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Show THE LEHI SUN, LE11I. UTAH Jy PETER B.KYNE THE STORY THUS FAR; Mary Suth rland, an Easterner, Is lured to Arizona by the adi of the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She Is met at the itation by Len Henley, whose father, Ham, hat purchased the Burdan notes from the bank and feels that the ranch Is now his. Len takes Mary to Phoenix, enters the rodeo there and later rides Mad Hatter to a finish, winning three thousand dollars for Mary, who had bet his dad Len could ride Mad Batter. Mary now buys the equity In Wagon Wheel, and Ham, learning she lias not enough money, threatens foreclosure. fore-closure. Mary rehires Ma and Pa Bur-dan Bur-dan and drives to the ranch, where she later kills the son of Sheriff Wade. CHAPTER XIV ' Margaret understood why, of ourse, and because she was aware that sensible people do not attempt to dam Nature's outlet for the disposal dis-posal of woe, she sat silently until Mary picked herself together and aid. With a defiant shake of her red-gold head: "Well, somebody epilled the beans and it .can't be helped now. I'll have to grin and bear it." "People have too many troubles of their own to remember yours very long." "But that poor Sheriff Wade! Margaret, Mar-garet, he's so nice. He visited me nd stayed for luncheon and we had uch a pleasant visit And within the week I killed his son." Margare Maxwell had known Hamilton Henley and other cow persons per-sons long enough and intimately enough to have absorbed some of their vocabulary as welj as their rough and ready philosophy. Said he: "The young skunk wanted killing, kill-ing, didn't he? He asked for it, didn't he? Stop your silly talk before I lose patience with you." There was a knock at the door and Margaret opened it to see who was there. The visitor was Hank Wade. "I didn't tell, I didn't tell," Mary cried at sight of him. "Oh, Sheriff "Wade, I'm heart-broken." "You needn't be, Miss Sutherland. You performed a splendid civic service for Yavapai County. I seen that reporter this mornin' an' he told me how he got the story. Seems lie went down to the Wagon Wheel, arrivin' there during Pedro's absence, ab-sence, an Mrs. Burdan told him all about it. Old Bill tried to stop her but couldn't. She allowed as how nobody was goin' to make her protect pro-tect a sheriff that'd picked a venal jury venire when his sons was tried ior rustlin'. Bill Burdan prosecuted my boys that time, Miss Sutherland, an' spent a couple o thousand dol-ars dol-ars only to lose twice an' have the case throwed out of court. So his wife didn't see no 'reason why she should save me from bein' scandalized scandal-ized some more an I'm here to tell you, Miss, I been scandalized plenty." "But Pedro warned her and Pa Burdan and Carlotta, Pedro's wife, to keep this news secret because of the embarrassment that would be any portion if it became known." "I reckon the lady fprgot to protect pro-tect you in her anxiety to smear ime. I'm right sorry, Miss. I can stand this but it's hard on you." "This is the second brickbat I've received this morning -from those whose duty it would seem to be to protect me. Poor old Pa! He's the sacrificial goat because now I'll .have to dismiss them both from my service. And I do so loathe being cruel to helpless people." There was another knock at the door and again Margaret opened it and Mary saw Pa Burdan, arrayed in his Sunday suit, standing in the entrance and looking as if his feet hurt him. "Miss Sutherland," he said, "I've called to say I couldn't stop her in time. I'm sorry an' shamed an' we've left the Wagon "Wheel without givin' you notice because be-cause I ain't expert at bitin' the hand that feeds me." And Pa commenced com-menced to sniffle. "Come in here, Pa Burdan," Mary commanded. "I want to shake your hand in farewell and tell yeu I'm sorry it happened, too. Perhaps this may be a lesson to Ma." He took her hand and Mary went on. "Pa, your kindly, friendly, decent personality person-ality should serve you rather well in a small retail business." "I was thinkin' of a fillin" station in combination with' a quick order roadside restaurant," poor Pa mumbled. mum-bled. "I purchased your equity In the "Wagon Wheel at a ridiculous price because you were unable to protect yourself, Pa Burdan. I can afford to pay more and I'd like to, so I think it would be a grand idea for you to devote a couple of months to looking around for a site for your new start in life. When you have found it, come out and see me after July first and I'll give you twenty-five twenty-five huniired dollars additional for your ranch equity. Meanwhile, I'll give you a check for a full month's salary in lieu of notice of dismissal." As Pa, much moved, turned to go Hank Wade's hand fell on the defeated de-feated old man's shoulder. "Thanks, Bill," he said. "If you'd took a quirt to her maybe she'd have kept quiet." "Not for long, Hank. Seems like she wasn't none too anxious to please Miss Sutherland anyhow, on account Miss Sutherland prefers to eat alone. Never havin been a servant Ma don't relish not bein' treated like srie o" the family, Miss Sutherland." llMVOMAfc "My fault, entirely, Mr. Burdan. She was miscast in this drama. Goodby and good luck to you, and I think you're mighty sweet." When the door closed behind Pa the sheriff said, "Who said the meek shall Inherit the earth?" Mary laughed and that moment she was cured. "Whoever he 'was, sheriff, he was closely, related to the person who said: 'If thine enemy smite thee on the right cheek turn unto him the left.' Would you mind doing me a little favor?" He smiled wanly at that. "The man that wouldn't do you a favor, Miss, had ought to be shot at sunrise. sun-rise. Name it an' consider it done if I can do it." "A big private plane is going to drop in on the local airport in a day or two and disgorge something that thinks it's a man but isn't The name is Joseph Alcott Blanding. Joseph's Jo-seph's father left him twenty million mil-lion dollars and from infancy Joseph Jo-seph has been accustomed to having hav-ing his slightest wish granted. Can you imagine the result?" "He probably ain't worth hell-room, hell-room, Miss Sutherland." And the following morning the sheriff's little drama was staged without a rehearsal. The next day Hank Wade dropped in again to report re-port that he had handcuffed Joe "I didn't tell," Mary cried at sight of him. Blanding and led him through the streets to the county jail, where he had confined him incommunicado. That morning Joe Blanding had been tried on a charge of disturbing Mary's Ma-ry's peace and on the sheriff's testimony testi-mony the local police magistrate had found him guilty and given him the maximum sentence six months in the county jail but had agreed to suspend the sentence provided Mr. Blanding climbed into his plane within the hour and flew far away from Prescott, Arizona, never to return. re-turn. Mr. Blanding had agreed to that and the sheriff had seen him off at the local airport. While driving back to the ranch after delivering Mary at the hospital, hospi-tal, Pedro Ortiz devoted some very earnest thought to the situation that confronted him in his new employment. employ-ment. He was very proud to be a ranch manager, a position he had never hoped to achieve, and he was profoundly grateful to his Dona Maria Ma-ria for having given it to 'him. And Carlotta was very happy, too; both had resolved to render such faultless fault-less service that their employer would never consider teplacing them. This service, in their case, would entail no extra effort, for already al-ready their affections had been engaged en-gaged and already the loyalty that is born of affection had indicated to Pedro that his position as manager automatically made Dona Maria's enemies his and that it was his duty to relieve her of them at whatever cost. He did not know, of course, that Sheriff Wade had seen to it that his sons had been made aware several days previous that a dude girl was now the owner of the Wagon Wheel He did not realize the Wade boys had read two weeks before that Pa Burdan' s caballado had been attached at-tached and believed, in consequence, that since there would be no horses to ride on the ranch no rider would be apt to surprise them at work. He did not know the brothers had acted with speed worthy of an honest effort ef-fort and had descended promptly upon the Wagon Wheel to comb the range for late calves which had been overlooked for branding by Pa Burdan on his last round-up. All Pedro knew he suspected and he suspected very strongly that if one Wade brother had invaded the Wagon Wheel range the .other two could not be far away! They must have packed a couple of mules with camping equipment and food and arrived with the intention of doing a thorough job duqng this i r mum i WN.U period It seemed they could work without interruption br fear of dis covery. Breezy nan Deen iuucu nhrmt nlno aMm-It in tha mornine and at this season of the year daylight day-light arrived about seven o'clock. It seemed reasonable, therefore, to assume as-sume that Breezy Wade had left camp then and, in searching the thickets along the river wash, he had proceeded slowly and methodically, methodi-cally, hazing all cows and calves he saw out into the open to see whether the calves were branded or not A search for mavericks ' is always slow, so Pedro concluded Breezy had not traveled more than two miles from camp a mile an hour would be almost fast His brothers had probably prob-ably ridden down the river through country that gradually flattened oul and would provide wider territory on each bank to be ridden and searched. The river valley was narrow nar-row at the spot where Breezy had gone to his accounting, and the cattle cat-tle were down along the river now, because there was more grass ii that area than on the rocky rolling hills and water was easier of access. Well, at two miles the sound oi Breezy's pistol shots or Dona Ma-j ria's shotgun shots would not have been heard, so the surviving brothers, broth-ers, Joel and Rube, would not begin to worry until Breezy failed to reappear re-appear at their camp that night They would of course expect him at sunset tor the range was not one to be ridden in darkness. Converse ly, they could not institute a search for him until sun-up and then, knowing know-ing the territory which he had been allotted they would ride up the river, pick up his trail in the wash and follow fol-low it to his body. They must know they would not have a long I search . . . ' He had his plan fully matured by the time he drove in to the Wagon Wheel yard and went at once to his cottage, where Carlotta cooked him a late luncheon; while engaged in eating it the reporter from the Prescott Pres-cott Register drove in and went at once to the dude house. Pedro was lingering over his second sec-ond cup of coffee and a cigarette, perfecting the details of his deadly plan, when there was a knock at his door and Carlotta opened it to reveal the reporter standing in the little veranda. "Pedro," he said, "1 wish you'd lead me down to Breezy Wade's body. I want to photograph it as it lies. And don't try to fool me, Pedro, I know you speak English. Eng-lish. I heard you speak it, withoul an accent, to Sheriff Wade." "Yes, I speak English without an accent," Pedro admitted, and wen) out and closed the door behind him. "And I am Mister Ortiz to you, young fellow, and not Pedro. I am the manager here and I do not like your familiarity; you have pried into my employer's private affair and have trespassed on her property to doit," When the man had gone Pedro strode into the kitchen of the dude house and confronted the Burdans. His brown eyes, usually so soft and 1 i kindly, were the eyes of a demon now; he stared at the Burdans in silence until they began to cringe. Then he spoke: "Well, who talked to the reporter?" re-porter?" "Ain't no call for me to keep a,-- secret to save that crooked Hank TTT ,3 ,, X h , - , irvaue nuiu sunuw, ivia aeiena-1 ed. "Only the day before vestiHrin her ladyship give's me orders to cook a Rnprinl Innhonn fn, txirxx n.u.. " """ o" wucu 6ivc uci me uui auj i agree-, .V.I. t 1 , .. hij K iji lilt. Nil,. rFiipaia inn nrno, r . -as manager for Dona Maria, I forbade the discussion of this matter mat-ter with outsiders and I have not been obeyed." "I ain't in your department," Ma defied him. ; "True, Senora Burdan. but vnnr .... ... - - hncVionit ie Qtxt mxu. nmx.. 1 is fired because of you, who have been disloyal to your salt You will depart early tomorrow morning and if you will leave me your address ad-dress I will secure your check from Dona Maria and mail it to you. I regret this action, for in the past we have been good friends, but as manager I may not forgive those who betray my employer, nor will I have Dona Maria embarrassed by your presence here, Senora Burdan, when she returns." "The news was bound to leak out anyhow," Ma complained, but Pedro was walking away. That afternoon he cleaned and oiled Breezy Wade's armament and polished both rifle and pistol cartridges. car-tridges. The rifle was an old model and inaccurate at ranges beyond three hundred yards, but it would have to serve his purpose, for he had I no rifle or pistol of his own. He was up at six o clock, next morning and had breakfasted and saddled Breezy vvauea noise ana su appea me rifle t scabbard on the saddle by seven o'clock. He noted with satisfaction I that Pa Burdan was loading things in the station wagon, so he bade Pa K farewell, again expressed his profound pro-found regret at the necessity for the parting, mounted Breezy Wade's horse and jogped off down the dry river bed to the scene of Breezy waae s aemise. ne xiea the horse ' behind a screen of mesquite, crawled into the thicket and lav hi. den just inside its outer fringe from I which he could see the dead man and have a clear field of fire down, river. (TO EE CONTINUED) rt T ohaves and Shines Given to Invasion Yanks --v w ' ,tm I w- ..... f ,1c i', f'' 'j. I - SI I I xr V ' V 2i I L ti p-.J I I -i v OxxZ; I l- -wwuuLfij .., , 1L a r ...z J Because few Chinese have any hair on their faces until they reach an advanced age, the shaving engaged IrJltT10 unusaal Pe- H, Corp. Harvey H. Powell. ho.se-ahoer ho.se-ahoer with a veterinary company In China, but a barber on the side, exercises his tonsorlal art on Pvt. Stanley C. 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