Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 4, 1925 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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A} SN ee Dott eygy By LAURIE YORK > r 1 ae Bury ae \3 RATT Y | et tt = ims v td ar apes! ve maa! aj! ty ft “ag 1 \ i il on | ‘Van ERSKINE Author of ‘‘ The Laughing Rider,’’ ‘‘ The Confidence Man,’’ ete. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART I RADLEY COSGROVE, after obtaining a law education in the East, returns to Manford in the cattle country, and falls under black suspicion. groves father, is found murdered. Mason Farley, one-time enemy of Cos- His will leaves the ranch to his brother, Wert; Klien, the foreman, and Cliff Lederer, a protégé of the deceased. Hazel Farley, the daughter, is to inherit in the event of death of the coherirs. Cosgrove becomes her attorney, although he is warned by John Gaines, his rancher friend, that the three men are deadly enemies. Ledercr draws against Cosgrove, and is shot in the arm. Klien tries to sneak a shot, but is slain. Farley makes it appear that Cosgrove killed an unarmed man. Cosgrove is jailed for trial by jury, the first time in Man- ford’s history where Judge Lynch long has reigned. Hazel asks her uncle to go bond with her for Cosgrove. CHAPTER XII ENEMY BAIL. HE entrance of Cliff Lederer achieved the effect Wert Farley had hoped for, because in him Hazel recognized an enemy. He had been arrayed against her ever since she first shrank from his bold, appraising glances in her girlhood. She had discovered this morning that she He taunts her with the fact that Lederer is coheir and hates Cosgrove. could contro] Farley and subdue him. She had learned long since that she abhorred and feared Lederer. ‘“ We just wanted to hear yore opinion of a business deal.” drawled Farley, his eyes on the girl. Before she could frame an answer Gaines threw open the door of the front room. “We'd like it if you came in here now, Wert,” he said coldly. This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for March 28. 4A 849 ‘ GIOok