Alice Lake
Î The Voice of the Pack
I
By EDISON MARSHALL
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“If you would coin« out In the
time and slug." snld the Tond "I am
NE night n little Cricket wns sure you would have to agree with me
singing loudly when a Tend thut the birds can slug louder mid
which hud been dozing by I lie more sweetly than your family. I
trunk of a tree ■uhl: "Oh, do be think you nre the ones who are afraid
quiet I I never heard such a noise as to have a contest, not the birds,"
"Not nt all,” said ths Cricket, "but
you nnd your family make.”
“Very true,” replied the little crea why should we come out In the sun
ture, "for our fmnlly nre, of course, light when wo much prefer the night-
the bent singers In the world. We time tn be abroad? We know that our
can make u grout noise, us you have family slugs better than any other in
salii.”
the world. Let the birds. If they doubt
"But that does not make you the this, come out nt night nnd sing with
liest singers In the world," n‘pll»*d the US."
Toad. "Did you never heur the bird«
“You nre a silly mid conceited little
singing In th»« trees, silly creatur»«?"
creature,” snld the Toad, hopping
"Why should I listen to the birds nwny, for It wus almost daylight by
when I can sing better than they do?" thia time.
"You awoke me from my morning
nap with your silly chirping.” inld a
big Robin flying down from hla homa
In the branches of the tr«*e.
"And ao you think your family can
outalng mine, do you? Well, there will
he one leaa at any rate tonight to
help your family sing, friend Cricket,
and I believe my children would eo*
Joy you for breakfast.”
"You see, Mr. Toud, It la Just as I
told you," Chirped the vain Cricket, aa
the Robin flew up In the tree with him
In his bill, "the birds are Jealous of
our voices, for this fellow Is taking
asked the Cricket. “Just listen now. me to his children that they may
Our family are tuning up mid I am Imw their voice Improved by eating
sure birds could not sing louder."
one of the finest singers In the world."
“If you would take the trouble to
The Robin thought thia so funny
listen some time when the birds are he had to laugh, and when he opened
singing In the daytime I mn sure you his mouth down fell the Cricket to the
would not be so vain," said the Toad. ground and quickly hopped away.
"Ah, there you are I" exclaimed the
Hut he gave one last chirp us he
Cricket. "In the daytime you say; went. "The very be*
the
why do the birds not sing at night, I world, the very hrst,' he salii, ns ha
ask you. my friend? I will tell you; crawled out of sight.
because they dare not compare voices
"Well.” snld the Toad, who had
with my family; that Is why. We can stopped to see what hapi^ntsl, "I sup
outslng them and they do not wish to pose If he thinks so It really does not
let everyone know that tlie Crickets matter what others think."
have the best voices.”
(Cspyrtskt.)
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Copyright 1920. by Little. Brown A Ca
coldness, "an opportunity to take that were all obscured In a strange, white
back. Just about four seconds.”
mist. A great wind roared In his ears
He stood very straight as he spoke, —and his heart was evidently about
Synopsis.—Warned by his physi
and his eyes did not waver In the to shiver to pieces.
cian that he has not more than six
least. It would not be the truth to say
But still he fought on, no’ daring to
months to live, Dan Falling sits
that his heart wss not leaping like yield. He could no longer parry Crans
despondently on a park bench, won
a wild thing in his breast. A dnrk ton's blows. The hitter's arms went
dering where he should spend those
six months. Memories of his grand
mist was spreading like mildness over around him tn one of those deadly
father and a deep love for all
his brain; but yet he was striving to holds that wrestlers know; and Dan
things of the wild help him In
k»«ep his thoughts clear. Stealthily, struggled In vain to free himself.
reaching a decision. In a largo
without seeming to do so. he was set Cranston's face Itself seemed hideous
southern Oregon city he meets
people who had known and loved
ting his muscles for a spring.
and unreal In the mist that wns creep-
his grandfather, a famous fron-
The only answer to his words was' Ing over him. He did not recognize
tlersman. He makes his home with
a laugh—a roaring laugh of scorn the curious thumping sound as Crans
Silas Lennox, a typical westerner.
The only other members of ths
from Cranston's dark Ups. In hla* ton's fists on his flesh. And now
Ths emotional force displayed by
household are Lennox's son. "Bill,"
laughter, his Intent, catlike vigilance* Cranston had hurled him off his feet. charming Alice Lake In her most ro-
and daughter, "Snowbird.” Their
relaxed. Dan saw a chance; feeble ! Nothing mattered further. He had cent pictures has placed her In the
abode Is in the Umpqua divide, and
though It was. It was the only chancel fought the best he could. This cruel front rank of screen stars. Miss Lake
there Falling plans to live out the
short span of life which he has
he had. And his long hotly leaped like beast could pounce on him at will Is barely twenty-two years old. A few
been told Is hla From the first
a serpent through the air.
and hammer away his life. Rut still short years ago she was attending
Fallings health shows a marked
Physical superior though he wa»j he struggled, Except for the constant Erasmus Hall high school in Brook
Improvement, and In the compan
Cranston would have repelled the at play of his muscles, hts almost un- lyn. She la the daughter ef a auo-
ionship of Lennox and hla son and
daughter he tits Into the woods life
tack with his rifle if he had had a' conscious effort to free himself that csuful
marchant
winsome
as If he had been born to It. By
chance.
His
blood
was
already
at,
"movie
”
star
la of medium height and
kept
one
of
Cranston's
anus
busy
quick thinking and a remarkable
the murder heat—a point always' holding him down, that fight on the lithe In figure. Her eyes are a dark
display of "nerve" he saves Len
quickly reached In Cranston—and the mountain path might have come to a hazel and her hair a rich brown.
nox's life and his own when they
are attacked by a mad coyote.
dark, hot fumes in his brain were, sudden end. Human bodies can stand
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Lennox declares he Is a reincarna
simply nothing more nor less than thet a terrific punishment; but Dan's was
tion of his grandfather, Dan Fall
most poisonous, bitter hatred.
No weakened from the ravages of his
ing I. whose fame as a woodsman
THE RIGHT THING
other word exists. If hts class of de disease. Besides, Cranston would soon
is a household word. Dan learna
that an organized band of outlaws,
generate mountain men had no other have both hands nnd both f»«et free for
of which Bert Cranston Is the
accomplishment, they could hate. All the work, and when these four ter
leader. Is setting forest fires. Lan
THE RIGHT TIME
their lives they practiced the emotion :f rible weapons are used at once, the
dry Hildreth, a former member of
hatred of their neighbors, hatred off Issue—soon or late—can never be in
the gang, has been induced to turn
By MARY MARSHALL DLTFEE
states evidence. Cranston shoots
law, hatred of civilization in ail its? doubt
Hildreth and leaves him for dead.
forms. Besides, this kind of hlllman
But even now. consciousness still
VV hlsperfoot, the mountain lion,
habitually fought his duels with rifles. lingered. Dan could henr his enemy's WHEN YOU EAT FRUIT
springs on Hildreth and finishes
Hands were not deadly enough.
.. curses—and far up the trail, he heard
Hildreth and devours him, thus ac
quiring the taste for human flesh.
Remember thlu-that there la a proper
But Dan was past his guard beform another, stranger sound. It sounded
Dan discovers Cranston in the act
dignity and proposition to be observed In
he had time to raise his gun. Thel like some one ninnfng.
of setting a forest fire.
the performance of every act of life.—
whole attack ws one of the most
And then he dimly knew that Cran Marcus Aurelius.
astounding surprises of Cranston’s life. ston was climbing from his body.
Dan’s body struck his. his fists flailed, Voices were speaking—quick, com
N THE formal, inany-course dinner
CHAPTER II—Continued.
and to protect himself, Cranston was manding voices Just over hirn. Above
a fruit course usually follows the
obliged to drop the rifle. They stag Cranston's savage curses another voice
sweets and cheese, directly preced
Dan felt himself straighten; and the gered. as if In some weird dance, on rang clear, and to Dan’s ears, glorious ing the coffee. In many families fresh
color mounted somewhat higher in his the trail; and their arms clasped In beyond all human utterance.
fruit is always served at dinner fol
brown cheeks. But he did not try to a clinch.
“What’s in a Name?
He opened his tortured eyes. The lowing the dessert. The decorative
avenge the Insult—yet. Cranston was
For a long instant they stood strain mists lifted from in front of them, and value of fresh fruit served in this way
By MILDRED MARSHALL
still fifteen feet distant, and that was ing, seemingly motionless. Cranston’s the whole drama was revealed. It had has, no doubt, had something to do
too far. A num may swing a rifle powerful body had stood up well under not been sudden mercy that had driven with the establishment of this course
within fifteen feet. The fact that they the shock of Dan’s leap. It was a Cranston from his body, Just when his in the dinner menu. Rut there are
were in no way physical equals did
victim's falling unconsciousness would not a few good folk who always de
not even occur to him. When the in
have put him completely In his power. cline the course because they renUy
sult is great enough, such considera
Rather it was something black and don't know Just how to eat It. Oh, to
tions cannot possibly matter. Crans
ominous that even now wns pointed be sure they can eat oranges and ap
ton was hard as steel, one hundred
ples and bananas and graftes, but they
squarely at Cranston's breast.
HE lovely Spanish favorite, Jua
and seventy pounds in weight. Dan did
nita, has come to be a "name
None too soon, a ranger of the hill are not at all sure whether they eat
not touch one hundred and fifty, and
without a country." The mu
had heard the sounds of the struggle, them in the right way. For eating
a deadly disease had not yet entirely
sic of Its syllables proved Irresistible
and had left the trysting place at the fresh fruit at a picnic or ns a be-
relinquished its hold upon him.
to many countries and In modem
| spring to come to Dan's aid. It was tween-meal Is one thing, and eating It
"I do very well, Cranston,” Dan an-
NE my frlen's leetle keed come Hines It lost Its Spanish h»«ritage and
Snowbird, very pale but wholly self- at a dinner Is another. The Idea Is,
swered in the same tone. "Wouldn't
home from dn school other day came to be as American us Anne or
sufficient and determined and Intent however, always to serve It in Its nat
ural form. To serve the oranges all
you like another match? I believe
feela preety tough. He cry Ilka Edith.
Her pistol was rocked and ready.
peeled and sliced would Indeed be a devil and telia hees papa
your pipe has gone out.”
Junnlta means "grace of the Lord."
have
mistake on the part of the one who troulde weeth du teach.
It comes originally from the same
Very little can be said for the wis
CHAPTER I It.
planned the dinner. To serve the
dom of this remark. It was simply
You know my frlen calla dat keed source ns John. It was probably In
human—that age-old creed to answer
Dan Falling was really not badiv bananas sliced would be Just ns grave Tony for da name. So when da lectio honor of St. John the Evangelist's
blow for blow and insult for Insult.
sonof-agun corne home weeth cry guardianship of the lllessed Virgin
hurt. The quick, lashing blows bad an error.
But really It Is no very difficult task een da eyes da olda mun telia hevin. that her name became Joined with ids.
Of course the inference was obvious
not done more than severely bruise
—that Dan was accusing him, by innu
the flesh of his face; and the mists of to eat whole fruit as it should be "Wot's matter, Tony, you no be gooda In the Fifth century n Giovanni
endo, of his late attempt at arson.
unconsciousness that had been falling eaten at dinner. This becomes com boy een da school. Wat for you hava (John) Marla Visconti of Milan a|>-
pears and straightway Juan Marta
Cranston glanced up quickly, and it
over him were more nearly the result paratively easy at tables where the trouble weeth da teach?”
But Tony ees smarta keed alia became n popular name In Spain.
might be true that his fingers itched
of his own tremendous physical ex English custom of serving q fruit
By adding a final “a," the feminine
and tingled about the barrel of his
ertion. Now these mists were rising. knife and fork Is followed. The right. He was no bom lasa week. He
banana should first be peeled. Morsels
rifle. He knew what Dan meant. He
“Go—go away,” the girl was com should then be cut by means of the tella bees olda man he no do soma- Juana was formed, n name which
ting een da school only talk leetJe bit. proved more acceptable than the mas
understood perfectly that Dan had
manding. “I think you’Ve killed him.” knife and eaten with the fork. Do
not He say tree, four time he play da culine Juan us a preface to Maria,
guessed his purpose on tlie mountain
Dan opened his eyes to find her cut ft all at once.
to >k, too, but he no getta trouble for and soon Marla was dropped entirely
side. And the curl at his lips became
kneeling close beside him, but still
The best way to rat an apple at the
more pronounced.
covering Cranston with her pistol. Her dinner table Is to cut it in quarters da* He say da teach ralsa devil only nnd Juana became a separate nnine.
Spain Is fond of endearments nnd di
“What a smart little boy,” he
hand was resting on his bruised cheek. with the knife, handling it as little as w'sei he talka too mooch.
minutives,
as Rosita nnd Carmencita
Rlghta
queeck
my
frlen
getta
sore.
scorned. “Going to be a Sherlock
He couldn’t have believed that a hu possible, and then to pare the skin
Holmes when he grows up.” Then he
man face could be as white, while life from each quarter and to core It as He tella me when dat keed was leetle and scores of other names prove, so
half turned and the light in his eyes
still remained, as hers was then. All required. There is quite a knack In shaver ev»«rybody teacha heem how presently the ever-popular Juanita
blazed up. He was not leering now.
the lovely tints that had been such a doing this without taking the apple say somatlng. When he could say wns evolved. Many famous women of
Spain bore the name, among them a
The mountain men are too intense
delight to him, the play of soft reds up into the hands any more than nec- "mamma” and "papa” and some other
ting he was consider pretty smarta queen, who wns known as Juana la
to play at insult very long. Their in
and browns, had faded as an after eseary.
Loca. Her reign In CastlUe wns nn
keed.
herent savagery comes to the surface,
glow fades on the snow.
Pears are eaten In much the same
G
unfortunate
and distressing period.
Da
olda
man
say
when
da
keed
get
and they want the warmth of blood
Dan’s glance moved with hers to manner and so are peaches and plums,
It may be that the Spanish Influ«
ta leetle beeger he senda heem een da
upon their fingers. His voice became The Battles of the Mountains were Cranston. He was standing easily at but the
considerate hostess does not school for learna S]>eaka da EngJeesh once in the Southwestern stales
Battles to the Death.
guttural. “Maybe you’re a spy?” he
a distance of a dozen feet; and except serve these fruits when they are no good.
He say he wnntn dat keed brought Juanita into vogue In this
asked. “Maybe you’re one of those city
for the faintest tremble all over his Juicy and over-ripe as to be difficult learna
plentn talk so can makn pientä country, or her fame, according to
rats—to come and watch us, and then hand-to-hand battle now. The rifle body, a muscular reaction from the to manage.
money when he getta beega man.
some, may have been established bj;
run and tell the forest service. There's had slid on down the hillside, to be violence of his passion, he had entire
Many persons would not serve
But when da keed talk leetle bit een the country-wide vogue of the old
two things. Failing, that I want you caught in a clump of brush twenty ly regained his self-composure. This oranges at all for dinner. but Instead
song with which even the pr»«sent gen
feet below. Dan called on every ounce
to know.”
was quite characteristic of the moun tangerines that can be managed more da school he say he hava trouble eration Is familiar. Who does not re
of
bls
strength,
because
lie
knew
what
weeth
da
teach.
He
tella
hees
’
pnpa
Dan puffed at h!s pipe, and his eyes
tain men. They share with the beasts gracefully, Tangerines may be peeled
looked curiously bright through the mercy he might expect if Cranston a passion of living that Is wholly un and then broken Into sections. the een da school he no cun speaka one member :
ask thy soul If we should
film of smoke. “I’m not interested in mastered him. The battles of the known on the plains; but yet they have seeds being removed by means of the ting only when ralsa da hand and “Juanita,
part?"
mountains were battles to the death.
getta permlsh.
hearing them,” he said.
a certain quality of Imperturbability knIL before taking them in the fln-
Juanita's tnllsmanlc gem Is the fire-
They flung back and forth, wrench
My frlen writs letter for da teach
“It might pay you,” Cranston went
known nowhere else.« Nor Is It limited gers to eat. Orange skins should be
opal.
That gem of sunny Spain prom
ing
shoulders,
lashing
fists,
teeth
and
on. “One of 'em is that one man's
to the native-born mountalnfers. No removed by holding the orange firmly and tella her she dunno somntlng ver ises her protection from evil spirits,
feet
and
fingers.
There
were
no
Mar
mooch.
He
say
when
hees
keed
was
word is good as another’s in a court—
man who Intimately knows a member on the plate with the fork and then
good health and happiness. Tuesday
and it wouldn't do you any good to quis of Queensberry rules In this bat of that curious, keen-eyed little army cutting off the skin by means of the leetJe eef he mnka talk he wns cute. Is her lucky day and seven her lucky
tle.
Again
and
again
Dan
sent
home
And
when
he
go
een
da
school
he
ees
run down and tell tales. A man can
of naturalists and big-game hunters knife, After this morsels of the
number.
light his pipe on the mountain side his blows; but they all seemed Inef w'ho go to the north woods every fall, orange may be cut from the core by tough guy eef he talk. My frlen say
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fective.
By
now,
Cranston
had
com
without the courts being interested.
as regularly and seemingly as Inex means of the knife and fork and the he dunno how hees keed can getta dn
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pletely
overcome
the
moment
’
s
advan
educash
or
learna
spenkn
da
Engleesh
The second thing is—just that I don’t
orably as the waterfowl go In spring, pieces conveyed to the mouth by the
tage
the
other
had
obtained
by
the
eef he gotta keepa da mouth shut.
think you’d find It a healthy tiling to
fork. Needless to
power of his leap. He hurled Dan can doubt this fact. They seem to easily accomplished say, this is more And believe me I gotta sama idee as
do.”
when
the
oranges
A LINE O’ CHEER
have
acquired
from
the
sUenge
and
"I suppose, then, that is a threat?" from the clinch and lashed at him the snows an Impregnation of that are firm and not extremely Juicy. So my frlen.
with hard fists.
Wot you tlnk?
the wise hostess selects California
“It ain't Just a threat.” Cranston
By John Kendrick Bangs.
It is a very common thing to hear eternal calm and Imperturbability that oranges for dinner, though she may
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laughed harshly—a single, grim syl of a silent fight. But ft Is really a Is the wilderness Itself. Cranston
those delicious Florida oranges
lable that was the most terrible sound more rare occurrence than most peo wasn’t in the least afraid. Fear Is prefer
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THE THING THAT COUNTS.
he had yet uttered. "It's a fact. Just ple believe. It is true that serpents usually a matter of uncertainty, and when they are to be eaten with n
try It. Falling. Just make one little will often fight In the strangest, most he knew exactly where he stood.
1 spoon for breakfast.
ERHAPS my facs and figura
You may have your own pet way of
step In that direction. You couldn’t eerie silence; but human beings nre
spars
eating grapes, but there is only one
hide behind a girl's skirts, then. Why, not serpents. They partake more of
Are neither things of b«au-
right
way
—
that
Is,
according
to
the
you city sissy. I'd break you to pieces the qualities of the tneat-eators—the
Oh, I wish I could shoot
ty rare,
accepted usage. They should be eaten
But what of that? What p*lnt-
in my hands I”
you, Bert.”
wolves and felines. After the first
Ing's fame
by means of the fingers of the right
Few men can make a threat without Instant, the noise of the fight aroused
Was ever based upon Ite frame?
hand, the stones should then be
a muscular accompaniment. Its very the whole hillside. The sound of blows
Who judges jewels, bonds, or
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dropped into the left hand Inconspi
THE CURFEW.
stocks,
utterance releases pent-up emotions, was In itself notable, and besides, both
Upon the basis of ths box
cuously and thence conveyed to the
part of which enn only pour forth in jt the men were howling the prim
Bull Baiting.
Tn which against the thief's foray
fruit plate. Cherries should be man-
N' THE Middle Ages, when most of
muscular expression. And anger is a ordial battle cries of hatred and ven
The owner stores the same away?
This wns a sport once popular In aged In the same way,
the
houses
were
built
of
wood,
It
primitive thing, going down to the geance.
I care not what my figure be,
England, but declared Illegal In 1835.
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became a custom for the watch to
Or what the kind this face of me,
most mysterious depths of n man’s na
For two long minutes Dnn fought A bull was attacked by dogs, and
So long as In all mortals’ sight
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go about after sundown ringing a bell
ture. As Cranmon spoke, his Up curled, with the strength of desperation, sum sometimes the nostrils of the bull were
The spirit held within is right.
as a sign for all folk to cover their
his dark fingers clenched on his thick moning at Inst all that mysterious re blown full of pepper to Increase his
Time Speed of Jackrabbits.
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fires nnd go to bed. This precaution
palm, and he hnlf leaned forward.
How fast can n Jackrabbit run? Mo
serve force with which nil men are fury. Another form of the sport was
Dan knocked out his pipe on the born. But he wns playing n losing to fasten the bull to a stake by a long torlsts of Lyons, Kan., recently have was necessary to prevent the danger
log. It was the only sound in that gnme. The malady with which he had rope and then set bulldogs st him, one made tests of speed on country roads from fire. The name "Curfew” is de
Electrical Power in Africa.
rived from the French couvre feu
whole mountain realm; all the lesser suffered had tnkon too much of his at a time, which were trained to seize and have found that a cottontail will
Engineers
are considering the con
(cover-fire).
It
was
introduced
into
sounds were stilled. The two men vigor. Even ns he struggled, ft seemed the bull by the nose. The bulldog go 45 tnles an hour for half a mile,
•tood face to face, Dan tranqtril, Crons to him that the vista about him, the seems to have been developed for this while a Jackrabbit will travel more England by William the Conqueror struction of an* electric transmission
though the custom prevailed in Eu line 700 miles long for carrying powey
ton shaken by passion,
dnrk pines, the colored leaves of the sport from a short-cared mastiff Called than a mile at 60 miles an hour before rope long before.
from the Victoria falls of the Zambesi
hopping out of the road.
"I give jpu," snld Dan with entire perennial shrubbery, the yellow path "alaunt”
(CenrriehL)
to the mines at Johannesburg.
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