The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-03
The Man From
BlaXton
BY CLARIssA MAcKIE
=. ny Mct1ur. Newspaper Syndicate
WSi' Service

CorlAlnly WhS-dnu tnere Whs I
whole posse with me-" retorted the
sheriff bluntly. Perhaps we were
looking for somebody that you'd
been dancing with, my girl :"
Almira paled. II didn't know it,
she confessed.
Il asked You. did you go to that
dance with Bill Hlnker?"
She flung up her brown head and
revealed glorious dark eyes fringed
with black. .of course Bill took me
c You know l have been out with
him before"
Il know IL. Allie. And your moth.
er and have both asked you not
: TO have anything 10 do with him"
: III you would only tell me what
, Bill has done" she hesitated.
"Well. he has been mixed up In
all kinds OF messes. Allie. The time
has come when he has got Ia he
fish CANDLES. morning. noon and
nlghf. has been suspected of several
holdnpS. ana there were Witnesses 10
prove that he was the masked man
whn held up the hank on Monday
lie has all the brass IN the world,
daughter, and he must have cleaned
NJ loi of gold from thai robbery
II Is a wonder that hc hasn't asked
you 10 run away with him he is
that Kind uud lie nei-libnrhood H.
y'ftis too hoi TOR him gross
AlmnaS fJor rcdlcned deeply
Perhaps her frher had guessed tine
truth TOR She bad promised to
eioin Win EDy finger
All now hcr father seemed To nm {
der-tpnl all about it. even TO the
PLANNED clopcmut.
"Nho Is Thai man. father" asked
Alnra with Sudden interest, rs q
rider swept into the gate and dis
mounted from spirited black horse
That? oh. that's the man from
BlaXton." muttcred her father AM
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 little while The man from
RlaXton rode away and The sheriff
came back 20 The porch for mo
mcnt before calling for his own
horse. You better not clope to
night, Allie" he said terscly.
AS Amira sat there. thinking
husily. she heard cautions footstcps.
and then. In the small grove OF
young walnut trees, she glimpscd |
Billy ilInker's heavy face and mo |
tioning finger. Then he dropped
down among the walnut sprouts. She
( did not know that Curly Rob. one of |
I the cowboys, had also seen that
brief appearance Of young Tinker,
nnd that even now he was whisper
Ing n message over the house tele.
phone
So the girl dropped her sewing
aud picking NJ n magazine. saun
tered over to the walnuts whore
there was a seat under the largest
tree Here She sal down aud pre-
icnaod "a read, but her downcasi
eyes we're nNrd on Eilly Tinker
",ci one Of Your dads horses for
mc" be- whispered hoarsely. Il got
to got ont of ihc country right now.
scet The sheriff aud his posse are
a1cr me scc2 You want me To-
got Iduchodf" he asked acutely.
"Of course not. Billy, Iut /
think If you inst tell dad what you
told me about taking the blame for
another fellow no will see you
through know he will"
lie stared nj her. astounded II
dcft get YOU" he said contemptu-
ously. You told me that you'd he
my girl-and now when | ask you
to get me one OF your dads horses
to save mc--you SIT up and yap
about something else"
"I'll get you my own horse. Billy"
Almira ran To the corral and
caught her pretty black horse, which
she saddled. She mounted him.
walking him lesurely around the
house toward the walnut shoots. Just
"a she slipped out Of the saddle Billy
IIinker leaped onto the horse and
went tearing out Of the yard and
down over the eastern trail toward
the mountains. Five minutes aft
erward her father and the man from
Blaxton. heading posse. swept past
the house. and turned down the east.
ern trail. Almlra tainted
, A couple Of hours afterward. Al
. mira awakened In her cool llttls
room to find her pretty mother sit
ting beside her, looking terribly worn
AMI anxious. "Oh, mother. Is daddy
; all rlght?" was her first question,
and when her mother nodded she
. caspcd question about Billy
: IIlnkrr
z Caught" said her mother briefly.
, 'llr waS worry guilty my dear. and
they have put him 10 Jail There Is
E -nmcthiug else fhai con didn't know.
dear E1ly was married last year
u was mug time before Nlmlrs
, wnwri fn 500 anyboiy. bat after
awhile -tc ll,l mcct The man from
z Inayfpu who bad como io the ranch
q fpr dinnrr an' although She rather
. ia'el Nm af fr~f hecausc he had
tfy0n hnv foolish She curld be-. his
rer- Stout vouirg W la<f won her
rro,'e -aiA 70 was wonderful wed
I d'ns ffi % fhc preuiest bride and
nanlsome~t imam IN The conntyi
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