f / Î g L X MtfcftMAN UjUNTJ JOURNAL, MORO, OKEOoM
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ftiraaa Valley Journal
Established Oct. 14, 1897
C O N S O L ID A T E D March ft,* 1931
Wasco News-Euterprtoe
Established Nov. 1891
C O N S O L ID A T E D March 4, 1932
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hood wb«a wc were th a t f a r away
fro m a store th a t sold stick candy.
And so the w orld gets smaller.
(Continued frorrt ,j asre one'
T h a t, however, ian’t the point. W e
would like <o see it get "better soldiers a t Camp W hite and Camp.
along with it.
A d a ir. The maintenance w ill con
tinue until June 30— the .end o f
trtered as second class matter at
Postoffice h t Moro. Oregon
¿tos:
O F F IC IA L C O U N T Y P A P E R
rates
Pavahle in Advance .
O N E Y E A R ........ .......~........... $1.50
20 tons o f potatoes.
*>" mu3t »* S“TC<1 fo r the govern-
moot. This quota will b e ; sent
high whool Tuesday and sent J »
the fro n t on th e survey fo r the
C SR y extension. They were Rob-
e rt Hickson, John
F itzm aunc?,
A rth u r Page and E a rl Saunders.
W a te r P a rry
w ill soon
follow.
W ith the exception o f M r. Saun
tiers they have all had experience
at the fro n t.
Since Drs. Goffln have been in
the county they have owned 17
horses. A ll
thesw ift,
untamed
horses eventually go to D r. Coffin.
The Blue barn force
is now a t
work these early mornings tam ing
another euitan fo r him.
A jo lly p a rty of five ladies ami
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fo u r gentlemen walked from W a s
co to Biggs Sunday forenoon, re
S T A T E O F T H E H IG H W A Y
tu rn in g by tra in Sunday evening.
Tim e was when a road went out M r. and M rs. C .H. B arn ett, th e
during
w in te r freeze o r flood .Misses McPherson, E w ing,
Be -
the neighbors called on the local knap and Davis,
Messers Ken-
road boas and got busy filling in pth and John McPherson and
the rota. It was a f a ir ly simple S. Buffum
composed the
jo lly
job.
Then road districts were
en
larged u n til i t was necessary to
call on the county court fo r aid
in repairing roads.
In more re-
.
v. j a
,
cent years
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the state fo r re p a ir o f o u r m ajo r
roads
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Now we have to have the advice
and consent o f the federal govern
ment, which is the governmental
body th a t puts up the jsek fo r te -
building most of our im portant
arteries o f travel
K la m ath w ill have 22,000 a-
in potatoes this year and it
been assured by growers th a t
ton o f fe rtilis e r w ill produce
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g ^ t7 ’a"
1# c; nU
Ñ E S TH A Y C O X 7£2
1942,
,u '¡r .¿ .d i» , in the _ ” i’.
’
i.r,
an increa*e
30 P«r cent Som8
Studl"
™ l 't a r , forces. W hat is left w.U Qregon gr<)W#„ w<?r.. a&kin(f for
■Oder A ct <rf Congress ’of March
(DHORIAI—
JATION
th a t
cre»
has
one
J im m y Byrnes, the boss o f sta
bilisation bureau, has fixed
the
the fiscal year.
price fo r Oregon strawberries a t
1?* cents a pound to the grower,
H a lf of a ll the cheese o f the
ah increase over the 1042 price.
cheddar varie ty produced in Ore-
F o r the chicken growers the price
jjin Other Dayj
Published Every Friday at
.. Moro, Oregon
------ F r o . the Obeerver A p ril 15. 1901
Editor
Giles L . French
subscription
A V R IL
Kelly’s Column
^ ^ r u u tn (County 3Jou n :|
Bferasan Coanty Observer
t j u b l i s ^ j Nov. 2, 1888
F R ID A Y ,
crowd.
From the Observer A p ril 18, 1921
M . R. Schadewitz has bought
the H u lery Bros, interests in the
t h e rro R x a e raMs ctay worcan
has derides CO play a teas Saad asafaut
be available fo r clvilians_ unner
3g
ceBta
an(J
tainlng
t
h
/
i
t
under
Ben Herendeen, a1 rancher bent ea run
the rationing program . The f “ "
h ^ ^ 'r e c e iv in r
only ning the cattle country his e v s «sy. The
two men have Seen easenlee ler years,
tories makin g special types, such 2g centa
» i d ' TCMntly the price
having Srst fought ever Clay’« wife,
as blue and Swiss, can produce to wag down
U la . who died -hating him sad bettering
th e ir fu ll capacity as these types
she iboold have married Hereedeen.
are not rationed and are not w an t-
Mo. 113. i o
f Morgan Is a seHtary tgwre, devoted
to bis nlne-year-eld daughter, Janet. SI*
Moro. Oregon
by the government.
ihongb two womea. Catheriae Oraat aad
Meets 1 st and 3H Aun M cOarrah, are la love with Was,
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Tuesdays
in the t -ey know he cannot terset gBa. Of
K lam ath farm ers have been cry-
I.O-O.F.
hall
T r«’ l x former friends, only Back Breatbiu
about a shortage of fe rtiliz e r
«lent and visiting had not cone ever te Herendeen’s side.
a r(j this m a tte r has fin a lly been
Hack is dead, shot by Herendeen’s
brothers are cord» T.uw
I *r? ra a a , C h a r le y H U lhonxe. O g rd
j roneij out. The governm ent agen-
ally invited to meet < rant, Catherine’ s brother, - joined
1
cy handling the problem reports
. .vith ns. ..
endeen when he discovered yhat figth
ad been Io Morgan's ranch, be(
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C h rrle e C. W ilson. N.G.
erlnd had
t ie cold bloododnees ef Hack’s mnrder
E u reka,L o d g e No 121 A .F . & A .M . pelcy Thompson. Sec.
ba> mad^ him break with Herendeen-
Meets on the 1st and 3rd T h u rs
Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 114 V.'arneJ by F ez WtUtng, a “ nester” be
day evenings of each
«•.nee befriended, Clay discovers that
Moro. Oregon
l ’ '•re^deea Is
month. V is itin g m em Meets 2d A 4th Tues
1er a shew-
goes to llei
bers are cordially in day of each month.
Mss le the
’ <’ o k p . b it
vited to meet w itlf us. V isitin g members we!
by Herep-
CdraW.
He’ b
ts no way
deen’s men, aad
come.
w
F. McLeod, W .M .
out. wbea L ife White, one ef Berea
Coila Belshee, N .G .
deen’ s friends, ridee op. . U k e Gard
V. Belknap, Secretary
Florence Johnston. 8e<
G reat, be la fed ep wMh Herendeen’ s
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hlgb handed methods. Blshlng Us own
life to save Clay, he persuades Mm te
take a chaaee an riding out ef Heren
deen's ranch. He doesn't th in k
d:en will dare te
Now contlmse with
Moro Garage, opening the garage
under h i. management on Wed-
we#k One item
3
news in connection w ith his ow
nership is th a t he has filled his
tanks w ith Union gasoline.
A rthur Smothers had the
. , .
,
sec-
„ .„ u Af
ed last Monday as the „ result
of
failu re to control a heavy shot
These thoughts have been en put he was handling at school
gendered by the unfortunate con
during the noon hour
dition o f H ig h w ay 97 ^aouth o f
£}. E. M athews and fa m ily ship-
Grass V a lle y / N o t th a t it is a ed their
household
goods this
boulevard
this
spnng
fa rth e r
week to th e ir new home in P o rt
north, either. •
land and have moved to th a t ci tv
From a fe w miles south
o f where a new picture the a tre is
Grass V a lle y where the adequate w
fo r M r Mathews on
rock base stops the road is rapid- ,^ e ^agt gide
ly degenerating into a rough cow
t r a il and w ith the tra v e l th a t w ill F r« m the Observer A pr
have to go over i t this summer it
W . H . Ragsdale w ith his auto
and party and L . Baraum ■
hU auto and p arty including W .
C. B ryant, were
representatives
from M oro £ *he 1®ood
meeting on^ cD°naW j r a d e last
nothing to do w ith it; the state Thursday They report th a t the
road is now in good condition,
obtains much o f its road money
plenty o f pick and shovel work
fro m th e fed eral government.
as w ell as p o w d er. was used by
I f th e federal government ex
all p articip atin g .
pects to use • this
highw ay
to
The farm ers o f Sherman county
transport men and munitions it
are receiving shipments of calves
had b etter be arran g in g fo r some
by express fro m a sort of calf
rock and o il to be applied pronto
or the citizens o f the south end cl€&nnF
oubc in Tillam ook co-
’ dollars
o f t h . « m n t r w ill b a r . an a rm y
a head and a il charges paid. A
on th e ir hands some ra in y m o m -
i n ,. 'There won’t be any one fo r
* 7 k ‘11,ng
the » I d le r , to « « f t t eronnd K en t, d» iry calve, and Sherman coun-
eith er. And It i . « o t o f t o be t o r ‘X *»
T ? ™ * “ m c 1.* " e
had to h e w -th e m stuck there. , W » » <«*iry .lo ck fo r very l.ttle
. .ST .
From where I s it...
CHAPTER XVI
¿u Joe Marsh
John T rum bull, our postm aster,
looks up from his new spaper
y esterd ay and says; ‘T see they
cau g h t a n o th e r one o’ them so-
called gang-lords’ of th e P ro
hibition era.
'‘W onder how long it’s going
to take us to w ipe out th e evil
P rohibition left behind . . . not
to m ention th e billions of dollars
it cost the people?”
W e ll, Joh n ’s rig h t o’ course.
H a rd <o believe A m erica could
eve r pass a la w lik e P ro h ib itio n .
Ao. 5? oj a beriet
B u t fro m w here I sit I t ’s a big
consolation - now th a t P re ’» » ’ •
tio n is o ve r—to see how m oder
atio n and tolerance have grow n
up in its place.
N ow adays, if a m an enjoys a
frien d ly g lass of beer or two
a fte r a day’s w ork, he not only
can do it in clean , respectable
s u r r o u n d in g s b u t h e k n o w s
th a t no bootlegger or gangster is
m aking a red cent on it.
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w ill be somewhat worse than the
adjoining "field s
before
wheat
hauling unless i t can be repaired.
I t Isn’t A local function
any
more to rafMrir it ; the county fias
Save Time by using
this Modern Deposit Plan
Q u ic k
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E a sy
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S a fe
W r ite o r C a ll fo r
C o m p le te In fo rm a tio n
The D alles Branch of the
United States N ational B ank
H e a d O ffic e , P o rtla n d , Oregon
M * ** 8 r t
U D IR S I
DI P USI I
I N SU RS N C I
C O R P O R A T IO N
I f Oregon*! brand new highway mon* y ’
commiaaion ^ould have a look a t
th a t piece o f road they would un
doubtedly do something construc
tive I ct it.
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G E T T IN G R ID O F M E R C A T O R
One ,thipg t h b v global w a r is
doing is to effectually g et rid o f
the idea o f vnapmaking established
by .o n e /M e rc a to r who found
a
means o f m akin g the earth look
square on paper. Good riddance,
too.
I t was back in 1668 when Ge-
hardus M ercato r started m aking
maps in th e shape to which we
are accustomed.
Our
ordinary
maps, the ones w e w en t to school
w ith , gave us to believe th a t those
sections o f the earth beyond the
46th p a ra lle l were qu ite siaeahle,
and one to study them reached
the conclusion th a t i t was as f a r
between longitudinal lines a t the
poles, as a t the equator.
Reason told us b e tte r, b u t there
it was draw n rig h t o u t in the ge
ography beok. N o w we study the
globe and find th a t A laska instead
o f being- on th e n e x t page from
Russia is re a lly only a few miles
fro m th a t p a r t o f A sia.
T h e s h o rt set distance between
points In th e northern hemisphere
is not found b y boldly
striking
straig h t across the ocean b u t by
deploying to the north where the
up end down lines e f longitude
are closer together.. Simple. Sure,
but i t took the airplane to b rin g
as
FA
J
w?
r 4
•w
ft to attention.
A irp la n e m akers are tellin g us
th a t with modern speeds we are
never moeh over a couple o f days
sw ay from any place en the earth.
Shucks^ we can rem em ber in child-
if
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“JCEEP ¿BT RQlIJUfflC
M IIB M M BRI THE MCKBONE OF
U was still close an d 'risky, as
they both knew. Morgan swapped a
short glance with the smiling White,
seeing a thorough understanding in
the latter’s eyes. Morgan made the
decision for both of them at this
moment, tuming*Ms horse squarely
on Herendeen. The movement pulled
White around and thus the two of
them, holding their horses to a walk,
passed down the yard in a silence
that had no bottom.
The river road bent around a point
Reaching this point ready to turri
it and shut the Three Pines ranch
house from sight Morgan had bis
backward glance.
Herendeeq and
his men were in the s&ddle, heading
for the Haycreek Hills. They were
going afte^the beef, Morgan knew.
Lige White ceme abreast “Clay,
I ’m ashamed to say i t but I ’ve
strung along with Ben, not liking
what's been going on around me. I
still do not like I t but I cannot tol
erate this kind of a war.
Keep
away from him. The man’s gone
c ra z y /’
K
j
.
“ A little late now.” said Morgan.
‘ T h e re ’s a ftght coming. Ben’s
made up his mind, and so have I.
Stay out of it. Lige- And see if you
can get Gu»d to do the same.” .
Lige White said with the greatest
reluctance: “ I have hated to see
this day come.”
“ A long time coming.’’ said M or
gan. and put his horse to the slope
Lige White watched him climb,
excitement m irroring brightly in bis
eyes; afterwards he continued along
the road, bound for Gurd Grant’s.
Pete Borders, who had driven the
Long Seven beef across the Hay-*
creek Hills to Herendeen s range,
lay on a pedk of the ridge through
out the middle of the day
He saw
Morgan arrive at tfie meadow—and
grinned to himself at what was no
doubt in Morgan’s mind. It looked
like an open steal on Herendeen’s
part, which was the way Borders
wanted it to look.
Later when be saw Morgan head
ed for Herendeen’s alone, Pete Bor
ders grew serious and a little rest
less.
It was, he concluded, bad
tactics on Morgan’s part; and so.
taking to bis horse, he went along
the Haycreek Hills until he was able
to sight the Three Pines ranch from
the heights.
He made oet the. crowd ia the
yard and watched the parley.
Later he saw s~ new rider come
along—which was Lige White— and
saw two of them ride «way. Mor-
tan had got out of It with a whole
skin, which relieved Borders im
measurably.
As soon as Morgan left Lige
White, he turned biM horse to the ,
slope of the Haycreok Hills and pres
ently, -from a high point, he saw
Herendeen leave the valley with his1
crew. Morgan cah- laled his margin
of advantage to be about twenty min
utes and entered the timber at a
fast clip.
He caught up with h.s outfit a mile
or two beyond the
The cat
tle were single file, going very slow
ly on the crooked trail and stretched
out for three or four hundred yards.
Cap Vcrm ilye was in front of them,
beyond sight. Fox Willing held the
rear, with H arry Jump still farther
back to cover whatever might come
up. H arry Jump Was a little' edgy
with the strain o f this thing; he
showed relief at Morgan’s presence.
” 1 been on the verge of ridin’
back after you.”
¡k*thlehem Chapter No. 78, O.ELS.
M oro. Oregon
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Meets Every Second and
F o urth Thursdays
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Each
Month.
V isitin g
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N orm a Bnlslgar W7 M
M arie HoektaaoH, Baa.
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“They're half an hour behind me.
We’re apt to have a scrap.”
“H ell with ’em.” said H arry Jump
at once. “L et’s stop and have it
out.”
‘Keep right on going. Fox, cut
ahead‘'and ride with C ap. I f you
bear any ruckus back bore, Join usc-
I f you poeet anything in front, let out
a yell and we’ll be right with you.”
Fox, unable to crowd by the beef
on so narrow a way, cut through .the
timber and rough slab rock with
considerable difficulty. H arry Jump
begin Ur grumble at the lagging cat-
t!e. crowding them with his pony.
Morgan dropped back a distance to
watch the trail.
They came at last to the stage
road and turned into i t From the
Mvamp meadow to this point had
been more then en hour’s drive end
Hcrepdeen was long overdue, lead
ing Morgan to believe that Heren-
—IS—
('cen had circled them
The trou-
He made eat the crewd ia the
He. U»n. would come when U ,., J>r4 ™
yard and watched the parley.
jr-*.•**-
reached the open country. He joined
Morgan shrugged his shoulders.
H arry Jump, both of them hazing
“ Your funeral."
the stragglers forward until the beef
“I t may be,” agreed Gale com
was in a compact bunch. Vermilye
posedly. “But if sq, it will be a dou
and Willing were fifty yards, for ble one. At my age I ’m too old to
ward; now and then a cow wan worry about ayin*. for it is pretty
dered toward the jack-pine forest close to me at any event, and 1
surrounding them and had to be cut guess I ’m poor enough not to fret
back. At five o’clock they reached about Iosin* anything.
the bottom of the stage road, left
He rummaged his pockets, pro
the pines and swung north toward ducing pipe and tobacco. Morgan
Government Valley, three miles dis watched him fill the pipe and light it
tan t
and settle on bis heels.
Herendeen was nowhere to be
This was late September and sud
seen, whereupon H arry Jump came denly. slightly beyond seven o'clock,
to his suspecting conclusions. “ He the blue-running shadows turned to
didn’t want to try it in timber. He’s gunmetal gray and afterwards to
waitin' for us to get in the middle of full night. The haze of autumn lay
the flats. My idea is that he’s watch- over the land. Through this filtered
in’ us from the Potholes right now.”
■ strong moonlight creating the ef
A sim ilar thought bad occurred to fect of woolly clouds ba iked against
Vermilye. He trotted back to Mor the earth. Morgan led his itorse to
gan. ' Now in case he comes a-bust- the remnant wall of the near.si dobe
in’ out of the brush. Clay, we better building and walked on until be stood
just let this beef go and hit for them alone, faoing the open socth Fox
Willing was irt the saddle, circling
agency buildings.” .
“ No.” said Jump at once. “I t ’s the held bunch of beeves The job
was done and, as far as the cattle
our beef, by God.”
were concerned, there wasn’t any
"That’s right,” said Morgan.
need of staying here.” Yet Morgan
Verm ilye joined Harry Jump,
knew that this waiting was neces
both of them urging the cattle along
sary. Herendeen was somewhere in
at a quicker gait. Morgan closely
the yonder night. The big man had
watched the back trail, not quite
avoided a meeting in the timber,
able to understand Herendeen's con
be had delayed this pursuit; but he
tinued delay. The suspense worked
was out there and he would come.
oq his nerves. Once, thinking he
Nothing ■ * changed much. Morgan
s«w movement at the edge of the
realized; Herendeen had faced him
Potholes, he turned and made a
for ten years, never giving ground,
stand, searching the black margin of
never able to forget. It . was some
that country quite carefully. H e had
thing that would not dim or die, it
been mistaken, however; and pres
was a force that drove Herendeen.
ently turned to catch up with the
Thinking about that. Morgan admit
bee( Near six o’clock, with the sun
ted the same force drove him. What
down beyond the Cache Mountains,
ever the outward reasons, whatever
they threw the beef on their own
the open quarrels and excuses, there
grass near the shattered dobe build
was a deeper reason still—the na
ings of the old agency *
tive. chemical animosities of two
Morgan said: “ Hold this Jag in a men bom to be opposite in all
budch
We’re not through yet. I things; bom to Collide and to de
want Herendeen to see what we stroy. It was’ past explanation.
took. Fox. if I were you I think I ’d
Stationed like tins, apart from the
pull freight. Thanks for cornin’ group and facing southward, he
along."
heard Herendeen at last approach,
Willing said, idly: "Might as well hidden by the pulsing fog Off there
stick arqund.”
a steady’ rhythm rose, of horses
Cap Vermilye, always a forehand moving at a slow run and prcsenUy
ed man. got a few sage stems and a slowing to a—Walk. Shadows ap
piece of old board from the nearest peared in the fog. and shape e«3 out
building to make up a Are. He had lines. Fox Willing came in from
a frying pan and coffeepot in his the herd, dismounting and pulling
saddle roll; and some bacon and a his horse near the dobe wail. He
can of beans. He boiled up the cof walked over to Morgan. Vermilye
fee. fried the bacon and heated the and Jump had risen and had la ban
beans in the frying pan’s grease. position not far from the wall Gale
Having no other utensils, they took was out of sight.
turns at the frying pan, using their
Herendeen’s party showed as a
pocket knives, and drank the coffee wide scatter of shadows on the des
straight from the pot.
At seven e r t They were halted, two hundred
o'clock, with shadows sweeping feet away. Herendeen said:
across Mogul’s plateau, a single
“ Morgan. I ’m coming in to cut that
horseman
horseman appealed on the high edge bunch of stock and look it over for
of Mogul 1 Mountain and quartered my brand.’’
down 'Î This
T
wa? in the west, from
Morgan said: "None of yottr cows
which Morgan expected no trouble. in it, Ben."
Harry Jump walked deliberately to
“ I ’ll see for myself.’’
his horse and pulled out his Win
Those shadows were too vague to
chester.
Morgan snid, “Hold on, be counted but Morgan knew Heren
H arry." Rider and horse plodded deen had at least eight men around
unhurriedly through the blue swirl him; and he also knew Herendeen's
of dusk—a long stooped shape on a intention—which was to build up a
rawboned animal; at a distance be fight on any grounds.
He said:
waved his arm overhead and a lit “Charley Hillhouse there?"
tle later Morgan recognized the neat ‘• “Ho. I ’m coming in /’
er Gale.
Morgan said: “Nothing here for
Gale came up but did not dis you, Ben. Stay b ac k/’
mount until Morgan gave him the
Herendeen’s voice boomed out.
proper invitation. When the invita-, “ You know the, rules of the country
tion came ne dropped to the ground It ’s my privilege to cut any man’s
with an old man’k stiffness; he range for my stock. I claim there’s
poised both his hands over the muz Three Pines cows in that bunch.”
zle of his ancient gun and looked
“ H there are,” said Morgan cool
out from beneath his twisted awto- ly, “I ’ll send them back tomorrow.’’
ing-shaped eyebrows.
“I want 'em now.”
’T h ere ’ i some coffee left in the
“Youlfe In a burry all of a sud
pot.” said’ Morgan.
den,” pointed wit Morgan ironical
“ Just w hut I need,” Gale an ly. “I sent word to you some time
swered. He slouched over the fire ago to clean your stuff out of this
and tipped the pot ag ain st his valley and you didn’t seem to figure
mouth, drinking with en acute thirst it worth your time. So you can wait
Coffee ran'down the seams of his another day. You won’t cut this
jews. He said, “Ah.” in great ral* bunch tonight, or any time. Get
ish’ and sponged the liquid from the off my grata.”
“You goto* against the rules?”
tips of his'mustache with sidewise
“You been making the rules a
motions of his tongue.
long time, Ben. Now I ’ll make ’em."
Morgan said: “Pon’t mean to be
Herendeen said: ‘T v e listened to
unfriendly, but maybe you ought to
you
long enough. \ We’U settle this
move on.”
now.”
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Gale didn’t smile.* He was past
Morgan’s reply was soft and flat
the point of finding amusement In
In the night “Let ’er flicker. Ben.
the w orld, but in his eyes was a light
When you move to we start shoot-
like the last glow of coals of a dying
to’.”
Are. “Don’t you worry about m^.
•He heard Herendeen say: ’ Come
M r. Morgan. I f I didn’t know whut
on, boys.*
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