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Show THE BULLETIN 111 El BHB jra'oy...v.'.s SSSWAtty D. APPLETON -- CENTURY ft I) CO By KC WIRE TIIE STORY THUS FAR was a kind he ought to remember. "Let's have the makings, brothSummoned to th C C ranch In central er." The ramrod figure had come e Walt Candy la on Nevada, detert-wishit way to help hia old range partner, beside him. BUI Hollliter. Riding through unlamlllar Their eyes met "Brush-poppe- r, country, Walt la topped short by a girt who bold a rifle In firing position. She are you?" the dark one asked. knowi him, tella him bow to get to the "So, so," said Gandy. "Down my ranch, and tella him that they will meet again. Walt la allowed to ride on. Within way we work cattle in cover that a quarter of a mile from hla destination, rattlesnakes crawl into and get broWalt la stopped again. This time by a ken backs trying to crawl out of. n man who tells him grotesque, to get out and then tella him the CC Yeah, I guess I'm a brush-poppcrew Is In Emigrant, the closest town, all right" He took a drag on his for an tnqueat Someone has been murdered. Riding to the inquest in Emi- cigarette. grant, Walt leaves his horse at the livery The other grinned faintly. The stable. Before attending the inquest he unceasing study of his gaze shifted asks a few questions. Cash Cameron, .owner of the C C ranch. Is In trouble. A downward. hard but honest man. Cash haa many No gun belt nor holster sagged at enemies. Gandy'a eye Is caught by a roan horee tied near the doorway. It Walt Candy's right thigh, but a belongs to the girl who stopped him worn and faded patch along the earlier In the day. Chlno Drake, former cook at the CC ranch, haa been mur- seam of his blue Jeans was a plain dered and Sheriff Ed Battle la trying to mark to any interested observer. A pin the blame on Cash Cameron. The revolver carried on border duty had girl ia called to the stand. She la Helen rubbed that spot Some men might Cameron, Cash's daughter. guess at another purpose. Abruptly this one said, "I'd like CHAPTER IV Continued to talk to you." "Sure," said Gandy. "Fire away." Facing the girl from hit station "Not here. Over there." The black Battle the said: table, farther.along "This inquest meeting was called head nodded across the street Walt tossed away his cigarette. for one o'clock today. Seemi funny that all the C C people got here saying nothing; they moved togetb- on time, and you didn't show up for more than an hour, and then alone. Mind explaining why, and where you were?" The handkerchief came away from the girl's lips. Distinctly she said, "I was not feeling welL I stayed home until the last minute." "On the CC ranch?" Battle persisted. "I was home. I can prove that" v She coughed. Her head turned. With an effort Walt Gandy remained motionless, as for the sec ond time that pulling look of Helen Cameron's dark eyes reached out to him. She was asking him to stand by her! Perhaps he alone knew the truth of where she was today. Was she going to call on him to . . . His leap was automatic. It had started in the split second that he saw the handkerchief drop from her fingers. Helen was going limp, falling. She caught herself on the table momentarily, and with the release of spring steel that had hurled him forward, Walt Gandy was the first to grab her as she collapsed. er Instantly other arms reached for her. He saw the stern face of Cash r. Cameron, and behind Cash, Bill Hol-liste- It was Hollister who shoved through savagely, brushing aside all others as be swept the small limp body close to him.. He looked into Walt Gandy'a eyes, flickered recognition, yet gave no sign of that knowledge audibly . . . and Walt knew then that he and the CC foreman must not be connected here. He started to back away. One arm still touched the girl, and it was then that he felt her fingers slip swiftly to his hand, grip it, press something wadded into his palm. He closed upon it and continued to back away. Walt Gandy worked bis way from the filled aisle. He stepped across had and unoccupied - benches reached the jam at the entrance, when behind him he beard the bull voice of Sheriff Battle: "Close those doors! Lock 'em!" Deputies struggled to obey, but the double doors, hinged to swing inward could not be readily closed against the thrust of men. Angrily Battle's two guards flailed into the pack. In time enough of the curious crowd was beaten backward to allow the doors to be swung and locked. Walt Gandy had taken a blow on the head, one on the side of his but neck, another in the ribs when the entrance to Gospel Hall had been blocked at last, he was among the overflow shoved outside. He put bis hand into his blue jeans pocket and felt the wadded thing. Without looking, he knew it was Cameron's handkerchief, Helen dropped upon the table, recovered. In the wad was a lump; and then Walt Gandy needed to feel no further to know that he was carrying away the inquest's key piece of evidence a bullet from the body of ... a murdered man. With a queer cold sensation the truth came to him across all other theories and puzzlements of this day. Bill Hollis ter! They were in love. And Hollis ter had murdered a man. Walt gained the open street and looked around. Men bad been shot for knowing less than he knew this short-cutti- ng minute! CHAPTER V a moment the street un til he found the Emigrant post of' flee. He went in ana asKea xor a box. "Forty cents," said the clerk, and gave him a number and a key. Leaning upon a desk that sloped from the end partition, left arm addressed an holding his weight-henvelope to himself, then bought stamps and mailed it When he turned from the mail slot a man was eyeing him from the post office door. Apparently the man had stopped short in passing and stood now but half turned, balanced in a pivoting y boots. movement on The ramrod form and hard black eyes were vaguely familiar. Walt Gandy knew he had looked into that sham and swarthy face before. It moved in WALTback along e cow-oountr- "I was home, I can prove that" er across to the wide maw of the livery barn. They had reached long covered grain bins beside the runway. He backed against one and propped himself, half sitting. The ramrod figure faced him. I've been ordered to hire some help," the man said openly. "That s what I'm in town for. With, everyone drifting in to the hearing, it looked like a good chance to take my pick. You want work?" "Cows?" Gandy asked. "Moving about two thousand head," said the man. Walt glanced past him. "Short' time job, huh?" "Pay'll make up for it" "I don't know," said Walt slowly, shaking his head. "I don't like this country so much. Was traveling for Utah, maybe to quit this cow business and do me some prospecting. I don't know," be mused. "More ATTERN D WNU SERVICE parently he qualified for what this stranger wanted, and he did not know whether that fact was a compliment or discredit "Cash Cameron," the man an swered. "But the C C is done for, everyone knows that Cameron's tangled up with the law right now, over a killing on hia ranch. That's what this Inquest Is about He's in a hole and before he gets himself out of it those money bags of his will be too flat to carry much stock on this range." And then as a conclusive amendment: "If he gets out at alL" "Cameron caught that bad?" "Will be. Sunk, sure as taxes! That's what and the Emigrant ranchmen know it There's going to be one smashing scramble for public range that the CC controls. But the man I'm boss for Is getting the Jump. Satisfied now?" Candy's brown gaze hardened. "Friend." he said, "that kind of rubs me the wrong way, heaving rocks In on a man when he's at the bottom of a hole." The focus of his eyes sharpened. "Any chance that someone reached out and shoved him in?" "What do you care!" The easy voice turned suddenly surly. "How about the job?" Walt measured the distance be tween himself and the ramrod body, He looked into the black eyes. " wouldn't handle it" be said, "with a pitchfork and rubber gloves!" It took a second for that to penetrate. "Why you skunk! You draw me out then turn me down?" A hammerhead fist lashed upward. Walt Gandy had measured the distance welL He drew his chin back only a little. The fist shaved CHAPTER VI AAAAAiAl a AAA A AAA EPARTM ENT Ai inquest was over, and Walt put his Sunspot palomino into a thinning crowd along the street Already knots of men had formed to rehash again this thing that bad descended upon the Emi grant Bench, and it seemed to Walt as he passed among them, that each group represented an individu al war-camHelen Cameron's roan horse was not where Walt had seen it at a post near Gospel Hall. He passed the windowed store building, now empty. A man stepped suddenly from a street comer and stopped him with an upraised left hand. Walt Gandy looked down from his saddle. The man flipped back the lapel of his coat to let the silvered surface of a deputy's badge gleam THE with a touch of quaintness that adds much charm to Its simplicity. You'll find it one of the best little-gi-rl fashions you ever dis covered, and the source ef many different daytime outfits for your small daughter. A linen or gingham pinafore, with mull or dimity blouse, will be pretty for general wear. Plaid or striped seersucker will be practical for the pinafore when she wears it as a sunback frock can be tubbed so easily, and needn't be ironed. The sew chart gives complete, detailed p. step-by-st- rp Pattern No. sizes 2, 4, 8674 8 and is designed for years. Size 4 marequires 2H yards of terial for pinafore and panties; T,s yard for blouse, 2ft yards rib bon. Send order to: 8 35-m- ch momentarily. "Sheriff wants to see you," he said. "Office is down there." The deputy pointed Into a cross-streHe followed afoot as Gandy turned his palomino in that direction. Sheriff Battle sat behind an andesk, slouched in cient a swivel chair with a back high enough to support his large head. A second man. seated on a wall bench running from the desk end, was Hollister. The CC foreman uncrossed long legs and stood up, his weathered, studious face lighting with a grin. "This the man you mean, Battle? I know this fellow. You don't need to search him." He turned to Walt and held out his hand. "How are et SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Iff New Montsomery Ave. CaliL Saa Francisco Enclose IS cents la coins for Size Pattern No. Nam ., Address flat-topp- you?" Spaed housacUanlngl Bill Hollister knew nothing about the stolen bullet Walt Gandy was certain of that as he gave back the handclasp and the grin. He looked into the face of this partner who had urged him up from the border. across two weeks of hard desert travel, and in that silent second he was aware of something. Bill Hol BUSY mothers with lively little size range in the lister had changed. How, he could not say, had no time to consider, can solve several important prob for even as the thought flashed to lems with this one clever, very complete pattern (8674). It in him, he heard Battle snap: blouse with "You don't need to tell me what I cludes a a pina- and drawstrings, panties, need to do. Hollister! Al?" fore frock that can be used, withGau at said the "Yeah," deputy out the blouse, as a sunback out dy's back. door fashion for summer play, too. "Go through him!" The whole ensemble is adorable, Walt jerked around. "Not so fast you!" He looked into the bore of the deputy's gun. "Aw, put that bean shooter away. What's the past At waist level his own hooked in a short left jab and a longer drive with the right The ramrod figure doubled. Walt slammed it d upward again with an shove In the face. And then he cut loose savagely from sheer reaction after the inquest's high pressure and from the treacherous talk he had listened to Just now. His hard body leaned in behind two punches that sent the open-hande- Save) hours off time). Polish as you cfoanl Lady, you mint tire yourself, wute&wff tinning inu w uuuauiugwuw workurnirure and noon. insteaa,ixjeaw Of umc; them;aus easily I -8 ss you ... for filmofdinand WiWalovdyew. a soft and silkea Uutn. Ask foe gwanav ouff-sleev- other man teetering backward. These first exchanges had come in a moment's rush. The black one had bad no time to gather himself. But now, even as Gandy followed his advantage, the man dug to a stop In the dirt floor of the runway, stiffened, and his frame seemed all spring steel He launched from boot toes sunk into the earth. His arm g reach and came had a with the explosive drive of a piston. Gandy was rocked to the roots. He spun half around and the next blow slid from his turning body. Footwork carried him aside, gave a second's recuperation. Experience told him not to take his eyes from the other's miicklr shifting fists. But with hat knocked off, the long sharp features of this man's face were fully exposed for the first time. Walt Gandy looked, and in a glimpse of twitching jaw muscles, and of cold slitted eyes he read more than a passing flare of anger. This was going to reach far. He had no doubt that he faced an opponent who would kilL In the second that bis eyes shifted from the fists to the man's face, a treacherous move was begun. A right Jab to his heart was in the AROUND THE HOUSE tt d htb mm so cfasaf the ugly dirty skips, wax, Vftjlish dusths, cuancu mw PIT AND MOTH SPRAY Within Our Reach What is remote and difficult of success we are apt to overrate; what is really best for us lies always within our reach, though often overlooked. Longfellow. - . yard-lon- When you boil potatoes and want them to be floury, put a heaped teaspoonful of sugar in the boiling water. They will taste delicious. A teaspoon of vinegar beaten Into boiled frosting when flavoring is added will keep it from being brittle or breaking when cut your expectations. shoe bsg hung on the inside of the downstairs hall closet door can serve for stor ing many articles caps, mittens, Buy 00 A i money in that" "See here," said the stranger, He saw that it was omy short tempered, "you don't need to open. from his eye corners that be caught stall me up for higher pay! It'll sight of a boot toe kicked out to be enough." trip him. He half blocked the heart "Oh, sure," Gandy agreed. "But blow. Then all of his strength went don't know your country. Why into a sudden hooking of his leg don't you pick yourself some men around the other's shin. that already have the lay of things What happened next was short here?" tripped, stumbled, legs locked. They "Good men," came the prompt Walt Gandy felt an arm around him answer, "are hard to find, even band. The steel crushed these days. You wouldn't think it like a steelWind went out of him. It inward. but they are." was no longer a fight but a savage Lazily Walt Gandy leaned upon brush for survival. With abrupt rethe grain bin, indifferent "How laxation of every muscle he let himmany men you looking for?" His self fall backward. As the man brown eyes poked into various cor came Walt stiffover, ners about the barn. ened again and rolled in the air. "Ten, twelve. We won't be His one - hundred and - seventy-poun- d was on top when they "Huh?" Abruptly Candy's non- hit the weight earth. Breath gushed from committal gaze returned from an the form beneath him. He leaped inspection of the stables and narThe other lay still, his black rowed into the black face before up. on the ground. hair stringing him. "Ten, twelve men to shift a was hot in Candy's blood The two thousand cows? Where herd of I come from we'd do that with a veins, boiling. He reached down and twisted hard fingers in the shirt couple of boys and a dog!" the man to the near Hands on the grain bin cover, he collar, dragged raised the cover, lift est bin, grain pushed himself upright onto his feet ed him in both arms and rolled The other man moved back a him onto a bed .of oats. The cover step. "No one's prodding 'you into had a padlock. Walt snapped it the Job," be said. "Guess you Then he turned. The gaunt at haven't got what I thought you had, tendant stood gaping in the run brother." way. His bony jaw worked up and Walt smiled dryly. "Suppose," down, wordless. he suggested, "we quit boosting Gandy leaned winded and dizzy each other and see what's in the a post He said. "I'll take against of what I've you got plenty pot now." When the attendhorse my thought I had, and I'm looking for work. But I don't figure to make ant only stared, he rocked along closer. "What's the matter?" this my last Job." "He'll UU you!" the old fellow "Meaning?" "That you are going to move two gasped. thousand head of cattle . . . and "Maybe." Walt said. He took his what else? Somebody's boundary chaps from the side bench and struggled Into them, fumbling the line?" buckles. line's moved. already "Boundary The gaunt man stood rooted. "But Only we aim to keep it so. All this is going to take place on public do- that was Pete Kelso! Of the 77! main where we want to winter in Straightening, Walt Gandy felt In a certain low sink." his pockets for money. "Here." He "Good place to winter, too," Walt tossed a silver dollar. "Can you tor-gPete for a litUe while? He likes nodded. "If someone else isn't alit there in the box." ready located there. Who is?" "But that was Kelso!" Again through a minute of silence "Sure. Will you get my bronc?" he felt himself being measured. Ap short-handed- et generous-size- d rubbers, small brushes, etc. brooms, hat If you like scented linens and use scented soaps store the soap, unwrapped, in the linen drawers or closet Sachets, too, lend pleas ing odors. charge. Sheriff? Got a search war way the convenient from your dealer's display. www Slide fasteners are very conven ient for furniture coverings. They make it easy to remove and re place the covers for cleaning. Such fasteners are available in washable, nonrust materials. "Sheriff wants to see yea." be Thty corns, up to www Jerrys seers Mildew esn be avoided if damp are never placed in Battle had risen, drawing his huge clothes hampers. Dry all clothweight upward and propping it stiff- - ing and household linen thorougharmed on the desk top. "You, Al! ly. Don't let it collect in damp What's the matter with you? I said basements, dark closets or other go through him!" spots that are likely to be damp. Walt laughed. He raised his arms and felt the hands move thoroughly To clean bed springs use a long- through his pockets. Matches, mon handled, moderate-size- d bottle ey, tobacco, his watch, his knife, a brush. Dip the brush in hot water FOR YODR horseshoe nail and his handker quite often. Such a brush gets into chief; nothing more. He saw Ed corners much more easily than PROTECTION Battle sink down like the gas going the dish mop which ordinarily is out of a big balloon. used for this purpose. The sheriff glared at his deputy. He seemed to feel it was the man's fault that nothing had been found. He hesitated, cigar In his teeth. frowning with mental effort Here In SALT LAKE CITY away from the eyes of his voters, Sheriff Battle became less a thun derous bun, roaring for results, and seemed a human being of not too much will, easily swayed, and at this moment baffled. "Hollister." he launched out bluntI ly, "I'm giving you a chance. want you to come in with the law!" Hollister grinned. "You," he emphasized, "want me to come in Choice oftheDiscriminatingTravtler with the law. Where do you figure I am, Ed?" "Up a flagpole and no ladders,' 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS said Battle promptly. "It'll be for f the good of the C C and the whole Emigrant Bench," he went on, n-faced, "if you and me can get Our $200,000.00 remodeling and reiumiahlng program has down on the same footing. Look made available the finest hotel accommodation in the out there on the street Look at West AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. those women. They and the kids are the ones who are going to suf CAFETERIA fer If our ranchmen get to gidi- DANCE DINE BUFFET DINING ROOM flghting with each other. I'm older The ttxrtiM than you I've seen bloody times. MRS. J. M. WATERS, rWoW and. they flidn't start from no more MIRROR ROOM Manogtrt than what has happened here right J. NOLMAN WATIRSene'W. IOSI SUTTON EVERT SATURDAY EVENIN0 now!" rant have you?" articles TIIE HOTEL solem- (TO BE COSTISVED) Rates: $2.00 to $4.00 |