Arizona Round-Up — page 84: what you’re looking at

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82 WILLIAM HOPSON They were followed by the heavier, booming roar of a six- shooter. Tex, looking over Howard’s shoulder, saw Lily Owens. She flung a glance back toward the cabin visible about three hundred yards past the Golden Pheasant’s north wall and came on faster. “So you got Burnett here?” Harlan Pearson asked. “He rode in and was waitin’,” nodded Carriker. “Got the drop on Howard and Bothwell. I got it on him trom behind. He says he’s only wore one gun since he got in town an’ this one used to kill Doolin was another one he had stowed away. You see him wearin another?” Pearson looked at Tex. The Pound owner was a changed man since the events of the night before. He knew that he had broken Lily Owens. He also knew that Lily Owens felt for Tex Burnett what she had never felt for him; and when she came into the room, a little breathless, her lovely face flushed, and ran to Tex, hot fires of jealousy and passion flamed through him. “Tex!” she cried out, grasping him by the arm. “Tex, they're firing on Bud Bailey’s cabin! Lance is in there and Pap too!” _ “Let's get a few things straight around here,” broke in Carri- ker. “We're going to take one at a time and clear ’em up. You first, Burnett. Pearson, was he only wearing one gun all the time youve seen him?” “Yes,” nodded the owner of the Pound. “He had it in his hand when he killed Massey over the table.” Carriker turned to Tex. “All right, but maybe you better do a little explainin’ if this second pistol was stolen from you, then where was it at the time?” This was the question Tex had been dreading. Only two men —Jed Haraway and his son Lance—could have known about the carpet bag containing the second pistol. And Jed certainly hadn’t taken it. Tex looked at Lily Owens and hesitated. It was Pearson who answered for him. “He was staying at the cabin of Jed Haraway, the freighter. Haraway, in case you boys haven't already heard, is the father of Lily here and the stepfather of Evergreen, who was in on the holdup of the stage this morning and the murder of old Hank, the shotgun guard.” comicbooks.co@m