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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-22
CHAPTER XII

It was impossible for him to sit
waiting for her weeping to stop,
while her slim body shook con-
vulsively with her effort to suppress
it, and her breath jerked uncontrol-
lably in her throat. Her trrnbled
hair made her seem a child; he had
never seen her look so small, so
fragilely made. And he thought he
had never in his life seen anything
so pitifully in need of comforting.
He swore under his breath and
got to his feet.
For few moments he stood over
her, watching the movement of the
freight in her,hair. He could hard
ly prevent himself from touching
her; almost he stopped and picked
her up in his arms. But he was
telling himself that that was the last
thing she wanted.
He walked out little way into the
dark, and stood listening to the night
silence. He was still worrying about
the distant muff1ed sound of concus-
sion which he had heard. It seemed
to him now that what he had heard
was unquestionably the sound of
gun-perhaps a gun fired near the
forgotten miners shanty at the up
per end of the gulch; but what he
could not imagine was who could
have fired it. He had assumed that
it was Lon Magoon who had killed
Marian's pony; but now he saw that
something was wrong. If Magoon
had fired upon Marian Dunn and
killed her horse he would net have
gone to the cabin at the head of the
gulch, but would have put long coun-
try between himself and them.
Therefore two men, not one, must
be prowling these hills. He thought
of Coffee's theory that there had
beerr third man at Short Crick-
and was worse puzzled than before.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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Then he saw her face change, so
that she was suddenly pale, and
the unreliable light in her eyes
went out, and she was like a little
girl. Abruptly she pressed her face
hard into her hands.
He made his voice as hard and
cold as the rocks that hung over
them. ''Now what?"
She answered in a muffled voice,
IT was wrong-I am afraid. Il
fail every one =" She lifted her
head and glanced about her, as 1t
she were seeing this place for the
first time. A black shape lay be-
side the empty dust of the stream,
like great black bottle overturned
the carcass of Maria0', dead
horse. Suddenly the girl turned side
ways, and dropped her head in her
arms upon the blanket. She began
to cry, terribly, silently except for
the choke of her breath.
He sat down against a rock and
waited. The gaunt, dead rock-hills
leaned over them sadly cold and
silent, blackened by the twisted
ghost shapes of the parched brush.
And the coyote moon was pale and
old, no longer golden, but greenish,
like phosphorus rubbed on a dead
and frozen face.
Once she said, "But it's your
fault, too-that I fail-your fault as
much as my own"
His answer was perfectly honest.
II don't know what you mean"
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could have been the fall of a rock
from high place, or had been the
report of a. gun far away up the
canyon, smothered by close walls
and the drift of the air. He glanced
at Marian to see if she had noticed
it, and saw that she had not.
Marian looked at him, the freight
pooling long shadows under the
lashes of her steady eyes. II just
thought of something"
"What was it,"
:. "This-isn't4 it kind of funny?-
this is exactly the situation we were
speaking of the other day."
He was puzzled. .aWhen was ;this.?"
Sin Inspiration" :.,,., Y
Fora moment he didn't get it.
Then it came back to him in rush
the blast of sun upon the dusty
street, the atmosphere of silent,
waiting hostility, the groups of
spurred and booted men in door
ways, watching without seeming to
watch; and he had stood talking to
Marian across the door of car,
not thinking about what was ahead.
If you and I were set afoot,'"
she quoted, some place far off in
the mountains at night, with only
one blanket between US"
He was resting perfectly still on
one elbow, looking at the fire; but
he could feel her eyes, so near his
face, watching him under her
lashes. And behind her eyes he
supposed she was laughing at him.
II was right" she said. ''You
didn't know it then, but you can see
it now. You sect seems good
deal different, now that we're really
here"
"Does it," he said without ex-
preston. He got up with a. sort
Of stiff, slow leisure, for the little
fire was burning low. He went be-.
yond the fire. squatted on one heel
beside it, and fed, it pieces Of
stick.
"You see, I know you, Billy.
Sometimes think know you better
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than know myself" Her eyes
wavered and drifted out toward the
low young stars. II can remember
when I was afraid of you. If we
had been out here then-tWo years
ago-I would have wanted nothing
so much as to get back among other
people. That's all gone, now"
He looked at her. She had never
seemed more lovely, more human,
more elementally desirable than she
looked now, a tired girl in cow
country work clothes, slim and lazy,
relaxed by the little fire as if she
had never known any other resting
place in her life. Her face was.
quiet, almost grave; but though
her eyes looked drowsy there was
little CLEAN in them that did not
come from the flame in front: a
small provocative glimmer of fire
within, which he had seen in her
eyes only two or three times in
his life-and never before the last
two or three days.
Their eyes met and held, his
steady and masked within, hers
seeming to laugh at him little.
half yelled by her lashes.
II said," she reminded him, "that
if we were-in a situation like this,
there wouldn't be anything for me
to worry about, nothing at all. And
you said, if / thought that I was
fool. Well, you see" she met his
eyes again-"I win.''
Still her eyes held, and he could
not understand why hers did not
drop. II can't believe, hardly" he
said, "that you have any idea what
sort of thing you're talking about
She smiled. 'You think I don't?
That's because western men are
certainly the most conventional peo-
pie in the world"
Suddenly he angered. He had not
brought her here of his own will,
nor set them afoot, nor wished to
rest here with her. He would not
even have been on her range, or
within days ride of it, if her in
terests had not drawn him in and
held him. She had made her de-
cisions in regard to him long ago,
and to change them he had spent
his every resource without any eff
feet. And now, at the last-it
amused her to torment him. 1t
seemed to him that there was a
capricious she-devil in that girl
perhaps in all women, given OPP
portunity. #@
.'You see, / know you," she was
saying again. .5 as4
The masks behind his eyes
dropped away, and though his face
hardly changed his eyes Redeemed,
seeming to smoke with an angry
fire that came up behind. She her
self had lighted that fire, long ago.
1t was a fire that had driven him re-
lentlessly, making him rich; it could
have made him work for her all her
life-or it could break him again,
and drive him up and down the
world. Suddenly he did not know
whether he loved or hated this girl.
"I'll give you the same answer l
gave you in Inspiration" he said,
his words almost inaudible, even
against the stiffness of the night.
IF you think that, you're a little
fool"
Still she met his eyes, so long, so
steadily, so knowingly that he won
dered for an instant what was hap
pening, was going to happen, there
under the coyote moon.
Mustangs of Texas Fs
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CHAPTER XI-Continued


Too much long riding alone-espe-
cially when it was mixed up
with the night riders long rope
could do queer things to man
whose head wasn't too strong in the
first place. Lon Magoon, half out
law, half sneak-thief, all coyote,
might have turned at last into some
thing which must be destroyed at
sight, without hesitation.
Then he walked to the dead horse
and roughly verified the angle of
the shot; then turned and began to
climb the canyon slope.
BILLY, come back! You can't"
"You stay down." he ordered her
savagely. "Or by God, I'll tie you
down with my pigging-string!"
1t would have been easy then to
walk into gunfire, easy to shoot it
out with an anbushed man. AL
ways keeping his eye on Marian's
position, he searched those upper
slopes, backward, forward, and
quartering. But what happened to
him was the one hardest thing of
ALTO find the broken country emp
ty and silent, with nothing in it to
fight or trail.
In the end he could only go back
to the girl with no result to show,
and no assurance as to what was
ahead. He would not have been sur
prised, when he turned his back on
that emptiness, if gun had spoken
from q place where no one was,
and brought him down.
''No catchum," he told Marian.
She had not stayed under cover,
but was sitting on rock, little
apart from her dead horse. No use
quarreling with her over that; she
chad already proved to him that he
couldn't control anything she chose
to do. He put himself between her
and the rim. cts a long walk
back" he said rnorosely. "That's
my fault. I'm not used to this stuff,
or I wouldn't have lost my pony.
When saw your horse drop-I lost
my head, guess"
Because it was T." she said with
an unexpected, deep-striking clarity.
WED better get going, think"
'We can't go on? And GET"
''That must have been the man
we were after, that killed your
horse"
She drew deep breath, and stood
up. For a moment she looked all
about her, Upward at the high, tow
ering rims. Then suddenly he saw
her sway.
He stepped forward in time to
steady her with his hands on her
arms. And now he found that she
was trembling violently. Her face
was white, making her eyes look
enormous, and very dark. BILLY
I'm afraid" She sat down on the
rock again, as if her knees would
not hold her up.
mo more danger, child. It's all
over, and he's gone"
'But who could it be? Why should
he want to-hurt ne?"
I'll don't know that. / can't
imagine any living thing wanting to
hurt you. swear, by la Madre de
Dios!-he'n pay for it if live to
find him. Now don't you be afraid
any more. It's all over, for now"
The tears began to roll down her
face, and she hid them with her
hands. Quickly he looked about him,
checking the throw of the land. Then
he lifted her up and led her to a
pocket gully at the foot Of the pre-
cipitous north slope. When he had
made sure that searching lead could
not reach them here, he got the
blanket from her dead pony, and
spread it for her to rest upon; and
gathered bits of dead brush to build
tiny fire. Striking fire kind Of
seems like setting up a mark" he
apologized. "But you're plenty safe
if you stay close under the rock
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1ulS0ISs
Presently she looked up, shook her
head sharply, and drew away her
hand. "I'm all right now. Did you
ever see such silliness?"
crest easy. We've got lots of
time"
The dusk had closed more rapidly
at the last, and little light was left
in the sky; but moon was rising
behind a high point of rocks, sill
houetting a crag that looked like a
horses head.
He noticed how huge it looked, as
moons do when they are low to the
earth. The horse-head crag had
40O-foot profile, but it looked little
against the moon, which was made
to look bigger than mountain, big
ger than range.
"You know" he said, 'it's funny
how badly things work out; never
the way you want them to be. Many
and many night, lying out in the
hills, watching my fire-like this
I've thought about how it would be,
if you were there. How I'd get you
to like these hills, and the coyotes
talking, and the smell of smoke in
your hair-you know, foolish stuff"
II do love the hills" she said.
He shook his head. "This isn't
it. This isn't right. You ought to
be able to lie by your fire and smell
pine timber. And that crick out
there ought to have water running
in it. You sit and listen to running
water, and pretty soon you get to
hear voices in it; sometimes you
lie awake for hours trying to get
what they say. But what's more to
the point, there's likewise trout in
the water. There ought to be nice
pan of trout frying, here on the
fire."
''You fit with things like that, you
know. AS if you were made out of
them"
He said, IA half hours rest in
the rocks, with a long, long walk
ahead-this is about as close as peo-
pie get to the way they want things,
I"suppose."
cts my fault, Billy. II / hadn't
been so stubborn you wouldn't have
lost your horse; you'd have gone
on through"
"Shucks, now!''
She was SILENT. and they sat look
ing into the fire. The smell ofgau-
tumn was cool and clean in the air,
across the dry sage; and the red
gold moon family mellowed the chill
of darkness on the gaunt hills, so
that they sat here in unreality, as if
in dream.
Some places" he said, "they call
that a harvest moon; the Indians
call it the hunting moon, and they
used to make medicines by
it."
"What do you call it?"
"Well-sometimes we call it
coyote moon. Because it puts
h4AAS4 VI oA11SU1S5 VI dAO Oll tI1C eCOJOlCos
They gather around on hill tops,
seems like, and sing their hearts
out, as if it drove them wild crazy,
some way. Listen"
Far off, so faint a whisper that it
seemed half imagined, they could
hear now queer high grooming,
full of an interviewer yapping and
trilling, like nothing else on earth.
"It sounds" Marian said, as if
there were 40 or SO of them sitting
somewhere on a mountain in a
ring"
"Two," he told her. ''9They pair
off this time of year."
''Two," she repeated. '"Then
that's why there's something more
than moon madness in that sing
ing"
He knew that they should be start
ing the long return, but he could not
bring himself to say so. The thing
that had brought them together
Evening star., 1938-01-30

mand the 18th Naval District st San

mand the 18th Naval District st San
Francisco.
The four nag changes moved to Q
climax on the Pennsylvania. Earlier
ceremonies effected the division,
squadron and battle force change Of
command.
Rear Admiral Charles Russell Train
relieved Rear Admiral John Willis
dleenslade as commander Of the Bat
tleship Division 2; Rear Admiral
0reenslade relieved Vice Admiral Ed
ward q. Kalbfus q commander Of the
four battleship divisions and WAS
elevated to the grade Of vice admiral.
Vice Admiral Kalbfvs became q full
admiral in relieving Admiral Bloch ~
commander Of the Battle Force.
Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely
relieved Rear Admiral ErnestaJ. King
as commander of the Scouting Force
Aircraft Squadrons and Rear Admiral
King was elevated to the grade of vice
admiral relieving Admiral Frederick
J. Thorne as commander of the Battle
Force Aircraft squadrons.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
SHIP RADIO SILENCE
HITS WEATHER ADD
Map Kept by Forecasters
Blank for Pacific'S
"Storm Cradle"
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2o.-The
Unexplained radio silence Of ships In
ehe North Pacific storm cradle" left
. big blank space on the weather map
today and put forecasters in a
euandry Just when they thought
everything had been fined for resump-
Ton Of the previously interrupted
oervice.
FWecaster Thomas D. Reed said
he bureau received reports from only
three ships this morning.. and they
were Of little value because they were
far south and west Of the usual storm
area.
The bureau received no ship re-
ports yesterday. and only one the
day before. A conference between
weather officials and representatives
Of the American Radio telegraph
lists Association gave rise to reports
that the operators wAhted overtime
pay ror rising at 4 am. to transmit
Tie WeatNer messages.
Union Secretary Roy Pyle an
nounced after the conference he would
ask the radio men to resume relaying
the messages pending an inquiry into
the situation with view to asking
extra pay for the operators involved.
Pyle professed ignorance of the
reason for the failure of reports to
arrive this morning. He announced
he had asked shore radio stations to
ask the ship operators to resume the
service temporarily.
The union secretary said ships
carrying only one operator had hour
arrangements whereby the radio man
was not required to send the 4 am.
message unless paid for overtime
work.
He indicated. however, he would
investigate and possibly take dis
ciplinary action against any opera
tors who had refused to send the
messages. Pyle said these refusals
might be within the rights of the in
dividual, but that the operators had
not asked or received union sanction
for their action.
Meanwhile. the San Francisco
Weather Bureau. which charts the
course Of storms from mid-Pacific
to the Mississippi River and depends
largely on the North Pacific ship
reports because there is where most
Of this country's weather changes
originate, said the situation was
"vague"
Weather Bureau officials in Wash
lngton said a congressional appropri-
alton would be necessary in case the
service was called upon to pay the
operators.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
BLOCH HTAKES0VER
COMMANDER NAVY
U. S. Fleet Second to None
Desire Of New Chief as
Expressed in Talk.

6y the Associated Press.
SAN PEDRO. Calf, Jan. 2s.-Hard
work ahead. unselfsh devotion to duty
and . Navy second to none were the
first words given to the United States
Fleet today by It's new commander in
chief, Admiral Claude Charles Bloch.
Il wish to emphasize to the officers
and men Of the feet that our only
justiication for being Is to be ready
to fight," he said.
I'VE have fine ships. and knowing
you men a I do I know that you will
continue your hard work and unselfish
devotion to duty 80 that our Navy will
always be ready and second to none"
Beside the Kentuckian on the quar-
terdeck Of the flagship Pennsylvania
was Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn.
who had Just turned over the highest
American naval post at sea. Admiral
Hepburn, leaving the sea after 10
months ~ feet chieftain. will COM
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Tampa Clubhouse Burns.

TAMPA, Fla. Jan. 70 R.-Fire de-
stroyed the $4,000 clubhouse OF the
Tampa Yacht and Country Club
today.
The clubhouse was located on the
shore Of Tampa Bay. about miles
from the business district Of the city.
Firemen said q fireplace In the
main ballroom was the source.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
Italian Bank Leader Dies.

MILAN, italy. Jan. 20 @.-
Giuseppe Toe,litz. y. former co-di-
rector of Italy's Commercial Bank,
died last night after a long illness
Financial circles considered him the
virtual creator of the Commercial
Bank. which he built into interna-
tional proportions. He retired from
active banking in 1898.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
PUBLISHERS PROTEST
POSTAGE RATE CHANGE
Representatives Here Urged to Be
Firm Against Compelling Dis
closure Of Sources,


By the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, sJan. 29.-The
New York State Press Association
adopted resolution today, protesting
any "odcial steps that may be taken
to discontinue so-called subsidies to
newspapers" In relation to postage
rates.
The publishers approved another
resolution urging representatives At
washington Ito stand firmly against
all legislative movements aimed to-
wards compelling editors to disclose
sources of information relating to news
articles"
They also protested against the
Governments asking newspapers Of
the Nation to publish gratis appeals
for the benefit of the Government in
Its various branches"
Evening star., 1938-01-30
HOUSE MEMBER TO TALK
Amlis Will speak Tonixht 1t 10.
cial Democratic Fornw

Representative Amlie. Progressive,
OF Wisconsin viii speak On the In
dustxial Expansion Act-Dcouomic
Anarchy Versus . Planned Economy
1T the Social Democratic Forum ut
$50 pm. today at 1907 Fourteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1938-01-30
1aSks for Parliament.

oas masks are TO b stored Of West
mmster. England, ready for uss a
members Of Parliament IN caso q "a
air raid.
Evening star., 1938-01-30

Five elaftnets used In ancient ofoooe
are preserved In the BritiSh AuseS,m.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-26
COURT ENDS WITH
DOCKET CONTESTED
Indications Now Are Regu-
lar Term Week Hence
Won't Clear 1t

Vance countys first special term of
superior court in many years stood
adjourned today, but with the calen-
dar still greatly congested in spite Of
the Roadway that was made in dis
/ posing of criminal matters. Indica-
tiOns were eLnat the regular term of
criminal court opening ten days hence
will not be sufficient to clear the ros
ter of cases.
Judge Clawson L. Williams presided
over this term, as he did the regular
criminal session in January. He will
exchange courts with Judge r. Hunt
Parker, resident judge of the district.
for the March term, and will preside
in Durham county. He will return in
June for the other regular term.
DR.. Paul Mitchell, Negro doctor
from New York, who had been here
for some time, was given term Of
not less than three and not more than
six years in States Prison for the lar
ceny of 1926 from Mary Henderson.
cOlOred nurse. He noted an appeal to
Supreme Court, and appeal bond was
fixed at $3.50 and appearance bond at
$4,000. There were some indications
for restitution of the sum involved,
whereupon the judgment might be
considerably lightened.
Willard Rem, white man, was sent
to the roads for 60 days for the theft
Of a watch valued at $40 from Roy
.%ann.
David Thompson, white man, con
victed Of drunken driving and sent to
the roads for six months in recorders
court, brought his case up on appeal,
tut the time was exactly doubled to
twelve months in Judge Williams
court He had entered plea of guilty.
James Williams and Johnny New
ton. white youths, for larceny of mer
chandise from a Seaboard Air Line
freight car, were sent to State Prison
for two years each when a suspended
sentence imposed several years ago
was invoked by reason of a further
violation of law
Williams and Newton were two Of
/ six men convicted in trial before
Judge Henry Grady in March, 1882,
in this county, for breaking and en-
tering and larceny and receiving
from Seaboard freight cars. All were
given two years in prison, but judg-
ment was suspended for all but one on
condition of good behavior, with the
provision that capias could be in
voked within seven year sfor VIOLA
tions of law On April IL, last year,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-26
ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Rose Company 1887 Sales
SIS, 426, 327 Up IN Perct.
Earning S215 Per Share ST. IL in 1896; Dividends in
1887 Amounted to $1.3O Per Share; Same Officers,
One New Direc tor Elected

states of North Carolina, South caro-
lima, Virginia, Georgia and tennessee.
Three new stores were opened last
year, at Fairmont and Canton, in this
State, and Franklin, Tenn. The White
Vile store that had been burned out
some months before was reOpened.
A few stores will be opened in 1888
in addition to the remodeling and
doubling in size OF stores already in
operation at North Wilkesboro and at
Lebanon, Tenn.
The company's big objective TO,
1898 is the greatly enlarged program
for the home offices and the No 1
Henderson store. A new structure
alongside the present property run
ming through the block from Garnet
to Wyche streets will be increased
in SIZE by half. This has tecome neces
say especially by reason of the great
need for additional space for the home
office which will occupy the two up
per floors of the enlarged building.
ILe iocal store will have the entire
fist floor, and included IN that will
20 a modern lunch room or cafeteria
End prof. ably q grocery store in the
ca.
tajaNs exc virtually complete for this
>, oC ana rf nxpAn.ion and bids for the
n = 9 10 BE-, called for in a wecN
CT l:ays, it was stated today. It is
=. ~ 20 have the work get under
way a oun1 April l, and it is hoped
l'a n>w r. o~c can be occupied by late
o,l1nrae~ A considcra lie financial out-
lay VIII be Involved in the new plans'