Boy's Cinema (1930-31)

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-IBR Sff!!!^ Every Tuesday toll you. But, say, I heard the Rogers gill mention somebody by the name of Jim " The youns 'puncher did not wait to hear more. With a pressure of the knees he sent Starlight forward again, and the pinto cased itself into that long, loping stride of liis which could cover ground so rapidly. ■ He ate up the miles as the road-runner oats up the rattlesnake, and not long afterwards Jim found himself at the point where the coach had been held up by 'dinger's captors. Ho made out the ■tracks leading up the embankment and followed tliem. But some distance farther on the ground yielded no signs which would have enabled him to trail the men into whose hands the girl had fallen, and he •.\as compelled to ride at random, on the ofl-chanco of locating th(!m. Niglit overtook him in liis vain search, but still he persov,n-?d, and not luitil the small hours of the morning did he aban- don the quest temporarily and snatch a brief sleep. When he awoke the sun was in the sky, and the crisp clearness oi early day had thrown the colourful .>^ierras and the varied greens of trees, mosquito, and brushwood into vivid relief. Jim saddled and mounted Starlight, who had been grazing hard by. and soon he was pushing through the hills again, his eyes on the qui-vive for Ginger and her kidnappers. Thus he continued riding for another hour or so, when all at once the drumming of hoofs caught his attention. The soimd came from behind him, and, witli u caution that was almost instinctive, Jim switched I he rein and drew Starlight behind the cover of a thicket. From that vantage-point the young 'p'lf^her discerned a lone horse- man galloping from the south, and as ho drew nearer he roeognisod Smoky King. King was following a course that must BOY'S CINEMA bring him within a few yards of tlie thicket, and, to safeguard himself against the possibility of being dis- covered, Jim forced Starlight to lie down. Jim bad no qualms about meeting Smoky King. In fact, he fully intended to confront him in duo course and square accounts. But at the moment it suited his purpose better tp Let the foreman go by unhindered. For, seeing him here among ihe hills, .lim had a pretty shrewd idea that he probably knew something of Ginger's whereabouts, and as probably had some connection with the men who had stopped the stage. The foreman galloped by without observing Jim, and when the foreman was about a couple of hundred yards away the young cowboy brought Star- light to his feet with a sharp command and vaulted into the saddle. Ho began to trail King. In the Pass. FROM the facts tliat ho gleaned first from the driver of the stage-coach and then from the 'puncher who had been .so innocently concerned with Smoky King iu the attempt to hold Jim Logan a prisoner at the ranch, old Cap Rogers put his own conception on the affair. He believed Jim Logan was respon- sible for Ginger's disappearance, and the chance disco\i>ry of the basket of carrier pigeons in the barn gave him the im- pression I hat Jim had used them as a means of connnunicating with those three rogues who had waylaid the coach. The old man's first move was to send for the sheriff, who arrived with three or four of his deputies. Then, in the presence of posse and ranch hands, he scribbled a note and attached it to one of t!io pigeons, the entire party spur- ring forward in the diroction that the bird took. They could not hope to frail the bird 23 to its destination, but they at .'east gained an idea of the quarter in which that destination lay. The bird vanished amid the sierras and was lost to view. Some time later it dropped into the coop beside the hide- out of Smoky King's associates, and was seen by Larson. Larson found the note that was attached to the feathered messenger, and, after reading it, he made his way back to the cabin in haste. "Listen to this, boys," he jerked to his companions. "A message from old Cap Rogers—addressed to a guy called Jim Logan. The old man says he'll never consent to his daughter's marriage with this Logan, an' he's gonna make hash outa him ef he can come >ip with him. What do you make of it?" Consternation was written on the faces of Norton and !McGee. Then the latter voiced an opinion. "I'll tell yuh what I think," he rasped. "That red-head gal ain't acted normal ever since we took her olV the coach, an' I reckon I know why. We've got tlie wrong dame!" "The wrong dame!" ejaculated Lar- son. "Tliat's what I figure," McGce con- tinued ; but before he could say more there was the faint sound of hoof-beats, and, striding to the window, the three rufllans saw- Smoky King riding through a narrow valley that formed the only pass to the hide-out. They walked out of the cabin and confronted King as he cantered up to the dwelling and dismounted. "Well," said the foreman, "did vou get the girl?" ■ McGee answered him sheepishly. "We got a girl," ho rejoined. "Ginger-headed, just like you wrote. But I guess she ain't the right one, for all tliat. Look at this message we just had from Cap Rogers, the bo^s o' the outfit you've bin workin' for." This bronc belongs to that orneii juv -hand, Logan," said Cap Rogers^ Jnlv nT), 1931.