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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII, UTAH iS ?mand i lew of DEPT. .TO cm or tad ater , It ki upri for sp gitfc its ta: i i i i flv PETER B.KYNE ... thus FAR: Mary Suth- W1"::, Sir!, is lured to Art. J " ' .....,Mmenti ol the Wagon wl7. riacb operated by Ma and ttnlef rodeo rider, who tells u . Waion Wheel hat gone out 4' " ! her to Phoenix. '""iL the Wagon Wheel Is broke, L,,UC Bl ... ...I... mirrhaifl B. ..otei horn the bank. While f ' "7. UB enters tno roaeo, If1 . Had Hatter, tough- I la the West. Ham beU Len iparni that Len lovei ""' "... n thousand to three vtvn wUl ride Mad Hatter. CHAPTER VIII still did not know fa-. MPI11CJ but be k - en nriu uiw - le 1 . ,M iHsIt h!9 SOB 'S, ii the doctors would permit sMv. had a man sit In a car In L, ol the hospital with Instruc- fM .. nminiA ehniilri that li n eluc"J vv r . .i.tinn nroonn he was ft up in a "-o - follow tnem wucu their address " . a iii itT the CTen, at me jans bad not appear .j fc anxious. In order to foreclosure suits against them -,14 have to have them served tonally with the summons and . I. .Minn and undue delay ppiami w ---- 4 , locating the aeienaams wumu i..IH,hant itrvnn hm to CG- M li incuw fnr nprmission to jiff upon the Wagon Wheel ranch 'crve its assets. And. II it i ine cuuiv rjd possibly be avoided, he did it wish to enter foreclosure suits; shockir. ilet-tontl did not want tne wagon wneei are hid A to be thus advertised as a operty upon which a supposedly rtrfmced cowman had failed. smartj ies a pe; ccstucj ffhile Hamilton Henley's thoughts m thus engaged, Pa Buraan naa " . A. U 1i tpt his promise to uncuvcr mc n-i n-i sudden Interest in the Wagon Jheel ranch a task which, it must it confessed, was not remotely com-licatei com-licatei . He telephoned the presi-fcit presi-fcit of the State Bank at Prescott I inquire if payment of the delinquent delin-quent interest on the loans, the de-Jnquent de-Jnquent taxes on the collateral and I payment of say five per cent on lie orincipal of the loans might op more tfc iate t forestall the filing of suits i foreclosure. He was not surmised sur-mised when informed that the bank raj no longer interested in that fatter because Hamilton L. Henley lad purchased both mortgages. So that was how the cat was bout to hop! Pa came in to Ma and Bid proudly: "Well, Ma, I told you Td ferret out Ham Henley's interest lathe Wagon Wheel an' I have. He's bought the mortgages!" ; i'Tou through ferretin?" Ma demanded. de-manded. f'Ain't nothin' more to ferret," Pa protested virtuously. "Very well, then, I'll start. Ham Henley wants an assignment of our ttate land lease to make sure nobody no-body else slips in ahead o him an' pis it after the state land com missioner cancels our lease for fail-fe fail-fe to pay the rent." j'l ain't a-goin to deny that, Ma." j"An' he wants a bill-o'-sale to the ttttle an a quit-claim deed to the kime ranch so's he won't have to fter suit in foreclosure an' can f ter on the property an' take iarge right off. He knows we can't protect ourselves nohow so he's gone Eg-hearted an' offered us as a gift last about what it'd cost him to enter suit" Now that Len was out of danger Jfd permitted a few visitors for a few minutes daily, Mary wondered ? he still harbored his plan fer acquiring ac-quiring the Wagon Wheel ranch. She nspected he was' sufficiently tena-aous tena-aous to cling to the idea; that while ftable to attend to the details him-be him-be might engage a lawyer to ttend to them for him, for she flOUbted if he wmilrf nclr hia father te serve him. In order to verify her wpicions, therefore, she asked him about it Be replied, sarilv that ha hoH abandoned the idea. The Burdans fled from the Wacon Wheel in Mc; when their panic subsided Cey Would. Of COiirs return tn Pack their few personal belongings, a they would not remain there aul legally evicted. Pa had to do Nmethffig quickly to earn a living ' U nd Ma . . . Hence omebody had tn tato , an:h at once and the bank would, tours-, petition the court for periston per-iston to do so in order to aveid ist and spoilage of their collater-!1 collater-!1 Brior in - : j 5 x . eclosure suits. Consequently, the ent uch suits were instituted, Petition to secure the Wagon at an obvious bargain, would m een' n1, of course, a man Cat "a US back In hner,5l uTtvf there not less 013,1 tw0 nun and facing an additional con- "'escence period of a month or . :re could nnt tion11 8he terminated her brief Mary -vent to the local bank cWe..'he had Penel an account by asfc 6 Ham Henley's check and iPrlA bank officil to recommend , T al attorney- He suggested bun' eia7 Buller to V1 Henley Swv 8Dd t0 Mr- Henry BuUer'" etnrL- 817 at once repaired. Upon V0? to her hotel she visited j ltod p Burdan. n thinking seriously of acquir- begaZ6 ,Wagon mecl ranch," she to. "ttkat price will you accept r ur equity?" W.N.U Ma'i acquired bade her answer: "Ten thousand dollars!" Young as she was Mary realized she was about to be played for a dude, that Ma and Pa were not above employing a modicum of rural cunning. So she decided there should be no temporizing. "For an assignment of your state land lease for a deed to your home ranch, subject, of course, to the deed of trust held by the bank and for a bill-of-sale of all of your cattle, sub-ject sub-ject to the mortgage on them held by the bank, I will give you twenty, five hundred dollars and not a penny more." "Take it." said Ma. "Leave all your papers with me," Mary directed. "I must have a lawyer verify your lease and your right to assign it and approve the title to your real estate. As soon as he has done that I will issue you a check. In the interim let us go to the lawyer's office and sign an op-tion." op-tion." The moment the Burdans were back at the home of the relative with whom they were staying Ma picked up the telephone and called Ham Henley's number. Pa put his hand over the mouthpiece. "Aimin to gloat a mite on Ham Henley, eh?" For a plaything she had taken the ranch. he growled, "before the deal is closed finaL Ma, you're askin' for it, so as soon as we git the money you take half an' I'll take half an' we'll go our separate ways." Ma trembled and hung up. That afternoon Buller verified the fact that the Burdans had a land lease, that it was still valid and that they had a legal right to assign it The following morning the title to the real estate was found to be in order and at two o'clock that afternoon after-noon the deal was formally closed whereupon Ma Burdan picked up Henry Buller's telephone and demanded de-manded speech with Hamilton L. Henley. Evidently her request was granted for Mary heard her toss over the line a bit of ancient childhood child-hood doggerel: "Smarty gave a party . And nobody came but a big fat darkey." Then she put the receiver back in its cradle and smiled happily. "If Ma hadn't had her gloat over Ham Henley I reckon she'd have busted wide open," Pa opined. "Why is she gloating?" Mary asked. "On account Ham Henley's bought our notes from the bank an was hell-bent on buyin' from us what you've just bought" "Why didn't you tell me Hamilton Henley had bought those notes?" Mary demanded. "You never asked," Pa replied, in all innocence, "besides which, if I'd volunteered the information you might have figgered we was tryin' to whipsaw you. You offered a thousand thou-sand more'n Ham Henley s6 we took it." ' ' Mary sighed. It was one thing to high-pressure a bank but she had a very strong suspicion that to high-pressure high-pressure Hamilton L. Henley was quite another pair of boots. However, How-ever, the fat was in the fire now and all she could do was to go to the assault "I think I'll handle Mr. Henley myself," she told Henry Buller, "while you go over to the state land office, pay that delinquent rental and file with the land corn-missioner corn-missioner that assignment of lease She picked up the telephone, called Hamilton L. Henley's office, and asked for an interview. That morning Ham Henley had dropped in for a minute to visit his son. "Len," he said, "you've wintered win-tered for several years on the Wagon Wheel. You sort ' like that property, prop-erty, don't you?" u-Hfi Len siehed. "I ve always warned u would have, too, If I'd gotten fl Mad Hatter sooner." "I been thinkin" maybe you'd be happier with a spread of your own, on," his father went on. "I'm in position to pick up the Wagon Wheel for a song, an if I thought you'd ccept it I'd buy it an' give it to you an there wouldn't be no strings to the gift, son, except that I'd like you to put up at my house when you come to town an keep a room for me at the Wagon Wheel so's I can visit you when I come up to Yavapai county." Len looked up at his father and the latter saw his son's eyes grow moist, saw his one sound arm come up from under the sheets and grope toward him. "I'll be mighty happy to have the gift-now that I know your love goes with it," he said with 6ome difficulty. Ham Henley laid his big hard hand across his son's eyes to hide the emotion in his own, for he was not given to being soft and it disturbed dis-turbed him. "Why, son," he said gently, "there ain't nothin' I wouldn't do for you if I could. I know I was hard on you when you was in your teens . . . I it hurt me because you accepted your mother's leadership instead o' mine I got the false notion you wasn't a Henley ... When I seen you ride Mad Hatter to a gaspin finish I knew you'd done somethin' no man o' your mother's clan would have done ... I'm right sorry for a lot o' things . . ." "You talk too much," his son said. "I don't need a blue-print." "We'll gather them Burdan scrubs an' culls, an sell 'em for what they'll bring; then I'll stock you up with high-grade cattle. You visit all my ranches an help yourself to the best horses in the caballado an' as soon as you're up an doin' again I'll buy you a car like mine." "It isn't considered good medical practice pappy to pull the nose of a fellow with a fractured skull-but skull-but keep on if it pleases you" "You keep your tail up," his father fa-ther roared, and fled from the room. Back in his office he said to Jess Hubbell, "Jess, Mrs. Bill Burdan is out to swindle me on that Wagon Wheel deal. I don't know her scarcely, scarce-ly, but Len's fond of her ... so let her get away with her swindle. When she calls up again you handle her She riles me." 1 "How much?" "She's asking twenty-five hundred. It's a gift so give it to her. I want the Wagon Wheel for my son and I've got to get the Burdans out ol my way so I can send a manager out to look after things." "Where can I find the Burdans, Mr. Henley?" "I don't know. But you needn't bother lookin'. She'll be callin' up this afternoon to accept my last offer of-fer .. . Poor devils, they got to have some getaway money." He gazed upon his general-manager a moment, then laid a hand on the latter's shoulder. "Jess," he said, "I pay this crazy government too much income taxes, so I'm agoin' to reduce the inflammation by in-creasin' in-creasin' deductible expenses. Gimme Gim-me the office payroll ... I aim to whoop salaries, startin' with you." "I'm glad," said Jess Hubbell, "that the boy's going to live. I'm glad you're happy and thanks for the raise." "Happy? Jess, Vm happier'n a coyote in a watermelon patch. Jess, my boy's always been right fond of me an' I didn't know it Can you beat that?" "It ain't up to me to tell you how dumb you've been," Jess Hubbell replied diplomatically. "You know somebody by the name o' Miss Mary Sutherland?" "Yes. What about her?" "She telephoned to ask for an interview in-terview with you at eleven tomorrow morning. I told her I'd call her back at her hotel." "I'll see her, Jess." All the remainder of the day he wondered what the object of the interview in-terview might be. He felt vaguely disturbed about it after Ma Burdan Bur-dan had telephoned him some cryptic cryp-tic nonsense about a party and a big fat darkey and his perturbation had not abated when Mary was ushered ush-ered into his office. "Good mornin', dude," he greeted her. "What's on your mind?" "Good morning, Don Hamilton. On my mind this morning are two sour loans you purchased from the Stat Bank of Arizona." "Hum-m-m!" "Do it again. I own the Wagon Wheel state land lease and the Burdan Bur-dan equity in the Wagon Wheel home ranch and the cattle." He blanched and flushed. His face went out of control and as a mask for concealing his emotions he was aware it was no longer of any use to him and this knowledge, combined with the blow below the belt this dude girl had so calmly and forcibly given him, filled him with anger. He thought rather incoherently: She's robbing my son. For a plaything play-thing she has taken the ranch he's yearned for years to possess and she's robbing me of the fun of making mak-ing his dream come true. She dislikes dis-likes me and now she has come to gloat over me ... I must not speak too quickly. If I do I'll say too much after all my son is in love with her "and I've just gotten my son back ... I mustn't risk losing him again. (TO BE CONTINVED Kathleen Norris Says: Girl Infatuated With Middle -Aged Married Man With Children Bell Syndicate. Betts father promptly grabbed him by By KATHLEEN NORRIS j THE Browns have one daughter, Diana, aged 19. Their two sons are In the navy. They've always been normal, reasonable people; peo-ple; they don't know what to do now that real trouble has struck them. The trouble Is Diana and Lieut. Kronschmidt Baker. "Kron" is 42. He called on Diana after meeting her at a dance; he has called every night for three months. Diana is madly in love; the man says he is deeply devoted to her but he has a wife and three children. When Diana's mother discovered that he was married she almost died of shame, of pity for poor little Diana. Gently, tactfully, she told her daughter the dreadful truth. Diana answered composedly that she had known for weeks that Kron was married, and had called on his wife asking her to grant him a divorce. And from that moment things went from bad to worse. Diana's father, anxious, overworked, over-worked, tired, ordered her from the house. Diana's mother, fearing she would go to. Kron, weat with her. After two days at a hotel they went back home; Diana furious, silent, stubborn. Misery reigns in the Brown household. Diana slips out every day and meets Kron. When be goes to New Mexico on duty she is going with him, she persists, married mar-ried or not Love like theirs, says Diana, is too rare and too precious to be thrown away on conventions. Case Requires Patience. All I could advise Diana's mother was to go on treating the case with patience and love. I told her that girls to whom love comes as a fever of infatuation could not hear reason; the wild flames burning in Diana's heart won't be put out with words. She's too old to lock up in her room; too big to spank. So I told her mother to be understanding, under-standing, be sympathetic, try to overcome by affection what could not be changed by force. That was some weeks ago. I think that now I might give Diana's mother moth-er a more effective idea. Another mother from an opposite end of the country wrote me what she did in a similar case, and I'm not sure but what she was right. It seems that this other girl, named Betty, was also infatuated with a middle-aged married charmer, charm-er, and also stubbornly determined to wreck her life for his sake. Betty's mother, like Diana's, reasoned rea-soned with the girl, sent for the man and talked to him severely, and finally went to see the wife. The girl in both cases was adamant, the charming man airly unconcerned and rather proud of himself, and the wife helpless. So Betty's mother allowed her to ask her Stanislaus to the house, Betty's father grabbed him by the col lar and thrashed him thoroughly, and the policeman on the beat, having hav-ing been warned in advance to be on the spot, saw a discomfitted suitor suit-or rush down the front steps and took both father and lever to the police station. The next morning one masher was marked for life as an unfaithful husband wha had been thrashed by a girl's indignant father. fath-er. Stan's wife then threatened divorce, she didn't like the newspaper news-paper notoriety, and Betty left at once for war work in another city. But recently Betty, now happily en To precious for convention. , fW MM fed WNW Feature!. ml i the collar and thrashed him thoroughly. HEARTBREAK AHEAD "Our love is too precious for conventions," says 19-year-old Dianm Brown. She means her infatuation for a man of 42, who is married and father of three children. She threatens to go with him to New Mexico, where he will soon be stationed, sta-tioned, as he is an army officer. offi-cer. She slips out and sees her "Kron" every day, and has asked his wife to give him a divorce. di-vorce. What is Diana's mother to do? Angry remonstrances will just force the stubborn Diana to more secret liaisons. If she becomes convinced that her parents are old-fashioned and unreasonable, clinging to outworn out-worn "conventions" she will leave home, follow her charming, charm-ing, middle-aged lieutenant. Then it will be too late for Diana's Di-ana's mother to do anything for her daughter but to try to shield her from the consequences conse-quences of her folly when Kron gets tired of her and abandons her. There, is heartbreak heart-break ahead for Diana. Miss Norris admits the difficulty diffi-culty of this situation. Tact and patience are about the only means the Browns have at their disposal. Sometimes drastic and dramatic measures bring results, however, as this article describes. gaged, has been home for a visit, and Stan wasn't divorced, so perhaps per-haps these drastic measures were justified. Lesser Disgrace Preferred. "But you disgrace your girl!" a mother might say, shrinking away from the mere idea of such an exposure. ex-posure. Well, she is heading for dis grace anyway, perhaps this way is the lesser evil. In Diana's case 1 am informed that the man and the girl are admitted lovers, have lived together. In Betty's case the affair had not gone so far. These are hard days on everyone, perhaps nowhere harder than upon the girls who go out to work at men's work, among men; any girl may manage her affairs to evade the watchfulness of even the most careful care-ful mother. 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