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Show LEIII FREE PRESS, LEI1I, UTAH S V mm GREGORY SO FAR: Ana U( and under two identi- rale CoJ. beneficiaries were attempt-ta- j . Bill Cole, Old 0I BlU, u, discover who bad fired the bullet death- - Suspicion cen .kick caused his pos-- j UTti around Ranee Waldron, who, -- HE STORT Bill's nephew, disappeared bid been ipied npon by Cody at conversation with df serted cabin la Tom Couch. Doe character oloriuu the commissioned by Old Jndre, i and joe were BUI to carry out hit last wishes, ranch (each -t- urning home from the hit pocket for safekeeping) tits a iH Inwere held np by a masked when thty recognized iMdit In the iklnnlsh they ance Waldron a his mask slipped. yaw continue with the story. Old -- tor ne CHAPTER XY1 Cole Cody and Ann were standing down upon the together. He looked soft loveliness of her curly hair as she. blinking her eyes furiously, down at the looked unseeingly the and designs the queer ground men's boots had made. "It it's so terrible" her voice quivering, her breast filled to of she said, and he saw how a deep draught air. "It's awful," said Cody simply. "Yes, it is awful. Everything has been awful, hasn't it? Since Why, othsince you and I first saw each er, Cole Cody! And somehow you and I seem to be to blame for it." And then, for the first time he did think of the two wills, and a new light flashed into his eyes. "Maybe and I are somehow to blame," he said, and she looked up at him by his tone. swiftly, "And maybe it was robbery. And maybe two men had a hand in it, and one of them got away!" "What makes you talk like that?" She drew back a step or two from you near-frighten- JACKSON GREGORY N.a RELEASE .1 up with him. u ti:e new "Who wants to know?" Waldron cocked up his brows. wCw-diSmounteln froRt of the "Been in town all day, Waldron?" ' Id hlS horse at the etching Ranee laughed. There were two rail moved softly and si'ent'y ways to take a thing like this; he as others were moving, seeking some sign of Cal Roundtree. He was con- had his choice. Rather than recogscious of eyes following him and nize the broad implication seriously, he elected to greet it as funny. knew that he drew interest here "I'd like to get along with the this hour because he was a stran-at ger; because these men. steadily game, Mr. Cody," he said, sounding gathering in numbers, were distrust- now like a man who meant to remain patient as long as he could, ful of strangers. but whose patience was fast running Cal Roundtree was turning into a saloon, two friends flanking him out. "No, I haven't been in town all when he saw Cody; he said a word day. I rode in about two o'clock." to his companions who went on into Cody heard Cal Roundtree's snort. the Spread Eagle, and turned back "Now, Cody." said Ranee, and to Cody. chose to laugh again, "I'll thank you "It was Tom Gough, all right " to get out of here." he said. "The Cody obliged him. Judge and old Doc fought it out with him like he'd as far as the They had know they would if he knew them at lobby when progressed a sharp, petulant, eaall. All three dead, but here's a ger voice called, sort of funny thing: The shot that "You, there, Roundtree! Cal! I killed Gough must have been fired want a word with you." the same split second that he finThe speaker, wiping his mouth as ished off either Doc Joe or the he came out of the bar behind them, Judge: both the old bovs was shot was a youngish man in high lopthrough the head. Heck, man, sided boots, with a bristle of a scrubtheir bullets, the last, the ones that by little black mustache, coatless, did the killing on both sides, must with his rolled up on a pair sleeves have passed one another in the of arms, with large, brawny, hairy air!" dark and strikingly intelligent eyes. "Listen, Cal," said Cody. "Tom Cal explained to Cole Cody, "It's Gough wasn't the only killer out aft- Dr. Parke Evans. They sent for er the old boys; it's like the stage him over to Rim Rock as soon as hold-up- ; there were two of them. word of a shooting got out, Doc Joe Tom Gough for one, sure. The oth- for once not being on tap here in er? Ranee Waldron and don't you Bald Eagle," and turned toward the fool yourself. Early Bill's two wills Rim Rock doctor. the one to Ann Lee and the one to "Anything private, Doc?" he me they haven't turned up, have asked. "I got friends with me." "Yes. It's private. And I'm in a hurry." He led the way, rolling down his sleeves, to the stairway leading upward from the lobby, and Cal climbed along after him, wondering as others wondered, what Parke Evans could want with him. Half way up the staircase he called down to eyes fascinated her, hold-fa- g her gaze hypnotically. "It just dawned on me," he said, cutting across her rush of words, "that you gave a certain document to Doc Joe to keep for you, and I "Stick around, Cody, and wait for me. I won't be long; then we'll ride out to the ranch together." "Ranee Waldron!" she gasped, and forgot herself and her pet feud so far as to clutch his arm, tight in both hands. "If you guessed right, you know what this is going to mean, don't He stood leaning against a post, smoking a So Cole Cody waited. you?" he said. "If Waldron staged this affair, it was because somehow, though I'm hanged if I can figure it out, he learned that the two old boys had the two wills along with And if he got away with them. them Well, then it's goodby for keeps to any hope of yours of ever coming to own this outfit!" "Darn the outfit and all that goes it!" she exclaimed passionately. "I don't care what happens to it now. It's just those two dear old with men" "Why, shake!" cried Cole Cody, and shot his hand out, and befora she knew it her hand had sped to a meeting with his, to be clasped tight, held hard. hand, there was almost "I guess I'll drift along," he said. He was turning away when she called after him, sounding excited. "Cole! It was Ranee Waldron! I knew it at first and I know it better now! And I know how he found out about the wills! I told him myself! Oh, I was right about that other thing: Somehow you and I, or one of us, seem to be to blame for everything! When Ranee Waldron was battering at our door, I called to him that I was going to hand over my will to Doc Joe the very first chance I got! I wish I had bit my tongue out first! Don't you see? He couldn't have known that the Judge" "But he would figure that if he had the one only, yours, he could maybe dicker! But don't you go blaming yourself, Ann Lee girl. I tell you things like this are either in the cards or not, and that's all there Is to it." "You are going to town?" He hesitated, then shook his head. Bill Cole Cody rode straight to the lonely, abandoned cabin in the mountain ravine to which he and Cal Roundtree had followed Ranee Waldron and Tom Gough. He had no great hope of finding Waldron "ngering on here now that the Judge and Doc Joe had been cut down and robbed, now that Tom Gough was dead and in all likelihood would be Judged the sole highwayman and kuler. Yet Ranee must be somewhere, and Cody meant to find him, and here was as likely a place to look as any. The shadows were long across the mountain slopes, the pines growing cack in the deep dusk in the and there was no sign of life, no smoke from the rock chimney when Cody came within "Sht cf it. He dismounted and went w me door, his hand on the butt of gun. The door was ajar; he it open and looked the place "rw IwC starin8 frowningly into its tokening gloom. He saw a pile of wankets on the one bunk; other blankets on the floor; some scraps " sheUThat sagging was tafj - He went back to his horse, rode the ravine and into the golden "unsnine crossed the creek "The Judge and Doc Joe were killed today, Waldron," said Cody. they? Not in the Judge's and Doc Joe's pockets, were they? Not in Tom Gough's?" "Me, I don't know. I don't even get what you're driving at!" Cody explained swiftly and Cal began to nod before he had finished. "Ranee Waldron is in town right now," he said, his brows puckering tight as he tried to make heads and tails of tbines. "He's in a back room at the hotel playing poker. I saw him there a while ago. Come ahead in and have a drink before you start anything. This wants a bit of thinking." Cody nodded without saying anything and the two entered the saloon bar together to range up along the with Cal's two friends. They downed their liquor, the four of them, and stood rolling their cigarettes, grave, thoughtful men. "We might mosey over to the hotel and see what things look like," suggested Cody. There were several men in the hotel lobby, a greater number in the bar upon which a door opened at the side. At its rear was another door, standing perhaps a quarter open. It was a small room in yonder, private for gentlemen who e or wished to withdraw for draw or stud. With a look Cody asked of Cal Roundtree, "In there?" and with a look Cal answered, "Yes." Cody went to the door and pushed it open, Cal and the others keeping three or four paces behind him, stopping when he stopped. "Hello, Waldron," said Cody. Ranee Waldron looked up from his earne and shoved his chair back; to rise and he didn't make a move didn't remove his hands from the table top. "Hello, Cody," he said. "What's wanted? If there's anything wrong cards." with your eyes, I'm playing were Doc Joe and "The Judge said Cody. Waldron," killed today, killing from "It was an ugly sort offolks are call-i- t Murder, I hear. what semi-privat- " "I heard about it," said Ranee Waldron. "Another man got his the same time; a man name come-up-nanc- again, acrss country toward of Tom Gough. W,Struck 11 rnT was his thought that he him?" j"gnt possibly have word of Waldron were! if not, he could join Cal SEWING CIRCLE e Maybe you knew "Maybe," he answered. "Friend of yours?" m S v i. I Among the most beautiful and unusual displays of artistry are spider-we- b paintings paintings on real spider webs. Originated by a famed Innsbruck family of Tyrol (now Italy), the secret of this type of painting was lost when last members of this family died. Unlike the flimsy cobweb of the ordinary house spider, these r-web backgrounds are thick and durable like tough canvas. Usually small, 2 by 3 inches, these paintings have endured for 400 years. spide- COLDS'MISERIES rkrlcTKU For colds' rough, nasal congestion, inuscla chesgel Peneiro modern medication in mutton suet base. 2a.doubl supply SM. ' Influence No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere. Meredith. ova Your Favorite you just picture AN'T thoughtful cigarette, gazing abstractedly at the brightening glitter of the stars hanging over the hills rimming the valley. Cal Roundtree came out. He looked to be in a daze; he was like a man walking in his sleep. His eyes were wide open; they stared straight at Cole Cody; their expression, or lack of expression, rather, did not alter. "Hello, Cody," said Cal dully. He stopped and removed his hat and ran his fingers through his hair. Slowly his eyes narrowed to normalcy, but there remained a queer, troubled look in them. "Come ahead, kid," he said. "Let's go get our horses. Let's pile out of here for home." The two strode along side by side and got their horses. They swung iip into their saddles and headed down the road. By starlight nothing could be made of Cal's face, but his heavy silence was disquieting. Cody however held his peace. If a man wanted to keep his thoughts to himself, that was his affair. "I got to do a bit of thinking," said Cal presently. "And I can't! I'm all tangled up; I'm rattled like no man ever was before. I got to tell you something, Cody; I got to tell somebody or I'll bust, and I'd rather it was you. But I don't know how much to spill and how much to hold back. Because I can't tell it all, get me? I got to hold part back! Maybe I'll go get somebody to cut my tongue out. Shut up a minute, and let me think; let me anyhow try to think." They rode for ten or fifteen minutes, out across the floor of the valley, striking into the little rolling hills, before Cal spoke again. "Like I said, Cody, I can't spill the whole sack o' beans, though I wish to God I could! And I could g old Early kill that dead Bill Cole only the already! Whoa! There I go again. Well, here's what I can tell you, and you better pull leather whilst you listen good, else you're apt to fall out'n your saddle." And here is what Cal Roundtree held himself free to tell: Dr. Parke Evans had led the way upstairs to a locked room; he had unlocked the door, motioned Cal Roundtree to go in, had then closed the door and stood outside, guarding hyena-laughin- son-a-gun- 's against any interruption. On the far side of the room, with his back turned, a man was standing. The lamp was turned low; Cal did not make out at once who it was. But when the door had been closed, the man moved to the table where the lamp was and turned up the wick. He goggled as his first stroke of bewilderment smote him. Here in the flesh, looking very much alive and in fact as he had looked for the twenty years Cal had known him, save for a terrible grimness on his face, was old Doc Joe. Doc Joe lifted a sudden warning hand to forestall any explosive utterance from the astounded Cal Roundtree. "No loud talking, Cal," he said incisively. Cal swallowed. "Me? Me, I can't talk at all!" Then a tinge of color, angry color, came into his darkly weathered face. "What In hell's this mean?" he demanded. (TO BE CONTINUED) to wmt wmr (i how pretty that little darling will look in this baby set? The romper and dress are the favored type with mamas of the younger set adorable but not fussy looking and so easy to launder. As for the slip and panties, they're easy on baby and mother, too! Yes. 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