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4 rt -vl f xwm Seventh Installment ttmMtd tyVerttci v WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE * p ^ u *“ e * quick on the drew, kills C*1 « a *i n m wf e K’ < «t«u > « sod finds himself an outlaw. Flying from pursuit, he meets Luke Stevens, another outlaw, and the two be- "’“'Pals. Luke narrowly escapes capture and Duane is shocked to find his brother outlaw severely wounded. * "jjane buries Stevens. Then he goes on to {Hand 8 camp, where he gets into a fight wun a man called Bosomer and wounds the . nV ,, niakes a friend of an outlaw at Btaid s called Euchre, who tells him of Mrs. Bland and the girl Jennie. Duane meets Jennie, and promises to try his utmost-to- get her away- from Blind*B camp. To avert suspicion, it is planned ^at he pretend to care for Mrs. Bland, tuchre introduces .him to the latter and he en 8 a Kcs in conversation with her. Buck plays the game, making Mrs. Bland thmk he loves her. To avert Bland’s suspi cion, Mrs. Bland pretends to her husband that Buck has come to visit Jennie. Bland urges Buck to become a regular member oi his outlaw gang. A quarrel later* develops in which Duane kills Bland and rushes oft with Jennie after a terrific struggle with Mrs. Bland. He plans to leave Jennie in good hands until a relative or friend is located, and then go on alone on the trail He keeps careful guard Over her. , , Despite his care Jennie is lost. Then for three years Buck is on the trail and legends about him spread, and finally he takes the risk of calling on Captain Mao- Nelly of the Rangers, who he has heard wants to see *him. MacNelly greets him rather warmly. hand—make you a free, honest citizen once more—clear your name of in- ' famy, make your mother, your sister you—will you swear your- service. anv service I de- proud of self to a service, any mand ?” Duane sat stock-still, stunned. Slowly, more persuasively, with show of earnest agitation, Captain MacNelly reiterated his startling query. “My God!” burst from Duane. “What’s this? MacNelly, you can’t be in earnest^- — "Never more so in my life. I’ve a deep game. I’m playing it square. What do you say?” He rose to his feet. Duane, as’ if impelled, rose with him. Ranger and outlaw then locked eyes that searched great one l” “I have accepted it,*’ replied Dtssne. “Your work will be secret You are now a ranger, in my service; but no one except the few I choose to tell will know of it till we pull off the jdb. You will simply be Buck Duane, the Lone Wolf, till it suits our purpose to acquaint Texas with the fact that you are a ranger. “Youll see there’s no date on that pardon. No one will ever know just when you entered the service. Perhaps we can make it appear that all or most of your outlawry has really been good service to the State. At that. I’ll be lieve it’ll turn out so.” a “Captain MacNelly, I’d like to know how this came about I can’t realise it yet. Some things are strange.to me. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He took a long, earnest gaze at Duane, and his nervous spontaneity, the manner which had been bright promising volubility, changed to one of grave thoughtfulness. “I’ve lots to say—but where to be gin? he mused. “Duane, you've had a hard life since you went on the dodge. I never met you before, don’t know what you looked like as a boy; but I can see what Well, even ranger life isn’t all roses. He rolled his cigar between his lips and puffed clouds of smoke. “Ever hear from home since you left Wei Is ton ?” he asked abruptly. l “Na” ■ “Never a word?” ■ “Not one,” replied Duane sadly. w “That’s tough. I'm glad to be able U> tell you that up to just lately your mother, sister, unde, all your folks, I believe, were well I’ve kept posted. But haven’t heard lately” Duane averted his face a moment, hesitated till the swelling left his throat, and then said: “It’s worth what I went through to* day to hear that” ”1 can imagine how you fed about it When I was m the war But, Captain MacNelly Mahat HU Proportion to Bock Duane each other’s souls. In MacNelly’s Duane read truth, strong, fiery pur pose. hope, even gladness, and a fugi tive, mounting assurance of victory. Twice Duane endeavored to speak, failed of all save a hoarse, incoherent sound until, forcing hade a flood of speech, he found a voice: “Any service ? Every service 1 Mac Nelly, I rive my word,” said Duane. “Right here ends the career of Buck Duane, outUw and gun-fighter,” said. MacNelly, and seating himself, he took the pen from Duane’s fingers and wrote several lines in several places upon the paper. Then, with Who interested you is my case ? Won’t you explain?” ’Sure I will,” replied Captain Mac he reached f a smile, he handed it to Duane. let * get down to the business of this “That makes you a member of Com- Nelly as be reached for another cigar. “It must have been three years ago when I first began to hear your name mentioned at Austin, in the adjutant- general’s office and elsewhere. Just casually, you understand, and I took no particular notice. Then I heard that women of your family were working to get influence for you. This was before you became famous as an outlaw. Of course, a little later, alter the Bland affair, your name grew to be a household word is Texas. From then on your reputaboe meeting. He pulled his chair dose to Duane’s. “You've had word more than once in the last two years that I wanted to see you?" “Three times. I rememberreplied "Why didn’t you hunt roe up?” “I supposed you imagined me one of those gun-fighters who couldn't take a dare and expected me to rkk up to your camp and be arrested.” “That was natural. I suppose,” went on MacNelly. "You didn’t know me, otherwise you would have come. I’ve bees a long time getting to you. But the nature of my job, as far as you’re foncernrd t rriMt me cautious. Duane, you’re aware of the hard name you bear all over the Southwest?” “Once in a while I’m jarred into realizing,” replied Duane. “It's the hardest, barring Murrell and Cheseldine, on the Texas border. Bpt 'there’s this difference. Murrell in Iris day was known to deserve his in famous name. Cheseldine in his day also. “But I’ve found hundreds of men in Southwest Texas who’re your friends, who swear you never committed a crime. The farther south I get the clearer this becomes. What I want to know is the truth. “Have you ever done anything crimi nal? Tell me the truth, Duane. It won’t make any difference in my plan. And when I say crime I mean what I would call crime on any reasonable Texan.” "That way my hands are dean,” re plied Duane. “You never held up a man, robbed a store for grub, stole a horse when you needed him bad—never anything like that?” “Somehow I always kept out of that just when pressed the hardest.” << Duime, I’m glad!” MacNelly ex claimed, gripping Duane’s hand, "Glad for' your mother's sake 1 Glad for the —the person who has been instrument al in interesting me in your case. But all the same, in spite of this, you’re a Texas outlaw, accountable to the State. You’re perfectly aware that under pany A, Texas Rangers.’ “So that’s it!” burst out Duane, a light breaking in upon his bewilder ment. “You want me for ranger ser vice?" “Sure. That’s it," replied the cap tain dryly. “Now to hear what that service is to be. I’ve been a busy man since I took this job and as you have heard. I've done a few don’t mind telling you that political in fluence put me in here, and that, up Austin way, there's a good deal of friction in the Department of State in regard to whether or not the ranger service is any good, whether it should be discontinued or not T’m on the party’s side who’s da- fending ranger service. I contend that it’s made Texas habitable. Well, it’s been up to me to produce results. So far I have been successful. My great ambition is to break up the outlaw gangs along the river. I have never ventured in there yet because I’ve been waiting to get the lieutenant I needed. You, of course, are the man I had in mind. “It's my idea to start way up the Rio Grande and begin with Chesel dine. He’s the strongest, the worst outlaw of the times. He’s more than a rustler. It’s Cheseldine and hit png who are operating on the banks. They're doing bank robbing. That’s it’s * not my private opinion; but backed up by any evidence. "Cheseldine doesn’t leave evidences. He’s intelligent, cunning. I assume, of course, that you are a stranger to huh and to toe country he dominates. It’s five hundred miles west of your ground, big as that is. "Well, I want you to drift over into Cheseldine’s country. Whatever way you decide is best you will proceed to act upon. You are your own boss. You know such men and how they can be approached. You will take ah toe time needed, if it's months. Tt will be necessary for you to com municate with me, and that win be a Chesek difficult matter. For Cheseldsna domin ates several whole counties. You must find some way to let me know when I and my rangers are needed. The plan existing circumstances, if you fell into is to break up Cheseldine’s png. It’s the hands of the law, you’d probably the toughest job on the border.' hang—at least go to jail for a long "Arresting him alone isn’t to ba term.” heard of. He couldn’t be bronght out “About this toe tune I became exceedingly busy with my rangers, 1 got an anonymous letter. It was from a woman, and it entreated me not to go on your trail It was a remarkable Tetter. I have it somewhere, and Shall find it for you. “I was visited by a young woman who claimed to be a member of your household at Wellston. I took her for your sister or near relative—in fact, called her Miss Duane, which at the time she did not correct “She had been to see the Governor; and, of course, he had turned her down. The Governor is against out laws, the same as he is against rangers. This girl wanted an audience with toe adjutant-general and in his absence she ran across me. T want to say here that she electri fied me. Before she left my office I was ready to fight for her. I promised to speak to toe adjutant-general and to use what influence I had in her behalf. She wanted a parole for you, if not a pardon. T was absent from Austin when she came toe next time. She won the in terest of Adjutant-General Reed, and he even went to the Governor with her. Sure, they only got turned down. I learned from Reed’s secretary that this girl was a Miss Lee instead of Miss a Duane. Evidently she was wealthy. Tt was a fact, however, that she lived at your mother’s home in Wells ton. If money could have helped your case there at toe capital it sure umuld have been forthcoming. • "All this interested me. I wrote to Miss Lee, and told her that my duties would soon take me to the Nueces country again, and that I would find out all I could about you. She replied —a grateful, sweet, womanly letter. T wrote her from several towns on the border, and heard from her. It ' was, in this way that I kind of kept m touch with your family. And it was on this trip that I hatched out my plan to make a ranger of you. "When I got back to Austin I laid my plan before Adjutant-General Raed. Ha hailed it with enthusiasm. I tell you tout cousin, Miss Lee—I pre sumed she was your cousin—certainly had woo over Reed. We went to call upon toe Governor. "That’s what kept me on the dodge Killing him isn’t much better, for his . . all these years,” replied Duane. select men, toe ones he operates with, » lik ” y £ that mter- “Certainly.” MarNMlv removed his are as riamremna So fNe mwinumkii * IHlily. WC Called Oil him to dm [is eyes narrowed and glittered. The muscles along his brown cheeks set hard and tense. He leaned doser to Duane, laid sinewy, pressing fingers uoon Duane’s knee. "Listen to this” he whispered hoarsely. Tf I place a pardon in your are as dangerous to the community as ha if. "We want to kill or jail this choice selection of robbers and break up toe rest of toe gang. To find them, to get among them somehow, to learn their movements, to lay your trap for os rangers to spring—tost, Duane, is your service to me; and God knows, Jft a give us a pardon for you. We promised we would make you render toe State a service as ranger. 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