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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH JACKSON GREGORY GREGORY THE STORY SO FAR: Ann Lee and Cole Cody, beneficiaries under two Identical wills of Old BUI Cole, songbt to discover who had fired the fatal bullet at Old BUI. Suspicion centered around Ranee Waldron, who posed as Old BUls nephew, and was Uving at the ranch when Ann and Cody arrived. Doc Joe and the Judge were returning to town from the ranch (each with a wUl In his pocket for safekeeping) when they were waylaid and shot by a masked bandit whom they recognized as Ranee Waldron. To divert suspicion. Ranee kUled his accompUce, Tom Gough. Cal Roundtree had discovered Old Doc Joe still Uved. Now continue with the story. Mean-whU- W.dU. RELEASE made them each a bow; he kissed first Jenifers hand, then Ann Lees. Ladies! he exclaimed throati-ly- , his face red. I never thought anything could make a man so happy! It would have been worth it to be dead for sure, just to know that you cared like you do! Aunt Jenny! cried Ann Lee. Listen! cut in Cody. Doc Joe wants us to hide him a little longer; for only a few minutes or a few hours, I dont know. He knows a lot about Ranee Waldron; hell tell you what it is. And while we didnt know where Waldron had gone, he knew and was having him watched all the time. And he knows that Waldron is on his way right now to the ranch and ought to be here any minute. So its up to us to get Doc Joe under cover in a hurry, then be ready for Waldrons coming. Thats it, my boy, thats it! said Doc Joe hurriedly. I dont want any beans spilled until I do the spilling. Get me out of sight, can you, ladies? Ill try to do a mite of explaining to you while we wait. And that Waldron dog will be showing up in a jiffy. Hes not to know e, CHAPTER XVIII i Those were the days when Ann Lee remained in the big, still old house. She moved softly through the dim rooms, the shades drawn against the glowing outside heat. She trailed her fingertips along table tops, along the backs of chairs; she walls smoothed the with a palm of her hand. I love she sometimes you, Old House, alone when whispered quite And it was in the patio of early mornings and in the summer magic of the long, lingering twilights that Ann Lee and Bill Cole Cody grew into the pleasant habit of meeting, to speak little, to dwell in a warm awareness of each other that was a glow like that lying about them over the hills and valleys; sometimes they looked at each other, each seeking what lay deep down in the others eyes, a little searching their own hearts. Aunt Jenifer spied on them at times from a safe, secret distance, then went her quiet way smiling. Thus they had been sitting on a particular evening, with even fewer words and with longer glances between them than ever before, when three occurrences burst upon them with the effect of sudden, unrelated and unexpected explosions. They had heard no sound of footsteps, so enwrapped were they in the concerns of their world which at the' moment was far away from their immediate surroundings as was the star from which the girls eyes came now so swiftly to try to read through the what was written shadowy half-ligon his face, when of a sudden o stood before them. Don Codito! he burst out in some tremendous excitement. Come quick! For the love of God, Senor, come as fast as lightning! No, no, no! Not the senorita! You are to come alone. You wont believe it I cannot tell you it is a miracle, Don Codito! Are you drunk, Porfirio? Cody struck the way lightning snapped Cody. strikes. I Porfirio caught him by the sleeve and fairly heaved him up from his Im alive until I can up and tell place at the girls side and willy-nill- him hes as good as dead. Wherell short of a fight, Cody had to we go? accompany him some few steps. Int0 our rooms! said Aunt Jeni-Tnen Porfirio began whispering in fer, and started leading the way. his ear; and then Cody understood Thats the safest place. Then she and went willingly enough, hurrying said, Shush! and all stood at eager and glad that tention, straining their ears. Through one sequence of a a the silence which shut down about farcical one at that, was at an end, them they heard distinctly the thud At the darkest corner of the house of hoofbeats not too far away. where a great live oak almost swept Hurry along, said Cole Cody. the ground with its lower branches Ill be in the main room. If its Porfirio brought him to Doc Joe. Ranee Waldron, Ill find out what When almost immediately Cole I he wants. Lee Waldron wanted the ranch bauk 2 I he found her and meant to have it and 2. . pathless, , already I I counted it as r as to sbgb his good have body lI0j at her rigidly held, her hands and to hold or to coin into good ner cmn lifted, her eyes onsides, the hard money and toss where he liked, stars, fane hadn t known that he the way the wind tosses dead leaves. Por- He didnt knock; why should he, flrwle!i!ninn!in? back - coming home, returning to his own had starfill? aPPearanfe her, she was vaguely frightened He shoved the door open and and for some reason her heart place? strode in; his thumbs were cocked into his belt, his hat was far back Ann! Something wonderful! Lis- - on his thatch of were hair, his ten, Arm don t let it bowl you over, bright and arrogant as eyes con-lome tnto the house; quick. And descended to traffic with they Bill Cole get Aunt Jenifer. Theres some- - Codys. thuig I want to tell both of you; He was riding gauntlets, it s just about the most wonderful new, ornatewearing and expensive ones. His hands looked white and well cared . . the hands of a gambler whose i , Aunt Jenifer s appearance must for, fingers knew each card in the deck. oT,?i?ked f malc; there she He drew his gauntlets off, whipped ey haad hi hand, them against his leg, tossed them with his hat to the big ,lampiighted bvi.ng ,room- ne f A2n s hands along sat down in the old com-fer- q and Inl?an table then Aunt dni fortable chair before the Lt00k fireplace. time-darken- ht Por-firi- y, I tragi-comed- y, Rce I atR; wa?Pmg- I I ,rae T SS eager hewa, she.aTd All right. Cole. Its something to surprise us, but we wont be silly about it, especially since its pond news. We can take heaps of that Ann and I. When he told them, Aunt Jenifer sat down right in the middle of the floor; Ann reached out and clung -- tight to him and didnt seem to note that he had an arm about her. Then Doc Joe came in. Jenifer scrambled to her feet and kissed him. Ann Lee deserted Cole Cody and put both arms about Doc Joe and gave him a mighty hug. - DOC Jo. h youre a fool, Cody, for sticking around in any hope of catching any few drops that might spill out over the top of the bucket. Because, if you listen to me, there wont be any drops spilled over. It might be a good time if you tucked your tail between your legs and got out of here. You havent any claim here, Its common knowledge, told in every saloon, that you had some sort of a trumped up will, a faked thing and that you havent even got that now. So you can get out in a hurry, Mr. Cody. Am I right? Cody swallowed. He answered very quietly, very slowly. Waldron, if Im taking a big dose of you now, youll know why later on. Suppose until time comes that you keep your mouth shut? Im not asking a lot; the breath of the thoughts you think stinks! Shut up! Waldron chose to laugh, and never was there a man who could put a nastier sneer into laughter which should be a pleasant thing and which can be detestable beyond most sounds. Its hard to swallow, huh, Cody? he jeered. Thought you had an edge on the situation, didnt you? Thought Id take it the way you dished it out! Thought that if you couldnt take it any other way, he said, and jeered, youd gobble it along with that nifty piece of that little cuddly, female thing Ann Lee, that a man can buy a dozen of in town " girl-me- sphericaL Art Aids Appetite Lord Woolton, British food admin-- : istrator, holds that art aids appetite) and favors mural decorations in res-- 1 taurants to improve appetites for1 wartime menus in which meat is! OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture. Files. Typewriters. Addins Machines. Safes. 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That witness he had, but he knew that only later. It was Ann Lee who had stolen from the room in which Doc Joe and Aunt Jenifer, two sentimental old fools, were explaining and talking and blinking against fat tear drops; a tremulous Ann Lee who was wondering where a certain William Cole Cody William, she thought; that must be his real naipe; the name his mama and papa gave him' had betaken himself. She heard and she saw, and she nearly dropped dead, hearing and seeing. Now as Bill Cole Cody had leaped forward and the watchful Ranee Waldron had leaped back to be out of his reach, Waldron fired and Cody struck again and little Ann tried to scream and tried to shut her eyes, and could do neither. In a sort of trance she saw how it was that Bill Cody struck: Not with his fist this time, since that would have been too late; but as a bullet clipped through a loose fold of his sleeve, he struck with his whole body, launching himself like a long lean catapult with bullets ripping the air where he had been a split second before. And as his feet left the floor and he became a sort of giants arrow in horizontal flight, and his head struck Ranee Waldron in the middle, his long arms with those tremendously gripping hands of his grappled with the man he sent toppling and crashing to the hard-striki- . TRAILERS pink-and-whi- te for' BODILY :ii(li!i!t TOP PRICES PAID a glass For Used Cars and House Trailers MOTOR & FINANCE CO. 702South Main W.N.U. Wed 02 No. 4328 container are bright enough to illuminate a large room for a night photograph, the liquid has no perceptible heat emission, and ice cubes may be floated in il without effect. 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Ann Lee saw the blood and thought he was surely dead, and came run- ning; shed grab Ranee Waldron's guns and shoot him all to pieces! a f rePWe a Slght taran' ?f ?he But no intercession was heeded. a say ? rattlesnake, of any spilled back on the floor spider or snake with some men . As Waldron hl8 guaa fl can move a man 2.1?. it s a naked out. his hands; Cody, though with one eye tremendously, shooting into his blood a turbulence which may be com- - dimmed coald see (that. The other m Jts rief Pounded of abhorrence, of fear, of ,to bIow 1113 but Cody s hand of sheer animalism, of a tangle hate, aldron8 ?f Complex instincts. 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