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SYNOPSIS
Ruth Warren, born and raised in
an Eastern city, is willed three -fourth
interest! in the Dead Lantern ranch
in Arizona. With her youthful hus-
band, who is in poor health, and their
small son, David, they come to Ar-
izona to take up where Ruth's broth-
er, reported killed in Mexico, had left
off. They reach Dead Lantern, 85
miles from the nearest railroad, with
the help of old Charley Thane, neigh-
boring rancher who also carries the
rural mail. At the ranch they find the
partner, Snavely, and a huge woman,
Indian Ann, who greet them suspic-
iously. As they trudge the 5 miles
from the ranch gate to the house they
pass a huge rock in a gulch where a
voice whispers. "Go back. Go back.”
Ruth's husband caught in a rain
shortly after their arrival contracts
pneumonia and passed away before
medical aid can be brought. Meth,
penniless and without friends attemp-
ts to carry on but is balked at almost
every turn by the crafty and plotting
Snavely. Despite obstacles of all kind
Ruth gives notes on her ranch inter-
est to purchase cattle. She is assisted
by Old Charley Thane and his son,
Will Thane. A Mexican family has
been hired to assist with the work. A
peculiar sickness developes with the
live stock. Snavely calls it "liver fev-
er" . . and says he has a powder
for the water to cure the disease.
Ruth discover's trickery in Snavely's
tactics of poisoning her cattle, but
says nothing, waiting for additional
evidence. Drought is overcome by
sinking a well in a ravine, getting
water for the pershing stock. At the
round -up Ruth has enough stock to
sell to meet her notes,
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the giantess' arms. "Let me go! Oh,
God, don't let David be in thege--"
"Now wait, Miss Ruth—wait—you
d,oan'itnove he fell in, does you?"
"No—no—but where else is he—
where else—" Ruth was dizzy; she
fought to keep her senses. "Ann—"
Ann left her and ran into the house.
Ruth climbed upon the bpx again, but
she could not look down.
The giantess lifted her from the
box. "You stand down, 1,11 look with
this—you couldn't see nothin' with
no lantern on a rope."
Ann held a mirror in her hands.
She caught the light of the'sun and
turned it into the well. Ruth saw her
smile broadly. "There. I done tol'
you he weren't down there!"
Snatching the mirror from the
ground where the giantess had drop-
ped it, she climbed upon the box just
as the lower limb of the sun, touched
the western mountain range. The
light from the mirror struck down-
ward, wavered, and came to rest on
the cloth hanging from a nail part
way down the well. Ruth stared at
the cloth as the light slowly faded
away. Before it was entirely gone she
knew what that cloth was, Once she
had sent Harry, her brother, a pres-
ent — a red silk handkerchief with an
odd design of large white horseshoes,
David Just then came trudging up
from the gulch. He couldn't under-
stand all the concern about his ab-
sence.
Ruth stepped from the box, took
David by the hand and led him into
her room. After locking the door, she
took Wills' revolver from the trunk
and sat down on the bed beside her
son.
The handkerchief . . . Harry always
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY wore it, Old Charley had said. If her
brnther was alive ;how did it get half -
'Arm groaned and the joints of her way down the well on the Dead Lan -
entwined finger; cracked but she tern ranch? If he were not, then, ac -
shook her head. "I jest cain't go fer cording to the Mexican who had re-
doin' nothin' gains' Mr. Snavely, You ported his death, the handkerchief
Doan understa.n' how 'tis with me an' was buried two hundred miles below
him." the Mexican line. The Mexican had
Slowly the giantess walked
actually mentioned the handkerchief.
to
Ruth's room. The girl followed. As Ruth sat on the bed, holding the
"There here ready?" asked AA, small hand 'of her silent, wondering
son, her mind raced: that first night
pointing to two suitcases. Ruth nod-
ded, and the big -woman left the room when'Snavely had thrown a'bundle in -
with them.
to the old well. He had not been ex -
Dully, Ruth continued the papkinpecting any one to come on the ranch
g.
and had left things about which trust
She would try 'again after Arm was
.
off the ranch and on the main road. be got rid of the bundle opened
as it fell and the light silk handker-
But Ruth felt certain that Ann would
chief floated alone, and came to rest
do exactly as Snavely had ordered. .
on a nail in the timber, where it stay-
. . . The voice then, was not his only
ed. . . . Snavely's feverish desire that
hold on Ann; there was a bigger
thing. she should not ask questions about
the well, that she should not go ;leer
In a short time the packing was it • . . The well haunted him; wasn't
finished and the buckboard loaded. he always looking toward it?
Ruth looked about for David; he was
not in sight, nor did he answer her
call. She suddenly realized that she
had not seen him since returning from
the mail box, Ordinarily, She Would whcA plot, Sh knew as plainly as
Grey, his partner. You must help me
tie him so that we •can take him to the
authorities, . : . Well? Are you on
my side er his?" •
Ann's face was a study. For a mo-
ment she regarded Snavely, then
Ruth. No one spoke.
"Well, Ann!"
"Fore Gawd, Miss Ruth—I doan
know—I dean know-" Ann wrung
her hands and rose to her feet.
"Please, Miss Ruth—I cain't he'p
you 'gains' him?' Ann walked to the
door, hesitated, returned a few steps,
then went back and stood near the
window, in an agony of indecision.
"Ali right, •Ann, think it over."
Ruth stepped close to the oman in the
chair. Her voice was clear and sharp.
"You murderer!"
Snavely shrunk back in his chair.
"Say it!" cdmmanded Ruth. "'—tell
Ann what you are!"
hurried into the kitchen ad began
feverishly filling a gunny sack with
provisions. Five minutes later his
outfit was piledby the kitchen door;
three sacks, his bed roll, a: frying pan,
and, leaning against the house, a 30-30
rifle in a sadle sheath with four car-
tons of cartridges beside the butt.
Ann was coming from the barn,
leading the buckskin horse with a
pack saddle on his back.
(Concluded Next Week.)
"Give rite that gun!" Snavely
darted toward Ann as the giantess
released the girl. Ann backed away
shaking her head. Snavely stopped.
Ann spoke swiftly to Ruth. "Git
yo're little bay and ride away quick
—hurry, Miss Ruth, 'fore he makes
me give him the gun."
"Ann, help me—you have the gun,
help me take him over to Thanes'
place," begged. Ruth.
The gaintess roared at her. "gy
Gawd, git away like I to' you!"
Neither Snavely nor Ann moved
until the sounds of Ruth's horse arid
David's questioning vice had died
away, , •
Snavely, white with rage, spoke
seathingly. "Now give me that gun,
you black—!"
The gun in Ann's hand wavered un-
certainly, "Jes' a, minute,", she falter-
ed.
"Give it here!"
Ann cringed, turned the , revolver
butt.forward and held it tut:,
Snavely snatched the weapon, and
raised the muzzle, to Ann's face. Then
he paused, and lowered the gun. "Git
my horse, damn you! They'll come
back—the Thanes'lI come an' git me!
They'll coop me up! Httiry
along—
git Buck an' throw a pack saddle on
him. Run, damn your black hide!"
Ann ran out of the house. Snavely
Her
voice was
"you murderer!"
clear and sharp,
Snavely's lips moved silently.
"Louder!" she cried,, thrusting the
muzzle of the gun almost against his
face.
"I—done—it— My God! let me be
—quit lookin' at me! I had to do it,
I tell you!"
"Don't move! Now tell us why you
did it." Ruth stood, right foot for-
ward, her smooth young face set rig-
idly. "Begin!"
"I—I shot him."
"Because I hated him!"
"I don't know—he come here. He
bought his interest from the mati
who owned it an' he come here.' He
Without any cut and dried reason- twanted to be pardners—I signed. I
ing, without weighing, rejecting and } couldn't help it—damn him!"
sorting evidence, Ruth found herself "What did he, do to you?"
with a clear, convincing picture of the "I don't know—let-"me be, can't
you? He come here an' I wasn't by,
inysef no more—I couldn't git him
to go."
"You didn't have to murder him!"
"I hated him, 1 tell you! He done
what all people do—I hated him like
I hate all the rest. I got to be by
myse'f. I been alone since I was
born, Every man'I ever knowed tried
to git somethin' off me. Every storet•
keeper tried to cheat me. Every
rancher tried to fence off part of my
land—every time I got a good thing
somebody tried to get it away for his
own self, That's all humans dol
their whole live is just spent trying
to get something somebody else has
got!"
"Well?" demanded Ruth
"When I come hen there was
twenty thousand acres of this ranch
an' the house was in the Middle of\it.
I couldn't see no fence whichever a-
way I looked. I bought this ranch.
I could, stay here. I had rriy horses
an» I had enough cattle to keep me
busy an' to feed ms. I bought this
ranch fair an' square. Then a man*
collies with a paper an' says he owns
three-quarters of it. But he didn't
want to stay here—he didn't want
nothin' but money. So he went away
an' I scraped enough together each
time an' sent it to hire. That
was all right. Then your brother
bought that man out an' come here.
He. •coille to stay. He aimed to
in -
prove the ranch. Good God &mighty! 4)
"I ate going to take you over the
mountains," said Ruth evenly, f'Stand
tip I"
Snavely slowly rose and Rtith
backed away ,At that eminent his
eyes looked past lier shoulder and his
head nodded ever so slightly, Before
Ruth could Move great strong arms
were holding her in :a vie, a big heed
took lioSsesSion of the
yoke muttered elose t'
Rttt .sttugsted tti free herself from 'howl' This teen murdered lilarry sorry."
have been only mildly disturbedeathe
snakes were gone this time of year.
Then Ruth's heart stopped; a few
feet from the board fence around the
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He stopped and his hands went up.
old well lay a box. It lay as though
it had been placed on end against the
fence: in imagination, Ruth saw her
son standing on tiptoe, leaning over
the fence, hitching himself farther ov-
er to sec better-, losing his balance,
the box falling away as his feet left
its top, With a cry of anguish She
ran to the box, stood it up, and
mounting, leaned over the fence—
'David!' The name rarig hollowly
aid died away., "David—" With a
Inoat, Ruth slipped from the box, ,
The tiegt itistant, it teemed to her,
Arm was helping her to her feet,
"Atm! Ropesf bring topet qttick!'
though a hundred investigators had
compiled proofs for a hundred days
that the letter was a lie; that it was
Snavely's final effort to get rid of her.
And Harry—Harry was dead. His
body lay under a pile of rubbish at
the bottom of the well . . that was
why Snavely's pale eyes strayed there
so often.
She heard Snavely's voice speuting
angrily for Ann, then the thump of
his boots as he entered the house.
"David," whispered Ruth, ".Mama's
going totrust you to do as she says;
stay on the bed and don't be afraid—
Mama'll be back pretty soon."
With the revolver in her hand she
stepped. to the door, silently unlocked
it, and stood with her left hand on the
knob.
In the kitchen Snavely abruptly
ceased to upbraid Aim, and the boots
thumped across the porch. "By God,
li,11 show her who's—"
As quickly as she could move Ruth
flung open the door and stepped out,
the revolver, fully cocked, pointing at
Snavely's breat. Ruth quietly closed
the door behind her.
Ruth's voice was sharp, me-
te:Mc. "Go into the living room."
She waited until she heard Ann's
footsteps "Now you march it!"
Suavely turned without a word and
walked before her.
"Sit down—you too, Ann." The girl
nodded toward the chairs by the table.
The huge woman and the pale -eyed
man sated themselves. Snavely grad.,
wally lowered his arms.
"I've got nothing against you, Anti
—far from it, 'Rut if you won't help
no have to go with this Inter -
deter."
"Wha—what's that—" Snavely
gasped and his eyes stared 'wildly.
Ruth spoke to Atm, Without. turn.
log her head: "Ann, will you help me
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
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THE LIFE OF PAUL.
Sunday„ Dec. 31. --Philippians 3;1-
14.
Golden Text.
I have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, 1 have kept the
faith. (2 Tim. 4:7).
Paul had more in the way of human
advantages, natural gifts, social stand-
ing, culture and intellectual attain-
ments, and perhaps even financial in-
deperiAnce, than most men. He was
by, no means a "nobody" before his
conversion and prominence in the
}Christian world, Indeed, in the eyes
of the world he lost much by becom-
ing a Christian. But the autobiogra-
phical glimpse we have in this lesson
throws a shining light on what Paul
thought of his human advantages and
high standing after he ,had come to
see all things in their true. light.
His letter to the Philippians was
written probably but two years before
the apostle's death by the headsmen's
axe under Nero, His final letter was
the second.une to Timothy, when lie
wrote: "I am now ready to be offer"
ed, and the time of my depertuee is
at hand" (2 Tim. 4:6). His next sent-
ence to young Timothy has been elle-
sen as th'e Golden Text this week,
Our fiest lesson in October, begin-
ning these three months' studies, in
troduced us to Saul in Tarsus, A pro-
minent classical scholar, Dr. Ernest
G. Sihler, has recently published an
article showing that Tarsus, Paul's
birthplace, was one of the centres of
erudition in the highly civilized world
of the first century, He quotes Strabo
"So great has been the devotion of
the • men there to philosophy and all
tether regular courses of a liberal edu-
cation that they have excelled both
Athens' and Alexandria," Sihler adds:
"It is not necessary to 'urge that
young Satil was gifted far beyond the
average youth, and coeld, in his ma-
turity, ,assume a position of real in-
sight in the clornein of Philosophy and
letters."
We shoulde keep this in mind as we
study the life and teachings of the
man, to whom, as to no other who
ever lived, was revealed by the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself the mystery and
the marvels of the Gospel of God's
grace. Paul's intellect was keen, bril-
liant, descerning, inexorably logical,
He knew the best philosophies that
man's mind had ever produced. And
he saw nothing irrational, illogical or
unreasonalble,in the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. Rather he gloried in the priv-
ilege of thinking it, through after it
had been revealed to him, and then
of passing it on to the Church and
posterity in all its matchless premis-
es, reasoning, and corklusions. His
Epistle to the Romans ha e no equal
as a study in, sheer logic, in all the
literature of the world.
Now look at the autobibgraphical
lesson passage, in which, for a reason,
Paul sets forth the facts about his
high standing and good record.
The passage begins with the sim-
ple, humble word: "Finally, my bre-
thren, rejoice in the Lord?' If one has
intellect, education, "blue blood," high
social standing, money, one is to re-
joice in none of those things, but in
the Lord. We cannot all have those
things—but we can all have the Lord
if we wil.I.
We are, says Paul, to "rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence
in the flesh?' That last word means
the natural man, including spirit, soul
and body.
Then Paul explains that, if any
one were justified in having such con-
fidence, he was. For he had been born
and brought up as a strict, very re-
ligious Israelite, "a Hebrew of the
Hebrews," a Pharisee in his religious
orthodoxy and zeal; "touching the
righteousness which is ii the law,
blameless—"that is, doing externally
everything the Old Testament law re-
quires. As for zeal,, he had hounded
to death those whom he thought
were against the law, or Christians.
Then his eyes were opened. The
risen Christ appeared to him, and Saul
saw his abysmal, tragic mistake, He
received Christ as Saviour, was born
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again by faith, and life began all over
again.
And. now "what things were gain
to me, those I counted loss for
Christ." His "blue-blooded" family
relationship, his intellect, education,
social standing, money --all these were
but as refuse, "that I may win Christ"
No longer was his own righteousness.
of any value, but only "that which is,
through,thefaith of Christ, the right-
eousness which is of God 1A,' faith."
His passionate longing, purpose and
sole ambition nowwas to know Christ
and the: power bf His resurrection..
And so this ,'greatest man in the his-
tory of the Christ Church could say -
humbly, in all sincerity: "Brethren,
count not myself to have apprehended
but this one thing I do, forgetting
those things Which' are behind, ae
reaching forth unto those things tlia
are before, I .press toward for the
prize of the high calling of God he
Christ Jesus,"
Paul was forgetting the worst
things that were behind him, and also
the best things. He knew he was
cleansed from his sins by, the shed
blood and death of the Saviour anct
Lord. He knew that the best that he
had been able to do in the Lord's ser-
vice was not enough, and he longed
to do still more and better.
That same Saviourand Lord, who -
is "the same yesterday, and today, and
forever," is calling men of the highest
standing and of the lowest to receive -
Him as Saviour, to count all that they
have in worldly and human treasures,.
and even all that they are in their -•
own nature and strength, as but re-
fuse,
that they may win Christ's may
know Him and the power of His re-
surrection. When we do that we
know indeed what it means to "re-
joice in the Lord."
Tourist, pointing to overhead elec-
tric fan: "Now, steward, if I have
this propeller stopped will it make -
any great difference to the speed oof
the ship"
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"THE DOLLAR BRIDE" is made altogether absorbing as Mary
Imlay Taylor tells it, pouring into its chapters such an abundance
of LOVE and ROMANCE.
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A Charming Love Story Chuck Full of
Exporience, Adventure and Interest
"Nancy Gordon trades herself in marriage for fifteen thousand dol-
lars — the price of her family honor -- and the freedom of ber bro-
ther. Roddy, who stole from the bank in which he worked. Nancy,
desperately in love with young Page Roemer, nevertheless agrees
to elope with Dr. Richard -Morgan on the condition that he keep
the marriage a secret. Dr. Morgan is loved by Helena Haddon., a
sophisticated young married woman, but he adores Nancy and
hopes to win her after marriage. Nancy refuses to see Page the
'night before her elopement, and steals, broken-hearted, out of her
house early the next morning to keep her rendezvous with her fut-
ure husband. At the station while they wait for the train, they are
seen by Helena Haddon's husband: . . . .
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