The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 5, 1937, Page 3

BY MARIB DB NERVAUD SYNOPSIS: Josh Hastings, own- er of the Flying Siz, tries to buy Kay Crandon’s Lazy Nine after her ranch house and barn burn. He also tries to court Kay. She distrusts him and is determined to keep her ranch and rebuild. Hastings’ cowhand, Scrap John- son, molests Kay, but Ted Gay- nor, a puncher she impulsively hired, rescues her and whips Scrap. Later they shoot it out, wounding each other. Hastings, hating both, murders Scrap, us: ing Ted’s gun. Ted crawls to. ¢ shack where a girl takes him in. Sheriff Zeke Farley brings: the gun to Kay to identify, telling her it killed Scrap. She had given Ted the gun. Chapter 26 The Case Against Ted “\JO—NO! I’m all right!” Kay pushed away Seth and the sheriff, as they reached out to steady her. “It’s just the horrible thought of Dad’s gun being in- volved in a murder, that— But, how do you know it was murder? There might have been a perfectly fair fight!” “Where's this Gaynor bird then? Why didn’t he report it?” A horrible fear clutched Kay. “Perhaps he’s killed, too,” she fal- tered. “We've searched all around there,” the sheriff answered. “Of course this two-day.storm washed out any tracks or ‘¢lues, but my hunch is that he made a get-away right after the killing.” “But why would’he have left his gun behind?” Kay protested. “He'd never have done that if he’d mur- dered a man!” “Search me, but we've no time for guessing,” the sheriff answered impatiently, “Tell me all you know eon him.” He looked from Kay to th. “All I know,”. Seth broke in, “is that he turned up here the night of the fire. Kay had been having him look over some timberland for her, and then decided to have him join the outfit.” “Where'd you get hold of him in the first place?” Zeke Farle: turned to Kay, who braced herse! for this eo she had been dreading. In the midst.of her con- fused horror at this terrible news, one thing was clear—nothing would make her give the real ver- sion of her meeting with Ted. “Why, I wanted to get hold of some more timberland,” she be- gan, “and it seemed a good idea to get some one to go over it, so I—” “Yes, yes. Never mind all that!” the sheriff cut her short. “What I want to know is, how did you come to choose Gaynor? Why not some- one from around here?” “I don’t know just why.” Kay decided the only line to take was a helpless, illogicai feminine one. “I just thought Fd-try hinr eut,-and. hen, if I liked him, he could join the outfit. You thought he was a addition, didn’t you, Seth?” appealed to Seth, with an at- tempt to defeat the sheriff's direct questions by irrelevance. “Sure I did,” Seth answered. “He seemed like an Al hand to me. But T’'ve been kind of wondering about him, when he didn’t turn up when he said he would.” His Threat To Scrap “HO® long has this man been dead?” Kay tried another tack to turn the line of the in- uiry. 2 “About four or five days, I should ind ie.” Zeke Farley came back to ’s remark. “What's that about his being expected back?” “Tlt tell you how it was.” Kay forestalled Seth. “He'd planned to go back and get his mother and sister, and bring them here to live. You see, he'd worked out a plan for rebuilding.” With a few quick words she sketched Ted’s ideas, — “So I know he wouldn’t have left us in the lurch unless something had happened to him. He might be wounded, and dead or dying himself, while you're accus- ing him of murder!” She choked up in spite of herself. “I think you ought to be searching for him, to see if he’s in trouble instead of fooling around about a gun!” She fixed the sheriff with an indignant eye. “We'll be searching for him all right,” the sheriff commented grimly. “I just wanted to make sure my hunch about the gun was right. I thought I'd seen your fa- ther toting it. Now that I know you ave it to Gaynor, it clears up a jot, and things look pretty black against him, all right. You proba- bly don't know that he was heard threatening this Scrap Johnson's life before quite a few witnesses?” “Before — witnesses?” "s mind flashed back to the fight on the mesa, when Ted had told Scrap Johnson he'd kill him if he ever showed up on the range again. “Yes. Gaynor and Scrap John- son had a fight at Kelly's one day last week, and Gaynor got the best of it. Some of the boyswho were / there say he threatenéd to get! Scrap next time.” With a sick feeling, Kay realized | how black the evidence was that/ weaning up against Ted. | “But that’s ne’ bere nor there.” The sheriff turned to the door. “The first thing is to join up with Sam Cutter, the Idaho sheriff, and catch the bird. We can save the evidence for later.” He slipped the gun in his pocket and picked up his hat. “Sorry to be all this bother, Miss Kay. I’ve go to be get- ting on now, but while I'm away you try to remember every single thing you can about this Gaynor.” “Where are you going?” Kay asked fearfully. : “Over into the Clear Water basin to’ look up his mother and sister first. Then I'll report to'Sam Cut- ter’s deputy and come back by the pass and search around there some more.” “You'll let me know the minute you hear anything, won’t you?” Kay tried to keep the desperate anxiety out of her tone. “We have no telephone now, but you could get hold of Babs at the Flying Six, and she'll ride over and tell me.” “Sure I will” Setee into his saddle and rode off. Ted’s Volunteer Nurse TH early morning sun shone on the glistening dew that out- lined the bunch grass in the small clearing on the south slope of the central divide. It tinted the dark green branches of the surrounding pines and tamaracks with golden flecks, and one or two first rays finally searched out the tumbled down shack. The door of the shack ‘slowly opened and a girl stepped out to lean against the door frame. Her whole attitude suggested intense weariness..As she closed her eyes, her face looked deadly pale in its frame of black hair. Straightening ,up, she glanced back through the door, then tip- toed down the two dilapidated steps and walked through the dew- drenched grass to the center of the clearing where the sun was strongest. She took several deep breaths, picked a bit of fire weed and stood idly twirling it. It was exactly a week since Ma- rion Howell had looked out of her strange abode to find wounded Ted dragging himself toward her. No sooner had she brought him inside, than the storm had broken. Ted had hovered by the slender- est thread between life and death, and Marion knew that nothing but her care and nursing had saved him. She had thrown herself into the task as a natural human re- sponse to the desperate need of a fellow creature and as a welcome escape from her own thoughts and troubles. Two days before Ted had ap- an |, Marion’s father had rought her to this hut, stacked it with provisions to last several weeks, and told her that if she val- ued her life and his, she must wait there, in hiding, until he came back. dint wild Santen, soeuing +: 4 is te ent. reakdown, ha arrears into acquiescing. She was entirely in the dark about his reason for this move, but she had suspicions that she hardly dared voice to herself. Deciding it was best to humor him, she had lis- tened carefully to his instructions, and promised to carry them out to the letter. He had made her swear that on no account would she let there be any sign that the hut was occupied. While it was extremely unlikely that any one would penetrate to the tiny clearing, he wanted her to lie low, if they did, and give the place every appearance of a de- serted hut. He left her a small oil stove, and a few gallons of oil, which he had packed up, along with the rest of the stuff, on the two pack burros he had brought with them. Ad- monishing her on no account to light a fire, he had gone off, taking both their horses and the burros, after a stene that made her shud- der even now. It was her promise that had made her hesitate a moment when her horrified glance had first fallen on Ted. The severe battle she had had to save his life had been her own salvation, Marion realized as the days had slipped by and her father had not reappeared. There had been no time for thought in the intensive nursin she had had to do. It was not unt: dawn this.morning that the fever had broken, and she had felt any assurance that the battle was won. From Ted's delirious mutterings, Marion had been able to piece to- gether something of his story. In this close association with a per- fect stranger, she had come to be convinced that her first appraisal of him had been right, and that she could wait with confidence until he recovered sufficiently to tell the rest of his story. As she stood there in the sun- shine, she felt her strength grad- ually returning. She decided that, as soon as Ted should be strong enough to leave, she would go in search of her father, if he was not back inside of the three weeks he had stipulated. She would give him the full time he had asked for, but after that she could no longer stand this inaction, (Copyright, 1937, Marie de Nervaud) Searchers for Ted find the ting clearing, tomorrow. eeee eeceoevece Gen, Hugh gee, Okla., ex-soldier, man, author, NRA head, columnist, born at Ft. Kans., 55 years ago. business how «4 Scott, Maj. Gen, Malin Craig, chief of staff, born at Si, Joseph, Me. 62 1S ago, Mary R. Beatd ef New Milford, . . Johnson of Okmul-! Conn., lis, 61 years ago. Ruth Sew rand) of thar, born in Boston, age. Coarad P. Aiken } moted poet, born Ga., 48 years ago. Brace Barton of New York, ad-| jvertising head, famed 8g, [GIANTS GAIN GAME | ON LEADING CUBS; | CARDS DOWN BEES YANKEES DEFEAT CHISOX IN} THIRD STRAIGHT GAME; RED SOX TAKE TWO FROM| INDIANS (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—LaMas-} ter lived up to his name yesterday Zeke Farley | noted writer ‘and wife of} Today’s Birthdays! noted writer, born in Indianapo-| Allen and Pytlak McKain, Wal- . 7 Engiand, Savannah,| Brown and Becker; Ostermueller, writer, } Detroit - born at Roi bias, Tenn, 51 years]Philade!phia 7 Lawson,’ afternoon when he faced (Chicago ‘Cubs on the mound. The Phila- \delphia Philly hurler let the; gue-leaders down with seven| | hits. Meanwhile, © the Phillies! |pounded [French and Parmelee} |for 11 safeties to win, 2 to 1. The} {lone tally ky the Bruins was a! homer off the bat of Frank Dem-} jaree, his second in as many days.| j The loss, coupled with the Giants’ | victory, reduced the Windy City’s| lead to six games, { It is generally conceded now} {that the New York Yankees are} {“in” as far as the American} jLeague pennant is concerned. | Their closest rivals, Chicago | White Sox, suffered their third ‘straight defeat at the hands of Murderers’ Row, 10 to 9. Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickye contribut-} ed their second home run each in jas many days. The Yanks now! lhold. a comanding eight-game} lead. The Chisox remain in sec- | ond-place, In a tight pitching contest, New York Giants were able te jedge out Cincinnati Reds, 4 to 3. | Both teams secured but seven) | safeties, Boston Red Sox took both ends of the doubleheader with Cleve- land Indians, 8 to 6 and 6 to 5. Eleven pitchers saw duty in both }games and a total of 42 hits and! 25 runs were accounted for. Also, | nine errors were committed, six} by the Tribe. Jimmy Foxx con- nected for two homers. one in jeach game. Lou Fette didn’t have a chance fonce St, Louis Cardinals got to work. He had to give way to Guy Bush who did not fare any better. In the ninth frame, the Bees had a 6 to 2 lead. The Gashouse Gang, pnpred for their ninth inning up- rising, staged one yesterday and scored, enough runs to cinch the game. ' They collected a total of 16 bingles. The Redbirds used four pitchers. Detroit Tigers walloped Phila- delphia Athletics, 11 to 7. Jump- ing on three A’s moundsmen, the Tigers amassed 17 safe blows. Brooklyn Dodgers downed Pittsburgh Pirates, 10 to 15. The game was featured by a galaxy of pitchers, three for the Dodgers and six for the Bues. The Buc- cos outhit the Dodgers, 17 to 15. St. Lauis' Browns took Wash- ington Senators into camp, 5 to 3. 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