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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVTLLE, UTAH "Ever see this Mac licked it up. II . finger were not quite steady, for a gient dread dnmt'ed his heart I. he a rush of ley water. rpoi tint gray felt hat with the pim e crow n w a stamped rtreTn (Fv Ipuilry and the 'mtiuls of 1 nek Ci P 'son 'Dent knew as ! ree-g- ie it." he Pi d n.U very re.ntl'y. "Not t know CROOKED TRAILS ; AND STRAIGHT ; I G. W. It. t'l g HIS INITIALS ARE L. C." Adventurous and reok-- !, rather than criminal, and excited by liquor, Curly Flandrau and his chum, Ma& both practically mere boys, e become Involved In a adventure. Disposhot ing ef the stolen stock in the town of Saguache, Arts., the band separates. Mac is killed by a posse and' Curly taken captive, after he lias shot ene and himself been wounded. The man shot is Luck Culllson, a former lighting sheriff. CuWsons friends determine to lynch Curly as an example to cattle thieves With the Tope around his neck he is eared by the intervention of Kate Culllsea. Lucks daughter. Luck questions the .boy concerning a notorious outlaw. Soapy Stone, real leader of the rust lore. Flandrau learns that Soapy Stone is Culll-son- 's bitter enemy and exercises a baleful influence over the sen Sam, who has quarreled with his father. Culllson goes bail for Curly. Curly rescues Soapy Stone from a bear trap. At the London ranch he discovers that the outlaw Is Sara Cullison's rival for Lasra London's hand. Flandrau, visiting Stones ranch, Is convinced a train robbery la being planned Sam leaves the ranch for Sagua he Curly accompanies him Curly hears Stone and hi lieutenant. Lute Blackwell, arranye ts hold up the train at Tin Cup creasing and after the robbery shoot young Culllson and leave his body on the scene. Curly is accused by Stone of being a spy of Lu k Cullison's. They are separated, but part with the underatanding that thetr next meeting will mean a fight to the death. Curly confides In Luck. Stone Is forced to leave town. Synopsis. Eavrv-droppfn- k (( CHAPTER n I. Continued. was going to put the legal seal on the matter by making final proof on his homestead. Cass knew thaf If he did so It would practically put him out of business. He would be at the mercy of his foe, v ho could ruin him If he pleased. Luck would be In a position to dictate terms absolutely. Fendrick felt that there must be some way out of the trap If he could only find It. Whenever the thought of eating humble pie to Luck came Into his mind the rage boiled In him. lie swore he would not do 1L Better a hundred times to see the thing out to a fighting finish. d gray hat Taking the he found on the rack Cuss passed out of -- the Clubhouse and into the .sunbathed street Culllson and his friends proceeded down Papago street to the old plaza where their hotel was located. All along the route they scattered nods of recognition, friendly greetings and genial banter. One of them the man who had formerly been the sheriff of the county met also scowls once or twice, to which he Was entirely indifferent. lie had made enemies, desperate and unscrupulous ones, who had sworn to wipe him from among the living, ami iri Now CulUson r ' m n broad-brimme- o ? -- n r- hard-ridin- quick-shootin- g Mortgage m ranch (due Oct Note to First National see Note to Reynolds f O U to Mackenzie. game to Flandrau game to Tester M 1) tm t.SftO 1, e0 e 1 Ait 4 IJ0.1S0 Total Twenty thousand was the sum he y needed, end mighty badly, too. he turned the envelope over and jotted down one or two other things. Twenty thousand dollars! Just the sum Jordan had coming to the hank on the Flyer. Subconsciously, Lucks fingers gave expression to his thoughts. Twenty thousand dollars. Half a dozen times they penciled it, and just below the figures, W. & S. Ex. Co." Finally they wrote automatically the one word, Tor.'ght. Lnck looked at what he had written, laughed grimly, and tore the envelope tn two. ..lie. threw Ike pieces Jn the waste paper basket. Absent-mindedl- - HI Right Caught the Hairy Throat. one of these he was now to meet for the first time since the man had stood handcuffed before him, livid with fury, and had sworn to cut his heart out at the earliest chaoce. It was In the lobby of the hotel that , Culllson came plump against Lute B'ackwt-TuFor Just' fa momeut'they "Stared at each the before" the former " -- . - sheriff spoke. CHAPTER "Du: again, eh, Blackwell!" he said easily. An Initialed Hat. Frora the bloodshot eyes one could Mackenzie was reading the Sentinel have told at a glance the man had been drinking heavily. From whisky whUe he fite a late breakfast. He bad he had Imbibed a I hitch courage ja-- t It propped against the water bottle, so that it need not Interfere with the bld enough to be dangerous. r.-ed po. "Tea. I'm out ami back again, last transportation erf sausages, to their coffee' end 1 cakes hot tatoes, Mr. threatbe Sheriff." promised, common destination. ened. The cattlemen ignored hi manner Trying to do two thing at once bn "T! ivn I tl give you a piece of advice Its disadvantages. A startling headas the cup County has grown line caught his eyes just Hot coffee, precipl- his was at bpsFrom the old days. t It has got -- -f- -- '-- swallowed, scalded his tongue8 ami throat. He set down the cup. swore nit Lily, und gave lus attention to the new that had excited hm: While the citizens of Saguache were peacefully sleeping last nlcht. A lone bandit held up the messenger of the Western A Southern F.xpress company, and relieved them of twenty thousand dollars Just received from El Paso on the Flyer. "Ferry Hawley, the local manager of the company, together with Leu Roger, the armed guard, had jut returned front the depot, where the money had been turned over to them and receipted for. Hawley had unlocked the door of the office and had steppisl In, followed by Rogers, when a masked desperado appeared suddenly out of the darkness, disarmed the gUvU' and manager, took the money, passwi through the door and locked It after him, and vanished ns silently as he had come. Before leaving, he warned Ids victims that the place would he covered for ten minutes and at any attempt to call for help they would he shot. Notwithstanding this, the imprisoned men risked their lives the alarm." hy Further down th page Mackenzie discovered that the desperado wa still at large, hut that Sheriff Holt expected shot tly to lay hands on him. He folded the paper and returned to his room to make preparation to return to Ids rnmh. The buzz of the telephone called him to the receiver. The voice of Culllson readied him. That you, Mac? I'll he right up. No. don't come down. I'd rather pee you alone." The owner of the Circle C came I've made a raise, right to business. Mae, and while I've got It I'm going to kin off w link's coming to you." He had taken a big roll of hills from Ins pocket, and was counting off what lie had lost to his friend. The latter noticed that It all seemed to be In twenties. Twelve hundred. That squares us, Mae. The Scotsman wns vaguely uneasy without a definite reason for his anxiety. Only Inst night Cullison had told him not a single hank in Town would advance him a dollar. Now he had money in plenty. Where had he got It? Mackenzie's eye fell on a copy of the Sentinel protruding from the others pocket. "Read about the holdup of the W. & S. express? That fellow-hahis nerve with him.14 "Sho This holdup games the easiest yet. He got the drop oti them, and there wns nothing to It. "How did he know there wns money corning In last night?" Theres always a leak about thing 'of that sort. Somebody talks. I knew It myself, for that matter." "You knew! Who told yon? Thats a secret, Mac. Come to tldnk of It. 1 wih you wouldnt tell anybody that I knew. I dont want to get the man who told me In trouble. He pnssed to an"Sure I wont. other phae of the subject. The Sentinel Pays Bolt expects to catch the robber. Tlilnk he will?" Not If the fellow knows his business. Bolt ha nothing to go on. He has the whole Southwest to pick from. For all he knows. It was you." tjiie oue-gu- n I j Yes, away tn it hut" Or more likely me. The gray eyes of the former sheriff held a frosty smile. In spite of that smile, or perhaps becaue of It, Mackenzie felt again that flash of doubt "Whats the ue of talking foolishness. Luck? Course you didnt do It I know you too well. But the trouble was Mackenzie did not know him well enough. Culllson was hard up, close to the wall. How-fawould he go to save himself? In his slow, troubled fasWon, Mag. won-- , dered If bis old side partners streak of lawlessness would take him as far as a holdup." Of course It woutff hot. he assured himself ; but he could not get the ridiculous notion out of his an as the roPPer swung s vv the tfible. AVctMable CENT. IVcparatiw I simiiatinlheFood Kul-- by J . Always ' andlwok. tinilhoStwwuis i i Bears the . tel-lov- v s head "Who was the man th ro.lu it ? ! the 1 l.iUqV ' t for oso initials . w th d Cheerfulness and ReskC of neither Opldtn.Mrphlcjlr' IineraL'oTNAncoTic He guessed a man ee'-t-ii- A" . are the same as those in t hut" "If von mean lank Culllson. it' d He i t ; "Cass Fendi lek " ' .if he didn't claim to reeogn In j a he." exploded the enttlcman. uns furious with himself, for he felt now that he had been unsuspecti- Use AhdpfuiyJ, ngly helping to certify the suspicion of the sheriff Like an Idiot, he hud let out much (hut told heavily against itnd J.oss of Ins fi tend, "1 hope so Whnt about this hat, with the two holes shot through the msolfin For Over ftffcfrCtt-hjn- Thirty Years in '' "Sho th-it- . d Signature i Thereby rromotin shot the We all wear hat Just like Billie held It look at mine." jHjCrVTAtwCOKVC KEW YOKfr out H,.s v.uirs an I C stamped In the sweat hand';" iTolt asked with a smile. "1 know voti aint his friend, Nic' Hi t vou want to he fair to him rven if c Exact Copy of Wrapper, THE CtMTAUS nww mi. n COMPANY, tr "HPUb-- mL. Otherwise Content. i "I Ml Imhnti' ob viuirs," one mlnn! vvivdi lnd observed to another, over tin dividing hack I th NtW VOSH CITY. 1 iinaiHW' 'iwmwn In 1930. "I vvitil to hti) u battleship, the Indy secretary of the auvy. said "Well?' once, "he slioie do1 I vvoinhr If 1 could get the chairright woman of the naval committee lnter- would lie," the other " ('optin for only two thing hh h ested ? lut to "Ak In r to go huttleshlp shopping troubles him. lie quit oniiu to sleep, nn he ha to quit le p n to (with eat." Lullir i:enrd lo he spoken a th t hustint to think Some wive vein language of the people of Italy about the vear fs. band wen made to order. seem n conn-nte- nmn." 'lie vv you."-Louisv- ille Courier-Journal- , -- Where is Relief From Blazing Skin Diseases?' Mu.st I Endure Forever the . Torturous Itching? The akin is fed from the blood, and upon the condition of the blood depends whether or not your skin will be healthy and free from boils, pimples, scaly irrita-tionred eruptions and other disfiguring and unsightly disorders. The sensible treatment that will how real results is a remedy that s( "Ever Sea This B'efors? he did oppose your election." Macken- zie laid an appealing hand on the knee of the man seated opposite him. Im sheriff of lapngo county. It doesnt make any difference who worked for or ifgalnst liie, Billie. I was elected, and I'm going to enforce the law. By the way, Tve got to pay for some supplies this morning. Can you cash a check for a hundred? I reckon so. Mackenzie drew from hts pocket the roll Culllson had given him two hours before. He peeled five twenties from it. The sheriff observed that the prevailing denomination was the same. Get these from Luck?" he asked carelessly. The cattleman s .red at him, and the suspicion grew on him that he had been tr ped again. Why do you ask? - - Bolt walked to a cupboard and unlocked It Ills back was toward the eattlfman, hut the latter could e him take something from a shelf. Turnina quickly, the sheriff tossed a hat upon I I ; PER LCOHOL-- 3 M'geoi strii't to hols,' lie lea'il iT.o tins of !. n .ns do, guessed the was doing a d i t hanged shot s with the He shot this h ,t ,.T lie 1i - What Genuine Castoria Dropped, How w as that man happened to Come along r L.-C.- " Mothers Know That h ,e get- -' ' "Because it happens the hills stolen from the V. & S. were all twenties. From the office of the sheriff, Mackenzie wandered to the club 1b- search of Luck, lie was thoroughly dispirited, both dreaded to meet Luck, and yet was anxious to do so. . Culllson had left th club, hut Alec Flandrau wns still there. Billie drew him Into a corner, and learned that Luck had Just settled with Mm,-Anyone see him give it to yon, Alec? Xof He took roe'upstalrs to the library and paid me." In bills? head. Yes In twenties." Mackenzie drifted to the courthouse, For Gods sake, dont tell anybody lie found Sheriff Bolt In his office. The that." In a dozen jerky sentences the Scotsman wanted to discuss the rob- owner of the Flddleback told Flandrau bery, but was shy about attacking the of the suspicions of the sheriff. subject. While he boggled at It, Bolt Together they went In search of was off on another tack. Luck. But though . they looked for Inside of a quarter of an hour the, him all day, he was notjo he found. sheriff had found ont all he wanted to The last that had been seen of him know about the poker game. Culllson. Luck was walking along the plaza financial difficulties, and the news that toward the hotel, not a hundred and Luck had liquidated his poker debt fifty yards from the latter. A dozen since breakfast. Moreover, he had men had spoken to him In the distance talked so casually that his visitor had of a block. But he had not been seen no suspicion of what be was driving to reach bis hotel. He had not called aL , ! for his room key. Somehow be had . Mackenzie attempted a little sleuth- van!shed, and none could tell how or 2 ing of. his own. ' This hoidup "fellow where.' kind of slipped one over on you last ' 1 night.- Bolt." and so, maybe noL" Maybe Who robbed the express Got a clue, have you?! company?- - - Oh. yes yes."" The sheriff looked Ive a notion hla straight at him. initials are Billie felt himself flushing. make you think that, Nick? For Infants and Children. V know w Mackenzie's eves flinched It -- I hy "Thought peilaps yon it. The holdup dropped William MacLeod Raitie past the two gun man. He's gone to join the autloie and the painted Indian." The fellow leaned forward, sneering so that his ugly mouth looked like a crooked gah. "How about the man Mr. Sheriff?" "He d t u't last long now. "Doesn't ho?" The man's rage boiled over. But Luck was far and away the qu'cker of the two. His left hand shot forward and gripped the rising wrist, his right caught the hairy throat and tightened oil it. He shook the convict as if he had been a child, and flung him, Mack In the face, against the wall, where he hung, strangling and sputtering. I I'll get you yet." the ruffian panted. But he did not again attempt to reach for the weapon In his hip pocket. You talk too much with your mouth." y With superb contempt Luck slapped him. turned on his heel, and moved away, regardless of the raw, stark lust to Kill that was searing this man's dcmcntnl brain. The paroled convict recovered hts breath ami slunk out of the hotel. Billie Mackt nzie. oyner of the ranch, laughed even while Iip disapproved. "Some day. Luck, youll get yours when jou are throwing elmnn-- s at a covote like this You'll guess your man wong, or he'll he one glass drunker than you figure on. and then he'll plug jou through and through. "The man that takes chances lives longest, Mac, his friend rcpl.ed, disI'm missing the subject carelessly. going to tuck away about three hours of sleep. So long. And with a nod he wns gone to his room. All the same Lucks too derned And he rash, Flandrau commented. hadn't ought to he sitting in these big games. Hes hard up. Owes a good hit here and there. Always was a spender. First thing hell have to sell the Circle C to square things, lie'll pay us this week like he said he would. (Thats dead sure. But I swear I don't know where hell raise the price. Money is so tight right now. That afternoon Luck called at every bank In Saguache. All of the hankers knew him and were friendly to him, hut in sjtlte of their personal regard they could do nothing for him. "Its this stringency. Luck," Jordan of the Cattlemen's National explained to him. "I'd let you have It If I dared. Why, weYe running close to the wind. Public confidence Is a mighty ticklish thing. If I didnt have twenty thousand coming from El Paso on the Flyer tonight Id be uneasy for the bank. "Twenty thousand on the Flyer. I reckon you ship by express, dont you?" Yes. Dont mention It to anyone. That twenty thousand would come handy to a good many people In this country these times. "It would' come rignt handy to me, I need every Luck laughed ruefully. cent of ft. After the beef roundup Ill he on Easy street, hut Its going to be hard sledding to keep going till then. "You'll make a turn somehow. It will work out. Maybe when money Isnt so tight HI be able to do something for you. Luck returned to the hotel morosely and tried to figure a way out of his difficulties. He was not going to he beaten. He never had accepted defeat. He would not lose out after all these years of fighting. 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Why, I reckon we feed. them gained to aid greutly In the control of Islter Hum a pood tunny human be- pected the pest. ing I know fet'd themselves" this The agent employed In Japan Is with n ch.ilky, stare at the thin familiar with Japanese conditions and My cows are fed on the fnt I a specialist In this kind of work. It of the bind, nnd If their fodder aint expected that the task will require tip to the murk, we gfveem the finest bis sojourn In Jnpnn for two or three !icui!s we can buy. And If we cant While something Is known of years. 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