Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-05-06
SYNOPSIS.
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CHAPTER I.-Adventurous and reck-
Mac, both practically mere boys, become
involved In a horse-stealing adventure.
OF Saguache. Ariz, the band separates.
Curly and his partner staying in town.
they are aWakene and told a posse IS
their pursuers.. overtaken next day. Mac
is killed by the posse and Curly made
captive. after he has shot one and him
self been wounded. The man shot is
.iLuck Cullison.
CHAPTER II.-Cullison's friends, all
an example to cattle thieves. With the
rope around his neck he is saved by the
Intervention of Kate Cullison. Luck's
daughter.
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Curly is sent for by .Cullison. He ques-
law. soapy Stone, real leader Of the rus
F1andrau learns that Soapy Stone is Gull
{1ison's bitter enemy n exercises a bale
9ul influence over the ex-sheriff's son
j. cuiIiison goes ball for Curly. A'
CHAPTER -IV.-Curly rescues soapy
Stone from a bear trap into which he has
stumbled, and discovers hat the outlaw
is young Sans rival for the hand of Lau-
"a London: she gives Curly a note to
deliver at to sam and Flandrau and Stone
CHAPTER Where, Curly meets his
companions of the rustling expedition and
delivers Laura's note to Sam. Young
Cullison believes Stone is his friend and
says he will stick by him. F1andrau sees
convinced it is train robbery. Sam leaves
%fhe ranch 70 go to Saguache. Curly &C
accompanies him, ~
E>CsfAPTER vi. - Eavesdropping at a
meeting place, Curly hears Stone and his
lieutenant, Lutte Blackwell, arrange to
hold up the train at a crossing known as
IN Cup, and after the robbery shoot
%ssoene, Stone thus Cutting his revenge on
sthe ex-sheriff through his sons death and
aisgrace. Curly is ACCUSED by Stone of
! separated, but part with the understand
t1ng that their next meeting will mean a
'aght to the death. Curly makes a con-
they inform Luck Cullison Of Stones plot
REa!ast bic CON
CHAPTER latter an ~all-night ses-
sion at the Roundup club, in which Guilt
son has lost heavily, there is al exchange
Of sharp words between Luck and a
sheepman, Cass Fendrick. with whom
'Cullison has a feud.
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by the news Of the holdup Of express
messengers, the bandits securing $4,000.
Cullison pays his poker debts. and shortly
his closest friends, learn he is suspected
of the express robbery, his hat having
been found on the scene and he being
missing.
CHAPTER 1II.-Kate goes to saguache
,Flandrau and Curly. All are convinced
fof Luck's Innocence. The sheriff reveals
that besides the finding of Culiison's hat.
edrick had seen the robber and is almost
certain it was Luck. Cullison is about to
enter a homestead claim which will prac-
tically nut Fendrick out of business,
pered in the most distant canons of
iPapago county. The riders Of the
Circle G knew it, but none Of them
]had yet told either Bob or Kate.
Now it was Friday morning and
Kate was beginning to wonder why
her father did not call her up. Gould
lit be that Soapy Stone vas pulling off
: his train robbery at Tin Cup and her
father s. busy that he could not take
time to ride to a telephone station?
: She did not like to leave the ranch just
now, even for a few hours, but other
: business called her away. Sweeney
was holding down the fort at the Del
: Gro against Hendricks sheepherders,
and his weekly supply of provisions
had to be taken to him. Since she
wanted to see with her own eyes how
things were getting along at the canon,
she was taking the supplies in person.
She rode from sunlight into shadow
and from shadow to sunlight again,
winding along the hill trail that took
her toward the Del Orc. After hours
of travel she came to the saddle from
which one looked down to the gap in
the canon walls that had been the COM
mon watering place of all mems cat
tie, but now was homesteaded by her
father. She could see the hut, he
fence line running parallel to the
stream on the other side, some grazing
cattle, Sweeney's horse in the corral.
The piteous bleating Of a lamb float
ed to her. Kate ~dismOunted and made
her way toward tthe sound. A pathetic
little huddle of frightened life tried to
struggle free at her approach. The
slim leg Of the lamb had become
, wedged at the intersection Of several
+. rocks in such a way that it could not
be Withdrawn.
Kate pulled the boulder away, and
released the prisoner. She took the
soft, woolly creature in, her arms, and
examined the wounded limb, all torn
and raw from it's efforts to escape. A
wound, she recalled, ought to be
washed with cold water and bound.
Returning to her horse, she put the lit
tie animal in front of the saddle and
continued on the trail that led down to
the river.
Sweeney came out from the cabin
and hailed her. He vas a squat, wealth.
er-beaten man, who had ridden for her
father ever since she could remember.
"What in Mexico you got there?" he
asked in surprise.
She explained the circumstances un
der which she had found the lamb.
"And what you aiming to do WITH