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Show THE Thursday, December 30, 1937 r XIII Continued 1& "Seems to me," ho said, "that's a whole lot different from what you were laying just a little while ago." "1 wasn't able to believe my own eyes, I guess. I wasn't able to get Idea that eastover tie 'settled-up- ' ern people have. Nobody but westerners will ever be able to understand our dry land. They'll never d believe that country can be and yet have nothing In It but coyotes and Jackrabbits and hall a dozen poor cows to the mile." He noticed that she called It "our dry land," now. "And so?" "I'm going to stay with my brand, until there isn't one bit of the 94 left After all, I'm my father's daughter. The country is part of me. bred In." "I know how you feel," he said slowly. "But it isn't as if you could really do anything here, now." "I'll be able to keep you informed of what's happening here, at least. I hardly think Val Douglas would take much interest In that left to himself. But it isn't that It's simplyI can't always run away from everything. I've run away from too many things, and sometimes afterward I've been sorry." He could understand that, but it surprised him to find her looking at things in that way. He had to respect her for it but it didn't make the set-u- p any easier for him. "I suppose there isn't anything I can do," he admitted regretfully. "You've already shown me that when you set out to do a thing. you'll do it in spite of all hell and the drouth." "wouldn t you rather have me that way?" I don t know as I could ever bring myself to want you any different than you are." He made a cigarette, and lit it and gloomily studied its smoke. He was thinking that It was pretty near too much to ask cf a man to go off on a long trail, the way things were here, and leave this child Suddenly he 'ealized that this girl was not any longer a child. He had not known that he had always before seen her as a child, until now he saw her as something else. Her face had a color that was like a child's color, clear and lovely, but its contours no longer suggested a little girl. It was a quiet face, thoughtful and awake, and somehow competent looking; and her eyes, looking into that distance beyond the walls, were looking into the future understanding, even som berly, but unafraid. He wondered why he had not realized before how changed she was. Every movement she made, every pose she took, was different from what he had seen in the girl he had made love to two years before. Two years ago Marian Dunn would not have been able to lounge relaxed upon his bunk in pajamas and an Indian blanket thinking about the factors of range war, and the business affairs of men; she would have been nervously conscious then of the fact that the man she was with loved her would have worried about what he would do or say. This girl did not worry, but steadily faced the situation in which they found themselves. He looked away from her, unable any longer to think of murder clues or cow mortgages while she was in his eyes. He fixed his gaze upon his thrown-dow- n gunbelt and tried to think of what he must do. Bitterly he was blaming himself that he could not see through this killing case; for he bad a persistent hunch that everything necessary ' for solution was in his hands. He blamed only himself that he must now take a long trail to discover what might be obvious, here and now, to a more brilliant over-settle- t I I I i I ata k 5 ' (AUaUUtf VNU Earvlca Wheeler walked around the house to where Old Man Coffee still sat As far as the naked eye could observe Old Man Coffee bad not changed his position; he could sit like a rock or an Indian hours on end, as if this were his natural way of living out his life. Wheeler sat down slowly and stiffly on the step beside the old man; he ran his hands over his face, shook his head like a fighter trying to clear away the effects of a killing right cross. Coffee did not speak and for a little while Wheeler also sat silent, trying to compute how much he wished to say. "Coffee," he said at last "I see it I see it all." Coffee took his pipe out of his mouth and looked at Wheeler. "All what?" "I know who fired on Marian." "Hell, son, you had that figured out last time I seen you, two hours ago." Coffee glanced at the stars which he used as a clock. "Two hours and fifteen minutes," be cor rected himself. "I had the wrong reason," Wheeler said; "this time I know. And knowing that I know now why Bob Flagg had forenottce that he was near bis end. And I can prove it alL" Old Man Coffee started to say, "You sound like you was full of " but he hesitated and studied Billy Wheeler sidelong through the thin dark. "Answer me one thing, son," he said at last "What was the thing that showed you the killer trail?" "It was two things. Coffee," Wheeler said; "not one. Two kind of trivial-lookin- g things, that I knew and then forgot But as soon as saw the meaning of one of them. right away I saw the meaning of the other. Like as if the two clues were tied together by the neck. Coffee, Marian doesn't know a thing in the world about this. But the first thing that come to me was something I remembered that she said. You foothills" "I know that now." "I don't know how I'm going to let you go. So many things anything can happen before we're together again." "But we have this hour, now." "Nothing can ever rob us of that!" ovic came back into the night turning him cold. His Hungry Mouth Found an Answering Quiver in Her Lips. never been. His hungry mouth found an answering quiver in her lips; and for a while, under the spell of the gentle warmth that he had thought would never be his, he no longer worried about what might happen to the cow kingdom of Horse Dunn. Presently she said, "Two years ago it was my fault But last night in the hills it was yours. If you had only put your hands on me then but you had to stand with a face like granite, and eyes like death in the Each was seeing a person he had never seen before. He was still whipcord and braided leather, the saddle man who could hold his own in the upheaval of markets and the shifting games of the financiers; but all the barbed and dour hardness of him was gone, so that in the arms of this girl it was as if he were reborn. And in the girl the hidden steel of the will he had not been able to bend seemed melted, and the curve of her body within his arm was a surrender without reserve. They did not know how long they lay together on the bunk that for the time was not his, but theirs, in that lonely and deserted house; and he learned here that she was neither east nor west but all woman. A harsh, taut strain that had held them for days seemed to slacken and go out of the night, as if guns and cattle were unimportant things; and in that hour that was theirs alone, one bitterness went out of the world forever. It was not a surprise, but a consummation, when presently he found that she was asleep. He picked" her up and carried her to her own room, and put her in her own bed; and she smiled faintly in her sleep as he kissed her eyes, Then he walked out of the house, by a different door than the one where Coffee sat, and stood listen ing to the still night Then, while his mind was entirely away from hatred and violence for the first time in a week, something in the back of his mind found the answer, and all in a moment he saw through the tangle that had roped the 94. He knew suddenly not only who had killed Flagg at Short Creek, but why Flagg had had more than a hunch that he was riding into death; he knew why Marian had been fired on; and he knew how he could prove, inevitably and inescap ably, who had killed Bob FHg and the taut strain of range war ni a i i I j r. ip Carole plays the role of a village myself the right shut if I can't see beauty who comes into national where clearing up a mystery will prominence when a The abundant life is shared by a variety of birds finding headquarters in the sanctuary at Crater Lake National park in Oregon. There are more than seventy varieties in the park. Bird notes are heard continually, according to a news bulletin issued by the park service. The Eagle Craggs have furnished nesting places for the golden eagle and the American bald eagle; Llao Rock is the home of falcons. have been seen and the Calihorned owl forages nightly. fornia gulls visit the park and black cormorants are known to have nested and raised their young on the lake. There are ravens and half a dozen varieties of hawks. Canvas-bac- k ducks freand golden-eyequent the lake and the Sierra Clark's grouse the timberlands. crow, the camp robber, and California, crested and gray jays make their presence known on the trails Os-pre- VIRGINIA VALE ji keep one right to to keep my mouth doctor says that she has radium poisoning and will live but briefly. They soon find that he was mistaken, but in the meantime r metro- - j 1 S politan newspaper nas assignea one oi t h r r rpnnrtprt Fredric March, to fill her last days with enough exciteFredrlo ment to act as a cirMarch culation builder for the paper. Hilariously the picture pokes fun at newspapers, doctors, night clubs, publicity seekers, and the gullible public. 1 "'EE, 1 Sew-Your-O- d n? 39-in- ch 21-in- 35-in- Before starting his picture for Warner Brothers, Rudy Vallee rushed back to New York for a night club engagement Popular as ever, if not more so, he drew such crowds that hundreds were turned away. One old friend who managed to get a ringside table was Frances Langford. Called to the stage to be introduced to the crowd, Frances told, with tears streaming unashamedly down her cheeks, how much it meant to her to have Rudy Vallee send for her a few years ago to sing on his program. certainly started somthing when it awarded Bing Crosby a doctor's degree in Now Northwestern univergoing to bestow the honorary degree of "Doctor of Innuendo and music. sity's pa-ja- Temple Square n, Snappy Comeback" on Charlie McCarthy. 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' Don't be sur prised if it is advertised as "One Hundred Men and a Mouse." Bette Davis is going to school two hours a day to learn just the right Southern ac cent for "Jezebel" and Professor Dal-toReymond, formerly of Louisiana State university reports that she is progressing wonderfully. Incidentally, one of the very small roles in this picture is played by Henry O'Neill who knew Bette Davis and Says Bette Davis Henry Fonda, co- stars, nine years ago when they were all with the Cape Cod Playand around the camp grounds. Smaller birds frequently seen are house. O'Neill was the star then. the mountain bluebird, Townsend Fonda painted scenery and Bette was an usher. solitaire, Sierra junco, pine siskin, ODDS AND ENDS "Three on a creeper nuthatch, chickadee and Match," the that launched grosbeak. 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The in coloring veteran screen star, graduate of the equally remarkable Arts school, covers the when it rests on twig or branch, Copenhagen sketches with during rehearsal where its red head, yellow body, margins both Betty . . . played Bentley Spencer and black wings with yellow bars and Bob on a recent broadcast when The sweetest Betty Heller fainted just before broadare unmistakable. singer in the park Is the hermit cast time. Early in his stage career, he thrust shy, difficult to locate, but did a female impersonation act, so he making its presence known by beau wasnt nenous. Q Western Newspaper Colon. tiful song. Seventy Varieties of Birds Around Crater Lake in Oregon, Bulletin wide By Rail "T'IIE best motion picture of A years, according to the on the cash registers, figures nswered. "The first murder case is Sacred." This "Nothing "was worked on." he said at last a long time ago. Sometimes I think mad and merry story through which Carole Lombard and that one first case was the misfortune of my life. Because it gave Fredric March scramble me a kind of a reputation in a draws such crowds to theasmall way, so that ever since then ters wherever it plays that I've been called In on such, from time to time, over and over again. engagements are being exMan hunting Isn't a pretty Job, Hiltended even in smaller towns ly, nor anything a man would care where two-da- y showings are to turn his hand to more than once, the In big cities, usual rule. if he could get out of it But I've Sa- -j looks if as it on "Nothing hard and worked honestly always to down had hand. cred" settled set once I my my case where And now that I'm old I figure to spend the whole winter. serve no proper end. "Take this case, here. Do you think that solving this crime can possibly come under the head of helping any living person, or pre serving the peace? You know better than that You know as well as I do that the minute the answer is made known the guns will crack out and good boys that's got nothing to do with either side will be throwing lead into each other's guts." "You think Horse Dunn will tuke to the guns?" "Of course he'll take to the guns! You know him well enough to know that The guns will be talking before ever the thing is proved." "The proof ought to be easy enough." "I got no doubt of that. I see at least one way of proof and maybe you see more. But what I'm tell ing you is this, son think what you're doing before you raise this lid. Don't raise it unless you think you'd rather see what will come of it in place of what we already got The moon was gone, and they sat in the chill blackness before dawn; but it seemed to Wheeler that the night was no darker than his mood. 'I thought of all that" he said. "I thought of all that the moment it come to me. And first off, I thought like you. But now I'm not so sure. Sometimes it seems like there's " after something unsound at the bottom of "Stop." said Old Man Coffee. plan that calls for just hiding So sharply had the old man conrv any our heads." manded him that Wheeler at first "Then I'll give you your answer," thought Coffee was listening to some Coffee abruptly. "I'll distant sound. "What's the mat said Old Manwhole thing, once and give you .the ter?" for all, in four words. Think of the Tve heard enough." "Then," said Billy Wheeler, "you girl." He took a couple of drags on hi? know the answer too?" Horse Dunn, and the pipe. "I've kind of suspected it these cattle, "Forget and the money, and the many days. I didn't know for sure range. Forget even the good fightuntil today." boys, here on the 94 Tulare "Do you think anyone else ing and Steve Hurley and Val Douglas knows?" they'll fight while they can hold up "Son, Tm virtually certain that their guns. And Gil Baker, he'll be no one in the world knows but you in it if he has to drag a broken leg and me." into the street But forget all them. 'You must have come at it dif And think what this here head-o- n ferently than I did. Coffee." smash between the 94 and all of the "Different than you," Coffee rest of the range is going to mean agreed. "God knows how you come to the girl." at it I don't want to know. In Wheeler sat silent for a long time. minute now I'm going to say no At last .needing to be alone, he got more. But nobody else In the Red up and walked off into tl.e dark, Rock could have found it out ex leaving Old Man Coffee with the cept maybe Cayuse Cayetano and darkness and his pipe. He went he's dead." out and he sat on the corrals, and he They sat silent for a little time was thinking about Horse Dunn and "What's the next move?" Wheeler the cow kingdom of the 94; but mostpresently asked. ly he was thinking about the girl "Until you spoke," Coffee said. who had at last taken him into her "I knew what my next move was heart now at the end. He could going to be. My next move was go- never think about anything any more ing to be out. But now that you've except in terms of its effect upon her. come onto the right trail, I guess He had an hour to come to his maybe it's kind of up to me to stand decision there before the first pale, by a little while, until I see what reddish light of the dawn showed at you do." the edge of the world; and it was the hardest hour of his life, because Something in Old Man Coffee' voice bothered Wheeler. "You mean he knew that he held in his hands we're not working together, then? the future of them all. More than "Seems like we might not be, once he turned to Coffee's easier son. I'm an old man; and I long way. But as a gray light began to ago learned that sometimes it's a come slowly across the 94 he good idee to leave sleeping dogs thought he knew what he must do. lie." He went in and rapped on Mar"You mean, you'd have been will ian's door; and when she called to ing to pull out of this case and him sleepily he went in and stood 'You and I are leave it unsolved forever?" beside her bed. Old Man Coffee drew half a dozen going to Inspiration," he told her. slow puffs on his pipe before he (TO BE CONTINUED) d -- DUST """j and looked away, but she did not look away now. Her eyes looked lazy, but not sleepy; they were as darkly blue as a night sky, but he found them unreadable at first Then after a moment or two he recognized that she was not think ing about murder clues. All at once he knew that there was no barrier between them any more at all, and had not been any for a long time, except the barrier put there by his old defeat And he knew now that he had never failed at all, but that the years had worked for him in ways be would not have guessed. He said slowly, "I was the one who was a fooL" He never knew what move he made that brought her into his arms. VVitW the barrier gone from between them at last they found themselves in each other's arms as naturally, as unhurriedly, as inevitably as the dry land takes up the rare rains; and his heart lifted up like the April grass of the dry melts ranges, when the snow-locoff and is forgotten as if it had He tried to set his mind to the factors be had discussed with Coffee, in one more supreme effort to short-cu- t the case, but his mind would not work for him. Even with his eyes upon a saddle or a gun he could still see nothing but the girl every felint of light in the loose bush of her hair, the slim cordings of a wrist, the resting look of a hand that lay palm up upon the blanket It was impossible for him not to wonder if things between them might not have been different had he never known her two years before at all. but could have started over again now, to win her In a ncw way. Then it occurred to him it was a waste of time to be looking gun or a saddle blanthink, when he might ket, trying be looking at tier. Perhaps it would be a long timeV before he would see her apain; perhaps he would never see her again fat all So now he let murder and cows and money slide into the lost shadows, and h turned to her; and as he did so he found that her eyes were on his face. They looked at each othr steadily, while the mo-- l menu 'passed. 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