Show 4 44 i T The rp he Man an Fr From om e f t Blaxton axton t t i t 1 ti 1 Pp r ny By CLARISSA MA t. t MACKIE CO ee h t. t 1 J J TAMES AMES ter KENT RENT looked at nt hI his s with stead steady Y e eye Attie Ae said d JT he deliberately did did dia i see sec night at the dance with Bill JJ You last W Were re yOU there dads ad eA mIra Kent SI AI I certainly Wag Wag-n was and d there whole posse with was wag It a w me retorted retort the Perhaps we were 00 look h hug ing for g I somebody that y you'd Ud been n dancing with girl my girl 1 AlmIra paled I I i dl didn't n t kno know V Wit It it- it she confessed I asked aske you did you go to tw dance ance with Bill JJ Rinker that l lOf Of course Bill Bm to took ine- ine you me-you ou I have been out with him before before know I I know It Ame And your mo mother an and I I have both asked you yeti not to hate e eIf anything to do with him If you would only tell me what hat Din has done done clone she hesitated he Wen has been mixed in all kinds s of messes c The Theme me has hai hi come when hen he has to got to b be- be ben well be-well wen n ell suppressed He carouses mornIng noon an and has been suspected of or f several holdups and there theme are witnesses wit wit- nesses to prove that he lie was the masked man who held up the mall mail stage on oil Mon Monday ay He has all the brass in th the e world daughter and nd he must have hare cleaned up a lot of gold from that mail mall robbery robbery robbery-It It is a won wonder er that he hasn't asked you to run away with him-he him Is that kind an and the n neighborhood Is getting getting get get- ting too hot for him I guess Almiras Almira's face re reddened dene deeply Per haps imps her father had guessed truly truly truly- for she re really lIy had promised to elope clone with Bill mIl linker An And now her father seemed to understand understand un- un all ll about it even to the pla planned me elopement elopements I Who is that man father asked AlmIra with sudden Interest as a rider swept into the gate and dismounted front from a spirited black ho horse se That Oh that's the man from Blaxton muttered her father and went down own the steps step's to greet him The two men talked together in low tones an and Almira sewing in her small rocking rocking rock rock- ing chair guessed that it was police pollee business as she and her mother had lead Mr l Kents Kent's ent's official business Once the man f from bom om Blaxton glanced up an and his blue eyes caught Almiras Almira's dark gaze She glanced away Immediately immediately Imme imme- an and pink came into her cheeks After a little while the man from froll rota Blaxton rode away and the sheriff came to the porch for a n moment before before before be be- fore calling for his own horse Yon Too better not elope Allie Alli he lie said tersely As Almira sat there thinking busily she heard hear cautious footsteps and then In the small grove of ot young walnut trees she glimpsed Bill linkers linker's h heavy avy face and motioning finger Then he dropped down own among the walnut sprouts She did id not know that Curly Rob nob one me of the cowboys had also seen brief appearance of young Hunker HInker an and that even now he was washl hl whispering a message over the house telephone I ISo So the girl dropped her sewing and picking up a magazine sauntered over overto overto overto to the walnuts where there was wag wasa waga a seat under the largest tree Here she sat down and pretended to read ead but her downcast e eyes es were fixed on OD Bill Bm linker Hinker Get me one of ot your our dads dad's horses Allie he whispered hoarsely I got gotto gotto gotto to get out of ot the county right now V see The he sheriff and his posse are after me see me-see see Do you want me to get pinched he asked acutely Of course not Billy I But I think If It you just tell dad what you told me roe about taking the blame for another will wul through I J fellow fellow he he see you know he will l I He stared at her astounded I Idon dont don't get set you I 1 he said contemptuous contemptuous' contemptuously i ly Iy You told me the that you'd be my WY girl girl and and now when I ask you to get dads dad's to horses-to save sa me one of your me you me-you you sit and yap ap about something else Bin Bill own horse I will get you ou my ray have ha a aright aright aright and I Poncho Is my very ery own an right to to- to the young g Get him then 1 snapped man man sharply caught o ht and ca caher corral the Almira Almha ran to sad which she her pretty black horse walking mm hull dIed She mounted him the we toward leisurely around the house she slipped out our walnut shoots Just as linker HInker leaped onto i ithe Bill nUl of the saddle out of rf the i the horse and went tearing trail the eastern yard an and down over o toward the mountains Five Fhe minutes m and the man t ward her fattier father sties afterward heading a posse phate w swept swep P from flom Blaxton turned down the UM 3 p past the house and pt eastern trail AlmIra fainted t Al Almira ml t A couple of ot hours afterward J tt room to t In her tier cool coo little tittle awakened beside snottier mother her tier pretty find and d a worn terribly bed looking her mother Is daddy dully aright a arMil anxious Oh question nO and d t when right her was ns mother her tier first no nodded deu 1 s she 1 Ie Ien gasp gaspa gasped ped t ther about Bill linker n a Iu question briefly mother her Caught said an ani nod d Ile dear my ani He was cry very guiltY There Ther e i Is In jail hint hIm they i have ha Put t knoW t s did didn't something c. c J that y you ou U i I Idear last year dear was married AlmIra limp b before c f 0 re It t was a long but buta after t tto un anybody u. u bodY wasted l to 10 see rn rna the n man maD from C a while hUe she slie did meet to lie he ranch t come maxton who hind had she s Ie r rattle er r for dInner and h he hud had b bred him himat at first because bee red she could cou d be hIs known how foolish wren won her persistent wooing at wonderful last we ed d People said 1 It was pret pretties a cs ont t bride and aDd 11 ding that dIng that ot of the man In the co county I 1 Ithe i. i the handsomest 0 |