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Tata aaaea throat rawstaea and aoraaaaa almost Instantly, AJ A VI CHAPTER Xn Continued -1- 5"You still think the killer's horse was here in the 94 layout after the killing, like old Rock seemed to thlnkT" Old Man Coffee's answer was a grunt; it might have meant one thing or "the other. "You're stalled, son. You got no lead." "Sure we've got a lead." "And where is 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 sleep again. "Coffee 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 Coffee knocked out his pipe again. "You want to know what I think? I think, 'Oh. helll 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-ga- t, 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. talk 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 floor, and lighted his lamp. CHAPTER XIII It was very late when it usually costs to relieve the misery of a cold today is 3 to 5 relief for the period of your cold 15 to 25. Hence no family need even minor head colds. neglect ' Here is what to do: Take two BAYER tablets when you feel a cold coming on with a full glass of water. Then repeat, if necessary, according to directions in each package. Relief comes rapidly. The Bayer method of relieving colds is the way many doctors np--N prove. You take Bayer Aspirin for relief then if you are not improved promptly, you call tho iamuy doctor. All Wheeler left Old Man Coffee. Without check- ing the hour, he knew that morning could not be far off; and he had supposed that Marian was asleep. She had ridden a long way, not to count that long climb of theirs through the dark. In her own way she outlasted the leathery strength of men and horses and came and through clear-eye- d But she apparently untouched. seemed so fragllely made that he althe young ways underestimated strength of her vitality. So, he was thinking of her as asleep, as he now sat down on the edge of his bunk and rolled a ciga light-foote- rette. His frame rested re laxed. but he did not look tired. All his life had been spent in the saddle simply for the reason that the dry country has few roads few places for roads to go and the horse is the only means of cross country transportation across mountain ranges and sand dunes and the vast gulch cut plains. Ten thousand miles in the saddle had hardened him until he was made of braided leather. and no less enduring than the runty, unkillable range ponies. A few more miles on the horse trails and a few nights short of sleep could not tire him now. His face was as awake as ever, and his gray eyes, made to look lighter than and they were by his weamer-ieainere- a stun, were as clear as they had been when he ar rived at the 94. He let his ciga rette trail from a corner of his mouth, rested his chin on one hand; and. squinting through the thin up line of smoke, consid ered his next moves. He must travel that was certain. What could be done here was done the finding of Bob Flagg and Lon Magoon. He must trace Bob Flagg back to his sources, back through Flagstaff, perhaps to the sold-ou- t Arizona ranch itself, seeking the truth, for he was certain that Flagg had shown more than a premoni tion ot his death. And he must find time to run down the 64 debts, seeking ways to avert its bankruptcy, at least for a time. He was wondering bow far he dared go against Dunn's order that no penny of Wheeler money should ever be chanced in the 94. Dunn would be game to split the works wide open, if he didn't like the way salvation had been obtained. It was up to Wheeler to find ways to get around that, taking care that the girl would never guess any obligation to him. That last was what Dunn feared most But though his mind was laying out routes and plans far outside cf long-bone- 15 FOR U TABLETS 2 FULL DOZEN 25tV Virtually 1 cent a tablet d leanly-muscle- d wind-burne- M H. 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Are rnaorsea trie country over, lasts! pa Voan'n. Snld at all drug siorea. (; f'i iMI r g d ' the Red Rock country, be was somehow not surprised as Marian now came and joined him here. To think about any phase of this killing case, or of the imminent ruin of Horse Dunn's cow kingdom, was to thln about her. After all, the 94 was her brand, and her future was interlaced with its future. So now as he looked up at the sound of her light quick step it seemed a natural, somehow expected thing to see her standing there in his door. "This is a lonely night," she said. in"Nothing anywhere In this night 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 shoulders she should have looked smaller, but she did not He thought he had never seen her so slimly tall, so gravely steady. Perhaps that was partly the effect of what she wore. Because he had never seen her dressed as 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 wear'ng pajamas, but their black silk was cut like a Russian smock, with a high collar of 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 barbaric dignity, as If it were not something to sleep In at all, but the cere- monial dress of some forgotten It was strange to see priestess. 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 ter of two worlds. She came and sat beside him on the bunk. "Did you 3nd out anything more from Old Man Coffee? I thought you'd get more out of him If I left you alone." "Not very much. Old Man Coffee's been a disappointment to me in a way. Sometimes I think he doesn't know anything about it" "I wonder." "Marian, what are you going to do?" Important" "There's one lone, slim possibility," he said. u "In heaven's name, what is it? case "There's one thing in this that I can't swallow. It stands out above everything else one unbelievable thing that couldn't possibly two happen. I'm thinking of those shots that have been thrown at you." She was silent, and after a moment or two he went on. "Somehow those shots at you are mixed up with these other shootings; it would be too big a coincidence if the shots at you and the killing of the men were separate, yet happening at the same time." "I can see that, all right" "But the shots at you eliminate nearly every suspect we have. Take Val Douglas. He hasn't proved very He's been dependable, Marian. he was. to where as in lies caught Even just now, when he was sent to Pahranagat to check up Bob Flagg, it seems from what Coffee says that he didn't even go near there. Sometimes I've suspected VaL Even if he didn't kill 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 ot all this range, until Horse Dunn took hold. Link Bender might go to any length to put down the 91 But he controls this kid sheriff, and through the sheriff he's 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 another 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'a plan to pan out That man is Rufe Deane. Rule 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 "What is there for me to do? One of two things stay here or go to Inspiration to be near Horse. Of course, he ought to be out of there in a few days." "I wouldn't count on that, Marian. They can't make a case against him not even the beginnings of a case. They know that But what they want to do and can do Is to tie up the 94 finances by making the case look as ugly as possible. They'll point out that Dunn was the Most main one who would be expecting Flagg there; and probably make Flagg' s share of the money the motive. Of course that's ridiculous. Since the Fifteenth century a little But for their purpose, all they need town in central Spain, Almaden, in to do Is to raise the question and Arabic simply "The Mine." has sun- then cause a delay in clearing It plied most of the world with merup." cury, the metal which is liquid at Her eyes were on distance be ordinary temperatures and which yond the walls smoky eyes, dissolves other metals. It is needed even on the surface; In obtaining drowsy, misty gold and silver from but behind them was that continu ineir ores, In scientific and manuing deep glow of slumbering fire facturing processes and in pharthe smouldering light of a great remacy. serve vitality. California and Oregon. Texas nnd "I'd go east now. If I were you." he told her. "We'll fight this thing Nevada are Intermittent producers out and save out of it what we can oi mercury. New Almaden, Calif., you can count on that But this mines half of what is produced in Isn't a good place for you any more the United States, these mines havThere won't be anyone here, except ing been established about seventy-fiv- e a couple of cow hands to keep an years. Southern Austria and eye on things. And it would drive Italy also have some mercury ores Horse crazy to have you in thai but the Spanish rock is far richer hornets nest in Inspiration." containing about 13 per cent com' "But you-- ?" pared with barley 1 per cent says "I'll be gone, i have to back the Milwaukee Journal. track Bob Flagg a little further. I'll The chief ore of mercury is mer-curi- e have to go to Flagstaff; then maybe sulfide, commonly called cinGod knows how long nabar arid originally the source of I'll be gone. It looks like a dim the red pigment called vermilion. crooked traiL" This the women of ancient Rome She considered this. "When are used for rouge. The Roman town, you leaving?" Sisapo, was In the neighborhood of "Now-bef- ore daylight I'D send Almaden. a note to Horse. I don't even dare E. E. Kisch, a writer for Gegen-Angrif- f, see him In Inspiration, for fear the Paris weekly of the Ger-ma- n they'll hold me there on some exiles, visited Almaden some trumped-ucharge." "me ago and reported that mr. They were silent again. Throush cury necrosis, anemia and other oc- the window came to them a cool dlsea8ei had made clean breeze fragrantly from the taroad, on wo uplands, with a fall tang In it that farming ' .even youth, were mostly promised frosts before long. He sud- pale. lean, .ta toothless and lacking In denly thought she might be cold energy. At one Urn. it was the There was a clean Navajo blanket custom to give exemption on his bed, and he put this about service to those who her shoulders. She smiled faintly, yea" M mine" ln but did not look at him or move. She said, "It will be queer and "To Spain, Almaden lonely here, with you gone." n r'-- l mine" he wrote."6 "But you u be leaving too." 11 l:r,s nl'.vays been the world'. She shook her head, her eyes far "trcury." Abderrahman enough to try to kill you to get back at Horse for the death of young Deane." "Billy, if you're right If you can prove that" "That's Just the trouble. Suppose I'm right Rufe Deane did it We're no better off than we were in the beginning. You see, Marian, there's two parts to these killing cases. One thing is to find out who did it and why. The other thing is to prove it and get a conviction. I haven't one single thing to show against Rufe Deane; and until I can show evidence, it won't matter how sure I may be in my mind." When he looked at her it was past his power to Imagine how Rufe Deane or anyone else could ever look down the sights of a gun at Marian Dunn; she was so gently and sweetly made, so precious in his eyes. He didn't believe in Horse Dunn's creed of gun justice, for he thought that the use of violence outside the law was a costly thing, defeating its own purposes in the end. But he knew that If ever he faced Rufe Deane with anything like a decent proof in his hands, he would destroy the killer as he would destroy a sidewinder or a vlnegaroon. Til never be able to believe in God's world that anyone would set out to hurt you," he said. "Yet somebody has tried. What naturally comes to mind (s that somebody, some enemy of Horse Dunn, has gone out of his head. But-h- ard as it is to believe, there is one other possibility we have to take account of that without knowing it you've heard something, or seen something, 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 seeing anything a rider in the distance 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 bead 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, if 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 if you're going to run cattle on a big scale out in this country, you sometimes have to be willing to fight for your p .w,nal. Sen wX 8 guaranteed old i" f ""anea, Box 4107 faoi order nia'. Wankdirf AfflatOT Writer stories, cm wmms sr.DicliTte, HOTELS HOTEL It1 4th Jn the heartVthe8080 88 E. Snd So? St Bs Sn.. . idles 75c-S1.- 1- Ten. M I "-- 1 tv schools! "H 1 EAR V for TrairSigSG? CaTa31 Practical Write tl ELECTRICACoYlgA FURS AND 463 Be. SKI! BOOKS I .f :d.. W.,t PAMPHu Send two 3c Stamps for MAGAZINE. T.mrTu... ,VlB.Hi v FARMERS WANTED-M- interested ln "soilless ' farming inr is,. ji.,c.1 pensive. 40 times more per acre ANDERSON. 439 Alameda. jt EN PERSONAL ALCOHOL Resold a! IMS E. 6th Se., Salt uj Treatment TOR1UM. AGENTS wantedagent: in buying hides. 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