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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER TURNING POINT GUILD UP QGD 00,000 fey Mary Imlay Taylor if you W.N.U. RELEASE SIORT THUS FAB: Sherwln and the nnconscloui Stenhart, the ledge. He looked the tree which had held his The n into the stream below. lor the two men, then put lWr?.,i)rufrs on Sherwln. Stenhart and supported by Clegan the descent I cant stenhart said; he was going Sher--1 me " Jim reminded him that Me. A sharp report had saved his ,rom the thicket and Stenhart Unled. He had been shot The posse fJStt the bushes and killed the man Stenhart was Sred It was Jordan! Sen to the ranch house and a doctor The nurse said he was dying, mmmoned. fofee CHAPTER XI and dismayed, Jim hustold halL Uncled Us sister into the into the onsciously he dropped to heaven wish I desk. his at chair here! he excthe doctor would get laimed roughly. He started at once as soon as Shocked phoned," I Jane replied absently, the old desk affectionately; there. ,he remembered Sherwln ruminthe In chair, huddled Jim, ated. "Jordan must have got us he was a confused In the storm touching crack shot. Poor Max It was for he got it! jane said nothing; her hands were clasped on the desk. The wind the iwept the door open and drove Her brother rain across the hall. rose and forced It shut, bolting It Ihen he turned on her, at the limit of his patience. me and Good heart? Lord, Jane, havent you a Max is dying he loves youl you're standing el youl youre a perfect there and up and with pain. She looked twitched stick, staring in front her white face Im sorry for but Im thinking of the man he lent to a living death! Look here, Jane, Jim bit his lip. he's a brave man, I acknowledge Max, hes been convicted of a cruel youve got to let him drop! Hes not guilty, she said firmly; Til never believe him guilty. No guilty man would have done that his acsplendid thing he saved it, but crime; cuser!" "Fine, I grant it Nevertheless, back to jail for life you understand that, Jane? For lifel Not if theres any way on earth that I can save him! she cried he goes passionately. You! Jim spoke with brotherly scorn. she help too, Jim, not heeding his derision. and "Delay them, keep him here give him a chance to escape! "To what purpose? Jim asked "You can went on, To be a fugitive always, hide away somewhere, in South America, perhaps, under a false her dryly. to hunted, advertised for, never to know a moments peace a condemned murderer! Bah, Id rather go to jail! Theres no capital punishment in his state. "Youve never been in jail! Jane retorted. And you you phoned lor Cutler, you know you did I "Stenhart Jim began, and name, stopped. "Oh, I know! Janes gesture eloquent Jim, remembering the man was susp- ended between the ledge and eter-hitto save his enemy, began to walk up and down the halL Jane dropped Into his vacant chair and laid her head on the desk. She could hear the fury of the wind out-idIt grew dusky, too, in the old hall, for the day was passing swiftly; tomorrow y, e. "Im sorry, but I cant do a said Jim hoarsely. She made no reply. A shiver ran through her; tomorrow he would be on his way east! There is so little m a day-- and so much. Then, suddenly, she heard Fannys voice call-- g to Jim. Her brother answered hurriedly, went into the sickroom end the door closed behind him. For the first time Jane was alone. She straightened herself in the old worn chair and looked about her. the daygloom of the old hall ?, e saw only shadows here and clock ticked loudly over ,, er' e desk, and it seemed to remind lif1 L brevity f the span of rain no longer beat with cn fury on the window-panebut sbrieked and howled in Hi ant canyons. Sherwln was 1116 other building still. The men ere there; she could see Jose and 6 e Rooney rubbbing down their rses in the open door of the sta- Sbe rose cautiously and fled tty down the hall, past Stenharts ,i0sed door; it seemed to her that !eard vices but she did not listen. She opened a little that led past the kitchen liaaD mt the rain. It was falling JL yn now; the gray clouds had on the distant ranges and the g peaks shone In clear weather. ttu.8ew1.e irnost like a promise, of the clouds, and she ?ng called thing! s, jn 2 V Mac softly. old man emerged from his with a long face. You m backv.86 Wet Jane better run pK; warned. ,v.y. sb caught at his sleeve with Mac- - 1ve got t0 eefi,!:ands- nCDoweU hesitated. Hes got 8 alongside of him, Jane; it no place for you to to ,d ber tlue eyes steadily Mac, I must see him If, she choked its the last hmei -,. Rocket Ascended Over 44 Miles, Above Stratosphere One of the best home ways to Hi old man looked away, swalSherwin was dumb, his head lowing hard. He had known Jane bowed in utter despair. when she was five years old; he Oh, If I could only get you out! hated to see her face now. she murmured brokenly, .then with Quick, Mac, Ive only got a little sudden hope. Ive thought of a way while they may call me back there used to be a shuttered winthey think Stenharts very bad! dow back here she ran to the Her hands, on his arm, shook, and wall, feeling it its here youre he felt them. Reluctantly, he led strong come! she whispered. the way Into the long low building; His heart leaped. Liberty! It would not give her to him, but free, Jane caught a glimpse of the at supper and, with them, he might carve out a destiny, resome men who belonged to Cutlers trieve something yet. His hands acposse. But Mac got her past them tually shook as he followed her guidto a door in the end of the room. ance. In the darkening room he There was a moment of delay and could just see the fastenings, old then it was opened. Mac had spoken and covered with dust, half papered to Cutler and the guard came out over. It resisted and he drew his and sat down outside the door as table fork they had not allowed Jane went in alone. The little room, him a knife along the crevices. with its one tiny window-sli- t, too At last he released the shutter, small for a mans body to pass turned it softly and looked out. He through, was dim with the coming faced an open slope and the light of dusk, but she saw the tall man from another window streamed who sat at the little table, a tray of across it. Sherwin drew back with untasted food before him, his head a grim smile. upon his hands. Expecting no one Theyve beaten us, Jane! whom he cared to see, he did not A man was sitting there, with his rifle across his knees. The sheriff, was having caught a taking no chances. Jane was crying bitterly now, but Sherwin tried to comfort her. At best, Id have been only a hunted fugitive, dear girl; we must He could not go on. Her part sobs shook him with an even deeper emotion. There came a soft knock at the door and old Macs voice, a bit Times up, Jane, an the husky. docs here; he says Stenharts dyin they want you! God keep you! Sherwin said hoarsely; all other words failed. The girl, blind with tears, stumbled out, old Mac holding her up. Theyre callin for you, Jane, the old man explained. I had to come all fired quick. Jims got th sheriff an two others, two that come with th posse. Teresas sayin prayers with two candles in th kitchen an Ah Lings outside, chatterin some,, thing awful in Chinee. As he spoke he guided the faltering girl on to the veranda and opened the door. A flood of light streamed out. Jim was sitting supinely at his desk, sagged in his chair. Beside him towered the big sheriff, and a deputy was writing something on a paper at the table. Jane, coming in, half dazzled and blind with weeping, felt Fannys arms go around her. Hes dead, Jane; Its over Jim, tell her! He raised his head and- their eyea Jim, speechless, made a sign to You do it! Cutler. met. But the big sheriff had lost his even look up and the despair in his nerve; he only made motions with attitude went to her heart She his lips like chewing. It was Fanny who drew Jane down beside her on thought of him, as she had seen a bench by the door. on down and brave him, free, going He told us before he died, Jane, that thin rope over the abyss to save his enemy! A proud light shone sud- she said, and the deposition was denly in her blue eyes, and she came taken he confessed to the murder of his uncle. It was done in the garclose to him. the man who swore that Max den; JohnI she said softly. was with him at the time was a He raised his head and their eyes perjurer, paid by Max. His uncle met For an instant he seemed quarreled with him and told him dazed, then he rose to his feet that he was going to change his Youve come to me a prison- will and leave every cent he had to er? Sherwin. Max broke out, they quarI saw you, she said; Im so reled violently, and the old man struck him with his cane, as he proud of you! would a little boy. Infuriated, Max He drew a long breath. Jane, snatched the pruning - knife and you did it! Id vowed to kill him struck back without thinking. He rd tracked him like a murderer I killed himl He ran out and hid, saw had nothing in my heart but hate. I was waiting to kill him when you Sherwin come, and the scheme to came up there, but when I found save himself and get the money into his crazed brain. He you cared, your touch drove out the leaped swore to a lie to save himself; he It! do I couldnt poison framed it all up Sherwin was utterYou She looked up proudly. innocent! ly even I know didnt yourself, John, a moment Jane neither For didnt know you, for when I saw you moved nor spoke. She hid her face there, waiting, for him, I thought in her hands. youd kill him. But It was never Oh, Fanny, think of all those really In your heart, John Sherwin, years! she gasped at last. for youre a brave man no brave I know! Max Fanny nodded. man Is a murderer! Youve made used to tell us in his delirium; good. Teresa heard it, too. I thought It You forget was the He smiled bitterly. worry of the trial delirium, what I am! fever dreams but old Teresa alSome day It ways believed it! No, I remember! will come right; the truth cant be Jim, who had not spoken at all, always hidden. Ill believe In you rose suddenly and went out. With him went the sheriff and his depualways! Emotion choked him, then, In a ties. The two girls were alone. broken broken voice: It means only mis- Fanny, trying to still Janes her arms about her ery for you to care; Im as good as sobs, put suffered so much! again. Jane "Hes a dead man. Forget me, Jane, be and he gave up his chance said, happy to save Max! Think she answered softly. to escape today Never, of it, to save the man who had we until remember "Always Ill ruined him! meet again! Fanny touched her softly on the that a In grip He held her hands Look up, Jane! shoulder. almost hurt them, looking down Into The girl lifted her head. The door her brave eyes. stood open and on the threshold, You gave up your chance for erect and radiant, stood Sherwln. him and hes dying, John. 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