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1. t Nan T Musicf Mountain FRANK H. SPEARMAN Authar of "WKSPERINO SMITH" iCopjri by Charles BcrtbusrtBonsl SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I On Frontier day at Sleepy Cat, Henry de Spain, gunman and train master at Aieaicme cena, is mawn i net shootlngby Nan Morgan of Music ountain. Jeffries, division superinten dent, asks De Spain to take charge of the Thief River stage line, but he refuses. CHAPTER II De Spain sees Nan danc ifnr with Gale Morgan, ta later derisively pointed out to Nan on the street by Gale, Wnd Is moved to change his mind and ac- pept the stage line JOD. CHAPTER III De Spain and Lfever Sde to Calabasas inn and there meet ale Morgan with Deaf Sandusky and 'Sassoon, gunmen and retainers of the dlforgan clan. Morgan demands the dis charge of a stage driver and De Spain rs Cuses. De Spain meets Nan but fails to Overcome her aversion to him. . CHAPTER IV Sassoon knifes Elpaso, . 3ie stage driver, and escapes to Morgan's .rap, the stronghold of the Morgans. De Spain. Lef ever and Scott go In after him,. Imd De Spain brings out Sasson alone. CHAPTER V He meets Nan, who de lays him until nearly overtaken by the (Morgans, but lands his captive in JaiL CHAPTER VI Sassoon breaks Jail. De Spain beards the Morgans in a saloon and is shot at through the window. He pneets Nan again. ' CHAPTER VII He prevents her going Into a gambling hall to find her Uncle puke and inside faces Sandusky and Lo ian, who prudently decline to fight at jthe -time. CHAPTER, "VTII De Spain, anxious to snake peace with Nan, arranges a little plan with McAlpin, the barn man, to drive her out to Morgan's gap, and while waiting for her goes down to the Inn to get a cup of ccffee. CHAPTER IX In the deserted barroom he is trapped. He kills Sandusky and Logan, wounds Gale and Sassoon and es pes, badly wounded. CHAPTER X Bewildered and weak, he wanders into Morgan's, gap and is dis covered on Music mountain by Nan. CHAPTER XI Nan, to prevent further fighting, does not tell, but finds out from McAlpin that De Spain had really been trapped and had left his cartridge belt 'behind when he went into the fight at the Inn. S CHAPTER XII While De Spain is un able to travel Nan brings food to him. !He tells her that he became a gunman to find and deal with his father's unknown murderer. He gives Nan his last part ridge. CHAPTER XIII Gale almost stumbles to er De Spain's hiding place. Nan draws I hn away and to stop Gale's rough woo-Ir-r De Spain bluffs him out with an empty C a. Nan plans De Spain's escape. r JHAPTER XTV De Spain crawls out Ajt the gap over the face of El CapUan at night. Nan meets him with a horse and his cartridge belt, which she had sneaked from McAlpin, and De Spain rides into Calabasas. CHAPTER XV De Spain hires old Bull Page and gains a valuable aid. After two nightly visits to the gap, De Spain gets a word with Nan. She tells him to forget her and he asks her to shoot him. " CHAPTER XVI Nan attends her tfnel; puke in the hospital at Sleepy Cat. and e Spain woos and wins her love CHAPTER XVII Lefever manifests an Interest in De Spain's cartridge belt, and expresses surprise at his unreadiness to get Sassoon. Sassoon almost discovers the lovers at their trysting place. CHAPTER XVIII In Morgan's gap Gale tells Duke of Nan's meetings with De Spain and Duke warns Nan that he will kill De Spain If she tries to marry him. ""CHAPTER XIX De Spain arranges a meeting with Duke and tries to make friends with him without success. CHAPTER XX Gale persists In his wooing of Nan, CHAPTER XXI De Bnsin enlists a nr. He hears that Nan is kept in the house and that her uncle to trying to force her to marry Qale. CHAPTER XXII A mysterious message comes from Nan to take her away. - 'CHAPTER XXIII De Spain, Lefever and Scott invade the Morgan stronghold. De Spain alone walks into Duke's house and, preventing a forced marriage, takes Nan away. gether. Tjnaer the circumstances ei ther of the Morgans alone would have whipped a gun on De Spain at sight. Together, and knowing that to do so meant death to the one that took the first shot from the archway, each wait ed for the other; that fraction of a second unsettled their purpose. In stead of bullets, each launched curses at the Intruder, and every second that passed led away from a fight. ' De Spain took their oaths, demands aid abuse without batting an eye. fTm here for the second witness," jwas all he repeated, covering both imen with short glances. Druel, his .face muddily white as the whisky bloat deserted It, .shrunk inside his shabby clothes. De Spain with each' 1 epithet hurled at him took a dreaded .'step toward Gale, and Druel, In the ;line of fire, brought his knees up and !hls head down till he curled like a porcupine. Gale, game as he undoubtedly was. cornered, felt perhaps recollections of Calabasas and close quarters with the ! brown eyes and the burning face. What they might mean in this little room, which De Spain was crossing 'step by step, was food for thought. "Nor did De Spain break his obstinate silence until their burst of rage had blown. "You've arranged your mar riage," he said at length. "Now pull it." "My cousin's ready to marry me, apd she's goin' to do it tonight," cried Gale violently. Duke, towering with rage, looked at .Do. Spain, and pointed to the hall door. "You hear that I Get out of xny house !" he cried, launching a 'vicious epithet with- the words. "This lent -your house," retorted De finnln nrrtlv "Tii hnnao In Mnia not yours. When she orders me out, ril go. Bring her down," he thun dered, raising big voice to shut off. Duke, who bad redoubled his abuse, j "Bring her Into this room, he re peated. "We'll see whether she wants ! to get married. If she does, 111 marry i her. If she doesn't, and you've been J putting this up to force her into marry-! lng, so help me God, you'll be carried i out of this room tonight, or I will." j He whirled on her uncle with an accus-! lng finger. "You used to be a man, j Duke. I've taken from you here to-1 night what I would take from no man on earth but for the sake of Nan Mor-, gan. She asked me never to touch you. ' But If you've gone into this thing to trap your own flesh and blood, your dead brother's girl, living under your own protection; you don't deserve mercy, and tonight you shall have what's coming to you. I've fought you both fair, too .fair. Now before I leave it's my girl or both of you." He was standing near Druel. With out taking his eyes off the other man. he caught Druel with his left hand by the coat collar, and threw him half way across the room. "Get upstairs, you old carrion, and tell Nan Morgan Henry de Spain Is here to talk to her." Druel, frightened to death, scrambled Into the hall. He turned on De Spain. Tm an officer of the law. I arrest you for trespass and assault," - he shouted, shaking with fear. "Arrest me?" echoed De Spain con temptuously. "Tou scoundrel, if you don't climb those stairs, I'll send you to the penitentiary the day I get back to town. Upstairs with your message I" "It Isn't necessary." said a low voice In the hall, and with the words Nan appeared in the open doorway. - Her face was white, but there was no sign of haste or panic in it; De Spain choked back a breath ; to him she had never looked In her silence so awe inspiring. ' He addressed her, holding his left hand out with his plea. "Nan," he said, controlling his voice, "these men were getting ready to marry you to Gale Morgan. No matter how you feel toward me, you know me Well enough to know that all I want is the truth: Was this with your consent?" She stepped Into the line of fire be tween her cousin and De Suf In as she answered: "No. You know- I shall never marry any man but yfou.. This vile bully" she turned a little to look at her angry cousin ''has influenced Uncle Duke who never before tried to persecute or betray me IntJ joining him in this thing. They never could have dragged me into it alive. And they've kept me locked up for three days in a room upstairs, hoping to break me down." v "Stand back. Nan." v If De Spain's words of warning struck her with terror of a situational she could not control, she did not re- veal it. "No," she said resolutely. "If i found the pony, but I couldn't find nnvhndv here is to be shot. I'll he' first JAnnr cni11o nn " i , 1 Uncle Duke, you have always protect - - . -r ed me from tiaie Morgan ; now you joifln hands witn mm. xou arive me rrora this roof because I dont know how ' I can protect myself under It." Gale looked steadily at her. "Ton promised to marry me," he muttered truculently. "I'll find a way to make you keep your word." A loud knocking Interrupted him, and, without waiting to be admitted, Pardaloe, the cowboy, opened tie front door and stalked boldly In from the hall. j If the situation in the room surprised him, he gave no evidence of it. And as he walked In Nan disappeared. Par daloe was drenched with rainand, tak ing off his hat as he crossed the room to the fire, he shook It hard into the blazing wood. "What do you want, snapped Duli Prdaloer ' Pardaloe shook his hat "once . more and turned a few steps so that he stood between the uncurtained window and the light. "The creek's up," he said to Duke in his peculiarly slow, steady tone. "Some of Satt's boys are trying j to get the cattle out of the lower cor raL" He fingered his hat, looked first at Duke, then at Gale, then at De Spain. "Guess they'll need a little help, so I asked Sassoon to come ever1 " Pardaloe jerked his head ln dlcatively toward the front. "He's out side with some of the boys now." "Tell Sassoon to come in herel" thundered Gale. De Spain's left arm shot out. "Hold on, Pardaloe; pull down that curtain behind you I" "Don't touch that crutain, Parda loe 1" shouted Gale Morgan. , "Pardaloe,", said De Spain, his left arm pointing menacingly and walking Instantly toward him, "pull that cur tain or pull your gun, quick." At that moment Nan, in hat and coat, reap peared in the archway behind De Spain. Pardaloe Jerked down the cur tain and started for the door. De Spain had backed up again. "Stop", Parda loe," he called. "My men are outside that door. Stand where you are," he ordered, still enforcing his commands with his right hand covering the hol ster at his hip.. "I leave this room first. Nan, are you ready t" he asked without looking at her. "Yes." . Her uncle's facfc whitened. "Don't leave this house tonight, Nan," he sold menacingly. "You've forced me to. Uncle Duke." "Don't leave this house tonight." " "I can't protect myself in it" ' "Don't leave this house most of all, with that manl" He pointed at De Spain with a frenzy of hatred. With out answering, the itwo were retreating into the semi-darkness of the dining "This," He Cried, Beside Himself With Fury, "Is Your Work. -room. '"Nan," came her uncle's voice, hoarse with feeling; "you're saying goodby to me forever." "No, uncle," she cried. "I em only doing what I have to do." "I tell you I don't want to drive yoti from this roof, girl." " 1 A rush of wind from an opening door ; was the only answer from the dark dining room. The two Morgans started forward together. The sudden gust sucked the flame of the living-room lamp up into the chimney and after a brief, sharp struggle extinguished it. In the confusion it was a moment be- , fore a match could be found. When the lamp was relighted, the. Morgans ran into the dining room. The wind ! and rain poured in through the open north door. But the room was empty. Duke turned on his nephew with a choking curse. "This," he cried, beside himself with fury, "is your work!" CHAPTER XXIV. Flight. De Spain, catching Nan's arm, spoke hurriedly, and 'they hastened outside toward the kitchen. "We must get away quick," he said as she buttoned her coat. And, knowing how she suf fered in what she was doing, he drew her into the shelter of the porch and caught her close to him. m take you straight to Mrs. Jeffries. When you are ready, youH marry me ; well make our peace with your Uncle. Duke to gether. Great God ! What a night I This way, dearie." "No, to the stable, Henry 1 Where's your horse?' "Under the pine, and yours, too. I , T know .where It's hidden. Let's get the horses.' "Just a minute. I stuck my rifle un der this porch." He stooped and felt below the stringer. Rising in a mo ment with the weapon on his arm, the two hurried around the end of the house toward the pine tree. They had almost reached this when a 'murmur unlike the sounds of the storm made De Spain halt his companion. "What Is It?" she whispered. He listened intently. Without speaking, he took Nan and retreated to the cor ner of the house. "There Is somebody in that pine," he whispered, "waiting for me to come after the horses. Sas soon may have found them. I'll try it out, anyway, before I take a chance. Stand back here, N;m." He put her behind the corner of the thou", threw, .his xiftV to his shvtl! ?r, :;hd l"ir 1 sis nnsirly us lie:fruld la the diyfciu-ss toward or d just above- the Pt' - Without an I istant's hesitation a' pi&tui shot answered from the direc tion In which he had fired, and in another moment a small fusillade fol lowed. "By the Almighty," muttered i uu. oiujr xigui nerc Alt iry uriviug those fellows off their perch.' She caught his arm. "What are you going to do?" "Run in on them from cover," wher ever I can find it, Nan, and push them back. We've got to have those horses." "If we could only get away without a fight I" "This is Sassoon and his gang. Nan. You heard Pardaloe. These axe not your people. Tve got to drive m, of we're gone, Nan." "Then I go with you." "Nan, you can't do It," whispered De Spain energetically. "A -chance bullet" . ' , She spoke with decision: "I go with you. I can use a rifle. Better both of us be killed than one. ' Help me up on this roof. Tve climbed it a hundred times. My rifle is la my room. Quick, Henry. Overruling his continued objec tions, she lifted her foot to his hand, put her second foot on - De Spain's shoulder, gained the sloping roof, and scrambled on her hands and knees up to the window of her room. A far-off peal of thunder echoed from the moun tains. Luckily,' no flashr had 'preceded it, and Nan, rifle in hand, slid Safely down to the end of the lean-to, where " ;, De Spain helped her to the "ground, j He directed her how to make a zigzag' aavance toward tne pine, ana, above-, all, to throw herself flat and sidewise: after every shot and not- tot fire' often. ' - -V "i -- In this wav theV? fidvanreri aTnnrlv eJ but safely to the disputed point and l i thon nnWtnnr1- the ' hnreoa Warn e A fresh discharge of shots came t -r-- - --r -, .t BOOKS MUTILATED. Spellers Are T-fn to Destroy Eulogy cf Kaiser. Scores of citizens who visited the supply house of the board of education at Chicago to witness the tearing out of spellers 6f 'a "page 'eulogizing the German emperor, found that the oper ation was being conducted privately. A squad of policemen, under orders from the city hall, was present. Anthony Czarnecki. a trustee of the School board, was indignant. "These people are taxpayers, and have a right to witneej this scene," (iid Mr. Czarnecki "They are Poles, Bohemians Europeans, in short, who tiave good reasons to hate the kaiser." Mr. Cearnecki ' had arranged to snake the occasion one of patriotic cel- A.nfln Vn 4- n 4-,. n j aLiuii, uul urn 11 w L t ir vviir uu- availlng. Pnges were being torn from j 70,000 spellers as yet mi distributed , among pupils. The board declined to J authorize students to tear the page from 130,000 spellers previously dis ; tributed among them. Many are do tlng so, however, without the author ization. AIRSHIP RAW. Germans Again Drop Death on Eng lish Soil. About twenty German airplanes raided the southeast coast of Eng land Sunday evening. An official statement says that some bombs were dropped in the neighborhood of South End, forty miles cast of London, and on the seashore resort of Margate, eighty miles southeast of the capital. Twenty-three persons, including nine women and six children, were killed and fifty persons were injured at South End by bombs dropped by 'ne German raiders, says the official statement. Considerable damage to property was caused at South End by the nearly forty bombs dropped upon the town. Two men were Injured at Rochford, but four bombs dropped on Margate, in Kent, did little damage. LEFT TO CHANCE. Caught in Draft, Twins Toss Coin to See Which Goes." Harry E. Crosby and Claud Crosby, twins, came before the Tulsa county, Oklahoma, .exemption board. Both were found physically fit and both were anxious to go to war, but, as they had an aged mother dependent upon them, one had to stay behind. Drawing a coin from his pocket, Claud exclaimed : "Heads or tails, Harry?" "Tails," came the response. The coin fell tails and Claud filed exemption claim. U. S. REFUGEES Arrive in Switzerland in Most Pitiful . , Condition. Two train loads of American citi cens, all In pitiful conditions, hav arrived in Switzerland from Jerusalem and other points within the Turkish empire. They were eight weeks on their way with little food and no oppor tunity to change their clothes or wash during the entire Journey through Turkey. Most of the refugees are old men, women and children. All report food conditions in Turkey ter rible. RUSS PART IN VICTORY. General Scott Sees Success If They Will Hold Lines. "It is not necessary for the Rus sian armies to move forward a foot to make victory for the Allies cer tain." declared Major General Hngb L. Scott, chief of staff, and mc mbei of tlie RoWf'riisnn to Rvisit. If the soldiers of; the .newest re public mertly hold their lines and keej. the great number of 'Teutons' now fac ing them, the Allies cannot fail t win." PEACE PACT. Kaiser Promises This With Russia Ir Three Months. The correspondent ' of the Novo Vremya, telegraphing from the Riga front, s&ld that on the recent visit of the kaiser to that front be ad dressed the soldiers, telling them thai a peace pact would be signed within three months. It is believed that the visit was the prelude to naval operations in the Gull of Riga and along the Finnish coast Liberia Joins War. i Liberia, the negro republic on the coast of Africa, has declared war on Germany. Some time ago Liberie broke off diplomatic relations. Tht declaration of war now gives oppor tunity to intern German merchants 'an others wIto have Deen accused of unusual activities. The United States was advised of the little re public's action. $96,000,000 Check Pays Canadian Loin. In paying Canada the new loan by a syndicate of American bankers, J P. Morgan and Company's check foi $96,111. lllill, the largest check evei r , . " ....I", nouse.-nas Deen-nonorea Dy tne jlid erty National bank.-'- -.- . 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LAW University of North Carolina Law School Excellent Faculty Reasonable Cost. Write for Catalog THE PRESIDENT Chapel Hill, N. C SHELL KILLS FOUR. Deplorable Accident at Target Practice Near Marietta, Ga. Pour spectators, one a white wom an, were killed, and a fifth injured. In Cobb county, at the base of Ken nesaw mountain, where a percussion shell fired In target practice from a battery of the student officers' train ing camp battalion of artillery richo chetted a mile out of its course struck 'mk tree and exploded at theli feet. fragment of the shell pierced the left breast of Mrs. Seth Harris, a res ident of the vicinity, and tore a gap ing hole completely through her body. She was killed instantly, toppling from the buggy in which she had driven up to the spot. Bits of the shell penetrated the chest and abdomen of Charlie Martin a negro lahorer, aged 48 years, while a fragment tore out a part of his skull, killing him instantaneously. James Holloman, Sr., another ne gro laborer, aged 40 years, was knocked unconscious, while his right leg was blown off above the ankle. He died from loss of blood. James Holloman, Jr., aged 17, a son of the elder Holloman, died shortly after the explosion from a severance of the femoi-al artery in the groin. His left foot was ? 1so blown off. He was dead when the first ambulance reached the tprw. No ."criminal r porirfiiMfy" w ctta . which i; v.Kf,aa d ihe. nc-ci- ,dent. ..... ; : , The inquest was held in the Cobb county courthouse by Coroner J. W, Booth. Witnesses were military ofll cials who had investigated the mis fortune, the list including Major Lytle Brown and Major Charles Duncan. THE DRAFT ARMY. 200,t)00 to Be Called and Seat Into Camp. Governors of the various states re ceived notice from Provost Marshal General Crowder that the first one third of the quota of 687,000 men drafted for service ; in the national army will be callell to the colors Sep tember I and ; sent to training can tonments before September 5. More than 200,000 will be called into service In the first increment bringing the country's total military forces up to 1,000,000 men. -The pro vost marshal's instructions to gov ernors urged that they make certain that the first quota be ready on time. Exemption boards were instructed to deny immunity to registrants in cases where the parents or other rel atives of the wife volunteer to assume her support during; his absence; Regulations governing the actual mobilization of the national army are ready for release. It is hoped by draft officials . that every- contingency5 arls lng in assembling America's fighting I rriAn Tb-ni'tirt rrnvM1 -for In these dl rectlons LARGE LIBERTY LOAN. 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