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PAOE ETOITT MTDFOTCn MATT, TRrBtTNTE, METYFOTW, CREOOX. SFSDAT. AUGUST 14. 1938 LOVE ON THE RANGE by mso t m. The Slory So Far Someone out to butt the fiafler T rancft. To help louell Lee rrone, "Blur" Anbrom takes a too there under the name 01 Streeler. A man and woman poi (no at tnendt of the Trones are revealed at impostors, and the mar, is mysteriously killed The ptrl. Belty stays on Then rut (tern wipe the range clean and jtnlerom traces the lea to Mom Hachett. the range oom. In a thowdown. he beau Hackett to the draw Katchford the sheriff, feemi to have auexted Ankrom't identity, but it bldlno his time. Chapter 18 The Golden Girl - "NE afternoon when Ankrom vy rounded a bend in the dry wash he was following he came abruptly face to face with another rider the golden iri. Betty. If he was surprised by this un expected meeting, she appeared equally so. But Ankrom. hrvina witnessed previous samples of her excellent acting, would have been willing to bet his last cent that she had somehow deliberately engineered this encounter. Her curls were tousled by the wind, for she persisted In wearing her hat looped bv its chin-strap on the back of her neck. Yet he had to admit that she made a most enticing picture. "How does It happen that you're still staying on at the ranch?" Ankrom inquired. "I'm suffered on Ratcnford's orders. He forbade my leaving until after the solving of the mvs tery surrounding the death of Kelton Drean." "Then you admit the colonel's real name was not Struthers? "Sure why not? They could find that out easily by a little in vestigation. I don't think I'1 want them to look into things too closely." "Why not?" She regarded him thoughtfully "No ... I don't believe I will an swer that . . . now. Perhaps when all this is past I may." But he did not grab at the bait he dangled with that last sen tence. He said, "What were you doing in that cabaret in Peso Pinto?" Her eyes clouded. "1 worked there. You don't like me, do you? Is it because you saw me first In there?" "If I don't appear to like you." Ankrom evaded, "it Is because of the manner of vour introduction to this ranch." , A strange light had come Intp her eyes, he thought. They looked somehow darker, deeper. When she spoke her words were low and vibrant, as though great feeling lay behind them. "If there was deceptio. In the way I came to the Trones it was only In my association with Drean. It happens 1 lent myself to his plan when he approached me because it seemed to offer the only possible escape from mv en vironment. Do vou think I would not have stooped to aniithina that offered me my chance?" In that moment Ankrom thought her almost beautiful. His glance must have reflected the thought, for her face went white and she turned her horse abrupt "Mebbe not," he finally said. "Anyway, he's getting at Trone from all angles. The stolen cattle were all prime beef. First time I ever heard of rustlers bein' so finicky or lucky. Well they've stripped his range of saleable stuff. That means that unless he's got money in the bank" "He has." she cut In swiftly. "The bank at Peso Pinto. Drean told me he had. Does that help?" "Can't say. It might help Trone. if he's got enough. Probably de pends on things I know no mora about than you" "Would you care to know more about me?" she cut In. Ankrom felt heat come Into his cheeks. "We're discussin' Trone. right now." Her horse luneed ahead be neath sudden drive of spurs. Re morse for his rudeness came to Ankrom as he urged the buckskin after. He did not wish to hurt her needlessly. Already he guessed. she'd suffered enough. But love must have no place in his life: and if it could, that love would have belonged to Lee. Why did this girl persist in iniectine the personal equation into their conversations? urging nis horse alongside tne runnine blue he was about to make his peace-talk when her voice came at him evenly: "Please go on." Relieved, Ankrom said, -wen. here's another angle. Trones name is taboo among his neigh bors. There could only be one reason for that since it ain't a all likely that the whole country has a mad on at him These people are onto the fact that someone's got his knife out for Trone. an' tney want to Keep out or it. bounds fairly reasonable. It is reasonable. These neigh bors of Trone's are mostly men with families to think. of. They can't afford to get involved in a range war another man s bread might come too hish The way things are shapin' up right now, I would nate to oet mat even mt Rafter T will go to war." Then there Is a silver lining to this cloud?" If there is. I haven t seen It," Ankrom grunted. "What I mean is that it looks like Trone's oppo sition isn't aiming to leave him any weapons to fight with an' darn few men. Look: counting myself, Trone has exactly foul men on his payroll. You can't stage much of a war with foui men. No matter how much coin Trone's got tucked away--this man that's out to smash thi Rafter T has fixed it so that Troni can't hire any .nen! Gun Man HATE a quitter!" "1 never let d man down yet Remember, thougn. that I'm msl one puncher not an army." You -night hand somebody that line an' get away with it, she grinned, "but little Goldie't been around. "What are you getting at nowY" "Lee Trone." "What about her?" "Listen." she came back at him 1 may not know more than a hool or two about ranches, but brother, when it comes to women, vou don't know a thing!" "I won t areue that, said An. krom: "I never claimed to know much about them." The golden girl leaned forward, ly. "I'm going back to the ranch." facing Ankrom earnestly. "Whal iney rooe possioiv nau a iihib you need, friend Abe, is someone in silence, ine pace was ihsi hi first but gradually slowed. Then Ankrom put a question. "Do you know what Drean was up to?' "In coming out here?" "Yes. I'm trying to get at his purpose. I don't think he'd have come unless he saw money 1" the scheme. It appears to me that he was not acting on his own that he was following the rders of. some man in the background." "Why do vou think that?" "That's hard to explain. Queer things are goin' on in this coun try Some man has been sharp ening up his knife for Old Man Trone. That night vou called to me in Peso Pinto, a bunch of thugs had lured Miss Lee to an empty house. 1 busted in as they were threatening her with a red hot branding iron. Sort of spec tacular, isn't it?" "But of course they weren't go ing to use it." she smiled. "Yes quite melodramatic in this hum drum day and ae"" Those Boys Are Experts' "ANOTHER thing about this business," Akrom went on. "Trone has been losing cattle. Rustlers have been workin' his range in a wholesale war. An' I'm here to state those boys are ex perts They're ridin' Trone beef out of this country in trucks an' they're gettina awav with it There's head work back of that Drean was crafty in his way but he never had the brains for that Drean. I shouldn't wonder, was just a two-bit pawn in a big-shot game." "You're thinking." she said, "that Drean wouldn't have been Interested in cattle Well, perhaps the man you think was behind Drean isn't interested In cattle, either." Ankrom looked at her sharply. to wise you up on a little female psychology. she went on swiftly, "would go through fire for the man they love. And right now I'm not talking of vour blue ribbon thoroughbreds like Lee Trone, who decorate drawing rooms and swanky teas I'm speak ing of the real women the kind that don't mind working Women who've never had much to make life worth living ordinary wom en. Girls like me! They wouldn't care what their husbands were, what their men did if thev loved them. "Do you think the Lee Trones of this world would ever marry a gun man? That's what she ci lied you a oun man.'" Her voice grew hard, scornful "She told me she saw you kill Hackett She said you egged him on: turned vour back so he would reach for his gun, and when he did you turned and shot him. She said if it wasn't that thev needed vou here so bad ly now. she would have made her father run vou off the ranch lust as you ran those others offl" There was bitterness in her blaz ing eyes, "That's the kind of a person your fine Lady Lee Is! She hired vou for vour gun be cause she was afraid that this some one you've been talking about would get her old mai . And while you risk vour life providing protection for that drunken has been, she despises r.nd loathes you for the very prowess that caused her to hire vou!" "Let's go," Ankrom said, and jogged the buckskin into motion. But where it carried him he did not see. He had not known what it felt like to be reallv cold, till now. His heart was a ball of ice. Ankrom snubs Lee, tomorrow. YEAR AGO POLAR EVAN FAIRBANKS, Alaaki, Aug IS. (fl . A year mo tod? It va Friday, the I3th. when putterm rud'o merMtfe fr.'m the north poiar rl-n tzia of a falling mofr. then larird into silence. That allenpe today still fnveloped the misain Soviet trnspolr plw which vanished ahortly after rroaalnft the pole en route here from M.c:,v Only one rescue effort wan h(!n planned on the first annhcrsnty it. the disappearance of Sisniun-l I... anett&ky and hl live companion. . V. "Jack" Smith, trader at Beech ey, remote arctic coast net t lenient, planned to Investigate the story ol Eskimos they saw and heard a crwh off Ollktut. small village 140 mllos southeast of Barrow "about August 30" uat year. Smith expressed the opinion the natives could have been off a week in their reckoning. Muddy water and bad weather have hampered his op eration! thla year. An Eskimo women told him last year "I saw It with a telescope, ti then submerged. Oil washed ashore later." The rtUtrlct la near the 150th meri dian. The mlsalng plane piloted hy SigiAirumd Levaneflsky and carrying five others was to have ('.own a'utii alon; the 14th meridian, a short distance eastward. p;nes and pilots from three rov ernmenta Jrined In the sMivh la-t summer, fall and winter for the nii.s In? p'.une. CMef anions ti nir SrurrSlrra v as t'-'.T l:or, l!rf. :t W '. kltis. wh f I' w t'.-. :.:'3.'.ts -1 i. ' - in a Li llaif boat, Uuu relumed in a STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing a (tamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat. Off. I ' v I COfftt COMMIT- coff Beans MRe fliMEpXmm lone, MouNTfMHoiVS fT-rSNTPiTiONft 4owh nmericJ., u VW SGI viMUirtmis n:y&s-T in Russia; WMmh if wfvs Brought "Were r.mM 1, VI CIVIIUVI life s' -j r i i t m n IROQUOIS INPlfeM CONf eOERMloM l OfTCN WHOLE 7XlB5$ COW&iO, MtH Jtf MfcNY fvS IOQO MEN ftWilNfl OH fcflELD10 MILE? LONQI often ma fw tws ORDEAL Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS n i The War Dame Originated by North American In diana, the sport of lacrosse was adopted by the Iroquois Indian confederation as a measure of war t mining for the stalwart braves. Called by them "baggalaway," the game was Joined frequently by the entire warrior population of the tribal village. Up to 1,000 men frequently could bo found racing through the northern forests, shouting and throw ing the hard ball to each other, work ing It toward goals sometimes sepa rated by five or ten miles of rough country. Games lasted for days at a ttmo, and serious Injuries were frequent; many deaths were known to have occurred during the heat of the game. To stand up under thla stren uous ordeal, the players were forced to undergo iong preparatory periods of training. The lacrosse games filled In the time between hunting and fishing expeditions and insured tribal chief- Monday: What political constitu- telns that their men would always ency, largest In the world, is repre be physically ready for a real war. ' sented by a woman? Coffee pipeline Considered the best grade of coffee by experts Is that grown on the slopes of the Santa Maria mountains, In Colombia, South America. The difficulty of transporting the beans from the steep plantations to the hills led Colonel Fly. an American who took over the plantations, to build a long pipeline to wash the coffee down the hillside skl-equlpped plane and carried on the quest by midwinter arctic moonlight. Vellowjarkets Cause Fire DAYTON, Aug. 13. (AP) Yellow Jackets were listed as the cause of a fire on the farm of Mrs. C. K. Bpauldlng near here. When a team of mules disturbed a nest of yel low J nek eta the driver set the nest afire, then covered It up with dirt. Later the blaze .flared again destroy ing a cord of wood os It burned over ono and one-half acres. LA FOLLETTE WILL FIGHI NEW DEAL WASHINGTON, Aug. IZ.iFi Sen ator Le Folletto (Prog. -Wis.) aald to day he would campaign for the can didate nominated by the Progressive party to oppose Senator Duffy (D.- Wls.), administration supporter seek ing re-election. His 'announcement, made in an In terview, apparently Indicated an end o far as Wisconsin politics are con cerned to the political seml-alllance he has had with the administration. When Duffy first was elected to the senate In 1932, he had the Packing of La Follette. President Ro:scvelt had urged Duffy's election. RffURMIrl6 HOME.SEK COUSItJ ELSIE ON PORCH AND COMES TO ft StOP, BECRUSE COUSIN SLSIE l APT TO KISS HIM IKIES tODUtK ROUND CORNER OF HOUSE BOT ISSEEN AND CALLED BUCK It) 6REEY HER. M0UM5 STEPS rJElUCT'ArtfLV BUT KEEPS AS MUCH OF PORCH AS HE CAN BETWEEN HlM&ElT AND COUSIN ELSIE IS FORCED To SHAKE HANDS ArJD FEELS HER TfWE A VIRM 6R1P AiD,T)ESPrrE HIS HOUl IN6 BACK, DRAW HIM -TOWARDS. HER AT" CRUCIAL MOMENT WHISKS HEAD AROUND, PRESE81IN6 HP OF HIS EAR AS ONLV AVAILABLE SWfoBE KISSED departs scrubbing ear vigorously (Copyright, 1838. by The Bali Syndicate lac) S MATTER POr Bv 0 M PAYNB X The number of men In gainful oc cupations In 1930 was three and a , hall times the number of women, i If y. mak-e uPVek YrrVj ME TA -revray) J W l" 41VvJ (Oopyrigtjj83jTriie BU ByndicsU. Iae!) fj TAILSPIN TOMMY The Voice in the Plane! By HAL FORREST I -Ffl pOMMY HAS JUST QUALIFIED HIS SHIP. THE MERCURY. AND 13 FOURTH IN PLACE POR TH BENDIX RACE SfleANWHILE, PAUL SMITH, ANKOUS TO SEE THE OUTCOME OP THE RACE, THAT WILL MEAN EITHER THE RlJtH OR CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THREE-POINT, HAS FLOWN TO MIAMI AND HAS ' JUST LANDED AT THE MUNICIPAL. AIRPORT. SZOI. TAou sure Vwhere'sJi , ,1 MADE FAST X SKEETF.R7, MxdX TIME! fi v y ' I HE LEFT THREE-POINT EARLY 1 I HUkoDAt IN THE OLD pusher he should have sBEEN HERE BY MOwl J m ii bpiti I WE HAVEN'T 'well; I'll ( 0-O O OH GO OVER 1 IF I HAD 1 TO THE TH'WINOS REGISTRARS If OF AM OFPlCE J ANGEL.. . rcc LiMiTfD TIME LV! SEND 3-CENT tUMPt D .SHF-A DDSKS ED, EN VELOPE TO HAL TCCBE-ST.,THI PAPER, TQTt MP PH. flAS Of P0USU5 p,S-T.PLMiC HEYJ HEY! ARE WE STILL FLYIM" OR.. DID Tw OL' MOTOR CONK?, L 4 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER New Mystery? By EDWIN ALajf" WITH STILL ANOTHER WINK OF CAUTION AT f IMD RUSTV BEN! ) COME SOSH, DOESN'T JASON )t2 fWElL FOR QOiKWl-r BEN, OR. KILEY USHERED JASON TOWARD HIS I SET HIM BACK J ALONG, KNOW RUSTy'S BACK? ' SAKESl RUSTY'S ffiW' fS, CAR BUT JASON WANTED ONE MORE HERE ! I UASON- IF HE DON'T, HE SUReIZ t NOT IN THE CAR BfT "i WORD WITH THE BOY- ' N . ' WILL WHEN THEV r p HOW! "SisfCEr r WILL YOU FORSIVEME) N , C. OPENTJAR) LJSTyS k ) jiltefe -fe:.., F" - P TWA.T eOTMER OF MIK4F. h' AMD THE &EU.BOYS sf'MA.QQi VALUAMO I DOMT TW1MV4 fvE Si! ismt soivis bugs! wesTALv;- ireuu me she: mas evekv stop autuat Thao a. da.mde.hom from im sorrv INJG BiXBV TAUVi AMD ME. CALLS I VASB IN4 THE. WOTtL IM WER),r c!Cl ujITU VOU-NOU M SIX VE ARS TME CASrX16101 ,KJTO ) TUE WIDOW MIS LOVE BIRD.. rv fS HV VVOU WERE JUST R.OUJERS I GOT FROM VOL) YVlTIWe' VsmeID MAKE AM EAGLE LOO J k"; a At oTov -PotrrVe BEFORE WAS WHEjO VOU BOUSMT TKAtL 4 THE NEBBS Before and After By SOL HEP" i
