Show ewaldo Q eW AVdo 0 t robber 4 0 ty llende ii JS wr 4 4 SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS go ahad acht I 1 morton morion virginian f and department of justice oper receives a letter from tom falt fait bandit leader argi ng that some one be sent to rencia re mc stella morton morion foster sister from the gang an enemy in the bang aang prevents fair from helping the the letter was intended Int andea for 1100 go rather father who Is in away from home 00 oo go anitad abbad 1 decides to 0 go himself at n slobbers 0 abers boost fair explains explain the situation to stella now eighteen years yean old she does not want to leave fair tor for whom the she has the affection of a daughter jim ilin darker and an aspirant for stellas stellaa hand directs direct fair to run a shipment of arms arm into mexico and bring back whisky unknown to fair stella dressed fin as a boy accompanies the gang the bandits errand la in successful and the party returns to parkers barkers ranch stella refuses proposal of marriage by wade darkers barkers lieutenant wade declares he will force her to marry him wade attacks the girl and do ao ahead arrives on the scene in time to rescue her bar darker appears and nd i disarmed stella escapes to re r 8 to robbers roost 0 go 0 end follows I 1 VI continued 11 wheres your gun he deman demanded deI abruptly b p t I 1 stella raised her eyes slowly and looked the man in tho the eyes oi 1 I let wade hove brive it she eho answered coldly ne wanted it anything else you want to knowl know there was a lot more that kennedy wanted to know but he saw BOW no way 3 of learning it without resorting to extreme measures meni ures which would certainly stir up opposition by Stell stellas ns friends in tho the party ue lie was sure that something was wrong but he be could not loot imagine how bow the g girl irl had bad got away from the ranch house except he ha could not ar r fan angino wade giving that thai consent his inability to ronke make even a guess as to what had happened cut the ground from under him not nol he answered at anat frowning heavily 1 I aint got anything else to ito ask you just now but I 1 reckon I 1 will have later with a of his reins he be cantered back to tile tho head bead of the column where as stella noted be ae befanto ganto be began to talk angrily with gopher toc 0 o of wadea hall an hour later a rider coming froni tho the direction ot ol the roost appeared in tile distance stanco dl and coming nearer turned out to bo be jack green there were greetings this time ol of course for green bad been away for a month or more inore and his friends want ed to know where he had bad been and what be bad done while tie lie was there green had answers ready and after a few moment the tha party moved on leaving green to go his own way green however did not go 30 on ue he simply waited till stella who at sight eight ot of him bad taken pains to fall well behind the others came up to him then be fell in beside her and began his bin tale did a young puncher show up at the ab ranch while youw you were pre therel he be questioned cautiously but eagerly A regular beman be ba man about twenty five years acari old I 1 wonderingly stella turned her eyes oo on him bid 1 he be dudl she exclaimed cl there be two of them could therel tere do you yog know him who 1 is her bey illes be your forty eleventh cousin from virgilla Virgini la athe the one your dad sent me east bait after 1 good gracious 1 stella could swear on occasion brought up as she had been she could not have failed to pick tip more j less profanity but be set bel dom abed 14 it for fair objected this time how er her startled feelings found relief in the strongest oath at ber command au oath that one of the younger bandits bad taught her years before when she was wae very young ex pla ining at uie time that it was such an awful cussword cus sword that she must never use it except under r the very gravest er avest provocation long since she bad learned that all thle this was merely the concep conception Uon of humor held by the young scapegrace but she bad never ten got rid of the impression that lit made upon her mind and in mo monts of stress she abill resorted to it IL good gracious I 1 P she swore once more you dont mean it yen yea I 1 dot dol retorted green lie ile aint a bit like most eastern dudes iles HOB all right lie Is an you da dad 5 hoped id get to tile ranch before you left bos BOB I 1 could fix things up bit my horse put his foot in a gopher hole bole and broke hla his leg and I 1 bud to go 90 back for another ah afa stella was not listening her thoughts were moving fast what did dad want you to she questioned eagerly eh 7 oil ohl I 1 ue he wanted you to join him an go east with him right awny away while youve got the chance by byln away from the boost lie ile said tie he knew you wool want to go but that got a spare gun stellas cutin cut in was abrupt ye es but guvo give it to met stella snatched the revolver from gicona hand band almost before ho could get ept it from life his bolster then sh she tabbed dabbed it into her own and whirled her horse to the rear lets go she cried over her shoulder greens wits wite were not so eo quick as Stel stellas lits but his bis muscles worked automatically cally and in a second he was by her side how come he questioned oh come on boosel goose 1 well talk later inter jest as you say any dob bob jest as you say green also spurred his horse and the two shot away but it was not to be just as stella fold eald the face of tile the two was quickly noticed by the others and a chorus of shouts rose behind them hold on I 1 come back I 1 where you 90 coln ina rang kennedys Kenn edys voice above the rest resl stella turned in her saddle and waved her hand band impudently going back bach to the ranch she yelled alvant vant to see wado wade again then she turned her hei back on the men and scurried scurrie d away asaif 1181 it everything was settled but out of the corners cornera ot of her eyes she kept watch to the rear green did tile the same and a moment later lie he snickered yon aint stopped them none he remarked most all of them are after us stella did not answer immediately but she chirruped chirrup ed to her horse and he let out another link in his speed then its block black kennedys Kenn edys doings she explained ue he was real peeved when I 1 came up a while ago lie ile wanted to know you know and I 1 tell him film not sos you could notice it IL hes a pal of wades and I 1 reckon he be knew the dirty trick that wade and jim barker tried to play on me at the ranch and make out bow id got away but but but green was gaspin flow bow did you get away stella chuckled that cousin ot of mine you brought from the east cast dropped in oh ob besl yes I 1 lie he dropped in all right and what he did to wade und jim barker was a plenty hello 1 that that was the whine of a bullet traveling overhead the horses of the ho fugitives were bertei than those of taj pursuers and had been steadily widening the interval between the two groups and kennedy to in tile the lead but finding himself fulling falling behind bad sent a bullet as a warn lne declaration of war grunted green what black kennedy means business well let haru mean im not going back to the I 1 hated bated to go back bach and moke make wore more trouble for dad by telling him what happened at tile the ranch and I 1 was waa only doing it because I 1 anywhere else to go now I 1 have ive gut got a cousin to go to andoh and oh yes yee I 1 found out this morning tint that got a fortune for me in the east cast why barker wanted to marry me im going to find his hip name names george ashmead murton but everybody calls him biro go ahead an go ahead Ah eadI I 1 stella shrieked with laughter oh ohl oh I 1 she choked a moment later some of those austern dudes must be rent real sensible after fill all well im going to tind ond dear goey go ey and noey gy no ey EPA wit with ll 11 hirn him 1 TO DE CONTINUED |