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5JT tMC\. llUtftHlliMit -•f'ir* 15*“ Nevad», th« womui Is tlis IB told -me my tlncerlBg ‘t to fo^; took tho gnlUr ikowed ao. Tkat iadWTOBiad a lot. t ask hor to bSTS sup* -wits kia. “S^had sBBg la tbe camps ia SfTsntlos, when mJjUSi was Mg gaate oa l>eth sldaa of th« l&lkras. In PlaocrrlUe, oa tho Cantornla aide, she had met a Tonag adrentarer named Dalton. Sha took him at 'first to he a IProapeetor, and he did prospect ^ some extent. But a little lat sir, when she became his sweet- ■ *he learned that he often . ^Ojt' the road with a route agent called Reeres. They worked ^tbe mountain passes, holding up pack trains and wagon ship ments of gold till the country got too hot for them, and they disaweared. •‘So May's lore affair didn’t last ling. I gathered it was she who did most of the loving. Dal ton was a swaggering young ras cal, with a lot of life and good looks, and no heart to speak of. It was that, I think that attract ed her. She was used to being courted. “After Dalton left her she had a baby girl. Whether It was his «r not, she didn’t know tor cer tain. She’d known him that short a time. It interfered with her work, BO she sent it away to be cared for^shut it out of her life and forgot about it, as she tried to forget about Dalton. "Then she' met a rancher nam ed Owens, who was taking up a grazing claim on the Nevada side, south of the Carson 'Valley. So she married Owens, and went with him to Nevada, to settle down and be a faithful wife. "Her marriage to Owens was unhappy. He was ungenerous and unsociable^—almost a miser. The ranch was a day’s journey from any neighbor. No one, hard ly. came near it. He was jealous of that old life of hers—-had su spected, when he married her. what it had been. 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InzatiTo candy or cbowing sum ] •xpaet thaai to niako you nddanly awaat I boowaat and loU of aonohiiia. For tbgr can't da It. They only mova tha I a mart movamaat doaan’t fat at 4^ Tha raaaon for yoer down-and-out a-m.. ia your Uvtr. It ahouhl pour out two yypJL of liquid bOa into your bowela duly. II tUa bOa in DOt fiowinc Iraaiy, your fo^ gaaui’t ditaat. It iuat dtcayi in tha bowata. fjoo bisaia on your atomach. Y(w hava a CUA. bad taata and your btaadh ia foaL aSaftaa braaka out inblaairt^ Yoar hand Sia aad yoi lati down aad out. Your It takaa tkoaa food, old CAB TIB'S tnriuiunm nui to wt tkaw two . ■---liaalyand laaka you aoutaiB wuuduifui. Mdi of kfla Soriv batl rdS rnneb hhnself, to there was no to talk to but him, and he didnH talk. ■ "One night in summer, when Owens had watered the stock and shb was watching him for the nmptleth time draw a lamp alongside the table, fix the wick and read some month-old news papers, she heard a faint tapping on the door. She opened it, and there stood a TlsUor. For her! "A little visitor about three years old, and small for her age, with S' cute, solemn baby faee, and Wat eyes blinking in the lamplight, looking lost. “ 'Nice mans said you know where is my Daddy?’ "The woman gave a smother ed cry and gathered the child hungrily in her arms, not asking yet how nor why It had come there. "Owens lit a lantern to go out and see who had brought the lit tle one to the door. The rider was out of earshot now, but on the porch was a sack of gold and a note saying, ‘This baby wandered off a train during a hold-up. Keep her till the posse comes looking for her. The gold is from the robbed train, and Is yourn if you want pay for your trouble.’ “That was all. The rest '.hey tried to piece together from what they could make of the child’s talk. "For hours Owens pored over that note and over the gold, handling it, counting it. . . . And the woman was yearning over the treasure in her arms. Sup pose, by some great fall of chance. It was never claimed? "Neither of them slept that night, and the next day they waited and watched the trails. The same hope was In their minds, though their reasons for hoping were far apart. Several days passed wiht no sign of the posse. Finally Owens made a trip to the nearest freight station to get the news. In his absence, the woman started mak ing a little suit of overalls for the girl. “Toward sundown she went into the barn to look for eggs for the baby’s supper. 'While she was groping for nests in the hay, she caught hold of a man's boot. She didn’t scream. The first thought • that flashed through her miud was that this was the man who’d brought the child and the gold. “But the man sat up and smiled at her, and then her knees almost gave away. It was Dal ton—whom she’d never expected to see again. He’d probably learn ed she was married to the ranch er, and had counted on her help ing him, if it came to that. “It was his turn to be sur prised when she spoke about the child and the gold. He hadn’t had anything to do with leaving them there. But after thinking ,t over, he told her how it must have happened. “He and the man he called Reeves had been waiting by a lonely stretch of railway track in the desert to stop a pay train, whe a stranger on a bay horse rode by the place they were hiding. He looked like a good gun hand, and they cut him in. During the hold-up the child strayed off the train. When it pulled out and they found her. Reeves wanted to leave her there. They slit on that; the man with the bay horse picked her up and rode south alone, with his share of the loot. Dalton believed he had happened on Owen’s ranch by letting his horse hunt water. “The other two struck west for the mountains. Dalton’s horse had gone lame, and Reeve.s took all the gold on his mount to lighten Its weight. But it still lagged and when the posse caught their trail. Reeves was far ahead and kept going. Dal ton left the lamed horse on some rocky ground, so he would seem to have gone on with Reefes, riding double, foot after several days trailing on foot by a round about way, came to Owens’ ranch. “As to the child, Dalton thought it was a bad break to find her there, but he encourag ed May’s desire to keep her— since giving her up would ruin his hideout. So the baby had its hair cut, as well as being put in overalls. “Just after May had done this rash thlcg, Owens came in that night with the news. The posse seemed to have lost the trail of all three of the fugitives, but the fathor of the missing child had been killed in the hold-up, and —worse —was a Unit ed States marshal.’’ “The mau in the barn had plenty of time to take stock of Owen’s character and of his own position. As the pursuit died away and . no “word came from Reeres, Dalton realized that his partner had deserted him. He 4lui|aSMA •ISnO-M.Oe, theWhSevirMiy. had also done some thinking a- M- ' . ... . i_ J V. AAtorCurtar'* hont the way the posse had been "Dalton prop^w staying at the ranch aa .,A Urad man until the trail was ^Id, and calling himself the father of the little 'boy,’ Thn very daring of this schMUn would protect them. "Though the police had ^en up hopelof finding the lost child, there was no slacking In the hunt for the three road agents involved In the klUinr^'Of the federal marshal, and Dalton knew that there, would 1^ none "Deciding to leave the coun try, he demanded a grubstake from Owens, to take him pros pecting tn the north. The ranch er grudged the money, 'but was anxious to get rid of him. “Owen’s jealousy got worse after the man ■was gone. In his brooding rages, he spoke of Dal ton’s willingness to appear as the child’s father as if that were a deeper sign of understanding be tween them. His fury drove him to charges that may have bor dered on a truth he didn’t know. "He gave her such a terrible time that finally she left him and her adopted baby, and went back to her old life, where I found her in the dCegs bf It. “Some years later I came into Carson City, just before the ru mor broke about the big gold strike in the north. And there the thing happened that begins to tie this up with—’’ Fallon, twisting in ihs chair, caught her eyes now, squarely. "You don’t dare^—!’’ he blurt ed out with a dark menace. “Do you dare threaten a wit ness in Her Majesty’s court?” Judge Douglas demanded. Muttering something, irallon bit his tongue and waited. “I was crossing a planked side walk,” continued Rose, “when I almost bumped into a man step ping down from the porch of the Nevada hotel. His face came back to me over a long gap of time as well as distance. He’d changed some. I passed him blank. “U’e mei again ’.n a place where I sang, and he invited me to drink something. I did be cause it was rather funny to talk to a man who’d tricked me with April Fool candy the way he’d done and not be rememberid. “So I said, ‘Your face looks kind of familiar. Haven’t I seen it tacked up in the postoffice or somewhere?’ “He almost jumped. I hadn’t had a notice how near the truth a reward poster might be. When I smiled, he gave a laugh that sounded fist. “ ‘You’ve got the start on me, baby,’ he said, patting my hand. ‘The nearest I ever come to im aginin’ you was a fool kid I met once in Frisco. You’re pretty wise and you’ve been around. Maybe as a woman, you can ans wer a question that got me curi ous once. It just come Into my mind. Do you believe a girl could be brought up as a boy without anyone on the outside guessln’ it?’ “ ’It depends on the girl and the surroundings,’ I said, still not suspecting anything in par ticular. ‘I think it could happen, but I wouldn’t bet on a particu lar case without seeing the boy you suppose to be a girl.’ “ ‘Well, you’ll never see him,’ Fallon said, a little too offhand. ’It just come into my mind.’ ‘•He started his meaningless love-making again and I left him. “What he’d said chimed with something else in ray memory. Though I didn’t recall right at first what it was, I kept looking as I played the camp for a boy who might not be so boyish ex cept for the clothes. The only one I noticed was a boy with gold hair. He didn’t look girlish— wore bis clothes, I mean, as if he had a right to them. But it struck me that I could have dressed him up as a stunning girl, and it was a crime to see hair like his wasted on a boy. He was with an older, whisky faced man I’d never seen in the camps before, and whose name I learned to be Owens. The man was buying an outfit to go to Alaska. "Owens are uncommon, but it was the name of the rancher May had married, and with that I re membered, in a sfafock of under standing, that the child left at tbe ranch house had blonde hair and had been dressed as a boy. “Dalton had gone north. Ow ens had staked him. A man. like May’s Owens wouldn’t make that trip without a solid lend to go on. 1 remembered his- passion for gold. Dalton must have made a strike and sent for him. "Certain this was the same man, I wondered how much Fal lon had guessed. Maybo he just suspected a girl in boy’s clothes and was curious. She was young and innocent, and he liked them that way. Her name, ’Pete,’ was as boy-llke as possible, but since it dMn’t fit her appear ance, It was a kind of give- taway." ol The river rlpple^i^ouxk sitafee as Rogft paffl^. .lafified OB the bur q&he pirllhl^^ ipck. intently^tchiiig her afitpas (he red-coatefi ihouldnr of thP poUce guard. Fallon. half reeHned In hta chair, in a sitaoulderlnK' si- lence—tke sheathed fife of one who a final answer In he- "That ijfimo night, the Hg Yukon ^ pews camp down on the wlree from;'«eattle. Prospectors who had been walling and ready were pulling stakes for San Francisco and the first steamers. Owens heat ^ the cun ‘by start^ ahead of them and''ebowed *(kat he’d had a definite lead on eome- thtng. '' ■ "I caught a train for Seattle, and overtook .i. FaIlon’||»^ steamer there. He was wary enough tto keep Owens out ot my Way. Pdte avoided me of her own ** accord.' My talking to Fallon may lUTe given her the Idea I was a friend of bis, and' she mistrusted him by. Instinct. ,, i “Fallon started the rancher Owens drinking and gambling— a first sign that he had guessed true about the gold. That It was true, I made sure' in a more direct way.” 'Wade rose to object. “Your honor,’’ he said, “I have listened to the witness’ vivid story without offering an objec tion till now. I feel It my duty, as counsel for the Crown, to ob ject to it as theoretical and move that It be thrown out.” Judge Dugas looked reflective ly at Rose. “How did you prove. Miss "Valery, that there was a gold mine at stake?” (Concluded Next Week) North Rental Book PliB^ Soper* ... intoide«t Dedfires fai Aft*' It A local hdilp^ thiffliornlBg' tlM. ref utt of received from tbd. explosion of alcohol in tha Main The general assembly pa«ie$ street drjig atom late yceter^ tlrf^way for a state-wide syetem Atteenoon. Infantile Paralysis Results In 2 Deaths Raleigh, May 23—The second death from infantile paralysis in as many days in eastern North Carolina was reported today as one new case brought the total recorded by the state board of health for May to 13. Charley Johnson, three-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson, of Cleveland township, jdhnston county, died today of the disease. Hugh Lowe, Jr., of Clinton, died yesterday in a Wil mington hospital from its effects. A census shows that Baltimore has approximately one grocery store to each 219 people. of school book rontate which, unless some other state gets one going first, -win b» a pioneer in the field In the.,nation, states Clyde A. Srwln, state enpeila- tendent of. public instruoUoQ.''^ ' The new law provides thgt a commission of ^ five S members, with th«. superintendent of pub lic instruction as ex-offlelo .chair- man, shall be created to be known at the “state textbook purchase and rental commission” The at torney general, director of pur chase smd contract and t'wo ptp’- sons to be apolnted hy the gov ernor will ronnd out the pom- miaslon. An appropriation of $1,600,000 Is-made from the "pffbllc reve nues” for the purpose of starting tbe system and the treasurer and council of state are authorized to issue short term notes to get up to $1,500,000 more if that amount should be needed. Tbe commission is authorized to pfomulgate all the necessary rules for proper functioning of a school book rental system. It can buy or contract for text books and Instructional supplies; provide its own system of distri bution “without the use ol any depository other than some agency of the state”; provide for a uniform rental charge not to exceed one-third ol the cost ol the books or supplies; provide absolutely free texts or indigent children; and provide books so that they shall not be used in terchangeably between children of the white nnd colored schools. Any county or city having a text book rental plan may continue to operate it provided the rental charges do not exceed those to be fixed by the state. HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM High Point, May 23—Wade Callicutt, small son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Callicutt, sustained a concussion of the brain, a frac tured thumb and other injuries tonight at 8 o’clock when struck by a hit-and-run driver on South Main street. UlBg The accident >^urred when Andrews poured'ifOeohol'^rom a gallon can Into a small pterno cap to replenish fuel he believed to hare been axhateted. 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