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Triumph of John Kars H> KIDGEWELL CULLEN. A T.[)ri,lli.ng Ja,e of Love* Adventure, Gold and Indians, With Its Stirring Episodes Set in Alaskan Wildness. hVNOPSIH. Allan Mowbray, a trader of the Yukon »«■»!<■ ii. »n-rc,unde<( by boat!! Hell River lo Mur.H, k-ete a l-tler to AII»a, hi* wife a. it Ulirr.n McTuvUh, Allan’s partner, *,u* ,v|1h a rm.ue expedition Alisa remains nt the nlth her son ami .1,,'ah ter. Akc nnd -k»sie. Hut Allan la bill I before the rescue party arrive*, and r «V' . .'.l’1"'."1 I"’1''* and exeeulor of .Minn* win. Iillds that Allan owned ■« v i a-.$pi 1:# ot the post, tlie sour* c of w li* sj> fn nu ii Jotis wealth seem# InexpUe ali.c. Hhvn McTavlsh a»kl for Jessie'* ij.uiJ, nil \ilsn wiil promise Is that she w< put no QlNitlrlrd ill Ills path. Later Kur*. wealthy und proniinent young j :u of the nofthlauil, stops ot Fort Mow '*■"?■ with his friend, Dr llill Hrudemll. un.l when he leave* for the trail a week Liter J.ssie admits to lie- mother that sh I# I,i love with him. Kars and Bru ueiuJI go to the Hell river section, where they find the remain* of a massacre. I nils f real, a half-breed, warn* them of imuger. Vi lien, however. Kaf’s Indian ►rout r-turns with tlu information that the neeln* are out In camp, Kars knows that C real li t# lied, and plan* to unearth file secret of tho district. Secretly ev plning tile distiict, Kar* find* tl'e c.\ tensi.e mining is being done. He is about to take a *ample of the gold-laden deposit from the sluice-box when a re volver Js pointed nt him lie beats off Louis t reaJ and returns to ramp, where lie relate* hi* adventure to Hrudcueli. who treat< his wound. He plans to work tile district of save the fortune of Jessie, for whom be admits his love. He returns to Fort Mowbray, having b«*en followed l\v the neches. .MrTnv'.sh urges Kars to stay at the fort while he himself goes out on tlic trail. McTuvisit returns und tell* Kars that the country Is clear of the nechcs. He Infers that Kars could have routed them. McTavIsh eneonruges \ilsa tlet Alec go to fhe city. Kars and Hrudcncll find him. liulf.drunk, in a dance boll nt leaping Ifors.*. On a return trip fronV Seattle. Kn-s learns that Mr Tavish I* bringing in large numbers of rods and cartridge*. Abe Dodds, engi neer in the service of John Kars, meets him at the boul. If'* Instruct# Podds to ^get a tally of M< ravish’* outfit and his ^ime sclnslule. Vice plunges into a life of dissipation. Ill an attempt to save \|e<> from tlu* revenge of “I'up” Nchaunhuum. with whose girt. < hr*ap«uke Maude. Alee has become Involved. Kars offers to share a ‘Strike’* with him, and make* him sign a bond of secrecy. Alec tells McTttviab lie Is to go on the trail In two weeks* lime McTavIsh seem* glad to hear of It and te!ls him Pup’s gunmen are in town. Three right* later unobserved, kar* and BrnUenell watch the movements of a stranger at Pup's dance hall. CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) In a rnomept a cry came up from beneath in a woman's voice. Another second and a chorus of men's angry voices almost drowned the music. "He's boosted into some one," said Bill. A babel of voices came up from below. They were deep with fierce pro test. The trouble was gaining in seriousness. Kars leaned out of the box. He could sec nothing of what was going on. lie abruptly drew back arid turned to bis companion. "Say—’’ » But his words remained unpttered. lie was Interrupted by a violent shout from below. "Yqu son-of-a:” Bill's hand clutched at Kars’ mus cular arm. "That’s the kid! Quick! Come on!" They started for the door of the box. But even as tlie doctor gripped and turned the handle, the sequel to such an epithet in a place, like Leap ing Horse came. Two shots rung out. Then two more followed on the in stant, in a moment every light in the place was put out and pendemonimn Never had the dance hall at the Klysium Fields so quickly cleared of its revelers. John Kars and Bill Brudenejl fumbled their way to the floor below. As they reached it they —heard tlie sharp times of Pap echo nig through the darkened hall. "Fas- | tn every dPor." he cried. "DuiVt ltd any of those guys get back in. Guess 1 lie pliee'll be along right away. Turn up the lights." The promptness with which his nr ders were obeyed suggested that the whole thing bad been prepared for. As the full light blazed out again it revealed the bartenders stpll behind the bar. tt showed two men at the main doors and another at each of the other entrances. Pap Shaun V,ainn was hurrying across the hall. Ills mask like face displayed no sign of emotion Not even concern. He was approaching two huddled figuies Klin amidst s lurid splash of their own Wood. , H V IS tlie sight of John Kars and ill Pill that brought tjtc first sign of emotion to Pap's face- Sa>. this • . Veil!" lie i led Then, as the doc tor knelt 1 1“ the body of Alec InM bra) tl ,m« k of whose head, with its iangled mass of blood soaked . hair, was a. great gaping cavity: lie* out That pore darn kids out sure. Say. 1 wouldn't have had it happen for $10,000. Two guns were lying on the tloor beside the bodies Tap moved as though to pick one up Kars' hand fell on his outstreched arm. "Don't touch those." he said. "Guess they’re for t lie police." Pap straightened up on the instant. Hill looked up from the second body. "Out. Right out. Both of them, line's we best wait for the police. ’ "Can't they lie removed? Paps nes werp on the doctor Kars took it upon himself to re ply. Not till th« p'lice get around." But Pap would not accept the dic tation. , . . ' That so. poo?" he inquired, lg poring Kars. "That's so," saiil Bill, with an al most stern brevity. ■Tile darn suckers!" Pap cried. "If I'd been wise to that hum being |T'-msed he'll have cone out. if he bin' e his lousy neck." •• j ‘pi not dead sure be was soused, Said Kars. T!v cold tone of his voice brought Han's eves to bis face. "What d'you cues--"" he demanded roughly. "lb wasn't a miner, and he vvasn t soused 1 cuess lie was u 'gunman. "What d'you mean?" ".In ' what T said. I’d been watch ing V o awhile from the box above pvt seen enough to figger tills thing's for the p'lice. We're going t , mu this thing through for what it s worth, and my bank roll's going to talk plenty." Bin h d risen from bis knees, lie was standing beyond the two bodies. H:s shrewd eyes were steadily re el-line Pan, who, in turn, was gaz imr I rarely into the cold eves or John Kars. Just for a moment it i i ' ns though he were about to flm- back hot words at the unques tioned challenge in them But the light suddenly died out of his eyes. Ills thin lins compressed, and he shrugged hi* shoulders. "Guess that s up to you.” he said, and moved away towards the bar. Then the northwestern mounted police came and took charge. CHAPTER V. Dr. Rill Investigates. It was two days before the in vestigation released Dr. Bill. Being on the snot, and being one of the most skillful medical men in Bear ing Horse, the mounted police had claimed him, a more than willing "Guess I haven't had a minute. John." he said the first time he had a chance to talk with Kars. "Those police fellers are drivers. Say, we •always reckon they're a bright crowd. You need to see 'em work to get a right notion. They have got most things beat before they start." "This one?" "I said ‘most.’ Ng-o, not this one. That's the trouble. The police are asking a question. And they've got to find an answer. Who fired the shots that shut out that boy’* lights?” Kars brows were raised. "Why, that 'gunman'—surely.” Bill shook his head. He had been probing a vest pocket. Now he pro duced a small object and handed it across to the other with a keen de mand, “What's that?” Kars took the object and examined It closely. "The bullet of a '32' au tomatic,” he said. “Sure. Dead right. I dug that out of the boy s lung. There's another of 'em. I guess. The police have that. They dug theirs out of the wood work right behind where young Alec was standing. It was that opened his head out. Those two shots handed him his dose. And the other feller—why, the other feller was armed with a '45' Colt-” Kars' only outward sign was a stirring of his great body. Bill went on. “There's a thing or two stands right out. First, Alec was quicker with his gun than the other feller. He did that 'gunman' up like a streak of lightning. He didn’t take a chance. And he'd have got away with it if—it hadn’t been for the automatic from somewhere else. The ‘gunman’ drew on him first. That's clear. A dozen folk saw it. He boosted A1ec and his dame in the dance and stretched Maude on the floor. And he did it because he meant it. It was clumsy—which I guass was meant, too. I don't reck on it looked like anything but a dance hall scrap. That's where we see Pap in it. The 'gunman' got his dose in the pit of his bowels, and a hole in his heart, while his own shots went wide and spoiled some of the gold paint in the decorations. The police tracked out both bullets thar came from Ills gun. But the au tomatic came from a distant point. There's folks reckon It. came from one of the boxes opposite where we were sitting. The feller at the er.d of that gun was an—artist. And it wasn’t Pap. That's as sure as death. Bap was standing yarning to the crowd at the bar when all the shots were fired. Pap’s tracks—why. they just don't exist. That's all. We ve just got to hand or the whole pitiful racket to two lotto women at the fort." "m)le.sseMufra'yasta?t2yr Kar« *al<l. Murrays qilita» before us.” m . ,Ip d quit the cftv hlr°°k his ln,n ’ nappciiPii Tk. c,tJ before this some Wh morning of the "i'h him. Ho i* Pylle.1 hl,m- of this. The .,?■? sn 1 knot a ij t hey nanted toehold* ,ooke<t him r"tn the boy. f'o ho,d up the news vestignted. ‘"1 they’d £? hours.” Med been gone j4 ^°hn°lC.-irs ”pulIed"om”",e OU,fi( of rfcppn, no change ^ ' , Th^e hod resuit of Alec MJ. L Plans ’'S the There could be no'chan^'V nil,rder. '’"e as hundreds „? £?„,n ‘hpm. so this man from the „?/. n!,les divided t<> mean for him ujt ,i'.^''ad come ed Everything h, kat ,llfe contain "ould be done *!(> huma y n°9s‘hle, stigator and prenet,d°Wn the in. ami a small fortune 1‘ thp crime, Jhsposal „f Kars’ trussed ? ?Ced at the fhat purpose. s d attorneys for tu Jjlll ISriuifjji i sr.w.t1"s$:'f” s ”TC-'isi beyond words in cansf. 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Ik loosens the phlegm, stops the nasty throat tickle and heals the sore, irri tated membranes so gently and easily that it is really astonishing. A day’s use will usually overcome the ordinary cough and for bronchitia, croup, hoarseness and bronchial asth ma. there is nothing better. Pinex is a most valuable concen trated compound of genuine Norway pine extract, and baa been uasd for generations to break severe coughs. To avoid disappointment, ask your druggist for “2Va ounces of Pinex’* with full directions, and don't accept anything else. Guaranteed to give ! absolute eatisfaetiqn or , money | promptly refupded. The Pinex Co., 1 Ft. Wayne, lud. i>f miners ami fighters, composed of white men, Indians ami half-breeds | that could be depended upon to the utmost limit. Tile ‘'outfit" resembled an army in miniature. The warlike side of it was dispatched in secret by an alter i native and more difficult trail Ilian ! Ihe main communication with Kurt 1 Mowbray. It would miss Fort Mow bray altogether, and take up its | quarters at the headwaters of Snake j river. Abe and Saunders would con I duct this expedition, while Kars and j Hill traveled via Fort Mowbray, with j Pelgan Charley. Jessie Mowbray had been watching the breaking up of the threshold op Iter return. ‘Murray’s asking for I you,” she said. "lie's got plans and 1 thir.gr he needs to fix. Will you go j along up to the fort?" i Murray had only arrived from Heaping Horse two days before. : Bince that time he had been buried [tinder an avalanche of arrears of work. Even his meals had had to be sent up to him at the fort. He had brought back reports of Alec's well being for the mother and sister. But he had laid before them the necessity of a flying visit up country at once. I Jessie found him at his desk. 1' Y'see,” he explained. "I got right | back home here to get news of things I happening north that want looking I into. I've got to pull right away be fore summer settles down good, and get back again. That being so it sets | everything on to your mother's shoulders—with Alee away, .she's a mother I'd have been proud to call iny own. Hut she's yours, and that's why I'm asking that you'll weigh in and help her out—the time I'm away.” “You don’t need to say another word." she cried. "Nothing matters so I can help mother out." .Suddenly Murray laughed "Say, J sslc. I wonder if you'd feel different towards me if I didn't carry t'Q pounds to much weight for my size?" bhe. too. laughed "Maybe. Who knows," she said lightly. "before God, Jessie, if t thought by any act of mine I could get you to feel different towards me I'd break up ail tlie hopes and objects, and am bitions I've set up, if it pleased you l should act that way. I'd live the life you wanted. I'd act the way you chose. I had to tell you this today. It's got to be npw—now—or never. I'm going away on work that has to be done, and 1 can't just wait another day till I’ve told you these things If you'd many me, Jessie," (he man continued, while ihe girl reriiained mute, dumfounded by the suddenness with which the ] issionale outburst had come. "I'd hand you all you can ever ask in life. We'd quit this God ' forgotten land, and set up a home where the sun"? most always shining, anil our money counts for all that we guess is life. We can quit this land with a fortune that would equal the biggest in the world. I know. I hold the door to it. Your mother and X. I just love ypu with a strength you’ll ! never understand. Say, child—’’ The girl broke In on him with a ! shake of the head. It was deliberate, i final. "Don’t—just don't gay anoth er word,’’ she cried. "I don't love >ou. I never could love you, Mur ray.” (To Be Continued in Tlie Morning Bee ) Man Shot as Thief “Shakes^ With Cop Suffering and loss of nearly a month's employment failed to dimin ish the optimism and good-nature of W. G. Briggs. 32, salesman, who went to central police station yesterday to shake hands with lleinie Bosen, police chauffeur, who shot him while he was returning home from a New Year's celebration. Because of the. stiffness of his right arm it was necessary for Briggs to use his left arm in shaking hands with Bosen. In exchanging greetings each congratulated the other on his speed in' running, Briggs was shot after he had been chased four blocks, the officers mistaken him for a burglar. 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Joseph was placed under $500 bond to keep the peace when tried yester day by Judge Campbell. John lloldep. court sergeant, informed the judge that munlcapil court is no criminal court, therefore a peace bond cannot be given. Elsea Richards, 28, cashier at Welch's restaurant No. 1, 1517 Far. nam street, was the complaining wit ness. Her story is that Joseph gave her two small diamonds he had found. Fhe later refused to make an appoint ment with him, which angered him, according to Miss Richards. Joseph, a porter at Welch's, asked for the return of the diamonds, but was refused oil the ground that they were presented as gifts, she said. He then threatened to "cut her heart cut,” Miss Richards declared, and left tbo restaurant shaking his fists at her. Joseph was discharged from the employ of the eating hone. 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