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Show THE RICH COUNT! REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH No Prospects fgr the . Disagreeing Young Lady aME; ft RNEST HaYCOX THE STOUT SO FAR: Although he li also a rancher. Clay Morgan decides to play a lone hand against Ben Heren deen, another rancher, who is trying to run the cattle country his own way. Of his old friends, only Hack Breathitt is still on his side. The others like Gurd Grant, Llge White and Charley Hill' house are supporting Herendeen, more or less in self defense. Gurd Grants sister, Catherine, is in love with Clay and is at his ranch when Hack Breathitt rides up followed by Herendeen, Uge White and Gurd. Catherine hides, but Gurd recognizes her horse. Herendeen continues his war on nesters and squatters by warning the Gales to get off the range. Now continue with the story. CHAPTER VI Morgan entered War Pass in first darkness, putting up at Gentrys. There would be supper for him at Ann McGarrahs but for some reason that wasnt very clear to him, he went to the Long Grade saloon, found Hack Breathitt, and took him to the hotel for a meal. When he got to Ann McGarrahs he found her kneeling before Janet, adjusting the pleats of Janets dress. Ann McGarrah said: Ill get you a meal, Clay. No, he said, I didnt want to bother. I ate at' the hotel. She showed him a quick, faintly hurt surprise, but covered it up at once. We should be starting for the school in a little while. Am I taking you to the dance? She said: You hadnt asked. So now Ill ask. Morgan and Janet passed through the store and sat on the porch steps, watching the crowd roll along the soft-footedn- self-affro- nt this town. Suddenly Jesse Rusey slid from the shadows and was before him. questions, made a turning circle on his heels, looking the whole street through. He said then, Be careful, Hack, and stepped back into the shadows. Parr Gentry called for a schot-tisch- e. Lige White came over to claim Ann McGarrah, leaving his wife with Clay. They went wheeling and dipping around the floor, Mrs. White very graceful in his arms, soon over. Hack Breathitt went directly into and very pretty; but her glance kept the Long Grade and saw a solid line following her husband with that at the bar. Nearest him were a calm indrawn attention Morgan had noticed so often. group of Grant Crowfoot riders, Herendeen had kept Catherine all of them his friends. Billy Grant to himself. After the schot-tisch-e said, Step in here, Hack, Morgan returned Mrs. White but Breathitt shook his head and balanced on his heels, his face cool to Lige and stood awhile, idly talkand smooth and tough. Herendeens ing. The stag line thickened. Gurd men had gathered at the far end of Grant was over there and Gurds the bar, and these he watched sol- glance was directly on him, and stayed on him without recognition. emnly. Liard Connor and Bones Parr Gentry said, Pick your were at the bar, turned from him, but he knew they partners for a waltz, and the fidhad him spotted in the back bar mir- dles began tuning-u- p again. Clay ror. He pushed up his hat and remained in his tracks, walked on, making a turn behind puzzled by Gurd Grants cut. Somethese two. There wasnt any space, thing was in the wind. He couldnt between them, but he came against catch it with his mind, but he knew Herendeen had somehow gotten at them and shoved them aside. He stared straight ahead, into the Gurd. He debated it coolly, trying mirror. Their faces came around to make up his mind, until he heard to him, with the reserve he had seen Ann say, What is it, Clay? Nothing, he said. many times before in moments of Nothing at trouble. He knew what the expres- all. Herendeen and Catherine were sion meant. The barkeep came down only a few feet away. Catherines his way, waiting for his choice; glance touched him, brief and inBreathitt said gently: Not now, terested, and then he forgot Gurd Sam. When I drink, itll be in bet- and put his hand to Ann McGarrahs elbow and moved her toward ter company. It was a sound that traveled Herendeen. It amused him to see around him. The talk in the saloon Herendeens ruddy face show infaded a little and he saw, still watch- stant intolerance. He said to Cathing the mirror, mens hats and heads erine, Should be ours, I think, and Liard Connor pulled his moved away with her as the waltz swing. arm aside. Bones McGeen suddenbegan. Catherine said: I wondered if ly grinned over his whisky glass. In Hacks voice was the flat mel- you would. One more week one more ody of a man on edge. Maybe it was just an accident when you boys dance. War Pass, the Burnt Ranch bumped into me down by the hotel. school, the old hall at Chickman Maybe. If theres something in your Creek. This goes back a long way. craw, you dont have to go to that They were all around the hall betrouble. I can hear English, if you fore she spoke. It isnt the good bullheads can talk it. I dont like times, you want to remember, Clay. my feet stepped on. Ill be out on It is one person you never want to that street all evenin'. Try it again. forget. I know. I watched you He withdrew from the bar and tonight when Janet spoke. I knew re Me-Ge- en side-by-si- Gertrude Atherton: Shortly after he left the Conservative side of the house (of commons) for the Liberal, he was taking a certain young woman down to dinner, when she looked up at him coquettishly, and remarked with the audacity of her kind: There are two things I dont like about you, Mr. Churchill. And what are they? Your new politics and mus- Vi 5WGE-C5CRwhat you were thinking. Not of Jan et, not of anything or ..anybody in By VIRGINIA VALE the hall. It was Lila, wasnt it?" Released by Western Newspaper Union. Why, yes, he said, in some surof hats How would you know that? prise. SEEMS as if a doffingwho enSlowly turning with the swing of the Autrey, waltz, he saw Harry Jump come up listed in the Air Corps, Army the stairs and move through the renot will He is indicated. of the at the loitering stags edge anfloor. Harry Jump was here when ceive a commission, tache. he should have been forty miles out nounces the report. Hell get My dear madam, he replied in the Moguls. Morgan wheeled of eventually one, course, suavely, pray do not disturb yourCatherine around, losing Harry self. You are not likely to come bound because hes to, Jump, and catching him again. in contact with either. are exthe no saw him officers showed and stuff that Jump made of. But when so many men pression of any kind. x Morgan said: Maybe youd like of the motion picture industry are a drink of water. stepping right out as officers at the She had been too long in the coun- start, isnt it swell of Gene to begin try not to know. She slipped her at the bottom? Reminds me of one arm through his elbow and they left movie executive who told me that By JERRY LINK the floor, passing Harry Jump with- he had applied for a commission as out giving him notice. They went lieutenant colonel in the army; if down the stairs into the soft dark he didnt get it, hed stay out! P.S. shadows. Harry Jumps boots He didnt get it! scuffed the stairs, following. He passed them, saying from the side You really ought to see Mrs. of his mouth, Not here, Clay. to find out why if Miniver, They followed him as far as Gen- the worlds only theater, the Ralargest and him. before trys stopped dio City Music Hall, booked it for All right, said Morgan. six weeks running, with 772,983 peo'You sure? said Harry Jump, ple seeing it during the first five staring at Catherine. weeks a figure equalling the popu-atio-n Ill go, she said. of Boston, Mass. Never mind, answered Morgan. & You know better, Harry. The film version of Irving Ber'Well, then. I rode through GovThis Is the Army, the army Uncle Jed always used to say, ernment Valley before dark tonight. lins Things 'd be a whole lot pleasTheres a notice posted on the build- show which delighted New York anter if folks would Just live sos ing. The land office is selling the they'd never be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town valley at auction tomorrow aftergossip. noon at four oclock, in Sage City. An speakln o' parrots, reckon He waited for Morgan to speak I must sound like one, the way Im always talkin' about vitamins and when Morgan kept silent, he an KELLOGGS PEP! But its added: That notice should have mighty important to get your been posted a month before the sale. vitamins all of em! And KELLOGG'S PEP Is g Somebodys got at somebody to hold in the two vitamins, Bi and D, off until it was too late for you. Its that are most likely to be short nine oclock now. Eighteen hours In ordinary meals. An, PEPS until four tomorrow. Hundred and plumb delicious, too! to miles ninety go. Morgan said: I talked to Fred Rich at the post office a few days He ago, and he knew nothing. A delicious cereal that supplies per serving drove his hands in his pockets; he ( I or.) i the full minimum daily need of vitamin D; 14 the daily need of vitamin Bu had his head up, he was watching the mouth of the Odd Fellows doorIRVING BERLIN way. But he wasnt seeing it, Catherine realized. He was a long, still Having Contentment from the moment it opened, will be The contented man is never shape in the shadows, quietly con sidering this little treachery. He photographed in color, luckily. Irv- poor; the discontented never rich. had a way of absorbing trouble and ing Berlin will supervise the proGeorge Eliot. in Hollywood. punishment without showing emo- duction, tion; he had a way of storing these Robert Donats first screen apthings in his mind. He said: All right, Harry. pearance since Mr. Goodbye, He turned back with Catherine. Chips will be made in Sabotage It will be directed by HarShe said: Speculators, Clay. Or Agent. Ben. She knew how he felt about old Bucquet, who has just finished The War Against Mrs. Hadley, Government Valley. The music had stopped. Coming and will be made in London. up the stairs they saw Herendeen and Ann standing at the edge of the Five years ago the Maine Develhall, neither one liking the other opment association sent Walt Disenough to keep up conversation. ney the two young 'deer who served Herendeen never bothered to con as models for the hero and heroine ceal his feelings. He displayed re of his Bambi. So a special presentment now as they came for- miere of Bambi was booked for ward. He ducked his head at Cath Augusta, Maine, following the first erine. My dance, he said, and Showing of the picture in New York. led her away. Out on the floor he m fl looked toward Morgan, a thoughtful who won fame in the Daisy, ness on his cheeks. Blondie series, recently whelped Ann said: Dont make me dance five pups, all of which are now the on b with him again. of Your visit property doubly enjoyHe said: I guess Ive got to she has a Penny Singleton because VI able by wfio large ranch. She named take you home. Ill have to ride. them, Hotel Temple Square. for the characters naturally, Salt Lakes ututH hotel, She got her wrap at once and in the pictures. lentBy the way, this located oppoute the 0 they went down the stairs. The is the only film series in which the ous Mormon Temple, is lake a sense of wasting time pushed Mor- original actors have worked she heart ol Salt dii- as a business and shopping gan along, making Ann McGarrah unit throughout Penny, Arthur yet low rates give tries walk quite fast. On the store porch Lake, dollars to spend Larry Simms (Baby ), you sutre he thought to lift his hat. or save. Tell and Daisy. Janet Ill be back to take her home & on Wednesday, he said, and swung HEW 550.000 Maybe Esther Williams started away. COFFEE SHOP something when, wanting a souvenir For Ann McGarrah the evening that I Cfckwui Fmi st SwW, she could show friends who went flat as she watched him in the movies, she werent bought a had not thanked her, he had not white satin bathing suit and had it even thought of her these last moautographed in black waterproof ink ments, he had not taken her into by every star on the Metro lot. Inci-his confidence . and mentioned the trouble that now made him disap- dentally, though shes a swimming star, Esther really swims in Andy pear at the head of the street. Still Last Fling usually Hollyand dark and hurt, she looked down Hardys wood doesnt let an expert do what at the smooth front of her dress he or she is expert at. knowing that she was pretty and knowing she had, for a moment The biggest stride of any warmed his heart. And then this $&(' fnji at, regional radio network show has been had gone. She thought of Catherine made AM 3 coolly and critically, and turned into by Grand Ole Opry, the Saturday folk the store. Janet was asleep. Stand- night music program heard ing over the bed in the dark room over NBC. It was the first of the Ann McGarrah watched Janets shows to make regular small sweetly mature face, seeing army camp appearances last fall there so much of her mother. This under the name of Caravan. Now was the secure grip Lila held on there are four road units the camps. One master oftouring, Clay Morgan this was Lilas power cere-- 1 motues has landed a network conthis was her way of forever remind SETTER OF ing Clay of the past, and this was tract on the new CBS Caravan Hour. her way of holding him to an unSTANDARDS real, unjust obligation. Thinking of To prove that Uncle Sam uses all this, Ann McGarrah hated Lila Advertising it the radio talent to the best with a secret, passionate fullness great setter of standadvantage, ard t in American Detroits Frank She turned back the extra covers Telford director off, the This Is business life. Adverfrom the child and left the room Our tised goods are the Enemy series heard over Mutual Going up Stage Street. Clay Mor- Sunday standard by which you A former gan reached Harley Stewarts house writer fornights. the Detroit board ofscriptn Pour income, at the top of the hill. When Stewart confident of getting came to the door, Morgan said: without Telford went to Washington your moneys worth network experience, but Come down to the bank, every day. Harley. a briefcase full of ideas. Now with t0 have some money inside made hea a niche for himself as a radio fifteen minutes. executive. E hes J. Fuller Pep extra-stron- McGarrah presently came out, dressed in a pearl-whit- e gown; it made her eyes darker, it made her black hair shine by contrast. Standing before her, marveling at the change, he reflected that she was different from the women of Ann Mc-Qui- This story was told of Winston S. Churchill by stepped to the door with the solid silence of the crowd following him. He batted the doors aside with his shoulders. On the walk, he turned quickly toward his horse, which was near Gentrys. He seized his gun-be-lt from the saddle horn and buckled it around him and pulled the bottom of his coat over it. One hand resting on the horse, he watched the street, knowing that the town was no longer safe for him None of the Herendeen bunch showed up at the Long Grade door, though he realized they would be moving his way soon enough. Sheriff Nickum came into the light of the hotel. People kept crossing to the Odd Fellows Hall and the music and the scrape of feet made quite a racket, and Suddenly Jesse Husey slid from the shadows and was before him. He had the of a cat, this marshal, and eyes that could burn through a brick wall. It gave Hack Breathitt a moments to think Rusey had come on him thus unawares, but he stood fast, not saying anything. The marshals hand reached out and hit Hack Breathitts flank, where the gun was. Afterwards Rusey, no man to ask street. The gentle flow of the crowd carried them up the hill to the school. At the door Janet left them and Morgan found two seats near the front of a newly made platform. Breathitt stood in the rear of the room, crowded between other townsmen. He caught Breathitts eye but Hack only shook his head, unsmiling and clearly ruffled by something. It went by grades, some singing, some dancing, some reciting. He was nervous, not realizing it. When Janet came forward to the edge of the stage a fine sweat broke across his forehead and he pushed his legs against the floor, trying to remember what the first line of her poem was. Afterwards she made a quick curtsy and her voice came over the room, precise as it always was, and quite sure. When she was through he sat still, not looking around at the other people. Ann said something to him, turning him. She was smiling with that brightness which comes so close to tears. He murmured Yes, and was thinking of Lila who would have been happy to have seen this. This was about all he heard of the program, for it was fclease de head-dow- n, ' Dum-pling- go-h- e edu-catio- . . (TO BE CONTINUED ) |
