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Show THE Thursday, December 23, 1937 TIMES-NEWS- NKI'III. I TAII , to try to kill you to get ittajr "I'm through with hovering enough back at Horte for the death of young on the outskirts of my own life." For a moment he wondered what Deane." "Billy. If you're right If you can provision he could make for her safety here. He no longer doubted prove "That't Just the trouble. Suppose that what the determined to do the I'm right Rufe Deane did it We're would do, and could not be He thought of con no better off than we were In the befrom. signing her tafety to Old Man Cot- - ginning. You tee, Marian, there's fee, or to the cowboyt now search- two parts to these killing cases. One ing the hills for her; but he wat thing it to find out who did it and why. The other thing Is to prove deeply concerned. Sometimes I think," Marian It and get a conviction. I haven't said, "that the antwer to every- one tingle thing to show against Rufe Deane; and until I can show thing U to be found right here here at the 94 and no place else." evidence. It won't matter how sure "A man I may be In my mind." He nodded moodily. When he looked at her it was ought to be able to figure it out, it be wat smart" past hit power to imagine how Rufe "There Isn't anything more you Deane or anyone else could ever could follow up, here? When time look down the tights of a gun at la to important " Marian Dunn; the wat to gently There't one lone, slim possibili and tweetly made, to precious in hit eyet. He didn't believe In Horse ty." he taid. "In heaven't name, what it it?" Dunn't creed of gun Juttice, for he "There't one thing in thit case thought that the use of violence the law wat a costly thing, dethat I can't swallow. It stands out above everything else one unbe feating ltt own purpotet In the end. lievable thing that couldn't possibly But he knew that if ever he faced happen. I'm thinking of those two Rufe Deane with anything like a decent proof In hit handt. he would shots that have been thrown at destroy the killer at he would you." a sidewinder or vinegaroon. She was silent and after a moment or two he went on. "Some"I'll never be able to believe in how those shots at you are mixed God's world that anyone would et up with these other shootings; it out to hurt you," he said. "Yet would be too big a coincidence if somebody hat tried. What naturalthe shots at you and the killing ot ly comes to mind It that tome- the men were separate, yet hap- body, tome enemy of Horse Dunn, that" I'''- C"ff' by - CHAPTEB XII Continued ssa..Vt 15 "You sull think the killer's horse wai here In the 94 layout after the killing, like old Rock teemed to think?" Old Man Coffee's answer wa grunt; it might have meant one thing or the other. "You're stalled, ton. You got no lead." "Sure we've got a lead." "And where la that?" "Just a minute ago we were talking about the peculiar way Bob Flagg kind of eased Into the Red Rock, coming in through the back way, bumming it in a cattle crate. From what we know Bob Flagg had that somebody was going to make a try for him. Now, how did Bob Flagg come by that Old Man Coffee did not reply. Out by the corrals a hound moaned in its chest; the dog called old Rock awoke by Coffee's feet, raised Its head to listen, then blew out a long breath and went back to the Red Rock country, he was somehow not surprised at Marian now came and Joined him here. To think about any phase of this killing case, or of the imminent ruin ot Horse Dunn's cow kingdom, was to think about her. After all, the 94 was her brand, and her future was inter laced with Its future. So aow at he looked up at the sound of her light quick step it teemed a natural. tomehow expected thing to tee her ttanding there in hit door. "Thit is a lonely night." the said "Nothing anywhere in thit night In tends to sleep." "I guess that's so. But It's near morning now." Without high heels and with her hair light and loose about her shoul ders she should have looked small er, but she did not He thought he had never seen her so slimly tall. so gravely steady. Perhaps that was partly the et feet ot what she wore. Because he had never teen her dressed at she was now, he had a sudden sense of how little he knew her, after all; just as he did not know what she wore when she slept, how could he know what went on in her mind when she was alone or ever? She was wearng pajamas, but their black silk wax cut like a 3 us sian smock, with a high collar ot soft black silk about her throat, and close cuffs at her wrists, so that standing against the dark she was all a part of the dark, except for the bright ivory of her face and hands and the loose shimmer of her hair. About this costume, which was strange to him, there was a bar baric dignity, as if it were not something to sleep in at all, but the ceremonial dress of some forgotten priestess. It was strange to see this vision here, standing beside a spare saddle that had been flung on the floor under a tangle of bridles on a wooden peg. Everything around her was cow country, but she she was something else, something lovely from beyond the hills a daugh- sleep again. "CofTee I'm thinking now that when we find out how Bob Flagg we'll come by that have caught our man." With an impatient movement Old Man CofTee knocked out his pipe again. "You want to know what I think? I think, 'Oh. hell!" You better go on to bed." Obviously Old Man Coffee was tired of arguing. Wheeler had been trying to lead the old man out. and it had got him nowhere. He rose slowly and stretched,. "Guess you're right Seems like you might need some sleep, too." "Slept all the way from Pahrana-gat- , on the top of my mule. I'll get plenty rest sitting right here with my pipe." He added irascibly, "Or I will if the everlasting talky-tal- k dries up." "Looks like it might slack off some." Wheeler grinned. He went in, fumbled his way through the dark house to his room, flung his gun belt on the Boor, and lighted ter of two worlds. his lamp. She came and sat beside him on the bunk. "Did you and out anyCHAPTER XIII thing more from Old Man Coffee? I thought you'd get more out ot It was very late when Wheeler him it I left you alone." left Old Man Coffee. Without check"Not very much. Old Man Cofknew he that the hour, morning ing a disappointment to me could not be far off; and he had fee's been in a way. Sometimes I think he was asleep. supposed that Marian know anything about it" She had ridden a long way, not to doesn't "I wonder." count that long climb of theirs "Marian, what are you going to through the dark. In her own way do?" she outlasted the leathery strength "What is there for me to do? of men and horses and came One of two things stay here or go clear-eyeand through to Inspiration to be near Horse. Of But untouched. she apparently he ought to be out of there in seemed so fragilely made that he al- course, a few days." ways underestimated the young "I wouldn't count on that, Marian. strength of her vitality. They can't make a case against So. he was thinking of her as him not even the beginnings of a asleep, as he now sat down on the case. They know that But what edge of his bunk and rolled a ciga- they want to do and can do is to rette. tie up the 94 finances by making the His frame rested re case look as ugly as possible. laxed, but he did not look tired. Al) They'll point out that Dunn was the his life had been spent in the saddle, main one who would be. expecting simply for the reason that the dry Flagg there; and probably make country has few roads few places Flagg's share of the money the mofor roads to go and the horse is the tive. Of course that's ridiculous. only means of cross country transBut for their purpose, all they need portation across mountain ranges to do it to raise the question and and sand dunes and the vast gulch-cu- t then cause a delay in clearing it plains. Ten thousand miles In up." the saddle had hardened him until Her eyes were on distance be he was made of braided leather, yond the walls smoky eyes lfess the no and runty. drowsy, even misty on the surface, enduring than A unkilla'tSle range ponies. few more but behind them was that continu miles oji the horse trails and a few ing deep glow of slumbering fire nights short of sleep could not tire the smouldering light of a great re face serve vitality. him now. His was as awake as ever, and bis "I'd go east now. If I were you,'' gray eyes, made to look lighter than he told her. "We'll fight this thing and out, and save out of it what we car they were by his weather-leathereskin, were as you can count on that But thif clear as they had been when he ar- isn't a good place for you any more rived at the 04. He let his ciga- There won't be anyone here, excep rette trail from a corner of his a couple of cow hands to keep ar mouth, rested his chin on one hand; eye on things. And it would drivf and, squinting through the thin Horse crazy to have you in tha rd-moving line of smoke, consid- hornets' nest In Inspiration." ered his next moves. "But you?" He must travel that was certain. "I'll be gone, l have to back What could be done here was done track Bob Flagg a little further. I'D the finding of Bob Flagg and Lon have to go to Flagstaff; then maybr God knows how lonp Magoon. He must trace Bob Flagg back to his sources, back through I'll be gone. It looks like a dim crooked trail" Flagstaff, perhaps to the sold-ou- t Arizona ranch itself, seeking the She considered this. "When an truth, for he was pprtain that Flatro you leaving?" had shown more than a premoni"Now before daylight I'll senc tion ot his death. a note to Horse. I don't even dart And he must find time to run down see him in Inspiration, for fear the 94 debts, seeking ways to avert they'll hold me there on some Its bankruptcy, at least for a time. trumped-ucharge." He was wondering how far he dared They were silent again. Through go against Dunn's order that no the window came to them a cool penny of Wheeler money should fragrantly clean breeze from the ever be chanced in the 94 Dunn uplands, with a tail tang in it that would be game to split the works promised frosts before long He sud wide open, if he didn't like the way denly thought she might be cold salvation had been obtained. It was There was a clean Navajo blanket up to Wheeler to find ways to get on his bed. and he put this about around that, taking care that the her shoulders. She smiled faintly girl would never guess any obliga- but did not look at him or move. tion to him. That last was what She said. "It will be queer and Dunn feared most. lonely here, witn you gone." But though his mind was laying "But you'll be leaving too." out routes and plans tar outside of She shook tier head, her eyes far d light-foote- out-tid- e y pening at the tame time." "I can tee that. aU right" "But the thots at you eliminate nearly every suspect we have. Take Val Douglat. He hasn't proved very He't been dependable. Marian. caught in lies as to where he wat. Even just now, when he wat tent to Pahranagat to check up Bob Flagg, it teemt from what Coffee tayt that he didn't even go near there. Sometimes I've suspected Val. Even if he didn't klU Flagg to rob him. still he might have killed him by mistake, thinking it was somebody else. But one thing is certainly plain Val Douglas would never fire on you." "No," Marian said. "Val could never do that" "Or take Link Bender a hard, bitter, violent man. Once he was boss of all this range, until Horse Dunn took hold. Link Bender might go to any length to put down the 94. But he controls this kid sheriff, and through the sheriff he't bearing down on the 94 through this killing; and he's getting away with it His whole way of attack is orderly and thought out He wouldn't try any such crazy thing as shooting a girL" "It's pretty hard to see in what way I could stand between Link Bender and his plans." "The same thing applies to Pinto Halliday; he's a shifty crook, but he Isn't crazy. Sam Caldwell Is an other that it doesn't fit in with." "The thing just won't fit together, will it?" "Marian, it's In my mind that I know who killed Bob Flagg." "Billy! If you know that" "There's one man In that Inspiration crowd that is too savage bitter to wait for Link Bender's plan to pan out That man Is Rule Deane. Rufe Deane blames Horse for the death of his son. years ago." "Yes," Marian said, "I've thought of him." "Rufe Deane tried to raise a mob In Inspiration to see that the 94 people never got away from there. If he had started in time, there'd have been a lynching before midnight He threw down his deputy's badge because he thought the sheriff was going too easy with Horse. And when you testified for me at the hearing Rufe Deane was looking at you like a wolf waiting. Marian, I believe Rufe Deane is one man that's crazy enough and bitter long-bone- d ' ' , leanly-muscle- d wind-burne- d d upwa- down-countr- p his head. But-h- ard as It is to believe, there It one other possibility we have to take account of that without knowing It you've heard something, or teen tomethlng, which would give away the Short Creek killer if you remembered It and recognized it for what It was." She said, "I've thought of that" "Marian, If you can remember e seeing anything a rider In the some horse coming home at a strange time one of the guns missing from Its rack here in the house even an empty shell that you thought nothing of that one thing might give us the answerl" "I've racked my brain over and over; but I can't think of anything, Billy." "Not even a chance word, overheard somewhere " She shook her head. "Billy, I Just can't remember anything that would answer the purpose at all. She pressed her palms against her eyes for a moment; then lifted her head sharply, shaking out her loose hair. "It's no use. This isn't the first time I've tried to remember; I've been trying hard for two days." "I thought it would most likely be hopeless," he admitted. "I'll have to go to Flagstaff." "I know. I've seen that coming I'm ready to stay here alone; without you or my uncle, I mean." "Marian, it I could get you to pull out of here, until this is over" "This is my outfit, Billy. It shouldn't be my outfit; it should be my mother's, or Horse Dunn's. But nothing can make Horse see that And I see now that it you're going to run cattle on a big scale out in this country, you sometimes have to be willing to fight for your hat gone out range." He stared at of her, marveling The girl who was talking to him now was not the girl be bad known iwo years ago; she was not even the girl he had known at the beginning of the week. It was as if some false outer cloaking of ideas and habits, put upon her by her nother's seaboard world, had suddenly fallen away, leaving her revealed as what she was a daughter of the dry land. Under the pressure of the dark days and unquiet nights since the Killing of Bob Flagg she had come nearer to him. becoming one of his people. (TO BE CONTINUED) PAGE SEVEN ! I By VIRGINIA Almaden. f. of a Kred Astaire picture without Ginger Rogers is now up for public approval, and first reports promise that it will triumph at the box office. "Damsel in Distress" hasn't the effervescent Ginger, but It has that most blithe of s, Gracie Allen, and her solemn George Burns. din-wit- The setting of this giddy, tuneful Story is England, where Astalre at a thy matinee Idol becomes romantical- 1 ly entangled with a 'A p e e r ' i daughter, ' played by the Ingra-- t e. tiating Joan Fon-tain- The of the dancing, fk way and Attalre bat nev- - n y.i f ttory jL - er danced with tuch siuu nreaimaKing before. When you tee him and Gracie romping through a carnival engaging In dizzy antics on treadmills, revolving barrels, and In front of those crazy mirrors that distort reflections, you will wonder why Grade's amazing talent at a dancer has been over looked so long. Fred Astalre The long delay In making another feature picture with the Dionne quintuplets hat at last been ex- plained by Twentieth Century-Fo- x officials. They have been watting for the little girls to learn English, figuring that audiences can't be counted on to study French Just In order to understand the little cher-nb- s. Waves of dissatisfaction spread through Hollywood like an epidemic every once in a while, and lately producers have been having their troubles pacifying pouting start. Young has decided that tha doesn't want to make any more pictures with Tyrone Power for a while. Not that she doesn't like him. She does, but she thinks that the public tires of seeing the tame couple on the screen in picture after picture. Ginger Rogert hat terved notice on R. K. O. that In addition to her salary she wants a share of the profits of pictures she appeart in. Fred Astaire and Katherine Hepburn both share in the profits of theirs. Dorothy Lamour has rebelled against wearing native dress in pictures. Wants to be clothed like civilized lady. And Wayne Morris wants no more build-uas a hand-tomLo-ret- ta e p youth. Wallace Ford Is one of the screen auplayers over whom the dience at "Of Mice and Men" cheered In New York recently. Even If the play runs all year, however, Wally figures that his fans out first-nig- ht through the country won't forget him, for before going Into the play he completed the as yet nnreleased "Swing It, Sailor" for Grand National, and three pictures in England. IF YOU'RE a bit behind in the thrilling game of Milady, why not take advantage of the holiday season and catch up? Today's trio is especially right for "vacation sewing" because it consists of simple practical pieces that require little time and trouble. Make all three and you'll have gone a long way toward putting the old punch back in the game. Streamlined Styling. The slip at the left is all you could wish for from the standpoint of styling. It offers superb lines from the moderately low cut V waist neck, through the right down to the very hem. The clever overlapping back is light proof and provides an action pleat so necessary for complete satisfaction. Important, too, is the fact that you may choose the material you wish in your own color. Better make it in duplicate for many meticulous months ahead Pretty in Sheer Wool. in the center is. The like the slip, heavy on style. The defined waist is effectively young as is the flowing skirt and little round collar. It is just the frock to give one lots of for the second semester, or "to break the ice" whenever one is anxious about one's apearance. It can be the height of chic in sheer wool very pretty in flat crepe. Modern Home Dress. When it's home you're thinking of you naturally turn to a frock like the third member of the trio n, dart-fitte- d two-piec- e Holt Is rounding at the right. This model is different enough to delight you and simple enough to set you sewing at sight. It is cut for comfort but with an ever watchful eye on that elusive little thing called chic. Crisp contrast may be had in the collar and cuffs and in that trim row of buttons that march down the line and then back again. Look fresh in your version in pretty percale. The Patterns. Pattern 1946 is designed for sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 44 bust). Size 16 requires 314 yards of 39 inch fabric. One yard of ribbon Is required for shoulder straps. Pattern 1404 is designed for sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 requires 4V yards of 39 inch material. Pattern 1390 is designed for sizes 34 to 48. Size 36 requires 4 yards of 35 inch material. The collar and cuffs in contrast require IVi yards material. Send your order to The Sewing button-all-the-w- Pattern Dept., Circle each. e Bell Syndicate WNU Glass Curtain Respect for precedent has a To Get Rid of Acid and Poisonous Waste Your kidneys help to keep yon. well by constantly filtering waste matter from the blood. If your kidneys get functionally disordered and fail to remove excess impurities, there may be poisoning of the whole system and distress. Burning, scanty or too frequent be a warning of some kidney nay or bladder disturbance. You may suffer Bagging backache, persistent headache, attacks of dizziness. Setting up nights, swelling, puffines) under the eye feel weak, nervous,' all played out. In such oases It Is better to rely on a medicine that has won country --wide acclaim than on something leas favorably known. Use Doan's Pills. A multitude of grateful people recommend Doan's. Auk your wighbor body-wi- By Fred Neher ' IpT g- g ... coast-lo-coa- st TJnioa. Service. In the National theater of Mexico City, known as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, a huge glass curtain executed by Tiffany of New York, is one of its most striking features, and is perhaps the only one of its kind in the world. It is composed of thousands- - of pieces d of glass and the novel lighting arrangement red veals the volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihu-at- l, at sunrise, midday and sunset. out THAT Wsstara Nawananar New Respect Due Precedent motion- SB 149 Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) snow-crowne- i , ay vari-colore- solid basis. Don't be contemptuhis ous of Jack but study its twentieth year as an actor and his claims toprecedent, authority. eighteenth at a Is Gossip thrives less among men -picture ttar. No particularly because it means a Spain other performer has black eye if not worse. enjoyed outstanding It is nonsense to say that no III, the caliph of Cordoba, had the popularity more one is interested in the troubles of famous moonlight fountain made for than halt as long as others. We're not all inhuman. his favorite wife, the moonlight behe has, and HollyMen have had but one burst of ing mercury. The knights of the wood producers will extravagance in clothing in the Middle ages got rid of vermin with tell you that be Is last 30 years. It was when they the aid of mercury. The 'gold makjust as popular with paid $8 for a silk shirt. ers' of the Middle ages used mer- them as with the Human conscience began to for their tricks. cury Physicians public, whether he function thousands of years ago. in those days prescribed mercury is assigned to horses There is a lot of it In the Bible. for any digestive trouble. or top hats, Jack is Jack Holt It is hard to conceal contempt. "For centuries thermometers and always amiable, and barometers have been made with If a ttory seems thin he figures it Something besides words gives you the aid of mercury. Rabbit skins is up to him to give performance away. are prepared with mercury before that will build it up. Some ot the they are turned into felt hats. Many young players supporting him In "Under dyes can be made only with mer- Columbia's Suspicion" LIFE'S LIKE cury. asked him recently how he got his "The Christian kings of the houses start, and then shuddered a bit as of Aragon, Castile, Hapsburg and he told them that he rode a horse Bourban, who had fewer riches, over a thirty-fiv- e foot cliff into swirlMR?. PIP'S OlABX warriors and slaves than their ing rapids. Phoenician, Greek, Roman, West Gothic and Arab predecessors, could ODDS AND ENDSMarlena Diet-ric- h pay their creditors only with mershed her wan and bored manner in cury." New York night club and joined She could be as the crowd truckin sensational in comedy as Irene Dunne Early Veterinarians Ancient Egypt Greece and Rome is if she only would, but she won't nad veterinarians. But then they . . . Ballroom dancing bores Fred Benny Goodman starts concerned themselves with horses, Astaire untilthen he Just can't sit still and the only animals deemed valuable playing . . , Jaynes, youthful sensation enough to merit medical care. Most of theBetty Chicago opera, will play Norma important to the ancients were their Shearer's old role in "Student Prince" armies, and horses composed a big when films it attain as a musipart of their armies. The first col- cal . . . When Dick Powell stopped over in Chicago between trains a lege for veterinarians was established in France in 1761; in America group of fans surprised him by prealmost a century later. Then came senting him with their autographed the machine age, and horses lost photos . . . Spencer Tracy will send his Christmas cards from Ireland their value. Veterinarians became out . . . Fathers of twins are the only fewer and fewer. But the recent infor Hollywood's most exclucrease of valued pet dogs and cats eligibles sive club. Membership so far consists saved the profession. Veterinarians of Bing Crosby, Laurence Tibbett, have their own medical association, Charles Starrett and Richard Dix . . . and must study three or four years Girls don't want to be cast in the next in a recognized college to become hlauch twins picture because their members. Student "vets" study all favorite pets nowadays are white mica , . . Tha Voice of Experience will be domestic animals, but often specialbeginning Deize in one, or even one breed of broadcast Copyright by Fred Neher cember 27. E. E. Kisch, a writer for the Paris weekly of the German exiles, visited Almaden some time ago and reported that mercury necrosis, anemia and other occupational diseases had made alarming inroads on the workers, who, even In youth, were mostly pale, lean, toothless and lacking in energy. At one time it was the custom to give exemption from military service to those who would serve two years as miners in Almaden. "To Spain. Almaden is far more than a gold mine," he wrote, "for It has always been the world's tource of mercury." Abderrahman dogs. Gegen-Angrif- VALE '"TIIE great experiment - From Almaden, Little Town in Central e on Chic J JSiovic Radio J Most of the World's Mercury Since the Fifteenth century a little town in central Spain, Almaden, in Arabic simply "The Mine," has supplied most of the world with mercury, the metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and which dissolves other metals. It is needed in obtaining gold and silver from their ores, in scientific and manufacturing processes and in pharmacy. California and Oregon, Texas and Nevada are intermittent producers of mercury. New Almaden, Calif.' mines halt of what is produced in the United States, these mines having been established about seventy-fivyears. Southern Austria and Italy also have some mercury ores but the Spanish rock is tar richer, containing about 13 per cent compared with barley 1 per cent, says the Milwaukee Journal. The chief ore of mercury is mercuric sulfide, commonly called cinnabar and originally the source of the red pigment called vermilion. This the women of ancient Rome used for rouge. The Roman town. Sisapo, was in the neighborhood of Catch Up ! STAR DUST "That feels better ... but It's still a little snuj. |