Pa?e Six
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 2, 1941
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
TRUCK PARTS
INSTALLMENT 19
Dusty King and Lew Cordon had built
Bp a vast string of ranches. King was
killed by his powerful and unscrupulous
competitor. Ben Thorpe. Bill Roper,
King's adopted son. was determined to
avenge his death in spite of the opposi­
tion ot his sweetheart. Jody Gordon, and
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THE STORY SO FAR:
her father Roper conducted a series of
great raids upon Thorpe's vast herds,
first In Texas, then in Montana. Jody
was deeply shaken when Marquita. a
saloon hostess, convincingly explained
that Roper loved Marquita, and not her.
Believing that her love was unanswered.
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parts
bodies, tires, hoists and used trucks.
Jody left the man she loved. Lew Gor­
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don finally realized that Roper was right
<8 EL Haw th. irne
Portland Ore.
In fighting Thorpe and Lasham. and
went gunning for them.
Roper met
him shortly before the two gunmen ap­
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MARY STONE’S
old. without that sultry Are to back
it up. '‘Well, that wasn’t so."
pony slowly approached; it seemed
feeauiq. School
^bulietolion
They buried Lew Gordon at Miles
“You mean—you mean to say—’* to her that that slow approach was
FILM DEVELOPING
City. That dot upon the northern
"Well,” Marquita said, "he did characteristic of all that had hap­
209 Union Street
Seattle, Wash.
prairie marked, in effect, the far­ not belong to me, not even for one pened to them—delay, and delay,
FAST SERVICE
thest north reached by that great minute, in all my life. How do you while wars were fought, and raids Roll Developed and Two Prints from
Each Good Negative
and dramatic upthrust of power think you would like that, in my struck in, all through those smoky
which had welled up out of Texas, place?”
years in which they had been apart
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WESTERN PHOTO COMPANY
carving new trails, opening new vast
And yet at last, when he stopped
"But—at the Lasham camp you
box W-4265
Portland Ore
countries, driving herds unnum­ said—”
his horse beside her, and they looked
Handbag Aids Cause
Lobsticks
bered. under the name of King-Gor­
K
PKINT8
AND
TWO
ENLARGE­
at
each
other,
there
was
something
A handbag made by hereditary
According to Ernest Thompson Se­
"I know I did. I would have got
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don. Jody thought that her father him if I could, in any way I could. between them still, as if the smoky MENTS
est retail kodak finisher
Satisfac­ court craftsmen for the empress of ton the Indians and half-breeds in
would have wanted to lie there.
Ethiopia and taken to London when the employ of the Hudson's Bay
tion guaranteed
Quality Picture Co.
I even came here because I knew years themselves had built a wall.
After that was done with, Jody he was coming here. But now I can
her country was taken by the company have an unusual method of
Bill Roper said, "Hello, Jody. Box W3573. Portland. Oregon.
went back to Ogallala.
Italians has aided the Red Cross. honoring an outstanding achieve­
just as well tell you It’s hopeless, You’re looking mighty well.”
FOR SALE
The empress gave it to the organi­ ment. If, in their opinion, a white
All through the spring news kept and I'm through. After all, I don’t
Jody said. "I'm all right.”
trickling in. A swift bankruptcy need to run after any man; not any
There was a pause, curiously awk­ 12 <•-ACRE FARM, 60 CLEARED zation, which sold it to a dealer. In man has performed some unusual
Frank Oliphant. materials alone it is valued at $532, feat, a tall tree is selected. Then a
was sweeping Thorpe’s loosely more.”
ward; in the pause, Jody’s horse 307 E. 5th Ave.. Olympia.
Wash.
for it contains 18 ounces of the finest man is sent aloft to lop off certain
grouped organizations. Wiped out of
"You mean—you’re willing to let struck at the cinch with a hind foot
gold. Craftsmanship doubled its limbs. The mutilated tree stands
Texas by the so-called Rustlers’ him go—even if—”
tormented by an early fly.
SHEEP
War, broken in the north by the
"Let him go? I never had him.”
"You didn't come to see me,” 12 HEAD OF HAMPSHIRE AND 8 value, both sides consisting of ex­ as a living monument and is always
Great Raid—the shaken power of An odd edge of contempt came into Jody said.
head of crossbreed Hamp-Suffolk quisite gold filigree with mountings referred to as "So and So's lob­
rains. $20 per head. Clay Nichols, of wrought gold symbols.
Ben Thorpe crumbled fast, now that Marquita’s voice, but whether for
stick."
"Well," Bill Roper said slowly—"I
818 Fifth St.. Lebanon. Or
Thorpe himself was dead. A once Jody or herself was not plain. "Can't didn’t know if you'd want me to.”
unbeatable organization, powerful you get that through your head?”
TIMBER OWNERS!
"Don’t you know that you’re half
from border to border, was going She turned toward the door impa­ of King-Gordon? And I’m the other WE WILL PI T Y(JL’ IN CONTACT
with purchasers, locate sawmills,
down in such utter debacle as no tiently.
“Heads up is the rule when you’re handling
half
cruise your timber, report on fire
man could check.
hazards or damage, assist you in
Jody Gordon supposed that she
"Jody—people like you and me
money/ says Bank Teller STANLEY RAMLER
preserving your interests in unde­
And as Thorpe’s power vanished ought to thank Marquita for having can’t go by things like that—things
veloped tracts F. W. Cooper and
into the gunsmoke in which he had come here, for having made the con­ like legacies and wills."
Associates. Telephone 255. Canyon­
ville. Douglas County, Oregon.
died, a strange new prestige began fession which she had made, but
Jody’s voice was very quiet, yet
to attach itself to the name of the she was confused, and the words it must have seemed to Bill Roper
man who had destroyed him. Only would not come. Instead she said, that she cried out. "You're going Now Hatching Weekly
New Hampshires—U. S
a little while ago Bill Roper had been "Do you know where he is? Is he to leave me to carry all this, just Dubl-Dollar
Certified Leghorn
Vashon Island
an outlaw, a hunted man with a well? Is he safe and all right?”
Co-operative Hatchery, Box 3, Va­
by myself?”
shon,
Washington.
price on his head, in whose behalf
Marquita’s smile was mocking.
"Lew Gordon left a sound organi­
few men ever dared speak a good “You want me to And him and send zation,” Bill Roper said, his voice For Sale. 10 ac. 6 rm. 4 dr. 17 mi.
Portland.
Lovely home
$1750.00.
word. But now that his enemies him to you?”
dead. "You have many men, and More land. Rt. 1, Box 68, New- I
were down, it seemed that the whole
"I think," Jody said, "he’ll good men, too. The works will roll,
berg, Oregon.
length of the Long Trail held men come.”
I think, with Thorpe gone."
who professed themselves his life­
RANCHES FOR SALE
"Okay," Marquita said, and she
Once more the long, strangely TO CLOSE ESTATE—8500 acres,
long friends. Like coyotes after a pulled open the door.
poignant silence. And to Jody it alfalfa hay timbered range, river,
killing, like worms after rain. Bill
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“I want to tell you something,”
home on highway, electric­
Roper partisans were rising up, a Jody said. "I want to tell you I ap­ seemed a terrible thing that what modern
ity. daily mall.
Also. 4200 acres
$25.000, 1900 acres price cut from
score here, a hundred there, where preciate—your letting me know—” they both wanted was the same
thing, and that yet the smoky years
**0,000 to *10,000. 1300 acres *8,-
not one friend had been, during those
Marquita flashed a queer, hard somehow managed to stand be­ 5(10. T. rms. no trades
B. >.
smoky hours of his greatest need. smile; there was bitterness In it,
Truesdell, Canyon City, Oregon.
tween.
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Already men were less ready to re­ more bitterness in her smile than in
Jody Gordon turned away from
member what weapons he had used her words. “Keep your thanks to
Early
Education
Bill Roper, and faced Dusty King's
in fighting Are with Are than to re­ yourself." Then she was gone.
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A man was in court for stealing
~
SttAKfAST'
member simply that he had won.
After a moment Jody heard the cross, clean-limbed and slender, a sum of money and heard the judge
and
there
was
something
in
her
face
Three governors had issued blanket hoofs of a team, and the wheels of
say, "And in addition to the sum of
pardons for what he might or might the carriage in which Marquita had that was enduring. It was the face money, you also took some jewelry."*
not have done. He could have had come—and gone—slicing the deep of a woman who turned to the future
"Yes,” replied the prisoner, '1
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without trace of doubt or fear; and
almost any position he wanted near mud . . .
was educated to believe that mon«y
she
was
the
loveliest
thing
that
Bill
the top of any one of three or four
Yet, Bill Roper did not come.
VITA*»*«
■lone would not bring happiness."* ;
of the great cattle companies He
When two days had passed a pan­ Roper would ever see . . .
"Jody,” Bill Roper said uncertain­
could have had almost anything he ic caught Jody Gordon, and she be­
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wanted, then.
gan to haunt the vicinity of Dusty ly, "I want to tell you something.
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ME
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But Bill Roper—where was he? King's cross. She believed that Rop­ Other men will have to fight other
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Nobody seemed to know. His own er would not leave the Ogallala wars; but my part of all that is fin­
. »s«appel,,e'
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raiders—Tex Long, Hat Crick Tom­ country without visiting once more ished. I’m not sorry my gun is ?
makes you »»ant to eat.
hung up. I hope it’s hung up for­ ?
my, Dave Shannon—now swagger­ the grave of Dusty King.
?
ever.
Once
I
thought
that
when
But
it
was
the
evening
of
the
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Thorpe was smashed, my work
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curious acclaim, did not know. And fourth day, before Roper came.
would
be
through
—
but
now
I
see
if Dry Camp Pierce, that one most
The Questions
it's only begun. I think we’re going
Full or Empty
Improper Act
CHAPTER XXVII
trusted of all Bill Roper's men, knew
to
build
something
pretty
fine,
if
The wise man is like a drug­
One improper word or act will
where his leader was, he held his
1. What country originated chile neutralize the effect of many good gist’s chest, silent but full of vir­
Sitting her quiet pony beside Dusty you'll stay by me."
tongue.
Jody smiled a little. Without tak­ con carne?
ones; and one base deed after tues; and the blockhead resembles
Jody Gordon was making every King’s pile of stone, Jody Gordon
2. What American university years of noble service, will cover the warrior's drum, noisy but
effort to And out Bill Roper's where­ saw Roper riding toward her when ing her eyes from the cross she
them all with shame.—Aughey. empty.—Sadi the Persian.
he was still a long way off Roper reached her hand toward him, and was once called King's college?
abouts.
3. In the United States what is
The weeks passed, and the new was not alone. Beside him rode a took his.
"All the anger and the hate has a burgee?
grass came on the prairie, and still little grasshoppery figure in disrepu­
out of me," Roper said; "and
4. In what year did the first
there was no word. Two or three table clothes which Jody recognized gone
if you can only some day under­ ocean steamer pass through the
times a week, after tile first spring as that of Dry Camp Pierce. Some- | stand
that
my
riding
with
the
wild
Panama canal?
flowers began to show, Jody Gordon how Dry Camp had managed to re­
rode out to the pile of stone with ' join his chief when the others could I bunch was—was what I had to do—”
5. Can you name a presidential
He fumbled for words, and
its wooden cross that marked Dusty not. It was typical of Dry Camp
power under the Constitution
stopped.
King’s grave, putting there little that he was riding beside Bill Roper
"Give me your knife," Jody said. which has never been exercised
handfuls of blue Indian hyacinth and . now; would always be typical, so
by a President?
"My
—my what?”
long
as
both
of
them
should
live.
white anemone.
6. What are the two most north­
She
turned,
and
herself
drew
his
The two riders hesitated at the
And then suddenly one day as she
erly countries of South America?
skinning
knife
from
the
sheath
at
Ave
hundred
yards.
Roper
said
sat her horse before Dusty King's
7. What American naval vessel
cross she knew that Bill Roper was something to Dry Camp Pierce and his belt. Then she stepped to the
was called "a cheese box on a
r
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■live, that he was near, that he had after a moment or two Dry Camp ground.
Good HouoeMrptngJ
Burr*u
>-7
"In
justice."
Jody
said;
"in
jus
­
turned
his
horse
and
went
back.
I
raft?
”
come, l'he notch that she had seen
tice,
and
in
memory
of
courage."
Bill
Roper
came
on
alone.
Perhaps
8.
The
Cape
of
Good
Hope
is
Bill Roper cut in the arm of Dusty's
With her own hands she cut the the southernmost point of which
cross to mark the death of Cleve he feared this meeting more than
Tanner was well weathered by this anything he had ridden into yet—but , third notch upon the cross, deep and continent?
clean.
time; but now, sharp and freshly she knew he would not turn.
I THE END!
It seemed to Jody Gordon that
cut in die opposite arm of the cross,
The Answers
was a second notch that had never
been there before.
1. Mexico.
A choking lump rose instantane­
2. Columbia.
ously in Jody's throat, and she spun I
3. A flag with swallow tails.
her pony in its tracks as instinctive- !
4. In 1914.
ly tier eyes swept the plain and the
5. Power to adjourn congress.
low hills. So freshly cut was the I
6. Colombia and Venezuela.
new notch upon the cross that it
7. The Monitor.
seemed Bill Roper must still be no
8. Africa.
more than a few minutes away.
In the clear light of the late after­
noon she could make out every detail '
of the rambling little town of Ogal­
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lala. but nowhire was there to be
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seen any horseman. She turned her
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING
THE CARTON OF CAMELS
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pony and rode home w ith a strange,
CAMELS CONTAINS
empty, gone feeling, because for a
__you PICKED
moment Bill Roper had seemed so
EXTRA MILD'
THE RIGHT BRAND '
near and now was nowhere tn sight.
28%
WITH LESS
When she had unsaddled she went
Around the campfires in the Canadian wilderness men
Into the tall white house by the back
NICOTINE IN
LESS NICOTINE
began muttering over the mysterious disappearance of six
way, and walked through it slowly,
THE
SMOKE
frontiersmen who had hit the Chibougamau Trail and
preoccupied, wondering what she
than the average of the 4 other
should do.
never returned. They were in terror of Jules Isadore and
largest-selling
cigarettes tested
Then. as she came into the front
his right-hand man, Tete Blanche.
— less than any of them — ac­
room, her hand jumped to her
throat, for someone was waiting for .
cording to independent scien­
But Garry Finlay, brother of one of the missing men,
her there—a woman who stood up
tific tests of the smoke itself!
marched
into
the
forbidden
country
with
two
others
and
as Jody came in.
Flame, his giant airedale. Neither bullets nor poison could
For a moment Jody Gordon hard­
Actual salrs records show the largest-jell­
ly recognized Marquita Only a lit­
hold them back. At last, scorched by the leaping flames of
ing cigarette in Army and Marine Corp*
tle time had passed since they had
a forest fire, they solved the mystery of the missing men
Post Exchange«, and in Navy Canteen*
faced i nch other in a remote cabin
and Ships Service Store« is Camel.
and brought retribution upon the murderers.
set In Montana snows, yet Marquita
looked unmistakably older, and the
Read this swift-moving adventure story of the mys­
live, sultry Are behind her dark,
slanting eyes was gone.
terious Hudson Bay country—
"I lied to you." Marquita said at
last "I'm not sorry for that I'd
lie to you again, for the same rea­
son. or for less reason. But this
time It didn't do any good. So I
thought 1 might as well tell you."
"You lied to me?"
"1 told you 1 was Bill Roper's
-THE CIGARETTE OF
gtrl. You naturally thought 1 was
COSTLIER TOBACCOS
at Walk Latham's camp because
Bi’.i Roper was there.” Marquita’s
voice sounded curiously metallic and
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helps me keep
feeling that way.”
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