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M 01 U"ra orn town even Li f , 2 MMUlnl y simult antler ,m b PlorBl I sway with tl,e m,.m , thing b uppene i V, Me ,s fast hU bor.a and el M U M ni were dole With Doane u was su He !y .d Jlm hfr' ,fm h1' dy itkn be vaulted free fro-i- , grateful b b t'e if b"" drpulurd nve t! e four n K rs' I .MiiS a ieav! v hor.-e- , tin ne I, a- - i .n Do su! startiutirg I is In irprfhpndiaf bank robbeit 2 re iunc fire' Ins last " ' PolofM four were those d J fri lint on o slit, r.m for the Ub him. tvr of the fallen roan's b Uku Carcia klick had :,rtbfl,.i. out oa tbt trail. pus(,id on northward, to Monte Maxmilla City. t'ie four sud lenly lie j ausod pi (key ur r.ders seemed ane to habitue tun s, had ! d.s, burg, Dm, he came forwr ! m lv hv sue liar clio Hern. anus t e imr-eC1UPTKR VIII e W! supreme effort of w,!I T' . re w.n ,UUi 1SUL-Un'rt UP ltn ral' in San Lor to, join rg his Still that Set, white sn l'e litwtei After a mile or so Doane worked He nod-- j hrbt posse in dearth cf the girl his lips Shivering as though wilt aj:.0L'v up a slight rise came he when back, Doane gazed at the five n en and Palsy, hands with the hands n e to M.'nte guns outflung. Morte h.ngf a .u e went rn, changing dircc-Jr- n his bps curled thev more and fell half across tie down f,j We've n et buzzards t b in.s'ead a horse Doane caught at h s hawks. Monte'" For l.ng periods of time now they The five were edging slowly for to pull him on. fc'ted D"are cannily took advanA ward the floor of the t nv pavs up rumbling. gre.,t etho and roll irregularities ce of the tense in their hoarsely sad into Mime Sud It i.es T disthe country, following the gullies tance lessened Was pass Deane A hud a mounted quiet figure sing fd dc; regions T1 e battle had lasted glance at Morte At his side Monte not longer Ifjln't the skyline could be seen than fifty seconds A sirg'e mountdust. They drew Irtrtes; soof could ed man was fleeirg down the pass, a small, ragged range g) the rim a ridtrless lorse follow mg Tie rat-ti- e rfrock h 11s and buttes. Again Doane of shod hoofs was the d re.n. studying the approach-r.der- s only sour 1. S.Ience now on the heels of death! fur a long while. Caught as he was, Dour e tugged "Theyll hit through at about those futileiy to pull Monte lest buttes," he decided. "That lrht to su t us as well as anywhere r;,V. rfumtd Lur ht rarouauur..Oerlff rurk. Ia'Vn - R ,l : f di, : li & 1 j. VMS tv.. f flliUffl hinV jj 1 i as on R. f r. ir lv " TK irr p corrfj-- i fi-.- ce fj " e --- "Ths is to be ambush?" asked y. ite tnonghtfully. .N'o," si opt ed Doane. "We giv i" f t.' e cl auce to surrender first Ae are two against five. I do It th k Piece approaching ridu to well, surrender. " Ueil take those odds Ill to I ;d (I em'" "I to rut quite understun, my si Ww Morf ,,un farmers from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indi inVuri their tractors and combines lo Ily to Ind., to attend the f.rst annual thm farmers' lafajrtte. at dV unl'fr,,,v a,ul f prove that the airplane i,"rIP part in Midwest new group, whuh has l.or.G agriculture. members, watrhrd demonstrations I A iJt.'t arkno!f(. t fd by large Man. "Me are : accepted . subject It o conditions I. Delivery from 18 to rnal rfvtas n Holhujoj Xtraorirai tlaimed I tad movie p. anciert law, per cert a d held, urd ially no sucb 6 per cut who a:3 the turn of t'e f w.ii'irg vi-d- ( 1 Icdlv. Do.me saw Siiriz a' i the r.dor fa' i acri s., ( rn, gun Unit had just bc me voicc'i-- s in the mans hand At an, tl er s; ot a boot stuck giutcsij ,el u to t'e air. That might be La hue Or again it might not. Doane pullel again at h'S caught foot, trying to dt ig it free with tne other boot as a lever on the back of the dead roan The trapped leg was losing feeling The wound in his thigh had begun to pain and blood was soaking through his cloth ng The man down canon might return at any moment He wondeied about Monte. The fallen Monte Garua did not stir. Doane reached slowly to touch his shoulder again That was when he saw La Rue! At a distance of less than twenty paces Star La Rues dead'y, intense eyes peered over the belly of one of the fallen horses That instant Doane also know that Monte Garcia was not dead. For Monte, wounded, the useless guns in his hands, hissed softly: " Ever fcc- -' thine k Sirte I was a kid, Monte fie tren riding on the side of the Th.s La, r .attired Doane softly. Yaxrnha ufiair now just one thing left for me to do! A straight road 2 gut to d it. Flick knew I would. Tn.s is Lank robbery, killing! . E.t t'e way things are, Monte, I f.ess I dont want to ride back. Ac'i'cw I like the odds!" Yes Yes " A steel-har- d lato Doanes voice: intensity came Monte, I'ked me a r.d te you question a while ago here's jour answer. You're go-ir- g to do a thing I can't do. I owe t"at g.rl eery thing my life; the law owes her something, too, I fig- because of its one-tim- e blind' Djou see that? When things Gun in hand, crouched, he leaped break row, Monte, youre going to out! enter a jjt et her out alone! See? You to got THKI.E-.N DECONTROL HOARD . . . Future r allowance price control will rest with a three-nia- n do it! Don't mind decontrol anything else. was a picture of motionless grace, board. Recently named to the board bv President Truman are, left to right: Daniel W. price such a s'A That's why, if you hadn't offered to Ueil, Washingsmile. a drawn set in ton, I). C., former undersecretary of the treasury; Roy L. Thompson, New Orleans Federal Land Bank lips full. come with me. Id have made you s pa.d o.l The first taut deadliness of the president, ehairnian; and George II. Mead, Dajton, Ohio, former chairman of the industrial advisory come But Ive known from the board under the NKA and member of advisory board of Office of War Mobilization. 3st In UR five The intensified. was even scene fart that that was your reason for ) 000 This come not forward did riders beirg with me. Now it's a "Down' thing like one posse approaching other only about you ve got to do! The hiss was cut short by the exrnment J men of the law. Like fire, a new of La Rue's extended weapplosion Lickbatks. Doane's brain. in thought snapped A on The bulk t clipped Doane's skull. Plan Desperate has fierce was sudden There , is leg joy in He fell back stunned. . . . To Sat e Dolores burning ejes His lips bit off words, Time passing might have been a to the approaching La Rue: "Stop it as a second or a moment. When Doane are! where ' On the you instant the scene changed. he was wiping blood He heard La Rues laugh answer remembered Something moved the coming five his and his left hand was from eyes incredibly The distance was halved bders to forge into a fast lope. him again. from the wrist down. But the ite his little over forty yards now. red Matching them, Doane swuing back and Its right still held his gun. from the rim. Under the Thirty! The five riders had spread a shelter, has roan shot Doane vings, forward, Monte beside bit. Each man for himself. tive Jim Shoots It Out h.m. At a furious could see faces now white-lippebeat pace they ard aorg the far side of the hills, stiff, set! He could see what was W ith Star La Rue ents ".o through the boulder-strew- n coming. La Rue called: "All right, depres-ton- s ily turned and across the side gullies, in Mister Doane. Well surrender!" His head cleared instantly To exsed to eat an effort to A gun leaped m La Rues hand, pose any part of his body in an atround the first butte ve and ride into palliat the face of the five. belched fire, as though to accent the tempt to free himself gave opporHe . Between the buttes of the sharply-oefine- d false word. Like a leaden oath tunity for La Rue to fire again nge juice hurled after it! Or the instant La Rue sensed his ridge was a small, slot-lik- e ands frat Jass, hemmed by sandstone walls Men crouched in their saddles, like plight he would close on him like nee, from odd formation. Wind-erode- d a trapped animal There was Monte wolves crouching for the throat leap sees it pipes stood up echo of La Rue s to consider To bring battle over In the walls the resounding like they against say fingers or Bat shot there came a rattle through the roans side now would mean stalag-tnite- s REGAINED ME.MORY AND fire. Their feet rested in talus the pass, like machine-gu- n certain death to the helpless Monte Howard RIGHTS . . . Rajah Kumar rom the walls man the the Meanw'hile at curve of banks forward, above, shooting Doane spurred Narayan Roy of India, of the canon might have the presrock that had fallen low over the saddle, the gun a livwho was believed to have died Oown. One to hit for of mind ence high ground. end of the tiny, desert-orme- d Fierce exulta ervini, and been burned on funeral pyre, ing thing in his hand. No Seconds of time were suddenly pass could not be seen from tion filled conscious him. st his 12 years later regained his memthe other. Lying prone, r in thought; no time to consider This infinitely precious. ory and was awarded his propReining the roan, Doane could issue was forced He had declared Doane pried with his free boot hed erty rights. He reported that rain oar the against the roan That was the leg rattle of shod hoofs echo- himself clearly; La Rue understood had put out the fire and brought m wound bullet the the with thigh everal es between the walls. Monte moved Here somehow, between desert A him out of coma and that for He soft groan escaped his lips one S1de. lrkins BABY-TH- EN Rose-ma- n halted the floor walls, was marked the end of a NOW AND . They . . When in DROPPER EYE Richard years he wandered as a beggar of the pushed with all his strength The about pass. No words. over India. The Lord Privy counwas born in 1913, he weighed just 24 ounces. Doctors fighting to long, long trail. an ich or foot two gave Doane s gaze was fixed on cil now has ruled that he is the as shown save the life of the tiny mite fed him with an Monte Garcias lightning weapons trapped the jammed tighter than before nd of the white over owner of a huge estate smiled an was in a Monte incubator. He is left. Richard at flashed. rightful MotionlToday, kept strapping Waiting. his Doane doubled over. With I in the ess He was pass. with a yearly income. of 40 pounds, of sturdy body and man a figure of steel, steely teeth that held his reins. The two muscles. young hands he to and began fingers i,f,njmone hsmd, muzzle slightly rode into twice the fire they gave! scrape under the leg pebbles, red 3ir filled roar The blue color of the roan a terrible rf Punctuated, rocks and sand. to get the afternoon The echo light added to the the narrow desert pass. He fought silently and desperatert, the fusion. Not long to wait rebounded on the walls and seemed Seconds took on the time dimenly, yourg n to vibrate m the rock and fantastic sions of moments. mounts rounded Gradually he the od, of pipes and turn. As was scooping out a tiny depression swiftly spade bits checked formation s film tnem, brutally threw the saddle A horse reared high, toppling under the leg But time was passlay t' e to haunch. foremore he strained Suarez, backwards a uch ing. Time' Once Dor ten seconds riders sat saddle man for Tres Hermanos, suddenly to pull free Then Montes soft hiss 74 hardly wthout movement. It was as quivered in every muscle and reached his ears: "a his Is '4 He the waUs of the Pass bad slipped sidewise from his saddle. "Coming' Hes coming!" gram, suddenly closed in and shut these hit earth face down. Men shouted was maniacal strength in There enre seven rtf frorn AnLike a wild thing in flashes. the rest of the world in body Doanes total happened Things oane s voice was A free La Rue took tore he went brittle as breaka unmanageable trap, irtens other horse aSS dawn through the man reeled to foot and fell half snap aim at a suddenly exposed calnS four Pass Doane was across Suarez. La Rue left the sad- arm or shoulder.bootBut torn from half with m the hail foot untouched the name of the dle seemingly loose, laMrrenderin him It was a single gesinto before Monte . plunged . it lead of ' A harsh Bo A--! S laugh answered him. The Doanes field of vision. The white ture that turned him on his belly, , sto7 stance was too up. his to on coming lips. crawling, great plainly smile still tarf. features. For an instant Gun in hand, crouched, he leaped Racket of confusion. eous Roaring aae wondered how he knew K. ? tr a y i out! that mad y . - a animals gone sod hoofs on rocks, of two came guns were be beThe had lightning heard -j of the it bark terrible ? for The fast, e hks "be sound roused some slow, Dust. as one It was a single last echo , over all. Tle roared through the pass, crash- aaa ff lr,,P an6er in him. It was something guns that i, happened wnth a rapidity isUnctive Things the walls Then one man on ing POTATO BLOSSOM QUEEN , . . to iere- BATTING FOR HAY FEVER SUFFERERS . . . Full war on ragweed, So its you, huh? followed the that the mind struggled grasp.No fought against falhng, trying des-- 1 which Miss Yvette Gagne, Van Buren, of hay fever victims, was sed the of miseries most for is blamed e up the his Doanes cut thigh. weapon up A bullet canon. perately to bring who was chosen from Me., rJ. e voice opened in Brooklyn as a campaign got underway to eradicate the weed numbing concussion Just as he toppled the gun 15 some brought instant recog-uo- n pain; just the middle again. luxurious a queen candidates and ero. growth shows lots. Photo in vacant city employees spraying of the next xhg significance of it was of it In the exploded, throwing dust against his crowned .Maine potato bloosona In six to itaf. a with dichlorophenoxyaeetic. weeds herbicide, of the under pesty roan wince boots the unrnng The own stiffly tilting of spraying. speaker was Star La stride he felt or queen by Gov. Horace Hildreth said Monte eight weeks, treated plants die from a .01 per cent solution "Gracias a Dios! him. The animal collapsed, hurtling festival at lloulton, Maine, now is A of during control of possible. ragweed Complete tumult of Garcia softly. And his eyes closed. broke in over, rolling with the momentum BE CONTINUED) are s bram. thought ;TO He remembered the fall. . . . ure, less ei-- y d, lob-head- ra slash-edge- d r, d sej-Jo- Hard-ridde- as- v. lob-head- s. ani-sna- is one-tim- $? : dis-gu.- , . . -- ' 51 z I r |