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PAGE BIX rEPFOTTO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEP70TIP. ORTOOy. TUESDAY, TUGUST 3, 1937. Jlitf " "iiWi'iI'Ti "Jil1 at? Bflaas its sssekpzmss) SYNOPSIS: join nestings, own er o the Fllinp Six, triee to buy Kay Crandon's Lazy Nine after her ranch house and barn burn. He alio triee to court Kay, She distrusts him and le determined to keep Kir ranch and rebuild. . -Hatting' cowhand, Scrap John on, molcsU Kay, but Ted Gay nor, a puncher $he impuUively hired, rescues her and whip Scrap. Later they shoot it out, , wounding each other, Hastings, . who hates both men, finds them unconscious and murders Scrap, using Ted's gun to frame him. . Ted crawls to a shock where a oirl rakee him in. Chapter 25 Wbo'e Gun? TWO days had passed, and it! there was no sign ol Ted Gay- nor. "I don't understand It, nicks," Kay whispered brokenly, as she slipped oft Flicker's bridle and leaned her head for a moment gainst his mane. "Do you sup pose" she broke oft abruptly, as she saw Shorty coming toward her. "Hi, there! Let me do that!" He took the bridle from her hand. "You hop to it and get some chow, or you'll be out of luck." "Thanks, Shorty." Kay braced herself, and tried to smile. "Has tveryone finished?" side ner, ana tooK me gun out ol the sheriff's hand. "Sure, it was," he corroborated, and then added before Kay could stop him, "But, look here! Wasn't this the one you gave to that Gaynor guy?" "What's that?" the sheriff snapped, his keen eyes traveling from Seth to Kay. "Gave it to who? When? Where is he now?" Kay moistened her lips, before attempting to answer this rapid fire of questions. Her mind was leaping in lightning flashes from one desperate conjecture to an other. What did this gun In Zeke Far ley's hands mean? Was Ted hurt or killed? Or had he killed someone else? Beating through her fears for him, was the instinc tive feeling that she must watch her step and not say something that would incriminate him. "Where where did you find It?" She stalled for time, by meet ing the sheriff's questions with an other. "Never mind that now." Zeke Farley spoke more gently, as he saw Kay's distress, nut his eyes were none the less keen. "Just you tell us everything you know about it" Realizing that all she could do was to tell the truth, Kay ex plained how she had given the gun to Ted Gaynor, and had last seen it when he started off for Cleat Water Basin, to get his mother and sister and bring them back. "How did the gun come into m v m ' volar J I V '-a I I I . "Do you know that gun?" asked the sheriff. "Seth and a couple of the boys are still there," Shorty answered, bending down to Flicker's cinch. "What d'you think of the timber we're cutting?" "I think .t's fine. Only I hate to see those great tamaracks come crashing down! "Now, ain't that Just like girl?" Shorty commented to Flick er, cocking a quizzical eye at Kay to catch the effect of his words. "Here we're breaking our backs building a barn for her, and she wants us to keep the trees to have picnics under!" "No, I .don't, Shorty." Kay laughed at Shorty's comical ex pression In spite of her heavy heart "I'm as anxious to get the barn built as you are, only I wish" She left the sentence un finished. "Sure. So do I " Shorty agreed, answering Kay's unspoken thought with the freedom of an old friend. "You know, it almost seems as though something must have happened to that guyl He wasn't the kind to go back on his word!" "He wasn't was he?" Kay greed eagerly. Then, fearful of saying too much, once the flood gates of her troubled thoughts were opened, she turned and made for the mess shack. The Sheriff's Queries AS SHE and Seth were discuss- ing the dimensions of the new barn, a sudden clatter of hoofs broke in on them. Springing to her feet with a quick premonition of trouble, Kay was half way to the door, when it was suddenly dark ened by the lanky figure of Zeke Farley, the sheriff of Butte county. "Hello, there!" he pulled off his hat, as his eve caught Kav. "You're Just the girl I wanted to see. Do you know that gun?" For a moment everything swam before Kay's eyes, as she caught sight of the gun the sheriff held out to her. She felt as though every drop of blood was drained from her heart as she stared at it and braced herself against one of the chairs. Conscious of curious faces crowded into the doorway behind the sheriff, she cleared her throat once or twice, before she could bring herself to speak. "Why why, yes," she faltered. That was one of Dad's." Seth came around the table b- your hands?" Kay ended, forcing herself to face the facts whatever they might he. The sheriff hesitated, and gave an imperceptible nod to Seth over Kay's head. "Don't you worry about that," he evaded soothingly. "I'll talk to Seth outside." "No you won't!" Kay interposed, her eyes flashing, and her body straight and taut with determina tion. "You've got to tell me any thing you have to say about itl 1 won t be kept in suspense." Found: A Pead Man 'THE sheriff shrugged. "Well, I A reckon you've got to hear about It, sooner or later, so there's no point ' in making a mystery about it. Also, I want to know all you can tell me about this Gaynor f;uy where you met Win and how ong you've known him, and so forth' "But hom did you come by the gun?" Kay insisted. "You must tell me that first." " The sheriff took the gun back from Seth, and gravely weighed it in his hand, as he eyed it criti cally. "There ain't much doubt," he said slowly, "but what this gun has killed a man." Kay put her hand up to her throat "Yes yes go on!" "One of the fire patrol was com ing back over the divide, yester day, and by the head waters there, he found a dead man, shot through the temple. And not 30 feet away, he came on this gun, lying where the murderer had left it" "The dead man was a mile or so over on the Idaho side of the state line, but this guy was headed this way, so he brought the gun down to me. I called up the sheriff at Clear Water Basin, but he was ofl after a bunch of rustlers, and his deputy asked me to help out on the job until he could join me. "Who was the man?" Kay got the question out through parched lips. "A fellow named Scran Johnson, who was one of the Flying Six outfit He" He got no further, for Kay, with a cry or mingiea reuet and dis may, suddenly sank down on the chair near her, (CopvrioM. tn, Jfarie it Xsrvaud) Kay qneitleiu ths sheriff about Ted. tomarsftw- 8AIXM, Aug. 3. (AP) Thi su preme court dealt today whet may be a death blow to operators of pin ball and marble gamee when Chief Juatloe Henry J. Bean signed an or der dlaaolvlng aults of two 8&lero operators who sought to restrain Sheriff A. C. Burk, At. Attorney General Ralph Moody and Attorney Oeneral I. H. Van Winkle from Inter fering with their operations. The suite were brought by N. J. Arnold and J H. Oampoell. Moody an id the effect of the order would be to wipe out all ub de vices In the tut. He said Arnold' and Campbell agreed to remove their equipment In three days. Moody will seek to have three alm tlar raAee dissolved In Marlon county circuit court to ..orrow. OF STRAFED BY REBELS HENDAYE, Fronco-Spunluh fron tier, Aits- 3 Inauntent artillery opened bombardment of Madrid outer defense today after driving a spearhead Into SpunUh government tinea wet of the capital. Battle were fought on threa othei front. OftneraUsalmo Francisco Franco' froopa prMtd hard sftainst goveru- nunt defense In cms tern and ivmth- era Spain. On the norm www ru front. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof i'w the lather. Inclosing stamped envelope tor reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Of. lomtf'iP.rivtfWs,. Trtg mwymz., M Trohomicm measure, IS ?tS 530, $50, 000, OOO, OOO MlgS L0N6 teach, Florida ISSUED frHftICT CUT OrriHfc OW ANVSU&EzJfe Vtttitotsf- I'linivlUfN " L" " 7 eecNiee of his crusfor - . . s.l . I. ess.. I "W llaAa CCONOrAY WHICH rrCUUCU in innwn UrsnVNN rt ; 'aiaaaWL..- tjv-bw . aai jJtxr :.vjir&?jr v i m l. ijJfiSaaSr.-W aaaaaaaaaa1 - v FAMILY RESEMBLANCE The Shadow Man. Coming Into office aa Prance's min ister of finance In 1759. Etlenna do Silhouette tried through stringent economy to restore the nation' fi nancial well-being, shattered by the Seven Years war. In keeping with Silhouette' policy. the ordinarily extravagant and gaudy Pari fashions took & parsimonious trend. Unnecessary frills and decora tions were discarded Coats without folds were worn. Snuff boxes were made of plain wood. Gold plate was melted up to be converted Into mon ey. Even artist were affected by the movement and began to omit all do tails In their portraits, doing them In solid profile. These fashions were called "a la silhouette." Resistance to Silhouette's economy crusade was not long In coming. Ho became the target for Insult and the butt of Jokes, finally being forced out of office after a nine-months term. . His name came to be a syno nym for anything reduced to Its bar est details. Eventually, usage of tlte word "silhouette" came to have the meaning now given by Webster: "An outline figure of an object filled in A profile of this kind a In a shadow." Potato Threat. Eyed with a good deal of suspicion when it was Introduced to Europe In the 16th century, tho potato was a long time In becoming a popular food. On two occasions it Is said to have been actually denounced from Scotch pulpits once because of the fact that no mention of It Is to be found In the Bible, and once on the ground that it was the "forbidden fruit" which brought about the down fall of Adam and Eve. In some sec tions of Europe It was thought to be poisonous. Scientists, however, realized that the potato would be of high value as a food In the periods of famine which swept Europe from time to time. The peasantry of Prussia flnai ly accepted the plant as a food only under pressure of cajoling and threat. Frederick William 1, of Prussia, had much to do with his subjects' accept ance of the vegetable. At one ttmo he Issued an edltft threatening to amputate the nose and ears of any one who refused to eat potatoes. Tomorrow: What Fa moos Poem Was PtAilWied on Handkerchief? Insurgent reported defeating an at tempt to break their lines east of Ovledo, In Asturlae. Government forces had about 1 .000 casualties In the Asturlan attack, tho Insurgent reports said. At Cuero troops numbering 8.000 rushed against insurgent lines, only to be caught In a cross fire of rifle and machine gun bullets. Goldwyn Breaks Wrist SANTA MONICA, Cal.. Aug. 3. 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