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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929 k bad been carefully culled from the -- ange. Harris pointed to the bunch. "Look that assortment over welL Billie. b advised. A few seasons more, with fair luck, and you won't see one of these rainbow droves with every olor from Lrindle to strawberry roan; cone of these humpbacked runts; they'll all be gone. That's al most the last mongrel herd that will ever wear your brand. They'll run better ev ry year until we have alL bee stock a straight big white-fac- e run." The third morning out from the borne ranch broke stormy. A nasty drizzle dampened the face of the world and laid its clammy touch on all living things. This condition prevailed all through the day and shortly after the cows had been milled and bedded for the night the drizzle turned to rain, now falling straight aud soft again In fierce squalls whipped by varying shifts of wind. A saddled night horse was picketed for every man. Tl wagon stood close under a hill while the herd was bedded on a broad flat at the mouth of a valley. The soggy patter cf the rain ou her teepee lulled the girl to sleep but she was frequently roused. A dull muttering materialized sudtlenly Into a sharp thunderstorm and the canvas walls of her teepee were almost continuously illuminated by successive flashes. Vhe picketed horses fretted and stamped. She dropped to sleep again but was roused b; voices outside as the guards changed shifts and she estimated that it must be near morning,' the fourth change of guards. The sounds ceased as the men who had just been relieved turned in for A horse neighed shrilly their si within a few yards of her teepee. Another took It up anr" an answer sounded from tin flats. There was i crash of pistol t'aots, a rumble of hoofs and the Instant commaut" of Harris. "Roll outl Roll ouJ ' he called. "Saddles I "0n your horses 1" Even as he shouted there came the swish of wet canvas as the men tumbled from their bed rolls, the Imprecations of the suddenly awakened. Billie thrust her head from the teepee flap, the water cascading down her neck. She saw Harris, buckling his belt as he ran, and the next flash showed him vaulting to Calico's back. The thunder of hoofs drew her eyes to the bed ground where a black mass surged, then bore off up the valley. A scattered line of riders bore down on the herd, two ghostly apparitions among them throwing the cows into a panic of fear. She knew these for riders flapping yellow slickers in the wind. As the light faded she saw three horizontal red streaks cut the obscurity and knew that one of her guards w in the midst of the rus tlers, doing his single-hande- d best The red splashes of answering shots showed on ail sides of him. She tugged on her chaps and boots, slipped Pa poose's picket rope and vaulted to his back. The scene was once more Illumi nated as she rode from the wagon. A riderless horse circled in the flat, a dark shape sprawled near him, and she wondered which one of her men A knot of horsemen had gone do were turning up an opening gulch on the far side of the valley. A halfdozen TLree Bar riders veered their horses for the spot. Harris turned in his saddle and his voice reached her above the tumult. "Let 'em go!" he shouted. "Let 'em go I Hold the herd !" Far off on the opposite side she made out a lone horseman riding at a full run along the sidehill above the cows as be made a supreme effort to reach the head of the run. The Three Bar men split and streamed up both sides of the bottoms. The flashes had ceased except for brief quivering plays o: less than a second's duration, She hung her spurs Into Papoose and trusted to his footwork. A half-flar- e showed the pinto t. baffe twenty yards ahead, with Harris putting him at the slope to ass the cows. She swung her own 'horse after him and she felt the frequent skid o; his feet on the treacherous sidehilL From the sounds below she knew they were well up on the flanks of the run and nearlng the peak. The stampede seemed slowing. A long, waveriDg flash revealed Harris a dozen jumps ahead. Papoose followed the paint-hors- e as Harris put Calico down the slippery sidehill and lifted him round the point of the herd. In the same flash Billie had seen two slick ers out before the peaks of the run, flapping weirdly In the faces of the foremost cows. This accounted for she had sensed. Two the slowing-uof her men were before them and she wondered how this had come to pass. broke forth once The lightning-plamore. She saw two riders swinging round the opposite point The two slickers were working In the center. Harris' gun flashed six times. She Jerked her own and rolled it The two riders whr had just rounded the far point Joined It Cows in the front ranks held back from this fearsome commotion out In front The ston ceased as suddenly as It had begun and for two miles she rods In Inky darkness. The run had spent it force. The herd stopped and the cows gazed stupidly about standing with drooping heads and heaving sides. Three Bar men showed on both flanks ai In the rear. They bad held the drc " Intact and prevented its splitting up in detachments and t altoff-col- The Settling of logs lay piled and ready to be snaked down to the Three Bar on the first heavy snows of fall The acreage of plowed ground Increased day by day and would continue till frost claimed the ground- - As soon as the brush was burnt the mule teams pulled heavy log, drags across the Held, pulverizing the lumps and leveling inequalities of the surface. Evans had been sent out as foreman of thv beef ;ound-uwhile Harris remained behind tc direct the operations at the ranch. - few days before Evans s due with the beef herd Billie rode I'apoose away from the d ranch, Intending to make u vis! to the Brandons. s After covering of the distance along the foot of the ills to the V L she saw h rider dip "ver a ridge two miles away. She unslung Harris' glasses and dismounted to watch for his reappearance. When he came again Into her field of view another turn was with him and they were driving a few head of cowt before then. She mounted Papoose and angled across to intersect their course. As I'apoose topped a low be. Sac that flunked the valley she saw the men riding toward her down the bottoms, driving twenty or more head of cows. One of the horses threw up his head, his ears pricked sharply toward her, and the swift upward tilt of the rider'a ha as swiftly lowered, informed her that she had been sighted. The other man did not look up. They lifted thei. horses from a walk to a stiff trot and veered past the cows, then looked up as " Just aware of her approach, and waited for her. The men were Bentley and Carp. Bentley greeted her cheerily. Carp nodded without a word. "What are you two doing up here?" she demanded without parley. "I repped with the Three Bar wagon and Carp worked with you for a spell, so we sort of know the range," Bentley explained. "Slade sent us to drift any strays back south." "Those you were driving are Three Bar stuff every hoof," she said. "All p Sage r-a- By long-deferre- HAL G. EVARTS two-third- Copyright by Hal O. Kvart W.N'U &ervte vahe didn't exactly mean quite all eat," Harris explained. "Of course florrow does come up our way sy would prefer to see Lim firs- the would rather he'd keep away. staged that little talk as a 6afe- guard far me. If Morrow acquires the idea that several folks are anxious to see hiru up there, he's apt to be real cautious how he prowls -- ound the Three Bar neighborhood looking for me." Deane crossed over to Billie. The music started but the shook he head as he v.uld have led her to the floor. "Sit dovn. I want fo talk with you. Long Jmi no see 'um after tonight," she said. "It'll be daylight soon and Tve a lonp tale to tell. ' As the others danced she gave him a dozen messages to Impart to various L.' ' i friends. "Tell Judge Colton that Three Bar stock is rising," she said. "And that as soon as things are all smoothed out, he can expect me for a boarder." Through ar opening in the dancing throng Deane suddenly had a clear view of the" open rear door one brief .glimpse before the c owd dosed once more and shut off his view. Ha, had an idea that he had seen a face, hazy and indistinct, a few feet outside the door. 3e wondesed if it co Id be the friend for whom Harris had search d. "Make the visit soon, Billie," he urged. "It's been a long month since wee had you with us. We thought deserted us back there. will this" visit start and how Ions will it last?" "It will start as soon as the Three Bar doesn't need me," she said. "And last a long time." Again a lane opened through the crowd, affording a view of the door. Deane sa the face outside In the night, and a foot or more below it some bright object glited in the dim light which filtered through. The music ceased and the chant of the roulette croupier began, mingling with the smooth purr of the Ivory ball. There came a sudden hush from the ricinity of the rear door, a hush that spread rapid j throughout th room, so swfit are the perceptions of a frontier gathering. Old Rile Foster stood Just Inside, before him. his gun and Lang stood together in the center of the floor, apart from the rest and with no others In line beyond them. Rile tossed a boot heel on to the floor and as It rolled toward the two men' he thot Canfleld through the chest. Lang's gun crashed almost with his own. Rile's knees sagged under him and he pitched face down on the floor, his arms sprawled out before ' ryou'd Bown half-raise- Can-fiel- d two-year-o- she-stock- ." Bentley turned and regarded the little herd they had just passed. "Theu? Sho we wasn't driving them," Bentley denied easily. "They just drifted ahead of us as we rode down th bottoms. A cow critter will always move on ahead of a man. We rode on past 'em as soon as we decided to amble along." She knew that they were on safe ground. Any cow would drift on before a horseman. "The only way to convict a 'ian on a case like this is to shoot him out of the saddle before he has a chance to pass the cows," she said. "That's what will happen to the next Slade rider that gets noticed with any Three Bar cows moving out in front of him and headed south. You can carry that word to Slade." She whirled Papoose and headed back for the ranch, the intended visit d The surge of the crowd, pressing big on towering alone. The old man raised his head from the floor and crooked his wrist with the last of his ebbing strength. Tour for Bangs," he said, and shot Harper between the eyes. CHAPTER IX The two loggers had finished cutting their quota of timber for the homestead cabins and the white peeled She OUR MAKE GOOD OR WE DO Fronk Chevrolet Co. Phone 20 Tremonton, Utah Is No There r - (jftiesswork About It When we fit you with glasses we KNOW they are right. We have the experience and the equipment for properly fitting the eyes with glasses. Tremonton - Utah d Uoore asked. "And what swallowed em up?" Harris s'look his bead. "Billie and I were the firt to make the front be said. "Not auv " Moore stated positively. I saw 'em live minutes before you two swung round the point 1 wis on guard nd halfway up the far side. Split .Jar took a header with me and delayed me some." He pointed to the mud crusted on his clothes. Billie knew that be was the lone rider she Lad seen on the flunks of the herd as she nde away from the wagon. The fall accounted for their rounding the point ahe of. him. Moore was looking off across tne country. "Do you mean to tell me you didn't see those two slickers flapping out in front 1" he demanded. "I confess I didn't observe any," Harris said. "Your're getting 6pooky. Moore. A coup'" of white cows, likely, out ahea of the rest" WhlrUd Papoose and Back for tht Ranch. Htaded to the Brandons postponed. Harris was piling brush in the lower field when she arrived and she Informed him of the act of the two men. "I wouldn't put It past Carp," he said. "But I hadn't sized Bentley up just that way. It's hard to tell If Carp shows up here again we'll make him a visit in the middle of the night and he won't trouble us much after that" "We'd better pay Slade a night visit, too," she said. Her feeHngs toward Slade had undergone a complete revulsion She knew beyond a doubt hat he had been responsible for the raid on Three Bar bulls. The wild bunch would have had no object In such a foray. Figuring It from any angle Sfade was the only one man who derive any benefit from could poss-blthat She had come to see that Slade was fighting with his back to the wall that he had run his course and come to the end of It if squatters secured a f tart in his range, and he considered the act of the Three Bar the opening wedge which would throw open ti e way for the nesters to crowd him out The evening of the following day the beef herd trailed Into the lower end of the Three Bar valley and bedded for the night In the morning the trail herd was headed for the railroad under a full crew, for Harris had kept all hands on the job. The drcve was a nondescript lot In addition to the steers and older cows that comprised every trail herd, the Methodist Church Notes Snowville II. C. Kelson was in Malad on busi ness Friday of last week. Mrs. John Arbon came home from Garland Thursday for a few days. She returned with Mr. Arbon to Garland Tuesday. Wm. T. Robbins went to Logan last Thursday. Mrs. Edmund Hurd and daughter Glenna were Tremonton visitors last week. Mr. and Mrs. Golden Peterson returned Tuesday from a three weeks' visit to friends at Salt. Lake City. Chas. Peterson came out from Salt Lake City Tuesday. The Curlew stake quarterly conference and Primary and M. I. A. conventions were held at Holbrook Saturday and Sunday. A large crowd was in attendance and some very interesting meetings were held. Richard R, Lyman of the council of twelve Moore regarded him curiously. "Maybe that's so," he said. "Waving their tails In the air. sort of." He grinned and turned his horse to head back a bunch that had drifted out or the herd. "The boys made a nice ride," Harris said to Home. "You float round from one to the next and tell 'em we'll soon have a feed. I'll ride back and send the wagon up." Billie rode with him as he skirted the herd aud started on the return trip Her inti--i was occupied with the two riders who had slowed the run There had been and disappeared. about them. As familiar something she had viewed them in the lightning's flash they had closely resembled Bentley and Carp. But she decided that this resemblance had been but a fancied one, suggested by the fact that the two men bad been much on her mind cf late. "We're not hurt bad," Harris said. "The boy held them bunched In good apostles represented the general authorities. Mrs. Lucy Grant Cannon of the Y. L. M. L A., and Ellena B. Thomas of the Primary general board were also present At the Sunday afternoon session of the conference, Austin N. Tolman was sustained as second counselor to Pres. Colen H. Sweeten of Curlew stake, taking the place of Newel J, Cutler, who is on a v mission. The discriminating buyer demands quality in farm products. The progressive farmer seeks to sell products of a quality to meet consumer demand. The use of good seed is essential to quality production. shape." A hatre of Slade was growing within her. Here, too, was a case where no 'other would benefit by the senseless stampede. If the beef herd "could be broken up it would cause a delay to round I up in a strange range, with the certainty of many cows being missed a case o weakening the Three Bar. She had been so absorbed In learning the details of the new work, so elated at Its progress, that she bad come to believe in its ultimate success. And they had been unmolested for so long a time. Then had come the wanton slaughter of Three Bar bulls and now the stampede of the trail herd. It was conclusive proof that Slade had abandoned his former wearing-dow- n process as too slow and was out to crush the Three Bar in the speediest possible way through any available means. (To Be Continued) Services Sunday Sunday school 10 m, Mrs. P. E. Ault, superintendent Classes for ail ages. Story period following class session. Epworth League at 7 p. m. and service of worship at 8 p. m. Sermon topic: "The Immutability of God." Junior League on Monday after school. Services at Corinne Sunday school at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and preaching service at 3 o'clock. ALVIN R. DICKSON, Tastor. a. What Ye Sow So Shall Ye Reap SOW ONLY THE BEST SEED AVAILABLE THE BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD Consult your county agent and write for list of available publications issued by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan. Tremonton Banking Co. ........ 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