Fifteen Western Tales, March 1954 — page 93: what you’re looking at

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= RIDE THE WILD TRAIL ‘Hmmmmm. How you and Beaver Smith hittin’ it off?” “He leaves me alone. But he don’t like me any more than I cotton to him. I don’t trust that long-geared snake and he knows it.” “Which is some dirty, son.” And Red Riley’s keen blue eyes seemed to be study- ing Dan shrewdly. They rode for a way in silence. _“T had an older hand in mind, but there ain’t any man I know travelin’ wjth the wagon train, so I’m_ givin’ you a chance at it. But you don’t need to be ashamed to take it. Even many a brave man would turn it down, because if Beaver Smith ever sus- pects, your life ain't worth a counterfeit Mex peso.” | He shook his head. “And I don’t know, son. I’m afraid you’re too young. Nope, I reckon I was raisin’ my sights too-high. It takes an older head than yours, son. You ain’t got the wrinkles on your horns. Plenty of sand, but no kind of experienced or sea- soned judgment.” “T kin hold my temper and keep my head,” pleaded Dan eagerly. ‘I would shore be proud to tackle it. 'm a heap older in a lot of ways, my dad said more than once, than lots of growed men.” “T’ll tell you what it is, Dan. And we’ll talk it over after you git a look at the cards.” He rolled and lit a cigarette, then went on, the smile gone from his freckled face, his blue eyes hard as new steel. “Beaver Smith is playin’ an almighty dirty game. Leastways, that’s what I was told at Pecos by a man that should know. He’s playin’ in with some rustlers from the No Man’s strip near Indian Territory. I don’t know who the outlaws are, but they’re bad "uns. “Somewhere along the trail, Beaver Smith is goin’ to slip word to the outlaws that are cold-trailin’ the wagon train and the Bar R trail herd. He’ll send back word that the sign is right, and one night they’ll attack. _ They want the cattle I’m fetchin’ up the << wi ee ae - = —~ < — ~ ee Se ee — ae ‘ a . ae aetna 4 SOLD 67 B-FROST-O- MATICS IN JUST 5 DAYS sree TIMeE! Get the EXTRA MONEY YOU want this Easy Way! qmazing D-FROST-O-MATIC a morte: | Electric Refrigerator ator Self-Defrosting Bill Carney is just one of thousands of alert men, all over America, Who have found oe making ‘‘m a anoing housewives how amazing D-FROST-O- MATIC ends messy, time-wasting hand ing forever. Bill Carney’s record * TRIAL to $210.00 a week on just ou just ohio D- FROBT Onn IC, y it before you buy <2 nee she PLA five easy sales a d tell Ses hoameniie te fees mt D- FROST-O- MATI IC saves time nd money SHE WON'T LET YOU TARE I? OOP RUSH NAME TODAY...for PROFIT | Details and FREE TRIAL PLAN! More than 29,000,000 prospects wai Rush your name and address t hag Wah airmail aes facts and sure- fire Free Trial _N Po es ee 0° ligation, Send D-FROST-O- Matic, Dept. K-19 173 W. Madison St., Chicago 2, itinois In Canada: SILVEX Co., Lid., 871 Dowd Street, Montreal 1, ‘Quedee Bea Detective Make Secret Investigations Earn Big Money. Work home or travel. Fas- cinating work. Experience Unnecessary. DETECTIVE Particulars FREE. Write to GEO. P. F. WAGNER, 125 W. 86th St., N. Y. -HE-MAN. VOICE! GTHEN your voice this tested scien way. way. Yeo —you may now be ahie $0, — the POW | speaking an voice in privacy of yoomit Self-trainin Ang lessons, mostly otlentt. music requir **You just place them O- MATIC does the rest, My profit has bean several times over what | hoped for.’’ —Biil Carney, Me. FREE BOOK }x's,,ZODAY, for Feuchtinger's rom et **How to Develop a Suce ul V .’' It’s ab- solutely FREE! You must state fanny . Book- let mailed pootenld. will call, Send you 2 -ang age} ed Now! Prefect Voice fi institute i St., Studio BW-S, Chicago 6, “cat RUPTURE RELIEF...OR YOUR MONEY BACK Users say it’s the best ever, widely copied never matched. Unconditionally guaranteed. Write for free book WEB TRUSS CO., Dopi.PFi, FREE AT HOME LAW BOOK! Prepare for the Bar! Write today for a copy of our FRE ‘The Law -Trained ment? boa gives t ‘as ia tek cases in your state and tells how ambitious men and women since 1890 have been pre ng at home ins time for the practice of law Lt aes the famous Blackstone bar-tralning course eded instruction material is furnished incl ding ie erate te for FREE book today! 16-yolume law library. Law atoms awarded. tuition: easy monthly terms. Wri BLACKSTONE SCHOOL OF LAW 225 WN. Michigon Ave., Dept. 102, Chicago 1, Hlinoi« 93 (©) Hagerstown, Md. STUDY AMIELOCYO) S eats Sn ee ® ——- * im