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Show I THE PROGRESSIVE OPTNTON ... IK DUDE YOMANJH lllllllll lln PETER own brush with Breezy's friends, for Mary, anticipating Pedro's visit to Don Leonardo, had asked him not to discuss with the latter her deci-sion to make a reality of his d dream for improving the Wagon Wheel. Pedro, assuming she preferred to invite Don Leonardo out to view the fruits of her money and labor when the job should be done and the grass six inches high, prom-ised silence. Meanwhile, Mary had checked the balance in her bank accounts in New York and Phoenix and arrived at the conclusion she had to have more money in hand to do even some of the things she planned to do; also she was at a loss to know which item on her program should be given priority. While she was puzzling over her predicament Sher-iff Wade drove down to see her. The sheriff was looking more cheerful than when she had seen him last and the reason for it was forth-coming instantly. "Thought I'd run down an' tell you my other two sons has left Arizona," he announced. "I suppose Pedro told you I had 'em in jail an' why." Mary nodded. "It seems that all I have done since arriving in Arizona is create a disturbance, sheriff." "You didn't create this one. I did. There wasn't the least danger of a lynching but I had Hamilton Henley send in a bunch o' his riders in a truck to mill around the jail nix, Margaret paid a visit to Len Henley. She found Mr. Henley vast-ly improved, with everything under perfect control, except his spirits, which were very low. He brightened perceptibly when Margaret entered the room. "Hello, Watchman," he greeteO her, "what of the night?" "Whose night?" "You would have to get exact, wouldn't you? I merely employed a figure of speech. You're looking well, so I needn't ask how you are. When I saw you last you were head-ed for the bedside of the afflicted Miss Sutherland. How did you leave that extraordinary young person?" "Well, she'll soon finish hating her-se- lf because she had to kill a man iD "What is she doing out there?" "Nothing as yet, naturally, but she plans to polish the place up consid-erably." "Usual dude program, I daresay. My father tells me she bought the Burdan cattle from him, so I sup-pose she's looking forward to the fun of riding with the round-u- p as advertised by Pa Burdan." "I daresay she can pay for her fancies." "I wonder," he said with amazing naivete, "if she ever thinks of the Henley boy?" "Frequently, I imagine, but with-out heartbreak. Indeed, young fel-ler m' lad, it's my opinion that she's in a fair way of forgetting she ever essssssssssssssssssssssse THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary Suth-erland fs hired to Arizona by the ad-vertisements the Waron Wheel dnde ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. she Is met at the station by Len Henley, whose father. Ham, has purchased the Burdan notes from the bank and feels that the ranch Is now his. Len takes Mary to Phoenix, enters the rode, and rides Mad Hatter to a finish, winning three thousand dollars for Mary from Len's dad. Mary now buys the equity In Wagon Wheel, and Ham, learning she hasn't got enough money, threatens to foreclose. Mary Ma and Pa Burdan and takes up on the ranch, where she kills the son of Sheriff Wade while Illegally branding a calf. CHAPTER XVI "Of eourse. The heat is blistering, I know, because I've inquired, but It's dry heat, so I can stand It. I have to remain here and learn how to boss the job. But I'll not be a hermit. Did I tell you I hold a fly-ing license?" "No an4 for goodness sake, what has that got to do with it?" "I've had two hundred and fifty hours in the air. I'm going to clear a level spot for a landing field and buy a twin engine four-plac- e ship, so I'll not be tied down here. I can be in Phoenix in an hour, Los Angeles in three hours, San Fran-cisco in six, New York or Florida in two days." Within half an hour the rain was beating in sheets against the win-dows and Mary listened to some-thing she had never heard before the steady slap against the earth of water running off her own roof. It made her feel eerie and aloof from everything, a being detached from her. own world; it inculcated in her the thrill of adventures yet to come. About dark she heard a faint roar-ing that grew rapidly In inten-sity, so she sent for Pedro to ask bim what that sound might be. "It is Satan, laughing with de-light, Dona Maria, as he conducts two funerals. The Santa Maria is In freshet for his purpose." "Two funerals, Pedro?" He related the tale of his adven-ture at Breezy Wade's wake. "Pedro," she declared, "this Is terrible." "Terrible, Dona Maria? It Is hor-rible. Almost I wept because I am such a poor shot. However, I think perhaps I frightened those other two so much they will never come back." "But how do you know they were cattle thieves, Pedro?" "It is enough that they were friends and companions of Breezy Wade, that each carried a Flying W iron on his saddle and murder in met you." Margaret had a leelmg that if Don Leonardo hadn't been lying in the middle of his bed when she said that he would have fallen out, so visibly did he start. "So," he murmured, "I broke my pick, did I?" "I think so. She told me how you gave her the rause an hour after it happened and at that time she seemed inclined to accept the situ-ation philosophically. She told me she thought your argument had mer-it, but later, I think, she commenced to reconsider and concluded that in a very vital matter you had jumped too quickly to a conclusion and quit too readily. She complained rather plaintively one day that you had summoned the Spirit of the Hassy-amp- a for his advice and after he gave it and it appeared to be quite satisfactory, you rejected it.'1 "But surely she didn't take that jest seriously. I merely went through that old rigmarole in order to get my foot in the door, as it were." "Len, you didn't do right by your dude. You dazzled her; you made her love you and when she started dreaming such stuff as the dreams of young girls are made of. you wm his heart if one surprised him as you surprised Breezy, for each carried high-pow- rifle with telescopic Bights and Men round-ing up their own cattle do not go armed. There is no more Wild West except in the movies, Dona Maria." "Then I know of a good substi-tute, Pedro." "The man I killed and the two who escaped," Pedro went on, "were Calif ornians." "How do you know?" "By their outfits. Their saddles have one cincha only. In the south-west we use two. Also, their riatas were three-stran- d rawhide while we use maguey rope. The California vaquero is a dandy and must have some silver on his saddle and bridle If he can afford it. These three had It. The man I killed wore brass spurs inlaid with silver so I took these for myself. Also, I found on him a letter addressed to a man in Earp, California, and it may be that he was that person. One day I shall run over to Earp and make inquiry regarding this unfortunate man." "Do you think they have put the Flying W brand on many of my calves left unbfanded by Pa Burdan last year?" "Not many, I think, because they have not had much time to work. Any calves they branded will proba-bly be down along the river and I will engage a rider to go down there with me and round them up while the brand still shows fresh and un-healed. These animals I will drive up here and corral in the horse pas-ture; we will slaughter them, one by one, for ranch use, so there will be no loss. You will soon have a large number of men to feed." The rain ceased about daylight and by the Santa Maria was again a waste of sand and white granite s, so Pedro rode down to the scene of the two killings and discovered that dur-ing the night Messrs. Wade and Wall had moved on. So he rode on down the river until he could emerge on the north bank where the growth was normal and possible to pene-trate. He found the camp of the visitors; they had had to abandon most of their food supplies; their cooking equipment, blankets and packsaddles, with kyacks, mantas and lash ropes. The following day Pedro returned to the camp with the pack mules and loaded this loot aboard them, for he was a thrifty man and wasted nothing. In - the afternoon he drove Mrs. Maxwell back to Phoenix, remained there over night and returned to the ranch next day. While in Phoenix, however, he paid a visit to Len Hen-ley, who commenced a cautious pumping of the Wagon Wheel man-ager but learned nothing of interest beyond the details of Mary's adven-tn-r with Breezy Wade and Pedro's awakened her with a vigorous shak-ing." "But she telephoned me from the hospital the day she was shot. She thought of me then." "True, but as a friend, not a sweetheart. She wanted me and to get me she had to communicate through you because you spoke Span-ish. She's had a perfectly horrible experience and she's taken it brave-ly. That girl just oozes spunk." "You delivered that silly little message of mine?" "I did." "The answer, please." Margaret gave it to him, ver-batim, and watched him squirm, mentally. "So she isn't remotely broken-hearted?- " he pressed. "I doubt it, but if she is she'll conceal it until she's permanently cured. Were you anticipating re-newing your sentimental interest in the lady, Len?" "It doesn't require renewal. It isn't dead. It doesn't even sleepeth, because when that girl hit me she crippled me for life. Isn't it the most extraordinary situation, Mar-garet? Two people meet and instant-ly the current of their lives is quick-ened and diverted into new channels. I confess I'm rather juvenile about her; I lie here all day envisioning her as I first saw her that snappy morning sitting on her steamer trunk on the platform at Sughuaro." "Does your original contention that marriage between you two would be a mistake, still hold?" "Well, perhaps I should have tak-en a chance and made the experi-ment, although it would have been pretty horrible if my original theory proved to be correct after all. I don't know and I don't think father my does, either, because ever since she busted . Breezy Wade, he doesn't go into the silence when 1 mention her name. He just shakes his head and murmurs: 'There's a salty one for you. So smart she's spooky. Fight a catawampus and spot him six bites and three clouts.' " "When your father sees the light he never blinks it." "So you think I'm washed up, Mar garet." "I'm certain of it, darling." "Well," he mourned, "I was never much of a hand to come crawling so the bet will have to go as it lies When she wrote me, thanking me for the flowers I sent her she me as friend Len and signed herself sincerely, Mary Sutherland That got me down." About March .fifteenth he left the hospital and went to live with his father and here, one day, he was summoned to the telephone. "Hel-lo, Don Leonardo," Mary's golden voice greeted him. "How are you. cowboy?" (TO BE CONTINUED! "But, how do you know they were cattle thieves, Pedro?" an' yell 'Lynch 'em' after I had my boys locked up. That threw a chill into 'em. Then Hamilton Henley come in an' interviewed 'em. He give 'em their choice sell their Flyin' W iron, lease an' livestock to him, or he leads the mob in stormin' the Jail an' stringin' 'em up." "And they accepted that pro-gram?" "You bet after I told 'em I wouldn't kill none o' my friends to save 'em. So Hamilton Henley has a lawyer come over to the jail with his stenographer an' fix up the pa-pers an' the deal's closed. Mr. Hen-ley wouldn't pay for the cattle until after the round-u- an' his own count. He wouldn't accept my boys' count. So they agreed to that an' he give 'em both five hundred dollars for present expenses an' makes a speech from the second-stor- winder o' my jail advisin' the mob to go home on account he's arranged for the boys to sell out to him an' leave Arizona forever. So when the crowd melts we put the boys in Ham Hen-ley's car an' him an' me drop 'em off on the Arizona end o' the bridge across the Rio Colorado at Blythe an' they hike across into California." "So," Mary said. "Ham Henley is a good actor as well as a bad one." "Ain't no favor he won't do for a friend he likes an' respects." "But the Flying W, Pedro Ortiz informs me. is a small outfit about a township and a half of range and perhaps three hundred head of breeding stock. It will only be a nuisance to Ham Henley. He likes a larger canvas." "He aims to sell that little spread to some dude if so be he don't sell it to me, which he'll do in case I'm licked at the general election this fall. An' I expect to be be-cause o' them sons o' mine." "I imagine I'm the dude he has in mind, Mr. Wade. Well, in a pinch I'll Ham Henley is the cattle king of Arizona but I have an ambition to be the cattle queen. I'd be a cattle queen, would I not, with ten thousand head?" "You would, but not on your pres-ent range or even with the Flyin' W added." This was her cue to confide in him her plan for the home ranch and he agreed that it was a feasible one, provided she got water in suf-ficient quantity from the wells she planned to sink and the cost at pumping should not be prohibitive. The day after her return to Phoe- - CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUT AND SELL "" Office Furniture, Files, Tynewrit.. , Ing Machines. 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It ia better to rely on a medicine that has won countrywide sp- - Eroval than on something less favorably Doan's have been tried and test-ed many years. Are at all drug stores. Get Doan s today. theNewI By PaulMallon Released by Western Newspaper Union. PRESENT STATUS OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE WASHINGTON. The Gallup pol claims Roosevelt leading by a smal margin. These commercial polls generally in the past, have noted presidentia races about even until two or threi weeks before the real vote counting A magazine poll ol the politica experts in the Washington Presf corps indicates a rather stronger ex-pectation of a Roosevelt victory. This reflects, I think, the populai disbelief that anyone could evei beat Mr. Roosevelt, the natural sports notion that nearly alwayi .makes the champion the favorite. Generally the public cannot con-ceive of a champ losing, as he ha! never lost before. Yet the inside unquotable re-ports of the congressmen from back home actually give Dewey an even or better chance to win, as matters stand today. Discard all Republican reports, as these might be partisan. Consider only those of Democratic legislators. They have been so discouraging as to alarm and even embitter the Demo-cratic political leaders, who are urg-ing the President to drop his "non-partisan" campaign and start a partisan one and he will Septem-ber 23. The spearhead of the fourth term movement was the Hillman-CI-political action committee, and all .the politicos can see its effectiveness has been dulled, if not splintered. The other unions, and some CIO unions, would not stand for it. Wagering odds have dropped from 2 to 1 on Roosevelt to 9 to 5 in the best racing circles. Take, Maryland, which always has been listed as a state. Today there is a Democratic cloakroom saying, possibly over-drawn but nevertheless significant, that, "Only Senator Tydings and his secretary think Maryland is going Democratic." These two claim the Roosevelt majority would be 25,000 today, but Roosevelt carried Mary-land four years ago by 115,000. I know a southern Democratic leader who thinks Dewey will win and is making preparations accord-ingly. Others insistently list Texas, Mississippi and Virginia as doubtful. There are reports that the Roose-velt Bremerton speech in the news-reel- s received little or no applause generally, while the campaign pic-tures of the Dewey family were well received. (Democratic leaders are now taking care of this deficiency and, within the past week, Roose-velt applause again has appeared in the movie theaters. FARM VOTE LOST All reports agree the farm vote is lost beyond redemption and the business vote for Roosevelt was damaged by the departure oi little businessman Nelson and big businessman Wilson from WPB in favor of a TVA engineer. Earlier a considerable portion oi the business vote, and possibly all the top financial vote, would have gone to Roosevelt, on the spending-recover-promise plus inter-nationalism. On the other hand. New Eng-land is still classed as largely doubtful (by Republicans) al-though Dewey has gone a long way toward satisfying the Will-ki- e elements there. Probably Willkie expects to come out for Dewey just before election as he did on the eve of the elec-tion of 1942 in New York. These developments as a whole may explain Mr. Roosevelt's deci-sion to make a labor speech in Philadelphia and follow with others. After all 22.304,755 votes were cast against him four years age (27,243,466 for him) and all symp-toms of sentiment suggest this op-position has been greatly enlarged. These 22,304,755 are nearly as many as elected him president in 1932 (22,821,857). His totals in '36 and '4C ran 27,000,000. Now many a campaign has been won on Labor day only to be lost tvi "months later on Election day. I .ink Willkie, for instance, was stronger at this stage of the race four years ago, than when the votes were cast for him. I have seen Mr. Roosevelt com-pletely turn over a campaign situ-ation stacked mountain-hig- h against him. He has been more clever as a campaigner than in any other phase of his duties. Yet nothing which has developed so far in this campaign yet points to that out-come again. To date, the Dewey campaign has been by far the smarter. Anyone who thinks this brief cita-tion is not objective reporting, is merely deluding himself. There exists in this country a silent, strong opposition to Mr. Roosevelt, a re-sentful opposition which is not in-dulging much in political debate, which may not show itself at polit-ical meetings, or in press reports I think the fourth term will be gravely in doubt until these votes are counted. Republicans are sit-ting back waiting. Paramnesia Persons who feel they have pr-eviously visited a place or pe-rformed an activity that, m reality, they have not, are unde-rgoing an illusion called paramn-esia, says Collier's. For instance, it 'can occur when a person has his attention di-stracted immediately after having seen a new place. Upon again b-ecoming aware of his surroundings, his memory recalls the scene bat places the time far in the past. Lincoln Songs The more than 500 songs on the life of Abraham Lincoln constitute the largest number of musical compositions ever written about one man, says Collier's. They consist of approximately 420 nomination and campaign pieces, presidential numbers, emancipation selections and min-strel and comic compositions; and about 80 funeral marches and me-morial hymns. |