R SYNOPSIS Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from Wyoming, seeks a new fleld in Utah. He meets Hank Hays, who tells him he is working for an Englishman, Her- rick, who has located a big ranch In the mountains. Hays and others are plotting to steal their employer's cat. tle and money. With Hays and two other rustlers, Jim Wall goes to Her- rick's ranch. Herrick announces that his sister, Helen, is coming to live with him. Hays unfolds his plan for getting possession of Herrick's 12,000 head of live stock. He and his lieut- enants ride away to drive off the first bunch of cattle. Heeseman, Hays’ rival among the cattle rustlers, tells Wall that Hays was once his (Heeseman's) partner and double-crossed him, Jim is sent to meet Miss Herrick. He tries to impress on her that he (Jim) is a desperado of the worst type, but the girl treats the (Information lightly. Hays betrays unusual interest in the coming of Miss Herrick. The rustlers begin driving cattle from the ranch. Wall finds himself falling in love with Helen, and he fears Hays has designs on the girl CHAPTER VI—Continued a —— At breakfast next morning Hays raved about the fact that Smoky had not been there for over two weeks, “Things air comin’ to a head,” he concluded, gloomily, “Reckon they ought to have made two drives by now,” rejoined Happy Jack. “I rid down the valley yestiddy eight or ten miles. Cattle thinned out, boss. Any cowboy with eyes In the back of his head would be on to us by now.” “Shore. Haven't I kept them work- in' up here. But I've no control over this hosshack ridin’ after hounds. Pretty soon Herrick will chasin’ down Limestone way. Then the fire'll be out.” “Hank, he wouldn't know the differ- ence,” interposed Jim, “Aw, I don't care,” replied Hays, harshly, and that finality intimated much, “Walt till Smoky's outfit shows up!” Every morning when Jim rode down to the corrals he fell back under the spell of something sweeter than wine, The sunny hours with the sage flat ahead, the fragrant pines, the baying hounds, and always out In front this bright-haired girl, were vastly differ ent from the dark hours when the day was done. Nothing could be truer than that this utterly incongruous and bitterly sweet situation could not last, In moments of humility, engendered by the higher emotions this girl aroused, Jim clasped to his breast the fact that he was protecting her from worse men. Barnes and another of the cowboys had taken the horses for the Herricks up to the house, To Jim's honest dismay he espied Helen riding ahead, with the cowboys behind leading her brother's mount. Herrick was not coming. The hounds bounded and cavorted about her, keen for the chase, Miss Herrick looked far less proud and unattainable in the garb she had adopted. Moreover, had transformed her, yet her ininity appeared more provokingly manifest than ever, Barnes turned Herrick’s horse over to a stable boy, and with his com- panion fell In behind Miss Herrick, who rode out upon the valley. Jim re- Joiced them, and they trotted their horses together, “Why didn't Herrick come?” Jim. “He was rowin’ with Heeseman,” plied Barnes, soberly. “You don't say! What about?” “Reckon 1 don't know. They up as I come along” returned the cowboy. “But | seen enough to ecalkl late somethin's wrong. They was on the porch. Herrick sort of peevish., He didn't want his sister to go huntin’ today, 1 heard thet. An’ she sald right pert she was goin'.” “How did Heeseman look 7" went on Jim, ponderingly. Something was up, For two days Heesewan's outfit had been through hauling timber. “Dead serious, like he was tryin’ to persuade the boss to somethin” Jim lapsed Into silence. What turn would affairs take next? [It was get- ting warm around Star ranch, Each day the hunters had to ride farther afield to find game. Jack rabbit chasing had grown too tame for Miss Herrick. Three or four miles out the hounds Jumped a coyote from a clump of sage brush. The cowboys took the lead, then came Miss Herrick, while Jim brought up the rear. It was a long, gradual ascent up to an open ridge. Here the hounds jumped a herd of deer. ‘Despite the yelling of the cow. boys they dashed up the ridge with a chorus of wild ycips and barks. They all passed out of hearing. Jim caught up with Miss Herrick, who waited In an open spot among the pines. Flushed and disheveled, with her sombrero on the pommel, panting from the arduous ride, she made a dis tracting picture, “Hunt's off for us, Miss Herrick,” said Jim, “Too bad! But wasn't—it fun—while it lasted?” she replied gayly, “Let us rest the horses. I'm out of breath my- pelr” Jim dismounted to tighten his saddle einches. “Wall, take a look at my cinches” she sald, “May 1 ask you not to call me Wall? 1 must remind you I'm no butler.” “Pray pardon me,” she rejoined, in surprise. “1 presume | should address you as Mr. Wall?” “Yes, If you're too stuck up to call me Jim,” he sald he boy's riding it fem- asked re- looked ‘by ZANE GREY Copyright.~WNU Service. She lifted her chin and delgned no reply. And that infuriated him, “While I'm at it I'll tell you this, too,” he went on doggedly, “You must not ride around alone again. [I've had no chance to speak with you. But | told your brother. He laughed in my face. He Is a fool” “Mr, Wall, I will not listen to such talk,” she spoke up, spliritedly. “Oh, yes, you will,” he flashed, strid- ing over to her horse. “You're not in an English drawing room now, con- fronted by a disrespectful butler, You're In Utah, girl, And I am Jim Wall” “That last is obvious, to my regret,” she returned coldly. “Will you please be so kind as to tighten my cinches? It will be the last service 1 shall re quire of you." “Thank the Lord!" ejaculated Jim, in grim heartiness. "All the same I'll tell you. If you were an American tenderfoot, it wouldn't be hard to make you understand. If you were western, you would not need to be told. But as an English lady of quality, who thinks her class, will protect her anywhere, you need to be jarred. It's wrong for you to ride around alone on this range like any wild tomboy.” “Why? “Some of these you for ransom.” “Nonsense,” she retorted, contemptuo- ously, “What do youn say, Miss Herrick, when 1 tell you that Hank Hays has been watching you from the ridges, riding the lonely tralls, biding his chance to waylay you? She paled at that. “lI don't believe It,” she said, pres- ently. “And you'll go on riding alone when it suits your royal fancy?" he queried witheringly. “That is no longer any concern of yours,” she replied, at last stung. “But men might kidnap —— a. “But | Certainly Shall Ride When and How | Please.” I certainly shall ride when and how | please.” “Then you're as big a fool as your brother,” declared Jim hotly. “Here | am, the only man In this Star outfit with honesty enough to tell you the truth. And I get insulted and fired for my pains” She sat her horse mute, strong hand on her pommel shook it, “Your saddie's loose, oblige me by getting off 7” “l can ride It back,” she rejoined, felly. “But your blanket will slip out. The saddle might turn with yoo.” She removed her foot from the stir rup. “Tighten the cinches then-—and hurry.” Jim complied expeditiously enough, but in doing so he accidentally touched her. Something like fire shot through him at the contact. Under its stimulus he looked up to say a few more words to her, words to mitigate his offense and protest his sincerity. But they were never uttered, She had bent over to fasten a lace of her hoot, and when Jim raised his head it was to find his face scarcely a foot from her red lips, Without a thought, in a flash, he kissed them, and then drew back, stricken, “How dare you!" she cried, in In- credulous amazement and anger, “It just happened. I—I don't know" She swung her leather quirt and struck him across the mouth, The blood spurted. The leap of Jim's fury was as swift. He half intercepted a second blow, which stung his neck, and snatching the quirt from her hand he flung It away. Then his iron cluteh fastened In her blouse. One lunge dragged her out of the saddle, He wrapped his other arm around her and bent her back so quickly that when she began a furious struggle it was too late, His mouth hard pressed on hers stilled any but smothered cries. There was a moment's wrestling. She was no weakiing, but she was in the arms of a maddened glant. Repeatedly he kissed her lips, long, bard, passionate kisses, 4 Suddenly she collapsed heavily in his Jim laid a and Will you arma. The shock of that—its mean. 2 THE CENTRE FT ing—plerced Wall with something in finitely more Imperious and staggering than bitter wrath. He let go of her, There was blood on her lips and cheeks; otherwise her face was like alabaster, “l think I must have been In love with you—and wanted to protect you -from men worse than myself,” he went on, huskily. *1 hope this will be a lesson to you, Your brother was crazy to come here-—crazier to let you come. Go home! Go before (U's too late. Make him go. He will be ruined shortly.” She wiped the blood from her cheeks, and then shudderingly from her lips. ‘“You—did that-to frighten me?" she presently whispered, in horror, yet as if fascinated by something looming. “Get on your horse and ride ahead of me" he ordered, curtly. Miss Helen Herrick, one last word: Don’t tell your brother what 1 did to you till after I'm gone. If you do I'll kill him!” She left a glove lying on the ground. Jim made no effort to recover it. His “Now, and when he had reached him mounted Miss Herrick was in her sad dle. Jim let her get a few rods in advance before he followed. The excess of his emotion wore off, leaving him composed, and sternly Conserve Hay Crop, Warning to Farmer Do Not Plow Up; Save All to Make Good for Short- age During Season. of Agriculture. ~-WNU Bervice any other crop which will produce hay in 1035." This is the admonition of Dr. A, J. Pieters of the United States Depart of a century has kept tab on forage crops of the United States, He says, “Farmers would normally plow up a certain part of their timothy and al falfa acreage. But In view of present conditions, it would seem wise to leave these fields, even though they do not produce a full crop.” His conclusion, that a shortage of hay Is certain next year no matter how fast farm prove from now on, by these facts: is substantiated year Is from clover and timothy, an average of about 50.000,000 tons for Most of the 1085 be produced seeded in is al would normally and timothy this year's seeding crops jut The situation had become Intolerable for him. It mocked him that he had actually desired to appear well in the eyes of this girl one of a robber gang should be vain! ut he was not conscious that being a thief made any difference In a man's feeling about women, He knew that he could not command respect or love; but that In no wise Inhibited his own feelings. Strange, he had indeed fallen in love with Helen Herrick. She rode on slowly down the ridge without looking to right or left. Her gaze appeared to be lowered. The ranch-house came In sight. Herrick saw it and halted a to let Jim catch up with her. “Can you be gentleman tell me the truth? she asked “1 have not lled to you,” replied Jim, “That—that first time you kissed me -was it honestly unpremeditated?™ “Miss Herrick, I don't know what to swear by. yes, I have My mother! 1 swear by memory of her that I never dreamed of insulting you ~] looked up. There your face was cle Your And 1 k them.” How ridiculous that moment, enough to jut, ne, Hips red! saad again, out a tremor of the rich, ceeply stirred. “Your action was in excusable, unforgivable, But I should not have struck you with the whip That, and your passion to frighten perhaps Justified your brutality. I shall not tell, Don't leave Star ranch.” me, as If he were But in. For an instant Jim felt upon the verge of a precipice. her change from revulsion to scrutable generosity called to all was good within him. “Miss Herrick, I'm sorry. must leave,” he replied, sadly. And 1 was mad enough to fall in love with you. Forget it home to England jut If you the brook. down the road beyond Hays’ cabin. They bestrode bays and blacks, and there was that about them which drew Jim sharply up with a flery Smoky's outfit! bareheaded, his legs spread apart as up ruffled like a mane “Huh! The boss isn't mad Oh, no!” soliloquized Jim. "Small won- der. Smoky's outfit has busted loose, or is going to—Well, now, I've a hunch there's luck in this for me” Jim made for the bridge and, cross. ing, looked up to see the horses of Smoky's outfit standing, bridles down, and the riders up on the porch. Jim mounted the steps. Hank Hays sat upon the bench, his shaggy head against the wall, his pale ing on the porch rail Smoky was lighting a cigarette, not a hard, steely gleam. Brad Lincoln | sat back on the rail, eyeing the chief with a sardonic grin. Mae appeared more than usually ghoulish: Bridges and Sparrowhawk extreme nervousness, “Hello, men. What's the mix? An I In or out?” returned Jim, sharply, “I reckon you're in” replied Rlocum, | “Hank Is the only one thet's ont, , | Hyar, Jim, ketch this” He drew a pocket and tossed it to Jima large, heavy roll of greenbacks tied with a buckskin thong. “Yours on the divey, Jim," went on Smoky. “Don’t count It now, There's a heap of small bills Inside an’ If you untie them hyar there'll be a meas, But it's a square divey to the last dollar,” “Thet's a hefty roll, Smoky, for a man to get for nothing,” observed Jim, duhlnusly, TO BR CONTINUED. Alfalfa « duction—around acreage of this legume In will less than this year, Thousands of acres seeded to alfalfa in of 1833 and the spring of 1934 have falled for =» isture, Many old alfalfs killed by shortage of t es next in annual SEK O00 tons, pro- The 1085, (if he the fall nt of mo been The Wis fields have the drouth, extreme his year's crop cannot sibly be m Seed for » up in 1805. such as ian grass and soy beans, may year. In likely need all There is no way the acreage ince annual hays millet, 8 not be event very abundant next to we are of immediately Increasing p less than XML (XX) tons annual 1 “The presen ure shortage of r solved.” says Doce ving every available acre of grasses and legumes for future use, even if such hay will not be needed by the farmer who cuts it or by farm There ket for the better grades Hay profitably profit, it ers In that part of the country of hay In the drouth areas of poorer quality at home patriotic Serve every ean be fed is the con. feed stock and dairy Besides the § duty of every farmer to available pound of Our live . fg ON AL. indy sate denend ar ISATY Gepena ug Lice on Young Animals Check Normal Growth Farm animals a t ed with lee unthriftines its own eir entire United ulture pass tl) 3 {life cycle on t says the of Agri infested States Depart Calves or colts badly grow normally and may become permanent- iy stunted For this reason treatment first with lice do not begin when parasites are Animals affected with lice may be me, although the best method of eradica- ing animals, in the fall, in arsenical, Cow Requires Much Water or Milk Flow Is Reduced Abotit 87 per cent of milk is water, and if the cow ix unable to get an am- ple supply of water, she is likely to re duce her milk flow. Cows producing large quantities of milk naturally need more water than dry cows or of milk. According to the state college man, studies indicate that the average cow needs about 12 galions of water a day, but some high producing cows have been found to drink as much as 25 gal- longs a day, especially during hot weather, Cows produce more milk when they have water available at all times dur. ing the day. either in drinking foun or some other outside source, Agricultural Squibs Poses, * . . established In Georgia within the last few years * . » Dropping fruit dnto picking contain. tainers cause needless stem punctures . = » Crotalaria has come into wide favor as a soilimprofement crop among farmers of North Carolina. . ® » A short collar chokes a horse when pulling, while, when It Is too long, the shoulder points will be bruised. -. - . Two major units of the United States of entomology and the bureau of plunt quarantine, have been merged Into one, The new unit will be known as the bureau of entomology and plant quar Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD Professor of Bacteriology and P. td Medicine, ery 3¢ Hilinois, " College of Medicine. SKIN POWER OF SELF DISINFECTION fifth of an inch thick. Yet it's all the protection we have for the inside of to 50 degrees below zero; on a hot 120 degrees, when we over 105 degrees, And we do all sorts of work with our bare hands. But we still don't know much about of ours. Science has been hearts, lungs and other vital organs; been giving so very much that keeps our body from drying out. incidentally, is another func- preciate, One thing, however, we have been finding out in the medical research laboratories of the University of Iili- nols, and that is that our skin is just about the most remarkable disinfect- ing agent there is. You can put al sorts of germs, millions of them, on clean healthy skin, and in a few minutes they have disappeared, We discovered, though, that the skin has certain minute pever-sterile areas, where the germs don't disappear. The first the area under the finger nails. is the thin line that the junction of the outside skin of the lip with the mem- brane lining of the mouth. The third is the where the skin joins the membrane lining of the nos trils fourth is the rim of the eyelid where the outside skin meets the inside lining. Perhaps this is why most eye infections occur on the rims of the eyelids of these is The marks second line outside he The first experiments were made on the outside skin The university lab- oratory assistants, all normal healthy persons, were the subjects. This is how the experiments conducted, When the chest, abdomen, back, legs or arms were studied, a plece of sterile gs terial ture and placed upon the skin area for one to three minutes. Then the gauze was removed and im- mediately after the skin was rubbed gently with a sterile cotton swab. This swab was then smeared over the surface of an agar plate, and the number of bacteria were counted In five minutes another sample was tak- en, and then again in ten, fifteen, twenty, and thirty minutes When the specimens were taken of the hands, the whole hand was submerged in the bacteria solution, and then specimens taken of the various sections to learn if one section was more resistant than another, This is what we found: That 68 per cent of the thousands of bacteria that had been placed In contact with the skin disappeared from the skin with- in ten minutes. That there Is one ex- ception to the self-disinfection of the outside skin This, as has already been stated, Is the skin under the pails. Even after the therough scrub bing and cleaning that the surgeon gives his hands before performing an operation, germs called staphylococol were ot in these spaces Altogether eleven various kinds of bacteria were used In the tests, from the harmless B.coll to the germs that produce wound Infections, lockjaw, bolis, blood poisoning, typhoid and dysentery. The skin got rid of the dangerous germs just as quickly as It got rid of those that were harmless, These tests were on clean skin, Then we experimented with skin coated with fat. Vaseline rubbed Into the hands was used In one test. That retarded considerably the self -disin- fecting power of the skin. Then nat- may help account for the fact that Finally some plumbers and electri- thelr day's work and be- applied before with these results: After 10 minutes 85 per cent. After 20 minutes, the dirty hands had lost only § per cent of bacteria; the clean hands were entirely free. 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