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Show THE SMITIIFIELD SENTINEL, SMITHFIELD. UTAH 4- By 17 Ruth Wyeth Spears e AluLfU ALAN LEMAY CHAPTER XIV - JqSEw WNUSarvIcs hind Walt Amos house, which was the nearest dwelling. lot, Horse, he went on, about how anybody would ever come to take a shot at her. Now I think I know. "What are you coming to, boy? Horse Dunn said. said Billy Wheeler-Ho- rse Horse, I know who killed Marians pony last night; and I know why. He saw Horse Dunns big shaggy head sway and tip a little to one side as the old man sought to peer more closely into Wheelers eyes. If you know that he began. Wheelers voice was flat and relaxed with utter certainty. You know I do. Horse. Billy Wheeler could hear his own blood beating in his ears, like a far-of- f Indian drum; and this time the silence was a terrible silence, un- breaking restraint. In Gods name, how did you find out? From something Marian said. After the first shot at her, she said, I'm glad it happened. I cant tell you why. I know now what she meant by that. Those shots proved her that no one who loved her was mixed up in the Short Crick works. And today it suddenly came to me that just to fix that idea in her mind might have been reason enough for dropping those shots near her. Then I remembered the ly seem fitting. night when you taped up your ankle where it was skinned, and spoke oi Theres a special reason I want you to come, for a minute or two. straightening your spur. Of course, n Have it your own way. a spur doesnt skin a man's ankle bone. Some boot weapon would have Sheriff Walt Amos swung wide the to do that; and a derringer would outer door. Im putting you on your honor not to try any funny endurable to those gathered there. have fitted in a derringer carrying Make Luncheon Sets of Striped Material. shotgun shell. The shot in the business, he said. But in case of Dunn said in an saddle Horse Coffee," fooled Coffee, for a while; doubt just remember how easy it napkins and mats are for the fringe. Save the threads unnatural voice, Ill talk to this it looked to him like it came from would be to cut loose on you from and then whipped to you pull out and u?n them for fringed boy alone. than the horses had keep them from raveling and to whipping the edge as I have shorn farther the house! away Perhaps some faint persistent stood apart, and made him think You talk like a child, said CofThis is a here at C. hope that he was .wrong had lasted there was a third man. But I just strengthen the edge. finish to use fee. and Every Homemaker should have easy quick very in Billy Wheelers mind. to think that the shot could for linens of the coarser weaves a copy of Mrs. Spears' new book, It seemed strange, Billy Wheeler somewhere But when Horse Dunn told Old Man happened thought, that the old king of cattle, Coffee to go out, Wheeler knew that have come from a short, weak gun and is in harmony with peasant SEWING. Forty-eigpages of?' Well with the same effect. the man who could not only dream a he had not been directions for rr.aking I dishes and provincial furniture. but that wrong, been has Coffee finished Wheeler cow kingdom but make it live, was In cutting the material for the slipcovers and dressing they were at the end. to be found standing here in a to Pahranagat; he found out that and upholstering chairs and napkins it is best to pull mats Old Man Coffee moved quickly, Flagg came through there like a jail. Yet, within the black with curtains for ecouches; making so the that to a thread the smooth, sliding stride of bum. guide you very type of room red purpose. be will straight one of his own lion hounds. He perfectly edges Dear God, Horse Dunn whisand fringe easily. Cut right along Making lampshades, rugs, otto was glad to be out of there. For a pered. Its the end of the rope n mans and other useful articles for moment the young sun splashed He pulled his hands away, and be- - t1. ttJ Pcnin8 ,ma' the home. Readers wishing q as copy thread the brildoor with terial the the by drawing through open gan to pace the two strides that the name and address, liance of a powder flare-uthen cell permitted back and forth, shown at A. Plan the size of the should send enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, the half-darclosed again as Coffee back and forth. mats and napkins so that the ma- 210 South Desplaincs St., Chicago. to cut will let the door swing shut behind him. terial good advantage Marian, Wheeler begged, tell Illinois. themwill heard of the crunch his heels him you see and the stripes arrange They in the dirt as he walked off down Marian raised her face, surpris- selves in a pleasing way through the side of the hill. ingly in command of herself again. the centos of each piece. Napkins Canny Politician Had You go too, Marian, Horse Her voice was steady. I do see for this purpose may be as small Dunn said softly. as nine inches square though a Desire in the Matter Billy and I want it! I see it all! to he raised many people like them a little Dunns pacing stopped; You want her to stay here, Who was it said the Englirii big shaking hands, pleading hands. larger than this. The mats are Horse, I think." And yet you you aint you dont usually about eleven by eighteen couldnt take a joke, and that Stay here? The old mans voice think inches. was blurred by a strange and unacAt a hectic political meeting Marian cried out to him and Pull out the threads to make the You want there was pain in her voice, but customed uncertainty. as I have shown where representatives of the varat the edge fringe her to stay here? in it, too I think here at B. From a half to three-quarte- ious parties were gathered, an there was Its you that needs her here, nobody everglory loved anybody so much of an inch is a good depth English politician, while addresi-inWheeler told him. Then after a mo- as the assemblage, was struck you have proved you love me! ment he said, almost inaudibly I I cant hardly believe full in the face with the body of a Tell her, Horse. down onto the Horse Dunn dead cat. It came from the direcAn odd back light from one of the bare steel cotsagged within his cell. Martion of the audience. A look of high ventilators outlined Dunns big ian, if youre telling me that you great anger came over his fan shaggy head and the sweep of a you know and yet youre backing as he prepared to seek out the By John Barclay great shoulder, but his eyes they me, still " perpetrator of the vile deed. Bat could not see. As he spoke it seemed The girl was pressed against the Ksafiaf Expert from the audience arose one whs that it was not the big old fighter bars that her from him. Im said: "Please, sir. Im very sorry. kept who stood there, but an old man as telling you that I believe in you with meant it for your opponent. I With Coal Fresh Fire Bank Tell child. Only vaguely bewildered as a all my heart! "Well, my friend, came ths her? he said dimly. You want Never Smother It With Horse Dunn stood up slowly, like quick reply from the injured ont, me to tell her Then Speak Out, Man! He Said man in a dream. Ashes or Cinders. I sincerely wish that you hid Once more the silence descended, He said, How much have you meant it for me and it hit him." shadows of concrete and steel Horse brutal, it held on end- told her, boy? complete; Dunn towered bigger than ever, is no mystery about She knows only what shes lessly, as if no one of them was ever Deferred Dufy bank a fire for the straighter than ever; he seemed, going to be able to break it again. guessed, I think. The rest of the not an old man at the end of his And still Horse Dunn did not like to give you the Id night. A speak to come has from story you. duty dodged is like a debt urope, but a young giant, easy in his nor move, but stood like a frozen 94 appeared to easiest, simplest method I know npaid; it is only deferred, and an The of boss the strength. The great sense of latent man, a great shadowy figure just consider for what seemed a long of, so that you will have no trouble must come back and settle the ao f power that radiated from Horse beyond the bars. Billy Wheeler tried time. I I dont know as I can getting abundant heat in the count at last. Joseph F. Newton. Dunn made it seem that he only to to break say make out to do that. Life hasn't morning. something, anything, waited here within these cramped that terrible taut stillness; but he gone easy, or smooth, with me. To make room for fresh coal, walls because he wilfully used his could not. Other times, long ago. Ive faced shake the grates gently until you own great body as a pawn, laid in Suddenly Marian Dunn stumbled other men, more men than see the first red glow in the ashhazard while he awaited his ad- forward, against the bars. She down Then pull the live coals these. But I swear I never raised pit! vantage. No matter bow many medicines reached through, drew Horse gun to any man, without he got his toward the front, using a shovel But there were tears in Marians Dunns wrists tried for your cough, ebest die barrier, break I I stood with empty hands, or a hoe, so that the bed slopes you havebronchial through Irritation, you an . or cold, eyes. and hid her face in his two great always, until their guns showed. downward from the edge of the get relief now with Creomulstou Horse Dunn grinned upward and hands. Her voice came to them She has to know it all, Billy fired oor to the back. Shovel fresh Serious trouble may be brewing ana about him at the steel and concrete. choked and smothered. cannot afford to take a cnancs into coal you the careful hollow, being insisted; from the very beginning. The walls could not shame him it with any remedy less potent thanto I didnt know I didnt know I cant hardly expect her to un- to leave a spot of live coals exwas he who shamed the walls. A which goes. right Creomuiston, Horse Dunn's words shuddered as derstand how it come up. Those posed in front to act as a hot aids naths seat of the trouble and Inflamed thousand miles of range have to be What-whcried out in he didn't I shots close so to the threw her that's spot gases given ture to soothe and heal the. loosen igniting held by money and cows and men why. the crazy part, that a man can't off by the fresh coal, preventing mucous membranes and to I got enough troubles on this not by a little tin contrivance vou know? phlegm- ld and expel the germ-ladso love me That hardly explain. I couldnt ever have puffs and explosions. range, Amos said, without outside palmed off on the county .by some much . . ." remedies have failed. If Even other if I done for know didnt it, certain Allow sufficient time for these capital pitching in to make things hardware salesman. You think ti be discouraged, try Creonna; f that I could put a slug into a two-b- it gases to be exhausted before dont worse for the common run of cow- can hold me here an hour, ones .O' stem Yotm druggist to authorized Wheeler saw the old fighter sway; piece at a hundred yards ten men. the fire. When this is refund omong decide to move out? but in a moment he was steady out of ten, easy as youd put your banking In short, you and your gang has close the ashpit damper, done, No one answered him. There from the wry. been afraid Id help Dunn save the where the daylight could hardly en- again. He spoke across Marians finger on a nail. It seems a wild open the check damper, leaving fltsobtalned bottle. Creomulsion toonewwd-- Mt bent head, and his voice had a hard and crazy thing, even to me. But M. You tried to railroad me, here ter, the silence had a the turn damper as nearly closed two, and It has no hyphm j of deYou dont know what you're I tell you, never a man lived that in Judge Shafer's court but you scending sharply, like theway as possible. Never leave the fire-do- Ask for It plainly, see that toe nwg of edge. about. Old Man Coffee closing could has throw the fear into me that didnt get away with it Maybe iron doors. After a little of that talking open after the fire is banked on the bottle to CreonuUata W loading you with Look here; this kid has always been able to you'll get the genuine product for the you've got other things in mind to quiet no one could forget that a man been night. (Aar J want relief in the he on is you this? on scare the that shed out WNU just of the way of had been found dead in the Red Service. quit try, to get me I'm virtually certain he knows, me. And I thought if there was one your plans. I dont know anything Sleep, and another at Ace Springs, he figured it out different thing she'd be sure of on earth, it about that. and still another at the head of a though was that I'd give my life to save than I did." People from outside, that figure gorge without a name. Figured out what? Spit it out, the least hair of her head from to throw in against the best interWheeler knew that Old Man Coharm. And I took that way; so that Amos began. ests of this range ffees eyes were watching him, wait- man! Horse," said Wheeler with more she'd always be dead certain, whatAll right. Now you've got a ing for him to speak. He drew a chance to get rid of me. You give deep breath and broke the silence. sadness in his voice than he had ever might happen or be proved ever known in the world before, later, that it couldnt be true that it me what I want and Ill promise he said, the whole can name you every Horse, was me killed Flagg. step of out of be this case killing you Ill works has been kind of stood on its Horse Dunn's voice blazed up, (TO BE CONTINUED) within 24 hours. UOTfrX head, since I saw you last. You havent got any official Horse Dunns voice rumbled. NEWIIOLS Well, thats good! standing in this case to begin with. Most Amos pointed out. Wheeler's voice was very low; he You'd like to see me drag my found that he could hardly speak. in Pupils No, Horse: it isn't good. This is freight, just the same! And here's how you can get it done. maybe the worst thing that any of Teach a boy to add fractions us have come to. ever, in all our patient, and when the troubleWell? and confidently, says some area was found, treatment was pleasurably trails. Coffee Man and Horse long Old Held in that sharp, hard silence Dr. Charles A. Stone of Chicago, the concentrated there. In most cases, Dunn's niece are here with me. Give doctor, and overnight he said, he discovered that an inus an hour to talk to Horse Dunn that could clamp down so suddenly "arithmetic ambitions his are likely to change ability to add, or to work with decicould feel chill the of the here they the alone. That's proposition and walls. Wheeler was seeking a way from a desire to be a policeman to mals or fractions, or to apply the all of the proposition. a hope he can be President of the processes 'of arithmetic in solving And if I do that you'll pull out to go on. 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS United States. was Marian her uncle's problems of every day life befogged holding of here? He will become hand a now and her mind student's probably cheek, aggresagainst generality. Within 24 hours. I'll stay out sive, sureminded, determined, in When those points were thoroughuntil the killing case against Ilurse Horse drew his hand away. Billy. to his . Then. contrast previous shyness, ly explained and the students masDunn is cleared up, one way or he said; and hesitated. Speak out, man! he said at last. backwardness and tardiness i n tered their problems. Dr. Stone another. After that maybe I'll come Two-thre- e different things have grasping ideas, contends the De said, many of them discovered they back to the 94 and maybe I'll help said. Wheeler Marian Paul university professor who ac- could figure fractions or work with I don't its happened, finance: one with say it Lon Magoon dead, a lit- quired the sobriquet, the arithmedecimals as well as any average the way or the other. But if you want and I found tic doctor by devising a new meth- student. Then they realized, is our aim to serve you in me out of it fur the time being tle way back in the hills. Coffee, od possibly of teaching mathematics. , here, he went to Pahranagat for the first time in their lives, he here's your chance. manner most pleasing to y00. Ilowd Magoon die? Horse Recently Dr. Stone established a said, their mentality was on a par There's a hook in this some Dunn asked. special arithmetic "clinic as an ex- with fellow pupils and they had no place, Amos said. But inI'll take Wheeler would not be turned periment in treating" lagging pu- reason to look up to anyone. Imthe Horse Dunns chance. jail Cafeteria Baft Dining Room where he belongs. I'll take you there aside. "I guessinthat don't so much pils. He decided to diagnose the mediately. he added, their entire perview of a couple case of each matter, Horse, ailing" student in sonalities were virtually remodeled. and Ill give you an hour. Mrs. J. II. Waters, Pnt. Ctauuieey-yiri,The Inspiration jail was tiny, but of other things. For one thing, Mar- much the same manner as a physi- They romped and played with new from out had ian shot horse uses her for cian his into most modern their studies with patients. vigor, entered it was' perhaps the in plain light, oack in the under Tests were given to locate the a new zest and disclosed an eagerthing in the town. It sat by itself hills. her, whole I've been thinking a particular place of difficulty for each ness to cultivate new friendships. on a rise of ground 200 yards be rhe early sun was upon the broad jnain street of Inspiration as Billy Wheeler drove Horse Dunn's tour fag car into the little cow town. Old Man Coffee was in the back seat, this time without any of his dogs. Marian, who had been dozing against Billys shoulder, sat up and looked at the vacant street with a It seemed detached curiosity. trange to see the street so empty .and silent, where last they had seen it full of knotted groups of men. No stealthy movement in doorways this time, no eyes covertly watching 'them from under hats nothing but clean horizontal sunlight 00 quiet dust, as if nothing lived in this place at all. You still don't Marian said, want to tell me what youre going to do?'' It isnt that I don't want to tell you. It's just that its its got to come to you in another way. This is a dramatic thing rather terrible thing, Marian said, this coming to the end of a killer's trail. "Don't look at it that way. I want you to think of this thing with all the impartiality you can. You know now that our western code is different code. Not the code of the old days, nor the wild kind of thing some people have tried to make out it is, such as never existed here or any place else. But Just a kind of a way of going about things that is bred into dry country tnen the way of each man making tiis own right and wrong, each man looking only to himself for approval in the end. Maybe you're only going to learn the story of a kind of a kind of private execution; maybe by a man who believed with all his heart that he was in the right. She looked at him wonderingly for a minute; she had never heard him talk in that way before. Billy, Billy, don't you trust me to face out anything, even yet? Dont you think 1 have any courage at all? "I trust your courage more than Ive ever trusted anything In my life. Or you wouldn't be here now. Wheeler drove through the town and turned up a side street to the house where Sheriff Walt Amos lived. leaving Marian and Old Man Coffee in the car he walked around the little house to the back door; there was a smell of breakfast cooking here, and Walt Amos himself was souzling water over his face and hair at a wash bench beside a pump. The young sheriff straightened up and stared at Wheeler for a long moment through dripping water. Hardly expected to see you here. I've come to make a deal with you, Wheeler said. Dont hardly seem theres any deal to be made between you and me. Horse Dunn isnt going out on bail. Get it out of your head. Amos began to dry his face and hair. This is something else, Wheeler said. Youve wanted me out of this picture. Youve wanted me out of it from the start. You know why, and theres no need for us to go into In structure it was a square cube of concrete, with tiny air holes near the roof, and an iron door. Within was an inner cage of steel bars, separated from the outer shell, all the way around, by a corridor four feet wide. The place had no great capacity, but it would have been a double job for a good cracksman to make his way out. Old Man Coffee was reluctant to visit Horse Dunn here. Dont hard20-fo- ot ten-gallo- j ht step-by-st- tables-restorin- two-by-fo- ur me six-gu- p; m 33 k rs g Home Heating Hints I ti There Still Coughing? at en you-pcou- or Wffl'TOi "Arithmetic Doctor Has Clinic to Aid Treating the Lagging Salt Lakes Hospitable Hotel Invites YOU The Newkouse Hotel The Finest in Hotel Accommodations at Moderate Prices It "BP imAMiMtfttaiwMAlitoKMtogfcthh X.4 'HL M . left jeu teat hifit tuu Orica |