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Show THE GRANT8V1LLE NEWS, GRANT8VILLE, UTAH, -I- M t Henrys orders were to wait here port of three shots fired In the distance, Would you mind putting out the ing to stop him from picking both efi till ten o'clock this morning. There's seemingly from the mouth of the gap, lights before I come up I mean, in the us off. been firing inside twice since twelve interrupted him. He paused in his ut- front of the house and in the room He was hit In the head. Idock last night lie told me to pay terance. There were no further shots, where we talk? De Spain wus silent There is a bridge no attention to that. But if the whole and he resumed: Not in the least I mean I am alIt was a soft-nos- e bullet continwas washed out ways willing to take a chance against all water been under but it that hadnt yes, way, place ued Fardaloe. night Id have gone in, anyway. This lost night. Theyre blockaded. Duke any other mans. But I warn you, Ill tell Again there was a pause. d last time it was two and Gale are over there. They're pretty come prepared to take care of yourDe about too, you lardaloe, that betself." guns, picking at long rrnge and, if Im sore on your man De Spain.- Youd 1 lost my on collectedly. weut Spuin 'If you will do as I ask, ao harm rifle before that man any judge of rifles and the men prob- ter keep away from 'em this morning opened fire uu will come to anyone. ably behind them, someone must have unless youre looking for trouble. :: Knn happened to huve her rifle, us. got hurt Its all a guess but I'm goLefever, having all needed InformaDe Spain heard the receiver hung with her if she hadn't hed 've ing in there, peaceably if I cun, to look tion from Scott's signal, raised up at the other end of the wire. He dropped one or both of us off El Cupi-- . Not at all," he ex- signaled the operator hastily and got for Henry de Spain ; if we are fired on quickly. tun. We were pinned uguinst the wall weve got to fight for it. And if claimed, leaning forward to emphasize hold of Bob Scott. To him he explained a couple of targets. If there were his words and adding the full orbit of rapidly what liad occurred, and wbnt like theres any talking to be done By soft-nos- e bullets in her rifle its bemanner. can You Not his of do H. to SPEARMAN his sincerity FRANK It, grunted Elpaso. eye Get up to Grant and Knn-licri- cause she uses them on gume bobcats lie wanted. Thank you, Frank. And I will do it at all. Satt. This is all friendly, all Author of WHI8PM5JNQ SMITH" Bob, as quick as the Lord will mountain lions. I never thought need not say that Kennedy will ride friendly. But, he coughed slightly, let you. Come by the back streets. and of till this minute. Tliut is it. it ahead with me, Elpaso and Wickwlre us if in apology, if Ueury shouldnt There's a high mulberry hedge at the 1 came up to tell you has to What turn O. Tommie back." ahem we'll with le Meggeson. up K, southwest corner you cun get behind. do with Duve Sassoon. From whnt (OopriicM 67 Chulai BeUbnarV Bom) None of his companions needed to be Tills chap Leaving Scott in the trees, the little uiay have been tulking for in Ike gup I thought d. CHAPTER party trotted smartly up the road, told how to get prudently away. At a somebody else. Anyway, look the man happened today know it now. Gale and to 1G you ought picking their way through the pools nod from Lefever Tommie Meggeson, over when he passes under the arc Duke over the way quarreled yesterday Another bullet, deliberately aimed, and across the brawling streams that Elpaso and Wickwlre wheeled their If it is Sus' 11 or Gale Morgan, things turned out; they were pretty light him. rock above Nan, tore over the trail toward Duke Mo- horses, rode rapidly back to the turn come into Jeffries' house by the reur chipped the Guie took it up agonizing in her suspense, cried out rgans place. The condition of the trail near the hill and, facing about, hultcd, door. Wait in the kitchen for my call bitter. This afternoon und it ended in she must join him and go with him broke their formation continually and with their rifles across their arms. Le- from the living room, or a shot Ill again with his uncle, Duke's driving him cleun out of tho if he went, lie steadied her with a Lefever, in the circumstances, was not fever and Kennedy followed leisurely, arrange for your gettlug in." gap." few words. A bullet struck again sorry. His only anxiety was to keep and the party withdrew leavliig SatterLeaving the telephone, De Spuin re-- ; Where has he gone?" .viciously cl 086 between them. De Elpaso from riding ahead far enough lee, unmoved, in the sunny doorway. oined Nan in the room. He told living Nobody knows yet Ed Wickwiro me Give your to embroil them in a quarrel before he Once out of sight, Lefever led the way her Spain spoke slowly: briefly of the expected visit and told me once tliut your futher was shot rifle. Without turning his head, be himself should come up. rento down the the gap rapidly explained, luughlngly, that his caller from ambush a good many years ago. held out his hand, keeping his eyes Ilalf-wa- y to Dukes house they found dezvous. had asked to have the lights out and to It was north of Medicine Bend, on a rigidly on the suspicious spot on the a small bridge had gone out. It cut off Of all the confused impressions that see him alone, lie made so little of ranch near the Fence river; that you How far is it to that road, the direct road, and, at Elpnsos sug- crowded Nans ridge. memory after the wild the incident that Nun walked up the never found out who killed him, und Nan? gestion, they crossed over to follow the night on Music mountain, the most on De Spains arm reassured. that one reuson why you cume up into She looked toward the faint line ridge up the valley. Swimming their vivid was that of a noticeably light- stairs When he kissed her at her room door this country was to keep an eye out for that lay in the deep shadows below. horses through the backwater that cov- stepping and not ungraceful fut man and turned down the stairs again, she a clue. Three hundred yards. ered the depression to the south, they advancing, hat in hand, to greet her us leaned in half-ligover the banisthq What about it?" asked De Spuin, Nan, if it wasnt for you, I couldnt gained the elevation and proceeded, she stood with De Spain, weary and ter, waving one hand at him and mur- his tone hardening. travel this country at all, he re- unmolested, on their way. As they bedraggled in the aspen grove. Be careful, muring the hist caution: I wus riding home one night about marked with studious unconcern. approached Sassoon's place, Elpaso, A smile flamed from her eyes when, a month ago from Culubusus with Sus-sooLast time I had no ammunition this riding ahead, drew up his horse and sat turning at once, he rebuked De Spnln Henry, wont you? Dearie, Im always careful." Hed been drinking. I let him time, no rifle? you always have whats a moment studying the trail and cast- with dignity for not introducing him 'Cause you're ail Ive got now," she do the talking. lie began cussing you needed. How high are we, Nan? directo Nan, and while De Spain made apoling an occasional glance in the whispered. Seven hundred feet. out, and talked pretty hard about wlmt which lay un- ogies Lefever Introduced hlmRelf. tion of the ranch-housYoure ail Ive got. Nan, girl." Elevate for me, Nan, will you? der the brow of a hill ahead. you'd done, und what he'd done, and And is this, murmured Nan, lookI havent got any home or any- what he was going to do Remember the wind, she faltered, Nothing, When Lefever rode up to him, he ing at him quizzically, really Mr. John adjusting the sight as he had asked. saw the story that Elpaso was reading Lefever whom I've beurd so many thing Just you. Dont go to the door it seemed, would hurry the story. yourself. Leave the front door open. Finally, Sassoon says: That bound With the cautioning words she in the roadway. It told of a man shot stories about? Stand behind the end of the piano till don't know yet who got his ilud. It the burnished weapon, glitter- in his tracks as he was running toward passed She was conscious of his pleasinj you are awfully sure who It is. wns Duke Morgan ; that's who got him. ing yet with the raindrops, into his the house and, in the Judgment of and even teeth as he smiled nguin. Wliut a head. Nun I wus with Duke when he turned the hand. A flash came from the distant these men, fatally shot for, while his eyes If they have come from Mr. de Spain Do Spnln cut off the lights, threw trick. We rode down to De Spains ridge. Throwing his rifle to his shoul- companions spread like a fan In front I warn you, said John, take them open the front door, and in the dark- ranch one night to look up a rustler. der, De Spain covered a hardly per- of him, Lefever got off his horse and, with all reserve. ness sat down on the piano stool. A Tliut, concluded Iurduloe, wus uil ceptible black object on the trail mid- bending intently over the sudden page But they havent all come from Mr. heavy step on the porch, a little while Sassoon would Bay. way between Sassoon's ranch-hous- e torn out of a mans life, recast the de Spain. He stopped. He seemed to wuit. later, wus followed by a knock on the beand a little bridge. Then he fired scene that had taken place, where he If they come from any. of my open door. There was 110 word of answer, none of fore Nan could believe be had lined stood, half an hour earlier. Some little discredit them in advance. You friends, Come in ! called De Spain roughly. comment from the mun sitting near the sights. Once, twice, three times time Lefever spent patiently decipher- could believe what my enemies say, he The bulk of a mun lilled and ob- him. But, for one, at least, who heard Ills hand fell and rose sharply on the ing the story printed in the rutted rond, ran on ; then added ingenuously, if I scured for anlarge instant the opening, the passionless, monotonous recital of lever, with every mark of precision, and marked by a wide crimson splash had any enemies To De Spain he then the visitor over u murder of tlie long ago, there fol- underso Nan cnrcfully could not stepped Ills from rose yet rapidly in the middle of lie seemed to take the threshold. talked little. It very lowed a silence ns relentless us fate, do want? What you stand bow he could discover what his study at length and followed back the few words to exchange the news. asked De but; a silence shrouded in tlie mystery 6t his without were doing. shots Spnln changing had been feet that trail of t)ie running ' asked gingerly about the fight, tone. lie awaited with keenness the the darkness and striking despuir into The fire came steadily back, and de- stricken1' at the pool. He stooped In Lefever lie' made no mention whatever of the sound of tlie answer. two hearts a silence mure fearful liberately, without the least Intimation front of a fragment of rock jutting up crimson pool in the roud near Sasthan any word. Is Henry de Spuin here? of being affected by De Spains return. beside the road, stuped it a while unci soon's hut. Tlie voice wus not fainilinr to De Iardaloe shuflled his feet He Then, while she looked, breathlessly, looking about, picked up a number of ear. He told himself the' man coughed, but he evoked no response. I he took his eyes on instant from the empty cartridge-shellSpuins examined them, CHAPTER XXVI. I am Henry thought you was eutilled to know. was unknown to him. sights, lies running I exclaimed De and tossed them away. Then he de Spain, he returned without hesitU' lie said finally. Now tliut Sassoea will rifle went as the butt Spain instantly straightened up and looked search! ugPuppets of Fate. What do you wunt? tion. never talk nuy more. Whoever he is, ly across the gap. Only the great, back to his cheek. rode with De Spain into When Nan Tlie visitor's deliberation was reflectGod help him now I De Spain moistened his lips. When silent face of El Cap! tun confronted Sleepy Cut that morning, Lefever had ed in his measured speaking. I am lie spoke his voice wus cracked and Bullet after bullet pitilessly led the him. It told no talcs. already told their story to Jeffries over from Thief River," I10 began, and his bursli, ns if with what lie had beurd he If this was Henry de Spain, mut- the escaping wretch. Suddenly De Spain telephone from Calubasus, and Mrs. reverberating voice was low and dis- liuil suddenly grown old. jerked the rifle from his cheek, threw tered Elpaso, when Lefever rejoined Jeffries hud thrown open her house to tinct. I was sent In to Morgans gap Ills and You are rigid, lurduloe. 1 thank hand left back his head, his companions, he wont care whether swept Nan. Weary from cx)osure, some time receive across his straining eyes. Once more you join him now, or at ten oclock, or ago to find out who burned you. 1 when 1 in tlie morning. confusion and hunger. Nun wus only tlie Calahnsns barn. for the present, go hack to the the rifle came up to place and flame never. a shot again In the gray morning light And you report to ? That is not nenry, asserted Le- too grateful for refuge. gap. I will tulk with Wickwiro toOn the evening of the second day De morrow. from the hot muzzle. The rifle fell fever with his usual cheer. Not withKennedy. to Good night, Mr. de Spain. away from the shoulder. The black in forty rows of apple trees. Its not Spain was invited join the family at A De Spain paused. fresh convicIn the evening the Jeffrieses Good night, Furdulue. speck running toward the ranchhouse Henrys gun, not Henrys heels, not supper. had You across his mind. flushed, tion stumbled, as if stricken by an ox, and Henrys hair, and thereby, not Henrys weut down town. on me the telephone one night Bending forward, limp, in his chair, up De Spuin wus tulking with Nan in railed head that was hit that time. But it Ids head vacantly on his sprawled headlong on the trail. he said last supporting week, suddenly. room when the telephone bell They reached the end of the trail. was to a finish and blamed if at first the living hands, trying to think aud fearing to Tlie answer came without evasion. De Spain, rifld in hand, looked back. it didnt scare me. I thought it might rang in the library. De Spain heard Fnrdaloc's measthink, did. I De Spain took the call, and a man'! The sun, burstlug In splendor across be Henry. Hang it, get down and bee You gave me a message from Nan ured tread on tlie descending steps, unswered ids salutation. The voice the valley for yourselves, boys. the great desert, splashed and listened meelmnically to the reasked for Mr. de Spain and Morgan thnt she never gave you." g and the of his footsteps down ridge with ribboned Elpaso answered his invitation with speaker I did. I thought she needed you treating echoes Who was this fellow seemed particular to make sure of his Minute after minstreet. tlie shaded gold. Farther up the gap horsemen, an Inquiry. right off. She didn't know me as I ute identity. stirred by the firing, were riding rap- fighting with? made no more. De Spain passed. This, repeated De Spain more than rightly am. I knew what was going on. A could only have so that it That, also, is a question. Ccrtnlnly idly down toward Sassoons ranch-houslight step But the black thing in the not with Henry de Spain, because the once, and somewhat testily, is Henry I rode into town that evening and rode been the step of 'll delicate girlhood, u out nguin. It was not my business, and de Spuin speaking. d other fellow, I think, was using sunshine lay quite still. as the footfall of youth, I couldn't let it Interfere with the bust step free a huve to little like talk with Id bullets. No white man does that, as tread of womanhood mid the poised ness Im paid to look after. Thats the you, Mr. de Spain. CHAPTER XXV. mucli less De Spain. came down the stairs. Slight beauty, I reason dodged you. Who are you?" ns he was, she Unless he used another rifle, sug"There Is a cliiilr at the left of the as she was, and silent The vein of sharpness in the quesKennedv. Lefever to the Rescue. liim in tlie dark to walked gested straight down. Whats your name?" Tell me how they could get his own tion met with no deviation from the door; sit between his feet, Lefever, chafing In the aspen grove The man feeling around slowly, de- ness, und, sinking even tone of the voice at the slow, In of the fire a could him rifle if from he restraint the hands wound waiting her under away through his two I am not in posited his angular bulk with care up- arms. end of the wire. I heard everything, Henry," storm, was ready long before daylight gun at all. I dont put Ilenry quite as other My name" in the site murmured, looking up. A11 involposition to give you my name," came on the little chair. to break orders and ride in to find high with a rifle as with a revolvei if you want to split hairs mind I say, the answer, at least, not over the tensenessto of the dark tlie words untary start of protest was his only De Spain. seemed wire." Is carry added mystery and of 1 wus afraid of a plot first dawn, if peep the you wnnt to split hairs. But no man With response. Iardnloe." A crossed impression vague suddenly sadhim elcher their in I stayed at the head of thats ever seen him handle with his men fucing you. against mind that somewhere he Youve got a brother Joe Pnrda De 1 told you long ago stairs. the Ilenry, dles. Lefeves made a short explanation. would want to try to take any kind of had Spuins loe? suggested De Spain to trap I1I111 heard the voice before. some dreadful tiling would come beI dont want any man to go Into the a gun from him. Whoever it was, LeDo you suppose I could come up to No, Ive got no brother. 1 am Just tween us something not our fault. gap with me this morning under any fever got up into his saddle ngnin, where you are tonight for a few minJim Inrdaloe. plain into ounces of some lead that Ami now it comes to dash our cup of misunderstanding or any false pre- threw utes' talk? continued the man coolly. Say what you have got to say, happiness when It is filling. tense, be began cheerfully. Bob piece of rock buck there, though I Nut unless you have something very Jim." could see how She stopped, hoping perhaps he anyone Scott and Bull will stay right here. It dont understand I could get In the gap would say some little word, that he The 1 Job only Important. a man behind his makes De lying Spain by any chance, What 1 have is more important to wns with old Duke Morgnn Ive been would even pat her head, or press her Anyway, whoever was hit here has way out while the rest of us are hunt working for him, off and on, and spend hand, hut he sut like one stunned. If us been carried down the roud. Well you thnn to me." ing for him, youll be here to slgnul an ranch-hous- e took to decide. De instant if ing the rest of my time with Gnle and It could have been anything but. this !" Spain In dont with they try Sassoons three shots. Bob or to ride All right, he said impatiently ; come Dure Sassoon. There were three men she pleaded, low' and sorrowfully. Oil, De Spuin to help carry the rest of us fire on us before we get there. he paused to let the in the Dave Sassoon Only man adin along. shirt a In the sunshine why did you not listen to 1110 before out Now, Its like this, he added, if this is a game youre put up the job. we were engulfed! My dear Henry! You, all of you sleeves, leaning against the jamb, stood word sink In, dressing the others. Where is Dave Sassoon now?" of Sassooni Yon whove given me all the happiness springing In the know to open doorway everybody or ought know, Dead." no game, returned I'm as I have ever had tliut the blood of iny springing Invaders the know railroad they shack, watching twlxt here and the Both men were silent for a moment. own should come the nun evenly. and hill around the have rode gingerly against you nml Nan and Morgan De Spain that asked then. Til tell yoiJust Come Yesterday fight? I morning's along, MorThe emotion she struggled, Satt Lefever the recognized for yours other long fattened up to each De Spain reluctantly. him from how to get here. Do you hear? and fought back with nil tlie to a lie with, trull flung greeting gan. together. the dusty down ride Yes, sir." Im listening." the saddle. strength of tier nature, rose in a reThat I take it is their business.and But How did he happen to catch us on sistless street Main Leave Rancherlo at tide thnt swept her on. In tlie: but answered he in Sntt kind, the eyed and Gale, old Duke, her uncle, Follow Rancherlo north four El Cnpltan? street ominous silence, to of his when reserve with face horsemen sore the dead they turned whole bunch, I hear, lie saw a fire on Music mountain llcr breath, no longer confront'd,despair., came seemed to Lefever al blocks, turn west into Grant avenue. he and drew them. to up. beat it fixed up huve and on it, nnd watched the lower end of the gap Mr. Jeffries house is on the corner, voice her and trembled. less than usual, brokenly, responsive together 'You all know the Morgans. Theyre all night Sassoon was a wide-awak-e I'll find It" You have been very kigd to me, him for informasome bunch and they stick for one John sparred with come other If Dont any you mnn. way. back and Satterlee youve been the only man Fve tion togave hold Ilenry nothing all and another like hornets, Well, I'm sorry, Fardaloe, con- ever known that always, evcrywhere.1 do, you wont see me." 1 don't wnnt any but words. So a in fight gether Im not afraid of you, Mr. de Spain, tinued Do Spnln nftcr a moment. No- thought of me first. I told you I didnt' Cnnt tell us anything about De man to ride in there with me thinking I'll come as you soy. There's only body could call it my fault It was deserve It, I wasnt worthy of and at Lefever echoed eh? length. he's going to a wedding. He isnt He Spain, one thing I should like to ask. It would either he or I or the life of a womnn find Ills hands slipped silently over her. well All somebody Satt, right, funeral, a to may or may not be going can. Is there a bridge over to be as much as my life Is worth to be who never harmed a hair of his head, hands. lie gathered her elose into his that shlvaree. a to not he's but going seen talking to you. And there are and a womnn Im hound to protect ne nrnis, and his tears fell ou tier Second verse, John. You're boss Dukes on this troll? other good reasons why I shouldnt wns running when he was hit If he face. Into his nose wrinkled normal Satts here ; what are we going to do? TIint'r like to have it known I had talked to had got to cover again there was noth (TO BE CONTINUED.) a re The Theres smile. bridge'1 all we want to know, Elpaso replied, ou. Nan gf Music high-powere- Mountain - nd o, i XXIV-Continue- . ht n. e, ' 1 1 it ' s, 1iir-(hilo- e, - low-lyin- e. . soft-nose- barn-burnin- g. It' Ui-turn- |