Cowboy Short Stories, November 1939 — page 102: what you’re looking at

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THE DEAD ARE IN THE SADDLE ger. The kid noticed his eyes were ted and bloodshot from the rock dust that had spurted into them. “You're damn right.” Peterson’s fist shot out and caught Lon Haferty in the face. The kid rocked back, blinking and trying to get his hands up. Peterson kicked him against the wall. “Well?” Forbes demanded. “What we doin’ with him?” Lyman puffed thoughtfully on his cigar. “What's your idea?’ Forbes ran his finger around his buzzard neck, Lyman grunted and shook his head. “Takes too long. It’s too close to election time to have him talk in court and stir up a stink. Know of a nice quiet place outside of town—a barn or something?” “There’ s that old feed barn about a mile out,” Jenkins said in his flat, dry monotone. “It'll be dark in a couple of hours, and we can shove him underneath the floor.” “Think you can handle it, Forbes?” Ly- man grinned. Forbes took a quick, menacing step to- ward the kid. ‘You're damn right we can handle it.”’ The kid leaned against the wall, trying to blink some of the fog out of his head. Blood trickled down his face from a cut above one eye and mixed with the blood coming from his mouth. He could hear what they were saying all right, and he knew just about what his chances were. His cut mouth twisted derisively. Com- ing back to Halfway to be rich and live like a white man, was he? Hell, he had come back to be shoved down into the muck underneath the floor of a deserted barn. Lyman and Forbes couldn’t risk hav- ing him alive. If he ever turned up, that story they had cooked up yeats ago and hanged a man with would be shot as full of holes as a sheepherder’s hat. Maybe the people of Halfway were buf- faloed and afraid to say anything against Trude Lyman and that tin-horn sheriff then, but give them a little leverage to pry with— Lon Haferty turning up alive for instance— and they would pry the skids right out from under Lyman’s whole crowd: and lift them up onto a scaffolding and drop them feet first through a trap door. Their feet wouldn't quite touch bottom when they fell, either. The kid’s luck had run out, but he wasn’t going to beef about it. His lips trembled a little while he listened to the four of them (Continued on Page 104) PILES FREE BOOK points way quick relief, y aveet rom all re success of MeClone via method with- out drastic surgery. Patient reference list and book in plain wrapper sent free. McCLEARY CLINIC 1125 Elms Boulevard, Excelsior Springs, Mo. ees As Sree Bracelet Designed! Ultra-smart! A flick of your finger is unique bracelet into your ts make-up kit! Hore 7 fer you powder, rouge, lipstick, puffs and mirrors for a quick Shades Blue, Red, Green, color bands, $1 postnaid, KET. Holds two Pictures. Comes with dainty 18-inch chain with safoty Sertul value. Samo quality may be had pat C.0.D. orders shipped plus post- . age. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 4434 (T-88) Post Avenue, Miami. Beach, Fla. : up to $1,000 for certain U. 8S. stamps. Look in old trunks and attics. Ask your friends for their old lot- illustrated Buying Guide. If you suffor with those terrible attacks of Asthma at this sea- i No. 107 — Exquisitely instantly transforms cleverly hidden compartments of- touch-up. with gold No. 308—14 Kt. GOLD FINISH HEART $ HAS LOC IY, Lp Clasp. Suitable for engraving. A won- . 2 : BOOK shape if you wish. post- ‘f, HOUSE OF GIFTS Cash money for old U. 8. stamps available. We pay ters. Send 10c in coin or unused U. S. stamps for 9 South Clinton St., Chicago, Illinois son of tho yoar; if you choke and gasp for breath don’t fail to sond at once for a free trial of a remarkable method, No matter where you live nor what your age or occupation, nor whether you havo any faith in any remedy undor tha Sun, send for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Write now and test the method free on your own case. Address: Frontier Asthma Co., 14-F Frontier Bldg., 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo, N. YW. Quit Using Tobacco! Write for Froe Booklet and Learn How. Results Guaranteed or Money Refunded, NEWELL PHARMACAL COMPANY WO Clayton Station, St. Louls, 100,000 | Satisfied Users Mo. WHAT CAUSES EPILEPSY? - 1S THERE A CURE? A booklet containing the opinions of famous doctors on this interesting subject will be sent FREE, while they last, to any reader writing in the Educational Division, 535 Fifth Avenue, Dept. D.B.11, New York, N. Y. lOO (C@