CHAFFEE
ROARING HORSE
1Y ERNEST HAYCOX
Haok Linderman at sunup
9t that morning was skinning
hides on the north side of he
river where Roaring Horse
made a slack eddy. The bluffs
here were slopinng and not
werj taiL His house stood on
top of tiie bluffs, and his ferry
swayed against its cable, also
an the north shore. The day
was young and promised to be
fresh and cold, but down in
the eddy was a vast stench
where the 8tirrup S cattle had
Dodged after being driven over
*y Tbeodorik Perrine. And he
was Skinning hides when
samcUang attracted his at
icnUon up the river. Rising
he saw s boat floating toward
him, oars gone, and twc men
sprawled against the seats in
postures of infinite, mortal
weariness Knowing as much
as tie did about this river,
Linderman was so completely
astonished that he dropped
his knife and walked three
feet Inin the water.
“Great jumpin’ Judas—
where yuh been?”
Chaffee shunted the boat
inward by sculling with his
palms Mack Moran was smok
ing a eigaret that had mira
culously escaped the deluge,
and he didn’t seem to hear
Llndenn&n. Later, when they
were nearer shore, he began
talking to himself. “We made
history. Yessir, we shore made
a lot of history in damn’ little
time. Them pearly gates
opened, and I heard distinct
a gent callin’ the roll. Got to
mj name and began lookin’
around. ‘What, not here?'
thunders Peter. ‘Nossir,’ says a
guardecn angel. ‘He’s late—
got huug up down yonder.’
Tut back that pair o’ number
lour wings, then,’ yells Peter,
land let him be deprived of
bverbufin’ joy fer another few
year*.* Then them doors
dkiscd. and I shore did hear
the lock click. We made his
tory. you bet.”
The boat touched land and
3k>Ui men crawled stiffly out.
“From Lee’s?” asken Linder
jnan, knowing it could be from
nowhere else, yet still unbe
lieving.
“Yeah.” said Chaffee. “Seen
anything of a posse on the
south bank lately?”
“And he passes it off like
that*” mourned Mack Moran,
having trouble with his legs.
"So that’s it?” grunted Lin
ferman “That’s why they was
fellas foolin’ across the river
all night long. I ain’t seen none
thi» mom in’ yet. Who would
* be. Jim?”
“Perrine- et al. Not here
recently, huh?” Chaffee
looked to Mack. "I guess they
didn't think it worth while to
ride along the rim.”
“Gorain my soul,” breathed
Underman. “Down the river
from Lee’s! Just you let me
lell this,, by the shades! Down
the river from Lee’s! I will be
Bverlaatingly condemned!”
*X3ot a couple of horses and
saddle^ Hank?” asked Chaf
fee. “Trouble over in Roarin’
Horae. New deal, and it ain’t
txatiUy on the level. I’ve got
to pull freight for a while.
Mack’s goin’ back after he’s
got Ids bearings.”
"No deal is straight with
Pcrrlne in it,” reflected Lin
leratan “Yeah, I got a couple
of horses. But, boys, I don’t
want Pcrrlne on my head.
Don’t want him to think I
willingly helped folks against
him. And, still, I wouldr’t like
to lie about it.”
“A light dawns,” murmured
Moran. He drew his gun and
waved it in Linderman’s di
rection “Fella, you see the
end of a forced re
quest"
“That's better,” grinned
Under man “I’m bein’ urged
At the point of a gun. No lie
to that Now put your hand
artillery away and climb up
tfcu slope.*’ They followed him
>1
along the trail. On the way
he spoke about the hides. "You
fellows know an awful lot of
your cattle vent over the rim?
I’m skinnin’ hides. Your fence
must be out of commission.
"Wire cut,” was Chaffee's
brief reply.
They reached the top of the
bluff. Passing the house Lin
derman raised his voice.
"Mamma, git a snack on the
table in a hurry for a couple
of outlaws.”
Mrs. Linderman peered
through the door, smiled and
disappeared. Linderman took
the partners to the barn and
indicated a pair of ponies.
"Both stout. Both a little wild.
But they’ll do. Bring ’em back
in your own good time. Now
let’s go get that snack.”
Ten minutes later Chaffee
and Moran were in the saddle.
"Well, kid,” said Mack, “be
good. Where yuh goin’?”
"Think I’ll cross Thirty
four Pass into Miles Valley.
Won’t be gone long. I hate to
run away.”
“Nothin else to do,” replied
Mack. “We got that all fig
gered. They got you on a nail,
for the time bein’. Best to
clear out so’s we boys won’t
be all complicated. That gang
ain’t got nuthin’ but a little
general hell raisin’ against
us. Won’t dare get too hostile
about it. Locklear can’t force
his hand that strong. But
they’ll go the limit to get you.
So beat it, and don’t worry.
We’re all safe. Stay away till
the fire burns down and Luis
stubs his toe.”
“It ain’t Luis altogether,”
said Chaffee, wistfully study
ing the horizons. “It’s some
body else. Woolfridge, I’m
pretty sure, though I don’t
get all his ideas. And maybe
it won’t blow over so soon.
Well, I’ll drift across the pass
and write a letter from Ban
nock City. You keep me post
ed. I ain’t going to stay away
forever. May be back in a
week or so. Meanwhile, you
watch out.”
“They ain’t got nothin’ on
me,” reassured Mack. “I’m
hittin’ home. We’ll take care
of Stirrup S.”
“I hate to go,” repeated Jim
Chaffee.
“Yeah, I know.”
“Well—so long, kid. Take
care of yourself.”
“So long Jim. Be good.”
Chaffee turned and galloped
eastward. Some yards along he
turned and Mack raised his
hand shouting: “We shore
made history.” Then Chaffee
was beyond earshot, and Mack
swung down the bluff and
crossed to the south bank on
the ferry. Hank Linderman
returned to his hides, still
marveling. Sometime later he
heard a faint gunshot report
come over the south bluff, but
he thought nothing about it.
“All the way from Lee’s,”
he muttered. “Goram my
soul!”
Chaffee went straight for
the bench. The sentinel peaks
glittered brightly in the morn
ing light, and snow covered
the slopes well below the tim
ber line. Storm caps hovered
along the summits. Veering
away from the canyon, he
reached Gorman’s Lodge at a
thousand feet abov< the
desert’s lever early in the
afternoon. He bought a couple
day’s supplies and pushed up
ward. The trail stiffened, the
first trace of snow appeared
on the ground, and the wind
grew shriller. The pass, he
knew, would be deeply banked,
but he had made this trip
previously as late as Christ
mas and he never doubted
his ability to reach the sum
mit by night and sleep in the
cabin there. From the summit
it was another day’s ride into
Bannoc City.
The sap was drained out of
jkid Regulation of
Billboards Is Proposed
toaanlo, Ont.—(UP)—More strin
<$mt regulations regarding vlve erec
den «r advertising signboards on
m adjacent to provincial highways
ara planned by ths Ontario depart
■■t el highways, according to R.
■.ttaith, deputy minister of hlgh
‘Vftn department at present levies
« taary lax against all signs which
dr ant advertise a business eon
SaM apoo Ihe property on which
dha Mituoard is situated. Mow *•
is fanned to introduce legislation
forbidding erection of signs where
they will destroy the appearance
of the countryside.
It also is planned to ban the
erection of signs within 500 feet
of road intersections and railroad
crossings. The present limit is
300 feet
FIRING HAY COSTS $30,000,000
Ames, Ja— (API—E. R. Henson
of the farm crops department,
Iowa Stata college, says farmers
lose $30,000,000 annually due to the
firing of under cured hay. More
than a pu- cent of Uia cars of
lilin, For three days ne had
been fighting and riding con
tinually; twice in that time he
had seen his very existence
trembling in the balance. The
stampede was bad enough,
but the ride through Devil’s
Boll had scattered his nerves
beyond belief. So he rode the
trail slackly. The snow grew
heavier; the wind grew whiter
with the thickening flakes.
His horse shied at something
and Chaffee fought the
animal back to the path. Dusk
found them a steep and rug
ged mile short of the cabin,
breasting the powdered drifts.
And of a sudden, from the
distance, there floated a
weird call, born abreast the
rising gale. The pony, just re
covered from a spell of skit
tishness, leaped aside. Chaffee
was sitting loese and the un
expected maneuver threw him
clear of the saddle. He struck
half on one arm and half on
his heels, the weight of his
body checked by a boulder
rising above the snow crust.
The pony wheeled and gal
loped down the trail, soon lost
in the shadows.
Chaffee’s first thought was
to rise and follow back. Push
ing himself upright, he braced
his body by the rock; as the
pressure shifted to his feet a
stab of pain ran him through.
He fell to the ground, realizing
one ankle was either broken
or so badly twisted that walk
ing was beyond question. The
rising wind In that short time
had molded fine drifts of snow
on his shoulders and in the
wrinkles of his coat.
CHAPTER XIII
Surrender
Miz Satterlee sat at one end
of the table, pushing the con
tract of sale, the deed, and the
conveyence of all Stirrup S
brands and marks down to
William Wells Woolfridge, who
sat at the other end. Josiah
Craib from his place at the
side took the legal instruments
and scanned them w:th a
severe glance. He signed as
witness, and Mark Eagle like
wise affixed his signature.
Then Eagle retired from
Craibs’ office, and Woolfridge
accepted the papers, In turn
passing a check to Miz Sat
terlee. And by the gesture all
the wide-flung land that was
the dream and the pride of
old Dad Satterlee passed out
of the name and into alien
hands. Persistence had finally
won—persistence and subter
fuge and pressure; the prop
erty now belonged to Wool
fridge.
Miz Satterlee accepted the
check, hardly looking at it.
She sat very straight in the
chair. Her mouth was tightly
pursed, and her eyes, still the
vigorous and expressive eyes
of her youth, fell squarely
upon Woolfridge.
“I have given in, sir.”
Woolfridge bowed. “In my
life, Mrs. Satterlee, I have
found that everybody has a
price. It is only a matter of
finding that price. You must
admit, madam, that in this
case I have not tried to haggle.
You must admit I have paid
a just sum.
“I never argue,” replied
Miz Satterlee, and for once
the weariness showed through.
Yet she was too proud to re
vea1 the burning resentment.
“I only say that I sell to you
in order to avoid further shed
ding of blood. I will not stand
by and see my boys killed and
driven away and ambushed.
Nothing is worth that.”
“Surely, Mrs. Satterlee, you
are not laying all that to my
door—”
“I detest a liar. Do you deny
driving Jim Chaffee out of the
country?”
Woolfridge’s chubby cheeks
flushed until the freckles were
buried in color. The formal
politeness congealed. “The
man was a murderer. He was
escaping from justice—”
“Do you deny having Mack
Moran shot down in the road
and nearly killed?”
“I regret that. I had nothing
to do with it. You must realize
that he was instrumental in
Chaffee’s escape and that the
posse, disappointed in not
bagging him, might have gone
baled hay coming to market con
tain moldy hay and are graded as
sample hay.
RABBIT'S EARS* NOT SAME SIZE
New Orleans. La.—(UP)—A rabbit
with one ear shorter than the other
was killed near here. One ear was
normal and the other about two
inches long. It was thought that
the rabbit had lost an ear and that
it was growing back like the tad
of a lizard.
TRANSPLANT SUGAR BEETS
Washington— (AP) — An increase
of on* to eight tons to the acre
' Deyond reason In shooting
Moran. And Moran was realln
an accessory."
“Bo you deny ordering
cattle stampeded over the
, bluffs?"
Woolfridge raised his hand
And at once his face
hardened; the autocratic ano
arbitrary mandarin spirit
slanted out beneath his slight
ly drooping lids. “I owe you aft
respect, madam, but in fair
nes—"
“Fairness, Mr. Woolfridge?
I detest a hypocrite. You have
won. W7hy not be proud ol
your weapons, since you do s<
well with them?"
“I have never denied that )
wanted Stirrup S badly, Mrs
Satterlee,” was Woolfridge’j
sharp rejoinder. “Nor have 1
ever hesitated about the price
to be paid. If you desire
honesty, I will add that the
price includes other items be
sides that check I have handed
you. Now if I can be of any
assistance in helping you
move—’’
“I require no help. I will re
main in the hotel.77
Wooifridge permitted him
self a thin smile. “I do not
wish to take any further ad
vantage. Knowing that you
certainly would not wish to
remain under my hospitality
I might say that I own the
hotel.”
Miz Satterlee rose. “I am
glad to know it. In that case I
will look for a house.”
“You may find that I own
a great many of the houses as
well,” added Woolfridge. He
was enjoying this; such
courteously spoken phrases
with a barbed tip to them were
much to his taste now that he
was in a position to reveal the
extent of his power.
“Do you own all of Roaring
Horse, Mr. Woolfridge?” de
manded Miz Satterlee, losing
a little of her self-control.
“Are you trying to drive me
from this county?”
“I own a great deal of the
county—all that I need. No,
madam, I am not trying to
drive you away. Why should
I? But it would perhaps be far
better for your own happiness
if you did go.”
Josiah Craib broke his long
silence. He, too, rose and his
bony head bobbed at Wool
fridge. “That will be enough
Ma’am, let me escort you to
the door.” The two of them
crossed the bank room. At the
door Craib spoke earnestly
“Miz Satterlee, whatever has
happened, I wish you could
still regard me as a persona)
friend.”
The woman turned and
lookel into his sparse, raw
boned face. “Craib,” said she
with more of sadness and
emotion than at any other
time during the interview, “I
wish I knew you.”
He was about to answer
that. Yet he never did. Instead
he bowed an awkward, craning
motion of his gaunt neck and
turned back. Woolfridge was
smoking, and Woolfridge
studied the banker coldly.
“My friend, I do not relish
orders, nor suggestions.”
“The remark stands,” re
plied Craib without a particle
of emotion. “I will not have
Miz Satterlee badgered.”
Woolfridge studied Craib,
and a gleam of cold amuse
ment became visible. “You
have a stiffer backbone than
I figured.” Then he was blunt
and peremptory. “Go get these
instruments recorded. Then
lock them in your safe. Keep
your mouth closed as to al.
that has transpired between
us. What is to be revealed I
will reveal.”
“Yes,” said Craib.
Woolfridge left the bank. In
passing the teller’s cage he
discovered Mark Eagle’s fol
lowing glance, and it seemed
to irritate him. He paused
•My friend, I do not require
my help to be friendly. I do
not wish friendliness. But I
do expect both politeness and
respect. Think about that.”
(TO CONTINUED)
Small Oversight.
“Did you cancel all my engage
ments, as I told you, Parker?”
“Yes, sir, but Lady MUicent didn’t
,ake it very well. She said you were
to marry her next Monday.”
may be expected in the yield of
sugar beets by transplanting the
plants instead of sowing the aeet*
in rows and thinning the plants
to a stand, department of agricul
ture experiments shows. The augar
content, too, usually is increased
Hard to Please.
Prom Boston Transcrpt.
Those young men who started tht
revolution in Spain resent the com
mutation of their punishment from
death to a short term in prison
They insist on full pardon. The next
step, probably, after they get am
nesty will be to demand pwslont
SQUABBLE OVER
POLITICS PLUMS
r’—<ch Republic Facing
»y Year With Na
tional Elections
Paris—(UP)—With the seventh
/ear of President Gaston Doumer
gue ending in June, the choice of
ills successor near at hand, the na
tional general election less than a
year away and still plenty of pat
ronage to be distributed, the French
parliament Is playing politics as
never before.
Hoover, Mussolini and MacDon
ald would have given up in des
pair long ago, if they had to run
their governments with one hand
and parry the French parliament
with the other. Statistics show,
that 87 times in the 60 years of
the Thi"d French republic, parlia
ment has overthrown cabinets.
When the short-lived Steeg gov
ernment fell statisticians marked
up the 22nd cabinet collapse since
the war, tire 15th with which Presi
dent Doumergue has had to deal.
No Majority
The difficulty is due to the fact
that the last general election did
not promise a majority in either
the Senate or the Chamber oi
Deputies.
M. Poincare, a master-strategist,
succeeded in coralling a great ma
jority by making it a sacred duty
to avoid obstructing France’s re
covery.
He succeeded in welding a ma
jority of nearly two-thirds of the
Chamber in his “National Union"
cabinet and picked his ministers
off benches from right to left. Only
the Socialists and Communists,
who could not see his Ruhr and
revenge policies, were outside.
When M. Poincare fell, M. Tar
dieu sought to scrape up that same
majority, but the great group of
radicals and radical socialists
loyal to M. Edouard Herriot, voted
at Anges to withdraw support of
anv Tardleu cabinet
Tardieu Majority
M. Laval went into power with
the Tardieu majority, man for
man. He could not swing the radi
cals, or socialists, his way, so his
days in power seem to be num
bered to the extent that his legis
lation pleases M. Herrlot and M.
Blum.
The communists make much
noise, but really do not count in
the French chamber. Neither do
the Royalist* at the other side of
the hall.
Laval, the youngest premier in
French history, Is a protege of
Briand.
In forming his cabinet he brought
in seven men who had never before
held portfolios. His most courageous
act was to name a Senegalese Ne
gro, Blaise Diagne, as under secre
tary of state for Colonies at a time
when the post is given great import
ance by the opening of the Interna
tional Colonial Exposition.
Perfect Tailor-Made
Man Is Discovered
Chicago — (UP) — The perfect
tailor-made man has been discov
ered. He is Jim Phillips, 22 years
old, elevator operator, and corres
ponds size for size with the mea
surement recently announced by a
national tailors association as those
of the “perfect" nan.
Phillips is 5 feet, 8 inches tall.
He weighs 138 to 14Q pounds. He
has 37 inch hips, 18 inch arms at
the sleeve, 32 inch legs.
The perfect specimen, from the
standpoint of tailors, plays basket
ball, sleeps eight hours a night and
eats lots of vegetables, milk, eggs,
and doesn't drink too much coffee
-- ■■ ♦ » -
“OH, MY OPERATION"
Introductory
Our health we never think about,
The while it staunchly stands
A friend and goodly servant, that
Responds to cur demands.
And so one night I little thought,
That my mere belly ache
Was ominous of anything.
I should not promptly shake.
The shading, though, the doctor
did;
He gravely shook his head,
And shortly,’ in a hospital,
I found myself in bed.
“Appendicitis," said the Doc;
"That jigger must come out,
Or shortly it will burst in you,
Beyond the faintest doubt.”
So now I’m in the major class,—
I've had an operation;
And you. dear reader, must abide
It's infinite relation.
That “infinite" perhaps is strong;
But for at least some days.
From me you’ll get no other verse.
Save operatic lays.
—Sam Page.
--M
Ht s One of Us, Men.
From Noton’s Magazine.
Husband and wife were preparing
to go out. Looking up, he saw her
gazing rather intently at his clothes.
“Well," he asked, “what’s me
matter?”
"I say. dear," she said, “you nev
er look so smart in your clothes as
you used to 10 years ago.”
He shrugged his shoulders.
"That’s very strange,” he returned,
"because they are the same clothes."
FIGHTS NEWDIVORCE LAW
Rcleigh, N. C. — (UP) — Mrs. B.
Frank Mebane, only woman member
of the North Carolina house of rep
resentatives, played a prominent
part in defeating bills designed to
ioosen the state’s divorce laws.
Well Supplied.
From Tit-Bits.
Antique Dealer: Now, sir. ii
you’ll step this way, I’ve a very fine
specimen of a Queen Anne side
board I would like to show you.
Client: Say, that old queen of
yours must have had a big dining
rcom. This’ll be the eighth side
At length the eirl aaid. sweetie.
MOTHERS ARE
LEARNING USES
OFMAGNESIA
From the beginning of expectancy
until baby is weaned, Phillips’ MilH
of Magnesia performs the greatest
service for many women.
It relieves nausea, heartburn,
“morning sickness,” Inclination to
vomit; helps digestion. Its mild lax
ative action assures regular bowel
movement.
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Is bet*
ter than lime water for neutralizing
cow’s milk for infant feeding.
All drugstores have Phillips’ Milk
of Magnesia in generous 25c and 50c
bottles. Always insist on the genuine^
endorsed by physicians for 50 years,
MODERN GAS SERVICE
FOR EVERY RURAL HOME
Pressure Gas Appliances Make
It Possible for Everybody
to Light, Heat and
Cook With Gas.
Nowadays t lie women of the farm
nr.d small towns can he just ns mod
ern as their city sisters in running
their households. Indeed, they need
i not even envy the gas service of
their city relatives. They can have
modern gas service—for lighting,
heating and cooking. And at low
cost, too—though they live miles and
miles from any gas mains.
Coleman pressure gas appliances —
cook stoves, lamps, lanterns, radiant
heaters, irons, water heaters, etc.
—make these conveniences possible.
And these appliances have been so
well perfected that In most enses
a scratch of a match and a turn of
a valve lights them Instantly. The
big convenience feature is that they
are complete in themselves—they
make and burn their own gas from
regular motor fuel. You don’t have
to hire a plumber or pipefitter to
connect them up—there are no pipes
or tubes. They are ready to serve
you, right when you have them de
livered
With these gas-making, gas burn
ing appliances, the rural housewife
Is saved much time each day, to say
nothing of the unpleasant and bur
densome tasks that are abolished.
Interesting pamphelts describing
and illustrating the various pressure
gas appliances may be had without
charge by writing to The Coleman
Lamp & Stove Co., 5(H) Coleman
Bldg., Wichita, Kansas.—Adv,
New Indigestion Remedy
Iced oxygen for indigestion and
other stomach troubles is the latest
wrinkle in British medical circles
and is said to be producing surpris
ingly satisfactory results. It is pleas
ant to swallow in the form of an
oxygen soulTle with n few drops of
lemon or peach juice sprinkled over
it and serves the purpose of getting
oxygen into the stomach without
trouble. This novelty was demon
strated at the London medical exhi
bition and was sampled by inquisi
tive visitors.
AN EXCELLENT TONIC
AND NERVINE
Waterloo, Iowa
—“Dr. Pierce’s
Favorite Pre
scription is a most
excellent tonic
and nervine, I
have taken it and
found it especial
ly beneficial dur
ing expectancy to
keep me in good
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and bring back my strength. And at
any time when I feel myself beginning
to go down I take a bottle of the
‘Prescription’ and find it so helpful
that I think it is the only tonic for a
weak and ailing woman to take."—
Mrs. Hulda Smith, 136 Black Ave.
All druR&Uut or Mend 10c to Or. Plencti
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Good Busineo
“Why is it that you encourage all
of your clerks to get married?”
“Well, 1 find that married men art
not in such an awful rush to get
home early as the single ones.”—
Hummel, Hamburg.
He gains wisdom in a happy way
who gains it by another’s experi
ment.—Plautus.
Stomach Troubles
Headache and
Dizziness
If your stomach is sick, you are sick
all over. If you can’t digest your food,
you lose strength, get nervous and feel
as tired when you get up as when you
went to bed.
For 10 years Tanlac has restored
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Mr. Daniel Vinciguerra, of 6200
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have not had a dizzy spell or a head
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are in better shape and I can enjoy
a good night’s sleep.”
Let Tanlac help you too. It cor
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Tanlac is made of roots, barks and
herbs. Costs less than 2 cents a dose.
Get a bottle from your druggist today.
Your money back if it doesn’t help you. •
