said: "Papa, I don't believe you do feel well. I'm going to make you some thing hot to drink. I'll bring you a toddy." And she went into the kitch en and shut the door. When she was gone John nodded a pleasant "Good night," and also left i Then old Thomas Gallon rose and went to his worn desk and got his well | thumbed diary. I "I am haunted," he wrote slowly, "al ways haunted. Am I to die without | knowing whether Wllkerson is alive and that Ruth is safe?" At that moment he glanced up and thought he saw the sinister face of his | former partner at the window. By tho i strongest effort of will he managed to control himself and went on writing: | "Wllkerson still alive by night! When will he come out into the day? He shall never have the key that would unlock the secret to my little girl's happiness. I will trust John." Fancy to yourself scenes that must ihave fled like swift films before the old man's eyes as he put the diary away. The desert and its mortal thirst; Wllkerson, ever drinking greed ily of precious water; gold; murder; his escupe with the plans, their loss lln the chest when the vessel went down in a caldron of flame; the image of his dying wife; the picture of the babe he had lifted from her chill breast —Ruth, for whom he had suffered. He bowed his bead on his folded arms, i Such is the bitterness that the night !brings upon those who are alone. When Rath came in with the steam ing glass of toddy she quietly set tho glass down and went out on the porch jto look at the light across the gulch which marked John Dorr's window. Youth was calling to youth. | It was no apparition that Gallon had seen at the window this time. It waa ; really Wllkerson, who, after one satis jfled glance, rode swiftly away. | It was midnight when he rapped at jthe door of the Valle Vista railroad j station and called the sleepy agent. "I want to get a telegram through right away," he said brusquely. "There is an extra dollar in your pocket If you can rush It" The slender boy who represented the Rocky Mountain Southern railroad si lently led the way in. turned up the wick of the lamp and shoved blanks and pencil across the counter. ; "You look half asleep to me," Wllker son growled as he picked up the pen- IciL The boy scanned the stranger quiet ly and opened the drawer of his tel egraph desk and faced his visitor again. Wllkerson caught the glint of jthe steel barrel of a revolver in that | drawer. I "You must have some money in the safe," he snarled. The boy looked at him with steely blue eyes and stated in a perfectly matter of fact tone, "I merely wanted to show you that I am awake." Their glances met. It was Wllkerson's eyes that fell. ! He grasped the pencil and wrote on |the yellow blank: I y«ll» Vlata, Cal., March J7. MONDAY EVENING, I Jean Darnell, Astor Rouse, New York | City, N. Y.: Have found Gallon at last. Address "Master Key" mine tomorrow. WILKERSON. He shoved the paper across to the operator and said roughly: "Now, earn that extra dollar!" He hanged two sli | !ver coins on the counter. The operator scanned the message, took another look at his customer and shoved one of the coins back. "The charge to New oA~is sl," be said mildly. Wllkerson scowled, "Well, rnsh that nnywayr He strode out of the little office aDd mounted his horse. The weary animul tried to turn in toward Its accustomed corral, but Its rider reined It sharply back Into the road toward "The Master Key" mine. "I think Gallon will recognize me," he muttered to himself. Tom Kane, who since the beginning of the camp had been the open handed but close mouthed cook, sounded his triangle. Immediately poured out from the quarters of the unmarried men a stream of miners. As he had done for mans years, Thomas Gallon went to the" TVlndow to watch this morning ceremony. He saw that the men greet ed John Dorr respectfully, yet gen ially. "It was a lucky day when John Dorr came," he muttered to himself. Then his eye caught the figure of a horse man riding leisurely down the street apparently careless of the scowls from the men against whom he brushed roughly. The old man rubbed his eyes feebly and looked again. Yes, it was true. He could never mistake that figure or that saturnine visage. God! Why had his bullet not gone through that face? He reached for his gun with somewhat of the vigor of youth; he was safe now. One shot out of that window and that figure that had haunted him for years would tumble and fall and forever dis appear from his life. He oould do it He put the gun down quietly and dropped his chin on his breast He re alized that his years of struggle had broken down the Indomitable spirit of his youth and his pride. He was an old man; he could not keep Wllkerson from coming back. Harry Wllkerson saw that face at the window, and his smile hardened. He thought he would take Gallon by surprise possibly, but before he rapped O Jf "Still partners in 'The Master Key.'" on the redwood door Gallon had had time to clutch the key—"The Master Key" to the riches in San Jacinto mine—and hurriedly thrust It into a drawer In the desk and shut It from sight As the door swung open the two men looked at each other. Then the younger man said softly, "Pardner!" "Pardner!" said Gallon, as If Incred ulous. He called to his aid all his frail physical strength to face the final ca tastrophe. "Still partners," said Wllkerson, step ping on In and closing the door; "still partners In 'The Master Key!' " Involuntarily Gallon clutched at his throat where that golden key hung so long. Could he live to fight this thing through? The agony in his chest was unbearable. "What do you want?** he asked hoarsely. Wllkerson flung his riding quirt on the table and pulled off his gantlets. "Well," he drawled, "partner, I guess there are several things 1 want" He fixed his dark eyes on the old man. "And there's one thing I'm going to have, and that's my share of 'The Master Key.'" "Your share?" parried Gallon. "My share!" said Wllkerson, realis ing that he controlled the situation. "I have returned for my just due! "Now, listen, partner, I am going to stand no nonsense." "What have you been doing all these years?" the old man asked dully. "Why haven't you been here before?" "None of your business." snarled Wll kerson. "All I've got to say Is that I managed to get to New York. Now I'm back after finding out that you made a strike, the find you made when we were partners. How did you get back here?" £To Be Continued Wednesday] I fell 1 NATIONALLY Therm,le | tt WAIUI Will Not Evaporate H | Tim ADVERTISED g ♦♦ America it L—— «1 cjj L_ M m ■ m ■ I ■ and is sufficient to keep radiator 1 T? 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Maurice Sanderson, of Summerdale, a former resident of this place, along with some other men, were hunting deer in Toboyne township this week, and on Wednesday, the last day of the season, one of the hunters from Sum merdale, shot a four-pronged buck on the Shultz ridge. A few minutes after the deer was shot seven other hunters appeared on the scene and demanded the deer, claiming they had shot it. The Summerdale hunter denied this but offered to give half of the deer If two bullet holes could be found in the dead animal. The seven hunters would not do this, but to settle the matter took the deer. The State Po lice are now on the hunt for the hunters, but up to this time have failed t« find them. FUNERAL OF MRS. SAMUEL HESS Special to The Telegraph Mechanlcsburg, Pa., Nov. 30.—Mrs. Samuel Hess, who was taken to the Harrlsburg Hospital on Monday, died at that institution on Thursday after noon after undergoing an operation for a complication of diseases. She was 26 years old. 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