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Show J "J "gOtlfr ictures s has pared DM WOMAN :'e dire, n buije. signs i J 'P and Incliid, d (or vas ' York 10. 267. URtlit rids- Jiv PETER B. KYNE W.N.U SlRVICS. VIM VVi Ma. MaMt Blltht. 18 i . .huai ft fiaf station trrlve m , to ltatlon wfon Wheel Ranch to pick '"T:, lonf wait Len Henley . m a truck and drives her r i. hotel. u Aunt Mar. USw guest room nntu ,h4 r And accommodations at wio le father. HamUton Hen- Quired the Waeon Wheel by ' ... .,,. and coUateral ol M p 7 h. state Bank of Art I"4" " ... h came to him for L .net """ . P 'Lv.h Henley reiniea. iieu- I1 w . who have beat the u i krnii ht aeainst them ctmeot tne jj e,ttle iteaUng. CHAPTER IV . i. ...ill. TTawt TTonl n v four o ciock, wuus "" j (tfll 111 613 omce, a DU" rf and Jess Hubbell answered identified himself. "Mr. Hub- said Len, "there's a story in .fternoon's Republican, and I L you to veu in j re it ana uiav tui h because I know he loathes V oublicity as much as I do. He reaa , bat did he say!" He said enough. Still he was in-sierL in-sierL You got any more money ,et on yourself versus Mad Hat- your father son oi iancies me Eow much?" Knur bankroll is the limit" h not risk my all, but 111 take latber on for a uiousana, uneii me three to one." JNomore? ot another dime. Ana i wouian i the thousand except to oblige affectionate father. Make a Lthousand-dollar check out. to jecretary of the rodeo assocla- My check will be there, too." Ko, no, not that, Len, you im-iive im-iive devil! We'd only have a big- and better story on the front b of the morning paper. Wait I confer with your father." half a minute he came back fee line. "Your father says you're innatural son but he still thinks e a gentleman and will pay bets without the aid of a stake- !er. He hooes you have an eaual- ' jjood opinion of him." I Til admit everything except that I I an unnatural father. The worst say about him is that he's a ' $liar man and I don't under-I under-I ad him. Tell him we have a bet I f that ru be in to collect it from I s personally. If he thinks " 'fait a minute, Len. Your fa-f fa-f is shouting something for me to jou . . , He wants to know, Len, jfeu know where old Bill Burdan i his wife are. He presumes you imi on the Wagon Wheel as al so you should know." "fhey're fa town, but where 1 4 know. I have an idea they're AlJwith a distant rplativp Hnw. 4 the old man arranged this flung to meet me at five-thirty, fll get his address then. Things 1 happened to the old folks and fve left the Wagon Wheel." fre was a hiatus in the conver-m. conver-m. Then: "Your father says I be obliged to you If you'll ask an to call at this office at ten Ick tomorrow morning." sk him if he's coming out to the o tomorrow afternoon to see f thousand dollars hnn frnm his aet into mine." Another conversational rt1nv "Ho p he wouldn't miss it for consid- ;oie." AJ half-past five Ma Burdan drove the station wagon and sitting ?t her, looking quite happy for a his desperate financial situa- m "as Pa Burdan. "Yi, yi-yi," J'PPed. "AnvhnrtiF "Come fa and hrin Ma r.on When thev entered Len pi Ma and sairf "Ain't inv Ma? It conquers alL Pa, i j-- UA llt my iatner wouia if to see vnn Uim -u., f clock tomorrow morning." 1 !Poke to him twenty minutes 1 n. He seen Ma an' me driv-m driv-m his office an flagged us." eD. he didn't git far with us," ileclared belligerently. "Guess he wanted? Why. I never was P ffiSUltprf in TT i.j eve him a quit-claim deed to ruroe ranch nn v, leases to him an in return Pve US five hunHrprf Hnllnra N for grabbin it but I says m doin'.' and threw in the ,! left him standin' there." ed oueht tn (lain, it r Rl "We'm rmn lc- ... IH anyhow. Ifd been like pick-re pick-re hundred r)rn. .. u- ;r., vuk V UIC ol' hoot owl." Ma said mild-lnfs mild-lnfs just what Ham Henley JU'd How,d he treat ffnen you was m to see him : '7 him to help, us? Why, 01edyou somethin' scandalous. your feelin's an' thpm as Mour feelin's. Pa, has got me Mon with." Kt know as I blame him, Ma. flJdn't have no right to ask ta help me." sverthpioo ..., ... ... t il;:th j a 1 uxlnK ua aci-lLi aci-lLi d'scr etion in according his v 1 DrantJ f contumely, "she didn't know it Father l arWUed 8t Wag0D tist 4 morning, because so. me on the way in to Phoe- ito a covered yu and Ma bad i I , the ranch, so inasmuch as oi me fctate ianK at J frescou he orobahlv foww-j them they'd have to move in and take charge without waiting for Judgment on foreclosure suits. The court would grant them that privilege privi-lege on the proper representation, but the bank asked him to see you and get a quit-claim deed to the home ranch and a biU-of-sale to the cattle, to save legal expense and wastage and permit them to take over immediately. Did my father say, in consideration of your doing this, that the bank would not take a deficiency judgment against you?" "I didn't give him time to speak his piece," Ma declared proudly. "As soon as I realized he wanted something I made up my mind he wasn't goin' to get it." "He was only acting for the bank. I hear the bank will not make a cattle cat-tle loan he doesn't approve. I'm going go-ing to see him tomorrow evening and when I do Ml try to make a better deal for you. Meantime, keep away from him. Leave this to me." "You're the darlin'est boy," said Ma. "Ain't he. Pa? Oh, Len. why ain't you good friends with your father fa-ther so's he'd buy the Wagon Wheel for you? You'd let Pa come back an' work for you then, wouldn't you, honey? An' I could keep house for you -an' look after you an you wouldn't need to pay us much, because be-cause we wouldn't need much." "Are you going to divorce Pa?" he inquired wickedly. , "I reckon not, Len. Seems like I got to put up with him." When Mary opened her door In response to Len's knock she saw standing before her, not the cowboy who had picked her up at Sughuaro that morning, but a gentleman of "Gimme!" the world, quite at ease in dinner clothes, overcoat and white silk muffler. muf-fler. "Why, Doctor Jekyll," she exclaimed, ex-claimed, "where did you leave Mr. Hyde?" He did a little jig step. "Behold! This morning I was a chrysalis in my cocoon. Tonight I am a butterfly. butter-fly. I don't cheer for your simile, however. Dr. Jekyll used to dry-gulch dry-gulch people, didn't he?" "Sound travels at the rate of at least a mile a second . . . How far is it from the corridor where you stood a moment ago, over the transom tran-som and into my room?" "It appears I talked out of my turn," he replied without embarrassment embar-rassment ;'Did you really mean what you said to those men, or were you just trying to frighten them?" "I wasn't bluffing and I don't think they were particularly impressed. They aren't sufficiently intelligent" "This morning you decided you were too poor to buy the Wagon Wheel ranch. What have you been doing since I saw you last? Playing the market or shooting craps?" "Neither. I have merely yielded to my ruling impulse and that is to take a chance. I have often reflected reflect-ed on the pleasure to be derived from having a bank beg a favor of me and as I came up in the elevator eleva-tor I realized how it could be done. I was inspired-and I accuse you of having been the source of the inspiration." inspi-ration." . "Tell me," she urged. I can finance the sort of deal I have in mind. I know I can. . And as soon as I do I shall reopen the dude department of the Wagon Wheel ranch, install a competent cook and housekeeper and solicit your trade as a non-paying guest" "I hope you can." He had two boxes under his arm and he gave her one. "There were only four orchids in town and I bought them. Here are your two. That green frippery dress, by the way. goes very well with your hair, and I'm so glad you haven't green eves Your eyes have been bothering bother-ing me all day. I got the fool no- tion they were green, they're hazeL" Instead "The man earns his money riding bucking horses and spends it on orchids," or-chids," she addressed a mythical third presence. "Easy come, easy go. Don Leonardo, for a bloodthirsty blood-thirsty wretch you're terribly nice and thoughtful. Thank you." She went to her dressing table and pinned the corsage on; while she was doing this she said: "I read a piece about you this evening eve-ning in the local paper." "I wish you hadn't" She nodded. She could understand why that was so, and she felt sorry for both the Henleys. He stood in the doorway and thought: How lovely love-ly she is, how cool and poised. She's too exquisite to be other than a lady and too intelligent to pretend to be a greater lady than she is. She's the dude of all the world! "I hope you realize," she said, "that if I visit the Wagon Wheel ranch after you acquire It you'll have to provide a chaperon." "I am about to introduce you to a chaperon to end all chaperons. I call her my Aunt Margaret, but that's just a hold-over from boy-, hood's happy hours. She was my mother's bride's-maid. Widow-woman, as we say out here." Mrs. Maxwell opened the door to Len's ring and said "Hello, Len. Come in, Miss Sutherland. You're as welcome as the Henley boy and he has the run of the premises." Mary was startled and confused for a moment but her sense of humor hu-mor bridged the situation. She held out her hand and commanded, "Gimme!" and Margaret Maxwell solemnly laid a silver dollar in the open palm. "I am a very curious woman, Miss Sutherland. I had to see promptly whether or no you measured up to your advance notices. no-tices. Thank God, you do." "You're sly but likeable," Mary replied and in the good humor thus engendered they entered. "A votive offering for you, Aunt Margaret," said Len and handed her the box he was carrying. He stepped across the room, his hand outstretched to an oldish man who rose "as they, entered. en-tered. "Hello, pappy," he cried heartily, jerked his father to him and ran his other hand through Hamilton Henley's hair. "You've turned roan since I saw you last." "An you've thickened up alot, son." Ham Henley turned toward Mary and bowed. "I think I saw you ridin down the road, with my son this mornin', miss." "Miss Mary Sutherland,, pappy. Miss Mary, this is my old man." Ham Henley gave her a mild handshake, looked her over swiftly but with an intensity that told her he had missed nothing and then shifted his gaze to his son. "Margaret "Mar-garet didn't tell me you were going to drop in," he said. "You needn't explain. She didn't tell me either, old-timer. What a lot of delight we'd miss if women weren't so fond of surprise parties." "I reckon they invented Santa Claus, son." "Orchids," Mrs. Maxwell cried, delighted. "Len, you're a dear. I haven't had an orchid since you were here a year ago. I should like to assure you that such extravagance extrava-gance is sinful, only I don't think it is when I'm on the receiving end. Len, your father tells me you are retiring from the rodeo circuit when the Phoenix rodeo closes." "Jess Hubbell gave me that message," mes-sage," Ham Henley said anxiously. "I hope he got it straight." "He did, sir." Mary helped serve the cocktails and Len passed a plate of hors-d'oeuvres. hors-d'oeuvres. "Don Leonardo's a pig," she declared. "He wouldn't wait for you two. He insisted on having one drink with me." "I had to test your liquor, Aunt Margaret," he defended, "to make certain you weren't feeding us fighting fight-ing whisky." He clinked his glass against his father's. "How, Hamilton, Hamil-ton, old sport. This time tomorrow night you'll be three thousand dollars dol-lars poorer and I'll be six thousand dollars richer. And that will constitute consti-tute an accomplishment It needs a good man to nick you that deeply." deep-ly." "I can enjoy losing that bet my son. An there's other ways not so hard o' pryin money out o' me if you need it" "Have you made a bet with Don Leonardo, Mr. Henley, that he will not conquer that horse, Mad Hatter?" Hat-ter?" Mary asked. "I have, young lady, and how come you call him Don Leonardo?" Mary flushed a little. "I heard his man, Pedro, call him that and it seemed to me the form of address fitted him. Anyhow, I have a habit of coining pet names for people I like and I like your son because he's terribly nice and amusing." "Yes, I reckon he is pretty nice, young lady. In fact, I never knew him nicer than he is today. His decision de-cision to quit the rodeo nonsense certainly makes me happy." "I wish I could believe I have contributed to this reorganization of your son's social consciousness, Mr. Henley, but I fear his decision to engage" in some less dangerous and more dignified method of making a livelihood is the result of his spiritual spiritu-al growth a sort of mile-stone in his evolution. Cheers for you, Don Leonardo, Leo-nardo, and success to you in the cow business." TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: Let Independence Be Our Boast Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. JULY4r944 W are having a birthday Tuesday, many, happy returns! By KATHLEEN NORRIS THE Fourth of July; I love those four words. When I come upon them unexpectedly it is as if I found somewhere a tricture of mv father. I stop short, feeling myself smiling 'way down inside, in-side, and say aloud "I love you." America started something new in the world of nations. Just how she did it must al ways remain a mystery, for numerically she was insignifi cant, and of uniforms, train ing, military discipline she knew little. In the heroic days that brought to birth the 3rst Fourth of July, congress and the" armed forces were quarreling; Washington was more than once threatened with demotion. The enlist ment of the shabby, poorly armed, hungry soldiers who fought under him was for a few weeks only, after which time they had to be coaxed to go on starvingrthivering and being killed, instead of returning to their families and farms. England has had her miracles at Agincourt and Dunkirk. We had ours in 1776. And after that free and strong oh, yes, and mistaken and bigoted sometimes, too, and stupid and divided we went on to the most glorious destiny that any nation na-tion ever has known. We went on to moonshining and bootlegging and slavery and the Civil war, yes. But over and above these national measles mea-sles and rashes and broken arms and legs, what a country we built! What magnificent cities, what schools and colleges, what roads and farms and kingdoms of yellow wheat, and principalities of apples! America's Growth Eapld. Other countries had taken centuries cen-turies to grow; we took decades, instead. in-stead. Europe stopped laughing at us, ignoring us, scorning us. Where overseas there was a little painful growth here, and a little more there, we spread into a universal 'growth, so that everything good and progressive progres-sive that Washington and New York had, was duplicated in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Presently we were helping the world; no famine or flood but came to recognize the signs that meant America to the rescue. The words "Fourth of July" are wonderful to me because they speak of a country where charity is everywhere, every-where, where childhood is precious, where titanic crusades against disease dis-ease and insanitation go on unheralded, unher-alded, year after year after year. In other countries I have seen children chil-dren brutally beaten in the streets In one so-called Christian country that was an everyday sight a few years ago. Not In my country. In one oriental country, swarming with babies, I never saw a baby's head that wasn't shaven and covered cov-ered with frightful sores not one. But not in my country. In one European country, noting the undersized unhealthy - looking small boys, I learned that to win military preferment they must study 12 hours a day from 8 to 16. They were never out-of-doors. But that isn't true in my country. In another European country I saw girls of 12 and 14 spending long days idle in the fields, tending a doz- Congratulations, America, and many. SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY While our mighty armies battle to conquer tyranny and oppression in Europe and Asia, we who live in the security secu-rity and freedom of this great nation may well pause a few minutes and count our bless' ings as the United States marks another birthday. For the fourth of July commemorates something that is unique in history; an ideal was launched in 1776 that awed the world. It is still something of a mystery how the 13 weak and quarreling colonies somehow found strength to defy the British empire with success. It is even stranger how the little nation that rose from those colonies was able to establish an orderly government, based upon the principle of individual indi-vidual liberty. Within two generations Europeans quit scoffing and sneering, and began to observe America with admiration and envy. Millions of emigrants poured into our young country. coun-try. Within a century of its founding, the United States was a first-class world power. The riches of our country, the great engineering feats, the mechanical marvels, the high standard of living, all have won universal acclaim. But beyond these is that more precious pre-cious thing freedom. If the United States had remained a backward frontier country, it would still be one of the noblest wonders of the world. Our oy play outdoors . . en geese from dawn until dark. Not in my country. And in many European countries and all the oriental countries I found that everyone who had a chance to express himself at all wanted to come to America. We would only have to open our gates to let in the flood. It is my personal belief that our hundred and thirty million people peo-ple would be three hundred million mil-lion within a year. And that can hardly be said of any other country. So that, while gladly yielding to any other person the right to be proud and rejoice in his nationality, I rejoice In mine. Our history, I freely confess, is speckled with mistakes. mis-takes. But it is also strong in an underlying sense of what is right and a determination to hew to that line of rightfulness. When other nations na-tions make demands of us, we do our best to answer them generously and wholeheartedly. We like our neighbors neigh-bors and keep the peace with them, and they are not afraid of our power any more than we are of theirs. We have frequently broken all precedent prece-dent by buying from other nations what we could quite easily have taken by arms. Our wars are not wars of aggression, nor do we hold any alien people in subjection. In the shadow of these terrible days, it is good to be an American. We will emerge from today's dangers dan-gers stronger and more united. Meanwhile, we are having a birthday birth-day on Tuesday next Congratulations, Congratula-tions, America, and many, many happier returns! Efficient Housekeeping A good manager in the home works quickly and easily, gets the job done and has time left for other things. 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