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Show I AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN am nrvn m m rin m rn rnrn r i m f I'M 1 1 1 1 1 1 J ii 1 1 1 1 I . I w I I 1 1 1 1 I u 1 1 1 1 I 0. APPUETON-GENTURY CO. i,urwiii umi craw- fcSSiiiiSiiS 0. APPUETON-CENTURY CO. Jtobx thus far L k. r C ranch In central Lrt-wiM Wait Candy to on W1 . -1.4 a..taf A MrtlMT. . Walt Ii flopped short by a idi a rifle In flrtns position. 1 ..ii. him how to eel to LT.nVw.iru.toppS time ny sre. ....... him to set out and , the C C-crew U ta Em. L been murdered. Btdlnf to In tmiK'""'. .. the livery liable. Walt learns hameron. oirar v-v trouble. n nr "i """- hji many enemies. At the . .... Hniuster and the alrl him rhino Drake, for ft tne i - - - d Sheriff Ed Battle la trying on Caah Cameron. kilted to the itand. She to run niuiawr. diiv hint and. ai uanoy nupn vo it tometning m on un. U tmm Drake's body. Walt C office box and leave! the Leaving uw pu wu.-w u by a dark, swarthy man iim . ob. He draws we man lit he wanti to uiurp Cam-fc Cam-fc range land. Candy then iown In biting faihlon. The It Walt, who whips htm after L The man Is Pete Kelso, he 77 ranch, an outfit hostile Ganay is nun w u U, Where he meets Holllster. Hn inter mat umeron vintr and Candy return to tre they nna iain unnn vie. the crippled man who Ldy on hi previous visit TEE VII Continued 5 aid Holllster. "He does swing used to be Helen's,. jlxed it for her when she ftront again Walt said, ie the devil had chased Lavic some time, and with him, tool Who is he, story." Hollister an-A an-A long one. Tomorrow U be together, working m into the sink. I can ki about Lavic then, and e others." Suddenly the turned into full view. Hol- fvy eyebrows were gath-Iw gath-Iw much money have you himself over; pockets, inhered the ten-dollar bill land. Lndrcd suefcs," he said. kper. A fewTnore in sil- couple of pesos Mex." looked away. "Let me tuo hundred." said Walt. "When?" came the answer, and CHAPTER VIII me tonight. Walt knew, he nng to see Helen Cameron, at was bound to happen. too much at stake be- m. Yet when he tramped kitchen door, he was not for the girl who met him. opened inward as his clicked on the stone step bd Helen stood there hold-bim hold-bim to enter. No one was nor in the dining-room s shirt was gone, and the blue jeans. She had id in dressing had made stranger to him. disturb- nine in every line of her body. But then the can- brown eyes reassured fng quickly as she nodded bext the dining-room arch. " she said. "Leave your come back, will you?" jameron was not beautiful Jite. helpless way of Snellen. Snel-len. The beautv of this pmething more; mountain been in her hair and a limitless desert was to Pet eyes. Her blood was fn range, and It knew the Mse of hate and passion Quick smile she brousht pek to his. "Let's do the 11 help. The new cook have such a pile to begin waved toward the heaped Fse hands in dishwater?" a. looking down at them F'us face. He shook his Pc I ll do my own pearl froppod him a little bow. gallant man. Mr. Gan-brown Gan-brown head tipped up her eyes danced. "That said. Nn nth.- h. . 11 ueB CTCI pal my hands were not avsriwgterf"-Jl1 n daughter died on her . and the lift of her shoul- rise of her voice were Sl.' m "We'H o lt refused. He stood aiUng. They had more to ' wan this. ed fmm him: "Oh. aO lhe moved across the wide ' 8 'able, and facing him. clf against the edge, l"td uf,,,n "le boards, the JJ dress flnu,in. .t '"Klh of her slender body. - g.uiant man. aren't I, : H frOTT1 that distance. ' bi. I'm not fooling." ''i,1v s;i:'' ""Ih.Mg. 'U u;r'm.-d one. too." said Lo'ik -'I that Jaw!" By H, Still he waited. He knew for a fact she was not fooling with him. In spite of the smile. This light and round-about approach to something some-thing filled with grave purpose was not new. Let the girl take her time. Her brown eyes fell and studied her slippered feet "Walt," she said, unexpectedly intimate, in-timate, "I want you to understand something. It's about Bill Hollistef and me." She hesitated. "All right," Gandy agreed. "Sure, go ahead." BuTfor the girl to bring in another man Just now, any man, abruptly cooled him. "Bill Holllster," he heard her say. "is one of the finest men I have ever known, perhaps the finest There probably is not another like him in all the world. In some ways there simply can't be." Walt Gandy granted every word. Yet hearing from her lips things that even he himself would have declared on occasion, now brought a sudden stab of fire. A little more forcibly than need be, he said. "You aren't telling me anything! You know, don't you. that Holllster and I were paired in the border patrol for several years? Two men don't hold down that Job together without each becoming mighty sure of what his partner is made of. I could pay off Bill with everything I've got or ever will have, and my debt to him wouldn't be half settled! What are you smil ing at?" "Not at you, Walt." said Helen gently, and her mouth was serious again. "Sometimes a girl smiles to keep from crying. Didn't you know that? It's a deeper thing than wom en ever know, this working compan ionship between men, and what you have just said is almost word for word what Bill Hollister once told me about you." She gave herself a little fling from the table edge and came back aoross the room, and as she stopped. a fragrance stirred with a current of air that her movement made. She held out her hand. "Good night, Walt; I'm glad we understand under-stand each other. That's all I wanted want-ed to know. I wanted to tell you how I felt about Bill, and to know how you felt about him. Good night." CW1RE CHAPTER IX GANDY blew out the kitchen lamp, poked his nose outside for a breath of cold air, saw that the sky was overcast and the wind had risen. CC foreman's headquarters just off the kitchen was a large square room, low-ceilinged, suggesting Hollister Hol-lister in its economy of furniture, everything for definite use a narrow nar-row cot, a chair, a tall chest of drawers and an iron-banded box. padlocked. With a match Walt located lo-cated the cot and flung himself down upon it He rolled a cigarette lying ly-ing on his back. It was plain to him then that he would have to go. This was Hollister" Hol-lister" s country, Hollister's girl, and there was trouble enough here without with-out adding more. He would go through with whatever Job Bill had cut out for him, then leave. Tomorrow To-morrow they were working cattle Into the sink. That promised ao-tion. ao-tion. He had not forgotten the man named Pete Kelso who had been in town hiring extra bands for the 77. If those gunmen had been hired, this range war could break wide open within twenty-four hours. The end would not be long in coming after aft-er that, and he could travel. So with a conclusion reached, Walt Gandy rolled another smoke and started the argument all over. But he took only one drag on it suddenly crushed out the cigarette, swung himself upright and stood motionless In the dark. An unmistakable unmis-takable sound bad Jerkd him up as if yanked by a rope. He listened, waiting for it to repeat At a distance, he could not tell how far, cattle had bawled. It had come to him on a wave of night wind for only a moment, then the wind had swept on, and the sound had faded. Yet he stood fixed in its chill grip. Somewhere out along the mountain slope cattle were bawling at the smell of old bloodl Never had he buckled on his belt with such reluctance. Something told him that if it was a man dead out there, for the good of the CC and all its people, the body had best not be found. Checking the gun's full chamber with his flnger tips, Jbe moved soundlessly to the window Two short wings Jutted from the Lion front part of the CC house. .From one, Gandy looked across an inner patio' to the "other. Under the overcast sky only ' the low-rotrfed were dark. He threw his leg over the sill, touched ground and Stepped out ' With (hat first-blood-bawling ! tm repeated, there was little for him to go by In gauging distance and direc lion. He would rather not be discovered dis-covered saddling and riding out of this place. Secrecy seemed to be the thing here. With the whole ranth crew going their ways under cover, he'd play that game also. Curiosity prompted him to lift the snddle shed latch and step inside. Cash Cameron had not showed up after the meal tonight. Bill Hollister Hol-lister had taken two hundred dollars. dol-lars. Old Bent Lavic had found nothing better to do than sit In a little lit-tle girl's swing. If it was Bent Lavicl Had they all gone to bed then, to be sleeping soundly now? About as much as he had! Having shut the door behind him, Gandy stood uncertain. It was black in this shed, blacker than inside in-side a tar barrel with the lid on. His outstretched hands found nothing at first He took a few cautious steps and touched the log horse where five saddles had been deposited in a row this evening. His was the on on the nearest end. Groping, he felt over the smooth leather of three more. Then there was an empty space. Someone had saddled and gone. Who? Gandy had an urge to strike a match and see at once, yet intuitive intui-tive warning checked that He stood for a time trying to recall re-call the exact placing of each man's saddle, remembering that neither Horsethief Fisher nor Helen had brought theirs in here to the rack. Their gear was In another shed. That left Hollister, Cameron, Lavic, and the boy. He shook his head over the boy and the crippled man . . . whoever had ridden off tonight must be on some business more urgent ur-gent than could Involve those two. It sifted down to Cash Cameron or Bill Hollister. His exploring hands came back to his sides with a Jerk. Behind Be-hind him, slowly, the shed door was opening. Gently Walt lifted the thirty-eight, brought it up Into the crook of bis left arm and let it lit there, pointing. He took a tentative step backward back-ward along the log saddle horse, If He listened, waiting for it to repeat. beginning his retreat with all senses alert His second step had not yet started when there came the fact that someone else was moving. The air had stirred. Next through the dusty smell of the shed he breathed a certain fragrance. fra-grance. "Helen!" Walt Gandy gave out the name in a whisper. A startled gasp answered; an-swered; a sharp indrawn "Oh!" After Aft-er that only the fresh, stirred air told him that the girl was still near. He put out a hand, whispering again, "Helen. It's Gandy." His fingers touched her dress and she jumped back. He asked, "Shall I strike a match?" Words burst from her in a voice held low, hoarse with tension: "No! Don't!" Then rapidly, "What are you doing here? What are you looking look-ing for? You tell me . . . prowling like this!" What was he doing here! Gandy stared hard at a faint grayness that now, at arm's length, was all he could see of Helen Cameron's face. What was he doing! The reverse accusation ac-cusation stung him. That wasn't what he had in mind. What was she doing out here? His gun was holstered; suddenly with both arms he reached out caught the girl in his hard grip and shook her. "I've had enough! I'm going to find out what's happened. Understand? There's been one murder mur-der on this ranch-maybe more. Do you know that? I almost think you dot There's a devil of a lot too much under cover on this place!" Under his clamped arms the breath gushed out of her and she was all at once limp against him, for the moment unstruggling, and ne was asnameu as a -hi nvra grabbed and was shaking a helpless help-less kitten. . Words formed to say so, but .the girl jerked and tore from his 'hands. .....V.Youl.,LAl.njfi..gp,V;. Her voice choked In rage. She broke off. He Imagined dark eyes blazing. But then she turned him cold with' th 4ead Quiet, complete ly final tone of her next words: "Call yourself Bill Hollister's friend! Saying you owe him so much. And now, spying! Oh! Oh, I'm glad I watched, Glad of it, do you hear? I know I don't trust you now!" On the instant she regained con trol of the bitter emotion that had swept her. or else, still bitter, could yet feel a certain sympathy, for she said. "I'm sorry. I am. But all I can say is you'd better leave this ranch. No one asked you to WNU 5EKYIU Sw come here and uncover what has happened." Ha heard her back away from him, heard the door open and click shut The girl was gone, but there waa left behind her a turmoil of fright and her desperate) volca. and the puzzle of what it all meant Walt Gandy stood In the dark and swore softly. No oria had sked him to coma here and uncover what had happened! A lot seemed explained In that Was the whole C C covering up. instead in-stead of uncovering? Was that it? Even Holllster? t He struck a match and swept It along the saddle rack to the empty space. The short flare died, but Gandy remained rooted, trying to make reason of what he bad seen. For the missing saddle was Cash Cameron's. CHAPTER X WHATEVER ride Cameron had taken last night and Gandy saw signs that it had been a long one it had done the old man no good. The C C owner was worried. In the faintly graying morning he clumped stiffly down to where horses stood ready outside the corrals. cor-rals. He moved with Ill-concealed saddle tiredness, no spring in his step, shoulders drooping, hit large figure In a rainproof canvas coat looking heavy and leaden. When forms appeared out of the faint morning, mounted, and when all were ranged before him in a half circle. Bill Holllster gavt orders. He turned to his saddle to Cam-eron Cam-eron on a tall gray. "I've got plans for the rest of us, Cash; what do you figure on doing yourself?" "Never mind me," said Cameron. "You boys can do what combing is left on the benches. I'll cut west to the rims and see how feed looks." "You riding alone?" Hollister demanded. de-manded. "No. The girl's going." BUI Hollister was foreman of the CC, but it seemed to Walt Gandy next moment that even so, " he worked with an unusually high hand on this place. "West" the lank man was saying, say-ing, "is toward the 77. What are you taking Helen for, Cash, and why that direction? You know well enough how the sink feed looks. If you're figuring ..." He cut himself short, compressed his mouth, and this CC foreman and the CC owner sat looking at each other eye to eye. Hollister said then: "Well, only on thing. We're all to meet back here not later than three." Cameron's white head nodded. He said nothing. Hollister continued directions "Fisher, you and the kid can take the north bench. Sand Canyon will be far enough. Remember, back here at three." Horsethief Fisher gave a wry grin. "Barrin" accidents," he said. "Gandy and I'll take south beyond Willow Spring," Holllster ended. "We all ought to get these strays cleaned up and shoved into the fink by noon. We might meet there, but no need to make a point of It" " Passing a vegetable patch to the right of the fenced lane he stared with open curiosity. In there the cook, Chino Drake, had been found dead. Hollister rode with his face held front The lane ended, and they turned into somber shadow of the pine slope, still following a fence that snaked an irregular way from trunk to trunk. They came upon a bucket of staples left beside a blazed tree, with a claw-hammer hooked into a lower strand of the barbed wire fencing. "That crazy Lavic!" Hollister exploded. ex-ploded. "No use mending fence out this far. Snow'll have it down again this winter." "Nuts is he?" Walt asked. VDon't you think it!" "I don't" iaid Gandy. Hollister looked across at him. "Queer though, Lavic is." A grin broke the gravity of his face. "I guess, Walt you've come to think we're all queer on the CC." He sobered. "We are. Queer. Worse than queer. Any man is who'll set himself to have one thing and let nothing else matter." "I'm all ears." said Gandy after a long silence. "This was to be your morning to talk. Maybe you can begin on the easy ones and lead up to the tougher propositions. Giva mm a line oa.this Jftpelhief, fisher,. He's a likeable cuss and all right,' I figure or isn't he?" "Sure."JIollister agreed. "Hofse-thief "Hofse-thief s aHrlght 'now. But he carna Into the5 country rustling C C' Stock. 'VeM'WWW'ff.ina-'TnW-Oialr bailed him out and made him go to work on the place. Cash is like that Horsethief has been on the C C (sver 'm'cCanii'uiat'' ' wa s fifteen 1 years ago. Cash took the kid, too, Paul Champion, when his old man died in a gunfight, put him through school and made him one of the family: He's a good boy, if his dad's gunning streak is held down. Then there's Bent Lavic." A coulee cut the bench top, and they put their horses slantwise down to the bottom, then up the other side. They jingled on across the flat. (TOlif. C.OSUM .' B ATTEDNITV 4 '"PHIS dress has a beautiful line slim-hipped, high-busted, exactly ex-actly the silhouette in which women's wom-en's sizes look best. And it's so simply designed! The bodice is fitted in with long darts above the waistline, and gathered Just beneath be-neath the shoulders, where narrow nar-row ruffles add a soft, dressy touch, without any suggestion of width or weight. The paneled skirt flows into graceful fullness at mwinimwiwi wim Jlsk Me Jlnother Q A General Quiz The Questions U Who delivered the famous orations first called philippics? 2. What is the longest verse in the Bible? The shortest? 3. For what people is Suomi another an-other name? 4. What is the slop chest on a merchant ship? 5. In how many states are women wom-en permitted to serve on juries? 8. What is the term for a person per-son who is always telling you his troubles and finds no pleasure in life? 7. In what country were Arabic numerals first used? The Answers 1. Demosthenes (his orations denouncing Philip of Macedon). 2. Longest, Esther 8:9. Shortest, Short-est, St. John 11:35. 3. Suomi is another name for the Finns. 4. The store of clothing, for issue is-sue to the crew. 5. In 24 states and the District of Columbia women are permitted to serve on juries. 6. The technical name is anhe-donist. anhe-donist. Commonly he is called a grouch. 7. 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