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The Understanding ' Heart '' I*"*** m Jlr own snakes. Bob "You kill . ts |nlnH Why kIBS blm ln * UcU" ■« i«wd for the telephone' n * i h'r untrained contralto Jiouioa; „f Sharon u<l so flly “fl rul tl..d and bunged T the Forest Service i tn d cranked at tn. i ,er»i<l it’s out <>f order, abetpermission, » h 0"“, why shouldn’t I live up Surely you do, SffiltX a "rental cripple?” ‘ X a a'hh‘"' , M, ’ ni '' a h rgP t a h 08 p f . uJ "There’s a demijohn in the f P “ b ;' You're all hot and excited, I Ta drink will do you a great deal tid Struck me this afternoon, ‘ Jff that yon were ruling a pretty i t»“ • Looked to me ' She might have a lot of hot blood I ‘“•■fe has. He's a three-quarter thorI ™<eU. tl 'he'll need it all tonight, i He has a rider in the saddle : L-a rider who knows these hills ,s well as you know your pistol And here's another bone for : Swknaw on. sheriff. At the next - election your political enemies will Lath you’out of office. From now on Bob Mason will be a hero for outwitting you. He's taken your horse I and left you afoot. He's made a star- . spangled monkey out of you, Mr. sher- [ "I notice vmi ride a pretty fair ! korse vourself. Miss Dale,’' he retort ed grimly. "I reckon I’ll just naturally bate to help myself in the name : o( the law." i -1 wouldn't advise that course, sherif. It happens that tonight I, am the L law on Bogus. Also I have a certain : afection for my little horse, and I dog t figure on letting any fat sheriff | ride him to death in the timber at ; night. By the way. am I mistaken or ! did I observe a rifle in a scabbard on ! your saddle this afternoon?” “You did, girl, and it's still there, i and the magazine's full-up.” | “You're the picture of hard luck, old boy. Sit down and rest your weary / tat Have a drink. Fellows like you [ rtoare so chary of kindly hospitality tad to give my house a bad name. ' Just be shy." , The sheriff poured himself four tigers There was nothing else to do. I Presently he begged wistfully: [ “Miss Dale, you won't ever tell any- [ body about that ornery Bob Mason I Healin' my horse and leavin' me afoot ud helpless, will you? You're right. . Jiri. They'd laugh me out of office I im November." I The lustrous brown eyes were rais- ' ed to bim with a look of kindness and I benevolence ineffable. "Poor old silly F tariff! Os course not. Why, that wouldn't be a bit sporty’" Far down the trail a fusillade of rifle shots punctuated the twilight sij tare. Three minutes passed but there no further shooting. ; “I wonder if somebody got Bob Mason." the sheriff ventured. I “I fonder if somebody got your horse, said Monica Dale. "Wise men ilways shoot the horse froffTHnder a . wonted fugitive. It simplifies nratl ters so.” I Perhaps Mason lias shot the horses out from under some of my posse.” i Perhaps,' Monica looked at her f “bidden guest sorrowfully. “Poor i tnu she sighed. "How singularly f “fortunate you are today.” Th e sheriff blazed in fury, “Yomtg 1 d 0 yon I<nnw what yo” can And without waiting for MoI sen C ! h^? ly he yell < “ You can go to F .J I*’* 1 *’* “other drink, brother. You | «» excited." she urged. i snw J 8 ° t 0 ' led - she sheriff almost [ i»tn7r' and fioooooil out of the door i -| e Fathering shadows on Bogus. llnn, C e tainly tIoPB take some folks v laie ib get to their objective," time'm , m l sed - "Well — guess it’s ht lhp lights and close the “twn-house door!” I. v . CHAPTER 11. *»tbonv “ nticl l ,atf ' (l - Ranger i« the k , nd was we " on llis w ay lore he rilm Mp adows station beta mcntaiTn?'’'',' 1 10 recover from tat tn m Physical shock incl--11 lXu" R W ‘ th ,he mistresa thei/ *noJm i*"" hpart “heats resumed mMcnlln adenCe ’ an<l from a this 2 lne con sideration of the Whim his ml"’!* 4 !!’ gil ‘ had ha,i up ‘ •trammeled b . abltua,e '’ to clear . •*un e t() thinking, automatically ta had h J onsi(lp ration of the effect tasio n on whi P< i. n J he failurp °f the bln. c ’h his chief had sent «s U l"lce°u u° o<i trottnclng and ** had the „ 5 hp rpf l p cteaL "Then ta»hy,J audap| ty to tell me how **'!« Wm l . had . f ° lle(1 ” 8 ' antl forced 1,11 to betray ha ll . 6 way ’ to P roTOise J'” 1 the strn»' er ' Good Lor<1 ’ how htals ot ’ °“* eßt Os men is in the ' that t’m 1 ?? and 'ovely woman r lM1 «"ho™ bm , Strongeßt of mpn M ®b”lt is IVp npv er regard- ’ Itwa, ’’ a weakling. i’ wllp 't shJ tnlu ? aearch hp r cabt,” it X. ed me to ' 1 could , ’• °t dignitv h a without a severe h?? e to gain bUt Bacr ificed>he adfa ? a “4' sad a n Other - to <>o 4vhat ta^ to V-± U L Bhe obviously de- ' d Minin?!. that was to please -j fth ’t if si" 8 the hwitation. ae was bluffing? What

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if that convict actually was concealed in her house at' the very moment she urfed me to search It? Was that magnificent rage <>f hers real or simulated? Certainly I have never heard an old dog. with cattails 1n his nose or a growth in his throat, snore as dearly and distinctly as thaPWlredale did. I didn’t believe her then, and 1 do not believe her now, and I noticed that when the old pup stretched himself out in the yard to continue his snooze sh e kept throwing bits of bark at him to keep him awake. 1 think she was afraid that if she permitted h m to sleep he wouldn’t snore! "Another point, 1 foolishly overlooked, although I wouldn't it she hadn’t been so desolatingly lovely and intellectnully fascinating. She admitted she had bepn expecting a stranger for ten minutes! No wonder she-had her stage set off under that sugar-pine in the yard as far from the house as possibe. "She gave me a reasonable excuse for not inviting mo into the house, but nevertheless I do not think she really cares a fig for such social niceties. She demonstrated that she is amply able to protect herself —and I don’t think I have ever impressed any woman as a bad man. "She got that radio going to drown the sound of possible snoring — and she chattered continuously when the radio wasn’t playing. Mason has had very little sleep and much physical exertion since his escape: he must be exhausted. He had to have rest—and she saw that he got it. He had to depend on her to get rid of the sheriff's posse for him—and evidently stie succeeded! Getting lid of me was child's play to that girl, but getting rid of the convict isn’t going to be. “Shall I go back and search her house? Or would it not be more diplomatic to suggest to the sheriff that he or one of his posse do it? 1 hesitate to incur that girl’s active, dislike, although.“’bless her, she hinks like a man and probably vyvuld be sporty enough to like mo for outgaming and outthinking her. At any rate, she’d respect me —perhaps. Yo unever can tell what these mountain people will do in their resentment. No, 1 wouldn't car P to place myself in such a poor light that 1 wouldn’t be welcome again on Bogus. That girl is certainly the shadow of a rock in a weary land for young Tony Garland." He turned, his horse abruptly off the trail and climbed to the very crest of Bogus. As he bad anticipated he found an armed and mounted man sitting his horse here where lie could dbmmand, while daylight lasted, a view of the surrounding country' "Where’s the sheriff of Siskiyou county?” Garland demanded. “Right here,” the horseman replied, laconically. “I’m Ranger Garland, of the Tantrum Meadows station. Have you searched the cabin of Monica Dale, the lookout down yonder on the western slope?” The sheriff's eyes opened questioningly. “No, I didn't.” “Why not?” Garland demanded in the peremptory tone of one accustomed to giving orders and rejecting explanations. “Vt’ell, now that you ask me, I've got toXadmit I’ll bp horsewhipped if I know.” the sheriff replied frankly. “We were all at the lookout station—rode up behind the girl after she’d killed our dogs anil fiYrnished a pretty sound reasort for her act. We met her a mile below tjje lookout station, and she led us up to it instead of trying to send us on in another direction on a wild-goose chase-r which she might easily enough have done. At her house she gave us all a drink, and — and well, Ranger, it never occurred to me to suspect her. I must have been hypnotized by the girl.”

.“I can readily understand the spell slip weaves, since she wove it on me half an hour ago.” And Garland related In detail his experiences at Monica Dale’s cabin. The sheriff was convinced instantly. “The devil take that girl," he declared disgustedly. "She’s smarter than any woman has a right to be. She knew the value of a bluff, but she also realized that-- a half-hearted bluff might fail. 1 knew a man who worked that psychology with marked success. He was a gambler — always played poker, table stakes pat. IJe wasn't an extraordinary poker player, but he did possess' extraordinary courage. With a mixed hand and the highest card the purs e of Scotland, I've seen that fellow- stand pat in a game with four millionaire mining men. “He bet cautiously, playing ’em close to his Vest, studying his hand, studying the faces of his opponents, j

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sighing a little, giving every evidence of a wholesome desire to bet ’em as high as a hound’s back but lacking .the necessary courage. So he kept raising and back-raising on piking bets until somebody shoved in a stack. "Everybody stayed. Tjiey had to. i They figured it was the last bet and that he’d lie down. He didn't. He shoved every chip he had in fwnt of him into the pot—som e four thdffkanji dollars’ worth —and he didn’t have as much as a pair in his hand. The others immediately quit, and the bluffer reaped the reward ot his courage. Ranger, you’re right. That girl is brave enough to take a desperate chance. Why didn't you call her bluff, young man?” “Sheriff, if I were as old and homely as sou—is 1 were a married man with four children, as you are —l’d have done it. I hau a feeling, when she invited me to search her house, that I was losing fifty dollars by declining the invitation, but—well ” “I can read you like a newspaper, Ranger,” the sheriff replied, grinning widely. “You're i<issing the buck, boy. Well. I don’t blame you. She’s as sweet as a royal flush." “Women have a lot of conceit regarding their power over a man,” Anthony Garland continued wisely. “Their first and most powerful weapon is the’r sex attraction, and they've used it so early and so often they figure they can get away with murder. Monica Dale " “If I was as good-looking as you—and as young as you—and if I wasn't a maAied man with four children —all of ’em girls anil the youngest sixteen —l’d iprobably agree/ with you that what I didn't know about women wasn't worth knowing,” the sheriff interrupted. “As the situation stands with me, however, I’m free to state that I don't take much stock in your pronouncements. Ranger. You ain't had the necessary experience. What was you about to say regarding this girl. Monica Dale?" “She will conclude she has successfully deluded both of us and that we will spend the night guarding the base of Bogus to keep Mason from escaping off the hili. So she’ll keep him there all night—rest him and feed him —and turn Wm loose on Bogus an hour or two before daylight to take his own chances with your posse. She knows she cannot afford to keep him hidden longer. In fact, she realizes it must never be known that she harbored him at all!" The sheriff nodded his comprehension and agreement with the ranger’s views. “I wish I had about twenty more men.” he replied. “I can tell you where to get them." Now that he was recovered from and removed from tlib danger of Monica’s influence, he was all eagerness for the chase. “Send your chief deputy over to the camp of the Hercules Hydraulic Mining Company on Dogwood Flats—about three miles from here. Mason killed their superintendent—that's why he’s doing time. The management there will co-operate with you. and your deputy can swear the entire crew in as deputy sheriffs and commandeered their services. You’ll need them all for a night guard, Sheriff. and most of them have weapons.” “Right you are. Ranger. Please ride along the hog's-back for about a mile and you’ll find my chief deputy. He's a red-headed man on a roan horse. Tell him what, to do and say that I ordered it done. Then you take up his guard until he comes back." Withowt further parley Garland rode (iff up the hog’s-back and the sheriff rode down it to Monica Dale’s cabin, with the result already told. CHAPTER 12 II was quite dark when, after an arduous climb, the sheriff made his tortuous way through the chaparraftc the point where Anthony Garland should be stationed. He lighted a match and shouted, and almost immediately Garland answered and rode to meet him. “Well, Sheriff?" the ranger queried, anxiously. “If you pester me with questions I’ll tunnel you,” the exasperated official roared back at bim. “That scoundrel wasn't in her house when I got there. He was hid outside somewhere —in her barn, most likely—and while I was searching the house the sly devil forked my defenseless horse and quiettly jogged away with him. I didn’t oven hear his departure. Ranger, vou’ve got to protect me. I can t afford to have it known that Bob Mason actually stole my horse right under my nose and made his getaway. For the love of decency, keep it quiet.” The ranger chuckled, and again the harassed sheriff commenced to plead. He was so broken-hearted at the dis-

grace which had befallen him that Garland was moved to pity, despite the humor of the situation, and gave the sheriff his word of honor not to mention the distressing incident. “I swear I'm all tuck’ered out,” the latter complained. "I'm too old and stout for this hill work afoot. Ranger. suppose you lend me your horse while you make your way home afoot. You know this country better than I do —and the mon will be up in half an hour. I'll tell the posse I had to have a fresh horse, so I swapped lujrses with you for a few du»vs. “Meanwhile the ranger force will probably find my horse, for Mason, will not dare to ride him far. He's too dog-gone prominent—a light bay, almost a buckskin, with four white stockings and a blazed face. He'll be found wandering somewhere.” Garland dismounted at once. “If you injure my horse or lose him, he'll cost you two hundred dollars,’' he I warned the sheriff. i “He's worth it, Ranger. And whomever finds my horse after that convict , gets through with him earns a twentyfivp dollar reward. Did you hear that ‘shooting a spell back?” “I did. I marked the spot pretty well, ’ and when the moon rises we ought to go down and investigate. I'll hang Jo your stifrup it you don’t mind.” The weary sheriff sat down and rolled a cigarette; the ranger sat down beside him. “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl," the sheriff remarked regretful!}'. "I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and j I'm as hungry as a wolverine. “If I'd had sense enough to keep m my temper and refrain from cussin' I her —yes, she exasperated me so I I told her to go to Jericho and she laughed—l might have got her to cook me up a snack. I know she’d have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.” “I’m mighty peckish myself. Sheriff. Suppose we go down to Miss Dale’s'cabin and ask her for something to eat? A cup ot' coffee and some bacon and eggs would suit me fine. Nobody in this country ever thinks of turning away a hungry man.” “Don't tourture me with your talk about bacon and eggs. Gosh, I can just smell ’em and I can't eat 'em. I got too much pride to risk having that girl ride at a gallop over me again.” "Tell me about her,” Garland urged, loading his pipe. “Who is she? I mean, who were her people? Any fool can see she isn’t the product of common blood.” "Well, naturally. Ranger, I know more or less about her. Once a fellow gets elected to the office of sheriff in a California cow county, runs his office respectable and does his duty like' a man of some guts and vintelligence, the job's usually his for life. 1 was the chief deputy when the sheriff and I tangled with a gang that held up the Shasta Express here ten years back. "The sheriff was killed, and I got shot all to blazes, but not fatally, and I was lucky enough’to get enough of those train robbers for a mess. So I stepped into the sheriff's job for the unexpired term, and I’ve been elected twice since; consequently I'm more or less acquainted with every voter in the county. “All I know about Monica Dale is that she was born and raised in these mountains, and that her old man was a placer miner, when he wasn't pock-et-hunting. About twenty years ago old Dale found a pocket and took sixteen hundred dollars out of it. There was just about enough quartz in that ore to hold the gold together. Dale thought he had cleaned the pocket out, so he sold his claim to the Hercules Hydraulic Mining company for five thousand dollars. They put a gang of hard-rock miners at work on it and took out two million dollars before the vein pinched out.. Old Dale never got over it. It made a pocket-hunter out of him for life . He'd do just enough placering to get h brub-stake together; then he was off, wandering from hell to breakfast in search of another bonanza. “Tho'girl and her mother lived over on Dogwood Flats alone most of the time. Dale had the free use of a section of land owned by his partner, Unclp Charley Canfield, and run about a hundred head of beef cattle and his wife boarded some of the miners from time to time, until she developed pneumony of the lungs and died. (TO BE CONTINUED) Copyright 1926 Peter B. Kyne by arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc

CITIES OPPOSE 1 RAILROAD BILL ■ — United Opposition Shown To 50-50 Railroad Elevation Measure By Robert L. Beard j (t’nlted Press Staff < ’nrrespondent) Indianapolis Ind. Feb.'S, (ll.pit.ed Press) —United opposition to the Clements bill for equal division between cities nnd railroads of grade separntien costs is the object of city officials of Fort Wayne, South Bend, Hammond. East ChiMgo, Gary and oilier cities who are busily engaged in efforts to defeat the bill. The measure, introduced by Rep. French Clements, Evansville, would tax the cities and towns where track elevation work is undertaken for the elTmination of grade crossings with one half the entire cost of the propect. At the present time municipalities pay one fourth of the cost of the work at the crossings only, realroads threefourths. and the railroads all the cost of such work other than at crossings. Mayors of a number of Indiana cities were in conference with legislators here this week making plans for opposition to the Clements bill. Because ot tfre serious advantage to which Fort Wayne would be put by passage of the measure. Mayor William Geake, of Fort Wayne, is taking a prominent part in solidifying opposition to the bill. Saying that the Fort Wayne situation furnishes an example of the hardships that enactment of the Clements would impost) on Indiana cities. Mayor Geake said that passage of the bill would impose on Indiana cities bill would saddle a debt of $2,000,000 on his city. Fort Wayne, he said, is engaged in a $4,000,000 track elevation program which would he seriously hampered by passage of the Clements measure. Cities in the Calumet region, crossed and recrossed by surface railroad lines, would also suffer greatly, legislators from that district declare. The opinion is held by a numberof legislators that railroads are sponsoring the measure in retaliation for refusal ot freight and passenger rates adequate for paying the cost of elevation wotk, and now want to shift the burden to the taxpayers. Copies of the proposed law have been distributed among city officials at the behest of oppom-nts of the bill, for study and analysis. The committee on railroads, of which Frank E. Cline. Bargersville, is chairman, has postponed consideration of the meausre until Tuesday of next week. It is expected that mayors from throughout the state will appear before the committee to protest action

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