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Show the weekly reflex reli t had Wn hi ' IMI ranRpbrJ iwmes. W hats become of her motber, facade Cum,, Kentucky him. conu-letel- of She's putting In the winter or the coavt." , leot of the m.,,, W!,s still lmu I reckon she's got Judzu'.i-n,- ' Change,!, Jones .,w that the inner subl Kentucky. confidence was gone, if the qual-tie1 be foreman which had nude him shrugged tu m Hlv the tit hss of a hard held and fore, er re more can call It Judgment. It lo k like a runout, to me" s stant range were n. uit through at tukod the root. himself, already sorry foi "hat he had sald.r'He tried We may ns well toi;,, get some shut and made It worse, lin-i- t e, I guevt," CjLmpo said. One of Imi t anybody means any better H, u you fellers Heifer turn out In the Mrs. Ragland does; It's Ju-- tin! morning and load the stove. somehow she does'UaUlto cattle I iu a pot buster. Kentm ky of- I guess." fered. I.eave breakfast to me" "Looks like Jean would have AH right. Might's well turn into with her? ack s bunk, then. "Joan takes nfter her fath, r. I e. Alone In the little lean to room Bishop said. "This busted up conn off the kitchen where Za, k had try is bred Into her blood an bone Kentucky Jones sat for a lit Shos a true Ragland. Ther, - beer tie while on the bunk, and smoked Ragland final cigarette, it was time to funning rattle on Woli Boiu-since the first le g lion take stock of what lie knew. I B0W wlli;t, o;i( 'u WN synopsis . wicy J?" Vt. m fi )W Campo Ragland, Hook ranch, where mypoftd t k aurreptltloualy mt STXT. cowman, th mti bullet which had having abstracted rlng the In. Vd. on goe to work aJoh ranch- - The verdict la Bob Elliot, owner Sck. adjoining the Bar tk1 uw Jean pasa thean alter"(-A- i ha Wi lTath. TO taiiXi atari, an ? ' CHAPTEB III Hn 3 Mwh, a of three . tcMnda the light filled the room the f08r lamps 14 ! Struck RAGLAND k.upo Ught-l- l f the riders likewise Kentucky Waterman, from atead-- r ltd poshed his horse down closed u darkness Hook Bar peo the erertaken Kli, in ae, h,i Lf Atom . U. SLIlVlCt Jeanr Jean Raglands voice could hardr rjthered was built of big be heard. Some ones been ly Interior the but logs; through the bouse." i) aeat "Been through the house? Riband said, .Theres no e "Ransacked It through and aide." And Kentucky noticed I" through fell which In they t add wJ Iler- - fatber'-fet- the "vblg spoon a If I moment;' Jean aod oncommou thing that a splash Into the coffee pot iiboald not spring Into being and turned, throwing the light Into the fatoSel on Itself,' at a deserted room beyond, and for a moment stood In and ther together daughter .4 at what the the said staring doorway, see," Ragland Campo joi Emtacky, "we generally have a others could not see. Then, slowt iroond here; lately Its been ly, with a curious uncertainty, Cammoved1 out of their Sm hoy named Zack Sanders, po Ragland but his horse sight Jean followed him with the ted ts be i rider, him into lamp. 2 m kin and turned cook But this boy is kind of Kentucky Jones, with the others, went to the door through which seems. on It us, Biasing had disappeared. Campo Bee missing long? The room was long and broad. In List week be was supposed to it two days oft, and he rode over one end a huge fireplace with a opening was built of rugged see a girl he has over here chunks of the native rock, and near irty. forty mile," Ragland said, a secdidnt notice It so much Satur-7- , this Campo stood, holding up ond lamp. the be didnt come In, that You're They heard him say, at the day that this this a eclit. about no theres question at happened to Mason. But In right; ' Jim Humphreys said. "Is there iteraaa today hla girl said he jre-he- o .. rt-f- or as- run six-fo- ts 't there Saturday inn Thats anything . vye can" a quick Ragland shot them he had If as momentarily glance, Lee up," alone. not was he that Aoy granted. forgotten I he said "Oh, 1 suppose so." guess," "Its much, nothing Campo Rag-i- d has voice. in This Jerked himself Into a dump rocky activity all right Thats been tla, and began searched,' wood throwing the great atOTe. all Walt back, you la a little while Jim Humphreys and Billy Peterthe big stove be-- a le fill the room with a lazy sen returned to the kitchen. At the Jones turned rath, and the hot smoky amell doorway Kentucky in a final moment a stood and beef Hjlng for and potatoes began thaw the He saw room. main of the riders out. With the survey nlng warmth the mood of Ragland pass on Into the next room. j Bar Hook changed, so that for Jean moved to follow him. Then suddenly the girl stopped It eould have been any bote anywhere and stood rigid. Following her eye, except that pesenee of Jean Jones saw at once what Kentucky Ragland made Efface here. That girl could she was looking at On the wall hung a cheap picchange the time and place, rag It different from ture frame, perhaps ten Inches In any other home aod Its dimension, made of narlonger any other night And It was distinrow wood. dark rode for 5wby Book without from other picture frames feeling that guished ns h that there was no picfact the part riding for thin by Jf day gone." HiH probably w. sun-up- ahow 11 X k CO. I t5l her now, Kentucky "0t hve guc9se1 that kaHU testified concerning ,thit hd occurred within that ?8 d00r! t w thTf ibdtif,f 111086 VTIled Proceedings t0 thleT the evldcnce of tn ant I1 M com here to find out f the ,hdow ed ,t9elf 0n the ck kad "Hta 17 the that r nook hem nd ini 6Dkt Jone wZZfS .vMOp,e of k,d. Jim 'Phrev. nWthan &8honn'7 Bve Jear ld PerhaP he a ! Billy Peter- ai tha eBsentll to outfit, whoDSt glven the Arable fchs l!Jbt her! . rtborsewranXllng 1 S?d errands which taS'Ban'a remained Keotuck7"iL?d mak ,boot him Saf Cmpo keel 'V enugh. Sander around bid h.n11 ont lroady h u mi, silent NTS . ,e'n '" L ,st- - out what to breakfast, I l8ke Car k:5' bw ri'SiiS Xo k ,n want sleep,. ently picked ohedi op a ture In It Jean Ragland set her lamp down, stepped forward and jerked the empty frame from the wall For a moment she stood Irresolute, glanc- j ! -- ason turned upon the involvement Jean. The foundation of the tjdng was, of course, the f.ut t h it hn Mason w dyad, shot tioiu1 the saddle witinn ti'ty yards of ;U-lands door us le arrived from the 'S on Bob L! tot's pinto horse .lean ugland had stolen ftom the evidence the bullet that bad killed Ma son and the sheriff probably ha the mate to that bullet, fpon tins foundation now rested a miscellany of puzzling and unrelated detail. A Iar Hook rider had lied about then- there's alwa.vs too; though untl Well, !!iot, took beer - Imn 'ar Pbot Bob . v 1 , greater-pressur- I pea n i iv iliatlon ts pi cdoutinniulv-lleiletii- instead of Semitic. The fall of Rome itself may be explained by Iht eptdemitS wlinli lavageil Italy from the First century to the Sixth ccntuiy, tor "it would lie Impossible to maintain permanently a political and social oigamatlon of the type and magnitude of Rome In the face of complete lack of modern sanitary knowledge." The (,'nisaders were balktd by epidemics more decisively than by the Saracens; In 10PS a Vhristi.m" army of Rod, non melted In a year to LO.tHK), ami If one would lead the details of ' their shkness ami still keep an apimtlte for luncheon he needs to be a doctor. he Thirty Years war was blown this way nnd that like tho damned souls In Dante, by deadly epidemics; dys entery. In a decisive campaign, threw victory to the French revolution, e -- Coleman A SHOW-PLAC- YOU it f. 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But Bob Elliot must bave known that the brand which held this range would defend It bitterly; and thts land had been Bar Hook graze for COSH. DIZZY, a long time. A why Bob Elliot put on Perhaps, Kentucky Jones considered, Bob Elliott could not wholly be blamed. It was hard to withhold all sympathy from a man making a stubborn fight In the face of a But it seemed to him crush-ou- t that there was something grossly unnatural about the manner In which the move was being made. In Elliots position almost any enemy of Ragland might hare been a gradual In,fpected to attempt Hook Bar range. filtration of the But this sudden, openly hostile mass move was Jlke nothing Jones bad ever seen. The - a wl f ty ..too u n eq u I Vi. 1 thing' was wx-faced. bald ocal, too Can the Bar Hook stand It, Lee?" 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Campo Ragland had contracted to ship five carloads of two year old steers to a southern feeder, bnt although the cars were already waiting on the Waterman siding, the gather and cut for the shipment still lacked many head. The two other Bar Hook cowboys Harry Wilson and Joe St. Marie had come In from Waterman during the night; and with this full force Campo him self jumped Into the job of finishing the work In a day. After breakfast Kentucky Jones made an opportunity to familiarize himself with the scene of Masons I suppose," he asked Lee death. Bishop, "thats the pump house? The "Yeah, that stone dump. Is Mason about found I where place s southwest lie three was lying face down with his head this way, and I but 1 guess you heard all that' It worked out so I missed part of the inquest, Kentucky said. "Did It come out why Mason was riding from the 8S to the Bar Hook? Seems kind of funny the way things stand between the two brands." "Yeah, that was all thrashed out' Old Ironsides said Lee Bishop. was always a great hand to keep In touch with all comers of Wolf Bench; and he was Just making one of his regular circuits of the range. I heard 'he was riding one of Elliots plugs. "Yeah. His way of doing was to borrow some horse that could be counted on to go home by Itself, and at the next outfit borrow anon. This other such a horse, and horse." an 8$ was he riding time tea,-got that" Kentucky said. One of Bob Eliots top horses a big pinto, with white forelegs." So they said. We got to get gome arent ing, Kentucky. You and working with Campo today; theres a little Job over here we got to a low wrangle separate. Rope you horse." grade For a long time they rode In si nine Our lobby Is delightfully air cooled daring the summer months A Radio tor Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Oaths over from his old in a tin ss "as lust a kind of chicken u-- ' outfit. It's Bob that's ambitious Kentucky Jones decided to trv one of Ids shots In the dark ee ' h t have h casually, you one in on the fact that Ma-o- n was not killed at the time he w is sup posed to he? Lee Bishop turned to face Ken tinky Jones slowly. "How's tliii'-- ' lie said without expression. Let It go." said Jones. From the way jou t tlked at the Inquest. It seemed to me like yon didut'jolu in with the others In figuring that Mason was killed before the utiovv begun. 1 Lee Bishop responded said, that there wasn't no combatively, snow under him, didn't I?" ' vv t til'll b tinles. "You mean you grant that lie was to annihilate Napoleon's army plius dead before snow flew?" on its retreat from Moscow. The, foreman did not answer for Thus disease has decided more almost jt hundred paces. Tlieu. he s t ha n Uaesu r, 1 a tml ml hurst out with a sudden unaccus- ca id piug-nand (ieneial Jingle Naixdeon, tomed display of black temper. I'm tired of these here evei lasting breeches omits to retied that he they brave ns I.iiclfers, your soldiers can questions! I dont want to hash not fight when they are dead of disrids thing over no more, you boar It bis whereabouts t the hour of M.ison s death. A lame cowboy cook was missing from the Bar Hook Somebody had ransacked the Bar Hook ranch house, taking away a rifle and a picture out of the frame. Jean thought little of the disappearance of the rifle, much of the Unquestionably, lie needed more of the missing fragments before he could piece that picture to lether. In the meantime the range was thrown out of balance by the death of the cow financier. Bob Klliot, facing ruin, could save himself only Ragland over the edge in bis place. In one stride Kentucky , Jones hqd stepped, into a siMnitlon "'? , came now upon' n high out They of than any he had before encountered in an active point of the rim. At a glance the vast flats life. utterly devoid of Uow mens life. however, eyes, For what seemed a long time he could phk out here and there lay awake, while bis mind quarthe dark dots of sage and tered the case like a lion hound among cat claw other dots that were catfailed of the scent. Presently he tle. But what Interested the ridbecame aware that there was some ers on the rim was something else thing he had left undone. Without a greater concentration of cattle, striking a light lie opened a seam dark Irregular string of them long, In the lining of his coat and extractlying on the face of the desert like ed the bullet which Jean Ragland a hlarksnake whip. Into his hand that after had pres-eTh huh," said Lee Bishop. There He opened the window, and noon. you have It How many head would found that the snow was drifted you count that drive? here against the log wall. Kentucky May he twelve hundred," said Jones hesitated a moment more; Kentm ky. KS stock?" then flicked the bullet that had Sure theyre 88! You know now killed John Mason out Into the drifted snow. empty-frame- War U merely a gang tight be tween ieinnants of armies whnh have survived camp epidemics Ho mer's 1111111 opens with a pestilence ami so does Ibe Oedipus Ry," of mulct stood. Boston Globe, Sophocles, 'ibe plague at Athens clearly which slew lViUles may have col IV. Picrer Favorite Prencrintion lapsed the Athenian empire quit as weak women strong. No fcohol. makes Bold directly as the SU Ilian disaster. It by druggist in tablet or liquid. Adr. was an epidemic whUh turned hack ' Xerxes' Invasion ot (Reece; the dis' Human Trait eases which thwarted the Cartli.r Men like to w ot k Deprive them gniians in Sicily in HI ami !N5 B. i of It, nnd you soon find that out. contributed, by depriving them of that base against Italy, to rite lo tory of Rome in the Runic wars and thus to the result that lairo -- J show I'd. lie did not conceal from hlmsef that his Interest in (he nun dor of an Ind how long has Llliot? Factor, nt-ld- h ing quickly about her. Do you want me to wrangle that for yon, too?" said Kentucky from the doorway. For an Instant she stared at him, her eyes wide and hostile. It was surprising to him a little. That afternoon, at the Inquest, she had pressed-Into-bikeeping the bullet she had taken from the evidence. Bnt now he knew that she bad not elected him as her ally, ndr wanted more than momentary aid. Her fathers step sounded close at hand beyond the other door. Jean dropped the picture frame behind a wooden chest that stood against the wall, and picked up her lamp again as her father They went back Into the kitchen. Campo Ragland paused In the main room a moment to exchange the briefest sort of word with Jean. But his announcement was to all of them, At once. tKis ?enH nnsacket) Soruebixfya to the nature of their errand, as "Somedump," he told them slowly. bodys ransacked It good. There I dont know exactly what were ...... . rlflegone.,! here " the foreman- salt? We can spare a rifle, I guess, up" against said ranch to the Jean said sharply. Except for a at last; "I havent well be able I think man yet certain soberness, Kentucky was old It golngto bow about enable to make out In Jean'a face to tell Justwhen we get up here four, out any sign of the cold still terror he work miles. Ita made a beginning. five before. while had seen In It a little think." But he saw now that a change had What has?" said Kentucky. come over Campo Ragland, Campos wish "Youll .pretty soon see. I but face was stiffly expressionless; Theres of here. out was the eyes were those of a man lost to God Jean no better cattle woman anywhere In uncertainty. But this might not Kentucky Jones knew Campo to than Jean. her. pretty quick be typical of the Wolf Bench breed be a good place for of owners, a man as durable as the here." s Hi 1 Kentucky Jones moved efficiently about making ready for morning. Out In lonely camps upon the range these men would have got tlieir own breakfasts effortless, without thought; but here, where a cook was supposed to be, a cookless breakfast loomed as an ordeal un told. I wish I knew" Campo began ; he was ladling fresh coffee into a big pot with an enormous spoon I wish I knew " Suddenly he stopped, and stood staring, while from the poised spoon a thin trickle of dry coffee dribbled to the floor. Jean Ragland had returned, and was standing lu the broad doorway. She still carried the lamp, and Its sharp near light. Illumining her face remorselessly, showed that her features frere drawn by a hard and unaccustomed emotion. It took a moment or two for Kentucky Jones to realize that what he saw in the girls face was fear. For a moment no one spoke. Then Ragland said, very low, his coffee spoon still motionless, What which they Is It, kitchen wing In Ili'torv Itvca1s PtMiloiue as s LAN LEMAY noerlng nnd sanitary, services. , , . The only reason thills not apparent In wars Is because the military minds on both sides are too superb to nothe that both nrmies are simultaneously Immnbdlzed by the same diseases. Typhus, concludes Dr, Hans Zinsser, In his biography of that disease, entitled Rats, Lice and ,v has ist ns Just 'n History, r,reason to claim that It won the war ns any of the contending nations. 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