The whole town had gone to a wedding. This was the day on which Nancy Starweather, orphaned owner of the S Bar 8 sheep ranch. had promised to take Dr. Cliffe Monroe for better or for worse. Even the lowliest peons, the poorest Mexican sheepherder had been invited.
Yet the bridegroom lingered. At last a messenger came to say that he was delayed by a patient that he couldn't leave, not even for a wedding—"He said Miss Starweather ud understand." But Miss Starweather didn't:
"You, can tell the doctor," she ra that I do
mo wedding, not understand—There will be lay, tomorrow nor ever." Grim-lipped she turned on her heels and vanished into the house's dark interior.
This, as the reader will learn on getting further into Mr, James L. Rubel's "The Medico on the Trail" (Ward Lock, London. Colonial Edition 3/6), "set the spark to a range war between the homesteaders on the one hand and the allied forces of cowman and sheepherders on the other"—and it makes an exciting story.—". P.
The title of Haunted Corral" (Ward Lock, London. Colonial Edition. 3/6) suggests something before unheard of in the Wild West, whicl is not generally supposed to be psychic, Mr. Armand Clarkson tells us that' Tip Hansel was warned, when he first joined the KD outfit, not to go near this corral. But was it likely that he would obey? His curiosity was far too great, and With a friend he investigated it—at least having the sense not to go alone. And what did he find? Only readers of "The Haunted Corral" can know.—".P.
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