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cne of which was certainly to be expected, became manifest in his face. Both guards were held and amazed by the apparent fact that at the first scrutiny of the man's outline, his carriage and his droll, wrinkled face, the prisoner Kinney was moved and stirred as if confronted by the risen dead. The old man himself halted, returning Kinney’s stare. Kinney’s mind seemed to be reaching, groping for some astonishing truth that eluded him. The Qld man ran, in great strides, toward him. “My God, aren’t you Ben Darby?" he demanded. The convict answered him as from a great distance, his voice cool and calm and with an infinite certainty. “Os course,” he said. “Os course I’m Darby.” 41 For the moment that chance meeting thrilled all the spectators with the sense of monumental drama. The convicts started; Howard, the second guard, started absurdly, rather guiltily, when the old man whirled toward him. “What are you doing with Ben Darby in a convict gang?” the old wanderer demanded. “What am I doin’?” Howard's astonishment gave way to righteous indignation. “I’m guardin' convicts, that’s what I’m a-doin'.” - The old man had turned his eyes again to the tall, tremblifig figure of Ben. “Ben, Beni” he said, evidently strug-

THE OLD MAN RAN IN GREAT STRIDES TOWARD HIM * g.’lng with deep emotion. “What are you doing here?” “Five years—for burglary,” he answered simply "Guilty, too—l don’t know anything-, more. And I can’t remember —who you are.” , “You don’t know me?” Some of Ben’s own bewilderment se"nvd to pass to him. "You know Ezra Melville— ’’ Sprigley stepped quickly to Melville’s side "He’s suffering toss of memory,” he explained swiftly. “This is the first time he ever recalled his own name.” Melville gazed at him in incredulous astonishment, then turned •to Sprigley. “May I talk to you about this case?” he asked quietly. ”Tr not to you, who can I talk to? There as a few points that might help to clear up—” Many and important were the developments which arose from their conference. Melville’s northward journey was postponed for some days, and within a week this same wnitehaired, lean odd man was pleading

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his case to the Governor of the sftate of Washington. It came about, from the same cause, that a noted alienist. Forlest, of Seattle, visited Ben Darby in his cell; and finally that the prisoner himself was taken to the capital at Olympia. The brief inquisition that followed, changing the entire current of Ben Darby’s life, occurred in the private office of McNamara, the Governor. The alienist from Seattle conducted the examination. “You don’t remember this man?” Forest asked him quietly, indicating Ezra Melville. Again Ben s eyes studied the droll, gray face. "With the vaguest kind of memory. T know I’ve seen him be fore—often. I can’t tell anything else-” “He’s a good friend of your family. I should say he was a very good friend to take the trouble and time he has in your behalf.” Ben nodded. The explanation was beyond him. Forest leaned forward. “You remember the Saskatchewan River?” Ben straightened, but the dim images in his mind were not clear enough for him to answer in the af firmative. “I’m afraid not,” Melville leaned forward in his chair. "Ask him if he remembers winning she canoe race at Lodge Pole—or the time he shot the Athabraska Rapids.” Ben turned brightly to him, but slowly shook his head. “I can’t remember ever hearing of them before.” “I think you would. In time.” Forest remarked. “They must have been interesting eexperiences. Now what do these mean to you?—Thunder Lake— Abner DiVby—Edith Oarby—MaoIyean’s College " Abner Darby! It was curious what a flood of tenderness swept through Ben as, whispering, he repeated the name. Since his own was Darby, Abner Darby was. in all probability, his father but his reasoning intelligence, rather than his memory, told him so. The name of Edith Darby conjured up in his .mind a childhood playmate —a girl with towzied vpllow curls and chubby, confiding little hands * • But these dim memory-pictures went no further; there were no later visions of Edith as a young woman, blossoming with virgin beauty. The third name of the three, Mac Lean’s College, called up no memories whatever. “They’ll strengthen in time, Pm sure.” Forest told him. “Put them out of your mind, for now. Let it he blank.” The alienist again leaned toward him. his eves searching. There ensiled an instant's pause, possess ing a certain quality of suspense. Then Forest spoke quickly, sharply. “Wolf Darby!” In response a curious tremor passed over Ben’s frame, giving in some degree the effect of a violent start. "Wolf Darby,” he repeated hesitantly. “Why do you call me that?" “The very fact that you know the name refers to you. not someone else, shows that that blunted memory of yours has begun to function in some degree. Now think. What do you know about ‘Wolf Darby?” Ben tried in vain to find an answer. A whole world of meaning lingered just beyond the reach of his gropig mindt but always it eluded him. Forest suddenly spoke to old Ezra Melville; and the latter put a small, cardboard box into his hands. “I want you to see what I have here.” Forest told Ben. “They were ycur own possessions once—yon sent them yourself to Abner Darby, your lute father—and I want you to see if you remember them.” Evidently this was the climax in the examination. Forest opened the box, taking therefrom a roll of white ; cotton. This he slowly unrolled, revealing two small. ribboned ornaj mentß of gold or bronze. Ben's starting eyes fastened on j them. No doubt he recognized them, j. “The Victoria Cross, of course,” he said Slowly, brokenly. "T won it, didn’t I —the day—that day at Ypres —the day my men were trapped—” His words faltered then. The wheels of his memory, starting into motion, were stilled once more. Again the great darkness dropped over him. Yet to Forest the experiment was an unqualified success. “There's no doubt of it!” he exclaimed. He turned to McNamara, the Governor. “His brain is just as sound as yours or mine. With the right environment., the right treatment. he'd be on the straight road to recovery.’ {Continued in Our Next Issue)

SCOUTS PAY OFF SIO,OOO MORTGAGE All-Day Celebration Planned ■ Saturday, The finance committee of the Boy Scouts today closed a campaign for funds to pay off the SIO,OOO mortgage on the scout reservation north of the city. The.mortgage will be turned over to officials Saturday and will be burned at special camp-fire program at the reservation in the evening. The semi-annual meeting of the local council will be held Saturday reservation. The program will include reports of standing committees, an account of a trip around the world by William Fortune, and stunts by the fire-crofters. Hang Ip Clothes Put your clothes on hangers as soon as you take them off Before putitng them away look them over and see if they need any stitches or cleaning. Keep them in repair and you will get twice the wear from them. Book Cases The book shelves and book cases should harmonize with the other furnishings in a room and may be placed under -windows and In various re and empty spaces where they WUVfcdd to the charm of the room.

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THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

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Evolution ? Yes and No — Say Crowds

Presbyterian ministers engaged in denouncing William Jennings Bryan for scorning the theory of evolution,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

have nothing on crowds of ordinary Indianapolis folk which congregate before an exhibit In a Washington St. store window. A series of models supposed to portray how man quit eating gross, dropped his pointed ears and developed appendicitis, daily arouse the speculation of the throngs. “Ain’t, it a shame!” said one man. “That sure raises Cain with the Bible, and it oughtn’t to be allowed." “I don’t sw anything so remark-

able in those skulls," said another ■with a smile, as he glanced at the model of the “Java Ape Man,” supposed to have lived 500,000 years ago. “Why don’t they put King Tut’s dome in here, or some, one we’ve heard about?” a stenographer asked her companion. “Well, I believe in evolution,” said a spectator, "just because Bryan says it’s all monkey talk. He has been guessing Frong since I was 10 years old."

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Fudge Cake Is Delicious By BERTHA E. SHAPLEIGH of Columbia University. CREAM one cup butter and two cups sugar together, add four ounces chocolate which liar been melted and the yoltyj of four eggs, well beaten. Beat th?3 mixture

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

thoroughly. Add three cups flour sifted with three teaspoons baking powder and alternate with one cup of milk. Add stiffly beaten whites of the four eggs and one teaspoon vanilla, and beat well. Bake in layers and when cool put two layers together with fudge frosting. Then frost top and sides with fudge frosting. This frosting can be made as follows: The constituents ara: One-fourth cup butter, two cups sugar, one-half

FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1923

-By ALLMAN

—By AL POSEN

cup milk, three ounces chocolated (unsweetened), one teaspoon vanilla” Make as you would make fudge, beat until the right consistency to spread on cake, which will be when It can be poured on the calc© easily, hardening sufficiently to remain without running down the sides. It is best to frost top layer first, then the middle and last the aides. This Ls a rich cake, and will leap for days without dPying