WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE’S Mde the Mm, With COPYRIGHT WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE—WNU SERVICE CHAPTER X—Continued —lo— Jeff fired—missed. A bullet zipped past his ear. He shot again, knock ing the revolver from the hands of the bandit into the creek. Norris made a rush to recover the weapon, his arm fishing the water for it.. As he pulled the Colt’s out of the current. Gray was upon him. The barrel of Jeff’s revolver crashed down on his head and knocked him over. He lay motionless, his forty four again in the brook. The red-headed man made sure the outlaw did not have another gun on his person. To Ruth he gave crisp commarids. “Get the gun out of the creek, girl. And pick up that rifle over there.* Then step behind me out of the way.’’ Ruth did as she was told. Her face was chalk-white, but she moved lightly on her feet. Norris groaned and sat up, hands pressing against his bleeding head. “You aimin’ to kill me?” he snarled defiantly. “I'm going to drag you back with a rope round yore neck,” Gray an swered. “Lee Chiswick will hang you to a cottonwood.” The eyes in the swarthy face of the trapped man slid away from Gray, to take in the tethered horses and the brush that came close to the camp. What he was think ing could be easily guessed. Ruth moved close to the man who had rescued her. “Let him go,” she begged in a low, broken voice. “I—I can’t stand any more.” Jeff hid not look at her. His gaze held fast to the prisoner. “No chance,” he said. “He’s going back with us to yore father. Go bring me a rope from that saddle.” “I’m afraid of him,” the girl pleaded. “He’s—horrible. You don’t know.” “I can guess. Don’t worry about him.” Jeff added, grimly. “He'll be rubbed out plenty soon.” The slitted eyes of Norris had come back to them. He watched the man and the woman warily, “Without a gun and without a horse’he couldn’t do us any harm,” Ruth urged. “You don’t turn rattlesnakes loose because you’re afraid of them,” Gray told her coldly. “You stomp them out.” “Yes, but—” Norris dived for the brush, his lithe body moving fast as a streak of light. The gun in Gray’s hand roared, and the bullet plowed into the ground. For Ruth had struck down his forearm and was clinging to it with both hands. He tried to free himself—flung the girl rough ly away. The escaping man was in the willows. Jeff could see and hear the violent agitation of the young sprouts. He fired at the place twice, then plunged into the thicket after the bandit. For a hundred yards he followed the fugitive. Abruptly he gave up the chase. He could no longer hear the rustling of foliage. Better get back to the camp. The fellow might hide, wait till he had passed, and slip back to the horses. Anger grew in Jeff Gray as he swished back to the camp through the willows. . By golden luck he had found this villain’s camp and saved Ruth from disaster. For some fool woman's, reason she had interfered to help him escape. With Sorley he had ridden fifty miles to save her, and for reward she made a fool of him out of sheer caprice. Pat Sorley burst oiit of the brush just as Jeff reached the camp. “I heard shots,” the line-rider cried, then caught sight of Ruth and stopped abruptly, staring at her. "Glory be,' he found you.” “Yes,” Ruth answered, and bit her lip to keep down a sob. Gray strode up to her. “What do you mean by knocking down my arm and hanging on to me?” he de manded, a cold, contained rage in his voice. She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I—couldn’t help it,” she said meekly. “Couldn’t help it. Don’t be a fool.” i coman t nave you kiu nim, alt er—what I saw him do this after noon.” She shuddered, seeing for a moment the slack body of Kansas Crumpling down to the ground. “I don’t get this,” Sorley said, looking from one to the other. ‘‘You never in the wor-rld kept Gray from killin’ this divil when he had a chance?" “That’s just what she did— grabbed my arm and hung on while he was making a break to get away,” Jeff said bitterly. “It seems he had become her dear friend dur ing the day. Probably we butted in where we weren’t wanted, Pat” “Don’t say that!” Ruth cried. “He’s an awful man—inhuman. I never saw anyone like him. His face—when he killed the other man —was like that of a devil. If you hadn’t come—” Her big eyes met those of Gray and shrank away. "You hated him so much you couldn't bear to have him ru^b^d out,” Gray said with a curl of the lip. ”1 didn’t want you or Father to till him in cold blood while he was unarmed,” she explained in a low voice. “I saw him do that today shoot down a poor man trying to escape from him. Would I want my friends to be like him?” ‘‘So you were thinking of us,” Gray said, his drawl derisively in sulting. “On our account you turned him loose to kill eight or ten more men. Nice the way you manage our business. I hope Lee Chiswick is as grateful to you as I am." He turned his back on the girl and spoke to Sorley. “Reckon we'd bet ter get back to our own camp, Pat, eat supper, and move down the creek a ways. He might meet some more wolves and come back to howl at us.” “Not likely, with him afoot and unarmed. Still, it’s possible.” “I’ll waik to camp,” Gray told him. “Better saddle those broncs and ride down.” Without another word to Ruth, he picked up the weapons of Norris and departed. Pat had stopped supper prepara tions when he heard the shots far ther up the creek, but presently he had the coffee boiling and the ham fried. Ruth sat near Pat, at a lit tle distance from Gray, whose face still showed no friendliness. Her shoulders sagged. She felt very “Don’t push on the reins, Morg.” i tired, was under a reaction from great fear and excitement that left her a rag. While they ate their food and drank their coffee the line-rider did the talking for all three. He was garrulously happy at the termina tion of the adventure. Against all likelihood their luck had stood up. Eagerly he asked questions, and got monosyllabic answers. After a time he protested. "Begorry, you’d think this was a wake and not the luckiest hour of the year,” he snorted. “We ought to be thanking God you’re safe again.” “I am,” Ruth answered wearily. “Ye don't look like it,” he retort ed. “I'm—tired out,” she said, in a lifeless voice. Looking at her shadowed eyes and white haggard face, Sorley felt re morse at his sharpness. “You’ll have a good sleep tonight and be rested tomorrow,” he said gently. They packed, saddled, and rode down the creek for A few miles. Sorley chose for a campground a little mesa three or four hundred yards from the stream. No fire was lit, and the night was cold, as Ari zona nights in the high hills are likely to be. Pat ma,de a bed of pine boughs for Ruth and tucked her up snugly in two blankets. “One of us will be on guard all night,” he explained to her. “Don’t worry about a thing, but let go of yoresilf and slip off to slape like a good gir-rL” She promised that she would, add ing with a smile, "You’ve been aw f’ly good to me, Pat.” Sherm Howard was alone in the house. He had spent the evening at the Golden Nugget and had come home to sleep, but he knew that was not going to be possible for many hours yet. He sat at a table, a small coal-oil lamp at one corner of it, looking down savagely at the solitaire layout in front of him. There was no pleasure for him in the game. While he dealt and played automatically, the undercur rent of his mind was absorbed by the difficulties confronting him. A heavy gloom lay on his spirits. He was in a jam and knew it. Fifty times he had gone over the facts anxiously looking for an out, and he had not been able to find one. Un til the situation had resolved itself one way or another he could be sure of nothing. Howard came to an impasse in the game, gathered up the cards, and shuffled them. He started to deal, but stopped with a card po.oed. The outside door of the house had opened a few inches. Through the crack a pair of eyes gleamed. Very little more of the face could be seen, for the hat was well pulled down and a bandanna handkerchief covered the nose and mouth. Sherm Howard had time for a moment of fervent regret. How had he happened to forget to bolt the door, with his forty-four lying in the cupboard a long five yards away from him? The door opened farther and a lithe body slid through the widened crack into the room. The eyes of the self-invited guest did not lift from his host while a brown hand closed the door and pushed home the bolt, Howard’s stomach sagged as if from a weight of ice-cold lead. His mouth went dry. The man standing with his back to the door was Mor gan Norris. Norris grinned evilly. “Didn’t ex pect me, did you, Sherm? Figured some of yore boys had dry-gulched me up in the hills. But 111 bet you are real pleased to see yore old friend.” The fat man pulled himself to gether. “What you doing here, Morg?” he asked. “Don’t you know this whole county is out look in’ for you?” “Including alj- Sherm Howard’s willing lads. Sure 1 know it.” The desperado limped forward. “But I dropped in because I knew you’d hate for me to pass through with out thanking you for sicking the boys on me." The man was in bad physical con dition. A blood-stained handkerchief was tied around his head. Another served as a bandage for his arm. He looked travel-worn and haggard. But he was undaunted. Never in his wicked, ribald lifetime had he seemed more master of the situa tion. Howard expected that the fel low had come to kill him. Morg must have met one of the boys and learned that Howard had thrown in with his hunters. “What’s all this crazy talk about me sicking the boys on you?” How ard asked. “You ought to know bet ter than that. Fact is, you’ve played the devil, Morg. I thought you had more sense than to pull the dumb thing you did. This country won't stand for doing harm to women. You ought to know that too.” “Don’t preach at me,” Norris snarled out of the corner of his mouth. “Get me food, and water to wash my wounds. But first off, I want a drink.” The heart of the big man lifted. “Sure,” he said. “Surest thing you know.” He heaved himself out of the chair and waddled across to the cupboard. Beside the bottle lay the forty-four he had unwarily separated himself from when he reached the house. This he pushed down between his trouser-belt and shirt. The bottle and a glass he brought back to the man at the table. Norris poured a large drink into a tumbler. He held it in his hand and slid a menacing look at his host. “I saw you get that gun,” he said, lifting his upper lip in a jeer. “Fixin’ to gun me if you get a chance, you damned double-crosser. Well, you don’t get it.” Norris raised the glass. “Here’s to a short life and a smoky end for traitors, Sherm.” He poured the liquor down at a gulp. Coldly Howard defended himself. “Your information is not straight, Morg. Where did you hear I had turned against you?” “I heard it from a ledge back of Coal Creek,” Norris told him harsh ly. “Yore boys were camped just below. I heard ’em talk. Didn’t know who they were at first. I found out you’d sent them out to get me, by crikes.” “Why don’t you use your bean to think with, Morg? Of course I sent them after you. After you had gone crazy, I had to make a bluff, didn’t I? I had to make out we were all hunting you to save our own bacon. Talk about me throwing down on you. What have you done but throw down on every last one of us?" Howard spoke impatiently, irrita bly. He wanted to talk the young killer into a frame of mind less deadly, and the best way to do this was to put him in the wrong. “What you mean, throw down on you?” the fugitive asked sulkily. “You know what I mean, Morg. When you. took that girl with you to the hills you set this whole dis trict ablaze against us as well as you because we are your friends.” “Lou ran off with her first,” Nor ris said. “With her own consent That’s different. Where is the girl, Morg? What did you do with her?” “I didn’t do a thing,” Norris growled. "Are you aiming to fix me up some food? Or ain’t you?” “Don’t push on the reins, Morg. 1 asked you a question." Norris gave information, very re luctantly, for what he had to tell hurt his inordinate vanity. “I turned her over to that double-crossing son of-a-gun who calls himself Jeff Gray,” he said. The opaque eyes of the big man rested on him. “Tell it to me, Morg,” he ordered. “I’ll tell it while you make me some supper,” Norris told him. “Me, I could eat a government mail-sack. Haven't seen grub for nearly two days.” The young desperado helped him self to a second drink, then sat down and pulled off his boots. He was careful not to turn his back to Howard. Sherm began to knock to gether some food, always with his eye on the other. Norris told the story of what had occurred, edited in such a way as to protect his self-conceit. He said that three men had attacked him at his camp in Wild Horse basin and that he had fought them until the revolver was shot from his hand. He had made his getaway on foot. “You didn’t walk all the way from Wild Horse,” Howard said, after he had broken a fourth egg into a fry ing-pan. “Most of the way.” The outlaw looked down at his swollen feet. High-heeled cowboy boots are not made for walking, and he had been tortured cruelly during the long hours of tramping. “I roped a bronc at Walker’s in the night and found a saddle in the stable. Most of the day I lay holed up in the rocks.” “What with yore wounds and all you must have had a hell of a time,” Howard suggested. The young man looked at him, fury in his eyes. “I’m sayin’ so.” “If they shot yore gun from yore hand, I reckon you’re not armed,” Sherm said, very casually. The killer watched him through slitted lids. “Don’t you bank on that, 'Sherm,” he drawled, his words dripping warning. Howard said lightly, “I was think ing I’d have to fix you up with a gun if you had lost yore own.” What he had been thinking was that if Norris was unarmed, he could pump lead into him and take the credit for killing the man. (TO BE CONTINUED) Chinese Elm Is Good for Rapid Growth; Tree Thrives Throughout United States Whenever a tree is to be set out, the careful gardener takes plenty of time for thought. For there is some thing permanent about this type of planting in which mistakes are in tensified rather than obliterated by time, states a writer in the Phila delphia Record. Need often is felt for something fast-growing to relate a new house to its location or to give quick shade, screening or protection from wind. Too often poplars are se lected because they come along quickly. Time, however, soon re veals their undesirably vast and greedy root systems, while a row rarely gets established before one or another of the trees dies, spoil ing the looks of the whole. The Chinese elm (Ulnus parvifo lia) has none of those drawbacks, but it does grow quickly. Indeed, it is a matter of record that one young tree grew to 28 feet in 3 years, that a 4-foot specimen reached 40 feet in 5 years and a 6-footer in 4 years attained 30 feet. Although native to northern and central China, Korea and Japan, the Chinese elm thrives throughout the United States, eventually grow I ing to 45 feet. It develops a broad. round head and in maturity is as graceful as a cutleaf birch and quite as hardy as the oak. It is good not only for the suburban lawn, but fqr street planting in the city as well, since it can withstand soot and gas. Drouth resistance was revealed as another attribute during the se vere dry spell of 1936. Where new ly planted weeping willows, Lom bardy poplars and cutleaf birches succumbed,- the Chinese elm came through triumphantly. To obtain maximum speed and development and a deep green color in the foliage, feed the tree yearly with a well-balanced plant food. Ei ther early spring or late summer is a good season. Columbus’ View of Porto Bico Christopher Columbus had the right idea about Porto Rico, Amer ica's island possession at the gate way to the Caribbean. Returning to Spain from his second voyage to the new world in 1493, it is recorded, he excitedly told the queen about the little island of Porto Rico. She asked him what it looked like, The explorer crumpled a sheet of paper and tossed it on the table. "It looks like this, your majesty," he said. WHAT to EAT and WHY i -fjoulton Cfoudill U/atnl -@jain.lt Food Fads and Fallacies Nationally Known Food Authority Explains How They May Endanger Health By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS 6 East 39th St.. New York City. AS SCIENCE and civilization have progressed, painstaking investigators have sought to replace ignorance with knowledge, to substitute truth for superstition. But in spite of their efforts, our eating habits are still influenced by a multitude of food fads and fancies, which should have no place in this enlightened age. « Some of these are harmless; others may endanger health. And the homemaker must learn to distinguish between fact and fancy. Fish Is Not a Brain Food One of the most persistent fallacies is the notion that certain kinds of food are es pecially beneficial for certain parts of the body. Many peo ple believe that fish is a brain food and celery a nerve tonic. Let tuce is thought to be a soporific. None of these things is true. The idea regarding fish probably arose because fish contains phos phorus and the brain also contains phosphorus. How simple it would be if one could in crease brain power merely by eating fish. Unfortunate ly, there is nothing to it! The brain, like other parts of the body, requires a balanced diet. IMO case has ever been reported of a man soothing the irritated nerves of his wife by feeding her celery. And as for lettuce, it is a fine source of minerals, vitamins and gentle roughage, but it does not contain any narcotic drug that in duces sleep. Not Necessary to Sip Milk Another false idea is the wide spread notion that milk must be sipped slowly or it will be difficult to digest. This has been refuted by a widely known investigator who made many tests. One day he fed a man a pint of milk in 10 seconds. The next day the same man was fed the same amount of milk in 10 minutes. On both oc casions the contents of the stom ach were examined a half hour later. 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But the truth of the matter is that water stimulates the flow of the digestive juices and careful research has estab lished that normally, water taken with meals in reasonable quanti ties aids digestion. —★— — Danger of Half Truths The most insidious food falla cies are those which contain some portion of truth—for example, the belief that cooked fruit is more wholesome than raw fruit. It is true that cooking increases the di gestibility of some fruits and also has a sterilizing effect. On the other hand, most fruits are easily digested in the raw state, are more palatable and richer in vita mins. A widespread belief which has a small portion, but only a small portion of truth, is that whole wheat bread is vastly superior to white bread. Whole wheat bread contains more minerals, vitamins and roughage than white bread. But the minerals and vitamins lacking in white bread can easily be supplied by other common foods, and there is no justification for going to the extreme of omit ting white bread entirely from the diet. —★— Fad Diets Lack Balance Far more harmful than the fal lacies regarding individual foods are the fad diets constantly put forth by those who seek to ex ploit the homemaker’s desire for dietetic knowledge. —★— Foods Not Incompatible A fad diet which has gained a large number of adherents in re cent years is based on the notion that certain foods — notably starches and proteins—are incom patible and should not be con sumed at the same meal because they cannot be digested at the same time. It is interesting to note that this fad has been con demned by the medical profession and that a physician of the high est standing has proved clinically that starches and proteins do not interfere with one another in the stomach. 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