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Show tl V Thursday, August 10, 1914 THE NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- 'MM IMTO WflM A MAWm (mfimStim PAGE THREE American Troops Land at Harbors on Guam iv PETER B. KYNE THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary own brush with Breezy's friends, for Mary, anticipating Pedro's visit to Don Leonardo, had asked him not to discuss with the latter her decision to make a reality of his d dream for improving the Wagon Wheel. Pedro, assuming she preferred to invite Don Leonardo out to view the fruits of her money and labor when the job should be done and the grass six inches high, promised silence. Meanwhile, Mary'had checked the balance in her bank accounts in New York and Phoenix and arrived at the conclusion she had to have more money in hand to do even some of the things she planned to CHAPTER XVI do; also she was at a loss to know "Of course. The heat is blistering, which item on her program should While she was 1 know, because I've inquired, but be given priority. it's dry heat, so I can stand it. I puzzling over her predicament Sherhave to remain here and learn how iff Wade drove down to see her. The sheriff was looking more to, boss the job. But I'll not be a hermit. .Did I tell you I hold a fly- cheerful than when she had seen him last and the reason for it was forthing license?" "No and for goodness sake, what coming instantly. "Thought I'd run down an' tell you my other two sons has that got to do with it?" "I've had two hundred and fifty has left Arizona," he announced. "I hours in the air. I'm going to clear suppose Pedro told you I had 'em a level spot for a landing field and in jail an' why." e Mary nodded. "It seems that all buy a twin engine ship, so I'll not be tied down here. I can I have done since arriving in Arizona be in Phoenix in an hour, Los is create a disturbance, sheriff." "You didn't create this one. I did. Angeles in three hours, San Fran--ciscin six. New York or Florida in There wasn't the least danger of a two days." lynching but I had Hamilton Within half an hour the rain was Henley send in a bunch o' his riders beating in sheets against the win- In a truck to mill around the jail dows and Mary listened to some-thin- g she had never heard before the steady slap against the earth of water running off her own roof. It J made her feel eerie and aloof from everything, a being detached from her own world; it inculcated in her the thrill of adventures yet to come. About dark she heard a faint roar ing that grew rapidly in intensity, so she sent for Pedro to ask him what that sound might be. "It is Satan, laughing with delight. Dona Maria, as he conducts two funerals. The Santa Maria is .In freshet for his purpose." "Two funerals, Pedro?" He related the tale of his adventure at Breezy Wade's wake. "Pedro," she declared, "this is Suth-erlan- d hired to Arizona by the advertisements of the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She Is met at the station by Len Henley, whose father, Ham, has purchased the Burdan notes from the bank and feels that the ranch Is now his. Len takes Mary to Phoenix, enters the rodeo and rides Mad Hatter to a finish, winning three thousand dollars for Mary from Len's dad. Mary now buys the equity In Wagon Wheel, and Ham, learning she hasn't got enough money, threatens to foreclose. Mary rehires Ma and Pa Burdan and takes up on the ranch, where she kills the son of Sheriff Wade while Illegally branding a calf. (s half-forme- four-plac- o 1 n L 1 terrible." "Terrible, Dona Maria? It is Almost I wept because I am ;uch a poor shot. However, I think perhaps I frightened those other two ;so much they will never come back." "But how do you know they were cattle thieves, Pedro?'.' "It is enough that they were :friends and companions of Breezy Wade, that each carried a Flying W iron on his saddle and murder In :his heart if one surprised him as you surprised Breezy, for each carried r .a rifle with telescopic Men roundsights and ing up their own cattle do not go armed. There is no more Wild West except in the movies. Dona Maria." "Then I know of a good substitute. Pedro." "The man I killed and the two who escaped," Pedro went on, were Californians." "How do you know?" "By their outfits. Their saddles ihave one cincha only. In the southwest we use two. Also, their riatas were three-stranrawhide while we use maguey rope. The California vaquero is a dandy and must have some silver on his saddle and bridle if he can afford it. These three had it. The man I killed wore brass spurs inlaid with silver so I took these for myself. Also, I found on him a letter addressed to a man in Earp, California, and it may be that he was that person. One day I shall run over to Earp and make inquiry regarding this unfortunate man." "Do you think they have put the Flying W brand on many of my calves left unbranded by Pa Burdan .last year?" "Not many, I think, because they Jiave not had much time to work. Any calves they branded will proba bly be down along the river and I will engage a rider to go down there j with me and round them up while the brand still shows fresh and unhealed. These animals I will drive up here and corral in the horse pasture; we will slaughter them, one by one, for ranch use, so there will be no left. You will goon have a large number of men to feed." The rain ceased about daylight , and by the Santa . Maria was again a waste of sand and white granite so Pedro rode down to the scene of the two killings and discovered that dur ing the night Messrs. Wade and Wall had moved on. So he rode on down the river until he could emerge on the north bank where the growth was normal and possible to penetrate. He found the camp of the visitors; they had had to abandon d most of their food supplies; their V cooking equipment, blanket and packsaddles, with kyacks, mantas and lash ropes. The following day Pedro returned to the camp with the pack mules and loaded this loot aboard them, for he was a thrifty man and wasted nothing. In the afternoon he drove Mrs. Maxwell back to Phoenix, remained there over night and returned to the ranch next day. While In Phoenix, however, he paid a visit to Len Hen-ley, who commenced a cautious pumping of the Wagon Wheel man- ager but learned nothing of interest beyond the details of Mary's adven- lure with Breezy Wade and Pedro's hor-ribl- e. high-powe- "But, how do you know they were cattle thieves, Pedro?" an' yell 'Lynch 'em after I had my boys locked up. That threw a chill into 'em. Then Hamilton Henley come in an' interviewed 'em. He give 'em their choice sell their Flyin' W iron, lease an' livestock to him, or he leads the mob in stormin' the jail an' stringin' 'em up." "And they accepted that pro- d gram?" bet after I told 'em I wouldn't kill none o' my friends to save 'em. So Hamilton Henley has a lawyer come over to the jail with his stenographer an' fix up the papers an' the deal's closed. Mr. Henley wouldn't pay for the cattle until after the round-uan' his own count. He wouldn't accept my boys' count. So they agreed to that an' he give 'em both five hundred dollars for present expenses an' makes a speech from the second-storwinder o' my jail advisin' the mob to go home on account he's arranged for the boys to sell out to him an' leave Arizona forever. So when the crowd melts we put the boys in Ham s car an' him an' me drop 'em off on the Arizona end o' the bridge across the Rio Colorado at Blythe on' they hike across into California." "So," Mary said, "Ham Henley is fj cood nctor as well as a bad one." "Ain't no favor he won't do for a friend he likes an' respects." "nut the Flying W. Pedro Ortiz Informs me, is a small outfit about a township snd a half of range and perhaps three hundred head of breeding stork. It will only be a nuisance to Ham Henley. He likes a larger canvas." "He aims to sell that little spread to some dude if so be he don't sell It to me, which he'll do in case I'm licked at the general election this fall. An' I expect to be o' them sons o' "You p y Hen-ley'- wash-boulder- mire." "I imagine I'm the dude he has in mind, Mr. Wade. Well, in a pinch Ham Henley Is the I'll cat'.!c king of Arizona but I have an fcmbition to be the cattle queen. I'd be a cattle queen, would I not. with ten thousand head?" "You would, but not on your present range or even with the Flyin' W i j added." This was her cue to confide in him her plan for the home ranch and he agreed that it was a feasible one, provided she got water In sufficient quantity from the wrl! she planned to sink and the cost nt should not be prohibilive Purr,Piri The day after hor return to Pl.oe- - nix, Margaret paid a visit to Len Henley. She found Mr. Henley vastly improved, with everything under perfect control, except his spirits, which were very low. He brightened perceptibly when Margaret entered Washington, D. C. PEACE FEELERS Reports that the German generals revolted against Hitler only after with Russia peace negotiations failed, have caused Washington dip- lomatic sources to reveal that, on two previous occasions, German peace feelers were extended to Rus-liNAZI the room. "Hello, Watchman," he greeted her, "what of the night?" "Whose night?" "You would have to get exact, wouldn't you? I merely employed a You're looking figure of speech. In fact, there was a very deep well, so I needn't ask how you are. !ear in U. S. army-navcircles that When I saw you last you were headRussia ed for the bedside of the afflicted earlier might be tempted by these offers, especially during the Miss Sutherland. How did you leave when no second front had been days that extraordinary young person?" started and when Stalin was bitter "Well, she'll soon finish hating her- sgainst the Allies for not starting it. self because she had to kill a man iD Nazi peace offer number 1 was made several months after Stalinis she doing out there?" "What grad, during the early winter of 1943. "Nothing as yet, naturally, but she The peace proposal was made by plans to polish the. place up considthe Japanese ambassador in Mos- erably." cow, who, being neutral, was in a "Usual dude program, I daresay. position to lay the matter before My father tells me she bought the Foreign Commissar Molotoff. Just Burdan cattle from him, so I sup- what was in the Nazi olive branch to the Is not pose she's looking forward Hitfun of riding with the round-uas ler wasdefinitely known, tothough back give reported ready advertised by Pa Burdan." to the Russians all of their "I daresay she can pay for her territory except the Ukraine. fancies." Molotoff is reported to have torn "I wonder," he said with amazing up the offer and thrown it into the naivete, "if she ever thinks of the Henley boy?" Nazi peace offer number 2 was "Frequently, I imagine, but with- made in the summer of 1943 in a out heartbreak. Indeed, young fel- villa on the outskirts of Stockholm. ler m' lad, it's my opinion that she's It was made by Hans Thomsen, Gerin a fair way of forgetting she ever man ambassador to Sweden and formet you." Margaret had a feeling mer d'affaires In Washingthat if Don Leonardo hadn't been ton. charge who speaks perfect Thomsen, lying in the middle of his bed when English, was born of a Norwegian she said that he would have fallen ather, and married a Hungarian out, so visibly did he start. who was openly bitter against Hitler "So," he murmured, "I broke my and constantly damned him at Washpick, did I?" ington dinner parties. Washington "I think so. She told me how you aostesses never knew whether Frau gave her the rause an hour after it Thomsen really hated Hitler or was happened and at that time she putting on an act to show that there seemed inclined to accept the situ- ;ould be freedom of expression She told me smong Germans. ation philosophically. she thought your argument had merAt any rate, Hitler later gave her it, but later, I think, she commenced husband a position of great trust as to reconsider and concluded that in his own personal interpreter, then a very vital matter you had jumped ent him to Sweden, where Thomtoo quickly to a conclusion and quit sen handled the peace discussion too readily. She complained rather with the Russians. one had that you plaintively day The Stockholm olive branch also summoned the Spirit of the Hassy-amp- a was rebuffed by the Russians, though for his advice and after he didn't hesitate to let the Allies they to be quite gave it and it appeared know that something like this was satisfactory, you rejected it." being talked about even intimated "But surely she didn't take that that, if the second front wasn't went I through jest seriously. merely before long, the next olive that old rigmarole in order to get opened branch might be more acceptable. my foot in the door, as it were." Churchill never took any stock "Len, you didn't do right by your in these intimations, claimed the You dazzled her; you made dude. Russians were bluffing and her love you and when she started would never make a separate dreaming such stuff as the dreams peace with the Nazis. His thesis of young girls are made of, you was that Stalin would be thrown awakened her with a vigorous shakout of Russia if he did. This ing." was one reason why Churchill "But she telephoned me from the kept pulling back from starting hospital the day she was shot. She a second front. thought of me then." Roosevelt, however, felt that "True, but as a friend, not a (1) it was only fair to the RusShe sweetheart. wanted me and to sians to carry out what we had get me she had to communicate promised them and the world as through you because you spoke Spanearly as 1942; that (2) a second ish. She's had a perfectly horrible front was the one way to keep experience and she's taken it braveGermany busy on two fronts and end the war in a hurry. ly. That girl just oozes spunk." "You delivered that silly little DESTRUCTION OF THE ROBOT message of mine?" "I did." Authentic London reports are not "The answer, please." too encouraging regarding destrucMargaret gave it to him, ver- tion of the jobot bomb. Greatest batim, and watched him squirm, success has been in knocking it out mentally. "So she isn't remotely in the air with fighter planes. How" he pressed. ever, it takes a robot just ZM min"I doubt it. but if she is she'll utes to cross the channel, so the conceal it until she's permanently fighters have to work with terrific cured. Were you anticipating re- speed. (Total time from the bomb's newing your sentimental interest in launching until the time it hits Lonthe lady, Len?" don is estimated at 10 minutes.) "It doesn't require renewal. It If they knock the bomb down over isn't dead. It doesn't even sleepeth, London, it explodes with just as because when that girl hit me she much damage as if they had let it crippled me for life. Isn't it the alone, so there is only one place to most extraordinary situation, Mar- go after it over the channel. garet? Two people meet and instantOnce a robot escapes the fighters ly the current of their lives is quickand passes .over London, anti-ai- r ened and diverted into new channels. craft fire is stopped and the only I confess I'm rather Juvenile about thing to do is to let the bomb take I lie here all her; day envisioning its course and explode wherever it her as I first saw her that snappy hits. morning sitting on her steamer Furthermore, it is not easy to trunk on the platform at Sughuaro." knock down a robot over the channel. "Does your original contention Gunfire must strike its nose in orthat marriage between you two der to explode it. A cannon ball would be a mistake, still hold?" in the body of the robot plane, how"Well, perhaps I should have tak- ever, will usually knock it out. Some en a chance and made the experi- intrepid fighters have flown up very ment, although It would have been close the robot cannot fire back and tipped up its wing with the pretty horrible if my original theory proved to be correct after all. J wing of the fighter. don't know and I don't think my NOTE The Germans recently father does, either, because ever have perfected a clock which goes since she busted Breezy Wade, he off inside the robot about ten mindoesn't go into the silence when I utes after it leaves France, or about mention her name. He Just shakes the time it is over London. This his head and murmurs: There's a clock turns the robot's tail rudder salty one for you. So smart she's so that it makes an eerie, graceful spooky. Fight a catawampus and curve as If someone were inside spot him six bites and three clouts.' " piloting it, or as if it were "When your father sees the light This sudden turn is calh'e never blinks it." culated by the Germans to send it in "So you think I'm washed up. Mar- - a different direction from that in which the British are preparing to garet," "I'm certain of It, darling." receive it. "Well," he mourned, "I was never much of hand to come crawling, ROBOT BOMBS I LONDON so the bet will have to go as it lies. The uncensored diplomatic pouch When she wrote me, thanking me from London reports that the profor the flowers I sent her she adportion of Americans being killed by me as dressed friend Len and signed Hitler's robot bombs is greater than herself sincerely, Mary Sutherland. the proportion of British. This is That got me down." because Americans in London About March fifteenth he left the haven't learned to adjust themselves went and to live with hospital his to living in a city where death lurks father and here, one day, he wb it every corner. to the telephone. summoned "Hel- Beciiuse Americans aren't trained lo, Don Leonardo." Mary's golden :n watching for means of protection voice greetcs1 him. "How are you. A the street, they lose that split 't cowboy?" 'mc necessary to get out of (TO BE CONTINUED) .he way of flying glass and bricks. -- " IMuiui ! a. y ifes iTtWiifir " . For? ) SumayWfprt Apugan in ." (Highest point)20 GUAM Guam, first American possession to fall to the Japs, Is back under control of the authorities. After the U. S. naval task forces subjected Jap installations to Intermittent bombardment,military the marines and army troops established beachheads. The Yanks drove northward and southward on the west coast, captured airports destroyed during the bombardment, killed hundreds of Japanese, destroyed tanks and installations and took possession of all major objectives. p pre-193- 9 waste-baske- 4(y o t. Yanks Take Prisoners and Mop Up St. Lo - ? t ' " -- fa "illillTftltf'l- - Yank infantryman dashes down the street to cover past a knocked-ou- t IT. S. tank destroyer (left) , In the d town of St. Lo, France, during the mopping up of that section. Right German prisoners, some of them without shoes, are herded through a ruined street in St. Lo. The German communications center in Normandy was captured by American forces after some of the most savage fighting of the Invasion. A shell-riddle- Roosevelt's Memorial Service Allied Ace of Aces .,.; ' - broken-hearted?- ' L r f J - r - 1 ij ' J ' t V'' o . f 1 Wit , I .11 - - fsaTMf 'ul'llislilfirtti With 59 German planes to his credit, Lient. Col. Aledandre of the Soviet air force, is the top Allied ace of the war. He shot down 48 of his victims while Alraco-brflying an American the famed cannon fighter. Pok-ryshki- n, Shown entering Christ church, to attend services for Brig. Gen. Theo- dore Roosevelt Jr., are left to right, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and son, Lieut. Theodore Roosevelt III, behind them are Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt III. and brother, Lieut. Cornelius Roosevelt, USNR, and In rear, Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. William McMillan, daughter. U. S. P-3- 9, t a J.ru w ,' ' ' a 1 1 " -i-- i a, Comforts of Home Fire Engine at Mexico Riot IF radio"-controlle-d. i (' ; t ' ' v;:!i.?tvj -- l l'f ) :4 ' sec-ina- i View of a corner of Central ria,a Maj. Paol Douglas (left), or Para-goul7 Ark., commander of Fighter-Bombsqnadron In Prance, aits up In bed for final night chat with Maj. Harold P. Sparks af Frankfort, K). d. Mexico City during; the "battle" that raged there when police and firemen, with aid of 1 16,000 fire engine, recently imported from the Lnltrd Stales, attempted to break tip an Illegal meeting of the National Proletarian Front. The fire engine was Vitally destroyed and scores were Injured. In P-4- er |
