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WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE'S Hide the- ilwei KfUft v ,PYRIGHT WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINI? WNU SERVICE SYNOPSIS Ruth Chiswick of L C ranch, obsessed by fear of danger to her outspoken and bull headed father. Lee, from a band of lawless rustlers headed by Sherm Howard, decides to save him by eloping with young Lou How ard, Sherm' s son, and comes to the town of Tall Holt to meet him. While in Yell Sang er's store, a crook-nosed stranger enters, sizes up the situation, and when a drunken cowboy, Jim Pender, rides in and starts shooting, protects Ruth, while Lou Howard hides. Disgusted with Lou's cowardice, Ruth calls off the elopement, and sends the stranger for her father* at the gambling house across the street. There the stranger, calling himself Jeff Gray, meets Morgan Norris, a killer. Curly Connor. Kansas. Mile High, Sid Hunt, and other rustlers, and Sherm Hward. Lee Chiswick enters, with his foreman, Dan Brand, and tells Sherm Howard of his orders to shoot rustlers at 6ight. Jeff Gray returns to Ruth and coldly reassures her of her father's safety. At supper, Ruth introduces Jeff to her father and Brand, and in Sanger's store later she speaks cordially to Curly Connor. Coming out of the store, they are greeted by sudden gunplay. Lee is wounded, and JefrGray ap pears with a smoking revolver. Two days later, Ruth tells her father of her projected elopement and her disillusionment. CHAPTER III? Continued During the days that followed he held his friendship back from her. At times he was choleric, at times sullen and distant. Ruth was sorry, because she was aware of his de sire for a reconciliation. She guessed that her attention to his wants and her apparent humility were a reproach to him. Since she had a sense of humor, she chuckled over the situation. "I'm a deceitful little scamp," she told her brother Frank, who had heard the story from Dan Brand. "I'm not half as humble as I was at first. Here I go around as if butter wouldn't melt in my mouth whenever Father is about, and real ly I'm beginning to think it's sort of fun." "Hmp!" Frank snorted. "I can tell you someone who won't think it's fun if I meet him." Ruth's bright eyes snapped. "Don't you dare touch Lou Howard, Frank Chiswick. If you do ? " She left her threat in the air, feel ing it stronger not completed. Ruth was riding circle above the rimrock. She had come out with her brothers and the other vaqueros to round up the yearlings for the Broderick order. She had combed the ridge above and was coming down an arroyo thick with prickly pear. Her broth er Bob had been with her, but he had bolted down e neighboring draw after a small bunch of high-tailing stuff. For the time she could take it easy. Blue Chip had done his full share and was entitled to a breathing space. Ruth pulled up abruptly. In front of her a pebble had rolled down a steep bank to the path. From the little rock her eyes traveled up the incline down which it had come. Stones sometimes start downhill from force of gravity; more often they need an impetus to set them in motion. ' Above the top of a bisnago she saw a St?tson hat, beneath this a brown, sardonic face. "Buenos dia's, senorita," a cool voice drawled. The girl stared at the owner of that voice, the man who had called himself Jeff Gray. "What are you doing here?" she asked, and answered her own ques tion: "You are lying in wait to kill my father." He slithered down the scarred slope, to face a little revolver that had somehow jumped to her hand. "We'll talk about that," he said, a smile on his face. To Ruth it was a hateful smile, one that mocked confidently the pic ture of feminine ferocity she made. "We'll talk about nothing," she cried, anger aflame in her eyes. "You light out of here, you dirty killer, or I'll call my brothers." "Why would I want to kill Lee Chiswick when I had never seen him before?" he asked, paying no at tention at all to the weapon in her hand. "For money," she told him con temptuously. "His enemies sent for you to do the murder they were afraid to do themselves." He shook his head. "I'm a stran ger here. I don't know Howard or any of his crowd. Besides, that gang doesn't need an outsider to do its bushwhacking. They have plenty of bull-rattlers right in their midst." "Why are you arguing about it?" she burst out stormily. "Didn't I see you shoot him? Didn't you run close to try to finish the job?" "No," he replied quietly. "What d'you mean, no?" "I mean you didn't see either one of those things. You just think you saw them." "You talk like a fool. A dozen men saw you. Smoke was coming out of your gun while you were run ning forward." "So it was. I'll ask you a question. How many shots were fired beforo yore friends turned loose on me?" "Two. You fired twice. What has that got to do with it?" "A whole lot. I fired once. Ques tion is. Who fired the first shot?" "I don't know what you're talking about." She pushed his argument aside impatiently with a wave of the hand. "All is, you're a liar as well as an assassin. I warn you to get out of this country. I'm go ing to have you hunted down like the wolf you are." "Use yore brains, girl," he urged. "Four men were standing within ten feet of yore father. If I had shot him, would I run up and give them all a crack at me?" "The answer is, you did. Three of them were friends of Sherm How ard. Maybe you expected them to help you." A wave of fury boiled up in her. "I'm not going to discuss anything with the villain hired to murder my father. If you don't get out of here I'll? I'll?' " Still his smile did not go out of commission. "What will you do?" he asked politely. "Get out of my way," she or dered, and gave Blue Chip a touch of the spur. The horse went up in the air. Gray caught the bridle, perhaps to quiet the animal, perhaps because he could not get out of the way. Ruth never knew how it hap pened. The revolver in her hand went off. Instantly she knew the man had been hit. He dropped the rein and staggered back. Blue Chip plunged down the arroyo. The rider of the horse dragged it to a halt and turned. She had dropped the gun during the wild dash down the draw and she dis mounted to recover it. Pulling her "We'll talk about that later." self to the saddle again, Ruth rode back to the spot of the encounter. Her heart was beating wildly. She had shot a man. Perhaps she had killed him. He was climbing the rubble slope to the bank where she had first seen him, and he was making bad going of it. One leg dragged. She stopped in the bottom of the trough below him. "It's your own fault for snatching at my bridle," she told him. He said, with cool effrontery, "You did almost as bad a job as I did at Tail Holt." "The gun went off." "My leg is telling me that. Did you come back to finish what you began?" "I carry it for rattlesnakes. I didn't mean to?" "Not for wolves?" he inquired pleasantly. "Are you hurt ? badly?" He saw she was frightened. The bark of the revolver had for the time driven away anger. "I reckon I'll make out," he an swered. "Is your horse back there in the brush?" "You can tell yore father it's even Steven now," he drawled. She swung down from Blue Chip and climbed the bank. "I'll help you get up," she told him in a small voice. "Good of you. Miss Chiswick, to help a hired killer."" He accepted her aid. After a struggle, during which the wounded leg collapsed under him once or twice, they reached the top of the bank. Gray whistled. Out of the brush trotted a long-barreled roan. "Where are you going? Who will look after your leg?" Ruth asked. "I'm wondering about that," he said. "You can't go back to Tail Holt, unless you are Sherm Howard's man." "Tail Holt is out." Ruth thought swiftly. She dared not take him to the ranch-house, especially now that her father was holding himself unfriendly to her. How serious the wound was she did not know, but he could not let him try to ride as far as Tough Nut. He might never reach the town. An idea Jumped to her mind. "There's a line-camp in the rim rock not far from here," she ex plained. "Old Pat Sorley is staying there now. He is close-mouthed, and he will do as I ask. And he's a pretty good doctor too. You can hole up there for a week and not be seen by anybody except Pat. After today our riders will be out of the rimrock. I'll take you there. We'd better hurry, so that I can get back before I'm missed." He pulled himself to the saddle. "You're heaping coals of Are on my red head," Gray said sardonically. "Let's get going, girl." Ruth went back to Blue Chip, mounted, and put the horse at the easiest part of the slope. The cow pony clawed its way up like a cat, the muscles of its legs standing out like heavy ropes. "We don't want to meet any body," the girl said. "Better swing off to the right." "You're the caporal of this out fit," he told her. She led the way into the chapar ral, guiding Blue Chip through the mesquite and the cholla with an ad mirable economy of motion. They crossed the mesa and dropped down into a gulch which took them through the broken rim rock to a point where they looked down on a wide valley below. Ruth turned to the left, picking a way among the boulders and working up again into the rimrock along a cow trail. This dipped sharply, at a fault in the ledge, to a small park containing four or five acres. This was so completely hidden that no body could have suspected its ex istence from the contour of the coun try. A corral of thorny ocotillo lay at their feet. Close to it was a barn built of sahuaro poles and mud. The cabin nestled against a rock wall that bounded the far side of the park. The girl and the man wound down into the little mountain valley and crossed to the cabin. Someone stood in the doorway and watched their approach. Pat Sorley was a little old man with a wrinkled face like a map of Ireland. At sight of Ruth he twisted it to a grin. They were the best of friends. His hands were in his pock ets and there was a clay pipe in his mouth. Ruth waved at him. He took one hand from a pocket and the pipe from his mouth. "It's glad I am to see you, Miss Ruth," he said. "I've brought someone to stay with you, Pat," the girl told him. She turned to the guest, a touch of cool insolence in her voice. "You said your name is ? " "Still Jeff Gray," the man said in his soft, mocking drawl. He under stood that Ruth Chiswick was going to make it clear to the line-rider he was no friend. "Mr. Gray has been hurt," she said. "I want you to patch him up and keep him hidden here until he can travel." "Hidden who from?" Pat asked. "From my father and my broth ers and any of our riders." "And what for would I be doing that?" Pat asked bluntly. "Out of Christian charity," Gray murmured ironically. "I'm supposed to have taken a crack with a six gun at Lee Chiswick in Tail Holt the other day." Pat bristled. "You've got a nerve telling me that." He turned to the young woman. "I'll be listenin' to anything you've got to tell me, Miss Ruth." "He's wounded," she answered. "Let's take care of him and do the explaining afterward, Pat." "There's sense in that." Pat did not know how much or how little of what this fellow had said was true, but he did not intend to be the victim of his derision. "Better get that brindle thatch down and let's see what'a ailing you," he aaid crustily. Gray eased himself gingerly out of the saddle. "Got a pill in one leg." He hobbled into the cabin. "Go ahead and fix him up," Ruth said. "I'll tie the horses back among the rocks." "What is this fellow?" Pat asked. "Some kind of outlaw on the dodge?" Ruth shook her head. "I don't know." She ignored the presence of Gray in her answer as completely as Pat had in his question. "We'll talk about that later." She turned away with the horses. Ungraciously Pat set to work doc toring the wound. The bullet had passed through the thigh close to the surface and missed the artery. "Ought to heal up nice," Sorley grunted. CHAPTER IV Turning to Ruth, Sorley said, "I don't know where he got this wound or anything about him, be gory, but what I say, is that if he's the bird shot at the old man at Tail Holt I'll see him in Jericho before I'll let him stay here. He can put that in his pipe and smoke it, be dad." Ruth nodded. "I know how you feel, Pat, because that's the way I feel myself." "What's to keep this buckaroo, soon as his leg gets a little better, from going up to the ranch some night and taking another crack at your dad?" "That's what I'm afraid of," she admitted. Jeff Gray sat on a homemade chair with his wounded leg resting on another. He volunteered no as surances of good behavior. "Looky here. Miss Ruth," Pat urged, "we'd ought to tell Lee or one of the boys he is here, espe cially if you are sure he's the fel low you think he is." "I know." Ruth's face wore a troubled frown. "Only ... I shot him." Pat dropped his pipe to the floor. It shattered into fifty bits. "The divil you say! Beggin' your pardon. Miss." "I don't know how it happened. Blue Chip was jumping around, and he got in the way. I didn't mean to do it." "An innocent bystander hit through an unfortunate accident," Gray suggested. "What was the fellow doing around here?" Pat asked accusing ly "I was on my way to the L C," explained Gray. "Wanted to have a little talk with Chiswick." "Wanted to shoot him, you vil lain." "I'm one of these victims of cir cumstantial evidence," the crook nosed man drawled. "Someone takes a crack at Chiswick, and I'm unanimously elected as the guy." "We saw you do it ? half a dozen of us," Ruth cried. "Just what did you see?" the ac cused man asked. "After you had shot you ran for ward to finish Father, and the other men there fired at you and drove you away. What's the use of deny ing it?" she cried hotly. "Not much use, is there?" he said evenly. /'If I toid my story you wouldn't believe it." "No, I wouldn't. It would b? all lies . . . But tell it." "Much obliged, Miss Chiswick. I reckon I'll keep it under my own hat." "What story could you tell? Fa ther was wounded. We saw the smoke coming from your gun as you ran forward." "That's correct." "So you must have been th? man." (TO BE CONTINUED) Rockingham House, Gen. Washington's Headquarters, Has Been Restored Rockingham, the rambling 10 room Colonial house, where Gen eral George Washington received word of the treaty of Paris that concluded Revolutionary war hos tilities, has been restored to its orig inal appearance after scores of years in disrepair. Ten thousand dollars in state and federal funds went into the project, notes a Rocky Hill (N. J.) correspondent in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Under the sponsorship of the WPA and the Historical Sites Com mission of New Jersey, this Eight eenth-century landmark, located a half-mile from Rocky Hill community and four miles from Princeton, has come into its own. The building has been completely renovated while the two-acre plot on which it stands has been landscaped to enhance the natural beauty of the spot. Sheltering many historic relics and documents, Rockingham is steeped in the history of significant days at the Revolution. It was here in the "blue room" that General Washington wrote his farewell ad dress to the Continental army and it wai here that he conducted all of his correspondence with Governor Clinton concerning the evacuation of New York city by British troops. On the long, double-decked ver anda of the structure Washington delivered his farewell address to a handful of troops retained at what was then his headquarters. Rotted flooring has bean replaced in the porch and several new pillars have been put in to bolster the sagging framework. Washington last stayed at Rock ingham in the ebbing days of the war, from August 24 until Novem ber 10, 1783. On November 2, 1783, he composed his farewell speech in the "blue room," delivered it first from the veranda and later at West Point where the army was Anally dismissed. Han Moan tains in Germany The Harz mountains are a deeply forested range in Germany between the Upper Harz in the northwest and the Lower Harz In the southeast. The highest point of the range It the Brocken, 1,790 feet high. WHAT to EAT and WHY 4lOU.lt on Gondii* Noted Food ? Authority Relates the Miracle of VITAMINS and Explains Why YOU MUST EAT THEM or DIE ? ? ? By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS I East 38th St.. New York. WE LIVE in the most inspiring age the world has ever _ known. Chemists grow plants without soil. Doctors snatch men from death with insulin. Surgeons perform in credibly delicate brain operations. And thanki to the amaz ing discover ie s of nutritional tcientists, children enter the world with far better chances for long and happy lives, while men and women of seventy are more active and useful than their grand parents were at fifty. ? Much ot the hard - won knowledge of how to eat so as to increase efficiency, curb disease, and improve the chances for longevity is due to the discovery of vitamins. ? ? ? VITAMINS DISCOVERED Twenty-six years ago, a now famous scientist walked nervously around his labora tory, back and forth ? back and forth. He was con ducting a nutrition experiment of vast importance. H e didn't quite know what he was going to find, but he be lieved that he was on the verge of a ?ML W revolutionary food discovery. The scientist was my friend, Casimir Funk, a brilliant Polish bio-chemist. He had been work ing on the problem for many years. At last, in the year 1912, his experiments were positive and conclusive. Then he announced to the scientific world that he had discovered a vital force. "This force," said Funk, "I have called vitamine, because it is necessary to life." Thus, the word "vitamin" came into being, along with the first knowledge of these minute but powerful factors which exert such a tremendous influence on human health and happiness. SPABK PLUGS OF NUTRITION Other bio-chemists throughout the world? including Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins in England, and Hart, Humphrey, Babcock, Steen bock and McCollum in the United States ? had been working on the same problem that Funk had par tially solved. They knew that the first step was to find out how vita mins affected the human body, end that the second step was to discover what foods contained these vital substances. And so there began a long se ries of experiments in the labora tories of great universities all over the world, which demonstrat ed what happens when a diet Is deficient in any of the vitamins, and proved that if laboratory ani mals are wholly deprived of vita mins for a short time they will die. These experiments are of the ut most significance to every home maker, because the same thing happens to hnman beings as to experimental animals. Today onr knowledge of vitamins has pro gressed to snch a degree that it is possible to state the exact re quirement for most of the vita mins and to designate the foods from which adequate quantities can be obtained. ? ? ? RESISTANCE AND VITAMIN A To date, six vitamins have been identified. Vitamin A promotes growth and builds resistance to disease. It is necessary for the health of the mucous membranes of the body and helps to guard against infections of the respira tory and alimentary tracts. It in fluences the health of the hair and skin. Is necessary to prevent a serious eye disorder known as night blindness, and is essential for the formation of healthy teeth. Vitamin A is found in milk, but ter, margarine that has been re inforced with vitamin A concen trate, egg yolk, cod-liver oil, thin Have You a Question? Atk C. Houston Gouditt C HOUSTON GOUDISS has ' placed at the disposal of reader* of this newspaper all the facilities of hi* famous Ex perimental Kitchen-Laboratory in New fork City. He will gladly answer questions con cerning foods, diet, nutrition, and their relation to health. You are also Invited to consult him in matters of personal hy giene. It'* not necessary to write a letter nnless too de sire, for postcard inquiries will receive the same careful atten tion. Address C. Houston Goo diss, 6 East 39th Street, New York City. green leaves and yellow fruits and vegetables such as carrots, sweet potatoes, apricots and bananas. ? ? ? APPETITE AND VITAMIN B Vitamin B promotes appetite, aids digestion, prevents a serious nerve disorder. It is essential to the maintenance of a good diges tion, which is vitally important if the body is to obtain full benefit from the food consumed. This vitamin is closely related to the energy metabolism, and the re quirement increases with the rate of growth and with increased en ergy expenditure, so that growing children and working men and women should receive very gen erous amounts. Vitamin B is found in yeast, whole wheat cereals, oatmeal, milk, fresh and dried peas and beans, spinach, cabbage and other greens, egg yolk and liver. ? ? ? VITAMIN C FOR TEETH, GUMS Vitamin C plays an important part in regolating body processes, and prevents the dread disease of senrvy. A lack of this essential vi tamin resnlts in profound changes in the structure o C the teeth and gums, may be responsible for hemorrhages occurring anywhere in the body, and for the degenera tion of muscle fibers generally. Vitamin C is most abundant in succulent fresh green leaves, such as green cabbage. It is also found in onions, potatoes, oranges, to matoes, green peppers, bananas and strawberries. In most foods, it is easily destroyed by heat ? that is why it is so important to include some fresh raw foods in the diet daily. ? ? ? VITAMIN D AND RICKETS Vitamin D is sometimes called the sunshine vitamin because it can be manufactured in the body through the action of direct sun light on the skin. This is the vita min that is necessary for the proper utilization of calcium and phosphorus in building bones and teeth. When it is lacking in the diet of infants, there develops that horrible disease known as rieketa. in whieh the bones become soft and twisted, resulting in pitiful deformities ? knock knees, bow legs, pigeon breast. In foods, vitamin D is. only found in appreciable amounts in fish-liver oils and egg yolk. That is why every homemaker should be so grateful to the scientists who labored to discover how to con centrate this precious vitamin from fish-liver oils and add it to foods, or to increase the vitamin D content of foods through irradi ation. ? ? ? ANTI STERILITY VITAMIN E Vitamin E comes in for less dis cussion than the others, because its significance to nutrition has not around y THE HOUSE Check Electrical Equipment ? As a safety measure in the use of electrical equipment, frequent ly look for breaks on all cords attached to appliances. ? ? ? Preparing Cauliflower.? Always soak cauliflower head down for an hour in a quart of cold water to which a teaspoon of salt and one of vinegar has been added; ? ? ? Variety In Saoces. ? Don't get into the habit of using too many cream sauces. They are apt to make vegetables taste more or less alike and thus price monot onous. ? ? ? Cleaning Flower Vases.? A flow er vase should be washed clean with hot water and soap, lest bacteria that decay the stems of flowers should survive in the vase. ? ? ? Freshening Raisins. ? Raisins used in cakes, cookies and pud dings should first be placed in hot water and simmered for five min utes to enlarge and soften them. ? ? ? . Another Use for Vine gar. -"-Vine gar added to washing-up water removes grease, brightens china, and acts aa ? disinfectant. - Building, Maintaining Family Health TN THE C. Houston Goudiss articles that have appeared weekly in this newspaper pre vious to this one, the nationally known food authority has de scribed FOOD, as it provides the key to mental and physical power; PROTEINS, the foods you cannot live without; CAR BOHYDRATES and FATS, foods that provide motive pow er for the body machinery ; and MINERAL SALTS, that you must have in order to build strong bones, healthy nerves and rich, red blood. These subjects have been treated in an interesting and understandable manner, free of scientific terms, principally of fering advice to the housewife that will aid her in the problem Df feeding the members of her family such foods as will build and maintain their health. Every one of these articles has a definite place in your scrapbook for future reference. If you have missed any of these discussions, the publisher of this newspaper will supply them upon your request. If you have not already done so, start a department of these informa tive articles in your scrapbook at once! been fully determined. It does, however, appear to be necessary (or successful reproduction and is found especially in wheat germ and lettuce. VITAMIN G PROLONGS YOUTH Vitamin G is necessary for growth and for the maintenance of health and vigor at all ages. It helps to ward off old age by prolonging the vigorous middle years. It is essential to the health of the skin, and recent experi ments demonstrate that cataracts in the eyes may be dae to a de ficiency of this vitamin, which it foond in yeast, and ia liver, kid neys, egg yolk, mik, cheese and green leafy vegetables. One authority claims that chronic disorders of the throat, stomach, lungs, colon, heart and kidneys may be traced to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Certainly enough has been learned of vitamin chemistry to make clear that the homemaker fails in her duty who does not pro vide vitamins in abundance for every member of her family. Both children and adults depend upoo you for their food supply. It Hes within your power to help them to health and happiness or condemn them to weakness, illness and sor row. Do not fail them. See to it that every member of your house hold ? your children, the wage earners, the middle aged and the elderly ? get enough vitamins to afford them the health that sci ence has placed within their grasp. C WNU ? C. Houston Goudisa? 1**. What Is the Cause of "Spider-Web Check"? If not properly '"fed" with a good oil polish, furniture in time develops what is known as "spi der-web check!" This appears on the finish, like wrinkles on the human face ? fine lines, spreading here and there in a spider-web pattern. This crazing, this light cracking, is known m furniture language as "checking" and "spi der-web checking" better de scribes the condition. This is the danger-signal, on finish! It's the indication of "starving" wood! A warning to the housewife, that it the finish is not cared for imme diately and properly, the furniture will develop cracks, ridges and splits. "Spider-web check" is gen erally the result of either one at these two causes: Polish-neglect ? or the use of a poor, cheap pol ish ? without the essential fine, light-oil base. When the furniture is periodically "massaged" with a reputable oil polish (the best is non-greasy), the pores of the wood are "fed" and the piece is pre served. Then "spider-web check" will not appear! The use of a quality oil polish is the best pre ventive formula for this ugly, detrimental check! MORE WOMEN USE O-CEDAR POLISH THAN ANY OTHER KIND! ? . . because O-Cedar not only deans as it polishes, but preserves your fur niture ? "feeds" the finish, prevents drying-out, cracking. Insist upon O-Cedar Polish, for furniture, woodwork sod floors (with the fa mous O-Cedar Mop). 0(?dar POLISH MOPS ? WAX
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