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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, r QUITE A DOG! SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS .. x The theatrical produce .was giving an audition to a man with a newt Thats Gay Jumper act Producing a puppy fropt his pocket, the man placed it oqr the piano, whereupon the puppy calmly pro-- ; ceeded to play part of, one of the operas. THE STORY THUS FAR: Melody Wonderful!" exclainied the pro- Jones and George Fury had ridden Into ducer. I'll give you a thousand Payneville. Melody was mistaken for the outlaw, Monte Jarrad. Montes girl. dollars a week for that. But thats not all," .salc the man, Cherry, in trying to save Monte and producing from another pocket a later Melody, get them involved in the murder of Luke Packer, the Insurance parrot, which, perched n the piano, cop. Fury had met up with Monte and sang an aria from the opera to the Snug-Waiste- d Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required In filling orders for a few ad the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: 1 puppys accompaniment O Almost speechless by now, the producer managed tq bring out an offer for $2,000 a week for ,that. Er-e- r, before said the naan-you decide, I must tell you this acts not exactly on the level. You see, the parrot cant sing the puppy's a ventriloquist! was shot by Monte. Monte returns to the farm and finds Melody. Cherry returns with (he wounded Fury. Some of Montes men rode np, and In the distance the Cottons pesse bent on taking Monte. The posse started firing and most of the men ran to die house. Melody, Cherry and Fury stayed in the barn. Bales of hay were placed against the walls for protection. NO LAUNDRY CHAPTER XVII Sweet Thing And how can I tell when the iron is too hot? When you Experienced Helper start seeing smoke. o Common Experience Brown What makes you look so glum? Blue Well, the judge told me I should be the master of the house or J know the reason why. Brown So whats wrong with that? Blue I know the reason why. 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Cherry de Longpre stared hard at Melody for several moments more, her face blanked by that bafflement he was able to Inflict upon her. Now you look here, you comshe began, but he inplete fool her. terrupted He reached out and closed her jaw for her by lifting her chin with his fingers. he said, in a Gal, tone she had never heard him use, Im right sure I've heard a plenty from you. So be still, before I turn you across that saddle and spank you pink as an apple. She went to George now, and helped him drink from the gourd dipper. Once or twice she glanced at Melody furtively;. and when she spoke again her words were quiet and rapid. That other rider is Virgil Browning. Hes one of Montes wild bunch, like Lee Gledhiil. Monte never rode south at ail. After we left. Pa and Avery came in, and Lee signalled up Virg Virg was laying low in the brush, somewhere. They went down to scout the town, and mighty near ran square into the posse. But they rode hard and got loose. So now what Is their theory? Melody asked her. They Insist on tangling with the Cottons? Or dont they aim to be discommoded by jest thirty-fort- y men? They wanted Monte to ride. He wouldn't do it. He says he isnt fit to ride a horse race; hes right. He hopes to stand them off until dark. Then one hard effort will get him clear. He can lose them, and take it easy after that, in the dark. Most likely you told him he better run, and he was too stubborn to be bossed. She shot him a glance of surprise. Melody Jones wasnt expected to see through anything like that. Now Avery and Fever Crick made a dash from the house to the barn. No one fired at them. They brought with them the rest of the saddled horses, so that their rush sounded like a cavalry charge. Cherry said to Avery, Quitting him now, or thrown out? No ran-po- r was in that; It simply represented the kind of expectations Cherry had in regard to her men folks, after knowing them all her life. We got Avery. .look no offense. to hold the bam: We can stand em off a decent piece, if they dont git in the barn. Immediately the first of the posse came into sight. Just before they appeared Avery said, Watch it a kind of a strangled watch it cry such as might come from a man and there was a moment in mid-aiof utter silence among the defendHere it ers. Cherry whispered. r; is. . . Two Cotton one of them Lester appeared at two hundred road, coming yards on the up over the break of the slope. The horses came over the hump at a walk, their stride unhurried, but given a look of power and vigor by the strong climbing thrust of their quarters. The long shot which had crippled the gray must have been outside of Lester Cottons plan; he was going ahead with his first plan anyway, taking a chance of riding boldarrest. ly in for a But now a rifle banged from the house, and Lester Cottons horse came down heavily, dead before it was stilL Apparently it had tossed its head in the nick of the wrong instant, intercepting a bullet intended for a center drill on its rider. Lester Cotton pitched himself backwards down the slope out of sight, untouched. The other pony whirled and plunged back the way it had come, with a violent switch of the tail testifying to swift spurring. Then in a swiftly rising increase of fire quick feathers of began to sprout everywhere and north, south, riders close-quarte- rs O WcVl BondA. gun-smo- down-mounta- in You CAN up-slo- relieve FOOT of esses showed clinical improvement after only: 10 days treatment with soretonb in 6 impartial, ific test c e, middle-rang- e, all converging into and point-blanthe flimsy walls of house and barn. The shadows within were lively with jumping splinters, and the smell of ATHLETES a 80.6 long-rang- scient- powder filled the whole breeze. The attackers had no organization, and little plan; but each of them out there was effective in his own way, full of individual resource. The people in the Busted Nose were suddenly the center of an echoing, roaring swirl of Get down, Melody ordered Get down, I said! Cherry. She was trying to get a look at the ear of the hurt pony, and she flicked Melody a glance so near conwas unnecestempt that Melody reached for her, sary. caught her shoulder, and spilled her over a hay bale into a slot between two others. Melody watched hope fire-attac- fully to see if a bullet wouldnt buzz through the spot where she had stood. It didnt, though. Thats the second time youve done that! Cherry started to scramble up furiously, but she caught his eye upon her, and was stopped. After a moment she settled back, and for the time being stayed where she was, her eyes bewildered upon his back as he turned away. Avery and Fever Crick were sliding at a running crouch from one wall to another, trying to keep up a semblance of fire on all sides; they desperately feared a rush, and didnt know on which side to expect it, except that whichever way they were turned they felt the threat was at their backs. Between shots they hauled frantically at the hay bales which were their protection against lead. The sleazy walls of the barn hid their movements, but nothing else. They kept trying to shore up the gaps and angles where the bullets were splattering through, but there werent quite enough bales to afford a double tier all around, and it hac them crazy. Avery, trying to haul a bale to plug one gap, had his coat-tail- s clipped by a shot that came through the place from which he had taken it; and when he frantically mauled it back where it was before, a slug of lead from still another direction went through the top of his hat from in a heap. The rider fell clear and rolled bouncing down the precipitous and grabdrop, spread-eaglebing at roots to check himself. Then SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. he also went slack before he stopped, and lay loosely where he came to rest. Cherry gasped, close to Melodys ear. She was leaning on his shoulder, but until then he hadn't known it. She whispered, That was Ho- Pattern Name Address ... mer Cotton. Georges mind was wandering now. He said, I dont mind rain. I love ram, like any cowman. But in Californy your life aint safe a minute, without you got a cockeyed rowboat on your back. . . Along about then a strange inhuman cry sounded in the house; it trailed off in a quaver, and was not repeated. They learned afterward that the luckless Virgil Browning was struck in the jaw, shattering half his face, by a slug that caromed off a stove lid to find him. A feller cant see how they live, there in the house, Melody said, without no hay bales like we got. Maybe they aint hungry yet, , George said faintly. The fellers outside want to get in, George said. He spoke huskily and faintly, but with a slow distinctness, as if speaking to a child. The fellers inside want to keep em out. Catch on? That dont account for what Im doing here, Melody said. Youre here to git rich.' Thats the reason you give, anyway, when you drug us Into this. Remember? His voice died away to almost nothLeave me know when you ing. think were rich enough, sos we can git the hell out of here. , . A little after that the first extended concentration of fire began to die down. The attackers were getting cagey, tired of pouring their fire blind Into the thin walls, without any apparent lessening of the weaker but still dangerous fire power within. They settled down to an intermittent sniping at marks which wishful thinking suggested. One determined rush would have laid the outfit flat But the defense had achieved so spirited an effect that the Cottons men never believed, either then or ever, how extremely few were holding the Busted Nose through those hours. No rush was tried. Lester Cottons wearing a deputys badge, Cherry said. I saw it on, his shirt. ' flaturally it aint on" the seat of his pants, Avery said irritably. Lpster Cottons badge meant something. The ring of had taken to itself the guise of ail the law there was. The people here could have held more hope if they had been a thousand times outnumbered in an Apache raid. Avery and Fever Crick had time now to tally their remaining ammunition, and went through the inevitable surprise at how much they had used up. Still, they were doing pretty well; if they were prudent they could make it last a few hours yet perhaps even until dark. Melg ody began throwing down and the horses, taking Harry Hen-shafirst. This involved considerable uproar and thrashing around, but when it was done the ponies were pretty safe for the first time. By the time he was finished the posse seemed to have shaken down into a steady siege, .fit to last a week without taxing anybody except the people inside. Some smoke columns from cooking fires began to rise from various points. They could hear more people arriving out there out of sight, some of them in wagons; there were distant shouts as newcomers hailed each other. It was a wonder where all the people came from, as the news spread. e The hills out of were filland hangers-on- , ing up with attending for the sake of the excitement and the barbecue. Probably there would be political speeches out there, before they were through. Sometimes a quarter of an hour would pass, with no shot fired. But the snipers were still alert; their few shots were accurate as pencil dots. After a while one of them pasted Fever Crick. The bullet caught him slantwise just above the wrist. It was almost spent, and ran erratically up his arm for eight or nine inches just under the skin; no especial damage was accomplished by it Later he would tell about his remarkable casualty a thousand times, until it became his most used possession. But just now he took It that he was much worse than killed. He moaned piteously and continuously, and from then on demanded the kind of attention deserved by a man who was virtually dying; and made of It an excuse to gulp most of their water ;r,iAKE ice cream Smooth At horn Any flavor Doliciout No ico crystals No cooking No No searched flavor Easy- Inexpensive 20 recipes In each 154 pkg. Please send this od for free full-sii- e pie offer or buy from your grocer. Here it is, says Cherry. the side. The rake of gunfire was lacing in brutally, this side, that side, crossways, lengthways, all sides, with the deadly quartering and spreading of the attack. Hard to see why they arent shooting each other, Fever Crick whimpered. Where would be the sense? Avery snarled at him, firing. If you think them cagey devils dont know where their shots go, stick your damn head tip oncet, and show em a real ricoskip! "Thats a fine way to talk to your father! The iron pail which stood by George Fury let out a metallic howl, and began to squirt water both sides. Melody propped it on a slant to save the rest of the water. Every minute now new vulnerabilities were being discovered by those probing, searchguns. One cluster ing, of rocks three hundred yards above the bam seemed alive with gunners, pouring in a plunging fire that crackled through the walls and thudded into the hay bales. Theys about seven fellers in that rock nest alone, Avery panted. One feller, Melody thought. Hes restless on account of them ant heaps up there, thats alL A ricochet from the downhill side snarled through the wall, ripping out beside Melody. a piece of knot-woo-d He casually put his eye to the new knothole, and peered back the way the bullet had come. It was enough to make a man think, to see what those buzz-fl- y bullets could do to solid wood. He put his gun muzzle to a crack, belt-higand, still looking through the bullet rip, made three unevenly spaced spouts of earth jump up from the crest of the slope. Behind him Cherry asked in a small voice, Did you get him? Get him? What for I want to get him? I was jest studyin to make his aim nervous. I aint got up. There wasnt going to be any more nothing against some feller out there, without I even know who he water in here when what they had was gone. There wasnt going to be be, He flattened to the hay bales to any food either, or anything else, look slantwise through the broad until this thing should get itself over door. He saw an undersized figure with. Melody sat on the ground near on a mustang horse break from cover far-of- f, making a dash for a dif- George with hi3 back against a bale ferent rift of brush. The rider put and watched Cherry fuss over her I thought I told you to stay the cayuse in a long winging leap father. across a coulee. In all the hellish down,' he Said. Shis obeyed him without any quesrattle that was going on you couldnt this time. 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