| Show Selwood oo of Sleepy Cat Catl at STORY THE START John Jhn B 1 gentleman m n gam gambier t am m- m bier sad Bud ni manager n of a stage Ug line M At I 1 eft Cut Cat I rom corn comes n upon a settler who whose whole e wagon wa hB has bl mired mire In R a cr creek ek lie h helps set eel the thi outfit out out- fit nt cli clear r i r after picking up up n a girl tio h shoe end seeing and being it at at- at meted by th the supposed I owner thereof Hereof f In Kyl lyler r th the Ih sealers sealer's wagon allon lo Alo Moses e McCracken a anuth nuth uth I is I. robbed of or IMO In a Sleepy lr i y Cat et gambling den 8 He l lwood wood woud fort forces th the tier lur- toe 0 and Atkins to return th the tha money noy Fyler opens d a dr dry goods good tore store with lily Ws 1111 running run run- ning n a mock auction of worth lees lu goods In lh the place 11 learns leArn the girl Kir who shoe ahoe l he picked up Is II I 1 daughter Selwood Belwood makee mak Chrle- Chrle II lies lie's acquaintance and warns warn Kyl Fyler r that Atkins I is I. a crook The Tha storekeeper refuses lo to lie lie 18 ll Uve ve U It It Starbuck attracted tries trl to ingratiate with Christie The girls Irl in mind I nil Is I. poi pol- 1 against t iyler li It beaten and rubbed seeking r f king Doctor Cnn Cathy aegis rN Belwood Hal Bel- wood woud and d Informs lime him At mini kin has haa thrown her atH out oute e f r r hi hie tore sore claiming lo to own It Iyler la le not nut badly hurl hurt CHAPTER VI Continued VI-Continued Continued r 7 7 Hell be tie pretty sore tomorrow v i morning slut Bill tint that wont won't mean tiny any 1 a thing thill Did iNd get I those hose hl e fellows fellow s t out of or the More afore r for you jou 11 N aped em-aped tipe 1111 Selwood Slue She t turned t r her face quit kly to III one tide hide No Xo r the she said Mid looking down u he did not Sf the lie mitt matter t- t 1 11 Well 1 Im 1111 afraid I cant can't explain I only y 1 n r wish wish t MIP he spoke k I from the IIII heart n f T Y I I 1 might ne er nee Nce him IllIn again Ii t I tWell h i Well IelI exclaimed Selwood d. If Ir 1 f I I that that's the I 1 wont won't link ask nn any anymore v r more r quest Ions So 10 he wouldn't doy do y all nj thing r. r No Xu blurted out Christie nn now w w f Burry angry at lit I the he recollection not mot lot unless un 1111 1 less leas leas- Unless tinier what She clasped d her q d Id I'd do I 1 refuted refueled Id I'd lo to doAn do do- do i An expletive like like H a shot pistol ot escaped es- es aped the Iho listener I promised t task to 10 o J ask uk no tin inure mure questions salt said Selwood Set Sel- wood but hut Ive I've got to 10 ask nak Just one I Is 19 s I. I he be tit lit to II ll e live or or or Isn't he hi Frightened the rhe looked up Im 1111 1 I making tasking It II worse and mind worse worst I I didn't didn t f mean In please tn please dont don't be ho so an terribly y r M angry I see I must say any what I hopes hoped 1 n I might l' l e. e ci capo hl lie wild he hp would Del help p father U If If I would marry him I l did 1111 not laugh 1 III Ills distress s wile was tat loo ei evident And you OU refused was WM nil all he hi sold said What did dill your you t tal father her tiny ay rut 1111 deep Christie could only y hotel bold the gambler ca to his bin word You Tot Mid Hid you ou wouldn't lI ask k any ony more questions ques links l. she replied led simply but hilt sh she e tin a n turn of simplicity that was wu s 81 silencing Selwood drew a n breath Im glad glat gladI 1 I J happened back tonight anyway con can be dune done Cu Cut Can your jour father hear hrAr Us us here lies asleep Rut Hut be heo has hn ears Theres There's nothing be lip might tint not hear bear only I dont don't Ilk like e listeners I dont don't believe t ve youre you're afraid d of or IIII me Step NII over O this way WilY a minute Selwood elwood tIke stoke when they stood to to- away from possible eaves eaves- droppers Your our father I isn't nt hurt so 80 in hatch lull be hp wild said quickly that lint be lie might Lot cot startle her hr Hut he cant can't very pry well 1 do this Ihl so 10 you must hOlet The minute min ute the day breaks tomorrow morning he be dressed leave this tent and walk I I to 10 the store You ou needn't be tie You fou wont won't Se see an anybody bod body but hul you will be I 1 and ute sate from the minute you leave the tent till 1111 youre you're back In It When you get getto getto to the store alo If It you see ace nn on Indian silting sating on the front steps pl walk right up tip to him bint and Rod ask for the key to tn the store Hell He'll give Cho It to 10 you Ask hint him l to watch the tho store till tilt you come I bock ck after breakfast bre tie lie will Then get ct Carpy early at hotel tend have your fattier father carried up to the lit store ore on his cot It Ile Hed He'd better sin stay there do day and night night and you lo loo- loo till Iii hes he's up I As AI Christie listened a aRe wave R of ot ronI con ron I swept over tier her She Sho ho felt r. r re cc To pare hue slighted such a ft man nn manus us nb words and this darkness re re- f Selwood to her In III favor rn of ot n II mat mart such as 01 she now realized Starbuck Star Star- buck roast most be be w 89 as quite enough to humble her She Slie looked at him w without answer answer- hug lux Where he be stood the big moon United UN Ili face falt for nr he had bad surrendered dered the tie shadow to to her own What she Bhe asked tire are re you ou going to todo do I hope you ou wont won't go 10 Into Inlo any ony danger dancer on my 1111 fathers father's a account He lie suppressed a laugh Not Sot n. n at a touch much as Im I'm In now no now It 11 was as a fool fool- Kb thing to say 11 He lie tried lo to hedge II hut but slammed t he she cut him off orr Whit Wh do you mean meant Youve You've been far too tike kind to us 1111 to get Itt Cato uti t any any trouble for our saki 1011 sales s. s I only wish we were away f from rout here Im Tin willing to 10 get Iet Into trouble If it you'll ouli stay Id I'd rather hunt bunt for n a littie lit It tie than see you leave l Christie tle tossed bayed off orr a It sell sense senco o of em My leaving couldn't possibly mean anything lo any to-any any one In Sleepy Ca Cut Cat L LIt If It I 1 could rould tell lell you what It would mean to me nie you sou might change your you r mind on that Hint point She regarded him 1111 In tI the tl-t- I moonlight rather bravel bravely till he ht had hod said lint much After r LII Le i spoke she be was wu silent almost almost r r. r but he added dI desperately Theres Just one miserable blamed won reason wily why I cant can't Christie changed the subject In In- n Wherever we go we couldn't End nd a R kinder friend tether friend father said till this morning It Its It's Ithen when hen trouble com comes en that teal real nl friends count And your Influence ence would be ire good on father Kelwood Selwood Kel- Kel wood started a ft little Im Imo ro co afraid torn of or his hili running ruining with these awful 1 gamblers down dawn In street looked away or Christie spoke spoken on n very pry seriously ly Of fOot nil all men In lit the world I think gamblers are ore meanest dont don't you nu U 7 Bel Selwood wood coughed To tell the tile truth lie Ire said mild simply I 1 ne er thought lIt tune much h about It lilli he hI lidded added pal pausing ling I guess maybe youre you're right Ill I'll be hI going oln You'll remember to 10 do de Jn just t ns nil Ive I've told you And e dort say ray 0 ii whatever lo to your jour father about the matter till tillIt's tillIt's Its It's nil all over er They walked together to the lilt tent then lie bo 1 Id Ids steps reflectively ly up street In the direction of or Tyler's Tylers i store building this he II sauntered cir clr about hl Inspecting ench n h hhie side elite ii with deliberate care Ire and walking walk log ing away from rom It thoughtfully It looked like a tl lion hard nut to In crack lie He walked thence to 10 the hotel went It tip up- fit a Irs followed the narrow low cort cor- cor i t to 10 to liU hla room unlocked the door i and 1 went In lie He lighted a mini lamp nil nil- jested the wick nod and the shade mid sat sut down on the lie title side of his hili shabby be hell bed On Oil the wall willi opposite hi him mu hUll hung hunga a to trained framed woodcut of or a R. R ml missionary II r padre lI In the Ihl silence Selwood StI looked long ling and thought thoughtfully fully at the old ohl print A cloud 1111 timid had long hung over the Iho story of his hili own life lire n II cloud clond that lint Selwood had always os felt t might possibly be he lifted by tills this old man film- film If he lie hIlere ii were lere ero yet It olive alive The uncertainty of or tl ll III Is i was one reason that helped to 10 paralyze lI resolve e to find him Tonight the gambler acted with his hla natural determination lie He rose rosl took be the picture from the wall YI turned down the wick of the lamp blew It out nail with the woodcut under lute hIs arm returned to the hull ball Carrying the picture to hI his office omee he wrote nu md nid painted on a sheet of o e paper a n sign and returning to the hall hung the picture on the lie wall wull beside his hits desk about desk about the most conspicuous con con- place In the room Underneath Under Under- heath neath the picture he tacked the written written writ ten sign For reliable Information as to th the e whereabouts of 01 this old padre I will pay one hundred ounces oune of 01 gold dust dUIt JOHN SELWOOD watched him Ulm put th the e portrait II up lie He rend read the sign haltingly unit halt at least twice lilies before he turned l to a ask aril lilt n a question Where Is he If It hes he's alive II answered Selwood d. d hes wandering somewhere around 1 the mountain country among th the In In- dlana studied again the features feature a of the long long haired old ohl man In Ili the ae e print Wont any other ether padre do dug he snorted picturing to his Imagination lion tion the good times theta latent In out one onehundred hundred ounces of gold du dust t. t No other padre said laId Selwood unfeelingly un an feelingly will tin till What do you ou want aunt with him blitz d de It The un answer er was Will prompt and deci lIve sive my lilY business let Jet hot hold bold of at Rob Bob ob Scott Kill lilli and bring hl hlin him himIn m In here hero For ten teu years 1111 1 John Selwood tut hud bad d wanted to yet most yet lived In a n ci certain Ir r t tain tole dread of this meeting meeting this padre be lie had hall finally resolved to face him bit and nud If It t It must come to know th the e worst Other frontiersmen drawn It by daloe's talk crowded up to look a athe at lit atthe ri the picture Selwood rid himself o othe of or orthe t the first rush of questioners mid and r retired re r- e tired to his room with wit who had hod reappeared bringing Scott I Theres Thero been cen a R menu mean deal dIll 1 put o eve er r this trader Kyler byler Selwood began begau I adre addressing hoot both lumen meu lie He told tol them het u the he f fuels facts ls In III I the lie he cave 10 cave about which h they had hall already heard the town tat talk k And Ant after robbing him of his k tk k of goods goode continued Selwood the they Y called him hini out of ot his hI tent knocks knocked d him on the head nod and took ook nil ll pl hh hi hl y money to tanks milk things easy to for tur turI r I themselves I Tyler's Tylers girl I h la an nu 1111 t sufferer Now this I. I U ha wind what I 1 cull d el you ou both hoth In III for Im I'm g going It to then clean n those fellows tows out nut of or Jo Fyler's store tt to night Ill I'll treed need some seme help I tie Ilu n yu you u two Iwo want to 10 Join jolts me hie Therell There'll be a u light fight Take It or 1 It It JUt Just us liS ii s you jou OU like no like no harm done clone either Hob Scott never lr rl responded to 10 Selwood Sel I w wood at lit least with anything too more Ire re than an alternative grin be lie wasted waste ed no words wOld however had bad lo to have hU h I talk look hero John be tie Itro growled led d I know who who's In that store So Su do du I 1 assented Selwood Ill Illa un- un a II Its It Atkins and und mud and RI nig g What hut then fuels Yes that's all right then lien but but those fellows fellow's are loaded bode t They'll shout shoot How flow you OU going to t tit d dIt lill t It loin to 10 coax em out w with t th candy St Selwood speaking low lo and quietly y tall laid out bU his plan It II promised 1 the e war most kind of a ft time lime o es e's s 's bac I mil skeptical taI expression on changed Id Into an anticipative glow w He tie offered neither further comme ut our criticism but rose rOlle on 01 hi bU his tony w uy shanks Iela l go 10 John Juba By Frank H. H Spearman Cop Copyright rIa b II narl Son Sons S Service r lc Scott ventured nn an Inquiry Il lie lie wn was utter after alt all 1111 the more prudent of the line two 0 adventurers adventurer that Hint Selwood had coiled called to lit III his aid ald What kind of firearms have hare them twin fellows got In 10 there Atkins Aikins l ls 11 R a little dangerous said 1 for fir he hI felt It he mu must t he men ren- fourthly nf lI linnet honest t. t Its no U use I denying Atkins Is with n R Colts Colt liar liar- toe tilt R a bottle lie III may tuny not mot wake up until Its It's half over O lie Ile and n Big Rig use use shotguns They're us liS likely 16 tt hit lilt each other ns as to tilt lilt us What do jou nay any was wan rendy ready Ill take the till theold theold old olet gun gnu along he be mused In III cheerful anticipation Selwood Sel was wall firm Orm No artillery on this Job juh protected protested with some lome vio vin lence Selwood overbore him that threatening threat citing ening lint Hint If It he persisted he hI should be left wholly holly out tint of ot the be venture Ill meet at ot the you Oil barn harn at nt twelve Selwood StI finally See Ree Al Abe Aho e Cole 1111 mind and get n sledge mer mer Ill I'll bring a couple of ot aces ases from the barn mm fly the way he ho added here lucres something T I want you ou two todo to todo todo do before you rou go The fhe t three men passed unnoticed through the halt hail and amid Selwood stopped them outside lie pointed to 10 the big sign over the wide doorway door way JOHN S LWOOD GAMBLER Get Gt n ladder he said to the two teen men quit take mike that sign down It never lIe should have hn gone up there Dare Davo conned coaxed me Into putting It up lifter utter be lie got wounded that night down at ot said It was WOI too I I A. A t t t tOne On One On Man Carried Three Common Axes good advertising nd to lose Well h he e continued with an add acid touch Tn In I advertised I 1 body along th the e Mountain divide knows Im I'm a gain gam bier Why hy advertise It on any longer Yes s growled the they y know youre you're a H gambler I Hut If you u haul down your sign IIII hows how's every everybody hod r going to know where to 10 find your you ho he dem demanded lI I triumphantly UtI Metter r fur for r sohie some I lIn of tit m em em If tf the 1111 Y didn't find me retorted Selwood In to differently Stop your our talk dash It II It Liming out the th ladder and und pull down dow n the lila alga CHAPTER VII An Early Morning Party Killing Filling In tn for fur one mimic of lit his hili men Selwood Set Sel wood sat eat dealing at ul the tile large h fut fan o table near Ms his desk lIts It t wo win two hours hour since he had ha loft left Christie itle In that Ilia Interval sir she had bad lied hud another visitor at the Ihl lent tier Her hither father had already w when Christie tl was waR tilled nil 11 11 to 10 I the hI h trot tint n t dour door by hy a voice rotes nail looking cautiously l out saw W Starbuck In the moonlight I didn't want wont you yet to think I l wen vent way sway ii with ith any |
