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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, July 18, 1941
TERNS
LAN IE MAY
INSTALLMENT 1»
SEWDNG CDKCLE
THE STORY SO FAR:
Dusty King and Leu Gordon had built
up a vast string ot ranches. King was
lulled by his powerful and unscrupulous
competitor, Ben Ihiirpe
Bill Roper.
King's adopted son. was determined to
avenge his death ir. spite of the opposl-
•
lion of his sweetheart. Jody Cordon.
mad. a desperate but vain attempt to
and her Father Roper conducted a great
save him. Thorpe's men w.r. attacked
raid upon Thorpe’s vast herds tn Mon by some of Roper a eowboya. led by
tana. Ha was captured by Leathers and
Jody Iter joy at finding him waa short
Uved. becauae Marqulta told her that
Kane, two of Thorpe's men. Leathers'
Marqulta. not Jody, waa Roper's girl.
girt, pretty Marqulta. loved Roper and
a
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and blue braid, the result
■mart young costume which will
add fun to every hour you wear it.
Pattcrn No BIMI2 la tn airea 12 lo 20 and
Film Fashions
American Him producer
friend to watch
asked an English
_
the "shooting” of one of his
ciety” IllmN to bcc thut it wus all
right.
After a time the Englishman
usked: "Why does thut man keep
his hat on when he's talking to
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the lady in the drawing room?
"Sure,” said the producer, "he
can't tuko it o!T unother ludy's
coming in presently, and he's got
to raise his hat to her."
40. SUe 14 blouac top requlrea Iti yards
pony which know, that It has come
3rt Inch material; Slacka, 2'« yarda; skirt,
to
the
end
of
the
long
trail.
2*» yarda, 7>b yarda Inaid tur trim,
Jody stood up. She felt suddenly
For thla attractlve pattern aend your
He drew a last drag from hia ciga
tired and numb.
order lo:
rette, and strapped on the gunbelt
"I still think a world can be made
which he had laid aside. Unhurri
where decency can live." she said.
NF.IVING (IlttT.E PATTERN DEPT.
edly, he three or four times drew
"Some day, decent things will live
149 New Montgomery Nlrrrt
the iron from its leather, to be sure
on this prairie, whatever happens to
San Franrlaro
Calif.
that it was running free. Then, with
us. But meantime—I guess he be
Encloar 15 cenia In coin» for
a
purely
unconscious
motion,
he
longs to you."
Pattern No...
sue...
cocked his hat over one eye
She held Marquita's stare for a
Name..............
went down into the street.
moment, then turned and walked to
Addi rii..........
He knew that Lew Gordon
the door. Opening it. she saw that
Quirk wooing* seem to be the
gone into thk Red Dog Saloon,
the first forlorn cold gray of the
fashion. Sort of hlisskriegs.
he walked toward it now.
winter dawn was coming into the
For a moment Bill Roper, raider,
sky east of Montana.
Much to Learn
The black hulk of the horse whose
night-rider, gunfighter — dreaded
CHAPTER XXV
"How docs Charlie make love?"
neck she had broken lay at her feet
name of the Long Trail—experi
"Weil, i should desci ¡be it as un
She pulled from under it the coat
It was very early; the sun was enced a twist of tlie heart, terrible,
The bus was starting in the skilled labor."
acute.
Then
he
with which she had blinded It when only just breaking over the winter- unbelievably
midst of a torrent of rain, when
she charged the door, and pulled it starved prairie, that Sunday morn shrugged, and walked into the Red
the conductor put his head inside
He'd Bren Told
Dog
Bar.
on; the bitter cold of the dawn was ing as Bill Roper splashed through
and inquired: "Will any gentle
Sergeant A'ou> take that rifle and
enough to penetrate to the bones.
Lew Gordon stood at the bar of
the creek that runs by Sundance,
man get out and oblige u lady?" fiii'l out how to uta it.
the Red Dog Saloon. The hard line
Slowly she uncinched and worked and rode into the little town.
"She can come inside and sit
Ihallre I i'll me one thing It it true
the saddle free, then the bridle. She
Overhead the sky was such a clear of his jaw was blurred by a silver
on my knee, if she likes,” suid a that the hunter I ¡Hill the trigger the
staggered a little as she shouldered crystalline blue as Bill Roper had shag of whisker now, and his mus
passenger, jocularly, and, to his farther the bullet will go?
the saddle, and walked out toward not seen since he left Texas, and tache was silver, and his hair; but
great surprise, in bounced u
the corral where other, living ponies underfoot his tired pony was sinking the clear blue eyes were unbelieva
buxom woman* who forthwith ap
No Accompanist
stood, dark humped - up shapes fetlock deep in thawed mud. The bly young, younger than Bill Roper
propriated
the
offered
knee.
"What
is your occupation?"
His
against the snow.
mud itself was predicting a spring had ever seen them before.
After a time the man, Brown,
•'An organist."
hands
were
folded
quietly,
one
el
which Roper believed now he would
by name, got into conversation
"Organist, eh? And why did you
bow on the bar; and so greatly did
CHAPTER XXIV
never see.
with
his
burden,
und
asked
her
give
it up?”
Without sign from the rider. Rop this silver-haired man dominate the
where she wus going. On hearing
"The monkey died.”
space
in
which
he
stood
that
It
was
Bill Roper and Bob Stokes—the er's pony drew up before the Palace
her destination, he exclaimed,
minutes before Roper realized that
King-Gordon cowboy whom Roper Hotel and Livery.
"Why, that’s my house!”
there was a bartender there at all.
had not known—had finished their
With some difficulty Bill Roper
"Well, then," replied the woman,
"So
you
came."
Lew
Gordon
said.
makeshift dressing of Old Joe's roused a sleepy and resentful indi
blushing, "I'm your new cook."
"Of course. Lew. Didn't you know
wound, and were working on Jim vidual.
Leathers. Jim Leathers lay perfect
"Feed this pony, and feed him I would come?"
New Jobs Being Offered
"In one way," Lew Gordon said.
ly still; only his eyes seemed alive. well."
“How's she feeling?" Bill Roper
Casually Roper strolled along the "I'm glad you came. I want to say
By U. S. Civil Service
asked.
corral where stood the loose horses a couple of things to you. Billy, my
boy.
I done something wrong,
“The Gordon girl? She's all right
\\rHAT a parade Uncle Sam
K
Billy." "You was right and I was
She went out to look over the horses
** could lead of his workers—
wrong. You fought him; I tried to
or something.”
workers of every kind. You may
smooth things out. I*m glad I've
*
"Bob, you better go see nothing's
have often wondered if there is
lived
to
Jell
you
this:
you
was
right
happened to Jody."
a place for you in that parude.
and 1 was wrong!"
YOUR
boat
or
on
dry
land
‘TH go in a minute, soon as we're
"Lew—” Bill began.
you'll enjoy this play suit What chance would you have in
through here."
No Halfway
the United States Civil Service?
"I should have killed him, Billy," I which features the smart nautical
But Jody came in of her own ac
I hate to see a thing done by
New
tests
are
being
given
all
Lew Gordon said.
theme.
The sailor collar top
cord. before that. She went straight
halves; if it be right, do it wholly;
mates
well
with either slacks or the time and there are literally if it be wrong, leave it undone.—
"Lew!
What
are
you
telling
me?
”
to Old Joe.
"I know I was wrong." Lew Gor a skirt—have both in your vaca
"Are you terribly uncomfortable.
Gilpin.
don
said. Yet, somehow he did not tion ensemble! Make it in faded
Joe?”
seem unhappy. "Always I stood for blue denim, trim with red, white
“I feel great” Joe said with spir
law. for order—the decent thing, the
it "I been hunting for a vacation
thing
that would build this country
for fifteen years, and this is my
into something my kid could live in.
first excuse!”
But—I guess it wasn't meant to be.
'Tm sorry. Joe. You’ll never
Cranky? R.atl.ss?
I should have swung with you when
know how sorry I am. I tangled
Can't sleep? Tire
you
tied
into
him
in
Texas,
and
eaally? Becauae of
A
A General Qui*
things up pretty badly, I guess.”
diatrrae ot monthly
again when you tied into him in the
"You done wonderful,” Joe told
functional
dlaturlianna«?
T?ien try
north! But I aim to square it all up
I.ydia K. ITnkliam's Vegetable Com
her.
"You saved Bill’s neck, all
today!”
pound.
right. They had him hog-tied like a
The Question»
"You mean—?” said Bill Roper.
Pinkham's Compound la famous
mosshorn, and the girt too, when
1. How many tablets of atone
for relieving pain of IrresularpeHoda
"He's coming to meet me here."
we busted in.”
and cranky nervouaneaa due to auch
held
the
Ten
Commandments
as
"With how many men?” Roper
dia turbane ea. One of the moat effer-
Jody shot Marqulta a glance in
given to Moses?
Ur. medicine, you can buy today
asked again.
which the only light was a faint con
for thia purr*me — made opcctaUy
2.
The
average
amount
of
blood
"What
does
it
matter?"
Lew
tempt but she did not comment
/or women. WURTH TRYING I
in the human body is about what
poured himself a drink.
“I'm riding back to Miles." she
proportion of the body weight?
Outside, on the board walk of Sun
told Joe.
“On the way I’ll send
3. "Double, double, toil and There May Be a Piace for You
dance. were sounding the heels of
help back, and everything you'll
Pride No Reward
trouble; fire burn and cauldron
approaching men . . .
need. And I’ll see that you’re moved
Unless what occupies your mind
bubble” is a quotation from what? thousands of different jobs. Per
"I
can
kill
him,
”
Bill
Roper
said.
in a spring wagon, soon as you feel
4. What is a binnacle?
Bill Roper splashed through the
haps you, too, are the kind of be useful, the pride you derive
“I can kill him even if I die."
like moving.
I appreciate what
from thence is foolish.—Phaed.
creek that runs by Sundance.
5. In Greek legend, who sowed person our government needs.
you've done. Joe.”
Lew Gordon's face changed swift
...
the
dragon
’
s
teeth?
"Hey, look.” Bob Stokes began. which were being boarded here. He ly. Suddenly he was the indomita
To find out what your chance, are. how
6. What country named its cap-
“You can’t be riding off like this in was chewing a straw as he came ble old man whom Bill Roper had
you ahould apply, see our new 32-pase
after
an
American
President?
ital
the middle of the night!”
booklet Lista leverai U. B. Civil Service
back to the sleepy man who was always known.
7. What is meant by 0:15 a. m.T poiltlon. with salaries and requirements
“It’s coming daylight fast. I’ll be now shaking down hay.
"Ben Thorpe is for me,” Lew Gor
all right”
8. Who were Egbert, Ethelwulf, Explains rules for applying, trial period,
"I see you have a 9B horse there— don said, "to make up for the quiet
promotions. Increases and benefits Includ
Outside, in the gray light that a good one.”
Ethelbald, Ethelbcrt, and Ethel- ing n
years . .
annuities.
Send your
seemed colder than the air, Jody
order to:
And Bill Roper, looking deep into red?
"Yeah?"
HEN kidneys function badly and
Gordon bad mounted as Bill Roper
"1 figure Lew Gordon rode that the young eyes of that ageing man.
T/ie An»wer»
you suffer • najgmg backache,
came to her stirrup.
with dittinest, burning, scanty or too
finally said. "Okay.”
horse in?”
HEADER HOME. SIKVK B
Two.
1.
“You mustn't go yet,” he told her
freauent urination and getting up at
11? Minna Nt.
Nan Franrlaro, Calif.
"And supposin’ he did?”
And then the door darkened, and
2. One twentieth.
night; when you feel tired nervous,
gently. "These boys are fixed as
"Where is he stopping?”
the approaching heels on the board
Enclose 10 cents In coin for your
3. "Macbeth."
all upset ... use Doen's Pills.
comfortable as they can be; there's
copy of GETTING A JOU WITH THE
“How should 1 know? This dump walk were silent because they had
4. A box containing a ship’s
Doan's are especially for poorly
no hurry to get help. You'll be is good enough for his horse, but arrived. The man Lew Gordon had
U. S GOVERNMENT.
compass.
working kidneys. Millions of boxes
wanting some coffee; and I have to it ain’t good enough for him. He sent for had come .
Name
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are used every year. They are recom
5. Jason.
talk to you, Jody.”
went to sleep with some friend or
mended the country over. Ask your
It was Ben Thorpe who stepped
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6. Liberia (Monrovia, named
"I’m not interested in talking to something, out at the edge of town. »»
neighbor!
quickly through the door, and one for President Monroe),
you.” Jody said without expression.
"I’ll take a room facing on this pace to the left, so that his gun. al
7. Fifteen minutes after mid-
“Why, Jody—look here—”
street," he said.
ready drawn, swept the bar. It was night. The zero is used to denote
"I got you into this,” Jody said.
A little while later Roper sat at Walk Latham who followed him
that the first hour of the day has
"I got you into this because I was a last with his heels caught in the
through the door, stepping one pace not elapsed.
Friendship is like rivers, and
tool. So I bad to get you out. That's window sill, resting as be regarded
to the right, so that the door was
8. The first five rulers of Eng- the strand of seas, and the air.
all over now. I don't want to talk to the empty street
clear for the three unknown gun land, reigning 12, 19, 2, 8, and 5 common to all the world; but WNU—13
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you, now, or any time.”
That Ben Thorpe was here was fighters who tried to enter all at
years respectively, from 827 to tyrants, and evil customs, wurs,
She whirled her horse sharply, so known to every cattleman in the
once.
Eloquent Silence
873. Their conquest formed part of and want of love, have made them
that its hoofs sent up a scurry of north country. Ben Thorpe had been
"Draw. Ben," Lew Gordon said; the rich early Saxon-Danish his proper and peculiar. — Jeremy
Silence can at times be more
dry snow; then she was gone, her here many weeks; it was to Thorpe
eloquent than words.
Taylor.
tory of the island.
retreat covered by the cabin as she that Bill Roper was to have been and then al! guns spoke at once.
In the blast of gunfire that fol
swung toward the trail.
delivered, here, if a kid horse wran
For a moment Roper stood look gler following Jody Gordon had not lowed, no man could tell what hap
ing after her. Then he stepped in shot Jim Leathers down. But, by pened—but Roper knew that al) guns
1
seemed to converge upon Lew Gor
side.
the fine, hard-ridden 9B horse which
“You’ll stay here. Bob," he said. Lew Gordon had ridden in. Bill Rop don, and frantically he threw the
“I’ll saddle and ride after her; I’ll er knew that Gordon had not been lash of his fire at Thorpe, at Lash-
am, at the unknown men at the door.
■ee that she gets to Miles.”
here long. He judged that he had
For a moment the guns spoke in a
"Wait a minute," Old Joe said. got here in time.
smashing roar, and the powder
"You got to wait a minute! There’s
Bill
Roper
sat
there
a
long
time.
something else you got to know. » I
Seven o'clock passed, and eight, and smoke stung Bill Roper’s nostrils;
“There’s nothing else I need to nine, while he smoked and waited. and then suddenly there was silence
again.
know.”
Ten o’clock passed, and ten-thirty.
"Lew Gordon ain’t in Miles!”
Thorpe and Lasham both were
Then upon the quiet main street
"Then where the devil is he? His of Sundance appeared a figure—the down as that gunsmoke cleared, and
daughter—”
those other strangers in the doorway
one he had been waiting for.
"Somebody — Jim Leathers, I
It seemed to Bill Roper that Lew had disappeared, except for a boot
guess—sent a note to Lew Gordon Gordon walked like a younger man heel that dragged almost out of
that his daughter was all right, but than Roper had remembered. Bill sight, and then was still.
couldn’t be sent home just yet. No Roper knew Lew Gordon by the flash
Beside the bar of the Red Dog
body signed that note. But it was of silver in his short beard, by the Saloon Lew Gordon still stood. Per
plain to be seen from it that some old hat, curiously like Dusty King's, haps it was his bullet in the heart
war party of Ben Thorpe's was hold which Lew Gordon had never of Ben Thorpe—no man would ever
ing her some place. So Lew Gor changed. But he had to look twice know.
don—”
to be sure that this man with the
He turned now, slowly, elbow upon
"You mean that Lew Gordon is springy stride and erect bearing was the bar. and looked at Bill Roper.
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
going on the warpath himself? Hunt the Lew Gordon he had known.
"Thanks, son." he said. The hand
*•/
ing for Jody?”
When he was sure, Bill Roper that held the heavy forty-five sagged
"He’s going after it straighter stood up and stretched; he filled his deliberately, then dropped the gun;
C>
than that. Everybody knows Ben lungs with air, and at last let it go it made a strange clatter upon the
Thorpe is at Sundance. Lew Gor again, with a whoof like that of a unswept boards of the floor. Then
don has gone to Sundance to tie into
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Lew Gordon's knees broke and he
Ben Thorpe, and his old gun is
than the average of the 4 other largest-aelllng cigarettes tested—less than any of them
went down, and Bill Roper caught
THIS IS A
hammering away at his side.”
—according to independent scientific tests of the smoke Ittelf. The smoke's the thing!
him as he fell.
"He figures to fight Thorpe?"
Thin and tinny across the squalid
"Bill, it sure looks that way to me
town, across the thawing prairie, the
What’s strange about that? Thorpe
church bell was ringing—a make
has punished away at Lew Gordon
shift church bell ringing, on Sunday
-THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS
all his life. He’s stole his cattle and
morning, as Lew Gordon died.
A MAIK Of
killed his trail bosses, and fought
FINt FICTION
(TO BE CONTINUED)
CHAPTER XXIII—Continued
him in the market fit to break them
both, and finally he kills Lew's part
ner. and still he keeps on."
"Joe.” Bill Roper said. "Joe—
Walk Lasham himself is with Ben
Thorpe!"
"Well—I ain't surprised."
"But God Almighty, Joe. if he
walks into a fight with those two.
all hell can't save him! He's as good
as dead, the minute he walks in
there!"
"That." said Old Joe, “is what I
figured you ought to know."
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