Show i ) r C1U3 LAMMERSDOKF Pros V A — IIAN8TUFT HUISII Cashier Hens Tuft W H Brown V Huish James Farrell a DIRECTORS — Chas Lammcrsdorf gensen p C Scorup A Chris Jor- First State BANK Salina of (Copyright Co A C MeClurg UMl) Jack Keith" ' No expression of recogcame Into the face of the other Keith added curtly “Shall we talk?” There was a moment's silence and then Willoughby swung bis feet over the edge of the bed onto the floor “File away” he said shortly “until I see what the game Is about" 'Jack ‘Keith a Virginian 'now a’bor-le- r plainsman la riding along tha Banta trail on the lookout (or roaming war Ha notices a camp purtlra of aavagea are at a d stance and than sees a team attached to a wagon and at full gallop pursued by men on ponlrs When Keith roaches t lie wagon the raiders have massacred tao men and departed He searches the victims finding papers and a locket with a woman’s portrait He resolves to ' hunt down the Keith Is armurderers rested at Carson City charged with the liurder his accuser being a utrViin named Black Bart He goes to Jail fully realizA ing the peril of swift border Justice In Ills cell Is a negro who companion tells him he is Neb and that he anew the Keith family back In Virginia Neb says ene Of the murdered men was John the other Gen Blbley Willis Waite nn officer In the Confederate army I'he plainsman and Neb escape from the cell and later the two fugitives become lost in the sand desert They come upon a cabin and find Its lone occupant to be a young girl whom Keith recognizes as a The girl singer he saw at Carson City explains that she caine there In search of a brother who from the army A Mr Hawley Induced her Ao come to the cabin while he sought to and cate her brother Hawley appears Keith In hiding recognizes him as Black Bart Hawley tries to make love to the In the girl There is a terrific battle darkened room In which Keith overcomes and Black Bart Horses are appropriated the girl who says that her name is Hope Joins in tbs escape Keith explains his situation and the fugitives make for Fort LaVned where the girl Is lpft with the hotel landlady Miss Hope tells that she Is the duughter of General Watte Keith and Neb drift Into Sheridan where Keith meets as old friend Dr Falrbain CHAPTER XVII— CHAPTER (Continued) Bart?” that’s the name ao I reckon you didn’t bury Willis Waite this time You wouldn’t have thought Captain be was a dead one If you had heard him swear while he was telling the did It him proud never heard atory— him do tetter since the second day at Gettysburg — had his ear shot off then and I had to fix him up — Lord but he called me a few things” convinced Keith sat allent fully now that the doctor was telling the truth yet more puzzled than ever over the peculiar situation in which he found himself Involved “What brought the General 'up here?" be questioned finally was the “I haven't much Idea” "I don’t think I asked him reply I wasn’t much Interested rectly however There was a hint dropped now you speak about It He’s keen after those papers and doesn’t feel satisfied regarding the report of the pbsse he’s trailing after It’s my opinion Black Bart” was thinning out The and they were about the only ones left Keith stretched himat the tables self looking around “Wqll Doctor I am very glad to to learn have met you again and This is a Waite is actually alive rather queer affair but will have to I am too work Itself out Anyway dead tired tonight to hunt after clues 'I’ve been In in midst of this babel the Baddle most of the time for a week and have got to find a bed” “I reckon you won’t discover such a thing here” dryly “Got seven In a and others corded room upstairs — along the hall Better share my cell only thing to do” “That would be asking too much — I cob turn in at the corral with Neb I’ve slept in worse places” "Couldn’t think of It Keith” and you the doctor got up “Besides sleep at night don’t you?” ' “Usually yes” the other admitted “Then you won’t bother me any — no doctor sleeps at night In Sheridan Come on that’s our harvest time When and I’ll show you the way morning comes Til rout you out and ‘Yes my turn” Keith had enjoyed considerable exbut nothperience in frontier hotels ing before had ever quite equalled this The product the pride of Sheridan of a mushroom town which merely existed by grace of the temporary railway terminus It had been hastily and flimsily constructed so it could be elsewhere at a moment’s transported notice Every creak of a bed echoed The thin partifrom wall to wall tions often failed to reach the ceiling by a foot or two and the slightest And noise arouaed the entire floor there was noise of every conceivable kind In plenty from the blare of a Hall oppoband at the Pioneer Dance site to the energetic cursing of the A discordant din cook In the rear of voices surged up from the street below— laughter shouts the shrieks of rattle of dice an occasional women yellpistol shot and the continuous “barkers” There ing of Industrious An exploding was no safety anywhere revolver In No 47 was quite likely to disturb the peaceful slumbers of the Innocent occupant ct No 15 and every baround of quarrel In the thronged room below caused the lodger to earl of momentary tn expectation p toward hl coursing bullet at take ry “Oh You Mean Hope? floor With this to trouthrough ble him could lie there and bear that occurred within and everything without Every creak stamp and snore was faithfully reported every to hla snarl curse blow ears Inside was hell outside was Sheridan and half dead as Keith Wearied He was sleep was simply Impossible beard heavy feet tramping up and down the hall once a drunken man ' endeavored vainly to open his door not far away there was a scuffle and the sound of a body falling down stairs In some distant apartment a fellow was struggling to draw ioff his tight boots skipping about on one foot That the boot amid much profanity conquered was evident when the man the creaking bed ancrawled Into “If the landlord defiantly nouncing wants them boots off let him come Across the hall an’ pull ’em off” was a rattle of chips and the voices raised in of several men occasionally Now and then they would anger stamp on the floor as an order for liquid refreshments from below From somewhere the beyond howl of a distressed dog melancholy greeted the rising moon Out from all this pandemonium detect Keith began to unconsciously the sound of voices talking In the In thd lull of room to his left sound a few words reached him through the slight open space between wall and celling “Hell Bill what’s the use goln’ out again when we haven’t the price?” “Oh we might find Bart somewhere I guess I know and he'd stake us enough to make him loosen up Come on I’m goln’’’ thlrf town Is too near “Not me I'm liable to run into Fort Hays some of the fellows” across the floor as A chair scraped Bill arose to his feet evidently from the noise he had been drinking but Keith heard him Uft the latch of the door he said “All right Willoughby” see thickly “I’ll try my luck an’ if So long” Bart I’ll tel! him yer here the ball and He shuffled along and went half sliding down stairs Keith distinguished the click of glass He was and bottle In the next room sitting up in bed now wide auakej with a desire to investiobsessed must reference overheard The gate have been to Hawley and If so this who was afraid of meetWilloughby ing soldiers from the fort would be the deserter Miss Hope was seeking There could be no harm in making sure and he slipped into his clothes unlatched and as silently as possible There was a noisy crowd at his door the farther end of the hall and the mountsound of some one laboriously Not desiring to be ing the staire seen Keith elifcped swiftly toward the door of the other room and tried the It was unfastened and he latch stepped quietly within closing It be hind him the hq Do You Knew Her?” A small lamp was on the washstand bottle and two glasses a "beside It while a pack of cards lay scattered on the floor Fully dressed except for a coat the sole occupant lay on the bed but started up at Keith’s entrance unceremonious reaching for his revolver which had slipped to the wrong side ct his belt “What the bell!” he exclaimed startled and confused The intruder took one glance at blm through the dingy light— a boy of his dark hair dark eyes eighteen face already exhibiting signs of dissipation yet manly enough in chin — and mouth and smiled “I could draw while you were thinking about it" he said easily “but am not here on the fight Are you Fred Willoughby?” The lad stared at him his uncertain hand now closed on the butt of his revolver yet held inactive by the other's quiet assurance “What do you want to know for? largely "Curiosity thought I’d like to ask you a question or two” “You — you’re not from the fort?” to with do the army this “Nothing is a private affair” The boy was sullen from drink his eyes heavy “Then who the devil are you? never saw you before” “That’s very true and my name Nevertheless wouldn’t any help you're 'perfectly welcome to it I am SAUSAGE Fresh flushed “Oh you mean Hope? Do you know her? Say I thought you were giving Christie me that old gag about ‘ Meelaire” "Certainly not who Is she?” fellow I know more than “That’s came to me at Carson and Bald he’d met my sister on a Btage west of ToI knew' he was lyin’ because peka she’s home over iq Missouri Finally I got It out of tlfm that she claimed to be my sister but her” name was Maclalr Why I don’t even know her and what do you suppose she ever picked me out for her brother for?” He was plainly puzzled and perfectit was all a mistake ly convinced That his sister might have left home since be did and drifted West under never an assumed name apparently occurred to him as possible To Keith this was the explanation and nothing be more natural could considering her work yet he did not feel like shattering the lad’s loyalty Faith In the sister might yet save him “Perhaps the fellow who told you” he hazarded blindly speaking the first thought which came to his mind “had some reason to desire to make you think this Maclaire girl was your sister” The sugge8tlofi caused him to laugh at first then his face suddenly sobered as though a new thought bad occurred to blm “Damn me no It couldn’t be that” be exclaimed one hand pressing bis be workln’ no couldn’t kind on me" you mean?” “A fellow named Hawley” evasively "The man who claimed to have met my sister” "’Black Bart’ Hawley?" 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