T THE FULTON COUNTY KWS. McCONNELLSBUR G. PA. MBlBBRIlltlHIIHItiriOIIVBIIIIIlSSIffBinifllBlllllieiidi TH OF FIFTY-TH Slice Libby ' Veal Loaf and garnish withcucumbcrj, water-crt-M and salad dressing very tempting! By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR (Copyright: Little, Brown Oo.) REE CHAPTER XVII Continued. "Anyway, hero It Is: You got the essentials, up to a certain point, from Brooks, liut hu didn't tell It ull his kind never does, not by a Ions shot, They, the. four of them, It seems, held meeting ns hood ns I shipped out ' that gold and put through that stock selling scheme. That was legitimate, I couldn't restrain them from Unit, he Ing a hopeless minority of one. Their chief object, however, was to let two or three friends In on the ground Hoor of a good thing; also, they wanted each a good bundle of that stock while It wuh chea figuring that with the prospects I had opened up it would Hell high. So they had It on tins mar ket, and In udditlon had everything framed up to reorganize with o capl tallzutlon of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This all cut and dried before I got there. Now, as It orlglnully stood, I lie live or us would each have made a small fortune on then Klappan claims. They're good. Ittit With a quarter of a million In out standing stork well, it would be all right for the fellow with a big block. Hut you can see where I would get off with a five-thousand-dollar Inter est. To' be sure, a certain proportion of the money derived from the sale of this stock should be mine. Iiut it goes into thu treasury, and they had it ar ranged to keep it In the treasury, us a fund for operations, with them doing the operating. They had already indi cated their bent by voting an annual stipend of ten thousand and sis thou sand dolinrs to Lordlier and Brooks as president and secretary respective ly. Me, they proposed to quiet with a manager's wage of a mere five thou sand a year after I got on the ground and began to get my back up. "Hut they capped the climax with what I mit cold-bloodedly character ize as thu baldest attempt nt a dirty fraud I ever encountered. And they had the gall to try and make me a party to It. To make tlds clear you must understand that I, on behalf of the company and acting as the com pany's ngent. grubstaked Whltey Lewis find four others to go in and stake those claims. I was empowered to "That Was When I Smashed Him." arrange with these five men that If the claims made n decent showing each should receive fly thousand dollars in stock for assigning their claims to the company, ami should have employment at top wages while the claims were operated. "They surely earned It, Vou know what the North Is In the dend of win ter. They bucked their way through a hen of frost and snow and staked the claims, it ever men were untitled to what was due them, they were. And not one of them stuttered over his bargain, even though they were taking out weekly as much gold as they were to get for their full share. They'd given their word, and they were white men. They took me for a white man also. They took my word that they would g't what was coming to them, and gave me In the company's name clear title to every claim. I put those titles on record in Ilazelton, and camo home. ; "Lorlmer nud Drooks deliberately proposed to Withhold that stock, to de fraud these men, to steal oh, I can't Cud words strong enough. Brooks said to me, with u grin: The prop erty's in the company's name let the roughnecks sweat n while. They've got no come-back, anyway.' "That was when I smashed him. Do you blame me? I'd taken over those fellows' claims In good faith. Could I go back there and face those men and say: 'l'.oys, the company's got your J claims, unu uiey won t pay ror tiiem.' 1 you think for u minute I'd let a bunch of Illy-fingered crooks put any thing like, that over on simple, square fleallng fellows who were too honest to protect their own Interests from sharp practice? A quartette of soft bodied mongrels who sat In uphol stered ofllce chairs while these others wallowed through six feet of snow for three ' weeks, living on bncon and beans, to grab a cot of gold forfheml It makes my fist double up when 1 think about It. "And I wouldn't he put off or placat ed by a rhanc t$ fattMi cry own bank roll. 1 didn't rnre if I broke Hi Se Cold Mining company and myself like wise. A dollar doesn't terrify nor yet fascinate me I hope it never will. And Willie, perhaps, It was not what they would call good form for mo to lose my temper and go at them with my fists, I was fighting mad when I thor oughly sensed their dirty project. Any way, it helped bring them to time. When you take a man of that type and cuff blra around with your two hunds tie's ajit to listen serious to what you M. And they listened when I toid them in dead earnest next day that Whltey Lewis und his partners must have what was due them, or I'd wreck the bunch of them if It took ten years and every dollar I hud to do it. And I could Imve put them on the tramp, too they'd ulready dipped their fin gers in where they couldn't stand lltl gallon. I'm sure of that or they would never have come through ; which they did. "Hut I'm sorry I ever got mixed up with them. I'm going to sell my stock and advise Lewis and the others to do the same while we can get full value for It. Lorlmer and that bunch will manipulate the outilt to death, uo mat ter how the mine produces. 'IXImt's all of that. I dou't care two whoops about the money. There Is still gold in the Klappan Range and other corners of the North, whenever I need it. But It nauseated me. I can't stand that cut-throat game. And Granville, like most other cities of Its kind, lives by and for that sort of thing. The pressure of modern life mukes it inevitable. Anyway, a town Is no place for me. I can stomach It about so long, und no longer. It's too crumped, too girded about with petty- larceny conventions. If once you slip and get down, every one walks on you. Everything's restricted, priced, tin kered with. There Is no real freedom of body or spirit. I wouldn't trade u comfy log cubln In the woods with a big fireplace and a shelf of books for the finest home on Muple drive not If I had to stay there und stifle in the dust und smoke and smells. Thut would be a sordid and impoverished existence. I. cannot live by the dog en t-dog code thut seems to prevail wherever folk get Jammed together in un unwieldy social mass. I have said tlie like to you before. "By nature nnd training I'm unfitted to live in these crowded places. I love you, little person, I don't think you realize how much, but I can't make you luippy by making myself utterly miserable. That would only produce the Inevitable reaction. But I still think you are essentially enough like me to meet me on common ground. Vou loved me and you found content ment and Joy at our little cabin once, Don't you think it might be waiting there again? . ' "If you really care, If I nnd the old North still mean anything to you, few days or -weeks, or eveu months of separation won't matter. An uffectlon that can't survive six months is too fragile to go through life on. I don't iisk you to Jump the next train and follow me. I don't ask you to wire me, 'Come back, Bill.' Though I would come quick enough If you called me. I merely want you to think It over so- berly and let your heart decide. You know where I stand, don't you, Hazel, dear? I haven't changed not u bit I'm the same old Bill. But I'd rather lilt the trail alone than with un uu willing partner. Don't flounder ubout In any quicksand of duty. There Is no 'I ought to' between us. "So it Is up to you once more, little person. If my wuy Is not your wny I will abide by your decision without whining. And whencter you want to reach me, a message to Felix Cour voiseur, Fort George, will eveutuully find me. I'll fix it thut way. "So long, little person I like you a heap, for ull your cantankerous ways. "BILL." She laid aside the letter, with a lump In tier throat. For a brief instant she was minded to telegraph the word that would bring him hurrying back. But some of the truths lie had set down in cold black and white cut her deep. Of a surety she hud druwn her weapon on thu wrong side in the min ing trouble. Ovcihasty? yes. And shamefully disloyal. Perhaps there was something In It, after all; that Is to say, it might be they had made a mis take. She suw plainly enough that unless she could get buck some of the old enthusiasm for thut wilderness life, unless the fusdnatlon of magnificent distances, of silent, breathless forests, of contented, quiet days on trail and stream, could lay fast hold of her again, they would only defer the day of reckoning, as Bill hnd said. No. she would not attempt to call him buck. She doubted If he would come. And she would not go not yet. She must have time to think. Altogether, as the first Impression of Bill's letter grew less vivid to her she considered her grievances more. And she wns minded to act as she had set out to do to live her life as seemed best to her, rather than pocket her pride and rejoin Bill. The feminine instinct to compel the tnnn to capitu late asserted itself more and more strongly. A month passed. During that thirty-day period she re ceived n brief note from Bill. Just a few lines to say: "lilt the ranch yesterday, little per son. Looks good to me. Went fishing last night about sundown. Trout were rising fine. Nulled a ten-pounder. Woke up this morning at dnyllght nnd found a buck deer with two Indy friends standing In the middle of the clearing. I loafed a few days in Fort George, ;ort of thinking I might hear from you. Am tending this Out by Jake. Will siArt for the KltijtfM aboat day after tomorrow." ghe had not answered his first let ter. She had tried to. But somehow when she tried to set pen to paper the right words would not come. Sho lucked his facility of expression. There was so much she wnnted to say, so little she seemed able to say. As the days passed she. felt less sure of her ground, lens sure thut she had not sacrificed something precious to a vagary of self, an obsession of her own ego. And slowly but surely she began to view ull the uctivltles of litr circle with a crltlcul eye. Certuln of her mends hnd become tentutive enemies, Kitty Brooks and the Bray womenfolk, who were a numerous and Influential tribe, not only turned silent fuces when they met, but they made wnr on tier In the peculiar fashion of women. A word here, a suggestive phrase there, a shrug of the shoulders. It all bore fruit. Other friends conveyed the avid gossip. Hazel smiled und Ignored It. But In her own rooms she ruged unnvulllngly. Her husband had left her. There was a man In the case. They had lost everything. The first count wus suf ficiently muddenlng because it wus a half truth. And any of It wus Irrltut Ing even If few believed since It made a choice morsel to digest in gos sipy corners, nnd brought sundry curl ous st-ires on Huzel nt certain times, Also Mr. Wagstnlt had caused the stockholders of Free Gold a heavy loss which was only offset by the fact that the Free Gold properties were producing rl li'y. None of this was even openly flung ut her. She guthored it piecemeal. And It galled her. She could not openly defend either Bill or herself against the shadowy scandul mongers. Slowly It dawned upon her, with a bitterness born of her former txperl ence with Granville, thnt she bad lost something of the standing that certain circles had accorded her as the wife of a successful mining man. It mude her ponder. Was Bill so far wrong, ufter all, In his estimate of them? It was a disheartening conclusion. She hud come of a fnmlly that stood well In Granville; she had grown up there; If lifetime friends blew hot and cold like thnt, was the game worth playing? In so far as she could she gave the He to some of the petty gossip. Where as at first she hud looked dubiously on spending Bill's money to maintain the standard of living they had set up, she now welcomed that deposit of five thousand dollars as a means to dem onstrate that even in his absence he stood behind her financially which 'she began to perceive counted more than anything else. So long ns she could dress In the best, while she could ride where others. walked, so long ns she betrayed no limitation of re sources, the doors stood wide. Not what you arc, hut what you've got she remembered Bill suylng that was their holiest creed. It repelled her. And sometimes she was tempted to sit down and pour It all out In il letter to him. But she could not quite bring herself to the point. Always behind BUI loomed the vust and dreary Northland, and she shrank from that. On top of tills, she began to suffer n queer upset of her physical condi tion. All her life she had been splen didly healthy; her body a perfect working machine, uflllcted with no weuknesses. Now odd spusmodlc pains recurred without rhyme or reason In her heud, her back, her limbs, strik ing her with sudden poignancy, disap pearing as suddenly. She was stretched on the lounge one afternoon wrestling nervously with a particularly acute attack, when Vesta Lorlmer was ushered In. "You're almost a stranger' Hazel remarked, ufter the first greetings. "Your outing must have been pleasant, to hold you so long." "It would have held me longer," Vest returned, "If I didn't have to be In touch with my market. I cotHd live quite happily on my Island eight months in tltu year. But one can't get people to come several hundred miles to a sitting. And I feel Inclined' to ac quire a living Income while my vogue lasts." "You're rather a wilderness lover, nren't you?" Hazel commented. "I don't think you'd love It ns deurly if you were burled alive in It." "Thnt would ull depend on the cir cumstances, Vesta replied. "One es capes many disheartening things in a country thnt is still comparatively primitive. The continual grind of keeping one's end up In town gets "You're Almost a Stranger," Hazel Re marked, After the First Greetings. terribly wearisome. I'm ulwnys glad to go to the woods, nnd sorry when I have to leave. But I suppose it's utc ly In cue's polut of view." Tbcy chatted Of sundry matters fat few minutes, Ty the way, Is there any truth In the statement thnt this Free Gobi row hns created trouble between you and your husband?" Vcstn nsked abruptly. "I dare say It's quite an Impertinent question, und you'd be well within your rights to tell mo It's none of my business. But I should like to con found somo of these petty tattlers. I haven't been homo forty-eight lfours; yet I've heard tongues wagging. I hoope there's nothing In it. I wurned Mr. Wogstaff against Paul." "Wurned him? Why?" Huzel neg lected the question entirely. The blunt ness of it took her by surprise. Frank speech wns not a characteristic of Vestu Lorlmer'8 set. The girl shrugged her shoulders. "He Is my brother, but thut doesn't veil my eyes," she said coolly. 'Taul Is too crooked to He straight In bed I'm glud Mr. Wagstaff brought the lot of them up with a round turn which he seems to have done. If ho had used n club Instead of his fists it would have been only their deserts. I supiwse the fuss quite upset you?" "It did," Hazel admitted grudgingly. "It did more than upset me." "I thought us much," Vesta said slowly. "It mude you Inflict an Inde served hurt on a man who should have had better treatmetit nt your bunds; not only because lie loves you, but be cause he Is one of the few men who deserve the best that you or uuy worn un can give." "You've said quite enough," Hazel cried. "If you have uny more Insults, pleuse get rid of them elsewhere. I think you are " "Oh, I don't enre what you think of me," the girl 1 Interrupted recklessly. "If I did I wouldn't bo here. I'd hide behind the conventional rules of the game nnd let you blunder along. But I can't. I'm not gifted with your blind egotism. Whatever you are, that Bill of yours loves you, and if you care anything for him, you should be with him. I would, if I were lucky enough to stnnd In your shoes. I'd go nith him down Into hell Itself gladly If he wanted me to!" "Oh!" Hazel gnsped. "Are you clean mad?" "Shocked to death, nren't you?" Vestn fleered. "You can't understand, can you? I love him yes. I'm not ushumed to own It. I'm no sentimen tal prude to throw up my hands In hor ror nt a perfectly natural emotion. But he Is not for me. I dare say I couldn't give him an added heartbeat If I tried. And I have u little too much pride strange as It mny seem to you . to try, so long us he Is chained hand and foot to your chariot. But you're making him suffer. And I care enough to want him to live all ids days hap pily, lie is a man, nnd there are so few of them, real men. If you can make him huppy, I'd compel you to do so, If I had the power. You couldn't understand that kind of a love. Oh, I could choke you for your stupid dis loyalty. I could do almost anything that would spur you to action. I can't rid myself of the hopeless, reckless mood lie Is in. There are so few of his kind, the patient, strong, loyal, square dealing men, with u woman's tender ness and a lion's courage. Any woman should be proud und glad to be his mate, to mother his children. And you" , She threw out her hands with a sud den, despairing gesture. The blue eyes grew misty, und she hid her face In her palms. Before that passionate outburst Huzel sat dumbly amazed, staring, uncertain. In u second Vesta lifted her head defiantly. "I had no notion of breaking out like this when I came up," she said quiet ly. "I wus going to be very adroit. I Intended to give you u friendly boost ulong the right road, if I could. But It bus all been bubbling Inside me for a long time. You perhaps think it very unwomanly hut I don't care much what you think. My little heartache Is incidental, one of the things life deals us whether we will or not. But If you cure In the least for your hus band, for God's sake make some ef fort, some sacrifice of your own petty little desires, to make his road a little pleusunter, a little less gray than It must be now. You'll lie well repaid If you are the kind that must always be paid In full. Don't be a stiff-necked Idiot. That's ull I wuuted to say. Goodby !" She was ut the door when she fin ished. The dick of the closing catch stirred Hazel to speech and action. "Vesta, Vesta I" she cried, und run out Into the corridor. But Vestu Lorlmer neither heeded nor halted. And Hazel went hack to her room, quivering. Sometimes the truth Is bitter und stirs to wrath. And mingled with other emotions wus a dull pang of Jealousy the llrst she had ever known. For Vestu Loriwer wus bcuutlful beyond most women; and she had hut given ample evidence of the bigness of her soul. With shamed tears creeping to her eyes, Ha zel wondered If she could love even Bill so Intensely thut sho would drive an other womun to his arms thut be might win happiness. But one thing stood out clear above that painful meeting. She wns dono fighting ugnlnst the blnnkncss that seemed to surround her since Bill went nwuy. Slowly but steadily it had been forced upon her that much which she deemed desirable, even nec essary, was of little weight In the bal ance with him. Day and night sho longed for him, for his cheery voice, the whimsical good humor of him, his kiss. and his smile. Indubitably Vesta Lorlmer was right to term her a stiff- His Round Face Lit Up With a Smile of Recognition. necked, selfish fool. But If nil folk were saturated with the essence of wisdom well, there wns but one thing to be done. Silly pride had to go by the hoard. If to face gayly a land sliu dreaded were the price of easing his heartnche and her own thut price she 'would pay, and puy with a grace but lately learned. She lay down on the lounge ngoln. The old pains were back. And ns sho ndured, n sudden startling thought flushed ucross her mind. A possibil ity? ires. She hurried todrcss, won dering why It hud not before occurred to her, and, phoning up n taxi, rolled downtown to the ofllce of Doctor Hart. An hour or so later she returned. A picture of her man stood on tho man tel. She took It down und stured at It with u tremulous smile. "Oh, Billy-boy, Bllly-boy, I wish you knew," she whispered. "But I was coming, anyway, Bill I" That evening, stirring about her preparations for the Journey, she paused, and wondered why, for the first time since Bill left, she felt so Utterly nt peace. CHAPTER XVIII. Home Again, Twelve months works many a change on a changing frontier. Hnzcl found this so. When she cuine to plun her route she found the G. T. P. bridg ing the last gup In n transcontinental system, its tr.-.!ns westbound already within striking dlstunco of Fort George. She could board a sleeping car at Granville nnd detruin within u hundred miles of the ancient trading post with u fast river boat to carry her the remaining distance. Fort (ieorge loomed up a Jumbled area of houses and tents, log buildings, frame structures yellow In their new ness, strangers to paint as yet. On every hand others stood in varying stages' of erection. Folks hurried about the .sturdy beginning of a fu ture greatness. And us she left tho bout and followed a new-Iald wnlk of plunks toward a hotel, Jake Lauer stepped out of u store, squurely into her path. Ills round face lit up with a smile of recognition. And Hazel, fresh from the long nnd lonesome Journey, wus equully glud to set eyes on a fumlllur, u genuinely friendly fnce, , (TO BE CONTINUED.) PUT UNDER WAR DISCIPLINE Mother's Ingenious Scheme to Secure Respectful Attention From Her Small Boy. There lire small boys who are not very prompt to mind their mothers or who do not give their elders a re spectful amount of attention when re ceiving orders. Yet some of them can bo disciplined according to tho meth ods used by an alert mother to whom the war gave the Idea. No longer Is she simply mother; she Is, Indeed, a person of far more Impor tance to her militant young son she's Captain Mother! Her Imaginative Imy Is I'rlvntn Billle, and, as he prides him self upon being a good soldier, you can guess that few of tho captain's or ders are Ignored. Consequently, not ottly Blllle's obedience is a tiling to to proud of, but his compreheMdnt nud remembrance of orders glrcA ftn greutly Improved, for tho cnptnln lias told Mm thut he must stand at atten tion and salute w hen Ids name Is spok en by a superior olllcer and thut no orders will be given until I'rlvute Bll lle's eyes nre fastened upon the cup tain's with undivided Interest. At the end of the week the private's record Is reviewed, not only by the captain but by the family army's chief of staff father. If tho record Is approved the captain threads a lit tle metal button upon a ribbon, and, behold 1 Private Billle receives deco ration for his loyal service to the household nnd to his superiors. You can readily see how tills war play makes obedience a wonderfully fasci nating gnmo and disciplines tho lud die bountifully ut the same time. - Going Some. "So you think you love her?" smiled the uynlciil friend. "I know I love her!" swore the In fatuated youth. "Are you sure you love her ns much us you think you do?" "Say, I'm sure of more than thnt. I love her ns mixii ns she thinks I do!" And, of course, ns one thing lends to another, that height of uffectlon story reminds us of the conversation be tween two fellows who wero talking about a third fellow who wus by tho way of being u spendthrift Ono fel low said: "Bill lives beyond his Income, doesn't he?" "Lives beyond his Income? Why, Bill lives beyond tho Income ho wishes ho hail !" Exchange. Veal Loaf with such flavor! THIS delicately flavored Veal Loaf is made with such perfection by Libby's expert chefs in the immac ulate Libby kitchens that you will always want these chefs to make it for you. You find it so appetizing, so nutritious a meat at such little cost and trouble. Order Libby's Veal Loaf for lunch , eon today. Serve cither hot or cold, your family will delight in it Libby, MTNeill Libby, Chicago ""BIBBBlBlBBBBlBBBIMii All-Round Imitation, I "What did the kaiser expect us to I drink out of his gilded pewter cup?" "Some kind of nonr-beer, I suppose." W WW At the Museum. "What an extraordinarily I hat bird has!" "Must lie l I'Ml? bf Will? I' the same provision store tluit I i," One Carload Every Two Minutes ked ame .tree rl) In y md ar (lo in , to of the t E ick t t adc y the v1 lie aclers Sr xol se .ond In tho ia' 70 i 917. tb of ban to the Cjd as 'M0t 15,000 POUNDS MEAT A MINUTE GOING TO ALLIES One Hog Oat of Every Four Being Sent Abroad. Shipments of meat have been going to the allies for somo time at tho rate of 15,000 pounds a minute. As 'tho shipments are kept up during a ten hour day they amount to 9,000.000 pounds dally. The meat goes to sol diers of tho Unitod States and the si lica and to the civilian population ot all tho countries at war with Germany. Chicago Tribune Junt I, ml T nig In 1001 hot of mot t' tei an' m In a mi mlttf on R. a all Wi c! wi I2i the clot These statements were made by a prom inent representative of the United States Food Administration. No industry in the country has played a more important part in helping to win the war than the American live stock and meat-packing industry. Swift & Company alone has been forward ing over 500 car loads of meat and meat products per week for overseas shipment. Swift & Company, U. S. A. The last straw that put the camel down and out had a mint julep ut the Other end of It. A woman's Idea of a congenial I'' liuiid Is oik' w ho lets her have her iVI1 way In everything. He'd Better Say it. Tho latest kind of wnr soup with which wo huvo had anything to do per sonally Is mado of ono potato, ono onion, ono pinch of suit and a vnst vol lima of water, but under such circum stances a man who tries to be pleas ant and cheerful around tho house can always sny : Well, this Is good and bot Ohio State Journal. HAARLEM OIL CAPSULES IF YOUR BACK ACHES Do you feel tired and "worn-out?" Are you nervous und Irritable? Don't fdeop well ut night? Ilavo u "draped out," uurestcd feeling when you get up In the morning? Dizzy spells? vil lous? lind tasto In tho mouth, back ache, pain or soreness In the loins, ond abdomen? Severe distress when urinating, bloody, cloudy urine or sed iment? All thoHo Indicate gravel or stono In the bladder, or that tho poi sonous microbes, which nre ulwnys In your system, have attacked your kid neys. You should use GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules Immediately. Tho oil soaks gently Into tho walls and lining of the kidneys, ond the lit tle poisonous iinlnuil germs, which nre causing thu Inflammation, ore Imme diately attacked und chased out of your system without Inconvenience or pain. Don't Ignore the' "little pains and nches," especially backaches. T'"J mny bo llttlo now but there Is no b Ing how soon a dangerous or fatul w ease of which they nro the forcru" tiers may show Itself. Go after tw cause of that backache nt once, or JP' may find yourself In thu grip o( "n w' curable disease. Do not delay a minute. Go to yar druggist und Insist on his siipl''J'ln you with n box of GOLD MK"A" Haarlem Oil Capsules. In 2- "UI; you will feel renewed health anil After you have cured yourself, " tlnuo to take one or two each day so as to keep In first-" . condition, nnd ward off the dinner future attacks. Money refunilf" they do not help you. Ask for 1 h original Imported GOLD il.h,lt bruud, ond tints be sure of gettiw " genuine. Adv.