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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
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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
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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
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•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.
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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
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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.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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