THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932.
CALL WEST
CHAPTER XXXII
Donn rode down the trail slowly. Stan Ball's binck
mare did not want to go. The bore kept. turn- ing her head and edging off the trail.hBut she remembered that her master had given her orders to obey the alender girl so she made a halfhearted attempt to åtep along.
The lumberjack who was acting as Dona's cscort did not seem to mind riding slowly. He was out of place in the saddle and his big, rave- boned frame jolted up and down. when his horse trotted.
Torn between a wild cagerness to bo back with her father and fear
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"Put up that gun!" he gritted. "You'll shoot somebody."
"I certainly will," Dona's voice was hard.: Slowly aho backed around behind Stan, her gun wavor- ing over the mon. She reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a pocket knife. Opening it deftly with one hand, she slashed his banda, strand by strand. Tho men stood
routed to the spot, too astonished to move. Sworgin was awearing under his breath but he dared not move, as the black muzzle of hor gun way- ered over him more than any of the others.
Stan's hands came froe and he tossed the ropa from his neck. With a swift movement he stopped for- ward and jerked one of Swergin's guns from its holator. Backing away, he motioned Dons to mount the bincit. She climbed up, her gun still steadily playing over the mon |Stau sprang op behind her.
Hia Out on the Pass Creek trail the gun was not very steady but it was black streaked. She know where she a threat. His numb hands were un- was headed and her nostrila bared able to master it as he should have, as she strained at her loose bit. but no one in the group facing thom Dona felt a rush of exhilaration as cared to test his alm. she watched the mure's powerful
The black mare whirled oud- muscles lift and fall. She was rid-denly and was of like a flash. Thre ing great horec
that all was not well on the back the trail a ways, then--" He jerked; desolated by the hx. trail, Dena rode along. Dudley upward with grin widened.
scarcely entered her thoughts. So many strange things had happened in the past week, so many amazing twists of fate, that life had begun. to seem unreal. Always a girl who minde decisions rapidly and drove straight to a finish, she was sur- prised at her present state of uncer- tainty.
one thumb and his
Dona's lips went white. "I'm go- ing back to put a stop to it!" she cried.
The black mare had halted. The mas pulled his horse to a stop. "No tiae to butt in,” he growled.
"I'm going back! It will be plain murder?" The girl's eyes were
ablaze and her lips trembling.
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leaps took her to cover and Stan In a flurry of dust and loose lowered his guh. He saw that Dona stones Dona burst from the trail had dropped hers and that she had She could not understand Stanley
and shot toward a clump
of aspans. Ball will his clear grey eyes, his The dull fellow beside her drew a She had seen a group of men ahead slumped forward over the saddle
horn. Sho i
He slipped an arm around chivalry toward her and his fear deep breath of admiration at Dona's and knew what to expect.
her and held her thus while the lessness in the face of death itself. striking beauty, but he shook his would make out the tree undermare led to the safety of the high How could a man like that be anhend. "All
he which Ball was standing and the over by now"
country. outlaw and killer? The question grunted.
rope over the limb.
Swergin saw her coming and rode kept poundlag in her brain an abe
cut to meet her. He waved to the rode.
men to loosen up on the rope.
His gun
Dom slid to a halt before him.
Ston placed soveral miles between him and the posse before he halted. He doubled back and rode neross lig trail to come out on the same side of the slope as the men had been on. At a cool spring he dismounted and carried Dona to a grasay bank. Lay-
Dann took in the situation at a The black mare's hoofs clicked on glance. Her companion was an- the trail with an even rhythm and flat cea in his saddle. Оне зек soon Dona's thoughts were beating was east over the horn. to the same measure. Hall had ad-hung from his hip on her side while She was close to the men and could mitted that he was guilty of all the his big hands rested on the saddle see all standing straight and calming her down gently, he brought charges against him. That means horn. He was drinking in the ple-with the rope around his neck.
cool water in his cupped hands and he had shot her father, killed ature she made. With a lightning "What is the meaning of this 7"began bathing her face. ranger and wounded several men. movement Dona lesbed out with her, she snapped?
Her eyes flickered open and she Donn was back exactly where she quirt, at the same time awinging "I'm having a hard time with sat up, Stan smiled as the girl had started. But a man who had the black mare up against the other these fellowa," Swergin rumbled. stared at him with a foolish look on committed such crimes would never horse. The lashing leather strips
Dons slid from her horse and her face. have treated her with the respect leut across the fellow's eyes and pushed toward Stan. Swergin and dignity that Ball had shown cheeks, blinding him. Dona reached
followed her. He winked at the each time they had met.
ovor and jerked his gun loose, then
men and they stood back. Placing The escort was riding ahead now. cut his horse cruelly across its herself beside Stan, the girl faced He had eased himself in the saddleflaske. The animal snorted and
The mob. by throwing one leg around the leaped into the afr. Like a big horn and his body jolted grotes sack of meal, the man sailed into quely as his horse plodded along, the air and landed in a heap on the Donn watched him narrowly.
ground. She slowed her horse a little to Dona did not wait to see if her see if he were watching her out of victim arose. She sent the black the tail of his eye. The man slowed, thundering
the back trall. Loo, and she knew that he was keep-Would she be in time? The quic- Ing a close check on her movements, tin pounded in her brain to the Suddenly Dona pushed the mare heat of the black mare's hoofs. ahend and rode abreast of him.
Stan's horse fairly flew up the
up
"You are going to turn this man use, she announced evenly. "It's letter to let him escape than to murder him!"
"You see, boys!" Swergin spoke to the nien. "You fellows will have to give up this wild Idea and do as the lady saya."
"I thank you," he said simply. Donn mopped the water from her face. It was a face that mirrored mingled emotions,
"I seem to be a prisoner again," she said and a little smile puckered her full lips.
"Not for longer than you wish," he replied:
the girl said and stood up shakily.
"Then I must get home at once,"
steadying hand which she grasp- Stan Dall bowed and offered her
The men nodded and backed away actions made him smile. She had jed. The inconsistency of Dona's little more. The black mare had rescued him and now she wanted "Do you Huppose they have the rough path, darting around troca houldered in and was nuzzling him to take her into camp in broad'
with a swift grace, tan's arm. With a sudden move | daylight, an act that would be sure job done yet?" She motioned with and curves
ment, Swergin leaped toward Dona. to place him once more in the very hor hend in the direction from thong leaned forward eagerly
and fet the mare set the pace. Through She whirled and her gun came up danger from which which they had conic.
The man looked at her. then the cut timber they raced and on alid to a halt and his face went
with a
The big timber bosa
escaped. grinned. "They'll bring him down into the growth that had no bean white.
(To be continued).
a snap.
he had
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