Show 17 algaw NAMELESS RIVE ri oft w VINGIE EROE E ROE COPT tRICHT BY THE e MCCAU W cau THE CANYON SYNOPSIS kotc ch Catli rew catl kate w n or of he h am shy lt alln r h on an h her att to me mc jenaii store tor at c cordov v a awn wait WA infuriated CIted b by the afflit of k am tirl plowing awil 1 in batley below place rifle hoil build DT th it gorgei feel di h girl iri i ankot alo botlo till akle 0 o zahi on to town ol 01 wh be pre 9 m filut between im mcknab it alie trader bad it S sheriff iff selwood aliton me lh girl on no who whon C h rew me lout l vented lill ill her P pile I 1 walh 1 her st widowed goibe nd d crippled brother owea bud 1 allind th taken up an by he her father killed hort rt it ller before ID s ah c bud th victim th 0 or deliberate to malm or 1 kill lit him karl kat cathrew emah the nor firm for land and nd 1 oil i to in it the atheni into to I im I 1 CHAPTER ill III continued 4 rat par a considerable space apace of time the we woman set rot regard regarding lit 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pleased with you yon take it cu or leave it said the other w with ith foolhardy daring 1 I is it any of your business mith a smothered roar bit big bastord bamford le leaped sped for far him surprisingly elm nimble b 1 on ilia hla in lamed ad toot foot surprisingly light be BB might him by the throat threat and bore him backward across acress the veran do da a edge so BO that both bodies fell heavily oa the board of the floor y you 11 end what s my cut business it n you gritted gritter bit big bastord bamford yoa I 1 r he got to his him it and straddling the led lad B body came down on his throat with who all his him weight in his him terrible grip cp at tha we soend of I 1 the pill fall minnie a a pine leaped boded to a al window that black it devil ev 11 I 1 is killing the blue bine eyes emit me ehe mat said it la in patois spanish to jousts josefa GI give 0 me that knife o but there them was no ao need of Minn lea interference tits am kate C cathrew had heard that has heavy thunder of lulling falling bodies on boards board mid and site bh atas quicker than her halt half hired breed r tor far she a was a up and ad way away ft from the desk des a before big be basford ford had rise risen up on hlo bl knew knees and ft she row robe her lert left hand swept down the wall taking train from its him two pep pegs the heavy gain that met at al wars hung there them WI with t h the first rat lab jab of the bar boys head back ack on the floor she he 7 was a running aw down dean the veranda her arm raised bieh with the second amid she was waa between BI big bamford and the light me like a threat intent of doom As he surged forward ator once more above ilbe the blackening tam face in hla his phrot fling fingers age ma she be hung flung her body back I 1 in S stiff maid arc to I set get more impetus 1 po and d chr drove the b braided lash forward and d do down ilk like a fury it circled big basford bamford a head from rom the back the bitter end snapping mapping across hla him tam face with indescribable fol force it il ended curled him away ft from lit his victim tumbling back on an his heels best with frith his bis garil Cm head covering act I 1 ills him cheeks chack for a moment mt he hung on the verandas sound edge be balanced anted then slipped off ft lurching on im his him lame a toot he be held his him hands hand over we him ht am ace tor far tense mo me TZ ment then he be looked up through him bis de fingers ers where the blood was beginning m W low straight tr Ight at t the woman the red rimmed kim eyes were savage a with reas rage and hurt but behind both was a flaming t which seemed ed to swell so and it hors burgeon with a perverted ad calra mi ration ion ive ie told yon yen before bastord Baa tord raid lit RE rate laxen cathrean Catti CAth rew rear that I 1 will deal with my mea myself I 1 due dod t need your yen overly men I 1 one kid ld get out ot at my leht and toy out ant till you yen clat can heed head what I 1 my br take this bill tool feel awry by hubp SOW acme wind into lit him give him mom dine whisky sh she a 11 1 11 boj comedy with in the toe as ot tier buckled he win waa weakly trying to get up 6 add it the he prime S it irl ance foilb flocked the mind effort lifting him almost almon bodily 1 in her ime arau end nd appo him through the door data low into the to kitchen th the look be b turned mind over bw bar on houlda old at t big aid ams me ft the owner of sky line walked down the veranda ad t to her living room door at its hall I 1 she ehe topped stopped and ad stood read dravin drawing g the heavy quirt through her a age looking back at big bastard he had watched be her progress aa and now the hard bright sparkling few of at bar dark eye eyck deemed a to a force ha him m to tro movement so that ibe he pick picked it up p I 1 his hat set mt it on hla his head bell and 11 turned ld awny away towards the curve corrals 1 at rainbow how foot with a toiling rolling gulf gait that further mude made one me think a of if jungle jangle folk but t the e lip iffa A in the flaring duties b card beard were mrs t witching twitching h hate cathan Catti rew went mt ID 11 and hung the q quirt aln on its smooth pegs then than eat or down and nd took up her interrupted work just where she abe had left lt 11 CHAPTER IV th the mystery of blue stone canyon on the rich flats of hairline ham eless notice at teen tilled filled her soil sell and her blue eyes caressed the land the home bion sand was a fetish with her bar it bad lit dee been ot b her er poppy pappy a 8 dream of empire it BOB he hers us he had stuck by and tolled had secured tits his patent made the good start she asked nothing better than to carry on to me bee it prosper and endure but strange disasters disaster had befallen ter her one after the other first and ad bit terest forest the hidden rope stretched in a cattle trail fruit two years year back just after john a mysterious death which sent cut young bud pony play tumbling to the gulch below and left the boy to walk lopsided ever after at that the girl had almost weak mail ened la in her stubborn purpose she had held the young head in her am anns many a weary hour when the pain was worst and tried to build a plan of a future away from nameless valley but bud would not listen the bare thought made him fret and ton tam sent the red blood burning 1 in hla him cheeks check well never let ero beat us ua out nance he would plot pant with his him hot ber breath berth th the land to Is ours ourn safe and it lie le gal and no bunch a 0 mt cut throats at t 1 Is gian to get it from us not while we can a stand land not while we w can ride or in plow or use ime a go gun 1 I but nance homem would top stop him always there thy rod it and ad thy staff they elm corn fort roe me she would say gently we se have no need of guns bud bad how however ir as th the a k seasons season passed each with it its p promise r I 1 as and its well table blight her face had become became graver less smiling there had been the hay bay fire then flen the fin fire bre 1 in the night eight where no fire was waa or had bad been base there had bad been the six tat fat steers that di disappeared p from fret the range and ad were never ever beard of though bud rode mile buckskin to a lather 1 in a fruitless search for far them no there them had bad been bear the sand good harness got cut to places pieces one me night might when bud had tor far gotten co 0 lock lack it up all thin these had bad here been disasters in a rea real L denae a to these people living so items in meagerly MY with the their le cabot at possessions a and this year car I 1 they buy we were C more than poor they the were am in 1 debt to mckane for or the new am harness hamms that had to be bought to replace the other but notice nance looked at her bar field of a tam corn coming in long rows rous of trader tender green on the b brown wn poor floor of the well worked land M and hoped she was prone prime to hope it II was part pact of her equipment for far the but bat it tie of life her shield before the lance of her courage her buckler of 0 energy it looks like a heavy crop me karen kane she elm told the trader honesty honestly and ill haw have far and a away y more than enough h ter for you 0 1 I think ill haw have acif enough gh I 1 left eft for my winter tale stake hope you yen do said aid mckane eckam tor for though he was none to too scrupulous m in where him his lit own interests interest were esus con zeroed he felt arague a vague admiration for the game me at girl M I 1 working her broad homestead in ID her dead fathers father place so ith the crop spreading its four delicate blades to the coaxing 11 so ua and ad the bay knes knee deep in the big issued fenced flat bat the time river nance nanc alliso laid by her bar labors for a while to rest met tier be body and n it refresh fr 0 her u t o b rid ive just jm got t to ride e the th hills mammy hammy she abe said smiling mg got to fish the it holes 1 to in blue stone steps canyon Y tc climb the slopes for far a little while it will be my only chance chanc you know there them s th the a bay to cut soon and the elm corn to calt cultivate ivall and the cattle to look after let later I 1 can t work alt all the year mainly without a play at which the mothers tragic eyes filled ailed with tear hear this for far her daugh ter ten a only play the riding militia la in the war lone wine come bill tue fishing calling for far trout treat to la a shadowed ahn dowed call whon when her bar young feet should how have been base tripping ir living to the alit of fiddled when nime she should hould be have bad cad and maslia it flim horaces aces sad As d e sweetheart ir theart the things of yen booth t h a ere m her youth should pasa pan pass pan tolling at the handles bundle ot of a plow I 1 it w waa poignant pain indeed that brought i the boe insistent hi tea a that withheld the fear tacit protest pretext so la the be golden tone whilla N na so loo began to he addle ill 0 cladda and nd ride a mack glack of broad bread and ad bacon tied behind the contle to raw corn ambling home st at sale dirk happy sweet oiled filled with the tha joy jay of lift its a string of kled at b her knes knee sometimes empty handed bud went want with her bar but it ft wu wait not at fair to dan and nd molly the me be beery team mons to cheat the them of their sham hare of rest cast since mines end bud mut mom md rids one or the other of 81 them said and so nance L rode tor far the he west part pact I 1 she lifted up b her ato eyes ut to hlll bills to in all 11 II truth train and drew from them a very present strength the dark blue blow 9 green acut wm slopes of too the tumbling bridgess c 0 vered with a tapestry of finely picked out act poll points I 1 of 11 pill old and or fir trees filled tier bar led n abe J JOT jjr jr of at the nature river lover the awed humility of the humble heart been which hah clon considers iders the handiwork of G god it she lay for houra boom on wrom some log ing high in a bunny Y glade boon her heads handa under her fat fair head her lips smiling lous ly her long blue eyes dreaming into the dead cloud fleck flecked tut be and some mors times she wondered what the future held to for her after the fashion of malda inside since in the world began she recalled the reit less wanderings ande rings of the family in her early years remembered vaguely g the home and the school to in old mb bourl her fattier a conler urge for haf aber travel r 1 and it t then en had mine come their june jour he ney end ed here to in the one austere lonell ness am of f nameless Namo lees valley where him hl nomad named heart had bad settled down and had been at home borne she thought of these familiar thing lings ti and of others not e I 1 familiar such much as 1 picturing the h house us she and bud would a one day build on the big meadow with running water piped fro from the rushing running bremm itself with carpets mrs we wai a ready already sewing ing interminable balls of team rags for the fabric and with such kim simple p Is comforts com forta as aa seemed to her noth in lg ing short of luxuries she it knew of a woman 1 in bement who wove carpets met a ad mrs porter at the reasonable price of thirty cents a yard warp included the warp should be brown and white she d decided C aided at least she sha had so BO do de elded long hing back after many confer eires with ith her mother brown bronn and white running marine WHY softly th through gh t the he dim colors of the rags man nothing rew new enough to be bright went into the balls though there would be a suit soft gold golden glow all 11 through the hit bit I 1 i you find what my goal business an D 1 you vou gritted gritter big basford ballard my you I 1 and miss fabric train from the hanks died with copperas copp eraa brown brow and white near nance thoughts thought would make it seem like ke the four floor of the woods in fall w weathered th red and beautiful she be could sc scarcely s acey vait sit the time of ih the fulfillment of this dream when the cabin floors am should be soft under foot feet longing to for the refinements we was strong to la her though if limited painfully to such simple scope as cordova mi up sup plied piled or as s she remembered ill dimly I 1 Y ah from the he dy days of f her childhood 1 in uis 1 emarl bourl but the glory glary of the lead land was too tire competing compelling for far idle it dreams main of the in fu ture here at hand were carpels of hr brown pine ne needles effla shot through with scarlet met bleeding hearte here were soft ft and woods wonder rul ful nhen one bent close enough to dober no study their minute an and d intricate ee pat terns here were vast s distances uc so and dropping slopes veiled 1 in till pale him bine haze ban so delicate as to seem a hallu ballu cl ci nation here also were the mysterious loux tam fast t a nesses of blue stone time canyon its if pe per P ular cular sails nails of eroded rock it cut by Y seam mosto and it BAK casiere Ca siire 14 ins it b hollow abor kasles 1 resonant always alway of the ran stream that tumbled through them fiance bance loved the canyon she ilk liked ad to hi climb among its boulders to 10 hip its frequent pools for the trout that hung hang in their that ra mg manoth smoothness to in listen to the thousand voices that seemed always whimpering heipt T it and nd talking they th were went made ad of fat stuff and ad the these voices it it if one sat still mill and listened sued tour long en enough gh hat he could lit swear that at they we were real 1 that trance am concourses as discussed the secrets of the cheres on the hottest do days of mom met mer the canyon was coot cool for a wind drew draw always through it fro from 1 its un or it known head hand somewhere where in the me deep beep hearts heart themselves far to the north a and east buckskin felt the ons influence of the mound fall all pricking id als ein ers 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