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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.

CALL of the WEST

CHAPTER XXXI

"So you was warnin' that gal agin me?" Swergin thrust his face close to Stan's.

"And if my hands were untied I'd smash your dirty, face." Stan Ball's eyes were hard as atcol.

"No uso being a hog! You won't get to camp out with her any more." Sworgin leered and his lips parted.

"You dirty rat! You may string me up but I'll still be on your - trail Stan hleaed.

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 snapped. "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 ancored.

"Pass Creek is a nice place and has a nice location," Swergin chuckled as though enjoying a big jake.

"Hey, boys!" he called. "Come and get him"

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 man led him outside and men closed in about him and silent- mounted their horses. Ball was orly alid from their horses. It was dered to walk ahead of the leading plain they knew exactly what to do. rider. There were 20 men in the They crowded around their prison-: gang from Pass Creek and the fleer and the man who had been rid- of riders, with Stan ahead, moved ing with Swergin unstrapped a slowly toward Three Rivers by the lariat from his saddle and began Pans Greek trail. It was no part uncolling it. The big fellow who of Swergin's plan to have the lynch- hatt driven Stan ahead of his horse Ing done near the cabin in the tim-shouldered to the cowboy's side. was n glint of triumph in Stan's, the back of the group called. ber.

"Yer goin' where there won't be eyes. He was lying but he

"Yenh. If he's got names sent in Stan plodded along over the moch chance to anoop," he grin-scoring.

we'll be up for killing"." somone rough ground. His hands had ceas-ned. "Got anything to say?" He A mutter rose from the men und !elry suggested. ed long ago to have any feeling bo- bent toward his prisoner.

even Swergiu was taken back.

Swergin was in a red fury, "You yond a stinging numbness and he Stan smiled and met the man's "We ain't responsible for noth-fellows are as dumb as the mules had given himself over grimly to gaze with steely eyen. "Only that ing. We're working for the tim- you driva. How could Ball send In his fate. There was little chance I hope you enjoy the party.”

her company," the big fellow who the names of the men who were to |that anything would happen to save! The man grunted and backed hud adjusted the rope muttered. be here before this happened? Ho

him. The only friends he had were away. "Get on the end of that

"You are guilty of theft and had to guess and nobody will be far beyond the rim of Folly Moun rope he ordered, as he tossed the murder." Stan shot at him. Helieve

his guess. He's admitted tain and he had made them promise rope over a limb

Stan's was gaining a little time and throw that he pulled all these killings. that, whatever happened, they

ling a scare into the dull-witted fel-While that girl was talking to him Iwould not ride into the timber coun- Swergin crowded through the lows who had him in their power. he told her he pulled them. You

try.

tlirong for a final thrust at his hat- "I thought you had this all fixed?" This chief thoughts were for theed enemy. He glared at Ball as The big fellow turned to Swergln. slender girl who had faced him in

"Yeah," a voice from the crowd put the cabin and whom he had come

in. There was an ominous rumble to care for so devotedly. Ho was

from the circle of men and dark not sure that he had been able to

faces thrust toward the timber convince her that he was wholly

bosk. bad and had an aching fear that she was not Bafo with Swergin

A half dozen rough timber men about. The big timber boss might

head.

above

though disappointed at finding him so self-possessed.

"You turned out to be pretty good," he grinned.

Stan refused to reply. "You and old Delo make a fino pair of fools," Swergin continued.

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"Your dumb fools!" Sworgin bol- towed. "You goin' to let this Mlicker talk you out of this job?

crowded into the room. They jerk-have a plan which involved the girl. Still, Stan refused to speak. He He la junt jobbin' you. Old Asper ed Stan from the wall and pushed He had been able to get away with had 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 ho might at-his checking of the activities at ber for him, ain't we?" brushed off but he did not ask for empt.

Three Rivers. He was aware that The men began to shift uneasily its return.

this was a picked group of men who under his glare and the three who The cavalcade wound down the were in with Swergin and that if had dropped the end of the rope low divido separating the Pass he did speak, no word of what he picked it up again. Creek rail from the Three Rivers sold would get to Asper Delo or slope. Swergin had now forged anyone else. But he was struck out ahead with another rider. suddenly by a desire to stave off the "Looking for a suitable tree." Stan tightening of the rope that the big thought grimly,

lumberjack was slipping over his head.

"What names did you put in that roport?" one big fellow demanded.

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Stan realized that here was an advantage. He faced them and smiled. "I'll never tell that. Why should I tip any of you off ?”

"You'll tell the big fellow edg

Swergin shoved him back and "Who's going to stop me?" Swer. stood facing his men like an old

lobo wolf with his pack against | gin gritted.

Of one thing he was sure and that was that he would rob the big "You can't get away much long boss of any satisfaction he mightfer, Swergin.” He gave the timber expect from weakness or breaking hoss n level look and laughed ined in threateningly, on his prisoner's part. Stan in his face. tended to give them a display of rerve that they would remember.

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 "Are you boys yellow?" ho ronr- to hend 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 a you are doing right now and I've self with a six gun?" halt. Like a band of Cossacks, the named ball of your men."

Thero "Let him do it," someone from

can all get up and swear to that. Swergin epoke slowly so that his words could sink in.

"That's right," the big fellow. growled. "I'm ready to go."

Rut the men on the rope heal- tated. Their first lust to kill had lost some of its edge.

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