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Show THE BULLETIN mm 11 till UUU iiS?SJKlJ,J.3 II D. APPLETON rm I 111 LJrtJ II LI CENTURY CO. Pj im Li (LI i i iii lZ By H. ill l-I- 1&J C iW;w:vw:: WNU SERVICE WIRE ,:vV AROUND k 3K L .he lUl. I - Ill HOUSE esmm Items of Interest to the Housewife CUAPTEll XVII Continued. It was a moment before she be boots into the hull's hers had left, one shoulder, ' What orders did Hol To get rid of stains on tea cum 10 Pillow cases should be ironed I must talk to you. squatted down iinii felt in the dark lister give you for today?" gun again: I'm to stick right here," the boy lengthwise to be entirely free of rub gently with a paste of baking Candy swung up onto his palo- Walt. You're right. Only. I don't water. He was wearing wrinkles. soda and water. mino and followed, at first lifting knuw how. I've been putting it oil. Only a press of cold ooze touched said, grave-face"With Helen." the hone into an incautious run- hoping I don't know what for." his fingers. The shelving bottom was his big forty-fivSalt added to potatoes when ning walk. Bent Lavic was deaf; Her eyes pierced through the dark shallow. But cuttle wading here had he finished. The illusion of depth is created "Where's Lavic?" boiled insures their flaki-ne- by building bookcases on either churned a soft pit, and suddenly he could crowd close to the man. to his. nearly him." seen Haven't "Dunno. und prevents them from fco-- side of a wide doorway leading: and yet those gray eyes were sharp He laughed softly, uneasily. "Go Walt Gandy knew that the girl had Helen was not in sight when Gan ing to pieces in the boiling as an owl's. He pulled down. ahead. I can take it, I guess all used WilV)w Spring to hide a secret; from living room to dining room. dy tramped into the kitchen to grub could almost say what she had Beyond timber and out upon the but one thing." a fast breakfast. The gallon granite-"What is that?" she asked quick bench the trail forked, one west, one coffee pot was simmering He rolled up his sleeves, stretched ware I1L3 F IV r mt The yolk of an egg mixed with lk south, and again with a match held ly. of the stove. He poured back on the them and thrust out arms both far evaded. "Never he holdlow Gandy found fresh tracks ana usea as mind," warm water you Out of the silence, Helen asked, down. It took many minutes' ex- a mug full, drank it while eggs and would soap will remove coffee ing to their southward course. then "Will ploring in the slime until his hands a round of ham were frying, cof- stains. In an hour it was certain they Hot sudsy water will you do something for me?" more cooked, with those poured and struck He turned straighthis head to her. something hard, were leading to Willow Spring. He remove the yellow of the quickly oven the hot from biscuits moved at last along the dark hollow "What?" It was a wary question, ening, he tugged upward, drawing fee, got and ate standing at a window overrifle. v m m of the hill cove, came to a familiar regardless of what he had just felt out at last a "Do as I asked you to do the othThere was little need to clean looking the ranch shallow ravine sloping gently upBananas should be ripened at goaded him, but it ward. Here he dismounted as on er day leave this country. Go now. the gun. He hunched down again, room temperature, never in ine bet that this meal would a that first day and left the palomino. tonight; head off south where you working with slow deliberation on was safe They are ready for refrigerator. He hours. be his last for many an unwanted job. Expenses Over Income are bright yel when Hie ravine topped out a good hun- came from." they eating Hoi- - filled up. And rifle down. laid the "Fine!" said. "Sure!" he Gandy is poor whose expenses exHe g occasional above with dred yards the Helen came into the kitchen be- low all over, tnose years they ceed income. La Bruycre. his willow clump. brown Nothing showed have the sheriff of Emigrant County lister's. Carried spots. He had been on border duty together. fore he had quite finished. down there to indicate life, either on my trail for a year or so!" and his stacked cup plate She shook her head. "No. Bat- Used up here to shoot a man in the promptly animal or human. And then as GanI can promise back. He sat staring into the black on the sinkboard and turned to the tle won't trail you. a for stood uncertain, waiting dy no talk with night; felt all at once old with outer door, wanting guide-siga gray shape moved a that." the even not girl. 11 was more anyone, was But too much. it "You can!" knowing little, near the edge of trees and words. more for time any this past than the shooting that put "Yes." there came the restless thud of a she called quickly; and what But Bill this his in at down looked feeling Walt against weight Gandy hoot He had located the gray nag. must have she said jerked him around. Hollister he asked, Hollister. When he was within five paces of puzzling girL "Helen," "Walt! Did Lavic find you?" to leave?" me want do you the nag, the gray head lifted, turned, "why He moved a step nearer, and "I'm "Because." she answered, nunc for a moment suspended in would have given everything he pos of afraid you." air. Then it dropped wearily with sessed to tell this girl that she need "Afraid?" out sound. Gandy took a free breath worry no more, that it was all close "Yes. You know too much. You and entered the corridor. to an end. and the bullet, about know inquest ... . m a Now he could see nothing. Trees Lavic?" he asked. "Looking for au11 re ana xacis me, you garnering roofed low overhead, and the tight What did he want? me? them time the and together. putting thicket of their trunks made walls I don't know. The poor fellow Listen. If you mustn't! Walt, you was worked up over something and spaced no farther apart than the knew Bill Hollister was clear of all width of a steer. He reached a point was hunting every place for you. wouldn't you? then you'd go, where the pool's reflection was dim- trouble, Have you seen him at all since last for. came here what That's up you ly visible. The trick of squinting in I know. Well, he is. Bill is safe." night when Battle was here?" the dark brought a sharper outline Impatient to be gone and know slow a with denied it Walt Gandy of the water and its surrounding bathat every minute was carry. ing he movement of his head. No, sin. And then the surface broke. ing Hollister closer to an enemy Holthat convinced not I'm isn't Ripples formed and widened across camp, still Gandy waited, feeling is guilty here, but Ed Battle the faint gray disc. At once there lister an unexolainable portent in what onto to all it his do will best hang came a sucking sound as of a boot the girl was saying. now. bullets three has Battle him. pulled from soft mud. In less than If he has Bill's rifle . . ." No." he answered, his words two minutes after that Walt Gandy hurried. "I haven't seen him. Ml hy. "He" hasn't" knew someone was coming stealthHelen? What is it?" The girl spoke so surely that ily along the black corridor of tree Again she said, "I don't know. stared into her face a moment trunks. wouldn't talk to me. Only . . ." Bent do "How before demanding, you He had no time to move aside, know?" With an unexpected movement she but stood hands down, one lifting came across to him. At arm's length She looked away. "He hasn't Then on the butt of his thirty-eigh- t. she stopped. "Only, Walt. Bent That's all I can tell you." I almost a better plan came, and he waited, knows Lavic something! her stood silent, watching Gandy as rooted as the willows themselves, with an ache in his arms. Did she think he knows exactly what has until human closeness could almost think that he still had only one pur happened here, and I've tried to be felt. make him telL It's no secret .that she could How pose in being here? he is terribly bitter and hates dad. As the dim blob of a face emerged not know! from the pitch dark, his arms shot not maybe Hollister, too. And last night "You're said. he "Helen!" . . ." Her voice trailed off. out, closed. Instantly he would have blind! I came here to help Bill Hot The girl spoke so sorely that a "Last night," Gandy put in. "you face Into released them for they were locked lister, but that isn't all of my reason her stared Gandy around the body of a girL She for staying. Why can't you talk to moment before demanding, thought Lavic was going to talk to Haste and Trouble Effects of Travel me here in the kitchen, so you hung went all at once limp, unstruggling, me? You know the truth! I'm going "How do yon know?" The hasty man never lackj Travel makes a wise man bet--1 around until he went out! I saw with only a single short outcry, and to see this thing through, and when I trouble. known how desperately the girl was that play, Helen. Why?" ter but a fool worse. Gandy knew it was Helen Cameron that . . ." Did he even him. shield to him want to! I him. didn't "Because trying hard there to Walt against hugged It was not plain Gandy know Helen had promised to marry He has nothing to tell you. NothHe spoke her name. But the un himself why he broke off. Stoddard? in reacted his of ing! He hasn't seemed to mind havhad Jar lunge Her eyes dropped quickly nerving It was plain what she had done. ing you here, and I saw how he violent trembling after the momen- from his, and she stood with head No deputy sheriff had taken this ri- looked at you last night when Battary shock, and swiftly putting one bowed. He put out a hand to her. fle from the C C ranch house. Helen tle was talking. But he has nothing lifted the be hand under her knees, but she avoided it and suddenly lift herself then pretended it had that you should know!" had, rirl and turned to carry her out ed one of her own to her cheek. Walt knew now that stolen. been hill I know it already, Helen." They unon the open slope. "Helen!" he begged. it here the first day were close, staring at each oiner. was she hiding At the willow edge she stmenea Her head jerked up. Then with a and had come back to- "You can't go on with what you're suddenly in his arms. "Don't stop queer, snort uugn sne win nun. they met, certain the law had doing," Gandy said. "You aren't to make night here! Walt! Get away from the Walt, you're fine. But it's no use. not discovered her secret All to hiding anything from me; I found was I I said afternoon The other spring!" a girl would Bill Hollister's rifle there at Willow Within Gandy himself a dull bit- working out the C C troubles, in my shield Hollister! Only The to such gun would Spring." scheming. terness was rising. Helen had come own way. I have. There's going to go in this pool. found been never have She recoiled as if he had struck He see could someone. here to meet be no range war, and no more kilt until her, one hand against her cheek. it with cattle deeper tramping ride. secret in this better else night The is, thing you'd only nothing ing. Quickly he added: "It's an right And that one must be Stoddard. She go. Please don't misunderstand me, it rusted away. Gandy sat unmoving for a long put it back in the mud. No one had seen the 77 man yesterday after- and don't ask me to explain any ahead was see to what ever know. Only you can't go will . . time, . on trying to the A Now more. noon. keep peace way again for him; saw only that he would on shielding Hollister forever. Girl, By the time he reached the ra- Emigrant Bench was offered, and stick and go through to the end. you've done your part!" He turned vine bottom the dull bitterness had I've taken it" flood of anger. Before the girl finished, Walt Gan Once he had sworn that if Hollister from her, reaching for the door. "Do grown close to a killing you know that Bill is headed for the He set the girl on her feet and dy knew what she was going to say. had done the released her, dropping the gray and he stood with the life gone here, he'd quit Not now. the rifle 77 right now?" took At last he got "No!" nag's reins close to the palomino's. from him. heavy and cold, while and thrust it backup,into the mud. "I'm trailing him." he sounded far voice Helen Cameron's For a moment, saying nothing, mountain dawn The green-tinte- d "No!" she cried again. "Let me looked down into the upturned face. off: '1 am going to marry Jeff he gol Let me handle this. Walt Gan time the face his waa in by launch could Stoddard." Then before Gandy reached the C C dy, you stay out of it!" Helen Cameron his accusation, was He spun back and was suddenly mist Ground Through rising. think do you you're CHAPTER XVIII flared: "What it he saw vague movement of fig' close upon her. He stood rigid, look doins? Coming here like this? I told ures. Three horses stood saddled at ing into her desperate face. "Let you once before. Walt Gandy. that au wrongi WALT GANDY stood alone in the corral post Horsethief Fisher you go?" he asked. "Go and talk to everything you do bottom of the dark ravine. came hurriedly from the bunk Stoddard? Make more promises, to Now what do you mean, following not wanted him to ride shack. At sight of him Gandy lifted save the C C men? That it? Listen had Helen find me? What did you expect to back with her, and he was glad that his pony into a lope. to me." His voice was all at once out. anvway? been refused. He had had offer his at the was and low and surprisingly sure. "You will Fisher armed, other through They stared at each to get hold of himself first of hoofs, he about-face- never marry Jeff Stoddard." sudden thudding last at Gandy until the vague light, Then reason told him that what She stared up. "IwilL You don't hand on his gun, unusually aid in a auiet even voice, i ex know you have no reason to say the girl had said, could never hap jumpy. C, rated to find a traitor to the CYou "Where the devil you been?" he anything else." pen. She would never marry Jen Helen. And I think I have. No matter in what spirit wanted to know, as Gandy reined "I haven't?" Then arms that had meeting Stoddard, weren't Stoddard. she had promised herself to the 77 his Sunspot in close. been held rigidly at his sides swept you?" Walt cast a quick look over the the girl to him. Close to her lips owner, the thing waa too ungodly, I "I was meeting ehoked off in a gasp. A Unless she loved him. Clinging to lot, swinging off beside the bronc he said, "I've got the best reason in tvi ami-dWalt Gandy refused rider. "Never mind me," he an the world!" And madly he kissed rtoved hand flew to the girl's mouth. his own hope, she did. swered. "What's up?" her. Wide-eyeshe stepped back from to believe that In a little while, leading the palo "Declaration of war, boy!" Horse- him. back to the his ridin' in to get CHAPTER XIX oh!" she uttered. And then he mino, he made hewayrealized now, thief told him.the "I'm Hollister's bunch! Adroitly, and spring. tern Bailey Cameron the had disnlay of had evaded answer why she ordersl" He clamped down on the had fed the ner. "So that's what you think! Helencome YOUNG Champion He had to newa with grim satisfaction. here him into a had and shifted tonight In me hold your That's where you sfi know. Hollister's tall black was not dry saddle blanket Freshened, the ij) Ml mind meeting the 77 out neres sadfaint stood which mind to the horses horse stood ready to go. There came among the She spun around and would have J sounds he had beard while waiting, dled, nor in the corral. "Where's Gandy came down to the corrals Note the benefits of delicious oranges fled, but his two hands gripped her was the asked. at who on run. of Bill a now?" pool; Gandy "Good," be said. "Listen. Helen! Listen unaware shoulders. and sucking as Rode off before daybreak," said Thanks, boy." Mounted, he asked. to what I mean!" He turned her un- the rippled surface from mud. The girl Fisher, looking worried for the mo "Is there a direct trail to the 77?" til at arm's length she was facing of boots drawnhim ever day. "So-so,- " Paul answered, "as far warned had away from the ment "Told me he was going to family role to enjoy oranges him again. to she with Stoddard no that talk for last a our had for them as then sign end est grind summer refreshment. Or keep given try uutposi camp. That's the Just peel I didn't follow you. I trailed the spot, be else turned might see if his herd mightn't limit of C C range and is at the south Lavic was rid' was afraid someone s big pitcher full of fresh orangeade handy. - nac and thought m . w Cyounor-mdl- y come. back without gunflght But I just end of the sink. Only a shanty. You the B you i louno now. K But An frounce gUss of juice gives you ing. horse at the willow now saw that Bill's sixshooter ain't can't miss it if you keep angling in his G. and the and left He Bi A. tell mumha adds Also rpu can to I am need eadi day. Win.: what of his on at head No the the short there from direction. trail and there along me that groped hahgin' edge Helm? Can't you put minerals fskiurn, fhtspbtrttt and inn. tree-trun- k corridor. Warily he bunk. Boy, I'D bet it's more than on. All you can do is get up to the Btraieht?" summer the wonderfully juicy rims somehow and travel straight She moved a little closer to him truck a match. The disc of water talk he's gone after!" Jin Those stamped "Sunkist" on the skin are Bet fir Juki dAw. of out alone?" basin the small "He and from Walt?" west The its go leaped hands Outpost his holding with still then, Order more. Fisher nodded. boy hesitated. her shoulders, and the flare of tern the dark: nothing out burst another Lord!" match from down one looked his from "Good Gandy sad Lighting Gandy ner was cone. In its place came "I know." Fisher agreed. "But dle. "What is it?" to him and holding the flame low, he traced gentleness of surrender, not where the girl had walked once Bill slammed out of here before any "I've figured it out. maybe, who nor anything he mignt asu am what he was doing. As I shot at the other night. If it'll do back she had one Then the around pooL figured to was say. she going what She had stopped, at if for I said, I only Just now saw his gun any good. Bent Lavic." "No, Walt I was not meeting Jeff tracked. dustin' for "Not certain?" Stoddard out here, and I rode the considerable time, her boots sinking was missin. Anyway I'm his Into the boy hesitated, reluctant went He town!" in al pockets had Again roan deep. gray nag because my from out more matches, for J" Well," said Gandy, "suppose you and Champion appeared Young oscn ana brought to in been emigrant ready now the mud showed an imprint of around the bunk house. Gandy keep it under your hat All right?" X . . ." Her voice trailed off, the : r .rjM taw r ii .ii.ki(. the over jit .. tossed "Sure I" Paul agreed. Then imhand. her palomino's reins, word ending, and yet hanging with could I rid will I'm "Wisht stood go he more a Paul minute "Feed him, you? pulsively. a in Through way the night strangely upon thnt filled Walt Gandy with a dull Imagining moves she might have ing again." In the act of moving on yvu!" But Gandy shook his head. he turned and asked over made here, and then, fitting hi own (TO DEQOM lMtU) foreboding. ... e. ss mud-coate- d e black-lookin- n, y An U Ideal Bedtime Snack! j J&T - cold-blood- d, -- ... r u t 1 W P?r Mc--i- - .iLn as .,. rrtn i n turn tn :t . ? w up-slo- a...., ..., v7fr. ... ....... .- .-.i |