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PAGE src arEPFORP MATL TTirBfTNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1938. LOVE OH THE RANGE .ir msoxtNYt. The Story So For Trying to etcape trouble, "Blor Ankroro become enmett ed tn It uihe-n ht rescue Let Tront from a band o (huge. Under the name of Ab- Streeter, he accpl a job at the Tronct Ratter T, which it in dtfllcultlee. Let fell, her father Ankrom (enouii their friend, the Slruthernee; then iearn they are eomfno for a uieit. The ranoe 6o, Masa Haxkett, trie to put Ankrom oO the ran t- and An krom knocks him out. Chapter Seven Morning Drive THERE was an accusing glare in the ranee boss's eyes. "You you hit me. "I sure did Twice!" said An krom. "You wanting to make somethin' out of it?" "No damn man can do that to ine you're tired!" He licked his lips, cleared his throat and said again, less certainly: "You're fired' Ankrom laughed. "1 told you this afternoon that Abe Streeter's on your payroll. He's goin' to stay on it till it suits him to drift along. Now look" Ankrom's tones grew soft and earnest: "When 1 see a tarantula I usually aim to let it alone. But when a tarantula jumps at me I squash It. Do you understand?" Hackett's hand dropped In swift shone like polished bottle glass. Yet his lips were pressed in lines of indifference. His greeting of the girl had been courteous but brief. Thereafter, for the past two hours, he had spoken not at alL He was politely uncommunica tive. Lee's chic attire fitted her wil lowy figure; her little hat was smart but offered a minimum of protection from the sun's glare. She studied Ankrom with curi osity. There was a bold sweep to his nose that matched well, she thought, the forward ut of his rugged chin. As she watched him the impressions formed at their first meeting, that turbulent scene in Peso Pinto, were strengthened. She found him vital, colorful, in triguing. Undoubtedly there was much more to mm man appeared upon the surface: several times she had sensed a vein of bitter ness that excited her curiosity. "You're not overly conversa tional this morning." she ob served. "Cat got your tongue?" "Nope. "Feeling kind of low?" she asked, nettled that he had not turned his head nor even cast glance at her. No lower n usual, x reckon. Weighty Problems' HE still stared straight ahead. For a time she left him. her head upturned in pique. He did not have to talk to tier, of course. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Eeg. V. 8. Pat OS. Iffc BLAPPERHORT. 3if aquatic plant HteNORocfe ' 3 Off I ' wv-vv: varan' ri i-iTvii p 1 1.". As they sped along in the burning heat, Ankrom was distant, uncommunicative. descent to his holstercd weapon. There it paused, fingers clamped about its butt. Ankrom had not moved an inch. His face was color less and hard ns a granite crag. A moment ago Hackctt had had no tionsvicious ones. He would have shot down this apparently unarmed Interloper as swiftly as he could get nis gun irom teatner. But now, something stayed his hand. The will to murder had been written on his face, but now it was ashen, twitching. He could not have drawn that gun tor an tne wealth of El Pnso. The watching punchers saw nothing menacing in Ankrom's at titude. But they could not see his eves, and it was into Ankrom i eyes that Hnckett stared. They swam with a light tnai cnaiiengca Hnckett to draw that gun. It was sheer bluff; Hackett knew it. Yet he paused to won der and was lost. He was lost, and knew it. One tiny upward pressure on that gun and death would grab him. Hnckett shivered and rniscd his hands. Bare contempt lay In the cold grin parting Ankrom's lips. "All right, Hnckett," he drawled. "You can take your hands down. Now that we understand each other I reckon we'll get along. You better be gcttin' on to that line camp 'less you're figuring to spend the night there." Some courage had returned to the range boss while Ankrom talked. He wondered now what could have caused him to refrain from drawing and sending this drifter on to drier pastures. With the wonder came resentment thnt he had been blulTcd before his men again. As ho lowered his arms an ugly light sprang into his eyes. "Don't crow, hombre. You ain't heard the last of this," he snarled and, swinging round, he made his way to the corral to get his horse. As he lorked the rope from his saddle Ankrom's laugh, deep and throaty, rang in his cars. Curiosity THE following morning was bricht and hot. Side bv side on the front seat of the Rafter T's touring car. Lee Trone and the new hand were speeding across the sandy miles to where El Paso lay beyond tho Hueco Mountains. Ankrom drove with both hands, staring straight ahead. His smooth checks showed close con tact with a razor, his clothes were neatly brushed and his boots She thought It likely she could survive withou. his conversation. But as the miles sped by, curiosity overcame resentment. "When 1 left you last night," she hoped her voice sounded as firm and even as she Intended, "1 noticed someone lounging in the shadows by the stable door, ft looked like Hackett. You haven't had any further trouble with him, I hone?" "No, ma'am. No trouble at all." "You've seen him, though?" "I exnect we sort of nodded to each other, ma'am." Had sho caucht a note of sar casm in his voice? Had she really observed a tiny glint in the eye that, nearest her. Streeter kept upon the road? Lee wondered. She determined to have a talk with one of the men when they got back. 'You don t ike Mose Hackett very much, do you?" Uh. Mose is nil rlcht. t a fel low knows how to handle him." 'Do vou consider yourself that sort of fellow?" she prodded. 1 reckon, rve met his type be fore." Leo, watching him, thought that he had been about to say more. If so, he had abruptly changed his mind. Spurred by ir ritation, she asked: Are vou taciturn by nature. Mr. Streeter? Or is this reticence intended to show dislike?" "Neither, he said with eyes still on tho road. "1 just can't see much use indulgin' in small talk when there's weighty problems occupyin' my attention.' 'indeed l "Yeah. F'r Instance. I'm won- derin' what kind of hnbla you're ngunn to throw tryin to gei nround my bcin' an old friend of folks I've never laid eves on? These Struthers people, If they've any sense at all, are goin' to smell one nigger in your woodpilel" i ins is my prooicm. "It sure is out vou don't seem to be givin it much attention. What ore you aimin' to tell 'em?" "Mr,r li nrnhnhlv!" Likely enough," he agreed and chuckled. Leo felt her fists clenching. Hot color flnmcd her checks. It served her right, she thought. She had hud no business talking to him a common handl The fellow was s boor whether he d gone to college or not, lust another uncouth sav age of the saddle. Ankrom's psst ratchet Dp with him. tomorrow. LEWIS THREATENS WASHINGTON. A tiff, 1. (UP) John L. Lewis Saturday rxtenttcj rt? mnnds for rr cor nit 14m of hli Com mittee for Indus trlnl Organization beyond the boundarlea of the UnltM Statea, projecting It Into the Inter national labor acene In ft manner that threatened to embarrass Secretary of State Cordoll Hull. Lewis called upon Hull to Rive the C. I. O. representation among the American delegate to the eighth International conference of American atates which opens In Lima, Peru December 9. The request threatened complications In view of the Amer ican Federation of Labor's warning to all government agencies and de partment to tenure the C. 1 O. AIR SPEED KING BLASTS C0RR1GAN NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (UP) PranX Hawks, speed filer, said over a Na tional BroadfaMlng hkup Satur day that Douiilas Corrlgan was ft "fool" for attempting the flight to Ireland. A.vertlng that Corrlgan was "due for a spanklrwt" from the bureau of air commerce. Hawks added: "Supposing he had failed. Oh. that would haw been dltferent, wouldn't It? Everybody would have branded him ft fool. Well, txn't he J tut as much ft fool for the attempt, even though he did make It? Lady Luck was riding with that chap, and don't you forget It. He trusted an awful lot to her and he had tremendous . fOACt faRCfc CIM3 MP SHIER , StCOND-9foRi IN SfftRCH H 1 i- VI 0-1-3S KcNauih! SmdlMtt. Ut, frpncfr prisoner of war in a German priori camp, WfV5 ftRMHTCP frfrte WZVMolEM GERMhNYi fOR Q PW To VW M PYING f MH IH fRFNC (Fek,illb) . ' RETpRNfP ToTH GERMN PRISON VolUNfoRlW foP 1H6 R6MWHO6R Of 1H6 WORI.P WftR .. Prlsoner-at-Lnrge Almost unprecedented In military annals Is the story of Andre-Pierre Gales, French prisoner in a German war oamp who went home to France to visit tils dying father while the war was atoll in progress. ' Wounded at Bui p pes on Februery 13, 1015, he was captured and sent to a military hospital at Spire and Inter Interned at Wursberg, Bavaria, Early the following year Cales re ceived word that his father In Belv es, France, was dying and was calling for him. He petitioned the German authorities to grant him leave to visit his father's bedside. Strange as It seems, word came from the Kaiser himself granted Cales U:e leave he requested 1 Against all military tradition, the prisoner board ed a train for Switzerland. When he arrived at the French border and told his story, Cales was laughed at; he was held and ques tioned for several days before It be came apparent that he was telling the truth. When Cales arrived iiome, with an assigned bodyguard, he found his father had died. However, he spent three days nt home, then returned to the Oerman prison. For the duration of the war Cales remained a msdel. prisoner, until his release In 1910 . . . three years later. Cales has today preserved documen tary proof of his story. Tomorrow: Where was the world's deepest dive made? courage to do It. But that still doesn't change the fact that he was fool." Hawks confessed that he was among the first to praLse Corrlgan "for his oourage, spunk and tennolty of pur pose against overwhelming odds." Motorrycllst Killed BEAVER, Ore., Aug. L (AP) Los ing control of his motorcycle on the HUlsboro road early Sunday, Earl A. Olsen, 33, Portland, was Instantly killed when his machine was crushed between two cars traveling In oppo site directions. FOREST CREEK CABIN ENTERED BY THIEVES FOREST CREEK, Aug. 1. (Spl.) Thieves broke Into the small cabin below the school house occupied by the Lewis brothers and removed sev eral articles of clothing, a supply of groceries and seven dollars cosh, on July 36. The Lewis boys operate a mine on the right fork of Forest creek and were at their work when the robbery occurred. Entrance was gained by breaking a window. No trace of the thieves has been discovered. Weather Northern California: Fair tonight and Tuesday; fogs on the coast; high temperature in the Interior; moderate northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Fair tonight and Tuesday; but cloudy or foggy on coast; little change In temperature; gentle changeable wind off coast. Chicago Tars Win PORTLAND, Aug. 1. (AP) The 10 -oared crew of the U. S. Chicago Saturday won the annual fleet week championship crew race on the Wil lamette, defeating six rival boats. 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