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Show JTHE SM1THFIKLD SENTiXEU SMITIIFIELl). UTAH Here's What to Sew Alta Le May WNU Service SYNOPSIS wealthy young cattleman, at the M ranch, aummoned by hia ELg Bona Dunn,' ita elderly and quick C!ered owner, because of a mysterious love with Dunn's niece Si See Billy ishain has not seen fur two Ca.n. whom She had rejected his suit snd Is still iSf Dunn's ranch is surrounded by ene ales! iMluding Link Bender. Pinto Halliday and Sam Caldwell whom he has defeated in JjT efforts to build a cattle kingdom. Dunn directs his cow hands. Val Douglas, Tulare Callahan and others to search for the killers in Wliceler. km- CHAPTER I Continued It means the sheriff is on the ride he's left Link Benders, headed for Short Crick. Maybe you think jh'i getting a slow start. He is. Thats the nature of the man. You ready? "Lead out, said Wheeler, buckling his chap belt. "Wait Bone Dunn reached down a broad cartridge belt whose holster and swung carried a heavy six-guthis about his waist. "Pick your-ae- lf a gun," he told Wheeler. Wheeler de"What's this for? manded. "In case of emergency, boy." Wheeler stared at him. Then he ghmgged. picked a weighted gun-be- lt from the wall, and strapped it n, on. "Bring your saddle." At the corrals Horse Dunn pointed cut a stocky buckskin pony, and when Billy Wheeler had roped and rigged this animal, Dunn led. the way out of the layout. Promptly Horse Dunn pushed his own tall sorrel into a hard lamming trot. "I want to join up with the sheriff somewheres about Chuck Box Wash, Dunn explained. "Im right anxious to be with him when he makes his look-se-e at Short Crick. "Horse, Billy Wheeler, So 1 dont know what he found. I fit in this." Dunn was silent for a little way. Ive got enemies. Billy, he said yet." Well, what I dont see," Wheeler said, is why you were in such a hurry to report to the sheriff, with so little known. I had no choice. I was still looking over the ground when I sighted rider, about a mile off. In a minute I made out it was Link Bender. Maybe you can remember when Link's Seven S was bigger than the Maybe you remember how he tried to pinch out the 94 almost Pul Marian's father to the wall. I broke him of all that! But he's never swsllcred that he was licked. I ye got plenty enemies, Billy; but Link Bonder is the smartest of 'em. Naturally I couldn't leave it so's he could report he seen me sneaking away. So I had to signal him 0v.l! ,nd 8low him what I found." And he read the sign tlie same s you?" "Billy, i kcep telling you! There amt any other-wathat sign." ' "Yes, but look here the supposed head mans horse "Link Bender took off on the trail ox the dead man's horse. Hoping And the body, like a fool. I U t jurn go, and haven't seen him since, ' Wait Amos, sheriff of the Red Hills country, was a youngish man, with a direct but mild gray-gree- n He led eye. a pony by - to his saddle horn. t'od you rode over. m, Horse, he said when the 94 men had drawn up. "Youll he able to help Link, here, recall how the sign looiied when you first seen it." Behind him, lounging in their sat three others. These. " heeler knew, were Link Bender, tall, hawk - faced, close lipped; Link's son, a lanky, weasel-face- d youth whom Wheeler knew only as "the Kid"; and Cayuse Cayetano, a saffron-face- d Indian breed who wore a circular shield marked "Indian Police" upon a green and black checked shirt. These three had nodded in greeting, but said nothing; and now there was a moment's swkward pause. In the silence could be heard an irregular moaning sound somewhere far to the north the bellowing of cattle working themselves into a state of mind over some unknown thing. I was figuring to ride over to your place later, anyway, Dunn," the sheriff said. I was especially kind of hoping you'd recognize this low-head- ;- on. The horse the sheriff led was runty bay of the wild pony type which infests the intermountain ranges from border to border. It bore no brand; but broad on the withers and extending downward on the off side almost to the knee were d the stains of yesterdays blood. Dunn leaned low to study the feet of the led horse. "Its the horse from Sliort Crick, all right, he said at last. No, I never seen him before. The sheriff looked hopefully at Wheeler, but Billy Wheeler shook his head. "Nobody knows the damn animal! the sheriff burst out fretfully. Id have thought you fellers would know every horse in the country by said blood-staine- CHAPTER II finally. A few head of Wheeler em, agreed. And you know, too, Dunn reminded him, the cow country is in terribie bad shape. Everybody has had to borrow, for three years straight. Nobody has borrowed deeper than the 94. Now our debts come due again. I have to go to horse." Las Vegas, maybe to San Francisco. Link Bender " Dunn said slowhe found him, did he? ly "He found the horse this horse; not the man." Dunn studied the led horse at the sheriffs flank. "So this, Dunn said, is the horse a feller got killed "whats happened here? Youll see for yourself, better than I can tell you, knowing the lay of country like you do. But Ill tell you what I know. In abrupt sentences he told Wheeler what had happened. Morning of the day before. Horse Dunn had been riding Short Creek in the course of making a cattle count. The range of the 94 was far-fluand broken; the first step toward a count was to read the water holes, to find out what part of the range the big bunches were frequenting. Reading sign on Short Creek, Dunn had come upon the double trail of a shod horse and an unshod horse, ridden side by side. The trail was going his way. He rode along it without attention until he came upon d ground. I studied the ground very careful, tracing the trails, Dunn said. "In five minutes I knew for sure Id come on the place where a man met his death. But there was no body? Dunn shook his head. The dead man keeled out of the saddle as he was shot, he reported the sign. "But I guess he got stirrup hung, for he was dragged. His pony pulled him through the crick. I followed cross, and found where he come loose. But the dead man was no more there. "I don't know as I get this, Wheeler said.. Dunn gave it as his opinion that file man on the other horse had followed and picked up his victim. "When I saw that, said Dunn, I knew I was looking at the beginning of something. Maybe at the beginning of the end. For a moment Wheeler stared at Dunn; then the spell broke. To assume flatly that a man was killed, when even the identity of the victim was unknown, seemed to Wheeler an outlandish stretch, even for an old tracker. This is the darnedest thing I ever heard of. Horse, Wheeler no corpse? What complained. What kind of murder is this? Who's missing?" "Nobodys missing, thats known But and "Ported to the sheriff, like I knew he would. "I should think youd have been some interested in the dead man's caballo yourself." "More interested in the other side of it. The killer's trail took to the crick. Short Crick runs two hands deep on stone for two miles, then disappears in the sand. I took to the crick and hunted for where the killer left it. Plenty horse bands water at Short Crick, wading in and out. I lost the trail. "So pretty soon, Horse Dunn I rode back to the ranch. By that time it had come to me what I might be up against here. So I had a wire sent to you." They trotted two miles in silence. "Ive been trying to figure out," Billy Wheeler- - said at last, where w.en.t dust-cruste- this time. est tilings of the range, and the source of many a weird legend, waa the way the big range steers would coine for miles to mark the place of a killing, bawling and pawing, and throwing the dirt over their backs. The sheriff said in a strange voice, Is Hint the place? Sure it's the place! The fool critters have swarmed in on the smell of white-face- d blood! Wheeler heard Horse Dunn curse between his teeth. The Old Man jumped his pony forward, whipping up side and side, wid charged down upon the milling cattle. The others joined him, whooping and whipping up their ponies. The steer bunch broke reluctantly, half inclined to face out the charging riders. Wheeler had been less interested in the running off of the cattle than in the reactions of the riders. All sign would have been obliterated; he was anxious now to sea who would be exasperated and who indifferent. Watching, he noted the conspicuous fury of Link Bender, d the anger of Horse Dunn and the watchful detachment of Cayuse, the Indian. The riders were gathering again, disgruntled as they focused upon the stretch of creek the cattle had trampled. Horse Dunn circled a little and brought them to Short Creek again 200 yards Here you see my trail as I come up to the crick," he said; ita the trail of the same horse Im riding today . . . Here you see the trail of the two horses of the killer and the feller that was killed, riding side by side along the rim of the cut. Right here my trail comes on to theirs. You, Amos notice that my trail is 20 hours younger'n the other two. Im not so sure, Link Bender said. The sheriff hesitated, studying the tracks glumly from the saddle. He turned to the Indian. What do you say, Cayuse? Cayuse Cayetano spoke briefly and promptly in Spanish. This horse of Dunns came yesterday, The other two horses, he said. maybe one day before. Not the same time. That Indians a deer hunter, When Cayuse Sheriff Amos said. says he knows, he knows. We'U let it stand at that. Youll have to take my word for it from here on, Dunn told them. The cattle sure smeared it up. red-eye- You get around as much as anybody, Dunn grunted. Where's the saddle? "Link didn't find any saddle. e But anyway here the d Dunn glanced at the dark, Before. Him I Seen Never "No, Link Bender. Dead man trail dropped down into the crick So did I." Its a close call, by God, to keep must have taken his saddle with bed. He led them down into the cut the 94 out of bankruptcy! Now sup- him across the big divide, he comand along the margin of the water. pose this coyote ring, with Link mented sarcastically. looked irritated. Sheriff Amos Dunn moved a hundred yardn can force Bender st the head of it, Well, come on; well look over the down stream, checked his landsome trouble onto the 94. Suppose marks, and stopped. "Heres wheni that trouble is made to look bad ground." They turned and rode northward the feller was shot, he said; "hti enough so that I cant extend those loans let alone increase em? The at a jog. A curious tension had keeled out of the saddle. His horso work of 151 years drops from under come over them for no plain reason. stampeded across the crick, running They were nearing Short Creek; some sideways. The feller was belike a shot pony I the bellowing of cattle had be- ing dragged, like from the stirrup. and Wheeler frowned. There used to come near and strong a fantastic Dunn turned and led across the be a pretty square bunch running broken by whistling shallow water. "As I rode up this deep booming the county offices at Inspiration, What the devil bank, he told the sheriff, I seen soprano squalls. he said. them steers raising hell about? that the trail of the killer was fol"There was while Tom Amos was Amos demanded querulously. lowing the trail of the stampeded alive. He's dead; his boy is sheriff Nobody answered him. They rode horse the same as I. He led on and he isnt man enough for it. in a peculiarly oppressive silence, a another 50 yards across a maze Link Benders ring runs the whole silence somehow unnatural and omi- of cattle tramplings. he Here, show. Theyre fixed to make a case nous. even among these naturally said finally, is where the feller stick, all right for a little while-e-ven quiet men. Now as they rounded broke loose from the saddle. if it's a poor one. Its going to the shoulder of Two Bull Butte they Ilowd you know he fell loose be almighty necessary that we know sighted the disturbed cattle at the here?" Amos asked. more about this than the other quarter mile, a dark milling knot, Because he wasnt dragged no fellers, Billy. I sent for a good restless with tossing horns. further, Dunn said shortly. man to help us with that end of For a moment now they sat stariLink Bender raised his clenched it. I sent for Old Man Coffee of hands to the sky and swore abruptng morosely at a shallow bowl-lik-e There goes your pit which the dusty pawing of the ly, savagely. Ive heard of him. I guess he's sign! There goes your evidence, and cattle had dug. This what you saw. Link? Sherpretty good on a trail. But still I your trails! iff Amos asked. Billy Wheeler's scalp crawled; dont see where I fit. Horse. So far. Bender nodded. men might misread the sign, but "Suppose Link Bender's crowd CdNTlMUED) BE (TO of the One knew. strang the cattle can work it out to hold me on some trumped-u- p charge 60, 90 days? Long enough for the 94 to go to Dog Shows pieces in the face of its called Expression loans? There's going to be more to for How Show Animals pulling the 94 through the landslide Val like Dougins than a wagon boss Any spectator at a dog show natural for some dogs to display its can handle. Theres got to be a difof one natural instinct. For instance a ferent man on the ground and that notices the alert expression diswill or be a Setter Beagle, Spaniel another appear while may dog, mnn is you. despite the efforts of its "all eyes" with the appearance of a For a moment Wheeler Was interested make it show oil" to the shotgun or rifle. to owner chance. AH breeds cannot be expected to deeply troubled. If, by any that does not perk The dog Horse Dunn's prophesies should judge. show at traits of the hunt, but the avereyes rivet or head expressive its prove correct, Wheeler did not see indexed as one lacking age house pet will learn early been has old man you the refuse how he could to a certain degree. Of to perk up and wiggle, as soon as he the assistance he asked. But evi- intelligence has to speak directly glimpses his own getting a leash one course, dently this would mean that to get proper attention. from the hook. Some of the more inWheeler would have to sign on to to the dog the aid of many prac- telligent will show real vanity in with was It 94. the of help with the management tical dog breeders that theA. K. C. cleaning muzzle and paws after a Thinking of this awkward possibil- learned various characteristics of romp in the mud. Others have blue ity, he thought again of the and mine, notes a writer shown intelligence in making their dog of the your eyes of Marian Dunn, Inquirer. An- bed in a fashion that will give them Philadelphia in the in strangely lovely glow of her face the intelli- every comfort, thereby sensing the about fact other plain the reflected light of the pure-bre- d dog, size of their body. the of average gence a was magic hills. For him there masters their watch discloses they which in that girl. It was a magic Fame of the Bahamas their ears to seemingly could humble a man. and break and perk the greatest claim to to add Probably can words they nick out him. heart and soul; taking the light The keen dog fame possessed by the Bahamas is vocabulary." their win. out of every victory he might the fact that it was these islands will show especial interest whenever which menwhen only she turned away her is gave Christopher Columbus him to word pertaining full first his fnce. And he heard her voice, sor- any conversation. glimpse of the New World. of tioned in the line of that same magic "still: "I'm likes to play, It was the island of San Salvador, dog average The retrieve a now known as Watlings island, ry truly sorry . horseparticularly to run and first the more which the great navigator For ahead dark specks of Chuck but is thrown, ball which hide sighted on October 12, 1492, on his men showed, emerging from will actually canine of intelligent in search of s new route to Box Wash as if from the surface an article from his master toengage voyage the plain. Dunn booted his pony in a game of "hide and seek. It is India. into a lope. lean-visage- of red-gol- d Mi-'"PHIS is not a wishing-paglady, even though it is from a book of exclusive fashions by You can run any one of these frocks through your machine in short order. 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