The Clinton News Record, 1942-10-22, Page 2'AGE''2
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CHAPTER XIII
SNYOPSIS
• Dave Brice, out of a job, arrive
at Wilbur Ferris' Cross -Bar ran
Curran, the foreman, promises him
job if he can break' a horse ealle
Black Dawn..- When hesucceeds, ,
discovers Curran expected the hors
to kill him. A girl, named Lois ride
up', angry . with Dave for breakin
"her" horse. She refuses to speak t
Mtn even when he uses his savings t
pay off the mortgage on the ,sma
ranch sire -shares with her fost
father, a man named Hooker. B
when -Hooker is slibt and Dave i
charged with the murder, Lois save
him from being lynched. Wounde
she guides hint to a mountain cav
where she thinks they will be . sa
from Curran and the sheriff's posse
A -quarrel, between Ferris and; Judg
Lonergan reveals that Ferris ha
killed his partner, Blane Rowland
many years before. Thoroughly scar
ed Ferris takes Curran into his con
fidence. • When Dave is away fro
the cave, Curran kidnaps Lois. Mean
while Dave discovers a human skelet
on with a bullet hole through th
skull. When he later finds Lois gon
he enlists the aid of Sheriff Coggs
well, who is now convinced of his in
nocence. They go to the cabin Wirerthey have learned Lois is being hel
a prisoner, unaware that Ferris an
Curran have already brought Judg
Lonergan there to kill him. Curran
however, double crosses Ferris an
the sheriff arrives on the scene. I
the fight that follows Curran escapes
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body of Pedro, and bent down. A
glance showed hint that the man was
dead. He ran' back to Lois.
"I want yuh to try to make yore
way along the trail back to the cave,"
he told her. "I'nt. goin after Curran,
and there ain't no time to lose. If
that snake gets away, there'll be no
peace in the valley, no peace for you
darling. I got to go."
The night was clear, and though
there was no moon Dave could see
his way clearly in the light of the
stars. He was descending from the
last mesa to the range when sudden-
ly he heard the sound of riders, He
drew rein and listened.
In another moment the riders came
into sight, four men riding almost
abreast. But these men wore riding
breeches, or trousers tied at the knee,
not chaps, and it was light enough to
see that they were not waddles.
"Hold her there, feller!" shouted
one of them, as he espied Dave rein
in.
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Dave, sitting easily on the black,
waited for the four to gallop up to
hint. There was no demand to ele-
vate, but each of the four had his
hand on, his gun butt. It was the
horse they recognized before the
man.
"Black Dawn!" shouted~ the fore-
most.
"Yeah, Sims, and I'm Dave Bruce,"
answered Dave. "The sheriff told
me this afternoon he'd got four de-
puties riding around the mesa. Wel,
I want yuh fellers, and I want yuh
pronto." • , • .'
"Not so bad as I want you, Bruce,"
said Sims. "Yuh best put up yore
hands. Yuh can't shoot it out with
the four of us,"
"Sims, yore head seemed kind of
thick to me when I saw yuh in
Mescal," said Dave. "Sheriff Coggs-
well and me trapped Lonergan and.
Curran in the shack at the end of
the gully up there." He pointed
with his right hand toward the
heights,
"They'd lured Ferris there and
killed shim. Lonergan's in cuffs, and
Curran's got away. He's ridin' hell-
bent for the' Cros's-Bar house now,
no doubt, to get his greaser gang.
I'm after him." •
"What the—!" Lonergan? In cuffs?
Yo're a slick talker, Bruce."
"Maybe, but every second we stay
here talking' gives Curran a'few
yardk more of leeway," answered
Dave.
"We got to git Curran, Sims,"
shouted one of the four. "That's
what the sheriff sent us here for.
Maybe this hombre's lyin' • but I'm
for talon' a chance he ain't."
"You'd best take that chance,
Sims," said Dave grimly,
"I'nf with yuh, Bruce," said Sims.
"Takin' yuh at yore word. But I'll
takeoro un.
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The five turned their horses and
raced across the range. And soon
the lighted bunkhouse of the' Cross-
Bar appeared, far out over the range.
Between the house andd'the riders no-
thing was : visible but the rolling
grassland.
They were" nearing the ranchhotjse
now. They could see the silhouettes
of men, passing and repassing in
front of the door,l7lotting out the
lights as they moved.
"He's where," called Dave, "He's
gettin' his crowd together. We got
to take Curran alive. They'll make
a fight for it—"
HIS words were cut short as a •gsnt
'cracked at _a distance of fity yards.
The five had been sighted, but the.
Mexican; who hadd"'fired • prematurely
bad extinguished Gurran's hopes of
another ambuscade.
As they paused for an instant to
jam in fresh cartridges, Curran's
voice could be heard somewhere
among the • shadows, cursing his men.
There came another volley.
Dave felt a searing pain in his
left arm as 'a thrown knife gashed
the muscles. Thethrowercarne on
with a leap. Seeing a knife uprais-
ed, Dave brought down his revolver
muzzle on the man's head, smashing
it like an eggshell.
Two men flung themselves upon
Sims, who was swinging his gun in
an ace about his head, Leaping for-
ward, Dave sent one of then sense-
less to the grous\d. Sims swung his
gun and knocked the other cold.
"Thanks, Bruce;' lie gasped.
Then Dave whirled as a man came
breaking through 'toward him. It
was Curran. The foreman had hung
back, intending to let the Cross -Bar
crowd do his fighting for him. But
the sight of Bruce had driven him
mad with rage and transformed his
face into the mask of 'a wild beast.
He leaped, gun in hand, and snapped
the trigger, the nuzzle a foot from
Dave's forehead.
Dave had just warning enough to
swing his head aside. The blast
of the powder burned his cheek
black front chin to temple. He
swung his revolver nuzzle in a
narrow are and landed on Curran's
face. nl+ �j Ei�
Shrieking horribly with anguish,
Curran turned and ran.
Otrran's course of flight was tak-
ing him toward the horses that the
attacking- party had left standing.
And then of a sudden a shout of
triumph bust from Curran's throat,
and at the same moment Dave saw
the five horses, bunched together.
He fired his last shot, and it went
wild. Curran must have heard the
click of the hammer on a spent
cartridge as Dave pulled the trigger
again, for -lie turned and roared
curses at his pursuer.
"I'll see yuh again, yuh swine!"
he bellowed. "I'll git yuh, Bruce!"
Aged blindly Curran grasped at the
mane of the horse that stood nearest
him, ands thrust foot into the stirrup.
That was where fate intervened
and stacked the cards against him.
For the horse was Black Dawn.
With a 'squeel of fury, Black Dawn
whirled and seized the foreman's leg
in his strong teeth, crushing it, and
dragging ,Curran shrieking from the
saddle. He flung him to the ground,
and shrieks of man and horse blend-
ed together in a hideous pandemon-
ium as Curran struggled helplessly
to escape.
Dave tried to whistle to Black
Dawn, but the stars were circling
overhead, and he collapsed, half con-
scious on the ground near the dead
man.
The stinging taste of whisky in
his mouth revived hint. Dave opened
his eyes and, saw that it was dawn.
He was lying where he had fallen,.
but a blanket had been spread be-
neath him. He felt a stab of pain in
left arra, looked• at it, and saw that
his shirt sleeve had been cut away,
and that the wound had been bandag-
ed.
"Dave! Oh, Dave, are you all
right?"
It was Lois bending over him, her
tears 'dropping upon bis face. Be-
side her stood Sheriff Coggswell.
The horses and 'Curran's body were
gone.
"I'm all right," Dave mumbled.
"`Black Dawn? He's safe?"
"He's safe, Dave." It was the
sheriff who answered hint.
' Dave was getting on his feet.
"Curran — c' Black Dawn trampled
him—"•he began. ,
"Yeah, he's dead," saidi Coggswell.
"Set down, if yuh won't lie .'d'own."
He rolled a cigarette and handed it
to Dave, squatting beside him. "Shins
got them Mexicans rounded sup and
hogtied. l? picked up Miss Lois when
I was ridin' in. Frverything's jake,
boy, andj yo're cleared.:.
"Lonergan talked to a -certain point
last night, and then he shut up ;tight.
Sb I went down to examine the body
in the gully. Ferris was still-. al}ve,
and anxious to make an :ante-mortem
statement. He just had time to come
through with it before casltin' in.
"That "skeleton,yuh found in, the
ravine was Blame i .Rowland's. I'd
knowed it since yuh spoke about his.
leg Navin' been broke, Rowland was
-kicked by a hawss and broke his leg.
He always limped after 'that, ,on
account -of -its -Ira -yin', been badly set.-
"Ferris'- lured,Rowland into the
Bills with a storof gold''' deposits,
and, murdered him. Then he cooked:'
up that story aboitit Rowlandshav-
ingforged the check and skipped
;the country, so as to git the whole
rights to' the Goss-B'ar in his own
hands.
"Then he 'got into difficulties. Ei-
ther he went to Lonergan, or Loner-
gan found out, ; Lonergan had Fer-
ris where he wanted him' after that.
He .get that twenty ,thousand, and
he got a mortgage on the Cross -Bar
by medns of a fictitious loan, that
Ferris never received He bled
him steady, till Ferris was desp'rate.
"Then he put Curran in. Curran
was wanted for murder in Missouri,
and Lonergan knew Ciirtan would
do just what he told him. So, when
Ferris -refused to quit and leave
this' part of the country, there was
nothing to do but put him on the spot,
Ferris bein' ready to face a life sen-
tence if he could git back at Loner-
gan. Curran got Ferris to the cabin,
purtendin' he'd lure Lonergan there
and kill him, but he double-crossed
him. That's' what I got from Ferris
before he died.
"Went back to Lonergan with them
facts, and Ferris' cross under the
signature I wrote out in the dark, at
the bottom of the gully. Lonergan
broke down and told the rest, though
he refused to sign a confession. He
claimed Curran murdered Mr. Hooker
but it's a safe bet Lonergan sent hilt
to do'it, We can't prove that, hut
we got enough evidence• to send Lon
ergair up for a stiff term."
Coggswell paused in his story and
rolled Dave another Cigarette. "Miss
Lois is Blane Rowlands's d'aughter,"
lie said. "Rowland's wife had divor-
ced him and he'd come West, leavin'
Miss Lois :,with her mother. He'd
never spoke alzout his wife and
danlghter, but Lonergan found out
when he went, through his papers.
After that, Lonergan's maim idea
was to keep Miss Lois from gittin'
her share of the ranch.
"IIe got the Hookers to take her
from the orphanage where she'd been
put after her mother died, and kept
her on the mesa, so as to keep her
under his eye. Well, Hooker had
been findin' out things, and got to
shootin' off his mouth, so Lonergan
sent Curran to the cabin to kill and
put the crime on yuh.
"Way things stand now, Miss Lois
is half -owner of the Cross -Bar, and
if Ferris had any heirs, they got to
pay up that twenty thousand that
was stolen, which means in dfect
that Miss Lois is the sole owner.
And now I told yuh everything, I—
I'll see yuh later Bruce."
Coggswell got up and strode away.
"There goes the whitest man I ever
knew Lois," Dave said, "I can't tell
yuh how glad I am things have clear-
ed up in this way. Yuh won't need
to be ridin' through the mountains
with me now. Why, yo're an heir-
ess."
"Yes Dave," answered Lois wist-
fully. She kneeled beside him and
laid her cheeks against his. "Is that
all that you have to tell me, Dave?"
"I reckon I told yuh all, Lois,
,But things have changed now, and
you—"
"1 shall never be any different,
Dave. I never change. Dave, don't
,tell me yon—you've stopped caring?"
"Stopped Barin'?. Why, I-1—"
Dave caught the little figure in his
arms and looked into her woeful face
"Now stop that," he said, or yuh'li
find yuh've got a caveman for a hus-
band instead of just a waddy. Don't
cry any more." '
"I — I'm not — crying, I'm
1 -1 -laughing, Dave," Lois sobbed.
(THE END)
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Chimneys are ,Unsafe
That one out of every four farm
chimneys is unsafe and liable to start
a fire, is probably a conservative
estimate.' That practically all farm-
house firesare caused by defective
chimneys or faulty heating equip-
ment, is an absolute fact. With the
long heating season just ahead, it
behooves every one of us to check on
our chimneys, stove pipes and stoves,
at once:
Most chimney fires start just be
lose the roof, where they are not
immediately noticed, - where they
"have time to take a terrible grip,
where they are the hardest to fight.
Here it is that mortar goes "rotten"
and bricks go soft; here it is that a
joist may have been carelessly built
into the very- chimney structure,
Every attic should have an opening
in order that the chimney may be
inspected for these hazards. Chim-
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Mick, for cracks, -'breaks, rotten
mortar soft bricks and, open joints.
Be positive that no joints, beams or
other 'wood is set into the brickwork,
'Furthermore, no chimney is safe
that has an offset, that has a "jog"
or step in it. It must be straight in
order that the draft be not baffled,
otherwise sparks and soot will lodge
in the chimney or the pipes.
Unused pipe openings closed with
paper or wood converts a'house into
a death trap. Needless to say that
all such, holes should be closed with
metal, asbestos or cement. Any
wood.within four inches' of the chim-
ney or the pipes should be covered
with asbestos.
It has been proved that the height
of a chimney above the roof has an
important bearing on . safety. On
ridged or 'peaked roofs it should' ex-
tend at least two feet beyond the
peak, and o; flat roofs at least three
feet. No expense should be spared
to make our - chimneys, stoves and
pipes safe. .Isn't it a fact that a
few 'dollars spent on the work now
may save thousands; later and
perhaps save life itself?
ANTIDOTE
More laughter in its verse today
b Y.
Is what the world requires
To light its s torch of courage gay,
And douse its funeral pyres;
For if the Muse's gentle art '
Bp for the sad alone,
Why sadden more a saddened heart
By tendering a groan?
Nay, forge from smiles your •spades of
verse
To bury Giant Gloom
Then watch the daunted clouds •dis-
perse
- Above his sun -lit tomb.
Down, Ares, up Euphrosyne!
All hail the nymph of smiles!
No world that worships her can be
Cowed bly the War -God's wiles.
Montreal Alan MacLachlan
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WATKIN'S
Service Station
Phone 18
Huron St.
Sunoco Products
Goodrich Batteries
Lubrication, A -Z
Brucefield Garage
WM. H. DALRYMPLE
Sunoco, Gas—Oil—Grease
General Repairs to A11 Makes
of Cars, Acetylene and Electric
Welding, Machinist and Mill-
wright.
Phone Clinton 618r4
Brucefield, Ont.
REG. BALL
Shell Service Station
Gas and Oil
Your present car may have to
last a long time. Have us lubri-
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intervals and keep it rolling.
Phone 5 No. 8 Highway
JOE McCULLY & CO.
General Merchants
Sunoco Gas and Oils
Seaforth
31.1159
Brucefield, Ont.
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