I » HHH Sinn 1 THE NAKED KNIFE SYNOPSIS —On the banks of the Wabash stand Texte Colin end Jack Warhepe, young and very much in love. Texie is the only daughter of old Pap Bimon, rich man and money-lender. Jack is the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate, At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the girl's missing brother. Then Jack says that in ten days his servitude will be over. that he will ride out inte the big world to seek his fortune. Both know what that will mean to them. Texie and Jack talk of the red lock of “Red Colin,” in- herited by Ken. And Jack says he's coming back as soon as he finds gold in California. Then arrives the new preacher, Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon in- troduces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate eof Ken. At supper at the Colin home the preacher tells how the boy killed a gambler and disap- peared. His father attributes Ken's fall from grace to his red lock of hair. Then Pap Simon has a sort of stroke, brought on by reading a letter from Koen, “somewhere in New York.” who curses his father on his death bed, A postseript by another hand says he Is dead. At the vil- lage store and post office loge Belden, a newcomer, says he saw the new parson with his arm around Texie. Jack licks him, shoots a pistol from his hand and makes him say he was mistaken. The preacher and the villagers go [lighing. Jack discovers the preacher carries a six-gun A footprint on a concealed house- boat fits the preacher's hoot S——- CHAPTER VIi—Continued. Io Of a truth, the comparison between the two men could not well have been more striking. The young preacher was a very handsome man. The beard and spectacles, the mass of hair fall- ing about his ears, seemed to Invest | him with an air of exquisite mystery— an alr that has such power to compel the attention of women. The young woodsman, on the other hand, with his uncouth and ill-fitting clothes, though far from plain, owed whatever attractions he possessed to his magnificent physique, a bold regu- larity of features, and an honest, open | frankness—a man's man, With a Jerky, elaborate bow Jack, the young preacher turned Texle. “1 was just bunting for you, Miss Texie. They want you at the punch bowl.” The girl must have known the woodsman was about to speak to her, His face was as easy to read as the «signs of spring. She glanced at him; dropped her eyes; laughed-—a trifle uneasily he thought, knowing her so well—and walked away beside the minister. The woodsman stood looking after them, a queer sense of emptiness In his breast-—a map nursed by nature, untaught te juggle with the heart's emotions, The volce of the gray-halred geatie woman in the rocking chair recalled his straying thoughts. “Aren't they a fine-looking she was saying. “Uh-huh.” “As 1 look back over the years since we came to Buckeye, I remember that you and she have always been play- mates. My dear husband so often used to speak of the beautiful com- panionship between you. Long associ- ation with one so sweet and Innocent must have had a most ennobling lnflu- ence upon you.” “It didn't hurt me none.” “Dear me! but you are laconic this evening, my lad. De you always speak with sueh Spartan brevity?” She might as well have sald It in Latin. Jack was frowning hard In an effort to make out her meaning when Zeke Polick, ofiiclously omnipresent, stopped at the old lady's chair, The woodsman was saved, He walked away in the crowd, while Aunt Liza, a few seats away, never back- wad about airing her views, leaned over toward the postmaster’s wife and, In hoarse half-whispers, laid down her vastly positive opinion on the very sub- ject he had just escaped discussing. “Ain't it a burnin’ shame the way Texie {ets the new parson carry on with ‘er, an’ leavin' Blg Jack out 'n the cold !—an’ him wo'th any two o the parson, the best breath ‘e ever drawed. She'll rue it. Mark my words, Hanner Polick, she'll rue it.” “Aw, shucks, Aunt Liza, you're jist jealous f'r Big Jack, him bein’ about yu 8 much, an' Uncle Nick a-teachin’ im all about the woods an’ boxin' an’ sich,” “Nick! Nick!"-it would be utterly Impossible to commit to paper the ul timate contempt In the stifled tones “fr the lan’ sakes! What @' y'u 8'pose I care who the ol' man teaches ‘is fool truck an’ boxin' tricks to? She'll rue the day she draps a fine lad Uke Big Juck—bound though ’'e beé—an' takes up with a teetotal furriner, jist Heayse ‘e happens t* be a mite slicker lookin’ mebbe-~though, f'r my part 1 don't consait ‘Im one lotum better. lookin’ than Big Jack is. She'll rue it, Hunner Pollck, she'll rue It. That par- gon halt got all that plaver an’ eechin’ ways £'r nothin’, now there's #8 of It, I-jeeminy 1” postmaster's wife had her Hps | for her reply when there den [commotion at the door. to to couple?” fal} and povertully | " By: DAVID ANDERSON Author of “The Blue Moon" Copyright by The Bobbe-Merrill Co. built, a slouch hat pulled low over his head, a swart face covered by a heavy stubble of black beard, and apparently Just drunk enough te he dangerous, was roughly elbowing the crowd aside as he stalked back toward the table, “Glmme some cake,” he growled. Miss Martin, trembling on the verge of panic, passed a plate of cake to him. He snatched off a plece, held It up comtemptuously for a moment and then slammed it back with a force that dashed the piste from the thuld little teacher's band and scattered its com- tents all about the table. “Aw, h—l1l, gimme some cake!” The preacher's shoulders where he stood stooped mmong the women around the punch bowl, A spark of anger leaped into the eyes behind the spectacles, and his fingers curled toward his palms—a movement that the others were too intent upon the intruder to notice. But the flash passed with the Instant; his shoulders drooped: to his eves came back the look of peering benevolence. “Friend,” he called, still keeping his place among the women, “do you not realize that you are Intimidating these ~-Mmost en- Will you not please lifted " The swart-faced man stared nso lently at the preacher, a curiously be- wildered look crossed his heavy face, He seemed to study the drooping shoulders, the studious eyes hehind the spectacles, “Say, you pore devil of a gospel slinger,” he snarled, "who's runuin’ this show? Dry up. 'r 1 might take a notion t' sa'nter over and twist y'ur ear.” Turning back te the table, he took from his pocket an ugly clasp kolife still uncut, a sort of ornamental cen- of a Gospel “Who's Run “Say, You Pore Devil Slinger,” He Snaried, nin’ This Show™ terpiece that had been selected for the its size and beauty, himself off an enormous slice, There is that about a naked knife a certain cold, flinching thought of sharp steel drawn across warm flesh that no other weapon Inspires. Women gasped ; children flew in terror to their parents ; the desperado was left with the cleared center of the floor to him- self, He hacked himself off another huge section ; gulped it down; laughed con- temptuously, aud slammed the rest of the beautiful confection at a window with a force that snuffed out a candles and shivered the glass to splinters; he glared around at the shrinking circle and smacked the knife against the palm of his hand. “Say, ladies,” he leered, his voice sounding harsh and strident in the dead silence of the room, “you and the youngsters nee'n’ t' git panicky. | ain't go'n’ t' hurt you none. 1 Jist sa'nter'd In t' git a look at a jay I've hear'n tell shoots up K'ntuckians” The reference was too plain to be misunderstood. Not a man there but had heard of the shoot-up in the post office the evening before. Every eye turned toward Jack Warhope, stand- ing a step or two in front of the shrinking circle--for the others had drawn back and he had not. The eyes of the desperado followed the eyes of the crowd. Slouching across the floor till the two stood face to face, he stiffened and glared with dull savagery, Tezle, Just back of the preacher at the punch bowl, leaned across the table and almost stopped breathing. “I'm a K'ntuckian” “I "low they was right sorry when y'u left.” The reply stung the drunk man to madness, With unexpected viclous- ness he lunged gnd struck with the knife, The woodsman sprang back, warded the blow with ready quickness, and whipped a vicious jab to the chin that pitched the Intruder backward to the floor, But the blow, Siete 1 as it HunEnnnmns al «ont THT EER: had come the flick of an instant too late, the kunlle had found his flesh, through collar and tle and gushed his shoulder half-way to the armpit, Right there the Flatwoods showed its .teeth, Fifty pistols leaped into view. Al Counterman, far back in the crowd, snatched a gun from somewhere under his blouse and his lanky body stiffened to bal- there ever seen before, Uncle Nick, weight of years, aside and circle, hurled younger en sprang into the dren present question. The desparado counted on this very fact, mudness by the blow, and lunged again with the knife, doubtless Stung to preacher. With a readiness and cour- age bardly looked for In one of his cloth, be had stepped in front of Jack perbly dominant, and straining forward, stood staring. The eves of the dark-faced man stretched so wide that they appeared to bulge from thelr sockets. He lifted a dirty band, brushed it across the wiry stubble of his face and like a knife and put it back In his pocket, Fifty flatwoodsmen relaxed, straight- ened; fifty pistols went back Into hiding, The preacher slowly raised an arm and pointed toward the open The desperados eyes dropped: be rubbed his lips together as If to loozen them ; turned and stalked from the room. “Mebbe we ortn't tv away," muttered a voice “Aw leave “Im go,” grunted Nick, a curiously purried let ‘im git | Unele | expressic gone, "He’ 5 licked hangin’ The old man turned away, still with the puzzled expression his face, motioned Jack the side of hee - : Degan examining his an’ ‘es ain't wo'th on te & chalr st the room and hurt, At that through the crowd of approached twisted his and the girl, of rips in the Liza brought, began from the it ready Texle some moment slipped white strips nd Kini torn tablecloth the tie Hips hand, A dipping witler to wash the blood shoulder and wake Inged The preacher looked on a moment, turned away and went back smong 10 were gathering in her woodsman, one the st Aunt cold gashvd to be ban The elabor and stiff neck stock again asserted themselves had come back flare had The glanced coat had The stoop to his shoulders: left hin eyes girl, with fingers through the open trembling, door into lowed up the despecado; over the bandages, and face close to the woods: “Jack-—-—he looked would ‘a’ looked The woodsman started: the square of darkoess the girl's face “No, no he whispered. he was alive. he wouldn't | down that-—Jjow-—!" bent low brought An's ear, like-like- looked : and then into sor “Even come CHAPTER VII Fancies and Fence Rails Jack Warbope made a one-handed Job of his work among the feed-pens next forenoon, though it was a task for two. The young woodsman was immensely sensitive over the fact that he was a bound boy, though Simon Colin never obtruded it on him and seldom exercised any sort of authority over him, He allowed him to live on In the go us he pleased. The = vewd money-lender probably knew that the young man's high spirit would urge aim further than any amount of exer ciaed authority possibly could. And Simon Colin knew the race from which his bound boy had sprung. From the first, Simon's treatment of his bound boy had caused his nelgh- bors no small wonder--it was so un like him. He hed sent him to the vil lage school till he outgrew it, and had allowed him to roam the woods with. out any sort of restraint. Far from discouraging his very aptitude for woodcraft, he had even loosened his heart-strings——and his purse-strings; do--té6 the extent of buying him the best double-barreled shotgun the mar and workmanship as fine as the art of revolver-making could produce at that time—two gifts on which the boy cer tainly cast no dlscredi’, “Why don't y'u try some twctrap your-fairy?™ day TO BE nD. 1 CONTINU kp) Sea Water as Cure, Sea water is at ite best Jor curative purposes 20 miles from shore and at 5 depth of 30 : Shoe Its beneficial i ie yd decived from the conte tas in solution, Sm apa YA er kimbo Touch of Lingerie e in Wi inter » Frocks Lavish Use of Ral Lace Is | Included in Novelties This Season. The great interest iit neckwenr by vegulied in the oer and cuff ‘sets. It has says a fashion writer in also resulted, frocks as models showing simplicity elegant other As the gauntlet cuff has played so important a part in the restoration of it Is featured In the ma- of sets, whether dressy In the of white jority formal. linen, of soft finish, showing lines of hand-drawn composed of a round collar In froft and deep cuffs with the pop- A modification of the found In a sweater set, gauntlet and cuffs of only moderate also made of linen trimmed with Still another set is somewhat severe, some materials, colored satin, collar bearing fon, and the cuffs belng made of two thicknesses of satin with a frill of chiffon along the outer edge and rows of small satin buttons. Among size, houg the round the more elaborate models i and the gauntlet cuff with under though the balance of larity, particularly in priced sets, would seem to be with the Exquisite hand-made in combination with is used for panel or | Trotteur Sergi Frock Is Perennially Popular Ea end in blue to be effective must always be cut with distinction, as instanced in this smart costume of navy twill. Indo-China Faruishés Ideas for Women’s Duds The French provinces in Indo China have furnished considerable in- aspiration for the season, notably small decorative details; motifs fine buckles, trimmings for hats embroidered and woven signs, says a fashion writer in New York Tribune, " Rodier, the well-known manufactur er of novelty woolens, most of which are woven on hand jJooms, 1s showing a tremendous quantity of Inde nese designs in woolen fabrics and in galloons or hands, which all Paris mil liners and dressmakers eatering to high-class trade use (n their collec tions, He has a series of gallonns which he calls Tehillalne, This looks something like strips of hand-woven carpet done in de- the the most exclusive hats, They are trimmed with the feathers of pheas. ants and other game birds in the nt. urn) mottled gray and white and hrown and white effects. Again, when the coloring Is a mixed eashmere effect, the glycerined ostrich plume Is used in the various so-called Persinn color ings. Many of Rodier's newest materials are woven in panel pattern, one and one-quarter and one and one-half meters in length being the repeat of the design. Thus they will require grent art in making and will hive an alr of excluslveness that cannot be given with the ordinary novelty pat terned fabrics Among kis paneled novelties is ove rl - Showy Evening Frock Girdled With Pearls P< (6. 1922, Western Newspaper Union.) For may part 1 am not so sure at bottom that man is. as he says, the king of nature; he is far more its devastating tyrant. 1 believe he has many things to learn from animal societies, older than his own and of infinite variety Ro main Rolland, EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS Variety Is the splee of life and every housewife finds it hard to provide a change of menu, if the aliownsnce is not iiberal for fur nishing the table The following fire merely suggestive and may be new to any Veal Cutlets, Horseradish Sauce. ~Wipe 8 slice of veal and cut the meat into pleces Cover with bolling water and simmer until the meat Is tender. Drain, sprin- kle with salt, dip into egg and crumbs and fry In deep fat. For melt two tablespoonfuls of hatter, add one of flour and one cupful of the veal broth; season with salt, pepper and onlon fulce, one teaspoonful of grated horgeradish root and one-fourth of a of cream, The following ple may be unsuitable day, but it is most delightful BALOR, ¢ Strawberry crushed velvet and soft girdled with pearls. Banana Pile—line a ple plate with and hake for twelve minutes together tablespoonful of three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, add two egg yolks slightly, one-third of a cupful of flour, Gl heaten round trast collars heavy and deep cuffs, Con- laces with the sheerest, n method that yields charining results Vestees sometimes bear deep frills or jnhots attached collars show- ing the new pointed neckline and are usually of bearing wide bands of lace, Undersieeves offer a large fleld for design and ingenuity. Some bear deep frills, which increase the dressy effect, and others show such npovel- | ax Insertion in a ladder-like | degign that bare arms | through the Cuffs attached | to are of narrow valenclennes | ¢ hand and edging iL. Tube-Like Silhouette Features Winter Mode | The new the tubelike to net § i : i i ties need shows the interstices undersiceves, In one model, made of rows fulled onto 1} vinter mexde Is based on silhouette, but not every Hike 3 Hikes fign Ir oes woman need look Walking stove pipe unless she at different | points of have the re turieres added f hands ireular sec the or ruff There is, 8% a string then there Is perfectly straight | with fullness In | there is the frill set | anbhout eight ten | Then there ix | which is hung | t tunic without any | without a fur band at its | Then come the several other ver the one which spreads around, the one full | in the front and the one with | flare on both =i at the hips. But | the effect of flare wherever it is placed : is always soft and graceful, no matter | how fll first, is nx straight der model wi made! whicl from the and ghon to hem: eh is fiat in the back. the Qont enly; or only the ight frock over point inches ahove the stra a perfectly siraigh belt, with om edige sions of tunic, in kell shape fo hem all only . lea A Table Desk. table desk that is large enough roomy enough for an arduous correspondence and yet feminine enough for the average woman's room i= of dull finished mahogany with slender legs. A called chosen poplin by enrre, which has been almost every Important models This is . slik poplin printed In panels one and one-half meters long, the de | sign consisting of a rectangular square printed in the center of the silk width, this center panel being In a lighter tome. Thus a navy bine poplin will have a panel in a lighter shade of blue, brown will show It in tan, black in green, and ®o0 on. In fact, every degirable combination can be had in the poplin carre. Paris dressmakers in their cholce have reserved certain colorings for their individual use, thus preventing other houses from having the same colors. It is a rather queer idea, and one looks forward with in. terest to the models that will be made in the poplin carve, Pictures Large and Small. Pictures and tapestries, like furn) ture, should be In proportion to thé size of the room. A very large picture usually seems out of place In a small room, although it may fit Into a large room nicely, Confusion and restless. ness result from using too many ple tures. The Japanese plan of having one or two pictures out at a time Is far ahead of our profuse display of our treasures, Fof Casement Windows. _ Gauze glass curtains in some lovely modified hlue or green or old rose lend color and charm to a room. With them side curtains of a heavier material can be used instend of shades, The heavier cartaing are hung on rods that are placed on the window frame, while the thinner glass curtains are fastensd Jo the window [self Cool and add a few {rops Peel and slice three large the cream filing: spread another layer with the stiffiy-beaten egpe whites Place in the oven until a dell brown Pineapple Ple.—Line a medipm sized with pastry and bake nntil well done. Heat one eupful of cream, reserving enough to mix with one and plate cook ull together In a double holler for Cream one tablespoon of butter with two-thirds up add two beaten eggs and mixture, stirring con until on add one cupful of sliced pineapple cut int ce, col slig our shell and cool opped with of a Henry the Cook e tex is set, th htly, p into the gel aside to Serve whipped eream If desired elaborate, cake on hand for an filled with and topped win} sweetened whipped cream may be served for luncheon or supper as © dimmer as dessert, snd is always Hoe one. more A 1 ergency, Aver kept en Hae Puddi ings, my friend do a mission ful They add to the dinner as well the bill; They Cause men to ardor they may. That the meal which foretells came three times a day.” ar wish, with them SALAD DRESSINGS nicely-prepared and enind dressing is a df asset to every joe vhest, Roguefort Dress ing~Mix together a simple French dressing using one half teaspoonful of salt, onewighth of a teaspoonful of pepper, one tablespoonful of vine gar, three tablespoonfuls of olive oll, and after being well beaten add one fourth of a cupful of finely-mineed roquefort cheese. Pour at once over the hearts of lettuce. Honey Salad Dressing.—Take three tablespoonfuls of elive ofl, two talle spoonfuls of honey, one tablespoon A of weil Jar igtinet Beat together the ofl and other ingredients and use at once, Frult Salad Dressing—{ombine tuo besten eggs, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt and one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper: when beaten light add four tablespoon fuls of vinegar, one tablespoonful of mustard and a few dashes of cayenne, Cook over hot water until thick. Pour into » Jar and set away in a cool place; Mix one and one-half tablespoonfule of this dressing with a cupfal of whipped cream, The foundation will keep for weeks in a cool place. Pineapple Dressing.Feat one up ful of pineapple Juice until fost warm, Rlend two tablespoonfuls of butter with one of flour, add two beaten eg yolks and two tahlespoonfuls of supar, then the stiffiy-beaten whites, Pom over the warm pineapple juice and cook In a dodble boller until thick Cool and add one-half cnpful of whinped cream. Ever Ready Dressing.~Reat nr three or four eggs. add the same water until smooth and thick, beating while cooking, Add a Uttle salt and put away to keep as foundation fw salad dressing, Add such seasoning as desired, melted butter, whipped eream and any chopped flavor vege table that is Sppopriste to the galad sorvial,
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