Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 84: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

a ' \ i WeEGeBNHCS Sse = FUGITIVE’S RETURN. By CARLOS ST. CLAIR Author of “Two-fisted Pard,” etc. ELL, I’m a horny toad, a centipede, and a scorpion!” Jade Hol- loway, leaning along the sweated and dust- streaked neck of his trail-weary ca- yuse, stared down, wide-eyed, at the roughly lettered board which, in lieu of a headstone, marked the narrow mound of sun-dried clods which had attracted his startled at- tention. Next to it, a more decorous-ap- pearing mound was headed by a granite slab which bore the name of Abigail Jane Holloway, and a date of four years previous. That was Jade’s mother, and it had been with some vague, half-furtive thought. of telling her that he was home again, come back to Windy Basin and the Circle Dot, that Jade had reined his winded nag under the familiar elk- horn portals which marked the Spruce Hill burying ground. He’d told her, before she died, that he would always stay in Windy Basin and hang onto. the Circle Dot,