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THE STORY
Garrett O'Hara,
on his way to
Concho, wild western town, Is
shot at from ambush by Shep
Sanderson, who mistakes him for
Judge Warner, whom certain
cattle Interests wish to prevent
holding court. Barbara Steelman,
who thought the shot was di-
rected at her, warns Garrett not
to go to Concho because of the
big cattle war Steve Worrall
tells Garrett about the cattle
war between Ingram and Steel-
man, father of Barbara, Bob
Quantrell, young killer for In-
gram, saves Garrett O'Hara and
an Englishman, Smith-Beres-
ford, from being shot by San-
derson. The three become friends.
Garrett accidentally witnesses a
meeting between Bargbara and
Ingram. They are lovers Garrett
and the Englishman buy a ranch
with Steelman as silent partner.
Fitch, Steelman man, kills an In-
gram follower. A posse, inciud-
ing Quantrell and Sanderson,
capture and hang Fitch. Sander-
son starts a fight at the ranch
and Garrett and the Englishman
are wounded. Quantrell changes
sides and joins with the two
“tenderfeet” A lull in the cattle
war follows Quantrell kills
Sanderson and another Ingram
gunman. A tentative peace is
patched up through Garrett's ef-
forts,
young lawyer,
practice at
CHAPTER VIll—Continued
sere Geo
Some misunderstood. He was
either too anxious or he was nervous.
A shot rang out from the bluff and the
three men below scrambled
stant motion. The
scudded for the house.
ran around the
there.
Instantly Quantrell's rifle cracked.
Other weapons boomed out. The man
running from the brook stumbled. al-
most fell, recovered himself, and dis-
appeared limping into the house. The
other two vanished into the stable.
Quantrell was disgusted. “You
spilled the beans proper, Mac. We
had three of ‘em salted an’ we didn't
get a one. Oh, well, no beefin’
about It Come on, boys, before
they get time to get set.”
He slid into a brushy draw,
ran through it, and emerged into the
open. Straight for the stable he ran,
the others at his heels
From the ranch house guns spat
bullets at the running men. Quan-
trell reached the stable. Texas Jim
and Whitey and Mac were at his
heels. The deputy sheriff came pant
ing In twenty yards back of them.
Quantreil sat down on a feed box
and cursed bitterly and fluently. The
object of his maledictions was the
party of Ingram’s gunmen at the ranch
house. The adventure he had planned
and had gone wrong. He found
his party besieged in the stable, two
out of the six wounded, a
separated from them by a stretch of
four hundred yards that might as well
have heen miles, and the horses quite
out of reach. Quantrell did not need
anyone to point out to him how badly
he had blundered In charging down
the hill. He had acted under impulse
fike a fool boy.
All firing had ceased.
ranch house made no Immediate at-
tempt to molest the invaders. [Pres.
ently Whitey made an announcement,
“Fellow just got on a horse
other side the house an’ rode off.”
“Gone to let Ingram know ™
Jim guessed,
“An' after a while Dave will he
back here with a whole passle of war.
rinrs,” Sommers added.
“It'll be a round-up of Hashknife
waddles, looks like” Mae said,
“Yon never can tell till you've rid-
den circle an’ brought the longhorns
In.” Quantreil contributed blithely,
“But none of you fellows have got to
stay when you're ready to go. Me,
I'm stayin'.”
Texans Jim nodded.
guid hriefly,
The deputy sheriff sald nothing. In
his opinion this enterprise had gone
to wreck on Quantreil’'s folly. If a
good opportunity came to get ont with
a whole skin he intended to do so,
During the next hour or two there
was desultory firing on both sides,
though it was plain that the men In
the ranch house were waiting for re.
inforcements before they forced the
fighting,
“Coupla
one
into In
the
The other two
barn t« find safety
one at creek
use
now,
down
led
+
t
seventh
Those at the
the
“Same here.” he
fellows on horses comin’
through the willows” announced the
white -headed cowboy abruptly,
Quantrell picked up his rifle and
went to the door. What he saw was
certainly unexpected. Two men were
riding along the edge of the creek
among the willows, They had with
them a led horse,
“Dad gum my kin if it ain't the
belted earl un’ his friend the good bad
mun,” exclaimed Texas Jim excitedly.
“What in Mexico are they doin’ here?”
The young desperado laughed, his
voice when he spoke filled with guy
and careless mirth. “Where else
would they be? Don't they always
head straight for trouble, those Inds?”
A moment, and O'Hara and his
partner were in the stable,
- - * - - » »
The Circle 8 O partners consulted
with each other.
“Nothing to do but ride over to the
Hughes ranch and call off the Hash
knife boys. If they've got Ingram's
men penned up we'll probably be in
time,” O'Hara sald.
“What shall we do
asked Smith-Beresford.
“Better take him along.
gulde us over the hills and
there quicker.”
The Mexican rode In front of them
He was covered by his own rifle in
the hands of Smith-Beresford. Un.
erringly he led them through a maze
of hilltops.
“Quantrell must have left the horses
somewhere,” O'Hara told his partner
“Juan says they came down from the
im rock on foot. Likely they left
some one with the mounts, Hadn"
we better swing around that way and
see If he's still there?”
“Not a bad idea, Old Top. He could
give us the latest developments. It
would be deuced awkward if we met
Ingram’s men hefore we did our own.”
They skirted the edge of the park.
Garcia pulled up to listen, lifting no
hand for silence. Some was rid
ing toward them, They could hear the
hoofs of horses striking rocks.
Riderless horses came over the brow
of a hill, lehind them rode a single
man. The man was Joe, one of Steel
man's cowboys, At sight of Garcia
and the others he stopped and wheeled
driving in a spur for flight,
with Garcia?
He can
get us
one
abruptly,
(O'Hara
Jerked his horse to its
1
sharply did he check it.
called to him by Joe
hin¢
nme
The Circle 8 O partners Joine«
Joe made clear the situation,
“The boys are In the stable. One
of 'em Is bad,
“Has there been a lot of shooting?”
Smith-Beresford
“Quite a lot. Some one rode away
from the ranch hour an’ a half ago.
for help, I'd I'm movin’
the horses. Figured they mig
up to 'em soon as they
around to it."
The partners talked
afterward O'Hara Joe
tions. “We'll leave Juan here with
you. Hold him till we see you ag
In about half an hour
horses to the south end of the meadow
wounded looked like
asked.
Gone say.
ht come
collect got
t
together and
gave instruc
move
to the place where the creek runs ont
We're going to try to folle
creek through
stable, Ve'll take na horse al
for the wounded man. If our pls
works out we'll Join you as soon
we can”
“What If I'm Jumped by Ingram
some one else?”
“Then you'll have to look after your-
self. But I don't think get
here before night”
The partners rode back to the creek,
the park rim, dropping
the meadow land over a
pine-clad hill. Smith-Beresford
the rifle. O'liara led
They moved up the
keeping on the far side from the house
and using the w
“Getting close to the stable,” Smith
Jeresford whispered
his friend. “There's a
the horses drink
ahead. Think we'd better splash over
and make a run for it?
“Might as well” O'Hara
The horses waded through the little
creek and beyond
They broke headed
straight for
Quantrell let out a yell of glee as the
two men o the ground. “Made
it. by cripes, you doggoned old hella.
millers.”
O'Hara did not share his enthn-
sinsm. He had come to get the raiders
out of trouble if he could, but he did
not intend to condone their offense.
“Who has been hurt? he
coldly,
“Amen Is
carryin’
souvenir,
was here?”
“Met a Mexican you drove away.’
O'Hara
where Owen lav on the hay.
ride?” he asked Texas Jim,
The Lone Star state man scratched
his head. “I dunno, Doubt it. lle's
a mighty sick man™
Apparently Owens had been dozing
He opened his eyes. “Sure 1 could
ride, if I was put on a horse,” he said.
“Then we'd better get out before
Ingram’s reinforcements arrive. The
rest of the horses are at the entrance
to the park. If we slip around and
keep the stable between us gud the
house we might make it.”
Quantrell's eyes gleamed. “You're
dn shoutin’, O'Hara. You fellows
go. I'll stay an’ hold "em back till you
cross the creek. Then I'll light out
after you"
“That's good medicine,” Texas Jim
agreed. “I'll stay with Bob.”
The deputy sheriff spoke up.
“There's an old door boarded up this
side. If we break that down we can
slip out an’ not be seen at all.”
Five minutes later the door had
been knocked to pieces with an ax.
Owen was lifted to the saddle of a
horse, He clung to the pommel, teeth
clenched. .
O'Hara turned to Quantrell, “Yon
take my horse, With that hurt leg
you ean't muke a run for it If you
have to. I'l stay with Texas”
“No, sir,” answered Quantrell, “It's
liable to be hotter'n hl with the
the
he can
by way of
down to
ear.
ried the
extra
horse creek,
IOWER BS A BCTeenN
over his shoul.
der to
ford
sort
where
agreed,
climbed the slope
into a canter,
the stable,
swung
asked
right bad. I'm
my leg ns a
you find out we
shot up
pill in
How did
one
.
walked across to the place
“Can he
-
blower on here, 1 wished this on
myself.”
“Get on that horse,” G'Hara ordered
quietly, looking straight at the young
desperado, His volce had a ring of
command, his brown eyes blazed,
Quantrell Inughed. * ‘I'm wagon boss
here,’ says he, All right, Have it yore
own way. But understand, every
body, I'm not to blame if they collect
him.” The boy limped to the horse
and pulled himself into the saddle.
“Adios,” he called back with a jaunty
wave of the hand as he rode out of the
bhullding.
The deputy sheriff was already on
his way. Only Smith-Beresford re-
mained. Ile was reluctant to leave
his friend and he argued the point,
but O'Hara brushed aside his ob-
Jections.
“I've got a better idea than yours,
Garrett,” he sald, consenting at last.
“I'l leave my horse here. You two
may be In a hurry when you start.
He'll carry double till you reach us."
The Englishman followed the others.
Hidden by the stable, the little cav-
nleade got some distance before it was
“Cut for the Creek an’ Get Acrost
IL" Texas Jim Advised.
geen by those in the house. Then men
poured oul of the house as seeds are
squirted from an orange. One of
them, leading the pursuit toward the
stable, gave a ycll compounded of tri.
umph and rage. O'Hara recognized
him as Deever.
Already O'Hara had given orders to
is companion but he reinfor
reminder. “"Hemember,
you're not to hit any of
them
from
ced them
Texas,
unless
”
¥ a
them
back otherwise
the stable took
They
house,
we « drive
The firing
Ingram men by
the
surprise, wav-
for the
our
broke back
1 give
they ought to make it.”
ered,
“If we cnt boys fifteen
minutes’ start
O'Hara sald
“Can't do I.” the Texan answered.
now it's gonna strike
their
the
.
about
fellows to slap saddles on
an’ swing round to
ff from the mouth of the park
i nticipated their thoughts
3 ‘ minutes. ['resently
they could see Deever and the others
slipping up from the to the
hitch rack by the house.
cut
five
creck
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“Time to say ‘Adios’ If we don't
aim to be cut off,” the cowboy sald.
“Right you are,” agreed O'Hara,
A moment later he was on Smith-
jeresford’'s horse, with the Texan be.
hind him. They dashed Into the open
at a gallop. A bullet whistled
them,
“Cut for the creek aa’ get acrost it,”
Texas Jim advised. z
O'Hara swung to the left and sent
the horse plunging into the young
willows. They crashed through, the
supple branches whipping their faces
The animal lost its footing as It went
down Into the creek and both men
were flung into the water. Texas Jim
caught the bridle and dragged the
bronco to Its feet. The riders were
soaked, but O'Hara had managed to
keep the rifle out of the water when
he made his into the stream’'s
shallow depth.
Into the saddle the Texan dragged
himself. He stiffened his foot and
O'Hara used It for a step to swing
himself behind. A moment, and the
horse was charging through the sap-
lings fringing the opposite bank,
Glancing back, O'Hara could hear
the excited voices of the pursuers
They were too far away for him to
make out the but he realized
that they were already In motion.
O'Hara
Quantrell rid
past
dive
words,
Some one shouted to them
caught sig} f
ing down the .
“Came back to chew over old times
he called gaily
“Where are
O'Hara.
“They're
conn
have to. If they get on the prod we'll
educate ‘em proper.”
sight of young
Cres
We
back If we
humpin® right along
hold these roosters
“We're not looking for trouble, Boh
What we're trying to do is to get away
with onr skins whole, Don't forget
that I won't unnecessary
ghonting We've had n than
enough”
i hier
have any
ore
the
grinned
volces of
Quantrell
“What shooting 1 wiil do
looks
pursuers came
closer, cheerfully
will be ne«
essary, like.”
“If we can only reach
of the park,” O'Hara
back
If my toes only reac
en they hang me it won't
hurt much,” Quantrell jecred,
The riders behind swung into sight
By way of warning O'Hara dropped =
bullet in front of them. The Ingram
gunmen opened up into loose
tion, each man riding wide of
neighbor But they kept coming
Shots sounded A buliet cut off the
branch of a willow five feet from
O'Hara,
“Another balf mile, boys, an’ we'll
make it." Texas Jim said anxiously
“Onet we reach the boulder fleld there
we can stand ‘em off."
lob Quantrell slid from his horse
“I'm gonna stop those birds.”
He rested his rifle across the branch
of a willow, took eareful alm, and fired
A man tumbled from a horse
out a “Hi-yi" of tri.
forma
his
Quantrell let
omph. “Got that fellow
called across to Texas Jim
they won't push on thelr reins to get
any closer.”
He was right.
for such cover as
oblect lesson at a time was enough.
The fugitives took advantage of this
to Increase the distance between them
and the Ingram men,
“They ain't such
good.” he
“(Fuess
The pursuers made
was available. One
curly wolves as
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Named for the Days of the Week
In the South Pacific ocean there
are islands bearing the names of Sun-
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. The tradition is that with
the exception of Thursday island, they
are so-called because those are the
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a wild turmoil and are strangely col-
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but mingled with steamiike
grays and whites, A terrifying roar,
which has been compared to thou
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bridge, may be heard at considerable
distance,
often
Early Puritan Picnic
Perhaps the gentle reader would be
interested In knowing how the Puri-
tan chieftain of the Massachusetts Bay
colonists spent his first day in New
England.
After exchange of greetings
Governor Endicott of the Salem
onists, Governor Winthrop says:
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Nathumeak, where we supped with a
good venison pasty and good beer, and
at night we returned to our ship,
“In the meantime most of our peo-
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Mistakes are just as natural as sie,
and nothing in the world is more com.
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is fatal, They constitute experience.
Mistakes can't be undone, it Is true,
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col
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the
shouted gleefully to his two compan
long, “I'll show this bully puss buneh
whether they can push me more'n so
fur.”
The
grew
that fenced
Not far
which creek
Into this the horses galloped. They
passed to a boulder-strewn field be
yond which was a gulch,
At the upper end of this they found
the rest of thelr party. With them
were and the horses he had
brought to the rendezvous,
Owen, his face drained of
looked like a man ready to collapse
and sustained only by a resolute will
“Can you go on?" O'Hara asked him,
3oth of his hands clung to the sad-
die horn. He nodded, not wasting the
energy to answer In words,
“We'll try to make the Circle § 0."
O'Hara “It's than four
miles by the mesa.”
He rode on side of Owen, his
partner on the Quantrell and
Texas Jim brought up the rear, watch-
ing alertly for the pursuers,
The deputy sheriff and Joe rode in
the van of the procession.
old-timer and picked with a
the easiest way the
the ranch.
Owen succumbed within sight of the
ranch, slipping from the saddle into
O'Hara's arms. One of the men rode
forward at a gallop and brought back
a buckboard into which he was lifted
A few minutes later he was carried
unconscious into the house,
hills
closer,
cleft through
in the park
ahead wis the
ran the
Joe
blood,
suid, less
one
other,
Joe wis an
sure eye
across hills to
O'Hara sent a messenger for a Jo
tor and another for Steelman. That
the attack upon the Hughes ranch
would be interpreted us a challenge he
was quite sure, Coming as it did on
of the offer
n would be justified in consider
black treachery. He would
swiftly, with deadly
the heels to compromise
probably
efficiency, uniess it wi assible to
him to see the affair in its
be
nor
ranch
3 had been done
He talked it over with Smith-Peres
sgpested
very
of Quan
devils
raid, but let's
nbhout it. old chap”
Assyrian may come down like the w
he de
r of these wi
boarders, ¥«
antre
Confound the yo
flan! But If we
the others we're ins
to come and wipe us
Beresford ianughed ruefully
by Jove. We thought we
out of this feud, you and I. §
the word broadcast that we
in it and didn't
and we're dashed
show whether we want to
Every move we make turns out wrong
it's
and
enems
don’t keep him
iting the
out" Smith
“Queer
J
could Leen
tered
weren't
intend to get In It
center of the whole
he or not
or anyhow Interpreted
wrong
we'll be biam for goin
sHppose
w 1s
the Hughes ple
row."
ce { stop
“Of course It's unfortunat
of Ingram’s men was shot after
we gnt there What
have If 1 rode to town to see Ingram
Wauld there he ans
of persuading him that the situs
nt once?
reached
got out of hand before we
home?”
“No go. You
We'll have
comes.’
Steelman arris
next day. He wa
half a dozen armed m
After he had talked
ners the owner of the Hash!
for Bob Quantrell, That
came In sheepishly, expec
raked over the
“You've certainly =p
Steelman
coals
edd the friloles
said
got to say
young man,”
“What have
self? Who nsked
Hughes place™
“Me! Oh 1 wn nda playin’ na
lone hand, Would sou eall it a rid
when we was a sheriffs
swore in regular an’
“At the very hour you were pullin’
off this fool business my
were {ryin’ te arrange a
promise with Ingram. What do
suppose he'll think about us?
“He'll probably onload his private
can of cuss worde™ The boy put one
thigh over the edge of the table and
sat on it hy way of showing that he
wns at ense. “What's the use of com-
promisin’ with him? We've got him
whipped, looks to me. The hanks are
clogin’ In on him like buzzards on n
dead cow at a water hole. That's the
story 1 hear. Lemme ask you a ques.
tion. Say I'd made my play good.
Would you have bawied me out then
or would you have figured it good
medicine?”
For a moment Steelman was taken
aback. It was not Just the question
he wanted nsked at the moment,
“Let's say yore plans had worked
out the way you originally expected,
tob,” he said. “You'd have surprised
Ingram's warriors early in the morn-
In, Say word had reached him while
he an’ our friends here had been talk
in' compromise. What do you reckon
he would have done to them? Would
they have had a dead man's chance
to get out of town alive?”
{TO BE COXTINUED,)
you
you to
posse all
proper?”
two partners
here com
you
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