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Show TIIE SMITHFIELD SENTINEL, SMITH FIELD, UTAH ; ir-ALAN By SYNOPSIS BUljr Wheeler, wealthy young cattleman, by hla quicktempered owner, became of a mysterkiua In niece Dunn'i with love murder. Billy la Marian, whom he hae not Been for two atlll yea re. She had rejected hla ault and la ene-miee. aloof. Dunna ranch la aurrounded by Including Link Bender, Pinto Halliday and Sam Caldwell, whom bo baa defeated in hla atforta to build a cattle kingdom. Dunn directa hla cow handa. Val Douglaa, Tulare Callahan and othera to aearch for the kill-ar-a horae. He explain to Billy that the morning before he had come upon blood-atalnground at Short Creek and found the trail of a ehod and unihod boree. The ahod borae'a rider had been killed. The body had dlaappeared. Link Bender had arrived at the aceno and read the elgna the way he had. Dunn revealf that became of a financial crlita the ranch may be in Jeopardy; hi enemiee may make trouble, eince Sheriff Walt Amoa li friendly with them. He eaya be haa asked Old Man Coffee, the country's beat trailer, to Join them. Dunn and Billy meet Amos, Link Bender, his son the Kid" and Cavuse Cayetano, an Indian trailer, at Short Creek. Bender has found the slain man's horse, but the saddle is missing. Almost supematurally, cattle attracted to the scene by the blood-staine- d ground, stamp out all the traces. Dunn is angered when Amos tells him not to leave the county. Following an argument. Bender draws his gun, but Dunn wounds him In the arm Back at the ranch Old Man Coffee arrives with a pack of hounds. Coffee goea in aearch of the dead man's saddle. Dunn tells Is at him for tryIncensed that Marian Billy ing to settle disputes by bloodshed. He reveals that the ranch is really hers, also that he recently sold hla own ranch in Arizona and that hla partner. Bob Flagg, is en route with the money. Billy accompanies Marian on a ride to Short Creek. Kid" Bender, now a deputy, rides up. They have an argument. and for a trick Bender tries to shoot him. Billy saves himself for plunging against Bender's pony and the Kid" is injured. Coffee returns to the ranch with the saddle and reveals that Cay use Cayetano is on the trail for Sheriff Amos. The saddle belonged to Lon Magooo a small-tim- e cattle thief. Billy learns he is to be arrested for assaulting Kid" Bender. On the sheriff's orders. Billy and the ranchmen drive Into Inspiration. On the way. Coffee tells him that the murder victim was not shot by the man riding with him. Billy la disturbed when Marian seems to be interested In Val Douglas. At a hearing before Justice Shafer, the sheriff, aided for Dunn's enemies, tries to incriminate Billy for attacking Kid" Bender. amvea at the M ranch, aummoned blend Bone Dunn, Ita elderly and CHAPTER VI g, range. We cant hardly get through a season any more without some Ones poor feller gets been killed only just this week. Now if this guy can pull a gun on an officer, and put him out of business, and then walk out of here, free and easy then we arent going to have any law at all, and I cant answer for it. That's all I got to say. You want to say anything, Wheeler? Shafer asked. Judge, if its got so a man cant even put up bail while he waits for a trial in district court, then theres no justice left. Ill decide that," Shafer said tartly. If its come to a pass where Now you look here, Horse Dunn d. boomed. Quiet here! Shafer snapped. I but what the sheriff's posi- tion is reasonable, and more than reasonable. The statement sworn to by Kid Bender and the statement by the defendant is two different things; but theres a witness backing up Kid Bender. Theres been altogether too much and general ructions on this range. I Just a minute. Marian Dunn said. Judge Shafer halted in full career; and abruptly a new motionless silence came over the people packed into that room, at the sound of the girl's voice. Heh? said Shafer. Ill testify. For a moment Shafer seemed not to comprehend, and there was a moment more of that dense heavy quiet. Sheriff Walt Amos spoke, his voice flat, ironic, and his contempt for the judge was in it the contempt man for a slow of a She can't testify. one. gun-totin- g WHU Service at the disturbance which set the whole room in motion as Sam Caldwell thrust his way through the door and up to the table. Reaching it, Caldwell jerked off his big hat, and threw it on the table like an old-tifighter throwing his hat into the ring. His face was steaming red, marked with sweat Caldwell looked at Judge Shafer heavily, with the dislike that cattlemen have for men whom they consider ineffectual Theres a man been killed anothi own words. er, by God I he said. Cut in two Marian Dunn still sat with her with a shotgun at Ace Springs cheek rested upon her hand; her Walt Amos said sharply, Sam, eyes flicked to Horse Dunn, then to whos killed? Billy Wheeler, but conveyed nothDead since Cayuse Cayetano I was only a little distance ing. yesterday. away I eaw all of it Kid Bender rode up out of the bed of the creek, CHAPTER VII running his horse so hard he had to slide it to keep from knocking As word of Cayuse Cayetanos Wheeler's horse over. They sat murder swept through the street, there talking; Kid Bender seemed the crowd shifted loosely to be threatening Wheeler. Final- and seemed grouped to seethe, gathering in ly d knots. The tracker had Now why do you say seemed? loved by none, respected by been Walt Amos broke in. Either you none; but his trail genius was unheard what was said or you didnt. disputed, and it had been widely Let her tell her story! rumored that he was very close to Finally," Marian continued, Kid revelations. Half a dozen Bender motioned with his head to- important men tried to follow Sam Caldwell ward where I was sitting, and Billy into d the county ofWheeler turned, as if to see where fice, forcing in through a considerable number of the crowd inside who had immediately started to make their way out Though it was Judge Shafers boast that he had never had to clear a court in his life, he was induced He noticed the dark, hard gaze of Link Bender, and the unforgettable green eyes of Rufe Deane, the man who blamed Dunn for the death of his son. This court means to serve out right and justice, not technicalities, And if Miss Dunn Shafer decided. wants to testify. Ill call her as a witness for the court. There was a moments pause. I was at Short Creek, Marian said. Go ahead, Miss Dunn just tell the court what you saw, in your quick-thinki- can't she? Because she hasnt been called Why by either side. I want you people to know, said Judge Shafer, that I'm running this court! In the heavy quiet while Shafer still hesitated, Wheeler watched the faces of Horse Dunns enemies. The young cowbqys were unwillingly friendly to the girl, swayed by an inevitable attraction. But in the faces of the cow bosses Wheeler saw a strange thing.' These older, embittered men were seeing Marian not as a girl but as a part of the 94. dust-muddi- hard-ridin- g 1 half-bree- already-crowde- to do so now. If youve got your court clear, lets have order, said Judge ShaI mean to get this over with. fer. Wheeler, is your defense finished? You yourself called the only eye witness here, and the only witness worth a whoop, Wheeler said. That ought to be defense enough for any man." You got anything more to say, sheriff? Get it over with, snapped the sheriff. If you're going to let in testimony like that last, I cant stop you. And Ive got other work to do. This is as unsatisfactory a case as I've ever seen on this bench," Judge Shafer said. Something's wrong somethings very wrong. Id like to reserve decision and think it Im not through with you. I'D tell you when Im through. Youll have to let my wagon boss go, sos he can drive my niece back to the ranch, Horse Dunn told him. The sheriff looked at Dunn for a moment, without seeming to see him; he appeared to be listening, or weighing other things. All right On condition that he immediately gets out of town. An hour from now I dont want to find he's still here. Ill be out of here, all right Val Douglas said. Well Ill see you start You ready. Miss Dunn? Better take my roadster, Marian, Billy Wheeler said. He gave her the key, and she accepted it without meeting his eyes. After Marian and Val left Sheriff Walt Amos spoke. Dunn, he said at once, where Crazy Patch Work at Home in a Modern ?c!ting was Val Douglas yesterday? Nine-Mile He was in Valley,1 crazy patch is the oldest as at A, allowing enough to turn rHEquilt Dunn said. patterns, yet there is under, as at B, wlwre the patch And thats not so far from Ace modern in laps over the one next to it. Baste amazingly something Springs, is it? lines. So whether your the turned edges down, as shown. its angular Not so far. living room is traditional in stvle When a number of patches havr But riding toward Santiam hed or newer than tomorrow you will been basted in pincc, sew them be going just the opposite way from be interested in the revival of down to the foundation with the Ace Springs, wouldnt he? crazy patch work for what our embroidery stitches and then re Whats that got to do with it? move the bastings. The backing and Toward Santiam, said the sheri- grandmothers throw. ia tied to the front with silk em called a,slumber ff, was where he said he was, A corner of one of these old silk broidery thread as comforters are when I asked him a while ago. crazy quilts is shown here at the tied. Little or no padding may be Whats your answer to that? lower right. The pieces were used and a plain band around the The two men eyed each other. If small many not more than lMt edge is effective. was he he said up toward Santiam, mches wide or long. A variety of Every Homemaker should have he was probably up toward Santithe copy of Mrs. Spears' new book, stitches joins embroidery am, Dunn said. and figured SEWING. Forty-eigh- t pages f The sheriff grunted and half pieces. Both plain p directions for making the were silks plain patches used, without humor. How grinned, often being embroidered with slipcovers and dressing tables; relucky. With a man dead at Ace fans and other amusing storing and upholstering chain, Springs, naturally Douglas was as flowers, note the beetle embroidcouches; making curtains for evmotifs far away as he could get! Where colone Several ery type of room and purpose. on ered patch. were you, Wheeler? lampshades, rugs, ottoOne by one they each gave their ors of silk embroidery thread were Making and mans other useful articles arin the most used but answers, tersely, without concili- generally one color pre- for the home. Readers wishing a ation, as the same question was put tistic of these quilts copy should send name and addominated in the embroidery. to each. dress, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. with simple patches Larger I want you boys, the sheriff said e herring-bonand Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., stitch to his deputies, to remember what feather stitch at the joinings also give a Chicago, Illinois. these boys have said. You figure to keep us here all good effect. The pieces are sewed to a foundation of some firm soft night? Horse Dunn demanded. to turn out of Im going here material Outing flannel or an old you wool blanket are good. Pin a piece in ten minutes, Amos said. Rufe Deane, swinging up the in place over the space to be filled, wooden steps, was in time to catch trim the edges to the right shape, the sheriffs answer. He now thrust in, his green eyes ugly under his shaggy sorrel brows. Youre going to what? he said. I have no intention, the sheriff said, of holding these men on what we got against em so far." STARTS WORKING IX Rufe Deane angered with an obvious, unexpected violence. , Opening Jars. A strap With n SECONDS These menll never leave this buckle on one end can be used to town," he said. good advantage in opening glass I decide that here, said the fruit jars. Run the strap through sheriff. the buckle and tighten it around Rufe Deane stared at him a mothe cap. This enables you to ment longer, green fury in his eyes. get a good grip on the lid. Suddenly he tore off his deputy's badge and threw it on the floor. Small Molds for Pudding, In Maybe you do, he said. He turned and went out into the street, the placet of one large basin for a high heels of his boots clumping steamed pudding, try several small molds, placing them all in slowly, restrained; but as he disThey will appeared from view they heard his one large saucepan. take half as long to cook as one step quicken on the board walk. Walt Amos said, You want that large pudding. badge, Sam? Sam Caldwell hesitated a moDried Peel. It is nice to dry the All right, he said. ment. skins of several oranges and lemThe sheriff turned on his remain- ons and them, then putting If either of you want them in grate ing deputies. a glass bottle in the reto string with Rufe Deane, now's to be kept for flavoring the time to say so! Because the next frigerator It An people who suffer occasiomHy purposes. certainly saves time of office to is this job guarantee in the future and one is inclined from headaches ought to kssw these men safe conduct out of to use these in interestthis way to quick relief. flavorings town. if already at hand. ing ways Link said At the first sign of such pais, Walt, Bender, Im for you and I always have been; and take two Bayer Aspirin tablets Preserving Bright Color. Cook- there's mighty few jobs Id back with a half glass of water. Soae off from as a peace officer. But I ing preserves or jelly rapidly times if the pain is unusufiy accedon't know as I can bring myself to helps to retain the bright color of severe, one more tablet is the fruit. The addition of pectin turn my hand to that! directions. to according later, ssary Horse Dunn spoke up, his voice shortens the necessary cooking If headaches keep coming back Who the time. rumbling in his chest. we advise you to see your own hell wants safe conduct?" he said for the When tired Linoleum. contemptuously. Dissolve a Polishing physician. He will look youre correct of jawing, we'll move on out it cause is order to lump of sugar in the water when (TO BE COXTINVEDi washing linoleum or oilcloth, and a brilliant polish will result. rs step-by-ste- over." Reserve, hell I Lets have it, one way or the other, Amos demanded. All right I All right! Have it your You Want Me to Finish With own way! Case dismissed! Cross Questioning This Sheriff Walt Amos angrily crashed his open hand upon the table top and Theres a sweet deciup. I was. While Billy Wheeler was stood sion! turned away Kid Bender jerked out his gun. It was the most unfair, un- a Any other court would give you contempt for that," said Shafer warranted thing you could possibly The court stands adwaspishly. imagine. journed! You mean to say He crammed his papers into his Be still I" said Shafer. Wheeler saw the gun just in brief case and stalked out, looking time. He half dropped out of the angry, inputted, and anxious to get saddle evidently trying to avoid away bom there. Nobody spoke to the shot; he seemed to try to get him or interfered with him as he the neck of Benders horse between went down the steps and out of sight himself and the gun. Just then Ben- in the street, moving at a hurried ders gun went off. Both horses amble. Sam Caldwell came back in, jumped; but Benders reared, and nging with him Pinto Halliday fell over backwards." ,.d Link Bender, their deputies' Well, when did Wheeler fire? He didnt fire at all. badges half hidden, but evident. You want me? said Link. But what about this gunsmoke? Stick around here. Wheres Rufe I didn't see any smoke. There was a lot of dust going up from the Deane? He'll be here in a minute. ground, but that was all. There's other work to do, said This is remarkable, said ShaLink Bender, that can't be done fer. Its an almighty funny thing, here. I better be getting at it! said Walt Amos Amos said, that this wasnt put Stay here, in by the defendant in the first shortly. Link Bender stared at him a moplace I You want to cross examine, ment, then leaned against the wall, his dark hawk face hard and Amos? I certainly do, said the sheriff. If you're through with us well Look here. Miss Dunnl How long have you known this man Wheel-- , be leaving, said Horse Dunn. er? Whats the point to that? Wheeler demanded. Swiss Service Dogs Judge, said Amos, I claim this woman is Special Courses tight-lippe- d. Train Watch yourself! said Billy ' , Wheeler. There was a general stir through all that dense press of men. Come to order! said Shafer. I I don't mean, Billy Wheeler began, to let this Will you come to order, said Shafer, or take a contempt of court? Outside there now rose a disturbance as a car came careening down the street; it half spun as it skidded to a stop in the middle of the roadway in front of Sam Caldwell, Shafers .office. dust-cruste- d heavy-necke- d ally of his way Bender, forged through the crowd and came shouldering up the steps. Inside and outside the quiet broke into mumbling square-se- t, Link disorder. g You want me to finish with this witness, the sheriff was demanding of the judge, or not? If you want me to clear this cross-questionin- court Ruth Wyeth Spears AluUlbf MAY Continued They were at the point of the whole thing, now. If the 94 had a chance, it depended on the activity of Wheeler, who, with his credit and his cow finance connections, might gain time for Horse Dunn. Not the danger of ultimate conviction, but delay on a trumped-u- p charge was what Wheeler feared. Horse Dunn snarled in his throat, and there was an instants silence. Nothing could have shown the force at the man, and the resented power he held, better than that! Order I said Judge Shafer, looking startled. Order in the court I His command sounded fantastic in that quiet room, for Dunn said nothing. is a This, Amos went on, wealthy man, as folks around here go. And hes lined up with a wealthy outfit. But its people like him that raise the hell around here, always water-hogginalways roughing the cant see LE 1 I've never had to dear a court yet," said Shafer. I what's going on here? He sat back and stared scowling for Mans test friend, the dog, has proved his worth in numerous ways and for many centuries dogs have been playing an important role in human warfare. Originally, states a correspondent in the Philadelphia Inquirer, an attempt waa made to press the animals into field hospital service. 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