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INSTALLMENT 12
TIIK STORY SO I'AK:
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built up
A vast string of ranches in the West King
was Killed by his powerful and unscrupu
lous com|>ctitor. Ben Thorpe Bill Koper.
King's adopted son. was determined to
avenge his death In spite of the opposition
of his sweetheart. Jody Gordon, a.id her
father. After wiping Thorpe out of Texas.
Roper conducted a great raid upon the vast
herds on Thorpe's Montana ranches. Told
that Jody had disappeared, he left his men
and set out for the home of l.ew Gordon, a
man who was once his partner, but was
now his enemy. Jody Gordon had tried to
reconcile her father with Roper. He re
fused to compromise with Roper. She then
set out with Shoshone Wilce. one of Roper's
men. to find him
CHAPTER XVli
Siiu3(K?lc Wiios, ridir.s with J~?? I
Gardes ftrsagh the i=rn? hu~W. I
mile snow which screened Bill Rop- I
I iifi n?* ;""e in t,u'ir rilid on the
m h'mself the most
men an thc most unhaPPy of
He could have refused to guide
^ tn Bi" Roper s rendez
!of?u* r-1C , 0URht *' improbable that
In n ,0r: ?n wouid l,ov? hren able
to locate the rendezvous alone. But
'll ii'ri follml or merely got
i.n i ' sho8hone Wilce would
l ave been answerable to Bill Hoper
alonL '? n,temPt 'be ride
I lie alternative he had chosen of
'?,k no greater prospect for a lone
BO Wild a 6 Lcw Gordon would
fh.. h L S 0 WOURded silvcrtip at
the disappearance of his daughter
and every King-Gordon cuwbLy in
hmlf n?ry wou,d be scouring the
brakes after Shoshone's scalp.
Jody believed now that the split
between Lew Gordon and Bill Roper
a?,L '? of '"conceivable dis
\ ,~,not only ''"mediate and per
sonal. but far-reaching in its import
o thc cow country. Together those
??Ty, d'1Lerent cattlemen' could
cd thc Ki'e;r h?;pe' and cons?lidat
ca t"i. King-Gordon empire.
? eparnted, Lew Gordon and Bill
Le^rWrt^ mutually destructive;
BU? Rnnlr" Was probab,y r'Rht that
tl,? Th P savage attacks upon
of BenrfThlnter.eStS. WOre lbe causp
or Ben Thorpe's heavy rep-isals
upon King-Gordon. And even though
in"?he m'8l brng d0Wn Bcn Thorpe
credible hp m StiU sccmed in"
credible, he could never profit bv
his victory, even if he lived Unless
??rdon and Koper could be recon
? Roper would in the end [be
come just one more outlawed cow
boy whose trails could have nn
meaning, and only one end ?
Jody Gordon had one other motive
in attempting the all but hopeless
reconc, hation. She believed her fa!
gerrSB fl,0Rbe in the ^arpest da^.
u ?Cr- an even harder
u ^ 1 e oI(* tra?l breaker
" had trained him, would auto
that "would f thoSe Precautions
tnat would safeguard her father's
!' ? once they could be brought
?w'0^ together again.
But the first move toward recon
h ms??fn Tl.?' from Bill Roper
er to L n ??Uld persuade Rop
bdi v .h ; uere Was a bare Possil
her father * C?U'd a'S?
" ^'a? a forlorn hope; but. as she
it couid nUC. V,tal importance that
was ?? nger bo ignored. It !
ih ? , events that would alter
lav Tn he y ?f the cow country
. ui. persuasion of these two
stubbon, men. She rode dogged?
no*, with set face, trusting Sho
shone to find the way
hilney t<?le until after midnight,
blind, as far as Jody could see in
the wet fall of the snow. They threw
ter*nf I6'*", b?dr?i's then in the shel
ter of stunted snow-laden trees, and
Shoshone Wilce measured grain for
the horses onto his own poncho.
They pushed 011 again early the
next morning, miserable in the raw
dawn, Bfter coffee which Shoshone
made in a frying pan. All day long
they rode steadily, stopping onlv
once for bread and bacon and n
Jus? hHf'r h?HSCS With rno"! Brain
Just before dusk they climbed a
ong rocky ridge which commanded
the length of a shallow valley set
cedar" W',h jUn,P" a"d "gged
Shoshone motioned her to stop her
horse. "Wait a minute."
Far down the valley Jody Gordon
could see a faint haze that blurred
the brush and runty timber.
"That's smoke," Shoshone Wilce
said at last. "This ought to be the
placc."
"So we really got here at last . .
"Two hours more."
"The smoke ? that means he's
there."
Shoshone Wilce, suspicious and
doubtful by temperament, was less
sure. "Don't know if it's him. Some
body's there Or, anyway, some
body's been there."
A swift panic chilled Jody at the
though*, of meeting Bill Roper ta( e
to face again after so long a time.
She tried to imagine what she was
going to say to him. and was com
pletely unable. She wondered how
he would look, and whether he would
be glad to see her.
Now Shoshone Wilce reached out
to catch her bridle reins, and they
stopped. She started to ask what
was the matter, but checked her
self. Wilce had become tensely
watchful, and she saw that he was
listening.
After a moment or two of utter
stillness. Wilce whispered "Wait a
minute;" and pushed his horse slow
ly forward into the dark. For a lit
tle while as he moved away from
her she could see the tall black sil
houette of his horse against the palp
snow, but soon thU blurred with
the dsrkr.cs; p.nH wn?t Inst.
Growing imnntipnt at last, and a
little uneasy, Jody moved her pony
ahead after Shoshone. There was a
moment or two of panic, in which it
seemed that she had lost him alto
gether in the dark; but her pony
Wilce whispered, "Wait
a minute."
knew where the other was if she
did not, and presently brought her
alongside.
Shoshone Wilce was sitting per
fectly motionless on his horse, star
ing ahead into a darkness to which
the snow gave a curiously deceptive
luminosity that did not aid the eye.
"I don't like this so good," Sho
shone said.
"What's the matter?"
"No lights."
They moved ahead a little now,
Jody holding her pony beside that
of Shoshone Wilce. Shoshone moved
his horse forward twenty paces, and
stopped again for a full minute; then
ten paces more.
Jody said, "What in the world ? "
V/ilce seized her arm and silenced
her with a quick shake. Then sud
denly ?
An inarticulate oath snarled in
Shoshone's throat; he snatched at
Jody's rein, whirling her peny. His
own horse came straight up on its
hind legs as he spun it at close
quarters.
"Get going!" he said between his
teeth; and brought his romal down
across her pony's flank in a snap
ping cut that made it plunge ahead.
She heard the rip of steel on leather
as Shoshone's gun came out. Then
the silence of the night exploded
into happenings that were incredi
ble.
Two guns smashed out in a swift
flurry of detonation. A queer whis
tling grunt was knocked out of Jo
dy's horse. It dropped from under
her, and the ground struck upward
with stunning violence.
For a moment Jody Gordon lay
motionless, her cheek buried in the
cool snow. She was aware of fur
ther firing, and more than one run
ning horse, and she tasted blood
from a cut lip: but at first she was
unable to think.
Someone said, "Weil, we got one
of cm, anyway."
"Haul him inside."
"Look out now. Bud ? no funny
business." The voice was unknown
to her, as was the figure that now
bent over her. Suddenly the man
jerked forward to peer at her more
closely.
"What the? Hey! It's Calamity
Jane, or somebody!"
Jody Gordon struggled to her feet,
shock giving way to anger. "You
fools, are you crazy? Bill Roper will
kill you for this!"
There was a moment's silence,
and she sensed rather than saw that
they were looking at each other.
?Rill Roper," one of them repeat
ed "She says she's looking for Bill
Ruitr'"
"Lady, you better come Inildt!"
Dazed and shaky as the (all of her
killed horse had left her, Jody Gor
don still appeared tne most self
possessed of them all as she al
lowed herself to be led into the lit
tle cabin at which she had hoped to
And Bill Roper.
The shack in which she now found
herself was a crampcd makeshift,
intended only os a shelter for cow
boys. storm-caught while riding the
northern limits of the Fork Creek
range. A single lantern hung from
a roof pole; and now, by its yellow
light the two men studied her with
an unconcealed amazement.
"By God," said the older of the
two, "it's a girl, all right!"
The other man, tall enough so that
the door at his back looked small,
was much the younger of the two.
His face was prematurely hard-cut
? the face of a man who even in
youth had learned an effectiveness
in action upon which he could well
rely. He spoke sharply.
"Jim ? you know who this is?
That's Lew Gordon's girl!"
"Good T.ord Almighty! I believe
you're rigM!"
?'11*5 hor ciirp pnoueh!"
"So you know me?" Jody said.
"I seen you once in Ogallala, and
another time in Bandera."
The older man shifted his eyes to
his partner. "Queerest turn of the
cards," he said, "I ever seen in all
my born days!"
The younger man's voice was
sharp and strained. "Jim, we got
to get her out of here, and get her
out quick!"
The man called Jim appeared to
consider intently, his eyes still on the
other's face. "I ain't so sure," he
saici after a moment.
'You talk like a fool," the younger
man snapped at his superior. "Look
what we got! We got the law back
of us. We got the most powerful
cowman in the West back of us. We
got one of the biggest rewards that's
ever been hung up, right ready to
drop into our hands. We've located
Roper's main shebang, after work
ing on it for months. We got all
the odds in the world in our fa
vor ? and here comes this girl and
bogs the whole works!"
"Just how do you figure she bogs
it?"
"We got every chance of nailing
our man, right here, any hour now.
But don't ever think we'll nail him
without a hell of a sharp fight. Sup
pose this girl gets hurt in this fight,
or gets loose and loses herself, or
runs out of luck some other way?
The quicker we get her out of
here ? "
"Can't."
"What's the reason we can't?"
"We got the bear by the tail. She's
dynamite so long as she's here.
I grant you that. But what if
we leave her go? She warns Roper
off. Then where are we?"
The younger man's eyes were
keen with a repressed excitement.
"Jim ? you figure she come to meet
Bill Roper here?"
"She didn't come here by ac
cident," Leathers said with convic
tion, "any more than you or me.
And she sure didn't come here to
throw in with us."
A swift panic struck Jody with the
shock of a blow in the face. If
Jim Leathers wished, he could hold
her here ? literally as bait with
which to draw the man whom it was
his mission to kill. If Shoshone
Wilce had got clear, and could reach
Roper, Roper would certainly attack
as soon as the best ponies of the
raiders could bring him.
"I'm getting sick of this," Jody
told Jim Leathers. "You owe me
a horse; there can't possibly be
any argument about that. I'll have
to ask you to rope a pony and bring
him to my saddle ? and I'll be on
my way!"
Slowly Leathers shook his head
"You won't give me a pony?"
"I'm afraid ? you'll have to wait
until your friends come, lady."
For Jody Gordon's white flash of
anger there was no outlet whatever.
She turned away to hide from them
the furious tears that sprang into
her eyes. She took off her sheepskin
coat and flung it on the table, for
the room was very hot; but be
cause her fingers were still chilled
to the bone she pulled off her gloves,
tucked them in her belt, and went
to the shallow fireplace to hold out
her hands to the flames.
They went on talking now in tne
drawling, well-considered speech of
the trail, long pauses marking ev
ery interchange. Whatever else they
might think of her, they evidently
did not consider that she implied
any necessity to secrecy.
"If Roper is on his way," the
younger rider said thoughtfully,
"and this side rider of hers has got
loose and meets him, so that Rop
er knows what he's up against ? that
might be kind of bad medicine,
Jim. If he's got his war-riders with
him ? "
"I've missed hooking up with Rop
er twenty times when I thought 1
had him," Leathers said. "I'd soon
er meet up with him on any terms,
than carry back the word that I
fell down."
(TO BE CONTINUED!
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1 "So you married that plump lit
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