The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 23, 1923, Page 11

MONDAY, APRIT 23,1 ,» 23, arr { the Double A ®, NEW OWner of the the murder. ‘Kil Acklin’s men, in love * hunting the mur- rother ON WITH STORY heard, Bodine,” he mutthred sly. “It goes for you: When crooks fall out, it's a long drop. You'd better drop out of sight.” k tried to Interrupt, but the waved him down with a word Git!” A movement in the crowd made It eloquent. Night was at hand. The whippoor- wills were chanting their monoto- dirge as they winged across the sage, Defeated, broken, h their struggling, the weary Basques were alone at last in the graying twilight with the fate that confronted them. They the battle strong and determined, but ow, a3 they turned to begin the long trip back to their homes, they moved with bowed heads. They were beaten, CHAPTER XXIV The Red Trait days that followed, Kildare wate Hodine’s movements with untiring patience. Acklin had sent Melody and him into the hills again For hours at a time they would hold A glass on the house on Webster ereek. Life there became as familiar as if they were on the spot. They counted eight men; Buck and seven others, © features not recognizable, but the big fellow's size marked him. No one worked. In the heat of midday the Double A rid. were ers rarely caught sight of any of| them. Morrow met his men one morning. He had no news, He had heard that one or two of the Basques had packed up their belongings and | course, HIS PERING } SOPRIGHD NED OY HEA SERVICE: me an VOOEPH WORK on. Cash made light of it t Was over! He was right, appa ad supposed Bodit back once or twice bef but four days had gone by, and he had not stirred from his retreat The following morning, however, there were signs of life at the Web. er ranch, Shortly after daylight Buck and his men were in the saddle, and by noon they had rounded up their stock, now about 300 head, An hour later they were in motion, point ed for Winnemucca, ‘They're headin’ for the railroad, sure as you're born,” Melody called | to Blaze. “We can see them from here fo: hour or more, When they reach the river, I'm going to hike there,” Melody studied his friend's face be- fore he spoke again, “Every once in a while you pull a down mysterious crack like that,” he final- ly said, “What you got up your sleeve? “It goes back a long ways, old- timer, Some day maybe you'll find out.” Kildare got to his feet. “But T ain't got any intention of lugging you tnto trouble, This is my own little affair, I'll wait here, and you can drift back to the Bull's Head You make me the red. haired one answered savagely. I don’t want to cheat you out of n'" Blaze murmured in his ng manner, “Come on along, el that way about tt.” if you Thetr proposed plan recetved a jolt as they saw Bodine and his separate at the river, Three of them headed back for the Webster, The | distance was so great that Blaze could not tell whether Buck was among those who had gone on or not ‘One of us has got to stay here now, Melody. You wait; I'll go.” By hard riding over a roundabout Kildare trailed the moving herd into town. Bodine and bandy-legged man were not among those present, Tho steers were load. ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS I’m ever 80 much obliged for generaling for me” After Nick rescued the soldier from drowning in Bing-Bang Land, there was no fighting tor a few days, It was necessary to walt until the wooden soldiers and tin soldiers had recovered. The Tinker Man was very busy In his hospital, I tell you, what with plugging up wounds with bits of Rew wood (or soldering them with lead, if the wounded soldier happen- ed to be made of tin, instead of Wood), and gluing on arms and legs and even heads. And painting! You should have seen the amount of paint he used up. The soldiers In Bing-Bang Land once wounded, had to go to bed with their clothes on and every single one of them from Gereral Gold Braid down had to have « mew unt form painted on when he was ready to go back to his regiment. One by one, however, all the toy soliers were cured, and even Gen- eral Gold Braid was quite himself again. “Now I won't have to be general any more,” said Nick taking off his cocked hat and unbuckling his sword. “I'm ever so much obliged for generaling for moe while I was away,” said General Gold Braid, “and I should like you to stay with the army. What do you prefer?” “I'd like to be an aviator,” said Nick quickly. “Well, I declare! cried the Tinker Man who was Iistening. “Why, we declare!’ said all the soldiers standing near. “What are you all declaring about?” asked Nick in surprise. “We never thought of such a thing!’ answered the Tinker Man. “There isn't mich a thing as an alr. ici By MARRY BCL AIR DRAGO men |. lin’s men put it t xt ng, ard th had brought them tn tm. © Wobster ax dy fe ve Bodine's reputation two-thirds of that} herd were Double A st we} ught to see something doing in the é The return of Buck's men from head as Kildare had prophesied You two,” Buck sald, addressing | Shorty and Gloomy, “are so strong excitement, suppose you head for town tonight and circle back after it gets dark. Strike into the] hills west of here; Morrow may ha Bump off a few of Work east t is eye On Us. Acklin's cattle. That'll throw them off your rrow night trail, It'll look like the Basques had @ finger in it Get to the north be fore morning You'll find a lot of aces to hole-up for a day or two, Once you pass Hog John's, lay out as long as It seems safe; three days if you can make it, Beat it here then, quick as God'll let you, and pump all the lead you want to as you come.” Blaze and Melody saw them leave But night fell, and in the darkness they swung back and up by the way of Kings river, In 34 hours word of the red trail they had left reached the Bull's Head, Cash and his riders combed the wid» valleys and narrow canons, But Bodine's men were safe im the very heart of Acklin’s em A guard was placed against & sepe tition of the slaughter, Guerrilla war Was something Cash under stood. A talk with Kild vealed that the foreman blamed the raid on the Basques, Aftertwo nights of quiet, Acklin xed. He put the incident down for a sporadic attack, a sort of dying blow But the peat night Gi y and Shorty dashed down from their hiding-place, leaving @ gory track to mark the way which they bad come. Below the peak they turned west, and threaded thelr way into the valley of the Kinga There they slept and ate, Twelve hours later they were safo on Webster creok. Bodine could not repreas his ¢la- tion as he waited for them. Nex Perce had defied Esteban's order and ridden to Paradies, They had heard a great deal. By 10 o'clock they were back on the ranch, Bodine could not sleeb. He paced up and down the path in front of the house for more than an hour before his two men arrived. He greeted them vociferously “Boys, we got ‘em! The Basques found a notice nalled on the door of the wool-house in Paradise about § o'clock this evening. Some of Ack- 1 It saya if y sare found shot there’ be reprisals; they’ll hit back. You must ‘a’ got a bunch of them. The Basques are askin’ each other who killed this bunch of Double A critters, Every man-jack of them suspects hia neighbor and ts tickled ailly, Anything to get Acklin. You boys turn tn, The rest of us will tend to this job for tonight.” “What's on now? Gloomy tn- quired, “He won't have any cattle left If we keep this up.” “That's ended.” Buck began to smile again. “That warehouse ts owned on shares by the Basques Every one of them is Interested tn by more Double A stee it. Thirty or so have this year’s clipping there right now. We're goin’ to touch {t off. That'll hit every one of them In the well-known pocket-book."* ‘ Nez Perce laughed. “He's hoppin’ round on one leg now, thone Basque. When wo get dona, he won't have no place to put even heem.” An hour from the time the half. breed had emptied a bottle of kero- sone over some refuse and lighted It, the big wooden building was in ruina. A spur of the Santa Rosas sepa- tated Paradise Valley from the coun- try that sloped to Quinn river. Old man Liotard, an qctogendrian, grazed hin sheep in its draws and on the flat ena that skirted the rim of the val- Jey opposite the Timbered Buttes. Liotard occupted a shack that ntood where the mesa came to a neck In front of the granite outcroppings plane in Bing-Bang Land. We for-| that rom to high peaks. got about them. I'll send a telegram to my brother, the Toy Maker, at| yond were only accessible by means) once to ship us two brand new o7 One for the wooden soldiers and the|man could look across the chasm| other for the tin soldiers run whichever one you lke.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) ‘The oxen were pulling bravely and the heavy thing seemed to be floating all right, when to Mrs. Smith's horror, she saw the wagonbed suddenly give @ curious Jurch, a twist, a roll and slowly separate itself from the wheels and go floating down the flood of the swollen river. “ont? she screamed, wringing her little hands. “Oh! Oh! My children will starvef’ And hot teers burned her eyes as she helplessly watched the wagon gain speed and rush along away from them, Can't you see that ploture?7 On one side of a river, swollen and hungrily swift, dozens of great grey wagons, with thelr thin, worn oxen, walting. On the other side other dozens of grey wagons, dripping wet, and oxen still quivering from thelr strug- gle in the ley flood, ‘On both sides men at work, di- recting, shouting, aking ques- tions, and women and little chil- dren standing, hing, with strained, anxiou ‘Then the (4 t provinion wagon breaking away, and the iny mother wringing her handa i Gonpornte anxiety, her five iit- tle onen grouped close about her, watching her face, not the wakon. Mra. Harmon does not remember how. thay finally got the wagon, b aid get it and tho much of ita freight was wet, moat of Ht epule be used. ue Mountains were the inany an early day Md i no many families suffered In ar Seattle _ » abel Cleland 4 ge THE LITTLE MOTHER (Chapter I) % e some grim way, while crossing the Blue Mountains. ‘The Smiths made the hard as- cent safely, and were starting down on the other side when the Little 8-year-old son begged to be allowed to walk. Children often did walk, you know, for yoiles and miles, but this little fellow wasn't content Just to walk. With his lungs full of mountain alr, and the early autumn wind in his face he felt Hight, and leaping up he started on @ run down the steep, rocky Fail, jumpin over bow id ora, scarcely stopping for fallen logs; ight footed ax a deer he ran, ut that night he was fll, strangely ill, the next day he drooped, and grew more pale. ixious day. Day followed 6 sed him, yearned tiny mother nv over him, cared for him, but he drooped and drooped, and when he had been fi! leas than two weeks, he went to sleep and never waked agai “T can't bear this," the mother cried. cannot, I cannot leave him here on this lonely trail and ‘oon without him. Ho's #0 little, Ee little and tender to leave.” No ket war there to place him in, and no boards to make ‘one, even ever so rude a one, She went to the box In which she had @ goodly store of fine sheots, and taking what she nesded, wrapped him about in the clean linen, close and lovingly, It was just another of the lit- tle graves along the ploneor trail; hundreds of graves were there, placed so that the oncom- ing Wheels of other trains would pack down the loosened earth and #6 hide them from savage beasts, (To Be Continued) SAT Teena) | | ‘The mera and the tiny valleys be- of this narrow bit of land. The old You may | that separated bis aery from the buttes, but the getting there wa quite a different matter. It was a | sheer fall of 800 feet from the onat- ern rim of the mena to Bodine's ranch below. Above the shack there were large pockets in the rocks In which the snow water stored Itaelf. It was a sheep-man's paradine. Bodine knew that men like Lio- tard were looked up to as the heads of their clans, They were uncls, cousin, or grandfather to countless numbers of the Basques In the val- ley. Marriage tripled and quad- rupled the number. A blow at Lio- tard would hurt a hundred kinsmen, Urging their horses cautiously up the tortuous trail that led to the shack, Shorty and he arrived within might of the place before dawn, There they waited. Minutes rolled by before the old man came out, a moth-eaten dog at his sido, Out of a lean-to built against his shack he led a burro that seemed an old as Its master. About 7 o'clock Kildare, from a perch across the canyon where he watched the house on Webster creek, caught sight of the milling sheep as Liotard drove them from the water- pockets in the Pocks, When the animals settled to graz- Ing, they began moving directly to- ward the cabin. Noon-time always found them headed back to the high- er ground. There were cloue to a thousand head in the herd; fine big merinos, Blaze laughed as he watched thru his glasses the play of the big rama; but his smile deserted him as he saw two horsemen dash around the cabin to the center of the herd, The sheep wefe In a panic al- most Instantly. Shooting and hallooing, the riders urged the sheep on, until they sped before the prancing horses. Another minute, and they were hurtling thru space to the Jagged rocks hundreds of feet below. Thirty, forty—Blaze turned away sick, An Indian could not have concelved anything more navnge, So far Kildare had caught only the backs of the two men; but as they began to cross the mesa, he know they must come down by the trail that led to the cabin, Hinze moved to where his rifle commanded the road, (Continued Tomorrow) THE Cynthia Grey: Girl Cut Boy Friend When He Failed to Make Prom- ised Call; Didn't Give Him Opportunity to Ea plain—Now She Would Consider Ways and Means of Making Up. Dear years olq. About a year) ago there was a boy in our neighborhood who told my friends that he liked me very much. After some little time, some of them introduced him and I went out with him once or twice, Then one day he asked to call, but didn’t, altho I waited some time. The next time I saw him I didn’t speak and have never spoke to him since. But regardless of this, I'd like to be with him again, for I think I love him. What would be a good way to make up with him? R. You were most exacting when you broke off your friend- ship entirely upon so slight a provocation. You cannot ez- pect your friends to be uncritical toward you, if you demand so much of them, You say you waited “some time.” To a girl of your age a few minutes sometimes seems like a long time,’ Even if you really did wait, you should have given the young man an opportunity to explain his apparent negligence. 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