Thursday, October 22, 1936
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
GUNLOCK RANCH
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
Wisdom II Personal
—13
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“Always blows the wrong way for
me. I don’t mind losing the timber.
If it had caught him, I’d—” He
checked himself suddenly. "Look here,”
he jerked, “why can’t we help the wind
along next night there's a blow—Just
give things a start down there?”
“What d'you mean? 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-
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“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)
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