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Pcrqe 6 SMOKYy^. One of the large cogs in the IL S. defense machinery is the (Henn I. Ilarfin aircraft factory in Haltimore, Md.. ubere the H-2fi, I ncle Sam’s super "flsing fortress.” is being turned out m quantity lots. This is on«' of the most powerful airplanes in the world. I hc photos take you inside flu* workshops of J ul< an. INSTALLMENT 12 THE STORY SO FAR: Dusty Kins and Law Gordon had built •p a vast tiring of ranch*» tn the West Kin* was killed by hit powerful and un scrupulous competitor. Ben Thorpe Rill Roper, King'* adopted son. was deter mined to avenge hi* death in spite of • • the opposition at his sweetheart. Jody Gordon, and her father After wiping Thorpe out of Texas. Roper conducted a treat raid upon the vast herds on Thorpe's Montana ranches Told that Jody had disappeared, he 'eft hi* men • Now Shoshone Wilce reached out to catch her bridle reins, and they stopped. She started to ask what was the matter, but checked her self. Wilce had become tensely watchful, and she saw that he was listening. After a moment or two of utter stillness. Wilce whispered “Wait a minute;” and pushed his horse slow ly forward into the dark. For a lit tle while as he moved away from her she could see the tall black sil houette of his horse against the pale snow, but soon th.s blurred with the darkness and was lost Growing impatient at last, and a little uneasy. Jody moved her pony ahead after Shoshone. There was a moment or two of panic, in which it seemed that she had lost him alto gether in the dark; but her pony knew where the other was if she did not, and presently brought her alongside. Shoshone Wilce was sitting per fectly motionless on his horse, star ing ahead into a darkness to which the snow gave a curiously deceptive luminosity that did not aid the eye. "I don’t like this so good.” Sho shone said. “What’s the matter?” “No lights.” They moved ahead a little now, Jody holding her pony beside that of Shoshone Wilce. Shoshone moved his horse forward twenty paces, and • | • •nd set out tor th* home of Lew Gordon. • man who was once hl* partner, but was now hi* enemy. Jody Gordon had tried to reconcile her father with Roper; failing, *he set out with Shoshone Wile«, one of Roper * men. to find him. • lowed herself to be led into the lit- tie cabin at which she had hoped to find Bill Roper. The shuck in which she now found herself was a cramped makeshift, intended only as a shelter for cow boys. storm-caught while riding the northern limits of the Fork Creek range. A single lantern hung from a roof pole; and now, by its yellow light the two men studied her with an unconcealed amazement. “By God,” said the older of two, "it's a girt all right!” The other man. tall enough so the door at his back looked small, was much the younger of the two. His face was prematurely hard-cut —the face of a man who even in youth had learned’an effectiveness in action upon which he could well rely. He spbke sharply. "Jim — you know who this is? That's Lew Gordon’s girl!” “Good Lord Almighty! I believa you’re right!" “It's her. sure enough!” “So you know me?" Jody said. “I seen you once in Ogallala, and another time in Bandera." The older man shifted his eyes to his partner. “Queerest turn of the cards.” he said. “I ever seen in all my born days!” The younger man's voice was sharp and strained. “Jim, we got to get her out of here, and get her out quick!” The man called Jim appeared to consider intently, his eyes still on the other's face. “I ain't so sure,” he said after a moment “You talk like a fool," the younger man snapped at his superior. "Look what we got! We got the law back of us. We got the most powerful cowman in the West back of us. We got one of the biggest rewards that's ever been hung up. right ready to drop into our hands. We've located Roper's main shebang, after work ing on it for months. We got all the odds in the world in our fa vor—and here comes this girl and bogs the whole works!” “Just how do you figure she bogs • •• Shoshone Wilce, riding with Jody Gordon through the same hundred- mile snow which screened Bill Rop er and Tex Long in their aid on the Little Dry, found himself the most bewildered and the most unhappy of men. He could have refused to guide Jody Gordon to Bill Roper's rendez vous; he thought it improbable that Jody Gordon would have been able to locate the rendezvous alone. But whether she found it, or merely got herself lost, Shoshone Wilce would have been answerable to Bill Roper for leaving her to attempt the ride alone. The alternative he had chosen of fered no greater prospect for a long •nd helpful life. Lew Gordon would go wild as a wounded silvertip at the disappearance of his daughter; and every King-Gordon cowboy in the country would be scouring the brakes after Shoshone's scalp. Jody believed now that the split between Lew Gordon and Bill Roper was the basis of inconceivable dis aster—not only immediate and per sonal. but far-reaching in its import to the cow country. Together, those two very different cattlemen could have beaten Thorpe, and consolidat ed the King-Gordon empire. Separated. Lew Gordon and Bill Roper were mutually destructive; Lew Gordon was probably right that Bill Roper's savage attacks upon the Thorpe interests were the cause of Ben Thorpe’s heavy reprisals upon King-Gordon. And even though Roper might bring down Ben Thorpe in the end, which still seemed in credible, he could never profit by his victory, even if he lived. Unless Gordon and Roper could be recon ciled, Roper would in the end be come just one more outlawed cow boy whose trails could have no mean ing, and only one end. Jody Gordon had one other motive in attempting the all but hopeless reconciliation. She believed her fa ther’s life to be in the sharpest dan ger. Bill Roper, an even harder "We got every chance of nailing fighter than the old trail breaker our man. right here, any hour now. who had trained him. would auto But don’t ever think we'll nail him matically take those precautions without a hell of a sharp fight. Sup that would safeguard her father’s pose this girl gets hurt in this fight, life, if once they could be brought or gets loose and loses herself, or to work together again. runs out of luck some other way? But the first move toward recon The quicker we get her out of ciliation must come from Bill Roper here— ’ himself. If she could persuade Rop "Can’t” er to this, there was a bare possi "What’s the reason We can’t?” bility that she could also manage "We got the bear by the tail. She’s her father. dynamite so long as she's here. It was a forlorn hope; but, as she I grant you that. But what if Wilce whispered, “Wait saw it, of such vital importance that we leave her go? She warns Roper a minute.” it could no longer be ignored. It off. Then where are we?” was as if events that would alter The younger man's eyes were the whole history of the cow country stopped again for a full minute; then ten paces more. keen with a repressed excitement. lay in her persuasion of these two Jody said, “What in the world—” I “Jim—you figure she come to meet stubborn men. She rode doggedly Wilce seized her arm and silenced Bill Roper here?” now, with set face, trusting Sho her with a quick shake. Then sud "She didn't come here by ac- shone to find the way. denly— cident” Leathers said with convie- They rode until after midnight, An inarticulate oath snarled in tion, "any more than you or me. blind, as far as Jody could see, in Shoshone's throat; he snatched at And she sure didn’t come here to the wet fall of the snow. They threw Jody's rein, whirling her pony. His throw in with us.” down their bedrolls then in the shel own horse came straight up on its A swift panic struck Jody with the ter of stunted snow-laden trees, and hind legs as he spun it at close shock of a blow in the face. If Shoshone Wilce measured grain for quarters. Jim Leathers wished, he could hold the horses onto his own poncho. “Get going!” he said between his her here—literally as bait with They pushed on again early the teeth; and brought his romal down which to draw the man whom it was next morning, miserable in the raw across her pony's flank in a snap his mission to kill. If Shoshone dawn, after coffee which Shoshone ping cut that made it plunge ahead. Wilce had got clear, and could reach made in a frying pan. All day long She heard the rip of steel on leather Roper, Roper would certainly attack they rode steadily, stopping only as Shoshone’s gun came out. Then as soon as the best ponies of the once for bread and bacon, and to the silence of the night exploded raiders could bring him. Or, fail bolster their horses with more grain. into happenings that were incredi- ing to locate Roper, Shoshone Wilce The snow slacked off, giving place ble. might even bring her father—and to a bitter wind. Jody's knees stiff Two guns smashed out in a swift what orders Jim Leathers had in ened with saddle cramp and she flurry of detonation, A queer whis- continually had to nurse her fingers tling grunt was knocked out of Jo regard to Lew Gordon she could only deep in her pockets to keep them dy's horse. It dropped from under surmise. “I’m getting sick of this.” Jody from going numb. She had a strange her, and the ground struck upward told Jim Leathers. "You owe me sense of having taken an irrevocable with stunning violence. a horse; there can’t possibly be step which she might find great rea For a moment Jody Gordon lay son to regret. The fact that the motionless, her cheek buried in the any argument about that I'll have snow had hidden the trail they had cool snow. She was aware of fur to ask you to rope a pony and bring made, so that no one could follow to ther firing, and more than one run him to my saddle—and 1’11 be on find her, gave her a feeling of be ning horse, and she tasted blood my way!” Slowly Leathers shook his head, ing cut off from everything friendly from a cut lip; but at first she was “You won’t give me a pony?” she had ever known. She no longer unable to think. "I’m afraid—you’ll have to wait knew where she was. She set her Someone said, "Well, we got one until your friends come, lady.” eyes straight ahead, too proud to of ’em, anyway." For Jody Gordon’s white flash of ask Shoshone how far they had come, “Haul him inside.” anger there was no outlet whatever. or how much farther they must go. “Look out now. Bud—no funny Just before dusk they climbed a business.” The voice was unknown She turned away to hide from them long rocky ridge which commanded to her, as was the figure that now the furious tears that sprang into the length of a shallow valley set bent over her. Suddenly the man her eyes. She took off her sheepskin brokenly with juniper and ragged jerked forward to peer at her more coat and flung it on the table, for the room was very hot; but be cedar. closely. cause her fingers were still chilled Shoshone motioned her to stop her “What the—Hey! It’s Calamity to the bone she pulled off her gloves, horse. “Wait a minute.” Jane, or somebody!” tucked them in her belt, and went Far down the valley Jody Gordon Jody Gordon struggled to her feet, to the shallow flreplace to hold out could see a faint haze that blurred a shock giving way to anger. “You her hands to the flames. rabbit-fur grey and brown of the fools, are you crazy? Bill Roper will They went on talking now in the brush and runty timber. kill you for this!” drawling, well-considered speech of "That’s smoke,” Shoshone Wilce There was a moment’s silence, the trail, long pauses marking ev said at last. "This ought to be the and she sensed rather than saw that ery interchange. Whatever else they place.” they were looking at each other. might think of her, they evidently “So we really got here at last. . "Bill Roper," one of them repeat did not consider that she implied "Two hours more.” ed. “She says she’s looking for Bill any necessity to secrecy. "The smoke—that means he’s Roper!” "If Roper is on his way,” the “Lady, you better come inside!” younger rider said thoughtfully, there.” Shoshone Wilce, suspicious and Dazed and shaky as the fall of her “and this side rider of hers has got doubtful by temperament, was less killed horse had left her, Jody Gor loose and meets him, so that Rop sure, "Don’t know if it’s him. Some- don still appeared the most self er knows what he’s up against—that body's there, Or, anyway, some- possessed of them all as she al- might be kind of bad medicine, body’s been there. »» Jim. If he’s got his war-riders with A swift panic chilled Jody at the him—’’ THIS IS A thought of meeting Bill Roper face ’T’ve missed hooking up with Rop to face again after so long a time. er twenty times when I thought I She tried to imagine what she was had him,” Leathers said. "I'd soon going to say to him, and was com er meet up with him on any terms, pletely unable. She wondered how than carry back the word that J he would look, and whether he would fell down.” A MAUK OF FINE FICTION be glad to see her. 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