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Show PAYSON V, INSTALLMENT bi w Cordon had -- ,rA.niiunscT ,us , Ki.-- BRr;r' - Shoshone to m kr h s man as et je S h out' bis fun i e- The slab door ,r Ice of the i'.!; ,4 in the led open with a no sy at i brought c.i dark, jo in the move! tbody and flickering hght to fill the jr e seemed arp'e light, compared A darkness without oaio ora e ti e P, of r aes i gunbelt that lay je table; but the reach empty In a continuous a Iran put up his hand bJts ranged along the from the first of these, "jto ir OU. fulv dt i f ti ese mt nt sp i on o ttne fire, a man hands up; one of the ..rest Se rib his bandaged, and wbeavily carried Its sling whose heel had notion IF hand his clawed up, or by the a keg upon sat 2 n of a e3r iitr Hurt " dtvuse room f r Roper w)t!l'n possible shot orce made IK-iiIj- jt with a s ied to e ( oire ' i. SERM New in rone, Co rg 01 R you :oor t him as a headlong dive the three bunks shut behind made zi of vt the thing THE STOKY SO t YU; Uon of his sweetheart. J, y Go- - i ,n and her father. After brtdt - 'ltu. e ln Texas. Roper conduehd a n t rn'lt upon Thorpe's vast herds 'n M , j a Unable to reconcile her father . i'h hop er. Jody set out with Shosho-- , t0 H(j ( After that a full minuU P1 Md and stretched to a mini'- - Pnd a half. Evidently the Uj sts had been farther away from the cal in than Shoshone had calculitci, out Roper heard none of them Ve He thought, "If I can kr c p them interested just ten minutes more" Now a furiously ridden i e ws Roper flattened him coming up self against the wall beside the open door, and waited until he heard the man drop from his pony just outside. He stepped to the door fired once; and a man crashed face downward upon the door sill itself to lie utterly motionless With his boot Roper pushed the inert heap off the door sill, so that the door might be closed at need Because there were only two more shots in his gun, he picked up one of the weapons he had collected, and checked its loading Id stand real still if I was you," he warned the two who stood with their hands up. He fired one more shot between them, for purposes of general discipline. "I ought to kill you; maybe I will in a minute havent decided yet. Now another horse was coming in fast; in another second or two It , Sh',shnne Wilce kejt nn.f! his pony mevirg slowly up and down prevent its stiffening up by too after lts r,,n' JodvVC0llnS followed his example. . "Listen here," Shoshone Wike said at list He dropped his voice, and sat motionless For a moment or twv there was no sound there hthmic breathing of the hard-ruI want to tell ponies you something," Shoshone his voice low, husky, and resumed, strangely unsteady "It looks like I run away and left you when your pony was shot down. I see now it looks like that But I want you to know I didn t go to do nothing like that. Miss Gordon "I know, n only" "I shouldn't have done it," Shoshone said. "I wouldnt do It if I was doing it again I figured I'd be more use to you if I could keep my horse on its feet. I figured I could best handle it like an Indian would pick em off one at a time, and make sure But Id do different if I had it to do again." What else could you have possibly done7 There wasnt any chance for anything else I should have stood and fought, Shoshone said. "Like he would have happened done. "It was better this way," Jody told him. "Dont you worry about it, Shoshone " Shoshone said vaguely, "I want you to tell him about it I want you to tell him I'd do different if I had it to do again. "Why don't you tell him your- irrevocably hurt sprang, a gun from within the shad-li- e blast of its exploited in the close quar the ears ringing in the ir LINK g Shoshone's s! of 45 the same shot was fired. almost In a pipping foil- self7 "Maybe I wilL But if anything comes up sos I dont get the chance "Of course Ill tell him They fell silent, and after that a long time passed Shoshone stopped walking his horse, and sat perfectly motionless close to the wall of the brush corral. The grey light increased, while they waited for what seemed an interminable time It seemed to Jody that in a Rw minutes more they would have to admit that daylight was upon them; it seemed to her that an hour two hours, had parsed, instead of the half hour which Shoshone had decided they could wait But st.ll B.ll Roper did not come "Do you suppose he could have ridden past7" Jody asked No," Shoshone said, verv low in had the man in m the skull of : that silence turned e A six-gu- over the side of the e and the floor from long, dan's Shoshone Wilce held 2 s4 slowly, six-Ih- honless for a moment, straightened si then -y-- ou hit7 "Shoshone began. His voice qua-he- n he had fully ft steadied a gam into 2d flatness as before stly and his Lid of scratch along right " ij, is it you9 s had been curled up of deepest shadows, 3 all Id stand real still if I was you. throat his would into view aroi her corner string of the cabin tcertain Then sud-'-gRoper cast a qunk glance to sie caught the glint U1 tears his captives were v here he that Sr PI which over- -' eves thought they were. They had not moved. He dropped to one ki ee 'ight they'd k 11 iailj you! ,cr arms i dad about his neck beside the door and fired twee on d impulse of a child, quickly as a shape, dark "Mh. whirled around the ccrncr of nearest the table made the cabin That was all the end of the foment toward the hol-la- y war he had started to cover there. Bill Roper t into He never the w all beside the retreat of Shoshone 'an jerked backward remembered the shock of the blow LAD! ' can you ride' that downed him All consciousa curious strain ln the ness ended at once, as sharply as :r rc: Shoshone's vo.ce I'm if cut off with a knife LADE you He never knew which of the two aught UP a men behind him sprang forward to sheepskin free hand, and flung smash him dowm, but he knew as Jy shoulders Get soon as he knew anv thing at adi 2P6d' "Shoot free the that a long time had passed more Pes; amj ride like hell! time than he could afford to lose When she could stand the suspirse dismounted, no more Jody Gord stiffthe maetjon and the odd was sad lie, and now she the in her ening and led her pony while she stamped swurg her arms ' I'll lino my pony She thought. the outside of the around five times he corral. He'll be here by then, must be here by then led She wondtred. as she slowly marked her pony around the crcle of brush, what she by the walls come- -if would do if Pcper did not Perhaps go on7 he never came Perhaps go back back an J.iqv Gordon was fig iting Lie panic irrposs overwhelms She knew the coo1, hard sufficiency had of the men agamst whom Roper the standpoint From pitted himself turned against of rer father, who had able unassuag the knew she male-sinister vast the ,Hethrtthe U Jd-VRoper had raised Un CHtPTER NI 111 see m ricles of 1)3 you where himse aga rst If he were War rider he Texas Rushers Nobody but an old range W oshne. - if ,fs the could have located m e d.ik the caugltnoA.il ths gr p of that malevdathe'- hold them ce o'ence brush corral where Sn ho lr,u nde with her" A'T to restrain and Jody Gordon were suj i sed to ltto kail hciw Pv ml a run, or P'1 said Yo- uik b j wool 'g from I eh you, wait for Bill Roper hpr5tif mV and racing niou ntu g hrr i a simjile j rdA ) by u have T been fr, r at mm. "You a tort p,aLe, if only hi bun wt ere light, in darkness bo. iii" find t xjiress cnjd in vr o n.rvi burnt n Shoshone scouting ability and s,u,; B yhe forced her-in that in ac stinct. Yet somehow bv tlm tbr lifeless . me. si .y, n I IS He of the land, and by his ri. v, I, tl e dav ght fiehanilL 101 " open the ' r7" edge of the habits of tn t it hdd hs men, Shoshone WiUe m s on gne to the the c r dark. in circular corral of biu-d Rul m Roper ness so thick that he ,v Qoric ci, she v tt c q'de Uvo shots j ui t Hem SU he had "found the m In V no !orgt r ire H m &hSh0ne h PomesT had touched it with the thought 1'1' tackle of p A faint line of pro i j ualki d t 'hoof: of came t urer she s appearing on the r n i ill as hot a 'laUey' and R and a whisky jack was . t ,tll, P p w as down w t" tl i i d Li.rst the nyeand jQdj G ously somewhere in low, white-face- -- n s IT i h S "S i -- 11 t U.t i- ted ii ads o, icreapi :g i ' By KATHLEEN ' E u- -n Ti calling out f r . "d, tl f lulhng iut C 11' J d cammed He ty close medid a attl r s"d cba Ce j v er Tl n.in nrJ ofirkward a j,tr .n b its bridle juk non d bif re shi , ,m . 0 the matter' t - n re ha-- f oj.. n, hut he dd not as s' e dro; pid w ( r , I He shot x r. , try" iess t r 01 Sho-ho- , ; n w n jt i r . ht fr m t1 tr'cke t c i at the ts ao r.t (OMIM d snow of ri d the cor rr h s acrr n the in, so G rdon tn get clear. r ard f : irrn r r I , coi r ll b po - A-- - , i t1.1 1 t her re she that Sho- - f lli would have had one in those dark days I did everything at one time washing 70 didies a day as well as the entire family wash, and even Als collars and cuffs In 1934 my father died, leaving me a few thousands that I immediately invested ln two small houses, living in one, renting the other, and taking two boarders to make ends meet AI had a job then, but when I broke down and went for 10 weeks to the hospital we had to borrow From that immaculate dressing, carefully accurate speech, abstention from excesses of all sorts for the table glutton is an even less pleasant sight than the excessive drinker or smoker Gentlewomen don't giggle over questionable stories; they don't e.igirly retail scandal; they don't laugh loudly when someone falls off his cham or mispronounces a word. Culture and fineness are essential to a lady, but the qualities of heart .are j ist as important as those of Husband Is Too Topular. are problems, however, me even to a fine and strong a d cul'i red woman, a woman who - hi r husoands equal, if not superior ,n inellict and soul, and when (. v ar 'e the answer comes in the Are you a per-s,f ini of a qur slion or the echo if some other per- t c , n a. from a woman in Maine, illustrates what l.t'er n I n i have been married 17 years, We have three fine writes of 15 twin girls of bov a chili rm, V,V ny husband, is a good, successful man, extremely stiady, u'ar with every one perhaps p I mean that he with men town clubs, and to golf bilongs inches with associates every day d .intnwn, and always has pleasant busia lv i ntures in friendship when him calls does, it frequently ness as or a week a i iv for a few days A'f. 2 1 at a time Went Through Hard Times. v.iicn our bov Fred was about hard f nr and the girls tiny babies, came A1 lost his job, and ,,, j ,.t the l.ttle home we were buy-V- , e ask'd rrv father, who lives f rt i f"r $100 a month, and , c n at ag'd on that for nearly ve We had two rooms, the ,i r, , ,i , , , i! me came to $10 a could have afforded ,, H if ,i . (p is 1 1,, t i r a in believe me X7T4 H 'fr rZl If! mu itn in nit iiiiiiiii time however things steadily imthe cities, nor the crops, but ln Test of Civilization proved, we sold both houses five of civilization is the kind of men the country turns true test The years ago at double what we had not the census, nor the size of out. Emerson- paid for them ln the depression, and Al went from one promotion to another and our hard times were over Now we have a nice home, two small cars, and I have a good NAVY..-IT- S kitchen helper Alf a Stranger. But far more serious to me than anything that those difficult years brought. the letter goes on, is the fact that for three years now my husband has not shared our lives at all. He is amiable, appreciative of good meals and home comfort But dines at the club, entertains some customer downtown, woiks late at the office and afterwards drops in on some bridge game, makes engagements for all day Sunday, often for Saturday night as well, and tells me, if I make any plan for a family affair or picnic, to go ahead by all means, but not to count on him. Now I resent, at 39, being relegated to the position of a sort of superior servant, a person who must accept ATs careless announcements I am a college gradand good-by- s uate, my family is of a higher rating than his, and but for my fathers generosity I dont know how we could have weathered our hard times Yet I can't beg back my husband's affection and company. The d situation is changing me intoa woman and I wish you could give me an answer to it Make Self an Interesting Individual. CAMELS CONTAINS THE SMOKE OF The answer is, as I said before, is or a question Are you a person the echo of some other person, Pauline7 Al, for all his selfishness and obtuxiniss, is evidently a person He has found a great deal in his life than the average of the 4 other largest-sellin- g to amuse and occupy him; all he asks is that you do the same With cigarettes tested less than any health, home, sufficient income, car, of them according to independent with three fine growing children, you no trouble scientific tests of the smoke itself I certainly should have You dont speak of friends, but cerTHE SMOKF.S THE THING I tainly you have friends. If you could manage club days, gardening days, hours for reading, walking, THE CIGARETTE OF plans with the children, all quite free from any thought of ATs joining COSTLIER TOBACCOS you or any resentment because he Joes not, you would find yourself immersed in so full and happy a life that nine hundred and ninety out of every thousand women in the world might well envy you Keep that son close to you; you won t have a mothers frequent difficulties in patirnal jealousy Join the girls in their homework and Invite a few chums in to study with them. Your real trouble is that for years you held Al in happy monopoly You and he wire inseparable in inBut that never lasts terests It can be regained It will be regained as soon as AI realizes that you are just as busy and complete and interesting and individual an entity as he is. brood-wretche- ii imi tl mi ntrn mi mi IN THE ARMY... daily bath, manicuring, There mSR4D e No matter how rich and beautiful and socially prominent a girl is, if she chouses to adopt rowdy manners use vulgar language, show no cor sideration for the feelings of ohers, defy the code of dignity and if not of actual morality, si she is not a gentlewoman, even though the wealth and power of her family go back a dozen generations Bin onung a Lady. And by the same law any girl who studies fineness in every way, in what she reads, says, does and is, can raise herself from the humblest or least fortunate of backgrounds, and eventually be recognized for what she is, a lady Any girl or woman who feels she is dull, uninteresting, left behind by more fascinating rivals, need only face the situation honestly, to find the cure all about her, easily wuthin reach, and costing nothing It may take her a few years to accustom herself to the necessity of a . in almost d n g ' r m h. i "timated t t Bar said Gordon he had Jody J Unh'rrid'y. ai- - If he doesnt come I I " pcked up the doesn't come d hv S e to to unab'e off. She broke Iftrust,t l!hnan bliosh tsn.h Half an hour W,! collect !.- -' 'fltti r '' hilf wait "We'll said. r Iff. 'G i bne "And then ft " ;tStrCh that iSe of hiV l We've got to go on efTcc' n cir an I cant! Not if he do. practieed "here a k ba. raree Ns rider is We'll have to go gUn e he kicked to heap Jhc'f' We have the door, He said go on ou!d tneSltie v Lt re eiwh v Rt said he like they fnree dropped to a curious "YolV' Undd arm Whatever happen- - you have to go on' n :e'hetoidnrrRetout that! Youwaited then, whne five They 5rr' ab ' that. as sad Its DI SY This wife and mother issues an appeal to Miss Norrts for advice on the problem of getting her husband back into the family fold. Other-uisa model husband, he spends most of his time with others, socially and in business, asking to be left out of family social life. Kathleen Norris goes the reason and suggests a remedy. son? This is an important question, where the happiness of some women is concerned, for unless she can answer it, I am myself, no woman can be happy. For each one of us brings with him, or forms and cultivates in the early years, a complicated mass of likes and dislikes, prejudices and inclinations, and it is the encouragement of some of these and the weeding out of others that makes that baffling, fascinating thing called personality. i v -- NORRIS ,'ou a person or the echo of some other per- r i Are you a person or the echo of some other person, 1auline? Manage all quite free from any thought of Ats joining you or any resentment because he does not. I resent, at 39, being relegated to the position of a sort o superior sertant, a person uho must accept AT s careless announcements and goodbyes. v -- UTAH Poper was looking for Jodv whenhec ' tally net Wilce - "-Tge'erescue her ;e Wilce Pc i.AYS(). ere a''aCted 7're frnorpesmen hidirg In Roper t ack Ce e but l,Ped Jod, was captured , dreaded, so that In 2 fraction of a second r u. Release H v , Kathleen Norris Says: th tn Live Your Husband's Life 15 most were (HROMf I SLOWER-BURNIN- 28 LESS NICOTINE |