Adventure Magazine Cover, April 1916 — page 107: what you’re looking at

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Paradise Bend microbes to a cubic centimetre. ‘C.C.’ is simply an abbreviation for cubic centi- metre. It was just a medical formula, a prescription for the boil on my neck.” The light of amused understanding had been growing in the eyes of the finan- cier. At the conclusion of the physi- cian’s explanation he broke into a ,hearty laugh. “So,” he said, “‘that’s what started it! 105 We don’t know much about medicine, and we can’t pass on the virtue of your pre- scription as a specific for boils. But we do know—don’t we Mr. Buckmuller?—that it was most-excellent medicine for a sick stock market?”’ “Quite a considerable tonic,” agreed Jake. “Say,” he added grinning at the smiling banker, ‘she was some gorgeous little war-bride, wasn’t she?”’ A XY yr; \. im AN ww om ; - a W. z ‘ -_ x Ni ef, \ —— ¢ - a a 3 aoe t = = « w ~ a safe j oe ey? (i q ¥ . rae s - aie 72 ae - -~-_— Vv sa- PARADISE BEND A FOUR-PART STORY~-~-PART II 6, WILLIAM PATTERSON ‘WHITE Author of “That Which is Written,” ‘‘A Pair of Queens,’ etc. SYNOPSIS—The famous Lazy River country is held by three great ranches, the Cross-in-a-Box, the Bar-S, and the 88. Tom Loudon, cowpuncher, and Sam Blakely, manager of 88, are rivals for the affec- tion of Kate Saltoun, whose black eyes have flashed favor at a half-dozen men. She is daughter of John Saltoun, owner of Bar-S, Loudon’s employer. Loudon has reason to believe Blakely’s outfit is stealing Bar-S cattle. Saltoun will not believe this; Kate favors Blakely, and Blakely frames up proof that Loudon is rust- ling 88 cows. This proof falls flat, but in a quarrel Loudon wounds Blakely and is forced to leave Bar-S. On his way to Paradise Bend Loudon stops at Farewell, Blakely’s town, where he threatens Sheriff Block, an adherent of 88, with exposure. Whereupon he finds a warm friend in Captain Burr, a tin-pedler from “the Bend.” The Captain asks Loudon to make the Burr home his headquarters till he finds a job. Loudon rides into Paradise Bend alone. A stranger, Pete O’Leary, arouses Loudon’s suspicions at once. Mrs. Burr and her daughter, Dorothy, give Loudon a hearty welcome. Old Scotty Mackenzie, a friend ranch- owner of the Burrs, hires Loudon. On the trail to the ranch Mackenzie suddenly notices an 88 brand on Loudon’s horse. At the point of a gun he forces a promise from Loudon to go on to theranchalone. Loudon, bewildered, dares not look back as he rides away. CHAPTER VIII in the same breath thanked his Maker that a new man had arrived. The advent of Loudon was most oppor- tune, according to Doubleday. For, one THE AMAZING MACKENZIE OUBLEDAY, a squat man with a sharp nose and a sharper eye, evinced no surprise at his em- ployer’s message. He merely y swore resignedly on learning that Macken- zie had not sent in the mail by Loudon, and “Lanky” having taken a wife and removed to the Sweet River Agency, the Flying M was a man short. “Turn yore hoss into the big corral,” said Doubleday, when he had sufficiently condemned the foolishness of Lanky, ‘an’ CoOMmichooOoks.Ec©