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Show 9 UTXTAII BASIN RECORD IBs. LE, MAY ByALAN O.U. INSTALLMENT 6 . , 'lfby , , nd Lew Gordon had built St string of ranches which Texas to Montana. King his powerful and un. compeUtorVBen Thorpe. Bill adopted son. undertook King THE STORY SO FAR: to break Thorpes power. His first was to start a cattle war In Texas. step He made this decision against the opposition of Lew Gordon and the tearful P fadl"g 0fbU .weetheart, Jody Gordon. aid of Dry Camp Pierce and CHAPTER IX rfp CHAPTER VIII Continued Lesently it began to appear that With the fall, Lew Gordon, now in ftough, notoriously trouble-mak- under Cleve Tanner were sole charge of the catIf you together as they always tle holdings he had shared with thor to Lore Here and there men Dusty King, came to Texas to inn' ovet 'A the Tanner spect the southern holdings of beginning to desert the breeding ranges from sometimes fired because . deration failed, sometimes volun- which all the holdings Re I ease JXOObAI other outlaw gunmen, Roper conducted raid after raid upon Thorpe's herds. Cleve Tanner, manager of Thorpes Texas holdings, seemed helpless to stop him. Gunmen drove off cattle by the thousands. ! tiding King-Gordo- n King-Gordo- n MiA firs the punishing fine open-nar- y er il in the season of driest by a little used the Potreros, , horseman a He was a tested gunman, a was known wed man whose name feared half the length of the b,iU j for was he moving eve to find out what had to the Potreros Trouble-shootin- Trail at g Tanner now, on better noth wrong with some of me herds. iaCest Tanners He had come fast, a ging horses r into the night frequently, riding down the almost invisible through the dark, his horse sudhead-V- fl dropped from under him, lDES l ping nrVrfb The pony tot0 nothingness. !: if have stepped into a prairie rLJ I hole or it could have been the But as the dazed of a rope. e3 7 for struggled up, his mouth full BY SIC i bel-- r g rifle Was prodding his , 7i?5C. land a voice was saying, Dont have took the 5 think you might J tag way? . . ding ) be , f Two-Circl- e, Two-Circl- Two-Circl- les galore. tough, he said in his ularper f sympathetic way. due to ie ireman i the outfit that was I e esteem ed up was fit to be tied. you, were being stolen blind, raved. Not just a calf here there, either they take em in i ops and bunches. Its the bold- thing Ive ever seen. Even when res no chance of getting clear He pulled up his horse sl few h any cattle, theyre game to yards from the kitchen gallery. apede a cut herd that its took to round up, and scatter it December day. The sky was low m hell to and heavy, and the bitter norther This is one of Ben Thorpe's out- - had brought a, scud of hard snow a No? long way to throw it sharply in his Does that mean face. Well? How many times has Cleve He puUed up his horse a few yards ner passed out the word, The from the kitchen gallery, then sat gers be damned? Hes put more there looking at the house, his sheepructions in the way of things skin about his throat hunched was trying to do than any other Even now, having come this far, he man. Who was it had the legis-r- e almost made up his mind to go cut down our pay until we away. ng bad S ctically ride for nothing, and fur- Then Jody Gordon stepped out on coni iJ all our own stuff? d the gallery in a whippy woolen dress d'erara1! fThe question here is whether and stood estimating the uninvited too ire lre going to have any law, or are horseman through the dusk. Somegoing to have thing like the strike of a buffalo n, rom what I heard, a excen McDonald lance went through Bill Roper; it "Cleve Tanner has left it be was so long since he had seen that !i! AreV ''n that hes the biggest end of one slim little figure that could so every' law himself. Go talk to Cleve change everything under the sky, if you want law. for him. 8 1 IT1? understanding is, the fore-- i A split pole fence separated them; argued, "that the Rangers are and after a moment she came ased to across the few yards of space, move out and straighten up leaning sideways against the bitter a bar of r little old range, McDonald wind, and stood gripping Ill be glad to. Just as soon the fence as she peered up into his I get orders from headquarters. face. W waiting for them right orders "I knew it was you, she said. v! Child, said Bill Roper, you get But the weeks rolled by, and head- - back in that house. Youll freeze! rters was : Then you put up your horse and . curiously still come in. l summer ; a welcome end Is your father here? Ffi Hes in San Antonio. j,eve Tanner himself, the Cleve ner who I dont think hed want me here, i! SAwfully si ! be!- - , 5JSrner 11 .. a if f represented Ben Thorpe 116 outh, master of breeding foaids, the man who controlled the P s ail Ben Thorpes plains or-t- S riz(ation' was talking to the Unit-j'- t "plates Marshal at San Antonio, tcre hasn't been such a wave of F!awry since the horse Indians It 15 Ilf ...L ... Damnation, man! I ) ,et us back ten I years what your policy has been, r Idea is to let us fight it out for V6S aganst Mexico, against ki u mdians, against aU hell But I tllis thing comes from in- lid this thing might be something 1 1 couldnt beat without help. United States Marshal at San 6miled to himself a little i. and he said, "Seems like this terrible bad for you. Jm telling you lott'1 iBBGTKahead and teU me- - Youre a eidmi56 man ain1 you? A right beaUl1 de. ic, gT', 'ss il' ,e S i U Tell Some day you . man. Well a- couple of . law in Texas, even in a but tbere was no 8UCh ayS, Si a, C0U d Wa stand against the com-Orenegades of the long trail, rES fluid HClnd tbem 8 lawycr Who forever in the courts; K. reckless expenditure of non,,e uurce of which some sus-bwhich was not definitely even doing that" If you havent accomplished anything else, youve astonished my father. Hes said himself, over and over, he wouldnt have supposed it could be done. No question but what Cleve Tanner is shaken; hes shaken clear down to his roots. Nobody knows whats what any more, or what will happen. People who thought a year ago that Cleve Tanner was invincible theyre saying now that he's coming to the end of his string; that if this thing goes on, Tanner will be through." What else do they say? Theyre saying that the worst renegades of the trail are working together, for the first time the killers, the men who dont care if they live or die. They say they have money back of them now, and that even Cleve Tanner, with all his string of outfits, cant stand up against the everlasting raiding, and stampeding, and mysterious loss of cattle. They say hes lost twenty outfits, just because he couldnt spare the gunmen to hold the stagescreenhUdio VIRGINIA VALE She said in a dead voice, I never believed it; I couldnt believe it until now. Didnt I tell you about it? I told you about it before I began. I set out to break Cleve Tanner; and by God, hell be broken! If I live. You know Cleve Tanner has put up five thousand doUars for your ar-- . 1 B (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) of Metro ITS characteristic The Yearling was abandoned, after all the money that had been the spent-o- n ve- hicle for Spencer Tracy. Some studios we wont name them would have gone ahead and shoved it through, and then tried by ballyhoo to con- vince the public that it was all it ought Its to be. Dont hardHe said ironically, ly see how I could usa second rate men. Reports have come in, Jody said wonderingly, from over eight hundred miles of country; theyre beginning to call it 'a rustlers war, a final showdown between the wild bunch and lawful men. And you What about me? Oh, Billy, its unbearable! That you youve turned yourself into the festering point of aU that struggle, and hate, and lawless gunning He had to grin at that, unhappy as he was. Didnt realize I was festering, he said. You had everything, she said, and you threw it away He had only heard her say that once before; but, in memory, he had heard it so often since that her words had the ring of a familiar song. Im sorry that we cant ever see things the same, Bill said. I started out to get Cleve Tanner, and IU get him. After Tanner, Walk Lasham; and after Walk Lasham, Ben Thorpe. But when it comes to saying I had everything before I started in, I guess maybe that isnt so. There wasnt Jody said hotly, one thing in all the world you didnt have or couldnt have had before you chose this crazy way! . Jody. I didnt have you, he told her. turned never has Gordon Lew If I had had you, I guess I would of a cup without away any rider have you yet Things dont shift coffee; not yet and change so easy as that not in He gave in then, and stepped the part of the world I know. the fence, to down. He tied his horse He was pulling on his gloves now, In and followed her Into the house. buttoning his sheepskin coat. The fire in the big wood rangeto what was left of the light the made the room a dazing contrast upon his face. As he shadows lay heavy the cold sweep of the prairie; stood there, he could have been he not take threw his coat open, but did Dusty King himself the man who it off. had broken a hundred long and Of course, Jody said, "we keep weary trails; except that Dusty King had perhaps never looked so old. hearing about you. Thats too bad. I expect you Her voice came to him as if from And when youre wouldnt be hearing anything good. a distance. what are you she said "No." through, know to have left? Silence again. He didnt t going wasn anyFar as I know, Bill Roper saiJ, why he had come; there could say. not going to have anything Hestoodbydlne he "Im thing on God knows Ive got very little left. stove, his eyes brooding of his coat she didnt Deep in the pockets in his slack left now." He was glad was a trembling how his resources had dwinknow lingers not caused by cold. It was dled, how close to the end he really uncomfortable thing stood. a strange and and Can t Her voice rose sharply. to be so near tills girl again, away. far so see theres no hope In this you yet to be to seem unStill," Jody said, "you set out ghastly thing? Thorpes grip Is to him, close what you came She done breakable. be getting and her words came through her to do. It your very life youre teeth. throwing away! 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