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Show THE; RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH INSTALLMENT 10 THE STORt SO FAR: , Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built up a vast string of ranches in the West King was killed by his powerful and unscrupulous competitor, Ben Thorpe. Bill Roper, Kings adopted son, Wag determined to avenge his death in spite of opposition by his sweetheart, Jody Gordon, and her father. Ropers successful raids against Thorpes Texas holdings wiped him out of the state. Roper then left for Thorpe's Montana ranches. Jody, told that her fathers life was in danger, left her home to ride 500 miles to warn him. Walk Lasham, manager of Thorpes holdings in Montana, saw Roper sitting alone and unarmed in a saloon one day. Gun in hand. Lasham prepared to kill his hated antagonist who was leading the rustler's war. once made his name. But though he was broken and helpless now, remnants of his leadership remained; his influence extended over many bands, and more than one I know it; in another couple of months their chuck wagons will be heading out, and the deep grass will be full of their riders. We have to move and move quick. It might be, Dry Camp Pierce declared himself, it just could be done. A hard gleam was coming into the old rustlers wary eyes. And if it can great God! Theres never been nothing like this! The others seemed to have had the breath knocked out of them by the unheard-o- f scope, the bold darcharing, the headlong acter of the plan. This is bigger than the Texas raids, Tex Long said wonderingly. This is bigger than anything has ever been! Suddenly Dave Shannon smacked his thigh with his huge hand. By God, I believe itll bust em! Over the pack of outlawed youngsters had come a wave of that fanatic enthusiasm which sometimes sways men as .they face the impossible, but Roper, strangely, was unable to share it. The great raid he had planned, all ivinter now seemed futile a plan senseless and tribe. I don't hold with dealing with red niggers, much, Dave Shannon said. These bucks are forced out of their ranges without any deal made whereby they get fed, Roper said. Half of them are in as pitiful a state of starvation as you ever saw. A big part of the blame for that is on Walk Lasham. Now I aim to square the Jeal. I already made us a rendezvous with Iron Dog, before I knew you were in on this, Bill Roper told CHAPTER XIII Continued them now. Inside of a month Iron But now the man Dog will be camped on the Milk Rivspoke suddenly; from his position er with anyway seven or eight at one side he had dared flick his bands. cold. Seven or eight bands! Tex Long eyes to the door. Walk, look out! said Lee Harnish, whats Dont turn! Watch this buzzard, but shouted at him. My God, therell the Bill, matter with you? You got chills be worse than a thousand Indians on and wheel back and stand by me! fever, or something? Into the front of the bar two men the Milk! spoke to Harnish alone, as Roper A thousand, 'hell! had come; they came striding back Roper said. if he had forgotten the others. That If there arent that many buck war- letter was from the length of the room; their spurs Jody Gordon, he ringing brokenly. Roper did not see riors alone, Ill eat the beef myself! said. The men in this little cabin were their guns come out. But suddenly Bad news, son? the weapons of both of them ap- not easily surprised, and less easily I dont know. She wants me to peared in their hands, smoothly and come to Ogallala. easily, from no place. When? The two men were Lee Harnish Now right away, and Tex Long. What for? Does she say?. Tex Longs .45 clicked in the palm She says she needs me; she says of his hand as it came to full cock. she needs me bad, and right away. He said, Howdy, Bill. A spic girl I guess shg does, all right. If she just brought us word. Dave ShanI dont believe shed ever didnt, non and Hat Crick Tommy are up write, to me. the street. And Dry Camp Pierce." The faces of the wild bunch ridGosh, Lee Harnish said, weve ers were expressionless, noncommitbeen hunting you for two months! tal; Roper knew they wouldnt have You want us to blast these Indians, much to say. They were youngsters boss? still all except Pierce; but their Bill Roper drew a deep breath, faces were carved lean and hard by and grinned. At first he could not long riding, and a lot of that riding even appreciate that here, at last, had been for him. were the leaders he heeded for his He stood up, shaking his shoulders. great raid. All he could think of Catch up your ponies. was that he had been reprieved from We pulling out? Tonight yet? certain death; and he knew that life You bet your life we are. Ought was good. to make Red Horse Springs by midnight. XIV . CHAPTER And after that, Harnish said slowly, what is it, Bill? Is it OgalThe tribute implied by the lala? of the wild bunch leaders was Once more the silence, while they one of the most extraordinary things waited for Bill. that had ever happened in Bill RoIts the raid, Roper said. pers life. There was not much to their story. Driven out of Texas on CHAPTER XV the eve of Bill Ropers victory, for Now I aim to square the deal. a while they had gone their separate Lew Gordon came stumping across ways. But gradually they had drift- shocked or awed; but their usually the corral of his little Miles City ed together again, in the Indian na- unrevealing faces now gave them house, his spurs ringing at every tions, at Dodge, in the northern cow away. stride. His big hands, Dave Shannon God Almighty! camps. With Cleve Tanner broken and thickened at the knuckles, in Texas, and the roots cut from said. It was almost a prayer. loose at his but his swung under Ben Thorpes organization by Hes done it now, Hat Crick face had the look of asides; beset. man You know the loss of his breeding grounds, the Tommy said slowly. Opening the back door of the outlaw riders found themselves un- what happens when you throw that house he sent a great roar through willing to leave their work unfinmany loose Indians together? You the walls Jody! Jody, where are ished. So at last they had come got a war on your hands, by God! you? looking for Roper and had found Theyll come whooping down Monanswered him, and Lew Gortana theyll tear the country wide donShewent him. to find her. The first thing was to get them out open! The whole frontier will 'go up the meaning of this? was Whats of there. He named as rendezvous a in a bust of smoke. Nothingll ever his as his daughter came greeting stop em, once they get together like running to him through lonely shanty on Fork Creek. the house. Roper himself was the last to ride that! You were supposed to stay in OgalOne thing will. out of Miles City. Not one of his men lala! What win? could be trusted not to get a skinful Jody threw her arms about his of liquor, and go gunning for Lash-am- s "Grub, said Roper. and pulled his head down to neck That might be so, Dave Shan- kiss men on his own hook. but Lew Gordon was not him; I never yet see an to be Roper was relieved, therefore, non admitted. off. put upon riding into the Fork Creek ren- Indian go to war on a full stom- . That horse wrangler just brought dezvous in the dreary February twi- ach me word that you was here, he A tensity had come into that dark light,' to find his Texas men already Theres a pretty kettle of were now that said. when cabin; they realizing waiting for him there. some horse soap, Lee : Harnish - looked sheepish. they Stood in the shadow of events of knows more about where wrangler a mans not dreamed. Sey, I forgot something. I got a a magnitude they had is at than he knows himdaughter In the quiet, Bill Ropers hands kept self! letter, for you here. Roper took the worn envelope and creasing and recreasing the letter Dad, will you please sit down? stood' turning it over in his hands. from Jody Gordon. A faint dampI tell you, I want to talk to you! The date showed it to be three weeks ness showed on his forehead, but Lew Gordon all right. Oh, old no great age, everything con- his fingers acted cold and awkward. into a chair, jabbed his spurs flopped Theres five of us here, Tex into the floor at sidered. But what took hold of him, long range, and You expect us to just so that for a full minute he dared Long said. off another huge mouthful of tore not break the seal, was that the suddenly feed every Indian in crea- beef. tion? letter was from Jody Gordon. There are two pieces of bad riders wait- news, Ive got twenty-seve- n Roper ripped open the envelope. Jody said now. First thing, The whole note covered no more ing to throw in with us at the first Ben has cut under us in Thorpe than half a page; but as he folded word. for the government conthe bidding n Twenty-severiders? Where? it and put it into a pocket, his hands at Dodge. All over Montana. What do you tracts, were shaking. A spark leaped into Lew Gordons , With a visible effort, Roper think I did all winter? Holed up like eyes; under the pressure of the last pulled himself together. Briefly he a two years he had turned edgy and Silence again, while they all studtold them what his new wild bunch garrulous, as if his mind had be- had done. ied Roper. come hasty on the trigger, now that How many you figure to move? But we havent even scratched his hands were idle. I might have Unless Tex Long asked at last. the surface, he finished. known it! his big voice boomed. we hit Walk Lasham quick and hard, Ropers voice was so low they Those infernal BeThorpe will get his balance again, could hardly hear his words. The loss of those contracts is goand reach his roots back into Texas; tween twenty and thirty thousand ing to hurt, Ive Jody said; and all the work we did down there head. the books up into fair shape, brought his hat against and it looks to me as if Tex Long threw will go for nothing. Theres no one beyond the bor- the roof poles in a gesture of com- is starting the worst year in hisder thats needing any stock, Dry plete impatience. Dead of winter, tory. If the losses go on piling up he said; maybe having to fight the way they are Camp Pierce said gloomily. Dry Camp, Bill Roper said, part of the time; why, thirty-fort- y Jody Gordon came and sat on the Im thinking of the tribes. cowboys couldnt drive arm of her fathers chair. There We dont have to handle this was a man rode up to Ogallala from There was a moments silence. Granting that Canadas full of war stock like fat beef, Roper remind- Dodge City, she said. He brought paint, Tex Long said; how the ed him. We dont have to pull up some very peculiar news, and I dont devil for quicksand, or stampede losses, like it at all. to Iron talked or high water. If a hundred head If that renegade Colorado outfit Dog. Ive Lew GorEvery one of them, each in his get swept down a river, what the think theyre going to own way, pricked up his ears at hell? Some different Indians will get don began. This was a Bill Roper man, that. Iron Dog was a famous war- hold of em downstream. Working rior chief of the Gros Ventre Sioux. that way, hard and fist, thirty cow- Jody said. Lew Gordon checked as suddenly Ragged and starving, his decimated boys 'can move ever head in Mon.as if he had been struck across band driven far out of their home tana! Were terrible short of time, the face. country, Iron Dog no longer was the (TO BE CONTINUED) f stubbornly resisting force which had Tex Long said, . scar-mouth- ed i mias f, acmum s information on various subjects -- The Answer .The Quettione 1. How many years is a chiliad? 2. Why do many Orientals re- move their spectacles when talking with another person? 3. What peninsula comprises Spain and Portugal? 4. Which is the highest waterfalls in the world? 5. 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