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stranger bought Hull
Tonguo ranges," old
bqulro Clray com
plained gloomily, ns ho took his
gun from the hooks. "Molly,
Klrl, dunno ns It's right for you
to he out lnmtln' with mo so
much h u t" catching t h o
shade of tho dlsapiioliitniont In the young face
"reckon you can go this time. Hut, mind you.
It's th' last I"
"Y father, the very last," Molly acquiesced,
slipping on a discarded coat of the squire, "hut
the buck wo saw on the llulnbow mountain we
iiiustn't miss him!"
"Squire 1" Interrupted a shrill voice from tho
kitchen, "you're raisin Molly mighty trlllln'
shootln' en trompln' arfter you like es she were
yo' hoy-kind, es were kilt endurln th' war."
"Jos so, Hannah Harks; Jes so," the squire
Agreed. "I done done lost my hoys j then Molly's
born so long arter, and there's no one else. Hut
this aire th' last time, Hannah. Come along, Mol
ly. If yo're mother'd lived, she'd raised you es
u female girl oughter he raised."
And the old man, with Molly tripping along be
fildo him and laughing softly to herself, wended
his way down the hill path. Every time was "tho
last" until Molly wanted to go again. They went
ilown through the pines. Suddenly the squire
stopped and rubbed his eyes.
"Mi'hbe your sight aire hetter'n mine, dnugbtcr,"
lie said ; "look south in th' cove neighboring Rain
bow mountulng aire that Grohsman en a passel
-of men or uo?"
"It's him, father tho stranger on our Jai'
cutting away the brush. Oh, father, he's going to
take Italnbow and the Flghtlpg Ground I"
"Dunno es he will l" ho drawled, striding rap
Idly forward.
,No one knew much of the stranger except that
lie wnfWrom the West, ami was seeking health
and sport for his grandson Martin In the mountain
country. Molly constantly encountered Martin
hunting on tho ridge. In fact, he seemed to fol
low tho game oftener on the Gray lands than on
Ids own Hull Tongue.
"What aire you about, cuttln' brush on my
lnnd?" demanded the old squire.
Tin cutting the line between yours and
mine, If you want to know," the stranger retorted,
offensively. "1 want you to understand fully what
beltings to Gray and what belongs to Grohsman.
You don't seem to know!"
"Mehbe I don't." replied the mountnlncor, "hut
Rainbow mountain olro mlnc.-J'vo belt It, man
and hoy, these sixty year. My father belt It nfo'
tiie, en my grnndpap nfo' him. Whenst I'm gone,
my gal there'll hold It nrter me !"
"We'll see about that I My claim Includes tho
Italnbow, nnd I propose to hold It. When I'm gone,
my grandson Martin will hold It after me I" Grohs
man Hung hack.
As he two old men eyed each other, the thickets
parted nnd, one by one, several men emerged,
They paused, quite naturally, as though drawn by
the discussion and .curious ns to Its outcome.
"I want to move that grave off my lnnd," Grohs
man Insisted, nfter scanning the faces of tho In
truders carefully. "Out west where I come from,
peoplo stopped throwing their folkfc on the prairie
twenty years ago. They bury them decently In
cemeteries nnd church ynrds. And I tell you right
now I'm not to be chiseled out of pnrt of my pur-,
chase because you are too stupid to understand
the line."
"Seems like I'm mostly too stupid," nssertcd
the squire In misleading meekness of voice, "to
understnn' how you can get my lnnd, savin' you
bespeak me nnd pass some money long of It."
"I'm a western man, used to holding my claim
by mnln force. This Is the dividing line, I snyl
I'm no fool, If you nre !"
"My hnld nlre monstrous thick, stranger. Hut
I mostly hold to my say-so, which nlre thnt your
line goes t'other side th' Rainbow." .
"Molly, daughter," ho added, without turning
Ids bend, "the buck must hnve gono to" th' big
timber. Go nrter him."
Molly, dropped out of the group without dis
turbing Its rigid pose. Looking back ns she turned
Into the big timber, sho saw tho wrathful stranger
ndvnnco n step In rnsh defiance. In nn Instant
overy weapon o,f tho mountaineers was leveled
at him nnd his men. Molly averted her eyes nnd
ran swiftly Into the big woods, so heedless thnt sho
ran pqunrely against Martin Grohsman as ho
stepped from behind an Immense onk.
"Walt, Molly wnltl I enmo here to see you!"
lio culled to her. "You are running like n wild
deer. I wanted to say to you that you mustn't
blame grandfather. He thinks the hind Is his."
"How con he when It's been father's always?"
she flung back with conviction.
"nut, Molly, wo needn't quarrel. I don't care
n fig nbout Rainbow mountain. Let them settlo
It ns they like. Let us bo friends. Won't you?"
.Molly smiled forgivingly. It was hard to hold
resentment against Martin.
"You understand, don't you, Martin," she ex
plained, "that's tho Fighting Ground, nnd Hnnnah
Harks nays the men killed there wero all carried
nway, saving this one. I can't sjy rightly how ho
camo to ho left, but mother put" wild violets and
honeysuckle nnd lilies from tho marsh over his
grave, becnuso lid's so lonesome-like, though ho
nln't one of our' men. I flower his Krnvo now,
Martin, 'stead of mother, every year. I fnult your
grandfather for wontln' tho Rainbow nnd threat
ehln to havo tho grave moved onllest L-hopo
father won't hurt him."
"Just promise friends with me, Molly?" ho
pleaded.
"Dunno but whnt I will," tho girl cnpltulated.
When the Squlro camo homo ho was unusually
silent and taciturn.
"Molly, daughter," ho said, "I've a word to say.
I've glvo warnln' es we'll shoot any prowlln' folks
on Rainbow mountain and tho stronger has glvo
back word ns ho'll shoot any of wo'uns ketched
there until nrter tho new survey, which I've 'greed
to allow. Tho Grays alro bound to stand in with
ouo crnother whichever way the survey goes. Th'
yung feller, Martin, aire against th' Grays, and
you aire a Gray. Mind you what I say."
As the days went by Molly caught glimpses, re
mote and fleeting of Martin dangerously far In,
on ground protected by nn armed neutrality. Once
thoy chanced near enough for Martin to cnll to her.
"We're friends, Molly?"
"Yes yes, Martin, we're friends, this time."
"They're done th' surveyln', Molly," Ilnunah
Harks explained, when sho reached home, "nn th'
stranger nln't sntlslled. It don't glvo him Rain
bow uiountnlng. They're goln' ter try It over
ergln, nn' they're nil plumb hot, long of It. Whomst
steps on Rainbow nlro to be dropped In his tracks,
'thout no warnln'. Howsomcre, I'm dcemln' to
flower th' grave whenst th' day comes."
The evening beforo Decoration day Molly was
plucking white lilacs when the Squlro came down
the path.
"My daughter," ho said, In tho mild, slow tones
that always frightened her, "It lies come to my
cars thnt th' young feller, Mnrtln, prowls continual
on th' Rainbow. I've give In to" n new surveyln'.
Hut we 'greed t' shoot whomsoever footed on
Rainbow mountains. It has come to me that It's
th' feller defyln' of us. Ho nlro a comely, proper
boy, but a monstrous fool, en seems like they don't
know Johnson Gray."
The lilacs dropped from Molly's hands. She
knew Johnson Gray. Conflicting Impulses stirred
her. From the chaos one conviction camo su
preme sho hnd n promise to keep. It was not
being friends with Martin to let him unwittingly
anger tho Grays.
The young moon hnd long since vnnlshed behind
the peaks, but tho stars gleamed In cloudless bril
liancy. The pence nnd sublimity of the mountains
seemed too infinite for evil design. And yet tho
Squire nnd hnlf a dozen Grays were lying noise
lessly In the brush along the dividing line. Every
man's finger was on tho trigger, for some one had
broken the compact, some one was prowling on
the Rainbow.
Across the contested line, a hundred ynrds back,
tho dense undergrowth hhl the reflection of the
moon nlong other rlllo barrels. Grohsman nnd his
men were equnlly vigilant.
Faintly at first, but growing louder nnd louder
with each step, the scufllo of advancing feet was
heard. The watchers on both sides crouched In
readiness to meto out the deserved retribution.
Then tho traitors came Into view. There, going
boldly across the clearcd-slope, were Molly and
Hannah Harks. They were laden with glistening
clusters of white flowers. They walked unafraid
nlong tho bIiiuous path upward to tho "lono gravo"
on the mountain top.
Tho rifles of the Grays camo to earth. Tho
Squire started forward and stopped. His face was
wh..o nnd drawn. Though ho could not boo them,
ho know that other eyes watched tho sclf-samo
slope of the Rainbow from the other side that
other fingers, Just as remorseless, rested on other
weapons. Would they bo merciful to this, his only
one? Would they I
Across tho lino the bushes shook audibly nnd
a leveled rifle gleamed in the moonlight n second,
but wns lowered again. No shot rang out.
Tho women passed on unharmed. Their as
cending footsteps grow fainter and died away.
Hut, ero cither sldo bad opportunity to cntch
its breath, tho sound of other footsteps, uscendlng
tho mountain, resounded on the sharp night air.
A breathless wait, a tense straining of tho eyes
through the openings In the brush along tho path
wayand another traitor enmo Into view. Martin
Grohsman walked boldly nlong, glancing neither
to tho one sldo nor tho other. lie, too, was laden
with whlto flowers.
.On the Gray sldo of tho lino tho bathes shook
audibly and a leveled riffle gleamed la tho moon
light. But no shot rang out.
4AJTS
Unharmed, Martin, too, ascended tho Rulnbow,
his footsteps dying off Into the fllstunco nlong the
snme path tho women had taken.
Suddenly, the bushes on tho Gray sldo of tho
line parted nnd n white shirt waved on tho end
of a rlllo.
Almost simultaneously n white shirt held aloft
on a rlllo barrel was raised on tho other side.
Squire Orny stepped Into the open, holding up
tho flag of truce. Ho had done that onco before
nt Appomator, with rage In his heart. Hut It was
different now his Molly hod been spared to him.
The stranger appeared from the other side. Ho,
too, held aloft a flag of truce. Ho had dono that
onco before, also with shamo in his heart. Hut
It was different now his grandson might havo
been sleeping In tho same sleep with his soldier
boy.
With unfaltering steps tho Blue nnd t,he Gray
ndvnnccd slowly to tho middle of tho "flghtln'
ground." There they lnld their rifles nsldo. They
fnced ench other silently, awkwardly.
"Stranger," tho old Squlro began, nt Inst, his
volco strangely soft nnd shnken, "you spared my
gal tonight."
"Out west where I como from we don't Bhoot
women I" the plninsmnn replied, tersely, but with
out even a trace of anger or malice In his tone.
"And you spared my boy I guess we're quits.
And I guess wo'vo learned our lesson from that
boy and that girl nnd those flowers, ain't we?"
"Wo hev but th Rainbow"
"That's It the Rainbow. Look hero, Squlro
Gray, may as well tell you that Just beforo you
waved your flag of truce I got a message that the
last survey comes out like tho first. I was pre
paring to signal you when you flew your flag. I'm
not wanting to take what I know belongs to some
body else. But I want tho Rainbow. I'll buy it,
if you'll sell nnd movo that grave. I don't want a
rebel sleeping on my land."
"Dunno ns you'd be trlbulnted long of that
grave, even If I'd sell, which I nln't willing to do,
for him ns Is In it lit ngln us. Ho were a Yank."
"Ho was?" Grohsman questioned. "WJiy that
alters everything. A Union soldier? I had a son
killed In the wnr."
"That's suro unlucky. I had threo killed In the
war," was tho slowTesponse. "T'wero all I had."
"And you care nbout your enemy's gra.ve? You'ro
n better mon thun I am, Squire. Tho grnvo Is
safe."
Suddenly Hannah Harks appeared descending
tho pathway. Sho stopped, nonplused, nt the
strange spectacle beforo her Squire Gray and tho
stranger In conversation with their rifles lying on
tho ground. Then sho upprouched slowly, glanc
ing anxiously from one man to the other.- At
length she smiled grimly.
"I'm deeming there won't bo no necessity fer
a dlvldln' line nrter nil," she tnld,
none up there on Itn!ibow."
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KIDNEY AILMENTS
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"there nln't
Doth Alike.
"I enn't Imagine what .Mildred soos
In that Smith buy," remarked Mil
dred's mother. "Ho hadn't got brains
enough in his head to 111! a thimble."
"Oh, well, I dare say your mother
said the same tiling about me when I
came courting you I" replied the girl's
father Indulgent.
Hut he suddenly lost his complacent
piiiIIo when his wife retorted:
"Sho certainly did, and I wns Jt
as big a fool as Mildred Is now. I
wouldn't listen to tho advice of my
ciders."
AIRPLANE8 IN COMMERCIAL WORK.
In eight months, commencing May 1, 1010,
Hnndley-I'ago commercial airplanes In Great Brit
tain carried 4,020 passengers and 44,205 pounds of
freight n total of 72,24.'! miles, according to tho
London Times. Between September 2, 1010, nnd
January 8, 1020, the London-Paris air service car
ried 037 passengers nnd 10,080 pounds of freight,
whllo 255 passengers and 25D10 pounds of goods
wero carried by tho London-Brussels air servlco
botween September 27, 1010, and tho first of this
yenr.
FOR A STARTER.
"I think," said tho solemn professor, "that we
shall find a way to communicate with Mars."
"Don't you bother about that," roplled Mr. Dus
tln Stnx. "If you want to get a neat llttlo endow
ment from me, you devise somo rellablo means of
getting central to connect mo with my office."
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Now It the Time to, Get Rid of
Theto Ugly SpoU.
There's no lom:T tho ntlKhtont nrcil at
fopllnt aslinmeil of your freckle, nn Othlnn
(loul)li- KtrcnKth Is Kunrntitoetl to remove
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Slnuily Kvt mi aunco of Othlnc double
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llttlo of It Jiluht nml tmirnltix ami you
nhould noon nco thnt oven tho wornt freckle
hnvo begun to iUapienr. whllo tho lighter
onon hnvu viuilshi'il entirely, II li noldoni
thnt morn thnn unn ounco In needed to com
pletely clenr the skin and Bnln a ucnutlful
clenr complexion.
lie nurn to nl for tho duublo strength
Othlne, ns this Is void under Riinrnnteo ol
money bacic It It falls .0 reutovn freclclei.
Underpaid.
"It doesn't seem ipiite. fair." .
"What doesn't?" ,
"This motion picture comedian gets
$1,000 a week and his dog, who does
all tho hard work and creates most
of the laughs gets only two or three
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Literal One.
"So you met Miss Daisy through n
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