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ft. IMS. Special Today UKE GAiwra Noes MM 28c, at IDe 25c Pocket hives, 15c Today only SEE OUR WINDOWS iDtxtkn DOMJ SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I--Bill Cannon, the bonanza kins, and his daughter Rose, who had passed up Mrs. Cornelius Ryan's ball at San FYanctoco to accompany ber father, arrive at Antelope.

CHAPTER tl--Domlnicfc Ryan calls on his -mother to beg a ball Invitation for tbe day began to darken. Rose Cau- who had been sirting in the parlor, dreaming over a fire of logs, went to the window, at the graving gloom. Tbe vied had risen to a wild, sweeping speed, that tore the snow fine as mist. There were no woolly fltkt-s now. They bad lady declines to recognize her daugh- turned into an opsque, slanting veil Pure Country Cider PURE SPICE Whole and Ground ter-in-law.

CHAPTER m--Pomlnlcfc had into a marriage with Beroicc Trerson. a stenographer, several years his He squanders his money, has frequent quarrels, and clips away. CHAPTER TV--Cannon and his daughter are snowed In at Antelope Dominick Ryan Is rescued from storm In unconscious condition and brought to Antelope hotel. CHAPTER V--Antelope Is cut off by ftmrrtt. Rose.

nurses Dominick back to life. CHAPTER VT--Two weeks Inter Ber- discovers in a paper where husband is and writes 1-tter trying to smooth over difficulties between them. The dawn was whitening the win- which here and there curled into- snowy mounds and in other places left the ground bare. sod. her tether OB the edge against the wall and still avidly wOsv 'wut ''to aodi As itoetr Tmlcs foioke, Hie TWff alrl had a sudden, vivid jHmpee plucked his sleeve.

"What's on?" He took his cigar out of his mouth turned toward her. speaking low and keeping Ms eyes on the men by the stove. "The telegraph operator baa just the of his head and part of his cheat uacoverad. Her heart a. leap of pity and she made a laove- taent from tbe doorway, then stopped.

The lost traveler, that an boar before had almost assumed tbe features of a friend, was complete stranger that bad a message cent from Rocky Bar she bad never seen before, that a seaa started from there this) He looked like a dead nan. His la liquid clearness to the Be turned head farther on the pillow very tftvwtr; for seemed aunkta mm feebleness. On the by bed's head was another lasmn. Colax ed newspaper shutting its tight bis face, and here his eras stowed. A woman was sitting by the foot the bed.

her head bent as if readiagJ Ho stared at her with BOM in-! tentness than he bed at the afternoon to walk up here. They face, tbe chin up, the lips parted un-i he slow of thTlatap on don thmk he could make it and are der tbe fringe of a brown mustache. I was behind her--he saw her acainad a miirhle wwt mnd 8howed or detail artad-? afraid he's lost soxewherc. Perley was In such a was lying In damp half-curled semicircles, dark against the pallid skin. "Do You Think They'll Ewer Pino Looks as if Him?" and some of tbe boys are going out fray shadow in the cheek- Tbe hair to took for hhn on his forehead, thawed by the beat.

"What a dreadful thing! storm! Do you think thej'll ever find him?" He shrugued. and replaced his cigar in his mouib. "Oh. I so. If be was strong enough to get on here they ought to.

But it's just what the operator says. Tbe feller must have been plumb crazy to attempt such a thing. ow thrown on a sheet. Her were sharply defined against the ilia-; mined stretch of plaster--the arch oB ber head, which was broken by tbe! There was a ring on the hand that coils of hair on top, ber rather short! still bung limp on the floor. The doe- neck, with some sort of collar binding, tor.

muttcrteg to himself, pulled open u. the curve of her shoulders, the shirt and was feeling the heart. ed and broad, not tbe shonlders of sJ when Perley. who had flown into the thin woman. He did not think she! bar for more whisky, emerged, a glass was his wife, bat she might be.

and! In his hand. As his eve fell upon tbe moved and said suddenly in man. he stopped, stared, and then ex- husky country-" a stranger in the! claimed in loud-voiced amaze: "What time is Itf I "Mr God--why. it's Pominlck Ryan! "Tho woman started, laid her boolc a sort of respectable I Look here. Cannon, i down, and rose.

She came forward' Kose looked out on it with an In- fa set-- ay of comn ln suicide." said tho who was standing by his daughter in and stood beside him. looking down terest that was a lut.e soberer than dogs Bm Caanjn voice of toe actor behind them. parlor doorway, -come and see for the filaments of hair round hfr hTad daughter up from tbe coast" Ros lookcd over her shoulder and yourself. If this ain't young Ryan I'm blurring the sharpness of its outline, "Bill two men stared MW hls thln no Dutchman!" He stared up at her. haggard and in! and the younger one said: longer nipped and reddened with cold.

Cannon pushed between tbo infer- tent, and saw It was not his wife. It" Bill Cannon, the Bonanza King ul wreathed In an obsequious and venlng ir.cn and bent over the pros- a strange woman in it a San I friendly smile which furrowed It with fr ti Klft ri SOTIUng face. He feit immensely re- Is," he said slowly Ueved and said with a hoarse careful- the debonair blitheness of her morning mood. If it kept up they might be snowed in for days, Perley bad said. That being the case, this room.

the hotel's one parlor, would be her UUUTID vix panui, un g- Francisco'" I lrlentn smile furrowed it wiin retreat, her abiding place--for her I deep lines. Her father answered him bedroom was as cold as an ice-chest here to be dlSSJ a7 SRd she rorned awa more 5 --until they were liberated. With the lnd ai owvl Knmn wrested In the i.rc-p:.ntions for tho light, smile that camJ so readily to her lips, she turned from tte window and surveyed it judicially. you." Here Rose, fearing the conversa- j-search party. As eho watched tlx-so i she could bear the desultory conver- Cora, already curled, powdered and Glass Jars, Jar Rings and Extra Jar Taps She was leaving the -window to re- when he finally get pen turn to her seat by the fire when the and paper and "wrote a few complete silence that seemed to hold These, prefix or signature.

fc outside world in a spell was brok- that he would leave the city I en by sudden sounds. Voices, the for a short time and not to make any crack of a whip, then a grinding effort to find where he had gone thump against the hotel caught communicate with him. He wrote her; her ear and whirled her back to the name en the folded paper and placed! Pane. A large covered vehicle, with it ia front of the clock. Then he stole the whitened shapes of a smoking into his bedroom--they had occupied team drooping before it, had just' Dispelled by the light from a similar separate rooms for over six months--! drawn up at the steps.

Two mascu- i lam on the bureau and the fed and packed- a valise with his oldest line figures, carrying bags, emerged lsala from stove. Miss Cannon roughest clothes. After this from the interior, nnd from the driv- i was revealed ta the becoming half- -waited in the dining-room till the i seat a muffled shape--a cylinder I dusk mac tbcs imperfecUy- light was bright and the traffic of the'. of wrappings which appeared to have binding illuminations, a pink silk 1 com- tion might turn upon herself, slipped afi nd er 5 (b act rs from the Into the passage TMTM and up the stairs to ber own politeness contrasted An hour later as sho stood bcforo. the glass making her soilet for sup- per, a knock at the door ushered in I with her father's graft brevity, made smite furtively to herself.

was ap animated ireal that evening. The suddenly tragic Interest that had developed drew the llttlo for that occasion, a small kerosene lamp In ber hand In the 1 tOBcth bare room, its gloom onlv of a common sympathy. Tho "-'Ige and the actor moved their scats the Cannons' table. to request the docfor--a yonng man fresh from his graduation In San Francisco who took his meals et the bachelor's table--to Join them and add tho earea to naves vwa i weight of medical opinion to their loud on the pavement, before he lively human core-gave forth much dressins loosely enfolding her. Su lse9 as to tbe tra ler mrs CASH WET 50 M.

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1 at ticket 5 offices. crept doim the long stairwaf and! and profane language. The iso-1 a Hshtly bnished-In saggesticn of fah-j of -wont out into the crystal freshpess otj iation arid remoteness of her sn i hasr behind her ears and on her' mornins. CHAPTER IV. Out of Night and Storm.

rcuadings had already begun to af-1 shoulders. Her comb was in her hand feet the town-bred young lady. She: and Cora realized with an uplifting ran to the door of the parlor, as in- tlsrin tbat sb had timed her visit curious to see the new ar-: correctly and xras about to learn the rivals and find out -who they were as," of Miss Cannon's coiffure. "I brung you another lamp." sho said affably, setting her offering down on tbe bureau. ain't enough Wfcea Rose Cannon woke on the! though she had lived in Antelope for morning after her arrival at Antelope, a memory of tie snowflakes of Looking down the hall she saw the evening before bed and patter It made her jump out of front dcor open violently inward and Ifebt to dress decently by.

I have barefooted to the win- two men hastily enter. The wind i tnr an she sank down on the side seemed to her it would be I seemed to blow in and before Pertey's of the bed with the air of baring lots of fun" to be snowed up at An- 1 boy could press the door shut tbo i established an Intimacy, woman to telope and when she saw only a thins! snow bad -whitened the damp mat- by this act of generous oon- sieieration. "Them gentlemen." ehe continued. of Tvhite en the hotel garden, No stage passed through Ante- and the diminishing perspective of lope in these days of its decline, and roofs, she drew fcer mouth into a the curiosity felt by Rose was stared ar alongjra this hall wjth mace of dSappointinent- "Wilh fcancbed-up shoulders, tacked nader her arms, she i the apertase. Mrs.

Perey came by the whole hotel. The swing door ronr pa. The old one's Judge herl to tee bar opened and men pressed burne. of Colcse, a pioneer that used know Mr. Perley's mother way ace naer er arms, looking cut, her breath blur- "-P from the kitcfeen, a dish.

back ia Sacramento In the fifties, and rin? tha pace in a dissolving film of Cora appeared te tie cinlng-room fenevr yonr pa real well when be waa smclce. It a cold litUe world, doorway, and in answer to Miss Can-: Poor. It's sort of encouraging to EeTfftv her the garden--tbe stsmmer non's inquiriEgly-lifted Mhink yonr PR was ever poor." pride of Pel-lev's Hotel--lav a sere, called across tbe fcsill: Rose laughed and turned sidewise, -trtthsrcd its shrubs stiff in the- "It's the Mcrphysville stage on the' 'looking at the spetsier under the arch grip of tbe cold. The powdering of i down-trip to Rocky Ear. I guess they i of her uplifted arm.

There -were snoyr on its frost-bitten leaves thought they conHn't it. The i in her mcuth and an chances survival. These, tbe doctor thought, depended as much upon -the man's age and physical condition, aa upon -tbe search party's success Jn him. After supper they retired to the par- plied tbe fire high and sat grouped before It. the smoke of cigars and cigarettes lying about their heads In white layers.

It was but natural that the conversation should turn on stories of the greet storass of the past. Rose had beard many each before, but to-night, with the rocking tbe old hotel and tbe thought of the lost man heavy at her heart, she listened, held In a cold clutch of fascinated attention, to tales of tbe emigrants -caught tn the passes of tbe Sierra, ot pioneer mining-camps relieved by innVe trains which broke through tha casp miles from Ante- Standing by tbe nail sto've. vr-sre li-! ha-r-pirs nipped betrreca her lope, -where an important strike had Besting thenselres of their vrraps. "And the ether one." went en Cora, recently made. of them iras a tall nprigat old her eyes rfrered on tbe snow blockade as tbe miners lay dying in their huts, of men risking their lives to carry saccor to comrades lost in their passage from cnrnp to camp on just snch a night as this.

The clock hand passed ard the periods of silence that at intervals had fallen on tbe watchers longer ally merpcd sat moticn- for fifte-fn T'K'o of the dogs had come in r.nd down on the hearth-rug, nosca trato "That's who it and unemotionally. "It's Dominlck Ryan, all riph'. Well, by ginger!" uul bo turm-d uul looked at the. amazed Innkeeper, "that's the queerest thing I ever saw. What's brought him up here?" Perley, his gltiss sactched from him by the doctor who seemed entirely Indifferent to their recognition of bis patient, shrugged helplessly.

"Blest If I know," he said, staring: aimlessly about him. "He was hero List summer fishing. But there ain't no fishing God. ain't It a good thing that operator Reeky Bar had the eenso to telegraph up!" When CHAPTER V. Nurse and Patient.

Dominick returned to con- cciousncss he lay for a space looking 1 directly In front of him. then moved, his head and let his eyes sweep thei walls. They were alien walls of whltoj plaster, naked of all adornment TheJ light from a shaded lamp lay across! one of them In a soft yet clear wash! of yellow, BO clear that he could nee! that the plaster -was coarse. There were few pieces of furniture' the room, and all new to him. AJ bureau of the old-fashioned marble-j topped kind stood against the wall op-i poslte.

The lamp that cast the yellow 1 light was on this bureau: its a translucent gold reflection revealed! ness of utterance: "What time did you say It Is?" "A few minutes past five." she answered. "You've been asleep." "Have he said, saziug Immovably at her. day is it?" "Tiiurrday." she replied. "You came- here las: night front Rocky Bar. Perhaps you don't remember." "Rocky Bar!" he repeated vaguely, groping through a haze of memory.

"Was it only yesterday? Was It only. I left San Francisco?" "I don't know when you left San Fran- joo--" the newspaper cracked and bent a liute, lettiug a band light fall across the pillow. She leaned; arranging It with careful looking from the light to him to sea If It correctly adjusted. "Whenever you left San Francisco," she said, "you got here Iftst night. They brought you here, Perley and some other men In the sleigh.

Thejf found you in the road. You were half- frozen." "What Is this place?" "Antelope." said the womaa. "Peri ley's Hotel at Antelope." (To Be Continued.) hare the finest goods in the world, hut yon can't sell them unless tbe people know yon hare them. Advertising lets people know. I CREA VELVET are prepared to Gil all orders foi festivals, picnics, Ours as smooth as AH phone orders will receive OUT prompt aueBtiou.

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J. A. RAKSBURS, N6 Fntekk, on their pav-s. their fixed bright- country well enough to realise that a 1 fedora hat, and against its np the suite frosn it wculd be fGcThardr to start cncer unbecoming tint, his its prominent, bezy surface nipped by; tcep an tbere. If such a threatening Jt Be the cold to a raw redness, locked sal- me TO death to have an Rose; Send for descriptive circular on a preferred stock offering with strong probability of speculative profit on the common stock which goes with it.

tts eyes Acgcles and I te jij seQce eve a unpasy gOKig to Saorcmento. to i pe r. Almost simultaneously sorted and drew herself up, exclaim- It Be the cola to a raw redness, locked sal-u dcEls me To deatn to have an actor en! COT r( of all right to stop over at Antelope till low and nnh-ealfhy. V.1th sa air cf tte honsc. I ain't seen one! a nc 'i' a a i- a lii the -Bather made up its mind -what SDlicitnde be laid his overccat across -cJose to t-fnre." It meant to do.

It might not be fan's, chair, brashlng off the snow -with a i The 3 tair-pin wns adjusted and moment floor for her bnt then he had warned her careful hand. ht a -Hss Cawoa su-Jied tbe c2ect iriih sha ken with vestcllt and no Th i -brfbre le.t San Francisco that black cntaway witb Jhe collar a i C1p itse)f on to tbc porch and she tronld have to put np with rough. I op aboat bis neck, he Sad an appear- Aa she cczr.njentea. run accomraodations and unaccnstomec auee of discojsiforts. Rose iaughed.

Her father did not aiidsrstand that tbs roughness and iiovelty of it an was what she b-vei tue ciiair cacK. in I ut uji at 0p standirc back He was already a man of his general scggcsflon i Wr'd a ciatror il'' sieans she was bora, and she of a ineasc-rly coveted Tbe scand or a vdce crr.n.2: "Cera" i mr I hi lad kno-wn nothing of the hardships; lankness. The fact that be -was tpd privatioas throngfa which he and smooth-shaven, combined with the mother had struggled tip to for- nsual length of dark hair that ap- YIELD Pi CEIL CEIL 3ASKEBS teens among them. himself he would have beea variously She wns ccsoer.diDs the stairs wrs-a i saotv, the man trey bore aa Periey's warnings of bad dowa as a gambler, a traveling-: a commotion from below, a eound of shape covered with whitened 'j; "were sooa veriSsd. Early ia the aa actor, or perhaps only voices, lond, argnraentstive.

risirs and nigs frcia which an ars hong, a limp, teracon tbe idfe, occasional snow-; a vender of patent medicises ivho had I facing in ccc-ros, burriea her hand touching the Soor. Qnestiona answers, now clear aad sharp, fol- them, notes upon the he inert form: jjji At fom- o'clock, WiHongabv. tha ing the gcitar from the tail-board of; correr.T cf cold ccnJd be felt ia tbe "Vv'here'd you get him Snglishman -who had charge of tbe: his showman's cart. atmosphere aud fresh snow was "About five miles below oa the shut-dowa Bella K. mine, came, bst-' Now.

having arranged coat to! BceHtng on the floor. Sfairfiag by the; msin road- One of the horses almost Pure--Reliable Economical--Reputable AKD NOT EXCELLED BY ANY FLOUR MADE IN AMERICA MANUFACTURED AT BY THE with provisions thaa the office build- as Rose reached the foot of the stairs into him, bat he ain't shown a I ing of tbe Bella K. Wffionghby, whose Cora giggled and threw across the' she beard him say: sign cf life." accent acd manner had proclaimed; Jsall to Kiss Cannon a delighted mar-' "Well, I ten yon that any men "Who is he?" ihim as one cf high distinction before mar of: started to valk up here firm Rorky "Search inc. I ala't seea him my. nt was known in Antelope that he "Oh, say, ala't he jnst the richest! Bar this afternoon ronst have boea Belf yet.

Just as we got him the Ian- "some relation to a lord," -was ithing?" plumb Why, Joha L. Sallivaa tera weat out." i made welcome ia the bar. His fonrj "TonVe got as trapped and caged, coalda't do it in such a storm." i There was a sofa in the hall and setter dogs, shut out from that Tiere for a spell, I guess." said tho i To which tbe wtiVbred voice of they laid their burden there, the' retreat by the swing doci; older man. "Any oae else ia the TMfioughby answerrd: i edging la on them, horrified, Ia-' arocad it and stared expect- same box?" -Bat according to the message hfl terested, hungrily peering. Rose antiy, each shoat from within "Oh, you'll aot want for company," started at two and the snow was hard-' coBld see their bent, expressive backs answered by them with plaintive and Periey, pride at the Importance 3y felliag then.

He mast have got the crar.Sng napes of their necks. lagraSating annotmcemet TlBTatmg nss way, past the Silver TlHn a sharp order from the doctor Tbe afternoon was still young -when tone. got Winonghby here Vhen the storm caught him." drove them back, sheepish, tramping CAPACITY 1.00O LBS. DAILY NEWSPAPER.