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. r. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1916. PLTTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. J i ( 0 P f-r'i'.J ' ' ' . L.' - cS- I , 'f - CQPYIHT, IS. BV TMf. M.K.-j.Y CCHPANf fellil&iNs.. CHAPTER XVI. A Game cf Cards. I" ATI111' N i"c.v twk a ninety-nine W I .var dnu -C into a franchise they r.u'au it s iorcvor, don t tli y '.Too w;iiitcd to know. "Forever, to nil intents an J pur poses!" saul Garry. loo's chest panic anil rose in a Ions?, Ions breath. ' ;: 'It's no word to trifle with." lie. ran i ioned at lust. "If you lose it'll be a considerable- ilrouih." Cut:" invited Garry, aud they start ed to play. That othrr nislir Garry's stack of chiis had lasted far longer than they did n this second occasion. A half hoijr later. when hp rose to go to bed, his ninety-nine year promise of absti nence was piled symmetrically before Fat .Top. nut his; pood nisht was pay. For n time after his departure Joe eyed Sieve sidewise. "Iluni-m-m." he cleared lug throat. "Ilurn-m-in! And I was cspectin" you to turn u any hour of the last twenty four with a request that I come ami help bring home the remains.' Yoit must be quite a silver tonguetl ex horter, aren't you. Steve?'' ,' -; Stephen O'Mara Mas silent ovef the paper which .Toe had' handed him ear lieu in the evening, and the lack of anV offer on his part to so into details; dii not trouble his questioner. Fat .laeisati and bobbed his head over what would never cease to be a miracle in his eyes ' -."'And he'll stick this time," hd ertteU his wonder aloud. ' lie's surely! pofttg to 'stick!" Then he smiled widely. "And I reckon you'M have to admit that I handled the small rart that came my way with ease and dispatch when I tell you that he didn't catch so much as one lonesome pair all the time I was dealing. I'm ashamed of my self. I haven't seen snch a mean, crooked pame of tstud dealt since I came east!" Garry was very quiet the next mom jiiir when he and Steve went back to their work; lefc,re noon came his un easiness had become very apparent to the man ho' was assisting. But neither his silence nor his nervousness any longer worried Steve. Instead the latter let himself f-mile over both those out ward evidences of inward panic, when ever his thoughts were on Garry at all. For the latter's diffidence as the day aped became a flushed and warm cheeked thins, until at 4 In the after noon Steve could no longer withhold the suggestion for which, wordlessly, Garry was asking. "Joe was more than half right," he remarked, one eye to his level, "in spite of the fact that we refused to take ldm seriously. We can't let those people come in and find everything too hopelessly uncomfortable, so per haps you d better run ahead now, Garry, and tee what he has accom plished. I don't want to leave this spot myself until I have some figures n imn which I know I can rely. But you might run ahead, If you will. I'll be along later." It was couched in the form of a re quest, but Garry's face flamed. He went, albeit a bit reluctantly. And he stopped more than a few times hi his climb from the edge of the timber. to the door T Steve's shack. But once lie had passed over the threshold to lind that unrecognizably trim room empty, his face grew heavy with dis appointment. He was on the point of going back outride tf scan the bowl of the valley when a tall, short skirted figure, enveloped in a voluminous apron which Fat Joe In a moment of mistaken zeal had once provided for the cook boy. Hashed through the pas sageway from the kitchen annex and barely missed catapulting; into - his arms. Miriam Burrell, pink faced from the heat of the roaring wood stove and smudged with flour on fore bead and cheek, lifted her apron and swung it like a flag of victory. "I've found it." she sang triumphant ly. "I've found out what was the mat ter! I'd just forgotten the baking pow der, that was all! Next time" Then she recognized him. With out stretched hands still clutching; the edge of her apron, she stood, almond eyes widening, and scanned him from head to foot. Even Steve, who had been with him every moment, had noticed the hour to hour change that had been taking place in Garry's ap pearance. To the girl who had not seen him for weeks, that flushed, self conscious man was a different Garry than ?be had never known before. Hungrily lier gaze went from open shirt to caked boots, from steady hands to clear eyes which made." her own eyes shy. And then Miriam Bur red, cool and roised Miriam, did what many another maid in a checkered apron has doue In similar, situation. She lifted that stiff gingham to tide her unutterable happiness. Bat ,o fore be could speak she found fcrr voice, nor was it very steady ct th i'.. "I thought you were that Tirty cf iHsrs come back." she hesitated ' Hd how tanned you ar becomic j, Gs.rr v I thought they oh. I can't te.il ,yo!i how glad I am to see you so so well. I'm making biscuits for supper that is, I've just. been practicing until now. It seemed as though I'd forgotten some thing that was .necessary to the recipe, because they were flatter after they were cooked than when I put them in the oven. And most marvelously heavy too! But it was just the baking pow der, that was all. Do you do you think you'd care to help?' Steve was very late in returning to camp that night. Throughout the rest of the afternoon he set himself a pace knee deep in slushy mud which Garry could not have maintained. But when he paused there in the dark where he alwas's stopped for a moment and a tu mult of voices swept down to meet him he forgot, his fatigue. He had lifted his battered hat from his head, striving to distinguish a single note in all that treble of girlish laughter, when, framed suddenly against' the background of light within he saw n. slender silhou ette take up its station In the door frame. Barbara was still peering out across the darkness when he came up to her. "We're been waiting dinner for you for almost an hour." she rebuked him in place of what might have been a commonplace .greeting. "We've been waiting in the face of Mr. Morgan's in. slstence iht ; it ;wa practically use less. lie has'becn ' tel! in g us that when a man hernia the hills fails to turn up for a meaioa never, bother tolook for him. , 'YoikVkn'oW' that the worst Ins haipeuecL-'! '; , , ; . " Over herv.lwad tire first eyes thai Steve encountered that eveniifg were those of Archibald Wickersham. Y.'hi! shaking hands with the girl be bowel in grave welcome to the tall ti,:urr ir. "Oh, I can't tell you how glad I am to see you!" leather puttees and whipcord riding breeches, and Wickersham from the far side of the room bowed back in equal gravity. Then Caleb Hunter grasped Steve's elbow and spun him around toward the light and peered at him accusingly. Barbara had not no ticed until then how tired Steve looked. "Before the others get to talking," said Caleb, "before the tide grows too strong for my weak voice, young man, I want to deliver a message. Miss Sa rah wants it explicitly understood that unless you stop in to say hello on your next trip down she herself will take the trail up here. And lest that ulti matum sound too little threatening I might add that when Miss Sarah takes the trail she' never travels with less than six trunks." Caleb clung so tightly to his arm that it brought a tinge of color to ! Steve's cheeks. It was minutes before he could get away to change his wet clothes, and in that minute or two he could not help but contrast, grimly, his own mud bespattered attire with that of Archie Wickersham. The tired blue circles beneath his eyes were even more noticeable when he returud, to be ushered with much ceremony by Fat Joe to the head of the table. It was an utterly irresponsible gath ering that leaned over the red table cloth that night an oddly assorted group which from the very first Joe realized was not at all to Wickersham's liking. Dexter Allison himself, fairly radiating good will, sat at the foot of the table, with his son-in-law to be on one side and Barbara's little maid. Cc cile, on the ether. And between Cecile and Barbara, who sat opposite Garry and Miriam. Fat Joe leaned both el bo ft s upon ths table edge and monopo lized the conversation. The seating ar rangement was .Joe's; it was hi- party. And the absolute inattention to detail. I the large indifference to veracity which his dis:cuiS3' disclosed before that noisy surfer -ass over, grew to be an astonishing thing. His Sights of faucy left Steve afiast in more than one in sti'.U'je: Its ?re.i forced a stiff smile to WioksisliuVs hps. and that U say Lug much fcr Jos'3 success as an euter VilBer. for In ths bariWLe-t those two men toward each other there had been evident from the first a chill antipathy whL-h amounted actually to "armed truce. And the color in M iriam's cheeks, whenever his gaze strayed to that side of the table, helped Steve to forget, temporarily, much that he found not pleasant to recall at all. For Miriam's tongue was no less ir respousible than was Joe's. Her mood was so mercurial that she drew thro and again the ycs of all at the table. She chattered with an njiandou that scandalized Barbara; broke in and in terrupted every argument with hoy denish trivialities, in one? breath, to appeal to Garry 'the next for refuta tion. And Garry, the light tongut d and quick wittcd, sat almost dumb of lip before her happy garrulity. But his eyes never left her: they spoke his thoughts aloud. The quick lift, and droop of her eyelids, the brilliancy of her lips, made Miriam's face a living thing of happiness made Barbara's si lence seem even more profound. For the latter's withdrawal from the hilar ity, dominated half the time by her father's booming bass, was nearly as complete as that of Wickersham him self. Just once, shortly before they with drew for the night, Steve caught a gleam of mischief in the dark eyes sh: turned toward him. She rose the nercl. moment and started slov, ly around the room, puking demurely info corners and closeted nooks. I very eye was following her when she finally found the t!dng for which :die was searching. Sh"-drew a red felt, yellow mottoed cushion from beneath, t ho 2ver hide covering a chair and held if ;! so that all might read. "What Is Home Wit li on t a Fat her V" it ran. and when the joy that stormed throush the room mud? It sure that the exhibition needed no interpreter Fat Joe turned and hid his face. Mlrir.m rc:-p languidly and joined the other girl in an examination of his handiwork Smooth face tinted by the firelight, copper hair almost dis heveled in its disarray, she was an ex quisitely lovely thing. In her alto voice she expressed her opinion. "It's an entirely new stitrh t me. Bobs." she averred. "I don't think I have ever before seen just this method employed." And she turneVto Stephen O'Mara. "Do you suppose. Mi. O'Mara,"' she asked, "that I might learn it from the cue who did this work for you? It's rather" and her head tilted to o:m side "it's rather a pretty thing." Again they succumbed to mirth, and then Joe rose, bristling, aiid went for ward much as a gamecock might step out to do battle. He took the cushion from the hands of the girls, who no' longer had strength enough own to hold it. "If you are aiming t do any sewin.T around this camp," he stated, "you can start in sewing, on buttons. This kind of work is entirely too -nerve wearing for amateurs." He carried the cushion across the room and placed it not where it had been hidden by the deer hide, but in colorful prominence against the back of the chair. Long after he had cross ed with Steve and Garry to their tents he continued to exj-iodc with soft chuckles. "I never did say," he defended him self, 'that that sentiment was strictly appropriate. I always staled that it was the best I could. And as for my technique well, either of you guys try it some time. You just take a needle ful of that yellow worsted and start tracking across a couple of yards of red and pathless desert and see where you come out. I know, because I've done it. I'm a pioneer. But if I ever tackle another job like that it's going to be a crazy quilt." And Joe considered in spite of the din which answered him that his chal lenge was ample. It was fully an hour after Fat Joe and Garry had rolled themselves up in their blankets when Steve, who had elected to sit up for one last pipe even though his body' was aching with fa tigue, heard behind him the approach of her footsteps. Outside at the top of the rise some fifty yards in front of the tents he had seated himself on tt log, chin buried in one palm and eyes vacantly steady lefore him. But even before he turned, before he rose slowly to his feet, he knew who was coming, knew and realized that sup should not have come. Wrapped, iu a long heavy coat, face half hidden by the upturned collar, bare of head, Bar bara came quietly down to where he waited. And without word of greeting on the part of either of them they sat down together, facing the silvered bowl of the valley. Time passed before Barbara ocncd her lips for a long, quivering intake of breath. "I never dreamed it could bo so big," she murmured in awe. "And then to think that some day within n few months In reality engines will go screeching their signals across ihU very place. It doesn't seem possible; it seems almost a shame to spoil it too." "I've felt that way about it often," I Steve answered, almost dully. "I like 1 it better myself 'as it is. It does an- I pear to be a long way ahead, doesn't it that day of completion which you cover iu the screech of the v.histlesV j Only today when we were scrambling ! about down there in the alders it took 1 nearly all the imagination 1 possessed i to tee two streaks of stiel where there is uothing hut thicket now. But as for thy bigness of it" he laughed dep. ' recatingly "it isn't, so very bi you know. It's just a a mean sort of pi-op. osition." "To me." Barbara said "to mo it is colossal! Why. I thought the work at Morrison seemed complicated and tan- . glcd enough, but there the re isn't even a beginning or an ending here. There's nothing but woods and water." She pointed out across the valley to ward a tQ'JundJiLe outline yellow mid or the moon: pointed into tUe north aud asked another question. . , Is that part of the embankment?" i ' she wanted to know. "Is that the fli ' rection- in Avhich Mr. .Wickersham's ! timber lies?" The man nodded. ! "Just a few miles up through that notch." he told her. "That's the end j of the rail bed which we have been building along the river edge." I Her next words made him start aud then try to cover that moment with a readjustment of his long body. "I'm going up there tomorrow. Mr. j Wickersham has asked mo to ride with him in the morning." She waited a .,,,rvrt r.7- tn-n "That that's why I III'' Lll LAlV - - ! came out here tonight. Wfe'U be going bnck to town the next day cv two, and J I wanted to have a chance to bid you i goodbv before I left ilorrison fo: the winter." lie had known that rhe would not ! be likely to remain in the hills much loncer. He had realized that each day which he checked off, always hopeful i that the next might open the way for 1 him to see iu again, was steadily : bringing nearer the date of hor de ' parlure. But he had not let himself i think tiiat it would come so soon. : n.i .... . .1.:.. .ilmnf lUClC Was UO uuuiu im iiujc auinii the heaviness of his voice. "I see," he said. "I see." ThM-o came a long silence. Rising out of it. Barbara's voice sounded very, j very little. "Ftp never known 'a sky in which I the stars were so thick. They're i they're like a field of buttercups. And have you ever seen such an irrepressi- bly happy creature as Miriam was to night? She was radiant, positively shameless. Did you know that Garry knows" "I told him myself," said Steve sim ply. The girl faced around in her sur prise. "You?" "Most Certainly. Why not?" His voice was not quite so uncnthusiastic now. "It's one of the few unmistak able opportunities I've ever had to make two people permanently as hap py as Miriam was tonight. I'd feel guilty all my life if I didn't help all I eould, knowing how happy I am going to be myself." Thus did ho work around, quite with out abruptness, to a renewal of that discussion which she had thought to close weeks before. "Are you trying to infer that I am to be a part of that happiness?" she asked none too promisingly. "You ought to know. I said 'all my life.' " And there suddenly Barbara laughed. "I suppose now they'll marry and live happily ever after!" she exclaim ed, with an attempt at airiness. "Most certainly," asserted Steve, al though her mirth puzzled him. "Why is it funny to you'i" "It isn't, but yes, it is too, no :w efl that its no longer a thing one nee worry about. That's always the trou ble with emotions which are too in tense. They're either very sad to con template or very, very 'absurd. And they will persist in exchanging faces, to the confusion of the onlopkers. Gar ry was so dangerously in love with Mary Graves, you sec." "He was in love with an idea," the man contradicted flatly. "lie was in love with just that. And it is not safe for any man to live alone with an ab stract conception of anything. He's bound sooner or later to lose his grip on tangible things if he does. He's likely to start destroying property to further the enuscof lalior or liable to turn to shooting men who were born to jobs I'm certain some of them never wanted kings and that sort. I mean figuring on solving the social problems of men and women who must solvo that problem themselves. Perfection is a line thing to anticipate; expecta tions of it are dangerous. And women aren't made that way." "No?" Her voice slid coolly upward. "No." ho told her anil smiled with that serenity she had come to know so well. "Not even you, though I sup pose I'd about annihilate any one else if he ever hinted at it." He chose to bo didactic in tone. "Xo, you're not perfect. You've too much intelligence for that. Why, right now you're light ing with your brain against the dic tates or your heart, and if you were above mortal error in judgment you'd know that you are wasting your time "Your opinion has the merit of sin cerity," she said, "although, looking back upon a a certain day, I can't help but wonder whether you haven't -been guilty of mouthing pretty uoth ings for my poor ears." "That proves my point right now.' He was imperturbable. "You're beg ging the question to gain" "You said" she flashed and then grew red. "I said I'd let you ask r.o pardon of me. I said I'd let myself find no flaw in you. But how does that embarrass my present argument? Flawless per fection would, be a mightx difficult thing to live with day inand day out. Living with a woman who never made a mistake could have no appeal for me. She'd always be emphasizing my own shortcomings. You become con sistent and you'll catch me jawning some day; grow logical and you'll al most scare me ofi! Why, jou're girl!" Hor laughter was like' a bell on the still air. "And you you still sit there and in sist that perfection has, no attractioa for you? When you've just described without knowing it the the sort of a jrirl you think is perfect." His lip3 curled in a way to quicken any woman's pulse. -"You have me beaten." he laughed. His eyes, dark as was the shadow upon his face, made her breath unsteady. "I would like to watch you play ioker with Fat Jee. Your game would puz ?le him move than a little. Yes. you've surely left Hit without a leg on which to hobble off, because it wouldL.be1 small spirited in me. wouldn't it, if 1 were to toll you that you are the ex ception that makes my general rule hold sound? I wouldn't, however, pre scribe such a degree of perfection for any other man's daily diet. It would prove his destruction." j "Your own superiority, of course, rendering you immune?" "Maybe." At least, whether she knew it or not, she loved his serenity. "May beand niaybe I'm an exception too.". He sat very still. She had turned away once more. "You'll be back again in the spring?'.', he asked with that gentleness he sared for her alone. "I hope 1 think so." The smallness of her voice angered her. She feigned a short, carefree laugh. "Unless I am too busy. Getting married seems to become a more and more complicated problem of proper costuming, doesn't It, with every passing season?" She couldn't have told why she said It. She was trying to think of some thing else to say which would be kind er by far. And then, half lifting her. he had swung her around to him. For a moment he held her, face close to that small, frightened face buried in its deen collar, while she struggled uselessly against those hard arms which tried not to hurt her. Her lips continued to rebel long after her eyes had closed Ions after body and brain were quiescent. "You mustn't!" she gasped. "Oh, can't let you the moon we we re sure to be seen!" His lips on hers silenced that last incoherent resistance. She sat, wavy brown head bowed, when he had set her free. "I was going to nsk you not to for get!" There was no weariness now In his voice. "I had planned to ask you iust that a little ago. and it would have been a weak and useless request, wouldn't it? Any man who has to beg to be remembered is not the sort to re main long in any woman's brain. So I have taught you to remember in stead. You aren't going to forget ever now! You're coming back in the spring, and you're coming to stay! And now I'm telling you goodby. It's time you were asleep." lie helped her to her feet. Together thev turned and Archibald Wicker sham, tall to gauntness in the moon light, was coming across toward them from the direction of. the cabin. The girl's slim body stiffened, but Steve saw her chin come up. nis own body grew lazier still it seemed in length and limb. Wickersham's approaching steps were crisply precise. He stopped an arm's length in front of them, and his words were an echo of that last sen fence of Steve's. "It's time you retired," he said, ig noring the other man's presence entire ly. "It's cold, and you have a long, hard ride ahead of you tomorrow." For a barely perceptible moment. with the eyes of both men upon her, Barbara kent her place. Neither of them saw that her teeth were tightly closed over one full lip; neither knew that she had closed her eyes dizzily for an instant. And then without a word she put her hand upon the arm which Wickersham offered her. But Steve, on tfie other side, walked with her that night as far as the door of the storehouse shack. Miriam herself opened the door and snatched Barbara within and then laughed with her con summate impudence into both men's faces. "G'lang wid ye's now," she flung at them, "an unit disturbin' dacint folks that likes to sleep o' nights!" She slammed the door upon them. They stood there a second or two, Wickersham an inch or more taller and inches narrower in shoulder and girth of chest. Perfunctorily they nod ded each to the other and wheeled si lently upon their heels. It was the next evening when Bar bara re-entered the house beyond the hedge. There was a streak of light running out ecross the floor of the dim "You mustn't!" she gasped. "Oh, I moon we we're can't let you the sure to be seen!" hall from within, and the girl lingered ou her hurried tvay to her own room to bid her father good night. But she found Wickersham aloue when she pushed wider the door.The light was behind him, and she could not see how distorted was his face, yet as she patis- ca on lue luresuoiu anu a tum auu- pungent odor crinkled her nostrils tsha't, - , , , ' sensed somehow that he had not beenlts successful treatment without the long alone. , j 'cne sent teQ to anyone in- "Father gone to bed?" sh called, terested Address O. A. Johmxm, M. "Well, that's wise. You'd better come, D., Suite 528, 1320 Main St., Kansas too; it's time you were asleep." City, Mo. ' She did not remember jusf then that other night when he had addressed those same words to her. She only knew that his features became suffus ed with purple even before she had fin ished. And then she realized quickly that it was alcohol she smelled; knew, too, that it was not Wickersham who had been drinking, even though Wick ersham had trouble with his tongue. And while she. waited, puzzled and frowning, the man gave up an attempt at his usual nicety of phrase and blurt ed out all that which had been many da3'S hidden behind his impassivity. "We haven't yet set a certain date for our marriage, Barbara." His voice was strained. "Don't jou think it is high time we did?" The girl colored. It was, at least, very unexpected. "Why. no. we haven't." she admitted, "lmt we can If you wish it. Have you thought of a day you'd prefer?" "I have," he stated. "Would the first day of May be too early for you?' Often afterward she wondered at her humility of that night, for what ever the quick thought might have been which made her reach out one hand to touch the door frame beside her her words were merely mild. "It is, rather. But I think I can man age it if it will please you." Wickersham had come to his feet, but he would not turn so that she might see his race. He spoke with eyes averted. "It would," he answered with an ef fort "and and iu the interim I am going to be very sure now that no thoughtlessness of yours will be derog atory cither to my profound respect for you or your own respect for your self." The sunll hand closed then until it was clutching whitely the woodwork beneath it. She understood at last how much Wickersham had seen; she was never to understand entirely her mood of that moment, for had she waited she would have left him with finger ringless. Instead, sie wheeled with out a word aud climbed, white lipped. upstairs. (To Be Continued. mm; i, mitici:. To Kbenexer G. Lauprblin ami Alice Johnson, widower.' Dove Johnson And Myrtle .lohnson. his wife, Setli Johnson ana Neva Johnson, his wife, Pimon John . nr, xviri.nvfi. Knima Coleman and V,il- uam Cnivmnn lipr husband. Mary T'ear mr wi.iri.v nml-Nancv Hvfcham and V fi-n .1. Hvshairu Jvpt hesband, Amelia nd Carter, her lnisband (Villiam S Bethel and Hattie r.ethel. lis wife, Kaiey Paul, widow. Boy Paul and Mrs. Rov Paul, (real name un known i his wife. Uov Bowman and a, Itnv Bov.-mr n I real name un known) 'his wife. Kate Zclpler and Mva Zeiifler. her husband. Amelia B Clmk. widow. Martjaret Clark, slnprle I .ii 1 ii Clark. Cook and V. M. Cook, her husband. Bertha Clark Lyon and T. I Lvon, her husband. Francis H. loomis, John I.oomis. widower, Frank Bethel and Mrs. Frank Bethel (real name un know in. bis wife: William Paul, wid ower: Charles Bethel and his heirs. devisees, legatees, personal representa Hves and' all persons interested in Ills estate. 1). C. Pearson, also known a Dana C. Pearson, 1. Matilda Pearson. Adalaska B. Pearson, Bosa 1$. Pearson, ind their heirs, devisees, legatees, pel sonal representatives and all other per sons interested in the estates of the said 1). C. Pearson, 1 . Matilda Pearson, lilalaskn 11. Pearson and liosa B. Fear son. and the unknown owners ami claimants cf the 1'ollowlnf? described real estate, to-wit: All of lots 2, .1, 4. ". and f. north of Salt Creek, in the southwest ouaiter of lie southeast matter of section '0, the northeast uuaiter of the southeast quarter of sec tion 20. the tiortiivest quarter oj the southeast uuarler :m I the southeast iiuaitfr of the so.i-iitust oueiter of -ection 20. the southwest quarter of --ection 21, ti e tontl.west quarter of the northeast ouaiter of Fection 21. and the northwest quarter of section 21, all In township 12, rang? 9. Cass County, Nebraska, and any and all persons claiming to have pn right, title or in lerest therein. Defendants. You. and each of you are hereby noti- ried that Otto F. Peters, as plaintiff. "ias filed an action against you and ea-h 'if vnn. wit'i others, in the District Court for Cass County, Nebraska, the ohiect and nurnose of which are to ouiet and confirm in the plaintiff the title to tnd possession of the following described real estate, to-wit: All of lots 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6 north of Salt Creek In the southwest quarter of the south east ouaiter of section 20: the north east quarter of the southeast quarter of section 20; the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter and the south east quarter of the southeast quarter of section 20: the southwest quarter of section 21: the southwest quarter of the north east quarter of section 21, and the northwest quarter of section 21; all in township 12. range 9. Ciss County Nebraska: to correct certain irregu larities in the record title to said real estate, to remove clouds cast upon the title to said real estate, and to per petually enjoin you, and each of you and anyone claiming by, through or under you, or any of you. from every claiming or asserting any right to or Interest in said real estate, or any Vart thereof, or the possession thereof, and lor general equitable relief. That service upon you, ami each of you. was authorized by an order of the District Court for Casa County, Ne braska. You are required to answer said pe titiou on or before Monday, December 25, 19 It!, or said title will be quieted and the relief granted ns prayed. OTTO V. PETKUS. Plaintiff. B. i:. llUNDKICKSj, Atfy., Wahoo. Neb. First publication 1 1-13-191S. 4 Weeks. NOTICE TO 1-ftELHTOIlS. State of Nebraska, ss. Cass County, In the matter of the estate of Laura Mandley, deceased. In the County Court. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of said do-ceased that hearings ' will be had upon claims llled against said es tate, oeiore me. cwimy jooge ot Cass County, Nebraska, at the County Court room in Plattsmout h. In said County, on inc iitn nay or December. 1'JlG.and on the 12th day of June, lj7 at 10 o'clock A. M.. each dav tor examination. adjustment and allowance. Ail claims must be filed in said court on or before said last hour of hearine:. Witness my hand and seal of said County Court, at Plattsmouth, Nebras ka this 10th day Vf November. 1916. ALLEN J. BEESON. (Seal.) Countv Jmlirf. First publication ll-ia-1916. The Truth About Cajicer. A valuable book giving a most com- ,.hont;v a viQ Qt; - r. , , ;iiu:t FBM'A.M s-, ii I .IU visits', ,i-:5.n'KKS . H'.IP.S ),! vVA''N-Al". It 13 PI J KS n N 1 A 1 1 I SONS INTEHKH113U IN Til III i ' " TATE. L11' 1?" William J. Scott, if living. ir ,i. ceased, the unknown i , lrSi ' i legatees, personal V'V's"ttiv. all persons interested m fM ,,; ' ; William J. ncoii; Jl"" '-ott. if i. . In ir, if deceased, im- uKimW ....... devisees, legatees, peisoiuu r,,.H, tatH-es and all person iiar.M,.,, ,' the estate of Otho Mott; Juk, . Scott. If living, if deceased. Ul(. : known heirs, devisees. Iegai.(s. ,.,. sonal representatives anu an ihi,,Iis Interested In the esiaie u "--i.t:iI. Scott; Lucy Scott, if living, if ceased, the unknown heirs, "m''. legatees, personal rpprewriwim-n Htl(l all persons interesteu in u c "t Lucy Scott; JOliza i-J. s-coii, n ovi,,, If deceased, the unknown ntna. n... vlsees, legatees',, personal rep ft-in,,. tives and all persons interested in i;, estate of Eliza 13. Scott; Jthnian Starr. If living, if deceased, tne uhkim-wii heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all persons Interested in the estate of Ithman Starr; Jalrus E. Neal, if living, if deceased, the un known Iwelrs, devisees, legatees, per sonal representatives and all persons interested in the estate or jairus r-.. Ne.il. You and each of you are hereby noti fied that Asgil S. Will, as plaintiff, on the 9th day of September, 191, nie.i liis petition in the District Court of claiming or asserting any right, title. interest or estate in and to isaiu reni estate or any part thereof, and lor tucii Cass County, Nebraska, wherein you and all of you r re defendants; the ob ject and prayer of which petition is that the claim, interest, right, title and interest of each and every one of you In and to the: The Southeast Quarter of Section one (1); the Northeast (Quarter of Section twelve (12): all in Township eleven (11) North Kange twelve (12 East 6th P. M.. Cass County, Nebraska, and West half Northwest Quarter of Section seven (7; Township eleven (11); North Kange thirteen ( 1 :: I ; East Gtli .P. M., Cass County. Nebraska. Be declared invalid and of no fnn-n, and effect; and that the itle of mid plaintiff in and to said real estate and every part thereof be quited as against you and each and every one of you, and against any and all claims of each and all of you. and against the claim of eacli and all of any person claiming under, through or by you. and that it be adjudged and decreed that each and all ot vou whose names are above ev forth, if living, and If dead, the heirs, oc-visees, legatees and personal rep resei.tat ives and other persons inter ested in the estate of each and every one of you. have no right, title, i laiiu or interest in or to said real estate, or any part ".her of, ami that each and all of said defendants, llioe named ami those whose names are unknown, and not stated, be forever barred from other and further relief as to the court may seem just and equitable. You and each of you are further notified that you are required to an swer said petition on or before the 4th day of December, 1916. ASGIL. S. WII.U Plaintiff. C. A. It AWLS, Attorney. 4 wks In weekly beginning October 23. SHERIFF'S SALE Notice is hereby given that lv virtue of an order of sale issued by the clerk of the district court of the second Judi cial district of Nebraska, within and for Cass County. in an action wherein Nathaniel 11. Meeker is plain tiff, and William M. Cope, et al are ilo fendants. I will at 10 o'clock a. m. on the 201 Ii day of November, A. D., 1916. at dm Soutli door of the Court House in thn City of Plattsmoutli, Cass County, Ne braska, offer for sale at public auction the following described lands and tene ments, to-wit: Lots 673, 674, C75. 676. 677, all of that part of Iot 9S eost of a straight linn extending south on the east side of Elm Street; Lots 99, 100, and 101: that part of Soutli Street lying south of and tho full length of Lot 67.1. all In the Vil lage of Oreenwood, Cuss County, Ne braska. Oiven under my hand this 19th day of October. 1916. C. 11. QUINTO.V. Sheriff Cass County. Nebraska. 10-1913 Weeks. HEFKUI31,S SALE. Iu the District Court of Can a County, 3Velroka. Adolph Wesch. Plaintiff, vs. Katherino Teipel, et al.. derendante. Notice of Sale. Notice Is hereby given, that 1v vlrl no of an order entered on tin? IXth day of October. 191C, by the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, in the fore going entitled cause, I, the undersigned. sole referee appointed by said Court, will on the 27th dav of November, 191 ;. at 10 o'clock. A. Al. at the Soutli duor of the Court House In the City of Plattsmout Ii. in Cass County, Nebraska. offer for sale, to the highest bidder for cash, all of Lots One (1) and Two (2 in block Eighteen (IS) in Young . Hays' Addition to Plattsmouth, Cuss County. Nebraska. Dated: Flattsmouth. October 21. 1UIR. Win. A. HOBEKTSON, Ileferee. JNO. M. LEY DA, Atty. for Plaintiff. 10-23 5 weeks. NOTICE OK ADMI.MSTKATIO.N. Court of Cass County, In the County Nebraska. In the matter of tlit estate of Almed;t Kennedy, deceased. All persons interested in said estate are herenv notified that a petition has been tiled in said court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and praying for administration upon (mm estate, and that a hearing will b- hail on said petition before said court on II, a 11th day of December. 1916. and that If they fail to appear at ald court on the nald 11th day of December, lfllrt ut : o'clock A. M. to contest the said pe tition, tho Court may grant the mmo und grant administration of said estato to Dr. Charles U. Kennedy or some other suitable person and proceed to a. settlement thereof. ALLEN J. BEESON. . County Jiidgt. Herald M. Drew, attorney. 1021 m W. Bldg., Omaha. Nebraska. First publication 11-13-191(1. 3NOTICE OF PUOHATE OK AVIf.l,. In the County Court of Cass Cout.fc. Nebraska. In the Matter of the Estate of Hans O. Nielsen, deceased. To William Nielsen. Sonhbi N W.lws, ,.,..1 all other persons interested ir.'ti.A tate of Hans C. Nielsen. (le:.x.i You are hereby notified t.a , '...i- ton lias been filed in the. -o... t...... of Cass county. Nebraska, prajlnif for the allowance and aiimiuvin., bate, of a certain written ii.i now on (He in said Court, purport In ' be the last will and t N.,,,. , . i' . J deceuaed; that a lieaiinu will n. i .i upon said petition, before said Court. In the County Court Hnnm u ii... . mouth. In said Countv. o.. ii.. ,.' Of November, ll. at tlm hour of ten p clock In tho forenoon, ami If you fail to nr-rear at said time . "...I rl-.ow tauiie, if ,ny uiero be. why mid instrument should not hi oed and admitted to probat es tl last will and teisiam ceased, and to show cause., ir be. why the execution of said will , . the administration of said estate Vhou d not. be granted. nrt i.tJlJ mentary issued to William Nielsen, who thereof, the Court may alliw and idn t said win to probate, and iLto i.tleri testament m rv I i ; ..J"1.'.'- 1 .J j 1"w"u lo etllemeiit oC Dated thi3 4th day of N'nvomt.ar 1 a r- ALLEN J. BEESON. County Judy. 11-6-a wks weekly. (Seal.) NOTICK TO rN tu n .t '