Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
INSTALLMENT XXI.

nor spent in hospital at Gold
Run. whittier DR.. Donaldson
had ordered him for observation
as to possible internal injuries.
| When at last Nate came to the Circle
K Ranch again Lorry saw that, out
wardly at least, he appeared 70 DC
normal.
DOC thought my backbone had been
tramped out of alignment" he an
nounced. as he kissed her, but 1t was
only a couple Of ribs sprung loose from
INV spine. Doc warned me not to move
around, but couldn't stay away. Out
law that 1 am, couldn't neglect you
for another week"
II wasn't reared to be clnglng
vine; I'm accustomed to mans work
and if you're worth having Mr. 11cne-
nor, you're worth nghting 1or. en-
"Im almost afraid to marry you
now" he leased. YOU'D be o tough
wife to handle in q family row. Have
YOU been arrested yet?"
mo. dear. Joe Brainerd appears to
have smoothed over the aftermath OF
that ruckus. He traded with Babson.
BabSon loaned him the new pianL Oh
the Forlorn Valley Citizen and then
had a talk with the men we jailed.
Babson levied an assessment to pay for
the damages to Brainerd'S plant, and
Joe absented himself at the preliminary
hearing of the case; so Arson Towle
waited I'VE minutes for Joe and his
counsel to appear and then turned the
men loose for lack of evidence. The
men winged are all going to get well,
a month or two. I think they are glad
to let the matter drop. We've all had
enough undesirable advertising through
ont the State"
"As for undesirable advertising, you
and haven't had any Of 1T. We're
heroes"
"Oh, do tell me, Nate. I've been
afraid to read the papers"
when q mob sacks a newspaper
plant, the entire fourth estate regards
| the act as q direct blow at the free
doom Of the press, and instantly the
fight Is no longer a private one. The
Gold Run Nugget has burned Forlorn
Valley to a crisp, and so have all the
other county newspapers. The ForlWn
Valleyites have been called thugs. muir:
derers, bad citizens, rioters. DULLES ana
towards. am advertised as a peace
able, we'll meaning citizen and dis
tinguished ex-soldier of whom the
county Is proud. sought to do For
lorn Valley a signal service and was
mobbed and brutally beaten and bruised
In return. All Of the papers have cried
out upon the senseless brutality OF VS.
iting upon a biameless young man the
sins of his forbears-and they have
done as much for you. In fact, they've
made heroine Of you. You are com
mended for your great charity In wing
tipping my aSSailantS instead OF kill
ing them. You have q nickname. You're
Wing-Tfp Lorry Kershaw now.
Your action in shooting Bill
Rooney's high hat of and making him
run for cover has the county In con-
WILSON'S Of mirth. The sheriff has dis
missed Rooney as the Valley Center
deputy. and the Gold Run Nugget has
accept the appointment. Babson has
been lampooned and criticized and
scolded as the real instigator Of the
disgraceful incident and has fallen con-
siderably IN the public estimation,
while Henry Rocky Is still abed recov-
ering from a slight fracture OF the
skull. Physically, he will survive that
fractured skull at the hands OF
woman, but socially, never"
She turned to him suddenly. But I
am curious to know how you accumu-
lated all the money you appear to have:
For you do look like cash money, Nate"
"Well, the fact that I have few
dollars doesn't imply that I'm a
financier," he protested. "The HensleyS
had great veneration for cash, but I'm
only half Hensley. My father was
paleontologist. He came up into these
hills one Summer to hunt for fossils.
Nothing would do but he must be our
guest and have q horse to ride into the
hills and a man to protect him from
the Kershaws.
MY mother was "a years old at the
time and already beginning to be re-
garded as a fossil, so father added her
to his collection and stayed on in Eden
valley and wrote some books nobody
ever rsSA and resolutely refused to