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By HI'HARD 1 1 ILL - WILKINSON= It!” He grasped Alyne’s hand and began dragging her toward the camp. “Let me go!” she screamed. "1 can run better.” He let go her hand, grate ful that she had kept her head and knew that their only chance of escape lay in speed. But before they had covered half the distance Bill saw that the four riders . would Intercept them. A cold chill passed through him. He had a revolver strapped about his waist. He drew it, stopped, took de liberate aim and fired. One of the four riders went tumbling from his saddle. The other three immediately opened fire. Bill squeezed the trigger of his re volver again and had the satisfaction of seeing another rider slump forward. Then he started on and saw that Alyne had stopped and was waiting for him. “Go on! Don’t stop! Keep going! It’s our only chance!" A moment later Alyne had reached the barricade and vaulted over it into the waiting arms of her uncle. Bill fol lowed. He saw that old Dana’s face was ashen and that Alyne was clinging to him. <<T’M ALL right, uncle," she kept re a peating. “I couldn’t leave Bill out there alone, could I?" It wasn’t until the fight was over that Bill again thought of that sentence, and then he realized it had been ringing in his mind throughout the battle. “The telephone!" he yelled at Jim Emerson. “Has any one called the sol diers?” "Dana called them at noon,” Emerson replied. “He got thinking it over and decided not to wait. So he called and offered a reward for Gonzales’ capture. A detachment is on its way up here now.” Emerson spoke unhurriedly, never once raising his voice. Calmly he laid his rifle across the top of the barricade, sighted and pressed the trigger. Watch ing. Bill realized that his own state ot mind was one of confusion and excite ment. He got control of himself with an effort. A half dozen rifles lay propped against the barricade. He seized one, threw a cartridge into the breech, aimed and fired. He fired a second time and a third, feeling the blood run hot in his veins. Pandemonium raged everywhere. The bandits had dismounted and taken shelter behind convenient rocks and bushes. Within a few seconds Bill realized that they were hopelessly out numbered. Gonzales, this time deter mined upqp success, had recruited more than a hundred men. . Slow!* yet steadilyf the line of attackers advanced. Already *. naif dozen of the scant thirty / Illustrated by / j?* Henrietta McCain M.rrett * LOVE ON A DIME Is It Worth While to Love Even if It Is on a Dime? Asks the Man She Loves. BILL STRICKLAND was so busy think ing about the bandits that he did not at first notice the girl She was sitting on the mining company office veranda talking with Earl Lancaster. He stopped short and stared Bill hadn't seen a woman for three months, but even if he hadn't seen one for three years he would have thought her beautiful She had red hair and deli cately chiseled features and a curiously eager look about her. She saw Bill over Earl's shoulder and smiled Then Earl turned around and spied Bill. too. "Ah. Strickland, come up and meet Miss Wray Alyne. this is Bill Strick land. one of our boys' As always. Lan caster's tone was faintly patronizing "How do you do?" said Bill He took the hand she offered "Mr Dana Wray's daughter? Is he here?" "He's here. But I'm not his daughter. I'm his niece I made him bring me " Curiously he liked that. It gave you the feeling that Dana Wray had been doubt ful about bringing his niece down Into the wilds of Mexico and she had laughed at his fears. Almost immediately Bill began think ing about the bandits again and what they might do if they knew that a girl as beautiful as Alyne Wray was at the mine "Mr. Wray's inside waiting to see vou.” Lancaster said "If you'll excuse us. I was about to show Alyne through the buildings.” Bill noticed the easy familiarity with which he called her by her first name. He never had liked Lancaster. The fel low was overbearing He had family and money behind him and never let you forget the fact. He had arrived at the Wray mines the same day that Bill came down Both were just out of college Lancaster treated the experience as a lark Four months in the mines, he had said, and he was going back to New York th asstime a vice presidency in his father's office. * The job to Bill was far most Important. He had neither family nor tnoncy behind
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