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MUTT AND JEFF

SIR, THE WAITER HAS JUST INFORMED ME THAT YOU CAN'T PAY THE BILLDP.

#3.25

NEH, YOU SEE

I LEFT MY WALLET IN MY OTHER BUIT! 'I'LL GO HOME AND GET THE MONEY!

WELL,ER, NOT THAT WE DON'T TRUST YOU, UNDERSTAND-

BUT IT'S CUSTOMARY TO LEAVE COMETHING HERE

FOR SECURITY]

"SURE! I'LL LEAVE MY WIFE HERE!

*** THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 28, 1939.

WELL,ER- SORRY,BIR,

BUT HAVEN'T YOU A WATCH OR SOMETHING

YOU CAN LEAVE

INSTEAD?

SIR, ARE YOU INGINUATING "THAT MY WIFE ISN'T WORTH

$3.25?

By BUD FISHER

OH, I GUESS SHE IS, SIR-~ BUT I ALREADY HAVE A WIFE!

TEE FOR ONE

“Jackson, old boy, congratulate me. Kindly slap me on the back.” "Certainly, my dear fellow, but may I ask you why ? You haven't got engaged, I hope ?"

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PLENTY OF EVIDENCE

Sheriff

the rowed. Then he relaxed. An almost the taunting smile came to his lips.

Burton swung from back of his bay and examined hoof-prints in the soft earth near the water hole. The print of the night front shoe showed a slight twist in the symmetricalness of the arch.

"Yeah, I'm all set, Sheriff. I got five boys to prove that between nine o'clock and midnight last night I was sitting in a little session of poker."

"Any luck?"

Burton's eyes hardened. The horse

"Rotten. Nearly lost my shirt." that had been there belonged to Chuck Wallace. He knew this because he "That's a shame, Chuck. Sometimes had long suspected. Wallace of being luck runs against a jigger all ways. responsible for a number of reported Now down at the state pen they say cattle thefts within the last two the boys play poker for matches." months. He had studied prints made Chuck was on his feet, a chair by Chuck's sorrel and had found the crashing behind him. His eyes were defect in the shoe of the nigh front blazing. "Listen, feller, that remark hoof. He was pretty certain that even

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Chuck didn't know he had made such gets in my hair, see! You better taik

yourself outter it and talk fast.” a discovery.

"Take it easy, Chuck. You're guil- Sheriff Burton stamped out his city as hell and you know it. I took a garette and swung aboard the bay; mud impression of the hoofprints of Yes, he was satisfied in his own mind your sorrel and checked 'em with the that Chuck had been at the water horse that was at the water hole last hole, and this meant that Chuck had night. They checked."

been responsible for last night's theft

of a half dozen beef critters from Dave Wallace relaxed. Laughter boomed "So that's it, eh? Peabody. But being satisfied in his from his throat.

own mind wasn't enough. No court Well you're gonna have a fine

time

in the state would convict Chuck on provin' that it wasn't yesterday noon such doubtful evidence, especially I stopped at that water hole to give since Chuck had once been a mem- my horse a drink." ber of the state legislature and a pret- ty important figure. It was only re- cently, because of last year's drought, that he had resorted to less honest ways of making a living.

Burton shot another glance at Ho- ward, decided he had nothing to wor- ry about on that score, said: "Well, maybe that's a fact, Chuck, but what I want to know is, how come you Lamenting the difficulties of being knew the exact time that rustling took a good sheriff, Burton 10de slowly place? You admitted it was news along the road toward town. Deep when I just told you that cows

By Vic Yardman

furrow's lined

his forehead.

was

How, stole, but I don't recollect telling you

he asked himself, in the name of thun- when it happened."

der and lightning was a sheriff going It took Chuck thirty seconds to to convict a man of whose guilt he realize how neatly he had fallen into was certain when every one else was

the trap. An oath escaped his lips as inclined toward thinking him incap -

he reached. toward his hip. able of robbery?

His hand came away spitting smoke At the junction of the roads Sheriff and flame, but the leaden slug buried Burton reined in, sat for a moment in itself in the floor at Burton's feet. A expression came into deliberation, then with a little impa- bewildered

tient gesture turned the bay west. A Chuck's face, blank horror. Then he half hour later he came to an un- folded up with a little gasp and pitch- painted and sorry looking ranch ed forward.

with house. Three horses stood

Sheriff Burton lowered his smoking-

"If a jury won't believe drooping heads outside the rear door. gun.

A one, I quit." Burton dismounted and knocked. voice bade him enter.

a

never

Chuck Wallace was sitting, at table in the kitchen. Seated opposite him was a man Burton had seen before. Another man, whom the officer recognized as a rancher named Howard, was astraddle a chair the opposite wall.

near

"Hello, Sheriff. mind?" Wallace's

on What's

your contained voice

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that quality of forced politeness which evidences itself when a speaker annoyed.

"Plenty." Burton pushed back his wall, hat and learned against the

about last heard "Suppose you night's rustling?”

"No?". Wallace's brows went up. The man at the table eyed Burton curiously. "This is getting to be too much of a good thing. Who' was the loser?"

"Dave Peabody. Half a dozen head taken from near the water hole on his south range," Burton paused, glan- ced at Howard, said: "I'm checking up all through the district. Mätter of routine. Suppose, you got your alibi all rigged up, Chuck?"

Momentarily Wallace's eyes

nar-

that

sald. "They'll believe it," Howard "I'm your witness. That there jigg- er at the table is a United States mar- shal I hired to ask Chuck a few ques- tions. I reckon his say-so will help convince your jury too..

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