Friday, May 16, 1941
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THE STORY SO FAR:
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built
■P a vast string of ranches in the West.
King was killed by hts powerful end un­
scrupulous competitor. Ben Thorpe Bill
Roper. King's adopted son. wss deter­
mined to avenge his death In spite of
e e
opposition by his sweetheart. Jody Cor­
don. and her father. Roper's successful
raids against Thorpe's Texas holdings
wiped him out of the state. When Roper
visited Jody one night, she almost con­
temptuously called him a cattle thief
•
•
were on the flats of the Little Thun­
der, far away
Here, struggling
through a soft blinding snow, they
ran off five hundred head, and a few
days later three hundred more. They
Christmased in company with a herd
of lifted steers somewhere between
Three Sleep and the Little Powder;
and New Year's found them sifting
the pick of Lasham's cattle out of
his Lost Soldier range.
By the end of January they had
moved three thousand head—the
very cream of the wintering stock.
Repeatedly they had driven cattle
incredible distances in impossible
time.
Yet he knew his work had only
begun. AU their hard riding would
fail of effect unless he could strike
such a smashing blow as would
cause a split between Lasham and
Ben Thorpe.
And Roper had a plan—rash in
scope and method, but savage in ef­
fect if it could be fulfilled. Already
he had enough riders in sight to
strike this last desperate blow. But
the men available to his purpose
were wild-eyed fighting kids who
could not be driven and could
scarcely be led; Roper could not
captain his campaign alone. So now
he fretted in Miles City, seeking
three or four outlaw leaders who
would make his preparations com-
plete.
Still studying everyone who came
into the bar. Roper broke open a
THIS
determination un-
and gunman.
changed, he now turned hit attention
toward Thorpe's ranches tn Montana.
Jody was secretly visited by Shoshone
Wilce. one of Roper's men. who warned
that her father's life was tn danger.
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WEEK
THE I'AI’ERS
OF PRIVATE I’l'RKE
Dear Mom:
What 1 can't understand about the
army is that know matter whut I
say is the matter
with me the doc­
tor gives me the
same pill At first
I thought it was
just a mistake
but now I no dif­
ferent becuz yes­
terday when I
complu till'd of an ulserated tooth I
got the same pill I been getting for
heudaches, crumps, soar thro to and
a sty. I wish you would send me
some pills of any kind. It don't mat­
ter what they arc so long as they
are different from the one I get here
and I am inclosing one so you won't
duplercatc it.
• • •
I don't think the druft army takes
sickness serious und in a way I can't
blaim it becuz men have been show­
ing up for sick call by the hundreds
on account of there are so muny
beautiful nurses in the camp hospi­
tal and it is the only way to get near
them. All these guys get is an­
other pill so I gess to gel into a
army hospital you have to have at
lease a broken leg but I think they
would first try a pill on me for thut
two.
• •
We have had some nice warm
days witch is a gr.ite relief becuz
ever since I was drufted I feel like
I have been in the Klondike and I
never knew it wuz so cold outdoors
in winter befoar. But the ground
is thawing out and so is the drill ser­
geant and everybody is happier than
at any time since our numbers came
out in that glass bowl. We see rob­
ins most every day now and we
have let the fire go out in the stoves
which we get in the modern draft
camp and some of us are even tak­
ing our uniforms und shoes off when
we go to bed.
¿1^
"Walk
Roper shrugged again,
wants no fight with me "
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
"You're going to force the fight
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yourself! That's what you've been
waiting here for, ever since you X’EW YORK. — Birthday inter-
views with venerated patri-
came to Miles City
Any moment
archs of this land are usually given
Lasham may walk in that door—”
Marquita sat staring at him hope­ to bland optimism. though tho
heavens be
lessly. in her eyas a fixity of devo­
Morgenthau, 85, falling, It's
will little note, nor
tion which his taciturnity seemed to
1
long
remember
what we suy
an
old
Amer
­
Gatti
on
World
increase. Against his will he was
llile . . .”
ican custom.
becoming something that was hap­ Without Blinder»
Those were modest words Lin­
Henry Mor­
pening to Marquita.
coln spoke ut Gettysburg—and
genthau
Sr.,
just
turned
85,
has
been
He remained silent; and, in a lit-
they proved wrong. For Ameri­
an exception. We haven't seen his
tie while, she went away.
cans do remember, still live for
customary chat with the reporters
An hour passed, while Roper,
the ideal he expressed that day;
this year, but when and if it Is re­
drinking slowly, played his so) ita ira
“Thut government of the people,
corded we may be sure he sees what
and watched the door.
he sees and isn't trying to slick
by the people, for the people shall
Then suddenly
Marquita was things up. Not that he's a pessimist
not perish from the earth."
• • •
back. She came behind his chair to or defeatist. I remember meeting
speak close to his ear in a panicky him on Mt. Desert Island, Maine, a
Ttia Gettysburg addrass, in Lincoln's
handwriting, la one of uur new >et. ' "Hires
whisper. "He's coming! He’s com- few years ago and was tremendous­
Great American Documents "
Other a
ing along the walk—”
ly impressed with his faith, ardor
are the >1111 of Rights and the original
"AU right."
and fighti.ig spirit.
Star Spangled Hanner. In Francis Scott
"Walk has two of his men with
Key's handwriting
All are handsomely
He ktowi a lot about wars
printed,
full llze. In acpla on cream an­
"You
him," she said rapidly,
and trouble. Il waa our Civil
tique paper. Inciudra a 4 page leaflet giv­
haven't a chance, not a ghost of a
war that brought him here from
ing the histories of the documenta. For
chance. I can't bear to see you
the set. send your order to:
his native Mannheim, Germany.
killed! I know you don't care any­
His father was a prosperous
thing about me. If you did I'd go
cigar manufacturer. Civil war
HFAI1FK HOME IKHVtCB
anywhere in the world with you.
tariffs put him out of business
SM Mlsth Ave.
Nxw York City
But now you have to come out of
and the family name to this
Enclose to cents tn coin tor your
here—quick—by the back way. I'U
country when Henry Morgrn-
set of TIlltEE G11 KAT AM Kitt CAN
do anything—"
thau was nine yeara old.
He
DOCUMENTS.
Roper turned his head to look up
was a lawyer at 23. turned to
into her face, very close to his.
real estate and finance, and had
There was more to this girl than
his money-making over at 55.
there was to the rest of her kind.
with time, means and mental
Even now he was unable to recog­
equipment to turn to the human­
nize that Marquita was capable of
Off New York city the Western
ities. to philanthropy and good
a sincerity of purpose, and a pas­
hemisphere "safety belt" or neu­
works in general. Now he has
sionate preoccupation in ber pur­
trality zone, established nt the
a son In the cabinet, children,
pose, not to be expected here
"I
Inter-American
conference
in
grandchildren and great-grand­
wouldn't step aside two feet," he
Panama in the full of 1939, was
children and the unflagging en­
told her. "to pass Walk or any man.
set nt the 60th degree of longitude,
ergies which are the reward of
I teU you. Walk won't fight!"
or about 750 miles out, says Path­
an abstemious life.
finder.
Suddenly she whimpered.
Bill
If there's a dark side, he isn't
In general, however, the zone's
Roper saw that three men had come
afraid to look at it. He was back
width
is irregular, varying any­
into the front of the Palace Bar.
from Europe in 1933 with the simple
from scverul hundred
I hoap the war is over before next where
The first of the three, a dark, lean conclusion that the world was head­
man with wide, bowed shoulders, ing into another war. "There Is, winter as I am strickiy a warm miles from the mainland at the
If California coast to about 1,200
was Walk Lasham.
in Europe," he said, "no honest, weather fighter I am afraide.
Marquita caught Bill's head in her moral desire for peace." In 1913, there is ever a expedishunery foarce miles cast of Florida.
arms, forced up his chin, and kissed his friend Woodrow Wilson made this war covers so mutch territory
him. He was surprised at the unex­ him ambassador to Turkey, which that it has al) climates and I hope
pected softness of her lips, hot post he held until 1916. Thereafter, my division gets sent to Africa and
against his mouth. Then abruptly he helped pick up the pieces, in not to no place where there is snow
Marquita stooped, and as she sprang the ruin and chaos of the middle and ice. The more I think of the
BY YOUR LAXATIVK-RKLIKVK
away from him he felt the weight of east. He has been both observing past winter here in camp the more
CONSTIPATION THIS MOOKRN WAV
his gunbelt ease. She flung over and studious and unhappily for I appresheiate what G Washington
• Whan you faal |>Hy, haadai hy, loqy
her shoulder. “It's for your own easy-golngoptimists. singularly clear­ went thru at Valley Foarge. We
duo to doggwd-up bowala, do ax million»
didn't
cross
no
river
in
no
open
boat
do-take Faen-A-Mint at bedtime. Neat
sake!” Her face was white, fright­ sighted in his prophetic look ahead.
with a horse in the middle to inter­
morning thoiough, comfortable relief,
ened.
helping you start the day foil of your
He half started up, in instant
HERE'S a tale of a professor fear with the rowing but that was
CHAPTER XIII
normal energy and pep, feeling like a
anger, but the girl was running
who grew old writing a history about the only difference 1 gess but
million! Feen-A-Mmt doesn't disturb
mom.
your night’s rest or interfere with work tha
down the room. He saw her put of civilization. Late one night he fin­ do not think I • am • squawking
Bill Roper sat alone at a rear ta­
•
next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing
something under the bar. and he ished it. Then, after a brief survey
ble in the Palace Bar, in Miles City
gum laxative, your—lf. It testes good, it's
We have lots of visiters now and
knew
it
was
his
gun.
of
the
result
handy and economical... a family supply
—the young, turbulent center of a
Roper rang his whiskey glass upon Thorndike Now of his ardu­ I wish you would come up next Sun­
vast raw range, the possibilities of
day.
Nellie
Arm
­
the table, trying to catch a bar­ Hold» Intelligence ous labors,
which were still unknown.
stead wuz up last
tender's eye. If Lasham had not Can’t Be Tcited he heaved a
For three months Roper had rid­ They first struck at Muddy Bend.
great sigh Sunday and Kitty j
seen
what
the
girl
had
done,
one
of
den through the bitter Montana win­
O'Neil wuz up
and threw the history in the fire.
War’s Survival
ter. It had been no trouble for him deck of cards and laid out a hand of them could bring him his gun be­
Saturday and I
matter?
”
asked
his
"What's
the
fore it was too late. But the bar was
War will disappear, like the
to sweep together a dozen malcon­ solitaire.
had
a
close
call
thronged; the bartenders were work­ wife.
dinosaur, when changes in world
tent cowboys who hated Lasham or
Now one of the dance hall girls
"There isn’t any civilization,” he as they both mite
conditions have destroyed its sur­
Thorpe, or both. Already they knew came to his table, slipping uninvited ing fast, in the thick of the evening
have
come
on
the
replied.
rush.
vival value.—Millikan.
Bill Roper's name.
into a chair. This was a girl whose
same day.
The
The bar-flies had made room for
Dr. Edward L. Thorndike,
Against their common enemy attention bothered and embarrassed
cafcrterrla for visitors Is wonderful
Walk Lasham at the end of the bar,
author of the famous Thorndike
these youngsters could be led, wild, Roper every time he came here.
just like those nickle-in-the-slot
Help to Relieve Distress
and Lasham and his two cowboys
intelligence test, probably
reckless and crazy for raid; and Her name was Marquita.
places and while the food may not
had their heads together now. con­
wouldn’t say there isn’t any in-
Roper had led them as Texas had
be no better than in the army it is
He didn't know what attracted her sulting.
lelligence, but he does say in-
taught him.
fancier looking and the cooks take
to him; he didn't know what attract­
One of the cowboys, a man with a
telllgrnce can't be tested, a< -
His new northern wild bunch faced ed any particular woman to any
more panes with it. Eating don’t in­
scar across his face that distorted
cording to news reports of hit
PERIODIC
conditions in many ways bitterly ad­ particular man. It may be that his
terest me so mutch no more mom on
his mouth in the manner of a hare
address before the American
verse. Here in the north were no very disinterest was what caught
account
of
I
have
been
doing
kitchen
Philosophical society al Phila­
lip. went quickly behind the bar.
ousted cattlemen, no established , her attention first, and later gave
work so mutch I can't think of eats
delphia. Dr. Thorndike’s apos­
hunted beneath it, and returned to
Try Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable
population to which he could look for him the desirability of the unobtain­
without
thinking of washing dishes
Compound to help relieve monthly
tasy no doubt will set up some
Walk. Roper saw Lasham's long
pain, headaches, backache and
help. The Canadian border was far able.
or
pealing
potatus.
I
got
to
peal
face set He said to himself, “Walk
new measuring standards.
ALSO calm Irritable nerves due to
away, and no market awaited the
potatus agin tomorrow witch I don't
She spoke to him now in a quiet, knows . . . ”
monthly functional disturbances.
If we don't learn much, about understand becuz their must be
hard-pushed herds on the other side. lifeless voice. “Why don't you like
Pinkham's Compound la simply
Walk Lasham was Addling with keeping out of wars and such, it*
marvelous to help build up resist­
plenty of other soldiers who are as
What Montana bad that Texas did me?”
ance against distress of '•dlBlcult
his empty glass on the bar and the isn’t Dr. Thorndike's fault A pro­
days." Famous for over 00 years!
good at it as me but I keep getting
not have was a concentration of In­
“I like you all right,” he said,
scar-mouthed man was watching fessor at Columbia for 37 years, he
Hundreds of thousands of girls and
dian tribes, principally Sioux and
picked
on
and
the
mess
sergeant
women rrtxirt remarkable beueflta.
"No, you don't You don’t even Roper covertly with, one eye from is the author of a shelf of books in
^VORTl^RYINa^
says it is part of my vocashuna)
Cheyenne, deprived of their hunting see me at all.”
under the brim of his hat Lasham the general field of the psychology
training.
grounds, and dependent for food
He noticed now that she looked reached for a bottle, filled his glass. of learning. He has just about sur­
upon beef which the government
different tonight; and after a mo­ tossed it off. Then he turned square­ rounded the subject of “How We
was pledged to supply. It was to
It is funny the garage ain't found
Faulty Memory
ment he recognized that this was ly toward Roper, and came walking Learn.” The question of what we
this circumstance that Roper had
no customer for my jallopy as it is
Every one complains of the bad­
because there was no paint on her back through the big room.
learn seems to be still wide open.
turned.
in good shape and had only been ness of his memory, but nobody of
face. That would be because he dis­
Roper played his cards, his hands
From Williamsburg, Mass., he
The giant beef contracts which the
liked paint—though he had no idea visible upon the table. It seemed to went to Wesleyan university, Har­ driven 200,000 miles and I told the his judgment.—La Rochefoucauld.
government threw upon the market
how she had found that out. Her take Lasham a long time to walk vard and Columbia and taught at man that I would knock $4 off my
had inevitably attracted more than
asking price of $45 on account of
washed face was a perfectly sym­ the length of the room,
Roper Western Reserve before joining the
one kind of graft. The result was
metrical oval set with black eyes a glanced at the lookout chair, where Teachers’ college faculty in 1897. three tires don't hold air long and
Plan your stay at
famine—pitiful, relentless. Starva­
the right handed doar is off I wish
I
little slanted, and her black hair, a salaried gun-fighter usually sat. He is 67 years old.
tion stalked through the lodges of
you
wud
call
him
up
and
ask
him
Portland's
newest
parted in the middle, was drawn It was empty now.
the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Crow
to get $30 for it as I need money
back severely, in the fashion of the
Walk Lasham was standing in
hotels,
the
.
HE word is getting around that
—and with it, Roper’s opportunity.
and there is anuther delay in the
mestizo girls of the Texas border. front of him.
the founding fathers could
Scouring
the country,
Roper
“So you,” he said, “are the tough fight well because they were super­ army pay.
She
leaned
toward
him
now,
and
turned up four Indian agents who
Your loving son,
spoke rapidly, her voice low and gunman that killed Cleve Tanner.” charged with vitamin B,. They ate
were already badly scared. They
Oscar.
Bill Roper raised his eyes to Walk
anything
had overplayed their hands, and compelling. “Listen—I hate Walk
P. S.—I wrote Olive Johnson but
Get Courage in
Lasham's face. “And you,” he said,
Lasham, too.”
handy
and
were now faced with a loss of life
didn't get no answer so I wish you
got the thia­
"Listen,” she insisted. “You have “are one of the dirty cowards that
Bottle», Bauketi
among their charges about which
wud see if she has moved away or
murdered Dusty King.”
min
of
the
B,
to
listen
to
me.
Walk
Lasham's
in
they could do nothing without re­
In Theae Day»
what. Do not worry about me as
homelike rooms
A
hush
had
fallen
upon
the
room,
town.
which
is
to
He came in this afternoon.”
vealing their own corrupt ineffliien-
1 am all right except for tsvo
from *2 SO per day
unbroken
by
the
clink
of
a
glass
or
be
found
mainly
in
roughage.
So.
Roper
thought,
the
time
had
cy. These men had connived with
crushed toes where a Army saucer
with bath. Broadway I
the rattle of a chip. Lasham and
Prof Russell M. Wilder of the
Lasham in bringing about a condi­ come to move on again, with his
fell on my foot.
and Salmon Streets |
Roper
looked
at
each
other
through
Mayo foundation is alarmed over our
He didn't like it,
• • •
tion of tribal starvation; they were work undone.
a moment of silence.
shortcomings
in
this
regard.
He
much.
willing to connive with Bill Roper
White uniforms have been uban­
He dropped his eyes to Roper’s says, “Continued deficiency of the
“Well, thanks,” he said; "I’m glad
to cover up their position in any
doned for sailors in the ti. S. navy
hands,
and
his
own
right
hand
start
­
thiamin content of American diets
way they could.
< to know.”
when working on Bhip, and khaki
"He knows you’re here—and what ed a tentative movement toward the may have led to a certain degree of
By delivering beef to the reserva­
substituted. The yachting influence
butt
of
his
gun.
His
spread
fingers
irremediable deterioration of the
tions under these highly irregular you’re here for.”
has just about disappeared every­
“I suppose he does,” Roper said. shook a little as his hand crept down. national will.”
conditions, Roper's wild bunch could
where.
But he was grinning now, sure of
"You're
waiting
here
for
Lash
­
His conclusion is one of many in
little more than make expenses. But
his
ground.
which it is insisted that we must
the advantage was this—a beef herd am," she accused him. "You know
• Like a beacon light on
“Looks a little different to you
NEVER BELIEVE ’EM WHEN
come here. You're going to try
look to the drug store and the gro­
delivered to an Indian tribe disap- he'll
!
now,
huh?
”
THEY
HAY:
the height —the advertise­
it out—"
cery for the real fighting urge.
peared over night, leaving little shooting
1
“A coyote always looks like a coy­
Supply Sergeant.—Just your size,
ments in newspapers direct
Roper
shrugged
and
was
silent.
Courage
comes
in
bottles
or
baskets
trace. A thousand hands skinned
buddy.
"Bill, it’s hopeless! Walk Lasham ote to me.”
you to newer, better and
in these fantastic days.
out the beef, destroying the portions
The smile dropped from Lasham's
Buck Private.—I’ve got a date
the fastest gunfighter in the
of the hides containing the brands. is
1
Dr. Wilder is one of the country’s
easier ways of providing
face. “I'm going to give you every
with a swell dame tonight.
northl
”
leading
specialists
on
nutrition
and
Constantly changing horses, per- 1
the things needed or
chance,” he said. His voice swung
Old-Timer.—I’ll never enlist again
diseases of metabolism. Born and
petually in the saddle. Roper’s sad­
desired. It •hines, this
in even rhythms, low and sing-song.
if I get out of this.
reared in Cincinnati, he was educat­
dle hawks swung across Montana.
“I’m going to count five. Draw and
beacon of newspaper
Top Sergeant.—The quicker you
ed at the University of Chicago, and
They first struck at Muddy Bend,
fire any time you want to; because
finish
this
detail
the
sooner
you'll
advertising
—and it will be
Rush Medical college; practiced in
picking up four hundred head of
on five I'm going to kill you where
be able to rest.
to your advantage to fol­
Chicago
and
has
been
with
the
steers in the breaks of the Yellow­
you sit.”
Mess Sergeant.—You’re getting
Mayo-foundation since 1922. He was
low it whenever you
stone. Three days’ hard driving de­
"I don't think you are.”
what the menu calls for.
a
medical
gas
officer
in
the
World
make a purchase.
livered these to a village of Assinl-
“One; two—" Lasham said.
—A. B. Watac
war.
boine. Only four days later they
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Camp Shelby.
CHAPTER XII—Continued
Jody Gordon's eyes had darkened
in the dusk, making her face seem
very pale. "What do you want me
to do?”
Shoshone Wilce shrugged. "That
ain't hardly up to me, Miss Gordon.
But I'll tell you this: many's the
time I've seen your father go stomp­
ing down the board walk right here
in Ogallala, alone, and not even
armed. That won't do. Miss Gor­
don. If I was in your place, I
wouldn't never let him out of the
house without his gunbelt is strapped
on, and the iron free in its leather.
And wherever he goes, there ought
to be three or four good hard-shoot­
ing cowboys with him; because, if
I know Ben Thorpe, he isn't going
into any gunfight alonel"
Jody peered at him intently.
“What made you bring this word to
me?"
"I'm a Bill Roper man," Shoshone
Wilce said. "God knows. Miss Gor­
don, stringing with Bill Roper has
never done anything for me. But—
well, I just thought Bill Roper would
want you to know. I kind of got the
Idea he thinks a heap of you. Miss
Gordon."
And now another pony came slash­
ing up to the corral. One of the load­
ing foremen had come in.
“I got to be getting along.” Sho­
shone Wilce said quickly.
She turned away, but instantly
turned back again, and gripped Sho­
shone's arm just as be was sliding
out of sight
"Stay around," she ordered him
“Stay here until—”
“Miss Gordon." came the quick
whisper, “Eve got to get on to
Miles City. I—”
“I thought so. Bill Roper’s some-
where up there, isn't he? Yes. Well.
I’m going to join my father there—
I’ll ride with you in the morning."
"Four hundred miles! And no
coach until—"
“Don't worry about that. It takes
saddle ponies to make time.”
“But—I’m afraid your Paw might
think—”
"I don’t know how Bill Roper ever
used you,” Jody said with contempt
Shoshone winced. "1 — I'll be
around.”
He faded into the shadows as Jody
walked out of the stable, her eyes
hard and bright in the dusk.
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