The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1937, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1987. * BY MARIZ DB NERVAUD SYNOPSIS: Fire destroys Kay Crandon’s Lazy Nine ranch house and barn, Josh Hastings, owner of the Flying Siz, tries to buy her ranch and court Kay. She hates him and is determined to keep her ranch and rebuild. Ted Gay- nor, @ puncher she impulsively hired, fights scrap Johnson, a cow- hand who molested Kay. They Shoot it out, wounding each other. Hastings finds them unconscious and kills Scrap with, Ted’s gun. Ted crawls to 2 shack where q girl named Marion nurses him through a feverish week. The gun is found and Sheriff Fatley hunts Ted. Kay goes alone to the shoot- ing scene at the central divide, Chapter 31 Jealous Misery "Poane back, Kay paced out the distance from the water to the spot where Scrap Johnson’s body had been found. Then she searched the ground between with minute care. Her eye suddenly caught a fleam-in a small clump of grass. Buniing it aside, she picked up a steel nail head, of the type that is used to stud belts and gauntlets. She knew that because so many people had milled over the spot, her find was of little value, but Kay slipped it into her pocket, and went on with her searcy. what they were saying, but it was obviously an engrossing talk. Bright points of light flickered before Kay’s eyes and a strange buzzing sounded in her ears as she gazed, as though petrified, at the unsuspecting couple before her. Tom Runyon’s words, describ- ing Ted’s fight at Kelly’s, came back to her: “He won’t mind Boast- ing about it to the black haired beauty he was fighting for!” ‘So, it was true, then! All that time that they had been riding back in the sunset, with the pres- sure of his arms tightening about her, had seemed the expression of the emotion she had thought was | sweeping over them both, his thoughts had really been on an- other girl! And the first minute he could, instead of coming back to Kay as he had Rea he had gone to her rival! A stifled sob broke out inspite of her, and Kay saw the girl inside raise her head in sudden inquiry, and listen. Kay shrank back from the win- dow, and ran into the grove of pine trees that half circled the cabin. Panting as though she had been running a long distance, she | bit her lower lip, and stood with her hand pressed against her | heart, as she peered out. The next instant, the willowy | figure of the dark haired girl ap- peared on the steps of the cabin. Standing up and ‘st€tching to.},She stood for a moment in a lis- relieve her muscles of this strained “téning»attitude, and Kay had an The dark haired girl appeared in the doorway,. position, Kay suddenly noticed that the sun was sinking in the west. She glanced at her watch and saw that it was after four o'clock, and she hadn’t yet fol- lowed the stream southeast. She decided impulsively to take a@ chance on getting out of the mountains before dark, The trail was so well defined that there was small r of getting lost, and ish ‘not to study ‘every’ possible nm study every possible phase of the situation. Starting along the water's edge, she came after a hundred yards or so, to such thick brush that she almost decided to turn back. As she. peered ahead, however, she noticed several twigs that had been snapped off short, and pushed on with a fast beating heart. Her excitement quickened as she thought she saw more evi- dences that someone had pene- trated the brush fairly rear Althought it seemed impossible that any wounded man could have made such rough going, she persevered, and finally reached the clearing. The old prospector’s cabin stood at the end of it, deserted and for- lorn, with its sagging boards and dark background of pines. Giving way to curiosity that this relic of the past raised in her, Kay determined to investigate. The in-. tense silence, broken only by the entle rustling of the tree tops, led to steal forward on tiptoe, so as not to disturb the magic hush. She noisily crossed the clear- ing and stopped for a moment at the boarded up window, before going around to the door. Cupping her hands about her face, she put her eye to a crack. The Biack Haired Beauty KAY managed to stifle the amazed gasp that escaped her at the extraordinary sight that met her eyes, but she stood rooted to the spot, gazing with hypnotic incredulity at what she saw. Her heart beat in uneven, suf- focating jerks, and a blaze of color flooded in her cheeks. Stretched on the cot, somewhat pale, but evidently all right, con- | sidering the “as! , in which he was. TIC clined, his head half turned from her toward a dark haired gitl who sat beside him, with her. hand gently laid on his Kay couldn't hear a word of opportunity to take in her oval face, with its rather sad but sweet expression, and the transparent whiteness of her skin against the glossy hair that di in soft waves on her foreh Ina moment she vanished inside. One More Look PAPELLED by a wild surge of emotion that was stronger than anything she had ever felt in her, life before, Kay could not resist creeping back to the window for one ‘more look. It couldn’t be true! She must have dreamed this nightmare! lardly recognizing herself in the grip of the Se misery that d her, Kay watched Mar- ton’s smile as she held her hand on Ted’s forehead. Then, as she turned and moved over to the tiny stove, Kay shrank away and ran quietly back across the clearing. She blindly pushed her way through the thick underbrush that separated her from the t where she had left Flicker, mind seething with inarticulate thoughts, and tumultuous emo- tions. She was incapable of con- secutive thought, her one intel! gible idea being to get away, as fast as she could, and never let eg te know what she had seen. ‘orcing her way on with relent- less energy, she at last came out ‘On the grassy space that surround- ed the head waters. The sluggish water that had seemed so myste- rious and wonderful in the sun- light, looked dark and sinister in the fading twilight. A few streams of color from the afterglow of the sunset still streaked. the sky, but the faint gleam of a planet and one or two stars told of the near ap- proach of night. Still animated by her wild de- sire to get away, Kay felt, with- out consciously noticing it, the changed aspect of the place, and a shudder ran over her, as she reached Flicker and prepared to mount. As she swung into the saddle, her eye caught the fatal spot where Scrap Johnson’s body had been found. Her overwrought nerves caused an involuntary cry. She gave Flicker a touch of her heel, and they raced through the natrow pass and pointed down the trail at a headlong pace. (Copyright, 1987, Marie de Nervaud) Kay falls from her plunging herse Fon a sete Wh “THE FRAME-UP” (eeront We kigat mnt oF LubsTMa) ° RAPHAEL BENNETS aracz WAS THE CELEBRATED GEORGE BEVIET, it aurtaten we Fast datron Cakaute gud emte the black, recky trail, temerrews | co Te Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company Effective May 30, 1937 S.§ P. M., ar A S. 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