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= FW ow a dozen ordinary' through And as f« natured round face, had an eye as straight and cold as the eye of a bird, his features were, agave a hint of quiet, limitless cruelty. = ° It was Fatty Guiness who instant they were all busy. were cutting wood. Some were pre- paring food. All the.old cabin was filled with bustle, half of which was the frantic effort to make the big room arthur should bring the girl there. 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 stranger, Lee Haines, from the murderous hands of a scoundrel by the name of Joé Macarthur. Gloster is jailed after getting into a figt with several men over a girl. Lee Haines and Joan Barry, daughter of a famous rider of the old plains, assist Gloster to escape. Haines is ghot down, Joan, several nights later, disappears on the back of the "Cap- tain," Haines huge stallion. Gloster retraces his steps to Joan's cabin and is confronted by Buck Dani#s, Joan's guardian; they finally call a truce, however. Now Joe Macarthur comes to the mountain camp of a bandit gang with a scheme to rob the Wick- son Bank. After much argument he is made a member of the gang. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "But there's. only one way, part- ners," he said, "that Macarthur can fit in with the, scheme of 4hings.. He can't play number two. Haines was a cleverer and bigger man than any P've evér met. Joe cculdn't even play second to him. If Joe is back with us, I say that he's got to be first. He gets what Haines got: two shares in every deal we push through. He gets what Haines got: our obedience whenever he gives an order. How does that sound to you?" It caused an argument, but only a brief one. In ten minutes, from being a candidate with dubious probability of being elected, the big fellow was installed as chief, had received the grip of every one of the other five, and had their solemn promise to follow his orders as if he were a general and they privates in an' army. He lost no time in taking up his duties, At the table where the poker game had been interrupted by hi arrival, he sat down and planned for them the robbery of the Wickson Bank. With little piles of gold pieces he checked off the positions of the houses along the main street. With a greater pile he indicated the bank itself. Then he told them what he had done. It was the old story. He had known of the cashier's need for money. He had approached the man diplomatical- ly, and in a single interview he had gained what he wanted--the combina- tion of the safe, the promise that the watchman should be discharged on the day of the robbery, and that a new one should not be hired in his place, and in return for this delivery of his honor, Samuel Carney had received in exchange a promise that he should have fifteen per cent. of the profits; and those profits promised to be large. A full hundred thousand dollars in cash should be gained from the safe of the bank. Such figures made the gang sit up. They glanced at one another with bright eyes and then openly compli- mented their new commander. He proceeded with the details. There was a stretch of thirty miles between them and the town of Wickson, but the trail was entirely, or almost entirely down- hill. They could cover that distance rasily in four or four and a half hours. (L Therefore "they would leave the camp at midnight and arrive in the heart of the little valley in the dark of the early morning, that dead time of the night whén men sleep most sound- ly. After that it would be a simple thing to do their work. There was not even the need of "soup" to blow the safe. They had the combination and could simply "talk to it" and have the door to the safe open. There was nothing, in fact, which required more than one man for the job except that there might be an ac- |cident--a chance passer--and in that case there might be a call for guns | that would shoot straight, and several {of them, for the farmers of the Wick- son Valley were of a fighting strain. It was at the conclusion of this falk that they first heard the singing. It "Climb down and stay a while." #1 came with echoes through the narrow P gorge which opened into the hollow, and it was silver thin and high: "Que iva la rumba; Qe viva, que viva placer; Que vivan las ninas, chulitas, banitas Y guapas que saben querer." Lew Cambridge was the first to reach the door. "By the Great Horn Spoon!" he cried, for he was somewhat old-fash- ionéd in his oaths. "It's a girl riding the Captain; and she's coming into the hollow!" CHAPTER XXV. THE MIGHT OF INNOCENCE. They poured outdoors, the four giants, the bespectacled student, and pudgy Guiness. Beyond the little stream they saw the black stallion; he was neighing to one of his old com- panions which was staked out in the pasture. On the back of the Captain was a girl whose wide-brimmed hat was pushed back from a face that made their hearts jump. She waved gaily to them and sang out: "Is Harry Gloster here?" There was no answer for a moment. In fact, not one of them could speak until Macarthur muttered: "Let me talk to her! This Gloster is worth somewhere between ten and fifteen thousand to the gent that turns him over to the law. And if she's looking for him, you can lay to it that he's looking for her!" So saying, he stepped out in front of the others and approached" her, sweeping off his hat. "Harry's 'away just now," he said, "but he'll be back! Climb down and stay a while." She slipped from the saddle. "Keep that black demon away from me!" Macarthur pleaded. "He nearly took my head off once." She regarded him with surprise, then stripped the saddle and bridle from him, patted his sleek neck and waved him away to go frolic with the other horses in the pasture, "What did you do to him?' asked Macarthur, still gaping at her. ~ "1 gave him his own way," she said. "That was all there was to it!" time, and it appeared to Joan that ;| she had never seen or heard of such to defy 'men except Lee Haines. Haines, who 'The others had drawn near by this | A 8tep In the d In the meantime, fragments of the conversation between Joan were repeated, and the work of slicing bacon or brewing coffee, or sweeping out with a heavy pine bough, or kicking soiled clothes and tattered garments into an obscure corner, all ceased while'the report was listened to avhich the last man to Bring in wood or water had heard as he went past the couple. BT "Macarthur is gone," was the first bulletin. "He's sitting there with a fool smile on his face, He looks like a six-year-old born without no brains. And he can't keep his eyes off'n the irl. ; "'How long can you be staying here to wait for Harry?" said Joe. 'Till sometime this afternoon?' "'Or longer than that,' says she. 'I'm in n6 hurry. It's so beautiful up here, I could stay 'a month and be happy.' ! : "Joe looks as if she'd tapyed him between the eyes with a onkey wrench. ' "'A month?" he croaks. 'Ain't your folks going to miss you a little bit before that time comes along? "My father and mother are dead, says she, 'There's only Buck Daniels to miss me. But then, you know, I had to leave him sometime. And why shouldn't it be now?" It was Lew Cambridge who repeat- +|ed this choice bit of talk which he had overheard to and from the pond to carry water, straining, to catch «the syllables, ears which had been nicely trained in the greatest of all schools for hearing--burglary! His report was greeted with a murmur of the pro- foundest interest. "You heard that, boys?" asked big Babe Cooney, his warrior face grow- ing pale with emotion, "You heard that talk? She ain't had a mother and father to look after her. She don't know nothing about the dangers of the world. And now, @amn my soul if she don't come up here and right in among us like a bird flying in out of a storm--but no harm ain't going to come to her! No harm ain't going to come to her!" It was Sliver Martin who brought the next tidings. "My God, boys," he groaned, "listen to what 1 heard! Macarthur was umpin' her as fast as he could work. "'You and Gloster been engaged quite a while? he says. \ "Engaged? says she. 'Oh, no!' ' " 'But ain't you come clear up here to see Harry? says Macarthur. "Yes. Why shouldn't 1?' says she." "You think she loves him?" asked the mild voice of Dud Rainey. "Listen to old four-eyes!" sneered Lew Cambride, who had a natural antipathy for the quiet voice and the careful diction of the little man. "Look at the old owl that sees everything by night and can't see nothing when the sun is shining on it for him. Why did she come up here if she ain't in love with him? You talk ridiculouser than hell, Dud!" (To be continued.) un 'The Fireplace The tiles of a fireplace, though small items in themselves, can easily ruin the appearance of a fireplace, even of a whole room if all other de- tails are perfect. Builders of houses are proverbially prone to think that the same color means the same tone; they.glve you green tiles or blue, be- caus your room or paint is green or blue,/ but it just happens to be the wrong green or blue, what pain for watching eyes? People moving into new houses should insist upon super- vising such details themselves. Build- ers are generally = willing to 'meét them and let them khoose their own patterns. It is even worth while to pay a little more and buy: your tiles-- some of them are so beautiful--from firms which specialize in them. Get a few odd ones if you do. They make lovely teapot stands. 3 A, a] London Caterers to X ' London--8ix private companies and thelr directors, connected with the great British catering firm of , J. v landad n in spite of his good| and about the lips of Dud Rainey there! {lingered a faint smile which, mild as : uggest-| ed that she might be hungry. In an Some | seem more presentable when Mac-|' the chief andj Buy Their Own Jungle [* ey Swirl Washington. -- The ce 'West Indian hurricanes, such as that i eer WHITE STAR LINE § AY INCE RA A(0) Air Advertising Merits Still Is Mooted Question Commission Receives Many Complaints From Radio Listeners on Long Talks 'Washington. -- Whether the radio station owner, who uses his micro- phone to sing the praises of'merchan- dise he is selling, serves the public in- terest &ill is a moot question with the Federal Radio Commission. The commission from time to time has received numerous ~ complaints from listeners who disapprove of long talks extrolliug the. virtues of a par- ticular brand of*vveralls, seeds, house: hold utensils and other wares for sale by the broadcaster, Some time ago the Iowa Press Asso- ciation petitioned the commission to prohibit direct selling over the radio. The newspapermen contended that the regulation limiting the number of sta- tions resulted in giving the merchant with a radio outfit an unfair advantage over his competitors. The view of the comr dies of air at first, but gathe ssion on this ol which has Just devastated Porto Rico they blow, are 'West Indie; "They are probably tum owing to differences in tem ture and air pressure, until ward their central vortices like gar- hurricane - can hardly believe that these destructive winds are swirls. He sees the effects of, and feels a straight blast of air moving at great speed, overturning ships, trees and buildings. If ne watches long enough he will see this destructive blast al- most completely reverse its direction. These winds are created by the pump- ing force of the central swirl; and while the centre {teelf may be moving across the country at the leisurely fate of eight or ten miles an hour the winds rushing inward from all di- rections to disappear up the 'spout' reach terrific speed. The usual maxi- mum speed is 100 miles an hour. The fact that the hurricane at San Juan blew at a rate of 132 and perhaps 160 miles an hour stamps this storm as of extraordinary violence." alace, London, on Sept. 5, f annual exhibition of bees| afd honey ized by the Kent and Surrey Beekeepers' Association, Lon: don, drew attention to Lady Margaret of Modena, a 'queen bee which had arrived the day before, alive and well, | after making the unpiracedented jour- ney of 3,600 miles by post from America in fourteen days. Colonel Lammon suggested that soon ag communication by air regularly established between and America it would greatly prove the breeding of bees, would form a means of rapid question is given in a re}port its attitude on the prin es of public service ar "Where the statiop 18 j, for the broadcasting of a consNigIA & @mount of what is called direct ad\geain including the quoting of mercha hy; prices, the advertising is usually o sive to the public," the commiss; says. "Advertising should be onl cidental to some real service rep} to the public and not the mein obGe of a program, p= . ~The ComMmIstIon ~Tealizes What in some communities, particulary. in Towa, there seems to be a strong ffsenti- ment in favor of such advertisifilig on the part of the listening publicfiaAt least, the broadcasters in thd have succeeded in making ay sive showing before theteiMission when the matter has come up. The commission is willing to concede that in some localities the quoting of direct merchandise drives "may sefve as a sort of local market and a service may thus be rendered, That such is not mission knows from thousands «x ters which it has had from all ovelf: the country complaining of such prac- tice." mre r-- Father: Madge is that young mg ever going home? Daughter: W f've' been talking that over and we'vé de- cided that it all depends upon you.-- Life. : 2 There's only one thing a married woman will admit she doesn't know, and that's why she married her hus- band. ft He (at beach)--"You've' heard of the last resort?" She (a newcomer)-- "Yes." He--'Well, this Is it." NEW BEAUTY SAOUR CLOTHES You can look at and stylish on less, L how to give new quick magic of home tint- ing and dyeing. It' 2ne- ab Lyons & Co. Ltd, bave been regis tered here to 1 J prop- erty in the Protectorate of Nyasaland and elsewhere for the purpose -of growing, manufacturing, and de: fruit and vegetables. : The ew sownanies have all a small woittal copiar- pont melas | £2009, but the venture Is regar 'In tropical produce, fneleding rubber, | Higa. o with Diamond} l Cross-cut, Cresco%g timber, time and lal: made. This guarante®N ' SIMONDS CANAD VANCOUVER, B.C. the case generally, however, the com-| . become gigantic whirls sucking air to-| "The observer in the path of aj. ST. REMI STREET AND ACORN A TORONTO, ONT, of queen bees with little danger to their lives. ai ie At the exhibition there had been placed on view over three tons of honey for competition; also bees-wax; vinegar and other liquids and solids made from honey or with the aid of it. It was claimed by the exhibitors |; that dg a food homey takes a leading Iii yorked," she sald quietly but joy- place, seven ounces of honey being gy))y, equal to twelve ounces of beefsteak. BE r AL ES] k Disarmament and Industry. London Sunday Times -(Cons.): While the victorious nations of the war have been expending huge sums on the upkeep 'and development of military, ir f0rces, Ger- nY.. by tie terms of peace of the right or nef@ssity to do so, has been free to diwert the whole. of the money 3 gprise that would have Rls to the de- anda com- p 1s to- ded been challe Jove y €O., ITED, ONTREAW. Que, ST. JOHN, NJ pe | your back to which you turn, and. as it rd embrace the water with the other. 'baby and so the king married 3 ed a (ueen who had er and who was nam- And Joyce Now iis cls ved Joyce with all his hea and Joy : thing went. As Joyce wen ! boat Elizabeth Ann stepped out an let the boat go out and as it happe ed there Were no oars so Joy: ent floating out into' the sea. A ttle while later Blizabeth Ann ran in the castle to look for her mother and she found her with her husband sitting in' his parlor.. The queen when she saw her daughter came out * see what news she had. "Mother "Did it darling," she said, "Now if your father asks where his daughter is tell him that she has been taken suddenly ill and that she Qoesn't wish to see him. Do as I tell you and then you will do right." The King at that moment called Elizabeth Ann. 8he ran in happily as she was dying to tell him about hig beloved daughter. 3 "Where is Joyce," he asked, Elizabeth Ann stared at the king. "Where is my daughter," he asked angrily. "Well," began Elizabeth Ann, "you see, 1 asked Joyce to go for a walk with me/' #he began getting nervous, Lag@began biting her handkerchief ght -it-was easy to {ell a lie g a great mistake. "L g with me for a walk ing ahead I hap pnd saw Joyce: king. f" he asked. want to: spicious: * out what to himself. 7 a' message. A #ind * in the floating me, that must be my Lhe said. Now the queen: is. At that moment the out. "This is some of' aid angrily. Eliza- "down the stairs as she i when Re was angry. "day one of hig heralds: wee batk to the castle, and her father all about it and ed the queen and her daugh- ¥5 a far country and Joyce and h father lived all alone and happy' ever-after. ele Superfine Fudge There is a knack in getting fudge: just right, and one likes to make sure: that a creamy product will reward =: | one's efforts. Here are the ingredi- ents from a recipé of a college stu- dent who was a postgraduate in the: art of good fudge making. Four cupfuls of sugar (preferably half browh), 13% cupfuls of evaporated: milk, % pound of unsweetened choco- late, % pound of butter, 1 can of marshmallows and 1 tablespoonful of vanilla. These quantities make what is considerpd a "double batch," but this amodnt ' beats 'better than a | smaller one, and it will keep moist and creamy a week or more if packed in a covered tin box. Here's the technique: Melt the cho- colate first and cream in the. sugar. Add the milk, stir it while cooking until the sugar. dissolves and no longer, unless it | seems to be sticking _ {Jn the bottom of the pan, When near: ly dome, test it in cold water If it forags a ball that holds together well, it is \done. "Avoid overcooking. Re move rom the fire and place it in a pan oNgeold water unijeit*Cools a little. Ad "marshmallows cut in "vanilla. Beat it to do so before git] the marshmallows: | bumpy. y Swi of you egn swim, In order to\swim on your Hack you (must, of course, turn over. This is '| done exactly as you turn in bed. Drop™ the arm and leg opposite to the. . chievement is a perfectly na- one, and your head | of the' 'season is over, i ver tried swimming on BC]