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Love On The Line

By PAUL FRIGGENS

CAST OF CHARACTERS CARRIF LANFE—An Eastern girl whe tame into the frontier West to find a home. MARK DEUFL — A hemesteader who keeps his business to himself. ASHTON OAKS—A land agent, with town lots to sell

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YESTERDAY—A second busy day ends and Carrie is left to spend the first | Right in her prairie home, alone. She awakens early. in suffocating heat. | Rushing to the window, she sees flames along the horizon. She is alone, with a |

CHAPTER NINE The picture of Carrie Lane stand-! .. Ing there in the moonlight by her soddy, the memory of Carrie Lane o A E- A 1 / In his arms, left Mark Deuel shak- ; es 3 id 3 7 4 2" 4 9 = en, blotted out all other thoughts g fl 3 2 for him on the long, lonesome ride E v ; : back to town from Rock Creek. 2 : : g it XN A

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she loved him. A DO LL DOGPATCH YOUTH SHUDDERS WITH : py =" -EVRY OTHER Over and over, Mark glowed with EXCITEMENT—ADAM LAZONGA |S OB~- , s aS i rrr Soar DONE that thought as he rode through the | SERVING ALL WOOING IN ORDER TO ¢ 2 :

wy A “I was a fool not to settle this case out of court!” AT RLRIES LS on PARTY 1S said goodby to her, it was with Car- \ MUBL ARK Gls SSO CREARE 1 2, SONPLETE’ § ! ON’ L ~ : Cae PRE SHIN SY rie’s whisper lulling, like sweet mu- | @F » 7... WOOIN’ TWO GALS—AT sic. in his ears. | HOLD EVERYTHING J TH SAME TIME 7%) - He was dreaming of her when he , awoke. But in the dream the mocn- | light had changed to stifling dark- | ness; the cool breeze had become | scorching. The parched prairie; was on fire. With Carrie, terror-| stricken, he dreamed he was fighting through the night to the shal-| jow well Ed Taylor had dug, as| flames lighted the new soddy, smoke | choking them every step of the way. | Like lightning, Mark bounded out of bed, rushed to the window. There IY WAS smoke in the air. In the first| ; ; X: tye oe dim light of dawn, the sky glowed | ; | pt ' : fiery red toward the north—and| § ; / 250 rE I AE Pony 3 ELL TOU 18 Sad ex Rock Creek! fly RK BLAZIN TLL GET You CAN SEE, ACE # “My God,” moaned Mark. “Car- FROM TH’ SOUND QF -- MAYBE «-- rie—Carrie!” JOUR GLN / ! 8

He dressed, ran from the house toward Newt Gale's livery stable for a horse and, turning the corner, found the town suddenly alive. The dusty main street of Sioux Springs was a wild melee of running, shouting men Mark joined them, drew up panting in front of the livery stable where a crowd gathered around a foam-flecked horse and a tousled, bareheaded youth. Mark recognized the lad instantly, the Sage boy from | upper Rock Creek. i Mark pushed through the crowd, | gained the boy's side. “Has it reached the creek?” Mark shouted. “No, but it's heading straight that | way—fast. It'll reach it without] nobody stopping it.” Mark knew what that meant,| paled suddenly at the thought. The) “There you are, son—no pale face has a fancier radiator cap than that!” crowd knew it, too. Once over Rock | Creek there might be no stopping ~ . Tye -. v its y o § pile ure The town itself was FUNNY BUSINESS There was a shuffling of feet, a weighted, explosive silence. These! men wanted someone to take the] lead, Mark felt, and he seized the| opportunity. i “All right, young Sage,” he said, turning to the men for tacit ap-| proval, “we’ll turn out the town and | go back with you.” | = ” ”

IT WAS AN unforgettable scene, | that dawn in Sioux Springs; the sky hanging low, dull, suffocating; | wagons rumbling, homesteaders | yelling; a handful of women, white-| faced, standing in a knot by the store; horses galloping off in the dust toward the fiery blotch on the] horizon. | Mark was one of the first to ride north, Newt Gale at his side. To-| gether they had hastily grabbed up | old coats. sacks, anything with | which to fight the grass fire. Others | carried slickers, shovels, horse] blankets dipped in a tank at the last minute and still dripping water | over the horses’ flanks. The wagons + came last, loaded with plows, and | men instructed to cut wide furrows NEIUDSED "THE DEANCE ahead of the fire to build a back-' P= 3 y ZA 5S, > F THE PIER TO THE fire if necessary 5 ’ 2 5 4 ROM ig, / Reaching a little knoll, from | Ess 2 which he could look down across| the broad Rock Creek Valley, Mark realized the fire was even worse than the Sage boy had described it. It was now sending up a thick, black smoke as it burned through the longer grass of the bottom THIS CURIOUS WORLD lands. He could not see Carrie's claim. But Mark was heartened by two facts: The fire had not reached the creek and it was still above Taylor's. Fd and his wife would surely pick up Carrie and take her into tow= before the danger became serious or escape was cut off. Like the other homesteaders, | Mark swung off his horse, lost no time attacking the long front of L { 7, WORRIED the prairie fire. The two Blake hoys | §& So : % \ Jr 8 i : AROUT RIM LE were assigned to hold the horses " A hE NE 7 Joo CANS TARE while the men advanced. A CARE. OF 1 | pr

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