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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1932.
CALL of the WEST
CHAPTER I.
around his desk.
Suite 216.
"I never
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MOONLIGHT, a picturesque mountain camp, a pretty girl and a dashing cowboy. With such romantic elements of course there's a love story in "Call of the West" by R. G. Montgomery. There's adventure and excitement too in this thrilling new serial.
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The offices in the Equity Build-stopped with lightning smooth-(through their warning signals. It ing aro spacious and attractive. noss. Without Reeming effort he was plain all the men on the beat They have the atmosphere of auc-elid in nearer and in a second know Asped Delo's private limou- cessful business. The corner of-Asper, Delo was neatly tied with aine. Two of the officers waved ficas overlooking Tenth street are his own big arms holding them threatening clubs at Stan and equipped with mahogany furni-solves. Stan Ball shoved him promptly dismissed him as an im- ture, casy chairs and convenient back against the desk and his pudent, hitch hiker. He had ash trays. A great glass-topped wicked grin returned.
caught a 'glimpse of a tip-titled desk stands almost in the centre "You will fight, won't you? But little nose, a pair of red lips and of the deep rug. In spite of this you haven't the sand to do your a mass of brown hair as the girl leaves and looked through them. his chair close to the opening and atmosphere on a Friday afternoon awn killing." There was a taunt had been rushed past him. He Two of the thuge ran out of the his back was partly turned. It at 10 minuten past ono the air in ing edge to the words.
was sure he had a very diverting cabin, a well-dressed fellow and a was evident that this enjoynien! Suite 216 was surcharged with Breathing heavily, Asper Delo half hour ahend,
tall companion. They leaped into of his captive's Irritation had something almost explosive. collected himself. He WOH Hot The ear swerved and shot into the big car and started the en-diverted him from his job of "Mr. Ball from Blind River, licked by any means but he realize fa side street. As the traffic thingine. With the motor racing watching the clearing and the eh7" Asper Delo's face was pur-ed that he was no match for the ned its speed increased. The back madly thay swung around and road. Possibly 1 feeling of plo with anger. "Mr. Ball, you lean youngster who need him.. He curtain was raised a little but headed back down the narrow security made him lax. At any are a dirty Irish snoop!" The shook his flat impotently and re- Stan could soo no faces. For 10 road. Stan gavo them only arate he was totally surprised as a owner and operator of the Delo trented, around his desk.
minutes they raced weat then glance. "Now for the rescue of lanky form shot through the open Timber Company sprang to his "You'll never, not foot on the made a right turn and aped into the fair one," he grinned, and be-door and descended upon him.
and moved ponderously Three Rivers cuttings, you lying tree-lined" Avenue. From the gan a stealthy approach to the Stan landed at the fellow's side
whelp! We have that tract inspect avenue the driver swerved into a cablo.
at one leap. With a smashing The target of his wrath, a' leaned and the timber checked by a country lane and the dust began
blow to the butt of the ear he sent young man with a freckled nose government man and we don't alto roll up in clouds. Stan akut Ho advanced upon 1 bruah- the kidnappers reeling from his and wide, firm mouth, looked the low fools meddling with our busi- his eyes and clung to his precari-covered side of the building and chair. Grinning a bard smile, | big boss over with amused grey ness." Asper gripped the top of lous rent as the car lurched and leaned forward to peer through a land with a boot ready to kick the
his words jerked bumped oyos. He shoved his Stetson back his desk and
along. The dust was crack that had lost its chinking, automatic out of the rufflan's hard as though to allow a shock of un- from between his teeth.
stining but bé grinned and hung What he saw made his lips pull should he go for it, Stan Ball.stood ruly, dark hair a little more free- "Yes? Inspected and reported? on.
ight and his eyes darken.
over the wilted man and waited for dom. It was plain that he was a Well, Mr. Delo, we are getting our When the car turned again the| A slender girl sat on a backless him to rise. The prostrate enamy man more accustomed to the snd- own report and we are turning it dust clouds leasened and he open-chair facing a heavy-set man with failed to move a musele. Stan's dle than to the soft carpots of over to the Department of the Ined his eyes. They wore sliding beetling brows. The fellow had blow had been a knockout punch,
terior. Your game is up at Three along an old road choked with taken the only chair with a back and what had looked fair to be a Rivers." Turning upon his heel, knew a squarehend
weeds. Thick brush for himself and was tilted back he-man fight had frizzled. who could keep his temper," Stan Stan Bail left the room with the and willows crowded close on ench watching his capitva with evident Ball drawled with mock gravity. #peechless timber king glaring side as though striving to cluse enjoyment. He was armed with Gurgling sounds from the cap-
after him. Asper Delo smacked the glass
the trial. Their branches switch a short, black automatic and look-tive caused Stan to start guiltlly. top of his desk with a huge st
atinging sharpnessļed capable of using it.
He sprang across the room and and exploded wrathfully, "You Stan halted on the sidewalk out. ed Stan with
jes he leaned out to see what was "You most likely won't get freed her. She did not faint or insult came here to
me" 11s alde, the Equity Building, a smile ahead. He ducked back when he mussed up none, lady. Leastwian fall into his arms. Instead she
twisting at the corners of his lips saw that the road ended abruptly not for a spell. When the boys stamped words choked him.
over to the prostrato Delo fair "I came here to tell you the He had given Asper
at the door ai a dilapidated gabin get back with a flivver you can thug and bent over him. With a truth and I aim to get it out of warning of what he was going to
Picking a thick clamp of wil-write a little note to your old man gun. Stan Ball burst out laugh- my system." Stan Ball grinned, do. No doubt the timber king was lows, he unloaded feet first and telling him to slip us 25 grand." savage jerk she relieved him of his showing a set of even, white teeth.rendy rushing a long-distance rolled into cover beside the end. The thug spat accurately through ing and his freckled noso wrink With an easy swing of his booted call through to bie boss, Swergia, Instantly he scrambled to his fee: a knot-hole in the floor.
led until the brown spots danced. leg he sented himself upon the at Three Rivers, apprising him of and peered after the car. A wide Stan Ball's hands closed hard "You have a way with gunmen,
the fact that another snoop was grin eracked through wide window ledge overlooking
the dust as he shifted his eyes to see the Mam." He bowed with a nourish on his way to look the operations around his mouth. The car wasir. She was shaking her head of his wide hat, then held out his Tenth street.
Asper Delo's bony jaws worked over. until his blue eyes bulged hut no Swergin plenty," Stan thought as the three non leaped out. With her mouth was gagged with agat, Miss."
"I bet the old
stopping at the door of the cabin and stamping her feet. Her hands hand for the gun. "Better let a hard-fist tells Both its doors swung open and were tied with a silk scarf and man from the mountains have that words came.
several he fished into his pocket for the out delay they pulled the girl after handkerchief but her blue eyes "You have committed
They faced each other for a makinga of a cigarette. "The old them and murders and, you are a prime
the girl Joined were uncovered and they were second. Then thief." Stan Ball made the slate re-enter would be a real timber
wide and angry while her nose Stan's laugh with a soft alto voice. ment engily. As he spoke, his baron if he weren't a crook.
Stan halted at the edge of the Stan alapped his belt with a was tipped up defiantly. Even in "It is really funny, isn't it?" She oyen wundered down into the
town sigh of regret. He had not thought his haste to go to her aid Stan passed him the gun without hesita- crowded street, ffe gazed thought-sidewalk beside fully at the tops of the hurrying car. He frowned upon a package he would have use for his gun in paused to note the finely chiselled tion.
"Great fun, but we better herd cars while the timber king splut-of "tailor-mades" that he had fish the city and had left it in a suudle nose and the carved throat tered and strove to gain controlled from his pocket. He'd have to pocket at the home ranch. Now posed below it. The girl was not ourselven out of here, Misa-7" get out of town or they would be he found himself about to tangle afraid, Stan noticed that at once, Stan was no glib-tongued modern selling him a suff of store clothes, with three armed kidnappers. He but whe
furiously angry. youth. Women were beings to be A shiny limousine pulled up at The liveried driver of the higid back into the willows and Noiselessly he slid around to the met properly in his little world. ? door which stood open and invit. Even auch unusual circumstances the curb below. Stan's Armsar was not at the wheel and his headed for the cabin.
did not alter the case. "Elegant!" he muttered as heling.
"Delo. mouth twisted into a sneer as he place had been taken by a heavy-
Dona Deto." They aside. the long will The heavy-set thug had placed
were at the door as she spoke. watched a liveried driver step outset man who wore a driver's cup. of the car and walk Beross the San eyed the man for no reason
Stan had his hat off again and at all except that he was trained stret
was about to present himself but Asper Belo Fellow cast a fleeting glance past to notice anything unusual. The
har words halted him abruptly. companions. Old two-dsted lumber man, had gone
He looked upon her slender beauty swanky with a town car and a uni-Stan and reached toward the dash
and hor wind-blown tan that had of the ear. An instant Inter a formed driver.
not come from city air and his The young man's thoughts were (couple brushed against him. Stan
lips parted as he realized who she rudely interrupted. "You'll eat was pushed rudely aside. An hu
WAS, "Old Asper's daughter- thone words!" Asper Delo's nose moved he saw a carefully dressed
with all the old boy's spunk,” he was thrust almost into Stan Ball's young man hurriedly guiding a
thought as he followed her outside girl to the open door of the ear. ince.
without. speaking. The lanky cowboy alid from the Stan stared at the window of the window ledge and his high-heeled car as the door siammed shut., A bools clicked on the polished floor pair of shapely ankles and two beside the rug. With short trim slippers rose above the sill. laugh he roused himself and fac-man who had been crouching ed Asper Delo. The amused light in the back of the car rose into left his eyes and they glinted as view and bent over the girl. There he shoved the timber king away was a flashing of kicking slippers und a muffled scream. Then the "Maybe you never shot a man car leaped away from the carb."
It rocketed into the trafle likù in the back yourself but your straw boss up at Three Rivers has mad thlug but it did not get hired it done. Not once but three away before Stan Ball had leaped times Stan Dall's jaw thrust out the empty trunk rack behind aggressively. "You own that out-the spare tyre. The little curtain fit and you're responsible." He at the back window was up and leaned toward Asper, Delo and his he was able to crouch down so he eyes were hard. "I'm going up would not be easily seen should there to get a report of your work it be lowered.
of his voice.
with two
with a lean arm.
very attentive
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Stan pushed his hat back a little The car sped away, darting farther. "I came up here to tell through the traffic while curious you so that you could call your pedestrians grinned at the spec- man, Swergin, and bave him hire tacle of a big town car dashing a breed to shoot me in the back." along with a cowboy riding the Asper. Delo was past words but trunk rack, Stan grinned at three he was not paat Action. In the successive policemen who deferen- days when he had run his own tinlly allowed the big car to cut crows he had ruled with his fists.
Now his Viking blood bolled with-
in him. With a rasping roar he swung n fist at Stan Ball's chin.
That irritating young man aide-
rushed her into the
was
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