ROBD SYNOPSIS Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from Wyoming, in the early days of the cat- tle Industry, seeks a new field In Utah, He meets Hank Hays, who admits be- ing a robber, and tells Wall he Is working for an Englishman, Herrick, who has located a big ranch in the mountains. Herrick has employed a small army of gun-fighters, and Hays and others are plotting to steal their employer's cattle and money. Wall saves Hank's life by bluffing a gambler out of shooting. With Hays and two other rustlers, Happy Jack and Lin- coln, Jim Wall goes to Herrick's ranch. CHAPTER III—Continued HY Herrick had selected as a site for his home what was undoubtedly the most pleturesque point in the valley, if not one that had the most utility for the conducting of a ranch busi ness. Ten miles down from the head of the valley a pine-wooded bench, almost reaching the dignity of a pro- montory, projected from the great slope of the mountain. Here where the pines straggled down stood the long, low cabin of peeled logs, yellow in the sunlight, Below, on the flat, extended the numerous barns, sheds, corrals. A stream poured off the mountain, white in exposed places, and ran along under the bench and out to join the main brook of the valley. Somewhat apart from both the cor- rals and outbulldings on the flat stood a new log cabin, hurriedly built, with chinks still unfilled. The roof extend. ed out on three sides over wide porches, where Wall observed three or four beds, a number of saddles and other riders’ paraphernalia. The rear of the cabin backed against the rocks, Jim understood that Hays had thrown up this abode, rather than dwell too close to the other employees of Her rick. From the front porch one could drop a stone into the brook, or fish for trout. The pines trooped down to the edge of the brook. Naturally no single place In all that valley could have been utterly devoid of the charm and beauty nature had lavished there, but this situation was ideal for riders. Hays even had a private corral. As Jim rode up to this habitation his quick eye caught sight of curious, still-eyed men on the porch. Also he observed that there was a store of cut wood stowed away under the porch, “Wal, here we air,” announced Hays “An' if you don’t like It you're shore hard to please. Finest of water, beef, lamb, vemison, bear meat. Butter for our biscuks. An’ milk! An’ best of all—not very much work. Haw! Haw!" “Where presently. “On the porch. myself.” “If you don't mind I'll keep my pack inside, but sleep out under the pines™ responded Wall When at length Jim carried his effects up on the porch Hays spoke up: “Jim, here's the rest of my outfit. . , . Fellers, scrape acquaintance with Jim Wall, late of Wyoming.” That was all the introduction Hays volunteered. Jioe replied: “Howdy,” and left a return of their hard scru- tiny until some other time. Hays went at once into low-volced conference with these four men, Happy Jack hauled up the supplies. Brad Lincoln occupied himself with his pack. Jim brought his own outfit to a far corner of the porch. Then he strolled among the pines seeking a satisfactory nook to unroll his bed. Jim, from long habit, generated by a decided need of vigilance, preferred to sleep in coverts like a rabbit, or any other animal that required protection, At length he found a niche between two rocks, one of which was shelving, where pine needles furnished a soft mat underneath and the murmur of the brook just faintly reached him. Jim would not throw his bed where the nolse of rushing water, or anything else, might preclude the service of his keen ears. There was no step on his trail now, but he instinctively dis trusted Lincoln, and would undoubted ly distrust one or more of these other men. Hays exemplified the fact of honor among thieves. Jim had come to that conviction. This rebber might turn out big in some ways. But could even he be trusted? Jim resolved to take no chances. Not until the following morning did Jim Wall get a satisfactory scrutiny of the four members of Haye’ outfit, The eldest, who answered to the pame of Mac, was a cadaverous-faced man, with eyes like a ghoul, “Whar you from?" he asked Wall “Wyoming, last” replied Jim, agreeably. Jeff Bridges, a sturdy, tow-headed man of forty or thereabouts, had a bluff, hearty manner and seemed not to pry under the surface. “Glad Hank took you on,” he sald “We need one cattleman in this outfit, an’ thet's no Joke.” Sparrowhawk Latimer, the third of the four, greatly resembled a horse thief Wall had once seen hanged, Hays had said to Slocum, the fourth member of this quartet: “Smoky, you an’ Wall shore ought to make a pair to draw to.” “You mean a palr to draw on” re torted the other. He was slight, wiry, freckled of face and hands, with a cast in one of his light, cold-blue eyes, “No!” snorted the robber. “Not on! . . . Smoky, do you recollect thet gambler Stud Smith, who works the stage towns, an’ Is somethin’ of a gun slinger?” do we bunk? asked Jim, I took to the attic by ZANE GREY Copyright. ~~WNU Service. “I ain't forgot him.” “Wal, we set In a poker game with him one night. I was lucky. Stud took his losin' to heart, an’ he shore tried to pick a fight. First he was goin’ to draw on me, then shifted to Jim, An' Jim bluffed him out of throwin’ 8 gun.” “How “Jim just sald for Stud not to draw, as there wasn't a man lvin' who could set at a table an’ beat him to a gun.” : “Most obligin' an’ kind of you, Wall," remarked Smoky, with sarcasm, as he looked dim over with unsatisfied eyes. “If you was so all-fired certain of thet, why'd you tip him off 7" “I never shoot a man just because the chance offers,” rejoined Jim coldly. There was a subtle intimation In this, probably not iost upon Slocum. The greatest of gunmen were quiet, goft-spoken, sober Individuals who never sought quarrels. Jim knew that his reply would make an enemy, even if Slocum were not instinctively one on sight. Respect could scarcely be felt by men like Slocum. Like a weasel he sniffed around Jim. “You don't, eh?” he queried. you strike me unfavorable” “Thanks for beinz honest, If not complimentary,” returned Jim. Hays swore at his lieutenant: “Un- favorable, huh? Now why do you have to pop up with a dislike for him?” “1 didn't say it was dislike. Just unfavorable. No offense meant.” “Smoky,” sald Hays, “1 won't have no grudges In this outfit. I've got the biggest deal on I ever worked out There's got to be harmony among us “Wal, Jim Gleaned This information From Rancher. jut Smoky bobbin’ up again my new man--thet's serious. Now let's lay the cards on the table, Jim, do you want to declare yourself?” “I'm willing to answer questions unless they get nasty,” replied Jim, frankly. *You got run out of Wyomin'?™ “No. But if I'd stayed on I'd prob ably stretched hemp” “Hold up a stage or somebody?” “No. Once I helped hold up a bank, That was years ago." “Bank robber! You're out of our class, Jim." “Hardly that, It was my first and only erack at a bank, Two of us got away. Then we held up a traln—blew open the safe in the express car.” “Smoky, I call It square of Wall"™ spoke up Hays. “He shore didn't need to come clean as thet.” “It's all right,” sgreed Slocum, as i forced to fair judgment. Hays plumped off the porch rail “Now, fellers, we can get to work. Herrick puts a lot of things up to me, an’ I ain't no cattleman. Jim, do you know the cattle game?” “From A to Z,” smiled Wall “Say, but I'm in luck. We'll run the ranch now.” “What'll I do, Hank?" asked Jim. “Wal, you look the whole diggin's over.” Jim lost no time In complying with his first order from the superin- tendent of Star ranch. What a mon strous and Incredible hoax was being perpetrated upon some foreigner! Evidently there had been ranchers here In this valley before Herrick. Old log cabins and corrals adjoining the new ones attested to this Jim passed cowboys with only a word or a nod. He talked with an old man who said he had owned a home stead across the valley, one of those Herrick had gathered in. Jim gleaned Information from this rancher, Herrick had bought out all the cattle men In the valley, and on round the foothill line to Limestone Springs, where the big X Bar outfit began, Riders for these small ranches had gone to work for Herrick. He was told that Heeseman, with ten men, was out on the range, Presently Jim encountered Hays, ac companied by a tall, floridly blond man, garbed as no westerner had ever been, ‘This, of course, must be the Englishman, He was young, hardly over thirty, and handsome In a fleshy way. “Mr. Herrick, this Is my new hand I « was tellin you about,” announced | Hays, glibly, “Jim Wall, late of | Wyomin', . , . Jim, meet the boss,” | “How do you do, Mr. Wall,” returned | Herrick. “I understand you've had | 8 you ! wide experience on ranches?” “Yes, sir, I've been riding the range | since 1 was a boy,” replied Jim. i “Hays has suggested making you his | foreman.” “That is satisfactory to me.” “You are better educated than these | other men. It will be part of your | duties to keep my books.” “I've tackled that job before.” “So I was tellin’ the boys,” Inter posed Hays. “As I understand ranching” on Herrick, “a foreman handles the riders. Now, as this ranching game 1s | strange to me I'm glad to have a fore. | man of experience. My idea was to | hire some gunmen along with the cow- boys. Hays’ name was given me at | Grand Junction as the hardest nut In eastern Utah. It got noised about, I presume, for other men with reputa- | applied to me, and his friends.” “But you really did not need go to | the expense—and risk, I might add—of hiring Heeseman's outfit” “Expense Is no object. Risk, how- | ever—what do you mean by risk?” “Between ourselves, I strongly sus- pect that Heeseman is a rustier” “By Jove! You don't say? This is ripping. Heeseman sald the identical thing about Hays" “Wal, Mr. Herrick, don't you worry none,” interposed Hays, suavely. “Shore I don't take kind to what | Heeseman called me to your face, but | I can overlook It for the present. You see, If Heeseman Is workin' for you he can't rustle as many cattle as If he wasn't Anythin' come of that deal vou had on with the Grand Junction outfit 7 “Yes 1 received their reply the other day,” rejoined Herrick. “By Jove, that reminds me. I had word from my sister, Helen. It came from St Louls. She is coming through Denver and will arrive at Grand Junction about the fifteenth.” “Young girl—if I way ask? added Jim. “Young woman, two.” “Comin’ Hays. “By Jove, it bids fair to be a life. long one” declared Herrick, as if pleased. “She wants to make Siar ranch her home. We are devoted to each other, If she can stick it out in this bush I'll be Jolly giad. Can you drive from Grand Junction in one day? “Shore. Easy with a buckboard an’ a good team,” replied Hays Herrick resumed his walk with Hays, leaving Jim to his own devices. Jim strolled around the corrals, the sheds, down the lane between the pas tures, out to the open range. This Englishman's sister-—this Helen Herrick—she would be coming to a re mote, wild and beautiful valley, What would the girl be like? Twenty-two years old, strong, a horsewoman, and handsome-—very likely blond, as was her brother! And Jim made a mental calculation of the ruffians in Herrick's employ. Eighteen! After supper Hays leaned back and surveyed the company. “Feliers, we've a pow-wow on hand. Clear the table, Fetch another lamp. We'll lay out the cards an’ some colin, 0 we can pre tend to be settin’ in a little game if anybody happens slong. But the game we're really settin’ in is the biggest ever dealt In Utah. “Talk low, everybody,” Instructed Hays. “An' one of you step out on the porch now an’ then. Heeseman might be slick enough to send a scout over here, 'Cause we're goln' to do | thet ifttle thing to him. . . . Happy, | dig up thet box of cigars I've been | savin'” “Hank, trot out some champagne,” Jeered Brad Lincoln. “Nothin’ to drink, fellers,” returned Hays. “We're a robber outfit, No ar guin’ or fightin", . . Any of you whe doesn’t like thet can walk out now.” They were Impressed by his cool force, “All right. Wal an’ good. We're | set,” he went on. “Today I changed | my mind about goin’ slow with this | ” Helen Is twenty- for a little visit?" asked Jim Wall had a flash of divination as to this sudden right-about-face. “Herrick reckons there are upwards of ten thousand bead of stock on the range. Some of these ranchers he bought out sold without a count. 1 bought half & dozen herds for Herrick, | An’ 1 underestimated say, rough cal culatin’, around two thousand head. S80 there's twelve thousand good, Thet's a herd, fellers. Alr thefe any of you who wouldn't care to play a game for twelve thousand head of cattle at forty dollars per?” { ‘I'here did not appear to be a single | one, ; | “Ahuh. Wal, thet's okay. Now, can | we drive such a big herd?” “Hoss, listen to this idee,” spoke up Smoky. “Most of these Star cattle range down the ey twenty miles be low here. How'd TL do for, say, five of us to quit Herrick an’ hide below here? Meanwhile you go to Junction an’ arrange to have | your buyers expect a bunch of eat. | tle every week. A thousand to two thousand head. We'd make the drives an’ keep it up as long as it worked. You're boss, an’ Wall here Is foreman, You could keep the cowboys close to the ranch.” TO PE CONTINUED, ® TEARLY always in the case of a marine disaster persons come for- officers and crew of the vessel concerned, This is true now of the Morro Castle, the Ward liner which burned eight miles off the New Jersey coast with a loss of 130 lives, The Morro Castle, large, swift, and lux- urious in its appoint. ments, was returning from a seven-day cruise to Havana, George W, Rogers a few hours before the tragedy, and 12 other officers the biazing ship until the hulk was Several of the surviving passengers testified before the federal steambont sounded and little or po aid was given panie-stricken passengers by the mem ers, chief radio operator, and his first assistant, George 1. Alagna, told of he delay in sending out the SOS call, This, of course, was explained by the usual re- luctance of steamship officers to call for help because the salvage charges are heavy. Alagna was put under ar- rest as a material witness after he had told his story to a federal grand jury. The value of his testimony was some what lessened by Rogers’ admission to both the board and the grand jury that Alagna had been distrusted by Captain and that Alagna some months ago tried to instigate a riot on the ship as a pro- test against the food served the crew. The first actual evidence indicating that the fire was of incendiary origin was furnished by Quartermaster Gus Harmon. “It was like the flash of a 16-inch gun,” he declared. “It couldnt have been gasoline because it traveled much faster. It might have been some sort of chemical, all of which would light up when one point of it started. There was a funny, acrid smoke coming out of the flash™ Other officers of the ship testified that the; belleved the fire was of incendiary origin and was fed by gasoline or chemicals, but they could suggest no motive for such a horrible crime. Acting Captain Warms sald he based his opinion that the blaze was incendiary on two facts: First, be cause on August 27, on a previous voy- age to Havana, there was a suspicious cause reports to him indicated that the writing room locker, in which the fatal fire started, exploded. The flames, he explained further, acted “like gaso- line or kerosene,” and fire extinguish- ers had no effect on them. The chief of the secret Havana declares police in the burning of the maritime association ‘that takes its orders from the Communists of Mos cow, HE International Typographical union, in convention at Chicago, de feated a proposal by delegates repre a four day thirty hour week, to be optional with each local by a referen- dum vote, Charges were made that the ists in control of the New York local, tional organization and vilify its of. ficers, The accusation was denied by the president of the local, which has a in New York. Other delegates sup- plied the convention with circulars setting forth the charges of communis. tie interference. FFORTS of President Roosevelt's mediation board to bring about a peaceful settlement of the textile strike failed when the employers, according to the board, refused to make any con- cessions that would open the way to arbitration. The strike leaders had in. sisted that all the mills mut remain closed pending arbitration, and this was rejected by the mill owners, The cotton textile employers then declared flatly that they did not believe the is gues at stake are “appropriate subjects for arbitration.” The immediate result of this break. with National Guard detachments in Saylesville and Woonsocket, driving ordered that there should be no more shooting. But at Woonsocket condi- tions grew momentarily worse and the police commissioner of the city asked the governor to obtain federal troops to stop the rioting. The major in command of the National Guardsmen there admitted the situation was out of control. Great crowds were looting shops in the downtown section and oth- ers were threatening the Woonsocket Rayon company's plant, Fearing major bloodshed and death, Governor Green read the riot act and asked President Thomas FP. McMahon of the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica to hasten there from Washington. The governor also ordered the mobili- zation of 1,000 World war veterans and a statewide roundup of Communist agl- tators, Explaining the employers’ refusal to compromise, the cotten textile code au- thority pointed out that the hours and wages and other conditions against which the union is striking are set forth in an NRA code, This code, the employers say, was set up to be the “law merchant” for the Industry, and the strike, therefore, is an attempt to change the Industrial law by violence and Intimidation, Foun members of the Du Pont family, Plerre, Irenee, Felix and Lammot, appeared before the senate munitions inquiry committee and told of the huge business the Du Pont corporation has done in supplying war material. Between 1014 and 1918 the company, which was founded in 1802 to manufacture black powder, filled $1.245,000,000 worth of war orders. In that time it did about 35 times the business it had in the year just be- fore the World war, when its sales amounted to £36.000.000, Irence du Pont testified that the corporation subscribed to preferred stock In the German dye patents seized during the war by the United States. He sald these patents had resulted in a “great service” to America. The corporation entered the dye business after the war as a licensee of the Chemical foundation, Du Pont sald There did not seem to be anything very sensational or scandalous in the facts elicted from the Du Ponts, but previous withesses had told a lot about the deals of airplane companies and other corporations with foreign na- tions 4n which It was alleged they had been aided by United States diplo- mats and army and navy officers. There was a Jot, too, about graft on the part of South American government officials. One of the stories told brought in the name of King George of England, and this resulted in of- ficial protests by British diplomats both in Washington and in London. Just what Senator Nye and his com. mittee expect to do with the Informa tion they are gathering is not certain, There are suggestions of government ownership or at least government con- trol of all war munition manufactur ing and selling. Plenty of evidence was brought out to prove that the makers of these wares sell to both sides in warfare, N the fifth installment of the senate banking committee on its stock mar. ket Investigation internal revenoe agents were charged with “laxity In —- enforcement” for ac © cepting, without ex- i amination, income fax returns prepared by Jd. P, Morgan & Co. The committee pre sented a long review of evidence that offi cials of the Morgan company, Kuhn, Loeb & Co, and the Na- tional City bank of New York “avoided” J.P. Morgan ome taxes by “a variety of methods.” “Many returns, particularly of part pers In large banking houses, were exempted from adequate scrutiny,” the committee said. “When examinations were made the time devoted to them was compara. tively short, In view of the wealth of the taxpayers and the complex nature of their transactions “Thus, in 1036, according to the bu reau's own records, one day was spent in checking the partnership return of J. P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. ~the most powerful banking group In the world. “This return was not subjected to any” fleld examination and apparently the agent's explanation was sufficient to satisfy the internal revenue bureau that none was necessary.” SFiaz0n HUEY LONG won han- dily in his fight for absolute con- trol of Louisiana, his candidates for congress, state supreme court and public service commissioner defeating those of the “old guard.” The election was quite peaceful despite the pre- dictions of bloody “civil war,” The Kingfish is now expected to press his investigation of graft and corruption in the affairs of New Orleans and to undertake to have his arch enemy, Mayor T. SBemmes Walmsley, ousted from office through action by the leg- islature, which he controls. Huey is now the virtual dictator of the state, but his opponents have not given up the fight, TEW DEALERS rejoiced In the re- sults of the Maine election, though their victory was incomplete, Gov. louis J. Brann, Democrat, was re-elected by a substantial majority over the Republiean candidate, Alfred K. Ames, a wealthy and aged retired lumberman. Senator Frederick Hale, veteran Republican, was returned to the upper house for his fourth term, but his majority over F. Harold Du. bord, dynamic Democratic nominee, was so slender that Hale must have felt rather humiliated. The New Deal- ers won two of the three congressional seats, William A. Comstock lost the Demo- eratie nomination to succeed himself as governor of Michigan, being defeat- ed by Arthur J. Lacey. The Repub- licans named Frank B. Fitzgerald, now secretary of state, In South Carolina the textile strike injected itself into the election. In & runoff election Olin D. Johnston, union sympathizer and former mill hand, won the Democratic nomination over Cole Blease, In Arizona the Democrats renomi- nated Senator Ashurst and Congress- man-at-large Isabella Greenway. The New Dealers tried to get the guberna- torial nomination in Colorado for Miss Josephine Roach, coal mine operator and social worker, but she was beaten by Edward C. Johnson, the incumbent. In Washington, also, the New Dealers lost out when J. C. Stephenson was de- feated by Lewis Schwellenbach for the Democratic senatorial nomination. UARTERLY financial reports from the national committees show that between June 1 and September 1 the, Republican receipts were $105,078 and the Democrats collected $121,088, Republican expenditures aggregated $140,920 and Democratic outlays were $106,337. The Republican deficit was fixed at $81.435, against Democratic unpaid obligations of $497.08050, Among the generous contributors to the Democratic fund were Col. Jacob Ruppert, George F. Trommer and Wii- am Piel of New York and Fred Pabst of Milwaukee, all identified with the brewing industry. Irenee and Lam- mot Du Pont and their associates gave largely to the Republican fund NAHONWIDE distribution has been a started on a poster pledging the public to support Blue Eagle business establishments, Four inches square, It is gummed for pasting in windows Code authorities and local NRA com. mittees are counted upon to aid its distribution, This agitation is to accompany the temporary internal reorganization of the recovery administration, as decid- ed upon by President Roosevelt and Hugh 8. Johnson, the NRA adminis trator Auiaority is to be split three ways instead of the present one-man con trol. General Johnson is expected to continue in an Important post. Sepa- rate agencies will be In charge of policy-framing, administration, and de- ciding controversies, F YOU can believe the foreign office in Tokio, Japan is ready to scrap all powerful weapons of offense and is likely to propose, at the forthcom- ing naval reduction conference, the abolition of battleships and plane car riers. “It is not Japan's intention to enter a naval competition which will resuit in an Increase in armaments and heav- fer burdens for the people of the world,” the foreign office spokesman sald. "Our plan is to have a navy insufficient for offensive purposes but sufficient for defense. We hope others also will work towards this end.” \ HEN the League of Nations met in Geneva an invitation to Russia to join the league was circulated, signed and sent to Moscow. The coun- ¢il then announced that an accord had been reached to grant Russia a, per manent seat on the council, and it was expected that only Portugal and Ar gentina would continue to oppose this. Richard Sandler of Sweden was elected president of the league assem- bly by an almost unanimous vote. Poland gave a jolt to the league by announcing that it will po longer abide by the general treaty for the protection of minority peoples. Joseph Beek, foreign minister, told the assembly that until all states protact the rights of minorities Poland would refuse any control by an international organism of its treatment of minority groups. ATHERINE BRESHEOVSAKAYA, : of the Russian rev olution,” died at her home near Prague. During most of the ninety of her life she struggled to free
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