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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH THE RANCH AT THE WOLVERINE CopyrlgmLHt!, Srown A An Interesting and Intimate View of Pioneer Days on the Plains B. ' Co.) By M. BOWER a touch of the spurs, rode close to the men might say of him. But he knew fence aDd stood In his stirrups while how to tie down an animal and he WARD STUMBLES UPON EVIDENCE OF PLOT TO BRAND sacrificed part of his lariat to get the he studied the bunch. when he said Hell,' the Inspection short rope be needed to tie their feet RUSTLER AND BREAKS UP HIM AS A CATTLE was over and dropped back into the together. He worked fast no telling saddle whi'e he gazed unseelngly at what minute some one might come and PLANS OF HIS ENEMIES the canyon walL It was a very real catch him and he did his work well, hell that his mind saw a hell made far better and neater than had his by men wherein other men must dwell predecessors. Synopsis. Murthy iind Jnsc Meilke, pioneers, hove for twenty In torment because of their sins or the When he left that corral he smiled. on Cove Wolverine Lure out a of ranch at their the made living years sins of their fellows. Before he had ridden very far up the reek in the mountain range country of Idaho. Tlnlr neighbors, the Keabeck's brand was a big V, a bad bluff he stopped, looked down at the Mac! tonalds, living several miles invity, have a daughter, Hilly Louise, brand to own, since It favors revision long suffering cuttle and smiled again novv about nineteen years old, whom Murthy lms secretly helped to One could read their at the hands of the unscrupulous. sardonically. educate. At the time the story opens Hilly Louise Is spending the from and where he sat on his These were Seabeck brands cattle cattle, easily A on comes snowstorm and home her with afternoon up, way Marthy. not blotched; they were horse. the For had brand altered. their been They the girl meets an interesting stranger, who la Invited to stay overof the V had been extended were very distinct. But they were not slant right h. Warren and Ward ram Louise MacDonald the at Hilly night a little and curled into a 6, so that In Yfis within that corral There were llrm friends. Jase dies and Murthy buries his body without aid. time the brand would stand casual in- other brands which might be made of Charlie Fox, Marthys nephew, comes to the Cove, lie discovers eviY0 monogram by the judicious adas a Y8 monogram Ward's spection Louise verifies and Hilly dence of cattle stealing, suspicions. Hilly dition of a mark here and a mark own was brand. The purwork crude, Louise discovers vvlmt she thinks Is evidence of Ward's connection with V had not been there. The crude. posefully ure Increased serious the Illness troubles of Her by her the thefts. reburued enough to make It look fresh, "There, hang yuh, chew on that mother. and the newly seared 6 had been add- awhile! he apostrophized the absent tt ed with a malevolent pressure that three. He turned away and rode back out a fresh brand once more toward home. Ward would not have hesitated one would make It stand CHAPTER VIII. a In case Rattler turned naturally into the trail of a delay In time for long second about putting the sheriff on which ran up the creek to the ranch, knew as Ward perthe proceedings, You Won't Got Mo Again. the trail of Buck, but if the second Ward Immediately turned him out but well. fectly was In Ward fall the belate not man were be could implicated We arent going to overlook So he sat there and looked over the of it ONE day the hills off to the north tray one without betraying the other. and west of his claim, looking at And if the busluess down there in the fence and saw himself a convicted any bets, old timer, he said grimly rustler." There was the evidence all and crossed the creek at a point where the condition of the range there and corral were lawful, then he must think to damn him utterly before a it was too rocky to leave any hoof ready keeping an eye out for YG cattle. He of some other means. At any rate, the Jury. They would be turned loose on prints behind them. He rode up the had bought another dozen head of thing to do now was to make sure. near bis claim, and they lower point of the ridge beyond and the pitied stock over toward Uardup, and The two in the corral came out and wouldrange found before the scabs had followed the crest of it on the side be not of were the yet point they past closed the gate behind them, and the haired over. It was a good time for away from the valley. When he reachttraylug off their new range. So, hav- first man kicked ipart the embers of were over for the ed a point nearly opposite his cabin he ing keen eyes and the incentive to use a small fire and afterward busied him- rustling. Roundups would confine dismounted, unbuckled bis spurs and weather and the winter, to attention he stock tracks them, paid self with the ground, either looking for slipped their chains over the saddle to absolute necessity. range riding In the soft places, and he saw everytracks or covering them up. They coarse so horn. Then he went forward afoot to was course work Of the within the of his sweep vision, thing came a little way along the side of the reconnoiter. He was careful to avoid and, since the day was clear and flue, bluff, mounted and rode up toward coarse as to reflect against his Intelli- rock or worked are gravelly patches and to walk brands when hut his range of vision when he reached a where the lookout waited. And one of gence on the soft grass, which mufalways been has over the aud caught culprit to extended the Three Buttes high point them rode a dark hay and was slim tho law Is not too careful to give the fled his steps. away out in the desert and tall and wore a gray hat In this wise he made his way to the credit for bruins. Hy sheer accident he rode up to the Ward glanced at Rattler standing prisoner of the ridge, where he could look top altered brands Ward the at stared hidcanyon where the little corral lay hulf asleep with reins dropped to the wondered what he had best do. down upon the cabin and stable and and den at the end and looked down. And ground. He reached out took the since he rode up at an angle different reins aud led the horse farther down lie bethought him that perhaps It corrals and see also the creek trail for would be as well to put a little scenery a good quarter of a mils. The little from the one Hilly Louise had taken under the shelter of the ledge. Rat- between bimself and that particular valley lay quiet His team fed undisthe corral was directly beneath him tler pricked up his ears at the sound be started back up the turbed by the creek not far from the and so directly, In fact, that half of it wa of those other locality, not riders, but he did bill. Once he pulled up as If he would corral which reassured Ward more hidden from sight. He saw that there show enough interest to nicker a greet- go back, but he thought better of it than anything. Still, he waited until were cattle within it, however, and ing. He was always a self centered It was out of the two men at work there. question to turn he had made reasonably sure that the And by beast and was content to go his way those cattle loose. He could not kl'l bluff held no watcher concealed before chance he lifted hla eyes and saw the like his master. tlrem and of the bodies, not he went back to where Rattler waited uose of a horse beyond a Jutting ledge alone, Ward stood up, where he could see when there dispose were seven of them. He patiently. sixty yards or so away aud the crown the rim of the bluff over the ledge of I guess they didnt plan to stir of a hat showing Just above the ledge. might go down and blotch the brands lava rock. He might get a closer view so would not read anything things up till they got those critters that A lookout, he judged instantly and they and see who was the lookout, and he pulled Rattier behind the rock he had might be seen. For that contingency at all. He had thought of that before planted where they wanted them, he and decided against It That would mused while he rode down the bluff to been at some pains to ride around. he kept his fingers close to his gun. But when they visit that those three on their guard and his cabin. Ward was a cowpuucber. lie knew He heard their scrambling progress. put would not benefit him In the bunch of stock again I reckon things so of the the tricks well that he trade probably Now and then one of the horses Bent did not wonder what was going on long run. They would work the brands will begin to tighten a little rock bounding down Into the on He waa wary of exposing himself other cattle. down there. He knew. He was temptthe cattle in the corral too much to view from the bluff while In saddle hunched He forward the ed to do as Hilly Louise had done-ri- de canyon, whereat moved restlessly around the small inon and puss up knowledge which and let Rattler choose his own trail be did his chorea that night, and be closure. up the hill. Though he did not know kept Rattler In the stable; also he slept might be disagreeable, for Ward was They came closer after they had it, trouble had caught Billy Louise In very little, and before daybreak he not one to spy upon bis fellows, and the man whom he would betray Into gained the top. Ward, leaning against that same place and had sent her for- waa up and away. the bauds of s sheriff must he guilty the dull gray rock before him, heard ward with drooping shoulders and s of a most heinous crime. That was the murmur of their voices. Once he mind so absorbed that she gave no atCHAPTER IX. his code to let every fellow have a caught the unmistakable tones of the tention to her horse. But that la mere Ill keep ly a trifling coincidence. The thing he Im Going to Tako You Out and Hang chance to work out bis own salvation man be wonld like to kill. Plotting against had to decide was far more compliYou. or damnation as he might choose. I cases and git him. trouble with a man like Buck dont suppose there was anything he some poor devil, as usual, Ward cated than Lilly Louises problem. is that you can never be thought and wondered If the man knew bnted worse thnn an informer. Should be go straight to Seabeck and sure of his method, except that He got behlud the rock, since he had he lived in this part of the country. If tell him what he had found out? lie no great desire to be shot, and he dis- he did, It might cosily be did not know Seabeck, except as he It will be underhand and calculated to T11 keep cases some myself, you had met him once or twice on covered that his view of the corral the trail eliminate as much as possible any risk was much plainer than from where reptile, he muttered under his breath. and exchanged trivial greetings and a to himself. Ward, casting back Into he had first seen it. He looked behind "You wont get me agnln, If thats few words about the weather. Besides, his memory he had known Buck Olwhat you've got in mind. ney very well once upon a time and In him for an easy retreat to the skySeabeck would very soon find ont his youth had counted They went on, and presently Ward line, and then before he turned to ride bis There It stood at shoulder, grin- him unsuspecting a friend tried to guess bow Buck their was at backs as looking they he down away glanced again curiously. him malevolently his past It would He stood for ning at proceed when he went down to A man walked out Into the center of rode over the ridge. his tied hands., Iluclc Olney he could that corral and found how those brands some time staring after them with the corral and stood there In the deal with single handed, for Olney had bad been retouched. sunlight. Ward's eyes bored what Billy Louise called his gimlet the fear of him that Is born of a He'll be running around In circles was from breathing shortly like gimlets through the space that di- look, lie guilty conscience. He could send Buck for awhile, all right, he deduced, with vided them. Instinctively his hand "over the road whenever he chose to an air of Blotched brands certainty. went to the gun on his hip. it was a tell some things he knew. He could do hed know was my work, and he could was and he afraid he long pistol shot, It without any compunctions too. Buck have put it on me, too, with a good might miss, for Ward was not a wizOlney, the stock inspector, deserved no yarn about trailing me so close I got ard with a gun, ninth as I should like mercy at Ward's hands and would get cold feet. As it is Ward smoked to misrepresent him as a dead shot none If ever they met where Ward two and scowled at the scencigarettes He was human, Just like yourself. He him. a at chance would have ery. As It was, he did not know just could shoot pretty well, a great deal Olney he could deal with alone, but what Buck Olney would do, except better than lots of men who do more with the evidence of those rebranded If he makes a guess 1 did that he'll boasting than he ever did, but he frecattle and the testimony of two men know Im wise to the whole plant. disquently missed, lie measured the together with the damning testimony And hell get me sure, providing tance with his mind while the' mnn of his past! Ward lifted his head aud stand with my back to him long stood there talking to some one unstared heavily at the pine slope before enough! Ward had his back to a high seen. To look at Ward's face you him. He could not go to Seabeck and ledge at that moment, so that he did would Lave sworn that the man was tell him anything. In the black hour not experience any impulse to look bedoomed, but something held Ward's of that ride he could not think of any hind him. finger from crooking on the trigger. Buck don't want to drag me up bething that he could do that would The man had his hack turned squarely save him. fore a Jury," he reasoned further. He'd toward the gun. Ward waited. The And then quite suddenly In his des- a heap rather pack me in all wrapped man did not move. He waited another he decided upon something up In a turp and say how he'd caught peration minute, and thru he opened his lips to hardly, turned Rattler back me with the goods and I resisted arlie laughed shout. And when his lips parted for from the homeward trnil and returned rest. the call that would bring the fellow to the corral In the canyon. "They The assurance he felt as to what facing him Ward's tricky brain snapand theyve put It Buck Olney would do did not particuthis started game, ped before his eves the face of Billy up to me, he told himself grimly larly frighten Ward even if he did neg Louise. and they needn't squeal if they burn lect to go to bed In his cabin during the He lowered the gun. He could not own fingers. next few days. That .was common their shoot when he knew that the bullet He hurried, for he had some work sense born of his knowledge of the would split a gulf between himself ahead of him, and the sun was sliding man he was dealing With. He went to and the girl a gulf that would seppast the noon mark already. He repli- the cabin warily, just often enough to arate Ldm forever from that future ed the corral and went about what le give It an air of occupancy. He frewhere stood his air castles. had to do as if he were working quently sat apoD some hilltop and lie let down the hammer with his and wanted to give good meas- watched a lazy thread of gmoke weave wages thumb, slid the gun back into Its hoi Ward Leaned upward from his rusty stovepipe, but Against the Dull Gray ure. ster and dismounted, with a glance tohe rebuilt the lttle fire Just he slept out tinder the stars rolled in Rock. First ward the place where the lookout was outside the corral where the cattle his heavy blanket, and he never crossstationed. He was sure be had not the pressure he had put upon his self could not trample It, but where one ed a ridge If he could make his way been seen, and so he crouched behind control, aud be was thinking, thinking. thrust a branding Iron Into Its through a hollow. It Is not always might a splinter of rock and watched, lie The silence came creeping In ou the midst from between the rails. When cowardice which makes a man ex bad no plan, but bis instinct Impelled heels of the faint. Interrupted sound It was going properly he searched cer- tremly careful not to fall into the him to closely watch Buck Olncy, of their voices. Ward took a long tain likely hiding places and found an hands of Ais enemy. There is a small Another man came into view down breath, discovered that he was grip- Iron still warm from previous service. matter of pride Involved. Ward would here In the corral He also stood ping his gun as though his life depend- He thrust It Into hent, led Rattler Into have died almost any death rather ed on hanging to it and rubbed his the corral and closed the gate securely than give Buck Olney the satisfaction lalnly revealed, and Ward gave title snort of contemptuous surprise numbed fingers absently After a min- behind him. Then he mounted, took c getting him. For a few days he when he recognized him. After that ute or so be mounted and rode down down his rone and widened the loop, was cautious as an Indian on the war he studied the situation with scowling to the corral while his angry eyce singled ont the trail and then bis patience frazzled Five dry cows and two steers snort animal he wanted first. brows. This other man either upset out under the strain. bis conclusions or complicated his ed at bis approach and crowded against At sunrise one morning, after a night Ward was not an adept with a runmaimer of dealing with Buck Olney the farther rails. Ward gave Rattler ning Iron. He was honest, whatever of shivering is his blanket, he hunched i- hla shoulders In disgust of Wt cuurwn. If Buck Olney wanted anything of him he was certainly taking his time about coming after it. Ward rubbed his fingers over his stubbly jaw, and tba uncomfortable prickling was the last small detail of discomfort that decided him. He was going to have a shave and a decent cup of coffee aud eat off bis own table or know the reason why, he promised himself while he slapped the saddle on Rattler. He was camped in a sheltered little hollow In the hills, where the grass was good aud there was a spring. It waa a mile and more to his claim, straight acioss the upland, and it was his habit to leave Rattler there and walk over to the ridge, where he could watch his claim. Frequently, as I have said, he stole down before daylight and lighted a fire lu the stove just to make It look as If he lived there. There was a risk in that, of course, granting that the slock Inspector was the kind to lie in wait for him. Ward rode to the ridge with h!s blanket rolled and tied behind the cantls. Ilis frying pan hung behind bis leg, aud his rifle lay across the saddle In front of him. lie was going borne boldly enough and recklessly enough, but he was by no means disposed to wa.k deliberately Into a trap. He kept bis eye peeled, as he would have expressed it. Also he left Rattler Just under the crest of the ridge, took off his spurs and with his rifle in his bands went forward afoot, as he bad done every time he had approached his cabin 6ince the day he found the corral and the cattle in the canyon. In this wise he looked down the steep slope with the sun throwing the shadow of his bead and shoulders before him. The cabin window blinked cheerHis span of fully In the sunlight. mares were coming up from the meadow In the faint hope of getting a breakfast of oats, perhaps. The place looked peaceful enough and cozlly desirable to a man who has slept out for four nights late In the fall, but a glance was all Ward gave to it. His eyes searched the bluff below him and upon either side. Of a sudden they sharpened. He brought his rifle forward with an Involuntary motion of the arms. He stood so for a breath or two, looking down the hill. 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Thats Interesting. Did lie tell you about his experiences at the front? No, and for a good reason. I discovered later that he had merely helped to paint the thing before It left the factory. THE Throw Up Your Hands. Naturally. Does the new question department you started work all right? No ; I find it wont answer. the muzzle pointing downward. At that distance and from a dead rest It would be strange if he should miss Piles In 6 to 14 Days any object he shot at. He had what Druggists refund Cured money If PAZO 01NTMBNT falls to cure or Protruding Piles. licking, Bund, gamblers call a cinch, or he would hare irst application gives Bleeding relief. 60c. had if the man he watched for had not been standing directly behind him In time of peace the Transvaal with rifle sights hi a line with the scar mines are the largest consumers of exon the back of his thick neck. plosives in the world. Throw up your hands! Ward called sharply when his first flare of rage had coaled to steady purpose. Buck Olney jumped as though a yellow jacket had stung him. lie turned a startled face over his shoulder and Jerked the rifle up from the rock. Ward raised his sights a little and plugged round, black rimmed hole through Bucks hat crown. Throw up your hands, I told you! he said, while the hills opposite were still flinging back the sound of the shot, aud came closer. Buck grunted an oath, dropped the rifle so suddenly that It clattered on the rock and lifted his hands high in the quiet sunlight. Get up from there and go on down to the shack and keep your hands up. And remember all the reasons Ive got for wanting to see you make a crooked move so Ill have an excuse to shoot. Ward came still closer as he spoke. He was wishing he had brought his rope along, ne did not feel quite easy in his mind while Buck Olney's hands were free. tr Ward event up old Korea with Olney In a manner which Olney it not likely to forget for a good many years. 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