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STORY C\J LANGFORD] J of the = THREE = 1 BARS [ AND VIRGIL D. BOYLEsj (Copyright by A. C. McClurg & Co., 1907.) SYNOPSIS. G*or gr Willlston, a poor ranchman, high-minded Rn<l cultured, searches for cattle missing from his ranch—the "Lazy S." On a wooded spot In the river's bed that would have been an island had the Missouri been at high water, he dis covers a band of horse thieves engaged In working over brands on cattle. He creeps near enough to note the chang ing of the"Three Bars" brand on one steer to the "J. It." brand. Paul Lang ford. the rich owner of the"Three Bars," is Informed of the operations of the gang of cattle thieves—a band of outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who long have defied the law and authori ties of Kemah county, South Dakota. Langford Is struck with the beauty of Mary, commonly known as "Wllliston's little girl." Louise Dale, an expert court stenographer, whi had followed her uncle, Judg* Hammond Dale, from the east to tha "Dakotahs," and who la living with him at Wind City, is requested by the county attorney. Richard Gordon, to come to Kemah and take testimony In the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black. Jim Munson, in waiting at the train for Louise, looks at a herd of cattle being shipped by Bill Brown and there detects old "Mag," a well known "onery" steer be longing to his employer of the"Three Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start for Kemah. Crowds assemble In Justice James R. McAllister's court for the preliminary hearing. Jesse Black sprlnss the first of many great surprises, waiving examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a member of the outlaw gang, lie had learned that the steer "Mag" had been re covered and thus saw the uselessness of fighting against being bound over. County Attorney Gordon accompanies Louise Dale on her return to Wind Pity. While Willlston stands in the light In his door at night a shot is fired at him. The house Is attacked atid a battle ensues between Willlston and his daughter, on one side, and the outlaws on the other. The house Is set on tire. As an outlaw raises liis rifle to shoot Wllliston a shot from an un known source pierces his arms and the rifle falls to the ground. Aid has come to Willlston, but he and his daughter are captured and borne away by the outlaws. Jim Munson late at night heard the shots, discovered the attack on Wllliston's house, hurried to the Three Bars ranch and sum moned Langford and his brave men to the rescue. It was Langford who fired the shot which saved Wllliston's life. Langford rescues Mary from her captor. Langford takes Mary to the home of Mrs. White. Her urm luia been broken by a shot. She grows delirious and receives medical at tention. CHAPTER Xl.—Continued. The long day wore along. Mother White was baking. The men would be ravenous when they came back. Many would stop there for something to eat before going onto their homes. It might be to-night, it might be to morrow, it might not be until the day after, but whenever the time did come, knowing the men of the range coun try, she must have something "by her." At last came the doctor and Gordon, driving up in the doctor's top-buggy, weather-stained, mud-bedaubed with the mud of last spring, of many springs. The doctor was a badly dressed, pleasant-eyed man, past mid dle age, with a fringe of gray whisk ers. He was a sort of journeyman doctor, and he had drifted hither one day two summers ago from the Lake Andes country in this self-same trav el-worn conveyance with Its same bony sorrel. He had found good picking, he had often jovially remark ed since, chewing serenely away on a brand of vile plug the while. He had elected to remain. He was part and parcel of the cattle country now. He was an established condition. Peo ple had learned to accept him as he was and be grateful. Haste was a mental and physical impossibility to him. He took his own time. All must perforce acquiesce. "You have worked yourself into a high fever. Miss Willlston, that's what you've done," he said, with profession al mournfulness. "I know it," she smiled wanly. "I couldn't help It. I'm sorry." Gordon drew up a chair and sat down by her, saying with grave kind ness, "You are fretting. We must not let you. 1 am going to stay with you all night and shoo the goblins away." "You are kind," said Mary, grateful ly. "May I tell you when they come? If some one speaks to me they go away." "Indeed you may, clear child," he exclaimed, heartily. He had been half joking when he spoke of keeping things away. He now perceived that these things were more serious than he knew. The doctor administered medicine to reduce the fever, dressed the wounded arm, with Gordon's ready assistance, and then called in Mother White to prepare the bed for his patient; but he paused nonplussed before the weight of entreaty in Mary's eyes and voice. "Please don't," she cried out, in ac tual terror. "Oh, Mr. Gordon, don't let him! I see such awful things when I lie down. Please! Please! And Mr. Langford said I might sit up till he came. Mr. Gordon, you will not let him put me to bed, will you?" "I think it would be better to let her have her way, Lockhart," said Gordon in a low voice. "Maybe it would, Dick," said the doctcr, with susprising meahness. I "I'll stay all ui£ht and I'll take good CAMERON COUNTY PRBSS > THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1908 care of her, Lockhart. There's Moth er White beckoning to supper. You'll eat before you go? No, I won't take any supper now, thank you, mother, I will stay with Mary." And he did stay with her all through the long watches of that long night. He never closed his eyes in sleep. Sometimes Mary would drop off into uneasy slumber —always of short du ration. When she awakened suddenly in wide-eyed fright, he soothed her with all tenderness. Sometimes when he thought she was sleeping, she would clutch his arm desperately and cry out that there was some one be hind the big cottonwood. Again it would be to ask him in a terrified whisper if he did not hear hoof-beats, galloping, galloping, galloping, and begged him to listen. He could al ways quiet her, and she tried hard to keep from wandering; but after a short, broken rest, she would cry out again in endless repetition of the ter rors of that awful night. Mrs. White and several of her small progeny breathed loudly from an ad joining room. A lamp burned dimly on the table. It grew late—l 2 o'clock and after. At last she rested. She passed from light, broken slumber to deep sleep without crying out and thus awakening herself. Gordon was tired and sad. Now that the flush of fever was gone, he saw how white and miserable she really looked. The cir cles under her eyes were so dark they were like bruises. The mantle of his misfortune was spreading to bring others besides himself Into its somber folds. The men were coming back. But they were coming quietly, in grim si lence. He dared not awaken Mary for the news he knew they must carry. He stepped noiselessly to the door to warn them to a yet greater stillness and met Langford on the threshold. The two surveyed each other grave ly with clasped hands. "You tell her, Dick. I—l can't," said Langford. His big shoulders drooped j as under a heavy burden. "Must I?" asked Gordon. "Dick, I —l can't," said Langford, brokenly. "Don't you see?—if I had been just a minute sooner—and I promised." "Yes, 1 see, Paul," said Gordon, quietly. "I will tell her." "You need not," said a sweet clear voice from across the room. "I know. I heard. I think I knew all the time — | ■(' " The Sheriff and His Deputies Made a Diligent Search for Williston. but you were all so good to make me hope. Don't worry about me any more, dear friends. I am all right now. It is much better to know. I hope they didn't hang him. You think they shot him, don't you?" "Little girl, little girl," cried Lang ford, on his knees beside her, "it is not that! It is only that we have not found him. But no news is good news. That we have found no trace proves that they have to guard him well be cause he is alive. We are going on a new track to-morrow. Believe me, little girl, and goto bed now, won't you, and rest?" "Yes," she said, wearily, as one in whom 110 hope was left, "I will go.l will mind —the boss." As he laid her gently on the bed, while Mrs. White, aroused from sleep, fluttered aimlessly and drowsily about, he whispered, his breath carressing her cheek: "You will goto sleep right away, won't you?" "I will try. You are the boss." CHAPTER XII. Waiting. The man found dead the night the Lazy S was burned out was not easi ly identified. He was a half-breed, but half-breeds were many west of the river, and the places where they laid their heads at night were as shifting as the sands of that rapid, ominous, changing stream of theirs, which ever cut them off from the world of their fathers and kept them bound, but rest less, chafing, in that same land where their mothers had stared stolidly at a strange little boatload tugging up the river that was the forerunner of the ultimate destiny of this broad north west country, but which brought in incidentally—as do all big destinies in the great scheme bring sorrow to some one—wrong, misunderstanding, forgetfulness, to a once proud, free people now in subjection. At last the authorities found trace of him far away at Standing Rock, through the agent there, who knew him as of an ugly reputation—a dis sipated, roving profligate, who had long since squandered !ji« government patrimony. He had been mixed up in sundry bad affairs in the past, and had been an inveterate gambler. So much only were the Kemah county authorities able to uncover of the way ward earthly career of the dead man. Of his haunts and cronies of the period immediately preceding his death, the agent could tell nothing. Ho had not been seen at the agency for nearly a year. The reprobate band had covered its tracks well. There was nothing to do but lay the dead body away and shovel oblivion over its secret. In the early morning after the re turn of the men from their unsuccess ful man hunt, Gordon, gray and hag gard from loss of sleep and from hard thought, stepped out into the kitchen to stretch his cramped limbs. He stumbled over the figure of Langford prone upon the floor, dead asleep in utter exhaustion. He smiled under- and opened the outerdoor quietly, hoping he had not aroused the wornout boss. The air was fresh and cool, with a hint of autumn sharpness, and a premature Indian summer haze, that softened the gauntness of the landscape, and made the distances blue and rest-giving. He felt the need of invigoration after his night's virgil, and struck off down the road with long strides, In pleasant anticipation of a coming appetite for breakfast. Thus it was that Langford, strug glng to a sitting posture, rubbing his heavy eyes with a dim consciousness that he had been disturbed, and won dering drowsily why he was so stupid, felt something seeping through his senses that told him he did not do well to sleep. So he decided he would take a plunge into the cold artesian pond, and with such drastic measures banish once and for all the elusive yet all-pervading cobwebs which clung to him. Rising to his feet with unusual awkwardness, he looked with scorn upon the bare floor and accused it blindly and bitterly as the direct cause of the strange soreness that be set his whole anatomy. The lay of the floor had changed in a night. Where was he? He glanced helplessly about. Then he knew. Thus It was, that when Mary lan guidly opened her eyes a little later it was the boss who sat beside her and smiled reassuringly. "You have not slept a wink," she creid, accusingly. "Indeed I have,"he said. "Three whole hours, I feel tip-top." "You are—fibbing," she said. "Your eyes look so tired, and your face is all worn." His heart leaped with the joy of her solicitude. "You are wrong," he laughed, teasingly. "I slept on the floor; and a good bed it was, too. No, Miss Willis ton, I am not 'all in' yet, by any means." In his new consciousness, a new formality crept into his way of ad dressing her. She did not seem to notice it. "Forgive me for forgetting, last night," she said, earnestly. "I was very selfish. I forgot that you had not slept for nearly two days and were riding all the while in—our behalf. I forgot. I was tired, and I went to sleep. I want you to forgive me. I want you to believe that I do appre ciate what you have ddne. My fath er •" "Don't, don't, little girl," cried Langford, forgetting his new awe of her maidenhood in his pity for the stricken child. "My father," she went on steadily, "would thank you if he were here. I thank you, too, even if I did forget to . think whether or no you and all the : men had any sleep or anything to eat I last night. Will you try to believe that I did not forget wittingly? I was j so tired." When Langford answered her, which was not immediately, his face was white and he spoke quietly with a touch of injured pride. "If you want to hurt us, Miss Wil i liston, that is the way to talk. We cowmen do not do things for thanks." She looked at him wonderingly a moment, then said, simply, "Forgive me," but her lips were trembling and ; she turned to the wall to hide t\'<s tears that would come. After all, she was only a woman—with nerves —and the reaction had come. The sheriff and his party of depu ties made a diligent search for Willis ton that day and for many days to come. It was of no avail. He had disappeared, and all trace with him, as completely as if he had been spir ited away in the night to another world—body and soul. That the soul of him had really gone to another world came to be generally believed —Mary Held no hope after the return of the first expedition; but why could they find no trace of his body? Where was it? Where had it found a rest ing place? Was it possible for a man, ; quick or dead, even west of the river ; in an early day of its civilization when the law had a winking eye, to fall away from his wonted haunts in a night and leave no print, neither a bone nor a rag nor a memory, to give mute witness that this way he passed, that way he rested a bit, here he took horse, there he slept, with this man he had converse, that man saw his still body borne heuce? Could such a thing be? It seemed so. (To Be Continued.) Trend of Civilization. I had thought that civilization meant the attainment of peace and order and freedom, of good will be tween man and man, of the love of truth, and the hatred of injustice, and by consequence the attainment of the good life which these things breed, a i life free from craven fear, but full of incident; that was what I thought it meant, not more stuffed chairs and more cushions, and more carpets and gas, and more dainty moat and drink —and therewithal more and sharper difference between class and class.— William Morris, NO ONE CAM ALWAYS AVOID ft One Dose in venta P}-- " r if /// t* Time, Bave« ( Many people persist in riding on the street cars, insufficiently protected by clothing. They start out perhaps in the heat of the day and do not feel the need of wraps. The rapid moving of the car cools the body unduly. _ When they board the car perhaps thev are slightly perspiring. When the body is in this condition it is easily chilled. This is especially true when a person is sitting. Beginning a street car ride in the middle of the day and ending it in the evening almost invariably requires extra wraps, but people do not observe these precautions, hence they eaten cold. Colds are very frequent in the Spring on this account, and as the Summer advances, they do not decrease. During the Spring months, no one should think of riding on the car without being provided with a wrap. A cold caught in the Spring is liable to last through the entire Summer. Great caution should be observea at this season against exposure to cold. During the first few pleasant days of Spring, the liability of catching cold is great. No wonder so many people acquire muscular rheumatism and catarrhal dis eases during this season. However, in spite of the greatest precautions, colds will be caught. 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The second doctor we tried afforded her Just as little relief as the first. Then I pur chased Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, and before the Ointment was three-quarters finished every trace of the disease was gone. It really seemed like magic. Mrs. T. W. Hyde, Brent- Wood, Essex, England, Mar. 8. 1907." Recommended His Wife. Irvin Cobb, humorist of New York, was recommended to a lecture man agement. The latter sought an intro duction through a friend, Mr. McVeigh. "Come here, Irvin, I want you to meet a friend of mine," said McVeigh. After a few minutes' conversation, the lecture man broached the subject of lecturing as follows: "I was just wondering, Mr. Cobb, what you would think of a proposition to do some lecture work next sea son?" Cobb looked at his questioner for Just a moment in blank amazement. Evidently such a thought had never entered his head before. Then reach ing out his hand confidentially, he said: "I've got It. My wife will do it. 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