THE HONGKONG
CALL of the WEST
CHAPTER XXXI
A RA MONTUO
"So you was warnin' that gal agin me?" Swergin thrust his face close to Stan's.
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.
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The men led him outside and men closed in about him and silent- mounted their horses, Ball was or- ly. alld from their horses. It was dered to walk ahead of the leading plain they knew exactly what to do. "And If my hands were untied rider. There were 20 men in the They crowded around their prison- I'd smash your dirty face." Stan gang from Pasa Creek and the fileler and the man who had been rid- of riders, with Stan ahead, moved in with Swergin unstrapped a Ball's eyes were hard as steel.
"No use being a hog! You slowly toward Three Rivers by the Inriat from his saddle and began won't get to camp out with hor Pass Creek trail. It was no part uncolling it. The big fellow who any more." Sworgin leered and of Swergin's plan to have the lynch-had driven Stan ahend of his hora
was. a glint of triumph in Stan's the back of the group called, ing done near the cabin in the tim-shouldered to the cowboy's side. his lips parted.
"Yeah. If he's got names sent in He was lying but he "Yer goin' where there won't be "You dirty rat! You may string ber.
we'll be up for killing'." someone me up but I'll still be on your Stan plodded along over the moch chance to snoop," he grin-scoring.
A mutter rose from the man and cle suggested. ed. "Got anything to say?" He trail" Stan hissed.
rough ground. His hands had ceas
even Swergio was taken back.
Swergin was in a red-fury. "You ed long ago to have any feeling bo-bent toward his prisoner.
"We ain't responsible for noth-fellows are as dumb as the mules Stan smiled and met the man's yond a stinging numbness and he
ing. We're working for the tim-you drive. How could Ball send in ber company," the big fellow who the names of the men who were to had adjusted the rope muttered. be here before this happened? He "You are guilty of theft and had to guess and nobody will be- his guess. He's admitted murder," Stan shot at him. Helieve Stan's was gaining a little time and throw that he pulled all these idillings. ing a scare into the dull-witted fel-While that girl was talking to him he told her he pulled them. You "I thought you had this all fixed?" can all get up and swear to that." The big fellow turned to Swergin. Swergin spoke slowly no that his "Yeah," a voice from the crowd put words could sink in. in. There was an ominous rumble from the circle of men and dark timber
Swergin stepped back. He was alone with his prisoner and so sure of him that he was willing to take
his time.
"So I'm a dirty rat, eh?" "Get it over with," Stan saapped. "There ain't no hurry. They don't even know down at camp that you are caught." Swergin smiled broadly.
"You feel pretty safe with your Pass Creek gang at your back," Stan sneered.
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had given himself over grimly to gaze with steely eyes. "Only that his fate. There was little clunce I hope you enjoy the party."
and backed The man grunted that anything would happen to anve him. The only friends he had were away. "Get on the end of that far beyond the rim of Folly Moun ropa!" he ordered, as he tossed the tain and he had made them promise rope over a limb that, whatever happened.
Above
they head. would not ride into the timber coun- Swargin crowded through the lows who had him in their power. throng for a final thrust at his hat- try.
jet enemy. He glared at Ball as though disappointed at finding him so self-possessed.
"You turned out to be pretty good," he grinned.
This chief thoughts were for the alender girl who had faced him in "Pass Creek is a nice place and the cabin and whom he had come devotedly. He was Swergin to care for nice location." chuckled as though enjoying a blg not sure that he had been able to convince her that he was wholly joke.
"Hey, boys" he called. "Come bad and had an aching fear that and get him!"
Stan refused to reply. "You and old Delo make a fine
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faces thrust toward the bogn.
"You dumb fools!" Swargin bal- lowed. "You goin' to let this alicker talk you out of this job? fle is just jobbin' you. Old Asper
she was not safe with Swergin pair of fools," Sworgin continued. A half dozen rough timber men about. The big timber boss might
Still, Stan refused to speak. He crowded into the room. They jerk-have a plan which involved the girl. ed Stan from the wall and pushed to had been able to get away withhad decided hours before not to Delo takes the rap for all we been him toward the door. He went so much at Three Rivers that there tell anything he had discovered in doin. We been stealing the tim with his head up. His hat was was no telling what he might nt-his checking of the activities at ber for him, ain't we?"
The men began to shift uneasily Threb Rivers. He was aware that brushed off but he did not ask forcempt.
this was a picked group of men who under his glare and the three who ite return.
The cavalcade wound down the were in with Swergin and that if had dropped the end of the rope low divide separating the Pass he did speak, no word of what he picked it up again. Creek rail from the Three Rivers said would get to Asper Delo or alope. Swergin had now forged anyone else. But he was struck out ahead with another rider. suddenly by à desire to stave off the
Stau realized that here was an Looking for a suitable tree," Stan tightening of the rope that the big thought grimly.
umberjack was slipping over his advantage. He faced them and smiled. "I'll never toll that. Why head.
"You can't get away much long-jahould I tip any of you off?"
"You'll tell the big fellow edg- boss of any satisfaction he might er, Swergin." He gave the timber! expect from weakness or breaking boss a level look and laughed in fed in threateningly.
Of one thing he was sure and that was that he would rob the big
"What names did you put in that report?" one big fellow demanded
Swergin shoved him back and
on his prisoner's part. Stan in-his face. tended to give them a display of "Who's going to stop me?" Swer-stood facing his men like an old lobo wolf with his pack against nerve that they would remember. gin gritted.
"Are you boys yellow?" he roar..
Swergin halted in a clump of "I sent in a report to the state him. aspens and motioned for the men and to the federal government. I to head off the trail. Stan was even told them to expect just what ed. "Want me to do this job my- driven to the spot and pulled to you are doing right now and I've self with a six gun?"
"Let him do it," someone from halt. Like a band of Cossacks, the named half of your men." There
"That's right," the big fellow growled. "I'm ready to go."
But the men on the rope hesi- tated. Their first lust to kill hnd lost some of its edge.
"I'm an officer of the law and I'm
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