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EE SYNOPSIS, Hank Hays, foreman of the Star Ranch, offers Jim Wall : job, Hays and bis gang plot to rob their employer, Ber- mle Herrick, an Englishman. Jim falls "tn love with Herrick's sister, Hclen. A quick getaway becomes imperative after the latest drive of. cattle, Wall goes shead with the men. Hays arrives later with Hellen Herrick, who is to be held as ransom, Heeseman is sighted in pur- suit, but Hays leads the gang to a gecret pding place--Robbers' Roost, ¢ HOW GON ON WITH THE STORY. 'CHAPTER 17. "Jim, take a snack of grub, an' 'then come to 'work with us," eaid Hays. While they were at it Smoky gested they erect a sun and rain shelter for the prisoner, Hays con- sented with a bad grace. So before dark they built one for Miss Herrick that would add materially to her zom- fort. . "Reckon this cottonwood grove is her private grounds, fellers," added Smoky. "It ain't no fault of our'n if this gurl is hyar, But since she is, we'll see she gets treated like a lady." That was a strong speech, yet pass- ed over by Hays, A tiny stream. ran out from under the trees. Jim banked it up with clean, red rocks, forming a fine little little pool of clear cold water. Smoky, deftly fashioned a rude armchair, which when covered with saddle blan- kets mada an acceptable chair, Hays, nol to be wholly outdone, cut and carried a great armload of ferns. "Come out, miss," he called into the tent. : Helen emerged, her eyes suspicious- ly red, but tha did not mar the flash of them. . "Hays, am 1 to gather from this kindly service that my stay here will be indefinite?" she queried. "Wal, it looks like thet." "You can send Jim Wall and an- "other of your men back to Star Ranch, I'll write a letter to my brother to pay and ask no questions or make no moves," . "Shore, I reckon-Jim would go. It's easy to see thet, But none of my regular men would risk it," returned Hays. ~ : "There's a better way, Hank," spoke up Smoky. "Send Jim an' me back with the girl. If she'll promise it we'll get the money." ~~ "I give my word," swiftly agreed Miss Herrick. ' "When it suits me--which is when it's wafe to send fer that ransom money--U'11 do it an' not before." Hays stalked away toward the cook shelter. lL. zt "You--what's your name?' she ask- ed, turning to Smoky. sug- "Wal, you can call me Smoky," drawled that worthy. "Jim has made yor a friend -- to help me?" : "I reckon so, but fer Gawd's sake don't talk so loud. Try to savvy this deal, 'an' what's your part in it." Smoky wheeled to his task as Hays strode back into earshot. Miss Herrick entercd her tent, and rfter that little more was spoken be- tween the men, and presently, at Hays' suggestion, they quit for the day. . tome Whar you bunkin', Smoky?" in- juired Hays. ' - Under the cliff with. Sparrow. Thet yoor devil needs nursin'" + "Jim, whar you sleepin'?" "There's my bed and pack and ii dle," replieq Wall, pointing. "I'l Te 1 es what rains, - Hays made ho comment. They re- paired to Happy Jack's shelter and to their evening meal. Later by the "light of the campfire, Jim saw Helen some out of her tent to walk up and down in the dusk. And she got nearly as far as where Jim's things lay in the lee of a low shelf, 'Darkness goon settled down, and with it the robbers, worn out with their labors. Jim stayed up long enough to see Hays stretch in his ylankets under Happy's shelter. The next day was like the preced- ing, with its camp tdsks and improve- ments, the guard duty, attendance upon Sparrow, and the universal if covert observance of Miss Herrick. #0 do her credit she kept out of her tent, ate, exercised, and watched with great anxious eyes that haunted Jim, After that day after day, full of watching and suspense for Jim, wore on.' "¥ The seventh day, during the heat of the afternoon, Jim was on the look- out from the bluff with his field glass. When he returned, Smoky came to meet him. ' "Sparrow's been askin' fer you," he gaid, moodily. "I'm afeared he's lots wugs." : ~ When Jim bent over thé wasted _ Latimer it was indeed to feel a cold apprehension, "What. is it, Sparrow? I've been on watch," said Jim. - "Am 1 a-goin' to croak?" queried Latimer, calmly. ; "You've a fighting chance, Spar- " 4 "Wal, I've been shot before. But 1 never had this queer feelin'. .7. . Now, Jim, if I git to sinkin'. don't keep me:from knowin'. If I'm dyin' 1 want to tell you and Smoky. some- thin' thet I'd keep if I lived, Savvy?" _ "8parrow, 1 couldr/t honestly ask "ISSUE No. 31--733 " ) ROBBERS' ROOST by ZANE GREY for that confession yet," replied Jim. "You might pull through. But I pro- mise you, and I'm shaking your hand on it." ; "Good. Thet eages my mind." On the walk across the oval Smoky said very seriously: "Jim, I reckon we better have Sparrow tell us to- morrer--whatever he has on his chest. Thet is, if we want to know it. Do you?" ; "I.sure do, Smoky. It it's some- thing Latimer must confess it's some- thing 'we ought to know." That .night Jim moved" his bed closer to the grove, farther from the campfire, and it commanded a view of the rise of ground where anyone passing could be detected above the horizon; Even after he had crawled under his blankets he watched, But nothing passed. The hours wore on until the utter loneliness of the deep pit weighed heavily upon Jim's oppressed breast, He fell asleep and dreamed that he was riding a gigantic black horse with eyes of fire, and that there was a white flower growing out fom a preci- pice, and in a strange, reckless desire to pluck it he fell into the abyss. Down, down he plunged into black- ness. - And suddenly a piercing, ter- rible cry rose from the depths. Jim was sitting upright in bed, his brow clammy with sweat, his heart clamped as in a cold vise. What had awakened him? The night was silent, melancholy, fateful. He swore that a soul-wracking cry had broken his slumber. --Then he remembered the dream. He was not subject to dreams. The rest of the night he dozed at intervals, haunted by he knew not what. One by one the members of the gang appeared at Happy Jack's calls to breakfast. Jim was the last to arrive, except Hays, who had not yet appeared. After the meal Jim, as was his cus- tom, hurried toward the shelf where Latimer lay. He had gotter. half- way when Slocum caught up with him. "Jim, you look like the wrath of Gawd this mornin'." ; "Smoky, I didn't sleep well. I'm cross, and I reckon I need a shave." "Wal, if thet's all--Say, Jim, did yout hear the gurl scream last night?" "Scream. . . . did she?" "Huh. - If she didn't I've got the jimjams. . . . My Gawd, look at pore Latimer!" B Their patient had wrestled "off his bed out into the grass. They rushed to lift him back and make him com- fortable. He appeared to be burning up with fever and alarmingly bright- eyed, but he was conscious and asked for water. Jim hurried to fetch some. "How I rolled out there I don't know," said Latimer, after he had drunk -thirstily, "Reckon you was deliriaus, Spar- row," replied Smoky. "No, sir. I whs scared." ™ "Scared! You? Thet's funny," re- joined Smoky, looking across at Jim. "What scared you, old man?" quer- ded Jim, "It was after I got my sleep. Must have been late, fer 1 always am dead to the world fer five or six hours. ] was wide awake. It was shore a lonesome night. Mebbe my sins weigh- ¢? on me. . .. But all of a sudden I heard a cry. -It scared me so I jump- ed right off my bed. Hurt me, too, an' I'didn't try to get back." "Maybe it was a coyote right by close," returned Jim. ~«Fellers, ll bet yout find that gurl dead. . . . murdered!" concluded Lati- mer hoarsely. "Sparrow, you don't look flighty," replied -Jim, gravely. "But your talk is. Else you've a reason to think jit." "Shore, I have," rejoined Latimer, lowering his voice to a whisper. "Hays beat an' robbed Herrick! .. . Thet's part I wanted to tell you, if I was going to croak. But I gotta tell it now, anyhow. An' I ask you both, ag pards, to keep what I tell you secret till I'm dead." "I swear, Sparrow," sail Smoky, huskily. N "You can trust me, too," added Jim, "Wal, thet's why I feel Hank must have done fer the girl, too." "Robbed Herrick!" exclaimed Slo- ciilm, increduously. "Was there a fight?" "Yes; But Hank miglit have avoid- ed it. He drove the man crazy. Fell- ers, Hays'd steal coppers off a dead man's -eyes--shore, But what he said he wanted was the gurl fer ranscm. Yet he picked a fight with Herrick an' beat him with a gup." "Sparrow, Low come you didn't tell us before?" asked Smoky, sternly, "I'm beholden to Hank, But I will say thet if I'd knowed his game I'd never have gone with him, After it was too late--wal, I stuck, An' I'd kept it secret. But I feel in my bones I'm done fer. So I'm squealin', an I'm doin' 'it because Hays double-crossed you all." "Reckon I'd have done the same, if Hank had a hold on me." conceded Smoky, generously. "Suppose you take a nip of whisky an' tell Us what happened." . Cp "I'm hot enough without liquor. But I'll tell you, . . . Gimme rome Her Garden She never weeds hey garden Or lays it out in rows; It's like a happy meeting-place For anything that grows She wanders in the morning ' Among the coloured throng; And every bud seems brighter To see her pass aleng, I found her humming softly As ghe watered weeds and flowers, Beside a rusty sun-dial That never told the hours, Aifd when I said that roses were the sweetest flowers 1 knew, She nodded, and said dandelions Were very pretty, too. --Kennin Hamilton, Montreal --------r 2 Nobel Prize Winners Out of Jobs in Germany Two German-Jewish winners of Nobel Prizes are without jobs, says "Time." Both are full of years and distinction, Dr, James Franck, fifty- one yeurs old, was a professor at Got- tingen Univer«ity, He wo.) his prize 'in 1925, for experimental physics, Professor Fritz Haber, sixty-fous, was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical und Electrical Chemistry in Berlin, He invented the important synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia which supplied Germany with expdo- sives and fertilizers during the war. Like Albert Einstein, Haber and Franck resgned their German jobs to avoid Adolf Hitler pogrom. More than fifty .other Germen-Jew- ish professors of pure, applied and medical sciences have either. been forced to resign or have been rudely thrown out of their chairs, No other eminenl scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacob- sohn, Indo-Germanic philogist at Darburg, who threw himself under a train, But many a J:w in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot, A sharp Swedish cartoon. recently flayed the Jewish scientist's plight in Naziland. The cartoon showed two brow-beaten Germans eyeing a burly lout in the Nazi uniform who was striding through' a university hall. First citizen--What is the policeman doing here? Second citizen--Sh! Sh! That is the man selected to succeed Einstein. : Acidosis Not Due to Excess of Acid Acidosis is supposed to result from the formation of an excess of acid in the body. Professor Yandell Hender- son anu Leon A. Greenberg of Yale University threw much cold water on this view in their National Academy paper. The acid of acidosis is lactic 'acid. Henderson and Greenberg pre- vented animals from producing it-- eacy to,do by giving them small doses of monoiodoacitic acid and then re- ducing their oxygen supply. Under the conditions. a-bad case of acidosis was produced, but without the forma- tion of -any increased amoun fy lactic acid. "Some other theory wifl have to be developed," is the lacoric con- clusion of the experimenters. ¥ N -#You aren't golng away this sum. mer". . "No, I've discovered that one may become engaged on her own front porch Just ess easily If she sets out to do It.' ; Summer Flashes The cheese most largely consumed in London (England) is Cheddar, Property worth $100,000,000 is stand- ing empty in the city of London just now, : : Radium to the value of about $175, 000 can be placed in an ordinary|table- spoon. ; : HF Out of-London's 7,800 taxicabs, 513 were new last year and 800 the year before. This year is the centenary year of the permission granted to London to have its first main-line railway, Applications for houses on the Lon- don County Council estates totalled more than 200,000 in a recent period of twelve months, ; Shipping laid up 'in the ports and rivers of Engand amounted to 3,233,000 tons during the first quarter of this year, Gt. Britain's stamp is the only one in the word which does not have to bear, as part of its design, the name of the country of origin, - H.M. the King will shortly open the greatest dry dock in the world. This has been built at Southampton at a cost of $10,000,000. There 18 no difference in quality be- tween white and-red Cheddar or Che- shire cheese. The colour is inserted to please the various districts, Sixty-five per cent. of the cargoes en- tering and leaving West Hartlepool Harbour are carried in Swedish, Dan- ish and Greek ships. , If all the greenfly in a radius of thirty miles round London could be com- pressed into a solid mass it would be larger than Westminster Abbey. A cinema screen built up of glass rods, on which the filmed actors are shown with more depth, instead of be- ing just flat representations, has suc- cessfully passed {its first tests in. an American laboratory. Honey bees as we know them to-day are not much better than those which flourished 9,000,000 years ago, accord- ing to one German sclentist. Most other animals bred by man have been greatly altered and improved,' ; An aeroplane was recently used to transport a herd of dairy cows to the New Guinea goldfields. . "A previous trip on foot over the mountains had taken six weeks, and all the cattle died on the way, The air. trip took forty minutes. Interesting facts as to the popularity of film stars with boys and*girls.came to light during a recent-test in Gt. Britain. The boys liked best, of male 'stars, 'Laurel and Hardy, Jack Holt,» Slim "Summerville, Jackie Coogan, Ronald Colman, and Richatd Dix; fe- male stars, Janet Gaynor, Marie Dress- ler, Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Craw- ford, Constance Bennett, and Norma Shearer. The girls liked, of the men, Ronald Colman, Laurel and Hardy, Jackie Coogan, Robert Montgomery, Ramon Novarro, and Jack Holt; of the women, Janet Gaynor, Constance Ben- nett, Jeanette McDonald, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Evelyn Laye. Adolphe Menjou and Anna May Wong came at the bottom of tlie lists of boys and girls. - --_------------ Vagabond Song There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood-- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart's like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. - And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the: hills, There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her, (% When from every hill of flame She calls and calls each vagabond by name, --Bliss Carman, A Timely Book On Swimming Writes the Toronto Globe--"At a time of year when so many lives are being lost in lake and river, there appears most opportunely a booklet issued by the National Coun: cil of the Young Men's Christian As- sociations of Canada, entitled "Swim- ming, Diving and Life-Saving Man- ual," Publications dealing with the art of swimming have been numer- ous and valuable, and in this. book 'an effort has been made to correlate much of the material that has been issued bearing on the general sub- ject of aquatics. ¥ { "There are illuminating chapters on the best methods 'of teaching swimming, both to old and young; on -how- to overcome fear; on the different strokes and their,value; on correct breathing; on diving; and-- of tremendous importance--the most effective methods of approaching those in danger of drowning, at all times a perilous experience, "Methods of resuscitation are dealt with 'at length and in easily understood terms. There is a page of "Don'ts for swimmers and non- swimmers," whick, if observed, will go far to prevent .tragedies in the water, Altogether, the book, which fs extensively illustreted, is of great value to all who. countesnplate enjoy- ment of bathing in lake or river dur. ing the summer season." * AEC One Frock Does % Work of Three Paris Dressmakers Concentrat- * ing on New Ideas for 'Budget Styles to Meet Reduced Incomes Paris.--Styles to meet the income are the latest fashion item. With prices already slashed 30 per cent, from last year's scale, dress- makers are concentrating on new ideas to make one dress do the work of three. Interchangeable jackets, belts, scarfs, skirts and capes com- bined with 'one or two frocks make "quick change" costumes ready for many affairs, While the most frivolous perishable fashions hold sway for chic women who can afford them, dressmakers are giving thought to reduced budgets by bringing «out frocks of less costly ma- terials designed\to stand the greatest possible wear. Crinkly scarfs\_and jackets are Schlapareli"s offering. A red crinkled crepe scarf to tie under the chin and a white scarf to cross under the belt make one plain dark blue dress ready for morning or afternoon. : Many advance fall styles are like- wise tuned to meet reduced incomes. Bruyere makes a skirt and jacket of mahogany brown wool, with two dif- ferent blouses. ' One of white crepe makes the ensemble a suit, - The other of the same brown wool converts the skirt to a dress, hd more water." * (To Be Continued.) standard of sturdiness, " Russian "Sport" Military drill, comes under the heading of "sports" n- Soviet Russia, Hero are some of the boys at Moscow, a few of the 100,000 citizens that recently took part in a giant field day program. ~ Note the Pirates Still Sail ' "And Ply Trade On the Coast of China They ~ Find Their Prey--Also Off North Africa Despite fast - liners, long-range weapons and a world-wide system of t.legraphic and radio communication, the pirate still plies his trad., as wit- nessed by the recent case of the five Germans who seized 2 Chinese ship and were later captured in Dairen, Manchuria. Every sc often come re- ports of the activities of Chinese pirates, whose methods the Germans copied, and of Moors preying on Span- ish vessels off tie coast of Africa, Lk The North African 'coast regions have known pirates since the days of Greece and Rome. And the Far East has been the scene of piratlical depre- dations carried on with great regular- ity. The China coast is the greatest remaining centre of operations. Un- settled conditions in the war-torn country and the lack of central auth- ority have resulted in a plague of piracy from which even American and European war vessels have not been immune, being fired on repeated- ly from the shores of the Yangtse River. 3 The principal depredations in Chi- nese waters, however, radiate from the Bias Bay region, wher England found it necessary to employ submar- ines to check the evil. The coastwise trade is the chief sufferer, Chinese bandits and pirates boarding small vessels in the open sea and taking such part of their cargo as is valuable or can be easily trans-shipped. "If the loot does not .ome up to expectations, the \more important passengers are removed and held for ransom--all too panying the demand on relatives. This type of operation is carried on by well orgdiized bands of pirates, some of whom possess as many as a dozen vessels, well armed and fast, and with a spy system in many of the Chinese ports. ; a A WOMAN PIRATE CHIEF. One of the leaders of these piratés 'has long been reputed to be a woman, Lai Choi San, who controls. directly o. indirectly a-large fleet of junks and is supposed to have a rough allegiance paid to her by scattered forzes which have been estimated as high as 40,009 men. Some of her bandit sub-chiefs have fortified islands off the coast, and the forces at her disposal have conducted looting and punitive expe- ditions into the. interior to consider- able distances. Another method of the Chinese pi: against large steamers owned by for- eign. companies and carrying Euro- pean passengers ~ Hundreds of coolies are shipped, as on the British steamer Helikon, and st a given signal when the opportunity comes, the supposed passengers seize the ship, loot it and kidnap passengers. Liverpool Archery Club Takes Up Lawn Tennis Liverpool.--Great Britain's ancient sport of archery is still practiced upon Merseyside, but the historic Mersey Bowman Society now numbers mostly bow-women. In 1781 the Mersey Bowmen was a flourishing club, The ground over which the members shot then bas long since been covered with houses, and they have moved out to a corner of ene of the city's beautiful parks. Nowadays the 'archery societies are closely allied with lawn tennis clubs, in fact, only about 20 per cent, of the Mersey Bowmen are actaully bowmen, The rest play .tennis. hero, A ' By the same means we do not al ways arrive at the same ends.--St. Real, : a HE 255 frequently an ear or a finger accom=| rates has been. practicec successfully | Geologists Are Told Astrono mical Data Confirms that World Is In Midst of : Cycle Washington.--Beveral hundred lea ing geologists, coming from about 34 countries to attend the Sixteenth Im ternational - Geological Congress which opened here recently, Me tened to the most recent geolo gical evidence that the world bat been having a period of cool summerd for the past 4,600 years, writes Wik liam L, Laurence in the N.Y, Times This evidence indicated that the present "cool spell" would last foi about 6,500 years, K The'geologists were perspiring free ly in-a temperature of 91 and ovel as they heard Dr. Ernest Anlevs, the New England geologist, tell thems that there were real warm. summers 39,000 years ago. 10 _ Stating tbat the figures seenied te show that there were cycles of warm and cold summers, each last. . ing about 11,000 years, Dr. 'Antevd said that the earth was now passing through a cold cycle, Astronomical Dates. Tally. Dr. Antevs described the results of his studies of "varves" in New Eng land lake and river beds and a coms parison with data on the earth's cli mate during the past 40,000 years oh- tained through astronomical studies by Dr. Spitaler of Germany, The result obtained by the tw methods, he said, showed a "near] perfect" agreement, Varves are similar to growth rings in trees. They consist.of layers of clay, mixed with organic matter, which become laminated every year' in a sort of double layer,' one for the .summer and autumn, the other for winter and spring, During the summer and autumn these varves be come dark, while in the 'winter and spring they are light. As these: Hght and dark varves are preserved for many thoufands of years,' they give geologists a new; recently developed tool for checking on the advance and the recession of the ice during the last glacial period. Each one of these varves represents a year, As many .as 35,000 of these have been counted, thus telling with a fair degree of accuracy the statq of the. weather up to 40,000 years ago, ; : ; 'Welcomed By Ickes. The congress was welcomed on be- half of .the President and the gove ernment of the United States by Sec- retary Ickes. ¥ "With. twenty-five or more. great nations represented here," Secretary Ickes said, "this is truly an. interna- tional body. It is international also for the reason that sclence recognizes no political boundaries and no limita- - tions except those of the human mind. "The concepts and findings of sclentis®y are the common property of all civilized peoples, The fact is that our civilization owes its" pres. ent status to science more than.to any other factor and upon science we base our hope for richer and fuller life in the future." : --_-- Sentimentality Breeds Crime So Declires. English Jods In Dealing With It , ~~ ° Sir: Ernest. Wild, Recorder of Lone don, astonished the Discharged Pris' oners' Aid Society the other day when he addressed it at the middlesex Guild Hall. 3 el "Sentimentality," he . said, "is ®& crime-breeder, whether it legislates inadequate senfences or coddles pris: oners when they get them." : All would agree, he said, that the maximum punishments that could be inflicted for various crimes were -dis- proportionate. In regard to indeceu. 'cies and matters of 'thdt kind, acts of Parliament of comparatively recent _ date had interfered, and one was not allowed to give what he considered sufficient punishment - for = such crimes. : : Then came the sex difficulty. The real difficulty was in sentencing wo- men, because every woman was & complex problem. 3 "You get some horrible murder," he continued, "and it is always the murderer or muderess who js gon-. sidered; nobody seems to think of Mr, Jones or Mrs, Robinson, or to mind in the least that they have | been sent to eternity saddenly, "We must not get the stupid no- to his first bite, sd every prisoner is to be entitled to commit his or her first crime, | "You have to remember that you are not dealing with good women, but bad women, and when a woman is bad she is bad, and when she i8 bad she would drag you down to hell. There is no half-and-half about women," Smite. go fl 'By floodlighting greenhouses with | artificial sun rays and 'cutting 10 hours off the sleeping time of asters, || dahlias, sweet peas and pansies, the horticultural department "of Purdue University, Indiana, has discovered a commercially successful method of making these flowers bloom as pre fusely in Winter as fn midsumnier, tion that, just as every dog is entitled ' » ' RS I