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Show BEAVER PRESS o Ruth Wyeth Spears 05 uf wv,wwjTp ffc to a stop. He signaled Wheeler to ride to him. "Wait here," Wheeler said to tho glrL He wheeled his horse, then hesitated to say over his shoulder, "Don't worry; we'll work everything out all right" He put his horse down to the road, jumping it through the red rocks. From behind the wheel Steve Hurley thrust a big square hand at him, and Steve's big beefy face flashed a quick grin. "Glad to see you, Billy; the Old Man said he figured you'd sit in. As soon as I see who it was, I pulled up." Wheeler glanced at the boiling radiator. "What's broke in Inspiration, Steve?" "The Old Man may be wanting to call his riders in. Thought I'd stop and tell you what it was, so's you could signal In any of the boys you might see while you're out." "I'm listening." "It's all over Inspiration that Sheriff Walt Amos will make an arrest within three days. They're saying the sheriff knows who's dead; that it's a man Dunn swore to kill if ever he found him on 94 range." Steve Hurley's eyes rested steadily and keenly on Billy Wheeler. "Steve," said Wheeler, "will Horse Dunn submit to arrest?" Steve Hurley looked away a moment before he answered. "I don't know," he said at last. "But I guess maybe. Am I right he'll want his riders in?" "I'd sure think so. This thing Is coming faster than I figured It would, Steve." The girl's eyes were questioning as Billy Wheeler returned to her side. "Don't worry," he said; "it's all going to work out." They turned off, no longer paral leling the Inspiration road; and for a long while as the miles slowly unrolled under the hoofs of the ponies neither had anything to say. They were near Short Creek when the girl spoke unexpectedly. "I'm glad you came. You make things seem straighter and smoother, just the way you pace your horse along, without any worry or fret." "There isn't anything to worry "I don't like to have her riding this big range alone." With a curious reliance Wheeler picked up his hat and walked out to the stable where his saddle was. ed. SYNOPSIS long-rollin- g Billy Wheeler, wealthy yuur.f cattle man, sruvcs ii the S4 rar.cn, summnied by his friend Horse Dunn, Us elderly and owner, twcause of mysterious murder. BUly Is In love with Dunn's niece Marian, whom he has not CHAPTER III seen for two years. She had rejected his suit and is still aloof. Dunn's ranch Is eurrounded by enemies. Including Link A rise of dust was going up on the Bender. Pinto Halllday and Sam Caldroad as Wheeler sadInspiration his In efforts whom he has defeated well, to build a cattle kingdom. Dunn directs dled; he knew the approaching car his cow hands, Val DouKlas, Tulare Cal must be driven by Steve Hurley. lahan and others to search for the killer's For a moment he hesitated, for he horse. He explains to Billy that the morn would have liked to hear the latest trig before he had come upon bloodstained ground at Short Creek and found the trail word from the camp of Horse shod The of a shod and unshod horse. horse's rider had been killed. The body Dunn's enemies. Marian Dunn, howhad disappeared. Link Bender had ar ever, was loping eastward along an rived at the scene and rend the signs the eld trail not far off the Inspiration way he had. Dunn reveals that because Steve Hurley would be able of a financial crisis the ranch may be in road. Jeopardy; his enemies may make trouble to signal to him from road to trail since Sheriff Walt Amos is friendly witn He them. He says he has asked Old Man if any new word concerned him. Coffee, the country's best trailer, to join let his pony lope out and caught up them. Dunn and Billy meet Amos. Link with Marian within the mile. Bender, his son "the Kid" and Cayuse "Do you mind If I ride your Cayetano. an Indian trailer, at Short Creek. Bender has found the slain man's way?" horse, but the saddle is missing. Almost "Maybe," Marian said, "you'll supernaturally, cattle attracted to the scene by the ground, stamp show me where Short Creek is." out all the traces. Dunn Is angered "Short Wheeler was startled. when Amos tells him not to leave the Creek?" county. Following an argument. Bender draws his gun, but Dunn wounds him "Sometimes," the girl said, "it's In the arm. Back at the ranch Old Man easier to look at a tiling than to Coffee arrives, with a pack of hounds. Imagine It." Coffee rocs In search of the dead man's siuidle. Dunn tells Billy that Marian Is "I was thinking some of riding Incensed at him for trying to settle over that way," he conceded. "Only disputes by bloodshed. He reveals that I wish you'd let somebody know the ranch Is really bers. when you set off to ride a distance like that, so somebody could go blood-staine- CHAPTER II Continued 4 Wheeler was silent. He could not altogether agree with Horse Dunn. He had seen range quarrels settled by gunfire but never to the advantage of either winner or loser. However, he wasn't going to argue with the Old Man. "What if she ties my hands?" Dunn demanded. "I've got to fight this thing my own way. For myself I wouldn't so much mind. But ain't the outfit hers, to begin with?" "Hers?" Wheeler repeated. "Sure, It's iiers. Didn't you know with you." She looked at him sidelong for a minute. "Sometimes it seems to me you people do everything you can to make this into an unfriendly country." "I don't know what you mean." "These Red Hills, with the sun on them, are the background of the s g tijat?" Wheeler had not known It. "But look here! You've run this brand ever since I can remember. You must at least have some part Interest here." "Not a penny or a head of stock," Dunn told him. "But I happen to know," Wheeler declared, "that you've always had uii outfit, another outfit, down In Arizona. Yet your Arizona outfit hasn't 'seen you four times in a dozen years." "I've had my hands full here," Dunn said. "You mean," Billy Wheeler said, "you spent the last twelve-thirtee- n years neglecting your own outfit to build up a brand that don't belong to you?" Dunn shrugged. "Somebody had to take holt. My brother died sudden. He didn't leave the 94 In very good shape. For two years it was run by different bosses I hired. But this same Link Bender he had a big outfit then he was stealing the C4 blind. Pretty soon there wouldn't Lave been any And it was all the kid and her mother had." Billy Wheeler stared at Horse Dunn. Once he had heard it rumored that Horse Dunn had loved Marian's mother, long ago. "Marian's mother always hated arid feared She this country. brought up Marian to feel some similar. That's why the kid can't stand gunsmoke, or anything done by force. You see my brother died with a gun in his hand." Wheeler, unable to endorse the Old Man's leaning toward violence, expressed a belief that there ought to be some way to avoid smoking up the range. "If we can hold the 94 steady on the finance side," he said, "what can Link Bender's crowd do"' "God knows I've took all the steps I know to steady the finance side," Horse Dunn said. "A minute ago you spoke of my having an outfit In Arizona. Well, I had an outfit in Arizona. Six weeks ago I sent word to Bob Flagg, my partner there, to sell her out. She's sold. For the last ten days I've been looking for Bob Flagg. He's supposed to show here with $.")0.000, as good as in cash; another in different obligations and notes. Everything I've got gnes to ihe bracing of the E4 " HoriO stared out the open doorway toward the corrals; and now Hilly Wheeler saw Horse Dunn's rocky face slowly relax, and soften. Out at the far corral Marian had caught the quiet old pony that Horse had given tier, and was preparing to saddle. I! l);mn watched her. his eyes gentle. There was always a humility about that strapping big oi l ri.an when he looked at tins fill, this daughter of his dead bruih-er- . It was almost as if he might nave oven looKm", at Ms own aug:iv.'iiu n.i-.gr.iwn iij away from liirn. After all. she n,; , .' h c been his daughter, if things had braken differently ot.ee. "Yuu ;j ride with her," Dunn said vuth a certain awkwardness. "You talk to her. Try to make her nee that that tins is -a different comi'iy, kiiui of." "She doesn't take any stock in me, Hor.ie." "Vou anyway." lyMn Insist t-.- - i i v u- about." "You've changed since two years ago," the girl told him. "Somehow you're nicer to ride with quieter, more restful." He glanced at her but didn't answer. "You used to be a stampedey sort of person," she explained, "always rushing your horse at things. Whatever you went at, you always went at it by the same way thunder of hoofs, taking all obstacles by storm. I think I used to be afraid of you." For a moment he wondered if things would have gone differently between them if he had been less "Wait Here," Wheeler Said to less turbulent. When you eager, the Girl. wanted a thing too much you oververy earliest memories I have. played your hand and lost out altoMaybe you could love a When I came here again it was as gether. if I were coming home. I felt free girl too much, too soon, and deand natural, here at first. And feat yourself the same way. PerHorse Dunn is almost exactly like haps if A quarter of a mile away within my father, what little I can rememsharp-cu- t the bed of Short Creek faof so him ber nearly like my ther that I can't remember my something moved, held steady a father's face any more; because my moment, then disappeared. It was a rider there, who was watching uncle's face comes in between." "He worships the ground you them; but it was not a rider who meant to rise in his stirrups and walk on," Wheeler said. "I know." A little shiver ran hail. "Well," he said briskly,' "this Is across her shoulders, anomalous in the blaze of the sun. "Then he turns Short Crick. "You see," he said, pulling up his and does some wild, awful thing-li- ke horse at the spot the cattle had yesterday; and it gives me the trampled, "this is nothing but a strangest feeling of being completewbere it just happened that place ly lost in a country I don't under somebody took a shot at somebody. stand." What is there to see? Nothing. I "Yesterday? What awful thing?" want you to think of this place as "He he shot Link Bender." "It was kind of unfortunate, sure. Just a crick where horses come to But I don't know what else he could drink." Marian Dunn sat very quiet, stardo. Link drew on him. And all at the shallow water. He woning to was uncle did nick him in your the arm, so that he dropped the dered what things, terrible to her, she might be picturing. gun." Marian's tone was curiously detached, unforgiving. "He actmitted he set out to goad Link Bender into fighting." That was not exactly what Horse Dunn had said, but essentially the girl was right. It was like Horse Dunn too that lie could in no part This may come as something of he to this girl, but would put hima disappointment to monkeys, but self conscientiously into the worst it now appears that the human race did not descend from an ape, but possible light. "He said more," Marian added. from a fish, writes a New York "He said that if it hadn't been for United Prnss correspondent. me he would have killed Link And if all finos well, man's own Be'ider there at Chuck Box Wash." descendants will not be man ns he is today, but tfm.me-hkIl.lly Wheeler started to say. "Oh, creatures 1 don't think" It was no use. It with undershot jaws, probably was futile to try to hide from this snindly legs and nn enormous dome-- I r.irl certain things which she was in h head. no way equipped to understand, yet This information was conveyed to was sure to see clearly. "This is a a gathering of 150 learned men differ- -. ,t country than you're used at Columbia university, by Dr. to. Marian. Dry country men Frederick Tilney, t - ? r ut learned long ago to rlri end on themand nn expert on selves; they've lived th it way for the evolution of the shape of a a You" "Listen," he said. A horse as yet unseen was com- i it; neuro-anatom- long time." The car that had heeu mi ;,pproachiug funnel of (i; t upon hie i;,. pir.u.on roa.i row came n ing around u iuMv b'.'ljw them. Steve H irVv fioTi behind his riu-- : v w.nd .):, It', t i wave at ti.cni. (.'m n "tfht car ..... - i y man's he.id. It all (joes bark to a "erossripterl-ri.in"--kind of fish that did its t'ii' liin:; with jf feet. If !),,, cross. opt"! u::an had not come along, man n iiit s',11 ho a fish, according to the profesror. ' Fi.h." he explained, "possess a a dik J ing fast down the cut Its unshod hoofs padded quietly In the sand at the margin of ihe water, so that its thudding lope was sensed less by sound than by shock the faint distant tremor of the ground. "What is it?" the girl asked. "Don't you hear? A horse is coming up." "I don't" She started to say Thumbtack Your Draperies that she didn't hear anything; but to a Board. cut rider tho lust thpn unsppn GIVE draperies the smartly through the shallows with a sud- TO x tailored effect obtained by the den sharp sound of thrown water and the ring of hoofs on stone. professional decorator, a valance board must be used. A straight "Who i3 it?" "Quien sabe? Turn and ride back one by two inch board will be the way we've come," he told her needed. A small finishing nail in without emphasis. "I'll be along In the top of the window casing near each end and screw eyes placed a minute." Without a word Marian turned her near the top of the back of the horse; she was at the two hundred valance board will hold it in place horse surged as shown at A. Both side drapes yards as a hard-ruup over the lip of the cut. The rider and valance may be thumbtacked was Kid Bender. to the board and then be quickly The Kid half wheeled his pony, hung all at once by hooking the drove close to Billy Wheeler's screw eyes over the finishing horse; his lean figure swayed back- - nails. Think of the advantage on wards as he brought his pony to a cleaning day! Just lift board and sliding stop, very close. Across the all off the nails and take outside back of his right hand showed the for dusting. Tack the side drapes to the heavy purple welt that Wheeler's quirt had laid there; and in his face board first as at B, arranging full-wa- s the joyous anger of a man ness in flat pleats. In making the who takes payment for a past hu- - valance, allow enough material to miliation. fold around the ends of the board "What you doing here?" as at C; then tack it along the Wheeler ignored the question. top, stretching it just enough so You're a little ofx your range, that it is Dcrfectlv smooth. Kid," he said. "This range comes The valance shown here is made under the head of the 94. Maybe I'll be ordering you off it pretty quick. I haven't decided yet." "No," said Kid Bender. "I don't think you will You're dealing with a peace officer patroling the scene of a crime." "Peace officer?" Kid Bender flipped over the tail end of his neckerchief to reveal a nickel-plateshield. It was cheap and it was new; but as it flashed in the sun Wheeler felt his scalp stir oddly, as if he had glimpsed fire behind smoke. Horss Dunn's view of the situation was shaping up fast- er than Horse himself had imagined. New Excuse Policeman How did the acci"Yesterday," said the Kid, "you knocked a gun out of my hand." dent happen? Motorist My wife fell asleep in Billy Wheeler said distinctly, "With a quirt. I whipped it out of the back seat. your hand with a quirt" Kid Bender's face darkened for Rastus was his an instant but the hard gleam of a wife's laziness bemoaning to his friend. joyous anticipation immediately re- "She's so lazy," he said, "dat she turned to his eye. "I have orders," clone in de pancakes put popcorn he said, "to see that the hired men so over they'll flop by of the 94 don't trample over the scene of this crime any more. I'm starting with you; I'll give you felHomage lers something to remember orders "When Robinson returned from by. I'm taking your horse and your gun. Maybe your girl there will abroad he fell on his face and give you a lift after you're afoot. kissed the ground of his native Or maybe I'll send her on home I town?" "Emotion?" haven't decided that yet." "No; banana skin!" "No," said Wheeler, "you're no taking either horse or gun." "You're against an officer of the In Reverse law. You know what that means?" Office Boy Sorry, madam, but "I know," Billy Wheeler said, Mr. Snifkins has gone to lunch "what I hope it means." with his wife. The Wife O! Well . . . tell Mr. For a moment Kid Bender hesi-- ! tated; they sat watching each other, onukins his typist called two men in a situation from which neither could withdraw. One of Ask Dad them had sought this meeting the Little Billy, aged four, was other welcomed it. Both knew that shown the shape of the earth auiucuuiig pcwuiitfijy personal naa'nn the Iob.e 3tlaS U hl mother, to he Mttlnd hPPP -not, haf.nfln . " " uie After pointing to all the countries two of them alone, "I see your girl has stopped a with their peculiar shapes, she little way up here," the Kid said; asked: "Now, Billy, what shape "seems like she sets watching from is the world?" Dad says," "Terrible, rethe hilL" Wheeler suppressed in time an sponded Billy, looking very wise. impulse to glance over his shoulder. Instead his eyes never left Kid Bender as he jerked his chin sharply toward his shoulder as if he glanced away. (TO BE COSTIMKD) H III I 1111-- ' IJL I " j llh 1 n d 47 of glazed chintz and rr.;J ohint? Hnrrla.. almpA uu.ut. ma,,.. i.In edges of the side irM giass curtains maybe inside the window fran-:- ' bottom of the valance v! Every Homemaker ' SEWING. step-by-st- Neuro-Anatom- y limited power to withhold their reactions. They are highly impulsive." One day millions of years ago an impulsive fish the crossnpeterlgian 'managed to crawl out of the water." and that was the beginning of bra'n structure, and ultimately of the human race. Dr. Tilney advised evolutionary students to study the brain as tho real organ of evolution, and he said this would lead back to the "walking fish." "N'o scientist tndnv holiovA tKit any living monkeys or apes arc ancestral to man." he said. "These animals belong to families totally divergent from the human family, Whatever interest there is in evolu- lion therefore should not center In the ape. "The true line of our ancestry reaches millions of years farther back. Evolution of the human race leads from Ibh to man " Fnrtv-Pifft- MM o directions! ep and slipcovers dressiri nnhnlptn.,. rpcfnrlncf nnrt mm hr, W. coucnes; making curta; ery type of room aid Making lampshades, r. mans and other useful z the home. Readers wisL' should send name ar.i enclosing 25 cents, to It 2.10 South Desplaines St, L H Illinois. Di; E when advert A Advertising In 18G9, almost unknown, the of manufactured profc United States amounts As a $3,385,800,354. ating a demand rer." 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