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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929. pea ted, e: 'ed Carp to his feet and he .crossed to the door to answer It Morrow dismounted and came to the door. He sodded briefly to Slade, hesitating on the sill as If surprised to find him there. Carp lost do time In stating his proposition. He spoke jerkily, "I want to get out," he said. "I'll sell for five dollars a head." Morrow held op a hand to silence The Settling of the him. "I'll likely buy but I never talk business Ir a crowd." He crossed the room and sat with bis back to the window. "There's plenty of time." "I take it I'm tho crowd." Slade remarked. "So I'll step out Morrow stiffened suddeuly In his chair as n cold ring was pressed against the back of his neck through the crack of the window. At the same instant Carp had tilted back and raised one knee. The gun that rested on his leg was peeping over the table Sage By HAL G. EVARTS Copyright by Hal G. Evarta WNU Bervtc at Slade. the turned bis horse Into the corral and five minutes later Harris and Waddles rode away. Waddles was mounted on Creamer, the big deputy buckskin. "WjrCi! have to step right atong," HafiH5fcaI& "It's forty miles." Thej' held the horses' to, a stiff swinging trot th .t devoured the miles without seeming to tire their mounts. For four hours they headed south and a little east, never slackening their pace except to breathe the horses on some steep ascent The huckskin and the paint-hors- e had lost the first snap of their trot and it was evident that they would soon begin to lag. Another hour and they bad slowed down perceptiibly. The two men dismounted and tied the horses to the brush in a sheltered coulee, then started across a broad flat on foot Out in the center a spot showed darker than the rest the old cabin where Carpenter had elected to start up for himself after being discharged from the Three Bar. When within a hundred yards of the cabin horse, tied to a hltc'a post In front neighed shrilly and Harris laid a restraining hand on Waddles' arm. They knelt In the brush as the door opened and a man stood silhouetted against the light After a space of two minutes Carp's voice reached them. "Not a sound anywheres," he said. "Likely some horses drifting past." He went inside and closed the door. The two men circled the oabin and cansjfiy from the rear. A window stood opened some eight Inches from the bottom. Through the holes in the ragged flour, sack that served as a curtain Harris secured a view of the inside. Carp and Slade sat facing across a little table in the center of the room. "I want to clean up and go," Carp was saying. "This d n Harris put me on the black list. "You've been on It for three months," Slade said. "Nothing has happened yet But don't let me keep you from pulling out any time you like." ' "But I've got a settlement to make," " Carp Insisted. "Let's get that fixed Bp." "Settlement?" Slade asked. "Settlement with who?" Carpenter leaned across the table and tapped It to emphlslze his remarks. "Listen. Morrow gave me a bill of sale from you calling for a hundred rebrand-ehead of Three Bar Triangle on the hip." Slade nodded shortly. "I gave Morrow that for two years' back pay when he quit He could sell out to you If he liked." "And now' I want to sell out," Carp she-stoc- d , said. "And be gone from here." "How many head have you got?" Slad asked. 'U'ree hundred head," Carp stated. 'Tou've'increased right fast", Slade remarked. "I'd think you'd want to stay where you was doing so well. How much do you want?" "Five dollars straight through," Carp said. "Cheap enough," Slade answered. "If only a man was In the market" He ltoked straight at Carp and the man's eyes slipped away from Slade's ateady gaze. "But I'm not buying, likely Morrow will buy you out" "Morrow ought to be here now," Carp stated. "He's coming tonight" "Then I'd better go," Slade said. "I don't like Morrow's ways." The thud of horse's hoofs sounded from close at hand. The two men outside lay flat in the shadow of the A shrill whistle, twice re-house. Subscribe $2.00 a year. for the Leader only Reliable Watches SPECIAL PRICES Come In and See Them "Steady! he ordered. "Sit tight 1" The window was thrown up to its full heigh I by Waddles and the curtain snatched away from the gun which Harris held against Morrow's neck. Carp flipped back his vest and revealed a marshal's badge. "I'd as toon take you along feet first as any way," he said. "So If you feel like acting up you can start any time now." Slade's eyes came back frou the two men at the window and rested on the badge. "So that's It," he said with evident I figured relief. "A real arrestc-whe- n It was an murder you had planned. What do you rant with me?" Waddles had reached down and removed Morrow's gun. "A number of things," Carpenter Bald. "Obstructing the homestead laws for one." Slade shook his head and smiled. "You've got the wrong party," he said. 'Yoa can't prove anything on me." "I don't count on that," Carp said. "You've covered up right well. We know you work through Morrow but can't prove a word. We've got enough to hang him; but I expect maybe you'll get off." There was a scrape of feet outside the door and the sheriff entered and took, possession of Slade's gun as Harris and Waddles moved round from the window and went Inside. "I'm a few minutes late," Alden said. "I wasn't right sure how close I was to the house so I left my horse too far back." "Here's your prisoners," Carp said. "Captured and delivered as agreed. I haven't anything on Slade myself but If you want him he's yours." "What do you want with me?" Slade demanded a second time. "I'm picking you up on complaint made by the Three Bar," Alden said. "I'll have to take you along." Slade turned on Harris. "What charge?" he asked. "Killing twelve Three Bat;- bulls on the last day of August," Harris stated. "I was out with the ranger," Slade said. "Back In the hills. You know That charge won't that yourself. ' stick." "Then maybe'.lt was the second of May," Harris returned. "I sort :of ' , Slade suddenly grasped the significance of this arrest "How many of you fellows are round out here?" he Inoting of Carp. quired "I don't mind confessing that several of the boys are riding for you," "But while we've Carp informed. cinched Morrow we haven't been able to trace It back to you. I even got put on the black list thinking you might do business with me direct after that knowing my word wouldn't stand against yours. But not you! You've covered your tracks." Carp spoke softly, as if to himself, detailing his failure to gather conclusive evidence against Slade. "I even run your rebrand on fifty or so Three Bar cows. You knew there wasn't a dollar changed hands when Morrow gave me that paper which licensed me to rustle my own she Btock. The idea In my starting up was to run your rebrand on any number of Three Bar cows. Later Morrow would buy me out acting for you; can't be proved. Oh, you're In the forget" pussy-fo- clear, kidnaping deal?" "I'm not in on It" Carp shrugged. "The sheriff asked me to arrest you at the first opportunity. I've turned you over to him. The rest Is his affair. Besides, like I was mentioning, they can't prove a thing on you. As soon as they're convinced of that they'll turn yofl loose." minute." - Utah He nodded slowly. "Well, I guess you've got me," he said. "I don't see that it will amount to much, anyway. Sooner or later you'll let me out" He raised his arms high above his head and stretched. Under cover of this casual move he swiftly raised one foot. Slade planted his boot on the edge of the light table and gave a tremendous shove. The far edge caught the sheriff across the legs and overthrew him. The lantern crashed to the floor and at the same Instant Morrow aimed a sidewise, sweeping kick at Carpenter's ankles. As the marshal went down his head struck the corner post of a bunk and be did cot rise. With a single sweep Morrow caught the back of his chair and swung it above his bead for the spot which Waddles bad occupied at the Instant the light went out The weapon splintered In his hands as It found its mark, and as the big man struck the dirt floor Morrow leaped for the dim light whieh indicated the open door. A huge paw clamped on one ankle wrench sent him and a flying acros the room to the far walL With a sweep of the other hand Waddles slammed the door with a bang that Jarred the cabin. "We've got 'em trapped," the big voice exulted. "We've got 'em sewed In a sack." Harris made one long reach and swung the butt of his gun for Slade's head as the table went down but Slade, with the same motion, vaulted the prostrate sheriff. The force of the blow threw Harris off his balance and as he tripped and reeled to bis knees Slade's boot heel scored a glancing blow on his skull and floored him. He regained his feet, gripping a fragment of the chair Morrow had smashed over Waddles head, and struck at a dim form which loomed against the vague light of the window. The shape closed with him and he went down in a corner with Slade. Slade struck him twice in the face, writhed away and gained his feet g at Harris head with his In spurs. Harris caught a hand-holthe long fur of the other's chaps, wrapped both arms round Slade above the knees and dragged him back. His hand found Slade's throat and he squeezed down on it as the man raised both t ees and thrust them against his stomach to break the hold. Slade's arm swept a circle on the floor In search of the gun Harris had dropped but be was Jerked a foot irom the floor and. Harris jammed his head again and Slade crumpled Into a limp heap. Harris held him there, unwilling to take a chance lest the other might be feigning unconsciousness. But Slade was out of the fight The sheriff struggled to his feet as Waddles tossed Morrow back from the door and slammed It shut He closed with Morrow but the man eluded him. He dared not shoot with friends and enemies struggling all about the black pit of the little room. Morrow leaped one way, then the opposite, as the sheriff groped for him. Alden turned toward a rattle at the stove as he heard Slade's head crunch against the wall under Harris' savage back-hande- d back-slashin- d A vision of the near future swept across Slade's mind. If be should be locked op for three months and discharged for lack of evidence It would pounds weight to thin, children or then reared and delicious. Scott Drug adults. Tastes Coal, wheeled away from the thing which - Arr Co. 18 retained Waddles sprang at him, but his grin In the animal's mane, hla "I wash, iron and carry coal and other hand clamped on Morrow'j dont get tired since taking VinoL When You Think ankle. Also, I have gained 18 pounds." The rider leaned and struck him on Mrs. S. Cortese. Vinol is a delicious compound of cod the head. The erased horse shook Waddles off but as be fell the other liver peptone, iron, etc Nervous, man fell with him, dragged from the easily tired, anemic people are sur"Everything to Build Anything" how Vinol gives new pep, sound saddle by the Jerk of one mighty band. prised and Phone 11. BIG a sleep appetite. The very They rolled apart and Morrow leaped FIRST bottle often adds several to his feet but Waddles had wrenched strikthe leg already numbed by the ing horse and It buckled under him and let him tack to the ground as he put his weight on It ne reached for his gun. A form loomed above him. a heavy rock upraised In both hands. The gun barked Just as a downward sweep of the arms started the rock for his bead. Morrow pitched down across him and Waddles swept him aside with a single thrust He rose and stirred the limp shape with his toe as the sheriff reached his side. "Dead bird!" Waddles announced and turned to limp back to the cabin. A match flared Inside as Harris lighted the lantern. Carpenter stirred Iron-cbo- d Washes, Carries Woman Gains forefoot, -- Lbs. ' LUMBER THINK WILSON . BUY Utah Made and sat up, moving one hand along the gash in his scalp. The sheriff stooped and snapped a pair of handcuffs on Slade's wrists. They splashed water on his face and he opened his eyes. He regarded the steel bracelets at his wrists us he whs helped to his feet and turned to Harris. "Don't forget that I'll kill you for this," be said. It was a simple statement made without heat or bluster, and aside from this one remark he failed to speak a syllable until the Prodmcts . And Buy Them At Home sheriff rode away with him. (To Be Continued) OUR MAKE GOOD OR. WE DO Fronk Chevrolet Co. Phone Tremonton, Utah Unlimited "What Utah Makes Makes Utah" 20 Money to LOAN on Irrigated Land. 6l cent. No commissions. per JOHN J. SHUMWAY Phones: B. R. V. 69.a-- 2; Tremonton Banking Bell, 129 Company HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID THE BANK BEST ABLE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THE for all kinds of HIDES, PELTS, FURS AND WOOL BEAR RIVER VALLEY Yours For Business Garland Hide & Fur Co. J. W. GARRETT, Manager Bell Phones 146 and 26 GARLAND, UTAH "A HOME INSTITUTION" After all's said and thrust roared. "Down him!" Waddles "Tear him down Tear him down I'm holding the door." From the corner by the stove an Iron pot hurtled across the room for 1 1 done, the pleasure you get in smoking is what counts Camel air right" Slade broke in upon the monologue. This recitation of his probable immunity from conviction on every count, far from reassuring him, served to confirm his original suspicion as to the reason for this arrest without If the sheriff had wanted witnesses. him he bad but to send word for Slade to come In. He threw out one last line and the answer convinced him beyond all doubt "Then a lawyer will have me out In an hour," he predicted. "A lawyer could," Alden said. "If you saw one. But we've decided not to let you have access to legal advice for the first few days." Slade turned on Carpenter. "This sort of thing Is against the law," he said. "You're a United States marshal. How can you go In on a The sheriff nodded gravely. "The very day I'm satisfied Harris can't prove his charges I'll throw open the doors. YouH be a free man that Tremontdn wreck him as mrely aa the rumors of the last few months had cut Lang's men off from the rest of the world. Squatters had filed on every available site throughout bis range and now waited to 6ee If the Three Bar would win its fight If the news should be spread that he was locked up these nesters wouli rush in. On Lis release he would find them everywhere. With marshals scattered through the ranks of his own men, intent on upholding the homestead laws, he would be helpless to drive them out If they locked him up at this time he was lost CIGARETTES WHY CAMELS ARE THE BETTER CIGARETTE Camels are made From ths Saddle by Jerk of One Mighty Hand. Dragged the the sound of the voice and crashed against the wall a foot from his head. A second kettle struck Alden in the chest and he went down. Waddles saw the light vanish from the window, then reappear. Morrow had made a headlong dive through the little opening. Waddles swung back the door and sprang outside as Morrow vaulted to the saddle. The big man lunged and tackled both horse and man as a gristly would seek to batter down hit prey. 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