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Show The Cache American, Logan, Cache County, Utah Sii Pag SPEAKING I H KMt li trail boss ef lilt klik U knn Srltee from Indira Mnl 1 Otall.U. It 111. TOM AKNOI ll, ewnrr. 7he ktt brrn killed la a alamprdr, lilt III kamrt .r bolt and owner an ill Ik and 207 raul tit tld, hra I III Vi rati IloknS lit liui rr art Id UMt rtrtlv ihrlr tktrrt. Illn diftitulUra and bld,hlpt, tm-tonil- (hey tmtr Indian (errdorv and ar altar krd hy a raldlHf parly ot f fcrjrnntt. Tbrir Iradrr, liay Hear, kidnaps toy, fcut .r her. U a.d M.U.T NKKI-- CHAPTER XVI On the far tide cf the quieted cattle, Lew taw Clay ride out with Joe Wheat and Neal Good on their first guard md passed him in the dark alill later at the change of watches when he began hi own second guard from eleven until two; o that hi Jack-to- n first tense, when in him wakened hand rough the morning, wat one of refusing what h heard. Dent above him In the half light, the cook wat laying, "Lew! Hey there. Something mistin'. We're hort a man." He tat up In hit blankets. Gay, hi bedroll and hi war bag were gone. He still refused it. Drugged with a heavy ileep. he said irritably, "All right, all right. I see. Never mind." But afterward, dressed, he walked guard horses and found that Clay had taken the one he had ridden last Following fresh tracks on the dewy grass, he traced them to the creek and across it and saw they were aimed for town. All the camp was aroused and knew of it by the time he got bnck. busy tongue was letting them know. He saw Joy crouched at the parted wagon flaps, her long dark hair sleep-tossea quilted blanket around her. She called to him, and going over, he spoke first, "It's all right now. Nothing's happened." "But where has he gone?" Her voice was quick. Fear haunted the soft sleepiness of her eyes. "Into town." he said. "I dont know why or anything about it Its his own business. Her hand came out to him and gripped his arm hard. "Lew, you cant let him. You've got to get him back. Send someone In, she begged. "You must, t. Hp spoke gently. Joy, when a mans got something on his mind he has to work it out himselt Clay must know what hes doing. Im going to leave him alone." f And if anything happens" She stared at him. "And I knew you might have helped" "Ill take the blame," he said. I know. Here was what he had understood that night in the Wichita hills. Above everything else there would be this loyalty to Clay. He saw her eyes go beyond him. He turned his head. Steve was coming toward them, walking fast, two high spots of color staining his flat cheeks. Quick and blunt, he said, "Lew, I'm going in to town, and wheeled on to saddle Owl-Hea- joined In. Clay' drurk and thcy'v got him ou:h of the dead line now. Joe Wheat' Bow, I d.iril know. deep uaually four face showed roncern, "Look hhe they're crowd ing Clay into something, They've till got him Cornered and Clay' j Cross T man. What do you think? He guested old Joe wa right T man till he Clay wa a Cro I provC(j omeliilng dso, He hadn't ,. h aUJ ycL "Better not waste any time." In camp he told the men who had started to with up tor tupper, "Dont stop to eat" Dripping head came up a they stared at him. He didnt explain. He wanted the best of Oil crew around him in town; gome would d have to stay here on guard. had already been In and showed It. There wasn't much of a meal cooking on the pit tonight. For the other to be left he picked out Moonlight Bailey, young Jim Hope and Steve. Getting Moonlight off alone, he said, "If Steve trie to skin out rope him. I don't want him In town at all," He turned across to Joy' wagon, found the canvas closed tight and called Inside, "Were going off for a little while. I'm leaving Steve here with you." Her voice come out to him with an even quietness. "Im riding into town when you do. Will you saddle a horse for me?" "Later, maybe," he taid. "Not now." The flaps parted. She held them together around her head. She was dressing. Her hair was brushed back smoothly and knotted at the nape of her neck. "ITI go to a ho-Owl-Hea- j j soft-spoke- J j , That bad." "Heard your Cross T was getting In." tel," she said, "and not be any trouble. But Im going. He knew that quietness in her voice; there was a will behind it. And he understood. Clay was in trouble, and all of a womans urge, and perhaps her intuition, was driving her to the man. He gave in to that knowledge, saddled a horse and brought it back for her to ride. As he moved the horse for her to mount she handed him a carpetbag heavy with her things. He looked at it, shaping a question which then he did not ask. He lifted her up to ride sidesaddle. She hooked her right knee over the horn. Half an hours loping travel brought the gray sod houses at the outskirts of the town. Even before that the voice of Dodge had been around them in a mingling of sounds that rose and fell and sometimes died away to a breathless hush. Most of the way there had been little talk. Joe Wheat, Quarternight and Ash Brownstone made their older men's group, riding together. Charley and Neal Good had paired off. He rode next to Joys stirrup himself, at no time trying to break the silence she had seemed to want. Beyond the soddies, with clusters of board houses beginning to outline irregular streets, he aimed toward a row of lights where Second Avenue, running north from the river, split the town in the middle. He leaned over to say, "Ill take you to the Wright House. That's the best. She nodded. They rode on into louder waves of sound. Then they had entered Second Avenue, coming at once out of darkness into the glow of square oil lamps on posts at the four corners Down at the of each intersection. avenues farther end he could see the plaza filled with dust and the moving swarms of horses and men. But the Wright House was two blocks back from that jammed center. He turned in front of it and stopped against the long hitching rail. He said to the others, "Wait here, and handed Joy down from her saddle. Whatever she planned he didn't know and still held back Dwarf Fruit Trees Suited to Gardens chances Dont take predicts remedied. Kclinr with untried tnUerle this home, I Bad enough, he said. "Thats why I've come to you. How many of the boys have you got in soak here? "Say!" Rachal put out his hand and moved an oil lamp on a table until it lighted a storeroom behind it "Take a look." Lew crossed to the doorway. Forty or fifty saddles were hung in there on pegs along the wall. He turned back, grinning a little. "Theyll never learn, I guess. Well, you know the men. You round up ten of the best and have them back here Inside of an hour. I'll pay their bills and give them jobs. Pete Rachal's blue eyes studied him over their heavy pouches. "Cow work?" "Ive got enough men. he said, "to handle the cows. We're headed through to Ogallala. I dont figure to be stopped. "That bad, is It? d, nervous eyes. "You knew about this? "Not till just now, no. "Then you can wait." He started off and turned back. He felt no gentleness with Steve. "Dont you try to skin out either. Ill be on whtch for that. With the arrowhead shaped and grazing forward he rode back to Joe Wheat in the next swing position. Joe, he said, I want you to work this out for me. You go in and see what Clays up to. Get a line on the Open A and its men you know the joints in there better than any of us. Guess I do. The old man grinned and rubbed his corded neck. Well cross the river, Lew finished, "and go Into camp about five miles west of town. Get your news and come back there. That will be some time late this afternoon. If he could have his own way hed pass Dodge without a stop. Time was crowding him, a threat always over his head. They still had six weeks until September first, the delivery date in Ogallala, but also four hundred long miles. Hed like to pass Dodge secretly and keep on. Yet even if Clay had not spoiled that he knew it couldnt be done. No trail crew would stand for it. Dodge was a mecca, a safety valve. The afternoon was almost spent, when he swung the point off again to bring the herd into a milling stop on an open flat and saw the cooks wagon and Joe Wheat arriving from town. Wheat came on waving a signal. He rode out to meet the man alone. Find him, Joe? Wheat He's there. nodded. "Been there all day. But I dont figure it. Splanns there and a fellow called Stoddard, said to be the Open A boss. First it was only them three and Clay was putting up some kind of talk. They kept north of the Dodge still has tracks, drinking. Uiat dead line. They dont carry guns in that part. But along this afternoon five more Open A riders hi question while they entered the high, square lobby and found the could get a ground floor room. Union, lilr.iMl by Wr.iern But he took her arm a a Negro porter picked up her bag and start1 Gene ed off. "What are you going to do?" Tunney or anybody else ho that football has no train She turned to face him. Her lip were pale, "Nothing. Find Clay, j toff advantage In the armed forces." The speaker was Lieut. Tom Har- Tell him Im here." He looked at her, filled with t ' mon, former Michigan wretched pity for that belief, that all halfback recently recuperated from he had to do was tell Clay she was burns suffered when he bailed out here. "Ail right," he said, "ITI let of his blcnng plane In China last October. him know." Harmon Isn't exactly Outside and mounted, there was one other thing he wanted to do first. In speaking of the value of athletics He turned Into a cross street and to the armed services. His feelings re positive. In a recent Interview rode two blocks to Railroad Avehe expressed himself quite forcibly nue, turned down that toward the river and reached a section of ware- on the subject: "Speaking merely as a former houses, the depot, a huge barn with corrals sprawled behind it Racbal football player, 1 want to say that American pilots excel Axia fliers be Brothers livery, lle said once more, "Wait here," tense ey are better competitors, and the reason t that they have and entered the livery office. Pete Itachal was Inside, sunk deep played organised sports since they in a brindle cowhide chair, a man were kids." He asserted that American pilots grown fat and wealthy now, and yet an outlaw once whose rustled have a "tremendous advantage" In herds had pioneered the trail to aerial battles "they dont like to Dodge. He was a Texan who could never go back. But any Texas cowboy, cleaned of bis money, j needn't go hungry here nor sell his horse and saddle. Pete Rachal was j their hock shop and bank. He lifted a stubby hand with its thumb missing and let it fall. "Burnet, how are you? Heard your Cross T was getting In." "How'd you hear that?" "Horseback Information. Someone dropped It off." "Anything else?" "Some trouble I heard with the Indian Supply Companys Open A. Bad?" Owl-Head'- s up. He called out, ."Wait a minute, kid. following. "Theres plenty of time. We're all going in tonight" He sharpened his stare into the Sports r& TOM IIARMON lose, and when somebody is throwing lead at you, it makes a big dif- ference." ", . . When I walked out of the Jungles last spring and got back from that raid in China last fall, my football training really counted, t dont think I could have made It either time without that advantage." "That advantage" is an important one. Two men may be similar in strength, intelligence, xveight and the other factors which Influence the survival of the fittest But If only one of the men has had athletic training, nine out of ten times hes the man who comes through with flying colors in an emergency. "You come back," Rachal said. Outlook Divided "I know the right ones for that. "In an hour," he promised and Regarding Baseball went out In time to hear Charley More than one major league club Storms rising complaint, "What's an unparalleled number he holding us back for? And then, owner, with of private problems, is distinctly "Hey, Lew, how about some fun? pessimistic over the 1944 outlook for "Charley," he said, "too bad, but big league baseball. youll have to wait" Only Joe Sam Breadon, president of the St. Wheat knew fully what they had come In for. He got Into his saddle. Louis Cardinals, probably voiced a "Were looking for Clay. Joe, where minority opinion when he expressed baseball's serious doubt about was it you saw him last? of the comchances during operating "Theyd worked the Lady Gay and ing season. In the gloomiest stateMrs. Gore's," Wheat said, "and ment made to date by any major were drinking at Dutch Jakes when league executive he said: The way I left." are being taken by the draft, on from there by players "Likely moved it does seem questionable whether this time. Well comb the plaza we will have enough left to start the first." season." He led out between the livery and The Cardinal prexy said he conthe depot, entering at once into the 19 players sidered eight pitchers, two blocks and four wide open plaza two catchers, five infielders and four long. the absolute minimum Here in this dusty compound all outfielders with which a club could go through the visible life of Dodge was centhe season. tered, hemmed in by the Checking over his available mabuildings with their plank walks terial, Breadon discovered that he and wooden awnings running from did not have 19 men he could deend to end. pend on definitely to start the race He knew the horse Clay had ridin April. den and watched for it among the Other National league club owners three hundred or more saddle animals lined solidly along the gnawed took just the opposite stand, while William Dewitt, vice president hitching rails. In the brighter fans only St. Louis the of Browns, and Roger of light from the windows of vice president of the Restaurant, a dozen bar- Feckinpaugh, Cleveland Indians, approached bershops, The Alamo and The Alhambra saloons he watched the Breadons pessimism. brown faces of men. They jammed Dual Problem the plank walk shoulder to shoulder Dewitt stated that "theres a dual in their moving stream. not only of having enough problem Clays big shape was not in this maof crowd, and past the Long Branch players but having players of we After caliber. all, league jor the in bar Corner, boasting longest a team cant municipal league put tathe world and fifty gambling field. bles, he said, "We might as well on the Feckinpaugh agreed with Breadacross. go of a minimum, But the hitching rails were mostly ons estimate now we have or Right adding: Joe Wheat and vacant, said, "I have at we least that think many, guess hes gone, Lew. This is where but what well have two weeks from I saw his horse. Were all in is problematical. He nodded. Ill take a look. now the same boat, at least. Men drifted through these places, Personally, we would have very tried others and came back again. little sympathy for any club that He got down from his saddle and threw in the towel at this early walked along, peering over the batDutch Jakes place date. Fear of the future seems to wing doors. was empty now. In those farther dictate too many decisions. It is not unreasonable to believe on only a few drunks were propped against the bars. He had almost that the public will lose confidence reached the corner, with open in baseball if it isnt sound enough ground and the river crossing at to last through a crisis. Along with that loss of confidence right angles beyond, when he passed a man standing as motionless as a would come a loss of interest. Just post against an unlighted wall of one season without baseball and the the saloon front; passed him and game would lose some of its standhalted and turned back to look at ing as the game. No matter how many men there him again. Instantly the dark figure sprang are on the roster next year, and no out and ran the width of the street matter how ancient or decrepit they to a saddled horse. He hadnt seen are, each major league club should the mans face, but it was plainly operate next year unless, of course, someone stationed on lookout duty. the government should order high-fronte- d 19-m- (TO BE CONTINUED) Smaller Plants Produce More; Easy to Handle While dwarfing of fruit tree is common practice in Europe, there bai been comparatively Buie interest in this practice in this country, says W. L. Howard, a University of proved, , e n rtNrmrt to upper brew thing passage with modi- ctnwl vapors. W j STIMUUTTS California professor of pomology. In "Home Fruit Growing in Cai.for-ni- a he ouUinei the advantage of this method of cultivation in small orchards and home gardens. European, be says, have perfected special methods of training known as espalier and cordon, with numerous variations, which cause the trees so treated to be smaller than normal. Climatic condition of western and southern Europe are very well adapted to fruit growing, and the people as a whole are far more garden-mindethan we are. Since, however, land is scarce and the average citizen with a tiny garden wants to grow as many things as possible, dwarf fruit trees seem to have been the answer. Small Deciduous Tree. Most if not all of our deciduous tree are reduced below their nor- - j mal size In three general way: by heavy pruning, especially In summer; by partially starving the root by confining them In pot or boxes; or by grafting them upon tire roots of other tree that naturally grow more slowly or remain smaller. The use of dwarf or partially dwarfing stock is the method chiefly employed both here and abroad, although careful pruning is important In bolding down excessive wood growth and In keeping dwarfed trees both small and fruitfuL Although pears are commonly grown as dwarfs in this country, dwarf apples are seldom seen. In Europe peach trees are reduced in size in order to adapt them to cold foggy climates by growing them against walls or under glass. The small need for such special-purposd double-actio- a ay. chest and buck ur lact alike a warm- V. mg poultice, so OVl 1 Now to pet all th this combined benefits cf KNUSSIINO. stimuutinq action a shown above. 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Under expert management such as English and French gardeners give their trees, dwarf pears, for example, may live to an age of 75 years. Dwarf Apples. The Paradise apple, a natural dwarf, serves as a stock for reducing the size of any variety of apple grafted upon it. On this stock, trees may be so much reduced in size that they can be grown in 10- - or flower pots. If planted in the ground they will range in height from three to siy feet, the height depending upon the variety. The training they receive that is, the kind of pruning has much to do with their size. The Doucin apple is a natural Varieties grafted upon that root attain about half their normal size. Dwarf apples are trained to various shapes. The young trees are often set two or three feet apart and made fast to a three-wir- e trellis for no particular purpose except the ornamental effect they give. They are generally tilted over at an angle of about 65 degrees and kept pruned to a system of spurs. 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