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Thursday, October 22, 1936 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. GUNLOCK RANCH CHAPTER VIII—Continued Wisdom II Personal —13 Most of the wisdom one acquires one can't communicate to anyone else. Each man's life is his own. Dreams no more come true than most suspicions. A monkey never seems to have any repose. Its life is all excite ment as it is for some men. The “hand” who watches the elock will never be the man of the hour. Check-Rein Needed One should be glad he has emo tions; but keep a rein on them. Most people love books—on the shelves. No greater treasure is given to a man than a close-mouthed friend. It is the only kind that is fit to be. One has never fully lived until he has spent a year on a farm and explored the resources of the coun try general store. It’s like Crusoe exploring his ship. To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They, regulate liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv. 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Burn him out?” “Why not?” McCrossen took the cigarette from his mouth but said nothing. “Well?” sputtered Van Tambel. “Why don’t you talk?” “I don’t fancy that kind of a Job.” McCrossen shifted moodily In his saddle. “Bill Denison and I have got our differences—plenty of ’em. Some day I expect to Iron ’em out with him. But it’ll be done In daylight." Van Tambel sneered. “Look out he don't get you and the girl both.” “He’s welcome to, If the luck’s his. Well”—the words came reluctantly— "I’ll talk to Barney Rebstock. You’ll have to pay him well.” After Van Tambel came back from the hospital, he reopened his office in Sleepy Cat “I thought you said the old devil couldn't get well,’’ complained Pardaloe to Dr. Carpy. Carpy was laconic. “He can't. Some day he’ll crack up sudden.” But Van Tambel kept Jane so closely under his eye that she had no chance to see Denison. One day her father took her In town on business. The volunteer fire fight ers were clamoring for their pay, and Jane, knowing the details of the agree ment with Pardaloe as to how much beer and "grub” should be provided, plus their pay, rode with her father, to town, to settle with Pardaloe. “Bill," she said to Pardaloe, when the accounts had been straightened out, "I want to ask a question and I want the truth.” Pardaloe looked at her with shrewd benevolence. “Fire away, girl!” "Why does my father hate Bill Den ison so?” Pardaloe shifted uneasily. “You won’t like the truth, Miss Jane.” "Whether I like It or not, I want you to tell me. Bill,” she said. “Well, your dad wants the Spring ranch—started a fight for It at the Medicine Bend land office. Bill beat him there, so he goes up to Washing ton, and Bill has to sell off his cows to get money to fight and pay lawyers. 'Fore he got through, the boy had to sell everything but his shirt to keep his end up. Kind of tough.” “It was tough,” assented Jane grim ly. Her eyes were half closed and her lips compressed, as if to shout out un pleasant details. Pardaloe warmed to his story. “If It wa’n’t you. Miss Jane, an' your own dad. I’d call a man that’d act that way —well, »onder to me is, Bill never plugged him. Now don’t cry ; 1 told you you wouldn't like It.” Jane shook her head and brushed the tears from her eyes with a gesture of defiance. “Don't mind a little shower, Bill. You've told me what I asked for —the truth. Now I want to tell you something. But please keep my se cret—will you. Bill?” Fardaloe’s huge, honest bulk, slow- moving jaws, and deep piercing eyes Invited confidence. Jane had no diffi culty in reposing It In the lanky ex- sheriff. “Shoot,” was all he said. Swiftly she told him of her first meetings with Denison, and of their rides together. She described how he had saved her life and how afterward her father had ridden over to the Deni son ranch with Dave McCrosson, cre ated a scene and forbade her ever again to see Denison. “I’m watched now like a two-year-old child,” she concluded, “and I'm rebel lious !” Pardaloe looked at her appraisingly. He observed the animation of her man ner and the Hash of her eye; he lis tened to the rapid flow of her words and the spirited way In which se spoke them. The old frontiersman looked at her as an artist might look.on a flow er; he could see, but couldn’t quite un derstand, all that was hidden within It. "I wish,” said Jane, musing, almost as much to herself as to Pardaloe, "1 knew Just what to do.” “Do nothin’,” suggest Pardaloe. Jane bridled. "Do nothing! That Isn't very pleasant to think about.” "You’ve got to realize your circum stances,” he returned. “In the mess you're in all around out there, it's best for you to sit tight 'n' do nothin’. You don't know It, but you're settin’ on a box of dynamite. You've got three men out there, all three desperate quick on the trigger. And It wouldn't take much to start airy one into action. There's your dad, McCrossen, and Bill Denison. If anythin' begins with three men like that. It won't stop till there's harm done.” “Do you expect me to act as peace- maker. Bill?” “I didn't say that—‘‘wouldn’t be no sort of use. There'll be peace there when bobcats go back on jack rabbits.” "Well,” sighed Jane, reluctant, "you know best, Mr. Pardaloe—” “Bill.” “You know best. Bill. 1 may want to talk to you again.” “Any time, honey.” Riding home with her father, who rode slowly, she had plenty of time to think. And her thoughts were sober hued. McCrossen was a thorn In her aide. To meet him every way pleasant day and be half- vas a daily strain. by Frank H. Spearman A Boost for Home Sewingl $ ■ “Ob, my dear." “You don't know what terrible fires we've been having down our way." “They’ve been terrible everywhere He tried to make up to ber. “I got this fall.” off on the wrong foot with you, Jane,” “Do you think there Is any chance to he said one day. The two were stand save his sight? Oh, Sister, can you im ing near the ranch-house door, in the agine how I feel?” sunshine. “I know that, all right All “Dear heart, I do know how you feel. I can say Is, if there's anythin' I can Of course I don’t know a thing about do to square myself, I'm ready to do the case, except that Dr. Carpy has it whenever you say the word. Is that given very strict orders about his care.” fair?” She was too considerate to tell how Jane was looking up at the moun worried she knew Carpy to be. “Of tains. She answered without rancor; course his room Is dark. And his eyes a mild manner must be her cue now, are bandaged. We like Mr. Denison so A week passed. Van Tambel lay In much—he's always been so kind to us bed. He had to send Jane to Medicine with nice gifts. This is his room.” The Bend to attend to some bank business nurse laid her hand on the knob of the there. To keep her under surveillance. door. “Shall I go in with you?” Van Tambel ordered McCrossen to ride “Do, Sister,” said Jane. to Sleepy Cat with her. When Jane Sister opened the door. “Good-morn heard of the arrangements she flatly ing, Mr. Denison." refused to go. “Good-morning, Sister.” “What’s a-matter with you, you Jane, walking In on tiptoe behind her damned cantankerous thing!” demand guide, heard bis answer. ed her father huskily. “Ain’t my fore “Who’s that with you. Sister?” Jane man good enough for you to ride with?” had stepped as lightly as possible; but Jane’s features set. “I won’t ride with bls ears had detected her footsteps. him,” she declared crisply. “I've brought you a visitor. I hope “Why not?” thundered her father, you’re not cross,” she added, banter- rising up in bed. “Ohl" he exclaimed, ingly. swearing violently, at a sudden twinge "Who is visiting me?” he asked. of pain. "Why won't you ride with Jane had been gradually drawing him, you hussy?” closer to him. “Bill?” Jane drew herself up the least bit He started violently. For an Instant Her father's rudeness stiffened her he was silent as If listening for more. attitude. "If you want to know the Then he responded, low and strangely, real reason, I don’t want him trying “Jane?" to kiss me on the way home after he’s “Yes, Bill.” had too many drinks In the Red Front In the dark, her hand touched his saloon. I won't ride with him. If he arm. He caught both her hands, crush goes, I don’t.” ing them within his own, and drew Finally Bull Page was assigned to es one and the other hungrily to his lips. cort the wayward Jane, and the two “Sister," he said, composed, yet eager, set off for town. Jane was most in “can you find a chair, in the dark, for terested to get some news from Bull Miss Van Tambel?" Page about Denison ; but Bull had nei With the nurse gliding out of the ther seen nor heard of him since the room, Jane's hands crept over his Gunlock Knob fire. shoulders, around his neck, and as his In Medicine Bend, Jane extended a arms enfolded her, their lips met to note, drew some money, paid the hos give and to receive that for which pital bills, and waited for the after- words were not needed. noon train home. When she got to “I didn’t want you to hear that I Sleepy Cat It was ten o’clock at night, was in trouble till we knew more about and no rig was at the station from it. How did you find out I was here, the ranch. She was compelled to spend Jane?” the night at the hotel. It was a long “Jake Spotts, Bill. I never dreamed time afterward before she realized that of such a thing,” she said tremulously. the whole trip had been planned by her “He told me the ranch house was father and McCrossen for a purpose. burned last night. Oh, Bill !” “I think maybe my eyes will be all She rose early, breakfasted alone, and started out to pay the few remaining right in a couple of days, Ben Page fire bills. She went first to Spott’s has been working for me for a while. place to pay for the beer. Spotts was He got hold of Bob Scott to bring me out. "Ought to be back pretty soon,” In to see Doc Carpy—and the doctor He felt her warm said Oscar. "He’s got to be here sent me here.” pretty soon to let the bartender out for tears against his cheek. He kissed them away from her eyes. “Don’t cry ! breakfast.” “I’ve an order to leave at Rubido’s,” There's nothing to cry over. I’ll be all said Jane. “I’ll be back.” She walked right when my eyes get better. Doc over to the general store, left her pro tor says that won't be long. 1 wish you vision order for the wagon to pick hadn’t heard of it.” “I wish you'd never heard of me, Bill. up, and returned to Spott’s barber shop. Jake, his crutches at his side, To think of it, that I should have been the canse of starting all this trou was sitting In bls barber chair. “Hello there. Miss! Weill How's ble. Ob, why couldn't I have stayed home that dreadful day Instead of rid things out at Gunlock?” “About as usual, Jake. I've come to ing Into danger? I’ll never, never forgive myself. And I’m ashamed to pay for the beer.” say It, Bill, but the real reason I rode “No more fires botherin’?” “Not at present. How much was the up there was because I was Just hun gry for a sight of you—that was the beer?” real reason. Bill.” "No hurry about that.” Denison only laughed. "Don’t think “Yes, but I want to clean it up.” “Thank you, ma'am,” said the saloon you’re the only one that was hungry keeper and barber as Jane counted out for a sight. If I hadn't been scouting and handed him the money. “If I around the Knob trail where I knew could only call my old side pardner you liked so much to ride. I’d never What back out of it,”—Spotts shook his head have caught sight of you. —“I wouldn't mind if I never got a then? Why, Jane, If you were burning In a fire, why shouldn't I jump In after durned cent for the beer.” “None of us will ever forget Pan you? What would be left for me?” “Do your eyes hurt terribly, Bill?” ama. Jake.” “Not when you’re here, Jane.” “The damnedest, meanest, orniest fires “Oh, I know better. I know they do. that ever swept them bills,” said And I can do nothing to help!” Spotts, counting over the money per He made light of her worry. There functorily. “Done more damage to the were more furtive tears, more earnest range—not to speak of losin’ the best prayers, more submission from Jane. man we had In Sleepy Cat and crip More happy laughs, more ardent em plin' up the best man we had in the braces, more carefree cheer from Deni hills." son. "Who was that, Jake?” “Why, Bill,” she protested at length, “Why, Bill Denison.” “one would think there was nothing the Jane started visibly. “Bill Denison?” matter with you. And I am frightened she echoed in consternation. "What do to death." you mean?” “I was frightened to death myself "Well, you know he's In the hos till you came. It's not much fun sit pital.” ting alone here In the dark. What “I know nothing of the kind.” ex- frightens me most Is the thought that claimed Jane sharply. She stood white if the worst should come, I’d lose you.” as a sheet. “What has happened? Tell “You can never lose me. Bill. Re me !” member that." “Why, didn't you know his eyes is “Yes, but a blind man!” he exclaimed gone to hell?” desperately. "Jane. I never could ask "What do you mean? What has hap you to marry me blind—” pened? Tell me!" “There's only one way to keep me Spotts started violently out of his from marrying that good-for-nothing torpor as he saw with amazement the Bill Denison—that’s to kill me and effect of his news on his visitor. "Why, make me Into dust—even then. I’d Carpy says his eyes got burned some tremble under his feet I would—Just gettin* through that Gunlock Knob fire. to annoy him.” Then some son—" Jake checked him- Her tongue was light and happy self. "Somebody set his ranch house when she said good-by, but her heart afire last night and nearly burned was dread with fear. She rode straight him up. Ask Carpy : he'll tell you." to Carry's office; luckily she found him She hurried to the hotel. The doc In. tor was out on a call. Jane hurried “Doctor! I'm so worried about Mr. to McAlpin's barn, where she had left Denison—" her nony, and rode straight up the bill “So am I." to the hospital. “You know what happened?” “Said he got trapped in the ranch- CHAPTER IX house Are." “Yes, but It was trying to save my life when his eyes first got hurt” “Where is he, Sister?" “Never said a blamed word about “His room Is on the second floor— that." 218. Shall I show you the way?” “I was up on Gunlock Knob, and he “If you please. Sister. I learned only a moment ago that he was here. I've rode up to get me through the fire. heard of this dreadful ranch-house fire Doctor." she asked, unsteadily, “can’t only this minute. Did he tell you bow yon save his eyes?" The old surgeon looked at her sym It happened, Sister?" “You're asking a hard “He has hardly spoken since they pathetically. brought him In. Rut Mr. Scott said It question, Jane? There are times when was getting out of the burning ranch a doctor can’t tell much better than an outsider how things are coming out house." “How could that have happened? His Bill’s In bad shape; I must admit that eyes were scorched In saving me. Sis- But I'm doing everything under the Iter, from getting burned to death on sun I can tor him." (TO BE CONTINU ED) Gunlock Knob.* Copyright Frank H. Spearman WNU Service 1945": 1870 191+ ERE are three Sewing Circle specialties that are as easy H to make as humming a tune. If exquisite in satin, crepe, broad cloth or silk, the result wholly and completely satisfying. With or without the jacket the frock is the ultimate in utility and style. It is available for sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires six and one-fourth yards of 39-inch material plus seven eighths yard contrast. Send for the Fall Pattern Book containing Barbara Bell well- planned, easy-to-make patterns. Exclusive fashions for children, young women, and matrons. 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