Show JIM the CONQUEROR CON U by peter B kyne by atter IL kyul u wory loo 1 I FOR beginners OF THE STORY ft bau awu beautiful rt can society acl girl ift who h wibb ith br bar u ancl cid a D atam hei liani crooked bill DIU bacou of 11 hi II anul slyness 1 ratios a tl rua from ja jalc a M isuel 0 4 the R che van verde la be tasa T asa M I 1 b hr bw bor uncle mi tom toen antrim hu has dil died a holt violent death at the tb adako dalf of CI cilmo if k tt who b Is I 1 la in lov love ith bf her robert rbra plans to so 0 la to to ti to protect aa a tt t t 01 lne 0 be h Is I 1 ber UIKI a 01 ol heir to do of sheep which antrim bd bad impudently driem to birom r taj controlled by hy do don jet jam doa doe jet bb olor bu half and aj luu hall irish li is attracted to roberts a cletur in a magazin 1 lL antrim li Is warned I 1 to isle his lip f doa doe jet junr a ranch 1 I 1 one A antrim atri tri s un bahos buhos buh doa don J alm they tbt tb t it out t th the fount young anch wor te Is end 1 mastilas ibi 0 on his body are r found instructions is I 1 notify him ml robra antrin antrim la in the th event nl of 1 ath latham letts bw her his fortun li Is in danger ud am she b decide decides to go 0 lo 10 tom if t trim a estate for or crooked dl another telegram tilt fram trill tells br heir 16 0 M killed br by jim arn higgins ll lla doa ilion jet almi a aam own Cro Crook olmA tJ bill DIU wt ains a chowe he b hopes bop will forward d c of 0 Rohr ta which hleb he k e re reilly III laor seem CHAPTER IV Continued 7 1011 ou two will now have a delightful cret together you will have 11 community interest lay iny abject hopeless ho pele self while thia this mythical dent la in on not a word vord of love to ito berta thre thore th re inest be no sentiment in thil this business or you it 11 poll spoil everything well vell in to the fullness of time when the market breaks as you and I 1 know blatner well it will you moke make the mythical clean up hand me back t the deed to crest and a fake chech for my winnings or rather let roberta do it so shell feel that the credit for the coup ie to all tiers remind ine me of my word of honor to 0 lit stock gambll I 1 g shake ands nil fill nr armil mil bid roberta 1 a somewhat suppressed rood good by and announce you are olt off for a trap arund the world to be gone for a year and arid at LI 11 at moment old eon son it f you vou play your carda cards with the skill an I 1 I 1 lament which a lawyer of yom preyed proved should roberta will go with you or I 1 in bt ill for an insane 1 I 1 in not so certain cert filD your plan will work out na as perfectly ae all you appear to think mr sir latham I 1 hackett ackett II replied doubtfully of cour conr a it will nill why not ro berta will bo be serious now no mure more flirting no more attempting to wort work her wiles on you to seo see you yin squirm and satiate her with a sense of her power over you she 11 II begin to study you then to appreciate the tits fact hint that you have qualities liles ehe she must respect she choll 11 feel grateful to you but owing to abb fact that the she sec secured tired your lonn loan th the 0 obliga tion will be more mine than hers no love thi alness then lore love will bob up of its own accord glenn merin hacked hackett looked genuinely distressed pricked bill rumbled rambled on I 1 I 1 want roberta to ho 0 o to tex as to look after that estate she has hn a jolt coming to tier when she geta there and find im fie the tittle little boy that knows it IL twenty years ago I 1 was uns in the cattle business myself in I 1 as cruces rucee county tex as am I 1 owned the ranero kuncho verdugo an I 1 sold out to a chap named I 1 know this tam lly fly I 1 don I 1 know don doti jaime alimuel Ill RUenes but I 1 did know bla big fa in ther their anil find a grand piece of work he lie was spanish with a broad streak of irish or irli irk a 1 with a broad streak of shantai Spin Span laj tai I 1 forget forlet which I 1 remember the bid old man had an infant enn son named jaline jaime so this chap who killed tom antrim oust must be that boy enya says a man named jim fliggins killed antrim ilo ito berta told me over the telephone jaime ie Is spanish for janes readily corrupted to jimmy and Is spanish for don jaime vi ent over to antrim a camp to order hi him ard ar bis his sheep olt off the ranga range antrim the skunk figi tred on murdering the boy without risk to himself for tunit tely a third nan man was arsent at that juat just beffie the killing a ranger named kenneth llonart eon son of old BIH holgart to abom I 1 sold the Rn rancho verdugo borrowed the ranger rangers rifle unknown to antrim and al at th bilth antrim shot three times eventually got out of rance then he stalked and killed wiled hirn him I 1 have had a report on u the matter fro from i the coroner at loa los Al Alto alokones lones very nery Inte interesting mr hr latham blest news I 1 ve had lo 10 fifty mrs giann out but what my interest la Is this antrim Is dead lives and Is not 11 injured yet 1 sheep with the tacit consent of con finlie to tre Alean meanwhile while fig aenes Is doing all he can to protect ll flerta he has never ind met and all al at considerable ose and to himself beau th tsp sheep are ruining ola tits range I 1 cheep foul a range up and entile will not braze where a sheep ll 11 grazed also a sheep destroys dex troya the ranee kats pats the erase down to the route and then conle now why by la in doing this starch arch me rne air 1 lie ile has some tilter for motive and reberta will discover di scorer it of or course co lirse well I 1 wart to RO go do down n it there bere iere a all I 1 he t up with I 1 tic lie mental picture the she has painted of thil romantic hugueny Hugu enc ohp shall it find a of man linn she nevor inet before all I 1 hope la Is that he makes I 1 love 1 to bor her with latin impetuosity because if be he does hell be put in till his place roberta will not be rushed by any tiny man all the men shell he 11 niest meet mere will 11 II be ito 0 o differ ent hell shell be disillusioned she shell ii begin to appreciate a man who bathes and staves dally daily who dresses la in good mete taste who know knows something besides cattle and sheep and local politics who lives in a regular house and moves in oil cul aured society shell see the other tide side of the picture and it will be lood good for her immortal soul there may way be a crept deal tn in what you bay say mr latham and perhaps your cute financial plane plans wilt will nork out exactly as n you ei ey pem but I 1 in here to tell you hey they will not and for one very potent reason I 1 ni not eo so blamed certain that I 1 want roberta crooked bill 1111 ethred at the young man in horror and I 1 im in afraid of her ll ackett resumed in his alow slow metho methodical lical way shea shee too blamed modern and I 1 am m too old fashioned not change and aini she can L t I 1 fear we would be intimated and not risk a brief happiness I 1 cau can stand to lose roberta oberta It now but I 1 caro to have to stand to lose her after id won her it ltd d bierk my heart to discover ft st some future timo time that bhe she gasn t ha harpy py with me alaree nests crooked bill pro tested 1 I 1 tell ou I 1 know women 1 I 1 hey may way hoot for years nt at a masterful man but they 11 end up by marrying him and adoring him un til death do them part however why cross the bridge until you coine come to it go through with my little plin olin and then stand by to see how the cat jumar well vell it cannot hurt to try the thins thing out mr lathatt if there a any back are ore after it ter you 11 be the one to get scorched for deceiving folks who trust you spoken like a man said crooked CHAPTER V ri A I 1 IP an hour after don jahne a coup had resulted la in the capture of bill dinglo dingle and hie his men another du dust cloud to the south at traded don jaimes hen ien hobart nod its his men returning be he explained to mrs ganby presently ills tits cheerful grin welcomed ho bart ns as he entered I 1 bother sending a roes mes sener with tie tle new that it was a false alarm alarin hen I 1 figured you d have one roan man drop out of your party to watch the road to valle verde while you rode on taking your leisure lel sure 11 1 I 1 did exactly that hobart replied when nhen ho galloped after ua us and reported seven mounted men had corne out of a caneon to tin thi enst east and taken the road to valle arde at a fast trot troth I 1 concluded your alre re well weli ground ed and that I 1 might risk returning so dingle arrived with blood in bli ls eye eh don jaimee don jaime nodded 1 I 1 have an idea they planned to hang me from one of the trellis beams in to my own trape grape arbor well caraveo ha baa 10 them over at the barn under giard it occurred to me it would be a one idea to enforce ny hos vitality pit Pita allty lity on dingle and his men on til after weve were counted those steep llonart nodded approval the beet best way to win a FRIA ie Is to mold it 1 he agreed well caraveo can count the sheep now while I 1 go up to el paso for that crippled boy three days later be he returned with hrs ganby canby it son an ethereal little boy semi paralyzed on bis his left aiden when hen he had bad been greet ed by his mother be was wa bro urit to don jaime to be presented I 1 I 1 ro in awfully glad clad you consent eJ to cume come down here and keep mi me company nobble robbie the young mar man greeted him lie ile lifted the frail trail little body to his lap A hat car can jou you do to keep a fellow amused tie h demanded demandel hobble was sur lie ile ha had being amused not he be ins ing called upon to amuse another crimple aril pie so 80 he tie pondered doi don jaime s question and replied leL pres tires batly that be he could play NOY the bar tiar roon frie you 11 bo be popular it ol 01 bla you bring your barmo yes air lr ken bouget me bruin grand one in eil el baso think you two can set get without lighting hobble laughed at the bare idea of conflict with bis his new friend he fie stared ban hard at don jaime your name mister M naine ie in jimmy you sot got any boys no why I 1 sent ken up after you ive been lonesome a lot bore here lately so when mother told me she had a boy why I 1 thought id I 1 d borrow you old did ken tell you about the pony we hare have here for you I 1 wistful eyes glistened 1 I can ride a pony I 1 know I 1 can when I 1 get well well go riding together I 1 think now robbie your mother wants to visit with you so better run along after dinner well bare have another visit and really get acquainted flaying changed from his store clothe clothes to the accustomed freedom of chambray shirt and light cool khaki slacks acke el ken hobart dropped into the long chair beside bis his employer yes were counting the sheep don jaime said lie ile had the gift ift I 1 well glenn she said hal has uncle bill been telling you hit his sad Stor story yVe decidedly celtic of telepathy had it to a marked degree in fact any trouble e isono none bill dingles foreman m made ads a bluff at starting come some but carabeo paid no attention to him I 1 instructed caraveo to ignore him and tell him nothing if it necessary to treat hiro him rough and I 1 sent enough men to enforce my desires were we re washing the brutes shearing them running rinning them through the chute one at a time branding bruot ling them and plan to haul them up here in motor trucks after givina the fore oreman a receipt for them ill place a guard on the wool and ano as eoon soon as you cna can buy some wool backs sacks I 1 want you to back sack that wool and anti haul it up to the ranch for safekeeping be put to quite a bit of expense don jaime have you authority to take possession in his this highhanded manner be gurol I 1 always make my own authority don alviso la Is bliss antrim s local re presenta tire live and whatever I 1 do will be jake with Pruden rr udencio clo what are you going to do with the wool hold it here safely until the market goes up or I 1 receive 1 orders to sell it immediately and ibe the lambs and the old lw the old ewes with broken teeth or no teeth at all were tarring starving to death their carcasses were dot ting the range so I 1 thought I 1 d put them on our tender succulent alfalfa A month or six week weeks on alfalfa and ground barley will fit bem them for market arkeL tri they ought to bring ten dollars each abor going to pay for all this the antrim estate if it can afford to if it it biant don jaime shrugged the Indi indifferent frer brug shrug of one who has not been reared to do things on the half shell as it were don was out to see me yesterday lie fie has had a letter from miss antrim it appears that her uncle whose ward word ehe she Is ia Is to very seriously threatened with the loss of his for tune shea anxious about the sheep and has bat instructed don pru dencio to guard them and pre erv e ahm I 1 to told him to wire her that th tha sheep were safe with me and to disabuse his placid mind of all worry concerning them but they arent sarell safe ken ho bart protested prot ested what A hats a to prevent kill lilli pinup from driving to market the he sheep still on the ion lots forset forget that chat hill 1111 dingle I 1 i al my gu guest est better go to los al codoner tomorrow he ken it draw about a thousand dollars froni from the bank and ani pay off those sheep men inen they if stick oa on the job and take good care of those ramie range sheep when they know being watched and do you intend keeping bill dingle and his life men in your private hoosegow oh no not indefinitely ken I 1 v Y only sentenced hem them to thirty day days for trespass and assault with intent to do great bodily harm but claims that part of hia his remuneration as madaler u for tom antrim wan was nn an interest in the iamb lamb crop hell charge you with stealing eten ling file lit lumba lambs and eue sue you for huge damages I 1 rut but ill give sive his foreman n receipt for all the sheep and wool I 1 possess myself of even give dingle a duplicate receipt recel pt biga sign it myself too don jaime youre hopelessly medieval if it dingle charge charges you with and swears that you held him a prisoner thirty dare days in an effort to make him sign over bis his interest in those lambs it a coing going to cost you a lot of money mone to defend yourself and if you re convicted the punishment Is imprisonment for life an cannot be convict ed la in ln ans cruces county my frien I 1 there would bo nn an ance of latin blood in tho the jury and und a latin dasent care to boots in a hollow for the law all he wants Is to justice and be he want any justice other than the hrand that appeals to him kine king john of tun armede and don quixote could never agree on anything ken hobart surrendered but bill not without misgiving how are your wounds 7 he queried nothing to worry about ill be on the job gain again in a month crooked bill a well laid plan worked with the smoothness of a piston thanks to roberta oberta It to her airy alry greeting greet olena glenn hackett ackett ll returned one of the utmost so roberta lumping jumping instantly to the conclusion that crooked bill and been talking bit his affairs over with his lawyer promptly precipitated the drama much to the relief of the principal actors well glem glenn she said has uncle bill been telling you his tits ad story 7 blackett ll ackett nodded crooked raised a protest protesting ng band hand let us not inot discuss it if it you pesse bobby remember member Ke girl im not the whimpering lind 1 I know you re not dear uncle dill bill you re a good old spurt I 1 have just had a lone long tele gr fruin grm M froni my alner in I 1 on algo 1 donea dones lie ile informs me that the affairs of uncle fouls asim are IL excellent shape and that he tie died leaving even more sheep than was at first there are about ten ton thousand lambs that will soon be ready for market and 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