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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH o o o o o o o o o o Ufinmi o Oojjjrrltht by Ptr B. CEaDnalI(BIaDI, tffln o o o o WU Kyat CHAPTER X Continued 12 Crooked Bill laughed pleasurably. He liked this young man's gay frankness and bumor although It disturbed Mm. Here (he reflected) was exactly the sort of male biped to appeal to bis niece. "I hear Antrim's niece, who Is his heir, is a guest at your ranch, Mr. Blguenes," he said cautiously. "Is she anything like her uncle?" "Tom Antrim was her misfortune, not ber fault. Miss Antrim Is, without doubt, tbe most delightful, fascinating, provoking, adroit, belligerent, sportsman-like and honest young lady it has ever been my fortune to meet" "You're In love with her," Crooked Bill charged. It was bis habit to attack without warning, for he knew the value of surprise and grasping the Initiative. Don Jaime shrugged. "What else would one expect?" "Well, do you stand a Chinaman's chance?" "Alas, not I killed her uncle." "Yet she's your guest" "Oh, she realized I bad no other alternative. However, under the circumstances I have thought It the part of wisdom to remain the good friend. I am afraid of that young woman. I fear she would not be an Ideal wife for a Hlguenes." "You're an ass, young man," Crooked Bill cried sharply, all of his love and loyalty to his niece lnstnntly outraged. "If she's all that you have Just told me she Is, she's a prize and you're lobster not to go in and win her." "I have some pride," Don Jaime murmured sadly. "I could not risk a refusal It would kill me. Moreover, there is another man some fellow In New York." He sat down to permit the Juleps to chill. "Oh I" Crooked Bill was relieved. He was discovering things, and discoveries were not unpleasant "So you're going to buy the Antrim heep?" Don Jaime resumed. "I've bought them subject to the approval of the heir and the probate court" "I'm very much afraid neither one will approve, Mr. Blodgett Unfortunately, I want those sheep. They've been feeding for two months on grass that's rightfully mine and they've done bo much damage to my range I might as well keep them there and make a profit out of them for Miss Antrim. She tells me her uncle, who was very rich, has gone broke In the market, and she's hocked the sheep and the ranch to help him out." "By George, she is a sport, isn't ehe?" "If I permit you to buy those sheep Where do you intend to graze them?" "Don't Intend to graze them. I'm going to sell them immediately." "Locally?" "Perhaps." "That makes it a little binding. I wouldn't like to see you sell those sheep locally. While I can stand them on my range, for Miss Antrim's sake, my forbearance would cease if they belonged to anybody else and continued to trespass on my range." "Is it your range?" "No, It's state land, but I control the water. So I fear I'll have to outbid you on those sheep, Mr. Blodgett." "I've got my heart set on them, son, and when that happens I usually get what I go after." Don Jaime concluded It was time to Strike. "You went after my dad once and you didn't get him. He got you r. In the heel you cunning old And I'm here to tell you that the old greaser spirit isn't frozen in the veins of Patricio's son, Mr. William B. Latham !" "H l's fire I" Crooked Bill appeared about to collapse in his chair. "I haven't figured out what you're up to, Mr. Crooked Bill, but it's devious, and Mr. Glenn Hackett Is helping you out. You're framing something on me, and I think you merely want to get those sheep out of the way so your niece can be ordered home, leaving little Jaime Miguel Hlguenes bereft. Not so, Bolivia. Those Bheep stay and Boberta stays. Your niece is an outrageous coquette, if you must know it and I bet you do so It's my job to bust that young woman and marry her and I'd like to see the photograph of the antediluvian uncle that can throw a cold chisel Into my cogs and get away with It." Crooked Bill thought swiftly of all the things he would have to explain If Roberta ever learned what he had been up to, and his thoughts saddened him. "Can you fix It with the Judge to disapprove the sale?" I'll offer ten cents a "Certainly. head more for those sheep than you have. I can't spare that amount of ready cash to put into sheep Just now, po you'll loan me the money, secured by a chattel mortgage on the sheep " But Crooked Bill had been crowded far enough. "I'll see you in h 1 first." 'Where do you expect to land yourself if Bobby hears what you've been up to? Uncle Bill. Jim Iligglns is talking to you now." "Don't you call me Uncle Bill. D n you, you're Impertinent" "How you do violate the rules of four-flushe- Sorrlcs, o o o o o o o o o Mislo X and the hasn't sii excuse in the world for hanging around Valle Verde waiting for you to screw your courage up to the point of proposing." Ion Jaime sighed. "Well. I'm not exactly shackled to those sheep. I have good men to care for them. I suppose there's a hotel of sorts In Dobbs Ferry where I can put up while paying court to Roberta." be announced plaintively. "She'll Invite me to the house, of course, and you'll have to stand for it, because you can never give a good and sufficient reason for objecting to me. You know, deep In your wicked old heart. Uncle Bill, that I'm quite a fellow. Before I ask Roberta to marry me I mean to be certain she's going to like Texas well enough to live in It. I want to know that life will not be dull for her on five-cen- tax statement" Crooked Bill's face registered alarm. "You think so?" Income "Well after Til bet you you've closed the deal a hundred thousand dollars he'll try to. And he'll succeed unless he's stopped. Let me know the minute the deal with Dingle Is closed, because immediately thereafter I'm going to guard every water-hole- , and those sheep of yours will die of thirst before Dingle can move them off that range." "I think I'll sell you those sheep," Crooked Bill faltered. "You're regaining your senses. I'll buy them from you at two dollars a head less than yon paid for them. I'll teach you to take a Joke, mister. You horned in on my private affairs and now you've got to fee the fiddler. And I'll not pay cash, either. Five per cent interest on a chattel mortgage. However, you'll be safe with a chattel mortgage of mine." "If I sell to you will you give me your word of honor never to tell Roberta a word about this?" "I'm willing to make that stipulation a part of the contract. Let's shake hands on It." They shook hands. "You're a smart devil," said Crooked Rill admiringly. "I'm sort of sorry I conspired against you, but I had my reasons. I wanted Glenn Hackett, niy attorney, to be my He's a gentleman." nephew-in-la"So am I." "You're a wild Irish bandit. You just get by. and one of these days you'll not. Somebody will tunnel you yet." They had dinner, after which they strolled over to Don Prudenclo office and closed the sale of the sheep. "And now," Crooked Bill demanded, when the deal was consummated, "I'll forgive you a whole lot, Jim Iligglns, if you'll tell me how come you got on to me." So Don Jaime told him. "Serves me right," the old gentleman declared. "I played my hand poorly. Well, I'm out of the sheep business, it seems, so about all that's left for me to do now Is to go back to New York." "Oh, say not so. Uncle Bill. Just go back to the hotel, climb into your regular clothes and come along out to the ranch with me. You'll surprise Roberta. She'll think I sent for you, Just to give her a pleasant surprise, and she'll be very grateful. Thus I shall Beboom my stock a bit with her. sides, I want you to see Valle Verde." "I saw It twenty five years ago." "You'd never know the old homestead now. I want to show you the room you'll occupy six months of the year. Then, when I visit you at Dobbs Ferry you can reciprocate ami show me the room I'll occupy there six months of the year provided I marry Roberta." "You going to ask her?" "At the proper time." "Thnnks for the proffer of your hospitality, son. but I'll not accept It. Yon see. I 'm going to put the skids under you and It Just wouldn't he rlirht to harbor such Intentions while under your roof." "So you're going to make Roberta come home, are you?" "That's the program." "Got a good excuse ?"' "The best In the world. I've made another killing In the market, the Bheep have been sold to advantage, 's b "You t,i ti . i vs" r Confounded Latins Are Too Mercurial." Valle Verde. 1 want her to know the Job I'm doing and why I'm doing it I want her to realize that if she marries me she's got to be an asset, not a liability. Consequently, I want her to stay another month, at least, and learn things." "She'd never be happy with you. You're too fierce and tough, in your friendly, humorous way, which is just your camouflage. You're a dangerous man." "Look here, Uncle Bill, has It occurred to you that an Iliguenes is stepping out of his class to mate with an Antrim?" All the fierce, hot pride of his Spanish ancestors was flaring in Don Jaime's black orbs. "You knew You know the tribe of my father. Iliguenes. We have no family skeletons, and If Tom Antrim suborned one murder he suborned half a dozen. My Spanish ancestors were not peasants, I'll have you understand." It's your Irish "Oh, I know that! ancestors that I object to." "Ireland was Ireland when England was a pup. My Irish ancestors were twanging harps In Tara's halls when progenitors were your Anglo-Saxoblubbering because somebody had stolen their bearskins and left them naked." "Oh, well, let's not talk about It. You've had your way with me and now I'll have my way with you if I can. I wouldn't fool you, boy." n CHAPTER XI An hour later Crooked Bill boarded the train for El Paso, but before doing so he sent the following telegram to Glenn Ilnckett: "The ship Is sunk without a trace so brace yourself for bad news stop This Iligglns boy gave me cards and spades four aces big and little casino and bet me to death on the sweeps stop I am mighty sorry you have lost but far from depressed that he appears to be going to win stop I belong " In a home for the At almost the same time Don Jaime joined Ken Hobart In front of the Mansion house. "Any luck?" Hobart queried anxfeeble-minded.- iously. "I'm in the sheep business and may God have mercy on my soul. Ken. Tomorrow morning we'll pay off that gang of murderers Dingle has herding those sheep and put our own men on the Job. Dingle gets the raus, too." "Well, you'll clear a nice profit, won't you, chief?" "What," replied Don Jaime mournfully, "doth it profit a man if he gaineth the whole world and suffereth of his existthe loss of the lode-sta- r ence?" "None whatever," Ken admitted, without knowing in the least what he was talking about. Five miles outside Los Algodones his sharp eyes observed something fur ahead and off the side of tbe road. Me called Don Jaime's attention to It. In the starlight a tiny red dot gleamed. "Ciga ret t e M ex! ca n ca reless," I ton Jaime murmured. "Ah, he's doused It. lie Getting ready for business." reached down Into the tonneau and brought up a carbine; simultaneously Ken Hobart, swung the car off the road and went crashing away through the low sage In a wide arc. "There may be holes and dry watercourses on this road," he announced calmly, "but we'll have to take a chance." He switched off the lights Just as a volley of rifle fire broke the stillness of the night. The car was hit twice but most of the bullets droned overhead. Don Jaime pumped his carbine, firing at the flashes, and the car crashed on; when the magazine was empty he set the rifle back in the tonneau. "They'll be careful after that," he announced calmly. "They'll not close with us, because they know we're bad medicine at close quarters, Ken. Better swing hack Into tne road." They did, and reached the hacienda without further Incident. Don Jaime alighted and entered the patio, while Ken Hobart drove the car to the garage. Roberta ran swiftly to meet Don Jaime. "You're safe, Jimmy?" she cried In a choking voice. "Reasonably so, Bobby," he replied. Din"My Information was correct laid killers of crowd Imported gle's for us. Well, that finishes Bill Dingle in Las Cruces county. Tomorrow he goes and on the run, or somebody will be carrying him to slow music that he won't hear. Have you been worried, Bobby?" he asked gently. She nodded. "It's been a long time since anybody worried over me, Bobby. What will I do when you're gone?" "What did you do before I came, think Jimmy, I'd Jimmy? And I better go soon. There's really nothing more of a business nature for me to attend to. There never was. In fact Just a few papers to sign, some sheep to look at and they're really your worry, not mine. This afternoon I received a letter from my uncle. It seems that after losing his money on a big rise, he plunged again on,, the same stock, anticipating It would drop sharply. Our friend Glenn Hackett backed him, and I secured Glenn with an assignment of the Antrim estate. There are no other heirs, you see. Well, the stock performed as expected, and Uncle Bill Is on his feet again. Glenn Is paid back, and Uncle Bill wants me to sell the sheep for whatever I can get for them and come home." "Well, that's certainly very nice news for all hands with the exception of the Hlguenes boy. I don't want you to go, Bobby. We're just getting acquainted with each other." "And I don't want to go. either so soon. It's been wonderful to visit Valle Verde. It's quiet here, so peaceful. At first I thought it such a forlorn country, but now I can see beauty in it. I can understand why you love it, Jimmy, and why you wouldn't give It up for anything in the world. It's yours. This land is part of you, these It people are your responsibilities. must be wonderful to have responsibilities. You mustn't take risks. You mustn't fight with that Dingle man." "Oh, there will be no fight. I'll just tell him to get out of Las Cruces county and he'll get out. By the way. is Glenn Hackett a pretty fine fellow?'' "As fine as a man can be. I think." "Are you going to marry him, Bobby?" "No." She fairly tired the word at him. "Excuse nie for being curious about your business Roberta, but I just wanted to know if you 1, ui a reasonable excuse for going nh to New You're very welcome York. here. Won't you please stay a little longer?" "No. I think not. Jimmy." He shrugged. "Well, suit yourself. But anyhow, we'll tie a can to Dingle and his men before yon go." He stifled a little yawn. "I'm tired. Bobby. Breakfast at six tomorrow morning. Will you join me? Then we can get an early start for the old Antrim ranch and Jolt Mr. Dingle out of his complacency." She nodded and turned away to hide the tears of mortification that were welling to her eyes. Why couldn't he see that she did not want to leave Valle Verde at all? Why had he not urged her to stay? Of course he had urged her, but then he had not been persistent in It. If he had persisted she would have reconsidered. No, he did not love her. Absolutely not ! Outwardly he was fiery; inwardly he was cold. Roberta felt very mlserahle as she bade him good night with a little catch In her throat. At breakfast Jimmy noted the faint circles under her eyes and rejoiced "When they exceedingly thereat worry so about a fellow that they can't sleep, a deaf man with bis ear to the ground may not infrequently catch the faint sound of distant wedding bells," he reflected. They chatted in desultory fashion during the meal; then Roberta went to fetch her coat and hat She was waiting for him at the patio gate when he caremerged from the ranch office, a bine in his hands, a belt of ammunition around bis waist and the two down tied pistols pearl handled to his legs. Julio brought the enclosed car up and when they climbed in. Roberta noticed that beside Julio sat Ken Hobart. He was armed similarly to his chief and carried a spare carbine for the use. In an emergency, of the boy Julio, doubtless. An hour later they pulled up at the Antrim ranchhouse. Ken Hobart got out, walked to the front door and banged on it loudly. A Chinaman, in a greasy apron, opened It. "Where's Dingle?" the foreman demanded. "He go ketchum sheep. No come back long time." Hobart walked around the house and inspected the Interior of an equally dilapidated bam. "I Imagine the Chinaman's telling the truth. Dingle's car is not In the barn," he reported. "We've had our drive for nothing, Ken. Well, we'll go back to Valle Verde, put a couple of saddle horses in a truck and run down to the range where the sheep are. We'll go as far as we can with the truck, and this car, then unload and ride up Into the hills. Game for the Journey, Bobby?" She nodded and they whirled across the dusty plain to Valle Verde. Here four horses were saddled and led up a ramp into a large motor truck, and, preceded by the motorcar, they headed down the road toward Los Algodones. They left the road presently and broke trail across the sage to the foothills, where the ramp was let down from the rear of the motor truck and the horses backed out. "Ken, you and Julio ride in a northeasterly direction," Don Jaime ordered. "Miss Antrim and I will ride In the general direction of that butte yonder to the southeast. Aurelio, you will remain here with the truck and motorcar. We will meet here not later than four o'clock this afternoon, Ken." Roberta mounted the hunter Don Jaime had given her. To her surprise she found a light carbine protruding from a holster swung under the sweat leather on her stock saddle, and a belt of cartridges hung over the pommel. "Am I expected to do some shooting in the event of emergency, Jimmy?" she queried. "Not at all. But you can shoot at least that magazine article I read about you so stated. If we should get separated, even briefly, I'd feel better to know you were armed. I've been charged on this range by wild hogs." "In that event I imagine I can take care of myself," she assured him. They rode steadily into the southeast, gradually climbing the butte; when they reached its crest a wide valley lay outspread before and below them, and Don Jaime reined In his horse. With his binoculars he swept the country for miles in every direction, but there was no sign of the vast flock. "It would seem we're in for a good hard ride if we are to find Mr. Dingle with those sheep," Roberta ventured, as he lowered the binoculars. "They were In that valley yesterday and two miles south of It the day before. There's feed for a week yonI don't understand." der. He searched with the glass again to the south, then handed it to her. "Do you see a slight film of white dust in the sky rising beyond those low hills yonder?" He pointed. Roberta adjusted the glasses and looked. The cloud In question was very faint, but it was a cloud. "Sheep moving south," Don Jaime Informed her laconically. "Roberta, I have a hunch your Mr. Dingle Is yonder with that dust cloud headed for Mexico with the said sheep." "You mean he's stealing them?" "I do. There's fair range below the Rio Grande for sheep and It Isn't at all a difficult Job for the Dingles of this world to get across the line without being detected. Well, we can't afford to lose our sheep, can we?" "It would mean a severe loss," Roberta answered. "Is there no way to stop him?" " ntmt irj jtfastt BARGAINS. SALE, EXCfSem To boy. el. exchange, n, pUct Units without tJigalioa. List wantt FSfi late . NATIONAL, KAL E8TATB CLfej " feus aOVSX, lepb ii, Aataajftitt r vBgare Rich Pastures Planned for Holland Dair The Zulder zee cut off now the North sea is known as tin ipaagi fa take, for that river empties wa fa into this great basin. 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Reasoning by analogy, can we expect perfect Intelligence In ourselves or In others? Scorn for the moron seems to Imply that we think that the moron, by taking thought, might cease to be one. Let our own deficiencies make us charitable. Do we comprehend t lie Einstein theory; do we know what the financial columns on the market and business pages mean to a degree that we can make money by them as some do; could we Invent anything mechan ll 111 Q hospitality I Well, please answer my question." "You've got me fouL Don I'ruden-cl- o Alviso evidently didn't receive any instructions from you regarding those sheep, so the deal's gone through." Don Jaime sighed. "I" wanted It to until I discovered the go through identity of the buyer. But I wasn't certain about you until I suggested a drink. I wanted to see you walk. If you didn't limp I was going to let you have the sheep. But If you limped " "You've been slow on the trigger. Jim Hlggins. Just a few hours, though." "Evidently. Why did you want those sheep?" "So my niece would have no further excuse to remain at Valle Verde. I'm not playing you as the favorite In this race, Mr. Hlggins, I don't want my niece to marry you. You confounded Latins are too mercurial. Besides, I don't want Itoberta to live in Texas. She's like a daughter to me. I'd miss her. I'm an old man " Don Jaime sipped his Julep thoughtfully. "I wouldn't bet more than a t bag of tobacco that you're going to have your peace of mind disturbed, but I'll disturb It If I can. You don't figure very largely In my plans, either, and I don't believe you ever went bust. Judging by the careless way you buy sheep, you must have money to burn. Who did you sell the sheep to?" "Bill Dingle. That Is, I haven't sold them to him yet, but the deal is ready to be closed." "Ah, on jawbone, eh? You're going to take a chattel mortgage and sell at a loss, for Dingle is too good a sheepman to give you a profit on your deal." Don Jaime commenced to chuckle. 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