Show VAL of P SE t 1 C IJ 8 1 h l t TODAY Y JOHN HANNON it wealthy ranch owner owner hi blind wife sito BELLE and their beautiful daughter VAL live happily together in s won Ion won ranch Paradise lIed lIed- star lied tar star I 11 It the king ot of the tho Red lIed Drood Brood ot of horses owned by the master of ot the th ranch In a n game earn at WELLS S Y LIS storo front from the tho Border wins LOLA IOLA who ho herself herselt as liS stake for IAN man nun of ot Ye- Ye Vc sends Lola Lela home homo to her father rATHER FATHER HILLAIRE In chare charo ot of tho Mission i Is friendly It with It ye Vo Ve and with Val The CO cost boys from Paradise ranch act net as escort escor for Val ai to the tho I of ot July cele cole celebration Ifor bration at Santa I where they watch the tho Red lIed Brood Drood In a In honors In the races In the evening they I proudly escort val al al to the tho dance GO ON OX WITH Th THC STOR And almost on the v ord ord throw threw up her he id broke broko and pitched ort off to one side aide wild Ud iId and ugly as ademon a ademon ademon demon Damn cried the cowboy conboy CO boy trink-ly trink Iy ly lyThe The big bis brown bro n gelding camo carno run nine rune run fling in tar far ahead 1 Twice Juice Ice In the three th reo heats that made the race was nas to ramp out and be he disqualified Dad Dad will never aster let It her run again hen alien he hears this raid ald Val AndI and andI I dont don't blame him either But Dut the maro was as toi gotten forthe for tor forthe the first Iret heat ol of t the tho ho next race raco was coming o on ana ano coma a aa see tn If brillIant m gt shino of t Firebrand b aC a and C T The pretty prett- nen nervous ous among the rhel d horses isas as there and two to other blacks and anda n a rangy Indian but the red flame red flame red colts with Ith their creamY manes mancs and tails took the e es ot of o aU alt b They were wre gentlemen too minding their orders and sweat s sweating ing log with Ith lager eager nervousness eager as ns wind to bo be gone And when they stero ero gone at nt last last last- gone gone with It 11 an even eten start neck and neck nel with Silks kin and the tho cIa cia cia- bank bank th they Ian lan like wind Indeed Indeed- indeed light on their drumming feet reet skim skimming ming the earth like swallows s I Lord Lord said Val softly hen e eles es like sta staI jou ou ou darlings You I IFor For lor was VIas drawing away I I from the I lost est cst like the center ot of al aI a arsing arising I rising stream and stream and the tho tOl crests were flanking her rr on elt either e side aide was ns coming true to the predictions for tor her and and the tho younglings from Para Para-disa Para Para- Paradise dise 1 were re keeping pace paco with Ith her faith full Farther and tm stretched the distance between tho three and those the behind they behind they flashed by Val Viii and Sift and shot under the itile 1113 nose noso and nose and nose nose The fringe surged Into th the track alter after them and idled like Uke mad While Dirk walked the colts about and the tho hum ot of voices grew like warming swarming bees the tho first heat ot of the theda's theda's das da's big ble race was WIls on This com coin comprised comprised Dollar Clendenning's famous a dark horse brought In from somewhere at the tho list 1st moment though it had been duly entered and Lightning Sane bane gentle alert Lightning strode to the tho start and waited like the gentleman he was 1 with Ith Rosy on lii hi back baek backWell Well Welt matched all three thre they hummed down n the trick evenly for tor forthe the first Their slim legs were a blur beneath them their necks were a II straight line their eager faces facea keen Jeen as flame on a n night sk sky Dollar wai 11 running as ns he be could I II I run a machine steady true pcr per per- pcr feet he ed to a rising note lie He set seti i the pace and kept It lifting lilting gaining ga In speed with every ery jump And at nt his Ids side Lightning ran but If It Dollar DoUar was a n machine LightnIng was as a thing living 11 breathing aspiring bundle of ot s and brains LI Like ke a wind like a fire In grass they said o of the tho Red Blood he came do down don n the track Instinct stith Ith life Ufa Slowly Iy the strange horse tell fell hind 3 hind anti and the two others began torun run away awny from him another Quarter the drummed down to- to together to together gether neck and neck flashing by flashing eye eyes And then Ros Rosy la lay down on Lightning's neck nock and reached a 0 hand caressingly out along his cheek Come on Come he and the red rd horse came Ah Alt Thoro Thero was or by-or in that horse as aa asI his master had saId Bold once Now at ot his hia riders rider's c call lI ha he caught I a great breath into his lila lungs dropped hl hIt hlf slim allm b belly lly down to tomother mother earth and earth and simply ran awa away front DoWn the tho belt horse In the tho I range O country hitherto Far out ahead ahod ho be poked his nose nolO I under tinder the wire and wire and came camo down from 11 his speed as quickly as hs he could a gentleman always The crowd d wore and Va wiped a II hand across her misty eyes Sift sho she said unsteadily wo we dont don't want to runt run Not fiver ever LI Lightning s good enough for tor us us- us I With tingling delight the girl watched the other heat heaH of ot the tho rest net of the races racE'S and and when the tho great day was over was l in disgrace tore er erho the ho younglings had won n a name namo by finishing two tao 1 0 heats out ot of three nose and nose with Ith SlIk hill nothing In the entries had kept In Ie sight of ot Lightning Its been ft a great day she Bho said Mid as she eho through the dust with Sift down to the corrals to talk tolk it all over with Uh the boys and to pet pt the shining beauties one by olin OnA poor girl she sho said sald pit why Is la It tont ou ore are cured with t Ith suc a n vile temper But lii Dilston isbn took them all t Ictor and ond alike Into the shel shel- hel- hel ter of his wise care caro and anti dusk found them blanketed and close clote clo hel e-hel In their corral their names an en I John lannon's Hannons on the lips III's of ot all nil the tho rangeland Once more had the Don Bosi of ot Para Para Para- Paradise Paradise dise proved his passion for the the best bestIn bestin bestIn I In It It-i It line With Mth tho coming of ot twilight Yal vanished hoot Perly's watchful ees Into the recesses ot of o the Hudson I House to prink and preen nith Ith the girl Kirl from up north to emerge with Ith the first strumming of tho fiddles the tho road at s as a dark flower In her dress with sith the tho red rod sash Eash tho the Spanish shoes the rose roo ro o behind her eat car car which same samo big biff bud had ridden In wet cotton In a wooden box In the bundle and bundle and with the red teathel fan tan hung to her brown wrist arist b by a n ribbon In the tho middle of tho the bunch front from all Paradise all sate O Dirk whose fIrst atch it was stas at nt the she corrals corrals she en- en entered en entered th the great room of ot the store where oven thing sate movable movable save e and I except the tho had bar bar had been moved and sho was stas proud as ns any queen Quen rid riding rid rid- ing lag between her ro roal al subject subject subject- I proud with Ith the tho pride of ot Paradise I CHAPTER VIII VIII It 0 Hand ells ell's tore store toro had been cleaned and decorated tor for the occasion slon The erst dim windows sh shone ne cleat cleal the worn orn floor had been swept and nd smoothed with sand and ate wate l front the smoky rafters hung yards and lards ards of o ancient bunting whIch had seen sten many a 0 In the tho northeast t corner a platform r I II I I Tho big bie brown came camo running In hi far ahead had hod been erected and on it sat two men their fiddles pressed preMed to their shoulders or held on their knees while tighten tightened cd and picked judicially I at the hanging strings Thero There was as a surge of ot cowboys cO I I acro across the floor a 3 great grent bowing a rustle of ot rising women and the tho voIce of the tho caller callor cutting high aboto abo 0 the I I music Git yoro yore I I ells ell's was a 3 large structure On tho the cleared floor noor tour four sets could dance daneo with Uh ease case at once I I A garden gorden of ot f butterflies a a close ot of I I flowers a 0 web ot of color was Hunnewell's floor that nIght In gay V silk Bilk shirts studded I belts and An I 1 ShOes led out girls and women in n nall all tints of ot the rainbow S S 'S lute yer pardner lardner I IThe The Tho web sank and rose in billows with the tho bowing heads beads I f Lead tho th lady Indy an shun ahun th gent Hands reached for tor hands like leaves In a 0 wind Back to th place from whar whap ye wont went The web broke and moved 81 a Itt gay gny a 0 mass of ot swishIng skirts of ot slippIng feet teet ott of t happy eyes ot of laughter and of ot light and the tho danco I was In full tull swing In the tho thick of It it 1 moved Val lInn lInn-I Han Han- Hannon non Han non lion sweet smiling her ber dark cheeks i flushed like the sunsets on the mesa her dark ees e es sparkling like I harbor lights Opposite her danced ton whose place and honor It as to have havo the tho st dance by rca rca- rea reason son of ot his standing at Paradise Par The foreman was taa nearIng tho the forty mark mork markin markin In years but he was a handsome fig fig- figore fig figure ure ore of ot a man slim hipped tall easy aSia youth and he had danced before Val was as born As Val Yal wove wOe wO e In and out among the dancers her keen eyes were store taking In nall all thero there was to sec see tho tho theses dl seB ot of the tho women omen the good dancers among the men the tho prettiest girls Like o a flame like hike a flower like something full tull charged it with Ith life lire and beauty Lob Lolo Sanchez swept and drift drifted ed title thin way and that brilliant irs as fire In her ber scarlet and black and she too wn ft n i M h hI her lit hit hO lo ear car for some unaccountable n rca rca- rea reason son halt half unconsciously Val Vat Hannon raised a hand a little later and pulled the bud from her hel own dark hair chopped It unseen in a corner A polka polla followed the waltz and n a the polka and once mOro more morea mOroa is a square dance nce and Val Vat parcelled them painstakingly among her 0 on n cohort after after which the tho Texas bo ho was promptly at nt her elbow elbo with hIs soft eyes and Ills his softer voice Thinly and ROIlY Ro iy and Sift and Dirk all 1111 In the full tide Of t tho the celebration each tach had him a lady and went to It with the vigor stored from six ix months hard bard work on the range Rosy and Sift were ere known to Cut It high wide and handsome upon oc- oc occasion oc occasion casion caslon but when J John hn Hannon sent his daughter forth In tn their midst they looked at smelled nor tasted tho customary refreshments ot of o the region After Arter the first number Briston Bristen had gone Irone back to the horses horse and sent Dirk Dick to tho merrymaking The boy had but tho the foreman pushed him shoulder out with a friendly hand on his der del Lato In In the tha cool abort hours a group of ot horsemen rode up from the open levels and ancl tied thel their mounts well wol out among the cotton colton wood cotton wood at ot the west we t A little later new face appeared among the crowd that surged in and nd out of ot the tho door at Hun Hun- Hun n newell's neWell Sharp alert they wore were every one their keen eyes un- un un watch der den under h bat t T-Ith T Ith quiet w atch In On Next rt JwuC Inon I t 7 tT T- T 0 j |