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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA. UTAH T. HOTEL BEN LOMOND OGDEN, UTAH Dusty King and Lew Cordon had built up vast string of ranches in the West. King was killed by his powerful and unscrupulous competitor, Ben Thorpe. Bill Roper, King's adopted son, was determined to avenge his death in spite of the opposition INSTALLMENT 11 THE STORV SO FAB: of his sweetheart, Jody Gordon, and her father. Daring raids upon Thorpe's Texas holdings wiped him out of the state. Roper then prepared for a great raid upon the vast herds on Thorpes Montana ranches. Several thousand Indians had gathered near Yes, mam, I kind of did, I guess; and I got to be getting on there, Miss Gordon. If youll just give me any message you want me to take. Id sure like to be pulling out of here, before All right. You be here with two good horses just after dark." If you could just as leave give me the message now, Id sure like to There is no message. Im going Shoshone Wilce. with you to Bill Roper. Wilce! I know that name. I know Shoshone Wilce looked like a man it well. Id rope and drag him in a entrapped. I cant do it! Your fasecond, if I caught him talking to ther I iust wont do it. Miss Gor- CHAPTER XV Continued When Lew Gordon spoke, his voice was so quiet that its very stillness carried threat of imminent destrucBill Roper sent a man to tion. you?" I didnt say that. Hes a man who was with Bill Roper in the Texas Rustlers War; he doesnt 6eem to be in the Montana raids." Who was it? Lew Gordon rumbled. Whats his name? you! This man has talked with Ben Thorpe in Dodge," Jody told her A lot of strange news is father. working down to Thorpe from up here in Montana. Some bands of rustlers are slashing up and down Montana throwing lead and leather into the Thorpe outfits under Lash-am- ; they say hes badly hurt already nobody will know how badly until the winter breaks. Her father waited, his eyes angry. The word from Dodge explains is half the trouble that Thorpe up against, Jody said. cant believe that one lone cowboy, deserted by everyone who should have been his friend, could manage to smash his Texas holdings, and go on to cut away his herds in Montana. He thought that we were backing Billy Roper in the Texas Rustlers War. And he believes that were backing him now. Well? Lew Gordon said. You mean to say you came all this way to tell me that? Ben Thorpe means to kill you. Lew Gordons face showed no change of expression. But he did not reply at once. I dont doubt it, he said at last; what would you expect? You bring war into a range and anybody is likely to go down. Jodys face was white. You know whats at the bottom of all the trouble were having," her You know as well as father said. I do that two years of nothing but trouble lays square at the door of Bill Roper. Jody sprang up to face him. I certainly do not know anything of the kind! she answered him. Lew Gordon stared at her. Its an everlasting shame upon the cow country that Dusty Kings killers are still in their saddles. I tell you, Billy Roper is the only man Ive seen with courage enough King-Gordo- All right. Ill make the ride by myself. Hey, look! You cant Bill Roper isnt going to like this, Wilce. Shoshone studied her searchingly, but found nothing to reassure him. It was in his mind that this girl would do exactly as she said. My n to And now her father angered as she had seldom seen him anger. Youll tell me nothing! he roared. Roper! Im sick of hearing his name a dirty outlaw whelp that knows nothing but kill and burn and raid! Jodys eyes narrowed and filled with tears. "You may as well know The day this, she told her father. that Billy Roper dies I want to die too. For a moment Lew Gordon seemed bewildered; he stared at his daughter as if the devil had come up through the floor. The girl who faced him was entirely strange to him. He heard her say, If you had stayed by him, as Dusty King would have done, Thorpe would have been whipped and through, long ago. he said queerly, what Child, are you talking about? If youd only take Billy Roper back into Thatll never happen while I live, her father said flatly. A silence fell between them, presently broken by the girl. He asked me to ride with him once, when he first took the outlaw trail. I wish I had. To the last day I live. Ill wish Id ridden with him then. And now Ill tell you something more. If ever he asks me again, Ill go. For several moments he stared at her, more shaken than he had been since the death of Dusty King. Then his face congested, and he rose up on his boot heels to tower over the girl. By God, he aaid, his voice unsteady with the repression he put upon it, that closes the deal! Ive kept my riders off him because of Dusty King, and I let him run on and on, rousing up a range war that has close to busted But when it comes to tampering with you its the end! Im through, you hear me? He caught up his battered sombrero, and his spurs rang as he turned toward the door. Dad, what are you going to do? Thorpe has a reward on Bill Ron is going to pers head. double that reward. He went storming out, his face black and violent with portent of war. For several moments Jody Gordon stood motionless where he had left her. Then she turned and went out of the house to the long shedlike stable. Shoshone Wilce was loitering there in the shadow of the rear wall, an uneasy and restless figure. Did you find out where Billy Roper can be reached? Jody King-Gord- ' King-Gordo- King-Gordo- don!" n. the Canadian border to take every beef that was driven across. Shoshone Wilce, one of Roper's men, told Jody that her father' life was in danger, so she rode to warn him. He was surprised to see her so far from home. easy throw together three hundred head in a couple of days. That gives us a nice bunch of anyway two thousand. The more the better but with two thousand weU make our drive. They slept that night under the slowly falling snow. Roper himself made coffee and routed out his riders two hours before the first light. They caught their horses in the dark, with hands that fumbled the stiffened ropes; then split off in pairs to comb the range. For two days Roper watched the enemy camp while the snow held on, piling a deeper and deeper mat; then on the third day he returned to the rendezvous as the roundup men began straggling in. Tex Long was the first one back. This range is plumb solid with stock, Tex declared. How many head do you figure me and Kid Johnson scraped up, just us two? Well, Roper grunted, upwards of a dozen I should hope. Better n six hundred head! Lord Almighty, Bill! Figuring theyre worth twenty dollars apiece, and allowing that all the other boys do as good, were liable to get out of here with around eighty thousand dollars worth of cattle! You realize that? But Roper was thinking of the letter in his pocket; the appeal of a girl who needed him in some unknown way, and who did not even know why he couldnt come. All the next day they worked to throw the little bunches together into a trail herd. Not all of them had done as well as Tex Long and Kid Johnson, but most of them had done well enough. And then, at last, the first herd privateered in the Great Raid began to roll. A long unsteadily moving river of cattle poured northward, a dark welter in the thinning fall of the snow. White-facemostly, blocky and heavy, well wintered on the prairie hay Roper counted two thousand six hundred s, odd! Pressed hard by the heavy force of cowboys, the cattle bawled but I'd sure like to be pulling out of here, before life aint worth a nickel, either he almost whimpered. You be here with the horses, Jody said. She turned and went into the Wilce house, leaving Shoshone standing unhappy and uncertain, ankle deep in the wet snow. way, CHAPTER XVI Pattern No. 8962 Is In sizes 12 to 20 and 14 blouse top requires 2 ,4 yards 40. Slz material; Slacks, 2?4 yards; skirt, yards, 744 yards braid lor trim. For this attractive pattern send your order to: 244 EWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street an Francisco Call!. Enclose IS cents In coins for .Size. , Pattern No. .. ....,, Name... Address........ Noble Issues Raama-- llt Bath . It.M t 14.11 . I4.SS Family Boams far 4 nwam Air Caalad Lamn aai Labby Plains Baam CaBa Shay Tap Baam Hama af Klwanla Exaratlaaa Ratary Kachans Optimist' 2 Chamhsr at Csauaare and A4 dab II Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN. 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N YOUR boat or on dry land youll enjoy this play suit which features the smart nautical theme. 1 Mmaaaaaawtwaaaaaaaat Jlsk Me Jlnottier O A General ... swift-movin- d wild-eye- north-roamin- missing-disappe- ared K-- trails THIS SUTtR)0- R"MARK Of FINE FICTION Iffy. quirement or narrow caution, efforts which might otherwise lead to a noble issue, and, still more, how we withhold our admiration from great excellencies, because they are mingled with rough faults. John Ruskin. KNOWS . . . stag-legge- ut Vlatcfc, Quiz humped along northward into the valley of the Prairie Elk. SHE Rounding up within a days ride The Questions of Miles City itself, Ropers men had Baking days are happy days when taken this herd almost out of the 1. How many tablets of stone Clabber Girl is used Proud bakers very corrals of Lashams outposts; and yet, so far as any of them held the Ten Commandments as of Clabber Girl in milthe praises sing given to Moses? g knew, that drive reprelions homes. of 2. The average amount of blood sented a harder blow than had ever been struck a cattleman in a single in the human body is about what raid. In all their months of effort proportion of the body weight? 3. Double, double, toil and the winter wild bunch had been unable to achieve an equal reprisal trouble; fire burn and cauldron upon Lasham, and now they could bubble is a quotation from what? 4. What is a binnacle? hardly believe their own success. 6. In Greek legend, who sowed They forced the cattle hard, driving through the clogging snow at a the dragons teeth? 6. What country named its caprate incredible to men accustomed to handling market herds. ital after an American President? Unblemished Sun Pride No Reward 7. What is meant by 0 : 15 a. m. ? The sun, though it passes Unless what occupies your mind The cattle that broke the way 8. Who were Egbert, Ethelwulf, be useful, the pride you derive through dirty places, yet remains through the snow kept dropping as pure as before. Ooke. Ethelbald, from thence is foolish. Phaed. Ethelbert, and blown and back, tired; but as fast as they failed, others were forced forward to take their places. Longsteers of the old horned, The Answers Texas strain fought the riders, breaking the heavy column repeat1. Two. d edly in their thrusts for 2. One twentieth. and these were allowed to liberty, 3. Macbeth. get away. Gaunt, weak cattle lagged 4. A box cdhtaining a ships to unable even back, under keep up the snapping rope ends of the tail compass. 5. Jason. riders; they also were allowed to 6. Liberia named drop out, promptly forgotten. Yet, for President (Monrovia, Monroe). in that first day, the side riders 7. Fifteen minutes after midg catswept in enough night. The zero is used to denote tle to more than make up the loss. of the day has Roper went frith the herd as far that the first hour as Circle Horse Creek; but when not elapsed. 8. The first five rulers of Engthey had forded the shallows, crashing through the rotten ice, he turned land, reigning 12, 19, 2, 8, and 5 back. With him he took four men years respectively, from 827 to Without Trials Willing Leads who he believed would do what he 873. Their conquest formed part of hisHe jests at scars who never felt Willing comes first, then comes said. The cattle were moving more the rich early the working. a wound. Shakespeare. now, slowly plodding doggedly tory of the island. through the heavy going; Tex Long and the remaining eight men could hold them to their way. What was needed now was work of a different kind, and Roper thought he knew how that was to be done. It was his intention to fight a rear guard action not only for this first herd, which would be delivered within the week to the Indians who would spirit it away, but for the protection of all the rest of the wild bunch raiding to westward. But now as he neared the head of the Little Dry, a rider came dropping down a long slope upon a racing horse. His carbine was held above his ragged sombrero in sign of peace; r.nd as he came near they saw that it was Hat Crick Tommy. Roper jumped his horse out to meet Hat Crick. What is it? Is there any word? Did she Tommys face was haggard with Shes gone! he jerked fatigue. THE SMOKE OF CAMELS CONTAINS out. Shes been to Miles City and The rounding up of the wild bunch riders lost Roper a few days; but within the week Bill Roper and Tex Long rode into the plains of the Little Dry. Here around a spluttering fire the riders crouched in their sodden blankets, like Indians, while Roper gave out hip orders. Thirty-tw- o men and six outlaw leaders were now in the field against Walk Lashamjs powerful Montana outfits in the Great Raid. Ropers first move had been to split his renegade riders into five bunches under the leaders that he knew Tex Long, Lee Harnish, Dave Shannon, Dry Camp Pierce and himself. Hat Crick Tommy he sent to Miles City in search of further word from Jody Gordon; Hat Crick would later rejoin Roper as messenger and scout. It was Ropers plan that he and Tex Long, with twelve men between them, should make the most daring raid of all; a raid upon the big herds which Lasham held between the headwaters of Timber Creek and the Little Dry. Of all the ranges in which the wild bunch was interested, this was the nearest Miles City the most accessible, the most closely watched, the best protected. How many cattle he could transfer from this range to the starving Canadian Sioux, Roper did not know; but it was his hope to raise such a conspicuous and stubborn disturbance as would mask the operations of the rest of the wild bunch, and permit Pierce to work unimpeded. The fourteen of us will split seven ways, Roper told them now. I camp for figure Lashams look-othis range is about twelve miles southeast. Well comb every way but that way. Im not telling you how to gather stock. Hunt em like you know how to hunt em. Move out one days ride, spotting your cow bunches. Next day pick em up and work em this way. And on the third day throw your gather against a coulee or something where one man can hold em, and the oth- now shes gone! Gone? Gone where? er man of each pair ride back and meet me here. I figure this range Nobody knows. Shes is heavy with cattle. I dont see any strayed or lost or rusreason why two good men cant tled, I dont know which! Her fathers wild crazy, and every outfit in the north is combing the IS A of blue denim, trim with red, white and blue braid, the result la a smart young costume which will add fun to every hour you wear it Roper sat staring for a full half minute. Then his hands fumbled for his reata, shook out the loop. 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