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3 Jim 'Wall, entering the town of Green ver in the wile of 1877 encounters a Hays w on the ferry. na) dividual who of his fee. DO he te a a as wanted man Nevertheless Wall distrusts and dislikes his newly made acquaintance. CHAPTER L Hays called for drinks and insisted 'on a handshake, which he executed pol:mnly, as if it were a compact which implied honor even among thieves. Shortly afterward the saloon gradually began to fill with loud- voiced, heavily-booted men Among tiese were Happy Jack, Lincoln, and a giant of a man with a russet beard, whom Hays introduced as Montana. He might have been a miner once, but his hand, which he offered agree- ably, was too soft to have been lately associated with hard labor. By tacit acceptance of a situation pot vague to Wall, these men kept off to themselves, and were quiet and sbserving. Brad Lincoln had the hawk tyes of a man who was not going to se surprised. Jim Wall sat back with interest and a certain enjoyment long snfamiliar. Saloons and gambling- halls. were well known to him, from the notorious Dodge City to Kalispel, but he had not seen any like this of Green River, Utah. There was not a typical black-frock-ccated gambler present, nor a half-naked dance-hall girl, nor a long-haired four-flush gun- man looking for an easy mark to add arother notch to ais gun. Cowboys were conspicuous by their absence, although before supper Wall had seen three. Teamsters, prospectors, eattlemen were there to the number of a dozen, and the others, making a score in all, had to remain prob- lematical to Wall's keen observance. Then a man, undoubtedly a trapper, entered. He wore a buckskin and seemed out of place in that crowd. The bartender, Red, did a thriving business, selling only whisky, at four bits a glass. "Seems to be n? lack of money," ob- served Wall to the watchful Hays. ¥Where do they get it?" "Wal, you're surprised, I see. So was 1. This burg here is a stage stop for points in Utah an' west. Lots of jravel. But there's big cattle ranges off toward the Henrys. South is most "] see. But at that bar there are Lalf a dozen men who are not travel- lers or ranchers or riders." "Wall, fer thet matter, all men in these diggin's have got to be riders. It's a long way from one waterin'- place to another. But you hit into things at thet. here's four or five fellars I never seen before." "Who's the tall one, with his hat pulled down, so you can only see his black, pointed beard?" "Thet's Morely. Claims to be a rancher. But if he ain't the boss of the Black Dragon outfit, I'll edt him." "And the loud fellow--the one with the plaid vest. He's got guns inside that vest, one in each pocket, with the butts point out." "Hell you say! I hadn't noticed. His name is Stud somethin' or other. See him before an' ain't crazy about him." At this juncture the door slammed open, propelled by a vigorous hand, and a stout woman entered with a fierce mien, She had a red shawl tied around her head, and she tramped like a man in heavy boots, "Sam Butler, you come out of this," she shouted peremptorily, to a man in the front rank of drinkers. He detach- ed himself with alacrity from his fel- lows, and amid their boisterous ban- tering he sheepishly followed the woman out. "Now thet's the kind of a wife I oughta had," observed Hays, admir- ingly. "Let's play poker." "Shore, but not just among our- selves," "Got any money, Happy Jack. "Did you ever see me broke? Brad, go dig up some suckers. But fot thet hombre they call Stud. He didn't get thet name playin' solitaire." There were only two large gaming tables, one of which was in use. Lin- coln went among the men to solicit players, returning with Morley and the russet-bearded piant, Montana. There was no formality or gréeting between Hays and these men. It was dog eat dog, Wall grasped. "Make it six-handed. Come an' set in, Wall," said Hays. "Friendly little game of draw. Sky limit." Wall laughed. "I couldn't play penny ante." "Wal, I'll stake you." "No thanks. I'd rather watch." "Excuse me, sir, but we don't care for watchers," interposed Morley. No sooner had they seated them- selves than the man Hays had called Stud strode up. "Am I bein' left out of this on pur- pose?' he demanded, and evidently he addressed Hays. "Lincoln got up the game, Hays, coolly. "You ask my friends to set in, an' not me." "Wal, if you're so keen about it, why set in with us," went on Hays, fingering a deck of cards. "But if you want to know bad, I'm not stuck on playin' with you." "Mean thet to insult me?" Stud queried, sharply, his right hand ris- ing to the lapel of his open vest. If Wall had not observed the bulge of two guns inside this vest he would have divined from Stud's action that there was one at least. "Not at all," replied Hays, leaning back in his chair, That significant Hank?" asked " replied my pards to play an' not me-- different." "Set in, Stud," rejoined Hays, rl illy, as he began to shuffle "1 feel lucky tonight. Last time you had it all your way." The game began then with Happy Jack and Wall looking on. Morley made rather a pointed move and re- mark anent Wall's standing behind him. "Shore I'll change seats with you," replied Hays, obligingly, but it was plain he felt irritated. "Never ' mind, Hays," interposed Wall, deliberately. "The gentleman evidently fears I'll tipeoff his cards. So I'll stand behind you, if I may." From the very first deal Hays was lucky. Morley stayed above even. Brad Lincoln lost more than he won, The giant Montana was a close, wary gambler, playing only when he had good cards. Stud was undoubtedly a player who required the stimulation a. zest of opposition. But he could not wait for luck to change. He had to be in every hand. Moreover, he was not adept enough with the cards to deal himself a good hand when his turn came. He grew so sullen that Wall left off watching and returned to the fireside. But presently he had cause to at- tend more keenly then ever to this card game. The drift of conversation wore toward an inevitable fight. These men were vicious characters. Wall knew that life out here was raw. There was no law except that of the six-shooter. While he bent a more penetrating gaze upon Stud, to whom his atten- tion gravitated, Wall saw him per- form a trick with the cards that was pretty clever, and could not have been discerned except from Wall's position. Nevertheless, fickle fortune most certainly had picked on Stud. He bet this hand to the limit of his cash, and then, such was his confidence, he borrowed from Morley. Still he could not force Hays to call. He fell from elation to consternation, then to doubt, from doubt to dismay, and from this to a gathering impotent rage, all of which proved how poor a gambler he was. When at last he rasped out: "Wal, I call! Here's mine." He slammed down an ace full. Hays had drawn three cards. "Stud, I hate to show hand," drawled Hays. "Yes, you do! Lay it down, I call- ed you." Whereupon Hays gently spread out four ten spots, and then with greedy hands raked in the stakes. Stud stared with burning eyes. "Three-card draw! . .., You come in with a pair of tens?" "Nope. I held up one ten an' "the ace," replied Hays, nonchalantly, hud a hunch, Stud." you this below, "wml, or CHRYSLER SEDAN '8" and $600.00 EXTRA ¥ will give $2,000.00 to some deserving man or woman, or a Chrysler Sedan "8", $800.00 to 1 another, $400.00 to a third, $300.00 to & fourth -- 100 GRAND PRIZES all at one time -- and 1000 special rewards. Sounds too good to be true, but it is true. 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DOLLARS "TIFICATE: AT ONCE! the cards. | SF "rf. | too, when one' | ivy on Hercules club demonstrates "ye steal Spars olf 4 ul "Ahuh, a to look at 'you I see you ain't feelin' gay. Suppose you say just what you did mean." "I meant what I said." "Shore. I'm not so awful thick. But apply thet crack to this here i game an' my plcyin'." "Hays; you palmed them three ten spots," declared Stud hotly. Then there vas quick action and the rasp of scraping chairs, and the tumbling over of a box seat. Stud and Hays were left alone at the table. "You're a liar!" hissed Hays, sudden- ly black in the face, Here Jim Wall thought it was time to intervene. He read the glint in Stud's eyes. Hays wa at a disadvan- tage, *o far as drawing a gun was concerned. And Wall saw that Stud could and would kill him. "Hold on there!" called Wall, in a voice that made both men freeze. Hays did not turn to Wall, but he spoke: "Pard, lay off, I can handle this feller." "Take care, * stranger," warned Stud, who appeared to be able to watch both Hays and Wall at once. They were, however, almost in line. "This ain't any of your mix." "I just wanted to tell Hays I saw you slip an ace from the bottom of the deck," said Wall. He might as well have told of Hays' irregulari- ties, "Wout! He filled his ace full thet way?" roared Hays. "He most certainly did." "All right let it go at thet," replied Stud, deadly cold. "If you can say honest thet you haven't pulled any tricks--go for your gun. Otherwise keep your shirt on." That unexpected sally exemplified the peculiar conception of honor among thieves, It silenced Hays. The little gambler knew his man and shift- ed Lis deadly intent to a more doubt ful issue. "Jim Wall, eh?" he queried inso- lently. "At rour service," retorted Wall, He divined .the workings of the little gambler's mind. Stud needed. to have more time, for the thing that made decision hard to reach was the quality of this stranger. His motive was more deadly than his will, or his power to execute. All this Jim Wall knew: It was the difference between the two men. "I'm edmittin' I cheated," said Stud, harshly, "But I ain't standin' to be tipped off by a stranger." "Well, what're you going to do about it?" asked Wall, while the spectators of the drama almost held their breath. (To Be Continued.) reel Peppers and Tomatoes Successfully Grafted Every one knows that peppers and tomatoes go well together in a salad, but it may be news that they agree, is grafted on the other. The latter fact has recently been demonstrated by experts of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Pieces of pepper plants, they found, flourished when skillfully grafted on tomato plants, young green peppers appear- ing among the tomato leaves. Equally good results were obtained when la shoot from a tomato plant was seal- ed on a pepper plant. Another example of queer grafts is a tomato shoot growing on a potato; the two go well together, it is ex- plained, because they belong to the same family. Another potato plant en- tertains no fewer than five different guests--pepper, petunia, tobacco, to- mato and solanum sisymbrifolum (a member of the potato family). Anti-tobacoc leagues may find sup- port for their arguments in the fact that potato and tomato shoots do not thrive when grafted on tobacco plants, "The nicotine seems to hurt them," is is explained. On the other hand, a petunia inserted into the same lobacc pl.nt seems to enjoy the Freak specimens of this kind have been grown not because they have any practical value, but merely to demon- strate what can be done by grafting. In general, it is relatively easy to graft two or more plants of the same | family and difficult to combine unre- lated species. But a graft of English that this rule, too, has its inevitable 'exception, Bible a Seller in Ceylon Colombo, Ceylon ible + : ce 4 Nothing is more distasteful to him than the fact that the public busies | itself with his private life. Members| of his farhily must carefully keep from him all newspapers which contain ar- ticles about him, or pictures of him, 1f, accidentally, such a sheet does fall into his hands, he throws it away infuriated, or looks at his picture with a laugh, and says: "Bah! What a nasty, fat fellow." Although lecture tours repeatedly expose him to the disadvantages of fame, to the annoyances and intru- sions of publicity, and to the painful experience of the sensational, Einstein has often been lured by faraway places. Travel increases inner free- dom. It makes one conscious of the diversity of man, peoples and land- scapes. It brings about an emotion- al experience which bears fruit for- ever. In the first years of the post. war period, the yearning for a larger world was especially strong in Ger- many; all the more so since the war had introduced, almost throughout the world, a remarkable period of change which had greatly changed the char- acters of the different countries and their ways of living. It was especial ly the realizaton of this change which made possible the wide influence of the theory of relativity on the circles of intellectuals of all nations. .... Travel means not only the recep- tion of impressions, but a comparison of nations, scenery, cultures and fin- ally, a comparison of strangers with oneself. . , . For this very reason the creative power of travel cannot be re- placed by anything else. Of course, on the screen, we see the foreign landscape and also the faces of its inhabitants, but since the vivid at- mosphere is lackng the creative pow- er of comparison is alse lacking. In his travels, Einstein has felt this pow- er very deeply. He has written a careful diary of his impressions, which is of literary, and even poetic im- "Is your wife a "ellever in ef ficiency?" "Yes, indeed. 'She always reads the last chapter of a novel first. You've no idea how many books this method saves her the trouble of wading through." ---- In these days of hustle and con- centrated 'labor, a slight cold which cenfines the sufferer to the house for a day or so may be a disguised bless- ing, according to one British medical expert, as it gives a much-needed rest. free copy ry "Baby's Welfare." Name > PI Brand CONDENSED Milk portance. These impr are among the most valuable sensations of his life, His lecture tours led him through various European countries, to North and South America and to Japan. He saw the European cities; he felt New York as the new capital of the world. Of all these journeys, that to Japan (1922-23) is certainly the most im- portant because of the multitude of scenic and human impressions which Einstein received... . With keen eyes Einstein recogniz- es this fundamental trait of the Ja- panese: "He is impersonal, but not really reserved, because in his social life he does not appear to own any- thing personally which he would want to seclude or hide." ... Einstein also looks back upon his life. What a change from his lonely and painful youth to the present! This journey, which assumes more and more the character of a triumph- al procession, which indeed contra- dicts his character, is, nevertheless, a proof of the meaning and success of his life's work, One could not have imagined it more beautiful and sincere. How distant he used to be from other men! How shy and awk- ward! Now there are stretched to- ward him everywhere hands in hearty greeting.--Anton Reiser, in Albert Ein- stein, A Biographical Portrait." (New York: Boni.) ---- Linguists Ald Visitors Bolton, Eng.--A register of local linguists is being compiled here by the newly-formed Industrial Develop- ment Committee, "Their services are to be called upon when foreigners, unable to speak the British tongue fluently, visit the town on business in connection with new industries. - "How to make my old short skirts conform to the new length was a prob- lem to me until I hit on this plan, If Yaronped the hems; and as the part that had. been 'turned under was farker | than the rest, redyed ig i oa SPEED! Time counts when you're in pain! 'Insist on Aspirin, not only. for its ; safety but for its speed. * Aspirin tablets dissolve at once. They are many minutes faster than esicdiss that are i i! their - you saw would know why it such unife that io wank pei © | den-warbler will do - the dependable action. If you have ever | ed it, you know it bE ve | then dashes the shell until it fs 8 Se ai hy . Shellfish, such as oysters, oi les, and mussels, are able to protect themselves from" most enemies, but - the carrion crow and some of the gills are able to get t they by carry ing them to a height and isopplag them on to, thé rocks. England's common lonet pro in the centre of a gorse bush, where - it is surrounded by tho! the gare game in gooseberry bushes. The thirns them: gelves, 'however, are not provided , for the birds, but are Nature's way of providing .he plants with protec- tive armour. On deserts and other large open spaces in tropical coun= tries, where there is .ittle or 1.0 rain, we find certain plants flourishing, We can understand that if these had no protection they voild quickly be exterminated by the few animals # und in such places, WEIRD SHAPES, Those cacti are protected in such ands of years they have flourished aad held their ow. All plants need moisture, and the first thing these desert plants have to discover is a supply of water. They have long roots which go downwards until moisture of a kind is found, and have a way of con- serving water during long periods of drought. Plants that thrive in places where there is plenty of mosture give out pour from their leaves, The cactus hag dispensed with leaves, and In their place there are innamerable spines or sharp thorns spreading out in every direction, Somé of these are small and so numerous that they have the appearance of a soft fleecy covering, but any animal that ate tempts to eat them soon discovers that this apparently soft covering is an enemy in disguise, and it finds its tongue covered with hundreds of sharp thistles. These thorns sre the armovrplate of the cactus, end they have protected it from attacks throughout countless ages. One of these, ' called Wislizen's cactus; is covered with a double plate of armour, Myriads of tiny spines as tough as steel cover the prevent larger animals from ap- proaching too close. The cactus concentrates all it¢ branches or shoots into compact' forms; some consist ofjust one tall trunk, others have ths appearance of vegetable marrows, and all knds of weird shapes are found. The covering - | skin is thick, to prevent evaporation, and in the thick but soft bédyy we find plenty. of moisture. A tm { Banker Who Kept Servant 47 Years Edw.rd Wagg, a retired London banker, who died recently aged 89, and was cremated at Golder's Green, | might well go down in history as an employer to whom the servant prob- lem meant nothing, For 50 years he ha. maintained a large staff of servants at his beauti- ful riverside home, the Islet, Maiden- head, and also as his London house. New faces appaared in his ser vants' halls during those 50 years, but always the nwcomer was predes- tined to long service with "the man who kept his servants." » At Mr. Wagg's death Lis Yend ¢ achman was still holding that posi- tion after 47 years. His housekeeper, Mrs, Keats, is still living, at the age of 92, at the Islet, after 43 years in his service. For many years she has been an in- valid, and Mr. Wagg has provided for her in her old age. 'Many other, servants had been 'in Mr. Wagg's employ for upwards of 25 years, while others were pensioned 'off. Mr, Wagg's servants were not "aut hi said friends," 'her nest from eneisic' by building it» a wonderful manner that for thous. _ large quantities in the form of va. . body of the plant; while longer ones ... La ol