Boy's Cinema (1930-31)

23 I ''BRANDED'' * T (Continoed from page S5.) (icross the rolling grass-land and, with a shout of baffled rage, set otT in pursuit, followed by tlic- rest, firing as they rode. Over the crest of a hill and across <a stretch of waste the fugitives rode for dear life, and they struck the road close to the region of the fallen rocks beside which the stKage-coach liad been held up. They swept, across the dusty road- way and plunged in among the pro- tecting crags, dismounted, and took cover. But they liad not been able to reach their hidmg-place un.seen. Their pur- suers streamed into the roadway, left their horses, and arlvanced cautiously to Purround and close in upon their quarry. The air b<'canrie acrid witli the smoke of .six-shooters; bullets spat against the boulders. , - The three separated to present less of a target, and each behind a protecting mass of limestone fired and ducked and fired.'again. tMaf, : waxing suddenly v<Tliant, exposed himself to take aim at the ugly face of Tex. which rose up over a ledge less than ten yards. His gun fltid the half-breed's barked simultaneously, and the face vanished— but, Olaf fell groaning to the dust. Tom came .scrambling down from his loftier retreat to raise liis henchman.- ."WJiere'd they get you, Swede?" he asked anxiously. : "My arm," groaned Olaf. Starrett crept round to them, a six- shooter in each hand, and he insisted on !rnounting guard while Tom hastily bouiid up the wottndcd arm. Bullets were spattering all about tliem, but Starrett asked quite calmly : '■'You said something about a stage liold-up—when find where did it Itappen?" . . . , ■ 'Just around here, about three weeks ago. - This fellow Moore is trying to frame us." A volley rang out, putting an end to talk: the encircling movement was nearly complete now, and the attackers were close. Biit I,ou bad reached the sheriff's office in' Westonville soiile little time h'efore 'J'om and his - companions had reached the rocks. She burst into the little oflice and. without any pre- liminaries, she cried wildly; "Moore atid Tex are going to lynch Mr. Dale for a hold-up he didn't do I'' BOY'S CINEMA "Moore, eh?" snorted the sherilY, and looked at his colleague, Sheriff Dawson, from Falls City, who had been talking to him when Lou so dramatically ap- i)eared. '' Well, you may be right. Mack, but there ain't goin' to be any lynching in my country!" He sprang up from his desk and went to the door. "Btuj," he bellowed to a passing cow- puncher, "get the boys together— quick !" Ben wanted to know why, and was briefly informed. He darted over to the saloon, outside whicji inaii.v horses were tethered to the hitching-rail. "Come on, boys!" he shouted in v.t the doorway. "We gotta stop a lynching 1" There was quite a .stampede from the bar, but outside the building an elderly rancher with « walrus moustache grij)ped the cowboy's arm. " Who'.s being biicchetl now?" he de- manded. -'Some bandits that held up the Falls City coach about three we(;"k.s ago," was the hurried reply. The others were already on their horses—fiilly a score .of them. The rancher followed . suit; the two sheriffs came'galloping Up with Lou, and the whole party wen+ off out of the town in a cloud of dust. •; . Lou led the way, assuming that the scene of eohibat would be the Dale ranch ; but as the riders api)roached the rocks the incessant noise of gunfire on their rigju told its own story. Sheriff Watkins barked commands, and the horses were left on the fringe of the road while the posse plunged in among the rocks. A rain of bullets informed the sur- rounders. that they were surroimded; the stentorian voice of the sheriff of Westonville wos heard l)ellowing : "Stop there! Hold everything!'' Most of the besiegers, realising that they : were outnumbered by the forces of law and order, stoppwl obediently enough: but Moore, enraged at the prospc'ct of losing hi.s prey, crept to- wards the cluster of rocks that screened the three. Starrett, catching sight of him. ran otit to take aim: Tom, with a warning cry, looked round a projection and fired. Three guns barked as one, and Moore threw up his hands and col- lapsed, shot through the heart. But Starrett, tottering backwards, fell in a huddled heap, and Tom, regardless of danger, was raising him up when the two sheriffs came forward. Every Tuesday One of Moore's followers, darting ahead of them, flung a noose over Tom's head, and the, sheriff from Falls City cried triutnphantly: "There's your man!" But the rancher with the walrus moustache shouted over the toji of a rock which was in his way: "That's not the man that stole itiy watch!" ^What?" barked the .sheriff. Starrett) leaning feebly against Tom's shoulder and breathing with diflicidty, opened his eyes and looked at the ges- ticulating rancher. "He'.s—3'iglit," he sai<l gaspingly. "Dale had nothing—to do—with it. I hel^*: up—the stage—alone." "That's the man right enough, sheriff," declared the staring rancher. "I never foiget a face." But Starrett, s\iinn\oning the last rem- nants of his breath by sheer vviil-jriower, said faiiitly; "Got a smoke, pal?" Tom, tiolding the self-con fe.ssed bandit with one arm, found a cigar- ette with his free hand, )iut it between the dying inan's parched lips and lit it. But Starrett hadn't enough breatli left to draw in even a wisp of smoke. The cigarette fell to the groimd, aiul he was dead. I.oti had remained in the roadway with the horse.s, commanded to sta.v there by Sheriff Watkins, ainl she was patting Silver's white neck when Tom eventually climlx-d <lown to her. His face was straine<l and there were tears ill his eyes. "Here's your horse," slie said gently. "I'm awfully sorry, Cuthbert," "Th-that's all right." said Tom with an effort at cheerfulne.ss. "And 1 guess I'll be riding your way directly. Only don't call me Cuthbert any more." She gazed at hiin'>vith a tender ex- pressioti in Ina- brown eyes, but she could not resi.st the opportunity. "I never will," she said. "Never— Chauncey!" 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