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Show THF. Thursday, December 8, 1932 TIMKS-NEW- S. PAGE SEVEN NEIMII. VTAU Seeking; 1 JIM the CONQUEROR Ooprrtsat br Peter M. I By Peter B. Kyne Krae, Further Light on Birthplace of Man did man His Where originate? birthplace has never been lomted and perhaps never will, but the hunt goes merrily on. Some new evidence on the origin of limn Is claimed by T. D. McCown of the Uni versity of California and a member of an expedition digging around In Palestine. This exK'd!tion hag unearthed some rare deposits in cave on the western edge of Mt. Carmel. McCown says his findings Indicate that man in "subhuman but form first appeared In Asia. Ills evidence consists of fragments and complete gkelWons of nine prehistoric men, women find children who lived and died some &0,UK years ago during the hitter part of the Ministerial) culture stage. They are said to represent a distinct but pre historic species of human beings with heavy bone ridges over the eye sockets, bulldog Jaws and heavy chins. Pathfinder Magazine. super-anima- FOR BECINNERS OF THE STORY Uvm with bar UBcla, William bacauaa of bis amueisa alynees, receives a Raacbe Valla Verde, ia Tesae, of tba telefraas from JaJese Migual Hifueasa, informing bar bar uncla Tom Antrim baa died a violent death. At the advice ef Ciena Hackett, who ia m love with bar, Roberta plana to go to Tana to protect bar interests, since she Is solo heir to the sbeep which Antrim had Impudently driven to graze on land controlled by Don Jaime. Don Jaime, bachelor, half Spanish and half Irish, la attracted to Roberta's picture ia a magazine. Antrim la warned to take hie sharp off Don Jaime's ranch at ence. Antrim ambushes Don Jaime. The young ranch owner is wounded and Antrim killed. On his body are found Instructions to notify Miss Roberta Antrim In the event of hie death. Latham tells her bis fortune is us danger, and she decides to go to Texas to get Antrim's estate for Crooked BilL Another Higuenes' telegram tells Roberta her uncle was killed by Jim Higlins (Don Jsims's anglicized name). "Crooked BiU" outlines a scheme ho hopes will forward Hackett's courtship of Roberta. Don Jaime, actuated chiefly by bis romantic interest la the pictured Roberta, allows the Antrim sheep to continue to grass on his ranch. At the little flag station of Valla Verde Roberta meets Dingle, Torn Antrim's foreman, who tella bar Don Jaime ia her uncle'a slayer, then flees. Roberta, watching "Jim Higgins," sees him aboot, she supposes, at Dingle. She berates him soundly for the act, and Jimmy hurries off ostensibly to tell Don Jaime of her arrival. Then the girl find Higgins and Higuenes to be one and the At Don Jaime's invitation she stays at his ranch. Roberta Antrim, beautiful E 8. Latham, knows aa "Croaked CHAPTER VI 10 iters society girl, who BiU" rwf Continued Two maids removed the empty soup plates and set the roast down In front of Dn Jaime. "A wild turkey," he Informed Roberta. Then he sharpened liiu carving knife on the steel and attacked the bird, dissecting It In a very neat and scientific manner. "Can you cook, Miss Antrim?'' "Heavens, no !" "I had heard It was a lost art with the rising generation. I'm a rattling good cook, myself. If I do males are, you say go. Most I enjoy cooking lish und know. game." "How about boxing?" "Great sport. I have three who are paid five dollars a month extra to box with me." "That, I suppose," gald Roberta dryly, "appenls to your Irish blood. Are you of a religious turn of mind?" "Well, I built a church In my pueblo and I support a padre for my I play the organ In my people. church and I've rehearsed the choir until it's really rather good. You must come to mass with me tomor row and listen to it." 'Why were you armed today? Do you always carry that arsenal?" "I do 'No," he replied soberly. not. But of late I have felt that discretion might be the better part of valor. You see, I have been unfortunate enough to make some new enemies recently. The last time I went abroad unarmed I was carried home on a stretcher." "I fear," the girl suggested, "that the Antrim sheep are proving to be a source of embarrassment to you." My enemies nev "Oh, not at all er embarrass me, I assure you." He said It so simply, so earnestly, so absolutely without brag or bounce. that Roberta laughed aloud. "You are a new note in life," she declared. "Mrs. Ganby, do you not find Don Jaime a source of pro found amusement?" "Don Jaime, I must admit, is Mrs. Ganby different," replied guardedly. "I'm sure of it, Mrs. Ganby. He Isn't a bit religious, but he Is very charitable so charitable, in fact that I am certain he Is obliging me, lievably high price for the service and didn't seem to believe me when told him It was not for sale. He "No, I do not But my late knew him very well. They Just kept tilting the ante and seem to see he was annoy got into an argument once aa to couldn't which was the best for the country ing me. Some people are like that They think money Is the beginning the gold standard or Bryan's silver Idea. Your Uncle and the end of everything." Perhaps you would, also, Mr. Bill was an outcast In Texas, at the time being a Republican. My Higuenes, If you had ever been father, of course, was a Democrat. poor," Roberta suggested. "I've paid 12 per cent for rented In their argument they waxed personal, and finally your Uncle Bill money," he retorted. "I've had the called my father a d d anarchistic ranch mortgaged in bad years and So my father yelled: banks carried my father half his greaser. Fauch-'Hurrool ballagh !' and lifetime. Only those who are poor hit your Uncle Bill on the nose and In spirit, who lack courage, can be canted It five degrees to the south- really poor." "Do you not find life a little loneeast. My parent then ran to his horse to get his gun, which he ly here?" "A busy man Is seldom lonely. wore In a pommel holster, and on his way there your Uncle Bill shot My father spent his life In bondage his hat off. This was getting per- to the Irrigation system you probsonal, so my father retaliated by ably observed en route here, but shooting your Uncle Bill In the after his death I completed It and transformed a semlarld valley Into heel." and cotton fields. I got rid "Why, Uncle Bill never told me alfalfa of the scrubby cattle about that, Don Jaime!" were built for speed and sub"Why should he? He came off that second best, didn't he? He was stituted Herefords. which are built drunk at the time and my father for beef. All this has been a conwas Intoxicated, otherwise there siderable task and fell to my hands would have been two funerals. Fa when I was eighteen. That was ther was heartbroken when he sob ten years ago. "After I was demobilized In the ered up, and sent his lawyer to your Uncle Bill to apologize, so your spring of 1019 I really started to Uncle Bill accepted the apology and put this ranch on a paying basis. I sent back one of his own. When I cleaned up on cotton In 1919 and was a very small boy your uncle '20. And cattle prices were unbe sold out his ranch to old man FIo lievably high. I had a feeling, how bart, whose son, Kenneth, Is now my ever, that such a wartime prospergeneral manager. Does Uncle Bill ity wouldn't last, so I sold all my treat you with civility and de cattle in the fall of 1920 and In 1921 I didn't plant any cotton. Well, cency ?" "Of course he does. He's ador the market smashed on both and able. He's a love." lucky Jim didn't have any! "Instead I raised alfalfa and "Very well, then, I'll not kill him. You must agree, though, that stacked It ; then I bought cattle for I did you a real service In bumping a song when the banks and governmental loan agencies foreclosed. off old Uncle Tom." "Uncle Bill says you did," Ro- Cheap cattle and cheap feed, you berta admitted. "But then he's know. I had my moments of panic: the road was rough and rocky In biased." "My father always declared that spots, although that, of course, made Uncle Bill was all wool and a yard It all the more interesting, the vicwide. . . . Dinner's ready, thank tory all the more delightful. I think feGod. That stout saddle-colorethat when one has had to fight for male who appeared tn the door Just his land and bis people he learns now says we'd better come and get to love both, no matter how unloveIt or she'll throw It out." ly or uninteresting they may ap"What an extremely pear to those those lives have been man you are, Don Jaime." spent in shelter and without effort" "Please do not call me Don Jaime. Roberta noticed that her host was The don Is really a title of respect, much more at his ease, now that and Is used by one's employees or their conversation had veered Into social Inferiors rather like having new channels. It occurred to the a pullman porter address you as girl too that Don Jaime Miguel Judge' or 'colonel.' You may call Higuenes had lived more in five Mr. Higuenes. minutes of his colorful life than the me Mr. Higgins, James, Jimmy or Jaime. last three generations of Hacketts. "Very well, Mr. Higuenes," the And the Hacketts were a long-live-d girl murmured In a very small race. "Hold , everything, Then: voice. "What gainful occupation, If any, mine host. I must run to my room does Mr. Latham practice now?" I to handkerchief. a for forgot Don Jaime asked Roberta. fetch one." "He plays the stock market" Don Jaime gazed after her. There "With success, I hope." was no doubt but that he approved He has always been very sucof her mightily. When bis gaze cessful until recently, when he lost met Mrs. It shifted Ganby's. practically everything he had or at "How does she Impress you?" she least he would have lost It without queried. the aid of some people who love "Miss Antrim Is physically beau him. We anticipate a reverse in tiful and mentally alert Yes, she's the market which will pull him out, as smart a young woman as you if not with a profit at least without and I will ever meet Well raised, terrific loss." well spoiled, haughty, aware of her "My father loved your Uncle Bill, power over men and Just loves to even If he did shoot him In the beel I Sound at heart though, use It and disagree with him politically. think." I would be glad to give my father's "Will she be here long, Don friend a leg up. You live with your Jaime?" Uncle Bill. I take it" "I do not know. In all "I've been his ward and a membility she will not be here long ber of his household since my tenth enough to please me. In fact. If I birthday. I have never known a hadn't run that Bill Dingle scala wish he hasn't hastened to gratify, wag down the road she wouldn't be at whatever cost So, you see, now here now. She's a new note In life that he's old and liable to suffer to me, but I'm not going to let her financial reverses, it Is my duty to know she Is." take care of him, and for that reason my Uncle Tom's estate comes to me somewhat In the nature of a CHAPTER VII godsend." "One more reason why I should appraised returning, ROBERTA, with the eye of an ex- be dealt with charitably In the matpert. It was covered with a white ter of your deceased avuncular relred ative," the young man suggested linen cloth ; roses peeped from a humorously. "Well, we'll pull you bowl In the center; the service was out all right on the sheep." "I understand the estate Is boardof sterling silver and very old and beautiful. On closer Inspection she ing on you, Mr. Higuenes." Don Jaime shrugged. "Es nada," saw thnt it carried a coat of arms. the replied. "That Is. the grass they "My ier's silver," Don Jaime explained. consume doesn't amount to that," "Fellow In New York once heard I and he snapped his fingers. "The had It and sent his secretary down knowledge that I am serving a disto buy It He offered me an unbe tressed lady is a tich reward." ra a long-horne- d short-stemme- d Jade-gree- n d 1 or YaquI, but that's enough to make him want to take life easy, lie kind. Your visit on a business nils-slowill cause him to bestir himself." Roberta laughed again softly, suddenly, for again she had a swift vision of Glenn Hackett and compared the activities of bis law olllt-with the somnolent status of Don I'rutlenclo's legal mill. "I feel like Alice In Wonderland," she declared suddenly. "Speaking of bees and birds nn sealing-waxand cabbages and kings," salj Don Jaime, "I am sincerely delighted to have sold I'rudy to you. He's so slow, so deliberate ; I know he'll Just lengthen out your visit to the Rancho Valle Verde until you get to like the country. Just now you think my country's bare and lonely and desolate, but It will grow on you. To one accustomed to wide horizons there is born. In Texas, a feeling that one Is lost. But presently one discovers that out of all this loneliness and vastness a surprising number of and contented people come; they're friendly and they do not talk too much, although they do talk to the point. I'll miss my guess a mile If you find yourself without a serious Interest In Texas, Mees I mean Miss Antreem Antrim." "He's secretly excited and dis "Pro turbed," Roberta thought. nouncing 'i' as 'e.' I wish dinner were over." Providentially, it was not a long course dinner, such as Roberta had expected would be served and which she had looked forward to with dread. A soup, a salad, a roast, two vegetables, a light dessert and black coffee. That was all. 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Roberta nodded and he tossed a quick order In Spanish to one of his dusky maids. From behind the climbing passion vines on the gallery across the patio a guitar was strummed ; Roberta heard the mellow notes of a harp as unseen fingers ran the scale. Then a girl's voice without much volume, but wondrously sweet and to sing sympathetic commenced "La Golondrlna." "When I am unhappy," Don Jaime jCtola-i--dl explained, "they sing that sad song to me and make me unhappler." "Why dont you have them sing something Joyful?" "My dear Miss Antrim, no Higgins ever wants to be made happy when he's unhappy. It's like enjoy ing poor hearth. We must feed our racial melancholy." "You incorrigible Celt! Are these professional entertainers brought "Just a Mexican Feudal Baron." out from Los Algodones?" ' "No, they're part of the ranch as In the matter of those sheep, at conseta The harp has been In our siderable loss and nuisance and infamily since the first Higgins emi convenience to himself." grated to Madrid. Hello, bub, yon host her "Not at all," protested. getting sleepy? Tired after your "I expect to collect from the Antrim long ride today, eh?" estate a reasonable fee for my serv' Robbie had left his chair and ices, to reimburse me for my out climbed up Into Don Jaime's lap ; lay or inconvenience." thin little arm was around the his Roberta had a feeling of neck, his heart In this man's presence, for he brown, powerful cuddled under the square chin was a new experience with her. She Don Jaime held himbigclose with hi had never met a man who remotely left arm, and Roberta noticed that so forcehim resembled ru'hless, with his right hand he gently mas ful and dominating. saged the atrophied muscles of the Not knowing what to say, she boy's left leg. was silent and attacked her meal. The purple snadows crept over "He has all the audacity and as- the patio, the music sobbed and surance of the Irish and all of the mourned behind the passion vines ego of the Latin," she thought Presently Don Jaime shook Rob "What an Indolent, bie gently. "Come, son," he said glance he has! And he isn't softly. "Say your prayers In Span at all. Still he isn't Ish, as I have taught you. Nuestro He's Just masculine and padre " knows it All of bis life he has The sleepy voice spoke halting been accustomed to being high tne unramiuar woras, the man ly and low Justice on this ranch ; be- prompting from time to time. When ko- -' cause these peons of his the prayer was finished he rose and w to him be thinks he can get with the boy in his arms, stooped a He's Just away with murder. over Mrs. Canby that she might kiss feudal baron who has her son good Mexican night Then he passed established his fejidal sway Just far around the table to Roberta's chair enough north of the border to make "Innocence and helplessness," Ro good with it" berta heard him murmur. "Who "Is it possible for one to send a could not love It I" He stooped over telegram from your ranch, Hr. her and lowered the boy until the Higuenes?" she asked. childish lips brushed her cheek : "Certainly. After dinner you can then he bore the lad off to bed. to the office women telephone your message The two exchanged at Los Algodones and charge It to glances, the mother's eyes were my account." moist "That Is the Latin in him "I suppose I should go to Los Al- Miss Antrim. He's not ashamed t or two a to in consult demonstrate his affection." day godones with my attorney." (TO BB CONTINUED.) "Well, the longer you delay your From the Algonquin visit. Miss Antrim, the more agree The word Chesapeake la an A) able It will be to Prudenclo Alvlso. Prudy's almost a full blood Span-lar- Knnrpiin Indian word meaning conn Aztec try on a great rlrer. About U rying small articles. AVVASSKRS (laMllea fnnMt f 'hrlxlmR card good-nature- d flected. She watched a humming bird fitting from flower to flower, saw a quail come forth and bear away a crust tossed him by Don Jaime. l" with human Imlr. Natives eat with THEN WHAT HAPPENED? their tinkers H "porridge'1 eoinposed Tralllc Oiticer "Say, uhitt'ii your of ground grass seeds, and lint is hurry. Where's the tire?1' I.aily made by friction between a wooden Driver "In your eyes, you great big shield and a woomera, used for cur- gorgeous policeman !' WILL that precious little one ia your arms be a perfect specimen? Handsome? 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