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PAGE SIX MEDPOTin MAIL TRIBUNE, MEPFOTtl), OREHOX. TUESDAY. AUGUST 2, 1938. LOVE Oil THE RANGE it uuoi t in. i lie Story So Far Trying to leori Hi reputation for our.-plab behind him, "Blur" Ar.iirotn tierot'iet CMiirnd n iraubtt apiitn when ht rt'CUff Lre Tiuno from a brd o! Ihugt. Thv Tree ranch, III flofler T. If in d0lrUl(iM. ("id nkrom oe crpr n foil thri u-.d (h iwmi o lhi yiret. L t"ll her la ther -Ipltron lcnoio IrlendJ of tnot'i, Colonel and Btltv Strulh rj. Then the JSfruthcrin come or fi v'si: Chapter Eight Masquerade II'HILE Lee Trone went oil to ' meet her friends, and to take them to luncheon, Blur Ankrom took himself to s small restaurant on a Jide srreei labeled. "Greasy Spoon," and put some grub under his own bolt. It was, therefore, in a fairly cheerful frame of mind, considering the orospect of trouble that lay before him. that ne re lumed to he car and gave himself up to speculation concerning the appearance, habits and characters of those old inenas 01 nis me Strutherses. Cnlnnel Struthers would be itnffod shirt, he mused a pom' nnus old belligerent with horsey notions and little depth. The thoi'Eht hrouaht an amusea grin In Anlrrnm'l ids. Should the Col onel bo such a character, Lee Trone would find her work cut out at tempting to Ret around the lie that Abe Streeter was an old friend of Struthcrs A man whose emotions had long been controlled by an iron will, hi could not understand his feeling: toward this girl who hod come so precipitously Into his life. That he was drawn to ner ne reanzea, ana the knowledge irritated him, made short his temper. He strove to fight against her charm. There could never be anything between them; to push their acquaintance deeper could only mean sorrow and heart break for one or both. This frame of mind had been one reason for his reticence during the drive this morning. There was another cause. He had headed for this country in an effort to leave his past behind him to live as other men had the right and freedom to live. But already the promise of further turmoil was driving black thoughts across his nind. Nowhere, it seemed, could he find the peace he craved.- Where his reputation failed to follow, he round himself embroiled In new difficulties: new trouble enmeshed his steps. So he had always found it in the past. His fathei, a frontier marshal until checked in mid-career by drv-eulch lead, had in his time made many enemies, some of whom survived him. One of these, two years ago. had found occasion to slur the marshal's memory. With gun smoke young Ankrom had nureed the Insult That inci dent had started Ankrom on the trail of No-Return. In many ways it had been a (uckv shot with which he had towned Storm Drcan that day. The .inn had been a former rustler, a man whose draw was speedy as a striking snake. He had that day got In the first shot, yet only Ankrom had lived to tell about It, for An krom's fire had been more accu rate. Since that day a constant flood of trouble had forced the marshal's son to become a past master in the- art of draw-and-shoot: had forced him also from the trodden trails In selr defence. Because of these things, Ankrom lonff since had resolved to live his life alone. The life of a gun man's wife was In his opinion no fit lot for any woman. There should be no place for sentiment in Ankrom's mind: the dictates of his heart should be discounted. But though he had made these decisions firmly, and lived up to them as well, never before had he encountered anyone like Lee Trone. Despite the shortness of their acquaintance he could recall her features vividly: her vision was before him during all his wak ing hours. He could not get her out of his mind. Voices drove In upon his con sciousness and he looked up. There camp Lee now. and with her a man and girl. The girl got but a glance from him: It was the man that drew his eves. He was well dressed this fellow was. and short, pale and handsome. Around fnrty-eicht In years. There was laughter in his eyes, sardonic, mocking laughter, though his lips were crave and closed. Lee aid. "Colonel Struthers. thi is Ahp Streeter. the friend I told vnu of Abe. shake hands with Colonel Struthers." "Hnwdv." Ankrom nodded, and irtirsrH Hie gods were chuc kling For the owner of that hand stretched t to his was the cousin of Storm Drenn! Why? ANKROM read amusement Into the faint smile with which the fellow said, "Glad to meet up with you Streeter." "You're going to llnd 1 don't Im prove with age. or time Struth ers." Ankrom said it coldly and, reaching back across the scat, pulled open one of the car'a rear doors for them. In Lee's green eyes that were fixed puzzledly upon him he read wonder and specula tion and knew that she had not missed entirely the significance of those low-spoken words. "This Is the Colonel's daughter. Betty," she said. For the first time Ankrom let his glance play over the girl. She was little and pretty and golden. Her bare head in the rays of the' past-noon sun was a tousled mass of flne-soun gold. She thrust her hand toward him almost timidly, as though fearful lest his own much larger one might crush her tiny, well-manicured fingers. "Pleased to know you. ma'am," Ankrom said, and dropping her hand, turned back to stare across the wheel as the girls climbed in. The Colonel got in last. When set tled, he said. "Let's go. fellow." Ankrom pressed down on the starter. He let the clutch in gently and sent the car forward. "By way of Peso Pinto, Abe," Lee called, and Ankrom nodded. Once clear of the town Ankrom opened up the motor. Scant were the scraps of conversation reach ing him from the back seat. But Ankrom felt no interest In their talk. His mind was busy with things which meant more to him than a general lack of water and the condition of other people's thirsty steers. The situation in which he found himself was not at all to his liking and had been com plicated enough before Lee had told her father that crazy lie. But now, with the supposed Struthers proving to be a cousin of the man whose death had placed Blur An krom's youthful feet on the trail to gunhawk glory, immediate pros pects for that hoped-for peace looked dark. Why had Kelton Drean come here masquerading as Colonel Struthers, as an old friend of the Trones? Not because he'd guessed that here at last he would find An krom. No that veiled pleasure and gleam of amusement In his glance on seeing Ankrom dis proved at once that theory. Why. then, had he come? It bothered Ankrom. Puzzled And Apprehensive THE girl who was posing as his daughter also bothered An krom. Who was this glowing crea ture introduced by Lee as Betty? Not Drean 's daughter, certainlyl Drean had no daughter. Was this girl the real Colonel's daughter? "But no," he thought, "she would never lend herself to such a deception." Where then did she fit into this web of conspiracy that was spin ning about the Rafter T? Was she merely an accomplice or urean Or was she more Drean's wife or Behind the wheel Ankrom'a form went tense, his hands clutched the hard-rubber circle. He had seen this girl before. She was the one who had leaned from between the red drapes of that second-story window in Peso Pinto the other night and cried, up here, cowbovl Quick!" For long seconds as the road flashed past, Ankrom's mind was a whirl of wild Conjecture, then as the rush of blood receded from his brain he forced himself to think more coolly. Drean. he reasoned, had not come here unprepared. He must have known that the real Struthers had not been seen by Trone for many years, else he would not have dared this imper sonation. That he had now com mitted himself to the r&le. showed that he had every Intention of bluf fing it out. Why? Whnt was he expecting to get out of it? Ankrom knew the Drean breed pretty well, both from experience and reputation. He knew that a Drean would never risk his neck if there was not mon ey, and good money, to be forth coming. The man, he reasoned, must be working under orders Whose? Blur Ankrom was a puzzled and pprehensive young man as he sent the car across the miles to ward Peso Pinto. And it was nol for himself, lust now, or for his own future that he felt apprehen sive it was for Lee Trone and the ?;aunt old man who rodded the laftcr T. For any possible danger this mystery might hold for himself, Blur Ankrom was not concerned. Even his object in coming to this country was momentarily thrust into the background of his mind by the nature of current events and a sudden interest and absorption in the riddle set up by them. He did not believe that Drean would give away the Streeter mas querade. The man could not afford to yet Nor could he immediately afford to bring his quarrel with Ankrom into the open The hances were that Drean would bide his time, would wait until this i mister business that was brineinc him to the Rafter T was finished before calling Ankrom to account Was there some connection be tween Lee Trone's adventure in Peso Pinto and the sudden arrival of the spurious Colonel? To An krom It seemed likely that there was. but its nature he could not surmise. One thing onlv seemed certain there was trouble ahead. for Old Man Trone and all who sided with him! ICrtttiitt. I'll. A': C. Ktt) New acquaintances, Monday. g OF V.F.W. AND D.V.A. AT About two hundred veterans and their wives and families attended the district picnic of the Veterans or Foreign Wars In Uthia park at Ash. land Sunday. Members of the Dis abled American Veteran chapter? and their auxiliaries of Grant pas and Medford were pools 1 guests, com rade Dover, junior vice commander of the state department of the D A. V., waa present and the state depart ment commander. Mollte Dovrr of the D. A. V. auxiliary, alwt I. D. CaMield. newly elected Junior vice comx-uide: of the uipaumeut of Oregon, V. F. W. and John Kuddleston, newly elected district commander of the V. 1. W. of district No. 8. A large delegation was present from Pelican post and auxiliary of Klamath Palls and Grants Pass. Medford and Ashland were also well represented Much credit for the success of thte picnic Is given to Comrade William Ludwltf of Crater Lake post. Medford, V. P. W., who arranged the program of games and races enjoyed by all and which were held throughout the day and for which sultnble prize were awarded winners FIVE DIE ON CROSSING AS TRAIN, AUTO COLLIDE HOBART. Ind.. Aug. 2. Fire persons motoring from May wood, 111., to Cleveland, Ohio, were killed to day as their car crashed Into the locomotive of the Pennsylvania rail road's Broadnny l imited at a erwlng here. The victims aere icl-nuned by Ufjuity Coroner Lowell T. Dupes as STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX for (uttaer proof address the author. Incloiln stamped envelope for reply. Re. XT. S. Pitt Off. novel of fduara 'HoUesMeshdt, WrVS REFUSED BY if DIFFERENT PU&llGHSRS ftfORt rTWrrSWCePT60lrie7t IT OVER . 1,000,000 COPIES! MM MM HOl wmmv f-w reei m . PeftRU HftR&OR, Honolulu, in vp 8-2-36 k V-iA CfcM JUMPHlfirUNtrle&lR A VyI LiHo oh m mJ lfiRUN VWLER, JT""" ""ill ' J Un!onhunlMd,lC.CC.ennHee. 38' v III 0 r IDENTICAL CM71SBH Zi 111 ft f-tA BEFORE PURiM6Trie MWEUIll I Deepest Dive Four hundred and twenty feet be low the wave of Lake Michigan. a shadowy figure moved slowly over muddy bottom. Max dene Nohl, deep-sea diver, bad made a new world' record descent In a lake! The day waa December 1, 1937, and cold. There waa nothing to see, so Kohl quickly rose to the surface. He was prevented from getting the "bends" because of a helium-oxygen mixture that eliminated nitrogen. A former student at Mnsanchusett In stitute of Technology. Nohl had him self designed this self-contained suit for deep-water work. "When 1 was walking on a 420 foot bottom." Nohl says, "my body was submitted to a pressure of ap proximately 100 pounds per square Inch. The surface of my body was actually supporting a weight of over 600,000 pounds of water. "This pressure Is transmitted to every point In the body. It Is be cause of this that we are free to work, use tools, walk, etc ... we are under the same pressure as the water we are In." Nohl's dive of last December sur passed In depth by 114 feet that of Prank Crllley made off Pearl Har bor, Honolulu. In 1915, which stood for 22 years ns the world's record descent at 306 feet. "Two men have gone deeper than I," Nohl explains. "Dr. Wllllom Beebe descended 3028 feet In a steel ball, the 'Bathysphere,' and recently an Italian diver In a steel shell went down BOO feet. These men. however, were not under the -pressure of the water, and could do nothing but look out of a window." VISIT AT CAMP By GLUYAS WILLIAMS r B6(J5foFlPeEi'ASTAR ENTS,WH0 HAVE BEEN ViSrfiKG CAMP, life 600D-8V& 1b WARP Off OHV DISPIRVOF SENTiMENf, 1URW9 AKD CALLS Toward bru. FiEID Trinf HE MM. $E OVER IN A MlMfE DlSPlBYS 6BEAf IrKERRf IN T0S5IK6 AND CAYCHIH6 TE&BlE WHIlE McrfHER 60ES ON A600f HOWMUOtlrlEV MlS&XlM AS flME FAR FlNA). &D0D-BYR COMES, E)END5 HAM) AWD 8ACKS A WAV ,16 BE SURE SHE DOESN'T KISS HIM 90, CAR STARTS. fiRWS HIS BACK SQUARELY OK TriEM AMD strides Toward bau. Field whew he 15 60re they" cant see him, Turns and waves UNTIL CAR IS OUf OF SlSHT (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell gyadlrate, lie.) 61MM, 3 MATTEB POf Bt 0 M PAYNE Tomorrow : What Is the li i chest price ever paid for a butterfly? Werner H. Boevers, 42, Cleveland; his wife, Clara, and their 18-year old daughter Jane; Mrs. Alice Wrede, Cleveland; and Mrs. Louise Qulncy of Chicago. ROAD QUARRY PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE BAKER, Aug. 2. (AP) Damage estimated at $40,000 was caused Sat urday night when fire destroyed the quarry plant of the Roy L. Houck company of Salem, which la re-con- structlng six miles of the Old Ore gon trail between North Powder and Haines.' The equipment destroyed Included two dlesel power units, a large com pressor, new electrlo welding outfit and light plant. Numerous toola owned by engineers were also lost- Logging to Resume, CARLTON, Aug. 2. (AP) The Flora Logging company, closed slnco May 20. will resume jperatlons Mon day. Simultaneously with the com pany's announcement, a logging union meeting waa called to deter mine whether loggers would sanction return to work at redxiced wages. Sights School of Whales. ASTORIA, Aug, 2. (AP) T. B, Cook, Astoria yachtman, reported today he had sighted more than 50 ! whales sporting 25 miles off the Ore- j gon coast between the Columbia rlv- 1 cr and Nehalem city He said one i whale appeared three times near the boat, once only six feet off the port ) siae. I A I cam CUM V ;,A LAV 1 IfJL I 'R44TUPT4E- IPOWKI LIKE. f Sl3. OP Jr'j LVJTS jj ft 1 Am m 111 1 -v rill kv zrv .v Copyright, 19M, by The Bell ByBiUote, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Breaks the Bad News! 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