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PAG-: TEN rEDFOT?T VATL TTCTBUyE. HfEDFOTCD. OT?EHONT. RTTXDAY. JULY 2.". 1937 LUNCHEON BOX Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX For further proof "address the author. Inclosing s stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Off. 0)7 BC5ffiC3 0)3 SSSIiW&SJa) -" g-. SYNOPSIS: Jun a Tti Gey nor it desperately about la Ml a orest Ire to eel a Job, Kay Cran don stops him, likes his looks, Cities him a place at lh Luv Nine Josh Hastings, owner ol the Fliing Six, tries to buy th Lazy Nine and marry Kay after her ranch house and bam burn. She hatee him and it determined to keep her ranch and rebuild. Ted tir the outIt to cut its own tim ber and rebuild without pay. Hastinos tries to tie up the only available timber land, but Ted win the race for an option, then whips a Hatting! puncher for molesting Kay. Tom Runyon, the fire patrol, shows up at the Lazy Wine. Chapter 17 . Seth Make A Slip KAY felt all her first suspicions about the ranch fire revive, but he remembered Dan Steele's warning and held her peace. While this Tom Runyon seemed all right, and a kindly and genial enough person, she didn't really know any thing about him, so it would pay to go slow. If he wanted to go ahead Inves tigating on his own initiative, he might unearth something that would give some foundation for her suspicion of Josh Hastings. But while she must be very careful not to voice the direction In which her suspicions lay, there was one point on which she must set him straight right away. "I am absolutely certain that Seth and our outfit are above sua- B- icion," she stated positively, "so you're looking for foul play, you can count them out from the start" "Maybe." He nodded his ap proval of her loyalty. "But when you're starting out to look for clues you can't be handicapped by any foregone conclusions. You just leave the investigating to me. All I want you to do is to answer a few questions." "Gladly but let's wait until after supper." Kay leaned against the aide of the cabin for a second, overcome by a sudden weary faint ness. - Tom Runyon aprang to put a steadying hand on her arm. "What's the matter?" he inquired anxiously. "You look all Inr "Nothing." Kay straightened up and smiled at him. "I'm just a little tired, I guess. I'll be all right as soon as I get something to eatl You go on up to the bunk house and I'll join you in a minute. I'm eating with the boys, until I can get my own housekeeping arrangements rigged up. You'll stay for supper, of course?" she added, as he nesi tated a moment , "That's mighty good of you. I'd be glad io. Only, look here! Who was that you were riding in with?" Kay paused at the cabin door, her eyebrows raised in sumrise. A slight flush came into her cheeks as she answered his question. After an, mere was no point in makin I mystery about being with Ted 'That was Ted Gaynor, the man I was with up on the ridge." To her annoyance, sne nusnea still more, as she caught Tom Runyon's keen, speculative look at her heightened color. "Oh, yes. Well, he's Just the one I wanted to ask you about. But we'll wait until after aupper." Before Kay could answer, he turned ana maae lor the bunk .House. As she washed her face and hands, she tried to reason herself out of the queer, panicky feeling that suddenly took possession of her. The dark premonition that she had had when she said goodby to acu swept over ner again. "Don't be a fooll" she scolded her image in the mirror as she rutnieswy tugged a comb through her tangled curls. "You're just let ting your nerves run away with you! What could nnssiblv ha to him? Especially, if you keep yuur una, una aon I let Tom flua yon a nrsi suspicions start up Supper Conversation D RACED by the thought that - it wa up to her to protect Ted, Kay walked slowly up to the bunk nouse, planning what she would say. Any thoughts were welcome, as long as they pushed into the back ground her horrible experience of mo auernoon. instead of allowing herself to dwell on that she con centrated on the memory of the magnificent way Ted had come to her rescue. If her first intuitive Judgment of him, in spite of the damning con dition of their meeting, had needed any bolstering, she certainly had had it there. She understood exactly how des peration for those he loved had driven him to feel justified in de stroying some timber for the sake of saving human lives. He had been perfectly right in saying that in burning oft the ridge he had chosen he would have done no actual dam age to any one. It would have de stroyed a second scrub growth of timher, but could easily have been kept under control. i you couldn't expect any i. see it as she did, though, Kay u i ized, as she neared the bunk hou and saw Tom Runyon standing ! talking with Seth while they 1 waited for the call to supper. Espe . cially not a man of Tom Runyon's I type, who was obsessed with the I idea of his own importance, and wouia De ready to jump to any conclusion that would reflect glory on him. And the demand of the community for some action in run ning down the firebug, whoever he was, would make Runyon all the more eager to pin the blame for all the fires on Ted, if he suspected that one mad act of his. The supper bell rang just as Kay joined the two men, and in the genera) conversation at the table, there was no chance for Runyon to ask her the questions she was prepared to parry as skilfully as she could. Talk turned on the new scheme for building the ranch house, and everyone was full of ideas and suggestions. "By the way," Seth broke in sud denly, "isn't it about time Ted Gaynor was getting back?" "Oh, I meant to tell you, and 1 forgot!" Kay felt Tom Runyon's eyes on her as she turned apolo getically to Seth, "I I met him on the mesa, and he gave me the op tion he got from Old Man Warren. It was terribly good of you and the boys to lend that money, so he could clinch the bargain!" She smiled at them, a sudden catch in her throat and mist in her eyes at this proof of their loyalty. "Why didn't he come in?" Seth demanded. "I wanted to get all the dope on it" "He thought he'd better be get ting on," again Kay felt the slow color coma into her cheeks, at the insistence of Tom Runyon s look. "He told me to tell you all about it." She launched into the account Ted had given her of his Interview with Old Man Warren, hoping to divert attention from herself. flattery For Runyon "I LIKE that Gaynor fellow," Seth observed when she had finished. "Just where did you say you picked him up?" Kay gave a gasp at this bad break. Seth evidently had forgot ten all the things she had told him to say to Tom Runyon about Ted. He couldn't have put his foot in it any worse if he had deliberately tried. She could see Tom Runyon's ears pricked up to catch her an swer, although he pretended to be engrossed in conversation with one of the boys. Managing to change her gasp into a cough, Kay fixed her eyes firmly on Seth as she answered. "Why, I've told you about him before, Seth! You don't pay atten tion to what I say half the time!" Under her teasing tone, her voice held a significant reminder. "He's the one who has hsen helping me decide on some of the timber land I've been wanting to buy even before the house burned down." She turned to Tom Runyon with a politely explana tory air. "I've been thinking we ought to add some more timber land to the ranch." "There's nothing much but scrub growth on that ridne where I met you," he observed. mats just the conclusion Ted arrived at." Kav looked tin nt Tnm Runyon with flattering admiration. "I'm sorry ho Isn't here. You and he would enjoy talking together." wneres ne goner "Just vestordav. he decided In really join up with the outfit," Kay explained, "and he's gone back to bring his mother and sister to the other little cabin like mine." 1 see." Tom Runvons black eyes fastened themselves specula tively on Kay. "He's the one who has got us started with this idea of building the ranch house and hnrn nnr. selves," she rattled on nervously. it o luciiy ne is a regular mem ber of the outfit now." bare is." Seth agreed hearHlv pushing back his chair and rising to his feet "We'll nwH nil th hands we can get on this jri." There was a scraping of chairs as the others followed suit. "How about taking me on?" Tom Runyon suggested, with a flatter ing eye bent on Kay. "You're too valuable right when you are," she countered gaily. "I'm counting on you to keep my new winucr iana irom Durning down." That's riant" Tom Rnnvmi promptly succumbed to the flattery. With a relieved fwllno thof -k. had safely steered him away from the dangerous interest he was manifesting in Ted, Kay sauntered out into the twilight with him. But her relief was short liviwl. Nn sooner had they stepped out of the mess, snacic man torn Kunyon tool; possessive hold of her arm. How about that little talk u were going to have?" witn a resigned. "All right," Kay let herself be guided tn th. cabin. rCopyrfgAt, HIT. Harts i, Ktrwrnd) Ton Runyon trill Kit h Tm fonshl at Kelly's, tomorrow. CRATER LAKE TRAVEL CRATER LAKE. July 34 S?U Crater lake travel u continuing to scatter records with the present totsl nearlng 95.000 vtaltors for he season thus far. The tOO.000 mark will be nt-sed oithln a lew days. Ad average of over 400 cars I entering the park dally, coming r.'om all part of the union, with I'.ilirornla particularly well repre tented. It was Just as years ago thla Mimmer that widespread eicitement was caused By the arrival -t in cars in t'ne park In one day and 17.1 auto mobiles the entire year. A that time th snnusl. attendance wis slightly over 3000 visitors, a total ivhlch now Is average summer Sunday travel. CCC Boys to Join Fight On Crickets WASHINGTON, July 34. (API Civilian Conservation Corps crews will Join In southeastern Idaho's bat tle against Mormon cricket. Pepre senlatlve D. Worth Clark of Idaho said today. Robert rVchner, emergency con servation director, Issued an order allowing forest service, graving and reclamation bureau camps to use sll available facilities to c-mbat the in sects, Clark said. Mwn amis Farmer ONTARIO, .lulv 14.-1 API A field of standing wheat last nlht was nothing more than shocks of grain today. A brilliant m-xn and tractor headlUihts gam L Koopman all the light he needed to operate a reaper end binder. Phone -.4s Ae'i. nsu awy tuui .e.'use. city oeniury Oortloe fue mem timhtf i . . . . I ar n 1 f a 1 1 AS THE HVPt &w:rww& I V W N& V-rXs.Xt. ill II 1 CM P. AACINMK5. 3ostoif'Cleiel3trirMH cmKzmm van f l&CTNCJ CnPiNCE'5, WITHOUT &N61E ERROR mi-zz r bM MKT. MUltni f DRU651H6 THM H INOIfu .NMlVK THROW MRCdliC- into w wwef? to srufy tfte WW WEN CWCH IHcNi r i i "f if i 1 i mt i tiMtnii i at i rai i uim in 0$ V C .-- 'ri w mot im mf ,wcom eefccav took off m mvtv WITHIN T COHflN&S 0?TH HOO-WO W?NO rfcl-PiCE- Of fAfccriiHew Witts pmm-pacific mD$M,mfmCYzco -37 Indoor Flight Pilots have taken off from the In teriors of hangars and. on occasions, even flown through them, but Lin coln Beachy's take-off, flight and landing within the four walls of the Palace of Machinery Jn San Francisco In 1915 Is the only completely Indoor flight ever recorded. Considering the undeveloped state of aviation in his day. Beach y might well be rated as the greatest dare devil ever to take to the aJr. In 191 1 ha set a. world's airplane alti tude by fulfilling his previously de clared Intention of filling his ship with gas. taking off and keeping the plane's now up till ho ran out of 111 fuel. An altitude of 11.600 feet was reached before the lost drop of gss was u&sd, whereupon the pilot head ed downward at a terrific speed, looping and stunting all the way back to the ground for a perfect landing. Boachy was the first man to fly through the dangerous air currents over Niagara falls and was also the first to fly under the suspsnslon bridge. In 1913, the "Madman of the Air" made the first loop in the United States and a while later dtd ten In rapid succession. The daring pilot was killed shortly after his In door flight In San Prancslca when a wing on his ship collapsed over the exposition grounds. Drugging Fish Fifihberries. the fmtt of the East Indian climbing plant botanically known as Anamlrta Cocculus, con tain plcrotoxln, a narcotic poison. Dropped Into ponds or streams, dried flshberrles stupefy any fish in the Immediate vlclnty, making them easy prey to be caught by hand. The "drugging" method of fishing Is widely practiced throughout India. A similar method of fishing is used In Peru. A root pulp, derived from a plant native to Central and South America, Is thrown In the water. It renders the flsi helpless and brings them to the surface where they are easily caueht. Unions Join For Fight On Ruling NEWARK. N. J., July 34. AP C. I. O. and A. P. of L. leaders ral lied their forces for a meeting today to "unite in a common bond" to appeal a chancery court ruling that labor contracts for a closed shop are "Illegal and unenforceable" and strike for closed shops "unlawful." The ruling by Vic Chancellor Maja Leon Btrry Is appealable, directly to the court of errors and appeals, the state's highest tribunal. WOMEN WILL BATTLE FOR EQUALITY IN LAW ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. July 24 (AP) Delegates representing 65.000 members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, voted by acclamation today to fight for amendment of the federal con stitution to place women on equal footing with men under the laws of the united State government and all the states. Miss Gertrude Mallory of Los Ang eles made the motion for support of the proposed amendment. GRANTS PASS, July 24 (API Jack Dougherty. Biker county miner, sent Fred Roper, Josephine county fair manager, a challenge to be Issued today to all local miners, declaring Dougherty's drilling team could beat any local drillers. 6ffS AN EftrUY S-fARf FOR A VM OF FlSHlr6 . A Irfftg LATER OPENS UJKCH B0 OUST 10 Si.E SEUC5 A UKEW SPOt, AMD BE6IH5 -lb WONDER WHAf SHE WP Wtf Ir4 . . WHAT MWrlES Pltf IN HIS UMCH FEEL'S fHERE'lL BEPlErW IEF IF HE EAfS ONE SANDWICH MAKES HIM -frllRSlV. EATS AN APPLE, SANDWICH NOW. 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