Thursday, July 20, 1939
INTO THE
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FIFTH INSTALLMENT
Synopsis
Barry Ilaveril leaves hi s
Texas home to see the country,
meets a man who has just been
shot who turns out to be a cou
sin of his, Jesse Conroy. Barry
helps take care of his wounds
and Jesse glTes Barry his gun,
a very unusual one. When they
part Barry leaves for home but
finds the family is no longer
there. When he is leaving he
suddenly comes across a dead
man who turns out to be his
brother Robert. Barry starts
searching for the murderer and
goes into the mountains to find
gold to use for continuing his
search. He finds a good
gets gold and goes to Tylers
ville.to get money for It. There
he meets Judge Blue and his
daughter, Lucy, who help him
to get $450 for hi 9 gold. Judge
Blue also tells him that the
gun Jesse gave him is the gun
of a murderer known as the
Laredo Kid. The Judge invites
Barry up to vi ** him and there
Barry discovers »e horse and
saddle which was stolen from
his brother Robert when he
was killed. He finds out that
it belongs to a cowboy who will
return that night. He waits
outside the stable and finally
a rider comes up who turns out
to be Jesse Conroy. He accuses
Jesse of killing his brother and
of being the Laredo Kid. Judge
Blue comes up behind, knocks
Barry unconscious and tells
Jesse (Laredo) that ,Barry
knows where there is gold and
he's keeping him until he finds
out where it is. Barry escapes,
however, and as he is riding
through the mountains a shot
whizzes past his ear. The man
who fired the shot explains
that he thought Barry was the
Laredo Kid.
"If I was only shore," com
plained the invisible man. Then
he said more brightly: "Step out
where I can see yuh good. If yuh
ain't Laredo I won't drill yuh."
Barry stirred ever so slightly,
still crouching in the hollow, and
thus at last was able to make out
the form of the other man,
standing close to a pine. He
lifted his gun and covered that
dim form steadily. Then he an
swered with quiet emphasis:
"I've got you covered! *Wiggle
your ears and I'll be the one
who's drilling you! Up with 'em!
High up and quick about it!"
A moment later the two, stand
ing fronting each other in the
open, amply satisfied themselves
that neither was the Laredo Kid.
Barry found himself looking down
into the upturned face of a dried
up little old man.
"No, yuh ain't Laredo, dang it,"
admitted the little gray man, and
sounded more disgusted than
ever. In the same querulous
voice he growled: "Dang it, I
dunno how I come to miss yuh
like that, nuther. I ought to've
got yuh dead center."
"What have you got against
Laredo?"
"Aplenty! An' if I never do an
other deed o' kindness, long's I
live, I'm goin' to let the bad blood
out'n him, an' that'll be all the
blood he's got. That's a vow,
stranger: hear me? Mebbe it'll be
a long chase, with him on the
jump like he is—"
"Where'd he go? When?" de
manded Barry. "What's happen
ed?"
"Wait till I go git me my gun."
He picked it up. dusted it off
against a pair of ragged old
overalls.
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"Come along over to my camp.
It's only a short piece back up in
the gully. We'll squat an' git ac
quainted."
"Anybody else at your camp?"
"Jus' Arabella."
Arabella was as small and
tough. and dried up for a burro
as the little gray man for a hu
man being.
The old man by his own ac
count was a shiftless prospector.
What his real name was he never
revealed; he conceded that men
called him Baldy or Dad or Tim
berline. and that long ago he had
come from Georgia.
Yep. he knowed Laredo well,
■and he'd knowed him a long
wl\ile. Likewise he knowed Judge
Parker Bine, an' knowed him a
lot better'n most!
He refused to discuss the Judge,
save generally, and beyond hint
ing broadly that he had a fund of
secret knowledge about Judge
Blue's past. In the Laredo Kid's
case, however, the gates were
wide open.
The Kid, said he, had managed
tc get himself into such a mess
that there was nothing left for
him but to skedaddle, which he
did with bullets pesterin' him like
a swarm of hornets. Laredo had
busted square into the Jamboree
Saloon, and killed two men. But
he did even more than that. One
killed was Jake Hammond, a man
that folks liked real well. And
Jake's kid Jackie, only nine yeatrs
old, happened in there, sent over
by his mama to bring Jake home;
and Jackie saw it all and went
crazy over it and ran and grabbed
Laredo by the legs. And Laredo
said, "Yuh want some too, do
yuh, yuh little—" and shot him
through the head. He went out
laughing, the boys said, but he
went fast.
"Laredo, he crowed my trail
close to six months ago; I was
out on a desert stretch a con
sid'able ways from here, south
west. I don't do much talkin'
about what happened—but I been
after him ever since."
Presently Barry said, thinking
about his plan for tomorrow:
"You seem to know a good
many folks around here, Timber
line. Happen to know anybody
cut at the Judge's new ranch
about thirty miles from Tylers
ville?"
"I was out that way recent,
prospectin' them little hills with
the red gullies in 'em. There was
some new folks out there, a man
name of Haveril an' his wife. A
real purty little woman she was,
too." He pulled at his mustache.
"I was goin' back to see her some
time, but she's gone now."
"Gone? Why, they were there
only three or four days ago."
"Gone now though. "Y'see,
young feller, whatever happens
in this country gets talked about
in Tyler, an' whatever gets talk
ed about in Tyler, I find out when
I drop in. Three-four days ago
the Judge busted out o' here
headed somewheres else. Some
folks says he went East an' some
says West; it's my bet he's head
ed Californy-way. Anyhow, he
took his gal Lucy with him; an'
he took his new hired hand, that
Zack Blount, an' his purty young
wife along—they say she's a Hav
eril, too. An' he stopped off at
the New Branch, an' told 'em
there he'd sold it, an' he chased
them Haverils off; an' folks say
they for shore headed to Cali
forny." He cocked a blue eye at
Barry. "What yuh askin' fur?"
he wanted to know.
"They're my folks," said Barry.
"Father and mother and brother;
and Zack Blount's wife is my sis
ter."
"So yuh are a Haveril too, huh?
Shake, Haveril."
Absently Barry shook as direct
ed, feeling his hand gripped by a
small one that seemed old leather
on the outside, spring steel with
in.
First Barry returned to Tylers
ville. He went openly, in broad
daylight, but he was watchful at
every step. No one molested him;
none seemed to have any memory
of him.
Before Barry left Tylersville he
drew heavily upon his pocket
money and bought the first horse
he had owned. He purchased the
best to be had on short notice,
and rode out of town that even
ing well equipped, his carbine in
saddle holster, conveniently at
hand. He struck out for his own
place, at the head of Sun Creek
Valley.
Barry stopped at his own creek
and wen* soberly to work. Day
after day he labored all day long
with sand and gravel, washing
his gold in a deep frying pan. En
countering one pocket after an
other during three consecutive
days, each as rich as the one he
had come upon the first day, he
accepted his good fortune quite
as a matter of course.
"Must be more than two thou
sand dollars already! That's more
than I'm going tp need. I'll get
started tomorrow morning."
When he departed at daylight,
still heading north and west, but
beginning to swing a bit more
westwardly, he carried his gold
inside his bed roll.
Down In a long valley at the
head of a vast, ripplin#, grassy
plain—cow country, this was
he tarried at the boisterous little
town of Five Springs. Some days
before, a young man answering
Laredo's description, three others
of his stamp with him, had
stormed into town, paid his wild
way in gold dust, had gotten into
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a brawl and had stormed out of
Five Springs again, headed west.
Barry followed on.
Whenever he heard of depre
dations, of lawlessness and cruel
ty and wanton killing—and these
were not uncommon—he sought
his Cousin Jesse in the neighbor
hood. But Cousin Jesse rode on,
ever westward.
Both Barry Haveril and the
home country back into which he
rode had changed during three
years. Barry was a good two
inches taller; his was a sinewy
slim figure, swaying gracefull in
an accustomed saddle; he jingled
spurs with the best; he used a re
volver as though it were a part of
his own body, as much so as his
hand.
He passed on, and found that
this was rapidly becoming cattle
country; looking down into the
lower lands he was always seeing
herds, and occasional cowboys.
Within half a day's ride from
the creek where he had found
gold, he came upon a brawling,
squalling, lusty, raw brat of a
town.
This was Red Rock when first
Barry saw it one late summer
noonday.
Everything was commotion and
dust and excitement, with the
hum of cross-cut saws, the thud
of hammers and the raucous
voices of impatient, sweating
men.
Barry tarried twenty-four hours
in this bedlam and was glad to
get the noise of hammering and
sawing and cursing out of his
ears, the smell of the place out of
his nostrils.
He began to see landmarks on
every hand that he knew as well
as he knew his own boots. But
over the first ridge, looking down
into Pleasant Valley, he encoun
tered the unfamiliar again. Down
a winding trail, riding like a man
in some sort of new-fangled rid
ing habit, a girl with hair flying
like the waving water-manes was
the final note.
The trail was steep and crook
ed, he high above, she far below.
Almost as soon as he saw her he
lost sight of her around a bend.
Once he heard her horse's hoofs
clanging against the rocks,
though he could sot see her.
Then he did glimpse her at the
exact instant when she pulled her
horse in so sharply that it slid
on four bunched feet. That was
because three men had suddenly
appeared before her in a little
open place, the three abreast,
blocking the way.
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He saw her whirl and start
back toward the valley. He heard
a man's voice shouting; he saw
one of the three forcing his horse
after her; he saw the widening
noose of the man's rope circling
above his head—and heard the
girl's scream.
Barry Haveril shot down that
steep trail.
The two men holding her were
so utterly taken by surprise that
they stood stupidly and gawked;
the third, slightly behind them
and thus nearest Barry, young
and bleak-eyed, whipped out his
gun and fired, and his first bul
let struck Barry's saddle horn
and whined off into the forest
like an angry bee. His second
bullet went almost straight down
into the ground as he was top
pling from the saddle, for Barry
had fired as he saw the other's
gun flash out, and found its tar
get unerringly.
The fallen man's horse bolted
down trail and crashed into the
little knot, human and equine,
blocking the way. In a moment
of utmost confusion, with the
girl almost breaking free. Barry
saw the two men reaching for
their guns. One of the two jam
med the muzzle of his gun be
tween her shoulders.
"You shoot, damn you, an' I
shoot!" he called out.
"Call it a draw then, so you
clear out," Barry retorted.
This girl with the wind-blown
hair and violet-gray eyes and the
lines of her that fitted into his
ideals like a beloved one in a
lover's arms, was the loveliest
thing he had ever seen. At that
instant Lucy Blue, like a little
wistful, vanishing ghost, began
fading out of his life.
"I do thank you!" she cried out
then, unnerved. "You, one man
against those three devils! And
"I'm going to see you again,
—and —" »
you know," said Barry.
She pointed.
"I live down there. You can't
see the house; it's hidden by the
pines. Yes. You will come to see
me."
She spurred off down the trail.
He went on his way, headed for
his lonely cabin and thinking of
her.
Then at last he came into a
country where nothing had
changed.
And then he saw a little trickle
of bluish-gray smoke making its
thin wisp upward from his chim
ney! He rode up to the cabin
and dismounted, throwing open
the door violently.
Squatting before his fire-place,
busied with frying pan and cof
fee pot, was old Timberline.
"Howdy," said Timber, as
though they'd parted yesterday.
"Jus' in time for supper."
When Barry went straight to
his bunk and threw himself down
and laughed, and kept on laugh
ing* Timberline could only sup
pose that he was drunk.
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