Show af A LE or ut dmn ormy baoy or TH WHEN waa KIN 06 1 fid DY A Q mcclurg co SYNOPSIS jack k keith a vt virginian an now a bor der plainsman lallman lal in loo looking dmn tor for reaming war parties it of savages lie sees a wagon team at full aill kallop pursued by men man on ponies ahrin n keith e alth reaches the wagon the raid pro have massacred mar mai acred sacred two raen men and deed departed parted I 1 he searches ear chea the M alma finding papers ir and a locket with r woman or por r trall keith in arrested at canon city it charted kd with the tb murder his hi accuser bell inc a ruffian named ulak mail dart A negro companion panton in hta his cell cl named neb tella tells him that he knew know the th keith in lnla nob ay one on of tha murdered murd pred jrsn ars john f ibis athe h e ther oen while ax alt former a yeo confederate n federal fe derat officer tle tte pW and neb escape enic alre and later the t he fu fugitive come cpr a cabin and find tta its occupant to be a s eirl girl chair keith think thinks be as aw w aron at canon roon searce ct city the girl explain explains at she h Is 1 in arch of f a brother who d deserted from thi army array ana and that a r hawley induced her to come to the tin n while he h sought t or r brother haw itaw y am ap peare and keith ic in hiding gecox zo him m aa an black hart bart there is I 1 a tor ter fie battle in the darkened room in which ith h is victor how are na the girl ctrl who ay says that her name is I 1 0 e loin join in the osca escape 0 keith elt e explain plains titu atlon and the make for I 1 lamed larned where the garl ga I 1 Is I 1 left with hotel landlady ulan I 1 hope ope tell tells that Is I 1 the daughter of general walte eith h and neb drift into where c alth h meeta meets an old friend dr i et t h meet meets the brother of afore walte wait nd e ir r the assumed asu ined name of fred red wll wil hughby aby and become becomes convinced opt lack k bart dart has ome some plot the wo CHAPTER continued the dead silence which ensued was cn only by heavy breathing wreathing then cott t swore bringing bis his fist cat down with i a crash on the washstand that rather stumps yer dont it LT well it dont me I 1 tell yer ts just as its I 1 eald said hom the orel arst it as keith an that what aped ped ye la in the cabin they was as dial n there when we rode in lie nathly ly pumped the gal in iw now as up here tr trall allin ln you blame it all it makes me laugh 1 I dont see ee what you sao to laugh al this ton L an cany easy man to play with let me tell you he may have 9 got on to our jiame ab h hell bell dart bart don dont it load your nerve re lie ile cant do anything because re got the under holt lie a a fugl tiva all we got to do Is locate him an have him flung dung bach back inter jail jall theres ea murder an bw him w ariy lemed to be thI nUng aly while his companion pick an otter ir drink velt well nard pard aint that toll no 0 o that trick wont work scott we could do 40 it easily enough it if we were a down in canon carson where the boys would id help us out the trouble up here Is that wild dill hickock I 1 Is I 1 blar ct of sheridan and be he and 1 never er did hitch besides Be eldee keith was aitio of bis his deputies deput leq down at dodge two years rs ago you remember when dutch charlies allee place vas was cleaned out outa welt well Ilic kock and keith did that job at air alone i and wild dill bill coing going bade on that kind of a pal pa la Is be I 1 tell you weve e re got to fight this affair lone ie and on the quiet maybe the ellow w doni dont know much yet but he be a ure OB on the trail or else he wouldn t ave been in here talking to willough got to get him scott some ow lord ronn man theres thores a clean mon mil dollars lor for us in this deal d im ready to light for it dut im ined sleepy and im going to bed od I 1 locate locals keith tomorrow and then ban n youre sober well figure out w wo can get got to him best ive got set at right good goodnight night f lie te went out into the halt ball and sed own n the creaking stairs the man he be anted eted so badly listening to his blo do baldg half halt tempted to pow DW scott did not more move perhaps d already fallen drunkenly asleep his ill chair and finally keith creased crossed own ovin room and lay down the din hilds de continued unc une bated but the us intense we weariness arine overcame it 1 and he bg fell uleen his last coa con lous us thought a of hope chaiten hop goes to sheridan he be discovery disc oTery of the locket which bad had HI on from about keiths ceck neck made it isible tor tar 1100 to remain quietly long in the hotel at fort Larl i more carefully she thought over story of that murder at the dm oa on crossing and keiths tale of r be he bad discovered td and burled buried the dilated bodies the more assured became that that was as here this let et came from and ind that the slain slats eater must have been her own la er r she never once onto questioned the th h of keiths report there was that bout ut the tho man which bleu would not per it of at her bar doubting him ha its bad had imply ply tailed failed to mention alt he be re oved red from tho the bodies suppo sOg toll this ild be of tic special interest mrs ira murphy hoping thus to quiet apprehensions of her charge set ell diligently at work ark to discover itha facts As her houie house was filled including occasions occasional visitors tors from carson city and was also lounging iou nging headquarters for or many of the officer from the near by fort she experienced to di difficulty in pick flit op or alt all the floa floating tInt rumors out of these ath with irish shrewdness shotton he coon managed arged to patch together a consist at fabits of fact g I 1 I 1 1 1 0 a 0 0 6 09 16 ite its my hatton that hawleys Haw leye got riold lold av ay thim paper papers av yer father honey honer lva 11 not so bad the way vay they t tell ell it now she he explained nobody behaves 1 now it WM yer father that got kilt it wae was two feller what stela his outfit clothel lothes an all sin wa was darivin off wid mid ac cm em anter the cand sand hills divil awall a wan doea does know who kill kilt em am but there theres come some ugly stories travel ln about somo some says some cay says the poses run em am down an diack black dart bart an hie his birthy outfit bey a ear it was keith olve got me own notion an aix therea theres bout three hundred dollar dollars some mule mules an 4 lot 0 ral tat able paper papers alwin 4 nut but if it tat ber where Is 1 be he no r that what olve 01 been bryin ter foaud out girat off he be we wet wea A out to the cimmaron maron crossing yarded by a squad 0 cavalry from the fort here hero tommy calne caine wint mint along an told nao me all about it it they dug up the bodies but dilver a thing did they find on cm em not a paper nor a dollar bin bit robbed all rought the bowld mineral swore loike a wild men mon all 01 the way back tommy said ald an the first thing ho he did at canon carson city waa was to tart huntin tr fey black bart dart lie ila wa was two day days gitow on the trail ay him ahrn he be heard board tb th 6 feller was gone awa aws trapping trap sing after a or baucin dancing seurt yurt called chrisha Chri tift sUa gadaire she vas supposed to be 41 to celcy or an A freighter told the bowld mara ahe she waa was at sheridan an so he started there overland ter bead head off al ciack bart of 01 reckon we could a biorn that abbat hat do you bour why honey boner the use ua bryin ter decave decays met didn dian t jack keith wid mid bis his owa own lips tell toll me ye was christie dut but I 1 im m im not mr mrs murphy I 1 dont even know the woman it la in uch such A oi strange thing I 1 cannot account for it both those men ml took me for fr her and and I 1 let them I 1 care who the man hawley cup up boxed me to be but I 1 intended to hare have told mr ift keith he be wae was mistaken I 1 dont know why I 1 only I 1 supposed he finally under understood out but I 1 want you to believe mr mrs murphy I 1 am walte and not 19 maclai Ma claf ita etue the loss lo 10 to ye re not ter be her an olm chinkin th inkin lockely jack keith will be well phased ter know the truth what black ban bart so 0 o abger ter elf lit bold hold 41 thia this maclair churl for ferr it t do oot not in the least know lie 0 mut must hare have induced me to go to that place in the desert desett believing belleT log me to be the other woman yu he be sald noth ing of any purpose indeed he found no opportunity urs murphy hook shook her beai dlo dl it was hare share some divil devilment ment she b asserted aner ted doutly stoutly to hell bo be tip up to acme trick wid the poor geurt OH 01 know the lolka ev him hil share the iwo two IT AT yet mutt look took as much as two payee in a pod lockely BOW tow its U A twin eliter stater beiver got fotr hope rolled smiled although her eyes were misty oh no fred and I 1 were the only children larer it but what ahall ball I 1 do ought I 1 to do dot the irish mouth ot of kate li murphy set et fennly her bar blue eya eyes burning its it not throng 01 am on adv liln lu she he laid said dortly hort ly but if it was me a oid be fer for out v bat hat all till this mix up dav wa about theres eo methin in it it ite my notion that got hold AT thira thim papers av ay yer fathers fabers the awid glut think thinks go too an why he a so hot aether catchin him may ilay the divil armoire me 0 ar 01 kalow here where this If maclaire aclaire gyura come comes in but bet the wack divit haa has get her ir irked tor ter erne acme part la to the play bat would 01 do dot be do goory old go to sheridan an found the ginneral Gt Gi an till him all lit I 1 knew know mayba he could piece it together and guese guess what bat hawley wa was up ter hope waa was already upon her ter feet her bar puzzled face brightening I 1 ob that Is what I 1 wanted to to tic bat but I 1 vas was not ure sure it would be beat best how can I 1 get there from here ye d have ter take the stage back to topeka lockely be W thrainn th rains cut out from there on the new now road he be olay fer far me ter colad out from soma ay the lade lads down below rhe cily equips lent operating into sheridan waa was a construction train with an old battered passenger pAia enger boac coach h coupled to the rear A quad squad co 0 heavily armed infantry rode klong along as protection against possible illian raiders but there waa was no crowd aboard on this special trip an nil PAI work bad had ben suspect ed ad oa 00 the line indefinitely and most of the travel therefore bad had changed to the eastward the coach used had a partition nin run through it and as coon soon aa as the busy trainmen discovered ladles on board they unceremoniously drove the more bibulous passengers protesting into the forward compartment thi this left hope in comparative peace her remaining neighbors quiet taciturn men mon whom she looked at through the th olds folds of her veil yell during the long slow exasperating journey mentally guessing at their various oo 00 CUP LUona it was an exceedingly teel oue ous mono monotonous temous trip the train alack slack ching up and jerkins jerking forward apparently without slightest reason then achieving a ull full stop while men always under guard went ahead to fix up ome some bit of damaged track across which the engineer dared not adrance at each bridge panning spanning the numerous small streams n examined the structure before venturing forward and at each top stop the wearied passenger 3 grew grow more impatient and a perfect fact stream of fluent profanity being wafted back whenever the door between the tw efto sect sections lons chanced to be left alar hope llope was waw not the only woman on board yet a glance at the others was sufficient to decide their status even had bad their freedom of manner an and I 1 loud talking not made it equally obvious fearful leit lest she might be mistaken for one of the same class she remained in hence silence her bar veil merel lifted enough to enable her to peer past a out t through the grimy window at the barren view slipping slowly past this consisted oi a tho baro bare prairie brown and desolate occasionally intersected by come some email small water coune couri 0 the low hills biting and falling like waves to far horizon bor tron few incidents brol broll the dead monotony occasional a S herd hard of appeared ji jr the dl tance lance silhouetted ahalt the sky line and once they fairly crept for an hour through a mau mass of buffalo graz ing so cloie close that a fusillade of gum guns sounded troi from the front end of thi tran train A little farther along she a glimpse of troop of wild boroto boro to dashing recklessly down into a shot be ering jering ravine yet principally au all tahl met her straining eyes was sterile desolation here and there a great ugly water tank unk bearid its shape beside the track the engine at way ways pausing for a farerh supply il side it was invariably a pile of roal A x few am construction cars a hut but hall hurled buried under earth loop holed and barricaded barricades barrica ded with several rough met loafing about heavily armed and in lve A few of these points bad had onto been terminal the surrounding scenery evidencing past gl dories bi b ulle piles of tin caas cans and slid all manner ol 01 with occasionally a sc shack left deserted deter ted end and fo doorn orn wearied and heartsick hop turned away from this outside tc tt contemplate more closely her bar neigh borson board but found them scarce ly more interesting several wort card cards others moodily starine oat out of t the windows windo wt while a few wen welts loust bleg and talking with the girl girls inane and k ad 0 4 d profanity one roan man wal vat feuring ring on a scratch pad and hop decided he must be an on engineer gincer cn am plowed on the line others she classed UH small merchants sah alan keepers aad a frontier riffraff fratt rif they would isn ulce s curiously at her as they marched up and down the narrow aule plate but her bar veil yell and averted taci IP prevented r a vented even the boldest from rora peaking speaking once she addressed tb qa conductor ductor and tho the man who was mail hi fit hujing turned and looked back at her evidently attracted by the soft not note ot 0 her vote but be he mad made effort rl at advances returning immediately tc t his bl pad oblivious to all else 1 ITO 1321 |