V DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. r-txa-'tCH onxnaUan Kl SICK WOMEN HEAR ME You Can Be Free from Pain m I Am, if You Do at I Did. Harrington, Me.-" I suffered with backache, pains through my hips THE VALLEY of the GIANTS By PETER B. KYNE "GOD HELP YOU!" Synopsis. Pioneer In the Callfor tila redwood region, Jolin CardiRan, at forty-seven, Is the leading citizen of Sequoia, owner of rnllU, ships, end many acres of timber, wid ower after three years of married llfo, and father of two-year-old Hryce CardlKfin. At fourteen Uryce makes the acquaintance of Shirley Sumner, a visitor at Hequola, and Mi Junior by a few years Together they Mult the Valley of the QInU, sacred to John Cardigan and his Hon as the burial place of IJryce's mother, and p.irt with mutual re grot. While Uryce Is at college John Cardigan meets with heavy business losses and for the first time views the future with uncer talnty. After graduation from col lege, and a trip abroad, Uryce Car digan comes homo. On the train he meets Shirley Sumner, on her way to Sequoia to make her home there with her uncle, Colonel I'onnlngton. Uryce learns that his father's eye sight has failed and that Colonel Pennington Is seeking U take ad vantage of the old man's business misfortunes, John Cardigan Is de spairing, but Uryce Is full of tight. Uryce finds a burl redwood felled across his mother's grave, lie goes to dinner at Pennington's on Shir ley's Invitation and finds the din ing room paneled with burl from the tree. Uryce and 1'ennlngton de clare war, though Shirley does not know It. Uryce bestH Jules lion dcau, Pennington's lighting logging boss, and fprces him to confess that Pennington ordered the burl tree cut. Pennington buttii Into the fight and gets hurt. Dryce stnnds (iff a gang jf Pennington's lumber men. Shirley, who sees It all, tells Uryce It must be "goodby." Uryce tenews acquaintance with Molra Ii-Tavlsh, daughter of his drunken woods-boss. CHAPTER VIII Continued. The thought that ho so rendlly un derstood touched her; a glint of tears wits In her nrttl cyeH. He Haw them ntitl placed IiIh arms frnternnlly around her shoulders. "Tut-tut, Molra! Don't cry," he soothed her. "I un derstand perfectly, and of course we'll have to do something about It. You're loo line for this." With a sweep of Ids hand lie Indicated the camp. "Sit down on the steps, Molra. and we'll nlk It over. I really called to see yonr father, but I guewi I don't want to see him after all If he's bIcIc." She looked at him bravely. "I didn't know you at first, Mr. Hryce. I llhbed. Father Isn't sick. Ho's drunk:" "I thought so when I saw the load-Ins-crew tnlcltiK It easy at the log landing. I'm terribly sorry." "I loathe It and I cannot leave It," she burst out vehemently. "I'm chain ed to my degradation. I dream dreams, and they'll never como true. I I oh, Mr, Uryce, Mr. Bryce, I'm so unhappy." "So am I," ho retorted. "We all Ret our dose of It, you know, and Just at present I'm having an extra helping, It seems. You're cursed with too much Imagination, Molra. I'm sorry about your father. Kor all his sixty years, Molrn. your ronfoundeil parent "Father Isn't Sick. He's Drunk." tan still manhandle any man on the pay-mil, and us fast as Dad put In a new woods-boss old Mac tlrovu him off (he Job. He simply declines to be tired, and Dud's worn out and too tired to bother about his old woods-boss any more. LIo'h bwn waiting until I should get back." "I know," said Molra wearily. "No body wants to b Curd I gun's woods boss and have to fight my father to hold his Job. I realize what a nuis ance ho has become," F.ryce chuckled. "Of course the mat ter simmers down to this: Dad Is so fond of yonr father that he Just hasn't got the moral courage to work hi in over and now that Job Is up to tne. Molra, I'm not going" to beat about the bush with yon. They tell me your fnther Is n hopeless Inebriate." "I'm nfrnld he l, Mr. Uryce." "How long has he been drinking to rtcesa?" "About ten ywrs, I think. Of course, he would always take a few drinks with the men around rxiy-dny, but after mother died, he begun taking his drinks between pay-days. Then he took to going down to Sequoia on Saturday nights and coming back on the mad-train, the maddest of the lot I suppose he was lonely, too. He didn't get real bad, however, till about two years ago." "Well, we have to get logs to the mill, and wo can't get them with old John litirleycorn for a woods-boss, Molra. So we're going to change woods-bosses, and tlio new woods-boss will not he driven off tho Job, becausu I'm going to stay up here u couple of weeks and break him In myself. But how do you manage to get money to clothe yourself? Sinclair tells me Mac needs every cent of his two hun dred and fifty dollars a month to enjoy himself." "I used to steal from him," the girl admitted. "Then I grew ashamed of that, and for the past six months I've been earning my own living. Mr. Sin clair was very kind. Ho gave me a Job waiting on table In the camp din ing room. You see, I had to have something here. I couldn't leave my father. He had to have somebody to take care of him. Don't you see, Mr. Hryce?" "Sinclair Is n fuzzy old fool," Uryce declured with emphasis. "Tho Idea of our woods-boss's daughter slinging hash to lumberjacks. Poor Molra 1" Ho took one of her bunds In his, noting the callous spots on tho plump palm, the thick finger-Joints that hint ed so of toll, the nails that had never been manicured save by Molra herself. "Do you remember when I was a boy, Molra, how I used to como up to tho logging-camps to hunt and llsh? I al ways lived with tho McTnvlshes then. And In September, when the huckle berries were ripe, we used to go out and pick them together. Poor Molra 1 Why, we're old pals, and I'll be shot If I'm going to see you suffer. Listen, Molm. I'm going to fire your father, as I've said, because he's working for old J. n. now, not the Curdlgan Red wood Lumber company. I really ought to pension him after his long years In the Cardigan service, hut I'll be f hanged If we can afford pensions any more particularly to keen a mnn In booze; so the best our old woods-boss f gets from me Is tills shanty, or another llko It when we move to now cuttings, and a perpetual meal-ticket for our camp dining room while the Cardi gans remain In business. I'd finance him for a trip to some state Institu tion where they sometimes reclaim such wreckage, If I didn't think he's too old a dog to bo tnught now tricks." "Perhaps," sho suggested sndly, "you had better talk the matter over with him." "No, I'd rather not. I'm fond of your father, Molra. Ho wub a man when I huw him hist such n man as these woods will never see ngaln and I don't want to see him ngaln until ho's cold sober. I'll write him n letter. Ah for you, Molra, you're fired, too. I'll not have you waiting on table In ray logging-camp not by n Jugful I You're to como down to Sequoia and go to work In our olllce. We can uwi you on tho books, helping Sinclair, and re lievo htm of tho task of billing, check ing tallies, and looking after the pay T roil. I'll pay you u hundred dollars a month, Molra. Can you get along on that?" Her hard hand closed over his tightly, but sho did not speak. "All right. Molra. It's a go, then. There, there, girl, don't cry. Wo Cordlgans had twenty-live years of faithful service from Donald McTav Ish before ho commenced slipping after all, wo owe him something, I think." Sho drew his bund suddenly to her Urn and kissed It; her hot tears ot Joy fell on It, but her heart was too" full for mere words. Tlddle-de-dee. Molrn I nuck up," he protested, hugely pleased, but em barrnssed withal. "The way you tnkf this, one would think you bud expert ed me to go back on an old pal and hnd been pleasantly surprised when I didn't. Cheer up, Molra I I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll advance you two months' salary for well, you'll need n lot of clothes and things In Sequoia that you don't need here. And I'nl glad I've managed to settle the Me TiivNh bash without kicking tip a row" and hurting your feelings. Poor old Mac I I'm sorry I cnn't bear with him but wr simply have to havo the log you know." He rose, stooped, and pinched nor ear; for lutd he not known her since childhood, and had they not gathered huckleberries together In tho long ago? She was sister to him Just an other ono of his problems and noth Ing more. "Hoport on tho Job as soon os possible, Molra," ho called to hoi from Ine gale. Presently, when Molra lifted her Madonna glnnce to the frlezo of tim ber on tho skyline, there was a new glory In her eyea; and lo, It was nu tumn tn tho woods, for over that hill Prince Churmlng had como to her, and l!f wns all crimson and gold I When the trtn loaded with Cardl- Author of "Cappy Rick" gun logs crawled In on the main track and stopped at the log-landing In Pen nington's camp, the locomotive un coupled and backed In on tho siding for the purpose of kicking the caboose In which Shirley and Colonel Penning ton had ridden o the woods, out onto the main line again where, owing to a slight downhill grade, the cnboose controlled by tho brnkeman could coast gently forward and be hooked onto the end of the log train for the return Journey to Sequoia. Throughout the afternoon Shirley, following the battle royal between Bryco and the Pennington retainers, had snt dismally in the caboose. She wns prey to many contllctlng emo tions; but- hnvlng had what her sec term "a good cry," she had to a great extent recovered her customnry poise and was busily speculating on the rapidity with which she could leave Sequoia and forget she had ever met Bryce Cardigan when the log train rumbled Into the landing and the last of the long f-.trlng of trucks came to a stop directly opposite the caboose. Shirley happened to be looking through the grimy caboose window at that moment. On the top log of the load tho object of her unhappy specu lations was seated, apparently quite oblivious of the fact that he was bock once more In the haunt of his enemies, although knowledge that tho double bitted ax he had so unceremoniously borrowed of Colonel Pennington was driven deep Into the log beside hln with the hnft convenient to his hand, probably had much to .do with Bryce's air of detnehed Indifference. Shirley told herself that should he move, should ho show tho slightest disposition to raise his head and bring his eyes on n level with hers, she would dodge away from tho window In time to escape his scrutiny. She reckoned without tho engine. With n smart bump It struck tho ca boose and shunted It briskly up the siding; at tho sound of the Impact Bryce raised his troubled glnnce Just In time to see Shirley's body, yield ing to the shock, sway Into full view at tho window. With dlfllculty he suppressed a grin. "I'll bet my Immortal soul Bhe was peeking nt me," ho soliloquized. "Con found the luck I Another meeting this nftcrnoon would bo embarrassing." Tactfully he resumed his Btudy of his feet, not even looking up when the cnboose, after gaining the main track, slid gently down tho slight grade find was coupled to the rear logging truck. Ho heard tho engineer shout to the brnkemnn who had ridden down from the head of tho train to unlock the siding switch and couple the caboose to hurry up, lock the switch, and get bnck aboard tlie cnglno. "Cnn't got this dnnged key to turn In the lock," the brnkeman shouted presently. "Lock's rusty, and some thing's gone bust Inside." Minutes passed. Bryco's assumed abstraction became real, for he had mnny matters to occupy his busy brain, and It was Impossible for him to sit Idle without adverting to some of them. Presently ho wns subconscious ly aware that tho train wns moving gently forward; nlmost Immediately, It seemed to him, the long string of trucks had gathered their customary speed; nnd then suddenly It dawned upon Hryco that tho train had started off without n single Jerk and that It was gathering headway rapidly. Ho looked nheud nnd his hair grow creepy at the roots. There was no lo comotive attached to tho train! It was running away down a two per cent grade, and becnuso of the tre mendous weight of tho train, It wns gathering momentum at n fearful rate. The reason for tho runawuy dawned on Hryco Instantly. The road, being privately owned, was, like most log ging roads, neglected ns to roadbed and rolling stock ; also It was under manned, and the brnkeman, who also acted as switchman, had failed to set the hand-brakes on tho leading truck nfter tho engineer had locked the air brakes. As n result, during the live or six minutes required to "spot In" the cnboose, and an extra minute or two lost whllo the brnkeman struggled with the recalcitrant lock on the switch, tho air hnd leaked nwny through the worn valves and rubber tubing, nnd the brakes hnd boon re leasedso that tho train, without warning, had quietly and almost noise lessly slid out of the log-lnndlng and started on Its mad career. There was nothing to do now save watcli tho wild runnway and pray, for of nil tho mad runaways Iti a mad world, a loaded logging train Is by far the worst. Kor on Instant nfter realizing his predicament, Bryce Cnrdlgun was tempted to Jump ond take his chnnco on n few broken bones, before tho train could reach n greater speed than twenty miles nn hour. Ills next lm pulso was to ran forward and set tho hnnd-brnke on the lending truck, but a glanco showed him that even with the train standing still ho could not hope to leap from truck to truck nnd Innd on the round, freshly peeled sur face of the logs without slipping, for he hnd no calks In his hoots, And tn slip now meant awlft nnd horrible death. Then he remembered. In the wildly rolling cnboose Shirley Sumner rode with her uncle, while less than two miles nhend, the track swung In n sharp curve high up along the hillside above Mad river. Iryee knew the lending truck would never tnkc thnt curve nt high speed, even If the an cient rolling stock should hold togeth er until the curvo was reached, but would shoot off nt n tangent Into the canyon, carrying trucks, logs, nnd ca boose with It, rolling over nnd over down the hillside to the river. "The caboose must be cut out of this runaway," Hryce soliloquized, "and It must be cut out In n devil of u hurry. Here goes nothing In pnr tlculnr, nnd may God be good to my dear old man." Ho jerked his axe out of the log, drove It deep Into the top log toward the end, nnd by using the haft to cling to, crawled townrd the renr of the load and looked down nt the cnboose coupling. The top log was a sixteen- H twif ill W . m I U 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 l Wnlilnim - Kuvllll 111 u ' wKiiiinliB o J 2vvi. vSSsxiiiW III vysH "I'll Hold You Yet, You Brute." foot butt r the two bottom logs were eJghteen-footers. With n silent prayer of thnnks to Providence, Bryce slid down to the landing thus formed. He wns still five feet above the coupling, however; but by leaning over tho swaying, humping edge nnd swinging the nxo with ono hand, he managed to cut through the rubber hose on the nlr connection. After accomplishing this, axe In hand, he leaped down to the nnrrow ledge formed by the bumper In front of the caboose driving his face Into the front of the cnbooso; and he only grasped the steel rod lending from the brnke-chnlns to the wheel on the roof In time to avoid falling half stunned between the front of the cn boose nnd the rest of tho logging truck. Tho cnbooso had onco been n box car; bonce there wns no railed front plntform to which Bryce might have leaped In safety. Clinging peril ously on the bumper, he reached with his foot, got his toe tinder the lever on tho side, Jerked It upward, and threw the pin out of the coupling; then with his free hand he swung the nxe nnd drove tho grent steel Jaws of the coupling apart. The cnbooso wns cut out I But nl reatly tho deadly curve was In sight; In two minutes tho first truck would reach It; and the cnboose, though cut loose, had to bo stopped, else with the headway It had gathered. It, too. would follow tho logging trucks to glory. For a moment Bryco clung to the brake-rod, wenk and dizzy from the effects of the blow wlicn, leaping down from the loaded truck to tho caboose bumper, his face had smashed Into tho front of tho cnboose. His chin wns bruised, skinned, and bloody; bis noso hnd been broken, and twin rivu lets of blood rnn from his nostrils. He wiped It away, swung his nxe, drove the blade deep Into the bumper nnd left It there with tho hnft qulvurlng; turning, he climbed swiftly up the narrow Iron ladder besldo the brake rod until ho reached the roof; then, still standing on the ladder, he renched the brake-wheel and drew It promptly but gradually nround until the wheel-blocks began to bite, when ho exerted his tre mendous strength to tho utmost nnd with his knees braced doggedly ngulnst the front of the caboose, held tho wheel. Tho brake screamed, but the speed of the caboose was not appreciably slnckenod. "It's had too good a start I" Bryce moaned. "The momentum Is more thnn I can overcome. Oh, Shir ley, my love' God help you I" Ho cast n sudden despairing look over his shoulder downward at the coupling. He was winning, nfter nil, for a space of six feor now yawned between the end of the logging truck nnd the bumper of the caboose. If he could hut hold thnt tremendous strain on the wheel for a quarter of Copyright by Peter B. Ifjma n mile, he might get tho demon ca boose under control I After what seemed an eon of wait ing, he ventured another look ahead. The reur logging-truck wns n hundred yards In fronl of him now, and from the wheels of the cnboose nn odor of something burning drifted up to him. "Pve got your wheels locked I" he half sobbed. "I'll hold you yet, you brute. Slide I That's It I Slide, nnd flatten your Infemnl wheels. Hah I You're quitting quitting. I'll have you In control before we rench tho curve. Burn, curse you, bum I" With a shriek of metal scraping metal, the head of the Juggernaut ahead took the curve, clung there an Instant, nnd wns cntapultcd out Into space. Logs weighing twenty tons were flung nbout like kindling; one In stant, Bryce could see them In the air; the next they hnd disappeared down tho hillside. A deafening crash, a splash, a cloud of dust With a protesting squeal, the cn boose enme to the point where the log- glng-trnln had left the right of wny, carrying rails and ties with It Tho wheels on the side nearest the bank slid into the dirt first and plowed deep Into the soil ; the cnboose came to an nbrupt stop, trembled nnd rattled, overtopped Its center of gravity, and fell over ngnlnst the cut-bank, wenrlly, like a drunken hag. Bryce, still clinging to the brake, was fully jbrnced for the shock nnd was not flung oft. Calmly he descend ed the Inddcr, recovered tho axe from the bumper, climbed bnck to the roof, tiptoed off the roof to the top of the bank and sat cnlmly down under n mnnzanlta bush to nwnlt results, for he wns quite confident that non of the occupants of the confounded cn boose hnd been treated to anything worso than n wild rldo nnd n rare fright, and he wns curious to sec how Shirley Sumner would behave In nn emergency. Colonel, Pennington wns first to emerge tit the rear of the caboose. Ho leaped lightly down the steps, ran to tho front of the car, looked down the track, and swore feelingly. Then ho darted back to the rear of the ca boose. "All clear and snug ns n bug under n chip, my dear," he called to Shirley. "Thank God, the caboose become un coupled guess that fool brakeman forgot to drop the pin ; It wns the last car, and when It Jumped the track nnd plowed Into the dirt, It Just nnt urally quit nnd toppled over ngnlnst the bnnk. Come out, my dear." Shirley came out, dry-eyed, hut white nnd trembling. Tho Colonel plnced his arm nround her, nnd sho hid her face on his shoulder and shud dered. "There, there 1" he soothed hor uffectlonntely. "It's nil over, my dear. All's well that ends well.'.' "The train," she cried In n choking voice. "Where Is It?" "In little pieces down In Mnd river." "Bryce Cardigan," she sobbed. "I snw him he wns riding ntop on the train. He nh, God help him I" Tho Colonel shook hor with sudden ferocity. "Young Cardigan," he cried sharply. "Hiding tho logs? Are you certnln?" She nodded, nnd her shoulders shook plteously. "Then Bryce Cardigan Is gone!" Pennington's pronouncement wns sol emn, dendly with Itsi flat finality. "No man could havo rolled down Into Mnd river with n trnlnlocd of logs nnd sur vived. The devil himself couldn't." Ho heaved a grent sigh, and added: "Well, thnt clenrs the atmosphere con siderably, nlthough for all his faults, I regret, for his father's sake, that this dreadful affair has happened. Well, It cnn't bo helped, Shirley. Poor devil I For nil his dnmnnble trentment of mo, I wouldn't have hnd this happen for a million dollnrs." Shirley burst Into wild weeping Bryce's heart leaped, for he under stood the reason for her grief. She hnd sent him away In nngcr, nnd ho hnd gone to his death ; ergo It would bo long before Shirley would forgive herself. Hryce had not Intended pre senting himself before hei In his bat tered anil bloody condition, but the sight of hor distress now was mora than he could benr. Ho coughed slight ly, and the alert colonel glanced up nt him Instantly "Well, I'll be banged!" The words fell from Pennington's lips with u heartiness that wns almost touching. "I thought you'd gono with the train." "Sorry to have disappointed you, old top," Bryce replied blithely, "but I'm Just naturally stubborn. Too bad about the atmosphere you thought cleared a moment ago l It's clogged worse than ever now." Bryce turns a deaf ear to Shirley and forces the fight ing. '.TO BE CONTINUED.) A South African mine develops icn Horsepower from the fall of water j.-lpd lato the workings for vnrloiu other uses. ana sucn a Dear ing down feel ing that I could not stand on my feet. I also had other dis tressing symptoms. At times I Bad to give up work. I tried a number of remedies but Lydia E. 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