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PAGE SIX CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, HOREEEAD CITY. AND BEAUFORT, N. C NEWS of the Gainer Bryan, Jr. Delivers Sermons In Baptist Church Gainer Bryan, Jr.. NEWS-TIMES reporter, spoke at the morning and evening worship services of the Beaufort Baptist church Sunday in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Winfrey Davis. Faith was the general theme of both messages delivered by Mr. Bryan. He sooko n the moinin on' Faith at Work in the Building of a Church and in the evening on Faith for Daily Living. In his morning message, Mr Bryan challenged the congregation of the Beaufort Baptist church to launch out on faith and build a church building aYid a church pro gram wnicn win uc auuijudii- t" advance the Christian faith in the ( Beaufort community. ; Alluding to the story in the gos-; pel of Matthew, in which Jesus j commanded Peter to launch out into the deep and let down his nets, Mr. Bryan called upon the Baptists to provide adequate edu cational and recreational facilities and a youth centered church pro gram. He said the church should become a community center for week-round activities offering something to every age group. In his evening message. Mr. Bryan staled that people arc in need of the confidence which Christian faith provides for daily living. He pointed to (he daily news of mental breakdowns, sui cides, breakup of homes and to the simple fears, worries and anxieties of everyday life and declared that faith is the need of this age and every age. The Christian faith is a disci pline, he said. It requires the sur render of self, but the reward is self-discovery. Mr. Bryan is from Forsyth, Ga. He is a graduate of Mercer uni versity and was a special student in religious journalism at the Southern Baptist Theological semi nary last year. HIGHWAY (Continued From I'agc One) way. Parties interested in building this highway have been busily and privately engaged for several months in completing plans, an nounced on the VV?eekendv Last spring group of teprescnfatvWe from North Carolina, Virginia and other state met at The Carolinian Hotel here and discussed the pro posal to build a highway between Virginia Beach and this resort con necting existing highways. Captain Garrison of the Virginia Ferry Corporation estimated he could funnel an average of 200,000 automobiles bound north and south each year. SUSPENSION (Continued From Tage One) licenses revoked in North Carolina every month. Character witnesses from Swans boro attested to Mr. Weathington's good reputation, and a woman gave testimony that she was one of six persons who have been riding from Swansboro to work with Mr. Weathington daily. She said there was no other means of transportation available. Mr. Weathington admitted in his testimony that he was convicted of speeding in excess of 75 MPH and that a state patrol officer gave chase for 15 miles before catching him in Swansboro about 1 a.m., Sept. 21. PTA (Continued From Tage One) vice-director, and Mrs. Herbert Jones, secretary. "We feel the conference speak ers will have messages of utmost importance and will be most in spirational for all school-minded people," commented Mrs. Eudy. She said that all Carteret county PTA members are most cordially invited no stay for the luncheon but that they need .not attend the whole day's session. Members of the conference com mittees are as follows: Mrs. Eudy, general chairman; Mrs. George Eastman, registration; Mrs. F. R. Bell, hospitality; Mrs. Robert Sa frit, Jr., and Mrs. James H. Potter, luncheon.' Mrs. George Brooks, Mrs. Har vey Smith, and Mrs. James Noe, decorating; Mrs. Blythe Nop, pub licity; Mrs. Charles Hassell, mu sic; Mrs. W. L. Woodard and Mrs. Blythe- Noe, exhibits; Margaret Ann Windley and Mary Fond Ma son, pages; and Helen Paul, Neva DalL Elizabeth Bell, and Shirley upman, ushers. Counties comprising PTA dis trict 10 are Carteret, Beaufort, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Ons low, Pamlico, and Pitt. Ocracoker Serves On Cruiser Dallas1 K. Williams, boatswain's mate, third class. USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. S. Williams of Ocra coke, recently arrived in the Med iterannean Sea aboard the heavy cruiser USS Columbus. CHURCHES . The Carteret County Union of Free Will Baptists will meet at the Morehead City church on Sat urday. Oct. 30. All free Will Bap tist churches in Carteret county are urged to have their represen tatives, letters, and funds on hand at 10 a.m. The public is invited to the session. The Rev. J. R. Davidson, of Davis, will be mode rator.1 Lunch will be served at the church picnic style. The women of Davis Free Will Baptist church will enjoy a day's session together at the church on Thursday in session until the as signed work is completed. The study will be from the handbook of Woman's Auxiliary Methods. The revival is in progress at the Sea Level Free Will Baptist church and will continue through next Sunday Services are called at 7:30 each night and there also will be a service at 11 o'clock next Sun day morning. The pastor, J. II. Davidson, is doing the preaching and members of his family are assisting in the devotional part 0f the service. Also, special music js offered at each service by local talent. The public is urged to be on hand for each service. The league and Sunday school convention will be held at the Free Will B.-iptist church, More head City, at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Burgher-Kenyon The wedding of Miss Sara Piner Kenyon. daui!htrr of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kingsland Kenvon of Macon, N. C, to Chester Edward John Burgher, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Stephen Burgher of Buffalo, N. Y., was solemnized on October 1G, in the Macon Methodist Church, with the Rev. Cecil Robbins officiating. Mrs. Burgher is the granddaugh ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pincr of Morehead City. Mrs. Cecil Robbins, organist, and Mrs. H. M. Hardy vocalist, beauti fully rendered the nuptial music which included "Ich Lieberdich," "Because" and "The Lord's Pray er." The bride entered the church with her father by whom she was given in marriage. Her gown of candle light satin was fashioned with en off-the-shoulder yoke and a bertha of alencon lace and the long tapering sleeves had cuffs of the same lace. Her full-length veil of bridal illusion fell from a tiara of tiny orange blossoms and she carried a bouquet of white roses centered with a white orchid and streamers, of lilies of the valley. rTJeconly ornament was a strand of pearls, a gift of the groom. Miss Frances Coleman, of Rich mond, Va., was. maid of honor. She wore a gown of Nile green sa tin with a hoop skirt and off-the-shoulder pleated bertha and car ried a bouquet of gold chrysanthe mums. The bridesmaids were Miss Jane Page Chappell of Richmond, Miss Margaret Shaw of Macon. They were hoop-skirted gowns of gold satin with pleated off-the-shoulder berthas and carried bouquets of bronze chrysanthemums. Mr. Burgher had as his best man Harold Green of Buffalo. N. V., and ushers were Emerson Coleman and Richard Edward King of Rich mond, and William Schnabcl of Baltimore. Maryland. Mrs. Kenyon, mother of the bride, were a steel gray satin gown with black accessories and the orchid from her bridal bouquet. emmediately following the cere mony, a reception was given at the home of the bride for the bridal party, members of the family, Ma con friends and all out-of-town guests. Guests were greeted by Mrs. Ro bert H. Shaw of Macon, and pre sented to the receiving line by Mrs. James T. Jenkins. Jr. of Rich mond. Mistresses of ceremonies were assisted bv Mrs. John Davis, of Richmond, Mrs. E. H. Russell and Mrs. Helen Moore of Macon, Miss I.illie Piner of Morehead City, and Mrs. Gideion Alston of Little ton. Mrs. R. J. Parrish presided at the Bride's Book and Mrs. Ro bert P. Bender of Pollocksvillc, with Mesdamcs Clarence Thomp son and Wilton Drake poured punch. Serving the cake were Mrs. Francis Longest of Morehead City pnd Mrs. W. G. Alston of Little ton. Assisting in the dining room were Mcsdames Paul Harrell, J. P. Young, Raymond Harris, Jr., Buck Marek and Miss Miriam Jen kins. After the reception the couple left for Toronto, Canada and points north for a wedding trip and will be at home in Buffalo, N. C. Following the rehearsal October 15. a supper was given at Hotel Norlina for the wedding party and twenty-five guests. Child Attacked The small son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. Piner, Jr., of Davis, is be lieved to have been bitten by a rat which evidently climbed into the child's crib one night last week. Mrs. Piner heard the child cry, went to him, and discovered bites on his face and ear, He is recov ering satisfactorily. Diamondbadc terrapins ' are found in the United States fror.. New England to the Gulf of Mexico. CAMP GLENN Oct. 22 Miss Sarah Nichols teaching at Freemont, N. C, spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Mattie Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Clark and daughter Judy: also Mrs. Beacham motored to Washington where they spent the week; end with re latives. Mr. J. C. Pake, it Beaufort, Miss Gloria Lewis of Camp Glenn and her brother, Roy Lewis and family motored to Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Vick have left for Lake Charles, Florida to make their new home. Mrs. Sally Vick did fine work in running our school lunch room last year. Ronald West having completed his basic Army training at Fort Jackson, S. C, is home on leave. He's to renort back to Fort Kil mer. N. J., nnd assignment to the European Thcntre. Best wishes from all your friends Ronny! Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Fulchcr, of Leeds Point, N. J., are visiting at (he home of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. West. Mrs. Rena Merrill returned after a Ihree weeks stay at h?r daugh ter's in Leeds Point. N. J. Mr. Reginald Lewis will leave this week for Washington, D. C. and school. Friends are informed that Mr. Clifton Brewer is confined because of illness. The Camn Glenn PT A , held its first meeting Tuesday the 1 9th dispensed with regular business and refreshments were served. Little Johnnie Parson downed by rhcumati fever for some six weeks is climbing on ton now. Be ing able to sit tin in bed and Inking nourishment heartily We're rooting for von .Johnnie' Mr. John Swinson and Thomp son Moss left Monday for Fort Bragg for induction into the A'-"iv. Mrs. Rufus Clark with her daugh ter, Edna, and her brother, Albert Dixon, motored from Chocowinity to spend I he weekend with their sistor and aunt, Mrs. Albin Beach am. Mr. and Mrs. Dewev Adams of Raleigh spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Powell. Mr. 'and Mrs. Leo Consalcs of New York Citv spent the week with Mr. and Mis. Russell Willis also their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gonsalvcs. Mr. and Mrs. Fernie Willis spent the weekend with his parents in Newport. Mrs. Rosa York has been con fined in bed since Thursday is gra dually improving. Fur Seals Found Wearing Collars The mystery of the rubber "col lars" found on the necks of nine Pribilof Island fur seals (luring the past five summers is solved, ac cordine to Frank G. Ashbrook, who is in charge of the Fish and Wild life Service's wild fur anim:il in vestigations. Since July 16. 1944, when the first three-year-old fur seal was recovered with' a ring-like piece of thin sheet rubber around its neck, Service biologists have boon baffled trying to explain the col lars' origin. Mr. Ashbrook disclosed todav that the Air Force's Air Material Command, Wright Patterson Air Base, Dayton, Ohio, had closely examined the rubber collars and has suggested that they are frag ments of rubber bags used by the Japanese during World War II for aerial delivery of food and water to their besieged troops in the Aleutian Islands. Many of the aerial bags missed their mark when parachuted down, Mr. Ashbrook believes, and were blown out to 'sea where they float ed on the surface of the water. He says that their food attracted the small pup seals who probably plunged through the narrow open ings of the rubber bags. Clinging to the pup seals' necks, the bags could not be dislodged and eventu ally crumbled away. The rubber rings remained on the necks of the fur seals as collars. The rubber-collared fur seals were, recovered during the sealing operations which the Fish and Wildlife Service conducts when the fur seal herd leaves the sea each spring. The herd goes ashore on the bleak, volcanic Pribilof Is lands in the Bering Sea, dwells there for about three months to breed, and then turns back to the sea. The rubber collars fitted snugly around the seals' necks and cut through the fur and skin of the animals. They resembled the roll ed top of a woman s stocking. It was believed by some Service biologists that Japanese or Rus sian scientists studying fur seal migtatory habits had placed the rubber collars on the animals' necks for identification purposes. But the Service was unable to prove this theory. Army and Navy technicans were unable to recognize the rubber collars as being part of their equip ment. Rubber manufacturers re ported that the rubber had pro bably been manufactured in a fo reign country. A red salmon, marked by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in Alaskan waters in May, and caught 44 days later in a Siberian stream, was found to have traveled TOO miles id' that time. 1 Students Creel Lecfarer Miss Carolyn Taylor, extreme right, daug?.:er o; r.:r. and Mrs. R. W. Taylor of 2113 Evans street, and senior at Salem College, is shown with several school mates greeting Lecturer Edward Weeks, widely known author and editor of the Atlantic Monthly, upon his arrival in Winston-Salem. Mr. Weeks was the first speaker in the college lecture series for the current school year. ! ? - ifC'l jj : ! ! I I'Y l . G Tmxl 11 ' t , HALL b- : i PO,t'' P l3"-2"XI7-4- ,i "I z m rmr "1 J'r il iz'-e-xw-S" ' in"4 ANTA - OS AP Ncwsfeatures Planned to fit a modest budget, this four-and-a-half room house has an expansible attic where two rooms and bath can be add ed. Designed by McMurray & (hirgotis, 968 Studvesant Avenue, Union, N. J., as the Anita 108, the house covers 957 square feet ex clusive of garage and porch. A complete' basement is suggested with oil or gas-fired air-conditioned heat. Constance Bennel! Looks Pretty Anyway, Even With Hair In Curlers By Gene Handshaker HOLLYWOOD Constance Ben, nett's friend came into the living room where I was waiting and said; "Connie's hair is up on pin curlers. She says she'll come in for the interview right now won't wait to take them off if you'll sav she looked lovely any way." Connie looked lovely any way. There. Green slacks and sweater on her slim figure, green snood over her pinhed-up golden hair, gold rings in hot ears. Our brisk 40-minutc interview covered almost every possible sub ject of interest regarding Connie Bennett. She washes and puts up her own hair has done so for nine years. "Beauty parlors think they must curl it too tight."' She eats like a boa constrictor bu doesn't go over 100 pounds. "A metabolism test showed I have terrific excess energy and burn food up as quick ly as I consume it." I can believe that. Square-jawed Connie is a fight er. You get the feeling that she'd land on her feet and recover quickly from almost any- setback, In an interview the give and take is free and easy. Ask anything -maybe you won't get a direct ans wer but Connie comes up laughing with at least an evasion. If the question hurts, she doesn't let on. Age? "I'm going to remain be tween 35 and 40 the rest of my life." (A movie almanac gives her nearly 43 years, but Connie has a healthy hold on her glamorous looks. How long will she stay in pictures? "e'd like to be a pro ducer of good standing. I'll use myself in the pictures when I fit the stories." Her latest venture is as a star on Mutual's "Leave It to the Girls." Isn't it true that she's more ag gressive, less easily offended per son than, say, her sister Joan? Connie was beautiful. "I don't think she's as interested in getting to the bottom of something as I am. She's a very balanced person. rm more explosive. I'm bombas tic. She's more reserved." They're good friends, Connie said. Never been any rivalry or jealousy. Fashions? "Women shouldn't follow a fad. Fashion means to be chic, and that means to dress simply and becomingly, fads are an exaggeration. I think this new look thing has calmed down now to a happy medium. There's no thing more unattractive than a knee cap when a woman sits down." Ten Million Dollars To Three in Two Years SHANGHAI (AP) Short story. In 1946 two men held ten million of the government's former inflated currency the "CNC." One was an old man. The other was a young man. The old man, a retired employee of a big foreign oil company had what he called faith in the Chinese government "to. do the right thing by its money." He put it in the bank and lived on the gratifyingly high interest. The young man came down to Shanghai and bought five hundred American dollars with his ten mil lion. Today the young mah still has his stake. The old man? A letter was received from his widow after the changeover at 3 million CNC, to pne new gold yuan. It had been a fatal shock to him, she said, that all he had to show for his lue s work was three dollars, USE COAL And Get Satisfying Heat For Your Hone Let us solve your Winter heating problems by filling your bins now with choice Coals from our present large stocks. Your orders will receive our prompt attention. . WE -. APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS CARTERET ICE AO COAL CCIIPAHY Phone M 3701 "Since 1898" Morehead City Chapter 21 IT WAS early afternoon when Gay rode out of a concealing cluster of sun-bleached boulderf and halted atop a sharp rise. She was tired now; she had ridden for hours without stopping. She had started off in an easterly direc- t tion, but new she discovered that ' she was riding steadily couth ward instead. Somewhere below her was the shack ... her eyes ranged over the open country but it seemed to have disappeared, lost in that great vastness. She winced inwardly when she thought of It, even tried to put the mental picture she had of it out of her mind, but it was wasted effort: '. there was something magnetic about the shack and despite her efforts to withstand it, she knew , that eventually she would head directly for it. There was some thing else that disturbed ner. Once, when she had looked back, she had the feeling that she had caught a fleeting glimpse of a rider some distance behind her She had looked back a doee.i times afterward, but even though she had seen nothing to confirm her suspicions, the feeling that she was being followed persisted, She nudged her horse and he started downhill. Finally they reached level ground again. With a snort of mingled satisfaction and triumph. Gay's horse loped away. Then she pied the shack, standing so completely alone on the range. She slowed her horse to a walk, halted him a dozen feet from it. It looked so drab and uninvit ing in the broad daylight, yet so much had happened within the limited confines of its walls. She shook her head. Bits of events, and flashes of familiar faces dart ed in and out of her thoughts. She was lolted back to rcanty when a ntv when a slender figure suddenly came sister. Gay's failure to communi around the shack. It was Nettie, cate with her weighed heavily on Martin. Gav stared hard at her, Nettie stopped in front of her, looked up at her. "I had a feeling that you'd come out here." Nettie said. "I didn't come here intentional ly." Gay flared up. "I've been rid - ing around for hours, as you Chapter 22 'T'ED C 1 of a ED CORBIN smiled the smile man who is pleased with things. It was an oxpansive smile and a stranger eying him for the first time would doubtless have been deceived by the Corbln smile and attributed to him all the virtues that began with tolerance and patience and Ted Corbin was neither tolerant nor patient. Ever since he could re member, the Corbin credo had been one of taking what a Cor bin wanted and when a Corbin wanted it. This night T$d Corbin was particularly pleased with things even though he had had no part ,. in creating this pleasant situation. He was gloating over the fact that George Akers was languish ing behind bars in the back room of the Sheriff's office. He had never forgotten the beating he had received at the youth's hands, and now the knowledge that George was in serious trouble gave him a tremendous sense of satisfaction. But the fact that he had had no hand in creating the trouble irked him . . . despite his smile he was. annoyed and the longer he reflected, the more an noyed he became. What, he asked himself, could he do to increase the depth of Akers' difficulties? There was still another reason for the smile on Corbin's face. This was a purely personal rea son and every now and then Corbin turned his head and looked inside, eyed Gay behind the cash counter, and the smile on his face deepened. Women had alwavs occupied positions of importance in the lives of the Uorhin men-ioiK ana red was no exception. He was certain of one thing and that was tnat no (or bin Had ever had as pretty a wo man as Gav in his erasn. He had coveted Gay from the very first time he had seen her . . . now, without anv effort on his Dart. she was his. Life, indeed, he mused, could be wonderful . . . and for the moment it was. A DR. L r. MENUS OPTOMETRIST 3rd Floor Elks Temple Rooms 307-8-9 & 10 NEW BERN N. C. 3 45 Quart $230 Pint tMfmf . the Mest-and Most if ii in mi A $370 HIGH POCKETS know, and it was just a coinci dence that I happened to ride this Way. But thank goodness this will be the last time. I'm leaving the Circle-A." Nettie studied her for a mo ment, eying her critically and ap praisingly. "So you're running away," she mused finally. "Yes, that would be what you'd do. But it won't help you any. Gay you can't run away from the things you've done and expect to be able to forget them just bv changing the scen ery and substituting other men for the ones you've left behind you, even the dead one. Your con science won't let you." . Nettie paused now. She looked tired and worn and her face was streaked and old. She drew a deep breath. "I had planned to kill you, Gay," she said presently. "I brought a gun with me for mat purpose. It wasn't ju.i for the sake of re venue. I wnnte-1 to make sure y-iu'd rever uo ; ole to do to other won on what yJU :r done to me. i lit nmi I rp .170 ii v InaiKh It waj j.' me even to think of killing i vu k in-t iVant tc ql;jrrci With I ; ou any ionger. i . , . i don't feel i up t0 r. roico.-i v,o,i cho nH . Nettie strangely as though she didn't fully understand. "Go!" Nettie screamed. She swung her right hand wild ly, whacked the animal on the rump. He snorted angrily and bolted away. Minutes later, when the thun dering echo of the horse's hoofs had died out, Nettie turned. Alone, her resolve and high de termination vanished, and left her a broken and bowed woman. IT WAS three days since Gay had left the ranch, three long, drawn-out days that seemed never-ending to Cathy who had hoped with each new day's ar- riva lor some word Horn her Cathy who went about her house hold duties silently. Phil Martin's sudden death had left the ranch shaken and dazed . . . when all conjecture over his unexplained death was ever and 1 no satisfactory conclusion had been arrived at, everyone lapsed man stopped in front of him,' looked at him and waited for Ted to become aware of his presence. Corbin settled himself against the framework of the door, found the man standing in front of him. "O-h," Corbin said. "Didn't see you come along, Dan." "Wondered when you were gonna notice me," he replied. "Don't know that i ever saw you lookin' so doggoned pleased with y'self, Ted." Corbin grinned broadly. "Know who they got locked up down at the Sheriff s place?" he asked. "Yeah, sure," Dan said quick ly. "Tex Akers' boy." Corbin nodded grimly. "He ain't been a boy f'r a long time," he said curtly. "He's a no good killer, that's what he is." "understand buck L,oomis got 'im dead t' rights. That right?" Dan asked. 'There was nothing to it," Corbin asserted. "Akers needed dough and he needed it pronto. When Snediker made m n oner f'r some o' his cattle, Akers turned it down. Why? On'y be cause he had another way o' gettin' Snediker's dough and without havin' to give up a sin gle head o' his cattle. He made out like Snediker wasn t onenn him enough, then when Snediker left, this young polecat hustled away, circled around jonn, way laid him and killed him. That's all there was to it. It was an open-and-shut case if ever heard o' one, and Buck snapped it shut right smack in Akers face." "I didn't have the hull story." "You have it now,' Corbin said grimly. "Like I said b'fore, Akers is low-down, like a snake. And I know I don't hafta tell ydu what t do with a snake, Dan. "Kill Mm right off." "Right." "Wa-al, .he law'll fix 'im." "Yeah, sure, but that costs money, your money and mine. It costs real dough t' put on a trial and taxes are doggoned high as they are without addin' to 'em." TO THE CITIZENS OF CARTERET COUNTY Having been appointed to this Office by Resident Jndge J. Paul Frizzelle, fol lowing the death of the late Honorable D. D. Willis, and having given of my best in service to the people of Carteret County during the past year, I respectfully ask you, the Citizens of Carteret County, for your vote of confidence in this November General Election. ALFOIISO H. JAIIES . Democratic Candidate lor Clerk oi Superior Court Of Carteret County Into thoughtful silence; But now that Phil was burried, - things quickly returned to normalcy. It was the evening oi tne tnira day. George came downstairs, sauntered to the table, swung his . chair around ana seated nimseu. Cathy placed a well-filled plate in front of him. "George," she said and he looked up "I've heard from Gay." "That so?" "Yes," Cathy went on. "She's taken a room in town, at Mrs. Sutton's place, a sort of boarding house." He wondered if Cathy knew as he did that Gay had gotten her self a job as Corbin'f cashier. "Now I can see her whenever I want to," Cathy continued. "An she can come and visit us." 1' " "Course," he said. He picked up his fork. There wasa knock on the door, and they looked at each other. He frowned put down the fork, but Cathy was on her feet already . . , she went to the door, opened it. In the open doorway stood a tall figure, Sheriff Buck Loomis. Behind him, and peering in over his shoulder was Pat McCabe. The frown on George's face deepened. "You back again?" he said curt- iy- Loomis pushed into the kitchen. He glanced at Cathy only briefly, and came forward to the table. "Akers," the Sheriff began with a curious heaviness in his voktf. George heard the door close be hind McCabe but he did not turn his head. "Pat's just come back fr'm a trip down t' Texas." "Go on," George said. "I am," Loomis said. "The ranch ain't been sold yet, so Gay didn't get 'ny dough outta that. Th dough in the bank come to seven teen hundred dollars." Cathy came around the table. She halted behind her own chair. "Then the five thousand dol lars," she said and she stopped abruptly when the full impact of what the Sheriff was leading up to struck her. Loomis shook his head. "It wasn't her money," he said quietly. He looked down at George. "I'm sorrv. Akers. but vou'll hafta -' come back t' town with us. You re under arrest f'r the murder o' , John bneoiKcr. I nil 'But we gotta give 'im a trial' don't we'" Corbin scotted openly. u Why should the county hafui' pay out good money t hang. Akers when it could be done lp, nothing, huh?" ,! 'You got somcthin' there, Ted, Somethin' worth thinkin' about,' too." CORBIN straightened up o suddenly that Dan jerkeil! back. . "Listen t' me," Corbin saidl' Dan relaxed. "I went outa my. way one day t' try and do tht young polecat a good turn. ,1 didn't hafta do it, but I did any way. 1 nggered he was up against it same as ol' Tex was, so f roae out t' the Circle-A and started'! make him an offer f'r the spread ' Y'know what thanks I got?" i "Nope." "That young squirt told me t' get off the place and t' stay off.'" Dan's eyes widened in surprise.' "On the level?" "i! Corbin nodded gravely. il ) "Now, c'n you blame me f feelin' about him the way I do?!i "No!" Corbin slapped him on tHe1 back. l'l "Go on inside, Dan," he safa; "and tell Murphy I said to set up a bottle f'r you." uc i Dan Caldwell brightened. "Gee, Ted, that's swell o' yoiC Thanks, feller." "Forget it." Corbin watched him stride in, saw him head directly for the bar . . . after a minute he saun tered inside, too. He stopped at the counter. Gay looked up. Cor bin smiled down at her. v "Know what time it is, you lady?" he asked. fT "Wh-y, no. Is it ... is it very late?" "Nearly ten," Corbin answered. "Get your coat. You're going home. Think I want you t" get the wrong impression o' me, 'specially on your first night?" , Gay laughed softly. "I love it here. It's so excitingj He nodded understandingly. v (To be continued) M