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PAGE TWELVE MEPFORD MATL TRTBtTNT!, MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938, LOVE ON THE RANGE .mason tin. The Slory So Far Under the name a' Abe Street eft "Blur" Ankrom accept! a Job at the Trone'e Rafter T alter ret cuino Lee Troae Iron- a band of thugt. She has concealed the ad venture from her father and telle him that Ankrom (cnoio tnendt of thelri, the Strutheriei. Then he heart the Strutheriei are coming for a visit. Chapter S 'Lies Are Dangerous' A NKROM looked up and found ' Lee Trone j glance upon him The laughter now had left her eyes and in its stead he saw a tiny cloud. As plainly as though she had spoken aloud, he realized that she was now recalling the lie in which she had Involved him. Ma licioua satisfaction stirred him as lie saw now the possibilities 01 tne situation were coming home to her He said goodnight to her father and with a nod to her passed down the hall. She caught up with him among the shadows of the veranda and placed a hand upon his arm. "Abel What will I doT Those people are coming here tomor row." "Didn't you think they might wnen you tola your uaa i was a friend of theirsY "Of course nott I had no idea they were coming." She bit her lip In vexation. "This is not going to be exactly comfortable for any of us." "I expect not 1 shouldn't won der but we'll manage to live through it, though." The mockery in his voice was plain. "Why didn t you tell your Dad about that affair in Peso Pinto? Lies are dangerous things especially when they come home to roost "But I never dreamed ... I couldn't have told Dad about that business In town. You don't under stand. He has troubles enough of his own without my bringing him any of mine." WelL" he said roughly, "I might be able to understand better If you gave me a hint as to what this is all about You can't expect me to be much help while I'm goin' It blind." He could see the vague outline 01 ner race among tne shadows and knew that she was trying to read his expression; knew, too, that she could not. Had it been daylight now sne suu would have been un able to come to anv conclusion bv the sight of his features, for bis race was lnscrutaoie, ' 'A Volcano' "VTOU you don't understand,1 ' she began when he cut in. "You said that before. We're wastin' time. I'll say goodnight to you, ma am. Her grip tightened on his arm and stopped him. "I'll trust you, Abe," her voice came huskily "Let's get in the car. You can drive It into the stable. We can talk there without anyone seeing us." He helped her into the machine, climbed in behind the wheel and drove the car into the stable. He shut off the motor and the lights. "Well?" he said, a perverse mood upon him. "Lets hear the yarn." Her breath was indrawn sharp ly. He felt a twinge of conscience Tin sorry" But she cut nlm off: "1 know you think I'm a little liarl Go on and say It!" He could not see her face in this darkness, but he knew that she was mad mad at herself for the position Into which she had lied them both, and mad at him for taunting her. He changed the sub ject: Are mess troubles ot your Dad's connected with the ranch?" i tnink so." "Don't vou know?" "I'm not sure. He never confides In me. These last few months he's necome very reticent He a grown moony, us its so aiiucuit to ex plain; Its nothing you can nut your finger on, but there's a feeling about this place that never used to k hot I,1. lil. .W.i... - ...i cano and waiting for it to erupt" A silence fell between them. "Perhaps," Ankrom suggested, "it's money matters that a both erin' him. This has been a tough year, water holes dryln' up. springs peterin' out ari' grass burned to a crisp. You've got bet ter water here than your neigh bors, I expect They might let their resentment spur em Into some thin' that would end in powder smoke. No tellin' what a fella'll do when he sees his cow-brutes drop Din' like Hies. Maybe your DacTs sort of anticipatih' what might start to pop round here if we don't Set some rain dang soon." that's been going on we seem to be losing more than anyone else. But Dad's been acting odd for months. This rustling is something new around here. One night the boys notice a little tad of critters in a certain spot say twenty or thirty prime beeves. Next morning those critters have disappeared vanished. The range boss saya there's not a sign to show where they went or how. It's uncannyl" "And you think maybe this Hackett gent might be sort of . . . on the make?" "I I don't know what to think, Abe. It seems so fantastic to con nect him with this rustling or with this other thing that's been bother ing Dad. Hackett's been with us over two years. Dad swears by him and at him, sometimes. He has been trying all sorts of things in an & - ... r" H Ivy- h 1 . WW p i Si JfJ 0$ - I V 'It's Uncanny!" "I DON'T think that is It," she 1 said slowly. "It rnicht aggra vate the trouble, like this rustling 1 1.4 i xti, &l There was mockery in his voice. "Why didn't you tell the truth?" effort to trap these cattle thieves. Don't you think perhaps you're letting your personal feelings to ward Hackett warp your judg ment of the man? After all, you don't really know him. You two seem to have taken a dislike tc each other on sight I was watch ing that scene before the bunk house this evening. I couldn't catch much of the conversation What was it about? What starlet' it?" "Well, I expect maybe then wasn't any start to it ma'am. Wi just sort of fell out before we'd har time to get acquainted. Hackci sort of made it plain he wasn'. aimin' to hire any help. He via; mad mainly I reckon because J didn't pay much attention to him He's the sort of Rent that has ti have attention, if you get what 1 mean. He wasn't built for the back ground. Well," Lee decided, "he certain ly wasn t cut out to be a cow thief. either. He's much too smart " Ankrom chuckled. "Smart ma'am? Shucks, I'd say he was nol so much smart as foxy. Cunning I'd say he even had a heavy leanii toward the coyote side." Tomorrow: Another llarkrlt run-In with MOST OF RANGES IN OREGON GOOD &ALEM (UTM All of tho Oregon ranges, with the excrptlon of por tions In th Willamette valley and the outhweAtvrn area, are in good condition, according to a report hy tho bureau of agricultural economic. In the Willamette valley ranee fcd la fairly good but la Retting dry be cause of a aciirclty of rain iiiTing the past alx wieks. bower ranges in the aouth western area are dried up mid the hny and grain crops hav alto been damaged. Range condition In the aoutlira.it ern area are the Dent In ninny years, and ratine conditions In the north eastern area are "excellent.' The con ditions of ranges In the Columbia river area Is "verr good. et v9i PORTE RV1LLE. Cal. UP Clarence Fleharty. who lost his right arm 10 years ago, waa nevertheless able to make a hole-in-one on the Sierra HelpM Rolf course. It wan a 124-yard drlw, by t or.'-armed driver. HAT OF MEXICO MEXICO. D. P. (T The Mexican ftnmbrero Is an Institution here, out It may be a Joke aa well. If car toonists desire to make a man look ridiculous, they put a big aombrero on him. Yet, the aomhrero. or hat, may aomet ime cost aa much as SC0. Some are made of finest felt, adorn ed with gold, silver and copper, r.no a few of the precious toneA. lT.e big hat has practical advantage Mne It provides plenty of protec tion from the sun, spares the eye from Rlare, and prevents hunting accidents. In the United States a hunter might mtrtAke a moving object In the woods for a deer, but the Me. lean aomhrero never has been taken for anything but a sombrero. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped enTelope for reply, Bac. U. 8. Fit. Ot M"ld mllrr Drgrrr, TOtJIDO (DPI More thn hlf tho number ot 20 nw city polu-o lute cillPtc (It tirrs' .. ., ,. PiR6 pain nam zF&r amm 1o RectWe M0RNlMfl5frlCHfiIrl AWM owned by John Lohmanti. los Angeles If 6ftKED IM IN ogov jrm rams mm OFFICIAL 4KUNK CtifCHER rx of riymoutft.Mss.. ouTf rr 37 I S WVtP IN 3 WftRS Z Rufcj OR6ftMl2EDTH6 rbUTlCftl PftRTV Of KM0W-rtoTHlMfl''; cwwiw to mutm in his Booy THSH TMNED To YlRfllNG ttHmoNhL FicVoN BANISHMENT By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Adventurous Author A man who lived as he wrote, and wrote as he lived wns Edward Zane Carroll Judson . . . better known aa Ned Buntllne. First of the dime novelists, he invented and per lasted: that technique 12 years before It was popularized by the firm of Bendlo 6s Adams. Born In New York state In 1823, Ned Buntllne ran away to sea when a youngster and became a cabin boy. At 15 he won a midshipman's commission In the U. S. navy for, heroism displayed when a boat cap sized In the East River on February ' 10. 1838. Four yeors later he re signed to Berve In the Seminole Indian war. Singlehanded. Buntllne once cap tured two murderers and was re worded 1600. In 1846 at Nashville. Tenn., he was arraigned for the shooting of one Robert Porterfleld. with whose wife Buntllne was al leged to have flirted, Porterfleld's brother opened fire on him in the court room; after a wild cross-town chase he was seized. Jailed . . . then lynched. His neck waa broken, but he lived; someone cut him down and smuggled him back to Jail. He was not Indicted. Buntllne later served. In the Mex lean War; was Jailed one year for starting a riot In New York's Astor Place theater; started an election riot In St. Louis, 1852. but escaped by Jumping ball. Buntllne It was who nicknamed William F. Cody "Buiralo BUI" and made a national hero of him In his dime novels. After many more eventful esca pades, Buutllno settled In his "Adi rondack home and devoted himself to his writing. During his life he produced the equivalent of 200 vol umes of dime novels, and once wrote a 610-page book In 62 hours. LONDON. (P) American gangsters who are used to seeing gold tram- ported In armored enrs watched over by guards with drawn pistols will weep at this news of how the British do It. Three men In an open horse-drawn van pulled up In front of the London branch of a New York bank recently with 50 bars of gold, worth 15.000 each. A messenger greeted them with three cups of tea. The men set the cups on the bars, lit their pipes Ten minutes later they took tne empty cups into the bank and cas ually unloaded the S750.000 worth of gold. I Naval Air Cadet Plunges To Death . PENSACOLA. Fla.. July 29. (AF) Aviation Cadet Lawrence D. Lunn. 23, of Darlington. S. C, was killed at the naval air station here today when his plane crashed and burned. Lunn had completed his training course here and navy orders trans ferring him to San Diego, Calif., reached his commanding officers this morning. He died without learnlnn of the order. B BANISHEP To HIS ROOM RR BP EACH OF DISCIPUHE COMES OOf IN A FEW MlrJOfES-fOSHOUf 15 TIME UP VEf ? RETiRES A6R1H AMD B 61HS A SHOUTED C0H VERSATiDN WITH THE BOY ACROSS TrIE STBEEf ISCAUEpToPOORAUP TblP NOT To SHOOT FROM HIS VVitfpoW - HE IS SW-f posed to stay quietly in his room ?R010N6S STAV IH HALL RETiRESj RETURN1K6 AT BY TO1NT1N6 OUf-frlA-f OtfCE TO CALL THAT A P06 THEY HADN'T Tbtf HIM 15 DI66IN& UP THE NorTOSHOUf.SOHE TLOWER BEP COlJLPN'f MOWfoULDHE? A LITTLE LATER PAR ENTS CALL -Time IS UP, HE MfW COME OUT NOW (Copyright, 1938. by The Betl Syndicate. Inc.) REPORTS HE IS BUSY BUlLPlKS S0METHIN6 Ahlp RETIRES, CL0SIN6 poor . parents feel frustrated 6ujYas S'MATTEB POf By 0. M. PAYNE LPTrtt. M8, by Th BtT TAILSPIN TOMMY Snoot "Gets in Tommy's HairP ; ; By HAL FORREST 1 J By EDWIN ALGER fuSTEN, m. 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