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Show Page Six l -- A' i rURMING POINT r t. t. He could wait. A breeze from the window uncovered a photograph on the desk. A picture of Jane. Unconsciously change came over Sherwin, the blood rushed to his face, his eyet toftened at he thought of her. ... CHAPTER IV lie held the picture in his hands, looking at it steadily. It had been taken perhaps four years before. The face was almost childish, but the clear straight look was there; a woman like that might keep a man from from crime! And Stenhart dared to be in love with her! acd He had opened the count books again. "I'll try to make good on these, anyway," he thought, and smiled for the first time as he began to run down Jim's slovenly figures. But he had hardly reached the foot of the column before he heard a quick step behind him and Jim himself came in, dusty and dog-eare- fagged. "Hello, Hazlett. Quit that stuff, I've got something else on hand." As he spoke he flung himself into a chair and mopped his forehead. "Got most of the strays back, but I've lost about eighty yearlings, besides those you made into beef," he added with a grin. "Sorry," Sherwin began, "but" "No regrets!" Jim laughed. "You can ride, I know that. The men are all busy and I want you to ride over to Hemmings' place, it's about fifteen miles, and get the sheriff. He's over there now. Take him along with you and show him trie place where Jordan ran past you you know, on the highroad. We think he's got some of his rustlers there. Anyway, he's cleared out of this neighborhood, and I want Cutler that's the sheriff to know it. You know the locality where Jordan Mac'll give you a fast dodged. horse. Better go right away." Sherwin was staring fixedly at the books in front of him. He said nothing, and, after a moment, Jim looked around at him. "Well?" he said interrogatively. "I don't know the roads; I'll lose time finding the place Hemmings, I mean. Hadn't you better send some one who knows the way?" "I've got no one who knows where you saw Jordan. Besides, the road to Hemmings' place is straight, you can't miss it. All the men are busy, and I'm used up. You can make it before Cutler takes a false trail Here, I'll draw you a map" Jim reached for a pencil. As he did so he caught a glimpse of the other man's face and whistled, then he laughed. "See here, Hazlett, what's wrong you're not afraid to meet the heriff, are you?" he asked lightly. Sherwin' s face whitened. He rose. Til go at once, sir," he said grave- ly; "where's the house?" Jim struck his hand on the desk. "Here, I say, don't take it like that. 1 was Joking!" Sherwin met his eyes squarely. the kind of joke I don't like," be replied coldly. Something in the man's eyes made Jim lean back in his chair and observe him closely. But he turned the matter off as well as he could. "Sorry! I owe you an apology. But Ifa you'll go?" nodded, went out and crossed the veranda to the lawn. Under the trees he saw a pretty tableau. Fanny Sewell was reading aloud to the convalescent, and going away from them, across the slope that led to the creek, was Jane. Sherwin saw the sunlight on her uncovered head. She did not see him, nor did Stenhart. He, watching Jane. Sherwin's hand clenched at his side but he walked rapidly across the open space and went to the stables. Old Mac was there with his arm in a sling, but he had already had his orders from Jim, and one of the stablemen had a fast horse saddled. "Jim says you're to go after th sheriff. He thinks Jordan's made ft " the old man shrugged. 'I see you don't agree with that," said Sherwin, as he sprang into the flower-dotte- d too,-wa-s addle. "A fox mostly doubles," Mac replied. "Look out for yourself, lad; Jordan may remember the rough an' tumble you bad together." "In case he does, goodbye, and thank you!" he said. As he rode his mind worked quickly. Across the bridge he drew rein an instant, felt in his pocket and drew out a newspaper two days old. He read a paragraph and shook his head. It was too great a risk to ride to Hemmings' place he must give his chance ap his vantage-ground- , to be near Stenhart. The way that Jim had sent him lay to the west. He did not take it, but turned east. The road here was skirted by the ereek and, half a mile farther, it ascended and commanded a view of Lai Palomas. Sherwin followed it. Here, at the very beginning, fate had lorced his hand more neatly than even Stenhart could have done it M he turned back and went to meet sheriff- -? There was a chance, t in million, that he could carry it off. but If he did not, then he lost all chance at Stenhart. But if he went on to the east then be must lose his point of vantage and he would never see Jane Keller again! What madness to think of the girl! Sherwin knew it, but he was young and her clear eyes held him. He heard still her voice when she told him to "make good!" And he was going like a craven! Suddenly he turned his horse's head. He would go back; he'd go west and face the devil, if need be! Something stirred in the brush below the road, and he saw the branch of a low hanging tree sway suddenly. Rising in his stirrups he looked through a gap In the foliage. Below him ran the creek. On the farther bank wild flowers bloomed bravely, the sunlight making a carnival of He caught a glimmer of color. white, looked again and saw a figure there. Jane! She must have come this far looking for flowers; he could see her bending down to pull the of the stream, dripping. Knowing that, while he carried the girl, he was safe from gunfire, Jordan started to run to cover, but, burdened, he was not quick enough. Sherwin leaped forward and, throwing his powerful arms around him, dragged him back. Caught by an iron grip above each elbow, Jordan released Jane and tried to turn on his as- sailant. There was a moment of wild conflict; the two men struggled, twisted and went down together. Sherwin had no time to draw a weapon and he meant that Jordan should not have a better chance. Wrestling and panting they rolled over, slipping down the bank toward the creek, while Jane tried to help Sherwin, and cried for help. Sherwin twisted and strained at the other man, when they came to a cleft in the bank, fell through it violently and struck water, Jordan uppermost. The force of the contact, the sudden rush of water over his head, loosened Sherwin's grip, and his antagonist drew a knife and struck once, furiously. The blade drove into the other man's arm, and there was a moment more of fierce conflict, the water growing red; then Jordan broke loose and swam ashore. He had crossed the creek. Sherwin still heard Jane's cries and, wounded in the arm, he struck out for the shore and, reaching it, climbed to the top of the bank dizzily. He saw that the girl was there alone and, faint from loss of blood, sank to his knees beside her. "Oh, you're hurt, you're bleeding!" Jane was down beside him, trying, with shaking hands, to find the wound and stanch it. Sherwin, looking up into her face, read something there that went to his head. "It's only a scratch," he whispered hoarsely. "Thank God I was near enough to help!" "But you're bleeding, he's shot you in the arm!" She was trying to bind it with her handkerchief. "And it was for me Oh, I thought he'd kill you!" Sherwin laid his hand over hers. "Would you care?" he asked, and his voice shook. y The girl lifted brave eyes to his, the color ran up to her dusky hair, but her look answered his. "Jane!" he cried, "Jane!" She did not speak, but her clear eyes misted. In the madness of that moment he cast his last resolution to the wind. "I love you!" he said softly. "No no matter Suddenly he turned his horse's matter what comes head. He would go back; he'd go what is said of me I love you!" The girl looked back at him with west and face the devil, if need be! her sweet gravity. "I don't even blossoms. He dropped from the know your real name!" she said saddle, led his horse into the shelter gently. of some eucalyptus and left him. If He groaned. It all came back to there was any one on this side of him and turned the world black. the creek he must know it. "I'm mad." he said bitterly. "You'll Low bushes grew thick along the hate me soon for this!" "John!" bank and a flowering vine, sprawlHe turned and saw her white face ing over them, knotted them together. Sherwin could not see far into lifted, her blue eyes steady and the dense green shadows, but he brave. "Tell me the truth," she said, found an opening and slipped on me I'll believe you!" "tell the among spreading branches, He covered his own eyes with his dropped to the mossy ground and looked between close-se- t roots and shaking hands. Then he drew a long stems toward the smooth glimmer breath. He would tell her, he'd tell that was the creek. It was still. her all! There came suddenly a shout and There was no sound but Jane's the sound of men rushing toward herwas she to voice; singing softly self. At first it seemed as if the them. "It's Jim," Jane said, "and old swinging bough must have been a Mac looking for me." figment of imagination, but Sherwin Sherwin realized all it meant! He knew better. There was no wind who swung that bough? He waited, had made love to the girl she had holding his breath, for suddenly it not definitely repulsed him, her eyesI came to him that danger threatened had spoken much, and he was Jane, disarmed by Jim's fixed idea The hot blood ran out of his face, that Jordan had gone they had his look was haggard. He stood still, to hide the blood on his grown careless; no one was within trying call. The shadow in the brush was sleeve. It made no difference now; mattered, whether he lived dark, but the sunlight on the water nothing or died. Then he heard her telling outlines. cut Sherwin clear beyond became aware of a stealthy sound them what had happened and how close to the edge of the creek. He brave he was! Jim caught at his unwounded arm stooped lower and discerned a and wrung his hand. crouching figure; a man was crawl"To the rescue again! You seem ing on his hands and knees toward the water. As he dropped lower to to have taken out a contract for pullpass under a bough, his head was ing this family out of scrapes, old silhouetted against the light and chap, and" Jim choked a little, looking at his sister "I don't know Sherwin knew him it was the rustler, Jordan! Instinctively, Sher- how to thank you!" "Unfortunately, I always seem to win's hand went to his revolver, then it dropped. He dared not shoot. let that rogue slip through my finThe creek was narrow here and gers!" Sherwin said. He knew that Jane was too near. A miss, and I Jim must wonder how he got there, He must get the man from behind, but Jane broke in with her cry about pinion his arms, drag him, if need his arm. "Jim, he's been shot stabbed, I be, into the water and drown him. mean. You must see to his arm; I Softly he crept after the skulker. There was little sound except the couldn't stop the blood!" "Of course we'll see to It, Sis! occasional cracking of a twig, and Which way did Jordan run, Hazsimilar Jordan, making sounds, did not seem to notice them. The two lett?" "Into the brush," he pointed; "he crept on, the first almost at the wame in the arm first and" he got ter's edge, the second almost near stopped, clapping his hand over the to the in enough grasp crawling legs wound which stung painfully now. front. Jane's voice rose just oppomust Sher-wi"Oh, a n you get that arm fixed site, singing Spanish song. stretched out his hand and al- up!" Jane said to her brother. most got the ankle nearest him; "Where's the sheriff? He's needed then, suddenly, Jordan faced about here!" Sherwin gave her a quick look, and saw him, uttered an oath and something grim in his smile, but plunged into the water, swimming straight for the girl on the opposite Jim answered readily. "I'd started Hazlett for the sheriff side. In an instant, Sherwin divined his plan he meant to get Jane and by the way, where's your horse?" dictate his own terms to Jim! He he asked suddenly. "Over there" old Mac pointed knew that Sherwin could not shoot and endanger the girl. But Sherwin across the stream "I seen it crop-pibroke through a tangle of vines, grass. Kinder wonder Jordan plunged into the creek and swam didn't swipe it." Both men stared across at one of after him. Still, the other man had the advantage. As Sherwin struck the fastest horses in the stables the water, Jordan leaped out on the who should have been half way to other side and was after the girL Hemmings place by now quietly Jane did not run. She faced her nibbling grass on the east road. A pursuer and tried to fight him off, look passed between th two but but Jordan's arms were around her Sherwin misted It. Jane was Insistand ht had lifted her from the ing on his return to the house. ground when Sherwin camt up out (TO BE CONTINUED) 5 jf V ) EAST GARLAND DEWEYYILLE liif Mary Imlay Taylor THE STORT THIS FAR: Teresa Ukei Hazlett much better than the likes Sten-karShe (peaks again of Stenhart't dreamt "like devils in him." When Sten-kar- t It left alone In a chair under a live oak tree In the yard, the stranger confronted the lick man, who blurted at: "My God, Sherwin, you!" Sherwin (Hazlett) calmly ttates: "I've come to kill you, but not Just now; you're tick." fherwin returned to the bouse, feeling there wat plenty of time to kill 8ten-har- t THURSDAY, MARCH 7, at a cate. W.N. U. RELEASE Sherwin Tremonton, Utah BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER If m Mrs. Joseph Oyler accompanied and Mrs. J. W. Rhodes to Mr. attended Mr. and Mrs. Child where the Child reunion held in Ogden Salt Lake City Thursday the funeral services attended they Tuesday. for an aunt, Mrs. Rosebelle o'clock 2 Thursday, beginning at She was buried in the with a dinner served Cafeteria cemetery. Fielding style, started our norrrecoming ana L. R. Shaffer had a dem Mrs. Ward reunion. Some 2 50. were onstration of the Stanley Products served during the dinner. A pro' which was presented by Friday gram of songs, accordian duet and Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Grover of a welcome speech by Bishop Fry There were eleven preer were enjoyed by all. In the Ogden. sent. evening a good program and dance Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hansen finished one more great time in attended the Utah Poultry meetthe Deweyville Ward. ing and banquet held Friday evenSunday Mr. and Mrs. M. G. ing at the Hotel Utah. Mrs. Perry received word from Califor- David Larson accompanied them nia from their son, Norman, say- to Salt Lake City and spent the ing he was discharged from the evening with relatives. service and would be home soon. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. James Dixon have Eugene and Mr. and Mrs. David moved to Brigham City where they Larson attended the basketball will make their home. game between the U. S. A. C. and Mr. and Mrs. John Becker of the famous Wyoming Cowboys at Ogden visited with Mr. and Mrs. the A. C. Field House Saturday Duett Loveland and family Tues- evening. Considering the fact day evening. They also visited that the Wyoming team is rated as their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. one of the top teams in the nation, R. Ault. it was conceded that the A. C. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Norr and boys played a good game with the son. Reed, have returned from score ending 56 to, 66 in WyoArizona where they spent three ming's favor. months. J. W. Larson, who has spent Friday, Mrs. Geo. Orme and several months with his children daughters of Honeyville, Miss in Seattle, Washington, was leavTillie Dewey of Brigham City and ing last week to visit relatives in Mrs. Gene Leavett of Fielding en- San Francisco, Los Angeles and joyed a belated birthday party his son, John Jr. and family in Fort Worth, Texas. with Mrs. Alvin Norr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grover and The Relief Society had charge of the Sunday evening program, Mr. and Mrs. Vcrn Shaffer enbasketball during which tributes were given tertained the to the various organizations of the team and their partners at a banward and town as follows: Pri- quet and bingo party at the ward mary "by Mrs. Pearl Perry; M. I. hall Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A., Mrs. Minnie Johnson; Sunday Cullimore and Mr. and Mrs. WalMrs. Margaret Fryer; lace Bourne were special guests. School, School, Mrs. Orpha Ault; the Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Harward and Bishopric, Mrs. Lettic mon Pierson, Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Snow. Musical numbers giv- Larson and Mr. and Mrs. Ursel en were a piano solo, Mrs. J3ert Rhodes surprised Mrs. Joseph The Whcatley and a clarinet solo by Shaffer on her birthday. Mrs. Clarence Perry. group went to a show and supper Ap-goo- i The guest of was presented with som S tinh. day gifts. Mrs Sylvan Korth left for California where she Fr, ' with her father and Mr. and Mrs. L. M Hi are spending a few days in S1' ish Fork visiting with relative Mr. and Mrs. R. J. pot. ' Salt Lake City buslne Friday. Wednesday night, Presid Mrs. R. J. Potter were JI the Hidi PrW n.bue ward at a banquet at the ward The evening was srent . games. Mr. Gerald Behun returned his home in Terra Bell a. fM;r. after snendincr& a .r i wUjj1C or with his aunt, Mrs. Dorris own loumy. i.. rrancisPetp, son went back with him for ! visit with relatives there. Mrs. Essie Peterson attended P. T A. meeting in Tranent Tuesday. 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