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Show mm gssssssssss9sssssssssssesssss9sessssss$sessssss3ss??es9ssssesssss9si DDE I B. KYNE WN U SLAVICS. ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary the little valley in which the ranch an Eastern girl, is lured to Aristood. It stretched zona by tbe advertisements of the Wagon headquarters Wheel dnde ranch, operated hy Ma and about half a mile wide, between Burdan. She is met at the station by the river and the northern hills and iLen Henley. While at Phoenix Len enters about three miles long, toward the the rodeo, drawing the bronc Mad Hat-te- southwest and, in general, following Mary learns that Len loves her and the course of the Santa Maria tothat his father. Ham, disapproves. She ward which it sloped almost imperwagers one thousand to three thousand that Len will ride the horse. He does, ceptibly. So this is the home ranch, she but is injured. Mary now buys the "Well, Pedro, I equity in Wagon Wheel, outbidding said disgustedly. Ham. Ham, feeling the ranch is his, wouldn't give a dime an acre for offers it to his son. Learning that Mary it, although I will admit it raises a does not have the money to pay for the and better crop of worthless bigger notes he owns, he threatens immediate shrubs than one will find out on foreclosure. the desert. And the State Bank of Arizona loaned ten thousand dollars on Had the board of direcCHAPTER XI tors been recruited in an insane Suth-.erlan- r. Bur-da- n it Presently Ma jangled a cow bell do Mary knew luncheon was ready. Pa was ready too, as likewise a dark man with handle-ba- r taches whom Pa introduced, muswith- out naming him, as the deputy sheriff guarding everything the injured dude spinster had attached under the judgment rendered her against the Burdans. The democracy of the southwest was apparent, for the deputy sheriff had been invited to eat with the new owner and her employees. Mary decided to change that custom promptly. Luncheon had just been finished when the dog commenced to bark and into the ranch yard rolled Pedro with Len Henleys pick-u- p truck and Len's two horses in the trailer attached. Behind came the old sedan and the trailer house with a pretty brunette young woman driving and beside her on 'the seat, two small boys about five years old who appeared to be twins. The Burdans gave Pedro unstinted welcome and Pedro was plainly surprised at seeing Mary present He introduced his wife, Carlotta, and his two sons, Victoriano and Juan, and Pa Burdan said: Meet the new owner o the Wagon Wheel, Pedro. This is Miss Mary Sutherland. Friend o Leus, he added parenthetically. Pedro bowed low and almost swept the ground with his sombrero, but he did not indicate that he and Mary had met before. His wife said to him in Spanish, How is this, my Pedro? We have been sent out here by Don Hamilton (she and now pronounced it Hamil-tone- ) we are informed this lady is the owner. I am embarrassed, said Pedro. You need not be, Pedro, Mary assured him. "Until yesterday Don Hamilton felt so assured the ranch would be his, following some trifling legal formalities, that he anticipated his right to send you out here to represent his interests. But since then the situation has changed and it is now my pleasure to welcome you to the Wagon Wheel. Mrs. Burdan, you will please assign the Ortiz family to one of the dude cottages and then prepare luncheon for them. We thank you, Dona Maria, said Pedro. I was pretty tired camping out on the deserted rodeo grounds, so I came in to ,see Don Hamiltone to ask what I should do with the property of Don Leonardo. 'I am about to buy the Wagon Wheel ranch, he told me. Take the property of my son out there and bring your family with you and look after things for me. You and your family and Don Leonardos property are welcome here, Pedro, until other arrangements can be made for you. Don Leonardo would not be happy if he thought a stranger was in charge of his horses. The cattle on the Wagon Wheel belong to Don Hamilton, so if he desires you to do something for him in connection with them you must remain to do so. Enthr your house. So Pedro and his family entered their house and carried in with them an assortment of groceries, while Mary continued her inspection of the ranch headquarters and after luncheon Ma Burdan drafted Carand dustlotta for a ing campaign in what she called the Dude House. At Marys direction she set a small table before the fireplace in the living room and that night Mary ate dinner in the isolation her position as boss of the rancho demanded. Carlotta very prettily asked permission to serve her in the capacity of waitress and maid, in which, prior to her marriage, she had had some experience, and Mary promptly engaged her on salary. She had already unpacked Marys trunks; she could launder fine garments and was an expert needlewoman and Mary felt a little recession of the suspicion that she was a hardy pioneer when, upon retiring,' she found a fire in the small open fireplace in her room, her bed turned down and her nightgown, robe and slippers laid out. The following morning Pedro saddled Lens horses and invited her to ride with him over the home ranch. She accepted nor did she consider to inform him that it worth-whi- le she was but a bird of passage on the Wagon Wheel and not remotely interested in acquiring it for an investment, that her presence here The was the result of impulse. home ranch, she discovered, consisted of three sections contiguous to each other, a practically level mesa rising perhaps a hundred feet above brisk-sweepin- asylum? He smiled his kindly, gentle smile. You do not understand. Dona Maria. This is rich land, otherwise there would not be such a splendid growdh on it! Any kind of growth on poor land is scrubby but this growth, although worthless, is magnificently worthless. If cleared this would make good dry farming land, although one can secure water at from fifty to sixty feet and a generous and constant flow. Pumped with a gasoline engine it would irrigate many valuable crops. He led her to a lane about forty feet wide that stretched through the jungle and lost itself over the horizon, and they rode down it. "At a time when Senor Burdan had some Well, Pedro, I wouldnt give a dime an acre for it. ready money he had a tractor with a blader on it what we call a bulldozer come in here and brech this This Pedro lane, explained. growth is all shallow rooted and the blader thrust it to one side. Four trips up and down the length of the home ranch and the job was done. Then Senor Burdan had a come in with his rig and drill half wells to prove the a dozen fifty-foo- t existence of the water at that high well-drill- level. Then what happened? The money he planned to spend to clear this land was then invested in a gold mine. It is still there. But he did clear one hundred and sixty acres along the river. Forty acres he farmed for hay, forty acres he sowed to grass for horse pasture and forty acres he planted to pecan trees and grapefruit. On this cleared land which he thus gave value, the bank made the loan, but took in the uncleared land for additional security. Then a bad frost killed the grapefruit trees which was all right because Senor Burdan knew nothing about grapefruit culture anyhow and it developed he had planted the wrong kind of pecans. There has never been a crop worth harvesting. Mary laughed inwardly. Poor Pa, born to futility. Pedro went on. This mesa land is very rich in volcanic ash; it is alluvial, the result of erosion from the hills, and it is not deep enough for alfalfa but any crop that grows in Arizona will grow abundantly here. Don Leonardo always knew that one day the Burdans would lose the Wagon Wheel and it was his hope that when that happened he would have enough capital to buy it and, work it out of Alas, when the opportunity debt. arose he was in a hospital, unable to take advantage of it. Mary had a feeling that Pedro was trying to interest her in Lens dream, so, because it had been Lens dream, she became interested. What would Don Leonardo have planted here, she asked, if fate had willed that he should own this ranch? Rhodes grass. Dona Maria, imported from Rhodesia in South Africa. It grows tall and luxuriantly, it has a tolerance for alkali as high as three per cent. It is a perennial, very nutritious, does well on poor land and is very drouth resistant. Of course, on rich land, with irrigation. it would prove a great forage crop, for it can be cut for hay or grazed. Indeed. Who told Don Leonardo all this? He learned it at the University of Arizona. He had this soil tested there, for Don Leonardo is not one to leap before he looks and he looked into the future and saw himself the owner of nearly two thousand acres of pasturage that would support three thousand cows and their increase. He would have built Herefords to up a herd of pure-bre- d sell to other cattlemen for breeding stock at prices double or triple what they would bring for beef. With this home ranch developed and under fence he would have abandoned the open range. There would be no round-ups- , he would have a short pay-roand there would be no chance for thieves to run his cattle off in trucks! Poor Don Leonardo! If he were a he would weep when he reflects on what he lost that he might triumph over Mad Hatter. I warned him not to stay too long on that brute, but he would not his listen to me. He Pedro spread strength, and now his hands despairingly. So this was what she had deprived him of when she made that foolish bet with his father. To win that bet for her he had taken a risk that had cost him the dearest wish of his life! Mary could have wept. And then came the thought: If he had the home ranch he wouldnt need the open state range, so he would be safe from clashes with cattle thieves! And I bought the state range lease to save him from that! Tumble Tom is a brother of mine! Of course, Pedro went on, as they rode along, Don Leonardo would not have given up the state lease until he had the home ranch in shape and well stocked, and to earn the money to do this he would have had to run cattle on the open range. It would have been many years before his dream came true, but what of that? One must work and one must fight to be happy, and is life not like a tunnel? One travels far in the darkness and then comes the light at the other end and it grows brighter and brighter until one emerges into the sunshine. And out there in the sunshine is a cemetery, she said bitterly. Pedro, I think I shall be happier if I, too, do some working and fighting. Fortunately, I shall not have to live my life in a tunnel; I have the power to make my entrance and my exit swiftly like a train. He pulled up his horse and looked at her eagerly. His brown hand swept the landscape. You mean you will take up the dream of Don Leonardo? She nodded. I live a very useless life, Pedro. I do nothing to justify my existence . . . The thought has just come to me that it might be fun to make millions of blades of grass grow where none have grown before; that there may be some quiet satisfaction in doing my bit toward feeding the world. Dona Maria, said Pedro with deep feeling, you are a different dude lady! At the moment I am employed by Don Hamilton Henley but I would it might be my fortune to help you with this dream. I am only a poor man but I am not stupid. I have been to high school in this country and I am not a peon. My father was a hacendado. He was killed in the Madero revolution; Don Hamilton found me at Agua Prieta with the soldiers; there was a big fight there and I was sent across the line. I was just a poor little fellow and so frightened . . . well, I am an American citizen now. When they returned to headquarters Mary borrowed the station wagon and asked Pedro to drive her in to Congress Junction, where she telephoned to Sheriff Hank Wade at This is Prescott, the county seat Miss Mary Sutherland speaking. Sheriff Wade, she announced, and I spelled out her name for him. have just purchased the Wagon Wheel ranch and find on it one of your deputies guarding a couple of milch cows, some rather obsolescent ranch equipment and some cow ponies that ought to be retired on pension. This livestock is being held on my property and fed on my hay, for I took that over with the real estate and improvements. Also the water those animals drink is mine and it isnt attached and cant be. And I dont want that livestock or that rusty old equipment cluttering up my ranch after today. She heard the sheriff laugh softly. What? Would you begrudge a critter a bite to eat an a drink o cold water? I would, Mary laughed back. "Youre a dude, I take it? Yes, thats what they call me out here. When she returned to the ranch she said to Ma Burdan, "Mrs. Burdan, Sheriff Wade will be lunching with me tomorrow, so please have an extra special luncheon. Ma whistled. That aint goin to be so pleasant, Miss Sutherland. Sheriff Wades three sons was prosecuted by Pa here a little while back for stealin our cattle. Pa caught em cold in the act, got the drop on em an arrested em, but they beat the case twice, so it got throwed out o court By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. THAT Though he was half a continent away, Columbia Pictures had to reshoot an entire scene for The Impatient Years because he stole it from Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman. 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