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CHAPTER XXIV—Continued.
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"Yt s—like tits I will i" retorted the
mine owner. "I told you once, John, j
that I was in this tiling to a finish,
and 1 meant it. Go on giving your
orders."
"Very well; you've had your warn
ing. The next tiling is the auto. I
want to catch Judge Warner before he j
jgoes to bed. I'll telephone while you're i
getting a car."
Startup k had no farther to go than J
to the garage where he itad put up his ■
ear, and when he got it and drove to
the Kinzie building. Smith came out of
the shadow of the entrance to mount
beside him.
"Drive around to the garage again
and let me try another phone." was i
the low-spoken request. "My wire j
isn't working."
The short run was quickly made,
and Smith went to the garage office.
A moment later a two-hundred-pound
policeman strolled up to put a huge
foot on the running board of the wait- j
ing auto. Starbuck greeted him us a ;
friend.
"Hello. Mae. How's tricks with you
tonight?"
"Th' tricks are even, an' I'm tryin' j
to take tlf odd wan," said the big Irish- j
mun. " Tls a man named Smith I'm j
lookin' for, Misther Starbuck-J. Mon
tay-gue Smith; tli' fi-nanshal boss uv
tli' hig ditch comp'ny. Have ye seen
'uni?"
Starbuck, looking over the police
man's shoulder, could see Smith at
the telephone in the garage office. An
other man might have lost his head, j
but the ex-cowpuneher was of the
chosen few whose wits sharpen hand- j
fly in JiD emergency.
"He hangs out at the Hophra House j
ii good part of the time in the eve- j
nings." he replied coolly. "Hop in and i
I'll drive you around."
Three minutes later the threatening
danger was a danger pushed u little !
way into the future, and Starbuck was i
Hack at the garage curb waiting for
Smith to come out. Through the win-j
dow he saw Smith placing the receiver ,
«.n its hook, and a moment afterward
n> no*». •• --------------- • I
lie was opening the ear door for his j
jiassenger. j
"Did you make out to raise the *
judge?" he inquired, as Smith climbed !
in. .. .
"Yes. He will meet me at his chant
«'an drive down from his house
"What are your hoping to do, John?
Judge Warner is only a circuit judge;
lie can't set an order of the United
States court aside, can he?"
"No; hut there is one thing that he
.an do. You may remember that 1
had a talk with him this morning at
Mv.s trying .b»o...c,,v»r
»11 .......bances, among .b«n |b*
»Utility that Stanton would jump In
with a gang of armed thugs at the last
that
minute. We are going to assume
ihis is what has been done.
Starbuck set the car in motion and
»ent it spinning out of the side street,
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"The Tricks Are Even
«round the pluza. and beyond to'the
levs brilliantly illuminated residence
district—which was not the shortest
•way to the courthouse.
•*i-<*» .»<■*!»•' I™" !Y r !":Y
- «a :
reniv. "There is one chance in a thou
sand that we shall come out of' this
with the law-r-as well as the equities
,.n onr side.' I shall tell the judge
that no papers have been served^
us. and, so far »»^now.
What are vou driving an
n&rrz ...» wheo the
» sÄif --s
news you were looking for 'has came.
While you were phoning In the parure
1 put one pulieenum wise-to lothing."
"He was looking for me?"
mg
"Sure tiling—and by name. We'll
) fool ground here in the block streets
I until the judge lias had time to show
up. [Then i'll drop you at the court
house auil go hustle the sheriff for
: you. You'll wallt Harding, I take it?"
"Yes. I'm taking the chance that
only the city authorities have been
notified in my personal affair—not the
| county officers. It's a long ehance, of
I course; 1 may he running my neck
j squarely into the noose. J'.ut it's all
I risk. Hilly; every move in this nigiit's
! game. Head up for the eourthouse.
Tin* judge will be there by this time."
Two minutes bevoitd 'his tin- car
*
j was drawing up to ihe curb on the
mesa-facing side of tin* courthouse
square. There were two lighted win
dows in the second story of the other
wise darkened building, and
sprang to the sidewalk.
Smith
"Go now and find Harding, and have
him bring one trusty deputy with
him: I'll be ready by the time you get
j back." be directed; but Starbuck wait
ed until he had seen Smith safely lost
in the shadows of the pillared court
house entrance before in* drove away.
CHAPTER XXV.
—
a Race to the Swift,
Since Sheriff Harding bad left bis
office in tin* county jail and had gone
borne to ids ranch on the north side
of the river some hours earlier, not a
little precious time was consumed in
hunting him up. Heyond this, there
was another delay in securing the dep
uty. When Starbuck's car came to a
stand for a second time before the
mesa-fronting entrance of the court
house. Smith came quickly across the
walk from the portal.
"Mr. Harding," he began abruptly.
"Judge Warner lias gone home and he
hns made me his messenger. There is
a bit of sharp work to he done, and
you'll need a strong posse. Can you
deputize fifteen or twenty good men j
who can be depended upon in a fight J
and rendezvous them on the north- j
side river road in two hours from j
now ?"
The sheriff, a big, bearded man who
have sat for the ru<alel <>f «m'
of Frecjorie Remington s frontiersmen,
took time to consider. "Is it a scrap? '
j
j
j
j
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he asked.
"It is likely to be. There are war
rants to be served, and there will
most probably be resistance. Your
posse should be well armed."
"We'll try for it," was the decision.
"On the north-side river road, you
say? You'll want us mounted?"
"It will bd better to take horses. We
could get autos, hut Judge Warner
agrees with me that the thing had
better be done quietly and without
making too much of a stir in town."
All right," said the man of the
! law .. It that a n?"
i „ N - 0 not <iu ite all. The first of the
warranls ; a be served here in Brew
stor _ upnn Mr Crawford Stanton,
, y<mr (b>puty W ill probably find him at
, he Hophra House. Here is the paper:
I me nopuru nuiBT. **>*■*«- »—* ----'
j lt ls a bench warrant of commitment
j ,,n a charge of conspiracy, and Stan
* ton is t o he locked up. Also you are
! trt see to it that your jail telephone
i is «•< <*' «"><* »0 .hut Stanton wont
is out of order, so that Stanton
j bo a pi 0 to make any attempt to get a
That part of It is mighty risky,
said Harding. "Does the judge know
about that, too?"
"He Vines ; 'and for the ends of pure
justice, he concurs with me—though,
of course, he couldn't give a manda
tory order."
The sheriff turned to his jail dep
uty. who bad ««cemtud from ...»
1^"'^ J.™*«*.'
j ïou 'e n
he ^ saldjh rtj.
Go and get His
! Nobs and lock him up. And if he
ints to be yelling 'Hei.
e f or pi S lawyer or somebody, why.
wants to be yelling 'Help!' and send-j
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'Telephone's^ takin' a lay-off.
Savvv?"
Tlte deputy nodded and turned upon j
his heel, stuffing the warrant for Stan- ;
ton's arrest into his pocket as he j
went. Smith swnng up beside Star
buck, saying: "In a couple of hours,
then, Mr. Harding; somewhere near t
the bridge approach on the other side
the bridge approach,
of the river."
Starbuck had started the motor and
was bending forward to adjust the oil
feed when the sheriff left them.
«You seem to have made a ten
strike \vith Judge Warner," the ex- ,
vpunoher remarked, replacing the
flash-lamp in its seat pocket.
"Judge Warner is a man in every
inch of him; hut there is something
. ......., t
behind this night's work that I dou't j
quite understand," was the quick re- ;
ntv "I had hardly begun to state the
plv. "I had hardly begun to state me j
-......:•'*
'I know,* he said. I have been wait :
i„g f««r you people to co " ,e ^ ake of '
for relief.' What do you make ;
that. Billy?"
"I don't know; unless someone m
Stanton's outfit has welshed. Shaw
might have done it. He has been to
Bob Stillings, and Stillings says he is
sore at Stanton for some reason. Shaw
ITX :
i know hy the way ' T ^ . ' .. t
took hold. M Tien I P r ^ n g n>s nrn ,;. t
out the war understand Mr.
l,e said. I cant u ™*r. tana.
^ filled out
" Bu t we can let that go for
■ ' How are you going to
_ nil tmin n. to
st «ÄÄ
——*
, at me.
r Starbuck's answer was wordless, |
With a quiek twist of the pilot wheel
, he sent the ear skidding around the
•orno!
parai
j rotu
wet
using undue haste, as it
..... ,„,,,1 they had two hours be
f„r,. tliem. A few minutes farther
along ihe lights of the town had been
left behind and the ear was speeding
swiftly westward on a country road
•ling the railway track; the
over which Smith had twice
driven with the kidnapped Jibbey.
"I'm still guessing." the passenger
ventured, when the last of the rail
road distance signals had Hashed to
tie* rear. And then: "Wlutt's tin* fran
tie hurry. Hilly?"
Starbuck was running with the
muflier cut out, hut now he cut it in
a nd the roar of the motor sank to a
humming murmur.
"1 thought s,,." he remarked, turn
ing his head to listen. "You
notice that poll
leaving til.
idn't
whistle just as we
nuthouse, did you?
j—nor the answers to it whin
{dodging through tin* suburb
j body lias marke
w e were
' Soiue
I us down and passed
the word, and now they're chasing tts
with a buzz-wagon. Don't you hear
it?"
Hy this time Smith could hear the
sputtering roar of the following eai
only too plainly.
"It's a big one." he commented.
'•You can't outrun it. Hilly; and, be
-'Vf.
m
:
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j
"You've Heard the Dope, Jimmie.'
sides, there is nowhere to run to in
this direction."
Again Starbuck's reply translated
itself into action. With a skillful j
touch of the controls he sent the car j
ahead at top speed, and for a matter
of ten miles or more held a dimin
ishing lead in the nice through sheer
good driving and an accurate knowl
edge of the road and its twistings and
turnings. Hut the road would soon
become a cart track in the mountains ;
.
there was no outlet to the north save
by means of the railroad bridge at
Little Hutte station, and from some
the valley and beyond the '
station, and from some
«-here un the valley and bevond the
rajlnm( , bridge oame t he distance- !
^. b j' s *H P of a tra i n . |
• . ... k for bim . j
- > courageous driver of motor
" to the Inst of the
crossing, he headed straight out over |
the ties for the railroad bridge. It
was
the bridge at racing speed was ha*
ardous enough, but to drive t thus in
the face of a downcoming train seemed
nothing less than madness. j
It was after the car had shot into
: pis wheel, and Smith clutched for
i north side of the river a headlight
:
the first of the three bridge spans
that the pursuers pulled up and
opened fire. Starbuck bent lower over
i t . i. I n J Cmitb nlnfphprl fllf
handholds. Far up the track on the
_ ____
j flashed In the darkness, and the
; hoar se blast of a locomotive, whistling
j noarse omsi ul ii uttt.tuuu.j,
j for the bridge, echoed and re-echoed
; among the hills.
gtarbuck drove for his life. With !
tho bridg.* fairly cr.issed, he found
Himself on a high embankment; and
t p e oncoming train was now less than j
hu]f a mile awa y. Somewhere he
, (() g mith u umr -iu of no more than the j
, ength of , he p cavy freight train !
which went jangling past them a sc
second or so after tlte car had been j
wrenched aside into the obscure mesa !
j ro£ul They had gone a mile or more
; on lhe reverse leg of the long dow n- |
. ,i r tour before Starbuck cut the '
i;mt '
j (Mour before Starbuck cut the ;
r u 'r aed *• """" otcr
: his >eat . innt e. |
' "Take her a minute while I get the :
; makings," he said, dry-lipped, feeling
in his pock'ets for tobacco and the
rice paper. Then he added: "Holy
____
s ÿj otnpn ! t never
gQ bnd Ja a p my fife!"
g m fip' s ladgh was a chuckle,
^ tf) you _ after the fact
wanted a smoke
o
t head of Little creek. But we nave *
plenty of time. You told Harding two j
hours - didn't you?" j
<Teg but j must have a few min
«tes at HUlcrest before we get action, ,
it tasted like a mouthful of bitter
Does this road take us back
up the river?"
"It takes us twenty miles around
comes in at the
But we have
Billy
Starbuck took the wheel again and
SS Ä-Ä - :
y"P™ ä ;
been three-quarters of an hour ot skitl
ful driving over a had road to .'unie
between Smiths remark and its re
ply. hut Starbuck apparently made no
account of the length of the interval, j
"You're aiming to go and so* j
ry ' he asked, while the cur was ,
asting to the hill bottom.
"Yes."
With a sudden flick of Hi** e,,'.* ro's
and a quick jamming of the brakes.
Starbuck brought tin* ear t" a s* nd
just as it cairn* into the level road.
"We're man to man her - mc'- r tin*
canopy. John; and « 'orry F '*.
hasn't got any brother." lie on d
gravely. "I'm backing you in -
business light for all 1 m ". rt !i
Hick Maxw Hl's sake and the > ..Mne! -,
and maybe a little bit for tic* -a" * of
my own ante of twenty thousand.
And I'm ready to back you !:i this old- |
borne scrap with all tin* nancy you il i
need to make your fight. Hut when it
comes to the little girl it's differ nt. j
Have you any good and fair right to ;
hunt up Corry Baldwin while things j
are shaping themselves up as they j
a re?"
Smith met the shrewd inquisition
fairly.
"Give it. a name," he said shortly.
"I will : I'll give IT the one you gave
it a while back. You said you wore
an outlaw, on two charges: embezzle- !
ment and assault. We'll let the as
sault go. But the other thing doesn't ;
taste good."
"I didn't embezzle anything. Hilly, j
I thought T made that plain."
"So you did. But you also made it
plain that the home court would he
: likely to send you up for it. guilty or
j no t guilty. And with a thing like that
hanging over you . . - you see. I
know Corry Baldwin. John. If you
pur It up to her tonight, and site hap
pens to fall in with your side of it—
which is what you're aiming to make
}lor t io— a n bell won't keep her from
going back home with you and seeing
j you through !"
"Hilly, I may never see her again.
I said I wouldn't tell iter—that I
loved her too well to tell her
but now the final pinch lias come, and
I—"
"And that isn't all." Starbuck went
on relentlessly. "There's this Miss
Rich-acres. Your hands ain't clean,
John; not clean enough to let you go
to Illllcrest tonight."
Smith groped in his pockets, found
a cigar and lighted It.
"Pull out to the side of the road and
we'll kill what time there is to kill
right here,'' he directed soberly. And
then: "What you swy is right as right,
Billy. Once more, I guess, I was lo
coed for the minute. Forget it; and
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j while you re about it forget Mia
j RlehTander, too. Luckily for her
is out of it as ur ou <> i
CHAPTER XXVI.
Freedom.
On the northern bank of the Tinian*
. .. street of which the |
yon j lhe ' prolongation, be- !
wagon bri g I f
comes a country road, forking a rev.
hundred yards from the hridg, ap
brldge is a prolongation, be- i
comes
hundre .
proaeh to send one of 't*
northward among the Little Creek
ranches and another westward up the
right bank of the stream,
A. this fork ot the rond, hotween
eleven and twelve o'clock of the night j
|
special deputies began to assemble.
Under each man's saddle flap was
We^-a^sSàïded repeating rifle
^ tropp bun chlng itself in j
d , ookoJ serv lceably mill
he ^ buglnossUkp
j
An automobile rolled silently down
j
: the mesa road from the north and j
^ ^ t j & gtand amorg t he horses. \
shor iff drew rein beside the car
ke t0 oae p f the two occu
1,11 * *
Mp j- nlith> we 're all here.''
How many?" was the curt question.
„
*'
| „ Goo( j Here is your authority"—
hnu th<? , egal pa p er s to the oflicer.
I -before we go in you ought to know
! thg {actg A few h ours ago a man
naine(1 M *Graw, calling himself a depu
United States marshal and claim
j tQ be actiag under instructions
fr(im Ju(lge Lorching's court in Red
j
!
"I'm
j
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'
crowd. Are you game
game to .serve any papers that
got the nerve to is
j
1
' .Tmlge Warner s got u.e - " |
sue," was the big mans reply.
"That's the talk ; that's what I hoped
Was Stanton arrest
j
Strothers found him
; . "« J*" aU(1 he lin( ,
'•psïâ-ï-«
| lu , t a , ir0 j ust the same.
: ^ hud to al , JIlg with Jimmie and
to hear you say.
ed?"
was.
get himself locked u;i.
"That is the first step ; now if you're
ready, well take the next."
Harding rode forward and the ad
vance began. For the first mile or so
was unbroken
* ^ an icked bone betwixt us.
j John/ , fae beg . m gontly . "Maybe I said
j too much, back yonder at the foot of
, b;n ..
, ( TO ee continue d.»
tlie midnight silence
save by the subdued progress noises
and the murmurings of the nearby
river in its bed. Once Smith took the
wbpel wbilt , gtarbuck rolled and light
ed a cigarette. It was Starbuck who
harked back to the talk which had
been so abruptly broken off.
"Let's not head into this ruction
Hs Merit.
: » sr
; " ä
y of it."
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The Smart Set in Millinery
aaesüSOL—
A
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Two-; !•* ■ ■'!* *..ree-pb*ee matched
sets in millinery are among tie* smart
est tilings -lioun in the new displays
for full. The TWoeiieee ->*t 1' just
right and designers have made it pos
sible to select a hat and bag — a hat
and collar—or a hat and cape or scart,
made to match; or, if they do not
match in materials, some touch in
trimming makes them kin. A silk hat
trimmed with chinchilla, for Instance.
Is bound for life to a high chinchilla
collar by u veil that falls from the hut
und is sewed to the upper edge of the
collar.
Leading the vanguard of matched
sets came the hat and bag to match
and this fancy Is altogether so pleas
ing that hat and bag sets are quite
likely to be found also In the rear of
the fashion parade along about Christ
mas time. If you contemplate some
thing unusual In Christmas gifts that
hat and hag set pictured here ought to
prove interesting.
One of the smartest of smart sets
Is of brilliant green satin brocaded
with gold and finished with green che
nille tassels in the bag. The hat, to
be worn with it, has a crown of black
velvet and a narrow rolling brim of
^ green nn d gold brocade. At the
toe gre n
velvet and a narrow rolling brim of
«
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A Call has come from Fram
Red Cross, asking f<*r 150.« wo woolen
garments for the men nt the front.
mufflers.
.
^ 1 "' ^
l'eople
needle before hav
of knitting sox and find the work la
„ee.fie before hav,* mastered the art
C1 ia 1 . . ; , ■ .
When we contemplate the tiriet m>
tory ot a pair of .-ox we realize that
the task of furnishing them will
to the I
too—like Mary's lamb,
never touched a knitting
m . r ,, R(l the sorl ,,f sweater
, v ,_. rv dill - icu it. Th-y are sleev.
he through will» until the war ends.
Supplies of sox must be sent in l'cluy s,
om* after the other, because, sturdy as
the knitted woolen ones arc, they willi.
wear out.
Mufliers are easier for the begin- j
never
b< gin - ]
fitii'.-d '
art
less and ar.* really chest and back pro
tector- All the knitted garments
must be made according t<> stand
ards. which will be furnished by tlm
Red I'm— to those who apply i'>r
; thorn.
A luxury that can be made by worn
: en who do not knit -if there arc any—
will interest them. Feet that get -ore
in tin- trenches can he rested and
helped to heal hy felt slipper.-, and
these can be made by women at home,
j ,<hS we eure for the comfort of our men
wîten they are ut home working for u-,
we must care for their comfort
when they are away—working and
fighting for us and for those that come
after us. No woman cun lie iudiffer
ent now and keep the respect of her
associates. Whoever she is she de
eerves the pour opinion of her char
back a fiat !as-.*l made of grcetl olio«
aille falls from the crown, and small,
fiat Mower-., mad- of chenille are set
about the crown.
A successful co-tunie depends more*
upon handsome accessories like these,
than many of us realize. A plain, dark
gown of satin in Mack or other color,
is lifted into brilliancy by tricks of ele
gance, In hat and bug or hat and scarf,
and is equal to formal wear by tiles«
means.
Small Breaks in Lace.
Where there are only a few threads
hrokeu in Irish or Swiss luce they can
easily be repaired with a needle amt
thread the same size as that used In
the manufacture of the lace. Place a
tiny knot at the end of the thread on
the needle and draw this through the
place where tin* broken thread joins
the body of the luce. Having done
tiffs, draw a succession of loop knot*
over the floating thread very tightly
close to the base. Now follow with
the new thread the course that the old
thread has taken, and do the same
with the other loose end, knotting it se
curely close to the hody lace. Cut
away the loose ends and tlie break 1ft
no longer perceptible.
ai tor, ttiai her indifference will in.-pira
iu*r associates.
A now order of things socially majr
row out of the banding togethtA of
It will bo an
less personality
and uplifted t>.v
of need.
Separate Waistcoats Now.
London and Paris have taken an
other stop toward the masculine in
fashions and makers are producing
<( ,j )!irab . waistcoats, to In* removed at
j[l. They are made of tlte softest
mntl . r j a i s , with a striking pattern and
m) | t in y are knitted, and are
cut roomy. Lookers at the sides with
j a wal) .p f.,j, hanging oat of one of
] a wat
' tllolll
customary.
Under these waistcoats, of which
hirtwaists are being worn, the
plain
jaliot or fichu and the tKinxpurcnt
-leeves ur** visible. It Is "ustomary
with women wearing such waistcoats
to* remove the suit coat.
Use for Out-of-Date Blouses.
; Blouses have a disconcerting way of
looking out of date after any length
<.f time. If titer.* is a little girl in th*
! family cut the waist down to make u
j long-waiste.l dr* s-. using plain niate
rial for the tiny skirt,
i - -
Button Spats to Be Worn,
Buttoned spats promise to he as pnp
ttlar ns ever fur fall. Tie* new spats
fit beautifully and cotm* in soft shades
j of gray and ti n anil in tin* new olive
! drub which is fashionable because it la
the "soldier color."