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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, May 23, 1941
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INSTALLMENT 10
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built
•p a vast string of ranches in the West.
King was killed by his powerful and un
scrupulous competitor, Ben Thorpe Bill
Roper, King's adopted son. was deter
mined to avenge hl» death in spite of
CHAPTER XIII—Continued
But now the scar-mouthed man
spoke suddenly; from his position
at one side he had dared flick his
eyes to the door. "Walk, look out!
Don't turn! Watch this buzzard, but
wheel back and stand by me!”
Into the front of the bar two men
had come; they came striding back
the length of the room; their spurs
Tinging brokenly. Roper did not see
their guns come out. But suddenly
the weapons of both of them ap-
peared in their hands, smoothly and
easily, from no place.
The two men were Lee Hamish
and Tex Long.
Tex Long's .45 clicked in the palm
of his hand as it came to full cock.
He said. "Howdy. Bill. A spic girl
just brought us word. Dave Shan
non and Hat Crick Tommy are up
the street And Dry Camp Pierce."
“Gosh.” Lee Harnish said, “we've
been hunting you for two months!
You want us to blast these Indians,
boss?”
Bill Roper drew a deep breath.
and grinned, At first he could not
even appreciate that here, at last,
were the leaders he needed for his
great raid. All he could think of
was that he had been reprieved from
certain death; and he knew that life
was good.
CHAPTER XIV
THE STOKY SO FAB:
opposition by his sweetheart. Jody Gor
don. and her father. Roper's successful
raids against Thorpe's Texas holdings
wiped him out of the state. Roper then
left for Thorpe's Montana ranches. Jody,
told that her father's life was in danger.
mained; his influence extended over
many bands, and more than one
tribe.
"I don't hold with dealing with red
niggers, much," Dave Shannon said.
"These bucks are forced out of
their ranges without any deal made
whereby they get fed." Roper said.
"Half of them are in as pitiful a
state of starvation as you ever saw.
A big part of the blame for that is
on Walk Lasham. Now I aim to
square the deal."
"I already made us a rendezvous
with Iron Dog. before I knew you
were in on this." Bill Roper told
them now. “Inside of a month Iron
Dog will be camped on the Milk Riv
er with anyway seven or eight
bands.”
"Seven or eight bands’" Tex Long
shouted at him. "My God, there'll
be worse than a thousand Indians on
the Milk!"
"A thousand, hell!" Roper said.
"If there aren’t that many buck war
riors alone, I’ll eat the beef myself!
The men in this little cabin were
not easily surprised, and less easily
shocked or awed; but their usually
unrevealing faces now gave them
away.
"God Almighty!” Dave Shannon
said. It was almost a prayer.
"He’s done it now," Hat Crick
Tommy said slowly. "You know
noe
left her home to' rtde 500 miles to warn
him.
Walk
Laaham.
manager
of
Thorpe's holdings In Montana, saw Rop
er sitting alone and unarmed in a saloon
one day. Gun tn hand. Uihtm pre
pared to kill his hated antagonist.
•
months their chuck wagons will be
heading out, and the deep gruss will
be full of their riders. We have to
move and move quick."
"It might be." Dry Camp Pierce
declared himself, “it just could be
done.” A hard gleum was coming
into the old rustler's wury eyes.
"And if it can—great God! There's
never been nothing like this!"
The others seemed to have had
the breath knocked out of them by
the unheard-of scope, the bold dar
ing. the headlong all-or-nothing char
acter of the plan.
"This is bigger than the Texas
raids,” Tex Long said wonderingly.
"This is bigger than anything has
ever been!”
Suddenly Dave Shannon smacked
his thigh with his huge hand. "By
God. I believe it'll bust ’em!”
Over the pack of outlawed young
sters had come a wave of that fa
natic enthusiasm which sometimes
sways men as they face the im-
possible, but Roper, strangely, was
unable to share it. The great raid
be had planned all winter now
seemed futile—a plan senseless and
cold.
"Bill.” said Lee Hamish, "what's
the matter with you? You got chills
and fever, or something?"
Roper spoke to Harnish alone, as
if he had forgotten the others. "That
letter was from Jody Gordon,”
said.
"Bad news, son?"
"I don't know. She wants me
come to Ogallala."
•When?”
"Now—right away.
"What for? Does she
"She says she needs me; she says
she needs me bad, and right away.
I guess she does, all right. If she
didn't, I don’t believe she'd ever
write, to me."
The faces of the wild bunch rid
ers were expressionless, noncommit
tal; Roper knew they wouldn't have
much to say. They were youngsters
still—all except Pierce; but their
faces were carved lean and hard by
long riding, and a lot of that riding
had been for him.
He stood up, shaking his shoulders.
"Catch up your ponies."
"We pulling out? Tonight yet?"
"You bet your life we are. Ought
to make Red Horse Springs by mid
night."
'"And after that." Hamish said
slowly, "what is it. Bill? Is it Ogal
lala?”
Once more the silence, while they
waited for Bill.
"It's the, raid,” Roper said.
•
The tribute implied by the re-gath
ering of the wild bunch leaders was
one of the most extraordinary things
that had ever happened in Bill Rop
er’s life. There was not much to
their story. Driven out of Texas on
the eve of Bill Roper’s victory, for
a while they had gone their separate
ways. But gradually they had drift
ed together again, in the Indian na
tions, at Dodge, in the northern cow
camps. With Cleve Tanner broken
in Texas, and the roots cut from
under Ben Thorpe's organization by
the loss of his breeding grounds, the
outlaw riders found themselves un
willing to leave their work unfin-
lshed. So at last they had come
looking for Roper—and had found
him.
The first thing was to get them out
of there. He named as rendezvous a
lonely shanty on Fork Creek.
Roper himself was the last to ride
out of Miles City. Seasoned night
riders though these men might be,
with names now famous the length
of the trail, most of them were
youngsters still. No one of them
could be trusted not to get a skinful
of liquor, and go gunning for La sh “Now I aim to square the deal.”
am’s men on his own hook.
CHAPTER XV
Roper was relieved, therefore, what happens when you throw that
upon riding into the Fork Creek ren many loose Indians together? You
Lew Gordon came stumping across
dezvous in the dreary February twi got a war on your hands, by God! the corral of his little Miles City
light, to find his Texas men already They’ll come whooping down Mon house, his spurs ringing at every
waiting for him there. They were tana—they’ll tear the country wide stride. His big hands, rope-hard
eating fresh beef, but not their own, open! The whole frontier will go up ened and thickened at the knuckles,
as Roper came into the little cab in a bust of smoke. Nothing'll ever swung loose at his sides; but his
in, stamping the snow off his boots. stop ’em, once they get together like face had the look of a man beset
Lee Harnish looked sheepish. that!”
Opening the back door of the
"One thing will.”
“Say, I forgot something. I got a
house he sent a great roar through
"What
win?"
letter for you here."
the walls—“Jody! Jody, where are
"Grub,” said Roper.
Roper took the worn envelope and
you?
”
“That might be so.” Dave Shan
stood turning it over in his hands.
She answered him, and Lew Gor
non
admitted.
“
I
never
yet
see
an
The date showed it to be three weeks
don went to find her.
old—no great age, everything con Indian go to war on a full stom
"What’s the meaning of this?” was
sidered. But what took hold of him, ach . . .”
his greeting as his daughter came
A
tensity
had
come
into
that
dark
so that for a full minute he dared
running to him through the house.
not break the seal, was that the cabin; they were realizing now that “You were supposed to stay in Ogal
they
stood
in
the
shadow
of
events
of
letter was from Jody Gordon.
lala!”
Roper ripped open the envelope, a magnitude they had not dreamed.
Jody threw her arms about his
The whole note covered no more In the quiet. Bill Roper’s hands kept neck and pulled his head down to
creasing
and
recreasing
the
letter
than half a page; but as he folded
kiss him; but Lew Gordon was not
it and put it into a pocket, his hands from Jody Gordon. A faint damp to be put off.
were shaking in a way that would ness showed on his forehead, but
"That horse wrangler just brought
have cost him his life if he had been his fingers acted cold and awkward. me word that you was here.” he
“There’s five of us here,” Tex
walking into a gunfight then. There
Long said. "You expect us to just said. “There’s a pretty kettle of
was a long silence.
soap, when some horse wrangler
With a visible effort, Roper suddenly feed every Indian in crea knows more about where a man's
tion?
”
pulled himself together. Briefly he
"I’ve got twenty-seven riders wait daughter is at than he know* him
told them what his new wild bunch
ing
to throw in with us at the first self!”
had done.
"Dad. will you please sit down?
•'But we haven’t even scratched word.”
I tell you, I want to talk to you!”
"Twenty-seven
riders?
Where?
”
the surface,” he finished. "Unless
"Oh, all right." Lew Gordon
"All over Montana. What do you
we hit Walk Lasham quick and hard,
flopped
into a chair, jabbed hi* spurs
Thorpe will get his balance again, think I did all winter? Holed up like into the floor at long range, and
a
she-bear?
”
and reach his roots back into Texas;
Silence again, while they all stud tore off.another huge mouthful of
and all the work we did down there
beef.
ied Roper.
will go for nothing.”
"There are two pieces of bad
"How
many
you
figure
to
move?
”
"Me,” Tex Long said, "I aim to
news,” Jody said now. "First thing.
Tex
Long
asked
at
last.
swing with you, and try to finish up
Roper's voice was so low they Ben Thorpe has cut under us if.
what we begun. But, way I see it,
could
hardly hear his words. “Be- the bidding for the government con
the layout up here is terrible bad,
tween twenty and thirty thousand tracts, at Dodge.”
for our style of work.”
A spark leaped into Lew Gordon’*
head.
”
“There isn’t any profit in the way
eyes; under the pressure of the last
Tex
Long
threw
his
hat
against
I figured," Roper admitted. "I’ve
two years he had turtied edgy and
been taking a pasear up along the the roof poles in a gesture of com- garrulous, as if his mind had be- I |
plete
impatience.
“
Dead
of
winter.
”
Canadian border; I figure it’s an
come hasty on the trigger, now that
easy drive. If you criminals are he said; “maybe having to fight his hands were idle. "I might have
part
of
the
time;
why,
thirty-forty
willing to come on and take one
known it!” his big voice boomed.
more crack at Thorpe and Lash cowboys couldn’t drive—”
“We don’t have to handle this “Those infernal—”
am—"
"The loss of those contracts is go
stock
like fat beef,” Roper remind
“There’s no one beyond the bor
ing to hurt," Jody said; "I’ve
ed
him.
"We
don
’
t
have
to
pull
up
der that’s needing any stock,” Dry
for quicksand, or stampede losses, brought the books up into fair shape,
Camp Pierce said gloomily.
and it looks to me as if King-Gordon
"Dry Camp,” Bill Roper said, or high water. If a hundred head is starting the worst year in his
get
swept
down
a
river,
what
the
"I’m thinking of the tribes."
tory. If the losses go on piling up
There was a moment’s silence. hell? Some different Indians will get the way they are—”
hold
of
’
pm
downstream.
Working
’•Granting that Canada’s full of war
Jody Gordon came and sat on the
paint,” Tex Long said; "how the that way, hard and fast, thirty cow arm of her father’s chair. "There
boys
can
move
every
head
in
Mon
devil—”
was a man rode up to Ogallala from
tana!"
“I’ve talked to Iron Dog.”
Dodge City,” she said. "He brought
“
We
’
re
terrible
short
of
time,
”
Every one of them, each in his
some very peculiar news, and I don’t
own way, pricked up his ears at Tex Long said.
like it at all.”
“
I
know
it;
in
another
couple
of
that Iron Dog was a famous war
"If that renegade Colorado outfit
rior chief of the Gros Ventre Sioux.
think they’re going to—” Lew Gor
THIS
is
A
Ragged and starving, his decimated
don began.
band driven far out of their home
"This was a Bill Roper man,”
country. Iron Dog no longer was the
Jody said.
stubbornly resisting force which had SUPERIOR SERIAL
Lew Gordon checked as suddenly
otice made his name. But though
a* if he had been struck across
he was broken and helpless now,
A MAUK Of the face.
remnants of his leadership re
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