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Show THE Thursday, May 26, 1932 -- Tea. Want to see blrar I reckon. Ilefore be goes." Julia made thinga toug fur the night. "Hope you'll have a good eight and uleep well," she said. "I'll be Cue au' dandy," be assured. Outside the girl spoke Indifferently to the night. "Mr. Verby wants to see you before you go." Since Doctor Sanders bad Just been explaining that be Intended to stay all night with his patient, was Justified In assuming that this Impersonal remark was addressed to bltn. lie went Into the bouse. How they stackln. 4 ,s To Me-Ca- nn TIMES-NEW- NEPIII. UTAH S. for the water bolea. If we don't we lose out Consequence la we get fierce and savage like that wildcat." "Yes," she admitted with a njh "We're all under the aiiell of It all hard and relentless, klnda. But we don't bave to be what Is It you called that wildcat? ferocious and The desert shows Its teeth sly. most of the time. It's full of sting But that's and barb and thorn. only one side of It All the time It's trying to tell us something else. ur Isn't Ills brooding eyes rested on her. So she, too, felt It this wild young thing, so full of contrary Impulses, of passionate resentments, of brave elusive dreams, of mysterious crnv- t i. goodness and beautv. He h. at she was of the enemy, g primeval stirred In him. l as the race, that walked m and Eve In the garden, taking thought of It he it they rode alone In a inderful. Is It tryln to tell us?" be his low gentle voice. t know quite. But soroe- 1 and hopeful. The lovely tl If Jne yucca and the cactus Is hey a promise to us?" She Sc t herself, soft eyed. "May- ol cems silly to you. But It a ba I feel. Tonight now. In ke still moonlight the desert atenlng us, la It? were drawing up into a noil of creased arroyos. On the Std a hillock they stopped and ack across the Painted des- e man was for a moment but of himself. Looking at d girl, clean and ln- and rhythmic In ..the fresh- eemed pos sible to escapelj Inheritance of bis dark environment There was something in life deeper than hate and selfishness and revenge If be could only find It Down the wind came drumming the sound of hoofs. The two listened in silence. Each, sitting poised and alert on their monnts, knew that several horses with riders were moving rapidly toward them. The fact had Its significance in a country where one might travel a day without meeting a human being. Voices became clear, a snatch of Silhouetted laughter, an oath. against the skyline, three cow ponies moved along the ridge across the arroyo. Julia gave a little cry of greeting, lost In the clipclop of the hoofs and the chuffing of the saddle leath"Don't Prove a Thing. Like as Not er. She turned to her companion, You Reloaded It" to suggest that they canter down look so blamed knowin', Jim. I and Intercept the riders. But the don't like her any more'n she does words diet' on ber lips. The man beside her was watchme." the riders as they descended "Shot She's a mighty nice 111 ing from the ridge and disappeared. He Arione an' the in best lookin' girl, sat crouched, eyes narrowed to zona." hard shining slits of light, teeth "No Stark looks good to me," the clamped like a vice. The change son of Peter McCann said grimly. In him shocked her. He had become a machine designed to stalk They were taking the short cut and kill, a desert animal savage and across the desert before either of ferocious, the deadlier for the stillness of his emotion. them spoke. "Did you know who they were?" "What did you say your name she asked. Is?" she asked, rather Imperiously. The eyes that looked at her were "They call me Wilson." The girl noticed the slight pause chill. He nodded without speech. "I reckon Dad sent them to bring before he had drawled the answer. It probably was not his right name, me home." She knew he would not accept she reflected. A good many men did not use the one to which they were that explanation, since she could They had born. In that country it was not not believe It herself. come were good form to insist on particulars headedthrough Tincup pass and carsouth. Moreover, they as to who a man had been or from ried rifles. Why? What did they where he had come. want with them? "You ride for the McCanns." "Does It need three men to bring He assented, without words. Silence fell again between them. you home two Texas hired killers They had come out of the silt and like Stone an' Gitner, as well as were threading a way among the yore brother?" "Killers! Who says my father's yuccas. The moon and the stars were out, touching the men are killers?" she flamed. "Who land as by a magic wand. All harsh are you, anyhow?" detail was blurred. Ten thousand "Wils McCann," he flung back at years of drought were wiped out. A her. soft desert breeze was sighing He could see her recoil and stiffen. "I might have known it You gently across a sleeping world. His words, when at last they liar!" She threw the epithet like came, were a surprise. "Why Isn't a missile in his face. "If I were a It always like this?" he asked, man " broth"You've got an speaking almost to himself rather than to her.. er," he suggested ironically. "Maybe "How do you mean like this?" yon could hire him to take a crack But she knew, she hoped she at me from the mesqulte. He might knew, what he meant before he have better luck next time." answered. For the desert had en"I don't know what you're talking tered Into her life, too. She sensed about," the girl said scornfully. Its moods and reflected them In her "Ask him when you see him own. Sometimes It was a hot de- again. He wouldn't lie, Jasper vouring monster blasting all living wouldn't. He's a Stark, you know." things with Its fiery breath ; again She swung her horse and gave it at sunset when light was flooding a touch of the spur. Before It had over the sheen of the mesqulte. It gone twenty steps the man was rid- might be a silver dragon less de--1 ing beside her. structive. In the moonlight It was "Hit the trail I" she ordered hotly. kind of lovely, all ugliness and "I don't need your help to get -threat obliterated. home." A crouching animal slipped quick "I reckon not," he drawled. "But across the trail Into the chaply I promised Doc, so I'll mosey arral. along." "Coyote?" she asked. She pulled up, a diamond-harThen, "Wildcat," he answered. to with unexpected bitterness: "That's glitter In her eyes. "I'm going my brother. I'd advise you to light for the desert you." out" Again she understood whaf he "After I know you're safe." His meant, and again asked, "What do voice was cool and dry, his gaze you mean?" level and unwavering. "Survival of the fit" "If I tell Dave Stone and that "Isn't that true everywhere?" "Maybe so, but the conditions are Gitner what you called them killdifferent Everything that lives here ers " Is born and bred in hardship, trained "Why, then, they'll prove it to you for attack an' defense. No escape right there," he cut In with a Jeerfrom it. All the plants have thick ing laugh. "Seeing is believing. an' callous rinds. They have thorns They claim we owe 'era one for that sting. They have to pnsh their Tom McArdle, an' they'll collect roots 'way Into the ground to get now." If they don't toughen they water. (TO BH CONTINUED.) die. Tha's what's allin' us humans. Hawaiian Celebration We're desert-bred.- " May day is Lei day In Hawaii. "Aren't people the same everyOn May 1 everyone In the islands where?" she asked. "No. Here we have to fight or wears a flower garland In special go under. We fight the drought and observance of the frlendfy custom of hfnt of nntmp. 7 fisrht pnoh other giving lels. ' .1 BEGINNING THE STORY Drawn by the desert signal of distress. Wilson MoCann. young Arlsona ranchman, flnda an old friend, Jim Yerby, with a broken of leg. Julia Stark, daughter ofla Matthew Stark, Inveterate enemy the McCanna, signaled and rendering first aid. Taking a not on Is fired Wilson la but unhurt. to her from Julia father, you come out at the Circle Cross? I see they didn't scalp you." "No," McCann said dryly. "They The owner of the Circle Cross looked at bun steadily without sent a messenger to meet me." Tbe doctor's sparkling eyes guarpeaking. "What are you doing here?" he anteed attention. He guessed that something Interesting bad occurred demanded at last abruptly. "Why, I came to bring a message and be was a born gossip. "Jas Stark shot at me an' lit out two of 'em. In fact, Mr. Stark." to the Stark glared down Into a face bold I followed him llckety-spll- t and reckless, the cool eyes of which ranch. We had a few pleasant words, the old man an' me." met bis nnwlnkingly. "Shot at you? He didn't! How "Not Interested," the old man recome he to do that? They don't like torted brusquely. "Still, IU deliver 'em now I'm you a lick of the road, you or any of your kin. But shooting I Who here. First .Is that yore Jayhawkin' son bushwhacked me up started It?" In a few crisp sentences McCann there In the pass an' skedaddled to save bis hide after he'd sent a told the story. The doctor listened, absorbed. Was this the beginning couple blue whistlers at me." The cattleman turned to bis son. of the end? Would the smoldering feud break Into open warfare, bitter "How about that, Jas?" There was weakness and vice In and tragic? If he knew the McCanns and he thought he did they were the face of young Jasper Stark, Blackness In the Jaw. He answered not the kind to take this challenge tamely. They came of fighting Irish sulkily: "I didn't aim to kill him stock, upon which had been grafted shot to warn him to turn back." "That was why you fired at me four generations of American fronagain while I was makin' for cover, tier life. There were likely to be was McCann asked with a lit- reprisals. Even now both camps were waittle skeptical laugh of scorn. "That's a lie. The second shot ing tensely for the signal to begin hostilities openly. The death of was when you plugged at me." The rider from the Flying V Y Tom McArdle had brought them to unbuckled his belt and handed It to the point of war. But the doubt as May hew Stark. "Look at my gun to who had killed him had made for an' see who's a liar. AH the cham- delay. Matthew Stark had hesitated to give the word. While he broodbers are loaded." The old man broke the revolver, ed, willing to let events shape themexamined it, and returned it to Its selves, Jasper had fired a wanton owner. "Don't prove a thing. Like shot that might be the first of hundreds. as ot you reloaded It." The doctor rose and with a sigh of "While my hoss was hittin' the high spots tryln' to catch that lobe resignation knocked the ashes out wolf," the son of Peter McCann sug- of his pipe. He saw busy days and nights ahead of him. Well, It was gested with obvious sarcasm. Stark carried the war Into the ene- in the hands of the gods, or rather my's country. "Yon got a nerve to of two grim hard men with too talk about bushwhackin' after what much of the desert fierceness in you did to pore Tom McArdle," he their blood. He was a pawn in tbe game they played, Just as were the burst out angrily. The young roan's answer was I- rollicking boys who would ride out nstant "Tom McArdle would be alive laughing to meet death at the lift of today If he hadn't died till n Flying a hand. "No use tellin you so, of course, VY rider killed him." "Don't tell that to me. I know but it's all wrong, Wils this putyou an' all yore lying breed," Stark ting yourselves above the law and flung out bitterly. "I'm tellln' you killing so free and easy." "Have I keen killin' anybody free that I'd as soon put faith In a yellow coyote as in any McCann ever and easy, Doc? Better speak to Jas born. An' I'm sendin' word to Pete Stark about that, hadn't you?" "I'm not meaning you, Wils. But McCann that there's a day comin some one shot Tom McArdle." when I'll settle with Interest "None of our outfit. Doc. You for what he rtid to McArdle, Now fork that fuzzy an' light out. I don't mean we had anything to do with it." The eyes of the range rider don't want you here." "What about that gunplay up In were bleak. "No, Wils. Nothing like that But the pass?" "It goes as It stands. The boy's you know how the Starks feel. They're holding it against you boys Story suits me." of the Flying VY." "Different here,' an' I'm liable to Sanders knew by the other's face tell him so when we meet again," that they were no longer alone. He McCann said boldly. turned to see Julia Stark In the The old man's eyes blazed. "Like doorway. to tell him dow maybe?" "Who else would we hold It The Flying VY rider looked from against, Doctor?" she asked curtly, Stark to the men waiting tensely for looking straight at the younger the word or the lift of a hand that man. would serve as an order to begin There was a thin ironic smile on His lip curled In an the brown face of McCann. hostilities. He Ironic smile. "Not now, gentlemen." murmured, with the soft drawl of "Then hit the dust pronto." insolence to which he sometimes re"Don't get on the prod, Mr. Stark. verted, "Nobody else would have I haven't unloaded that second meshim, would they?" "What d'you mean?" the girl desage yet. It's from your daughter." "From Jule?" manded. Wilson could see that the old The man In chaps said nothing, cattleman had been struck to In- but he continued to give her that stant apprehension. mocking smile. It was the doctor "She has sent word by me to tell who answered at last you that she'd be home late. I saw "Tom was quite a boy for the her up at old Jim Yerby's. He's girls, Miss Julia. Folks say some broke his leg. The doc's on the way folks do that maybe some one who there now. You're not to send for was Jealous or wanted revenge might her, Miss Stark says; she'll come have laid for him." with Doc Sanders when he leaves The girl's dark eyebrows gathYerby's place." ered In a frown. "First I've heard "Does Yerby need any help?" of It that Tom was so fond of the "I'll look out for him. You don't girls. And If he was If he did like them Is that any crime, any reaneed to worry about Yerby none." McCann swung without any baste son why some one would want to e saddle, glanced coolly from kill him?" "I reckon you didn't know Tom lent men, ana neaaea jimuanay to- - very well," the doctor said Judicially with Intent to hold an even vIm TBCUP 1ass rtr the men of the Circle Cross, balance between the Stark and the still watching hlra as he disap- McCann. "He was a mite wild. Julia, by the stories I've peared, there came back the taunt- Miss heard." ing rhythm of a cowboy song: about "I don't know BH yore tail, and roll her high, that I never saw anything him but once." We'll all be angela by an' by. She swept defiant eyes over the rider. "But I don't believe a word CHAPTER II about a private enemy killing him." "Yon wouldn't," agreed the youngVThe Giffords. er man. was The Implications of his smile DOCTOIt SANDERS pipe In front of Yerby's stirred her anger. Stiffly she turned and walked Into the house. cabin when McCann dismounted. Those outside beard verby: "How's Jim?" the horseman asked. "Don't I hear that Flying VY boy "He's taking a little nourishment (W?" .J.ili.yla.X ad..n ih.fe,'.! i yuJT'riT',1,1 v" CHAPTER I Continued 2 no-cou- ltr dry-guich- -- 1 rry-eye- hii!fh. steel-thorne- PAGE SEVEN d able-bodie- d d 1 Modern Contract Bridge By T1II3 woman's husband was run down, unhappy. She didn't know what waa the matter with him. It worried her. She was afraid he would loee hie Job. Lli Hatterder Irrl-tab- le, No. 2. One) one opening or can be but TIIKKB bid on each deal. All bids which follow this first bid are designated by different terms and Influenced by different factors. The opening bid may be made by the dealer, by the second hand after dealer haa passed, by the third hand If both dealer and second hand have passed, or by the fourth hand If all the others bave passed. Third or fourth hand original bids require greater minimum strength than such bids when made by the dealer or second band. The original or In opening bid Is the most clear-cu- t Its requirements. In the approach-forcin- g system, the opening bid most often employed is the bid of one In a suit, because a sound suit bid, even a four card minor, Is always preferred to a no trump. An original suit bid of one In a major or minor Is declared on the same type of band. While neither ever shows a suit which cannot be played at the tramp named, such a declaration must be regarded aa primarily for the purpose of conveying Information to yonr partner; In form r net a handl 1 ueaii lieu, i t leal I equia ?5"l laoni In til may I tonsil a longer suit with less top strength. But most Important of all, I have 2M defensive tricks somewhere In roy hand ; tricks which should prove winners whether we or the opponents secure the final contract This much I promise from my hand. There may be something more, but you can be snre there Is nothing less." Or If the declaration Is one no trump: "Partner, I have at least 1xk distributed in three suits, and my hand contains no biddable suit" In the position of opening the bid third or fourth hand, the bidder shows a minimum of three honor-trick- s. honor-trick- s As the prime requisite for a sound opening bid Is a definite number of honor-trickthe primary need for a sound approach-forcin- g player Is a thorough knowledge of honor-tric- k values. The approach-forcinsystem has discarded the old fashioned quick trick count In favor of a more accurate method of computing the probable value of honor cards held singly and In combinations. The standard table of honor tricks follows : s, g TnE DEFENSIVE VALUES OF HONORS AK A 2 . KJ Honor-trick- s AKQ AQ AQ10 AQ J A J 10 Her mother-in-lasuggested ahe buy Fellow' Syrup and we that her husband took It regularly every day. She nw It build up hi vitality, ease the nerve strain, pep up vigor and appetite. She recommends it now to all her friends. Ask for tenuiH4 Fellows' Syrup at your w Opening Bids of 1 Honor-trick- s KQ10 KQ J Ace AJ KQ 1 K X and Q X In different suits Honor trick KXand KX druggist. FELLOWS' SYRUP Outlines Six Steps for Land Use Plan Old English Law Made Churchgoing Compulsory Golfers, picnickers, Sunday auto- Ists would be out of luck If an old English law were in force today. The act of uniformity, 1552, required: "All persons, except those dissenting from the worship or doctrines of the Church of England and usually attending some place of worship not belonging to the Church of England, are. If they have no lawful or reasonable excuse for absence, to endeavor to attend their parish church or accustomed chapel, or. If reasonably prevented from so doing, some other place where the divine service of the Church of England Is performed, on all Sundays and other days ordained and used to be kept as holy days, and to abide there orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer, preaching or other divine service there performed." Failure to observe this law renders the offending "parishioner or Inhabitant of a parish" who Is not legally exempt from attendance at divine service on Sundays and holy days "liable In proceedings taken against him in the ecclesiastical courts to be censured for the offense, admonished as to Us attendance In the future, i ictlon. and to be condemned in the costs of litlonal steps In the plan pre- - the proceedings." J d by Professor Wilson Include nodificatlon of land taxes and I animation of local government; the withdrawal of poor lands from production to solve the surplus probInstead o habit--f ormlng physictW sa (J lem. Suggesting how this might be er Irritating purges V I carried out, he explained the "Do takestronff. NATURE'S KUtEUIty CviVk calls which Allotment Plan" A dependable, all- - M mestic laxative. Mild. for the Issuance of certain allotments vesetable TO NIOHJ to- pleasant-- N gentle. to farmers to grow the kinds of mlrlsht. MOBRXJW crops they have been growing, tbe Gets 25c box. 77i Laxatto farmer to receive tariff protection on the alloted acres. Finally, Wilson .UlnfllB.- .'lha recommended part time farming and the decentralization of Industry. To prevent men who are farming nnroitable land from Joining the ranks of the unemployed, Professor Billion Acres Surveyed Wilson stated that Industry must a billion acres of farm lands Nearly new a policy coupling industry In the United States have been adopt with small farm agriculture. Small mapped by soil surveyors of the Unitfarms, located near industrial plants, ed Department of Agriculture. he said, would not produce the great ThisStates area is greater than the comfood staples of which there Is a surbined area of European Germany, plus. France, and Great Britain. The work Is now progressing at the rate of Two-Yea- r in Days Trip Eight more than 15,000,000 acres each year, 32 S. who MaJ. Ewart Grogan, and department officials estimate that r years ago made a toilsome between 20 and 30 years will be rejourney, mostly on foot, the length of quired to complete the survey. The same covered the Africa, recently cost work is between 2 and 3 route from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape cents ofanthis acre. Town, South Africa, in eight days. He made the trip by air, and instead New Scott Letter Found of "roughing it" as before he looked Written by Sir Walter Scott to Sir down on Africa from a comfortable Ferguson, on January 11, 1825, armchair In an air liner and relaxed Adam a seven- - pageletter has Just been preat stops in rest houses. sented to Glasgow university, Glasgow, Scotland, by Alexander J. Sou-tMule on Snowshoes of Sydney, Australia. It never To help him carry pack for his has been published, having been lying owner who Is a trapper 600 miles neglected in Australia for30years and north of the northern mining town Is said to present a complete charof Sherrldon, Man., a mule owned by acter of the Scottish writer. W. Klonwick has been taught to use snowshoes. The snowshoes are about Watchful Waiting eighteen inches In diameter and the "If you've spotted the man who mule refuses to walk In snow with- stole your car, why don't you get It out them. back?" "I'm waiting for him to put on a The humblest Individual exerts new set of tires." some Influence either for good or evil upon others. Nobody spends In hard times, but it Is absolutely the time to build No one fears an opportunity as a yourself a home If you need one. timid man does. With all the rare fruits of the From Intimacy spring 50 per cent tropics, they can't produce anything better than a cherry pie. of the personal troubles. "Much lower prices for what he sells, higher prices for what he buys, and higher tuxes these are the upper nnd nether millstones which are slowly grinding the life out of rural America," said Prof. M. L. Wilson of Montanu State College In a radio address, over an NBC network In the program of the National Advisory Council on Radio In Education. "Fortunately, there Is a way out," Wll-so- n stated, "but tbe way demands a reversal of the basic land policy of the nation." The speaker presented six steps In a program for land utilization. First In the list of six fundamen tals.i siiirirpRtPd hv Professor Wilson I e repeal of the Homestead Act it he enactment of a new national I policy bill which, he pointed s essential because there Is no land In the public domain sult- for farming and borne building. i, comlly, each state should clas- its lands, develop a state-wid- e use plan and institute a proI of action," Professor Wilson ed. The third step Is that poor I as determined by land ntlllza- studies, should be taken out of Constipate bU two-yea- ar ' Is HestforDaily KX K J alone JX Q J 10 Q X and JX Honor-tric- k In different suits Q X and Q X Plus Values: King alone or Q X or J 10 X when unable to combine with another honor In band. Two such plus values equal about V honor-trick- . "X" always means one or more cards below the 10. Note When you have an unaccounted honor in a suit that has yielded 2 honor-trick- s yon cannot combine this, uncounted honor with a "plus value In another suit. (9. 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