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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, August 28, 1941
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By ALAN Lt MAY
PATTERNS
SEW 0 NG CORCLE
W.N.U. Release
INSTALLMENT 14
Dusty King and Lew Cordon had built
Bp ■ vast string of ranches. King was
killed by hi* powerful and unscrupulous
competitor, Ben Thorpe.
Bill Roper,
King’s adopted son. was determined to
avenge'his death In spite of the opposl-
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THE STORY SO FAR:
tlon Of hl* iweetheart, Jody Cordon.
and her father.
After wiping Thorpe
out of Texas. Roper conducted a great
raid upon Thorpe's vast herd* in Mon
tana.
Unable to reconcile her father
with Roper, Jody set out with Shoshone
To prevent silk dresses from
slipping off wood and iron coat
hangers, paste or sew a piece of
velvet on each end of the hanger.
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If one-half level teaspoon of bak
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ing the time.
Yet he knew very ing powder is added to every four
definitely that dawn was just two eggs used in making a souffle it
hours away.
will not fall after it has been re
He shook Shoshone Wilce. The lit moved from the oven.
Wilce to And him. They were attacked
by some of Thorpe * men hiding in Rop
er'» »hack.
Wilce escaped, but Jody
was captured. Roper waa approaching
one of hla own shacks when he no
ticed outposts keeping a careful watch.
style and wear it among your own
crowd. Dotted voile, dotted satins,
polka dot crepes and novelty taf
feta are materials they are using.
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Pattern No. 8967 covers odd sizes 11 to
CHAPTER XIX—Continued
I I listen to her and they had a row.
19. Size 13, short sleeves, takes 4la yards
To Roper’s right, surprisingly So then the only thing she could
35-ir.ch material, ’j yard contrast for
collar and bow Finish with l7a yards ma
close, a rifle spoke, once only. Roper think of was to come to you She’s
chine made ruffling. For this attractive
could neither see the man who had got some notion of trying to get you
pattern, send your order to:
fired nor guess his target. He waited and her old man together again.” tle man groaned once, then came
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five minutes, gun ready, then stood
Before applying linseed oil to
“A fine chance!”
full awake with the sudden response
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
up and moved his pony down-slope
outside of soapstone sink or tubs,
"That's what I told her. But of an animal.
119 New Montgomery Street
into a shallow draw in which It was she—”
first go over with sandpaper to
San Francisco
Calif.
Without the snow the rock-like im
hidden by the brush. Moving cau
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern.
"Why in God’s name,” Roper penetrability of the overcast sky make them smooth.
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tiously, he proceeded north along
flared at him again, "didn't you go would have made the night utterly
Pattern No........................ Size..................
the cut, seeking the position of the
\
Leftover bits of jelly can be used
after help?”
black, but the ghostly pallor of the
Name ..........................................................
man who had fired.
“I figured I’d get strung up for snow had the effect of faintly modi for stuffing pears or apples to be
Address ......................................................
t AV
Through the hillside brush a figure
sure,” Shoshone said flatly, "if I fying the darkness. The eye might baked.
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moved, crouching so low that his
went and told Gordon what I'd done. possibly have made out a moving
dark shape resembled a bear. Aft
Add raisins to your conserves,
you, but nat- dark shape at ten yards; beyond
er a moment Bill Roper was able to I wanted to come for
NUMBER ONE GIFTS
urally I didn’t know where you'd that there was nothing but a muf- jams and chutney to give them
make out that the approaching man
pleasing chewiness.
went. The only thing I could figure fling blackness.
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carried a light carbine.
If you have any doubt about what
"You lead out,” Roper said, His
The man with the carbine moved out, I better try to ghost around
to give a man in any of the nation’s
When the cork breaks in a bottle
these
hills
and
maybe
whittle
’
em
voice was instinctively hushed, even pour out the liquid it contains and
■wiftly down the hillside, sliding on
military or naval services, send a
at this distance from the enemy.
the hard crust of the snow, but sur down to my size.”
carton of cigarettes or a pound tin
put
enough
ammonia
in
the
bottle
"You say there are seven men in “You've had more chance to study
of smoking tobacco. Tobacco rates
prisingly silent in the brush.
to
float
the
cork.
Set
away
until
first as a gift with them. And when
The watched man dropped into the the cabin,” Roper asked at last; the lay than me.”
the
cork
crumbles.
you check up, actual sales records
ravine, angling toward the bend "two wounded?”
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Shoshone Wilce delayed. “Bill,” he
show that in Army, Navy, Marine
Shoshone nodded. "They ain't all said, "I lay thinking about this time
where Roper stood.
Bill Roper
Colorful appetizers may be made
Corps and Coast Guard service
pulled himself out of the gully. He In the cabin all of the time. Seems for a long time, after you was by steaming dried fruits about 15
stores (where the men buy their
was crouched in dense brush, gun in like they must have had the girl tell asleep."
A dogged stubbornness minutes and topping with well-
I own) Camels outsell all other cig
hand, as the scout appeared below ’em that she come here to meet came into his tone. “I figure we seasoned cream or grated Amer
arettes. It is well-known that
him.
you.
Naturally they’d think you can probably take the cabin. And if
Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco is
ican cheese.
Roper stood up.
"Steady,” he knew she was coming. Most likely we take the cabin without fighting
the "National Joy Smoke." Local
tobacco dealers are now featuring
«aid.
they figure that if I ain’t dead I'm we've got a chance to get away. But
Camel cartons and pound tins of
The man in the draw jumped
carrying you word that will bring if so much as one shot is fired—Bill,
Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco as
if he had been struck; but as
you here a-kiting So they’re hold the outposts will close like a b'ar
number one gifts for men in Uncle
raised his hands he straightened
ing her there now until they see if trap. I don't see no way we can
Sam's services.—Adv.
that Roper saw his face.
they can’t get you. I ain’t watched ever get clear."
Two travelers had just met.
His captive was Shoshone Wilce.
By the sudden frozen silence, Sho-
One was doing most of the talking.
"By God,” said Shoshone, “I was
Quickening Emotions
shone Wilce was able to sense Bill
"Yes," he said, "I arrived home
never so glad to see anybody in my
Roper’s anger.
When
men are rightly occupied,
one morning after midnight and,
life!”
their amusement grows out of
“1 wish to God,” Bill Roper said as I opened the door, I saw a
Roper’s voice bit like frosty ice.
their work, as the color petals out
at last, "I had Hat Crick Tommy stranger kissing my wife.
I
"You know where she is?”
of a fruitful flower; when they are
here, or Tex Long; or even the very closed the door softly and hur-
"Yeah,” said Shoshone. “Yeah, I
faithfully helpful and compassion
greenest kid cowboy that's riding Tied downstairs,
At 1 a. m. I
know where she is.”
ate, all their emotions are steady,
the range with them, somewhere to came back.
I
opened
the
door
Roper dropped into the gully to
deep, perpetual and vivifying to
night. I need one other man for this softly—and there was the strang
■narl close into Shoshone’s face. “Is
the soul as is the natural pulse to
job. It wouldn’t take an especially er, still kissing my wife.
So I
•he alive? Is she all right?”
the body.—John Ruskin.
brave man, or smart man, nor a went downstairs again. At 1:15—”
"Oh. yeah, sure,” Wilce assured
real
good
gunfighter.
I
just
need
'T'HE
new
style
the
young
jitter-
"Just
a
minute,
”
interrupted
the
him. “She’s alive, all right. Don’t
one fairly good man. But I haven't other man. "Why did you keep
bug fans are looking for. They
•eem like she's hurt any. I—”
even got that!”
galloping downstairs? Why didn't like the wide gathered skirt, the
“Don’t seem like?” Roper repeat
"Bill. I only claim—look. Bill: I you walk right into the room?”
snug waistline which flattens the
ed. “Damn your hide, where is
ain’t afraid of 'em. I only—”
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"What?” cried the talkative tummy in front, and the frou-frou,
"Bill, seems like them buzzards
“You ain't afraid,” Bill Roper re man. "And have my wife catch feminine collar with the large
bow. Be first to make this new
have her down there at that cabin,
peated; "no—not much. But when me coming home at that hour?"
•nd won't leave her loose.”
the guns spoke, you left a girl down
“Who won't?”
under her horse in the snow—maybe
“Bill, I don't know who.”
hurt, maybe dead—and you ran for
SHE KNOWS ...
"Well, how the devil did she get
your life.”
• Grandmother’s bak
there?”
When Bill Roper had said that,
ing day secret, the
"Me.” Shoshone said He met Rop
baking powder that has
both were utterly still, while a man
er’s eye bleakly. Obviously, he knew
been the favorite of
might have counted a hundred.
that he was in trouble here,
millions of proud baker*
Shoshone's voice was flat and dead.
brought her ”
for years and years.
"Is that the way it looks to you?”
"Why in all—”
“
Look
at
it
yourself."
“She would have come anyway,
Her Prospect
Not His Want
"Then,” Shoshone said, "I guess
Bill. She was dead set on locating
Father—Isn’t it time you were
“Well,” asked the landlady,
there ain’t anything more to say^”
you. She didn't have nobody else to
showing a prospective lodger her entertaining the prospect of matri
He stood up.
ride with her. I figured you'd soon
"They're taking an awful
“There's this to say,” Bill Roper best bedroom, "what do you mony?
er I’d try to bring her direct to
chance,” Roper said.
Daughter—Not quite. Dad. He
• 'Baking Powder •
said. “You’re going to work with think of it as a whole?"
you, so somebody would be with
"Oh, I suppose it’s all right as won’t be here until eight o’clock.
her, than have her wandering loose those fellers for fifteen years with- me tonight because I haven’t got
anybody else. You're going to do holes go,” was the reply, "but it
around the country by herself. A out knowing how they work.”
The theory of flight is being
Your Situation
exactly what I say, and when I say, was a bedroom I wanted."
bartender in Miles told me you
“They’re taking an awful chance," without any back talk or question.
taught in some jails to prisoners.
Despise not your situation. In
were here, and we rode here, And
Roper said, iron death in his eye. You make one slip tonight and the
Don't bother about the size of Some of them would probably it you must act, suffer, and con
then—and then—"
"If I rode in here, warned, with West won't hold you, nor the world the man in the fight. What counts be more interested in its practice. quer. From every point on earth
"Well, then—what?”
my wild bunch—"
we are equally near to Heaven
won't hold you, and you'll answer to is the size of the tight in the man.
"As I come into the valley,” Sho-
"It ain't such a bad chance they're me in the end. You hear me?”
and the Infinite.—Amici.
As a Beginner
(hone said, "seemed to me like
taking.”
Shoshone
contradicted.
NOT ELASTIC
Ttio cat airy recruits were hat ing a
something was wrong But I couldn't
"Okay.” Shoshone said in the
“Night and day their outposts are
chat.
make out what. We come up to the
sarye flat, dead voice.
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out. Two men can check the whole
“Talking about ruling,” said one, ‘7
cabin careful and slow, in the dark.
“
One
thing
more,
”
Roper
said.
country daytimes, so they can »cc
once sau a chap tn a circus uho jumped
But they seen us coming and they
on a horse's back, slipped underneath,
you coming twenty miles. You only "If we make a quiet job, we’ll try
laid for us, I guess.
Before we
caught hold of its tail, and finished up
got here because you come up to go out slow and quiet, the three
knew what had busted, they gunned
on its neck.”
through the timber to the south, on of us together. Otherwise, you take
her pony down, and they drilled
“So u hat 'i” retorted the other. “I did
the trail from Miles—the last way Jody's lead rope and ride like hell.
HEED THIS ADVICE!!
mine twice so bad that I had to turn
all that in my first riding 'esson.'”
Six
miles
below
here,
near
the
creek,
they'd figure you’d come.
Nights
him loose. Most likely he's dead
Thousands of women
there's
a
kind
of
a
brush
corral.
there are more men on lookout than
are helped to go smil
by now. I -” Shoshone hesitated.
Handed Down
ing thru distress pecul
that, near as I can make out, and You and the girl will wait for me
"And you run out and left her,”
iar
to women—caused
And do you really mean to say
their lookout is strongest just be there. Wait for me until daylight
by this period In life—
Bill filled in for him.
begins
to
come;
then
go
on.
”
ever
I'm
the
first
girl
you've
with
Lydia E. Pink
fore dawn—I suppose Iron Dog
“Bill, I swear, I wouldn't have
ham's Vegetable Com
Chairman of the Dance Com kissed?"
They moved down into the valley
taught ’em that trick in the old days,
pound
— famous for
done nothing like that, not for no
“Yes, darling. Any skill I may
over 60 years. Pinkham's Compound
always striking just before daylight, of the Fork, walking fast. When they mittee—Can't you stretch the mu-
•mount. Thing was. they was all
—
made
especially
for
women— has
and now they can’t get it out of had dropped into the bed of Fork sic a little—just a dance or two have is inherited."
helped thousands to relieve such
around me; 1 couldn't see where to
more?
weak,
nervous
feelings
due to this
their heads. Night and day they got Creek itself they moved northward,
shoot or who they was. I figured
^unctlonaljllsturbance^TnMt^^.
Orchestra Leader — Say, this
Internal
Use
ponies saddled. If ever they spot following its windings, for what
first it was your own boys, mak
"And how did you find the bath
ted your wild bunch riding in, they'd seemed a long way; but no sign of ain't no rubber band!
ing a mistake, and after I seen it
approaching dawn yet showed, and
salts,
madam?” asked the drug
be almighty hard to catch.”
wasn't, I just figured to keep in a
Roper felt that they had plenty of
And Half, Wrong
gist.
As You Live
“If only," Roper i
fighting position, von might say. and
time. As they at last passed the
“Jane says she thinks I'm a
"Well, they taste very nice,”
If you live according to nature,
bunch was going to
close in first chance. Only—"
point where the cabin stood, invisi- great wit.”
said the shopper, "but I don't you never will be poor; if accord-
“Only you never saw any chance,” isn't"
ble in tlie dark, Shoshone indicated
“
Well,
she's
half
right,
any
think
they have the same effect in g to the world s caprice, you
“
Maybe
there
’
s
some
way
we
Roper said with contempt.
i
its location with raised arm; but way.”
as a real bath."
will never be rich.—Seneca.
“Well, no, there's s> ven of ’em could frfke it, so they'd give up and
they
moved
on
fifty
yards
farther,
so
down there. Bill, and they keep an clear out. I figure they'd leave the
that they might approach the cabin
awful steady watch And I been girl behind if ever they set out to
from the north.
scouting 'em steady ever since. run.”
Cautiously now. Shoshone climbed
"I’m going down and smoke ’em
Sometimes I get in a long shot at
one or another of 'cm. Tins car out.” Rop r said through his teeth. the bank, silent as the Indians with
bine don't carry so very good, but "I'm going to smoke 'em out before whom he had spent his youth Turn
I plugged two of em; d< n't know the sun ever comes lip again, and ing, he gripped Bill Roper’s arm.
His word* were whispered close to
how bad.”
you're going to help me.”
Shoshone nodded. “If we tackled Roper's ear.
“How do you know she wasn’t
“One of tiie night guards is out
•hot or hurt when her hoi e went 'em just before daylight, when the
about
five hundred
down’" ltoper den anded “By God. outpost is strong and the cabin is that-a-way,
yards." he whispered; "about in line
Shoshone, if you let anything hap weak—"
pen to tli it girl
They talked it over for a long with where you see that big dead
"They let her walk outside some time. In the hidden gulch where pine."
Roper could sec no dead pine. It
times during the day.” She hone Shoshone had been holing up they
said. "That's how I seen she's all made coffee and cooked meat, and annoyed him that Shoshone's eyes
were better than his own—as good
completed their plans.
right."
"We can get in.” was Shoshone'* as the eyes of an Indian, or a lynx.
“Can you make out who the bunch
verdict at last “We can get
;
down there is?"
in. and
"1'11 leave my carbine standing
"I figure they’re some Thorpe gun we can take the cabin, . But God just outside the door.” Shoshone
how we re ever going to get said. “I only want‘it for later, after
•quad, out after your seal;
I fig ire kno
out
they was laying to g
we've took to the horses."
now that they got the
“I've got a plan for that," Roper
“That's all right," Roper »aid.
said.
that they aim to hold
"But you remember this: If there'»
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
kind of
He wouldn’t tell Shoshone what it any trouble in the cabin, you stand
Shoshone fell silent, and Roper, was.
and fight! Because if you don't. I’U
de< p in thought, let him rest.
turn and plug you myself, if it take»
“You’re most likely right,” R.-per
e n irn k \\
my last shot to do it"
■aid morosely at last. "There's four
“Okay."
or five of th< e Thorpe war parties
There ■ were no star* when Roper
Roper went ahead now. walking
out after me. and this could easy be roused himself
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in hi* blankets, «nd b< Idly across the snow. Better, he
• Actual sale* records
than the average of the •( other largest-selling cigarertej
one
But of al) the infernal luck I he had no n chanical means of tell- thought to simulate the casual ap
in Navy Canteen* and
tested
—
less
than
any
of
them
—
according
to
independent
•ver saw What did Jody want with
Ship* Service Score*
proach of friends than to depend
me? Did she tell you”’
»how the lareew-*eil-
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scientific tests of tbe tmobn itself I
upon a hope of complete surprise.
“Thorpe has made up his mind
ing cigarette u CameL
As he raised hi» hand to the door
to kill her old man," Shoshone said
a strange thrill of dread momen
“I went and told her. because I
tarily stirred him at the thought that
thought you'd want her to know, so
Jody Gordon was inside — with
•he could maybe look out for him
whom"
•ome. But the old man wouldn't
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