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The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-10-06
CHAPTER XII.

Next morning Duane was of again,
working south. During the next few
days he paid brief visits to several
villages that lay in his path. And in
each some particular friend had q
piece Of news to impart that made
Duane profoundly thoughtful. A
ranger had made n quiet, unobtrusive
call upon these friends and left this
| message, Tell Buck Duane to ride
into Captain MacNelly's camp some
| time after night"
Duane concluded, and his friends all
agreed with him, that the new rangers
main purpose in the Nueces country
| was to capture or kill Buck Duane,
and that this message was simply an
original and striking ruse the daring
of which might appeal to certain out
laws.
But it did not appeal to Duane. His
curiosity was aroused 1t did not, how
| ever, tempt him to any foOlhardy act.
He turned southwest and rode d hun
dred miles until he again reached the
| sparsely settled country. Here he
heard no more of rangers.
He got into rough country, rode for
three days without covering much
ground, but believed that he was get
ting on safer territory. Twice he came
| to a wide bottom-land green with will
low and cottonwood and thick as
chaparral, somewhere through the
middle Of which ran n river he de-
cided must be the lower Nueces.
One evening as he stole out from
| a covert where he had camped. he saw
the lights of Il village. He tried to
pass it on the left, but as he mounted
| II ridge he noted that the road made a
sharp turn, and he could not see what
was beyond it. He slowed up and
was making the turn. which was down.
hill between high banks Of yellow
clay, when his mettlesome horse heard
something to frighten him or SHE'D at
something and bolted.
The few bounds he took before
| Duane's iron arm checked him were
enough to reach the curve. One
flashing glance showed Duane the open
once more. little valley below with q
wide, shallow, rocky stream, a clump
Of cottonwoods beyond, somber
group of men facing him, and two
dark, limp strangely grotesque figures
hanging from branches.
The sight was common enough In
southwest Texas, but Duane had never
before found himself SO unpleasantly
close.
A hoarse voice pealed out: by hell
there's another onew
Stranger, ride down an account feI
yourselfr yelled another,
"Hands-upw
''Thet's right, Jack; don't take nc
chances. Plug him"
These remarks were SO swiftly ut
tered as almost to be continuous
Duane was wheeling his horse when
l.riAe cracked. The bullet struck hii
left foesArm and he thought broke 1t
for ~ dropped the rein. The frighten
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hOuls he did that, dreaming, dreaming
Of life he had never tasted and now
never would taste. He thought Of her
beauty and sweetness, of the few
things which had come to mean to
him that she must have loved him
and he trained himself to think OF
these in preference to her life at
BANDS. the escape with him. and
then her recapture. because such men,
cries led to bitter, fruitless pain. He
had to fight suffering because it was
eating out his heart.
Sitting there, eyes wide open. he
dreamed Of the old homestead and his
white-haired mother. He saw thA OLD
home-life, sweetened and filed by dear
new faces and added Joys, 60 ON be-
fore his eyes with him part of 1t.
Then In the inevitable reaction, In
the reflux Of bitter reality. ~ NQuld
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unusually tall figure. When 1t mp.
peared nearer he was seen to be walk
ing with both arms raised, hands high.
He slowed his stride.
"Does Burt Jones live here? he
asked, in low. hurried voice.
II reckon. I'm Burt. What can
do for your" replied Jones.
The stranger peered around, stealth
lily came closer, still with his hands up.
1T is known that Buck Duane Is
here. Captain MacNelly's camping on
the river just out Of town. He sends
word to Duane to come out there after
dark"
The stranger wheeled and departed
as swiftly and strangely as he had
come.
BUST me! Duane, whatever do you
make Of that7" exclaimed Jones.
"A new one ON me-" replied Duane.
thoughtfully.
First fool thing I ever heard Of
MacNelly doing. Can't make head nor
tails Of 1t. I'd have said off-hand
that MacNelly wouldn't doubie-cross
anybody. He struck me a square man,
sand all through. But hell! he must
mean treachery. 1 can't see anything
else in that DEAL"
Maybe the Captain wants to give
me fair chance to surrender without
bloodshed," observed Duane. pretty
decent Of him, II he meant that"
HE invites you to come to his camp
after dark. Something strange about
this, Duane. But MacNelly's a new
man out here. He does some queer
things. Perhaps he's getting a swelled
head. Well, whatever his intentions,
his presence around Mercer Is enough
for US. Duane, you hit the road and
put some miles between you and the
amiable Captain before daylight. To
morrow I'll 60 out there and ask him
what In the devil he meant"
That messenger he sent-he was a
ranger" said Duane.
"Sure he was, and a nervy one! 1t
must have taken sand to come bracing
you that way. Duane. the fellow
didn't pack a gun. I'll swear to that.
Pretty odd. this trick. But you can't
trust 1t. Hit the road, Duane"
A little later a black horse with
muffied hoofs, bearing a tall dark rider
who peered keenly into every shadow,
trotted down a pasture lane back of
Jones' house, turned into the road,
and then, breaking into swifter gait,
rapidly left Mercer behind.
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clear stream between yellow cliffs,
stood Q small deserted shack Of cover
ed mesquite poles. II had been made
long ago. but was well preserved. A
door faced the overgrown trail. and
another faced down Into Q gorge OF
dense thickets. On the border fugi-
dives from law and men who hid In
rear o. someone tney had wrongeo
never hved In houses with only one
ooor.
II was Q WHO spot, lonely, not nt
Tor human habitation except for the
outcast
on clear days-and rare indeed were
cloudy days-with the subsiding OF the
WIND at sunset q hush seemed to fail
around the little nut. Far-distant DIM
blue mountains stood goid-rimmed
graauaiiy 10 iaoe WIN tne shRping OF
Asnt'
up out Of the gorge and sat in the
westward door OF the hut. This lonely
watcher OF the west and listener to the
silence was Duane. And this hut was
the one where. three years before,
Jennie had nursed him back to life.
The killing of a man named Sellers,
and the combination OF circumstances
that had made the tragedy a memoir
able regret, bad marked, II not a
change, at least a cessation in Duane's
activities. He had trailed Sellers to
kill him for the supposed abducting
of Jennie. Vague rumors, few words
here and there, unauthenticated stor-
les were all that Duane had gathered
In years to substantiate his belief
that Jennie died shortly after the be-
ginning Of her second captivity.
Sellers might have told him. Duane
expected, II not to force 1t from him
at the end, to read 1t In his eyes. But
the bullet went too unerringly; 1t
locked his lips and fixed his eyes.
After that meeting Duane lay long
at the ranch-house Of a friend, and
when he recovered from the wound
Sellers had given him he started with
two horses and a pack for the lonely
gorge on the. Nueces. There he had
been hidden for months, a prey to re-
morse, dreamer, victim Of
phantoms.
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Considering oil the domestic
troubles, family scandaIs and
love affairs that turn out badly,
one might be cynical Indeed
shout the power Of ~oman's az
lection and trust to keep . man
on the path Of honor In the face
of allurin0 temptation. But
there comes into Buck Duane's
life q feminine influence 90 fine
-as depleted by the author
that the reader Of 1.-THE Lone
Star Ranger" cannot resist the
charm Of II all. n you want the
cream Of romance and adven-
ture, don't miss this InstaIIment.
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sYNoPsIs.

The time Of the story: about 1s7B. The
place: The Texas COW country. The chtef
character: Buckley Duane. . young man
suppgssssa. In ssif-defenss he shoots dead
. drunken bully and In forced to dee to
the Wild country where he Joins BANDS
tells him about Jennie. young girl who
had been abducted and sold TO Bland for Q
bad fate. They determine to rescue the
gtri and restore her to civilization. Eu-
chre IL killed. Buck kills Bland and u
dangerously wounded by Mrs. Bland, but
escapes with Jennie
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/
fiery bay. He was about to get into
his saddle when he saw Duane, and
then he halted, foot in the stirrup-
| Duane strobe forward, grasped the
bride Of this mans horse.
| Mines done-but not killed." he
painted. Trade with me-
wal, stranger, I'm shore always
But ain't you little swiftT'
Duane glanced back up the road.
His pursuers were entering the village.
I'm Duane-Buck Duane" he cried.
menacingly. "Will you trader Hurry"
The rancher, turned white, dropped
his foot from the stlrrup and fell back.
Il reckon I'll trade" he said.
Bounding up, Duane dug spurs into
the bays TANKS. The horse snorted
in fright, plunged into q run. He was
fresh, swift, half wild. Duane flashed
by the remaining houses on the street
out into the open. But the road ended
ut that village or else led out from
some other quarter, for he had ridden
straight into the fields and from them
into rough desert. When he reached
the cover of mesquite once more he
looked back to find six hOrsemen with
in rifle shot of him, and more coming
behind them.
His new horse had not had time to
get warm before Duane reached q high
sandy bluff below which lay the willow
brakes. AS far as he could see extend
ed an immense fiat strip or red-tinged
| willow. How welcome it was to his
| eye! He felt like a hunted wolf that,
weary and lame, had reached his hole
in the rocks. Zigzagging down the
soft slope, he put the bay to the dense
wall of leaf and branch. But the
horse baked.
There was little time to lose. Dis
mounting he dragged the stubborn
beast into the thicket. This was
harder and slower work than Duane
cared to risk. If he had not been rush.
ed he might have had better success.
So he had to abandon the horse-a
| circumstance that only such sore
straits could have driven him to. Then
he went slipping swiftly through the
narrow aisles.
He had not got under cover any
too soon. For he heard his pursuers
piling over the bluff, loud-voiced, con-
fident, brutal. They crashed into the
! willows.
Hi, Sid! Heah's your boss ~ called
one, evidently to the man Duane had
forced into a trade.
Say, If you locoed gents IL hold up
little I'll tell you somethin'," replied
voice from the blNff.
Come on, Sid! We've got him
corralled," said the first speaker.
"Wal, mebbe, an If you hev it's la
BILE to be damn hot. Thet Teller was
Buck Duane!"
| Absolute silence followed that state
ment. Presently it was broken BY a
rafting Of loose gravel and then low
voices.
HE can't git acrost the river, tell
you" came to Duane's ears. "He's
corralled in the brake. 1 know tibet
hole"
Then Duane, gliding silently and
swiftly through the willows. heard no
more from his pursuers. He headed
straight for the river. Threading a
passage through a willow brake was
an old task for him. Many days and
nights had gone to the acquiring Of a
skill that might have been envied by
| an Indian
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CHAPTER xI.

4 hundrsd miles from the haunts
nest familiar with Duans's deeds, far
M wheFe ~ Nnecss ran . traekling
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CTo BE CoNTuUEDl
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
CHERRY PIE AT ITS BEST
Time and Attention Given to This De,
licious Dessert Will Be Found
Well Worth While.

It's all very we'll for nursery land
Billy to say "She can make a cherry
pie quick's a cat a wink her eye" but
making cherry pies isn't quick, and
even the pitting of the cherries is a
tedious chore. Pitting cherries is one
Of those things best done by hand ;
there never was a pie made from ma.
chine-pitted cherries to compare In
flavor with the ones squeezed out with
her own fair fingers. It's like the meat
chopper for chicken salad or jugged
hare; the machine just spoils the taste
and makes 1t like anybody's instead Of
'hers."
But she has got several wrinkles not
possessed by grandma. For one thing,
she brushes the very rich and paper
thin pie crust with which she lines
the deep earthen pie dish, with white
of egg. Then she slips it into a hot
oven, after pricking it to keep it from
blistering. Then come the cherries
piled in by the fstfull and the juice
we'll mixed with sugar, so it is almost
solid. And then atop the crust is also
brushed over the under side with white
of egg and pricked we'll to allow the
steam to escape. The oven should be
hot, but not %scorching, and when thu
pie is a rich brown it's a dish for 6
king.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
Care Of Blankets.

Here Is a satisfactory way Of wash
ing the blankets before putting them
away for the summer: Slice half 9
cake of washing soap into two quarts
of water; set in the stove and still
until dissolved. When dissolved, add
cold water in a large tub. To this
soapy water add four tablespoonfuls of
powdered borax. Soak the blankets In
this overnight. Then wash them In
this water, rinse them twice in cold
water, wiring and Lang on the line.
This recipe will wash four blankets.
Be sure and use only cold water, and
they will come out as soft and beauti-
full as new. A teaspoonful of glycerin,
added to the rinsing water, will i'm
prove them. Very heavy blankets may
sometimes be cleaned by hanging them
on the line, soaping and securing them,
and then turning the hose on them.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
EMPLOY GOOD scRuB.cLoTHs
Poor Economy to Use Discarded Rags
for the Purpose, for q Great
Variety Of Reasons.

While we all wish to be as econom-
lcal as possible, we sometimes follow
an economy that doesn't pay, in trying
to use old %threadbare rags as scrub
and cleaning cloths. The discarded
garment with its many holes is not
always the right substance with which
to expect good, firm cleaning. Such
rags fall apart easily, become unsani-
tary, and require much labor to keep
clean. Good scrub-cloths r now
specially manufactured out of closely
woven twill crash or fiber. They come
In regular sizes, the 24-inch square be-
ing found very convenient for ordinary
scrubbing. Other knitted OF woven
cloths can be bought for a few cents
for various other cleaning purposes,
such as windows. pot-wiping. sink
cleaning, etc. They have body, are
firm, and require far less to keep
clean, besides giving better service
than the ordinary rag.--Modern Pris'
ella. va
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
LAUNDRY HINTS OF VALUE
Easy Method Of Getting Rid Of Fruit
etains-Te Set colors In Wash
able Goods.

A fruit stain on the best linen - .
problem which many housewives find
difficult to solve. There Is a very good
remedy in a paste made of soda and
water, which when rubbed on the spot
will restore the garment to its original
color. If the spot is particularly stub
born hold 1t over q steamlng kettle or
allow the boiling water to run through
it and it will quite disappear.
Often a careless maid will insist up
on washing white and colored clothes
together, much to the peril Of the white
garments. II the latter are injured by
their contact with color, by boiling In a
soapy water to which q cupful of zine
gar has been added, they should be-
come white again.
A simple way to set colors In wash
able goods Is by soaking them previous
to washing In water, to which a little
oxgall has been added. Almost a tea
spoonful of oxgall to a gallon Of water
should be used.
Delicately colored socks and stock
ings are apt to fade in washing. II
they are soaked for a night in a pail
containing %turpeHtine, then wrung out
and dried, the colors will be set and
they can afterward be washed without
fading.
To remove troublesome spots from a
garment try the yolk Of an egg before
washing. This is effective and not at
all injurious to %perishable colors.
Do not dry a silk garment after
washing; instead, roll it up in a clean
white cloth for about half IN hour and
iron 1t while damp.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
ia Cook Dried Corn.

Take the quantity needed and soak
for six hours in just enough water
thoroughly to cover the corn. Then
put In the double boiler and cook until
tender Do not add extra water. Sea-
son with butter, pepper and salt. A
cupful Of cream makes it most de-
licious. This should be put in when
the corn is half cooked. SO that it will
absorb most of the cream.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
MAKING UP LUNCH Basket
AppstIxina Picnic Meat Just 40 Easy
60 Prepare ~ One That 10 Apt
% Become @Messy."

The holiday season e the picnic
season, weather permitting, and the
lunch basket stands out prominently
in successful picnic preparations. A
we%ll-prepared, carefully packed lunch
mea contented picnickers. but there
Is nothing more disappointing than to
open the lunch basket and find every.
thing crushed and messy" With a
little car to preparation, however,
this need not happen. There are many
little ways of putting things up that
will carry them in appetizing form.
For instance a cake and pie combined
may be made by lining pasty pans
with pie crust and then filling them
with a cake batter and baking them.
They are much less apt to crush in the
packing than the ordinary little cup.
cakes, and children love them.
Or a loaf cake may be baked in .
tin cracker box. If this is done do
not take it from the box. Just ice 1t
and put on the cover and it will ar
rive in perfect condition.
Cream cakes are easily packed. A
jcr of ear filling can be carried or
one of creamed chicken If there is
any way to heat 1t. The pufs filled
with this will be great favorites.
Iced tea can be made of cold water
as we'll as of hot. Simply measure the
tea into an earthen dish, pour over it
the cold water, cover, and let stand
for an hours One never gets the slight
est bitter taste in tea made this way.
The lemon juice mixed with the sugar
may be carried in a bottle.
There is no need of taking dishes
that have to be washed and carried
home again. With paper napkins and
cardboard boxes, n can improvise a
very good picnic table with strong en-
velopes rolled for cups; " there can
be had. from a store, for a very small
outlay, a package of paper or fiber
plates, cups, napkins and spoons, that
can be thrown away when they have
been used. They r lighter and less
bulky to carry than the home table
ware.
It is a good plan, especially If there
are children in the party to take in the
basket a tiny "frst-aid" package, con-
tanning a roll of bandage, some absorb
ent cotton, a strip of adhesive plaster,
q tube Of antiseptic ointment and any
other little first-aid necessity. Though
this may not seem a festive prepare
ton, it is often very welcome as minor
accidents, really not more than mis-
haps, have a way of happening at pic
uics.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
Eranaipan Cream Pie.

Cut three circular pieces Of paste
nine inches in diameter. place on bak-
ing sheet, prick with fork and bake.
Put together with Frangipan cream,
for which mix two-thirds cupful of
powdered sugar and one-third cupful
flour, add yolks three eggs and one
whole egg, slightly beaten, one-fourth
t%easpoonful salt and one cupful scald.
ed milk and cook over hot water IL
minutes. Add two tablespoonful but.
ter, two tablespoonfuls m%acaroons
(died and rolled), two-thirds teaspoon.
full vanilla and two-thirds teaspoonfuJ
lemon extract.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
IHousewife's Lore.

It Is harmful to silk stockings to
iron them.
Bread. cheese and fruit make a per-
feet lunch.
Cream puffs take 25 minutes to
bake.
Half a pepper, minced fine, will
flavor an omelet.
Apples, bananas and lettuce are a
delicious salad mixture.
Don't forget that split PETS make
an excellent luncheon soup.
Crab flake cocktail is very pretty
served in green pepper cups.
Muffin and cake batters require half
as much liquid as -four.
To prepare horseradish quickly, put
1t through the meat chopper.
For clans baked in shells 1t is best
to use the large "hard" clans.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
Cherry Pudding.

Stir a pinch of soda into a pint ond d
half of milk and add the yolks of four
eggs, one cupful of sugar, one cupful
Of cherries, stoned, or q cupfuI Of
drained canned cherries. Slice stale
bread and cut away the crusts; butter
and cut into dice. Put layers of the
bread dice and the custard into q
well-buttered baking dish, set this in q
pan Of water in the oven and cook one
hour. Eat with hot sauce
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
To Clean currants.

A quick way to clean currants, when
making cake. is to put the fruit into q
colander with a .sprinkling Of flour,
and rub them around a few minutes
with the hand. It is surprising how
quickly the stems become separated
and slip through the holes.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
crystalizsd Mint Leaves.

Leave three leaves on each stem,
then make the usual f0ndant strip, but
boil longer. Dip the leaves in the hot
strip, then spread carefully on but
tered paper and set in q cool place to
crystalize. They will retain the ori
ginal mint flavor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
ia Improve Ripe Olives.

To make ripe olives even more deli
cious than they usually are. soak them
over night In olive oil to which has
ben added q small piece Of Q Glove q
garlic.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
pneaaina for Eiank Steak.

Flank steak may be given as appe-
,tizing q flavor as the more expensive
cut If 1t Is spread with a highly sea.
soned bread dressing, rolled tightly.
praised with vegetables. and cooked in
. casserole with Q little savory vine
gar.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18

you to give me an explicit answe at
once"
ITO WHAT"
ITO what? Was there ever such a
woman! Surely my meaning is plain
enough. It does not speak well fo1
your intuition to ask what under the
circumstances"
"And yet l do ask it. Jack. You
have talked and talked. At first &C
cusing me. Then you dropped into q
sort Of monologue about friendship
and love, and-that is ALL"
do you mean me to understand that
have not asked you to marry met"
You did not even suggest It."
"well. I am waiting for my an
wer."
"But you haven't asked me anything
yet"
"Good heavens! How many times do
you want to hear 1T" he exclaimed In
evaporation.
"Once will be often enough" she
answered In q voice q~utvering with 70
strained tenderness.
He leaned toward her, looking stead
lily into the amused eyes.
"will you be my wife. Margaret? u
that what you want me to say? Do the
words make my meaning any plainer!"
She drew his hand against her cheek
with . little laugh
why didn't you say that before
dear? Surely after all these years yos
owed 4 20 me-" /.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18
F~RozENsTAR's SCHEME l|l
BY JANE OSBORN.

Copyright, 1916. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-30

TIE UTgd1HSI OTdUyIHe
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