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gonna keep it." nas a -- SYNOPSIS, foreman offers Jim "Wall a job. been forced to leave Wy- oming. They arrive at the ranchy-owned by an Englishman, Bernie Herrick. Hays and his gang plot to rob Herrick of cat- the Star Wall inti- Hank Hays of Ranch, mates he has tle. They are opposed by a secondary gang on the ranch headed by Heeseman, | Jim Wall goes to Grand Junction to meet Herrick's sister, Helen, She de- mands his escort when riding. He finds himself falling in love, but she angers him by her superciliousness: 'He kisses © her -and she strikes him with a quirt. Later she asks him not to leave the ranch. A quick getaway becomes im- erative after the latest drive of cattle, Wan goes ahead with the men. Hays gays he will join them later. He arrives with Helen Herrick, whu is to be held as ransom. Heesem. n is sighted in pur- suit, but Hays leads the Kang to a seC- ret hiding place-- Robbers' Roost, Jim © questions Helen, CHAPTER XVIL-- (Cont'c.) "How much money did your brother have on hand?" questioned Jim. Helen hesitated, then said, "I don't know, but considerable." "It is a good bet he robbed your brother, too. That'd make this ran- som deal look shy, even if there were nothing else." "There! He is coming. Go--go! You arc my only hope." . Without a leok Jim rose to glide away along the grove. He made no sound. The darkness cloaked him. ~ Hays' deep voice floated to him from the other direction. Circling to the eft he got on higher ground, from which he saw. the camp fire again. Then he sought his bed and crawled hto it. Jim realized that wher Hank Hays stole this girl from her home he had broken the law of his band, he had betrayed them, he had {oomed himself. No matter what loyaity they felt for Hays, the woman would change it. Her. presence alone meant disruption and death. Morning disclosed as remarkable a place as Jim had ever seen. Mocking birds, blackbirds, and meadowlarks were mingling their melodies. Below him the little gray tent Hays had raised for his captive had been pitched against the grove of cotton- woods, which occpied a terrace. One half of the trees stood considerably higher than the other, which fact indi- cated rather a steep bank running through the middle of the grove. The luxuriant jungle of vines, fern, flow- ers, moss and grass on that bank was eloquent of water. Thip grove was on a point that was geparated-from the wall on each side by a deep gully. But these gullies ended abruptly where the point spread into the oval floor of the hole. Also both gullies opened into a canyon be- low. Jim saw some of the men at the camp fire, among them Hays. Beyond them rose a wall of white, gray and reddish stone. Jim was reminded of what Hays had said about outlets to their burrow. There v.as also, on the other side, the steep entrance down which Hays had come to get into this place. i "The inclosed oval contained perhaps twenty-five acres of level sward, as . grassy as any pasture. Aside from © the raeasures that made this retreat ideal for robbers, it was amazing in its_fertility, in its protected isolation, ind in the brilliance of its many colors. Jim strode over to the camp fire to wash. "How's Sparrowhawk?" asked Jim. © u"Stopped bleedin' It was Hays who answered this time. "But I gotta dig out thet bullet, an' I'm plumb fear- wd 1 can't" NU "fet it be a wh er?" "Say, all you fellers askin' me thet. Fact is, 1 don't know. She was dead lo the world last night." "Let her sleep.- That was an awful ride." "eAfter grub we'll climb up an' look ou roost over," announced Hays pres- Ently. : "Jt certainly is a great robbers' roost," agreed Jim, wiping his face. vIf we get surprised we'll simply go out on the other side." "Wal, we pest can't be gurpriged," said Hays, complacently. "One look- out with a glass can watch all the approaches." z "If 1 was Heeceman and had seen you, as he sure saw us, I'd find you in three days," returned Jim, deliber- -- ile. How's our pris- ately. . i "Wall, I'll bet you two to one thet you can't even git out of here," de- plared Hays. "Why, man, you just told us all how to get out." "Down the gully, yes. But you've never seen it an' you'd shore be stuck ... Wal, we'll keep watch durin' day- tr. rer Hays said at the end of 'the meal, "I forgot to tell you thet we took a little money from Herrick. 111 make a divvy on thet today." *u This news was received vith mani- fot satisfaction. "How much, about, Hahk?" asked Bridges, eagerly. ; { "Not much, I didn't count. Reckon # eouple thousayd each." \ "Whew! Thet added to what I've will make me flush, An' I'm "Hank, as there's no deal in sight summer, an' mebbe not then, we : -- mble, huh?" gre : "iamble yourselves black in the face, provided theres no fightin', It's ROBBERS' ROOST by ZANE GREY "Boss, 1 forgot to tell you thet 1 bought a couple of jugs at thd Junc- tion," spoke up Smoky, contritely. "Wel, no matter, only it 'pears we're all forgettin' things," said the leader, somewhat testily. - "Hank, when're you aimin' to col- lect ransom fer the girl?" "Not while thet hard-shootin' dutfit is campin' on our trail." Later Jim caught Smoky aside, dig- ging into his pack, and approached him to whisper: ; "Smoky, I wish we had time to talk. But I'll say this right from the shoulder: It's up to you and me to see no harm comes to this girl." "Why you an' me, Jim?" returned Smoky, his penetrating eyes on Walls. "pPhat's why I wish I had time to talk. But you've got to take me straight. If 1 wasn't here you'd do your best for her--that's my hunch. Shoo', now, quick! Hays is suspicious as hell." : "Wal, yoré a sha~p cuss, Jim," re- turned Smoky, going back to his pack. "I'm with you, One of us has always got to be heah in camp, day an' night. Do you savvy?" "Yes. ... Thanks, Smoky. Somehow I'd have sworn by you," replied Jim, hurriedly, and retraced his steps to the fire. CHAPTER XVII. After breakfast Hays led his men, except Latimer, up through the west cutlet, from which they climbed to the Hight point in the vicinity. Every pot of the green hole was in plain sight. Every approach to it, even that down the dark gully, lay exposed. ' Brad = Lineoln said sarcastically: "So you been savin' this roost for your old age?" Then Jim put in his quiet opinion: "A band of men could hang out here for twenty years--unless they fought among themselves." "Ha!" Slocum let out a s exclamation. They left Jim on the bluff to keep the first watch. Jim had Miss Herrick's word as to the amount taken from her. It was a certainty that Hays had also robbed her brother. But he had not reported the truth as to amount; and this was another singular proof of the disin- tegration of the chief's character. In all likelihcod Sparrowhawk La- timer was aware of this omission on the chief's part. Probably he had been bribed to keep his muth shut. Whatever there was to learn Jim meant to learn. . } While his thoughts ran in this fa- shion, skipping from one aspect to an- other, Jim's keen manipulation of the field glass followed suit. And after each survey he would shift the glass back to the oval bowl where the rob- bers were at work. Some were carrying water, brush, stones, while others were digging postholes. Hays began to lay a square fireplace of flat stones. The stone, sand, water were fetched to him, but he did the building himself. An hour or so after the start the square grate appeared to be completed, and the chimney was going up. Four cotton- 'woods formed the four corner posts of the shack. Poles of the same wood were laid across for beams. Probably Hays would construct a roof of brush, ard give it pitch enough so that it would shed water. k Three times Hays left off work to walk across the green to the tent where Miss Herrick kept herself. No doubt the robber called to her. The third time he peeped in. But Hays did not attempt to enter the tent. They Hays retraced his steps back to the job. "Long after noonday, and when Jim had spent at least gix hours on watch, Jeff Bridges detached himself from his comrades and laboriously 'made his -way up the long glope to the bluff upon which Jim was stationed. Jim relinquished the glass and his seat fo Bridges. He made his way leisurely down off the smooth red ledges to the slope, and eventually to the valley floor. Jim drew his gun, and selecting a favorable shot he put out the eye of a rabbit; and presently le repeated the performance. With the rabbits dangling, one from each hand, he turned into the oval, amused to find not a single man in sight. They had heard his shots and had taken to cover. As he approached, one by one they reappeared. "Huh! You Hays, forcibly. p "Young rabbit for supper won't go bad," rejoined Jim, : "They shore won't," agreed smoky. "Lemme see, Jim." He took the rab- bits and examined them. "Lookhyar, Brad. He shot the eye out of both of them." "Durned if he didn't," said Brad, enthugiastically, "How fer away, Jim?" ; "1 didn't step it off, Reckon one was about twenty paces and the other far- ther," returned Jim, stretching the truth a little. He knew such men, how their morbid minds centred about cer- tain things. "Hank, don't let's give Jim Wall a chanct to shoot at te!" ejaculated ingle sharp scared us,' declared A any, more'n he wants us shootin at him," ; "Jim, take a snack of grub, an' then come to work with us," said Hays. (To be continued.) --i rr In a Troubled Hour Let me' consider, now, this tree in bloom, This sudden miracle upon the air, Requiring for itself so little room That I can 'shut one eye and miss it] there; Requiring, too, so little length of times rd . A day of "sun; a night of rain, nq more, ed a To scrawl this brief inscription like a rhyme { f Of sudden musicé® heard beside my door, ! Y This is a happy thing I look upon: Here sun and rain aave builded. in this hour - ° 3 A thing of glory passing rain and gun-- This shapely pinnacle, thig shining tower Wiereto unhappy thoughts might fly, whose words Come back . . , almost . woise of happy birds. : --David Morton, in The Lyric. ----e Qin Oil Stations Awheel Writes the Brandon Sun--"Shef- field, England, where the knives come from, is introducing something new to the British motoring public, a travelling filling station, It's a won: der someone on this continent hasn't got ag far ag that, because, with all the pumps dotted on the , maps, there is never too many filling sta- tions at times. ' The British scheme is that of a wheeled filling station that runs up and down the highway, serving the motoring public when, and more Spe- cifically where, necessary. So where the plan is working, the motorist who has run short of gas or is in emer- gency need"of some gadget or bit of libhter equipment the lack of which has brought his machine to a halt, instead of worrying over making con- nection with some distant service con- cern, has but to shove his car out of the traffic lane, open his newspaper or a book and possess himself with patience, assured that ere long a wheeled gasoline tank, air pump, etc. will pass on-its-round. The plan no doubt will appeal espe- cially to lady motorists driving with- out male escorts to whom! the poss! bility of being stranded en route is something of a constant nightmare. The "first-aid" vehicle might even be equipped with a detachable trail- er in the form of an emergency re- pair shop, When - a mechanical breakdown was encountered on the highway/the trailer and its mechanic could be cut loose and left behind to attend to the repairs while the gas supply made its round, picking up its repair outfit on its next passage » like oo. - "Three men had heen fishing without a bite in a stream near the village of Port Vire, in Northarn Italy. Sudden- ly a vicious squall _of rain and hail swept over the village--and a shower of live fish descended upon the inhabit- ants. The fish had been sucked into the air by a whirlwind and carried in- land before the tornado spent its force. 's' \ A serious phase of New York's un- employment problem is the fact that there are 75,000 girls in the city with- i| the canvas in which he Pithy Anecdotes 4 Of the Famous A well-known captain, who was a great character (relates C. Fox Smith in "A Book of Famous Ships"), lay dying in his ship, and ordered the sailmaker to bring for his inspection ! would be shrouded when buried "Too good--too © good!" he ex- claimed." 'I can't have good canvas wasted like that! Find a rotten piece. And what are you going to weight me down with? 'Chain cable, gir,' was the reply. 'Chain cable-- chain c¢.ble? returned the dying man. 'More waste--I won't hear of it. Holystones, I tell ye, orf by the great block, I'll haunt ye." The Banking mergers in which Henry P. Davison. was active in his early years as partner of J, P. Mor- gan and Co., recall a family anecdote related by Davison's son, Harry, Jr, says Thomas W. Lamont "(in "Henry P. Davison: The Record.of a Useful Life') By the way, the elder Davi son started his career in his uncle's bank at Troy, N.Y.--this to make the point clear. ' "One night in the later years of Lis life," young Harry felates, "Fath- er woke Mother up and said he had just had a terrible nightmare. "He thought he was back in the tank at Troy and could rot balance the books, and that his uncle told him he had to balance them or getsa good horse-whipping. Still, they would not balance, and Father was in a cold sweat. When Mother asked him how it came out, he v. "I finally solved ; the problem; I bought the bank." od rg The first piece of international busi- ress that Mr. Davison ever took an active share in had to do with the operations of the old Chinese Con- gortium, says Mr. Lamont. At a tick- lish point of the negotiations, the in- ternational bankers concerned--Davi- som-was one of them--Were given - a dinner in Berlin, and Davison 'found himself, "to his embarrassment," seat- ed next to the Chinese Minister to Germany. Davison did not wish to be impolite, but, not knowing a word of any language but his own, he was inclined to let the Minister do his talking with his neighbor on his other hand. : At the first available moment, how- ever, the versatile Chinese Minister leaned over to. the banker, and in perfect English inquired blandly is Davison could tell him who was pitch- ing for the White Sox this season." Devison was, of course, amused and delighted (adds Lamont), and he turfied his complete attention to the Chinese Minister who, apparently, had spent many years in Chicago and Washington and was most entertain- ing and interesting.. : From "The Journal Bennett, 1921-1928"; "July 8, 1927: Crossing St. James' of Arnold smart military-bearing man of 60 or so, in white top hat, white waistcoat, ete. 'Arnold Bennett'? 'Yes,' I said. 'And you? He was the second son of '-B-D-S., late of Hanley. Quite a pleasant encounter. He said I was just like my photos. I didn't like that muh." "July 22, 1927: As I came home on the bus (top), a woman who had out jobs, homes, or even sufficient] climbed up after me said: 'I'm on the food, wrong bus, and I got on itso that I White House Pet Undergoes Operation . A Bmoky, with a loud laugh, "We don't want Jim shootin' at ve good we haven't any Hiker." Dr. Weadon, Washington surgeon, } 2 . .. \The police dog which nipped.P to Washington was operated on for the removal of three large cysts, remler Bennett orf his recent visit performed, 1 ee. | - Square (London) I was accosted by a aH ee TT --_-- would travel by the same route ag Arnold Bennett, She was a lady and 'seemed quite gcrious, 1 was _ quite touched. I talked to her a bit." _. What "Arnold © Bennett calls "the funniest story I have ever heard about a writer," was told to him by Colonel Fitzhugh: Minnergrode, American author. This is it--as confided to his "Journal," under date January 11, 1927: i : "At d'Annunzio's place, somewhere in the north of Italy, the servants have the strictest orders when they. meet the master in or about the house, 'to drop "instantly whatéver they may. be carrying, and to put.one hand and furearm over the other. Wratever it is a teatray with glasses, e.g, must be dropped on the floor. So that now the servants . have instituted a pri- vate 'heralding' system. A man carry- and if the former meets t'ic master he crosses his arms, and the latter gets quick'y out of the way." Which reicinds me that d'Annun- vio dedicated one of his novels to Ana- tole France, describing "him in the dedication as "one to whom all the faces of Truth and Error smile alike," On reading this, M, France exclaimed: "It's a back strcke, but very skilfully given," aud retaliated by telling this story of d'Annunzio. 4 K; a - A : When The Iialian poet's play "l.a Pisanelle" was being reheacved ot a Paris theatre a reuorter eal'24 on the author. - As he was taking his de- parture the interviewer noticed a cameo ring the poet was 'wearing. "What an admirable stone!" he ex- claimed: = : "If you admire it, it is yours," re- plied d'Annunzio. And immediately removed the ring, he slipped it on to the visitor's finger. The Reporter, determined to keep this precious memento, but neverthe- less wished 'to know its monetary value. On his way home he entered r lapidary's shop and showed it "o the proprietor, who, without troubling to pick up his magnifying glass, remark- ed: "A piece of glags; worth about four sous." in "From which," said M. France, "I gather that Gabrielle- d'Annunzio is an excellent dramatic author." : Wackford Squeers of Dotheboys Hall notoriety is in danger of losing his seat in the Chamber of Horrors. Efforts are evideirtly being made to transfer him' to the Hall.gf Fame. Nct long #go Mr, E. pom of l.on- don, England, ninety-two [years of age, recorded his 1¢collectivhs of Mr. Squeers and Dotheboys Hall, where Mr, Plummer went to school. He didn't exactly give Squeers a clean Lill of health, but the fact that any of Squeer's victims should have lived ir the rize old age of ninety-two is a mirac.e. : § Mr Shaw (ike original Mr Squcers), the mzster of the school attended by Nichclas Nici'eby and young Plummer, was a short, stout man, "always dressed in a dark vel wet," Mrs. Shaw used to administer the brimstone and treacle Now, no less @&n authority than Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, eminent physician, declares that the only educationist who has dealt practically with the habits of school children "was the much abused Mr, Waxford Squeers of Dotheboys Hall. His*pupiis probably owed long lives and happy ores to his' brimstone and treacle both of which are ideal and beneficial," Snapshots from "World Panorama: 1918-1933" by George Seldes: Ver- sailles: At lunch with George Adam (Paris correspondent of 'the London "Times") the "father of victory" was asked by the journalist what he thought of or Fourteen Points. The reply says Scldes will bear repeating. "The. good God," Clémenceau decial~ ed, "had only Ten." Wilson .at Milan: A certain Milan- ese editor' wrote a headline, "Wel- come to President Wilson in the name of the traditional ties of democracy." But a typographical error made it read "traditional lies of democracy." It was a portent. The writer of the headline was Benito Mussolini, JETER SY TSIEN have discovered a cure for rheumatoid arthritis; 'It consists of an operation equivalent to an artificial fracture of the 'thigh bone. Test cases have proved that during the healing of the bone the arthritis vanishes, ' A aR A man at Lingfield, Surrey, who been deat for years, went for an afr- plane trip. The nolge of the engine cored him. ba ing anything is preceded by another, | Austrian surgeons believe they] has | Aviation New Field For Women To-day Business and Professional Group Also Hears of Radio and Film Op- ~. portunities Chicago.--Miss Ruth Nickols, ad- dresing the convention of the National Federation of Business and Profession- al Women here, declared aviation the latest field for womey to venture into, as good fun if small remuneration. Miss Judith Waller, who introduced "Amos and Andy" on the radio, thought there might be more fortune than fun in radio, but Miss Pauline Frederick, who spoke for the silver screen,' claimed both fun and fortune for that occupation, = They were speaking at three break- fasts arranged in honor of the newest fields for women, flying; radio, and the films, : Public library work was put down as a greatly over-crowded field by Miss 'M. Louise Hunt of Racine, Wis., but Miss L. Ingram Mace of Dwight, Ill, told the social workers group that there is opportunity for women in ad- ministrative posts in Lenal institu- tions. The law requires a' large in- vestment of time apd money with poor promise of returns, Miss Lydia Lee of St. Louis stated, but Miss Kathleen F. O'Brien, of Battle Creek, Michigan, pointed to credit management as a field -in -which "women are especially well cquiped to excel. The chairman of the hotel and res- taurant group was Miss Minnie A. Al- bert of Chicago, whose two restaurants a few years ago did a business of $300,- 000 annually. * ; A raid by Mexican bandit. sent Miss Mamie Evins of Little Rock, Ark, from. secretarial work to the land and irrigation company, where she became accountant -and bookkeeper, a ficld which she represented. While she waited for the rebuilding of the pump! ing plant, where she "pounded a type- writer" before the bandits came, there came a chance to enter new work and now she serves the agricultural and home economics extension service and the college of agriculture at the Uni- versily of Kansas. Miss Mary Isabel BEther, who spoke in the home economics round table, cooked and served the first meal ever prepared ina heavier than air plane. --_---- Five out of every six lieutenant. commanders in the Royal Navy must face the prospect of being "shelved" before the age of forty. ------ Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. : Expecting a Baby? Send for booklet "Baby" Welfare' FREE! FREB to new mothers-- expectant mothers--84' pages on--e Care before baby comes. © Layette. Baby's bath, sleep, bowel, weight, maces Latest findings on feeding, Write The Bord House, Toronto, Name, Address a. Coy Limited, Yardley 3 oN 33 TISSUE No. 30 ---' May 10th--1 knew nothing whatever last year about gardening and this -| year know very little more, but 1 have dawnings of what may be done, and bave at least made one great stride-- from ipomoea (0 lea-roses. i The garden was an absolute wilder ness; "It 1s all dround the house, bul the pring¢ipal part is on the south sid( and has evidently always been so. The south front is one-storied, a long seried of rooms opening one into the other, and the walls are covered with vir ginia creeper, There is a little veran. dah in the middle, leading by a fight of rickety wooden steps down into what seems to have been the only spot in the whole place that was ever cared for. This is a semicircle cut into the lawn and edged with privet, and in this semi-circle are eleven beds of different 'sizes bordered with box and arranged round a sun-dial, acd the sun-dial is very venerable and moss-grown, and greatly beloved by me, were the. only sign of any attempt at gardening to be seen except a solitary, 'crocus that came up all by itself each spring in the grass, not because it wanted to, but because it could not help it), and these | have sown with ipomoea, the whole eleven, found a German gardening book, ae« titles was the one thing needful to cording to which iponioea in vast quan turn the most hideous desert into a paradise. way recommended with anything like the ignorant of the quantity of/seed neces. sary, 1 bought ten pounds ¢t it and had it sown not only in the eléven beds but round nearly every tree, and then waited in great agitation'for the pros mised paradise to appear. - It did not, and I learned my first lesson. Losklly fias sown two great patch. es of swgét-peas, which made me very, happy all the summer, and then there hocks under the south windows, with Madonna lilies in_between, But thé lilies, after being transplanted, disap- peared, to my great dismay, for haw, was I to know it was the way of lilies? And the hollyhocks turned out to ba rather ugly colours, so that my first 'summer was decorated and beautified solely by sweet peas. eg At present we are only just begins ning to breathe after the bustle of gets made in time for this summer, The eleven beds round the sun-dial are fill. ed with roses, but I see already that have made mistakes with some. - As I any matter, my only way of learning ig by making mistakes, All eleven were to have been carpeted with purple pans sies, but finding that-1 had not enough and that nobody had any to dell me, only six have got their pansies, the oliver being sown with dwarf mignon. ette, How 1 long for the day when the tea-roses open their buds! Never did I look forward so intensely to any thing; and every day I go the rounds, admiring what the dear little things have achieved in the twenty-four hours in the way of new leat or increase of lovely-red shoot, The hollyhocks and lilies (now flour- ishing) are still under the south win- of a grass slope, at the foot of which I have sown two long borders of sweet peas facing the rose beds, so that my roses may have .something almost ns sweet as themselves to look at until the autumn, when everything is to make place for riore tea-roses, The path leading away from this semicircle down the garden is bordered with China roses, white and pink, with here and there a Persian Yellow. I wish now 1 had put tea-roses there, and I Persian Yellows - among the Chinas, for the Chinas are such wee little haby as though they intended to be big things, and the Persian Yellows look bushes. It was no doubt because 1 was so ignorant that I rushed in where Teu- tonic angels fear to tread and made my tea-roses face a northern winter; looking to-day as happy and as deter- mined to 'enjoy themselves as any roses, I am sure, in Europe.--From "Elizabeth and Her German Garden." (New York: Macmillan), ---- 's Woman Gives Blood to : Sick Without Charge Giving her blood to sick people with out charge {8 Mrs, Fannie Barton's been strangers save one, Within four years she has undergone 24 transfusions and only in two ine stances did ehe receive remuneration, "I like to do things for people," she said. "It's enough to know that maybe I've helpgd save someone's life." . Doctors at the University Hospital, | Augusta, Georgia, know she will come any hour of the day or night. Within a'period of 14 days she gave blood four times. She never feels any physical reacs tion, Once she dropped household dutied, gave a quart of blood, walked 'hone, -000ked supper for 10.people, milked two cows and. finished the family washing. eis : ------ ein The possibilities of a motor-car as an agent of destruction are twenty timés as great ae those of a pedal cycle. 2 -. Yossant Learnedin 'A German Garden These bedd , having - Nothing else in that book ame warmth, and being entirely, were some sunflowers and a few holly. 'ting new beds and borders and paths have not a living soul with whom to hold communion on this or indeed on dows in a narrow border on the top. have misgivings as to the effect of the but they did face it under fir branches : and not one has suffered, and they are avocation and all the recipients have : 5? H ® ! ] v i hs { | | wr pun Rr Th \