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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OREGON, Synopala. - W a r n e d by his p h y s i cian th a t lie has not m ore than nix m on th s to live, Dan F a ilin g aits d esp on d en tly on a park bench, w o n d erin g w h ere he should spend those six m onths. M em ories o f his g r a n d fa th e r and a deep lo v e fo r a ll th in g s o f the w ild h elp him In re a c h in g a decision. In a la rg e southern O regon c ity he m eets people w ho had know n and loved Ids gra n d fa th e r, a fa m o u s fr o n tiersm an. H e m akes his h om e w ith blla s L en n o x , a typ ic a l w estern er. T h e o n ly o th er m em bers o f the household a re L e n n o x ’s son, ' ‘B ill/ ' and d a u gh ter, "S n o w b ird .’ ’ T h e ir abode is in the U m pqu a divid e, and th ere F a ilin g plans to liv e ou t the short span o f life w h ich he has been told Is his. F ro m the first F a ilin g s health sh ow s a m arked im p ro vem e n t, and in the co m p a n ionsh ip o f L en n o x and his son and d a u gh ter he tits in to the w oods life us i f he had been born to i t Hy qu ick th in kin g and a rem a rk a b le d isp la y o f " n e r v e " he sa ves L e n nox s life und his o w n when th e y a re a tta ck ed by a m ad coyote. I^ennox d eclares he Is a re in ca rn a tion o f his gra n d fa th e r, D an F a l l in g 1. w hose fu m e as a w oodsm an in a household w’ord. D an learn s th a t an o rgan ize«! band o f o u tla w s, o f w hich B e rt C ranston is the leader, Is n etting fo rest tires. Iain - d ry H ildreth , a fo rm e r m em b er o f the ga n g, has been Induced to turn s ta te 's evidence. C ranston sh oots H ild reth and le a v e s him fo r dead. W h is p e rfo o t, the m ountain lion, sprin gs on H ild reth and finishes him. CHAPTER II—Continued. — 9 — And its for Whisperfoot—the terror that choked his heart with blood be gan t«i wear off In a little while. The ni»m lav so still In the thicket«. Be sides. there was a strange, wild smell In the air. Wlilsperfoot’s stroke had gone home so trueelhere had mot even been ti fight. The darkness began to lift around him, and a strange exulta tion n rapture unknown before In all his hunting, began to creep Into his wild blood. Then, as a shadow steals, he went creeping hack to his dead. • • • * • • • • • Pan Falling had been studying na ture on the high ridges; and he went home hy a hack trail that led to old Bald mountain. The trail was Just a narrow serpent In the brush; and It had not been made hy gangs of laborers, working with shovels and picks. Possibly half n dozen white men. In all, had ever walked along It. ft was Just the path of the wild crea tures, worn down by hoof and paw and cushion since the young days of the world. It was a roundabout trail home, hut yet It had Its advantages It took him within two miles o f Snowbird’s 'ookout station, and nt this hour of day he had been particularly fortunate In finding her at n certain spring on H ip mountain side. It was rather a sin gular coincidence. Along about four he would usually And himself wander ing up that way. Strangely enough, *t the same time. It was true that she had an Irresistible Impulse to go down and sit In the green ferns beside the same spring. They always seemed to he surprised to see one another. In reality, either of them would have been considerably more surprised had the other failed to put In an appear ance. And always they had long talks, ns tin* afternoon drew to twilight. “ But 1 don’t think you ought to wait so late before starting home,” the girl would always say. “ You're not a human hawk, ami It is easier to get lost than you think.” And this solicitude, Dan rightly fig ured, was a good sign. There was only one objection to It. It resulted (n an unmlstnkhle Inference that she considered him unable to take care of himself—and that was the last thing «»n earth that he -wanted her to think He understood her well enough to know that her standards were the standards of the mountains, ruining strength and self-reliance •hove all things. He didn't stop to question why, every «lay, he trod so many weary miles to be with her. She was as natural as a fawn; and many times she had quite taken away his breath. And once she did It liter ally. He didn't think that so long as death spared him he would ever be able to forget that experience. It was her birthday, and knowing of It In time he had arranged /or the delivery of a certain package, dear to a girlish heart, at her father’s house. In the trystlng hour he hail come trudging over the hills with It, an«! few experi ences In his life had e v «f yielded such unmitigated pleasure as the sight of her, glowing white and red. as she took off Its w rapping paper. It was a Jolly- old gift, he recollected—and when she bad seen It. she fairly leaped nt him. Her warm, round arms around his neck, and the aofteet. loveliest Ups In •be world pressed hi*. But In those fa vs he didn't have the strength that b ffe fait be could endure him. But because Dan had learned the lesson of Mtamilng »till, because hls ollve-drub sporting clothes blended softly with the colored leaves, Crans ton did not detect him. lie turned and strode on down the trail. He didn’t move quite like a man with Innocent purposes. There was something stealthy, something sinister In hls strhle. and the way he kept such a sharp lookout In all directions. Yet he never glanced to the trail for »leer tracks, as he would have done had he been hunting. Without even waiting to meditate on the matter, Dan started to shadow him. Before one hundred yards hail been traversed, he could better understand tlie Joy the cougar takes In his hunt ing. It was the same process—a cau tious, silent advance In the trail of prey. He had to walk with the same caution, he hud to take advantage of the thickets. He began to feel a curi ous excitement. Cranston seemed to be moving more he same experience again with no carefully now, examining the brush HER EXACT WORDS. embarrassment whatever. Hls flrst Im 'along the trail. Now and then he pression then, besides abounding, In glanced up at the tree tops. And all Bill— So you asked the sweet little credible astonishment, was that she at once he stopped and knelt In the thing to marry you? had quite knocked out hls breath. But dry shrubbery. Gill— Yes, I did. let It be said for him that he recov At first all that Dan could see was “And she said ‘yes,’ I suppose 7” ered with notable promptness. Ills the glitter of a knife blade. Crans “No, she didn’ t.” own arms had gone up and closed “Oh, she said ’no/ did she?” ton seemed to be whittling a piece of around her, and the girl had wriggled dead pine into fine shavings. Now "Not exactly.” free. he was gathering pine needles and “ Well, what did she say, then?” “ But you mustn’t do that!” she told small twigs, making a little pile of "She said: ‘Nothin 'doin’. ' ” him. them. And then, just as Cranston “ But, good Lord, girl! You did It drew hls match, Dan saw hls purpose. Evidently, Not by the Senses. to me I Is there no Justice In women?” Cranston was at hls old trade— set An American was with a gushing en “ But I did It to thank you for this ting a forest fire. thusiasm describing hls new enr to an lovely gift. For remembering me— “ It runs so smooth For two very good reasons, Da a English visitor. for being so good— and considerate. didn’t call to him at once. The two ly.” he said, “ you can't feel It. Not You haven’t any cause to thank me.” reasons were that Cranston had a rifle o bit of noise, you can't hear It. Per lie had many serious difficulties In and that Dan was unarmed. It might fect Ignition, you can’t smell It. And thinking It out. And only one con be extremely likely that Cranston speed, why, It simply whizzes, you clusion was obtainable— that Snowbird would choose the most plausible and can’t see It.” kissed as naturally ns she did any effective means of preventing an inter “ My word I” exclaimed the aston thing else, and the kiss meant exactly ruption of hls crime, and by the same ished Britisher. “ How do you know what she said It did and no ni"* *re. token, prevent word of the crime ever the hnlly thing Is there?"— Boston But the fact remained that he would renchlng the authorities. The rifle Transcript. have walked a good many miles far contained five cartridges, and only one ther If he thought there was any pos was needed. Telephone Nightmares. sibility of a repent. But the idea of backing out, unseen, Church— I understand an arrange But all at once hls fantasies were never even occurred to Dan. The Are ment has been patented so that when suddenly and rudely dispelled hy the would have a tremendous headway be a person Is talking on the telephone Intrusion of realities. Dan had been fore he could summon help. Although the face of the person one Is talking walking silently Tomself In the pine It was near the lookout station, every to is reflected on a mirror in front of needles. As Lennox had wondered at condition polnte»l to a disastrous fire. them, even If the person being talked long ago, he knew- how hy Instinct; The brush was <lry ns tinder, not so to is miles away. and Instinctively he practiced this at heavy as to choke the wind, but yet Gotham—Well, I hope to gracious tainment ns soon as he got out Into tall enough to carry the flame Into If lhat Is so some people I happen to the wild. The creature he had henrd the tree tops. The stiff breeze up the know will never telephone me. was fully one hundred yards distant, yet Dan could hear him with entire ridge would certainly carry the flame Strong-Arm Methods. plainness. And for a while he couldn’t for miles through the parched Divide even guess what manner of thing It before help could come. In the mean "Politics is a game of give and time stock and lives and homes would might he. take,” remarked Mr. Wapples. I»*» endangered, besides the Irreparable A cougar that made so much no’se “ I'll subscribe to the flrst part of loss of timber. There were many would he Immediately expelled from your statement,” said Mr. Grnbcoln, things that Dan might do, but giving the union. A wolf pack, running hy who had just had an experience with up was not one of them. an alert “ money digger.” “ I don’t par After all, he did the wisest thing of ticularly object to giving, hut I do ob all. He simply came out In plain sight ject to the kind of back talk I have to and unconcernedly walked down the take for not giving more.”— Birming trail toward Cranston. At the same ham Age-Herald. Instant, the latter struck hls match. As Dan was no longer stalking, Cranston Immediately heard hls step. He whirled, recognized Dan, and for one long lnstaiu in which the world seemed to have time In plenty to make a complete revolution, he stood per fectly motionless. The match flared in hls dark fingers, hls eyes— full of sin gular conjecturing— rested on Dan’s 1 face. No Instant of the latter’s life had ever been fraught with greater peril. Tie understood perfectly what was golt»< on In Cranston’s mind. The W H A T O F F IC E R S A R E F O R fire-fiend was calmly deciding whether to shoot or whether to bluff It out. "So you’ve elected a now set of One required no more moral courage officers." ’’ Yes. Now all we’ve got to do II than the other. It really didn’t make to sit back and kick about the way a great »leal of difference to Cranston. they do things." But he decided that the killing was not wort»« the cartridge. The other Cheerful. course was too easy. lie did not even It m a y be th a t I shall not do dream that Den had been shadowing A sin g le th in g w orth w hile. him and had seen hls Intention. He Bu t w h ile m y skies a b o ve a re blue would have toughed at the Idea that a I ’ ll t r y to sh ow a sm ile. “ tenderfoot” could thus walk behind him, unheard. Without concern, he Best He Could Do. senttere»! with hls foot the little heap “ Good heaven, Dick I Tan shoes of kindling, and slipping hls pipe Into with evening dress— that’s awfully bad hls mouth, he touched the flaring form I" match to It. It was a wholly admir ” 1 know it, hut stocking feet with able little piece o f acting. nn«l would evening dress Is worse."— Boston have deceived any one who had not Transcript. Dan Saw Hls Purpose. seen his previous preparations. Then sight, might crack brush as freely ; he walked on down the trail toward An Optimist. but a wolf pack would also bay to Dan. “ I’m sorry to see you here," said the wal e »he dead. O f course It might he Dan stopped and lighted hls own an elk or n steer, and still more likely, pipe. It was n curious little truce. friend of a convicted bank embezzler. “ Oh. there Isn't much change, after a bear. He stood still and listened. And then he leaned back against the all," said the prisoner, cheerfully. The sou ml grew nearer. great gray trunk o f a fallen tree. "N o?" Soon It became evident that the crea “ Well, Cranston," he said civilly. “ You see, I had been shut up In a ture was either walking with two legs, The men had met on previous oc or else was a four-footed unlinul put casions, and always there had been cage and looking through bars for years before 1 came here. These bars ting two feet down nt the same In the same Invisible war between them. “ How do you do. Falling,” Cranston are Just a little thicker, and instead stant. Dan had learned to wait. He o f being brass they are steel." stood perfectly still. And gradually replied. No perceptions could be so he came to the conclusion that he blunt as to miss the premeditated In Tragic. was listening to the footfall of an sult In the tone, lie didn’t speak In He (during quarrel)— Then why hls own tongue at all. the short, gut other man. But It was rather hard to Imagine tural “ Howdy” that Is the greeting did you marry me? She— Just to get even with that what a man might be doing on this of the mountain men. lie pronounced lonely hill. O f course It might he a all the words with an exaggerated pre hateful Maud Brown and to make her deer hunter; but few were the valley cision, an unmistakable mockery of cry her eyes out because I took you sportsmen who had penetrated to this Dan’s own tone. In hls accent he away from her. He— Good heavens, woman, what far land. The footfall was much too threw a tone of sickly sweetness, and heavy for Snowbird. The steps were Ids Inference was nh too plain. He have yon done? Why. I ntnrried you evidently on another trail that Inter w *t simply culling Falling a milksop Just because she threw me over. sected hls own trail one hundred yards I and a whlte-hver; Just as plainly as H ard Work. farther up the hill. He had only to If he had used the words. “ Is that new hired man a hard ! stand still, and In an Instant the man The eyes of the two men met. would come In sight. Franston's Ups were slightly curled In worker?" “ I’ll say he Is.” replied Farmer He took one step Into the thickets | an unmistakable leer. Dan’s were “ I don't know anybody prepared to »-oncea! himself If It be very straight. And In one thing at Corntossel. came necessary. Then he waited. 8©»»n least, their eyes looked Just same. that work seemed to go harder with the man stepped out on the trail. The pupils of both pairs ha»l contracted than it does with him.” Kven at the distance o f one hundred to steel points, bright in the «lark gray A Matter of Taste. yards, Dan had no difficulty whatever of the Irises. Cranston's looked some The Equestrienne— Oh. I'm so furi In recognising him. He could not what reft ; an»l Dan’s were orly hard mistake this tall, »lark form, the soiled, and brlfcht. ous with myself! “ Why?” slouchy clothes, the rough hair, th«» Intent, »lark features. It was a man “ For liking so much the kiss Jack about hls own age. hls own height, j Thruslier made me take in the park but weighing fully twenty pounds this morning."—Judge. more, ami the »lark, narrow eyes could Of Course Not! belong to no one but Bert Cranston. I Staff Officer (benevolently to little (T O BK C O N T I N I B D .) He carried hls ride loosely In hta arms. g irt)— And what Is your name, my He stopped at the forks in the trail Ha* to Be Clever. dear? and looked carefully In all directions. Modern “ Little t*ear“— IVyou know ■'She's a clever conversational le t” Pun had every reason to think that "She l as to he, to covet op k you shouldn’t speak to a lady without Cm nut on would see him at flrst glance. 'leiug Introduced. Only »me clump of thicket sheltered breaks h *r husband i Gives Tanlac Credit For Splendid Health T. J. P A R K E R 4246 Juneau Street, Seattle, Wash. “ I used to think all the Tanlac tes timonials were exaggerated, but 1 have felt thankful a thousand times I ever believed In It strong enough to give the medicine a trial,” said T. J. Parker, well-known salesman for Gately's Clothing Store, residing at 4246 Juneau St., Seattle, Wash. "Several years ago I commenced having periodic spells of sickness and u few months ago I had an attack that I thought would finish me. When I did finally get up, 1 was scarcely able to go. I had no appetite and what lit tle I forced myself to eat caused so much gas on my stomach I could hard ly get my breath. “ At night I was often so bloated I couldn't breathe while lying down and just had to sit up and struggle for air. At times 1 had cramps so bud I could hardly endure It. “ My liver was sluggish and some times I got so dizzy I would nearly fall. I felt tired and miserable all the time, couldn’t even sleep and for days at a time I wasn’t aide to go to work. “ Well, a friend of mine finally got me to try Tanlac, and it certainly has done a good Job for me. My appe tite Is fine now anil although I am eating just anything I want and as much as I please, my stomach never gives me the least trouble. 1 have picked up la weight, my strength has come hack to me. and I am now en joying the best of health. “ All the men at the store know Tanlac put me back on my feet, and I am glad {it give this statement for what it may he worth to others.” Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.— Adv. His M e th o d . Two negro men were discussing the eloquence of a certain member of the faculty of an educate ; al institution for negroes in a south' ,i state. ‘That Professor Bigg- sure does like to use high soundin' words, don’t lie?” asked one o f them. “ Maybe dal’s Jest an aifectlon on his part,” said the other darky. 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