The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-30

CHAPTER I-Summoned to the c c ranch
In central Nevada, desert-Wise walt Candy
Is on his way to help his old range partner,
Bill Hollster. Riding through unfamiliar
country. Walt is stopped short by girl
who holds a rifle in firing position. She
knows him. tells him how to get to the
ranch. and tells him that they VIII meet
again. Walt is allowed to ride on.
CHAPTER II--within a quarter of mile
from his destination. Wal. Is stopped again.
This time by a grotesque, misshapen man
who tells him to get out and then tells him
the c c crew is in Emigrant, the closest
town, for an inquest. Someone has been
murdered.
CHAPTER Iu-Riding to the inquest In
Emigrant. Walt leaves his horse at the hv-
cry stable. Before attending the inquest he
asks few questions. Cash Cameron, owner
of the c c ranch. is in trouble. hard but
honest man. Cash has many enemies.
Gandy's eye is caught by roam horse tied
near the doorway. 1t belongs to the girl
who stopped him earlier in the day.
CHAPTER Iv-Chino Drake, former cook
at the c ranch, has been murdered and
Sheriff Ed Battle Is trying to pin the blame
on Cash Cameron. The girl is called to the
stand. She Is Helen Cameron. Cash's daugh-
ter She seemingly faints and, as Candy
rushes to her aid. slips something in his
hand. 1t is the bullet from brakes body.
CHAPTER WYATT rents post Office box
and leaves the bullet In it. Leaving the
post Office he Is assos'ed oy DARK swsrhs thy
man out. finds that he wants TO usurp Cam
eron's public range land. Candy then turns
him down in biting fashion, The man leaps
at Walt. who whips him after hard battle:
The man is Pete Kelso. foreman Of the "
ranch. an outfit hostile to Cameron.
CHAPTER vI-Gandy is called to the
sheriff's Office, where he meets Hollister
and Sheriff Battle. Hollister. this time, is
really glad to see him. Battle tells Hollis.
ter that Cameron Is throughl
CHAPTER vIr-Hollister and Candy re.
turn to the c. There they find Cash
Cameron and Bent Lavic, the crippled man
who stopped Candy on his previous visit.
with nth them. aL.Sse Later Candy meets Horsethief
Fisher. another c c employee. Walt is stin
unable to find the root of G c difficulties.
Neither Cameron nor Hollister win talk;
Hollister, however. borrows two hundred
dollars from Candy.
CHAPTER yITT-That evening Walt meets
Helen Cameron in the kitchen. From the
first he has been drawn to her. Then she
tells him that Bill Hollister is one of the
finest men she has ever known. The words,
though he has known her thoughts before.
hurt him.
CHAPTER X-The bawling of cattle that
night brought Wait out to investigate. He
thinks that bawling is caused by the smell
of blood Curious, he steps into the saddle
shed. Then the shed door opens slowly. In
the darkness he smells perfume 1t is
Helen. Angry. she leaves, but not until she
warns him to forget the c G.
CHAPTER x-waIt tells HoIlister that he
wants information. Hollister tells him that
Cash Cameron, thought to be worth for
tune, is fiat broke. The murder of Chino
Drake may be his finish. Candy knows that
any one of three people may be responsible
for brakes DEATH He also points out to
alibi for brakes death. has disappeared.
CHAPTER XI-Riding the range Hol.
lister and Candy meet Pete Relso and two
of his hired men. Hollister wants no gun
play. but in self defense. Candy is forced to
shoot one of Kelso's men.
CHAPTER xII-Walt and Hollister meet
Cash Cameron as they leave the scene of
the shooting. He is considerably upset when
he hears of the gun duel, and tells Candy
that he wants no gun fighting, and that he
its own way in regard to a water hole dis
pute rather than risk gun battle.
CHAPTER xTIT-Cameron, Walt and Hoi-
lister find the body of Ranger Powell. Cash's
albi. Hollister insists that Cameron hide
out He knows that evidence points straight
to Cameron as the murderer of Drake and
Powell.
CHAPTER XIv-In talking with Horse
thief Fisher, his confidant, Walt finds that
JEFF Stoddard. owner of the hostile n ranch,
has long liked Helen, and that he once
courted her openly. Then Bent LaVic stepped
in and fred few shots at Stoddard. ending
his courting.
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