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CHAPTER X!l—Cohtinued.
w—] So
He seemed to tremble at her words.
He turned flercely upon her. “To
Scotland!” he shouted. “I'm done with
this country. A man’s thochts turn in
his old age to his homeland. To Aber-
deen!”
Molly was awed by the old man's
fanatical enthusiasm. “When shall we
go?" she asked.
“This autumn, lass — before the
snows fall. But—" he clutched her
by the arm—*“ye'll say nought about
it?
“But you must arrange with the com-
pany for a new factor, and, If he Isn't
trained—"
His clutch became convulsive, “Not
a word!” he cried fiercely. “Havena |
done weel by the company? It won't
be the sufferer. If they thocht 1 was
going away they'd—not a word, lass!
Promise me! Molly, lass, ye winna go
back on me now?”
“No, I won't go back on you,” she
answered.
But she did not like the {dea of
stealing away, although the company
would suffer little. And then there
would be the forfeiture of his pension.
But she dared not bring up that sub-
ject In view of his evident obsession.
After a while they began to make
preparations. They spoke of the jour-
ney as being weeks, Instead of months
away. Then came a night when the
factor tapped at Molly's door. She
dressed quickly and went out of her
room, to see the whole skyline ablaze.
on them. Suddenly a rig with
and drew up at the door,
Molly recognized Lee Chambers and
Hackett, and turned and faced them,
though her heart was beating with
fear.
“We've come for you, Miss McDon-
ald,” shouted lee Chambers
fire's across the muskeg, and
twenty minutes, Come along!™
He shouted and gesticulated wildly,
nnd seemed hardly master of himself,
AMeDonald and
turough the
they approached
herself away.
“It's not true!”
fire's on the other side.
sou gome for us?
“1 tell you you'll be burned to a cin-
der side of minutes
Chambers.
waste,
of danger.
“1 won't come!” cried Molly,
go with them, father.
ing the truth!
started ooked ou
But
she
smoke
the
girl drew
she cried. “The
Why should
fifteen
“We've got no time
Come along!"
“Don't
He's not speak-
Look at his face!”
way and strode up to the door.
guess that's true enough, what you
sald, Miss McDonald,” he sald. “The
ers is dying. They pulled him out of
his shack. He's In a bad way.
he'll Just live till morning.
ing for you."
“Will—Will burned!" gasped Molly,
looking at him with eyes of horror
“It’s gospel truth!” cried Chambers,
“He can't rest till you go to him.”
“Then why did you tell us sn un-
He's call-
soul.
“Because we wanted to break
gently,” shouted Hackett. He
her by the arm,
to waste!” he shouted. “He may dle
any minute while we're talking here.’
“He didn't send you,” cried Molly
with sudden conviction.
he have sent you?
You're lying! Let me go!”
store and tried to bolt the door In
their faces, but they set thelr shoul
ders against it and broke through.
Molly ran to her room; they were
there almost as soon as she.
rereamed, She heard
feeble shout cut off as
grasped him by the throat,
arms.
“Curse you!” he shouted,
She fought back like a tigress, broke
from him, and, snatching up the water-
pitcher, smashed it across his head,
cutting his face with the fragments of
porcelain. He grasped her by the
throat. She clung to the bed, the
table, to the door, screaming the while
until his fingers tightened on her
throat and the room swam blackly
svand her,
Khe was faintly conscious of a gag
gt into her mouth, of being car
struggling, out of the store, of
lifted Into the rig. Then she re.
to find herself huddled upon the
her father bending over her with
sts tied, and mumbling In her
The engineer, seated in front of
was driving furiously along the
southward. Hackett, with one
hrust out on either side of the
e, was wiping the blood from his
iperate as she was, Molly would
tried to leqp from the rig but
father. She heard him con
mumbling; and at length the
of his words reached her
and the horror of them numbed
-
her and repressed all thought of fight-
ing.
“It'll be all right, my lass,” the old
man was muttering. “They won't hurt
ye no more. They're taking us to Tom
Bowyer, I reckon. He's bested us,
We'll have to give In. We'll make the
most of it.”
The old man shook with fear, but
he laid his hand ecaressingly upon
her head. And afterward Molly re-
called that gesture, and remembered
that it was his right one,
At the time she thought nothing,
She lay back with her head against the
seat, resolved to husband her strength
for a more desperate struggle later, If
Her dress was rent, her halr
Rain had begun to
lashed incessantly,
tore madly through the darkness, and
the rig swayed dangerously from side
to side,
Molly's thoughts ran on as flercely.
They were taking her to Bowyer, then!
But Bowyer was at Cold Junetion, and
surely he not harm her there!
And he taking her father. She
must remain at his side and protect
him. She sat passively upon the floor,
hearing the frenzied babbling of the
old man, and soothing him with one
hand stretched out upon his,
But this wns not the way to Cold
Junction. This led Chain of
Lakes, where several fishing clubs had
purchased ground and water rights and
set up camps. Her heart sank. She
caught at Hackett's arm
“Where are you taking
pleaded. “Won't you let
I'll say nothing If you let us go—I'll
gny nothing!”
Hackett grinned at her and tried to
put his arm about her ont
at him, and, with an oath, he pushed
need be.
fell to her waist,
fall; the
horses,
could
was
toward
ns?
She struck
She gathered all her courage to wait
And the g ot long. The
upland ]
was surmounted. and a
came
P
into sight, eck of Ia
dark t
ed In a
u the
ip The
light show window,
i horses
to the ground
MeDonald hy the ar
roughly out of the vehicle.
fiercely
Tom
threshold,
He leaped and, eatch-
ing 1, pulled him
He
upon the door,
lowyer appeared
The factor
wyer pulled
opened,
the began
tremble Bu him
wonlously Inside,
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had been started with the purpose of
drawing himself and those in the vicin-
ity away from the office, while the
burglary was being committed. But
why had it falled? And what had
Chambers been after?
He must have known that there was
no money In the sufe. The men's pay
came up monthly by special messen-
ger, and was handed out the same eve-
ning. It would arrive on the Monday.
Chambers could not have been after
spoil of that kind.
Wilton looked through Joe's papers
again, Everything seemed intact, and
nothing had even been tampered with,
It must have been that Chambers took
fright after the murder,
Suddenly Andersen came running
across the smoking ground, fellowed
by some half-dozen of the engineers.
The foreman came panting up to the
door of the shack,
“The men are crazy drunk, Mr, Car-
ruthers, and they're planning to attack
the office!” gasped, “Somebody's
been telling them the safe's full of
money and that they're gelng to be
lald off because of the fire.”
Wilton refiected a while
the engineers gathered anxiously about
him,
“They
Wilton, there's
man can, at it
No, never mind what 1 mean!
want bloodshed.
it to them”
eng ;
and hurry t«
he
moment,
can't the safe)” sald
"Al
and
open
least, only one
already
idon't
he's been
four
1 store and sce t
harm Miss McDonald
{ her futher,” he r “And
this”
ines nke men
i
comes to
take
he revolver
him,
“You'd better come too,
ers,”
the man suggested,
they
Vilar $s 5.
Hy io the t
i
Ma O81, €
xd, and s10«
The outlaw caught Molly by
walst and swung her to the ground
She tried
having thrust MeDot
snatched her from
and, picking her un bodily, carried her
into the lighted room.
Bowyer the girl on
and pushed MeDon-
Outside Molly heard
altercation progress—Bow-
inside,
iid
deposited the
went out
in
a flerce
len answers and Lee Chambers’ queru-
whine,
Presently the two men went out and
heard the horses being led
“Bring Her Inl” He Yelled to Hackett.
away. She tried to adjust her torn
dress, to fasten up her hair. Bowyer
came back.
“Now we'll have a few words to-
gether,” he said, leering at Molly,
CHAPTER XII.
Wilton carried the dead man into
his room and laid the body on the bed.
His face was set like flint. In this he
traced the work of Bowyer; but the
tool, Lee Chambers, was the object
of his immediate vengeance,
Before anything else he must dis-
cover the motive of the burglary.
He opened the safe, which he had
shut, and went through the papers
very deliberately. He was astonished
to find that everything appeared in.
tact and just as he had left It,
Wilton could not understand it, fe
tried to figure it out. He had already
come to the conclusion that the fire
have It!" |}
and we'l
Know you set the
1d you've got
You
oney
all summ
| all
| line's bust
i chock-fu { mot
us lke ds
| you're going
company's busted.
it over.”
ye
es er, and
to lay us off because the
You'd
the men that tale,
“There's no money in the safe”
answered. “Send a deputation of three
men and you can examine it.”
The Hunkles, who for the most part
understood him very well, looked at
one another uncertainly., They were
as docile as lambs without leadership
jut they had a leader; the outlaw
Tonguay stepped forward out of the
crowd,
“Come along, boys, he's fooling you!"
he yelled, “Smash his head for him!
Give them what's coming to them”
But he slunk back Into thelr midst
as the bellowing mob rushed forward
! Wilton noticed that he was fingering
| a revolver In his coat pocket. He walt.
ed till the mob was close upon the
i shack, He had calculated that an in.
| stant’s hesitation would follow, selzed
{ It and sprang Into their midst. strik.
| ing out right and left and felling a
drunken laborer at every hlow. As
Tonguay fumbled desperately with the
trigger of the weapon In his pocket,
Wilton dealt him a smashing blow
that knocked him senseless. He
stooped, took the revolver and turned
and faced his assailants,
“Now, men,” he sald crisply. “I've
told you that you shall examine the
safe, and I'll keep my word. Three of
you enter, The rest will walt out.
side.”
After a pause three of the workmen
came forward uncertainly. Wilton
took them inside the shack, opened the
safe door and took out the contents
package by package,
“Satisfied there's no money? he
asked,
“l guess that's so,” admitted the
leader of the men, reluctantly.
“Then get out,” sald Wilton, driving
them toward the door.
The three rejoined thelr companions
and, with sullen mutterings, the work-
men lurched away almlessly, and to
tally unable to unite on any further
plan for aggression now that thelr
leader was gone. Andersen and one
of the engineers picked up Tonguay
and brought him into the shack. The
man was still unconscious. However,
he showed signs of coming to shortly,
“Jules Is dead,” sald Wilton quletly,
“Jules dead?” shouted Andersen,
“Murdered. It was Lee Chambers.
He must have been hanging round the
camp. He got Into the safe, too, but
wns scared awny before he took any.
thing. Come Inside!”
At the sight of the dead man on the
bed Andersen swore softly
he
“He must have been with those two
liquor peddlers,” sald Andersen, “I
guess they set the fire, all right.”
“lI guess they did,” sald Wilton,
“And I want you to go on to the next
camp and telephone In to Clayton and
get the police up here right away.”
“I done it, Mr. Carruthers,” sald An.
dersen, “You see, sir, just as soon as
the fire began [I seen that gasoline on
the engine sheds.
men talking, because I picked up a lit.
tle of thelr language. | knew there
wis trouble coming, and I ‘phoned Mr,
Quain, He sald he'd get an engine
and come right up with some of his
men,"
“Well done!” sald Wilton, “We'll
have this man for them, at any rate”
Tonguay stirred, muttered and sud-
denly sat up on the floor, looking at
Iderment,
in bewl
the
nptors
y took revolver
and walked towar
RON to ask
Tonuguay,”
| tone. “You'll fin
them
he
with Hackett:
You were
Camp ang
and
an
besides Jim
“You came
1 to sell
unke the
uted, |
whom you
round the
drunk
you have
working for,
ett, eh, Tonguay?”
“Mebbe I do,” muttered the outiaw,
“1 guess you shoot me unless I say Mr,
Bowyer, eh?
The parry was effective. “You came
juor
14 ona
fae
Fuess
were
“Lee
Chambers’ Job was to steal papers
from the safe while we were fighting
the fire. You were going to ineet
somewhere afterward. Where was 1t™
The man burst into scoruful laugh
ter. “You don’t bluff me,” he jeered,
“I guess you don't want to be charged
wit' anodder fnurder, eh?
“Do you?" asked Wilton,
“How's dat?! You don't fix no mur
der on me”
“Come here!” sald Wliton, taking
him by the arm and leading him to
the door of the bedroom.
The moon, sloping in the west, threw
a flood of light on the white face of
Jules, showing the crushed skull and
the biood-clots that stalned the piliow,
Tonguay screamed and started away,
but Wiiton held him fast,
“What you want to know?" babbled
the outiaw,
“Where were you three going te
meet afterward?”
“In de clubhouse of de fishing camp
at Chain of Lakes, twelve miles
south,” groaned Tonguay, sinking
back against the wall,
“That's where we'll find them,” sald
Andersen.
Wilton handed him the revolver,
“You'll guard your prisoner, and hand
him over to the police when they ar
rive,” he sald,
Then he saw men running toward
the shack, and stepped outside, It
was the party whom he had sent te
the portage.
“They're
them.
“Gone? What dv you mean?” shout.
ed Wilton,
“Mise McDonald and the factor,
They went to bed last night. Now
they're not there, There's been foul
work done, and a fight. Her room is
ull in confusion, the bedclothes
dragged Into the store, a pitcher
smashed to pleces.”
Andersen pulled at Wilton's sleeve,
“We'll eatch the horses at the mus-
keg" he sald. “You stay here. It's owe
Job, sir.”
“No, It's my job, Andersen” an.
swered Wilton, "and, by Gd, It'll be
a thorough one !™
(TO BE CONTINUED)
gone!” panted one of
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Craze for Necklaces, Pendants, |
Bracelets, Earrings.
Buyers Are Enthusiastic Regarding |
Bright Future They See In Store |
for Decorations.
The craze for new types of jewelry,
particularly for necklaces, pendants, |
bracelets, brooches, earrings and head
dresses, is steadily increasing, states |
8 fashion correspondent in the New
York Tribune, Combinations of pearls,
brilllants and platinum, pearls and |
onyx and the use of semi-precious
stones, such as lapis, jade and colored |
crystal In sets that are especially de- |
flgned to accompany certain costumes, |
Manufac-
turers of imitation jewdiry are has
tenlng to ecapy these pew designs
brought out by the leading jewelers
and Isunched by the most exclusive |
Gressmakers and thelr smart clientele.
Several American buyers returning
from abroad expressed great enthusi-
asm regarding the bright future which
they consider is in store for novelty
Jewelry, especially pleces in black and
white effects, such as In combination !
of crystal and onyx and jet and pearls. |
Crystal, jet and pearls are frequently |
combined, especially in necklaces. The
combination of these three 18 exceed
Ingly pleasing, the whiteness of the
crystal offsetting the blackness of |
the jet {
There are necklaces formed of long
twisted chains of fine pearls finished
with a tassel which has as the last
bead an onyx somewhat larger than
the last pearl, the whole being held by
an onyx slide. Others consist of &
tassel of pearls having an onyx top, |
is suspended on a long black
glk cord. Sdll others have silver and |
marcasite tops and small pearls set |
between links of silver for the chain,
Plaque pendants or cabochons,
or narrow velvet ribbons, are made
or from onyx set in steel
cither
These are distinctly
of the Empire
Other cabochons are of erystal
a frame of steel and decorated
niscent Second
fw
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Those
1ects
of
to
colorful
fond
kindly
who
are
will take crystal
GIRLS
WHITE IS IN THE LIMELIGHT
White occupies the center of the
stage, so fashion decrees, and when of
oreps and beaded In bugle beads, it
becomes a gewn of charming appear-
ance. The pointed skirt and black
sash are its chief characteristics
cabochons in colors and to the dull
gold novelties set with colored stones.
Frequently the eabochon Is of colored
galalith with a motif appliqued to It
Again the pendant is of
the metal ornamented with colored
stones,
DISCREET COLORS IN PLAIDS
Brown ls Leader for Daytime Wear;
Blue 8tands Out as Marked
Shade for the Year.
Plaids in discreet
featured for outdoor and tallore
English mixtures and w
colorings sre strong for
tallored garments. Bros
lender for daytime wear
from dark
Green is belng
manufacturers,
in reseda and
In silks, as in
wear, brown, green and
good. For evening, all t
base, such
orange purples, are
Blue in bright tones,
tings blue and
of the Copenhagen
Bright bl
the marked
but used
or In com
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#1 iB
£24
and
blue
hase
stands out ss
for the year,
decoration,
black.
PETTICOATS AGAIN IN STYLE
interest in the Garment Is Stimulated
by Fact That Outer Skirt ls
to Be Longer.
The increased skirt length, which is
an assured fact for fall and winter,
This garment, which to a
sons, seems destined to have a run of
Taffeta is always charming for the |
young girlie, and the basque bedice, as |
shown here, la particularly attractive
if becomingly worn upon a dainty fig-
ure. The wheels of fluted taffeta are
decorative,
Among the undergarment novelties
recently seen, one that is distinetly
practical, as well as novel, Is a step-in
chemise, with plaited petticoat section
both back and front
Corsets continue to be light of
weight, both as to fabric and boning,
with short tops and as much elastic as
possible used so that they give to and
with the figure
New Tallored Street Models Have Re
ceived Stamp of Approval for
Coming Season.
Devoting the entire line shown for
the fall to tallored models In poiret
twill, one manufacturer has a wide
assortment of street frocks that al
ready have had a successful response
in the market. Depending strictly on
tallored lines for thelr effect, these
dresses have but little trimming and
it is applied with careful attention to
detall and artistry. In most every
case the models are created to fill the
needs of the smart walking dress and
the practical frock that can be worn
indoors and out with due considera:
tion of the fall weather,
The colors are navy and seal brown,
besides black. Almost all the models
are developed in the two shades used
by this house, with corresponding
touches of color In embroidery and
bead effects. The medels are Im
ported designs and feature Jenny
necks, Polret necks and the V-neck
with an Insert of the same material
In almost every model there is at
least a suggestion of the uneven hem-
line and the draped effect.
One model that Is rather uniqhe
was developed In Polret twill with
bands of red and black imported em-
broldery. The essential feature of
the frock 1s the fact that It can be
worn with a hanging panel.from the
shoulder, or the panel turned up pre
gents a blouse effect on the back, with
the band of embroidery forming a
standing collar. The shoulder panel
lined with canton satin, when turned
up over the shoulder, gives the dress
a satin back that is quite unique. The
panel fastens on the front of the
blouse In tiny poluts that affect a
coat design. The embroidery on this
dress is brilliant with color and is a
particularly good example of the dress
that can be worn In different ways.
Sweaters In Colors.
Bhetland and thin wool slipons are
popular sweater numbers in plain and
figured effects, but always in black
and white, gray and white, pastel
blues or neutral colorings, sometimes
repeated In stockings and hat. Bright
colors are conspicuous by thelr ab-
sence,
Headgear.
Turbans of malines, a shade of
brown being particularly fashionable,
are replacing those of satin and straw
cloth that have been so Popular,
Though there Is much talk of the
large hat on the street the close tur
ban is more than holding its own.
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Porch Frock,
The porch frock has developed Into
a straightdine frock, made up In bright
colored fabrics, or printed designs, not
too conservative In color. Usually
they have round necks, short sleeves
and elastic bands at the walst,
Qingham,
Gingliam dresses are amazingly
cheap this year, compared to the prices
they attained the last few seasons.
For less than $10 you may get a very
snappy one.
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