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Show T THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION esssssssssssssssssssss8ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss8sssssssssssssessa mME WOMANJg illllll Jy PETER SS8SS8SSSSSSSSSSSSS3SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS8SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS cows, bulls, heifers and yearling calves, trucked his crew back to the Tomahawk ranch and started his round-u- p there. Later in the summer, when the late calves had been dropped a few men would return to the Flying ' W and brand these. So Hamilton L. Henley's Jess Hubbell, sent Joel Wade, to a Los Angeles ad- - dress, a check based on this count and the price agreed upon for the various classes of cattle. When his May bank statement came in with the dead checks, Hamilton L. Henley examined the check he had issued to Joel Wade and discovered it had been deposited in a bank in Blythe, California. In discussing the Wades with his son at dinner that night he opined that customarily a man resides close to where he banks wherefore Blythe, just across the Colorado Riv-er from Arizona, was too close for comfort. Thereupon Len recalled Pedro Ortiz had told him that the man Pedro had killed on the Wagon Wheel had had a letter on his per-son addressed to Randall H. Wall, Earp, California, a tiny settlement about thirty miles up river from Blythe, and that, judging by their outfits which Pedro had captured, Wall and his two companions that day were .from California. This seemed to argue that the Wade brothers must have had a connection across the river and that the con-nection had not been broken when they sold out and, ostensibly, left Arizona. A few days later Len motored over to Earp, California, and made discreet inquiry of the postmaster for Randall H. Wall. He was in-- THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary Suth-erland It lure to Arizona by the adver-tisements ot the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She Is met at the station by Len Henley, who tells her the ranch is out ol business and who takes her to Phoenix. Here he rides Mad Hatter in a rodeo and wins three thousand dollars for Mary from his dad, Ham Henley, who has bet against him. Ham has bought the Burdan notes from the bank ,and feels the Wagon Wheel is now his, but Mary has bought an equity In It. She rehires Ma and Pa Burdan, takes up on the ranch, and fights rustlers. Aunt Margaret calls on Len and tells him Mary has almost forgotten that she ever loved him- - CHAPTER XVII "I'JJ be forking a horse by the first of April. Threw my cane away yes-terday." "I discarded mine yesterday, too, and drove in to Phoenix to cele-brate and buy some things. Mar-garet told me where I could com-municate with you. I'm so glad you're in your father's house. You both must feel much happier now." "We are. How are you getting along out there, darling?" "I'm busier than a d man saddling a colt. That's a nifty I borrowed from Hank Wade. Hank's my friend. And don't you call me darling because I'm telephoning you on business. I've been wondering if, now that you've abandoned the ro-deo circuit, you would consider sell-ing me Mose and Pablito. I'd like them for my top horses." "I don't wish to sell my horses, but in memory of some high mo-ments and a sentiment I thoroughly realize has perished, I would like very much to present you with them. And you're the only human being I would consider presenting them to." "Wasn't it Sir Launfal who said that the gift without the giver is bare? Thank you, Don Leonardo, but I may not accept a gift from you, for any reason particularly a senti-mental one." "Well, you win that argument," he answered bitterly. "Very short-ly I will come out and remove all of my property from your ranch." "Don't bother to do that. I shall have Pedro deliver It all to your fa-ther's Tomahawk ranch near Pres-cot- t" A silence then. So she didn't want to risk seeing him again. That knowledge stabbed him and she knew it did because when he spoke again his voice trembled. "Please tell Pedro that I give him the sedan and trailer house for old sake's sake. He has, for a long time, been planning a visit to his wife's people in Mexico and he will save money and be comfortable if he makes the Jour-ney in the trailer." "I'll tell himand see to it that he gets an opportunity to make the Journey. Well, I'm sorry you couldn't have been a better sport about this. It isn't like you to get nasty." This was a blow below the belt and she knew it and waited breathlessly for his counter punch. "You're the nasty one I mean well, I don't mean that. You're sweet and wonderful" "Nasty-nice- , eh? Well, nobody could be worse than that. Mr. Hen-ley, you're a quitter. You can't take it." "I can take anything." "Goodby," she said coldly. "I trust you'll soon be your old swag-gering, devastating self again, my handsome love pirate goodby!" If some half-wi- t had organized a Skeptics' Society, Hamilton L. Hen-ley would, undoubtedly have been a charter member. And if the society had, at one of its meetings, decided to investigate the true inwardness of the old adage that the leopard can-not change his spots, Brother Hen-ley would have been found arguing the issue negatively, even in the face of evidence that modern leop-ards were achieving considerable success in spot elimination by the use of dyes, bleaches and selective breeding. His experience of life had demonstrated to him that fright and condign punishment do not operate to reform a thief hence when Joel and Rube Wade, figuratively speak-ing, shook the dust of Arizona from their cowboy boots. Ham Henley's interest in them did not cease. He had bought their Flying W outfit and in April he would throw a large crew of riders from his Tomahawk ranch in on the neighboring Flying W and make a quick and very thor-ough round-u- p and count. Then and then only would he send Joel a check to cover the final accounting, for the lease and iron were both regis-tered in the name of Joel, the eldest brother and neither Rube nor the estate of Breezy had figured in his deal. "You know, Hank, he told their father on the way back to Prescott, I wouldn't put it past them two visit an' steal a boys to pay me a lot o' them Flyin' W ycarlin's after I've paid Joel for 'em. They got the swelled head. They just know outsmart the world an I they can they'll have to cater to ,ot a notion ftat feelin' by workin' on me, just to for makm em catch even with me " sell out to me an' skedaddle He made his round-u- on the Fly-,-- , W early in April and the forty he put on the job had it d in ten days; his Tomahawk aTh manager reported the tally of Zt calf branding, and the aged On August first Len received a telephone message from Tom Lundy one of his watchdogs on the Fly-ing W range that four men were' gathering Flying W cattle. A week later he and his father motored up to their Tomahawk ranch, loaded Len's two horses and his father's top horse, saddled, into a huge truck, together with three pack mules with their pack outfits, bedding rolls, food and cooking utensils and returned to Prescott, where Hank Wade joined them in his official car. They motored a hundred and eighty miles to Wickenburg and turned west across the fiat or undu-lating desert to Hope, then north-west to Parker on the south bank of the Colorado River and northeast over- - a dirt road to Eagle Landing. About six o'clock the following evening they heard the distant pro-test of tired cattle and the shout of men urging them down the wash. Half an hour later the sheriff with his party watched, from a distance of thirty yards, his sons, Joel and Rube, and two strangers dismount, unsaddle their horses and three pack mules, hobble them and turn them loose to graze. They made a fire down in the wash and all hands helped In the preparation of supper, from which task they presently were diverted by hearing the soft voice of Sheriff Wade saying: "Up with them, Joel! Up with them, Reuben! Up with them, strangers! You're all covered!" "Up!" Hamilton Henley's voice, fierce, harsh and raucous supple-mented the sheriff's command; si-multaneously he put a bullet inte the heart of the campfire and scat-tered the coals. Four pairs of arms went skyward and their captors closed in from four sides; while the Henleys and Lundy held them cov-ered the sheriff handcuffed them and linked them together with two additional sets of cuffs. "Paw," Joel Wade whimpered, "you ain't a goln' to take us in, are you? You wouldn't disgrace yourself by disgracin' your own sons, would you, paw?" "Your paw's been dead for some time, Joel," his father replied sad-ly. "You're talkin' now to the sher-iff of Yavapai County who took an oath of office to uphold the law. You an' Reuben promised to stay out of Arizona after Mr. Henley saved you from that mob In Pres-cott an' bought you out an' here you are back in Arizona with eighty odd head of Mr. Henley's steers in your possession. Shut up or I'll gag you." The party was up an hour before dawn and Ham Henley and the sher-iff prepared breakfast while Len Henley and Tom Lundy, with a lan-tern, sought out the hobbled horses and mules, brought them in to camp and saddled them. After breakfast the prisoners were mounted on their own horses, and connected with a fifty-fo- riata, while their horses were tied head to tail, with a lead rope from the number-on- e horse to the pommel of the sheriff's saddle, who was to lead the sorry proces-sion back to the Tomahawk truck, parked with its driver at Eagle Landing. Lundy, mounted on his own horse, was to follow with the rustlers' pack mules, minus their cargo, and help the truck driver load them and the rustlers' horses into the truck, which would then start the long blistering journey back for the Tomahawk ranch. He was then to assist in loading the prisoners in the sheriff's car. In addition to leg irons wait-ing at the truck they were to be tied in so securely that escape or an attack on the sheriff, en route, would be an impossibility. As soon as there was sufficient light to permit movement Ham Hen-ley said: "Well, Hank, you better git goin'. You got a long hot day ahead o' you. Me an' Len's goin' to swim across the river an' inter-view this Wall person. That feller's got to be made to realize he ain't acted right an' that it'd be the part o' wisdom if he stuck to alfalfa farmin' in the future an' left lot feedin' to somebody else. We aim to inspect his feed lots, see what brands he's got there an' burn all his hay. Words ain't never enough to impress a crook." He and Len had worked their way down the wash among the cat-tle, now beginning to climb out to graze, and had arrived on a sand-bar at the junction of the Williams with the Colorado when a detona-tion sounded across the river, a shower of objects rose high in the air and a billow of smoke and dust followed. A few seconds later the Henleys observed a similar phenom-enon. "I'm inclined to think some other indignant Arizonan had gotten to Farmer Wall first, pappy," Len ob-served. "See that rosy glow against the sky. That's haystacks burning up at the feed lots!" They sat their horses watching the rising glow, reluctant to cross the river now but curious to observe what developments might eventuate. Presently they heard the occasional bellowed protest of cattle being driv-en; the sound approached the river steadily and above the bellowing they could hear the shrill "hi-y- i, of punchers driving cattle. TO BE CONTINUED) "Up with them, Joel! Up witb them, Reuben!" formed that Randall H. Wall was the younger brother of one Morton P. Wall, and both had a ranch about five miles They had home-steade- d a quarter section each of splendid desert land fronting on the river, cleared it and planted it to al-falfa, whish they irrigated with wa-ter pumped from the Colorado. The postmaster hadn't seen Randall H. Wall for perhaps two months. The brothers sold considerable baled al-falfa which they trucked into the Los Angeles market, but they also fed a great deal of it to cattle, augmenting the alfalfa with cotton seed cake and sugar beet pulp which their trucks hauled in from Los Angeles on their return trips after delivering baled hay. The postmaster had seen truck loads of feeder steers passing through town on the Wall trucks; he knew they bought feeders over in Arizona, fattened them at their ranch and then sold them as baby beef at the Los Angeles stock yards. Randall Wall had once told him they figured on feeding a critter ninety days and putting two hundred pounds on him. Len drove up a rough sin-gle track desert road that paralleled the river until he came to the Wall ranch, a half section of alfalfa stretching from some low hills to the river. He turned in a road that led through the center of the ranch to the ranch-hous- e and noticed that this road was about forty feet wide and fenced on both sides. In the yard of the ranch a man tinkering at the motor of a huge cattle truck came over and asked Len curtly what he wanted. Len replied that he wanted to see Ran-dall H. Wall on a private matter and was informed that Randal H. Wall had sold out his interest in the ranch and moved to Oregon. Len thanked him and departed, apparently satis-fied with this lie. Upon his return he armed and mounted two reliable old hands from the Tomahawk ranch, equipped them with two pack mules to carry their bed rolls, camp equipment and rations and sent them over on the Flying W range to remain there all summer and watch for rustlers rounding up cattle. 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About Christmas week, 1927, Trail left with his destination "the south-west" Trail was last heard from March 24, 1928, when he wrote a letter to a relative at Smithland. There was no further word from the man. Then, In July, 1935, L. L. Wilson, a brother-in-la- and an employe of a Smithland bank, filed suit as admin-istrator for Trail to recover the amount of the policy on the theory that he had not been heard from in seven years and no one knew of his whereabouts and therefore he was probably dead and should be so de-clared legally. Federal Judge Elwood Hamilton declared Trail legally dead at the Paducah court in March, 1935. The insurance company subsequently paid $2,679.11 plus costs of $73.35. . In June, 1943, the insurance com-pany heard Trail was in Smithland. An investigation proved that Trail, now a soldier, was visiting rela-tives. The man said he had been in the army several years. Then he was transferred to England. 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Approximately $2,000 in silver coins were found in money bags in bureau drawers, $300 in silver in an old unlocked safe, and $276 in an old pair of trousers hanging in a closet. An old stove in the base-ment contained a glass jar holding $3,000, mostly in $20 gold pieces. Claws 4 Zeros Singly, He Wins Highest Medal WASHINGTON. - The Congres-sional Medal of Honor has been awarded Lieut. Robert M. Hanson, marine officer who accounted for 25 Japanese planes before he was re-ported missing. Twenty planes of Hanson's score were downed m six consecutive days. The medal was awarded specifically for his attack on bombers over six enemy torpedo Bougainville island and for shooting while engaging the down four Zeros New Britain is-land fighters alone over Hanson was last seen Febru-ary 24 when his plane crashed into an escort mis-sion the sea while flying to Rabaul the day before his 24th birthday. Gems of Thought pOUR things come not back the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. From the Arabian. But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white then melts forever. -- BURNS. That conscience approves of and attests such a course of ac-tion, is itself alone an obliga-tion. Butler. Trifling troubles find utter-ance; deeply felt pangs are si-lent. Seneca. Two Cars Are Wrecked And It's All in Family Husband met CINCINNATI. - automobile collision, wife in an consider to be one for which police Driving a sedan. Mrs the books." Martha Ahrens. 61. reported. Her car toDliKht, police w .truck b, another sedan driven Herman Ahrens. 58. by her husband, car was overturned. Offering from a possible left eg husband" was uninjured. Both cars were badly damaged. Boy, 4, Plays So,dier' Kills Mother With Rifle bacK y resting in the tTeirhome when their "I --my, piCkHed Acen'h nting trip. He Vd hTs mother. "I'm . P0,nted,.1U said . . fired, soldier," |