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But for some time now there has been a light in front of them. It is as if it must be a will-o'-the-wisp. They never seem to get to it. But at last they are there. The door is wide open. A pleasant odor of bacon and coffee is wafted out to the tired trav elers. "Come right in," says the cheery voice of Mary. "How tired you must be, Miss Dale. Tie up, Jim. and come in and eat something before you go. Well, you can eat again—two suppers won't hurt you. I have kept things warm for you. Your train must have been late Yes, dad is better, thank you. He'll be all right in the morn ing" CHAPTER VII. The Preliminary. Very early in the morning of the iay set for the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black the young owner of the Three Bars rode over to Velpen. He identified and claimed the animal held over from shipment by Jim's Der» suasion. Brown gave possession with a rueful countenance. "First time Billy Brown ever was taken in," he said, with great disgust. Langford met with no interruption to his journey, either going or coming, although that good cow-puncher of his, Jim Munson, had warned him to look sharp to his pistols and mind the bridge. Jim being of a somewhat belligerent turn of mind, his boss had not taken the words with seriousness. As for the fracas at the pontoon, cow men are touchy when it comes to a question of precedence, and it might well be that the inflammable Jim had brought the sudden storm down on his bead. Paul Langford rode through the sweet early summer air without let or hindrance and looking for none. He was jubilant. Now was Willis ton's story verified. The county at torney, Richard Gordon, had consid ered Williston's story, coupled with his reputation for strict honesty, strong and sufficient enough to bind Jesse Black over to appear at the next regular term of the circuit court. Under ordinary circumstances the state really had an excellent chance of binding over hut it had to deal with Jesse Black, and Jesse Black had flourished for many years west of the river with an unsavory character, but with an almost awesome reputa tion for the phenomenal facility with which he slipped out of the net in which the law—in the person of its unpopular exponent, Richard Gordon —was so indefatigably endeavoring to enmesh him. The state was prepared for a hard fight. But now—here was the very steer Williston saw on the island with its Three Bars brand un der Black's surveillance. Williston would identify it as the same. He, Langford, would swear to his own ani mal. The defense would not know he had regained possession and would not have time to readjust its evidence. It would fall down and hurt itself for the hivrhrr. court, and Dick Gordon would sin how to use any inadver tencies a. inst it—when the time came. N ^-ler Langford was light hearted. I 1 -wiw-i 1 his arrogant and un- hampe-ed .i ^. he had never before received a .front to his pride and his was due to one of tha b:? ranged cat tle him who kf**, i-z* concerns of Fr .res Bars. W 5 1 he as ft' --we ner at the hotel—the hearing was set for 2 o'clock—but his little party con tented itself with a luncheon pre pared at home and packed neatly and appetizingly in a tin bucket. It was not likely there would be a repetition of xt would be poor policy. Still, not be sure, and it was most irapu. io.nt that Williston ate no bad meat that day. Gordon met them in the hot, stuffy little parlor of the hotel. "It was good of you to come," he said to Louise, with grave sincerity. I "I didn't want to," confessed Louise, honestly. "I'm afraid it is too big and lonesome for me. I am sure I should have gone back to Velpen last night to catch the early train had it not been for Mary. She is so—good." "The worst is over now that you have conquered your first impulse to fly," he said. "I cried, though. I hated myself for it, but I couldn't help it. You see I never was so far from home before." He was an absorbed, hard-working lawyer. Years of contact with the plain, hard realities of rough living in a new country had dried up, some what, his stream of sentiment. Maybe the source was only blocked with debris, but certainly the stream was running dry. He could not help thinking that a girl who cries be cause she is far from home had much better stay at home and leave the grave things which are men's work to men. But he was a gentleman and a kindly one, so he answered quietly, "I trust you will like us better when you know us better," and, after a few more commonplaces, went his way. "There's a man," said Louise, thoughtfully, on the way to McAllis ter's office. "I like him, Mary." "And yet there are men in this coun try who would kill him if they dared." "Mary! what do you mean? Are there then so many cut-throats in this awful country "I think there are many desperate men among the rustlers who would not hesitate to kill either Paul Lang ford or Richard Gordon since these prosecutions have begun. There are also many good people who think Mr. Gordon is just stirring up trouble and putting the county to expense when he can have no hope of conviction. They say that his failures encourage the rustlers more than an inactive policy would." "People who argue like that are either tainted with dishonesty them selves or they are foolish, one of the two," said Louise, with conviction. "Mr. Gordon has one stanch sup porter, anyway," said Mary, smiling. Maybe I had better tell him. Precious little encouragement or sympathy he gets, poor fellow." "Please do not," replied Louise, quickly. "I wonder if my friend, Jim Munson, has managed to escape 'bat tle,. murder and sudden death,' includ ing death by poison, and is on hand with his testimony." As they approached the office the crowd of men around the doorway drew aside to let them pass. "Our chances of worming ourselves through that jam seem pretty slim to me," whispered Mary, glancing into the already overcrowded room. "Let me make a way for you," said Paul Langford, as he separated him self from the group of men standing in front, and came up to them. "I have watered my horse," he said, flashing a merry smile at Mary as he began shoving his big shoulders through the press, closely followed by the two young women. It was a strange assembly through which they pressed ranchmen and cowboys, most of them, just in from ranch and range, hot and dusty from long riding, perspiring freely, redolent of strong tobacco and the peculiar smell that betokens recent and inti mate conpanionship with that part and parcel of the plains, the horse. The room was indeed hot and close and reeking with bad odors. There were also present a large delegation of cattle dealers and saloon men from Velpen, and some few Indians from Rosebud agency, whose curiosity was insatiable where the courts were con cerned, far from picturesque in their ill-fitting, nondescript cowboy gar ments. Yet they were kindly, most of the men gathered there. Though at first they refused, with stolid resentment, to He thus thrust aside ^by the breezy and aggressive owner of the Three Bars, planting their feet the more firmly on the rough, uneven ,floor, and serenely oblivious to any right of way so arrogantly demanded by the big shoulders, yet, when they perceived for whom they way was being made, most of them stepped hastily aside with muttered and abashed apologies. Here and there, however, though all made way, there would be no red faced or stammering apology. Some times the little party was. followed by insolent eyes, sometimes by malig nant ones. Had Mary Williston spok en/ truly when she said, the will for bloodshed was not lacking in the country? But if there was aught of hatred or enmity in the heavy air of the impro eonrtfoo* Jor .ftluw Htl*m rgh*- 2 ft* iS'v the 'ltfgh-minaea'coftnsei* zbr order Mary Williston seemed serene ly unconscious of it. She held her head proudly. Most of these men she knew. She had done a man's work among them for two years and more. In her man's work of riding the ran ges she had had good fellowship with many of them. After to-day much of this must end. Much blame would ac crue to her father for this day's work among friends as well as enemies, for the fear of the law-defiers was an omni-present fear with the small own er, stalking abroad by day and by night. But Mary was glad and there was a new dignity about her that be came her well, and that grew out of this great call to rally to the things that count. At the far end of the room they found the justice of the peace en throned behind along table. His hon or, Mr. James R. McAllister, more commonly known as Jimmie Mac, was a ranchman on a small scale. He was ignorant, but of an overweening conceit. He had been a justice of the peace for several years and labored under the mistaken impression that he knew law but Gordon, on short ac quaintance, had dtibbed him "Old Ne cessity," in despairing irony, after a certain high light of early territorial days who "knew no law." The prisoner was brought in. His was a familiar personality. He was known to most men west of the river "One of 'Em, I'm a Thinkin', Was Jake Sanderson." —if not by personal acquaintance, cer tainly by hearsay. Then came the first great surprise of this affair of many surprises. Jesse Black waived examination. It came like a thunderbolt to the prosecution. It was not Black's way of doing busi ness, and it was generally believed that, as Munson had so forcibly though inelegantly expressed it to Billy Brown, "He would fight like hell" to keep out of the circuit courts. He would kill this incipient Nemesis in the bud. What, then, had changed him? The county attorney had rath er looked for a hard-fought defence— a shifting of the burden" of responsi bility for the misbranding to another, who would, of course, be off some whore on a business trip, to be absent an indefinite length of time or it might be he would try to make good a trumped-up story that he had but late ly purchased the animal from some Indiana cattle-owner from up country who claimed to have a bill-of-sale from Langford. He would not have been taken aback had Black calmly pro duced a bill-of-sale. The absoluteness of the surprise Pushed his clean-shaven face a little, although his grave immobility of ex pression underwent not a flicker. It was a surprise, but it was a good surprise. Jesse Black was bound over under good and sufficient bond to ap pear at the next regular term of the circuit court in December. That much accomplished, now he could buckle down for the big fight. How often had he been shipwrecked in the shifting sands of the really remarkable decis ions of "Old Necessity" and his kind. This time, as by a miracle, he had es caped sands and shoals and sunken rocks and rode in deep water. A wave of enlightenment swept over Jim Munson. "Boss," he whispered, "that gal re porter's a hummer." "How so?" whispered Langford, amused. He proceeded to take an in terested, if hasty, inventory of her charms. "What a petite little person age, to be sure! Almost too colorless, though. Why, Jim, she can't hold a tallow candle to Williston's girl." "Who said she could?" demanded Jim, with a fine scorn and much re lieved to find the boss so unappreeia tive. Eden might not be lost to them after all. Strict justice made hi™ add: "But she's a wise one. Spotted them blamed meddlin' hoss thieves right from the word go. Yep. That's a fa c\" "What 'blamed meddlin' hoss thieves,' Jim? You are on intimate terms with so many gentlemen of that stripe—at least your language so leads us to presume—that I can't keep up with the procession." "At the bridge yistidy. I told yeu 'bout it. Saw 'em first at the Bon Amy—but they must a trailed me to the stockyards. She spotted 'em right, away. She's a cute'n. Made me shet my mouth when I was a blUbbin' too much, jest before the fun began. Oh, she's a cute'n!" "Who were they,. Jim?" (To be continued) Kodol Dyspepsia Cora OlOMUwimt GENUINE The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has heen in us© for over 30 years, has born© the signature of and has heen made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. 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