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Show ii 1 ' THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION - IE DUDE W0MAMII SIIMIII 3y PETER B.KYNE i!' Mary Sutherland is lured to Arizona by the advertisements ot the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She Is net at the station ky Len Henley, who tells her the ranch Is out I business and who takes her to Phoenix. Here he rides the brone, Mad Batter, in a rodeo and wins three thou-sand lor Mary from his dad, who had bet against Len. Ham has bought the BorcHui notes from the bank and leels that Wagon Wheel Is now his, but Mary has bought an equity in It She re-hires Ma and Pa Burdan, takes up on the ranch, and lights rustlers. Later the Wade brothers, eattle rustlers, sell their land to Ham and on promise of leaTtnf the country, are released. nia beside the an' fought Injuns with the men folks." "Martinez is not here, Pedro," they heard her say. "He remained behind on a little matter of business," Pedro replied with a smirk. : "In ridding one's self of rats, Dona Maria, the wise man destroys the nest. Martinez is a good powder-ma- n and I detached him to blow up the ranch-hous- e and barns . . . Ah, there goes the pump-ing plant," as a detonation on the river bank a couple of hundred yards below them on the California side put bells in their ears. "Martinez is not coming with us, Dona Ma- - her cattle back. To her this wai much fun! Well, why not? Sh planned it. She goes now to changt her wet clothing in the trailer hous and return to the Wagon Wheel." "How did she get on to this Wai outfit? How come she knew her cat tie had been stolen?" "I had sent two good men out 01 the Wagon Wheel range to kill the wild burros that infest it. There must be nearly a thousand of there eating grass they do not pay for. One if these men came in just be-fore I started the round-u- p ovei west, to report that strangers were rounding up Dona Maria's yearling! CHAPTER XVITl Suddenly tw horsemen galloped down the fenced road that ran through the center of the Wall raneh; as they emerged on the river road, they separated, one taking a stand on the river road west of its Junction with the ranch road and the other to the east of it. The Henleys looked at each other and without a word being spoken leaped their horses up the low bank oft the sand-ba- r and into the bush on the banks of the Colorado where they could see without being seen. They got their rifles out of the scabbards and dismounted. The cattle appeared in sight, hur-ried down the fenced road by four riders who shouted and flailed the stragglers with quirts. The herd was trotting as the head of it emerged on the river road; the rid-ers waiting on each side of the exit shouted and closed in, the lead-ing steer slid down the low bank, across a sand-ba- r and into the riv- - na. You forget he is tne trucK river. He awaits you down on the river road to load your horse and his in the truck and drive it back to the ranch." "If that's what you've been up to," Mary laughed, "I'd better get back home as quickly as possible. Pedro, yeu're a devil!" Pedro bowed low in his saddle. "I am complimented, Dona Maria, but then what would you? Am I not a graduate of Don Hamilton Henley's school? If Don Hamilton should learn that I had let this re-ceiver of stolen goods escape with-out a severe lesson he would be ashamed of me." "I seem to be destined to like Don Hamilton whether I desire to or not. He brands one with his per-sonality as one brands a calf." "So does Don Leonardo," Pedro declared loyally. "I'm afraid he does. Well, Pedro, good luck to you and the boys on your way home. You should meet the pack outfit with food and bed- - in advance of he so Dona Maria un-dertook to investigate, since I wai ton busy with the round-up- . We had one clew a letter I found on the body of Randall H. Wall, whom killed " "That was a good clue," Don Leo-nardo agreed. "You told me of thai letter addressed to Wall at Earp, California. That's why we're here." 'Dona Maria made inquiry at the post-offic- e in Earp" The Henley! exchange glances "and as she had taken the precaution to bring a sad-dled horse along in a trailer, she rode up to the Wall feeding lots to investigate, taking a roundabout course to avoid being seen. She supposed men came to feed the cat. tie night and morning and that there would be no one there at noon. So she arrived at noon and there was nobody to interrupt her as she count-ed one hundred and thirty-fiv- e Wag-on Wheel feeders in one corral." "Do you mean to tell me, Pedro, that she had the gall to leave them feeders there until Wall had fat er, ana tne nera rouowea, wm-uj"- j, tened them, before stealing them as is the way with cattle. Across the three hundred yards of muddy river a voice reached the Henleys. "They follow the leader, Pedro, and he's swimming down-stream with the current I'll head him you can't cross through the herd to this side to do it hope this Breezy Wade horse doesn't flunk it." The rider west of the herd leaped his horse down the bank to the sand-bar and with a shout of encourage-ment, sent him into the river . . . suddenly he was swimming and headed to cut off the leading steer. "Well," Len said t bis father, "who's looney now?" "You are, you bonehead. You let her get away from you." "You argued me out of my nat-ural desire." "You'd ought to have knowed bet- - back?" Don Leonardo demanded. "They are fed three months. We figured her cattle had arrived there about May fifteenth." "I wish I had a little cookin' whisky," Don Hamilton complained. "I'm sorter faint to think a dude woman's trickier than I be." "Of course, Don Leonardo," Pe-dro went on, "when the sherifl comes again to set a guard on the evidence he will discover it has dis-appeared. So will Dona Maria! Sc she will send her attorney to re-quest that the case be dismissed for lack of evidence. She can af-ford to do that, for have the cul-prits not been tried, convicted and punished In the court of her Honor, Judge Sutherland?" "Len," said Don Hamilton, "1 won't be needed on this drive now, Ci-- - . j ter than to listen to a man in his second childhood. Man, look at them cattle swim an' snort. An' look at that dude woman! She realizes her weight forward is bearin' her horse's head under . . . She's gettin' out o' the saddle an' back o' the cantle ... his head's comin' up ndw an' he's swimmin' freer " "Oh, God," his son groaned, "if she should slide off him those steers will swim her down and under!" A pistol cracked and flashed and they saw a little water spout rise a foot from the nose of the leading steer. He turned obliquely at once and other waterspouts foUowed him straight for the so I guess I'll go back to i!.agi Landing an' go home in the truck. I got to brew some bitter medicinf for them Wade boys." A cowpuncher rode in to the Wag-on Wheel and sought audience with Mary Sutherland. "I'm Tom Lun-dy,- he introduced himself, "an' 1 ride for the Tomahawk ranch. The Henleys caught some rustlers driv-in- ' a bunch o' Flyin' W steers to-ward the Colorado River an' cap-tured the rustlers an' the steers. They met up with Pedro Orti2 drivin' back some steers recovered from the same thievin' syndicate, so they threw in together an' they're until he was headed Arizona shore, and on the down-stream flank of the herd Mary Suth-erland's horse swam easily while she shouted to the swimming steers that followed the leader. Her horse found footing and she pulled him up and got back into the saddle. Fifty feet away Len Hen-ley and his father crouched in the mesquite and watched ber as she sat her horse and gazed at her cat-tle straggling up out of the river to the sand-ba- Behind them Pe-- j ,m. onrt nulled in beside her. Her horse found footing and she pulled him np and got back Into the saddle. rolls about noon. Those mules and pack saddles you cap-tured from thi Wades are proving your worth as a mule thief. She waved her hand to her riders, con-gregated in a bunch and waiting for Pedro's orders. "Adios, mucha-chos.- " They were all Mexicans, although sons of Arizona, and they gave her comin' up the Santa Maria, on ac-count they got to trail them cattle where they won't scatter lookin' for water." "I understand, Lundy." "Mr. Len Henley ordered me to ride on ahead an' ask your permis-sion to hold the Flyin' W cattle in your field until he can send trucks to take 'em back to the Flyin' W." "When will the drive arrive?" "Late tomorrow afternoon." "Tomorrow morning when you re-turn to the drive, please inform Mr. Henley that it will not be necessary to remove the Flying W cattle in trucks, because I have bought the Flying W from his father and will merge it with the Wagon Wheel' Mary Sutherland was thinking, as she lounged in a long chair in the colonnade, that she had done a hard task quickly and all because she had had the money to hire a maxi-mum of labor and equipment. The old unsightly ranch buildings had disappeared, likewise Pa Burdan's pathetic, frost ruined grapefruil grove and on its site, two hun-dred yards from the dude house, new buildings, architecturally pleas-ing, had replaced them. The new "Dona Maria," he said complain-tngl- "you should not have ridden the flank of the swimming herd something might have happened. Suppose they had stampeded m the water and swam you down. Never before have I swum cattle ... I am frightened for you." "Yes I thought of that, but there was no time to waste. Unless we Eot them headed for this sand-ba- r and the mouth of the Williams we might have had to swim them miles down-strea- to a good crossing and drowned many of them. And then we'd have been caught and arrested and I'd have more horrible public-ity" ...... .. back the old sweet answer to fare-well: "Vaya usted con Dios" Go you with God, and Mary put her horse into the river, lifted herself back of the cantle again and swam him back to the California shore. The Henleys watched her climb out and jog away dov.n the road toward Earp; the Wagon Wheel crew watched her, too . Len Henley shouted to Pedro: "Hola. Pedro, we arrive, Don Ham-ilton and myself," and the pair jumped their horses down to the sand-ba- r beside him. Pedro lifted his sombrero politely. "One plans a secret, lawless act and lo. wit-nesses are not wanting. What do you here, Don Hamilton, with your son?" "Been on a thievin' job our-selves," Don Hamilton replied, and told the tale. "Me an' Len was plan-ni-on goin' over an' raisin' a lit-tle particular hell with that Wall par-ty until we seen somebody else had beaten our time, Pedro, your Wagon Wheel cattle are mixed with our Flyin' W critters now; we're snort-hande- d for the drive back, so sup-pose we thiow in with you an' your boys an' do the job together. I got our own grub an' beddhV rolls an' the enemy's pack mules." "We, too, are short-hande- Don Hamilton, but that is because, on an adventure of this sort, one has to pick his men," said Pedro. "Where's your salty boss headin' for now?" Don Hamilton queried. "We came over in a truck with our horses and Dona Maria followed in her car, lowing the trailer house Don Leonardo was so kind as to down the road give :ne. We parked late last night and Dona Maria slept in the trailer house, but joined us for breakfast and to nelp us steal "True words, Dona man. "And besides, Pedro, I'm not a more I'm a cow dude woman any woman and I'm like the Henleys. I have I hold- -if I can. How e?er I'd nave felt safer with PablRo moment I could under me; for a have hated Don Leonardo for re-fusing to sell him to me. She dw one of the beautiful Pedro had taken from the of Randall H. Wall, flipped out Se empty cartridge cases, reloaded e weapon and put it back in the "A forty-fiv- e bullet makes nSe a splash if you ricochet it aCg me surface." she mused --That steer was my hse so I had to head him by throw- - his eyes. She patteo S C't neck, "in the -- ays fellow was keeping bad whe this must have had Pedro. He never Are all the nH!"?Henle, 'sne counted 'adeHra.mheHewnnrsy-neaTize- s htr perev' k cq throtbTcktomatgre.t- - rntother that hiked to Caufor-- bunknouse, Kucnen anu mess nun were of adobe coo! in summer and warm in winter; she had every piece of necessary equipment and a place for It and everything in its place. She had the Wagon Wheel organized; she had labored and en-joyed it and now, in the evening oi her first labor-fre- e day, she watched the sun slide down over the low blue hills to the west while she waited for Len Henley and Pedro and hia riders to come down out of the fenced field on the home ranch the thousand acres field she had noi seeded to grass because she had tc have a field in which to hold hei cattle and feed them while gradu-ally shipping them to market ir. hired trucks and trailers. She was quite cool and collected at the prospect of seeing Don Leo-nardo again, for she was convinced she had gotten him out of her mind and she waited now, with a certair grim pleasure, to greet him as a friend and not as a former sweet-heart. She would prove to him thai she could take it (TO BE CONTINUED) r-- ! feuMs fie I iJJg(Mp) light True I Passenger Car I lghl Ircclor I Power Ward Matching Cornice And Radiator Shelf OVER WALL-- ' 5t BOX CORNCE if J i l ' ill 1 'l? 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There General Marshall has amend-ed or expanded War Secretary Stim-son'- s simple youth draft proposition with a hunt for a program to build the postwar defense on a small standing army with a citizen re-serve. Marshall is unusually sensible and practical in his approaches to these problems (to wit the excellent de-mobilization point system) but he also wants to draft the youths through compulsion for a year of training. The army bills in congress call for taking the youngster at 17 or upon graduation from high school. Officers in charge say they want all youths drawn in, rich and poor, prospective cler-gymen, doctors, lawyers, tech-nicians as well as poets. They think that by taking in every-one, under compulsion, they are fol-lowing the democratic way. They are not. The compulsory draft is the the-ory of regimentation, dictatorships, totalitarianism. The voluntary in-ducement system is the democratic theory, and it always has proved more efficient when intelligently di-rected. The army seems a little sheepish on this point. Slyly, it shies away from the title "compulsory military training" to describe the plan, and calls it "universal military train-ing." It is not to be universal, but it is compulsory. These military statesmen are just beginning to get into the problem. They- - know European nations, with their deficient manpower, have long required a year in the army for youths. They have just jumped thoughtlessly (in my opinion) to the conclusion that this is the only way to get what they want. What they want and what we need is an army. It must be a sufficient and efficient army, capable of defending the coun-try, else we might as well not have one. It seems to me we have been do-ing it somewhat in General Mar-shall's way all along, and this has not proved satisfactory. We had a small army (74,000 at the start of the war) and a citizens reserve (the National Guard). In effect, we had nothing. The army was not adequate or ef-ficient. The National Guard was a drill unit for parades (and a momn in summer camp). Both together could not defend Long Island against an invading foe. That system will have to be declared obsolete and a new plan adopted. Compulsion Not Fair. But will compulsory military training do the job? I think a fair, objective analysis of the facts will show that it will not, and further-more that it is not even important or material to the job. ro hnilt on techni- - Armies cians. The foot soldier is not so often a fighter as a policeman. He goes to the place led by the highly skilled gunner, artillery Plane combat pilot, tank driver for the last fighting. The point that war today is a complex cohesion of all the skilled scientific techmques A year in the needs no proof. army to make a soldier may in Napoleon s nave been aU right man bad only to day when a musket ac-curately, learn how to shoot a dril. 'or,ee'aCr: but not today olds, either, then or now). the combat men now Not only are ''"There were 1.081,852 males 17 United States in w in the yeanS ,, all these had spent a year What we " thtehaayor contribute materially hDoe'not these skilied tn, 17 years? would have from In ten years you large as force nearly them a orce we the military would they be field, but ( army? Would o For with other the army ZidTa'veVbe trained all over aCv, they would be worse thanthe National Guard unad.P wPe, were the large when .n weeded(ncan little more than rX-e- ll culture course. They're Standard Joan Did you work very long hours down on the farm? Japser No. Only the regulation length 60 minutes each. Positively Bad Private Hambo I sure don't like our new top kick! They say his reputation is questionable. Private Sambo Questionable? Say, there ain't no doubt about it! Foot Service New Patient Say, Doctor, I asked that nurse to put a bottle on my feet and she stuck up her nose ana walked away. Doctor What else could you expect? That, young man, was the head nurse. New Patient Oh, do they specialize that much? Then send me-t- he loot nurse. They Should Joan How are your tongue sandwiches? Waiter Well, Miss, they speak for themselves! Had to Be One "Bobby," said the teacher ly, "you know that you have broken the Eighth Commandment by stealing John's apple?" "Well, Miss," replied the un-repentant boy, "I thought I . might just as well break the eighth and have the apple as break the tenth and covet it." Egyptian Obelisks Between 2,000 and 4,000 years ago, more than 50 large obelisks were erected in Egypt to preserve, for all time, through their hiero-glyphs, the achievements of the Pharaohs." Yet today, only 19 of these monolithic monuments are still standing and only five are in Egypt. New York has one, London one, Paris one, Istanbul two, and Italy nine, including the largest known, which is 106 feet high, weighs 455 tons and stands in the piazza of St. John Lateran in Rome. |