New Britain herald., 1921-08-10
ttTHE DUKE OF
 CHIMNEY BUTTE'' By c. w. OGDEN The Romance of a Chivalrous Adyenturer in the Lawless West
Copyright, 1920, A. c. McClurg & Col
fContinued from Yesterdays Herald.D

fContinued from Yesterdays Herald.)
 Jim Wilder a cowboy who is not too popular on the range, thinking that Jeremiah Lambert, g peddler, who rode into camp on a bicycle, was a green tenderfoot, offered him his own horse, which waa somewhat oi an outlaw, if ho could ride it. Lam bert, who formerly broke range horses for living at the Chicago stock yards. rode the animal without dlffl- culty, whereupon Wilder, who waa only bluffing, attempted to take back hia horse. In the fight which ensued, Lambert ia cut. but not seriously, with knife wielded by Wilder. The lat ter's knife is taken from him by a cowboy named Spence, who in turn IS shot by Wilder, who f1eea from camp Lambert gave chase, returning at dusk leading Wilder's horses There was blood on the empty saddle.
 Lambert, now known aa The Duke of Chimney Butte, makes new record tn the little town by racing hia horse against the flyer, overtak- ing the train long enough to receive a handkerchief tossed him from the obscrvation platform of the Pullman car. Later he starts out Tn search or the girl of the handRerchief, in com pany with cowboy named Taterleg
 The men arrive in Glendora, where The Duke expects to find that Miss Vesta Philbrook. whose father had died few weeks before is the girl of the handkerchief. They find Miss Vesta ia not tho girl they ara seeking but are in time to come to her rescue as she is attacked by two
 Vesta tells Duke that neighboring ranchers take exceptions to her fences and cut them just as fast as she can repair them. Duke and Taterleg of fer to work for her and put stop to this practice if they can. A ranch CT named Kerr is the worst offender. One night Duke finds the fence cut and note fastened to the wires which reads: Why don't you come and get me Duke?" He vowed he would.
 That night he scaled the little butte after mending the fence behind him. leaving his horse concealed among the huge blocks of rocks at it's foot. Next day, and the one following, he passed in the blazing sun, but nobody came to cut the fence. At night he went down, rode his horse to water turned him to graze, and went back to his perch among the ants and lizards C4 top of t',e butte.
 The third day was cloudy and un-
 
 fore nine, just when the sun was squaring off to shrivel him in his skin, Lambert saw somebody coming from the direction of Kerr's ranch.
 The rider made straight for the hill below Lambert's butte, where he refined before reaching the top, dis mounted and went crawling to the fringe of sage at the farther rim of the bare summit. Lambert waited until the fellow mounted and rode toward the fence, then he slid down the shale, starting Whetstone from his doze.
 Lambert calculated that he was more than mile from the fence. He wanted to get over there near enough to catch the fellow at work, so there would be justification for what he in tended to do.
 Lambert cut down the distance be- tween them rapidly, and was no | more than three hundred yards be- ] hind when the fellow began shipping the wire with a pair of nippers tha' glittered in the sun.
 Lambert held his horse back, ap- preaching with little noise. The fence-cutter was rising back to thu saddle after cutting the bottom wire of the second panel when he saw tha he was trapped.
 1 Just a moment the fence-cutte hesitated, making no movement t pull gun, then he seemed to decid' | in a flash that he could not escap' the way that he had come. He leaned | low over his horses neck, as If h expected Lambert to begin shooting rode through the gap that he had GU in the fence, and ga1loped swiftly in to the pasture.
 i Lambert followed, sensing tn scheme at a glance. It did not talk them long to finish the three-nlil race across the pasture, and it turne'
 out in the end exactly as Lamber thought it would. When the fugitiv I came within a few rods of the fenc
 he looked back to see how closely h was pressed, which was very close in deed.
 The fellow rode at the fence as
 he intended to try to jump it. Hi
 horse baked at the barrier, turned raced along it, Lambert in close pun
 suit, comins; alongside him as he wa
 reaching to draw his pistol from tn