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measured the distance between himrand
Jerry Card. rangle had gained, bring-
ing him into rifle range.
Venters was hard put to it now not
to shoot, but thought it better to with-
hold his fire. erry, who, in anticipa-
tion of a running (usilade, had huddled
himself’ into 3 little twlste ball on
Black St;lr’2i neck, now stirmlslng that
this pursuer would make sure or) not
wounding one of the blacks, rose to his
natural seat in the saddle. >
In his mind perhaps, as certainly as
in Venters‘. this moment was the begin-
ning ot the real race.
Venters leaned forward to put his
hand on Wrnngle's neck; then backward
to put it on his flan . ,Under the shag-
gy, dusty hair trembled and vibrated and
rippled a wonderful muscular activity.
in Wranizle's flesh was still cold. What
a cold-blooded brute, thought Venters,
and felt in him a love for the horse he
had never given to any other. ' It would
not have been humanly possible for any
rider, even tho clutched by hate or re-
venge or a passion to save a. loved one
hoofs. to ride him in that
race and not glory in the ride.
So, with his passion to kill still keen
and unabated, Venters lived out that
ride, and drank a rider’: sage-sweet cup
or wildness to the dreg
When Wrangle's long rrlane, lashing in
the wind, stung Venters in the cheek,
the sting added a beat to his dying
pulse. He bent a downward glance to
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try to see Wrangle’s actual stride, and
saw only twinkling, darting streaks and
the white rush of the trail. He watched
the sorrel's savage head, pointed level,
his mouth still closed an dry, but his
nostrils distended as it he were snorting
unseen lire. Vvrangle was the horse for
a race with death. Upon each side Ven-
ters saw the sage merged into a sailing,
colorless wall. rant sloped the lay
of ground with its purple breadth split
by the white trail. The wind, blowing
with heavy. steady blast into his ,
sickened him with enduring sweet min
and tilled his ears with a hollow, rush-
ing roar.
hen tor the hundredth time he
measured the width or space separating
lm Jerry Card. ‘ Wrangle had
ceased to gain. The blacks were rov-
ing their fleetness. Venters watched
Jerry Card, admiring the little rider's
horsernanship, , He had the incomparable
seat or the upland rider, born in the
saddle It struck Venters that Card had
changed his position, or the position oi’
the horses. Presently Venters remem-
bered positively that Jerry had been
leading Night on the right-hand side
of the trail. The racer was now on the
side to the left. Noeit was Black Star,
But, Venters argued in amaze, Jerry had
been mounted on Black Star. Another
clearer; keener gaze assured Venters
that Black Star was really riderless.
Night now carried Jerry Card.
“He's changed from one to the other!"
ejaculated Venters. realizing the a
tounding feat with unstinted admiration.
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“Changed at full speed! Jerry Card,
that's what you've done unless I'm
drunk on the smell of sage. But I've
got to see the trick before I believe it."
Thencetorth, while ‘wrangle sped on,
Vcnters glued his eyes to the little rider.
Jerry Card rode as on y he could ride,
or all the daring horsemen of t e up-
ands Jerry was the one rider flltetl to
brim: out the greatness of the blacks
in that long race. He them‘on a
dead run, but lint yet at the last strained
and killing pace. From
glanced backward, as a wise general in
retreat calculating his chances and l
gloried in the race, perhaps more wildly
than Venters. For he had been born in
the sage and the saddle and the wild.
lie was more than half horse. Not until
the last call-the sudden up-flashing in-
still?! of self-preservation-would he lose
his skill and iudgrrient and nerve and
the spirit or that race. Venters seemed
to read Jerry‘: mind. That little crime-
Stained rider was actually thinking of
his horses, husbanding their speed, hand-
ling them with knowledge or years,
gloryirlg in their beautiful, swiit, racing
stride, and wanting them to Win the rare
own life hung suspended in
quivering balance.
Again Jerry whirled in his saddle Mud
the sun flashed red on his face. rn-
lniz, e drew Black Star closer and
closer toward Night,
by side, (is one horse
himself’ in the saddle. slipped out of the
stirrups, and somehow twisting himself,
leaped upon lack Star. He did not even
lose the sw ng of the horse. Like a
leech he was there in the other saddle,
and as the horses separated, his right
foot, that had been apparently doubled
under him, shot down to catch the stir-
Star and then changed back to
But all Jerry's skill and the run-
nlng of the blacks could avail little more
against the sorre .
, Venters peered tar ahead. studyinir the
lay or the land. straightaway for v
miles the trail stretched, and then it (lis-
right.
the Opposite wall.
imagined that the trail
n into the Pass somewhere north at
those ridges. And be realized that he
must and would overtake Jerry Card in
this straight course or five miles
CRUELLY he struck his spurs into
Wrarlgle's Hanks. A llghtrtollfll or
The saga blurred by, the trail
flashed by, and the wind robbed him or
breath and hearing. Jerry Card turned
once more. n t e way he shitted to
Black Star showed he had to make his
last desperate running.
to the side of the trail and sent is bullet
pumng the dust beyond Jerry.
Venters hoped to (tighten the rider and
get him to take to the sage. But Jerry
returned the shot, and his bail struck
gin‘: yi t Venters held his tlre
then, while the rider emptied his re-
rolver. For mile, with Black Star
he now gnllo -
ing Night and began to gain railidly on
tho other black.
Only a hundred yards now stretched
between Black Star and Wrangle. The
giant sorrel thundered on-and on-and
n In every yard he gained in foot. He
was whistling thro his nostrils. wrinxiniz
wet, flying lather, and as hot as fire.
Savage as ever, strong as ever, last as
over, but each tremendous stride Jarred
Veoters out at the saddle! wrangle’!
power and spirit and momentum had be-
gun to run him on his legs. Wrangie's
great race was nearly won-and run.
Venters seemed to see the expanse he-
tore him as a vast. sheeted, purple plain
sliding under him. Black star move
in it as a blur. The rider, Jerry Card,
appeared mere dot bobbing dimly.
Wrlnglo thundered on-on--on! Ventero
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