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Show Thursday. July 28, 1932 THE word but listened to him dig bit What grave with his tongue. tickled him so much was that he'd riled her so that she'd shot at blm an' he'd pretended to fall from bis horse over a cugway like be was dead. I asked him what he'd said to make her so mad. He'd told her be was comin' up to the ranch to see her 111 sister." The Texan stopped. lie looked out of the open door at a freight outfit coming down the dusty street The mule skinner was using raucous and explosive language. Dave Stone did not see him except Another automatically. picture filled his vision. "The Glfford woman shot at him an' nilsed," the sheriff prompted. "Like I done told you. I said to him, 'You don't really figure on go ing back up to the sheep ranch aft er what you've done? lie comes back at me right quick, that he sure did. I taken a band there an' then. I said he bad another guess comln', that I wouldn't stand for It He got mad an' wanted to know what business it was of mine. Then he began to lay the blame on what had happened on that 11 1 girl lying la her grave out In California. 1 told him what he was an' gave him first chance to draw. His gun was In the open when I killed him. It was me or him an' I beat him to It" "Jas Stark and Gltner didn't know you did It?" "No. I couldn't prove It was a fair fight, so I rode back Into the chaparral when I beard them comln. Pretty soon I showed up an' they began to tell me how Miss Ann them had shot McArdle. I'd how It was but I saw Jas was all for husbln It up that she'd killed him, so I Jus' told the boys I didn't believe she'd done It an' let it go BEGINNING THE STORY Wilson McCann, young Arlsona ranchman, finds an old frtand, Jim Yerby, with a broken leg-- Julia Stark, daughter of Matthew Stark, Inveterate enemy of the McCanne, la with him. Jasper Stark, Julia's- brother, attempts to kill Wilson. Ann Glfford, with her young- sister, Ethel, Is sheep ranching: and on that account unpopular with the cattlemen. "Night riders-- ' shoot a McCann ranch band. Peter McCann, Wilson's father, offers a reward for the disclosure - of tbetr Identity. Wilson McCann horsewhips Jasper, he making- practically no resistance. Matthew Stark posts notice he will kill Wilson on sight. Ann Gilford's tragedy Is the fate of her dead sister, Nora, betrayed and abandoned by her lover. Jasper Stark and Carl Gltner, known as a "killer," bold sinister secret conferences. A Stark rider, Tom McArdle, Is believed by the 8tarka to have been killed by the McCanns, but rumor links bis name with that of Nora Gilford. Matthew Stark Is killed, from ambush. Julia finds him dead, with Wilson McCann stooping over him. She and Phil, her younger brother, accuse bim of the killing, despite his vehement denial. Wilson Is shot from the cbapparal, while standing over Stark's body. Believing blm dying, Julia and her brother have blm 'taken to the Stark home. Dave Stone, Stark rider, a Texan with a record as a "killer," doubts Wilson's guilt, and Investigates. Jasper Is disinherited by bis fathers will. With Phil, Julia visits Ann Glfford and Ethel. Ann. In her misery at life'a injustice. Is distinctly unfriendly. Jasper Stark, despite the girl's aversion, seeks to persuade Ethel Glfford to marry blm, holding over her the threat of revealing Ann as the slayer of Tom McArdle. Ann drives him from the ranch. Later she admits to Ethel that she killed McArdle, Nora's betrayer. Wilson McCann makes a complete recovery. No action aa to Matthew Stark's killing Is taken. An anonymous letter to the sheriff charges Ann Glfford with McArdle's murder. . TIMES-NEW- Jumped so eagerly at Cltner's sug gestion. But he quaked like the coward he was at thought of what the little man knew. The terror of It walked with hint day and night Stone was dangerous, a ruthless tool of Nemesis dogging his footsteps to destroy htm. He had fol lowed Cltner's logic, that the only safety for them lay la putting an end to the man. Now a way had opened, without danger, with no possible comeback. If Mesa rose up and lynched the murderer of Tom McArdle be could not be blamed In any way. "Let's go to town, Carl," he proposed. "We gotta find Just bow things lay." "Reckon 111 go back with you, boys," Bud said. The three rode there together. They dismounted In front of Pedro's place. Gltner led the way to the bar. "Free drinks on me today, boys. Everybody welcome. Set 'em up, Pedro." The process of working up public sentiment for a lynching hud the Gilt Edge saloon to get a bottle e. black-mustach- n' self-respe- self-relian- gray-haire- eeeeeee d f Every price buys Goodyear quality a lifetime guaranteed Supertwist Cord tire marked with the Goodyear house flag and Goodyear name. Look them over, and ask yourself: "Why buy tire when FIRST-CHOIC- E any second-choic- e costs no more?" Ann Rides to Mesa. TOWN with a pack horse for supplies, Jim Yerby stopped at lady-killer- -- costs no more. IN A If p best tire, regardless of price, is a Don't take our word for it Take the public's. The public says Goodyears are best by a lead of 2 to 1 over any other tire. And here are prices that prove that the best THE CHAPTER IX of snake-bit- e medicine. The old- timer admitted that he never bad been struck by a rattler but you never could tell when your luck would turn bad. He took the cure In advance to forestall the evil day. While Yerby talked to the bar tender bis quick beady eyes darted round the room on voyages of dis covery. Something was In the air. something that caused unwonted The patrons of the at that" excitement The sheriff reflected. "I'll have place were gathered together In to lock you up, Dave." knots, and at the heart of each "Sure. But I've told you the group a man was talking in a low ' CHAPTER VIII Continued with a sigh of relief, the official straight of It Would you mind urgent voice. Jasper Stark was closed the heavy volume. one of the murmuring orators. Anh -1- 1other was Carl Gltner. 'Anything new, Dave?" he asked, "I don't know," Phil answered. "But what worries me Is that the relaxing. The bartender took Yerby's "Not a thing with me. Hear She story Is liable to be true. money for the bottle of liquor he McIn a new the trail It She's thataway." you've hit might bought but pushed back the quarter Out of the night came the Tex- Ardle case." proffered for the drink. "Looks thataway. Some of you an's low drawl. "You needn't to "It's on some of the boys today," Circle Cross boys tipped me off that worry none, boy. She didn't do he explained. "You think she didn't Phil the Gifford girl was seen makln' a "A 111 celebratin'?" asked the turned with relief to Stone. getaway from the place where Tom nester with lifted eyebrows. "I don't think. I know." was shot I went out to see her T reckon the celebratin' will be Julia turned white. "You don't about It She acted mighty funny." the man In the apron said later," mean that Jas did It?" "How?" significantly. 111 "No." "Oh, kinda defiant The "But you know who did?" Yerby sauntered to the outskirts broke down an' cried. I couldn't of the nearest group. It was the "I sure do." a either." outa her, get thing one In the center of which Jasper "And you'll tell?" "So you reckon Miss Ann did It?" Stark sawed the air. I was tryin' to "Yes, ma'am. "Wouldn't It look that way? Elileld him, for Tom AcArdie cer- Tom McArdle had made his brags "You say he was our friend when be did it," Jasper was repeating, in tainly needed klllln'. But now that about the other sister. That was Miss Gifford's name has been known. She'd warned him off the a voice dry as a whisper. "Leave brought into it I reckon he'll have place, Ann had. Say they meet by it lay at that Say he was. So to stand the gaff." chance an quarrel. She's got a was Tom. But that ain't the point Both of the young Starks wanted temper. Well, say It ripped loose I wouldn't make no holler if he'd to ask him who had done it More an' she shot him." plugged Tom fair an' square in the than once the question almost open. No, gents. I'd go through "Looks reasonable. Only trouble from h 1 to breakfast for him, passed Julia's lips. But there was is, it ain't true." You're d n whistling I would. If something In the little man's man "Think she didn't do it?" ner that restrained her. If be wantAnd again Stone gave the answer "I Reckon the Celebratin Will Be It had thataway. Which It ed her to know he would tell her. he had given Phil. "I ain't think-in- ', the Man In the Apron wasn't Like I been tellin you, this Later," "Well, I'm glad Ann Glfford didn't Texas killer an' Tom had quar I know." Said Significantly. do it," she said. "The poor girl's reled. Stone told Carl an' he told The sheriff lost his manner of sen din' some one out to the Glfford me that he would sure get Tom had enough trouble. If she wasn't casual ease. so stiff with me if she'd only meet "Did you say you knew? How place to tell the young ladies that When we saw the Gifford woman it's all right far as they're con- lighting out so sudden we figured tiaB a quarter of the way I'd ride do you know?" cerned?" over tomorrow and see her, just to "Saw him do it" naturally that she'd done It All "I'll send some one soon as I the same, both Carl an' I thought "Who?" show her we believe in her." can." "I'm allowln' to tell you who Stone acted mighty funny when he "I'd do that anyway," the Texan "Better Jus' put It that we quar- came outa the brush an' found us said. "It would be right kind of presently." She sure needs a woman "Hmp I" The sheriff looked at reled an' I killed him. No use wor beside Tom's body. He" played like you. not resentment ry In' them with what I told you. I he was surprised, an' It didn't get without friend. Old Jim Yerby Is about the him, "You've waited three months to tell wanted you to know the facts, but acrost to us. We susplcioned some only one she neighbors with "Will you go with me?" Julia me. Reckon I can wait another five there's no need of spreading 'em how he knew more'n he said." broadcast" asked Stone. "You used to know minutes." Yerby knew the crowd had been The sheriff assented. her." "Sure. Fact is, I didn't aim to drinking. He had met before the A line the footgrub puncher riding "I'll go with yon If I'm tell you But when I found lust to kill that makes a mob cruel passed the Circle Cross and stopped and inhuman. For some reason, he loose," he promised, rather eva- out there was talk about Miss Ann at the bunkhouse. saw at once, young Stark was wort sively. why, tha's different Might as well "I would of liked to home, ing up the men of Mesa to an act She laughed. "I believe you're begin at the start I usta hang afraid to go." around the sheep ranch some my but I reckon I'll kick In here to- of summary vengeance. "Tha's no josh, Miss Julia. Ladles own self. Knew old Glfford when night," he told himself plaintively. "Hold yore hawsses, Jas. I'd like he lived at Santone, so I drifted in " Jasper came to the doorway. right well to hear Stone's story be scare me." I 'Lo, Bud Light an' look at yore fore you get rampageous. He's a "Some ladies," she corrected. "I oncet in a while to advise Miss Ann. I got kinda suspicious of Mc- saddle," he Invited. I reckon. Leastways he's notice I don't scare you any." The rider came Into ""the bunk-bous- killer,that Snatches of thought began to Ardle. He was one of these got rep. But he don't look to seatin drifted and Gitner me like one of the kind that shoots good lookin' race in the girl's brain. Usually ed himself at the table. 'when a man was afraid of a wom- an' glib with his tongue. Nora was new in town?" he asked. "Anything you whilst he's shakln' hands with 111 lady an' I could No sense In going off half you. an, unless he was her husband and a mighty nice "Why no, I reckon not. Except cocked." had given offense to her, It was be- see she had took a great fancy to about Dave Stone." cause he was attracted to her. him. What I was worried about "What's eatin' you, Yerby? This "What about him?" was she'd that but that him, In Texan marry be this Stone has confessed he did it, Jas Why shouldn't Both of the cowpuncher's hosts If I'd love with Ann Glfford? She guessed wasn't what happened. per interrupted rudely. become he had but Intent, Instantly McI known what knew later, that "Has he confessed he shot Tom his age about forty, and in a man Ardle had a wife living at Prescott, failed to notice it. from the brush?" that Is still young. kill-ibeen he's for arrested "Why, well I'd sure have sat in an' took The sly and shifty eyes of the He had walked dangerous trails, a hand." Tom McArdle. He rode In torumors if dreadful confessed to nank Le Page younger man met those of the old things had done an' day Le Page nodded. The Texan that be done slid away, "Not neces were true. But Bhe knew Instincit They had some timer and looked away and blew kind of a row an' he plugged sary. The facts show it Carl an' tively that there still burned In him smoke wreaths. dreamily Presently he took Tom." I were the first folks on the that dynamic spark of his story. which Justified him to himself. He up again drove a clenched fist down ground. Tom hadn't fired a shot Jasper "After Miss Ann came back from on the table. "He's lyin', to get The coward that shot him never had his standards, and he played the game by them. She had no Los Angeles she wouldn't have any that Glfford girl out of It Why, gave him a chance." you tell that to a jury more doubt of this than she had of us around. On top of the trouble he couldn't it We prac- "When some about her sister durn fools "We aimin to tell it to no ain't as no man Gltner had a such that caught her." had killed a bunch of her sheep. tically Jury. We ain't allowln' to let some standards. met The of Gltner of those eyes Ann Gifford needed some one to So she jus' swept us all out Tom Stark. A sly and furtive cunning slick lawyer talk him off. Not none. been rldin' In to Tucson to see filled take from her shoulder the heavy had them. The germ of an idea This town alms to see Justice done. burden life had laid upon them. Ethel while she was at school an' was filtering into that brutalized to show these bad men who come in an' kill our citizens that we Stone was such a man, strong, he tried goln' to the ranch. Wish brain. t. won't stand for It a minute." He was danger- I'd been there when he showed up, Jas. "I he could. quiet, dunno, Maybe a little man The ous to his foes, but It came to Julia but I wasn't Anyhow, Miss Ann There was somethln' funny about with a flash of clairvoyance that gave him the gate. For that mat- the way he looked when he come rubbed his unshaven chin and tried the very qualities that bad made ter, the li'l sister was plumb outa that manzanlta gulch, come to again. "Boys, It's a mighty serious his name notorious would be a sure through with him when she found think of It He didn't really act business to make a mistake an' out what he'd done." protection to a woman like Ann. surprised when he saw Tom lyin take a man's life without giving "You're makin' a long story of there, ne played like he was, him a show to tell the courts his seems to me. O' course If he way story." Stone rode up to the office of it Dave." A big hook-nose"I'm coming to business now. laid Tom from the brush " man, the worse Hank Le Page, sheriff, swung from laughed savagely. ilie saddle, and dropped the bridle The mornln Tom was killed four Jasper started. The idea and its for liquor, of us from the Circle Cross had a possibilities had come home to "You're right it's serious. Dave .reins. Le Page looked up from the led- camp near the foot of Round Top. blm. If it could be made to ap Stone's liable to find that out Jas This fellow had ought ger In which he was laboriously en- There was Tom an' Jas an' Gltner pear that Stone had shot Tom Mc is c'rect We separated to pick Ardle without giving him a chance to be strung up to a telegraph pole. tering some Items of expense. " 'Lo, an' amyself. bunch of vacas to drive back for his life the Texan could be got Me, I expect to do some pulling on up 'pave. How's everything?" to the ranch. 'Long about sun-nrid of quickly. It was a country the rope that's round his gullet." "Fine an dandy." The fierce murmur of assent told (The Texan found a chair, a clga- - I beard a shot right close to me, of swift action. Stone's reputa over to the left where Tom was. I Hon as a "bad man" would tell Yerby that opposition was useless. f fe, and a match. nt flvn minutes there was sl- - rode thataway an met Tom. He against him. Sentiment could be Argument was a waste of time. SSIce except for the scratching of was laughing fit to kill an right worked up. ne had delivered him He moved away reluctantly. This away began to tell me the Joke. self into their hands. shprirrs pen and the grunting was wrong, he felt Yet he thing If Jasper had not been thorough did not know vfefth which he accompanied the He'd just seen Miss Ann an' been how to prevent it Wianual labor of bookkeeping. Then, devllin' her again. I didn't say a ly frightened he would not have (TO El CONTINKKO.) r PAGE SEVEN NEPHI. UTAH S. , , PATHFINDER Full Oversue Ford &JL In pairs Full Oversize Ford Chevrolet tire-make- rs 485 S.OO-X-O e.7-- In pairs rCL "breaker stripe," so we call them that Nash Essex J ris t , l Full Oversize Each "six .ply" tire built this way) do not run from bead to bead. 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Recently she presented a friend a rabbit's foot for her protection, but It played her false. Shortly thereafter the friend was In an automobile accident, and had her scalp ripped open for quite a space. But did this disaster shake Eva's faith In efficacy of rabbit pedals? Not at all I She had two explanations ready in a moment. One was that inasmuch as she had not killed the rabbit herself she ceuld not be sure that It was the left hind foot This is the only foot that has any real magic in it, but commercial dealers are not care ful to ascertain the original location of the amputated foot The other explanation Is that ev erybody has two contrary signs, and In this instance the rabbit's ' worked backwards. Tou Just can't trust magic not to reverse itself clo for some people. Take four-lea- f vers. To the vast majority they bring good luck, but to little Eva they bring Illness, disappointment and disaster, and she would sooner pick poison ivy than the treacherous clover. Then there are the terrible black cats, the sight of which Is fraught with disaster for so many. With little Eva the omen reverses Itself. She is a cat worshiper and has raised dozens of black ones. She became so used to their before her that It established a sort of Immunity. She discovered it once when a black cat saved her life. The animal ran across her path and she stooped to pet it Just before two automobiles crashed together and piled up on the sidewalk at the exact spot where she would have been passing If she hadn't stopped to pet the cat. Our office boy is not so lucky. The last time a black cat ran across his path he had four flat tires before the day was done. True, the tires weren't so good anyway, but they would have held up very well If It hadn't been for the cat. He has very bad luck with brooms, too. Every time he Is hit by one he gets arrested for something. Once when he was sweeping out his father's store, he hit a friend playfully with the broom. "Oh, don't do that," the friend cried, "I'll be arrested I" And within 24 hours he was riding to Jail In the Black Maria for speeding. Little Eva says It is a sure sign and that one reason she hates housework Is that brooms are such a menace. The vacuum cleaner perhaps foot criss-crossin- g Biblical Fortress of Sichem Geographically Sichem was one of fered a bold spectacle: with the horthe most Important points In Pales- izontal lines of the walls, one supertine. Situated In the narrow mounimposed upon the other; with the tain pass between Mounts Gnrlzim gigantic dimensions of Its stones, all and Ebal the high road of travel concentrated in the elliptic city plan, between the east and west it the fortress loomed in the landscape. blocked the route from the Jordan Standing at Its side, the two natural valley to the coast plain and pro- bulwark. Mounts Garizlm and Ebal, tected the coastal region from the reinforced the impression of Iminvasions of the nomadic hordes pregnability. Even today one who stands at the coming from the east Its strategic function Is thus obvious. Sichem of foot of these gigantic walls has the has helped to keep some of our best women out of jail. Eva thinks It would be a smart idea for all policemen to carry a broom with which to hit obstreperous gangsters. Down In the island of Haiti the; have a sweet little custom that Eva is thinking of adopting. They make an effigy of their enemies which they torture with good effect In order to make the torture effective they must get a piece of their enemy to paste on the effigy. A hair from bis head, a paring from his toe nalL or even the dirt upon which he has spat is sufficient The witch doctor then puts a curse on the image, and all that Is necessary Is to stick a pin in the effigy in the exact spot where you want the enemy to hurt The only trouble Is that it doesn't work so well on Americans. When the United States marines went to Haiti the natives made countless effigies with which to torture the Intruders, who guffawed loudly at the spectacle, and never had a single pain. This would argue that the enemy must be .possessed of a lively belief In magic before he could be discomfited, but It Is worth a trial. No matter how much common sense people have, few of them, are free from some form of superstition. There are those who swoon If they sit down to a table that has thirteen round it Others can't walk under a ladder without falling in a fit but Eva Is the only one I know who believes in every form of balderdash In existence. Even when the rabbit foot slips it has no effect on her belief In charms or her vivid respect for voodooism. Indianapolis News. sense of being, as the Biblical people walled, "In our own sight as One Is Impressed grasshoppers. by its sheer physical strength, and understands the fearful panic of the Israelites as they listened In Kadesh Biirnea to the reports which their spies brought back from the Land of Canaan. The builders of tihs fortification system were the HIttltes, who wer known to have dwelt In Sichem as early us the time of Jacob, 1500 Q, C. (Gen. 34). |