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RUBBER CHASE
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX
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SYNOPSIS: nn destroys Kay
Crandon'f Lazy Nine ranch house
and lorn. Josh Hastings, owner
0 !h Flimo Six. trie to buy her
ranch ond court Kay. She halei
him and is determined to keep
. her ranch and rebuild. Ted Guv
nor, a puncher shi impulsively
; hired. lights scrap Johnson, a cow
hand who molested Kay. They
shoo, it out. wounding each other.
Hastings finds thtm unconscious
and kill Scrap with Ted's pun.
Ted crawls to i shack where a
girl named Marlon nuree him
through a feverish week. The gun
is found ond Sheriff Farley hunts
Ted. Kay goes alone to the shooU
. iny scene at the central divide.
Chapter 31
Jealous Misery
TURNING back. Kay paced out
the distance from the water to
the spot where Scrap Johnson's
body had been found. Then she
searched the ground between with
minute care.
Her eye suddenly caught a
gleam in a small clump of grass.
Pulling it aside, she picked up a
steel nail head, of the type that Is
used to stud belts and gauntlets.
She knew that because so many
people had milled over the spot,
her find was of little value, but
Kay slipped it into her pocket, and
went on with her search.
Standing up and stretching to
relieve her muscles of this strained
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The dark haired girl appeared in the doorway.
position, Kay suddenly noticed
that the sun was sinking in the
west. She glanced at her watch
and saw that it was after four
o'clock, and she hadn't yet fol
lowed the stream southeast
She decided Impulsively to take
a chance on getting out of the
mountains before dark. The trail
was so well defined that there was
small danger of getting lost, and
now that she was here, it was fool
ish not to study every possible
phase of the situation.
Starting along the water's edge,
he came after a hundred yards or
so, to such thick brush that she
almost decided to turn back. As
she peered ahead, however, she
noticed several twigs that had
been snapped off short, and pushed
on with a fast beating heart.
Her excitement quickened as
she thought she saw more evi
dences that someone had pene
trated the brush fairly recently
Althought it seemed impossible
that any wounded man could
have made such rouh going, she
persevered, and finally reached
Che clearing.
The old prospector's cabin stood
at the end of it, deserted and for
lorn, with its sagging boards and
dark background of pines.
Giving way to curiosity that this
relic of the past raised in her, Kay
determined to investigate. The in
tense silence, broken only by the
gentle rustling of the tree tops, led
tier to steal forward on tiptoe, so
as not to disturb the magic hush.
She noisily crossed the clear
ing and stopped for a moment at
the boarded up window, before
going around to the door. Cupping
her hands about her face, she put
her eye to a crack.
The Black Haired Beauty
KAY managed to stifle the
amazed gasp that escaped her
at the extraordinary sight that
met her eyes, but she stood rooted
to the spot, gazing with hypnotic
incredulity at what she saw.
Her heart beat in uneven, suf
focating Jerks, and a blaze of color
flooded in her cheeks.
Stretched on the cot, somewhat
pale, but evidently all right, con
sidering the animated way In
which he was talking. Ted re
clined, his head half turned from
her toward a dark haired girl who
sat beside him. with her hand
gently laid on his.
Kay couldn't hear a word of
WHITE
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T.ie reason why Hans Hanwn tn
m at u pon wi 1 1 gti l nea fowl m
preference to other varieties was dis
closed in a letter revived here to
day from the Brookings farmer.
Mr. Hanwn wrote some time ago
ft Postmaster Prank DrSouza askinK
tht eomeone mall him two wnit
guinea hen and a cork C. O. U
No response was received to Ms or'r
and then It wu discovered that
Kbit guiACt iowi In lauUierip gra-
what they were saying, but it . -obviously
an engrossing talk.
Bright points of light flickered
before Kay's eyes and a strange
buzzing sounded in her ears as she
gazed, as though petrified, at the
unsuspecting couple before her.
Tom Runyon's words, describ
ing Ted's fight at Kelly's, came
back to her: "He won't mind boast
ing about it to the black haired
beauty he was fighting for!"
So. it was true, then! All that
time that they had been riding
back in the sunset, with the pres
sure of his arms tightening about
her, had seemed the expression of
the emotion she had thought was
sweeping over them both, hii
thoughts had really been on an
other girl! And the first minute he
could, instead of coming back to
Kay as he had promised, he had
gone to her rival
A stifled sob broke out In spite
of her, and Kay saw the girl inside
raise her head in sudden inquiry,
and listen.
Kay shrank back from the win
dow, and ran into the grove of
pine trees that half circled the
cabin. Panting as though she had
been running a long distance, she
bit her lower lip, and stood with
her hand pressed against hei
heart, as she peered out.
The next instant, the willowy
figure of the dark haired girl ap.
peared on the steps of the cabin.
She stood for a moment in a lis
tening attitude, and Kay had an
opportunity to take in her ovai
face, with its rather sad but sweel
expression, and the transparent
whiteness of her skin against the
glossy black hair that dipped in
soft waves on her forehead. In s
moment she vanished inside.
One .11 ore .Look
IMPELLED by a wild surge of
1 emotion that was stronger than
anything she had ever felt in her
life before, Kay could not resist
creeping back to the window for
one more look. It couldn't be
true! She must have dreamed this
nightmare!
Hardly recognizing herself in
the grip of the jealous misery that
possessed her, Kay watched Mar
lon's smile as she held her hand
on Ted's forehead. Then, as she
turned, and moved over to the tiny
stove, Kay shrank away and ran
quietly back across the clearing.
She blindly pushed her way
through the thick underbrush that
separated her from the spot
where she had left Flicker, her
mind seething with inarticulate
thoughts, and tumultuous emo
tions. She was incapable of con
secutive thought, her one intelli
gible idea being to get away, as
fast as she could, and never let
anyone know what she had seen.
Forcing her way on with relent
less energy, she at last came out
on the grassy space that surround
ed the head waters. The slueeish
water that had seemed so myste
rious and wonderful in the sun
light, looked dark and sinister in
the fading twilight. A few streams
of color from the afterglow of the
sunset still streaked the skv, but
the faint gleam of a planet and one
or two stars told of the near ap
proach of night.
Still animated by her wild de
sire to get away, Kav felt, with
out consciously noticing It, the
changed aspect of the place, and
a shudder ran over her, as she
reached Flicker and prepared to
mount
As she swung Into the saddle,
her eye caught the fatal spot
where Scrap Johnson's body had
been found. Her overwrought
nerves caused an involuntary cry.
She gave Flicker a touch of her
heel, and they raced through the
narrow pass and pointed down the
trail at a headlong pace.
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Ray falls from her plunging horst
onto the blsck, rorky trail, tomorrow.
gon are an scarce as hen' teeth.
Hugo A. Frohrelch, poultry dealer,
said he had never seen any white
guinea fowl from Portland to Sad
Francisco. Ho begun rewarch to
find out the reason why and wrote
to Yankton, 8. D., to get aome nMte
birds. Hla office Mid noday tlie re
search and the YanMon oraer had
not yet produced rrult. Meantime
It was reported there ,w a whit
guinea hen In fVtma Valley.
"My experience ha. a been that
white gulneaa are more fifigreanlve
than the etandard type." wrote, Mr
Hansen who aafd his acquaintance
with the fowl o'.lglnnted In the Da
kotiis si dtd Mr. Frohreleh's.
'M?.ny poultry raters, especially
In hawk -In .rated arena, keep giu
ne'is to act as police for the poultry
flock. T.iey are ever vigilant and
their rtucoiis danger signals ate al
ways a warning to the flock to eek
shelter whenever a hawk or other
poultry enemy appears. The white
gjliieaa wUi oieu tb bawl.
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MfSRKEP COLT '
A he American King
A brilliant younr Illinois lawyer.
James Jesse. Strang, fell In with lead
ers of the Mormon church In the earl
1840's ftnu was baptized Into the re
ligion In 1B44. Only one month after
bis baptism he wns ordained an elder
of the church.
Strang became a close friend of Jo
seph Smith, founder of Mormonlsm.
and when Smith was killed by te
bullets of a mob In June, 1884, Strang
attempted to take over the leadership
of the church. He based bis claim;,
for the pott on a letter which was
purportenly written by Joseph Smith
in which It waa declared that Qod
had vl<d the prophet and given a
command for a new Mormon colony
"Another reason for my preference
Is that white gulnears are more easily
domesticated than the standard type.
I make pets of all my flock and 1
have found that the standard guinea
is difficult to tame.
"Aa a table fowl I am sure the
white guinea Is equal if not supe
rior to the standard variety. In many
restaurants and dining rooms in the
past, especially In the east, guinea
fowl was listed on the menu as
pheasant. It Is dark fleshed and
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of the Mormon church resulted in his
excommunication but his powerful
gift of oratory brought a rift in the
ranks of i hand of ubout 2000 follow
ers, Strang establlvied a new Mormon
colony named Vorcj In the locale die
tated by the allegedly "divine letter.'
Later the colony moved to Beave.
feland, largest Island In Lake Mich
igan, and .Strang proclaimed the land
as the "Kingdom of St. James" with
himself xs. king.
1 The "king" ruled his land with a
6trong band. Instituting a regular
system of tithing ond running the
I government as an nhsolute monarchy.
gamey of flavor and can be passed
off as a game bird better than any
other type of barnyard fowl."
FORD PLANT RESUMES
FOLLOWING INVENTORY
DETROIT, Aug. 10. (API The Ford
Motor Co. resumed production Mon
day after three weeks shutdown for
Inventory. Assembly plants, as well as
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In 1852 the flourishing colony elected
Strang to the Michigan state legisla
ture. Things ran cmootbJy for Strang un
til the U. S. government, hearing of
his monarchy within the republic,
had him taken to Detroit aboard the
warship "Michigan for questioning.
King Strang in an impassioned speech
charging religious persecution, won
bis acquittal and returned to his
kingdom. On June 16. 1856, he was
shot from ambush and died the fol
lowing month. His followers were driv
en from the island and forced to disorganize.
Tomorrow: What Railroad Operates
With Wind Power?
the Rouge plant &t Dearborn, re
opened. A company ofYtJ'al said the pro
ductlon schedule called for 6.500 un.ts
dally, the same t-chedule that was.
maintained before ih shut-down.
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