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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929 r The. Settling of the Sage By HAL G. EVARTS Copyright by Hal G. Evarta WNU Service CHAPTER VIII Harris hurt lpf- thA . u- u WU UUU1 befor daylight, his ride occasioned by tQfePrts of several of the men. In ,t-- j fast three days each cov.iile that worked the range had found one rr more of the new white-fac- e bulls shot down in their territory. The evidence, as Harris pieced the scraps together, indicated that a lone rider tad made a swift raid, riding for forty miles along the foot of the hills In a single day, shooting down every Three Bar bull that crossed his trail. A dozen dead animals marked hl course. A few more such raids and the Three Bar calf crop would be extremely short the following spring He rode back to the corrals In the early afternoon and joined Blllie and v a 4 - Deane. "Not a track," he said. "We must expect more or less of that They'll cut In on us wherever there's a chance." As Harris left them the girl pointed out a horseman riding up the lane. "The sheriff," she volunteered, and Deane noted an odd tightening of her lips. The sheriff came over to Deane and the girl. "Blllie, I .expect you can tell me who's doing this killing over in the Breaks," he said. Her eyes fell .under the sheriff's eteadyraze. Deane was looking into her flQ ad with a shock he realized that ( could pronounce the name of the assassin but was deliberately withholding it. She raised her head with a trace of defiance. "No. I can't tell you." she said. Deane expected to hear the sheriff's OUR MAKE GOOD OR WE DO Fronk Chevrolet Co. Tremonton, Utah Phone 20 There Is No Guesswork we fit you with glasses KNOW they are right. the experience and the equipment for properly fitting the eyes with glasses. We have Tremonton - Utah Carpenter leaning against the bar, well toward the rear of the room. Within the last week she had beard that Carp, after being let off by Harris, had started op a brand of his "own down In Slade's range. Harris' remarks about Slade's mode of acquiring new brands recurred to ber that he fostered some small outfit for a few seasons, then bought It out As the nien scattered she commented on this to Harris. The Three Bar foreman coded. "Likely the same old move," he said. house. "Like I told you, there's no way to Deane, already at a loss to grasp the mental attitude of the range check Slade up on the number of our rebrands. Carp gets caught It's dwellers, was further mystified by a his own bardIf luck." sheriff who spoke o humoring the laA dozen men from the Ualfmoon D dies in a matter pertaining to a douIn the door. swarmed Mrs. McVey. ble killing. the owner's wife, stationed herself In "Billle you know;" he accused; one corner with the Three Bar girl -why wouldn't you tell?" while the men gravitated to the bar. "Because there's a good chance Harper's men came in, the albino that he's a friend of mine," she stated half a head taller than any standing "Those men had It coming simply. to them and some way I can't feel other on the floor, and they mingled with the rest as if their records were any regret" the mott immaculate of the lot Two me let take "Billie, you away from of Slade's foremen arrived with their all this, Deane urged again. me families. the give you things every girl should Bart have shut all the rough spots out of back InEpperson, a trapper from far the hills, had brought his I to want your path. give you the to the frolic. Mrs. Epperson family things every girl needs to round out was a tiny meek woman who had but her life a home and love and shelter. little to say. Her two daughters. In This is not the life for a girl," he In- their late teens, ha glossy black hair, sisted. cheek bones and faint olive tinge "You've told me a hundred times high of skin which betrayed a trace of Inthat 1 was different from other girls. dian ancestry. But now you're wanting me to be like Lafe Brandon came at the bead of all the rest Where would the dif his tribe. Two of bis sons were marference be then?" she asked a little ried and living at the home ranch. likon can't you go wistfully. "Why came to the dance with Ibe rest They ing me the way I am, Instead of mak- of the family. Lou Brandon's wife, ing me over?" was a former dance-hal- l girl of But Carlos Deane could not see. It Dolly, and Al Brandon's better Coldrlver, was his last evening alone with ber Belle, was the daughter of a and after the meal they rode across half, Utah cowman. hills the through the moonlight In An extra rolled In from that hour she was very near to doing Coldrlver andstageload four couples Joined the as he wished. If only he had suggest ed that she come to him as soon as throng. teachers," Harris Inthe Three Bar was once more a pros formed. them so fast "They perous brand; had only pointed out that It's hard to marry one on the keep job how she could spend months of each the rising generation In year on the old home ranch then he Instructing the Coldriver school." might have won his point without Deane shrank from the thought of not is But that the of way waiting. the Three Bar girl in such a mixture. woman. man toward His plea was Some way she seemed many shades that she leave all this behind for finer than the rest And his hold was not quite him. "It couldn't be otherwise," Harris to her induce to enough give up said when strong this Dea,ne expressed thought "She was raised at the knee of one of the finest women In the world. I remember her mother myselfa little; and I've beard my own mother sing the praises of Elizabeth Warren a thousand times." The albino interrupted them. "Cal how come?" he greeted. The three men conversed In the most casual, friendly fashion, as if there had never been a hint of friction between Harris and Harper In the past A great voice rose above the buzz of conversation, filling the big room to the very rafters. "Choose your pardners for the dance!" Waddles bellowed from the makeshift platform at one end of the !" room. "Go get your Deane moved across to the Three Bar girl. There was a general rush for the side opposite the tar where the ladies bad gathered. Couples squared off for the Virginia reel, the shortage of ladies rectified by a handkerchief tied on the arm of many a chap-cla- d youth to signify that be was, for the moment a girl. Waddles picked his guitar; two fiddles broke Into "Turkey in the Straw," and the dance was on with Waddles calling the "Ex-scho- ga-a-a- ls The About It we curt demand that she divulge the name of the man be sought It must be easily apparent to him. as it was to Deane, that she knew. But Aiden only dropped a ban on ber shoulder and stood looking down at ber. "All right girl," be said mildly. "1 reckon you can't tell'. He can't be such a rotten sort if vnn rcfiiso In turn him rap." He pushed back bis bat and smiled at Deane. "We have to humor the womenfolks out here," he explained, as be turned toward the bunk Next Day Her Unaltered. Stand Was turns. throng'.' the room they shufand bowed, whirled partners, every link of the life she had loved locked elbows and swung, the shriek for long years before Carlos Deane of fiddles and scrape of feet punctuated the caller's boom. had been even a part of It Slade '.me In alone as the .:st said as 'I can't tell you now," she they rode back to the corrals. "Not dance was ended. A croupier and lookout Imported bow. It would take something out of me the vital part if I bad to leave from Coldrlver for the event opened the old Three Bar in the shape it's Brill's roulette layout in one corner, in today. It's sort of like deserting a the rattle of chips, the whir of the Ivory ball and the professional crippled child." The next day ber stand was unal- chant of lookout and croupier soundtered and In the evening, when the ed between dances. The full enjoyment of a nove. scene whole Three Bar personnel swunp to was spoiled for Deane by the sickensaddled headed for and the their frolic at Brill's, Deane had been un- ing realization that the Three Bar girl was part of it, rubbing elbows able to gain ber promise. There were but few horses at the with the nondescript throng. He hitch rails when they reached the post looked again at Harper, the rustler Aa the Three Bar girl entered at the chief; at Slade, with his peculiar face, Slade the cattle king the head of ber men she saw Beotley and killer. Willie Warren stood between the two Epperson girls whose faces betrayed the taint of Indian blood, an arm about the shoulders of each of them. Tr sheriff; who bad said that men must humor womenfolks was leaning against the bar. Deane turned to Harris but found him looking across the room. He turned his own eyes that way and glimpsed a dark man with an overlong, thin face and a set bleak stare. 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"We both want her to have what's best for her." Harris said. "And I don't know as she could do any better than to take op with you." "It may sound rather trite coming after that" Deane said. "But anyway, 111 have to say that I feel the same way about you." "Then, if we're both right in our es timates, why she can't go very far services at Thatcher last Sunday evewrong, either way she turns," Harris ning. Mrs. O. A. Seager and Mrs. Clara said. "So I reckon we're both conFridal were special guests at the Retent" Harris moved on and motioned lief Society annual day at the home of Mrs. J. P. Christensen of Elwood Deane to accompany blm, Thursday afternoon. "I thought I glimpsed a man I knew last Clarence Shaw of Salt Lake City a few minutes back," Harris said. "I'd the week-en- d at the home of like right well to have a talk with spent Marion Woodruff. The new officers Dowall, president; are Marie He Bernice Bjorn, 1st vice president; June Winchester, 2nd vice president; Lois Wilson, 3rd vice president; Elias Landvatter, 4th vice president; James Supan, secretary; Anna Marie Brenkman, treasurer; Mildred Carter, organist. ALVIN R. DICKSON, Pastor. him." They wandered completely round the post an lookec in the shadows of the outbuildings but could find no Sunday school at 10 o'clock; evetrace of life. ning service of worship at 8 o'clock; Likely I was mistaken," Harris said Epworth League at 7 o'clock in the 'at last "I saw a face Just outside evening. The devotional service of the door. He was more or less on my the league will be led by June WinFor Sale By mind the party I thought It was. chester. The new officers of the Some one else I expect, and he's gone league will be installed at the evening service. This is usually an impresInside." sive service, helpful to both old and They returned to the hall. Morrow young. The Epworth League will J. L. WEIDMANN stood with two Ualfmoon- D n en at furnish the special music Every Tremonton, Utah the end of the bar. Harris motioned member of the league is expected to Phone 12.3-- 5 Garland James Brough him aside and Morrow withdrew from be present, and all parents and members are the others. urged to come. This Is pretty far north for you, Morrow," Harris suggested. "Is there any one restricting my range?" Morrow demanded. "If there is I'd like to know." "Then 111 tell you," Harris answered. "The road is open as long as you keep ou the road. Any time you stray off the beaten trail you're on the Three Bar range. I don't figure to get gunned up from the brush more than once by the same maa. Every Three Bar boy has orders to shoot you down on 6ight any time you heave In view anywhere within tweniy miles of the Three Bar; so I wouldn't road any stray off the time you're going through." Lanky Evans had detached himself from a group and Morrow looked up to find the tall man standing at bis shoulder. "So yu brnt In pairs," Morrow remarked. "And later In packs," Lanky returned. "Why don't you ever come up and visit us? Every Jme I'm riding north I keep looking back, expecting to see you come cantering up from the south." "What's the object of all th!s conversation ?" Morrow flared. "If you've TOO GOOD got anything to say to me, why, get It over with." "Nothing special," Evans said. "1 just thought maybe I could goad you Into being Imprudent enough to come Consult your county agent and write for list of available up our way which I'm sure hoping publications issued by the Utah Agricultural to observe you north of the line and Experiment Station, Logan., somewher within a thousand yards." Evans turned away and Monow rejoined the two men he had left at the bar. Deane looked about him. 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