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Show ;j B.en. then. the same. ' ,p to O'1 U. iitara. ! things r.ow p ickr lrl. Wbea fc T V Victim Ikaak. t.H a man t. fay a debt of the cards "So har La Rue didn't? "Ver' much he didn't, senor Y'ou should know that Does Star l.a Rue st 11 not own Rancho de lus Tres Hermunos But less than a week R Rowing La Rues debt anAn aged other thing hupjens. Spanish gentle'i an is shot an' killed m t..e yards of Tres Hermanos. ll.s It is Lay is lift u identified clamed this old' man has teen caug1 t alien t.ig to steal hor-- i s fl'l'I the c O! Tabs Nothing at all is sa i abi ut bis i omit. g to claim the la'ii ho he thinks lie has won' of Seconds silence folk wed Monte s words "Was tins ol 1 man very slight of figure'" asked Doane softly "D.d mustache he have a silvery-whitand a slight scar over one eyeWas the forefinger of his brow rigid hand slightly crippled, caught sometime m the dallies of a reata "You describe senor Don Pio Miguel Alvaro to me," said Monte Garcia. "It is a ver exact descrip-t.on.- " I Y-- t -- hu-Be the lime agj.: Davie r,. : two-thre- e Hut ger. there is change, as vm, know, Now is r.o long gantblu g wit', me er legal in this k'.a'tA lew law j has Lien This makes difference m Star La R c bi.vtr Pal- fa-.e- ate. La Rue liim-I t.av changed m the davt.mes he la rc table, ic e reM'ieiit of a ci i ; ,in V axmtlla City bank Only on oc, as. mil n.ghts ,rU ,B b Mil. ti! i. cl long years past, 0l bin., but poinll out .arraol I Mor.te know I u ,ottr Uwr Jim I. rh.rmfd ky krr lh trill him WftU. and Hill Jim . cir.t.nuH u "Still the cards, play the ga ne, fir I lave a living to make, an card! are the mlrri. turn, ' torn 'f. aaUI Ulf h w. ki b, scene In Maxmilla Cuy UtO la W .OUBl, ntil ' VeU.I dTI M' . An p r WoIu.m or when hornet', g i.jj ei.s - daes he come to the S..ver la ,ue, which now t : n.d gaai led doors Well, operates eskcd Doane. without music or m.r'y i.gits None me point. But my sto the less, all k.nds of men n me there fat' lc-- Je to gamble. SSiVvpect me to deny It. your "There is one old man w.th a ver bitter face who comes He does not ?ax'ei-teyou to yes. I see have much money, but he plays regThen why the first lie?" ularly. He likes my table somedon't. u times. I think be is waiting for an instant something sin JtT fijsht i in the strange Spanish something. An perhaps 1 have one then Monte Garcia smiled ; ('ll PTER IV e d fTfO do. Mabe few have caught you ly- - Then the That is true. again. to the eyes came moulder We have had L,s'en, my frien. one of Storv; now we will have Lte Roth true. You are ready Eh! te listen story," began Monte Garcin; is mo-- . wisp of a smile, first The old. part of twenty years man, a me young makes It jj But already I younger than you. ka;e skill with my hands. Always They ry hands are my fortune. irufile the cards, they deal. Jus' I man nineteen vears old I am, but SilRue La the in Star table age a ver Palace, up in Maxmilla City. In those days many men come to It is legal in the Silver Palace. those days . . . You wish to hear this story, senor? from? That is not the question La Rue asks. You see? If cheap, he buys. Then one day he buys something more than cattle, but without greater price. You shall come hear "Senor don Pio Miguel Alvaro has one splendid rancho, far down here, which La Rue see, and which La Rue want. Don Pio must sell cattle every year, to make profit. So Star La Rue comes to him. " Don Pio, he says, I hear you have five hunred head of cattle to fell this spring. That true? All right. I will give you twenty dollars a head, jus as they come big. What do you medium, or small. say Done! says Don Pio swiftly. The price is high for those days So Star La Rue, with high. his men all around him, draws papers for the deal an tells Don Pio to sign. The papers are wrote in English, which Don Pio does not read ver' well. But then he is only selling cattle, an the money has come to his han already. A bill is customary in an honest So Don Pio puts his name an other men with La Rue s'gn. This rancho, says Mistaire La Rue after a while, is a good rancho, Don Pio. I think I will like it, an the price was cheap, considering fhat I also get all the stock. Don Pio, I will not hurry you to move from my rancho, but be gone in ten days In ten days, continued Monte Garcia, "the sheriff comes down from San Loreto an forces Don Pio, hs w fe, an his baby daughter from house. Because he does not En'lish well, you see, Don as signed one deed for his whole property, not a bill-of-sa- le for some five La hunred head of cattle. Star Rues men are witnesses, an each states it is certain Don Pio understood when he took the money. Now it would only seem he wanted to back out of the deal by lies, U)' h is not allowable. Do you un- derran, my frien? All this happened long ago. I understand, " Doane nodded stiff! . paused. "I can tell you of the same kind. Twenty years ago this was a pretty lawless str p of But the past is country. pan Today is today, and things have changed. Im one of the men that s velped to make that change. S said Monte, with a faint srr.i i You are giving me a peek at v r own hand, now, senor. said u know who I am, oth-tori- es , er i Dijs ne M rte smiled. "Of course. All Mistaire deputy sheriff Doane. Ttl r grams the railroad, if f, r. otherthrough reason. But my story is t finish. You wish to hear what a ft, - . also? "Y s. Go Eh? ahead. ' A , n 1 Akaro Family JT'as days, the other way pays better. La Rue has one-tw- o ranches of his cwn an on the side, as you say, he buys cattle. Where do the cattle the field. have been better, you see, for me to have given the ol' man the two tpot " No'" snapped Doane. Mcnte stud. ed him for a long while behind the wisps of blue cigarette smoke. The gray-greeeyes showed no emotion. Finally Monte smiled slightly. "My frien," he said, "I thought that I would come to like you in the end. "My r.th a mumbled Doane. "Shoot, I said, Monte smiled slightly, and continued. It is legal, yes, yet this Star La Hie is not the man to care for thuigs legal after all. Even in those Ii old man was some cholo horsethief. No name for him. 1 even congratulated La Rue on his marksmanship." So it would Monte shrugged. "Shoot. From Ranch . . . TWA Uncling on a "Dios!" whispered Doane. "It was my first job under Sam Flick. Thats why I remember so well. I came down to Rancho Ilermani s with the coroner. They told us the "Ha' Evicted after mainlinrr, carrying 18 passengers and a crew of 3, shown for ? vr w off from a.rpor hicago after of wav taking shortly railroad right emergency crash were slightlv hurt The p lot stated York None of the passengers was injured, although pilot and stewardess sufficient altitude to glide back to not have did he that both engines quit shortly alter the takeoff, and that AIRLANFS TO RAILWAYS Again long silence Kiil be best if you do not call Not many he said. pe ijar." if nyt rW j Was this old man very slight of asked Doane softly. figure? better memory for the Spanish faces than another man. Anyhow, know this ol fellow he is Don Pio Miguel Alvaro, once owner of the Rancho de los Tres Hermanos, Usually he down in this country. loses at the cards. But always hecomes back, waiting for that soine. thmg. it "Then one night it happens, Senor Alvaro wins one is luck! thousan dollars. Half he puts back, Loses. wins again. Twice more. For an hour the play goes. But when the ol man finally stands at his chair, he has broke the bank of Star La Rues illegal gambling pa thousan dolace. It is twenty-fiv- e won! lars he has "Star La Rue is called. He comes ol like one animal. He gets the man aside. Play once more, he says. Jr'iay me. your luck once more against At another table! For one thing, says the ol man firmly. Down in San Loreto senor County you have a rancho, de los Rancho called La Rue. It is I would like to Tres Hermanos. rancho. that wager against For one debate. much is "There than more worth is thing the rancho the thoQsan dollars. On twenty-fiv- e about is man old the other hand, to walk away with all the money La Rue he has won, or so Star The So they compose thinks. hns to back ol man gives no matter how be to kept winnings, matters. the cards fall. That evens ermano The Rancho de los Tres matched draw is put at stake on one of the cards. La Rue I have worked for Star skillful most the I am a long while. So they come he employs. dealer Rue looks at to my table. Star La an gives a certainI me a long while as I shuffle the cards uonal 'how. Three know cut. the deck There is 1 a already begU1 But 'my fnen 1 where I will look tomorrow orPa new ob. Something hones fow maybe a school for telegraph I -- Jj-oug- Sheriff Sam Flick of San Loreto was in a funk. Railroad officials were pressing him on one hand; Star La Rue on the other. There were fifty rumors, and one single fact. The fact was that five horsemen had turned north from the point of the train robbery at Sand Wells and hit for the desert recesses of San Loreto county. Flick knew that they might have ridden five, or fifty miles noith, and also that they then had the quarters of the compass to choose from. Eight days had passed since the at Sand Wells, night of the hold-u- p and the ninth duwned with equal The sheriff had lack of promise. own trip to Sand his from back been hours, Wells for some forty-eigreturning by way of Maxmilla City,If he now took a posse into the desert he knew it faced failure; if he be- didnt, he failed before he criticism. gan, with corresponding Flick's one hope was Doane. VW j r'L--' u' 'Vt 4 . 1 vw ! - ' . t 1 'r .r,v'YYYi'F A r .1 .. x 33k.- - v- - - j WINS iirilTFOOT CONTEST raffe would be lighter on her feet than the A G. E. vibration tn Offhanil one would imagine that the thin, elongated however, elephant. Such is not the case,with som N yf aluI canie back of all, the was stepper lightest the of python, with the exception . . . d ond. Better than eight days now since Doane had left for the 3cene. Nothhim. Nothing had been heard from he had that was except known, ing ridden promptly north on the supDoane posed trail of the fugitives. of Flicks backbone the was very law enforcement, and in his secret heart Flick recognized the fact. It Day added to his helplessness. expected had confidently he day by Doanes return. In Sand Wells, he had confidently expected to see his at every deputy ride into the horizon meant had just Such delay turn. one thing to the sheriff at first Doane had hit a hot trail, too hot to drop, hanging on alone. Doane might do a thing like that. Knowing his deputy, the only thing Flick didnt expect was utter failure. The sheriff sat over his office desk irritable. The -b- rooding, sweating, the ninth was hour day. Deputy Jim Doane Turns in His Badge are you, Sam? Flick spun around, like a top Stared a moment, and relaxed ir his chair with an audible sigh. Here you are ai Well Doane! last! shook hands, and Flirt How They Lets get to business puffed: in a mess! What hap sure Things nened Where are they? Who puller Alvaro girl' so it think-- an the job? Was it that operators, I got an ar havent Say, you turned out." thoughtful- - rest up your sleeve, have you smiled Monte Garcia His hanr said Doane. No hare and something out reached onto th. the palm from riroDped desk "No smooth surface of Flicks Just nothing arrests. and also a deadly No Flick except Well, theres my badge. a long ee.r.And senor Pio MlU'l Aivar Flick stared at Doane for Doane stunner askeo An unbelieving, time. hal e.rd?" drew Monte. long over his red face ace of course, said expression came 1ml. "Your badge? bJ, make my repeated Doane "My badge, 5h ,hat Im no longer a Mv resignation. in San Loreto county sheriff deputy Cnd theafler-residt?- " I resign the position. oh-hutook Flicks eyes grew. His face l 3 But!'but ered Monte he stuttered. "You to two-spthat! do and juscant fate you Soeumes P Doane "I already have, said . the were tice are liketfiat hands grasping Flick's so hard that thi desk the of palace Rue's gambling edge knuckles were white. We have mentioned af see you now "I -- I never thought Id rhafee State laws have nst gambling. Such- fail, Doane! Break' Quit! saiu been paed "And you haven yet! debt no longDo 3 f the law. Doane, leaving. CONTINUED) er th,ngam the eves (TO BE tQ orce see? you Winant, former U. S. F D. R. . - . John G. emotion-shakevoice the in an delivers to Great Britain, held in he services memorial tribute during the congressional of the members and Truman House of Representatives. President h W.nantas Mr. Roosevelt family attended. Photo shows ',red P Russell ra the address. Seated in back, Sen. Ricnard house, of the chaplain Bulwinkle (N. C.), Rev. James Montgomery, of the senate. and Rev. Frederick B. Harris, chaplain ambas-Jad- TO - o Prm-dn- n .Ji, 't '? f ' V' CIIAMP . . 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