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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 |
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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,