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
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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
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TAILSPIN TOMMY The Voice in the Plane!
By HAL FORREST
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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.
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, ,1 MADE FAST X SKEETF.R7,
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pusher he should have
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m ii bpiti I WE HAVEN'T
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