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But what to do with Iit?—the man
bent his brows over the problem. It
ts only just to him—and the blood
that was in him—to state that it never
keep it, with probably nobody ever
the wiser,
It was too late to take It back to tne
red-roofed cottage that nigh? and too
bulky to carry in his pockets Decld-
ing at last to hide it until next day
gave him a chance to take Texle Into
in a towel: raised the rug; very care
fully loosened a board of the floor; hid
the package under It; replaced the
board and rolled the rug back Into
place with studied exactness
Then he blew ont the candle; ralsed
the blinds of the two small windows
and slipped out Into the yard.
Twilight had long faded into dark.
Only an occasional candle picked out
the ragged outline of village. A
dog fox back In the hills was trying to
tell the rest of the foxes how lonesome
he was, Over along Eagle run the frogs
croaked—without interruption.
listened to make sure,
Glancing back at the cabin door to
make certain he had closed it,
slipped across the corner of the
chard: along the path at
Black rock: Into the little park and
stole in under a dense clump of syringa
pushes barely three steps from the rus-
tic seat at Whispering
For
nature has a thousand volces
woods never sound a
good length of the night
when the frogs along Eagle
him the
could trace the progress
gade down the stream-—doutl
from his task of
ut of new at
well as if he had his eyes upon him.
Presently there came the very faint
ecresk of a rail where the path crossed
the fence out of the fallow pasture lot
into the littie park. A
a hulking form
gloom: Black Bogus stole
shadows and crouched
the gnarled maple ro
the rustic
*h to
Th y
Ae ¥ EHOUINTT
the
he
or-
those who know bh to listen,
ind the
false note. A
gave
he was expect
cue
making old
the deserted cabin
money
-A 8
moment Inter
bulked
seat,
an lay s«
him hreathe,
for son
hance
ifederates,
ind again Blac)
t intprvnila
+ AL interval
he had given
times, each time growing mo
At last
and the call began
restless
gan to
and disturbed,
SWenar,
fO res
of the bird he mocked. Finally he rose
AEG. ANAURY 0 rose,
listened a moment and, with no very
great effort at concealment, stalked up
the path.
The woodsman rose
shadowed him up
the mouth: of the hollow
lowed ; the
and ints
the sqn 1 hovel of dead Henry Spen-
cer he vaulted the
be yard and pushed
TOOT,
ing noiselessly
fence, stalked
open the saggiag
around through
hes, the woodsman crept up to
nk between
wild
the logs under the
vines. He
Black Bogus
the ruined fire
place, lift up the slab of stone on the
hearth and feel under it. Nothing
the if lan the stone back,
kicked | th his ragged boot, snatched
out’ his pipe, lit it
hard blew out
the lamp. stormed out of the door and
lown the yard
All the way up Eagle Hollow road
and to Loge Belden's cabin the woods
man shadowed him; watched him go
around to the back: heard him enter
and slam the door after him; slipped
up to the small east window and lay
listening The window was open a
scant inch or so at the bottom; he
mber
cucy
time to
+
just in
the lamp
a
go to
med
viciously, smoked
for a minute or more,
parrow opening and cautiously peeped
within,
A mutch scraped, was laid to a cane
dle on a shelf over the crumbling fire
place; Black Bogus whipped off the
charred end of the wick; it flared to
full strength and the intetior of the
cabin came out of the dark,
The watcher's eyes lifted in amaze
ment. The cabin was almost totally
bare of furniture of any kind-—no
beds: no table or chalrs—merely some
pots and pans by the empty fireplace,
and two pallets on the floor,
On one of these pallets, almost under
the window, lay Belden's sister; on
the other lay Loge. He raised up on
his elbow as the eandle flared alight;
noticed the sullén glower on the face
of his associate,
“Well 7"
“He didn't come out,”
“H--11! an’ y'u had t' bring it
back?” o
“What clse?
There came a volee from the pallet
under the windew--a voice soft and
mild, ghaken and half afraid, the lis-
tener fancied,
“Didn't ‘e send no word t'—me?"”
“Didn't come out, I tell y'u.”
The woodsman had caught the ap-
peal in the soft tones; wondered what
eduld be the relation between the girl
and such a man as Hopkins. Then he
recalled her reference to “the third
man” that startled moment in the
bushes by the side of the road; re
membered her running down the yard
toward them on the evening of the
ride: and he hrought his eyes as close
to the slit under the sash as he dared.
After a short pause, during which he
fancied she might be gathering reso-
lution for another question, the soft
volce came again, more faltering than
before:
“An' ther’ wusn't nothin’ under the
rock--no note n'r nothin'—19
“Not a damn’ scrap.”
The face under
to the wall. Loge dropped back
Black Bogus drew the
bills from his pocket
turned
to the
unof
and
the window
the
out
his holster and
volver under his shirt;
candle and pitched
put re-
the
jel
blew
down beside
window pondered what he
seen and heard. He looked
for the outtit with which
their spurious money—that was
one big fact, that
He saw no trace of {t
dropped
they made
reason, In
by Hopkins In
little park that had printed ©
plentiful supply before coming up the
river true, and
meant practically the absence of
13 tL
ley
i
was doubtless
He recalled what
Hoy
et}
kins had
Bogus about e large ame
of money still in the safe at the red
would now suppose
certain
to get it. When they
But they were certs
attempt
Hopkins was gone.
till he learned
Until then
the
safe
In
of the og
lip
brought his ea
away
h--the
1 “» dN
ing softly.
Chere was der the blanket
Loge Ale lay : the creak of
steps came across the floor and a dim
ot under
nr
Fler roy t ¥ if nnll
figure stoops pall
the window,
“Don’t ery. little
eryin’ f'r—no
The gri
reached to
wigtor He
man ain"t.”
the
quit pesterin’ you
listener outside,
-play-
damn "im, °*
“He's got t'
in' hot an’ cold with y'u
he'll up mornin’ in
with a knife in "is ribs!"
Loge Belden, the renegade, the onf-
the
unbelievable,
the wi
wake some
tenderness in his voice
The
ooped along the
law was
amazed listener at
ndow =
and softly slipped
away.
CHAPTER XVI
Spurs and Flying Sand.
When the Milford came §
from the city next forenoon Jack War
hope was there to nmet it
fie had dd
stage
f.oge elden
learned of the
Hopkins the evening before
He shuffled up to the post
abrupt departure of
fice win
dow after the mall was worked
threw Him out a letter
it hard; thrust it Into his pocket un
opened ; immediately left post of-
fice and walked rapidly up Eagle Hol
low road.
Jack had expected there would be a
letter for Belden-—had counted om it.
That's what had brought him to the
office. He hurried back to the
homestead; crossed the barn lot:
sprang up the rough path that led to
the top of the cliff; spared a moment
to glance keenly about and darted io
among the trees,
Onde in the seclusion of the woods,
he ran at top speed, well back from
the brow of the bluffs, as far as the
deserted cabin of dead Henry Spen-
cer; picked his way out to the edge of
the cliffs and peeped down at the road,
Loge Belden was just condng into
sight,
As he came even with the cabin he
stopped ; glanced In every direction;
whistled. The whistle was answered
from within the ecabln-—another facet
the woodsman had counted on. Delder
vaulted the fence, ran up the yard and
pushed open the door. Jack crept up
to the corner of the cabin where the
chink was out between the logs,
Belden had just opened his letter;
Black Bogus was stooped over him.
Belden, as he read, suddenly uttered a
low exclamation,
“T'night,” he muttered—*at mid:
night.”
He swore merrily,
“I knowed 'e hadn't reneged-—I
knowed 'e hadn't,”
“Hold still,” growled
“Huh!” he , went
the
the other,
on-—“t'night-—-mid-
[a
NE
8
night—and a clean sweep—expects t'
with us 'lmeelf.” He glanced at
the emvelope, “W'y, he's In town
what the—" ~
jelden took the envelope, stuffed
the letter clumsily back in it and pn’
it In his pocket.
“Wonder what 'e
be
meant,” he mut-
p'tic’ler not t' hurt the gal
thar. If she's thar--where else would
she be? Says we mus'n't hurt ‘er, even
if we haf t' cut out an' leave
swag.” He glanced away in the direc
tion of the squalid cabin up
of the hollow; a black
crossed hik and the man
chink wondered If he was thinking of
that scene at the pallet under the win
“Wonder what
“Don't
look
face,
dow the night before,
‘e thinks we air,” he went o
hurt ‘er-—if !
The two outlaws hunted
lounged down on the
smoked for some moments in thought-
Belden suddenly straight
his
fi.
she's thar if
their pipes,
}
two boxes and
silence,
ened ; slapped hand down on his
‘Must take some nerve,” he chuckled,
murder a man, an’ then preach ‘is
funeral”
Black
puffed out the smoke slowly:
Bogus drew hard on his pipe;
shru *% 4
shoulders
hub-—he
iis heavy
“Nerve
{ ohody
erve, he don't."
Nearly
intern
listener
Belden was the first
aif vs tread awit a hein
winged Whi } a 1¢
dozen or
of the
oped
woods and stopped
h in the big elm
s had let the horses i
fod them, and
bin, with
n bundies of
was on the
the intention
money
iking her into his full «
when he saw Mrs, C
portly, hurrying
urry, fat
orchard at her pudgy best
“Here's a note Texie left fr yu”
che
held up an envelope
“left Ir
gute in three
wea ied
me? «he was in
gtr
8 and
aoross the yvard-—"where's sl
“Soe got a letter
Corry puffed, “and
wn. She writ you this note,
Brownle away lick
She sald if she didn't
evenin® I wuz t' you t
our house, and § wus t' stay
with Aunt Liza”
The woodsman
note and was
through:
0 gone?”
this mornin,” Mrs,
she sald she'd
and rode
ety-split
back this
zit
had
eagerly
snatched
glancing It
“Dear Jack:
“I've had such wonderful news, Ken
ain't deady after all. He is in the city
at a woman's house named Doll Baker
on Brickbat alley. He Is sick and
wants me to come. Mr. Hopkins got
a letter from him askin' him to come,
bein’ his old classmate, so he went last
night and wrote back to me this morn.
ing. Pore Ken, 1 guess he is awful
proud, and he is so sick. Mr. Hopkins
thought he better not tell him nothing
about father. He don’t want me to tell
nobody, and to come alone. But I
would of told you, for I know you wont
tell, but I saw you going up In the
woods this morning, so I wroté you this
note. OQ, Jack, aint yo# glad,
“TEXIE.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
English Quakes,
The first recorded earth tremor In
Britain occurred a few centuries after
the Norman conquest, and two cen.
turies later, In 1274, Glastonbury was
destroyed. In the ensuing centuries
over a score of selsmic disturbances
have been experienced in the kingdom,
the most serious occurring In 1884,
causing two fatalities and damnge to
the extent of 500,000, in the Eastern
counties, Londoners have had the un.
pleasant experience on several ocea-
slons, but Cornwall and South Wales
pave most frequently “quaked”
Some women have a penchant for
selecting the right thing in clothes
and perfect genius for wearing them
well, observes a fashion correspon-
dent In the New York Herald. One
without the other Is a
The experts do a large share of the
preliminary work in the first instance,
but the final decision rests with
individual.
the careful attention to
more than nine-tenths to do with It
This season, If ever, women thus
gifted will havegan opportunity to ex.
themselves,
Those who look their best
clothes with
lack
ruffles
and
lace and
definition,
vere
types of
even In
costume will both
thelr own particular
without a bit of difficulty.
Reports from Parls of
openings read very differently
inst season,
the spring
from
when nearly
here would be very
little change, al-
putting forth a tentative
This season
fow
innovations
the
gerious vein
That
iength
there 1s a marked diversity of
What he
more diametrically opposite than the
nnd the
Oriental and
dresses for afternoon. nL
evident. could
simple tallleur
use of the even
some of the houses the bolero jacket
is shown and the
or ns It is
of loose
one side,
straight band
others incline to
Chinese Indo-Chinese,
medium long
ut, sometimes fastening at
nd
lar.
enlled, a cont
always with an
inclines to Oriental Note.
incilnes to this Oriental note,
and wraps In
and for
poplin sult,
trimming of
and it m
Even
there Is dl
vouthful
dresses
Conts
both
china-blue
created, has a
this
day wear
wnbroldery
versity,
designs In
of lace for afternoon, t » beeen
Ived In dark
ie nd practical
tanes to make them sult.
1 Wenr,
and biack re jatable in
ireuses
sheathliike
nt + bottom
ight dresses have
upper tunic
shbwe many
mploying the shaded mate
a color scheme, These are In
and in crepes and other dresses
reported to
trimmines
trimmings
ORfUmes are
roasting
eresting
show
~AIONg
mara-
some
sther-of-pearl
braids and
sequins,
ribbon
3
the More ususs
One of the Most Recent and Possibly
Rather Extreme Tunic Models, With
Long Vest of Lingerie and Peculiar
Gathered Section in Front,
impression grows that one may add to
the variety in the wardrobe without
necessarily subtracting, and that a
few minor points in sthe changing
mode are fairly well established un-
less the larger houses will have some
unusual surprises in store.
Black Prevails Over Brown,
Black, it is quite certain, will be
more often seen in the new models
than brown, although a few makers
still Insist on the superiority of the
latter, and one maker shows cos
tumes in this color shading the de-
tails through golden brown to the
palest cream color—it must be admit-
ted with particular success,
The alpacas, which are being well
recelved, are most interesting in the
changeable weaves, which are usually
banded or otherwise trimmed with
plain material, Where all the feather
trimming is to come from that the
wonson predicts, is something that
probably the makers know more
about than we do, but marabon,
clipped ostrich and clipped dove
feathers are shown on the model
gowns and are sure to be copled by
Capes in shorter lengths continue
to appear and small wraps or coats of
varying lengths are almost certain to
be shown with each dress, for {it
seems Important with dresses show-
ing two contrasting tones to simplify
the costume by having the wrap
match one or the other of the fabrics.
One of the New York houses ex-
hibits a model which follows closely
lines of those featured In the
collections in Paris. It Is a
of black chantilly lace open
back over a black satin foun-
which shows a few inches at
hem, “The lace is banded all the
way around with plain net and the
neckline is handed in burnt orange
tiled with a and two long
ends at the back, At each side of Lhe
he sheath is attached to the
early
sheath
in the
dation
the
satin how
walstiine t
1
foundation, giving a slightly
hloused
line
Shortened Skirt More Than
Decidedly the
Rumor.
shortened skirtline Is
more than a mere
for
rumor,
concerning
reports
are current
on Pa
those actually
seen gtroets
Checked Suit, Rather Striking With
its Bolero Jacket Used in Conjunc
With Short Cape Scarcely
Wide Enough to Cover the Back
tion
nannequins
¢ muct
nr
ad. One men
particula ut so short
’
nohes
nion was
¢
was only i below
nd the ex
the same time that
would not be in
exaggerated form
skirts
here ex
tremels
safe where
but it is com
that it
nthe before any
tnkes i
New
{0 state
place
York ave
n
uring the last
8 the best
re the ones wt
the
tendency to
least
vary
lengths
for afternoon and
2
evening
giroet
of skirt
This
own
those
morning and
wear there will be a variety
the different hours
he
e mode,
ke are as
any other
have to
of th
our
for
for
time, if
short eve
not
in Evidence.
The black satin frocks, which are
most in evidence Just at this time
here and abroad, continue to ap
in many different types, those for
being shown
tucked
tailored models
Black Satin
pear
and simple
the morning are
Nothing could be smarter than
to select.
An entertaining model In black
satin shows a new arrangement of
tucks, pintucks being placed at gradu.
ated spaces horizontally from neck to
hem. As the closing is at one side, a
few of the tucks are turned to follow
this edge, accomplished by the use of
an appiled tucked band,
How the large number of designs
have been skillfully evolved which
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newer models scem to have any de
markation at all, or If a slight blous
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A straight close-fitting chemise is
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