THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932..
CALL of the WEST
SV R. G. MONTGOMERY
CHAPTER XLV
Stan Bali sat on his horse and looked down over the slopes of Folly Mountain. It was good to be back after fighting the desert. The air was clear and free from dust and the crystal water that tumbled freely in every little canyon was
sweet and cold. He sighed and
lighted another cigarello,
The sun had just shoved clear of a fringe of high timber and hung like a radiant shield above the forcat. Stan patted the neck of hie black mare.
"Looks too peaceful, too big, to be bothered about a few men shoot ing one another," he mused.
The mare shook her head impa- tiently and her nostrila moved with u sonsitive response.
Stan finished the cigarette and crushed its glowing and on the horn of the saddle. "We got to line up a fow things over at Blind River, lady. We might not be back this way again that le not after we got through with the job we have
to do,"
elled down to where the timber Sian had no desire to have the camp lay and a dreamy look came, mare twist a leg. so he held her in into them.
and took the run at an easy lope. They struck the Pass Creek trail and thundered along for a couple of miles, then awang off to the left. The smoke was heavy now and
A swirling spiral of smoke caught Ball's eye. It was rising from above the opposite ridge. Stan, always a good woodsman, noted that the fire
was more than a camper's cooking
blaze.
"Samo fool tenderfoot has let his campfire get into the spruce," Stan said to this more.
The smoke increased in volume while Stan. watched it. Ordinarily he would have ridden straight to the spot and tried to put the fire. out but now he was not free to go where he wanted. Others would sco the smoke and would go. Stan mused a little longer. It was very carly and the fire might sweep into the heavy timber and spread beyond control before anyone saw it, i With a grim smile, he sent the black pounding down the slope in the direction of the fire. This was
indicated that the fire was in pitch
or pine wood, possible green stand- Ing timber. Stan burst into the clearing that surrounded Swarging hidden cabin to find the walls on two sides ablaze, He pulled up and like a flash his trained eyes took in the situation.
Impa
"Been set," he snapped. The
black mare pawed Hently and swung around,
"There might be someone inside."
Stan spoke a thought that had struck him instantly.
Leaping from the black mure he ran toward the cabin. Long tongues of Blame licked upward around the walls. Stan shielded his face with in line with the foolish things he his arm and plunged ahead. He was was used to doing. He would likely | forced to retreat when 10 feet from Stan raised in his saddle for one have to do some fast work to keep the door, his clothes smoking and Inst look
over the valley below, from being captured after he had his hands enarting. When he re-entered the valley that stamped out the blaze, if he could afternoon he meant to execute a do that.. grim mission and leave swiftly. Now he could drink in the familiar The trail across scene without hurry. His eyes trav- up the far slope
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the valley and was rough and
He ran around the cahin and ap- proached from the unburned side. A dash brought him close to the wall and he slid along in its shelter until he could reach around into
the flames and smoke and fork tho had recovered his breath he bent
door open. lending low, hè leaped Inside.
over the man he had rescued.
Turning him over, Stan stared at the blue and choked features, "AS- per Dolo," he muttered in astonish- ment. Then he went at the work of restoring the old man with grim speed.
The room was denzo with smoke and spurts of flame shot between the loga. The heat was intense na Stan took in the scene. The pile of clothes Swergin had left in the centrey of the room attracted him Asper came around slowly, not In first. He pawed them over and Jured to any great extent. He recog-
look around tried to
the room. Inized Ball na soon as he opened his There was no sound, and he called eyes, and a amilo parted his blis loudly twice. Only the cracking tered lips. flames answered.
"If you can make it I'll try to cut back some, of the brush around ward the door. He could stay no cross the clearing," Stan grinned.
Stan bent low and whirled to-thin cabin so that the fire will not
longer. As he leaped a groan came to him from the west wall. Whirl
us be sprung across the room and his outstretched hands touched a crumpled figure. Stan grasped the man around the shoulders and tried to lift him. The limp form was bound fast to the wall. Like a flash, Stan whipped out his saddle knife and slashed the rope.
Asper tried to hold Stan back, Ile wanted to tell him something but his thront was so dry and tortured from the smoke that he could not speak. He lay back and let his lungs pump themselves clear.
Stan tried every trick that he knew to keep the flames from sprending and then returned to Asper. But his work was futile.
scramble and Stan suffered an ag-way a disaster could be averted. The return to safety was a mad The old man would have to ride in and get help that was the only He ran around the cabin and duck- ed through the smoke. Stopping where he had left Asper he looked around, then his lips pulled into n straight line. The timber man was
ony of heat and choking fumes, He staggered out into the clearing with his burden and laid it in the grans then sat down to choke and cough the smoke from his lungs. When he was able to see again and
gone.
"Still bent on taking me, I guess," Stan spoke bitterly, "Thinks he can get u gang of men here while I #ght this fire." Tossing aside a green bough he had been using to bent out grass flames, Stan whistled to his mare. He might na well make a run for it before he lind to use
a gun to get away.
He had a foot
in the stirrup
when a husky voice halted him.
"Just a minute. Ball."
Stan whirled to see Asper run- ning, through
him.
the amoke toward
"I had to get a swallow of water to talk." Asper, held out a grimed hand,
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