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■ » ■ m int limit ) a ji- wr isaf UVE STOCK FACTS vet, too, wan not a large until; Alij why had come back? That, though man's fuce. The man struck back— a heavy blow on the side of Alan’s hable. own hand was of X ¡¡¡MuI # |/dl d *<] ami head which dizzied him bu! left him erful, but when he (Jn JhulJI * td d K r lib ie r era e i s dJetff « n y p Jtix'i'o JJ, I the niarka the other man hud made, he strippe«! off his shoes, and run out strength to strike again, and his iietl the man's face once roOlWf timt rhv nrher brrrn1r>irtst-h«v»«4 mth'-oe — - been largt looked down and listened, ¡gore, hut he got another heavy blow more powerful than rn. The man wug fpttipllng his own. sound of sofcg one raov It been Corvet’s r; he swung AJgn to e tc ^ id e have been, t4r Jt e to N T E R E s I Q I of hjirK.and foiled J'.fcl Jfcdf too fresh MS flight twW f ifl le srruinhl<|g to his Q y id the tin’J B f had 4#< out thro,ugh the M brarj^^ross n that Jsapr discovered. dim and flickering light IrTthe library. the hull, and into the service room. Island Possessions. This proof that some one bad been He crept on farther down the stair Alan got to Ills feet; dizzied and not prying about In tiie house before him case. His hands were cold and moist yet familiar with the house, he blun ( P r . p a r . J by t h . U c lt . d S t . t M D . p . r t m . a t o f A s r lc u lt u r ,) self and since Corvet had g«»ne, star from Ids excitement, and his hotly was dered against a wall and had to feel With exactly 5,1X10 persons enrolled his way along It to the service room; tled Alan ami angered him. Who had hot and ireinhlibg. In the “ Hotter Sires— Hotter Stock* Whoever it was that was. moving ns he slipped and stumbled down the been searching in Benjamin Corvet’s ¡fS íír • * ' Jt‘ cimipuigu at the dose of the culeutlur —In Alan’s house? lie pushed the about downstairs, even If lie was not stairway, a door closed louuly nt the drawers shut hastily and hurried one who had a right to he there, at end of the corridor he had seen at year 1021, records of the United States »*.cross the hall to the room opposite. least felt secure from Interruption. the foot of the stairs. He ran along Department of Agriculture show a con* =’<2 £ ^ -r Z ' f >, lllt t s fr o fio n s by In this room—plainly Benjamin Cor He was going with heavy step from the corridor to the door; It had closed tlnued interest In this work which * I i ' w i n rty e v s vet’s bedroom— were no signs of in window to window; where he found a with a spring lock, and seconds passed bus extended to ull states and sev trusion. He went to the door of the shade up, he pulled It down brusquely while he felt In the dark for the catch; eral Island possessions. During the C o p y iq h f by Edwir\Balm<?r .""L/*' "* room connecting with It, turned on and with a violence which suggested he found it ami tore the door open, year the number of live stock owned should he the guest, the friend of such the light, nnd looked In. It was n great strength under a nervous strain; and came out suddenly into the cold by the persons enrolled Increused people as tiie Sherrills? No one as smaller room than the others and a slut tie, which had been pulled down, air of the night In a paved passage from about 400,000 to 750,000. The "F L E S H 1 F LE S H !" yet, since Sherrill had told him he was contained a roll-top desk and a cabi tiew up, nnd the man damned it as way beside the house which led in one figures Include both mule and female Corvet’s son, had called him by name; net. The cover of the desk was closed, though It had startled him; then, after direction to the street and In the stock. All of the mules are purebred, S Y N O PSIS,- Weulthy and highly placed in the Chicago business when they did, what would they call aim the drawers of the cabinet were an instant, lie pulled It down again. other to a gate opening on the alley. and the females, which muy be of vvui.d, Benjamin Curvet is some him? Alan Conrad still? Or Alan shut and apparently undisturbed. He Alan crept still farther down and at He ran forward to the street am! varied breeding, are bred lu ull cages thin«; o f a recluse and a mystery Corvet? tried the cover of the desk, but It ap Inst caught sight of him. He was a looked up and down, hut found It emp to purebred sires. to ms associates. A fter a stormy It is noteworthy that 50 per cent He noticed, up a street to the west, peared to lie locked; after Io«>king Mg. young-looking man, with broad t y ; then he ran back to the alley. At Interview with ins partner, Henry tpturm an, Corvet seeks Constance the lighted sign of u drug store and iround vainly tor a key, he trieo shoulders nnd very evident vigor; the end of the alley, where It Inter ■>f all female stock listed In the better feuerriil, daughter o f his other turned up that way; he had promised, again, exerting a little more force, Alan guessed his age nt thirty-five; he sected the cross street, the figure of sires campaign ure purebred. This bu.su.eriH partner, Lawrence Sher he had recollected now, to write to and this time the top went tip easily, was handsome— he had a straight the man running away appeared sud figure l.s 1 per ceut higher than a year rill. and secures from her a prom . . . those in Kansas— he could not tearing away the metal plate Into forehead over daring, deep-set eyes; denly out of the shadows, then dis ago. The effect o f the use of pure ise not to m arry Spearman. He then disappears. Sherrill learns call them “ father” ami “ mother” any which the claws of the lock clasped his nose, lips and chin were power appeared; Alan, following as far as bred sires In reducing the number of Corvet has written to a certain more— and tell them what he had dis nnd the two long screws which hud fully form ed; and he was expensively the street, could see nothing more of scrub animals on furms is shown by Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kan- .he small proportion of scrubs lu herds covered ns soon us he arrived. He held It. He examined the lock, sur and very carefully dressed. The light | him; this street too was empty. tas. and exhibited strange a gita tion over the matter. Corvet's let could i.ot tell them that, but he could prised. and saw that the screws must by which Alan saw’ these things canto He ran a little farther nnd looked, ind flocks beaded by purebred males. ter summons Conrad, a youth of write them at least that he had ur- have been merely set into the holes; from a flat little pocket searchlight then he went back to the house. The Tiie figure at the end of the calendar unknown parentage, to Chicago. rived safely and was well. He bought scars showed where a chisel or some that the man carried In one hand, side door had swung shut again and year 1920 was 2.1 per cent and for Alan arrives in Chicago. From a a postcurd in the drug store, and wrote metal Implement had been thrust In which threw a little brilliant circle of latched. He le* himself in nt the front 1921, 1.9 per cent scrubs in such herds. statement o f Sherrill it seems prob At the request of several state ex able Conrad is Corbet's illegitim ate liglif as he directed It; nnd noqt, ns door and turned on the light in the Just, “ Arrived safely; am well” to son. Corvet bus deeded his house the light chanced to full on his other reading lamp In the library. John Welton In Kansas. There was The tension workers a special report lias and its contents to Alan. hand— powerful and heavily muscled electric toreh still was burning on the been made for the last three months a little vending machine upon the coun — Alan recollected the look nnd size floor anti he picked it up and extin ot 1921 with respect to progress by ter, and he dropped in a penny and got of the finger prints on the chest of guished It; he went upstairs and stutes. Knroll inents of persons agree a box of matches and put them in his CHAPTER IV.— Continued. drawers upstairs. He did not doubt brought down .«Is shoes. lie had seen ing to put tlielr live stock on a pure pocket. The j that this was the same man who had a wood fire set ready for lighting in bred-sire basis totaled 718. He mulled the curd and turned hack What Sherrill, hud told Alan of Ids | gone through the desk ; but since he the library, anti now’ he lighted it and greatest activity during the quarter fMl her had been iterating Itself again to Astor street; and he walked more , had already rifled the desks, what did sat before it drying his wet socks be was in Ohio, Nebraska coming next, and again in Alan’s thoughts; now he swiftly now, having come to ids deci j he want here now? As the man moved fore lie put on hfs shoes. He was still followed In turn by Washington, Vir sion, and only shot one quick look up recoiled that Sherrill had said that his ! not of sight. Alan crept on down as I shaking and breathing fast from his ginia, Kentucky, and North Dakota. In daughter believed that Corvet’s dis- at tiie house as he approached it. With whut had his father shut himself up I far as the-door to the library; the | struggle with the man and his chase the order named. lippeawmfe bud bail someMdng to do The leading counties during the man had gone on Into the rear room, after him, and by the strangeness of within that house for twenty years? with her. Alan bad wondered at the quarter were Hardin County. Ohio, and Alan went far enough into the what had taken place. moment how that could be; and as lie And was it there still? And was it library so lie could see him. When the shaft of light front the with 100 persons signing enrollment watched her across the table and now from that that Benjamin Corvet had He had pulled open one of the draw torch had flashed across Alan’s face blanks. Kittitas County, Wash., was and then exchanged a comment with tied? He saw no one In the street, ers In the big table In the rear room In the dark library, the man had not second, with 50 enrollments; Hdniont her, it puzzled him still more. He and was certain no one was observing \ and with his light held so high ns to i taken him for what he was—a living County, Ohio, 49; Grand Forks Coun laid opportunity to ask her when she him as, taking the key from his pocket, show’ what was in it. he was tumbling person; he had taken him for a spec ty, N. D., 47. Other active counties wailed with him in the library, after lie ran up tiie steps and unlocked tiie over Its contents and examining them. ter. Ills terror and the tilings he had dinner was linished am] her mother outer door. Holding tills door open He went through one after another of ' cried out could mean only that. The had gone upstairs; hut he did not see to get the light from the street lamp, the* drawers of the table like this; i specter of whom? Not of Benjamin he fitted the key into the inner door; then how to go about it. after examining them, he rose and ; C orvet; for one of the tilings Alan then he closed the outer door. For ful “ I’m sorry,” she said to him, “ that ly n minute, with fast-beating heart kicked thq. last one. shut disgustedly; had remarked when he saw Benjamin we can’t be home tonight; but perhaps he stood looking about the room ques- Corvet’s picture was that he himself and a sense of expectation o f he knew you would rather be alone?” not what, lie kept his hand upon the ( lonlngly, then ife started toward the did not look nt all like his father. Be lie did not answer that. key before he turned i t ; then lie front room. sides, what the man had said made it “ Have you a picture here, Miss Sher opened the door and stepped into the Ife had, ns yet, neither seen nor certain that he did not think tiie spec rill. of— my father?” he asked. dark and silent house. heard anything to alarm him. and ns ter was “ Ben” ; for the specter had “ Uncle Bonny had had very few pic he went t<» the desk in the front room “ got Ben.” Did Alan look like some tures taken; hut there is one here.” CHAPTER V ami peered impatiently, into the draw one ettn*. then? Like whom? Evi She went Into the study and came ers, lie slammed th an shut, one after dently like the man—now dead, for hat U with a lunik open at a half-tone An Encounter. % Somewhere Within the House, Unmis another. He straightened and stared lie had a ghost—who had “ got” Ben, picture of Benjamin Corvet. Alan took takably on the Floor Below Him, a about. “ D— n Ben ! P — n Ben !*’ he In the big man's opinion. Who could Alan, standing in the darkness of it from her and carried it quickly the hall, felt in his pocket for his Door Had Slammed. ejaculated violently and returned to that he? closer to the light. The face that matches and struck one on the box. tiie rear room. Alan, again following Alan got up nnd went to look nt looked up to him from the heavily The light showed tiie hall in front of tinder the top to force It up. The him. found him'on his knees in front himself In the mirror he had seen In glazed page was regular of feature, him, reaching back Into some vague, pigeonholes ami little drawers in the of orre of the drawers under tiie bnnk- the hall. He was white, now’ that the handsome In a way, and forceful. distant darkness, and great-rooms with upper part of the desk, as ho swiftly j cases, As he continued searching flush of the fighting was going; he Tin r: were imagination and vigor of wide portiered doorways gaping on opened them, he found entirely empty. through the drawers, his Irritation be probably had been pale before with thought in the broad, smooth fore both, sides. He turned into the room He hurried to the cabinet; the draw came greater and greater. He jerked excitement, nnd over his right eye head; the eyes were strangely moody upon his right, glanced to see that the ers of the cabinet too had been forced, one drawer entirely out of Its ease, there was a round black mark. Alan and brooding; the mouth was gentle, shades were drawn on the windows nnd very recently; for the scars and nnd the contents flew in every direc looke«l down nt his hands; a IPtle lather kindly; it was a qtiecrly im toward the street, then found the the splinters of wood were clean nnd tion; swearing at It. he gathered up skin was off one knuckl«», where he pelling, haunting face. This was his switch and turned on the electric light. fresh. These drawers and the draw the letters. One suddenly caught his had struck the man, and his fingers father! Hut, as Alan held the1 ’ picture, ers In the lower part of the desk ntt«‘ntion; he began reading It closely, Alan had the feeling which so often were smudged with a black and sotty gazing down upon It. the only emotion comes to one in an unfamiliar and either were empty, or the papers in then, snapped It hack Into the drawer, dust. He had smudged them on the which came to him was realization that vacant house that there was some one them had been disarranged ami tum crammed the rest on top of It, and papers upstairs or else In feeling his he felt none. He had no emotion of in tiie house with him. He listened bled In confusion, as though some one went on.to the next of the files. He way about tiie dark house, and at any sort ; he could not attach to this and seemed to hear another sound in had examined them hastily and tossed searched In this manner through half some time he had touched his fore man, because he bore the name which the upper hall, a footstep. He went them back. To Alan, the marks of a dozen, drawers, plainly finding noth head nnd left the black mark. That some one had told him was Ids fa out quickly to the foot o f the stairs violence and roughness were unmis ing at all he wanted: he dragged some Castor, 800-Pound Registered Morgan had been the "bullet hole.” ther’s, the passions which, when of the hooks from their cases, felt be takably the work o f the man with the and looked up them. Horse. The res*, that the man had said had dreaming of his father, lie had felt. hind them and shoved’ back some of big hands who had left marks tijmn “ Is any one here?” he called. “ Is been a reference to some name; Alan Alan stood still a moment longer, ♦ he hooks hut dropped others on the were Ellis, Okla.; Gallia, Ohio? and the top of the chest of drawers; nnd any one here?” had no trouble to recollect the name, then, remembering the hook which ho These results make His voice brought no response. He the feeling that he had been In the floor nnd blasphemy hurst from him. nnd, while he did not understand It Lewis, Wash. held, he drew u chair up to the light, Hardin County, Ohio, with a total went half way up the curve of the wide house very recently was stronger than Tiie beam- of light from tiie torch in at nil, It stirred him queerly—“ the Mi- his hand swayed aside and back and of 168 enrollments, the third highest stairway and called again, and lis ever. waka.” What was that? The queer Alan ran out Into the hall and lis forth. Without warning, suddenly It excitement nnd questioning that the county In the United States, the first tened ; then he fought down the feeling lie had had; Sherrill hail said then* tened ; he heard no sound; but he went caught Alart as he stood In the dark name brought, when he repeated it and second being Pulnskl County, Vs., of the front room; nn«l as the dim to himself, was not recollection; for 446, and Oreenvtlle, S. C., 176. would he no one In the house, and back to the III tie room more excited white circle of light gleamed Into Al The widespread Interest In the use he could not recall ever having heard Alan was certain there was no one. than before. For what had the other So he went hack to the room where man been searching? For the same an’s face, the man looked that way the name before; hut it was not com- of purebred sires as a means of Im saw hfin. proving live stock Is evident from the things which Alan was looking for? nnd lie had left the light. _» _ , t pletely strange to him. He could de- The effect of thisupon the man «.«* flne thp Pxcltement lt onl number of counties where the work The center of this room, like the And had the other man got them? has already gone forward. Live-stock room next to It, was occupied by a Who might the other he, nnd what si» strange nnd so bewildering to Alan that wnv that Alan could only stare at him. Sherrill had believed that here In owners In 548 counties, and. In addi library table-desk. He pulled open might he hfs connection with Benja The big man seethed to shrink Into ! some drawers in It; one or two hud min Corvet? Alan had no doubt that j this house Benjamin Corvet had left— tion. in the Islands of Guam and Porto Idmself and to shrink hack and away blueprints and technical drawings In everything of Importance must have j or might have left—a memorandum, a Rico, were participating In the work been taken away, but he Vould make from Alnn. He ronre«l out something I record, or an account of some sort at the end of the calendar year. I them; the others had only the miscel- . i— «i* í ffm «i i In a bellow- thick with fear and hor I lany which accumulates In a room sure of that. He t«s>k some o f the pa which would explain to Alan. Ills son, Summary of Results in "Better Slrea ror; he seemed to choke with terror. — Better Stock” Campaign, Octo much used. There were drawers also per* from the drawers and begnn to the blight which hung over his life. There was qothlng In his look akin to ber 1, 1919, to December 31, 1921, under the bookcases all around the examine them; after nearly, an hour , , .. . Sherrill had said that It could have mere surprise or alarm nt realizing , by States Having More Than 1,000 room; they appeared, when Allan of this, he had found only one article . . I , n^ n no mere intrigue, no vulgar per- (lint another wa* there nml h.,<! been sonnl sin . ; onH k . Animal* Listed. and the events of the _._ night opened some of them, to contain pam which appeared connected In any way seeing and "overhearing him. The phlets of various societies, ami the with what Sherrill had told him or hod made that very certain; for, plain Persons A n im al« Poultry light which he still gripped swayed Listed State— Enrolled Listed scientific correspondence of which with Alan himself. In one «>? tiie 11 ft?** ly, whatever was hidden In that house ImcR and forth nnd showed him Alan 94.904 Virginia .......... . 1.G61 44,601 Sherrill had told him. Alan felt that drawers of the desk he found ’several Involved some one else seriously, des Nebraska 116.332 ....... . l.O u O 57.420 again, nml he raise«! his arm before perately. There was no «ither way to Ohio ................ seeing these things was bringing his hooks, much worn ns though from 87.263 901 8 . ’ .404 his face ns he recoiled. 4.7« father closer to him; they gave him a being carried In a ¡»ocket, nnd one of explain the intrusion of the sort of South Carolina.. 302 5.504 The consternation of tiie man wns man whom Alan had surprised there Washington ... 46.891 263 8.151 little of the feeling he had been unable these contained a series of entries 18,01» stretching over several years. These Kentucky ....... 250 7,915 so complete that It checked Ainu's rush an hour ago. to get when he looked at his father’s 10.974 5.149 lflO Massachusetts picture. He could realize better now listed an amount—$1«V>—opposite a *«»- toward him ; he halted, then advanced 6.797 The fact that this other man Texas ............. 12.506 152 rles of dates with only the year nnd silently nnd watchfully. As he went 4.065 96 4.T&3 the lonely, restless man. pursue«I by searched also did not prove thnt Ben Vermont ......... the month given, nnd there w ’ns an forward, and the light shone upon his 10.62« 1.892 Connecticut ... *> some ghost he could not kill, taking jamin Corvet had left a record in the Indiana .......... 8.077 87 a.M7 entry for every second month. face agnin, the big man cried out up for distraction one subject of study house, ns Sherrill believed; but It North Carolina 3.171 85 1.4» Alan felt his finger* trembling as he hoarsely: after another, exhausting ench In turn 7.872 3.73« 73 certainly showed that another person Oklahoma ...... turne«l the pages o f the little hook ” T > — n von, d— n you. with the hole «.41* 73 7.231 until lie could no longer make It en believed— or feared— It. Whether or Florida .......... 3.2» Colorado ......... Î.S47 and found at the end of the list a above your eye! The bullet got you! 7 1 gross him, and then absorbing him not guilt had sent Benjamin Corvet W’ isconäln ...... 4.971 lie Could Not Call Up Any Sente That 8 2 2.162 And now you’ve got Ben! But you blank, and ! k *1 ow . In the same hand self In the next. away four days ago. whether or not 5.8» 1.734 82 W>«t Virginia . the House W at Hit. to hell! You there had been guilt behind the ghost 4.948 On the top of a chest of high draw hut In writing which had chnnge«l can’t get me! Go 54 t.3<0 North Dakota. can’t get me! 1*11 get y«iu—I ’ll get which had “got Ben,” there was guilt Minnesota 2.138 1.294 53 nm| read the short, dry biography of ers In a corner near the dressing slightly with the passage o f years, an 4.917 South Dakota 50 8.308 Ids father printed on the page opp«v table were some papers. Alan went other date nnd the confirming entry o f y«m ! You— can’t save the Mlwakn !" In the hig man’s superstitious terror 2,114 4 *3 46 .............. lie drew hack his arm and with all when he had seen Alun. A bold, pow Utah Kite the portrait. It sumttiurlxed In over to look at them; they were invi $1.500. Alnn looked through Ihe little 18.84« :■>« 42 Montana .......... 9.442 tations, notices of concerts and of hook again and pnt It in his pocket. his. might hurled Ihe flashlight at erful man like thnt one. when Ms con V pw Mexico ... 4« 1.Tλ h few hundred words his father’s life. 995 4.466 Î7 Abut stmt the hook and sat thought plays twenty years old— the mall, It was, beyond doubt, his father's Alan. It missed nml crashed some science Is clear, does not see a ghost. Nevada .......... 1.S4 New Y o r k ....... . 21 1 259 ful. The tall clock fn the hall struck probably, of the morning when OorvetV memorandum o f the sums sent to Blue where behind him. hu* di«l not go out; And the gh«ist which he ha«l seen had Idaho ............. 461 1.069 n lone, lie got up and went out Into wife ha«1 g*me away, left where her Kaphls for Alan ; It told him that here fhe beam o f light shot t>;»ck nnd wa a bullet hole above the brows! vered and flickered over both of them, Diseases Decreasing. inalil or «he herself hii.l In'.! them. * * hn'1 tw n in W" *»>"'Whfs. the hall and asked for his hat and Diseases of live stock are sa|d to cont. When they Jttd hern brought nml only picked up nml pnt hack there ! **'" sr,‘" * nrn' 1,1 'l*1’ ihnuglit as he as the torch railed oa the floor. Alan nt the times since when the room wns I begun putting th, other things hack rushed forward and. thrusting through be decreasing nnd a. general Improve him. he put them on and went out. "F o r (k it w it the man whom the dark, his hand struck the nan's ment In quality Is reported by the drawers. lie went down the steps and to the dusted. As Alan touched them, he I ln’ ° he hvd fought in Be LSenjamm lle started and stralghtene«! stid«len- chest and seize«! his coat. Corvet’« bout« th« night be- Department of Agriculture. corner and turned west to Astor street. «nw thnt his (Inters left marks In the fo r «.” The man caught at and seized Al dust « mi the smooth top of the chest; l y ; then he llstene«! attentively and When he reached the house of his fa ther he stopped under a street lamp, lie notice«! thnt some one «*1se had his skin, warm an Instant before, an’s arm; he seeme«l to.feel of it and Feed for Wintering Sheep. Fed liberally en straw and one eat looking up at the Mg, stern old man- touched the things and made mark* turned co*d nnd prickled. Somewhere assure himself of fta renIBy. tTO BE C O N T IN U E D .) “ Flesh! Flesh!” he roare«l In re sbui questlonlngly. >f corn each per day, sheep will A of the same sort as he ha«l made. The within thd house, unmistakably on the winter as well and more cheaply than Ifc could not rnll up any sense that freshmv«» of these other marks star floor below him. a door had alanlrned. lief; and Ida Mg arms grap p M Alan. Jud Tunkins. >n hay and on grain. the house v \*r Ms, any more than he tled him; they had been made within Some one— It was beyond question As they struggled, they stnmhled nnd Jud Tunkins says there's a big ad the big man under var.ti ge in using long words. had been aide to when Sherrill had •t tiny or ao. They could not have • now, for the realization was quite dlf- fell to the Any toid him of it. Ife own a house on been made hy Sherrill, for Alan hud 1 ferent from the feeling he had ha«l neath. His hand shifted Its hold and body would rather take what you say Better Animale Result that street! Vet was that In Itself noticed thnt Sherrill's hands were about that before— was In the house caught Alan’s throat; Alnn got an arm f««r granted than he put to the trouble Better sires Is ell emees meas be* suv mot ** remarkable than that ha slender and delicately formed; Cor- with him. Was If . . . his father Croa and. with all hit force, struck th« of lo«iking In the dictionary. m animals