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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH m ly tempestuous, uncertain thing, neither child nor woman. But this latest phase he couldnt understand at all. INSTALLMENT 2 grin. THE STORY SO FAR: Dusty King and Lew Gordon were Joint owners of the vast n range which stretched from Texas to Montana. When building up this string of ranches, they con tinually had to fight the unscrupulous Ben n in powThorpe. Thorpe rivaled it! all. Dry Camps spooky, thats He hooked an arm through his partners, and went swaggering off. Ten paces down the walk he King-Gordo- King-Gordo- er and wealth, but he had gained his Forget posi- tion through wholesale cattle rustling and gunplay. Their opposing interests came to a showdown when the Government announced the auctioning of the Crying Wolf land in Montana. Bill Roper, King's adopted son, had inspected this territory and found it to contain an almost unbelievable wealth of grass. Bidding went high at the auction, but King beat out Thorpe to gain control of the land. This was a heavy blow to Thorpe who needed the pasture for his herds. stopped, turned, and came back. He leaned close to Roper. If anything should happen, kid remember what I said. CHAPTER m That Lew Gordon had a daughter was not so surprising as that he had he clung only one. all his life to the memory of the wife he had lost when their first child was born. Jody Gordon was twenty now. She CHAPTER H , didnt exactly run Lew Gordon; nodid that. But it was fairly apAn hour spent in the Wells Fargo body that his stubborn bid for suparent office with the deputy commissionin western cattle was inpremacy er, filling out forms, signing papers, tended in her behalf, and without her ended as Dusty King and Bill Roper would have been meaningless to stood with Lew Gordon on the board him. walk.' It was the first time the three Because Gordon hadnt wanted his had had a word alone since the Cryfiltering around through the girl ing Wolf had passed into the hands press of Ben Thorpes ruffians at of the auction, getting his own boys Well, said Dusty King, we got into fights, Jody Gordon was waither. ing here for news of what had hapMaybe, Gordon said, this is pened to the Crying Wolf. Bill Ropour chance. Maybe now we can get er vaulted the foolish little picket the cow business on a sound basis, scuffed the mud off his boots gate, here in the north, and have some on the high front steps, and let himorder, and decent law. self in. He sent a Comanche war Youll never get a sound basis' until Ben Thorpe is bust, Dusty said. What law enforcement we got in the West is rotten through and through with office holders that Single-minde- d, King-Gordo-n, -- Thorpe owns.. Some day, Gordon said slowly, Ben Thorpe has got to go. j3ome dayLLew weve got him beat! Kings exuberant mood of victory was not to be dampened. You want law and order? he chortled. Well show em law and order! That puts me in mind, said Gordon. A feller passed me this here to give to you. He handed Dusty King a little twisted scrap of paper, torn off the corner of something else. Dusty untangled it, looked at it a moment, showed it to the others. Five words were penciled on it in sprawling black letters: IN GODS NAME LOOK OUT Whos this from, Lew? Gordons lips moved almost soundlessly. Dry Camp Pierce. Roper blew that name, without knowing what lengths of outlawry had brought Dry Camp Pierce to Rewards where he was today. backed by Ben Thorpe were on Dry Camps scalp over half the West; probably it was as much as his life was worth to show himself in Og-alla- la now. This note Dusty King tossed it off with a Oh I suppose Thorpe is shrug. getting drunk some place and spouting off about what all hes going to do to me when he catches up. Dustys teeth showed in his infectious grin. I suppose Dry Camp thought I ought to know about it. Hes right Dusty, Lew Gordon said. We do want to look out, all of us, all the time. We always had to look out, Dusty scoffed. Itll be the more so now. There in the world Ben isnt anything Thorpes people will stop at. Dusty. Let 'em come on. We want to look out, Gordon said again. If you feel that way about it, said Dusty, what was the idea of your working through that law we cant wear guns In town? Bill Roper said, We could have five brought it to an open shoot-ou- t, if Better ten ago. ago years years we had. NothGordon shook his head. ing ever gets fixed up with guns. Dusty King pulled his hat a little more on one side so that he could wink at Bill Roper unobserved. But he said, Hes partly right, Bill. Ben Thorpe isnt just one man any more. Walk Lasham Cleve Tanner any one of a dozen others could step into his shoes. Its a whole rotten organization has to be busted up. Ben Thorpe downed, and theyll quit, Bill Roper thought. Ben Thorpe down and its only Get it begun, Dusty countered. out of your head that you can fix anything up by downing Ben Thorpe. Not while this organization stands in one piece. Might be a good idea for you to remember that. Bill, in case anything happens. Dusty, Bill said, if ever they get you, by God, Ill get Ben Thorpe 3 its the last No, said Dusty. You hear me? No. If they get me youll remember what I said. You remember youre fighting a thing, and a big one; not just one man. His face crinkled in that familiar, contagious He picked up his hat, and for a little while stood turning it in his hands. Then he threw it in the corner, and went searching through the house. Jody was in the tallest of the four foolish towers. From here you could see the town, and the slim, glittering line of the railroad, connecting these far plainsmen with a world hungry for beef. ' Jody said Weve got to have more loading pens, Bill. Bills face broke into a slow grin. Abruptly he laid hard hands on disused sashes, and broke them open. Into, their little cubicle flowed the sweet air of the open prairie sweep, inspiriting with the fresh smell of the new grass. She said, Tell me about your new job. It isnt new." They said that youd be the new boss of the Crying Wolf, if we got it, Jody said. I dont know as Im so much interested as I was, he said. Why, Billy not interested in the Crying Wolf nearly five hundred square miles of feeder land! Whats come over you? I guess maybe Im tired of ridBill said. ing alone, Alone? With all the Outfit youll have I wouldnt call it alone. I would. Grass country is lonely country, he said now, as lonely as the dry plains. You get to wondering what the everlasting cattle add up to, in the course of a life. Then some night you know you dont care what they add up to; and you think, Damn fat beef! matter-of-factl- y, ASK ME O ANOTHER f 1. 6. Which of the following did not The Questions What is the southernmost sign the Declaration of Independence: Thomas capital city in the world? 2. In what year did the first ocean steamer go through the Panama canal? 3. What denomination constitutes the largest Protestant group in the world? 4. How does the coffee consump tion in the United States compare to that of the remainder of the world? i. n 5. In what story does Jean appear? Val-jea- Washington, Stone, George or Roger Sherman? The Answers 1. Wellington, New 2. In the year 1914. Zealand. 3. The Lutherans (61,000,000). 4. The coffee consumption of the United States far exceeds the combined consumption of all other countries. 5. Les Miserables (by Victor Hugo). 6. George Washington. 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Jodys words came very faint, and a little breathless. Why didnt ybu say so before? He looked at her then, and she wasnt laughing. In her eyes was a new, grave light, such as he had never seen; a warm light, a beloved light, better than sunset to a weary day-ridwho has worked leather since before dawn. Timorously, but very willingly, she came into his arms; and he held her as if she were not only a very precious but a very fragile thing. For a little while it seemed that one trail, a trail longer than the Long Trail itself, had come to its end. Cant believe, he said at last, his lips in her hair, youre mine. All yours all, all! They had one hour, there in the prairie lookout tower, discovering each other, getting acquainted as if for the first time. The sun went down in a gorgeous welter of color. Jody shivered a little. I wish Dad and Dusty would come. Especially Dusty. A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects THE ARMY MANS FAVORITE $$ s, But she broke away as he tried to hold her. gobble ringing through the house, but Jody was already flying into the room. Did you get it? Did you get it? All of it! Jody flung herself at him, and kissed him; so sweet, so vital, so completely feminine that he wanted to keep her close to him. But she broke away again as he tried to hold her. How much did it cost? Seventy cents gold. Can we Jodys breath caught. come out on it? Sure we can come out on it. Not a cent less wouldve turned the trick. Dusty Jody sat on a walnut table that had come all the way from St. Louis, and swung her feet. The story seemed to tickle her in more ways Why? than one. I can just see you all, He has so many enemies. Some she said, standing around making of them are dangerous as diamond-backan impression on each other. It worries me when hes due He turned from the window, and and doesnt get back. she was laughing at him as he had Dustyll take care of himself. thought, her mouth smothered with Bill Roper chuckled, and held her her fingers. closer. Come here a minute, he said, One half hour more . . . going toward her. Up from the town came a crazily She twisted from the edge of the ridden horse, splashing mud eaves-hig-h table, as if to put it between them, under the urge of spur and but she was too late. His rope-har- d quirt. fingers caught her wrist, and held Hell lame his pony if he goes had dallied down in that slick, Bill commented. her as easily as jf he a calf to the horn. Now what do you suppose he begged her. .LisListen, The rider tried to pull up in front ten of the house, and the frantic pony He caught her up, clamped an swerved and mouth wide open arm behind her head, and' kissed to the sky. slid, shoulder Its crashed her hard. Hard, and for a long the fenfce, taking down a dozen feet time. of pickets. The rider tumbled off, So long as she was rigid in his the steps to hammer on the ran arms, fighting him, he held her; door.up but when she stood limp, neither Roper went clattering down the yielding nor resisting, his arms rethe door. Now laxed, and Jody tore herself free. stairs, pulled open you listen, She lashed out at him like a little Bill Dusty Mr. King he mustang, striking him across the Bill Roper froze, and there was a mouth. Her face was white, all that of paralyzed silence. moment long quick, irrepressible laughter gone, as for a moment she looked at him. Spit it out, man! Roper shouted A trickle of blood ran from Bill at him. daid! Ropers lips, and made a crooked .Bill hes who Who chin. she on Ids Then turned mark and fled. Dusty Kings daid! Bill, they When she was gone Bill Roper gunned him they gunned him stood still, sucking his cut lips. After down! Who did? a little while he went to the winto Taint known. Mr. Gordons dow, instinctively turning 'open space for his answers. there; he He could remember Jody Gordon Bill Roper walked out past the as a little kid, before her cowboy stiffly, like a man gone hair had darkened into the elusive blind. Without knowing what he did misty brown that it was now. Or as he walked down to the gate, and a girl with scratches on stood gripping the pickets with his two hands. her shins from riding ' (TO BE CONTI Mli ED) through the sage. Or as a peculiar er sure-enoug- hf s. THE SMOKE OF 28 SLOWER-BURNIN- LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-sellin- g cigarettes tested less than any of them according to Independent scientific tests of the smoke itself. Today and for more than 20 years reports from Army Post Exchanges show that Camels are the favorite cigarette. In MOTEL ed Choice of theDiscriminatingTraveler 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS. 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