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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Thursday, September 3, 1042
New Gun for Marines
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CHAPTER IX
SYNOPSIS
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Dava Bruce, out of a job. arrivaa at
Wilbur Ferris' Croaa-Bar ranch Curran,
thr lorernan. promises him a job If ha
can break a horse called Black Dawn.
• When he aucceeda. ho discovers Curran
ekireclod the horae to kill him
A <lrl
named Ixile rides up. ansry with Dave
for breaking "her" horae She refuaea
to apeak lo Dava even whan he uses
hla savings to pay off the mortgage on
the imaU ranch ahe shares with her
toiler father, a man named Hooker.
But when Hooker la shot and Dave la
eharsed with murder, Lola saves him
from being lynched. Wounded, she
guides him to a mountain cave where
she thinks they will be safe from Cur­
ran and the sheriff’s posse Meanwhile,
a quarrel between Ferris and Jirdse Lxm-
ergan reveals that Ferris had killed his
Kfiner. Blsne Rowland, many yoara
lore.
Brazilian Anti-Aircraft Gun Crew at Alert
Lonergan ushered Ferris out In
to the street, closed the door, and
strode briskly in the direction of
"Yuh ain’t—ain’t cryIn', girl?”
j the court house, outside which a
' knot of men was already milling
"The first time was when I was
; Ferris got on his horse and rode nobody's goin' to lay roses on his
sure you hadn't killed Mr. Hooker.
slowly back to wan! his ranch, ta» grave.”
Ing the opposite direction till he
"When
how
wnat’s your And both times have made mt
got clear of the town
plan? whispered Ferris, spilling a happy I don't want to leave you
Suddenly blind rage filled Ferris trail of whiskey over the floor as ever."
After a while he heard her
heart. And, accorutng to the na­ he tried to refill his drink.
ture of the man, it old not show
"Just leave it to me, and I'll breathing deeply and regularly,
itself upon hut face, which became keep yuh posted, Ferris," answered and found that she had fallen
asleep. He sat there, holding he:
a musk. Stupidly, blindly trying Cui ran.
lightly, till the pale light of dawn
lo find reality in this hew confu­
"I've got to give Lonergan his
sion, Ferris rode back towards his answer within the next two days," came creeping into the cave.
ranch house with a sudden reso­ tne ranchman protested.
"There's a mesa in the moun­
lution formed.
tains about a mile away, that I
“Stall him off," said the fore­ don’t think anyone except myaelf
Weak, irresolute, he was follow­ man. 'String him along a day O(
ing the traditional line ol icust two moie, and if be insists tell has ever seen,” said Lois that af- •
icuistance Ut seeking a confidant. him to go plumb to hell. All you ternoon. "I think we'll take the
And Curran, the foreman, was the need to du is to keep a still uppei | horses there. The grass is pretty
man he soughl. He wus taiwing Up. I'm glad you and me had this well gone from here, and they’ll
himself upon the mercy or the talk. It clears up things consid— need some good feed before we
man between whom and himself rabie Yuh won't see much of me start."
there had been unueclared etimily the next day or two, because 1 U
"You’ll be able to ride in about|
ever since Lonergan made Curran be on a lone wolf hunt in the a coupla days more, honey," said
foreman of the *Croe*-Uar outfit. mountains. But 1'11 let yuu know Dave. Ta there a trail through
the mountains to the other side?”
"Want to see you in the office,” when the trap's sprung."
Lois nodded. "I found it, too.”
he told Curran, who was taking
He went out of the office, reel­
it easy in the bunk house after ing slightly, humming a song she said. "It runs right through
his night's ride. And when they Ferris watched mm with new, across the border, Dave. We'll
never have to go back to Mescal,
reached the office, he said, “Cut- dawning hojie
and nobody will dream we’ve
ran, 1 reckon you and me haven't
pullcct together as well as we | In the few days that followed come through the mount a.ns.'
Dave didn't relish the idea of j
might have done. I'm in u Jam Lois regained her strength rapidly.
now. Maybe us two could get to- ( Apart irom the quantity of olood flight .But for Lois, he would
she had lost, the wound was a probably have scouted BDout the
gather. ”
superficial one. and youth anu the
Curran's eyes nartowed. "I pure mountain air contributed Mescal district by night, in the
hope of unearthing the clue to
never bore yuh no ill feeiln'a, Mr. alike to a quick recovery.
Hooker’s murdered. He was pretty
Ferris" he answered. "Course 1
They never spoke about the fu­ well convinced that whoever had
knew yuh dkln' exactly like Judge ture. it seemed sufficient to both
Lonergan's puttin' me in here, but of them to enjoy the perfect com­ killed the old man would return
I done my best for yon» spread.” radeship that had spi uug up be­ to the cabin or betray himself in 1
manner, and he had more.
"Lonergan's got me oy the tween them. The only shadow I some
than a suspicion that Sheriff
throat,” said the ranchman bitter­ over the girl's rninu appealed to Coggswell
was convinced of his
ly, ami recounted their conversa­ be her inability to attend Hooker's | own innocence.
tion of that morning.
funeral in Mescal.
"Of course 1 knew I wasn't ! But Lois' welfare came first,
"But so far as I understood,
Dave realized that the first
you've kept up the mortgage in­ his daughter at least, I knew and
task which lay before him was to
Mis.
Hooker
was
not
my
mother,
terest." said Curran. "And the
get her through the mountains
mortgage has got another eigh­ after I found this."
She detached a little, battered to some place of safety. So he
teen months to run.”
said nothing to the girl's sugges­
"Damn him. he's got something! gold locket from a cord about her tion, and they mounted the two I
neck,
opened
it,
and
handed
it
to
on me!" exploded Ferris "Some-1
horses, riding bareback and guid- :
thing that happened before I came Dave, inside was the faded photo- ing them with halters. Lois led the
giapu
of
a
young
woman.
It
was
into the valley, that he could put
way along the trail beyond the
me behind the bars for. He's aim­ a pretty face, but rather a haro cave. Finally it ran upnm to a
one,
and
there
wax
a
maixed
re
­
ing to treat me the way he was
long stretch of grass-covered|
goin' to treat old Hooker. When semblance to Lois.
land between the ravine and the
"1
remembered
her
.after
I
he's cleaned up on my ranch, how
heights.
found
this
locket,"
said
tid;
girl.
long d'you think your Job will
Releasing the horses, they
“You say you found this?"
last ?"
asked Dave, handing her back the , watched them start grazing eager­
"Yeah, 1 been thinkin' about' locket. "Where did you find it?" ly, seated side by side in the warm
that myself," Currin confessed.
"Not a hundred yards away’ sunlight.
Ferris asked the question that from here, lying on a leoge under I "What do yuh say to our start­
he had asked Lonergan; "Why was a heap of dead leaves.”
in' the day after tomorrow, hon­
Lonergan so interested in that
"It’s queer,” said Dave. "You 1 ey?” asked Dave.
Hooker girl?"
got no iuea how it could have got | “I'm ready, Dave,” answered
Curran grinned. "Most folxs here?"
the girl shyly.
think she's his daughter,” he said. ‘ "I've racked my brains trying i
"And yuh'll marry me, soon as
"Don't bear no resemblance to to imagine. Unless my mother was '
him. of course, but she may take* some relative of Mr. Lonergan's, 1 we hit the other side of the moun­
arter her mother. I never seen ’ and gave him the locket, and he f tains and find us a minister?”
Lois nodded, her face aglow,
Mrs. Hooker; she died before I dropped it here. You see, Mr. Lon­
come here.”
ergan made the Hookers adopt then hid it in Dave's shoulder. The
"I've heard that sto;y, tiut I me and bring me here. But why golden minutes ran by unheeded.
don't believe it.”
should he have come here? He's At last, when the sun was dipping
"You think the sheriff will get never been here since, nor anyone toward the west, they rose to get
Bruce and that girl?" he asked I'm sure nobody in Mescal knows the horses. Both came cantering
to Lois at her whistle, and the
of its existence."
in the meanwhile.
"Well,” said Dave, "things have two remounted and rode back U
"I dunno," said Curran. "Lois
Hooker, she knows the mountains a way of cornin' to light Some their cave.
"If we're startin' tomorrow,
like that herd of bruncs she trails day we'll know You sure had a
arter her. If they got foou enough tough break, girl, not even know- what yuh think of restin' up today
they kin hide up till all int’rest in’ who yore dad was, and livin’ and lettin' me take the horses to
in the affair has died out, so far up in these mountains. Did yuh the mesa?" asked Dave next
as the sheriff’s concerned. But ever figure on what yuh were go­ morning. "Maybe I'll leave them
there over night and walk back
I'll tell yuh something. I'm goin' in' to do in life?"
"I never figured on getting this evenin’. There's no place they
to git her."
Curran knew his man. "I dunno away, Dave, till Mr. Hooker died. could stray to, is there?"
what Lonergan's got on yuh, Fer­ Nor till you came,” said Lois. "1
"No, they'll be quite safe there,”
ris," he said, but I ain't trustin’ hated the men who used to come answered Lois."
that feller further than I kin see around me when I was in Mescal
"I'll be back around midday to
him. And 1 guess there's plenty of or over to the Cross-Bar."
' see how you're gettin' along," he
Dave
tried
to
keep
back
the
folks in MescaJ who wouldn’t cry
told her and then rode away on
their eyes out if anything hap­ words, but they seemed to come Hooker’s horse.
spontaneously from his lips: "Just
pened to him."
Arriving at the grazing ground,
The ranchman's eyes met Cur­ before Mr. Hooker died he made Dave flung himself down, rolled
ran's. "You mean—you m’ean—?" me promise to look out for yuh, I and lit a cigarette, and then lost
Lois. I told him of course I would. I
he stammered.
himself in roseate dreams of the
"I could do with a share io the When I first see yuh, all worked future.
Cross-Bar," said Curran bluntly. up over Black Dawn, and madder
For a half hour after his de­
"I ain't the kind who'd ride yuh at me than a hornet, I knew Just parture Curran, lying behind a
the
same
you
were
the
only
girl
down the way Lonergan's doin'.
boulder, watched Dave's course
I'd ever want.”
And what I had on yuh,
"I wanted to ride away with you through the pair of field glasses
have on me, I guess. A third
and have you with me for the rest that he had slung about his neck.
share's all I'd ask."
of our lives. Do you think—do you He guessed pretty shrewdly the
"Suppose suppose Blanc Row­ think yuh'd take a chance on me purpose of Dave's departure, but
land ever came back?" the ranch­ when we get away from here?” he wanted to satisfy himself that
man quavered. "He's still half ow­
Then, suddenly, looking into the he wanted to satisfy himself that
ner. If he hadn't made that mad girl's luminous eyes, Dave knew he wasn't coming back immed­
break when he thought the Cross- that she loved him, and that every iately,
Bar was goin' to smash "
( To Be Continued)
thing was going to be well with
"Yuh needn't worry about him,” them, no matter what trials might
grinned Curran. "He won't come still lie ahead of them.
back. First place, he’d be facin 'a
He drew her into his arms, and
long term in the pen, and second she laid her head upon his shoul­
10* OF INCOME
place, he'd have to make restitu­ der. face upturned to his.
tion of that money he stole, which
"Yuh ain't ain't cryin', girl?"
represents purty nigh half the val­
"I reckon I am," she answered.
ue of this ranch."
"I’m so happy, Dave, I didn't know
"What's your proposal?”
I could be happy like thia. I never
"I ain't makin’ none, Ferris. It cried for anybody else, and I’ve
come from you. I was only sayin' cried twice for you.”
if anything happened to Lonergan,, "Twice? I made yuh cry?"
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sinking of six ships off their coast by Axis submarines. Picture shows
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