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Show s shows what be-ajp illustration mirror and piano a of CHAPTER XIX K common memories were broken. thing close to tears in her eyes. She stool To the mirror and d fcowam Now Ben Herendeen was dead in was a graceful, woman boxes wooden added two had to say. Reaching the dust and at last as he paused and even as he looked at her Lige Clay nothing were These grocery. the for his hat he left the room, cross- here in the fog, he White was stirred. She saw it. She wholly silver-shttaj nn end about 18 inches ing the darkened saw the things it put in his face, store nothand felt was adrift There and free. half-inc- h letting ply-wand a shelf of himself out to the porch. Habit ing left of the old and old suddenly looked away. But a the quarrel, screwed to the top. A made him reach into his what? pockets for fine times, the old adventures, the moment later she looked back, smilto the screwed was then his cigarette paper; he rolled up a old songs. The last link of the past ing. She pulled her shoulders exdwig A smoke of the boxes as shown. without had broken and be realized that he pressively up, the color deepening across the He was like giving it any thought. bin rod was placed this, sorry and con- was, at twenty-ninAlways, Lige, you a man looking on her face. fused and still stirred by Anns kiss ahead because there was and the mirror hung lengthst wide other have come to me and always Ive jio when he heard Jesse Rusey call out way to look. drawn back. Thats our trouble, world; the int sharply: It affected him powerfully; it isnt it? Well, Lige Heads up heads up! lished? She made a gesture with her spilled something into his blood, like her call; That tone, from the silent Rusey, .a chemical the virus of arms, as though pushing something absorbing was a warning that made him drop an old fever. Looking down at Lilas away from her. She turned, drop;? his smoke and jerk around. He saw, headboard he said, to her and to ping to the bed beside him. She first, the two Ryder brothers backed himself in a gentle voice: lilted his head and slid her arm against the saloon wall, as though I guess thats all. Whats gone around his shoulders and, this close to him, showed him the long, pushed against it; and then, his is gone. glance racing on, he found Rusey in He bad been gone from the ranch straight glance of a wife who was the thick shadows by the hotel. Ruand desiring. Ive been two hours. When he came desired, of too many things, I guess. sey had drawn his gun on the Ry- nearly found Pad-de- n afraid the he room into living ders; he was holding them there. Here I am, Lige, if it isnt too late. ready to leave. Padden said knew once how it was, at Morgan ry. That wasnt as bad as it looked. and backed against the store wall, Traveling westward on the is all right. Mrs. Lige just Lige all the trail to Dell Lake, which was sharply scanning roundabout came. rank also the trail to Crowfoot, Morunder it. An arm was then shadows, his nerves quickening and Wheres Catherine? his pulse striking hard in his neck. gan came suddenly upon Cathred to the front of each box. Started home about fifteen minerines horse standing riderless was next. White, because Swinging his head through a full utes e ago. he looked into the gray in the heavy-shinin- g be-- it fog. ite furniture is smart and I got the boys came in. Jump deserted of shadows Old Town and This was at the edge of the Mogul matched the woodwork, saw Herendeen drop back riding circle on the place. Fox Wil- plateau, with the line of timber diskirt was around the cornerslowly he dressing table of the blacksmith lings out on the flats, behind the rectly beyond. For a moment he de with a one-inc- h heading at shop into darkness. rocks. his deep fear of accident; then, had the and ends tacked along top You can pull them in. Its all He remained in his tracks, knowcoming up to the horse, he saw the table and the hinged arms what lay before him yet puz- over. ing Catherines shape against the trees. h thumbtacks through a double What? zled that Herendeen should slide She had dismounted and sat now on ip of the plain material. ireaka I met Ben in town, said Mor- the yellow-draway as though avoiding him. He grass, looking toward :ver ta knew Herendeen thoroughly the gan, and left the room at once. him. He came before her, watching In Interested Readers OTE: making raw physical courage, the sullen will .Jump followed him to the porch, her face swing up. A moment later remodeling home furnishings should concalling: For Gods sake, Morgan, she rose, walking to him. She said i for copy of BOOK 8 which contains that drove him forward, the tches and directions for 32 useful items tempt he had for weakness, the tell a man Morgan curved nothing at the moment but her hand well as descriptions of the series of hatred which for these ten years had around the yard and was lost in the touched his arm and her face, pale idets which Mrs. Spears has prepared governed his life and his actions. fog. and round in this light, showed its readers. Booklets are 10 cents each, Thus this backward step into darkiress: intent, drawn interest. ness seemed out of character. Think--in- g Lige Whites wife stood beside the He said: Why didnt you wait? about it, Morgan looked along bed, looking down at her husband. HRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS I thought that perhaps something iedford Hiils the street again and now noticed the Padden closed the door definitely be- held you in town. New York Drawer 10 shape of somebody outlined in a hind him as he left the room. Now he said, something did. I dark second-stor- y window of the hoshe said: You were on the way metYes, Enclose 10 cents for Book 8. Ben. tel. He didnt know who it was but to town, werent you, Lige? And tame She came nearer, watching the fahe realized Herendeen had noticed then you changed your mind and miliar marks on his face, studying the man and was protecting himself started into a fight. tddress all the little signs she knew so well. in the fight to come. Well, he said, it was a way of So she knew what he had done, and Morgan, hanging to his tracks, passing the time. said: Its over then. That has been drew and fired. He saw Herendeen s I know. Times been heavy on prayer for so long that it would gun kick up from is first shot; he your hands these last years. And my soon over. Go on back. Theres be saw the barrel steady again. The EASY WAY house has been empty, hasnt nothing on this trail Im afraid of. roar of the shots cracked along the your TO OPEN He said: Why do you suppose I street and somewhere men ran the it?He could weak as he was. came?walks recklessly. These were sen- He still hadsmile, his old flash of galShe seemed to hold her breath. He sations that reached him all at once, No house is empty with saw her Her long lips tremble. these and the crash of a bullet into lantry. in it, Grace. shoulders straightened away from the wall behind him and the smell you Youre lying, Lige. I know why him. Clay, she murmured, say of powder. He had fired twice, still were going to War Pass. Ive nothing you dont mean. I cant go you to settle Herendeens gun watching through that again. To be as close a level pointing. But he fired no known for a long time. . He laid a hand over his eyes. I as we were, with all that it meant more, for he heard his shot strike home, releasing a quick small cough am not proud of that, Grace. God to us then, and to lose it I cant from Herendeen. The big mans knows I hate dirt. But there are go through that again. When a cold starts, nose feels He said: There is nothing bedidnt go on with gun dropped; he fired as it went things . . miserable, spread Mentholatum inside each nostril. down, the slug breaking up dust it; he had no way of explaining and tween us . now. Nothing except the from the street. His shoulders fell so lay still. things you remember against me, Instantly it releases vapor Mentholations that start 4 back against the wall of the blackShe said: This is the first time I Catherine. actions 1) They thin out thick smith shop and scrubbed along the ever saw you weak, the first time A long breathing sigh came from mucus; 2) Soothe membranes; 3) Help reduce swollen boards. Morgans bullet had knocked you have been helpless. Most al- her. She was smiling, this tall and passages; 4) Stimulate nasal blood him back, and when he fell it was ways you have been so well, so full robust and gay girl; she was near supply. Every breath brings quick relief! this way, slowly to a sitting position and Ive kept away from you. him, her body still. She said: Old Jars 30. and then sidewise, as though wearily Sometimes you have frightened me, times new times. You have been a going to sleep. The shadows at the Lige. Sometimes you have made faithful man. Clay. I have never base of the building smothered him; me feel ashamed. I have been a ceased to love you for it even when all Morgan saw was the vague stain strange wife. there seemed nothing for me. Well, Without a Care i slai of his face. I been faithful, too? havent vase a one saw He I time said: The loss of wealth is loss of lievii of the firing had not in a museum. It was a beautiful echoes The was She there for him, she was rt, the happiest man is without yet died when men ran into the thing. The sort of a thing that waiting for him. When he put his shirt. street, toward Morgan. Someone gives a man a wallop to look at to arms around her and saw her head called: Clay that you? He didnt make him feel maybe theres a side lift to him, swift and expectant, he qnswer, for he was paying his re- of life he cant reach. I didnt touch felt the long rush of his youth again. spects to Ben Herendeen a man it Was afraid Id break it if I When he kissed her it was as she had never known what fehr did. Thats you, Grace. Im not had said: Something old, something who I was, a man who had waited for him, complaining. Im glad Ive got as new. Nothing had changed. The old without trickery, to come up and much of you as I do have. Then he wild sweetness was here, the same end this quarrel. That, Morgan be- said, slowly: If I stray off the path, immense shock, the same feeling of lieved, had been the single great it is because a man like me belongs a deep need satisfied. It passed beforce in Ben Herendeens life his on the street, not in a museum. tween them and took the last lonewill to push aside, to destroy the Looking at beautiful things aint liness, the incompleteness, the empone person who had ever taken from enough. Ive got to have something tiness out of him. The ten years of waiting were finished; they were tohim anything he had wanted. He to touch and use. turned from the gathering crowd, She showed the effect of his talk. gether. THE END walking back to the main street, It colored her cheeks; it put some fatigue beginning to spread through bim. It was deep in his bones, it ran shallowly beneath his skin. Parr Gentry walked from the shadows of ' the hotel and confronted him. Parr "because they help develop said, in a smooth fatherly voice: proper growth, bones and strong Well, Clay, Im sure glad it wasnt sound teeth! Scotts Emulsion is you. nh in natural A and D Vita-nu-ns Vance said Morgan, Parr, and so g. Also, Ketchell watched you go into the times easier to digest than Potholes yesterday and he watched Plum cod liver oil! Buy today! you come out You met Hillhouse Recommended by Many Doctors and spoke to him. After that went into the Potholes, and found Hack. He had no feeling in his voice. The words were slow and If you are still in this counflat. tomorrow night youll be death try Arm McGarrah was at the doorway of her store, watching Morgan. He paused in the dust most of the energy and purpose out of him; it was the faint push of an old habit which swung him around, carried him through the Old Town to the cemetery, and took him to the foot of Lilas grave. In this dark silence she was close to him, she was very real. Some things faded and some did not; her image was quite clear that dark, dramatic face with the light of laughter veering so swiftly to the The story of a young man who, upon coming anheavy shadows of despair and womger and tears. Childlike and to claim a ranch he had inherited, is greeted anlike by turns; hating herself and hating him for the mistake of a runby a bullet. You'll enjoy ACE IN THE HOLE away marriage, and bearing it trag-ically while the short year went on, Western a hard-hittin- g and dying with no love for him! no joft word. But he remembered now a JACKSON GREGORY thought which had occurred to him earlier in the night. A man could THE not live forever in the past One by one the links connecting him to it (Chilian omb Cot pi) gave way. Hillhouse and Breathitt, who had ridden beside him through Wr Savinqi Bondi Stamps these earlier years, were dead. 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