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THE FAMT ALBUM-HOME SERVICE
Bt GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For farther proof tddraa U author, lncloalng a stamped enralnna for reply. RC. V. 8. PbL OS.
SVNOVSls: Kay Crondon d
cidei to rebuiia her burned ranch
house and barn, though Neighbor
Joh Haetingi, whom h hot,
uiant to but hr ranch and marry
Kay. Ted Gatnor, a puncher the
impuUioely hired, liohu Scrap
Johnson, a cowhand uiho mo
oted Kay. They ihoot it out,
wounding each other. Hasting!
tneakt up and kilU Scrap with
Ted't oun. Ted crawls to a cabin
where a girl (Marion) nurie him
a week beore the iheriff crreiti
him due to a tip uncoiuciouily
oiren by Kay. The sheriff and hil
poe tart off with Ted or Clear
Water Bajin Jail.
Chapter 38
The Cards Are Stacked
"It rAIT a minute!" Ted reined in
i V by the stream where he had
10 nearly breathed his last. "Where
was Scrap Johnson found?'
"Exactly where you dropped
him. Ain't that a surprise, nowl
Sam Cutter winked at one of hut
men, who guffawed in apprecia
tion of his chief's sarcasm. "Come
on I The state ain't asking you to
do any investigating."
Biting his lips to cut off the re
tort that sprang to them, Ted
obeyed the order. But there was
one more question he had to know.
He turned to the man following
him.
"How did you find me? And how
did it happen that both posses got
there at the same time?"
The other one grinned. "Tipped
off by a girl," he answered with
relish. "You're sure one hell of a
fellow with the ladiesl"
"A girll" Ted echoed, his grip on
himself shaken for a moment with
the surprise and shock of this
news. "What girl?"
Ted's mind reeled before the
thought that Marion might have
crept away while he was sleeping,
and have betrayed him. She cer
tainly was the only girl that knew
his whereabouts! But the next in
stant he cursed himself for even
harboring such a thought.
Marion would have been utterly
incapable of such a sneaking act!
She could no more have done a
thing like that than Kay could.
"Search me!" It was evident that
the man he was questioning was
greatly enjoying Ted's stupefac
tion. "It was some Jane over in
the Red River section. You seem
to have girls all over the place!"
he ended with mock admiration.
"Red River!" Ted had a gone
feeling at the pit of his stomach,
and for a moment he swayed diz
lily in the saddle. "The Red River
section?" he repeated incredulous
ly. 'There must be some mistake
there! No one in those parts had
any idea where I was!
) any
" 'Pears she was prowling around
doing a bit of investigating on her
own. Hi, there, Saml" he called
ahead to the sheriff. "What was
the name of that girl that tipped
Zeke Farley off about this bird's
whereabouts?"
"Crandon," the sheriff called
back. "Old Man Crandon's daugh
ter, who's been running the Lazy
Nine since ha kicked off, about a
year ago."
Ted gripped the saddle horn to
keep himself from toppling over
as a rushing blackness closed in
on him. Fighting with all his
power against the faintness that
assailed him, he gradually felt the
roaring in his ears give way, and
the reeling landscape steadied It
self. "It must all b a mistake," he
kept telling himself, but a ter
rible conviction persisted that
Sam Cutter knew what ht was
talking about. As though In a
nightmare, Ted listened to the con
versation of '.he two men, who
were still talking back and forth,
over his head, to each other.
"I didn't stop tc ask Zcke any
more about It, Sam Cutter was
saying. 'The Crandon girl was
staying at Jnsh Hastings' ranch,
and she telephoned in from there.
Said she saw him up there, with
the black haired filly." He turned
around in his saddle and leered
at Ted. 'Take it from me. it don't
pay to have too many of 'em on
the string nt one time! Get 'em
jealous and they raise hell!"
Ted was too dared even to at
tempt a retort. Kayl Kay Crandon
had betrayed him! He felt like
shouting aloud that it was all a
wild lie, but the shout died in his
throat
Tride To His Aid
pHEY said that Kay had seen
A him with Marion! How ... a
sudden groan escaped Ted. He
remembered now that Marion had
thought she had heard something
the afternoon heiore. wnen tney
had been talkinc. But If Kay had
happened on them, why hadn't she
made her oresence known? Whv
. . . suddenly, the significance of
Sam Cutters leering advice
flashed over him. Jealous! Could
it be possible that Kay had been
jealous?
Ted's heart quickened at this
thought and what It Implied, hut
Ihe next minute he was In the
depths again. Fool that he was. he
told himself savagely, to think for
a moment that Kay cared enough
about him to be jealous!
For a long time, Ted rode on
in silence, his mind turning '..lis
way and that in an effort to find
a way out of the labyrinth of .
despair that this act of Kay's had
thrown him into.
Any way you looked at it, the
conclusion was forced upon him
that he had been mistaken in
Kay. There was no excuse, after
what had passed between them,
for her to nave given him up to
the sheriff without allowing him
a chance to explain his side of the
story to her. He could forgive any
thing but treachery. And that was
what Kay's act had been.
A reckless despair closed over
Ted, but pride finally came to his
aid. If Kay had done that, there
was all the more reason to prove
his innocence! If he was convicted,
she would fee! justified in her
treacherous act. But when he was
proved innocent, she would know
what a despicable thing she had
done.
Not that he ever wanted to see
her again, Ted told himself fierce
ly. This time, he was finished with
women, now and forever.
A vision of his mother and sister
flashed before him, and he re
proached himself bitterly for hav
ing concentrated so on Kay, to the
exclusion of them. For their sake,
he must fight himself clear of this
web that he had become enmeshed
in! For their sake, and for no one
else.
It was nearly dark before the
lights of Clear Water Basin showed
up in the distance, and Ted was
hanging on to his ebbing strength
by sheer force of will.
When they at last reached the
county jail, he heaved a great sigh
of relief. Anything was better than
that endless ride, with the des
perate fight against physical
weakness and those torturing
thoughts.
He swayed as he dismounted,
and reeled like a drunken man
into the jail. The only thing of
importance at the moment was
sleep!
Like a man in a trance, he an
swered the questions put to him,
and at last, after what seemed an
eternity, he was led to a cell at
the end of a corridor, and the key
grated in the barred door behind
him.
Dropping down on the iron cot,
he fell into a deep sleep of ex
haustion. Wheels Within Wheels
IT WAS dawn of the second day
of the trial. Ted Gaynor sat on
the edge of his bunk, and watched
the gray light steal through the
bars of the high window opposite
him.
For seven days, now, he had
watched that light change from
drab gray to a sunny radiance, and
back to gray again; then had come
the long period of black void,
through which he snatched fitful
hours of sleep.
As he sat now, with his chin
in his hands, he was forced to
admit that things were going bad
ly. There was no doubt that feeling
was being stirred up to run fiercely
against him, and it was not hard
to recognize who was behind it.
Josh Hastings was out to get him
convicted, and Ted knew that from
that source he could expect no
quarter. He held a damning
knowledge of Josh Hastings' past
that would utterly ruin him, if
Ted could ever bolster it up with
tangible proof.
Knowing this, Josh Hastings
naturally was out to make the most
of this chance to get him out of
the way once and for all.
As Ted had sat in the courtroom
the day before, watching the force?
arrayed against him. he had real
ized that far more than the murdei
of Scran Johnson was involved
There were many wheels within
wheels, and he was being made
the victim of varying passions and
desires.
Sam Cutter was determined to
have a conviction to his credit
before election. Josh Hastings
wanted Ted out of his path. And
Tom R u n y o n , Ted suspected,
wanted to gain credit in Kay's
eyes by helping to convict him.
Ted writhed inwardly as he re
membered Tom Runyon's testi
mony yjsterday. He had described
finding Kay on ihe trail, and how
she had told him nhout Ted and
Marion. He had carefully left out
any word of her real condition,
and her delirium. Ted had heard
only the damning confirmation of
the account of his capture that had
been Riven him on the trail by
Sam Cutter.
The gun Kay had given him had
been exhibited, and the bullet that
had killed Scrap Johnson had been
indisputably proved to have come
from that gun.
They had also produced as wit
nesses the men who had been in
Kelly's place the time Ted had
fought with ixrrap Johnson, arm
they testified, one after the other,
that Ted had threatened to kill
Scrap if he ever heard him men
tion a certain girl again.
(Copyright, XS1T. MnrU if VervflwrfJ
Kay tprlngi a surprise si the trial,
tomorrow.
ZANE GREY PREPARING
LEAVE IPQUA CAMP
ROSEBtma. Or.. Atlg. 18. tp)
Ziino airy, noted Author and i ports
man, waa reported today to be break
ing camp at hi location near WIN
llama creek on the North Umpqua
river, eat of Rose bung, where he ha
been fishing for several weeks, and
will leave, probably tomorrow for bos
Anele, to prepare for his forth
coming trip to Australia.
Orey la reported to be recovering
from an lllnea, raiued, It was said,
by a light sunstroke.
His condition Is reported not seri
ous Ht vm, lyiren Orey. Irft Sunday
for us Angelas to make advance
prepartUona lor ibe Australian trip.
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ENCAMP AT CRATER
CRATER LAKE, Auff. 1R -'KpU A
field march from Fort I jew la, Waah.,
to southern Oron will hrlnR the
ninth field artillery corps to Crater
lnke Septemlier It. nark ofilclala
have been adviaed.
The coii, with men. !8 pieces
of motor equipment and a number
of lanre. field puna, will be encamped
here for three days nrar Lost creek
on the cant entrance road.
After leaving the park, the art 11
lery men will proceed l Klamath
Pall. Med ford and return to Port
Lew!. hy way of dnint Pa, and the
coast highway.
tM M&U JfrlOUiia ftailt al.
VcNtifht SfrWicaU. It
The It renin Inventor.
Success was almost within EUmj
Howe's grasp In the early 1840's
success In devising one of the world'a
most revolutionary inventions, a prac
tical sewing machine. Only one ma
jor question still presented itself, but
It had the Massachusetts Inventor
thoroughly stumped a needle for
the machine.
Howe had expected no difficulties
so far as the needle waa concerned
when he started to work on hla In
vention, believing that he would be
able to use an ordinary seam stress
needle built to fit the machine. This
wouldn't work. The eye, being at
the heel of the needle, made Its uie
an Impossibility. He tried to over-
if Mrn
come this with trick contraptions,
but nothing seemed to do any good.
Over and over the problem ran
through his brain. There seemed to
be no solution.
Asleep one night, a nightmare dis
turbed his slumber. He dreamed he
was In the hands of a tribe of can
nibals, about to be led to his exe
cution if he did not complete his
sewing machine In 24 hours. As the
savages led him out to be executed
he noted In surprise that the heads
of the spears the warriors carried were
all pierced with holes. The dreamer
awakened In a cold sweat. His prob
lem was ended. T'.ie solution lay in
placing the hole of the sewing ma
chine needle In its point.
ON VW IN OUSShMb. fcM
hufi me mom - - but Allows
TOR ftlOlftU OY SO, hNOlncK
to,WMe RECORD
Granted a patent on his machine
In 1846, Howe ran Into conslderaole
lnfringementtrouble, but eventually
established his rights and died a
wealthy man in 1867.
Toad Tongues.
U usually entirely toothless, the toad
depends on his tongue as a food pro
vider. Fixed to the front of the
mouth so the hind end Is free, the
tongue Is provided with a special set
of muscles for flipping Its out with
amazing speed and accuracy to seize
Insects. A mucus coat on the end
of the tongue works like fly paper In
snagging victims.
Tomorrow: Which Wonder of the
World Was Built Because of Home-(sickness?
CRATER LAKE FISHING
IS GETTING" RESULTS
CRATER LAKE. Aug. 18. (Spl.)
Crater lako angling continues good.
Several limit catches of 13 trout per
person were reported over the week
end. Anglers are using large spinners.
Jack Lloyd, Dave Davis and Multi
light, with bait, preferably worms.
attached. There has been some fly
fishing but trolling 'remains the most
popular method.
SLAIN INDIAN FOUND
BY ALTURAS TRACKS
ALTURAS. Cal., Aug. 18. (A)
The body of Fred Wilson. 53. an
Indian, was found near the Southern
Pacific railroad tracks by a freight
crew today and Sheriff John C.
Sharp said there was evidence the
man was slain elsewhere.
Sharp said Wilson had been beaten
over the head. The sheriff sent
Deputy Ernest Server to Lakevlew,
Ore., to question another Indian
with whom Wilson was seen Mon
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