Show THE GARLAND SO rAR: Old Early BUI day wr snmberad had (hot from ambnah aarly on morn Ins by a man who aacapad with only a holla! hoi throosh hi hat Early BUI homa and lent hit Mexican ata((rd hand Gancho Ortega for hit fricndi Doc do and th dndf who arrived without Ranch Early delay at th Ring Col BUI needed th doctor to attend hla wound to make hla will and the Jud However Old thought It would h On fun to mak twa Identical wUlt bequeathing hit ranch and money to Ana Lea daughter of hla old friend Buity tee and th other leaving the tame to Col ton of another old friend Cody Now continue with th itory ha CHAPTER III as the early summer evea thundering log fire was making the rocks blazing hot in the room living fireplace at the King Cole Ranch Drawn up before the hearth in his most commodious big chair sat old Early Bill with his long legs tucked under a heavy red wool blanket vith his overcoat on and buttoned to his chin with his hat on too His only attendant the only person he would tolerate e in the house his foreman Cal stood as far as he could from the fire his face glistening with sweat Cal mopped his forehead with a blue bandana already sopping and had his say not for the first time either “Bill” he said explosively "I tell you you’re crazy! You’d ought by rights to have some kind of a nurse here with you me I couldn’t A woman anynurse a sick colt how Somebody to—” “Dry up Cal” snapped the old Get man "Go get me a drink yourself one too And quit beller-in- g like a bull calf” like a Cal Roundtree growling bear with a sore paw started but stopped abruptly as he heard the lively racket of a horse’s hoofs coming on to the house The sounds stopped at the front door then there was a lusty knocking “Come in you fool!” yelled old Early Bill Ranee Waldron stepped in just and across the raised threshold stopped there looking about him taking in everything at a sweeping centered his look Then glance upon the man in the chair "This the King Cole Ranch?" he said “You’re Mr William Cole?” “Shut the door Ranee” said Early Bill and all of a sudden his voice was quiet and all but toneless One speaks of a poker face well his voice now was a poker voice Ranee Waldron closed the door pulled his hat off and came closer standing at the side of the chair he put out his hand Early Bill took it slowly let it go with a degree of alacrity “You never saw me before” said “How did Ranee Waldron puzzled you know me?” “Oh I saw you once Four months months ago Waldron ago maybe You mightn’t remember Me I don’t forget Over at Bantam Springs it was” Until he finished speaking it was hard to make much of his face what with the effect of the flicker of the fire an affair of light and shadow commingled and with his broad hat brim pulled low Now he lifted his head and shoved his hat back and looked up into his kinsman's eyes Even for another moment so Ranee Waldron remained puzzled “But— but — ” Ranee stuttered “At Bantam Springs that night! Of There was a course I remember card game — we had a few drinks together— But I didn’t know who you were! I didn’t know your name — they just called you Bill— Why didn’t you tell me?” “Better get a move on and bring that jug Cal” said Early Bill and left the young man utterly to his own devices But Cal Roundtree didn’t budge he stood stock still staringin fascination at the visitor’s face Ranee was the fire glow seemed to make his face ruddier and ruddier until it grew bright red Or was it just the fireglow Cal wondered? Yes Ranee Waldron was remembering! That poker game at Bantam Springs An old man a stranger sitting in! What a run of luck the old fool had had! He had been so clumsy he seemed only halfway to know what he was doing he fumbled with the cards when he shuffled he made crazy bets and lost— and yet by some miracle in the end he won everything in sight! lost his shirt And Ranee Waldron that night lost more than he could afford to lose expecting with every new hand to clean the old fool down to his bootheels had lost more than just money because he had lost his head too and had flown into a rage and had said things— Just what had he said? And the old fool was Early Bill Cole keeping his name hidden the way he did an ace in the hole— and all the time Early BiU knew who Ranee Waldron was! But this consternation holding and at utter loss him tongue-tieHe was a was only momentary young man of parts was Ranee Waldron hard to down and harder to Of a sudden startling 'K$ep down both Early Bill and Cal Roundtree he began laughing "Bill Cole you old heller!" he shouted when he grew articulate “I might have known at the time that it was you! I’ve heard about Warm ning was GARLAND UTAH JACKSON GREGORY ©CREGOttY THE STORY who Cola TIMES WRU you all my life the sorts of things a man might expect from you— only he’d never know what to expect!” He sobered “Me I didn’t show up very well that night did I? Guess I must have been halfway drunk— and your style of playing drove me crazy— and to top it off I lost pretty nearly every cent I had in the world Just you wait until I can get into another game with you!” "Sure — Say Cal! Where’s that jug?” “I’ll go put up my horse” said Ranee Waldron Again Early Bill Cole said “Sure” and lay back in his chair He $nd pulled his hat brim down sat there very still looking into the fire A queer little smile a happy sort of smile with some strange sort of tenderness in it and a flick of humor— a flick of devilishness too maybe — touched his lips When Cal first to return came back into the room he thought the old man was asleep So he was Old Early Bill Cole full of years and of wickedness and of a rare sweetness was taking his ease in his last long sleep a a a It was hard to catch a glimpse of the girl’s eyes so wide and drooping was the brim of her pink straw hat so long and inclined to lower themselves bafflingly were her lashes and Her cheeks too were pink there was a laughing dimple in one of them She scarcely lifted her skirts an inch when she fluffy stepped up into the stage there was RELEASE He had ridden late last night and would have slept late this morning had he not been awakened by the commotion out in the yard attendant upon the stage preparing for deHe hadn’t parture thought anything about a stage having a goo saddle horse and had ridden by of Notch Top way simply because it lay on his line of travel Now being awake he yawned comfortably and stretched and came close to dozing off again Then through the other coarser sounds of men swearing at horses and trace chains jangling he heard another sound and he thought dreamfully that it fitted far more pleasantly into the early daylight hour Little Ann Lee very gay and electric this morning was laughing He got up then dressed and ran his fingers through a wild thatch of dark red hair cocked his hat on at an angle which bespoke an interest in life and full approval of it and stepped along outside And just as he got outside the door Long Peters the stage driver was calling down from his high seat “All aboard folks Here we go” It was then that Cole Cody saw Ann Lee stepping up into the stage He did catch the most fleeting of glances from her eyes under the long demure lashes and noted how the pink of her cheeks was as soft colas the softest of ors tinting the eastern sky “Hold on there!" shouted Cole Cody and bore down on the stage at a run He called back to the hostler who had just lent a hand with hitching up “Keep my horse until I coma back” and jerked the stage door open “If you’re cornin’ along pardner” said Long Peters his whip poised ready for the long snaking out of the e crack that lash into the would start his team off like a snot “climb up here No more room in- side” make out clearly who the other inside passengers were he didn’t even see Aunt JeniHe saw nothing but the girl fer It with the big pink straw hat drooped on each side of her lovely face and there were ribbons streaming from the brim He almost made her a bow not quite but he did take off his hat She almost smiled but then she looked away very quickly and began talking hurriedly to her companion The driver called out a second time impatiently Cole Cody climbed up on the high seat the whip snapped at last and they were Cole Cody didn’t off Old Early Bill Cole was taking his last long sleep The girl was saying softly into her aunt’s ear “Did you see him Aunt Jenny? Isn’t he— I mean—” Aunt Jenifer had a queer little trick of smiling tucking in the cormouth ners of her clean and letting her eyes drift sideways She spoke for her thrilled niece’s ears alone: "Yes I know Pet Really quite handsome and dashing and And I noall that To be sure ticed something else!” “What?” “He saw you!” Cole Cody generally as forthright as a flying arrow going places was inclined to a certain circuity this morning He remarked on the horses first of all not being in the least interested in them yet singling out tha off leader for remark and in return got a thumb nail sketch of that animal’s career character and pedigree He spoke of Top Notch of a high mountain town he knew they would pass through Tap Rock then of Bald Eagle Of what a fine day it was And finally— of the inside passengers “Folks that live around here? Or strangers?” Long Peters swung his equipage around a bend down into a shallow dry creek cracked his whip again and started them briskly up a sharp slope with the lifting mountains looming steep and black ahead First disposing of those of his cargo whom he knew he got around at last to Ann Lee and Aunt Jenifer “We’re carryin’ a couple nice la“Don’t know dies too” he said much about ’em They come this far with Hank Roberts day ’fore I only saw the two of ’em breakfas’ time They're a Miss Edwards that’s the old lady and she ain’t real old at that and her niece Miss Ann Lee They come from down yonder somewhere way around Bantam Springs some place Hank says And they never been up this way before goin’ to see some Jus’ visiting’” of their folks “Going far?” young Cody asked casually “All the way through to Bald EaWe get there early tonight” gle He eased his straining horses down to a walk- as the slope steepened and the road narrowed and roughened “How about you stranger? I ain’t ever seen you any place” “Me? I’m headed on to Bald Eagle too No I’ve never been up this way My stamping ground’s down around Dutch Skill’s Trading Post” “Glad to know you My name’s Peters Tom Peters” “Glad to know you Mr Peters I’m Cody Cole Cody” Long Peters proffered his hand the taut reins still in its grip and they shook that way Almost immediately they entered a great silent and glooming wild ness his ease in just the flash of an tiny foot the merest suspicion of a ankle and about her a wisp of fragrance as though she had just bathed and sprinkled herself with Florida Water Little Miss Ann Lee accompanied by Aunt Jenifer fragile and tremulously smiling under her poke bonnet had taken the first stage from Bantam Springs arriving at the small crossroads settlement of Top Notch in the early evening There she and her aunt tarried overnight at the very respectable boardinghouse operated by a local celebrity And there they spent the Big Belle following day and night waiting for another stage to take them a day’s journey through the mountains to some miles on the King Cole Ranch the nearer side of Bald Eagle All this of course was because of the letter she was carrying with her now a most mystifying communication from a Mr William Cole— ineven beyond its mere mystriguing tification because of the hundred dollar yellow back that had come with it A huge sum of money —but with certain strings to it And upward of a hundred miles from Bantam Springs at the trading post where he went now and then a Cole young man named William had received a very similar Cody letter He considered the thing some sort of a hoax— but then the hundred dollar “expense” money enclosed It was a long trip was real dough across the mountains to Bald Eagle he had heard of the place as had most men within a pretty conradius Why the devil siderable should he pick up and travel because indisome no doubt vidual beckoned? Why? Well then "because a thing like that' gets a stimulated it until man’s curiosity won’t let him rest because it is a simple thing for youth to scent adventure over the next hill And when he is handed a key it’s sheer human nature for a man to wonder what lock it fits! 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