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9¥ the thrusting 5teel
and steam-born power
of the railroad.

Obstacle after obstacle
the railroad met and

overcame and most

difficult of all was
the hidden treachery
of scheming. evil /wen.
as tim holt discovered
when he was enslaved

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ATER, IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN LARAWlE...

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' KILDANe: I TOLD YUH
BEPORE NOT TUH CO*\e

here: what if 50.vie op

THOSE RAILROAD /WEN
SHOULD BE HERE
INVESTIGATING «V

' I'LL HANDLE ^.1 KNOW! GARELlJ
parley: HE'S still 1 i wish yuh'P

SORE 'CAUSE 1 J FINISH THIS

FOUNP OUT WHAT \ CONFOUNPEP
HIS BiP WAS TO THE \ BRIPOE. I'P
RAILROAD 1 PEOPLE 1 LIKE TUH HIT
D UNDERCUT HIW I OUT FER NEW
COUNTRY

THAT COIN
'RE SAVIN' ON
LABOR ANP
ALSi

RI/rtBMBER, HOLT- I DON'T 1 YOU DON'T
WANT ANY TROUBLE FROM S.HAVE TO WOflRVl
YOUi THERE'S A GUARD OUT-) ABOUT ME.
SlPfi WHO'LL GIVE YOU A kj u GARCLL !

GUN BUTT IF YOU CAUSE THE i
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' SO«RV I PON'T WAVE MORE TIME X
FOR YOU — SOME OP YOUR PAL*

EXCUSe M>£ FRiEMp..
BUT CAN YOU TELL A\E
WHERE I M16MT FiNP
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W6MPALL FARLEY?

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WAS ABLE TO UNpgacUT MF?
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MATERIALS! T KNOW WHAT
HIS PLANS ARE TOO!
WOULD VOU L.KC SE5
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AW PLAN WAS TO . .
BOTH THOSE CLIFF LEDGES,
THEY'RE VERY WEAK! —'
WOULD ALSO PCffMlT
OF BRACES— WHICH GARELL

ISN'T U9N6J THOSE PiRT CUFFSA CLIFFS WERE
ARE SO SOFT THAT IF GARELL'S f PYNAMITEP-..I

3RIP6E 15 BUILT. THE FIRST j |

S TRAj^ OVER IT VWL- CRASH A B*Tn /— /^ THE IPEA

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THAT WOULP APP >

*URPER TO GAKELL'S »-
ot*er CRIMES! HE WOUlPKT
BE ABLE TO FINISH HIS
BRlOoE,THOU6H, IF THOSE

IT'S BETTER IF WE SPLIT
UP NOWl MEET ME ON THE
SOUTH CLIFF WITH THE 4
D>NA*ITE. WE'LL HAVE TO
OCT THIS PONE BEFORE
GARELL FINP5 OUT I'VE
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PARK ALLEY, TWO MEN 6MER5E

(JNCXPECTEPLY FROM A POOR-

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Manos thumb and trigger COLTS-
BUT WHEN THE HEART IS PUMPING
FRISHT THROUSH THE BODY, THE
AIM 16 BAD... AMD THE EYES PLAY
TRICKS.'

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_ VE HEARD OP THESE
„ BADMEN/THEYCAME
f DOWN CROM MESA/
/ COLORADO... AND HAVE
1 JUST ABOUT
\ OVER CANYON CITY.
\THEY KILL ANY WHO
V. OPPOSE THEM. "

ROOM OF A CANYOI

SHAKEN GROUP OF GUNMEN
LY LIT LAMP IN THE SACK
I CITY SALOON...

DO ? I'LL TELL YUH WHAT WE'LL DO-
WE'LL HAVE HIM MADE MtOi/Tt-AW /

WE'LL SIT THE SHERIFF TO GO OUT
AN' GUN HIM DOWN— OR JAIL HIM /^

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V\WO MORNINGS LATER, AS SHERIFF JEPM JACKSON
RIDES TOWARD THE GUNBUTT SPREADTO CHECK THE
EVIDENCE OF RUSTLING ..

HE COULDN'T BEANY

MORE DEAD IF HE WAS
SETTIN' IN THE COFFIN
RIGHT NOW/ HE'S
RIGHT IN MY
SIGHTS —

TIM HOLT

OnB DAY LATER , TENOSRFOOT BO VARNELL, MAS
MSN BLBCTHO BHSRIFF-, WHILE OLO SHERIFF
JSPH JACKSON FIQHTS FOR HIS LIFE INALITTLB
CAUN M1LSS AWAY FROM TOWN ...

. IF YOU'RE SURE X/"kiO, FOROI
J WANT ME TO BE THE / WORRIES. ME AN'
SHERIFF .. I'LL BE GLAO / BOYS WILL KEEP
TO. ftUT I OONT KNOW I THIS TOWN UHDEP
^ VERY MUCMAeOUT... ^y\ CONTROL — A
r DEPUTIES

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TJn the SUDDEN DARKNESS THAT follows
The smashing of the desk lamp, ■
©lowing figure confronts the

fear-frozen tenderfoot.

*LOWLV ED WRNELL'S EYELIDS
FLUTTER. AS HE COMES UP OUT
OF HIS SWOON, HARD WORDS POUR
INTO HIS EARS. DAZEDLY HE NODS,
AND THEN, SOME MINUTES LATER...

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^HEIB RUTHLESS WORK ffl" "THE MINE
COMPLETED, THE ME9A COLORADO
BADMEN TURN THEIR SADDLERS
HOMEWARD . . .

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TAKOWA. the Cemancht boy ■ i be-aldi
the cooking pots in front m

skin tipi, and scow'cd fiercely,
His dark black eyes were fastened on I lie

trotting ponies and the black-painted warriors
astride them, who were following the war
chief. One Arrow, out of the encampment foi
a surprise attack on the Osages who had been
raiding the Comanche horse herds.

"I am old enough to go." he told the soft
brcMC that swirled around the tipi. "I am

twelve. If I do nol win my eagle feather soon,

I will be too old to fight! I will be grey and
wrinkled and weak, like Hc-ty-oka!"

Kfcking at the dust, he walked past his
father's scalp slick and war shield that hung
before the tipi. His heart thumped

hiieyrs i

isly

„,,(,,,

of the India

bait l [fields. Some day he would ha
trophies before his own lipi. Some day. . . .

Tsfcmn sighed and walked toward the rope
picket line where the Indian ponies browsed
on the short plains grass. He picked out hi*
nwn mom i y nimed Wild

Wind. Takowa's father was a rich man and
had bought Wild Wind for Takowa three
moons before. Even Little Bird, the medicine
man. admitted that Wild Wind was the fastest
pony in all the Comanche herds!

"Willi Wild Wind between my knees, I
could count coup against the Arapahocs and
Osages all on the same day!" Takowa growled
angrily, To count coup WW to touch an enemy
with the hand or weapon in battle. It was a
very high honor among Ida Indians of the
pinna.

Ho rode steadily, not wanting to play with
hi) boyhood friends He fell tl

ipav and shinny and snow snake ware games
beneath his notice. "Let Chapa and Hrhaka
play thoi-e games. They do not have a pony
that can outrun the wind!"

Takowa muunied up from the deep, thick
grama trass of the flats into the shruh-dr"

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ihiny

ick hair

it was bound with bone orna*
strils quickened. Tal
his head, suddenly alert.

He had caught the pungent, harsh odor of
Indian war paint in that breeze!

"'One Arrow will have led the braver fai
from this point," the Comanche boy told

Therefore, the war pain! I smell it not
Comanche war paint! If not — then whose'"

Like an eel. Takowa slipped over the side
of Wild Wind and hung there, one hand
buried in the thick mane ot (he little buck-
skin The beaded moccasin on his left foot
rested on the pony's rump, but with luck, it
would not be seen!

Bobbing to the huckskiti's evety stride. Ta-
kowa peered undei his mount's throat. Hi*
breath choked, and he sputtered.

A thin line of war-painted Osages were
moving slowly down from the pinon-covered
t wind rustling the feathers dangling
from their painted shields, jingling thf bits
of metal and shell on arm and in hair, Takowa
heard the rattle of the bone breastplates as a

warrmr turned in the saddle to look about,
They were bound for the defenceless Coman-
che camp I

Takowa drummer! a heel on Wild Wind's
belly. The little hnckskin fled like a startled
fawn before the twang of the Indian bow.

string, At such a distance he looked to the
onriding Osages like a wild, masteries* horse.
His heart was making so much noise in his
excitement that Takowa could hardly think I
He knew what would happen when those
black-visaged Osage braves hit the Comanche
town. There would be screams and flowing
blood, scalps ripped from heads, war arrows

Chunking into the few crippled or aged men
who had been left behind! Takowa thought
of h;s pretty mother, and his baby brother.
and his lips tightened.

"What can I do?" he asked himself, "I

. No.

; twelve-year-old Co-
manche boy cannot fight fifty Osage bravstt"

He knew, derp inside him. lhat even Young
Buffalo, his father, or One Arrow himself.

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could do nothing! And yet—

Forgetting himself. Takowa straightened

on the buckskin'* Lack If hi", little idea would

only work! He banged bfa moeculncd heals

01 vi iijci and clung with string

young hands i" 'lit thick mine.

He rode into the Comanche village ,n a
doud of dust. His young voice carried the
glim new, [roil) tipi to « i r ■ •
cooking fires and meat racks. Vaguely lit wm-
•ware dI running women, of an old man hob-
bling out Into me optrt, .1 ».n lance in hia
■mds.
Tskow* reined in before the tipi of Broken
Bow, the Comanche warrior who had suffered

a thigh wound driving off the last Osage at-
tack un the horse herds, Quickly. Tokowa out
lined hi* plan. As he I

quirked Broken Bow's mouth, He nudded
agreement.

Then Takowa whirled Wild Wind and tent
him at full gallop out onto the flat* beyond
the village where boys like Chapa and Hehaka
were dropping their play nick.
1 ward him.

"Osage bravail" Takowa ihoutcd pointing

■ igel We have

- games together, my friends. But

we are to [ildy a grim K'""e now — a game of

war!"

The Hat brown face* of the boyf lighted
eagerly, With gutters] ihouti they thronged
about him. to listen. Takowa laid. "Broken
Bow "ill get us hows and arrows, spears and
war paint! Mount youi EoltOBt ponies and

meet me at the council tipi !'"

Broken Bow had enlisted the quick, deft
hands of the women. Bows and arrows were

Sssied to boy after boy as he sat his horse,
• r fate smeared hideously. Takowa was mov-
ing Wild Wind back and forth, Ipeaking

"Wo have played at ambush many times.
1 Now we tarty a men's WMpMM.
It is not to be play now, but war! And yet-—
give us good ambush spot*. and luck with our
fire" arrows, and we may yet turn back the
Osage dugs!"

tt was a mad scheme One Arrow or Young
Buffalo would have sent the boys to their tipi-.

■
One Arrow and Young Buffalo were gone, and
•r.ere were none to stop these vigorous future
Saltan. They had the blind bHaaiulnes* ol
inexperience in real warfare, plus youtb'l
hrm. tnalfMnl belief in its own powers.

And then— loused secretly by 1
the medicine man— a young puppy want yap-
ping through the Indian village. "Lookt"
cried Little Bird, lifting .-. btonxed arm from
beneath his red blanket, "Sec the young dog
testing its strength. It is a good sign! I
U uwn yom g

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whelps riding on ln«4l

It was all Takowa needed. With a wild

<ng, upraised arm. Takowa

■ iendt out of tJw village on the gallop.

. .it a racing run.

High in tu rocks

ol some forgotten riverbar/k, they fTmig Ultra-

selvtl from their ponies and tan to the rim of

Looking down, they could sec the Osagei

ing at a steady jog. Their eyes were

thi distant Comanche village, Thty

could tell the warriors were gone. Only

women and old men and a few Children ware

seen near ihe tipia and Ih* cooking pots. The

IHd yelp*
MM lifted them taller. They shook
Lijw, and knit.es that flashed in the sunlight.
A big. half-naked chief threw back his head
and yapprd like a dog-
It was Takowj's arrow that look the Otage
chief m the throat, between jaw and collar-
bone. An.l -. In- arrow thudded home, other
arrows whined in the air, (0 phmk in grisly
fashion in cheat and arm and leg. The buys
above, their blackened faces seen here and
there above a rock or shrub as they bi
war bows, were fiercely intent, Often had they
played like thia among these very rocks. Now
play was— reality!

And yet, so sudden was the attack, so merci-
less were the long arrows Raahing in the
. lhat eight ol the Osage warriors
tumbled from their saddles before the others
found their ett*Ckert] Yelps and howli of

rage echoed from their throats, Lancet were
lifted and hurled ! Osage bows bent and Osage
bow-«trlngl twanged!

Takowo stood at his full height. "Look I

in* shouted. "One Arrow returns I

With him 1 i,. fighting nun!"

The Osoges. sunk in the narrow trail, had
no way of measuring the truth of Takowa'a
shouted wottb. Grunting and shouting their
inger, they wheeled their hones about and
■-.ili lida with their moc-
c an tied heels.

It was two days later when the Comanche
i> uirnnl from the warpath, to learn

the tale of T.ikowa and his boy.warriort.

. rd, the medicine mei
pled Broken Bow. were orofuse in
praise. Pi Young Ejjfialoa

eyes as the medicine man planted a coTp stick
ornate with a Feather denoting one coup, be-
tide Young Buffalo's nwn coup stick. "He
will be a great fighter, vour ion Takowa."
<irtl« Bird

And Takowa. hoping in rfi( heart that Little

Bird was right, -an pas; them to join Chspa

and Hehaka at theii btly, After all. a twelve-

year-old boy cannot be 3 fighting man evtry

, Be day! —THE END—

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