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CHAPTER ni rnn sat Pancho to TtV. single "street" pt for a horseman J.Yof S-burdened burros Liu stow ,u I j, pushed we u" , Kail looking with very real P"1-" loft A uhabbv ii man wito cneenui, u ..mi .n4 mnupd toward a v. uio nil " U house out of which came an fLi..i Hwo-toned chanting. r. . miis " the freckled L, reassured Coa "Him and an long. rnn said, smiling L, wonderlnk if this friendly C miH he one of those visi ts to Fronteras of whom Easy and (oEyes and Hogpen nan warucu x i wondered what he would actu-It actu-It find in the big cantina. He . ..i..t- I. his eholl halt M and bolstered pistol sag more Efcrtably. Then he walked into idusky, dirt-floored room and Bed all around. Here was a bar made of rough taking and tables of the same it carpentry around the walls, mind kegs and stools seemed to m the dozen customers or loafers seats. At the far end of the bar man slouched with a tin cup Mi bottle before him. He stared w at Con and continued to sing sty: . ptiovmy time is drawing nigh fm lor my evil I must die. men be warned by me ptfdra all evil companeee " 111 bis eyes accustomed them- res to the gloom of the low room, Id faced the drinkers blankly. 'A Ellis was a florid man with ej. sandy hair, by his rough cloth- B MBmim Hta MnniUo A a11 p man near Ellis was very neat aarK irousers arawn glistening Kid boots. .A U& i. . -1 , m legs of lsa even just over . But with eyes Guam -- i W.N.U. R.HLCASE J r vii uau,ucu late uwatu uuoc, auu udiK cjres v j i . m aeep socseis. ana straignt, -OSt lioless. mniith Thrao se together were nearer Con. o looked like brothers, vaguely tain fnnn. L: j - . -i kjwjt uair ana square, sui-beard-stubbled faces. The third J hl.!l-m ..J J J "s icu-iacea man neav-than neav-than Quirk Ellis, as shahhv COmnaninno 'Sowdy!" Con greeted them all Cerallv "Tt .. -suiuiiu.. rormenouse. t thirteen dn11n.. : .u: . - 1 wuuals ux mis poCK- Hlis announced at last, sandy 1 Ml firm i i . ... vut o.ub as ne iooKea at his 9. "So m s . .u.i . " B"c Juu mai lor neL But you ought to throw in --vvu, attuuni oi me way feskinninGmA d..i. u i av-ii ii. ui nere d it up fa the corner yon-Ira yon-Ira awful L bumenow. JT- Here!" Jjwned and indicated the sU- tin n7 . 1 au me Iaces Pe. wuhout seeming to he toW Ellis sadly. fj "ffl know how sorry I rsr,u tr"""i":u my aunt I SSfSL"""- at out Iietrlchfaw , De dances iBUcit Said wouldn't Kwl at bade, rri k ,mal5e some kind rco001- hbUL '"e'veyou eightv n.rZ.rt'on and if take any nZJ0 80me mre. rid number ou want to a. &SLhiJhea(1 Roomily. Uau-ZTS!" he drawled. KL.tahere t heart- pretty' like F n . up " barronm .1 r toned to look L?uuTd7r head- Then the ri 6 Could t Pan, k Ellis ?!. pt with side fed in hi. Tl hand was H A hi shell hit h Q He lJ,WDre,'slapped ' Con checked him reprovingly. between Ellis and the door. Con kept his face blank while Ellis jerked loose the latigoes and dropped the saddle into the dirt Then he shook his head and returned to the bar. He leaned quickly and from its nails behind the bar jerked the sawed-oft shotgun he had seen while having his first drink. The bartender bartend-er began a yell of protest, but Con was across the floor with the gun hammers back under his thumbs before be-fore anyone could interfere. He slid outside and put his back to the walL Ellis had seen him instantly and with flashing jerk drawn his pistol and leveled it But the grin froze on his face as he saw the shotgun. Con drew a long breath and made himself relax against the wall "At your age," he said carefully, "and I really don't know how you ever got to be that age, either, your hearing's naturally poor. You evidently evi-dently thought I said I'd sell Pancho. Pan-cho. But what I said was that 1 don't want to sell him. So put the little popper away and saddle him again." "Better put that down, sonny," Ellis told him harshly. "It might go off and hurt somebody. Put it down, or" "You're right," Con agreed. "It might go off and hurt somebody right where you're standing. In fact, if you're thinking of doing anything with that hogleg, you'd better do it Make up your mind. I'm ramrod-ding ramrod-ding this hurrah and I say you've got five seconds. One . . . Two . . . Three . . . Four ..." He saw Ellis' shoulder stiffen slightly, then relax. The Colt sagged while he watched tensely. From the corner of his eye he saw the packed doorway. But he watched while Ellis El-lis reholstered the pistol and took a step toward him. Then he gestured with the shotgun. "Your hearing!" he said irritably. "I said: Saddle him! And do it right Even if I let my tender heart get the best of me and just shoot you in the legs, you won't like it! For this cannon will probably carry high ..." "Now, listen, sonny" "You listen! It's your hearing that's bad. Get that saddle back on. or" From the barroom the voice of the bartender was suddenly lifted, yelling indignantly about his shot gun. Con only gestured toward the door with the muzzles and there was the sound of sudden scrambling scram-bling and oaths of those trampled. Ellis, furiously red, leaned to the fallen saddle. Con directed him crit ically as he put on the blanket and settled the saddle upon it When the cinchas were tight and Ellis would have stopped. Con checked him reprovingly. "Why, it's all dusty! Wipe it nice and clean with your hat if you can't find anything else. If you want to argue, just think how much use you'll have for that hat if you don't!" Ellis glared but when Con moved the shotgun in I small, menacing droop and stiffened, he fished a bandanna from his pocket and cleaned the saddle after a fashion. "Fine!" Con complimented him. Now. let's go back inside. I want a drink. Looking at all the pain that job was to you made me thirsty. Ellis walked stiffly inside. The I drinkers gave back to let the two enter. Con checked his prisoner at the near end of the bar and himself him-self stood so that his back had solid mud bricks protecting It He trained the shotgun muzzles upon the floor but did not uncock the hammers. "Somebody Is going to buy a drink," he Informed the scowling bartender. "Maybe the old gentleman gentle-man of the bad eyes and ears. No-o. I can see by the south side of him that he won't So I will, for the house. You take something special. Barkeep. I owe you for the loan of this equalizer." "You won't buy this round!" the hulking red-faced man beyond Ellis grunted. He looked at Ellis and burst into a roar of amusement "Young fellow! I like your style. I go by Lee Welsh and I'm strange to Fronteras as you are. These fine, upstanding cowboys with me. they're strangers, too. They go by Ranier. Chick and Odd. They're cousins and you can tell 'em apart by Chick, he shoots his pistol left- Kathleen Norris Says: Don't Believe All You Hear in Wartime (Bell Syndicate-wmy Service.) handed and Odd, he shoots his right-handed. right-handed. They're awful good shots, and so am I, but not quite so good as Chick and Odd. Set 'em up. Bar-keep!" Bar-keep!" "Riding, are you?" Welsh asked Coa "You can side us, if you are so minded. We're cutting stick, too. Maybe for Faith. No never mind whichaway. Just saddle lobos!" "Glad to side you," said Con. "Barkeep, I am buying this one." Quirk Ellis seemed to have decided de-cided to bide his time. He said nothing when Con asked with exaggerated exag-gerated politeness for the "pleasure "pleas-ure of his company" outside. He came to stand before the hitch rack, florid face blank. Con broke the shotgun In shelter of Pancho, extracted ex-tracted the shells and put them in his pocket. With the carbine across his arm, he set the shotgun at the hitch-rack end and tossed a dollar to the bartender, who stood sourly behind Ellis. The four swung into their saddles For several days they rode slowly westward, missing the towns, getting get-ting tobacco and meals at little pla-zitas, pla-zitas, or stopping overnight at some small ranch. They were in no hurry. hur-ry. Con least of all At the little ranch they talked with a blue-eyed, red-haired Mexican Mexi-can deputy sheriff, He was a friendly friend-ly and talkative soul, this Martino Palaf ox. A shrewd and efficient man, too, Con decided; his quick glances missed very little. He was riding from Anthony to Faith on an errand for his superior, the sher iff. In the slow talk, he spoke of Ti- van, farther west; a good little town, he called it; a salty little town. Milam Mi-lam Fant marshal of a half-dozen hell-roaring cowtowns up and down. had come home to be sheriff. Martino Mar-tino spoke admiringly of Fant's gunplay. gun-play. "He's what my people call un bru-jo bru-jo a wizard. About as slick as they come. I heard that he had a deputy in Wild Horse named Dynamite Dyna-mite Downes, about as fast That's hard to believe." "How about Nevil Lowe?" Con asked carefully. "Is he fast?" "Well, he's always been fast enough. But I wouldn't put him anywhere's near a Milam Fant Uh-uh. Uh-uh. But Nevil's one of them fellows as calm as a cat in the sun. Awful hard to figure and he's figuring all the time. He's stood and just looked himself out of lots of scrapes a shaky man would've killed somebody some-body in, or got killed himself. If you're figuring on hitting him up for jobs, he's one of the best to ride for. Him and his sister both, they're fine people." Con called to mind the pretty face of that dark-haired, dark-eyed girl, small and graceful, admired in Wild Horse. A sister, not a wife . . . And Nevil Lowe was a good man to work for . . . The Raniers, Lee Welsh, and Con slept on a narrow porch at the back of the house. Con heard them talk ing after all had rolled in their blankets, but they kept tneir voices down so that he caught only mutter- ings. He forgot them, presently. Ti- van sounded interesting. He tried to recall what Hugh Norris Nor-ris had said at one time or another, nver a period of years, about Tivan. But he could remember nouung aei- inite. At some time, uis uncje una been in Tivan and exciting, interesting interest-ing things had happened. But Con could not piece together the bits of stories to make them explain iiugn Norris. All he could recall was his boyish conviction that Tivan must be a wonderful place to see. and his determination to go there some day. Knm. he was soine. Nevil Lowe had a ranch in the neighborhood And certainly he had saved Nevii Lowe's life in Wild Horse . . . It was pleasant to look forward to meeting Lowe. He bad no intention of introducing himself as Lowe's rescuer. res-cuer. But he could inquire about the herd" and Lowe's trouble with Asa Brock, then remark casually that he had thought a bowling ball or two might help. And what was the pret-ty pret-ty sister's name? Janet! Through the quick breakfast Con found Martino watching him. But he said nothing more. All of them saddled. Andy the ranrher to ride northward with Martino. The rest of them went west (TO BE COXTISUED) 4 w mth iiv j We began to prepare to blackout the living room, kitchen and pantry. By the light of me candle that belonged on a birthday cake tee pinned and nailed thing into place. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WHAT do you know personally per-sonally of the brighter cirlo nf tViis war citimj tion? It's everybody's busi ness today to find that side, and pass along to his neighbor neigh-bor whatever tends to lift our hearts. For there's a black shadow over the world, and until it passes we must help one another to see shining through it the same old guiding guid-ing lights of faith, hope and charity. Here's something that may save some of the women who live far inland in-land some hours of anxiety. My home is on the Pacific coast between be-tween San Francisco, on the north, and all the many.-'Srmy and navy bases that are strung along down to San Diego, on the south. After Pearl Harbor we had a bad scare, and we leaped into action with that nassion of natriotism that stirred the whole country. Pearl Harbor's tragedy was on a bunaay; on Monday night just as a family dinner got under way, we had our first wild siren call for a blackout. Two minutes later the town lights were extineuished and everything went pitch black whether anyone liked It or not. It was a balmy December night with stars. Everyone rushed out of doors and voices were heard at all the gates and gardens in neighborly fashion, and since many of these voices were young, I may as well admit that most of them were excited ex-cited and laughing. People talked to one another as they never would do in broad daylight; a few women ex-nressed ex-nressed uneasiness, but they were few, and the general tone was rather like that I remember at the time oi the great earthquake of 1906. "Gee, something's Happening! Let's get into it!" Gaiety in Blackout. After awhile we all went indoors and each in his own house began to arrange a blackout room. We selected se-lected the living-room, kitchen and pantry. In no time, by the light of a candle that belonged on a birthday cake, we were standing on chairs pinning and nailing things in place, and going into gales oi laugnier as th unaccustomed inconvenience of total darkness began to make itself felt And after awhile the Lgms came on again. The next blaskout a night or two lator imnnsed uiion each household the necessity of complete darkness. And again toe street was ruiea wun friends chattering and laughing and ivm im at the December stars. Newly appointed wardens made their rounds; husbands asked wives in undertones whether it wouia De all right to light a cigarette. To see a dim glow in a neighbor's house became a sort of game. "There's a light in your basement" "Look, George, not a glimmer from the kitchen!" We've had one blackout since. It Krif tn cover rumor said lat er troop movements. We have wardens war-dens now, everybody is doing something, some-thing, everybody to ready, but I have known only one woman to be really scared. She is anyway, and has been raising bogies to frighten herself her-self for years. Years ago she selected a cook because be-cause she was a big, strong woman who would keep poor Elise from being be-ing attacked In toe night But when a terrible case was described in the papers of a single man who went into a house where six persons were peacefully playing cards, and killed the lot Elise moved her family to a boteL Now she's moved them again, from the second to the fourth story, which, rumor again says, is THE SILVER LINING In a vivid account of her experiences during a typical San Francisco blackout, Kath leen Norris shows that it is possible to see the brighter side of life even in wartime. It is, she believes, our duty to do so. War will bring incon-venience incon-venience and, perhaps, hard' ship, but we will be better able to endure that hardship if we face it with a smile. To worry unnecessarily is not only on-ly foolish, but a waste of the time and energy we should spend on intelligent preparation prepara-tion for such possible emergencies emer-gencies as blackouts and food shortages. Remember that slogan slo-gan of World War I? "Look for the silver lining F the safest story in the ten-story building. San Franciscans aren't discussing air attacks, nor worrying about them any more than to be prepared in every way for any and all unpleasantness. un-pleasantness. Life goes on in the nation's most cheerful city, in the usual way. ' Life Is Unchanged. I'm giving this in some detail because be-cause good friends of mine in the East and in the Central states are convinced that we are living here in one jitter of terror, clinging together togeth-er in dark cellars at night, shuddering shudder-ing through frightening days as we watch the menace of the skies. Nothing Noth-ing could be further from the truth, "May God help you through these hours of horror," writes an old friend of mine from Detroit "If you could come to us with one or two of the precious grandchildren we would do our best to obliterate from your heart memories that must be frightful Persistent and incessant fear is a destroying thing, and God knows we would relieve you all of some of it if we could." Well, one can't exactly laugh at sympathy as sincere and distressed as that, but it is impossible to keep from laughter when such a letter is read at the week-end gathering of the clan. Pearl Harbor naturally smote us all with consternation, and for a few days there was some flurry of apprehension; again it was like the earthquake, Immediately after which people did rush about frantically franti-cally asking, "What shall we do? What's coming next? What will happen hap-pen if if if-" But within a few days almost a few hours everyone settled down to help, to serve, to philosophize and yes, to enjoy the crisis. God forbid that anything should be termed "enjoyable" in war. War is all bad. But we are fighting for what is good, good for everyone, and if neighborliness, sharing, service, serv-ice, courage are born of it let us not minimize their eternal values, values that will long outlast the war. My hbpe is that if states in our own country can have so exaggerated exaggerat-ed an impression of things out here, some of the other atrocities reported of life everywhere, in England, Bus-" sia, China, in the oppressed and conquered countries, are less in actuality ac-tuality than we fear. We hear frightful fright-ful details, and alas! some of them are true. But remember, when you feel your heart heavy, as you think of it all. that many of them are not true. So take for your motto the familiar prayer, "sursum corda," which means. 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