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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH j Well, what seems to be your said, offer? ASK ME ANOTHER ?A Quiz With Answers Information Various Subjects I guess you already know Bob Graham, Roper said. You know how a warrior gang of Cleve Tanners jumped down on him, on some thin excuse, and run him off his The Answers W. N.U. Release , The Questions f range. They even took over his house and his windmill and his cor1. Fifteen times. 1. How many times has the Nahis warriors onto the border. Thats rals. Now, I aim to hand back that 2. Griselda was proverbial for to the tional gone pennant league then Because want. I Ill what by range to Bob Graham; hes waiting New York Giants? her patience. be working somewhere else. in Bigspring for the word. Your part 3. Northern Africa (modem Moold the In 2. lady romances, And you want me to take em of the job is simple enough you' and part of Algeria). rocco called Griselda is proverbial for on the other side is that the idee? just go and take it away from the her what? ' 4. According to St. Thomas I want three dollars a head, Tanner bunch. 3. Where was the ancient coun- Aquinas, the seven capital sms are American gold, paid off as the catSimple, huh? Just how do you vainglory, avarice, gluttony, lust, called Mauritania? ' tle come out of the water , . figure this simple trick is to be try4. What are the capital sins? sloth, envy and anger. Ropers ways of gathering his wild done? 5. Brian Boru was king and hero and was 5. the Brian Boru king bunch were diverse, as diverse as A lawyer in San Antonio kept of the Irish (1002-14of what hero people? the saddle men he gathered. One the Rangers off when Tanner 6.' A temperature of 134 degrees 6. What is the highest temperaway or another, picking up a man jumped Graham. Now weve got anGreenland ranch, Death Valley, at weather the ever recorded by here, three more there, he got all other better lawyer in San Antonio ture on July 10, 1913. States? United the in bureau Calif., he needed, and more. to keep them off when Graham But certain other things had to be jumps Tanner. The only question is, done, in order that the wild bunch whos got enough salt to grab that would have work to do, planned in range and then hang onto it? such a way that something would And what do we get out of all be accomplished that would stay ac- this? t complished. Graham takes over the outfit and On a steamy afternoon early in runs it. You hang around and help flower motifs. The crocheted edgJuly, Bill Roper sat in Fred Max- him, and see that he doesnt get ing will be found easy, too. ims San Antonio law office. Maxim run off. again. For that you get a was an attorney who, some thought, half interest in the outfit. You split Pattern 6893 contains a transfer pattern had worked under a different name, it among you any way you see fit. of a motif 7 Yx by lSYx inches; 2 motifs TYx by IZVx inches; directions for edging: somewhere before; but here, assur- Ill back Graham with cattle, and illustrations of stitches; materials needed. edly he, was in no ones pay. what other stuff he needs. Send your order to: Im not asking the likes of you Nate Liggett said, Bill, I dont whats what,Bill Roper said. I see where we come in for no adSewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. vantage. New York 82 Eighth Ave. If youre satisfied with the lone Enclose 15 cents in coins for Patwolf stuff youve been pulling, I tern No havent got anything to offer you, Name But Roper admitted. Ill tell you Address this the boys that string with me now will see the day when theyll rim Texas; and Cleve Tanner, and Ben Thorpe, too, will be busted up Manners of Country , " ByALAN LE. MAY INSTALLMENT 5 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 Bght the unscrupulous Ben o in wealth Thorpe. He rivaled and power, but had gained his position through wholesale cattle rustling and gunplay. One afternoon King was killed by Thorpe and his two assistants, Cleve Tanner and Walk Lasham. Kings adopted son. Bill Roper, decided to start a cattle war against Thorpe in Texas. He made this decision against the strong opposition of his partner. Lew Gordon. Bills sweetheart, Jody Gordon, pleaded frantically with him to turn back, but could not change his grim determination. King-Gordo- n King-Gordo- .CHAPTER VH These men whom Roper now gathered abput him hated a particular man, not only as lawless as themselves, but a man who was more than one man. Ben Thorpe was a thousand men; operating under Cleve Tanner in the south, and Walk Lasham in the north, his Innumerable retainers filamented the plains from the Rio Grande to the Big Horn. That Ropers men hated Ben Thorpe was no coincidence; Roper had picked men of personal grudge. Most of them had first been outlawed bqpause they had not suited a the organizasingle organization tion of Ben Thorpe. Up and down and. across half of Texas, constantly in the saddle, Bill Roper threaded his new organization. Sometimes Dry Camp Pierce was with him; mpre often he traveled alone. These famous gunfight-er- s and outlawed men whom Roper gathered were just youngsters, mostly. Some of them were true killers; some merely reckless kids who had got off on the wrong foot. All of them were badly wanted by what little law there was. was called Dry Camp Pierce-h- e that because he hated to camp too near tq water went to work for Bill Roper as he had never worked before; and thus the king of cow thieves, the brand changer extraordinary, for once aligned on. the side of the law that was not. Ten rustlers camps hooked into Thorpe-Xann- er territory er ways,. A hot June dusk, five days oth- after the meeting at Whipper Forks, found Bill Roper at the Dry Saddle Cross- ing, where he was to meet Lee Harnish; and this meeting, too, was ar-- , ranged by Dry Camp Pierce, though by this time Pierce was already far away. Here ran the broad, river, dividing two countries a river whose split wanderings made two miles of intermittent shallows. At this border of a vast, imperceptibly rolling prairie stood a narrow was string of adobe shacks. That : the Dry Saddle Crossing. ' Two men Bill Roper and Lee Harnish sat in front of one of those abandoned slacks, and tried to get together. Ive always understood, Roper said, that you were acquainted some, below the line. Hamishs hard eyes studied Roper, and for a little while nothing could be heard except the mourning of doves in the willow scrub by the water. Next to Dry Camp Pierce, Lee Harnish was the oldest of those to join Roper; he was twenty-eigh- t. d alHe was tall and lank, most to the color of an Indian; bis green eyes were curiously blank, impenetrable,-1 and he liked to look his man in the eye with the peculiar fixity seeq an the gaze of hawks. Ive ben down there some, he admitted. ;Tve made a few drives into Chihuahua; one drive to Mexico City.;-If you had a. big wet herd rim to you just below the line, would you know ho to get rid 6f it? I cant make out your hand, never Harnish said. swung the long rope yet, that I many-chan-nel- ed sun-bake- 1 on heard of. Im not King-Gord- now. on My stunt is to smash Cleve Tanner; and I dont care what it costs.-What- wrong with backing him if thats what you into a shoot-ou- t, want? That comes later. If I bust Tanner I can bust Thorpe. But if Tanner is gunned before hes busted, Thorpe will take over in Texas, and the chance to break up his Texas layout will be gone. You aint going to bust him by running off a few head of cattle. Work, This river crossing is slow . kid. I figure to cross five thousand head within the next three months, Roper told him. Five thousand head wont even scratch the hide of Thorpe and Tan. - ner, son. I know that as well as you. What it will do, itll draw Embroideries to Make You Proud . and forgot! Its a hefty order! Maybe it is. This Graham business is a kind of experiment; itll work if you make it work. But if it goes through okay-it- a only the beginning, you hear me? You string with me a little while; and maybe, by God, well show a couple of people something Tanner to throw There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a mind would be disDLEASANT dreams are assured posed to relish. To make us love when sheets and pillow cases our country, our country ought to are embroidered with these lovely be lovely. Burke. well-form- ed ... CHAPTER vm :$i;- - citl6 4 t Hot, dry day of early August As the first suq struck with a red . . . But Dry Camp also" helped in King-Gord- ). -- ' j Ropers ways of gathering his wild bunch were diverse. want to know who actually owns range rights on the Graham stand. The hard-bitte- n little man across the desk from Roper was still cadgy. When it comes to ousting a man from possession You know who ousted Bob Graham and his family from possession. Cleve Tanner took over that outfit n power, withby main out decent cause or reason. Everybody knows that. Im asking you . horse-and-gu- now heat across the plains, the Tanner men who held the Graham ranch were already saddling. , All over Texas, cowmen were throwing together the last trad herds, of the year; it was time for these Tanner meat to roll, their .chuck wagons again, to round up the last of the trail-f- it stock that remained in the herds which had belonged to Bob Graham. Out from what had been the Graham corral, three riders swept through the dusty dawn; but they had hardly left the pole fences be- -, hind when six other riders confronted them, rising into their saddles like Comanches, out of the brush. The strangers closed in a unhurriedly, their carbines in their hands. In another minute or two the three Tanner riders were grouped in a defensive knot, while of the raiders from the semi-circNate Liggett jogged forward to talk it over. I dont think you want to go on, I dont even think you he said. want to work for this outfit any more. semi-circl- -- SI 4 KfSSJHO THE mm Sines it has boss Colonist- - days a good' American custom to kiss, the Hushing hrid altar the minister has said . . . " now pronoonet yon man and wife". And its an equally good and equally pleasant American custom to enjoy the fine full flavor and mild fragrance of King Edward, America most popular cigar. Try King Edward today and be convinced. m r SP" e, :ii le D6Utii0Bi mm Taylor and Graves are already doing everything that can be done to regain possession of Grahams outfit, Maxim said, smiling. dure as long as we remain Arner. Our Existence It was the smile that Roper liked. Rome endured as long as there ican in spirit and in thought. DaSuppose I hold the Bob Graham were Romans. America will en vid Starr Jordan. lands, and Bob Grahams family are living on it. Two nights later, one hundred and fifty Bob Graham hasnt got possesmiles away sion, Maxim said. With the approach of dusk, a peSuppose he did have? culiar light lay upon the valley of Ben the Potreros. In a reach of could Never happen. open Thorpe If you bake a herd of five hundred head grass koma, Shut up a minute, Roper said. bunched loosely tame, heavy catIm not asking you to put Graham tle, already well removed by breedback in possession of his range. Im ing from the old, wild, n not asking you to save him from strain. But had not bunched they being put off again in the way he voluntarily. They shuffled restlesswas before. What I want to know is, ly, watching the brush! something can you head off some cooked-u- p was happening around them that legal interference with Graham, aft- they did not understand. er hes in possession again? As the failed, the figures of' Fred Maxim thought it over. I horsemen light from the brush, emerged can only promise you that I can cutting mile-lon- g shadows into the cause considerable delay, he said. flat rays of sunset; the huge, heavyMonths of delay? shouldered man who signaled to his Providing you can show posses- spread-ou- t cowboys by turning his sion Ill keep you clear until hell horse this way or that, in Indian freezes. horse language, was Dave Shannon. Thats all I want . . They did not harass the cattle. Still July, at Willow Creek Only, between sunset and the next A barren range of hills, sand hills; daylight, no cow took a step other golden in the dawn, purple in the than in the direction of the Mexitwilight, barren always. Beneath can border . . . them, what had been the Willow Creek camp of the old season; Texas scorched by In the bunkhouse nearest the river, the hot winds five men lounging around a little All across the southern ranges a room. peculiar thing was happening. As 11-OUNBill word spread from twenty points of All right, you hard guys, CE know who told you disturbance, certain of the older catRoper said; you to come here. Dry Camp Pierce tlemen began to sense that there told you to come here. Maybe he was ,a curious,-- almost systematic' told you what you Could look for order to what ; in itself seemed a here, huh? widespread disruption. ' All over the These four gunfighters who met Big Bend couhtry, eastward almost Roper here were none of them older to the well settled Nueces, westthan Bill; yet each was famous as a ward beyond the barren Pecos, killer in his own right. Of them all northward to the fever line, was HONEY & ALMOND CREAM Bill Roper alone had no name, no breaking a spotty wave of raids of in for the boldness. Yet, an respect Far reputation. unparalleled apart, I it Regular $1 size fi name of Dusty King, they had come but almost simultaneously, hell had ' to hear him out. busted loose in1 a great number' of limited time only ' . kid places, covering more thhn half of Nate Liggett, a round-face- d with eyelashes that looked as if they Texas. had been powdered with white dust. (TO BE CONTINUED) ! at use long-hor- . ,1 King-Gordo- n. Dry-gras- s BIG BOTTLE OF D3DC3 4 0 |
