Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-02-06
SYNOPSIS

Canadian Mounted Police sergeant, is
sent to Stony range to arrest a man
named Pelly for, murder; He is also
instructed to look after~J Jim Railway,
reputed head Of the Free Traders,
Illicit liquor runners. At Little Falls
he finds Pelly Is credited with having
CHAPTER II-At the hotel where
Anderson stops. girl, obviously. out
of place in the rough surroundings,
appears. A halfbreed whom anderson
hears called Pierre, and a companion,
Shorty" annoy the girl. Anderson In
terferes, earning the enmity of the two
men.
Lee recognized the voice as that OF
the breed, Pierre Cauchon.
For moment or two he could not
imagine from where the man was
speaking. Then he discovered that the
voice came from the other side of the
large, empty stove which stood at his
head, little out from the wall His
face and Pierre's were separated,
therefore, by no more than the cir
cumference of the metal container,
though Pierre, of course, did not guess
that Lee lay on the other side of 1t,
nor that he would be likely to have
any particular interest in what he was
saying.
But the name that had startled Lee
into wakefulness was that of Pelly.
His subconsciousness, alert through
slumber, had caught 1t and communi-
Gated the warning.
Before Lee had quite attuned his
ears to catch Pierre's remark, Shorty,
the other man, broke in:
you fool Pierre, you nearly give
the game away tonight fer shore. You
amt got no sense at all, buttin' in
like that and frightenin' her away.
You didn't s'pose she'd got our photy-
CRAFTS in her pocket, did va? The
trouble with you is you CANT hold yer
liquor"
Pierre gfowled: II didn't have no
chanst to say word before that four
f1usher butted in. l wish I'd beat him
up now Mebbe I'll git the chanst in
the mornin'."
swell, and why didn't va? I'll tell
va why. Because you saw he amt
no four -fusher. He's tough, that fell
Ter Is, an he was watchin va like
cat Don't va make no mistake about
that And it's lucky you didn't get no
ahanst to spill what va was gOin' to, or
you'd shore have scairt the girl away.
"You listen here" he continued.
"you keep out of this to-morrer till
she's gone, and then we en- ride hard
and ketch up with her at sundOwn and
explain that we're friends Of hern"
Their voices became inarticulate.
Lee strained his ears to catch the i'm
port Of their. conversation, but he
could hear nothing but the low whis-
per of their voices.
"Well, guess you're right, Shorty
said Pierre after a while. "We got to
see she don't give us de slip, though
Shorty snickered and whispered
something to which the other clucked
approval.
"She CANT, neither" he said.
There's only one way into the range,
an when we got her there we got her
where we want her"
No more was said, and soon the
snoring from the other side of the
stove indicated that the pair had sue
cumbed to sleep. But all desire for
sleep was banished from Lees brain.
There was the alternative of two
courses of action: he could warn the
girl in the morning, placing himself at
her disposition; or he could keep her
more or less in sight during his jour
ney the following day, with view to
protecting her from the pair Of ruff
fans whenever they made their ap-
pearance.
But he could not afford to take any
action which would give. the clue to
his status and activities; and apart
from that, he wanted to keep In touch
with the two men, In case they could
furnish any clue to Pelly's where
abouts-if he were alive.
Some time early in the morning he
fell into restless slumber, from
which he was partly aroused by the
sound Of horses hoofs Gathering in
the yard. He wondered sleepily
whether this was an early departure
or some belated arrival, and then,
turning over, managed to lose con-
sciousness for an hour or two longer.
At last, when further sleep had be-
come impossible, he sat up, struck a
match, and looking at his watch, dis
covered that 1t was nearly six o'clock.
He threw his blankets over his arm,
stepped over the sprawling limbs of
the sleepers, and went out to the
stable where he watered his horse.
afterward kicking his heels about the
place until, in the first glimpse Of the
dawn, the squaw came shuffiing into
the kitchen.
Lee went in. Get me cup of cof-
fee and a piece Of bread" he said,
putting f1fty-cent piece into her hand.
"That'H be enough for me. I've got to
be moving"
The woman filed the kettle from
pail of water ON the kitchen table.
Lee askadi