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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1938)
Eight i ne Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Thursday, July 21, 1938 ) Henry LOVE Oil .RRUHlin. Under th nimi of AIM Streeter. .ulek flri Ankrom takea Job on the troubled Halter T ranch to help lovelr Lea Trone Oolinel atruthera and hla daulhter. Bet- tF. coma to tutu and Ankrom recoenlies Struthera aa an Impoeter. Kelton Draan Draan la ahot and Belt, allpa Ankrom her tun, aarlna aha did II. Ratehford. the burly ahertrr, noun mem an tor qureuon Int. Includlnl Clardell, a nelahborlna rancher. Accidentally. Ankrom dropa Bctty'a fun on the floor. Chapter 14 Qwstlona In plain tight, blue and eold and grim it lay. The surprise had frozen them all to a rigid tenseness. Ant rom thought the pounding of his heart must surely shake him. "Weill" the sheriff drawled at last "Well! What parlor, trick Is this. Streeter?" Ankrom grinned with a mirth' lessness that showed the whiteness of his teeth." "Shucks," he said. "I feel downright ashamed to call that weaklln' mine "I shouldn't wonder." With heavy Irony Ratehford stooped to pick the weapon up. Yet even as his fin gers spread to grip It, Ankrom cov ered the pistol with his foot. Grimly Ratehford straightened The head on his thick neck came forward until his heavy features were within ten Inches of Ankrom's. Unblinking, the smoking eyes star ed balefully. His words were low, spaced wide apart: "Where did you get that gun?" Across Ankrom's mind came the vision of the girt from Peso Pinto rising from the crumpled form of Kelton Orean with one hand hold ing papers, a pistol In the other This plstoll He eyed it warily. Had the spu rious Struthera' life been snuffed with this? He let his glance rest upon the sheriffs. "By your tone." he told him, "a man would figure It was a crime to own more'n one gun in Texas?" "Never mind alrin' your opinions. I want to know where you got this gun." "I don't know that it's any of your business, Ratehford." "I'm making it my business." "Boot HIU Is filled with fellas that had that habit" "Damn you!" Ratehford swore. "You answer my question an' an swer It quick or III slap the brace lets on you an' take you In for this klllln'l" "What evidence you got that I downed Struthera? Law says you got to have evidence before you can arrest a man for a thing like this." "Yeah? Well, that law don't cover you. The laws alnt made for drlftln' saddle tramps that go round stlrrln' up trouble. Talk, fella talk, or I'll take you In!" Ankrom stood there, his eyes like tempered steel, the lean cheeks drawn taut. Trouble, he told him self, waa Ilka his shadow. He could not escape It wherever he turned his eyes, there lay trouble waiting. To move amid scenes of turmoil seemed to be his portion. There was no escape . . . aave death. Very well, then; he was through trying. He would serve these trou-ble-brlngers what they aiked tor. He would give them aU they want ed from here on out; he would hurl It In their teeth. At the sheriffs voice stopped An krom's right hand shrank Into a hard fist. He look a forward stride aa the sheriff atepped back a pace ana stood. His eyes held Ratehford like a grip; they were palely blue like ice, uiey were baffling, mock Ing, hateful. "What was It you wantefl, Ratchford? Whe Hired mV Caution clouded the sheriff's (lance. "I want to know where that gun came from." "atom the waistband of my trou sers." "Where'er you get It?" As Ankrom was about to make an swer, from the UU of hit eye be caught a warning gesture. Just a ttny movement of a hand It was; a girls and Lee'tl Then the was not completely Indifferent to him: The I uiougni crossed hit mind Ukt light. By ILL,. . iJiLJjuJr: -y . r ms cf .v THE RANGE Evidently she realized as did he himself, that Ratehford was out to find a goat and meant to find one before he left this room. But Lee's cautioning gesture no longer held the force It might have held this morning. Stooping swiftly he came up with the gun his foot had covered; came up so suddenly the sheriff had no time to guess his purpose before the pistol's muzzle held him in grim focus as Ankrom backed to the wall beside the outer door. "It didn't come from no dead man's hand, If that's what you're lnsinuatin'," Ankrom drawled. "If you're almln' to find a goat for this nlght'a work. Ratehford, you better pick on someone else. "Any nun can talk behind a gun," the sheriff sneered. With a blur the pistol left An- grom's hand and no one saw where he had sheathed it. White teeth gleamed coldly behind his parted Hps. His attitude was a challenge to big Tom Ratehford, yet Rateh ford did not move. Ankrom said, "What caliber gun did the colonel use. Miss Struth- ers?" "Why ... a thirty-two, I be lieve." "The pistol I Just picked upwas a thirty-two. It came off the ground near Struthers' body. One shell has been exploded. Do you know, Rateh ford, what caliber slug It was that killed the colonel?" "A forty-five," the sheriff's voice came back. "I cut it out." A mo ment's pause, and then: "Like the gun I took out of your hand a while ago." "Did you?" Ankrom said. The sheriff shrugged. His lids concealed the expression In tils eyes. "All right then," he said, "like the forty-five you gave up at my re quest a while ago If It makes you feel any better to have put It that way." "It does. No man ever took a gun away from me yet, Ratehford" "Hard hombre, eh? I've seen your type of drifter before the kind that hires out Its guns to the high est bidder. Who hired you to gun the colonel? "I didn't gun him. I told you that before. Now let me ask you one: How'd you know the slug that downed him was a forty-five? Mightn't It have been a forty four?" Where Were Your "Listen." Ratehford tald testily. "I've fooled around guns long enough to recognize whether a chunk of lead waa thrown from a forty-four or forty-five, no matter how badly It happens to be batter ed. There's a dlff'rence In the weight. Besides, this slug was pret ty smooth. It was like the ones your gun 'he one you give me shoots." "That doesn't mean anything." Ankrom said. "You've got a forty five yourself. It's slung In that shoulder holster under your coat. Mr. Trone may be packin' one too. for all I know. Clavdell, here, pro duced a thirty-eight at your In sistence, but he may likewise have a forty-five cached about him some place. I don't see any guns on these two cowboys, but if I waa to judge them by the rest of you I'd aay they was each packin' a forty-five, at least For a country that's shucked its Irons" "Never mind the sarcasm," Rateh ford broke In roughly. He turn ed toward the two girls: "Miss 8truthers, where were you when your or man was shot?" The unexpectedness of the ques tion brought a startled breath from Lee Trone. Her eyes flicked wide and darkened. Instinctively they sought Ankrom's. He gave her a reassur ing quirk of the Hps and turned his glance on Betty. The sheriff's procedure elicited no sign of dismay from her. 8he had her wits about her every min ute of tlx time, Ankrom reflected sardonically. "A girl that haa all the answers," he summed her up wnen ne spoke her voire' held that amount of nusktnes genuine Carl Anderson grief for her father's death might have caused. "I I let me see." a white hand went to her forehead, rumpling the golden curls; a tiny pucker grew between her thoughtful eyes. "I had just stepped out the door there Father had asked me to meet him out beneath that pepper tree; he said he had something private which he wished to talk to me about . . ." She bit her Hp; her thoughts seem ed far away. "I'm trying to recollect it seems to me I had Just stepped out the door and crossed the ver anda. I was leaning against one of those funny posts " "Come, come Miss Struthers." the sheriff exclaimed Impatiently. . I asked you where you were when you heard the shots. I'm not Inter ested In the history of your move ments from the time you finished supper." Upon the big sheriff the girl from Peso Pinto turned wide blue eyes in which there shone the hurt ex pression of a child who has been unjustly reproved. "But Mr. Rateh ford, that Is what I am trying to tell you. I had stepped out on the veranda when I heard two sharp reports " "Then you did not see the gun- flashes?" the sheriff growled. "You couldn't ssy from which direction the reports came?" The girl shook her head. "I'm afraid not. I was looking" "Yeah." Ratehford cut her off. He swung round upon Lee Trone: "Lee." his eyes were on hers probingly. "what were you doing under the pepper tree when Colonel Struthers got shot?" More bad news for the Rafter T. Monday, Pupils Given Picnic Turner Miss Betty Peetx. re warding the accomplishments of her first year music students, held a picnic at Paradise Island. Those enjoying the picnic were Jennie Oisse. Coleen Boyer, Carol Stand ley. Shirley Baker and Marjorle Showers. Doreen Boyer could not attend on account of illness. Lodge Has Picnle Turner Members of the Odd Fel lows lodge Joined the Rebekahs In a social meeting. Bert Kay. secretary. acted as master of ceremonies. Bar! Standley has recently Joined the Odd Fellows. Frl4, r. M. 1:00 Star of Tnda?. 3:30 Orf Ionian Newt. 3:4.1 Olfnn Hhfltey, Oriantnt. 4:00 fltara of Today. 4:30 U. S. Army Band. NBC, 1:00 Ofne and QUnn, NBC. 1:15 Rkardo and Hit Violin. NBO. 1:30 Cocktail Hour. 8:30 March ol Time, NBO. :50 Ftrsl NUMtr, NBC. SO Jimmy rtdler, NBC. I 4 NBC. 1:00 Amoa n Andy. NBC. 1:18 Uncle Bar a Radio Station, NBO. T:ro Summer Symphony Talk. 7:48 Tune Typea. NBC. 00 Death Valley Daya. NBC. 30 Oreiontan on Review. 00 Otlmort Circus, NBC. 30 Ptreiide Hour. 10.00 Nena riaahea, NBC. K 15 Glenn Shelley. Onanist. 10:10 air Prancta Drake Orch NBO. 1:4S Plddlera Three. NBC U 00 Jantten Orchestra. NBC 1130 Del Milne Orrheatrt. 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