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Show 1' V . THE LE1II SUN, LEW. UTAH tor HAROLD CHANNING WIR oitrNET has returned from 1 southern Texas 1 1875, to Lb i trn bos ,ot T0M AR" 'Uner ol the Cross T ranch. On 1 ie jetf new. from WILLY I afifi meeti tour suspiClous-act- IT lorn Arnold Wis Lew that he 1 ... t.i. karA In Wvaminfr. -JE be U trying to make good the DEflustalned when the bank at Ox if. robbed. Tom lean that Us c'livB may involved. Tom also ' fij Z, he must deliver wree u J eattle to the Indian agent at U bv September 1 or lose a proni- M DJ . - lt, In JOY AR- elracV , . foreman. who IS enga " ANNING. CHAPTER IV II SITE; ng.fc you up Sunt -fused and they started mak-it mak-it herd of their own. Buying Iheap price now, they'll save lusand dollars if they get to L with that herd . , . and I " Tom continued. 1UI J,""! Lew said, "sure," and a restless impatience goaded onto his long legs. "But game two can play, Tom! the matter here anyway? noede is their deal give 'era jack. YOU ve come up uuvugu jij trouble to know all the 41used, Arnold said quietly. I it Clay handle tnis. L glance sharpened on him. EXhle's bound to come," he " - i . 1 it. XI j'(j rather seuie n now umu fraiL There'll be grief enough tooes Clay know I'm to trail you?" f yet." Arnold's dark eyes lilt-1 lilt-1 smiled. "I'm glad to know I still got an edge on you! ilwhat I've been counting on. d a proposition I m going to 5 His gruff bluntness returned, on't get it into your fool head ijs is a gift. I've got my own ijid selfish reasons." in Hnwn nast the man. Lew lHiie breathless way in which $ watching him, her hps part-fot part-fot her body held very still. ?m was saying, "I want you J a share in this Cross T herd, j. You've got that land in ig. I've got cattle and no range them. I'm adding a d head of shes and yearlings eef contract. That thousand 11 make a start on the new half for Joy and Steve, half .. 'lwn't !ow. h said. -uiu vu ugni. ivn Steve. They've had terrible times this year. And Hewi Stew throwlnj his life .way and it takes his own life right .ut of him." She looked up gravely. Lew, you could have helped more than you did." Staring off into tire tiom'i dart. ness he said, ru go up the trail, but that's all. I can't promise about the ranch." Xew." Her hands slid his wrists. "Whv. Low?" n t. was low and hushed. "Tell me Why not?" e He turned his head and lanu-od down at her then; she was a woman with all of a woman's understand-ing understand-ing and yet must hear a marr say what was already plain enough. He saw the fullness and roundness be-neath be-neath the tight red cloth of her dress giving her no longer the inno- cence ol a little girl, ani there was that breathless wait in her eyes. That controlled moment suddenly left him. He caught her and pulled her up hard in his arms. Once be-fore be-fore tonight he had kissed her; yet wai ior pom ol them was a kiss of meeting. He drew her up new with a violent urge to stir in her what was so mad inside himself. For an instant in-stant she was rigid, and then she was clinging to him with a turbulent strength. . , He let her go as suddenly as he had caught her and itood back, shaken and staring. Her voice choked. "Lew, I didn't know." She leaned against the mantel man-tel edge. "You knew now." "Yes." She looked at him, pain and despair coming into her dark eyes. He awoke in the morning with the green streak of dawn beyond W.N.U.LASE y&cA&M kf4 HI I LI a generous offer, more than s, all that ne would neea, itii a price that neitner . oi twn understood. Silenced bv knowledge, he stared down into irelight so long that behind him, C Oldlst in anger, Arnold's gruff voice tat, "Well? What's the trou roni ! due to abing ftoiiloii," he said, "I'm sorry. I'll g!Y( ishis" eadai ! IS DC' wrouj 'it k' l vein. drugs HISS chest, em ike pi. ise coo suet, etPess yftur herd north, and you can faf range in Wyoming. But to 1 e myself as a Cross T part- e saw a sharp breath drawn peji the girl's parted lips and 111 man's sudden blank amaze "You forget Clay Manning," . "That makes a fourth one deal after a while. There 'Vt be room." , m aware of Joy's deeper qui i and of the fixed stare of her ap n him, and then in that mo- i silence an abrupt rhythm of i' pounded across the ranch as Clay Manning's shout that P n to them, and then the thud pots hit the gallery outside. 3 down from saddle to floor he always did,' with his horse at a stop. ' foor burst open and he came ia gust of prairie wind, filling pn with that charged and vi- f doorway he turned his head ea back outside. "It's all m," and thon fnmo nn in He put one arm all the pund her in intimate Dosses. pgged her hard; and at the Re, while he made that show, grinning and saying, "Glad ie old home ranch again, AGO E ;Ctf$ IAIN5 1 Clothes Help Fight World Yi'ar 11 In Frigid Arctic Areas f Splits wyf An . past him at Steve comin in runaerins what Pioo oii ngnt. feirt " h,j . , . 1 UH lllCCKJlfc. ufay acrass th ranm Kta falm.st with a small boy's Pice. "WViot j;j I .-" um jruu warn me !ea where you were," Ar-f. Ar-f. "What happened?" .lord! That all? Nothing kch SOt seParated from 11 was not until then L Id around.with a casual ? How's Wyoming?", Steve," Lew said. "Fine if Mge tte Sioux mdn,t lr lifted yet!" "wifw a Uttle awkward f ,L !Udden nervous unrest fig himself trom ae fire. Slel;.'He sPke to a-wanted-" 'n !d across e ri-ibm ri-ibm t- horses' hoofs I rio ranch yard and the Koil silenee came p. i , "uia uie nre- ..r --- "uuucmy ojct ana .U1 Qistant rino- u- Lew climbed up on a steep slant wooded with pine. his window, and the tempest of last night's feeling with Joy was gone. He could see his way clearly again. In the warm, steamy kitchen he found Tom Arnold and Clay Manning Man-ning with a third man who was a stranger te him. Arnold said, "Morning, Lew. Guess you don't know Ed Splann. This is Burnet, Splann, the fellow we were talking about who's going to trail-boss for me." "Howdy," Splann grunted, looked up and dropped his head again. By the time he sat down to the table Clay and Ed Splann had finished fin-ished eating. They stood up at once, dropped their dishes into Owl-Head a wooden washtub and went out to- eether. - "" "'- - : . "What's holding Clay's tongue? Got a grouch en this mwning?" Tom Arnold could be mild at strange times. He sam genuy easy with Clay, Lew. Hedidnttake much to the idea of your being here to trail-bqss for me. You can t blame him. He's been north twice him self.' P Joy istant door had closed Small fitri, j; I I me red embers of the I I rnp 7 wuai 8 naP- J u w your father." :,..a . t- tmn vears. Tom. and X5UV UUl J. .-ut trail conditions change over night Clay knows that." . He'll smooth out," Arnold said. , not started." -When will that be? Wliats left to be done?" He felt a sudden thing here mat ne wanieu w . . little fishes, Tom, througn. , i . ton time enough! W toow better than that you had been here," Arnold said. -We've been hounded on every .ide. Cv says we'll leave day after tomorrow to-morrow Td hoped today. Road-Sgisall Road-Sgisall that'sjeftto do some mi.ed her s Se two years. We ve goi w 6 uU under the Cross T. "How many. Tom- -A thousand hed about. Msand Briefly Lew figured, au head ... ten hours. There was trick he knew. But Clay Manning was still the foreman here; and then Tom Arnold's look hardened and U was saying, 'Til be eternall damned If man can be everyt wherel Moonlight BaUey'i still mi horse wrangler and a good one, bul he s let the remuda drift, I guess. He told me last night we're thirty head short. We'll hunt them today." to-day." "Try Crazy Woman." Lew offered. I saw tracks." He explained no re. In a moment, with his break-fast break-fast finished, he said, "Since I'm not signed on the pay roll yet I'll take a little cruise this morning alone." He saw Arnold's glance lift sharply sharp-ly and drop. It was not his way to question a man. Even as he watched eastward Lew could see dust clouds layered above the advancing columns, some of them forty miles away. Closer, where Ox Bow town made a handful hand-ful of gray adobe cubes scattered beside the new railroad, a dark swarm moved out slowly, taking the arrowhead trail formation. He straightened in a moment. squinting to sharpen the focus of what his roving gaze had caught A lone rider was coming out from that herd near town, the hoofs of his running horse shooting up puffs of dust like exploded bombs. He came n incredibly fast. Still out on the plain, he veered toward the low hills that rimmed the eastern side of the valley and was lost in there for perhaps ten minutes. When he came out his pace had slowed to a walk. Like that unhurried, he moved into the Cross T roundup camp at the valley's mouth. "Now then," Lew asked, "what kind of coyote business was that?" With his gaze led to the roundup camp by that lone rider he watched the work going on below him. It brought a sudden scowl to the steady set of his hazel eyes. Half a dozen branding fires sent their smoke into the still air. He could see the small darting figures of mounted men cut into the pool of cattle and come out, each with his single animal at a rope's end. There were a thousand thou-sand steers to be road-branded, so Tom Arnold had said. They'd never get that job done by tomorrow night Thought of so much lost time put its irritation in him. He knew a better way. ( He sat up and gathered his reins to go and turned for a last look at the spring where he had hoped a man would be camping. Old Willy Nickle was crouched there beside the water, smoking his black clay pipe.. "Lord, Willy," he said, "you do make my scalp itch! Did you hap. pen to be an Apache I'd have an arrow in my hump ribs by now! "So you would." Willy nodded, "How long have you been here? Saw no sign of your camp." The old man.stoad up and stuffed his pipe into the deep pocket of his deer-hide coat. "Last night," he said. "You don't never leave your camp sign, boy," he advised grave ly. "Bury your fire and sleep away somewheres from the water. Well, that's just talk though!" He leaned on the slender barrel of his needle gun and stared down into the valley "Seems like the Cross Ts been slowed up some. That herd there nast town is the Indian Supply out fit so I think, hitting the trail ahead of Tom Arnold. That's been their caper." "They've thrown trouble aplenty into the Cross Ts start," Lew agreed, "so I'm told." He looked down into the old fellow's dark, gentle gen-tle face and brought out the thing he wanted to know. He save his details clearly. "If a man leading the Cross T was to swing west and keep off the trail he'd save. time and even pass the Indian SucdIv outfit maybe. There s shorter route.' They tell me that Colonel McKitrick led a scouting army up the Staked Plain once and marked the way with rock piles. There's buffalo grass enough this year. But it's a question of water. No man hereabouts could say, euess." "Well, he could!" old Willy stated. Tt'd be a dry drive first day to a tank, with nothing t go by. Then there'll be those rock piles plain as a man's nose. He could make it a hundred miles north to the White Salt Fork. A double butte is his landmark there. He goes east from Viat " There'll be water on the Staked Plain then, sure? "If a man knows now the Apaches got it in them dry cienegas. & - J "Ha dncn ." I Tji I - Vx-k 7 M ci r innd "He aoes. mis -iCV 5" . satisfying information, and he made a vital decision in that moment mo-ment ."It'll be the rock-pile route for the Cross T when I take it over. Without things happening we'll start in another day." . , Willy nodded and crouched again wMp the" water; and so, having planted that knowledge in his brain, t - wt him like a brown old eagle h0A hiirh on the ledge of rock. V7a ,n(ip down toward the brand- . s ti trailer's mouth. 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