ER EYE BIB.M. BOWER INSTALLMENT tie Kid'* name was Bob Reeves back home on the Brazos the> called him tiger Eye, because one eye was yellow? the eye with which he sighted dowp a gun-barrel. Hie the boy dldnt want to kill. If he stayed home he would have to carry on his father's feuds, So be beRled bis hone, Pecos, northward and 'en countered Nate Wheeler, who drew ' his .45 and fired Just as Tiger Eye did. ~ The Kid dldnt want to kill Nate, only to cripple him, but hH aim must have been wild, foi Wheeler dropped from bis horse. Babe Garner came riding up. Wheel er was a "neater," he said, and had it coming to him. Tiger Eye rode tc Wheeler's cabin to notify the dead man's widow. The Kid breaks the news of Nate's i death to his widow and then goes ( out and brings in his body, discover ing that- be had not missed his shot to disable Wheeler but had broken bis arm. while another shot had I killed the man. A gang of Strang ers rides up. One of them insula Mrs. Wheeler by coupling hei name with the stranger. The Kid ^^^ots a bole In each of the ears ol Wm Ourham. who hurled the ln rsult, making his escape In the eon fusion. He lays in wait for the party and finally sees the men drive off with Wheeler's widow and child Be trails them quietly. He followed the wagon to Beck er's ranch and saw the men gather ed there, and knowing the signal be softly whistled the first two ban of "When 'Johnny Comes Marching Home," and so got by the man on guard at the gate. The room would not hold all the men gathered there and some stood outside in the dark and talked and smoked. Drank too, from bottles that went - from hand to hand until they were emp tied and thrown away. The kid did not talk. He kept his mouth Shut and his ears open, like old Killer Reeves always had ad vised. When the gathering showed signs of breaking up, he melted into the shadows so quietly he never was missed, and presently he rode past the unsuspecting guard at the gate and went his way. Hie kid unsaddled Pecos, rubbed him dry and went whistling up the path to the cabin. It was warm and reeked with the . smell of coal oil fumes and stale cigarette smoke. Babe's paper novel lay open, face down on the table, only two or three pages left unread at the back. "I damn near saddled up and took out after yuh, Tiger Eye," he said querulously. "These are shore bad times to be ridin' around alone. Nedter see yuh? well, you oughta know." "Shoah do. Babe." "Have any trouble?^ it's a fait question." . "Not to call trouble. Trailed some nestahs to Sam Becker's ranch. Had a meetin' theah. Right smart gath erin'. They aim to call the Poole men into a trap. Some talk ol drivin' cattle into Oxbow Bend nen'll go theah and half the rill be cached in the pass "Yeah?" Babe looked startled. "Say, that mighfa drawed the Poole riders out. at that, if they didn't know it was a frame-up. We beer watchin' our chance to get 'em in the act, the damn' cow theivesl Say you got no call to take a chance like that." Babe frowned as the kid's exploit recurerd to him. "T they'd'a caught yuh there, they'd 'a' strung yuh up in a holy minute. Don't yuh take another chance like that, Tiger Bye." - - The kid did not say anything tc that. "Say, you goln' to promise me yuh won't take no more chances like that?" Babe presesd the point "You got something more under your hat than what you told me Damn you. Tiger Eye, what more you been doln' tonight?" The kid turned and looked long at Babe over his cup. His yellow eye was curiously softened. "I been hearin' talk about Nate Wheeler," he said finally, and blinked when he saw how Babe failed to repress a start. "I beer find in' out I didn't shoot so wide I aimed to hit his gun ahm down and that ahm shoah was hit, jusl like I aimed it would be." "Yeah?" Babe's eyes took on a bard, watehful look. "1 heabd men. say It was a rifle bullet hit him in the haM," the kk drawled softly. "I trecloon yo'al thought he was goln' to shoot me I shoah am much obleeged to yo'all B*beJ\ Babe Oarner Stared, then laugher shortly ' and turned away. _ Yore welcome. Tiger Eye." Hi turned and began thumping ptllowi With savage energy. "Which sidi tile bed you want? Me, X like U lay on the edge, where I can rol out quick." "Just lay wheah yo'all feels thi best, Babe grinned the kid. .rural ?Sv . *' '1 lowing the last of the coffee. Tm sleepin' sound tonight, no mattah wheah i toy my haid." ? ? ? The Ud w scouting along the rim of the Big Bench a day or two later, playing his mouth organ as he rode. Softly, because yo'all had had to be mighty careful nobody down in the -valley noticed and took ? a long shot at you. Just far luck. ; But shucks! Yo'all couldnt hear ' that mouth organ any fartherti you could flip a rock with your thumb 1 and Anger. 'j Bad country this way. Nice 1 country, but plumb full of -ornery '?po- account cow thieves that wouldn't wait to- see if a fellow was all right ? but would holler, "Dpiw, you coy ote I" and come a-shooting, plumb | crazy like. '! Punny, though. If Nate Wheeler. hadnt come riding and shooting j 1 that-a-way, the kid . wouldn't have met up with Babe Garner. It shoah - was worth riding all the way up fr?m Texas to Montana, Just to 1 meet up with a fellow as nice and ' friendly as Babe Garner was. 1 Shoah was a tfnaky kinda coun I try, though. The kid didn't know i just all the ins and outs of the > fuss. The way Babe told it, cow ? thieves, that let on like they were ? nesters, had banded together to , i wipe out the Poole, which was a big ! '! ?= ^ I field, ""irnHtig their mmntn tat wanting to see It all. Something might} strange, though. And then the kid knew what It war There weren't any women at th*t funeral Nate Wheeler had a wile and baby, but they weren't there, either. Juetr men. not dreaded up In their Sun day clothes, but wearing colored shirts and overalls. Not shaved, either. Looked Uke they had Just stopped by from their work. Plenty' at guns, though, and belts full of shells. " The kid stared for two seconds longer' and tok the field glasses from his eyes. - Instantly that grim fathering in the coulee receded Into the slight movement of vague dots three miles and mart away. The scene was! gone, wiped out by the distance. In- . stead, the kid was staring down off the hill at a wagon that came rat tling down a long slope directly to ward him. The driver was Standing up, lashing the horses into a run, with the long ends of the lines wrich pt swung like a flail upon their backs. TBe wagon was jounc- 1 ing along over -hummocks and woman with- her bonnet off, and her hair flying straight out behind her like the tail of a running horse, was hanging, to the seat like grim death. A man on horseback came tearing "1 heahd men say it was a rifle ballet hit him in the haid." the ' Kid drawled softly. 1 Eastern outfit. Babe said the nest . ers were stealing the Poole blind , and the bosses back East wanted it | stopped. Babe said the Poole I wouldn't stand (or no more, and , they now looked on all cow thieves , same as they did on wolves ? var '? mints to be got rttl of. Nate Wheel - er was gunning for Poole riders, Babe said, and that was why he rode at the kid that -a- way. He played absently his thoughts [ dwelling on what Babe had said. Babe Seemed to think Poole riders had to be fighters. Reckon he ought ? to tell Babe he wouldn't kill a man ' for nobody; he'd seen too much of that back home. Anyway Babe never asked him a word about that . part. If be did, the kid would tell hini**Straight out where he stood. Poole riders kinda expected to down a man for keeps if it came to gun play between them and nest ers, the kid reckoned. Babe said the Poole had tried the law and it ; wouldn't work, because the Poole was an Eastern firm and all the nesters and town folks hung to gether. No Jury In the country would convict a cow thief, Babe Said. I So the Poole was going to shoot it out with the g^ng. The ldd's job was to ride, along up here on the rim. Just lazy like, and watch through field glasses for any bunch of cattle being rounded up or - driven along in the nester country below. Anything that look ed like a rouncVup down there, or even a bunch of riders going any wnere, the kid was to ride to the top of a small pinnacle, standing back from the rim of the bench, and signal with a little, round looking-glass Babe Oamer had given him. j - It wasn't much of a Job. The kid would rather ride with Babe, where fwr it was he had struck out for at daylight. But Babe didn't act like he wanted anybody along. The kid watched faithfully for awhile, halting Pecos behind bowld ers while he 'got off and focused the glasses on this ranch ond that ranch and the tranquil range land in be ; tween. Quiet as Sunday afternoon i in a-- Qauker village, down there. The kid swung the glasses farther ? Into the coulee and along the trail I to the gate, -and up up to Wheeler's ; cabin. There he held them steady, i little puckers showing in the skin . around his eyes, he squinted so. His . lips fell slightly apart as he watch ; ed. No wonder the valley was emp ; ty and no nesters were stirring! i Having a' funeral for Nate Wheeler, that was why. Yard full of wagons >. and saddle horses, men standing I around outside the house, nat talk I , lng but Just standing there, looking . sour: Every one packing guns. ,| The kid sharpened the focus a I little, still gaging with his forehead I wrinkled, trying to figure out- what was wrong. Now the men were edg ; lng back from the- door ? plain as ? if he stood in the yard with them ! he could see all they did; plain as > looking at a play on the stage. 1 Fetching the coffin out now. Just | a board box with strap handles ; nailed on, nesters all stretching ? tlielr necks like turkeys in a grain up over the top of the little ridge. He Started shooting, but he didn't hit anything at first and the team came on, leaving the road at the first turn and galloping straight down the slope. The horseman spurred closer, still shooting, and at the third shot the driver made a sudden dive down on one of the horses, rolled off onto the 1 ground and lay still. The team shied violently aside and snagged the, front wheels in a big clump of buck bush which they tried to straddle. The girl Jumped out and started running for the hill, the man tak ing after her, yelling at her to stop. But she dldnt do It, though. She was a girl, all right. The kid knew that as soon as she Jumped out and started running. She dldnt run like a woman. This one legged j It for the hill Hke a boy, her hair loose and waving out behind her' like a yellow flag. - The fellow after the girl was try ing' to catch her befbre she got in among the rocks where he ; couldn't ride. It klnda looked as If she might make It all right, espe cially when she went over that wash in one long Jump like a deer and fellow's horse balked and reared ; back on the edge. The man yelled again, pulled down with ' his gun and sent a bullet kicking up the dust right in front of her. That scared her 90 she Stopped, not knowing which way to turn. The fellow dldnt shoot again but took down his rope and Jumped off his horse. v The kid was wating, with his blue j | left eye squinted nearly shut and his yellow right eye open and star j lng like a tiger. They kept coming closer and closer, and the Jjid's gun barrew Jabbed forward and spat. The man was widening his loop as he ran, but he dropped it as his arm jerked down to his side. He wore two guns, though. He started I to draw a second gun with his left 1 hand, but the kid fired another shot. The man gave a lurch and almost fell. Suddenly he Sat down ; wner? be was and leaned over side wise, acting klnda sick. When the kid took another look at the girl, she was lying on the ground all In a heap, like she'd fainted or been shot or something. He watched her for a minute and saw she dldnt move, so he went Jumping down Uie bluff like a loos ened bowlder. He was plum Sorry for her and he hoped she wasn't hurt, but he hung back and dldnt want to touch her or turn her over to see if she was dead. Her hair was all down over her face, and it was- the longest, yellowest hair he had ever seen in his life. She gave a deep, gasping s'-gh and he stepped back r little farther. She had Just fainted. She'd be coming to in a minute, and she wouldnt thank him for standing there gawping at her that a-waf* The kid walked over and stood looking down at the fellow on thel ground. The man glared up at him like a trapped wolf. Both ears "were swollen ?ad red, ? puckery round hole showing la the outstanding i shell of each. I , "When I plugged them eahs." he drawled contemptuously, "I ahoah thought yo'all iu Just plain skunk 1 vttht I'd kxwwn then yo'all was half skunk and hall Sidewlndahl" , Old man, all Tight. Her old pap py, shot without a chanoe in the world to help himself. Didnt even have a \jhn on him. Old fanner, by the look of him. Bald-headed and little and old. The kid Investigated his head In jury. Didnt aeem to be any crack1 in the skull, but still you oouldnt tell, with an old man like him. The kid got up and- looked In the wagon. A sack of flour was there, j and a box of groceries, all Jumbled together, and a demijohn lying on Its side. The kid hoped it held whisky, and reached a long arm for It \ Shoah enough? old pappy liked his, eye opener when he got up In the morning, and was taking home a Jugful. The kid gave him an eye' opener now, holding the old mail's' head up and tilting the Jug to the ashy lips pinched in together in1 the long beard. Then he poured a little In his palm and rubbedit on the- blue lump in the thin ' gray hair, and after that he trickled a pungent little stream 8n the bullet wound, front and back. The man's! faded blue eyes opened and he stared vaguely up Into the kid'S face. "Reckon yo'au teeun1 some bet tah, suh," the kid said shyly. "Right smaht crack on the baid. bur the whisky'll keep down the swellin'." And when the old eyes still ques tioned, the kid ofTered further en couragement. Bullet dug ltsef a trail In yo'all's side, but it ain't deep, no how." The old man opened his mouth and moved his Jaw uncertainly, try ing to speak. HIS eyes never left the kid's face. "Where's Nellie?" The old man was still dazed, but at least he could speak once more. The kid gave a sigh of relief. "Why. suh, she ? " he turned and looked back toward the hill " ? she's comin'. She'll be -he ah directly. sun. The dripk revived the old man a little, but he Seemed to have only a vague idea of what had taken place. "Team run away," he mumbled. "Throwed me out. Where's Nellie? She was in the wagon when the team run away." She came, her long yellow hair pulled forward over her left shoul der. Her face was pale and her mouth drooped at the corners, and her eyes were glassy with terror, but the kid thought she was beau tiful and he blushed a dark red as he tipped his hat to her. "You hurt, Pa?" The girl sank on her knees beside the old man. "Pete shot you, didn't he?" "Pete? Pete who? The horses run away. Guess they throwed me out Where was we goin', Nellie? Wasn't we goto' some place?" "We were going home, Pa." She was kneeling there, 'looking at the blue lump on her father's head, and from there her staring eyes turned to the bullet wound in his side. which the kid had left uncovered ready for further ablutions of raw whisky. "Don't you remember when Pete Gorham , took in after us, after Nate Wheeler's funeral, and you remembered you never got your gun back from the bartender before you left town?" IPete Gorham! Who's he? I donl remember any " The kid's hand left its slow strok ing of the horse's syeaty Jaw. He walked over and stood beside the kneeling girl, bashful . but deter mined. "ScuSe me," he said diffidently, gun-hand to his hat grim when she looked up. "Did yo'all say Nate Wheelah's funeral taken place yes te'day?" "Why, of course it was ? " she checked herself abruptly, one swift, troubled glance going to her father on the ground. "You must be a stranger in the valtey if you don't know?" She cast a swift, Sudden ly enlightened glance upward. "Are you one of them Poole rim- riders?" "I happened to be up theah when Pete Gorham shot yoh pep," he said, with slow meaning. "I "taken it upon mysef to stop Pete befoah he could carry out his plan." "Well, wasnt you rim riding on the valley?" "I just happened to be theah at the time." "You're a Poole rider, ain't you?" "Poole! Poole rider!" The old man scrambled to a sitting pasture, his face working furiously as mem ory came back with a rush. "One of them Texas killers, I betchal Was it you dry-gulched my son, Ed? Where's my gun?" He clawed fu tilely at his hip, where no gun was bolstered. "No. suh, It wasn't me." The girl gave an Involuntary shud der and closed her eyes for a second "Even if he is a Poole rider, Pa. he-r-dld us a big favor.'' she Said, a little color staining her cheeks. "We>? got to be grateful for .that!*" "Are you the fellow that shot Pete. In the ears? They were talk ing about that yesterday at Nate Wheeler's, fune? " she caught her self up. blttag her lip. 1 "Nate Wheelah's funeral," the Idd finished softly "Yes'm, 1 had the pleasuah of eah-mahkin' Pete' the othah eventaV "Then you're one of those Texas killers. They said It was a Texlis killer done that. P?, ain't you able to get IB the wagon? I can driva, tt you can stt and ride." She was In a hurry to ret away from him, even though be had saved her from Pete Qorham. Saved her , and her pappy* life, and this was all the thanks he got The kid swung on his heel and gave aH his attention to harking the wagon off the buckbush so the team could be turned around. He worked swiftly, surely, his capable hands never wasting a mo- ' tlon, never uncertain of the thing they Should accomplish. The team was restless, wanting to go home, and the kid turned to the girL | "If yo'all would be so accemmo datln' as to come hold these hawses a minute," he said stiffly, *Td be shoah pleased to tote yah pap ovah and lay him In the wagon." "1 kin walk, dang ye!" the old fellow cried pettishly. But1* he couldnt, except with the help of the kid's arm under his Shoulders, taking all the weight off the wobbly old legs. > "We'e much obliged," the gtrl laid graijtnynedft, After ?e had lifted the old man Into the wagoa. "Even If you are a rtm rider for the Poole, I want to thank you for ?all you've done." Then she loked at Pete Oorham, who sat cursing beside a sage-bush, come along and fixed Pete food khd ptojfy. The?( was something in her roioe that <iu like her hair. Something like gold, of coune, ^yo'all couldn't W a Voice was yellow, or bad a shiny sound, but yo*aQ could klraU Imagine it wu like gold. That girl down in Tew her voice 'was like" a Ua pan. ^iinny about voice? ? they my mora -than word*, some times. More than a person wants their voice to Say. Hers did. Hers said she'd shoah hate to have any thing happen-to a rim rider. The kid rode dreamily along, watching the wagon as it bumped over the dim trail in the grass. Watching Just In case she might need help or something. Oirl like that didnt belong with no neater outfit She oughta have some big rich cattleman for a pappy and ride around on a nice, gentle horse. Die wagon finally turned into a shallow depression and was Seen no more from the rim. The kid mark ed the place where she lived; mark ed It with a special significance in his qiind. Now and then he swept the val ley *ith a perfunctory glance, but most. of the time he was staring at the ridge which hid her home. A thin line of cotton woods ran up along a creek there. There were places where the tops of the trees "Even if be to a Poole rider," the jtfrl said, "Be did as a. bis fnvor." took her foot down off the hub, and came over to where the kid stood stroking the nose of the horse he was holding by the bridle. "If you dont kill Pete Gorham, hell kill you," she Said in a fierce undertone. "Reckon Ml be a right smaht whie befo' he's able." The kid did not look at her. She glanoed again toward the querulous murmur of her dad's voice. "You better quit the Poole and get outa the country," she said huriedly. "The valley folkSTl kill you ? " _ ' She seemed "to think th|t was say ing more than she dared, for she turned sharply away and drove off. He went over to Pete Gorham, lifted him to his feet and faced him toward the valley. "Go hunt yo'se'f a coyote den and crawl Into it," he advised harsh ly, and started back up the hill, climbing like one in a great hurry." The kid's lips thinned a iwt stralghtened when he remembefed that girl running for the hill, Pete after her with his rope. Any other man would have shot to kill. But somehow this thing of killing ? It was plumb easy to do, but yo'all never could put the life back in a man once you'd shot It out. Funny about the nesters being wise to Poole rim riders. Thai funeral was another Strange thing. They buried Nate Wheeler yesterday, she said. Then what did they want to carry out a coffin and start another procession today for? The kid couldn't see any sense to that. The kid turned his glasses on the now-distant wagon and looked for Peter Might as well make shoah he wasn't trying to trail the girl. No, Pete was going straight across the flat, making a beeline for Becker's coulee, as nearly as the kid could Judge. Satisfied, he turned the glasses again upon the wagon. Shoah was a pretty girL The kid never had seen such yellow hair In his life. ' Wasn't must like that darned rftuek-up girl back home that had made fun of his yellow eye." This girl, Nellie, never no ticed his eye. He sighed and gave another sweeping glance at the valley. Shoah was a funny thing about that fun eral. Reckon they were just trying to fool him with it, like the girl hinted. Maybe they wanted to go all in a bunch somewhere and couldn't figure out any way to keep from being seen, and maybe they Just had a fake funeral to fool any Poole rim rider that happened to be keeping cases. Plumb foolish. Easiest way was to Kend somebody along over here to bushwhack him. The kid gave a sudden grunt of understanding. The netten had ?ent somebody, all right. Or they thought they had. They'd sent Pete Oorham. And Pete had klnda got side-tracked, thinking he could kill off that old man and get, the girl. The kid's face darkened at the simplicity of the scheme. Pete had thought he could do it and lay it to the Poole. They'd blame the Poole, and they'd go running after them harder than ever. But Pete didn't make It stick. The kid had showed above the ridge. One place where the ridge dipped a little, the kid thought he could make out part | of the roof 'of a building. Might | be rocks, but it shoah did look like a roof. ! The k'ld stirred uneasily and let I the glasses drop from his eyes. A : long, oddly attenuated shadow was ii&Xl time you are oat of fix as the result of ir regular or faulty bowel movement, try Thedford's Black-Draught for the re freshing relief it gives thousands of people who take it Mr. E. W.Cecil, a construction super intendent in Pulaski, Va., says: "When I get con stipated, my head aches, and I have that dull, tired fooling ? just not equal to my work. I dont feel hungry and I know that I need something to cleanse my system, so I take Black-Draught. We have found it ? great help" . Sold in 2S-certt packages. Thedford's BLACK" DRAUGHT WOMEN who are run-down, or suf- | fer every month, should take Car- ! ( Qui. Used for over 60 years. 1177 * - ? I ? - ? - - . lidteg stealthily dawn the rocks be ide him. a big hat and a pair oi boulders growing U??er as be ooked. The kid sprang up like a tartled deer, his sun In his hand md pointing straight at the man rhd stood looking at him. Then uddenly the kid smiled sheepishly iad tucked the gun back In Its tolster. "Come alive like a rattler, didn't ?uh?" Babe Oarner grinned. "You ieen asleep?" "No I been watchin' the valley." "Hunh!" Babe's tone sounded ? "See anything?" "Saw a funel over to Nate Whee Eih's place." "You didn't report it to the 'oole," Babe charged grimly. "What ras the matter? Paralysed so you ouldn't git to the plnaele?" "No; suh, I was right bujfy soon iftah," he said mildly. "Doin' what?" / "Shoo tin' a nestah!" "Hell! Why dldp't yuh say so?" iabe's tone had warmed amazingly. Some one tryih' to dry-gulch yuh, Plger Eye?" "I reckon he was aimin' that-a vay, Babe." v - CONTINUED NEXT WEEK The acreage to winter hay crops iuch as the barley, oats and vetch nlxture has been Increased by 100 )er cent In Orange County this Mar. Dairy farmer* use the mix ure to supplement pasture and for larly gracing. Barber? Have you tried that hair onic I Sold youJL .. Baldy ? Oh. yes. Barber? And did you find It rough t out the new hair? Baldy? No, but it brought out the Id hair, all right. Pour additional silos have been reeled by dairy farmers of Chath ,m County as an evidence of the ncreased interest In dairying. Professional Cards DR. O. G. DAVIS Veterinarian Offers his service to Roxboro and surrounding community s Phone 87 R. B. DAWES Attorney -at- Law ~ Office Adlolnlng L. M. Carlton Roxboro, N. O. B. I. SATTERFIELD ~ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Roxboro-Durham, N. C. . Ftoxboro Office: Thomas Sc Carver Sulldlng. In office Monday and ,-w Saturdays. Durham Office: 403 Trust Build ing. In Durham Office Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day each week. DR. B. B. BLALOCK Optometrist South Boston. Va. Byes examined and glasses fitted by up-to-date scientific methods. Satisfaction guaranteed. In New Hotel John Randolph. DR. G. C. VICKERS Dentist Office In WUburn ajid Satterfield Store Building on Main Street, up italrs. corner rooms N. LUNSFORD Attorney -at- Law Jfflce over Thomas & Carver Bid?. Roxboro, N. C. J. J. WOODY Licensed Embatmer Roxboro, N. C drT j. h. hughes Dentist Office In Hotel Jones, next door * to Dr. Tucker's Office Or. ). D. BRADSHER Dentist Office over Wlbura & Satterfleld's ?Store Buldtn* FARMERS HARDWARE CO. Hardware For The Home And Farm / 1*

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