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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH . I rAR- EUea Carey. lIttS?nfhf.r,em,,nter' L. lerW B" mlc.Dy by ! i -atirnci - ;BAPTEB XXIV ... Z oackhorse back leu - . ineSl a 111C y h Jt McFaddin and r . r " e heel flies were KT.d. "Theoiner fcn. u - They acieu chasin- Edison stepped for ced the diamond .rel!a!rff the tarp. A lttP.ThsepreS- staring at ler.rSoclcde! rley. on K1 double- u k said killer," le killer." he read. to reprtI. fast" tad better "V 'ff "After Dews se two fellows must sus- V" McFaamn l aueh. "we on 1 Il,lvc Be'8 Here. mv --jpointment --jpointment with us, but couldn't help that Waters, as tne invu. . ,--1.J try thpir emselves, w - ind mounted. From the !y wound up through the a country oi ope" iai' hnmestpaders. The as too rocky and too hilly settlers. Presently xney bss a mouniam oyu .y would drop down aw a f i.iph(s. rock rims, and iipvs where at not too fre- Jervals a lew nesters and res held the fort unmoiesi-when unmoiesi-when Dosses from the les came hunting stock that fing. Is of ( On Ellison s list were i dozen men who lived rfion. Iraggled forward in no for- Ellison and Mci aaain in From a long, rocky slope Vie into a little mountain far from the summit Idin lifted a shout of warn-fchipped warn-fchipped up his rifle. Two appeared' on the rim and i ride down, but at sight of cnmDanv culled ud and One of them flung ud a protest as the Flying V C In cracked. The echoes of ; rolled across the valley, horse stumbled and flung then raced across the stone s flying wild. The man given the Indian npnrn led to his companion. It psi as mougn tne aismount-lad aismount-lad bounced back from the iso quicKiy was be on his I r3n fi four Starts ttlnnfl 4V, A I - " w..pa ajuug uic Ind vaulted to the back of Piured ' horse behind his piree or four Texans fired, uiu us uuuuie load e ran ana vanished. the cowboy's "Hi-yi-yippy. :Faddin brought his cow- I Canter and rnirsnort Tha flowed him. . torse, carrying two men, slog fast down the side of but was alrparlv j Buwnwg distress. got 'em!" vellpd MpP. fae on, boys." read was a littio I cabin on the edge of a man had appeared from driving a few oattlA tt isual ease, in t,,,. At the sound of the roar- 17 "nuus uis neaa, took in J. and instantly forgot S such n ,;'.. , . ,. - - ulu,s as leisure ile the fugitives ood two hundred yards Jumped his horse to a Vanished .. - j " raw. rh!;wm!n.flun8 themselves Zn"Je and ran 5 iem. Th. siammea ria- ine Dnrsuo. j . Frightened bthe , wrse of the mpn in vemrr:"?-e.rned h, 1UU0W we cow. The "':Hrea up the feh!.tributed the i 7 mem m or r ba which was over I he .t ura ffie hi u Station-j h. ::.aoJn the house. NbruTZ ".cross toe hter'.6 JWindnu,. -. I!" caDU- SwHspace, Uch the, , I 1083 01 the r" ' loopholes P S td a Tifle- P revolver ' 8rmed hnjtet!lfhand came out 'iingft., AV(ee called 'ofrjm. as gowned in 'ndb,LWlthawn, the sot let ,7 surrender?" INSTALLMENT TWELVE rnstlers bad been mysteriously killed. A lot of Texas ex-peace officers bavt been broutht In by the bit ranchers to kill off rustler. Terry objects and hit ranch Is offered for sale In- tmall parcels to small ranchers. Jeff ihowt Gaines asked. "Save us some time and trouble." "Let 'em surrender and then hang em?" McFaddin asked harshly. "No, by Jackson! I won't stand for that If we're going to hang 'em we'll have to dig 'em out." "We don't even know they are on our list," Collins said. "We know damn . well they are. They are the same scalawags who brought Turley's body back." The forted man with the rifle served notice he was not to be taken too lightly. He wounded in the arm a ranch foreman who exposed himself him-self rather carelessly. Ellison passed the word among his men not to take any unnecessary chances. A few moments later a bullet tore through the calf of one of the Texans. The men who had pursued the cowman returned after a time. On account of his long start they had failed to catch him. This was disturbing. dis-turbing. It meant that news of the invasion was bound to get out. The leaders held a consultation. "We can't fool away the rest of the day here,'' McFaddin said impatiently. im-patiently. "To heck with this siege stuff. I move we charge the cabin and wipe 'em out." "Losing three or four men!" Ellison Elli-son scoffed. "That would be dumb of us." Collins then made a suggestion. "You're both right What say Clint "We've got "em!" Yelled McFaddin. stays here with ten or twelve men and attends to this business while I take the rest and sweep the hill pockets? I can get back before dark." After some discussion the Antelope Ante-lope Creek man's plan was adopted. McFaddin said he would ride with Collins. There were some thieves in this district he had been wanting to get a crack at for a long time. "Be sure not to let yourselves get cut off from us," Ellison cautioned. cau-tioned. "And don't waste any time. We've got about four hours, I would guess. Five at the most By that time we'll have to be on our way. or we may not get out of here at all. Whatever happens, don't be tempted to swing too wide a loop. CHAPTER XXV Ellen was making up a post-office report that had to be sent to Wash ington when she saw a horseman emerge from a fissure in the hills and come down the long slope to the ranch at a gallop. He was flog ging his mount with a quirt Jim Budd was at the door, leaning against the jamb, resting from the exertion of having swept the floor, It was in his horoscope that he would go through life as easily as he could. "Seems to be a gen'elman in a hurry. Miss Ellen," Jim drawled. A faint unease stirred in her. Men did not usually ride like that except to carry bad news. The rider drew up in front of the post-office and flung himself from the horse. The man was Lee Hart He spoke to Ellen, who had come out to the porch. "Where's Lane?" he demanded. "Father is down with the men fencing a new pasture," Ellen answered. an-swered. "About three miles due west from here ... Do you have to see him?" Hart mopped his perspiring fore head with a bandanna handkerchief. "Never saw it fail!" he cried bitterly. bitter-ly. "Need a man and he ain't there." "What's wrong. Lee?" the girl wanted to know. "Wrong! Everything." The heavy-set, heavy-set, bowlegged man slammed his dusty old hat on the porch floor. "A bunch of wild Injuns is raidin' this country. They came bustin" down on my place with forty guns a-poppin'." "Indians?" the girl repeated in credulously. the killer's not to Ellen. She thinks K t Jack Turley t wrIUnf . Jeff confronts , who had posed as a rustler though really a spy for one of the bis ranch-wen. ranch-wen. Je kills Jack and sends the body to the chief of the bit ranchers. "Well, these "Texas warriors the Paper was telling about. They was vudwng iwo guys. I lit out lickety-split." lickety-split." 'Who were they chasing?" "I dunno. They're likelv wined out by now. They hadn't but one horse between them. When I took my last look they were making for my house to hole up." What do you want with father?" "Well, we got to SDread the news to everybody. I'm headin' fnr Round Top. Someone has got to ride up me Aiiord road and let the settlers there know. Tell 'em to meet here. Send the cook if you haven't got anybody else." No," Ellen said promntly. "I'm not going to get Jim mixed up in it." "Mixed up in it? You tellin' me yore black man is too good to work with us?" Hart snarled. I'm telling you it is none of his business." Hart fastened his eaze on two horsemen coming down the road at a slow trot. In his eagerness to tell the news to Jeff Brand he forgot his indignation. He bowlegged through the dust to meet the riders as they drew up at the hitching-post. hitching-post. Have you heard, Jeff? The big outfits have done brought a bunch of Texans here to run us outa the country. Paul Vallery told me this mo'ning. He got it from Lane Carey Car-ey who read it in the Denver Republican. Re-publican. Well, sir, I seen them comin' down the hill hell-for-leather and lit out just in time. They was chasin' two birds." Brand swung from the saddle to go forward to meet Ellen. "Chasing "Chas-ing who?" he asked over his shoulder. shoul-der. 'I dunno. Couldn't wait to find out. I burned the wind getting away from there." You don't know what became of the two men?" "They got into my house and fort ed up, but I reckon they couldn't hold out long. Must, of been a hundred hun-dred in that army." "Fifty-eight,"1 Brand corrected. "How do you know?" "We hid on a ridge and counted them," Morgan said. "A bunch' of warriors brought in to shoot down innocent men!" Hart cried angrily. We'll see about that I'm on my way to tell our friends at Round Top." "No need," Jeff said. "We've al ready sent a messenger. Better stay and gather a relief party to , ride over to your place. We'll need every man we can gei." I "When do you aim to go?" J "We've got to get off right quick if we're going to save the boys they have trapped. Say inside of an hour." "We can't get together seventy or eighty men that quick," Hart protested. pro-tested. "Don't need more than ten or a dozen. We'll lie In the rocks above and shoot down at them." "Not me," Hart answered promptly. prompt-ly. "I just got out with my skin, and I don't aim to try it again." Jeff looked at the man contemptuously. contemptu-ously. "Go hide under a bed, you louse." The pale blue eyes of Brand burned into the man. "But not till you've done your job. Ride up the Alford road and send down all the men you can find. After that you can go jump in a lake." Jeff turned away and joined Ellen on the porch. He grinned at her. "Well, sometimes a newspaper piece turns out to be true," he said. Morgan joined those on the porch. "I'd better ride Deep Creek and warn the folks up that way. From what Lee says looks like these fellows fel-lows are headed there." "Yes. Better rope one of the horses in the corraL" Jeff added casual information. "I'm going to Lee's place to see what has happened hap-pened to the two trapped in his house Maybe I can make a diversion di-version from the rocks that will help them." "Must you, Jeff?" asked Ellen in a low voice. He nodded. "Can't desert two of our men without trying to help them." His manner was cheerful and nonchalant "Dave has picked the tough job. He's liable to meet a bunch of these Texans any turn of the road. But someone has to warn our friends." "I suppose so. But you don't have to go and attack fifty men, do you?" Brand's gaze followed Morgan as that young man swung on his horse to ride to the corral "He'll do it, too, if they don't get him first That guy will do to ride the river with." His attention came back to what the girl had said. "I don't see what you can do alone." Can't tell till 1 get there. Soon as a bunch of the boys roU in tell them to hop over to Lee s place usi as their broncs will bring them." She watched him. always spectac ular, fling himsel4 into the saddle .;kn tnnrhinir the horse. He waved his big white hat in farewell as he rode away. (TO BE C0T1M ED) Kathleen Norris Says: The Stepmother Problem Still Exists (Bell 8yndlcatt WNU Service.) Diana $ mother lets her do anything she liken; go out with boys; use makeup; make-up; drink a cocktail now and then and smoke. The girl buys extravagant clothes and wastes the allowance her grandmother gives her. - By KATHLEEN NORRIS IN THESE days of easy divorces, di-vorces, when so many otherwise sensible men and women are convinced that the kindest thing which can be done for children is to break up homes and substitute substi-tute strangers for Daddy and Mummy, there is a heavy crop of stepmothers. The stepmother used to come into the picture only when the mother died. The motherless or fatherless child in those days was always heartily pitied. The term "cruel stepmother was pro verbial. To say "stepmother" at all was almost to say "un just." Well, that is changed now, UianK God. The little writhing hands of First Reader classes are not struck with rulers, in school; babies' mouths are not washed out with yellow soap; boys are not flogged, thrashed, caned; the rod and the whip are not terms used in general conversation. The Problem StiU Exists. But that doesn't mean there isn't a stepmother problem, and Aimee, a 24-year-old Virginia wife, writes me of hers. "Lloyd and I fell in love with each other while I was working in his office," she writes. "He is 19 year? older than I am. In every way He seems to me today only more wonderful won-derful than he used to seem in those old days; handsome, devoted, clev er, popular, and able to give me the beautiful home of which all girls dream. "Lloyd's wife and he had been living apart for months before he asked her for a divorce. She is a very rich woman, travels from Palm Beach to Coronado, from Hawaii to Newport; he had had no home life and no affection from her for years. "She did not object to the divorce, and Bgreed that Diana, their daughter, daugh-ter, should be with us in the school months and go to her mother in the summer. However. Sally's travels and visits have been such that she has had Diana only for seven weeks out of the 15 months we have been married. This delights Lloyd, who adores his daughter. Di is now 14, a poor scholar, but a very handsome, hand-some, developed girl, precocious in her tastes. "Her mother lets her do anything she likes, go about with boys, use make-up, drink a cocktail now and then, smoke. She buys extravagant extrava-gant and unsuitable clothes and wastes the allowance ber mother's mother gives her. When she is with us of course Diana expects to do the same. I know she lies to her father; I know she is going to get herself into trouble, but I am helpless. help-less. "Lloyd merely asks me to give the kid a break, and Diana glares at me Her other grandmother wants her. and Lloyd would consent con-sent to this arrangement because he lunches downtown every day in his mother's apartment, but what sort of a life would that be for a girl that agC A sophisticated, worldly, bridge-playing woman who is 68 and looks about 50. a daily governess or companion to take Di about and help her with lessons, no control at all. and the feeling that she has tri-.mphedover tri-.mphedover ber father and me and SPOILED DARLING From the depths of her frightened and aching heart this stepmother cries out to Miss Norris for aid in solving a problem only too common in this modern world. Marrying Marry-ing a man nearly a score of years her senior, she confidently confi-dently undertook to squeeze in his daughter's affections, to complete a happy triangle. The daughter, at 14 years, developed de-veloped beyond her years, beautiful and with money flotving to her liberally, takes the natural path of youth with all those advantages. Parties, cocktails and make-up become almost daily diversions for this young girl. She flirts with romantic dangers while her stepmother looks on helplessly. helpless-ly. The husband senses discord dis-cord and their relations become be-come strained. Kathleen Norris Nor-ris absorbs the details of the situation and answers the troubled trou-bled wife in a manner most surprising, probably, to the wife, and with great interest to readers having a similar problem. escaped from home influences. "This is far from what I planned when first I thought of marrying Lloyd, and making a harmonious, happy home for him and his little girt. Relationship Strained. "It seems to me now that we are all in a mess, and for the first time I feel a nervous and critical element ele-ment in the relationship between my husband and myself. Diana was a quiet, sweet, shy little girl when first I met her. Can you supply sup-ply me with some argument that will convince him that I am the best person to handle his child, and that eventually we can work it out here?" But my dear Aimee, I am obliged to say in reply, I am far from convinced con-vinced you are the best person to handle the situation, even if you had decent material with which to deal, which you obviously have not Diana Di-ana is evidently a girl who grew too rapidly from childhood into maturity. ma-turity. She ought to have a smooth-running smooth-running home at this time, and the affectionate, not-too-pressing help and companionship of both father and mother. Instead she finds an attractive new wife absorbing her father's love, and her mother wandering about from place to place to find amusement for herself, quite unconcerned un-concerned as to the welfare of her child. The two grandmothers and the aunts and uncles are doing their share to demoralize her. and the fact that there is enough money on afl sides to make constant experiments experi-ments and changes possible, adds the last element to her mental and moral upset My advice would be for you to discipline yourself sternly stern-ly to keep hands off. If she will go to the worldly grandmother, let her go by all means. She won't like it there; the company of an old person is infinitely in-finitely boring to a girl that age: she won't like the clothes her grandmother grand-mother suggests, nor the amusements, amuse-ments, nor the constant tiresomi repetitive talk of an old lady. Keep friendly with all. and we! come Diana when she drops in. Congressmen's Photos Dr. George W.' 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