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fHE BROWNWOOD DAILY BULLETIN. BROWNWOOD. TEXAS TUESDAY APRIL 4 1916.
PAGE THREE
Good Bye Dirt!
Mbert-
Here Comes
J
Vll V ler KvirG
AUTHOR OF "THn FIGHTER" "CALEB CON-
OVER" "SYRIA FrOM THE SADDLE" ETC.
NOVELIZED FROM ?ATHE PHOTO PLAY OF
THE SAME NAME BY " WILL M. RITCHEY.
SYNOPSIS.
"Circle Jim" Borden named from a red
birthmark on his hand has served his j Saved you from committing sordid
third prison term. One in each Borden crimes when at last the curse over-
generation always -criminal has borno ' .
the Red circle mark. Jim aid his son ok you. ou sinned. But always
Ted. the only . known living of the Bor-
dens are -killed. Next day Lamar sees
ine nea circle on a woman s hand out
side & curtained automobile. June.
marked with the Red Circle robs Grant
a loan shark. Mary. June's nurse dis-
covers her theft and tells her she is "Cir-
cle Jim's" daughter though Mrs. Travis
does not know. Mary tricks Lamar. La-
mar visits "Smiling Sam" Jim's old criino
partner. Sent to Surfton by Smiling Sam
Alma La Salle robs the guests at a ball.
Lamar follows her back to town cap-
tures her with the jewels and goes after
Smiling Sam. On the edge Of a cliff pur
suer ana pursued engage in deadly com
bat Gordon a fugitive rescues Lamar
and June In turn saves Gordon from ar-M
rest. Smiling Sam sees the Red Circle
on June's hand tells her ho knows her
secret and follows her to her city home.
She helps Gordon to get away after re-
covering for him the securities receipt
Which incriminates him by tricking Far-
well and Lamar. Lamar suspects June.
He captures Smiling Sam. Gordon gives
himself 8 p. As he tells Juno his love. La-
mar sees the Red Circle on her hand.
Eagan betrays June and dies attempting
to escape. June is arrested.
FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT
JUDGMENT DAY
Of course It was a dream a vision
bred of terror of suspense of long-
continued nerve strain. At . least so
June always tried in later days to
make herself believe.
But she had not been aware of fall-
ing asleep. She was sitting there in
the squalid little living room of the
flat; brooding miserably over the fu-
ture; and seemingly wide awake.
Yet 'unconsciously as she sat there
she may have dozed.
For as clearly as ever in her life
she had beheld anything she satr.
"Circle Jim" Borden come Into tha
room.
Yes "Circle Jim" Borden whcse
mortal body had been lying in the pot-
tens' field this many a day.
"June" breathed the wraith's voice
"I am your father your father who
died. There is no death save to the
body. And I have come back to you.
I have come back because I cannot
rest. You alone can give me rest my
daughter."
He paused. And still that strange
paralysis held June spellbound.
"1 sought to wipe out forever the
Red Circle curse. I sought it by end-
ing the Hve3 of those who bore that
curse. But I failed. You escaped me."
The voice was tinged with a tender
longing as again the wraith spoke:
"June my little girl whom I never
laiew In life you must help me. You
and you alone can aid me now. I
cannot rest until the circle is forever
gone. While the curse endures my
torture must endure. I long for rest--for
eternal sleep. But there can be
no rest for the dead while their evil
deeds live on. My sins live on in you
poor daughter of mine. And you alone
can crush the awful power of the Red
Circle and give me rest Your fate Is
in your own hands. Not only your
fate but mine. You have the power
If you will but exert it to save us.
You alone. You can give me the rest
I crave.
"I was brought up to crime to reck-
lessness to the companionship of out-
casts" went on Borden. "There were
Max and Mary Went to Her Aid.
but two clean influences in all my life
By mother and the wife I adored
My mother died before I could under
stand how much It would have meant
to her If I had learned to live the life
ske wished me to. My wife could have
saved me through love. But she died
She died when you were born. And
after that nothing mattered to me. 1
-went on and on to the end'
A spasm of pain marred his rugged
face.
"With you it was different TYonj
babyhood you were surrounded bj
TM7 latwac for good. Every pow-
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'You can conquer the curse by will
power" jirged Borden. "You can de-
stroy the" evil that is in you. You can
save yourself and me. You can do
this. It will be a fearful conflict but
if you exert all your will-power you
can win. Will you do this June? An-
swer me!"
June longed to cry out to him that
she would make the fight; that she
would KtrlvA with all her micht to
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stamp out tne curse 01 ma neu oirciu.
But she could not speak.
"You will not speak? You will not
help me? You will not help yourself?"
stormed the wraith.
"My plea cannot move you?" he
rumbled. "Then there is only one
way to end it Even as I hoped once
before to destroy the Red Circle and
its curse. Then I killed myself and
the lad I thought was my son. If I
had known you were my daughter you
should have died too; even as now
you shall die!"
The gnarled hands clutched at June's
full white throat in murderous fury.
But the . spectral hands bodiless
shadowy were harmless against her
warm living flesh.
Slowly the Impotently murderous
hands withdrew their grip.
"My my spirit hands have no pow-
er against 'your human body J" he
snarled. "I am helpless. It is my pun-
ishment." He bowed his head in his arms; his
phantom body twitching with emotion.
Then turning abruptly without so
much as a backward look at the
trance-held girl he melted through the
closed door and was gone.
For a moment Juno remained as ho
had left her. Then she shuddered from
head to heel. Her great dark eyes
gradually opened. They were horror-
filled and wild.
Dazedly June got to her feet glar-
ing about the room In abject fright
She moved uncertainly a step or two.
' Then her tense nerves giving away
she shrieked aloud and reeled to the
floor in a dead faint.
Mary and Lamar at sound of her
cry rushed headlong into the room.
They flew to her aid applying such re-
storatives as were within reach. Pres-
ently the swooning girl came to her-
self. Looking up she encountered the
nurse's loving frightened old face.
"Oh Mary!" she gasped trembling
all -over "I've had such an awful
dream! Such a horrible dream. Mary!
If If it was a dream! If it was a
dream!"
Charles Gordon in the lounging
room of his club read and reread the
flaring headlines that told of June
Travis' arrest on the Red Circle
charge.
The lawyer was muttering to him-
self: "Guilty or not she saved me from
prison. No girl with eyes like hers
is a criminal. If If It wasn't for
this damnable embezzlement charge
against me I'd defend . her. If only
I could get Farwell to admit I'm inno-
cent I could practice again. And I bo-
lievo I could clear her. But Farwell
would never "
He glanced up quickly. A man had
hurried into the room and was speak-
ing excitedly to a litlo knot of idlers
who sat near the 'door.
"Well!" Gordon heard the newcom-
er saying l thjnk Silas Farwell has
about paid bis debt to those employees
of his that he's been swindling."
"What's up?" asked Gordon Joining
tho group.
"I heard this morning that a crowd
of them tried to storm his office again
to mako him settle. Ho had a lot of
roughneck guards who scattered them.
But just now as ho was coming here
from his factory for lunch a lot of
the strikers mobbed his auto."
"Did they got him? Or?"
"I don't know. I saw part of the
row from the club steps. It was no
affair of mine to Interfere. Let him
pay for his crookedness for all I
care. Ho "
The speaker was Interrupted by tho
entrance of Farwell himself hatless
disheveled panting.
"I I got clear from them!" hoarse-
ly panted the fugitlvo as he dashed
into the room and slammed the door
behind him.
He was shaking with fear.
Then Gordon recognizing the value
of the psychological moment leaped
forward and seized Farwell by the torn
coat lapels
"Silas Farwell!" thundered Gordon
his face close to tho frightened man's.
"Confess that the embezzlement
chargo you made against me was false!
Confess it was a conspiracy that you
lied!"
The onlookers remained outwardly
neutral; only pressing closer about
the two as if not wishing to miss a
single detail of the scene.
"Confess!" ordered Gordon again.
Farwell. gasping panting In utter
confusion at lnd and body blinked
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Mrs. Travis Created a
tupidly Into the sternly compelling
3yes of his foe.
"Confess!" shouted Gordon.
"Here! What's all this?" demanded
3omeone in the same breath.
Chief Allen had come in after head-
ng a squad of policemen who had
routed the mob.
Farwell's back was to the door. He
had not heard Allen enter and the
chief's words had been drowned in
Gordons threatening shout of "Con
fess!"
But one of the bystanders laid a
detaining hand on the advancing
chief's arm and stopped his progress
toward the center of the group. Allen
paused a moment irresolute. And In
that moment he heard Gordon re-
peat: "Confess your chargo against mo
was a lie!"
Under the blaze of Gordon's hyp
notic look Farwell's nerves went
wholly to pieces.
"I I" ho sputtered.
"Tell the truth!" demanded Gordon
"or I'll drag you by main force out of
this club and throw you to the mob
of men putsido there! Tho men you've
robbed and who will kill you if
they"
"I I confess!" croaked Farwell in
stark terror. I "
''You confess what?" Insisted Gor-
don again shaking his foo back and
forth as a puppy might shake a rag.
" I confess I 'framed you" bab-
bled the terrified Farwell. "I I the
charge I made against you was
was false. I oh for God's sake
Gordon!" he howled In abject terror
! "don't let those devils out there get
hold of me. They'll"
"One thing more!" broke in Gordon
curtly; his face alight at his victory
and at tho complete mastery which
for the moment he was exerting over
the panic-stricken man "Ono thing
more: Will you retract your robbery
charge against Miss Travis and vindi-
cate her? Will you?"
"Hold cn. there!" broke in Chief
f Allen's peremptory voice. "You're go
ing a step too far. Mr. Gordon I
didn't butt in while you made him
clear your own name. And I'm mighty
glad you were able to. But I can't
have you Interfering with the Red
Circle case. That's a matter for tho
police. Let It alone! And let Mr
Farwell go."
At -sound of the chiefs voice Far-
well's vanished courage returned to
him with a rush.
"Am I going to withdraw the charge
against the Travia girl?" he sneered.
"Of course I'm not I'm going to
prosecute her to the bitter end The
thief!"
Chief Allen interposed his muscular
bulk between the two men. Just in
time to prevent Gordon from flying at
his enemy's throat
Next morning as soon as ho could
find out whero she was living Gordon
went to June's apartment and offered
his services as her counsel In tho ap-
proaching trial. Gratefully. Juno ac
cepted the offer being familiar with
the reports of his legal skill.
He cut short her thanks by saying:
"And now If you don't mind Miss
Travis we'll go over the case to-
gether; step by step. If Farwell Is
the only complainant ngainst you I'vo
a notion I can shut blm up by threats
of a perjury charge. You know he
swore falsely against me. If there are
no other complaints you are as good
as freed."
But there were other complainants.
Plenty -of them as Max Lamar and
Chief Allen were at that very' moment
finding out
Max had dropped Into tho chiefs
private office for a chat with his old
friend and to try to enlist his aid in
June's behalf. But he found Allen as
firm as a rock in the matter of bring-
ing the Red Circle criminal to jus-
tice. "I'd like to see it your way Max"
said the chief. "But I can't. I'm an
officer of the law. The law has been
violated. And it's up to me to do all
I can to punish tho violator. I'm sor-
ry. You've got eloquenco enough to
move anyone but a veteran thief-taker.
But I "
"No I haven't" denied Lamar mis-
erably. "I can't even sway the feel-
ings of one cranky fool of a woman."
"What woman?" asked tho chief
curiously.
"Mrs. Travis" growled Lamar. "She
came to my office this morning. She
remembered I was present when Ted 1
Borden was asphyxiated by old 'Circle j
Jim.' She knew I'd had some expe-
rience with the boy before that He
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
Painful Scene in Court
DANIELS TELLS IRE
ABOUT NAVY'S NEEDS
Makes Public (.'moral Hoard's Build-
Ins? Program Recommended
in 1 !):?.
WASHINGTON- April 4. Secretary
Uaniela told the House Naval Com
mittee that ff Congress passed pend-
ing bills a largo: part of the navy's
oil reserve lands in California would
be taken a way. Unless an adequate
oil supply at rotrepn&hle prices could!
be assured he said it was question-
able whether the construction of oil-
burning warships could be continued.
Taking up the building program
Mr. Daniels made. public for the first
time the report of the navy general
board of 1903 which was designed to.
keep the United State Navy In sec
ond place. .
"If it had bean carried out" he
said "we would ; have had twenty
dreadnoughts and ton. battle cruisers
by 1919. It would have placed us su
perior to Germany at the beginning
of the-present war. We kept in sec
ond pice to England up to 1909 when
we dropped hack: and Germany took
second place." .
The Five-Year Protrmm.
Mr. Daniels took up in detail his
recommendations' for a five-year
building program snying the value of
battle cruisers was still disputed.
The general opinion in the navy how
ner he added seemed to be in their
favor but not to the exclusion of.
-Irondnoughts.- Therefore the . Secre
tary tmid. he had included six battle
oruloers.
Secretary Daniels touched on all
sides of the naval preparedness pro
gram in his .testimony. He propos-
ed various modifications in and ad
ditions to lho five-year building pro-
gram indorsed by President Wilson
including elimination entirely of the
provision for great seagoing submar-
ines In the 1917 estimates. Thirty L
type or K type boa'ts may be the num
ber agreed upon.
Other 'ctf Features.
Other new features proposed by Mr.
Daniels were:
Construction of a great drydock at
Norfolk and possibly at Philadelphia.
Establishment of a marine aviation
and submarine base at San Diego
Calif.
Study of the Pacific Coast to deter
mine the best location for an addition
al navy yard there .probably at Los
Angeles or San. Diego.
Expenditure $175000 to clear tho ;
approach to the Charleston S. C yard
for heavy draft ships.
Authorizing the rank of full Admir-
al for the chief of operations and fix-
ing his powers by law on an equal-
ity with those of chiefs of bureaus.
General Board's Program.
In connection with the building pro-
gram Mr. Daniels made public the
famous report of tho general board
In 1903 which set a continuous build-
ing policy for tho navy for the first
time and aimed at a battleship fleet
of forty-eight by 1921. If it had been
approved ho said tho United States
Navy would have reached second
piace among the powers of the world
and remained there.
As an annual building program the
board proposed two battleships one
armored cruisers threo protected
cruisers four scout cruisers three
destroyers and two colliers.
Tho Secretary also presented a ta-
blo of the world's naval tonnage
which showed that Germany and the
United States passed France as naval
powers about tho same timo in 1911.
According to these figures tho United
States Navy has never been m sec-
ond place Franco dropping from sec-'
ond to fourth at that time while eGr-1
many become second and the United.
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EXPORTS
IMPORTS
GREATEST IN HISTORY
February Foreign. Trade of V S. Sets.'
Sew Bccord in
Yalaes.
WASHINGTON April 4. America's
exports and imports both were great
er iri February than in any previous
month In the country's history. Fig
ures assembled in- the Bureau of For
elgn .and Domestic Commerce shows
exports had ar total value of $409-
836525 exceeding by $50000000 the
record set last December. Imports
reached $194000000.
Total exports for the first eight
months of the fiscal year were valued
at $2850301570 indicating in the
opinion or Department of Commerce
officials at $4000000000 total for the
1
year. A favorable trade balance of
$1295217462 is shown for the last
eight months.
Gold imports in February are given
as $6000000 and for the eight months
$32SQ54000
HUILDIXG MATERIAL FOR PARIS.
More Than oOO Carloads Contracted for
by Different Railroads.
PARIS Tex. April 4. A local rail
road agertt states that the different
roads leading into Paris already have
orders for more than five" hundred
carloads of building material placed
with them by contractors. Two more
Frisco tracks are being put in on the
west side of the yards and men ar
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These delicious new breakfast flakes are featured
by the tiny bubbles raised on each flake by the
quick intense heat of this new art of toasting.
The NW ToStltS are not "chaffy" in the
packages; they don't mush down when milk or
cream is added like common "corn flakes" and
they have a delicious new flayour not found in
corn flakes of the past.
They're well worth trying these
New Post Toasties
Sold by Grocers every whore.
Richards5
mm
rived last night to put in tracks arouqd
North Main street. A big grading
crew arrived from the North to cut
down the bank on Graham street for
additional trackage space. The num-
ber of clerks in the freight office has
been Increased and a branch of the
Springfield (Jib.) tracing office here
to trace all freight
J. H. Doggrell assistant superin-
tendent of transportation is In charge
of it George H. Bennett the local
agent stated that it had direct -wires
with St Louis Kansas City and all
Important points and that it was go
ing to get telegraphic advice on alK
freight for Paris so that It can notify
Paris people before the shipment gets
here. The tracing sen-ice is open to
the public All freight coming to
Paris. regardless of commodity is put
on the red ball billing and will get
preferred movement Every one con-
nected with the freight service is giv-
en to understand from headquarters
that freight or Paris must come thru
without delay.
The various departments of the city
government were moved baclc today
to temporary quarters at the old city
hall site. A new roof is being put on.
the damaged- postoffice building and
Postmaster Hubbard states that it will!
be ready for temporary occupancy in.
abon two weeks.
The First Baptist Church has . the
lumber ordered for a temporary tab-
ernacle which will be erected on the
McDonald lot on South Twenty-secr
ond street It will be ready for oc-
cupancy in a week. The Rev. W. B
Kendall the pastor stated that "the
Rev George W Truett of Dallas had
promised when it is completed to ded-
icate it by coming here andxonduct-
ing a revival meeting.
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