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std Ahh he SA ei less than wholesale price. lly mild weat d season in the 'Fur Trade owing r before Christmas. The result is facturers have been 'badly stuck with. surplus stock, unloa ing at whatever price they can get. is why we are offering $400.00 worth of first-class furs at stylish, expensive: set of F urs at a very ordinary price. ont $60.00 Fo FOR $47.00 % Serviceable Myr "Coat, 50° inches long, "Ta slightly fitted style made from selected musk- rat skins and lined with guaranteed satin. Has wide collars, long revers, and deep cuffs, Closed double breasted. style, with buttons, Regular $60.00. Sale Price $47.00 Ladies' Fur. Trimmed 'Coats ES REGULAR $18. 00 FOR $12.50 Ladies' Coats made "ly fitted style, with of black Kersey | in Slight- pipings of black satin, Haslarge collar and revers of Austrian sable, also comfortable lining of quilted farmers' satin, for $18.00. We sold this coatin the regular way Sises 34, 36, =nd 38. Sm DR Ranger : The Great. Conservation SALE PRICE $12.50 oe « 'Hartley studied' bim coolly. "Are yor a ranger too?" "Nofkonly a guard * "Why 'are you leaving Cavanagh to play it alone in there?" Lee explained. "He won't let any of us come near him." "Quite = right," retorted Hartley promptly. "They say smallpox bas lost its terrors, but when you're eight | hours' hard trail from a doctor or a hospital it's still what I'd call a for- midable enemy. However, Cavanagh's immune, so he says." "We don't know that," Lee said, and hands came together fn a fear. 'Are you a doctor?" a newspaper mag, DN but : of - experience with plagiies of all sorts--had the yellow fever in Porto Rico and the typhoid in South Africa; that's why I'm out here. J oicorketting over the hills, But who may I ask? You look like the Sharon." name is Lee Wetherford," she are not out here for your stated, rather thoughtful- Childs' Iceland Lamb Set Reg. $4.00 for $2.50 Childs' Fur Set of caperine and muff made of fine qual- ity Iceland Lamb, pure white, warm and comfort- able. Per Set $2.50 re se means oppuilunity to 100t water sites and pile up unearned increment. Ob, yes, we're on the side of the fruit and alfalfa grower, because it pays. If the poss of my paper happened to be in the sheep business, as Senator Blank White is, we would sing a different tune, or if I were a congressman' rep- resenting a district of cattlemen I'd be very slow about helping to build up any system that would make me pay for my grass. As it I'm commis- sloned to make it hot for the ranch. ers: that killed those dagoes, and I'm going to do it. If this country had a man lke Cavanagh for sheriff we'd have the murderers in two days. He knows who the butchers are; and I'd {ike his belp. But he's nailed here, and there's no hope of his get- ting away. A few men like him capla 23 4 FIRE sizsifitill Don't miss this opportunity of getting a Stylish Fur S Sets at Big ~~ ~~ Reductions Fisher Fox Set consisting of wide throw 94 inches long, finished at each end with feet - nd bushy tails. shape, trimmed with tail aud p ice $50.00. Sale Price Beautiful muff to match, ssquare teet. + Regular per Set $85.00 Persian LambiSet consisting of stole, wid: on shoulilers, each front tab fir heads. ished with three Muff to match in large empire shape lin: d woh black satin and finished win wris cord, Blut Ulf Set reg. $35.00 Blok Waif Set, reg 85.00 Fisher Wal aby Set, 85.00 Mole Set, reg. 25 00 Blue Opposum Muff, 18.00 Blue Opp. Sto «, reg. 20.00 22 00 Black Coney R. ff reg. 1.00 Russian Poney Set, Stole rev. $17.00 f Muff, reg. $16.00 for 13.00 12.00 per 5 $26.00 22.00 20.00 18.00 12.00 15.00 13.50 50 per St per Het per Set for for per "ci for \I'YRE "Y shall stay til he is free." added Lee. And with uneasy heart sne crossed the bridge and walked on and on toward the cabin till she was close enough to detect the lines of care on her lover's haggard face. "Stop!" he called sharply, "Keep away! Why don't you obey me? Why don't you go back to the valley?' : "Because I will not leave you alone-- I can't! Please let me stay! "I beg of you go back." The roar of the stream made it nec- essary to speak loudly, and he could not put into his voice the tenderness be felt at the moment, but his face was knotted with pain as he asked, "Don't you see you add to my uneasi- ness--my pain?' "We're so anxious about you," she answered. "It seems as h we should be doing something to help you." . He understood and was grateful for the tenderness which brought her so BE Bim, but bs vas forced 10. be "There 1s nothing you can do--noth- ing more than you are doing. It helps to know that you are here, but not cross the bridge. Please J" "here was pleading as well command in his voice, and with s realization of the passion his voice + conveyed she retraced ber steps, her © heart beatifig" quickly with the joy the many" Redfield named him. "He was a student under the chief, and the chlef says he's all right, which satisfies me. Furthermore, he's a real forester and not a political jobber or a corporation attorney." "That's good," repeated Cavanagh, "and yet," he said sadly, "it leaves the chief out just the same," "No; the chief is not out. He's where he can fight for the idea to bet- ter advantage than when he was a subordinate under another man. Any- bow, he asks us all to line up for the . work and not to mind him. The work, he says, Is bigger than any man, Here's that resignation of yours," he said, taking Cavanagh's letter from his pocket. "I didn't put it on file, What shall 1 do with it?" "Throw it to me," said Cavanagh curtly. Redfield tossed: it over the hitching pole, and Ross took it up, looked at it for 4 moment in silence, then tore it lato "A and threw it on the ground. re? be or haa, i wit cal smile afound his ayes. "Theré's nothing you can do but take care of this man. But as soon as you are able to ride again I've got some special werk for you. I want you to join with young Bingham, the ranger on Rock creek, and line up the Triangle cattle. Murphy is reported to have thrown on the forest nearly a thousand head more thal his permit calls for. I want you to see about that. Then complete your maps so that X can turn them in on the ist of November, and about the middle of December you are to tage cnarge of this forest in my stead. Eleanor has decided to take the children abroad for a couple of years, and as I am to be over there part of the time I don't feel justified in holding down the su- pervisor's position. 1 shall resign in your favor. Wait now!" he called warningly. "The district forester and 1 framed all this up as we rode down the hill yesterday, and it goes. Oh, yes, there's one thing more. Old man . Dunn": . "1 know." "How did you learn it? "A reporter came boiling over the' ridge about noon today wanting me to give him the names which Dunn had given me. 1 was st gly temuted 10, Cs on i running scr myselr," replied Redfield, "but the whole country is roused, and we're going to round up these men this time sure. The best men and the big pa: pers all over the west are demanding an exercise of the law, and the re ward we have offered"-- He paused suddenly. "By the way, that reward will come to you if you can bring about the arrest of the cruninals." "The reward should go to Dunn's family," replied the ranger soberly "Poor chap, he's sacrificed nimself for the good ot the state." "That's true. His family is left ix bad shape" -- Cavanagh broke off the conversation | suddenly. "1 must go back to"-- He had almost said "back to Wetherford "My patient needs me!" he exclaimed. "How does he seem?" "He's surely dying. In my judg agent he can't last the night, but sc: long as he's conscious it's up to me to be on the spot." Redfield walked slowly back across the river, thinking on the patient soup age of the ranger. "It isn't the obvious kind of thing, but it's courage all the same," he said to himself. Meanwhile Lize and Virginia, leff alone beside the fire, had drawn Sloat together, The girl's face, so sweet and so pen- sive, wrought strongly upon the olde: woman's sympathy. Something of her own girlicod came back to her. Be ing freed from tbe town and all its as sociations, she became more consider ate, more thoughtful. She wished to speak, and yet she found it very hard to begin. At last she said, with touch of meckery in her tone, "You like Ross Cavanagh almost as well as 1 do myself, don't you?" The girl flushed a little, but her eyes remained steady. if 1 did not," she replied. "Neither would I. Well, now, I have got something to tell youn---something I ought to have told you long ago, something that Ross ought to know. 1 intended to tell you that first day you came back, but I couldn't somehow = get to it, and I Kept putting it off --well, then I got fond of you, , every day made it harder." Here made her supreme effort. "Child; I an old bluff. Fm not your { all" 3 > Led stared at her in "What do you mean?" i "I mean your rea her die 0 1 "1 would not be here -.