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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929. Reassured on this point he flattened out on his pallet and the wagon heM on toward the herd. The weary cows were held over for a day of rest The night guards were doubled and this precaution was maintained d"ring the succeeding two stops before reaching the shipping The Settling of the point Sage By G. EVARTS HAL Copyright by Hal O. Evtrta WNU Berric Harris, Too, was pondering over Shade's change of tactics. He felt that Slade's own men had not Xjtrtlcipated in starting the run. Slade Would not let any considerable number of his boys know that much about him. Some of Lang's men had undoubtedly been hired to sta- - pede the Three Bar herd. "The very fact that Slade is so bald with It Is proof that he sees the necessity of crowding us fast," Harris said. "If. we get too big a start he's blown op and he hasn't had anything to work o' but plowed ground. He's oit now to worry us at odd ends. We caa expect a steady run of mishaps now, for hell work fast but we'll win out In the end." She nodded a little wearily for she knew that with Slade throwing all bis forces against her the Three Bar would be bard pressed. In addition to this worry her mind was concerned with the rl rless horse she bad seen as she rod away from the wagon, the huddled figure sprawled In the flat Every Three, Bar rider was a friend and she hesitated to bear which one of her men had gone down In the raid. "Who was it?" she asked at last, and Bai.is divined that she was harking back to the fallen night guard who had tried to head the raiders alone. "I've been trying not to think about that," he said. "Lanky was a good of mine. I saw him go down, but Tcouldn't stop right then." Evans occupied a place In her regard that was perhaps a notch higher liaa that of any other of the crew. "Can't we prove anything on Slade do anything to stop htm?" she demanded. "If they've killed Lanky, I'll perjure myself if it's the only way. I'll have Alden pick him up and I'll swear I saw him do the thing himself. He's as guilty as If he actually had." Tve a fealt or two for Slade," Harris said. "But that way may prove too slow. If Lanky'g gone under, I expect I'll have to pick a quarrel with Slade and hurry things along." "Don't you!" she objected. For all of her confidence In Harris' eOclency in most respects, her Implicit belief In his courage, she could not forget the awkward swing of his gun and she had a swift vision of him facing Slade without a chance. A crash of wagon wheels and the voice of Waddles admonishing the horses interrupted her. "How Lrnky7" was Harris' first query. Waddles Jerked a thumb over his shoulder. Evans, shot once through the arm and a second time through the shoulder, reclined on the bed roll the cook had spread Vfcr him on thi floor of the wagon. 'He'll come round fine In a few days If we can keep him often a horse and riding comfortable In the wagon. I've give him orders to that effect." Evans groaned. "He drives over places 1 wouldn't "Did cross afoot," he complained. you hold the run?" J1 Harris and Billle sat on the top rail of the loading chute while the last few Three Bar steers were being prodded on b ard the cars. Harris slipped from bis perch and motioned to Moore and Uorne. "You can go uptown now and take on a few drinks. Hunt up an old friend or two and wag your chins. Make it right secretive and confidential and make each one promise faithful not to breathe a syllable to another living souL That way the news Is sure to travel rapid." He returned to the girl as the stock train pulled out Two hands waved a Joyous farewell from the top of the cars, delighted at the prospect of a trip to market with the steers. "I don't pretend to regret that old Rile played even for Bangs," Harris said. "But I wish he'd sorted out gome one else In the albino's place. It was bad business for the Three Bar when Harper went down." "He was the head of the gang," she said. "The worst of the lot" "And for that reason he was able to hold them down," Harris explained. "It was some of the outfit from over in the Breaks that stampeded us. Slade wouldn't let his own boys know that much about him, so he'd hire He Lang. Harper had brains. wouldn't have gone in for that Lang has thrown In against us. He's all bulk and no brains and as savage as an Apache buck. He'll bang himself In the end but In the Interim be may hand us considerable grief." CHAPTER X AH through the range and as far south as the railroad It was current gossip that the Three Bar would pay a thousand dollars reward for each of fifteen men, a fast saddle horse thrown In and no questions asked. The men were named, and If the rumor was based on truth it was virtually placing a bounty on the scalps of certain men the same as the state paid bounty on the sculps of wolves except that it was without the sanction of the law. This backfire rumor had established a definite line with fifteen men outside, conspicuous and alone, and those who had once followed the hazy midwith dle ground of perfect security now hastened to become solid citizens whose every act would stand the light; for the whisand it was pers seemed Intimated that new names would be added to the original list to Include those who fraternized with the ones outside the pale. Those not branded by this alleged bounty system were quick to grasp the beautiful simplicity of it all Some recalled that a similar rumor, supposed to have originated with old Con RIstine, had wiped out the wild bunch that preyed on the Nations had resultthat the Gallatin clean-ued from a like report which Al Moody was reported to have launched. 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Mrs. James Burbank returned from they met; iu Coldrlver they were speculating on the possible results, the Salt Lake Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Harwood and same in the railroad towns; across the Idaho line and south Into Utah It was children, were dinner guests of relaSunday. the topic of the day. And the single tives here School Convention was well Sunday patron of Brill's store found the same attended officers of the Dewey-- 1 by question uppermost in his mind. ville Sunday School, at Tremonton Carson w one of the many who Chapel Sunday morning and afterwere neither wholly good nor hope- noon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dewey and lessly bad, one who bad drifted with the easy current of the middle course. daughters of Brigham City visited on Irrigated Land. 6V per nd he was wondering If that middle relatives here Sunday. cent. No commissions. Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Waddington of courst wculd continue to prove safe. He played solitaire to pass the time. Red River, Neb., arrived here Friday JOHN J. SHUMWAY death of Mrs. Waddington's His horse and saddle bad been lost after the B. R. V. 69.a-Phones: died who Bell, 129 John father, Eckley, Friday r in a game Just prior to at 4:40 p. m. at his home here after his catching the stage to Brill's, a lingering- - llness of several months. where his credit had always been good. He rose, stetched and accosted BrllL "Put me down for a quart," be said. "Whenever you put down the cash," Brill returned. 'What's the matter with my credit?" Carson demanded. "I've always paid." Brill . cached for a book, opened it and slid it onto th bar. He flipped the pages and Indicated a number of accounts ruled off with red Ink. "So did Harper," be said. "He always paid; and Canfleld and MaglU; these others, too. Their credit was good but they've all gone somewhere I can't follow to collect And they lance was never for an instant relaxed was owlnc mc" He tapped a double and It was gradually impressed upon account "Bangs was Into roe a little. her that the cessation of petty annoy Old Rile paid, up for blm and then got ances held iiore of menace than of it In his turn with bis name down for on my books. Harris and assurance. Slade bad seen that the a bundr Three Bar was not to be discouraged Billle Warren paid up for Rile. Now in its course and he now waited for Just whoever do you surmise will par an opportunity to launch a blow that op for you?" "Me?" Carson Inquired. would crlnnle. striking simultaneously "Why, I at every exposed point and delaying ain't dead. I'm clear alive." "So was when I charged those only for a propitious time, in tne face of continued immunity sue was accounts." Brill said. "But It looks like stormy days ahead. I sell for filled with a growing conviction of imcash." pending trouble. "I'm not on thls.death list, If that's . Christmas had found the range covered with a fresh tracking snow which what you're referring to," Carson anprecluded possibility of a raid and all nounced. "But it's easy to get enrolled," Brill hands had been summoned to the home Consult your county agent and write for list of available rest The frolic said. "Tour name's liable to show up ranch for a two-daon publications issued by the Utah Agricultural the on it any time. Seen Lang in the last was over and the hands back before Billle with few Experiment Station, Logan. sat Harris days?" range. "Not in the last few months," Cur-so- n her fire. stated. "Nor yet In the next few "They'll be satisfied for another two months," he said. "Then we'll have to years. He s no friend of mine." "I sort of remember you used to be call them In for another spree." This evening conference before the right comradely," Brill remarked. "That's before 1 really knowed Lang fire had come t be a nightly occurrence. The Bank Best Able to Serve the Bear River Valley Together they went over the details Intimate," Carson said. "He didn't of the work accomplished during the strike me as such a bad sort at first; Published by this bank in cooperation with the Agriday and mapped out those for the but now he's going too strong. Folks are getting plum down on him." next. cultural Committee of the Utah Bankers' Association t "Another two months and the cab-In- s Be Continued) (To will be. roofed and finished," Harris said. ''Then we'll be through till the frost is out of the ground. We'll start building fence as soon as you can sink a post bole; and we'll have time to break out another two hundred acres of ground before time to seed It down." The girl nodded without comment content to leave blm to his thoughts, her mind pleasantly occupied with ber own. For long her evenings had been lonely but now she had come to look forward to the conferences before the blazing logs. She had made no attempt to analyze the reasons for the new contentment which had trans-Iformed her evenings, formerly periods of drab reflections, Into the most pleasant portion of each day. The weekly letters still came from Deane. The girl valued Harris as a friend and partner without apparent trace of more Intimate regard. He wondered which would prevail, the ties which bound her to the life she had always known or the lure of the new life which beckoned. One of these new Frigidaire features And no detail has been overlooked to Suddenly, without having sought it, is the ingenious COLD CONTROL, by the explanation of her recent contentprovide complete protection and presment bubbled to the surface of the ervation of the juices and fine flavors which you easily regulate the speed of girl'a consciousness, and she turned of meats and other foods that you buy Frigidaire's freezing action. With its Night after and gazed at Harris. at table for Gephart's. your aid, new and delightful results are night she had sat here with old Cul meet Warren and discussed the details of to best found the was achieved in the making of frozen Frigidaire their work and after bis passing her demands of Mr. Gephart for making the desserts. restlessof been hours evenings had his store unsurpassed in service and ness. Now Harris, the partner, bad quality. New beauty also distinguishes the crept Into the father's place bad in a measure filled the void. and more all the time, more For, present Frigidaire, characterized by Harris rose and filcked the ash from unchal- forfeit any time he chanced to ride alone. He had not a doubt but that Slade bad put a price on bis bead and that perhaps a dozen men weie patiently waiting for a chance at him. An? man whose name nop a red on the black list which be was supposed to nave sponsored would overiooK no onrtorrunlfv to retaliate In kind. In addition to this there was always the chance of a swift raid on the men wno had filed their homestead rights in the valley. As a consequence Harris bad taken every possible precaution. The full force of Three Bar bands bad Deen keDt on the Day roll Instead of being let off Immediately after the beef was shipped. These riders were stationed In line camps out on the range, their ostensible purpose being to hold all Three Bar cows close to the home ranch but In reality they served two ends, acting as a cordon of guards as welL Three times In as many weeks stran gers drifting In from other localities stODDed In Coldrlver and profanely re ported the fact that for no reason whatever, while passing through the Three Bar range, they had been held up and forced to state their business In that neighborhood. Hostilities had ceased. The Tnree Bar girl had anticipated a series of raids aealnst the cows wearing ber brand, swift forays In Isolated points of her range, but no stock losses were reported. On the surface it appeared that Slade had riven UD all thought of harassing the Tbree Bar. But the girl bad come to know Slade. He would never recede from his former stand. She noted that Harris' vigi With Suspicion. his cigarette, suppressing the desire to take her In his arms, for be knew that time bad not yet come. As be opened the door to leave an eddy of steam curled in at the opening as the warm air of the room battled on the temthreshold with the thlrty-beloperature of the outside world. She heard the hissing crunch of bis boots on the frozen crunt and reached for D nes Christmas letter to reread It for perLapp the fifth time. During the night a chlnook poured Its warm breath oer the hills and mornljig found the snow crumpling before It BP.lie rode with Harris through the lower field as he pointed out the various fence lines and the lay of the ditchfcii and laterals which would carry water to Irrigate the meadow, all these to be Installed as soon as winter should lose Its grip. As Harris outlined his plans his words were tinged with optimism and be allowed no hint of possible disaster to creep Into bis speech. But the girl was conscious of that hovering uncertainty, the feeling that the months of peace were but to lure ber into a false sense of security and that Slade would pounce on the Tbree Bar from all angles at once whenever the time was suspicion, as possible aspirants out to collect the bounty on their heads. The reference to the fast saddle horse was guarantee that no questions would be asked before the price was paid and no questions answered after the recipient had ridden away from the Three Bar with his spoils. let, if the thing were true, it was the most flagrant violation of the law ever launched, even in the Col driver Strip where transgression was the rule. For the branded men were not wanted on any charge. It was merely the wholesale posting of rewards for the lives of some fifteen citizens whose standing in the community was legally the eame as the rest prize money offered by an Individual concern for its enemies without reference to the law. On every possible occasion Harris flatly denied that there was a shred of truth In the report But these very natural denials bad served only to strengthen men's belief In the truth right She ound some consolation In the of the report ; and Inevitably they bad established a bard line that cut off fact that Lang's men no longer rode the men so named from the rest of through her range at will but skirted It in their trips to and from the the countryside. Breaks. She attributed tbla solely to own was life Harris knew that his OF GENERAL MOTORS Frigidaire demonstrates its leadership. Frigidaire today, maintains an undisputed claim to ORIGINALITY by offering- EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURES. lenged - artistic lines and pleasing color effects. The new Frigidaire is an ornament to any home, as well as a MODERN NECESSITY. 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