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'A-- i r •.t PAGE^aear '4 THK CLINTON CHBOMCLR/CUNTbN, 8. C T ...^T 1>aelt«»rd^^,4ocat<i^ the corral fence wvtk ’illuAf feet and elid aild^ it. Then, rising to a crouch,-thOT stole along it. **Yuh git behind the feed shed, Charley,^ whispered Steve,-‘-Fli fiole up aroundXthC bunk shack. If they Mart murderin’ that pile of rails, give it to ’em.’* ‘ 1- ' Synopsis: ^im ^yale is 'paroled from prison after servhig 18 months for a crime hie did not commit. He re turns to his Circle L ranch to find his father .dead and sinister forces at work,tryin g to make him violate his parole so that he can again be rail roaded to prison. The Brockwells and their gang are plotting to gain possession of Circle L ranch and the property of Mona Hall,* a neighbor and Hfe-loi^ friend of Slim Loyale. ^ Slim discovers • that Sheriff Stkr- buck has joined the plot against him. With the help of Dakota Blue and his cowboys, Slim Loyale defies the land- grabbers to do their worst. TENTH INSTALLMENT “I say yes,” exploded, Tisdale. ‘T got money in my poke an’ the bo^ down in Jericho Valley have author-’ ized me to act for the whole crowd. Let’s* go an’ see t)ie young lady right away.” ' . That night, behind locked door and shuttered windows, three m#n met in heated argument in George Arthur’s office. Arthur himself was again ner vously lacing back and forth,-While 4^rg Bi’ock-weit and Jigger Starbuck occupied chairs. . , , . — ”1 tell you,” snapped Arthur, '‘we’ve got to act (juick, without a mintite of "I’m about ready to chuck the whole thing an’ pull my freight. Time waf when* ^ I was a square-shooter. Yuh jaspers dangled a lot of promises an’ fa^se bait' in front of me, gn’ I turned coyote. I’m sick of the whole deal.” “This is no time to quarrel among ourselves or quit,” snapped. Arthur. “We can still win out—big. Brockwell, lhat bank has got to be robbed, and Loyale an^ Blue have got to bed cut. * Furthermore^ we’ve act tonight.” Silence fell. Every one of. these three realized that they were gam bling madly beyohd 111 reason. Yet so deeply were they in the fire lUready, they could not stop. A wild, reckless light flamed in Starbuck’s ey^es. “Gimme enough men for a posse, ah’ Vll go out to the Circle L an* ar rest both Loyale an’ Blue. If they resist^ ah’ I hope they will, we’ll rock ’em off. /If they don’t—well, 'I can alius swear they made a getaway at tempt along-the trail to town an’ rock ’em off anyway. 6imme five men an’ ril-ifiake my play. Like Arthur say.s, it’s whole hawg or none.” "Hrockwcll licked his thick lip-i. ^'Keno! I’M split my crew. Jigger, yuh can take half; I’ll take the‘rest. While yore outa toWn, I’ll .spear that bank. It'll bo a good alibi Yor yuh, anyhow. The b cled “ k of{ the posse split and cir- chance,” came Starbock’s voice, 'uome out* there or .we start shootin’.” - 'There was no answer. Starbuck cursed in sudden fury **nd rolled a gun, the others of the pease following suit. The night shook with the rum bling reports and wga splashed with gouts of crimson flame from search ing gun muzzles. Without anyi more hesitation, Steve and Charley went to work. They laced the night with lead, their rifles sound ing flatly. The posse was town with confusion. “Spr^ out!” yelled Star- aroraid the whole damned grab cover.” • needed no second com mand. Like startled quail, they all scattered, seizing upon anything to get away from that-surprising cross fire. One individual of the crowd, who had had his horse shot from under him, had the bad judgment to duck behind a cbmer of the big ranch hou.se. Here he halted beneath an open window, peering hack into the darknew. . Oscar, the big Swede cook, startled by this outbarst of sudden gunfire, stuck his head out of the window. The pos.seman did not see him, but Oscar .Haw the crouching figure. By the .snarling curses echoing upward, he knew it was neither--SteVe nor Charley. Therefore Qscar leaned ^well confusion. “S “Git m -jffjit to gn The^jsse but lHbkept|on, shooting low and cem ter. ■’* ‘ ■ ■ < - r ^ ^ ’The hostile guns went auiet and a chbking cope echoed. A toM-tottered out^ of^ 'the blackness towards him. “Reach' high,” snapped Slintt, “reach high, quick!” ' “Loyale!”'gasped the other. “Yuh had all the luck. Yuh got me-7yuh got'me, yuh damned jailbird!” > The voice broke off and the, figure slumped forward silently.- Slim knew, by' tite voice, that he 1^ killed Leo Brockwell. As Dakota Blue cldt in from- the op posite side, he found himself barging right through the scattered and dis-1 organized forces of Starbuck’s dishon ored law. Starbuck, '^Idly furious at. the way .-things were going Against him, was' trying by word and action to rally his men. By the renegade sheriffs cursing and shooting,'Dakota was able to locate him, and. with grim purposefulness- he made his wa^ to wards him. Momenta rily7~po one questioned Dakota’s presence. He was right among the rehiaining nunfb^fS df the posse, and in the dark they bad no way to distinguish him from any oth er of their crowd. Dakota nvisely held his fire, working always towards his objective.- He knew that he was tak ing a long chance of intercepting a slug from the gun of sbme ranch de fender, but he was willing' to take' the gamble, provided he could get at Starbuck. . ' Long since, the last atom of doubt had been wi^d from Dakota’s mind regarding ju.st how and where Jigger Starbuck .stood in relation to the de cent interests of the country.. Too But we don’t take-aU. the risk. Ar ZLy" iriyr,hn%’wrio^'^y2mh^^ "I?,''"'"’ j Ml yo’re due at the I)(>t H Dbl, <)lamp' that foreclosure on,^ an’ make Tt stick. I don’t care how much time of notice yuh’ve give that Hall woman. Take- it back. i?lap that foreclosure on with out another day of grace. Savvy?” “Oh, I’ll do it,” promised Arthur. “Wf’ve got to pyramid now—pu.sh our luck for all we’ve got. Tliat’s decided. Lei’s drink on'Tf.” ‘From the loWer drawer of his desk, the renegade lawyer produced a w’his- key bottle and three glas,il‘s. And with.,'-’ him di-ank a renegade sheriff and a lenegade cattleman. Without ■ further "word.s, StarhiKjk and Brockwell went out into the night. Arthur remained and drank and drank until he was dead-<lrunk. "At least, the other two were ‘fighting men, who, in the final showdown, were game to sniff smoke. But he wa.s the rat, drinking to -stifle hi.s jnnate cowardice..to try and whip his shak ing nerves to face tjie big showdown, f Out at the Dot H Dot, Mona Hall was radiant.' Sam Tisdale had ju.st laid a pile of bills on the itabtc‘lH»fore her. “There’.s five thou.sand didlai-s, Mis.s Hail.” he said. "There’ll probab ly he a thousand or fifteen hundred inort- due yuh. We’ll make a go(Ml ‘count as the herds jjii, through the jwss at the north end of Jericho.. You can rest happy thal we’ll shoot square 'with yuh.” ~ “Oh, I know you will, .Mr. Ti.sdale,” out, one huge fi_s__t clubbed. It fell like much damning evidence had been un- a post maul, and the posseman .sub- covered in, the paAt week ^or two for ■■ ■ him to be mistaken. - , -■ * I ' I The remnants of the posse-were be-i Those herds are nearly to the north end 6f Jericho Valley right now. Tis dale, the Big Bend representative, raved like a w'ild man when I told him i't .would cost him and the others a dbllar a head to cniss the range, but they’ll pa;^' in the end, They’ll have lo, and they know it. *7: "But now Loyale is go-ing to loan M iss Hall money frnough to pay me. AVe’ve got-^to sit/p Chat move some- huw, and there is only one way to do it. I’ve t(iild you how. We’d be better off if we had the <'ircle L too, but W’e simply gotta get the I>ot H Dot t^ get any money outa this deal.” • *‘It’.s a prettin stiff deal yo’re hand in’ me an’ my gang, Arthur,” growled Brockwell, his big teeth shovvin in a <<narl of anger.. “Robbin’ a bank is apt to .start .somethin’ we cain’t stop. Folk.s in this nwk of the womls are iK^ginnin’ to get kin<la on edge.” “Why shouldn’t th<‘y?” broke in -istarbuck. -“Yuh’ve mes,sed tlungs up *" from the first, Sarg. Yuh won’t leave — that Vasco stage, alone. Yo’re so! datiged^ grtn-dy yuh Can’t stK>- the end <if yore own nose, if a dollqr is in the wav. - sided.in a silent heap. Oscar chuckled and h(‘ave(r his big hulk out of the w'indow. He found the ow’s guns an<l hefted them. “I guess this bane good time to start fightin’,” rumbled Oscar to himself.. So with a queer, Swedish war ciy, he waded in. - Slim and hi.s two companions w’ere almut a (|uarter of a mile from hotpe when that first burst of gunfire echoed. Instantly .Slim spurred hi.s mount to a scudding run. TODR8DAY. iZUNE tO;"19S7 i ginning to and give back de spite Starbodka infuriated osda^ and cursing wratfi. Tlwy bad o(»ne wHIi kii^m the fint piace, believing tba^ there rtrould he little reaistaDce to their plana. IBnt ham; deaifiy lead waa f lashing fro^'Scveral anpes at once. They' were ^heing out-fought, by > men they who held uld hardly locate, men "jidvantage of conceal ment and p^oteetkm. (Oontinned Neat faaue)., / Notice To Creditors of the- Fiiat National Bank of Clinton, , South Carolina Pareuant to inatjrnctioo'froai the CeaiptibUcr of tha Currency of the Ujdted Statca, Washington,' D. C., the affairs eTllef Firsts National Bank of Clinton, South Carolina, ire. to be twmfnated in the very near fature. ’The remaining aeaeta oi this trust are advertised for sale on June 17, 1937, and in order that the tinal dividend to all creditors who have proven claims a^inst this trust might be paid immidiately after the Bale of the remaining - ■mats, I have set a# a final date for filing claimi iiainst the First Ntienal Bank af CUnten, Sooth Careliaa, June 21, 1937. >4 • If yon hare not already filed your claim with the Receiver at his offices at 84 V^Main Street (Receiver’s snbHifficeVjClintflm South Candina, this Is to advise thst you shonUhprove your "tdnlm. Off or before June 21, 1937, in mder that you might pi^clbiihr- in the dividends paid by this trusti^ - ! ‘ JL - This is final notice to all creditors who have not proven claim that unless they do mnke proof on or before June 21, 1937, at the office of the' Receiver indicated hereinabove, that .they will be forever barred from making proof of claim or recovering diri-<: dends on same. / C H. DKON, RECEIVER ~ THE HRST NATIONAL BANK €IJNTON. SOUTH CAROLtJ^A X. ''Clinton Realty & ' Insurance Co. I - ^ , Husine.ss and Residential. Property for. Sale. __-(*o<»d Inve.stments and Splendid Opportunities To Buy Property. Also INSURANCE Ip Some of the Strongest Compiinies In America: . See B. H. BOYD, Agent “Our fight, Tisdale,” he flung over his shoulder. “No call for yuh to take hances. Yuh can drop out.” “iiike hell I wiUl’-Rnapped Tisdale spurring up even with .Slim and Da kota Blue. “Yuh shot .s<piare with'Tn^, t’m returnin’,tht* favdr.” Just as they reached the ranch they heanl Oscar’s war cry and .saw, by the gun flames that answ-ered it, the ai)proxiraate position of the .atjaek- ers. Slim left his saddle while his horse was still in hiovement, and ran, crouching, down one corjie.r of the ..•entral corral. Tisdale followed Slim,” but Dakota eui» around the other way. By the steady .HfMinging of tl^e Winchesters, ^lim got .Steve and^<'harley located. So he turned his own .guns loose on th<' hostile positions. Almost opposite him from the oth-’ er side of the coi-ral came answering lead. Slim, a wild ferocity upon him, stalked sU aight toward.s* that plafe, i shooting steadily. His hat left' hisj head and swirled to one sitje, torn! 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It’s plumb good to sim? yuh ;s1nilin’ agaiji an’ with roses in yore cheeks, Mona.” ^ Outside, Slip! paused for a momept be-side-,the Dot H Dot boirkhouse and called Abe Foroachon. '‘Al>e,” he “.Mona’s got quite ,a/lump of money there in the house-Tenough to squelch that mortgage. lylnda keep yore ev on things, will yuh? An* if Ar^r shows up tbnforrow„..to try ah’ /fore close, yuh be present an’ see ythat he takes the money an’ receipt^the note |inl-turns\H over to Mona,Jt ‘TH wring his dami^ neck if he don’t,” promised Abey / At the Circle L, )r heavy argument 'was in progrsesySteve Owenk and Charley Quinny^re sprawled flat on the ground tenind a substantial pile of sqtmre /Wrral roils, their cheeks press^ to the stocks of a pair of Winchesters, the muzzles of which jbore^/ateadily upon a dark ^lump of trie “Yuh jaspers stay put!” yelped Steve. “Yuh start anythin’' an” we’ll shore finish it.” j ' “But I’ve got warrants, I tell yuh,” came back Jigger Starbuck’s voice. I “This is the law. Put eiown them guns ‘an’ get some sense.” “Yore kind of law has got a busted back around this ranch, Starbuck,” retorted.wSteve. “Best thing yuh can do is pull yore freight. Won’t be no warrants served around hpre.” There came a muttdf of argument from the posse, theti Leo Brockwell’s venomous tones sounded. • “Aw, hell! This blab makes me sick. Let’s rush ’em. We cain’t standTiero^^all night arguin. Let’s, spread out an’ -circle that pile of roils an’ show them jas pers they’ro draggin’ a short rope.” During the reiMwed ajfgnment bver this'pten, Steve and Charley got busy immediaiMy. Nob unlike 4 pair aaitwanl.land cridta, jtiiay. spraddled Dr, Felder Smitii _ /■ of / bus. SMITH SMITH / OPTOMETJUSTS SpeciaJ{st-In , Eye Examinations Office Hhurs 8 to 6 Daily Phone 2.9^* for Appointment RECEIVER’S NOTICE OF SALR To Whom It May Concent: Pursuant to authority of the Comptroller of the durreno^ of the Unit^ States, the undersigned, C. H. Dixon', as. 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