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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1929. The Settling of the Sage By HAL G. EVARTS Copyright by Hal O. Kvarta WNU BrYlc "There Is the law - he said. "That's what I brought you here to see. It's what we've been waiting for. That little procession stands for organized law I" She turned and looked behind ber ber ear caught the thud of hoofs and jangle of equipment. The Three i Bar men were Just topping the ridge. Harris knew that action, not inaction was the best outlet for ber ener- u gies, temporarily smothered by the shock of the raid. "I thought maybe you'd like to go." he said. "The Jaunt will do you good-Sh- e showed the first sign of Interest she had evidenced. "And we're going to the Breaks," she stated. "That's where," he said. "We'll order them to give up and stand trial. They won't Then we'll clean them out Hunt them down like rats!" The little band in the valley was drawing near. She recognized Carp, Bentley and another Slade man riding with the sheriff at their head. "What's Bentley doing there?" she asked. "One of Carp's men," Harris said. "If any of them get away from us Carp will hound them down. He wears the U. S. badge and won't be stopped by any feeling about crossing the Utah or Idaho lines. Rustling is of no interest to him. That's the sheriff's job. But Carp will round them up for obstructing the home- stead laws." The Three Bar men came up and halted. Harris and the girl changed l mnimta nnil lorl fholr mpn rtnwn to join tne nie or riders Deiow. It was well after sundown when they halted in a sheltered valley. Waddles cooked a meal over an open fire. Bed rolls were spread and the men were Instantly asleep. Three hours before sunup the cook was once more busy round a fire. The meal was bolted and each man lashed a generous lunch on his saddle before riding off. Daylight found them twenty miles from camp and the horses were breathing hard. They turned Into a n coulee threaded by a tralL Three miles along this Bentley turned to the right up a. branching gulch with eight men. Another mile and Carp led a similar detachment off to the left Blllle rode with the sheriff and Harris at the head of the rest holding to the beaten trail. Harris motioned to Billie. "You fall back," he said. The men had drawn their rifles from the scabbards. "They" never did post a guard. But there's just a chance. So for a little piece you'd oetter bring up the well-wor- rear." The shadows lengthened rapidly Harris turned op a side pocket nnJ and her view through the glasses was while men and the be waited the to blur when the gatea of beginning sheriff climbed a ridge on foot to In the stockade swung back and five the to motioned Harris vestlgnte. Dorset dashed out, running at top glrL a "Come along up where you can speed under the urge of the spurs, man wild for every stampede safety, see," he said and she followed them for himself. up the ridge. Snf saw one man lurch sldewlse Ilur "From behind a and slip to the ground; another rls trained bis glasses on the group in the saddle, swung for straightened a mile out across the shallow basin two and slid off backward Jumps, Two men stood before a teepee near across the of his mount The rump the stockade. There were two other six shots had wlien ceased shooting tents Inside the structure, with a were cahorses fired. riderless Four number of men moving about them. round basin. the reening He handed bis gUsses to the girl. The stockade was empty, leaving "We'll be starting," he said. "By in the house to be accountthe time we get fixed the rest will be only four A tiny point of light attracted for. ed watcb You closing in. stay here and her eye. It grew and spread, sue the whole thing." knew that one of her men had "I'm going along," she said. "I'm crawled up under cover of night and as good a shot as there Is In the hills. fired bouse. She thought of he the And it was my ranch they burned." on the Three Bar buildings burning The sheriff shoved back his hat and rose to make her way back to and pushed his fingers through bis the pocket where the horses had beet mop of gray hair. left in the care of a deputy. "Fact," he confessed. "Every word All through the day she had scarce But there's swarms of men in this moved and she was tired. The ly, country and such a d n scattering hours of Inactivity had proved more few of girls tlflit we just can't take a day in the saddle. than wearing the risk. That's bow It Is. If you Harris and the sheriff came in with don promise to stay out of it we'll their detail. There were no prisoners. havriVD detail a couple of the boyh t men rode A little later Bentley's over with." on ride guard you till It's up and five minutes behind them She knew that the other men would came Carp with the rest and al! back Harris and Alden In their verhands turned In. At daylight the dict She nodded and watched them long return Journey to the Three Bar turn back toward the horses. was commenced. Twenty miles out There was nothing spectacular In from the ranch and before noon of the attack of Harris and the sheriff. the next day the sheriff and the marThey went about it as If hunting ver- shals had split off with their men, min, cautiously and systematically, leaving the Three Bar crew to ride taking every possible advantage of the short Intervening space to the the enemy with the least possible-ris- ranch alone. to their men. The advance was As she neared the edge of the Crazy slow as they closed In on the stockloop valley the girl dreaded the first ade. There was a sudden commotion of the pillaged ranch. glimpse among the men at the building. The) had reached the edge of the They were moving swiftly under cover. she looked down upon the and valley Some of the attacking force had been ruins. seen. The majority of the rustlers "Now Tra ready to go," she said took to the stockade. Four ran Into "I'll go and see what Judge Colton the main cabin. wants." It was as if she gazed upon the ac"He wanted you to get away before tivities of battling ants, the whole like this occurred," Harris anything game spread out in the field of her said. "I knew that maybe we'd have There came a lull In the tough going for a while a some critiglasses. action and she knew that the sheriff cal time and wanted you to miss all had raised his voice to summon them of that to come back and find the to come out without their guns and Three Bar booming along without go back as prisoners to stand trial having been all the grief. So through for every crime under the sun. I wrote him to urge you to come." Not a shot had been fired. Inside "Well, I'm going now," she said. the stockade she could see Lang's don't need to be urged." men kneeling or flattened on the Harri3 pointed as they rode down ground as they gazed through cracks the slope. The little cabin that old in the walls. Bill Harris had first erected on the She made out Harris, crc iching in Three Bar, and which had later shela draw. A thin haze of smoke spurttered the Warrens when they came ed from his position. Three similar Into possession of the brand, stood puffs showed along the face of the solid and unharmed among the blackThen the sounds of the ened ruins which hemmed It In on all stockade. shots drifted to her faint snappy sides. r Throughout the next reports. "Look, girl 1" he exclaimed triumphthere was not a shot fired In antly. "Look at that little house. the flat; no general bombardment, no The Three Bar was started with that I wild shooting, but guerilla warfare We have as much as our folks started where every man held bis fire for a with and more. They even had to definite human target A man shiftbuild that We'll start where our ed his position in the stockade, raised folks did, and grow." to peer from a hole breast high, and she saw him pitch down on the CHAPTER XII ground before the sound of the shot reached her. One of her men had Harris sat on a baggage truck and noted the darkening of the crack and the heap of luggage somberregarded had searched him out with a rifle off In the distance a dark Way ly. it shots from answered Three shot smoke marked the location of of blot the main cabin. the onrushlng train which would take She presently noted one of her men sitting under a sheltering bank tbe Three Bar girl away. "Some day you'll be wanting to and eating bis lunch. She looked at come Dack, old partner," he predicted her watcb; It was after three the The Three Bar isn't hurt hopefully. half and more less than gone day than a hundred shots had been fired, Five men were down In the stockade, sage-clum- p half-hou- Subscribe for The Leader. The summer school student deserves $2.00 a year. all the rewards of worthy ambition. Thanking you for your consistent patronage, we are Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schenkel and Employees Cultivate Your Garden And Fields iff "We're In Better Shape Than Ever Before." 4 with the famous PLANET, JR. HORSE AND HAND CULTIVATOR Ditch with A SIMPLEX OR CHATTIN DITCHER If it is a farm implement or tool you want. We have it. Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company in "The Largest Retail Implement Dealers Phone 90 the World" Tremonton, Utah Deane was with Judge Colton, her father's old friend, to meet ber at the station. As they rode toward the Colton home she told the Judge she had come to stay and Deane was content After the strenuous days she bad just passed through she needed a long period of rest, he reflected; but the older man smiled when be suggested this. "What she needs now Is action," he said. "And no rest at alt Cat Warren's girl Isn't the type." Deane acted on this and no day passed without his having planned a part of It to help fill her time. And in the late winter, after having visited school friends who lived farther east, she found herself anticipating the return to the Colton home as eagerly as always in the past she had looked forward to seeing the Three Bar after a long period away from it For the first time In ber life she was glad to be sheltered and pampered as were other girls. But there was a growing restlessness within her a vague dissatisfaction for which she could not account She groped for an answer but the analysis could not be expressed or definitely cleared In her mind. Deane planned with her of evenings but the planning was all of play. Mo word of work crept into It If only he would accept her as wholly into that part of his life as he did Into the rest And suddenly she longed to sit for just one evening before the fire and plan real work with Cal Harris. He had been the one man she had known who had asked that she work with him or that he should work for her. She had drifted along, expecting that that same 6tate of affairs would go on indefinitely, believing that be filled the void left by old Cal Warren. But now she knew be held that place he had created for himself. They had worked together and she had deserted the sinking ship to play the part of the tinsel queen. She was conscious of a flare half of resentment, half of apprehension toward narrls for not having sent a word of affairs at the ranch. Judge Colton entered the room and Interrupted her reverie by handing her a paper. In the first black headline she saw Slade's name and Harris'; an announcement of the last chapter of the Three Bar war. The first line of the article stated that Slade, the cattle king, had been released. There was insufficient proof to convict on any count She felt a curious little shiver of fear for Harris with Slade once more at large, The article retold the old tale of tbe fight and portrayed Slade, on his re lease, viewing the range which be had once controlled and finding a squatter family on every available ranch site. To Be Continued sit-arou- OUR Riverside j : 1 - of Salt Lake City, spent Memorial Day with Mr. and Mrs. Horace Udy. Henry Mclntire, of Standrod, Idaho, was a visitor at the Karl Welling: home during the week. The family of J. O. Hadfield visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith at Ridge Dale, Idaho. Joe Forsberg, went to Salt Lake Thursday. Misses Inez, Velma and Lucille Lef-lof Salt Lake spent Sunday with their father, Abe Lefler. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Peterson, Har-mForsberg, Mrs. 'R. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Forsberg, visited at the August Forsberg home, Sunday. Miss Joey Peterson returned to Salt Lake with them after spending the past week here with her grandi parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Bott of Logan, were visiting with Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Ward last week. Mrs. J. H. Ward and children have been visiting with relatives at Logan. Through the courtesy of Horace Udy, manager of the Udy Hot Springs the Riverside ward received the proceeds from the swimming pool, Mon day evening. A large crowd turned out and enjoyed themselves and the Bishop received a nice sum to help pay the ward expenses. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doman, Sr., and Mr .and Mrs. Thomas Doman, Jr., of Ogden were calling on relatives here Memorial Day. Miss Edith Olsen of Harper, was the guest of Peg Capener last week. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walker were Salt Lake visitors the latter part of the week. Bishop Russell Capener and family were visiting with relatives in Salt Lake last week. The Primary gave an operetta, Tuesday evening. The officers of the organization have worked hard and they deserve credit for the pleasing Americanism: The pet faiths and presentation given. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo rett of Brig- - prejudices of the man who happens to ham and Misses Alta and Rilla Pett be defining it er an Dr W. G. Greenwell CHIROPODIST FOOT SPECIALIST Midland Hotel, Tuesday, June 11 and each Tuesday thereafter. He will be equipped to treat all cases of foot ills. 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The work was gIng on but she no longer had a share in It She was looking nhead and planning a future In which the Three Bar played no We're In better shape than ever before and a clear field out in front; for the country Is cleaned up and the law is clamped on top." She honestly tried to rouse a spark of Interest deep within her, some ray of enthusiasm for the future of the Three Bar. But there was no reShe assured herself again sponse. that the old brand which had meant so much to her meant less than nothing now. That part of ber was dead. The trail of smoke was drawing near, Harris leaned and kissed her. "Just once for luck," he said, and slipped from his seat on the truck at the train roared In. Good by, little I'll see you next roundup fellow. time." As the train slid away from the station she looked from her window and saw him riding up the single The street on the big paint-horstrain cleared the edge of the little town and passed the cattle chute. 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