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ae By HARRY SINCLAIR DRAGO. Author of ‘‘ Smoke of the Forty-Five,”’ “‘ Out of the Silent North,"’ ete. == WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I and Hl. OSEPH GAULT, son of a Nevada cattleman, marries Margarida Irosabal, daughter of a Basque = sheepman. For this defiance of local prejudices Gault is held no better than a squawman by ——_- his people, and the girl, an outcast by her race. The young couple make their home on deserted = Buckskin Mountain, and here is born another Joseph. The boy, even in his childhood, is friend - of the wild things of the mountain and makes them his playmates. The father finds a cowboy shot dead under circumstances that force this “squawman” to flee until public excitement abates and he may venture back for a fair trial. Margarida, pining for her absent husband, dies. Joseph, - = her son, is sent away by a friendly rancher to be educated. A dozen years later the Basque herders =~ = give Buckskin Mountain a wide berth because of ghostly figures seen there. Peter Organ, a very = = old man, has a shrewd idea as to the inhabitant on the heights, and he makes his way there. He finds a flashing youth with piercing black eyes and an uncut mane of reddish-brown hair, whose speech resembles that of neither the mountaineers nor the desert men. But when old Peter — reveals that he has information about the crime that caused innocent Joe Gault to flee, the young Ses stranger acknowledges that he is Joseph, the son. SS CHAPTER VIII. The manner of the boy’s coming, his = = VEN UNTO-THE LOWEST strange dress, the return of the coyote— oe : : these were matters of far greater interest ITH that peculiar reticence of at the moment. In fact, they occupied men who lead lonely lives, old Peter’s attention so fully that many min- Peter refrained from asking the utes passed before he spoke of that storm —_ many questions which rushed to his tongue. tossed night when Kit Dorr was killed. That the lad was Joseph, here in the flesh “Joseph,” he said solemnly, ae i am and not dead, surprised him less = may afeerd that what I’m a-goin’ to tell you be imagined, will lead to more killin’s—you bein’ here. ue story began in the Argosy-Allstory a for September. 22. a ee = Se = Se =Comicbooks.com —