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Show LEW FUEE PRESS. LEHL UTAH -- CREGO&Y THE STOBT SO FAB: Old BUI Cole, having krea fatally shot by an anknoma assailaat, decided it could be fun to tdeatical nrillt, leaving hit make money and the Kins Cole Ranch to Ann Lee and Cole Cody, children of hit two old cronies, Busty Lee and Buck Cody. This done, be was sit tint before a blai-lnBxe la the living room at the Banch vhea Bance Waldron stepped In. After threatening Old Bill be stepped outside to tend bis horse. When he returned. Old Meanwhile, both Ann Bill was dLee (accompanied by ber Aunt Jenifer) and Cole Cofly were on their way to the Ranch by stage. Neither knots why the other Is there. Now continue with the story. Ir3 W.K.U. RELEASE again." "Ar.dy Jenkins?" said Cole under his breath. "Who s Ar.dy Cody Jen- buck-toothe- d far coidV eougUng, BniHee bad maacU aches set the salvo with the baas of muttoa suet Grandm liked. Cody leaped down, careened into the paunchy man, said curtly, "Grab the horses' heads or they'll be hell to pay!" He broke into a run, following the way Andy Jenkins had gone, leaping the fallen tree, stooping and running on along the road. Like Long Peters before him he was ardently if mutely praying for even a fleeting glimpse of one of the high- kins?" "That little scraggy, feller. I don't know anything about him." He turned slightly to call back over his shoulder. "You. Jenkins? Hear what the road agent says' What's it all about?" From the stage's dark interior waymen. The paunchy man his name was Andy Jenkins answered gravely in a Bert Nevers had the leaders by the very quiet voice, cool and collected, bits and was steadying them; a man not the least to take orders. With Ann it was difhurrying, "Tell him, Peters, all I've got on ferent; when it came to issuing orme is about fourteen dollars, silver, ders she'd rather be issuing them. and a gold watch and chain and CHAPTER IV Then, ten steps ahead of him, some smoke tobacco. That what he saw Andy Jenkins. The little Cody Toward midday they stopped at wants? He's sure welcome." man had dropped his bag and had a Peters Long Stage Stop in a bit of alpine valley Before he had relayed the answer. gun in each hand and was blazing spoken the last word where they nooned, ate at a long there was a red flash from a point away with both. Then he, too, table and changed r dropped, just as Long Peters had high up the slope and the reverberatihorses. folded crack of a rifle, and a bullet Cole up. Andhisthen at longof last Then piling back into the stage ng the Cody got glimpse whizzed a yard or so above his man with the deep voice, and saw and, with a crack of Long Peters' head. the bulk of him, looking like a squat whip, they were again on their way. "That's just to show I mean busiCn the high seat, rolling his cigawith the shadows about him. the voice called sharply. "Get giant rette, Cole Cody looked well pleased ness," The target was none too good, yet a move on you, Jenkins! I know there was with the world. He had handed the a murderous devil to shoot what and where you've got you got at two ladies up into the coach. and Cole Cody set to work with it and how much. Step lively." all the grim joy in life. The bulky They swirled away through FidCole Cody said softly to Long Peman stood his ground a moment, firdler's High Pass, curved hazardous"There two are ters, of anyhow ing back, and Cody heard the hiss ly along the steep sides of Indian them. That shot came from higher of bullets Mountain, made a descent with up; not from the man fanning his ears. Through to us." talking brakes squealing into Long Valley, The driver nodded. "I wish I could out this he was vaguely conscious of other sounds; voices shouting be and then began climbing again, and get a sight of him" so the bright afternoon slid away and Jenkins scrambled down out of hind him, Ann's among the others; the quick beat of a horse's hoofs, shadows began running out across the coach. their way and, from the gloom of up a small thunder. There "There's nothing much we can do, pounding in swift went the other man, Dark Canyon, they saw a star. is there? if we didn t have these the one flight who had fired tne first shot But it was daylight again when ladies along" There was the sound of his light from behind a pine tree. But Cody's they crested the next rocky ridge, and Long Peters, flinging out his tread, then they saw him passing present duty lay straight in front, and he sent bullet after questing whip and sending his horses along o.. beyond the horses, climbing over with a rush where there was a the log, stepping along briskly with bullet, striving to beat down the black bulk before him. He heard stretch of downhill slope, said to also the heavy booming voice yellCody, ing at his companion, "Hey you! "Look sharp, way down there and " Cody stead ed and What the Sr. s and maybe you'll straight ahead, fired and this time heard a again, see the sun flash on windows in Bald stricken out of his man, and excry from mile It's only twenty Eagle. ulted; he had put at least one shot here. And inside the hour, when home! Then in the general blur he we start down the Georgia Road lost sight of his quarry and heard be it'll you'll see it again, only his running boots crashing through lamps by then. Hold your hair on, the brush, and an instant later heard feller!" young the pounding of a second horse's see did he Once Cody thought that flying hoofs. He emptied his guns a flash of light on twenty mile disinto the dark, sending after them a a was but it tant windows, merely yell of angry mockery. No further wink and a glint and he might have shots came back. The wild staccato fancied it. The sun was almost of running hoofbeats died swiftly a down; it was hidden by away and for an instant the starry shoulder of the mountains night was filled with the hush of the into another down rocketed as they vast wilderness silence. d little valley. Then there was another sound; It was gone for the day when they light running footsteps coming up swept upward again, and the stars behind him, and Ann Lee was clutchthere in Even earnest. were out yet ing his arm. was no deep dark, a thickening "You're all right? You're not dusk, rather, closing in about them, hurt? Oh, you were splendid!" with the stars at their shining best. Run back to the stage, Ann! Cole Cody put back his shoulders We're not sure yet; there may be and breathed deep, the glory of the more of them" oncoming night a lovely thing, the Head down, he was busy fingering night air strong and clean and up out of his belt, shov cartridges it heady, the tang of pines upon hot haste into his two them in ing like spice.. He stood a moment, strain guns. without and of a sudden all Then ing his ears against the silence. warning, startling him out of a revwas not a sound that did not There erie fit for the hour, the stage driver come from behind him, from the on cursed explosively and jammed tagc, its occupants and nervous his brakes and leaned back against horses. It would seem that the parhis reins until he pulled his horses ty was over. He was sure that one back on their haunches, bunched of the bandits was wounded; possi and struggling, with the front wheels bly the other, too? He walked to against the wheeler's rumps. Quick Peters' carbine cracked and where the little man, Andy Jenkins, Long cries of alarm burst from the spat fire and hot lead. had fallen. coach's interior. Cody stared Jenkins was sitting up, one hand , carpet-bagof the something in his hand; at what he could see a prop on tne ground, me otner no doubt. driver's face. against his side. By the Neither Cody nor Long Peters pressed "There's a tree across the road," Cole time Cody stooped over him, with muttered Long Peters. And Cody, watched his progress; both with him was the girl leaning out and peering closely at straining eyes were probing into the Jenkins?" asked Cody. "Hurt bad, loto of last saw it; not ten feet ahead dark among the pines, trying "Yep, hurts plenty. And I'm the leaders. Long Peters had seen cate the man who had issued his orbuckets of blood. I'm all right it first, and in time before the coach ders and the man who had fired the lend me a hand to stop the though; had piled up on it, it being Long warning shot. The latter, they knew, bleedin'." bePeters' business to keep his eyes would be standing Cody stooped and picked the lit on the road for Well, for things like hind one of the pines. They tie man up, cradling him gently in a fallen tree. could not make out where the other his arms. was. "Now, that's funny" and his guns,' "Get his carpet-ba"Sit tight! Not so damn funny, The little man s figure began to he told the girl. "Then run ahead Cody. That tree didn't put itself blur in the darkness as he kept along and get a lantern lit." Some damn in the road and when they glanced there. It's a hold-uIt was the slight and delicate look fool must have thought I was carryswiftly after him it took a moment ing Miss Jenifer Edwards who was find to him. box. Well, a two nr Wells ing Fargo strong the greatest help from then on. Aft I ain't." The horses, beyond tossing tneir er Cody had lilted tne little man A voice, a deep, rumbling, roughly heads and stamping with an occa into the stage and Ann had brought were enough quiet sional snort, unpleasant voice called, lantern, Aunt Jenifer, with her "Take it easy, driver. It's a hold- From within the coach came voices the skirts tucked up really scandalous was Jenifer getting Aunt up." again. to be quite out of the way, It was hard to make out where down; she wanted to see whatever ly high her and poke bonnet tossed aside tn he seen. Her niece siartea the voice came from. On one side and her sleeves rolled up on her com Jenifer Aunt and of the road was a steep slope pitchfollow tn slim white arms and the corners ing brokenly down into the dark mnnHed her to stay wnere sne was. of her mouth tucked in set to work depths of a ravine whence rose the Ann Lee paid her not the slightest and yet swiftly, and toniinn and in another moment methodically rush and swirl of a hidden stream; withal. skilfully aunt. her in the road with on the other side was the rising flank "He'll be all right," she said calmof the mountain, made a secret place Pnle Codv started to climb down. as she cleared the way for action ly voice roared with its timber and with clumps and Again the and examined and cleansed the thickets of manzanita and chaparral (The paunchy man, Bert U"Stay where you are! Up on the wound. and mountain laurel. So it was clear a bottle of whisky which had Nevers, of All you, fhprp! enough that the highwayman was both externally used copiously was somewhere on the upper side, but Long Peters' carbine cracked and and internally.) "Get the driver in and cracked hot lead, and there were a hundred shadowy spots spat fire He had here." there to harbor him. again and the third time: one who Long Peters brdught himself in, the man, other the of "If I could only get a glimpse spotted savagely at every step and who cursing now the behind pine, that!" Cody heard him muttering had stood hale and hearty in the sounding to come to himself, his voice hushed with moved slightly but enough He had been shot through process. of those within range yearning the gun arm; that was what made "You heard me!" the voice called eyes of the irate stage driver. him mad! foot on the wheel, cgain. Cody, with one Cody end Bert Nevers, using their he couldn't "Yes, I heard you!" Long Peters whirled; for a moment and the stage ax, cleared hands the little even called back, moving his body a little see anything, not . away the tree; the wounded men to one side and the other, craning man with the carpet-bagdrew quick an- were stowed inside; Cody climbed ins neck, praying for that longed- Long Peters' shot to the high seat and gathered up the tor glimpse. "You must be crazy swering fire from two quarters. he called out, "All but even of rejnsand when (lame the saw spits This is the Bald Eaele stage, horn Cody saw someone climbing he aboard?" He fair a target. bre, and there's no strong box on it. vet couldn't see over the wheel to sit with him. neard the heavy thud of a bullet in up iou ought to know that much. The issue paunchy man, of cuurse. Ci Peters gave Long "I'm not after any strong box. Do flesh and Bert Nevers or anyone ir. wasn't it a between what I tell you and nobody won't to a sound halfway a him in ur.y releast resembling the and grunt and get hurt. You've got a passenger I choked squeal weapon- -it whatever! spect clanged want to talk to. Tell him to step dropped his Cole Cody threw out his whip in he folded as against iron, falling-- c filing and I won't even hurt him a long hissing flourish, bringing t uc ' P'i't he'd bettpr hrine with him what up on me seai. ' to . snap like a pistol shes. with arm a tea' "am be s carrying, or I'll cut his damn horses began (TO BE COSTIMJEO! off. It's Andy Jenkins. Get a plunge. c J CIRCLE TJALKSON GREGORY move on and you can get goin' PJTTEPNSy SEWING J As We Sing Let me make the songs of a na tion, and I care not who make iti laws. Andrew Fletcher. HITS HEAD COLD MISERY FAST up each nostril. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2) soothes irritation, (3) helps clear cold- ckggednose. Follow VECICS Put S3S5! L ilcloth-covere- d Do or Die Let us do or let us die. 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