Show s THE GARLAND TIMES ’ TTAH GARLAND for oolda couch! ns sniffles end nmacl aches set the ttlvo with the base of old fashioned mutton suet Cramlmn liked THE 8T0RT 80 FAR: Con Cameron aa honeit cowboy with denire to (hoot la forced by clrcumitincct to turn law and Join the Paramore sane headed by one "Dud” Paramore He had come Into Wild Horn with the 20 Bar outfit and bad Immediately gotten Into trouble with the town boat Aaa Brock and hla friend another by defending cattle man Nevil Lowe atalnat Brock Dynamite Downes and "El Muchacho” On the traU agaia he had met Lee Welih Welsh wae killed by and the Ranlera the Ranlera and when Con rode Into Tlvan where Lowe It tho new marshal he was taken Into custody as a murder and robbery suspect because of his sociation with the Ranlera He bad thought Lowe was hit friend but public sentiment was against him and Lowe Wild had apparently about the forgotten Horse Incident Con persuaded Lowe to wire Buzi Upperman his old trail boss Wild at and Caramba Horse but Vear neither man could be located Knowing that he hadn’t a chance of escaping any other way Con broke Jail with Jeff and hat now gone with him to Join the Paramores Now continue with the story r CHAPTER llowers He hooked his horse into a rocketing gallop and the others jumped their mounts after him Into San Marcos they charged to slide to a halt before a long adobe Dud was out of the saddle before his horse came down upon four feet and darted through the door Big Yager lumbered after him with Gonzales catlike at his heels Catfish Coyle and Kinky Odom swung down more deliberately and Jeff and Con were last So when they stepped into the long adusky room the others were lready at the bar Dud stood beside a dark man who reminded Con of a gorilla for thickness of body and drinklength of arms The Mexicans Dud the at pine counter gave ing and this one room and watched narborowly But Dud only pushed a ttle to Turk Within twenty minutes the two had Then Dud moved the five drinks bottle hospitably and when Turk’s eyes went to it Dud's right hand flashed to the white bone handle of it out He whipped Turk’s Colt stepped quickly back and tossed it from right hand to left in legerdefor the eye to main almost too fast follow Then with high shrill laugh he stepped in again and replaced it in Turk’s holster “Take your drink fellow!” he drawled ‘‘You — need it!” He spat deliberately upon Turk’s Turk’s boots and turned his back He drew fast and Dud arm jerked Con deliberately turned back scowled Then instead of the roar he waited stiffly for there was only a hollow click! and another as Turk cocked the Colt It was Dud's pistol that bellowed as it snapped from the holster and flipped up Three bullets ih all Dud drove into the He leaned to knock other's body the Colt from Turk's hand and slid back head on one side watching Turk leaned heavily upon the bar left hand upon the bloody front of his shirt Then he crumpled and Dud to the floor to sag began laughed shrilly “That’s what always happens to Dud Parfolks haf come amore! Hey Nicolas! Take care of this beef We have got some dancParamores!” us do ing to In another big house the dance was going when the Paramores came in There were more women than men and eight or nine heavily powdered overdressed girls looked expectantly at the newcomers and shrilly na- iti HITS GOLD HEAD MISERY FAST Put up each nostril It (1) shrinks swollen membranes (2) soothes irritation (3) helps clear nose Follow liiilj SIS Let us Burns do Do or or let Die us die — Robed VII from San Nearly a quarter-milMarcos Dud Paramore called a He sent Gonzales ahead to halt scout the village and while they waited he talked to Con about the Raniers as he had been talking at the cabin Apparently his informers in Tivan knew all about official suspicion that Con Cameron and Comanche Linn were the same huh ‘‘Got no idee about what was on them Raniers' mind?” he ‘‘Can't asked for the tenth time which way they’d head after figure they downed Welsh?” “Nary idea” Con answered a little wearily "To hear ’em talk you’d in the think nobody Territory to a short stacked up ankle-higsnake They are the hefty You and to hear ’em tell it Ellis— just country boys” but The last he put in artfully Dud’s vanity was plain maliciously to be seen and it amused Con to prod him Gonzales came back at the gallater No officers lop a were known to be around San Marcos but Quill Hogan lay in one of the houses terribly beaten by a stranger “Huh?” Dud cried incredulously Who’s this “Quill was whipped? done it?” Gonzales shrugged and shook his head He had seen the man a big swaggerer cock of the walk in the Turk was the name he went saloon by He had been m San Marcos Quill when Quill Hogan rode in had picked a row and Turk had But instead of kildrawn his gun ling Quill Turk had merely him up and down the then knocked him senseless “Come on!” Dud yelled to his fo- giggled Dud yelled As We Sing Let me make the songs of a tion and I care not who make laws— Andrew Fletcher Bg Yager and Catfish and the Kinky Jeff and joined chorus wolfish They swept down Con trailing upon the girls Automatically Con selected one who seemed a little younger less peHe put out rfumed and powdered his hands to her and she smiled sidelong up at him Then Gonzales and m snarled his ear caught the girl’s sleeve “Es mio! She is mine! You take another — ” “You are his girl?” Con asked in halting Spanish holding her wrist “I am yours if you want me— and you can keep me!” she said Con whirled her deftly away from Gonzales and out among the dancers She pressed close against him and looked wisely into his face Dance after dance Con kept her Then Gonzales disappeared He sat with her after the eighth or ninth dance beyond the little bar Jeff and his girl joined them for a drink The two girls chaand cigarette ttered— chiefly about Gonzales’ fury Then a shabby Mexican appeared at Con Con’s side out of the crowd found his face vaguely familiar and tried to place him whithe am man friend” “I your “You gave back my money spered Now I pay: Gonzales will kill you! He He is outside in the darkness will kill you he has said to men at the door So I slipped away to give you this word” ‘‘I’ll “I’ll fix him!” he grunted he can give him all the trouble pack!” He shook his head at Jeff who was' getting up from between the two girls “Stay out of it” he said grimly “This is my war” He went with Jeff trailing across the end of the big room and to the side door Someone muttered out there— a nervous sound Then from the right away from the lounging group there was the roar of a shot A bullet and a blast of flame twitched Con’s hair like a finger Automatically he drew his Colt times a done he thousand as had just in practice As it came level pointing at the spot where that flame had blossomed he let down the hammer thumbed it back and loosed a secThen he twisted inside ond shot the room The dancers The music stopped cried out excitedly Then someone outside yelled that Gonzales was dead Con watched them carry Gonzales in There was something about the sagging figure that reminded him of a dead rattler A hand tugged at He turned to face Jeff his sleeve — and take the tin cup JefT held out He lifted it and gulped down the drink coughed and wiped his eyes ell “Thanks!” he gasped I feel better!” “You hit him both times” Jeff said admiringly shook his head Dud shrugged “Nothing to stop our dancing!” he cried and Con could not tell from his high singsong what he really felt “Let’s go!" Amelia took his arm and looked up at him with a kind of savage adoration He shook his head “No more for tonight querida I will sit by the bar for a time You go with Jeff or another” She nodded and left him He found himself a place in a dusky corner and watched almost without seemg if Gowhile the dance continued nzales had not died Then about midnight a boy came yelling for Dud and the music and stamping stopped as short “It is Nevil Lowe and a possel” the boy reported shrilly "They come quietly” Dud outside The Con followed intermittent moonlight presently showed two men supporting a third This him onto a horse helping Con learned by the talk was the batDud yelled for tered Quill Hogan the others ‘“Come on? you nitwits! First thing you know that shooting posse'll be making red dollrags out of and Catfish Coyle reappeared mounted But Big Yager and Kinky Odom were missing Dud commanded “Hightail!” shrilly “Hear them horses? That's Nevii Lowe and his damn’ posset We can't wait for ’em! They'll just Hightail!’’ get us all killed “Come on Con!” Jeff urged him “We can’t buck that many!” Con whirled Pancho with a furious snarl snatching at his carbine He hooked the sorrel into a gallop and went racing to a house on the edge of San Marcos In the pale moonlight he saw a dark mass of horsemen not fifty yards away “Get back!” he yelled at them sliding the Winchester out “We’ve got you surrounded Back you nitwits! Back!” As he began to shoot holding low at the horses’ legs Jeff’s voice lifted in a bellow picking up the phrase Con had used The mass of riders blow apart as the seemed fairly-tBut a horse went carbine rattled down and another Scattered return shots came from the sides of the road "Come on” Jeff called to him “Big and Kinky’s gone!” He spun PanCho and together with other they thundered away horses pounding ahead of them Out of San Marcos they galloped with lead whining waspishly about them but not too close They overhauled Big Yager and Kinky Odom passed them with an encouraging yell But a mile of alternate darkness and had been covered before moonlight Con saw Dud Quill Hogan and Catfish skylined Jeff and Con overtook them Dud and Catfish seemed to have better horses than any of the others— including Hogan Or Con thought perhaps the beaten man was not in condition to get the most out of He lagged farther behis mount hind and made some indistinct answer when Dud yelled at him to keep up The four spurred away from him then became three when As a trio Catfish’s horse slowed they slackened pace to a walk in the foothills of the Lobos and listened and let the blown animals get breath “Well sir!” Dud drawled cheerfully “Nevil Lowe he will be disappointed young sheriff tonight after we Whoi was that shooting left town? Big and Kinky?” “Like hell!” Jeff answered before Con could speak “That was Con stopping the posse” “Listen!” Con grunted suddenly “They’re not so far behind right now What do we do?” “Why I reckon the smart thing is to set right here and see about things” Dud answered They sat minute after minute smoking listening to the flat rattle of shots until the sound died and of the only the small hills could be heard Dud grunted impatiently and moved his horse Con checked him with a word “Wait! It Somebody’s coming might be our bunch” “Just one horse” Jeff announced It was Catfish and he was panting as if he not the horse had been running when he came up to them Dud called a sharp question “Rubbed out! Whole bunch!” Catfish answered “That damn’ Nevrf Lowe! Knocked Quill out of the hull — right at my elbow Swear I heard four slugs hit Quill’s back Then it was Big Me and Kinky kept ahead — awhile Lowe stopped again Got Kinky through the Opened up head" "We’ll make that son pay for It boy!” Dud assured him fiercely "Don’t you never think we won’t make Nevil Lowe remember tonight Come on now No use crying about it” They rode in silence by twisting trails to the cabin Nobody was in talking mood when they reached the place They rolled into their blankets but Catfish took his to the He said that point used as lookout he was not sleepy he would stand guard with the They were up early grim events of the night very heavy upon them all Dud alone was cheerHe looked be —or to ful pretended at them and swore that they were the sourest set of cowboys he had From some ever put eyes upon hiding place he produced a Jug of uncorked it whisky The liquor brought no lightening of Con’s disgust with this company Instead he thought of the misfortune which had put him here as if in a trap (TO BE CONTINUED) Bedtime Pal TT WILL be love at first sight when your child sees this darshe’s so pretty so ling doll cuddly and so soft Going to bed will be fun when this doll be to goes along snuggled! 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