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CHAPTER VIII—Continued
say something, so he said the first opening. “Horse, where was Bob
“No! You and me’ll never make a
—10—
thing come into his head. Every Flagg last heard from?"
deal like that!"
1 No. 2 can hominy 4 tbsp, flour
Behind Marian’s shadowed silhou­ sign we got points to the fact that
cup grated Ameri­
Dunn’s voice came out thickly.
“It’s your out,” Wheeler told him, 1 No. 1 tall can
can cheese, salt and
ette the window glass itself shat­ Lon Magoon was killed, in his own “Flagstaff,” he said.
salmon
“and it’s your only out. Let me 4 tbsp,
pepper
butter
tered, as if it had exploded inward; saddle, and on his own horse, and
take the finance and the outfit—and 2 cups liquid, part la cup buttered
out in the brush sounded the ringing at Short Crick.”
bread crumbs
milk
CHAPTER IX
all the other ruction falls to pieces."
crack of a rifle. Then there was si­
“I’m thinking now,” said Billy
Arrange the hominy in the bot­
And
now
Horse
Dunn
’
s
eyes
lence and the window against which Wheeler, "that we «-an prove that
Horse Dunn sat relaxed, staring
tom of a greased casserole and lay
Marian had stood was empty except one way or the other—right here morosely at the floor. In his eyes a blazed again, and his voice crack­ the salmon over the hominy. Melt
led. “You’ll never put a dime in
for the lamp-lit gleam of its shat­ and now.”
dark fire glowed. Wheeler wondered this brand!”
the butter in a saucepan, add flour,
tered glass.
“How?”
what ugly and shadowy things the
“It’s her brand,” Wheeler remind­ and stir until smooth. Add the
Wheeler’s breath jerked in his
“We’ve still got his saddle, old man was seeing. Perhaps, ed him. “You willing to let it bust liquid which is made up of the por­
throat; he dropped to the ground haven’t we?"
Wheeler thought, he would not wish up and go down, and the girl and tion drained from the hominy and
and raced for the house.
“It’s still under my bunk.”
to see in his life the like of what her mother without a cent?”
salmon and enough milk to make
In the dark beside the shattered
“Let me see it.”
Horse Dunn was seeing, as he sat
“Let ’er bust—before it ever 2 cups. Cook until the sauce is
window Douglas was holding the
Horse Dunn stared at him irrita­ looking at the floor.
thick and smooth, stirring con­
hangs on your dough!”
girl in his arms, and though she bly for a moment, then picked up a
Finally Horse Dunn jerked to his
stantly. Add cheese, season with
“But damnation—why?"
clung to him, Wheeler saw that the lamp with a jerk, and led the way to feet with an abrupt impatience.
“You want to know why? I’ll tell salt and pepper, and pour over the
wagon boss was holding her up. He the clean bare room in which he “This is all pipe smoke,” he said.
heard Douglas say, “Are you hurt? lived. By the yellow light of the “For a minute you threw me up in you why! Because you want that hominy and salmon. Sprinkle
girl! You want that girl—you think crumbs over the top and bake in a
Are you—”
lamp the fine old saddles on their the air with that bunk. But hell!
Billy Wheeler cried out, “In God’s racks against the wall glinted clean­ You figure Bob come here a way T’m blind? But she don’t want you. moderate oven (400 degrees) until
the crumbs are brown and the mix­
name, Marian—”
ly from silverwork and steel. Dunn no man would ever think of coming.
ture thoroughly heated, or about
Marian’s voice said shakily, “I’m sat down on a box and hooked his There’s better than a hundred mil­
30 minutes.
all right.”
elbows on the table behind him.
lion people in this country, and Bob
MARJORIE H. BLACK.
“You hit?”
“Horse, how big a man is this Flagg is one of ’em, so you figure
“No.”
Lon Magoon? About my size?”
that maybe it was him got killed!”
“Get a gun!” said Vai Douglas
“Hell, no! Not by eight inches.
“Well, we might anyway check
crazily. “We was standing here, Little short wiry feller—put you in up at Pahranagat. There isn’t so
and somebody took a shot at—”
mind of a grasshopper, or a flea.” much travel up the Little Minto but
Wheeler turned and ran for the
Wheeler hauled out Magoon’s sad­ what we could find out if Bob Flagg
bunk house. Half way he almost dle. Billy measured the length of came that way.”
crashed into Tulare Callahan. the stirrup leather with his arm—
“I’ll send Vai Douglas over there
“What’s up?”
stirrup in armpit, fingers upon the tomorrow. I sure don’t aim to
“Get the boys out,” Wheeler told tree.
leave any stone unturned. But if
him. “To hell with saddles, but
“I stand five-eleven, /•
1
Wheeler a guess is an inch long, you sure
get ropes and guns. Somebody fired said. “Yet these stirrups are too jumped a mile.”
into the layout—we’ve got to try to long for me to ride. Horse, the
“Maybe,” Wheeler admitted.
stampede over him in the brush.”
Horse Dunn took a turn of the
man that rode this saddle was over
Behind the 94 layout the buck­ six feet tall.”
room and the fighting spirit that had
brush stood ragged, much of it
Horse came across the room in flared up in his eyes burned low
shoulder high to a mounted man; in two strides and dropped to one knee and smoky again. “This country’s
its crooked brakes the hard sandy beside Billy. “Damn it, I know gone to hell in a handbasket. I’ve
ground showed barren in the light of that’s Magoon’s hull!”
never asked for any more than jus­
the near stars.
“You mean it was Magoon’s hull. tice, and I’ve dealt out nothing less.
With some difficulty Billy Wheeler You can see the short-rig bends But where can you get it now? A
restrained Gil Baker and Steve Hur­ worn into the stirrup leathers. But man’s hands are tied. There was
ley from spurring their ponies head­ since then the leathers have been more honesty in the old six-gun than
long into the brush, as if they were let down long, and laced there with in a thousand courts of so-called
trying to jump a bunch of steers.
law. I’d give ’em their cock-eyed
rawhide whang.”
"Stick together, move slow, and
Horse Dunn measured the stirrup country. I’d wash my hands of the
keep stopping to listen,” Wheeler leathers against his own arm. Then whole works, and good riddance—if
Taka 2 BAYER ASPIRIN tablet» and
said. “That’s our only chance.”
drink a full glass of water. Repeat
he forked the saddle where it lay, it wasn’t for the girl.”
They trailed into the bush slowly, jamming his feet into the stirrups.
treatment in 2 hours.
It always came back to Marian.
single file, Wheeler in the lead. He “Tall as me," he breathed, unbe­ The old man didn’t dare lose be­
If throat Is sore from the cold,
“Isn’t This Pretty Early?
crush and stir 3 BAYER ASPIRIN
had accidentally mounted a horse lieving. He stared at the saddle in­ cause of what it meant to the girl;
Couldn’t You Sleep?”
tablets In Vi glass of water. Gargle
that believed in ghosts, and it moved credulously for several moments. he had labored for her too long, in
twice. This eases throat rawness
sidelong, stretching its nose warily “Do you reckon,” he said at last, years that for any other man would I’d no sooner put her in your debt
and soreness almost instantly.
at the brush shadows, blowing long “that infernal old lion hunter would have been the twilight years of his than I’d sell her to you outright.
uneasy whoofs. Repeatedly they let down those stirrups, just to get life.
All it usually costs to relieve the
You’re only making the offer be­
misery of a cold today — is 3/ to
halted to sit listening.
us balled up?”
She came before Wheeler’s eyes cause you’re in love with Marian.”
— relief for the period of your
For an hour they combed the dark
“
You
’
re
crazy!
I
’
m
making
the
now,
between
himself
and
Horse
“Look at the wear on the stirrup
cold 15/ to 25/. Hence no family
brush, alternately walking their leather. The saddle has been rid­ Dunn, almost as clearly as if she offer because I think I can come
need neglect even minor head
horses and listening.
out on it.”
den since the stirrups were let had really been in the room.
colds.
Not until they came out at the down.”
“
You
want
the
girl,
”
Horse
per
­
Here is what to do: Take two
Dunn was saying, “Know what I’d
foot of a barren rise did they realize
BAYER tablets when you feel a
sisted.
Horse Dunn got up slowly and like to do? I’d like to cut out for the
cold coming on — with a full glass
that they had wandered almost a went back to his seat on the box. Argentine. Where a man's cows
“You old fool—” Wheeler held his
of water. Then repeat, if necessary,
mile from their starting point. When For a long time he sat staring at have a chance to turn around, by voice down—“do you think I’d ever
according to directions in each
you have seen one thicket of buck­ the floor. When at last he drew a God. I’d—”
expect to get her that way? Do you
package. Relief comes rapidly.
brush by starlight you have seen deep breath and got up, his move­
“Argentine, hell!” Billy exploded think I’d want her on the basis of—”
The Bayer method of relieving
them all. They had pushed through ments were those of a man pre­ at him. “If I’d been running this
“Anyway, that’s all over and
colds is the way many doctors
a hundred thickets, in which a man occupied.
outfit, this situation would never done, two years back,” Wheeler lied.
approve. You take Bayer Aspirin
could have hidden under the very
for relief — then if you are not
He got out a roll of adhesive tape, have come up or started to come “Once she could have had me body
feet of their horses—yet in that mile
improved promptly, you call the
up!”
and soul. But that’s all over. I
pulled
off
a
boot
and
woolen
sock,
of country there were a thousand
family doctor.
“I suppose you’d have sold out,” wouldn’t tie myself up, not now, to
and
began
to
tape
up
the
outside
of
thickets more. The riders were grim
his ankle bone, which appeared to Dunn said, a hard edge on his voice. her or anyone else.”
and tight-mouthed.
“Maybe and maybe not. But I
“You lie,” said Horse calmly.
be
skinned. “I’ve got to take a
Horse Dunn met them at the cor­
wouldn’t have gone cow crazy,
“Horse, if you’ll let me take—”
hammer
to
those
spurs,
”
he
said,
rals. He had been prowling all over
range crazy, until I couldn’t afford
“Never a dime of your money in
the place, rifle on his arm. He his mind on other things. “Seems to work my stock!”
her brand,” Horse said with utter
spoke low-voiced, but no one of them like they—”
Strangely, Horse did not anger. finality.
TABLETS
“Horse—Coffee was right! The
Wheeler turned in that night feel­
man that died in this saddle was not Wheeler saw that the Old Man
2 FULL DOZEN 25c
thought his tirade was merely based ing old and grim.
Lon Magoon.”
Virtually 1 cent a tablet
Suddenly Dunn stood up, a shag­ on youth and ignorance, which he
It was still dark as Billy Wheeler
gy towering figure, staring redly at had seen in unlimited quantities be­
let himself noiselessly into the cook
Billy Wheeler. “Then, in God’s fore.
3—38
“Maybe,” Dunn said now, “you’d shack and lighted a lamp. He found WNU—13
name, who’s dead?”
Wheeler regarded him without ex­ have kept the 94 a little one-horse himself cold biscuits; and in a huge
Trouble From Excess
pression. Within the hour, a shad­ spread—in the best of shape. But pot on the back of the stove he found
In everything the middle course
owy hunch had come over him. He that ain't the question now. We’re bitter coffee above a banked fire. is best: all things in excess bring
He had about finished washing trouble.—Plautus.
knew that he had no proof for the where we are, and there’s no use
down his cold biscuits when he was
thing that was in his mind; yet fighting over what went before.”
“I can save it yet,” Wheeler told annoyed to discover that another
somehow it stood clear and plain. He
went to the fireplace, and picked up him rashly. “I can throw a hun- early riser was about. Someone was
walking quietly toward the cook
an old branding iron that had been dred thousand into the 94.”
“I didn’t know you could swing shack. Hurriedly he blew out his
in use as a fire poker. He squatted
' ’ “K. AND HAPPV
light, gulped down half a cup of
on his heels, and with this sooty iron that much. You got it, Billy?”
WITH
A
“What I haven’t got of it—I can dregs, and let himself out of the
began to make marks on Dunn’s
yGofeman
get.”
kitchen, anxious to be on his way
clean-swept floor.
Horse Dunn studied him, sadly, a without conversation.
“Saying that the 94 is here,” he
F SELF-HEATING
Then, rounding the corner of the
said, marking a cross, “and Short long time. “That’s an offer, is it?”
cook shack he almost ran into Mar-
'SwFffiWIRON
Crick over here; then here lies that he said at last.
“On one condition. That you give ian.
broken badlands called the Red
A Coleman Iron will save
“Morning, Billy.” He saw that
you work eave your strength
Sleep. Seems to me there used to me a free hand, to hire, fire, buy
and health — help you keep
young-—keep you ami ling and
be a trail across the Red Sleep, or sell, land or cattle, for three she was wearing belted overalls and
happy on Ironing day! The Cole­
years.”
boots.
man reduces by one-third tiresome
leading over to Pahranagat.”
h.°u™ «t the Ironing board. Its pol-
“
I
believe,
”
said
Dunn,
“
I
’
d
even
“
Isn
’
t
this
pretty
early?
Couldn
’
t
“Yes, sure. But—”
you sleep?”
BJ»ift!y through the biggest Ironing
Horse Dunn waited; Billy Wheeler do that.”
7
an hoar to operate.
“It's a deal, then?”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
M.kr.snd bom. Its own ou. Lb.hu
studied the floor. “Where would a
Instantly .. . beau in a jig,“
v
man be coming from, passing over
Flttt FOLDCH-S", vmr deal«
or
sand
po-trard
tor
folder
deserlblnz
Short Crick toward the 94? Maybe— Army Takes Pride in Great Naval Guns;
thia wonder Coleman Iron.
Pahranagat?”
THE COLEMAN LAMP
Rifles Throw Shells Twenty-Six Miles
ANO STOVE COMPANY
“Could,” Horse admitted dubious­
Dept. WU321. Wiehlta.
“I Don't Believe He Knows a
ly-
Kans.tPHIadelphia. Pa ;
Chicago. Iddlx» Angeles.
The army uses navy guns to nearly any spot on a line described
“That little railroad spur ends
Horse Track From a Hound's
guard Oahu, the island on which by the perimeter of the island,
raziwi
there.”
Ear.”
“Sometimes,” Horse Dunn made lies the largest military concentra­ guarding it from attack from vir­
would have crossed him then, any a sudden contribution, “Lon Ma­ tion under the American flag, writes tually every side.
more than they would have fooled goon has shipped a few stolen beef a Honolulu United Press corre­
The guns weigh 140 tons each and
with a 14-hand silvertip. His words carcasses out of Pahranagat.”
spondent.
are as large as any in the world.
came out as hard as pieces of rock.
This paradox of coast defense is
Army experts believe they are of
Wheeler nodded. “From Pahran­
“Go on and turn in,” he told them. agat the spur runs down the Little due to diplomats and the formula- infinitely more valu ■ for defense
THE CHEER.FVL CHERl/B
“This is most likely all for tonight.” Minto to Plumas, then—let me tion of the Washington Treaty. The than the lighter, mobile anti-aircraft
Once they were inside. Horse de­ see—”
treaty banned the addition of six- guns and indicate they may recom­
Tod-t-y I rrs juat
manded of Wheeler, “What the devil
"Cheat Creek, Monitor, Sikes teen-inch guns to battleships, so the mend construction of similar bat­
showing my
got into Old Man Coffee?”
Crossing,” Dunn supplied; “and so surplus rifles were turned over to teries at other points.
"Whatever it was got into him, to the main stem.”
the army.
A similar battery at Fort Weaver
fvnny, round pkix
it’s going to cost us plenty.”
Two of these guns, mounted on now guards the entrance to Pearl
“And so to the main stem,”
A ’ 1 11 bet yov dont
"I don’t believe he knows a horse Wheeler repeated. “And maybe an carriages constructed by the army's Harbor, the navy’s mighty Pacific
ov where tke.
track from a hound’s ear,” Dunn old-timer, a saddle man, working to­ Ordnance department, were proof base.
declared angrily. "He puts me in ward the 94 by train, would figure fired recently at Fort Barrette. 20
rest oF
These guns are capable of firing
mind of some old moss-horn—he it was better to come by Pahrana­ miles west of Honolulu, guarding 200 rounds without being disman­
me i s ’•
paws and blows and hollers, but gat—and there pick up a horse?”
the western approach to the island. tled.
Thus each of them could
im*”
what's he know about it when he
Their
performance
showed
strik
­
throw
200
tons
of
steel
at
an
enemy
They were silent, and the back­
gets through? Nothing.”
ground of the outer night seemed ingly their defense capabilities in fleet.
“I’m not so sure,” Billy Wheeler uncommonly still—perhaps because time of emergency. Each is capable
said.
Old Man Coffee’s hounds were gone. of hurtling a 2,100-pound projectile
First Eruption of Mount Etna
“Name one thing he found out!”
“A saddle-minded man,” Wheeler over a maximum range of 45.000
The first recorded eruption of
“He figured out that the murdered repeated, “coming from — say— yards—nearly 26 miles. They can Mount Etna was in the Eighth cen­
man was not Magoon.”
Flagstaff.” He threw the branding l be swung around and elevated to a tury B. C. Another, occurring in
Horse snorted in disgust. “I don’t iron into the fireplace; it sent up a maximum of 55 degrees.
477 B. C., is graphically described
believe it. Coffee thought he had to puff of white ash, against the black
Hence they could drop a shell at in Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.”
2 WAY RELIEF
FOR THE MISERY OF
COLDS
LKEEP YOUNG