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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH I r irh I i Tirirfik i B 4 EKI VJ HOTEL BEN LOMOND OGDEN. UTAH SEWING CIRCLE gyALAN IE MAY W.N.U. Release blue denim, trim with red, white and blue braid, the result is a smart young costume which will add fun to every hour you wear it INSTALLMENT 7 Lew GordoB had built up ranches which stretched from wll '.ar.a King was killed by hi. Terful ana unscrupulous competitor. Een RoPr- - King's sdopted son. B H to break Thorpe's poer. K r? 3j 3k 11 CHAPTER X out slowly. The winter dragged bold as they were, Koper's plans, He had perhad been well laid. success or that first the from ceived whether or failure depended upon his war with not he could make THE STORY SO FAR: first step as to start a cattle war In Texas. He made this decision against the opposition of Lew Gordon and the tearful pleading of his sweetheart. Jody Gordon. With the id of Dry Camp Pierce and other outlaw gunmen. Roper conducted raid after raid knows his cattle counts better than me. But I've been all up and down this country, and I don't see but upon Thorpe's herds. Clevt Tanner, manager of Thorpe's Texas holdings, teemed helpless to stop him. In spit of his daring plans. Roper's resources had dwindled dangerously low by the time winter eame. And Thorpe seemed not to feel the losses. . Pattern No. 8962 is in sires 12 to 20 and 40. Size 14 blouse top requires Z'i yards Inch material; Slacks, 2', yards; skirt, for trim. yards. T.J yards braid send your this attractive pattern order to: 36 2j For ner, a little trickle or trail caxue began to move toward the gathering grounds on the Red. The income from these sales helped a little ; but the proceeds were principal ly absorbed by debts incurrea in behalf of the individual ranches. The improvement in his situation which Roper had hoped for did not come. It was deep into March when Tex Long quit. "Look," Tex Long said, "look." He did not talk easily; whatever even he said was matter-of-facnow. "I got to pull out of this what he can." "Well, anyway," Roper said, "the border gangs are going good. We'll go on with it, and keep going on . . ." "Bill," Shoshone said, "how long To gnaw can you go on, the way it's costing Tanner self sustaining. herds was one you now?" away at the Tanner "Not much farther, I guess." their captures into turn to jjung; "You going to have to quit?" cash was altogether another. he could inithat Roper shook his head. "I'll never had hoped Roper to the north, quit now, Shoshone; I can't quit. tiate his own drives of the While I've got one rider left with but he had found this out me me, or no riders, 1 still be workomer tne On nanu, Question. on Cleve Tanner. But I think game." tjail drivers had found themselves ing Bill Roper looked at him, without that none of them we're going to beat him, Wilce. AftSo vulnerable er all, the border gangs we can expression. "All right. How much wanted to buy cattle of questionayou figure I owe you?" count on them." ble ownership. Tex smiled. "Nothing." Roper continued to count on his organization The A very rare flush of anger came border two more. weeks gangs for did not have this problem; they took Bill Roper's face. "Tex, what's into in of the middle Then, what drove and wanted February, what they he with you?" was the matter Lee learned Harnish own that of their they wanted, by means now could made a quick, futile Tex through. But outfits. Long Roper trail The first word of difficulty came gesture with his hands. "We used only dispose of cattle for the trail ranchers known to be when Dave Shannon pushed a little to be able to jump down on them. through bunch of spven hundred head We" can't do that now. The Bert scrupulous and established men. through the river at Mudcat Turn, Johnson place is studded with riThis was the strategic purpose beand found no vaqueros waiting on fles until a man can't take a step. hind Roper's rehabilitation of the the other side. Shannon waited three Every place you'll find out it's the eleven outfits which Tanner had origdays before he was forced to turn same. There isn't going to be anyhad which and Roper seized, inally the cattle free and ride. of their hands back into the thing more we can do. We went now put The complete news of what had good for a while. But they got orThese owners. proper ranchers had not only the sympathy happened never really came. What ganized, now. We're through." Tex Long was only one of Bill but the respect of everyone who Roper learned came in bit by bit, knew anything about Texas cattle. by way of random riders who had Roper's picked gunfighters, but he As March Through these men Roper now had talked with a vaquero here, another was one of the best. drew on, Roper lost four more. a safe and sure outlet for the cattle there. Lee Harnish had been pressing recovered by Dry Camp's experts, Into the Big Bend, into the valley while the gunfighters under such south with a herd of twelve hundred of the Nueces, Cleve Tanner had Mexmen as Nate Liggett, Tex Daniels, head. He was two days into flooded such a power of gunfighters and Hat Crick Tommy supplied a ico, and supposed that he was clear; as Bill Roper would not have bemuch needed protection until they he had never had much trouble, lieved. He had supposed that he once he was well below the line. could outplace and outsmart Tancould get on their feet. But this method, promising as it ner's warrior outfits. But now his Of necessity the was, was slow. raiding forces met everywhere a men whom Roper backed were cowstubborn resistance. men without assets other than their Roper had discounted the quit of disputed claim to their ground. Tex Long; but now other news was Sometimes by mortgage loans, but coming in. The Graham outfit the principally by silent partnerships, first of all those that the Roper men Roper had now obtained interests had taken was again in the hands in nearly a dozen outfits. They of Cleve Tanner; and Nate Liggett, should have been thriving outfits. assigned to protect Graham, had But Roper found his money drainiheaded for the tall without even a ng away with unforeseen swiftness, report. Hat Crick Tommy was three without hope of any financial reweeks missing. The Davis outfit, turn until the trail should open in left under his protection, had gone the spring. Only the Mexican borthe way of all loose outfits, and Tander operations, which depended upon ner's cowboys rode the; range. Lee Harnish, continued to show a Dry Camp Pierce was almost the thin trickle of income through the to come in of those who came last As spring apwinter months. in at all. proached, Roper found himself near Pierce rode into the Pot Hook the end of his string. early in April. He was the Camp Shoshone in Early February, small wiry man he always same, Wilce came south seeking Bill Rophad been his eyes watery, his jaws er, and found him at the Pot Hook poorly shaven. ranch. "Bill, I can't carry these camps "Find out anything?" Roper more. God knows we strung no asked. with you while we could. We've et Shoshone Wilce rubbed his badly beef, beef, beef without salt or flour, shaved chin with horny fingers. "I we've et bobcat meat. But Bill, don't know as you're going to like there's no lead in our guns, and this so very good, Bill." there's no patches in our pants, "Let's have the bad news first I and it's time I got to let the boys Harnish took to the brush and eat it up." hills. go, to make out any way they can. the "God knows there's enough of it; Bill Roper looked older than Dusty there ain't any other kind to be But one moonless night, a band now, had ever looked; his face was King had. What do you want to know reported as of at least sixty men like granite, with hard lines cut into first?" struck from no place, scattering the it by the weather. "How's Thorpe making out up herd, and blazing down on Harnish's above?" "Okay," he said. "I understand riders almost before they could take how you feel, Dry Camp." "I saw him in Dodge City; he to the saddle. There had been a was throwing money around with a sharp running fight as Harnish and Dry Camp's anger was gone as shovel in each hand. You know his n boys took to the brush quickly as it had come. "Bill," he said pleadingly, "it's only it's onlwhat I think? I think he can go and the hills. Unsatisfied with seiband y-" and unknown write and away zure of the herd, the forget Tanner, everything he has in Texas right had spent three days trying to hunt "It's only that you've had a lot of off the books, and never know the down Harnish's riders. men out working for us," Bill Roper difference!" Lee Harnish himself, wounded in said more reasonably. Roper locked his hands behind his the first skirmish, had had a hard "Near fifty men," Dry Camp said. head and stared at the ceiling. time getting clear; it was not known "How many you got working Sometimes it seemed to him that whether or not all of his riders now?" for. accounted to break Tanner was like try- were elsewhere trying Dry Camp Pierce hesitated. ing to empty the Rio Grande with After an elapse of several weeks, "Not a damned man," Bill Roper a hand dipper. The apparently un- an Indian-facevaquero came hunt- said bitterly. "And now you quit bounded resources of Ben Thorpe in ing Bill Roper; he carried a writDusty King." the middle country and in the north, ten message from Lee Harnish: "Look you here," Dry Camp said. out of reach of the south Texas war, "This thing is finished up. Don't "I've strung with you when I made up a vast reservoir which Tanner could draw on without limit. let anybody tell you it was Cleve wouldn't have strung with any other "How is Tanner himself making Tanners men busted into us. What man, let alone an upstart kid. I'll hes done, this Tanner has put some say this for you you've made a out?" bunches of Mex renegades up to game fight. But kid, take my word down "Bill, I've been all up and the north and east part of Texas; landing on us, they work with the for it they're too big, and they're and I can't see where we've ac- Yakis, and his Indian scouts have too strong." cross"You think so?" Bill Roper said. spotted where we make our complished a damned thing." a like anyway theres Seems ings. "You don't know what you're talk"I know so. I don't know what dozen bands of them havent got anying about!" had, made men like Lee Haryou and Dave Shannon and Nate nish "You know what I think?" Wilce thing else to do but lay watching and wait us out. throw in with you, but they Liggett persisted. "I think there's more cat those crossings, "About half of them is carrying did the damnedest wild bunch Textle in this country than the world has any use for. I don't think you new American guns and plenty amas ever seen. Half the renegades of can bother any man any more, just munition. They got our hide nailed the Long Trail, and your part of we are to the fence all right and has gone into beating oy fooling with his cattle." Cleve Tanner. And where are we "Never mind what you think through." Let's have what vou know." now?" It was a long time before Roper "I nosed around and tried to find "Well?" not did He Harnish again. out what promises Tanner's been saw Lee off"We aren't any place! Kid, I tell statements Harrish's accept making for cattle on spring delivwe're beat, and we're long conferred had he when you but hand: eries. I didn't learn everything. Nowith Dave Shannon, and others of beat!" body learns everything. But I got April melted into May, and Roper the border men in whom he beenough to total up." he was forced to accede that had nothing to fight with any more. lieved, Shoshone Wilce hesitated, and g pnase 01 me at- Those units of his wild bunch that didn't say any more until he had the had not quit had not been heard done. was on Tanner tack got a ciearette rollpd. In the mid to a close, the from at all; he knew already that drew As February dle of rolling his cigarette he went were once more being the ones who had completely failed. mo a coughing fit, and spilled the big herds for the trail. From Cleve Tanner prospered, seemingly; thrown together tobacco, so that he had to start over eleven rehabilitated outfits in and all was well with Ben Thorpe. the again. was now silent part- Bill Roper waited at the Pot Hook Bill." he said at last, "Cleve which Roper now, trying to think of some way Tanner's going to drive more cattle n that he had missed. this year than he's ever drove bedenied him, and Lew Gordoa fore. In lust one bunch alone he expressedly would advance nothing aims to deliver fifteen thousand head more against Dusty King's share of on the banks of the Red!" the partnership which had been bro"He's crazy!" Roper shouted. "He ken by death . . . cant do it it's impossible!" (TO BE COXTINVED He "Wellhe thinks he can. Tt' SEWING CIRCLE PATTERS DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street Calif. Saa Francisco Enclose IS cents In coins for Size. Pattern No Name Address It ! . 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