Boy's Cinema (1930-31)

--•-•-^-^♦-♦^^f Every Tuesday "WEST OF CHEYENNE." (Continued Irom page "0.) He was just as calm when he saw- Kurt Raynier take up his gun. "Say, one of these men is your pal," said Raymei- quietly. "Give him a name, stranger." "I ain't got nothing to say," said Banty. "And no guns is goin' to iiialco ine say anything." I'"e got a way of makin' honibies like you speak up," said Kayiner. " You'ro going to name your pal. stranger. What's your an.-^wer?" The answer oame from elsewhere. There was a crash as Tom's chair (lew back as with a single movement he rose to his feet and snatched at the gun in his neighbour's holster. "Here's the answer!" flashed Tom. "Reach for the skies! Up! Quick. Canty 1" The gangsters' hands went up; there was a command in that voice only eqLial to Raymer's. Banty needed no orders. He snatched at Tom's own gun from under Raymer, grabbed a second, and in a moment h« was going round the gang relieving them of their guns. Raynicr was speechless, but liis eyes epoke volumes. There was hatred, fear and desperation. "So you're named, stranger," he said hftweon his teeth. "You just can't get out of here." » "You'll see!" said Tom. and laughed. "You're coming with nic, Kurt Raynier. 'J'hey sort of want you down C'ircle 15 way. There they know you as the )-aramie Kid !" Raymer's face went ashen, and for a moment his liands shook as if fie would chance dropping them. lint Banty poked a gun quickly into his ribs, and he changed hi.s mind. " .Ml you bunch get against the wall, and keep facing it!" snapped Tom. " Banty, blow holes in the hist man that drops his hands!" "Sure, and it would be a great pleasure, Tom!" grinned Banty. "Move, you yellow rats!" The men moved. None of them was asking for a bullet. an<l Raymer had to fare for himself just then. " You get out of this place, Raymer— and let me warn you that you're going hack to Circle B dead or alive!" said Tom briskly. "I've come for you, and you're sure goin' back I Get moving!" Surlily Raymer moved to the door and juissetl out, Banty bringing up the rear witli his arms full of guns. Tom, his eyes on Raymer, waited until he hearJ (he door closed and the lock turned. "Beat it, Banty, but keep an eye all around. Shoot anything you see!" snapped Tom. " Move, Raymer—I'm in a hinry " "^^y, young man, tliey'vo got more gun;: hidden in there!" came from Rose, as she rushed up to them. "Bess is down at the corral with your horses. Move, stranger!" "Huitle, Raymer—you'ro the firi^t that's going to die if it looks a.s if I'll lose you! Hustle!" Raymer hustled down to the corral, whc.c Bess was already mounted. "G"et into that saddle, and you !;ave got to rido like fury! I'm behind 1 you, with a longing to plug lead into you! Get that under your hat!" rapped But 'J'om. "Shoot for the traiL Bess. You next, Banty—now, Raymer " The thudding of the hoofs coincided, BOY'S CINEMA with the crashing in of the headquarters door. A fusillade of bullets shrieked their way an instant later, but the. run- aways were already out of range. But the main trail had scarcely been struck before they heard the shouts of the gang, and the thudding of many hoofs. The chase had begun. an<l shoot- itig would soon commence. But Nevada stopped that. "Surround 'em, boys; we'll outride them, with the girl on a slow boss!" he shouted. "Don't shoot yet, 'cos you might hit the boss. Ride like fuiy!" Hi.? men obeyed only too well for Tom Langdon's hopes. He shouted to Banty to ride up alongside the girl and try a.id whack out a bit more speed Irom her horse. Anxiously Tom peered behind. The gang was corning up; he saw them split- ting into two groups. That meant trouble. "We'll have to pull up and fight!'' shouted Tom. "Get into that under- growth! Move, Raymer!" Raymer obeyed, and he was the first to slip from liis horse when they had got into undergrowth too thick for them to ride through. In a moment Tom was by his side, a piece of cojd in his hands. "Turn around—sharp!" he grunted. 'I don't want you to be shot, Raymer, even by your own men; and I ain't having you getting away whilst we look after you—and ourselve;s." Raymer obeyed surlily, his anxious eyes watching for signs of his men. The first notion he got of them was just as Tom put the finishing touches to binding his wrists behind him. "It's another sort of rope you're booked for, but this will do for now!" said Tom between his teeth. "Bess, get under cover; they're moving around. Banty, sip ahead—and shoot straight! Where are the boys?" "Out in the valley; they can't be very tar away!" called Banty, as he ran for- ward. A moment later he wa.s shooting at two or three targets that presented themselves, and a hail of bullets came from the wooded range. Bess got well dow-n under cover, her heart beating so fast that she felt it would burst. ' But 'I'om fired no shot until he had chased Ins horse out on to the trail and had seen it careering madly away from Ghast City towards the valley Then he joined Raymer again, and kept the enemy well down by his light- ning like shooting. For fifteen minutes ttie battle went on, and in that fifteen minutes enough lead was lost in the shrubs to fill a decent-sized dustbin. But Banty and Tom kept the enemy at a distance that made shooting witii certainty an im|X)s- sibility. The mo- ment anything like a target appeared, a bullet crashed be- side it with a mes- sage that meant any better t.iiget was death. Bess looked on. frightened hut thrilled, and it was she who saw Kurt Raymer dash away with loose cord dangling from his wrists. He h a d struggled free of his bonds whilst Tom was bu.sy shooting. For the moment 25 Tom lietNitafed, as Raymer was running towards his own men, who would cer- tainly shoot past him at Tom if he gjive chase. Something like a gioan left Tom's lips at the sudden realisation that he was running into certain death if he moved, and that he was losing the Laramie Kid if he did not move. He started up, desperately determined to do his best, and at that precise second there came shots from down the trail. Fifty horsemen thundered amidst the dust, shooting as they came, and with reckless daring they spread out in a semicircle to surround the scene of the battle. Tom's boys had arrived! "Stick 'em up —or we'll shoot you where you lie!" shrieked Banty. "Gh, good for you, boys! J.ook at Tom'"' The shooting stopped as if a bugle had sounded the "Cease fire!" The gangsters knew when it was wi.se io give in. They marched out of the undergrowth, their haiuls in the air,' fear on every face. But Tom was not looking on. He was making for the Laramie Kid with the speed of a hare, and the joy of one from whom all troubles have been su<l- denly iifte<l. In that frame of mind Tom Langdoii was an unbeatable giant. Raymer found that out, but Tom had to "hatter the fact into him before lie would admit defeat. Ho came back to the rest of his men with a face that was sc^flcely recognisabl ■, and in a moment Banty, as cheerful a.s a schoolboy on holidav, took command of the whole gang. "Bunch 'em down Circle B!" he chirruped. "Guess they will be glad to see 'em down there! Where's Tom now ?" He looked round eagerly—and -then suddenly pushed his hat back upon his head. "Say!" he murmured resentfully. "]f I ain't a bad prophet, we'll be having a new boss before long!" For Tom Langdon and Bess were already in their saddle, looking at ono another-in a manner that gave IJanty amiile reason for his prophecy. Whcii, live min ite.s later, the cavalcade was riding towards Circle B with the prisoners, Banty looked back and found that Tom's saddle had two people upon it, and a very discreet little hoise that had been ridden by Bess was walking slowly behind a very much engaged couple. It wanted no one so bright as Banty to make such a forecast. The trip to West of Cheyenne ha<l been the most dangerous, but the most glorious, (rip Tom Langdon ha<l ever made. (By permission of the British Lion Film Corporation, Ltd., starring Tom Tyler and Josephine Hill.) .ttV^O«^^'«OWE/ 32 Free BiUiard Tables. Send for details and price list. .* Riley ! Billianl Tulile provides an attraction tliat makes it simple. There's hours of pleasure for the ..„ ., .,,. „., lioys and all the .,?'I*l'y ^^.*'' a Biley "Home" Billiard ahle The (i It. size is delivered «n lirst deposit of 13/3d., balance by monthly instalments. 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