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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Finding the lifeless bodies of his two partners at their gold-mining camp, Harry Gloster flees southward, knowing that he will be accused of the crime. On the way Gloster saves the life of a stronger, Lee Haines, from the murderous hands of a scoundrel by, the name of Joe Macarthur. "Joan" lives with an old recluse, Buck Daniels, presumably her father, in an out-of- the-way ranch house. She complains to him that she never is allowed to go where other girls go. One night she slips from hex bed and rides to a Nr several miles distant, where a dance is in progress. Riding home, singing, she is surprised to hear a man's voice call to her in the thickets. 'The man is Harry Glos- ter. She hides in the shadows and will not let him approach her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VIL - -1 "No," she answered, demurely. "Why not? Engaged to friend John?" "Maybe," she answered, without raising her eyes. But Harry Gloster only laughed. "I've broken the ice for you, then. Here comes a couple to get you. Shall I let them have you?" And at this, finally, she looked up. They were great brown eyes, indeed, and filled with an almost too perfect meekness, "Can you help it?" she asked. "Say the word and I'll show you the trick." Some of the meekness left her eyes and a glimmer of mischief took its place. "If yon can--" she said. It was done with miraculous skill. A slight increase in their speed--they whirled toward one prospective and eager-faced tagger then away from his reaching fingertips--then toward the other, and away again, like a leaf which wind currents throw up and down, suddenly, but never with jar or jerk. "How in the world did you do it?" she was laughing up to him. He drank in that laughter, frankly, meeting her eyes as he had never met tht eyes of any woman before. What did it matter? She was only a ghost. The reality was far away, fleeing through the haze of moonshine. "You're going to forget John--for this one dance," he commanded. "You're engaged to me, understand-- for five minutes!" "What do you mean?" gasped Nell. "You know what I mean." He dodged an aggressive tagger and then sped on. "If John doesn't get me," she was saying, "on this round, he'll ye fur- ious." "It does John good to be furious," answered Gloster. "We're top happy to be bothered." "We? "You are of will be. I'm happy enough to make up for two. It's over- flowing. D'you feel it come out of my fingertips at your back, like elec- tricity?" Her eyes were frightened, but her lips were smiling. "What are you doing?" "Takifig you with me, For five minutes, you understand? Going to "| A-dozen see how much action we can crowd into that time--" " "And after that--" "I'm going away. Never see you again!" "You're not like other people," she 1 said almost wistfully. "Not a bit. Here's John again! Dance faster. Longer steps! We're going to' dodge him if you help--" And help she did. She became as light as that whirling leaf he had thought of before, It seemed that his mere volition was guiding her, "The devil!" muttered Harry Glos- ter. "Someone tagged me then. But we're going on--" "Oh, there'll be trouble about it. It's the rule!" "D'you care about rules?' "Not the least in the world!" She had caught the fire at last. A rioting carelessness was in her eyes There's another hand at my shoul- der!" » They had swerved deftly away, but John had apparently been watching the previous tactics of this big stran- ger, and his hand touched Gloster. But Gloster danced on, with the girl in his arms, "What will happen? they do?" close to his face. "That's for them to worry about. This dance is ours!" What will He drew her a little closer. "I feel your heart keeping time-- with the music," he whispered. "You musn't look at me like that!" "Why not?" "They'll know what you're saying." first--" "And John will be wil: "The wilder he is tohight, the sooner he'll be tamer. You're too wonderful to be true!" "I won't listen to you!" "Close your ears to me, then, and listen to the music. D'you hear it? "Que viva la rumba; Que viva, que viva placer; Que vivan las ninas, chulitas, bonitas, C guapas que saben rer!" "Its talking for me, Nell!" "There! You were tagged again!" "What do I care?" . "Oh, everyone is looking at us!" "Let them look. You're worth see- ing, Nell!" "They'll fight you about this." "Do you like being fought for? I'd like to fight for you, Nell. Theres John again--but this time we've dodged him. But look at them coming! ready to tag me. Nell, you're a popular girl! Confound them, they won't have you yet!" "Please!" "Please what? Do you want me to] let you go?" "I--I--no!" . She pressed a file Sloser to him. Don't let them take Te ie viva 1a. robe, f Que viva; que Vien placer, < e sang in a ringing bass. MBvery yossun ie Joking ab "| won't go a step with you!" '| But the very size of Harry Gloster The girl was breathing "They'll only wish they'd said it "Outside, We're going to sit on the moonlit side of a tree, and I'm going to make love to you, Nell, 'as you were never made love to before." i "Do you think I've gome mad? 1 "Hush, Nell. I know that you me." "Not a bit." "Look me in the eye when you! that. " She flushed gloriously and her wavered under his glance. to have you where it's quiet to tell you just how dear you are. When we the door we go together. You under- stand?" "Yes-- no! Of course I won't go." "I won't try to make you. ' Tell me for the last time? You're going to hear me? Only for two minutes, and then I'm gone!" "Oh," she cried. ming!" "With the music!" § "I'll go. 1 don't care what they say!" Nor I what they do." They reached the end of the hall, swung deftly through the outer line of the dancers, and were suddenly through the door, leaving a gasp of wonder behind them. Before them was the moonlight world. CHAPTER VIII, AN OUTLANDER QEFENDS. There was no lack of brains behind the level black brows of John Gainor. His temper was as eager and as san- guinary as that of any man, but he was possessed of a controlling discre- tion. When, after having tagged Gloster, he saw the big man dance eerenely on, his first impulse was to jump at his throat and tear him away. "My head is swim- was enough to make Gainor doubly |g, thoughtful. So, instead of acting on the first rash impulse, he stepped back to con- sider the situation again. 'Had it been the first time that Nell had stepped from the conventional path, passion might have carried him away, but he had watched her flirting a dozen times, and this was simply the old story re- told, he decided. It would not do to make himself ridieulous before the crowd. Again, he was by no means sure how far he could go with Nell. Whe- ther she was in love with him or with his father's ranch he had never been quite able to make up his mind. On Loceasion he presumed onthe rights of being her fiance, but those occa- sions were few and far between. So far, so good. But if he tempted her again, might she not fling away from him and wreck all his hopes with a single fiery sentence? He knew her well enough to feel the danger. And this, plus the physical dimensions of Harry Gloster, made him pause to consider. In another moment he was glad that he had delayed, for Gloster was tagged by half a dozen other men, and yet still went serenely on and showed not the slightest intention of aban- doning his partner. It was not Gainor alone who had been insulted, but a whole group of men, and every one of them was on fire with rage. More- over, they were not fellows to lie down under such an insult. In fact, they were such men that he could not imagine what had let Nell permit her partner to offend them. Something most extraordinary must have happened to sweep Nell off her feet in such a fashion. Nell was trans- formed and radiant in the arms of this big man. She leaned back in them and.looked up to him with laugh- ter on her lips. But Gainor took no hasty steps. It was not until he saw the couple swing off the dancefloor at the end of the that he began to act on the offensive, (To be continued.) le U.S. Takes $5,100 Tax On $57,000 Ice Lottery Anchorage, Alaska. --Without' hav- ing purchased a single ticket in the Tanana River ice pool the United States was one. of the winners tol the amount of $5,100--the i tax from the three persons who a the minute the break occurred. The amount of the pool this year was $57,00. The largest subscription this torres done Nell But 1 want] get to the end of the hall, out through | hall and disappear through the door|: was from a F ks man who b 'Imany times a millionaire, 1s -Isuppled with food, tools and explo- although 51 Jars. old andi] "learing | 'an |to fly, and expects to have his pilot's \license within a few months. 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