The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-03-04


me FELLOW leaned forward. snaar;no
SO that his ugly mouth looked like .
crooked cash. How about tha ono
gun man, Mr.. Sheriff?"
He doesn't last long now"
Doesn't hep"
Inc mans rage boiled over. PM
Luck was far and away the ouicker
OF the two. His left hand shot for
ward and gripped the rising wrist. his
right caught the hairy throat and
frightened on 1t. He shook the CON
vfct as If he had been a child and
flung him, black in the face, against
the wall, where he hung, strangling
and suffering.
I'LL get you yet" the rufian
painted. But he did not again ATTEMPT
to reach for the weapon in his hin
pocket.
"You talk too much with your
MOUTH
With superb contempt Luck slapped
him. turned on his heel, and moved
away. regardless of the raw, stark
lust to kill that was soaring this mans
elemental brain.
The paroled convict recovered his
breath and skunk out of -the hotel.
Billie Mackenzie, owner of the Ffd-
dleback ranch. laughed even while
ne dlsapproved. "Some day, Luck,
you'll get yours when you are throw
ing chances at a coyote like this
You'I guess your man wrong, or he'n
be-one glass drunken than you figure
on, and then he'll plug you through
and through"
The man that takes chances lives
longest, Mac" his friend replied, dis
missing the subject carelessly. "I'm
going to tuck away about three hours
Of sleep. So long" And with a nod
he was gone to his room.
"All the same Luck's too derned
rash," FlandraSl commented. "And he
hadn't ought to be sitting in these big
games. He's hard up. Owes a good
bit here and there. Always was a
spender. First thing he'll have to sell
the Circle G to square things. He'll
pay US this week like he said he would.
That's dead sure. But I swear don't
know where he'll raise the price.
Money is so tight right now"
That afternooA Luck called at every
bank in Saguache. All of the bankers
knew him and were friendly to him,
but-in spite of their personal regard
they could do nothing for him.
Its this stringency. Luck" Jordan
Of the Cattlemen's National explained
TO him. I'D let you have 1t If I dared.
Why, we're Running close to the wind.
Public confidence is a mighty ticklish
I 6npk
sand coming from Ell Paso on the Flyer
tonight I'd be uze~ ~ for the bank"
Twenty thousand on the Flyer. 1
reckon you ship by express, don't
your"
eyes Don't mention 1t to anyone.
That twenty thousand would come
handy to a good many people In this
country these times"
"It would come right handy to me-"
Luck laughed ruefully. 81 need every
cent of it. After the beef roundup TIL
be on Easy street. but it's going to be
hard shedding to keep going till then"
"You1I make a turn somehow. It
will work out. Maybe when money
isn't so tight I'll be able to do some
thing for you"
Luck returned to the hotel morosely
and tried to figure way out OF his
difficulties He was not going to be
beaten. He never had accepted defeat.
He would not lose out after all these
years of fighting. 1t had been his des-
perate need Of money that had made
him sit in last nights poker game But
he had succeeded only in making
had situation worse. He knew MS
debts by heart, but he jOtted them
down on the back of an envelope ana
added them again.
Mortgage on ranch (due Oct. D.....'$1S'voU
Note to First National. .............o. o,Ooo
Note to Reynolds. .............'...."''' 4'1O OO
! " " " $3.50, - 400
Same to Yegler ...oOs.ooo'....'''..'"''"- wv
Total ....................... ~. loO
Twenty thousand was the sum ne
reodod and mighty badly, too. Absent
mindedly he turned the enveaope over
and iotted down one or two Otner
things. Twenty thousand dollars! just
the sum Jordan had coming 90 the
hank on the Flyer Subconsc1ously'
Tuck's fingers gave expression to MS
t6onol1ts. Twenty thousand dollars.
Half dozen times they penc1led IT,
and just below the figures, IVY. q 3
nv Go" Finally they wrote auto
matfcally the one word. ''Tor .ght.
T,uok looked at what he had written
laughed grimly. and tore the envelope
,n two. He threw the pieces IN the
waste paper basket.
d CHAPTER 70.