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"How are you. Bill? the door. Awav westward twmtr mils nr- - minute after his sudden appearance wnere are you hit?" aimed Gandy waited, thirty-eighacs, there came a momentary rift J it was plain that he did not Jmow Not until he had moved the man at hip leveL in ine overcast sky, and a peak ol there was another on the prairie top. a little to lift him, did he see the The sharp rap came again, and a the Barricade Mountains, thrust up Gandy clapped spurs to the palo right arm almost shot away, and a voice, saying. "Bill! Bill Hollister?" like a blunt thumb, threw back an mino, loosening the thirty-eigh- t m widening spot of blood from another He jerked the door inward, sheathopalescent glow. Sunrise; Walt Can- its belt holster as he quartered to- wound somewhere in Hollister's ing the gun. "Helen! Helen, where dy set his watch. He rode on after ward the fleeing man. This party back. His own injury was nothing are you?" that into a thickening gloom, until was getting away from something; compared to this: a continued stiff "Here," she answered out of the the mist came down about him and no doubt about that. His head of the left knee, but the stain ening invisible at only a little more dark, turned to fine drizzle. ana then in a lurnea. upon on his blue jeans was drying. He than arm's length. Then she gasped, He stopped and shrugged into his shortened reins, he set jerk his horse picked Bill Hollister ud bodilv. car black slicker. Steam rose from the back with all hoofs sliding. In the ried him to the cabin and booted the "Walt! Has something happened? What are you doing?" palomino. The little beast shifted same move his right hand had door inward. back. He "Are you crossed over to the left of his sad uneasily and tried to wheel back. was the usual range alone?"stepped Outpost "Cut it out!" said Gandy. "I don't die; smoothly a rifle ran from the shack, an Camp overnight stoDDine-Dlac- e "No. Paul is out there with the like this either!" scabbard there and whipped up to for a man riding circle, or the cen horses." a They moved on, angling into the nis snoujaer. ter oi more lively scene for a week had groped for the candle souinwest. Things happened then. Distance during fail or spring round-up- . In in Gandy its beer bottle holder, found it and side was a rough table, half a dozen There was no turning back from was too far for the thirtv-ieh- t struck a match. "Come in, Helen. this trail, he knew that: but this Wheeling his own mount Walt Gan- - boxes for chairs, four double-tie- r minute he would like to turn back. ay made a vain try with two rapid bunks and a stove. It was no Bill is over there, on the bunk." The girl darted past him, and he His life had never seemed so much shots. He saw dust kick up in front more barren nor isolated than most. did nnt turn In Irwik He heard the of the Wind other's horse. worth holding onto; because that snatched yet entering with the wounded man, thud as she flung herself down moment, mere in his arms Helen a white wisp from the rifle barrel wan oanay ten that a place had light beside the wounded man, and a leveled toward him and a hornet never been so desolate. Cameron had answered his kiss. fluttering cry of her voice. He laid Hollister on the straw tick single He pushed on. And then an abrupt zinged close to his ear. Again he Her words came softly after that, saw the white and his of a wisp palobunk lower near the stove. flowing on in tones as soothing as a converging of many cowtrails told mino jumped straight up. He heard pushed back the stove lids and caress. him that a water-hol- e was not far He closed the door behind second report, a third ano the crammed brush stems in onto ash him and stood outside in the dark. off. They came in fanwise from that that was still warm. There was no across the bench top, merging toTime ceased; a long blank age wood here in the bottoms. The gether until they were one deep which a gin s words turned from brush flared. Methodically he went in rut, and following, he struck unto pleading, followed by caressing out to the spring for water, brought silence. At last expectedly down the course of a the door opened. ravine. Within twenty minutes aftin a iun oucket. poured some in and Helen groned out with the can a basin to heat, some in the roffee er that he was swinging off at the at her back. cabin of Outpost Camp. pot, went out for more fuel and all dlelight flickering wait?" the time he was telling himself that It had only the one small build"I'm here." He caught her out a tough fellow like that one in there ing, of weathered boards and an stretched hands. couldn't die, knowing that he could. iron roof, set where the ravine empHer voice broke. "I knew it! I tied into the sink. The water-hol- e Hollister lav face down, savins knew something like this had hapwith a single tall mountain cedar, nothing during the minutes Walt pened and started early in the afterworked over him. cleaninc sand noon. out of place here, was behind the didn't I come soon from the shattered right arm, then er! Is itOh,toowhy cabin. A steer hide from an anilate? Walt, if he dies. mal butchered in the last round-u- p putting on a tignt bandage to stop I don't know what I'll do!" the blood. The back wound was hung stiff and dry from the tree's Oandv. "He's touph." said lowest branch. only a small neat hole; but what "You've to go right back, Helen. got the bullet had done internally was I'd Hollister had been here. The large go but the 77 has gunmen loose Deyona uanav s helD. save for the out here. Phone for a doctor. Tell sharp prints of his black showed ease or conee and soothing warmth Horsethief at the water-holThen inside the Fisher to bring on Bailey from the red-hstove. In time and his bunch. We can't cabin Gandy at once sniffed ciga move Hosomeone would come. He could only llister now." Her face rette smoKe. i ne coffee pot, a quar close to was wait. ter full of grounds, was cold. But him and he saw that she was cryFinished with his first-aithe cast iron stove was faintly he ing. Her hands his, hard. brought the coffee pot, two tin cups "Hurry," he told gripped warm, nouister had left not more her. "Ride like and sat down on a box beside the the devil!" than an hour ago. bunk. Hollister was over on his Again in the saddle Gandy put He heard her at the spring talkback now, his head propped upon a spurs to tne palomino, relieved for to Paul Champion. There burst ing folded coat, and that quiet, knowa iiuie wnue by a feeling that Hoi a rattle of running hoofs as they smile had never left his eyes. ing lister might not be too far nhpnrf He managed the cup with his left plunged off across the sink, and he There was a chance of catching up hand. They sat there drinking, si- went back inside to Bill Hollister. before Bill encountered any of the At once it seemed as if the girl's lent. There was chance of catching up Not much talk had ever been being here, and what had passed Yet cattle Drowlinc the sinV hnr before Bill encountered any of needed between these two. For a torn had left their maze of tracks, the 77. time now they did not talk at all. across which the s of a Hollister opened his mouth and earth rose and slammed him from single horse could nnt ho fan took a cigarette held out for him. Herds of the uncomfortable animals the saddle. Then he lay silently smoking. But were crowded close against the sink Breath went out of him nri h mere was something he wanted to cliff, trying to find shelter from a fought a black fog that thickened be neeaiea wind. The drizzle had fore his eyes. It could have lasted talk about and seemed waiting unceased. Back at the cabin Gandy only a few seconds. Hi came nut til enough strength was stored. His had peeled out of his slicker and tied of it crouched behind the body of eyes sobered to their deep-se- t, study Jt again behind his seat. nis horse, gun trained across the ing 100K. Walt Gandy saw. and felt instinc From this distance he saw a bulging side. The other man was choice of three ways up. Along streaking away once more in a head tively that he did not want to listen. He did not want a confession if the sheer rock face three deep long run. Walt Gandv stood un and was nnt that was what Hollister had on his notches showed within a mile of one another. The first seemed to bear aware until then that he was stint mind. What did it matter? Twice he shook his head to stave in the left leg. It felt as if a red-htoo far southward. Either the secrod was suddenly stabbed into off talk, until with effort the lank ond or third appeared more in his course due west. There was no his flesh near the knee. His knee man burst out: "Turn around here! I've got things, to tell you. And I way to tell into which one Hollister was stiff; his blue jeans already be had gone, and staring hard as he ginning to stain. But again that haven't got much time." "They'll keep," said Gandy. approached the silent cuts, Walt went momentarily out of His mind You're going to pull out of this all Gandy felt for the first time a cold as he stared down at the unmnvino dread. , Then, nearer, he saw some- palomino. The little beast was dead. right. The ranch knows where we The fact registered now onlv in a are and someone will come trailing thing that jerked him to instant wariness. numbing way: too much imnendprf us if we don't show up. You keeD A low rock wall had been built for him to feel the full sense of his quiet." But he drew his eyes from n the face. If they were across the first ravine mouth to pre- loss. RaDidlv he strinnpd nfT th and shoulC C vent cattle from drifting west saddle, blanket, coming, they'd better hurry! bridle, out of the sink. That wall now lay dered them and turned toward the "No," Hollister managed dogged scattered. It was the same in the ravine out of which the unknown ly. "I want you to understand some second cut. By the, time he had rider had appeared. On the rim he thing." Gandy's head lifted and he looked charged on to the third, the sign was looked back. He would never want across the flickering light to where plain; 77 men had thrown these bar- to bwn another pale gold horse. 'So you lied at the inquest to Now it was a matter nf ppttino Hollister lay in shadow. "Maybe riers down to let their cattle shield Cash Cameron!" through. The drive of two thou- back to Outpost Camn with no time 1 do already, Bill. Never mind." between them was all the man had sand head was coming even now lost, and searching the ravine on the "What do you mean by that?" some of the 77 guards might be way. rihe rider might have left wanted. The fight against pain was "Let it go, Bill." watchina the rims above him. Still him for dead. Still it would bp nn "Well, I don't think vou do." Hoi gradually distorting his face, yet Kelso and Stoddard had not expectgood if others came ahead and found lister said. "It's Helen I want to deep under that look his expression mm on n ground afoot. was unbelievably peaceful. ed fight from the C C. talk about." He The cut slanted in a sharp descent "Walt? Have you fallen in love looked up: "God never made anGandy wheeled suddenly up the other one like her, Walt. at hrst, then leveled out m a wind- with that girl?" third cut. I've The question came so pointedly thought that every minute for two He shoved around the next bends ing sand bottom much like" the one that Walt Gandy stared. Then he years, and still do. Now you sit at a faster pace, all at once wanting up which he had ridden. to be out of this. No wind reached boots were never made for rapid countered: "What difference does down here and listen. Don't you him down here, and no sound save walking. He limped on, shifting the that make one way or the other?" butt in." Gandy hitched his box in close. "All the difference, in what I say the rapid pad of his palomino's saddle from shoulder to shoulder. He hoofs. He felt the oppression of was perhaps halfway to the sink to you," Hollister answered, and the "Bill," he said, "there's not a darn when two brass shells glittered being caged in, and riding blind. grave tone of his voice showed this thing you need to tell me." Then when he least expected it, the against the sand. Gandy scooped deeply important to him.- "Have "Plenty I've got to tell you!" Hollister answered. "You think I killed cut struck sharply upward; there them up, put them to his nose. you?" was a short scramble on loose rock, Next he had let the saddle gear fall Walt Gandy admitted only, "I've Drake and Ranger Powell. I know. But I didn't, Walt." a funneling away of the walls, and and was stumbling ahead, for the never met anyone like her." he rose abruptly upon the open shells still had in them the rancid "Then for said Hollister. "That's I" "Good," smoke of freshly burned powder. his lean face was "Wait. I knew that day before prairie. Though enough." Within fifty paces the sand showed in half An immediate sweeping glance dark, he seemed to be smil- the Drake inquest that my rifle had took in a circle of flat empty land. that Kollister's horse had come to ing to himself, pleased with somevanished from the rack. UnderHe was alone. But then far west- a sudden stop, had wheeled, plunged thing, and Gandy wondered. stand? Before the inquest. It wasn't All the marks of h ward where this top began a long Hollister waitec) to regain breath. taken by one of Battle's deputies in were a here tangle of tracks Unexpectedly he asked: "You must while we were in town. I've known lift, a dark smudge showed against -ar.d then a spot where a man had have gray earth. The 77 drive. Seven an idea by this time, haven't that all along." miles off, Gandy judged, though fa"en, bleeding. who killed Chino Drake?" Walt Gandy jerked forward, hands you, Candy ran on, reading signs on his knees. "Then you mean maybe more. They'd not reach the Walt to slid the Gandy's gaze watch. Three o'clock; dark in an- where the horse had come to a halt, floor. He said What did Cash?" other two hours. Hollister? He ur.d where Hollister had remounted. it matter now? nothing. Hollister nodded. "Only two days rocked up onto his feet, hands on Hcllcf swept him. Bill was not Hollister persisted. "And Ranger earlier Cameron lost his temper But dead. on farther folhe was the saddle horn and stood searching Powell, too. But maybe you haven't over the forest argument and threatlowing a trail of blood stains that sector of prairie west and souththe reason ened Powell. I heard it. Then the figured dio;4.cd evenly every two paces. west. "Bill! Shut up!" only thing I could see afterwards He reined his pony south, seeking Gandy was up onto his feet. Out- was that he had carried out his CHAPTER XX the heads of those other two raside, Hollister's horse had nickered. threat, and Chino Drake was un. vines, for surely into one of them He puffed out the candle and covlucky enough to be a witness." Hollister had started. There was 1 ILL HOLLISTER had clung u. his ered the open stove hole. "So you lied at the innnect no other way west. Again as he lJ saddle until within tupntu foi to the window his first thnnrht shield Cash Cameron!" rode on, bowed into a cold wind, of the cabin at Outpost Camp. Stumwas that no one from the C C could "No. The day Drake and there settled upon him a dull conbling up, Gandy saw where he had be here so soon it was some were killed I was some place that a stant dread, the sense of an inevita- pitched to the ground, then dragged of the 77. girl like Helen would never under. ble ending here which Hollister himhimself on a short distance. He Beyond the window pane was only stand. But you you know times we self had predicted. was lying now on his back, left arm solid blackness of night. He shifted had on the border. Mexican fiea He had covered less than a quarfolded under his head, inert, but along to the door, put his left hand dances . . . There's a place here ter of a mile when a rider seemed conscious. His eyes opened at the on the knob and held it. called Mexican Hole. That's where to leap from the very earth. His thud of boots and in them a knowFor perhaps five minutes after I was. trying to forget I could never horse was in a tight run, the man ing smile kindled. He started to the first tentative call from Hollismaite ueien Cameron marrv me. J bent forward, and he had shot out speak. ter's horse there was no other sound couldn't tell that in front of like that, Gandy knew, from one of "Save it," said Gandy. 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