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GAMBLING WITH FATE
By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK
Author of **Th€ Gold Gleanerj : A Story of the Cyanide
TanKf*/* ** Wilby'j T)an/* 00 Hij Friend the Enemy/0
** ^Roderj qf TiutfeEtc., Etc.
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(Copyright, IMS. by William Wallace Cook 1
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(Continued from last week.)
tion. Not onlv is Darrel's <imihle 1n
CHAPTER Will.
DARREL’S Lull'BEE.
A bomb, suddenly exploded in the
midst of those in tlie office, could not
have caused greater consternation than
the furious words of Murgatroyd. The
<*ase had been proved against Murga
troyd, then shifted to McCloud, and
now McCloud was said to be Darrel
and Darrel was known to be inno
cent.
Merrick, as soon as he had recovered
himself a little, gave vent to a hollow
groan. Lenyard stared at Darrel like
one in a trance.
“Gentlemen." said Darrel, who was
the first to speak, “if Mr. Merrick will
put the irons on Murgatroyd, we will !
make him prove what he says.”
Merrick would not leave Darrel s |
* side, but tossed the handcuffs to Glenn.
“Snap ’em onto him, Glenn,” said
he. "I’ll stay right here until we can
get head and tail to this Chinese puz- j
zle. Different things have been hap
pening so quick that I’m blamed if 1
know whether I’m afoot or horseback.
Mebby Sturgis wasn’t killed at all; and
If he was, here’s Doc and me left yet.
I’m expecting some one to blow' in and
prove that we did it.”
In some trepidation. Jim Clenn
snapped the bracelets about his era- j
plover’s wrists. Murgatroyd was then
seated near the light and Merrick
handed one of his revolvers to Len
vard,
“Get close lo him,” said the mar
shal. “and if he makes a move to bolt,
shoot him.”
Like one in a dream Lanyard took
the revolver and placed himself at Mur
gatroyd’s side. Murgatroyd was deep
ly perplexed. Darrel himself seemed
to be the only one In the office who
had kept his head.
"You say 1 am Nate Darrel, Murga
troyd,” said he. “How can you prove
it?”
"Hold up your left hand.” said Mur
wetroyd. “there, in the lights.”
Darrel did so.
Anyone wno Knows narrei, worn
on Murgatroyd, "will know that ring.
There isn't another like it in the
United States."
“It's—it's Darrel’s ring.” gasped Len
yard. ‘‘1 saw it that night in Hawk
bill's when Duel played that game
for me."
He took a half-step towards Darrel,
his face bloodless and his eyes bright.
“Watch your man. Lenyard,” said i
the marshal ; rni'.ly.
"Keep back. Hoy." said Dr. Payton.
“This man may be McCloud, after all. j
The testimony of the ring is not suffi
cient. It may have been stolen.’’
"Then." said Darrel calmly, “let me j
shield McCloud's reputation to the ex- i
tent of saying the ring was not stolen.
It is, perhaps, the only ring of its kind !
In tiie United States, and it has not i
been out of my possession (lining the
last six years."
"Then you are Nate Darrel?" asked j
Lenyard huskily.
“Yes."
This avowal sent the marshal off on ,
another tack.
"Sure he says he's Darrel. Why
not? As McCloud he stands convicted
of the murder of Sturgis. Under those
circumstances most anyone would
rather he Darrel than McCloud.
Well have to have better proof than |
the ring. Murgatroyd knows the ring,
and Lenyard seems to; but the balance
of us don't. ’
"Supposing you are Darrel." said
Payton, "why did you assume that dis
guise?”
"It was convenient." answered Dar
rel; "and besides, directly after that
explosion, it was hardly safe for me to
go anywhere as my true self.”
"How did you escape the giant pow
der?”
Darrel eased their minds in this re
spect.
"Jupiter!" muttered the marshal,
wagging his head. “That's loo mirac
’lous to be true."
"Now tell us how you came to pose
as McCloud," said Payton.
Darrel did so. at length, and on his
auditors the wonder grew. The mar
shal was derisive in his unbelief.
“Now, loo'.-:." said he. expatiating.
“Here goes o;'f a, powder explosion, out
of which Mr. Man, there, is snaked by
the lines and bits ot the runaway
bronks. That’s c. hard ont to take
down, but it ain't the hardest, lie's
In pretty bad shape, you see. with peo
ple hunting after him to lynch him.
but pursuading themselves that he was
ground into powder and scattered over
about all outdoors.
“It's a pretty hard row of stumps
for this man Darrel, but he walks from
the powder explosion right into an
old shanty where there's a dead man
—a complete stranger, mind you, but
lookin' enough like that same Darrel
to be the other half of a twin conibina
linn. Not only is Darrel's double in
the shanty, but they's letters to show
who he is, and shaving things for Dar
rel to fix himself up with, and clothes
lor him to wear, and a cay use for him
to ride. The whole lay-out couldn't
have been made to order any better,
could it, now? it was altogether too
neat, and things don’t happen that
way."
"Don't you think I'm Nate Darrel?”
asked Darrel.
"It you are,” and the marshal
snapped his lean jaws, "it's dollars to
dimes you never found no dead man in
no shanty."
"Then, bow did 1 get this nut fir?"
"How, you say? Why, pilgrim, it's
just possible you bushwhacked the
stranger as he was coming along the
trail, laid him out for reasons speci
fied and which anyone can understand."
Payton had been examining the
ebom-handled revolver taken from
Mnrgatroyd. Seemingly he paid lit
tle attention to the line gf argument
1 ursucd by Merrick.
"1 didn't expect to find it so.” said
the doctor, “but the bullets in this gun
_2SS
"IT S KAI.SK." crikd murgatroyo,
“AND YOU KNOW IT'S KAI.SK,"
are marked.” He turned to the mar
shal. “How would that man know
about the marked bullets, Merrlrk. un
less he was Darrel, and did the mark
ins himself?”
Merrick squirmed uneasily. Murga
troyd. suddenly brought back to his
own situation, paled a little and shoo!,
his manacled hands.
“What's this for?” he asked. “What
have I done to be treated like this?"
"You paid Jim Glenn $100 to keep
away from the coroner’s Jury when his
testimony would have proved Nate
Darrel's innocence."
This from the doctor, with a hard
look.
“Does Glenn say that ?” stormed Mur
gatroyd, his snapping black eyes on
his clerk.
Glenn raised a trembling hand to his
forehead and began to whimper out an
excuse.
“It's false." cried Murgatroyd, "and
you know it's false. Sturgis was a
friend of mine—why. he dealt faro for
me in Hawkbill’s!"
Lenyard caught Glenn’s eye and
nodded towards the hall. The gesture
was understood and the clerk left the
room with alacrity.
“If we can prove Glenn's story,”
said Lenyard. “we make it plain that
Darrel did not shoot Sturgis."
1 And if you can prove this man's
story," put in the doctor, nodding at ;
Darrel, "you make it plain that he is
not McCloud and, therefore, an inno- j
<ent and injured man.”
“I think we can do so," returned
Lenyard briefly.
A silent anticipation of some mo
mentous event fell over the group in
the ottlce, heightened by the gradual
approach along the ! •’! of shuffling,
painful steps. Then t! > c :'«dl and
brought every man up, : uuing.
Glenn came in supporting a droop
ing, disheveled form—a piteous specta
cle, truly, unshaven, unkempt, ragged
and dust-covered. With his month’s
growth of beard, the tottering man re
sembled Darrel, and Darrel’s clothing
heightened the deception. But the
bearded cheeks were hollow and the
eyes bloodshot.
"A chair!” said Glenn, for the form
had pitched forward as though about
to fall. The clerk held the swaying
man while Darrel pushed a chair for
ward and helped, with strange gentle
ness, to lower the man easily into the
seat.
A racking sob burst from the man
and his head drooped forward into his
shaking hands.
"Who are you?” asked Lenyard in a
who you
pitying tone. * Please tei
are?”
"Junius McCloud,” came the almost
inarticulate response. “I—I have come
to—to give myself up, I ain the one who
killed Sturgiu.”
(To he continued.)
A NATURAL SOAP MINE.
Spot In llrltisli Colninliin from M hick
» Cur I oun tieponnerom Sub
• timer 1* Taken.
Out in British Columbia they have
recently found a place where one can
chop pieces of soap out of the ground.
Or, if it is not soap, it is the next tiling
to it. The hands can lit- washed with
it. and the funner* and workmen of
that neighborhood declare that it will
remove grease and dirt more quickly
than the real article, says the New
York Tribune.
This useful substance is a mixture
of borax and soda, both of w hich have
long been employed in laundry work.
The mineral is found on the shores of
small soda lakes in the foothills near
\sheraft, and is being taken Cut in
blocks IS inches long. 15 inches wine
anil S or 9 inches thick. A rotigi c.-li
ma te which has reached Monl.ial,
and which has been passed along to
Washington by the Vtneriean consul
general at the former place, pm*- th'e
total amount of deposit at 20,000 tons.
Nothing is said, however, about the
cost of gening it to market.
Borax 3* formed by the union of
boracic aeid and carbonate of soda.
In California. Nevada, Persia, Thibet
and India it oectirs ready made. ( er
tain springs in Sicily abound in boracic
nciil. which is artificially converted
into borax on the spot by the addition
of soda. Chili and Peru have deposits
of borate of lime, which, with proper
chemical treatment, is turned into
commercial borax. The mineral
found in British Columbia seems to be
mueli the tame thing as the ( alifornia
product.
Ilird Ho«t-<n rrfer.
Among the birds that are living a
higher life, it is the female bird who
carries the hod during building time.
The husband sits about on twigs and
tells her how to do it. A woodpecker
should be a very pariah among decent
birds. The moment a woodpecker's
mate gets through nesting, he tells her
“to take her clothes and go" then he
establishes himself in the house she has
built—and she goes and builds an
other for winter. She is fool enoujrti
to take another woodpecker to boss the
job. if elie can find one willing, but as
a general thing all the male wood
peckers at that t ime a re as comfortably
provided for as her legitimate spouse,
so she has to work without getting
kickaii for it.—Nature.
Original Meaning or Pa^au
The Latin word for which pawn
is derived originally nieimt a fountain
or spring; then the village which
sprang up around it, and finally the
residents in titt villagi. A- Chris
tianity took strong root at fir.-t in the
large centers of population and the
worship of the pagan deities lingered
longest in the country andainoifgthe
country villages, it come to be under
stood that a pagan or villager, was, in
virtue of his residence, a worshiper of
the old gods, and tints the terra ac
quired its present significance.
Why the Kaiser la Uncrowned.
Probably few people out of Enf»
iand regard with more interest the
proceedings in regard to the king’*
coronation than his imperial nephew
ct licrlin. and ail the more so that, as
'•ntp.iur. in is still uncrowned, as
w -his father and grandfather be
fo him. The reason why is some
th of a mystery, hut the explana
Uot no st generally accepted is that
the : git a imperial crown of the
Gen t tmpcrnr is in the hands of
Av- ..id that she show- no di*
pos i .■ u to allovr it to leavc \ u nna.
A Remarkable Record.
T e record f >r rapid slaughtering
nr..- cen niadi by an 1 ndianapoli*
pai ng h use by turning 3.lu g*
in'. :si.n meat within live houra.
Curious Method of Stricifla.
D.sens.- ;,g curious methods of su
icide, a writer in the London Lancet
refers lo the ease of an American
who determined to gillotine himself.
Heconstruc*t«d an apparatusby which
a heavy ax-bladi was held in place by
a can of water, In the bottom of the
can was a hole which allowed the
water to run slowly out, and when a
certain amount had escaped Ihe ax
blade w as liberated. The operator laid
hi- head or. some support, so that the
ax would strike him on the neck, and
placed a dish of ether in such a position
that he would inhale it, and so become
unconscious before he v as decapit»t>
The tu foil a* he had intended*
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