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Show THE Thursday, August 24, 1914 NEPIII. UTAH TIMES-NEW- PAGE THREE W0MAN41& 3y v V"w4c4 PETER B.KYNE tSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS?SSSSSSSSSSSS9SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS i . Mary Sutherland Is lured 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, who tells her the ranch Is out of business and who takes her to Phoenix. Here he rides the bronc. Mad Hatter, in a rodeo and wins three thousand for Mary from his dad, who had bet against Len. Ham has bought the Burdan notes from the bank and feels that Wagon Wheel Is now his, but Mary bas bought an equity In it. She rehires Ma and Pa Burdan, takes up on the ranch, and Bghts rustlers. Later the Wade brothers, cattle rustlers, sell their land to Ham and on promise of leaving the country, are released. CHAPTER XVIII Suddenly two horsemen galloped down the fenced road that ran through the center of the Wall ranch; as they emerged on the river road, they separated, ope taking a stand on the river road west of its Junction with the ranch road and the other to the east of it. The Henleys looked at each other and without a word being spoken leaped their horses up the low bank oft and into the bush on the sand-ba- r the banks of the Colorado where they could see without being seen. They got their rifles out of the scabbards and dismounted. '' The cattle appeared in sight, hurried down the fenced road by four riders who shouted and flailed the stragglers with quirts. The herd was trotting as the head of it merged on the river road; the rid-er- s waiting on each side of the exit shouted and closed in, the leading steer slid down the low bank, and into the riv-e- r, across a sand-ba- r and the herd followed, willy-nillas is the way with cattle. Across the three hundred yards of muddy river a voice reached the Henleys. "They follow the leader, Pedro, and he's swimming downstream with the current. I'll head him you can't cross through the lierd to this side to do it hope this Breezy Wade horse doesn't flunk it." The rider west of the herd leaped his horse down the bank to the sandbar and with a shout of encouragement, sent him into the river . . . suddenly he was swimming and headed to cut off the leading steer. "Well," Len said to his father, "who's looney now?" r'i "You are, you bonehead. You let ber get away from you." "You argued me out of my natural desire." "You'd ought to have knowed better than to listen to a man in his second childhood. Man, look at them cattle swim an' snort. An' look at that dude woman! She realizes her weight forward is bearin' her horse's bead under . . . She's gettin' out o' the saddle an' back o' the cantle . .. . his head's comin' up now an' he's swimmin' freer " ' "Oh, God," his son "if . she should slide off him groaned, those steers will swim 'her down and under!" A pistol cracked and flashed and they saw a little water spout rise a loot from the nose of the leading steer. He turned obliquely at once and other waterspouts followed him until he was beaded straight for the Arizona shore, and on the down stream flank of the herd Mary Suth rland's horse swam easily while she shouted to the swimming steers that followed the leader. Her horse found footing and she pulled him up and got back into the ' saddle. Fifty feet away Len Hen ley and his father crouched in the mesquite and watched ber as she sat her horse and gazed at her cat tie straggling up out of the river Behind them Pe to the sand-ba- r. dro came and pulled in beside her. "Dona Maria," he said complain' ingly, "you should not have ridden the flank of the swimming herd . . . something might have happened. Suppose they had stampeded in the water and swam you down. Never I before have I swum cattle am frightened for you." "Yes, I thought of that, but there was no time to waste. Unless we got them headed for this sand-ba- r and the mouth of the Williams we might have had to swim them miles down-streato a good crossing and drowned many of them. And then we'd have been caught and arrested and I'd have more horrible publicity." : . , - ... t "True words. Dona Maria." "And besides, Pedro, I'm not dude woman any more. I'm a cow woman and I'm like the Henleys. What I have I hold if I can. However, I'd have felt safer with Pablito under me; for a moment I could have hated Don Leonardo for refusing to sell him to me." . She drew one of the beautiful Pedro had taken from the, body of Randall H. Wail, flipped out the empty cartridge cases, reloaded the weapon and put it back in the bolster. "A forty-fiv- e bullet makes quite a splash if you ricochet i along the surface," she mused aloud. "That steer was my horse so I had to head him by throwing water in his eyes." She patted her horse's neck. "In the days when this fellow was keeping bad company he must have had swimming lessons, Pedro. He never hesitated. Are all the men over?" She counted them. Ham Henley nudged his son. "Leader," he whispered, "realizes her responsibility as the boss. Oh, mar, she's glorito that ous. She' a throw-bacthat hiked to Califor- ' k great-rsndmoth- fh First American Ambulance Train in France i her catOe back. To her this wai much fun! Well, why not? Sh Washington, D C. planned it. She goes now to change OIL ACCORD U. her wet clothing in the trailer hous This column, it should be noted in a. TVand return to the Wagon Wheel." t rmf" 9w,. A to be dull. But if "How did she get on to this Wai advance, is likely In keeping your interested are you outfit? How come she knew her cat son or husband out of another war. tie had been stolen?" It should be important. "I had sent two good men out ot United States and Great Britthe Wagon Wheel range to kill th ainTheare just concluding the first wild burros that infest it. There must be nearly a thousand of then: agreement aimed to removeon the oil. of war an agreement eating grass they do not pay for. danger Oil is one of the most ticklish ecoOne if these men came in just benomic subjects in the world. Oil is fore I started the round-u- p ovei what makes a nation's battleships to west, report that strangers were move, runs the automoDues, senas u iu 0 1viib .ni.rio-luuiiuuig u tw. callings the planes into the air in fact, spells in advance of us so Dona Maria un of dertook to investigate, since I was the difference between a nation a nation which must too busy witn the round-up- . We Strength or had one clew a letter I found on the bow to the whims of others. to The to the ranch." setpresent oil agreement seeks body of Randall H. Wall, whom tle the battle for oil; eliminate one "If that's what you've been up to," killed " cause of war. Mary laughed, "I'd better get back "That was a good clue," Don Leo- Important home as quickly as possible. Pedro, The last war was scarcely over "You told me of thai nardo agreed. you're a devil!" letter addressed to Wall at Earp, when Great Britain began maneuPedro bowed low in his saddle. California. That's why we're here." vering to corner the oil supplies of the world. British leaders were quite "I am complimented, Dona Maria, 'Dona Maria made inquiry at the Transferring patients from ambulances to the first hospital trains to be operated in France by the Amerifrank about it. but then what would you? Am I can e in army. The train runs from LIson to Cherbourg and is made up of box cars left behind by the Germans. The Henleys Earp" as not a graduate of Don Hamilton United States Protests. Insert shows closeup of wounded being loaded on train. Photo by telephoto. The box cars were completely "and had she exchange glances Henley's school? If Don Hamilton taken the Finding itself In this position, the overhauled to provide all equipment necessary to handle the wounded while they were being transferred to precaution to bring a sad- United should learn that I had let this re States government jumped base hospital at Cherbourg. During the last war the U. S. army operated several base hospitals in France. in dled horse a she along trailer, ceiver of stolen goods escape withto the Wall feeding lots to Into the battle for oil with vigor. The rode up out a severe lesson he would be of Charles Evans investigate, taking a roundabout secretary wrotestate, ashamed of me." a series of blunt. course to avoid being seen. She Hughes, notes to the British, want"I seem to be destined to like supposed men came to feed the cat- bare-face- d Don Hamilton whether I desire to tle night and and that there ing to know why they barred Amerimorning or not. He brands one with his per- would be no one there at noon. Sc can oil. companies from Palestine, sonality as one brands a calf." she arrived at noon and there was since Palestine was not British but "So does Don Leonardo," Pedro nobody to interrupt her as she count merely mandated to the British by Not aU of the refued one hundred and thirty-fiv- e declared loyally. Wag- the League. Meanwhile, the British, though gees have left France. "I'm afraid he does. Well, Pedro, on Wheel feeders in one corral." "Do you mean to tell me, Pedro, barring the U. S. from their areas This grandmother, good luck to you and the boys on i 4 children You should meet home. that she had the gall to leave them of interest, quietly Invaded ours. mother and woods way your as the pack outfit with food and bed- - feeders there until Wall had fat- They turned up with concessions in took to the their way. tened them, before stealing them Colombia, not far from the Panama war rolled Canal. Even in Panama proper, a They had been without back?" Don Leonardo demanded. British company staked food for days when "They are fed three months. We out a huge and suspicious claim in found by American there figured her cattle had arrived an area where no gold was known to troops. about May fifteenth." exist. I wish I had a little cookin' History Begins to Repeat. whisky," Don Hamilton complained. In World War II, history at first dude to a sorter faint think I'm began to repeat. The five senators! woman's trickier than I be." who toured the world war fronts "Of course, Don Leonardo," Pe came back with the story of how dro went on, "when the sherifl the U.S.A. was rapidly depleting her comes again to set a guard on the oil reserves while the British were evidence he will discover it has dis hoarding theirs. They told how the appeared. So will Dona Maria! Sc British were trying to keep us from she will send her attorney to re- further developing oil resources in quest that the case be dismissed Arabia; how the British had a reh-for lack of evidence. She can af finery on the Gulf of Persia, 50 per ford to do that, for have the cul- cent idle, while we oil clear shipped prits not been tried, convicted and across the Atlantic to British armies punished in the court of her Honor, in the Near East. Judge Sutherland?" Yes, It looked as if history would "Len," said Don Hamilton. "1 ' ' " won't be needed on this drive now, epeat. fitt) - r asi?M '- 4 - - iiTih i' inn ' On 29, fsiM last April however, repso I guess I'll go back to Eagle of and British the resentatives to of who the landed N. thousands duration at in a the war's Hoboken, Among J., refugees spend camp Landing an' go home in the truck. American governments negotiatin the U. S. was the family of Jacob Dresdner, shown after coming ashore. The family is composed of Jacob I got to brew some bitter medicine ed an informal understanding of and his wife and their nine children, from Hungary. With the rest the lucky thousand permitted entry for them Wade boys." aimed to eliminate the oil batunder the President's plan, they will be kept In Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y., until the end of the war exwas of It an the future. tles at which time they will be returned to their own countries. Insert shows how many of the refugees when A cowpuncher rode In to the Wag agreement. cellent, forced to flee their homes tried to carry a few valuables with them. on Wheel and sought audience witb two in And last weeks the during Mary Sutherland. "I'm Tom Lun-dy,-" Washington, Lord Beaverbrook he introduced himself, "an 1 and his associates have been neride for the Tomahawk ranch. The gotiating with Secretaries Ickes driv-in' Henleys caught some rustlers and Hull to make this Informal a bunch o' Flyin' W steers tooil agreement formal and bindward the Colorado River an' caping. This time, the British have tured the rustlers an the steers. been far more cooperative and met with Pedro Ortii They up with than in 1919 drivin' back some steers recovered one exception. possible from the same thievin' syndicate, After U. experts laid so they threw in together an" they're their excellent April 29 ground accomin' on Santa the Maria, up Her horse found footing and she work. Lord Beaverbrook kicked to trail them cattle count over the traces at some things, pulled him op and got back into the where they got fo scatter won't lookin' they saddle. and he seems to be keeping a water." more watchful eye on the Inter"I noon. Those rolls understand, Lundy." about of the empire than on a ests to "Mr. Len mules and pack saddles you capHenley ordered me future fair peace. For Instance, tured from th Wades are proving ride on ahead an' ask your permishe has been insisting that Brityour worth as a mule thief. She sion to hold the Flyin W cattle in ain have the right to ban the waved her hand to her riders, con- your field until he can send trucks to sale of U. S. oil in England, deto the back take 'em W." for and in a bunch Flyin' waiting gregated spite the fact that British Shell "When will the drive arrive?" Pedro's orders. "Adios, mucha-chos.- " sells in this country. However, "Late tomorrow afternoon." the basic agreement is truly enre"Tomorrow when morning you They wer all Mexicans, although couraging when it comes to futo the drive, please inform Mr. sons of Arizona, and they gave her turn s ture peace. back the old sweet answer to fare- Henley that it will not be necessary of Provisions Agreement. well: "Vaya usted con Dios" Go to remove the Flying W cattle in It provides, first: "That petroleum you with God, and Mary put her trucks, because I have bought the horse into the rivet, lifted herself Flying W from his father and will shall be available in international trade to the nationals of all peace-lovinback of the cantle again and swam merge It with the Wagon Wheel.' countries in adequate volume, him back to the California shore. Mary Sutherland was thinking, at at fair prices and on an equitable The Henleys watched her climb out . basis." and jog away down the road toward she lounged in a long chair in the and if the U.S.A. means This she that, that had a done hard colonnade, crew Wheel the Wagon Earn; task quickly and all because she runs out of oil or vice versa. It if watched her, too . . . maxl-muup to Britain to help supply us unSeated en the radiator of a Jeep, Len Henley shouted to Pedro: had had the money to hire a of and labor The less, for example, one or the othei Yank column passes through the French town of Periers en their this German sniper in clvillai equipment "Hola, Pedro, we arrive, Don Ham old unsightly ranch buildings had attempts to conquer Ethiopia as Mus- drive toward Paris and Berlin. The American tanks are shown as they clothes is being driven to Americas ilton and myself," and the pair likewise Pa Burdan'i solini did, and the world disappeared, after bis capture neai pass through tho ruins of this old French city, which was added to the down to the horses their jumped countries attempt to cut ofl list of captured towns. As was true in other French cities, the GIs were headquarter frost ruined grapefruil pathetic, sand-ba- r St, Saveur Lendelin. He looks a trilifted him. Pedro beside dc to tried oil on as the League its site, two hun their received with open arms by the citizens of Periers. fle worried and well he might. his sombrero politely. "One plans grove and yards from the dude house, to Italy but, because of pressure secret, lawless act and lo, wit dred nesses are not wanting. What do new buildings, architecturally pleas- from the big companies, could no) had replaced them. The new do. U-Bo- at you here, Don Hamilton, with your ing, The agreement also gives "equal bunkhouse, kitchen and mess hall son?" mm Li "Vmm gw .imm'i iwwwwff-w"- -? were of adobe cool In summer and opportunity" for "acquisition," "de"Been on a thievin' job our warm In she had every velopment." etc., in areas under con: winter; selves," Don Hamilton replied, and piece of necessary equipment and s cession. This eliminates cutthroat told the tale. "Me an' Len was plan-ni- n for it and everything in Hi rivalry for new fields. Each nation on goin' over an' raisin' a lit place She had the Wagon Wheel Is to respect the valid concessioni tle particular hell with that Wall par place. organized; she had labored and en- of the other and its citizens. had until seen we else somebody ty ' -' it and now, in the evening ol Finally, and very Important, "ex' V Z abeaten our time, Pedro, your Wagon joyed she watched ploration; development, operation ol her first labor-freday, our mixed Wheel cattle are with down over nol low shall sun slide the distribution and refineries blue the d Flyin' W critters now; we're hills to the west while she waited be hampered by restrictions imposed V for the drive back, so sup- for Len Henley and Pedro and hit by either government or its nation pose we thiow in with you an' your riders to come down out of the ls." boys an' do the job together. I got fenced field on the home ranch the our own grub an' beddin' rolls an' thousand acres field she had no) the enemy's pack mules." seeded to grass because she had to Cautious Mr. Turk If you want Don have "We, loo. are field In which to hold hei the real on why the Turks Hamilton, but that Is because, on an cattle and feed them while gradubroke with Germany, It wai , adventure of this sort, one bas to ally shipping them to market lr finally j because Hitler had moved troops out pick his men," said Pedro. hired trucks and trailers. of Bulgaria Just opposite Turkey. "Where's your salty boss headln' She was quite cool and collected After that, the Turks weren't afraid for now?" Don Hamilton queried. at the prospect of seeing Don Leo- of being attacked. . . . With Sweden in a truck with nardo again, for she was convinced and Switzerland both closed fo Hit"We came she had gotten him out of her mind ler for escape, his trw remaining our horses and Dona Maria followed and she waited now, with a certaic havens are Japan vinirh won't last in her rkt. lowing the trailer house A Don Leonardo was so kind as to grim pleasure, to greet him as commander of a It hm Panicky Nazis poor out ef the conning tower to the deck of s sublong and Argentina. was captured after hit Nni marine blasted to the surface by drpth charges planted by IT. R. coat Nazi give :ne. We parked down the mad friend and not as a former sweetIcing been rumored that thlate last nishl and Dna Maria rlrpt heart. She would prove to him tha' top men were building up cn-re guard and navy destroyer escorts somewhere in the Atlantic. A few minship was rnnk by . in the Tdilcr house, but joined us she could take it n utes later the crippled destroyer escort in the Atplunged to the bottom of the sea. Twelve ervt for breakfast and to nelp us steal (TO BE CONTINUED lantic. He was a former Californlan, Nazis were picked up and became prisoners of war, nia beside the an' fought Injuns with the men folks." "Martinez is not here, Pedro," they heard her say. "He remained behind on a little matter of business," Pedro replied with a smirk. "In ridding one's self of rats. Dona Maria, the wise man destroys the nest. Martinez is and I detached a good powder-ma- n him to blow up the ranch-hous- e and barns . . . Ah, there goes the pumping plant," as a detonation on the river bank a couple of hundred yards below them on the California side put bells in their ears. "Martinez is not coming with us, Dona Maria. You forget he is the truck driver. He awaits you down on the river road to load your horse and his in the truck and drive it back ox-tea- tmm4i post-offic- Three Generations and a Family it gold-minin- g tT i In i il i ' r'''Jj. ' '- iirr Yanks Pass Through Periers The Anxious Seat far-sight- 0M up-riv- HMO I lM " rr peace-machiner- y Sub Blasted by Depth Charges Young n E'HUU;; "til' -- e i short-hande- MERRY-GO-ROITN- D short-hande- low-dow- n ... Argr-rlina- at at Chief |