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Show IP" THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH fast, for her ponys flanks were : i ' . heaving. You sure punish that horse, he , said. - v- - . .Wise and Otherwise . ; Ive Im not ByALAN IE MAY W. INSTALLMENT 4 THE STORY SO FAR: Dusty King and Lew Gordon were joint owners of the vast range which stretched from Texas to Montana. When building up this string of ranches, they continually had to fight the unscrupulous Ben in powThorpe. Thorpe rivaled er and wealth, but he had gained his position through wholesale cattle rustling and gunplay. King outbid Thorpe in an auction Klng-Gordo- n King-Gordo- n of valuable grasslands; the same afternoon he was killed. Bill Roper, King's adopted son, found out that he had been shot down by Thorpe and two aides. Against the strong opposition of his partner. Lew Gordon, Bill decided to start a cattle war in Texas" against Thorpe. Before leaving Bill went to tell his sweetheart, pretty Jody Gordon, about his plans. CHAPTER V Continued Bill glanced at Jody, and her startled face was very lovely, by the little fire. He laced his hand together to stop their shaking. Tonight I told you father what Im going to do. My idea is to give Thorpe his own medicine, and force it down him until hes finished ; a wild bunch of our own, tougher than his, made up of men that hate him to the ground. And then ? Raid and counter-raiand what hes taken, take back! Until his credit busts, and his varmints drop from around him,-anhes just one man, so that another man can walk and against him with a know that when thats done hes finished for sure Bill, are you crazy? You cant high-light- ed d, d six-gu- n, ... N.U. Release can work out the details any way that suits yourself. Lets hear your idea of it. I dont figure to take much with But there are me, Roper said. some things I need. First thing, I want seven of our camps in Texas. Lew Gordon stared at the table, picked up a pencil, fidgeted with it. Which ones? I want the Pot Hook camp; and the winter camp of the Three Bar, and the southwest outpost of the old I want two of the border camps; Willow Crick will do for one, and the Dry Saddle Crossing will do for the other. I want the new Bull Wagon camp, and the K-horse ranch at Stillwater. t The brands are going to be terrible mixed up, Gordon said. Im only taking such cattle as are running under odd brands; all our regular brands stay with you. Ive placed my camps so that your stock can be worked as before. Except maybe the Pot Hook, and well come to some special deal Gordon threw his pencil down. Youre not getting anything out of this that anybody can use, he declared. I think Ill know how to use it. Later on Ill send you a list of the northern camps I want; theyll amgunt to about the same as the ones I want in Texas. It sure sounds to me like youre wanting me to buy you out in cash, Gordon said. And if thats whats . ! Bar-Circl- e. G you cant His voice was bleak; it could hardly be heard. He was looking at his hands. Weve talked too many years of what couldnt be done, or how. Until now, Dustys out there tonight, under that stone pile and still nothing to be done. I reckon its my turn to ride, now. But all his outfits his sheriffs, his men Theyll quit, as he breaks. Im going after Cleve Tanner first, in the Big Bend; and when Im through with him, Thorpe wont be able to throw a feeder herd on the trail. Then Walk Lasham, in the north, where theyre already hurt for lack of the Crying Wolf until His words were monotoned, but Jody Gordon, bred and born to the gaunt Texan plains, knew, what a wild bunch was, and what it meant to go against Ben Thorpe by his own means, There seemed to be no breath in Jodys voice. Im spposed to wait around, and think well of you, while you gang with the wild bunch in a crazy, useless feud that you cant win? In the uncertain light of the fire Bill Ropers eyes could not be seen; his face was a mask painted by the embers. He found nothing that he could say. Suddenly Jody flared up. Her eyes blazed, and her hair streamed back from her face as she sat up, as if she rode in the wind. You cant, you cant! I wont let you it isnt fair, nor right, nor decent Its what I have to do. Jody stopped as if she had been struck. When she spoke again her voice was low and even, and so stony hard that he would not have recognized it. I dont believe you. I think tomorrow youll be telling me that all this isnt so. But if you do mean it if you go on and do as you say then you find I are through, and I dont want to see you again, or hear your voice. We-- we had everything; and youre throwing it all . d, - said everything there was to be said. she said slowly, I Maybe, didnt say everything I ought to have said. I want you to know this: When you ride out of my life there isnt going to be. anything left ' . in it. Her face had even less color than What did you say to my father? What did he tell you I said? That I quit you.. before. : -- didnt you?' Dont you know, she said Well craz- ily, I wouldnt ever do that? He was silent, his eyes on his buckskin gloves as he adjusted his rope, the buckle of his rifle boot. I dont care anything about King I dont care Gordon, Jody said. n whether you stay in or get out, or where you go, or what you do. Id go with you iJ: you wanted me to go; and if you dont know that you dont know But I dont way to big things. care anything about that. Let the break-u- p with my father go through. n without two bits Quit to your name. Take the least outpost camp there is under the brand, and let him have the rest. ID go with you, and stay with you; and ID help you in every way I can to build something of our own. He wanted to say something, anything; but he found he could not King-Gordo- speak at aU. Jody said, almost hystericaDy, Arent you ever going to say any thing? BiD Roper mumbled to his saddle Didnt know you felt that . . Wouldnt ever be any call any reason for you to let go aU holts like that. She was leaning toward him now, her voice gentle, coaxing, very tender. Our own Uttle old outfit any outfit, any place dont you see what a happy place we could make that be? A place where we could plant trees near the water, and watch them grow into big trees; and wed be there together Roper shot a quick glance, at Jody, and immediately sent his eyes away again, as far as thfey could reach. If he had looked at her again, perhaps he would have kicked his pony stirrup to stirrup with hers and picked her out of the saddle, and kissed her mouth, and kept her close to him then, and forever. But he sat motionless on his waiting pony. Look, he said at last Look if you mean that, come with me. Come with me, now. He could hardly hear her as she said, Dont you think you ought to teU me where youre going? Dry Camp Pierce is on his way, by a quicker way than mine is.. If he dont faU down thereU be the start of a wfld bunch waiting for me when I land in the Big Bend Country. I figure to take that bunch, and build to it, and add on. After that well, you know what comes after that. And now, youre asking me to swing with that? Jody, Ive already told you what Ive got to do. The silence stretched out until you could have hung a saddle on it, and this time Bills eyes were on Jody, and hers were on the saddle horn. Slowly she shook her head. After a minute he said, I guess that settles it, doesnt it? I guess it does. Her face seemed blind, and she was like a ghost of Jody Gordon. Suddenly Bin Roper knew that if he did not take the trafi he had chosen now, he would never take it horn, way . -- are going to be ter- rible mixed up, Gordon said. in your mind I cant do it, Bill. There just aint the money. There wont be any trouble about that. In Texas I may need up to fifty thousand dollars; but I dont have to have it all at once. Itll work out easy enough, Lew. Even the rough provisional terms that they were noting here provided innumerable complications. In the next few hours, as they worked it out, many a consideration came up that Bill ..Roper hadnt thought of. It was near morning before Roper left to seek out Dry Camp Pierce to complete his plans. - CHAPTER VI THE Wrigley pheric film for Nothing But the Truth, but it wasnt exactly what Nugent wanted. Hed never been in Miami Beach,, but he picked the right site from some still pictures and then gave instructions over the - telephone. . Marjorie Reynolds has established a record of some kind ; shes played the heroine oppo-- 1 site more western stars than has any other young Hollywood actress. Buck Jones, Tex Ritter, Bob Baker, George OB r i e n, (Gene shes been Autry Cyclone on Horse- for RKO Radio, in which back, she wiU appear opposite Tim Holt. 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You wont ;o him; She doesnt know where come? le is, but sending him the film is her reply to his recent request for Again she shook her head. A long, loose end of BiUs rope a new photograph of her. was in his hand, though he never remembered taking it down. Hardly The Rudy VaUee program wont knowing what he did, he struck the to New York this summer move spurs into the buckskin pony. The after aU. Moving would have meant of the end blocked a flysnap ropes ing gout of fur from the rump of the eaving John Barrymore behind, and black pack mule, and they were on listeners like the the traD the long traU, the dry combination so weU that its inadvisable to break it up. trad, the trail of a hopeless war. (TO BE CONTINUED) soft-soap- ed The thoughts that come often and, as it were, drop unsought, the pretty girl! into the mind, are commonly the in ridin and shoot-i- n films with aU of most valuable of any we have, and them. Her latest as- therefore should be secured, because seldom return again. signment is one Locke..they more of the same King-Gordo- King-Gordo- "The brands By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) first motion picture to be directed by long distance phone 3,000 miles from again. Sure sorry, he said, that I the spot where it was shot is didnt get to say good-b- y to you. credited to Elliott Nugent. He Didnt seem like you were any place stood on a Paramount sound around. in- For a second or two the familiar stage in Hollywood and gave Dewto cameraman twinkle seemed about to come into structions her eyes. Did you hunt real ey Wrigley, whose equipment hard? was set up on Biscayne boule-- J Well maybe I didnt. I guess Miami Beach, Fla. it kind of seemed like wed already vard, had shot some atmos- anything at all! Jody you mean that? n In you were on the Bill Roper headed south shortly after sunrise. Today Dry Camp would be going east by railroad, beginning the long roundabout way which would bring him to Texas long away.-;before Bill. With his camps as a The firelight caught the glint of her secure base, Pierce was to begin the tears, and she turned away, head missionary work which would lay toss of her hair so that the foundations for Bill up, with a Ropers wild its brown mist hid her face from bunch. him. : Lew Gordon had shaken hands Bill didnt say anything. He had with him gravely at his departure; turned gray-faceand he stared into an uncomfortable job for Bill, which the oals. Presently, he thought of he was to get over with. But glad like 'Jody Gordon he had not seen her Dry Camps story: Seemed hed never fall . . again at all. He was thinking of her Roper got up silently, and went now as she had flared up at him the out of the house. night before, warlike as a little eaLew Gordon was playing solitaire gle, but very lovely still, with the when Bill Roper got back to the fire in her eyes. little shack by the loading pens. Watchful always, he knew when, Roper took off his hat, tossed it two miles off, a horseman dropped aside, and sat down. from a lookout just at the crest of a We can just as well figure up the rise; and he knew that the rider terms of the split. had seen him and was moving to inWhat did Jody say? his trail. tercept - He Shes quitting me, Lew. did not have so long to wait What the devil else can you ex- as he had thought. No more than pect her to do, if you go on with ten minutes had passed when the this wild, stubborn , unknown rider came dusting around I couldnt expect anything else. the shoulder of a sand hill and headLew Gordon looked baffled; obvi- ed toward him at the dead run. Ropously he had counted on Jody to er turned his horse broadside to turn back Bill Roper. the approach and waited. You ready to draw up the The rider was Jody Gordon. terms? She appeared to have taken to Hardly seems it can be done In the saddle in a hurry, for she wasnl! a minute. Itll take a few days to wearing chaps, or anything else she Im leaving in the morning. My should have been riding in. What terms' are few and simple. You distance she had come she had come . got no call to save him. going any place. There was a little silence, awkward for Bill Roper, as she sat and looked at him. The lower lids of her eyes were violet, so that he knew she had not slept; but he could not read her faintly smoky eyes. She was more pale than he had ever seen her, and the passivity of her face made her look like a little girl are made ' in Marriages heaven, . they say. Perhaps thats why its- such a shock when the honeymoon couple eventuaUy come down to earth. 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