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V 'i-ji'n > fall lowi-r. why o«t
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nent benefactors of
the iceman.
r too hot think
• \t v ■"< coul utal ho hupp.V.
N'.!s :ir<- nothing no*,
i* j. * nowaday*.
•p this full It will h»
i! fur ! u>-mj a new hat.
that jtics over in'o
of course, mud tur
■; n •' -- onal pacifisms will
nor o'..i.-rt to tlic proposed war on
rats.
The chinch Ims was a little behind
' '.t l.i- ..:rivotl this seasou,
T - ■» >* Imiisposltlon to
at . a even worst than
Sliel 1 s'r.ocl:.
i re K :■'■:.ml-.*!«•»* of expensive
s'ljar, hut -a is that mysterious
cheap sugar?
CuJ :i l.as > party, ?>nt no
i:t.try I.as yet reported having a
tiphtwad l ar:v.
V - .r earances It wouJ'l
- ; . r liiutl will he
our nest president.
• r coal is what the
r wou'd consider a
'P •• modern i-i'tai>lexli>n is face evi
• • that An rlca is yetting ali-nd
It; l!;e V.atter v( dyes.
One-piece bathing suits would not
he so .if !!.•• makers were more
generous with tie plew.
Swifter in tlian yachts or
mlos is tin- American easie an
! to :! e Aui. rican dollar.
The !■ In catches of fish this
«e.!- i Is j r. ' ably due to the fact that
there is no other use for corks.
I.one before prohibition the demand
for snake I remedies exceeded the
biting capacity of ail the snakes.
Genera r.-|">r;s the invention o> a
Silencer for airplane tnplnes. We may
yet have one for the motorcvcllst.
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There would be more farm hands
except for the alarming tendency to
let the oUu r How do the hard work.
A New York lawyer whose zeal proN
ably ontwelshi : v.* learning was ar
Vilcp a case in a local court, which
for present purposes need not be Iden
tified.
"Mr consent: n. your honors," -he
wild Id ncc-nts Mint betrayed his race,
"Iss dat de !o or court madt error
because V \ • Iss aga!nst de velght
of de evidence."
"We can't hear that." said the court,
meaning that it was not a proper as
si?ns:ect of error.
■•Veil, now." said the lawyer, who
entirely mi -■ -1 tl.o i"».nf. '"if your hon
ors vlll lisovn 1 vlll speak a liddle
: COPYB'I'SHT BY" THE BOBBS-MERhL!LL COMPANY
He had seen It born at miamgiu; huu
seen It drive In through the gates of j
dawn—and now it was forever his. He
spelled out the magic words: Five 1
thousand, a wavy Hue. no hundredths, i
dollars. He said each bold figure over i
to himself. Slowly n face grew alive
among the words and figures; a face I
framed in yellow hair: eyes that I
laughed. - They had laughed for him.
he had made them laugh. The draft
would make them laugh again. And
tomorrow she should send for that sur
geon.
The sound of groaning came In at
I the cabin door from the bushes down
| the hill. The face was gone from the
draft. He thrust It back In his pocket
and stepped out Into the yard. His
first thought was that the little Jew.
none too sure-footed among the rocks, i
j had srumbled and hurt himself.
\ The groan came again. He sprang
I Into the bushes. The Jew had hurt
' himself. A look so wild and terrible
the Pearlhunter had never c.?en upon
1 the face of a man. He had fallen upon
j his back, with one arm cramped under
him. The other artn was free, but he
j seemed unable to rise. With his free
' hand he was clawing desperately at
his bosom, and the fingers of the hand
were mussed with blood.
The Pearlhunter leaped down the
hill and bent over him. It was then
I he saw what the bloody hand was
j clawing at—the handle of a knife, hilt
deep In his breast. The Pearlhunter
raised him. and the other hand came
free. It clutched a bit of cloth of flam
ing red—a red mask.
The Jew opened his eyes, recognized
the man bearing him up.
"Dot timber buyer," he gasped out of
his flooded chest. 'He choke me—I I
tear o!T d'e mask—he shtlck me." The j
stricken Jew dropped the mask and I
beat the pocket of his vest. "Hiumiel!
D'e pearl! D'e ISlue Moon!" His eyes
grew vacant: flared up again. "Mine
' Gott! Rachel! Rachel 1"
His mouth quivered open so wide
| that his beard rumpled upon his breast,
| and the blood w elled out over his chin.
His eyes bulged; the smeared £ngers
cea'ed clawing at the knife; he gasped
twice; and dropped back—dead.
The fearmunter picheu up me on
of soiirlct cloth that had fallen from
the deail man's hand. It Is surprising
how fast a man can think when he has
to. The mystery of the arm thrust In
at the cabin door across the moonlight I
I cleared. The finding of a red mask be- |
side the body would identify the nmr- J
; derer to any man in the Wabash coun
try: the finding of another, upon a
j search of the cabin, would be deemed
| sufficient proof that the tenant of the
cabin was the murdere;.
But why had the bandit planned to
| lay the th-'ft of the Jewel on him? It
I was not his way. lie took his toll at
I ih» pistol's point and galloped away.
; Why had he changed his methods now?
He had laid his plans well, though
they hadn't worked out nuite as he ex
pected. The killing of Louie Solomon
mid been nn accident, forced on hltu by
the fact that the little Jew, in his
I struggle* had chanced to claw the
mask off and had recognized him. Oth
' erwise ho would have merely choked
i him into unconsciousness, taken the
pearl and left the mask behind to com
I pleTe the tangle he was weaving
I around another man. He had probably
! intended taking the pearl some time
I that night, leaving his mask behind.
| and afterward, when the hue at;d cry
was raised, suggest a search of the
! cabin. His chance had come sooner
than he had expected. Of course, he
could not have foreseen that the man
| he wished to tlx the crime upon would
i be the first to find the body.
It was not lost on the Pearl hunter
[ that he had undoubtedly crowded the
| murderer close, else why had he left
the knife? But why all these elaborate
1 plans against him? Was it some an
I clont grudge he bore his blood? Did
he wish somebody to die in his place
to deceive an outraged world Into
thinking the Bed Mask was settled for
good and all, and so give him a chance
to start over again? Was It because
| he was not yet ready to leave the Fiat
woods? It was probably for all these
reasons. But with the Ipst. there
flashed across the young man's mind
that scene at the fence. It stung him
like a lash.
Even though the evidence secreted In
the cabin was now In ashes, by that
dead body was the most dangerous
place In the world for him just then.
Hardly five seconds had passed since
the last gasp of Louie Solomon, so fast
does a man think under such a stress,
when the I'earlhtinter threw the mask
down by the body and turned to steal
back up the hill.
"Cp with 'em I"
He whirled; stared; slowly raised
his hands. It's one thing to face odds;
quite another to face certain death.
Behind the three black muzzles poking
out through the bushes glowered the
truculent bearded faces of Louie Solo
"He Choke Me—I Tear Off de Mask—"
mon's throe rowers.
Grim as the three Fates, they stalked
toward him. Two of them kept hire
covered, while the third plucked tlu
revolver from his pocket and dropped
It Into his own. After that he bent
over the body of his master; touched
his face; lifted a hand; laid It across
his breast. He picked tip the red mask
and snarled around at the others. The
others growled; swore; and the Pearl'
hunter fancied the revolvers pointed
at liim a little straighter, a little more
vindictively. It was not the first time
these three had faced the Red Mask
He had Ions been their partlculai
nightmare. It was the first time they
had seen him with his mask off, and
with empty hands.
The one kneeling by the body
seemed to be the leader. He felt care
fully inside the poet;at where the pearl
had been pinned; searched the othet
pockets; felt carefully over the cloth
ins. He rose after the fruitless search
and faced the Pearlhuuter.
"Where iss it?"
The I'earlhunter shook bis head.
With a snarled word of Yiddish,
doubtless a curse, nnd a flourish ol
his clenched hand that came tincom
fortablv close to the young man's
face, the .lew began* to search him:
pockets: hems; waist-band; socks;
even his hatband, ears nnd hair. Of
course the search again proved fruit
less. The Jew drew* his revolver,
cocked it, nnd thrust it luto the.l'earl
hunter's face.
"Where iss it?"
The bearded lips were drawn so
tense that the yellow teeth were bare.
The l'eurlbtinter knew the yellow
teeth meant exactly what they seemed
to mean. I.mtie Solomon's three
pttardsmen hud a reputation along the
Wabash. The reward for the Red
Mask was the same whether dead ot
■alive. Still, his d"ath would not bring
them any nearer finding the pearl. He
pinned his hope there, and shook bis
head.
"I'm not the Red Mask. I didn't kill
Lottie Solomon. And I don't know
vtliere the Blue Veon is."
The answer was not convincing,
jfo^iing lie could have said .lust then
would have been. Whether the Jew
believed it. or any part of it. his face
gave no sign. He backed away two
steps and leveled his revolver full at
the Pearlhunter's breast, like a man
about to pistol another and deliberate
ly planning to make a clean job of it.
The Instant came when the I'earl
hunter believed the frliny finger was
about to press the trigger and he was
almost in the act of diving beneath
the muzzle when the Jew motioned to
one of the others and said something
In Yiddish.
The man spoken to darted away
throngh the hushes toward the boat
landing. The Pearl hunter breathed
ngaln.
The man soon reappeared, carrying
a piece of rope. One at a time, he
took the Pearlhnnter's hands, drew
them behind his back, and bound
them securely toge'her. Even then,
so great was their dread of the man
he was supposed to be, that one of
them constantly held a gun on him.
With the knife still sticking In the
dead mafl's breast, they carried him
down to the boat, driving the Pearl
hunter before them. Th"re they load
ed them in. the dead nnd the living,
and rowed hack up the river to the
village—the second time that day; the
same trip; the same boat; the same
five men. Then, a great day opening;
the greatest trade ever made among
pearl fishers along the Wabash In
prospect: now, the day nearly done;
the pearl lost; one of the men dead;
another likely soon to be!
What a difference In the crowd that
mot them at the wharf! Again driv
ing their prisoner before them, the
three grim'henehmen carried the dead
i»an lip tho hill to a small plot of
open ground west of tho Mud Hen and
taU' hlra down upon the grass.
For the second time that day the
village emptied Its houses to meet
them. Women came th^s time—old
women with seared faces; girls with
blooming cheeks; and children. Hard
men thnt had drunk to the Pearlhunt
er barely two hours ago came out of
the Mud Hen and stood staring at him
In sullen silence. Men from the stores
and shops came running. Men that
had neither stores nor shops 'strag
gled In from every quarter of the vil
lage and Jostled about in the ever
growing. ominously muttering circle.
Suddenly, and unexpectedly, two of
the henchmen caught the Pearlhunter
and held him while the third tied the
red mask over his eyes. Bound as he
was, he had tlung them loose In en In
stant and raked the mask off against
UIs shoulder. But that one brief mo
ment was enough. The mischief was
'done. Women screamed; men mut
tered and swore; but all shrank back,
widening the circle.
Who started It, who said It first,
will never lie known. Nobody knows
how the mob forms—a low mumble;
a quick ftnre Into frenzy; mild eyes
grown wild; stolid faces afire; a rab
ble; a clamor; reason down, blood
lust up.
"Hang '1m I Hang 'lm 1"
Even the women took up the cry, so
grent was the terror of his name—the
Red Mask—a name that might have
stampeded the village. The mob
charged him. Bound as he was, he
dashed at them. A butt of his shoul
der caught the foremost man, a burly
blacksmith, on the Jaw. He went
down like a beef under the mallet. A
drive of his head to the pit of the
stomach crumpled up another. A well
directed kick laid out a third.
He fought as the men of his blood
had always fought. But what can
one man, with his hands tied, do
against many? They had his blonse
ripped off, his shirt In shreds, and a
hundred hands still Itching to get at
him. They beat his face; his body—
wherever a fist or a club could reach
him. A stick of stove wood In the
hands of a lanky woodchopper laid
open an ugly gash across his head.
Half-dazed, he was trying to wink
the blood and mist out of his eyes
when a roar was heard on the out
skirts of the crowd, and the stocky
form of the old Boss was seen fight
ing his way Into the circle. He had
probably gone up to Fallen Bock, as
he had promised the flight before,
missed the Pearlhunter, and come on
to the village. He fought well, and
opened a narrow swath, half-way
through the circle to his friend. But
Just there somebody struck him above
the ear with the flat of a barrel stave.
The ripple subsided; the swnth closed.
The Pearlhunter's last friend was
I down and out.
llle ri'ln* nun |IUI1S v>c» »
ITalf n hundred hnnds, some of them
women's hnnds, stretched up ready to
pull. Half a hundred hands did pull.
The rope tightened—slowly. A hush
fell on the mob; a hush so deep that
the creak of the tightening rope could
be distinctly heard. That last final
scene, the last stroke that stops a life
—It is a solemn moment; even to a
mob. The Pearlhunter was lifted;
the last light tips of his toes left the
grass; flames ran up and down his
spine; the world turned black.
There came a sudden dash of hoofs,
and a man rode straight at the mob.
It takes a hardy person to withstand
the charge of a horse. The crowd
parted. The horseman reached the
dangling man, and with one slash of
a huge Jackknife, cut the rope.
The stroke came barely In time.
The Pearlhunter, only saved from
crumpling down to the grass by the
arm of the horseman, drooped limp
and gasping against the side of the
horse. Slowly the world quit reeling;
the light came ba^k; he ralsed^hls
eyes; caught the glitter of a sheriffs
star upon the vest of his rescuer.
It Is marvelous how one brave man,
with the law behind him, can awe a
mob.
"Who is this man?" yelled the
sheriff.
A man, whose mouth had been
mashed by a butt of the Pearlhunter's
hend, clawed the red mask up from
the ground, trampled and soiled, but
still unmistakable, and held it high.
The sheriff started; glared hard at
the Pearlhunter.
"An' so it's you they've roped!" he
growled. "Damned If I hain't a no
tion to let 'em finish the Job."
A snarl ran through the mob. They
surged forward. The sheriff drew his
revolver again, and cursed them back.
"Red Mask or red devil I" he
stormed, "he's entitled to a trial un
der the law; ana a trial he'!! fit."
'fontlnued on Thursday)
Will the full coal hod replnce the
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One thing about the gypsy fortune
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Too many American worklngmen
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR ON FINAL
In ilie Court or the Commissioner
tor thfl Territory of Alasliat
Divl"lon No, X< before the Hon. J.
J. r. Ward. Ex-Offlco Prooate
Judfe, sitting <n Probat8, at SkaS
w&t, Pre d Let
la th« K»"lor of t&e Estate or
GeorKe Mowl, deceased.
Notice jls nereby sivea by ti e
<i; rsisned, ad'^ifilstrator of the
tato ot Georse Mowl, deceased, that
a final r«Port ,aud petition, for distri
button ha» been, filed ,-with the above
named court fry thg 'Administrator.'
of che abova named estate; that the
couxt i9 asked to settle such rePort
dIstrlbutQ '.ao ProPerty to the heii
, .tvrsaag entu'ed 4o the same aud t
dl«cbarse the administrator, -and tb
TL"riday the 23 [day of Deoembe
1920, at 2 |p. m. in, the Co^rt Eo< .
of the above ontlltled Co«r'. bas be'e
fUtJ bb the U'r-e and Place for th
hearing of «ch final rePort and Pe
tit Ion.
Dated at Stasway this 27tli day o
October. 1920.
(Signed) A. C. Blanchard,
Administrator
Fir»t Publication, Oct. 30th. 192u.
Final ptublllcatlon Nov. 27th. 1920
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