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The Voice of the Pack By EDISON MARSHALL CHAPTER I.—Continued. —1ft— Into a little hollow In the bark, on he underside of the log, some hand ,ad thrust a small roll of papers, i'hey were rain-soaked now, and the ak had dimmed and blotted ; but Dan ealized their slgnitirnnce. They were he complete evidence that Hildreth nid accumulated against the arson ing—letters that hau passed back and orth between himself and Cranston. . threat of murder from the former If iildreth turned state's evidence, and signed statement of the arson activ ités of the ring by Hildreth himself. y\ unfti -'K I •i wLm \ ljn - rr Vi 4 3 ti tome Hand Had Thrust a Small Roll of Paper. Phey were not only enough to break ip the ring and send its members to ■rlson ; with the aid of the empty shell .nd other circumstantial evidence, hey could in all probability convict lert Cranston of murder. For a long time he stood with the iliadows of the pines lengtheulng ibout him, his gray eyes in curious liadow. For the moment a glimpse vas given him into the deep wells of he human soul ; and understanding «me to him. Was there no balm for latred even In the moment of death? Vere men unable to forget the themes -nd motives of their lives, even when he shadows closed down upon them? iildreth had known what hand had truck him down. And even on the rontier of death, his first thought was o hide his evidence where Cranston ould not find it when he searched the •ody, but where later it might be »und by the detectives that were sure » come. It was the old creed of a Ife for a life. He wanted his evldeuce o be preserved—not that right should wronged, but so that Cranston vould be prosecuted and convicted ml made to suffer. His hatred of Pranstou that had made him turn fate's evidence in the first place had •een carried with him down lcath. As Dan stood wondering, he thought ie heard a twig crack on the trail he dud him. and he wondered what for mst creature was still lingering on the idges ut the eve of the -e into snows. The snow began to fall in earnest uidnight— great. at bite flakes that al nost In an Instant covered the leaves, t was the real beginning of winter, md ail living creatures knew it. volf pack snug to it from the ridge— i wild unU plaintive song that made îert Cranston, sleeping In a lean-to •n the Unqiquu side of the Divide, '"■ear and mutter in his sleep. But lie lidn't really waken until Jim Gibbs, me of Ins gang, returned from his eoret mission. The They wasted no words. Bert flung --dde the blankets, lighted a candle ml placed It out of the reach of the fight wind. His face looked swarthy nd deep-lined in It-, light. "Well?" he demanded. "What did ou find?" "Nothin'," Jim Git.tis answered gut urally. "If you ask me what I found -ut. I might have somethin' to iwer." an "Then—" and Bert, after the man ier of his kind, breathed an oath— What did you find out?" His tone, exeept for an added no.e f savagery, remained the same. -is heart was thumping a great deal uuder than he liked to have it. Real'z ng that the snows were at hand, he -ad sent Gibbs fur a last search of he tiody, to And and recover the evl icn-e that Hildreth had against him nd which had not been revealed either •n Hildreth's person or In his cabin, le had become in. tvasingly .enslve about those letters he had i ritten Hildreth, and certain other loeuments that had been in his east on. Ye* appre pos Ue didn't understand why hoy hadn't turnc-l up. Nnd now tie snows bad started, and Jim Gibbs had returned empty-handed, hut evidently not empty-minded. "I've found that the body's been un covered—and men are already senrch ln' for clues. And moreover—I think they've found them." He paused, • weighing the effect of his words. His eyes glittered with cunnlug. Bat that he was, he was wondering whether the time had arrived to leave the ship. He had no Intention of continuing to give his services to a man with a rope noose closing about him. And Crans ton. knowing this fact, hated him us he hated the buzzard that would claim him In the end, and tried to hide his apprehension. "Go on. Blat It out," Cranston or dered. "Or else go nway and let me sleep." It w as a bluff ; but It worked. If Gibbs had gone without speaking, Cranston would have known no sleep that night. But the man became more fawning. "I'm tellln' you, fast as I can," he went on. utmost whining. "I went to the cabin. Just as you said. But I didn't get a chance to search It—" "Why not?" Cranston thundered. His voice re-echoed among the snow wet pines. "I'll tell you why ! Because some one else—evidently a cop—was al ready searchin' it. Both of us know there's nothin' there, anyway. We've gone over it too many times. After a while he went away—but I didn't turn back yet. That wouldn't be Jim Gibbs. I shndowed him, Just as you'd want me to. And he went straight back to the body." 'Weg?" Cranston had hard work curbing his impatience. Again Gibbs' eyes were full of ominous specula tions. "He stopped ut the body, and it was plain he'd been there before. He went crawling through the thickets, lookin' for clues. He done what you and me never thought to do—lookin' all the way between the trail and the body. He'd already found the brass shell you told me to get. At least, it wasn't there when I looked, after he'd gone. You should've thought of it before. But he found somethin' else a whole lot more important—a roll of papers that Hildreth had chucked into an old pine stump when he was dyin'. your fault, Cranston, for not gettin' them that night. This detective stood and read 'em on the trail, know—Just as well as i they were." "D—n you, I went hack the next morning, as soon as I could see. And the mountain lion had already been there. 1 went back lots of times since. And that shell ain't nothing—hut nil the time I supposed I put it In pocket. You know how it is—a fellow throws his empty shell out by habit." Gibbs' eyes grew more intent. What was this thlngî Cranston's tone, in stead of commanding, pleading. But the leader caught him self at once. It was And you do—what my was almost "I don't see why I need to expiai any of that to you. know is this: why you didn't shoot and get those papers away from him?" For an Instant their eyes battled. But Gibbs hud never the strength of his leader. If he had, it would have been asserted long since. He sucked In his breath, und his gaze fell away. It rested on Cranston's rifle, that in some n What I want to manner had been pulled And at once he wus He was never so fast with n up across his knees. cowed, gun ns Cranston. "Blood on my hands, eh on yours?" he mumbled, looking down. "What do you think I want. same as a rope i around my neck? These hills are big. 1 hut the anu of the law lias reached up 1 before, and It might again. You might as well know first us last I'm not goln - ; to do any klllin's to cover up your > murders." "That comes of not You fo.il—if ru going myself, j gets that evidence j down to tlie courts you're broken the j same as me." "But I wouldn't get more'n a year or so, at most—and that's a heap dif ferent from the gallows. I did aim at him—" "But you Just lacked the the trigger!" "I did, and I ain't ashamed of it. But besides—the and he won't he abl guts to pull snows an- here now. even get word If you your to to the valleys for six months, want him killed mi had do It Self." This was a thought indeed. On the j z ! fore the road would lie opened, and in ' the meantime Cranston would have a thousand chances t steal back the accusing letters, lie didn't believe for instant that the man Gihhs had "ns a defective. illl SIMM He had kept over tlie roads fot i> close watch that. "A tall chap, in outing (lark-haired und clean-shaven »" "Year •lothes— "Wears a tan hat?" "That's the man." "I know him and I punctured him. ; wish you'd That's Failing the tenderfoot that's been staying at l>en nox's. He's a lunger." Copy right. 1W0. by Little. Brown A Co "He didn't look like no lunger to • me "But no matter about that—it's just as I thought. Ami I'll get 'em back— mark my little words." In the meantime the best thing to do was to move at once to his winter trapping grounds—a certain neglected region on the low er levels of the North Fork. If at any time within the next few weeks, Dan should attempt to carry word down to the settlements, he would be certain to pass within view of his camp. Bnf he knew that the chance of Dan starting upon any such Journey before the snow had melted was not one in a thousand. To be caught In the Divide in the winter means to be snowed In as completely as the Innults of upper Greenland. No word could pass except by man on snowshoes. Yet If the chanee (lid come. If the house should be left unguarded. It might pay Cranston to make an im mediate search. Dan would have no reason for supposing that Cranston suspected his possession of the let ters; he would not be particularly watchful, and would probably pigeon hole them until spring In Lennox's desk. And the truth wus that Cranston had reasoned out the situai ion almost perfectly. When Dan awakened in the morning, and the snow lay already a foot deep over tile wilderness world, he knew that he would have no chance to act upon the Cranston case until the snows melted in the spring. So he pushed all thought of It out of his mind and turned his attention to more pleasant subjects. It was true that he read the documents over twice ns I# lay In bed. Then lie tied them into a neat packet and put them away where they would be quickly available. Then he thrust his head out of the window and let the great snowflakes sift down upon his face. It was winter at last, the season that he loved. He didn't stir from the house that first day of the storm. Snowbird and he found plenty of pleasant things to do and talk about before the roaring tire that he built in the grate. He was glad of the great pile of wood that lay outside the door. It meant life it self. in this season. Then Snowbird led him to the windows, and they watched the white drifts pile up over the low underbrush. When Anally the snowstorm ceased, five days later, the whole face of the wilderness was chunged. The buck brush was mostly, covered, the fences were out of sight ; the forest seemed a clear, clean sweep of white, broken only by an occasional tall thicket and by the great, snow-covered trees. When the clouds blew away, nnd the air grew clear, the temperature began to fall. Dan had no way of knowing how low It went. Thermome ters were not considered essential at the Lennox home. But when ills eye lids congealed with the frost, and his 2^ v N \ *. m ( i 1 1 b ; [ > k m "V ilii j j j A fr n i m iW v "You Just Lacked the Guts to Pull th« T rigger." j mittens froze to the logs of firewood ! rrr.rr; :'f ™ :! ' the darkne«* fTackert,n briie imt , in Ui * was very, very cold. But he loved the cold, and the si lence and austerity that went with It. The wilderness claimed him before. ns never were struggled through «is ns this and passed a love of them down through him The rugged breed that tils ancestors had such the years to TO HE CONTINUEE , Wedding Rtngs Us« Much Gold More than T.tsxi gold, says an authority, each year to-supply the ; for brides. pound of pur* are requin« redding no- I I j TI ' \ , /A i i I ' j i J I /A K M Halil iC JL M BROTHER TO THE BEAR HANOI*A COON sal In the door i 'non G way smoking when Mrs. and her little ones came clawing down the tree nearby and ran .-ward the home of Grandpa Coon. "They certainly do act Jlke them." said Grandpa as the little Coons came tumbling over him, "yes, my children. you are the 'Little Brothers of the Bears' sure enough." "Those big bears cannot lie our brothers," said Timmy Coon, who asked more questions than his broth ers, "why, Grandpa, they are bigger than you are." "Can't help It, sonny," replied Grandpa, taking his pipe from between J T X. yac/00/AiC /4SK£*. <? y< bis teeth. "The coon is called the Lit- j tie Brother to the Bear, and if you nil will sit down and keep very still 1 I'll tell you how it came about." Timmy Coon and his brothers were ' soon sitting In a row in front of ; Grandpa Coon, for they were very fond of his stories, and with their eyes wide open and ears sticking up so they could listen to every word they waited for him to begin. "It was a long, long time ago, you know, honeys," snld Grandpa Coon, "way back long before I was born or HOW DO YOU SAY IT? By C N. LURIE Common Errors in English and How to Avoid Them "TfJANSPIRE" AND "OCCUR." T O OCCUB means to take place, j to happen, to come to pass; to. transpire means to become] known, to escape from secrecy, to be made public. It is quite common, es- | peeially in ordinary speech and In : writings In newspapers and muga- ■ zlnes, to hear and see the verb "trans pire'' used instead of "happen" "occur." j j or Such usage Is, however, 1 quite Incorrect, and Is condemned by i critics in England and America. "It transpired yesterday, at the meeting of the common council, that permis sion was withheld," etc., wrote a re porter, but he should hove written, "It happened yesterday," etc. ter still, he should have omitted the phrase and begun his sentence with "at" and omitted "that." or, bet Following Is a onse of the use of the verb "transpire": meeting of the common council terday It transpired that last week's nction on the street-railway franchise was not final"—that Is, it became known. proper "At the yes (Copyright.) What's in a Name? 44 Facts about your name: its history, meaning, whence it was derived, significance, your lucky day and lucky jewel By MILDRED MARSHALL NATALIE. ATALIE is another holy name, originally coming from the Latin title of "Dies Natalis," the birth lay of our Lord. The word Natalie has furnished the title of the feast to all the Bomunce portion of Eu N rope. France made Mie word Noel from it, meaning Christmas, and soon Noel beennte a Christian name there. In Italy It appeared ns Natale. Spain jnd Portugal used the name Nntal. There is n feast celebrated on the 3tb of September by the Greek church is the festival day of St. Natalia, the levoted wife who attended her nus uid, St. Adrian. In Ills martyrdom. He Is the same Adrian whose relics ailed the Netherlands and whose name became celebrated In the West where bis wife Natalia was long neglected. The East, however, reversed the rangement nnd Natalia Is popular there, while her husband Is forgotten Natalia was one of , he f „ vor "j : Gr*t?k Christian names. Russia lulopt- j v ar EARL'S SISTER RUNS PAYING DAIRY Lady Victoria Murray Makes It itable Business—Sells Milk and Eggs. a Prof Macclostflcld, England.- N<-,,r,-elj week passes in England without an announcement that another tltJ.-d per sonage had taken up some plain every day business. The latest ,o be added to an already long list is Lady vie a ; : *">' Jfrandpa, either, that all this Imp ; I pened/' j The eyes of nil the little coons grew Idgger still with the gogglelike rings , , ^un-i their eyes ^s, ^ee 8a,d Gr "" d ' when « '«"f lon K t,me «° , Mr. Dog was a-chaslng young Swlfty Coon after he Jumped from tbe t«e whew lie thougtit he had him treed for sure. "Swlfty heard Mr. Dog a-coming behind him, und as he was running as fast as he could he knew that some thing had to be done right off quick or he would he a dead coon IB a very few minutes. "Swlfty thought of the tree ahead, hut he knew that Mr. Dog would Just sit under It and bark and wait for Mr. Man to come with his gun and : then all his trouble would have been ' for nothing. "Bight then Swlfty saw ahead of i him Mr. Bear's house with the door i wide open, just as If he was expect ing company, and he was golDg to have company only he did not expect . : it. I "Well, luto Mr. Bear's house tum bled Swlfty and ran right under the table, where Mr. Bear was a-slttlng reading. " 'Oh, save me, Mr. Bear !' said Swlfty. 'That awful Mr. Dog Is chas ing me nnd hack of hlm, I expect. Is Mr. Man.' j "Mr. Bear, he Jumped right up. lor he was not a hit afraid of Mr. Dog, 1 but he did not care for Mr. Man at all. "When Mr. Dog came up to the door ' there stood great big Mr. Bear look ; ing very cross and growling. " 'Whnt you doing here?' be asked, showing his mouthful of teeth, 'you ; been chasing my little brother, and if j you don't run off home tills very min- | | Ute I slinli eat you up.' "Mr. Dog, he Just dropped Id.- tail nnd he legged It for home so fast that j Mr. Man never did know where he 1 The Right Thing at the Right Time By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE AIJOUT INTRODUCTIONS - against custom than against nature. Plutarch, We are more sensible ot what is done O ONE has any good excuse for not being able to make Intro ductions easily and in good form, It is simply a matter of knowing the right form and then in a little prac tice. It Is nn act that requires no originality and no s|>ecln! talent. Hut there nre a lot of people neverthe less, who always do bungle nn intro duction, and this for the simple reason that they do not give the subject suf ficient thought or do not trouble themselves to look up the right way to do It. N The other day I observed a stalwart young corporal, proud to have his cheery-faced little mother visiting him, and eager to Introduce her to his ! j ' : friends. "Mother, meet Sergeant Jones," snld as one of his friends approached be ed her uud, adding the sonants of its language, calls her ^atalljn, Nataschenka, nnd Natascna. l * irst of tlle three names Is tre m p ly popular there today, ,,lp Bolshevikl came into power and "'IHidrew the attention of etymologists fn " n the study of feniinfi usual eon rx or until le names, have France Is said to —t . ,, . secured Natalie from Bussln, though there Is ' record of a Natalie at Cambrai In 1212. England preferred Natalie any of the other forms, rejecting Natalia as too Latin In its influence. Whether American Natalies resentatlve ut the English, direct from Franco, personal preference-. The pearl tnllsmanlc gem. to : JT f," , V j to lfiOO B. C^ " f ° n,b " (lnf,n *> r b,,rU nro rep or taken I» a matter of of pnrlt.v H promises Is Natalie's _i good - fortune for Its wearer and makes her gentle, kind, and lovable. Thursday Is her lucky day and 4 her Inck'v number. ' (Copyrlsht.) —-O-_ preparations have torlu Murray, fourth sister .of ... <>f Dttntnore. Some farming as a hobby. "'(•II she is continuing It as u straight business proposition. 2100-acre farm at Whlteley Hey. near here, she Ims a herd of lio shorthorn and Friesian dairy cuttle. I ruck some -10.000 gallons of milk (Ills time ugo she began dairy Now sin- finds It pu.vs si On her By fiiotor Otid train site Ims marketed yen r. I went, nnO be had t„ I "And ever since j been railed the 'Util Hear.' go lion, that tin;« «' Broth,. ÎOO. ' we hav 9 r to the The little Coon* wnit,.,j f . to see If Grandpa «•„, j another story, but hi his hand on the head began l ; there would lie i 1 rainutr J not tell ,pl1 from •itipa'* •■ v knew 'hat '» would 8 Pl|K> kntsg and ° "o<l. „ini il,. •n II« more ; day Nl "ries <f»nyr:*hi > O Lois Wil son. -mi j I ! & -^®SL S'* ? Ml m 3 3 " ■i \ \ M TV .ss V son, a well-known sere« star, entered the moving picture fielt after winning a beauty contest con. ; ducted by an Alabama newspaper She j has steadily climbed until today she | | 8 playing leading roles in some of the most popular pictures. She typical sweet, home-lovlng type j fore going Into pictures she v 1 school teacher. is the Be. was i and ngnin. "Smith, know my mother.'' To he sure this answered the pur pose and as every one was very happy on the occasion It probably didn't make much difference how the inw> duct Ion was ruade But the form tvu far from courteous. In the first place n man should h! ways present or Introduce his dim friends to his mother, or any other woman, and tie should use a form of introduction that shows that he I» making the Introduction in this wny. Moreover the abrupt manner of say ing simply, "Meet Mr. Brown," or "Know m.v friend Jones.'' which ha» recently become so popular Is really too abrupt to he in good form for uny . purpose save possibly for men to In troduce men to each other In a pure ly business connection. ! Thp rl * {ht "ay for the young soldier j to have gone about It would have been to sn.v. ".Mother, I want to pre sent Sergeant Jones." "Jones," this i» : my mother," or "LPt me Introduce Sergeant Jones to you. mother; Ser I gönnt Jones 1 wish to present you to my mother." In a case like this It Is not necessary to give the mother's name. The only occasion where It would he. would lie In the case the It should never he used In Introducing women. mother, through remarriage. Imre » name different from the one of the t son who Introduced her. (Copyright. ) -. - II-—.. Hdw ItgStürted THE FINGER PRINT SYSTEM ' T HE British authorities in I®!! 1 desiring to Impress the niü' rt with their i until science, till U I H,# the Idea of taking the linger prit'» 1,1 everybody. Later the scheme *** brought to Scotland Yard, the P°' lc * headquarters In London. From • hfrt It spread till It is now In untver» 1 use. - (f'liprrlghl > (> Possible Explanation. "I wonder why the seasons are i< ! ' u»ked ways pictured us women?" Knox, as he nnd Ids wife were tnklnf In the nrt exhibit. "I suppose," answered Mrs. Kn<* 'It's hern ti se men are never satisfied with them, no matter what kind th#f get." In addition, part of the land I* t«ki* up with a big poultry farm and 000 eggs have been shipped to vnrlotl* markets, besides large quantities t'f dressed poultry. Well of Whisky. Knoxville, Tenn.—Th" police •H*' covered a well of whisky In a resi dential part of tin- city. A small cop per pipe from fen feet under ground eimhletl th'' to keep a supply of moon shine whisky on tup at all hour». •op|s-r tunk aua* 1 u owners