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Show ; THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION Daylight Time for Poultry Poultrymen are discovering that painting the interior of chicken houses white makes daylight "last longer," keeps birds active, healthi-er and better layers. This is a less expensive method of increasing than enlarging window areas or using more artificial light How Water Gets Into Tile Water gets into ordinary burned tile by seeping through the walls of the tile and also through the joints, k The texture of the tile is like that s of common brick and will allow wa-ter to flow through the walls even where they are water tight. It finds 3 access through the joints formed by the abutting sections as rapidly as it can be brought by ordinary soil requiring draining. By EUGENE CUNNINGHAM l EUGENE CUNNINGHAM W.N.U. RELEASE He staggered slightly as he stood beside Pancho. THE STORY SO FAR: Forced to run from the law to save his life when he Is suspected of being the notorious "Co-manche Linn," Con Cameron is trying to prove his honesty. With his pal, Vear, he is working for Topeka Tenison, owner of the Broken Wheel ranch. Nevil Lowe, marshal of the neigh-boring town of Tivan, is after him, but doesn't yet know that the "Twenty John-son" of the Broken Wheel Is the man he suspects of being Comanche Linn. Lowe's sister, Janet, is staying with the Tenl-son- s. They are deeply attached to her, having lost their only child, a boy, when he was kidnaped many years before. On their way out to the ranch after per-suading Tenison to give them the Job, Con and Caramba met Monk Irby, one of the Megeata crowd. Megeath and the Paramores, headed by Dud Paramore, hate both Nevil Lowe and the Broken Wheel outfit. In the fight that followed their meeting, Con knocked out Irby. Now he has had to fight off the rest of Megeuth's men, who followed Tenison and Janet out from town. Now continue with the story. CHAPTER XIV Con overhauled his outfit after din-ner. He was ready before Caramba and Skeets and he went wandering curiously about the place. Janet called him from a side veranda, and when he walked up to the big house, dusty Stetson at his knee, she was sitting beside a small, white-haire- d woman. Con looked curiously at Mrs. Tenison and she studied him in-tently for a moment, before she turned smilingly to Janet. "Why, honey, he's just a boy! From all you said " "Nearly twenty-on- Not quite," Con told her, wondering why Janet's face was suddenly so flushed. "And you are not so terribly old that twenty is terribly young to you!" "Good lands! He's dangerous!" Mrs. Tenison gasped. "Paying com-pliments to old women " "I used to know a girl in Chicago," Con said truthfully, "and she had the prettiest gray hair, almost white, from the time she was nineteen. Somehow, it just made her look younger. The way yours makes you look." "What were you doing in Chica-go? Go up with cattle? Don't tell me you're a city boy! Not after the g Mr. Tenison says you did and Janet says you did." Con hesitated. Janet, still very pink and prettier than he had ever seen her, he thought was looking steadily at him. "I worked for horse dealers and all sorts of commission men. So when my uncle and aunt were killed in a train wreck, I started for Texas. That was last year. I took on with the 20 Bar trail herd and made the trip to Wild Horse. Then I started this way, to learn the cow business. And here I am, roping Mr. Teni-son- 's colts." She shook her white, head and smiled at Con. "My boy would have been about your age. Twenty-tw- o next Decem-ber fourteenth. But he he was sto-len from this very yard, by a part-ner of Mr.'' Tenison' s, a man who must have been very hard and vin-dictive, or he wouldn't have done a thing like that to pay a score with a man. He and Mr. Tenison had trou-ble about a mine and and one eve-ning he took my boy from this yard and just vanished. We hunted and hunted, but his trail disappeared within fifty miles and from that day to this " "Good Lord!" Con exploded. "Come on, boy! We've got to do things." The child came out of the bushes, dragging the big Winchester, a sturdy, blue-eye- d towhead, who seemed to Con so tiny that his man-like way was incredible. He stag-gered slightly as he stood beside Pancho. A flour sack was wrapped clumsily around his right arm. He sagged wearily against Con and his face was hot against Con's hand. Pancho went on across the creek, past the bucket which the boy had evidently come down to fill. Twenty yards beyond was the little adobe house. The door stood open. Con set the boy down and swung off. At the door he stopped to look into a dusky, untidy room, that kitch-en which he had promised Mrs. Ten-ison to examine. In a corner sprawled the body of a tall man in faded chambray shirt and patched overalls, barefoot. Con went over to Gracey and looked down at the grim, beard-stubble- d face. Only a glance was needed to see that he had died almost instantly, of a bul-let near the heart. In the otljer room Mrs. Gracey lay upon a home-mad- e bedstead, breathing harshly through her mouth. She was fully dressed and her thin, d hand picked at a bandage as rude as that upon the boy's arm. She had been shot through the right shoulder. The boy came in and leaned against the wall, with fever-brig-eyes moving from his mother to Con. "She's awful sick, ain't she?" he whispered. "But you can get the doctor, now. I tried to get her to eat " Con went at the run to Pancho, swung up and loped to the dropped down and of course 1 knowed hi. was shot. Mom run in to the room where I was in the corner, because a slug had come in and hit me in the arm. I run over to her and I could see her a liT bit from the light out of the kitchen. She was kind of moaning. It was two men." "They just shot twice, as soon as your pa opened the door?" Con prompted him. "Shot a lot of times. Two men done it They come in the room where we was and Mom told 'em she was shot, too. She says to him that she was dying. They brought the lamp in and looked to see if she was. I just laid still by her. One was a towhead, same's me. He cussed a lot about Mom being shot and waved his around. And he grabbed the blesserhome and wiped his with it " "Grabbed the what?" Caramba thrust in. "The blesserhome! Aw, you know them things women makes to stick up in houses! God bless our home; that's about what they al-ways say. He wiped out his with it." Con and Caramba stared at each other, then nodded. "I said to Monk Irby that it was bad luck," Con drawled. "And we'll try to make it come true, huh, Ca-ramba? Well! I'll take her down. It's going to be dark before we make it. Men came out of darkness when he drove into the Wheel yard and up to the kitchen door. Gale Goree and Tenison pushed up to the wagon and Con answered their surprised questions shortly. Mrs. Tenison came out, Janet at her heels. She called for lights. "Janet," she said briskly, "you trot in, honey, and fix the bed in the west bedroom. The boys will bring her in. Peek! you and Gale and Twenty and Perch carry that mattress. Careful! Where's her boy? Is he hurt much?" She went in ahead of them, calling to Mexican house servants. The four carried Mrs. Gracey into a clean, orderly room and put the old mattress down. Mrs. Tenison looked at it and clucked, then waved them out. "Let's get to work, Janet! If we want you men, I'll call. Peek! we can't wait for the doctor. Send somebody to town, fast! He may not show up for a week. My heart's an old story to him and I think he just comes out for barbecued chick-en. Scoot!" In the kitchen, Tenison looked at Goree, then at Con. "You better make the ride," he drawled. "Grab some coffee and a chunk of meat and catch up a fresh horse. If the doctor's not in town, trail him. He sent word today that he might be e days getting out." He reached behind him tcj the big coffee pot and motioned to a cup. When he had poured the coffee he set out steak and biscuit. Con told them what the boy had seen and heard, between bites of his sup-per. "But e you know it was this damn' Monk Irby used the mot-to for gunrag?" Goree asked him. "Monk rode up to Caramba and me yesterday, on his way to Onopa. He had that motto." "Well, if you run into him in town, you let him alone." Tenison ordered. "Tell Janton the constable about it. But let him handle it. Get the doctor and come on back." Con nodded and went out to un-hitch Pancho. Goree came after him and picked a black horse for the ride to town. Con came into Onopa near mid-night and banged at the doctor's door until a weary, resigned voice answered. Then he explained his errand. "I can go out pretty early tomor-row," the doctor told him. "But I have got to be here tonight. Sick woman here, too. She'll about reach a crisis around daylight. Are you staying?" "I reckon. I'll side you out. I have to hunt up Janton." "Come by around breakfast time, then. I'll know what I can do about leaving." (TO BE CONTINUED) bucket. When he came back with cold water he took a clean white shirt from his alforja and ripped it into bandages. He looked doubtfully at it, then shrugged. "Well, no way to boil it and dry it, here. The thing is to get her down to the women." He asked the boy if anything on wheels was here. "Old spring wagon," the child said drowsily. "One horse. But Pa had to sell Coaly. He was our harness horse. And one shaft is busted and so's the seat. It's out back." Con heard Caramba calling from the trail. He went out and waved the two up, to tell them quickly and shortly of the woman's condition. Caramba swore incredulously. "Doc' ought to be at the house, time we hit there," Skeets said frowningly. "Topeka told Gale that Doc's due out to check up on Mis' Tenison's heart. Let's look at the wagon." "I'm going to try cleaning up their bandages," Con told them. "I'll be out when 1 get done." He washed the quiet woman's shoulder and she hardly flinched, then bandaged it cautiously. The boy's wound was a deep gash like that on Con's own thigh. The old wagon was as dilapidated as most other things on this shabby place. They took off the wheels and greased the axles, wired and braced the snapped shaft, patched and rein-forced the harness. Pancho went be-tween the shafts without trouble and only put back his ears nervously when Con drove him experimentally about the yard. The three of them lifted Mrs. Gra-cey gently and carried her, mattress and all, out to the wagon, packing her about with bedding and old clothes against road shocks. Then Con got on the seat with the boy beside him. Caramba and Skeets helped ease the wagon down to the more level range at the mouth of the narrow trail. "I reckon you can make out," Skeets decided, there. "Me and Ca-ramba better go on to Red Mesa like Gale said." He looked curiously at the boy. "Son, who was it that done all this?" "I didn't know 'em. I was asleep and I woke up because somebody was yelling outside the door for Pa to open up. Pa ask him who it was and he said something and Pa told Mom it was all right. He opened the door and pow! pow! Pa fell "I I heard some of that," Con told her awkwardly. "Well! I reckon Skeets and Caramba ought to be ready to start for Red Mesa." "There's a nester family, a man and his wife and little boy, on the road to the Mesa. When you boys go by, see if you can sort of sneak around and have a look. 'Into the kitchen, if possible. If it looks like they're really in bad fix. I want to know it." He nodded and turned away. Skeets and Caramba were waiting and they mounted. They went on very cheerfully for ten miles or more, climbing into the foothills. Presently, where a narrow trail an-gled off along an arroyo. leading toward wooded heights, Skeets jerked his head to indicate the track. "Gracey road," he said. "Nester family. Gracey, he's an oldish fel-low, kind of. But his wife is a mightily pretty woman. Not over twenty-thre- e or about that. They got a boy seven-eigh- t years old. Yes, sir! Mis' Gracey is mightily pretty. She jiggled some hearts around and about, I reckon. But Gracey ain't a man to cross just for the fun of it. He sent one Helligo Canyon hair-pin howling home with a hole in him. Caught him projecting around the place one morning." Pancho covered a half-mil- e of twisting trail, up the arroyo and out of it across a low mesa, then into scrubby pines. The tall trees were ahead and above. Where a tiny creek cut an opening in the woodland a rifle barrel came poking out of green brush beside the trail and a shrill yell checked Con. "I never done it. none he cried, lifting both hands. "No, sir, it was the big fellow with the long, black whiskers." "Stay back off Gracey land!" a thin little voice commanded fierce-ly. "Stay back or I'll kill you dead!" "But what for?" Con asked plain-tively. "Come on out, Mr. Gracey. and talk to a man. Where's your pa?" .Hehe's dead! Them dirty dogs, they shot him, day before yester-day, early. Shot Mom and me, too. She's worse'n I am. She's awful sick. I couldn't go for nobody. Ain't a horse on the place I can catch up. Besides, I got to stay and give her water. And I got to be ready to kill 'em, if they come back. I like to shoot you." Lift Grapefruit to Tell Quality Grapefruit should feel heavy fo the size of the fruit when they'ar-lifted- So should oranges. i; Garages Not Mentioned In 1939 New York city had 665,-68- 1 buildings. f Mean Hog $ The javelina, or wild desert hog, S furnishes sport for Arizona hunters during an open season each winter. 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