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rEPFOTTO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEP70TIP. ORTOOy. TUESDAY, TUGUST 3, 1937.
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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
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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.
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HENDAYE, Fronco-Spunluh fron
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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.
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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.
I UP) Samuel Goldwyn, veteran
Hollywood producer and showman,
broke his wrist at his beach home
last night when he slipped on a
waxed floor while telephoning. The
bone was set by Dr. Ed K. Prigge,
who said Goldwyn could return to
work Tuesday.
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