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Show Thursday, November 17, 1932 THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH : : ! JIM b Copyright Peter B. CONQUEROR B. the By Peter Int FOR BEGINNERS OF THE STORY Roberta Antrim, beautiful Eastern society girl, who Uvm with her unci. William knows as "CraoJted Bill" becauee of hia aenueuig siyneaa, raceivaa a telegram Iroro Jaima Miguel Higuaoea, owner at tha ftancho Valla Varda, ka Teaae, Informing har har uncla Tom Antrim haa died a violent daath. At tha advice ol Clenn Hackatt. who ia is lova with her, Roberta plana to go to Taaaa to protect her interests, since aha ia her uncle's eole heir to thousands of sheep which Antrim had impudently driven to grata on land controlled by Don Jaima. Don Jaime, bachelor, hail Spanish and ball Irish, is attracted to Roberta's picture in a magazine. Antrim ia warned to take hia sheep elf Don Jaime's ranch at once. Antrim ambushes Don Jaime. They shoot it out. The young ranch owner ia wounded and Antrim killed. On his body are found instructions to notify Miss Roberta Antrim in the event of 4eatb. Latham tells her bis fortune is in danger, and aba decidea to go to Teaaa t otrira'e estate for Crooked Bill. Another Higuenee' telegram tells Roberta her a saa killed by Jim Higgina (Don Jaime's anglicised name). "Crooked Bill" outlines a scheme ha hopes will forward Hackett's courtship of Roberta, which ha greatly favors. B. Latham, J CHAPTER IV Continued "You two will now huve a delightful secret together. You will have a community Interest my abject, hopeless self. While this mythical deal Is on, not a word of love to Roberta. There must be no sentiment Id this business, or you'll spoil - everything."Well. In the fullness of time when the market breaks as you and I know blamed well It will you make the mythical clean up. hand me back the deed to Hillcrest and a fake check for my winnings or rather, let Roberta do it, so she'll feel that the credit for the coup is all hers remind me of my word of honor to quit stock gambling, shuke hands nil around, bid Roberta a somewhat suppressed good-hanil announce you are off for a trip around the world, to be gone for a year. And at that moment, old son. if you play your cards with the skill and judgment which a lawyer of your proved ability should, Roberta will go with you or I'm fit for an Insane asylum." "I'm not so certain your plan will work out as perfectly as you appear to think, Mr. Latham," Hackett replied doubtfully. "Of course tt will. Why not? Roberta will be serious now. No more flirting, no more attempting to work her wiles on you to see you squirm and satiate her with a sense of her power over you. She'll begin to study you then, to appreciate the fact that you have qualities she must respect ; she'll feel grateful to you. but owing to the fact that she secured your loau the obligation will be more mine than hers. No love. Business. Then love will bob up of its own accord." Glenn Hackett looked genuinely distressed. Crooked Bill rambled on : "1 want Roberta to go to Texas to look after that estate. She has a Jolt coming to her when she gets there, and I'm the little boy that knows It Twenty-fivyears ago I was in the cattle business myself, in I.as Cruces county, Texas. owned the Rancho Verdugo and sold out to a chap named Bill Hobart. I know this Hlguenes famdon't know Hon Jaime Miguel ily. Iliguenes, but I did know his father, and a grand piece of work he was. Spanish with a broad streak of Irish or Irish with a broad streak of Spanish, I forget which. I remember the old man had an Infant son named Jaime, 30 this chap who killed Tom Antrim must be that boy." "Higuenes says a man named Jim Higgins killed Antrim. Roberta told me over the telephone." "Jaime Is Spanish for James, readily corrupted to Jimmy, and Higuenes is Spanish for Higgius. Don Jaime went over to Antrim's camp to order him and his sheep off the Higuenes range. Antrim, the skunk, f mired on murdering the boy without risk to himself. Fortunately a third man was 'present at that conference Just before the killing a ranger named Kenneth Ilohart son of old Bill Hobart to whom I sold the Rancho Verdugo. Higuenes borrowed the ranger's rifle unknown to Antrim and although Antrim shot Higuenes three times, eventually Higuenes got out of range. Then he stalked Antrim and killed him. I have had a report on the matter from the coroner at Los Algodones." "Very interesting. Mr. Latham." "Best news I've had .In Bfty years, Glenn. But what challenges my Interest is this. Antrim is dead. Higuenes lives and is not seriously Injuied. yet Antrim's sheep, with the tacit consent of Higuenes, continue to trespass. Meanwhile Higuenes Is doing all he can to protect Roberta, whom he has never met and all at considerable toss and inconvenience to himself, because those sheep are ruining nis range. Sheep foul a range up. and cuttle will not graze where a sheep has grazed. Also, a sheep destroys the range. Rats the grass down to the roots and then some. Now, why is Iliguenes doing this?" "Search me, sir." "He has some ulterior motive, and Roberta will discover It. of course. Well. I want Roberta to go down there all bet up with the mental picture she has painted of this romnntlc I Iliguenes. She'll find a brand of man she never met before. All I hope lg thnt he makes ' e 1 1 1AC1V CPVPM love to her with Latin Impetuosity, because if he does he'll be pin in his place. Roberta will not be rushed by any man. Ail the meu she'll meet there will be so different she'll be disillusioned. She'll begin to appreciate a man who bathes and shaves dally, who dresses In good taste, who knows something besides cattle and sheep and local politics, who Uves in a regular house and moves in cultured society. She'll see the other side of the picture and it will be good for her Immortal soul." "There may be a great deal in what you say, Mr. Latham, and perhaps your cute financial plans will work out exactly as you expect, but I'm here to tell you they will not, and for one very potent reason I'm not so blamed certain that I want Roberta." Crooked Bill stared at the young man in undisguised horror and amazement. "I'm afraid of her," Hackett resumed In his slow, methodical way. "She's too blamed modern and I'm too I'll not change and she can'L I fear we would be mismated and I'll not risk a brief happiness. I can stand to lose Roberta now, but 1 wouldn't care to have to stand to lose her after I'd won her; it'd break my heart to discover at some future time that she wasn't happy with Kyne WW? "You 11 be popular, Rohbte. Did you bring your harmonlta?" Ken bought me "Yes, sir. grand one in Kl I'uso." "Think you two can get along without fighting?" Robbie laughed at the bare lden of conllict with his friend. He stared hard at Don Jaime. "What's your name, mister?" "My name Is Jimmy." "You got any boys?" "No. That's why I sent Ken up after you. I've been lonesome a lot. here lately, so when your mother told me she had a boy, why, I thought I'd borrow you. Did Ken tell you about the pony we have here for you?" Robbie's wistful eyes glistened. "I can ride a pony. I know I can." "When I get well we'll go riding I think now. Robbie, together. your mother wants to visit with you. so you'd better run along. After dinner we'll have another visit and really get acquainted." Having changed from his store clothes to the accustomed freedom of chambray shirt and light, cool khaki Ken "slacks," Ilohart dropped Into the long chair beside his employer. "Yes, we're counting the sheep1." Don Jaime said. He had the gift. new-foun- d Relief From Neuralgia In Few Minutes ! d high-hande- d d half-shel- d U.ed Pipe, Filling. & Valve. Monsay Iron and Metal Co. rd Weal - (fealt lAk rily, I'taJa. Ken, draw godones tomorrow. about a thousand dollars from the bank and pay off those sheepmen They'll stick on the Job ami tnke good care of those rane sheep, when they know they're being watched." "And do you Intend keeping Bill Dingle and his men in your private hoosegow Indefinitely?" "Oh, no, not indefinitely. Ken. I've only sentenced them to thirty days for trespass and assault with intent to do great bodily harm." "But Dingle claims that part of his remuneration as manager for Tom Antrim was an Interest In the Iamb crop. He'll charge you with stealing his lambs and sue you for huge damages." "But I'll give his foreman a receipt for all the sheep and wool I possess myself of. I'll even give Dingle a duplicate receipt. Sign it myself, too." "Don Jaime, you're hopelessly medieval. If Dingle charges you with kidnaping and swears that you held him a prisoner thirty days in an effort to make him sign over his interest in those lambs. It's going to cost you a lot of money to defend And if you're convicted yourself. the punishment Is imprisonment for life." "An Higuenes cannot be convict ed in Las Cruces county, my friend. There would be an overpreponder-ancof Latin blood In the lury, and a Latin doesn't care two hoots In a hollow for the law. All he wants is Justice and he doesn't want any Justice other than the brand that appeals to him. King John of and Don Quixote could never agree on anything." Ken Hobart surrendered but not without misgiving. "How are your wounds?" he queried. "Nothing to worry about I'll be on the Job again in a month." - Crooked Bill's well-laiplan worked with the smoothness of a piston thanks to Roberta. To her airy greeting Glenn Hackett returned one of the utmost gravity, so Roberta Jumping Instantly to the conclusion that Crooked Bill had been talking his affairs over with his lawyer, promptly precipitated the drama, much to the relief of the principal actors. "Well, Glenn," she said, "has Uncle Bill been telling you his sad story ?" Hackett nodded owlishlv. Crooked Bill raised a protesting hand. "Let us not discuss It, if you please, Bobby. Remember, girl, I'm not the whimpering kind." "I know you're not, dear Uncle Bill. You're a perfectly good old sport I have Just had a long tele gram from my lawyer in Los Algo He Informs me that doncs, Texas. the affairs of Uncle Tom's estale are In excellent shape and that he died leaving even more sheep than was at first suspected. There are about ten thousand lambs that will soon be ready for market and which should bring ten dollars a head and there are upwards of a hundred thousand pounds of excellent wool worth thirty cents a pound Why. it would seem that Uncle Tom's estate will run close to half a million dollars. We should worry and grow wrinkles and gray hair, darling." The butler announced dinner and between the fish and the roast, as per agreement, Glenn Hackett commenced to question Crooked Bill adroitly as to the exact nature of his operations in the market Roberta noted a grim little smile playing across Hackett's Puritanical face from time to time, so presently, with her customary Impulsiveness, she asked him to share the Joke with them. "It's on your Uncle Bill," he replied. "It Is my duty to Inform you. Bobby, that your Uncle Bill is an antediluvian Idiot who can't see the woods for the trees. If he could he'd see a path as wide as the boardwalk at Atlantic City. Let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow Uncle Bill will no longer be a financial corpse. He will have commenced his resurrection." "How are you going to save Uncle Bill?" Roberta demanded. Hackett proceeded to outline to her. patiently and In words of one syllable, his plan for the salvation of Crooked Bill. "I understand perfectly, Glenn." Roberta said when at last he fin Ished. "You're a wonderful, wonder ful friend." "The plan is vetoed," Crookert Bill declared virtuously. "Friendship will bear up under anything except the indorsement of notes or the swift heavy touch." "But Uncle Bill" Uncle Bill raised his leonine head and his cold, steel gray eyes flickered murderous llcht nt her "There will be no further disrnsslon of this unpleasant subject" he Id formed her coldly. tTO BE CONTINUED. Ml HOI. atiit Laboratory I2S-2JB. West Teiui'U St., Fait l.aks ity, Ulah. I. O. lius I6S4 Mulling envclopt-am! prtcag t uriiUhrd on rMUat. TM (to. 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(B AYER 200 Tile Baths Radio connection Copr. 1932, The Bayer Co.. Inc. d dust-clou- at AND CHEMISTS oitne ere1re e "Mares' nests," Crooked Bill protested. "I tell you I know women. They may hoot for years at a masterful man, but they'll end up by marrying him and adoring him until death do them part. However, why cross the bridge until you come to It? Go through with my little plan and then stand by to 'Well, Glenn," She Said, "Has Uncle see how the cat Jumps." Bill Been Telling You His Sad "Well, It cannot hurt to try the Story?" thing out, Mr. Latham. If there's of telepathy. Had any back-fir- e later, you'll be the decidedly Celtic, one to get scorched for deceiving it to a marked degree, in fact. "Any trouble?" folks who trust you." Bill "None. a like said made a bluff at Dingle's foreman "Spoken man," starting some, but Crooked Bill. Caraveo paid no attention to him. I instructed Caraveo to Ignore him CHAPTER V and tell him nothing if necessary, to treat him rough. And I sent after Don Jaime's enough men to enforce my desires. HALF anhadhourresulted In the capWe're washing the brutes, shearing ture of Bill Dingle and his . men, them, running them through the another to the south at- chute one at a time, branding them, tracted Don Jaime's attention. and plan to haul them up here In "Ken Hobart and his men re- motor trucks, after giving the foreturning," he explained to Mrs. man a receipt for them. I'll place a guard on the "wool, and as soon Ganby presently. His cheerful grin welcomed Ho- as you can buy some wool sacks I bart as be entered. want you to sack that wool and "I didn't bother sending a mes- haul It up to the ranch for safesenger with the news that It was a keeping." false alarm,,, Ken. I figured you'd "You'll be to a bit of have one man drop out of your expense, DonputJaime.quite Have you to watch the road to Valle authority to take party possession in this Verde, while you rode on, taking manner?" your leisure." "Segurol I always make my own "I did exactly that," Hobart re- authority. Don Prudenclo Alviso plied. "When he galloped after us Is Miss Antrim's local representaand reported seven mounted men tive, and whatever I 3o will be had come out of a canyon to the Jake with Prudetcio." east and taken the road to Valle "What are you going to do with Verde at a fast trot, I concluded the wool?" your suspicions were "Hold it here, until the and that I might risk returning. market goes up, orsafely, I receive orders So Dingle arrived with blood In to sell It Immediately." his eye, eh, Don Jaime?" "And the lambs and the old Don Jaime nodded. "1 have an ewes?" Idea they planned to hang me from "The old ewes with broken teeth one of the trellis beams in my own or no teeth at all were starving to grape arbor. . . Well, Caraveo death. Their carcasses were dot has them over at the barn under ting the range. So I thought I'd guard. It occurred to me It would put them on our tender, succulent be a fine Idea to enforce jiy hos- alfalfa. A month or six weeks on pitality on Dingle and bis men un- alfalfa and ground barley will fit til after we've counted those them for market They ought to sheep." bring ten dollars each." Hobart nodded approval. "The "Who's going to pay for all this? best way to win a fight is to avoid The Antrim estate?" it," he agreed. "Well. Caraveo can "If it can afford to. If it can't " tuum cue BiietriJ HOW, wniie I go up Don Jaime shrugged the Indifferto El Paso for that crippled boy."! ent shrug of one who has not been Three days later he returned reared to do things on the with Mrs. Ganby's son, an ethereal as It were. "Don Prudenclo little boy on his was out to see me yesterday. He left side. When he had been greet- has had a letter from Miss Antrim. ed by his mother be was brourht It appears that her uncle, whose to Don Jaime to be presented. ward she Is, ts very "I'm awfully glad you consented threatened with the loss ofseriously his for to come dowD here and keep me tuna She's anxious about the company. Robbie." the young man sheep and has Instructed Don Prugreeted him. He lifted the frail denclo to guard thera and preserve little body to his lap. "What can them. I told him to wire her that you do to keep a fellow amused?" the sheep were safe with me and he demanded. to disabuse his placid mind of all Robbie was surprised. He had worry concerning them." anticipated being amused, not be"But they aren't safel" Ken Hoing called upon to amuse another bart protested. "What's to prevent So he pondered . Don Bill Dingle from cripple. driving to market Jaime's question and replied, pres the sheep still on the range?" "You forget that Bill Dingle Is ently. that he could play the har inonlca. Better go to Los Al my guest IUSMON ASSAYERS Nawlj threaded and coupled lor all purpoeea, e me." Salt Lake City Directory -- State (Pitas print nams end address plainly) |