Show r 0 OUTLAWS of EDEN D N 10 0 0 by peter B kyne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ad W service copyright by ty peter tl cyza AK L 10 mr SYNOPSIS at the close of the mexican war robin kershaw with his bride rode into northeastern california here he found an ideal valley tor for cattle rals ing they christened it eden valley below eden valley la is a less valuable tract which kershaws Ker shaws wife names forlorn valley joel insley settles in the lower halt half of if the a valley there Is bad blood over fences and rid water kershaw kills hensley and the blood feud Is on by 1317 1917 ranee rance kershaw his son owen and daughter lorry are all that remains of one clan nate tichenor chenor Tl Is the sole survivor on the hensley heneley side bide lie ile goes to help lot lorry in her car end and finds laer her father has died of heart disease silas babson banker schemes to control the irrigation and hydroelectric hydro electric possibilities of eden valley nate tells lorry he and owen dorrys brother met in france just before owen was killed and nate promised that it if he h survived owen he would look after lorry as a brother might d di babson makes legal leeal application for the allocation of flood waters to the forlorn valley irrigation district with money advanced by nate lorry clears up tip her indebtedness to babson nato nate finds he Is falling in love with lorry babson discovers natt nate Is behind a rival power project nato nate tells lorry he loves her she admits she loves nate and they become enz enraged aged babson orders joo joe brainerd editor of the local paper to attack attach nate as an enemy of the people this brainerd refuses to do nate comes to Brain brainards erds rescue financially the editor celebrates by punching dansons Dab r sons head bead CHAPTER IX continued ll 11 well joe brainerd answered slowly im certainly glad youre my friend and not dot my enemy do you want me to spread the glad tidings of your contemplated philanthropy to forlorn valley no keep that news bottled tip p I 1 want to have the people meet me with all the acclaim a roman mob was wont to accord the entrance of the christian martyrs in the coliseum I 1 want babson to lead them on to make fools fool of themselves so I 1 can call show allow him up later for a false leader almost eer eier body here calls the other fellow by his first name ily names joe slay may I 1 call you nate he be said the pleasure Is mutual joe you may 11 they shook hands and then joe brainerd glanced at the clock excuse me nate its five minutes of three and I 1 have just time to get to the bank and deposit this manna from heaven ill fill your check in for six thousand and lie he did babson glared at the editor as the latter came into the bank but said nothing thing until brainerd was about to depart brainerd tills this hank want your busi business I 1 close out your account thanks for the information I 1 have bate just deposited nate Tich enors check for six thousand dollars its on a san francisco bank and as soon as it has gone through clearing ill give you my check for what I 1 owe the bank and then clean the balance right out I 1 keep tin money to in a bank I 1 know Is going to bust 11 so youve auve sold out to tichenor chenor Tl babson jeered little joe Brain brainards erds face grew red he swelled like a turkey gobbler you insulted me yesterday and I 1 31 Z 04 henry henrya help help babson Shrift shrilled ed to his HI satellite poked you twice tor for it lie he screamed now youve youre insulted me again and im going to clean up on you then he leaped in reality he bounded like a tennis ball clearing the rallin railing a and landing beside babions Bab sons desk r llen henry 1 help help babson shrilled to hla his satellite call bill rooney he ordered tits his stenographer then he went down undy the impact of joe Brain brainards erds furious onslaught whereupon the editor crawled him and ham him until his fists hurt him after which he grasped babson by tile the throat and bumped his head against tile the floor ile he was like a desperado ol of the olden days who ho having baring cleaned out a barroom could not be happy un til he had shot out the lights lie he had ha landed heally twice on henry hook by when the latter interfered an and when deputy sheriff bill rooney came cam pulling puffing into the bank in response to the stenographers summons sir rook hook by was crouching to la his fits locked cage while the demon editor strove to climb over the steel wire netting to get at him film joe you stop that mr rooney commanded grasped the little madman by the seat of 0 the trousers and jerked him down boy you aint ri right ht you serve carsons Cab Bab sons writs of attachment tach ment you fat fool brainerd shrieked and presented mr rooney with a decoration commonly known as a mouse on the eye out of his good eye sir mr rooney observed that his quarry was weeping with rage so he folded brainerd to Ls his ample abdomen and carried the lunatic out of the bank screaming and kicking and secured him film in the local basille bas its war brainerd screamed as rooney turned the key in the lock babson accused me of selling out selling out understand lie ile said id sold out im freel free ill print the news but you watch my editorials IT ill sizzle like tt a roman candle because im free im free im free 1 ile he was stretched out on a bench weeping childishly when nate tichenor came over and bulled balled him film out tile the war Is on lie sobbed tile war Is on nate kate and ive tired fired the first gun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 the power of silas babson in valley center was very apparent to nate TIc Tl chenor benor when having called upon anson towle who combined with harness barness and and notary public the duties of local justice of the peace he was informed that babson had sworn to a warrant charging joe brainerd with assault and battery malicious mi mischief and disturbing the peace and that ball had been set at one thousand dollars in each case better lower it judge tichenor suggested amiably that feller his honor replied will stay in bill rooneys Roo jail until somebody hands me three thousand orders from headquarters I 1 suppose judge you fixin to get yourself into jail for contempt 0 court nate leaned across towles desk yes I 1 am and what are you going to do about it you brainless invertebrate youre not holding court now are you the limit of ball to be set in such cases Is five hundred dollars on each charge heres fifteen hundred dollars and you take it and give me an order on bill rooney to release joe brainerd or ill go over to the jail hotie ho hog tie rooney and take joe brainerd out of jail myself probably no man in forlorn valley knew less of the law than this village justice of the peace but he had heard of the hensley ensley II clan and here was the last ot of that tribe of killers glaring at him so ferociously his honor trembled well rather than git alt into a row with you young feller an have to kill you la in self defense he decided ill set the ball at the minimum figger case cornea comes up for trial at ten to moraln it if youre scheming to send joe brainerd up for six months without the alternative of a flue fine id advise you to change your mind and hows that for contempt contempt of court the case was called at ten and at aen ten thirty when silas babson the complaining pla ining witness had not appeared nate tichenor chenor Tl acting as brainards Brain erds attorney rose and moved anson towle that the case be dismissed for lack of 0 evidence take my word for it your honor neither mr babson nor any of his witnesses will appear mr babson has as I 1 assumed he would thought it over and decided to let bygones be ba bygones the message your honor carried to him from me yesterday evening was very convincing fined two dollars tor for contempt of court case dismissed will tho the court please state in what manner I 1 have been guilty of contempt 11 youre that I 1 carried sl SI babson a message tellin him ito to lay off joe brainerd or hed git himself in trouble you should rend read up on the law you cant alne me for contempt alleged to have hare been conveyed in a mere suspicion on tile the part of your honor I 1 shall not pay the two dollars and what Is your honor going to do about it A guffaw went up from the crowded courtroom nor could all of 0 bill rooneys Roon Roo cys pounding on a table quiet it As an officer of tile the court le ie bailiff mr rooney felt that hla his own dignity had been more or less assailed banate by nate tichenor chenor Tl when the latter had so adroitly managed to upset that of the court you just wait a minute tichenor chenor Tl bill rooneys Roo voice was vias as honey ill just fan you young teller feller an see it youre car carrein carry ln a concealed ve weapon apon Car carrein Carry ln a gun without a permit dont go in III my jurisdiction 1 I am carrying a gun sir mr rooney so ill spare you the effort of searching in me and produce my gun at least one second before you produce yours bill rooney went white and then pink he wet tits his lips and his glance flinched from Tich enors and roved over the courtroom then the deputy sheriff had a brilliant idea art ft happens I 1 aint my gun this mornin tichenor before the words were fairly out of his mouth month he be was razing gazing down the barrel of nate pistol stand up turn your brick back on the crowd and lift up your coattails coat tails came the ringing ing order tichenor advanced upon the deputy sheriff thrust his gun in the official midriff and with lili his loft left hand un buckled a belt at rooneys Roo waist and removed a pistol in a holster then he walked up on judge towles dais broke his own on pistol and exhibited it single empty chamber to the gaping crowd an empty pistol Is not a more lethal weapon than any other piece of hardware and when worn in a shoulder holster or under the coattails coat tails come under the head of concealed weapons heres your gun windbag and returned the wretched rooney his pistol this weapon of 0 mine which you thought was an army automatic Is the latest model air pis tot tol it shoots a tiny pellet that will kill a bird and I 1 bought it recently to practice pistol shooting by kelln killing blue jays around my ranch he turned his back bach on OD flo rooney oney and now fellow citizens you know how brave mr rooney Is in his bis mind and you know just what peculiar thoughts occasionally casio caslo nally flit 1111 through the mind of your justice of the peace your local law mill Is in bad shape and ought to be reorganized ile he moved down the aisle toward the door and joe brainerd followed nate said joe brainerd As one outlaw to the tha other tell me why you made such pitiful monkeys out of 0 towle and rooney well that fool justice of the peace had bad it coming to him for trying to take up the babson cudgels against you I 1 concluded to strike another blow for the editor As for bill rooney well I 1 hold an ancient grudge against bill at school I 1 used to carry a gun un tor for owen kershaw tile the teacher found it out and told the principal who ordered me to leave it home i I 1 refused because I 1 thought I 1 afford to risk obedience in those nys so the principal told bill rooney on me bill was the night watchman then so he frisked me tool took my gun away from me and gave me a first class thrashing I 1 hesitated at making reprisals until I 1 should be older and stronger when I 1 planned to give bill a thrashing with his own belt bell today was my first opportunity your clao clan had a reputation for cold blooded courage and ferocity nate and youve revived it so today youre a hero in forlorn valley but when you organize to deprive this valley of 0 the water from eden valley creek youre going to be ba the most hated man in this county but im not going coins to deprive for lorn valley of eden valley water ive assured you of that already 1 oh ob yes you are have to if not for your own sake then for tho sake of lorry kershaw im going to let you in on a secret now that babson Is my enemy ile he plans after organizing gan izing the irrigation district to tap eden valley creek at the head of the handle up in the public domain lead the water west through the public domain and down to a natural reservoir in the hills oft to the west thence into forlorn valley rut put joe it would be silly of forlorn valley to tap tile the stream up in the pan I 1 have hare a splendid dam site and it Is 13 to my interest to see the de before the th words word were fairly out of his HI mouth he ha was wa gazing down the barrel of nate nata nori pistol dam erected there in that way miss kershaw and 1 I with our ranches upstream from that data dam will always be assured of an abundant sup supply r dy of irrigating water exactly cut but if forlorn valley taps the stream above your ranches miss kershaw Kers baw you and the mountain valley power company will be out of 0 luck then too the reservoir of the mountain valley rower power company would never have sufficient water to fill it and your company would be deprived of the ability to manufacture power 1 I dont know the law in the premises joe but this Is what I 1 plan to do ill attend that mass meeting listen to what Is said and it it app appears ars to be ba the sense of the meeting that an irrigation district shall be formed and the water supply secured from eden valley creek up in the handle ill tell the people to forget all that bother and expense that ill put in a dam on the mountain valley power comp company anys property at my own expense provided they will enter into contract to purchase water from me and provided of course that we can come to terms sly illy plan Is economically sound and I 1 think be glad to entertain it it 1 I hope so nate but before you commit yourself in public I 1 suggest that you make certain of your rights if I 1 were you id consult some eminent firm of attorneys whose those specialty Is water law 1 I shall I 1 suppose I 1 cari can find and the right lawyers in san F francisco ran cisco 11 the following morning tichenor was in san francisco and acting upon the advice of his attorney he sought the offices of brooks gagan and brooks gagan cagan received him and listened without interruption while nate nata outlined the situation 1 I know all about that eden valley proposition mr tichenor he then announced A mr silas allas babson of valley center interviewed me on the subject recently but he did not cot retain us in tact fact certain aspects of the advice I 1 gave him appeared to conflict with his own opinion of the situa situation well hes liable to be around later to retain you although I 1 hope to restrain him by employing peaceable and profitable measures blean meanwhile while I 1 any business for you save to outline for me the legal rights of miss kershaw and the bar H land and cattle company in the premises ill pay your fee for that so please fire away you can win any suit filed against you with the exception of a condemnation suit ault gagan sald said 1 I wax wa quite certain of that before I 1 called upon you but merely desired desired to have an expert verify my suspicions A non riparian community forlorn valley Is about to form an irrigation district on the strength of a promise of the state water commission that if will allocate to the proposed district the storm flood freshet fresh ets or to so called waste waters of eden valley creek miss kershaw and I 1 make beneficial use of all of the overflow waters of eden valley creek every spring and no waters are waste waters until after they have flown over our lands the irrigation district purposes tapping the creek near its source in t the public domain and appropriating the flood or waste watters before such waters water hava flowed over our lands TO 1121 CONTINUED v |