The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1920, Page 19

TI aoe CARIES ER ST. A. - : THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1990" The “Two-Gun Woman” of the West. CHAPTER X. Great grazing stretches, then Cor-|kreen levela toward the east. them the open Jevels again, then|roée in silence, Conford, Bent, Ja! Mouth of Black Coulee and lastly | Curly, Billy and herself, and a tho ‘Tharon of Lost Valley - SComPrWt. 1818. ty Dodd, Ment & On. cate Nig ets states Set ae t ther, Jimi Tast, by Courtres i RO she fy ith Kenset. 8G pore Range Mae [Se ee eating, MRyHNIC the Vietlantee, recited. “Smoot teen tetie tee he Ky Let it not be that!” she whispered i (Continued) thickly. ‘Then she’ was up, into her USK was falling ia Lost Val-/ riding clothes—was out where the Jey. The long blue shadows | boys were hurriedly saddling the Fin- a t out from the/er Marks. Presently she was on El Rockface, covering first the] Rey and shooting like a silver shaft homésteade under the Wail, then|in the summer dusk down along the They eastward to hush the life}sand thoughts were boiling miserably Holding in that soft, sweet] in two hearts, quiet which comes with th ’ e ‘ eee wud ne day's Rey, ‘Ovt at the corrals Billy Con- Jack and Bent and Sunk finishing touches to the routine Precaution which the Holding never relaxed, day or night. der of their going, and for once Golden, Redbuck, Drum- five, Westwind and Sweatheert, they went down along the sounding dark rly, put} plain, a magnificent band. The whole earth seemed to resound to the thun- in 1 Inside the dusky living room whe: their lives her beauties could not run fe it 's. fhe bright blankets glowoa one last enough for the mistress of Last's. ‘walls and the ollas hung in the deep Sis anlire oat a Goukird cal pg gga —y = = Sharply into the silent darkness. = Rane y ‘Kenset! Hello—Kenset! And then, all suddenly, into her Greaming there came the soind of a ened. ‘There was no sound except in id Conford called Tharon held her breath and lst- horse's hoofs on the sounding board] USC! bird calling from the highest ine- tip. ‘without—slow hoofs, uncertain. For |” hg leche Rete a A ‘efaly (he men dismounted, holed ber 1h geo with tts uncertainty, went a chill of memory down her ” nerves. So had come £1 Rey. that |*OUnd. night in the spring when he brought Jim Last home to die! nae slipoed ot Wipees $0 the wortera econ a flare and lit a candle, holding “You stay up, Tharon, dear,” the foreman said quietly, “until we look But to save her life she could not. Rey and stood by She rose swiftly and silently and| 8 shoulder waiting. Conford struck it There, in the shado _ | carefully before him, shielding it with ees of cont ine ‘tight, bores toorwed his palm behind it to throw the gleam along the green stretch, came plod-|SW4y from his face, into the cabin. ding up to stop and stand before her, | The Pale light illuminated the whole * brown, horse, with the stirrups of | nt Fatty his saddle hung on the pommel, his i ; “3 rein ted short up—Captain, the good, | NY. Burt, what's this? common friend of Kenset—of the—|_ Tharon pushed forward and looked toothitis! over the leaning shoulders. Tharon felt the blood pour back} There on the brown and green grass upon her heart ard stay there for an! ‘Ue & rich dark stain was drying— ‘awful moment. She put up a hand | blood, some three days old. “md touched her throat, and to save| Then, indeed, did the universe sag her life she did not know why this | 4nd darken to the Mistress of Last's. sudden, sickening fear should com She drew her trembling fingers upon her, across her eyes, wet her lips, which She had seen men killed, had known! felt dry as ashes. She fit all sud- tragedy and joss and heartache, but] Genly as if there was nothing in Lost wer before had #he seen the crest of| Valley worth while, nothing in ail the e distant Wall to dance upon the| World! That drying stain at her feet ©] seemed to shut out the sun, moon and oom Sik: ber founds voice stars with its sinister darkness. And fealed Out 4 call Billy, Contomd, Bent, then she became dully conscious that —the ‘drew them t . her running Billy had put her in the big chair by ihe deep house—to point. to| Me table and had joined the others in ent messenger and question ith wide blue eyes where fear like a living thing. Billy at her shoulder, looked not at aptain, but at her. A sigh lifted his breast, put he stifled of the running stream. their exhaustive search for any clue to the tragedy. She saw the moon ris- ing over the tops of the pine trees at | the glade’s edge, heard the little song “No use, Tharon,” said Conford )on M2 Rey ag If she were 0° they were riding down the smooth [letter he — tmanded her—ewinging dreams when one ix locked in deadly | floor of the little giade, leaving that|a@found for fight as the paper left his inertia, helpless. A group of riders j darkened cabin at ite head io stand | hand, ‘ clouded around the corner of the in tragic loneliness And Tharon, standing in the twi- hops. As she open the ¢ into her) light like a slim white ghost, read the {ethereal beauty. Her meek hands fold- | that I mean bisness. All this Vigilant left—of th’ Holdin'!" bled forward and sank in a heap atjeny. If it hadn't of ben that I love on the step at the Wester door, |Her feet, her arms about the statue’s|you, what you think I'd a done to leaned her head against the deep knees. that bunch? That's th’ truth. [ ben adobe wall id fell to weeping as if | “Hail—Mary—intercede for—him—"| holdin’ off thinkin’ you'd come to the very heart in ler would wash | he faltered, and then the shining Vir- | Your senses an’ see that Buck Cour- itself away in tears. gin, the dim mystery of the shadowy |ttey ain't to be met with vilenc The red light flaring against the room, faded out to leave her for the | Now I'm playin’ my trump card—now, blue darkness of the falling night fret time in her strong life, a bit of | O-night. seemed like a bodeful omen of sorrow * ‘When ee n opened her eyes|Délow. That don’t cut no ice with me. despair, the little winds of the day were fan- ning, her cheeks and oN Anita was |taseing at her shoulders, yoluble with | safe at th’ Stronghold. I ain't never was not able to offer one smallest |my last word, hard upon her breast house—for Billy knew. went and took him. I've got him safe pered to he: f Once again the girl arose and]as hell in the Canon Country. Ain't luck, an'‘,I’ll give you th’ doubl steadied herself, smoothed her tawn|no man in th’ ley can find God's ,or die, damn your goul to hell!" hair, looked at her hands to find them}Cup but me. ‘He's guarded an’ there's’ An hour later. with shadow. Only on Kenset's foot. | head and leave fim there.’ No to th tragic, aching light, it seemed to her. one fire out by that corral. ness. “If you say yes, you build one fire around out by th’ cottonwoods to th’ left of from the house. the Holdin’. i'm watchin’ an’ will 6. Not Miss To-morrow’s Install see it at once. You can see for your self I mean bisness, as if you'll watch she could meet Courtrey, and where. 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