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Show air isseveit' ByALAN s Credit I reputation as a writer LeMay -f- LE. MAY rtaijiy growing among readers who to tWer a good western story any other Eo 8 dellSend f book. He ltgrund H Lak that j has outstandIng ability 15 aecurate to the 6nest CHAPTER I climax of was the crisis-t- he war. Here they sat, long Salt loiW "Linen who had fought a common for so long: Dusty King, who. of countless cattle, ler SW the hoofs W tarved many a Great Plains W deep into the short grass; young ad rnTm follow-,l- d Soper, who had begun be-- , those trails with Dusty King a to hold was enough big creritb he Lew Gordon, Texas trsej and old 2f wild marketless herds ;an, whose o! f -- i tf Viii 0 V.H.U. Rcle ase INSTALLMENT I THE SToay and the autho- rdetail. Unlike many ol western fiction, ha know.tLT LeMay1 "The Smoky Year" is a ! glowing, vividly written western roof the country fotimately.nd mance which contain on paper without ail the speed losing much colorful detail that U making him m3 end o popular is hi today. It mountains. best work. Don't miss iti e run a crooked one, nor a his old soft hat, nor the cracking rhere, he could PlaT a mean ring of the spurs he was believed to a long time since he rude sleep in. ?,e night with his rifle in his hands, The trail years had leathered his but Lew, if he isnt stopped-the- res face, but they could not diminish his plenty he can hire to do his gay exuberance; just as prosperity stuff now. was unable to take from him the look Dusty," Lew Gordon said, weve of the trail. Whatever Dusty King ed him every way we could. Thats why hell get you, and wore, he always appeared to be wearing disreputable saddle clothes. me too, in the end. Perhaps young Bill Roper had Again the silence closed, with bepicked up a lot of Dusty King's charhind it the perpetual bawling of the acteristics in the course of an assocattle, far off in the spring night ciation that had lasted almost as Dusty King said casually, Cleve long as Bill Ropers life. Tanner's here. Everybody who knew Bill Roper saw Lew Gordons eyes at all knew the story of Bill Roper flick up to look at Dusty King. and Dusty King. Fifteen years ago, Cleve Tanner? at the age of five. Bill Roper had Here in Ogaliala. been found hiding in the brush, like a "What the devils the meaning of little rabbit, beside a wrecked outfit on the old trail to Sedalia. that? It was "Cleve and Walk Lasham are the Dusty King who had found him only two of Ben Thorpes men that there; and it was Dusty King who d raided the cross timbers with him in had buried the body the old days; the only two he can of Bills father beside that traiL really trust now." "Its natural that Walk Lasham In the fifteen years since then, should be here, Lew Gordon con- Bill Roper had learned guns and ceded; but Cleve Tanner, all the horses and cattle, and the tricks of the trail as only Dusty King knew way up from the Big Bend" been able to read "Shows you, Dusty King said, them. He what store they set on the Crying prairie signs before he could read Wolf lands. Ben Thorpe Is sold print, and if it had not been for tomato can labels, perhaps would mighty deep Into next years delivnever have learned to read print eries. Already hes committed for more northern-fe- d cattle than he can at all. Everything he knew he had learned with Dusty King. There was every reason that he should have grown to look something like the great trail driver who had brought him up. Now, as they made their way down the muddy street, before the d wooden buildings, half the cowmen that thronged Ogaliala hailed Dusty with comradeship and delight; so that his progress was that of a celebrated character, already famous. The other half they were Ben Thorpe men seemed not to see him at alL It was hard to tell which tickled Dusty King more the warmth of his many friends, or the bitterness of his innumerable enemies. The bidding for the Crying Wolf lands was being held in a disused store, and here the sidewalk and half the street were filled with knotted groups. Through this crowd Dusty King and Bill Roper waded, Dusty trying to look like something bewildered, from the tall country. Beside the door was posted a handbill in black type, giving due legal notice of the auction of leases, and Dusty stopped to study this with a grave empty face, as if he had never heard of it before. Mr. King, said, somebody thirty-fiv- e they've been waiting for you, fully acre. an hour. show unless he can get the Crying Then he Dusty looked blank. Wolf. clutched his hat to his head in a Slowly Lew Gordon got a frayed startled way, and rushed inside tally book out of his back pocket. with a clownish representation of Lew Gordons voice haste. "The survey was curiously bewildered its hard Within, the crowd of y to believe theres any land as good men bronzed men, saddle-faceas this. men, sometimes bearded men gave Their private survey had been way as King, followed by Bill Roper, made by Bill Roper; it represented shouldered his way to the back. weeks of hard riding, and shrewd Is this the place, King asked, calculation of the strength and depth where the feller is selling the of the feed upon the surface of the horse? broken land. The deputy commissioner took his One place here reads fifty head feet off his table. The sale was to the section," Lew said wonder-ingl- supposed to start at two oclock, "Fifty head of cattle grazing he complained. one section of land! Its past beA little tribute, there. The comlief." missioner perhaps already in Ben This isnt Texas, Lew. Thorpes pay hardly dared start an "I figure we might pay as high as important sale, without present this reprethirty cents to the acre," Gordon slouching, nondescript-lookin- g sentative of said, "by the years lease. A flicker like that of heat lightning No word has come from your showed for a moment behind Dusty partner at all, the commissioner Kings eyes; but his voice was low said. and monotonous as before. "Thirty He aint coming. cents be damned," he said. Three men who sat In chairs Lew Gordon looked at him for a grouped around one end of the table to long time. How deep you figure looked at each other. They Ignored go?" King and Roper, as hostile dogs ig"Get the land, Dusty King said. nore an enemy of whom they are Ben Thorpe is liable to go crazy not yet keenly aware. d and bid his head off. The big man in the the Ben Were looking down his throat, hat was Ben Thorpe The holdKing said for the second time. Thorpe, whose least the deputy commissioner can ings perhaps already exceeded those Ben accept is drafts on Kansas City. of of the value he was today Thorpe hasnt realized now, heavy-bodiethe land. Well catch him short and more than ever a power feared in force him off the board. the cattle country still unscrupu"At what cost to ourselves?" Gor- lous, still menacing, but now of a don demanded. different sort a power of wealth, of law. At all costs. and of bought-ushook his organization, Slowly Lew Gordon and lean tall man, the Beside hint, an head. "Maybe thirty five cents as a slat, was Cleve narrow-bodieacre. man, keenTanner; a hawk-faceexplosiveDusty Kings voice rose"Thirty-fivso cleanly shaven that the e eyed, ly for the first time. skin of his jaws seemed to fifty cents, tight he echoed--"or cents, Cleve Tanner was manager or a dollar! Get the shine. or seventy-five- , of Ben Thorpe's Texas holdings, the land! from which grounds breeding Lew Gordon sighed, and he looked drew whole organization and old. Thorpe's like a man who was weary strength. its said, Gordon You want that land," The other, the man who seemed "even dark, even among uncommonly said King "At all costs, Dusty men, was Walk these Ben was He Thorpe's manLasham. the in Gordon looked his partner under his now; north, the in ager eyes. watchfulness lay Ben poker-facefeedGo in and bid! Thorpes northern holdings, theto now necessary any board walks of ing grounds in the cattle trade. Swinging down the wide operation sunlight, Ogaliala in the cool spring looked a The deputy commissioner raised Bill Roper Dusty King and This," he said, "is a his voice. than more The whole lot alike. to place by public auction, federal in their ages in the charge lands twenty years difference certain s loose- bidding had not changed Dusty King cock of of the Indian Department, by the rakish swagger, the id Wen the roots of fortune, Lew Gordon Dusty King and con-Unit- the famous King-Gordo- Jrtnership that had developed with now great cattle trails; until eir piany brands marked herds beyond estimate. They nTYIi Laaaiica 1)616 ihihllc Under the land leases. of notion af gmtner would go the grazing rights the Crying Wolf Indian lands rt Hou lose miles and miles of stirrup-- p want- grass that aftd that Ben Thorpe had to have. it fas curious that their long war met its jith Ben Thorpe should have ue Umax here. The three in this LAIiSoom understood that the outcome smM rest upon what the two older decided here. Possession of the at-- k W in Ring Wolf meant dominance or to Ben Se north to lorpe; there was no longer going be room for both. is an old fight. Lew," Dusty log said. "It goes back as far as first time you backed me with a file herd, to see if I could make it BEVoi$h to Abilene. Dont hardly 'iem like we better draw back King-Gordo- n King-Gordo- Tut King-Gordo- n bullet-shattere- God-forsak- hd false-fronte- let Gordon stirred, swaying his foulders imperceptibly, like a stub-jr- n Credits going to be - ".nijle hard, this coming year, he Ud lit last Dusty King seemed to sprawl a le more loosely; he was playing iIONll'fc, m a way of his own. Swag-maspendthrift he blvas a man who believed bear. g, easy-goin- in himself. Thorpe in the road, "He was looking I bet he weighs -i- ghty prosperous. hundred and twenty-fiv- e pounds -- or. Sec fe. with his stomach pulled in. 5lM anduis backing Is terrible strong, a divert por(jon said, bis eyes on the T passed Ben lay," he said. a lor P Cot & KoW knew better than Lew Gor-tL that Dusty King, in tackling the was Ipoibible a 3 hundred times, had a pril 15 IndrcA times shown the way for )0 acre fe rest But Gordon remembered iohisto the poveity of the cattle-poo- r It !s sjs before an outlet was found for 25 sec 'teat beef. To risk all they had il and 6a in a single slashing stroke at sec. ft 'ft old enemy, was almost more than o the iisdon could beai T joint I! '"You know a Si , USBigow how why Ben Thorpes Dusty King said. And you he got his start. We know it is that so ma nveyed ly Texas out-pr- il b slind in Ben Thorpes name; 0 the hd how many different ways hes to jump down on little lonely :h and leave them igatior baa cowmen or dead. And we know whats an eq e dhe'PPtned to many a little outfit that nto the brted north, but never brought tattle through, nor got home. in Lak dement fvery year, Dusty King said, we began driving up the big acrea Pn ke pi atsi weve locked horns in one describe 'sy or another with this one gang, 01)1 forgetting who started the a the jfd Crick stampede where Dave and Henry died under piled up cat-n- , g the Tularosa shootings, with nitl f fi0r 0101-my boys dead. Theres affida prai- IL500" COwboys under Cfrong, 15 caiu-ftr- P S 0rtiQn sai(1 aImost inaudibly, CUy, 1 k W8r couId prove anything. $100 Hi herds have grown faster than 20 19 dTMPtr !JVe grwn, Dusty Kings ex-tr ssfcnless voice droned on. "He's 8 I ll we are; hell be bigger ublic8' jon. From the Big Bend to the he owns more outfits than ubllcat cws the names of. Hes never b an honest deal where he could o. f plains-coun-tr- d y. King-Gordo- light-colore- Thick-shoulder- King-Gordo- kif Honest Bill Roper turns sutkw. Or so it seemed. lere was a reason. There is also !IIC! a girl you'll like in The Smoky Years J By Alan LeMay Start Reading It Now p d d if" jointed 11 authority ef the Secretary of the Interior and the President of the United States; namely certain lands . . . He droned through his preamble perfunctorily; everyone in the crowd knew exactly what was involved. Something more than land was here changing hands. To hold the Crying Wolf would all but mean supremacy in the north. Bt this thing was bigger than that The two organizations which here clashed again were the great powers of the trails; behind each of them were whole counties of Texas mesquite grass plains, great areas of the middle short-gras- s country, scores of outfits. The struggle between them had developed with the Chisholm trail Itself a decade-lon- g combat between men of diametrically opposed principles and methods. And now This land, the deputy commissioner concluded, "is thrown into blocks. I think, gentlemen, you are already familiar with the placement of the lands. Block 1 includes, as previously agreed, an estimated one hundred sections, or sixty-fou- r thousand acres, known hereinafter as Block 1; bounded on the north b- yCleve Tanner leaned close to Ben Thorpe, whispered, and Thorpe nodded. "I shouldnt think, said the deputy commissioner, we need hear any bid of less than ten cents per year, per acre. There was a moment's silence, and the deputy commissioner got out a big silk handkerchief and mopped his head, as King now let a slow smile come to the surface of his Impassive face. A curious rumble ran over the room, and the crowd seemed to sway. "I got a proposition," Dusty King said. Nobody is bidding on this land but just us two; nobody means to bid. Throw the whole thing in one pot and well bid on the works. "Ill agree to that, Thorpe decided. The black anger in his face had submerged again, so that he was poker-eyeThe deputy commissioner was beginning to look like a man who wished he were some place else. If there are no objections "Fifty cents," said Dusty King. Ben Thorpes face had turned a curious color, not gray, certainly not bloodless; an odd congested colhe or, like dark sand. "Fifty-fivsaid. "Sixty. in this sweet quartet emphasizes her cuteness and curves, and each piece is as comfortable as her own personal skin! I 8925 Is designed In all sizes Size 2, 2J4 yards 35 inch tire whole thing; 3 yards trim- to 5 3nrs. material tor ming, For tills attractive pattern, send your order to: Thorpe cant pay that I think my name is good anywhere in the cow country, Thorpe said to the commissioner. "It aint good here, said King. The deputy commissioner slapped his pen down on the table. "Gentlemen, he said, Im sorry to do this; but in the interests of the government, and of the Indian Department which I represent, all further bids in this auction will be accepted only as representing American gold. "Cash on the nail? King asked. "Immediate payment in Ogalla-la.- " There was no question now about the sweat that stood out on the commissioners forehead. Seventy cents, said King. Im already bid a dollar, five! Sure; but we got different rules now. God knows Thorpe cant back a dollar, five in gold. What kind of shenanigan is this, anyway? The eyes of the deputy commissioner went to Ben Thorpe face again, but there was nothing to be read there. Thorpe seemed so lumpishly still that it was not apparent that he breathed. "Seventy cents, said Dusty King again in the silence. "Whoop 'er up, boys Ive only begun!" Silence again through the pack of those saddle-face- d men; perspiring silence on the part of the deputy commissioner, dead lumpish silence on the part of Ben Thorpe. 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