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Show ' THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Farm Topics, UJmdlcen0 EPipcessonip t My (George Agnaew OnammUiieirilam - George Agnew Chamberlain WNU Service GIVES HINTS FOR REPLACING FLOCK - Poultry Expert Urges Only ; CHAPTER X Continued . . I -1- 1- Where now, master? We walk to La Barranca, said Arnaldo and set off, picking his way along the dry bed of the aroyo until he struck the fresh trail Juanito had failed to take. Two hours later they came upon Van Suttarts damaged car and examined it with interest; soon afterward they arrived at the rope bridge, crossed it successfully and headed for the haciendas nearest gate. Not until the two strangers were within a stones throw of the outer wall did Joyce recognize the taller, of them and utter a cry. Accompanied by Dirk she dashed down to the great court and with his help opened the zaguan and then the outer gate. She held out both hands, her eyes shining with welcome. How on earth did you get here? You havent walked pll the way, have you? Arnaldo had raised his hat. He dropped it on the ground, took her hands, gave her a gleaming smile, nodded at Van Suttart, shrugged his shoulders and pointed backward with his chin. It was as though he had spoken, told them in so many words where, how and when his car had been ditched. So you changed your mind, said Dirk. Yes, said Arnaldo. Something happened to make me change my mind. asked What do you mean? What are you two talkJoyce. ing about? I asked Arnaldo to come with me, explained Dirk, but he refused to take part in a sentimental gesture. admitted Adan, Quite true, but that was before I knew Miss Sewell, scorning the role of vicHe tim, had shot up Dorado. Where looked around curiously. are your 18 gringos? What gringos? asked Joyce, bewildered. Taking out his wallet Arnaldo extracted the clipping the minister of war had handed him and passed it to Joyce. Read it. Im here on a mission to investigate. She glanced through the inspired account of the taking of La Barranca and the further she read the more did her eyes and cheeks blaze. She crushed the paper in her fist, started to throw it away, then changed her mind, smoothed it out and slipped it inside her pullover. Its an outrageous lie, she said, based on a grain of truth. You seem to have come prepared to stay. Im glad, because this fantastic fabrication will need some talking over. She led the way into the inner patio and no sooner had she crossed its threshold than the air of a chatelaine enveloped her. At ease and competent she gave directions to Luz, then turned to Arnaldo. Youre tired and you must be hungry. As soon as youve had a wash therell be food ready in the small dining room. Perhaps Mr. Van Suttart will show you where it is. He wont need to, said Adan. Ive been here before. She cast him a curious and startled glance, but the placidity of his expression reassured her. Nevertheless a certain uneasiness persisted, causing her to put off anything in the nature of a showdown. During the afternoon she attended to her many duties and took another horseback lesson, still omitting to' tell Dirk she had ridden as a child. Adan appeared, refreshed by a nap, and encouraged her. The same superficiality marked the dinner hour, Don Jorge alone scorning to utter polite nothings. Wheels within wheels, said Don Jorge quite suddenly, and a younga girl sets them all to turning. Fonseca who would never save for her hatred of moved have the Manifest Destiny. Onelia, out to get with a single stone Dorado, his ancient enemy, and the minister of war. The American ambassador trying desperately to save his face and perhaps his job. Adan Arsemi-offici- Van Suttart. Are you friend or foe? Friend, said Dirk promptly. Now you, Adan, said Don Jorge,' and dont speak too hastily. You and I have met before, though you sat at Dorados table while I ate with servants. Do you come as friend or foe? Arnaldo flicked the ash from his cigarette and sat staring at7 the brightened tip. Here is my answer: how far Ill go for the senorita is her business and mine and nobody elses. Leonardo! Don Jorge shouted, a spy is among us! , You, a Mexican, cried Joyce, and youre not ashamed to say . that! Luz thrust her head in at the door. Do I send for Leonardo? No! commanded Joyce. She turned toward Don Jorge. Maxie, if you and Mr. Van Suttart dont mind. Id like to talk to Adan Arnaldo alone. Promptly Don Jorge turned ceremonious. He rose; bowed, faced toward his own room; stumped al You! Tour House of Drones. straight to the door, stood back to force Dirk to pass, then entered and closed it with emphasis. Lets get out of here, said 1 remember a Adan. big shabby room, with a huge fireplace. Thats where I meant to go when wed finished talking, said Joyce. The life of a hacienda is not that of a house but of a village, sometimes almost of a town. Articles and values are easily destroyed or lost, but certain ingrained fundamentals take years to die. The he- blacksmith, the itinerant a teacher of sorts for the crowded school and a horse and cattle foreman to carry on the banner of scorn for the equally important chief of the muleteers are threads not lightly torn from a social fabric however raveled. The drawing room gave evidence of this truth. The furniture had been maltreated, but the curtains had been recently patched by an expert needle. A square had been cut from the corner of a lovely Persian rug to make a saddle' blanket for Mi General, but the elements of comd fort remained. Witness a fire on the hearth and the piano in tune. Adan walked to it as if drawn by a lodestone. He struck a chord, then sat down and rippled the keys in melodious undertone to reditary piano-tune- r, well-tende- his words. We can be honorable with foreigners, he repeated, looking up at Joyce across the corner of the closed I am authorized sounding board. to offer you $50,000 for La Barranca if youll agree to leave the country at once. Think it over. Fifty thousand to get out, nothing but trouble if you try to stay. La Barranca isnt something you can sell, she stated. My father bought it thats true but not from people with their roots still in the soil. They were gone, uprooted by naldoYes? prompted Arnaldo coolly. their own folly, and he bought it from a bank. I was born here. The What about me? Don Jorge, scowling, avoided a fibers of my being are tied to stone, he vine and tree.. I owe lip service to Gentlemen, direct answer. as two governments, but not alleeither here are we continued, giance. Allegiance from the heart guests or servitors of the senorita strikes deep. It has to stand on a of mistress lawful Joyce Sewell, foundation of faith and love. Where world her a is This La Barranca. will I find them if not here? How for room of world. We have plenty can I sell La Barranca without selltourfor neutrals, none defenders, Mr. ing my people and myself? ists or spies. Ill ssk you first, Mar-garid- Adan stopped playing, his fingers he said at last, staring hovering over an unstruck chord. Then what course do you intend to pursue, he murmured, his eyes on the keys, and just where do you think it will lead you? Theres one word that covers it all, said Joyce. Fight. Thats what we do wherever we are you in El Tenebroso, I here or in Elsin-borEvery woman, every man, wherever we are, we fight to live though we fight and go down. Adans hands crashed out the chord as he rose and faced her. He Courstared at her out of a daze. age always wears a glorious face, he said as if he were explaining some mystery to himself. Fight o. ahead. false front, answered Joyce after an imperceptible pause, your air .of Your Is that really the way it struck you? asked Dirk, but did not wait for an answer. Yes, Im begin. ning to see it. But you mustnt think its just you I meant. Its a lot bigger than any single one of you and it cant be covered by five minutes or five years. The air you wore was the air of the whole place chancellery, garden and the embassy itself. Then cry out, Look at us! our skins are safe wherever we go; if you want and go down. You, alone yes. to keep yours, stay home. Its so silly not to see the other half of that His hands went out gropingBut doctrine. and arms touched her ly, passed What other half? asked Dirk, down to her wrists. A voice within puzzled. was for him, long stilled, striving utterance through fingers and eyes Stay at home yourselves, said with intensity, do away with so to Joyce lie. are because lips prone She thrilled not to him but to his the House of Drones and take your ardor. Since fire is a stranger to consuls with you, guardians of the no man, warming friend and foe, dollar and nothing else! Then wed she yielded, moved forward, not know where we stand. from any reasoning but by the simEasy now, said Dirk soothingly. You! Your House of Drones. ple law that sparks fly upward. Then he was holding her, kissing her, and What if one of the bullets that hit she was kissing him. Yet, some- your car had killed you? From behow, he was far away and she was ing a parasite, a silkworm living with him, as though she dreamed. on the pulp of the taxpayer safe at His voice, continuing, broke the home, you would suddenly have acsuch imporBut you and I together is quired importance spell. smother story. I have the power and tance that you would certainly have destroyed me and possibly plunged you the land and no government to fool will or come your country in the very war youre past, present too much with Adan Arnaldo. Its supposed to wave back with a lily practical, logical; it will be a hand! She rose, letting his coat fall from her shoulders. cinch. Youre great, said Dirk, elecCheeks burning, she rushed from the room and along the balcony of trified against his will and judgthe patio. As she turned its angle ment. Whether youre right or not, she saw Dirk coming from Don youre great. Pick up your coat and come with Jorges study and it was all she I want to show could do to keep from running to me, said Joyce. cast herself in his arms. Instead you something. He followed her down the spiral she stopped short and asked herstair and back to the patio. She led self if she were crazy. He. came to a halt a few paces him to her former playroom, pushed Senor Maximiliano asked open the door and turned. This was away. me to make the rounds, he ex- the day nursery where I was playplained and hesitated. I dont sup- ing when they came in a hundred of them riding their horses over the pose youd care to be bothered. Thats where I was going my- flower beds, trampling the rose Do you want bushes and shooting at anything that self," said Joyce. No force against a weaker moved. to come along? was nation down turned the responsible for their Together they passage giving access to the stair coming; dont forget it. She pointThats the door where my leading to the esplanade of the roof. ed. ran out, looking for me. She mother Under the blaze of moon and stars took three steps before they shot followed visited the by Dirk, Joyce, her. I didnt see what happened four bastions. Awake, Leonardo? then only the crowding men. The she murmured. Awake, Senorita. All is quiet, next thing I knew my father, carryIs. everything quiet? Senorita. The rounds finished she ing a funny little trunk under one started toward the spiral stair by arm, lifted me with the other and which they had ascended, walking rushed up those steps to the balslowly at first, then with a sudden cony. They turned and saw him in time to laugh and jeer but hardly to acceleration in her pace. shoot. Come; Ill show you where She moved toward the parapet bullets struck and how we esthe and they sat down, he beside her, their shoulders barely touching. caped. him to the balcony, She They sat in silence, their senses then preceded through passage after passage drenched in beauty. Her heart swelled until she knew she must until, doubling back, they arrived at steep stone steps leading down into speak or choke. cavernous pit behind the vast Its beautiful and terrible. I won- akitchens and thence to a narrow der if anywhere else in the world With a strong pull Dirk postern. walk and in terror hand beauty opened the door and they stepped hand. out into such an umbrageous paraMe, Im wondering who I am, e dise as only the haciendas said Dirk. Youre real. Youre of the can boast. part of the night, part of this, amazThis is the lake, said Joyce. ing place. You had a name that Lake? Dirk. Wheres meant nothing nothing at all. But the water? laughed now youve shaken it and become You cant see it for the hyareal. If I should never see you cinths," If it explained Joyce. again, yet live for a thousand years, werent for them we couldnt be I couldnt forget you. Im not being here. fresh, Im not making love, but Why not? something belongs to me from now It wouldnt be safe. This mass on something you havent given of too thick for a boat to hyacinths, that I didnt try to take. Youre pass or a man to swim, mean a lot real but what about me? Ive turned more to my safety than all the into nothing. These words Im American - embassies in the world speaking are they a dream, or can put together. you hear them too? Can you? Let up, said Dirk, please let Ive heard them all," said Joyce, up. Im licked. but I cant be sure you said them She turned toward him with an aloud or whether my own lips spoke impulsive movement; her fingers them. Because as I seem real to barely touched his shoulder. He took her in his arms so naturyou, so are you to me. Im not afraid of you. I wasnt afraid of ally she had no thought to draw you before, but I disliked the per- back, then realization swept over son you were. You wore a Josephs her that resentment would have coat made up of the things I most been silly before so spontaneous and Now youve thrown it unthinking an action. This was difdespise. away or perhaps youve only taken ferent from Arnaldo so different it off and presently will slip it on she was another person standing in another world and awake, wide again. dwskc admitted he mournPerhaps, (TO BE CONTINUED) fully, "and you too." She shivered. He took off his Old Chinese Pastime jacket and put it around her shoulders. Nothing was said; he had not It is said that the Chinese of the asked her if she were cold nor did period were in the she protest he would need the coat habit of relieving the monotony of ' " their existence by writing one anhimself.' Name the things you despise, others lives. old-tim- semi-tropi- an cs Blood-Teste- straight Stock. d By Cora Cooke, Poultry Extension Specialist, University Farm, St. Paul. WNU Service. Vell begun is half done, should be the watchword for poultrymen as they begin the task of Unless conditions change, a big hatch may be expected this spring, for poultrymen will need to replace a large share of their flocks for production next fall. When buying chicks, there are a number of pullet-raisin- g. things the poultryman cannot afford, among which is getting just any kind of chicks, regardless of how low the price on them may be. It is suggested that poultrymen purchase nothing but chicks from d Nor can the stock. poultryman afford crowding more chicks into his brooder house than for which it was intended; 400 chicks is about enough for a house blood-teste- by 14 feet. Buying more chicks than the poultry raiser can feed well throughout the year is another addition to his "cannot afford list. Since feed supplies are now plentiful, home mixed feeds can be fed from the beginning. The chick ration can be the same as the laying ration. A finely ground mash is not necessary to feeding success, for in experiments 12 at the Nebraska Experiment sta- tion, better results were obtained with a coarse mash, for both hens and chicks. Laying in a goodly supply of feeders so that no chick will have to wail; for his feed is another recommendation. Needless to point out, no poultryman can afford to raise his flock on old ground. Then, after the poultryman has raised his pullets, a task that will require six months of his time, he cannot afford to ruin his good work by leaving his pullets out on rang after they have started to lay, or after October 1, or to put anything d but fully developed, pullets in the house next fall. well-fleshe- New Uses for Honey Are Found by the Scientists The power of honey to absorb and retain moisture gives it many industrial uses, in addition to its value as food, studies by the bureau of chemistry and soils show. This quality of honey, called hygroscopi-citwill make for greater use of the honey grades not adapted to y, home use. Bureau studies included the behavior of honeys of different flower origin white clover, tupelo, buckwheat, tulip poplar, and mesquite. All these honeys are found useful in commercial baking of bread, cake; and cookies. When these products are made with part honey in place of sugar, they lose less moisture after being stored seven days than bread, cake, and cookies made with other sweetening agents. Buckwheat honey gives particularly good results. Honey, is also useful in candymaking. It is suggested for curing tobacco, in the same way that sugar and maple sugar are used. Among other industries that offer outlets for comparatively large quantities of honey are brewing, wine making and vinegar manufacture. The bureau points out that there are still a number of chemical and technical problems to be worked out in connection with the use of honey in each of these industries. In the Feed Lot Russia ranks first in barley pro- duction. Matured sugar cane contains per cent sugar. 18 The United States soil erosion loss is put at $400,000,000 yearly. Sussex, England, is fining fruit growers who do not fight pests. A correctly adjusted plow does better work, saves time, and pulls easier. Hens will sometimes eat snow, apparently from choice, but that is no proof that they need ifce water in winter. Geese are but when they get along to ten years or more their egg production drops far below average. long-live- d, Recent experimental work has shown that summer decrease in egg size is due mainly to high |