The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-09

| don't give" she said, for q moment
turning her eyes upon Lee. And tt
Trevors: Busy or not busy, you take
time right now to answer my ques
lions. I've got your reports and al
they tell me Is that you are going In
the hole as fast as you can. What
business have you got selling off my
young steers at a sacrifice"
go, get those horses, Lee" said
Trevors, ignoring her.
Again she spoke to Lee, saying
crisply: "What horses Is he talking
abOut?"
With his deep gravity at its deepest,
Bud Lee answered: "All LIS stock.
The eleven Red Duke three-year-olds;
the two Robert the Devil colts Brown
Babes flly, Comet"
"All mine, every running hoof of
EN-" she said, cutting In. "What
does Trevors want you to do with
them7 Give them away for ten dol
lars a head or cut their %throats?"
Look here" cried Trevors an
grlly, on his feet now.
"You shut up !" commanded the girl
sharply. Lee, you answer me-"
He's selling them fifty dollars a
head" he said with a secret joy IN
his heart as he glanced at Trevors'
flushed face.
Fifty dollars" Judith gasped.
Fifty dollars for a Red Duke colt
like Comet"
She stared at Lee as though she
could not believe 1t. He merely stared
back at her, wondering just how
much she knew about horseflesh.
Then, suddenly, she whIrled again
upon Trevors.
81 came out to see II you were a
crook or just a fool" she told him,
her words like a slap In his face. mo
man could be so big a fool as that
You-you crook p
The muscles under Bayne Trevors'
Jaws corded. you've said about
enough" he shot back at her. "And
even If you do own a third of this out
fit, III have you understand hat /
am the manager here and that l do
what l like"
From her bosom she snatched a big
envelope, tossing 1t to the table. Look
at that" she ordered him. "You big
thief I've m~ortgaged my holding for
fifty thousand dollars and I've bought
In Timothy Gray's share. l swing two
votes out OF three now, Bayne Ire
vors. And the first thing l do Is run
you out, you great big grating fat
headl You would chuck Luke San
ford's outfit to the dogs, would you?
Get off the ranch. You're fired!"
you can't do a thing like this !"
glance at the papers he had whisked
out of their covering.
II cant, can't II" she Jeered at him.
"Don't you fool yourself for one little
Pack your little trunk and
hammer the trail"
'Ill do nothing Of the kind. Why,
I don't know even who you are! You
that you are Judith Sanford" He
shrugged his massive shoulders. "How
do / know what game you are up tor
LOU Euu Diuh luc lOl lWO SEE
onds, Bayne Trevors," she blazed at
hin. you know who l am, all right.
Send for Sunny Harper" she ended
discharged three months ago."
told her with q show Of teeth.
Johnny Hodge, Them she com
"Or Tod Bruce or Bling !,
Kelley. They all know me-"
"Fired long ago, all Of Them" .
aughed Trevors, ito make room for
ompetent men," !
'To make room for more crooksl" =
he cried, her own brown hands balled T
ITO fists scarcely less hard than Ire
ors' had been. Then for the third n
me she turned upon Lee. you are a
ne of his new thieves, / suppose?" n
"Thank you, ma'am," said Bud Lee a
G.
"Well, answer me. Are your"
mo, ma'am," he told her, with no |
int of q twinkle In his calm eyes. j.
.eastwise, not his exactly. You see,
do all my killing and highway rob- n
ng on my own books. It's just a
ay | have" d.