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THE STORY
Garrett O'Hara, young lawyer,
on his way to practice at
Concho, wild western town, lis
shot at rom 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 Barbara 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, includ.
ing Quantrell and Sanderson,
capture and hang Fitch. Sander-
son starts a fight at the ranch
and Garrett and the Englishman
are wounded. Quantreil 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. Quantrell jeopardizes the
peace prospects by leading an
unauthorized raid on the Hughes
ranch. Barbara agrees to marry
Ingram, Quantrel} is horse
whipped by Ingram and swears
vengeance,
CHAPTER IX—Continued
—T Yn
Smith-Deresford caught sight of her
as she rode forward, and came to
meet her.
“It's been a thousand years since
1 saw you,” he protested, smiling up
at the girl. "The day has turned a
lot brighter. Won't you alight”
“I want to see Mr. O'Hara”
He helped her from the saddle and
they moved together toward the house.
Barbara waited on the porch while he
went In to get his partner.
When O'Hara joined her the girl
moved with him, as though uncon
sciously, toward the hitch rack. It
was like her to begin without devious
explanation,
“I've just left David Ingram.
ready to make peace on
she sald.
He looked quickly at her. A erim
in streamed through her cheeks
by that Mexican
went on. *]
We've talked
He's
reason-
any
able terms.”
Son stay
“1 sent him a note
Garcia.” asked
to meet
ie'll do whatever's right
te of Quantrell’'s attack?
I can’t go to Father yet.
to explain every
Yyather?
will." He felt as
the bottom had dropped out of
rt. ‘here was more to this
1 told him. In her sof:
ing eyes was the light of a
dear dream come true.
“We had a talk.” she sald, al-
most in a murmur, dropping her long
lashes,
Before he spoke again he made sure
that none of the emotion which surged
in him would show in his voice.
“When am [ to meet him
where?" he asked,
Ske gave him directions.
Neither of them referred to what
was in both their minds, hig love for
her and hers for another man. They
discussed the peace terms between
Steelman and Ingram. He saddled a
horse and rode with her until the path
forked. Jefore they separated she
had one last word to say to him, and
she said it with her hand on his coat
sleeve,
“I want peace more than anything
else in the world, Garrett. You will
do yore best, won't you?”
His brown eyes rested on hers as
he promised. “I'll do my best, Bar-
bara." Perhaps his smile was a little
wistful as he added: “I want you to
have what you want more than any-
thing else in the world.”
“Would you want me to have it if
you thought it wasn't best for me?”
she asked.
“No, but T wouldn't want to stand
in the way of your having it”
He thought many times later of that
last remark of Barbara. Had she
some prescience in her mind of short.
lived happiness, some intuition that
her love craft was likely to be wrecked
by stormy seas? In the light of sub.
sequent events he came to think so.
* » . * . » -
The peace negotiations, now that
Ingram had made ap his mind to them,
turned out to be absolutely simple,
Confronted by this new situation, a
foe willing to make concessions, Wes
Steelman made a mental ‘right-about-
face. He did not want to be outdone
In generosity. Therefore he met hig
foe at least half way,
Within four months of the date of
the treaty Wesley Steviman had to
swallow a bitter pill. He stood up be
side hie only daughter, the child he
ldolized, and saw her married to
David Ingram. One aspect of the Mist
ter troubled Barbara. She had
thought it would be a great blow to
his pride, but she saw it was his love
that was hit. He grieved because he
ge to
ourse |
ie hae
aan
al
and shir
ad
was sure that she would be unhappy
In her marriage.
And before she had been David In-
gram's wife two weeks Barbara knew
he was right. She summoned her
pride and her courage to keep him and
others from finding out.
CHAPTER X
“A Man With Sand”
It was agreed in a conference at-
tended by the governor of the terri-
tory, the sheriff of the county, Ingram,
Steelman, and the United States mar.
shal, that the slate should be wiped
clean of all offenses committed during
the Jefferson County war unless in-
dictments had already been found
against the law breakers. In the
event that any of these latter were
convicted the governor promised a
pardon,
Bob Quantrell was no party to the
armistice. Tacitly he refused to rec.
ognize the new conditions. He went
on the dodge and disappeared into the
chaparral, emerging from it only to
get food and supplies or to rald some
ranch and rustle stock. Three or four
desperate characters had rallled
around him, men who preferred to
steal rather than to work for a living.
Deever was one of these, Pankey
was another. The depredations of the
Quantrell gang, as the outlaws came
to be called by common consent, were
high-handed and flagrant. They killed
a clerk at the Indian agency, an Inno-
cent youth from the East who chanced
to come on them as they were driving
away a bunch of horses belonging to
the government. They preyed partie
ularly ‘upon cattle bearing the Dia-
mond Tall, the Hashknife, or the Cir-
cle 8 O brands.
The outlaws were protected by their
friends. Young Quantrell was popular
among the Mexicans. Posses organ-
ized by Ingram and Steelman, nom-
inally under the leadership of the
sheriff, could not move against him
without warning reaching the outlaw.
The relationship between Steelman
and Ingram was a st!ff and formal
one, though in this matter of putting
the cattle thieves out of business
Steelman knew there must be
eration.
He discussed
Co-Op
the
Smith-Beresford one
“We're not
Lyulph,” he sai«
situation
day.
with
gettin’
“Nor we
* sheriff
anywhere
with
He's
» "mt nite
go out after
¥
want
this Jin
Fd won't
( trell an’ sleep on his
I had a talk
He's willin
a good man to tak
I've f i
think of
O'Hara? What kind of
think he'd
“He'd make a bully one. TI
id the good man
:
id you our part
ner, Garrett
a sheriff do you make?
at's not
I'm thinking about Garrett
Dash it all, I'd rather
that young
Quantrell’s raids on our stock
the point
and his safety.
go broke from scoundrel]
“Some one has to stop this rustling
I'm too busy. My boy Is too young.
Ingram Is the man, but he
claims he hasn't time for it. Run yore
mind over the men you know in the
neighborhood, then tell me who is best
qualified for it.”
‘But Garrett Is no trailer. He
doesn’t know this country well,” pro-
tested Smith-Beresford,
“We'll give him deputies who can
follow a trall to h—1 an’ back. le.
sides, this probably won't be a trallin’'
fob. What It needs is a man with
sand in his craw who'll never quit.
I've watched Garrett an’ I've noticed
one thing about him-—he rises to his
opportunities. When the emergency
breaks he's right on the job. Jy
rights, If you go by logic. he ought
to have been killed half a dozen times
since he came to Jefferson county,
Some folks say he's lucky. 1 don't
He's alive because he's the gamest I1'1'
fighting cock on the river, an’ because
he uses his head. That last is where
he'll have the edge on Quantrell.”
“lI see you've already got him ap-
pointed,” the Englishman sald drily
“Isn't Garrett going to have anything
to say about this?
“He won't want the job, of course”
Steelman admitted. “Who would?
But if he thinks it's his duty he'll
take it."
“I don't see that it's his duty any
more than yours or mine or a dozen
other men I can name. I'm against
this, Steelman. He's too good to be
killed by that young devil Quantrell,
Thought you liked Garrett?”
“Nobody 1 like better. What's that
got to do with It? I'd put my own
son on the job If he was old enough
and good enough. I'm paying Gar.
rett a big compliment. This country
has got to be made safe from such
men as Quantrell. Some one has to
take law into the chaparral, an' I be
lleve Garrett is man enough to do
it. Anyhow, he'll get a chance to
say ‘No! If he makes good there's
a big future for him here”
The younger man shiled. “Glad to
know you and Ingram are so keen on
law enforcement. I'm Jolly well for
it myself, but"
Steelman interrupted him,
class me with Ingram, boy.
logical
“Don’t
I've al.
him run over me.
Start to finish you can’t point to n
thing I did contrary to law. Natural
ly, I wouldn't take the law dished out
by his hand-picked scalawags. I'm
surprised to hear you talk thataway,
Lyulph.”
The Englishman shrugged his shoul-
ders. *l don't mean to get your back
up, old chap, but I do think your ideas
of law out in this country are a bit
elastic. Eh, what? Want
Ingram about Garrett's appointment?
Hadn't we better talk with Garrett
first?"
“We'll right
O'Hara's first impulse was to refuse
instantly, but he waited to hear Steel
man out, lefore the older man had
finished he was not so sure, Some
stand for lettin’
me 10 sce
see him now,’
“You Will Do Yore Best,
You?
Won't
one had to take the place as a public
duty He was extremely reluctant to
be the and he had reasons that
seemed to him to weight ile
put them Into
“Bob saved my life from Sanderson
one,
have
words
once, twice, Until he
perhaps raided
the Hughes place we wer very friend
iy. If 1
to
were sherif would be my
iterfered
yf a whim
You were
This lent
between you and him under
that perfectly you're ap-
pointed sheriff, It he keeps h-—lin*
around that's not
him go straight an’ you'll not trouble
him. The long an’ short of it is
that here's a plain public duty callin’
to some he-man. I don't say you're
that man. Up to you to say whether
you are or not. But I do say that
yore relations to Quantrei! don't figure
in the case”
O'Hara thought It over and decided
that Steelman was right. He had no
right to pay any debt he owed to
Quantrell at the expense of the public.
“Give me twenty-four hours to
think it over,” he sald.
At the end of that time he told the
old cattleman that he would take the
He'll
stand Say
yore fault et
the
%
appointment if It was satisfactory to
Ingram,
Within a week the governor of the
territory had appointed him.
® . » . * » ®
AS a bride at
Tall ranch
young the
very
Diamond
Barbara was popular
with the riders In her hushand's em.
ploy, In Cattleland were
scarce, and charming young ones who
bloomed wild
’
the fingers of
women
lke roses could be
counted on one hand
with several digits to spare. Barbara
huve been less
had
of these
None
The
wanted
gram belonged to
would than human if
the
egre. young
she not appreciated homage
bow-|
the
one
bipeds.
less, she was not happy,
man whose
offered it
homage
rarely, Dave In-
the old school of
husbands which regards a wife ns a
property. He had won her, and fit
was not In character for him to keep
on winning her, She was his woman
under the law. Naturally, she would
take it for granted that he was fond
of her,
He never consulted her about bus!
He rarely told her
ness, where he
It did not
when he
her
returned
occur to him to kiss
left or when he
There were hours when his passion
for her flamed like Yet Bar.
bara, hungry-hearted for affection, re
sented these as } days of
tow,
much as his
absorption in affairs from which she
was
Barbara withdrew Into herself. nar
rowing her life. A hard. flerce pride
welled up In and bitterness lay
Hke a lump of lead In her bosom. Not
a girl given to self-pity, she did her
share of weeping now when alone be
bind bolted doors. she
told herself that she was to blame,
that she expected too much of a man.
But since she was what was this
was amall comfort For she
there could be no happiness for her In
being less to a husband than his lover
and his comrade
At breakfast one morning Ingram
lifted his eyes from the newspaper,
yore friend O'Hara
appointed sheriff”
excluded,
her
Sometimes
she
“See
tenderfont
more li
h
yoreself
don’t see what ID
when he lot { it
“Yore friend Is a full-zrov
ain't he? her nsked ind
ently. 1 didn't say he
chance. 1 sald the odds
him If he really intrell
an’ doesn't lle down on the iol May.
be he'll just make a
go at that."
“He won't,”
“He wouldn't taken it
hadn't meant to do his best™
“Hope his best is good enouzh. I'l
sure not do any mournin’ if he gets
that young killer,” Ingram replied.
O'Hara rode across to the Diamond
Tail that afternoon.
larbara came out to the porch to
meet him. At sight of her a wave of
emotion crashed through him After
the usual banalities of greeting he told
her that he came to see her husband
“Dave is not here. 1 don't know Just
him
hadn't a
were against
goes after Qu
she sal
have
An old Dutch gun was recently lo-
cated in the Kanzakl shrine, Saga, by
Prof. Chozo Muto of the Higher Com.
mercial college of Nagasaki, who is
an authority on the history of the
early Christian civilization. It bas
for a long time remained unknown to
the public, but when Professor Muto
visited the shrine and saw the gun, the
marks it bears were declared by him
to be those of the United East India
company. The gun has also a letter
H on it, and Professor Muto believes
this to stand for Hoorn, a city in the
Netherlands, where there was a
branch office of the trading company.
History records that on the out-
break of the riots in Shimabara and
Amakusa by the Christians in 1687
against the Tokugawa government
rule, the government ordered the gov
ernor te mobilize 100,000 troops to
A.
When Washington Fled
In 1818, when Trumbull exhibited In
Faneuil hall (Boston) his famous ple
ture of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence, he prevailed upon
the venerable John Adams to Inspect
it. Approving the painting, the latter
pointed to the door next to the chair
of Hancock and sald, “There, that is
the door out of which Washington
rushed when I first alluded to him as
the man best qualified for commander
in chief of the American army.”
bring to an end the civil disturbance
The governor suec ceded in defeating
the rebels the following year with the
assistance of Dutch men-of war, which
Were then anchored off Nagarakl,
Professor Muto connects this histori-
cal fact with the gun that has stood
unobserved in the grounds of the
Kanzaki shrine. =~ Osaka Mainichi,
Japan,
—
Orchids for Every One
The middle of May is the height of
the orchid season In the tropical
countries to the south of us and at
that time it Is possible to buy orchids
by the bunch on the streets of the City
of Mexico at a price which would
make the American girl envious. The
blooms grow wild in the Mexican
country and are gathered by the peas-
ant people and carried into the citles,
The promenades of the City of Mexico
are lined with men and women from
the country districts who have come
loaded with the blooms. These rival
In size and beauty the flowers which
are readily sold for several dollars
each. In the City of Mexico one may
buy a bunch of about two dozen flow.
ers for a price about equal to 25 cents
pf American money.
Curb Market Ol4
The curb market in New York city
kad Its origin in 1702,
WNU Bervice
where he is.
sherifr.”
“For want of better,” he said apolo-
getically. “I wanted to speak to Mr.
Ingram that, but there's
thing else on my mind, Barbara.
Quantrell was In Concho yesterday for
a little while visiting the Gomez girl.
He headed this way when he left town.
It was dark, but
him for a moment, I
you. He's got friends on
maybe that's
But 1 thi
Ingram ought to keep a car
Quantrell is
1 hear you are our new
about BOMe-
after Steve Worrall
saw don’t want
to worry
an’
Creex,
Buck
he was making for,
out. dangerous.”
“Dave knows that as well as we do.
But he's so sure of himself, and any-
he Is a sort of a fatalist. He
says he'll not die till his time comes.
I wish you'd stay an’ talk to him.
Maybe he'll listen to you than
he will to me,
Il stay if you like, I want to dis-
my deputy with Lim, It's im-
portant to get a good one.”
There drifted to them a sound. a
faint that might have been the
explosion of a far firecracker.
“What's cried, lift
hand so that he would
The breeze brought two more shots.
and interval of
seven or « three more,
The from Barbara's
cheeks, She caugnt at her
arm
from
contact,
more
"
cuss
ne
pop
that? she
listen,
presently after an
ight seconds
blood washed
friend's
personal
Some
more likely a bear,” O'Hara sald.
her fear had infected him.
conviction his guess was true.
Barbara ran to the hitch rack and
mounted. a saddle horse, It was not
saddle she did not
a change made,
she eried
shooting at a
"
one deer, or
But
He felt no
that
side but
have
“Come on.”
walt
to O'Hara
she wheeled the horse and put it
af gallop.
Already he hard on
They dashed down the road in the di
was her heels
rection from which the shots had come
. - * ° » » *
On the day that O'Hara rode to the
Diamond Tail to
had gone t an gather of
Roche He
herd to drive to
warn him Ingram
beeves with
ti
was rounding
San
two
Ww Oo
Ingram superintended }
cutting, gave directions t«
and personally kept the tally
the beef herd
charge. As he
with his
headed toward
Jack Phillips joined him. For a mile
their the
Roche cantered after them an
the two
bome
ar two way was same
“Better look
said, “It's
times that Bob Quantrel Is layin’ for
you. He made his brags what he
gonna do to you in the Square Deal
Agua Caliente
One of our boys was there an’
fen ™
im
“No news to me that
Ingram replied, with a thin grim smile.
“He's got a license to be, accordin' to
his way of it. If this new sheriff is
any good he'll put Quantrell outa busi
ness. No use arrestin’ him. O'Hara
has sand in his craw, but he's a ten-
derfoot. I've a notion to throw in
with him an’ clean out the gang
Trouble is I'm so pushed for time”
Phillips ruminated aloud. “If any-
one was to ask me what was the most
important business Dave Ingram could
attend to right now I'd say it was
runnin’ down Quantrell, If he ever
gets the deadwood on you, Dave"
“Why then I reckon I'll be number
seventeen for him,” Ingram finished
carelessly,
Phillips drew up to deflect for the
Circle § O. “Well, they claim threat.
ened folks live long. Maybe so.
Adios.”
The other two struck a road gait
across the mesa,
They talked casually of one topic
and another: the number of beeves
the gather would total, the necd of
rain, the best route along which to
send the San Jacinto drive in order to
get good grass. As Ingram talked, his
keen eyes searched the wooded hil}
slopes and the arroys filled with scrub
onk. He might appear to take Quan.
trell's threats lightly, but he had no
intention of offering himself as an
easy mark.
They were dropping down a hill to
the road which swung around a hiuy
to the ranch. The horses picked their
way slowly through the rubble ready
to start sliding at the least pressure.
Knowing how sure-footed their mounts
were, both riders leaned back and
gave them their heads,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Phil
three.fon
out, Dave,
come to me
was
saloon at Saturday.
heard
he's sore,
IT'S A BITTER BLOW
Cop—Madam, didn't you see me hold
up my hand?
Woman at the Wheel—I did not.
“Didn’t you hear me blow my whis-
tle?”
“1 did not.”
“Didn't you hear me holler at you to
stop?”
“I did not.”
“Well, I guess I might as well go
home. I don’t seem to be doing any
good here,”
Times Change
Times certainly change.”
“Whatcher driving at now?”
“1 was Just thinking that the
statues of great men in the future
may show them speaking into a mie-
rophone instead of astride a horse
with a sword dangling."—Florida
Times-Union,
or
HADN'T KNOWN HER
“You had known your wife for a
“1 believed so, too, but I assure you
true.”
Caution
Bpeak gently. It is better far
Atl least while feeling ground
The may be a puglilist
And heavy on the pound.
man
Unidentified Retributions
you that our sing are
earth?
Miss
doubt at we
“Io believe
1 on this
replied Cayenne. wy
deserve sll our
ances, ut it
would be more satisfactory if we were
delinquen-
is intend-
don’t
know just what
Growing Suspicious of Science
“What makes you so indignant with
science in go al?
“It's altogether too po
mysterious, unsw a
verful and
Farmer Corn-
tossel, "After our experience with
drought I'm wondering what
would happen if Science were to take
rain permanently out
NOT SAFETY PINS
First Boy--Has the coed
you mention any pins?
Second C. B.—1'] say she has! And
they're no safety pins either when you
take too long a look.
College
Standards of Beauty
Secrets of beauty rest unknown,
A knock-kneed goddess carved in stone
In ancient days was stood apart
And was considered Real Art
Done Intentionally
“You have sald some very nonsensi-
cal things in your speeches.”
“Intentionally,” answered Senator
Sorghum, “In studying the require
ments of my time 1 have decided that
the great demand is not so much for
politicians as for comedians."--Wash-
ington Star,
Some Difference
Wife—~You don't give me such nice
presents as you used to.
Husband-—-No; but 1 pay for those
you give yourself now.
Poor Burglar
“Just think! While | was out with
some of the fellows the other night, a
burglar broke into our house”
“Did he get anything?”
“I'l say he did—my wife thought It
was me coming home.”
Worse and Worse
Uncle Hiram-—It says here in the
paper a robber robbed a bank on Sun-
day, Matilda
Aunt Matilda Well, what Is the
world coming to—robbing banks on
Sundays, Hiram?