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CHAPTER XII—Continued
wal] Bee
The Instinct of the horses had
guided them to halt behind the only
safe spot on the unsafe bank. Jim
removed their packs, leaving the sad-
dles on. Without hesitation he poured
out all of the grain, about two quarts
for each horse, Lastly he jammed the
packs under the edge of the boulders
and left the horses free to take care
of themselves,
He dreaded the coming hours—the
night-—the—he knew not what.
Jim removed his slicker and folded
it into a long pad. As he crept closer
the girl stirred agale and spoke. He
thought she asked If he was there
He placed the slicker In the best avail
able place and covered that with the
drier of the two saddle blankets. He
pulled the saddle closer. Then he
lifted the girl over his lap and covered
her with the dry blanket. He leaned
back against the stone with her head
on his shoulder and his arm support-
ing her. It was not only that he want-
ed to keep her dry and warm: he had
to have her In his arms while he
waited for the nameless terror he
anticipated.
This was the climax of the storm
that had been gathering for days. Out
upon the level desert it would have
been serious for travelers: here in this
gorge it was a maelstrom. Jim did
not expect to live to hear it pass away.
Yet he did. And then began the after
math of a flood let upon such
unstable The waterfall grad-
fF rose to a thundering, continuous
crash. It dominated for a while, until
the thousand streams from
poured over the rims to deaden all, to
loose
earth,
above
completely deafen Jim,
A sheet f
f water, sliding
rock, hid ackness
Jim's eyes. Any moment now a flood
would rise over the bank, and when it
did Jim ant to climb higher with
the girl, to front the hurtling rocks
and slipping and fOght till the
bitter end.
But many
brou that
the 1 kK. Jim
ter
over the
0
the opaque from
me
changes as the hours
rht, flood did not rise above
saw the sheet of wa.
fall
ia
and the black space of gorge
again. He heard the avalanches
and the great single bowlders
down, and the furious backlash of the
torrent roar
of the
The
dreamed,
come
below, and the lessening
waterfall,
time came to Jim. as If he
when all so changed,
faded away, except the pe
culiar thrashing of stream below,
And he got to listening for
which occurred only asionally. For
& while the sliding rush of heavy wa-
ldenly to change into
inds
lessened,
the
that sound,
Oc
ter swept on, sud
a furious splashing,
At length Jim was a
strong current laden with sand, which
at times caused billows to rise and
lash their twisting tips back upon
themselves, long he heard these
slowly diminishing, gradually separat-
ing sounds.
The streams ceased flowing, the
slides ceased slipping, the rocks ceased
rolling and the waterfall failed from a
thundering to a hollow roar and from
that to a softening splash,
Jim imagined he saw dim stars out
in a void that seemed to change from
black to gray. Was dawn at hand?
Had they been spared? The gurgle of
the stream below merged Into the dis.
tant, low rumble of the Dirty Devil
Jim rested there, staring out at the
spectral forms on the opposite wall,
thinking thoughts never before inhab-
ftants of his confused brain.
But the sky was graying, the gorge
taking shape In the gloom, and this
place which had heard a din of hide-
ous sounds was silent as a grave,
At last Jim had to accept a mar.
velons phenomenon-—dawn was at
hand. Gently he slipped Helen into
the hollow of the saddle. She was
still asleep. His cramped limbs buck
led under him and excruciating pains
ghot through his bones and muscles.
In the gray light objects were dis-
cernible. He could not see to the head
of the gorge, where the waterfall had
plunged out from the wall. But si.
lence meant that it had been surface
water, a product of the storm, and it
was gone, Beneath the bank ran a
channel of fine-ribbed sand where not
even a puddle showed. On the bank
the horses stood patiently, except Bay,
and he was nosing around for a blade
of grass that did not exist on the sod-
calenlated {it
Sunrise found Jim Wall topping a
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DOLD AGE PENSION INFORMATION
JUDGE LEHMAN, HUMBOLDT, KANS
The sky was blue, the sun bright
and warm, and at the moment it
crowned with gold the top of the pur.
ple butte Jim had seen twice before,
it appeared close now, rearing a cor-
rugated peak above yellow and brown
blils. Jim was carrying Helen in front
of him. Consclous, but too spent to
speak or move, she lay back on his
arm and watched him.
There had been a trall along here
once, as was proved by a depressed
line on the gravelly earth. When Jim
surmounted this barren divide he sud-
denly was confronted by an amazing
and marvelous spectacle.
“Blue valley!” he ejaculated,
“Blue valley! , , . Helen, we're out
of the brakes! , Safe! Men live
here.”
She heard him, for she smiled up
Into his face, glad for his sake, but In
her exhaustion beyond caring for her
own,
There was no sign of habitation, nor
any smoke, But Jim knew thls was
Blue valley. It was long, perhaps fif-
teen miles, and probably the farms
were located at the head, where irri.
gation had been possible. How could
even ploneers utilize that ferocious
river?
Jim followed the lead pack horse
down Into gumbo mud, The floor of
the valley supported a mass of foliage
besides the stately cottonwoods. And
at every step a horse's hoof sank
deep, to come forth with a huge cake
of mud,
At midday Jim passed deserted cab-
ing, some on one glide of the river,
some on the other, They did not ap-
pear so old, yet they were not new,
Had Blue valley been abandoned? Jim
was convinced it could not be so. But
when he espled a deserted church,
with vacant eyellke windows, then
his heart sank; Helen must have rest,
care, food, He was at the end of his
resources,
An hour later he tolled past a shack
built of logs and stones, and adjoin.
ing a dugout, set into the hill, People
had lived there once, but long ago.
Jim's last hope fled. He was still
far from the head of the valley, but
a SL LUT EO
|
Jim Hurried On to the Porch and
Laid Helen on the Bed.
ion behind
The
The afternoon waned.
tnndllnd 4
plodded or
horses
to exh Helen was a dead
Despalr bad seized upon him
turned a y¢ corner be.
¢ and the cottonwoods
confronted
the end of
weight,
when he How
tween the glo
to be by a wide pasture at
which a log cabin nestled
among cot A column of Line
ke rose lazily against the foliage,
The
to higher ground.
cabin. Never
tonwoods,
horses labored out of
Jim rode up to the
in all his had he
been so glad to smell smoke, to see a
to hear a dog bark. His ever
quick eve caught sight of a man who
had evidently been watching, for he
stepped out on the porch, rifle in hand,
Jim kept on to the barred gate. There
were flowers In the yard and vines on
the cabin—proof of feminine hands
And he saw a bed on the porch.
“Hello,” he shouted. as he got off
carefully, needing both hands to han
dle Helen,
“Hullo, yourself,” called the man,
who was apparently curious, but not
unfriendly. Then as Jim let down a
bar of the gate with his foot, this
resident of Blue valley leaned his rifle
against the wall and called to some
one within.
life
garden,
——
CHAPTER XIII
Jim hurried on to the porch and
laid Helen on the bed,
hausted that she could not speak. but
she smiled at Jim. Her plight was evi
dent. Then Jim straightened up to
look at the man,
His swift gaze, never so penetrating,
fell upon a sturdy individual of mid
die age-—a typleal plonecr, still-faced
and bearded. The instant Jim looked
into the blue eyes, mildly curious, be
knew that whoever the man was he
had not heard of the abduction of
Herriek's sister,
“Howdy, stranger.”
“My name's Wall,” sald Jim In reply,
slowly seeking for words,
“Mine's Tasker, Whar you from?”
“Purango. . . My—my wife and 1
got lost, She wasn't strong. She gave
out. I'm afraid she's in bad shape™
“Bhe shore looks bad. But the Lord
is good. It's only she's tuckered out.”
“What place Is this?
“Blue valley. I've stuck it out. But
I'tl be givin® up soon. No use tryin’
to fight thet Dirty Devil river. Five
years ngo there was eighty people liv.
in’ hyar. Blue valley has a story,
friend"
“One I'd be glad to hear” inter
rupted Jim. “Will you help me? 1
have money and can pay you.”
“Stay an’ welcome, friend. An’ keep
your money. Me an’ my women folks
ask nothin’ fer good will toward those
in need.”
“Thank you” Jim replied, huskily,
“Will you call them to look after my-—
my wife?”
Helen was staring up at Jim with
wondering, troubled eyes,
“Is everything all right?” she asked,
faintly,
“Yes, If to find friends an’ care is
that,” replied the rancher, kindly.
Then he stepped to the door to call
within. “Mary, this rider was not
alone. It was his wife he was car-
ryin'. They got lost in the brakes an’
she gave out, We must take them in.”
That night, after the good ranchers
assured Jim that Helen was just worn
out Jim went to sleep under the cot-
tonwoods and never moved for seven-
teen hours.
Helen sat up the second day, white
and shaky indeed but recovering with
a promise that augured well. Her eyes
hung upon Jim with a mute obsery-
ance,
Next morning while the women
were at work in the flelds and Tasker
was away somewhere Jim approached
Helen on the porch. Her halr, once
again under care, shone like burnished
gold,
“Well, you look wonderful this morn-
ing." sald, “We must begin to
think of getting away.”
“Oh, I'm able to start.™
“We mustn't overdo it. Tomorrow,
perhaps. And then If we're lucky, In
three days you'll be back at Star
ranch. And
His evidet depression, as he broke
off, checked her vivid gladness.
“You will never go back to—to your
old life?" she questioned quickly.
“No, so help me, God! This I owe
to you alone, Helen. It will be pos”
sible now for me even to be happy.
But enough of myself. I have traded
two of the horses for Taskers light
wagon. I will take you to the stage
line and soon you will be at Grand
Junction.”
Jim ceased. Her hands slipped from
her eyes, to expose them wide, filmed
with tears, through which shone that
which made him flee.
“Walt—please walt I” she called after
him, as he made with giant strides for
the gate. But he did not go back,
In a moonlit hour that night, late,
when the Taskers had gone to
well-earned rest, Jim heard his name
called, He ran with swift, noiseless
feet to Helen's bedside,
“You did
pered. * annot sleep, . . . There is
something I-—-want to say.”
He sat bedside and
clasped her hand in his
“Is your real name Jim Wall?" she
asked, with
“No. T will tell it If you wish"
“Are you a free man?”
What do you
f course!”
“You called
these kind
“1 thought that best. They would be
less curious.”
he
good
not come back.” she whis-
down upon the
more composure.
“Free, mean? Yes,
me your—your wife to
people.”
and 1 under
1 want you to go back to
“1 was not offended
! with me.”
“You ask me-that!”
incredulously.
“Yeu, I do”
“But you
Some one
he exclaimed
safe,
from Grand
perfectly
you
will be
will drive
feel safe
I've had
i Suppose one
nly I'll never
unless you are near,
k. Jim,
of your western girls could have stood
fn sho
But this was my first
It was a—a little
adventure,
experience,
too much.”
“1 ean never go back to Star ranch™
he replied, gravely.
“Why lecause you are-—yon
were a member of a robber gang? 1
had an ancestor who was a robber
baron.”
“That's not the reason” he sald.
“What is It—then?”
“If I leave you now--soon as I've
placed you in good hands—I can ride
off in peace—go to Arizona, or some
where and be a cowboy—and be happy
in the memory of having served you
and loved you-—and through that have
ing turned my back on the old life,
«+. But if 1 went back to Star ranch
~t0 see you every day—to—to—"
“To ride with me,” she interfered,
softly.
“Yes—to ride with you,” he went on
hoarsely, “That'd be like what yon
ealled your rough experience—a little
too much. It would be terribly too
much. I'm only human”
“Faint heart never won falr lady™
ghe whispered, averting her face and
not?
if I were you, I'd risk It."
Jim gazed down at the clear-cut
profile, at the shadowed eyes, hair sil.
vered in the moonlight; then, stricken
and mute, he rushed away,
jefore dawn Jim had beaten his
vain and exalted consciousness info a
conviction that the heaven Helen hint.
ed at for him was the generosity of a
woman's heart. She could not yet ba
wholly herself, He must not take ade
vantage of that, But to reassure her
he decided he would conduct her to
Star ranch, careful never to reopen
that delicate and Impossible subject,
and after she was safely there and
all was well he would ride away in
the night, letting his silence speak his
farewell, |
At sunrise Jim acquainted Tasker
with his desire to leave for Torrey. |
At breakfast and In the bustle of |
departure he was sure Helen felt
something aloof and strange In him,
and he dared not meet her thoughtful |
eyes,
TO BE CONTINUED,
Town Is Narrow
Marshall, N. ©, built on a shelf
between mountain bluffs and
French Broad river, Is so narrow
only one street extends the length of
the city.
Uncommon
Sense 2 John Blake
®. Bell Byndicate. ~WNU Service,
My work-room dictionary contains
two definitions of prosperity. One is:
“The state of being
prosperous; good for-
tune in any business
or enterprise.” The
other is: “Success In respect to any
thing good or desirable.” Of the two, I
like the second better,
I bave known ‘many men who were
sald to be prosperous, They had abun-
dance of money, good health, and nev-
er falled of friends to swarm around
them and fatten on their bounty.
But “in respect to anything good or
desirable,” with all their money, they
were bankrupts,
It seems to me that a man with a
clear consclence, enough money to live
on, and with friends who are his
friends because they lke him, and
not because of what he ean do for
them, is the truly prosperous man.
In recent times a great many people
who believed they were prosperous
have fallen on what they called evil
days.
heir
What Is
Prosperity?
money thelr
by worry
their changed estate, and they
that they are ruined men.
Naturally, the kind of friends that
they have acquired in the days of good
fortune, not remained their
friends.
» * . ® * ® .
has dwindled,
health impaired
has been
over
fee]
have
Rats are no keener to leave a sinking
ship than are human parasites to leave
people who can no longer entertain
them or get them good jobs, or come
around to borrow a few hundred dol-
lars when the wolf is hard on their
heels,
Lucky Is the man who has no friends
of that sort, but whose friends are of
the kind who do not base their affec-
tion on favors to come, but upon a gen-
ine liking
* . * * 4
Among my
who
acquaintances is a man
lived In a vast
four cars, went
r. and belonged to
zen golf clubs
in affairs
three years ago
house, owned three or
to Europe every yea
if a d«
swept all these
1g ago I visited him in a small
ich he had rented. His wife
and his children were with him. There
was enough In to provide
them with food. But all the old glam-
Yet he was
GUSe wi
the house
were gone,
smill
learned a great deal” he
“1 know pow who are my friends
s
ho were merely parasites,
“I expect soon to have a job which will
support me. My wife and children are
here. What more could | want?”
He
is still
really meant what he sald. He
under fifty, and with his brains
and energy may make another fortune,
In the meantime he {8 not worried.
And id suggest to him that
the old prosperous days will come back
mile and say: ‘hey never
* » a » »
* Known a good many men who
to quit their jobs now and
then because they
were overworked.
many cases
these men were
not overworked.
If you have and keep your health,
can do a great deal more work
than you think you are capable of,
ut once you begin to fret and fuss
about it, it is time you changed to
something else,
Either your health needs attending
to, or you bave undertaken some kind
of a job for which you are not fitted.
Work is rarely fatal
You can do more of It, if you really
try, than you imagine you can.
Work
Rarely Fatal In
overworried, but
you
When I was actively engaged in the
newspaper business I knew many men
who worked sometimes eleven or twelve
hours at a stretch when they had im-
portant tasks,
I meet many of them now and then,
Most of them are still at thelr desks
and working long hours
Others have gone farther up the lad-
der, and have more time to themselves,
but they are all of them capable of
turning out a surprising amount of
production,
- - * - - * »
When you think that your job is
slowly killing you, you had better go
to a doctor, who will look you over and
find out that it is something else that
is at the root of the trouble—ill health
~quite possibly taking a little more
stimulant than you need to keep the
machine going.
Fat enough, but not too much.
Drink alcoholic liquors sparingly,
and never drink while you are working.
Get out of the shop when your job
is done and keep out till the next day.
Cultivate the acquaintance of cheerful
and kindly people, who do not get excited
and peevish when they have an occasion
Value of Kindergarten
Shown in After Years
Education is a lifelong process.
The better the beginning, the better
the life. Eimer Ellsworth Brown,
chancellor emeritus of New York
university, once sald: “From the
kindergarten to manhood is so long
fn span that it is hard for many peo
ple to realize the full significance of
Kindergarten training for the adult
life of our people. But there are cer-
tain ways~not altogether
though long
obvious
recognized by the
friends of the kindergarten-—in
which this foster-parent of our
child-citizenship is vitally related to
our citizen-life in its entirety.” And
Prot. W. H. Lancelot of Jowa State
college writes: “Our great mistake
in the past has been to throw away
in many cases the years in which
the life and character the child
are most easily shaped. We now
know that habit formation is at its
height In the pre-school years and
that this Is one of the most critical
stages of child life.”
The child who goes to a good kin-
dergarten usually enjoys his later
gchool days, and whatever his adult
occupation may be he stil. continues
interested in the world him
and in the accomplishments of his
fellow men, just as long as he lives,
Be sure there is a cls conducted
by a properly trained kindergartner,
for the boys and girls of your com-
munity. If you write to
the National Kindergarten associa-
tion, 8 West Fortieth street, New
York city. There is no charge for
any rendered.
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Congenial Isolation
An Englishman and American
traveled In the same compartment on
one of the Liverpool expresses. The
former spoke not a word to his com-
ion, who was the only other oc
of the compartment, and it
was only the train was cross
ing Runcorn bridge that the Ameri-
“Excuse me, sir, but your
iding up over the back of your
an
cupant
when
i, what If it is?"
“Your
was the curt
has been
» this last minutes, and I
+ $
bothered you.”"--Montreal
coat pocket
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Little Girl's Face
inflamed by
Psoriasis
“My little girl's face was so in
flamed that her eyes were swollen
almost shut. The trouble was diag
nosed as psoriasis, She scratched
night and day and was not ablé to
obtain rest. The scratching nggra
vated the trouble and each finger
tip was red and swollen with infec
tion. She became so emaciated that
Every now and then let a doctor
have a look at you-—even if you do not
feel that you really need his services,
Above all, be calm and philosophical,
keep control of your temper and don't |
You ought to be & better man at six.
1 know many men of sixty who are |
forty
years ago, and at that time
were
they at their job,
“After three months’ suffer:
recalled the Cuticura treatment pd
by my mother. 1 bought a cake of