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Show * CARMEN." RANCHO THE ae > a By FRANK SYNOPSIS in their California perhaps i | a Alfredo, wealthy, Spanish owner ‘california rancho, refuses eral warnings of a raid by a , Sierra IT YOu lONS Indians. One day ia ots anally decided to seek the : TEP / soon of the nearby mission for his ‘nd family, the Indians strike. Don » is killed and his two young sters are torn from the arms of the ‘ 's faithful maid, Monica, and are od cha | j away ic )W to the hills. missionary friend at the ruins of Padre Pas- of the family, the ranch and the story of the raid from Monica. ', trying and difficult trip across ‘sing and mountains from Texas to Jnia, youthful Henry Bowie, a Tex~ paventurer, with his friends, Ben ising and Simmie, an Indian scout, x the party of Indians who have car4 off the two little girls. The three Meens attack the war party of fifty-odd Sens and through a-clever ruse scathe savages to the ved. The hills. group The makes girls its way gf the hills and meets the distraught ica, the children's maid. The girls eft with Monica and the friendly re at a mission. S rican Dil CHAPTER Y increas milk, Whol V-Continued -- "nd a brief word to the mision- igs on the way, so that if you are you shall be cared for. If you hungry you shall be fed, and for ai repose you S shall have a place yskep," continued the padre. 1] wie felt overcome. y "‘It is too meh," was all he could urge. far from enough for what you Tolet" redone. T Since you have done ig these, His little ones, my son, » 2756 : tins and fought Indians ibcattle. . ."" and rode fe did not finish-he felt he might gy foo much. ‘Yu leave me most grateful, fare," he added, ‘‘yet with but sore need."" ‘What is that?"' "Powder and ball. Padre. We V P.M ake City LANA allege ed some protection from savages wi wild animals." tah "You shall have both. But take no human life except 1 you in n Sept Hense of your own-do you promighNorthwest Scwajhie me that?" jings aij® "I promise." - Padre," added Bowie gravely, lents Te) }'Td like to ask one question." small eg ‘What is that, my son?'' ‘May I ask your name?"' "Padre Vicente Pasqual." signed ility anf Presidest ~4re there many ww" ta like you?" "Not so many men as in Califor- there used to ye There are now but few Fran|pocen padres in Alta California." | Bowie looked sheepish. ‘‘I didn't ain mean exactly that, Padre. I meant, there many men who would do }@a stranger what you are doing yw me? If there are, I'd like to jieet more of them. Or better, be a myself to The streets ave do of something for Monterey were with strange-looking men- from every quarter of the globe }-when Bowie, followed by his star}8 scouts, sought the office of } mas O. Larkin, respected citizen Monterey. frontiersmen, removed from their Ubitat of desert, valley and moun- th and thrown into city streets, are welp'onfused as children. The Tex» |p "Sthemselves were objects of curi- » tw | MY to other men of the capital. es : garb, in part } tanks to the kindness r | 8, and in part Californian, of the misreflecting the ey | tiships of the desert trail; their ond Ing-barreled and carefully carried "8 and powder hy deep-sheathed horns; knives and the suspend- ite} ftom their belts were a novelty # the naval officers, the seafaring akees, the Mexican supernumer®€s and rancheros who, ye to walking, rode richly elisoned horses up and down ever cathe TOW streets. Wie himself, though more soisticated than his scouts, found nto gaze at. His eye swept t beautiful harbor. Within it lay ‘toasting vessel from San Blas, a Wer California port. A shrewd"king Yankee trader with sails inently furled, trim and fast sail%, doubtless hailed from Boston. A }Per-built ship from Hong Kong {/t the Sandwich Islands lay under } bluff, and, most interesting of yt the young Texan, a United , Races& the 8 sloop of war, yette swell, surveyed 7 ¢ from a dignified rocked by a the harbor distance. Wp" coaster brought soldiers, 7} eht and dispatches from Mexico, "Passengers from San Diego, San "To and Santa Barbara. The Yan- "trader brought merchandise for "to merchants of Monterey and Calimissions the with barter lla rancherosfor and Buena, de o Francisc San tba ‘Santa Clara, The Yankee eif'S and San Jose. = - ber brought "en stuffs of from the Orient the Cathay for the fur- the © living rooms. aversion was Or born for the honest sunshine of the Pacific slope, When Larkin entered the room Bowie introduced himself and his companions. ‘Mr. Larkin, you know General Sam Houston?" suggested the Texan. "By reputation, yes. Do you come from him?" "I come from him. Mr. Larkin, we've broken away from the greasers down our way. We're flying our own flag in Texas. I'm here just to learn what I can and report back to the man that sent me." Larkin studied his visitor closely. "What are your credentials, Mr. Bowie?" he asked. "All in my head. I was directed to speak to you and make no move without your sanction, Had I brought any writing with me and been caught by the greasers it would have gone hard. By pulling together, Mr. Larkin, Texans and Californians can establish an empire that will reach from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of California. That's what some of our people have got in their heads. That's the reason I'm in California." He waited for Larkin's The latter hesitated some moments. When he spoke his attitude was not unfriendly but plainly it was not enthusiastic. "Things are very different with us here in California from what they were in Texas when you started your fight. Most of our white men are not greasers, as you call them. They are of Spanish blood, just as white as you and I. These big land grants near here-anyway, in several cases that I know of- come direct from the king of Spain. When you talk about changing the flag you've got to deal with Californianos of that kind of blood-and let me tell you, they hate the Yankees like poison. They are the kindesthearted, most generous people in the world, but they don't want to get mixed up with Russians or English or Yankees. Tliey are proud, and they are gentlemen, and they are very independent. So you see what little there is in any situation here, just at present, to interest General Houston. "At the same time you will see, if you stay a while, as I strongly advise you to do, that things are kind of-well, just as say-unsettled they are down your There's no denying that. ing tell here, way. What's go- to come out of it no man much better than you can can. Bowie offered a few of his own thoughts. ‘I'm beginning to like this country. I'm going to stay a while, anyway. I'd like to live among the kind of people you describe. But I'll admit right off, I'm death on greasers and Indians." "Well, boys, we're here," remarked Bowie that evening to his to nothing ‘"‘There's scouts. two take us back to Texas till we look sovthe as And inasmuth around. has ereign republic of Texas supplied its ambassadors with not any funds, we'll have to forge along, We've got our rifles best we can. and, thanks to old Padre Pasqual, a little powder. You can see for yourselves, boys, there's plenty of game in this country for everybody; I reckon nobody will object to our tak- ing our share." Bowie's wound in his shoulder, for a long neglected, called urgently The American fronsurgeon's care. much tiersman never gave a wound attention; he had, without asking, the best of remedial agents at hand: the pure air of the plains and mountains and the hardiest of constituNeglect, not care, was the tions. rule for any wound not completely disabling. But Bowie had for once relied too Monmuch on nature unaided and at a surterey was obliged to seek good a Fortunately for him geon. one was at hand; Larkin introduced Bowie to him. and Dr. Doane was an Irishman justly proud of it, and he took an Irishman's fancy to Bowie. The doctor was a good prober, He both physically and mentally. and was had been a world traveler a man of parts. Doc"J suppose I ought to say, haven't, tor,' began Bowie, ‘‘that I got a cent in the just at present, Yeni ey?" I say about anything demanded Doane mon- sharply. ; "Take off your shirt." comBowie weeks some After treatment plained that the doctor's his of deal good 4 taking was 's) time. to be ought you man, - lost an thanking God you haven't about the arm instead of talking it, it time has taken to save he put ‘ am. did he send you out Ae eT "ed fear of sunshine, for even here as ambassador? Are you in the from doctor. a century of expatriation general's cabinet?'' asked the lin and Mexico they still fear it} , Frank H. Spearman : ul ELI WNU ate a thousand erts and climb miles of hell's deshalf a dozen Sierra and swim frogs, drink | CB GAA Fe **You've - AN | Ape (NO oF b a horses, walked them the Texans, and apparel up From of the two, Bowie judged them to be master and servant, the servant riding somewhat behind. "Buenas noches, Me Another A General Quiz said f@ a> ce, RR fee / seen service." Houston through. He captain's furbelow."' gave me a ‘But there's no peace down there now, is there?'' Bowie smiled. ‘‘Not so you could notice it. It's guerilla fighting a good deal of the time along the border. The greasers are busy in bunches all the time, and our rangers cut up once in a while. But no other man in California knows that much about me. So forget, it please."' CHAPTER "No habla espanol," ex- he rising and realizing at once had a gentleman to deal "Ah! Rusos?" asked the Californian pleasantly. Bowie understood that much. He shook his head. "No?" Questioned horseman the ‘Then Yanquis?" again. comprehended Bowie Again denied more vigorously. but the puzzled asked "Que" mas?"' stranger, though still politely. Still shaking his head, Bowie tried "Sorry, but I can't speak to explain. Spanish."' "Ho! Americanos!" "Texans!"' exclaimed Bowie with ‘‘Not Yankees.'' emphasis. "Ah, I understand!" "You speak English?" I have heard of "A little, senor. Brave fellows even your Texans. Mexican brothers." Again Bowie dissented vigorous‘Not brothers, senor!" ly. SB My y. that he with. VI Bowie disappeared from California as silently as he had come to it; but he did not forget the Irish doctor. In fact, eight years later Bowie appeared once more at the door of Doane's office with as little ceremony as if he had left it the day before. There was laughing and greeting; then something close to a fight. Bowie, about to take his leave after a happy hour of talk, threw a bag of coin on the table. The doctor's ear was alert to the clink. ‘‘What's this, son?"' "Souvenirs of the Rio Grande, Doctor."' ‘Hold on. Keep your souvenirs, son." "They are to cicatrize that old Indian wound, Doctor."' "That old wound is outlawed. So is the fee. I never want to hear of either again. I mean it.' "So do I mean it, Doctor." The words grew warm. Both were inflexible. It was finally agreed to leave the Spanish doubloons in the doctor's safe in suspense, and after a bottle of wine and a lunch at Da Guerre's the old cordiality-which had never really been impaired- reasserted itself. "So you've come back," mused the doctor. "Glad you had that much sense. Henry, this is the garden spot of the world. What are you going to do?" *"T don't know yet. I've heard talk of a man up the river who built a little fort up there and is dealing infurs. I've got the same scouts with me. They're trappers and want to look the thing over. The man up there is a Swiss and I hear him well spoken of." The following day Bowie traded in the travel-worn horses of the long trail for fresh stock. In the afternoon, with his two scouts, Pardaloe and Simmie, Bowie headed north for Sutter's place up the river. They traveled light, meaning to depend on their rifles for food in a country rich in game. They camped early in the evening on a hillside near a clump of live oaks, and while Pardaloe skinned a rabbit, one of a brate he had brought in for the evening meal, Simmie cut up the other and Bowie built a fire. A stone's throw below where they had camped, a wellmarked trail wound around the brow broiled they while and hill, the of impaled over the fire their meat, aphorsemen two on pointed sticks, peared on the trail below In the saw dusk of the evening these men the glow of the small fire and, turn- The Questions 1. In what famous song does the phrase "grapes of wrath"' appear? 2. The don was not to be ruffled. "Neighbors, then, if you like," he suggested good-naturedly. But for Tex"Neighbors, senor. ans, bad neighbors." his shoulThe visitor shrugged ders. ‘‘Have it as you will, amigo. might tell of course, A Mexican, But you are, besides another story. Texans, travelers and evidently preparing to spend the night al fresco. beconcern some This gives me Cause it is certain to rain before morning, and rain will find you much And when it rains here it exposed. is likely to rain-what do they say in Texas?-pitchforks."' While the Californian spoke he sat his horse with the ease of one seaSpanish soned to the high-peaked His trappings were elabosaddle. rate; the eyes of the two scouts were Saddle and bridle glued on them. were richly chased in silver. Bowie, without overlooking these things of interest, paid closer attention to the horseman himself. He was young and dandified-it was just that nature good unaffected his rough-and-ready the in checked Bowie any feeling of resentment at his highly particular rig. Who was known as the HO W. by- SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears .8® fascinating things to make "Lit- tle Napoleon of Baseball''? 3. What plant produces two com- mon amigos," though they do not get on with their OY 1 mo their hill toward appearance claimed, Dr. Doane listened without betraying all he felt at Bowie's impatie nt outburst. ""You've seen service," blurted out Doane one day. He was examining some scars on his patient's torso. "For a boy of nineteen you've been busy. Where did you do your fighting, son?" "Well, we've had several little brushes with the greasers. You've heard of our troubles along the Rio Grande. Santa Ana kept us on the run a while. But for every Texan he slaughtered at the Alamo, and for every Texan murdered at Goliad, we've taken toll. I followed Sam Ae ing the the forty or fifty riv- the leading horseman in salute. just for exercise; coe held up his hand deprecating- ers with a mule, who could get fat on lizards , bugs and leather belts, and blue sky for water." Nt a Ask 7 Service bassadors' scalps; who could negoti - oer UTAH @ Bowie was nettled. ‘Far from it. He needed an ambassador , as you call it, who could cut throu gh half a dozen Indian tribes athirs t for am- ranges MOAB, AAS response. "You Texans, I *t adornment of women already snapped Doane. ‘Notable in beauty, dignity and hear, are 4 quick-trigger lot. But "tm that they dazzled the 1imHow do you things take time. v1S- some California? What brought you Mation of every traveler who like deto d about attempte and a fd Californi out here? Why do you talk tibe its women. The sloop of war going back to Texas? "Sthere for a purpose; but a purquestions in asked doctor The %€ unknown to any not in the coun- bunches. Bowie was slow in giving * of the very elect. but he finally did so. home his confidence, Bowie found Larkin theat his was immensely interested, darkened Doane took Larkin's view of Hous» Was received in lor. Perhaps the Spanish-speakWomen of California had an 1- of sad experience with Yankee-dyed fabrics, their colors too perishable it mhave done it for Him. What migion have you?"' "Padre, I started right. But how qd I have any left after living all miife on the frontier, far from all migion? As a boy I slept on the a H. SPEARMAN TIMES-INDEPENDENT, spices? 4. Do cat eyes NOTE: shine? 5. In the Bible what musical instruments caused the destruction of the walls of Jericho? 6. Does a woman's heart beat faster than that of a man? FACINGS The Answers common spices, nutmeg and mace, the latter being the dried arillode, or fibrous covering, of the nutmeg kernel. 4. The eye of a cat acts as a mirror which throws off light, but it does not generate it. 5. Trumpets.-Joshua 6:20. 6. Under normal and compara- CORNER J ITCHEN showers are everyone and, while always supposed to be a fun MRS. for they are surprise, the prospective bride will be wise to give out a broad hint as to her color scheme. The dearest wish of one bride-to-be was a kitchen in Love of a Good Man In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.-George Eliot. and I have shown in the sketch how the gingham facings and bias tape trimming were applied to add the correct touch of color. If you have never cut an apron without a special pattern, you will find directions in Book 4 along with ideas for more aprons and other heart faster * the yard to our read- RUTH WYETH Drawer 10 Bedford would do just as well, SPEARS Hills Enclose ordered. 10 cents for New York each book Name Mexican colors. Her friends a wonderful time selecting everything from pottery to peeling knife handles in tones of green, orange and red. One gift that was appreciated most of all was the apron, curtain and tea towel set sketched here. This set was made from muslin flour and sugar bags. Muslin by ble conditions, a woman's beats from 5 to 7 per cent than that of a man. service lustrated; and a description of the other numbers in the series. Booklets are 10 cents each to cover cost and mailing. Send order to: STITCH ORANGE AND RED BIAS TAPE OVER THE GREEN FACINGS OF CURTAIN gay had As a ers Mrs. Spears has prepared a series of homemaking booklets. Booklet 5 just published contains 32 pages of clever ideas fully il- MUSLIN 1. In the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."' 2. John McGraw. 3. The nutmeg tree is the only plant whose seed produces two for al- nothing. most Good Counsel To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to ap- proach clean my work with a mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men night with weariness that sleep and joy that work well done-this to waste wisely my days. Francisco You after tell me you tomorrow are we hunting. are to Every Tire Day have a hunt at the rancho. You should join us. Come! Why sleep out tonight? Come with me to Don Ramon's." The Estrada rancho, a _ royal eleven tract a embraced. grant, The twoleagues by eleven leagues. story ranch house crowned the brow of a gentle rise in the fertile Santa Clara Valley and looked toward the distant heights of Santa Ysabel. To the north of the ranch house a group of buildings sheltered the Indian servants and the vaqueros. Don Francisco did not escape a It was raining hard when wetting. he rode with his three Texans up to the ranch house and, first of all, despite the downpour, looked up quarPardaloe and ters for his guests. Simmie he lodged with the vaqueros. Bowie he took with him to his own room in the ranch house. (TO BE CONTINUED) Firestone carries a written lifetime guarantee - not Priced right down to bedrock - and just before limited to 12, 18 or 24 months, but for the full life of the tire without time or mileage @ your Labor Day Trip! ® Here's the value sensation of 1940 built with patented Firestone construction Firestone CONVOY SIZE PRICE 4.75/5.00 _ $615 features to assure longer mileage and greater safety. 5.25/5.50 |S fa i§S At these low prices, equip yourcar witha fullset today. s00/1s nn JAND NOW! The Famous Gis |$@S8S YOUR OLD TIRE Firestone 4 SPEED HIGH uncle, "My nodded. Don Ramon Estrada, lives not far I am from here-about ten miles. You are on his rancho. visiting him. 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The youth wore a short dark bolero jacket heavily embroidered in silver and knee breeches edged beHis soft bucklow with silver lace. skin leggings were highly but pleasingly stamped with the fanciful deFrom vices of a Mexican artisan. head to foot he presented a picture of distinction and detail, yet he was quite simple in manner. "T see,'? said the Californian pres‘‘You are hunters." ently. "That's why we are heading for ‘‘to Bowie, explained hills,'' the bring in some game-and,"' he added ‘‘among other things, to jokingly, Puy some salt." "I love to hunt,'"' returned the don. ‘‘And nothing I like better than the hunter's supper out in the open, like In fact, I confess it was envy this. that turned me up this way when I saw the fire and the party, though I was far from being in hunter's rig myself." ‘"‘Where,"" asked Bowie, "‘did you learn so much English?" "T have a sister married to a BosI had two ton man, a ship-owner. years at Georgetown University." year one I had "Georgetown! ‘‘May I there myself,' said Bowie. ask your name?" "Francisco Estradillo; and yours, senor?"' I'm a long way "Henry Bowie. This is Ben Pardaloe, from Texas. and this is Simmie."' and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous; to approach See Firestone Champion Tires made in the Firestone Factory and Exhibition New York World's Fair. ding at the Buil |