The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1932, Page 10

| SUNSET PASS by a/u,q'/za/ business and SYNOPSIS — Thiry Preston’s home I fear makes Trueman Rock the more anxious to stay with her at Sunset Pass. There is something strange about the ranch. Thiry’s | sixteen years, I've| father, Gage Preston, may be a |] : of a wander’, ridin cattle rustler, and her brother, cowboy. I stuck Ash, is belleved to be a mur- |here on this range lon of al derer. But Rock intends to take |I don’t say I was bad, asn . I was alw for care of her. ; old girls. I had always been tomorrow.” over girls. Ran after he | anyon some—and, reck- “And never see queried, blnnkls you »:).\(\1 1 m\('dAm imagined I loved “Tt v be best,” she returned, | others, Sol Winter told me a lot and lool aw “But I of bad news about the girls—and say you'd never see me again.|about his son Nick. So I lost my Perhaps I—we might meet in|happy mood. I wanted to go out town. I'm going in over ‘he‘»md get drunk. Sol asked me to Fourth. Mrs. Dabb is to give me a keep store for him. And I sat there dance. I could see you there.” | sinkin’ into one of the old black At that Rock laughed rather | spells that had kept me from wildly. “At Amy Wund's house?|makin’ some one out of myself. Not much. . . " meL' soon I would go and get “Then at the dance. T be awful drunk. I had a hunc] h that at her house. I—I'll go with you—|it'd be a kind of a climax in my if you ask me.” |life. But I didn’t care. ... Then , Thiry Preston, “Don’t bribe me to run off from Sunset Pass,” he said, ponderingly. store. And I didn't want to go out “But thank you for sayin’ you'd go|and get drunk. Somethin’ hap- with me. T'd like to. But I'm not pened. I d know yet what it invited, and don't expect to be was. But it was wonderful. Sure “Il get you an invitation, Mr.| you remember how funny I was— Rock.” | don’t you” “Don't tempt me. I'd almost give “Oh, I though you funny then, my head to take you to a dance.[but now I see you weren't,” she I'd almost quit my job here and |said then come back to it again.” | “No, I'm sure not so funny now,” “But that would be a lie,” she he went on, with dark passion returned, severely. } “Somethin’ happened to me. It's “Well, I might lie, too. I don't been such a tearin’, ¢ in’ some- mean to you, but for you.” |thin’, that I don’t know myself. “Please, Mr. Roc away to- I'm findin’ out little by little. Seein’ morrow before more le comes,|you this second time helped Tl never be able hank you. a lot. Il make a clean ast of enough. It's the only chance you all—soon as I know. But now have to be my friend” |T know—if you don't your Ain my | * 'hack on me—TI'll never drink ag Or hunt for a fight! Or waste time and money.” “Mr—Rock!” she exclaimed ing, low-voiced and tremk “You're a queer, wonder he replied, puzzled and sad “I will come to town oftener—| then,” she almost whispered. “Yo'd meet me in town hope to deceive Ash?” queried ng Rock, bluntly. me?” “Yes. I—TI'll t she faltered. “No, I'm mot tellin’ you that”| “But he'd find it out. You can’t|he returned doggedly. “But I'm fool that hombre. Then he would sure afraid somethin's terrible have a real case against me. He'd wrong. .. It's this here wrong, hunt me down, force me to meet Miss Thiry—that is you make me, him.” by your coldness to me and your “Oh!” she cried, poignantly pleadin’ for that no-good brother e in to you and leave leave Sunset Pass, I'll go plumb to Sunset Pass, I'd never willingly see hell. I know that. It'd be too you again,” he went on, with more much.” bitterness. | “Coldness? . .I think I've been “Mr. Rock, that wouldn't be such lanything but cold,” she murmured, a—a loss to you as you imagine |sinking back on the bench now,” she answered. you've frozen me so I'm stiff. “I don’t know. All I know is th can't talk. But i#t'll be good for ¢'1 I hate to refuse you anything' me. I've been spoiled. I've grown Reckon I can't, if it's for your conceited. I need just this lesson sake. But if I do it, Il go plumb you're teachin’ me. But, Miss to hell” Thiry, please—please don't make She questioned him with mute me go away.” lips and beseeching glance. | “Could I make you do anything? “Listen. There’s two sides to How sillyl—But if you're manly this deal, and here’s mine,” he enough to save me misery, you'll began, leaning close so that he go.” could see her better in the pale| “That's hittin’ hard,” he returned, shadow. T was born in Illinois. My | shrinking. Then he jerked up his mother and father are lvin'. drooping head. “Suppose I get it They're quite old now. I was home into my mind that by stayin’ I can five years ago. Well, I went to save you more miser school till we moved out West. “Mr. Rock!” she cried, shocked Then I went to ridin’. My father His sudden query had been a UMBER JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS at BAILEY’S F rye-Bruhn Companv PACKERS—FRESH MEATS, FISH AND POULTRY Frye's Delicious Hams and Bacon Three Deliveries Daily Phone 38 S —— FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. ourteen—six- | 9 I come t Pick- | TION a good nce. But to thrust the Cass Seward—was from him I didn't| he ejaculated 0 1 left | 1 Miss | Wagontongue that's thi I stayed away s Then I'm you | had to come back. I g re the n the day I met you. Found out Sew n prove it,” she said, bend- | was gone.Found out a lot of other things. I wanted to know about walked in that| “Are you telling me you—you love | e AR P A e Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted of murder in the “trunk slayings” which filled courthouse corridors with firmly set lips and challenging random shot, but it struck home.[,driving them on the necessarily Rock’s heart leaped. He had to|shorter hauls.” stifle a wild impulse. Pive Nitions: Gotites | “Quien sabe?" I might,” he re-| Five South American republics— turned, almost coldy. “Give me |Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile a day to think over whether I'll| and Peru—participated in the con- go or stay. Reckon so far the|ference which Kemmerer and Lamb fight's one-sided and in your favor. | attended in Lima. cal matters. I'll meet you tomorrow night| “The conference,” said Professor ——gip— and tell you.” | Kemmerer, “affirmed the partici- NO NEED TO RE BALD “Tomorrow night.—Here at this|pants’ belief in the gold standard, Nu-Life Method combats all scalp hour?” she returned, rising from |in spite of its well-known defects, disorders leading to ‘baldness and f the seat. |as the only stable standard of Dpositively grows hair. No charge for “Yes. Good night, Miss Preston.” | value. complete scalp examination and J ¥ u “I'm very, very sorry— You. “peru and Ecuador are squarely consultation. Nu-Life Method, 89 : .Good night.” on the gold standard—the other Front Street, Room 101 g Rock gave her one long look as |she stood now in the moonlight. oS~ He made his bed on the porch, so that he could lie there and watch wn Tomorrow the moon, and think over this mad- | dening siuation. At last he admitted that he| loved Thiry Preston. Time was nothing. He had always known her, }‘md though the hours were but few |since their actual meeting, he was incomprehen- | fullness. | hmzm r | now measuring their sible length and | Not one second did he | | hesit about sacr himself for her happiness. He could glory | in that and still keep from going |to hell, as he had childishly threat- ened. ‘ If he could best serve Thiry Pres- {ton by passing out of her life as |quickly as he had come into it he would do so. But he had a strange | persistent recurrence of a doubt. |He recalled her words, her looks, her actions, and relentlessly an- alyzed them. 1 Before the moon tipped the pines |above the rim of the Pass Rock had solved at least the second of | his three problems. Thiry Preston was honestly afraid her brother Ash would kill him or that he would kill Ash. 8o she wanted to send Rock away. But only so far was she wholly ihonest She feared Rock would discover something wrong there at Sunset Pass. Is Preston crooked? Rock plans his campaign, tomorrow. { SOUTH AMERICA TRYING TOKILL OFF MACHINERY Technical Ayiser Declares Several Nations Go | Back to Old Ways NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Albert Kelsey, technical adviser to the Pan-American Union, has returned from South America with the observation that in some South American countries the govern- ments and business have decided that “since the machine civiliza- tion seems to be failing and causing a lot of unemployment, the thing to do is to kill off the machine.” Kelsey arrived on the Grace liner Santa Barbara in a group compos- | ed of Edwin W. Kemmerer, Prince- | ton professor, and Eric F Lamb, who were delegates at a recent banking conference in Lima, Peru,! and Capt. William S. Pye, a mem- | ber of a United States naval mis- sion in Peru. | Machine Ignored. ! “Bolivia,” Kelsey said, “has passed | a law reducing by 40 per cent the! output of her silver and tin mines' and at the same time directing that owners employ a full quota of workmen on full time. The result| is that for economy's sake the| Chile has under consideration a| more drastic law along the same line. This law would do away '"'hl motor trucks—the idea being that “Juneaw’s Own Store” ase in Phoenix, Ariz., faced throngs shown on her way to the courtroom with Jail Matron Davis at her left. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllIIlI|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIII —Associated Press Photo. eyes. 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