SYNOPSIS
Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from
Wyoming, seeks a new fleld 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. Hays and others are plot-
ting 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 Lincoln, Jim Wall
goes to Herrick's ranch. Herrick an-
nounces that his sister, Helen, Is com-
ing to the ranch. Hays unfolds his
plan for getting possession of Her-
rick's 12,000 head of live stock. He and
his lieutenants ride away to drive off
the first bunch of cattie. Heeseman,
Hays' rival among the cattle rustlers,
tells Wall that Hays was once his
(Heeseman's) partner and double-
crossed him. Herrick delegates Jim to
£0 to Grand Junction to meet Miss
Herrick. Jim gets Barnes, a young
cowboy, to tell her that he (Jim) is a
desperado of the worst type. Barnes
does so, but the girl treats the in-
formation lightly,
CHAPTER IV—Continued
TE,
“Are we ready to go?
gayly.
“Yes, If you have seen
peo; le,” replied Jim,
“I have it in my Sutehel
turned, Indicating the haif-hic
ceptacle under her ash coat,
Jim tried to Interest himself in that
satchel, because he was in league with
robbers, but it did not work. Suddenly
he had a murderous desire to kill
Hays. This girl—for she appeared a
girl In vivid freshness of youth—
seemed not In the least frightened, ab-
solutely free from revulsion, Indeed
she was regarding him with undis-
guised Interest and delight.
“Mr. Jim Wall, you're not in the
least what my brother's letters have
led me to believe,” she said.
*Letters !—Why Herrick has not had
ime to write about me,” exclaimed
Jim, incredulously. “It takes long for
a stage letter to go. I've been
at Star ranch only a few days”
“Oh, he did not write about you, in-
dividually,” she la: Zhe ed. “But from
his letters about bandits and despera-
does I had evolved a rather frightful
conception.”
“Thank you,
plied gravely.
she asked,
the Fargo
she re-
iden re-
Miss Herrick"
“Don't
he re-
appear-
trust
you get up? We must be
And he attem; p ted to assist her Inside
the back seat of the buckboard.
' "»
going.
sit In front,” she sald, frankly.
With a bow he helped her up the
high step, cursing inwardly at Hank
fate that had brought this about.
some way or other he was logt. He
almost forgot to walt for Barnes, who
was saying good-by to a red-cheeked,
wide-eyed girl In the crowd. Barnes
came running to leap into the buck-
board and then Jim got In. Owing to
the way he had packed the baggage
here was not a great deal of room in
the front seat. His heavy gun and
sheath bumped against Miss Herrick.
“Rather tight quarters, with that
gun there,” he remarked, and swung
the sheath round in his lap.
“Do you sleep In it?" she asked,
quizzieaiiy.
“Yes. And never am dressed in the
daytime till it's buckled on.”
“What startling folks, you western
Americans!”
“Some of us are Indeed startling. 1
hope you won't find us unpleasantly
80," he replied, and loosening the
reins let the spirited team go. In a
few moments the nolse, dust, heat and
the staring populace of Grand June
tion had been left far behind and the
red and black ranges lifted above the
meadows and sage,
“Oh, glorious!” she cried, and gazed
raptly ahead as the curving road
brought into view a wonderful sweep
of Utah,
Jim was hard put to it to keep the
blacks from breaking out of a brisk
trot. He thought grimly that he
would have liked to let the team run
off and kill them both. Far better that
than what might be! Miss Herrick's
photograph on her brothers desk fell
infinitely short of doing her justice,
It failed to give any hint of her color,
of the vivid lips, of the glory and
gleam of her hair, of the dancing,
laughing violet eyes, of her pulsing
vitality. Jim Wall felt the abundant
life of this girl. It flowed out of her,
It got Into his veins, It heated his
blood.
“The wind makes me cry,” she sald,
merrily, “Or maybe it's because I'm
80 happy. You say we'll get to Star
ranch before dark?”
“Surely.”
“Oh, it's
For
been such a long, slow,
dusty, cramped journey.” she ex
claimed. “But now I want to see, to
smell, to feel, to gloat”
“Miss, Herrick, this Is fine country,
But tame compared to that all about
the Henrys. You will see them when
we top the next hill. I've seen most
of the West. And the canyon desert
below Star ranch is the wildest and
most sublime of all the West, prob-
ably of the whole world.”
“Indeed. You speak strongly, not to
say surprisingly. It never occurred to
me that a gunman-—that is what you
are, is it not?-could have any ap-
preclation of the wonder and beauty
of nature.”
“A common mistake, Miss Herrick,”
rejoined Jim, “Nature develops the
men who spend their lonely, hard,
bloody lives with her. Mostly she
makes them into beasts, with self-
preservation the only instinct, but It is
conceivable that one now and then
might develop the opposite way.”
“You interest me,” she replied, sim-
ply. “Tell me of this canyon desert
and such men”
Jim talked for a full hour, Inspired
by her unflagging interest. He de
scribed the magnificent reaches and es.
carpments ending in Wild Horse mesa,
and the unknown canyoned abyss be-
tween it and Navajo mountains, and
lastly, the weird, ghastly brakes of the
Dirty Devil.
“Ugh, how you make me shiver!"
she ejaculated. “But it's wonderful,
I'm sick of people, of fog, rain, dirt,
cold, nolse. I'd like to get lost down
in those red canyons!"
CHAPTER V
They came to a long, level valley,
where the white road was like a floor,
and the horses went like the wind.
What was going to be the effect of
this extraordinary woman upon the
fierce men of this lonely region? Upon
that swarthy Hank Hays!
At last the horses had to be held In
at the base of the longest ascent on
the journey. Miss Herrick tucked her
disheveled hair with the ends of the
vell underneath the edges of her
bonnet.
“What a run! I'm used to horses
~~,
“Are We Ready to Go?” She Asked
Gayly.
but not tearing along-—with a vehicle
like this" she said, breath
“Walt till one of these old drivers
gets a chance at you. [I'm really no
teamster.”
“Are you a cowboy?
“Didn't young Barnes tell you who
lessly,
to her,
“1 grasped that you were a
to Utah—that you were from Wyo
ming, where you had killed many bad
men, and that your mere reputation
was enough out here to keep rustlers
and desperadoes away from Star
ranch. Mr. Wall, you certainly are a
hero in his eyes”
It did not take great perspicuity to
grasp that Jim was not far from that
in her eyes. He groaned in spirit,
“l see that you will not tell me
about yourself,” she went on. “Pardon
my Inquisitiveness. But I must inform
you that I expect to go into the ranch-
ing business with my brother. You
will be working for me, then, as well”
“1 hope you don't, Miss Herrick,” he
burst out, impulsively. “Somebody
must tell you, it oughtnt come from
a—a--rider like me. But this 1s no
place for such a girl as you”
“What do you mean, Mr. Wall? That
hardly seems a compliment to me. |
ean work, and [ want to.”
“Miss Herrick, you didn't get my
meaning,” replied Jim, hastily, with
strong feeling. “It Is not you who
couldn't fit in. You've convinced me
you could. And that is the biggest
compliment I could pay you. . . . 1
meant that you will not be able to
live, and work too, the way you want
to. You dare not ride around-—or even
leave the house. Even that"
“For mercy's sake, why not? ghe
demanded, In astonishment,
“Because, young woman, you are too
new, too strange, too loveiy to risk
yourself in sight of these men at the
ranch, . . . Net all of them. But
some of them."
“You cannot be serious.”
“1 swear it, Miss Herrick.”
“But what of the vaunted chivalry
of westerners? I've read of Fremont,
Kit Carson, Crook, and many others.
And of the thousands who are un
sung.”
“That is true,” he replied, his voice
husky. “Thank God, 1 ean say so.
But you won't find that at Star ranch.”
“You say 1 am too new, strange,
too—too lovely to risk-1 understand
you, of course. I must doubt It, de
spite your evident strong feeling. Yon
may be playing a western joke on
me."
“1 wish 1 was”
“My brother will khow, If there Is
anything la what you say.”
on ———.
“No! No!" purst out Jim. “Her
rick doesn’t know, He never will know,
He can't see through a millstone with
a hole In it. Oh, don't misunderstand
me, Herrick is a fine chap, but this 1s
no place for an English gentleman and
sportsman, any more than it Is a fit
place for his sister.”
“That is for us to decide,” she re-
turned, coldly. *I shall ride, anywhere
and everywhere. I've always ridden,
I'd go mad not to get on a horse In
this glorious country.”
“I've done my best. [I've told you,
he sald, curtly, as if he were n'so ad
dressing his conscience.
“l thank you, Mr. Wall,” she sald,
quick to catch the change in him. “No
doubt you western folks regard Bernie
as eccentric. And I'm bound to admit
his ranching idea—ripping as it is to
us—must appear new and strange to
you. So I'll compromise. If it's really
dangerous for me to ride about alone,
I will take you with me, Not, how.
ever, that I'd be afraid to go alone,
Then I would be perfectly safe, would
I not?
Wall flicked the reins,
“Look, Miss Herrick. We're on top
at last, There's your country. The
black snow-capped mountains are the
Henrys. We go through that gap—a
pass—to Star ranch, That purple
space to the left—with the lines and
streaks—that's the desert”
“Ah-b-h!" she had cried out, breath-
lessly.
Jim halted the horses and gazed,
himself trying to see with this stran-
ger's eyes, He bad more—a feeling
that it would not be long until the
open wasteland claimed him again,
For him the bursting of one of
Henry peaks into voleanie eruption
"
accrue from the advent of this
faced, golden-haired woman.
Jim drove down the hill, and again
put the blacks to a keen gait on a
level road, this time a sir white
line across a longer valley. Jim cal
culated that he would beat th
had declared, and reach Star ranch be-
fore sundown,
When he past Heeseman's
camp all that worthy's outfit were at
supper.
feet of thelr chuck wagon,
“What a reflianly crew!” mu
Miss Herrick. "Who, pr
men?
“Part of
would
white-f
aight,
¢ time he
drove
rmured
ay, are these
the outfit
hired to protect his eattle from
rustlers,” replied Jim. “Funny thing
about that is they are rustlers them
selves™
“Deliciously funny, th
for Bernie. Does he know It?
“Not to my knowledge,
the leader of that gang-—came on
own recommendation and got the J
“I'll have the fun of telling Bernie
Oh, what's that,
enormous barn!
new one going up.
Look at the horses!
"No, Miss Hertick
ly. “I'll drive you home
in the
this tall mas
“Which?
your
All yellow,
Logs and logs
* He replied grim-
safely
attempt
in we're of
she gaked
‘he one standing fart)
plied Jim
brero,
Hank Hays
your veil”
She
“He's got
Don't lool
obeyed, unobtrusi
her silvery laugh peale
fire teasing, of course,
Jim drove by Hays, 1 apart
group of cowboys,
Jim at all, it was totally ob
livious to Jim
never so str
under Hayy dark
strange eyes below,
pale now, hand
He became preoccupied
with the nucleus of the first
thought toward Hays
“Hank Hays, Who is he?"
rick was saying
“Another of
tlantes™
“Ugh! How he stared! But it
wasn't that which struck me most. In
India I've seen cobras rise and poise,
ready to strike. And your Mr. Hays
looked for all the world like a giant
cobra with a black sombrero on its
head. Wasn't that silly of me?”
“Not silly. An Instinct Belf-
preservation,” returned Jim, sternly.
She passed that by, but only perhaos
because she caught sight of the ranch
house up the slope. Here her en
thusiasm was unbounded. Herrick
stood on the porch steps with his dogs.
He wore high boots and a red coat. He
waved,
Presently Jim reined in the sweating
horses before the steps. He was most
curious to see the meeting between
brother and sister. She stood up
“Bernie, old top, here | am,”
said, gayly.
“Yes, here you are” Helen”
plied, and stepped out to help her
alight. “Did you have a nice trip?”
“Ripping-—from Grand Junction in’
They did not embrace or even shake
hands, Jim, coming to himself, leape |
out and began removing the bag.
Barnes, whom he had totally forgot
ten, jumped out on the other side.
“Barnes, carry the bags in. Jim
hurry the blacks down. Thes're ht
You must have pushed them.”
“Yes, sir. Stage was late, but we
made up for it."
“Helen's where's that Wells-Farge
package? queried Herrick,
MHere In my satchel, Oh, Berule
it's good to get home-—if this can LL
home.”
“Come In and take off that veil,” he
sald, and with his arm In hers led hes
up on the borch,
TO BE CONTINUED.
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Built First Irrigation Canals
Extensive systems of irrigation
now abandoned, were bullt In Arizona
by ancient Indians
ined, pler
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were not
Jim's
sour brother's vig-
she
he re
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will attend the football games,
here's the fashion
notes — a ths brown
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newsiest of
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with a
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wm thrills, registering high in the list
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a swagger coat which takes unto itself
a skirt, scarf and belt
only) of knit In
green which Is so
this season,
the-ordi
wool the new
acciaimed
sfreshing
widely
Other re iy out-of.
sports style {tems
huge fur pockets, tiny fur cuffs,
revers of fur, the fur waist dépth cape,
which Is very Important,
ble fur
include
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can be
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as It Is sportsy,
properly worn anywhere
Its revers of
fur stamp it as being one of the new-
ext of the new, for the fur-rever styling
Is “just out™ A Just na
ns the “frost is on the pumpkin™
knowing fashionables will begin to car.
ry muffs this season,
with
and therefore
most
tuxedo
HOON
wee muffs in the lead, also the
new accordion muffs so long and nar
row, they crinkie up like the instru.
ment are named for, The muff
here is a compromise between
the The wide fur cuffs and the
usiy cut sleeves are also impor
tant style features,
The handsome coat centered in
group is one that will
of any style
farge roiling
they
shown
two,
the
quicken the pulse
loving young modern. The
ir and wide cuffs of
dark gray Persian lamb are wonderfully
ive against the lighter gray of the
kidskin which fashions the coat. The
dress of a plaid woolen in gay Mexican
green predominating and
new pine green is
y the placid gray of the
coll:
elect
hat in the
fur
A very wearable type of fur coat is
the right, soft
mer ermine which makes it
in the early not-too-cool
In The pelts have
ked diagonally in the rippled
; is devastating. One
wearer, and the
ball hero will no longer
be master of his It is of the new
Robin Hood type which flaunts a gay
ittie feather—the sort that flirts with
you whether you will or no,
©. Western Newspaper Union,
shown to being of a
brown #
days. been
loose
nd the
fate,
IN TONES OF GREEN
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Green is exceedingly voguish this
fall. The costume pictured is of one
of the newest ribbed woolen weaves
in the much-sought-for pinegreen
which Is so really handsome, This
smart young modern has brought her
dark green costume right up to date
with her bag, belt and glove cuffs cro-
cheted of green and sand crepe paper.
Whatever colors you may have chosen
for your fall costume, you will be able
to find the right shades of crepe paper
for crocheting matching or harmoniz-
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and white, Crepe paper crochet has
become quite an outstanding vogue,
The work is easy and the material in-
expensive. The accessory ensemble pie-
tured is crocheted in a particularly
simple stitch so that even the amateur
need not hesitate to undertake it,
Fur Bibs '
Fur should be used on suits with
the collar making a bib down the front,
thus eausing attention and warding off
pneumonia at the same time
GLOVES STAND OUT
BOLDLY THIS FALL
Gloves go gay. Never have they
been so pert and full of Individuality
as they are today.
Gloves of the present,
a formative state
1035, no longer resigned] y fit In with
the costume so that one notices them
only as a part of the whole. They
stand out boldly from the ensemble,
flaunting their merit independent of
their background. Their
to strike a dominant note In
semble either by their color or cut or
other oddment.
Evening gowns are now accompa.
nied by gloves with a vast amount of
open work on the arm,
cut-steel
shirring
some novel feature of the gown.
and those in
Monograms Are Used on
Coat Lapel or as Buttons
Everyone smart Is giving her right
name this fall
fashion shows,
fastenings feature monograms some-
times a half-foot deep, In leather,
metal, wood, and even marble, Using
one's own Initials in leather for but.
tons on sports jackets is the trick of
the day.
Real flower jewelry ls still popular
with one large house, whose collection
featured a necklace, earrings and even
a ring made of pale pink dahlias,
White chrysanthemums are replace
ing gardenias and camellias as bouton
nieres and corsage flowers,
Artificial flowers are equally good,
with copper gardenias stunning on new
smoky-toned fabrics. In one Instance
six calla lilies were snakily twined as
a girdle on an evening gown,
More Slashed Details
Slashed details are becoming more
and more prevalent in dinner and eve.
nigg dresses, posed not only just at
the front but also appearing at sides
front and back seams.
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Brown's Valley Man hunted the
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than 10,000 years after the northern
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States had emerged from beneath
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covered it during the Glacial age,
He is America’s oldest known eltizen,
The discovery of Brown's Valley
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It 1s a defeat
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The type of spear with which
The spear-
known as
were first
centers of
which they
have long been
battles, They have been
associated with bones of ex-
mammals. But one school of
American anthropology has insisted
ling the association an ac-
No human remains had ever
stormy
cident,
This time, however, the shattered
remnants of a human skeleton have
been found In a gravel pit
ed with spearheads, These
splinters of bone, found in Brown's
Valley, near Fertile, Minn. have been
named Brown's Valley Man,
H. Jensen, an amateur
anthropologist, first no
'
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associat.
such
ticed the
linters of bone
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with Dr. Al
iversity of
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