Slumbering Gold
(continued from page 3)
FINAL INSTALLMENT
"There was a light-fingered per
son on the ship,” Rose said, "who
had come North to dip for gold in
miners’ pockets. I suggested that
her try Owens’, and so I obtained
Dalton’s own letter.”
"Where is the letter now? the
Judge asked, when the hum caused
by this strange admission subsided.
"I still have it.”
Judge Dugas tugged meditatively
at the white linen neckpiece under
his chin.
Rose continued carefully. She
had resolved to outplay Fallon for
the gold. If Owens had been de
pendable, she might have told him
the truth about Fallon and planned
the counter-move with him. As it
was, she laid her own plans.
She knew—as Owens did not —
that while Fallon could threaten
the rancher with exposure of the
Neveda crime, he couldn’t carry
the bluff through without exposing
himself as Reeves.
When Speed and his partner ar
rived at Skagway, she chose them
on sight as the kind of men she
needed, and made them a blind
proposition to do a trailing job for
her—persisting in the intention
after they refused.
ner attount oi wnai iuiiuwcu
explained several questions that had
puzzled them. She ascribed Owens’
death to fear. The drunken rancher
had crumpled he knew, and then
between fear of judgment and more
drink to drown his fear, had
drowned himself.
With Owens gone, Fallon had
tried to hold Pete, believing she
might know more than he had
learned from Owens, and realizing
that she herself was a very desir
able, unclaimed prize. These points
Rose conveyed by suggestion rather
than direct statement, but they
were none the less clear. She de
scribed the peculiar turn that had
thrown Speed and Maitland into a
clash of their own with Fallon on
the trail, allowing Pete to win free
over the pass. The first idea she
drew from this was that Pete had
taken ^iem into her confidence, but
—as she now reminded Wade and
the court—if they had been inter
ested in the gold at that time, they
could have killed Fallon without in
curring blame, and with a big say
ing of trouble to themselves.
On their return to Skagway for
their horses and outfit, she had been
all the more determined to use them
because of their feud with Fallon,
and had tried to interest them in
the gold. Her warning about the
shell-dealer was due to a tip she
received from Lefty, who had sha
dowed the man for her. Remem
bering how the stranger had been
killed in Carson, she suspected Fal
lon of having prompted this am
bush.
It was only two weeks ago,” she
explained, "that I heard of their
being held here for the murder of
a Siwash on Lake Lebarge last No
vember. I knew they were inno
cent; knew it, among other reasons,
because I had Dalton’s letter to
Owens, and a readable proof of who
was guilty. There was a joker in
the game.”
Wade stirred in his chair. The
crowd murmured, fearing another
objection.
"Part of Dalton’s letter read,”
Rose quoted evenly, " 'You would
n’t recongnize me on sight. I’ve
been living native style, to keep the
prospect and so on covered. Wait
at the head of Lake Lebarge till the
trail’s clear after the freeze-up. If |
we miss connections on the lakes,
camp there till spring, and if you
don’t hear from me before then,
float the outfit down to the creek
the drawing shows.”
"That’s how I know the accused
men are innocent. My motive in
explaining this is to turn the Law’s
vengeance where it belongs, on a
man who has taken human life, the
man who shot the U. S. Marshall in
the train hold-up. I mean Fallon.
My motive is to see him ride into
his own deadfall and laugh in his
face!”
Her eyes flashed at Fallon s
clenched hand. "If it takes proof
to open—” the low, vibrant tone
of the words seemed to fill the
room—"it’s in his hand. The
lucky, cloverleaf nugget. He was
afraid of Malone’s interest in that
piece of gold. It disappeared from
the marshall’s safe when he left
Skagway. A telltale bit of evidence
he couldn’t leave at large. But a
fascinating keepsake he wouldn’t
destroy. He’s trying to shift it
now! The luck piece—the proof
that outplays and hangs him! Do
I win?” Her voice lifted with an
indescribable taunting challenge.
Fallon was on his feet—savage,
hate-maddened, yet somehow still
commanding himself and the mute
attention of the Court. “You’ll
hear my answer now!” he said, in a
hoarse, rasping shout. "If I hang,
I don’t swing alone. That man—”
he pointed at Speed in the dock—■
"was the pardner of the stranger
who rode the bay. I’ve figured his
trail. He’s thought to be drowned,
off the George E. Starr. He calls
himself 'Speed Malone.’ Since we’re
talkin’ of right names, that man is
Buck Tracy, sometimes knowed as
Buck Solo—the most notorious des
perado and gunman that ever come
out of the Northwest!”
While his hearers stiffened under
the shock of the announcement he
flung at them, he wheeled on Rose
Reports Asthma Cure
NEW HAVEN . . . Dr. Stephen
J. Maher (above), Chairman of the
Connecticut Tuberculosis Commis
sion, reports to a New England
Medical Conference that he has suc
ceeded in curing a number of asthma
cases by an oral application where
“all kinds of injections failed.’’
with a movement as swift as light.
"As for you, you b-!” he
yelled — —
Only one pair of eyes caught the
lightning gleam of the drawn gun.
There was a stunning double report,
Fallon’s gun went out of his hand
as if he had thrown it away. With
a blankly staring look he sagged in
a crumpling fall, dropped by a bul
let in the brain from a gun which
Speed had jerked from the holster
of the belated police guard.
Ie seemed that his body was still
falling when Speed jumped the
courtroom floor and leaped for the
open window.
i ne tractionai margin ot anotner
instant or of one wild shot might
have carried him through. Then,
with the river before him and a
long shore-line of wharves and
docked barges, there is no telling
what the Mounted Police might
have had to write on their flawless
man-getting record.
But the odds were too steep. A
gun crashed as his boot touched
the sill, and Speed fell backward in
to the courtroom.
For an instant the court stood
dazed in the swirling smoke.
The bar of the prisoner’s dock
broke in splinters; Maitland was
struggling in the hold of two police
guards, to reach his partner.
Yet even in that frozen momeni
the wheel of Justice turned. Judge
Dugas looked down on the fallen
outlaw with a curious stillness, and
then at Wade, whose response,
though no one heard it, was trans
lated to the police guards.
"Release the prisoner.”
Half-lifting Speed out of a Wid
ening pool of blood, Maitland had a
blurred awareness of Pete on his
other side. The outlaw leaned
against their supporting arms, deep
ly breathing the cool breeze from
snowy peaks that came through
the open window. ,
"A doctor—” Maitland tried to
say, but his heart strangled the
words in his throat, and tears rained
‘on his partner’s reddened shirt.
Speed looked up at him mistily
and shook his head. "I don’t ask
for no better—run of luck than
this, Bud. Always figured I’d—
fall in some mountain pass alone—
and here—” He paused at something
beyond his power to say. "We
both got what we looked for—and
more—on’y not where we was
lookin’.” His eyes rested on the
sun-burnshed gold of Pete’s har, and
strayed back to his partner with a
ghost of his old-time ruminating
smile. "Gold is where you find it,
like—Steiner said.”
The strength seemed to ebb from
him; he looked dimly at the waver
ing pools of light and shadow on
the wall, and then in wonder at a
bright glory of cloud floating across
the far azure glimpse that showed
through the window opening. It
was as if a mirage had crossed his
eyes in their last gleam of life.
But something of that same
tenacity of will which had held
Dalton against the cliff brought
him back for a moment, and Mait
land heard him say, as he drifted
out on that last trail, "Give Rose
a hand, Bud—she run a great bluff
for ye. Tell her—I was plumb
wrong—about women. Tell her—
how much—I liked the singin’.”
THE END
June Suggestions For
Orchards & Gardens
Orchardists and vegetable grow
ers consider June an important per
iod in the cultivation and care of
garden and fruit crops.
If a good yield is to be obtained,
free from rots and other injuries,
insects and disease must be controll
ed, says M. E. Gardner, head of the
horticultural department at State
College.
Spraying and dusting are parti
cularly important at this time of
year, Gardner points out, since it
is essential to control insects and
diseases before they have time to
develop.'
The spraying or dusting should
be done at the right time and with
the proper materials. Apply them
thoroughly to all parts of the plant.
Calendars showing the recom
mended spray mixtures for apple
and peach trees, and the time to use
them, may be obtained without
cost from the agricultural editor at
State College, Raleigh.
Frequent cultivation of the soil
will keep down grass and weeds,
which rob the soil of moisture and
food that should be available, for
the crops. But do not cultivate
too deeply, Gardner warns, so deep
cultivation often injuries the plant
roots.
In June, he adds, succession
planting may be made of sweet
corn, snap beans, and cowpeas.
Tomato seed may be planted for a
late crop.
Pleasing the housewife is a big
factor in the sale of fruits and
vegetables, he says. A clean, well
prepared product of standard grade
will do much to solve the market
ing problem.
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Who. You Need a Laxative
Because of the refreshing relief it
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and women, who could
afford much more ex
pensive laxatives, use
Black-Draught when
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CRESS GRANGE
Cress Grange held regular week
ly meeting last Friday night with a
very good attendance. After the
usual business was attended to the
Juvenile Grange rendered a literary
program for us that was very good
and enjoyed very much. All mem
bers present were asked to go to
Patterson on Saturday if possible.
About 20 of our members visited
with Patterson Saturday night,
June 1st, and tried to give them
a literary program consisting of
readings, songs and jokes which we
hope they enjoyed as much as we
enjoyed their hospitalityTn welcom
ing us and serving us with ice
cream and cake.
The farmers are signing up for
their c»tton gining tickets this
week.
We had a good rain on Tuesday
afternoon which will do a lot of
good.
Harvesting wheat and oats will
soon be on us.
Frank Heilig has bought a new
threshing machine.
J. B. Speck has bought a Farmall
tractor and I. Ross Cress a mowing
machine and hay rake.
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