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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, OF THE Sage. Hal G.Evarts By w.N.u.$efkvici CHAPTER III p She went outside and hit struck the ax in a cross section of pine log as she moved toward him. "We'll have to get along the best we can," she announced abruptly. "Of course you will have a say In the management of the Three Bar and draw the same amount for yourself that I do." lie sat on a log and twisted a cigarette as he reflected upon this statement. "I'd rather not do that," he decided. "I don't want to be a drain on the brand but to help build it up. Suppose I just serve as an extra hand and do whatever necessary turns up In return for your letting me advise you on a few points that I happen to have worked out while I was prowling through the country." "Any way you like," she returned. "It's for you to decide. Any money which you fail to draw now will to you in the end, so It won't matter In the least." His reply was irrelevant, a delib erate refusal to notice her ungenerous misinterpretation of his offer. "Do you mind if I gather a few Three Bar colts round here close and break out my own string before they get back?" he asked, "Anything you like," she repeated. "I'm not going to quarrel. I've made up my mind to that. I'll be gone the rest of the day." Five minutes later he saw her rid Ing down the lane. She was not seek ing companionship but rather solitude and for hours she drifted aimlessly across the range, sometimes dismounting on some point that afforded a good view and reclining in the warm spring sun. Dusk was falling when she rode back to the Three Bar. She heard the sound of saw and ax as Harris worked up the dry logs Into stove lengths. At least he was making good his word to the cook. The sounds ceased when the sun was an hour high and when she looked out to determine the reason she saw him working with four colts in one of the smaller corrals. He had fashioned a hackamore for each and they stood tied to the corra! bars. He left them there and repaired to the big gates of the main corral The two swinging halves sagged until their ends dragged on the ground when opened or closed, necessitating the expenditure of considerable ener gy in performing either operation She watched him tear down the old support wires and replace them with new ones, stretching a double strand from the top of the tall pivot posts to the free ends of the gates. Placing a short stick between the two strands of heavy wire he twisted until the shortening process had cleared the gate ends and they swung suspend ed, moving so freely that a rider could lean from his saddle and throw them open with ease. This completed to his satisfaction he fashioned heavy slabs of wood to s serve as extra for the re-Te- ' COPYRIGHT ty HAL 6. EVAR.TS their heads. For three days there was little communication between the two. It was evident that he had no intention of forcing his society upon her. In the afternoon of the third day she saw him swing to the back of a big bay. easing into the saddle without a jar, and the colt ambled round the corral, rolling his eyes back toward the thing clamped upon him but making no effort to pitch. He dismounted and stripped off the saddle, cinched It on a second horse and let him stand, leading a third out to a snubbing post near the door of the blacksmith shop where he proceeded to put on his first set of shoes. The girl went out and sat on the sill of the shop door and watched him. The colt pulled back in an ef fort to release the forefoot that the man held clamped between his leather-clad knees, then changed his tac tics and sagged his weight against Harris. "You, Babel" the man ordered. "Don't you go leaning on me." He pared down the hoof and fitted the shoe but before nailing it on he re leased the colt's foot and addressed the girl. "If I'd fight him now while he's spoky and it would half-scare- d spoil him maybe," he explained. "I gentle-breamine, too," she said, and the man overlooked the inflection which, as plainly as words, was In tended to convey the impression thai his ways were effeminate. 'If every man used up his time gentling his string he'd never have a day off to work at anything else." "Why, it don't use up much time,' he objected. "They halfway break themselves, standing round . with a saddle on and having a man handle them a little between spells of regu lar work like cutting firewood and such. And it's a saving of time in the end. There's three hundred odd days every year when a man consume? considerable time fighting every horse he steps upon if they're broke that way to start" "So your only reason for not rid Ing them out Is to save time," she k said. "If you mean that I'm timid," h observed, "why, I don't know as I'd bother to dispute it" He moved ovei and sat on his heels facing her, twist ing the ever handy cigarette. "Lis ten," he urged. "Let's you and I try to get along. Now if you'll only make up your mind that I'm not out to grab the Three Bar, not even the half of it that's supposed to be mine unless you get paid for It why, we're liable to get to liking each other real wel in the end. I'll give you a contract to that effect." 'Which you know would be worth less!" she returned. "The will spe cifically states that any agreements between us prior to the time of divl sion are to be disregarded. A writ ten contract would have no more value than your unsupported promts' and In view of what's happened yoo don't expect me to place a value on " that" He pulled reflectively at his clga rette and she rather expected another of the Irrelevant remarks with which brake-block- Improved Buckeye Colony Brooders The greatest values ever offered. Double Check Draft. Revolving Hover. hold actual rated capacity. OIL BURNERS ALSO BUCKEYE RITE-HEAwe have. size want, you Any T Consolidated Wagon Machine Company & "The Largest Retail Implement Dealers in the World" Tremonton, Utah Phone 90 I "There's considerable sound truth that," he said. He looked down at his gun; it swung on his left side in front the butt pointing toward the right "It's easier to work with It sort of out of the way of my hands" She he explained and smiled. She found herself liking him, even In the face of the treachery he bad practiced against her father and was correspondingly angry, both with herself and at him. She left him without a word and returned to the house. He finished putting the shoes on the colt and as he turned bim back into the corral he observed a horseman jogging up the lane at a trail trot He knew the man for Slade, whose home ranch lay forty miles to the south and a little west, tbe owner of the largest outfit in that end of the state; a man feared by his competi tors, quick to resent an insinuation against his business methods and cap able of backing his resentment Slade dropped from bis horse and accorded Harris only a casual nod as he headed for the house. He walked through the cookhouse and opened tbe door of the girl's quarters without the formality of a knock, as if a frequent visitor and sure of his privileges. "How many times have 1 told you to knock?" she demanded. "The next time you forget it I'll go out as you come in." Slade dropped into a chair. "I never have knocked not in twelve years," he said. "It was somewhat different when 1 was a small girl and you were only a friend of my father," she pointed out "But now" "But now that I've come to see you as a woman its different?' ne inquired. "No reason for that" She switched the channel of conver sation and spoke of the coming round up, of the poor condition of range stock owing to the severity of the winter; but it was a monologue. For a time the man sat and listened, as if he enjoyed the sound of her voice, contributing nothing to the conversation himself, then suddenly he stirred in bis chair and waved a band to indicate the unimportance of the topics. 'Yes, yes; true enough," he Inter"But I didn't come to talk rupted. about that When are you coming home with me, Billie?" "And you can't come if you Insist on talking about that" she countered. "I'll come," he stated. "Tell me when you're going to move over to the Circle r." "Not ever," she said. "I'd rather be a man's horse than his wife. Men treat women like little tinsel queens before, and afterward they answer to save a cook's wages and drudge their lives out feeding a bunch of hands or else go to tbe other extreme. Wives are either work horses or pets. 1 was raised like a boy and I want to have a say la running things myself." Slade rose and moved over to her, taking her hands and lifting her from her chair. the girl pushed him back with a hand braced against his chest she said. "You're get"Stop ting wilder every time yoo. come, but you've never pawed at me before. 1 won't have people's hands on me," and she made a grimace of distaste. The man reached out again and drew her to him. She wrenched away and faced Slade. "That will be the last time you'll do that until I give the word," she said. "I don't want the Circle P or you. When I do I'll let you know!" He moved toward her again and she refused to back away from him but stood with her hands at her sides. "If you put a finger on me It's the last time you'll visit the Three Bar," she calmly announced. He stood so close as almost to touch her but she failed to lift a hand or move back an Inch, and Slade knew that he faced one whose spirit matched his own, perhaps the one person within a hundred miles who did not fear bim, He had tamed men tnd horses "Did Caroline fret home from the ne smiled across at her and once more she frowned as she discovered dance all right last night?" You took her, didnt you?" that he was likable for all bis "Yes, but I just wondered." "Vorse than that suicidal," be ad Voice over the Phone: Central, I mitted. "If you mentioned what you think of me, that I've framed to rob want a policeman badly. Operator (sighing dreamily): Gee. you by law, you wouldn't be bothered kid, so do L with me for long." He laughed softly and stretched his feet toward the SUMMONS tire. "Lookat it any way you like In the District Court of Box Elder and I'm in bad shape to deal you any County, State of Utah. Tremonton misery," be pointed out "U you'd City, a municipal corporation, plain drop a hint that I'm an unwelcome tiff, vs. r. K. Obray, W. a. Wood-yaBuhl Frazier; also all other addition It would only be a matter of days until I'd fail to show op for persons unknown claiming any right. meals. If yon view it from that angle title, estate, lien, or interest in the comyou can see I'm setting on the powder real property described in the plaint adverse to plaintiffs ownership can. or any cloud upon plaintiffs title She did see it but bad not so clear defendants. Summons: The thereto, ly realized it till be pointed tt oat State of Utah to the Said Defendand for the first time she wavered In ants: Yen are hereby summoned to her conviction that he had come sim appear within twenty days after servply to deprive her of her rights. But ice of this summons upon you if serv the thought that ber father would not ed within the county in which this easily have willed away the home action is brought, otherwise within days after service and defend place to another without being nndniy thirty above the entitled action; and in case influenced served to reinstate ber disyour failure so to do judgment will trust along with a vague resentment of be rendered you according to for his having shaken it by throwing the demand against of the complaint which himself so openly on her mercy. has been filed with the clerk of this "lou probably thought to overcome court. This action is brought to rethat by reaching tbe point tbe whole cover a judgment quieting plaintiffs thing so patently aims for," she said. title to the land described in said And you calculated well arriving at complaint and for equitable relief. t time when we'd be alone for a Lewis Jones, plaintiffs attorney, P. week. The whole scheme was based O. Address: lst Nat'l Bank Bldg., 5 on that Idea and I've been patiently Brigham, Utah. SHERIFFS SALE wondering why you don't rush mat ters and Invite me to marry you." In the District Court of the First He rose and flicked the ash from his Judicial District of the State of cigarette Into the fireplace. Utah, in and for the County of Box Elder. "I do invite you right now," he Plaintiff, vs. Joseph said, and In .her surprise she left her H.State of Utah, Watkins and Lydia E. Watkins, his chair and stood facing him. "I'd like wife, B. C. Call, Administrator of the real well to have you, Billie." Estate of J. M. Jensen, deceased, and "That's the final proof," she said. the First National Bank of Brigham I'm surprised that you didn't tell me City, a corporation, Defendants. the first day." To be sold at Sheriffs Sale, on the "So am I," be said. 28th day of February, 1929, at Twelve She found no answer for this but o'clock noon, at the Front Door of stood silent knowing that she bad the County Court House, in Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, all of suddenly become afraid of bim. And that's the living truth," he af the right, title, claim and interest of above named defendants, of, in firmed. "Other men have loved you the and to the following described real the first day. You know men well property, situated in Box Elder Counenough to be certain that I wouldn't ty, Utah, be tied to one woman for the sake of Commencing at a point 13 feet owning a few head of cows not If West and (South 1 deg. .05 minutes I didn't want her for herself." He West 20 rods and 10 feet and North waved an arm toward the door 89 deg. 85 min. West 254.6 feet from "There's millions of miles of sage the Northeast comer of Section 23, Township 9 North, Range 2 West; just outside," he said. "And millions thence running South 318.78 feet; of cows and girls." thence North 88 deg. 20 min. West He moved across to her and stood 262.68 feet: thence south 330 almost touching her, looking down thence South 88 deg. 20 min. feet; East Into her face. When Slade had stood 494.5 feet; South 1 deg. .05 min. West so a few days past she had been cold- 335 feet; thence North 88 deg. 54 ly indifferent except for a shiver of min. West 616 feet; thence North 0 distaste at the thought of his touch- deg. 40 min. East 980.5 feet; thence South 89 deg. 35 min. East 379.5 feet ing ber. Before Harris she felt a to place of beginning, containing weakening, a need of support, and 8.50theacres. she leaned back from him and placed Commencing 859.3 feet West of the one hand behind her on the table. Northeast corner of Section 23, Town "You judge for yourself whether a ship 9 North, Range 2 West; thence man wouldn't be right foolish with running West 100 feet, more or less; all those things I mentioned being thence South 35 feet; thence West right outside to call bim to marry a 120 feet more or less to O. S. L. railwoman he didn't want for herself, be- road right of way; thence south 8 cause she had a few hundred head of deg. West 113 feet, along said right cows." He smiled down at her. "Don't of way; thence south 86 deg. 42 min. East 240 feet, more or less, to County pull back from me, Billie; I won't lay Road; thence North along said road a finger on you. But now do you think 160 feet to the place of beginning, It's you I want or the little old Three containing 0.72 acres. Bar?" Commencing 13 feet West of the "You can prove It" Bhe said at Northeast corner of Section 23, Townlast "rrove It by going away for six ship 9 North, Range 2 West; thence South 1 deg. .05 min. West 20 rods months or three." and 10 feet; thence North 89 deg. 35 He shook his head. "Not that," he said. "I've told you min. West 634.1 feet; thence North 0 40 min. East 20 rods and 10 feet; I was sewed up In a right peculiar deg. thence East 640 feet, more or less, to which matter wouldn't way myself of the containing a d n if It wasn't for this. I'd have five place more beginning, or less. acres, tossed It off In a second If the girl Commencing at a point 13 feet on the Three Bar had turned out to West of the Southeast corner of Secbe any other than you. Now I'm go- tion 14, Township 9 North, Range 2 ing to see It through. The Three Bar West; thence running West 27.21 rods is going under the brand both our to West side of a lane; thence North folks helped to found unless some 8.08 rods to Forest Street; thence one pulls it out of the hole. Believe South 89 deg. .06 min. East 27.33 1 deg. .05 min. me If you can and If you can't why, rods; thence South West 7.64 rods to place of beginning, one know about that remark my you containing 1.34 acres', containing in all being unwelcome here will clear the 15.56 acres of land. road for you, like I mentioned a few Also water right from an electrical minutes back." ly operated well, it being understood He turned away without touching that the mortgage is intended to inher and she had not moved when the clude the pump and all attachments and appliances necessary or convedoor closed behind him. nient to the operation of said elec(To Be Continued) trically operated well, together with any and all water and water right used on or in connection with the above described land. Dated this 7th day of February, under-handedne- tt, 21-2- In Itr Bigger Stoves Give More Heat and Burn Longer. over-ratin- g, out-gam- "You!" she flared. "And what can you do against it a man that was raised in squatter country behind a barb-wir- e fence, who has to gentle his horses before he can sit up on one, who has hitched a gun on his belt because he thinks it's tbe thing to do, and has stowed It in a place where he'd have to tie himself In a knot or undress to reach It And then you talk of pulling tbe Three Bar out of a hole I Why, there are twenty men within fifty miles of here that would kill you the first move you made." half-starve- COAL BURNERS No and women; he raised his arms slowly, deliberately, to see If she would e flinch away or stand fast and him. She knew that he was harmless to her and be knew it ne might perpetrate almost any crime on the calendar and come clear; but in this land where women were few they were honored. One whisper from the Three Bar girl that Slade had raised his band against her and, powerful as he was, the hunt for him would be on, with every man's hand against him. His arms had half circled her when he whirled, catlike, every faculty cool and alert as a voice sounded from the door. Both had been too engrossed to notice Its noiseless opening. "I've finished cleaning np round the "Is shop and corrals." Harris said. chuck wagon. Between the performance of each two duties he spent some little time with the colts, handling them and teaching them not to fear bis approach, cinching his saddle on first one and then the next, talking to them and handling you. self-appoint- Billie Warren heard the steady buz of a saw and later the ringing strokes of an ax. Tbe men had departed three hours before to be gone for a week on the horse round-ubut she had not yet issued from her own quarters. The music of ax and saw was ample evidence that her new and nndesired partner was making valuable use of his time. be so often refilled to her pointed thrusts. "No," he said at last "But It's a fact that I don't want the Three Bar or rather I do if you should ever decide to sell "1 never will," she stated positively. "It's always been my home. I've been away and bad a good time; three winters in school and enjoying every second; but there always comes a time when I'm sick to get back, when I know I can't stay away from the Three Bar, when I want to smell the sage and throw my leg across a horse and ridel" "I know, Billie," be said softly. "I was raised here, up until I was eight Is likely less acute than ilj feeling yours but I've always hankered to get back to where tbe sage and pine trees run together. I mentioned a while back that I was tied up peculiar and stood to lose considerable if I failed to put In two years out here which wouldn't have been of any particular consequence only that I found out that the Three Bar was going un der unless some one put a stop to what's going on. I'll pull It out of the bole, maybe, and hand It back to FEBRUARY 21, 1929 d Knew That He Was Harmless to Her. there any rubbish round the house you'd like to have throwed out and piled in a dry gulcb somewberes out of sight?" He stood In tbe door, half facing them, his left side quartering toward Slade. To the girl it appeared that the strange pose was for the purpose of enabling him to take a quick step to the right and spring outside If Slade should make a move and she felt a tinge of scorn at his precaution even though she knew that It would avnll him nothing If Slade's deadly temper were roused by the insult Slade, who had killed many, would add narris to his list before he could move. Slade's understanding of the quar tering position and the odd sling of Harris' gun was entirely different and as he shifted his feet until he faced the man In the door, his movements were slow and deliberate, nothing that could be misconstrued. "Who summoned you .In here?" he demanded. Harris did not reply but stood wait ins for some word from the girl. She had a sudden sick dread that Slade would kill him and was surprised at the sentiment, for no longer than an hour before she had wished him dead. She made belated answer to bis original question. "No." she said. "Go on out, please." He turned his back on Slade and went out "And you," she said to Slade, "you'd best be going too. We've been too good neighbors to quarrel unless you come over again with the same Idea you did today." At sunset the girl called to Harris and he repaired to the house and found her putting a hot meal for two on the end of the long pine table, the first time she bad deigned to eat with him. "There's no use of our going on like this," she said. "We've two years of It to face; so It's best to get on some kind of a neutral footing." For her own peace of mind Bhe had tried to smother her dislike of him and he was very careful to avoid any They topic that would rekindle It washed the dishes together, and from that hour their relations, to all out ward appearance, were friendly or at But least devoid of open hostility. he knew that she was merely strug gllng to make the best of a matter that was distasteful, that her opinion of him was unaltered. Her bitterness could not be entirely concealed, and she frequently touched on some fresh point that added to her distrust of bis present motives and confirmed her in tee past. belief la his double-dealin- g There were so many of these points; hla refusal to accept her offer to If be would give bim his stay off the place; bis weak lnsinua tlons that there was some reason why he must spend two years on the Three Bar; his prowling the country for a year spying on the methods she fol lowed In running the outfit, half of which would soon be his; his buying the school section and filing on a quar ter of land, the location blocking the lower end of the Three Bar valley, Whenever she mentioned one of these he refused to take Issue with ber. And one night ' she touched on still another point. ' "What, was the reason for yonr first idea of coming here under another name?" she demanded. "I thought maybe others knew I'd been left a part Interest," he said "and It might be embarrassing. The way It Is, with only the two of us knowing the Inside", I can stay on as a regular hand until the time Is up, "You're so plausible," she said. "Yon put It as a favor to me. Did It ever strike you that If the truth were known it might also be uncomfortable half-Intere- for your to-w- it: County Commissioners Hold Regular Meeting The board of county commissioners of Box Elder county met in regular session Monday, February 18, at 10 o'clock a. m. C. G. Adney and J. Y. Ferry, representing the board of supervisors of 1929. - - Terms of sale cash. JOHN H. ZUNDEL, Sheriff of Box Elder County, Utah. By JOSEPH R. OLSEN, Deputy. 20-2- 2 SHERIFFS SALE In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Utah, in and for the County of Box Elder. State of Utah, Plaintiff, vs. Joseph H. Watkins and Lydia E. Watkins, his wife, and the First National Bank of Brigham City, a corporation, Defend ants. To be sold at Sheriffs Sale on the 28th day of February, 1929, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Front Door of the County Court House, in Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, all the right, title, claim and interest of the above named defendants, of, in and to the D. G. Nelson, Jr., Snowville. following described real property, sitGeorge Longstroth, Pocatello val uated in Box Elder County, Utah, ley. David Frost, Jr., Rosebud. The Northwest Quarter of Section James Roberts, Centerdale. 24, Township 10 North, Range 3 West Winfred Kimber, Grouse Creek. of the Salt Lake Meridian, U. S. SurRaymond P. Nelson, Junction. vey, containing 160 acres of land more Cyrus Tracy, Cedar Springs. or less, subject to right of way for Horace Welling was present and public and irrigation canals raised a question as to the merit of now ofhighways record in Box Elder County, the present practice of assessing farm Utah, records. acreatre within the corporate limits Also 40 acres of water right in the of cities and towns. o Sugar Company, Miscellaneous business considered with any and all water ortogether water and claims and disposed of, allowed, rights used on' or in connection with meeting adjourned. the above described land. Dated this 7th day of February, TONGUE TWISTER the Corinne Drainage district, were present and discussed with the com missioners the matter of delinquent eeneral and drainajre taxes within the district The matter of regrading for assessment purposes of certain lands within the district was dis cussed. Upon motion duly seconded and carried the following" were appointed road supervisors within their respective road districts: Ed Mitchell, Hansel Valley. Francis Callahan, Rosette. Christian Fonensbeck, Howell. William Fallows, Blue Creek. . to-w- it: i Utah-Idah- 1929. Wife When you came home last night you said you had been to the Grand with Mr. Jones. Now you say it was the Trocadero! Why did you he?" Passing Show (London). Terms of sale cash. JOHN H. ZUNDEL, Sheriff nt Rot K1W f!nnntv. ITtnK By JOSEPH R. OLSEN, Deputy. 20-2- 2 |
