Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-08-23
The Man From
Blaxton
By CLARISSA MACKIE
@ by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.
WNU Service

lie" he said deliberately, did | see
you last night at the dance with
Bin Hlnkerf"
Were you there. dad?" smiled Al
mira Kent.
Il certainly was-and there was a
whole posse with me-" retorted the
sheriff bluntly. Perhaps we were
looking for somebody that you'd
been dancing with, my girl !"
She flung up her brown head and
revealed glorious dark eyes fringed
with black. "Of course Bill took me
You know | have been out with
him before"
i know 1t. Allie. And your moth
en- and ! have both asked you not
10 have anything to do with him."
IF you would only tell me what
bili a done" she hesitated.
wei, he has been mixed up In
all kinds of messes. Allie. The time
mas come when he has got TO be-
well. suppressed. He drinks like a
hsh-gambles. morning, noon and
night. has been suspected of several
holdups. and there were witnesses to
prove that he was the masked man
VINO held up the bank on Monday.
He has all the brass In the world.
daughter, and he must have cleaned
up a LOT of gold from that robbery
1t Is a wonder that he hasn't asked
you to u away with him-he is
that kind and the n~eighborhood Is
getting too hot for him. | guess"
Almira's face Redeemed deeply.
Perhaps her father had guessed the
truth-for she had promised to
elope with Billy Hinger.
And now, her father seemed to IN.
derstand all about II. even to the
planned elopementi
who Is that man. father?" asked
Aimira with sudden interest as a
rider swept into the gate and dis
mounted from a spirited black horse.
"Thatf Oh. that's the man from
Blaxton." muttered her father and
went down the steps to greet him.
The two men talked together In low
tones, and Almira, sewing In her
small rocking chair. guessed that II
was police business"
After a little while the man from
Blaxton rode away and the sheriff
came back to the porch for a mo-
ment before calling for his own
horse. "You better not elope to-
night. Allie" he said tersely.
AS Almira sal there. thinking
busily. she heard cautious footsteps.
and then. In the small grove of
young walnut trees, she glimpsed
Billy Hlnker's heavy face and mo
tioning finger. Then be dropped
down among the walnut sprouts. She
did not know that Curly Rob, one of
the cowboys. had also seer that
brief appearance of young Tinker.
and that even now he was whisper.
Ing a message over the house tele.
phonel
So the girl dropped her sewing
and. picking mp a magazine, saun.
tered over to the walDuts where
there was a seat under the largest
tree. Here she sat down and pre-
tended to read. but her downcast
eyes were fixed or Billy Tinker.
Get n Of your dads horses for
me-" he whispered h~oarsely. II got
to get out of the country right now,
The sheriff and his posse are
me-see? You want me to
get pinched?" he asked acutely.
"Of course not, Billyl But 4
think If you just tell dad what you
told me-about taking the blame for
another fellow-he Will see you
through. | know he will"
He stared at her. astounded. Il
don't get youl" he said contemptu-
"You told me that you'd be
my %girl-and now when | ask you
get me n of your dads horses
save me-you sit up and zap
about something else"
III get you my own horse, Billy.
Poncho Is my very own, and r have
a right to-"
Get him, thenT" snapped the
young man sharply.
Almira ran to the corral and
her pretty black horse, which
she saddled. She mounted him.
him ~ieisurely around the
house toward the walnut shoots. Just
she slipped out of the saddle Billy
Tinker leaped onto the horse and
tearing out of the yard and
down over the eastern trail toward
The mountains. Five minutes aft.
srward her father and the man from
Blaxton, heading a posse, swept past
house. and turned down the east.
srn trail Almira tainted.
A couple of hours afterward. AL.
mira awakened In her cool little
'oom to find her pretty mother sit
Ing beside her, looking terribly worn
Ind anxious. "Oh, mother, is daddy
Ill rightf" was her first question.
ind when her mother nodded she
a question about Billy
Tinker.
Caught" said her mother briefly
He was very guilty. my dear. and
hey have put him In jail. There ia