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rot.;,
Riders
for the
HOG it- Owl
by G. H, SHARP
CHAPTER FIVE
(Continued from last week)
"Two sweaty saddle blankets,
still warm, Webb. Blake and AU -
bot are here. We got 'eni."
The match burned out. The dark-
ness seemed more opaque than be-
fore. Their whispered voices
sounded blurred.
"You better wait, Webb, till the
boys git here. There's Triangle men
aplenty in that bunkhouse."
"I got to tackle Abbot now, Tex.
He'll be at the big house and Blake
will be with him. I'm killin' 'em
where 1 find 'em. I'll pay off Bob
Anderson's debt. After that, nothin'
matters."
"Then let's go, cowhand,"
They left their horses in a wil-
low thicket and went on foot to-
ward the house.
Now they stopped, crotched by
the wide porch of the big log house
that was a duplicate of Abbot's
house in Rinir•ock. They crouched
low, listening.
CHAPTER SIZ.
Rimrock Roundup
Webb and Tex heard the muf-
fled sound of voices inside the
house. The clump of boot heels, the
dragging of spur rowels on the
floor. Now a voice, the drunken
voice of Ab Abbot, • raised in a
growling roar, came to the list-
eners.
"Fifteen thousand is too much,
Blake, Webb Winter's hide ain't
worth more than a thousand. That
Texan's scalp is worth less. I got
a mind to do the job myself,"
"Then hop to it," -they heard
Joe Blake's snarl. "Take to 'ern,
Abbot. Then see what'll happen to
you. You got a mind to do it your-
self, have yuh? Then I might just
as well haul my freight. I ain't
needed. Good luck, big gent. You'll
need luck and lots of it."
"Hold on, Joe. Keep your shirt
tail tucked in. I want t�'inters and
Tex rubbed out but I want a clean
job done. I'll pay your price, but
it's got to be a good job."
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"Where'll I pick up the cash
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dinero?"
Like .A Fish, --The new St. Francis Xavier Church in Kansas
"I got it )fere at the ranch. There
City,' combines the inost modern
litres in church architecture
in the safe. We'll draw up a regu-
with ancient svinbolisln. Btlilt of limestone and concrete at a
lar agreement, understand, to the
cost of about $700,000, the Catholic church resembles the form
effect that when Tex Jones and
of a fish, an old
littir ical symbol,
Webb Winters are proved dead, I
making cute remarks and flirting
pay you fifteen thousand dollars
for services rendered and for your
the ighted doorway. He caught
From inside the house that had
ranch and livestock,"
a brief glimpse of Webb Winters
been plunged into darkness when
house. Then we kin tell who it is."
and of big Ab Abbot, inside. Then
Tex had shot out the light, there
"Make 'er out, Abbot."
came the roar of a gun and dark-
came the somtds of a furious
Silence Ilow. there in the house.
ness. Darkness, save for the Hash
struggle.
Webb nudged Tex as they waited.
of guns.
many bitter
Webb's temper was at a white
Hanlc Roberts was off his horse.
(Continued next week)
heat now. Tex was gripping his
his gun in his hand. !le moved
.,,::„ quarrels about
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arm.
across the porch, toward the front
—_
"Take 'er easy, Webb," whis-
"Well
door that was open.
��,
pered the tall Texan. be
From the bunkhouse came the
'z>: fashioned —and
wantin' that paper."
sounds of men telling confusedly
kz *t has even told me
"Yes." t1'ebb's whisper was
"We'll
The bunkhouse light went sud-
In 1865 in Peking, China, Pere
tense. wait, pardner."
denly dark. Men were running in
David. a French ini-
Over at the bunkhouse somebody
the darkness.
.missionary,
Peeled by curiosay, the
had lighted a lantern. Ab Abbot
Now came the pounding of shod
climbed
worked his men from before dawn
hoofs. A wild high-pitched yelp,
wall of the heavily guarded Irn-
until dark. The Triangle outfit was
like , the yapping,' pf .a coyote,
perial Park and saw a herd of
waking up.
•sounded. am men on horseback
strange deer. He reported his find
Then out of the night there
thundered toward the bunkhouse.
to the outside world. No one ever
came the sound of a horse ap-
Guns spat lire.
learned the- original habitat of this
preaching. A rider was coming.
The Hoot -Owl Pool cowboys
deer or the reason why no speci-
Webb's si-e-shooter was in his
had arrived.
Wrens, evidently, had existed out -
hand. ")Watch the front door, Tex.
Hanle Roberts kit helpless, use
side of this park,for centuries. Of
IT slip around back., I'll come in
less: powerless. to stop that wvat
the some 275 Pere David's deer
that way. If they make a break
that had so quickly , burst into
liv'ng today, 254 are owned by the
for the front door, let 'em have
flame. Ile crouched `there against
puke of Bedford in England. The
it. I don't renew who that is comm',
.
the log wall, gripped by indecisititii
other twent-one animals belong to
but I smell somethin' wrong."
No use to blunder into that house
zoological gardens in New York,
Webb and Tex were not the only
where guns were blazing. His one
London, Munich and Sydney, Aus-
ones who heard the sound of shod
and only bet was to wait.
tralia.
hoofs. Inside the house Ab Abbot's
an event 46. Charge
voice, cursing, carne to Webb and
the Texan.
"Trouble comm.
I, fixed. I'll let him i whoever
en, whoever he
li
ANN -7"'
i
is. You hide behind that sofa. You
know what to do."
�.,.
Teti tightened his grip on WeUb's
arm, His voice hissed into Webb's
-
ear.
"That ain't a Hoot -Owl rider.
"Dear Anne .Hirst:
Better lay low till we read his
What do 'you 'ti'iifak of- a wise -
brand, then we'll know who we're
cracking husband . who is always
up against, He's ridin' straight to
making cute remarks and flirting
the house. Watch when 'he passes
with any . pretty waitress, nurse,
that lighted window at the bunk-
friend, and even neighbor?
house. Then we kin tell who it is."
' ` iI think it is
The rider, travelling at a long,
swinging trot,
sr€' i:.
:; :v; sickening.
passed across the
ks.: ' We have had
light thrown by the unshaded bunk-
many bitter
house window.
: ,
"It's a feller with his face baud-
.,,::„ quarrels about
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aged," whispered Tex.
,. this habit of his.
"^"�s� r,��"`'T>A"<:
"Tt's Hank Roberts," breathed
"' He calls me old -
Webb. "They'll .kill him, Tex."
'z>: fashioned —and
"I -reckon not, Easy, feller. Know
kz *t has even told me
the location of that sofa?"
to talk more
"It's next to the fireplace. To
with men!
the right of the door as you go
"He is nniddle-aged, 'has been
in.,,
married twice before..,-'an'd is a
"All you got to do, then, is
grandfather. His marriages ended
handle Abbot. Blake is my meat.
in divorce, and he blames his ex -
Come oil!"
wives (much younger) for miscon-
Even as Sheriff Hank Roberts
duct. We have been 'married three
rode up to the big log house, he
years.
saw the door shoved open. In a
"Is this a phase' lie is going
split second saw the lanky form of
through before he really settles
Tex, .a gun in his hand, there in
�— - -- -
s, Printing to 20, frlvatb room
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pass E1. Not ma4iy
9. Needy
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10, Bangs down 34. Misery
11, Additional 35.
PUZZLE
19. Fragment 37, Skins Skins
20, Kind of meat 38, Mimic
ACROSS 2. Turkish real-
22• Side piece 39: Sumatran
22• In Favor of Wildcat
1, fight ment
24, Have obliga• 40; hian''s name
S. The girl 3. Bntanglea
tions 41, caution
8. Semicircular 4, Attractive,
26. Tavern 42. Of a historical
building part �, Dlvida 26. Performed ,period
it. winglike 27, Cover 43.*Wander
19. Dried grasa S. Lama 28. Night before 44. Dagger
14. Fuel 7. optic
an event 46. Charge
16. Charge
16. Beverage 1 2 3 4 5 8 7 8 19 Ta 11
17, Gear teeth
I.B. Frolic, 12 13
20. Steed
2t. Crude metal 15 tf
22. Male sl+cep r 17
23. Palm oft
26, Marked with tB 19 20
little depres-
alona -. ..._. '-.. _.. 2i
30. Possesses
31. White lis
12. Reside 29 24 25 2F 27 28 29
33, Resumed.
35, Broaden
86. Plant 31 32
37. Oi hirn If
38. humble 34 85
+t. Becomes dry
and faded
46, Ancient 36 37
languagt
46. Graze 39 40 41 42' 43 44-
4 7. Metal
4 8. D4s4t _ .
44, Rather than 4ti 46 47
50. Bodyof a
chareb ,19 50
51. > ^dder stay
Printmars
oaauran 1 62 53
is. Mirth
Daavrr _..._..
L sliettening A;tlswer elsewhere on tl is'pagi,
down? And am I old-fashionedi
(W*c love each other dearly.)
DISTURBED"
A LADIES' MAN
* Your husband evidently thinks
* he is still quite a man with the
* ladies, and he is all set to prove
it, ;
* Let him.
* After all, they don't object, bdo
they: