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Show Thursday, November 11. 1937 THE TIMES-NEW- NEPUI. UTAH S. PAGE SEVEN APOlINn CATTLE KINGDOM By ALANLEMAY CHAPTER VII Continued "I'm tired thing." one Walt Amm turned hit back on ''Who's lied to you?" "More than one, right here on this them, and itood staring out Into the street That ttreet was place. Dunn, there's too many sun-blaste- d Curiously empty unwholesomely things not open to the eye around empty, so that nobody who had seen here to suit me!" the crowd there could look at that "Coffee," said Horse Dunn with-oStreet now without knowing that belligerence, "what in all hell Bomethlng was Irregular, something do you mean by that?" "I'll Just give you one sample." ;Wrong. i "Move out. then." the sheriff said. Old Man Coffee picked up his dog "Drag your freight and drag It whip from the floor and sorted out .Quick. Keep going. Five minutes its coils with bony old fingers. from now I don't want you in this There's been a horse in this case that's been known as the killer's town." I Horse Dunn chuckled In his short horse, because he left his trail at beard and hitched bis belt up. Slow- Short Crick, mixed up in the sign the killing. You know I took old ly be sauntered past, the deputies, of taring at each of them with an Rock and we trailed- - that horse; open Insolent amusement as be though it come to nothing, then. then he shouldered out, a Now. since we've been back here 'Mjsed;bulk that filled the whole this afternoon, I've seen a funny luge frame of the door. thing. Rock's been working around Unhurrylng, the 64 men made the, horse corrals, by himself; trytheir way along the main street of ing to work out a trail Dog voices Inspiration, around the corner to is peculiar they call different trails in different ways. And as soon as their car. But as the dust of Inspiration I heard Rock's voice, I knew he was kicked out from under their tires crying the trail of the killer horse." they knew that they had put behind They stared at him In silence. them a violence that was not avoid- Then Horse Dunn said. "You're tell- ed, but only delayed. By the time they reached the ranch it was already late afternoon, and the tall Tuscaroras were sending vast, vague fingers of shadow about the layout of the 94, while the high eastern horizon was still bright ly brassy in the sun. Marian did not come out to meet them. Hunting around. Horse Dunn presently sighted her sitting on the fence of a little empty corral, hidden from the house by the barns. He walked out to climb the fence beside her; and Wheeler, tired of people, Billy around him, went to bis room, and got his razors out. Here Horse presently came looking for him. The old cow boss walked In slowly, and closed the door after him. He sat down on the edge of the bunk with the movements of a man a hundred years old; and he covered his face with his hands. "You know what she said to me?" he demanded. "Nope." "I went out to where she's sitting on that corral. I just wanted to tell her about Rufe Deane throwing down his deputy badge, and the way they cleared the street. I thought, "I Swear I Never Heard the maybe if she'd seen it all she'd Beat." know what we're up against. So I ing me that the killer's horse has went out there and said, 'Marian That was all I said. She never even been here in this layout right here within the past few days?" looked at me. And pretty soon she "Within the past 24 hours," Coffee says 'You're making this country said. run red.' " Horse Dunn made a gesture of Suddenly Billy Wheeler felt a detached pity for this old man and this impatience, almost of disgust "I ., girl. He was able to see what Horse swear I never heard the beat" he Dunn could not: that the girl was said. "You set out to give me a curiously dependent upon this old sample of how you've been done man, who looked like her father; wrong by, around here. And what was dependent upon him in more does it come to? You read names, ways than she was aware. And dates and places into the howl of a both were deeply hurt, at a loss, be- hound; and you figure out that right cause they could not understand here among us he's come on a trail that he completely lost when he had each other. He could not see much chance the straight run of it" that the girl would learn to understand either Horse Dunn or the dry CHAPTER VIII country men whom he faced. Horse Dunn was what the dry country had The mountains were throwing made him; and there was no longer their early lucid twilight across the anything In the old man's life ex- range of the 94 by the time the cowcept the cow kingdom he had boys cleared their supper plates. dreamed, and tried to build, for her. They had eaten in silence. But A slight noise was heard and Old somehow in the interval since the Man Coffee came In gloomily and conference in Billy Wheeler's room, threw his coiled dog whip on the everybody there had learned that a floor. quarrel seemed about to smoke up "I haven't actually hit a dog with between Old Man Coffee and Horse that thing for over nine days," he Dunn. So now they still loafed in offered. "But I swear I come close the mess shack, and nobody spoke to hitting one tonight That old fool of seven-up- . They rolled cigarettes makes me so cussed " and lighted pipes, and a couple of "Coffee," Dunn interrupted, "you lamps were lit, throwing tall, huge haven't been here long; but you've shadows of the men on the walls and pro- behind. They all knew that the 94 trailed and moted all over this placwith those was up against a thrash-ou- t withhounds. Now tell me one in itself. Horse Dunn broke the"silence Imthing: do you see any show of finding out who killed Lon Magoon?" patiently. "There sure ought to be .,' Old Man Coffee dropped into a enough scrapping on this range iVilMr and considered for several without hunting up trouble among long moments. "No," he Baid at ourselves. In ordinary times this last. whole killing case wouldn't amount to a tinker's damn to begin with." "Why?" Dunn demanded. "Somebody, some place, may "I'm not so sure," said Old Man have killed Lon Magoon, .for all I Coffee. know. But he sure wasn't killed at "What kind of a case have they Short Crick." Horse demanded. "They can't For once in his life old Horse got?" even find their everlasting stiff!" Dunn's jaw dropped. "Look here! "They're pretty liable to find it" You wouldn't go to fooling with "When Old Man Coffee thought me?" find it it'll be about all they they "I don't always know what I'm need. If it's Magoon, like you claim, talking about This time I know." they can show motive you said "But the saddle" you'd kill Magoon if you "I don't question it was Magoon's openly that him on 94 range. They've saddle; I only say it was a different caught got opportunity by your own stateman was killed in it" ment you were riding alone on Red Horse stared at Coffee; Again then he relaxed a little, and sat Sleep Ridge that day, and the Red down on the bunk. "Coffee," he Sleep is within striking distance of can prove you said, "if you're so dead sure, in Short Crick. They Cod's name tell us what you knowl" hid the dead man's saddle which they can stretch to make look like a Coffee squinted his deep-se- t eyes concealment of the crime. And all "I a good dog, this T&junn. about the killing of nothing says to killed a like mule, getting aif over here to help you with this case. Cayuse Cayetano." "What's known about the killing I don't ask for that to be appreciated. But I'm getting a little tired of Cayuse?" of answering all the questions "How do I know? We're so popuaround here!" lar around here we can't even go Horse looked baffled. "What's the look over Ace Springs without get matter with youi" , ting into a scrap with officers of ut back-traile- long-eare- d sore-foote- d the peace same as Billy got into at Short Crick." Dunn slumped down in his chair and went to growling into his warlike beard. "I don't believe you know any more about it than the rest of us do." "I'll put it stronger than that Maybe" Old Man Coffee made each word separately hear d someone in this room knows a whole lot more than I knowl" Horse Dunn sat perfectly still, ex cept for his eyes; his head did not raise and no muscle of bis face changed, but bis eyes whipped to the old lion hunter' face. After a moment he said, "Coffee, that's one remark you're sure going to have to back up." "I'll say just one thing more. There's scarcely a man in this room that hasn't lied to me at least once, in the little time I've been here." Horse Dunn sat up slowly, hitching himself square in his chair. "Maybe some of my boys have been a little hazy and about where they've been, and when. No man knows what he's up against here. Take GIL here the sheriff mixed him up. And why? Because Gil would try to stand by his side riders even if be knew every last one of 'em was guilty. If you hold that against him, then maybe you know dogs but you're nutsl" Old Man Coffee spoke past the pipe stem in his teeth. "I suppose that lets you out, too?" He sat looking at Dunn steadily, a little smile on his face. Horse spread his hands in front of him on the table, as if he would Jump across it and his voice rose like the voice of a bulL "If you say I lied, then by God name what you mean!" To hell with you," Coffee said, without lifting his voice. "You'll either back what you said," the outraged Horse Dunn stormed, "or you'll swaller it whole!" "That I won't do either," Coffee said. For a moment Horse Dunn stared at him blankly; then he sat down, and the flame went out of his eyes. giving place to something ugly. "I can't stand for that. Coffee," he said. "You know I can't stand for loose-spoke- n -- that" "I can't help that." "You don't give me any choice," said Horse Dunn thickly. "You sure you want to stick to what you said?" "Naturally." "If you don't want to work with me I've got along all right so far, and I guess I'll be able to go on struggling along. I " "Wait," Billy began. "You" "Shut up, Wheeler," Coffee said. "You've acted like you've wanted out of this ever since I got you in it," Dunn clipped out "All right then you're out! And you can send me a bill for what I owe." Old Man Coffee stood up and stretched himself, a queer smile on his face. "Just send me a check for a million dollars," he said. He sauntered out into the dark. For a few moments after Old Man Coffee had gone out the 94 people sat silent unable to realize that the old lion hunter was no longer of their number. "I Horse Dunn roused himself. always heard he was cracky. But now he's gone cracked altogether. I suppose the old fool won't even stay the night he'll go sleep in the brush somewhere. Well, fair enoughl Somebody go catch him his mule." Two or three of them moved, but Billy Wheeler wanted the job, and he took it He held a lantern while Coffee saddled his black mule. He knew it was useless to try to get the two old men together again, but he felt that it was one of those things that a man has to try. He kept trying to think of an angle of ap percentage of the paintings called "old masters" are fakes. No compilation of statistics is available. By way of Illustration, however, of the volume of the business done in spurious "old masters" it is said that 2,000 paintings attributed to Van Dyck have been sold to art collectors and galleries, whereas the artist actually produced only 70 paintings during his lifetime. Omelets. Omelets pepper and salt. Cover with strips Serving should be placed on hot platters to of bacon, then place ox tail in center and pour in stock; season keep them from falling. and cover with more slices of po CAUaUllaj WNU Service Pie. Wash ox tail in tato. Cover with pastry and bake salted water and Joint; put into in a quick oven. pan, cover with water, and simWhipping of Cream. If whipped mer until almost cooked. Line bottom and sides of pie dish with cream will not stand up, it is often due to the fact that the cream is proach, but Old Man Coffee, whose slices of raw potato sprinkled with not sufficiently chilled. It is Im EMINENT DOCTORS WROTE packing up was easily done, was portant, too, to have a heavy ready to move out before Wheeler THIS OPINION! of the right butter fat (20 Skirt cream Jiffy Blouse had thought of a way. to 30 per cent) and 12 to 24 hours "...colds result from Old Man Coffee extended his hand. Done in Knitting old. The cream must be cold, and acid condition of the "Well, so long, son." cold is best beaten in a container. rf5 body ...they prescribe "I'm almighty sorry," Wheeler various alkalies" ex. Nftcase. this said, "to see you leave Shoes Must Have Air. Do not cerpt from medical journal. The You're needed here, if ever a man ALKALINE FACTOR la in boxes the in shoes your keep was." Shoes were which delivered. they Tough." said Old Man Coffee. He require air to preserve them and swung aboard the black mule and ' they should never be kept in an MENTHOL COUGH DROPS5 L 1 sat looking down at Billy Wheeler vssc box. Keep them in a shoe HELPS BUIID UP YOU of like kind saddle. from the "I bag. ALKALINE RESERVE you, son. You seem to have a lit ll and Plain - -- air-tig- tle more savvy than the ethers. So here's something for you to keep under your hat I'm not out of this case yet I'm going to do one more Job before I go. I'm going to find the murdered man." "You think you can?" "Looks like I might Horse Dunn he ain't in on this. He made a fool of me, and himself too, when he got bullheaded and held onto Magoon's saddle. I told him to turn it In to the sheriff but no, be had to have his own way. This time I'm running no chances. If I find the dead man, my next move will be to take word to the sheriff." "And then" "And then I'm going off In the brush and sleep for a week." "But look here! Do you realize. if you do that the Inspiration crowd will be holding every card in the deck? Where does the 94 come in?" "That's your worry. But I'll help you this much: you be up on Lost Whiskey Butte tomorrow about an Tomorrow's go hour after sun-uing to be my last day's work on this case I hope. And we'll see what we'll see." "I'll be there," Wheeler said. "And don't you bring Horse Dunn any of his hired men either. Or by golly. I'll " "Okay." When he was gone Billy Wheeler climbed to the top rail of the corral, where he sat despondently eyeing the horizon stars. For the first time he felt an overwhelming sens of the 94's helplessness against odds. Everything had gone against Horse Dunn; the outfit was confused, disorganized, at a loss. One question stood out largely in his mind. Where was Bob Flagg? To Billy Wheeler it seemed that the appearance of Bob Flagg, and this alone, could give them any chance to extricate the 94 from the trap it was in. Marian Dunn, he noticed, still stood talking to Val Douglas, lingering outside the door of the ranch house. In the stillness of the night he could hear the low continuous murmur of Val's voice, talking steadily doubtless in his own behalf. And he could see Marian's lowered profile against the yellow light of a window pane. It was curious how every suggested line of that girl, every least bend of her head could move Billy Wheeler, twist him inside. Then a strange thing happened strange in that Billy Wheeler had almost a forenotice of it As he sat there alone in the dark he now found himself keenly aware of the peopled layout about him aware of the exact location of the men in the bunk house, of the ponies in the corrals. It was a peculiar sensation, as if he were suddenly more awake than before, as awake as a man in a ring battle, or a man in danger. And especially he was aware of the dark, silent brush country at his back, where buckbrush and desert juniper stood thick behind the corrals. Somewhere out there a twig cracked, and his nerves jerked. Something in that black mile of brush was as awake as he. Then abruptly the silence broke, as if the definitely, night's shell of stillness had . cracked. (TO BE COMINUED) p. Wood Long in Use, but Forever Doomed x vby Other Materials; Charcoal Replaced Wood has found a wide variety of uses as a raw material in the past but it seems forever doomed to be replaced by something else, writes Dr. Thomas M. Beck in the The question arises as to what HOUSEij$ the Ox-Ta- of being tied to. for Old Masters Items of Interest ht Scaling Fish. Fish may be scaled easily by first dipping them into boiling water for a minute. A Darning Ball. A discarded electric light bulb makes a good darning ball. Save Table Surface. If you will place a folded cloth under a dish which contains foods to be beaten you'll find the table surface will be saved many marks and the dish will be kept steady. 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