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CHAPTER X Continued
"1 did, sweetheart Who'd shoot for
yon If I wouldn't?"
"Good clean shooting," he mum
bled, "but too low. Did you get Bab
son?" ,
"I tried and they wouldn't let ma.
But I amaahed Henry Rookby's fool
bead, dearest. He organized the
ruckus at Babson's bidding, but If he
Urea after the two raps I gave him
with the barrel he'll think twice before
tackling another such Job."
Nate Tlchenor smiled a terrible
smile. -We backfired on the little
cum; didn't we, lover He placed an
oily finger on her adorable noae and
pressed It gently upward. "You'll do.
You're a man's woman. I'm going
over to the curb now and sit down
before I fall down. If anybody takes
me from behind shoot him and shoot
high and for the middle this time. I'm
all out of patience. Look after old
Rube."
Rube needed looking after, Indeed.
He waa unconscious and a three-Inch
silt on the top of bis bald head
told the story. Also he bad received
his share of punches and kicks before
Lorry Kershaw's bullets had dropped
his assailants on top of him. The two
doctors carried him over to the little
grassy strip that ran parallel with the
sidewalk and laid him out thereon,
then turned to look after Lorry's vic
tims. As they sat up, Joe Bralnerd
photographed them. When that was
done he wrote the names of the fallen
on a fragment of copy paper and. In
bis mind, began arranging the lead for
tills, his biggest news story.
"Get a truck out of that garage,
Joe," Doc Donaldson ordered, "and
we'll haul our trade over onto the
grass under the shade trees In the
plaza. I've used worse dressing sta
tions. Every mother's son of them
lot It through the foreleg and some of
the said legs are busted. 'I only wing
tipped them,' says she the little
lxen."
"You've got to grant her the great
gift of charity. Doc. And tremendous
forbearance."
"Rats. She was saving them for
the hangman. Hello, her hired man
Is beginning to take an interest In
things."
Mr. Tenney's- little round baleful
eyes had, indeed, commenced to flick
er. Lorry bent over htm and raised
bis burly head to her shoulder. "How
bout you, old-timer?" she crooned.
"Shot all to pieces but not fatally."
Mr. Tenney murmured slowly. "Where
was you, boss, when the shootln'
started? I flggered you to guard my
rear."
"I guarded it, never fear, Rube. I
did all the shooting."
" I" Mr. Tenney murmured. "Sorry.
Spoke out o' my turn, I reckon. I'll
be up In a minute; I'll make a hand
yet"
A small boy .came running down the
boulevard as If pursued by a demon.
"There's some fellers over to the office
of the Register smashln' things up," he
screeched.
Lorry dropped Rube Tenney as if
bis big body was scorching her and
ran for the office of the Register a
block away.
As she came panting to the ftpnt
door she saw a dozen men Inside, with
axes. They had smashed the editorial
desk and the counter In the business
office, pled the type for the next Issue
of the Register, upset the fonts of
type and smashed them and were busy
wrecking the linotype when the girl's
voice reached them above the clang
of axes on metal.
"Put 'em up!" v
They whirled, facing her, and be
fore the menace of her gun their hands
went skyward. Thus she held them
until Bralnerd arrived with his camera.
"Mug 'em. Brother Bralnerd," she
commanded. "Steady, boys. Mot
, more out of anybody. I'll put bullet
through the hand of the man that
spoils this picture. This Is a time ex
posure, J believe, bees use the Inside
light isn't so good."
Joe Bralnerd took three photographs
of the vandals In his wrecked print
shop and turned to the girl. "Where
do we go from here?" he demanded
humorously.
: "To B1U Roohey's calaboose. All
right, men. Come out one at a time,
In single file and wend your way to
tne lockup." -
- - They wended It BUI Rooney was In
bis little Jail office, thinking things
over and gazing dolorously at a bole
la a forty-dollar bat when men be
- gan filing silently In on him. "What's
this?" he exclaimed.
Lorry's gan covered him from the
doorway. "Take his gun, Mr. Braln
erd. Take his keys, too. No non
sense, .Mr.' Rooney,, or you'll dance te
Bralnerd secured the deputy sher
iff's gun and keys, unlocked the two
cells and closed . them, again as the
. wreckers of the Register filed "dis
consolately In. - Then Lorry ordered
Mr. Rooney to go home to his fam
ily, and Joe Bralnerd locked the jait
"The remainder of this party Is
yours, Mr. Bralnerd,"' Lorry then an
nounced. "IT got my boys to look
after mv," "." ',..
Thanks lot Miss KershavV "v
"Not at alL No - trouble to show
goods," -she retorted merrily. "If
were you I'd. see that old Idiot Anson
Towle, and swear out warrants
enough for these twelve lunatics to
seep inem in jail till Christmas I'd
acare Towle If I were you. Threaten
him with a mysterious fate so bell
make their ball the limit"
Babson will ball them out of
course."
"I suppose so, but hell not like It
The action will tie him to his gang."
CHAPTER XI
The succeeding week Nate Tlchenor
spent In s hospital at Gold Run whither
Doctor Donaldson had ordered blm for
observation as to possible Internal In
juries. When at last Nate came to the
Circle K ranch again. Lorry saw that
outwardly at least he appeared to be
normal -
"Doc thought my backbone bad been
tramped out of alignment" he an
nounced, as he kissed her, "hue It was
only a couple of ribs spruns- loose
from my spine. Doc warned me not to
move around, but I couldn't stay away.
Outlaw that I am, I couldn't neglect
you for another week."
"I wasn't ready to be a clinging
vine; I'm accustomed to man's work
and if you're worth having Mr. Tlche
nor, you're worth fighting for. I en
Joyed It"
"I'm almost afraid to marry yon
now," he teased. "You'd be a tough
wife to handle In a family row. Hav
you been arrested yet?"
"No, dear. Joe Bralnerd appears to
have smoothed over the aftermath of
that ruckus. He traded with Babson
Babson loaned him the new plant of
the Forlorn Valley Citizen and then
-jfffil J!
"But I Am Curious te Know How
You Accumulated All the Money
You Appear te Have."
had a talk with the men we Jailed.
Babson levied an assessment to pay
for the damages to Bralnerd's plant
and Joe absented himself at the pre
liminary hearing of the case, so Anson
Towle waited five mlnutea for Joe and
his counsel to appear and then turned
the men loose for lack of evidence.
The men I winged are all going to get
well, although they'll be on crutcbea
for a month or two; I think they are
glad to let the matter drop. We've
all had enough undesirable advertis
ing throughout the state."
"As for undesirable advertising, yon
and I haven't had any of It We're
heroes."
"Oh, do tell me, Nate. I've been
afraid to read the papers."
-wnen a mon sscks a newspaper
plant the entire"fourtb estate regards
tne act as a direct blow at the free
dom of ;'the press, and Instantly the
fight Is no longer a private one. The
uoia Run Nugget , has burned Forlorn
Valley to a crisp and so have all the
other county newspapers. The Forlorn
Valleyltes hare been called thugs, mur
derers, oaa citizens, rioters, bullies,
ana cownras. . i am advertised as a
peaceable, well-meaning citizen and a
distinguished ex-soldler of whom the
county is proud. I sought to do For
lorn Valley a signal service and was
mobbed and brutally , beaten f and
bruisea in return. All of .the pa
pers have cried out upon -the Sense
less brutality or visiting upon
blameless young man the sins of his
forebears end ; they have done
much for you. In fact they're made
heroine of you. You are commend
ed for your great charity In wlng
tlpplng my assailants Instead of kill
tng them. You have - a '-, nickname.
You're Wlng-TlpLorry Kershsw now."
She turned to him suddenly.. "But
am curious to know- how you ac
cumulated all the money you appear
to have.- ' For you do look like cash
money, Nate."
"Well, the fact that I have a few
dollars doesn't Imply that rm a
financier," he protested.' "The Hens-
leys had great veneration for cash
but Fm only half Hensley. My fa
ther waa a paleontologist He came
up Into these hills one summer to hunt
for fossils. , Nothing would do bat be
must be our guest and hare a horse
to ride late the bills and a-man to
protect aim from the Kershawa,
"My mother was twenty-four years
old at the time and already begin
ning to be regarded as a fossil, so
father added her to his collection and
stsyed on In Eden Valley and wrote
some books nobody ever read, and
resolutely refused to learn the cow
business. He did manage to put a
little bit of culture and uplift Into
the Hensieya. I made up my mind
to stay out of Eden Valley and forget
cows as a first aid to maMng a mil
lion dollars.
"When my mother and aunts died
I was the sole heir to. the Bar" H Land
and Cattle company, and the corpora
tion was In excellent shape. There
was about two hundred thousand dol
lars In the bank and no debts; there
were twelre thousand head of cattle
and the ranch was unencumbered. I
decided to sell the cattle and lease
the ranch. Rube Tenney, who was
in command of the ranch, classed the
cattle, so I knew what I bad and
what they were worth. I wrote mv
attorney to see your father and try
to mane a trade. It seemed the fair
thing to do to let htm have first
chance. He'd always wanted all of
Eden Valley. So he bought all the
cattle and leased tne Bar H ranch for
thirty thousand dollars a year, for
five years, with an option to buy the
ranch at any time prior to the expira
tion of the lease and on verv mh
terms.
"The result was that early in 1920
I found myself foot-loose and wltb
about a million dollars cash In bank.
Now, while I was In France I secured
a commission. My captain and I got
along splendidly together. I got to
know this man and to trust him and
admire him. In civil life he'd been
general manager of a large New York
stock brokerage house. He had about
fifty thousand dollars and he wanted
to buy a seat on the New York Stock
Exchange and go Into business for
himself. But he didn't have enough
money to buy the seat and finance his
operations.
"I told him rd finance hlra one
hundred thousand dollars In cash
against bis fifty thousand In cash, his
experience and ability, and we should
be equal partners. We made money
from the day we opened our doors."
"And you say you're not a financier."
money has never
I find, too, that I
Fm going to close
In New York and
"The lust for
overwhelmed me.
love Eden Valley.
out my Interests
return here In the fall."
"I shall be very lonely while you
are away, Nate."
"And that reminds me that Pve
sent down to San Francisco for a
ring and here It Is. If It's too big
we'll have a tuck taken in, and if It's
too small or you prefer some other
stone I'll change It" And he slipped
on her finger a square emerald worth
at least a hundred steers. It was the
first piece of Jewelry she had ever
owned and her hot tears of emotion
baptized It; her warm Hps caressed
It In a silent promise be knew would
never be broken.
Suppose we get married In a hurrv
and make the New York trip a honey
moon," ne saia.
She shook her head. "Impossible
until dad's estate has been settled.
I cant leave here now. I have to
work this outfit out of debt because
can't afford a trousseau until I do
However, dear, you run on to New
York, complete your business there.
and when you return we'll make those
two mergers you spoke of. rm too
busy now. I've got a lot of those
early calves still to brand and I'll
have to brand about a thousand late
calves In the fait I . don't want to
leave any worries behind me when
we go on our honeymoon."
"And we'll spend our summers In
Eden Valley and our winter outside,"
he suggested. " , ,
She leaned against him a little
wearily and held him tight but did not
answer.
Somebody once remarked that noth
ing can be of surpassing Interest for
a period greater than nine days. For
forty-eight hours following the unex
pectedly painful and highly dramatic
denouement of hla plan to sway pub
lic opinion against Nate Tlchenor and
Lorry Kershaw, Silas Babson suffered
acutely, not because he was sorry for
wnat be bad done but because the
effect had been so wholly unexpected
ana pregnant of disaster to him.
After having arranged to prevent the
expose of the whole affair In court
With probable nenltentlarv sentences
ior a couple of dozen hitherto respect
able but mercurial citizens, he began
to view life with a less Jaundiced eye;
and when, at the expiration of the
proverbial nine days, be felt morally
certain that "that Eden Valley gang,"
as he now referred to Nate, Lorry and
Kube Tenney, was going to cling to
its ancient tradition and have nothing
whatsoever to do with legal reprisals,
all of his old Jauntiness and optimism
returned.
He waited two wet!:s longer and when
at the expiration of that period Henry
Rookby, looking fWntly reminiscent of
a potato sprout put lorth In a cellar,
returned to bis labors, Babson left the
business of the bank In Mr. Rookby'a
hands and proceeded to motor forth
among the Forlorn Valleyltes and ar
gue them Into signing the petition to
the county board of supervisors for
permission to organize the Forlorn
Valley Irrigation district Having had
a surveyor de-limit the areas suscepti
ble to surface irrigation, be knew the
Identity of every farmer whose signa
ture was necessary for his purpose, so
a week's time sufficed to acquire the
number of signatures legally neces
sary, and at the next regular meeting
or the board of supervisors, of which
Babson was a member, he presented
the petition in person and addressed
his colleagues at some length and with
unusual eloquence on the desirability
of favorable action by the board.
, The chairman of the board rapped
with bis gavel. "The pros appear to
have their Innings," be announced
smilingly. "Are there any cons to be
heard from?"
"A man rose in the rear of the hall,
walked up to the railing In front of
the dais upon which the board sat
and bowed first to the board and then
to the audience. "Mr. Chairman gen
tlemen: My name Is John W. Gagan,
a member of the San Francisco law
firm of Brooks, Gagan and Brooks, and
I appear as the legal representative
of the three riparian owners along
Eden Valley creek, to wit, Estate of
Ranceford Kershaw, deceased, the
Bar H Land and Cattle company, and
the Mountain Valley Power company,
the last two companies, as Is generally
known, being owned In their entirety
by Mr. Nathan Tlchenor. On behalf
of my clients, I desire formally to pro
test: to this honorable board against
the formation of the. Forlorn Valley
Irrigation district and will state my
reasons briefly."
Gagan Immediately proceded te de
so, painting to his auditors precisely
tne picture that Nate Tlchenor had
painted to him, challenging Lon Mor
ton to gainsay one single legal state
ment Gagan spoke simply, earnestly;
arraying bis facta In logical sequence.
When he had finished his address
Gagan bowed to the board and started
.. 1 .m I I m.
to leave roe cnamoer. mere was si
lence until he was half way down the
aisle, then a storm of hisses and boua
broke around him. Gagan looked back
as he reached the door and saw that
Silas Babson was on his feet hla
band raised for silence.
"So you're going to refute my state
ment eh?" Gagan called back. "Well,
before I depart I'll give you and your
deluded followers some very good ad
vice, free. . The man who acta as his
own attorney has a fool for a client"
TO BB CONTINUED.
ONE WAY TO HAVE PEACE
Brlggs saw his neighbor walking
up the garden path with a trombone
tucked under his arm.
"Hallo I Been buying a trombone?"
he asked.
"No; borrowed it from Robinson
next door," said the other.
Brlggs looked mystified.
"But surely you can't play, can
you?" he asked.
"No," said his neighbor, with a
smile of satisfaction; "neither can
Robinson while I've got It." Stray
Stories.
Somnolence
The stranger was met by a crowd
as he stepped off the train.
"Who are you?" asked Cactus Joe.
"I'm Professor Doperlno, the fa
mous hypnotist."
"The man who puts folks to
sleep?"
"Yes."
"Well, stay right here and catch
the next train that comes. What Crim
son Gulch needs is somebody to
wake it up."
Pattern 90
A woman Is as slim as she looks,
and by that same token, whatever
she weighs, every woman who wears
this frock Is slender. It Is that kind
of a frock I It takes pounds off one's
weight and years off one's age and
demands very little of one's time in
the making. This white magic Is all
a matter of clever design embodied
In a long graceful cape collar caught
under the belt front and back, and a
carefully proportioned yoke on the
skirt, pointed here and there where
points will do the most good. The
Insects Take Huge Toll in Damage to
Books, According to Some Librarians
Insects of various kinds take a year
ly toll In - book, destruction that
amounts to millions of dollars, says
Scientific American. Perhaps the
worst offenders In this respect are
bookworms, the larvae and an Insect
known generally as the "drug store
beetle," and scientifically as Sltodrepa
panlce. It seems to hare a particu
lar fondness for .practically every
thing, and thrives on arsenic, lead, pep
per, and other- poisonous and Irritat
ing substances. - ' ' 1
Once this beetle lays Its eggs In a
library and the larvae begin feeding,
librarians are likely to age overnight
for the larvae feed voraciously on all
parts of books whether they be cheap
modern editions or priceless ancient
volumes. Many poisons bare been
used, by various methods of applica
tion, to defeat this foe of i books.
Thomas M. Hams of the Henry H.
Huntington Library and Art Gallery,
San .Marino, Calif, In the Library
Quarterly, told of several Infestations
of the larvae la that library and the
attempts to destroy them. t
Acting on the advice of Dr. Tracy
L Strer of the University of Califor
nia Agricultural college, hydrocyanle
add gas and several other powerful
fumigants were used but wltb Indif
ferent success. It was then decided te
resort, to vacuum fumigation. This
would give perfect fumigation into ev
ery crevice or books, of which urge
numbers could be fumigated simulta
neously. Also, this method would de
stroy the microscopic eggs of the bee
tle, as wen as the larvae, by rupturing
the thin membrane at one end of the
egg and permitting entry of the pet
son fttv;.r-. . ' ,
The problem of an Ideal fumlgant
waa solved when Dr. Arnold O. Beck
man of the California Institute f
Technology, discovered that ethylene
oxide and carbon dioxide could be
combined la a liquid that la neither
Inflammable nor explosive.
Cm Make 60-Mile Wind ' :
At Teddington, England, is a klgV
pressure wind tunnel, CO feet long, la
this a eo-mlle wind can to) araetei, .
Modern Farm Knowledge
Stranger Farm products cost
more than they did a while back.
How do you explain It?
Farmer Well, when a farmer Is
supposed to know the botanical name
of what he's raising and the entomo
logical name of the bugs that eat It
and the chemical name of the stuff
that will kill the bugs somebody's
got to pay for all this knowledge,
ain't they? Pathfinder Magazine.
You Know the Kind
"There's a decided uniformity In
the contents of my post this morn
ing, Julia."
"How do you mean?"
"All my letters begin with the
same word 'Unless'."
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"Were you ever
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boarded
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Tve won several prizes In cross-word
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Employer Yes, but I want some
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Applicant This was during office
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Small Meneies
"Hello!" exclaimed the Investor,
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report "a reduction, by George I
That's good news!"
"What! a reduction In profit good
news?"
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EVEN
"What's a Joint account, pop?"
"It's an account where one person
does the depositing and the other the
withdrawing."
Dad Had a Supply
Mother Johnny, will you go down
to the cellar and split some kindling?
Johnny Walt till Dad comes. I
heard him tell Mr. Smith that hi
bought twenty-five dollars' worth of
chips last night
DISCOVERY I
And Not Always Politely
"People are not nearly so formal
as they used to be."
"No," said Mrs. Chugglns. "Near
ly every time I go out In the car
policemen to whom- I have never
been Introduced don't hesitate to
speak to me."
Professor Bug Ah, this must be
e Great Wall of China.
Hi Place on the Team
Uncle George I suppose you are
on the football team?
Tommy Well, yes, I do the aerial
work.
Uncle George What's that?
Tommy I blow up the footballs.
The Loafer I
"How did that fella get out of tak
ing his turn at cooking??
"He agreed only to cook the fish
we catch." Newark (Ohio) Advocate.
Por Kid!
Old Lady Aren't you ashamed to
be seen smoking cigarettes?
Urchin WelL wot can ver do.
lady, when the ole man pinches yer
pipe? London Weekly Telegraph.
The Idea
Father Jane, that young Idiot
Simpson's affaifs couldn't be In
worse shape than they are.
Daughter (Indignantly) You for
get that I am to marry him. Papa.
Tough Break
Editor WelL how's that thrilling
article getting ont - - -
Author (looking up from blank pa
per) Too thrilling for words.
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