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35¢ perlb BEGIN HERE TODAY Finding the lifeless bodies of his two partners a: their gold mining camp, Harry Gloster flees southwzrd, know- ing that he will be accused of the crime. On the way Gloster is jailed after getting into a fight with several men over a girl Joan Barry, daughter of a famous rider of the old plains, helps Gloster to escape; Later Joan, in quest of Gloster, falls in with a bandit gang in the mountains. Joe Macarthur, a guick-on-the-trigge: scoundrel, is made chieftain of the gang when he appears with &« scheme to rob the Wickson Bank, Samuel Carney, cashier, has given Macarthur the combination to "the safe, but later repents and tells the president of the bank what he has dhe. Gloster goes with Buck Daniels, Joan's guardian, to the bandit camp to find the girl. She will not lea'e, so Sioster joins the band, too, to *w near er. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY She went out to the defile and look- ed north in the' direction she must journey. But yonder the noise of seen horsemen was going down the mountainside, and all of her heart turned strongly after them. What was coming to Harry Gloster on this night of nights? She drew a great breath. The North Star was as. bright as ever, but for Joan, it had lost some of its power. If she could not prevent or help, at least, she could be a witness. And if they flew again, she might help them flee! She turned the head of the Captain to follow, but as she did an eighth horseman started out of the woods just beneath her and began to wind slowly along the hillside. Was this some man of the law, trailing the band? She stared until her eyes ached, but she could make out nothing more than his shadowy outline. He disap- peared into the trees, and she fol- lowed. From a hill-top, she marked out the course which they must be taking. They were crossing the summit, and dipping down on the farther side, heading almost due west. She took a with Macarthur, as his duty was, lead- ing the way and making the trail. Behind him came the six, and last of all was the bulky form of Harry Gloster. They passed on, but still she did not ride out. For there was yet an- the one she had seen on the mountain- side following the others. A full ten minutes she waited, and then he came, jogging his cow-pony steadily along, a man who wore his hat in a strangely familiar way, canted to one side. He passed, and his horse stumbled. "Steady, boy!" muttered the rider, and rode on. But he left Joan stunned behind him, for she had heard and recog- nized the voice of Buck Daniels. CHAPTER XXXII A FATAL MISCHANCE. Samuel Carney was enough of a Christian to believe in the efficacy of forgiveness of sins, but if he had had other man to be watched, and this was £ i. mountains into a death trap waich, they had/been assured by his own lips, would not cxist. He must warn them off. Therefore, he saddled his horse and rode away as soon as the dark- ness fell. He had in his pockets five hui dollars in cold cash. That might he to soothe the wounded feelings of J. Macarthur and pay him for the wgst- ed ride of the night. If it would/not do, he could not help it. i One fierce ten minutes of conversa- tion, and then the affair would be off any doubt it would have been removed on this day. Eve. a sense of shame had left him. He was filled with a mild peace and feeling of purification. But the vision which occupied his different course, so that she might not be heard following them, and the sent the Captain in a wide detour to cut in ahead of them. They came to the ravine which she had selected as being the one through which the riders must pass, And, |ten. minutes after the Captain had brought her there, she saw them pass. They rode in single file on account of the broken nature of the ground Minard's Liniment for Asthma. mind, in plicé of the unseen visage of the Almighty Father, the fat and rosy face of Oscar Fern, The devotion { which he felt for the good natured [banker and millionaire was a cross be- I tween the devotion of a soldier for his ! captain and of a son for his father. It was a strangely humbled Samuel Carney; therefore, who 'prepared for the work which lay ahead of him that night. It was not pleasant work. It meant that Le must ride after dark out of the valley and into the foothills Light as the~ Sea Breezes Marshmallow, light and creamy; cri vanilla - flavored cake wafer; fren filings and--a generoudy. g of pur Coconut Teing? his shoulders forever, and he could go on to face the pro t of a happy and | peaceful life to the end of his days, music for his daughter, health for his wife, and the undying love and faith of his employer! 3 | It was a two-hour ride to the Tomp- Ison place. He would reach it long before the outlaws arrived. But, no {matter for that, he must be there in | plenty of time. Otherwise there was | a chance that the gang might get by him and go on to the trap. He. shuddered as he thought of the precautions of Oscar Fern. Twenty ' men had been employed. They were | not casually picked up about the town, {but here and there through the valley Fern had sént Bis couriers! They had gone to call oniold ranchers who had 'been in the Wickson Valley in the days | when tke cow business was the only businesg--men {who had lived with saddle and . who had forgotten I the uce of neither, He heard F% a "tip" had cory to him from a source Hight he examined the ground around {old which had traveled that trail % . "% % { neo, %, ! 2 yr ¥p ting, hE un e mp- a of pr 1 ¥ i, Weird to t and thrilling momen rn tell each man that be revealed that the But when he reached the was no sign of any one near it. He lighted matched, and by their: the shack. All the hoofmarks were which had once been a comfortable wagon road, No party of hard riders had gone by thab way thi; night. He sat down at the door of the old cabin and began his vigil. But he must not be found by any HER a iting in front of this deserted cabin. It would make a strange tory to be told in the town the next day. And Carney was in no x I He saw that it was three o'clock. gituation to have stcries about clan- destine meetings pread abread. He changed his place. There was a cluster of saplings, growing thick, about fifty yards from the house. It was on rising ground, and in the star- light he could sweep all the approach- es to the cabin with his eyes. To these saplings he removed himself, tethered the horse in the midst of the trees, and began to wait." He consulted his watch. It was still early 'and the robbers in_the nje*¥ a i, Yo fBthe cabin before 2 % "oe the earliest. Ea 4 face and a pleas- 0, %, e air was "The mount 100: Mew that he was 50 close to their NEED Vo. {100sed the :cpe flurg wild sense of alarm in his brain. He whipped out his watch. first match broke in his trembling fin- gers. But the second gave a light by which he saw that it was three o'clock. He stood up still and straight, with a stifled cry. He had slept at his post and they had gone by him. "Ged help me--and them!" moaned Carney, and ran out into the trail. There, on his knees, he lighted niore matches, And instantly he saw the hoofprints. It looked to his inexper- jenced eyes as if twice ten horses had passed. Me turned down the road. The moon haze closed together net so far away. ads He raced back to*alge wailing horse, imself into the saddle, and spurred {with might and main for the town. Ha had an hour-- if they did not begin thei' Jgo k until four. A whole hour. t was enough to reach the t¥% horse held : more imposing than ever, bu bout them: He decided that he must make his mind about many thir and, just as he had discovered a ne Lpoint of view about Oscar Fern, he "I¥hust look again upon all of his old preconceptions. And so, with these mild thoughts, was a more beautiful majesty af n- ed ie he was lulled fast asleep! He waken- ec. again, with his heart pounding NRL Liniment for Grippe: ion fre RHEUMATISM «sional Deatiche bago; for t 'tablets offer reai velief, Tus is| 'Aspirin, with Bayer they! tons mde se pains that pene! n each tater : powerful and had lots of acceleration, when front-wheel drive was a dream and super-charg- ing a phantom? We certainly have come a long way since then.' : "And, shimmy," his companion will add. "You remember shimmy, don't you?" : The reason for the anticipated change that makes the future car a bject of int: speculation is plain, and becoming plalaer. It is simply that the individd®Y car maker in each price field is ing to the lusi that it is something different that will make to-morrow's prospect first sigh and then buy, Cars are selling. Be- |yond a doubt, they are selling. Yet, the manufacturer reasons, "If I can get this much business by. merely keeping up withthe procession, what a lot more T could get by stepping out in' fi of it." . When the car maker begins to act" on this impulse, those radical changes 'will begin to arrive. That will be tsoonier than many anticipate, if the crystal gazers are right. foreseen in the mear future, those which have to do with power and its application seem pre-eminent. Gener- ically, they d 0f that scientific sriission of the engines gh the front wheels holds advantages over the pre- ording to a paper read by it Chilse, at a recent session of the Si gy of Automotive Engin- eers. mong he enumerates pplication 0 the drifpg force to the wheels in the direction of their mo- | tion; elimination of the long propeller shaft; lower upkeep costs due to reat accessibility and better lubrica- ons freedom from® shimmy. tenden- cle ter comfort;: greater avail able space for the body of the car. Supercharging is another develop- "| ment for which special hope is held. Employment of a supercharger, the function of which is to supply the com- bustion chambers of tl ine with a 'mixture adequate to the speed of aperation--a thing that is not done with finality at present--would make with greater performance and econ- omy. The future car certainly is going to be an easier automobile to operate. Already. there are evidences of the wider use of ball-bearings in the con- trols. Much of the easier steering of the present car is duc to the employ- ment of anti-friction bearings. One manufacturer has been successful in making his car's mechanical brakes far easier to operate, by putting this type of bearing in the rocker arms. TO FLYS Wu v ry . [Of the more radical deelopments possible the use of smaller engines ,