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Phone 191 r• 06 B4IIE LAKE RANCH Jacksn Oreg07 Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons WHAT HAPPENED SO: FAR Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trev- ors, manager, is deliberatly wrecking the property owned by .Judith San WT IC -1r�.1T AD\rANCV.,HTIMES far' �'' 't as stronger, when while, seeing that Judith did in fact they were .104,1 Blue lake, have herself in hand, Bud Lee, with Greene the forester, came .at last a hidden pressure of her hand, left them, hurrying on ahead, trying to up the ntaizntain. He noted the iso- reach Carson or some of the men in t it approvingly* p ' lated tree, nodded aPocket Valley and to get horses. As he drew nearer the ranch Lee saw smoke rising from the north ridge. Again he could turn his made a brief tour around the charred circle, extinguishing a burning brand here and there., "What sort ' of a fool would want to climb way up here to start a, fire, anyway?" he grumbled. Then, unexpectedly, he came upon the happiest -looking man he had ever seen, with his arms about an amaz- ingly pretty girl. Not just the" sort of thing a' lone forest ranger counts upon stumbling upon on the top of a mountain, Greene stared in bewild- erment, Bud Lee turning a flaming red. Judith smiled, "Good morning, stranger," said Lee "Fine day, isn't. it?" Judith laughed.. Greene. continued to stare. Lee went a trifle redder. "If you two folks just started that fire for fain," grunted Greene finally, "why, then, all I've got to say is. you've got a' blamed queer idea of fun. Here I've been busting myself wide open to get to it." "Haven't got a flask of brandy on you, have you?" asked Lee. "Yes, I have. And what's more. I'm going to take a shot at it right now. If anybody asks you, I need it!" Now, Lee heard for the first -time something of Judith's'adventure. For, recognizing the ranger in' Greene, she told him swiftly why she had started the fire, of her trouble with Quinnion of the cave where Quinnion had at- tacked her and of Mad Ruth. He swept off his hat' and came forward, n suddenly apologetic and very human, proffering his brandy, insisting with Lee upon her taking'a sip. of it. Yes, he knew Mad Ruth, he knew where her cabin was. He could find the cave from Judith's description. Also, he knew of Quinnion and he would be delighted to break a record getting back to his station and to White Rock, White Rock was in the next county, but so, for that matter, was the cave. He'd get the sheriff and would lose no time cornering Quinnion if the man had not already, slipped away. "I don't know you two real well," said Greene, with a quick smile at the end, "but if you don't mind, pardner," and he put out his hand to Lee, "I'd Iike to congratulate you! I don't know a man that's quite as lucky this morning as you are!" "Thank you," laughed -Judith.: She rose and shook hands too. "We're at Blue Lake ranch for the present. Come and see us." "Then you're Miss Sanford?" said Greene. He laughed. "I've heard of you more than once. Greene's my name." "Lee's mine," offered Lee. "Bud Lee, eh? Oh, you two will do! `So long, friends. I'm off to look up Quinnion.": And, swinging his axe blithely, Word is seat to Lee that Quinnion has been casting slurs'on Judith's name because of the night she and Lee were together in the cabin. With Carson, Lee finds Quinnion, worsts him in a fight and makes him confess young woman, her cousin, publicly he is'a liar, and agree to ford, a y g leave the vicinity. Pollock Hampton, and, Timothy Gray, hisjob. Judith After the kissing incident, Judith decides to throw up J Lee,who would go away, but arrives and announces she has bought ignores Gray's share in the ranch and will finds himself unable. Judith sees a run it. She discharges Trevors. letter to Pollock Hampton from a on the ranch dislike, tak- firm' with which Trevors has been con- ingThe: mete large con- ing bysubdu- nected,: offering to buy a g orders from a girl, her si nment cattle and horses at a of a vicious horse and proving g` ' thorough knowledge of ranch life, ridiculously low figure. n Ham Hampton iss Judith wins the best of them over. addressed' as "general ma age the Blue Lake outfit. Judith is vag- uely unseasy. In her absence Hamp- ton decides to accept the offer. Lee protests strongly. He learns 'from Marcia Langworthy that Judith is supposed to have gone to see her lawyers at San Francisco: A tele- gram from her orders Hampton to • THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Phone 231, Wingham Lee decides to stay. Convinced her veterinarian, Bill Crowdy, is treacherous, Judith dis- charges him, re-engaging an old friend of her. father's, Doc. Tripp. Pollock Hampton, with a party of, friends, conies to the ranch to stay permanently. Trevors, accepts Hamp- ton's invitation to visit ,,the ranch. Judith's messenger is held up and robbed of the monthly pay roll. Bud Lee goes', to the city for more money, getting back safely with it, though his horse is killed under him. Both he and Judith see Trevor's hand in the crime. Hog cholera, . hard to account for, breaks out on the ranch. Judith and Lee, investigating the Lee .tells Carson and Hampton of scene of the holdup, climb a'moun- his suspicions. Hampton jeers at the. tain, where the robber must have hid- idea. In Judith's room they find a den.. Stock sell the stock at the prices offered. Greene, took his departure. Lee refuses to accept the message as'There are other things in the world besides just cliffs to stare at," 7 said Judith. "And I would like a bath and a change of clothes and a chance to.brush my hair. .And the bacon doesn't taste so good as it did and 1 want an apple and a glass of milk." So at last they left the mountain- top and made, their slow way down. As they went Lee told her some- thing of what had:happened at the ranch, how Carson would hold off the buyers, how Tommy Burkitt was as stoning charge of Pollock Hampton. And when they came near enough to. Burkitt's and:Hampton's hiding -place, Lee fired a. rifle several times to get Burkitt's attention. Finally they saw the boy, standing against the sky up- on a big rock, waving to them. From Lee's shouts, from his gestures, chief- ly from the fact that Judith was there,`` Burkitt understood and freed Hampton, the two of them coming swiftly down to Judith and Lee. Hampton face was hot with the an- ger. which' had grown overnight, He came on stiffly, shafing'his wrists. "These two fools," he snapped to Judith, "have made an awful mess of things. They've queered the deal with Doan, Rockwell & Haight, they've inade themselves liable to prosecut- ion, for holding ire against my will, they've—" "Wait a minute, Pollock," saiii Ju- dith quietly. "It's you who have made a mistake. Briefly, she.told him what had hap- pened. As word after ward of her account fell upon Hampton's ears, his eyes widened, the, stiffness of his bearing fell away, the glint of anger went: out of his eyes, a look of wott- der came into them, And when she but for Judith to rest and get some, had finished, Hampton dM riot liiesi- of her strength back.. Lee made of his coat and vest a seat for her against a rock, sat at her side, his ` lean against arm about her, trade het g hire, and just be happy, Not yet would he let her tell hire of the horrors through which she had gone. And.he g saw no need of 'telling her anything immediately of conditions as he had left theta. at the ranch. Time enough' coming from Judith, the conviction' forcing itself upon him that Trevors has kidnapped her and is holding her prisoner. NOW READ ON R,ICHARD R. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address i . R. 1, Gorrie, Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. note` from Doc. Tripp asking Judith A cabin in a flower -planted clearing to visit him, as he has been shot and excites Judith's admiration. It is cannot come to the ranch. They learn ' J hedoes not sayso. from Tripp he has not been hurt and Lees, though They are fired on from ambush, and did not send the message. Convinced Lee wounded. Answering the fire, now of Judith's imminent danger Lee they make for the cabin. Here they sets out to find her. find Bill Crowdywounded. Dragging Judith finds herself in a cave where him into the building, they find he she has been conveyed after being the moneytaken from Judith's kidnapped. She knows her abductors Lias messenger. Beseiged in the cabin, are Trevors and Quinnion. Trevors stay all'night. gives her in charge of a demented they are compelled tog at the.ranch, becomes woman known as ""Mad Ruth," repot- Hampton,.uinnion's, mother. Catch - Tommy longabsence. With ed to he .Q uneasy at Judith's her ing Quinnion off his guard, Judith Burkitt he goes to seek r he cave. She is forced arriving in time to drive, the attack- escapesfrom t to descend the mountain, Quinnion err off, attd capturing one man, who known as""Shorty," pursuing and calling to Mad Ruth to is "intercept her at the bottom of the Shorty escapes from imprison- cliff. meet in the graiiiliouse of the ranch, Judith drops on. Mad Ruth, partial - to disgust of Carson, cow fore- . p ' to the d sge- ly stunning her, and gets away safe - man, wlto;had him in charge. Lee b y, With the one match she possess - gins toa feel a fondness for Judith, tho'es she lights a beacon fire and sinks' he realizes she is not his womanly to sleep utterly exhausted. ideal. Marcia Langworthy, ,one of c and : a forest ranger find Hampton's party, typical city girl, is Bttd Leg pher, almost at the limit of her' ender- more to his taste. ance. Reproaching himself for . his The discovery is made that pig- impulsive action in kissing her., Jud- goons, with hog cholera germs on nth admits the salute was not unwcl- their feet, have been liberated' on the come. Leaving her with Marcia at ranch. Lee captures a stranger Dick. the ranch, Lee decides itis up to hire Donley, red-handed, with an accom— to have an interview with Trevors. puce, a cowboy known as 'c1'okct Face": Donley has brought more pi- For a little there was nothing to' do geons to the ranch. At a dance given in honor of Hampton's friends Lee appears its ,ev- ening dress. He is recognized by orie of the party as an aid; acquaintance. Dave . Lee, once wealthy but ruined by trusting false friends. Judith, in. her womanly finery snakes sticks an appeal to Lee that, alone with her, .lel? ._. . he forcibly kisses her,: receiving the r'cbttice deserved, DRS. A. J. & A. �'�° , IRWIN DENTISTS ffice MacDonald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER II NITURE AND FTJ NEgAL SERVICE S A, J. Walker i r and l':�icet eel I"un oral Director Embalmer. ?Bone 106. lies, Phone 224. ice est Lirttottsine Panoral Coaela. Presently Carson Came Riding to in front Carson fighting buyers. stool saddlehe ven offhorns.wasitold hisLakePocketthat-tossing Valley from. above, he foundhis string of horses feeding quietly.Be- yond, the cattle. At first he thought that the animals had been left their own devices. He saw no riderany- where. Hurrying on, he shouted loudly. After he had called repeated- ly, there floated to him from some- where down on the lower flat swering yell. And presently Carson himself came riding to meet Carson's face was'smear with blood; one bruised, battered discol- ored eye was swelling shut, buthis uninjured eye was triumphantglad- "We got the sons -o' -guns the run, Bud," he announced fromafar. "Killed their pesky fires outbefore they got .a good start, crippled cou- ple of 'em, counting Benny, cook, in' on the deal, chased theirdeputy sheriff off with a flea in. his an' set tight, holding our own." "Where'd you get the eye, Carson," demanded Lee. Carson grinned broadly, evil grin of a distorted,.battered "You want to take a goodat of Poker Face," he chuckl "He won't cheat no more gamescrib for a coon's, age. I jus' n iy. beat him all to 'h—1, Bud." "Where are the rest of the?" Lee asked. "Watching the fires an' seeingno more don't get started." Then. Lee. told him of Juc Car- son's good eye opened wide in- terest. Carson's bruised lipssought to form for" a whistle which ed to give them the air of a maidenly pout. "He bad the nerve's' he ed.. "Trevors had - the , nerve! we ought to make a little callthat gent." Then, seeing Lee's face,on realized that anything hem have to remark on this scoresuper- fluous. Lee had already thoughtof that. They roped a couple of wan- dering horses, improvised h� res from' the rope' cut in two, went to meet Judith. Carson snatched eag- erly at her hand and squeezedand looked inexpressible things his one useful eye• He gave h led horse to her, watched her Lee ride on to the ranch, and Tom- my to the old cabin for anotherrope, while he rounded up some hor- ses' in a narrow canyon forvitt and :FIampton.' "You d—n fool," he said growling- ly to Hampton, "look whatyou've done." "Of course I'm a d ---n re- plied Hampton, by now'hischeer- fol self. '"I've apologized Judith and Lee and Burkitt. I a to you, I'll tell you confides that I'm a sucker and a Corse- lie. I haven't got the brains jack- rabbit," Carson went away grumbling.But. for the first tinie he felt a re- spect for Pollock Hampton, "l~Ie'll be a real ratan ay, thought Carson, "if the fool -killer don't pick hint off first." .�, tate. I -re turned quickly and put out his two hands, one to Lee, one to Burkitt. "I was a chump, same as usual," 1, be grunted, "Trorget it if, yott can, 'I can't,yr a re swiftly now They went on mo , the four of them together, Judith in- sisting i- i, itthat that last '`of brandy S St ig sip had put new life into bet, In a little come'Whowasn't?"aBud.fairSay,AswiftevidencedairytheitwhenthemstandLeeCarsonwithnodded.fists, Then LeeslowlyhischangedLee's •"It'sMelvin,Budhavelasttheindroppedbe!"Carson'sdid.thanhesteppedold Lee "You may come ands 'this Melvin, the company's ,president. cvcnit g," Judith told Budas he Carton looked curiously at ' Lse, la'^aroia's arm 1 be 13tid dismounted, dropped his hor- left her to eating and sleeping and t baths se's reins, shifted his revolver from e e h a 0 f , forward, T the drawer of the quick as light, and capon which lay Tirevors!" came e. "I've got you two -gen style." Cd' on page seven A -bright smile and an old gown are a good deal better than a bright new gown and a frown, • � stik"rLitssi �. 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