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PAGE EIGHT GUNSB»H > ASS MACLEor »l \ k i RAine ’ _ frn ; ‘Wk iifWMjr .-iHNSatf MacLeod RAi-re- r By LjRIL \W 5E /vx SJMIBB ■^c-PKwy»K.« D sw- VAJw 9g~ / | - JCS" *wßk Printed b s Pt?r-r,u s!<xi wS ,4 Z xJL Ik * i -tr and &u special V “ ' ®f*nrf«u*nt with. (Continued from Our Last Issue.) I "'" He walked back toward the camp. I From out of the chaparral n thru column of pale gray smoke was ris- 1 ir.g “Ready, Shorty?” he asked. The squat man nodded an ;) sent and followed him over the summit into the valley beyond. Brad Steelman sat hunched before n fire, head drooped low between his high, narrow shoulders. 1 '■ r l iess black eyes in the dark ha./rhet face were sunk deeper now t.. .n in the old days. In them was begin ning to come the hunted look of I le gray wolf he resembled. Steelman sidled to the door and opened it cautiously. A man pushed in and closed his door. “Did you come here to make trouble. Dug?” “No,'’ 1 came- to collect a bill.” “So? Didn't know 1 owed you any money right now. How much is it?” “A thousand dollars.” Brad.shot a quick, sidelong look at him. “Wha’s wrong now, Dug?” The ex-foreman of the 1) Bar Lazy R took his time to answer. He on joyed the suspense under which his ally was held. “Why, 1 reckon nothin’ a-tall. Only that this mo’nin’ I put a match to about a coula hundred thousand dollars belongin' to Crawford, Sanders and Hart.” Eagerly Steelman clutched his arm. You. “You did it, then?” “Didn’t 1 say I’d do it?” ; napped Doble, irritably. “D'ya ever know me rue back on a bargain?” “Shorty with you?” “He was, an’ he wasn't. 1 did it while he wasn’t lookin’. Shorty’s got a soft spot in him. Game enough but with queer notions. Some time I’m liable to have to—” Doble left his sentence suspended in air. “What’s wrong with him now, Dug?” “Well, he’s been wrung ever since I had to bump off Tint Harrigan. Talks about a fair break.” “What about that fire?” Sure it got a good start?” , “I looked back from across the valley. It was travelin’ good” ■“i'll get you the money first thing I in the mornin’,” promised Steelman. Doble poured himself a large drink and took it at a swallow. 1 would, Brad.” Doble drank steadily throughout the night. He remained steady on his feet, growing uglier ami more reckless every hour. Tied to Doble because he dared not break away from him, Steel man’s busy brain began to pint a way to take advantage of this man’s weakness for liquor. “O’ course I know, Dug, you’re a better man than Sanders or Craw ford either, but Malapi don’t know it—yet. “I’ll show ’em!” cried the enraged bully. “I’Jl bet you will. No man livin’ can make a fool outa Dug Noble, rustle Vie evidence to send him to the pen, snap his fingers at him, nnd on top o’ that steal his girl. ‘ That’s what I told—” Dobje leaned across th" table and caught in his great fist the wrist of Steelman. 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Em Craw l ford’s girl.” “W lat about her and Sanders?” i “Why, he’s courtin’ her—didn’t ,you know?” “When did he begin?” Doble I slammed a hamlikc fist on the table ■ “Spit it out. or I’ll tear yore arm ■ off.” A carpenter working on the roof o a derrick for Jackpot Number Six called down to his mates; “Fire in the hills, looks like. I see > sin >ke.” The contractor was an old-timer. He knew the danger of firn in the chaparral at this season of the year. Crawford borrowed without per- ' mission of the owner the hearest saddle horse and put it to a lope. From the tower Hart descended ..wiftly. He gathered together 'all workers and equipped them with ! hovels, picks, brush-hooks, saws, 1 and axes. To each one he gave also j a gunnysack. The foot party followed Crawford | into the chaparral, making for the i hills that led to Bear Canon. A wind was stirring, and as they topped a i rise it struck i.ot on their cheeks. A flake of ash fell on Bob’s hand. Crawford met them at the mouth ■ of the canon. i “She’s rip-r’ann’, Bob! Got too big a stort to beat out. We’ll clear ■ a fire-brake where the gulch narrows just above here and do our fightin’ ■ there.” I The wind was stiffer now and the fury of the fire closer. The flames roared down the canon like a blast ■ furnace. Driven back by the intense | heat, the men retreated across the , break and clung to their line. Al ready their lungs were sore from in haling smoke and their throats were ■ inflamed. A pine, its pitchy trunk ablaze, crashed down across the fire- ; trail and caught in the fork of a tree beyond. Instantly the foliage leaped to red flame. Bob galloped into the canon and flung himself from the hrose. “She’s jumpin’ outa the gulch above. Too late to head her off. We ; better run a trail along the top o’ the ridge, don't you reckon?” he said. , “Yes, son,” agreed Crawford. “We can just about hold her here. It’ll be hours before I can spare a man for the ridge. We got to get help in a hurry. You ride to t.wn and rustle men.” The canon above them was by this time a.sea of fire, the most terrifying sight Bob had ever looked upon. Monster flames -leaped at the walls of the gulch, swept in an eyebeat over draws, attacked with a savage roar the dry vegetation. The noise was like |he crash of mountains meeting. Thunder could scarce have made itself heard. c * ■> Sahders was in the office of the Jackpot Company looking over some blue-prints when Joyce Crawford came in. “Dad told me something I last night, Mr. Sanders. He said I might pass it on to you and Bob, ' ough it isn't to go farther. It’s about that ten thousand dollars he paid the bank when it called his loan, tie got the money from Buck Bying ton.” “Buck!" exclaimed the young man. “I know,” she explained. “The money wasn't his. He’s executor or something for the children of his dead brother. When he heard Dad was so desperately hard up for cash he let him have the money. Now it has been straightened out. That’s why Dad couldn’t tell where he got the money. Buck would have been in trouble.” “1 see.” A shadow darkened the doorsill and Bob Hart stepped into t<he office. His first words were but before he spoke both of those look ing at him he knew he was the bearer of bad news. There was in his boyish face an unwonted gravity. ■“Fire in the chaparral, Dave, and going strong.” Sanders spoke one word. “Where?” “Started in Bear Canon, but it's jumped oiit into the hills.” Joyce guessed the situation was a desperate one. “Is Dad in danger?” she asked. Hart answered. “No —not now, • anyhow.” “What can I do to help?” j “We’ll have hundreds of mem in | bhe field probably, if this fire has a real start,” Dave told her. “We'll need food and coffee—lots of it. Or ganize th6 women. Make meat sand wiches—hundreds of them. And send out to the Jackpot dozens of coffee pots. Your job is to keep the workers well fed. Better send ban dages and salve, in case some get burnt.” Sanders was on the road inside of twenty minutes, a group of horse men galloping at his heels. Through the smoke the sun was blood-red. The air was heavy and heated. From the fire line Crawford came to meet these new allies. “We’re holdin’ her here. It’s been nip an’ tuck.” Emerson Crawford was holding his ground, though barely holding it. “How are things up above?” he asked in a hoarse whisper. “Good. We held the check-line.” “See it through. Say, son, look who’s here!” His thumb hitched to ward his right shoulder. Dave looked down the line of blackened, grimy fire-fighters and his eye fell on Shorty. He was still wearing chaps, but his Chihuahua hat had succumbed long ago. Mani festly the man had been on the fighting line for some hours. Doesn’t he know about the re ward?” Oft “Yes. He was hidin’ in Malapi when the call came for men. Says he’s no quitter, whatever elese he is. You bet he ain’t. He’s worth two of most men at this work. Soon as we get through he’ll be on the dodge again. He’s a good sport, anyhow. I’ll say that for him.” CHAPTER XXII When Shorty separated from Doble in Frio Canon he rode incon spicuously to a tendejon where he could be snugly hidden from the pub lic gaze and yet meet a few “pals” whom -he could trust at least as long as he could keep his eyes on them. Shorty was an outlaw and a bad man. He had killed, and might at any time kill again. To save the Jackpot from destruction he would not have made a turn of the hand. But Shorty was a cattleman. He was loyal to his hand that paid him. He stood by his pals, and he believed in and after his own fashion loved cattle and the life of which they , were the central fact. Te destroy the range feed wantonly was a crime so nefarious that he could not believe Doble guilty of it. And yet— He could not let the matter lie in doubt. 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