Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1917, Page 7

MEART Ae ~~ APS APA SUNSET (SY REX BEACH Author of * The Spoilers,” “The Iron Ti rail,” “The Silver Horde,” Etc. Came alt by Mary © Boushory once for a CHAPTER I. cowboy. Well back from } the fire he had arranged a seat for her The Water-Hole. using a saddle blanket for a cover. A fitful breeze played among the) ‘@S: #¥d upon this she lowered herself mesquite bushes. The naked earth, SUHly it “I suppose you wonder how I— hap. pen to be here,” “Now miss, ed between the clumps was baked plaster hard. as half-way down the remained untempered, antalizing shade of the spurse mesquite was more of a trial than a coinfort to the lone woman who, refus- she said. talk ‘til you're rested, This coffee is strong enough t walk on its hands, and I reckon about two cups of it ‘H rastle you into shape. As she sed the tin mug to her lips don't glare Ing its deceitful invitation, plodded < WEyEO a hand and smiled. “Drink | steadily over the waste. Stop, indeed, | D&@rty! He set a plate of bread and she dared not. In spite of her fatigue, D#¢en in her lap, then opened a glass | jar of jam. regardless of the torture from feet und ms The woman ate and drank slowly. limbs unused to walking, she musi,| i as she constantly assured herself, keep She was too tired to be hungry, and é going until strength failed. Somewhere, Me#BWhile the young man squatted to the northward, perhaps a mtle, per- “POM his hee und watched her} haps a league distant, lay the water-| ‘Tough the smoke from a husk ciga-| bole. rette. Desert travel was nothing new to Have Ake! had your supper?” she finally inquired. ber; thirst and fatigue were old ac. “ayy 9 ’ | = Who, me? Oh, I'l) eat with the quaintanc She reudjusted the strap $s 4 help.” He smiled, and when his flush- of the empty water bug over her shoul- 2 s ing teeth showed white against his | der and the loose cartridge belt at her! leathery t tl decided hip, then set her dusty feet down the aes ete ee m1 % Sante ae ae slope. The sun had grown red and | © ae rene 2 Ai ne le ges Ar eae huge when at last in the hard-baked is ae AOE Old | legs of a horseman—this latter feature accentuated by his high-heeled boots | and by the short canvas cowboy coat | that reached only to his cartridge belt. | His features she could not well make | out, for the fire was litle more than | a bed of coals, and he fed it, Indian- | like, with a twig or two at a time. “I beg your pardon. I'm selfish.” | She extended her cup und plate as an invitation for him to share their con- tents. leuse eat with me.” But he refused. “I ain't hungry,” be affirmed. “Honest!” Accustomed as she was to the dif- | fidence of ranch hands, she refrained | trom urging him, and proceeded with ; berning. her repast. When she had finished she It was a tiny fire, overhung with a | lay pack and watched shimjasibejate blackened pot; the odor of greasewood | TUsREg exes fell crossing the Arroyo and mesquite smoke was sharp. A Grande,” she annonneed! abruptly. “He | aay rae pasty one face atthe | broke a leg, and I had to shoot him.” comer; he was a8 aiaie as any wild | eis here any i watersD tie) Grandes thing. J = | asked the man. { But the woman staggered di-| 4 . ‘No. They told me there was plenty. | is rectly toward the pond, seeing nothing | 7 new of this charce, so I made for | after the first glance except the water. | it” | She would have flung herself full | “Who told you there was water La | length upon the edge, but the MAD | the arroyo?” stepped forward und stayed her, then | “Those Mexicans at the little goat- placed a tin cup in her hand. She ranch.” mombled something In answer to his! “sion, So you walked in from Ar greeting and the hoarse, ravenlike royouGrandem lt‘sia good ten enilea'| \ cro@k in her voice startled he then struightaway. and I reckon you came | she drank, with trembling eagerness, crooked. Eb?’ drenching the front of her dress, The “Yes. a Anilitiwiakvexsihotaliwar Met! wae warm, but it was clean and | 1 over here but once, and—the country | pe re : é looks different when you're afoot.” the ad eet ake soe ieee “It certainly does,” the man nodded, | wonitisita (ont RE Gb Then he continued, musingly: “No wa- | | ter there, eh? I figured there might } -) She knelt and wee her face and neck.| he 9 little." The fact appeared to Fel the stranger's hands beneath her | please him, for he nodded again as ormaa, felt herself lifted to a more com: | he went on with his meal. “Not much fortable position. Without asking per) pain down here, I reckon.” | mission, the stranger unlaced first one, | “Very little. Where ure you from?” | then the other of her dusty boots «je? Hebbronville. My- name ts seeming not to notice her weak ut- Law.” tempt at resistance. Once he hud AG Evidently, thought the woman, this i Placed her bare feet in the water, she Nac en e f fellow belonged to the East outfit, or ee Her ntment in the.{ntense some of the other big cattle ranches | e ° in the Hebbronville district. Probably The man left her seated in a col- 1 a he wis # range boss or a foreman. | 5 e: semiconscious state, and went After a time she said, “I suppose the back to his fire. It was dark when for jearest rauch Is that Ball place?” the first time she turned her head to “Yes.” ward the camp fire and stured curious os earth she discovered fresh hoofprints. She followed them gladly, encour- aged when they were joined by others. A low bluff rose on her left, and along its crest scattered Spanish daggers were raggedly silhouetted ngainst the sky. She tried to run, but | her legs were heavy; she stumbled xu res deal, and her breuth wade Biramge, distressing sounds as it issued « from her open lips. Rounding the steep shoulder ef the ridge, she has- tended down a declivity into # knot of serub oaks and ebony trees, then halt- | ed, staring ahead of her. Nestling in ® shallow, filnty bowl was a pool of water, und on its brink a little fre was aid “It “Y'd Mike to borrow your horse.” Mr. Law stured into his plate. “Well, miss, I'm afraid—” She added, hastily, “I'll send you a fresh one by Balli’s boy in the morn- ing.” Law shook his head. “I can't loan you my horse, miss. I got to meet a/| man here.” | “When will he come?” “He'd ought to be here at early dark tomoyrow evening.” Heedless of her dismay, he continued, “Yes'm, about sundown.” “But—I can't stay here> I'll ride to Balli’s and have your horse back by/ afternoon.” | “My man might come earlier than I! expect,” Mr. Law persisted. “Really, I can’t see what difference | it would make. It wouldn't interfere with your appointment to let me—" ‘ Law smiled slow and, setting his | plate aside, selected a fresh cigurette then, as he reached for a coal, he ex- plained: | “T haven't got what you'd call ex-| netly an appointment. This feller I'm expectin’ is a Mexican, and day before | yesterday he killed a man over in Jim | Wells county. They got me by ‘phone at Hebbronville and told me he'd left. He's headin’ for the border, and he’s due here about sundown, now that Ar- royo Grande’s dry. I was aimin’ to let you ride his horse.” “Then—you're an officer?” “Yes'm. Ranger. So you see I can't help you to get home till my man comes. Do you live sround here?” The speaker looked up inquiringly, and after an Instant’s hesitation the wom- an said quietly: “Tr VALENTINE “How'd You Like Your Eggs—if We; Had Any?” ly at the figure there. The appetizing | odor of broiling bacon had drawn her, attention, and as if no move went un- noticed the man said, without lfting/ his eyes: “Supper will How'd you like any?” He spoke with an unmistakable Tex- 88 drawl; the be ready directty.| your eggs—if we bad | } , ful for the gl ‘she bad allowed him to lift her and ‘aot until nearly dawn that she dropped | | off into complete unconsciousness. She | | Ul the bird-carol changed to the alr of | JHE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNt. her face. % Sooooooooseos oot m that hid rode out us y to exumine a trac! of grazing | 1.” ly a minute before the ed; then be suid, in a tone, “I reckon Lus Palmas is raneh, qoa‘uim.” But we need more pasture." “T know your La Feria ranch, too. 1 as General ¢ ro when we had that ht nour there.” “You were a Maderist ° “Yes'in, Machine-gun mun. That's @ fine count over there Seems jike the Alni um mixed and put the Mexicans on rong oft the Rio Grande, m you huven't seen much of sine e the last revolution bri Nan &f + Music Mountain By FRANK H. SPEARMAN Author of “WHISPERING SMITH “No. We have tr » remain neu- DOP Deere tral. but Aruin st 1 (Copyright by Char'es Scribper ® SLs Austir s ene “ SYNOPSIS. sides have ed I a I ! : CHAPTER I—On Frontier day at Sleepy eid on ed his broad shoulders. Cat, Henry de Spain, gunman and train- well, the uti i wer} | Master 2 ine nd, is beaten at arget y Mor of Music h in Mexico i ' ‘ 1 bud) Mountain Iv Mm superintsr stment He 1 Gent, asks De Spain to take cha of the blanket, sought a f : Thief River stage line, but he refuses. whi to spread it Then CHAPTER 11—De Spain sees ¢ 4 = ing with Morgan, i late eri 1 Mrs. Austin to } t—her iscles | pointed ¢ n on the str by Gale had stiffenec co t and is moved t ge his mind and ac : mre'y | cept the 3 stage Stund—after whi fetched his sad- Ld : dle for a pillow 8 laiddtackio CHAPTER ae a | He made n pol ride to Ca sles for his meager hospitality, nor did Gale Morgan his guest expect any jassoon, gunmer : : apace ays Morgan clan " When he hud staked out his horse gharse of t ain re. Oratheenis eae 7 ses. De §; ts Nan fails to cor * night he re turned to tind the ©vercome her aversion to him. woman rolled snugly in her covering, 48 Ip w cocoon, The dying embers flick- ered into flame and lit her hair redly. | She had laid off her felt hat, and one | wosened braid lay over her hard pil-| low. Thinking her asleep, Law stood | motionless, making uc uttempt to hide his expression of wonderment until, unexpectedly, she spoke. “What will do with your Mexican comes?’ she suid. “Well, ma'am, I reckon I'll hide you | aut ip the brush tll I tame “Thank you. I'm used to the open.” He nodded as if he well knew that} she was; then, shaking out his slicker, turned aw: you me when him.” As he lay staring up through the thorny mesquite brunches that roofed him inadequately from the dew, he Inurveled wight A bright. steady- | burning star peeped through the leaves at him, und as he watched ft be remem- bered that this red-haired woman with | the still, white fuce was known far and wide through the lower valley as “The Lone Star.’ | fitted her; she was, if reports were | true, quite as mysterious, quite as cold | and fixed and unapproachable, as the utle implied. Knowledge of her iden- (ity had come us a shock, for Law knew something of her history, and to | find her suing for his protection was quite thrilling. ‘Tales of her pale beauty were common and not tame, but she was all and more than she had been described. | She hed not been too proud and cold to let him help her, In her fatigue Well, he mused, the name | ‘o make her more comfortable. Hot against his palms—palms unaccus- somed to the touch of a woman's flesh —he felt the contact of her naked feet, as at the moment when he had placed them in the cooling water. Her feeble resistance had only called attention to her sex—to the slim whiteness of her ankles beneath ber short riding skirt. Following his first amazement at be holding her had come a fantastic ex- planation of her presence—for a mo- ment or two it had seemed as if the | drive her out to | fighting, does not tell, but finds out from fates had taken heed of his yearnings and bad sent her to him out of the | Jusk—wild fancies, like these, bother | men who are much alone. CHAPTER Il. The Ambush. Alaire Austin, like most normal women, had a surprising amount of endurance, both nervous and nruscu- tur, but, having drawn heavily against her reserve force, she paid the penalty. During the early hours of the night she slept hardly ut all; as soon us her bodily discuinfort began to decrease her mind became unruly, and it was wus awskened by a sunbeam which | pierced her leufy shelter. It was still early; the sun had just cleared the valley's rim and the ground j was damp with dew. Somewhere near by an unfamillar bird was sweetly trilling. Alaire listened dreamily un- a familiar cowboy song, then she sat up, queerly startled. David Law was watering his horse, grooming the animal meanwhile with | a burlap cloth. It was a beautiful | blood-bay mare, and as the woman looked it lifted its head, then with | wet, treinbling muzzle caressed its owner’s cheek. Undoubtedly this at- tention wus meant for a kiss, und was as daintily conferred as any woman's favor. It brought a reward in a lump od mornir said Mrs. Law lifted his hat in a graceful sa- ute as he approuched around the edge ? the pool, his spurs Jingling musicul- ly. The mare followed. “You have a fine horse there. “Yes'm. Her and ime get along all right. I hope we didn’t wake you, ma'am.” “No. I was too tired to sleep well.” “Of course. I heard you stirring about during the night.” Law paused, and the mare, with sharp exrs cocked forward, looked over his shoulder :n- quisitively. “Tell the lady good morn- ing, Bessie Belle.” he directed. The animal flung its head high, then stepped forward and, stretching its neck, sniffed doubtfully at the visitor. “What a graceful bow!” Mrs. Aus- tin laughed. “You taught her that, 1 presume.” » riage of De Spain and % CHAPTER the stage driv Iv Pp, the str pain, Lefev c and De Spain brings ou | CHAPTER V—He meets Nan, who de- | lays him until nearly overtaken by the Morgans, but lands his captive in jail CHAPTER VI-—Sarsoon breaks jail. De | | Bpain beards the Morgans tn a saloon | and is shot at through the window. He} meets Nan again. i CHAPTER VII—He prevents her going | into a gambling hall to find her Uncle Duke and inside faces Sandusky and Lo- who prudently decline to fight at ite ‘me. | CHAPTER VIII—De Spain, make peace with Nan, arrangen a little plan with McAlpin, the barn man, to} rgan's Kap, and whilej waiting for her goes down to the inn to set a cup of coffee. | CHAPTER IX—In the deserted barroom he is trapped. He kills Sandusky and Logan, wounds Gale and Sassuon and es- capes, badly wounded. CHAPTER X—Bewildered and weak, he | wanders into Morga gap and is dis- covered on Music mountain by Nan CHAPTER XI—Nan, to prevent further onxtous to cAlpin that De Spain had really been trapped and Nad left his cartridge belt | behind when he went into the fight at the inn. | CHAPTER XII—While De Spata ta un- | able to travel Nan bringe food to him. | He tells her that he becaine a gunman to} | find and dea! with his father’s unknown | muréi gives Nan bie last cart- ridge CHAPTER XIII—Gale almost stumbk over De Spain's hiding pla Nan dra him away and to stop Gale's rough woo- ing De Spain bluffs him out with an empty erer. He | gun. Nao plans De Spain's escape. CHAPTER XIV-—De Spain crawls out of the gap over the face of El Capitan at night, hie cartridge belt, which she had sneaked m M pin, and De Bpain rides into jabasas. CHAPTER XV—De in hires old Bull ¢ and ing m Valuable ald. After two tly visits to the gap, De Spatn gets a word with Nan. She tells him to forget) her and he asks her to shoot him. CHAPTER XVI—Nap attends her Unole! they asked him for his deciston, he} Duke in the hospital at Sleepy Cat. and De Spain wgvs and wins her love. CHAPTER XVII—Lefever manifests an interest in De Spain's cartridge belt, and expresses surprise at his unreadiness to fet Sassoon. Sassoon almost discovers e lovers at their trysting place. CHAPTER XVIII—In Morgan's gap Gale tells Duke of Nan’s meetings with De Duke warns Nan that he will i De Spain if she tries to marry him. ‘an meets him with a horse and) better blood and redder than the doc- 7 r Sun! Wherever you happen to find sech he will tell you of the days when intendent de Spain of the West ern division wore a gun in the moun- tains and used it, when necessary, on his wife's relations, Whether it was this stern sense of! discipli or not that endeared him to} the men, these old-timers are, to aj} man, very loyal to the young couple who united in their murringe the two} hostile mountain elements One in | especial, a white-haired old man, de | scribed by the fanciful as a retired} outlaw, living yet on Nan’s ranch in the gap, always spends his thme in! town at the De Spain home, where} he takes great Interest In an active) little boy, Morgan de Spain, who} waits for his Uncle Duke's coming, and) digs into his pockets for rattles cap-| tured along the trail from recent huge} rattlesn When his uncle happens’ to kill a big one—one with twelye or | thirteen rings and a button—Morgan Ry | uses it to scare his yonnger sister, "|| Nan. And Duke, secretly rejoicing at } his bravado but scolding sharply, helps him adjust the old ammunition belt dragged from the attic, and énts fresh d that if his life were to be saved | S#8hes In tt to make it fit the ehildish x gloom fell on the community. | AS ‘tte ae u 1 § se pe ins oS eos a In a lifetime of years there can come ne . ae Taalate seb ads do. a. to the greater part of us but a few eireates periodically to burn the belt days, a few hours, sometimes no more 3 throw the old rifles ont of the than a single moment, to show of what | UP 2nd Wrow the ol - stuff we are really made. Such a crisis | V2USe. But een 8 dts uncle came that day to Nan. Already she and ner, bas aarrrke ears 7 Sari had been wheeled more than once into ae lente te is ae ARE after De Spuin's room, to sit where she | 53© ‘ . i‘ could help woo him back to life. ‘The | Mat keep the world young. chief surgeon, in the morning, told Qe END.) Nan of the decision. In he | i 3 ae bed she rose bolt upright. “No!” ane SOUTH OMAHA LE | declared solemnly. “You shan't tuke his arm off!” Fat Cattle in Active Demand, and Steady to 10c Higher; Hogs The surgeon met ber rebellion taect- Mostly 5c-10c Lower kes, Bed She Rose Bolt Upright. In Her Hospital fully. But he told Nau, at last, that | De Spuin must lose either his arm or his Hfe. “No,” she repeated without hesitation and without blanching, “you shan't take off his arm. He shan't Jose | his Ufe” The blood surged into ber cheeks: tors had been able to bring there—such | blood as De Spain alone could call into; Supplies of Sheep and Lambs Fairly them, Nan, with ber nurse’s help,| Ctberal for This Time of the Year— dressed, Joined De Spain, and tulked| Demand Not at All Urgent and long and earnestly. The doctors, too, Trend of Vatues Lower for Practi- laid the situation before him, Whe cally Everything in This Line. Union Stock Yards, South Omaha, tell, June 5, 1017.--Cuttle reeelpis were | Yery moderute for the opening of the | week, only about 5,000 head, and both peckers und slippers had good ordere nodded toward Nan. “She will you, gentlemen, what we'll do.” Aud Nun did tell them what the two who hid most aft stake in the decision CHAPTER XIX-—De Spain arranges a meeting with Duke and tries to make friends with him without success. CHAPTER XX—Gale persists wooing of Nan. CHAPTER XX1—De Spain enlists a spy. He hears that Nan fs kept in the house and that her uncle is trying to foree her to marry Gale. CHAPTER XXIJ—A mysterious message comes from Nan to take her away. CHAPTER XXIlI—De Spain, Lefever end Scott invade the Morgan stronghold. De Spain alone walks into Duke's house and, preventing a forced marriage, takes Nan away. CHAPTER XXIV—They escape over El Capitan. De Spain kills Sassoon. CHAPTER XXV—Lefever rides in and out of the gap. CHAPTER XXVI—Pardaloe, who hans been working for Duke, tells De Spain that Bassoon had said that Duke killed De Spain's father. Nan overhears the story. CHAPTER XXVII—Nan goes cor the straight story from Duke. pain sends spy Into the gap. “CHAPTER XXVIII—Nan and Duke get caught in a blizzard. De Spain trails and finds them. CHAPTER XXIX—De Spain from Duke that he not absolutely sure that he did not kill De Spain's father, but the evidence proves that Sassoon did the xilling. CHAPTER XXX-—In Save Nan and Duke with death and wins. in his back te De hears | the effort to; De Spain gambles | CHAPTER XXXI—Nan saves De Spain's | arm from amputation and at a friendly roundup of once hostile fighting men Duke | Morgan gives away the bride at the mar- ” Lying where he had placed her, snugly between the horses, Scott found Nan. | He spoke to her when she opened her staring eyes, picked her up in his arms, called to his companions for the covered wagon, and begun to restore her, without a moment of delay, to! life. He even promised if she would drink the hateful draft he put to her lips and let him cut away her shoes} and leggings and the big cout frozen! on her, that in less thun an hour she, should see Henry de Spain alive and well. | CHAPTER XXXI. At Sleepy Cat. ‘ Nothing in nature, not even the storm itself, is so cruel as the beauty! of the after calm. In thp radiance of} ede ARS | where the feasts had been prepared. | During the reception a modest man,; 2 Essentials “Be dragged from an obseure corner among! — There are five esse initiative. } the guests, was made to take his place | Ment In every Hues Viswon, bees next Lefever on the receiving Hine. It} Sound judgment, — confidence, | ae was Be TRIOS, would do. Any wan could have done, to fill The market ruled acthve with as much as that. But Nan did more. rices anywhere from steady on the She set herself out to suave the arm | general rup of beef to a dime higher and patient both, and, lest the doctors, On choice grades of all weights. should change their tactics and move, Strictly cholee heavy beeves Drought together on the urm surreptitiously, $1.80 and choice yearlings $22.50. Nap stayed night und day with De| Cows oud helfers w steady to Spain, until he was able to make such | Strong aud the feeder trade qnotably active use of vither arm as to convince ) Steady her that he und not the surgeons would | Quotations on entitles» Goad te soon need the most watching. j choice beeves, $12.50@ ; fillr te Afterward when Nan, in some doubt, | £000 beeves. $1175@I225; common asked the chaplain whether she was | t7 fair beeves, F10.250 17-00, Lipid by murried or single, he obligingly offered | choice yeurlings, $11.86@ 12,80; fair to ratify and confirm the desert cere-| t good yearlings, $11.00@11, com- mony. 4 ie Jee banep to fair yeurtings, $10.00@ 10.75; This affair was the occasion for an! Kved to choice heifers, $10.25@ 11.26 extruordinary round-up at Sleepy Cut.) Kod to choice cows, $9. D@ 10.75 ; ‘Two long-hostile elements—the stage | fulr to good cows, $8.756010.00) can- WES; veal beef huths, 34,00 ors, F10.00@ 25@ and railroad men and the Calabasas: | hers and cutters, Morgan gap contingent of mountain} Cilves, S1O.00@ TLL; men, for once ut least, fraternized.| @ 1+ prime feeding st Warrants were pigeouholed, suspicion | 11.00; feeders, 3). do to choice suspended, sidearms neglected in their | 10.00; ir to good feeders, $8.00 scabbards, The fighting men. of Both! @9.25; goud to eholve kers, camps, in the presence of a ceremony | S9.50@10.00: fair to good stockers, that united De Spain and Nan Morgan, | $*.75@9.50; common to fair grades, $7.00@8.50: stock heifers, $&.25@1 cows, $7.00@ 10.00; sto@eculves, VP VA AK could not but feel s generous elation. Each purty considered that it was con-| St tributing to the festivity in the bride | $5. und groom and the very best each Hog Values Show Dectine. could boast, and no false note dis- A rit run of hogs showed turbed the harmony of the notable} Up for a Monday, about 7,000 hend day. and prices ranged from nearty steady Gale Morgan, having given up the | to 5@10¢ lower than Saturday. Barly | fight, hud left the country. Satterlee! t™ was active, bot the market | Morgun danced till all the platforms in| closed very werk with a few unsold, town gave way. John Lefever attend-| Tops brought $15.60 and the balk of ed the groom, and Duke Morgan stern-| the treding roti? $15.20@ 15.50, ly but without compunetion, gave the} er about 1 lower than a weelk bride. Frou Medicine Bend, Farrell) age. Kennedy brought notable company Very Uncven Market in Sheep. of De Spain's earl *s for the Receipts of sheen ond lninbs were ‘event. It included Whispering Smith.) tround.5.500 head ond considering the whose visit to Sleepy Cat on this oe-, fret thor tl had v wet fleeces casion was the first in years; George! they sold at very close to steady te- McCloud, who had come all the way! ures. Demand vy not very urgent, from Omaha to Join his early comrades | however, and the trend of values in arms; Wickwire, who had lost noae wer for nearly everything In this of his tnelturn bluntness—and so many | line. i train dispatchers that the service on Quotations on “sheen and Ininhes the division was crippled for the entire | Urmbs. shorn, 14 5 @ 15.00 ; spring | luinbs, $16.00@18.00; spring Munty& day. A great company retuiners gathered together from over all the country, rode behind the gayly decorated bridal couch in procession} from the church to Jeffries’ house,; Shorn. 210.00@15.00;) lanhs, feeders, yerrlings, shorn, $12.00 ; well shorn, $11 50@12. 2% . shorn. $10.02 11.75; ewes, callsy $8.006210,00, of self-appointed | culls @1: ew WI@IATE : loc most un.) couragenAmi. e ON Me hal %b Scott, and he . - = — oll on AL ce 'e- val be See 7