The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1920, Page 18

“ ‘Get the Groceteria COPYRIGHT, 1919, LITTLE: bernie Deon, Hgw can ye bloom me reah and fair? ‘The “Girt With a Thousand Songs” dad many Scottish melodies in her repertoire, and the years had not made her forget At the last the groping left hand reached painfully ecrom, found Helles hand waiting, and chased on It tightly. It was not much but ft wae @on't know what mother wil! Mary Hope began, and stoppet Did her eyes behind her hands Mother, poor seul, could not anything . All right, girl; you don’t know We'll just leave tt to her. find a way. And I'll go out Qnd tell ber all about tt, and her to manage.” ” os ol m- | though. al oy reer may,| In the kitchen Mary Hope moved that afraid of Belle Lorrigan 1/atletly about, cooking supper. In (Gresp under the table and hide! | the kitchen Lance sat and made love ime I shall go aloue to her.” | to her with his eyes. Were an unconsctonably long) Hut that night, when Mary Hope Seut there—those two women | Was asteep and Belle was dosing be- it so much to Lance, Pres. | Side the stricken woman, Lance sad- Balle came into the kitchen, | ‘led Jamie and led Coaley home Mary Hope by the hand. ‘The| And while he-rode, biack Trouble ef both were moist, shining,|Fode with him and Love could not! CHAPTER XII. ‘The ‘tide amile and beat back the spectre with edge glad,” she whis-| his fists, but hid bis face and whim- Kissing him on the cheek.| Pered, and was afraid ape told ma And don’t you two) For Lance was face to face again a worry "wt |with that sinister, unnamed fome- ot me TH win MY / thing that bung over the Devil @usk, and the lamp had not| Tooth ranch. He might forget It for lighted. Mother Dougtas|® few hours, engrossed with bis love, her eyes Her groping left aod In easing this new trouble that Consed, jens plucking at knot on doeggeet.mamengotdd meeting but that did not make his own Pitting beside her in the | trouble any the leas menacing. began softly to sing: He could not tell her so now, while . banks and braes o’ she had this fresh worry over her —————-—=—=ew |mother, but Lance knew-—and while ; he rode slowly he faced the know!- ‘GRANDEST edge—that he could not marry Mary . | Hope while the cloud hang ever the EARTH, SAYS" ’ | Traveling lightly, Lance had cov- ered 150 miles in four days, thru ’ _—— | country where trafls were few and ME oda | Four days, and he had not heard from Mary Hope; had learned noth- Well as Anybody ling conclusive, elther for or against the Devil's Tooth Some clues he Coram you te Rnow, An had ivaned that strengtboned Ms 4 «| Suspicions, but nothing to make him | fool that the'trip had been worth the hardship. Fils sweaty horse paused to breathe, heaving a great sigh, looking dis- , Couragediy at the climb yet before him. Lance came to himself and swung off, giving the horse an apol- ogetic slap on the shoulder, “You ought to kick me cold, Sorry, for years 1| making you pack my hulking carcass been in a rundown condition, | 7 this hill. Why didn’t you stop at weak, and at times very | ‘he bettom™ Thad nervous headaches and| Sorry looked at him, waited for perfectly awful. My | lance to take the lead, and cltmbed was so weak I could not di. *fter him more briskiy. At the top t the lightest kind of food. 1 wag Lance @id not remount. The trickty ‘and depressed I was sim. *tTewn flat rocks made treacherous to pieces, and slept very bad-} footing, and more than one man had Become so despondent over | ‘ken a nastly fall because he had that I thought nothing Chen to ride that mile of lava when he should have walked. Lance wae walking along brooding over his trouble, when he fancied he heard a faint halloo. A horse had fallen with itn rider, the two lying together, the man pinned under the horse, A black horse, which he recognized, and a big, red-faced cowpuncher. “I been here since morning,” the big cowpuncher chattered, feveriah- |ly, when Lance came up to him. {Tm fixed, all right! I guess his leg ts broke, but so ts mine, furs that goea. I come down hard on « rock, and T guess I broke eome rite or something.” The horse, too, was in sorry stata A weed-grown crevice had cheated him with fts semblance of sound footing, and he lay groaning a Mttle now and then, while the man talked and talked. “TN have to shoot this hors, Ira afraid,” Lance mid, pityingly. “THis . leg is broken—it's the most merciful do not believe what I/ thing I can do. And if I litt him off My case, just tell them to| you while he's alive, he may strug- See me at my home, and if I sle-——" there, they will find me at| “Maybe you better do the mame for J Printing Company,| me,” said the man, still speaking In re I work.” |the rapid tone which told of fever. ia 2014 in Seattle by Rartef! | “You ain't able to heave him off ma, the personal di-/are you™ of l Tanlac represen-| “Sure, I'm able to. Lie still, now, teem and grit your teeth, olf NTT TTT Ll I puro MEDICATED PLASTER Ul =| ne renner had come to Mary Hope; he might} BY BROWNGCO. || Jhurt when I lift him off your leg | 1 raise him up and put @ rock under, and pull you out, Can you stand thatt” “Met I can stand anything if 1 have to!” Yet he tainted when Lanes took him by the shoulders and pulled him fren When tho fellow opened his! eyes, Lance remembergd that he had half a pint of whisky fn hiv coat pocket, and offered it to the injured one. “Golly, timt's a Ifeeaver™ ho — when he had taken two *. Te reached down and felt his crushed lee, grimactng at the pain of returning ciroulation. “Think you can stand {t to ride?” Lance asked policitously, “I heave you Into the saddle, if you can stand being moved. I'd ride to the | next ranch and bring a wagon—but the country’s too rough, A rig couldn't get within five miles of here. “You're right. Not even Belle Lor |rigan’s buckboard could make, it across that canyen on beyond. Bay, speaking of the Lorrigans—" he heaitated, then plunged reckleasty on. \*T'm going to pass you some dope [I've got on that outfit. The chances are I'm done for. If I cash in, you turn tn this dopa” Lance stood looking down at hin while he fumbled jpunes out a «mall leather notebook and sone papera, | “I'm @ stock detective, esa My name's Burt Brownles, I was just about ready to turn in the dope and have the whole outfit pulled. They been rustling right and left, see But theyre cute-—they’re damn cute. “Now here's the data. I know how they work ft, and my evidence and this dope here, that can be verified later on when the time comes, wil! put the whole bunch over the road, | seo. They're outlawe—always have been—dut they won't be by the time they get outa the pen.” “You better keep that,” Lance cut im gruffly. “Man, that’s nothing you want to be gabbing to a stranger, | Shut up and let me put you on my | horse.” “No, I want to tell yuh," Burt inatwted, with all the obstinacy of a man half crazy with pain and whisky. “I want to tell yuh. Get Gown here and laten. Here's a map, and here's the brands they worked, and here's how they worked ‘em. in his pocket, | And here's the dates.” “Here, put that stuff ap, This ls not getting you to a doctor, and this can walt: Pot it up.” “No, you take it. I don't want to de found dead with that dope on me| |—-you can’t tell who might get hold/ jot it." Mo thrust the papers and/ |the book eagerly into Lance's un- willing hand. “Noo, you can't tell who might get hold of it," Lance admitted, Diting by Up. “Well, let me take) your ing outfit off this horse and then well go.” Lanes lifted the fellow as tenderty | ashe could saw him faint again with the pain, and somehow got him on the horse while he wae still uncon: ectous. Lance bound him to the aad dq with his own riata, revived him with a little more whisky, and started for Conley’s, who lived nearest. On the way Into the canyon Burt Brownies suffered greatly on the steep trail, down which the horse must go with forward Jottings that | racked terribly the man’s crushed! side, At the bottom Lance stopped | Sorry and put an arm around Burt. Lance's face was mt maaklike in ite forced calm, but his volce was very tender, with the deep, vibrant note | Mary Hope loved so ardently “Lean against me, olf man, and rest a minute It's pretty tough go- ing, but you're game.” “I'm going,” said Burt, lurching | against Lance's steady strength “I'm a goner, Just-etand and tet me lean ~ Lance walked tnto Conley’s yard an hour after that, a dead man lashed to the middie, He asked for paper and « pen, and In a fire, even handwriting he described ternety the| manner of Hurt Brownles’s death, told where the dead horse and the mddie would be found. CHAPTER XIV. How One Trail Ended Darkness fale late on the Riack| Rim country in mi¢-qummer. It was | |Just deepening from dusk when | Lance strode up to the house. From/ the bunk house, when he passed, | came the murmur of low-keyed voicen The outfit, then, was at/ home ence mora. From the shaded window of | Relie’s bedroom « thin sliver of tight! shone, where the blind, was curled} back at the édge, but the rest of the house was dark. Ie went in, moving! softly, but Pelle must have heard| his step on the porch, for she came | out. | “Lanes, honey! Where on earth have you been?” She came clos, putting her arms around him. "Sheh, honey,” she whispered, jtho Lance had neither moved nor spoke since she touched him. “Shah —Mary Hope and her mother arq here, and they're both asleep, 1! id Iady won't let me out of her bad Hugh make up a bed wagon, and brought Mf you and Hope a fed right away, t d to be here any She broke clutched him tn him poignantly “in the canyon, | sibilant terri What hae hap-| » tal met Tom is here, | ‘were hero when we) a way, thae’ rent of that dying Mer whisper pulling her hands shoulders, Me) “It's nothing, Bello I'm—tired. And you—you surprived me Wl it waken them if I cléa#n up a Iittle be- fore I go to bed? 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