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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929 There wat something purposeful !n this act and a vague apprehension superseded the rush of gladness she had experienced with the firEt unexpected view of the Three Bar crew. Men who stood on the board walks turned hastily inside the open doors as they glimpsed the riders, spreading the news that the Thre Bar had come to town. The driver pulled up in front of the "It'll come off right now," he said. "Slade's In town- ."Sure," the guard replied. "Why lse would Harris ride in at night like this unless in answer to Slade's By threat to shoot him down on sight? Gel the. girt Inside." HAL G. EVARTS The reason for the scattering was now clear to her. Slade, on his reCopyright by Hal Q. EvarU lease, had announced that he would WNU Bervlca kill Harris on sight whenever he appeared In town. Slade had many friends. The Three Bar men were scattered the length of the street to sne iiad a flush of sympathy for enforce fair play. Slade as she thought his sensations The opened tha door and mustliave been similar to her owe motionedguard her out but she shook her whaCVUe had looked upon the ruins head. of thX'hree Bar. But this was biot to stay here," she as"I'm ted Jut by the knowledge that he had serted. going only met the same treatment he had Her answer Informed him of the handed to so many others; that he fact that she. was no casual visitor had dropped Into the trap he had but one who knew the signs and built for her. She found no real syuv would insist on it through. He pathy for Slade only fear for Uar-ri- nodded and shutseeing the door. since Slade was freed. The old Harris had dismounted at the far sense of responsibility for her brand had been worn too long to be shed at end of the block and was strolling slowly down the board sidewalk on will. She knew that now. "I suppose ou'll be surprised to the opposite side. Groups of men the doorways, each one strivhear that I'm going back," she said. packed to appear unconcerned, as if his ing father's old Her friend smiled presence there was an accident inacross at her and puffed his pipe. of being occasioned by knowlstead he said. "Why. I've "Surprised!" that edge something of Interest would known all along you'd be going back before long. I could have told you soon transpire. A man she knew for a Slade rider moved out to the edge that when you stepped off the train. of the sidewalk across the street from left alone her with Deane when lie Harris. She saw the lumbering form man the younger arrived. She of Waddles edging up beside him. into her subject at once. plunged Other Three Bar boys were watching "I'm sorry," she said. "But 'Im man who showed a disposition every home. I'm not cut out for this going to detach himself from the groups in not for long at one time. I want to the doors. The blare of the piano and round-usmell the fire and slip rnj all sounds of revelry had hushed. twine on a Three Bar calf; to throw The girl felt the clutch of stark across a horse and ride, and my leg feel the wind tearing past It will al- fear at her heart. She had come too late. Harris was to meet Slade. It ways be like that with me. So this is seemed that she must die with him " pass out before she could Four days later, In the early eve- if he should to him again and tell him she speak the into Coldriver stage pulled ning, was back. She had a wild desire to single passenger. The boys run to him, at least to lean from the wferfln from a hundred miles around window and call out to him to mount for one last spree before round-uCalico and ride away. But she knew As rolled the down the time. stage he would not She was frontier bred. single street the festivities were in Even the knowledge that she was in one doorFrom .full swing. lighted town might unsteady him now. She way came the blare of a mechanical sat without a move and the driver piano accompanied by the scrape ot and outside supposed her merefeet; the sound of drunken voices ly a guard curious interested In In issued from raised the next; the scene. song the shrill laughter of a dance-hal- l "A hundred on Harris," the driver girl, the purr of the Ivory ball and the offered. soft clatter of chips, the ponies drowsThe guard grunted a refusal. ing at the hitch rails the full length "I'd bet that way myself," he said. of the street, the pealing yelp of some From this she knew that the two citizen whose night overenthusiastic it was to howl; all these were evi- men were hoping Harris would be dences of the wide difference between the one to survive; but the fact that her present surroundings and those of their proffered bets backed their senthe last eight months. She gazed timents was no proof that they felt the conviction of their desire. She eagerly out of the stage window. It knew the men of their breed. No back. was good to get As the stage neared the rambling matter how small the chance, their would inevitably be laid on log hotel where she would put up for money the night a compact group of riders the side of their wishts, never against swung down the street Her heart them, as if the wagering of a long seemed to stop as she recognized the shot was proof of their confidence at their head. She and might in some way exercise a fabig had not fully realized how much she vorable Influence on the outcome. No man had ever stood against Slade. longed to see Cal Harris. instead of dismounting in a group She noted Harris' gun. Oe carried it with the same awkward sling as of they suddenly split up, as If at a on the left side In front with the old, of the length given signal, scattering to the right butt the. block and dismounting singly. "Fifty on Slade," a voice offered from the doorway of the hotel. The Only guard started for the spot but the Subscribe for The Leader. $2.00 a year. bet was snapped up by another. Wild fighting rage swept through her at the thought that to all these men it was but a sporting event Her eyes never once, left Harris as he came down the street. When almost abreast of the stage Slade from the doorway twenty feet stepped Manufacturers of the Famous in before him and stopped In his tracks. Harris turned on one heel and "PRIDE OF UTAH" stood with his left side quartering FLOUR toward Slade, the old pose she remembered so well. There was a tense Also all Kinds of Mill Stuff. quiet the length of the street. "Those you hire do poor work from The Best Mill in the Bear Harris said. "Maybe you behind," River Valley. sometimes take a chance yourself and from In front." His thumb was Highest Cash Price Paid for work hooked In the opening of his shirt GOOD WHEAT' Just above the butt of his gun. Slade held a cigarette in his right Near the Depot hand and raised it slowly to his Hps. Utah He removed It and flicked the ash Garland from the end, then Inspected the results and snapped it again and the downward move of bis wrist was carried through In a smooth sweep for his gun. It flashed into bis hand but The Settling one-hote- l. of the Sage he counseled. "Be was a bard one Slade." But he had misread his signs. She felt no regret for Slade, only a wave of thankfulness, so powerful as almost to unnerve her, over Harris' esShe accused hercape, untouched. self of callousness but the spring of her sympathy, usually so ready, eemed dry as dust when she would have wasted a few drops on Slade.' The next day, in the late afternoon, Harris looked up and saw a chap-clarider on the edge of the valley. She had ridden over unannounced on a horse she had borrowed from Brill. She answered the wave of his hat and urged the horse down the slope. TTLUDz "IT (DF 9Qg d By D3CDCCTW. JECVICE good-by.- tftv p er paint-hors- e Garland Milling Company Reliable tWatches at SPECIAL PRICES Come In and See Them Tremonton - Utah sagged under him as a slug struck him an inch above the buckle of bis belt. Even as he toppled forward he fired, and Harris' gun barked again. Then the Three Bar men were vaulting to their Evans careened down the saddles. and street leading the paint-horswithin thirty seconds after Slade's first move for bis gun a dozen rider were turning the corner on the run. Before the spectators had time to realize that it was over, the Three Bar men were gone. Slade bad many friends In town. The girl had seen Harris" draw merely a single pull from left to right and by his quartering pose the gun had been trained on Slade at the Instant it cleared the holster; not one even to the move, superfluous The straightening of his wrist his knees forty-fiv- e driver's voice reached her, "Fastest draw in the world for the few that can use it." he said. 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No one. knows how long a new "Holt" will last Come in and look over the "Holt" in stock. Let us explain how it cuts low, threshes clean and reduces harvesting costs, vies with rough and thrills. adven-ture,hum- t or The grim humor and excitement of "The Cremation of Sam and "The Shoot-in- g of Dan McGrew" are paralleled in al most every chapter. Mc-Ke- e" He Met Her at the Mouth of the Lane. He met her at the mouth of the lane and together they walked back to the new buildings of the ranch. The men breaking horses In the new corrals were the same old hands. The same old Waddles presided over the new cook shack. Her old things, rescued from the fire, were arranged in the living room of the new house. A row of new storerooms and the shop stood on the site of the old. And In the midst of all the Improvements the old cabin first erected on the Three Bar stood protected by a picket fence on 'Which a few vines were already beginning to climb. After the men had quit work to greet the returning Three Bar boss she went over every detail of the new house. The big. living room and fire place were modeled closely along the lines of her old quarters; heads and furs were on the walls, pelts and In dian rugs on the floors. Running water bad been piped down from a sidehill spring. The new house wajs Then Harris saddled modernized. Calico and Papoose and they rode down to the fields. As they turned into the lane they heard the twang of Waddles' guitar from the cook shack, the booming voice raised in song in midafternoon, a thing heretofore unheard of In the annals of Three Bar life. "There'll be one real feast tonight, Harris prophesied. "Waddles will spread himself." y They rode pust the meadow, cov stand of al ered with a knee-dee- p falfa hay. "It was only trampled down," he said. "She came up In fine shape this spring. We'll put up a thou sand tons of hay." He held straight on past the meadow, turned off below the lowei fence and angled southwest across the range. The calves and yearlings along their route gave proof that thf of the Three Bar herds grading-uwas already having its effect. Ninety per cent were straight red stock with only a few throwbacks to strains. The two spoke but little and near sunset they rode out and dis mounted on the ridge from which, al most a year before, they had viewed the first move of organized law In the Coldriver strip. A wagon came toward them up the valley along the same route followed by the file of dusty riders on that other day. A woman held the reins over the team and a youngster Jostled about on the seat by her side. A man wran gled a nondescript drove of horse; and cows In the rear. "That's the way we both came into this country first, you and I," Harris said. "Just like that little shaver on the seat" "Will they find a place to settler she asked, with a sudden hope that the newcomers would find a suitable site for a home. Maybe not close around here," he said. "Most of the good sites you can get water on are picked up. But they'll find a place either here or somewhere else a little further on." He slipped an arm about her shoul In addition to cutting these extra expenses, they the grain by the "Holt" principle of thorough and LANDES & COMPANY Salt Lake City Read It as a Serial in DEALERS Tremonton Nephi Preston and Malad, Idaho Logan, Utah MG.U.S.MT. Off. COMBINED THE B. R. V. LEADER HARVESTERS "Lot's wife had nothing much on that woman," remarked one bystand- er to another at the scene of an auto- mobile smashup. "No why?" "The woman in the Bible looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. This woman looked back and turned into a telephone pole." When You Think HARDWARE Dr. Wm. 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