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PACES SIX ruioi 1 ->aiAi*uiuy? & The massive, steel-barred. gates of the Jarillo Penitentiary swung back, disclosing a cavernous. shadowy, hopel-.-ss arch beyond. From those gates walked a man. a slender, wiry man of slightly more than medium height. His shoulders were hot of extraordinary width, but tliey were erect, flat, ami packed with smoothly coordinating muscles. His chest was arched and deep, his waist lean. His faoe, from the nose upward, was of it young man, not over thirty years in age at most. That nose was straight, thin and sensitive of nostriL with the tonic of perfect health. But there was something hard about Uioin?a. gimimer, far in the depths, like a living, never fading flame Nests of tiny wrinkles spread from the corners of Uiern. telling of tang years of facing strong sunlight, hot winds, arxi illimitable distances. The short, crisp hair beneath his floppy and battered old sombrero was dark brown, slightly curly and with a dusting of gray at the temples. T I- n-l c~ fV,. .1 .. U At >? no u:ic 11 u.'U -(i. i\au jaw muvu made a cold, stern mask of what was otiic-iwise a reasonably amiable countenance. The jaw was lean and strong, the mouth wide and hinting of wTumiscallty, were it not for the sensitive lips set in a hard line of repression, liesides the worn sombrero, his garb was made up of faded shirt and jeans, arid a pair of battered, high-heeled Ijoots which showed signs of long disuse. This, on that sunny, early spring morning, was Edward f Slim) LoyaJe, ex-convict Number 8214. with eighteen months served of a tbrecycar sentence, and with eighteen months of parole ahead of him, before he would once more be an entirely free man. A. closer ol>server than the stolid guard who had opened the gates would have noticed that Slim iJoyale was trembling as he left the prison behind him. This quiver, which traversed the entire length of his body, held something of a strange, exalting ecstasy about, it. A captive bird, freed of its cage, iuight have acted the same. A wild stallion, surrounded by the high walls of a man-made corral, might have lifted its head to gaze long at the dim, inist-xhrouded rim of some great mesa country, its nostrils di fcatod and quivering, just as Slim Loyale's nostrils dilated and quivered now. Slihi's pace quickened. He took no notice of the sun-bleached, squalid little town of Jaril'.o a quarter of miln In hie lAff J K ... n/ in.-) p.-ii.. .iui g^i !?,- wn.ui: look back at the sprawling buik of the prison, which crouched iike some unmovingr, heartless, drab beast in the immensity of the plain. Sliiu's Qs TRADE MARK REG., biliousness, sour stomach, bilious indigestion, flatulence and headache, due to constipation. 10c and 25c at dealers jCMVbUlMMMCi CAN YOU IMAGINE the surprise of a news service man in Washington who when he met a boyhood friend he bad not seen for years advised him to try BISMA-REX if he ever had stomach trouble and found that the friend worked for the producers of BISMA-REX and had read hundreds of similar praises! EXPLANATION . . . BLama-Rex La an antacid treatment that's different from the many other ineffective treatments yon e have tried. It acta four ways to I give you a new kind of relief from acid indigestion, heartburn and other acid stomach agonies. Bisma-Rex neutralizes acid, relieves stomach of gas, soothes the irritated stomach membranes and aids digestion of foods that are most Ukely to ferment. Bisma-Kcx is sold only at Rexall Drug Stores. Get a Jar today at Boone Dnirf Store. Remember, BISMA-REX. J I est brook j faee was to the north. and his eyes never wavered from a ponit out I there where a dim, violet line of ; saw-edged mountains hung against j tlie horizon, nebulous and beckonl in# Inside of an hour the prison and I the town of Jarillo had fallen far I behind him. He was entering row a slightly rolling country of chemi;sal and manzanita. With strange {abandon Slim forced his way through the brush. As he walked he caught handfuls of pungent chemisal, holding it to his face and sniffing with little, quick sighs of joy. His lean cheeks, slightly pale from j long months away from tlic sun,' glowed with the quickened beat of his stirring blood. In a little meadow. thick-grown with tar-weed and still a little damp from the night dew, he kicked about with his feet, inhaling deep of the keen, wild odor which arose. Then as a long-eared jack-rabbit hopped sedately away and a tiny, pert brush wren twittered at him, ho laughed, low and deep, and for a moment, the hard mask fell away from him. He was a boy again, just a boy going home?going home. The sun arched to the zenith, passed it and swung low into the west. Still Slim Loyale plodded onward. a little wearily now, for many j miles lay behind him and he had i been long hours without food or j water. But the glow in his eyes was still strong, and his thin face still j eager j For over two miles he had been | breasting a long, gradual slope. j in at tea wun Brush clumps ana broken here and there by rough ' opines of rock. Abruptly; he reached ! the crest. Before him the ridge fell awav in dusty slides to a wide-spreading basin, spotted with groups of shlmi inery, silver-barked sycamores. A lino of scrub willow twisted from east to west through the basin, coming from one narrow gorge to plunge I from sight, into a like one. Sliin paused, his eyes fitting keenj ly over the country nelow Off there j to his left, in an elbow of the creek, j a faint haze of bluish smoke was | rising. Slim went down a handy j slide in great, falling strides and j hurried on along the edge of the | willows. A moment later he stepped ' into a little clearing, carpeted with i green and rimmed with a wall of i willow. . In that clearing a fire giowed, and | over it crouched a tall, gaunt, leath or-faced old-timer, with keen, blue j eyes and faded hair and mustache, j At one edge of the clearing three ! horses cropped lazily at the succuj lent grass. Near the fire was a I heap of dunnage. j "Hello, Dakota.'' said Slim quiet| ly. though his voice trembled siightj ly. "Faithful as ever, I see." The mar. by the fire straightened | quickly ar.?* turned. f'Slim," he , ejaculated. "Kid!" Then with three ; quick strides he was over to Slim J itriiI was wringing his hand, his free (arm going about the young fellow's J shoulders. j For a long minute neither of them ( spoke again. A strange mistiness | dimmed Slim Loyale's eyes, and Seven Dakota Blue was winking fast. I Slim cleared his throat. 'Grub j ready?" he asked gruffly. "I'm l <iainn nea*- starved Tt?it's n long j walk back from?hell." j Glad of the chance to hide his ! emotion, Dakota Blue turned to the. ! fire and jabbed at the glowing coals | with a stick. "Be ready in a jiffy, I Slim. The coffee is about to turn j over an' there's a panful of trout waitin' to go on.". Slim nodded and went over to the I creek. Flat on its moist, sweet rim ! he lav. his face -buried in th?* ling, thill depths. When he had drunk his fill he stripped off his shirt and had a good "ash. Then he went back to the fire where a black frying-pan was sizzling, and Dakota was setting out tin plates and cups on a piece of tarpaulin. "Got yore letter two weeks ago," said Dakota casually. "I rode in here to the basin yesterday mornin". I'd have come down?there for yuh, oniy I knew yuh'd want to be alone for a few hours an- get the feel of the earth under yuh once more. Well, light in, Slim; there's plenty of it." They ate in silence. When the meal was over, Dakota tossed Slim | a sack of tobacco and a book of i papers. "Keep it." he said, "I ! brought plenty." | Slim rolled and lit his cigarette i and leaned back against the heap of dunnage. "Now tell me," he commanded, "everythin'." Dakota rotied a smoke himself before answering, and squatted on his [ heels before the fire. "Things ain't iiiuui, ne orawiea imany. "Sarge F.rockwell is still Sarg Brockwell. Jigger Starbuck is still sheriffin,' an' Spud Dillon is still doin' business at the same ole stand." "I suppose crime disappeared about the same time I did?" murmured Slim, his low voice bitter. "No," said Dakota softly. "It ain't disappeared. Slim. In the past month the Vasco stage has been held uj twice, an' the Dot H Dot has lost about a hundred haid more cattle Some folks in Pinnacle have beer wonderin' a heap if they didn't make a bad mistake, when they sent yul tip." Slim Loyale laughed curtly. "Thej shoulda done their wonderin' a yeai an' a half ago. How's things at th< oie Circle L, Dakota?" " Bout as usual. Since youre daddj died, the spread is kinda empty-like But yore cows?they're yores now yuh know?well, they keep right or havin' calves. Yo're pretty well fixec VATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER' Royal Family Rea? l W&SSc London, England.?Here is a n Queen Elizabeth :ind their two da heir presumptive to the throne, and Elizabeth recently celebrated her ? with this world's goods. Slim." , "Yeah, but a pauper with reputa- ; tion. Did -did Dad figger that I j was guilty. Dakota?" Dakota Blue snorted, "EQell, no?! {Why, not a week before he died that sanctimonious law-shark, George Arthur, came tc sec him an' made! some crack about It bein' too bad ! lhat yuh shouhla fell foul of the law. | ] "Man! I thought ole Bart Loyale. ' , was gonna crawl right outa bed, j j sick as he was, an* scalp that Iowyer I right there. "Damn yore law!** yell- j led Bart. "That boy is innocent an' !yuh know it, Arthur, yuh crooked, lyin' polecat! Get outa here, 'fore ; jyo're packed out on a board.' Don't; I worry. Slim: yore daddy stood be-| hind yuh to his last breath." A long silence fell. Slim s chin ; was on his chest. Presently he' stirred. "Yuh seen Mona Hall late- j ly ?" Dakota nodded. "Saw her day be- I fore yesterday. She asked about yuh. Slim. I told her yuh were gettin' | out today." "What- -what did she say ?" "Not n'?with her lips. But she kinda twisted then: slim, little brown hands of hers an' looked away out S past nrc- like she was lookin' at a j sunrise an' findin* it good." j Silence again fell, unbroken exIcept for the steady munching of the j horses. A. sap pocket in a piece of; glowing wood snapped sharply, scattering a little cloud of ashes from the fire The crimson of the sunset sky faded and dusk thickened. A hoot owl boomed hollowly from a neighboring sycamore. Thin and far away a coyote yammered at the first stars. j Slim Loyale got to his feet, and I dragged a blanket roll from the dunnage heap. He set about spreading them in the very center of the little meadow. "It'll be a heavy due tonight, Slim," counseled Dakota Blue. "Yuh better spread em back under the willows where mine are." Slim laughed softly, "l wanta taste that dew once more, Dakota. 11 wanta feel it on my face, an' I wanta. look at the stars a heap. I ain't seen much of 'em for?for a long time." Shortly before midday. Slim Loyale and Dakota Blue rode into the cow town of Pinnacle The single street was dusty and wide, and fianked with warped, splintery board sidewalks. The buildings were nearly all of frame construction, their high, false fronts throwing blocks of shadow. The street ran north and south, and at the north end stood a livery stable ar.d corral with a watering trough in front. Across from the livery stable was Sheriff Jigger Starbuck's office and behind the office stood the jail. The latter was a small, square chubby, which differed in construction from the majority of KVirt. ?- -? jusamucn as 11 was! made of stout fir loss, brought down from the slopes of the jagged Mineral Mountains to the north At the hitchir.g-rail before the sheriff's office. Slim and Dakota dismounted. "Yuh go ahead with yore business, Slim." said Dakota. "When yo're done, come on over to Spud Dillon's place. I'll be waitin' for yuh there." Slim nodded, twisted the reins of his mount around the rail, then walked up to the door of the office , and knocked. He entered at the i summons of a deep, resonant voice. Sheriff Starbuck sat behind a battered, paper-littered desk. He was a tall man of middle age. thin and leathery-brown. His cleanshaven face was hard from the habitual grim set of his jutting jaw. His eyes were a bright blue, cold and I searching. He showed no evidence of surprise at sight of Slim. Instead, 1I AUCTION SALE LIVESTOCK > EVERY WEDNESDAY Bring your stock to our market 1 and receive the highest market price. Buyers will be on hand to 1 buy all kinds of livestock. ' Commission reasonable. Sale starts promptly at 2 o'clock. Come ' as early as possible. Shouns Livestock Co. Hhouns, Tenn. 1 I " f THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. of dy for Coronation J fe 2 m ' ew picture of King George \*I and mghters, Princess Elizabeth (left) , Princess Margaret Rose. Princess j eleventh birthday. COLDER MONTHS BEST TO GROW HAY CROPS Success usually smiles on the dairy ! farmer who grows his hay crop dur! ::ig the winter and early spring months, according to F H. Farnliam, extension dairy specialist at State College. This plan, to a large extent, overcomes failures often encountered due to a lack of rainfall when summer I grown hay has 'been depended upon. Farnharn says farmers have found that winter cereal hay crops provide | an excellent roughage if cut at the l right time. Most authorities now agree that ! the correct time to harvest small grains and legumes found in the i mixture for cereal hay crops comes when this hay contains the largest quantity of digestible nutrients. Therefore, says Farnharn, it has ; been established that the stage of i maturity will determine the nutritive ; value of the hay when cut. When plants are permitted to become overripe, the fibre content increases and the protein decreases Cows do not relish over-ripe hay | he rose to his feet and ihi*ust forth j | his hand. "Helio, Slim," lie said. "Glad to I see yuh hack." | Slim shook hands. "Glad to be ; | back, Jigger. Yuh knew 1 was com-1 (Continued Next Week) If li!llilltlil!li!ill!i!lllllilll!liill!liilll!!!iji 1 Announ I BO( | LA1 | T ues< H We are now equ = needs. We hav< = ment for render Hi and solicit a trial The laundry is t dry cleaning plai this section of tli Whether you w< =i madam's dress c what?we are h< economically. = Our delivery car = J~i: u i l. UCUVCI 11 uaciw Ltl | Boone | and ! BARNETT BUI igllllllllllimilllHIIHIIIIIIHIIimilltHlli; this type if it has been stored J ha; vr a period of several months, and wil ill not produce as much milk when dai d such hay. 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