SYNOPSIS
Ruth Chiswick of L C ranch, obsessed by
fear of danger to her outspoken father, Lee,
from a band of lawless rustler* headed by
Sherm Howard, decides to save him by
eloping with young Lou Howard. Sherm'a
son, and comes to the town of Tall Holt
to meet him. While In Yell Sanger’s store,
a crook-nosed stranger enters, sizes up the
situation, and when a drunken cowboy. Jim
Pender, rides In and starts shooting, pro
tects Ruth, while Lou Howard hides. Dis
gusted with Lou's cowardice, Ruth calls oft
the elopement, and sends the stranger for
her father at the gambling house across the
street. There the stranger, calling himself
Jeff Gray, meets Morgan Norris, a killer,
Curly Connor, Kansas, Mile High, Sid Hunt,
and other rustlers, and Sherm Howard. Lee
Chiswick enters, with his foreman, Dan
Brand, and tells Sherm Howard of his or
ders to shoot rustlers at sight. Jeff Cray
returns to Ruth and coldly reassures her of
her father’s safety. At supper. Ruth Intro
duces Jeff to her iather und Brand, and In
Sanger's store later she speaks cordially to
f’urlv' P/SBisr.i- PnmiBd nnf tho tnr»
they are greeted by sudden gunplay, Lee is |
wounded, and Jeff Cray appears with a
smoking revolver. Two days later, Ruth 1
fells her father of her projected elopement
and her disillusionment. Later. Ruth meets
Jeff Gray, whom she thinks tried to kill her
father. Ruth accidentally wounds Jeff. She
takes him to Pat Sorley's camp. Ruth Is
credulous of Jeff's story of shooting at the
assassin rather than at her father, and later
pleads with Lee to listen to him. When Lee
arrives at Pat Sorley's camp, he finds only
a note to Pat -roni Jeff. Meanwhile. Jeff
rides Into Tall Holt and sends word to
Sherm Howard he wants to see him. He
shows Howard a poster with his picture,
with the name of Clint Doke, wanted as the
leader of a band of outlaws. The rest ot
the band arrives Jeff shows the outlaws
th? poster and asks their confidence, and
tells them Ruth shot him. They agree to
allow him io stay. Another raid on the L C
cattle causes Lee to fine up hts men In
pursuit, ami to send his son Frank to
town to reconnoiter. Pat Sorley fines Gray's
horse's hootmarks on the trail with the
inspected rustlers'.
CHAPTER V—Continued
"He didn't whop me,” blustered
Howard. "Didn’t you hear me say
he jumped me when I wasn’t look
ing?”
"I heard you,” Curly said with a
skeptical grin.
"I never saw the day I couldn’t
comb that bird’s feathers for him,”
the damaged man bragged.
He finished his drink and went
away to repair his wounds.
Jeff Gray, watching him, caught
the look that passed between young
Howard and Morgan Norris. Pres
ently the latter left the bar and
sauntered back to the wash-room
after Lou.
Gray also drifted in that direc
tion. He sat down at a table close
to the washroom wall and began to
deal out a hand of solitaire. In
tently he listened to catch
that might be said b
wall.
shoulders.
But listen
[y. You’re go
They will try
fuss. At the
get it. Under
you ate supper with
'd tried to gun him
erward,” Frank told
'And that you loaded
rith lies so she took you
r line-camps to be doc
■Tou were with the thieves
pe our stuff up Box canyon.
Wthe use of pulling this line
W when I know you are in ca
rwith these rustlers here—with
rery scoundrels you are warn
ne against?"
Kray swept this aside with a ges
fe of the revolver. ‘‘All right,
'ave it lay at that. I’m a hired
killer and a thief. Say I’m paying
off a grudge I owe Lou Howard
and Morg Norris. That would make
me a double double-crosser. Put It
any way you like. But get this
through yore noodle. If you stick
around here another day, you’ll go
home in a wagon covered by a
sheet.”
“I wouldn’t believe anything in
the world you told me," Frank an
swered.
men aoni neueve u uecauae *
tell you. Use yore head. Young
Howard is no-account, but right now
dangerous as a trapped rat you try
to pet. He’s mostly vanity, and
you’ve hurt that cruelly. He'd go
the limit to get even. Norris is one
of these snake-in-the-grass killers,
mean all the way through. Boy, I'm
going to tell you something I can't
prove. Likely you won't believe
me. Morg Norris is the man who
tried to kill yore father at Tail Holt.
I’m ’most sure of that.”
“You’re one of this outlaw gang,
but don’t mind throwing down on
them when it suits you," jeered
Chiswick.
“Smart as a whip, you are,” Gray
drawled. “You’ll never find out
whether I am all the kinds of skunk
you claim, because inside or 24
hours Morg Norris will blast you off
the map.”
“Maybe he sent you here to scare
me If he did, you go back and tell
him I don’t, scare worth a cent."
“I give up.” Gray said, potting
away his weapon. “When a lunk
head has got hell in the neck there’s
nothing to do about it. You’re grown
tep any attempt of Norris “ Lou
ioward to get him into a quarrel,
tonight he would stay in his room.
It came to him later that per
laps Gray had been sent by Sherm
Ioward in the hope of driving him
>ut of town. There might be some
hing doing they did not want him
0 know about. He would stick
iround for another day or two at
east.
After supper a Mexican came with
1 message for him. Lee Chiswick,
;he man said, was at Yell Sanger’s
store and wanted to see him at
nice.
“When did my father reach
;own?” Frank asked.
The man shook his head. “No
sabe, senor. His horses are at the
litchrack in front of Sanger’s."
"Not alone, then?”
“Senor Brand is with him.”
“Tell him I’ll be there pronto.”
Frank went back to the bedroom
lor his hat. He felt as if a load
tiad been rolled from his chest. In
spite of what he had told Gray, he
sad been worried at the warning.
He had wanted to light out for the
ranch and only his sense of duty
was keeping him in town. Now he
could pass his fears to broader |
shoulders. He would not have to
play a lone hand any longer.
A man coming into the house
stepped to one side to let Frank out.
The man was Jeff Gray.
"Wait a minute, Chiswick,'’ he
said urgently. ‘They’re aiming to
ambush you.”
Frank did not answer, nor did he
look back. He was not going to let
this fellow Influence him. But the
heart under his ribs began to pound
furiously. Involuntarily he quick
ened his pece.
“Come back, you fool!" the crook
nosed n<an ordered. “They’re post
ed in toe cottonwoods over there.”
Chiswick did not believe him, but
a queer chill ran up and down his
spine. He kept going, following an
adobe wall parallel to the road.
The angry bark of a revolver
sounded. Frank whirled, dragging
out his weapon. Swiftly he fired at
Gray. He knew the shot had come
from the gun of Gray.
From the cottonwoods across the
road a rifle cracked. Another
boomed before the echo of the first
explosion had died.
Frank flung himself at the adobe
wall anc clambered over it, drop
ping the forty-four from his hand as
he swarmed up. The boy hesitated
an instant. Should he go back for
his revolver or run the great risk
of being caught defenseless? He
heard the slap of running feet. If
he went back over the wall, he
would be the target of several gun
men. Nothing could save him. He
must keep going.
In the darkness a building loomed
before him. It was a large adobe
stable, and it filled the whole back
of the enclosure. Frank hesitated.
He dared not let himself be trapped
in the stable. Better go over one
of the side walls.
He caught sight of a figure on
top of the wall. A man was astride
of it. His gun flashed twice. Then
he had jumped down into the yard
and was running toward Frank.
Amazement filled the mind of
Chiswick. The man had not fired at
him, but at someone out in the road.
"This way. Into the stable.
They’ll get you out in the open.”
Frank followed him into the build
ing. Why he did so he could not
tell, for the man in front of him
was Jeff Gray.
"Up the stairs,” Gray ordered,
stooping to pick something from the
ground.
up to the loft.
“Sure. What would we went to
hurt you for? We got « warrant for
the arrest of Chiswick for disturb
ing the peace."
"Give us time to talk It over."
“Well, hurry up. And no monkey
business. What’s that nolae up
there?"
There was a rush up the stairs. In
the darkness the defenders had all
the advantage. Gray pistol-wiped
the first man and sent him tumbling
back ageinsi the others. Frank
drove the point of the crowbar Into
the midriff of another. The attack
ers fell back in disorder. Hurriedly
they scampered out of the bam. One
of them had to be dragged.
“Back soon,” Gray said grimly.
“How are you getting along with
that exit hombrcs hole?”
With the sleeve of his shirt Frank
wiped away the perspiration drip
ping into his eyes. It was hot in
the hay under the roof. “Give me
ter. minutes more,” he panted.
“You don’t get ten minutes,”
Gray told him, and he handed his
revolver to the younger man. “Give
rue that crowbar awhile.”
With short-swift drives the red
haired man slashed at the wall. The
point of the crowbar went through.
The hole grew larger.
“Why not ten minutes?” Frank
asked. “Think they’li rush u»
again?”
“Not none. They will set f.re to
the hay below and burn us out."
“Good God! We’d better go down
and try to hold them back from
getting into the barn.”
“I wouldn’t say so. Three-four
would get killed, including maybe
me. We’ll just about make it. The
creek is below. We’ll drop down
in the brush and slip away—if we’re
lucky.”
“And if we’re not?” Frank asked.
His companion pried out an adobe
brick. “I’ve been in a lot worse
tights than this,” he said.
Frank had been slammed from
the saddle to the ground many
times. He had been in stampedes
and blizzards. These seemed to
him trifling hazards compared to
the danger he was in now.
“Wish.it was lighter, so you could
see better,” he replied, emulating
the coolness of the other.
“It will be light enough soon, if
I don’t miss my guess."
Gray stooped and worked at a
loose brick with his hands.
Someone ran into the barn. From
the top of the stairway Chiswick
d.
tGet him?” inquired Gray.
|No. I didn’t really see him . .
k lit the hay.”
ke flame leaped up. Through
loose floor it caught the hay in
Lift. Frank tried to stamp out
■L A brick crashed down from
■l into the creek outside.
■ hole is big enough,” Gray
■‘‘Slide out, fellow.”
p first,” Chiswick urged,
smoke was pouring up in
waves.
as I say," the older man or
K wriggled through and
. The heat and smoke were
kunbearable. Gray worked
and body into the open. He
, landed on a stone, and
er ana over uuu me oeu
\ creek.
|ht?” Chiswick asked, iu
I Gray snapped. “This
kcrouching along the bed.
■along the bank protected
oDservauon. reaping
the stable drove back
s. The fugitives were
a barbed-wire fence
Boss the creek. They
■ the strands.
Rn a clump of mesquite
•of the creek.
BE CONTINUED)
History of Earth CJivided Into Five
“Eras,” Seven “Ages” and 22 Periods
The divisions of time established
by geologists are based upon the
formations of strata and the ad
vents of different forms of animal
life. The history of the earth is
divided into five “eras,” seven
“ages,” 22 “periods,” and the last
two periods are subdivided into sev
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the age of reptiles, the cretaceous,
jurassio and triassic periods.
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riods into which these ages are di
vided are not in common use.
First—Archean, or eozoic era;
the archean age, and the Huronian
and Laurentian periods. The term
is restricted by the United States
Geological survey and most Amer
ican geologists to the earlier por
tion of the pre-Cambrian, represent
ed in the record chiefly by meta
morphosed igneous rocks, but sub
ordinately by metamorphosed sedi
mentary beds. The Archean rocks
contain carbonaceous material, iron
ores, limestones, etc., which prob
ably indicate the existence of life,
but no fossils have been found. The
duration of the era during which tha
Archean rocks were formed was
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