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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1928 BEGIN HERE TODAY Finding the lifeless bodies of his tw< partners' at their gold mining camp, Harry Gloster flees southward, knowing that he will be accused of the crime. On the way Gloster is jailed after getting into a fight with several men over a girl. Jean Barry, daughter of a famous rider of the old plains, helps Gloster to escape. Later Joan, in quest of Gloster, falls in with a bandit gang in the mountains. Joe Macarthur, a quick-on-the-trigger scoundrel, is made chieftain of the gang when he appears with a scheme to rob the Wickson Bank. Samuel Carney, cashier, has given Macarthur the combination to the (safe, but later repents and tells the 'president of the bank what he has done. Gloster goes with Buck Daniels, Joan's guardian, to the bandit camp,eye of Gloster. to find the girl. She will not lea-Gloster joins the band,too, to be "Then, look at this." He tossed the bridle to Gloster. "What about it?" asked the latter. were the struggles of the chief in Glos-j ters grip. She heard the dsnunslation. She saw Harry Gloster tear from the earth his own "pebble" and cas^ tha vote for his admittance. He had joined that crew in orciar that he might be ne?,r her. That was the meaning of h;s quiet air as he said goodbye that night. So, with that resolution, she watch- London.--Rarotor.ga, one of the ed until the oath had bean taken so Cook Islands in Polynesia, was a very solemnly. Then she hurried away and iso'ated spot a few years ago, but to-found the Captain, led him by the day it is linked with the rest of the mane to her hut and, beyond the far- world bv radio> with veiT curious re-j ther side of it where eyes from the' suits, declared the Rev. H. Bond ---'-'e her, James, a Welsh missionary of the Getting Ahead Events Pushed Nearly 24 Hours Ahead by Radio on Outlying Cook Islands n^rordtn^ of f"*™ it ^'v^St ance He looked on the inside and at1 and cautious of his movements. The | James, 1S one of those peculiar spots the top of the headband, half obscured great horse had fallen into the very where one can take part in events by an incrustation <* horse sweat, he -spirit of the thing Her stealthy ap- nearly 24 hours ahead of time. At found the initials "H. S." cut into the Proach and her whispering voice had least Mr James and his wife can to-been enough to make his steps as care- ten at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night to ful as those of a stalking cat. | the Sunday evening broadcast services She had saddled him and was ready,from radio stations in New Zealand, to mount when she saw a man carry-11,800 miles away. This circumstance ing a saddle go through the starlight; is due to the fact that Cook Islands into the pasture. She reined the black \ lie on the east of the one hundred and leather. "H. S.," he mutered to hir. "Who's that? H. S. Hal S; He jerked up his head. "Good God!" he breathed. Macarthur folded self. But NOW G Yep,'" he said. "I dont that job." And tried to make me swing for CHAPTER GXX. BLOOD BROTHERS. So Harry Gloster became a sworn member of the band. It caused the sweat to start from every pore of his bod^ when he learned that they were to ride that very night. But, looking down to the floor so that none of them might read the horror in his eyes, he set his teeth and decided that he would find a way of withdrawing before the actual scene of the crime-to-bo was reached. "Go out and saddle, one by one, boys, so's Joan won't hear," went on Macarthur. "Lead your horses down through the gap and wait out there been until we all are together, then They began to follow his •while Macarthur drew Gloster side and explained to him in detail the plan for the robbery of the Wicksen. Bank. Two men at the most would be all that were needed to make an entry info the bank. But the other four would be posted at intervals here there to fi-nard against any possible' danger. Nov/ that Gloster was there, i: meant that there were five extras. "An easy job for you this time, Gloster," said Macarthur. "And you'll hook in on your full share of the coin. You ought to be more'n ten thousand dollars to the ^rood before Gloster nodded. After all. the thing could be managed. As Macarthui pointed cut, this was an inside job and there would be virtually no risk attached to it. Hf> need not keep the stolen money which fell to his lot. He could simply leave it behind him at the camp when he departed. Or, better still, he could send it back to the Wickson Bank. He would have no actual share in the And when the good time came and he found that mysterious murderer of "I'm a hard man, Gloster," said Macarthur, but a faint flush of shame had appeared in his cheeks. "I'd of let you swing and been glad of itt When one gent swings for a killing, there ain't any look for another killer. o\\y came to her. This they had retired so early that night. There was a midnight ride ahead of •4thouffh"he"had set hi7teeth"to force ' horse into a copse and there waited, j eightieth meridian at which the world s himself t<,it he m^na^ to ^t tte i She saw the fellow-it was the fam- day officially begins, while New Zea-himself to it, he managed to meet the I ^.^ ^ GuineM Un<1 is to the west of it. The latter which she recognized--saddling his; is therefore always nearly a day horse and then riding out of the hoi- ahead as regards date, low. He was no sooner gone than an- Mr. James pays a tribute to the other man went out from the cabin, capability of the women of the islands, and then a third. I "Two years ago a storm destroyed all One by one they were capturing I the crops in Rarotonga. It meant a their mounts and departing from the j harvest for the hundreds of pigs hollow; and the meaning of it gradu- everywhere, and they were rapidly eating up the scanty supply of food left. The women of Rarotonga, who are very respected and influential, banded them. And would Harry Gloster be ' ess of the party? The hope that he would not was hardly born when she saw two men,-whose height and bulk showed them unmistakably to be Gloster and Macarthur, leave the door of the house and out into the pasture. In another few moments, they were riding out of the valley. What was there that she :cnld do? She must simply wait until they gone, of course. Then she could north as far as she pleased and before Harry Gloster and the rest back to the mountains she would be far beyond their ken. (To be continued.) swore solemn that I'd treat you like you was a brother of mine. And I'm tel' ing you the truth." Gloster greaned. There was such mixture of astonishment and anger in his heart that he was breathing hard. "I didn't go up there to do no harm to Nichols," Macarthur went on. "I was flat and I wanted to touch the old boy--but he seen through me; and that mad. There wouldn't have ore than words, though, but I done that job." hen I got mad Nichols got scared and being scared he reached for gun. 'Then hell broke loose. In a couple ----------- ---------- 0f seconds I come back to my senses. Nichols and Springer, he could return And there they lay dead on the ground, to the rahks of law-abiding men with \ grabbed what was worth grabbing a reputation unstained. By that time. then> nat> and beat it. too, he should have found a way to | "Gloster, that's the whole yarn. It's convince Joan that she could not lead \ the worst thing thr.t I ever done. And the wild life which she had chosen) | the wav t lef 'em hound you for the Macarthur broko in upon his. job was worse stm> But--I'd of let thoughts. He had been watching care- you ^ to the ganows right up to the fully the rapt face of the new recruit, j tim€ that you ^ to be one " "That's the way it always is," he (Gloster) if you don't want to hard to take^ the^ plunge, j undel. me after hearing that, you're free to go where you want to go. you'll stick with us in spit; of that, there's my hand!" i the water the swim He beckoned Gloster to him, and. t| going to the wall he took down a "Gloster," he said, "what you find out in this here gang is kept secret. You know that?" "I know that." "It ain't to be used against any man. You've sworn to treat the worst of us like he was your best brother." aid Gloster gloomily. For the split part of a second Harry Gloster fought his battle with himself. But after all, there was no choice. He was free to leave the band, to be : but if he left them it mear.t that he left Joan. And, in another moment, he found himself shaking hands with the i derer of his two old partners. r Here is a treat that can't be beat! Benefit and pleasure in generous measure! CI 80 Peppermint Flavor ISSUE No. 45--28 CHAPTER XXXI.- KIDERS IN THE NIGHT. There had been no truth in the sup-pesition of Harry Gloster that Joan had gone back to her hut to sleep soon as he left. She had gone to the Captain, a when she was still fifty steps away he scented her coming and raced to meet her like a great happy dog when it sees its master. He threw a swift circle around her, then came to a pause in front of her with his head tossed up high in the air and his eyes shining. They had a talk together after their own way. She whispered to him while she rubbed his nosa, and he whinnied his reply no louder than her own hushed voice. Of him she aked her questions--where were they going? What would they see, and what would they do on the long trail which they starting together? And then a gust of wind struck them and brought the stallion's head up, pointing noith, and the cry of an owl blew vaguely and mournfully to them on the breeze. That was the answer, as she had known even before she asked. They were bound north and north. She went back to the hut, and there she sat cross-legged at the entrance like an Indian under the flap of his tent. So she saw Harry Gloster ride back in the hollow, saw him dismount in front of the cabin door, saw him stride inside. Instantly she was up and after him, and from the outside she spied on everything that followed. She saw him holding Macarthur, and she noted with wonder and awe how impotent themselves together into a great company, seized all wandering pigs, and held them till their owners paid a fine. Incidentally, I was one of the fined. By their energy they averted what might have been a serious food shortage until the arrival of fresh stores." 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