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Show PAGE SIX Thursday, October 2, 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH reminded Gil of a similar band Cass was proud of his record at which assembled each evening to a' gunman and a fighter. He often watch the train go through the Ohio boasted that whoever could lick i Lucky where he had spent his him, either on the draw or with fists, village THE could be the next mayor. Mort youth. Punch A nearby cafe beckoned and Gil Cass wouldn't stay in a town where FICTION By went in to have a cup of coffee he had been whipped. CORNER ELOISE j before going to a hotel. The waiter Two men he had bested at gunSTONE had barely slid his brimming cup play were asleep on Boot Hill, at down the counter, when one of the the edge of town. The only man onlookers from the stage depot took who had ever fought him barehandthe next stool. He, too, ordered cof- ed might as well have joined them. The stage for Benson's Gulch was fee and took a deep drink before His broken bones had not mended ready to leave Tucson. Gilbert Brad-- y turning to Gil. properly after the beating he had hurried up the dusty street and "Haven't I seen you some place received and his six-fobody was climbed aboard just as the driver before?" he asked. 'You look real shrunken and misshapen. whipped the horses and the coach familiar to me." Virginia and Gil were making lurched forward. "I don't recall meeting you," an- their way across the street one "day Gil. to secnew this "I'm Once settled comfortably in his swered to dine at the Western hotel. Cass seat, he casually took inventory of tion of the country." swaggered out and moved toward "It's a good country, but I can't them. his fellow passengers. Besides himschool-marself, the coach contained two people say too much for this town." if it the ain't "Well, pretty a girl and a man. "Don't discourage me like that, turned editor and her pasty town when Don I've only been in ten faced John." The girl's eyes reflected the color smiled Gil. "What's of the violets which trimmed her minutes," Anger seethed through Gil, but he couldn't quite help being amused at wrong with the town?" bonnet. Her dress was of gray linThe other grunted. "You've met the flagrant mispronunciation. He en. Beneath the brim of the bonnet, several curls of auburn hair escaped to flutter in the draft from the partly open window. The first thing Gil noticed about the man was his agate-har- d yellow eyes. They were set close together under thick black eyebrows. The man was heavily built, with huge shoulders and hands. He wore twin gun belts crossed at his waist and s the black handles of his protruded from open holsters. "Since we're all going to Benson's Gulch, we'd just as well make ourselves acquainted," he said, flicking his yellow eyes over Gil and then resting them on the girl. "I'm Mort Cass, mayor of Benson's Gulch." The girl's pale face turned even whiter. Her lips quivered ever so slightly as she looked with loathing straight into the yellow eyes. "I'm Virginia Holmes. My brother wrote me about you shortly before he died." The two had forgotten Gil's presence. "I was mighty sorry, ma'am, "Sorry," the girl flashed. ''William was fighting you and your corrupt when your brother met his untimely friends with his newspaper. end," said Cass. "Wil"Sorry," the girl flashed. our If don't already could smell liquor on Cass' breath. liam was fighting you and your cor- know,mayor. soon you find out." The man had been drinking heavily, you'll He friends his with rupt newspaper. By the time Gil had been In town but was far from drunk. He pushed more than hinted that if an accident between Gil and Virginia. befell him, you would be behind it. two weeks he had made friends with Holmes the incurred and "Run along, tenderfoot," he said. Virginia I haven't the slightest doubt that you enmity of Mort Cass for that reason. "I'll take Virginia to dinner and see killed my brother." The yellow eyes narrowed grimly. Cass had learned that Gil was in if I can't change her opinion of me "Some of those words are mighty Arizona because toof his health and a bit." He started to take the girl's arm. he never failed make a remark harsh, ma'am." "I shall print some just as harsh," about "lungers" when he was cer- She drew back and slapped him full said Virginia. "You see, you didn't tain to be overheard by the smaller across the face. He started menacman. Gil found that not many of ingly toward her. stop his paper. I am going to Ben- the "I'll learn you to slap Mort Cass," townspeople liked Cass; but, one son's Gulch to publish it." and all, they feared and obeyed him. he said. Virginia Holmes settled back into Gil tapped him on the right shoulIt was common gossip In Benson's her seat, turning her body to face Gulch that Cass had either fired the der. As Cass turned, Gil drove a the . window. Gilbert Bradly had been about to shot that killed William Holmes, or hard left into his face. The crowd, introduce himself, but he saw that ordered it fired. The body of the which was beginning to gather, gave neither of his companions was inter- young editor had been found in his a startled gasp. Cass charged at ested. Gil would have been the first shop one morning. A group of wild Gil and for a moment it looked as if he would pummel him into the from a to admit that he wasn't an imprescowboys sive figure. He was slight, barely ranch had been drinking the night ground. Gil's rapid foot work saved him. His weaving body made a five and a half feet tall. His gray before and done a lot of wild shootpoor target for the larger man's One street. his were in main the town's mild and clothes eyes ing bear-lik- e blows. marked him as a newcomer to the of the bullets had broken the glass Cass soon realized that this fight office of window and the newspaper desert country. The trio rode in silence to Ben- lodged in the owner. The coroner was not going to result in the easy had given a verdict of accidental victory he had expected. He stepped son's Gulch. back and warily eyed his adversary. Arrival of the stage was evidently death. As Cass was an event in the town. The group in Benson's Gulch, no one openly Then again he charged at Gil, who eluded him. of men gathered for the occasion questioned the verdict. Wild cheers rang from the crowd later, when Gil stood with widespread legs over the sprawled figure of Mort Cass. "Oh, what a lucky punch," someone roared, as bystanders rushed to congratulate Gil. "Lucky punch, nothing," cried a voice. deep Balutlen Next la lean. Horizontal Gil turned to face the man who had drunk coffee with him soon aftS 1 Large i T p 10 er his arrival in Benson's Gulch. serpent "I remember you now," he said, 4 Since - ii nr n 6 Aspect taking Gil's hand in a firm grasp. 11 Still in "I saw you fight once in Chicago. existence Recall the night you knocked out 13 Migratory imZl. Motzi In the third round. You're winged Bradly, once holder of the world's insect 15 Earth lightweight boxing crown." 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