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"What can that bo?" cried Linda.
As if in answer came the sullen far
off sound throe times repented, ui;d
then, after au interval, n fourth.
"Shooting!" cried Linda again. very
white, her blue eyes wide with terror.
"And it's from the direction of Sen!is
lake.'"
"Ben! Ben Puttiek"' roared Peter
sham.
Bt-t loud as was his voice. Linda's
call rose higher.
"Ilere 1 am!" We heard Puttiek's
voice from inside the bouse, and he
ran out a minute later.
"We heard live sliois front Seulis
lake." I said. "We must start at once,
you and 1. Mr. Petersham will stay
with Miss Linda."
Puttiek look til me in the eyes.
"Are you tired of your life?" he ask
ed grimly.
"We have no time to think of that.
(!pt ready!"
"There was five shots." l'nttick said
deliberately. "1 heard em myself.
That uieans Joe's dead, if it was hiui
they shot at. If we go we'll soon be
dead too."
"Oh. you coward!" eried Linda.
Puttiek turned a dull red. "I'm no
coward. Mis-- l.inda. !".:t I'm no fool.
I'm a wooas:;:aii. I know."
"There is a good ueaj of sense in
what Ueu says." 1 put in. "I think
his best place is here with you. lie
shall stay to help you in ease of need.
I'll go and tin! Joe. After all, it's as
likely as not that he was tiring or per
haps some one else was firing at a
bear."
1 has.'eue I forward at t!:e best
;«"• I could attain until fro'j a ris
ing Ut:<> I 1 cuui!;! giiiapse «.f Sell lis
lake. s« > :t:li here rose an.l
'ell ill a >rr,.'s ..f Short st-ep incline*.
' la!»)j.-: tlicse little hil!:» ami ran
down tht- Suddenly I came to
a t"rn ,-:i . v :>s about to rush down a
-i "it a vol c. seemingly a:
civ sJ'Jc. s
"Tint you. >jr. tjuariteh?"
"Joe! Wltere are you?"
"Here!"
1 followed the voice and. parting
Fou-.e branches, saw Joe lying on the
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and Looked Down on Him.
grouud. His face was gray under Its
tan. and a smear of blood had dried
upon his forehead and cheek.
"You're wounded!" I cried.
"Ilis second passed through e top
of my shoulder."
"His? Whose?"
"Him that shot at me."
"Did you shoot back?"
"He lies about ten paces west o' that
small tuaple."
"You saw him?"
"Hardly. He had a black hat. I
saw it move after he fired his fourth,
and I shot back. If you'll give me
your arm. Mr Qcaritch. we'll go up
and take a look at him."
With difficulty and with many .>auses
we reached the top of the little ridge.
The dead man lay as Joe had said
quite near the small maple. The bullet
had entered his throat. He was a fong
haired, black bearded man of medium
size.
Joe leaned against the msple tree and
looked down at him.
"I seem to know the fellow's face." I
said.
"Yes: you seen him the day we come.
cutting wood by the shack."
"Now. Joe. lean on me. and we'll try
to make for home." for 1 saw he was
' very weak.
1 "Must just look around. Mr. Qua
ritcb. See here! He was smoking his
pipe. Look at the ashes—a regular
handful of them. He must 'a' lain for
me all of a hour before I come along.
Here's his rifle —a 30-.TO. Wonder who
be is?" Joe lay back, panting.
"You're not able to walk." said I.
"I'll go back to Kalmucks and get a
rig to bring you hjme."
"No. Mr. Quaritch. It would uever
be right to do that. It would give the
other fellas warning."
"The others?"
"This dead fella's partners."
"You know he has some, then?"
"Due anyway. But let's be moving.
Cut me a pole so as I can use it as a
crutch."
I did as he asked, and we commenced
our long and, for him. painful walk
back.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Capture.
AS we walked Joe gave me in little
jetks the story ot his adven-
tures.
"1 started out, Mr. Quaritch,"
he began, "and crossed the lake to
the camp where Bill Worke was fired
at—you uiind Miss Linda dropped a
tiroocb there? 1 had a search for it,
l>ut 1 didn't tiud it. though 1 come
across what I'd hoped to tiud—a lot of
tracks—men's tracks."
"Who bad been there siuce Satur
day
"Huh! Yes: only about two days
old. After awhile I built a bit of a
rise and cooked a pinch of tea in a
tin I'd fetched along. Then after
lunk"—Joe always called luuch "lunk"
—"1 started back. 1 was coming along
easy, not-on the path, but in the wood
about twenty yards to the south of it.
and afore I'd gone above three or
four acres a shot was tired at me from
above. The bullet didn't strike me,
but as I was in a wonderful poor place
for cover—just three or four spruces
and half a dozen sticks of wild rasp
bcrry I went down, pretending I'd
got the bullet, pitched over the way a
man does that's got it high up, and I
took care to get the biggest spruce
trunk between me and where 1 think
tLe shots come from.
"Sometimes, if you go down like
that, a man'll get rattled-like and come
out. but not this one. Guess I'm not
the first he's put a bit of lead into.
He lay still and fired again—got me
it. the shoulder that time, and I gave
a kick and shoved in among the rasp
berry ■'•anes in good earnest, had some
of tbem whitey buds in my mouth and
was chewing of them, when the fella
shoots twice more—both misses. Then
he kind o' paused, and I guesses he's
going to move to where he can let me
have it again.
"1 see the black hat on him for a mo
ment and then I lets drive. I tried
to get tip to have a look at him."
"Surely that was risky. How could
you know he was dead?"
"Heard the liullet strike and saw the
hat go backward. A man don't nev
er fall over backward when he's sham
ming. I couldn't get to him—fainted,
I guess. Then you come along."
• •••••«
Evening had fallen before we ulti
mately arrived at Kalmaeks. We ap
proached the house with care and en
tered by a window at the back, as
Joe thought it possible the front en
trances might be commanded from the
wood on that side.
We went at once to the room where
Worke was lying and Joe gave him a
rapid description of the man he had
shot.
"That's Tomlinson," said Worke at
once. "Them two brothers lives, to
gether. What have they been doing?"
"You'll know afore night," replied
Joe. "What are their names?"
"Dandy is the one with the black
beard, while him they calls Muppy is
a foxy colored man."
"Thank you." said Joe. "Now. Bill,
if you keep them names to yourself
I'll come back in half an hour and tell
you who it was shot you."
On Joe's appearance Linda started up
«nd ran to him.
"You're wounded!" she cried.
"It's nothin' much. Miss Linda."
But as we laid him down on the
conch he seemed to lose consciousness.
Petersham brought brandy, and Linda,
holding Joe's head upon her arm, put
it to his lips. He swallowed some of 1
it and tben insisted upon sitting up.
"I must bind up your shoulder. We
must stop the bleeding." Linda's dis
tress and anxiety were very evident.
And Joe had to give way. With her
capable and gentle hands Linda soon
dressed the wound and afterward in
sisted on sending for Puttiek to help
him to his bunk.
"So you've got it?" Puttiek said. "I
warned you. Lucky you're not dead."
j "Yes, ain't it?" returned Joe.
; Well I knew that soft drawl, which
j November's voice never took except in
| moments of fiercest tension.
"You'd best join your hands above
TTAKRTSBrRG STARINPEVENPENT, FRIDAY FATCNTNG, NOVEMBER 27. 1914.
your head, Ben Puttiek. Lock the
thumbs. That's right!"
Joe had picked my revolver from the
table and held it pointed at Puttiek's
breast.
"He's mad!" screamed Puttiek.
"Tie his hands. Mr. Quaritch. Miss
Linda, will you please to go away?"
"No. Joe. Do you think I'm fright
ened?"
"Huh! I know you're brave, but a
man acts freer without the women
looking on."
Without a word she turned and walk
ed out of the room.
"Puttiek's going to confess. Mr. Pe
tersham," went on November.
"I've nothing to confess, you foot!"
"Not even that story you invented
about the man with the red hanker
across his face—the mau who wasu't
never there?"
"What's he ravin' about?" cried Pnt
tlck.
'•nave you forgot fhMrt long haired
Tomlinson brothers that"—
The efTect of this speech on Puttiek
was Instantaneous Evidently he leap
ed to the conclusion that he had been
betrayed. *«r he turned and dashed
for the iV**- We flung ourselves upon
him and by sheer weight bore him to
the ground, where we quickly overpow
ered hint, snarling and writhing.
Some hours later we sat round No
vember Jive who was stretched upon
the couch. Puttiek had been tied up
and imprisoned in the strongest room.
"No, Mr. l'etersham." Joe was say
ing. "I don't think you'll have much
more trouble. There was only threo
men in it. One's dead: one's locked
up, and 1 dare say we'll find a way of
dealiug with No. 3."
"What 1 dou't understand." said Lin
da. "is how you found out that Puttiek
was in it. Wheu did you begin to sus
pect hint?"
"Last night, when Mr. Petersham
didn't go to Butler's cairn. The fellas
who promised to meet him never put
in there either. That was queer, wasn't
it? Of course it could mean one thing
—that some one had told 'em that Mr.
Petersham weren't coming. There was
only us three, and Puttiek knew. So
l'nttick must 'a' been the one to tell."
"But. November." I said. "Puttiek
never left the house, for you remem
ber you found no tracks on the sand.
How. then, could he let them know?"
"1 guess he waved a lantern or made
some other sign they'd agveod on."
"But why didn't you tell me all this
at once?" exclaimed Petersham.
"Because I weren't sure. Their not
going to Butler's enirn might "a* been
< h:\noe. But this morniug:, when Put
tick eotn»s in with his yarn about the
tu«n wtih the red hanker iicross his
faee t!:■ • t in:ide him luvtl-up his h:mds j
u:tl threatened him when he was
mending tiie anno, 1 begun to think !
we shouldn't be s:> nuieh longer iii the
dark. Awl when 1 went down and ;
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best join your sbove
your head. Ben Puttie*!""
had a look ::r<>tind by the river. I knew
at once bis story was a'lie. and that
he'd got an interest in scaring Mr. Pe
tersham awny."
To Be Continued.
DYING AMID WEED FIRES
Well-Knowu Farmer Collapses and Is
Boasted Alive
Reading, Pa., Nov. 2 7.—Overcome
with vertigo while burning off weed?
in a field on his big farm, Philip K.
fcvhultz. 60, of Chapel, this county, one
of the most widely-known farmer.-- of
lower Berks, fell over unconscious Wed
nesday nigbrt iu the midst of the blaz
ing field, and was so terriblv burned
that he is in a serious condition, lie
cannot live.
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Veterans From Six Committees in
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Robesonia, Fa.. Nov. 27.—The seven
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