Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-12-25
BY JACKSON GREGORY

and Timothy Gray. Decides to throw up
his job. Judith arrives and announces
ranch and will run 1t. She discharges
Trevors.
CHAPTER 1.-The men on the
ranch dislike taking orders from
girl. but by subduing q vicious horse
and proving her thorough knowledge
Of ranch life, Judith .wins the best of
them over. Lee decides to stay.
CHAPTER III.-Convinced her vet
erinarian Bill Crowdy. is treaoherous.
JIdith J'% tn,sns dischsrgss bin r:-engasins an
CHAPTER Iv.-Pollook Hampton.
with party Of friends. comes to the
accepts Hampton's invitation to visit
the ranch. Judith's messenger 10 held
up and robbed Of the monthly pay roll.
CHAPTER v.-Bud Lee goes to the
city for more money, getting back
safely with 1t, though his horse 10
killed under him. Both he and Judith
cSoera Sard to ihc tor oat
on the ranch. Judith and Lee, tnvesti-
eating the scene ef the holdup. climb
q mountain, whore the robbsr must
have hidden.
CHAPTER VIA cabin in o flower
planted clearing sxcites Judith,s admi-
s;0. so # hsJ IL Es ar: SSSss Ss.as he rc S3s' mot
bush, and Lee Wounded. Answering
the ars. they make for the cabin. Here
they find Bill Crowdy wpundsd Drag
he has the money taken from Judith's
messenger. Besieged in the cabin, they
are compelled to stay all night
CHAPTER VII. - Hampton. at the
ranch, becomes uneasy ct Judith's long
absence. With Tommy burkitt he goes
70 seek her. ARRIVING In time to drive
man. known a. "shertS." 'A'
CHAPTER vIII-"shoFty" escapes
on n. e. II as of
cow foreman. who had him in charge.
Lee begins to feel 2 fondness for Ju-
Sien thSusa a.h he rssl!,:; 81. ls not his
one Of Hampton's party. TYPICAL city
CHAPTER X-Ths discovery is
%ads that ss.. nth hos Sn
stranger. Dick Donlsy. rsd-handed.
" WITH npan.s an a1%SomDiiea %on cowboy s9 known
more pigeons to the ranch.
x,Ss. 0aAhTPa r. Ssno1 ssnS: y;snsa }SS,sa
recognized by one Of the party an an
wealthy but ruined by trusting false
s1eS In nss to . s
alone with her. he foroibly kisses her.
receiving the rsbuks deserved.
CHAPTER xI.-Word is sent to Lee
that Quinnion has been casting slurs
on Judtth's name because OF the night
she and Lee were together in the cabin.
worsts him in aght and makes him
confess publicly he 10 a liar. and agree
to leave the vicinity.
CHAPTER xII.-After the kissing
incident Judith ignores Lee, who would
go away, but flnds himself unable. Ju-
dith sees letter to Pollock Hampton
been connsoted, Offering to buy a large
consignment of cattle and horses at q
ridiculously low ngure. Hampton is
addressed as general manager" Of the
easy. In her absence Hampton decides
to accept the offer. Lee protests
strongly. He learns from Marcia Lang
gone to see her lawyers at San Fran
CISCO. telegram from her orders
Hampton to sell the stock at the price
offered. Lee refuses to accept the mes
viction forcing itself upon him that
Trevors has Kidnapped her and is hold
ing her prisoner.
For a little Lee did not answer. He
and Tommy and Hampton, standing
among the rocks, turned their eyes
together toward the hills trimming in
the northern side of Blue Lake ranch.
"T make out" said Lee slowly, that
Trevors means business and that Car
son has got his work cut out for him
this morning, Tommy"
For the thing which had caught the
boys eyes was blaze on the ridge,
its flames leaping and licking at the
thinning darkness, its smoke black
smudge ON the horizon, staining the
grow On the oawn. And farther along
the same ridge was second blaze,
smaller with distance, but growing as
1t licked at the dry brush. Still farther
third.
'If that fire ever gets a good start"
muttered Lee heavily, its going to
sweep the ranch. God knows where
1t will stop. And just how Carson is
going to fight fire with one hand and
hold his stock with the other, l don't
know"
But even then he turned his eyes
away from the ranch, sweeping the
ragged tumble of mountains about
him. Judith was gone Judith needed
him and he did not dare try to est-
mate the soreness of her need. What
did it matter that Carson and Trip
and the rest had their problems to
face back there? There was only one
thing in all Of the wide world that
mattered And he did not even know
where she was, north, south, east,
or west! Somewhere in these noun
tains, no doubt. But where, when
man might ride a hundred miles this
way or that and have no sign if he
passed within calling distance of her?
In his heart Bud Lee prayed, as
he had prayed last night, asking God
that he might come to Judith. And
1t seemed to him, standing close to
God on the rocky heights, that his
prayer had been heard and answered
For, far off to the east, still farther
In the solitude of the mountains, ris-
ing from a rugged peak, a thin line