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Show ! THE PROGRESSrVF. OPINION ' More Light Shed on Stars Astronomers say that in our gal-axy of stars there may be as many as 100,000,000,000, and so vast is the light, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, that it needs 100,000 years to go from one side to the other. Avoid Big Tree Crotches When pruning shade trees, re-member the one essential is to pre-vent the formation of big crotches with two' or three leading stems. The danger under such a branch-ing is that the crotches will split during a heavy wind and ruin the trees. By EUGEN E CU NN IN G MAM lt' 1 EUGENE CUNNINGHAM W. N.U. R.ELEAS E 3 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, Caramba Vear, he is working for Topeka Tenison, owner of the Broken Wheel ranch. Nevil Lowe, marshal of the neighboring town of Tivan, is after him but doesn't yet know that the "Twenty Johnson" of the Broken Wheel Is the man he suspects of being Comanche Linn. Lowe's sister, Janet, is staying with the Tenisons. They are deeply attached to her, having lost their only child, a boy, when he was kid-naped many years before. On their way out to the ranch after persuading Tenison to give them the job. Con and Caramba met Monk Irby, one of the Megeath crowd. Megeath and Dud Paramore, leader of another band of outlaws, hate both Nevil Lowe and the Broken Wheel outfit. In the fight which followed their meeting with Irby. Con knocked out Irby. Then he and Caramba fought off more of Megeath's men to protect Janet Lowe. Con finds the Graceys, a family of "nest-ers,- " shot and suspects Monk Irby. To-peka sends him Into town for a doctor, with instructions to tell the constable, Janton, and no one else, about his sus-picions. Janton doesn't say much, but clearly Implies that he doesn't want to have anything to do with it. He refuses to arrest Irby or even to tell where be Is. Con decides to look for Irby himself and Is attacked by the Latimers, who are also enemies of the Broken Wheel. Now continue with the story. f . He rode a little forward, lifting his hand. Some of them horses I seen come along as colts and branded and rode. Just follow 'em and remember they'll be doing what they think I'd want 'em to be doing." "You take care of Old Folks," Skeets called as he whirled his horse. "Be seeing you!" "Be seeing you!" Caramba ech-oed, grinning at Con. "You take care of yourself, boy!" He spurred after Skeets and from the edge of a ridge his high yell car-ried to Perch and Con: Yeee-pah- ! " "Happy jigger," Perch comment-ed, grinning. "Well, once I was a young sprout like that, full of vine-gar; interesting to myself and other folks. Most cowboys don't get old don't live long enough! But the ones that do, they ought to look ahead and figure on owning his own outfit, yes, sir! No use and no sense of ending up like me or old Step " "Who's Step?"'Con asked idly. "Ain't you seen him around the place? He keeps to hisself a lot. Got him a liT adobe alongside some of the Mex' help. Putters around. He's crippled in one leg account of some horse rolling on him, one time. 'Step' mostly. Gafford's his go-b- I wouldn't be surprised if old Step one time rode more high lines than he rode range. But old as he is, I wouldn't say it loud!" They ate the steak and eggs and fried-appl- e pies for supper and played a few hands of mild stud poker afterward. The next morn-ing the doctor went back to Onopa. Con harnessed the doctor's heavy black horse to his buggy and asked about Mrs. Gracey and the boy. "The kid's all right. Keep him in bed for a day or two and he'll be pawing the air to get out. But his mother it's a matter of her consti-tution. If she should happen to take a turn for the worse, Mrs. Tenison will send one of you in for me. I'll come as soon as I can." When the doctor's buggy had dis-appeared. Perch suggested that Con ride to White Rock ' Pasture tor a routine look at the horses there. Con saddled the black he had ridden once before. As he shoved his car-bine into the scabbard, Janet spoke behind him. "If you'll catch me that sorrel," she said. "I'll side you. I've just got to get out of, the house for a while!" The horses went e across the yard and Con opened a gate in the wire fence, let Janet pass and closed it behind them. Then they foxtrotted out over rolling "Get back over the ridge!" he snapped at her. "I think I've got the best of this. Get back! Fast!" He was hardly conscious of the sorrel's thundering hoofs behind him. The rifleman was bringing his saddle gun to bear and the other men ' brandished pistols. Con squeezed trigger and saw the bullet kick up dust beyond the horses a hundred yards away. Then he cor-rected his aim and fired three fast shots at the man with the rifle. With the shots the other riders fired quickly at him and ducked, to dart to the side so that ten yards separated each from his neighbor. Their lead fell short. The rifleman had not loosed his slug. He dropped the carbine and swayed, holding his body with both hands as if cold or suffering a stomach-ach- But he stayed with the horse and it slowed to a trot, then a walk. Con fired grimly at the others in turn. But they jerked on the reins and went farther right and left. The rifleman was now clinging to his saddle horn. All fight seemed gone from him. He got the horse turned and spurred him to a. run. Then the horse of the man nearest him came down with suddenness that catapulted his rider straight ahead. The cowboy seemed to twist purposefully in air and struck the ground on his feet. He ran two long paces forward before he stumbled. Con was reloading as fast as his fingers could jerk shells from his belt and ram them into the loading gate. He took three long shots at the departing men and saw dust jump from one jumper. Then the three of them disappeared and he looked at the man on the ground, forty yards away. He was sitting, now, shaking his head violently. "Dear me!" Con said aloud. "First they wanted to play, then they wanted to go home. So they picked up their marbles and went away from here. Changeablest peo-ple, Blackie! Let's go down and look at this one ..." The cowboy, a slender, dark youngster, had a nose bleed. But his head seemed to have cleared. Over the sleeve he held to his nose his narrow eyes regarded Con steadily. "You damn' fool!" he cried. "What's the idee, whanging away at us? Can't nobody ride across this range of yours without you got to shoot off that Winchester at 'em?" Two yards from him, Con halted the black horse and studied him. "Chunk me that pretty, big pistol you're wearing," he ordered. "I just shoved some more persuaders CHAPTER XVT The boys got back to the house in time for a late supper and after-ward, loafing in the bunkhouse, Perch blew smoke from the side of his battered mouth and squinted at Con. "None of my business, of course," he drawled, "but the doctor told To-peka some about you tangling with the Latimers. From what he says, they was both onto you at once, all-sa-hounds on a coon. Now, me, I only bucked Latimer. Which was just plenty! He's hell's handful, I would say. But. did he slip like the doctor thinks, or did you really lay him out?" Con looked at him suspiciously, but there was nothing except friend-ly curiosity in Perch's face. "I laid him out cold," Con told them evenly. Tonelessly and briefly he told of drawing against Latimer; of the fight and its outcome. Perch and the cook said nothing. Con took the Colt from his holster and slipped it into his waistband, as it had been in Onopa. He demonstrated his draw with his gunhand moving snaky-fas- t. "Oh!" Perch said softly, nodding. "Now, I can see it and see some-thing else: 1 had been listening to Gale and Topeka and when they fig-ured it out you had a kid's luck with Slash Oxweld, I reckon I took it that way. But, Gale and Topeka, they never watched you slap leath-er, huh? No, I thought not. But if you don't want folks boogering, don't make a draw where they can see it. You like that waistband hideout bet-ter'- n a shoulder holster?" "My old uncle had a yard of scar across his chest and belly, from a shoulder holster draw that slipped. He sort of soured on 'em and I reckon he scared me of 'em. So I've always packed my gun some-where else." "He a Texas man?" the cook asked. "Runs in my mind I seen some fellow scarred all across his front from a gun that slipped. Years back, that was. I worked so many places I disremember a lot. But " Caramba and Skeets and Johnny Dutch came in with the horses from Red Mesa near noon. They ate with Con and Perch and afterward Con drew Caramba aside to tell him that he was staying as a sort of guard. Caramba shook his head. "Didn't you know that Gale Goree cut back to meet us? He told us a liT bit about you tangling with some hard case and What was the straight of that?" Con described the fight with Lati-mer in the cantina and Caramba swore irritably. "This is a damn' whiskers outfit! Goree and Topeka, they count you nothing but a kid that was lucky something happened to Slash and you downed him acciden-tal. But Goree would have took you on this cow-wor- account you're a roper he can't hel. admitting there ain't the like of on the place. He even figured by the time roundup was over you'd be the top hand on the place account of him showing you how, of course. But Topeka just looked at you and put you to wran-gling stovewood!" Con stared grimly at him, with face reddening: "He did, did he! Well, I can sill put a sizable spoke in his Busted Wheel. I'm going to roll my bed and hit Lit Taylor at Los Alamos for a job." Caramba watched him over the cigarette he was making. "I wouldn't, if' I was you," he ad-vised softly. "All. this y of Topeka's made me so hot I was fit to tie. But I have been talking a good deal to Skeets and Johnny Dutch, Con. My notion is. from what you told me about Paramore and what I know about Megeath, leaving that pretty Janet Lowe here, with all the outfit gone, is just the same as hammering the old tire and yell-ing to 'em to come and get it!" 'I don't know," Con said sulkily, wishing that he had said less. "I I haven't thought about it, yet." "Fine! Now that we got it all set-tie- d you and Perch can help us a liT bit along the road." In Perch and Con rode with Skeets and Caramba for a few miles. Perch reined in before dusk and sat comfortably with leg around the saddle horn, to make a cigarette and beam paternally upon Skeets. 'Now, son," he said genially, "you-al- l will be safe. Just keep 'em the way you seen me do. range with the hills far ahead of them. Con looked stonily before him. "What's to be done about hunting down Gracey's murderer, do you know?" Janet asked him suddenly. "Unless word was sent to your brother, and he does something not a thing!" "From what that amazing little boy said, you have an idea about the murderers; who they are." "Monk Irby. Friend of Slash But nothing will be done from Onopa. Gracey and Constable Janton were on the outs. He's glad that somebody did what he didn't have the nerve to do. He told me so." "I never have thanked you for what you did the other night," she told him abruptly, so that he twisted his head to stare. "You know how much 7 thank you for that other time, at our house, for saving me from Dud. That was the Oravest thing! Nevil said the same." "I never thought about it as being brave. It just seemed like one of those things that'll cause a lot of trouble, but need to be done. That must be one of the manadas ahead." The bay. stallion and his harem were crossing a flat below them. He saw the riders and threw up his head defiantly. "Are those the cowboys from the line camp?" she asked. "Don't think so," Con replied, staring at the tight little knot of men coming over a rise toward the mares. "I wish I had a pair of glasses." He rode a little forward and lifted his hand. They saw him, but came on. One man got a carbine out. The others made significant motions to-ward their belts. into this ..." Calmly, the cowboy took out his pistol and tossed it from him. Con's face hardened. "Thought it was easy picking, did you, when the wagon rolled off? All you had to do was stroll down and pick out what you wanted, huh? We've been waiting for you. If more than four of you had come, two of us would've been here." He looked briefly at the Colt on the ground, then let his carbine rest across the saddle while he fished tobacco and papers from his pocket. "Do' no' what you're driving at," the cowboy drawled. "Me and my friends was heading for the west of here. Cigarette?" He caught the sack and papers and rolled a cigarette while Con watched him. Then he got up stiffly, put his hand down in a natural mo-tion as for a match and it van-ished behind him, to twitch back with a Colt, apparently drawn from the rear of his waistband. Con had not picked up his. car-bine. But he had not let the ham-mer down, either. Now, he pulled trigger without raising it. He missed, but the bullet went so near to the cowboy that he flinched and nis own slug buzzed waspishly past Con's head. Then Con fired with lift-ed carbine, flicked down the lever and fired again. Both shots were hits; both struck over the heart. The hideout dropped from the cowboy's fingers. He turned completely around and lifted one foot as if to walk off. But it seemed no more' than reflex movement. He sagged, rather than fell, to the grass. (TO BE COXTIXUED) Armored Cars in 1916 The United States marine corps first used armored cars in 1916. They were capable of doing 65 miles per hour. For the Blind A mission in Glasgow, Scotland, has employed 15 teachers to in-struct 3,000 blind in their homes. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. DEARL BUCK, head of the A East and West association, which promotes cultural un-derstanding between the Ori-entals and ourselves, wants a list of movies which really represent American life. She ought to include "Pride of the Yankees," starring Gary Cooper, with Teresa Wright playing opposite him. It's the story of Lou Gehrig's life shows an earnest, rather shy young man who loved his mother and worked hard, attaining success and the honest admiration and affection of his countrymen. A typical American, we hope. It's too bad that the dim-ou- t for-bade the use of Kleig lights for the opening of this swell picture. Never V ft" ' A TERESA WRIGHT did another picture have such a first night; it took place simultaneously in 40 RKO houses in New York, and more than 100,000 people attended it If Richard Haydn develops indi-gestion it will be the fault of the writers of "No Time for Love." That's the new Claudette Colbert-Fre- d MacMurray comedy, and Haydn eats in every one of his scenes. Might sound like heaven to some, but not to him! They probably won't give Jerry Bulkley a chance to dance In "Du Barry Was a Lady"; probably won't even know that she's a dancer. She's gone to Hollywood with a group of fellow models, and if they have an opportunity to do more than just look pretty they'll be lucky. New York models aren't very enthusias-tic about Hollywood any more; most of them refuse to go. Even $200 a week for three months or so doesn't tempt them, since they may never face a movie camera in that time, and when they come home folks think they just didn't make good. Sounds strange, but here's what we hear from Metro about an im-portant role in Katharine Hepburn's picture, "Keeper of the Flame." The actor chosen will portray the star's husband, and will appear in seven important scenes before meeting death in an accident. After that he'll still be a key figure in the pic-ture. But he'll never speak a word. Swell chance to be paid for keeping mum! The latest addition to the new crop of players recently signed by Metro is William Bishop, nephew of Helen Hayes. He's six feet two, with dark brown hair and eyes, and has won fame as a football player. He's played in stock and in various stage plays in New York; in two of them he supported his famous aunt. He has also appeared on her radio pro-gram. A coming star, maybe. Another newcomer to the screen is Lenore Aubert, chosen by Samuel Goldwyn to play opposite Bob Hope in "They Got Me Covered." Born in Jugoslavia, daughter of a gen-eral in the Austrian army in pre-Hitl-days, she worked in pictures in Vienna. She was discovered by a talent scout while appearing in a play in Los Angeles. Goldwyn did more testing for this role than he has for any in several years;? It's a break for Miss Aubert she has been signed to a seven-yea- r con-tract. Bob Hawk's "How Am I Doin' " show has been on the air for exactly half a year, and in that time 211 contestants have walked oft with winnings totaling $15,213. The aver-age take, according to Quizmaster Hawk, is from $10 to $480; Mrs. William Riley, a South Bend, Ind., housewife, is the top winner. Six contestants have gone over the $400 mark in the last 26 weeks. ODDS AND ENDS Ginger Rogers will play the title role in "The Gibson Girl," a romantic comedy in technicolor based on the lives of Charles Dana Gibson and his wife . . . "Lassie Come Home" story of family and their collie, by' Eric Knight, will be filmed in technicolor by Metro . . . Those who recall Margo's moving per-formance in "Winterset" and other pro-ductions will be glad to know she 11 act as well as sing in the CUS Caravan hour, Friday evenings . . . Joan Blames getting numerous long distance cat s from Private Charles Carroll formerly her leading man in "Valiant Lady. Joan Edwards, of "Your Hit Pa-rade " tells the story about natives of d Norway attending the movies. A German propaganda with views of Ger-man film was shown ships unloading food at a Nor-wegian port. "Stop the film!" yelled aNorwegian.-It'sgoingbackwar- Basil Eathbone'will play "Colonel Creighton" in "Kim," Mickey Eooney starring. 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In 1813, the ad- - v mission of five states convinced con-- gress a flag of 20 stripes was out of the question, and so the original number of stripes, for the 13 v colonies, was restored. Tar vs. Creosote for Fence Posts A nine-ye- comparison of tar and creosoting treatment for fence posts revealed no definite "life" advantage in favor of one or the other method. |