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“We have no money, Dave. The
two men we’ve got left haven’t
been paid regularly In a year.’’
A sudden husklness caught her
throat.
“Never mind,’’ Dave said quiet
ly. “We’ve got the land and the
water and the grass. Banks loan
money, so we’ll have cattle.’’
“The bank, has loaned money
Dave,’’ Mary said. “They won’t
loan us any more. A good slice
of the paper is due in a few days,
too.’’ Her voice was suddenly bit
ter. “That’s another present for
you, Dave, from a loving sister.’’
“Stop it, Mary,’’ Dave said
softly. “I hate to hear you bitter
like that.’’
They fell into single file now as
the road narrowed between two
canyons and slanted steeply up
hill. He remembered the place.
These were the small badlands
that announced the deep gently
sloping plateau — the Soledad
Bench—on which the D Bar T,
his spread, was located.
He recognized each landmark.
Mary was ahead of him and
he spoke to hor softly. “Don’t
A spouting mushroom of fire
winked from the high rlm-rock
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the top of his h.ead that swept
him off his horse into falling un
consciousness.
Rosy’s .gun streaked up In
coughing savage* lances of flame.
Mary was kneeling by Dave as
Rosy fought his horse quiet and
leaped off.
Rosy struck a match. In Its
light they could see a raw smear
of red on the top of Dave’s head,
the blood oozing out from under
the thick, black hair. Rosy put
his ear to Dave’s chest.
“Pumpin' like a locomotive,’’
he announced cheerfully.
Mary was sobbing softly.
“It’s all right. Miss Mary.”
Rosy gulped. “If they killed him,
I reckon I’d just go hog wild.”
Mary nodded. “So—so would
I.”
“There’s a hombre up on the
hill, I think. I’m goin’ to take a
pasear. He’ll come to pretty
quick.’’
Rosy scrambled up the steep
canyon wall. On the rim he saw
a sprawled, prone figure, resting
face downward on the stock of a
shoti un. Rosy struck a match. He
was a thick-set man, dressed in
soiled denim pants, greasy shirt
and tattered vest.
He was unshaven and just
wh°re the stubble of beard ceased
to grow on his neck, a thin
stream of blood trickled. He was
dea.l. Rosy let the match die and
peered off into the night, listen-
A scrapin.g hoof gave him the
cine he was waiting for and he
walked over to a ground-haltered
horse. He led the hor.se over to
the rim-rock, loaded the man a-
cross the saddle and after walk
ing south tor a hundred yards
found the arroyo w’lich led down
to the road.
M.ary was waiting for him.
Rosy .struck a match, wonder
ing if the man would turn out
to he some one she knew. Mary
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; peered at the man and Rosy let
tlie flame die quickly.
“Is it one of them nesters?” he
asked.
“I’Ve never seen him before.’’
Rosy shrugged. “Reckon you
iouW Mary'opened a door to a
bedroom, containing a broad
White
worry, ala. The black days haven’s can lead this hdrse? *'** ^^ ?^^* opposite corner, and a simple
come to the Turners yet. Not for up In front of me and lead his Vhlt of drawers.
horse. How far we got to go?”
“Three miles.”
ThJ Turner ranch-lay on the ! olfroLMhe
with sloping grassy sides which UaR.
served as a windbreak. Tall syca- Mary hade them
mores mushroomed up In
black night, hiding everything
both
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the night, and left the room.
Rosy sat on the cot, drew
black night, ntmng everyiamg »- —-- -
b.„. tb«!,««« tat tb. t,o bp.. ,b.p
clous and lighted windows.
No one greeted them as they look^
dismounted. Rosy took Dave in “I'm *nged°”ca^mly’
his arms and followed Mary Into pardner ’ he
the house. They entered a broad, Dave stifled the surprise in nis
low-ceiled room, a huge fireplace ask-
at one end. Rosy did not see the
man seated In a chair before the «« i
fire as he laid Dave on a daven
port.
“Well. Mary,” the man drawl- “It ain’t that I /
ed.
tootad UP. Tbu to .euttal .
was young, perhaps thirty, with
dark, coolly appraising face. He
a dies before I pick me a corral.
And leave me here, stuck
dark, coolly appraising laue. nc i«nH ^rabbin*
was dressed In whipcord breeches with a bunch ®
slouched com- nesters, a water-thtevin fool, a
nnH ^binv boots, Sioucnea com- O.
fortably on his backbone in the proddy sheriff, and a bushwhac
easy chair.
“Oh, Ted,” Mary said, a little
catch of fear in her voice. “Some
one shot Dave—!” She looked at
Rosy and flushed a little. "Excuse
me. Mr. Rand, my husband, Ted
Winters.”
■p.’inters nodded lazily. Wel
come, Rand.”
Howdy,” Rosy said. He look
ed curiously at Mary.
“I wanted to surprise Dave,
she said, flushing a little deeper.
What happened?’’ Winters
drawled. , .
He lounged out of his chair
and came over beside Rosy, look
ing down at tiie unconscioira fi
gure on the davenport. Mary left
for the kitchen.
“Some whippoorwill on the
dry-gulch,” Rosy said. “This side
of the bridge.”
The devil!” Winters exclaim
ed. “Who?”
“I dunuo. He’s out there on a
horse now. Take a look at him
aud see it you know him.” ^
“You mean you got him?’’
“Dead,’’ Rosy said dryly.
Mary returned with the basin
containing warm water and a
mild disinfectant. She kneeled
by Dave and bathed the wound,
her face w'hite.
“Ted, it was awful,” she said
in a low voice.
The disinfectant was biting in
to the raw flesh of Dave’s wound
■uid he groaned and writhed und
er the pain. His eyelids flutter
ed. then opened.
“What happened? Somebody
shot at me.’’ .
“Some whippoorwill up m the
rocks tried to blow your • head
off,’’ Rosy said grinning.
Dave nodded weakly and shitt
ed his eyes to Winters.
‘.‘You the doc?” Dave asked
“Xo Dave. This is Ted TV int
ers * rav tuishand,’’ Mary said. “I
wanted to keen it a secret and
surprise you.” .
"Well, sis, this is a surprise.
Dave stretched his arm out to
Winters and they shook^ hands.
Dave sm'ling weakly. “>'011 got
the best girl I ever knew. Win
ters.
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“I know it,” Winters replied, ^rand.
s • n A«1 n H IVT
He put his arm around Mary’s
shoulder and she hugged
tightly.
"How do you feel?’’ Mary ask
ed.
“Good. I’ll '->e UP tomorrow.
Wiiat was this all about?”
“He’s out there dead--on a
horse.” Winters said.
“Who was he?”
“I’m going out and take a
look.” Winters said. “I’ll put up
your horses while I’m at it.” He
left by the front door and Mary
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“Mr. Rand, you have the room
good
Mary
said about our bein’ broke?'
Rosy’s eyes dropped evasively.
ain’t
ready to settle down yet. I want
in?’’ Dave said.
“All right, you red-headed ran-
nie, we’ll go together. Tomorrow
mornin’.’’ . ,
“And leave things this way for
Mary?” Rosy asked.
“If you go, I go,” Dave said
firmly. .
Rosy regarded him a moment.
“Look here. It’s this way. I’m
goin’ because I don’t hanker liv
in’ off folks that ain’t got enough
to spare. I’d stay, but my work
would bring you in nothin and
you’d feel bad because you could
n’t pay me wages.”
Part of that’s true,” Dave
said. “But give U8 a chance. We
still got everything we ever had
and one day we’ll have her where
she was. We planned this thing
out together and then you run
out on me. All right. I can run out
on Mary.” „
You jugliead, you will not.
Rosy growled, crossed to
Dave's bed and gently shoved him
back into a lying position Stick
up your foot and I’ll PuH them
boots off.” ,
Dave and Rosy were uP before
sunrise the next morning. Save
for his paleness. Dave seemed
none the worse tor the events of
the night before. After building
a fire in the big kitchen range,
he and Rosy strolled out to look
the place over.
The house was as it had always
been and always would he, so
long as any one was living in it.
It was a stone affair with a low,;
sloping, slate roof. j
The buildings were different. |
The board cook-shack was empty,
its windows gray and filled with
cobwebs. The adobe bunkhouse,
bricks showing in places where j
the mud plaster had cracked off,,
lay between the cook-shack and
corrals. i
Tile barn itself seemed falling
to pieces, its door sagging, wisps
of hay sticking out the weather
ed cracks. The corrals were
awry, some of their bars down.
They looked at the horses, per
haps a dozen in all. They were
fat, hut uncared for and shaggy, j
Which horse was Little Bo-'
Been ridiu’?’’ Dave looked for the
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“Not Mr. Rand to you, ma’am,”
Rosy said. “I ein’t ever been call
ed anything but Rosy all my life.”
“All right. Rosy. Then I’m
Mary to you, and not ma’am. The
wood is out at the end of the
cook-shack.’’
Rosy dodged out the door, and
Mary' and Dave were alone.
Dave’s face was clouded. Mary
looked up at him.
“Rotten homecoming, isn’t it?”
she said.
Dave nodded. “Seeing a ranch
in this shape almost makes me
want to howl. You must have a
couple of prime knotheads for
hands, sis.”
“It’s Tad, Dave. He's been
running the place for two years
now, ever since old Link died.
But he’s a mining man, Dave, not
a rancher. He’s pulled us through
the best he knows how, and I
guess he’d be the first to admit
that he hasn’t done a good job.”
“Where is he this mornin’?
Around the place?”
Mary was still bending over the
range. "He's in bed,’’ she said
quietly. “He’s a city man and
thinks We’re harliarians to get
up w'ith the sun.”
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Naked as a baby,” he
nounced. “That don’t help.”
At that moment, Mary called
them. She had breakfast nearly
ready. Dave looked at the round
table in the kitchen and noticed
five places.
“Who’s cornin’ tor breakfast,
sis?” he asked.
“No one,” Mary said brightly.
'Those are tor the hands.”
Dave was silent a moment.
‘You cookin’ for the hands?
Both were well aware of that
tradition that dictated that the
rancher’s wife did not wait on,
the ranch
hands.
“Of course,” Mary said lightly.
‘We haven’t had a cook tor three
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“Can I do anything?” Rosy
Mary laughed.
“You can, Mr. Rand. I haven’t
much wood and there s hone
Administrator of the Estate of , R^av vs A. 0. Bray.
Sanford Lee Johnson, deceased, ’
Gilreath, N. C.
A. H. CASEY, 03 above has been commenced m
6-6-6t(M) Attorney “g^ierior Court of Wilkes coun-
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