Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-01-30
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SYNOPSIS.
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Part !.
CHAPTER L-Adventurous and reck.
less. rather than criminal, and excited by |
liquor, Curly F1andrau and his chum. |
Mac, both practically mere boys, become |
Disposing OF the stolen stock in the town |
Of. Saguache, Ariz., the band separates, |
Curly and his partner staying In town. |
They are awakened and told a posse Is |
in town In pursuit OF them. They elude |
their pursuers. Overtaken next day. Mac |
IL killed by the posse and Curly made /
self been wounded. The man shot Is
Luck Cullison.
CHAPTER u.-Culiison's friends. all
cattlemen.. determine to lynch Curly as
an example to cattle thieves. With the
rope around his neck he Is saved by the
Intervention of Kate Cullison, Luck's
daughter.
CHAPTER Hills wound dressed.
and further violence not apprehended
Curly is sent for by Cullison He ques-
lions the boy concerning a notorious out
law, Soapy Stone, real leader of the rus
FiasdrSu learns tRs stp soSpy Stone Is cu
lison's bitter enemy and exercises a bale
full influence over the ex-sheriff,s son
Cullison goes bail for Curly.
CHAPTER IV.-Curly rescues soapy
Hm and Oas Tsp n yh sa o as
IL young Sans rival for the hand of Lau-
r., London. She gives Curly a note to
deliver TO Sam, and Flandrau and Stone
set out for the latter's ranch.
know. The express did not stop at
Tin Cup. Why, then, had Soapy
marked the time of its arrival there?
He was beginning TO guess the reason.
But he would have to do more than
guess.
Flandrau sauntered back to the ho-
tel on the lookout for Sam. He was
not there, but waiting for him was a
boy with note for the gentleman u
Ne. 81.
"Kid looking for you," the clerk
called to the cow-puncher.
"Are you Mr.. Soapy Stones friend.
the one just down from Dead Cow
creek?" asked the boy.
Curly nodded and took the note.
This was what he read:
"Sam, come to Chalkeye's place soon
as you get this. There we will talk
over the business.
you KNOW WHO"
Though he did not know who, Curly
thought he could give a pretty good
guess both as to the author and the
business that needed talking over.
Through the open door of the hotel
be saw Sam approaching. Quickly he
sealed the flap of the envelope again.
"A letter for you, Sam"
Cullison tore open the envelope and
read the note.
"A friend of mine has come to town
and wants to see me-" he explained.
To help out his bluff, Curly sprang
the feebleminded jest on him. Blonde
or brunette?"
I'm no lady's man." Sam protested,
content to let the other follow wrong
scent.
Sure not. 1t never Is a lady," Elan
drau called after him as he departed
But Sam had no more than turned
the corner before Curly was out Of a
side door and cutting through an alley
toward Chalkeye's place. Reaching
the back door Of the saloon. he opened
It few inches and peered in. A min
ute later Sam opened the front screen
and asked q question of the man In
the apron. The bartender gave jerk
Of his thumb. Sam walked toward the
rear and turned in at the second pri-
vate booth.
Curly slipped forward quietly, and
passed unobserved into the third stall.
The wall which divided one room from
another was of pine boarding and did
not reach the ceiling. Flattened against
the wall, his attention strained to the
utmost, Curly began to catch words
and phrases of the lOw-voiced speak
ers in the next compartment. His po-
sition was perilous in the extreme, but
be would not leave now until he had
found out what he wanted to know.