Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1926 — Page 3

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch •—

By Jackion Gregory

•oribn.r . Sou | Tis Judith bad gone Saturday uh tad Mrs. Simpson had dune her tborvuihly. K »>* *«•'• ;|U the housekeeper and question * Had »he found a chair overrttd » rug rumpled, a table shoved from **• «“' eu,tuu '* l place? ' again, it would baa» well not ultart suspicion and surmise la other Jd» If. » fler ther * wer * no true f wr it. Judith might be In Sftn Laadaco; aha might have sent the ..Ajf to aell. -ciitacea la were smelling powder rt»re there wasn’t no ahot,“ said tattoo hesitatingly. ■Bright boy!" mocked Hampton, ■■lpu'l! wake a great little gumshoe artiet on* tbeae daya. Bud Lee not loved Judith as it did, with hit whole heart and soul, X mil might have been that he and Csrson and Hampton would have gone M t of the room knowing no more Ibtn when they had come In. But It jHuied to Lee that the room which ltrs Judith so Intimately, was seekn, to open its dumb lipa to whisper tt him of danger to her. He had come here troubled for her; he stood, lookIK about him frownlngly, his heurt j M vy, fear mounting within him. And it length he found a sign. . At the far end of the room. In a curaer, was Judith’s wrHlng-table, on | »|i|ih were several opened letters, pen Ud Ink, a pad of paper. Lee stepped ' ti |t. If she had been lured away ifter nightfall, then some message tad come to her. If that message had ! wwe by word of mouth, there was hi need seeking It; if It had been i note, fate might have kept it here. Impaled on a sharp file was a sheet of notepaper. The notes was brief, typewritten, even to the signaturetint of Doc Tripp. It ran: “Dear Judith: “I am afraid of a new trouble. Have spotted another one of T’s gang work- ; lK for us. Also have got a bulletbole In my right hand. Nothing serious so far. Come down right away. Don't let any one see you Ss I want t« ip ring a surprise on them. Am let even using the telephone, as I've motion they are watching me. Hurry. •■Tripp.” !, 1 "Come back to the office,” said Lee Huatly. And well In front of Car-; ion and Hampton, who stared won-, terlngly at the paper In his hand, he went to the office telephone and called for Tripp. "How's your hand?" he asked when Tripp answered. Til right,” replied Tripp. “Why?" J "Get It hurt? 1 ’ ’’No.” ’ "Did you write Miss Sanford a burry-up note within the last few kysF "No." "Sure of that, Doc? Typewritten Mt*?' ‘ "Os course I’m sure,” snapped Tripp. “What's wrong?" "God knows,” answered Iwe shortly. "But you'd better come up here »nd come on the jump. Also, keep your mouth shut until you get a ; chance to talk with me or Carson." He clicked up the receiver and turned terrible eyes en the two men witching him. 'They’ve got her," he said slowly. They've got her, Carson. They've had h»r since Saturday night!" Carson read the note. Only then did It pass into Hampton's hands. The I'Oy. angered at the way In which he h»d been ignored, insulted in Ids sense of dignity by those words ofLee's to Tripp. 'Talk with me or Carson," see-; lug the reins of power being snatched from his hands, was speechless with' wrath. "Tou fellows have butted In all I’ll stand for!” he cried at them, his shut flats shaking. "I tell you I’m running this outfit and what I say goes. I doa't believe that Trevors or any man livlhs would do a trick like that. I till you it s ridiculous. And, no mat-, ter where Judith Is, when she is not l'*re I run the ranch. I need money: •he needs money; we've got a fair! '"'•nee to sell; I’ve passed my word i»'e are going to sell; and by G- d we, are going to sell.” In another mood, Hampton would not have spoken this way. In another: | wood and with time for argument,! Hud L«e would have expostulated with Jtlui. Now, however, Lee said tersely:! “Carson, It's up to you and me. Get the boys out, to the last man of them. Turn every hoof of cattle and horses Into the Upper End. We've got! do It tonight. Get them into the little valley above the plateau. We <aQ hold them there, even If they try to force our hands, which will be like them, i take this to be Trevors’ last i 'dg play. And, by thunder, he has . tnlghty near gotten away with It!" J’°u date do It!" blazed out

X. ...” In the morning--" •** .ix,Ex- - - uab.r«- ot H.n,,, ... 1" hh 11, " 1, O*"**"*. blw 1,.,, xrjtx; nXllk'l' ‘r ‘‘"’T"' '•••>""« '■tai-' “ "Can't you see the play? jf g UI) ‘°.T,‘ U kUk iu uud »>"P It There a H telephone; call up the buyers In H«'<ky Bend. They're there now or at M ‘ lr ‘T* *"• * f th * y ' r * N,lung out here in the morning. Tell them the deal Is off-" , ' UD , t 1 •**’” Mid Hampton, wrltlj Ing out of Lee's hands, on his way

m 1 Bud Lee Was on Him, Throwing Him Back. to the door. "You bet I can see! If you and <'arson think that you can run me—" Then, for good and all, Lee gave over trying to reason with Hampton. There was too much to be done to waste time. He drew Hampton back, forcing him against the wall. As lie tried to call out. I.ee's hand over bls mouth smothered his words. “You're coming with me," he said sharply. "Kight now." Though he struggled, Hampton was little more than a baby in the horse foreman's muscular grip. Tripped, with a heel behind bls calf, he fell heavily, Lee upon him. Both arms were pinioned behind him, und Lee's neckerchief thrust Into his mouth. He writhed In impotent rage. His outcries died In his throat, tlie loudest of them not reaching Marcia's ears above the creaking of her rockingchair. Lee still held Hampton's tied hands gripped In his own. So the two men went out the back door, down toward the corrals. Seeing men hurrying from the hunkhouse to the stables under Carson’s snapping orders, Lee called out for Tommy Burkitt. And In a moment, with bulging eyes, Burkitt came running. "Bring out three horses. Tommy," Lee commanded, giving no explanation. "Hurry, and keep your mouth shut.”

Burkitt obeyed lee as he always did, silently and unquestioningly. Very soon he returned, riding, leading two saddled horses. "Get into the saddle, Hampton," said Lee sternly. “There s no time for nonsense. Get up or I’ll put you up.’’ "Curse you." Hampton said In smothered anger, Ids tone making clear the meaning of the indistinct mutter. But he climbed into the saddle. -Come on, Tommy" Lee, too, was up, his hand on Hampton’s reins. "We’re going up to the old cabin. You’re going to ride herd on Hampton while 1 do something else 111 tell you everything when we get there. So they rode into the night, headed" toward the narrow passes of the Upper End, Hampton and Lee side by side Tommy Burkitt staring after them as he followed. N» longer were Bud Lee’s thoughts with his captive,, nor with the herds Carson’s men were driving back to the higher pastures They were entirely for Judith, and. they were filled with fear. She had been gone for three full days; X .ornewhere in the dutch of Trev-] ors or of one of his cutthroats. He thought of her. of Qulnnion s red-i nraved in all the years of his life. Bud Lee prayed that night. He left Hampton securely bound and under Tommy Burkitt’s watchful eves in the old cabin, and rode straight back to the ranch-house J ar3a was not yet In bed and he, made his first call upon her. Marcia delighted, then vaguely perturbed, : * >e made known his errand without Xing anv reason. He wanted to see It wondering. He carried It with him to Judith’s office and compared carefully with scraps of her hand, wrlt ing which he found there The, result of l‘ ls gtudy Wl " h / Marcia wms. Aufflclentlyi

DFCATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, Saturday, June 5. 1926

Pin multi? to ah WYrtMa?~Wt, ■' looking, in fact, what It purported to be. a vsry hasty scrawl. But Lee de c-ded that Judith had not written tt' He Slipped it | D to hl, pocket Tripp was waiting for htm, Impatient and worried, whan he came back’ from the Upper End. From Tripp' b» learned thut one of the men. a fellow the boys caiiod Yellow-Jacket,' had unexpectedly usked fur his time Saturday afternoon and hud left the ranch, saying that he wus sick. "He's the chap who brought the take note from you," said Lee. "It’s! open und shut, Doc. Another vne of Irevur's men that we ought to have tired lung ugo. The one thing ! can't «et. Is why he didn’t do a Utdshed job o’ H und hung uround until Miss Sunford left, then get away with the note, it would huve left nu evidence behind him," "She must huve locked her door und windows when she went out," was Tripp's solution. "And probably be didti t hung uround wasting time and taking chances." T rlpp's boyish face hud lost Its youthful look. His eyes, meeting Lees steadily, had In them an expression like Lee's. "If it's Qulnnlon—" Tripp began. Then he stopped abruptly. I<ee and Tripp were together In the office not above fifteen minutes. Then Tripp left to return to the Lower End. to get the rest of the men out, to help In the big drive of cattle and horses which must be returned to the shut-in valleys of the Upper End. Lee went to the bunk-house, slipped revolver und cartridges Into Ills pockets, took a ride und rode again to the old cabin. “It's Trevors' big, last play?" he told himself gravely, over and over. "He'll be backing It up strung, playing his hand for all that there's In It, and lie'll have taken time and care to fill In his hand si> that we're bucking a royal flush. And there's only one way to beat a royal flush, and that's with a gun. But I can't quite see the whole play, Trevors; I can't quite see It.” There were enough men to do night's work without him and Tommy Burkitt, and Lee gave nu thought now to Carson, swearing In the darkness of some shadow-filled gorge. He did not know what the morrow's work would be for him, but he made his I preparations none the less, eager for 1 the coming dawn. He fried many slices of bacon while Hampton glared at him and Tommy watched hhn InI terestedly; he made n light, compact , lunch, such as best “sticks to u man's ribs," wrapped It in heavy paper and slipped the package Into the bosom of his shirt. He completed his equipment with a fresh bag of tobacco and many matches. He loaded his rifle, added a plentiful supply of ammunition to bls outfit from the box on the shelf. Then he went outside to he alone, to frown at the bltu k wall of the night, to think, to await the dawn. "I'm coming to you. Judith girl," he whispered over and over to himself. "Somehow."

Dawn trembled over the mountaintops, grew pale rcee and warm pink and glorious red In the eastern sky, and Bud Lee, throwing down his colled rope which had been put Into service a dozen times during the night, said shortly: "Here we camp, boys. T’li leave 'you my fried bacon, Tommy, and take, the raw with me. You’re not even to light a fire. And you’re to stick here until I come for you." They had traveled deeper and deeper into the fastnesses of the mountains, mounting higher and higher until now. in a nest of crags ami cliffs, on a flank of Devfl’s mountain, they, could look far to the westward and catch brief glimpses of the river from’ Blue lake slipping out of the shadows. They bad gone away which Lee knew intimately, traveling a trail' which brought them again and again’ under broken cliffs, where they must use hands ami feet manfully, and now and then make service of a loop of rope cast up over an outjutting crag. "They'll never follow us here, 1 Tommy,” he said confidently. "If they do, you’ve got the drop on them and; you've got a rifle. You know whatl to do, Tommy, old man.” i "I know, Bud,” said Tommy, his; eyes shining. For never before had, Bud Lee called him that —"old man." Long ago the gag had been removed , from Hampton’s mouth. Long ago.i consequently, Hampton had said his say, had made his promises. When, he got out of this—glory to belt wouldn't he square the deal, though?' Did Lee know what kidnaping was? That there were such things as laws,, such places as prisons? • “Here," said Lee not unkindly, "I'll; loosen the rope about your wrists.. That’s all the chances we’re going to take with you. Come, be a sport,; my boy. You’re the right sort Inside; just as soon as this fracas Is over,' when you know that we were, right and that all this l« a put-up Job! on you, your friend Trevors playing you’ for a sucker and getting Miss Sanford out of the way, you’ll say we were right and I know it." "That so?" snapped Hampton. "You fust start now and keep going, Bud Lee, if you don’t want to do time in the, jug." _ ... _ (TO BE CONTINUED) — O Eczema Can Be Cured So can the various skin and scalp diseases. Try a box of B. B. Ointment It curses most skin and scalp diseases when used according to instructions. At all druggists—Get a box today.

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