Connecticut western news., 1920-02-26
SYNOPSIS. Part |.

ga Part l.. 3
 CHAPTER L-Adventurous and reck-
 ss. rather than criminal, and excited by Equor, Curly Flandrau and his chum
 ac, both practically mere boys, become
 Evolved in 8 horse-stealing adventure
 Ss the stolen ha stock Ssnd in sns tGw 8hey are awakened and told a posse ia town In pursuit of them. They elude aair .pursuers. Overtaken next day. Mac Saldvs. after he has shot one and him. eelf been wounded. The man shot ia Enck Cullison.
 CHAPTER u.-CuIlison's friends, all oaftlemen,. determine to lynch Curly as aA example to cattle thieves. With the
 :roand his neck he ,,son Is saved ,c 4y the AAuGhter.
 ~czAprrR tn.-H,. wound dressed. slsd furthsr violence not apprehsndsd. Enriy is sent for by Cullison, He ques-
 ons the boy concerning notorious out
 sr: who had been Curiy's undoinS.
 Eandrau learns that Soapy Stone is Gull Xscn.s bitter enemy and exercises 2 bale- Inm, who has quarreled with his father. Auiiison goes ball for Curly.
 CHAPTER Iv.-Curly rescues soapy
 Ssd I and 0ea p nS tSat tSe outlaw ns M ' young sam's rival for the hand of Lau- H London She gives Curly a note to 0cLkY9r 10 Sam. ana H1anQrau ana stone eet out for the latter's ranch.
 CHAPTER v.-There Curly meets his <vsrs Ia1ras note ao sa Yoans Euliison believes Stone is his friend and nays he will stick by him. F1andrau sees 4onvinced it is train robbery. Sam leaves khe ranch to go to Saguache. Curly ac- companies him.
 Ills suspicion was Justified. Curly had been living on the edge of secret Tor weeks. Mystery was in the air. More than once he had turned. cor her to find the other four whispering Dver something. Occasionally man Rad ridden into the yard late at night For private talk with Stone, and Euriy was morally certain that the man was the little cowpuncher Dutch If the Circle c.
 Through it all Curly wore manner 6 open confidence. But all the time hfs brain was busy with questions. What were they up to? What was it nley had planned?
 Stone and Blackwell rode away one R0rning. To Curly the word was given that they were going to Mesa. Four days later Soapy returned alone Eute had found job, he said
 ''That paper sticking out of your nocket?" Flandrau asked.
 Soapy, still astride his horse, tossed khes Saguache Sentinel to him as he kurned toward the stable.
 t Caught between the folds of the pa per was railroad time table. It was h schedule of the trains of the Texas, Arizona & Pacific for July. Curly kurned the pages idly till a penciled marking caught his eye. Under Num- Der As time was scrawled, just below Eaguache, the words Tin Cup, and opposite them the figures O:19. The kxpress was due to leave Saguache at e:57 in the evening From there it pushed up to the divide and slid down with air brakes set to Tin Cup three Thousand feet lower. Soapy could not Want to catch the train fifteen miles khe other side of Saguache. But this note on the margin showed that he was interested in the time it reached fhe water tank. There must be req E0n for it.
 Flandrau's doubt had been convert ed into a lively suspicion. Presently De took gun and strolled off to shoot birds. What he really wanted was to De alone that he could think the matter byer. Coming home in the dusk, he eaw Stone and young Cullison with Their heads together down by the cor EaL Curly sat down on rock and Eatched them, himself unobserved. They appeared to be rehearsing some Kind of a scene, of which Soapy was btage director. 1 The man on the rock smiled grimly. r.They're having quarrel, looks like. p.. Now the kids telling Soapy to 20 to Guinea, and Soapy's paving hr0und mad as a bull moose. It's all ' play. They don't mean it. But MhyT
 Curly's mind was so full of guesses that his poker was not up to par that bight. About daylight he began to see his way into the maze. His first gleam bf light was when a row started be- tween Soapy and Cullison. Before anyone could say word to stop them khey were going through with that Identical corral quarrel.
 Flandrau knew now that they had been preparing it for his benefit. Eranston clipped in against Sam and, 10 keep up appearances, Curly backed khe boy. The quarrel grew furious. Nt last Sam drove his fist down on the kable and said he was through with hhe outfit and was going back to Eaguache.
 aYo tambien," agreed Curly. Mot khat I've got anything against the horse ranch That ain't it. But I'm bure pining for to bust the bank at Bronson's. I've got forty plunks burn hng my jeans. I've got to separate myself from it or make my roll a Thousand"
 I The end of it was that both Sam and Curly went down to the corral Z-a ca1dyo1 fhair nOniaS Tn the last