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and Mrs. Chet Long and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Houser, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Slick and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Huber and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips were
Sunday dinner guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Younkman and daugh-
ters of Beaverdam.
Sunday afternoon callers of Mrs.
Lily Fett, Nellie HuDer and Robert
Hess and sons were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Winegardner and family, and
Sondra Huber and Jimmie Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips and
Mr.. and Mrs. f. G. Younkman call
ed Sunday evening on Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Younkman and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Winegardner
and family called Sunday evening at
the George Huber home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Badertscher
We're Sunday dinner guests and Mrs.
Lily Fett called Thursday afternoon
at the Dennis Brauen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman
and daughter and Mr.. H. p. Zim-
norman called Sunday afternoon at
the Elmer Long home.
The occasion honored the birth
days of Mrs. David Holman, Paul
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CHAPTER III

That Lew Gordon had a daughter
was not so surprising as that he had
only one. Single-minded, he clung
all his life to the memory of the
wife he had lost when their first
child was born.
Jody Gordon was twenty now. She
didn't exactly run Lew Gordon; no.
body did that. But it was fairly ap-
parent that his stubborn bid for SUI
premacy in western cattle was in
tended in her behalf, and without her
would have been meaningless to
him.
Because Gordon hadn't wanted his
girl filtering around through the
press of Ben Thorpe's rutfans at
the auction, getting his own boys
into fights, Jody Gordon was wait
ing here for news of what had hap
pened to the Crying Wolf. Bill Rop-
er vaulted the foolish little picket
gate, scuffed the mud off his boots
on the high front steps, and let him.
self in. He sent Comanche war
gobble ringing through the house,
but Jody was already flying into the
room.
Ibid you get it? Did you get it?"
'All of it,"
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They buried Dusty King five miles
south of Ogallala, beside the Great
Trail which he himself had pi-
oneered. They thought he would
want to rest out there in the open
plain, near enough to the cattle trail
so that the rumble of hoofs would
sometimes come to him through the
ground.
Over his grave they piled boul-
ders, after the fashion of the prairie
men. Bill Roper himself fitted
cross of railroad ties, the most dur
able and massive timber available
at Ogallala.
After that was all done, and night
had come on, and everybody had
gone back to town, Bill Roper went
back to that lonely cross and squat
ted on his heels against the pile of
stone.
After a while a ridden horse came
toward the cross at a walk; and
Bill Roper remained motionless, un-
seen against the stones, as the horse
man came up.
The rider stepped to the ground
and walked slowly toward the cross,
the reins of his pony on his arm.
"Quien esq"
Roper said, "Oh, hello, Dry
Camp"
Dry Camp Pierce came and sat
down beside Bill at the foot of the
stones. Find out anything, in the
town."
"Hell, no."
NO." Dry Camp repeated after
him. mo, and they WON'T
"You talk mighty sure, Dry
Camp"
II talk mighty sure because am
mighty sure. Nobody saw Dusty
killed except the three men that
done it; and one other man."
Bill Roper's hand shot out and
caught Dry Camps lean arm in a
grip that bit like trap. "Who was
that?"
Me"
There was a silence, sharp and
hard, before Bill said, How is it
you haven't told anybody this?"
Haven't had any chance to talk
to you," Dry Camp said. I'm tell
ing you now, amt II"
"Who was it,"
"Cleve Tanner; and Walk Lash
am, and Ben Thorpe"
Dry Camp took match out of
the pocket of his cowhide vest and
chewed the end.
"You see" he searched for his
words painfully, after the manner
of men who are much alone
Dusty. he tied his horse out back
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of the Lone Star Bar, in the angle
of the wagon shed. There's a kind
of a corner there, like you can't see
into it from any place, hardly; and
what with 1t getting dark
where we're your"
.I was in Bailey's Harness Shop,
next door. | saw Dusty turn off the
walk. and walk back between the
buildings. I'd been watching for
him. because I wanted to speak to
him a minute. | went back through
the harness shop, and | was just 60
ing out the back door. And then hell
bust in the wagon shed angle"
1.-The time 1t happened" Bill
Roper said, there must have still
been a little light.
Enough to see by, all right. These
three varmints steps out of the shed
Quick and quiet. Dusty knew what
he was up against, all right. His
gun come out; but Walk Lasham
grabs his gun arm with his left hand
and bears down like he was wras-
ting him. Then the whole works
seems to blow up, as all three of
'em let loose. They just stood and
throwed it into him. and it seemed
like he was never going to fall. Ben
Thorpe pumped two more shots aft
err Dusty was down, and dead"
That was all the story. Both of
them seemed to recognize that there
were no questions to ask, nothing to
add.
"I promise you this, Bill" Dry
Camp said at last. II can't go up
and testify against these men. You
know why. If let it be known
that I'm here, that's the finish of
me. But that would be all
right. Only, what court, that we
got, would believe me against
them?"
Bill Roper said, There isn't any
thing you can do, don't suppose"
"Oh, yes, there is. There's one
thing can do. I'll have to kind of
bide my time. and make it sure;
but-I'm going to get me these three
men,"
mo, you amt" Bill Roper said.
Were going to go at this thing
different way. Trouble with you,
you're figuring these three men as
Just three men. They amt. They
got the biggest string of tough out
fits in the country, and they spread
all the way from the Rio Grande
to the Rosebud, and beyond. We
got to bust up the whole works, if
we want to get any place."
Dry Camp was silent for several
minutes. 'What you aim to do?"
at aim to start in Texas, where
Cleve Tanner runs Thorpe's breed
ing outfits in the Big Bend; / aim
to tie into him piece by piece, till
Ben Thorpe is smashed out of the
West"
Lew Gordon will never stand
for"
ITO be continued)
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Pleasant Hill

Private Lowell Weaver, who is
stationed at Chanute Field, H.,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Weaver.
Sunday afternoon callers of Mr..
and Mrs. Cloyce Hauenstein were,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick High and son,
Kenneth Hauenstein, Mr.. and Mrs.
L. c. Hauenstein and daughter and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Huber.
James Huber spent Sunday after
noon with Huber Winegardner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clate Scoles called
Sunday afternoon on Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Traucht.
Past week callers at the VIM.
Lugibihl home were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl McCafferty and son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Garnet Foltz, Rev. Burrichter,
Richard Stettler and sons, Virgil
Haas, Marilyn Stratton, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. A. Amstutz, Mrs. Eli Welty
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. K. K.
Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes, Mrs.
Hettie Spear, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Motter, Mrs. Dora Tressel and Mr..
and Mrs. Miller called Sunday after
noon on Mrs. Angie Turner of Ada.
Past week callers at the Harry
Weaver home were: Mr.. and Mrs,
Ross Ransbottom, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Stoodt, Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Carroll,
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Ransbottom, Mr..
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Jody flung herself at him, and
kissed him; so sweet, SO vital, so
completely feminine that he wanted
to keep her close to him. But she
broke away again as he tried to
hold her.
"How much did it cost?"
Seventy cents-gold."
Jody's breath caught. .sCan we
come out on it?"
"Sure we can come out on it. Not
a cent less would've turned the
trick. Dusty"
Jody sat on a walnut table that
had come all the way from st. Louis,
and swung her feet. The story
seemed to tickle her in more ways
than one. Il can just see you ALL"
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T11OuE4 Will 1A1 tAA( 0heAk 0A A.
have-I wouldn't cali it alone"
st would. Grass country is lonely
country" he said now, '.as lonely
as the dry plains. You get to WON
dering what the everlasting cattle
add UP to, in the course of life.
Then some night you know you don't
care what they add UP to; and you
think, Damn fat beef!'
"Why, Billy-why, Billy"
'sNone of it means a damn, with
out you're there" he told her.
working cattle doesn't mean any,
thing, because you'll always have
all the cattle you need anyway; and
no long trail means anything, with
out you're at the end of it. I'm sick
of long drive-trails, empty of you
at the end'
There was long, motionless ST.
lence; he kept his eyes on the far
sand hills as presently she leaned
forward to look up into his face.
"You really mean it, don't your"
Jody said.
Jody's words came very faint, and
a little breathless.
"Why didn't you say so before?"
He looked at her then, and she
wasn't laughing. In her eyes was a
new, grave light, such as he had
never seen; warm light, a beloved
light, better than sunset to weary
day-rider who has worked leather
since before dawn. Timorously, but
very willingly, she came into his
arms; and he held her as if she were
not only very precious but very
fragile thing. For a little while it
seemed that one trail, trail longer
than the Long Trail itself, had come
to its end.
Cant believe" he said at last,
his lips in her hair, you're sure
enough mine"
"All yours-all, all!''
They had one hour, there in the
prairie lookout tower, discovering
each other, getting acquainted as if
for the first time. The sun went
down in a gorgeous welter of color.
Jody shivered a little. 81 wish
Dad and Dusty would come. Espe-
cially Dusty"
"Why?"
''He has SO many enemies. Some
of them are dangerous as diamond
backs. 1t worries me when he's due
and doesn't get back"
''Dusty'n take care of himself"
Bill Roper chuckled, and held her
closer.
One half hour more :.
Up from the town came a crafty
ridden horse, splashing mud caves
high under the urge of spur and
quirt.
Hell lame his pony if he goes
down in that Slick" Bill commented.
Nov what do you suppose"
The rider tried to pull up in front
of the house, and the frantic pony
swerved and slid, mouth wide open
to the sky. Its shoulder crashed
the fence, taking down a dozen feet
of pickets. The rider tumbled off,
ran up the steps to hammer on the
door.
Roper went clattering down the
stairs, pulled open the door. Nov
listen, you"
"Bill-Dusty-Mr. King-he-"
Bill Roper froze, and there was a
long moment of paralyzed silence.
"Spit it out, mani" Roper shouted
at him.
"Bill-he's daid!"
''Who-who-" :
DUSTY Kings daid! Bill, they
gunned him they gunned him
down!"
"Who did?"
: "Tain't known. Mr.. Gordon's
there; he"
Bill Roper walked out past the
cowboy stiffly, like a man gone
blind. Without knowing what he did
he walked down to the gate, and
stood gripping the pickets with his
two hands.
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she said, standing around making
an impression on each other"
He turned from the window, and
she was laughing at him as he had
thought, her mouth smothered with
her fingers.
"Come here minute" he said,
going toward her.
She twisted from the edge of the
table, as if to put it between them,
but she was too late. His rope-hard
fingers caught her wrist, and held
her as easily as if he had dallied
a calf to the horn.
Listen" he begged her. Lis
ten"
He caught her up, clamped an
arm behind her head, and kissed
her hard. Hard, and for long
time.
So long as she was rigid in his
arms, fighting him, he held her;
but when she stood limp, neither
yielding nor resisting, his arms re-
Iaxed, and Jody tore herself free.
She lashed out at him like little
mustang, striking him across the
mouth. Her face was white, all that
quick, irrepressible laughter gone,
as for moment she looked at him.
A trickle of blood ran from Bill
Roper's lips, and made crooked
mark on his chin. Then she turned
and fed.
When she was gone Bill Roper
stood still, sucking his cut lips. After
a little while he went to the VIM
dow, instinctively turning to open
space for his answers.
He could remember Jody Gordon
as a little tow-headed kid, before her
hair had darkened into the elusive
misty brown that it was now. Or as
colt-legged girl with scratches on
her shins from riding bare-legged
through the sage. Or as peculiar
ly tempestuous, uncertain thing, nei-
ther child nor woman. But this
latest phase he couldn't understand
at all.
He picked up his hat, and for lit
tie while stood turning it in his
hands. Then he threw it in the
corner, and went searching through
the house.
Jody was in the tallest of the four
foolish towers. From here you could
see the town, and the slim, glitter
ing line of the railroad, connecting
these far plainsmen with a world
hungry for beef.
Jody said matter-of-factly, "We've
got to have more loading pens, Bill"
Bills face broke into a slow grin.
Abruptly he laid hard hands on dis
used sashes, and broke them open.
Into their little cubicle flowed the
sweet air of the open prairie sweep,
inspiriting with the fresh smell of
the new grass.
She said, Tell me about your new
job"
1T isn't new"
"They said that you'd be the new
boss of the Crying Wolf, if we got
it." Jody said.
For more years than he could re-
member, he had been working to-
ward this opportunity-the chance
to take two years, or three, with
such-and-such cattle, on such-and-
such land, and show that he could
pay out on market deliveries IN
pounds of beef. But nova MIL
lion horns and hoofs didn't seem to
mean so much.
Something was here-something
that wasn't any place else-not on
the long trail, not in the wild terni-
nal towns. He knew now he had to
tell her that, and he dreaded it, be-
cause she probably would think it
was funny. He wouldn't look at
her as he spoke, because he didn't
want to see her laughing at him.
81 don't know as I'm SO much in
terested as I was,' he said.
"Why, Billy-not interested in the
Crying Wolf-nearly five hundred
square miles of feeder landi What's
come over your
Il guess maybe I'm tired OF rid
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ACTION TO SELL REAL ESTATE


The following persons, defendants in the
above entitled cause: Florence Burkholder
and Monroe Burkholder, whose last known
place of residence was 1919 7th Avenue,
South, Nampa, Idaho; Verna Patterson and
Dale Patterson whose last known place of
residence was Caldwell, Idaho: Eulala BiXel
residence was Eugene. Oregon Armin Kohl
and Wanda Kohl, whose last known place of
residence was Decatur. Illinois; Caroline
Leigh and Horace Leigh. whose last known
place of residence was 639 Lilliebridge, De-
troit. Michigan; Ebert Kohl. a minor,
whose last known place of residence was
999 Marietta Street, Decatur. Illinois, will
take notice that on the 17th day of Decem-
Der. A. D., 1910, Maurice r. Kohl, admin
istrator of the estate of Christina Kohl,
deceased, fled his petition in the Probate
Court OF Allen County, Ohio. in Case No.
20655. against the above named defendants,
praying for an order to sell the real estate
belonging to said Christina Kohl. deceased,
for the purpose of paying the debts of said
estate. said real estate being described as
follows
Being Northwest one-haIf l15) of Lot
Number one ID of Peter OILERS Subdivision
Of Outlots to the Village of Bluffton, Allen
County, Ohio
That said real estate was appraised by
the appraisers of the estate of said deceased
for. the sum of Twelve Hundred (s1200.00)
Dollars.
Said parties are required to answer on or
before the 26th day of April A. D., 1941.
MAURICE R. KOHLI,
Administrator of the Estate
of Christina Kohl. Deceased.
by Dan X. Frippiehorn, his attorney. so
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Ralph A. West, Mason, Ohio, All
club member has been accorded
special recognition for his letter on
the responsibilities junior leaders
take in club work. 1t has been
published in the March issue of the
National All Club News and has
merited blue award to win club
history and yearbook for him.
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PAGE SEVEN

obenour, Wilford Gratz and Joy K.
Huber.
Afternoon callers were Mr.. and
Mrs. Carnot Hefner and son Billy of
Westminster; Mr.. B. r. Filhart Of
Jenera.
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Out of the I,704 members of Ohio
dairy herd improvement associations,
1853 dairymen secured production
average of 400 pounds or more of
butterfat per COW for the year re-
Gently completed. Eleven members
own herds which have produced that
average for the past five consecutive
years, and the herd of II. A. Wise,
Darke county, has qualified for
membership in the 400 pound club
for the past nine years.
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LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE PROBATE COURT, ALLEN
COUNTY, OHIO
Maurice r. Kohl. Administrator
of the Estate of Christina Kohl,
deceased,
Plaintiff,
VS..
Florence Burkholder, ct al.
Defendants.
Case No. 20655
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio.
Allen County, ss.
Estate of Frank Scott Deceased.
Bertha Ewing of Button Ohio has been
appointed and qualified as e&ecutrix of the
estate of Frank Scott. late of Allen County.
Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 18th day of March 1941.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
49 Probate Judge.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

State of Ohio.
Allen County,
Estate of Marian Tschiegg, Deceased.
Eldon Tschiegg. of Bluffton and Jacob
Tschiegg of Orrvillc. Ohio. have been APP
pointed and qualified as executors of the
estate of Marian Tschegg. late of Allen
County. Ohio, deceased
Dated this goth day of March. 1a41.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
SO Probate Judge
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NOTICE

NOTICE
To Whom II May Concern:
The petition of Paul w. Stauffer Evelyn
Gratz Stauffer, c.. w. Elliott, Vera Kohler
Elliott and Arden r. Baker for the annex
alton of certain lots and lands in Trip
lett Addition to the Village of Bluffton. Ohio,
is set for hearing on the 7th day of May.
194l. at 10 100 o'clock A. NJ, at the office of
the County Commissioners of Allen County.
Ohio, in the Court House at Lima, Ohio.
Any parties having any objections shall APP
pear at that time to enter their protest.
FRANCIS w. DURBIN,
City Solicitor of Button, Ohio.
so and Agent of said Petitioners.
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IN GODS NAME LOOK OUT

Gordon's lips moved almost
soundlessly. "Dry Camp Pierce"
Roper knew that name, without
knowing what lengths of outlawry
had brought Dry Camp Pierce to
where he was today. Rewards
backed by Ben Thorpe were on Dry
Camps scalp over half the West;
probably it was as much as his life
was worth to show himself in Og-
allala now.
"This note
Dusty King tossed it off with a
shrug. "Oh--I suppose Thorpe is
getting drunk some place and spout
ing off about what all he's going to
do to me when he catches up."
Dusty's teeth showed in his E1fec-
tious grin. 81 suppose Dry Camp
thought I ought to know about it.
Hes right Dusty" Lew Gordon
said. eve do want to look out, all
of US, all the time"
eve always had to look out"
Dusty scoffed.
It'll be the more so now. There
isn't anything in the world Ben
Thorpe's people will stop at, Dusty"
Let 'em come on"
1--WE want to look OUT" Gordon
said again.
'If you feel that way about it,
said Dusty, what was the idea Of
your working through that law we
can't wear guns In town."
Bill Roper said, eve could have
brought it to an open shoot-out, five
years ago-ten years ago. Better if
we had"
Gordon shook his head. Moth
ing ever gets fixed up with guns"
Dusty King pulled his hat little
more on one side so that he could
wink at Bill Roper unobserved. But
he said, "He's partly right, Bill. Ben
Thorpe isn't just one man any more.
Walk Lasham-Cleve Tanner-any
one of dozen others could step into
his shoes. It's whole rotten or
ganization has to be busted up."
''Ben Thorpe downed, and they'll
quit" Bill Roper thought.
ben Thorpe down and it's only
begun" Dusty countered. "Get it
out of your head that you can fix
anything up by downing Ben Thorpe.
Not while this organization stands
in one piece. Might be good idea
for you to remember that, Bill, in
case anything happens"
Dusty" Bill said, IF ever they
get you, by God, I'll get Ben Thorpe
if it's the last"
mo-" said Dusty. "You hear me?
No. If they get me-you'n remem-
Der what I said. You remember
you're fighting thing, and a big
one; not just one man." His face
crinkled in that familiar, contagious
grin. Forget it! Dry Camps
spooky, that's ALL"
He hooked an arm through his
partners, and went staggering off.
Ten PAGES down the walk he
stopped, turned, and came back.
He leaned close to Roper. 'If any,
thing should happen, kid-remem-
Der what ! said
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NOTICE
To Whom 1t May Concern:

The petition of Alfred Muller and Kermit
Kibele for the annexation of certain lots and
lands in the Alfred Muller Addition to the
Village of BIuffton. Ohio. is set for hearing on
the 7th day of May, 1941. at 1000 o'clock A.
M, at the Office of the County Commission
of Allen County, Ohio, in the Court
House at Lima, Ohio.
Amy parties having any objection shall ap-
pear at that time to enter their protest.
FRANCIS w. DURBIN,
City Solicitor of Bluffton, Ohio,
so and Agent of said Petitioners.
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STATE OF OHIO

STATE OF OHIO
Department of Auditor of State
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision
of Public Offices
Annual report of the clerk of the Village
of Beaverdam, Allen County, Ohio. For the
fiscal year ending December 81. 1910.
/ hereby certify the following report to be
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nANIEr yNYTAyEH AN