Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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

HENRY CARLTON It was bloody showdown hour in Painted Rock, and the sheriff's wife could only count off the seconds, and hope she’d won her hemmien battle to stay . The hands of the clock still had several long minutes to creep before they reached the deadline! HE knot under Mattie Cameron’s heart tightened as she entered the DE AN |) VY Hunsaker store and read the pity in | the eyes of Will Hunsaker. And when ' Pamela Hunsaker darted a quick look at her husband and began to chatter about the new 28 _ ginghams they’d just received from St. Louis, she knew it was true. . For the Hunsakers were her friends, a COMmichooks.c©