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THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW HAZELTON, B.C, WEDNESDAY,

“LPPEMBER 23, 1936

FIFTH INSTALMENT

tt took Tex a long quarter of on
hour to write four telegrams. They
were finished finally, however, © and
paid for. Then Tex went out, took his
three jaded mounts to @ livery stable
with advice that they were to be fed
til cared for until bis return. After
that he ate a huge breakfast and spent
the balance of the time until the train
had backed in and made up, dozing on
tt baggage truck in the sun.

For thirty-two hours Tex rode west
and south to the clicking of. rail and
wheel. Ft was late afternoon when he
swung from the train at Sevier. - He
had hardly reached the platform be-
fore there was’ a lIeonine bellow of
delight “and a huge, twany bearded
nan ccaught him. by the shoulders,
whirled hint avownd and began pump-
ing his hand mightily. :

“Tox, ye old) sand hawk—how are
ynh? Whatcha want? I got yore
telegram an’ come arunning.” a

“Tafe—I need five thousand: dol-
lars. Got. a. chance to buy in| for
Johnny an? myself on a. regular
spread over the sw eetest bit of range
ye ever saw. ~The present owner, his
nime’s Delevai, is cripple an’ a range

srablin’ skunk who bought up all the |:

Inorfgeages on a local bank what -went
under due to a robbery. - This range
xrubber gets ‘aholt of a ten thousand
dollar mortgage against’ Delevan who

he wants special to put. on the rocks, r
Delevan told me his story so V’nv fig- ||

xerin' on steppin’ in can’ takin’.

uy

that mortgage for a partuership split |

I got five thonsand of my awn saver
up. Been waitin’ fer‘ a chance like
this to get, Johnny started on some-
thin’ worth while. If you can see fit
to let me have the money on a person-
tl note Lafe, I’d shore be obliged,”

Late Stillman’s . answer was to
draw a cheque book from his pocket
and ta twist the end off an old fash.
ioned fountain pen.

“Five thousand: be - ‘enough - Tex? ”
“If ve want more just}.

asked Tate,
MIY 80,” . Lo

“Iive's: plenty Lafe, an" shore T'm.
thankin’ yuh. We'll go round and]
yee a lawyer an’ have hin, fix it up
legal,”

“Like hell we will,” growled ‘Tate.
“Vora ow ord’s. plenty fer me. An’ Jet
me tell ye somethin’. ‘If I-hear yore
veimpin’ and scratchin'’ sos tobe
able ta pay that’ back, I'll be darned
OT stake. ith: ‘Savvy? Be ’

Fe

by ik. P HOLMES!

ee ener tee eee

northeast side ‘an’ make a count of
the cattle yuh find holin’ up out in
the meadows. The . wildest’ + eritters
lisnally. hunt that range. It’s. good
range’ too, but more or less deserted.”

‘Johnny nodded and went away to
the corrals.”
Crosby and Fortune jogged off round
the crest, .

The better part of an uneventful
week passed, and then one day, when
out alone, Johnny swung into the up-
per end of alittle park and came up-
on a rider spurring easily about a
\group of enttle, apparently studying
their condition and - numbers. The
rider was a stranger to Johnny and
instinctively he bristled. -He - jogged
diavn toward the stranger and -reined
in wartly a a little distance.

“Tiello, there," he drawled eareless-
ly. - “Tookin’” fer somethin ”

The stranger faced Johimy = cooly,
He was a big man, and Folmny cida’t
like anything ‘about. him.

“I asked. yuh somethin’,” he snap-
ped at the man, nettled -:y his silence
Who are ruh, and. owhat. do yoh
wit?” ,

“Tm Silas Spelie.” was the even
cold reply. "Iam merely @ookin’ ever
whatll shortly: be mine.”

A half hour later he andl:

Weapons and was back on his horse,
rolling .a cigarette.

“When yub’re feelin’ up to it yuh,
can fork yore hoss again an’ we'll
in. an’ see old San Juan,” suggested
Johnny mildly.

Spelle cursed ‘yenemously. Johnny
listened patiently to the tirade, calm-
ly. smoking until until the cigarette
was reduced to. a butt. This he
crumpled in-his hand, tossed away,
then reached for his rope once more.

“All right,” he snapped, the levity
wiped from his face, “I glye yuh a
ehance te ride in like a man, But
yuh ain’t no man. Yore a stubborn
old foal. When*I runs into that
breed‘ o’ cats an’ they won't listen to
me -T- winds «a> maguey round
horns an’ | drags’ ?em,”

He shook out the loop and rose in
his: stirrups.

"Wait!" ‘snarled’. Spelle. “I'l <go.
But yuh’ pay heavy for this - my

smart young friend.” ;

“Yeoh?! drawled Johnny again, in
msultingly . unbelief.

‘San Juan: Delevan was seated: in
his nsnal place on ‘the verandah ‘as
Johnny and Spelle radé wp, An: am-
azed curse fell from Delevan’s ps at:
the sight.

“Spelle ?” . he rumbled, “Where the
duce did yuh pick bith uv, Johnny?”

“Oh—yeah?* said Johnny,  openty
skeptical. “Well shore now that
sounds prety thin, Snppoxsin? yuh

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D¥ing -'Tex's - -absence Johhny ‘fond
plenty. to. keep. him busy Barly. the .
sume moming that Tex: left, Delevan
called: Jonny: and Pink : /Oroshy > and
vod Fortune to. the. ranchhouse-and
* dnnomuced that) Johnny "was now ‘fore’
‘wa of the Box D. Johnny - haying)
already talked--the _thing over: with:
Tex: knew. what Was: comin’ but the:
other two were somewhat _surprided,
in view of Johnny's" tender : wears,
Towarery, neither, of :them chad, Sagplr-
ed to the job, so were perfectly, eon-

tent to see Johnny get it, ‘ | him... Yan let fumble, along: uhend.
Pinks Crosby-was a: .-bright, ‘eyed; (OF ine.” .

cheery young fellow. swith, clean’ fen-| Spelle stiffened au Juoked Johnny j#

tres and peaches and. cream com-/ °er intently:: Hts! ‘purface: exuminn- |

plexion. Rod. Fortune ras hulking)
and slow. going, with a “podining’ “yoled
anda laugh whieh: owhicl: mide ™ ‘the
- Walls of» the: ‘bunkliouse.’ ‘creak. Both
were . honest,.an ott
Delevan. held Tohinny: ater the ty,
others, had- gone, -:: fal
“Son,” he: said, : “gectn! af
thevship ; As: ennint
Tow tallies te male

; és. pa:

auD welll: ‘wai at.

n t ee whe 4 :
amble- on: “over ta the: Bux y rangi
heuse mi tell that: SMO STory th, ald

San Juan: Delevan: Tle, onghip de.
plan) hijterested, Moe 7 RET
“Doubtless. * “Only 1 dont care to,
talk - te hin ‘today. ay tne, ta talk
will. Tie! a, Uitte! later, “Thon nat ‘san
him. i on
of Naw." ‘siti. ‘Johnny, “enin't Tet
yuh -xet. array todity, withont, _peein’

tion WHS TOE: a stdiwart eurly-bended,
good-looking” ‘kia: ~ Gootl-looking, .
but not -exnctly coy ‘Took

ff “?
Was shogpin around: sonie of the

"‘Norey “1 iussed hinn Up.

vat-
tle. Suld . he’-wuas inst" ‘lookin’ over |-
what he av "tL goin’, to own ineity soon
But. he .got)
Hind | 0! salty so'I- ‘rubbed bhi over a
couple’ ‘a tlnés" oye

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“Detter” git: ‘off an’ ha
Spelte, we fited Delevan:
yun’ re. “‘figgerin’

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