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S.TAMT9N kn'V. 'W1NS_ W '~<#Lcm& JaMeCjL j//) .<l Jk&i Mm:v “-• EEDH3C TlKS®SUKG‘ fjp-ji- - -r- “V ----JrGi-r SYNOPSIS. r**I APTTfR I - A' the b- g n-lin* of greet e ran the mr ..bHui of the M reewtjr gleet on'a BuutiUc. drop* deed. Praee youth. Jesse Floyd, volunteer*. BM t* r epted. tHAFTER Il-In the reel during the t* enty-f -err hour rare S.inlon meet* e et ranger. Mis Cnrfidr. who Introduce* her eif The tnerhen:- Lan eaves machine f»*ea wreck rH OTKR III -The Mercury win* rare Paatas feeetve* Ilowers from Miss Car Use- which he ignores. i’ll AFTER IV—St a.-tor meets Him C«r IMr «w a trata. They alight to ukr walk and train leaves. Stanton and Miss Ccrhslr follow la auto CTlAPTm V- Ace! Vnt hr which Sam l--t. is hurt >s tnye*Ft rd at lunch with Stanton, teds of Ids boyhood. Stan ton ngsta meets Miss Carliae and they ♦*ie Me r*er •Ulead and 4irkmcd with du»t. that thrrw was a oniv«-.- cal roar of laughter. "For shame, to alamtor a lady!" yewred owe. "Doesn't aba ever waab her face. Floyd?" called another. "Can't yog support her without mak ing her heave coal to. a living?" gibed a third. Floyd laughed with the re*t. glanc ing down sc him self "Too never aaw oe dreaaed for the opera." be loaned back, aa be went In aoartJt at water. totantou deaceaded from bla car. Sung bin mask and gauntlet* on the neat, and followed hi* mechanician He found him. presently, emerging damp and refreshed from ablution* performed in a bucket with the aid of name cotton * ante. "Will you come to lunch with me?" Stanton asked abruptly. Floyd punned, regarding him in grave surprise and hesitation. “Thank you." be began. Simon made an impatient gesture, his eye* glinting steel-blue behind their black lashes. "Do you want me to apologia* for ball ring you this morning?" be de liver the otter * face swept it* “Hew Did You Becsrr.e an Expert Au to.v.oO'Je Drlverf" rUiMH i«tic Midde;. warning of ex ~No; I wanted to be aure that you want cm. Tb.nk*. Ill come with ydeaauK.” He slipped into a lose motor coat, •ad accompanied StaM rm with a ready rorC- ,:ij that took no account of past errata. No reproach could have ao««d the offender so much, no in jured di^atty could have ao forced a curb upon hi* tongue for the future. It was act to one of the temporary eating places erected in anticipation of lb* race carnival that Stanton took Lis sie-tt. but to a quiet, cool hotel withla reach. There, the order given, he lock'd across the width of white lines at his companion with an odd •er.se at triumph and satisfaction; he fell for this boy-man something akin to the elation with which a youth takes the admired girl out to dinner for the Brat time. “I t: .seed the train, yesterday,” he remarked. ”1 suppose you had no trouble getting the car here?” "None at all.” Floyd confirmed. “I fancied you accepted Miss Carlisle's tarteatioa to drive.” 1 did. afterward It was her car I cranked with the (pork forward.” t'toyd glanced up. a ripple of incred ukios ataasesuwt crossing his gray wyes, but hr said nothing. “At Wart. 1 set the spark as I bo Herod right,” Stanton amplified, watch lag the effort, "and when 1 cranked, the motor fired over. The person who ■at next to me aaid I left the spark wrong.” The incredulity died out of Floyd’i gasr. bat the wander increased. "More likely It was changed after you left it. perhaps by mistake.” be la a Bush of recollection Stanton m« Valene Carlisle s little gloved band dart toward the steering wheel, >eet before be pulled up the crank. Could she have moved the sector, and base corrected her mistake an Instant tea late7 He rets Ined silent, nor did Floyd pursue the question. When the first coarse of the lunch ana was placed before them. Stanton aseeaed himself. Quite indifferent to the waiter's pained disapproval, he seek the carafe at tea-water and him ■df Tied two glssees To this year substitute for cock * queried, and pushed one of its ever to Floyd, d. Floyd yet understood, ss be looked across, ha assented, and drank tbs •Mbs. Motorists both, is ao qonodon at a stronget Stanioa tamed to the waiter. •i< Si 7;: ado was pained 7vide. I • op!e t tug in and cut o! the ret u. grant J interested!}- at the two cx .unging comments and questions S.anton's dark face was wcil-knowp. and r. face not easily forgcttcu, whil his c err panion's dress sufficient!; i.'. itied him as one cf tho race-: v. ha !: lei tte city's attention dur:..^ the motor r&rniva). When the dessert was before then Star-ton suddenly returned to the pe sor.al note. "How did you become a finish-d auto-: chile expert by the age of ’.wen sy-cr.e?” he questioned bluntly. "Well. ! believe, you are only fin or six ;c.rs older," Floyd countered with a touch of whimsical sadnes. ■ Pitt—I grew up In an automobile fa tory. I had no mother, no 1 m.-wetn* -* ail. cud my father made me h7> uL -ant t p.;;nlP!i V. trurSt m e»«r>t..lo- i:e knew, and he—well, b was Lidgar T. Floyd, who owned thv Comet automobile plant, and who de signed and built and raced his own car*." orrica paspea. n : ere taa bis m. i ry been, not to recall the name of Floyd? A multitude of confused re'-ol.t c-'ions rushed acre-hi.: mir.il, of that famous manufacturer and racer for sheer love cf the sport, ci the superb curs he had built, and c his death in a railroad wrc-cic, the previous year. "lie tied me in his car.” continued Floyd, with a shadowy smile, "when I was too young to bs trusted to bold on. ‘If you are going to lake my me chanician's seat, Jes,’ he said to me, 'you have get to do my mechanician's work.’ And by the time 1 v. us ffteen. 1 could. We used to race with the chief car tester, for combination train ing, on a mile practice track arouno the factory. 1 held the wheel myself at seventy-five miles an hour, before I was seventeen. And he took me with him, as a spectator, to every hip race here and some abroad. Of course he was training m" to take charge of the manufacturing business with hi: not for racing myself. But. some’, affairs went wrong. When he died, eighteen months ago, everything col lapsed and I found nothing 1 ft. Tlv factory Itself is tied up in n 1; ’.cult; ; may get that ouf of the rain; build ings full of silent machinery I have no capital to use, and no heart to soil." There was a pause. "I v.onf r,” Stan'on nr.ur-^d slowly, "why yea volunteered to act as my mechanician that night?'' Floyd's gray eyes fis hed to meet his. : il his color and arima icn rush ing back. "Because I love the racing, I love ■ ■ answered, iir; ul>iv. 1/ frank. "1. 1>i m. :'. tbc-r’s Hoed in my vei:: M.i he Bail physicue cf a useless gi.. —•aa't you see how they fight? The i ry smell cf exhaust gas makes my hart jurrp and pulses tirrle. Ee -• . I bad v at v.cd yev often, I . see you pul oat of the run ;. T- n. I wr tired cf—” he k< ■! self sb .-p'y "Ought we u :o go Lai k on ihe course? ' von rose, signaling the waiter. "Vc.: v v me through il.i-t ditfieul ," bo acknowledged. ‘Tut, veu said morning that you had a sister; I •• ndrr you stayed with me for the .-tai.cn.” ily sister understands,” Floyd ex .■'aiicc; he had risen also, and stood -r a moment beside his chair, his ui . i erng pare bent on the ground. '• o knows that I was not brought up to live woman-fashion. I wish, if ever ; ou hiar anything cf me that you do " like, that makes you feel different ly toward me, I wish you too W’culd . r.i- rtber that I was reared by a man :c e among men and missed all that women teach.” • ' ni on regarded him In an astonUh m nt at once indulgent and ironic. “I'm not likely to hear anything of you that will shock me very badly,” he dryly returned. “Do you think I am a gentle girl, myself, Floyd?” "V<Jt so you could notice it,” sprang the prompt opinion; the candid gray eyes laughed out of their short eclipse. Ti)<?y went back to the course to gether. The next two hours were spent in repeatedly circling the ten mile course I in ten minutes; a reasonable practice I gait, from Stanton’s point of view. On the last trip he and Floyd disagreed over a question of mixture, and came up to the repair pits quarreling vigor ously. exciting the interest of all be holders. * “If 1 don't know when a motor needs more gas. I’ll go take a correspond ence course," was Floyd's last retort, j as be slipped out of his seat. “It's running like It never did be fore. and you'll let it alone,” Stanton sent the definite order after him. The witnesses grinned at one an ' other. “Say. Floyd, that's a fine big brute of a machine you've got there,” com plimented the broadly amused George, as the young mechanician went by him. "It sure is,” came the cheerful agree ment. “Yes. But it’s nothing to the brute of a driver you've got.” Floyd paused to glance back. “Let my driver alone,” he advised. “Stantcn and I understand each other all right.” “Then you bad better quit racing be fore you're demoralized," Jeered the other, and turned to find Stanton had come up behind him. There was nothing said, Stanton went on as if he had not heard. But he carried with him the discovery that It la the perfection of comradeship to be able to quarrel without bitterness. There was a tan-colored automobile emerged. "Mr. Stanton,” summoned a low toned, smooth voice, from the car; Valerie Carlisle leaned out, extending a small hand. , She was the consummation of cool daintiness and repose. It was impos sible to meet her beautiful, concerned eyes without yielding admiration, at least. “I have been waiting here for art hour,” she informed him. “I am so distressed that my car should have :urt you, I shall reproach myself so much if anything happens to you to morrow because of ycur strained arm, that I wanted to ask you about it my self. A weakness there might kill you, might it not?” "It might, if it existed,” he con firmed. “But the strain dees not trou ble me. I deserved to pay mere sev erely for such stupid carelessness." She did not avoid his keen gaze at all, yet somehow friied to Impress het sincerity. “It was an accident,” she deprecat ed. “I suppose you just forgot. Frank ly, though, I wish you were to drive a Duplex or an Atalanta, tomorrow. I do not like the Mercury, it is so often in wrecks.” “It is faster than either of the otn ers,” Stanton defended, yet moved in spite of himself by her anxiety for his safety. “1 am also obliged to admit that it is not responsible for any of our mishaps, so far, at least; I lead it into, trouble, myself, sometimes.” iiti lung, Tal»- s.I__ Tapped her lingers nervously upon the door panel. "If you could not race, who would be likely to win, Mr. Stanton?” "You are taking it for granted that I will succeed—I easily may not. But without the Mercury, probably the Du plex or the Atalanta on this long road race. On a track, 1 would choose the Italian car.” She listened attentively, then smiled. "I am such an amateur; I do not half understand. I have come with an invitation frem papa. He wishes to consult you about auto tires, those for your next race, and he hopes you will dine with us, this evening.” Thoroughly surprised, he promptly declined. "Excuse me to Mr. Carlisle; I must get ready for tomorrow. Moreover, it is for the Mercury company to discuss tires, not for me.” Her small mouth set, she drew aside her shimmering skirts. "We will decide that on the way—I will put you down at your hotel, at least.” "Miss Carlisle, I am just from the course; I am not presentable." "That is for me to say,” she remind ed. "Pray do not refuse all my re quests.” Almost under compulsion, Stanton entered the car. He could have fancied her breathing was quicker; she gazed at him with so singular and disproportionate a triumph as almost to startle him. Without waiting the chauffeur’s move ment, she herself slammed the door of the car and snapped the handle, keep ing her eyes upon Stanton. “I thought you would come,” she murmured, half under her breath, "and you will dine wifh us.” CHAPTER VL Missed. The most agitated man in Lowell, on the race morning, was the assist ant manager of the Mercury company. And there was a maddening Irony In bis situation. At a quarter after ten, fifteen minutes before the first car was to start, the Mercury stood ready, with, in his place, the trim, khaki-clad mechanician, concerning whose pos sible desertion Mr. Green had spent much worry. But the driver, Stanton the unfailing, waa missing. In the midst of the gay hubbub of the scene, the Mercury camp was on tbe verge of frenzy. “You’ve telephoned to his hotel?” inquired Floyd, no less troubled be cause quiet, as Mr. Green came up wiping his brows. "Telephoned! I’ve telephoned to every hotel in the town, to the police, to—to every one. He went to his ho tel and dressed for the evening, after he left here yesterday, and went oft in an Atalanta automobile with some confounded woman; that’s all I can learn. He never came back to the ho tel, at all.” Floyd’s slender brown hand shut hard on the edge of the seat, his lip curled slightly. "A woman?” he repeated, his mer ciless young voice stinging. “They say so—and I’d as soon have Valerie Carlisle Leaned Out Extend ing a Small Hand. thought of Ralph Stanton getting drunk.” “You’d better phone to the insane asylum,” advised the mechanician, and turned his back to the whole af fair, watching the brilliant spectacle before him with scornful gray eyes. Five minutes passed, ten. The first car was called to its station. The Mer cury had drawn fifth in the lottery for place. Just four minutes before the starting hour, a taxicab bowled furi ously across the crowds, came to a iorVy ston_"*t the,edj;e cf.^he rourse, To be continued Le Warned. It isn’t safe to put much trust , in a man who is good merely because • he expects his goodness to be no tfewL v ... ----- Chautauqua August 17 to|21 To Whom It May Concern. It was the now janitor in the apart ment house where the Browns live who tacked up the following subtle notice inside the dumbwaiter, ^lt was hand painted, every S being a capital and carefully turned backward: “You must not put nothing on the dum water you can put bottles on win I call for the gabbig I know who put It on.” Made in Presence of Customer. An enterprising Chicago dairymen has recently aaded to his list of elec tricity-driven appliance a one and one half horsepower motor for driving a churn. His patrons buy cream of him. and for a small charge have it mr.de into butter on the spot The raethbd is net cnly an excellent ad vertisement for the tradesman, but is also instructive for the children and others in the neighborhood. Their Heavy Handicap. How many women are born too fine ly organized in sense and soul for the highway they must walk with feet un shod.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. EXTRA Nebraska People Rejoice at the Announce ment of the return of the United Doctors Will be in Loup City at Miburn Hotel Tuesday and Wednesday July 30th, and 31st Two days Only Consultation and Examination free this trip I ne great ana gooa wore of these doctors in the west during the past three years has gained for them a stand ing that places them in the high rank t)f specialism and merits for them the most im plicit confidence in every vi cinity they have visited in the state. The doctors that constitute this or ganization of specialists were selected fron different parts of the country and are medical specialists of ability and success. The sole object in view when organizing, that each one might be benefited and enlightened by the experience of the others which of course is true, and has led them to success, which is shown by their many cures of diseases of the stomach, in testines, liver, blood, skin, granulated eyelids, nerves,heart, spleen kidneys or bladder, rheumatism,dropsy, ulcers weak lungs, and those afflicted with long standing, deep seated, cronic diseases, that have baffled the skill of the family physician, should not fail to call. According to their system no more operations for appendicitis, gallstones tumors, goiter or certain forms of cancer. They are among the first in America to earn the name of the '‘Bloodless surgeons," by doing away with the knife, with blood and with all pain in the succesf ul treatment of these dangerous diseases. If you have kidney or bladder troubles, bring a two ounce bottle of your urine for examination. 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When writing let me CBBasaknow which lands interest you most. H|i D. Clem Deaver, Immigration Agent Smm|S 1004 Farnam Street, Omaha Nebraska Along R. R. No. 2. The ball game between Divide and Bloody *Run was won by Divide. Score 5 to 4.' Hugh Cash sold hogs at Loup City last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Milt Rentfrow and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. B. Coulton. attended the celebration at Wiggle j Creek the Fourth. It has been years since the bushes along the creeks have been loaded with plums, cherries and grapes like they are this year. Clayton Conger played ball down by Lars P. Neilson’s Sunday. Will Miller and Wilber Curry have each cut the weeds along their lines the past week. Vincent Bogard was at Loup City with a load of porkers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Criss were out to Wiggle Creek in their auto the Fourth. John Gallaway commenced cutting his wheat on Hattie Hayhurst's place Saturday. Mrs. Homer Hughes has improved fast since her last operation and was at the celebration on Wiggle Creek the Fourth. Mrs. Frank Daddow got struck on the side of her head with a foul ball during the game between Wiggle Creek and Austin on the Fourth. It was very painful at the time. Jim Me Beth was cutting wheat for John Gallaway Monday. C. Heisner is working for George McFadden. Mr. and Mrs. Tom McFadden and family, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Snyder and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dad dow and daughter and Miss Adeline Daddow spent Sunday at H. W. Bro dock’s. Mr. and Mre. J. H. Burwell and daughter took dinner with Clark Allemen's Sunday. Mrs. Ira Daddow and children spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Tom McFadden. Eva and Lilia Goodwin visited their sister, Mrs. Wilber Currey, Tuesday. N. P. Nielson marketed hogs at , Loup City the past week. Jorgen Plarabeek was cutting Geo. McFadden’s wheat the past week. The "Big Four" were doing some ' road work on Route 2 Tuesday. ' Winter wheat cutting is the order \ of the day and will go all the way ! from ten to thirty bushels per acre,1 and has a plump berry- Early oats almost ready to cut and some late oats commencing to ripen. The second cutting of alfalfa has commenced and the crop will be fair to good: hay is fair and needs a good rain: the aver age amount of corn is only a little over a knee high but most of it grow ing fast: pastures are not good as last week: potatoes are good on part of the route. . The Wiggle Creek celebration on the Fourth commenced with a parade at 10:30 and there was a continous program during the entire day. There was everything one could wish for. even one of the finest rains of the season covered all the Wiggle Creek country, with one to one and a half inches of rain. The address by Prof. J. H. Burwell was fine and all others did their parts well. Kay rode a bucking bronco which vyas said to be the best that lias ever been seen on the creek. The drill on horse back was also good. The potato race was an exciting one. A six inning ball game between Wiggle Creek and Austin was won by Wiggle Creek, the score standing 0 to 0. The stand and baby rack did a rushing business. Free baths were not on the program but a great many got one during the heavy rain and wind storm that came up suddenly. A good many got to the church and school house just as the storm broke and it was a stampede to see who should get in first. When the storm was at its worst several buggies were driven along by the wind into the horses tied to the hitch rack, throwing several to the ground. The horses were not hurt but several buggies were badly damaged. Some spring seats on the wagons were picked up and blown several rods. A few hail stone fell. The rain seemed to be the heaviest just south of Roy Conger’s and Will Bearen’s. The rain followed almost the exact course of the last rain. All of the west part of Route 2 at and west of Will Mill er’s need rain. Rural Carrier Examination At Litchfield and Loup Citv\ Ne braska, for Sherman county,Saturday July 27th, 1912 The United States Civil Service Commission announces an examina tion on the date and at the places named above, as a result of which it is expected to make a certification to till a vacancy in the position of rural carrier at Litchfield and other va- < cancys as they may occur on rural routes at post offices in the above named county, unless it shall be de cided in the interests of the service to fill the vacancy by reinstatement, transfer, or promotion. The usual jntrance salary for rural carriers is - , from $600 to $1000 per annum. Age limit 18 to 55. on the date of examination. The maximum age limit is waived in cases of persons Honorably discharged from the United states military or naval service. 1 An applicant must have his actual domicile in the territory supplied by i postoffice in the county for which die examination is announced. The examination is open to all male ;itizens of the United States who can A onply with the requirements. Application form 1341, and full in- ^A ormation concerning the require nents of the examination, can be st - :ured from the secretary of the local J examining board or the postmaster it any of the places named above, or rom the U. S. Civil Service Com nission, Washington, D. C. John C. Black President