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Show THE Thursday, December 10, 1942 TIMES-NEW- V'lMh S ! T AH PAGE SKVK7I i PATTERS J&l 3 CIRCLE FT IN THE y fJACKSOH GREGORY GREGORY THE STORY SO FAR: Old Early Bill Cole, whose days were numbered, bad been shot from ambusb early one morning by a man who escaped witb only a bullet hole through his hat. Early Bill staggered home and sent his Mexican hand, Gaucho Ortega, lor his friends Doc Joe and the Judge, wbo arrived without delay at the King Cole Ranch. Early Bill needed the doctor to attend his wound and the Judge to make bis will. However, Old Bill thought it would be fun to make two Identical wills. One bequeathing his ranch and money to Ann Lee, daughter of his old friend Busty Lee; and the other leaving the same to Cole Cody, son of another old friend. Now continue with the story. CHAPTER III Warm as the early summer evening was, a thundering log fire was making the rocks blazing hot in the living room fireplace at the King Cole Ranch. Drawn up before the hearth in his most commodious big chair sat old Early Bill with his long legs tucked under a heavy red wool blanket, with his overcoat on and buttoned to his chin, with his hat on, too. His only attendant, the only person he would tolerate in the house, his foreman Cal Round-trestood as far as he could from the fire, his face glistening with e, sweat. Cal mopped his forehead with a blue bandana already sopping, and had his say, not for the first time, I 1 you all my life, the sorts of things a man might expect from you only he'd never know what to expect!" He sobered. "Me, I didn't show up very well that night, did I? Guess I must have been halfway drunk and your style of playing drove me crazy and to top it off, 1 lost pretty nearly every cent I had in the world. Just you wait until I can get into another game with you!" "Sure Say, Cal! Where's that 1 jug?" "I'll go put up my horse," said Ranee Waldron. Again Early Bill Cole said, "Sure," and lay back in his chair and pulled his hat brim down. He sat there very still, looking into the fire. A queer little smile, a happy sort of smile with some strange sort of tenderness in it and a flick of humor a flick of devilishness, too, maybe touched his lips . . When Cal, first to return, came back into the room he thought the old man was asleep. So he was. Old Early Bill Cole, full of years and of wickedness and of a rare sweetness, was taking his ease in his last long sleep. It was hard to catch a glimpse of the girl's eyes, so wide and drooping was the brim of her pink straw hat, so long and inclined to lower themselves bafflingly were her lashes. Her cheeks, too, were pink, and there was a laughing dimple in one of them. She scarcely lifted" her fluffy skirts an inch when she stepped up into the stage; there was either. "Bill," he said explosively, "I tell you you're crazy! You'd ought by rights to have some kind of a nurse here with you; me, I couldn't IS nurse a sick colt. A woman anyTs how. Somebody to " "Dry up, Cal," snapped the old man. "Go get me a drink. Get yourself one, too. And quit beller-in- g like a bull call." Cal Roundtree, growling like a bear with a sore paw, started but stopped abruptly as he heard the lively racket of a horse's hoofs coming on to the house. The sounds stopped at the front door; then there was a lusty knocking. "Come in, you fool!" yelled old Early Bill. Ranee Waldron stepped in, just across the raised threshold, and stopped there looking about him, taking in everything at a sweeping glance. Then his look centered prob-ingl- y upon the man in the chair. "This the King Cole Ranch?" he said. "You're Mr. William Cole?" "Shut the door. Ranee," said Early Bill, and all of a sudden his voice was quiet and all but toneless. One speaks of a poker face; well, his voice now was a poker voice. Ranee Waldron closed the door, pulled his hat off and came closer; standing at the side of the chair he put out his hand. Early Bill took it slowly, let it go with a degree of alacrity. "You never saw me before," said Ranee Waldron, puzzled. ''How did you know me?" e "Oh, I saw you once, months ago, Waldron. Four months Old Early Bill Cole was taking his ease in his last long sleep. ago, maybe. You mightn't remember. Me, I don't forget Over at just the flash of an tiny Bantam Springs, it was." Until he finished speaking it was foot, the merest suspicion of a pink- hard to make much of his face, what stockinged ankle, and about her a with the effect of the flicker of the wisp of fragrance as though she had fire, an affair of light and shadow just bathed and sprinkled herself commingled, and with his broad hat with Florida Water. Little Miss Ann Lee, accompanied brim pulled low. Now he lifted his head and shoved his hat back and by Aunt Jenifer, fragile and tremu looked up into his kinsman's eyes. lously smiling under her poke boa Even so for another moment net, had taken the first stage from Ranee Waldron remained puzzled, Bantam Springs, arriving at the "But but " Ranee stuttered. "At small crossroads settlement of Top Bantam Springs, that night! Of Notch in the early evening. There course I remember. There was a she and her aunt tarried overnight card game we had a few drinks at the very respectable boarding- operated by a local celebrity, together But I didn't know who you houseBelle. And there they spent the Big I didn't know your name t were! they just called you Bill Why didn't following day and night waiting for another stage to take them a day's you tell me?" "Better get a move on and bring journey through the mountains to that jug, Cal." said Early Bill, and the King Cole Ranch, some miles on left the young man utterly to his own the nearer side of Bald Eagle. AH this, of course, was because of devices. But Cal Roundtree didn't budge; the letter she was carrying with her now, a most mystifying communicahe stood stock still, staring in fascination at the visitor's face. Ranee tion from a Mr. William Cole inwas the fire glow triguing, even beyond its mere because of the hundred seemed to make his face ruddier and ruddier until it grew bright red. dollar yellow back that had come with it. A huge sum of money but Or was it just the flreglow, Cal wonwith certain strings to it. dered? Yes. Rance'Waldron was reAnd, upward of a hundred miles membering! That poker game at Bantam Springs! An old man, a from Bantam Springs at the trading stranger, silting in! What a run of post where he went now and then, a luck the old fool had had! He had young man named William Cole been so clumsy; he seemed only Cody had received a very similar halfway to know what he was do- letter. He considered the thing some ing; he fumbled with the cards when sort of a hoax but then the hundred he shuffled; he made crazy bets and dollar "expense" money enclosed lost and yet, by some miracle, in was real dough. It was a long trip the end he won everything in sight! across the mountains to Bald Ea And Ranee Waldron lost his shirt gle; he had heard of the place as that night; lost more than he could had most men within a pretty conafford to lose, expecting with every siderable radius. Why the devil new hand to clean the old fool down should he pick up and travel because indi to his bootheels; had lost more than some no doubt just money, because he had lost his vidual beckoned? Why? Well then. head, too, and had flown into a rage because a thing like that gets a and had said things Just what had man's curiosity stimulated until it ' he said? Xnd the old fool was won't let him rest; because it Is a Early Bill Cole, keeping his name simple thing for youth to scent ad hidden the way he did an ace in the venture over the next hill. And, when hole and all the time Early Bill he Is handed a key, it's sheer hu man nature for a man to wonder knew who Ranee Waldron was! But this consternation, holding what lock It fits! So in the end Cole Cody slid into and at utter loss, him tongue-tie- d He was his newefst boots and hat, decorated was only momentary. young man of parts, was Ranee Wal- himself with his most flamboyant dron, hard to down and harder to bandana, looked to his guns and Of sudden, startling through Black Rock Pass, and kep down. Bill and Cal Roundtree, came In due course to the stage both Early he began laughing. stop at Top Notch. Ha stabled his "Bill Cole, you old heller!" he horse, had supper and went to bed. In the morning he'd saddle andide shouted when he grew articulate. "I might have known at the time on. But a man never knowsl that it was you! I've heard about O Q kitch-enwar- two-thre- bare-heade- crack-braine- ' d I I SEWING iaap T i l He had ridden late last night and would have slept late this morning By VIRGINIA VALE bad he not been awakened by the Released by Western Newspaper Vr u.i. commotion out in the yard attend a long breath ' t ant upon the stage preparing for de He hadn't thought any parture. you lads who si :i et-l- y thing about a stage, having a good Garson v ith Greer adore saddle horse, and had ridden by to her marriage Richard ' ley way of Top Notch simply because it postponed until after th; ar lay on his line of travel. Now, being awake, he yawned comfortably there may still be a chant for and stretched and came close to doz the moyou! At least, ing off again. Then through the ment there one is; other, coarser sounds of men swear knows what to be sure of ing at horses and trace chains jangling, he heard another sound, and when a Hollywood marruge he thought dreamfully that it fitted is concerned. At any rate, hs of far more pleasantly into the early right now, this one is delayed; : ? 'tns, daylight hour. Little Ann Lee, very according to Lieutenant Nej angay and electric this morning, was nouncement, that there w?s no laughing. place where they could be n airied He got up then, dressed and ran until 10 o'clock, when the time came, his fingers through a wild thatch of so they decided to wait dark red hair, cocked his hat on at RKO is launching a new sers of an. angle which bespoke an interest in life and full approval of it, and feature pictures, all about a lokie, stepped along outside. And just as using a new comedy team. First he got outside the door Long Peters, will come "Adventures of a Rookie"; the stage driver, was calling down after that it'll be a case of "Everywhere the army goes, the rookie's from his high seat "All aboard, folks. Here we go." sure to go." It was then that Cole Cody saw As a direct result of Margo"? actAnn Lee stepping up into the stage. He did catch the most fleeting of ing on the CBS Caravan Hour she's the first feminine narrator in movies glances from her eyes under the in RKO's "Women at War," one long, demure lashes, and noted how of several short subjects in RKO's the pink of her cheeks was- as soft as the" softest of colm,.,t4Mim.i,,i...,i, 4Wqyje)Sswlll ors tinting the eastern sky. "Hold on there!" shouted Cole Cody, and bore down on the stage at a run. He called back to the hostler who had just lent a hand with hitching up, "Keep my horse until I come back," and jerked the stage . door open. W.N.U. 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"That was Ruand letting her eyes drift sideways. dolph Valentino and he's dead." She The Questions She spoke for her thrilled niece's doesn't go to movies often, but ears alone: "Yes, I know. Pet. Real- thinks Jimmy Stewart is the star 1. Of what country is the boomly quite handsome and dashing and most like her son as a young man. a native weapon? all that To be sure. 'And I no- But it's hardly likely that he can erang 2. What is a necropolisT ticed something else!" take time off from the army for the 3. For how many years did "What?" role. Washington live? George "He saw you!!" 4. In what was Joan of Cole Cody, generally as forthright Seven years ago in November Arc burned atcentury the stake? as a flying arrow going places, was Fred MacMurray made his first pic5. How many miles does Lake inclined to a certain circuity this ture on the Paramount lot, playing cover? Superior in Claudctte Colbert "The He remarked on the horses opposite morning. 6. What is the number of possiHe does Gilded first of all, not being in the least inLily." Remember? ble Bteel alloys? there he was in an important role, terested in them, yet singling out the 7. How long ago was the first off leader for remark; and in return and nervous doesn't half describe telephone conversation between got a thumb nail sketch of that ani- the way he felt Today they're in a gay comedy called "No New York and Chicago held? mal's career, character and pedi8. What is a marabou? for Time He of Love"; she's a lady and gree. spoke Top Notch; of a high mountain town he knew they he's a sandhog. The Answers would pass through. Tap Rock; then of Bald Eagle. Of what a fine day it Ed ("Archie") Gardner has turned 1. Australia. was. And finally of the inside pas- down Metro's overtures to make a 2. A cemetery. celluloid version of the air's "Dufsengers. 3. Sixty-seve- n "Folks that live around here? Or fy's." He's working hard to bring years. 4. The fifteenth. his new radio program up to the top strangers?" 5. Lake Long Peters swung his equipage of the list before signing up with Superior covers 31,810 around a bend, down into a shallow, Hollywood execs for whom he last square miles. 6. The American Steel and Iron dry creek, cracked his whip again worked as a radio director. and started them briskly up a sharp institute has estimated that the slope with the lifting mountains Joseph Callola, of "For Whom the number of possible steel alloys is looming steep and black ahead. Bell Tolls," Is head of the Malta about 775,000,000 followed by 1,968 First disposing of those of his cargo War Relief organization in this conn-tr- zeros. whom he knew, he got around at 7. Fifty years. bis parents, who are English and 8. A stork. last to Ann Lee and Aunt Jenifer. Bpanlsh, live Id Malta, and recently "We're carryin' a couple nice la he heard that the house in which be dies, too," he said. "Don't know was born has been blasted to bits. much about 'em. They come this Norman Tokar and Jacle Kelk, far with Hank Roberts day 'fore yes tiddy; I only saw the two of 'em who play "Henry" and "Homer" breakfas' time. They're a Miss Ed respectively in radio's "The Aldrich wards, that's the old lady and she Family," never feel absolutely sure T ain't real old at that and her niece. that they're going to hold their Jobs because that's Miss Ann Lee. come practically every tbey from They down yonder; page boy at NBC covets those roles. somewhere way around Bantam Springs some place. fottanV ver Dick Powell was working in "HapHank says. And they never been up this way before; goin' to see some py Go Lucky," and his wife, Joan Blond ell, was touring the land with of their folks. Jus' visitin Hollywood Victory Caravan. So, "Going far?" young Cody asked the for the first time within anybody's casually. turretcover memory, an extra telephone was or"All the way through to Bald Ea dered installed on a movie lot, beman gle. We get there early tonight' cause the Powells are so devoted He eased his straining horses down , tot the to each other that they kept calling to a walk as the slope steepened aVorite distance, making and the road narrowed and rough' each other on long on one the unavailable the phone ened. "How about you, stranger? I for business calls. ain't ever seen you any place." "Me? I'm headed on to Bald Ea ODDS AD FADS CaU Inrnim gle, too. No, I've never been up this eERYCS for toldieri from Clarktville, way. My stamping ground's down around Dutch Skill's Trading Post" J en it i the home of Helen Vood, radio Fitk mea ia the Army, Navy, Marines, "Olad to know you. 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