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They can save yo* time, energy and money.__ Cattle ALAM I BNL lllfij tl O MM e^r CHAPTER XIII—Continued —16— "Seems to me,” he said, "that's ■ whole lot different from what you were saying just a little while ago." "I wasn't able to believe my own eyes, I guess. I wasn’t able to get over the 'settled-up' idea that east ern people have. Nobody but west erners will ever be able to under stand our dry land. They’ll never believe that a country can be over settled—and yet have nothing in it but coyotes and jackrabbits and half s dozen poor cowo to the mile.” He noticed that she called it "our dry land.” now. "And so—?” “I’m going to stay with my brand, until there isn’t one bit of the 94 left. After all. I’m my father's daughter. The country is part of me, bred in.” "I know how you feel," he said slowly. “But—it isn’t as if you could really do anything here, now.” “I’ll be able to keep you informed of what's happening here, at least. I hardly think Val Douglas would take much interest in that, left to himself. But it isn't that. It’s sim ply—I can’t always run away from everything. I’ve run away from too many things, and sometimes after ward I’ve been sorry.” He could understand that, but it surprised him to find her looking at things in that way. He had to respect her for it, but it didn’t make the set-up any easier for him. “I suppose there isn’t anything I can do," he admitted regretfully. “You’ve already shown me that when you set out to do a thing, you'll do it in spite of all hell and the drouth." “Wouldn’t you rather have me that way?” “I don’t know as I could ever bring myself to want you any dif ferent than you are." He made a cigarette, and lit it, and gloomily studied its smoke. He was thinking that it was pretty near too much to ask cf a man to go off on a long trail, the way things were here, and leave this child— Suddenly he realized that this girl was not any longer a child. He had not known that he had always before seen her as a child, until now he saw her as something else. Her face had a color that was like a child's color, clear and lovely, but its contours no longer suggested a little girl. It was a quiet face, thoughtful and awake, and somehow competent looking; and her eyes, looking into that distance beyond the walls, were looking into the fu ture—understandingly, even som berly, but unafraid. He wondered why he had not real ized before how changed she was. Every movement she made, every pose she took, was different from what he had seen in the girl he had made love to two years before. Two years ago Marian Dunn would not have been able to lounge re laxed upon his bunk in pajamas and an Indian blanket, thinking about the factors of range war, and the business affairs of men; she would have been nervously con scious then of the fact that the man she was with loved her—would have worried about what he would do or say. This girl did not worry, but stead ily faced the situation in which they found themselves. He looked away from her, un able any longer to think of murder clues or cow mortgages while she was in his eyes. He fixed his gaze iipon his thrown-down gunbelt and tried to think of what he must do. Bitterly he was blaming himself that he could not see through this killing case; for he had a persistent hunch that everything necessary for solution was in his hands. He blamed only himself that he must now take a long trail to dis cover what might be obvious, here and now, to a more brilliant de duction. He tried to set his mind to the factors he had discussed with Cof fee, in one more supreme effort to short-cut the case, but his mind would not work for him. Even with his eyes upon a saddle or a gun he could still see nothing but the girl— every glint of light in the loose bush of her hair, the slim cordings of a wrist, the resting look of a hand that lay palm up upon the blanket. It was impossible for him not to wonder if things between them might not have been different had he never known her two years be fore at all, but could have started over again now, to win her in a new way. Then it occurred to him that it was a waste of time to be looking at a gun or a saddle blan ket. trying to think, when he might be looking at her. Perhaps it would be a long time before he would see her again; perhaps he would never see her again at all. So now he let murder and cows and money slide into the lost shad ows, and he turned to her; and as he did so he found that her eyes were on his face. They looked at each other steadily, while the mo ments passed. If he had held her eyes so long two years ago she would have flushed and looked away, but she did not look away now. Her eyes looked lazy, but not sleepy; they were as darkly blue as a night sky, but he found them unreadable at first Then after a moment or two he recognized that she was not think ing about murder clues. All at once he knew that there was no barrier between them any more at all, and had not been any for a long time, except the barrier put there by his old defeat And he knew now that he had never failed at all, but that the years had worked for him in ways he would not have guessed. He said slowly, “I was the one who was a fool.” He never knew what move he made that brought her into his arms. With the barrier gone from between them at last they found themselves in each other’s arms as naturally, as unhurriedly, as inevi tably as the dry land takes up the rare rains; and his heart lifted up like the April grass of the dry ranges, when the snow-lock melts off and is forgotten as if it had His Hungry Mouth Found an An swering Quiver in Her Lips. never been. His hungry mouth found an answering quiver in her lips; and for a while, under the spell of the gentle warmth that he had thought would never be his, he no longer worried about what might happen to the cow kingdom of Horse Dunn. Presently she said, "Two years ago it was my fault. But last night in the hills it was yours. If you had only put your hands on me then— but you had to stand with a face like granite, and eyes like death in the foothills—’’ "I know that—now.” "I don't know how I'm going to let you go. So many things—any thing—can happen before we’re to gether again.” "But we have this hour, now.” "Nothing can ever rob us of that!” Each was seeing a person he had never seen before. He was still whipcord and braided leather, the saddle man who could hold his own in the upheaval of markets and the shifting games of the financiers; but all the barbed and dour hardness of him was gone, so that in the arms of this girl it was as if he were reborn. And in the girl the hidden steel of the will he had not been able to bend seemed melted, and the curve of her body within his arm was a surrender without re serve. They did not know how long they lay together on the bunk that for the time was not his. but theirs, in that lonely and deserted house; and he learned here that she was nei ther east nor west, but all woman. A harsh, taut strain that had held them for days seemed to slacken and go out of the night, as if guns and cattle were unimportant things; and in that hour that was theirs alone, one bitterness went out of the world forever. It was not a surprise, but a consummation, when presently he found that she was asleep. He picked her up and carried her to her own room, and put her in her own bed; and she smiled faintly in her sleep as he kissed her eyes. Then he walked out of the house, by a different door than the one where Coffee sat, and stood listen ing to the still night. Then, while his mind was entirely away from hatred and violence for the first time in a week, something in the back of his mind found the answer, and all in a moment he saw through the tangle that had roped the 94. He knew suddenly not only who had killed Flagg at Short Creek, but why Flagg had had more than a hunch that he was riding into death; he knew why Marian had been fired on; and he knew how he could prove, inevitably and inescap ably, who had killed Bob Flagg — and the taut strain of range war came back Into the night, turning him cold. Wheeler walked around the house to where Old Man Coffee still sat. As far as the naked eye could ob serve Old Man Coffee had not changed his position; he could sit like a rock or an Indian hours on end, as if this were his natural way of living out his life. Wheeler sat down slowly and stiffly on the step beside the old man; he ran his hands over his face, shook his head like a fighter trying lo clear away the effects of a killing right cross. Coffee did not speak and for a lit tle while Wheeler also sat silent, trying to compute now much he wished to say. “Coffee,” he said at last, "I see it. I see it all.” Coffee took his pipe out of his mouth and looked at Wheeler. "All what?" "I know who fired on Marian.” “Hell, son, you had that figured out last time 1 seen you, two hours ago.” Coffee glanced at the stars which he used as a clock. “Two hours and fifteen minutes," he cor rected himself. “I had the wrong reason," Wheel er said; “this time I know And knowing that, I know now why Bob Flagg had forenotice that he was near his end And I can prove it all.” Old Man Coffee started to say. “You sound like you was full of—" but he hesitated and studied Billy Wheeler sidelong through the thin dark. “Answer me one thing, son,” he said at last. “What was the thing that showed you the killer trail?" “It was two things, Coffee,” Wheeler said; “not one. Two kind of trivial-looking things, that I knew and then forgot. But as soon as I saw the meaning of one of them, right away I saw the meaning of the other. Like as if the two clues were tied together by the neck. Coffee, Marian doesn’t know a thing in the world about this. But the first thing that come to me was something I remembered that she said. You re member after—” Stop, said Old Man Coffee. So sharply had the old man com manded him that Wheeler at first thought Coffee was listening to some distant sound. “What’s the mat ter?” “I’ve heard enough.” “Then,” said Billy Wheeler, "you know the answer too?” "I’ve kind of suspected it these many days. I didn’t know for sure until today.” “Do you think anyone else knows?” “Son, I’m virtually certain that no one in the world knows but you and me.” “You must have come at it dif ferently than I did. Coffee.” “Different than you,” Coffee agreed. “God knows how you come at it. I don’t want to know. In a minute now I’m going to say no more. But nobody else in the Red Rock could have found it out ex cept maybe Cayuse Cayetano—and he’s dead.” They sat silent for a little time. "What’s the next move?” Wheeler presently asked. “Until you spoke,’ Coffee said, “I knew what my next move was going to be. My next move was go ing to be out. But now that you’ve come onto the right trail. I guess maybe it’s kind of up to me to stand by a little while, until I see what you do.” Something in Old Man Coffee’s voice bothered Wheeler. "You mean we’re not working together, then?" “Seems like we might not be. son. I’m an old man; and I long ago learned that sometimes it’s a good idee to leave sleeping dogs lie.” “You mean, you’d have been will ing to pull out of this case and leave it unsolved forever?” Old Man Coffee drew half a dozen slow puffs on his pipe before he answered. "The first murder case I worked on," he said at last, “was a long time ago. Sometimes I think that one first case was the misfor tune of my life. Because it gave me a kind of a reputation in a small way, so that ever since then I’ve been called in on such, from) time to time, over and over again. Man hunting isn’t a pretty job, Bil ly, nor anything a man would care to turn his hand to more than once, if he could get out of it. But I’ve always worked hard and honestly c*i my case where I once set my hand. And now that I’m old I figure to keep one right to myself—the right to keep my mouth shut if I can’t see where clearing up a mystery will serve no proper end. “Take this case, here. Do you think that solving this crime can possibly come under the head of helping any living person, or pre serving the peace? You know bet ter than that. You know as well as I do that the minute the answer is made known the guns will crack out, and good boys that’s got nothing to do with either side will be throwing* lead into each other’s guts.” “You think Horse Dunn will take) to the guns?” “Of course he'll take to the guns! You know him well enough to know that. The guns will be talking be fore ever the thing is proved.” “The proof ought to be easy enough.” “I got no doubt of that. I see at least one way of proof and maybe you see more. But what I’m tell ing you is this, son—think what you’re doing before you raise this lid. Don't raise it unless you think you’d rather see what will come of it, in place of what we already got.” The moon was gone, and they sat in the chill blackness before dawn; but it seemed to Wheeler that the night was no darker than his mood. “I thought of all that," he said. “I thought of all that the moment it come to me. And first off, I thought like you. But now—I’m not so sure. Sometimes it seems like there’s something unsound at the bottom of any plan that calls for just hiding our heads.” “Then I’ll give you your answer,” said Old Man Coffee abruptly. "I’ll give you the whole thing, once and for all, in four words. Think of the girl.” He took a couple of drags on his pipe. “Forget Horse Dunn, and the cattle, and the money, and the range. Forget even the good fight ing boys, here on the 94—Tulare and Steve Hurley and Val Douglas— they’ll fight while they can hold up their guns. And Gil Bakef, he’ll be in it if he has to drag a broken leg into the street. But forget all them. And think what this here head-on smash between the 94 and all of the rest of the range is going to mean to the girl.” Wheeler sat silent for a long time. At last, needing to be alone, he got up and walked off into tl.e dark, leaving Old Man Coffee with the darkness and his pipe. He went out and he sat on the corrals, and he was thinking about Horse Dunn and the cow kingdom of the 94; but most ly he was thinking about the girl who had at last taken him into her heart, now at the end. He could never think about anything any more except in terms of its effect upon her. He had an hour to come to his decision there before the first pale, reddish light of the dawn showed at the edge of the world; and it was the hardest hour of his life, because he knew that he held in his hands the future of them all. More than once he turned to Coffee’s easier way. But as a gray light began to come slowly across the 94 he thought he knew what he must do. He went in and rapped on Mar ian’s door; and when she called to him sleepily he went in and stood beside her bed. "You and I are going to Inspiration,” he told her. (TO BE CONTINUED) Seventy Varieties of Birds Around Crater Lake in Oregon, Bulletin Says The abundant life is shared by a wide variety of birds finding head quarters in the sanctuary at Crater Lake National park in Oregon. There are more than seventy vari eties in the park. Bird notes are heard continually, according to a news bulletin issued by the park service. The Eagle Cruggs have furnished nesting places for the golden eagle and the American bald eagle; Liao Rock is the home of falcons. Os preys have been seen and the horned owl forages nightly. Cali fornia gulls visit the park and black cormorants are known to have nested and raised their young on the lake. There are ravens and half a dozen varieties of hawks. Canvas back and golden-eyed ducks fre quent the lake and the Sierra grouse the timberlands. Clark's crow, the camp robber, and Cali fornia, crested and gray jays make their presence known on the trails and around the camp grounds. Smaller birds frequently seen are the mountain bluebird, Townsend solitaire, Sierra junco, pine siskin, creeper nuthatch, chickadee and grosbeak. There are golden and ruby - crowned kinglets, robins, wrens, wood and green-tailed tow hees, purple and rosy finches, chip ping and other sparrows, several varieties of thrushes, and five vari eties of warblers. Occasionally a humming bird is seen. The most noticeable of the small birds of the park is the Western tanager, a brilliant streak of gold as it flits in the dark foliage, and equally remarkable in coloring when it rests on twig or branch, where its red head, yellow body, and black wings with yellow bars are unmistakable. The sweetest singer in the park is the hermit thrust—shy, difficult to locate, but making its presence known by beau tiful song. Take Exercise Regularly By DR. JAMES W. BARTON © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. 1 OFTEN think that as physicians we do not, as a rule, stress the wonderful value of regular exercise. Patients will be advised to “rest” more, to “eat” less, to “get away from work and take a vacation” but it is seldom that a physician will advise a patient to go to an athletic club, Y. M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A. and take regular exercise. Outdoor exercise is always more beneficial than that taken indoors Dr. Barton because there is more oxygen in the outdoor air to sup ply the extra oxygen needed when exer cise is taken. How ever, outdoor exer cise cannot always be obtained, due to weather conditions, whereas home exer cise or indoor class work two or three times a week is al ways available; the gymnasium is there and the in structor also. Regularity Is YVhat Counts. And it is the regularity of exer cise thnt makes it so valuable. Ex ercise taken daily or not less than three times a week, means that the large blood vessels supplying the big bulk of muscle and the tiny blood vessels supplying the small individual muscle fibers must open widely to receive this blood. And the more widely these blood ves sels open, and the more often they open, the more the muscle increases in size and power. As the little text book by La Grange states: "Systematic exer cise of a muscle educates the little blood vessels supplying the muscle to not only open more widely dur ing exercise, thus bringing an in creased amount of blood to the mus cle, but even when the muscle is at rest these blood vessels remain open to some extent (instead of clos ing) and the muscle gets the bene fit of an increased amount of blood, even when it is not exercising. Hence the value of regular train ing, of systematic exercise.” Increasing the size and strength of the muscles is but a small part of the value of exercise. The exer cise makes the heart beat faster and stronger to supply the extra blood needed, and the lungs must breathe in fresh air more often and more deeply to purify this extra blood that is needed. » • • British Advice on Reducing. The natural, the normal, the ef fective road or method of reducing weight is hard for the overweight to travel because it means sacrifice or work—sacrifice of the desire for food and desire for ease, and work —regular daily exercise. All effective and permanent re sults in reducing weight are ob tained for the most part in "diet ing,” reducing the amount of food eaten. Drs. H. Coombs, Dorothy Read er, and C. Catlin, in Practitioner, London, stress the importance of dietetics in the treatment of obesity. Some of the scientific principles of the dietetic treatment of over weight as outlined by Dr. Coombs and his associates are: 1. Restriction (cutting down) on carbohydrates or starch foods, more especially of the rich or con centrated forms such as sugar, bread, potatoes. 2. Cutting down on fats—cream, fat meat. Small amount of butter is allowed. 3. Continuing to eat the usual amount of meat, fish and eggs (body builders). 4. Eating a generous supply of vegetables and fruit to provide bulk and satisfy hunger. 5. Eating enough vitamins as pro vided by vegetables, fruit, eggs, milk, and butter. 6. Eating a sufficient supply of minerals — salads (vegetable and fruit), leafy vegetables, sea foods, but omitting or cutting^down on ta ble salt. 7. Eating bulky meals to prevent hunger — cabbage, lettuce, celery, radishes, cauliflower. 8. Three or four meals during the day but nothing between meals. You will notice that the above ad vice as to a reducing diet is directly in line with that advocated by weight reducing experts in America. “The Rolling Ball" Act No one except La Roche, the Ru manian acrobat, has ever been known to perform "The Rolling Ball," an act which he invented and presented in the circuses of Europe [or many years during the latter part of the Nineteenth century. 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