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Show THE LEIH SUN, LE1II, UTAH 01 By EUGENE CUNNINGHAM L EU6EN6 CUNNINGHAM W.N-U. R.CLtASE -ART VJ 11 slons Into Cob Cameron and murderer tha town oi rlUvel L Welsh J Frott If i-. ".flntial evidence L Ml "ilTmTrihal, NevU towe, fttCwtatConUt,. n. wnea tm Dl.rrdma AM Brock, 'gam i big! this iiirtj. each Hi itei 'INI tri It lima iuste en up JOB Bantu' marshal l called rr;. con Of Wild "El Mo- now j"c" .h. ir.i.nt neither Upperman K WUd Horse a-d hav. V.ar, Identify him. . .. L Ul W So Con ana Hrr,IerAUmon.J1nowT to the ground !.ltl. the story. eontlnM i CHAPTER VI .. koiiiea in the ditch. KESse was in the corral featm 7, n had heard NevU Ke K bought there. fc Corral gate's locked. l i Saddle-shed door. Our bara-Pe, bara-Pe, S wked case in Lowe's an Si blanketed the sky, but oc-ZL oc-ZL the moon showed for a ZlZ in such an interval ale lilfi'. Be' T T courthouse ana cot- Q coming their way. Ac iwwwi ...... .--.lino th lied Dy luriuuB dic".o j ditch and cot- Ijlip B0Veu , es pic: it to til rushes L me edge o the ditch above Con some oi me meu ua- it ihowed the grim busi- ftiirtr rards from Con and Jeff; shanei of horses under the L tees; movement of the men kide them. Two men came ai me t from somewhere behind the . Con stiffened automatical-JOvtr!" automatical-JOvtr!" one of the men panted. t couldn't find them leiiows lratown M-over," Jeff grunted. "We be M ickyiis!; Ar i ifmoott sturtanK less, hign-suchtt IT Ora such! if wmffli res yingsyw; itlons.IF6' rerbJ 4 sent wideeCl Re pair broke into a run and indicated a door standing open, hjupon t darK room, iie iea cjj inside and Con heard rum then the click that was to be familiar, of a lock ,e on!" Jeff commanded. yen hardware!",, and surely to their horses, and saddle. ai petly, they walked the fit mj and past the farthest fceiilivan. Then at the mile- rfnghard trot, Jeff led the way through north. dawn, Jeff looked familiarly M and called it more than b miles to Tivan about twen- ouse ahead a li'l' ways. Across The man's all right p of Dud Paramore's. We can to. Rest, too, if you're galled." aour later, they came to . a t adobe house on a hillside. Mi PiSS. a COUDle nf pmint savage hounds, moved about ard, Under a ramada an nnpn. I brush-roofed shelter a good In the doorwav twn H solemn youngsters stood with mouttis. black eves wiHe ft Mexican amjeared hphinrt right hand. Pnn nK. K was not in view. But whpn we Dud Paramore's name, he mt In!" he said. w house." , EfiJ 8te beef and beans F Dy his smilinff u. 4.,,.. . f'Underst00d most e Kep.acewa too fast for translated swiftly H and his bunch had a fieht "The house j. wM uau a uEni k aga i at the Heart Ranch. Z taura holed ' "P. DnStA6!6' ?e w with i --.u uue oi -em p, fCree from the Slh n u v. em peeler tedanowsed while u w see a tThal 5 "si. ttttepltiyoiPamore's ores posse- had got mil 4 ktlre noon. 'th.fl:rv'aoz?nni entlTwJLloot- N here, Pastthe little traU Action, .!e?z giving de- ij. U J PIT C . ,!n4lSS ,Uver th the asjefehehad as Tjalf1? a. con- Whe h!lthout being S?e would i ? c!lci0usness a L could be T T Was r h ore. tosked by . ' fieenm. ... a . ""g oi d made M 7f Jeff talked ramblingly of past, present and future. eating the food Perez had given them, Jeff talked ramblingly, always al-ways cheerfully, of past and present and possible future. Listening, Con added touches to the picture already formed, of his odd, lawless cowboy and wondered. They rode put of the valley next morning across a ridge and down-slope down-slope toward another spur of the Lobos. On a dim cross-trail three Mexicans traveled with a train of burros lightly burdened. They had been to Tonadura to sell mesquite roots and were going home, still fifteen miles distant. Con rode on, but Jeff stayed talking. talk-ing. When he came at the gallop to rejoin Con, he was roaring with amusement, carrying his hat, which jingled as he shook it "Fourteen dollars!" he gasped. "Was they took back when I put old Colonel Colt to gaping at 'em! I left 'em a dollar apiece so's they can buy drinks and forget trouble." "Wait a minute!" Con cried. "You mean you robbed those poor, hard-working devils?" "Let 'em grub some more mesquite!" mes-quite!" Jeff said cheerfully. "It's good, healthy work. This ain't much, but every dollar of it's round and will roll Ne' mind how you get it if you get it!" Con looked at the Mexicans fifty yards away. One sat upon the groundwith .heads . in , hands, the very image of utter despair. Jeff was serenely dividing the silver. He recalled what Martino Palafox had said of him, that if be were crossed he was dangerous. He thought he had best try persuasion first "This is certainly going to make you out the New Jesse James, to Dud's forty-five calibre crowd," he drawled. "Dud'll ask you what you've been doing. You'll says Why, we just stuck up three great big, fierce mesquite grubbers, and looky what we got fourteen real dollars!" He shook his head as Jeff stared uncertainly, kneed Pancho over and took the hat Pancho jumped into the gallop and the Mexicans looked up as he charged down at them. "No tengo mucho Espanol!" he said, smiling at them. "I don't have much Spanish. But my friend make joke with this money. Here! You take. Good, now?" The man who was still holding his head hopelessly looked up incredulously. incredu-lously. Then he ran to Con's stirrup, stir-rup, waving his hands and fairly spluttering. A younger Mexican grinned at Con. "He say got sick wife got hunger very much need hard work money this. Bad if other man take one time he kill him. Now muy bien! He good friend for you make help sometime " They were still shouting thanks and goodbyes and waving when he and Jeff rode over the next ridge. Con looked expectantly at his companion, com-panion, but Jeff seemed to have forgotten for-gotten the matter. But when Con began practice of the quick draw, he watched critically. "Por dios!" Jeff said at last. "You're plenty smooth and speedy. How-come you never slapped leather with Quirk Ellis or them marshals in Wild Horse?" "Scared to," Con told him solemnly. sol-emnly. "They might be faster. Then where would I be? No . . I haven't got the slightest itch to be a gun-fighter, gun-fighter, or collect notches. But in a hard-case country, I'm going to be able to hold my own. When I was no more than knee-high to a short Winchester, I knew where my uncle kept his hogleg. I used to sneak it out and practice. But he caught me, when I was about seventeen. And he showed me a handful of things; ways of cutting splits of seconds off the draw. He mustn've been hell on wheels, before he settled down." They came in early afternoon to a log cabin on the bank of a swift shallow creek, where five men played cards at the door. A lanky, yellow-haired cowboy on the log doorstep grinned at them. The others turned to look them over. Con understood that their coming had been expected. "Close squeak you had." the lanky cowboy said as to old acquaintances. acquaint-ances. "Bet you heard hell gates a-flapping when the stranglers dragged out that illegitimate, Fant "It was too close," Jeff admitted. swinging off. 'And when you trot clear, vnn knowed there was just one safe place for you-all: with the only bunch that Johnny Laws ain't going to bother." Dud Paramore went on. He had a high, almost sinesons. drawl, and his mechanical grin matched Jeff Allmon's. "So you come hunting me, huh?" "You certainly got 'em eating out of your paw, Dud," Jeff told him admiringly. "I been telling Con. here, about your outfit and how it was the only one to ride the Terri tory with. So I pulled out of Fron-teras. Fron-teras. All right for us to come here?" 'What you mean is all right for you-all to stay," Dud corrected him. "Hadn't been all right to come, you-all would be biting daisies down the line right now." Dud gestured toward the other men: "Most of the main bunch. Big Yager, that helped me rub out the sheriff and clerk at Tonadura." The huge, stolid cowboy indicated grinned and jerked a thumb toward slender Mexican whose short- chinned, fiat-nosed face and beady eyes gave him a reptilian look. "I reckon it was me and you poured the buckshot to 'em, Dud," he said in slow, husky voice. "But 'twas Snaky Gonzales that run out from behind ' the wall after we dropped 'em, to see what kind of fees they'd been collecting. I still think he held out on us. Hey, Snaky?" . Gonzales snarled. Then something about Con's expression seemed to infuriate him. He came to his feet with a wriggle, hand dropping to the pearl hilt of a dagger on his belt "Mabbe you don't like hah?" he cried. "You look by me and make face nose turn-up, hah? Me, I don't like your look. Mabbe I give you something nice knife by your neck, hah?" "Ah, Con's all right!" Jeff said hastily, with a quick side-glance at the grinning Dud, who was looking from man to man. "It's just a way he's got of looking at everybody. He ain't turning up his nose at nobody-" ::' "Keep out Jeff," Dud drawled. "Every man kills his own snakes in the Paramore Bunch. If Con ain't man enough to hold his own, hell with him!". "Kill him, Con!" Jeff snapped. "No fooling with fists" Gonzales darted in, cat-quick, shifted feet flashingly so that he swerved right then left, stooped with the dagger held against his shirt point out Con had only lifted on his toes. He twisted, even faster than the knifeman had done, to hook a terrific right to Gonzales' unprotected jaw just below the ear. Gonzales' feet snapped from the ground. He seemed to hang bodily from Con's fist for the fraction of a second, then dropped sideways to the pine needles and sprawled motionless. mo-tionless. Con took one step forward and stamped upon the thin blade of the dagger. Dud Paramore continued contin-ued to grin mechanically. Then Big Yager slapped his leg resoundingly and whooped. "Snaky forgot to ask Con could he please cut his heart out!" he cried, and Dud's grin widened slightly. ; Gonzales moved jerkily, groaning. Con slid a hand to his Colt and watched coldly. The Mexican pushed himself up to sitting position and blinked stupidly around. Suddenly, he scrambled up with loud slap of hand on empty scabbard. "Gonzales!" Con called sharply. "Mira! Look! It would have been more easy to kill you than to knock you down. But I let you live that time. If you look at me again and touch knife or gun" He half-drew the pistol from his holster and Dud Paramore's singsong sing-song drawl cut in: "Snaky! No mas! No more!" Paramore announced, "We'll hit can Marcos tonight Big baile there. Lots of liquor. Lots of pretty gals to dance around. Paramore bunch owns Marcos." "He's what I said," Jeff muttered. Plain hell on wheels!" (TO BE COSTISVED) Kathleen Norris Says: Most Divorces Are Failures (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) " IT ISN'T FAIR Divorce is bad enough when there are no children to be considered. But it simply isn't fair, says Kathleen Norris, to deprive a child of the normal home life he needs just because be-cause things may not be running run-ning as smoothly at the moment mo-ment as you want them to. Successful marriage has always al-ways been based on willing compromise and adjustment, and parents must think of their children as well as themselves them-selves when they consider divorce. di-vorce. A child's happiness is too big a price to pay for a little self-indulgence. I was ghd to come home from Mexico, but I faced great unpleasantness be tween my parents. Mother wanted to place me in a school that cost almost twice the one hundred dollars a month that my father was paying for me. By KATHLEEN NORRIS "TT THAT can I say to my f mother that will make her stop knock ing my dad?" asks Susan, who lives in St. Paul. "Moth er and Dad were divorced six years ago, when l was iu. When she first told me that she was leaving my father and going to marry a man I will call Sam, Mother said that she still loved Dad, that we were often going to see him; it was only that she loved Sam more. "However, complications arose. For a few months I was left with my father and his sister, my Aunt Ann. Aunt Ann has two children about my age and I Was very happy there. Then Mother and Sam came home, and great was my excitement because they were going to take me to Mexico with them. We stayed a year, and during that time my mother became so angry when I spoke of Aunt Ann, or of my cousins, that I stopped mentioning them. "About that time it seems Aunt Ann and my father sold some furniture furni-ture and some books that Mother thought were rightfully hers, and that began it. After that she entertained enter-tained all her friends with long accounts ac-counts of my father's and my aunt's peculiarities. 'No Smith was ever honest That's the Smith temper coming com-ing out in her. Nobody knows how cruel John Smith can be. Nobody knows what I went through. My doc tor told me it was divorce or insanity. in-sanity. I think John wasn't quite right in his head.' Faced Unpleasantness. "I was lonesome in Mexico and glad to come home, but when we did get home it was to face great unpleasantness between my father and mother. Father was paying $100 a month for me, but the school in which Mother wanted to place me cost almost twice that excluding extras, and she tried to get a court order for a larger allowance. "My father's home is ten miles out of town and quite near the school, so I could live with him, but Mother won't hear of it She told my dearest dear-est friend that my father was so close with money that nobody could get along with him, and that cost me a scene with my mother and a crying spell. "Don't you think that when a man and a woman decide on a divorce the least they can do is to spare their children from taking sides? Incidentally rtiy mother and her husband hus-band now quarrel a great deal; he is 34 and she ,is 37; they go out almost al-most every eyening and often for week-ends, and leave me u Homework Home-work and the radio. That is why Mother wants me to go away to school. I know"; I will never be divorced, di-vorced, for no iiatter what my husband hus-band did I would forgive him, but if ever I did you may be sure that my children will never hetr me saying say-ing anything of their father that is not kind and generous." Susan Protects Mother. The injustice of a . case like Susan's is thi: she is reluctant to hurt her mother, to leave her mother's moth-er's bouse and perhaps expose her to criticism or blame among her friends. Susan doesn't want to give any one a chance to say that she was unhappy with her mother. Otherwise Oth-erwise she could go to her father, attend at-tend the desirable JschooL build a new life for herself, as bis closest companion and housekeeper. Susan, in other words, is treating with generosity and kindness the mother who has never shown her toe slightest consideration. Instead of repaying that mother in her own coin, -:; Susan is-protecting 'her.-' I know that if I suggested to Susan that by quietly moving to her father's fa-ther's home and bidding her mother an affectionate farewell she would be doing the fairest thing possible, she wouldn't pay the slightest attention. at-tention. Her mother has hurt her in every way; robbed her of her father and her home; put a strange young man in that father's place, refused to let Susan's own father offer any solution to the school problem, and neglected Susan for days at a time. What I do suggest therefore, is a compromise. I suggest that Susan have a talk with her father and ask him to pay her expenses as a boarder board-er at the extravagant school for the next half-term. From school let her spend as many holidays as she can with her father, and after the half-term quietly move to his house. A Common Tragedy. But how can mothers so completely complete-ly overlook the welfare of their children, chil-dren, and sacrifice their lives so cheerfully? It is going on all the time, everywhere, this disruption of homes and demoralization of girls and boys. If marriages are childless, child-less, that is one thing, and divorce, however regrettable, is not quite the same sort of tragedy. But when there are children to love and build for and establish in normal attitudes toward the serious business of living, then it is simply extraordinary that so many good women can convince con-vince themselves that it is "really better for all concerned" to break up the right and natural relationship. relation-ship. Some years ago I was passing the doorway of a hospital room when an extremely pretty woman, married exactly 17 months, called to me to come in and see her. While congratulating con-gratulating her upon the arrival of a fine baby boy I spoke of the father's pride in the new arrival. "Oh, George," she said, smiling and flushing, "I don't believe he'll come to see him. You see, we're getting get-ting a divorce, and he said he was afraid he'd grow fond of him. He loves children." And seeing my consternation she added pleasantly, "No one could live with George, of course! He's actually out of ais head most of the time." She married again in a few months; the new husband, it seems, is so rigid a disciplinarian that before be-fore the first child of this second marriage wai born, the wife was obliged to see her smali son disgraced dis-graced and punished in a way that would have done credit to Mr. Murdstone himself. Her new mate was angry when his own child turned out to be a daughter,' and presently the little stepson was sent to boarding school, was taken ffl, went to bis adoring grandmother and so got back into bis father's hands. And the much - criticized George has proved to be an excellent excel-lent father. 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