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Show j 'X I THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Bill, youre t liar," he I reckon 1 wont stand to be said. classed with Booly an Ned. There aint no cowboy on this range thets more appreciatin of the ladles than me, but I shore aint ridin out of my way. I reckon I hev enough ridin to do. Now, Bill, If youve slch good eyes mebbe yon seen somethin on the way out? Nels, I hevut seen nothin, he replied, bluntly. Jest take a squint at these hoss tracks, said Nels, and he drew Stillwell a few paces aside and pointed to large hoofprints In the dust. I reckon you know the hoss thet made them? Stewart hed hit the trail for the borGene Stewarts roan, or Im a der. exclaimed Stillwell, and he dropped heavily to his knees and began CHAPTER IV to scrutinize the tracks. Nels, whoever was straddlin Stewarts hoss met A hido From Sunrise to Sunset. somebody. An they hauled up a bit, Next morning, when Madeline was but didnt git down. aroused by her brother, It was not yet Tolerable good for you, Bill, thet daybreak ; the air chilled her, and In reasonin, I replied the cowboy. the gray gloom she hud to feel around reckon you know what hoss made the for matches and lamp. Her usual other tracks?" languid manner vanished at a touch Im thlnkin hard, but I aint sure. of the cold water. Presently, when It was Danny Mains bronc. Alfred knocked on her door and said How do you know thet? demanded he was leaving a pitcher of hot water Stillwell, sharply. outside, she replied, with chattering Bill, the left front foot of thet little I teeth, hoss always wears a shoe thet sets any now. She found It neces- crooked. Any of the hoys can tell you. sary, however, to warm her numb fin- Id know thet track If I was blind." gers before she could fasten hooks and Nels, you dont think the boys sloped with thet little hussy, Bonita? Bill, he shore was sweet on Ronlta. same as Gene was, an Ed Linton before he got engnged, an all the boys. Shes shore thnt little black-eyedevil. Danny might hev sloped with her all right. Danny was held up on the way to town, an then In the shame of It he got drunk- - But hell show up soon. Wal, mebbe you an' the boys are right I believe you are. Nels, there ain't no doubt on earth about who was ridin Stewart's hoss?" Thets as plain as the hoss tracks." "Wal, Its all amazin strnnge. It beats me. I wish the boys would ease up on drlnkln. I was pretty fond of Danny an' Gene. Im afraid Genes done fer, sure. If he crosses the border where he can fight it wont take long fer him to get plugged. I guess Im gettln old. I dont stand things like I used to." Bill, I reckon Id better hit the trail. Mebbe I can find Danny. I reckon you had, Nels," replied But dont take moren a Stillwell. couple of days. We cant do much on without you. Im short the round-u- p of boys." That ended the conversation. StillWell, If 1 Haven't Some Color!" She well Immediately began to hitch up Exclaimed. his team, and the cowboys went out to fetch their horses. Madebuttons. And when she was dressed line had been strayed Interested, and curiously she marked In the dim mirror that she saw that Florence knew It. there were tinges of red In her cheeks. Things happen, Miss Hammond, Well, if I havent some color I she she said, soberly, almost sadly. exclaimed. Madeline thought. And then straightBreakfast waited for her In the diningFlorence began brightly to hum a -room. The sisters ate with her. way time and to busy herself repacking Madeline quickly caught the feeling of what was left of the lunch. Madeline brisk action that seemed to be In the suddenly conceived a strong liking and air. Then Alfred came stamping In. for this Western girl. respect Majesty, heres where you get the Soon they were once more bowling real thing, he announced, merrily. along the road down a gradual InWere rushing you off, Im sorry to cline, and then they began to climb a say; but we must hustle back to the long ridge that had for hours hidden ranch. The fall round-ubegins to- what lay beyond. That climb was morrow. You will ride In the buck-boar- d rather tiresome, owing to the sun with Florence and Stillwell. Ill the dust and the restricted view. aqd ride on ahead with the boys and fix Presently, at the top of the steep up a little for you at the ranch. It's ascent, Stillwell got out and walked, a long ride out nearly fifty miles by leading the team. During this long wagon-roaFlo, dont forget a couple climb fatigue claimed Madeline, and of robes. Wrap her up well. And she closed her eyes, to find hustle getting ready. Were waiting." whendrowsily she opened them again that the A little later, when Madeline went white sky had changed to a out with Florence, the gray gloom was glaring steel-bluThe sun had sunk behind lightening. Horses were champing bits the foothills and the air wns growing and pounding gravel. chilly. Stillwell had returned to the Mawnln, Miss Majesty, said Still- driving-sea-t and was chuckling to the well, gruffly, from the front seat of a horses. Shadows crept up out of the high vehicle. hollows. Alfred bundled her up Into the back Wal, Flo, said Stillwell, "I reckon seat, and Florence after her, and wed better hev the rest of thet there wrapped them with robes. Then he lunch before dark. mounted his horse and started off. You didnt leave much of It, As Madeline gazed about her and laughed Florence, as she produced the listened to her companions, the sun basket from under the seat. rose higher and grew warm and soared While they ate, the short twilight and grew hot ; the horses held tire- shaded and gloom filled the hollows. lessly to their steady trot, and mile Madeline was glad to have the robes after mile of rolling land slipped by. close around her and to lean against From the top of a ridge Madeline Florence. There were drowsier spells saw down into a hollow where a few in which she lost a feeling of where of the cowboys had stopped and were she was, and these were disturbed by sitting round a fire, evidently busy at the jolt of wheels over a rough place. the noonday meal. Their horses were Then came a blank Interval, short or feeding on the long, gray grass. long, which ended In a more violent Wal, smell of thet bumin grease-woo- d lurch of the buckboard. Madeline makes my mouth water," said awoke to find her bead on Florences Stillwell. Im sure hungry. Well shoulder. She sat up laughing and noon hyar an let the hosses rest. Its apologizing for her laziness. Florence a long pull to the ranch. assured her they would soon reach the Madeline observed ranch. During lunch-timthat she was an object of manifestly great Interest to the three cowboys. CHAPTER V She returned the compliment, and was amused to see that a glance their way The Round-Up- . caused them painful embarrassment. It was a crackling nnd roaring of They were grown men one of whom fire thnt awnkened Madeline next had white hair yet they acted like morning, and the first thing she saw boys caught In the act of stealing a wns a huge stone fireplace In which lny forbidden look at a pretty girl. a bundle of blazing sticks. Some one Cowboys are sure all flirts. said had kindled a fire while she slept. For Florence, as If stating an uninteresting a moment the curious sensation of befact. But Madeline detected a merry ing lost returned to her. She Just twinkle In her clear eyes. The cow-lxy- s dimly remembered reaching the ranch heard, and the effect upon them and being taken Into a huge house was magical. They fell to shamed nnd a huge, dimly lighted room. Arid confusion and to hurried useless tasks. it seemed to her that she had gone to Haw, haw! roared Stillwell. Flor- sleep at once, and had awakened withence, you Jest hit the nail on the haid. out remembering how she bad gotten Cowboys are all plumb flirts. I was to bed. wonderin why them boys nooned hyar. With a knock on the door and a This aint no place to noon. Aint no cheerful greeting, Florence entered, grazin or wood wuth burnln or nuth-ln- . carrying steaming hot water. Them boys Jest held up, throwed Good mawnin. Miss Hammond. the packs an waited fer us. It aint Hope you slept well. You sure were so surprisin fer Booly an Ned tired last night. I Imngine you'll find ns cold ns a barn. theyre young an coltish but Nels this old ranch-housthere, why, hes old enough to be the It'll warm up directly. Als gone with paw of both you girls. It sure Is amaz- the boys and Bill. Were to ride down in strnnge. on the range after a while when your A sllenpe ensued. The white-haireBreakfast will be baggage comes. cowboy, Nels, fussed aimlessly over ready soon, nnd after that well look the campfire, and then straightened up about the place." with a very red face. Madelin was charmed with the old dog-gon- e The Light o f Western Stars Copyright by Harper and Brother mebbe they knew I MET A LADY" about the money coinin. Wal, when I arrived with the cattle I was some put to it to make ends meet An today I wasnt In no angelic humor. When I hed my business all done I went around pokin my nose heah an there, trylu to get scent of thet money. An I happened in at a hall we hev thet does duty fer Jail an' hospital an election-pos- t an what not. Wal, just then it was doin duty as a hospital. Last night was fiesta night these Greasers her a fiesta every week or so an one Greaser who had been bad hurt was layin In the hall, where he hed been fetched from the station. "The hall was full of cowboys, ranchers, Greasers, miners, an town folks, along with some strangers. I was about to get started up this way when Pat Ilawe come In. Pat, hes the sheriff, ne come Into missed from his home because of the hall, an he was roarin about his dissipation, Madeline sees that things. He was goin to arrest Danny the West has redeemed him. She Mains on sight. Wal, I Jest polite-lik- e meets Stillwell, Al's employer, typical western ranchman. told Pat thet the money was mine an he neednt get riled about It. An If I wanted to trail the thief I reckon CHAPTER III Continued. I could do It as well as anybody. 3 Then he cooled down a bit an was Wal, wal, Al, this s the proudest askin questions about the wounded meetla of my life, replied Stillwell, Greaser when Gene Stewart comes In. In a booming voice. He extended a Whenever Pat an Gene come together Miss Miss Majesty, It reminds me of the early days back huge hand. Jest naturally evsight of you Is as welcome as the rain In the 'seventies. an the flowers to an old desert cattle- erybody 6hut up. Fer Pat hates Gene, man. an I reckon Gene aint very sweet on Madeline greeted him, and It was all Pat. Hello Stewart she could do to repress a cry at the Youre the feller way he crunched her hand In a grasp Im lookin fer, said Pat. There was some queer goings-o- n of Iron. He was old, white-hairelast night thet weather-beaten- , with long furrows you know somethin about Danny down his cheeks and with gray eyes Mains robbed Stillwells money gone almost hidden In wrinkles. If he was your roan horse gone an this smiling she fancied It a most extraor- Greaser gone, too. Now, seeln thet dinary smile. The next Instant she you was up late an prowlin round realized that It had been a smile, for the station where this Greaser was his face appeared to stop rippling, the found, It aint onreasonable to think light died, and suddenly It was like you might know how he got plugged is It? rudely chiseled stone. The quality of hardness she had seen In Stewart was Stewart laughed kind of cold, an immeasurably Intensified In this old he rolled a cigarette, all the time eyein mans face. Pat an then he said If hed plugged Miss Majesty, Its plumb humiliatin the Greaser Itd never hev been slch a to all of us thet we wasnt on hand to bunglin job. meet you, Stillwell said. 1 can arrest you on suspicion, Im sure afraid It was a bit unpleasant for you Stewart, but before I go thet far I last night at the station. Wal, Im want some evidence. I want to find some glad to tell you thet theres no out whats become of your hoss. You've man In these parts except your brother never lent him since you hed him, an thet Id as lief hev met you as Gene there aint enough raiders across the border to steal him from you. Its got Stewart. a queer look thet hoss bein gone. Indeed 7 Yes, an thets takln Into considera- You was drunk last night? Stewart never batted an eye. tion Genes weakness, too. Im alius You met some woman on Number fond of sayin of myself thet Im the last of the old cattlemen. Wal, Stew- Eight, didnt you? shouted Ilawe. I met a lady, replied Stewart, arts not a native westerner, but hes my pick of the last of the cowboys. quiet an menacin like. You met Al Hammonds sister, an Sure, hes young, but hes the last of the old style the picturesque an you took her up to Kingsleys. An chivalrous, too, I make bold to say, cinch this, my cowboy cavalier, Im Miss Majesty, as well as the old hard-ridi- n goin up there an ask this grand dame kind. Folks are down on Stew- some questions, an If she's as closeart. An Im only sayin a good word mouthed as you are Ill arrest berl Gene Stewart turned white. I fer for him because he Is down, an mebbe last night he might hev scared you, one expected to see him Jump like lightnin, as lie does when hes riled you bein fresh from the East. Madeline liked the old fellow for his sudden. But he was calm an lie was : loyalty to the cbwboy he evidently thinkln hard. Presently he said cared for; but as there did not seem Pat, thets a fool Idee, an If you anything for her to say, she remained do the trick Itll hurt you all the rest of your life. Theres absolutely no reasilent. Miss Majesty, I. reckon, bein as son to frighten Miss Hammond. An youre in the West now, thet you must tryin to arrest her would be such a take tilings as they come, an mind d d outrage as wont be stood fer In El Cajon. If youre sore on me send me to jail. Ill go. If you want to hurt Al Hammond, go an' do it some man kind of way. Don't take your spite out on us by insultin a lady who has come hyar to bev a little visit. n We're bad enough without bein as Greasers. "It was a long talk for Gene, an I was as surprised as the pest of the fellers. It was plain to me an others who spoke of it afterward thet Pat Ilawe hed forgotten the law an the officer In the man an his hate. Arriving at the lonely little railroad station of El Cajon, New Mexico, Madeline Hammond, New York society girl, finds no one to meet her. While In the waiting room, a drunken cowboy enters, asks if she Is married, and departs, leaving her terrified. He returns with a priest, who goes through some sort of ceremony, and the cowboy forces her to say 'S1. Asking her name and learning her Identity the cowboy seems dazed. In a shooting scrape outside the room a Mexican is killed. The cowboy lets a girl, Bonita, take his horse and escape, then conducts to Florence Kingsley, Madeline friend of her brother. Florence welcomes her, learns her story, and dismisses the cowboy. Gene Stewart. Next day Alfred Hammond, Madeline's brother, takes Stewart to task. Madeline exonerates him of any wrong intent Alfred, scion of a wealthy family, had been disSYNOPSIS. 1 low-dow- 'Im now ! an Im he shouted. right Stewart seemed kind of chokin, M'a Majesty, Its Plumb Humiliatin' To All of Us Thet We Wasnt on hand to Meet You, Stillwell Said. ach thing a little less than the one before. If we old fellers hednt been thet way wed never hev lasted. Last night wasnt particular bad, ratin with some other nights lately. There wasnt much doin. But I had a hard knock. Yesterday when we started in with a bunch of cattle I sent one of ray cowboys, Danny Mains, along ahead, carryin money I hed to pay olt hands an my bills, an I wanted thet money to get in town before dark. Wal, Danny was held up. I don't distrust the lad. Theres been strange Greasers ip town lately, an an he seemed to hev been bewildered by the idee of Ilawes confrontin you. "An finally he burst out: But, man, think who it Is! Its Miss Hammond ! If you seen her, even If you was locoed or drunk, you you couldnt do it. Couldn't I? Wal, Ill show you d n quick. What do I care who she Is? Them swell eastern women Ive heerd of them. Theyre not so much. This Hammond woman Suddenly Ilawe shut up, an with his red mug turnin green he went for his gun. Stillwell paused in his narrative to get breath, and he wiped his moist brow. And now his face began to lose Its cragginess. It changed, it softened, It rippled and wrinkled, and all that strange mobility focused and shone in a wonderful smile. An then, Miss Majesty, then there was somethin happened. Stewart took Pat's gun away from him and throw ed it on the floor. An what followed was Sure It was the beautlful-es- t beautiful. sight I ever seen. Only It was over so soon! A little while after, when the doctor came, he hed another patient besides the wounded Greaser, an he said thet this new one would require about four months to be up an around cheerful-llk- e again. An Ghent 'Romance Dy JZane Grey dog-gon- e Th-than- k d ehaln-llghtnl- d Pel-oncil- lo p tl.e mm she saw Spanish hous of It the more she thought what a delightful home it could be made. All the doors opened Into a courtyard, or The patio, as Florence called it. house was low, iu the shape of a rectangle, and so Immense In size trmt Madeline wondered If It had been a Florence led the Spanish barracks. way out on a porch and waved a hand at a vast, colored void. Thuts whut Bill likes, she said. At first Madeline could not tell what wus sky nnd wlmt was land. The Immensity of the scene stunned her faculties of conception. She sat down In one of the old rocking-chair- s and looked and looked, and knew that she was not grasping the reality of what stretched wondrously before her. Were pp at the edge of the foothills, Florence said. Itll sure take you a little while to get used to being up high and seeing so much Thats the secret were up high, Ihe air Is 4ure clear, and theres the wli world beneath us. Here see tKat cloud of dust down in the valley? Its the round-up- . The boys are there, and the cattle. Walt, Ill get the glasses." The round-up- ! I want to know all about It to see It," declared Madeline. Please tell me wlmt It means, what Its for, and then take me down there." Itll sure open your eyes, Miss Hammond. Im glad you care to know. Your brother would have made a big success In this cnttle business If It hadnt been for crooked work by rival IIe11 make It yet, In spite ranchers. of them." "Indeed he shall, replied Madeline. 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What I ate never seemed to give me much nourishment, and the result was I fell off from my usual weight of a hundred and fifty pounds to a hundred and run-dow- n e, , . twenty-five- "Well, sir, I started getting better on my first bottle of Tanlac, and I stuck to It till I finished the full course of six bottles, and by that time wns feeling like a new man. Thats what Tanlac did for me, and I never nilss a chance to say a good word for . It. Tnnlnc Is for sale by all good druggists. Accept no substitute. Over 37 million bottles sold. "Well, In the first place, every cattleman has to have a brand to Identify his stock. Without It no cattleman, nor half a hundred cowboys, If he had so many, could ever recognize all the cattle In a big herd. There are no fences on our ranges. They are all open to everybody. Every year we have two big round-ups- , but the boys do some branding all the year. A calf should be branded as soon as Its found. This Is a safeguard against cattle-thieveWe dont have the rustling of herds and bunches of cat tie like we used to. "We have our big round-u- p (n the fall, when theres plenty of grass and as well water, and all the riding-stocas the cattle are in fine shape. The cattlemen In the valley meet with their cowboys and drive In all the cattle they can find. Then they brand and cut out each mans herd and drive It toward home. Then they go on up or down the valley, make another ermp. and drive In more cattle. It takes weeks." For Madeline the morning hours dew by, with a goodly part of the time spent on the porch gazing out over that g vista. At noon a team ster drove up with her trunks. Thru while Florence helped the Mexican woman get lunch Madeline unpacked part of her effects and got out thing-fo- r which she would have Immedlati need. After lunch she changed hei dress for a riding habit and, going out side, found Florence waiting with th horses. As Madeline rode along she madt good use of her eyes. The soli wa sandy and porous, and she understood why the rain and water from the few springs disappeared so quickly. Wha surprised her was the fact thut though she and Florence had seemei to be riding quite awhile, they hai apparently not drawn any closer t the round-up- . The slope of the valle.' was noticeable after some miles hui been traversed. Gradually black dots enlarged Hni assumed shape of cattle and round a great dusty putch. Ir Madeline rode be another half-hou- r hind Florence to the outskirts of th TanlHC Vegetable Pills nre nature's own remedy for constipation. For sals everywhere. Advertisement. If there are ugly feelings In your heart, no beauty doctor can put sweetness In your smile. 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