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Show emery county Cruel Conqueror .cqueror is not so much pleased by cuS vated by the patient husbandman he would have them laid waste by sword and fire. It would be his By LL MAY Pusty King and Lew Gordon had buUt up a vast string of ranches in the West King was killed by his powerful and unscrupulous competitor. Ben Thorpe. Bill Hoper. Kings adopted son. was determined to avenge his death in spite of ORXSPRE ADONaR POSTS Inwardly Borne Great joys, like great griefs, are silent. Marmion. jy he CHAPTER XII Continued Jody Gordons eyes had darkened In the dusk, making her face seem very pale. "What do you want me to do? Shoshone Wilce shrugged. "That aint hardly up to me. Miss Gordon. But Ill tell you this: manys the time Ive seen your father go stomping down the board walk right here in Ogallala, alone, and not even armed. That wont do. Miss Gordon. If I was in your place, I wouldnt never him out of the house without his gunbelt is strapped on, and the iron free in its leather. And wherever he goes, there ought to be three or four gooid g cowboys with' him; because, If I know Ben Thorpe, he isn't going into any gunfight alone! let hard-shootin- Jody peered at him intently. "What made you bring this word to me? Im a Bill Roper man," Shoshone Wilce said. God knows, Miss Gordon, stringing with Bill Roper has never done anything for me. But well, I just thought Bill Roper would want you to know. I kind of got the Idea he thinks a heap of you. Miss Gordon. And now another pony came slashing up to the corral Ope of the load ing foremen had come in. HOTEL "I got to be getting along, Shoshone Wilce said quickly. She turned away, but instantly turned back again, and gripped Shoshones arm just as be was sliding BOISE BOISE, IDAHO pattern, sunsuit, frock are all included, shes only two, she can the frock all If; the plain neckline and ing sleeves will be cool ify, all summer long. This in percale, gingham, jonnet Largest and finest hotel in Idaho. 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Self-Deni- al Whyte-Melvill- e. hie snoKEs the tihiigi the young, turbulent center of a vast, raw range, the possibilities of which were still unknown. For three months Roper had ridden through the bitter Montana winter. It bad been no trouble for him to sweep together a dozen malcontent cowboys who hated Lasham or Thorpe, or both. Already they knew Bill Ropers name. Against their common enemy these youngsters could be led, wild, reckless and crazy for raid; and Roper bad led them as Texas had taught him. His new northern wild bunch faced conditions in many ways bitterly adverse. Here in the north were no ousted cattlemen, no established population to which he could look for help. The Canadian border was far away, and no market awaited the d herds on the other side. What Montana bad that Texas did not have was a concentration of Indian tribes, principally Sioux and Cheyenne, deprived of their hunting grounds, and depehdent for food upon beef which the government was pledged to supply. It was to this circumstance that Roper had turned. The giant beef contracts which the government threw upon the market had inevitably attracted more than one kind of graft. The result was famine pitiful relentless. Starvation stalked through the lodges of the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Crow and with il Ropers opportunity. Scouring the country, Roper turned up four Indian agents who were already badly scared. They had overplayed their hands, and were now faced with a loss of life among their charges about which they could, do nothing without revealing their own corrupt ineffleien-cy- . These men had connived with Lsihair in bringing about a condign of tribal starvation; they were willing to connive with Bill Roper to cover up their position in any way they could. By delivering beet to the reservations under these highly irregular conditions, Roper's wild bunch could little more than make expenses. But the advantage was this a beef herd delivered to an Indian tribe disappeared over night, leaving little trace. A thousand hands skinned out the beef, destroying the portions of the hides containing the brands. Constantly changing horses, perpetually in the saddle, Ropers saddle hawks swung across Montana. They first struck at Muddy Bend, picking up four hundred head of steers in the breaks of the Yellowstone. Three days' hard driving delivered these to a village of Assini-joinOnly four days later they hard-pushe- you BET s I SMOKE CAMELS, THEYfcE EASY ON A My THROATL EXTRA MILD. AND THE FLAVOR IS SWELL r OOLF CHAMPION J DEN IIOGAN writes: THE SMOKE .BURNINQ OF SLOWER CAMOS cohtwms a the average to,dgaree..ted-"dei- it them according to Itself . smoke entific testa of the g CRH Walk Roper shrugged again, wanta no fight with me. "Youre going to force the fight yourself! That's what youve been waiting here for, ever since you came to Miles City. Any moment Lasham may walk in that door Marquita sat staring at him hopelessly, in her eyes a fixity of devotion which his taciturnity seemed to increase. Against his will he was becoming something that was happening to Marquita. He remained ailent; and, in a little while, she went away. An hour passed, while Roper, drinking slowly, played his solitaire and watched the door. was Then cuddenly Marquita back. She came behind hla chair to speak close to his ear in a panicky Hes coming! Hes comwhisper. ing along the walk "All right "Walk hat two of hia men with "You she said rapidly. him, havent a chance, not a ghost of a chance. I cant bear to tee you killed I I know you dont care anything about me. If you did I'd go anywhere in the world with you. But now you have to come out of here quick by the back way. Ill do anything Roper turned hla head to look up into her face, very close to his. There was more to this girl than there was to the rest of her kind. Even now he was unable to recognize that Marquita was capable of a sincerity of purpose, and a passionate preoccupation in her purpose, not to be expected here. "I wouldnt step aside two feel he told her, to pass Walk or any man. I tell you. Walk wont fight! Bill Suddenly she whimpered. Roper saw that three men had come into the front of the Palace Bar. The first of the three, a dark, lean man with wide, bowed shoulders, was Walk Lasham. Marquita caught Bills head In her arms, forced up hia chin, and kissed him. He was surprised at the unexpected softness of her lips, hot against his mouth. Then abruptly Marquita stooped, and as she sprang away from him he felt the weight of his gunbelt ease. She flung over her shoulder, "Its for your own sake! Her face was white, frightened. He half started up, in instant anger, but the girl was running down the room. He saw her put something under the bar, and he knew it was hia gun. ' Roper rang hia whiskey glass upon the table, trying to catch a bartenders eye. If Lasham had not They first struck at Muddy Bend. seen what the girl had done, one of them could bring him his gun bedeck of cards and laid out a hand of fore it was too late. But the bar was solitaire. thronged; the bartenders were work Now one of the dance hall girls ing fasl in the thick of the evening came to his table, slipping uninvited rush. into a chair. This was a girl whose had made room for The bar-flie- s attention bothered and embarrassed Walk Lasham at the end of the bar, Roper every time he came here. and Lasham and hia two cowboys Her name was Marquita. had their heads together now, conHe didnt know what attracted her sulting. to him; he didnt know what attractOne of the cowboys, a man with ed any particular woman to any scar across hia face that distorted particular man. It may be that his his mouth in the manner of a hare very disinterest was what caught lip, went quickly behind the bar, her attention firsl and later gave hunted beneath il and returned to him the desirability of the unobtain- Walk. Roper saw Lashams long able. face sel He Eaid to hfinself, Walk She spoke to him now in a quiet, knows lifeless voice. "Why dont you like Walk Lasham was fiddling with me? his empty glass on the bar, and the "I like you all right, he said. man was watching No, you dont You dont even Roper covertly with one eye from under the brim of his hal Lasham see me at all. He noticed now that she looked reached for a bottle, filled his glass, different tonight; and after a mo- tossed it off. Then he turned squarement he recognized that this was ly toward Roper, and came walking because there was no paint on her back through the big room. Roper played his cards, his hands face. That would be because he disliked paint though he had no idea visible upon the table. It seemed to how she had found that out. Her take, Lasham a long time to walk Roper washed face was a perfectly sym the length of the room. metrical oval set with black eyes a glanced at the lookout chair, where usually sal little slanted, and her black hair, a salaried parted in the middle, was drawn It was empty now. Walk Lasham was standing in back severely, in the fashion of the mestizo girls of the Texas border. front of him. So you, he said, are the tough She leaned toward him now, and that killed Cleve Tanner. gunman low and voice her spoke rapidly, Bill Roper raised his eyes to Walk compelling. "Listen I hate Walk Lashams face. "And you, he said, Lasham, too. You have "are one of the dirty cowards that "Listen, she insisted. to listen to me. Walk Lashams in murdered Dusty King.1 A hush had fallen upon the room, town. He came in this afternoon. unbroken by the clink of a glass or So, Roper thought, the time had the rattle of a chip. Lasham and on with move his to come again, looked at each other through He didnt like il Roper work undone. a moment of silence. much. He dropped his eyes to Ropers Well thanks, he said; "I'm glad and his own right hand start-- , hands, to know. ed a tentative movement toward the what and here He knows youre butt of his gun. His spread fingers youre here for." shook a little as his hand crept down. I suppose he does, Roper said. But he was grinning now, sure of "Youre waiting here for Lash- his ground. You know am, she accused him. "Looks a little different to you to here. come Youre going hell try now, huh? shooting it out "A coyote always looks like a coy Roper shrugged and was silent. to me. ote Bill it's hopeless! Walk Lasham smile dropped from Lashams The is the fastest gunfighter in the face. "Im going to give you every north chance, be said. His voice swung in even rhythms, low and sing-son- g "Im going to count five. Draw and fire any time you want to; because on five Im going to kill you where Here, struggling through a soft blinding snow, they ran off five hundred head, and a few days later three hundred more. They Christmased in company with a herd of lifted steers somewhere between Three Sleep and the Little Powder; and'New Years found them sifting the pick of Lashams cattle out of his Lost Soldier range. By the end of January they had moved three thousand head the very cream of the wintering stock. Repeatedly they had driven cattle incredible distances in Impossible time. Yet he knew his work had only begun. All their hard riding would fail of effect unless he could, strike such a smashing blow as would cause a split between Basham and Ben Thorpe. And Roper had a plan rash In scope and method, but savage in effect if it could be fulfilled. Already he had enough riders in sight to strike this last desperate blow. But the men available to his purpose d were fighting kids who could not be driven and could scarcely be led; Roper could not captain his campaign alone. So now he fretted in Miles City, seeking three or four outlaw leaders who would make his preparations complete. Still studying everyone who came into the bar. Roper broke open a "Stay around, she ordered him. "Stay here until "Miss Gordon," came the quick whisper, "Ive got to get on to Miles City. I I thought so. Bill Ropers somewhere up there, isnt he? Yes. Well Fm going to join my father there' I'll ride with you In the morning. "Four hundred miles And no coach until" "Dont worry about that It takes saddle ponies to make time. "But Im afraid your Paw might I His determination unand gunman. changed. bn now turned his attention toward Thorpe's ranches tn Montana. Jody wae secretly rial ted by Shoahone WUce. one of Ropers men. who warned that her fathers Ufa wee In danger. der. far away. used you, Size. 9 THE STORY SO FAB; opposition by bis sweetheart Jody Cor-- , don, and her father. Roper's successful raids against Thorpe's Texas holdings wiped him out of the state. When Roper visited Jody one night she almost contemptuously called him a catUe thief e were on the flats of the' Little Thun- think ' itlsco Calif. e 15 cents in coins for Release W.N.U. INSTALLMENT raetic JUST A PASH IN FtATHIBS . Dog House Included for persons to inducement' An build homes is the offer of a Raleigh, N. C- -, building firm to include a de luxe dog house, complete with hardwood floors, fireproof shingles and running water with each standardised house. Smoky entering into oDen gates as by forcing his fields to be PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH e. ... listen TO . . 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