THE QMINECA HERALD, NEW HAZELTON,

Bk. C.. WEDNESDAY, §

EPTEMBER 9, 1936

“Watch yoreself, kid,’ yelled Tex.
‘“T'H take the one on the right.”

| Bath the rustlers were shooting now
“They were desperate, tired men, their

nerves ‘on edge from weariness and

THIRD INSTALMENT «© — |
SYNOPSIS—Silas Spelle, - high-han- |
ded, low principled cattle baron, is out |
tu sningh the local bank and force fore-
closure on the small ranchers of the
Kinah Desert country ‘so that :he can
seize their range lands. He is opposed.
ly Md. Starbuck, president. of ‘the Cat-
temen’s bank, and by San Juan Deve:| Johuny picked his man and went dt
sa prominent: rancher: who ‘has. been jpim on a run, leaning ‘low ‘over his
crippled by a fall from his horse. Tes | yyoneo's neck. He heard the whisper
Whipple and his pattuer, Johnny. Cle- lof flying lead about him, but he held
hae, ave cowpmichers employed by San jj, own five nmntil “not twenty yards
“mn Develan’to fleht the rustlers and: separated thom. Then he reigned his
“tect his interests. j horse toa sudden stop, sat up straight
: ind loosed two careful deliberate bul-
’ : : , lets, In the interval between his first
“Better: mle the most of it uW and second shét. something lifted his
skates”. cautioned Tex.“ ‘Gosh knows ‘gomhveto from his head. But he did
v hen yuh'll get any more.” ligt flich, determined to make the
AS Spon AE it was light enough t “most of his’ careful shooting. Haruimn-
rend signs Tex got busy. First’he rate is¢arum as fle plan’ was, ‘ft worked.
na wide cirel e about the Springs.’ With the second report: of Johnny's
peering closel¥'at the dust and sand of Colt the rustler’ stiffened and pitched
ie desert floor... Tae may followed at ‘he adiong. from his saddtie.
ix heels closely. They completed ay Then Johnny turned’ to see how Tex
civele of about 1 mile when Tex pulled I ens making it.. A gulp of fear rose in
i: end while rolling a- smoke peered | his Krone. rex! he horse was down and
with keen eyes out to the northwest. kicking. Tex himsel A lay, half sat to
‘Nevelan had the right hunch, bey nie side, hut ‘shonting © deliberately.
drawled. “Wade an’ the rest of those The cennd outlaw was hacking his
coxotes double- crossed their own boss.” i horse awax, holding the rearing. ani-
Johnny, who had Jearnefl a lot abort; jmals head and neck before his body as
reading sign from Tex, nodded, :

knowledge: they were caught with the

render was. to ‘put their’ necks in a
noose, They would fight it out.

“Yop, they jest cutout: about ninety |. 7 Te
of a hundred haid | ‘and lieaded ’em! * ;

hodily discomforts and faced with the |’
stolen goods in front of them. To sur--

‘me to do, sit back an’ lead the eheerin’

o eeleenee dines tell ool macnn a

wrathfully, though he kuew the gvrath
was anly.a cloak to deepest emotions.
“What'a the-idea o’ yore chargin’ in
thataway-with an empty gnu, Wanta
git yoreself. salivated?”

“Shucks,” muttered Johnny. “How
did. Tokmow. yuh avan’t bit? Yuh was
down wan't yuh? An’-him afanin’ at
yuh-all the time?) What did yuh want

section?"

- “Well.” growled Tex, . ‘Yuh might
have some respects for my feelin’s. If
1'd a missed him he’d-a got yuh shore."

-“Mebbe-—mabbe," grinned. : Johnny. ‘
“But believe me I was skidaddling to
hoat the devil” :

Where's yore’ hat?’ demanded. .Tex
irrelevantly. “I suppose) yuh rode
vicht up to that other jasper an’ sidin
him in the faee-with it?” _
i Nope.” retorted Johnny, “Ie lift-
ed it.off. with a_.45 Jest hefore T pluge-
ed hin, Well, it looks Jike we done
got o herd o’ eattle and te daid rust
evs an onr hands, Tex. :Am’ they” 5 two

brones for yuh. - >

While Johnny was busy with this
errand Tex rolled a’ cigarette with
shaking hands, and. fumbling fingers.
He ‘awas -blinking. his eyes rapidly to
keep hack the moisture.

“Ynh ‘angel, . helter-skelter,
eutty kind?! he muttered.

Ww ould I do without yuh? "

erry et omet ome, Tes

“loyal
“What

northwest w ith two men on the (raz.
‘he rest they took on to the Box TD.
They cooked up that yarn about rust-
leva ns a. blind an’ figgered the: wind
would wipe out ‘the tracks before any-
hady could prove ’em a liar.”

“Share, yubrie Tearnin’ son. Lemmc
soo, Wade an’ his .gang musta left ;
Skelton Springs about noon yesterday. | |
‘The tracks show .that's about | right. -
That gives ‘em’ about 17 or. 18 hours |
start. They can’t drive them cattle| |
any too fast cause that long drive into
the Springs musta had ’em pretty well
faezed, T got a hunch we can ketel| |
Come on,” ut

‘om,
At noon Tex halted enough to loosen

t
the hniter girths for a moment while {
he poured .a:mouthful. or two of water | |
rrom a canteen into the crown of his). }
hat and let the thirsty broncos wash | ©
the.dust from, their throats nnd nostrils ;
Then the’: ‘einches wore, tightened un]:
penin and the stendy grind resumed.
At ahont threa in the ofternoon: Tex

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—a eourse of

vere in his, Stlrups | and pointed ahead.
Mh pre, maybe. five’ miles distant, lay, a
Opltting clond ' f aon
Tex increased . e: pereeptably |
and an hour: “Inter he and. Johnny efime *:
ter the ete, of, a, “wide dry lake, across ; al shield,
thin middle of which; weary, thirsty
Viper of: ‘Hereford: eatile slowly filed..
T the. reat. hazing, the cnitle onward,
five’ Taen” Were” ~wdliigs* ‘swinging : ‘the
ends of larints across the hacks of lag:
enrgn, fighting the inevitable slowing
down of the herd.’ > ,
“Caught jem,” rasped ‘Tex through:
. crficked, “dust-caked . lips... “Reckon.
mnabbe we're ‘in' for & fight ‘son, “0!

an angie.
from Tex.

his gu on empty eyLinders.

Realtaing “his predicdment ”
kneed his horse away,

empty-. shells As, he .rode,

_ Rhea ran Vann cacti” Blea ois cdi Ee tite!
“He reizned, toon sudden stop and loo od two “oa

Johnny gure a yell-and dug),
in the spur S, rielng | on the ‘yustler at
Johnny was ‘shooting now,
trying te draw the outlaw’s attention |;
He sneceeded ‘but suddenly
found hiinself clicking - ‘the hammer: of

‘Johnny |:
snicking back
the loading gate and puticliing’ ‘éut ‘the’
Quick to

they may! ru ‘for it, ‘but I don't think,
«so, ‘Weil, get’ yore “Tawerlaig loose,
in. the leather.”
Tex ‘and Jobnny ‘lifted: their prone’,
_ into'a gallop, and, pounded down ficross,
the: ‘quarter mile which separated them
* prom the sustlers ‘arid the ‘cattle:! So
" nhsorbed: were ‘the ‘rustlers -.in - their.
work they ‘ald not’ guces at thely pur
‘snes’ "proximity “anti hardly" plete.
yards: ‘separnted ‘them.’ "ame dhe, ‘of
them. -happenet . to turn and: look. back.
He. Shouted:. toa Ws ‘eompanton, Agrked
“ott a gun and wheeled ‘his :horse to

grasp hig ‘opportunity: the rustler’ ‘pole,
ed himself for a careful. shot . at the},
fleatig Johnny. “Por: al eplit! : “secon | £
the rustler wag. ‘Stationary. and. Tex,

over, his left’: ‘forearm, pulled" the: ‘trig-
peron* the’ ‘fast: todded ‘éiatiber: ‘ini hig
gun, ;, “@lose: 00. ‘fhe’ heel, of," Tex's, shot
came another.” But “the a daathor's | ‘bok
let went wild'for. he was, already fall-
ing: from : the; snd@lé,ehat: in the. temple

Johnny whirled: ‘his’ horse about. and,

jzadlone med t6 see. Tex rise
to. his ee see hiuiglbe  Porwhtd |

-one alle, ere

vt "Yuh ang ‘fool kel

now-on:his "knbes: and aiming * carefully. ‘

vetuil, deliberate hols.

smoke wns. trickling:

at his wiulstline, seemed to possess a
hr pnotie quality, If had the sane cold
maglignante . suggestion which lies in
the upralsed,, head af, a “rattlesnake
about, to strike.’ A. thread’ of ‘pale
‘above 4 Two
shots and two dead men! A muscle
twisting shudder rippled through Bur:
niby’s bedy. He ‘conld feel the vrent.
blubs of sweat gather on his forchead.. |
In a purely mechanicnl manner he,
started fo. lnver - his" right hand
brush. (ye moisture,

“s Aint there anythin’ Imt dam
fools in Gijs place?. Move, over to ‘that |.

, cage roan: “und nulock | ity. Keep yore
Ahamls in, plata

“sight, , One. _ phoney |
move an’ there’: he three duid _men
instead off two. Hurry up!” .

of 2iantomaton Buraey walked jerk- |
ily. to the cage door. Burney. WRS @

Thon he blew his nose loudly. rnd !
set tocgettla’ lis saddle off his: dead
Iiinedyeeor pees
if ‘Nina Barney, boii: -keopiér
‘Honda's. ami, att Qoriltjion,”
‘shinveds 7 horcitied, «apa te lows sort of):
aviy at the doorway. leading into ni.
Starbnel’s. _ private _ office. Sprawled’
on bis fice across the sillwas BA, Star,
Mbnek, - Elis-onesarm was outstretched.
before him and a few inches in front: ‘af.
fir extended fingers. lny. the heavy: ree

a ou net fin?

4 Solver” tHe old min: had:not been awit i

enough. to AB A little pool, of ertin;
an was “hégiiming’ to-spread, on: fie,

ate ae Her ees Tae Mabe Reve .

ody
Alnost; sat, Starbuck's, feet. Jay.
other’ body: that of. AL ‘Blinkon;: eashlet.
et the? Binks: (Healso had, madeithe
mistake’ jot. ‘reaching? fore: Bus
Burney wwrenche hig eyes: from the (lead):
ién'dhd! Stated through his window a)

‘ae

barked Tex.

puysof, . figures,
4 sen place had filléd him “with drend “and

ie nda one" shoulder: of ‘the still; ites

n)
in: Tom ao

the two rile x i a the

‘null little inn, totally wiused to, such
scones of violence | supremely content
with his position amid. the endless col-
What, had just tak-

chovror nid had: stunned all ‘thought
and: nitintlye,, Beyond the barrier the
bandit: avho had. lone the shooting: kept
step: axith, Jain, © When. Barney, lowered.

hed the gin. through the bars vintil the
muzzle:, neatly: touclied, Barney's throat}.

rot powder: zag was strong in hia nos
trils, His fingers’ tumbled, at the Jock.
The door ‘swune baek..:

ye

ed at-his heels.

to, ,

: ph © wo
“KReop Tony. apt, came, the Agesh comp . -
anand, oo

Moving with the mechanical stiffness |

tis hands to the lock the bandit jah-|

The’ latter retched, slightlys"The ‘stink |,

Tithe as. fl: wensel the: ‘Giale 6 wis ie
aldg, his gun, buried depn, Against Bur-
ney’a | slite. The’ ‘second’ Banat crow

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