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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH o o o o o o o o Q o o o o o o o o o o Uflnnn none CcDmammcBirciDir . . Copyrigat CHAPTER XIII by Peter B. EBy IPefier IB. Kyne tTKU Sarrleo. ZyB. afterward she bad a faint recollection Continued Hobart looked back. In tbe distance lit coald see bis five men following him. De wared his bat and one of them waved In return ; o without further ado be rode down to Join Ro berta. The girl held up her band, enjoining alienee, aa Ilobart reined In beside her. "Listen!" ahe commanded. Be bent bla bead. Faintly to him came the report of rifles. "There were twenty herders with the band an hour ago," the girl re ported. "Don Jaime counted them, There doesn't appear to be that man; now." Bobart awept tbe scene with bis binoculars. "Tent Half the gang went ahead to preempt the water, and Don Jaime has walked Into them, Be's alive and kicking, though. If he were not, there wouldn't be any shooting. And Julio hasn't got there yet. Well, be'll be careful He'll probably come In from the rear and help the boss out I wish I knew whether Jaime la In the old corral or at the water-hole- . Smokeless powder, you aee. One cannot tell But the sheep move forward! That indicates confidence. Tea, Dingle has the water!" "Then Don Jaime's fighting ten of them." "Looks that way. He must be In the old corral, because be wouldn't last a minute in the open. The corral la boarded close and the light Is falling. If be keeps moving be will not be too easy to hit." Julio rode out Into the open a ter of a mile south of them. Instantly Bobart pulled bis rifle, sighted carefully and threw up the dirt in front of the boy to attract bla attention. When Julio pulled up and looked around to ee where the attack came from, Ilobart waved bla bat at him and moved out from tjhe sheltering fringe of bushes onto: the grassy floor of the valley, Roberta by bis side. Instantly Julio recognized them. "You stay where you are, girl," Ken Bobart commanded. "My other live men will be riding down the hill pretty oon. You tell them my orders are to charge the men with the sheep Immediately." "What are you going to do, Mr. Ilobart "I'm going to Join Julio, and the two of us will advance along the south tide of this valley toward the water-holThe range will be too long; for the herders with the sheep to stop us, I think. Jimmy's in a Jackpot and needs help mighty bad, so Julio and 1 will furnish what we can. Adloal" Be galloped away diagonally across the valley, motioning for Julio to Join him. Tbe boy did not hesitate. Roberta watched them in an agony of apprehension. The herders with the sheep were firing at Bobart and Julio, galloping across their front. Ken had stated that the range would be too long for effective fire by men not versed in the science of accurate shooting at extreme ranges, but nevertheless the girl saw Julio's pinto go down, saw the boy hoot out over the animal's neck. He was up Instantly and back beside the horse. "Getting his rifle," Roberta thought Ken Bobart had pulled up and was riding back to Julio, who, In turn, was running to meet him. There was not an Instant'! pause In the stride of the horse, yet Julio mounted double behind Hobart, the horse whirled, and the daring pair were on their way again. There, alone at the foot of the hill Watching this drama, Roberta prayed for those men as she bad never prayed before; she cried out in agony when Ken Hobart'a horse went to its knees, rose again and stood still. Even one. so unversed In warfare as Roberta could realize that the poor brute had been hit and crippled. She saw Hobart and Julio dismount and, kneeling some twenty feet apart, open fire on the distant herders as calmly as If hooting at a mark I And then, over the crest behind her, came the five men detailed to follow Ken Hobart They came down the elope at a fast gallop, spurred on by the sounds of conflict In the valley below, but slackened speed as they sighted the girl, holding up her hand In a signal to halt She trembled so she could, with difficulty, speak coherently. "Don Jaime-eng-aged at the water-hol- e with ten men Ken Bobart and Julio over south shooting at the herders Ken says-r-ear attack." The three American riders gazed at her, not quite comprehending, desirous, perhaps, of receiving more explicit Instructions In such an emergency. "What are you standing there for?" "Follow Roberta cried hysterically. me. I'll show you." With a savage little dig of her dull dress spurs she was off, the five men streaming behind her. Across the northern flank of the valley they raced, the patter of rifle fire froo tfie herders probably drowning the iound of their thudding approach, for they were within a hundred yards of the nearest men before the latter saw them. One of them fired at Roberta. . . . She thrilled with a cold fear and a wild exaltation as the bullet whispered past her head . . , r e. of a dark, frightened, but defiant face that loomed for an Instant In front of her before she rode the man down. I'lKtol shots . . . then a backward look. Behind her the five rode with upraised pistols, flourishing them at her, yelling a fierce approbation of her leadership The sheep, in panic, fled wildly, leaping over each other, bleating, leaving a cloud of grayish white dust behind them. Roberta rode Into the cloud -rode through the fringe of stragglers, knocking them down, leaping over and among them. Her horse, plunging and swerving, was striving, with common sense rather uncommon In a horse, to avoid the woolly bodies under his feet, and Roberta was forced to ride as she had never ridden before. Pistols popped behind her. . . . She was clear of the sheep. . . . Her dull little riding academy spurs prodded her mount's flanks; the quirt rose and fell. . . . She caught the gleam of sunshine as the last level rays of the dying day were reflected on a pooL Among some rocks beyond the pool three figures moved, the crackle of fire grew loud er; she could discern the sharp, spiteful reverberation of It now. Where was the corral? Don Jaime was there. wounded, dying perhaps. . . . She saw It a circle of weather- beaten boards, nailed so close together that the fence appeared like a wall. Straight at It she drove her mount. realizing vaguely as she did so that It was a hurdle at least a foot higher than she had ever faced In sport. She saw ber horse's ears flicker. felt his stride slacken a little; then his head shot forward and his ears came up straight. Good horse! He was not going to refuse the Jump! She felt him gather himself for the leap, and took a firm grip on the reins. "Alley oop!" she cried. While In midair she saw Don Jaime off on the right flank, standing In the bed of a wagon, firing over the fence; then she was over and Inside the cor ral with hlra. "Jimmy!" she shouted. lie turned, staring at ber amazed. Then he Jerked the bolt of his Spring-fieland yelled: "Down I Hat 1" She rode up to the wagon, slipped off, pulled the rifle from the scabbard and untied the cartridge belt from her pommeL Then, with a slap on her horse's rump, she sent him trotting across the corral And then Don Jaime acted. He leaped down at her, his powerful arm swept her backward and off balance; she slid down his body gently to the ground and he threw himself beside her. "Oh, my G d, sweetheart, why did you come?" he almost moaned. "Because I love you, Jaime Miguel Higuenes. You are In danger and I couldn't stay away, I'll help you, Jimmy. If you have to die I want you to know before that happensi that life without you will be desolate " He crooned to her In Spanish, his hot eyes devouring her, his grimy perspiring hands caressing her cheek. "I always knew you were a thoroughbred," he gulped finally. "Lie here and do not move. This Is a private fight and you haven't been Invited. I've got to keep moving. I've run miles from one side of this corral to the other, firing through knotholes and gaps In the boards. If I stay still they'll locate me and I can't afford d that now I" He rolled away like a tumbleweed. A bullet crashed through the fence and struck where he had been lying second before. And then Roberta proved herself a woman. She fainted. fore dark. I turned up unexpectedly rode wide around the herders, approached the corral from the rear and had opened the gate and entered before either side discovered I was trapiied. They couldn't see me clearly but through the chinks In the corral boarding they could see something moving against the light At that they couldn't be sure that something was me, my horse, or their mules, and they didn't want to hit the mules, so they were careful. "It was close work and after I'd moved around a lot and had located s and wide chinks In all the the boards 1 made them keep their heads down. Then when the firing started out on the flat, and they saw Ken's men, led by you, making a pis tol charge on the men with the sheep, lingle got cold feet. You rode through quite a barrage, sweetheart, but once you'd topped the corral they figured I had reinforcements, so they ran for their horses and rode south. That is. some of them did. I climbed upon the wagon seat and fanned their rear; as they fled down the south side of the valley they bumped Into Ken and Julio, who emptied two saddles each. Do you know, darling, that you have a pistol bullet through tbe muscles of your back, rather well on the right side? Nothing fatal, but you'll sleep on your left side for a month !" "I'm a little fool," Roberta mur mured weakly. "Yes. but a gallant little fooL You have some of your late Uncle Tom's ferocity and courage in you, Bobby. Oh yes, old Tom always preferred odds and good shelter In combat, but he would stand up to It when he had to. He couldn't be bluffed off this range and he forced me to make good." "Are you hurt, Jimmy?" "Not a scratch." She raised her left arm and curled It around his neck; he lowered his face until his cheek touched hers. "You're such a terrible man," she whispered. "Oh, such a terrible man !" "But you love me, Just the same?" "Yes, but I wouldn't have told you I'd have died first It's all due to Ken Hobart. He told me" "nush, sweetheart He's confessed He told you a few of the most wonder ful lies on record, and when he found you'd been hit he cried like a baby. Swore that If you died he'd commit suicide provided I didn't kill him first!" He lifted her to a sitting posi tion. "There's old Cupid Hobart sitting over yonder. Look at him. He's still blubbering." "Ken!" Roberta called weakly. The got up and limped painfully over to her, knelt and took her hand. "You're a grand liar," she murmured, "and a grand fighter, and a grand friend and now I'm going to decorate you, Ken Hobart on the field of battle." "Kiss her, fool," Don Jaime roared. And you can kiss her again the day we're married. That's the privilege of the best man, but after that, believe you me, partner, she's not going to r give away any more samples to old waddles like you." "Oh, my God, forgive me," Ken sobbed childishly, and brushed her pale cheek with his tobacco-staineknot-hole- hard-bolle- d Hps. 'On the lips, man," Don Jaime com manded. "You don't know good kissing when It's offered to you." "I been chewin" tobacco," the victim protested. "I don't care," Roberta assured him. "Jimmy chews It too." So the embarrassed wretch obeyed orders, and Roberta fainted aealn. CHAPTER XIV She came to lying In Don Jaime's in the dry grass beside the -hole. She looked up at him without understanding, then closed her eyes again. "Well, Jimmy," she murmured presently. "We're back In the sheep business agnln," he assured her solemnly. A silence. Then: "Any casualties, Jimmy?" "Yes. Three dead horses and two wounded and about a dozen sheep with broken backs and legs. It seems you rode over them. Ken Uobart's pinked, but nothing worse thon what he's been used to. Adolfo de llaro, one of my riders, is dead, and Lambert, O Grady, and Martlnes TruJillo are badly hit, but I do not think they will die. Julio Ortls has lost a little finger. Dingle and nine of his men are dead to date and the final returns from the river should make the affair unanimous. Fraser, Juan Esplnosa. and Julio Ortiz are following them. They took our mounts and now I'll have to get busy, load our wounded on Dingle's chuck wagon and go home." "Was that his chuck wagon In the corral?" "Well, It used to be your Uncle Tom's, so I presume It's yours now. Dingle got here first, ran his chuck outfit Into the old branding corral to camp for the night and turned his mules loose there Then he occupied the rocks beyond this water-holand waited to see what might turn up be arms heart are you?" "Youse." said Roberta wearily. "Glddup." yelled Don Jaime, and flicked the rumps of the leaders with his long whip. Gently he eased the mules into their collars and rolled away up the valley Into a long draw that wound between the hills and eventually led them out to where the Here he deserted motorcar waited. Lambert transferred his wounded O'Grady, and Martinez TruJillo on the rear seat, with Ken Hobart on the front seat Lastly he lifted Roberta up Into Hobart's arms, after which he braked the chuck wagon, unhitched the mules and tethered them to the 111 fault" Hobart almost moaned. "Fan her and mop her face with this wet bandanna," Don Jaime command ed. He went to the eorrnt nnri searched In the chuck wagon for the tin box rnntnlnlnirn fho - - small K....,,,, ti.i uriu lllfflaid kit he suspected might be there. . u was, so ne returned to the girl, cut her clothlntr" awnv from tho vfuiiii nun applied first aid In a singularly work- . . 1,111' A. n. L h,imuiiivcA MMHHAM. iiauut-r- f.1. mereaner them over a quart of Bourbon whisky a friend gave me recently. Mrs. Ganby Is still weeping thirty-year-ol- d they can stand a night of watchful waiting," he declared, and climbed In back of the wheel "And maybe I wasn't a smart boy when I put Mrs. Ganby on the payroll permanently. Nothing like having a good trained nurse around In an emergency like this. Hold on, everybody!" He switched on the lights and tooled the car carefully down through the sage to the Los Algodones road, after which they made fast time to the ranch. Here one of the hands took the car and departed for Los Algodones to bring back the only two doctors there, while Don Jaime aided Mrs. Ganby to make her patients comfort- able. About noon the next day Jaime Miguel Higuenes came Into Roberta's room and sat down on her bed. "Caraveo and his men have Just got back safely," he Informed her. "Not a man of that bandit gang got back across the river, so I venture to say this has been a lesson to them. I Imagine the Rancho Valle Verde will be r circles regarded In as a good place to keep away from hereafter. How's the future Mrs. Higuenes feeling now." "Not very chipper, Jimmy. How do you feel?" "Guilty as a dog. Still Dinevery cloud has a silver lining. gle's dead and 1 Imagine he died inbeyond-the-Borde- sheep-killin- testate. g At any rate I have a sus- picion nobody Is going to come around and claim a ten per cent Interest In And I have a telegram my lambs. from your Uncle Bill. It seems that when the news of the battle got to Los Algodones last night, via the man I sent after the doctors, the editor of the local palladium of liberty, the Los Algodones Herald, considered It of suf ficient Importance to put on the wire to the El Paso office of the United Press. So It was in the El Paso pa pers this morning, and your Uncle Bill read it there." Uncle Bill? Why, what was he do ing in El Paso?" "En route to Valle Verde, mv dear. rd wired the old gentleman a hearty invitation to come down and visit us, and he has accepted and was on his way." Thus Jaime Miguel Higuenes the liar! However, he comforted himself with the thought that It was only a white lie and was to be pre- ierrea to violating tils word of honor to Crooked Bill not to reveal to his niece the news that only two days pre vious ne had been In Los Alcodones plotting against their peace and hap"You're such a dear. Jimmv. So thoughtful Dear Uncle Bill. I know he's missed me. Does he know I'm hurt?" "Yes, the papers carried the story. I've wired him on the train to save his tears until our wedding day." Are we engaged. Jimmy? I can't remember that you've ever asked me to marry you." "Oh, didn't I, sweetheart?" "Never." ne rubbed his tanned chin and hi lazy eyes roved over her whimsically. "I suppose I was afraid I might speak cut of my turn, hut of course when you came stampeding Into that corral yesterday and broke the glad news to ne at- ,.,.. tended tO his WminilpA man anA that task was done he caught the cnucs wagon mutes in tne corral, har The dog piles up his knowledge 1. most wholly by association of idens especially pleasurable associations: and this comes very near to a perception of cause and effect. Sir V Rni. Thomas writes. In til A Atlnnttrt ""MUIIV Monthly. ' He can learn up to about inn He can acquire a strong artistic sense mat is, can tell fine shades of hin,.ir and gray, and distinguish a very round ellipse from a circle. He can i. distinguish both separate notes and ranges of ootea. His brain matter behaves very much wtn ke aJfeeteJ. By the max who ax alert, Bat far home prosperity. Horn Ir.da.trj. The heat tainf'i PATRONIZE IT. LET'S Tines s f4 Boatless Islanders The Onas. an Italian trifca Tierra del Fueeo. off the lower ts of South America, are the onlyj landers in the world who h( never built, owned or used a h in all their history. Collie Weekly. J i ASK TOCB DRUGGIST POI APES ASi AN INTERMOUNTAIN f PRODUCT I Household Hint be Errant husbands may t back, says a color expert, changing the wall paper. Evsl wiser, perhaps, would be taking bridegroom directly to the intent decorator, to be matched. Detri News. k "Are We Engaged, Jimmy?" with Joy over our engagement, and Robbie is jealous as a collie dog. He has an idea that when we're married he'll have to leave the ranch." "1 wouldn't even have a ground squirrel leave that ranch, Jimmy." "Then we'll keep Robbie and his ma on the payroll." "Does Uncle Bill know of our en- gagement?" Don Jaime produced the telegram and read: "I never figured on you taking over my principal responsibility but now that you insist on being reckless take a tip from one who knows stop Do not spoil her stop I did that long ago stop You are as welcome in our family as the silence that follows a congressional oration "Sheepishly yours "UNCLE BILL" "Why does he sign himself 'sheepishly yours. J'.mmy dear?" "Rome allusion to the sheep that brought you here, Bobby. Just some of his gringo humor, I Imagine." "I see." She was silent, turning his brown, strong, useful hands, counting the calluses on them. Hands that had known toll and would always know it. the hands that build empires, hands that, when folded at last In the peace that would mean their parting, would be kissed by lowly people and sprinkled with their tears. "It will be forever and ever, Jimmy," she whispered, "and I'm so happy and grateful." "The Higuenes men keep their women," he assured her gravely. She thought of Glenn Hackett "Poor dear," she murmured absently. "He never had a chance," Don Jaime assured her, with a flash of that prescience, that clairvoyancy, that would always make him, for Roberta, a new, puzzling, yet wholly understandable human being and a Joy forever. Yes, he would be the same always, yet always new, always challenging her Interest, always holding It Of him (the girl thought) It might be said that age could not wither nor custom stale his Infinite variety. "I'll get my guitar and sing you a little Spanish love song my grandmother taught me," he suggested. "Ifa very old. It came Into Peru with Plzarro and worked north. Oh, by the way, I forgot something! Let's get this on record officially. Miss Antrim will you do me the great honor rn marry me?" "You outrageous Celt," she laughed. 'You're the last of the tronhnrin,,... Of course I will." THE END. d Dog's Brain Not Unlike That of Average Child "Alley Oop!" She Cried. "Don Jaime, this time It's your me, I couldn't as a man of honor, preSo I I didn't understand you. rather took it for granted." He bent low over her and swept her cheeks with his eager lips. "Still interested in those bummer lambs, brown and irrigation, boll weevil babies and cholo men and women, heat, dust and purple lights on the buttes at dawn and sunset darling?" She nodded. "I can be a good partner, Jimmy. I never bad any responsibilitiesand now I want so badly How are to share yours always. men?" wounded your "Taking an Interest In life. I sent tend wheels. "Guess piness. water- e nessed and hitched them, spread out on the floor of the wagon box the bedloaded ding rolls he found there and his casualties into the wagon. "Home. James." he called cheerily to an Imaginary chauffeur, climbed up onto the seat and gathered the reins. He peered down between his legs at Roberta's face upturned to him from the wagon bed. "You'd have to live a few lifetimes In Dobbs Ferry, Westchester county, New York, before you'd get your teeth Into life as deeply as you have In the past hour and a half," he assured her cheerfully. "Whose spunky old sweet- as a child's, especially in off attention from things thatshutting bore him by their unlntelligibility, and can so concentrate on things that Interest nlra that all the rest of his mind, and ther SenSeS' 8re 8nut down The tu,ly of the dog's actual brain hns g Ven conorete ev(,ence of " 18 t0 th mind of the child. Though soon the human mind climbs to heights that tower over the dog's attainment, Its loss Is permanent Mt o3oSt,nfnPcertl0ng PrPWt0 ,tS When planning far Thinkigirlng Tit tbu that makea ma rratelul: I can aetata all thinci at home Ta Bike a taetr plaU.'nL. Dtj Oar western farm and local ehopa I Sapply each little need. From the turkey to the duh ha'i aa, I For a heanteoaa annaal "feed". 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