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Tlli5 BPritNOFlKU) NI2W3 Inn I tl Sr . i I1::,' m n 7 1 Xli ij Yk '.n,,,l LiT a package today. No tice the flavor the whole some taste of Kentucky liurley tobacco. Why do so many "regular men" buy Lucky Strike cigarettes? They buy them for the special flavor of the toasted JUirlcy tobacco. There' s the big reason it's toasted, and real Hurley. Make Lucky Strike your cigarette. c Gunranteed by Crooked Trails and Straight liv I William MacLeod Raine l'prniai. or U W linnowBauiOouip.il & SYNOPSIS. Part I. , CIIAPTEU 1 --AiIm-iiIuhnni mnl r.-rk- U.N, lull, IN 111. HI vl.tullnll. uml rxclletl l liquor in ly I- Li inii i i Kinl lii clnim ; Mar both piarll. illh' N.i'!.' Ii'iyn, lii-rulll.- I Involvvtl In a Im ..i.-..ln. .nl r ti 1 -i I , lMtiio.Ulic of thr m....i hiu. Ii in tl." " Of Hiin.n-I.(-, All, tint li.in-l m-i;i' i'- . Only and I im i.iiiin i m.ivinu in ;...n , Tlmy am tUMtki-iif-il uml Inni .' ii-n-.-,- i In town In ii.imnii hi Mil-Mi Tl i-inilo ; tli.tr iiuimii.im ilwimUcii n.-U V. Mi-' I In klllo.J .y Ihe tto in. I I'ur.y n... li- , inpllvr, ufter h. I. .11 fl.nl mi" iin' Irni- 1 )t lim-ll wiillllijtil. ilia II. all n..,H IS I. lick Cut 1 1. inn. I'llAI'TKIt 1 1 - CuIIImmii'ii fili-inl-. I'll CMttl.iii.ii. iti-ifiiNln.. in hn.li t'mly mi emii!i 1. 1 mill. ll.i.-i Wl a il-i-inn. minimi hi.i in-eii I i- In hixi-,1 nv il-e ; Intorvi-iillon of Kail x'iiIIi.hni, tank'. , At Hint It 1 1 tltllllit'il laugh rippled nit. K ciiini' from Miil.iiii-v. Ilo whs leaning against the 'I'l'ir Jamb with his bands In his pockets. Nobody liinl no ticed lilm hi-fiiiv. Hi' had come In lifter Him Kill. When Curly came l think It over In I r. If hi- hud teen given thrri guesses 11 " u'"' Kate 'ulllsiui win. I wns "li tin- pro gram hi' would hiivi' j.-. in-K-1-. I MiiIi.iii-.v each tlini'. "Now Hint you've ri-Hi'wil your Iiilnil iroM-r, Miss Culllson, I expect liny of thf hoys will hi- glad to escort you back to the hoiisi'," Kilo siugo'dod With nil urlii smile. "Whnt have you got to tlo wit li thl?" she llatned. "our hoys took Mm. They brought him hen' ns their primmer. I o you think we'll lei )ou eotuo over Into this enmity ami dlc tute everything we loV" "Fve got a notion tiiekeil nwny Hint you'r tryliiB to ilo the illetnfliiK your own nelf." llm Hiir I'oiihlo J! mi.u ton trailkted. "I'iu not. Hut I won't Muml hy while you get these hoys to do mur der." Kite IuukIiimI Hiirciistlcully. "Vou lier your Iiomk, hoys." "You've liml yi'i H"y "(,w' MHS Kate. I reckon you hetter tsny fe'ood lillfllt." advised I'.uik. Hh liunded Hitfk uml hi friends her .jolUUUU Ui a swift How of femi nine ferocity. Milium-)' pushed Into the clrele "Sl.t-'s deiul rlnhl. 1'ii.vs. 'l ln-M-'s li.'th- Iiik I" this lyiK'l.liit; jiniiie. Hen only M kid." Tin- file of npliilnti wit" shirtinir. Thoe who Iilld hei ii wnrkei) up to the lyiiehlnu hy tin- n rumeu I s nf ll.mllK Iii-;iii to recent hi in tlily. I'lnnilniu whs their prlMuier, Misiit he? Ni use jjntna "f IniM'-iin'I.e.l. Some of tin-in were li i -ei i eli n a tin f tin) were lint hnlf so ihivImiih to li.Mii,' him iin they hud sii '" im-'I. 'Ihe Kill turned t" her friends mid lielthhol "I llhtn't t" I.Me t:i! lied In ,ni 1 1 1 : i T ,.v. I. ut yii know how wmi'li'd I mil ill. nut d.id." f-he Hpnlo (Ti'ed with ii ditch in lor hre:iih. "I'm one you didn't think or you would m-M-r luive dom mix thin-.: to tiouhh nie mure lu-t in".v. You kinnv I didn'r I , : 1 1 (' mean It." She !' I from oni" I,, ;: ii..' I .-. hi r eyes j-1 1 1 1 1 x!l tt-nrs.. i.i. ii'.' 'hut no hr.ixer or kinder meiv lie I ! i : i : i jmi. Why. you're my folks. (,,. :,.., !....!iht i'i :nii..n you And -ii x on e . In l i'l'.rlx e l:-e." Sni.-e -ii'.i ' Sure.'' ntliiTs Inhl her to fni'fei il mi l one vrii'-s xxidnwer diexv ii i-ii-.'h l-x --nyiir..- ti.it her little spiel remiinh-l him of huppler d:i) s. 'I'm -I- : t s i I you've ehiinued your imii'l--. I knew )ou xxuiild when xoli thi-uhi i! oxer." she told them that fix' mid i iiiitldelilially. Sie whs tnkin'4 tlielr assent for man ed. Now she waited ntld pive them a eluinee to chonis their nirree meiit. None of them spoke i-xei pt Mu joiie.x. Most of them xxere with her In sympathy hut none winded to he llrst In nixim; way. She looked nround from one to an other, still I'heerl'ul uml Mire of her Krmiml apparently. Two steps brought her dlreelly In front of one. Sht einiKht him hy the lapels of Ids omit uml looked straight Into his eyes. "You have ehaiiK'ed your mind, haven't you,. Juke?" The rIii Mlssmirlan twisted tils hut in enilia I I H ssment. "Sure. W'hatever's rlKht suits me." "Well, you know what Is right, don't you?" "1 exiect." "Then you won't hurt this ninn, our prisoner?" "1 haven't n thing against him If .voti haven't." "Then you won't hurt him? You won't htiind hy and let the oilier boy do It?" "Now. Miss Km to " She hurst Into Ktidden tears. "Y thoiiKht you were my friend, hut now I'm In trouble you you think only of maklnif It worse." Jake cave In Immediately and t lie rest followed like n Hock of sheep. Two or throe of Ihe promises fame hard, but she did md stop till eiicU ani Individually had pledged himself. The young uiun ahe bad saved could mil Keep tin eves from her. He would havn liked to km-H down ami kiss the eik-e of her dress and put his curly bend In the dust before her. The lee In his heart had melted In the warmth of n jrrent emotion. She xvas standing close to him tulklni; to Imek when he spoke In ii low voice. "I reckon I can't toll you how much I'm obliged to you, miss." She drexv back ijuiekly ns If ho had been n snake abmi to strike, her hand Instinctively Kafherlm: her skirts so that they would not brush atfiilnst him "I don't want your thanks," she told III id, Hiid her voice xvas like the drench of tin icy xxave. I'.ut when she kmxv Hio hurt In his pyes she hesitated. 1'orhnps she guessed that he xvus human after all, for nn Impulse carried her forxxnrd te take the rope from his neck. While his heart heat twice her soft finprs touched his throat and crazed his cheek. Then she turned und was gone from the room. It xvas a long time before the bunk house ipiieted. Curly, faint with weari ness, lay down and tried to sleep His a nn was pH ininn a good deal and be felt feverish. The men of the Circle C and their guests sat down and argued the whole thing over. Hut aft er u tiino the doctor came in and bud the patient carried to the bouse. Ilo was put in a good clean bod and his Mini dressed again. The doctor brought him good news. "Culllson Is doing tine. He ought to muko It all right." Curly thought about the girl who had fought for his life. "You'll not let him die, IKio," be begged. "He's too tough for that, l.uck Cul 1 1 son Is." Presently I motor P-roxvn gave him a aleepliig powder and loft bin). Soon alter that Curly fell asleep and dreamed about a slim dark girl with tine long-lashed eyes that could be both tender and ferocious. "How' 'llm villain in me prny this rno'libiK'" he Inquired. Twenty-one. usually louki on the cheerful Hide 'if life. Curly had for gotten for the moment about what hud happened to hU friend Muc. He did not remember that he was In the shadow of a -nl!eritiiiry sentence. The Kim was Nlilnin out of a deep blue sky. The vigor of yrnith (hwed through his veins. He xvas hungry and a good breakfast was before him. For the present these were enough. "Mo, I'm feeling ti heap better than I was last night," he admitted. "Came pretty m ar losing you out of the cast, didn't we?" "Might U-turned out that way If the utrige manager hud not remembered the right cue In time." Ihe heart of the prisoner went out to this man who xxas reaching a har.d to him In his trouble. lie hud always known that Maloney win true and dteady as a Knobbing post, but he had not looked f'-r any kindness from h in "Kite just got a telephone mcs-.-il:'' from Saguache," tie.- I'.ar limit. it; M lull n went on easily. "Y' -:r lYic.'nN that bought the Pl-tlc. Mitel; didn't get axviiy xxlth the good Seems Un-y Mumbled Into ii hunch ' nii'n'i- unex pected and had to pull tln-ir f: eight auddeti." "Make their getaway?" Curly In quired as Indifferently as he could. I,Ut in spite of himself a rmt- i f ea-. r ness crept Into his voice, l or if the men had escaped that w null be two loss xvltnesses ug.tlnst hlni. "Yep." "Too bad. If they hadn't I could have proved by them I xxas not one of the men who sold them ihe soi !;." Flitndrau replied. "Like h xoli could," pin-!; -ii'.r'ed. then grinned ut his pi:-,,.ier in u Hharne-faert way: "'i,ou',e a tood one. son." .Ia!;e stuck his hem) In ht the d--r "Puck, you're i.e.-. led to he'ri xm'Ii them txxtt-y fiir-oids. The old :. a.i wants to have a talk with the rustler. I me says he may. Malnney, will you take him Up to the house?" Malomy had once ridden for the Circle C and was friendly with nil the mm on the place. He nodded. "Sure." A Mexican woman let them Into the chamber xx here the xxounoed man lay. Kate was bending over the bed re arranging the pillows, but she looked up ipiiekiy xx h- n the two men entered. Her eyes xxere still gentle -with the love that had been shining down from them upon her father. Culllson spoke. "Sit down. Pick." And to his prisoner: "You too." Flandrau saxv close at hand for the first time the man who hud b en Ari zona's most famous liL-hiing sheriff. Puck Culllson was well-built and of medium height, of a dark complexion, clean shaven, wiry and iniisi ui.ir. Al ready past (ifty, lie looked not a dav more than forty. One glance xvas enough to tell Curly the kind of man this was. The power of him found ex pression In the gray steel-chilled eyed that borpd Into the voum; outlaw. "You 'have begun early, young fel low," be n!d quietly. "But never mind nn n j--t- --v.r A. . f'ftisiv '. J' -"-: ---i- i "You Hav Begun Early, Young Fal low," He Said Quietly. J that. I don't risk you to convict your- self. I sent for you to tell you I don't blame you for this." He touched Ihe j wound In his side. I "1 , Keren t xxlth your hoys, sir." ; "So the boys are a little excited, are th ') '" j "They xvere last n.'ght, anyhow," ' Curly unsxvered, with a trimmer of a. I smile. I Culllson looked quickly at Maloaey i and then at his daughter. j "I li IWteti to x hat you've been h!d- , li.g from uie," he told them. j "Oh, the boys had notions. Miss Ki 'e argued xxlth them and they saw things different," Uie Par Pouble il rider explained. Put Cullison xvouid not let It go at Unit. He made them tell him the whole stmy. Vx'hen Curly and Maloney had finished he buried his daughter's little hand In Ids bi broxvn tint. Ills eyes wore dancing with pride, but he gave her not a word of spoken praise. Kate spoke to Curly. "Father wants mo to tell you that xve don't bame you for shooting at him. We understand just how it whs. Your friend got ex cited and shot as soon as he saw he xvas surrounded. We are both very sorry he was killed. Father could not stop the hoys in time. Perhaps you re member that he tried to get "you to .surrender." Tin rustler nodded. "Yes, I hoard him holler to me to put my gun down, but the others blazed away at me." "And so you naturally defended yourself. Father wants It made clear that he feels you could huve done noth ing else." (To be continued.) H .9)1 I -.. CHAPTER III. The Cullisona, and Laura London. Curly was axxakt-m-il by . the sound of the cook boating the call to break fast on a triangle. Puck was stauding beside the bed. "Iloxv're they coming this glad uio'iiliig, bou?" he Inquired with a grin. "Fine and dandy," grinned buck, Flandruu. "How U Culllson?" "(loud as the wheat, doc says. Mighty lucky for Mr. C. Flandrau that he U. Say, Pni to be yore vulloy and help you Into them clothes. Ult u wiggle on you." Puck escorted his prisoner over to the ranch messhouso. The others hud tinlshed breakfast but Malouey was still eating. His mouth was full of hot cukes, but ho nodded across ut Curb'.lu a. cusuhL friendly way. .... II 1 VI) j jl tZ&&A 1919 Model 0 Cabinet Gas Range AS nearly perfect as any range can be made. It conserves time, food, fuel and money. Remarkably easy to keep clean with its white porcelain tray and splasher back. Enables you to do your cooking with a minimum of time and ef fort, giving you leisure for out-doors. 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