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SLUMBER} Bv AUBlil i i " ?I III I I I I 111 I IHM !! I KOIKTEENTI1 INSTALMENT What did you hear. Bud?" Speed; spoke low to prevent his voice from carrying to Pete, indoors. It was he fore dawn of the second morning. ] Maitland told him. ' Do you reckon we're both hearing, things?" Speed muttered. "It lis-j tched to me more like a louder sound i way off. An echo of gunfire. Or else! froze trees snapping in the thaw. Motionless, the listened again. The silence of the shaS&wed chasm mocked them. Speed stirn d abruptly. You stay here. Bud. and watch with Pete. I may be gone awhile, but keep that cliff covered with the rifle. I'll call you when I come back round it." Speed's reconnaisanoe took him over a wider range than he had expected. When he paused, halfway down a lofty slope, it was to survey a long and unobstructed view of white headlands, shining in the dawn. In the center of one of the ravines, abcut two mlies away, a pair of dark moving specks came into view. They were men: one of them carried what might have been a rifle. Very slowly, so as not to betray himself by a quick movement, he. sank in the snow The advantage of view was in his favor, since he looked down on them from above. They were too far to be recognized as anything but men, but the image of Fallon had somehow leaped into his mind's eye at the first dim; glimpse of them. lie lay along the base of a boui-. der, raising his head just high enough | to bring the figures into view. He! fired the gun once, at random in their; direction, and immediately covered ill to pievent even a wisp of smoke from! showing. Thev kei>t .moving for an interval! before the sound reached their ears. They stopped, as he had expected. Hut instead of looking up in his general 'direction, they turned to stare the other way. Yet. in spite of the advantage this gave him for observation, some vague and nameless instinct made him sink back out of sight between the boul-i dor and sno-w trough. This wary sense did not leave him; but after lying hidden some thirty seconds, he locked over the rim again. Strange to say. the two figures had vanished. Slowly he rose into clear view by the boulder, to tempt them to declare themselves with a bullet. The shot that did come was an utter and confounding surprise. The roar of it burst in his ears from directly behind him' He dropped back instantly into his shelter. The bullet had flattened against the inner side of the boulder right next to his arm, in the same flash of time as the gun's roar. The marksman was not more than a hundred yards away! Nothing showed, behind him. either. He waited for a gun muzzle to show: for some tremor, however slight, in the snow above. Why didn't the fel low shoot?. His car, close to the snow, detected the crunch of running feet, receding from him. He jumped up and ran to the nearby point from which the shot had seemed to come. There he found a hollow in the snow where the sniper had lain concealed, and the marks of his feet loading up from below to this depression, and running away from it. The fugitive was headed for the cabin and had left a moccasin track! There was a spreading park pink stain in the srow where he had hidden, and a blood trail all along his course! i IConcerin Some years ago a you slave in Egypt and in satrap under the King He was an industrious barns over the land a of each year's crop lai store. In time famine came, sight Egypt had plent; would come and buy. But is it necessary for examnles of th neighbors and you people, as always cessful people. WATAUGA . BA i BOON. Deposits Insured up to $5,( Insurance C lNG GOLD EY BOYD J A wild scramble alon^c canyon brinks and leitees brought him to the head or iiie jackpiiic g,u!Cu, Slid th* absence of a blood trace in it assured I him that he had arrived in time. ^laitland stood waiting: with tht carbine and with Pete close by. H< motioned them to back in close tc the cliff, in silence. They had caught the alarm of the shots, but had m notion of what was about to happen After a still wait, a voice spokt abruptly from around the cliff ant close at hand -a husky, broken voice "Ppnt* shoot," it said weakly. "It's your game. I'm out of shells." Along the cliff wall and into view covered by Speed's guns, a fur-claci arid moccasined figure groped its way twisted with agony. Maitland recognised at a glance the man who had held them up at their winter camp. He held a revolver in his right hand. The other hanu clutched at his side, and dripped blood. When he raised his head and looked at them his eyes changed strangely from the look of a fighting animal brought to bay. to an expression of wild astonishment. "Pete!" he murmured, almost under his breath. "How did they find this?" "Thev found your lead flog nn thr lakes," said Pete. "It brougnt u.< here." The deepening wonder in his face was a thing to see. "The dog!" he muttered huskily. There was a choking In his throat like a chuckle---!! became a desperate, blood-chilling mortally exhausted laugh. 'We've won now, kid!" he chortled in a hare elation. "Beat the game with a dam --Si wash!" When they would have caught him he waved them off again. "Get this? Pete," he mumbled thickly. ' Something elsCrrrl've got to tell ye. kid And I will. But? give me time?bul first -get this. The gold is? " He lost his voice and found it by sheer forct of will? "1 sov it just now. Tw( iner?irr the-?gulch. In b r ? g h snow- " His discolored and racket face turned gray with a deathly pal or of weakness and stupefaction a ; the failure of his toigue ar.d his brail | to answer his will. "The gold?!*' With ar. agonized, astonished curs* at his defeat, he slumped, held rigii an instant against the wall and thei with a siow. lurching slide, sanl down. Speed, who had taken a step t 1 break his fall, caught him, and leanc jover the still body. ] "He tolrl the truth about his lai I shell." Speed mused aloud. "He wa (tryin* to reach the cabin and hi j shells for a last stand But he sa\ jour marks in the gulch. Who did h j think I was at first ? And where di I he get that wound?" | "The two men in the gulch h j spoke of " said Muitlaud. "It's what I was wor.derin'. T sa\ I theip, too. About four miles off, fror he re. He must have dodged 'em. Bu j they'll pick up his blood trail. In hai j an hour from now, they'll?" j Here Speed unaccountably brok off short, spun about with a gu drawn. and in a flash had leapc round the narrow cliff edge out c MaitlawVs sight. j "Hands up!" he shouted, "or ! blast you ir.to the canyon. Throw tha l gun down!" A man with his arms raised cam I around the cliff edge by which Dalto: j had approached so short a time be fore, Maitlar.d was too confounded t. ' utter a sound. He wore the uniforn I of the Mounted Police, i There are no braver men than thi aaMcMjmw WiTm-n*<iW3?e"sarii j? 'i j Uj." zammismG g Joseph | ng man was sold as a time rose to be chief youth and built great nd out of the surplus d by a certain part in but due to his foref to spare for all who to go to the Bible rift? Look at your '11 see that thrifty , have been sueCOUNTY E . N . C ". >00 by the Federal Deposit Corporation. j?^ 1 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER Canadian Northwest Mounted, but > they are neither immortal nor imper-' \ious to the menace of two .45 sixshooters at blank range Speed emptied the mounty's holster axid kicked the gun behind him into the snow. _ "This only makes it worse for you," said the officer. T demand that iyou and your partner surrender to ! arrest." : J Here was just the vicious turn of , j fate that Speed had feared, with an : I extra twist to make it worse. After evading the suspicion of Cathcart, j who had mistaken Dalton for a Si41 wash, were they now. by a climax of 4. irory. to fee charged with the murder I#?F r>3i t.An. im.cntf " "This locks compromisin'. I'll con-! J ceile.' he said. "But you hoys is on i the wrong track. While you're stalk- i in' us, the real game is likely beatiii j ' to cover. There's two more men in i { these mountains, and they're worth trailin'." ! "Where did you see them?" the ofnYer asked, without belief. Speed pointed his gun. "Four niiles 1 that way." You saw me and an officer who trailed with me, perhaps, though we ! j didn't come from that direction. You |have got our distance and bearings j twisted. If you have a hope of set- j [ting us on a false trail, you can drop ; jit. The game's up for both of you. , (Should you refuse to return our guns c and have heard the warrant, you'll ' be hunted down to a finish." j j Speed picked up the police rcvol- j . ; vers, emptied them and threw them'. tli 1 into the chasm. "It's a difference of i to opinion that makes gamblin\" hejin - said. "Get me two lengths of raw- j gc 5 j hide. Bud." jhi The rpniipst n?-r?ncrht 1 - ...,0 = .v ?<?.%nnIU WUljU [of a trance. "Don't do it. Speed," he Fi said quickly. "Let the Law straight-' oil ' cn this out. Investigations will clear r< - us of what they suspect." tr "You've got delusions about the B Law. Bud. 1 can't argue with you. I tl | ain't got no words but a low-down <1< gambler's lingo, and it don't just fit with what I'm tryin' to show. But tcfl I've got a hunch, and I'm askin' you dv now, if ever you trusted a pardner's o* wot'd, to take mine when 1 say you oi * ?1*5*1 to with Tjaw. ci :] Later maybe?not now." 01 j Maitland was moved by the appeal, b :ibut not by its logic. "We've reached jet ' I that junction. Speed, you once talked jrd Mof. God knows i'ii never have a truer! 1 partner. You know that if this charge:? were made against you alone, and N there was.no other way out than the ' 1 one you say. I'd travel any road to ' help you. But to escape by using c force against he police isn't just a 1 crime that would outlaw us for life; " it's a needless crime. We'd be giving them the real case against us that they haven't got. That isn't all. Wc ?. couldn't take Pete over that route. I 1 and I can't leave her to face this alone" Pete would have spoken, but ^ Speeds' brooding look at her checked the words. "How do you figure it?" % "I don't know," said Pete, unhappi.y, I feel that Bud's right though 1 when he says you'd give the Law a ease." e "You're an ornery young pair of cubs," Speed muttered. . . . "Reckon you can't help it, corn in' from where you do. Now it's the same junction, j . turned backwards, and T can be just as damney ornery." He pressed back the gun hammers, ? tensely watched by the police officer who had followed his argument with f a fateful interest. Speed's eyes, however. strayed to a long pendent spruce j cone on a tree near the ledge. VY'itht out aiming, he fired. The cone fell, clipped from the branch, and before; it reached the snow, four quick bul lets had broken it to fragments. The r* remaining shells blazed at these pieces as they spun down the slope. The outlaw wailed, listening, till the last echo died out of the canyon. Slowly then he looked at the gu~.o, e and rubbed a spot from one of the : clean blue barrels. They were still j I smoking when he handed them to the j 1 police officer. j "Well, go ahead and read your war-! rent about our supposed shootin' ofjl this man," said Speed, indicating Dal- II ! ton's body. "We have a warrant for your ar- I rest," said the mounty, "but not for 8 killing that man. Since you've sur- I rendered. I want you to understand fl that we don't railroad men or even fl arrest tlvnn, on merely presumptive H charges. We had a brush with this B fugitive?" nodding toward Dalton, R "down the creek. It's more than pos- I sible he was wounded by one of our fl guns. The inquest will show. My war- g rant is to arrest you and your part- fl ner for the murder of a Siwash on H Lake Lebarge, on or about the twen- B tieth of last November. The native's fl body was disposed of through a hole 8 in the ice, and has been recovered fl since the thaw." Speed's eyes sought those of his fl partner and Pete, who looked dumb- 9 1 founded. "Your own warrant?" he demandCkf\ "Mine would be sufficient. This one happens to be signed by Cathcart of the Mounted Police." "Well, I'm a son of a?!" Speed mumbled to the hollow chasm with a note of doom. At the same moment, a clatter in 1 I I BILIOUSNESS | | i" THURSDAY-BOONE, N. C BEAUTY QUEEN Marian Rupp Reigns Over Mark Twain Pageant. HANNIBAL. MO. MISS Marian iupp (above), high school senior, s counted one of the town's luekest girls. She has been selected as *ucen of the Mark Twain Pageant ?f the Twain Centennial which is >eing celebrated here all during 935. e jackpiiie gulch swung their at ption to that quarter. Tn these echo g surprises they had completely for >itcn Rusty. Now a slinking woifisl cad ncsei round the cliff and cow ed back at sight of the fallen body torn behind the cliff, the strident ex ted, harshly familiar voice of Cor >ral Cathcart twanged like an un lined banjo: "Get this inalarnutc urke. it's the 'wolf that gave u: le blood trail. The Siwash's leat It did not take the Mounties lonj . got things in shape for the trij own to headquarters. Pete was del rated to serve breakfast while tin fleets disposed of Da) ton's body in ; :udc grave near the mountain hide it. At last they started, Speed, close guarded, gave them no cause fo iricern. He was meeting the law un fraid. <CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) OTICE OF SERVIC E BY I'lJULl CATION AND ADVERTISEMENT orth Carolina. Watauga Colin tj Foreclosure Suit for Taxes Tnstitul ed During Month of June. 1935. I M. Ward and wife, Bessie Ward, v; Mrs. Maggie Ward, R. L. Ward an W; H. Shull. Peoples Industrii m ru IHaT "G-3" users say the tire is Let us show you the fla closer-nested non-skid rubber (average of 2 po demonstrate Supertwist ( blowouts. With all its e: buy a "G-3" All-Weather L. GUARANTEED AGAINST RO. WE WILL CALL F< YOUR FOR TIRE OR BATTERY SEj tion, Oil Change, or Brake HODGES COODYE/ Free Road Service B r I Bank, and A. L. Ward and wife. jLuia ward. The defendant. R. L. Ward, above named, will take notice that an acI tioa has been commenced in the Su-; perior Court of Watauga County.: North Carolina, to foreclose a tax! certificate due the plaintiff for taxes; paid by the plaintiff for the year 1932 i for the County of Watauga, and said | defendant will further take notice; ; that lie is required to appear at the ! office of the Clerk of the Superior! ; Court for Watauga County, at the I courthouse in Boone. North Carolina, i on the 5th day of August, 19*5. and . I answer or demur to the complaint in I said action or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded \ in the complaint. j The Most Fa\ REFRIGI IV? 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