Copyright 1928-1834, Harold Titus. SYNOPSIS Ben Elllott—from “Yonder'-—arrives at the little lumbering town of Tincup accompanied by Don Stuart, old, very sick man, whom he has befriended. CHAPTER I—Continued Di Thought of the rules swept the crowd, because Duval was edging to the right. He moved slowly, awk- wardly, at the cost of great effort, on toward the center of the log. Was he trying one more trick? Not likely. A man under such a strain does not at- tempt strategy . . . not fair strategy. As he progressed an inch at a time Elliott countered by also creeping toward the center so his end might not dip beneath the surface. Both men had their arms extended and Elliott's grin had faded to a sort of curious smile, a speculative alert- ness, Close and closer they came together and then, as their extended hands were all but touching, Duval suddenly flecked his right wrist in a pass at Elliott's left hand. “Ah, th' dirty—" ut Bird-Eye's high scream was cut short by an om- fnous roar. The Bull, facing defeat, had overstepped all rules. The slight. est touch on the other's body would upset his balance, now, and after El liott had proven himself above taking what was even recognized as a fair advantage, the last vestige of loyalty to town or whatever it was which had put men on Duval's side was whisked away. On Duval's face was ruthlessness along with the flush of fatigue and humillation. He would be the last man on that log, though disqualified for any prize. At any cost he would stay on that log. But would he? Elliott, a steely qual- ity coming into his grin, retreated un- til he was out the other's reach. The log sank beneath him but he did not slow his cadence despite the fact that he ran in water. He loosed the last reservoir of hig energy and by the way his feet flickered and clawed and spurned that log one might well have belleved that until now he had only played with this crowned king of the river that flowed past Tincup. Watchers their middles aching as they followed those straining con- testants. Again the Bul sought to strike Elliott's extended hand and missed by Inches. His left hand raised jerkily, up and up. His body tilted His great terso was twisting, wrench ing at the hips, and, seeing this, Elliott leaped high, came down running. sent water sloshing and forth the length of the stick until with a throaty cry of rage and humiliation, of hatred and jealousy, the great Bull, missing a stride, went sideways and backward, disappeared beneath the surface of the pond with a mighty splash and came up blowing and shaking his black- thatched head. Hats went into the air, then, along with yips and yells and enthusiastic oaths as Ben Elliott, panting heavily, brought the log to a stop and, hands on his knees, stood blowing and grin- ning and watched the man whose title he had taken swim for the boom sticks. The Bull slunk quickly toward the boiler room of the mill, water stream fing from his pants and sleeves The pond man threw out his pike pole and brought the cedar log to shore and there Birney, the announcer and mas ter of ceremonies, greeted Elllott with a clap on the back and, with the other band, thrust a roll of currency at him “Here's your money and you sure deserve it!” he cried, close In Ben's ear to make himself heard. "You'd got it on a foul, anyhow. Better this way I" Bird-Eye grasped his hand and shook it with congratulations as profane as they were shrill. Others surged around the victor and Elliott accepted this homage modestly, *Luck!” he said to one enthusiastic well-wisher, “1 got the breaks In luck.” *Luck be domned!”™ shrilled Bird. Eye. "I'll lick any mon ave me own old or me own heavy who says ‘twas luck! You got stuff, me b'y; you got guts!” “Thanks, chum!” Elliott langhed. “1 hope you don't find me out!” He shouldered his way slowly to his pack-sack and, surrounded by his ad mirers, with Bird-Eye in the fore, changed to his shoes again. He had the usual run of questions to answer that Is the lot of any winner In na spectacular contest and he did it with that amiable grin, with his marked modesty and yet with a likeable frank ness, He looked about for Don Stuart, craning his peck to see over the crowd which was now moving vp toward Tin. cup's main thoroughfare, "Who ye mean? Bird-Eye asked *Owld Donny?" “Yeah, Stuart. The old duffer's broke, on top of being sick, and I want to look out for him.” A meu at his elbow sald eautiously : *I'm afeerd old Don won't do much visitin’ in Tinecup.” Bird-Eye turned to him inquiringly and the man nodded. “Brandon. He found him here while th’ birlin’ was goin’ on. He's likely made other arrangements.” Bird-Eye's face veflected concern; of y felt back the other man's a cynical acceptance of some unpleasant fact. “Th' dirty stinker!” Bird-Eye sald beneath his breath. “So he's drivin’ him out already, is he? Well, th’ low down—" “Who's driving who asked, “Misther Brandon. Americky molght be a free country but Tincup ain't in it, thin. Owld Donny ain't welcome here 'nd 't's likely he's got his orders to move on.” Elllott hitched his pack-sack higher. “What's this? Orders? What's wrong with him? Seemed like a harmless old gaffer to me. Bent on coming to Tin- cup, too; wanted it like a little kid wants candy. Got my goat. ... Who's going to run him off 7 Bird-Eye had hopped nimbly to a log from which point he could see across bobbing heads. “Ah-ha!" he exclaimed. "Sure, it's Misther Brandon hissolf who's a-run- nin' owld Donny off I Elliott eraned his neck and could see, half-way to the depot, two men on the sidewalk. One was his companion in travel earlier that day; the other a man he had not seen before, The latter had Don Stuart by one arm but that contact was not the friendly assistance which Ben had offered the old fellow. As Elllott looked, the feeble old man tried to draw away but the other was insistent, scarcely hesitated In bis progress toward the station, “Train west’'s due now,” Bird-Eye sald. “Sure, 'nd pore owld Donny, he'll be a passenger. It's a cryin’ shame, kapin' him away from Tincup so!™ Elllott started forward, Bird-Eye at his heels, crossing the street, leaping to the high board sidewalk and swing ing on. He overtook the two he followed just out?’ Elliott “—ain't long to . . . live, Nick. I'd like . . . stay here. . . . Aln’t pleasant to . be sick and not , , among friends.” “Never mind,” the other sald as one might to a protesting child. “I've told you any number of times to stay away.” On this reply Elliott moved abreast of the man. “Hello, old timer !™ he said, address. ing Stuart. “Golng some place?” He did not look at the man sald to be Nicholas Brandon. His manner on the question was almost casual. “Oh . Mister Brandon, here , . . stay.” Then Elliott looked at Brandon. A man of undeterminate age: not old, neither young. Powerfully bullt, with a peculiarly white face and eyes as black as night. Those eyes bored into Elliott's now, keenly, intelligently, with the look of a man who is accustomed to gauging others without delay or hes itation ; they were the eyes of a man . won't let me “Oh, this man doesn’t want you to stay I” Ben sald softly. And then with a smile, to Brandon: “I sort of took the old timer under my wing today. He wants to stay here quite badly. I'll look after him.” “There's no piace for him here™ Brandon sald positively. “Come, Stuart, it's almost train time™ He twitched at the old man's arm but Ben broke In, brow wrinkled as if he wanted to handle a perplexing mat- ter fairly. “Well, now, say! No place? Sup pose a place was made for him a few daye? I'd sort of planned on that. There's a hotel here, and I'd be willing to" *1 don't know you,” Brandon Inter- rupted and irritability crept into his voice. “I've never even seen you. ['ve known this man for years. He's an old employee of mine. This Is my affair, | never have others, especially strangers, meddling.” A low whimper came from Stuart ané Ben rubbed his chin with one knuckle, “Yeah. 1 am butting in, I guess. But . «+ You see, the old timer told me a little about himself. He's been lone some a long time, I take It. He's not what you'd call In robust health. I figure that If [ was in his shape I'd like to be with a few old friends my- gelf and if" In the distance a train whistled and on the sound Brandon's eyes snapped. “I've not time to argue my affairs” he sald sharply. “Come, Stuart” “But, Nick! See... here, Nick. ... I'll never get back . . . again. It's lonesome, bein’ sick . . . alone, where you ean't . . . Nick! You're , , . hurting my wrist!” He winced from the grasp and on that the last shadow of smile went out of Ben Elllott's face, the slightly apol- ogetic look at Interfering In a matter which was not strictly his affair passed from his eyes. He put himself square. ly before Brandon, “Let him go,” he sald quietly, but his ook drove hard into those black eyes. The man hesitated and flushed. “If you aren't looking for trouble” he sald, volce edged with wrath, “you'll keep out of this!" “Fair enough. But unless you've got a better reason than | know about, let the old timer alone! Let go his wrist” he added sharply, as Stuart winced again, “I'll thank you to keep out of—" “Let—go—his—wrist, you d-d bul- iyi He had grasped Brandon's forearm with both hands, letting his pack slip to the sidewalk. The cluteh on Don Stuart's arm loosened. With a snarl Brandon drew back and swung for Ben's jaw. Elliott ducked, swayed for. ward and bending his supple body caught Brandon about the middle, drove his head Into the man's chest, raised a knee to his groin, lifted him from his feet, swung, shoved and flung him free. With a sharp oath Brandon went down in the half-thawed mire of the street, sprawling lgnominiously on his back. Well, now! This was something else again. Men had been coming, edging cautiously near during the brief argu- ment between Elliott and Nicholas irandon. But when Brandon, the man who ruled Tincup and its county, was lifted from his feet and tossed ignominiously into the mud, trampled by his horses, stirred by the wheels of his wagons and tractors, the street which led through his town, to his mill. . . . Well, then they came a-run- ning! Bird-Eye cackled an impudent laugh and turned to watch the faces of the vanguard who came to see their liege lord, sprawled in the mud there, scram- seen (nl Hii] id i ii With A Sharp Oath Brandon Went Down Into the Half. Thawed Mire of the Street ble to his feet. Their raised In incredulity. In and more no man save Bird-Eye Blaine had dared lift even his voice In Tin cup in other than respect for Nicholas Brandon. And this stranger had picked him up and thrown him away! ut Brandon was up, lurching for the sidewalk where Ben Elliott stood, legs spread, fsts clenched with good humor repossessed and grinning as he had grinned at Boll Duval; grin: ning as a man will who loves combat for its own sake and not at all as one who fights in red rage. However his smile faded and his jaw settled as Brandon uplifted his face in that rush, Murder was there, in the black eyes, in the loose hanging of the lower lip, In the purple flush of his cheeks. Murder, and no less. As quick- ly as that homicidal look had come, it passed, Something like fear swept those eyes, driving it away. Not fear of this encounter, Ben knew ; not fear of a stronger, younger man. Some thing else again; something entirely different, It was the sort of fear that comes from within; the kind of fear a man has for his own impulses Brandon halted abruptly. His fists relaxed into hands and with one of them he brushed rather aimlessly at mud on his sleeve, A dozen men were close, then, hold- ing back, watching, waiting, listening. Others were coming: many more, pounding over the walk, splashing through melting puddles, keyed to grand excitement. And as Brandon halted, looking up Into Elliott's face and evidently fighting for self-control, one of these new arrivals pushed to the front and came up importantly. “What's the matter, Mr. Brandon?” he asked sharply, with the manner of one ready to render service, Brandon did not reply at once. He settled his coat on his shoulders “Sheriff, arrest this young man im- mediately,” he sald then. “I'll swear to a complaint of assault and battery my- self.” A sigh of rellef, of disappointment, of laxing tension, or of all these com: bined, went up from the growing group. The sheriff turned to Elilott and touched his arm significantly. “You'd better come along, Elliott,” he sald, “You took In too much terri tory.” Ben looked about almost foolishly. He was embarrassed and surprised, He had expected a rough-and-tumble fight in what he considered a righteous cause and surely he was the sort who would have been on familiar ground in voices were two decades now but WNTU Service, such an encounter. But here he was, with a sheriff plucking at his sleeve! He laughed a bit sheepishly, “All right, Sheriff. If it's arresting You run to bere In Tincup, likely I'm it!" He turned for his pack-sack and as he did so observed old Don Stuart sitting weakly on the step of the va- cant store building before which scene had been enacted. Perspiration beaded his waxen face and his quick breath came through open, colorless lips. He was obviously a sick man and trouble clouded Elliott's eyes. “Minute, Sherif,” he sald and crossed to Don, thrusting one hand into a pants pocket. “Here, old timer,” he sald gently. The hand came out and into Stuart's palm he pressed a thin packet of bills and some change, “Get one of your old buddies Here you !"—stralghten- ing and beckoning Bird-Eye, who ap- proached with aluerity., “Get the old timer to a hotel. Petter get a doctor, too. He's heeled enough to take care After that , .. the of himself a few days. we'll see He turned then and fastened a severe ganze on Brandon. “And you, chum, let him alone!” he warned. “Until a doctor says he can travel, you watch your step with him!” jut Brandon ignored this. He was buttoning his coat, pushing his way through the group, which fell aside re- spectfully. “All right, Sheriff,” igh worthy. “Let's r sald Ben to that go!" CHAPTER II Able Armitage, justice of the peace p, looked over his spectacies ts fu the face before his into prisoner vm and a tw ppeared In keen blue eye “Now, young with assault you're charged ry on the person Are you guilty ™ From the rear windows of his clut. tered little Able had watlched young Ben Ei emerge status of a populace to of Nicholas Brandon. lott from the complete stranger to the that of its Iatest hero by sending Mr. Bull Duval to a damp and the log b ; After that he picked up an old cl net and commenced to play a halting, aimiess and pot musical tune, He was so occupled either with the musical performance or with his thoughts that not hear the tramp of many feet on the walk out- side and was wns about to function In When doar Jen Elliott, Hick- Nicholas Brandon, followed, it seemed, by the total population county, surged through the doorway the clarinets squawking leaped into a shrill squeal and died away The judge's dropped to the floor and he swung his chalr to face the entrance, The sheriff stated his errand, the complaint was drawn, Nicholas Bran. don affixed his signature and then for the first time Able looked closely into the face of the defendant. it was a long and searching look and was met steadily by a pair of clear, steel-gray eyes which seemed, on care. ful inspection, to be struggling to hold back an expression that might, If per- mitted to develop, have proved to be a mischievous smile, TO BE CONTINUED. Origin of English Toy Spaniel Much Disputed Retrousse nose, abundant coat and highly Intelligent expression--those are the chief characteristics of the Eng- lish Toy Spaniel, observes an authority in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. There are four classes of English Toy Spaniels—~King Charles, Blenheim, Ruby and Prince Charles. King Charles have a black and tan coat, Blenheim have a red and white coat, Ruby a solid red and Prince Charles a tricolor coat. » vy! 5 sy Ley 3 ignominlous finish In ri- completely he did unaware that he to be © «i on official capacity. the and ens, the sheriff, and male ma of the feet ing in 1902, English Toy Spaniels were classed together In a general group. Another standard for the breed was adopted by the Toy Spaniel Club of America in 1000, The origin of the Toy Spaniel is so much disputed that Pug, Malteset, Pekingese, Jap and even the Bulldog have been credited with a share in its ancestry. A cross probably was used cimen, Toy Spaniels date back to the Six- teenth century. They were In high fa. of Stuart In England. whose name they bear, they have been closely associated with royalty. They reached the zenith of their popularity them extensively, Sensitiveness to Sovnd Tests of human sensiliveness to exploded near a man's ear, (he pres sure on his brain Increases fourfold, stomach muse!» ‘« cowed down by a third, Control Disease: : # Taken to Halt Spread of Infection. N.C. Agricultural Experiment Station. WNU Services. fection. Quarantine not only protects the healthy animals, but it also faclli- tates the treatment of diseased anl- mals, Introducing new animals into a herd without quarantining them for a pe- riod of 80 to 40 days is not favored. If at the end of the period they are found to be free from disease, then It Is considered safe to place them In the herd. While In quarantine the animals should be watched closely for any trace of disease, The period necessary to keep the animals under close observa tion varies, depending upon where the new animals came from, the type of animal, and its physical condition, Animals collected from different farms, assembled In public stock yards, and shipped long distances are dan- gerous sources of infection, as they are exposed to many chances for catch- ing disease at a time when thelr re- sistance is lowered. But animals which have been hauled only short distances are also liable ro infected, while many come from herds disease is pres ent, the need for precaution Is neces became where sary whenever bringing new stock into a herd, A few infected animals can spread disease through a whole herd In a few days, and It is risky to walt a day or two before putting the new stock into quarantine, even there Is no apparent indication of disease though Eliminate Parasites to Conserve Supply of Feed Stock feed can be conserved this win ter by eliminating parasites that sap the strength of the aflected animals, states Dr. E. N. Stout, extension vet- the Cx erinarian at rado agricultural college, Not only will the el mination of yw the live slick to par- winter jigestion Doctor axites all through on and colic Stout says. Lice on cattle can be eliminated by The is niectine sulphate, dipping anytime on a sunny day. dip sol dip will best One lice » made hed but a second ann . : ng the uld be treated after a the Horse bot parasites slu not sooner freeze hard enough to el bot flies, as it requires a month's time for the larvae to migrate to the stom- ach. In intestinal than one n.onth minate addition bots, other as round. be elimi to Lhe gnch is will parasites fapeworn When Cows Chew Wood When cows chew wo or bones and eat dirt It shows that the dairy ration is deficient In which Examine add those minerals. Le gume as cowpea, soybean clover, and alfalfa are rich in calcium and will supply a suflicient amount of this mineral for the average cow. Phos. phords is supplied by waeat bran, tonseed meal, and soybean meal, These feeds contain about 30 per cent of this mineral, t might be well to add two pounds of a mineral mixture composed of equal parts of finely ground lime stone and steamed bone meal to each 100 pounds of the concentrate ration. «i sb min matter, should be corrected at once the ration and that hays, carefully feeds are high in such cot Seize Poisoned Food The careful Inspectors of the federal food and drug administration continue to find shipments of fruit and vege tables which have on the surface an excess of polsonous spray residue be yond what Is considered a safe limit, Among the shipments seized were 137 of apples, three of pears and 14 of cauliflower, Five consignments of pickles were confiscated because they were found with saccharin instead of sugar and one shipment of imported sardines was destroyed because of the presence of s——— On the Farm Portugal raised sufficient wheat the past year to feed all its people. » . - msi small blocks color combinations, as- all about 8 Each nches block measures outer border 4 a finished size 33 by requires about § Ibs, and Make gcheme room in suit particular i make it is to be used, or where, practica Epa No. 25, braided remains a made up in way it sey Ed and easily and book and instructions for rug fu + 4 244 be found In rug containing crocheted fniso pare DEPT. 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