The Chapman Star from Chapman, Kansas • 2

Tf5 on ttlp 1,1 Hit! vMihU THIS pAFtRS tin- N'WMail Ai t.t Mr- himptikl to reinovn that. Something seemed In ii w.tli f.vi.lo iv.litaneu. 1 stoi'id lower, shivering. Tlw branch was cluti Lml in Ti'iitt's rk'lu let'id. Yet the body lay in Hank I Hllfornlrt.

inl Mr. Pnnfctn lii1 tvroiwl luy ifw mijiIv of provMom (rum MUx'K-lon, and win Ills jmrtwT, wli Ihiwi' iciil tmmstiir cnmHiicil, fur ft -l art tcarr, hut ttm wtm write (a Siihk.Mi A Mniiie, will n-oivti fi'-il, tllil llftllthllll tttiiMll HTk winch I'M' '-e-lil I tlieu a dnii Ui.lv did not s.vm, as 1 a -t ol live man. It w-cuiiHt hold Mg on with 11 it ad nte with honor, I tugged at idem from ttt hot ihv. mw tunc Almost '1 prt rmiulrfil. V'lil lif ilkTleO fro Tli' whi'iluM ulna rt) Uuiutcl fcure ul mug IHtlv lorluie.

All new. the Th ii 1 vn Pi att'" voieo not your mouiiUiu!" Palter will pr.wnt It nl Tul. Pnti VM lung on his bed Ml. nt. but the nm ieeiii si ex it') l.U biMiii to a ti an I iu motion tli" en an I n.

tlolis iSHUIIMMI to tile lll'iellee I Tb )' ran d.ui i-iti-ly ii. ai a i a tuidty ivveid mi- is a nrtl. ip i "No tools! no tiif.s!'' ho en d. "1'ivtty wav i hold a fiiiii "Wh.it cl'iim, Piattf" iaM S-ft r. Tim oi' llli'M's ye fell OU Sett'T Mil ft )1.

-am of cHUiiing, "No claim," he Kiid. "We're nfti'r oil. llimtiug Miiii.e, ill the chinipnral. Then5" one imw on the lwid. If yer imt olT while I count ten, I'll put a luill through ye.

One two-three oh!" and he hri. ked as if with juiia. Hillyear spike; "Ilo-inu lie kept quiet. It is the doo ing fuimlv: si sjji Aii iioii ikm'iik'iiI, At the earnest solicitation of many voters, I announce myself as it cuiuli-ilnte for Clerk of the District court subject to tin 'lirision of the Democrat ie county convention. Frank A.

Smalley CHAPTKH XII, lending over Pratt I put to him the usual idiotic qiies'lon mider such oircutnstaiieasi "Pratt! are you alivel" Infants nnd Children. for iiwlil "i i-j no lio litt I 11' "Ifyoii luy nny more cIl-um liKt tliui," wnl Im, "I wunt mi to hiii' au'l ln-tnt? mini; men in ciioUi) tli 'in. Tliev it a-turn ntm.it iv Iwvt'U lunus cihi to on 'em. Tli 'V want all their kIivh; til ti- i.vL-i mi of Hi- lii-l of tli'i ri er, iul It's if my hiii'm-t to to thnt ll'it nivisl for 'that iJUlpi'), nt tho rut" I'm elmtliing up floili', limits nil'l wliisicv them." "Hot ny lutU'r ciKiiin tlmu tlw lut islti'd miner, who, just coniinj iu, Imd not hennl hint renvirk. "Yes," nankin.

"Splendid lot-Huviimis only it wnntrt lui'l to un to draw one. Try You'll llnd it'll In mi a month. tlto qimlity to suit ynur cast'. You sn.oko tio much. Thuso eigiin goi 1 U' I nf h.

'II niioi iliuiirv limn a whole year. AnkMiko, inv i artner. had Vin mado to order.1' CastorU enres folio, Constlpatlen, Hour HKimncii, l'aurrhoea, truefcuion. Kills Worms, aud piuiuotea di ion, Wlliiuui injurious medication. "CMtorla is so well adaptd to hlldren that I reconmii-uj 11 superior to any inwripuun fcouwo to me." II.

A. Aiu'iicu, II. Ill Bo. Oxford SU, linx.lL fa, N. Y.

Tui Ck-iiauu Cohtaki, 183 Fultoo Street, N. tor's Intel's, 1 he -doctor wiys Ins ary bnilluui-is something or oth'r." "Queer busineis-mivr business!" was Sef ter' remark, a left the house together. "I think he's had a shoo. in1 si rape with Profiler lvtuined. I felt that I ould now shift a iu of thd business to other shoul-dor He heard my stot-v.

At Its conclusion Ili'imldlclHI MlUe 'I It kl'l. For Associate .1 list iee D. M. VALENTINE, of Franklin county For (iovernor JOHN A. MAUTIX, of Atchison county.

For Lieutenant 'Jovernor A. 1'. lilDDLlC. of Ottawa county. For Secretary of State K.

li. ALLEX, of SiMgwick county. For State Treasurer JAM KS W. HAMILTON, of Sumner county. For Auditor of State TIMO; 1IV Met'AUTTIY, of l'awnee county.

For Attorney Oeneral S. 15. of Osage county. head IIow many terrlMe aches one's poor Itankin'ii Rnliblo was a relief, ltij Dlelc ame In, ami foriettiiu? paxt admonitions tiii-t hli liu' pi'i )ku-; ions on tin) limited aril of 'ounter uncovered liy ooils, niui ImmtHlintt'ly ot off nguin with a (ulckmsi that- ut. borne uneomfortuMn 'U-sution.

"(ilad It works," said Rnnltin. "Xothln1 hut a needle stuck through the wimd. Soma folkses hrmU aiu too tliii'k to tuk a hint. Thi'ii we try soma other part. 'If at first you don't Hiiceeiid, try, try P.iiiikin, and tlum nddod: ''Nei'dlc-i and pins, Noodle and jiins, AVlieu you got married ymir tronlils Pf'sently llillyenr entorel.

A clotrl seen; -d to come with him. To me it win iu if the vindictive spirit of the dead man kept him company. Ho looked about anxiously, at if with tlw has, ana wl-at BUirennii caused vf uiese K', iimK uH.r heuilitches. Itellvf may be bad from Nervous, uuuuu, Itu Immit iH-ino." h'uuralctc, or fcU Heudaeho by the use of I'ikk Kitcbik, M. Bt, rul.

Mint. xrfVvAK Which Is not a cure-all, but "nuTH om.it Toxuaumi tn tua o( Neuronic w.q a curt for Nervous Hbi1 u-hw with liutx-Hsa in nlmiHil evi.ry iuniiu.c. Headache, NeuralifU, Khcumattaa, BclaUca, 0 M. Oincinnnti. Oliio.

and Nj proprietary mcaieliie has ever wwlr dn( (eio(1 ln tlT0 obtained such stnmg endorsement from ttio 0Muf blitud llMulubV" tuedical profession. I Tnio. Hkiim.iss, M.I)., 8t. Thomaa, Mo, KOK 8AI.E BT AIX DRUGGISTS. PRICE ONE HOLLAR PKH BOTTLE.

A. A. MELUER, Bui Proprietor, 709 sad 111 WASUESUTON AVt.NUK, Bf. J.UDL3. he settle 1 back and laughed.

ilinw novel, isn't it?" said "Write it, print it, soil it. Well, young man, you're improving rapidly. I congratulate you. I couldn't have wished you auything U'tter than the exporieuoo you've gone through. You nee hl it.

You'i-e tlie kind that must U' put in very hot water to draw anything ou of you." "Ihit won't this put all Hull Parontht scent of tln n.ink'?" I asked. "First, let's compound some whisky with sugar, lemons and nutmeg. Itefore we talk business let's fix things so as to make bust lies-, a pleiiur not by pouring tlw stud down raw as the fools do nt the store yonder, but dress up the fluid decently and tiu-ts-f ally lieforo we put it down. There would be far less drunkards if every man was compelled by law to dross up and trim up hi! drinks "in this way In-fore he swallowed them." He continued as he sipped his punch: "Make yourself easy, Holder, aUrnt the claim. You have fixed that all right, or the For Superintendent of 1'iiblic; "Pratt, aft ynu aliv." Tlio wonls came from him in a feeble, whining tone: "No, no! not that way.

The lead's higher up mighty rich, too!" I managed to get him off the slmlf. Further I could not. The only aeoesiible route home wound in places about projections of the mountain several hundred feet perpendicular above the foaming river, where a Bound man needed all his strength and nerve J. H. LAWIIKAI), of Bourbon county.

hoie that Pratt might ho present. I knew the meaning of thnt look. Hillyear was a slow-moving man, apparently a follower of Pratt and led by him. Without his partner he seemed lost. "Has nnvliody sieen Pratt to-day? Ha TH.

LEYI -TJEALEItlX FRESH BREAD, CAKES, PIES Etc CHAPMAN, KANSAS. Fates have for you. Tratt w.mt go up M. K. Cliuixli.

Preaching every Sabbath alternating between niorninfr, and pvefinjf. M. Wilson- Pastor. i to keep a sure footing. "Them mint fellows are sharp.

Jock Hill th'-re for a while, now that his wits arc knocked out of his head, which for our purpose Is 1 letter far than knocking them outol his body. Pecause I'm fool enough to liove that if his wits were rait of his body they'd bo iu much liettor shape tn come back and reveal our secret year, mind you UaKe your next uaicn ni bread clean throujli. Hun a straw through dough sticks it 'taiu't done; don't put pork in till beam be boiled so you can squash 'em else, hard as rocks." So he rambled on. His words concerning the mint people suggested to me Broener's Catholic lmrcli. First.

Miss, am. Iliifh Mass lOa. m. 3 spers 4 p. m.

Every Sunday. llKV.Father Curtain Pastor. than as thev now are chained to a cracked skull, nnd therefore in bad work- remark as to their curiosity regarding hw ouartz assavs and their whereal-outs. Pratt ig order. Hillyear, from what you say, is, i 1., rtf Ti'iifi nnd of Pratt and I Iud-jre, onlv an appendage as evidently delirious.

I thought to utilize Attounky at Law, Kk.u, Kstatk, Loan and Inhami. (ent. Money to loan on Ileal Estate, at 0 ami 7 per cent. Cutne anil see me ami save money. I can insure your property against Tire and Tornadoes in the 'Home Insurance of X.

Hest in the land HUSINESS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Deeds, Mortgages, drawn up neatly and correctly. 'niurr'icnloiiHl titiixli. lteligious Services every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, and each alter nate Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. All are cordially invited.

PiEV. (iEOKGE 1'KIlUY, Pastor. hnsu't come back," after a time he asked, in his heavy, drawling way (a sentence with hlin seemed always a matter of previous deep and labored study, and when asked the sim-pW, question the time that elapsed In-fore he replied was exasperating to au eager inquirer). "Why, I saw him piking along Serub mountain to-day," said one of the crowd. "What's ho gunniu' after up there, anyhow "Holder, didn't I see you crawlin' among the bushes up there to-dnyf' said one Dili Softer.

1 hat red shirt you've got ou lks like the one I saw." Fool that I was! I had not thought of wearing a gall) which would show so conspicuously against the dark bottle greou of the chapjiaral. "Yes, I took a stroll that way," I sail I felt forced into such reply. He continued: "Whit did yer find to shoot up there? Rattlesnakes or jnckasa rabbits! I heard a shot." That was Pratt's pistol. Sights and sounds seemed drawing their meshes about mo. Hillyear was looking nt me in his stolid fashion as if some faint glimmer of au idea were creeping into his brain.

"I shot nothing," was my reply. The talk then drifted toward mysterious murders and robberies then common in that country and cases were mentioned which had finally been traced to meu neighbors of the slain whose lives bad previously diowu no such inclination. liunkin's humor inclined him ever to give IIISTSTTIBIB LIHEi! not able to do anything without him. At events, I'll find out soon. As for the I think I've got the cream out of it already.

It's only a feeder to some bigger vein in the mountain. That can lay for awhile. I've got four or flvo caches of quartz up th'-re thnt. I haven't shown you. We'll get it all dowu tliis week and hush up things for the present.

There's, I think, ynur fair share of divvy, so far as we've gone," aud he put iu my hands a mint certificate of deposit for $14,000. "If the rock that's mine i out gives down as I think it will, you'll have as much more coining to you. Are you satisfied!" Satisfied! Less than a year from home and the possessor of what iu Eastpnrt was ileein a "small fortune." In the well-worn phrase, I wanted to "pour forth my thanks." I said: "I ish I could -fidy express my feeling and gratitude to you." "I'm glad you can't," said Broener, inter IX THE- UniHl Hope M. K. Circuit.

Preaching at (Jond Hope church very Sunday at 11 A.M. atZion church every other Sunday at 3 P.M. At stone school house Spring Valley, every two weeks, at 4 P.M., everyone invited. W. A.

McWright. South-Western Mutual Benevolent Ass'n. Incorporated under and complied with all the laws of the State. IT IS SAFE AND RELIABLE: this wit wandering and said: 'Did the mint people seirl you up "Put fresh salt ou a bird's tail, an' you'll catch a weasel asleep," was his reply. Then his mind seemed to leap into the old channel.

''It's rich mighty rich and they can't hold it all." The thing to he done was to get Pratt to his cabin. Evidently his brain was affected by the wound. I left him aul hurried to Hillyear. Their caWn was built as thousands were in those days au enveUvsa of cotton drilling about a light wooden frame. Thero was no wooden door to kuoek against, or any other, method to rouse the inmates save by calling.

Call I did, but Hillyear seemed sleeping the sleep of the just. At last, out of patience, I pitched a rock into the frail structure. It tore through the cloth. Hillyear's reply was a shot, which was not to le wondered at. "For hea ven's sake, Hillyear, don't fire! It's me.

I've found Pratt. He's hurt badly," I cried. "Who's me?" asked Hillyear, after one of Lis periods of silence. I heard him cocking his pistol. "It's I Holder.

Come and help me get Pl-att down off the mount iin. He's lying there with a gash in his head." Mr. Hillvear now relapsed into silence. I knew not whether ho was trying to frame au idea into a sentence or peering out to get au aim at mo. "Ain't you coming?" I crM at last "Are you coing to help me get Pratt down.

He'll Chapman (i, A. K. HON. L. "WASSON, President.

E. II. PARAMOliE, Secretary. TOPEZA rupting mo. "It's a gfiod thing for you that you can't.

I hate effusiveness. You Chapman Post, No. 3(52 O. A. 11.

Uegular meetings 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in each Mo. J. C. may part tlianK your reticeni-e ana un-demonstrativeness for what you call your luck. I don't want any gushers about me.

sir 1 1 P. C. C. Correll, Adj. Arm an individual the very characteristic which lie most lacked.

Slow men ho spoke of as marvels of dispatch taciturn men as disturbing all about by the clatter of their tongues. with my shy, quiet, reticent manner, evidently ranked with him as a most peaceable character. It seemed to me then as if some fleud prompted him to the remark: "Shouldn't wonder if Holder had waylaid and murdered Pratt. Put another mau STJTJPHEnSTS MILLS! These mills are supplied with improved machinery and we are prepared to meet the competition of any mill in Central Those giving us their patronage will find it to their advantage. in his private graveyard." "Yes," added another second fiddle humor- die before we get to him." Besides, you've earned what you got every cent of it Fate pur you and me together, and with that put it in your way.

There's no thanks nor gratitude in the matter. I hnto people always overwhelmed with gratitude. They're the sort who, if ever they do you what's called a favor, never forget it, and, in effect, want to be piid for it forever afterward. Let's change the subject. There's a traveling theatre company at Chinese Camp to-night.

Let's go and see the show. You need a change from the ghastly buzzard spying and l)ody hunting business. Get Rankin's horse, I'll take mine, mid we'll gallop over there." On applying. Mr, Rankin said he would gladly hire me his horse. The animal, he added, was vicious, shied at his own shadow, "bucked frequently and had been thj death of two men.

As we were leaving he called out to Broener: "The coroner lives at one end of the camp and is lighten! n' on an in-ouest when sober. The undertaker lives at How diil vou come to ttncl nimr retail. came at length from Mr. Hillyear's lips, with a sort of clownish judicial gravity. "Good heavens!" I said.

"Will you stay there all night and ask questions while your partner is bleeding to death! Do you suppose I'd get out of my bed to stand and call Flour, Feed, at wholesale or E- GINDER, LEASER. CHAPMAN VI ARK.ETS' Grain and fitock n-purt, corrected oarti week by Dawson Ellison, rroduee, by Jlowe llros. Wheaj', j'o. 2 Soft 50 2 lied Winter 47 3 40 liejeeteJ 2'1 Wiiitk Coun ..25 Mixkd Ojhn tst. "That's what ho knocks oil work so early for in the morning." "And the last man's blood i on his pants now!" added a third.

I had worn a pair of white duck working trousers ami a sWt of the blood from Pratt's body had smeared them near the feet I had not noticed it before. This remark called to me the attention of here like a fool for nothing;" What's the muss! cried a voice the darkness. It was Bill Hefter, who lived about an eighth of a mile distant. Ho had come, roused by the shot au.i the sound of 20 kiv io Euan, 07 liV'TTEIi 10 L. A.

Reed voices. I've found Pratt badly hurt on Scrub 4.: Hi ui.i, mountain, and am trying to eet Hillyear to help me down wi him. Hillyear won't be I2ST lieve me, nnd that's what's the matter." "Hillyear, get up! Don't be fool," said WHITE and YELLOW PINE Sefter. CITY FCHAPMA Ln.T.iE. Mayoi y.

i Hillvear finally replied: right! I'm the other. You'd better take the doth for the young man's shroud aloug with They know that horse up thero and always put an extra ten cents a yard on white liuen wheu they see him comiu'." It seemed another world in that land when riding by night. The suu's hot glare was gone. -The air after nightfall was always cool and refreshing, for it came oil the snowbanks ou the Sierra summits. Our horses were Ml of life and apparently as glad to make the trip as ourselves.

The life of the horse seems to add life to the rider, providing he is a "horsemau." Distance nt night seems unnoticed. It is more like a dream. One travels forward without so much of that mental straining to reach one point after another us do so often our unhappily constituted hurrying minds in the day time. comin' wdth an expression as if he had had no doubts as to the genuineness of the news, and had but momentarily heard of it. E.

Paxciieii, Count-XL, S. Jaokm vm, 8 11. IIOAG, Councilmen all in the dingy store. Their eyes seemed to bum through me. I felt as if iu the dock tried, convicted, sentenced.

I loft soon afterward. Hillyear's route home was mine. AVe were obliged to walk near each other on the narrow, rocky trail, wide enough for a single traveler. With all the dark suspicion which I feared existed iu his mind con erning mo I felt sorry for him. I felt when about him that his was one of those natures, torn to follow that Pratt had picked him up as hi would a stray dog looking for a master, and that with the instinct of the animal he had become attached to Pratt and was grieving for him.

I tried in vain that night to sleep. Bo soon as my body was at rost, and my brain became more active than ever, its pic.turings vibrating from Pratt's body to the store, and from the scenes of that day to the possible ones of to-morrow. Something must be done with that body. Where it was it must not remain. You know how in our minds come floating memories recent or remote, important or trivial, and of no apparent relation to the main subject of thought.

So in my mental vision that came the black buzzard I Anyone desiring to build should rail examine my prices before purchasing elsewhere. Ollice south of A. J. Poor's elevator. V.

15. Banning, (J KO. E. SNY OElt, 1'. Donnelly, Bkx.

Knatss J. A. WHITE! ia in. Clerk Police Judge Marshal reasur er Our party reached Pratt, where I had left him. Wit great difficulty we managnlto carry him down the mountain.

His utterances on the way down all bore vaguely on quartz hunting and the last scene of which he had been conscious while in his right mind. To Sefter, they were a puzzle. To Hillyear, I know not how much or how little So galloped Broeuor and regarding those It A I l.KUA I TIM KAMSAH DIVISION UNI.N I'Al'IPIC. Miller and Cormany BAHEERS Chapman StationGoing East. a.

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I had seen in the sky the day before the scene I of the tragedy, and his bit of black shadow i floating on the ground by me. Deposits received subject to checks atight. meaning they conveyed, io myselt they were a source of great uneasiness. They bore first on the secret of our claim. Next, they might confirm a suspicion, which, if not already developed, I knew was likely to be, through the singular circutmtances attending my finding Pratt so far up Scrub mountain in the dead of night.

It needed but a word of 'his delirious utterance to make known that we had quarreled. We left Pratt iu his cabin. Sefter, whose curiosity was evidently nmch.arotised, said to me, jiwt what I expected he wouldi "How did you come to find Pratt away up there?" I told Sefter that I heard Pratt's voice in the night up the mountain, which was true, but not in the sense I left Sefter to infer. myriad shining wonders of all ages the stars. "Lot's of 'em, aren't there!" said he.

"The stare! Yes." "Small jiotatoes we are under them. Smaller than ants in comparison, aud moving about on this planet for these shining atoms we call gold. I wonder, now, of what importance poor Pratt, if he had his senses, would consider that biggest star alongside oi a pun full of dust. Pratt would trade Venus for a quartz claim." "Stare, speculation, immortality, said JBroener, as wo rode on. "The three seem tc go together; or, at all events, stars always gtart one on those topics.

I wonder what wc are, anyway who we are, where we cams Exchange and Drafts on all tlie principle cities in the Trains 2H Denver Express. Good paper on short time discounted United (States. p. in 5 a. in 4 02 a.

12 35 a. ni 12.35 p. in 8.10 a. That buzzard! That buzzard and his companions would to-morrow show to the searchers surely where the body lay! No animal in that country may die on highway or byway, ou plain, gulch or mountain, and though it be ever so thickly screened by bushes, though not one of these sc'aveugers be visible, vet within a few hours trooping they come, 20.1 Kansas CJtv Express, 211 Fast Freight, 213 Freight, 215 Local Fight. 217 Freigh ivy yfeiisL Farm Loans a low rates of interest A MILLER OEM ANY.

B.C. Agt. -an not stun led bv some wondrous faculty of scent or vision to the carcass, their feast. That body, I must remove, and this very oivietei ''gxf-lllj N- KINa- M'D" this rai ahi'lene, kansac. lesti'rm HLECTRO-THEBAPEUTIC BATH 1 held that evasion was justifiable under the circumstances.

It's not so much what we tell that may damage us as the construction placed on it by those it may lie told to. The only way I know of when certain questions are asked that many people will ask, to avoid evasion or untruthfulness, is to say "it's none night. 1 junqied up, dressed myself in the darkue--s, and in a few minutes was stumbling the mountain side. An "old moon" gave from, and all the rest. I am a certain amount pf life and intelligence in a body.

Body's only a garment, a wrap, a machine. Hit a a part of the body hard enough, just one blow, and in one second life's all gone, and with it the 'gumption' I've been storing up for years. Hit it not quite as hard, like the crack poor Pratt gave himself, and the intelligence stav3 kut 40 flinders all hurly- 1 .1 Vii i.wtli ii ii i no i Mil $mrl me its fading yellowish light. Much of the trail, both up and down, lay in almost total darkness. Where the pines grcjv thickly sometimes I lost my way entirely.

1 groped and stumbled over bush and roc In two hours tils CHstfl'Jt-ttjn in its results; combining all.the 4r fnr A'Jii'3liv' powers of electricity and the Ior-Wlffl bath, has been a long felt want, fa of incurableyiehl Veil the gentle iniinencH of these rWff-tm: The Electro-Therapeutic i wlieiie'it i)ft'in inv possession most hap- nil i. evator. llll El Smoij eti.se ill- hp 'ii'ii-iri i. ui-jie-M. oave convicted It In I.

ale. A'flJpbr iasto'lio are predisposed to of your business." Ttiat, as Bociety is now constituted aud complicated, would be quite Impossible. "I wonder who shot continued Sefter. "Shot himself, maybe." I replied. "Queer business, anyway," was Sefter'B final remark, as he trudged off home.

I saw by his manner that he was full of curiosity, and being full of curiosity would be soon full of theories as to the cause of Pratt's hurt, and that as curiosity and theories are contagious, he would in a short time inoculate all Bull Ber with them. Next day I visited Pratt. His head had been hurt both by the ball and the fall. The bullet had gashed the temp'. not very deeply.

The concussion from the fall seemed to have most affected him That one or other of these wounds had affected his brain was very evident without the pompous declaration of the physician, who bad been summoned, to that elf ecU burly. Problem: when you bore a hole with a bullet "through a man's head, does all his intellect go out through that hole, and, if so, where does it go to? and might there not be some way of putting a bucket or basin under such a man's head when he's dying, and collecting his intelligence, his quien sabe for one's own use, just as they tap trees for maple sugar Well, one thing's certain; we're here, anyway, and I put it up that the best plan is to get all the I'un we can out of it body, soul, mind, spirit, aud any other little addition the theologians, philosophers ana metaphysicians can tack on us." We rode into the "camp." In the language of the time, it was "bilin'." The theatre company had brought in minors from far and near. It was a single straight street. From every door and window ou either sid poured a flood of light, for every house on the street, who stiller i'roin any 1 vern nienbs'tlJUi ou or if'TOth roat, chest or lungs, I was agaiu on the spot. It was my intent to drag the body down the mountain side and throw ft in the river.

Whether it was founj far or near, it would, 1 thought, lessen and break the web of Or-cumstautial evidence 1 saw weaving about me. It would put Pratt off the ground I must The fragment of moon remaining was just above the dark outline of the hills on the other side of the river. In ten minutes I should be left iu total darkness. I commenced removing the brush from Pratt's body. I took it first from the legs and trunk.

The face I didn't want to see if possible. I 'worked the glower as I approached the head. The moon Mink entirely behind the dark ridge opposite. I removed the brush from the had. had bached the last branch covering it I at- V.

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