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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION Wt JACKSON GREGORY r !, AB GREGORY wmwiPMI!- ZIV- - THE STORY SO FAR: Arriving simul. . mousV at the King Cole Ranch, Ann rr. m! Cole Cody discovered Old Early U cole had made two identical wills, e lesvln! mil his money mnd the Ranch AM- - mnd the other giving the same money and property to Cole. Ranee established at the Ranch since Old Bill's death, and posing as his nephew, questioned the sanity ot Old Bill and the legality of the two wills. It was noon nearly when they returned to Ranch head quarters. That evening they all retired early, that Is all except Aunt Jenifer, who stole out undrx m large oak tree and watched Ranee Waldron help a strange lurching man out of the house. Now continue with the story. CHAPTER XII Aunt Jenifer went straight to Cole Cody's outside door and hammered ,t it hard with her knuckles. He was asleep but came awake in-stantly, and called out. Who's there? What's wanted?" "It's me, Jenifer Edwards. Dress quick and come out here. Bring your gun, too." "Well?" he demanded when he stepped out close to Aunt Jenif-er's shadowy form. "I don't know," she said calmly if eagerly. "I don't trust that Ranee Waldron; he's got a mean eye. All day long he has kept his door locked, and all day I've known that he had somebody he's been hiding. I've (been watching, figuring with all this secrecy he'd be anxious to get his friend out of the house when he was sure everybody was in bed. Just now he and another man sneaked out and went to their horses that were saddled and hidden in a willow thicket." "What about it?" demanded Cody, about as amiable as most men rudel-y awakened from a deep sleep all lor the sake of a mere trifle. "What affair is it of mine? Or of yours, either?" "Part of it is this: Eance Wal-dron has had this man hid in the house behind a locked door all day; that's a mystery, young man, and I don't like mysteries. Then it's shady, their sneaking out of the house this time of night, speaking in whispers. And someone shot Early Bill a. few days ago; and in case there was no will, Eance Waldron would have inherited ranch, cash, and everyt-hing. Another thing; the stage was held up yesterday by someone who dirty dogs I hope we hear aplenty." ' "You've spoke it the way I was thinking it," Cal said. "Let's go on, companero." They rode slowly, keeping their horses in the deep grass at the sides of the trail so that all hoofbeats were muffled. Thus they drew with-in a hundred yards of the log cabin. There Cal Roundtree gave a signal to stop, and both dismounted. They led their horses a score of paces into the thick timber fringing the creek, and removed their spurs to hang them on their saddle horns. Then walking in silence, lifting their boot-ed feet as does a cat in wet grass, they drew near the cabin. A voice, not Ranee Waldron's, was speaking, and it was rough and querulous and came near being threatening. ". . . and so, there you let me rot all day, damn you. I might of died! I might die yet for all the doctoring I'm getting. By God, Ranee, I've got a notion and a good notion " "You'd better keep your mouth shut, Tom, old man, before you talk yourself into more trouble tha'n you can ever crawl out of." There spoke Ranee Waldron, and his voice was arrogant, contemptu-ous, revealing a man very sure of himself. "Get it into your head, Ranee, that things have changed plenty! You had me down good and plenty, didn't you? You could have wag-gled your finger and sent me to the pen, couldn't you?" He laughed chucklingly. "Not any more, kid! I've thought it over from all an-gles. Ranee. You won't do any squealing on me because at the end you've let your foot slip; you'd be to do it by Ranee Waldron. That's something I'm pretty certain of. And the two of them are the stage robbers; that's something else I'd bet my boots on." "You sound like you knew what you're talking about," said Cody. "I gather the same idea as you do about the hold-u- But how come you cinch the shooting of Early Bill on Tom Gough?" "You don't see a man wearing a new hat every day, Cody. Early Bill, before he checked in his chips, told Doc Joe and the Judge how he had whanged away at the hombre that potted him; how he had shot the feller's hat off. He said, 'Watch out for a man with a hat with a hole in it, or a man without any hat at all, or a man with a brand new hat.' Now climb on your pony and let's travel." And at the ranch house, while Cal Roundtree and Cole Cody were giv-ing their attention to Waldron and Tom Gough, Aunt Jenifer was busy-ing herself in her own fashion. She scurried post-hast- e to her own room, closed the door and was going to lock it when she discovered there was no key in the lock. She hurried to Ann's room adjoining. The door was closed but unlocked; no key there either. But she thought, that Waldron man's door is locked. He's got a key. There ought to be others some-where. So, carrying her lamp, she went prowling through the house, She looked at all locks en passant, she opened all drawers in tables and dressers, she ran her fingers along cupboard shelves. She came to a closed closet and opened it to peer inside, and, of all places, found a key in the lock within the closet. She tried it in her own lock; it fitted and she shot the bolt home. She locked herself in and went to Ann's door, the farther one opening upon the corridor. It fitted there, too. Another hmf! It seemed as though all the locks in the house were the same. And right then the inspiration and the . temptation assailed her to try her key on still another door. If it worked on these locks, why not on Ranee Waldron's? She scurried to that door through which Waldron had passed so many times, always locking it behind him. And the key fitted the lock, and the door opened! She was thrilled with a sense of adventure and was also just a mite frightened. She entered a bedroom that was in considerable disorder. She glanced at the bed itself with its covers dragging on the floor; then around the room until her eyes came to a full stop at a table on which there were some papers and a couple of penciled account books. She flipped over pages: Cattle bought and sold; numbers in the various herds, cost and sales prices; thai sort of thing for the most part. Among the scattered papers was a new letter signed by Andy Jenkins. It said: "Deer Bill, I done my job all right, better than you speckalatec what I mean is I got the whole ten thousand and am bringing it with knew that Bucktooth Jenkins was bringing ten thousand dollars in cash to Early Bill Cole. And you fired a few shots at the robbers and thought you hit one of them. And the man with Waldron limped so bad that he could hardly walk. Is that an earf-ul, or just child's chatter?" , "Which way did they ride?" asked Cody, grown brisk now. "Straight north, along the creek on this side." "You'd better get to bed, "Aunt Jenifer. It's dawning on me that you're a pretty wonderful woman, but you can't keep going day and night." "You bet I'll go to my room, Bill Cole Cody, and lock my door. Darn it, I'm scared. And you come" back as soon as you can; I'll hear you, and I'll creep out into the living room to make sure it is you. Now poke along." He caught her hand and gave it a squeeze; he came perilously close to hugging her. He hurried down to the ranch buildings for a word with Cal Round-tre-and a horse. Cal, wakened and apprised of the situation, was out of the door still buttoning his overalls and drawing his belt about his lean middle, tole Cody was ahead of him at the sta-ble; they saddled swiftly and took the trail Aunt Jenifer had specified, north along the creek. "If they want to hide they can rA it mane tbemselves hard to find in this country," said Cal Roundtree. "I know the most likely place to look for them, since they must have thought that no one had seen their getaway, and so no one would be foll-owing them so soon. Likely they'll get under a roof tonight, anyhow, and maybe poke on tomorrow night." As they rode, Cole Cody told Cal in detail Aunt Jenifer's information, her suspicions and surmises. Cal led the way, and the darkness did not matter to him; moreover, his horse soon discovered where he "as going and thereafter needed no touch on the reins. They kept close to the creek for a mile, and though they rode swiftly they heard no sound of hoofbeats ahead. Then Cal swung to the right where a small tributary brook came tumbling down, and presently they passed m'o the mouth of a steep-walle- d favine. It was about a half hour after entering the ravine that Cal Roundtree called softly over his shoulder, "We've run 'em down, pardner. There's a log cabin up there at the head of the canyon where an old Prospector used to hang out; no-body's been in it for three-fou- r vear. He saw Ranee Waldron clearly In the candle light. squealing on yourself the same as on me. What I've did you paid me for. The other job, with me getting shot up, you and me did together. And I can prove it!" There was a breathless stillness there in the cabin. Then Ranee Waldron spoke again, and there was a marked change in his tone. All the challenge and threat, all the masterfulness and contempt had gone out of it. "You are right, Tom. We have gone into this thing together and we had better see it through togeth-er. And I'll even grant you that I no longer have any hold on you; if you are big enough fool for it, you can leave me flat and go your own way for the rest of your life knowing that you don't have to be afraid of me any longer, because as you say I am as deep in this last affair as you are. It's your turn to speak up: Stick along with me and take orders from me and make yourself a big stake if I get away with this job, as I'm sure I will, with you or without you. Or tuck your tail between your legs and run out on me." talk, straight from me only I am staying a day with my relations and will ketch the stage next day. Yours truly, Andy Jenkins." "So that's it." Aunt Jenifer mum-bled to herself. "That Waldron dev-il found this letter and got busy, hirr. and the man he's been hiding ir here all day. No wonder he wantec to get rid of us." She crumpled the tell-tal- e lettei in her hand and hurried into the other room and tried the door lead-ing to the outside; again the kej fitted. She closed the door agair and began taking stock of this sec-ond room's contents. There was a splotch on the floor; a rug had evi-dently been drawn to cover it, ther its edge turned over by a careless foot as the two men departed. Anc that spot looked to Aunt Jenifer lik a blood smear. So she leaped tc the same conclusion that had of fered itself to Cody and Roundtree On the next step she was alreadj decided. She would unlock the out side door again, leave it unlocked but closed, make her retreat througl Waldron's room, slip out of his dooi that led into the corridor, lock tha door and carry her key off witi her. Then when he came home ant found his outer door unlocked hi would have something to think hut there's a light there now." "It strikes me," said Cody, "that we've got 'em where we want them, where they can't run out on us." "It strikes me, Cody," said Cal Roundtree, taking his time to think ttings out to some sort of logical conclusion, "that it would be fair P ay and on the up and up if we P'ayed a dirty trick on them. We 'eave our horses before we get too close, and creep up on 'em Injun ftyle. And we try our darndest to JJfar what they are talking about, there's a lot of fellers I know that wst can't help being " these two are like that, we might know Mmething we're nankerinS t0 That sort of doings don't smell 7 sweet when you hear folks j?C abut them," said Cal. "But don't smell very sweet, around the tracks Ranee Wal-r- n is making. How come he d here just at the right time to old Early Bill die? How come s been hiding somebody in the V.w e aU day? How come he sneaks i out after the middle of the lit 8eS whisPerin6 and heading h him v? How come man wiUl limps like he can hardly walk? eav" darn right we'u snoP and vesdrop aU we can. Me, I ain't anvt,Shamed 01 il- - We wont near 'thing bad if they're a couple of mte angels; If they're a team of the shoulder, evidently threw Tom Gough off his balance. "I'm with you, Ranee," he said, and all the belligerent menace had melted out of his tone. "Now what?" "You hole up here for a few days and give that wound a chance to heal Meantime I'll plan; I'll learn a few things I'm not sure of yet; I'll drop in on you late tomorrow night." "That's fair enough," said Tom G Cal1 Roundtree had shoved Cody out of his way and was peering in through the open slit between the two logs. He saw Ranee Waldron clearly in the candlelight, saw him go to the door and pass through and close the door behnd him. And Tom Gough, a man clearly he saw stature with a thick of low, squat thatch of black hair and a week's black bristly growth of whiskers; with a brutish, flat face and a pair close-se- t black eyes. And of brilliant, stock of Tom he took particular Cough's hat. It was brand new. Old boots-a-nd a brand clothes, ragged new hat. Ranee Waldron went on his way to his horse tethered near by, then down trail returning along the way hp had come. --Sat man in there, that Tom Gough," said Cal, "is the man that shot old Early Bill. He was made i about; when he missed the Jenkin; letter which he had been too great ; fool to destroy or hide, he'd hav still'more matter for thought. But there wouldn't be the vagues hint to make him think that this hac been an inside job. And even thougl for one reason or another he die get the idea that Aunt Jenifer hac had something to do with it, hi couldn't really be convinced anc he'd be mighty careful about speak ing of it to her, for fear of tippinj his hand. And watch her play inno cent tomorrow! Now she wanted to hurry fastei than aver, for she kept telling her self that she was in a den of mur derers. Yet she kept telling her self also that now was her one anc only chance to make a thorougl search in these two rooms. Well, she had done all she coulc now, and had better scamper fo) her own quarters. 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