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Anne told the story of the dam dynamiting which didn’t come off. Rumors of it had reached town, but this was the first authentic account. It was the sort of joke the cow country relished— the defeat by shrewd mother wit and audacity of a grasping man who had overreached himself. The tale went all over town, and spread to the most lonesome ranch in the district. Jim Silcott had scored heavily, but the general opinion was that he would have to pay for his victory with his life. It might not be immediately. In spite of his intolerant arrogance, Russell Mosely could be patient. Anne ran a squib in the Sentinel. It read: Three Hat T riders have in- vented & new way to hunt deer. ‘They took a load of dynamite with them into the hills to frighten the game down into the lower country. Unfortunately they met two ranchman who persuaded them 4o use the powder as fireworks for a pre- 1mature Fourth of July. We hear :the Hat T men will do their hunting in the good old way in future. That was all, but most of the readers of the Sentinel chuckled over it. One of them who did not was Russell Mosely. He knew Anne Eliot was rejoicing at his discomfi- ture, as were a good many others. A pent-up fury boiled in him. To feel that he had lost prestige was galling. Abonut popularity he cared little, but he had to bolster the legend of his invincibility. He had to let men know that those who dared fight him went down to disaster. Mosely Wants Anne. Particularly he wanted to impress Anne. In spite of his flinty hard. ness, she had built a fire within him. He wanted her gallant loveliness for his own. There were a lot of fool ideas in her pretty head, but he would sweep aside all that rub- i§ bish after he had won her. ] of the hot desire burning in him ‘I'was” the assurance that her fine poised . beauty would be a great asset {0 him. She had the social | graces he lacked. Her charm and spirited vitality would make her immensely popular in Santa Fe, | Denver, and even in Washington, which would react very favorably on his success. To lose ground with her now was annoying. He would make it up with her later of course, since she was no fool and must know where her bread was buttered. But even so it ir- ritated him. He was brooding over his setback when Jud Prentiss came in with news, “That fool waman—the one that Tuns the Sentinel—it' seems she’s married to Jess Lamprey.” Mosely stopped jabbing the point f | of his pocketknife into a piece of blotting paper and looked up. “Who told you that lie?” he de- manded. Jud Scowled at him. He did not like the manners of his boss any {;‘I_Dfe than the Hat T hands liked is “All right,” he growled. “If it’s a lie, I'll drop the subject.” “Of course it’s a He. She would not marry that weak fool. I said who told you?” Jud Glad Over Effect. “Rusty.. He just got in with sup- plies from Blanco. The whole town is talking about it. She. told the boarders at Ma Russell’s. But, like you say, she was probably lying.” Jud gloated over his employer. In the back of his mind was a sus- picion that Mosely was interested in this young woman. Jud had seen her and was of opinion that she was not in a class with Betty Overstreet for looks. The foreman liked his girls big and boun and bl . But if the Hat T owner fancied this Eliot woman, Jud was glad to hand him a Jolt, “Send Rusty here,” Mosely or- | dered. “I want a report on his trip.” . Rusty confirmed the story of Anne’s marriage. He had heard it from several people, One of them was Kroelling, who boarded at Ma Russell’s. The gambler had got it first-hand from the girl herself in a public announcement at dinner, “When did they get married?” Mosely asked, still incredulous. “Some lunkheads must have been running & sandy on you, Rusty. How could Jess have met her, ex- cept for a few minutes. He's been out on his ranch ever since she came to town.” “The story is they were married back in Ohio before Jess came out here.” Rusty added details. “They have done separated. Seems Jess deserted her after he got here. There was & girl in & dance hall e fell for. Anyway, this editor woman says she’s through with Jess for good and all.” “If any woman hasn’t got any better sense than to marry Jess Lam- prey she deserves what she got,” Mosely said with finality. Mosely Revises Views. It was characteristic of Mosely that he adjusted his mind cynically to the changed situation, As a matrimonial prospect Anne'’s value, assuming that she divorced Lamp- rey, had declined very greatly and he had no intention of saddling himself with a lability.. But his mind still concerned itself with her. She was no longer a girl who could pick and choose;y o of her charm and beauty, & woman who had made & foolish mistake that cheapened the price s man ust {for her. mxol(’:lvtn would be s good. ides P A THE EVENING Probably Was humilated and ashamed. In that frame of mind she would be more accessible., The demands of the ranch held him at home for two or three days, but as soon as he could he drove to town. When he dropped into the office of the Sentinel, Jim Silcott came forward to meet him. Mosely flushed angrily. The sight of this man's mocking smile, so cool and undaunted, filled him with rage. “Anything I can do for you, Mr. | is. Mosely?” Jim asked with affable politeness. “Not now or ever,” the Hat T man returned, his bearing stiff, his voice curt. “I came to see Mrs. Lamprey.” Ellcott strolled toward the back of the room. “Mr. Mosely to see you, Miss Eliot,” he called, “Why do you keep that man hang- ing around?” Mosely asked bluntly when Anne came in. I teld you it would do you no good to be friendly with him.” The rather thin smile that had been on her face faded. “Are you still arranging my life for me, Mr, Mosely?” she asked. Retort Angers Anmne. “From what I hear you have needed some one to arrange it for quite some time,” he retorted brutally. A pulse of anger beat in her throat. “If you have any business with me perhaps you had better get through with it, since you are leaving so soon,” she sald with deceptive quietness. He know he had gone too far. The sight of Slicott had started him off wrong, and it had annoyed him that her step was still elastic and her pride still untamed. The deserted wife of Jesse Lamprey ought to be humble with him and eager to propitiate. “Sorry,” he told her gruffly. “You get my back up. Ever since you came here you have been doing the wrong thing.” I never saw a more contrary woman. This man Sil- cott, for instance—" “Do we have to go into that again?” Anne cut in sharply. . do you have to be so ob- stinate? Why must you pick on my enemies for your friends?” he de- e Haanty, tmpired e s r uty, pered s fine sword blade, both inflamed and irritated him. It was independent and aloof. She was her own woman, impervious to his power and force and impassioned intent. Soft out- side she was like steel within. “It seem impossible for .you to understand that I am the mistress of my own life,” she sald. “I go my own way. I make my own friends. When I am unwise, sometimes I suffer for it. That is the way life Choice Not Base On Need. “Why can’t I be one of your friends? This Lamprey business won’t do you any good. I'm the most powerful man in this district, and you need me.” “I don’t choose my friends because I need them,” she replied. “You and I go different ways, Mr. Mosely. ‘We don't think alike about anything in the world. How can we be friends when we haven't any common in- terests?” Her point of view baffled him. The only common interest he knew between men and women was the anclent one which had existed since the beginning of the world. To s woman’s opinions, to her intellect, he gave no weight, Her business in life was to keep the home fires burning if she were a wife; if not, by all the wiles of sex at her com- mand to trap & man into marriage as soon as she could. He detested a strong-mpinded woman. But it was impossible to escape the deli- cate penetrating fragrance of this girl’s personality by classifying her as undesirable. Suffragettes and their like did not have voice like-a silver bell with a low haunting timbre. They did not have dark silken lashes over blue eyes that re- minded him of wood pansies. Pesky Kennedy walked into the office. His face still marked with the scars left. by the beating Jud ‘Prentiss had given him, - - Mosely scowled at him, “Thought ¥ 4old you to leave this part of the country,” he snapped. The eyes of the crook-nesed man narrowed. “I aim to stay where I'm at,” he said. “If you have any objections, Mr. Mosely, cuj loose yore wolf.” “Not here,” Anne sald L “I'll have no trouble in this office,” Repeats Warning. The lean whipcord body of Sil- cott moved rapidly across the floor {rom the rear of the building. “I'm sure Mosely has no gbjections to Pesky,” he said “He probably knows you are working for me now and came to report.” : The muscular jaw oi the Hat T man hardened. “I can do Ey own talking,” he retorted, frosty eyes fixed on Sfloott. “I told him to keep traveling, and I still say that's good advice.” Pesky ignored what his former employer had said. He spoke sneeringly, at Mosely. “Sure, Red, I came to report. The dam was still there when I left. It's being watched. I havent seen any more miscreants with dynamite around since you and me kicked the last bunch back to the hole from which they crawled. “Please,” Anne pleaded. Silcott. backed up her request. “Remember that there is s lady present, Pesky,” he said. “No talk of that sort here.” / “That's right,” Kennedy admitted, and took the hat from his rusty head to bow apologetically to Anne. *“I plumb forgot myself, Miss Eliot.” Figuratively, Mosely brushed the other two men from the map. “I came to have a talk with you alone, Miss Eliot,” he reminded the young woman. “Without the presence of this riffraff. If we can't have it here, where can we meet?” Anne lpoked at him with level eyes. “I know nothing that needs discussion between us,” she replied. “When I saw you at the ranch you told me you would walt for the law to settle these land difficulties. I went to see you about the dam— ask you not to do anything tha would precipitate war. 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