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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVTLLE, UTAn CroolS6C Trai. s ano By William MacLeod Raine Q. TV. fOpyrtetit by DilUnrham Co ) but he would call any bluffs about the when Curly wakened. He sat up and I whole thing being a lark. rubbed his eyes. Mac was nowhere in ACTION! ACTI0N1 Curlys eyes fell away. It came to sight. Probably he had gone to. get the ACTION! him for the first time that be was no horses. i man. Up till "this I A Notmd brok h eat! ness of -- the longer' be had been hot desert. escapade Flandrau only wild, Heres a story with actleaped to his feet. now he had crossed the line that and at the same Instant Mac came Out ion,- action, action. decent folks from outlaws. running over the brow of the hill. A Not another word was said while smoking revolver was In his hand. where the West begins is "Flue. When did you blow In to From behind the hill a gun cracked Saguache? Aint you off your run they hurried Into their clothes. But still the land of romance, as Curly passed out of the door he aome? then a second and a third. Mai and this is the heart of the Wont forget stumbled over his feet and pitched They had ridden the range together called hack huskily. West in the and hud frolicked around on a dozen, w hnt. you done .forus, Slats." forward full Ipngth onthe ground. His To larks. It the boyish their did ran toward him, forgetting! ife friend put Davis met mildly eyeB "Again days of the cowboy, the was likely to prove embarrassnot but look on meeting chill revolver the his that lay In its holster under speak, catt'e rustler, the horse-thie- f, ing. face told Jiandrau that he had lost a the live oak. Every moment he exCame down to aee about getting friend. the outlaw, the pected to see Mac jump up. but the figsome cows for Jthe old , maiLf rom the The two young men jran jlown the ure stretched beside the cholla never sheriffs-poss- e, Flddlebuck outfit. Davis explained. back stairs, passed through the kltch - j moved. Flandrau felt the muscles the bloody and You riding fof the Bar Double M T en where a Chinese cook was, getting round bis heart tighten. He had seen There wag a momentary silence. breakfast, and out Into the thrilling battles with the bright sun- sudden death before, but never had it those met his of Curly's vigilant eyes come so near heme. -- , light There are some old side partner. What did Slata A bullet sent up a spurt of dust In do to be In any burr Won't The human and lovable people know? Were his suspicions already play la were gentlemen of leisure. Just front of him, another Just on the left J ctive? in whose fortunes we are out for an amble to get the monlng Riders were making a half circle "No, Im riding for the Map of around the knoll and closing In on him. air," Curly cautioned. (one-lastin- g. interested, antf some bad Texas, Flandrau answered evenly. In his right mind Curly would have While sadanil watered they fed, men who very properly Come on, Curly. Let go feed our dled they swapped gossip with the been properly frightened. But now he faces, Mac called from the stable, die with their boots on. wrangler. It would not do to leave thought only of Mac lying there so still Flandrau nodded. WRIGLEVS You still with the boy with a story of two riders In in the sand. Right Into the fire zone Quite a plot there is, too. the Ilushknlfe? he asked Davis. ran. he knelt beside his partner and long-lastin- g SHIP with ieim I've been raised to such a hurry to hit the trail that they But action, action, action head. A little cotild not wait to feed their bronchos. lifted the assistant foreman." the story moves with a So stuck It out while the animals hole showed back of the left ear and Bully for you. That's grent. All ate. they At that, they shaved It fine, for another at the right temple. A bullet rush. right, Mac, Fm coming.. Thats sure as rode away two men were had plowed through the boys skull. they Ve!l, see you later, great, old hoss. Softly Flandrau put the head back coming down the street Slats. In the sand and rose to his feet. The "Kite Bonflls," Curly called to his Flandrau followed Mac, dissatisfied PART I revolver of the dead puncher was In pnrtner. with himself for leaving his friend no his hand. The riders were closing In No explanation was needad. Boncavalierly. Be guessed Slats would he flls on him. The nearest called to him to wus the foreman of the Bar Curly. hurt, but he had to think ef Ida partsurrender. Almost at the same time M. Double a out let shout as he lie ners In this enterprise. red-ha CHEW IT AFTER EVERY shot through the left of them pain and to CHAPTER.!. began Afier supper they took a room at caught sight arm. of the trapped rustler. Someone run forward. his gun Simultaneously thejliotel and divided the money War had nipped him from the rear. Following a Crooked TralT. ren had pafd for the horses. Noue seemed 4o Jump .from its holster. Macs Across Dry valley u dust cloud had of them had Curly saw red. Surrender noth and his pony quirt sang slept for the last fifty He would go down fighting. As been mm lug for hours. It rolled Into hours Ing! to a In A two canter leaped strides. and Mac proposed to tumble bullet xlpped between them. Another fast as he could blaze he emptied Saguache ut the brisk heels of a hunch Into bed at once. of horses Just about the time the town struck the dust at their heels. Falnt- - Macs gun. When the smoke cleared Bad Bill shook his head. "1 the man who had ordered him to ;lve was settling Itself to supper. From wouldnt, Mac. Let's hit the trail and was slipping from his horse. Curly out of the heart of It cantered a rider, do our up sleeping In the hills. Theres was surprised, but he knew be must who swung his jamy ns on a half too many telephone lines Into this have hit him by chance. and deflected the reinuda toward-Chutown to suit roe." We got him. His guns empty, u'a corral. Sho! Our play Isnt to hike out some one shouted. The rider was In the like we were scared stiff of somefelt hat, the gray shirt, the plain loath Cautiously they closed In, keeping What we want to do Is to act thing. him covered all the time. Of a sudden AIMED ENTIRELY TOO HIGH LAND HAS SUFFERED MUCH er chaps of a vaquero. Under other as If we could look every- darned citithe plain tilted up to meet the sky. conditions he might .have been a cob zen In the face. Macs sure right, Flandrau felt himself swaying on his College Professor Had Something to Bessarabia, lege freshman for age, hut the comjx-ten- t Always in the Pathway of Curly agreed. feet. Everything went black. The confidence jnf manhood sat easily Learn Concerning the Changed You kids make me tired. Im going Savage Invasion, Repeatedly on his broad shoulders. Curly Flan-drnboy had fainted. Order of Things. to dust my pronto," Overrun and Pillaged. Blackwell had more than once looked Into snarled. When be came to himself strange the chill. eyes of death. faces were all around him and there President Meikeljohn of Amherst Sure. Whenever you like. southward Iron You Bessnrabia, The leaders of the herd dribbled Into were no bodies to go with them. They was talking about the changed finan- the westward sloping of the Cato foothills' Mae said. got up anyhow, split the yorral through the open gate, and seemed to float about In an odd. casual cial conditions that now Bad Bill looked at Blackwell and between the Dniester and prevail. rpathians, the others crowded on their heels. sort of way. Then things cleared. I heard the other day, he said, of Iruth, down to the Black sea and nodded. Thats right. We don't all Three more riders followed Curly Into want a Hes to all one harassed said, coming right," to pull a blue streak. 'That college professor who, In Danube delta, lay in the normal the tnelosore. One of them, a red-- How is Culllson? order to make ends meet, decided to geographical pathway (if tribes puswould be a dead give awuy. Let the haired young fellow of about the same This was said to another who had take-umanual labor. kids stay if they want to. hing westward from Asia and soutage as Curly, Bwung stiffly from the So he visited a large building come up. hward from the warmer soueimst lands. just Soy that they eon round on us If saddle. and said, nervously, to a d Hard hit. Looks about all In. Got Blackwell nnbbed, they're sneered. Among the most harrowing of tha "Mo for a square meal first, off, he man with him a in diamond Cranston the side. horseshoe him called Invasions. down roughly. wa$ that of the Mongols la gave out promptly. The rage died out of Curly. In a In his necktie: Tlmtit be enough along thnt line, the fourteenth century, w hen that re"Not till weve finished this business I am ahem an 1 fiont Btand for flash he saw all that had coine of this Lute. Buffered more atrocities produring which gion any Mac. Well put a deal right through tf cracks like It." drunken spree: the rustling of the fessor, and I would like to know If women and children were used as taWarren's here, decided a third memBar Double M stock, the discovery, you could take me on here as brick- rgets in bow-contests,' and Blackwell, not three months out ber of the purty. lie wus a layer? from the under th. the of death faced his driven were other friend slivers of the and of wood penitentiary, maybe customer of nearly fifty. Had FIH The man on unCulllson with an look In his eyes. He was a the derisive gave this that certain all nails of going ugly the men, punishment Cranston he was called, and the mun snort. would weep to to follow. lie was a horse thief til no eye remained open always ready quarrel, hut he did looked us If he had enrned his sobriI not like to fight unless he hud a sure Bricklayer? not In almost he guess the act. Perhaps he said for the dead. caught quet. was a murderer, too. And the whole We might start you In ns an architect, Prior to' the outbreak of the world And what If he aint here? snarled thing. and let you work your way war, After You," He Said. menfi any harm," the had though, Didnt been entirely unpremedithing Jheyre pastoral Bessarabia offered Lote Blackwell. Are you ulmlng to op. " tated. I dont like this 4 But growled. pleasing contrast. The Moldavian alt down and wait for him? came to there the ly the town. fugitives around Youv e played h homes offered delight to the tourist ," one -- of the Well cross thnt bridge when we sticking 1 sound of the foremans Impotent men told the Then wouldnt If Whats I the Use? The Interior ot the Moldavian hom stay boy. come to It, Bud 11111 answ ered. Curly, curses. They had escaped for the do you, Muc Hub, sawed-ofWlfey Curly lie was a suggested know f you promptly. what day was Immaculate and vivid, brightly little fellow want to ride up to the hotel and ask time. and have a this is? I" known-anodifferent got colored curtains and hangings being Dutch. seen Flandrau had tf Mr. Pave Warren Is there? Bring the lust barb Presently they passed So tion. weil to tie hlin In the Map of Texas country a Hubby (a funny paper addict) Sure used. The people are deeply religious, Saguache for a lilm right down If he Is, wire fence and opeu country lay beor two." day or thing, two precious. It is the anniversary and each orthodox home has lts.ahat before. year The restTwere The young man cantered up the fore them. It did not greatly matter our of As us soon men the older to had The Bessarabian women are sprightly, marriage. the strangers All of them gone boy. dusty street toward the hotel. widen direction they followed, so long looked the others tumbled Into bed at him Wlfey into fell bright-eyeand out and pretty. of (bursting hostile hard, tears) Its eyes. Thought youd fixed It with this ns they headed. Into the desert. He was scarcely a human of the nothing kind, cnllous you Warren to he tight on the spot no's asleep a? once. Daylight was sifting to brute being I Just knew you werent keeping track In through the open window before we could unload on hint prompt. Modern inventions have killed is1 serious trouble before and both of It! Cartoons their of as existence soon was eyes opened. as Magazine. rf" it was convenBlackwell grumbled at Cranston withSomebody lation. gretted the folly that had turned their ient pounding on the bedroom door. out looking, toward the latter. drunken spree Into a crime. They Mac was already out of bed when At a shift In the group FlaflUraus I didnt promise hed be hanging were stretched In front of the fire that his eyes fell on hla friend lying in the partners feet hit the floor. round your neck soon ns you hit town, evening trying to make a smoke serve sand with face Whats up. Mac?" turned whitely to the Cranston retorted coolly. The eyes of the redheaded puncher Instead of supper. Mac broke a gloomy sky he never would see again. A The owner of the corral sauntered lump to grunt out Jerkily a situa- silence came Into the hoys throat and he had six, tlon-hfrom the stable and gl an ce do v erth e gleamed wUh ex,CtemeuP could no longer keept him- I to work It V down before be spoke. gun wus in, his hand. By the look of self. bunch of horses milling around. him was he about to reudy whang Drive all the way from Bar Double. Here's where I get my walking paM? asked the keeper, his eyes on the loose through the door. coffee pers. . I . reckon. No rustlers need ap-- . Hold your horses, you chump," brand stamped on the flunk of a pony He's only a kid! ply. It's the hotel clerk. matCurly saug out. circling past. Curly shot a slant glance at him. I left a call with him. Yep. Meaning the girl? (TO BE CONTINUED.) That you, purly? For Coils sake, Bad Bill turned away and began to The puncher took from let me In." unsaddle. his coat pocket a photograph and Looks like you been hitting the road Before he hud got the words out the showed It t(v his friend. The sweet Blue, Too. Out In Pennsylvania avenue the t a right lively gait door was open. Slats came In and clean face pf a wholesome girl smiled mother of a home decided to fix Mac cut In. Shoulder (Tf my broncs shut It behind him.He looked at at OuflyT over her bathroom. She began with chafed from the saddle. Got anything Flandrau. "Shes cetnlnly right nice young the fixtures and thatll heal It? painted the outside They're after you," he said. Indy. Ill bet he stands by you ell of the tub and a deep blue. Who? fired Curly back at him. lavatory You bet T have. 'lhe man hurried right. Wheres she live at? Then she a began M Bar The Double Into the stable and the lighter blue boys. They Walts' In a restaurnnt at Tomb- on the walls. putting Her winked across thp back of his Just reached towu." We stone. was to be married son happened going -upstairs and came In to horse al Bin. Iut up that gun, Mac. and move soon we had saved five hundred dol- - see her handiwork. Now. the bathThe keeper of the stable and the Into your clothes Immediately," orlars.Mac swallowed hard. And I room of the house is not his favorite young man were still busy doctoring dered Curly. Then to Davis : Go on. had to figure out this short cut to the room any by and means, all on acthe sore when Curly arrived with War- Unload theest. What do they know? money whilst I was drunk. As If shed count of a peculiar aversion he has for ren. The buyer was a "They Inquired for you nhd four look at money made that way." the cleansing powers of water. man with black gimlet eyes that saw friend here down at the Legnl Ten- to tried him cheer Curly, up. but did lie, scowled at the walls and then much be never told. The bargain he der." not make much of a Job at It. The at the outside of the fub. Gee, whiz, Have we got a chance to make our hard on.- but It did not wholefacts were that Mac g. fjn cydat etlnJu ULhl s room take long to come to terms at about getnway? Mac asked. an outlaw and a horse thief. cheerless enough without you making one-t bird -- the value .Davis noddhd. he Slide nut through string- he The redheaded boy rolled another-cigarett- It blue, too? Indianapolis News. was purchasing. .Very likely he had the kitchen, cut Into the alTey7 and Sho! Ive despipulently, his suspicions, hiit he did unt voice across lots to the corral. WeU lock cooked my goose. Shell not look at me Swamp Lands. them. No doubt they cut a figure lit the door and Ill hold them here Jong ren If they dont send me to the coffee, coffee The swamp aud wet lands of th os 1 cun." the price. He let It be understood pen. And shes the best ever. Her United States ure that be was a - supjily-age- for. the equivalent to !GudJbojrSlatsIL theres a neck names Yly ra .Anderson. ... of the area of France.-Mac- h . relodg in Mexico. Before the bills were tie party youll get the first b U a under live They slept oak wiih the of the warm In the pockets of the sellers. hi swamp landhowever Is wet Curly grinned. soundness of healthy youth. For the only after heavy rains am were mounted mid Were vaqueros Slats looked at him, cold and wtendv iue they forgot their troubles. Neither bears heavy vegetation. It Is bcl eved moving th remuda toward the lewder. Plainer than words he was tell.na hi them knew that as the hours' that large areas, if Cutty and Mac helped them get former friend thnt he would no ik pnqtorly drained 'Made by Postum Cereal Ca, Battle Creek ISA win red tragedy was galtup.ng close! and cleared by public nr private anrt'd. A they rode bock to th cor-la- l wl h a horse ihU'f. For f nhi lo llota. I po ration', could a young on1 from the trui.f. UiU times he woutt kmv turn tf he iiuihl I n was shining ia his face productive farm. stable. Flandrau forgot that there were reasons why he wanted just now to he a stranger In the land with his Identity not advertised, lie let out a shout. Oh, you, Slats Davis! Hello, Curly! Dow are things . I I -- an-hon- - et 1 1 aep-arat- old-fashion- ed flavors li Re the pyramids of Egypt? six-gu- n. Because they are Is a beneficial And as well as treat. It helps appetite and digestion, keeps teeth clean and breath sweet, allays thirst. 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