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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER 4 e88888888888S88gS8S8SSg8gS8888888888888888888888888g8S8888888888888888g3 If II WOMAM ' 11 PETER B.KYNE 8S8888888888888S888SS8S88g8gS8888888gS8888888888888888888888888$8S THE STORE SO FAR: Mary Slither two thousand. You ever hear o me met Hank Wade, the sheriff of Yava-pand makes arrangements to be met at gettin about an the mushy public County, emerging from the counEngbnaro, a flag station in Arizona. She a and noticed that the ty court-hous- e arrives by train and waits tor the station prosecutin Mebbe they dont work on you. latter looked very forlorn. Ham wagon from Wagon Wheel Ranch to pick They dont any more, but when Henley thought he knew why and deter up. When no wagon comes she gets cided he must do something about panicky. After a long wait Len Henley, they did I didnt prosecute m an f Congress Junction, picks her np In a I didnt hire m killed. I did it my- it, for while a hard man in many track and drives her to his trailer house, self. I a hired man ways he was not infrequently given only where she eats her breakfast. Henley in your case suggest because doubt if you to sudden gusts of kindness and I not did explains why the station wagon know to com- sympathy and, under the spell oi about firearms enough come. It bad been attached, as well as mit suicide. Have you paid your them, could be magnificent. the horses and ranch equipment. He dehe greeted the Hello, Hank, cides for Mary that she should pnt np In rent to the state land commissioner a hotel in Phoenix, and with that as her for them six townships you got un- sheriff. on my way to the Im base she eonld roam around and secure der lease? Apache Club for lunch. Come and accommodations at an orthodox dnde have a bite with me. ranch. Got the money?" Id like to, Mr. Henley, the sherNo. I was goin to ask you to iff replied, but I reckon Id better loan it to me until CHAPTER not. You might lose caste in the No, Bill. The bank has been community. kind' to you an patient, you aint To hell with the community. Ill Although the upbringing of Hamilton L. Henley, Senior, had been ac- reduced the indebtedness an you not make believe I havent heard complished after the early Ameri- aint paid your interest or the taxes. the gossip thats flyin around about Youre through. can formula not infrequently you, Hank, since them three boys Five minutes after Burdan had o yourn was turned loose after two as being drug up by the hair o the head, he had never been left his office, Hamilton Henley had, juries failed to convict em of cattle i Tbe comedy quiz starring cow-thie- f? Pattern No. and 149 New Montgomery Street Calif. San Francisco Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern January Hamilton Hen-fey- s' secretary came into his office and .announced that a Mr. Burdan Was in the; 'general office and desir-tru- S of an interview. Ah, Bill Bur-dayes, Henley murmured, know him. . I smell a touch, but show n, him in..-- , - , u No 10:30 on the entire BLUE network Size Name.? Address CONSULT CALOX ASK ME ANOTHER BEX El VITAMIN ? YOUR NEWSPAPER LOCAL McKesson ? ? ? ? ? P.M. E.W.T. & bobbins, TOOTH B COMPLEX ' mind? Trouble, Ham. Whos runnin his iron on you? The State Bank of Arizona at Prescott. They hold my note secured by chattel mortgage on my cattle, an another note secured by Seed o trust on my home ranch. me. You Ham, theyre bein a director o that bank an an old friend o mine Ham Henley interrupted, Bill, Tve known you forty years and you aint a friend of mine in that sense. A fellers got to dig deep to git to my bump o friendship in money matters. Its been done many a time, at that, but not by men. that regard a promissory note as somethin to be renewed. You came to ask me to use my influence with Ihe bank to lay oSn you. You want more time. Thats right, Ham. Time wont help you out. You borrowed most o that money to build an furnish a swell ranch-hous- e for dudes, an when you got the dudes you didnt know how to entertain em. You thought they wanted to rough it so you fed em fodder that only a cowpuncher could digest. Tou didnt know that a dude ranch ls a bust unless you got a general store a couple miles away, so the dudes can ride down to it, tie their horses to the hitchin rack outside n buy an sody. You didnt know you had to have beautiful wranglers to ride herd on em sn that their feelins could be hurt If they was scolded for slouchin in the saddle an givin one o your nags a saddle gall, or cinchiq him so tight he bucked em off or raised cinch scald. I read in the J paper here a while back that some dude Woman, that. gets stacked one by o your horses an- bunged up, sues ir? ,or damages., An as if you idn t have enough trouble on your ands you had to go to work an Pend about twenty-fiv- e hundred dol-af- s tryin to convict them three ?efeltboys o stealin your cattle. it was my duty to the m. Ham. The public be darned.. Who told you was Santa Claus? You could .ave hired them three skunks killed r five hundred dollars an saved ice-crea- - pub-expo- CAPSULES office-manag- CONSTIPATION FEEN-A-MIN- FEEN-A-MIN- FEEN-A-MIN- io ms. m timrn iamruutooi . In the matter of contemplated raids upon his finances, under the guise of unsecured loans, Ham Henley was psychic. And he liked to have such interviews over quickly; hence when Bill Burdan sat down, with his hat on his knees, and smiled wistfully at Ham Henley, the latter laid: Well, Bill, whats on your inc POWDER A Bomber Reports A General Quiz stealin. Theyre sayin that, as From the Dutch we get this resheriff, its your job to select the port turned in by a Netherlands jury venires from the great register The Questions o voters an that in the case o the pilot after hed bombed a Japanese aifstrip in occupied Netherjury selected to try your boys you 1. How long did it take the Maylands East Indies: Beg to report didnt make no mistakes. I dont flower to reach America? honorable airstrip has lost face. believe that. 2. The distance between the My boys was guilty an I know pitchers box and home plate is So it, the sheriff replied sadly. DONT LET what? does everybody else that read the 3. What was Woodrow Wilsons transcript o the testimony. They first name? bought out, Mr. Henley, but not on SLOW YOU UP 4. Material carried along and money o mine. When bowels are sluggish and you later is called deposited by rivers I know it an when you run for feel irritable, headachy do as millions what? the modern do chew office to succeed yourself next fall. 5. Which Is the strongest living chewing-gulaxative Simply chew Hank, Ill be out bearin the cactus Mother, Daughter Vogue 1 before you go to bed, creature according to weight? for votes for you. taking only in accordance with package T'HE mother - and - daughter 6. The Riffs of natives are what I wont run agin, Mr. Henley. directions sleep without being disvogue of identical clothes is inc- country? turbed. Nex morning gentle, thorough Throw enough mud an some of its reasing-small when too, wonder, relief, helping you feel swell again. Try sure to stick. Id get licked. Taste: good, is handy they both adore the same sort of The Answers Now, Hank, you quit feelin bad. economical. A generous family supply and Use dress! pinafore polka play I been talked about some, too. 1 dotted chambrays, flowered mus- 1. Sixty-fiv- e FEEN-A-MINbeen bawled out in a church right in lin, candy-stripedays. d T cotton or ging2. Sixty feet five inches. this town as a bloody-hande- d killer ham for this fashion. engaging 3. Thomas. an all because I ketch some rustlers 4. Alluvium. makin off with my critters an win Pattern No. 8615C is in sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 Types of Insects 5. The beetle. the resultant argyment. People say and 6 years. Size 3 requires 2 yards of There are about 624,000 types oi 6. Morocco. insects in the world. Im lawless. Well, maybe I be, bui Inc' material; 8 yards rie rac for trim. Im practical. I might meet some men at the Apache Club thatll give me the cold shoulder, Mr. Henley, If they do Ill have somethin tc tell em! Hank, me an you outlive our enemies. Come up to the Apache Club with me. I want to be seen there with you an let everybody know youre my friend an that nc friend o mine was ever crooked He took the sheriff by the arm and forcibly turned him. Almost with reluctance the latter yielded. I begged my boys to confess, Mr, Henley, the sheriff went on.' 1 could have fixed it with the complainant to ask the judge to show clemency; I could have fixed it with the judge to go light on. em as first offenders.' But no! They told me 1 Ws was an interferin old fool an like tc broke my heart, No. I was going to ask you to Im afraid. Hank, the lesson loan it to me until didnt sink in. Theyll be at it agin. Got to, the honest sheriff plained. I thought I bad you trained two trials left em Them but here you are organizing more an they aint got no other broke, work for me. o meetin expenses. Mr. Hen. This will be a temporary job, way there aint but one cure fox ley, Jess. I had to take two tricks to what ails my boys an' you an m win and them mortgages were the know what that is, because we aphigh trumps. it when I managed your DouHubbell nodded and Ham Henley pliedH ranch. ' traction bars are built into the tread of a I Agger on puttin the ble went on. form tire to serve just one purpose. That purpose is to tractor Wagon Wheel in shape an unloadin Very early next morning Ham it on a dude at a nice profit Bur-dastarted back for Phoenix, but left the give traction. broke flattern a tortilla; all state highway at Congress Junction Because the traction bar is the source of pulling power of he can save is the family photoand turned northwest across the dessome an clothes the tractor tires, it is obvious that greater traction bar length gives ert to the Wagon Wheel ranch, for graph album, old ladys sewing machine. So he he was minded to get Bill Burdan oul greater traction. By the same token, a shortened traction bar will grab at a little getaway money of his way as quickly as possible, ' design, such as the broken center, gives less traction. and Ill give it to him to sign a and he was quite certain that a small deed to the home ranch gratuity and assurance of freedom Firestone Ground Grip Tractor Tires provide up to 215 an give me a bill o sale for the from a deficiency judgment would inches of traction bar length per tractor at no extra cost. extra cattle so I wont be put to the ex- effectuate prompt abdication. When And bars are joined in the center to form a powerful, triple the pense o enterin suit in foreclosure. he arrived a man detached himself braced, He shouldnt ought to object to asfrom a bench in front of the blackleakproof traction unit. signin his state land lease to me, smith shop and came out to meel Thats why farmers prefer tires built by Firestone, the either, so I can move right in an him. and to take pioneer pacemaker in putting the farm on rubber. take charge. Somebodys got Wheres Bill Burdan? Ham Hencharge because Bill Burdan will ley asked. Listen to tbe Voice of Firestone with Richard Crooks and just walk out an leave everything. )tbe Firestone Symphony Orchestra, under tbe direction Everything that aint been nailed of Howard Barlow , Monday evenings, over N, B, C set-up there down here or mortgaged has been You have a sweet Mr. of its Mr. third a the value, at Im depattached, Copyright, 1944, The Firestone Tire St Rubber Co. and Henley. uty sheriff in charge. Mrs. Burdan Henley. So sweet I hate to unload it on a packed her duds an left yesterday an the old man packed his an left dude, but then its just the sort o to a dude wommomin early. He was all broke this thatll appeal place an, because itll be a goin concern up so I reckon he wont be back. Whered he go? an she can walk right into a mighty of Aztec architecPhoenix. nice ranch-housThanks. Ill locate him there. ture an all furnished with Navajo calf-hid- e rugs an heavy oak chairs with A little south of Wickenburg Len seats an all them sort of ropulled in off the Henley At that fixins. theyre shoulder suddenly mantic of the stopped highway, nice taste. They mighty swell n in and pointed to a sandy wash flanked wouldnt affront me none." trees; sycamore by scattered ' How are the cattle? Are you this wash a stream about through sure old Burdan has the number of fifty feet wide and an inch deep the cattle enumerated in the mort- wandered slowly out into the desert. gage? The Wade boys worked on That, said Mr. Henley reverently, him, he claimed. You might find a "is the famous Hassyampa River. shortage. Im surprised the birds didnt I expect to, but I dont mind drink it up before it got this far, that because Ill make enough on the Don Leonardo. Mary had heard Mr. Extra Traction ropr.sents tho BEST deal without worryin over that item. Pedro Ortiz call him that and had Extra Bar Length that Give, Superior RUBBER Sjmttak wj Vmtmnt 3 The cattle are poor stuff. The old taken a fancy to that form of adPower to FIRESTONE Pulling old breedin down run em man let dress. GROUND GRIP TRACTOR TIRES n Dont make funny cracks about stock, short calf crops and an nothin much when he the Hassyampa River, he warned. You could very easily get yourself started thirty years ago. Them Wade to be ashamed o in bad with the Spirit of the Hassy. had ought boys themselves for descendin so low as ampa. Now, if youll please get out and follow me down to the stream to waste their time stealin trash. Now, whenever Ham Henley had well discover whether or no your the arranged to buy or sell anything he presence in Arizona is to have wasted no time closing the deal. official blessing.' He led her down to the edge of the Hence the following day, he motored r little stream, removed his State the sad relieved and Prescott up to moist on the it and two sour of its spread Bank of Arizona Kneel and drink, he comloans. After leaving the bank he de- sand. manded. Nobody has been known at the luncheon Apache to have cided to in drinking from the and typhoid club acquire Arizona, Club, the oldest Hassyampa. of which he was now one of the old(TO BE CONTINUED) est members. En route there he via the telephone, purchased the Burdan notes and collateral from the State Bank of Arizona. He summoned his general and confidential man, Jess Hubbell, I very intelligent man, aggressive, explained what he had done and in(earless and more imaginative than structed Hubbell to get him a certianybody had ever given him credit fied check to cover the purchase. I thought you had enough cow (or being. At fourteen years of age he had secured employment as horse outfits to worry over, Hubbell corn- wrangler on a cattle ranch down in Cochise County, at a wage of fifteen he dollars per month. At fifty-fiv- e was a cattle king, sole owner of six large cattle spreads, with a heavy Interest in two dividend - paying mines, stocks in various banks throughout the state, and an office in his own office building in Phoenix, in which city he also lived in a modest adobe bungalow attended by a married couple the wife his cook and housekeeper and the man his body servant and 'chauffeur. He had one guest room in his home and lived in the hope that his only son would (ccupy it occasionally if and when he latter should conclude to cease taming a living in a vocation the llder Henley considered disgraceful. Ham Henley had always grieved lecretly over an apparent lack of toughness in his son and ascribed this defect to Lens mother, who had been a Back Bay, Boston lady with more admiration for culture than corpuscles. In the upbringing of Len the had, in a way of speaking, got ten the jump on Hamilton by pointing him out as a horrible example. Tears before her death she had started, definitely, to make her own plans for Lens life, thus setting him against his father and, in the end. Inducing a coldness between them. He had educated himself surprisingly well in everything save the English language preferring American with an Arizona accent; he was One day in THURSDAY NIGHTS SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. n ' 8615 is in sizes 11, 13, 15, 17 yards of rac for trim. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: - No-o-o-- o. sensible of any resultant handicap. Size 13 requires 3 material; 11 yards ric 19. Firestone quit-clai- n FIRESTONE e, PUT THE far on a rubber inter-breedi- wind-breake- IRES m I I |