£1 dared nol charge. hold him momentarily af bay. one leap, fired again, thrust her arm through the loop of the bridle rin, then knell af Bruce's side. in Aer left hand slashed al his bonds. Tha horse, plunging, seemed to jerk her body back and forth, ond endless seconds saemed to go by before the last of the thongs was severed. The man helped her ali he could. *Up—up into the smddle,” she commanded, Once more the pistol cracked. Then fhe horse broke and ras Bruce was full in the saddle by then, and even af the first leap his arms swept out to the gel on the ground beside him. Hs swung her towards him, and al the same time her hands caught af the arching back of the saddle. Never had her fine young slirength been pul fo a greater test than when she pulled herself up to a postion of security h The Killer's charge had come a few seconds too lale. wh 8 frensy of fervor. sri Mare you have them—the hare, the hersine and the great grizsly which dominates mere than one scenes in “The Strength of the Pines” For this stirring story is a tale of the Oregon wilderness, where nature But to the right kind of man nature makes civilized man lock small. gives strength from her strength. sentinel pine. And from the army of pines at its back comes the strength that gives this city man the power te win ul long odds from the evil clan of mountaineers that menaces him and the girl he fovea, This is Edison Marshail's second novel, and lives at Medford. Me began to attract afténtion in 1918 when he was a newspaper man by his shert stories In 1921 he wen the =¢ prise of the Society of Arts and Sciences of Mow York with a story, Hig iret book was “The Velie of the Pack” which was published in 1920 and is still selling. Read “The Strength of the Pines” and you will soe whi Nig public has been won, “Ihe Meart of Little Shikara” THE KILLER'S CHARGE TOO LATE The boar reared up, snarling with whath, but for a moment ¢ The sudden appearance of the gril and the horse In reality the whole rescue war unbelievably swift. The girl swung to the ground wn The white blade that she carvied By the girt"s cabin stands a great He's 8 native of Oregon BOOK ONE THE CALL OF THE BLOOD a CHAPTER | nfm Brice was wakened by the sharp ring of his telephone bell, fot specially common to men bred in it 8 » trait of the wild creatures; a ite matter that is guile necessary if thay care at sll about Jiving Fron flersapen learn the trait, tes; but as Bruce was a dweller of lifes R ped Aw | be began {be security of civilization. Rather | gi pier off muy chest as soon as possidle | Land let you go to hed, | anyway. ! | watch beneath the Pi | noes your | He bad only a few minutes to wait i ° { thet: Barpey Wegnn tapped st his [ door. This man wus bronzed by the | sun, never more 81, never straighter | ootne fron (he far | harraasnen? thet Heoce had detected Instantly | ner, ton, | | . he wus fully sroused, in complete con | trol of all Ble facultion. And 0a Is you out af this time of night, Brace” | “XN oul think I'm erazy for routing F*and Um poling to get this I's nil hasty, . "Clgerettes on the smokingstand.” Land inlier cud move Hibs He had Jast | places. The em | | in his wolce was in his foce snd man | Bot 1 waa cautioned by all | the devils of the dewp to see you--the | | moment I came bere” THE P SE ¢ Strength fo | Tf oll ll Kt gan Arlo A A AANA BB BOR Ll A BRR BW & By EDISON M Author of “The Voice “1 told her there might be several Newton Duncans in a city this size i other. 4 i | and be You should Bave seen the pail grow | on her face | i jomg I” she cried, in the caper, aol | bing way | began again. **This Nev on Duncan la fostersce—named Bruce” phe ime. And then | said | knew you “You can’t imagine the chanje that | came over her. 1 thought she'd die “af Beart failure The whole thing. Bran ie yoy ithe rroops. “Tell Bim to com | she bogged me. Tion't lose 8 moment. Piet AS soon 8% you get home, tell hin ta { cone here” “wy sonree 1 asked why she hadn't | AnWEEr WAR frasesn 4 she didnt koow that | written to | simple enough | how to write : | that eomid weiter wouldn't, or pogidn™t | abe was 8 {rifle vagne on that point | ~iispatel a letter. Something Is up, | Bruce. and | don't know what Bet | she si id—for you to come bark and : find Linda” Brace suddenly {The brown face white. | “What else #4 she say? Froce | maked. He spoke slowlp-—u ith evident Stfeuity Barnoy len ned Bad grown y answered with the slowpemeench word dieting vou te corme-aid she made me Perens sou-—on the fret traits, That thers was no om to lose” ta Tell {voles broke and chaaged Guesr, Bruse?" firsce slowly wtifensd “Tent that the puily sign derness. Talled to see IT was Just an Evor-tightening rasp of his hands over i chair srise antl! the Bike yine i stood out. There was nothing #lae sbaut him to lpdieate that ihe dead had spoliss to nid great dresms of His life was coming | tree. He spoke rather paiafelly. “Did (-edid you get the ides that womens was Linda? : the “She spoke of Linda sa the Bruce suid steadily, “And tell away | BIEL 8 young girt "But tell me somthing first. ¥ . he has’ | Wes one, If there is any such not he's 8 relation of yours, Bot I'l begin at the beginning Yeu know 1 wall way back on the Orogen frontier ~hnek in the Cascades. I was fabing {for mteelhend in a river they eal the Rogie. While way up on the | , walers || beard of a place called Trail's Enka plate where wise men do net Sand of courve you went? now, but i won't If you ever go there. Thine are only & few families, Bruce, : “miley and sofles apart, in the whole Load know: whe she in, or whether or “Of courst. The dame sounds sifly | Was! “And bow do you pet there” | "Buy » ticket for Deer Cronk, Int eyes gowing beneath brows gwered CHAPTER © know ive 08 | here | same | w “or | The man's | of emotion was oie that even Hurney's |] tyes, traisied ta the dimaess of the wi | that one of Oe | *1 @idn't get that ides.” Barey an | | smeared. ‘After so long. after so # Then she took Han and | had § som | told | Those in the mioniitaios | § firwerd. | son quite | question te bis vanishing figure. Just | oy for an instant Broce ouned—his dark “Tem ‘phoning-—asking for reserve |} tions on the frei train went” be a § | Before the gray dawn came over the | He bad po seifamesapent 8 yg Tee : SOs eo ons ions AS ———————— A IRANI I 1ALL pes red the spieit oul of the face | [& Babin out of the | Per, leave certain | fe sacl thal thelr | it no pleasure to | Junt & wild glare, | thease as of grect Biswed Mon and | bs: had ben too | # she had carried flame to her hreast, | there must pandle aiherwine | ‘aetount for Linda, | doubts about her, fe memories of par for Oh first memories of the invigded her penrty four vears | ie: thas when be Bouse she wan only fer, the BHotees ‘often: avd when ik. she eniled hing like Rwovs that so often thet 3 gouidal ba sure | pame. Now, In of esurse. Linds - Bomety: men a | that. Basides when BHeoce had Ie wan then st an | eames AA BA le dl Al | sturdy fellow” | ashered In | The miin's eves traveled slowly from | the cblid's eurly lend to Me rapidiy | growing feet: but so gleam of inter. {est oame Into the thin face. “7 sup poss he'll do—an pod aw any. Bt wap the wife's ides. anyway, you know, What about parentage? cont at all? The wogerintendint seemed to wall & long thee before sowwering. Little : Broce, already full of secret conjee. { (ures as to his own parentage. thought that some Key might be given bln at inst. “There I8 nithing that we enn tell you, Mr. Duncan” he ssid at inst. “A wowss leunght him heres Fwith an infant girl-owhen he wal about four. 1 sappose she was his mother and she didnt wali to talk to me. The nurse said that she worse outlandish clothes and bad plainly had 8 hard time” "Bat abe didn't wait? "Nhe dropped her children and fled” A cold little smile Sickered st the | man's lps “It looks rether damm. he said, as Bruce wig Sor hn i i panlons begin to | was queite blond | gE Futher irveguinr that MHght hed | f She had flung Innghed ai the . #xplosi ed fervor nds had smpcked and her sharp little | | Biss "Little Spit | : 5 called her, But | all her snything | . os Bad besn an plethares, | | Mwai: many Hr | sable” hw sald significantly. “But IU phetures, 1 easel Interest i = | “But Pi Take the Little Beggar, Any: | wig.” | take the Bittle bepgwr, anyway.” senally goes and Brace bad bews af forded & gentleman's education. Thery wae ales, for a while, s cortals sagan of rather doubtfsl prosperity. & ‘wom. a8 who died after s few months of is hb and many, many hours of silmost overvwhelming loneliness. Also thers were many thoughts such us are sot eadeisily oad for the spirits of growing Bers The place wher the Duncans Hee) was & house, but under ne Hbernl Wi terpretation of the word could It tm enlled & bona There was nothing & | bameliie in it to little Broce i } The other lasting memory wis af Linda. She recnpented the one He: ing evesture in sii his sssemblage of phantome-—~the one person with whom be could olaim rep! Rinebip. ¥e Basl done 8 bald thing, after his Sat few years with the Duncans He plamasd it long snd enrriel It out with hfiaity fare 8s to details He wrote to Linda, tn eave of the superintendent «of hw orvbhanage. The soswer only despeoid he mystery. Linda sss missing Whether she bad run away, or whether soup ome Bad rouse by in a viosed cur sad carried ber off an she played en the Inwns, the superintendent coal not tell. They had never been shies trace ber. He Mid been Bfess then, & tall boy with rether snususl noses far development. snd the girl wap cloves, And in the year nineteeti lune dred nod tweaty, ten years afte the ‘reply to his lettor, Bruce bad heard ne word frets Ber. He had given up bepe of “My litle sister.” be mil memory. Then Bithwnes Black flood of would i o & : w i ; Biss. “Good Lerd, I don't that she was my sister” Hi fi it miles. Anything de | ever bearing fromg lee femo few he war going to Gnd be his heart was fill of joy and sag and become Inlestwioed moeh move | : i | plaints find Tanlse an | than Broon bnew. Bren as he Iny | bis berth, the first swesi Arifiing | #leap opod him, be was the subject i of & Glatuamion in a fardistant moun i tsln Dome, and sleng would not have fallen so endly asd sweetly WH be | had Bewrd ie. ! ® . * w * * * It might heave been un diferent world that was enough { There were no tall bulidings, Hghoed iby ® thousand electri lights, such as Bruce ecoald see through the wis Highs that could by discerned in iy strings, dark sky were largely on familiar to Broce, beewmuse of the | smoke-clowds thet | above the city whare be live: There were Just star. hut thers were = many of them that the mind was sie able to comsprebend thelr noember. There was ale a moon thet cast @ { Hetle square of Hight, lke 3 fairy tapestry, on the Soar. It was set saeh | 8 moon an leers down red and strange F through the smoke of cities It ous vivid and quite white—~<the wilderness moon (hat ties (he Bunting hours | of the forest crimtures. But the pated {that If east on the floor wus sheacared Lin 8 moment lecause the man whe hed been musing in he big chair be | Wide the empty fireplace had ress and CBghted 8 bordsrne nm The Hght prevented any forthes peratiny of the moun ad stars. And { whist remained to look at i wae 8 i to beautify [the sym pever would Bave got these They wind have heen held snd | fasetnated By ‘he face nnd the form | ‘of the man who had Just lighted the mer in poeta? lnmp No one round look fwice at (hat 2a sive phvsigue und question its might : He sestned almost gigantic in the yeob i ow Immplight In remilty be stood wie feet and ailment three inches end | his frame wsssperfovily in proportion i He moved dowly, laslily, snd the | thought flashed to seme great monster | of the forest that could sproot & tres { with & blow, of bower; snd partieniarly one would potive (he mouth. It would be netiesd ssvegery shoul Wn. strength. too. Na soe could that Pat & was st sn ugly fees for all the brutality of the features It was even bhandmips fn the hard, i menntaln wasp, Ose would seties | straight. black Nalr—the man's spy wae about thirty-uiiie long over rather dark ears and 8 peat, gaaried threat The words whos le spoke seemed conse free Joe within fi “Comme n. Deve” he mid of the man's power. The visitor hed cover masnoouneed, Fis vistt ded bees snespercted. is host bed pot pet sewn Ein face Tet the man hosw. before the dest wan opwed, whe B wan thet had comme The reascw wag heek to ¢ cortall guiehening of the spnses Shayt is the peculinr right sod property of most men whe are really residents of the wilderness. This man was the on of the wild as ah us the wolves that re in the peck. Soft though BW was be bad heanl the sound of ap proschips feet In the pine peedien An sorely ae bo wield dave rocogened the dirk face of the pian ln he doop way, be recognibied the seund 5 Dave's step The man came ln snd at ones a8 observer woubl how Qenected an sh plainly ke had cope to see Bis chisel He war 8 yom! of two older than hi host, Jess powerhyl of physigus, and cunning nu bis siarp features [Indigestion and Py ® Dyspepsia Yietime of stomach trouble, indiges tion, dyspepsia and thelr alllad com evarready sores of relied and comfort. Thou . sunde of people have refound (he jors of health by in nee after everything ¢lse they tried bal failed. “Tenipéd helped pa wonderfully ™ dows of his Bedroom of aight Tha | hud always DORE | gong gruggiste-Advertisement, was Bef | { nearly so pleaving to the spiete It | girest. whithowaiied room that | Fwonld lve bens hesotifal had I omg | | hewn for certain wnfortunate attempis | : There wns a stone | | fireplace. and certain mansive, dud | | covered chairs grouped about it. Bug | The wes was bagn bg and gaat In this Hite reutark lny something | of deference In S8 stvitede Very his eyes did ned Wold quite wo straight © BB There was loss fevagery but woe | y “Whit a Pin ons? the man & | i suid Mea W. H. Hockur, 84 Rose Ave, | Clifton Forge, Va. | 1 suffwred tortures from indigestion, { Only a impse of ft, Iumined by the ! | moon, sould be seen through the sofled | and beamirehed window pane: but | Taniae restored me $0 the best of tn tell the story. “Vor over a year and bad to live sn the simplest foods, I becaine simoit & nervous wreck, Benith ™ Tanlae helps the stomach digest the food property and slimline waste, Boon the whole npsieni ie bullt up. the Hood Ww purified! and the entire body takes on new fom, vitality and en ergy. Get a bottle tolley and start on the road fo health. For sls by ald a a aa Leong Distances Courting, The widowed “serid lady” was » | Bttle sbstracted Her mistress wus pected a second romanes and made soéh kindly nguivies that the trath emerged. "Tea mum, [ supposes 1 am sonrtin’, AW yet, | don't know flor sure, beenuge he's Baan Sahin’ down In Florida for the lust six months.” Wanted the Cheapest. “How much van dese collars? "Two for 8 =uarter™ "How much for vou ?™ “Fifteen conta” "OWE me de odder an "Tale Res ord. A AR Se Not Sow, "When 1 wus young girls were tnaght to darn thelr own stockings” “Ten, Grodma, but in thow nye 12 was possihie to places 8 darn where 12 woaldn't slew "Lit Gustin, The poetw’ corners." "Hah! Has somebody gotten up & IS Sr AN IO RS Pls Be sure of your siz befhew you pull the trigger.
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