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~ - Buck Danields, in an out-of-the-way ranch house. She "Joan" lves with an old recluse; mably her father, complains that she never goes where other girls go and obviously alarms Daniels by this statement. t night Joan slips from her bed after Daniels BE mcupectors, Hal Springer and WO Pros| rs, Hal Springer an Rudy Nichols, are shot and Wled in an argument with a scoundrel by the name of Joe Macarthur, Harry Gloster returns to the camp, finds the bodies of his partners, and realizes that he will be accused of the crime. So he flees southward. Now he is talking to an elderly, not unpleasant man in a restaurant along the route. "You're headed for the Rio Grande--pronto!" says the elderly man imowingly. "If 1 were a sheriff I'd have you loc up on suspicion. But-I'm not a sheriff-- 3 i \, which was the more formidable. There was more nervous energy in Joe, but in the man who had just been called Haines there was a calm reserve of strength which might be employe in the crigis. He was older, to be sure, but. he was not yet old enough to be | beside the fallen man, There was one determining factor which Gloster could see, but which Joe could not. The right hand of Haines had been kept scrupulously out of ph 4 [ack again, don't come back this way. d to He's bad medicine, you understand?" sight beneath the table from the mo- ment Joe entered. . It had Harry at first this might be from fear | lest the other should note his infirmity and take advantage of it to fly at his h throat, But now that the battle had b \} there might be another reason which induced Haines to conceal his wound actual dan + 13. not by a derable dist NOW GO-ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER III. (Cont'd) They exchanged eloquent glances, and Harry Gloster drew a t breath of relief. Before he could speak again a third man entered the" stopped short as his glance fell upon Glostér's companion, and then ad-| vanced again, slowly, with an inde-! seribable change in his manner and step which told that he was facing danger. As for the man beside Glos- ter, he, too, had altered, sitting a little straighter in his chair, and with an outthrust of his lower jaw. Yet he said calmly enough: "Hello, Joe." "Howdy," nodded the other. "Kind of far south for you, Lee, ain't it?" "A little far south," answered Lee, while the other drew back a chair with his left hand and sat down slowly, gingerly, never taking his eyes from Lee. He was one of those long-legged, long-armed men whose weight is con- densed almost entirely around her- culean shoulders. "Yes," went on Lee as calmly as before, "I'm a little farther south than usual. I'm on a trail. Maybe you could give me a few pointers Joe." Joe grinned, and there was no mirth in his smile. "Sure," he sald dryly. T "Ain't it ~*~ nacheral for me to do anything for you that 1 could?" Here Mary came to get the order of the newcomer. He snapped a request for ham and eggs at her without mov- ing his eyes from Lee. "I'm looking for a woman," said Lee, continuing as soon as the girl had left the room. "We all are," said Joe, grinning again, "Her name," said Lee, "is Kate Cumberland. That is, it used to be. She's the widow of Dan Barry, and Dan Barry was a man I wronged, and he was a man who gave me my life when he had it like that--to take if he wanted it--" "Well," said Joe with sinister mean- ing, "gents like that come few and far between, eh?" "They do," answered Lee. "There are some folks that hold a small grudge to the end of time. I've met men like that." The meaning could not be misunderstood. And suddenly Joe turned white. His head lowered and thrust out a bit more than usual; he pushed back his chair somewhat from the table so-as to give his knees clearance for quick action, And his right hand dropped patently close to his hip. "You've met one of them men in me, Haines," he said, breathing hard, and yet growing whiter and whiter as the passion mounted. "I've been thinking and thinking about--you and me. And I'm tolerable glad that we've met up Tolerable glad!" And, indeed, the battle lust shook him like a leaf. Harry Gloster eyed them shrewdly. He had been among fighting men all his life. They were a sort of lan- guage which he could read with per- fect fluency. But as he looked from one to the other of these two he could not tell "Add 10 the Joy of the open road ~this pleasure. % giving refreshment. ae w A sugar-coated gum fords double value. Pep gy A u! - --and that was an indomitable which kept him from taking an- tage of a weal to put off a dan- ger. And, in fact, he was now meeting | fingers of Harry Gloster were square: the last outburst of Joe with a calm smile of scorn. Yet, certainly, he was helpless. The him and you'll have better luck. And four fingers of his right hand were bound together with one bandage He could not possibly.use a gun under such a handicap unless he were ambi- dextrous--and on his left side he wore no gun! To reach across to his right hip would be impossible--opposite him there was a man quivering with hate and with murder in his face. At the His fist shot across the table. first suspicious move he would strike and his stroke would be as devastating as a lightning flash. "Wait a minute!" cried Gloster. "Wait a minute, will you? My friend here has a bad hand--he can't--" "You carry people along to beg off for you?" sneered Joe. "I've never met this man before," said Haines slowly. "And I need no advice or help. When I fight a rat, I fight alone!" It came home to Harry Gloster with a sickening surety. It was simply the suicide ofa man tired of life and pre- ferring to die by the hand of another rather than his own. He watched the lip of Joe curl; he saw him take a short breath, as if he were drinking the insult to the last drop, and then there was a convulsive movement of his right arm. The elbow jerked back and up and the big revolver came spin- ning out of its holster. Lee Haines had not stirred; indeed, his last remark was still on his lips. But Harry Gloster had begun to move the split part of a second before the man across the table, It was a long distance, but the arm of Gloster was a long arm. His fist shot across the table and cracked on the point of the aggressor's jaw. Had it landed solidly, it would have knocked Joe half the length of the room. But as it was, he flinched back at-the last instant, seéing the flying danger from the corner of his eye. So the blow merely grazed the bone and partly stunned him for the frac- tion of a minute. He staggered up from his chair and back a step. The revolver dropped down to the tips of his unnerved fin- gers and hung there by the trigger guard. The very curse which he ut- tered was blurred and half spoken, "Keep out of this!" commanded Haines, and reached for the should of his table companion. His grip was 'strong, but his fingers slipped from a mass of contracted muscles. He might as well have laid an arresting hand on the flank of an avalanche. ; Harry Gloster went over the table and landed first with his fist on the face of Joe, and secondly, with his feet on the floor. The half numbed fingers of Joe were gathering the re- volver again, ger of habit," Haines rejoined. He scanned ble: | the magnificent body of Gloster, and ride | { the smiie with which he had uttered "Ie must be made of India rubber," A brought by. the uproar to the of the kitchen, screamed and ran back, and Wu raised a shrill chatter ing. lee Haines was already kneeling } whom he turn- ed on his back. ; : "Not even a broken jaw," he said. He arose and faced Gloster, and laid his bandaged hand on the shoulder of the. other. His calm was amazing to Harry Gloster. "That was fast work," Haines said, "and it saved me from being filled full of lead, which is bad enough, or beg- ging off, which is worse. But if you're headed for the Rio Grande, don't let this hold you back. And if you come "I've never side-stepped a man yet," Harry Gloster replied, shaking his "You're not too old to form a good last of all his glance dwelt on the hands. His own fingers, and those of Joe, lying unconscious on the floor, were long, slender, bony--intended for movements of electric speed. But the tipped, built for crushing power, "No," he continued, "keep away from start moving now!" CHAPTER 1V. MOON MAD. The ranch house in which Buck Daniels and Joan lived was not -old, but the parching sun of a few sum- mers had drawn the life from the wood and warped it loose, and a score of wild sandstorms had battered and twisted it. So that a voice sounded frgm corner to corner of the building and a footfall started small murmurs squeaking across the house. But when Joan arose from Ker bed it was like the rising of a shadow; there was not even a whispering of the covers as they were laid back. And so gingerly did she trust her weight to the floor that it gave not the slightest sound back to her. So, for a moment, she stood quietly, thinking and planning and weighing chances, with a hand pressing a hol- low into her cheek; and perhaps timid- ity would have conquered now as it had conquered with her before had it not been that her window opened to the east and, looking through it across the night, she saw what seemed the rising of a great fire among the black edges of the eastern mountains. (To be continued.) ltrs Liniment for falling hair. Russian Girls in) Japan Get Licenses as Geishas Tokio.--All geisha girls in Japan are not Japanese. There are at least six Russian geisha maidens, all with blonde hair and red cheeks, entertain- ing the tired business men of Kobe, | Osaka and Nagasaki. Now there is one in Tokio who has adopted the pro- fessional nam of "Helen Doran." Miss Doran appeared at metropoli- tan police headquarters recently and made an application for a geisha li- cense. 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