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PAGE SIX ???mmmm???W SLUMBER] By AUBR] * - ? nry, ? FiN.VL INSTALMENT "There was a light-fingered person on the ship." Rose said, "who had come North to dip for gold in miner's pockets I suggested that he try Owens', and so I obtained Dalcon's own letter." "Where is the letter now?" the Judge asked, when the hum caused by tnis strange admission subsided. "I still have it." Judge Dugas tugged meditatively at the white linen neckpiece under his chin. Rose continued carefully. She had resolved to outplay Fallon for the gold. Tf Owens had been dependable, she might have told him the truth about Fallon and planned the counter-move .vith him. As it was, she laid her own plans. She knew as Owens did not?that while Failon could threaten the rancher with exposure of the Nevada crime, he couldn't carry the bluff through without exposing himself as Reeves. V. hen Speed ami his partner arrived at Skagway. she chose them on sight as the kind of men she needed, and made thent a biind proposition to do a trailing job for her persisting in the intention after they refused. Her account ot what followed explained several questions that had puzzled them. She ascribed Owens' death to fear. The drunken rancher had crumpled uncicr Fallon's threat, tot i everything he knew, and then between fear of judgment ar.rl more drink to drown his fear, had drowned himself With Oweiis gone. Fallon had tried to hold Pete, believing she might know more than he hail learned from Owens; and realizing that she her self was a very desirable, unclaimed y-is.v,. These points Hose conveyed by syvgexticn rather than direct statemui, uul tucy wc*o r,ont the--leas, clear. She described the peculiar turn that had thrown Speed and Maiiland into a clash of their own ivith Fallon on tire trail, allowing Pete to win free over the pass. The first idea she drew from this was that Pete had taken them into her confidence, but as slic now reminded tVade and the court?if they had been interested in the gold at that time, they could have killed Falion without incurring blame, and with a oig saving of trouble to themselves. On their return to Skagway for their horses and outfit, she had been ail the more determined to use them because of their feud with Fallon, and had tried to interest tliom in the gold. Her warning about the shelldealer was due to a tip she received from Lefty, who had shadowed the man for lift Remembering how the Stranger had been killed in Carson, she suspected Failon of having prompted this ambush. "It was only two weeks ago." she explained.. "tV.it ijjhgiustLef thtir being held here for the murder of a Stwash on Lake Lebarge last Novenv her. T knew they were innocent: knew It, among' other reasons, bee.ausc I had Dalton's iotter to Owens, and a. readable proof of who was guilty. There was n joker m tile game." Wade "stirred In his chair. The crowd murmured, fearing another objection. "Part of Dalton's letter read,". Rose quoted evenly, " 'You wouldn't recognize :ne oil sight. I've been living native style, to keep the prospect and so on covered. Wait at the head of Lake Lebarge till the trail's clear after the freexe-up. If we miss connections on the lakes, camp there until spring, ar.d" it you don't" hear from me before then, float the outfit down to the creek the drawing shows." "That's how I know the accused; men are innocent. My motive in explaining this is to turn the Law's jjyengeancS where it 'belongB, on "a jtman who has taken human life, the man who shot the U. 3. Marshal in: the train hojd-up. T mean Fallon. My motive is to see him ride into his own deadfall and laugh in his face!" Her eyes flashed at Fallon's -olenched liand. If it takes proof to open?" the low. vibrant .tone of the words seemed to fill the room?' it's in his hand. The lucky, clover-leaf nugget. He was afraid 0: JIalone's infei .'St in that pieee-of gold. It disappeared front" the marshal's safe when he left iSlAtg^'ay. -A .telltale bit of ev-idence iie couldn't leave at .large. But a fascinating keepsake.he would-., n't destroy. He's trying to shift it now! The hick piece?the proof that :outplaya jiiid-hlngs hint!; Xio I win?" J .Her voice lifted with an . jdescriha-. j hie taunting challenged ' Fallon was on his feet ? savage, 'm *^^~"***" . rr?~ TUP DPINQ GTIIDl A M. W1VJ ASSOCIAT TELEPHONE 24 . PROTECTION FO Joining Fee 25c Each Mem As Fol One to Ten Years .1 5 Ten to Twenty-nine Years .2 Thirty to Fifty Years 4 J Fifty to Sixty-five Years .6 1 [NG GOLD EY BOYD ; hate-niaduen^d, yet somehow still commanding himself and the mute at' /?F M>,v "VoitMl knu. answer now!' he said, in a hoarse, rasking shout. "If I hang, I don't swing atone. That man?" he pointed at Speed in the dock?"was the pardncr of the stranger who rode the bay. | I've figured his trail. He's thought to I be drowned off the George E. Starr. He calls himself 'Speed Malone.' Since we're talkin' of right names, that man is Buck Tracy, sometimes knowed as Buck Soio?the most notorious desperado and gunman that ever corac out of the Northwest." While his hearers stiffened under the shock of the announcement he flung at them, he wheeled on Rose with a movement as swift as light. "As for you. you b? ? ?!" he yelled . . . Only one pair of eyes caught the lightning gleam of the drawn gun. There was a stunning double report. Fallon's gun went out of his hand, as if he had thrown it away. With a blankly staring look he sagged in a crumpling fail, dropped by a bullet in the brain from a gun which Speed had jerked from the holster of the belated police guard. It seemed that his body was still falling when Speed jumped the courtroom floor and leaped for the open The fractional margin of another I instant or of -me wild shot might have carried him through. Then, with ; the river before him and a long shore ! line of wharves and docked barges. | there is no telling what the Mounted ; Police rrnght have had to write on their flawless man-getting record. But the o lds were too steep. A gun (crashed as his boot touched the sill, and Speed fell backward into the courtroom. For an instant the court stood dazed ' JTI exits 3V* :i tuig oiiiyjvvv The bur of the prisoner's dock broke in splinters; Maitland was Lstrucfgling in the hold of two police [guards, to reach his partner. Yet even in that frozen moment the wheel of Justice turned. Judge i Dngas looked down on the fallen outlaw with a curious stillness, and then at Wane, whose response, though no [one heard it, was translated to the police guards. 'Release the prisoner." Haii-lifting Speed out of a widenling pool of blood. Maitland had a Sblurred awareness of Pete on his othj er side. The outlaw leaned against their supporting arms, deeply breathing the cooi breeze from snowy peaks that came through the open window. "A doctor?" Maitland tried to say, j out his heart strangled the words in his throat, and tears rained on his partner's reddened shirt. Sp . <1 looked up ai him mistily and [shook his head. "1 don't ask for no i better -run of luck than this. Bud. | Always figured I d fall in some Imnnrinin r.o? - I . uiuut auu ncrc i He paused at something beyond his j power to say. "Wo both got what wc| looked tor?and more?on'y not where we was lookin'." His oyes rested on | the sun-hurnislied gold of Pete'3 hair, ; and strayed bank to his partner with ja ghost of his bid-time ruminating | smite: "Hold is whore-you find it, .like lT Steiner said," - 7 : The strcngtli seemed to ebb from I him: he looked dimly at the wavering pools of light and shadow on the wail i and then in wonder at a bright glory of cloud floating across-the far azure glimpse that showed through .the window opening: It was as if a mirage has crossed his eyes in their last iglea-.ii br life. p : ' But something of that same 'tenaci ity of will which Had held Dal ton : against the cliff brought mnr bac? for a moment, and Maitland heard I hint say, as he drifted but on that 1 last trail, "Give Itose .a hand. Bud? j she ran a- great bluff for. ye. Tell | her- -T was p^imb wrong?-about women. Tel! her - how much?T liked the singin'." THE FIND Wild Animal* in Switzerland Among the nniinals foood-in Switzerland are1 bears, wolvesr-chumols, goats, boars, stags. b;ul|ers; ?fpies, hares, otters, squirrels, birds (it prey ot large dlmcosioss, and Snipe, beatbeobk, cue ' koo, blackbird and u-f.<.d;.<-;-t;..r Cannot Breathe Through Mouth 1 The whale is the only adult mammal I uuable to breathfe tbrougli Its' motith. I the respiratory system baiag especially | adapted to prolonged pdribds Of submergence. Xeu-lvMmm - * ? ui^ioii|UillS j are unable to breathe through their mouths. _ . -r- - 7 ^3> . XTy "mDIVANT BURIAL v ION, INC. . . BOONE, N. C. R THE FAMILY ibcr . . .Dues "Thereafter lows: rter Yearly Benefit 0 .40 $ 50.00 ) 0 .80 10CC0O 0 1.60 100.00 0 2.40 100.00 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVEF McJJERMJD SAYS COCNTY agents c-?if great work Writing in the July-August issue of the official magazine of the Potash Institute, Better Crops with ; plant Food, Jeff McDennid reminds | the nation that the county farm agents were given an emergency job : when the AAA field work was orean j izei and that the agents came thru j in a high? y-acceptable manner, says Dean I. O. Sehaub. director of agriiculturai extension at State College. I The Dean quotes the magazine as ! follows: "Thoughtful surveys of the Exten(sion Service in these recent years Jot farm credit and crop adjustment, ill-ought hazards and super-organization in a crisis, convince anyone that the machine ran smoothly. In a fewdays more than 70,000 productioncontrol committeemen were hitched into the harness and ready to drive ahead in the greatest single piece of sociai engineering that American farming has witnessed; County agents did it. ~ "There were enough delay, legal fog, and contrary orders to put the average untrained fellow into the filbert class in short order: but' somehow, trained as they were in patience and endurance, the majority of the agents hung on iikc grim death and saw it through. They had to. i "TTnlnti'j fhnv norriful iVin caboodle of contracts would have gone amiss, the radical rooters would have taken the reservation and the extension system itself might have vanished. . . . My thesis is that the whole business, despite the grief and gunplay, has been a gocd boost for ! the system. The service depended primarily on tne welfare of agriculture and it could not last through a few more years of poverty and dismay. The team-work between the county agents and specialists and the farmers developed in these later seasons ought to command mutual respect in most cases. . . .** Skating in 16S5 In lGSa, when the River Thames was frozen over at London, the residents of that city went in for skating with great enthusiasm. ICnglish gentlemen of the Nineteenth century went skating I arrayed in Cr.ock.:^co:in? am! ten VFRY LATEST By PATRICIA. DOW - P poXtCAAV a.-r^FBj^\ <T7? *1* ililtl ^ Designed in Sizes: 14, 16, 18. '20; 32, Til; 36, 38, 411 and 42. Blouse ,jil4 in size- 18 requires two yards of 39-inch material and blouse B requires 1 3-4 yard of 39-inch material for size 18 * * * THE NEW BLOUSES PATTERN' .816b": When warm weather comes, new blouses are in order and many and varied are the blouse styles this season. So every woman .man. have her choice and here are two styles that will prove very satisfactory. -' Style A" has the popular butterfly neejdine, so spirited and charmnig. -lms as- achieved by the large bow faced to"!"gtve it body, and drawn through the slushed opening where it is buttoned oil each shoulder. This type of bow when made of crisp material .stands lip v^pll. _ Sgyleii B is a' more sporting type, cool, becoming, " iW adequate for most arty type of sflit. For PATTERN, send I5c in coin (for each pattern desired) jvddress . Style No Size To PATRICIA DOW Watauga Democrat Pattern Dept. 115 5th Ave.?Brooklyn, N. Y. tY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. " STORK AID AT 100 r " I 1800 "Babies" Celebrate AnniYersary of Physician. > SETIIEE. OHIO. Or William E Thompson (above), had a lot of help this month in celebrating his 100th birthday, scores of the more than 1S00 babies he helped bring in the world during his long years of practice, thronging the town for the event. EFFOItT BEING MADE TO CURB THE DYNAMITING OF FISH Officials of the Department of Conservation and Development at Raleigh have expressed their purpose to wage a determined campaign against the use oi dynamite in streams for the j purpose of taking fish. I John D. Chalf, Slate game ami fisheries commissioner. Monday com! mended Game Protector G. C. Plott, jof Haywood County, for hi3 work in |the conviction of five defendants re jcentiy on charges of dynamiting fish i in the waters of Haywood County. The defendants were found guilty in Superior Court and were fined 3100 each and costs with 30-day suspended sentences in each case. "Dynamiting fish is one of the most serious offenses 'against the natural resources of our State." commented Commissioner Chalk, "and the division of game and inland fisheries is doing all within its power to check such practices wherever they might occur. It is most gratifying, however, to note that dynamiting of streams is seldom indulged in but in every case where evidence can be obtained these cases are prosecuted vigorously. "Beyond doubt, public sentiment is against such inexcusable practices as dynamiting fish. Such is certainly the case in Western North Carolina Where the Department of Conserva I VERIFIED LU? lM r/ For Car or Truck. -S anteed or money be only i ii ? in? Special" FOUR 32x6 8-PLY GO< each, only:...........] i. EIGHT 5.50x17 GOOD! each only ONE 32x6 10-PLY McCl foi only USED TIRES, a!! ' ' '' ' " / HODGE' >r y, ' M GOOD Free Road Service AUGUST 1. 1935 tion and Development lias for many long-time efforts to restore good anycars carried on an intensive restock- gling. Dynamiters, in addition tc deing program. Dynamiting of such: stroying their own facilities for fishstreams rot only destroys the natural i ing, injure the sport for others and stock, including all types of iish large detract from the general attractions and svnaii, but makes Ineffective the j of the community." _ I [Explore 1 woh d rst 111 jfrfc BL mffih A JrfTIfr ,cLllJU^l-BLj?J..3kL-^W^iffl H|j|| I QEE this Philco 620F today! ??>* I ^ A full-sized floor type ,?**si ? model that gives thrilling rjjl i American and Foreign reccp- " frfm 1 lion?at an amazingly low yJM I price! New and important y>m 1 "balanced" features insure Iff II marvelous performance and "Iff ^ exceptional tone. Beautiful ifl cabinet of latil cst **?* TRY TO BEAT I ^ ^ FOR REAL RADIO VALUE ! il|^w|B PHILCO 620B A stnnmnjr Baby Grand |ft with the itamc Fine fen- ?5 gar tores and world-wide performanee as the 620 b'. / With Phltrv A0 w*~*\ Handsome cabinet. \ Mxitf ' / Liberal Trade-in Allowance ? Easy Terms Ask for Free Demonstration! 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