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Show THE Thursday. May 18, 1944 PAGE SEVEN NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- PMTEUHB THE STORY SO FAR: Mary Sutherland arrives at Sugnuaro, a flag station In Arizona, and waits for the station wagon from Wagon Wheel Ranch to pick her np. After a long wait Len Henley comes along in a truck and drives ber to a Phoenix hotel, where his Aunt Margaret gives her the guest room until she (s able to find accommodations at some dude ranch. Len's father, Hamilton Henley, has acquired the Wagon Wheel by buying np the notes and collateral of a Bill Burdan from the State Bank of after Burdan has come to him for a loan, which Henley refused. Len Henley meets the Wades, who have beat the Indictment the Jury brought against them for cattle stealing. Prescott he probably telephoned them they'd have to move in and take charge without waiting for judgment on foreclosure suits. The court would grant them that privilege on the proper representation, but the bank asked him to see you and get a deed to the to the home ranch and a cattle, to save legal expense and wastage and permit them to take over immediately. Did my father say, in consideration of your doing this, that the bank would not take a deficiency judgment against you?" "I didn't give him time to speak his piece," Ma declared proudly. "As soon as I realized he wanted CHAPTER IV something I made up my mind he wasn't goin' to get it." At four o'clock, while Ham Henley "He was only acting for the bank. was still in his office, his son teleI hear the bank will not make a catphoned and Jess Hubbell answered tle loan he doesn't approve. I'm go" and identified himself. "Mr. said Len, "there's a story in ing to see him tomorrow evening this afternoon's Republican, and I and when I do I'll try to make a want you to tell my father I didn't better deal for you. Meantime, keep from him. Leave this to me." inspire it and that I'm sorry as I away "You're the darlin'est boy," said can be, because I know he loathes Ma. "Ain't he. Pa? Oh, Len, why such publicity as much as I do." ain't you good friends with your fa"He read it, Len." ther so's he'd buy the Wagon Wheel "What did he say?" "He said enough. Still he was in- for you? You'd let Pa come back an' terested. You got any more money work forAn'youI then, wouldn't you, could keep house for honey? to bet on yourself versus Mad Hatter? Your father sort of fancies the you an' look after you an' you wouldn't need to pay us much, behorse." cause we wouldn't need much." "How much?" "Are you going to divorce Pa?" "Your bankroll is the limit." wickedly. "I'll not risk my all, but I'll take he inquired "I reckon not, Len. Seems like my father on for a thousand, if he'll to I got put up with him." give me three to one." "No more?" When Mary opened her doorin "Not another dime. And I wouldn't take the thousand except to oblige response to Len's knock she saw before her, not the cowboy my affectionate father. Make a standing check out to who had picked her up at Sughuaro that morning, but a gentleman of the secretary of the rodeo association. My check will be there, too." "No, no, not that, Len, you impulsive devil! We'd only have a big ger and better story on the front page of the morning paper. Wait until I confer with your father." In half a minute he came back on the line. "Your father says you're an unnatural son but he still thinks you're a gentleman and will pay your bets without the aid of a stakeholder. He hopes you have an equally good opinion of him." "I'll admit everything except that he's an unnatural father. The worst I'll say about him is that he's a peculiar man and I don't understand him. Tell him we have a bet and that I'll be in to collect it from him personally. If he thinks " "Wait a minute, Len. Your father's shouting something for me to He wants to know, Len, tell you If you know where old Bill Burdan and his wife are. He presumes you wintered on the Wagon Wheel as usual so you should know." "They're in town, but where I flon't know. I have an idea they're itaying with a distant relative. However, the old man arranged this morning to meet me at 10 I'll get his address then. Things have happened to the old folks and they've left the Wagon Wheel." There was a hiatus in the conversation. Then: "Your father says he'll be obliged to you if you'll ask Burdan to call at this office at ten O'clock tomorrow morning." "Ask him if he's coming out to the "Gimme!" rodeo tomorrow afternoon to see three thousand dollars hop from his the world, quite at ease in dinner clothes, overcoat and white silk mufpocket into mine." Another conversational relay. "He fler. "Why, Doctor Jekyll," she exclaimed, "where did you leave Mr. says he wouldn't miss it for considHyde?" erable." He did a little jig step. "Behold! five Ma Burdan drove At half-pas- t in up in the station wagon and sitting This morning I was a chrysalis beside her, looking quite happy for my cocoon. Tonight I am a butterfly. I don't cheer for your simile, one in his desperate financial situahowever. Dr. Jekyll used to tion, was Pa Burdan. "Yi, people, didn't he?" be yipped. "Anybody home?" "Sound travels at the rate of at "Come in and bring Ma," Len shouted. When they entered Len least a mile a second . . . How far kissed Ma and said, "Ain't love is it from the corridor where you ago. over the trangrand. Ma? It conquers all. Pa, stood a moment while I think of it, my father would som and into my room?" "It appears I talked out of my like to see you at his office about turn,", he replied without embarten o'clock tomorrow morning." "I spoke to him, twenty minutes rassment, "Did you really mean what you ago, Len. He seen Ma an' me driv-lsaid to those men, or were you just past his office an' flagged us." "Well, he didn't git far with us," trying to frighten them?" "I wasn't bluffing and I don't think Ma declared belligerently. "Guess what he wanted? Why, I never was they were particularly impressed. more insulted in my life. He wanted They aren't sufficiently intelligent." "This morning you decided you deed to us to give him a quit-claithe home ranch an' assign the state were too poor to buy the Wagon land leases to him an' in return Wheel ranch., What have you been he'd give us five hundred dollars. doing since I saw you last? Playing Pa was for grabbin' it but I says the market or shooting craps?" "Neither. I have merely yielded Nothin' doin',' and threw in the and that is to gears an' left him standin' there." to my ruling impulse "We'd ought to have took It," Pa take a chance. I have often reflectmourned. "We're goin' to lose ev- ed on the pleasure to be derived a bank beg a favor of erything anyhow. It'd been like pick-I- from having five hundred dollars out o' the me and as I came up in the elevator I realized how It could be done. gutter." "You ol hoot owl," Ma said mild- I was inspired and I accuse you of ly. "That's Just what Ham Henley having been the source of the insphoped you'd think. Itow'd he treat iration." "Tell me," she urged. you when you was in to see him "I can finance the tort of deal 1 about askin' him to help us? Why, he scolded you somethin' scandalous. have In mind. I know I can. And He hurt your feelin'f an' them as as soon as I do I shall reopen the ( hurt your fcelin'i. Pa, has got me dude department of the Wagon Wheel ranch, install a competent to reckon with." "Don't know as I blame him. Ma. cook and housekeeper and solicit 1 didn't expect he'd help me; I exguest." your trade as a "I hope you can." pect I didn't have no right to ask his arm He had two boxes under him to help me." "Nevertheless, Pa, I think Ma act- and he gave her one. "There were ed with discretion in according his only four orchids in town and I offer her finest brand of contumely, bought them. Here are your two. even if she didn't know It Father That green frippery dress, by the must have called at the Wagon way, goes very well with your hair, Wheel early this morning, because and I'm so glad you haven't green . be passed me on the way in to Phoe-- ) eyes. Your eye have been bothernix. He discovered you and Ma had ing me all day. I got tha fool noabandoned the ranch, so inasmuch as tion they were green. Instead he is a director of the State Bank at they're hazel,", . quit-clai- bill-of-sa- Hub-bell,- ... five-thirt- f r dry-gulc- h yi-yi- ," n' g "The man earns his money riding bucking horses and spends it on orchids," she addressed a mythical third presence. "Easy come, easy for a bloodgo. Don Leonardo, thirsty wretch you're terribly nice and thoughtful. Thank you." She went to her dressing table and pinned the corsage on; while she was doing this she said: "I read a piece about you this eve ning in the local paper." "I wish you hadn't." She nodded. She could understand why that was so, and she felt sorry for both the Henleys. He stood in the doorway and thought: How love- ly she is, how cool and poised. She's too exquisite to be other than a lady and too intelligent to pretend to be a greater lady than she is. She's the dude of all the world! "I hope you realize," she said. "that if I visit the Wagon Wheel ranch after you acquire it you'll have to provide a chaperon." "I am about to introduce you to a chaperon to end all chaperons. I call her my Aunt Margaret, but from boy- that's just a hold-ovhood's happy hours. She was my Widow-worn- mother's bride's-maid- . an, as we say out here. Mrs. Maxwell opened the door to Len's ring and said "Hello, Len. Come in, Miss Sutherland. You're as welcome as the Henley boy and he has the run of the premises." Mary was startled and confused for a moment, but her sense of humor bridged the situation. She held out her hand and commanded, "Gimme!" and Margaret Maxwell solemnly laid a silver dollar in the open palm. "I am a very curious woman, Miss Sutherland. I had to see promptly whether or no you measured up to your advance notices. Thank God, you do." "You're sly but likeable," Mary replied and in the good humor thus engendered they entered. "A votive offering for you, Aunt Margaret," said Len and handed her the box he was carrying. He stepped across the room, his hand outstretched to an oldish man who rose as they entered. "Hello, pappy," he cried heartily, jerked his father to him and ran his other hand through Hamilton Henley's hair. "You've turned roan since I saw you last." "An' you've thickened up a lot. son. Ham Henley turned toward Mary and bowed. "I think I saw you ridin' down the road with my son this mornin', miss." "Miss Mary Sutherland, pappy. Miss- - Mary, this is my old man." Ham Henley gave her a mild handshake, looked her over swiftly but with an intensity that told her he had missed nothing and then shifted his gaze to his son. "Margaret didn't tell me you were going to drop in," he said. "You needn't explain. She didn't What a lot tell me either, of delight we'd miss if women weren't so fond of surprise parties." "I reckon they invented Santa Claus, son." "Orchids," Mrs. Maxwell cried, delighted. "Len, you're a dear. I haven't had an orchid since you were here a year ago. I should like to assure you that such extravagance is sinful, only I don't think it is when I'm on the receiving end. Len, your father tells me you are retiring from the rodeo circuit when the Phoenix rodeo closes." "Jess Hubbell gave me that message," Ham Henley said anxiously. "I hope he got it straight." "He did. sir." Mary helped serve the cocktails and Len passed a plate of "Don Leonardo's a pig," she declared. "He wouldn't wait for you two. He insisted on having one drink with me." "I had to test your liquor. Aunt Margaret," he defended, "to make certain you weren't feeding us fighting whisky." He clinked his glass against his father'. "How, Hamilton, old sport. This time tomorrow night you'll be three thousand dollars poorer and I'll be six thousand dollars richer. And that will constiIt needs tute an accomplishment a good man to nick you that deeply." "I can enjoy losing that bet my on. An there's other way not so hard o' pryin' money out o' me if you need it" "Have you made a bet with Don Leonardo, Mr. Henley, that he will not conquer that horse. Mad Hatter?" Mary asked. "I have, young lady, and how come you call him Don Leonardo?" Mary flushed a little. "I heard his man, Pedro, call him that and it seemed to me the form of address fitted him.' Anyhow, I have a habit of coining pet names for people I like and I like your ion because he' terribly nice and amusing." Ye, I reckon he I pretty nice, young lady. In fact. I never knew him nicer than he Is today. Hi decision to quit the rodeo nonsense certainly make me happy." "I wish I could believe I have contributed to this reorganization of your son' social consciousness, Mr. Henley, but I fear hi decision to engage In tome less dangerous and more dignified method of making a livelihood Is the result of his spirituin hi al growth a sort of mile-stonevolution. 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