CENTRE HALL, PA. CHAPTER XIX-—Continued. wre] Gn Smith did his various errands quick- ly. When he reached the fourth-floor suite again, Jibbey was out of the bath: was sitting on the edge of the bed wrapped in blankets, with steaming pot of coffee sent up Smith's hurry order beside him on a ray. “It's your turn at the tub,” hq bub- bled cheerfully. “I didn’t have any glad rags to put on, so I swiped some of your bedclothes, before you catch cold.” be up in a to you “Your trunk will minutes, and I've told them it here,” he “When want to quit me, you'll find your rooms five to the right in this corridor: suite number four-sixtee It was al eme »d from his bathroom once more clothed and in his right mind. In the interval the reclaimed trunk had been up, and Jibbey clothed. pipes and bath. few send sald. doors same ong half-hour before Smit! i rge sent was some tobacco and was of total abstinence good posed by two days “Just hangin’ around to say himself in the sitting room. Then returned the borrowed pipe to its place on the mantel and said his small say to the definite end. happened to us two tonight, Monty yappings and not lose any sleep about that Lawrenceville business, I'm enteen different kinds of a rotten « there's no manner of doubt and i J while- I've You been me #0, been muc a in got once aaved ¢ the soil or lot guess the have I had gone, and you Knev t -er—would you Monty?” CHAPTER XX. The Pace-Setter. an early breakfast the hopir vino} ade v fo Irlvo ng anto arive following 1g thereby abandoned mi id meeting both Miss Richlander The empty and took his accustome! vl ot * he had barely Starbuck o 1 ¢ Hophra caf went Was in one and e practically Jibbey. when he ace of the alcove tables, given his order when peared and came to join “You're looking a this morning, John,” sald owner quizzically, he for the h?” ith’s answering gri had some- thing of its former good-nature in it y. Billy,” he sald. “To- ap lot better the held “How's whole as up =a finger walter. grouc “Today's the da ter running in the ditches or franchise. It's chasing around in the back part of my mind that Stanton his grandstand play today. he wi our will make I'm not harboring any grouches on t ge of the battle. They are a handi- , anyway, and always.” “That's good medicine talk.” sald the or man, eving him keenly. And . “You had us all guessing, yester- the John. » was acting as |i ed Oar and day before, coed.” “I was locoed,” was the quiet ad mission, “What cured you?” “It's too long a story to tell over the breakfa What do you hear from Williams?” “All quiet during the night: but the eather reports are gearing him up sood bit this morning.” “Storms on the range?” “Yes ast night, and there is flood water and ift coming to beat the band. st the same, Bartley says he is ing to make good.” aith nodded. “Bartley is all right; the right man in the right place. Have 1 seen the colonel since he left the offices last evening?” “Yes. 1 drove him and Corona out to the ranch In my new car. «t table. down Wm Yin FIL aked in and borrowed it.” “1 suppose he told you about the Intest move——our move—in the stock- selling game?” “No, he didn’t; but Stillings did. You played it pretty fine, John; only I hope fo gracious we won't have to redeem those options. It would bu'st our little inside crowd wide open to have to buy in all that stock at par.” Last Aight, again, he stood to win out. But a man fell Into the river, and Stanton lost out once more,” Starbuck glanced up soberly, “You're talking in riddles now, John. I don't sabe.” “It isn't necessary for you to sabe. Results are what counts, Barring acel- dents, you Timanyonl High Line me with you for the next few critical and, I may add, you never needed me more pointedly.” Starbuck's smile was fuce-wide, “I hope 1 don't feel sorry,” he re- marked. “Some day, when you take an hour or so off, I'm going to get you to show me around in your little mu-zeeum of self-concelt, John. Maybe I can learn how to gather me up ’ matched the mine owner's good-natured For unex- plainable reason the world, his particu- to its could of th W ii Smith smile, some lost think and seemed have ignance. He without which ha for the past few days had world, even Stanton bitterness; e d been we 18 ng 1 “You may laugh, Billy, but you'll have to admit that I've been outfigur- ing the start,’ get '* he retorted brazenly. “But t's down to business. This hold {OMOrrow he can't get some legal nidnight or work some scheme to make us upon y Ose “Qhow me,” sald the mine owner suc inctly. water at runt hecome once assets f a liabilities, High Line al cousequence Ri you something tell anybody, Colonel Baldwin, I've been g the Mmny's o keep in touch. d 1 before m1 spendin comj Mone money he } water t fail, minute we ana long we could } the 1g possession of our dam of an enabling act of the le slature, or by purchase from the per railroad, will be only a step. ® Mi pi And “Good Glory!” He Sighed. we couldn't do a thing! We'd have no legal rights, and no money to fight with!” Starbuck pushed his chalr away from the table and drew a long breath. “Good glory!” he sighed. “I wish to goodness it was day after tomorrow ! Can you carry it any further, John?" “Yes: a step or two. For a week Stanton has been busy on the paper railroad claim, and that Is what made me buy a few cases of good rifles and send them out to Willlams | I was afraid Stanton might try force. He won't do that if he can help it; he'll go In with some legal show, if possible, day,’ Billy. It was the only way to block Stanton. numbers any gang he could hire, and more string that he can pull” “The railroad right-of-way deal?” “Yes: he has been holding that in reserve—that, and one other thing." “What was the other thing?’ Star. buck was absently fishing for a sec- ond lump of sugar In the sugar bowl “Has it got anything to do with the bunch of news that youn won't tell us—-about yourself, John?" we fairly, but a friend of mine stepped “He ean't work the legal game,” said Starbuck definitively. “I've. known high to a hop-toad, and a squarer nan “That is all right, but you're forget- ting something. The paper raliroad is “wor Was once—an interstate corpora. tion, and so may ask for relief from the federal courts, thus going over Judge Warner's head. I'm not saying judge at Red Butte, I've met him, and honest man. But he is well along in years, and has an exaggerated notion of his own importance. Stanton, or rather his figurehead rallroad people, have asked him to intervene, and he has taken the case under advisement. That is where we stand this morning.” Starbuck was nodding slowly. “I see what you mean, now,” he sald. “If Lorching jumps the wrong way for us, vou're looking to see a United States marshal walk up to Bartley Williams some time today and tell him to quit, That would put the final kibosh on us, Smith was rising “I'm not dead yet, joined cheerfully. this far without hammering out a few expedients for our side. If I can man- age to stay in the fight today and to- in his place. Billy,” he re- A little new from the hotel Starbuck office and was trying to give note in a { fi | you must tell them the truth, Verda.” | Her smile was mildly scornful, “Is that what the plain-faced little ranch person would do?” she asked. “1 don't know: yes, I guess it 18.” “Doesn't she care any more for you than that?” Smith did not reply. He was stand- ing where he could watch the comings and goings of the elevators. Time was precious and he was chafing at the de- lay, but Miss Richlander was not yet ready to let him go. “Tell me honestly, Montague,” she said; “is it anything more than a case of propinquity with this Baldwin girl? —on your part, I mean.” “It isn't anythi berly. “Corona ¥ " 8. he jaldwin returned «111 Will Bi) never I that's Mr. Smith, over there.” mith took the note and opened it, he scarcely heard the clerk's ex- that it had put in evening before, and that clerk had been afraid he away without finding it. verda Richlander, and neither superscription nor th read: Lil tion been bex the day It it foun os $YLY signatur was had @ aah § At | from { This is what Sm “My little ruse has falled miserably. Mr. found j in spite the messenger K's. messenger of it, and he this evening I know, be- | returned cause he brou fme, OC ome to me tomorrow morning ri IE AS you what can be done.” cal Jud; ve an appoint: Tell him 1 that he needn't not there £0 to with hi keep It, walt wail ock. for inute.” the mi on CHAPTER XXI. The Colonel's “Defi” Though It eigh } ‘ Smith sent his card to Miss Richiand- or's rooms at once and then had him- gelf lifted to the floor for her. She came | was only eight o'clock y i mezzanine wait | utes, a strikingly beautiful in the freshness of gown, red-lipped conscious her re splendent gifts of and figure. Smith went quickly to meet her and woman ia bright right-eyed, and » = ¢ serenely of own face drew her aside Into the music | Already the need for caution was be sing to make itself felt. ‘1 have come,” he sald “You got my note?” “A few minutes ago | leaving the breakfast table.” “You will leave Brewster at | while the way 1s’ still open?” ! He head, “I that : justice to { who now int i Bint briefly. she asked. Ww just as I was ON CP - can't shook his th Lae in have common trusted needing me must stay through | possibly another.” “Mr. Kinzie will not be likely to lo | any time” she prefigured thoughtfully and who than this one day, and me, more eve renceville before this” with | glance over her shoulder to make sure | that there were Then, no eav esdroppers ‘ identify you as John Montague Smith of Lawrenceville—the man who wanted by Sheriff Macauley. My fa- { ther. in his letter, after telling me that he will be detained in the moun- tains several days longer, refers to Mr, Kinzie's request and suggests—" The fugitive was smiling grimly. “He suggests that you might help Mr, Kin zie out.” “Not quite that,” she rejoined, “He merely suggests that I am to be prudent, and-to quote him exactly--‘not ix that it would make talk. . “1 see,” have a disagreeable duty ahead of you, and I'd relieve you of the necessity | by running away, if I could. But that is impossible, as I have explained.” She was silent for a moment; then she sald: “When I told you a few days ago that you were golng to need my help, Montague, I didn’t foresee anything like this. I shall breakfast lwith the Stantons in a few minutes; land after nine o'clock . . . If you could contrive to keep out of the way until 1 can get word to you; just so they won't be able to bring us face to face with each other" {mith saw what she meant; also, whereunto his wretched fate was dragging him. it was the newest of all the reincarnation”, the, one which had begun with Jibbey's silent band- clasp the night before, which prompted him to say: “If they should ask *° about me, FOU Were d go you down’ gsed, 1 them who coul and was {the lawyer was BOON i enough to go » i reached your offices you had gone, {the ranch girl was thers her father.” Was no img for “That “their onsense gol going after you was the daughter purpose better.” she sald ' 1iee1 little cclonel's “There was kKward contretemps, and i Baldwin refused, rather rode { thought, to tell her fa father { had gone.” w hi re hroke from the unwel- “There you ought to know, at last” “Does he know you are here? “He does” ‘ “Why you tell me before? That will « dreadfully. Tucker will talk and tell all he knows ; away subject abruptly, saying: . didn’t thin » sey radi compli £114 ning ae gf ant héip it “This is one time when he will not tal Perhaps he will tell you why when you see him." Miss Richlander glanced at the face of the small watch pinned her shoulder, on “You must not stay here any longer,” she protested. : down any minute, and they mustn't find us together. I am still forgiving enough to want to help you, but you must do your part and let me know what is going on.” William Starbuck's new car was standing in front of Judge Warner's {house in the southern suburb when | Smith descended from the closed cab he had taken at the Hophra side entrance, The clock In | the courthouse tower was striking the { quarter of nine. The elevated mesa | upon which the suburb was built com- | manded a broad view of the town and | the outlying ranch lands, and in the | distance beyond the river the Hillcrest | cottonwoods outlined themselves against a background buttes, Smith's gaze tok in the wide, sunlit prospect, “The Stantons may come now, i | which | House of him that in a few hours the wooded buttes, the bare plains, mountains, and the pictured city | spreading maplike at his feet would probably exist for him only as a mem- ory. While he halted on the terrace, Starbuck enme out of the house, “The judge 1s at breakfast” the owner announced. “You're to go In and walt. What do you want me to do next?’ : { (TO BE CONTINUED)’ Food Ad American sued GOV ninistrator H ywople in nn len today, of the i sf the nntio tral t oni 0 supply power population The ns sther cereals ited King ptimates Un sountries compa! duction are ta drawn that in bulated | form pid for them redud t Bo Ho it ir week per pe reon Decrease in Food Animals. of £ FON (KH) (Ni We ¢ ns with eur Europe must the which rationing. but we voiuntar int« before Higently assume one in direct and inescaj responsibil us as has wible We ms i ren to the alle 0 Ee our export of « and in the ¥ circumstances shipping situation these exports of the These are wheat, flour pork and dairy products We have f abundance wl of these commodities of our must foods most concentrated 3 bhp fi hee! oth er foods in great neh can use instead thou the and we can prevent Ww astes in a and We guard drainage of exports from the States, that we retain a propes supply for our own and must adopt such measures wili amelio rate, so far as may be, the price 1 tions of our less fortunate. Yen | so drain the supplies from the country to Europe as by the high prices that would follow to force our people to directions, must country, we nw sili ght IIAP INININT ING. Wi NI APNTITN CARE FOR YOUNG DUCKLINGS Little Attention Needed Aside From Drv Roosting Place and Right Kind of Feed. Young dueklings need little atten Son If given n Ary roosting place and the right kind of feed, according to N. L. Harris, superintendent of the Kansas State Agricultural college poul- try farm. “The less ducklings are handled the This oper nie forces” of the com most pro- s¢ the upon Must Be Voluntary. to food con accomplish of our propor- of min- every the the wholesale and f the country. s in its essence the dally royal road matter matter of at the 20,000,000 kitchens nd substitution on DO ANM (KN) inner tables 2.000 006 ifacturing GO ishments of Better Distribution. ron time which If honestly carried out by such Individuals in the country, we be effect the result which we We are ashi public eating piace and sign a pledge card directions, so far as ances permit, and we are various Instrumentalities to We leve will must atiain ng every home, evers trades, to many to accept these reumst nizing eculation of the engaged are ask. ing country are not in the handling of food to sign similar pledges that they shall see to it, so far as they are able, that these directions are followed the men actually who SNIPS NI NA SSNPS NANNY ! are plenty of green grass, ine] freah water, “Ax rile it not advisable to | sot duck eggs in an incubator, They | require more moisture and ventilation | than hen eggs, The recent rage over Indian Runner ducks has caused the neglect of the meat-producing type.” requirements sand a is ws ASAI, Sunlight Kills Germs, | No openings in your cow stables to adit suclight? This is a great mis | tke. Sunlight is death to many forms 0 a, RN
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