Show robb ro Q Y J 5 ICE wo SYNOPSIS go ahead morton virginian and department of 0 justice operative receives a letter from tom fair bandit leader urging that some one be sent to rescue stella morton foster sister bister from the gang bang an enemy in the gang bang prevents fair from helping the girl the letter was intended for go alcada Ah cada father who Is flows away from homo home go deela decides e to so go himself at robbe Hoo fers r s roost fair explains the situation to stella now eighteen years old she does docs not want to leave fair tor for whom the she hoc has the af affection of a daughter jim parker darker cheriff and aspirant tor for stellas hand directs fair to run a shipment of arms into mexico end and bring brck back whisky unknown I 1 to fair stella dressed as a boy accompanies the gang eier the bandits errand carrand Is successful find and the party returns to barkers tanch ranch stella refuses proposal of marriage by wade barkers lieutenant wade declares he will force her to marry him wade attacks the girl and go ahead arrives on the scene in time to rescue her ber barker appears and Is disarmed stella escapes to return to robbers robber atoo root L go ahead follows I 1 CHAPTER VI continued 11 wheres your gun he be demanded abruptly stella raised malsed her eyes slowly and booked the man in the eyes 1 I 1 let bade vade nive I 1 II 11 she answered coldly he wanted it ai else you rant pant to know 1 th there c r ewas was a lot more kennedy canted an led I 1 to 0 know but he saw no way it f ir learning e ing it without resorting to extreme measures which would certainly stir up opposition by stellas friends in the party ile he was sure that something was wrong but he could tint not imagine how the girl had bad getaway frota from the ranch house bouse except by wades con consent and be could not imagine wade giving that conent Ms to make even a guess as to what list had find happened cut the ground from under him nol no tie fie answered at last frown rown ing heavily 1 I aint got of anything else to ask ash you just now cut I 1 reckon I 1 will have later with a hit of his reins he cantered back to the head of the column where as stella noted tie he began to talk angrily with gopher joe arother crony of wades hall an hour later a rider coming from the direction ol of the roost up ap feared in lie distance and comin coming nearer turned out to be jak jack green gree there were greetings this time ol of course tor for green bad been awny away for a month or more inore and his friends want ed to know where he be had been and what he be had done while lie fie was vas there green bad answers ready and after a few moments the party moved on leaving green to go ills his own way green however did not 0 30 o on lie he simply walled waited till stella who at sight of film bin had eckert pains to fall well behind the others came up to him then he fell in beside her and began his tale did a young puncher show up at dhoot JB ranch while you were there he be questioned cautiously but eagerly A heman he man daout twenty five deboa old Wonder wonderingly stella turned her eyes on him 1 I guess lie he did I 1 the she exclaimed there be two ol of theral could there do you know himl who Is be iles hes your forty Ie leventen leven tn cousin from roia virginin the one your dad sent ine ene east cast after good gracious I 1 stella could sweat swear on occasion brought up us as she had been she could not have failed to pick up more i less pro but ise be sel dom abed it tor for fair objected this time however tier her startled feelings found relief in the strongest oath at al tier iier command an oath that one of the he younger bandits had taught her ber years before when she was very young ex at life time that it was suck sub an awful cussword cus sword that she must never ube it except wader under the very verj deest provocation cation long since she fix that eliot all this was the of humor held by tile ali young scope groce but bile laid novel never entirely got rid of the impression that thai it made upon tier her mind and in merits of stress slie she till rebo tied to it goof good gracious bhe swore once more you dont naf rutan un it yes I 1 dol retorted green lie he aint a bit like most eastern dudes luiJt 3 hes all right lie is an you did dad hoped id get to the alie ranch before you let t sos I 1 ili things up bit my horse put his hia foot to in a gopher hole and arole his leg find and I 1 had to go buck back for another in stella was not listening tier her thoughts were mooil rig casil what did dud dad want you to tx she ques lues lionel eagerly ell eh oil oh I 1 ue he wanted you to join him an go kasl east with him film right away while bouve tut feul the lie chaime ch aniie by belo beio away from tile lie doubt lie he salil said lie lne knew you want to go abut but that got a spare gun stellas cutin cut in ID was abrupt ye es tint but give it to lu me stella snatched the reoler ret olier front greens land hand almost before tie he could get it from rom his bolster then she jabbed it ant into her own and millred tier her horse to uie the rear lets go slit sin cried over oer her shoulder greens wits wio were not so quick as stellas but his muscles worked automatically and in a second be was by her side allow come lie he questioned oh come on boosel goose 1 well talk later jest as you say bob jest as you say green also spurred his horse find and the two shot away but it was not to be just us stella said laid the face of the two was quickly noticed by the others and a chorus of shouts rose behind them hold on come back where you goin rang kennedys Kenn edys voice above the rest stella turned in tier her saddle and waved tier hand band impudently going buck back to the ranch she yelled want to see wade then she turned her back on the men and scurried away alny as if everything was settled but out of the corners of her eyes she kept to the rear green did the une sune s and a moment later lie he snickered you aint stopped slopped them none cone lie he remarked most all of them are after us stella did not answer immediately put but slie site chirruped chirrup ed to tier her horse and he let out another link in his speed then its black kennedys Kenn edys doings she explained ue he was real peeked when I 1 came up a while ago ile he wanted to know you know ali and I 1 tell him film not sos you could notice it iles hes a pal of wades and I 1 reckon he knew the dirty trick fiat wade and jim barker tried to play on in me at tile the ranch arid and make out how low id got away but but but green was gasp in how hov lid did you get away stella chuckled that cousin ol of wine you brought from the east dropped in oil oh gesl ile he arul dropped lied in all right and what he lid did to wade and jim barker was a plenty hello I 1 that that was life whine of a bullet traveling olier overhead bead the horses 0 of the fugitives were better than those of th pursuers find and had been steu steadily dily volder widening aing the interval between the two groups and kennedy Kenned 3 in tile lie lead but finding himself fulling falling behind land sent a bullet as a warning declaration ot of war grunted green IT b a ts va what ila L black kennedy arnin dy means buI business Iness well lei taint mean me in im not going buck back to tile lie I 1 listed hated to go buck back mid and make inure trouble tor for dud ad by telling him film what hav hap bened at the hie ranch and I 1 was as alt doing it because I 1 where else to go now I 1 ham ive gut gall a 0 cousin to go to und and oli oh yes ses I 1 found out this morning 11 ive KOI gol of for or tune v tailing ailing for me file lu in the lie basl list why barler barker wanted to marry me im ill going to fill und his oame name names Nar nes george Asli mead St morion orlon but everybody everi body calls him go ahead a an n go ahmadi Ah eadI stella shriek with laughter oil ohl bile lie choked a moment later some of ahto aniio se eastern dudes must tie he real sensible en sible it fler afler a all 11 well im going oin to find dear car goey coey go co ey and go ev arnst with film TO BE CONTINUED |