Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 7, 1925 — page 125: what you’re looking at

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

THE VALLEY = THE STARS. a litde, gazing down at it. Then he straight- ened and looked straight at Edna. “J reckon that’s all, Svenson,” he said: “ Nobody. will bother you here—you or your sheep. TIl be headin’ back this way after I’ve killed Travis!” ‘He wheeled his horse and sent it — the narrow passageway. He = sway- ing from side to side. With a cry Edna rode after him, and- she was. not yet through the passageway — when she saw him. His horse had halted on with the little level front which they had viewed the valley. The animal was st tionless, the reins dragging. lying on his right side on the smooth stone of the level, was Nevins. “No. word or sound issued from Edna’s — She had anticipated this, for she had — lips. divined Nevins’s condition. ‘Fer face pale, her movements swift and vigorous, she slipped. off her horse and went to Nevins. Although she inwa re chances. ane was unconscious. She knelt. be- side him and felt his pulse. = was weak, and he was breathing heavily. _ She arose and saad for an ‘Giant look- ing -down. at him, and while she was won- dering what she ought to do for him, she was aware that she was also speculating over the physical frailty that had brought him down. A man of his apparent rugged- ness should not so quickly succumb to a wound which, although painful, had not touched a vital spot. | She got on her horse and rode back through the passageway to the cave, where as she could make it. diy shrank from the or- deal, she was aware that the man’s life was in her keeping and that her modesty must not be permitted to miertere with his: 3 off her only one he ha other. Wo corner | on a ‘shelf of rock she had seen a wooden pail in which was some water _ With the "pail dangling from her hand she rode down covered with a greenish slime. the slope into the valley until she reached the stream of water she had seen trem the first level. © of the he serubbed the inside of the pail with sand and water until if was as clean Then she filled it ‘the clear, sparkling water of the Kneeling on the grassy bank 7 sie ‘mounted the horse, and rode back nding mo- to Nevins. Close to him, - He had not raved: She opened his mouth and let some water from a cupped hand drip iciweck his. lips. Then with another cleth torn from her garments she bathed his head and neck. Once when the water partly revived himr he opened his eyes and looked at her as though puzzled. Resolutely, she “undaltoned his shirt, working it off his arms and down over ae shoulders. But before she got the garment face had blanched and her eyes had grown wide witl dismay. For the wound in his arm was not’ the | received. Low down on his left side, just. above the hip, was an- was the wound which had weakened him, and which had finally brought him down. For the first time since she had set out upon the journey which had taken her to Judge Travis, she was. shaken. 3 : She got to her feet and stood, facing the emerald valley into which Nevins had brought her. She did not speak, but in her thoughts was a plea, repeated many times: “God help me to save him!” TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK a 3 U i j YOU CAN’T GET AWAY FROM IT - What? find out. Read the novelette under the above title next week a you will Knowing that the author is GEORGE J. BRENN | 3 3 some = you may guess now. In any case it is an absorbingly interesting story —_— He had not spoken about it, through fear of worrying her, she supposed. But this comicbooks co m