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Show ndfflfii ittS'i(rfgr itfrm THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH sheriff and Harris at the head of the rest, holding to the beaten trail. Harris motioned to Billie. You fall back, he said. The men had drawn their rifles from the scabbards They never did post a guard. But theres Just a chance. So for a little piece youd better bring up the The .f Settling f the Sage By HAL G. EVARTS CHAPTER XI Continued 23 They rode from the devastated fields and angled southwest across the range. When some ten miles from the Three Bar Harris dismounted on a ridge and sh- - Jol led him, listening with entire i difference to bis optimistic plans. ' Were only scratched," wont mutter in the end. he said. It This L the end, she dissented The T .ree Bar Is done. Its Just the start, he returned. Its the end for them Don't you seef They staked everything on one big raid that would smash the T' ive Bar and discourage the rest from That would duplicating our move. give Slade a new lease of life delay the Inevitable for a few more years They made one him) attempt and lost Theyre through! he asserted posiThats their last shot Were tively. only delayed thats ail. The homestead cabins are only charred. The old buildings at the ranch are gone. Ill put a crew in the hills getting out new logs and thereU be enough peelers riding grub line to rebuild th; whole place. Weve got our land. The bay is tramped flat right now but the roots arent hurt. Next spring will show the whole flat coming up with a heavy stand of hay. "Youre t good partner. Cal, she said. "Youve done your best But the whole thing would only happen over again. Slades too strong for us. Slades through he asserted Hes locked up and when he gets out his hands will be tied Inside ol a month the law will be In the saddle for the first time In years Once Al den gets a grip on things, with folks behind him, hell never lose It again. He painted the future of the Three Bar as the foremost outfit within a hundred miles, but her mind was busy with a future so entirely differ ent from the one be portrayed that She scarcely grasped his words. Al ways she had heard her parents speak of the day when they should go back home; and she had always felt that the day would come when she, too, would live In the place from Which they had come with frequent trips back to the range. The love for the ranch had delayed her depaiture from year to year. But now the old familiar buildings were gone and there were no ties to hold her here, or even to call her back once she was 1 out-of-jo- b gone. Harris rose and pointed, rousing her from her abstraction. Down in the valley below them filed a long line of dusty horsemen. There is the law!" he said Thats what 1 brought you here to see. Its what weve been waiting for. That little procession stands for organized law She turned and looked behind her as her ear caught the thud of hoofs and Jangle of equipment. The Three Bar men were Just topping the ridge Harris knew that action, not inaction was the best outlet for her ener gies, temporarily smothered by the shock of the raid. 1 thought maybe youd like to go, be said. The Jaunt will do you good. She showed the first sign of Inter est she had evidenced. And were going to the Breaks, she stated Thats where," he said Well order them to give up and stand trial They wont. Then well clean them out Hunt them down like rats! The little bond in the valley was drawing near. She recognized Carp Bentley and another Slade man rid lng witn the sheriff at their head Whats Bentley doing there? she asked. One of Carps men," Harris said If any of them get away from us Carp will hound them down. Lie wears the U. S. badge and wont be stopped by any feeling about cross lng the Utah or Idaho lines. Bustling Is of no interest to him. Thats the sheriffs )ob. But Carp will round them up for obstructing the home stead laws." The Three Bar men came up and halted. Uarrls and the girl changed mounts and led their men down to Join the file of riders below. It was well after sundown when they baited In a sheltered valley Waddles cooked a meal over an open fire. Bed rolls were spread and the men were Instantly asleep. Three hours before sunup the cook was once more busy round a fire. The meal was bolted and each man lashed a generous lunch od his saddle before riding off. Daylight found them twenty miles from camp and the horses were breathing hard They turned into well worn coulee threaded by a trail. Three miles ulong tills Rent ley turned to the right np a branching gulch with eight men. Anotner n.lle 6nd Carp led a similar detachment off to the left. Billie rode with the 1 burning buildings on the Three Bar and rose to make her way back to rear." the pocket where the horses had been Harris turned up a side pocket an ! left In the care of a deputy. the men waited while he and the Ail through the day she had scarcesheriff climbed a ridge on foot to In The ly moved and she was tired. Harris motioned to the hours of inactivity had proved more vestlgate. girl wearing than a day In the saddle. "Come along up where you can Harris and the sheriff came In with see, he said and she followed them their detail. There were no prisoners. up the ridge. A little later Bentleys men rode "From behind a Har up and five minutes behind them rls trained bis glasses on the group came Carp with the rest, and aB a mile out across the shallow basin hands turned In. At daylight the Two men stood before a teepee near long return Journey to the Three Bar the stockade. There were two other was commenced. Twenty miles out tents Inside the structure, with a from the ranch and before noon of umber of men moving about them. the next day the sheriff and the marHe banded bis glasses to the girl shals had split off with their men. Well be starting," he said. By leaving the Three Bar crew to ride the time we get fixed the rest will be the short Intervening space to the closing In. You stay here and watch ranch alone. the whole thing. As she neared the edge of the Crazy Tm going along, she said. Im loop valley the girl dreaded the first as good a shot as there Is in the bills glimpse of the pillaged ranch. And it was my ranch they burned. They hnd reached the edge of the The sheriff shoved back bis hat valley and she looked down upon the and pushed bis fingers through his ruins. mop of gray hair. Now Im ready to go," she said Fact, he confessed. "Every word Ill go and see what Judge Colton But theres swarms of men in this wants," country and, such a d u scaiterlng "He wanted you to get away before few of girls that we Just cant take anything like this occurred," Harris the risk. Thats how it is. If you said. I knew that maybe wed have dout promise to stay out of it well tough going for a while at some critihave to detail a couple of the boys t cal time and wanted you to miss all ride guard on you till its over with of that to come buck and find the She knew that the other men would Three Bar booming along without back Harris and Alden in their verhaving been through all the grief. So dict. She nodded and watched them I wrote him to urge you to come. turn back toward the borses. Well, Im going now, she said. 1 There was nothing spectacular in dont need to be urged. the attack of Harris and the sheriff Harris pointed as they rode down it If went ver about as They hunting the slope. The little cabin that old min, cautiously and systematically Bill Harris hud first erected on the taking every possible advantage of Three Bar, and which had later sheltered the Warrens when they came into possession of the brand, stood solid and unharmed among the blackened ruins which hemmed it In on all sides. "Look, girl ! he exclaimed triumphLook at that little house. antly. The Three Bar was started with thatl We have as much as our folks started with aud more. They even bad to build that. Well start where ouf folks did, and grow. sage-clum- Qopyrkght br Hal O. Kvarti WNU Service only four in the house to be account ed for. A tiny point of light attracted her eye. It grew and spread. She knew that one of her men had crawled up under cover of night aud fired the bouse. 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There came a lull in the aetiou and she knew that the sheriff had raised his voice to summon them to come out without their guns and go back as prisoners to stand trial for every crime under the sun. Not a shot bad been fired. Inside the stockade she could see Langs men kneeling or flattened on tla ground as they gazed through cracks in the walls She made out Harris, crouching In a draw. A thin haze of smoke spurt Three similai ed from his position. puffs showed along the face of the stockade. Then the sounds of the shots drifted to her faint, snappy reports. Throughout the next half hour there was not a shot fired In the flat; no general bombardment, no wild shooting, but guerilla warfare where every uiud held his tire for a definite human target A man shift ed his position in the stockude, raised to peer from a hole breast high, Hnd she saw him pitch down on the ground before the sound of the shoi reached her. One of her men had noted the darkening of the crack and bad searched him out with a rifle shot Three shots answered It from the main cabin. She presently noted one of uei men sitting under a sheltering bunk She looked a and eating bis lunch her watch; It was after three-t- he day more than half gone and less than a hundred shots had been tired Five men were down In the stockade The shadows lengthened rapidly and her view through the glasses was beginning to blur when the gates of the stockade swung back and five borses dashed out, running at top speed under the urge of the spurs, a wild stampede for safety, every man seen. took to the stockade. for himself. Sne saw one man lurch sidewise and slip to the ground; another straightened In the saddle swung tor two lumps, and slid off hinkwan1 Th across the rump of his mount shooting ceased when six stmts had tired. Four riderless horses were a reeuing round the basin The stockade was empty leavisg Harris sat on a baggage truck and regarded the heap of luggage sombei ly. Way off in the distance a dark blot of smoke marked the location of the onrushing train which would take the Three Bar girl away. Some day youll be wanting to To Be Or Not to Be come back, old partner, he predicted Workingman Can 1 find a Job here? hopefully. The Three Bar isnt hurt Boss Let me seel Heres a man Were in better shape than ever before and a clear field out Id front ; a ho Isn't here today. If be Isnt here for the country is cleaned up and the tomorrow either, Ill send him away and you can get his Job. . law is clamped on top." Site honestly tried to rouse a spark A married mnn enjoys attending a of interest deep within her, some ray almost as much s he does a wedding for the enthusiasm future of the of fuueral. But there was no reThree Bar. sponse. She assured herself again that the old brand which had meant so much to her meant less than noth lng now. That part of her was dead The trail of smoke was drawing near. Harris leaned and kissed her. "Just once for luck," he said, and slipped from his seat on the truck as the train roared In. Good by, little I'U see you next round-ufellow. TOLEDO, OHIO In 1910 Health Giving Centenarians theie were 3,555 centenarl - rva wmsDADim Foilut pris(vS time. As the train slid away from the station she looked from her window and saw him riding up the single street on the big paint-horsThe train cleared the edge of the tittle town and passed the cattle chute. Three wagons, each drawn by four big mules, moved toward the cluster of buildings which comprised the town, the freighters on their way to haul out materials for the rebuilding of the ranch. t The work was going on but she no longer had a shure in it. She was looking abend and planning a future In which the Three Bar played no part. Deane was with Judge Colton, bet father's old friend, to meet her at the station. As they rode toward th Colton home site told the Judge she hnd come to stay and Deane was con tent. After the strenuous days she hnd Just passed through she needeo a long period of rest, he reflected ; but the older man smiled when be suggesfLd this vua,t she needs now is action." And no rest al all. 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