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SUNSET PASS I by Zane Grey | SYNOPSIS: Dangers ahead thrcaten Trueman Rock. Amy Dabb ic jealous of his love for Thiry Preston; Thiry father, Gage, is mixed up in some mys- terious busincss, possibly cattle rustling, and her brother Ash is a cattle rustler and an enemy of Rock. Rock is trying to Thiry from disgrace. Chapter 31 house smoked. T listened. So! Mr. H - used your name first this great cowboy Rock’ he said. ‘But if he stays on ridin’ for Pres- ton, Tl not share the opinion you men have for him.’” “Amy, that isn’t a compliment eston,” said Rock, pondering It certainly isn't. And you’ll lose your reputation. man, th about th “Amy. than gossip,’ “True, will you leave Preston?” “No. I ck Amy. If there’: anythin' in these hints I reckon ti Prestons need me all the more.” “I al n't. know Q True- st ays loved you for that very trait,’ ‘she said, with passion. “Bul 1 wish here you didn it ©Oh, Trueman, I tell I dread this job of yi tiful Sunset S lo strange Thiry Pres She'll fall in love with you. How could she help it? And you'll be dragged in with them. You'll have to kil this Ash Preston. Oh, he's a snake! He you That wild, beau- insulted me, vilely, right on the strest. There’s not room enough on this range for you and him. You'll fight, T feel it Trueman woman knows. to ge A Oh, it took years over your killing hush me, T will poor cowboy, y drink and jealousy! How he hounded you—and finally shot you—-so you had to kill him to save your own life Trueman, I don’t want you to kill another man!” “Do you think I'm a bloodthirsty for me dev! burst out Rock, yet sorry for her. “T'don’t want to kill another man. T won't if I can help it." She wiped her eyes. “Forgive she said, more composed. “Let " She did not r several blocks » you better than I sald not quite is, T never liked you,” she quick to respond. “But ot fight again. Still, making d to be such fun. ... True- man, what will you wear at my masquerade?” “Liook here, little lady, that's not fair. 1 won't tell you.” “You must. I'll want to know you 50 in case I need you...You may have to throw Clink Peebles out.” “So the honor of protectin’ you falls to me,” laughed Rock. “Amy, I've bought a dandy broadeloth fuit, black. Tl come as a’ gambler.” “You'll look grand” Then she extended her hand. “Cood night, Trueman.” “Good. night.” Next morning, about 2leven o'clock, Rock strolled out of the ‘hotel on his way to see John Dabb. Rock asked to see John Dabb, and was shown into that individ- ual's private office. He walked into a richly furnished room, where two men sat smoking. One was John Dabb, mot @ great deal changed from the Westerner Roc! had once warked for. ‘ “Howdy, Mr. Dabb!” sald Rock, easily. “Reckon you know me.” “Trueman Rock,” exclaimed Dabb in great surprise do. Amy told me you were here.” Embarrassment succeeded his' astonishment, which was perhaps what caused him to extend his hand. “Hesbitt, this is True Rock, one of the real riders we used to have,” went on Dabb, recovering to intro- duce his comrade, who had also arisen. “Rock, shake hands with Hesbitt, one of our new ranchers.” Hesbitt bowed stiffly and spoke, without offering his hand. Rock lcoked squarely at him. “Glad to meet you, Mr. Hesbitt.” His keen factulties on edge now, gauged his man, unfavorably. “Well, Rock, to what am I in- it means | debted for this call?” with curious coldness. “Remains to be seen whether you'll be indebted to me or not.” Dabb was plainly puzzled. “Well, did you call to ask that?” “No, my business is a little more intimate. “Indeed? queried Dabb, me hem—er, 1 Dabb, stiffening. s you want it re- turned Rock, and then he took a ep nearer to Dabb’s com- Mr. Hesbitt, I heard this t your foreman, Peeples| was in town, wantin' to see me.” “Yes, he got in early, and I be- lieve he does want to look you up,” | said Hesbitt, his deepset eyes in-| tent and unsatisfied upon Rock. | “Reckon he can't be particular | it's I hope eager,” drawled Rock. “Ah, 1 see...1 dare say he's very busy buyin' supplies,” replied | Hesbitt, nervously. “May I inquire —er—what you want of my fore- man? “Nothin’ so important—that is, |to me,” said Rock, with emphasis {on the pronoun. “I just wanted to give Peeples opportun: to meet {me. And to tell him somethin’” “What?"” asked Hesbitt “Reckon I'd sure ltke you to know | as well. T just want to give you a hunch. Not till two days ago did 1 ever hear of the Half Moon brand, | to And not til yeste: y did I learn | outfit run it fostly Ro s cold biting | sr-:ch impresse Hesbi but | to the acceptance of 'its d up his hat from r cowboy's talk he sald, curtly. true, leave you to renew old ac- Good da jou're 1 to this range, rejoined Dabb, a little caustic. “I've told you before. And | your Wyoming cowb foreman | needs to be told trouble. This is not I'm bound to tell u that F talk is not queer. I'l gamble i frue. I never knew him td lie. And no old rider or cattleman this range wou say « it, even he | thought it.” | hell get into | Wyoming. on if E itt bowed and went out ring ‘the door. Dabb bit vici | at * his ' cigar. ‘Some of these new cowmen make me sick Rock, help yourself to a smoke and sit down.” AN OPERA HAT, ASHUR ! YO SHOULD 2. s =N NEVER WEAR SEZ UQ L itan it e e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 23 POLLY AND BER PALS THAN ME AINTCHAT PEPPER. MARTIN SIGNING CONTRACT YOUNVE'SEEN GUYS LOOK WORSE cattered in O A OPERA HAT, _ #-Sedson BABE HERMAN (R/GHT) NATIONAL BASEBALL “Dak > appreciate wha you said t n about me,” repl Rock, losi coolness. Fact is I'm too. T'd been told you had no use for me.” | that's not the point,’™ '7e- | Dabb, quickly. “When I knew you were honest, I was bound | to say ‘so. Your connection with | Preston h started TUmors. Whether er not I have any use for | you I'd sure need to see proof of | your dishones " “That's straight talk. 1 like )t\ {and thank you. It makes what I wanted to say easier. | “Ah, T'd forgot. You had some | intimate business. Make it | short, Rock.” “Look me straight in the ey Rock said. “Man to man, wabb. Ir | you have cards on me lay them down. I'm comin’ an honest. ... And a lot might depend on you | doin’ the same.” “What're you driving at?” “Dabb, I'm askin' very little, at ileast for two Westerners like us. Now I'm askin’ only a show-down. T want to know where I stand with you. I want you to believe in my sincerity.” “All right, Rock, I'll meet you,” replied Dabb, flushing darkly, evi-| \dently stirred. “Straight out then. (T've sort of held against you—that old affair of your's and Amy’s.” “Good!” exclaimed Rock,“That s |what T wanted you to admit, Dabb, |it never amounted to shucks. You know what gossip is in this town.” “You bet T know,” said Dabb, grimly. “But even allowing for {that- |- “Listen,” interrupted Rock, lean- ling over to Dabb. “The old wo- men here gave Amy the worst of that affair. She was pretty and vain--and had a way with the boys. But she was good, and if they ever said -otherwise they lied. 1 .was in love with Amy, perhaps a ‘ittle more 5o than I was with two other girls. Amy knew this. I'm. sure she was fond of me. but there were other boys. What I-want to make clear to you, Dabb,’is that Amy w.s never serious about me. I tjmean never in love as it was in hen¥o e |got down on the dotted line. PAUL WANER. and MAX CAREY at MIAMI BEACH B Here’s a picture that carries good news for everybody—a guy signing a salary agreement W a raise attached to it. “Pepper” Martin, world's series hero, recently was of- fered a contract that called for a substantial increase over the $4,500 he received last season. ‘“Pepper” The exact figures were not divulged. Babe Herman, Brooklyn slugging rightfielder, a short time ago vis- ited the National Baseball School at Los Angeles to tell the boys what to do when the count is “three and two.” A gray-haired fellow accompanied the Babe. He was something of a hitter in his time—so the boys listened to him, |too. His name is Tris Speaker. late with lady fingers on the side?” Well, look who's speaking—Horace Ford, veteran shor cinnati Reds. Ford, who will be 85 in July, is preparing himself for the end of his baseball days by running a candy and soda shop during the winter at Winchester, Mass. “Get two” would ring truer from one of the best double play prtists in the majors. Max Carey, new manager, tem- porarily at least hooked a good one in his efforts to build up the Brook- iyn Dodgers. Carey loped Paul ‘Waner. slugging Pittsburgh out- fielder, at Miami Beach, Fla., where next summer. pennant. chase. And I'm satisfied that her husband! but this is blunt straight talk.” edly. “And to what - end, Straight talk has a straight conclusion. But that does not help Rock’s complications, tomor. row when Thiry comes to town. ——————————— earning low wages. - e — \)!Old papers for sqie at.The Empire. “What'll it be—a frosted choco- | stop of the Cin- | both are awaiting the start of | spring training. . Waner may make | Carey wish he had pulled the rope| tighter when their clubs tangle| Pat Malone, Chicago Cub hurler, | has been going in for outdoor life! this winter at Milan, Ohio, to geti in condition to show the club he's| turned over & new leaf. Malone,| {Peck's Bad Boy of baseball last, season, promises to be in the best| shape of his career for the 1932 ie never | has been yet. Even with you— Youll excuse me,| “It is, by God!” Dabb said, strain- avock?” ‘The “Cheap House Commission” i‘ln Buenos Aires, Argentina, will build 144 apartments for workers e HORACE FORD IN HIS CONFECTIONERY STORE | PAT WITH TRIS SPEAKE SCHOOL , LOS ANGELES |[# MAL! ESTEBETH LEAVES AUK BAY FOR SITKA Having been compelled by adyerse winds to sek shelter for two nights and a day in Auk Bay, the motor- ship Estebeth, Capt. Edward Bach and Purser Robert Coughlin, Jeft jthere this morning to resume her yage to Sitka and way ports. The i ssel departed from Juneau Satur- day evening’ on Her regular She was unable to round P 'treat at the northerly end |miralty Island. 50 turned hack and | put into Auk Bay. Last night members of the crow came ashore and visited at the (home of Willlam Geddes and list- ened to the radio for a time. ! The motorship lifted anchor iabout 7 o'clock this morning “to | start again on her run to Sitka. |NORTHLAND TO BRING { Five days’ letter mail and news- from Seattle and way be received in Juneau aboard the motorship which departed from Scund metropolis last will 1t as she left Seattle Alaska two days be- mail boat, she was ial contract for trans- on of this one, accumnlation. r and paper mail. vanced her 'biweekly sail- 1 8 spl ing, which was scheduled for yes- terday to last Saturday because yester was Washington’s Birth- versa a holiday. She will not take any mail from here on her return voyage south. “Aggies” for Young America | | | | | | | wondered where all the “aggies” on bushes, as the above ‘photo Angeles, said to be the only agat at work on the supply for next S in four-ton blocks that will blocks are cut into %-inch slabs turns out 200 marbles at a time. ing machine ang inte ¥ | and the hands of Young America, come from. ell, they don’t grow ill testify. R. W. Walker, of Los marble cutter in America, is shown . The onyx is mined in Mexico about 11,000 ‘“‘aggies.” Th& through a rotary grinder After that they go through a polish- u imorning by the snow 5 DAYS’ MAIL HERE‘ thland does not usually | HOW ABOUTHT, UNIK? YOU HAS, AINTCHA? DOUGLAS NEWS MRS. LOGAN AND BABY HOME | Mrs, Grant Logan and her n- days’-old infant daughter return- jed home Saturday from St. Ann's hospital. Bath the mother and ba are feeling fine, | Fon A VT OPENING ROADS With traffic entirely blocked thi: fter a two 11 vehicles were the Federal prisoners start- early this m id‘” storm, while |laid up, | “The Seas Beneath,’ 'with George O'Brien and Marion Lessing, comes {to ‘the Douglas Coliseum for to- {night and Wednesday. With many of its important scenes taken be- low the level of the seas as well as above, the story is a vivid romance ! of submarine warfare. RS R MRS. HOOKER IS AT HOME . Katherine Hooker, Ann’s hospital sev days receiving treatment for a fractured wrist, left e institution today for her home. Mrs. Hooker suffer her injury in a fall on a slipper: d | OAKLAND, Cal, is now He did ot disclose it was the. best ves- IS AFTER BEAR PARK distoric Old Cutter Wanted for Scientific Service Feb which for am service Byrd. ager under has Carr to acquire ti to say pu: d h wante would be I'M JESS TRYINE T THINK / om Admiral Byrd saying | Park with 23.—The | mittee, 40 years & TAKE ing, medicine and s into the Arctic and um here, may go into Admiral St .- received A R VICTOR he Bear. | for medical treatment. P T S S d. { giad to| PROPOSED ‘WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 23.— A bill to link the Glacier National the Waterton Park, | Canada, as an International Peace Park, has been: reported favorably by the House Public Lands Com- SUITE AT ZYNDA Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Meherin have taken a suite at the Zynda JOHNSON IS ILL Victor Johnson 1s a patient in the reasons|St. Ann's Hospital, having entered a { «LIwelve hundred sport stadia arve give Byrd the Bear if it could be (to be erected in France as part of ged. The Bear was given to|a national development project for i by an act of Congress. | the relief of unemployment. s | s INDIAN OF SKAGWAY Jame: old, died late yesterday a! the Government Hospital in tl : e of intestinal trouble He TONIGHT and WEDNESDAY resident of Skagwa; and came GEORGE O’BRIEN here to enter the hospital February A 'm & 14. His relatives 1 y and pending adv rangements for the funeral are held DIES IN TH s from in abeyance. ‘The remains re at the W. Carter Mortuary. The First American Merchants s Nacock, an Indian, 65 years {8 g iS CITY t tnem ar- | “THE SEAS BENEATH” Charles : Comedy Acts News { ] DEPENDED ,0N MOUTH TO MOUTH ADVERTISING HEY had no better means of advertising. When they told visitors to. our shores about its wonders it took three months to carry the news home, and by that time it was no longer news, for something newly exciting happened then as now. Today the merchants of America can tell their news through the columns of newspapers and it is no sooner out of their mouths than it is off the press. You, Mr. Merchant, can use the columns of The Daily Alaska Empire as your mouthpiece, and your mes- sage will reach the right peo- ple in record’ quick time. The Daily Alaska Empire e | DOUGLAS | COLISEUM