Adventure Magazine Cover, February 3, 1921 — page 137: what you’re looking at

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

ite LILIES Of. the KANGLE AFIVE-PART STORY f Ly Willem Patterson While Author of “Hidden Trails,’ “A Pair of Queens,” etc. The first part of the story briefly retoid in story form RACEY DAWSON, after a drunken sjree in the Happy Heart Saloon, awoke with an aching. head on a side-hill. He made a startling/discovery that the horse upon which he had departed from the Happy Heart was not his horse, and: straight- way he rode to the blacksmith-shop to solve the mystery. There Racey was still kept in the dark, for the smith and even ‘Kansas’ Casey, the deputy sheriff, took the “horse-rustling”’ as a joke. But none would tell Racey who had his horse or whose horse he now rode. Certain feminine articles in the saddle-pocket led Racey to inquire of Miss Blythe, keeper of the Blue Pigeon Store, and she identified the horse as that of Miss Dale, an old maid who lived with her parents, new residents of the cow-country, on the Dale ranch. Before he went there to swap horses, Racey, in a Chinese restaurant, quarreled with a burly youth over a yellow dog that the youth apparently was trying to steal from the girl lookout of the Happy Heart. and Racey, quicker on the draw, shot the youth~in the shoulder. Then Racey went into the Happy Heart. When he came out, two men were examining the spot where the shooting had taken place—Lanpher, owner of the 88*ranch, and a good-looking stranger. From. their conversation Racey knew that a plot was afoot to dispossess a certain old ‘‘Chin-whisker.”’ He also learned that several other cowmen were in the plot, including Luke Tweezy, a notorious lawyer. While Racey was riding away, the girl of the Happy Heart, whose dog he had protected, rode up and informed him that the burly youth whom he had “plugged” was “Nebraska” Jones, leader of the Currycomb crowd of gunfighters. Nebraska would surely requite that shot, she said. When he rode to the Dale ranch to return the They went outdoors and gun-play ensued,. pony, he found that the “old maid,’ Dale’s daugh- ter Dolly, was a pretty young girl. But before he exchanged the pony for his own mount he warned her of the plot afoot to dispossess her father. While *he was talking with her, Dale came in drunk. Racey, inspired by the pretty Miss Dale, was determined to play a high hand in the game between Dale and the plotters. ies HARPE was one of the plotters. He had already engaged Racey and his pal, “Swing” Tunstall, to ride on the 88 ranch. But suddenly he informed Racey and Swing that he had changed his mind and given the job to two old friends. At the Starlight Saloon Racey and Swing with Luke Tweezy drank together, with the result that Racey and Swing lay in a pile of hay in Tom Kane’s stable to sober up. Looking across at the back porch of the Blue Pigeon Store, they saw Luke Tweezy talking to Miss Blythe and Molly Dale. Later somebody came into the stable. He stum- bled over Racey and drew a knife. Racey knocked him unconscious with his revolver-barrel and the newcomer proved to be Luke Tweezy. Racey found a letter to Luke from Jacob Pooley in Luke’s hat, which unmistakably revealed the plot against Dale. Marie, the lookout of the Happy Heart, later led Racey away from Main Street of Farewell, where “Bull,” the bartender of the Starlight Saloon, to requite an old score, was lying in wait to “bush- whack” him. Racey hid outside Marie’s cabin while she talked with Bull and revealed that Jack Harpe’s real ' name was Bill Smith, whom Bull and she knew in past years. When Bull left, Racey took him prisoner and asked him why Bill Smith changed his name. ~Bull refused to tell, but when Raccy threat- ened to run him out of town if he refused, the bar- tender promised to tell the story of Bill Smith— alias Harpe—before sundown the following night. CORICLOO© (C@