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Show THE GRANT8VILLE NAN NEW8, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. done to pacify her uncle and his relatives so that n wedge might be driven in between them and their notorious henchman, and Sassoon brought to book with their consent ; on this point, d however, he was not quite enough to take his friends Into his of length as the butt rested on the ground, she looked up from the shoulWhat der to which she was drawn. should you have done If he had come? Taken you to the gap and then taken him to Sleepy (hit, where he be- bold-face- mun thats crowded in bis Bob Scott says there are dozens- of mountain lions over there. But Sassoon hnd the unpleasant patience of a mountain lion and its dogged persistence, and, hiding himself on Black Cap, he made certain one day of what he had long been convinced that Nan was meeting De Spain. The day after she hud mentioned Black Cap to ber lover, Nan rode over to Calabasas to get a bridle mended. Galloping back, she encountered Sassoon just Inside the gap. Nan so detested him that she never spoke when site could avoid It. On his part, lie pretended not to see her as she passed. When she reuched home she fouud her Uncle Duke and Gale standing in front of the fireplace in the living room. The two appeared from their manner to have been In u heated discussion, one that hnd stopped suddenly on her appearance. Both looked ut Nun. The expression on their faces forewarned tier. She threw her quirt on the table, drew off her riding: gloves, und began to unpin her hat;: but she knew a storm wus impending. Gule hud been mude for a long time1 to know that he was an unwelcome-visitor- , nnd Nun's greeting of him was--thmerest contemptuous nod. Well,, uncle, she said, glancing at Duke,. I'm late uguin. Have you had supget-awa- y. - longs. confidence. But, Henry, suppose' De Spain, as fiery a lover as he was There wouldn't have been any supa fighter, stayed none of his courting pose. ' because circumstances put Music Suppose the others had come. mountain between him and his misWith one rifle, here, a man could tress. And Nan, af(er she had once stand off a regiment. Nan, do you surrendered, was nothing' behind in the know, you fit into my ann as if you chances she unhesitatingly took to ar- were made for It? range her meetings with De Spain. He Ills courage was contagious. When Whisperiivg found in her, once her girlish timidity he had tired her with fresh ImportucorJruasrr gy cWf WIHWW JMM was overcome and a womans confi- nities he unpinned her felt bat and dence bad replaced It, a disregard of held it out of reach. while he kissed consequences, so far as their own plans and toyed with and disarranged her NAN AND DE SPAIN TAKE WILD CHANCES OF BEING were concerned, that sometimes took hair. In revenge, she snatched from away his breath. his his little black memoranpocket G AND CAUGHT IN THEIR CLANDESTINE The very day after she had got her dum book and some letters and read, uncle home, with the aid of Satterlee or pretended to read them, and seisTHE GIRL FINALLY GETS INTO TROUBLE Morgan and an antiquated spring wag- ing her opportunity she broke from on, Nan rode, later in the afternoon, him and ran with the utmost fleetness THROUGH SASSOONS SPYING over to Calabasas. The two that up into the rocks. would not be restrained bad made In two minutes they had forgotten their appointment at the lower lava the episode almost as completely as beds halfway between the gap and Henry de Spain, general manager of the stagecoach line running never had been. But when they if It The sun was sinking beCalabasas. from Thief River to Sleepy Cat, railroad division town in the Rocky home they agreed they would for left hind the mountain when De Spain galmountains, Is fighting a band of cattle thieves and gunmen living in not meet them again. They knew that loped out of the rocks as Nan turned Morgan gap, a fertile valley 20 miles from Sleepy Cat and near like a Jackal, would surely from the trail and rode toward the Sassoon, Calabasas, where the coach horses are changed. De Spain has killed come and more than once, until back, black and weather-beate- n two of the gang and has been seriously wounded. He and pretty Nan meeting he found out just what that trull or place. Ilorgan, niece of the gang leader, are secretly in love, but fear trouble trail leading into the per? any subsequent If they attempt to marry. They could hardly slip from their meant The lovers laughed the Duke always spoke curtly; tonight saddles fast enough to reach each oth- beds scorn and rode away, his heavy voice wus as sharp as an. to ackals spying ers arms Nan, trim as a model in Been late a good deal lately." bantering, racing and chaBing each ux. When you looked at me I felt as If fresh khaki, trying with a handker- other in the saddle, as solely concerned CHAPTER XVII. Nan laid her hat on the tnble, and, chief hardly larger than a postage you could see right through me." In their happiness as if there were glancing composedly from one suspiConfidences never came to an end. . stamp to wipe the flecks of dust from nothing else of moment In the whole cious face to the other, put her hands-uAnd diplomacy came Into Its own al- - her plnk cheek8 whUe De SP1"- When she tiptoed into her uncles wide world. to arrange her hair. I'm going to them with lmpor-lmproroom at midnight. Nans heart beat as at once in De Spains efforts to tween to do better. I'll go and get my try his relations with the impla-- 1 tunate gr88tl8' LookIn8 engrossed the wings of a bird beat from the CHAPTER XVIII. if you've lmd yours. She supper s In and each other eyes, both, broken door of a cage into a forbidden cable Duke. The day came when Nans started room. toward the dining tnlk,ng nt once they ky of happiness. She had left the uncle could be taken home. De Spain thelr engerne8 Hold on! Nan paused at her unFacing the Music. l8d toeir horses It0I11,1J?ln aad room a girl ; she returned a woman. sent to him a had not .underestimated the cle's ferocious connnund. She looked They emissary, down t0 tr to hnd haP" from Sassoons suspicious ma- at him either really or feiguedly surBleep she did not expect or even ask Bob Scott, offering to provide a light since their parting. Wars and danger He returned next morn- prised, her expression changing to one levolence. for; the night was all too short to stage, with his compliments, for the I Pned think of those tense, fearful moments trip. The Intractable mountaineer, rumora of wara feuda aud raidings. ing to read what further lie could of indignation, und walled for him to that had pledged her to her lover. with his refusal to accept the olive fights and pursuits, were no more to among the rocks. It was little, but It speak. Since he did no more than When the anxieties of her situation branch, blew Bob out of the room. them than to babes in the woods. Ail spelled a meeting of two people Nan glare angrily ut her, Nun lifted her overwhelmed her, as they would again Nan was crushed by the result, but De thnt - mattered to them sitting or and another and he was stimulated to brows a little. Whut do you want, pacing together and absorbed, in the keep his eyes and ears open for fur- uncle?" and again, she felt herself In the arms Spain was not to be dismayed. long-col- d I 018 stream all whom man of this strange, resolute volcanic, Lefever came to him the day after Pth Moreover, continuther discoveries. Where did you go this ufternoun? her own hated and whom she knew she Nan had got her uncle home. Henry, buried in the shifting sands of the ing ease in seeing each other, undeOver to Culabasas, she answered was that they should clasp tected by hostile eyes, gradually renalready loved beyond all power to put he began without any preliminaries, I Innocently. away. In her heart, she had tried this there is one thing about your predpl- - eacl others dinging hands, listen each dered the lovers less cautious in their Whod you meet there? Duke's more than once she knew she could tate ride up Music mountain that I I40 toe others answering voice, look arrangements. tone snapped with anger. He was even never got dear In my mind. After the unrestrained Into each others eyes. De Spain, naturally reckless, hnd working himself Into a not, would not. ever do It, or fury, but Nan won in Nan a girl hardly more con- saw it must be faced. They met in both the lava bed fight, your cartridge bdt was hanging try to do It, again. The sume t, She rejoiced In his love. She trusted. up in the barn at Calabasas for two the upper lay between the gap and cerned. both of them, people I usuully meet why? man this believed once. You more one In walked to us that morn- town And than When he spoke she weeks. day and Instinctively vigilant, they spent Did you meet Henry de Spain there whom no one around her would be- ing with your belt buckled on. You came a scare. They were sitting on so much time together that Scott and this afternoon. lieve ; and she, who never had believed told us you put it on before you came a little ledge well up in the rocks Lefever, who, before a fortnight had Nun looked Bquarely at her cousin what other men avowed, and who de- upstairs. What? Oh, yes, I know, where De Spain could overlook the passed after Duke's return home, sur- nnd returned his triumphant exprestested their avowals, believed De Henry. But that belt wasn't hanging trail east and west, and were talking mised that De Spain must be carry- sion defiantly before she turned ber Spain, and secretly, guiltily, glowed in downstairs with your coat earlier in about a bungalow some day to be in ing on some sort of a clandestine af- eyes on her uncle. No, she said colevery word of his devotion and the evening. No, Henry, it wasn't not Sleepy Gat when they saw men riding fair hinting toward the gap, only ques- lectedly. Why? when I looked. Dont tell me such from the west toward Calabasas. There tioned how long it would be before breathed faint in Its every caress. See him anywhere else? Night could hardly come fast enough, things, because I dont know. Where were three In the party, one lagging something happened, and only hoped No. I did not What do you menn? after the next long day. A hundred was the belt when you found It? wdl behind. The two men leading, it would not be, in their own word, Whut demnnded his niece with spirit from Some distance reminded the she coat, John. times during that day Nan and De Spain made out to be unpleusant It was not theirs In any do you want to know? Whnt are you herself, while the slow, majestic sun I admit that Fll tell you: some one Gale Morgan and Page. They saw the case to admonish De Spain, nor to trying to find out?" shone simmering on the hot desert, had moved the belt It was not where man coming on behind stop his horse dog the movements of so cnpable a Duke turned In Ills rage on Gale? that she had promised to steal out into I left It I wns hurried the morning I and Jean forward, his head bent over friend, even when his safety was con- There I Yon hear thnt whnt have rode in, and I cant tell you Just where the trail. He was examining the sand cerned, so long as he preferred to keep you got to say now?" he demanded the grounds the minute darkness fell he would be waiting. A hundred times I found and halted quite a minute to study his own counsel there are limits with an abusive oath. 1 Lefever never hatted an eyelash. in the long afternoon Nan. looked Into Gule Jumped forward, his finger something. Both knew what he was within which no man welcomes uninthe cloudless western sky and with know you cant Henry. Because you studying the hoofprints of Nan's vited assistance. And De Spnin, In pointed at Nan. Look here, do you puny, eager hands would have pushed wont That Scotch hybrid McAlpin pony heading toward the lava. Nan his long and frequent rides, his pro- deny you are meeting Henry de Spain the lagging orb on its course that she knows a few things, too, thnt be won't shrank back and with De Spain moved tracted absences, Indifference to the all over the desert? You met him All I want to say is, you can could watch the details of business and careless humor, down the Sleepy Cat trail near Black a little to where might sooner give herself into the tell. man too far. He's got all intruder without they trust that so sure, arms where she felt her place Nan hnd evidently passed within these Cap, didn't you?" being seen. De limits. her honor safe, her helplessness so pro- ray recent salary. Every time Jeffries whispered first: It's Sassoon. Nan stood with her back against ihe horse-doctraises my pay that hairy-pawe- d What was stage traffic to him com' end of the table where tier uncle's first nodded. 'What shall we do? tected, herself so loved. Spain reduces it just so much a month. breathed Nan. How her cheeks burned after supper pared to the sunshine on Nans bnlr; words hnd stopped her, und she looked And does It with one pack of fifty-tw-o be returned her lover, what attraction lind schedules to offer sidewise toward ber cousin. In her when she asked her uncle for leuve to yet, Nothing small cards that you could stick How breathanswer he heard as much contempt ns watching the horseman, whose eyes ngulnst a moment of her eyes; what post a letter downtown Into your vest pocket. were still fixed on the pony's trail pleasing connection could there be be- a girls voice could convey to a reless with apprehension she baited as McAlpin bus a wife and children to I'but who was now less than a half-mil- e tween bad-ordwheels and her low jected lover. So youve turned sneak 1 De Spain- - stepped from the shadow of support, suggested De Spain. toward luugb? Gale roared a string of had words. and the trees and drew her Importunately awny straight riding Dont think for a moment he does them. The two felt they must meet to disYou hire that coyote Sassoon to beneath them for the kiss that had it, returned Lefever I vehemently. De Spain, his eyes on the danger cuss their constant perplexities and spy for you, do you? demanded Nan burned on her troubled lips all day I support his wife and children myself. and his hand laid behind Nan's waist the problems of their difficult situaArent you proud of y ir knowing bis caresses coolly. How, glrl-llkYou shouldn't piny cards, John. to tion ; but when they reached their mnnly relation, uncle?" Duke wus down led the were all her 'own knowing she could way guardedly It was by playing cards that I lo- where stood. Nan, need' trysting places, there wns more of guy-et- y choking with rage. He tried to speak horses their at an Instant call forth enough to cated Sassoon, A same. the little than gravity, more of nonchalance to her, but he could not form his words. no instructions for the emergency, smother her she tyrannized his im- game with yourjustfriend Bull Page, by ing De concern, more of looking Into Whnt is it you want to know, uncle? than and took of a like lines the miser, the and horses, lovely portuning, the way. And say, that man blew hoarded her responsiveness under calm into Calabasas one day here Spain, standing beside his own horse, each other's hearts than looking into Whether It is true that I meet Henry lately the troublesome future. Aud there de Spain? It Is. I do meet him, and eye and laconic whispers until, when with a twenty-dolla- r bill ;. Its a fact. reached his right hand over in front was hurdly an inviting spot within we're engaged to be married when you she did give back his eagerness, she Now, where do you suppose he got of the pommel and, regarding Sassoon of Music mountain thnt one or give us permission, Uncle Duke and. miles rifle his drew reel. all the senses his slowly made while, twenty dollars In one bill? I know 1 of the two hnd not waited not till then. other the fled How dreamily she listened to every had it two hours after he got there, from its scabbard. The blood near. With said cheeks. She Nan's of There you have It cried Gale; nothing. word he let fall in his outpouring and then In fifteen minutes that of course, disappointThere were, her De ou4 drew at the story. I told you so. There's her Spain her, she looking how up blamed put bullwhacker you pay thirtydevotion; gravely fail Ive known It for a week, I tell you. hand to restrain his busy intrusion, two a week to took It away from me. own rifle from her horse's side, passed ments, but there were only a few diffNans face set. Not only," continued and asked If he knew that no man In But I got Sussoon spotted. And where it into her hand, and, moving over in ures in their arrangements. The iculties of these fell chiefly on Nan, her cousin Jeerlngly, meeting that " the world, least of all her fierce and do you suppose Split-Up- s Is this mi- front of the horses, laid his left hand was a source Almost before the vile epithet that reassuringly on her waist again. At How she overcame them burly cousin, had ever touched her lips nuter marveled followed had reached her ears, Nun who De to of Spain, what surprise little hut eyes moment, knowing until he himself forced a kiss on them Morgans gap.' at ber Innocent resource in escaping caught up the whip. Before he could She the night before. And now I Quite so and been there ail the were on him in the black fragments the demands at home and making ber escape, she cut Gale sharply across the he looked Then Sassoon up. hid her face against his shoulder. Oh, time. Now, Bob has the old warrant ahead, an array of obstacles, to face. color way, I You coward, she cried, t ramThe more forward. despite so rod Im lowly him love how for toe I how to you Henry, question is, get Do you his distant Impatience. returned to Nan's cheeks. bling so she could not control her ashamed I couldn't tell you If it werent him out. 8,18 murmured Midway between Music mountain voice. If you ever dare use that word De Spain reflected a moment before want 11,8 40 088 night; HI never look you In the face g wall of before me again, Fll horsewhip you. and Sleepy Cat a replying: John, I'd let him alone Just todicating the rifle, again In the daytime. d and in Go to Henry de Spains face, you. in lava rock, If part others But the not he how little for the told he her Certainly said at length. And when he present, sometimes and skulker, and say that if you dure. Lefevers eyes bulged. Let Sassoon torn back, I may need It Stay right part exposed, parallels himself had had to do with, and how unduThis trail. the crosses Put down that quirt. Nan, yelled will lose the He principal with horses. the here from even alone? little be knew about girls, was a favorite with De her uncle. now. When a he In beridge minute lating not to trail a He'll for how she while, feigned keep anyway. boyhood, I wont put It down, she exclaimed reaches the rock I'll go down and Spain and Nan, because they could What do you mean? lieve, and believed him still 1 They And he will get a good I don't want to stir things up too keep him from getting off his horse-str- ong ride In and out of hiding places with- defiantly. were two children raised In the magic the trail more ' than out with it if he says one more leaving saddle. from the wont just lashing he over of minthat fight the at way just of an hour to the supreme height But with an Instinct better than itself. To the west of this ridge, and word about Henry de Spain. life and dizzy together on Its summit ute. John. rose rather more than Put down that quirt, I tell you,' Why not? knowledge, Sassoon, like a wolf scent- - commanding It, I dont see how you can care for mile away the cone called Black Cap. thundered her uncle. a shuffled De a He scanned mean she little. I proSpain again. It" stopped Well, danger, Oh, ing me, Henry. Suppose, said Nan one afternoon, tested, holding her head resolutely up. Jeffrlea thinks we might let things rest the broken and forbidding hump In De Spains side toward Old Duke Morgan decides to You know who we are, away off there till Duke Morgan and the others get front, now less than a quarter of a looking from someone should be the mountains, soreness. us. some His over of their from hates him, mile questlonjngly. In the mountains. Everyone take matters into his own hands She over spying on us from Black Cap? with De 8pain. He goes to I suppose theyve plenty of reason to: Lefever, astonished at the Indlffer- - eyes seemed to rove inquisitively Mor-orock. to the f De to ence as solitary a of And If the lava pointed Spain why pile asking why we hate everybody else.. opportunity the Sleepy Cat hunting the stage If anyone has been, Nan, with nabbing Sassoon, while he could be gan Gap pony had visited It In d, and finds him. its all shouldnt we? Were at war with evmanager I expostulated strongly. When other moment he wheeled his horse good glass he must have seen extold in the next Installment eryone. You know, better than I do. What goes on In the gap. I don't want De Spain persisted, Lefever, huffed, land spurred rapidly after his compan-conflde- d changes of confidence that would make to Bob Scott that when the I Iona. him gnash his teeth. I know If I ever lo know; I try not to know; Unde (TO bu CONTINUED.) general manager got ready he could I The two drew a deep breath. Do saw anything like it Fd go hang. But t)oke tries to keep things from mi I too Is around himself. there Sassoon believe bean cheese of the Orient we catch know What couldn't I The the dont Music rough country on pure that day Spain laughed.' Tm De Spain wanted for Nans sake, aa I never hurts us. He drew Nan to him. for a horse. Nobody even hides around Is made solely from prepared bean And at all. It yet meant you casein curd. afraid 1 liked to try to think you did well as his own, to see what could be Holding the rifle muzzle at arms Black Cap, except some tramp hold-u- p MUSIC MOUNTAIN By fhankTI. Spearman Author of Smitlv -- LOVE-MAKIN- -- e 11-D- anger. . he-mo- st M. wd soft-spok- ve en Self-relian- it or 1 er e, I low-lyin- sand-covere- |