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Show Dy AULAlfcl-- n&nm&'dlaDEim SYNOPSIS ,?urd er! Billy 1 to love wlfc f!ftSe Iferlen, whom be h She bad rejactad htt f Dura's ranch to f U gtin aSS todudln Ltak HelUdey and gam Ceid-jdefeat-ed to JJma I Dunn dlrrata iSTv.1 DougU,for Tulare tha UBar'a to search to Billy that tha morn "rrj.in,eomauon bloodatalnad trail Short Creek and foundtha nnahod horaa. Tha hod Tba killed. body been Link Bender bad read the sign tha K? 4 Dura reveal that becauee I crlila tha ranch maybein enemlea may maketroubla friendly with wait ha ta?. ked Old Man L. wuntry'a beat trailer, to Join .iSm Ion Billy meet Amo. Link "the Kid and Cayura an Indian trailer, at Short hat found the llainman'a Wtti taddle la mining. Almoat Snwally. catUa attracted to tba ground, a tamp tba C7I the tracea. Dunn la angered tells him not to leave the Following an argument. Bender aakk gun. but Dunn wounds him M ana. Back at tha ranch Old Man M arrive, with a pack at hounds. L ncs la search of tha dead man la Z Dunn tella Billy that Marian Led at him for trying to nettle utea by bloodshed. He reveals that raach la really hers. flS tSbad "Ared. or-a- ffi. 1 L"S Sa ed. I dont like to have bar riding this big range alone. With a curious reluctanca Wheeler picked up his hat and walked out to the stable where his saddle was. CHAPTER m A rise of dust was going up on the Inspiration road aa Wheeler saddled; he knew tba approaching car must be driven by Steve Hurley. For a moment be hesitated, for he would have liked to hear tha latest word from the camp of Horse Dunns enemies. Marian Dunn, however, was loping eastward along an old trail not far off the Inspiration road. Steva Hurley would be able to signal to him from road to trail if any new word concerned him. He let his pony lope out and caught up with Marian within the mile. Do you mind If I ride your wayt Marian said, youll Maybe, show me where Short Creek is. Wheeler was startled. Short Creek? Sometimes. the girl said, ita easier to look at a thing than to Imagine it I was thinking soma of riding over that way, he conceded. Only I wish you'd let somebody know when you set off to ride a distance like that, so somebody could go with you. CHAPTER II Continued She looked at him sidelong for a 'heeler was silent He could not minute. Sometimes it seems to getter agree with Horse Dunn, me you people do .everything you had seen range quarrels settled can to make this into an unfriendly padre but never to the country. of either winner or loser, I don't know what you mean.' icver. he wasnt going to argue These Red Hills, with the sun the Old Man. on them, are the background of the That If she ties my hand? Tve got to fight to demanded. thing my own way. For myself wldnt so much mind. But aint outfit hers, to begin with? Hers? Wheeler repeated. Sure, it's uers. Didnt you know d ad-ta- 1 tr It heeler had not known But i here! You've run this brand r since I can remember. You st at least have some part In ist here. Not a penny m told him. 'Bui or a bead of stock, I ha'ppen to know, Wheeler that youve always had outfit, another outfit down in Ari-- a. Yet your Arizona outfit hasnt a you four times in a dozen 1mA, in. Tve had oa uid. my hands full here, You mean, u spent the twelve-thirtee- n in neglecting your own outfit to id up a brand that don't belong roar Somebody had died aud--L 94 In very d shapfi. For two years It was by different bosses I hired. But same Link Bender he had a outfit then Wait Here, Wheeler Said .te he was stealing tha blind. the Girl. soon ther wouldnt Pretty r been any 94. And it was all bid and her very earliest memories I have, mother had. When I came here again it was as (idly Wheeler stared at Horst if I were coming home. I felt free Once he had heard it ru ired that Horse Dunn had loved and natural, hers at first And Horn Dunn Is almost exactly like inani mother, long ago, my father, wbat little I can remem-faMarian's mother always bated 1 nearly like my kred this country. She ber of him eocant remember my 'ight up Marian to feel aome aim-f- - ther that I Thats why the kid cant stand fathers fact any more; because my uncle's face comes in between. , or anything done by You see He worships the ground you my brother died walk on, Wheeler said. P fun in his hand. I know." A little shiver ran unable to endorse the across her shoulders, anomalous in f Man's aleaning toward violence, tha blaze of the sun. Then he turns belief that there ought ,om way to avoid does soma wild, awful thing and amoklng up range, "if we can hold the 94 like yesterday; and it gives me the on the finance side," be said, strangest feeling of being completeCln Link Bender's crowd ly lost in a country I dont understand. 'Jod knows Tve took all tha steps "Yesterday? What awful thing? w to "He-- he shot Link Bender." steady the finance aide, ?TJBn id. A minute ago It was kind of unfortunate, sure. my having an outfit But I don't know what elaa ha could ,Te - of Well. vonaI had an outfit do. ; Link drew on him. And all LfT- - Si weeks ago I sent your uncle did was to nick him in tl Bot F1gg, my partner tha arm, ao that he dropped the ,eU her out Shes sold. , gun. daY I v been Marians tone was curiously defop D ! 5" He admitted Flagg. He supposed tached, unforgiving. nowhere with gstj.ooo.aa good as he set out to goad Link Bender into another ln different fighting. and note- - Everything That was not exactly what Horse L, e to the L bracing of the Dunn had said, but essentially the girl waa right It was like Horse stared out the open door-- , Dunn too that he could in no part ,p.ard the corrals; end now lie to this girl but would put himsaw Horse , Dunns self conscientiously into the worst . .c ' h'wly relax, and soften, rt possible light ,t Marian added. urtt.rl ,ar wn-a-l Marian bad He said more. Horse d flvi uUlet old por,y He said that if it hadnt been for ttddiI Hhnerr a"d w Preparing me he would have killed Link Dunn watched her, Bender there at Chuck Box Wash. 'ev., Ther WM aiways Billy Wheeler started to say, Oh. bout It was no use. It I dont think strapping Wdbty " when h looked at this art. thi, was futile to try to hide from this daughter of his dead broth- girl certain things which she was in if ha iwbJL'f lmost no way equipped to understand, yet r'Sha?'ng,thi,0wndaufih was sure to see clearly., This is a up iwa7 from different country than you're used L AfWserWn miht have been to, Marian., Dry country men freMWter' thin8 bad broken learned long ago to depend on them-aelveonce. theyve lived that way for !d w1t5.rid8 with her Dana a long time. ertain awkwardness. foa The car that had been an apto make her proaching funnel of dust upon the Inspiration road now came careening around a- rutty bend 200 yards Steve Hurley leaned nY 'Bar!r,Q t tak ,lck In below them. his behind dusty windshield to from 0 nyway," Dunn insist wave at them, then brought hia car hum shrugged. take holt. My brother He didn't leave the if f W W0-00- 0 .se ttt s; Kite : IL IE MATY ilaUHtr. WMU Service to a g atop. Ha signaled Wheeler to ride to him. "Wait here, Wheeler aald to (ho glrL. Ho wheeled hla horse, then hesitated to aay over hla shoulder, Dont worry; we'll work everything out all right Ha put hla horse down to tha road, Jumping it through tha red rocks. From behind the wheel Steva Hurley thrust a big aquara hand at him, and Etevoa big beefy face flashed a quick grin. Glad to see you, Billy; the Old Man aald ha figured youd alt In. Aa toon aa I see who It waa, I pulled up. Wheeler glanced at tha boiling radiator. What's broke ln Inspiration, Steve? The Old Man may be wanting to call his riders In. Thought Td atop and tell you wbat It waa, so's you could signal in any at tha boys you might aea whilt youre out Tm listening. lfs an over Inspiration that Sheriff Walt Amoa win make an arrest within three days. Theyre saying tha sheriff knows whos dead; that its a man Dunn swore to kin if aver he found him on 94 range. Steva Hurleys eyes rested gteadQy and keenly on Billy Wheeler. said Wheeler, win Steve, Horse Dunn submit to arrest? Steve Hurley looked away a moment before he answered. "I dont know,, ha aald at last But I guess maybe. Am I right hen want JMoyie Radio J long-rollin- Tm glad I came, Marian said. But especially I'm glad you came. Yo- uTli ten. ha said. A horaa as yet unseen was coming fast down tha cut Its unshod hoofs padded quietly ln tha sand at the margin of tha water, ao that Its thudding lope Vaa sensed less by sound than by shock tha faint distant tremor of the ground. "Whet la it? tha girl asked. "Dont you bear? A bona la coming up. T dont She atarted to sey that she didnt hear anything; but Just then the unseen rider cut through the shallows with a sudden sharp sound of thrown water and tha ring of hoofs ms stone. "Who to it? "Quien aabe? Turn and rids back tha way wava come, he told her without emphasis. Til be along in a minute. Without a word Marian turned her horse; she was at tha two hundred horse surged yards as a hard-ru- n up over tha lip of the cut Tha rider was Kid Bender. Tha Kid half wheeled his pony,! drove close to Billy Wheelers horse; hto lean flgura iwayad backwards aa ha brought hto pony to a sliding atop, very 'close.- - Across tha back of his right hand showed the heavy purple welt that Wheelers quirt had told there; and in hto fact was tha Joyous anger of a man who takes payment for a past huhis riders ln? miliation. 'Td aura think ao. This thing la "What you doing here? coming faster than I figured it Wheeler ignored tha question. would, Steve." "Youre a little off your range. The girls eyes wera questioning cornea This Kid, he said. to Wheeler returned as Billy her under the head of tharange 94. Mayba side. Dont worry, he said; "its m ba ordering you off It pretty an going to work out. havent declded yet, qulck.1 no longer paralThey turned off, aald Kid Bender. "I dont No, leling the Inspiration road; and for wilL Youre dealing with think you unas miles while the slowly g long hoofs a peace officer petroling the scene rolled under the of tha ponies neither bad anything of a crime. Peace officer? to say. Kid Bender flipped over the tail They were pear Short Creek when the girl spoke unexpectedly. Tm end of his neckerchief to reveal a nickel-plate- d ahield. It was cheap glad you came. You make things waa and but as it flashed in it new; teem atralghter and smoother, Just the way you pace your horse along, the sun Wheeler felt hto scalp stir oddly, as if ba had glimpsed fire without any worry or fret behind smoke. Horse Dunns view "There isnt anything to worry of the situation was shaping up fastabout er than Horse himself bad imag"Youve changed since two years ined. Sometold him. tha ago, girl said the Kid, "you "Yesterday, how youre nicer to ride with knocked a gun out of my hand. quieter, more restfuL Billy Wheeler aaid diatlnctly, Ha glanced at her but didnt "With a quirt I whipped it out of hand with a quirt You used to be a stampedey your Kid Benders fact darkened tor sort of person, she explained, alan instant but the hard gleam of a at horse things. ways rushing your reWhatever you went at you always Joyous anticipation immediately hto to have "I turned orders, eye. went at it by the same way thunder of hoots, taking all obstacles by he aald, "to see that the hired men storm. I think I used to be afraid of the 94 dont trample over the scene of this crime any more. Im of you. starting with you; Ill give you felmoment if a he wondered For lers something to remember orders things would have gone differently between them if he bad been legs by. Im taking your horse and your there will eager,- - lei turbulent When you gun. Maybe your girl afoot. lift a after give you you're wanted a thing too much you overOr maybe Til send her on home I altoout lost band and your played haven't decided that yet gether. Maybe you could love a said Wheeler, "No, youre not girl too much, too soon, and deor gun. feat yourself the same way. Per- taking either horse Youre against an officer of the haps If A quarter of a mile away within law. You know what that means? I know, Billy Wheeler aald, bed of Short Creek the sharp-cu- t what I hope It means. something moved, held steady a For a moment Kid Bender hesimoment then disappeared. It was a rider there, who was watching tated; they sat watching each other, them; but It was not a rider who two men in a situation from which meant to rise ln his stirrups and neither could withdraw. One of haiL them bad sought thia meeting the this is other welcomed it Both knew that "Well, he said briskly Short Crick. something peculiarly personal bad "You see, he said, pulling up his to be settled here, now, between the horse at the spot , the cattle had two of them alone. I aee your girl has stopped a trampled, "this is nothing but a place where It Just happened that little way up hera," the Kid aaid; seems like she sets watching from somebody took a shot at somebody. What is there to sea? Nothing. I thehilL Wheeler auppressed in time an want you to think of this place as Just a crick where horses come to Impulse to glance over hto shoulder. Instead his eyes never left drink. Marian Dunn aat very quiet, star- Kid Bender as he jerked hto chin sharply toward hto shoulder aa if he ing at the shallow water. He wondered what thingi, terrible to her, glanced away. she might be picturing. (TO BE CONTINUED) -- sun-squint-ed fox-trotti- an-aw- Billy Wheeler said, last - By VIRGINIA VALE played a RADIO amateurs in the preparation of the dramatization of Pearys dash to the pole, pre- sented recently. If they had not come to the rescue of the authors, Henry Lanier and Alan Bunce, it might have been a year or more before this program could have been heard. In dramatizing historical events it all living participants to Impersonate them on tho radio, and of Peary's North Polo expedition Matt Henson, the negre wfae was the only one to accompany him on tho final dash. Capt Bob Bartlett and McMlllen still survive. to necessary to get permission of It was easy enough to locate Matt Henson; ha was right in Naw York. But Bartlett and McMillen were off somewhere in the Polar seas. Lanier and Bunco appealed to various club of radio amateurs and for days tha short wav channels were filled with calls to the two polar axploraUon ships. 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