Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1924 — page 123: what you’re looking at

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~ IRN am) cusid sia (dle CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER Author of ‘* The Way of the Buffalo,’’ ‘‘ Brass Commandments,’’ ‘‘ Riddle Gawne,’”’ CHAPTER XXI. st HIT THE BREEZE.’ , -PHEN Channing left Red Mesa after wounding Lane and receiving assurances from the sheriff that Eve had ridden away unmolested, he re-. turned to the Circle B over the east trail. It was midnight when he stood near the foreman’s shack talking with Ned Vallon. Vallon told him that Green and the dep- uty and Bassett were in the ranch house; that they had gone in shortly after dark and had not come out. Nor had Vallon seen Eve. | Channing had ridden to Warren’s cabin. He had stayed there until long after day- light, helping. Warren care for Eve, and when Warren had told him.that the girl was resting easy and that he need have no fear, he. had returned to the Circle B. - ete. He and Vallon had alternated in watching the house to see that Green and his deputy did not leave to search for Eve, and this — morning after returning: from seeing Eve, he was in a savagely intolerant mood. That Green. and his deputy persisted in staying on at the Circle B irritated him, and he did not answer Vallon when the latter told him the men were still there, but rode past him, halted his. horse at the edge of the rear veranda, dismounted and walked kitchen doorway. There was nobody in the kitchen, al- though on the table were soiled dishes and remnants. of foods | | Channing walked: into the living room. Through a window in -the living room he saw Bassett, Green, and the deputy on the front veranda. He opened the door. At the sound he made the men faced him. Green was sitting on the edge of the This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for February 16. 752 TA ‘in the at COMmiclooe < S C@