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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
IAN It MAY
INSTALLMENT 16
THE StORV SO FAR:
Dustj' Kins and Lew Cordon had built
Bp a vast string of ranches. King was
killed by his powerful and unscrupulous
competitor. Ben Thorpe.
Bill Roper,
King's adapted eon. was determined to
avenge his death tn «pfte of the oppoai-
•
•
tlon of his sweetheart. Jody Gordon, and
her father
After breaking Thorpe in
Tex«». Roper conducted a great raid
upon Thorpe's vast herds tn Montana
Jody was captured by seven of Thorpe's
men.
Roper and Shoshone Wilca res-
•
e
Lasham's southwest camp was bro
ken, and seemed to have been little
understood by the men who had
brought it; but Roper, with his in
side knowledge of the force he had
turned loose against Lasham. could
piece together its meaning well
enough. Lasham's southwest out
post, with its big herds of picked
cattle wintering in this deepest and
richest of the Montana grass, had
been more powerfully manned than
any other Lasham camp. But twice
in the past week frantic calls for
reinforcements from the outfits to
the east had drained most of this
man power away—first five picked
gunfighters, then a dozen cowboys
more, until only five men had been
left
The messengers who had killed
their ponies to come for help had
brought the camp a fragmentary
story which gave Roper the deep
est satisfaction.
In their tales of incredible losses,
of raiders who struck night after
night at far separated points, driv
ing cattle unheard-of distances to
disappear weirdly in the northern
wastes, Roper read the success of
his Great Raid.
Dry Camp Pierce was sweeping
westward across Montana like a de
stroying wind; by unexpected dar
ing. by speed of movement, by wild
cued her In a surprise etteck.
shone and Jody rode to e prearranged
spot, but Roper was captured while
While
fighting a rear guard acUon.
waiting tor Roper Io mart th.tn. Jody
saw Shoshone fall down. dead.
a
a
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
*T guess it could be done." Red
Kane said nastily.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
We're making a big mistake, not
Leathers ignored this, and Red
(Consolidated Features WNU Service.)
to hang him and be done with it,"
Kane disappeared, This time the
Red Kane said.
door shut after him.
EW YORK.—There are muny
•
They were two days from Fork
old-timers who won't like this
Leathers said. "Get me a drink."
Creek now This long and narrow
Marquita unhurriedly set out a bot war. when and if it conies our way,
room, which Jim Leathers paced so
tle and a glass on the table beside There will be no Captain Thorne, of
restlessly, was the kitchen of the
the third act
Jim Leathers' elbow.
Hr Routed Hand
main house at Walk Lasham's south
of “Secret
"A deck of cards.” Leathers said.
west camp—a convenient stop-over
Work in Army Service,”
She produced this. too.
on the way to Sundance, where Rop
Marquita strolled over to Leath Communications getting
er was to be turned over to Ben
through the
ers. the high heels of her slippers
Thorpe.
clicking lazily on the puncheon floor. critical Morse message and no Wil
"The quicker we hang him. the
“Why are you so cross with me?” liam Gillette about whom a drama
better we'll be off," Red Kane said
she asked reproachfully. She moved of communications may be built
again.
behind Jim Leathers, and slowly ran They scrapped the Morse, for good
and all about two years ago.
Wearily, doggedly, Jim Leathers
her fingers through his hair.
There's
no more hand work in army
rolled a cigarette. He took his time
“Ain't going to get you a thing,"
communications.
about replying. "Seems like you al
Jim Leathers said sourly.
These nostalgic thoughts wore
ready said that once before.”
“No?” said Marquita. For a mo
prompted by the participation of
"I’m liable to keep on saying it,”
ment one hand was lost in the folds
Maj. Gen. Joseph O. Mauborgne in
Red Kane told him. “Things is dif
of her skirt; then deftly, unhurried
the big doings at Fort MoiimouUi.
ferent now."
ly. she planted the muzzle of a .38
N. J . recently, with a troop review
In the doorway, behind the two
against the back of Jim Leathers'
by the general and an amateur play,
men who watched Bill Roper, a girl
neck.
"The ~
"•
Bottlenecks
of 1941." and
now appeared, a slim, full-breasted
There was a moment of absolute
many
other
spirited goings on in
girl whose dark, slanting eyes had
silence. absolute immobility. Jim
sometimes troubled Bill Roper be
Leathers' eyes were perfectly still which tlie general was prominently
featured.
fore now.
upon Bill Roper's face, as still aa
He had not been surprised to find
his hands, in one of which a playing
General Mauborgne, chief sig
Marquita here in Walk Lasham's
nal officer of the army, la the
card hung suspended. But though
southwest cow camp, to which his
his face did not notably change.
Thomas Alva Edison of aviation
captors had brought him. He had
Marquita. with her .38 pressed hard
radio—In the army at any rate.
guessed, when he had last talked to
against the back of the gunman'»
It was In October, 1912, that the
her in Miles City, that she was Walk
neck, had turned white; her mouth
then Lieutenant Mauborgne in
Lasham’s girl; and in spite of her
worked as she tried to speak, and
stalled the first radio act In an
expressed eagerness to leave Lash
her wide eyes were upon Bill Roper
airplane, at Fort Riley, Kan.
am and ride with Roper, he real
in terrified appeal. Perhaps no more
The army had 12 planca then,
ized that Marquita still had to live
than a second could have passed in
and aviation meant signal corps,
in some way.
that way. but to them all it seemed
w ith planes first conceived as
Girls of her stamp could not af
as if time had stopped, so that that
primarily useful for observation
ford to throw down such a man as
little fraction of eternity held them
and signalling.
Lasham. ufitil more interesting op
motionless forever.
I.ieut. "Hap” Arnold, who
portunities offered.
Bill Roper, moving up and for
later was to become head of
ward. exploded into action smoothly,
•
Her face was impasslye now, but
the army air corps. Hew one of
like a cat. It was the length of the
one of the slanting dark eyes nar
the planes Io Fort Riley for the
room between them that saved Jim
rowed in a definite signal to Roper.
installation.
Thrre was much
Leathers then.
The combination of Spanish and In
excitement, all over the coun
Leathers twisted, lightning fast.
dian blood in this girl from the Tex
try, when Lieutenant
M»u-
Marquita’s gun blazed into the floor
border gave her a lithe, lazy grace,
borgne’r cumber omc quenched
as her wrist swept down in the grip
and a haunting depth of dark eyes;
spark radio set managed to waft
of Leathers' left hand; and Bill Rop
and the same blood made her un
a few signals earUiwnrd. There
er checked a yard from the table as
accountable—sometimes stoic and
was still more excitement when.
Leathers' gun flashed into sight, be
smouldering, sometimes livened by
In 1914, the lieulenanl achieved
coming instantly steady. Marquita
the lightning flashes of an inner fire.
the first two-way communication
sagged away from Leathers, and her
Undoubtedly she was capable of a
between an airplane and a
gun clattered upon the puncheons;
passionate devotion, and an equally
ground station.
but although Leathers' whole atten
passionate cruelty. Anything could
tion was concentrated upon Roper,
He had started something there
happen in a situation which included
Marquita’s wrist remained locked in and came along with it. to today's
Marquita—with Marquita in love.
his grasp.
miracles of aerial chatter. He at
For a moment Bill Roper resented
The gunfighter's voice was more tained his present rank September
the fact that he couldn't be interest
hard and cold than the steel of his 15. 1937, having been for the pre
ed in any girl except Jody Gordon—
gun; it was as hard and cold as his vious year director of the radio lab
a girl who didn't want him or need
oratory at Wright Field. For 2»
eyes.
him. All the worst aspects of his
“Get back there where you was.” years his work has been an un
own situation were apparent to him,
Bill Roper shrugged and moved ceasing concentration on develop
then. He was an outlaw wanted
ment and experiment in aviation
back.
Dry Camp Pierce was sweepinc
the length of the Trail; probably
Leathers flung Marquita away radio. His career is one of many
would be an outlaw all the rest of
westward across Montana.
his life, which gave every promise
from him and with his left hand recent reminders of our possibly un
of being a short one. That even riding relays which punished them picked up her gun as the door of suspected high degree of prepared
Marquita wanted him, or had any selves no less than the cattle they the storeroom was torn open and ness in varied and highly specialized
trained personnel.
use for him, was a gift which he drove. Dry Camp was feeding an Red Kane bulged in.
should have been glad to accept. increasing stream of Lasham beef
“What the—”
What he had to think of now. though, into the hands of Iron Dog's bands,
“This thing come behind me and CO FAR. Victor Emanuel has been
was that Marquita was extremely who spirited the beef forever from stuck a gun in my neck,” Leathers
thwarted in his lifetime ambition
__ very told him.
likely to precipitate a lot of imme the face of Montana. By the
to win the Kentucky Derby and the
diate disturbance.
I boldness of its conception and the
Grapd National.
However,
he
“The devil! You hurt?”
Troubled, he wished to shake his wild savagery of its execution the
"Hell, no! I took it away from Emanuel’i Planes scores in a
speed com-
head, or in some other way caution unbelievable Great Raid was meet her.”
her that she must make no attempt ing with success.
Gently, tentatively, his long fin To Hit Line First petit i o n
And now Dry Camp had struck
to interfere. Roper had no inten
gers ran over his wounded leg. That If Ponies Do Fail which may
Roper had
chalk
tion of ever coming into the hands even deeper than
this
bullet wound in his thigh must have
of Ben Thorpe alive. Somewhere planned, lifting the best of Lash tortured him unspeakably through day up in the big history book.
After all this wistful talk about the
between this place and Sundance, am's beeves from almost within gun the two days in the saddle; and it
where Thorpe waited, he would make shot of Lasham's strongest camp. must have been jerking at his nerves United States releasing a blizzard cf
his play,' however slim the chance. So well had Dry Camp planned, and now with red-hot hooks, roused by airplanes if it ever could get into
Yet he would rather take his so steadily did the luck hold, that a the swift action that had preserved mass production, Mr. Emanuel's
company. Vultee Aircraft, Inc., an
chances with some unforeseen op full day had passed before the loss his command.
nounces that it is swinging into the
portunity later, when they were inflicted by the raiders was discov
His face had turned gray so that
again on the trail, than to be plunged ered. The five remaining cowboys the black circles under his e/es straight-line, conveyor-belt output
at
the
southwest
camp
were
only
which, in automobile production
into some helpfully intended situa-
made them seem to bum from
tion whicb the girl might devise— tightening their cinches as Jim death's-head hollows, and his face, here, made all other countries just
added starters.
The system has
with danger to herself and question Leathers rode in.
which had changed so little in this
Most of the Leathers party had moment of action was relaxed into been proven and the Vultee com
able advantage to him. She had
joined the Lasham men in pursuit an ugly contortion. Slowly the gray pany says it will quadruple its pro
never brought him any luck.
He was unable, however, with the of Dry Camp's raiders. Only Jim color was turning to the purple of | duction.
Most war talk seems to boil down
eyes of his two enemies upon him, Leathers himself and the unwilling a dark and terrible anger.
to just about that possibility.
Red Kane remained to convoy Rop
to signal her in any way.
“By God." said Red Kane, “I told
“Ben wanted him alive, if I could er to Ben Thorpe at Sundance.
you we should have hung him!”
Mr. Emanuel has made a shift
Because of the confusion involved
get him," Jim Leathers said stub
from finance to management,
“You told me right,” Jim Leath
bornly. “Well. I got him alive, and in the organization of the pursuit, ers said. The burn of his eyes
partly under circumstances over
I aim to keep him that way. You the night was now far gone; already never for a moment left Bill Ro
which he had no control, and
it
was
long
past
midnight.
bums ain't going to talk me into
per’s face. “You was right and I
management would seem to be
anything different just because you
"There's still another reason,” was wrong. I should have hung
the gainer. When In 1926, at the
figure a dead man is easier to Red Kane said, "why it would be him at the start.”
age of 26, he inherited the 695,-
pack.”
better to hang him now. Suppose
000,000 National Electric Power
A pleasurable hope came into Red
Bill Roper listened sardonically. that wild bunch of his knows he’s Kane's face. "Well — it ain't too
company from his father, the
In the two days spent in traveling here?”
utilities field wasn’t safe for
late!”
from Fork Creek rendezvous, the
"How the devil would they know
amateurs. The company caught
“No, it ain't too late. Tie his
scalp wound which had brought him that?” Leathers said with disgust. hands.”
the acquisitive eye of the late
down had nearly healed; but when
"Maybe they was scouting us with
Samuel Insull. But Mr. Eman
Keeping Roper between himself
he laced his fingers behind his head spy glasses as we come over the and Leathers, so that his partner's
uel started over again, building
he winced and dropped his hands trail today."
the United States Electric cor
gun bore steadily upon Roper’s belt
again.
poration and thereafter protect
"If they was, they would have buckle, Kane lashed Roper's hands
It was typical of the quality of his landed on us right then, in place of behind him. The frost-stiff rope bit
ed himself nicely in the clinches.
captors that his hands were not tied waiting till we got into camp.”
deep.
He was born and grew up in
or manacled. They told him where
“Maybe the girl run to them—”
"Tie up this girl, too,” Leathers
Dayton, Ohio, fount of aviation
to sit and they made him stay put,
"The girl! You make me sick.”
ordered when Kane had finished. “I
genius, and was educated in the
and they were careful that no op
“Have it your own way.”
want her to see this show.”
portunity was given him to snatch a
Marquita said, “I’m sorry, Bill.” 1 University of Dayton and Cornell.
"You're darned right I’ll have it
gun from an unwary holster; but my own way. I don’t want to hear
His father was Albert Emanuel, util
Her voice was broken by hard, jerk
ity financier.
these were merely the routine pre no more about it And I’ll tell you
ing sobs, and tears were running
cautions of sensible men. For these this: if your trigger finger gets itchy
Vic Emanuel’s interests have
down her face; yet somehow her
riders were the picked gunfighters while you’re on watch tonight, you
words sounded dull and dead. “I been divided. He expatriated him
of Ben Thorpe’s scores of outfits. better soak it in a pan of water, and
self in England for a few years,
did the best I could.”
They did not fear Roper, would not leave the gun be. Because if any
"You did fine,” Roper said. “That J having a wonderful time as master
have feared him had he been armed. thing comes up while you’re on was a game try.” Hobbling on his ■ of the Woodland Pytchley hounds.
Bill Roper bad no doubt that Red watch such that you got to shoot stiff leg. Leathers moved to the out He bought the 800-ycar-old Rocking
Kane and perhaps one or two of him, by God, next thing you got to er door, flung it open; coatless, he ham castle and rocked the country
the others would kill a doomed pris shoot me—you understand?"
stopped and signaled Red Kane side with a party of about 1,000
oner for no more reason than Jim
guests—imported Americans and
back with one hand.
Leathers had suggested.
“Red, get back! Get out of linel” British nobility—which made the
The Lasham camp had been boil THIS IS A
With the quick instinct of a man British generously admit they had
ing with news as Jim Leathers’ men
who has always been in trouble, Red never seen • real party before. Now
had ridden in at dusk with their
Kane jumped back into the room, he may show them something about
prisoner. Much had happened on
carrying Bill Roper with jiim. They making planes in a hurry, which
the range while Leathers had waited
all could hear now the sound of run probably interests them more than
out Bill Roper at the Fork Creek
parties at this moment.
ning horses.
camp. The news that had reached
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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CHAPTER XXI!
I
Friday, July 4, 1941
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