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Mackenzie twelve hundred, - Flandrziu
four hundred andthree hundred to Yes-
er. l ‘ I .
‘ With Fendrick sitting in an easy chair
'just across the room, he und ‘
little difficult to say what otherwise
boys.
Have to ask you to let it stand for a few
days. Say, till the end of the week.'.'
Fendrick laughed behind the paper he
was pretending to real . He knew quite
well that Luck‘s war was as good as
his bond, but he chose to suggest a
lion L -
"Maybe you'll explain the':loke to us,
Cass." the owner of the Circle C said
very quietly, -
“Oh. I was just laughing at the things
I see, Luck." returned the younger man
with airy offense, his eyes on the printed
sheet.
“Meaning for instance?"
“Just human nature. Any law against
laughing?"-
Cullison turned his back.on him. “See
you on Thursday it that's soon enough,
boys.“ H -
“All the time you want, Luck. Let
mine go till after the roundup if you'd
rather." Mackenzie suggested.
"Thursday suits me.".
Cuilison rose and stretched. He had
impressed his strong, dominant person-
ality upon his clothes, from the high-
heeled boots to the very wrinkles in
the corduroy coat he was now putting
on. He had enemies, at good many of
them, but his friends were legion.
“Dou’t hurry yourself." -
"on,“1'li rustle the money, all right.
Coming down to the hotel?" Luck was
reaching for his hat, but turned toward’
, his friends as he spoke.
lvithout looking again
he led the way to the stre
he young man left alone cursed softly
rto himself. and ordered another ‘drink.
at Fendrick.
et,
exceedingly.
friends. and of late years they had been
leaders of hostile camps. Bot
could be.overbearing, and there
scarcely a week but their interests over-
lapped. Luck was capable of great gen-
" but he could be obstinate as
he chose.
ownership of,.calves,v a
cattle, about political matters.
Finally had come open hostility. Cass
leased from the forestry department the
land upon which-Cuilison‘s cattle,had
always run free of expense. . Upon this
he had put sheep, a thing in itself of
great injury to the cattle interests. The
stockmen had alibeen banded together
in opposition to the forestry administra-
tion 0 the, new regime, and Luck re-
garded Fendrick‘s action as treachery
to the common cause, .
' He struck back hard. in Arizona the
0 en range.ls valuable only so long as
ti e water holes also are common prop-
erty or a. private supply available. The
Circle C cattle those of Fendrick
came down from the range to the Del
Oro to water at,a. point where the canyon
walls opened to a spreading valley. This
bit>of meadow Luck homesteaded and
straying
’one of the sheepherders had been beaten
,. because he persisted in crossing the dead
Cullison wargoing tolput the
legal seal on the matter by making
disposition. liun
blacknamed himself for anarrant fool
because he had not anticipated the move
of his enemy and homesteaded on his
Own account. .
He felt that there must be some way
out of the trap if he could only find it.
‘street. -
CHAPTER XII.
LUCK MEETS AN OLD ACQUAXNTANCE.
ULLISON and his friends proceeded
down Papago street to the old plaza
where their hotel was located. Their
.transit was an interrupted one. flat tlgese
e es
hard-riding, quick-shooting
eherifl of the county-met also ucowls
once or twice, to which he was entirely
Jndliterent. .
Luck had no slavish respect for law.
CHICAGO
had indeed. if rumor were true. run fl.
d and stormy cour e in youth
Bl“ as sheriff had been a ter-
ror to lawhreakers. e ha made cne.
mies. desperate and unscrupulous ones.‘x
who had sworn to wipe him from among
the living, and one of these he was now
to meet for the first time since the man).
had stood handcuffed before him, livid
with fury, and had sworn to cut his
heart out at the earliest chance.
t was in the lobby of the hotel that
Cullison came plump against-Lute B ack-
well. For just a. moment.Lliey stared at
each other before the former sherlii
silo e.
"Out again, eh, Blackwell?" he said
asil
c
From the blooshot eyes one could have
told at a glance the man had been drink-
ing heavily. From whisky he had im-
billed a. Dutch courage Just hold enough
be dangerous.
‘Yes, I'm out-and back again, just
as I promised. lllr. Sheriff." he threat-
ened.
The cattleman ignored his manner.
"Then I'll give you 9. piece of advice
gratis. Papago County has grown away
from the old days. it has got past the
two-gun man. gone to Join the
antelope and the painted Indian. You'll
well to remember that."
The fellow leaned forward, sneering
so that his ugly mouth loo ed like a
crooked gash. "How a out the one-gun
mall, Mr. Sheriff?"
“lie doesn't last long, now."
"Doesn't he?"
Tile man's rage boiled over. But Luck
was far and away the quicker of the
two. His left hand shot forward and
grit ped the rising wrist, his right caught
t ii on it. He
to
onvict as
child, and dung him, black in the face,
against-the wall. and he hunz. stran-
gling and sputtering.
“I-I'll get you yet." the ruillan panted.
But he did not again attempt to reach
or the weapon in his hip pocket.
- “You talk too much with your mouth."
. “'ith superb contempt, Luck slapped
him, turned on his heel, and moved away,
regardless of the raw. stark lust to kill
that was searing this man's elemental
brain.
Across the convlct's rags came a vision.
2' up in the Rlncons,
H
and
breakfast, all of armed. Upon
them had come one man suddenly. He
had dominated the situation quietly, had
made one disarm the others. had hand-
cuffed the one he Wanted and taken him
from his friends thru a hostile country
where any hour he might be shot from
ambush. .ll1oreover. he had traveled with
his prisoner two days, always cheerful
and matter of fact. not at all uneasy its
to what might lie behind the Washes or
the rocks they passed. Finally he had
brought his man safely to Case Griinde.
from whence he had gone over the road
Blackwell had been
rfhghe adventure had alone made it I108-
sible. For we an un awed nerve
Blackwell knew his Jerk)’ rash W35 1'10
matc ‘
v paroled convict recovered his
breath and slunk out of the hotel.
Billie Mackenzie, owner of the Fiddle-
back ranch, laughed even while he dis-
"Some day, Luck. you'll get
longest. lilac,"
missing the subject carelessly.
I. three hours 0!
cl with a nod he
“All the same Luclts too darned rash,"
Flandrau commented. ‘ He'll Tun “"0
trouble good and hard one of these days.
Rattlesnake Gulch I don't
Culllson. e ,
sitting‘ in these bl: games UH Xal“
up. wes good I: here and there]
Alwa s was spender l-lrst thing c
back “[3.
re he'll raise
don.‘ k ‘ the price.
Money is so tight right n0W- v
'1'1l.AT.sfternuon Luck called at ever)’
bank in Saguache. All of the bank-
ers knew hlm and were friendly to him,
but in spite of their personal regard they
could do nothing for in.
“It's this stringency. Luck." Jordan 0'
the C3lllPl’hen'B National explained to
him.
the best security.
let you have it. but it wouldn‘t be right
to the bank. We‘ve got to keel) our re-
serve up. Vvhy, I‘m lying awake HUI-lllS
trying to figure out a way to call in
more of our money.
"I'm not asking much, Jack."
"Luck, I‘d,let you have it if I dared.
VV)-iy, we're running close to the wind.
Public conddence is a mighty ilckllsh
lhing. if I didn't have twenty thou-
sand comlnl; from El Paso on the Fly”
tonight I'll be uneasy for the bank."
LEDGER
"Twenty thousand on the Flyer. I
reckon you ship by express. don‘t you?
"Yc. Don't men on it to any one.
That twenty ihousumtwould come handy
to A good many people in this country
these times."
"It would come right. handy to me."
Luck laughed ruefully. "I n
cent of it.
hard sledding to keep [going till then.’
“You'll make a turn somehow.
work out. Maybe when money is
light I'll be able to do something for
on.‘ ‘
Luck returned to the hotel morosely.
and tried to figure a way out of his dif-
t going to be
cut to
what he wanted. he would no:
lose out Etfler all these years of ilgll
ing. It had’bcen his desperate need of
money that had made him sit in last
night's poker game. But had suc-
ceeded only in making it bad situation
worse. new his debts by heart.
but he jolted them down on the brick of
an envelope and added them again.
Mortgage on ranch (due Oct.
1 .. . . . . . . .. .....
. . , . . 313,000
Note to First National 3.500
Note to Reynolds . 1.750
I 0 U to Mackenzie 1,200
Same to Flnndrau. 400
Same to Yesler.. 300
Total ......................$20,15O
Twenty thousand was the sum he
needed, and mighty badly, too. Absent-
mindedly. he turned the envelope over
and jotted down one or two other things.
Twenty thousand dollars! Just the sum
Jordan had coming to the bank on the
fingers
Clled ll. Brill
Just below the figures. "XV. & S. Ex. Co."
nally they wrote automatically the
one word. "Tonight"
Luck looked at what he had written
laughed grimly. and tore the envelope
wo. threw the pieces in the
waste miner basket.
:3‘
CHAPTER XIII.
A. INITIALED HAT.
ACKENZIE was reading the Sentinel
while he ate ii late breakfast. lie
had it propped against the water bottle.
so that it need not interfere with the
transportation of sausages, fried pota-
toes. hot cakes. and coffee to their com-
mon deeination.
Trying to do two things at once has
its disadvantages. A startling head-
line caught his eyes just as the cup was
at his lips. riot coffee. preclpitately
swallowed, sccilded his tongue and throat.
Ho set down I
ex
story to n column, but the leading par-
agraphs gxive the gist it: ’
“'lille the citizens of Salzuache
were pcriccflilly sleeping: last night,
alone bandit lleldun the messenger:
of the VVeilternnnd Southern Express
Company, and relieved m of
$20,000 Just received from El Paso
on the Flyer.
Perry Hayley, the local manager
of the company, together with Len
Rogers, the armed guard. had Just
sler-lved in.i'o1lowed by Rogers. when
a masked dosperado appeared sud-
denly out of the darkness, dlesrmed
the guard and manager. took the
money, passed thru the door and
locked it after him, and vanished
in silently as he had come. Before
leaving, he warned his victims that
the place would he covered for ten
minutes nnd at any attempt to call
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