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Show SEATING Two-Piec- CIRCLE PATTERNS e Graceful THE STORY THUS FAR: Melody Jones nd George Fury had ridden Into Payneville, Melody mistaken for the outlaw, Monte Jarrad. Montes girl. Cherry, got them out of town, but Melody returned to meet Lee. Lee and Melody ran into Cherry and George, overpowered Lee and went to the shack where Monte bid the express money. Luke Packer, the Insurance cop, was there, and shot by someone outside. When Melody returned with the horses he found the sheriff in the cabin but the body gone. In their effort to learn where the express money was hid, they started to beat np Melody. He had learned that the body was placed In the wall where the strong box was hidden. Soft hell! You aint getting no where! Cut out this bashing his brains out. Git some wood in here. Build a fahr a good hot fahr. Stretch his pants over it. Heat his spurs red hot, and well write his name on him! Hell talk hell talk like like hell talk plenty, he finished. Too slow, Boone objected. Try it," Thingan decided. Try it anyway. Fear of defeat was W riding him. got to take a chance on it Git some wood in, Eoy. A little otter do it." For a moment Roddy Thingan sat on the edge of the shifting slab, a strange blank expression making CHAPTER XIV his face sillier. Then the slab let "I'll bust him down, all right, go altogether, and thundered to the Royal Boone said. He was just floor. The sheriff slid with it, sitting down hard and suddenly at the warming up to his work. Sure youll bust him, Stocker base of the wall. He sat there idisaid with an ironic slur to it. But otically for a moment, his legs when? spread wide in front of him, one Right quick, Boone promised. pants leg hitched up to his knee. He blew on his knuckles. He turned quite slowly, as his Stocker straightened Melody up to brain almost visibly began to move take the blow. But he said, I aint again. He sighted the black cavity so sure. You aint got all night, if the falling slab had revealed. In a them Cottons is close as I think they curious, unhurried way, he craned his neck to look into it. be. We Wait, Roy, Thingan said. Then suddenly he was scrambling got to try something different. frantically to get to his feet, his Whats the reason we do? hands clawing at the wall to help Because youre going to knock himself up. His voice exploded in a him out, thataway. Then what good bawL is he? Theys a dead man in there! What good is he anyhow? A strangled grunt sounded in Mormon Stockers throat as he dropped I thought of something, Thingan said, talking quickly now. A Melody and plunged toward the desperate hurry was in his eyes. cache. The voice of Royal Boone rang out What was the last thing he said, strong and crazy; he was already Just before he balked on us?. beside Sheriff Thingan, crouched He said he knew where " over the black hole in the adobe No, no that aint what I mean, ledge. Thingan cut Stocker off with almost Its Luke Packer! he frantic impatience. "He said de Longpre snatched MelCherry could lay hands on the express box the wrist so hard that she in lessn a minute, didn't he? And ody by almost threw him, as he stood there right after that he makes a Kind of gaping. She already had the door a false start but not toward the door and he says, the box is right open. Somehow, with a surprising over And theres where he drew back, Stocker said. Yes, Thingan said with bitter We recall he drew back, sarcasm. but he was right on the ragged edge he even started to move toward it and not toward the outside! Fellers that express box is here in this dump! "Youre wonderful, Stocker said Pick it up, then, and lets sourly. go. He slacked his grip on Melodys arms experimentally, then, as Melody stood there, let go the prisoners elbows. But he kept a purchase on Melodys belt. Thingan paid no attention to him. He was standing right over here, he began, taking position in imitation of Melody. Over what? He never said." Over here, you fool! Thats what he meant! All right then, Boone blared at him, he says Over here, you fool, meaning you, I guess, and moves toward the blank walk Hell! Lets get on with the way we was doing. Hold him, Mormon. Both Stocker and Thingan ignored this. Boot in that door!" Thingan ordered, indicating the root cellar. Boone obeyed. The door, being unfastened, banged wide. Thingan caught up a candle, and both he and Royal Boone jammed into the root cellar, virtually at once. Thingan and Royal Boone came piling out of the root cellar again. Thingan stood pulling at his lower Melody spilled back against the lip, his eyes so avid as they searched wall, hard. the room that he looked drunken. use of her slight weight, she manPull this up," he ordered, kickbunk. the aged to sling him through the door ing Roy Boone tore the bunk out by ahead of her. As he slowed up and the roots in a couple of splintering caught his balance he could hear her heaves. Nothing was under it but a furious whisper. Run, run, you damn fool! Run considerable rats nest, and a litter of such trash as had found its way or, I will kill ou! Melody Jones looked about him for there. Melody saw that Cherry had si- Cherry, then, but she wasnt with dled nearer the door; she could al- him now. He hunted around for most reach it, from where she now her, a little aimlessly, not daring stood, if reaching it would have done to sing out; and he couldnt find any good. You could always get to her. At first he couldnt find the that door, but you could never get horses, either. He found a place he Still figuring, Melody thought he had left them, but they through it. thought, "still trying. She never werent there; and when he recognized that he was in the wrong gives nothing up . . . Royal Boone was methodically place he could no longer be sure testing the packed clay floor, under what he had done with them. He whistled softly the call he used the place where the bunk had been, for Harry Henshaw. The gelding chipping at it with his high heeL But now Sherifl Roddy Thingan had never paid any attention to it whirled upon that deep window em- before, but Melody hoped that this brasure in the adobe wall Light time he would at least paw or had come to him, sudden and com- something, in this emergency. Instead, a soft answering whistle plete. He laid hold of the great slab that covered the cache, and sounded in a different part of the scrub; and when he shook off the heaved . . . first fantastic impression that his Nothing happened. at him, he Incredibly, without any reason, the horse had whistled back slab stuck where it was. Thingan knew that Cherry had answered tried a few more wrenches, this him. He ran toward her, trotting stiffly to keep his high heels from way and that, but nothing gave. turning his anfdes; but she didnt Aint no use heaving at that, Whistle again, and he couldnt find all sewed Boone said. Its Roy her. down with cobwebs. He did find the ponies, though. "You figure," Mormon Stocker carbine was still on his sadMonte's man old cant said with insult, the dle, so that he was armed again even tear a cobweb up? Them cobwebs been there for now, and mounted. He left two of the ponies tied there, and scouted Boone explained, in vacuyears, aimlessly through the manzanita, ous good faith. said. wondering what was sensible. Stocker You dont tell me, Far-of- f d up the mountain, perhaps was low, voice Thingans and shaky. Work on him, a mile and three furlongs away, a pistol-sho- t sounded, as two Roy, he said fervently. Work on double guns "Tired almost together. him! Ill have him talk or Monte Jarrad sat well back in the Roy Boone stepped gladly toward as George Fury walked into shadows Melody, but Mormon Stocker swung of the firelight. Monte's gun the it! ring of out the Slop way. Melody was in his right hand, where it Stocker said. rested across his knee. 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I already figured out you was So I knowed you wouldnt travel fur. And I knowed youd be cold, like any wownded man. So I look in the near places where a fire could be hid, and here you be. Smart maybe, Jarrad said. i. My name is George Fury. I know who you are. Youre the old buck thats been palming himself off as my uncle. And youre the cheap that has framed up a sap of a boy to take your medicine for yoig George said. Monte Jarrad looked him over with some puzzlement. George Fury did not look dangerous enough to face Monte Jarrad with a comment like that. He wore one boot and one sock frazzled to the shape of a spat. He was hatless, and his thin hair was full of and other trash. His knees were muddy, and his shirt tom. I dont look nothing like your half-wuncle, George said. What do you want here? Monte asked him now. The question carried a strangely detached curiosity, as if Monte Jarrad had already decided what disposition he was going to make of George. I come here alone, George began. I know that. I been listening to you blundering around here for an hour. I could of picked you off any time, just as easy as now. George reddened a little this time, but he let it pass. The sherifl and some of his posse are already down there at your cache. Thats what that shooting was you heard. Monte Jarrads eyes showed a sharpened flicker as George used the word cache." But he only said, "I figured that "They aint found your express bo yet, George went on. When they do find it, theyll find Luke Packers body. Because I loaded the corpus in there, on top of your dang box. How did you find it? The gal showed us. Monte Jarrad watched him with amusement and a faint admiration. So they caught that there imitation of me, he said. Seems like so, George Fury admitted. "I thrashed around and tore some of 'em up, and come away. But Melodys no Way quick, in a thing like that Not quick, and not lucky. 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I come here to make a reasonable demand, George said, biting off more jerky. This here boy is only a boy, and he aint got the sense he was born with thats a fact. He dont know which is up, or what the score is, or whats good for him. Im the first to admit all that, and freely tell him t his face, for his own good. But leave me tell you one other thing. Make it short, Jarrad said. He readjusted his position, moving carefully, as if his wound might be stiffening again. There aint a mean hair in that boys head. He never done no harni to nobody in his life, nor thunk o! any. Hes in this because of you, and because your gal hauled him into it, and made out she needed him to help her. You and her rigged up all this between you. So there aint but one right thing you can You got to whistle up do, now. your bullies, and go and get him out of this. This beats me, Monte Jarrad said. His breathing was quickened and broken by a silent laughter. Git to your feet, George said, chewing. Mont? 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