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Show Saturday; February 13, 1926 . iky, FE AMERICAN FORK' C1TIZEH SATUR FEBRUARY 13, 1926 nnnrvirn noo rmnnr WGIEE.ROE cortaiarr By ntMecjajLCoMatttiy- WMU SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1. Kate Cathrew. "Cattle Kate." omt of ibe tfkr Una raaoh. an her way to McM.ane a atora at Cor dove, seemingly infuriated by the alf at f a irl piuwluK in a valley below, Jlacaa a rule bullet near the horaea act. Tha girl takaa bo noloe. CHAKi'UH 1L Manoe AUlsoa, the girl ou whom Kata Cathrew bad vented bar aplle, la wub bar wtdowad another and vi'iipld oruiher Bud farming laad laen up by bar father, klHad a abort tin. ttiuia u a mysterious accident, tiud la ib victim of a dallbarata at-iuipi at-iuipi lo malm or kill him. Kata Cathrew Cath-rew wunis tba farm for paatura land, anJ U trying to frighten tba Allisons Into leaving. CHAn'KK IlL Biff 8k Iky lth Lino rider, daaparataly In lova Kata. picks a quarrel wltb a fallow rldar, Hod Stone. Kata, to part tbam, laabaa Baatord across tba faoa wltb a quirt CHAPTER IV. Nance dlacovers In cava a fine oollla dog, evidently nardlng a child. She trlea In vain to overcome tba dog'a hoatlllty and goaa noma mystified. CHAPTER V. Net day Nance re-tnrna re-tnrna to tba cava with food and makaa friends wltb tha dog and tba amall boy, Soany. Ha talla bar "Brand" takaa cara of htm and "Dirk," tha colli. col-li. Nance promlaaa him to raturn naxt day with mora "goodlaa." CHAPTER VL Selwood la certain Kata Cathrew la tha haad ot a "cattle ruatllng" gang, with Lawranoa Arnold, bar partnar, who rarely vlalta tba ran oh. Mlnnla Plna, haltbreed at tba Bky Llna ranoh, la In lova with Rod Stone. CHAPTER VTL Ranchara complain ot tha ataallng of thalr oattla and blama SbarlS Salwood for hla aaamlng Inactivity. CHAPTER VIII. Naaoe, visiting Sonny Son-ny and Dirk la tba oave, maata "Brand, and la favorably Impressed.. Ha talla bar hli narna la Fair, which la alao Sonny' i, and obtalna har promise to hasp their presence a secret CHAPTER IX Nanoe becomes keenly keen-ly Intereated la Brand Fair. Tha girl la relying on a field ot corn to pay off dabta aba owaa alcKane. CHAPTER X. Fair aaaa Sud Pro-' Pro-' Tine, one of tha Sky Llna ranch rldara. In Blue Stona canyon, and talla Nanca he and Sonny muat move at once. Tha girl here him to leave tha boy with bar, and ha oonaenta- CHAPTER XL A faw nlghta later oattla are turned into Nance'a corn Held and tha crop destroyed. Tha Allisons Alli-sons realise tha destruction la tha work of Kata Cathraw. CHAPTER XII. Nanoe talla McKane Of the disaster and bar consequent inability in-ability to pay har debt to him. Sba meet! Kata Cathraw and humiliates her. Kate attampta to ahoot bar, but Salwood Intervenes. CHAPTER XIII. Fair vlalta tha Allison Al-lison home and Is warmly welcomed. Ha tells Nanca ha la on Kata Cathraw'a trail for varloua misdeeds. While they are talking, by a lighted window, Nance Is wounded In the arm by a rifle shot, fired wlth deadly Intent CHAPTER XIV. A prospector, "John Smith," really Brand Fair, shows Sheriff Sher-iff Belwood tha entrance to a passage In tbe hills through which Kate Cath-rew Cath-rew and her riders drive tba stolen eattla. CHAPTER XV. The Sky Line riders raid Bosstck'a ranch, driving off seventy-one head of cattle. Sheriff Selwood, on the watch since hla talk with Fair, joins the thieves without being detected, de-tected, getting all needed evidence to convict Kate Cathrew and her followers. follow-ers. His horse betrays him and he is shot and desperately wounded, but reaches McKana'a store before ha loses consciousness. The rustlers -believe him dead. CHAPTER XV Continued. "Is tie sounds behind htm lessened he drew a good breath and struck a spur to his horse's flank". And right then, when there was most need, the good bay who had served him so long and faithfully, betrayed be-trayed him. tie threw at) his head, flung around toward the strange horses he was leaving, and neighed a sharp, shrill sound that carried up the slope like a buglet At the hiouth of the Flange Big Baa-ford Baa-ford stopped. - His own mount answered. Once more came that challenge from below and Sud Pro vine came back out of the hidden passage on the jump. "G d d n !" he shouted, "that ain't a Sky Line horse I Boys we're caught I Come quick I" Selwood, far down the trail, knew with a surge of rage that the game was np and that be was In for It He knew In the same second, however, that Ms own bone wag fresh, while those others from Sky Line were not He had a fair start and meant to make the most of it. And he knew his horse. It -was dangerous work taking tha lope of Mystery at a run, but there was danger behind and he chose the lesser evil. As If to make up for Its defection the lean bay stretched and doubled like a greyhound and Selwood leaned low on Its neck as best he could for trie' pitch ftfrvJhe'"as''U8tntria''"for' lead. - . - - v mvw n mae viifr vt i-guu range, but he knew also that Sud Proline Pro-line carried a rifle always on his saddle. sad-dle. The roar of horses running under difficulty leaping, stiff-legged, sliding here and there csme down like an avalanche of sound, but there were no voices mingled with It., The Sky Line ten were riding la a silence so grim iLltjtaU emi-StLwesJ-j heaxt Bervlee. TOTjT fiieaTi?. fleaMi aL"J were a vi for It The trees sailed by against tbe stars, rushing up from the dim darkness be low to disappear into it above, and the wind sang In his ears like a harp. It seemed incredible that the tediously tedi-ously climbed slope could be so quickly quick-ly descended for he, saw the thickening thicken-ing shadows of the mountain's foot racing up toward him, the pale gleam of water beyond which 'meant the river. And then he heard what he had been dreading the snap of a rifle, the whine of a ball. Sky Line, giving up capture, was trying for' destruction. It was Provlne he felt sure who held the gun. lie dug In his spurs cruelly and the bay responded with a surge of speed which seemed certain death, but kept its feet miraculously. Once more came the snap and whine sgaln and again and again as fast as he man behind it could pump the rifle. And then, just as the bay struck the waters of Nameless with a leap and a roar, it seemed to Selwood that the heavens opened up. that all the Are in the universe flamed In his brain. - He swung far out to the left a ter rible lever of weight to the gallant animal floundering beneath him, and made the supreme physical effort of his life to get back Into bis saddle. His fingers dug into the wet msne like talons, he clawed desperately with his right heel and felt the spur book. For what reason he could not have said, be opened his mouth and screamed a hoarse, wild sound, like the soul's farewell to Its flesh. Per haps he thought It was, Sud Provlne, sitting hla shivering horse where he had drawn It to a sliding slid-ing stop on the trail above, deliberately deliber-ately shoved hla gun Into its saddle-straps. saddle-straps. "I guess that's th' last of you, my buckko," he gritted, "that's your last ride, d n you I See how you like th' water." And he turned back np the slope. At dawn McKane, who slept In the store at Cordova, heard something untoward. un-toward. It was a rapping that seemed to come from the floor of the porch outside an odd, Irregular stroke, as If the hand that made It was uncertain. uncer-tain. He rose, drew on his pants and hooking hla suspenders over his shoulders shoul-ders as be went, opened tbe front door. A bay horse, gaunt and bedraggled, stood at the porch's shoulder-high edge, and hanging half out of its sad-dre, sad-dre, held only by the right spur still caught In the hair cinch and one arm around the pommel, was the sheriff. His ghastly face was red with blood from the long wound which had split his scalp from just above the left ear across the temple to the end of the eyebrow. Tbe trader leaped forward, jumped to the ground and caught him In his arms. "My good G -d, Price 1" he ctfcd, "say you ain't dead I lou ain't bad hurt Oh, my G d!" Selwood looked at him, with eyes that seemed dull as ashes'. solved mystery " he said thick ly. "rustlers raid caught with th foods they are" Tbe thick voice failed and Sheriff Price Selwood slumped down heavily on the ahoulder of his erstwhile friend. It was to be long before he would finish bis cryptic sentence. CHAPTER XVI The Aiiclent fciiracle. News In the mountains travels fast, by mysterious ways, and In 'places where It seems Impossible. Also It has marvelous powers of mutation. What may start out far down on Little Lit-tle Beaver dam as an Innocent prank, la liable to reach the Upper Sweet water as a full-fledged scandal So It was on Nameless that drowsy day In August Nance Allison was busy about her work in the scoured kitchen, with Sonny Fair following her like a small sired shadow. In the dim regions beyond Mrt. Allison Al-lison was in bed with "sick hesd-ache." hesd-ache." The balls of the carpet-rags had been sadly put away, all finished and readyfor the loom, but farther away from that desired goal than ever. It seemed to Nance that that carpet was the last straw, the ridiculous ridicu-lous small pressure that had all but WapVetf'"Yho'"th'ri!a'(r''or hr control.1 Whenever she thought .of Kate Cath-. frew she thought not oi lier poppy, not of Bud with his sagging shoulder, not of her burned stscks snd her field t growing corn, but of the ( here floors of her poor home.' There was a f.-ow, between her golden brows these days, a grim set to her lips, and she spent any hours Lon her knees beside her bed praying tor nidance, fee strength te keep t her aarrew way. But the "stirring that she felt Inside her In the spring had become a seething turmoil of passion, pas-sion, hard to hold. 'I'm like the patriarchs of old." she thought to herself, "filled with righteous right-eous wrath. If It wasnt that I hate the light of. the New Testament Tm afraid I'd go-forth and slay my 'eney rules, or try to." "What you whimpering about Nance? Tell me. too." said the child huggtng her knees and looking adoringly ador-ingly up with his soft brown eyes. "Mj gracious I Was I whimpering. Sonny r she asked aghast "1 must be getting pretty far gone, as Brand nays. Nance was thinking, that's all thinking about bad things that make her heart ache." "Our enemies r he asked quaintly. She nodded. "Yes they're our, all right Tours and Brand's and .mine." There was a vague comfort la this association. In the common cause that seemed to bind her and hers to Brand and Sonny Fair. Brand and Sonny Fair her thought! went off on the tangent which those two names always started. It was part of the trouble which made the frown habitual the frown, ao alien to the sweet and open face of this girl. Always there was under the surface of her mind the running question What was Brand Fair to Sonny? And always there lurked in the dim background back-ground the word Father. Was It true where and who was the mother) A deep and terrible ache aeemed to take her very bones at this thought a misery which she could not understand. under-stand. She shook herself and sighed and tried to smile down at the boy, but theeffort was a failure. "Nance," he asked soberly, "don't you love me any more?" The girl dropped on her knees and gathered him to her breast In a fierce gesture. "Love you? Honey child, Nance loves every Inch of your little bodyl She loves you' so well she's scared to death Brand will come along some day and want to take you away again I She sat back on her beels and smiled at him. this time successfully. If there was one spot of light In the darkness of her troubles- It was the child. Always his pleading eyes, his shy caresses could lighten the load. And so It was that presently she fell to laughing In her old light-heart ed way, sitting back on her neeis on the clean white floor and rolling the child this way and that Screams of delight from Sonny punctuated punc-tuated the strokes of his bare feet as he kicked In the hysterical ecstasy of Nance's fingers "creepmous'Mng tip his little ribs. They did not see Bud standing In the door, so absorbed in their game were they, until he moved and his shadow fell across them. Nance turned her laughing face up to him and stared with the laughter set upon It v The boy was white as milk, his eyes black with terrible portent "Bud," she cried, "what's np? What" 'The rustlers were out last night" he said slowly" with a strange hesitation hesita-tion "I met Old Man Conlan going I own to Cordova a man was shot 'hey think It Is the prospector-Smith." prospector-Smith." For a moment Nance sat still on her heels, her mouth open, the sickly lines of laughter still around it Then she put out a hand that was beginning to shake like an aged band with palsy. "Smith?" she gasped, "that's Brand Smith," She Gasped, "That's Brand Fair!" Fair I Fair!" Oh oh dear Lord Brand Fnr the first time In her Ufe the brlsht sun faded out and Nance Al lison, who had .fought so long and hard against tremendous odds, who had held ber battle line and borne all things wth tha ronraee of a Strong man swsyed back npon the floor. Bud. sprang forward to lift her up, but already the weakness wss passing and she .putWrajMld getttog to bei feet he forgot the child at. her knee. "His enemies " ahe. was muttering to herself, "and mine they got hln at last Just as they tried to get m snd Jehoshaphat rose and went against his enemies and the Lord wai with him I 1 Bud, give me thai gun." She took the rifle out of his handi with a savage motion and went from the cabin, swaying like a drunkard. At the comer of the stable she eamt fare to face with Fair, who was just coming up from the rivsr on Diamond. She stopped and stared at him like one In a date. "Your" she said presently. "You Brand ?" -The man saw at once that there was something gravely wrong and dismounted dis-mounted quickly. He came forward and laid a hand ou hera w here It grasped the weapon. "Sure my dear," he said carefully, "don't look so, Nance I'm all right Let me have this," and took the gun away. He put his right arm gently around her and looked over her head at her brother. "Tell me," his eyes commanded. "I just told her what I heard this morning," said Bud, "that a man was shot by rustlers and that It was Smith you. She said something about one of the Bible men who went out and slew his enemies and she waa starting for Sky Line, 1 think." There was no need to ask more, for Nance had covered her face with her shaking hands and bending forward on Fair's breast was weeping terribly. The man drew her close and held her, and the dark eyes that gased down st her shining head with Its neat braids, were grave and very tender. At last he said quietly, "It was our friend,. Sheriff Selwood, but he Is not dead. He's at his runch, but he cannot talk and no one knows who shot him. Sky Line drove down this morning all regular and humdrum. McKane says Selwood knows that he tried to tell him who the rustlers of Namelesa are, but that he could not When he comes round there'll be something doing In this neck of the woods, or I miss my gues. Come, Nance aren't you going to Invite me to dinner? I've got four prime gray squirrels In my saddlebags, saddle-bags, and my canteen's full of honey found a bee tree down the river." And with the gentle tact of deep understanding and something more, Fair drew Nance back from the edge of tragedy to the safe ground of the commonplace. She straightened up, wiped her hands down across her cheeks and looked at him with eyea In which the tears still glistened. "I thought," she said unsteadily, that Kate Cathrew had had you shot" "She'll have to get up earlier than I do If she pulls that trick," he laughed, "I've been too long on guard." Two days later Nameless was ring ing with the news of the raid and Bos-slck Bos-slck was grim and silent. When the Sky Line riders came back from their drive they rattled into Cor dova for the mall and stood on the porch. "Still watchln' your range?" queried Provlne Insolently as he swung out of his saddle and without a word the rancher leaped for him. He caught him by the neck and they both fell, under un-der Sllvertlp's feet. The horse sprang away and In a second the two men were trying to kill each other with ail the strength there was In them. "You d d dirty thief I" gritted Bos-sick, Bos-sick, "if the law won't get you m take a hand!" He was a heavy man, stocky and square, with tremendous thews, but the other was the wiry type and younger, so that they were not so unevenly matched, and It bade fair to be a lively affray. But Big Basford, temper flaming as usual, pulled his gun from the holster and flung It down In line. "BoU over, Sudt" he shouted, "IH fix him I" Provlne endeavored to roll away from Bosslck, but the rancher held him, pounding him the while with all the fury of outraged right and the blue gun-muzzle In Basford's hand traveled with their convolutions, seeking a chance to kill hi man. The huge unkempt body leaned down from its saddle, the red eyes glittered and that traveling muzzle stretched closer to the men on the ground. It looked like certain death for Bosslck, when there came the sudden crack of a gun from the doorway, and the weapon dropped from "Basford's broken hand. The horse he was riding screamed and reared with a red ribbon spurting from its breast where tbe glancing ball had seared It "I'm sorry to hurt the horse," said Smith the prospector, watching the group with narrow dark eyes above the steady barrel, "but I'm ' not so par-particular par-particular with assassins. We'll see fair play." And they did see fair play, a tense and silent gathering, the Sky Line men sitting their horses on the one side, McKane, Smith, the bearded man from tbe Upper Country who had witnessed another fight on the same spot, and several more, on the other. It was stone-hard fair play without quarter, and when It was over Bosslck rose, a bloody and disheveled figure, and glared at the riders. "Take him, home," be said, "to yoor rustlers' nest, you 1" "That's fighting talk, Bosslck," said Caldwell In a thin voice, "but this ain't th' time or. place." "You're d n right It alu'tl" s&ld Bosslck, "not when there's even numbers num-bers and no odds for you t ' You'lt wait for dark and one man alone like Price Selwood was." Sud Provlne, getting dizzily to his feet, shot a lightning glance at the ""'speaker': Ills' pulped- face- lost" a-shad of color. No one spoke and Bosslck .went on,. .. , . "When Selwood comes round I'm lay-In' lay-In' there's going to be such a stir-up as this country never saw and don't you forget It!" - "Comes round r said Caldwell, as If the words were Jerked from him against his will "Yea comes rosnd so he can talk caa tell what he knows eg the rustlers t rTasselesi ana who wag the dirty : skunk that shot hha In the hack. There's good coll rope Inside this tore that'a going to make history for the Deep Heart cattle country." " H l r said Caldwell, and laughed I In a high thin treble as he pulled his i horse around, "you're amualu', Boe- 1 "Yes," snnpped Bosslok balefully, ' "your whole bunch seems quite hllarl-j hllarl-j ouo. Now, get out of Cordova." I Without another word being passed on either side the Sky Line men rode , out in a compart bunch, Provlne and 1 Basford nursing their hurts, the rest allent Boattlck turned to the stranger. "I want to thank you. Mister,' he said, "for being here." "It was a very great pleasure," said It Waa Stona-Hard Fair Play Without Quarter. Brand Fair, alias Smith. "I thought perhaps I'd forgotten how to shoot' With that he mounted Diamond and rode away, but two hours later he waa waiting for Bosslck on his home trail. where he Intercepted lilm. "Mr. Bosslck," he said, "I think you're solid, so I take this liberty. want to tell you that Sheriff Selwood and myself have picketed Sky Line for some weeks, alternately so It was Cathrew man who shot him, beyond question. Now let a talk." A little later Bosslck knewU that Brand and the sheriff knew concerning the hidden passage that opened Into Blue Stone, and be was softly profane with amazement Fair laughed. "I've set a guard around the sheriffs house," he said, "put six of hit cowboys cow-boys on double shift I knew they would find out that he la still alive and might try to finish the Job ao he would never talk Sky Line, I mean. And now, Mr. Bosslck, I think we' better go talk to Jermyn and the rest I'm only sorry Selwood Isn't able to be with us." : "This la a pretty bunch to bring back to me, Caldwell," said Kate Cathrew, tapping her foot with a whip, "one man disabled and another pounded into jelly. Who's this d n stranger who' so handy with his gun?" "Name's Smith," said the foreman sulkily, "and Fd better tell you right now, that Selwood Isn't dead. He alive and they're waiting for him to come round so he can talk." Cuttle Kate's face flamed red. "Not dead? Bring Provlne herel" But she would not wait as was her wont when summoning her men. She whirled and strode along the veranda to meet Provlne who came in no good grace. Tve a notion to kin yon on the spotr she cried furiously, "you fool bungler?' Of all the crasy, wild, impossible im-possible things I Why didn't you get that man? The one person In the world who knew of the Flange and Rainbow's Pot 'behind! You let hlro get away P "Done my best" said the man evilly, "and to b 1 with those who don't like It" Quick as a flash the woman raised her whip and struck him. With a roar he returned the blow, and Big Basford who had followed, leaped for him, clawing with his good hand, but Caldwell knocked Provlne down Instead. "Take him away," said Kate Cathrew Cath-rew coldly, her hand at ber cheek, "Lawrence Arnold will be here soon. Ill let him deal with this." It was night again and the stars were bung like lanterns in the sky. The Uttle wind was coming up the river, the little soft wind that Nance Allison loved. ' - Once more she sat In the doorway with Brand Fair beside ber. There waa no light on the table this time, so that she could not see his face with Its quiet dark eyes. Its thick hair above and the straight line of his lips with their gentif smile. But the feel of his arm against her own as ne held the sleeping child, set up that nameless longing In her, the glowing glory of unknown Joy which bad become of late a aadnes. . (To be continued) r.ftr;iwt'"iftni-j Sailor Super$tition$ .. Sailors. Jn. pie good... Pld.days had mapy curious ideas about the wind, but they seem to have varied a good doal as regards latitude and In the different-oceans-and routes. Thunder, also, according to Its nature, and the quarter from which it came, meant evil In one form or another. But the modern seafaring man does not bother hla head about roost of these things. 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