Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1926 — Page 6

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Jlgjudith fHEH* of BLUE : I J LAKE RANCH By-*JACKSON OREOOfOC J comnuoHT BY**» gfHAJUXS BOMB

f _ Synopaia CHAfTn L—Bud I*®, torM forwstn of th» Blu® L»k® ranch, con* vtncvd Barn* Travora, numf, 1* da*. Übarataly wrecking tha property ownad by Judith Banford. a young woman, har ooualn, Pollook Hampton; and Timothy Gray, dacldaa to throw up hla Job. Judith arrlvaa and announcaa aba haa bought Gray a ahare In tha ranch and will run U. Sha dlachargaa Travora CHAPTER ID—Tha man on tha ranch dlalllca taking ordara from • girl, but by aubdulng a vlcloua here* and proving har thorough knowledga •f ranch life, Judith wlna the baat of them ovar. La a dacldaa to atay. CHAPTER lll.—Convinced her veterinarian. Bill Crowdy, la traacheroua, Judith dlachargea him, re-engaging an* old friend of her father'a. Doc. Tripp. ' Lee tnelt" and with quick fingers' sought the wo#nd. There was a hole; In Crowdy’s chest, high up near tits', throat, that was bleeding profusely.' At first that seemed the only wound.: Hut In a second Lee had found another. This was In the leg. and this,’ like Lee's was bound tightly with ai handkerchief. t "Got that, first rattle out of the box'." commented Lee. “See It? That's why he stuck on the Job and didn't try to run for It. Looks like a rifle ball bad smashed the bone." He didn’t look up. His fingers, busy with the string at Crowdy’s belt, brought away the canvas bag. There was bloed on It; It was heavy and, gave forth the ipellow Jangle of gold, i "You win back your thousand on tonight's play," he said, holding up the bag to Judith, lifting his eyes to her face. But Judith shrank back, her eyes wide with horror. "I don't want it 1 I can never touch It!” she whispered. Suddenly she was shaking from head to foot, her eyes fixed In terrible fascination upon Crowdy’s face. Lee tossed the bug to the bunk across the room, whence It fell clanking to the floor. "Now she’s going to faint,” was his thought “Well, I won’t blame her so d—n much. Poor little kid!" But he did not look at her again. He tore away Crowdy’s shirt to discover Just how serious the wound In the chest was. Unless Bill Crowdy bled to death, he stood an excellent, chance to doing time In the penitentiary. Lee stanched the flow of blood, made a rude bandage, and then, lifting the body gently, carried It to the bunk. "Now," said Lee, speaking bluntly, afraid that a tone of sympathy might merely aid the girl to "shake to pieces," “we've got a chance to be on our way before Number Two and Number Three get Into the game. Let’s run for It, Judith.” Judith shook her head. "We’ll stay here until morning.” she said finally, her voice surprising Lee, who had looked for a sign of weakness to accord with her sudden pallor and visible trembling. , "What for?" he wanted to know. "We’ll have another fight on our hands If we do. Those fallows, this deep In It, are not going to quit while they know that there’s all that money *ln the shack!” "I don’t care," said Judith firmly. “I won't run from them or anybody else I know! And, besides, Bud Lee, I am not going to give them the chance to get Crowdy away. . , . Do you think he Is going to die?” "No. I don't. Doc Tripp will fix him up.” "Then here I stay, for one. When I go. Bill Crowdy goes with roe! He’s going to talk, and he's going to help me send Bayne Trevors to the pen." Bud Lee expressed all he had to say in a silent whistle. He’d made another mistake, that was all. Judith wasn’t going to faint for him tonight. “Then," he said presently, setting her the example, "slip some fresh cartridges Into your rifle and get ready for more shooting. I’ll put out tha light and we’ll wait for what’s nett." Judith replenished the maguzlne of her rifle. Lee, watching from under the low-drawn brim of his hat, noted that her fingers were steady now. Crowdy moved In his bunk, lifted a hand weakly, groaned and grew stllL Lee rearranged his bandage. “Put out the light now?” he asked Judith. "No," she answered. "Since we’va got to spend the night with a man In Crowdy’s shape, It will be more cosey, won't It, with the light on?” She even put out her hand to one of the books on the shelves which she could reach from her bench. “And now,” she added, "I’m sure that our hermit won’t mind If we peep Into his library, will he?" "No," answered Lee gravely. “Most likely he’ll be proud." Lee found time to muse that life li made of Incongruities, woman of Inconsistencies. Here with a badly hurt man lying ten feet from her, with every likelihood of the night stlllnesa r bfilMJrtPPed to iwo bj R rlflg-»hot.Ju-

dilb" sat and "turned “Ibe “pages of a 1 book. Bud I.ee flushfd ns he watched 1 her. She turned the pages slowly, f came back to the fly-leaf page, read the name scrawled there and, turning t swiftly to I.ee, said accusingly: t "David Burrlll l ee, you are a humbug:" "Wrong again," grinned Lee. "A hermit, you mean 1 'A man with a ' soul'—.” "Sent!" answered Judith. But, under Bud Lee's tensing eyes, the color j began to come back Into her cheeks, j She had been a wee bit enthusiastic f over her hermit, making of him a pic- ( turesque Ideal. She had visioned him, even to the calm eyes, gentle voice. A quick little frown touched * her brows as she realized that the eyes and voice which her fancy had be- 1 stowed upon the hermit were In actu- s allty the eyes and voice of Bud Lee. But she hnd called him a dear. And , Lee had been laughing at her all the time —bad not told her, would never, f have told her. The thought came to ( her that she would like to slap Bud, < Lee's face for him. And she had told t Tripp she would like to slap Pollock i llupipton’s. Good and hard! I ‘ CHAPTER VII , — < Pardnera From without came the low murmur ] of men's voices. Judith laid her book | aside and drew her rifle across her. , knees, her eyes bright and eager. At Infrequent intervals for perhaps three or four minutes the two voices came ! Indistinctly to those In the cabin. Then 1 silence for as long a time. And then 1 a voice ogaln, this time quite near the door, calling out clearly: , “Hey, you In there 1 Pitch the money out the window and we’ll let you go." "There's a voice," said Judith quietly, “to remember! I'll be able to swear to It in court." Certainly a voice to remember, Just as one remembers an unusual face for years, though It be but a chance one , seen In a crowd. A voice markedly individual, not merely because It was somewhat high-pitched for a man’s, but rather for a quality not easily defined, which gave to It a certain vibrant, unpleasant harshness, sounding metallic almost, rasplug, as though with the hiss of steel surfaces rubdng. Altogether Impossible to describe' idequutely, yet, as Judith said, not to te forgotten. Lee turned triumphantly to the girl. "I’ve got his tag!” he whispered to ter. “I played poker with that voice me night not four months ago in lockv Bend!’’ “Who Is he?” Judith whispered back. 'With Crowdy down. If we know who >ne of these men Is, the rest will be ;usy. Who Is. he?” (TO BFt CONTINUED)

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ENGLAND FEELS ~ | STRIKE EFFECTS Settlement Not Thought To Be Very Near; One Casualty Reported London, May 6—(United Press) — British Industry today began to feel iho full effects of a general strike involving idleness of the basic cogs of industrial life. Factory after factory was closing owing to the exhaustion of fuel reserves. A steady revival of transport was evident, but this was met by increased efforl to intimidate strike-breaking bus or taxi drivers. A third day of the strike found the struggle hardening into a contest of British stubbornness, with peace efforts temporarily subtnerged. Both sides hammered away at their slogans, which were identical: "Fight to a finish.” Hopes of early settlement of the general strike seemed banished from the thoughts of the mighty forces engaged in the industrial struggle today, and labor and the government each moved to break the resistance of the other. With each day the strike continues the moment when taunt tempers will snap comes nearer. Labor tightened its grip on I-ondon today when taxi drivers Joined the general walkout, which had already crippled transportation facilities. All cabs but a few were idle today, thereby cancelling the Improvement in suburban train service, which on some lines is one third of normal. The first death resulting from general strike disorders in Britain occurred today near the Elephant and Castle Public house in South London when a bus driver lost control of hts vehicle during a barrage of stones from strikers. One man was killed and another person involved in the accident was reported dying. The stoning was one of a series which began early this morning with the seizure and burning of a passenger bus. Subway officials announced today that all lines in London would he operating before night. The bishop of Oxford has called a mass meeting for tonight to urge resumption of negotiations and the bishop of Winchester still hopes to induce King George to emerge from hiS constitutional inactivity as mediator in this greatest of British civil disturbances in more than a century. Violence is slowly gaining momentum in some of the larger urban centers. London's workers launched a campaign today to prevent the operation of non-union omnibuses and charabangs. Strikers seized and burned an omnibus near the famous Elephant and Castle, public house in South London. The passengers were ejected without struggle. Nearby the strikers halted a government mail truck, broke the motor and set fire to the chasis. Police reserves were rushed to | southwest London when a crowd

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Columbus — Mary Bishop, who said she had bppn on a wild drinking party with another woman and two men, was sent to tbp women’s prison for sixty days.

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