Show THE if A I 1 ai r nr PIE PIA INS MAI h ra I 1 F V it J caifa ormy labry or ame HEN waa karl 11 copyright A C A i jack keith a now a bor 1 der er plainsman ie Is look ng I 1 to tor roaming war panic va ties of savages 1 ile sd a waon wagon ten team t full 1 11 p pursued by iren on pont ina when keith 1 1 h reache L wagon the raid era rs have hav massachi massac mi two mn mom and departed parted lift ise se archa arche arc hk th he victim victims finding fr papera AL pre and a it locket a woman a per 0 jr brajt a it keith K ith I 1 is arrested at t curson city lal ty c harga with the murder his hi 1 crusor be bt ing an fn a ruffian named atack dart A negro companion in hi his coil coll named neb tells mm him thet he knew the keith keiths in neb ay eye on ot of the murdered nn men was wa john bibley the other aen gets mil title walte waite form orm ariy riy a confederate officer the ernan and nob nab escape and later the fugitives came upon a rabin cabin anil and find if its occupant to 0 be a young firt girl whom helth think thinks he a saw at canon carson city the th girl explain hat hot all the ie to in search of a brother who had 4 deleted des eted fro from oje it anny army and that a tir ir clawley ln lalice lice her to come came to the cabin abin while I 1 hs a ight her brother haw law ay y appears and keith in didin feces less him ae as billack hart dart there f a ter fine batth battlo in the darkened room in which keith U victor forges are appropriated and th the cirl girl who ay that hr hor name li to hop top join 11 13 the ecale cap keith explain hi 2 situation a tuition and the make for fort ft lamed larned where the girl li to it left with tie a hotel landlady lan diAdy mis miss hope flop tell tells that h I 1 Is the daughter do ter of general gon t rat walte waite keith and cebull nb ab drift ift into sher idan where keith meef an old fan dr kalebain keith meeta insets the brother of isope walt tinder under the assumed name of fred wll and nd becomes convince that black iiii c k hart art ha has ooma plot involving the IW 1 hope leer learne n a that the arn gen walte watts who wa hought mur murdered murd derod is I 1 at sheridan end and goes there thorn where she he I 1 Is mistaken tir or christie Chr litle RI claire th ill faron city sincer keith afif the real christie maclaire and find ands that black bart dart has convinced her ber that there Is U a mystery in nor hor lle ilfe which he la is going to turn to he her e ad addan v an tace lags the plainsman plat niman tell tells 11 hope watte watt of her resemblance to christle chris Chr itle ox maclaire they decide that fred willow may bal il I 1 the key to the alth ihrk elt finds hot shot dead hope flops to I 1 told of the deain death of her brother keith fall to learn what lilack black hart flirt hai made to christie Chr litle suggests hat that in orber to larn learn the he secret sho ho must impersonate Impera onate the stag ta infer dr kalebain la Is in toy love with christie Mar latro and keith indue inducts him tn in detain her from the stage while hope llope foca to to the theater where she he meet hack bart dart who thua thus deceived tell tells hope lope that hat general walte waite has ha suspected lit plana tans and that they mint must fly tie 6 really r es I 1 Yalar alarmed med demure demeral NT wane att appear appears anil and says lilack black oart dart has ha joltn r 11 nc porn from hira him regarding recard lne an inheritance CHAPTER 1 I have told lou yu tny my name jack kelab he replied quietly doctor FaIr fairbain tain know knows something 0 of me ire but for or your further information f will add that when ben wo we met before I 1 I 1 wac was captain keith third virginia VIr gliHa 1 and bearing dispatches from longstreet treet to stonewall jackson Jac keon the gruff old soldier eold ler half crazed by the new news of aloi ht daughter daughters pent petit ins ia gleam of bis eyes still revealing urr un controlled temper stared at the th younger facet fronting allm I 1 im then slowly bo he held hold out his hi band belth K belth ha he repeated as though bringing back the name with an effort by god bold ro old jeto o 0 keith keiths boy killed at an and abd you know kopor yee yes De general he ile looked about as though dated data and the sheriff broke in dot unkindly well walte waite if it we are re going to search for your daughter wo better be at 11 it come en on all of you mir UNA Mft daire will be SAN af enough bore i alone tie ile took bold of keith keiths arm que ques dioning him briefly as R they passed the hall on the stairs tho the lat tf goolt hie his turn still till confused by what he had juit just leard who la Is bliss lie he asked phyllis gale of course but nasis abo phyllis bals balet what baa has ehe she to do with general waite 1119 9 baa has told me she he never heard of puy one by that name well keltai he the old man haa has never old told me very hoe hes pretty coie close mouthed louth cd except for wearing swearing but 11 t re 0 read als paper papers ard picked up a point or two I 1 reckon the daughter alias hope llope maybe never beard a word about it but the boy booths the one that was a abot bot must have stumbled blod onto the story and repeated it to fla aboy what act that fellow going it tie ms mra birs WAWA maiden name waa ae pierpont Pter pont and whoa when ahe waa was deou teen years old ibe she wm wits married to 0 o the no too con of at a 4 rich north carolina planter platter the follow was wa s drunken dissolute good tor nothing they had a daugh ter er born bornt hta phyllis and wren wen tho the ibold bald waa was ores eara old her father la in a dt of drunken rage ran awa awn and to spite ola his wife took the he little girl with him AH all effort to tb trace cheji ailed and the mother zother finally secured a di varre and two years later war fled tied walte val of if course worse knew these bei facto but probably proba bly they atto er never told tha children aben the father it U mr alra waltes brut first bu bend died b P 0 left til of hie hla barsi larsi proper prope ty to hl grandchild providing the he could bo found and idealized idealised within a cereals alae 11 ze falling which the ir y vaa aa to b be among cor maln designated charities charlt lee avalle alte wits aa named aole sole administrator well the ltd yd man ccok a as much interest la in it as hough it was wa bla his own girl but made atlis progress reia tie ie did 1 I cover that she be father bad taker the child to st SL loukx left her here there bith a woman caled RS arsmond JUnu Mond oad but 4 tier tbt woman died the gift gitl cona cow leftely disappeared then ml miss maclaire la Is 11 0 do altos half glater teats the way it looka looks noir now and hawley merely happened happe aed to tumble oa an to the right party aorl 4 1 CT Y S r t here sheriff Sherlf fl this Is I 1 one of hawley hawleys mani matil sure un its clear enough how that came about the ile boy told him about the lost heiress ba wa father was search IDS ing after and bowed showed him his hi sister a to black bart instantly lecog naze her resemblance to christie Chr latto and thought he caw saw a food good chance for some easy money IN H needed the paper papers ascertain exactly the term terms of the will and what would be necessary for the identification lie navor intended to go into court bafit hoped U 0 cither either get walte waite out of the way or else elst convince him that christie v as the sirl retying on her gratitude for he bla profits when walte waite played into hi his binds by corn com ink ing to carson city the chance was too good to be lost I 1 m not sure be he meant to kill him but be he did atan u to bays those papers at any cost probably you know he the rest the girl was easy bechore she was so to ignorant of her parentage and nothing prevented hawley rom row winning except that watte witte asit ant a sit mail mad and decided to that knocked over the hole g they were wore outside now and the first touch of tle cool coot anif t or lr ts first glanc 7 ind and down gown the noisy street brought keith to himself his hi midd mind ter dy to grapple with the problem of hopes it seemed to him he had already looked yet there was nothing to iio 40 0 jo o continue the scorch search only more systematically the sheril as control clear headed and ae accustomed cus tomed to that sort of thing call ing in and bis his deputies to assist and fairly combing combine the town from one end to the other not a rat could have slipped unobserved through the net ho he dragia down that long ong street or its intersecting alley alleys but it vat aft without n nitwit tilt nowhere war rat there found a trace of cither either be the gamper or his coat aalon dug into saloons magulos bagnios bag ulos dace daree balls searching bark tart rooms and inmates they routed out aery every occupant of the hotel la to tadd boarding houses and explored shacks and trots tents indifferent to the bo protests Dro tests of thome it with out result found sever several woo knew line flagler flaw ler othen who had seen ue we two together passow by the lighted window of ili the Troad cro but beyond that nothing C Ji vinced at last bat tho th bartles sought are not aliro alive in irk and to fear tar the worst the searchers archers fc separated and begin spreading forth ofer over the black surrounding prairie und by b the light of lanterns ln tern seeking any of trail trall there ther 0 tax no lack of volun buu tet toom tor for Ms Is work but it as y light bele beal the slightest cue clue r dellb with the ali trill and lo 10 or three ahers had groped their way outward unlit until with the ars flush cush of dawn they found the orealue of a small rocky ra loe betat a th tb foot cf ct bovis hill 1111 peering dova into its still till shadowed depths they discerned what appeared like a tody wily lying there keith sprang down beside it end d the th rigid foroi form off until the dead ace was revealed 1 a the a imbt was that or of the ta rid id scott iia lie staggered back at the ff ignition tion barely able to ejaculate here fl this la Is one cf of haw flaw leys jnell men the shearld van aa bending instantly shove the corpse se archine for the this truth ruth t you kno the fellow I 1 yes hid bla name wae was scott well bos hos been dead home u hour hours at least at aix ix I 1 should nay may shot just aboe the eye and lood L Hea renil look took bere here keith at the size ot of this bullet wound that a no man mans gun gu 11 in this country count ryno no more than a il 32 I 1 id d gay say miss bliss watte waite bad a small revolver 1 she must have hot shot the fellow pu put t why did they leare leave the body best to bal b discovered dit covered tho the sheriff arose to bla his feet prowl I 1 ane ng about in tho brightening glow slow of at the dawn they vere were la in A hurry hum to get away and knew he be toi iid before morning A elx six hour hours start means a 11 food good deal they C d dru hina back out of tight look lock hire thie this wa vs I 1 where the struggle ok sok place and here la to here where the man fell tracing it out upon the ground toe the girl put up a stiff fight too eee where they dragged her up the th 1 0 pa paa nom the footprint there truit m u n ilive been half halt a dozea doten in the party get back out of the way sim SIMS while I 1 follow their trail it wa was plain oata enough no now w they bad daylight to assist them and a ad led around the edge of the hlll bill A hundred feet hway away he hei cane to where horses bad had 1 bern been standing the tae trampled od evi dancing they must have been there for loa considerable time keith and 1 the sheriff circled cut out until they final ly struck the trall of the party which led forth southwest across the prairie I 1 seven horses one being led lirot cald said the former that wa WAS scott scotts a probably that a abo whole story replied the the iff staring os off toward the th bare horizon hor lion I 1 and the cusses have at beasl six boura hours 14 t tart with fresh hortee horses lie turn turned turna A around rd well boy boys that take takes em out of 0 my bailiwick I 1 reckon borne some of the rest ot of you ft HI have to run that gang down CHAPTER hid wid christie jr dr fairbain had originally joined the searching arching ae party fully as eager ae as keith himself to run don doin the renegade hawley awley ll but after an hour of re gult ulyless less effort his hi entire thought shifted to the woman they had left ai alone one at the hotel lie ile could not aa fie yet fully grasp the situation but be remained loyal to the one overpowering truth thai that be he loved christie Id Macl aclaire alre fairbain a e was rough inal yel yet loyal to the core lie fie had lived all his life long in army camps and upon the frontier and bis his co code do of honor was extremely timple simple V I 1 never once occurred to him that chris tie ties a profession was not of the highest or that her life and associations in any way unfitted her for the future to his mind suo was wits the one and only woman ills last memory of her aa an the little party of mea men filed out ot of that room haunted him until he ha ila ally dropped out of the search and drifted rifted rif ted back toward the hotel it was a late hour yet it was hard ly likely the omar i had retired her iter excitement her interest in the pursuit would dwely prevent that moreover be he was certain he saw a light still burning in her room as be he looked up from the black street below neier nevertheless be he hesitated uncertain of his reception bluff emphatic never afraid to face a man in his life bis his heart now beat fiercely as he endeavored to muster the necessary courage far down domi the dark street some roisterer roy fired a shot and sudden tear fear k lat t he night might be sought after protes atonally nally mittit nt the doctor hurriedly within end and up the stairs he ile stood lust just butsic buts ld her door quaking liko a ct ild the perspiration be iding bis his forehead but a a et reamed through the transom and he could plainly hear bear movements within at last in A sudden spasm of courage he be knocked softly even in that no noisy spot she beard board instantly opening the door without hesitation hesKa Uon and standing fully dressed within she was 1 2 longer a discouraged sobbing girl but in an aroused intent woman anto whose pathetic ion lonely ely life there had come a new now hope hops she appeared younger fairer with the light shimmering in her hair and her eyes staff 11 ing it elcome oh doctor and her bands hands were thrust out towards him 1 am glad ou have come somehow I 1 thought you and I 1 have wanted io zo to talk to some one oneto to you to mel met do you really mean that miss bliss christie lies ies I 1 nally really mean that you yon great bear of a it man and the girl laughed lightly dragg lag him into the room and closing the door why who else elze could I 1 expect to come tonight to night you were wu e the ony only one really good to me you you feted as if it you believed la in me all tt 0 time TO OE BE CONTINUED t |