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Show THE PAGE SIX TIMES-NEW- S. Thursday, October 21, 1937 NEI'HI. UTAH 7T7 JTl&lS. LKxnnri ggauaDnnn SYNOPSIS Billy Wheeler, wealthy young cattle man, arrive at the 04 ranch, aummonea by his friend Horse Dunn. It elderly and owner, bccauae ol mysterious murder, billy la In love with Dunn's niece Marian, whom he has not Been lor two years. She had rejected his ult and is still aluor. Dunn s rancn is surrounded by enemies. Including Link llendcr, Huito Halllclay and Bam Caldwell, whom he has defeated In his efforts to build a cattle kingdom. Dunn directs hi cow hands. Val Douclas. Tulare Cal lahan and others to search for the killer's horse, lie explains to Billy that the morntnK before he had come upon blood' stained ground at Short Creek and found the trail of a shod and unshod horse. The shod horse's rider had been killed. The body had disappeared. Link Bender had arrived at Uia scene and read the signs the way he had. Dunn reveals that be cause of a financial crista the ranch may be In Jeopardy; his enemies may make trouble, since Sheriff Walt Amos la friendly with them. He says ha has asked Old Man Coffee, the country's best trailer, to Join them. Dunn and Billy meet Amos, Link Bender, his son "the Kid" and Cayuse Cayetano. an Indian Trailer, at Short Creek. Bender has found the slain man's horse, but the saddle Is missing. Almost aupernaturally, cattle attracted to the scene by the bloodstained ground, atamp out all the traces. Dunn la angered when Amos tells him not to leave the county. Following en argument. Bender draws his gun, but Dunn wounds him In the arm. Back at the ranch Old Man Coffee arrives, with a pack of hounds. Coffee goes In search of the dead man's saddle. Dunn tells Billy that Marian la Incensed at him for trying to settle disputes by bloodshed. He reveals that the ranch Is really hers, also that he recently sold his own ranch In Arizona and that his partner. Bob Flagg, Is en route with the money. Billy acride to Short companies Marian on Creek. 'Kld" Bender, now a deputy, rides up. They have an argument, and by a trick Bender tries to shoot him. Billy saves bimself by plunging against Bender's pony and "the Kid" Is injured. Coffee returns to the ranch with the saddle and reveals that Cayuse Cayetano Is on the trail for Sheriff Amoa. The saddle belonged to Lon Magoon, a, small-timcattle thief. Billy learns he Is to be arrested for assaulting "Kid" Bender. d e It was nearly tlx In the morning as they rolled down the dusty ruts toward the first test of strength tince the killing at Short Creek. Three cart drove to Inspiration, tor Billy Wheeler had reserved certain privileges of free action; and the sheriff returned to Inspiration alone in his own car, at he had come. A second car wat driven by Horse Dunn, who took with him Gil Baker, Steve Hurley, and Tulare Callahan; and what teemed more Important Marian Dunn, between Val Douglas and her huge uncle in the front seat. The Old Man of the 94 was vague persistent possessed by hope that somewhere, tome time, Marian would tee something wblch would change her opinions at to the balance of force and justice In the Red Hills ranges. Old Man Coffee rode with Billy Wheeler, who drove hit own roadster. "There In that one car," tald Coffee, watching Horse Dunn's tower of dust "goes all that's left of the 94 outfit; except for you and me, who don't really belong here." Billy Wheeler nodded. "I couldn't hardly believe," be said, "that Horse was trying to run 20,000 head of cattle, even through the quiet months, with only four men and himself." "He's got 20,000 head, has he?" "The book count showt 20,000 head. Allowing for death losses, he supposes he's got 14 to 16 thousand. as he Is, he can't be right sure." "I've seen the day," Old Man Coffee said, "two, three years ago, Short-hande- d CHAPTER IV Continued looking It Seems like to me. Horse, the game is a little different from that He may be laying off of you because his crowd has a little different plan for you. I'll say right here, this sure makes it look to me like they must have a case against you on the murder of Lon Ma goon a case we maybe can begin worrying about." "Then why do they turn and Jump on Billy Wheeler?" "It might be because Billy Wheeler is kind of strong as a cattleman. I'm speaking of bank I don't know anything strength. about how Billy Wheeler stands in this mess. But it may be they think he might work out as an ace card In patching up the finances of the 94. That being the case, naturally they'd like nothing better than to set him aside to cool for 30 days. A man can't read his facts unless he looks a little into the people situation. It sure begins to look," said Old Man Coffee, "as if I'm going to have to go to Inspiration for this "I am ; 4 at trial." "No," said Horse Dunn. "Because there isn't going to be any trial.". Marian Dunn said sharply, "What do you mean?" For once Horse Dunn failed to wilt before the flare-uof his niece. "I won't stand for It," he declared. "I've stood enough I They'll take Billy Wheeler no place." "I think," Marian Dunn said, "you must be mad!" "Mad, is it? Mad or no mad, the coyote pack will never take Billy Wheeler in." "There's this about it, Mr. Dunn," Val Douglas drawled. "We're coming up against bigger things here than an open fight over whether or not this Wheeler will stand up and take his medicine for busting the Kid's leg. After all, there's something in what your niece says. Tulare says that tonight or tomorrow Amos can raise up a posse of a hundred. We'd look good trying to bronc-stom- p a hundred men." Horse Dunn bellowed, "You stand there and tell me " Billy Wheeler cut in. "He's right,' Horse." "What?" Billy Wheeler looked Val Douglas over cooliy. "Val doesn't strike me like a feller that would be right very often," he said at last. "But this ought to raise his percentage, I guess. I'm going to leave 'em take me. Horse." "You'll do nothing of the kind," Horse Dunn told him. "I'm boss p here!" Billy Wheeler sprawled relaxed, as if he were resting, and met Dunn's glare evenly. If the others there did not understand why the Old Man of the 94 turned to this youngster more readily than to any one else in time of need, they could have learned something about that by looking at them now. "I don't know at you can stop me, Horse," Wheeler said. The day was hardly breaking when Sheriff Walt Amos came hammering at the door. CHAPTER V The sheriff came alone, without show of force. Wheeler' surrender he outwardly took as a matter of course: though a close observer certain might have detected pleased relief. EL IE "Part What eltef" fired from In front of him litUe to his right-bantide, by a man on horse." "It wat d "What else?" "The shell wat home-loadeAnd all I know, yet" Old Man Coffee wat regarding Wheeler with a peculiar fixed ex- that's pression. "Son," be tald at last "I back down; I'm free to admit I You're further bad you wrong. along the trail than most of 'cm. You got the shotgun right at least I suppose you teen that one shot pellet bogged Into the team of the leather on Lon Ma goon' t saddle horn?" "Yet; I hid. and If saw little pellet it pretty well I guess nobody taw It but you me. But the rest of your dope'a That wrong. wasn't hortel" For one thing Magoon killed by no man on a "How do you know that?" "How did you know the shell wat home-loaded?- " Information on Another IBflSl'Tjf Alas La May WNU Servico Horse Dunn looked up and down the street noting how the groups of booted loungers had grown. Hardly a doorway In that street was empty now. Wheeler taw Dunn run a quick glance along the tccond ttory window! across the street Dunn turned to his car, relaxed, casual. "Marian, take thlt here car around the corner, and park It; then wait there, until someone brings word." Marian glanced once, questioning-ly- , at her uncle, then once more, almost despairingly, at Billy Wheeler. Then the car lumbered away In the dust at the obeyed. Horse Dunn turned with a curious mildness to the sheriff. "I don't figure to give any answers, Amos, that I wouldn't just as leave my outfit would hear." The Old Man of the 94 stood square-plantesmiling a little, almost bland; but the confidence of a lifelong dominance wat In the easy set of hit enormous shoulders, to that he seemed then bigger than the town, bigger than the range. The sheriff hesitated; he knew what he was up against Abruptly he burst out "I slecide these things d "Because the charge wat weak. The tlgn showed the horset wat close together when the thot wat fired. If the charge hadn't been weak that pellet of lead would have plowed a whole lot deeper than it here!" The mild mask fell away. "Then did." Old Man Coffee nodded approval. give your orders to people you can "A good catch." he tald. "But I boss," Dunn snarled at him. Walt Amos sized up the situation, think you got It wrong. If the charge bad been fired from close like you then stood for a moment with a say, the killer could have rammed blank face. Then the young sheriff the long shotgun barrel plumb grinned, not sheepishly, and not Irrithere wouldn't tably, but with the interested huagainst Magoon have been no shot in the saddle mor of a man who plays his own horn. It was distance slowed that game against another's. pellet Lon Magoon was shot by a "Oh, all right, Dunn," he said; "1 third man, from up on the flat don't set any great store on that ground above the cut!" point I haven't got any of my fel"Seems like," Wheeler objected, lers with me I don't need 'em; but "the trail of the third man should maybe you need some. Bring 'em have showed up, somewhere about" on!" "Maybe; If it had been read propIn effect Horse Dunn had backed er before the cattle pawed out the Sheriff Walt Amos down; but Horse sign. But there's one man mixed admitted afterward that it was here. Into this that knows too much about In the bacdown. that the young trails to have left one himself even sheriff had first commanded his reif he'd been there." They fell si- spect He grunted an assent. "Billy g lent while the engine Wheeler, Coffee come on." threw the rack of the road behind others moved forward, but them in big spasms and gouts of heThe and Dunn, them waved dust; and far ahead presently with Wheeler andback; followed Coffee, showed the faint disturbance on the Amos into the little old adobe that plain which was Inspiration. held the sheriff's office. Inspiration consisted principally "Dunn," said Sheriff Amos, "you of a main street backed by a few score houses, some of them neatly were the first man found out there'd a killing at Short Crick. That painted, with a tree or two; many been was Tuesday three days ago. Right simply unpainted shacks. To a stranger the town would not off you sent Tulare Callahan here, have seemed so full of people as to wire Old Man Coffee, clear Tulare Callahan's report perhaps around at McTarnahan. Dunn, why suggested. But Billy Wheeler at did you send for Old Man Coffee?" "I sent for Old Man Coffee," said once recognized a dozen or more cars which would not ordinarily Dunn, "to find out who waj making have been there, and about an equal free on my range. To tell you the number of dozing cow ponies. And truth, I didn't figure you numbskulls as the 94 cars pulled up In front was equal to handling it" of the little frame building that "Then it wasn't your idea," said housed the county office Wheeler the sheriff, "to get him here to seize noticed a small inconspicuous stir in and suppress evidence?" "When I want to seize somedoorways, a too casual moving tod loungers at thing," Horse Dunn told him, "I gether of two or three places along the street won't be sending for some old guy Billy Wheeler caught Horse the other side of two ranges of Dunn's signal as he slid his roadster mountains. I'll just seize it" to a stop. He stepped down from "Where were you riding Monday, the wheel and walked forward to Dunn?" Dunn's car. "Monday I was riding Red Sleep "We want to all kind of keep to- Ridge." "And when," the sheriff shot at gether, here, as we move Into this," Horse Dunn said casually. "I don't him, "did you first learn that Lon think there's going to be any trou- Magoon was camping on 94 range?" Horse Dunn did not hesitate for ble of any kind. Still I wish Bob Flagg had got here. There aren't a fraction of a second. "Yesterday when Old Man Coffee found so many of us as there has been saddle." some years." The sheriff pulled up and stepped The sheriff's smooth, cornerless to the sidewalk. face tightened a little, but Billy "Court won't open yet for a little Wheeler saw that the man was not bit," he said. "You, Wheeler, park surprised. Instantly Wheeler knew yourself around here close. You're two things. First that one of the lucky not to be in the lock-uby Inspiration crowd perhaps with God! You, Dunn, I'll speak to you field glasses must have seen Cof-fe'- e inside. I've got a couple of quespick the saddle up. And second, tions I figure to ask." what was equally important, that "All right," Horse Dunn said. the sheriff must have succeeded in "Come on, folks." tracing out the dead man's horse "The rest of you stay outside," and had identified it as belonging Sheriff Amos said. "You're the one to the little cow thief, Magoon. I aim to talk to, Dunn." (TO BE CONTINUED) Household Quesfionr A Quiz With Answers Offering 71 T J.VJLK2 Cauliflower and Errs. Butter a pie dish and break into it 4 eggs. Half cook a small cauliflower and Various Subjects i tains"? 8. Name some famous musi- cians who had the gift of absolute pitch. 7. How many cabinet members were there in the first President's cabinet? 8. What is the usual order of business for general meetings of clubs and similar organizations? 9. What caused a farm to "sink" in Idaho? 10. How many words are there in the English language? 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The Salmon Falls river undercuts its canyon walls until some of the land overhead breaks away, causing cracks or other land adjustments at some distance from the rim. 10. According to the World Almanac the reputable English lancontains approximately guage 700,000 words. Possibly 300,000 more terms may be stigmatized as nonce, obsolete, vulgar, low, etc, and therefore seldom or never sought in dictionaries. 1. What American statesman was the grandson of a king? 2. How much does a single inch of rain over an acre weigh? Over a square mile? 3. How many wars have there been since the signing of the Armistice in 1918? 4. Do Chinese surnames precede or follow the given names? 5. Who was the author of "Give me men to match my moun- 15-2- 0 s Pies. Fruit and tops berry pies with lattice-styl- e require less baking time than the toppers. regular Lattice-Toppe- d full-cru- Apple Butter and Ice Cream.. Try a scoop of vanilla ice cream topped with a spoonful of rich brown apple butter. Orange Fritters. Separate two large navel oranges into sections. Dip sections in batter and fry in deep fat. Serve as accompaniment to roast lamb or braised pork chops. A Delight for the Children.-- . Next time your children wartt-party, cook a cornstarch custard and fill cones. Alternate every spoonful or so with currant jelly and finish with jelly on top. W WNU Service. IFSI! 1 QftPlPl! IIC - Never Before Have Tires Been Put to Such Gruelling Torture hard-workin- "For One Thing Ma goon Wasn't Killed by No Man on a Horse!" when the 94 bunkhouse never held less than 12 or 13 hands. And in roundup times I've seen better than 50 riders follow the 94 wagons. But I guess those days are gone." Coffee suggested that Horse Dunn was getting old. "It's hard for us old fellows to bend to new ways of handling cows or men. But Horse Dunn might just as well get ready to realize he has to. He's forced his way for a long time; but comes a time when he can't force it no more." "And that," Wheeler said, "is what we've got to save him from. For God knows he'll never bow his head! It's up to you, more'n anybody." "Don't count on me." That was Old Man Coffee's attitude. Because of his uncommon sixth sense In handling a trail and because of his widely heard-o- f luck In making shrewd deductions, Old Man Coffee had been called in on many a mystery killing In the inter- mountain country. But though he worked bard without cost to anyone, he stubbornly avoided an official responsibility. "I got nothing to do with It" That was the Coffee theme song on a murder case. But now he added, "Something's wrong. When I first looked at this case I thought it was open and shut. But something's the matter with this case. Somebody knows something they're not telling me." Billy Wheeler waited, but the In formation which silence would have brought from most men was long in coming. "People in this country Is going to the dogs," Coffee complained. Take you. Your old father had a pair of eyes that could find out the devil through the smoke of hell. But you you ain't got any eyes. I not only got to do your thinking for you. I also got to see for you and hear for you and ride for you. I'll give you just a sample." An ironic amusement faintly altered Old Man Coffee's gaunt face. "Answer me one question," he said now. "What weapon killed Lon Ma goon?" Billy Wheeler looked at Coffee sidelong, and for a moment he hesitated. "Lon Magoon," he said, "was killed by a shotgun. Is that what you wanted to know?" spur-heele- Ma-goo- Swiss Train Dogs for Service in Army; Special Courses for Dispatch Duty Man's best friend, the dog, has proved his worth In numerous ways and for many centuries dogs have been playing an Important role in human warfare. Originally, states a correspondent In the Philadelphia Inquirer, an attempt was made to the animals into field hospital service. 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