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Show Et Colt "Par,, lers ENT ANfir an. t J IRMT Bur; Satu: ay. p.. t now-ny. now-ny. IPASl ion Uy. tj go FAR: Mary Suther- nC IE 1U" " .-..te to be met at I "Mi al station n Arizona. She . nd waits or the station V ",rn Wheel Banch to pick P hwoi cornea she gets lid. im" . u f -n tTn1V. ' mm wbii bah w j J-actlon. pleki her up In a "Tdrlvei ber to bli trailer house, ' 4rlv" " i.,.,kfaL Henley trii!" wuB wm did"ot " ....... wnulmnent. He lriei n . .hoia not up in W al7 . .. th.t ai her BUU - - y b Phoenrt, 1 1 -j7i. r . u - i. i j vvwir iwo wousand, J Teiuld roam around and secure ltloM at a CHAPTER H iough the upbringing of Hamil- u Henley. Senior, naa Ihed after the early Ameri- r l as being aruB f ' the bead, ne nau le of any resultant handicap. u.j .uratea mniocu. - L well to everything save the ish language 1 with an Arizona accent; he was - intelligent man, aggressive, ess and more Imaginative than fIody bad ever giveu uuu king. At fourteen years d secured employment bb .... U Jauim tt lr on a catue rant" uuwu u ihise County, at a wage of fifteen rs per month. At wty-nve ne i cattle king, sole owner of six 4, nHlh a heaw Krest in two dividend - paying in various uau&s m t Louis a ope: ving ; f the as ": al nr. ty of: we pi. ning nLs. ;i5 stocks 7 eqjfcughout the state, and an office in w -Ina-n office building in Phoenix, in w m . ..... j 4 krh rifv he also uvea in hiuucbi. Lhunealow attended by a mar- C0Upie the wife his cook and Sleeper ana uie uwu r.nt and chauffeur. He had one kroom in his home and lived in hope tnai ms omj wu muui- fcpy it occasionally u ana wnen ,m conplnde to cease mmmmMW o""WAV rCkW a living in a vocation the ' Mlfcr Henley considered disgraceful. I fcm Henley had always grieved Icretly over an apparent lack of Ighness in his son and ascrioea defect to Len's mother, wno naa f i Back Bay, Boston lady witn ie admiration for culture than tuscles. In the upbringing of Len ihad, in a way of speaking, got- 1 the lump on Hamilton by point- I him out as a horrible example, tars before her death she had tted, definitely, to make her own (as for Len's life, thus setting him oust his father and, in the end, gcing a coldness between them. 0 EI tie dav in January Hamilton Hen- lCC secretary came into his office LO i announced that a Mr. Burdan 4 in the general office and desir-Drj; desir-Drj; i of an interview. "Ah, Bill Bur-jjjjd Bur-jjjjd a," Henley murmured, "yes, I I ow him. I smell a touch, but show a in." me (. U the matter of contemplated ixati' upon finances under the mot i!e ' unsecured loans. Ham Hen-hing Hen-hing ',was psychic. And he liked to 't such interviews over quickly; all t ace when Bill Burdan sat down, owe! i $ his hat on his knees, and smiled ., stfully at Ham Henley, the latter U S '4- "Well, Bill, what's on your J'stec; Trouble, Ham." ilyva "Who's runnin his iron on you?" Bi i The State Bank of Arizona at j. T: scott They hold my note se- LeB red by chattel mortgage on my lgn i e' an' anotner note secured by y S o trust on my home ranch. r; - they're a-threatenin' me. You Btfc f 1 director o' that bank an' an nnii i Wend o' mine" ?i!l," Ham Henley interrupted, fe known you forty years and 1 ain't a friend of mine in that Nfe. A feller's got to dig deep to J I to my bump o' friendship in jo Etey matters. It's been done many ne, at that, but not by men regard a riromissorv note as ethin' to be renewed. Vnn camp me to use my influence with m to lay off'n you. You want Fe time." MJwafs right. Ham." l'Wm Won,t helP you "t. You "fwed most o that money to KIT an' furnish Buaes, an when you got the !J you didn't know how to enter-You enter-You thoueht thv wanted it so you fed 'em fodder I' Only a COwnunctioi. i.iM t,. ( r ".v. VVU.U UlgCOb nt know that a dude ranch oust unless you got a general I couple miles away, so the 8 can ride down to it, tie their ,cS w the hitchin' rack outside an ice-cream sody. You 'fnow you had to have beauti-"glers beauti-"glers to ride herd on 'em their feeUn's could be hurt '!; as sclded for slouchin' in ,aldle an eivin- f sM ?e gaU- or cinchin' him ue Ducked 'em off or raised . , s"ld- I read in the paper whfle back that some dude Ci. 6ets stacked by one. horses an' bunged up, sues ' damages. An' as if you .,sDave enough trouble on -your 'd aU t0 g0 t0 work an' Dout twenty-five hundred dol- , to 6 bnvi t of 3 itse ije ! rastf tre lined- If die . P; j it orty 13 ?S 0' convict them three etn.K.I . . . ,, .,. . - "'"uu your caiue. -re m. Ham." "e Public he Hr hirS Santa ClaUS? You Could 8,-1 them -ree skunks killed .uita aouars an savea YOU ever hear a ma ... . . w - w ..w Benin mushy about the public an' prosecutin a cow-thief?" "Mebbe they don't work on you." "They don't any more, but when they did I didn't prosecute 'ra an I didn't hire 'm killed. I did it myself. my-self. I only suggest hired man in your case because I doubt if you know enough about firearms to commit com-mit suicide. Have you paid your rent to the state land commissioner for them six townships you got under un-der lease?" "No-o-o-o." "Got the money?" "No. I was goin to ask you t loan it to me until" "No, BilL The bank has been kind to you an' patient, you ain't reduced the indebtedness an you ain't paid your interest or the taxes. You're through." Five minutes after Burdan had left his office, Hamilton Henley had, via the telephone, purchased the Burdan notes and collateral from the State Bank of Arizona. He summoned sum-moned his general office-manager and confidential man, Jess Hubbell, explained what he had done and in-structed in-structed Hubbell to get him a certified certi-fied check to cover the purchase. "I thought you had enough cow outfits to worry over," Hubbell com- "No. I was, going to ask yen t loan it to me until" plained. "I thought I had you trained but here you are organizing more work for me." "This will be a temporary job, Jess. I had to take two tricks to win and them mortgages were the high trumps." Hubbell nodded and Ham Henley went on. "I figger on puttin the Wagon Wheel in shape an' unloadin' it on a dude, at a nice profit Bur-dan's Bur-dan's broke flatter'n a tortilla; all he can save is the family photograph photo-graph album, some clothes an the old lady's sewing machine. So he will grab at a little getaway money and I'll give it to him to sign a quit-claim deed to the home ranch an give me a bill o sale for the cattle so I won't be put to the expense ex-pense o' enterin' suit in foreclosure. He shouldn't ought to object to as-signin' as-signin' his state land lease to me, either, so I can move right in an' take charge. Somebody's got to take charge because Bill Burdan will just walk out an' leave everything." "You have a sweet set-up there and at a third of its value, Mr. Henley." "So sweet I hate to unload it on a dude, but then it's just the sort o' place that'll appeal to a dude woman, wom-an, because it'll be a goin concern an' she can walk right into a mighty nice ranch-house, of Aztec architecture architec-ture an' all furnished with Navajo rugs an heavy oak chairs with calf-hide calf-hide seats an' all them sort of romantic ro-mantic fixin's. At that they're mighty swell 'n in nice taste. They wouldn't affront me none." "How are the cattle? Are you sure old Burdan has the number of the cattle enumerated in the mortgage mort-gage The Wade boys worked on him, he claimed. You might find a shortage." . "I expect to, but I don.t mind that because I'll make enough on the deal without worryin over that item. The cattle are poor stuff. The old man let 'em run down old breedin' stock, short calf crops and inter-breedin' inter-breedin' an' nothin' much when he started thirty years ago. Them Wade boys had ought to be ashamed o themselves for descendin' so low as to waste their time stealin' trash. Now whenever Ham Henley had arranged to buy or sell anything he wasted no time closing the deaL Hence the following day, he motored up to Pcescott and relieved the State Bank of Arizona of its two sour loans After leaving the bank he decided de-cided to have luncheon at the Apache Club, the oldest club in Arizona, and of which he was now one of the old- . v.n route there he &&$ meuiucis. met Hank Wade, the sheriff of Yava-pal Yava-pal County, emerging from the county coun-ty court-house and noticed that the latter looked very forlorn. Ham Henley thought he knew why and decided de-cided he must do something about it, for while a hard man in many ways he was not infrequently given to sudden gusts of kindness and sympathy and, under the spell oi them, could be magnificent "Hello, Hank," he greeted the sheriff. "I'm on my way to the Apache Club for lunch. Come and have a bite with me." "I'd like to, Mr. Henley," the sher. iff replied, "but I reckon I'd better not. You might lose caste in the community." "To hell with the community. I'll not make believe I haven't heard the gossip that's fiyin around about you, Hank, since them three boys o' yourn was turned loose after two Juries failed to convict 'em of cattle stealin. They're sayin' that, as sheriff, it's your job to select the jury venires from the great register o' voters an' that in the case o the jury selected to try your boys you didn't make no mistakes. I don't believe that." "My boys was guilty an I know it" the sheriff replied sadly. "So does everybody else that read the transcript o' the testimony. They bought out, Mr. Henley, but not on money o mine." "I know it an' when you run foi office to succeed yourself next fall, Hank, I'll be out beatin' the cactus for votes for you." "I won't run agin, Mr. Henley. Throw enough mud an' some of it's sure to stick. I'd get licked." "Now, Hank, you quit feelin' bad. I been talked about some, too. 1 been bawled out in a church right in this town as a bloody-handed killer an all because I ketch some rustlers makin' off with my critters an' w.in the resultant argyment. People say I'm lawless. Well, maybe I be, but I'm practical." "I might meet some men at the Apache Club that'll give me the cold shoulder, Mr. Henley." "If they do I'll 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 you're 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 com-plainant to ask the judge to shou clemency; I could have fixed it with the Judge to go light on 'em as firsl offenders. But no! They told me 1 was an interferin' old fool an' like tc broke my heart." "I'm afraid, Hank, the lesson didn't sink in. They'll be at it agin." "Got to," the honest sheriff declared. de-clared. "Them two trials left 'em broke, an they ain't got no othei way o' meetin' expenses. Mr. Henley, Hen-ley, there ain't but one cure for what ails my boys an' you an' m know what that is, because we applied ap-plied it when I managed your Dou. ble H ranch." Very early next morning Ham started back for Phoenix, but left the state highway at Congress Junction and turned northwest across the desert des-ert to the Wagon Wheel ranch, for he was minded to get Bill Burdan oul of his way as quickly as possible, and he was quite certain that a small gratuity and assurance of freedom from a deficiency judgment would effectuate prompt abdication. When he arrived a man detached himseli from a bench in front of the blacksmith black-smith shop and came out to meel him. "Where's Bill Burdan?" Ham Henley Hen-ley asked. "Everything that ain't been nailed down here or mortgaged has been attached, Mr. Henley. I'm the dep. uty sheriff in charge. Mrs. Burdan packed her duds an' left yesterday an' the old man packed his an' lefl this momin early. He was all broke up so I reckon he won't be back." "Where'd he go?" "Phoenix." Thanks. I'll locate him there' A little south of Wickenburg Len Henley suddenly pulled in off the shoulder of the highway, stopped and pointed to a sandy wash flanked by scattered sycamore trees; through this wash a stream about fifty feet wide and an inch deep wandered slowly out into the desert "That" said Mr. Henley reverently, "is the famous Hassyampa River." "I'm surprised the birds didn'l drink it up before it got this far, Don Leonardo." Mary had heard Pedro Ortiz call him that and had taken a fancy to that form of address. ad-dress. , "Don't make funny cracks about the Hassyampa River," he warned, you could very easily get yourseli in bad with the Spirit of the Hassy-ampa. Hassy-ampa. Now, if you'll please get out and follow me down to the stream we'll discover whether or no youi presence in Arizona is to have the official blessing." He led her down to the edge of the sad little stream, removed his wind-breaker wind-breaker and spread it on the moist sand. 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