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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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EARLY RISING
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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STtiOPSIS: Just u Tei Ca
nor is desperately about to set a
orert jlr to act a job, Kau
Crandon top him, tike hit
looks, pipes him a place at the
Lazy Nine. When her ranch house
and bam burn. Josh Hastings,
who wants to buy the Lazy Nine
and marry Kay, invites her to the
Flying Six. She reuses, dbtrutt
ing him, but youna sister Babs
and Aunt Kate go. Ted telle Kay
Hastings is "a snake." The injur-
-ance money, which Kay planned
to use tor rebuilding, has to go on
the mortgage. It's a blow, but Kay
recover! when Ted stirs the out-
. fit to cut its oum lumber and re-
- build without pay.
Chapter 11
, , Kay Talks Too Freely
KAY held Ted back as the otheii
entered the mess shack. '
" "I brought you this," she said,
suddenly shy at the look in his
eyes, as he gazed inquiringly at
i her. She unbuckled a cartridge
studded belt with a swinging gun,
and handed It to him.
"You said you'd sold yours," she,
explained simply. ' mis was one ot
Dad's. I'd like to have you have it."
" A huskiness came into- Ted's
throat as he tried to thank her, but
she hurried in without waiting (or
Him to voice his feelings.
By the time Kay got back to her
cabin, the bitter blow of the morn
ing seemed nothing more than a
joke. It would be a great relief to
' have the $10,000 insurance money
paid off on the mortgage, and she'd
nave her house ana barn into the
bargain.
A sudden impulse decided her
to go over and tell Aunt Kate and
Babs about it, and she turned down
to the corral to get Flicker.
"Won't Josh Hastings be mad,
Flicks?" she gloated, with a tri
umphant laugh. "If he did have
anything to do with the Are, he's
had his trouble for nothing.
Planning how she could arrange
to get Aunt Kate and Babs home
as soon as possible so as not to be
under any greater obligation than
she could help to Josh Hastings,
Kay decided to get the boys to
throw up an addition to her cabin
the first thing so that they could
all fit into it, while the building
was going on.
. Ted Gaynor had gone off right
after lunch, and was planning to
bring; his mother and sister back
within two or three days.
"It'll be no end of fun, Flicks,"
she murmured, - with sparkling
eyes and a heightened color as her
mind dwelt on Ted Gaynor. "We'll
all be regular pioneers, and live
Just as they did in the early days."
Her mind full of schemes and
plans for the future, Kay covered
the 10 miles to the Flying Six in
what seemed no time at all, and
came trotting up to the ranch
house to find Aunt Kate dozing on
the porch in the sunshine.
'There's A Fine Man!'
"UELLO there!" -'
' 1 A Aunt Kate awoke with
start at Kav's call.
"Well, it's about time you were
coming over to see how I was get-
iing on, sne grumDiea, out the
affectionate welcome in her eyes
belied her querulous greeting.
Lome up nere ana give, an ac
, count of yourself."
Kay dismounted and ran up the
steps, looking about with an in
vestigating eye to see If there were
any signs of Josh Hastings. She
was torn between the hope of get
ting away without seeing him, and
the mischievous desire to flaunt
ner new plan before him.
' "I suppose Babs isn't home from
school yet," Kay observed, as she
kissed her aunt. "I was so upset
last night that I'm afraid I didn't
give you a very cordial welcome,"
she added apologetically.
"Made me feel about as welcome
as a pole cat!" Aunt Kate was
never one to mince words. "But I
don't hold It up against you, con
siderin' the circumstances. Luckily
Josh Hastings did the welcomin'
for you. There's a fine man for
you!" She shot Kay a quick shrewd
look out of her bright black eyes.
"It was good of him to step into
the breach the way he did, Kay
answered evasively. "Is he back
from town yet?"
"How'd you know he went to
town?"
Before Kay had a chance to an
awer, a deep bass "Hello!" sound
ed from the direction of the corral,
and the next minute Josh Hastings
rounded the corner of the porcli.
"Hello, there!" There was noth
ing in his greeting to indicate
whether he had overheard Kay's
tirade against him. He came up on
the porch and held out his hand,
which Kay was reluctantly forced
to take. "You were sure in a hurry
the last time I saw you." he added.
"Had some bad news?"
"It seemed like mighty bad news
then," Kay answered, "but now I
see it in a different light. It's
opened ; p all sorts of possibili
ties." "Sensible girl," he commented.
"So you've come over about the
offer I made? Well. I'm standing
right behind it."
"Oh, no," Kay answered sweet
ly. "I've no more intention of sell
ing than I ever had. I just came
over to see Aunt Kate."
There was a moment's pause. As
Kay glanced innocently up at him,
she could see the natural flush in
his face deepen. That was the only
evidence of surprise he gave, but
his blue eyes narrowed.
"No intention of selling, eh?" he
echoed. "Just how are you plan
ning to rebuild, without your in
surance?" "The same way the pioneers
did," Kay answered easily, thor
oughly enjoying herself. "There're
plenty of trees to get lumber from,
and we've plenty of labor to do
the Job."
"who put that scheme In your
head?" he demanded brusquely,
cutting short Aunt Kate's excla
mation of surprise. "I never heard
anything so crazy!"
A shade of doubt crept into Aunt
Kate's look of interest at this
sweeping disapproval of Kay's
plans.
"I hope It isn't crazv." Kav an
swered, with exasperating calm
ness. "None of us think it is. But
anyway we're going to try it."
' The whole idea's as wild as a
locoed coyote!" He turned to Aunt
Kate. "Can't vou stoD Kav from
throwing away what little money
she has on such a crazy plan?"
rtuni jvate toortea irom one to
the other, her eves sauinted in her
wrinkled face. "I don't quite make
out what it's all about."
it boils down to this." Jnh
Hastings broke in impatiently
without giving Kay a chance to
answer. "The insurance money has
to go toward paying off the mort
gage, so Kay has nothing to re
build with. I've made her a gener
ous casn oner to tans tne whole
ranch off her hands, so th.it h'il
have a neat little nest egg to live
on instead of ruining herself and
losing the ranch into the bargain.
And here she comes across with a
wild-cat scheme to rebuild with
out any money."
"That does seem kind of foolish,"
Aunt Ka.te agreed. "You'd better
not be so hasty, Kay."
'Plenty Of Treea, Eh?'
"THERE'S really nothing to dis-
cuss," Kay tried to keep her
temper at this unfair attempt of
Josh Hastings to win Aunt Kate
over to his side. "It's all decided.
The first thing I'm going to do is
to build an addition to the cabin,
so you and Babs can come home."
She turned to Aunt Kate, who
looked none too pleased.
"Don't you agree to any such
thing, Miss Crandon." Hastines
swung abruptly from Kay to Aunt
j.aie. "xou stay right here until
Kay comes to her. senses." He
paused, and stared reflectively into
the distance. "Plenty of trees, are
there?" he murmured half to him
self, fixing Kay with his cold blue
stare. "Just where are all these
trees of yours?"
Kay was aware of a sudden gone
feeling in the pit ot her stomach.
What a fool she'd been to talk so
much until she'd made sure of
those tew acres of timber on Old
Man Warren's ridge! Trying hard
to make her voice casual, she
sougnt to undo her indiscretion.
"There's a lot of timber back of
our norm range," she answered
vaguely, adding with spirited sar
casm in the hope of diverting his
mind from its present train of
thought, "We haven't begun to
cut yet, naturally!"
"Some haul you'll have from the
norm range,' Hastings observed
with satisfaction. "And I can't
seem to remember much big tim
ber up that direction anyway." He
gave a shrewd chuckle and added
tolerantly, "Well, I reckon you'll
have to make a try at it, before
you'll be satisfied."
Kay's premonition of trouble, in
stead of being dispelled by this
change of attitude was greatly
strengthened. There wasn't a min
ute to waste! She must get in to
Old Man Warren at once and get
an option on that landl Even
though she hadn't mentioned her
intention to buy that up, Josh
Hastings could easily reason It mil
for himself that that was the only
available timberland for her to get.
She slipped down from the
porch rail, where she had been
perched beside Aunt Kate. "I'm
afraid I can't wait for Babs to get
home from school." It was all she
could do to keen her voir rnlm
and unhurried. 'I promised I'd be
ngni dbcjc.
"Got to get started cutting down
that timber?" It was Josh Has
tings turn to be sarcastic.
'Not quite vet." Kav' effnrl
an easy laugh wasn't any too suc
cessful, as she bent
Aunt Kate. "There's no such ter
rible rush." She hoped he couldn't
hear the pounding of her heart
which drummed in her own ears.
She must Bet awav nnw. af nnro
and get hold of Old Man Warren
before it occurred to Hastings to
try to block her!
Wait a minute." Josh Htlnr
put a detaining hand on her arm.
(CopvrioM. I37. Itarie at Xirvaud)
Raclnf to Old Man Warren's, to
morrow, Kay Is Interrupted.
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PITT8nEt,D. Ill, JulT 11 (API
An 1 1-png mined statement ot a
ort-pokn paAtnr that he struck
hi "devoted friend," Mrs. Denma
Kelly. l.V with a hammer durlni a
roadnlde quarrel after she deserted
her husband was claimed bjr authorl
tlea today.
' Stsie's attorney Merrill Johnston
of Pike county, III, announced the
statement and said the Rev. C C
Newton. 61. Indicated wllllnanem to
plead guilty If the grand Jury in
dict bim. Newton, tor 13 year pas
tor of a Baptist church at Farla,.!
ctairted with first degree murder.
Johnston quotas Newton M ssylng
Mrs. Kelly Insisted ha accompany
her to California on her flight from
rtome and husband.
On the Illinois side of the Mark
Twain bridge over the Mississippi.
Mrs. Kelly jot out of the car. The
statement said.
"She scresmed that she woula
never get bark In the car unless we
were going toaether." It added.
Johnston said Newton related
calmly that:
He stmaaled with the woman dur
ln which she twice tell to the pave,
ment.
He drank "two or three
ones" from a whisky bottle.
He struck the woman with a hsm
mer. Then ha dragged Ihe body In the
car. drove on the bridge and pushed
the body off Into the rli-er. It was
round floating near Louisiana. Mo..
Tuesday morning.
Use Mail rrlbun want ada.
The Child Einstein
Born In 1836. Truman Henry Saf
ford amazed the people of hla home
town. Royalton, Vermont, by learning
to tell time at the age of three, start
ing school at that ae he proved him
self a remarkable, though and unwill
ing scholar.
At the age of six, Eafford could
mulalply In hla head four-digit fig
ures by four-digit flgurea and could
mentally extract square and cube
roota from none and ten-dlglt fig
ures. One of the feats remembered of
him at this age waa his working out
the correct number of barleycorn It
would take to surround his father's
cornfield.
At nine, the mathematical wonder
prepared an almanac and a year later
performed one of the most Astound-
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Ing mental feata of Its kind ever per- died In 1901.
-tne multiplication in one
of 363,369,363.385.363.369 by
formed'
minute
ltselfl
More worthwhile. If less sensations,
work drew his Interest a few years
later. Applying his talents to astron
omy he discovered 'a previously un
known method for calculating the rls
Ing and setting of the mcon which
did away with about a fourth of the
work formerly required. At 14, h3
calculated the elliptic elements of the
first comet of the year before.
Graduated from Harvard college
when 18. Sarford became one of the
greatest of the world's astronomers. I
spent most of his life In teaching the
subject at various colleges and unl-
versltles, did much In the way of dls-1
eoverles to advance the science, and
The Uncalled Spanish Main
Practically all pirate stories to the
contrary, no pirate ever "sailed the
Spanish Main" nor did any more
law-abiding men of the sea ever sal
It. The feat Is quite Impossible unless
one were to have some sort of a land
vehicle with sails. Properly speaking.
the Spanish Main consists entirely ot
land. The area to which the term ap
plies la the mainland of Spanish
America with particular reference to
the northern coast of South Amer
ica from the Isthmus of Panama to
the Orinoco or Amazon.
"Spanish Main" Is Improperly ap
plied to the southern portion, or the
whole of the Caribbean Sea.
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BOTWOOD, Newfoundland, July
IT. (AP) The Pan-American Clip
per III landed here Friday at 7:S3
a. m, (S:5J a. m, E.S.T.) after a
flight , across the Atlantic from
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