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IN AND OUT
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX j
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
sywOPiii: IVien Ko C'ron
don'$ Lazy Nint ranch haute
end barn burn, josh Hailing,
owner oj the Flying Sir, lri lo
buy htr ranch and (alfc 0 mar
riope. Bui Kay halei him and (J
determined lo keep her ranch
and rebuild. (' a jolt (hat Ihe in
surance money haf to go to tht
mortgage. Ted Oaynor, a puncher
Kay hired ImpuUltielu, Hire the
oufjit to cut iff own timber and
rebuild without pay. Ridino to
buy the only available timber
land, Kay if latsoed by Scrap
Johneon, a Flyino Six puncher.
Ted set the option for Kay and
retcuee her from Scrap't m
wanted, brutal attention!.
Chapter 16
; An Unexpected Visitor
ITAV let out a long quivering
" breath, as Ted stood panting
for a moment. Then he walked
over to her and took back the gun
from her trembling hand.
"It'll be some time before he
comes to." In spite of his effort to
steady It, his voice showed the ef
fect of the emotional and physical
ordeal he had just been through.
"The sooner we get off, the better.
Unless I miss my guess, he'll va
moose from this range without too
much boasting about this after
noon's doings.
' He slipped the gun in his holster,
and stepped over to Scrap John
son's horse, that had been patient
ly waiting at some distance from
the fray, his reins over his neck.
Picking up the reins, Ted hung
them over the pommel of the sad
dle. Then he gave the horse a sharp
blow on the flank, sending him off
across the mesa.
"That bird can walk. It will do
Ted stood there panting a moment.
him good and work out his stiff
ness, he observed grimly, glanc
ing at the unconscious figure on the
ground as he came back to Kay.
"How about our getting under
way?"
"Ted, wait!" Kay's eyes were
enormous with the force of an idea
that she was struggling with. "That
man has the option on our timber
land, right there In his pocketl"
Ted stared at her In bewilder
ment Was her mind giving under
the strain?
"No, he hasn't, Kay," he soothed,
as he led his horse over to her.
"I'll tell you about that on the way
home."
"But he has!" Kay declared pas
sionately, gazing with fascinated
horror at the inert figure stretched
on the mesa. "Ho got it by trickery,
and if you won't take it away from
him, I'm going tol"
'Wait a minutel" Ted seized
both her hands in one of his, as he
fumbled with the other for a pa
per in his pocket. "No need for you
to - rifle his pockets," he added,
flourishing It triumphantly before
her. '
With amazement, Kay ran her
yes over the memorandum of
Ted's transaction with Old Man
Warren with the prospector's name
signed at the bottom.
"Ted! You mean you beat him to
It?" Her eyes sparkled with ex
citement, and the color flooded her
rheeka at this further evidence of
Ted's thought for her.
Silent Communion
IN a few words, he told her about
Seth and the boys chipping in to
raise enough to bind the purchase,
and about his visit to Old Man
Warren.
"I don't know anything about
beating this guy to it," he added,
feasting his eyes on her happy ex
citement as she folded the precious
paper and put it in her pocket
''You'll have to tell me that part of
Itl Come on!"
A swift, strong vibration ran
all through him at the thought
TRAP LAST FUGITIVE
FROM TEXAS PRISON
MONTI CELLO. Ark., July 33. (APt
The last of ttirw Trxna convict who
ought surely Id aouihrhi.t ArkantMs
drnne woods waa in Jnlt today, trap
ped by hi own hunfttr and the keen
eye or night marshal's wife.
The outlaw. Marry Robert, M.
raptured In a cafe Innl night without
a Miot tetng tired. Me had eluded
for motr than 34 hours ft posse
hlMi killed one of his companion
and ruptured another In a gun tight
Monday.
WAflHINOION. July 33. (AP)
Senate comnwee committee approved
today house bill authorizing es
pe.ndlture of 70o,OU0 tor cancer re j
search. I
of holding Kay in his arms as Uia;
rode back to the ranch.
Mounting, he reached down hit
hand and she sprang lightly up be
fore him, her own heightened color
attesting to the fact that his emo
tion had communicated itself to
lier. '
For a long time they rode In si
lence across the mesa that was be
I "inning to take on the intenser
1 colors and lengthened shadows of
late alternoon.
Kay leaned confidingly against
Ted, and his arm involuntarily
tightened around her. Somehow
there seemed to be no need foi
words, and sweet as the gay com
panionship of the morning's ride
had been, this silent communion
meant infinitely more.
The sunset colors were flooding
the sky as they neared the ranch
house gate.
Abruptly Ted reined In. "I'd like
to say goodby to you here. I must
be on my way."
He hardly recognized his low
husky voice. A wild longing to kit:
Kay before he released her swept
over him, but even as he struggled
with it, Kay slipped from his arm
and sprang lightly to the ground.
"When will you be back?" Kay'i
voice was as low and vibrant with
suppressed feeling as his.
"Three days at the most," he an
jwcred. For a long moment he
gazed at her. He started to say
something, then changed his mind
and picked up the reins.
"Goodby." He wheeled abruptly,
and Kay watched him ride Into the
sunset. A strange premonition sud
denly tightened her throat Would
he really be back in three days?
Already, their whole tense and
dramatic encounter seemed like t
dream.
Turning swiftly, she walked past
the charred ruins of the ranch
house and down to her cabin, skirt-
Ing the bunk house in a desire to be
alone for a few minutes, before ac
counting for her absence to the
boys. ,
Ready To Investigate
ABSORBED In her thoughts, Kay
walked with her eyes absent
mindedly fixed on the browning
bunch grass at her feet.
"Hullo! There you are!'.'
A hearty voice startled her out
of her reverie, and glancing up, she
saw the tall figure of a man wait
ing for her on the cabin steps.
Reluctantly relinquishing her
desire for solitude, she hurried
forward, and recognized Tom Run
yon as the waiting figure.
"Say! I couldn't wait any longer
to come over and tell you how bad
I feel about all this! Ho waved
toward the ruins of the ranch
house as he came down the steps
to meet her. His eyes, as they rest
ed on her brilliant coloring, and
the flush still in her cheeks from
the ride with Ted. expressed the
same admiration they had on the
ridge.
"I had to stick around up yonder
until I was relieved," he explained,
"or I'd have been over sooner."
"That's very good of you." Kay
slipped her hand out of his grasp.
"I certainly didn't think, when
talked to you last, that I'd find my
own house burnt down!"
"I kind of thought I might bt
some help," Tom Runyon boomed
pompously. "I've been talking with
that foreman of yours up at the
bunk house, and it looks mighty
peculiar to me how this fire start
ed." Kay shot him a startled look.
"You mean you think"
"I'm not thinking anything," he
hastened to say, with a cautloui
lowering of his voice. "I'm only
saying that this and any other firs
will bear investigating.
fCovvrtglit, Jisr. Uartt at .VfrvauiU
Kay parries with Tom Runron and
bli suspicions of Ted, Monday.
TO EAST LYNN POST
JACKSONVILLE. July 33. (Spl.)
Cheeter Tunnel, for two years coach
at the Jacksonville high school, has
resinned hut position. It has own
announced.
runnel ha accepted a pnstlton In
schools of East l,m.. near Oretcoo
City. No sucvAsnr lias ben named
by the Jacksonville hord sa yet.
In addition to directing athletic
activities nt Ihe Jacksonville school,
Tunnel Instructed In English, Latin,
civics and United States history.
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Robert Todd Lincoln.
On April 14, I860, a crazed seces
sion fanatic, John Wilkes Booth,
shot Abraham Lincoln through the
head os the President sat viewing a
play at Ford's theatre, Washington.
D. C. Carried to a house across the
street he died the following morn
ing. With him as death came was
his eldest Bon, Robert Todd Lincoln.
On tho morning of July 3, 1881,
President Garfield stood In the Bal
timore aud Potomao railway station
at Washington, D, C, about to de
port .for. a scheduled speech In New
England. Robert Todd Lincoln ar
rived at the station just In time
to hear two pistol shots ring out
and to seo tho president slump to
the floor, mortally wounded by
Nab Roseburg Man
, On Morals Charge
HOSEBURd, Ore., July 23. (AP)
Charged with, a morals offense In
volving his two minor step-daugh-UM-s,
Walter Mask of Roseburg was
reported by Sheriff Percy Webb to
bo under arrest today at Redding,
Calir. Mask, learning that the girls
were being queMloriPd by the au
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CRASH, WHEM THe
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THEBCKROWeD' PLANE SPLUTTERED,
AS THC- SHIP WAS
ABOUT TO CLEAR
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AT THE AIRPORT,
WHEN.. SUDDENLY
THE MOTOR PICKED
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disappointed ot-
f Ice -seeker. Oarlltld died two months
and 17 days later, the second U. 8.
president to be assassinated.
Twenty years later, Robert Lincoln
went to Buffalo, New York, for the
1901 Pan-American Exposition. Here.
In the Music Hall on September tt.
President McKlnley waa shot twice
by Leon Czolgoso, an anarchist.
Robert Todd Lincoln' was present at
his death eight days later.
Thus, strati go . aa It seems, the
eldest son of the first martyred U. 8.
president, witnessed tbo shooting
or death of the only three U. 8.
chief executives who have been aa
sasnlnated. After the McKlnley tragedy, Lin
coln stPsdfaV.ly refused to atteud
thorities, packed a few personal be
longings Into his automobile and
fled late yesterday, the sheriff said.
Information broadcast by the state
police radio system resulted In his
arrest at Redding by tho California
highway patrol.
WASHINGTON. July 23. (AP)
Vice-President Garner today appoint
ed Senators McAdoo of California and
Plttman of Nevada, both Democrat.
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any other Presidential functions,
though he, himself was high In pub
lic life and waa several .times con
sidered a likely prospect aa a candi
date for president. Lincoln served he
secretary of war In the cabinet ot
the Ill-fated Garfteld and was the
only cabinet member retained by
Vice-President Arthur after his suc
cession to the presidency. He also
served aa U. 8. minister to England.
Japanese (itant.
The average height of Japanese
men Is five feet three and a half
Inches and tho average Japanese wo
man stands four feet, ten and one
half Inches. The Joint average Is five
feet, on inch. Kin Fuki' towers over
this height, by two feet eight Inches.
and McNary, Oregon, Republican
leader, to the Golden Gate Interna
tional exposition commission..
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Sulmmcr Drowns
COTTAGE GROVE, ' July 33 (AP)
Shlrl Thomas Mills, 31. was drowned
In a Row river tragedy near here yes
terday afternoon while on a swim
ming party. An emergency Inhalator
brought to the scene by tho Eugene
fire department failed to revive him.
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