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a i Broke, disheartened, wTs psy om. owed ‘The girl breathed deeply of the wor ‘with a little laugh as of relict. ney att the last steep ascent and gained the great flat-bottomed cavity of Devil's Bion, perhaps four miles from rim to !. poore of miles in length. suo. to the sheer cliffs determinedly, but 4». Sts bottom blanketed with thrifty sage Drusti, purple in the synlight that was just then slanting across the floor, a» @Nd beneath this sheen they could see the bright green of new grasses. A dark line marked with the clarity of & map the course of the creek and halt way down toward the neck of the Hole was a small cabin erected by the man who had filed on the land for Colonel Hunter and who had fted on without establishing title, “There's your neighbor,” Beok said. Jane looked for a moment, then fifted her eyes to the country which »»., Bhowed through the narrow outlet of the deep valley. Behind her endless ridges tossed upward to a sharp hor- fzon, but out through that gap: the range lay in a vast basin, rising gently to diminutive lavender buttes plastered against the sky many miles away. It seemed soft and vague and CS Sf unreal . . . like one of the unreal 37/> paintings Beck had seen hanging yrithin walls. Sf" Tom tea the way through trees and ~@miong upstanding ledges of rock (nto the narrow, dangerous trail and vo SS he went down, his: big roan pick- | los {mg the way quickly yet ¢autiousty, rhe eé half turned in his saddle to ex- “plain the stenificance of the descent. | Tt was the only egress on that side | of the Hole. There was one trall on 7. the far side, so steep and hazardous > that a man must lead his horse | either up or down, ‘The only other | outlet was’ through the narrow Gap where the wash of flood water dur- ‘ng storms had made the going easy rd men and stock. Out to the north- ‘west, however, lay miles of desert, the great basin of which Jane had | had a glimpse, well enough to use for range in three seasons, but in mmmer it became parched and use- sus. In the Hole cattle Co eerget oral n the abundant gramma, 001 ri from the creek, but getting them out | jand over the divide to the more plen- *"tiful water of Coyote Creek was an ‘undertaking. | Gna “That's the danger,” he told her, oes a long, hard climb for stock in “= good shape, but if anything should appen to prevent your stock from ume Geincin’ down here and they should get low from lack of water, why then You'd leave a lot of ‘em down there it you tried to bring ‘em up. He pointed over the abrupt drop at hin left. where a pebble would fall hundreds of feet before striking again and he indicated his right chap | porubbed the face of the bluff, so nar- | ‘now was the way to which they/ 1 ® Ae e Ow 1u Finally they reached the flat and swung along at a free trot through the brash sage. Z “(hero's water here now," he ex- plained, as they followed the stee) creek bank, “but that don’t last. It mighty low right this mornin’. The creek sinks when it don’t rain an’ its been comin’ up in just one spot for That's what makes a nester ous for you.” y approached the cabin, A mare and a newly born colt eyed them suspiciously, An ancient wagon, its top tattered, its tires red with rust, stood close beside a frail cor- ‘ral, ' Fire wood was scattered about: here was an axe with a broken helve, there a rust-eaten shovel, and the 4—whole place spoke of poverty. ina yet. piled against tho. cabin ‘was spool upon spool of new barbed wire! Fence!" muttered Bec! But Mr. Hepburn sat “Yeah, I recall what he said. Just then the canvas which served as a door was thrown back and the girl stepped out. She stood just across the threshold looking at them, sullen and doflant “Good morning,” sald Jane “Howdy,” replied the girl indlt- ferently. An awkward pause, Surely, ‘would volunteer no more and asked “Your dad around?" ‘What do you want with him™— a demand rather than @ question. “Iam Miss Hunter. I own the—" “Oh, L know who you are!” the girt cut in defiantly. “I came down to talk to your father, We are neighbors. If we are to be good neighbors there are tuings we} must discuss. Jane was unpoised by the attitude of the other but she dismounted and walked toward the cabin. “What did you want with +the girl asked again. want to ask some things about she Beck him? | suddenly finds herself heiress toa vast Western cattle ranch. This thrilling story tells of the life she found there, and of how she won for- (Contioned.) HEY made an early start, riding out of the ranch just as the sun topped the Heights to thé eastward. Dew hung heavily on the sage from which fresh, clean fragrance rose'as their horses stirred the brush. Their shadows were thrown far in agvance as they & narrow gulch and the sunlight was caught and concentrated and =: poattered again as the drops flew from leaf and twig. ‘They climbed out of the gulch, horses breathing loudly as they made ‘was little more talk until they stopped and eat looking down across the Its sides were sprinkled with cedars which clung @ New York society girl Nght, sweet air and looked at Beck ridge they were to follow and there Hole. It was a pear-shaped depres- rim at the widest point and fully. e | THE LAST STRAW BY HAROLD TITUS An Exciting Western Romatice-of Adventure and Love hing, would force me to make my share of Elon that.” f She turned abruptly and walked | { toward Beck. The man had purposely held aloot to watch the encounter between the two women. He had been certain that the meeting would be anything | Cadore. but amicable and it was like other ck, situations into which he had let Jane | buncen, cin. Hunter walk, needlessly and only to | {gllocmey,, Uh see how she would handle henvelf. | Jenvrin. Usually the result only amused him, | {! but to-day he had watched Jane bear up admirably under difficult circum- stances, refusing to be angered, or confused, refusing to plead, yet, while retaining dignfty, leaving the door to | P* friendship opens 57 As Jane mounted’ Bobby Cole stepped back into the cabin with no | i word and the riders turned on the way they had come. “I've been wonderin',” Beck said after a time, “how this old codger bie roe up the dust to buy-cattle and res’ Jane did mot reply. She wondered at that, too, Dut there was another wonder in her mind about another, more human mystery, going back to a night of storm in ‘the heavens and storm in Cole know she had turned Dick Hilton Bt iti, The girl’ lor anteneted. and hor vivid may @ great deal to me. That is why I am frank in coming here. Fp this Lord has beer range C cattle. mtly water has short. .You have wire and evidently are going to fence. “I don’t come as an enemy. Now that you are here I want to make the best of it.’ “But you don’t want us here!” The simple deciaration, voiced with that same defiance, confused Jane; then she met the other on her own “No, we don’t want you here unless you will work with us a6 we all try to work together, I think you will do that because it is the wiser—" “So you start out workin’ with us by lookin’ up our claim, the way we filed it, before you come to talk!" “Ye I did that,"—frankly. “I wanted to be sure just what your rights were before 1 .came to talk business.” “Well, you know now. You know no lawyers can run us off. Aln’t that enough? If you know we've got rights what do you come here for?" She but before Jane sould reply went on, her eyes flashing sud- den heat: “You don’t want us here but we've come to stay an’ from the way you've started in to talk your oes ess I guess that’s all you'll find Jane eyed her for an interval then waid: “You and I are the only women for miles about in this country. We are near neighbors as neighbors go in the mountains; do you think this is the best way to start in being friends?” Said anything about bein’ nds 7" ‘tl want to be your friend.” The sincerity of this baiked the girl and her eyes became puzzled. “I want to be your friend.and want you for my friend. We can help each other in @ good many way: don't recollect askin’ for your help.” ‘No, but IT want to give it to you and I want to ask yours in return. We are here in a big country, We are all dependent to an extent on those about us. Non along 60 well alone working together. “Like, turnin’ folks out im the rain at night, for instance?” Jane's cheeks flame “I don't understand,” she said. “Think it over an’ maybe you will! The girl's eyes blazed uncovered ha‘e, but as they took Jane in again from hat to boots a curious envy showed in them. “['ve seen how much you big out- fits want to help poor folks bi she said, I know al) about that,’ “A shame!” Jane whispered. “I like kids,” he said later, as though his mind had been on noth- ing else. “I like all kids, but I feel sorry for a lot of 'em. . . for most of ‘om. . . . Every kid that’s born ought to have a chance, a fair show against the workl, because the old world don't seem to like kids any too much “That gir didn’t have a chance, never will have it. She was marked trom the day she was born. “Why, ma’am, one winter I worked for a cow man down in the Salt River valley which is in Arizona. He did- n't have a big outfit, he didn't have much luck; trouble with his water, his cattle got sick and his horses didn't do well and he had just one dose of trouble after another. “But he had three kids, ail row they seemed,”—indicating the progressive heights with his hand. “I think they was the happiest kids T've ever sen. I always think of ‘em when I see kids that've had to grow up like that girl T remember thoso mornin’s when we used to start out for a day's ride, looking back and seeing those kids playing in the dirt beside the rose bushes. ir clothes was dirty the minute they stepped outside and their bands an’ faces was a sight from the 'dobe, but there was roses in their cheeks as bright as| th’ roses on the bushes and they laughed loud and their eyes always smiled + like that Arizona sky, which ain't got a match anywhere. “This man and his wife just buck- led down an’ bucked old Mister Hard | Luck from the word Go, for them kids! They sure thought the world of ‘em. I guess that was what put the roses in, thelr cheeks and the smiles in their eyes. 4 “I'll never forget those kids by the} rose bushes with somebody to care! for ‘em and work their hearts out! for ‘em. That's the way kids ought t> grow up; not like that catamgunt, grew up.’ | He smiled in reminiscence, and his smile was tender. | “Roses and kids," he repeated after awhile. “They ought to go together,”” He looked at Jane and saw that her eyes were filmed, | torm. in a Other toa: Boston at New York. bitterly. “Maybe it's a good thing you come here to-day so you'll get to understand, first hand, instead of sendin’ your men around to learn things for you. “We've come a long ways. We've been on th’ move ever since I can recollect. Folks have offered to help us before, an’ they have helped us . . + to’ decide to move. We've come to stay here; we can take care of ourselves; we don't ask nothin’ but to be let alone, an’ we're goin’ to be fet, alone if we bave to make it stick with gun play.” She had advanced and, hands on her hips, weight on one foot, spoke the last with her face close to Jane her head nodding in slow emphasis. 1 trust it won't come to that,” Jane sald evenly, She had not flinched, but studied the girl carefully, impersonally, though the color in her cheeks had died; her face was repose, her bearing dignified and as- sured, yet without suggestion of any superficial superiority, “It it does come to that it will not be because | am unwilling to do all that is reason- able. I have came down here to talk to you, which ahould be evidence of my good faith; I have been frank. You meet me as though I had come to cheat you or drive you out. I don't think that te fair.” The other drew back a step, clearly puzzled again. Her face, in spite of its forbidding expression, was very beautiful, “That gounds all right,” she said at length, but I've heard it before and I know how much it's worth, You aint my kind, You don't belong her and I do, You don't want to be my friend. . you wouldn't know how. “Ail we want is to be let alone, Our business ajn't yours an’ we won't try to maRe yours ours. Have you said| all you wanted to say?” “No, not quite all, but it you won't listen ‘to me, If you won't believe there is only one more thing I any time you want to talk to n your plans. “and what is our business to you?"" will be ready to work with yo do tay share, and maybe a little more, Th ope there will be no trouble, for it (Another Exciting Chapter Monday.) an|and there was talk of it gay; You Will know where to find me |lengtn in stealthy jubilation 1 to miles ‘from his ranch She rode closer to him, until her! knee touched his cha nd said: “T think that is beautifuly Roses} and kids, .I shall always remembet| it; always.” . . | know now the man she loved, | the n whose love she would win, the man behind that e: ating | front of cautic r and keen mind were interested only in! realities and yet he could display a} tenderness more delicate than she had | ever before encountered in men. He was strong, and as gentle as he was! strong; he was generous while a} skeptic; he had poise and personality. CHAPTER XI. fenced. It was the Reverend who | brought word of the fencing. | holding services and selling pens, and on his way back from the lower reaches of Coyote Creek he stopped i} HE water in Devil's Hole was He had made a circuit of the ranches, to call on the Coles. His visit was er. You Cleaner @id not mention to Hepburn, He saw Bobby Cole riding beside a man who did not wear the her country but who wore ie riding clothes; who did not talk with the self-consciousness of a mountain man who rides beside a pretty girl, but who leaned toward her and talked engagingly, so engagingly that the girl lost her hostile attitude and Jooked up into hia face with wide, pager eyes, » fencing stirred the country as nothing had done since the firet and, only time sheep bands attempted to | come in. be ta of { town, there was talk of it when men met on trail or road, there was talk of it in ranch houses down the creek elsewhere is givin: as or write thirty it tley of the Bar Z rode tne to discuss with Jane Hunter, ¥ +") WN. + Bu be The following records inciude games played Wednesday. NATIONAL LEAGUE with a left hook to jaw. Bloom’s first fight since he returned from England. He boxed in wonderful the } NATIONAL LEAGUE, w.L PO. GAMES YESTLRDAY. Phitedetphia, 4; New "York, 2 (8 innings; rain). GAMES TO-DAY. Now York at Philadeiphia, Brooklyn at Boston. Cineineati at Pittsbargh. AMERICAN LEAGUE, 8 3 727 Philadelphia. 4 596 Detroit. GAMES YESTERDAY. Boston, 4; New York, 2. Phitadelphia, 9; Washington, 6. Cleveland-Detroit (wet grounds). not scheduled. GAMES TO-DAY. Philadelphia at Washi Cleveland at Detroit. i] Atlast a Vacuum Cleaner within reach of ail Requires No Electricity You have often expressed the desire to o7 desire, as the Reeves Vacuum is suited for every tachments included for clean- ing mattresses and upholstery, requires no electrical connec- tion, always ready for use, costs nothing to operate, abso- lutely noiseless and no part to get out of order. give satisfaction. The Reeves Vacuum Cleaner satisfaction in over jomes. tested and approved by leading institutions and societies, LEADING METROPOLITAN AND HOUSEHOLD SPE If your local dealer cannot supply you, phone Circle £287, ORLI LEAGUE AVERAGES BATTING. 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Cin. .... q : that. envy again. a lerasder, Chicas > So A eer After a time Jane said: eater, ie, 2 | ao ar) “A queer creature, that girf.” facts, Ge Lou } Ne i ee peck from the start!” Beck | Marqard, Bitya 1 Bc He ae i ‘Toney, Ni Y. Le 1 “And beautiful!” Brett, Balin ee 2} “Ain't she, though? . . . Poor kid!| Vantin, Ohsass 3 % 1 I've seen 'em kids of movers | Goover, Pitts B83 1 3 like that, not so good lookin’, not so | Rema NyZi, ‘eo ee smart as ghe is, but like her because Pail ; 1 they was always suspicious, alwaya ney, 8 i ready to scrap. . . . Bloom Scores Knockoat. 8 ¢ 1 “That’e because they've never had] | PROVIDENCE, JR 1 May, ay Waitin teas of oom knocked gut Joe night | vite © waa, eipe m ene STOUsHE UP in | BOC en cct in the weventh round | Ouines, Dera ae This was Joe Burman Given Raw Deal. 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