oF The Real an By FRANCIS LYNDE { 10estrations by IRWIN MYERS | While you were phoning in the garage I put one policeman wise—to nothing.” | “He was looking for me?” “Sure thing-—und by name, We'll | Starbuck's answer wu wordless, With a quick twist of the pllot wheel he sent the ear skidding around the corner, using undue haste, ns it jup., Then I'll drop you at the court- | {house and go hustle the sheriff for | | you. You'll want Harding, I take it?" “Yes. I'm taking the chance that only the city authorities have been | notified in my personal affair-—not the j county officers. Z's a long chance, of | course; I may be running my neck | squarely Into the noose, But it's all | risk, Billy; every move In this night's i game, Head up for the courthouse. | { The judge will be there by this time.” Two minutes beyond this the car | | was drawing up to the curb on the mesa-facing side of the courthouse square. There were two lighted win- BK Copyright by Chas. Scribner's Sons CHAPTER XXIV-—Continued. se] Bron “Yes—like fits I will!” retorted the mine owner. “I told you once, John, that I was in this thing to a finish, and I meant it. Go on glving your orders.” “Very well; you've had your warn- ing. The next thing is the auto. I want to catch Judge Warner before he goes to bed. I'll telephone while you're getting a car.” Starbuck had no farther to go than to the garage where he had put up his car, and when he got it and drove to the Kinzie building, Smith came out of the shadow of the entrance to mount beside him. “Drive around and let me try the low-spoken isn't working.” The short run was and Smith went to the A moment later a two-hundred-pound policeman up to put a huge foot on the running board of the walt- ing auto. Starbuck greeted him a friend. “Hello, Mac, tonight ¥ “Th tricks are even, an’ I'm tryin’ to take th" odd wan,” said the big Irish- man. “Tis a man named Smith I'm lookin’ for, Misther -J. Mon- tay-gue Smith; th’ fl-nanshal av th’ big ditch comp'ny. Have ye a? Starbuck, | ier, to the again another request, garage phone,” was quickly made, garage office, 31 strolled ans How's tricks with you Starbuck- boss geen ooking over the polié man's Smith the telephone in the garage office. other but chosen Oe could at An- head ae shoul¢ qe his . 3 of the hand- might have lost the few ily in an emergency. “He hangs out at the Hophra House a good part of the time in the eve- nings.” he replied “Hop in and I'll drive you around.” minutes later the threatening danger was a danger pushed a little way into the future, and Starbuck was back at the garage curb waiting Smith to come out, Through the win- dow he saw Smith placing the receiver on its hook, and a moment afterward he was opening the car door for his passenger. “Did you make out to raise t! Judge?” he inquired, as Smith climbed in. “Yes. He will meet me at his cham- bers in the courthouse as soon as he can drive down frem his house.” “What are your hoping to do, John? Judge Warner is only a circuit Judge; he can’t an order of States court aside, can he?” “No; but there is one thing that he in do. You may remember that I had a talk with him this morning at his house. I was trying then to cover all the chances, among them the pos- ibility that Stanton jump a gang of armed thugs at the last We are going to assume that this is what has been done.” Starbuck set the ear in motion and ®ent it spinning out of the side street, ex-cowpuncher Ww hose wa wits sharpen coolly. set C1 would in “The Tricks Are Even.” around the plaza, and beyond to the less brilliantly {lluminated residence distri t-—which was not the shortest way 1) the courthouse. “¥e1 mustn't pull Judge Wamner's leg, © hn," he protested, breaking the purr: 1 silence after the business quar- ter 1.d been left behind; “he's too £00d a man for that.” “I shall tell him the exact truth, so far as we know it,” was the quick reply. “There is one chance in a thou sand that with the law--as well as the equities on our that no papers have been served on us, and, so far as I know, they haven't, What you driving all the way around here for?” “This is one of the times when the longest way round is the shortest way home,” Starbuck explained. “The bad news you were looking for ‘has came. side, are dows In the second story of the other- wise darkened building, and Smith | | Sprang to the sidewalk. “Go now and find Harding, and have him bring one trusty deputy with back,” he directed ; but Starbuck walt- in the shadows of the pillared court- | A Race to the Swift. Since Sheriff Harding had left his office in the county jail and had gone home to his ranch on the north side. of the river some hours earlier, not little precious time was consumed In him up. leyond this, there another delay In securing the dep- When Starbuck's car came to a for a time before the -fronting entrance of the court 1se, Smith came quickly across the lk from the portal. Mr. Harding,” he began abruptly, “Judge Warner has gone home and he has made me his messenger. There is a bit of sharp work to be done, and you'll need a strong nn you deputize fifteen or twenty good men who can be depended upon in a fight and rendezvous them the north side river road in two hours from now?” The sheriff, a big, bearded man who | might have sat for the model of one ! of Frederle Remington's took t a hunting vas te tand u second hou posse, { on fo ir ontiersmen, t ime to consider. he asked, “It Is Ui to “Is it a scrap?” There are and resistance, kely to be. war- be served, will | probably be Your | posse should be well armed.” | “We'll try for it.” “On the north-side say? You'll “It will be better to take horses, could get but Judge Warner with that the thing had be quietly and without mak too much of stir in town.” “All right” sald man of the law. “It that all?” “No, not quite all. The first of the warrants Is to be served here In Brew. ster—upon Mr. Crawford Stanton. Your deputy will probably find him at the Hophra House. Here is the paper: it Is a bench warrant of commitment on a charge of conspiracy, and Stan. ton is to be locked up. Also you are to see to It that your jall telephone is out of order, so that Stanton won't be able to make any attempt to get a hearing and ball before tomorrow.” “That part of It is mighty risky.” said Harding. “Does the judge know about that, too?" —-— “He does; and for the ends of pure justie he concurs with me—though, of course, he couldn't give a manda- tory order” The sheriff turned to his jall dep- uty, who had descended from the! rumble seat in the rear. | “You've heard the dope, Jimmie ™ he sald shortly. “Go and get His Nobs and lock him up. And if he wants to be yelling ‘Help! and send- ing for his lawyer or somebody, why, the telephone’s takin’ a lay-off. Savvy?" The deputy nodded and turned upon his heel, stuffing the warrant for Stan- ton’s arrest into his pocket as he went, Smith swung up beside Star buck, saying: “In a couple of hours, then, Mr. Harding: somewhere near the bridge approach on the other side of the river.” Starbuck had started the motor and | was bending forward to adjust the oil rants there most was the decision. | river road, you want us mounted?” | We | autos, AETes me rees wetter done ing ing n the ©, f made a ten- | * the ex- | have Warner, “You to with Judge seem flash4damp In its seat pocket. “Judge Warner is a man in every inch of him; but there is something behind this night's work that I don't quite understand,” was the quick re- | ply. “I had hardly begun to state the | case when the judge interrupted me. ‘T know," he sald. ‘I have been wait- | Ing for you people to come and ask | for relief” What do you make of that, Billy?” i “I don't know; unless someone In | Stanton’s outfit has welshed. Shaw might have done it. He has been to Bob Stillings, and Stillings says he Is sore at Stanton for some reason, Shaw was trying to get Stillings to agree to | drop the railroad case against him, and Bob says he made some vague | promise of help in the High Line busi- | ness if the rallrond people would | I know by the way Judge Warner When 1 proposed to swear | out the warrant for Stanton’s arrest, said, ‘I can't understand, Mr. Smith, why you haven't done this be fore,’ and he sat down and filled out the blank. But we ean let that go for the present. How are you geing fo get me across the river without tak- | ing me through the heart of the town | and giving the Brewster police a shy nt me?” i them, A few minutes farther along the lights of the town had been left behind and the car was speeding swiftly westward on a country paralleling the railway track: the rond over which Smith had twice | driven with the kidnapped Jibbey. “I'm still guessing,” the passenger ventured, when the last of the rall- | road distance signals had flashed to the rear. And then: “What's the fran- | tic hurry, Billy?" Starbuck was running with the | mufiler cut out, but now he cut it in and the roar of the motor sank to a i humming murmur, “lI thought 80,” he remarked, turn- ing his head to listen. “You didn't notice that police whistle just as we were leaving the courthouse, did you? —nor the answers to it while we were | dodging through the suburbs? Some- road the word, and now they're chasing us | with a buzz-wagon. Don't you hear iH" iy this time Smith could hear the sputtering roar of the following car | only too plainly, i “It's a big one,” he commented. “You can't outrun it, Billy; and, be- " quarters of an hour of skiil- ful driving over a bad road to between Smith's remark and Its re- ply, but Starbuck apparently made no come “You're alming to go and see Cor- ry?’ he asked, while the car was coasting to the hill bottom. “HY og" John; and Corry Baldwin got any brother,” he offered “I'm backing you in business fight for all I'm worth—for Dick Maxwell's sake and the colonel’s, hasn't my own ante of twenty thousand. need to make your fight, But when it comes to the little girl it's different. shaping themselves are?” Smith met fairly. “Give It a name” he sald shortly. “I will: I'll give it the one you gave it a while back. You sald you were up as they the shrewd inquisition ment sault taste “] and assault, We'll let the as- go. But the other thing doesn't good.” didn't embezzle anything, Billy. “You've Heard the Dope, Jimmie.” gldes, there is nowhere to ran this direction.” Starbuck's Again tself reply translated With ols he into acti the contr top speed, ! mm. a ski t nhe of more ishing lead In the race through sheer driving and an knowl the road and its twistings and turnings. jut the road become a cart track in the mountains: there was no outlet to the north save ¥y me of the rallroad bridge at Little Butte station, and from some- where up the valley and bevond the raliroad bri the softened whistle of 8 train. Starbuck set a high mark for him- self as a courageous driver of m cars when he came to the last of the three road crossings. Jerking the car around sharply at the instant of crossing, he headed straight out the ties for the railroad bridge. was a courting of death. To the bridge at racing speed was haz ouch of ad at ten miles or good accurate mdge of would soon ans ige came distance ator t K- trad over It drive nothing less than madness, It was after the ear had shot into the first of the three bridge spans that the pursuers pulled up amd opened fire, Starbuck bent lower over his wheel, and Smith clutched for handholds, Far up the track on the north side of the river a headlight flashed in the darkness, and the hoarse blast of a locomotive, whistling for the bridge, echoed and reechoed among the hills, Starbuck drove for his life. With bridge fairly he found himself on a high embankment: and the oncoming train was now less than half a mile away. Somewhere be- the crossed, If they could reach its crossing before the collision should come— They did reach it, by what seemed to Smith a margin of no more than the | of the heavy freight train which went jangling past them a scant second or so after the car had been | wrenched aside Into the obscure mesa | They had gone a mile or more | on the reverse leg of the long down- | river detour before Starbuck cut the | his seat-mate, “Take her a minute while I get the makings,” he sald, dry-lipped, feeling | in his pockets for tobacco and the | rice paper, Then he added: “Holy | Solomon! 1 never wanted a stoke £0 bad in all my life!” Smith's laugh was a chuckle. “Gets next to you—after the fact— doesn’t it? That's where we split. 1 had my scare before we hit the bridge, and it tasted like a mouthful of bitter aloes. Does this road take us back up the river?” “It takes us twenty miles around through the Park and comes In at the | head of Little creek. But we have | plenty of time. You told Harding two | hours, didn't you?” “Yes; but I must have a few min- utes at Hilicrest before we get action, | Billy.” | Starbuck took the whee! again and | sald nothing until the reundabout race | had been fully run and he was eas | ing the ear down the last of the hills into the Little Creek rond. There had | “So you did. But you also made it plain that the home would be likely to send you up for it, gullty or not guilty, And with a thing like that hanging over you 1 know Corry Bald yon put it up to her pens to fall in which is what you her all hell going back home you through! “Billy, I ma I 1 loved her but ft “And rel Court you see, If she hap your side of It to her and se make from aiming keep yon do said Ow entlessly, CHAPTER XXVI. Freedom. bank of the Ti of nrihern m mi On the n ty vonl the Bre ster street, bridge esti gati forking the bridge of its branchings the Little Creek westward up is a prolon road, from Wagon COMMON hundred ap one ong another proach to send northward ar ranches the the stream of road, ve o'clock of the night right ba At this fork eleven and twel Sheriff Harding to gnddle pon repeati the between larme. 's party of ecinl deputies ba gan man's «pb ¥ Under each slung the regulation West——a rded and the small troop bunching itsel wen seahba ng $ the waked serviceably tant An 1 He Ness river road lk nd businesslike, hile rolled silently fromm the nort among the rein beside of the un 0niomu road stand drew to 0 ' h horses, the car occu ni can to a sheriff spoke ro The nnd punts; “Well, Mr. “How many?" “Twenty.” “Good, Here Is your authority™-— handing the legal papers to the officer, “Before we go In you ought to know the facts, A hours ago a man named M'Graw, calling himself a depu- United States marshal and claim- ing to be acting under Instructions from Judge Lorching’s court In Red Butte, took possession of our dam and camp. On the even chance that he isn’t what he claims to be, we are go. ing to arrest him and every man in his crowd. Are you game for it?” “I'm game to serve any papers that Judge Warner's got the nerve to Is sue,” was thebig man's reply. “That's the talk; that's what I hoped to hear you say. ed?” “He sure was, Strothers found him in the Hophra House bar, and the line of talk he turndd loose would have set ane two Smith, we're all here.’ was the curt question. few ts get himself locked up.” ready, we'll tuke the next.” For the first mile or so silence was vance began. the midnight river in its bed, ed a cigarette, harked back to the talk which had been so abruptly broken off, “Let's not head into this ruction with an unpicked bone betwixt us, John,” he began gently. “Maybe 1 said too much, back yonder at the foot of the hill" (TO BE CONTINUED) Its Merit, “You call this portrait of your wife a beautiful work of art? I must say it is not a speaking lkeness of her.” “That's the beauty of i" | BY INSTITUTES Big Part Agriculturist Is Asked | to Take in War Increases General Interest. 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December December 3-4 Li ord, Novem! wm, November 238; 3 Ringtown, : mento i. wh, i quehanna uth November ED 19- «2; Great | November | 51 el Lawsville, iob Mansfield, 28.29 N January 26; velson, January Millis February 1-2 Laureiton, February } February 18.19 Yayne-Galllee, November 12. November 15; Heech lake Honeadale, November Wiroming-Mehoopany Tunkhannock, January York-—-FaWn Grove, New Freedom, January February 1:2. Hellam. February Red Lion, James McCormick Passes. James MeCormick, one of Harsis. burg’s oldest and best known citizens, | is dead, aged 80 years. As a church. | man and philanthropist he was known | all over the country. He was one of | the incorporators of Pine Street Pes. | byterian Church, and for many years conducted the iargest Sunday school class in the United States. He founded | the Harrisburg Hospital, was foremost | in charities and was one of the or ganizers of the Y. M. C. A. 15-16; 14; Tor. | Novem- 13 January ih.30 January 36-31 irg 14 is 18.18; 28.29 Dover, February 1-2. $-5 Loganville, February 8.9 February 6.7; His chari- | He was an | uncle of Vance . McCormick ot Requests for cards to be placed in his depart. ment, at the Capitol Bureau of Infor exchange, were sen: to each depart- ment head. State experts have ordered a general Dickinson College Law Schoo! at Carlisle has sent 37 of its 48 current year graduates into Uncle Sam's mili The . Lehigh Valley Coal Company With more than 1,000 employment at men out of Washington through manufacturers fear it will be necessary to close other plants. The body of Corporal McGinnis, who lost his life at .Camp Hancock, Augus. ta, Ga, arrived home at Pottsville and fecelved rare honors, Congressman R. D. Heaton notified Shenandoah authorities that the free Girardville and St. Clair in fhe near future. Both have been after free delivery for years.
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