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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929 The Settling of the Sage By HAL G. EVARTS to play safe," Harris admitted. "But that is beside the point. I'd have fold you the same thing if the odds had been reversed. You've got brains, or you'd have been dead for twenty years. If I thought you were a haphazard homicide I wouldn't be silting here. But you wouldn't kill a an without looking a few weeks uhead and making sure if was safe." "Go ahead let's hear the rest of it," Harper urged. "You've gut an original line of talK." "You're playing one game aud I'm playing mine," Harris said. "You're in the saddle now likeyod have been once or twice before, but you know that the sentiment of a community re verses almost overnight. You've stepped out Just ahead of a clean-ua time or two In the past. I've got a hard bunqh of terriers over at the Three Bar and you couldn't raid us without af battle big enough to go down in history as the Three Bar war. Either way you'd lose, for It would stir folks up and when they're stirred you're through. Do you remember what Al Moody did op on the Galiatiu and what old Con lUstiue sprung on the Nations Trail? That will happen again right here." The two men were leaning toward each other, elbows resting 'on the table. Harper relaxed and leuned back comfortably in his chair as he twisted a smoke. Evans propped bis feet on the table and Harris hung one knee over the arm of his chair. The men at the bar knew that some crisis bad been safely passed. "You talk as If I was running an outfit of my own and had a bunch of riders that could swarm down on you," Harper objected. "I don't even run a brand of my own or have one man riding for me." "The wild bunch Is riding for you," Harris stated. "Suppose that was true," Harper said. "Then what?" "In one country after the next they've hit the toboggan whenever they got to feeling too strong. If you line up against me that time has come again. If 1 get potted from the brush I've hedged it so that those boys that filed over there won't be left In the lurch. There'll be a reward of a thousand dollars hung up for the scalp of each of fifteen men whose names I gathered while I was prowling round reliable men to carry on what I've begun; and marshals thicker than flies to protect the homestead filings on the Three Bar." "Then it might be bad policy to bushwhack you," Harper observed. "You can go your own gait," Harris said. "As long as you lay off Three Bar cows. You invited me one time to come down to your hangout in the Breaks. I won't ever make that visit unless you call on the Three Bar first; then, Just out of politeness, I'll ride over at the head of a hundred p Oapyrifht by Hal G. EvarU WNU Bervlc The storekeeper looked up quickly, knowina uat Harris hud read his purpose Crawing him into conversation witli the four wen. Ue polishes the bar thoughtfully, then nodded. "A man In my business has to keep posted both ways," he said. "I Jusi wanted to make sure. Five years ago every man would have quit the Three Bar like a snake feeling was that strong. Eut the boys drift from place to place and they've seen both eu(L if it They don't give a d n one way or the other now. Why should they? Thej got nothing at stake. Five years ago you couldn't have hired a man to ride for you. Now they'll be pouring in asking for Jobs Just because they figure there'll be some excitement on tap." The men from the Dalfmoon D were due back and inside of an hour they rode off, leaving only Harris' men and the five lo the place. Harris walked over to the table and the Three Bar men shifted positions, slouching sldewise at the bar or leaning with their backs to It, alertly watching this unexpected move as the foreman spoke to the albino. "Let's you and I draw off and have a little talk," he said. "If you can spare the time." Harper tilted up the corner of his hole-car- d and peeked at it, then turnethls other cards face down on card-playe- the tsCV "PaiO he said, and rose to face Harris. "Lead the way." Harris moved over to another table and the two' men sat down, facing men. "Then It don't look as if we'd get anywhere, visiting back and forth," Harper said. "Now don't think I'm throwing a bluff or threatening; I'm just telling you. You could recite a number of things that could happen to me in return all of 'em true. I'm just counting that you've got brains and can see It's not going to help either one of us to get lined up wrong. What do you say shall we call it hands off between the Three Bar and you?" his eyes, the The albino pale eyeballs glittering through the slit of his lids as he rellected on this proposition, tapping a careless finger half-close- d on his knee. He Motioned to Evans and Joined Them. Lanky each other across It. He motioned to Evans and Lanky Joined them. Harris plunged abruptly into what he had to say. "First off, narper, I want you to get it straight that I'm not fool enough to threaten you for I know you're not any more afraid of me than I am of you. This is Just a little explaining, a business talk, so we'll both know where we stand. It's up to you whether we let each other alone or fight." "Good start," the albino commented. "Go right on." "All right it's like this," Harris resumed. "I'm going to have my hands full without you hiring out to .pester us. I'm not out to reform the country. They set the fashion of dog eat dog and every man for himself; so the Three Bar is all that Interests me. You keep out of my affairs and I'll let you go your own gait If you mix in I'll have your men hunted down like rats." Harper glanced toward the group at ilMJiar. were prudent enough to pick a time when you're three to one to tell me about that," he said. "If I'd kill you In your chair I might have some trouble getting out the door." "Of course I'd take every chance He glanced absent-mindedl- y epoch-makin- Twin Float HOT Burning Brooder Raises More Chicks For Sale By Bear River Valley Ass'n. Poultry L. WEIDMANN J. Phone 12.3-- 5 James Brough Tremonton, Utah Garland dles. "I'm going your way as far as the forks," he said to Harper. The three Bar men were treated to the sight of their foreman riding flown the road beside Harper at the bead of four of the worst ruffians Is the state. And beblad the bar Brill moved Mrs. Alice Saunders of Ogden is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ann "Billle, let me take you away from all this," he nred. "All this hard Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adams of ridin.? and rough man's work. Let me give you the things that will shut Wheelon are transacting business in out all the hardships. What's the use Salt Lake. Mrs. Adams will remain a few days with her sister, Mrs. June of going on like this?" The girl was conscious of a vague Sargent Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bigler were vissense of disappointment She reflectat the Dee hospital in Ogden ed that Deane's attitude was that iting with their brother, Wm. Beeton, of of so many other men, his Idea ot Portage. love synonymous with shelter for the Miss Norma Seal is home after a object of It, and his main plea was pleasant week in Salt Lake.. that of providing her with shelter Miss White of Willard is numbered against all the rough corners of life. among the busy teachers at the Shelter! And what she wanted was school. to be part of things to have a hand Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bigler enterIn running her own affairs. tained at Sunday dinner Mr. and Mrs. "I don't want shelter!" 6he said. W. B. Simmons and children of Bea"And I can't think of anything else ver Dam. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Conlin and till after the Three Bar is a going concern." family are moving to Promontory on The two went back and sat with the the ranch of Thomas Davis of Brig-haCity. others round the dying fire, then all Mrs. Sylvia Simmons, Mrs. LaReve turned in for the night Blllle In her Mrs. Lucile Pace and Myron teepee and the men In their bed rolls Early, and Coleen Hansen spent a delightful with no other overhead shelter than afternoon Monday at the home of Mr. the trees. and Mrs. Roy Manning in Garland. (To Be Continued) blow-dow- wood with his cloth, listen- polished ing carefully to the conversation and guugiiig it to determine whether the apparent sentiment toward the squat ter foreman was sincere or would prove different when the men, flushed with undiluted rye, were unrestrained Ly his presence. CHAPTER VII There was a new contentment In the eyes of the Three Bar girl as she sat her horse beside Carlos Deane and looked off down the bottoms. A haze of smoke drifted above the little valley of the Crazy Loop. Three mule outfits were steadily ripping up the sage fiats. The two rode down to the fields with the pungent sage smoke drifting in their faces. Harris Joined them, and swept his arm across the stretch of plowed ground. "Can you picture that covered with a stand of alfalfa hay?" he asked. The girl nodded. "Yes and cut and cured and in the stack yards." she said. "And a straight red run of Three Bar cows wintering under fence." Harris wondered if her new contentment came wholly from the progress the Three Bar was making oi was derived partly from the presence of Carlos Deane. Each man had recognized the other as a contender for the love of the Three Bar girl and during the two days of Deane's stay each one had been covertly sizing and estimating the caliber of the other Collinston Mrs. D. Y. Goddard was the charm- - late-droppe- d e d boys would come in from the range and gather at the home ranch, preparatory to going out once more on the beef round-up- . "I'm about to take a vacation," Harris said. "The ranger is coming over to mark out some more trees for . us and to run S. brand on the logs we've already cut I'm going back up in the hills with him to sort out a valley or two for summer range. We can get grazing permits on the Forest now right in the best grass valleys. Each year we'll throw some cows up there to hold our rights. There'll always be good grass on the Forest Reserves, for they won't permit overstocking. The day will come when we'll be glad to have permits to summer-feea thousand or so head on the Forest. I was thinking maybe you and Deane would like to make the jaunt." "We'll go," the girl decided. "We'll start In an hour or two," Harris said. "Just as soon as Wilton turns up. We'll only be gone five days at the most" "Then I'll stretch my stay to cover "I'd certainly It," Deane accepted. hate to pass up a chance for a trip in the hills." Calico had sidled off the plowing and was cropping grass at the edge of it As Harris moved toward him Evans rode down the slope and the three waited for him. the-U- d right-han- d They made camp at the mouth of a branching canyon, just within the timber. Harris sensed Deane's attitude toward it all for he knew something of the other man's way of life. Those with whom Deane was thrown most In contact were careful of appearances. It was unheard-o- f In his code that a girl should Jaunt for days accompanied..by four men. Here appearances seemed entirely disregarded and no one matter a thought The moon swung over the ridges and shed Us radiance over Blind Deane motioned to Blllle and the and followed him to the rose gill Unlimited Money to LOAN on Irrigated Land. 6V cent. No commissions. per JOHN J.SHUMWAY Phones: B. R. V. 69a-2- ; Bell, 129 m For a month prior to Deane's arrival Harris- bad been occupied from dawn till dark with the details of the new work. A hundred acres of plowed ground lay mellowing under the sun. The cowhands were out working the range in pairs, branding calves and moving drifted stock back to the home range. Forty white-facbulls had been from the railroad and thrown out along the foot of the hills to replace the other bulls that had been rounded up and brought in. In a few more days the trail-herde- POOR FELLOW Magistrate: You are charged with being a deserter having left your wife. Are the facts, as stated, true? Prisoner: No, if you please, your honor. I'm not a deserter, I'm a refugee. Col-linst- on man. toward the bar, his thoughts "Moore and 1 were working in close wholly occupied with the matter in and I thought I'd ride over to tell you hand. A pair of eyes that gazed back wild bunch has lost a vetthe that at him drew his own and he found he said. "Some onr put Bareran," himself looking at Bentley, the man over in the Breaks." out ton who repped with the Three Bar for Barton, whose name was linked Slade. The albino's suspicious were with that of Harper, had been found as fluid and easily roused as those of with a rifle ball through bis chest a beast of prey in a dangerous neighHis own gun, found by his outWith one of those quick borhood. stretched haud, had showed one blackwas mind which his of shifts capable ened the empty shell suffcylinder, he concentrated every mental effort icient proof that he had fired a single unsome with toward linking Bentley shot at his assailant pleasant episode of the past The The girl could find no sorrow In man had turned away and Harper heart over the passing of Barton her could only sense a vague feeling that was an uneasy feeling deep there but to was without he him, dangerous definite point upon which to base his within her a vague suspicion that she should be able to pronounce the At the sound of Harris suspicions. voice his mind made another lightning killer's name. This elusive thought was crowded from her mind when the shift back to the present ranger rode up to the Three Bar ac"Well?" Harrl3 asked. each man lead"Why, If I had anything to do with companied by Slade, a pack horse. ing seem to like advise I'd you think, it "Slade's going to look over a little against our bucking each other," Harup on the Forest" Wilton territory to "I'd said. and get along try per "So we can get it all done explained. declare hands off." He rose, nodded to the two men and returned to the on one trip." There was no way to avoid this unstud game. addition to their party, and expected "He'll do it too," Evans predicted. in half an hour the little cavalcade "There's that much fixed anyway tiled up a gulch back of the Three not a bad piece of work." The two men returned to the bar Bar, the ranger in the lead with his and Brill moved close to Harris. For pack horse. By noon they made the fifteen years he had stood behind that first rims and followed over into a rolling country, heavily timbered In bar and observed the men of th whole countryside at their worst and the main. In the early evening they on to a low divide and Blind best; and he knew men. As well as rode out If he had heard the words of the three valley showed below them, a broad at the table he knew that Harris and expanse of open grassland. "Feedl" Harris said. "Feed. Worlds Harper had reached an agreement of some sort that was satisfactory to of It" TURN THE CRANK Inventor (to capitalist): This, sir, g machine. is an Capitalist: Is it? Let's see it make both. an epoch. Ten minutes later the five men rose to go. Harris looked at his watch. "I'm off," he said to Evans. "Try and get the boys home by tomorrow morning if It's possible." SOL He went outside and mounted as Oil the five rustlers swung to their sad- of the timber where they sat on a softly back and forth when not serving blinks, pausing opposite first one ,group tnd then the next to dab at the I ing hostess at the Tuesday afternoon social. After meeting a delicious tray luncheon was served to 18 ladies. One of the unique pleasures of last week was the oyster supper and social given by the married men in compliment to the single men, who won in a basketball game two weeks ago. The entertainment was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Kidman of Beaver Dam. Wives and sweethearts were in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Saunders and family had a pleasant surprise Wednesday evening when a large number of relatives and friends from Fielding motored to their home. Refreshments and 500 were among the diversions of the evening. Mrs. Lucile Pace of southern Utah and Mrs. LaReve Early of Rupert, Idaho, are having a pleasant visit with their mother, Mrs. Sarah T. Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. Lorimer Seal of Ogwith their den spent the week-en- d parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Seal. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. .Simmons of Brigham City were visiting with relatives in Beaver Dam last week. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins and Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Durfey of Wheelon enjoyed the vaudeville in Logan Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Secrist ac companied Mr. ana Mrs. uaie maunders to their home in Salt Lake where they enjoyed a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kuhni of Provo with Bishop and spent the week-en- d Mrs. R. A. Johnson. Mrs. Ed Bowers and Misses Erma and Wilma Bowers enjoyed several days in Logan at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Jacobs. Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Jensen of Logan were visiting with relatives here last week. Mrs. lvalue Smith and children of Mendon and Mrs. Elmer Bowen of Wellsville spent Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 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